# UFO Event Timeline v1.10 - Compiled 2/9/2023 An automated compilation by Richard Geldreich, Jr. using public data from Dr. Jacques Vallée, Pea Research, George M. Eberhart, Richard H. Hall, Dr. Donald A. Johnson, Fred Keziah, Don Berliner, and [NICAP](https://www.nicap.org/). ## Copyrights: - Richard Geldreich, Jr. - Copyright (c) 2023 (all parsed dates and events marked \"maj2\" unless otherwise attributed) - Dr. Jacques F. Vallée - Copyright (c) 1993 - LeRoy Pea - Copyright (c) 9/8/1988 (updated 3/17/2005) - George M. Eberhart - Copyright (c) 2022 - Dr. Donald A. Johnson - Copyright (c) 2012 - Fred Keziah - Copyright (c) 1958 ## Source Code: This website is created automatically using a [C++](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B) command line tool called “ufojson”. It parses the raw text and [Markdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown) source data to [JSON format](https://www.json.org/json-en.html), which is then converted to a single large web page using [pandoc](https://pandoc.org/). This tool's source code and all of the raw source and JSON data is located [here on github](https://github.com/richgel999/ufo_data). ## Table of Contents Year Histogram ### Years 0 812 1461 1547 1557 1561 1600 1621 1638 1663 1665 1672 1686 1700 1737 1741 1742 1745 1749 1755 1756 1758 1759 1762 1767 1777 1780 1783 1790 1798 1800 1803 1808 1819 1820 1822 1824 1825 1826 1829 1831 1833 1835 1838 1843 1845 1847 1850 1854 1855 1857 1858 1860 1862 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 ## Event Timeline --- ## Year: 0 (Back to Top) ### Event 0 (979AEFAA) Date: 0's Description: Greek and Roman records of UFO's Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_0 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 812 (Back to Top) ### Event 1 (5AA87AC1) Date: 812 Description: [Agobard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agobard)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agobard) the archbishop of Lyon, France, writes De Grandine et Tonitruis \(“On Hail and Thunder”\), in which he condemns pagan folk beliefs, such as the notion of a “certain region called Magonia, from which ships, navigating on clouds, set sail to transport back to this same region the fruits of the earth ruined by hail and destroyed by the storm.” He cites an episode in which some foolish peasants capture “three men and one woman who they said had fallen from these ships.” Brought out in front of an enraged mob, Agobard intervenes and prevents their lynching, persuading the crowd that the charges are false and absurd. Some ufologists interpret this as a visitation from an alternate reality or an abduction case, while Jean-Louis Brodu observes that in the 9th century the atmosphere was likened to an ocean in which aerial ships could navigate from point to point on the earth. Miceal Ross argues that Magonia is a corruption of Magonianus, relating to the city of Mahón, the port of the island of Menorca, Spain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jean-Louis Brodu, “Magonia: A Re-Evaluation,” Fortean Studies 2 \(1995\): 198–215; Miceal Ross, “[Anchors in a](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1260571?refreqid=excelsior%3A80f33a6d0d2ed2d946c20adc1419ea0d) [Three-Decker World,](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1260571?refreqid=excelsior%3A80f33a6d0d2ed2d946c20adc1419ea0d)” Folklore 109 \(1998\): 63–75; Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 23–24](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/8/mode/2up); Clark III 1213–1214; Vallée and Aubeck, Wonders in the Sky, Tarcher, 2009, [pp. 70–73](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/page/n84/mode/1up); Pierre Chambert-Protat, “[Florus de Lyon et les Extra-](https://florus.hypotheses.org/292) [terrestres,](https://florus.hypotheses.org/292)” Florus de Lyon, November 4, 2014; Pierre Lagrange, “[_Agobard, la Magonie et les ovnis_,](https://pierrelagrangesociologie.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/lagrange-agobard-magonie-ufologie-lhistoire-440-2017-10-p28-29.pdf)” Actualité, no. 440 \(October 2017\): 28–29; Wikipedia, “[Magonia \(mythology\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magonia%5F%28mythology%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_0 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1461 (Back to Top) ### Event 2 (CA5304ED) Date: 11/1/1461 Description: A fiery rod or cylinder hovered for 15 minutes over the town of Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. It suddenly spiraled and twisted upward and was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Data-Net Report, May 1970; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_7362 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1547 (Back to Top) ### Event 3 (047D9906) Date: 12/15/1547 Description: Mariners in the port of Hamburg, Germany, see a fireball moving to the south. Its rays are so hot that passengers cannot remain inside the ships. Thinking the vessels are about to burn, they hide and take cover. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Simon Goulart, Thrésor d’histoires admirables et mémorables de nostre temps, Geneva, 1600, [vol. 1, p. 55](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101080753633&view=1up&seq=75&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1557 (Back to Top) ### Event 4 (82FB3902) Date: 12/5/1557 Description: Above Tubingen, Germany fiery clouds circled in the sky around seven o'clock in the morning, from which emerged "large, tall and wide" hat-shaped objects. The glow cast upon the ground was yellow and "bloody". The hat-shaped flying objects were multicolored: black, red, blue, and green. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 33; Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_8190 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1561 (Back to Top) ### Event 5 (9EC8C3DD) Date: 4/4/1561 Description: Dusk. A “frightening vision” is seen in the sky above Nuremberg, Germany, said to be observed by many. Printer [Hans Glaser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%5FGlaser) describes in his broadside many blood-red, blue, and black balls or discs near the Sun. “They were three alongside each other, sometimes four in a square, and several alone, and between these balls blood- colored crosses” are seen. Two “great pipes” \(cannon\) are also observed, and everything starts to “fight against each other.” The battle lasts about one hour, then the burning balls fall to the earth and vanish on the ground. Although cited as a possible early UFO report, the narrative is simply about a battle in the sky by phantom armies told as an allegory of what awaits an unrepentant humanity on Judgment Day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hans Glaser, [Himmelserscheinung](https://swisscovery.slsp.ch/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99117090354605508&context=L&vid=41SLSP%5FNETWORK%3AVU1%5FUNION&lang=de&search%5Fscope=DN%5Fand%5FCI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=41SLSP%5FNETWORK&query=any%2Ccontains%2CHimmelserscheinung%20%C3%BCber%20N%C3%BCrnberg%20vom%2014.%20April%201561&offset=0) [über Nürnberg am 14. April 1561](https://swisscovery.slsp.ch/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99117090354605508&context=L&vid=41SLSP%5FNETWORK%3AVU1%5FUNION&lang=de&search%5Fscope=DN%5Fand%5FCI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=41SLSP%5FNETWORK&query=any%2Ccontains%2CHimmelserscheinung%20%C3%BCber%20N%C3%BCrnberg%20vom%2014.%20April%201561&offset=0), Holzschnitt, 1561; Carl Jung, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, Mentor ed., 1969, [pp. 103–104](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersmod0000cgju/page/102/mode/2up), between [pp. 120–121](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersmod0000cgju/page/n127/mode/2up?q=1561); Ulrich Magin, “A UFO in the Year 1561,” Fortean Times 283 \(February 2012\): 40–42 Source ID: Eberhart_2 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1600 (Back to Top) ### Event 6 (C5A905E6) Date: 1600's Description: Significant sightings Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort) Source ID: Maj2_1 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1621 (Back to Top) ### Event 7 (F245F418) Date: 9/11/1621 Description: Contrails and white "crowns" moved in groups over Paris, France at 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dan la Nuit, issue 125 Source ID: Johnson_5847 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1638 (Back to Top) ### Event 8 (95D96328) Date: 1638 Description: English clergyman and philosopher [John Wilkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FWilkins) writes The Discovery of a World in the Moone, in which he highlights the similarities of the Earth and the Moon \(seas, mountains, atmosphere\) and concludes that the Moon is likely to be inhabited by living beings, whom the calls “Selenites.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Maria Avxentevskaya, “[How 17th Century](https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2017/12/02/how%5F17th%5Fcentury%5Fdreamers%5Fplanned%5Fto%5Freach%5Fthe%5Fmoon%5F110476.html) [Dreamers Planned to Reach the Moon,](https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2017/12/02/how%5F17th%5Fcentury%5Fdreamers%5Fplanned%5Fto%5Freach%5Fthe%5Fmoon%5F110476.html)” Real Clear Science, December 2, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_3 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9 (CE4E7B24) Date: 1638 Description: Night. John Everett and two companions are crossing the Muddy River near Boston, Massachusetts, in a boat when a “great light” appears above them. It darts back and forth across the river, sometimes hovering and “flaming up,” for about 2–3 hours. After they stop watching it, they discover that their boat has moved about one mile against the current to the place where they had embarked. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Little, Brown, 1853, [vol. 1, pp. 349–350](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=miun.afj7387.0001.001&view=1up&seq=371&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_4 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1663 (Back to Top) ### Event 10 (4BB36054) Date: 8/15/1663 Description: 12:00 noon. The faithful gathered in a church in a village near Lake Zarobozero, Vologda Oblast, Russia, hear a loud noise outside and see a large ball of fire descend from the north and then head south following the lake, low over its surface. The fireball seems to measure about 140 feet across and has blue smoke issuing from its sides. Two fiery rays extend from its front part. Less than an hour later, a similar fireball reappears over the same lake. Moving from south to west, the object again disappears. It reappears a third time a short while later, this time larger than before, and stays over the lake for an hour and a half. Peasants in a boat try to get close to it, but the heat is too intense. The water of the lake is illuminated to a depth of 30 feet, and fish are seen swimming away from the object, which then flies off to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Akty istoricheskie, sobranye i izdanye Arkheografischeskaia Kommissiia, Vol. 4, Saint Petersburg, 1842, [pp. 331–332](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951p00828434a&view=1up&seq=345&skin=2021); Hobana and Weverbergh 54–61; Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, Wonders in the Sky, Tarcher, 2009, [pp. 215–217](https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes/page/n257/mode/2up); Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 \(March 2012\): 31; Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 157–161 Source ID: Eberhart_5 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11 (AF0E80F4) Date: 8/15/1663 Description: At noon on this day a large ball of fire, 45 meters in diameter, descended toward Lake Robozero, Bieloziero, Russia. Two beams of light came from the object and was directed onto fisherman in a boat on the lake. The water in the lake was illuminated to a depth of 30 feet. The fisherman were burned by the heat from the beams, and the water became covered with a "rust" material. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, pp. 54-55; John W. Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 128 ; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 135 Source ID: Johnson_5027 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1665 (Back to Top) ### Event 12 (97C821AB) Date: 4/8/1665 Description: 6:00 p.m. Numerous wonders are seen in the sky over Stralsund, Germany, including ships, large flocks of birds, fire, and smoke, as well as a dark “round flat form like a plate and like a big man’s hat” that hovers above St. Nicholas Church for one hour. Witnesses include several fishermen who later complain of tremors in their hands and feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Eine abgebildete Beschreibung von dem wunderbarlichen Stralsundischen Lufft-Kriege und](https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Von%5Fdem%5Fwunderbarlichen%5FStralsundischen%5FLufft-Kriege%5Fund%5FSchiff-streite) [Schiff-streite](https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Von%5Fdem%5Fwunderbarlichen%5FStralsundischen%5FLufft-Kriege%5Fund%5FSchiff-streite)[,](https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Von%5Fdem%5Fwunderbarlichen%5FStralsundischen%5FLufft-Kriege%5Fund%5FSchiff-streite) Leipzig, 1665; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 23–38 Source ID: Eberhart_6 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1672 (Back to Top) ### Event 13 (AEF12A1F) Date: 2/8/1672 Description: A dark "flying ship" hovered in place over the ocean near Cherbourg, France during a wind. It had no sails, and eventually flew off to the south after 33 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 186 Source ID: Johnson_751 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1686 (Back to Top) ### Event 14 (0C27C05D) Date: 1686 Description: French philosopher [Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FLe%5FBovier%5Fde%5FFontenelle) writes Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, in which he speculates on extraterrestrial life. He imagines Venusians to be “little black people, scorched with the Sun, full of fire, very amorous.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations%5Fon%5Fthe%5FPlurality%5Fof%5FWorlds)” Source ID: Eberhart_7 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1700 (Back to Top) ### Event 15 (8E3A3D71) Date: 1700's Description: Significant sightings Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort) Source ID: Maj2_2 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1737 (Back to Top) ### Event 16 (BCE24C4F) Date: 12/5/1737 Description: 5:00 p.m. Physician [Thomas Short](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FShort%5F%28physician%29) witnesses a blood-red luminous display in the sky around Sheffield, England, which moves from west to north and then to the east. The cause seems to be one or more clouds in which are embedded brilliant lights as bright as the full moon that give off slow-moving streamers or rays. The display is accompanied by unseasonable heat and lasts until 10:30 p.m. Short hears that a similar phenomenon is seen at the same time in Venice, Italy, and Kilkenny, Ireland, where it appears as a bursting fireball. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Thomas Short, “[An Account of Several Meteors,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001301357&view=1up&seq=689&skin=2021)” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 41 \(1741\): 625–627 Source ID: Eberhart_8 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17 (530BA691) Date: 12/5/1737 Description: An astronomer in Sheffield, England saw a dark red, luminous cloud that emitted intense beams of light (solid light). The light beams moved slowly, then stopped. He suddenly felt so hot that he had to remove his shirt outdoors. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of Phenomenon, p. 9; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_8191 Source: Johnson ### Event 18 (975E169D) Date: 12/6/1737 Description: Afternoon. A large, blood-red object is seen in the western sky at Bucharest, Wallachia \[now Romania\]. It lingers for two hours before splitting up then reuniting once again. The phenomenon is said to have occurred at night in the Banat region. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 222; Romania 4 Source ID: Eberhart_9 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1741 (Back to Top) ### Event 19 (A0495A0E) Date: 9/21/1741 Description: Dawn. Parson-naturalist [Gilbert White](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%5FWhite) wakes up at his vicarage in Selborne, Hampshire, England, and finds the neighboring clover fields matted all over with a thick coat of cobwebs, laced with dew. The dogs are blinded by it when they attempt to hunt. At 9:00 a.m. more cobwebs fall from the sky and continue until dusk. They are “perfect flakes or rags; some near an inch broad, and five or six long, which fell with a degree of velocity that showed they were considerably heavier than the atmosphere.” The fall extends to the neighboring villages of New Alresford and Bradley. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne \(1789\), [Letter XXIII](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark%3A/13960/t6833pn6s&view=1up&seq=317&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_10 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1742 (Back to Top) ### Event 20 (5BC0C89C) Date: 12/16/1742? Description: 8:40 p.m. Physician [Cromwell Mortimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell%5FMortimer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell%5FMortimer) secretary of the Royal Society, is walking through St. James’s Park in Westminster, London, England, when he sees a light ascend from behind the trees and houses in the southwest. When it reaches 20° against the sky, it takes a horizontal path with an undulating motion before disappearing in the northeast after a full 30 seconds. The front part is luminous with a frame-like structure behind it, and it has a faint trail. The date is questionable since Mortimer calls this a “Thursday” and December 16 was a Sunday. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[A Note by Cromwell Mortimer](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001264415&view=1up&seq=686&skin=2021)\], Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 43 \(1745\): 524–525 Source ID: Eberhart_11 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1745 (Back to Top) ### Event 21 (314B6B9F) Date: 7/14/1745 Description: Astronomer [George Costard](https://www.prints-online.com/george-costard-14285856.html) observes a meteoric stream of fire that persists for at least one hour at Standlake Broad west of Oxford, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Part of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Geo. Costard to Mr. John Catlin, concerning a Fiery Meteor Seen in the Air on July 14, 1745,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 43 \(1745\): [522–524](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001264415&view=1up&seq=684&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_12 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1749 (Back to Top) ### Event 22 (0C0E1DEA) Date: 11/4/1749 Description: 11:50 a.m. The crew of the [HMS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%5FMontagu%5F%281660%29) [Montagu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%5FMontagu%5F%281660%29) watches a large blue fireball, apparently low on the water, head directly toward them from the northeast and explode some 150 feet away from the ship, causing some damage to the mast, before it continues on toward the southwest. The incident takes place in the North Atlantic Ocean some 240 miles west of Cape Finisterre, Spain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chalmers, “[An Account of an Extraordinary Fireball](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1749.0073) [Bursting at Sea,](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1749.0073)” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 46 \(1752\): 366–367; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 67–75; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 105–114 Source ID: Eberhart_13 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1755 (Back to Top) ### Event 23 (B416ECB4) Date: 3/1755 Description: German philosopher [Immanuel Kant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel%5FKant) publishes Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens, in which he theorizes that distance from the Sun determines the intelligence level of a world’s inhabitants; thus, the people who live on Mercury are the stupidest, and the Venusians are only dimly brighter—making any Jupiterians and Saturnians much smarter than earthlings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%5FNatural%5FHistory%5Fand%5FTheory%5Fof%5Fthe%5FHeavens)” Source ID: Eberhart_14 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1756 (Back to Top) ### Event 24 (942D1F0C) Date: 1756 Description: Scottish astronomer [James Ferguson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FFerguson%5F%28Scottish%5Fastronomer%29) writes Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, proclaiming the certainty of a plurality of inhabited worlds “peopled with myriads of intelligent beings, formed for endless progression in perfection and felicity.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James Ferguson, Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, 8th ed., London, 1790, [p. 6](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000485239d&view=1up&seq=18&skin=2021); Matthew Goodman, The Sun and the Moon, Basic Books, 2008, [pp. 189–190](https://archive.org/details/sunmoonremarkabl00good/page/188/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_15 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1758 (Back to Top) ### Event 25 (F7FBDE28) Date: 1758 Description: Swedish theologian and mystic [Emanuel Swedenborg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel%5FSwedenborg) writes in The Earths in the Universe that that he has conversed with spirits from Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, and the Moon, as well as spirits from planets beyond the solar system. From these encounters, he concludes that the planets are all inhabited and that such an enormous undertaking as the universe cannot have been created for just one race on one planet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Emanuel Swedenborg, [The Earths in the Universe](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082254123&view=1up&seq=11&skin=2021), London, 1875; Richard Smoley, “[Is There Really Life on Other](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-is-there-really-life-on-other-planets/) [Planets?](https://swedenborg.com/scholars-is-there-really-life-on-other-planets/)” Swedenborg Foundation, February 15, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_16 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1759 (Back to Top) ### Event 26 (689C074C) Date: 4/27/1759 Description: 4:00 p.m. Following a clap of thunder, a flat, pale object is seen “dancing” in the sky over Longdon, Somerset, England. It is joined by three similar objects, all of which move from west to east for 30 seconds and disappear in a cloud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: London Universal Chronicle, May 5, 1759; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 83–96 Source ID: Eberhart_17 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1762 (Back to Top) ### Event 27 (4CD676DE) Date: 8/9/1762 Description: 12:00 noon. An amateur astronomer named de Rostan is observing the Sun at Lausanne, Switzerland, when he notices a large, spindle-shaped body moving across the solar disc from east to west at a slower rate of speed than sunspots move. It is surrounded by a thin “nebulosity.” An observer named Croste in Solothurn, Switzerland, also observes the object, but French astronomer [Charles Messier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FMessier), who is also taking solar measurements in Paris, France, does not see it. It remains visible until September 7, when it passes the Sun’s western limb. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Observation](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucm.5327384079&view=1up&seq=120&skin=2021) [Astronomique,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucm.5327384079&view=1up&seq=120&skin=2021)” Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, 1766, pp. 106–107; “[An Account of a Very Singular](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081562823&view=1up&seq=368&skin=2021) [Phaenomenon Seen in the Disk of the Sun,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081562823&view=1up&seq=368&skin=2021)” Annual Register, 1766, pp. 120–122; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 33–45 Source ID: Eberhart_18 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1767 (Back to Top) ### Event 28 (B71CF74B) Date: 9/9/1767 Description: A cloud “like a house on fire” that soon takes on a pyramidal form is seen traveling along the course of the River Isla near Coupar Angus, Perth, Scotland. It moves northeast to the confluence of the River Ericht and follows that stream to the west toward Blairgowrie where it disappears. It is accompanied by strong winds that destroy two houses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Annual Register 1767, [pp. 127–128](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081562831&view=1up&seq=145&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_19 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1777 (Back to Top) ### Event 29 (B0ED6E4F) Date: 6/17/1777 Description: 11:46 a.m. French astronomer [Charles Messier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FMessier) views a large number of round, dark-brown globules passing in front of the disc of the sun for 5 minutes from west-southwest to east-northeast. He sees them through an achromatic refractor at the naval observatory located in the Hôtel de Cluny in Paris, France. His estimate of their size \(one-600th the size of the solar disc\) puts them near the limit of resolution for his telescope, but Messier claims the objects are far away and in focus. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles Messier, “[Observation singulaire d’une prodigieuse quantité](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x002099520&view=1up&seq=682&skin=2021) [de petits globules qui ont passé devant le disque du soleil, le 17 juin 1777,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x002099520&view=1up&seq=682&skin=2021)” Mémoires de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, 1777, pp. 464–472; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 7–18 Source ID: Eberhart_20 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1780 (Back to Top) ### Event 30 (F6C7E6E5) Date: 1780's Description: Coulomb’s law of electrostatics Type: scientific advanced Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell%27s_equations) Source ID: Maj2_3 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1783 (Back to Top) ### Event 31 (CB7C73A2) Date: 1783 Description: British astronomer [William Herschel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FHerschel) has been observing the lunar surface since the mid-1770s in Bath, England, and writes journal entries in which he details sightings of immense trees, forests, and pastures, comparing it to the English countryside. By 1778, he is seeing circular formations that he thinks are towns and villages. He also notes canals, roads, and patches of vegetation, but never writes about it publicly, since he knows that telescopic observations can be tricky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Basalla, Civilized Life in the Universe, Oxford University, 2006, [pp. 51–52](https://archive.org/details/civilizedlifeinu0000basa/page/50/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_21 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 32 (626D65C3) Date: 8/18/1783 Description: 9:15–9:30 p.m. An unusually bright bolide is observed in the British Isles on a clear, dry night. Analysis indicates that the meteor has entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the North Sea, before passing over the east coast of Scotland, England, and the English Channel; it finally breaks up, after a passage within the atmosphere of around 1,000 miles, over southwestern France or northern Italy. Perhaps the most prominent witness is [Tiberius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius%5FCavallo) [Cavallo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius%5FCavallo)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius%5FCavallo) an Italian natural philosopher who happens to be among a group of people on the terrace at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, at the time the meteor appears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1783 Great Meteor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1783%5FGreat%5FMeteor)”; Tiberius Cavallo, “[Description of a Meteor, Observed Aug. 18, 1783](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1784.0010),” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 74 \(1784\): 108–111; Charles Blagden, “[An Account of Some Late Fiery Meteors,](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1784.0019)” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 74 \(1784\): 202–232; Martin Beech, “[The Great Meteor of 18th August 1783,](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1989JBAA...99..130B)” Journal of the British Astronomical Association 99 \(1989\): 130–134; Kaushik Patowary, “[The Great Meteor of 1783,](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/09/the-great-meteor-of-1783.html)” Amusing Planet, September 8, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_22 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1790 (Back to Top) ### Event 33 (9A5230B6) Date: 6/12/1790 Description: 5:00 a.m. Several farmers in Alençon, Normandy, France, see a large globe surrounded by flames and making a whistling sound. The object slows, oscillates, and moves toward the top of a hill, unearthing some plants along the slope. The heat is so intense that grass and small trees start burning. In the evening the sphere is still warm. Witnesses include two mayors, a doctor, and three other authorities in addition to the dozens of peasants who are present. A kind of door opens and a person emerges. He is dressed in a tight-fitting suit and, seeing all the people, says some words that are not understood. He runs into the woods. The sphere explodes silently, throwing pieces everywhere, and these pieces burn until they are powder. The original source is allegedly from a June 17 report by a Police Inspector Liabeuf and forwarded to the French Academy of Sciences. However, the Academy reported in 2006 that it has no knowledge of such a report in its archives. Probable hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alberto Penoglio, “[Antichi](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Clypeus/Clypeus%20-%201966%20-%20Vol%203%20No%203.pdf) [Visitatori dal Cielo,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Clypeus/Clypeus%20-%201966%20-%20Vol%203%20No%203.pdf)” Clypeus 3, n. 3 \(1966\): 13–14; Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 60–61](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/60/mode/2up); “[1790 UFO Crash or Time](https://coolinterestingstuff.com/1790-ufo-crash-or-time-traveller) [Traveller?](https://coolinterestingstuff.com/1790-ufo-crash-or-time-traveller)” Cool Interesting Stuff, June 1, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_23 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1798 (Back to Top) ### Event 34 (5DC22480) Date: 9/10/1798 Description: Before midnight. Schoolmaster Alexander Campbell and one other person observe a “remarkable comet, or meteor” at Alnwick, Northumberland, England. It rapidly increases in brightness, changing from a star-like object to a shape like “two half-moons, back to back, having a short luminous stream between the two backs” over the course of 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Annual Register 1798, [p. 83](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433006400042&view=1up&seq=345&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_24 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1800 (Back to Top) ### Event 35 (32481B28) Date: 1800's Description: Significant sightings Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort) Source ID: Maj2_4 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1803 (Back to Top) ### Event 36 (23E6F2B5) Date: 2/22/1803 Alternate date: 3/24/1803 Description: An attractive young woman aged 18–20 years old arrives on a beach aboard a “hollow ship” \(Utsuro-bune\) that looks like a rice cooking pot or incense burner in Hitachi province, Japan. Fishermen bring her inland to investigate further, but the woman is unable to communicate in Japanese. She is dressed in a foreign fashion made of unknown fabrics and is clutching an ornate box also marked with the unknown script. The vessel is covered in hieroglyphs that no one can decipher. The fishermen return her and her vessel to the sea, where it drifts away. Accounts of the tale appear in three texts: Toen shōsetsu \(1825\), Hyōryū kishū \(1835\), and Ume-no-chiri \(1844\), but no official records mention it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Utsuro-bune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsuro-bune)”; Kazuo Tanaka, “Did a Close Encounter of the Third Kind Occur on a Japanese Beach in 1803?” Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 4 \(July/August 2000\): 37–60; Masaru Mori, “The Female Alien in a Hollow Vessel,” Fortean Times 48 \(Spring 1987\): 48–50; Junji Numakawa, “[On a UFO-Shaped Boat in 1803,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Japan/UFO%20Criticism%20%28Japan%2C%20English%20language%29/UFO%20Criticism%20by%20JN%20from%20Japan%20-%202001%2001%20-%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf)” UFO Criticism 1, no 1 \(January 2001\): 2–3; Tanaka Kazuo, [“‘Utsurobune’: A UFO Legend from Nineteenth-Century Japan,](https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g00879/)” nippon.com, June 26, 2020; Shoichi Kamon \[pseud. of Tanaka Kazuo\], The Mystery of Utsuro-bune: Ancient UFO Encounter in Japan? Flying Disk Press, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_25 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1808 (Back to Top) ### Event 37 (CC999384) Date: 5/16/1808 Description: 4:00 p.m. Swedish lichenologist [Erik Acharius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%5FAcharius) watches a stream of dark-brown spherical objects moving slowly through the sky in a straight line over Biskopsberga, near Skänninge, Sweden. Some hover temporarily and speed up, while others fall to earth. The objects appear in the western sky and stream to the east for 2 hours. Some are apparently linked together in groups of three, six, or eight, and all of them have some kind of trail. A few of them fall in the vicinity of K. G. Wettermark, who has also been observing. They resemble soap bubbles and dissipate quickly, leaving a film like cobweb. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Erik Acharius, “[Besynnerligt Meteor-Phenomén,](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180275%23page/221/mode/1up)” Konglige Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handligar, ser. 2, vol. 29 \(July/September 1808\): 215–218; “[Account of an](https://www.google.com/books/edition/The%5FNorth%5FAmerican%5FReview%5Fand%5FMiscellane/3oxeorbYDO0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Account%2Bof%2Ban%2BExtraordinary%2BMeteoric%2BPhenomenon%E2%80%9D%2BNorth%2BAmerican%2BReview&pg=PA320&printsec=frontcover) [Extraordinary Meteoric Phenomenon,](https://www.google.com/books/edition/The%5FNorth%5FAmerican%5FReview%5Fand%5FMiscellane/3oxeorbYDO0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Account%2Bof%2Ban%2BExtraordinary%2BMeteoric%2BPhenomenon%E2%80%9D%2BNorth%2BAmerican%2BReview&pg=PA320&printsec=frontcover)” North American Review 3 \(1816\): 320–322; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 18–29 Source ID: Eberhart_26 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1819 (Back to Top) ### Event 38 (80AD7966) Date: 8/13/1819 Description: 8:00–9:00 p.m. A brilliant white fireball streaks across the sky at Amherst, Massachusetts. The next morning, Erastus Dewey finds a strange substance 20 feet from his front door and assumes it is residue from the meteorite. It is about 8 inches in diameter, resembles an upside-down salad dish, and consists of buff-colored pulpy substance with an overwhelmingly bad smell. It is covered with a nap that, when removed, causes the interior to liquefy and form a starchy substance. A couple days later, it largely dissipates. Geologist [Edward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FHitchcock) [Hitchcock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FHitchcock) thinks it is some kind of “gelatinous fungus” common to the area in the late summer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Rufus Graves, “[Account of a Gelatinous Meteor,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000036673113&view=1up&seq=359&skin=2021)” American Journal of Science 2 \(1820\): 335–337; Edward Hitchcock, “[On the](https://www.google.com/books/edition/American%5FJournal%5Fof%5FScience/-yZGAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%E2%80%9COn%2Bthe%2BMeteors%2Bof%2BNov.%2B13%2C%2B1833%2C%E2%80%9D%2BAmerican%2BJournal%2Bof%2BScience%2B25&pg=PA354&printsec=frontcover) [Meteors of Nov. 13, 1833,](https://www.google.com/books/edition/American%5FJournal%5Fof%5FScience/-yZGAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%E2%80%9COn%2Bthe%2BMeteors%2Bof%2BNov.%2B13%2C%2B1833%2C%E2%80%9D%2BAmerican%2BJournal%2Bof%2BScience%2B25&pg=PA354&printsec=frontcover)” American Journal of Science 25 \(1834\): 354, 362–363 Source ID: Eberhart_27 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1820 (Back to Top) ### Event 39 (976A8B86) Date: 2/12/1820 Description: 10:45 a.m. A German astronomer and cleric named Steinheibel watches a clearly defined dark orange-red spot traversing the disc of the Sun in about five hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joseph Johann von Littrow, “[Further Note on the](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106014897588&view=1up&seq=286&skin=2021) [Supposed Observation of an Intra-Mercurial Planet on the 12th of February, 1820,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106014897588&view=1up&seq=286&skin=2021)” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 22 \(1862\): 276 Source ID: Eberhart_28 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 40 (C14826F3) Date: 9/7/1820 Description: At 8:00 p.m. many observers in Embrun, Hautes-Alpes, France watched flying saucers maneuver with military precision during a lunar eclipse, making 90 degree turns and other maneuvers, for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers magazine, November 1973, p. 36; Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_5706 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1822 (Back to Top) ### Event 41 (89B84165) Date: 10/23/1822 Description: On this day in Berlin, Germany Astronomer Pastorff watched two disc pass in front of the face of the Sun. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case no. 81 Source ID: Johnson_7032 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1824 (Back to Top) ### Event 42 (CFD2771A) Date: 1824 Description: Bavarian astronomer [Franz von Gruithuisen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%5Fvon%5FGruithuisen) of Munich, Germany, writes Discovery of Many Distinct Traces of Lunar Inhabitants, Especially of One of their Colossal Buildings, in which he announces his discovery of a city on the Moon in the rough terrain to the north of Schröter crater that he names the Wallwerk. This region contains a series of somewhat linear ridges that have a fishbone-like pattern, and, with the small refracting telescope he is using, can be perceived as resembling buildings complete with streets. His claims are readily refuted using more powerful instruments. Gruithuisen also thinks that the mysterious “ashen light” observed on Venus’s dark side is due to a festival of fire in honor of the “ascension of a new emperor to the throne of the planet.” Later, he speculates that the illumination is caused by burning jungles to create new farmland. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Gruithuisen’s Lunar City,](https://www.whatsupinthesky.com/index.php/forum/the-moon/1620-gruithuisen-s-lunar-city)” whatsupinthesky.com; David Dunér, “[Venusians: The Planet Venus in the 18th-Century Extraterrestrial Life](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013JAD....19..145D/abstract) [Debate,](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013JAD....19..145D/abstract)” Journal of Astronomical Data 19, no. 1 \(2013\): 162; Andrew May, “The Lost Ruins of the Moon,” Fortean Times 358 \(October 2017\): 56 Source ID: Eberhart_29 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1825 (Back to Top) ### Event 43 (C0175E43) Date: 1825 Description: Ampère published his "Ampère’s law." Type: scientific advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell%27s_equations) Source ID: Maj2_5 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1826 (Back to Top) ### Event 44 (3FE90B18) Date: 4/1/1826 Description: 4:00 p.m. Stone mason Johannes Becker hears a noise resembling thunder at Rastpfuhl, northwest of Saarbrücken, Germany, and sees a grayish object “like two pieces of tin” approaching the earth with lightning speed and expanding itself like a sheet before falling to earth, apparently not far away. After one minute there is another sound like thunder and a strong whirlwind, as if coming from an impact. Pastor Köllner collects testimony from other nearby witnesses and visits the supposed landing site but finds no burn marks or meteoritic stones. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ernst Chladni, “[Über eine merkwürdige meteorische Erscheinung, am 1 April 1826, nicht weit von](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89048351621&view=1up&seq=399&skin=2021) [Saarbrücken,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89048351621&view=1up&seq=399&skin=2021)” Annalen der Physik und Chemie 7 \(1826\): 373–377; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 31–38 Source ID: Eberhart_30 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1829 (Back to Top) ### Event 45 (AB804E71) Date: 8/20/1829 Description: 11:00 p.m. A man on the York Road east of Leeds, England, sees a moon-like object split into two halves, the upper half of which gives off an apparent shaft of light. He sees two human figures visible to the waist, one of which has a red cloth around its head. The object is visible for more than one hour and is seen by others, during which time a cloud passes in front of it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Celestial Phenomena,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91910117/)” York Herald, August 22, 1829, p. 2; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 111–125 Source ID: Eberhart_31 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1831 (Back to Top) ### Event 46 (225017DB) Date: 1831 Description: Michael Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of induction Type: scientific advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_induction) Source ID: Maj2_6 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1833 (Back to Top) ### Event 47 (0018787F) Date: 11/13/1833 Description: On this date in 1833 a series of incidents involving a luminous aerial object and the fall of mysterious jelly-like substances were reported in New York, New Jersey and Ohio. At dawn in West Point, New York, a woman milking her cow saw a luminous object descend "with a sposh" sound. She discovered a flattened, jelly-like transparent mass. By 10:00 in the morning it had sublimed and disappeared. The same kind of jelly-like substance was found on the ground in Newark and Rahway, New Jersey. In Poland, Ohio a luminous object in the northeastern sky, at dawn, hovered for nearly an hour. It was described as very brilliant, and was shaped like a "pruning hook." Earlier, at a short time after 2:00 a.m., a luminous object was also seen in the sky at Niagara Falls, New York. It was shaped like a square table, remained stationary in the sky, and emitted rays of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Lore, Jr. and Harold H.Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, pp. 60-61 Source ID: Johnson_7622 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1835 (Back to Top) ### Event 48 (16FD241D) Date: 5/11/1835 Description: At the Palermo Observatory in Italy, astronomer [Niccolò Cacciatore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2%5FCacciatore) detects a starlike object in the Southern sky between the constellations Virgo and Crater moving at a slow rate that might indicate a planet beyond Uranus. It is nowhere to be seen during his next observation on May 14. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Supposed New Planet,” American Journal of Science 31 \(1837\): 158–159 Source ID: Eberhart_32 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 49 (A264B037) Date: 8/25/1835 End date: 8/31/1835 Description: The New York Sun publishes a series of six articles on the alleged discovery by English astronomer [John](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FHerschel) [Herschel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FHerschel) of plants, animals, and winged people on the lunar surface. Using a huge and powerful telescope, Herschel supposedly sees herds of bison-like quadrupeds, a spherical amphibious creature, and a bipedal beaver that lives in huts. The humans are man-bats “covered, except on the face, with short and glossy copper-colored hair, and had wings composed of a thin membrane, without hair, lying snugly upon their backs.” The article is an elaborate hoax. Herschel hasn’t observed life on the moon at all, nor is Herschel even aware of the story until much later. The announcement causes enormous excitement throughout America and Europe. Authorship of the article is usually attributed to Richard Adams Locke, a reporter who is working for The Sun at the time. Locke publicly admits to being the author in 1840, in a letter to the weekly paper New World, although his intent is satire, not misinformation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Great Moon Hoax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%5FMoon%5FHoax)”; Richard Adams Locke, [The Moon Hoax](https://archive.org/details/moonhoax00Lock/page/n1/mode/2up), Gowans, 1859 Source ID: Eberhart_33 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1838 (Back to Top) ### Event 50 (2621D085) Date: 1838 Description: Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrates telegraph transmission across two miles of wire in Morristown, NJ Type: scientific advance Reference: [link](https://www.thoughtco.com/the-invention-of-the-telegraph-1773842) Source ID: Maj2_7 Source: Maj2 ### Event 51 (6E98F7BA) Date: 1838 Description: Scottish minister and science writer [Thomas Dick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FDick%5F%28scientist%29) publishes Celestial Scenery: The Wonders of the Planetary System Displayed, in which he suggests that every planet in the Solar System is inhabited. At his home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, he computes that the Solar System contains 21.9 trillion inhabitants, 53.5 billion of them on Venus. This is done comparing the surface area of each planet and the population density of England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Thomas Dick, [Celestial Scenery](https://archive.org/details/celestialscenery00dick/page/n6)[,](https://archive.org/details/celestialscenery00dick/page/n6) Harper, 1838 Source ID: Eberhart_34 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1843 (Back to Top) ### Event 52 (5438293B) Date: 5/7/1843 Description: An object with the "resemblance of a ship" sailed through the air over Quebec City, Quebec, Canada and cast a shadow on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John R. Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal accounts of sightings and close encounters, p. 209 Source ID: Johnson_2610 Source: Johnson ### Event 53 (4C95BDAA) Date: 10/3/1843 Description: Farmer Cooper saw three men flying through the sky over Warwick, Quebec. They were completely white. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal accounts of sightings and close encounters, p. 209 Source ID: Johnson_6516 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1845 (Back to Top) ### Event 54 (19F7E1AD) Date: 6/18/1845 Description: 10:30 p.m. The British brig Victoria, captained by [George Henry Caithness](https://molegenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/02/tracing-master-mariners-career.html)[,](https://molegenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/02/tracing-master-mariners-career.html) is becalmed in the Strait of Sicily about 30 miles southwest of Licata, Sicily, Italy, when a huge wind suddenly blows from the east for two hours. Then the wind suddenly stops, and the crew feels an overpowering heat and smells a sulfuric stench. At this moment three “luminous bodies” emerge from the sea about one-half mile away and remain visible for 10 minutes. Shortly thereafter the wind picks up again. \(This could be a magma plume from an undersea volcanic vent.\) Around 7:10 p.m., at Ainab, Lebanon, two objects five times as large as the moon, joined by “streamers or appendages,” are observed in the west and remain visible for one hour, moving slowly on an easterly course. The objects are so bright they are painful to look at. A possible outgassing event from the Madrepore subsea vent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Atmospherical Phenomena,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91910671/)” London Morning Chronicle, August 8, 1845, p. 5; The Athenaeum, August 19, 1848, [p. 833](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858029267220&view=1up&seq=845&skin=2021); James Glaisher, et al., “Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1860–61,” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1861, [pp. 30–31](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101076796398&view=1up&seq=104&skin=2021); Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 139–152; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 115–126 Source ID: Eberhart_35 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1847 (Back to Top) ### Event 55 (A9ACD625) Date: 3/19/1847 Description: 8:30 p.m. A woman and her companion are in Highbury East, London, England, when they notice what seems to be a fire balloon ascending slowly in the west, seemingly over Hampstead. It shoots out “several fiery coruscations” and turns into an intensely radiant cloud, which moves on further west. Its light shines down on the houses below. Suddenly another bright cloud appears above the first. After 2–3 minutes, a fiery ball drops from the upper cloud to the lower one, followed by two others. Soon after this, both clouds disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Meteoric](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112110907091&view=1up&seq=515&skin=2021) [Stones,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112110907091&view=1up&seq=515&skin=2021)” Littell’s Living Age 56 \(1858\): 503 Source ID: Eberhart_36 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1850 (Back to Top) ### Event 56 (68617CE3) Date: 9/15/1850 Description: 6:20 p.m. Senior medical officer [Elisha Kent Kane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha%5FKent%5FKane) and other crew members of the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FAdvance%5F%281847%29) [Advance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FAdvance%5F%281847%29), participating in the First Grinnell Expedition to the Arctic to determine the fate of the lost Franklin Northwest Passage expedition, watch a balloon-like object over the Wellington Channel between Cornwallis and Devon islands, Nunavut, Canada. It is floating slowly northward and appears to be 2 feet long by 18 inches wide. After a short time, a small object appears below it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Elisha Kent Kane, The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, Harper and Brothers, 1854, [p. 190](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822037764818&view=1up&seq=209&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_37 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1854 (Back to Top) ### Event 57 (C3C1C957) Date: 3/21/1854 Description: 9:30 p.m. People in Washington, D.C., see a brilliant light in the sky overhead “like a coal of fire glowing,” red in color and stationary. It is visible for 20–30 minutes before it fades away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Atmospherical Phenomenon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91911905/)” Gettysburg \(Pa.\) Adams Sentinel, March 27, 1854, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_38 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1855 (Back to Top) ### Event 58 (03BCEE6E) Date: 1/22/1855 Description: 10:00 p.m. A witness walking in the public square in New Haven, Connecticut, sees a brilliant red fireball in the sky near the star Gamma Draconis. At first it is stationary but after 15 seconds it moves slowly toward the east with a slight undulatory motion. It passes below the star Eta Ursae Majoris and disappears not far from Denebola in the constellation Leo. The object is visible for 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Meteoric Phenomenon,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1855/01/25/76458138.pdf?pdf%5Fredirect=true&ip=0)” New York Times, January 25, 1855, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_39 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1857 (Back to Top) ### Event 59 (0AB2657A) Date: 6/19/1857 Alternate date: 6/20/1857 Description: Sunset. A large cloud moves in over Carbondale, Pennsylvania, from the northwest, accompanied by considerable wind. It emits a dark-looking substance that falls to the ground, where it becomes highly luminous. It moves toward a large barn and passes through its center, setting it on fire, and continues on in a straight course for the woods, burning up the underbrush. It makes a path about 16 feet wide for a distance of 3 miles, and it finally stops against an outcrop of anthracite coal 60 feet in thickness. It leaves a sulfurous mass behind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Extraordinary](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91912237/) [Meteoric Phenomenon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91912237/)” Baltimore \(Md.\) Sun, June 27, 1857, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_40 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1858 (Back to Top) ### Event 60 (B88102AA) Date: 7/10/1858 End date: 1/7/1943 Description: Nikola Tesla born (dies 1/7/1943) Type: scientist Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla) Source ID: Maj2_8 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1860 (Back to Top) ### Event 61 (048746F2) Date: 1860 End date: 1864 Description: Louis Pasteur’s key germ theory experiments Type: scientific advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease#19th_and_20th_centuries) Source ID: Maj2_9 Source: Maj2 ### Event 62 (D1DED67A) Date: 7/13/1860 Description: In Wilmington, Delaware at 9:45 p.m. a pale blue light illuminated a 200-foot long cloud-like object in the sky that moved slowly and silently through the sky. At regular distances behind the cloud followed three "very red and glowing balls." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr. and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 65 Source ID: Johnson_4024 Source: Johnson ### Event 63 (BD6457AB) Date: 7/20/1860 Description: 9:40 p.m. A poem by Brooklyn, New York, poet [Walt Whitman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt%5FWhitman)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt%5FWhitman) “Year of Meteors \(1859-60\),” published in a later edition of Leaves of Grass, describes a “strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads.” For many years, no one could identify the event. Then in 2000, Texas State University–San Marcos physicist Donald W. Olson discovered a painting by Hudson River artist [Frederic Edwin Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%5FEdwin%5FChurch) depicting two large meteors streaming across the sky and dated July 20, 1860. An examination of contemporary newspapers revealed that this was probably Whitman’s meteor procession. Around 9:40 p.m., two meteors with trails, one behind another, are seen in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Norfolk, and other locations in the East, proceeding slowly from northwest to southeast for nearly one minute. They are as bright as Venus. A rare event, and little understood until 1913, a meteor procession occurs when an earth-grazing meteor breaks apart and the fragments travel across the sky in the same horizontal path. Olson and his colleagues finally publish their discovery in the July 2010 issue of Sky & Telescope. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Wonders of the Heavens: The Meteor Train,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91912697/)” Brooklyn \(N.Y.\) Evening Star, July 21, 1860, p. 2; “[The Meteor of Friday Night,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91912986/)” New York Herald, July 22, 1860, p. 1; “Texas State Astronomers Solve Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery,” Office of Media Relations, Texas State University, May 28, 2010; David Dickinson, “[Remembering the Great Meteor Procession of 1860,](https://www.universetoday.com/103549/remembering-the-great-meteor-procession-of-1860/)” Universe Today, July 20, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_41 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 64 (F0B17B94) Date: 8/2/1860 Description: 11:00 p.m. Another seeming procession of two meteors is observed in Norfolk, Virginia, moving with an undulating motion in the western sky in a northerly direction. One of the lights is clear red and the other is greenish, and they both emit flashes of light, leaving a sparkling trail. The phenomenon is also seen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Some unnamed contemporary scientists compare it to the July 20 meteor procession. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Another](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91913274/) [Splendid Meteor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91913274/)” Baltimore \(Md.\) Sun, August 6, 1860, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_42 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 65 (63C78957) Date: 8/6/1860 Description: Red objects with a green tint were seen flying in formation over Norfolk, Virginia, moving erratically with an "undulating motion, rising and subsiding." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Baltimore Sun, August 6, 1860; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 71 Source ID: Johnson_4713 Source: Johnson ### Event 66 (68382493) Date: 8/6/1860 Description: Two objects, one red and one green, flew overhead together, moving with an undulating motion. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norfolk, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_0 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1862 (Back to Top) ### Event 67 (024B24F4) Date: 11/1862 Description: Early morning. Magistrate [Osman Edward Middleton](https://australianroyalty.net.au/tree/purnellmccord.ged/individual/I30385/Osman-Edward-Middleton) hears a “peculiar rushing noise” at Morpeth, New South Wales, and looks up to see a dark object traveling rapidly toward the southeast. It appears to be revolving on its axis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[Letter](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91913659/)\], Sydney \(N.S.W.\) Morning Herald, November 20, 1866, p. 5; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 167–173 Source ID: Eberhart_43 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1865 (Back to Top) ### Event 68 (FE887F16) Date: 1865 Description: James Clerk Maxwell publishes “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field” on electromagnetism. Maxwell derives an electromagnetic wave equation with a velocity for light in close agreement with measurements made by experiment, and deduces that light is an electromagnetic wave. Type: scientific advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dynamical_Theory_of_the_Electromagnetic_Field) Source ID: Maj2_10 Source: Maj2 ### Event 69 (90D875C3) Date: 1865 Description: French novelist [Jules Verne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules%5FVerne) publishes From the Earth to the Moon. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post–American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club’s president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a lunar landing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[From the Earth to the Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From%5Fthe%5FEarth%5Fto%5Fthe%5FMoon)” Source ID: Eberhart_44 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 70 (86A95265) Date: 12/1865 Description: The British Board of Trade asks Trinity House to investigate the “false lights” of the Durham, England, coast, mysterious revolving lights seen above a rocky headland at Whitburn by mariners negotiating a hazardous stretch of the northeast coast. Between 1860 and 1870, more than 150 ships are wrecked on the rocks near Whitburn after following a light or lights in the sky that they wrongly believe are from a lighthouse at the mouth of the Tyne. A commission led by Rear Admiral [Richard Collinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FCollinson) meets in Sunderland on December 28 to interview witnesses and determine whether salvagers are responsible for the lights that are causing shipwrecks. Although the commission decides that the false lights are not deliberately lit, they are puzzled about the true cause. The lights and wrecks continue until January 1871 when the Souter Lighthouse is erected on Lizard Point. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[False Lights on the Durham Coast,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91939345/)” Newcastle Weekly Courant, January 12, 1866, p. 5; David Clarke, “[Britain’s First X-File?](http://drdavidclarke.blogspot.com/2010/08/britains-first-x-file.html)” August 14, 2010; David Clarke, “The False Lights of Durham,” Fortean Times 266 \(October 2010\): 40–42; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 77–79 Source ID: Eberhart_45 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1866 (Back to Top) ### Event 71 (9B332CEC) Date: 6/21/1866 Description: The US Hydrographic Office is established by Congress. It is assigned to the Navy Bureau of Navigation and collects reports from ships’ officers on observations of various marine phenomena, hazards, and other activities. Among the reports collected are meteors, ball lightning, and other celestial and meteorological phenomena. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States Hydrographic Office](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FHydrographic%5FOffice)” Source ID: Eberhart_46 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1867 (Back to Top) ### Event 72 (3E65F3E7) Date: 11/4/1867 Description: In the middle of the afternoon a large number of black discs in groups and separately passed rapidly through the sky over Chatham, England. The procession continued for more than 20 minutes. Several groups passed silently overhead, then vanished leaving a brown, smoke-like vapor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter, Spring 2003, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_7455 Source: Johnson ### Event 73 (6DE1679B) Date: 11/4/1867 Description: 3:00–4:00 p.m. James E. Beveridge is passing the mill by the Waterworks Reservoir in Chatham, England, when he and the miller see numerous black discs moving in the air to the west, some in groups, others scattered. They are visible for more than 20 minutes. In passing in front of the sun they appear like large cannon shot. Several groups pass over his head, disappearing suddenly, and leaving puffs of grayish brown smoke. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Three Strange Stories,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000919116g&view=1up&seq=268&skin=2021)” Symons’s Monthly Meteorological Magazine 2 \(1867\): 130 Source ID: Eberhart_47 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1868 (Back to Top) ### Event 74 (A20F263F) Date: 6/8/1868 Description: 9:50 p.m. John Lucas Sr., an observer at Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford University, England, notices a comet- like object with a trail a bit west of Polaris. As he is pointing it out to some others, it begins moving west. It moves in a straight line at first, then moves south for a bit, then continues to the north. They watch it for 4 minutes until it disappears below the northwestern horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Remarkable Meteor,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924069708760&view=1up&seq=523&skin=2021)” English Mechanic 7 \(July 10, 1868\): 351 Source ID: Eberhart_48 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 75 (618BBEDD) Date: 7/1868 Description: A strange "aerial construction" bearing lights and making engine noises flew low over this town. Local people also described it as a giant bird covered with large scales producing a metallic noise. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Copiago, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_1 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 76 (6E08DB82) Date: 7/1868 Description: A strange "aerial construction" bearing lights and making engine noises flew low over this town. Local people also described it as a giant bird covered with large scales producing a metallic noise. Although not an actual landing, this is the first instance of close observation of an unknown object at low altitude in the nineteenth century. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fort 638; Anatomy 11 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Copiago, Chile Source ID: Magnonia_1 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 77 (5156FA5C) Date: 7/25/1868 Description: Engineer [Frederick William Birmingham](http://parramattaheritage.blogspot.com/2014/01/frederick-william-birmingham%5F9.html) of Parramatta, New South Wales, watches a bizarre procession of the faces of two prominent Australians \(Archbishop of Sydney [Frederic Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%5FBarker) and New South Wales Premier [James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FMartin%5F%28Australian%5Fpolitician%29) [Martin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FMartin%5F%28Australian%5Fpolitician%29)\) through the air as well as a vessel he calls an “ark.” He hears a voice suggesting that “That’s a machine to go through the air.” The voice comes from a “spirit” whom he describes as “like a neutral tint shade and the shape of a man in his usual frock dress.” After the ark maneuvers for a while in the air, the spirit says, “Have you a desire or do you wish to enter upon it?” He is then lifted up and carried through the air into the object about 60 feet away. The spirit guides him into the “pilot house” of the machine where he is given some papers with formulas on them that will help him construct a flying machine. He observes another UFO-like craft on March 9, 1873, and later attempts to build a mechanical replica of what he has seen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[The Mystery of a](https://www.auforn.com/Bill%5FChalker%5F25.htm) [Machine to Go through the Air: A UFO Vision?](https://www.auforn.com/Bill%5FChalker%5F25.htm)” 1998; Clark III 60–65; “[Did Frederick William Birmingham](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2013/11/did-frederick-william-birmingham-build.html) [Build a Flying Machine Based on His Bizarre 1868 UFO ‘Vision’ in Parramatta, NSW, Australia?](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2013/11/did-frederick-william-birmingham-build.html)” TheOzFiles, November 30, 2013; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 185–190 Source ID: Eberhart_49 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1869 (Back to Top) ### Event 78 (4D007E1B) Date: 1869 Description: French poet and inventor [Charles Cros](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FCros) is convinced that pinpoints of light observed on Mars and Venus are the lights of large cities on those planets. He spends years petitioning the French government to build a giant mirror to communicate with the Martians and Venusians by burning giant lines on the deserts of those planets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alissa Walker, “[A French Inventor Once Proposed a Giant Mirror to Burn a Message on Mars,](https://gizmodo.com/a-french-inventor-proposed-a-giant-mirror-to-burn-a-mes-1647075915)” Gizmodo, October 16, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_50 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 79 (F5C87461) Date: 8/7/1869 Description: 12:00 noon. Four or five witnesses watch a luminous object land in a vacant lot about 200 yards north of the village of Adamstown, Pennsylvania. It is originally square-shaped but shoots up into a column about 3–4 feet high and 2 feet thick. The object glitters like a “column of burnished silver.” It gradually fades away and disappears after 10 minutes. No unusual traces are found on the lot. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Singular](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91943696/) [Phenomenon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91943744/)” Lancaster \(Pa.\) Daily Evening Express, August 10, 1869, pp. 2–3 Source ID: Eberhart_51 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 80 (D107C31D) Date: 8/7/1869 Description: Around midday a luminous square body settled near the center of an empty lot in Adamstown, Pennsylvania in Lancaster county. It shot up a shiny column four feet high and two feet thick that glittered like burnished silver. It gradually faded away, and was gone in 10 minutes. It frightened the four witnesses, but left no traces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, March 1972 Source ID: Johnson_4757 Source: Johnson ### Event 81 (2CE99AC9) Date: 8/7/1869 Description: About 4:45 p.m. During a total solar eclipse, four amateur observers in St. Paul’s Junction \[possibly a railroad stop between Maynard and West Union\], Iowa, both with and without instruments independently notice a bright object below the lunar disc and just outside the solar corona. There are no visible stars in that position in the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Was It the Intra-Mercurial Planet?](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015065413836&view=1up&seq=251&skin=2021)” Astronomical Register 7 \(1869\): 227–228; John Russell Hind, “[Stellar Objects Seen during the Eclipse of 1869,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c047864269&view=1up&seq=695&skin=2021)” Nature 18 \(1878\): 663–664 Source ID: Eberhart_52 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1870 (Back to Top) ### Event 82 (91EFC94D) Date: 3/22/1870 Description: At 6:30 p.m. in the Atlantic Ocean south of Cape Verde, the crew of the steamship Lady of the Lake sighted a gray object in the sky divide into four connected sections while it flew against the wind. Behind it trailed a long hook connected to the center of the UFO. It was visible for at least 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 46; Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 57; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_1610 Source: Johnson ### Event 83 (6D6E7E40) Date: 3/22/1870 Description: 6:30 p.m. Capt. Frederick William Banner, master of the barque Lady of the Lake, is sailing in the North Atlantic 400 miles north of the Equator and 860 miles from the coast of West Africa when he sees a “curious- shaped” light-gray cloud in the south-southeast. It is circular, with four rays or arms extending from the center to the edge, and a curved tail. It is visible for about 50 minutes until it is too dark to see. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frederick William Banner, “[Extract from Log of Barque ‘Lady of the Lake,’](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxgncd&view=1up&seq=183&skin=2021)” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 1 \(1873\): 157; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 89– 109 Source ID: Eberhart_53 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 84 (83ED5B84) Date: 9/26/1870 Description: A luminous object with a tail is seen in the constellation Lyra by [Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FBrabazon%2C%5F12th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FMeath) [Meath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FBrabazon%2C%5F12th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FMeath)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FBrabazon%2C%5F12th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FMeath) second secretary of the British legation to the North German Confederation, in Berlin, Germany. Possibly a light pillar reflection caused by a bright arc-light source at a military installation on Eiswerder island. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brabazon, “[A Meteor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91944654/)” London Times, September 30, 1870, p. 9; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 111–116 Source ID: Eberhart_54 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1871 (Back to Top) ### Event 85 (A297FBE9) Date: 1871 Description: English astronomer [Richard A. Proctor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FA.%5FProctor) writes Other Worlds Than Ours, in which he discusses the question of the plurality of worlds in the light of new facts. He suspects that Venus is likely the “abode of living creatures not unlike the inhabitants of earth.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard A. Proctor, [Other Worlds Than Ours](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433069107484&view=1up&seq=11&skin=2021), Appleton, 1871 Source ID: Eberhart_55 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 86 (B2812806) Date: 8/1/1871 Description: 10:43 p.m. Astronomer [Jérôme Eugène Coggia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me%5FEug%C3%A8ne%5FCoggia) at Marseille Observatory, France, watches a slow, blood-red fireball move across the sky and change course twice before falling to the earth. He sees it for 20 minutes and 20 seconds. Possible earth-grazing meteor or a candle balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jérome Eugène Coggia, “[Observation d’un bolide,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822009519000&view=1up&seq=403&skin=2021) [faite à Observatoire de Marseille le 1](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822009519000&view=1up&seq=403&skin=2021)[er](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822009519000&view=1up&seq=403&skin=2021) [août,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822009519000&view=1up&seq=403&skin=2021)” Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des Sciences 73 \(1871\): 397–399; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 117–119 Source ID: Eberhart_56 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1872 (Back to Top) ### Event 87 (66E54AC4) Date: 12/7/1872 Description: 1:00 a.m. At King's Sutton an object resembling a haystack flew on an irregular course. Sometimes high, sometimes very low it was accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produced the same effect as a tornado, felling trees and walls. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Banbury, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 88 (2CACBE98) Date: 12/7/1872 Time: 0100 hours Description: At King's Sutton an object resembling a haystack flew on an irregular course. Sometimes high, sometimes very low it was accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produced the same effect as a tornado, felling trees and walls. It suddenly vanished. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fort 189 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Banbury, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_2 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 89 (3F71A602) Date: 12/7/1872 Description: At King's Sutton in Banbury, England an object resembling a haystack flew on an irregular course at one o'clock in the morning. Sometimes flying very high, sometimes very low, it was accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produced much the same effect as a tornado, felling trees and walls. It vanished suddenly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 2 Source ID: Johnson_8250 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1873 (Back to Top) ### Event 90 (DE85F056) Date: 1873 Description: English-American geologist and psychometrist [William Denton](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/denton-william-1823-1883) of Wellesley, Massachusetts, publishes volume 3 of The Soul of Things, in which he describes his astral visit to Mars along with his sister Anna Cridge and wife Elizabeth. He finds it harbors a thriving civilization with a technology based on aluminum. He reports that they soar above traffic on their individual fly-cycles and seem particularly fond of air travel, with as many as 30 Martians occupying some of the large flying conveyances. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: William Denton, Soul of Things, Wellesley, Mass.: Elizabeth M. F. Denton, 1873, vol. 3, [pp. 171–267](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033393680&view=1up&seq=175&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_57 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 91 (DB79C03A) Date: 1873 Description: Maxwell published A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism as a summary of his work on electromagnetism Type: scientific advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell%27s_equations) Source ID: Maj2_11 Source: Maj2 ### Event 92 (E199A459) Date: Late 3/1873 Description: Evening. Thomas Inman and his son are traveling home from the village of Taylorsville \[now Philo\], Ohio, and are possibly in Bristol Township when they see a bright light descending swiftly with a roaring noise. It strikes a short distance in the road \[probably Lawrence Road\] ahead of them, flickers and flares, then fades. A man dressed in a suit of black carrying a lantern emerges from the object. He walks a few paces and steps into a buggy, which Inman has not noticed before. The buggy begins to move silently and quickly, even though there is no horse attached to it, until it reaches a deep gully, into which it plunges and disappears. Historian [William](https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/ohio/id/4682/) [Alexander Taylor](https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/ohio/id/4682/)[,](https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/ohio/id/4682/) who supplies the story to the New York Herald, vouches for the witnesses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Very Like](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35995802/new-york-daily-herald/) [a](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74675522/new-york-daily-herald/) [Whale,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74675522/new-york-daily-herald/)” New York Herald, April 8, 1873, p. 7; Clark III 1123–1124; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 175–191 Source ID: Eberhart_58 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1874 (Back to Top) ### Event 93 (EA0D0855) Date: 4/24/1874 Description: 3:30 p.m. Chemist and astronomer [Vojtěch Šafařík](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vojt%C4%9Bch%5F%C5%A0afa%C5%99%C3%ADk) of Prague \[now in the Czech Republic\] sees “an object of so peculiar a character that I do not know what to make of it.” It is a dazzling white object slowly crossing the moon. He first sees it in front of the moon, then watches it against the “deep blue sky like Sirius or Vega in daylight.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vojtěch Šafařík, “[Telescopic Meteors,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015065413646&view=1up&seq=223&skin=2021)” Astronomical Register 23 \(1885\): 205–211 Source ID: Eberhart_59 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 94 (AB860558) Date: 7/6/1874 Description: In Oaxaca, Mexico a 130-meter long spiral-shaped "trumpet" and a 60-meter diameter bell hovered and floated in the sky for five minutes and then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p. 275 Source ID: Johnson_3854 Source: Johnson ### Event 95 (BEEFC721) Date: 8/13/1874 Description: 11:00 p.m. A large, “luminous electric cloud” flies over the western edge of Pascagoula, Mississippi, from the northwest to the southeast. It illuminates the ground and emits heat so intense that some witnesses think their houses are about to ignite. When last seen over the Gulf of Mexico, it renders the spars and rigging of a ship “distinctly visible.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Singular Phenomenon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91946167/)” Pascagoula \(Miss.\) Star, August 22, 1874, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_60 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1876 (Back to Top) ### Event 96 (7E0128F3) Date: 12/21/1876 Description: 8:30–8:45 p.m. A bright bolide that explodes and breaks up into a group of 20–100 smaller balls is seen over a wide swath of the US from Topeka, Kansas, to western Pennsylvania. Over Columbus, Ohio, it is described as “a cluster or flock of meteors seemingly huddled together, like a flock of wild geese, and moving with the same velocity and grace of regularity. The color of their light was a yellowish red, like red rocket-balls.” A stony chondrite falls 3 miles northwest of Rochester, Indiana, at the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James Glaisher, et al., “Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors during the Year 1876–77,” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 47 \(1877\): 98, [149–152](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101076796562&view=1up&seq=257&skin=2021); Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 144–145 Source ID: Eberhart_61 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1877 (Back to Top) ### Event 97 (E05FA626) Date: 1877 Description: Three meteor-like objects moving together with "remarkable slowness" flew across the sky, visible about three minutes, "moving with the same velocity and grade of regularity. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 98 (76CD15A3) Date: 10/1877 Description: Astronomer [Giovanni Schiaparelli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%5FSchiaparelli) reports seeing canali on the Martian surface from Brera Observatory in Milan, Italy, during the Great Opposition. While the term “canals” indicates an artificial construction, its proper translation as “channels” implies that the observed features are natural configurations of the planetary surface. From the incorrect translation into the term “canals,” various assumptions are made about life on Mars; as these assumptions are popularized, the canals become famous, giving rise to waves of hypotheses, speculation, and fiction about the possibility of intelligent life on Mars—the Martians. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Martian canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%5Fcanal)” Source ID: Eberhart_62 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1878 (Back to Top) ### Event 99 (7E51724B) Date: 1/22/1878 Description: John Martin is out hunting near his ranch 6 miles north of Dallas, Texas, when he notices a dark object high in the southern sky. It is so bright it hurts his eyes as it moves with great speed to directly over his head. The object is “about the size of a large saucer” and looks like a large balloon. It speeds away rapidly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Strange](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2994794/john-martins-ufo-sighting-in-1878/) [Phenomena,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2994794/john-martins-ufo-sighting-in-1878/)” Dallas Daily Herald, January 23, 1878, p. 4; Patrick Gross, “[The First Publicized Flying ‘Saucer’](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/denison1878.htm) [Report?](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/denison1878.htm)”; “[Dallas 1878,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=633)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_63 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 100 (FA361EDE) Date: 7/29/1878 Description: About 12:30 p.m. Astronomers [James Craig Watson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FCraig%5FWatson), director of the Ann Arbor \(Mich.\) Observatory, and [Lewis Swift](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%5FSwift)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%5FSwift) an amateur from Rochester, New York, both claim to see a planet-like object close to the Sun during the total solar eclipse. Watson, observing from Separation, Wyoming, places the object about 2.5° southwest of the Sun and estimates its magnitude at 4.5. Swift, observing from a location near Denver, Colorado, sees what he takes to be an intra-mercurial planet about 3° southwest of the Sun. He estimates its brightness to be the same as that of Theta Cancri, a fifth-magnitude star which is also visible during totality, about six or seven minutes from the object. Both Watson and Swift describe the object as red in color. Watson says it has a definite disc, unlike stars, which appear as shimmering pinpoints of light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James C. Watson, “[On the Discovery of an](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924093039315&view=1up&seq=248&skin=2021) [Intra-Mercurial Planet,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924093039315&view=1up&seq=248&skin=2021)” American Journal of Science, ser. 3, 16 \(1878\): 230–233; Lewis Swift, “[Letter from Mr.](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924093039315&view=1up&seq=331&skin=2021) [Lewis Swift, Relating to the Discovery of Intra-Mercurial Planets,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924093039315&view=1up&seq=331&skin=2021)” American Journal of Science, ser. 3, 16 \(1878\): 313–315; Richard Baum and William Sheehan, In Search of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton’s Clockwork Universe, Plenum, 1997, pp. 185–223 Source ID: Eberhart_64 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1879 (Back to Top) ### Event 101 (74FF3FB5) Date: 3/14/1879 End date: 4/18/1955 Description: Albert Einstein born Type: scientist Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein) Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_12 Source: Maj2 ### Event 102 (748493D4) Date: 5/15/1879 Description: Witnesses aboard the ship "Vultur" in the Persian Gulf saw two very large "wheels" spinning in the air at 9:40 p.m. They watched them slowly descend to the surface of the ocean. Their estimated diameter was 40 meters, with a distance between the objects of 150 meters. They moved at an estimated speed of 80 kmph. The sighting lasted 35 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 180, case 4; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomena, p. 12; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 111 Source ID: Johnson_2847 Source: Johnson ### Event 103 (F6B8D03E) Date: 5/15/1879 Time: 2140 Description: Two very large "wheels" were seen spinning in the air and slowly coming to the surface of the sea. Estimated diameter: 40 m. Distance between the objects: 150 m. Speed: 80 km/h/ Duration: 35 min. Witnesses aboard the ship "Vultur" Type: ufo sighting Reference: Round up 17; Anatomy 12 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Persian Gulf Source ID: Magnonia_4 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 104 (2C56EC87) Date: 5/15/1879 Description: 9:40 p.m. Two very large "wheels" were seen spinning in the air and slowly coming to the surface of the sea. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: At sea, Persian Gulf Source ID: NICAP_DB_4 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1880 (Back to Top) ### Event 105 (BF665399) Date: 1880 Description: A strange being dressed in tight-fitting clothes and shining helmet soared over the heads of two sentries, who fired without result. The apparition stunned them with something described as "blue fire." Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 61, 3; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Aldershot, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_3 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 106 (640DD831) Date: 1880 Description: A 14-year-old boy saw a luminous ball descending from the sky and hovering near him. He felt somehow "drawn" to it, but succeeded in backing away in spite of his terror. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 2O6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Eastern Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_5 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 107 (2725F311) Date: 1880 Description: A strange being dressed in tight-fitting clothes and shining helmet soared over the heads of two sentries, who fired without result. The apparition stunned them with something described as "blue fire." (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aldershot, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 108 (D436D6F3) Date: 1880 Description: A 14-year-old boy saw a luminous ball descending from the sky and hovering near him. He felt somehow "drawn" to it, but succeeded in backing away in spite of his terror. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eastern area, Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_6 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 109 (99FDFF6D) Date: 3/22/1880 Description: About 6:00 a.m. A large number of brilliantly luminous bodies are seen to rise from the horizon and pass from east to west at Kattenau, East Prussia \[now Furmanovka, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia\]. They move through space “like a string of beads.” Possible meteor procession. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Remarkable Phenomenon,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00324870l&view=1up&seq=92&skin=2021)” Nature 22 \(May 20, 1880\): 64; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 169– 170 Source ID: Eberhart_65 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 110 (A6409376) Date: 3/26/1880 Description: Lamy, New Mexico - Four men walking near Galisteo Junction in the evening were surprised as they heard voices coming from a "strange balloon," which flew over them. It was shaped like a fish and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike device. There were eight to ten figures aboard. Their language was not understood. The object flew low over Galisteo Junction and rose rapidly toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 180, citing Flying Saucer Review, May 1961; Santa Fe New Mexican, March 27, 1880 Source ID: Johnson_1667 Source: Johnson ### Event 111 (A032CA93) Date: 3/26/1880 Time: evening Description: Four men walking near Galisteo Junction were surprised as they heard voices coming from a "strange balloon," which flew over them. It was shaped like a fish and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike device. There were eight to ten figures aboard. Their language was not understood. The object flew low over Galisteo Junction and rose rapidly toward the east. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 65, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lamy, New Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_6 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 112 (0224B21C) Date: 3/26/1880 Description: Evening. Four men walking near Galisteo Junction were surprised as they heard voices coming from a "strange balloon," which flew over them. It was shaped like a fish and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike device. There were eight to ten figures aboard. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lamy, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_7 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 113 (B1FB52DA) Date: 3/26/1880 Description: Night. The train depot operator and a few friends are walking at Galisteo, New Mexico, when they hear loud voices and laughter coming from a “large balloon” shaped like a fish approaching from the west. A flower is dropped from the car of the balloon to which is attached a slip of silk-like paper on which Chinese characters are written. The next morning, searchers find a cup of peculiar workmanship, but both artifacts are purchased by a “wealthy young Chinaman” and a “collector of curiosities” who visits town on March 28, although this part of the tale seems facetious and racist. The yarn is typical of sensational newspaper hoaxes that have no basis in reality. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Galisteo’s Apparition,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91954003/)” Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, March 29, 1880, p. 3; “[Solved at Last,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91954137/)” Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, April 5, 1880, p. 4; Clark III 69–70, 592; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1880-03-26-usa-lamy.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1880-03-26-usa-lamy.htm) December 3, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_66 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 114 (DF7E01D8) Date: 5/8/1880 Description: A farmer named Ju Tan in Song-Zi Xian Couny, China came upon a misty white light in some bushes around 8:00 p.m. He then felt a tingling paralysis, and heard a humming or rushing noise. He was levitated upwards and lost consciousness. His next recollection was finding himself, in a dazed state, in Guizhou province, which was 300 miles away from his home. The time was two weeks later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_2648 Source: Johnson ### Event 115 (90BCE18D) Date: 6/1880? Description: David Muckle and W. R. McKay of East Kent \[now Chatham-Kent\], Ontario, are in a field on Muckle’s farm when they hear a loud explosion and see a cloud of stones flying upward. They go to the spot and find a circular area, 16 feet across, that has been swept clean of vegetation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Curious Phenomenon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102836810/the-herald/)” Rock Hill \(S.C.\) Herald, July 7, 1880, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_67 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 116 (144316C5) Date: Early 7/1880 Description: A train is running on the Chattanooga Railroad near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in a thunderstorm when the engineer sees a large ball of fire rushing down the rails to the engine. As it passes under the locomotive, he feels a shock that jars the entire train. There is a loud explosion “opposite the ladies’ car” and a telegraph pole is splintered from top to bottom. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Passengers Shocked by Lightning,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91954329/)” Memphis \(Tenn.\) Public Ledger, July 15, 1880, p. 2; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_68 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 117 (43277619) Date: 7/28/1880 Description: 6:00 p.m. C. A. Youngman and Ben Flexner are looking out a drugstore window at 2nd and Chestnut streets in Louisville, Kentucky, when they see something in the air coming from the direction of the Ohio River bridge. As it approaches them, it appears to be a man surrounded by machinery, which he is working with his hands and feet. The object is too high to make out the details of its construction. The man moves off to the south, pedaling constantly. Around 8:00 p.m., the Royster family of Madisonville, Kentucky, watches a circular flying object with a ball at each end moving above the train depot. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[More Monkeying,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91955014/)” Louisville \(Ky.\) Courier-Journal, July 29, 1880, p. 4; “[The Flying Machine,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73758258/the-flying-machine-louisville/)” Louisville \(Ky.\) Courier-Journal, August 6, 1880, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_69 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 118 (0D8F5C8C) Date: 9/30/1880 Description: 9:45 p.m. A brilliant object is seen crossing the sky in Columbus, Georgia, at a very low altitude. Coming from the south, it heads northeasterly in a horizontal line. It appears made of three perfectly developed balls of an equal size and equidistant from each other. The first ball emits a tail that envelops the two following and extends behind them. The tail is luminous except at the far end, where it is indistinct and nebulous. It is visible for a full 50 seconds and continues on its course without falling. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Wonders of a Meteor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91955142/)” Marion \(Ohio\) Star, October 5, 1880, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_70 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 119 (3ECFFFEB) Date: 11/30/1880 Description: A procession of numerous objects flew over the Palermo Observatiory in Sicily, Italy at 8:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 213; Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 46; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, November 1973, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_8062 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1881 (Back to Top) ### Event 120 (8576608A) Date: 6/11/1881 Description: At sea at 4:00 a.m. between Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, the two sons of the Prince of Wales, one of them the future king of England, were cruising aboard "La Bacchante" when a flying object resembling a fully lighted ship was seen, "a phantom vessel all aglow." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 180, citing Charles Fort, The Books of Charles Fort, p. 637 Source ID: Johnson_3415 Source: Johnson ### Event 121 (F156E1FD) Date: 6/11/1881 Time: 0400 Description: The two sons of the Prince of Wales, one of them the future king of England, were cruising aboard "La Bacchante" when an object resembling a fully lighted ship was seen ("a phantom vessel all aglow"). Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fort 637; Anatomy 12 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Between Melbourne and Sydney at sea, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_7 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 122 (29CA8A00) Date: 6/11/1881 Description: 4:00 a.m. The two sons of the Prince of Wales, one of them the future king of England, were cruising aboard "LaBacchante" when an object resembling a fully lighted ship was seen ("a phantom vessel all aglow"). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Between Melbourne and Sydney at sea, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_8 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 123 (B2B8AF2B) Date: Late 10/1881 Description: An unusual fall of spider web occurs near the coast of Lake Michigan at Milwaukee, Green Bay, Fort Howard, Sheboygan, and Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. The webs seem to come from “over the lake” and fall from a great height. The strands are from 2 feet to several yards long, strong in texture, and very white. No spiders are seen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Rain of Spider Webs,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015024538491&view=1up&seq=343&skin=2021)” Scientific American 45 \(1881\): 337 Source ID: Eberhart_71 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1882 (Back to Top) ### Event 124 (03A4F2BC) Date: 7/6/1882 Description: 10:30 p.m. Amateur astronomer N. S. Drayton in Jersey City Heights, New Jersey, watches a red object without a trail move across the sky from the constellation of Ursa Minor to Capricorn in 45 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: N. S. Drayton, “[A](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000062999472&view=1up&seq=63&skin=2021) [Supposed Meteor,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000062999472&view=1up&seq=63&skin=2021)” Scientific American 47 \(July 22, 1882\): 53 Source ID: Eberhart_72 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 125 (D234FA63) Date: 11/17/1882 Description: 6:00 p.m. An auroral beam is observed from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, by astronomer [Edward Walter Maunder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FWalter%5FMaunder) and by [John Rand Capron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FRand%5FCapron) from his private observatory on Hog’s Back, Surrey, England, in association with a geomagnetic storm. The beam is described in detail in various ways, including as a “beam,” “spindle,” “definite body” with a Zeppelin-like shape and pale green color, passing from horizon to horizon above the moon. The phenomenon transits the sky in approximately 75 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[November 1882](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%5F1882%5Fgeomagnetic%5Fstorm) [geomagnetic storm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%5F1882%5Fgeomagnetic%5Fstorm)”; J. Rand Capron, “[The Auroral Beam of November 17, 1882,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000614154i&view=1up&seq=326&skin=2021)” Philosophical Magazine, ser. 5, 15 \(1883\): 318–339; Edward Walter Maunder, “[A Strange Celestial Visitor,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101061668685&view=1up&seq=230&skin=2021)” The Observatory 39 \(May 1916\): 213–215; Paul Fuller, “[The Life and Times of John Rand Capron \(1829–1888\),](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2014AntAs...8...21F)” The Antiquarian Astronomer 8 \(March 2014\): 21–45 Source ID: Eberhart_73 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1883 (Back to Top) ### Event 126 (923AB262) Date: 2/5/1883 Description: 6:45 p.m. A witness at Lake Glasfjorden, near Arvika, Sweden, spots a meteor-like object high on the horizon moving from southeast to northwest. It makes several minor course changes, varies its color from white to yellow, and emits some sparks. After 18 seconds, it changes its course to the southeast and is so low to the ground that its light is reflected in the lake. By this time, it has a distinct tail. Total duration is 50 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[On February](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001485763&view=1up&seq=431&skin=2021) [5, at 6.45 p.m.,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001485763&view=1up&seq=431&skin=2021)” Nature 27 \(March 1, 1883\): 423 Source ID: Eberhart_74 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 127 (1D5111D9) Date: 2/5/1883 Description: A huge fireball flew over Lake Glasfjorden near Arvika, Sweden towards the northwest for 18 seconds. It turned toward the southeast and zigzagged through the sky for an additional 50 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Willy Smith, International UFO Reporter, May-June 1984, p. 4, citing Nature, March 1883 Source ID: Johnson_694 Source: Johnson ### Event 128 (CEC3A540) Date: 8/12/1883 Description: On this day at around 8:00 a.m. Astronomer Bonilla at the Zacatecas Observatory in Zacatecas, Mexico watched as 283 objects passed across the face of the sun. He took a photograph of one of them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 19; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 36; Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Denault, Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 55 Source ID: Johnson_4926 Source: Johnson ### Event 129 (66272935) Date: 8/12/1883 End date: 8/13/1883 Description: Astronomer [José Árbol y Bonilla](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5F%C3%81rbol%5Fy%5FBonilla)[,](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5F%C3%81rbol%5Fy%5FBonilla) director of the El Cerro de la Bufa Meteorological Observatory in Zacatecas, Mexico, is observing the sun by eyepiece projection when he and an assistant see a large number of small bodies crossing the solar disc. Over the course of two days, they count a total of 447 dark objects. They seem bright as they approach the sun but are dark as they pass across its face. He takes several photographs and suspects that they are relatively near the earth. Mexican astronomers in 2011 suggested that a comet may have split into several pieces; these objects were estimated to have had a size of between 150 and 3,350 feet, and to have passed only 334 to 5,000 miles from the Earth; they thought a fragmented Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks was one possibility, in which case Earth barely avoided multiple Tunguska events or even a mass extinction; this was reported in the media and disputed in October 2011; but the source of these objects could also have been comet C/1883 D1 \(Brooks-Swift\) or even a third, unknown comet that year; the event also coincided with the annual Perseid meteor shower; even migrating birds cannot be ruled out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: José Á. y Bonilla, “[Passage sur le](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011404251&view=1up&seq=359&skin=2021) [disque solaire d’un essaim de corpuscles,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011404251&view=1up&seq=359&skin=2021)” L’Astronomie 4 \(1885\): 347–350; Hector Javier Durand Manterola, Maria de la Paz Ramos Lara, and Guadalupe Cordero, “[Interpretation of the Observations Made in 1883 in](https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2798) [Zacatecas \(Mexico\): A Fragmented Comet That Nearly Hits the Earth,](https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2798)” Earth and Planetary Astrophysics \(2011\); “[Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred Kilometers in 1883,](https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/10/17/21387/billion-ton-comet-may-have-missed-earth-by-a-few-hundred-kilometers-in-1883/)” MIT Technology Review, October 17, 2011; “[Did a Massive Comet Almost Wipe Out Humans in 1883?](https://theweek.com/articles/480924/did-massive-comet-almost-wipe-humans-1883)” The Week, January 8, 2015; “[OT-](https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2011/10/ot-1883-zacatecas-observation-of.html) [1883 Zacatecas Observation of Objects before Sun Were Not 12P/Pons-Brooks Fragments,](https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2011/10/ot-1883-zacatecas-observation-of.html)” October 17, 2011; Phil Plait, “[Did a Fragmenting Comet nearly Hit the Earth in 1883? Color Me Very Skeptical,](https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/did-a-fragmenting-comet-nearly-hit-the-earth-in-1883-color-me-very-skeptical)” Bad Astronomy, October 17, 2011; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 189–207 Source ID: Eberhart_75 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1884 (Back to Top) ### Event 130 (D13F29FE) Date: 6/6/1884 Description: 1:00 p.m. Rancher John W. Ellis and some of his ranch hands in south-central Dundy County, Nebraska, allegedly see a blazing object fall from the sky and crash into many pieces, burning the grass and fusing the sand. The light is so intense it blinds one of them. The newspaper suggests it is a “vessel belonging originally to some other planet.” The remains of the object are said to have dissolved in a rainstorm. However, the tale is actually a fictional story written by a correspondent in Benkelman. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Celestial Visitor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27283838/the-nebraska-state-journal/)” Lincoln \(Neb.\) Daily State Journal, June 8, 1884, p. 5; “[The Magical Meteor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27284576/the-nebraska-state-journal/)” Lincoln \(Neb.\) Daily State Journal, June 10, 1884, p. 4; Jerome Clark, “Spaceship and Saltshaker,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 12, 21; Clark III 593 Source ID: Eberhart_76 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 131 (80EB590D) Date: 7/3/1884 Description: 8:30 p.m. L. C. Yale of Norwood, New York, watches an object with a long tail move slowly from east to west. It has a “nucleus like a globe, as large as the moon, surrounded by a bright ring, two dark lines crossing the nucleus in vertical direction, the lines larger in the middle, straight on inside, curved on outside, tapering both ways to points.” The general appearance is of a “gigantic sword of fire, moving handle first.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Great Meteor,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3093221&view=1up&seq=150&skin=2021)” Illustrated Science Monthly 2 \(1884\): 136 Source ID: Eberhart_77 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 132 (C979EB0B) Date: 7/3/1884 Description: Saturn-shaped UFO (globe with central ring) flew slowly overhead. \[Credit: Charles Fort, from Science Monthly, 2-136\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norwood, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_9 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1885 (Back to Top) ### Event 133 (9613520E) Date: 1885 Description: The Benz Patent-Motorwagen by the German Carl Benz is widely regarded as the world’s first practical modern automobile and was the first car put into series production. Type: industrial advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen) Source ID: Maj2_13 Source: Maj2 ### Event 134 (440A70D0) Date: 2/16/1885 Description: Night. During a severe snowstorm, a bright light suddenly flashes in the high rocks on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River some five miles northwest of Port Jervis, New York. The snow-covered hill glows like red-hot iron for several feet around, gleaming through the storm for several minutes, then growing dim and disappearing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mysterious Light,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94251450/)” Wichita \(Kan.\) Beacon, March 25, 1885, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_78 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 135 (FCC415C8) Date: 2/25/1885 Description: 5:00 a.m. Sailing in the North Pacific some 800 miles west of Victoria, British Columbia, Captain John Waters of the barque Innerwick and his mate see the sky turning fiery red. Suddenly a large fireball appears above the ship and falls hissing into the sea about 150 feet away from them, causing a wave of water to impact the ship. Electrical discharges run through the rigging and the masts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Frightful Experience at Sea,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92227998/)” Sacramento \(Calif.\) Record-Union, March 3, 1885, p. 1; “[Notes and News,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822008757627&view=1up&seq=266&skin=2021)” Science 5 \(1885\): 242–243; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 177–199 Source ID: Eberhart_79 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 136 (0F1A5159) Date: 11/1/1885 Description: A huge disc-shaped object was seen in Edirne, Turkey at 9:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p. 275; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 59; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 227; Flying Saucers, November 1973, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_7363 Source: Johnson ### Event 137 (61524BDA) Date: 11/2/1885 Description: Dawn. A luminous object circled the harbor. Altitude: 5-6 m. Illuminated the whole town. Duration: 1 1/2 min, as a bluish-green flame. Then plunged into the sea. Made several circles above the ferry-boat pier. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Scutari, Turkey Source ID: NICAP_DB_10 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 138 (42AC0051) Date: 11/2/1885 Time: dawn Description: A luminous object circled the harbor. Altitude: 5-6 m. Illuminated the whole town. Duration: 1 1/2 min, as a bluish-green flame. Then plunged into the sea. Made several circles above the ferry-boat pier. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 48; Anatomy 14 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Scutari, Turkey Source ID: Magnonia_8 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 139 (86D39F95) Date: 11/2/1885 Description: Scutari, Albania (then called Uskudar, a part of Ottoman Turkey). At dawn a luminous object circled the harbor at an altitude of 56 meters for 90 seconds. It illuminated the entire town with a bluish-green glow. It made several circles above the ferryboat pier then plunged into the sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ivan Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 34; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181 Source ID: Johnson_7409 Source: Johnson ### Event 140 (974EB33E) Date: 11/12/1885 Description: Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean - A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out of the ocean by witnesses aboard the ship "Siberian." It rose to an altitude of 16 meters, flew against the wind, and came close to the ship, then "dashed off" toward the southeast. The sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_7603 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1886 (Back to Top) ### Event 141 (541A13A7) Date: 1886 Description: French novelist [Jules Verne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules%5FVerne) publishes Robur the Conqueror, which describes the appearance of mysterious objects and strange lights in the sky all over the world. It turns out that the sightings are of a flying machine, invented by the novel’s anti-hero Robur, who kidnaps people and takes them on board the airship. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Robur the Conqueror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%5F1882%5Fgeomagnetic%5Fstorm)” Source ID: Eberhart_80 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 142 (599586B7) Date: 10/24/1886 Description: During the night, which was rainy and tempestuous, a family of nine persons, sleeping in a hut a few leagues from Maracaibo, were awakened by a loud humming noise and a vivid, dazzling light, which brilliantly illuminated the interior of the house. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maracaibo, Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_11 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 143 (5CA8AB02) Date: 10/24/1886 Description: Night. Nine persons who are sleeping in a hut some 10 miles from Maracaibo, Venezuela, are awakened by a loud humming noise and a dazzling light that illuminates the interior. The people begin to pray but they start vomiting as extensive swellings appear on the upper part of their bodies, especially around the face and lips. They feel no heat, although the light has a smoky appearance and a peculiar smell. The next morning, the swellings subside but leave black blotches. By November 2, the skin peels off and the blotches are round sores. Portions of their hair falls off. Trees around the hut show no damage until November 2, when they suddenly wither. The symptoms are similar to those of ionizing radiation syndrome. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Warner Cowgill, “[Curious Phenomenon in](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000062999540&view=1up&seq=351&skin=2021) [Venezuela,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000062999540&view=1up&seq=351&skin=2021)” letter, Scientific American 55 \(December 18, 1886\): 389; Clark III 949; Patrick Gross, [UFO Reports](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/ancrep01.htm) [from the Past](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/ancrep01.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_81 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 144 (A4B972CD) Date: 10/24/1886 Description: On this night a loud humming noise awakened a family of nine in a hut in a village in Maracaibo, Venezuela. A vivid, dazzling light illuminated the inside of the hut. The family suffered symptoms of apparent radiation exposure, including vomiting, hair loss, swelling, black blotches, and sores. Trees in the area withered and died nine days later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Scientific American, December 1886, p. 18; APRO Bulletin, July-August 1972, p. 6; N. M. H. Turner, FSR Case Histories, December 1970, p. 15; Gordon David Kaswell, UFO Magazine, August 2002, p. 44; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_7066 Source: Johnson ### Event 145 (F0FEF267) Date: 11/1886 Description: Heinrich Hertz became the first person to transmit and receive controlled radio waves. Type: scientific advance Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz) Source ID: Maj2_14 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1887 (Back to Top) ### Event 146 (9A188592) Date: 3/19/1887 Description: 5:00 p.m. Captain Cornelis Dirks Swart of the Dutch bark J.P.A. sees a “meteor in the shape of two balls” during a storm in the North Atlantic about 590 miles northeast of Bermuda. One ball is black and the other is luminous and oblong. The luminous object descends with a roar and lights up the ship and surrounding water. The crew feels heat from the object even as solid lumps of ice fall on the deck and the rigging becomes iced. The side of the ship where it falls turns partially black and the copper plating is blistered. The wind increases to “hurricane force.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Rare Electrical Phenomenon at Sea,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxgnys&view=1up&seq=120&skin=2021)” American Meteorological Journal 4 \(July 1887\): 98–99; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, 2015, pp. 205–217; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 201–210 Source ID: Eberhart_82 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 147 (B0EE8657) Date: 11/12/1887 Description: Midnight. Captain R. F. Moore of the English steamer [SS Siberian,](http://www.norwayheritage.com/p%5Fship.asp?sh=sibe1) sailing 10 nautical miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland, watches an enormous fireball rising from the sea to the height of 15 feet. It travels against the strong wind and comes close to the ship, then turns to the southeast and disappears. The object is seen for about 2 minutes. Moore says he has seen this phenomenon before and considers it a sign of stormy weather. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Globular Lightning,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822008898835&view=1up&seq=354&skin=2021)” Science 10 \(1887\): 324; Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, “[On Globular Lightning,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112111968191&view=1up&seq=483&skin=2021)” American Meteorological Journal 6 \(February 1890\): 437, 442–443; Theo Paijmans, “Fiery Objects Rising from the Oceans,” Charles Fort Institute Blogs, July 6, 2007; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 151–174 Source ID: Eberhart_83 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 148 (858517EC) Date: 11/12/1887 Time: 2400 Description: A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out of the ocean by witnesses aboard the "Siberian." It rose to an altitude of 16 m, flew against the wind, and came close to the ship, then "dashed oft" toward the southeast. Duration: 5 min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 48; Anatomy 14 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean Source ID: Magnonia_9 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 149 (A72F98BF) Date: 11/12/1887 Description: Midnight. A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out of the ocean by witnesses aboard the "Siberian." It rose to an altitude of 16 m, flew against the wind, and came close to the ship, then "dashed oft" toward the southeast. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean Source ID: NICAP_DB_12 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1888 (Back to Top) ### Event 150 (71D90F41) Date: Early 9/1888 Description: 3:15 p.m. During a severe thunderstorm, after a flash of lightning and a peal of thunder, witnesses see a huge flame at Highland Lake, near Winsted, Connecticut. The water is parted for yards by a huge ball of fire at least 10 feet in diameter, and billows rise on either side to a height of 20 feet. The light moves toward the head of the lake with great velocity. When it is within 100 yards of the shore, another flash of lightning strikes, and the fireball disappears. The waters of the lake remain disturbed for hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Ball of Fire on a Lake,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91956638/)” Hagerstown \(Ind.\) Exponent, September 12, 1888, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_84 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1889 (Back to Top) ### Event 151 (D2526E0A) Date: 2/7/1889 Description: 6:00 p.m. A cylindrical luminous object passes over Oella, Maryland, at only several hundred feet altitude. It lights up the village “as brilliantly as if by a strong electric lamp.” It curves and appears to descend to the ground one mile away. It follows the course of the Patapsco River to the north for several seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Brilliant](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91956694/) [Meteor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91956694/)” Washington \(D.C.\) Evening Star, February 9, 1889, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_85 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 152 (FB5BB281) Date: 2/14/1889 Description: On this evening in Catonsville, Maryland near Baltimore a luminous cylindrical object passed overhead, then appeared to descend nearthe village while following the course of the Patapsco River. The landscape beneath the object was lit up as bright as a carbon-arc light, causing alarm among the residents. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter, Spring 2003, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_911 Source: Johnson ### Event 153 (210AF5C1) Date: 4/20/1889 End date: 4/30/1945 Description: German dictator Adolf Hitler, who initiated World War 2 and was closely involved in military operations throughout the war, and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, is born in Austria-Hungary. Type: historical figure Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler) Source ID: Maj2_15 Source: Maj2 ### Event 154 (302E805A) Date: 6/13/1889 Description: On this night in 1889, in Leicester, England a fireball zigzagged across the sky under the cloud cover. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. B. Delaire, UFO Register, volume 7, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_3452 Source: Johnson ### Event 155 (63E2A88D) Date: Winter 1889 Description: Nikola Tesla’s experiments at his Experimental Station on wireless electricity transmission in Colorado Springs Type: scientific event Reference: [link](https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/landmarks/colorado-springs-experimental-station) Source ID: Maj2_16 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1890 (Back to Top) ### Event 156 (1D94842C) Date: 1890's Description: The experimental proof of Maxwell’s equations was demonstrated by Heinrich Hertz in a series of experiments. After that, Maxwell’s equations were fully accepted by scientists. Type: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell%27s_equations) Reference: [link](https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/landmarks/colorado-springs-experimental-station) Source ID: Maj2_17 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1891 (Back to Top) ### Event 157 (E7691712) Date: 6/13/1891 Description: Day. An unnamed witness claims to see a “meteor” explode with a loud noise over the Wasson & Miller flour mill and cotton gin in Dublin, Texas. The object looks like “a bale of cotton suspended in the air after having been saturated in kerosene oil and ignited, except that it created a much brighter light” that dazzles people standing several hundred feet away. The object shatters into pieces before it hits the ground, the fragments setting the grass and weeds on fire. In addition to the fragments is a scrap of paper with writing in a strange language. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Dublin](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=143) [1891,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=143)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_86 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 158 (92851231) Date: 7/12/1891 Description: 7:00 p.m. Residents of Theodore Street in Ottawa, Ontario, see over the rifle range a cigar-shaped balloon with a bright light on one end and a fan on the other traveling from south to north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MacLeod \(Ont.\) Gazette, July 16, 1891; Clark 45 Source ID: Eberhart_87 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 159 (9178A307) Date: 9/2/1891 Description: 8:00 p.m. [Alonzo M. Swan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62790371/alonzo-m-swan) and L. D. Dodson \(an equestrian recovering from an illness\) are camped in Coyote Canyon \[now within the Sandia National Laboratory complex\], New Mexico, to benefit from the mineral springs there when they see a brilliant light rise above a mountain to the south. As it moves closer against the wind, they see it has a series of “electric arc lights” around it and a “pole” or rudder that is similarly lit. The object is in view for nearly two hours. Another lighted object appears from the southwest and approaches the first object, but clouds prevent any further observation. Swan sees a lighted object again on September 4, although this time it could be a star. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Strange Mid Air Ships,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91956824/)” Albuquerque \(N.Mex.\) Weekly Citizen, September 12, 1891, p. 3; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 219–237 Source ID: Eberhart_88 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1892 (Back to Top) ### Event 160 (9CC8E518) Date: 1/1892? Description: [George W. Crusselle](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87522539/george-washington-crusselle) and S. D. Cuthereil from the [USS Thetis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FThetis%5F%281881%29) are wandering among the salt water lagoons on the west coast of Baja California, Mexico, when they see a luminous object with smooth edges about 30 feet in diameter approaching from the ocean at an altitude of 50 feet. It changes shape from circular to an hourglass and moves swiftly to the surface of a lagoon, covering it with a “brilliant halo of light.” It rises moments later, changing its shape frequently, and moving swiftly in a zigzag fashion. After 15 minutes it disappears inland. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George W. Crusselle, “[The Coast Survey,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80150245/ufo-sighting-1892/)” Atlanta Constitution, April 10, 1892, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_89 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 161 (2A77DEA5) Date: 3/23/1892 Description: Evening–1:00 a.m. Residents of Warsaw, Poland, watch a balloon over the city that casts rays of light from an electrical apparatus. It remains stationary until 1:00 a.m., then it takes off to the west. Other supposed balloons are seen March 22 or earlier over Kaunas Fortress, Lithuania; and Modlin Fortress \(in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki\), Sosnowiec, Dąbrowa Górnicza, and Dąbrowice, Poland. As they remain stationary for as long as 40 minutes, some assume they are piloted by German spies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Spying by Balloon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91956862/)” New York Evening World, March 25, 1892, p. 1; “[Balloons As German Spies,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/03/26/104092834.pdf?pdf%5Fredirect=true&ip=0)” New York Times, March 26, 1892, p. 3; “[Steering Military Balloons,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91956933/)” Birmingham Daily Post, March 31, 1892, p. 8; Clark 45; Brett Holman, “[The Phantom Balloon Scare of 1892,](https://airminded.org/2009/07/11/the-phantom-balloon-scare-of-1892/)” Airminded, July 11, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_90 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 162 (33EEB508) Date: 4/16/1892 Description: Witnesses at Przemyśl Fortress, Poland, see a bright point of light in the north that seems to be a sphere emitting searchlight beams above and below it. The object is hovering at an altitude of 2,100 feet and begins circling. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_91 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 163 (F082AE45) Date: 6/1/1892 Description: Night. A large balloon carrying a searchlight and four passengers passes over Newark, New Jersey, descending as low as 20 feet from the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Trenton \(N.J.\) Times, June 2, 1892; Clark III 70 Source ID: Eberhart_92 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 164 (AF1FD674) Date: 6/19/1892 Description: Night. J. L. Shaw of Conyers, Georgia, sees a mysterious light in the sky from which balls of fire fall to the ground near him. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saw Balls of Fire,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7130411/the-atlanta-constitution/)” Atlanta Constitution, June 21, 1892, p. 10 Source ID: Eberhart_93 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 165 (1ABCA06B) Date: 8/30/1892 Description: 11:00 p.m. Several people in Waxahachie, Texas, see a “kind of balloon” with colored lights passing over the northern part of the city after hearing a man shouting a greeting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[What Was It?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91957076/)” Galveston \(Tex.\) Daily News, September 2, 1892, p. 6; Clark III 70 Source ID: Eberhart_94 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 166 (0597BCC1) Date: 9/20/1892 Description: Large quantities of a white, thread-like substance fall from the sky during a rainstorm at Gainesville, Florida. Samples are sent to arachnologist [George Marx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FMarx) of the US Department of Agriculture, who performs a chemical analysis that shows it to be from migrating spiders. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Spider Web from the Clouds,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000062999687&view=1up&seq=325&skin=2021)” Scientific American 67 \(1892\): 325 Source ID: Eberhart_95 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1893 (Back to Top) ### Event 167 (7040A82E) Date: 2/24/1893 End date: 2/25/1893 Description: 10:00 p.m. [Charles James Norcock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FJames%5FNorcock), captain of the corvette [HMS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%5FCaroline%5F%281882%29) [Caroline](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%5FCaroline%5F%281882%29), is sailing about 16 miles south of Jeju Island, South Korea, in the Korea Strait when the officer of the watch observes some round lights resembling “Chinese lanterns festooned between the masts of a lofty vessel.” They are moving slowly north and appear to be in the air between the ship and the Hallasan volcano on Jeju. They are visible until roughly 12:00 midnight, sometimes appearing as a mass, other times strung out more in an irregular line. The ship’s crew observes them again the next night as they are sailing east from Port Hamilton \[now the Korean islands of Geomundo\]. This time they are visible until dawn. Although there are some odd characteristics of this observation, the likeliest explanation is that they are inferior mirages of distant fishing boats, as atmospheric conditions are favorable on these dates. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles J. Norcock, “[An Atmospheric Phenomenon in the North China](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000299489e&view=1up&seq=122&skin=2021) [Sea,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000299489e&view=1up&seq=122&skin=2021)” Nature 48 \(1893\): 76–77; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 253–281 Source ID: Eberhart_96 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 168 (F1704B55) Date: 8/18/1893 Description: Sunrise. People living near the small hamlet of Leslie in Cumberland County, Kentucky, notice that the sun has a peculiar color. Thousands of small discs, seemingly about the size of a wagon wheel, appear in the sky, all of them in motion. They appear round in shape from far away, but when closer to the ground they change to triangles, squares, or odd forms. Their colors vary: Some are bright red, others green or black, but when they are close to the ground they are all a deep purple color. All are silent. The phenomenon lasts about one hour, during which time the villagers fear it is judgment day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Judgment Day,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91957197/)” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 20, 1893, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_97 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 169 (E0857D7B) Date: 8/26/1893 Description: In Leslie, Kentucky thirty minutes after sunrise the sun took on a "peculiar color" and the sky became filled with thousands of discs, the size of wagon wheels, in motion. They would change shape into triangles, squares, and odd forms. They were various colors, including red, green, black, and red. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter, April 2003, p. 19, citing the Arizona Republic, August 27, 1893 Source ID: Johnson_5350 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1894 (Back to Top) ### Event 170 (867B6B8B) Date: 1894 End date: 1895 Description: The first practical radio [transmitters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmitter) and [receivers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_receiver) invented in by [Guglielmo Marconi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi) using radiotelegraphy Type: industrial advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_telegraphy) Source ID: Maj2_18 Source: Maj2 ### Event 171 (803350F5) Date: 2/1894? Description: Capt. Corning of the British schooner W. and H. Witherspoon sees several lights rise from the Gulf of Mexico off the west coast of Florida. They ascend to a height of 25 feet, explode, and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Cum Grano](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94251865/) [Salis,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94251865/)” Lowell \(Mass.\) Daily Sun, February 8, 1894, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_98 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 172 (7B87D8F7) Date: 5/1894 Description: During the opposition of Mars, the idea that [Schiaparelli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%5FSchiaparelli)’s canali are really irrigation canals made by intelligent beings is first hinted at, and then adopted as the only intelligible explanation, by American astronomer [Percival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival%5FLowell) [Lowell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival%5FLowell) in Flagstaff, Arizona, and a few others. The visible seasonal melting of Martian polar icecaps fuels speculation that an advanced alien race indigenous to Mars has built the canals to transport the water to drier equatorial regions. Newspaper and magazine articles about Martian canals and “Martians” capture the public imagination. Lowell publishes his views in three books: Mars \(1895\), Mars and Its Canals \(1906\), and Mars As the Abode of Life \(1908\). He remains a strong proponent for the rest of his life of the idea that the canals were built for irrigation by an intelligent civilization. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Martian canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%5Fcanal)” Source ID: Eberhart_99 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 173 (3810AC4A) Date: 6/7/1894 Description: Astronomers [Percival Lowell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival%5FLowell) and [William H. Pickering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FHenry%5FPickering) at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, see two “dazzling white specks” for a few moments on the south polar cap of Mars. The most likely explanation is the reflection of sunlight from ice on the surface or ice crystals in clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Percival Lowell, Mars, Houghton, Mifflin, 1897 ed., [pp. 86–87](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112114019349&view=1up&seq=114&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_100 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 174 (57B05043) Date: 7/20/1894 Description: Sunset. Bernard Parry and his wife are near Marriott \[now Marriott-Slaterville\], Utah, when they see a “small black cloud” in the northeast quickly approaching them. It grows bigger, then smaller, as they watch it. When it is only 450 feet away, it stops and hovers. Its sides seem to be folded up toward the center. Many small black-and- white objects \(birds?\) are moving in its center. Suddenly the object pivots to the east and moves away toward Ogden. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ogden \(Utah\) Standard, July 26, 1894 Source ID: Eberhart_101 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 175 (E3B2DC5F) Date: Late 11/1894 Description: 11:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. Mennonite farmers [Henry W. J. Smith](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94975449/henry-w-smith) and [Benjamin W. Blue](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76841437/benjamin-w-blue) see a luminous ball in the northeastern sky about 30° above the horizon some 3 miles west of Manchester, Kansas. The object, in the shape of a “casket,” shoots toward the west 3° then returns to its original position. As it maneuvers near them, it opens several times, revealing various entities each time, from a crowned man to a “haughty woman” and a military leader. The original report appears in the Evangelical Visitor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Battle in the Heavens,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95283371/)” Wilkes-Barre \(Pa.\) Times, October 6, 1894, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_102 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1895 (Back to Top) ### Event 176 (90A526E6) Date: 1895 Description: French parapsychologist [Albert de Rochas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5Fde%5FRochas) is asked to hypnotize a family friend, “Mireille,” who is suffering from some ailment. In one of her sessions, Mireille describes how she is rising in space, which she describes as luminous and peopled with phantoms. Subsequent sessions reveal that she has visited Mars and other planets in astral form. Mars has canals, of course, but also Martians who are less intelligent than earthlings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1986\): 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_103 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 177 (F0FFB861) Date: 8/1895 Description: US psychical researcher [James Hyslop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHyslop) begins investigating a case of automatic writing by [Sarah Harper](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158229771/sarah-harper-cleaveland) [Cleaveland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158229771/sarah-harper-cleaveland) \(“[Mrs. Smead](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/smead-mrs-ca-1902)”\) in Onondaga County, New York. She keeps records of her planchette experiments and puts them at Hyslop’s disposal. In August, she makes several references to the planet Mars and Jupiter. She provides a crude map of Jupiter’s surface, and the planet is said to be the “babies’ heaven.” At the next sitting, she draws a map of Mars, the different zones named in the Martian language; she gives several communications about the inhabitants and the canals. Martian revelations cease for another 5 years until September 1900, when the communications return in a developed state. She draws men, boats, houses, and flowers, named in Martian and written in hieroglyphic characters. Some of the sketches \(a self-winding double clock\) are very ingenious, while others \(a Martian airship\) are peculiar but unconvincing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1986\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_104 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 178 (E15D34CE) Date: 8/31/1895 Description: 8:00 p.m. Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer [James Murray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FMurray%5F%28lexicographer%29) watches a “brilliant luminous body” move slowly over the Oxford University campus in Oxford, England, toward the east. At roughly the same time, other observers in London see a similar meteor pass over slowly for about 5 minutes, and A. Warren Melhuish sees it at Margate, Kent, around 10:15 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. A. H. Murray, “[Remarkable Meteoric \(?\) Appearance,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76737507/murray-james-remarkable-meteoric/)” London Times, September 4, 1895, p. 3; “[Remarkable Meteoric Appearance,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91957509/)” London Times, September 6, 1895, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_105 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 179 (B87D887C) Date: 11/8/1895 Description: X-Rays discovered Type: scientific advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray) Source ID: Maj2_19 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1896 (Back to Top) ### Event 180 (A2B6030A) Date: 1896 Description: Aleister Crowley was walking in the mountains when he suddenly saw two little men. He made a gesture to them, but they did not seem to pay attention and disappeared among the rocks. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arolla (near Zermatt), Swiss Alps Source ID: NICAP_DB_13 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 181 (159D5D70) Date: 1896 Description: Author Aleister Crowley was walking in the mountains when he suddenly saw two little men. He made a gesture to them, but they did not seem to pay attention and disappeared among the rocks. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Magic Without Tears, by A. Crowley ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Arolla, near Zermatt, Swiss Alps Source ID: Magnonia_10 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 182 (9E192F15) Date: 7/1/1896 Description: 6:00 p.m. A mysterious balloon passes over Winnipeg, Manitoba, to the east at an estimated 2,000 feet. It is lost to view after 20 minutes Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Mysterious Balloon,” Winnipeg Manitoba Morning Free Press, July 2, 1896, p. 4; “[They Think It’s Andreé’s,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91957590/)” Chicago Tribune, July 2, 1896, p. 1; Clark III 70 Source ID: Eberhart_106 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 183 (52734A88) Date: 7/3/1896 Description: The chief of the Kispiox people and a group of Canadian trappers see a brightly lit balloon traveling north near Blackwater Lake, British Columbia. The same day, a First Nations boy sees something similar at the Skeena River, British Columbia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “It Was No Dream,” Winnipeg Manitoba Morning Free Press, August 13, 1896, p. 2; Brett Holman, “[Believing Is Seeing,](https://airminded.org/2010/05/02/believing-is-seeing/)” Airminded, May 2, 2010 Source ID: Eberhart_107 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 184 (30A07E2C) Date: Mid 7/1896 Description: Night. [Chester N. Crotsenburg](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187071523/chester-n%5F-crotsenburg)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187071523/chester-n%5F-crotsenburg) a postal clerk on the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway, is on a train heading north from Princeton, Missouri, when he notices a round, dull-rose-colored light low on the western horizon. It then rises in height to 45°, and appears to be pacing the train, keeping a half-mile or one mile distance. After the train reaches Lineville, Iowa \(13.7 miles away\), it passes out of sight behind buildings. Possibly the moon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Ball Lightning,” Monthly Weather Review 26 \(August 1898\): 358; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 291–304 Source ID: Eberhart_108 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 185 (0CC1FAD5) Date: 8/11/1896 Description: [Charles Abbott Smith](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89166775/charles-abbott-smith) of San Francisco, California, is granted a patent for a cylindrical airship with a cone- shaped bow, “two wings hinged at the upper part of the vessel,” and a compartment for machinery and passengers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Patent, “[Air-ship,](https://patents.google.com/patent/US565805)” granted August 11, 1896 Source ID: Eberhart_109 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 186 (72500882) Date: 10/1896 Description: Evening. A Miss Hagstrom is riding a bicycle on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, California, when she notices an object with a powerful headlight moving toward the west and gradually descending. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saw the Mystic Flying](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3825843/possible-ufo/) [Light,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3825843/possible-ufo/)” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13 Source ID: Eberhart_110 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 187 (9378975A) Date: Late 10/1896 Description: Fruit rancher [Constant T. Musso](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562144/constant-thomas-musso) and his family in Bowman, California. watch three bright lights moving toward the east at about 100 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mission of the Aerial Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3883819/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_111 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 188 (57F566BE) Date: Early 11/1896? Description: Evening. Some of the employees at the Sutro Heights estate \[now Sutro Heights Park in the Richmond District\] of San Francisco, California, Mayor [Adolph Sutro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph%5FSutro) watch a brilliant light approaching from the sea at a height of 500 feet. Two lights are visible, one a “misty-looking mass” and the other a searchlight. The object disappears in the direction of the city and turns to the north just before it passes from view. Another report suggests that the object passe over Seal Rocks and shone its searchlight on the seals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Apparition of the Air,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3107284/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_112 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 189 (F7F76DDF) Date: Early 11/1896 Description: 8:00 p.m. [Louis Charmak](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142541517/louis-charmak) and one other person in Woodland, California, notice three bright lights in the southwestern sky moving toward the northeast. As they reach Main Street, they rise another 100 feet in the air. They are close together and followed by a white trail of light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Was It an Airship?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95280123/)” Woodland \(Calif.\) Daily Democrat, November 24, 1896, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_113 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 190 (6D3373FE) Date: 11/15/1896 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a telegraph lineman in Suisun City, California saw a "powered balloon" flying into the wind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 191; Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_7681 Source: Johnson ### Event 191 (DDE4E83C) Date: 11/17/1896 Description: Afternoon and evening. A mystery airship wave begins in California when residents of the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento see a high-flying object moving slowly in a circle, leaving a trail of smoke. Around 6:30 p.m., a light resembling an electric arc lamp appears in the night sky above Sacramento. Horse trainer David Carl notices it close to the ground and hears a voice saying, “We are too low down here. Send her up higher.” Hundreds watch as it passes at low altitude for 30 minutes, avoiding buildings and hills. Some people claim to hear voices, either arguing or singing. R. L. Lowry sees four men pushing the vessel by its wheels. The witnesses include streetcar workers Charles Lusk and [Granville C. Snider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201181347/granville-c%5F-snider)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201181347/granville-c%5F-snider) who watch the object rise and fall as it moves southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Mystery airship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery%5Fairship)”; “[Voices in the Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91957944/)” Sacramento \(Calif.\) Evening Bee, November 18, 1896, p. 1; “[Strange Craft of the Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91957907/)” San Francisco Call, November 19, 1896, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs: A](http://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1896.pdf) [History, 1896](http://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1896.pdf)[,](http://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1896.pdf) The Author, 1974; Thomas E. Bullard, The Airship File, The author, 1982; Clark III 70–75 Source ID: Eberhart_114 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 192 (EAB29D97) Date: 11/20/1896 Description: Afternoon. D. H. Risdon is working in an orchard near Tagus, California, when he spots an object “like an immense sheet” moving against the wind at a “considerable elevation.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saw the Mystic Flying Light,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3825843/possible-ufo/)” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13 Source ID: Eberhart_115 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 193 (1FA101F3) Date: 11/20/1896 Description: 5:30 p.m. Passengers on a streetcar in Oakland, California, notice a “peculiar-looking contrivance” high in the sky and moving in a westerly direction toward San Francisco. It has a powerful headlight and another light on the bottom. It is also seen over Folsom, San Francisco, Sacramento, Modesto, Manteca, Sebastopol, and several other cities later in the evening and is reportedly viewed by hundreds of witnesses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saw the Mystic](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3825843/possible-ufo/) [Flying Light,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3825843/possible-ufo/)” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13; Wikipedia, “[Mystery airship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery%5Fairship)” Source ID: Eberhart_116 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 194 (CD6502CB) Date: 11/22/1896 Description: San Francisco attorney [George D. Collins](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87584075/george-daniel-collins) announces that he represents the airship inventor, a “very wealthy man who has been studying the subject of flying machines for fifteen years” and who moved to California from Maine in 1889. He claims the airship is a 150-foot metal contraption with two canvas wings 18 feet wide and shaped like a bird’s tail. It has been built in Oroville and is now hidden in the San Francisco, California, area as the inventor deals with technical problems. However, people in Oroville sense a hoax, as they know of no such inventor. On November 24, Collins complains to the San Francisco Call that another newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, has been printing falsehoods about him, including an interview with another attorney, Frederick Bradley. Suspicion falls on an itinerant dentist from Maine, Elmer H. Benjamin, who insists his only inventions are dental fittings. A prominent citizen of Oakland, [George H. Carleton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95652037/george-henry-carleton), claims to know the inventor but has been sworn to secrecy. Former California Attorney General [William H. H. Hart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FH.%5FHart) soon claims to represent the mystery inventor, who has fired Collins for talking too much. But Hart is also blabbing prolifically, saying that two or three airships exist \(a second built in an eastern state\) and his role is to “consolidate both interests.” Hart asserts that the airship can carry four men and 1,000 pounds of dynamite for dropping on Havana, Cuba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 71–73; “[A Lawyer’s Word for That Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10130333/sightings-in-sacramento-san-francisco/)” San Francisco Chronicle, November 22, 1896, p. 36; “[Collins Sticks to His Airship Story,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91958082/)” San Francisco Chronicle, November 23, 1896, p. 12; San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 1896, p. 9; “[Have We Got ‘Em Again?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55256553/the-sacramento-bee/)” Sacramento Bee, November 23, 1896, p. 1; “[Coy Mr. Collins and His Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28007746/san-francisco-chronicle/)” San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 1896, p. 9; “[The Apparition of the](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3107284/the-san-francisco-call/) [Air,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3107284/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1; “[Mission of the Aerial Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3883819/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1; “[Hart Stands by His Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3991203/air-craft-1896-b1/)” “[Hart Confirms the Story from Sacramento,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3991215/air-craft-1896-b2/)” San Francisco Call, November 26, 1896, p. 1; “[Three Airships, Says Hart,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91958305/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 29, 1896, p. 1; Michael Busby, Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery, Pelican, 2003, pp. 249–315 Source ID: Eberhart_117 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 195 (5E5E298D) Date: 11/22/1896 Description: 7:05 p.m. M. H. Cohen, a conductor on the Hayes Street line, sees an aerial light at about 300–400 feet altitude when he is at Market and 8th streets in San Francisco, California. Other people on the streetcar also watch the light, which is moving across the Golden Gate and flashing periodically. When the streetcar disembarks at 1st Street at 7:13 p.m., Cohen and the others see the light over the Twin Peaks downtown. At the top of Pierce Street hill, Cohen sees it returning from Twin Peaks, and at 7:51 p.m. he watches it from Ashbury Street. Airships are seen later at Oakland, Alameda, San Leandro, San Jose, California, and Tacoma, Washington. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Apparition](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3107284/the-san-francisco-call/) [of the Air,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3107284/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_119 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 196 (4C8D2275) Date: 11/22/1896 Description: 5:30 p.m. Another mystery light moving in a wavering fashion toward the southwest is seen in Sacramento, California, by many people. At times it disappears, then flashes out again with renewed brilliance. Edward Carragher, owner of the Saddle Rock Restaurant, views the light through binoculars and is able to see a large object supporting an arc lamp. Cigar store vendor Jacob Zemansky watches the undulating light through a telescope until it fades into nothingness. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Have We Got ‘Em Again?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55256553/the-sacramento-bee/)” Sacramento Bee, November 23, 1896, p. 1; “[A Winged Ship in the Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91982788/)” San Francisco Call, November 23, 1896, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_118 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 197 (D84C189F) Date: 11/23/1896 Description: 7:00 p.m. A bright light is seen west of Chico, California, traveling to the northwest. The same or similar light is seen west of Red Bluff, California flying west at about 2,000 feet. After a few minutes it descends to 1,000 feet. It disappears over the Coast Range. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mission of the Aerial Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3883819/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_120 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 198 (2EDBDF7D) Date: 11/23/1896 Description: Several observers in Stockton, California witnessed a fast moving, bright light in the sky that had exited from a shadowy ovoid object at 10:10 p.m.; it dips low near buildings in the city. There were several other reports this evening from Antioch, Chico, Lathrop, Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stockton (CA) Daily Independent, November 24, 1896; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 164, citing Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_7832 Source: Johnson ### Event 199 (7FCF472A) Date: 11/24/1896 Description: Many witnesses in Red Bluff, California witnessed a light maneuvering in the sky for several minutes at 7:00 p.m. In Visalia, California several observers saw a "vessel" in the sky moving at the speed of a train; it moved up-and-down and left-and-right, and departed quickly to the northwest. At 11:30 p.m. two witnesses in Tacoma, Washington watched a flying object beam vari-colored rays of light in all directions. It then flew to the southeast and examined the Mount Rainier mountain peak. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oakland Tribune, November 25, 1896; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, pp. 8-9; Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 21, 26 Source ID: Johnson_7864 Source: Johnson ### Event 200 (0C75B774) Date: 11/24/1896 Description: 6:45 p.m. Several passengers on a train crossing the bay from San Francisco to Oakland, California, see an airship alternately stop, hover, and move on. Minutes later, 6th Street in Oakland is overflowing with onlookers as the object passes above Broadway, flashing its light. One spectator is watching through binoculars and says the airship’s turns causes the searchlight to shine in different directions. Among the witnesses are Col. [Thomas F. Garrity](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88735448/thomas-f-garrity)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88735448/thomas-f-garrity) city electrician [George H. Carleton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95652037/george-henry-carleton)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95652037/george-henry-carleton) [George Hatton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203384845/george-f.-hatton) of the Oakland Tribune, and [Melvin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51421324/melvin-webster-holmes) [Holmes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51421324/melvin-webster-holmes)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51421324/melvin-webster-holmes)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mission of the Aerial Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3883819/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_121 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 201 (E6C2F94B) Date: 11/25/1896 Description: 6:00 p.m. Col. H. G. Shaw and Camille Spooner are riding in a carriage near Lodi, California, when their horse stops suddenly. Looking up, they see three slender beings about 7 feet tall. Shaw walks up to them and asks them where they are from; they reply in an odd warbling language. He notes that they are hairless and wear no apparent clothing. The eyes are large and lustrous, and they each seem to be carrying and egg-shaped light and a breathing apparatus under the left arm. Shaw claims the beings try to lift him but they are not strong enough. They then notice a 150-foot airship hovering 20 feet above the water close to a bridge. The three beings float to the craft, open a door in the side, and disappear inside. The ship flies quickly out of sight. Shaw speculates that the beings are from Mars. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Three Strange Visitors,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91983371/)” Stockton \(Calif.\) Evening Mail, November 27, 1896, p. 1; Patrick Gross, [UFOs in the Daily Press](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/stocktoneveningmail27nov1896.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_123 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 202 (6D5DFA6E) Date: 11/25/1896 Description: Evening. A mystery light flies in circular patterns around Sacramento, California, at a rapid rate of speed. Observers include Deputy Secretary of State George A. McCalvy, District Attorney [Frank D. Ryan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33677782/frank-desailes-ryan), and E. D. McCabe, the governor’s personal secretary. It is three times as large as Venus, also visible. The light is observed for 20 minutes then reappears later in the evening. A Professor Dodge of Galt, California, claims he can make out the “outlines of a dark body” just above the light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 73; “[Hart Confirms the Story from](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3991215/air-craft-1896-b2/) [Sacramento,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3991215/air-craft-1896-b2/)” San Francisco Call, November 26, 1896, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_122 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 203 (B4B682A3) Date: 11/26/1896 Description: 8:00 p.m. Electrician Case Gilson and three other men see an unlighted airship in a clear sky 1,000 feet over Oakland, California. It is flying northward against the wind and looks like a “great black cigar with a fishlike tail.” The body is at least 100 feet long and looks as if it is made of darkened aluminum. It is seen again at 8:30 p.m. and disappears in the direction of San Francisco. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 73; “[Says He Saw It,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91984509/)” Oakland \(Calif.\) Tribune, December 1, 1896, p. 1; “[Saw the Airship at Close Range,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91984306/)” San Francisco Call, December 2, 1896, p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_125 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 204 (508C82E9) Date: 11/26/1896 Description: 7:00 p.m. Farmer John Bawl and his family see an airship moving to the southwest over his residence on Monroe Street near Franklin Street in San Jose, California. It is lunging sharply from side to side and has a pair of flapping wings and a red light on the bottom. Musician and President of the University of the Pacific [Moses Smith](https://hymnary.org/tune/resignation%5Fcross) [Cross](https://hymnary.org/tune/resignation%5Fcross) also sees the strange aerial light when he is visiting a colleague two blocks away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[It Flitted over San](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91984009/) [Jose,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91984009/)” San Francisco Call, November 28, 1896, p. 1; “[Three Airships, Says Hart,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91958305/the-san-francisco-call/)” San Francisco Call, November 29, 1896, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_124 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 205 (770EC770) Date: 11/27/1896 Description: 10:00 p.m. A prominent attorney and others in Woodland, California, see a cluster of lights attached to an apparent airship moving at an altitude of about 500 feet at about 25 mph. It remains visible for an hour. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[More](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95280529/) [Airship Stories,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95280529/)” Woodland \(Calif.\) Daily Democrat, November 29, 1896, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_126 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 206 (6C996653) Date: 11/28/1896 Description: Percy Drew watches an enormous airship with a red light over Oakland, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Says He Saw It,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91984509/)” Oakland \(Calif.\) Tribune, December 1, 1896, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_127 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 207 (A6769E76) Date: 11/29/1896 Description: Over a hundred witnesses in Tulare, California watched an airship descend, then rise, and finally shoot off to the west toward Hanford, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_8023 Source: Johnson ### Event 208 (70348444) Date: 11/30/1896 Description: In Anderson, Shasta County, California several independent witnesses saw an airship fly over emitting beams of light; horses panicked during the overflight as the unknown craft flew off to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_8063 Source: Johnson ### Event 209 (491D136B) Date: 12/1/1896 Description: [Harry Lytle](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40646913/harry-lytle) watches an airship as it flies toward the southwest over the Coast Ranges 3 miles north of Rumsey, California. He claims to recognize it as an “aircycle,” kind of a winged balloon with a pedal-driven propellor, plans for which he submitted to [E. W. Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112350040/e-w-brown) of Davis, California, and which they constructed in 1893. He calls it the Nonesuch. On an alleged test flight to Los Angeles on March 2, 1893, the device was stolen by some “hoboes.” He assumes the airship is his stolen invention. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Mystery Solved,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112350040/e-w-brown)” Woodland \(Calif.\) Daily Democrat, December 8, 1896, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_128 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 210 (9C0DCFC3) Date: 12/2/1896 Description: On this day in 1896 an airship descended from the sky 15 miles north of Pacific Grove, California and landed on the Pacific Ocean. Three human occupants aboard guided it to shore and then hid it in the woods, according to the two witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: San Francisco Call, December 3, 1896; Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 31; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified, p. 141 Source ID: Johnson_8119 Source: Johnson ### Event 211 (B0808BF7) Date: 12/4/1896 Description: 6:30 p.m. Travelers on a freight train between Dixon and Elmira, California, see two large, bright lights moving parallel with them at about 1,000 feet altitude. The lights outdistance the train and disappear to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 74; “[The Airship Again,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91984777/)” Woodland \(Calif.\) Daily Democrat, December 7, 1896, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_129 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 212 (B1942007) Date: 12/7/1896 Description: A large airship flew over the small town of Camptonville, Yuba County,California and landed nearby at 9:00 p.m. Five men went out to investigate, and found the ship with its sole occupant, a bearded man who appeared to be deaf and mute. Some written communication was attempted, in response the man produced an "alphabet" and spelled out a message saying he lived in the Montezuma Mountains with his wife and two children. He declined to answer any further questions, so the five men left. The craft was seen flying off the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: San Francisco Examiner, December 8, 1896; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified: Notes toward Solving the UFO Mystery, p. 142; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_8251 Source: Johnson ### Event 213 (77C374CF) Date: 12/10/1896 Description: At 6:00 p.m. in 1896, in both Battle Mountain and Elko, Nevada a strange light was seen flying to the west. Moving too slowly to be a meteor, it suddenly shot straight up through the atmosphere. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_8291 Source: Johnson ### Event 214 (08922354) Date: 12/26/1896 Description: Early morning. Dairy farmer Ezekiel Sergeant and a hired man have just finished milking their cows near Wilmington, Delaware, when they hear strains of music in the air. Then a bottle falls at Sergeant’s feet and breaks into pieces. He sees an enormous, fish-shaped airship with extended wings, a large tail, and a bright searchlight. Amid the shattered glass he finds a slip of paper allegedly written by Capt. James Dashiel and Thomas Murphy on the airship Icarus that is sailing from Salt Lake City to Cuba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saw an Air-Ship](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91985189/),” Philadelphia \(Pa.\) Times, December 28, 1896, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_130 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1897 (Back to Top) ### Event 215 (F16C2E7E) Date: Mid 1/1897 Description: Just after sunset. People in Acampo, California, see an airship the size of a small house, seemingly built of canvas, and moving to the southeast. It looks “like a cigar box with a spark of fire in it.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Airship Reported](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91985381/) [Again,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91985381/)” Stockton \(Calif.\) Evening Mail, January 22, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_131 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 216 (05A566F3) Date: 1/30/1897 Description: A mystery airship with an immense artificial bright light was sighted in the early evening by several "sober observers" in Hastings, Nebraska. It was estimated to be 12 meters in length, and perhaps 800 feet in the air. Days later it was seen 40 miles south of Invale, Nebraska. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Omaha Bee, February 2, 1897; Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_595 Source: Johnson ### Event 217 (3AAE0CC0) Date: 1/31/1897 Description: 9:30 p.m. A “large, glaring light,” apparently from an airship, is seen for nearly 30 minutes west of Hastings, Nebraska, hovering, ascending, descending, and moving at a “most remarkable speed.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[See an Air](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91985640/) [Ship at Hastings,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91985640/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, February 2, 1897, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_132 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 218 (68DE0D1D) Date: 2/1897 End date: 7/1897 Description: The mystery airship wave continues, from Nebraska and Colorado to Texas and Ohio. Hoaxes and pranks pollute the information pool in a major way during this era and the planet Venus and other celestial objects undoubtedly play a major role, but many airship reports emanate from manifestly sober, puzzled citizens, and they continue long after the initial excitement subsides. To all appearances, they are objects of some kind, but since newspapers rarely question witnesses critically about details at this time, little can be deduced from the mass of reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects—A Prelude, 1896–1949](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-Mystery-of-UFOs-A-Prelude.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-Mystery-of-UFOs-A-Prelude.pdf) The author, 1971; Roger L. Welsch, “[This Mysterious Light Called an Airship: Nebraska Saucer Sightings, 1897,](https://history.nebraska.gov/sites/history.nebraska.gov/files/doc/publications/NH1979UFOs.pdf)” Nebraska History 60 \(1979\): 92–113; Daniel Cohen, The Great Airship Mystery, Dodd, Mead, 1981; Thomas E. Bullard, The Airship File, The author, 1982; Jerome Clark, “Airships: Part I,” IUR 16, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1991\): 4–23; Jerome Clark, “Airships: Part II,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 20–21, 24; Michael Busby, Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery, Pelican, 2004; Jerome Clark, “UFOs or Mystery Airships?” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 8–14, 29; J. Allen Danelek, The Great Airship of 1897, Adventures Unlimited, 2009; Dennis Crenshaw and P. G. Navarro, The Secrets of Dellschau: The Sonora Aero Club and the Airships of the 1800s, Anomalist, 2009; Clark III 75–90 Source ID: Eberhart_133 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 219 (21103218) Date: 2/1/1897 Description: A large glaring light circled for a few minutes in the sky over Hastings, Nebraska at 9:30 p.m. It then descended to an altitude of 200 feet, traveled at a remarkable speed, slowed, and again circled for 15 more minutes. Finally, it descended once more and disappeared mysteriously. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_649 Source: Johnson ### Event 220 (AFF4AC14) Date: 2/4/1897 Description: Night. A dozen people returning home from a prayer meeting in Inavale, Nebraska, see a bright light passing overhead. Six smaller lights are placed at intervals around a larger dark body. After 10 minutes it returns at a lower altitude, now visible as a conical object 30–40 feet long with two sets of wings and a large rudder. Voices can be heard plainly. \(“[Air Ship Is](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993112/) [Seen at Inavale,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993264/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, February 6, 1897, p. 6\) February 17 —Night. Hy Smith, Charles Braternitz, and Harry Reese see a bright light moving to the east just west of Big Springs, Nebraska. The light repeatedly rises up about 300 feet then descends quickly, sending out sparks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Seen](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993491/) [near North Platte,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993491/)” Kearney \(Neb.\) Hub, February 18, 1897, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_134 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 221 (E00995B6) Date: Mid 2/1897 Description: Residents of Valley Falls, Kansas, can see the outlines of an airship behind a large light that passes over the town. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Supposed Kansas Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993796/)” Atchison \(Kan.\) Daily Globe, February 27, 1897, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_135 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 222 (6BFF900F) Date: 2/26/1897 Description: 10:15 p.m. People at the railway depot in Falls City, Nebraska, see an object with a large searchlight in the northern sky. According to dispatcher Ike Chidsey, it is moving west at 60 mph and also has a red light. Chidsey alerts other Missouri Pacific train stations to the west. Over the next four and a half hours, the object is seen over Stella, Beatrice, Wymore, Hastings, Kenesaw, and Hartwell. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Supposed Kansas Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993796/)” Atchison \(Kan.\) Daily Globe, February 27, 1897, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_136 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 223 (27F1C6BC) Date: 3/13/1897 Description: Night. A bright fireball appears in the west over North Loup, Nebraska, moving up and down erratically. It occasionally throws out sparks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[That Strange Light Again,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91995167/)” Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, March 16, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_137 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 224 (E974EED8) Date: 3/14/1897 Description: 9:30 p.m. An object with a “big engine headlight” flies over South Omaha, Nebraska, and remains visible for 30–40 minutes. It is moving to the west and disappears behind some buildings. One of the witnesses is [Isaac J.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49750977/isaac-joel-copenharve) [Copenharve](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49750977/isaac-joel-copenharve)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49750977/isaac-joel-copenharve) a compositor for the Omaha Bee. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Visions of an Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91995407/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, March 16, 1897, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_138 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 225 (25E6E9DE) Date: 3/23/1897 End date: 3/26/1897 Description: Night. Residents of Belleville, Kansas, watch a lighted airship moving at 75 mph and “lighting up the houses and city like an immense meteor.” It hovers for 20–30 minutes, changes direction, and is seen on four nights in succession. At 9:20 p.m. on March 25, workers at the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad depot and others in Belleville watch a bright light pass above the city for 45 minutes. It disappears to the northwest and reappears two more times. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Say They Saw an Air-Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91995633/)” Kansas City \(Mo.\) Times, March 27, 1897, p. 5; “[It](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19654799/kansas-city-journal/) [Flies at Night,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19654799/kansas-city-journal/)” Kansas City \(Mo.\) Journal, March 28, 1897, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_139 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 226 (5F0D93CF) Date: 3/26/1897 Description: On or about this date Robert Hibbard in Sioux City, Iowa was caught by an anchor dropped from an unknown flying machine 22 km north of the town. He was dragged over 10 meters and fell as his clothes were torn. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 140 & 182, case 11 Source ID: Johnson_1668 Source: Johnson ### Event 227 (0356FA50) Date: 3/26/1897 Time: night Description: Approximate date. Robert Hibbard was caught by an anchor dropped from an unknown flying machine 22 km north of the town. He was dragged over 10 m and fell as his clothes were torn. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sioux City, Iowa Source ID: Magnonia_11 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 228 (9E5696F0) Date: 3/26/1897 Description: Approximate date. Robert Hibnight bard was caught by an anchor dropped from an unknown flying machine 22 km north of the town. He was dragged over 10 m and fell as his clothes were torn. (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sioux City, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_14 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 229 (187CB222) Date: 3/27/1897 Description: 8:30 p.m. A blood-red light appears in the western sky over Topeka, Kansas, moving northward parallel with the horizon until after 20 minutes it disappears “with a flicker.” Among the witnesses is Kansas Gov. [John W.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FW.%5FLeedy) [Leedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FW.%5FLeedy)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FW.%5FLeedy) who describes it as a “very strange light.” [Harold T. Chase](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15035364/harold-t%5F-chase), editor of the Topeka Capital, is on the State House steps with Leedy and says the object is a large, oblong shape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Strange Light in the Sky,” Topeka \(Kan.\) Daily Capital, March 28, 1897, p. 1; “[Neither Star Nor Planet,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91996540/)” Kansas City \(Mo\) Times, March 29, 1897, p. 1; “[Airship Is Seen by Gov. Leedy,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26488596/chicago-tribune/)” Chicago Tribune, March 29, 1897, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_140 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 230 (DB0F12F6) Date: 3/28/1897 Description: The majority of the population of Omaha, Nebraska observed an object arriving from the southeast at 10:30 p.m. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to watch it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181, citing the Chicago Times-Herald, March 30, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_1706 Source: Johnson ### Event 231 (61F4134C) Date: 3/28/1897 Time: 2230 Description: The majority of the population observed an object arriving from the southeast. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to watch it. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 185 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Omaha, Nebraska Source ID: Magnonia_12 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 232 (840F1321) Date: 3/28/1897 Description: 10:30 p.m. The majority of the population observed an object arriving from the southeast. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to watch it. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Omaha, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_15 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 233 (778C6855) Date: 3/30/1897 Description: In 1897 in Denver, Colorado a mysterious light was seen flying through the night sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: New York Herald, April 12, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_1724 Source: Johnson ### Event 234 (82835346) Date: 4/1/1897 Description: 8:00 p.m. Strange lights appear in the sky south of Kansas City, Kansas, zigzagging and crossing the horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Air Ship Headed toward Omaha,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91997282/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, April 3, 1897, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_141 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 235 (6217CD70) Date: 4/1/1897 Description: 9:00 p.m. J. E. Gunn, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, and other residents of Everest, Kansas, watch a 30- foot-long object that looks like a canoe suspended from a balloon. Two wings are visible on each side. Its light appears to dim when the object is moving and glows brightly when hovering. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Air Ship Headed toward Omaha,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91997282/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, April 3, 1897, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_142 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 236 (37B4226B) Date: 4/1/1897 Time: 2100 Description: The whole town saw an object fly under the cloud ceiling. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When directly over the town it swept the ground with its powerful light. It was seen to rise up at fantastic speed until barely discernible, then to come down again and sweep low over the witnesses. At one point it remained stationary for 5 min at the edge of a low cloud, which it illuminated. All could clearly see the silhouette of the craft. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Everest, Kansas Source ID: Magnonia_13 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 237 (1320642E) Date: 4/1/1897 Description: The whole town of Everest, Kansas saw an object fly in under the cloud cover. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When directly over the town it swept the ground with a powerful searchlight. It was seen to rise up at a fantastic speed until barely discernible, then to come down again and sweep low over the witnesses. At one point it remained stationary for five minutes at the edge of a low cloud, which it illuminated. All said they could clearly see the silhouette of the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr.& Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_1777 Source: Johnson ### Event 238 (E6BE39F7) Date: 4/1/1897 Description: 9:00 p.m. The whole town saw an object fly under the cloud ceiling. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When directly over the town it swept the ground with its powerful light. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Everest, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_16 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 239 (F829E361) Date: 4/1/1897 Description: Night. Residents of Galesburg, Michigan, see a brilliant white light passing overhead. It is attached to a black object that emits a crackling sound. Human voices are heard distinctly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Airship Story Spreads,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91997656/)” Cedar Rapids \(Iowa\) Evening Gazette, April 2, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_143 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 240 (51B5F4F1) Date: Early 4/1897 Description: An airship allegedly lands near Elburn, Illinois, where some farmers run across it. It is made of “some light substance like aluminum.” Two aeronauts are repairing the vehicle and will only say that they are flying from the Pacific to the Atlantic by following the Chicago and North Western Railway. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “That Blooming Ship,” Rockford \(Ill.\) Daily Republic, April 12, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_146 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 241 (598FEE5A) Date: 4/2/1897 Description: Evening. People in Wesley, Iowa, view a cone-shaped object with windows in the side through which light is visible. It is traveling slowly toward the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Wesley Saw the Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91997876/)” Algona \(Iowa\) Republican, April 7, 1897, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_144 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 242 (3386E21E) Date: 4/4/1897 Description: 12:15 a.m. Dairy farmer [Dick Butler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182841533/richard-butler) is returning to his farm in Wolf Creek Township, Iowa, after delivering milk in Sioux City when he notices an electric-like light on his right about 200 feet away in a cornfield. He can see a dark object with light coming through its windows. It appears to be a “long, narrow car, resembling a corset box in shape,” some 30–35 feet long and 6–7 feet high. Above the car floats a cigar-shaped bag about the same length and 8–10 feet thick. When his horses see the object, they bolt and tumble his wagon into the ditch. By the time Butler recovers, the object is moving briskly in a descent to the south. He watches it as it moves out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Air Ship Again,” Marshalltown \(Iowa\) Evening Times-Republican, April 9, 1897, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_145 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 243 (C7817E9C) Date: 4/6/1897 Description: 2:00 a.m. James Southard gets lost on his ranch near Peru, Nebraska, looking for strayed cattle. He notices a light on a bar in the Missouri River, and it turns out to be on a landed airship 200 feet long, whose crew are apparently repairing its searchlight. The aeronauts answer all of Southard’s questions, telling him that “the craft is loaded with several tons of dynamite and is bound for Cuba” to bomb Spanish ships. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Boarded the Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91998275/)” Auburn \(Neb.\) Granger, April 9, 1897, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_147 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 244 (401E4785) Date: 4/8/1897 Description: A dark bulk with a narrow, rectangular shape and illuminated windows flew over a dairy farm in the western part of Iowa after midnight. It was 30 to 35 feet long and 6 or 7 feet wide. Over the rectagular shaped was a cigar-shaped bag, about the same length but 10 feet thicker in width. The two horses of a carriage being driven by a dairy farmer spooked at the sight of the craft and bolted, throwing the man into a ditch. The object rose vertically on its departure. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_1892 Source: Johnson ### Event 245 (A6BF3054) Date: 4/8/1897 Description: 8:00 p.m. Many people in towns along the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Northern Railroad from West Liberty to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, see an object with a “bright glaring headlight,” a glistening steel body, and wings on either side. It makes a hissing noise as it glides through the air. By 10:00 p.m., it fades from view to the north of Cedar Rapids. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Airship Appears in Iowa,” Chicago Record, April 9, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_148 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 246 (2D3BE71A) Date: 4/9/1897 Description: 8:30 p.m. Hundreds of people in Chicago, Evanston, Niles Center, and Schermerville, Illinois, see an airship earing multicolored lights and swinging a huge white searchlight from side to side. Nearly 800 witnesses on Davis Street in Evanston watch the object, estimated to be 400 feet in length. Using binoculars, the outline of a structure can be seen behind the powerful light. By 9:30 p.m., the airship is last seen over South Chicago. Northwestern University astronomer [George W. Hough](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FW.%5FHough), director of the Dearborn Observatory, tells the newspapers he is sure the airship is the star Alpha Orionis \(Betelgeuse\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[See Airship](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26486756/chicago-tribune/) [or a Star,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26486839/chicago-tribune/)” Chicago Tribune, April 10, 1897, pp. 1–2; “[California Airship on the Wing,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73244355/california-airship-on-the-wing/)” Chicago Tribune, April 11, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_149 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 247 (ED7C0B7D) Date: 4/10/1897 Description: 10:30 p.m. Policemen, firemen, and many other residents of Jacksonville, Illinois, see a bright light moving swiftly from east to west a few hundred feet in the air. The light sways from side to side and throws out beams several hundred feet in length. When it is above the city, the object the light is attached to can be seen as metallic and long with possible wings. Some witnesses can hear voices. The object reverses direction over Jacksonville, throwing its searchlight in all directions, and disappears to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Airship over Quincy,” Quincy \(Ill.\) Morning Whig, April 11, 1897, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_152 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 248 (87948833) Date: 4/10/1897 Description: Evening. Witnesses in Marshfield, Wisconsin, see a cone-shaped airship with a bright headlight moving south of town. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Hides in the Woods,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91999102/)” Chicago Chronicle, April 11, 1897, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_150 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 249 (9BF76AA3) Date: 4/10/1897 Description: 10:00 p.m. A noise draws residents of Platte City, Missouri, outside where they can see a hovering object 100 feet long and 20 feet wide. Two immense wings on either side are moving up and down. Greenish light beams shine down on Main Street from its back and front. Suddenly there is a hissing sound and explosions and the object moves away to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saw the Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92007835/)” Buffalo \(N.Y.\) Enquirer, April 12, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_151 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 250 (86E74809) Date: 4/10/1897 Description: 11:00 p.m. A bright white light with red and green lights on either side of it is observed by many residents of Quincy, Illinois, flying low above the Mississippi River on the city’s west side. At one point it is no more than 400–500 feet above the ground. The light is attached to a metallic cigar-shaped object. Two wings extend from the sides and on top is some kind of superstructure. Witnesses estimate its length to be 50–100 feet. The object ascends, moves east, then south, then west, hovers above South Park for a few minutes, then moves north and stops again. It reverses direction and leaves toward the south at “tremendous speed.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Airship over Quincy,” Quincy \(Ill.\) Morning Whig, April 11, 1897, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_153 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 251 (77A32741) Date: 4/11/1897 Description: At 10:30 p.m. another airship sighting with occupants aboard was made in Minnetonka, Minnesota by a man named MacKroth. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0013, citing the Minneapolis Tribune Source ID: Johnson_1948 Source: Johnson ### Event 252 (8CF3A0F6) Date: 4/11/1897 Description: At 9:00 p.m. an airship hovered near Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was witnessed by a man named Mayer. He reported that their was an occupant visible inside the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_1947 Source: Johnson ### Event 253 (9DBD9D51) Date: 4/11/1897 Description: After 10:30 p.m. Stuart Mackroth is riding a bicycle just east of Minnetonka Mills, Minnesota, when a flying machine “shaped like an ordinary boat” passes overhead. It has red and green lights on each side and a powerful electric light in front. Inside he can see men, women, and children, all moving about “as if very busy.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Wonder!](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26129671/star-tribune/) [Mysterious Airship Seen by Stuart Mackroth,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26129800/star-tribune/)” Minneapolis Tribune, April 13, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_160 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 254 (24E729C3) Date: 4/11/1897 Description: 11:15 p.m. A bank clerk in Decatur, Illinois, sees an object “like two monster cigars with three bright headlights” moving to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saw the Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92014281/)” Decatur \(Ill.\) Evening Republican, April 12, 1897, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_161 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 255 (5309B1AF) Date: 4/11/1897 Description: 9:00 p.m. An airship approaches Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the northeast over Lake Michigan and heads toward the southwest. It stops and hovers 1,000 feet above City Hall for 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Airship Myth Yet Soars,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92011690/)” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_159 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 256 (9C88B2F6) Date: 4/11/1897 Description: On this night a farmer in Lock Mills, Indiana claimed he was visited by a man in an airship who projected pictures onto the side of his barn. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_1946 Source: Johnson ### Event 257 (A7166A1F) Date: 4/11/1897 Description: 8:00 p.m. R. G. Adams and his parents at 3126 Fourth Avenue South in Minneapolis, Minnesota, watch a lighted, cigar-shaped object flying low towards the southwest. Through binoculars it appears to be 18–20 feet long. A square light that changes from white to green to red, depending apparently on its speed, is on top. Hundreds of other people also see the object over the next four hours, maneuvering above Lake Minnetonka and eventually receding into the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Does He Hail from Mars?” St. Paul \(Minn.\) Pioneer Press, April 12, 1897, p. 4; “[Wonder!](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26129671/star-tribune/) [Mysterious Airship Seen by Stuart Mackroth,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26129800/star-tribune/)” Minneapolis Tribune, April 13, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_158 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 258 (6B8818B9) Date: 4/11/1897 Description: 7:45 p.m. [John Lee](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96589508/john-hawkins-lee) and others in Benton Harbor, Michigan, watch an airship rapidly moving north-northwest for 15 minutes. With the naked eye it looks like a huge ball of fire, but through opera glasses it resembles a cluster of soft yellow lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Air Ship Seen Here,” Benton Harbor \(Mich.\) Evening News, April 12, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_157 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 259 (107077F0) Date: 4/11/1897 Description: 12:15 p.m. Gary Carlton Jr. watches a flat object looking like a “big piece of yellow canvas” pass over Bloomington, Illinois, at a high altitude toward the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92012692/)” Bloomington \(Ill.\) Daily Pantagraph, April 12, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_156 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 260 (D6D1E640) Date: 4/11/1897 Description: 5:30 a.m. An alleged photo of an airship is taken at 4356 East Ravenswood Park in Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois, by an ex-policeman named [Walter R. McCann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188309760/walter-r%5F-mccann) and George A. Overrocker, who provide copies to several newspapers. The Chicago Tribune photo editor pronounces it a fake because it looks like it is taken by a Kodak with a small lens that cannot achieve a panoramic view. A later report claims that McCann has photographed a piece of canvas on which an airship is painted. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Airship Myth Yet Soars,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92011690/)” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1897, p. 5; “[Airship Is All a Joke,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82861909/the-chicago-chronicle/)” Chicago Chronicle, April 13, 1897, p. 2; Wautauga \(N.C.\) Democrat, April 27, 1897, p. 1; Clark III 78; Wikimedia Commons, “Mystery airship 1897” Source ID: Eberhart_155 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 261 (E0BF568F) Date: 4/11/1897 Description: 12:30 a.m. John Peterson, E. K. Rowley, [George Moody](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127708002/george-moody)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127708002/george-moody) [Bayard Taylor French](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122596748/bayard-taylor-french)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122596748/bayard-taylor-french) and other residents of Hawarden, Iowa, see a conical object about 60 feet long with four sets of 15-foot wings. It is flying so low \(about 600 feet\) that they can hear machinery, voices, and laughter. Two red lights are positioned on the tail end and a large searchlight is in the front. After three minutes it moves off to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Another Wonderful Tale,” Des Moines \(Iowa\) Leader, April 13, 1897, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_154 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 262 (D297B957) Date: 4/12/1897 Description: At 6 p.m. a large crowd of miners in Girard, near Green Ridge, Illinois saw an unknown object land three kilometers north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night operator of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came close enough to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object was elongated like a ship, with a roof and a double canopy. It left toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182, citing the Chicago Times-Herald, April 14, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_1962 Source: Johnson ### Event 263 (558AF723) Date: 4/12/1897 Description: Nilwood, Illinois - At 2:30 p.m. on the property of Z. Thacker, 19 kilometers north of Carlinville, an unknown object landed. Before Edward Teeples, William Street and Franklin Metcalf could reach it, the craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomena, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_1961 Source: Johnson ### Event 264 (6EC43A2A) Date: 4/12/1897 Time: 1430 Description: On the property of Z. Thacker, 19 km north of Carlinville, an unknown object landed. Before the three witnesses could reach it, the craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left majestically toward the north. Witnesses: Edward Teeples, William Street and Franklin Metcalf. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 186; Anatomy 12 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Nilwood, Illinois Source ID: Magnonia_14 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 265 (3FB761BB) Date: 4/12/1897 Time: 1800 Description: A large crowd of miners saw an unknown object land 3 km north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night operator of the Chicago-and-Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came sufficiently close to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object itself was elongated like a ship with a roof and a double canopy. It left toward the north. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 186,187 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Girard, near Green Ridge, Illinois Source ID: Magnonia_15 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 266 (43953525) Date: 4/12/1897 Description: A few days before the crescendo in a wave of "airship" sightings across the United States and Canada, there were 65 reports of "airships" on this day, including 25 in Illinois alone. Below are summarized two of the more interesting close encounter cases. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_1960 Source: Johnson ### Event 267 (B9135EED) Date: 4/12/1897 Description: 6:00 p.m. A large crowd of miners saw an unknown object land 3 km north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night operator of the Chicago-and- Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came sufficiently close to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object itself was elongated like a ship with a roof and a double canopy. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Girard (near Green Ridge), IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_18 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 268 (AF29B138) Date: 4/12/1897 Description: 8:00 p.m. During a rainstorm in Lincoln, Illinois, more than 50 people stand on Pulaski Street to watch a light moving to the northeast. John Fitzgerald sees a V-shaped object with a bright searchlight moving rapidly toward Lincoln. It changes course, the light changes from white to green, and the object disappears behind clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Was It the Airship?” Lincoln \(Ill.\) Weekly Courier, April 13, 1897, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_163 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 269 (2DC05C4C) Date: 4/12/1897 Description: Morning. F. L. Bullard, engineer on the Fast Mail train on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, says he caught sight of an airship moving parallel with the train shortly after his Engine 950 left downtown Chicago. The train is moving at 70 mph, and by the time it reaches Lisle, Illinois, the object is far ahead. Bullard estimates it is moving at 100–150 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Air-Ship Distances a Train,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73038174/air-ship-distances-a-train-st/)” St. Louis \(Mo.\) Globe-Democrat, April 13, 1897, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_162 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 270 (839DB456) Date: 4/12/1897 Description: 2:30 p.m. On the property of Z. Thacker, 19 km north of Carlinville, an unknown object landed. Before the three witnesses could reach it, the craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left majestically toward the north. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nilwood, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_17 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 271 (A4F81AC5) Date: 4/13/1897 Description: 11:15 p.m. Frederick Chamberlain and O. L. Jones are riding one mile west of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, when they notice a figure in a clearing, walking around as if he is looking for something. They turn off the road to investigate and hear a cracking sound followed by a rushing noise. A moment later they notice a gray-white object that looks like the top of a covered wagon. It has two rows of four red or green lights. The object rises quickly at a sharp angle to clear the treetops. They can make out no machinery or wings or rudders or even an outline of the object. In the mud, Chamberlain finds 14 footprints, each 2 feet long, 6 inches wide, “arranged seven on each side, and in an oblong pattern.” Adam Thielen, a nearby farmer, independently sees a dark object with red and green lights flying overhead about the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Adam Saw the Airship Light,” St Paul \(Minn.\) Pioneer Press, April 15, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_166 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 272 (9578D7DF) Date: 4/13/1897 Description: Night. Mayor [Charles Merritt Seely](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56960145/charles-merritt-seely) and other people in Canton, South Dakota, watch a winged airship passing to the north over the town with a red light in front and a green light in back. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Airship Is Seen by](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92015262/) [Moonlight,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92015262/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, April 15, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_165 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 273 (1A1C23BA) Date: 4/13/1897 Description: Before sunrise. Augustus Rodgers, a farmer living two miles south of Louisville, Kentucky, goes outside to attend to his livestock. He sees an oblong object, some 40 feet long by 15 feet tall, flying about 400 feet in the air at 100 mph. His wife comes out to watch it with him, and they both see “a form like that of a man” standing in the front and directing its course. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Airship Passed in the Night,” Louisville \(Ky.\) Evening Post, April 13, 1897, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_164 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 274 (9C649EBB) Date: 4/13/1897 Description: A telegraph operator between Girard, Illinois and Carlinville got a message from Carlinville, Illinois that an airship was headed his way. He went out and saw a 100 foot long object that landed near the railroad track. It had what looked like a large "M" on its side, and several occupants in the cupola. The craft rose vertically, and then flew off quickly toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 13, citing Official UFO, July 1976, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_2000 Source: Johnson ### Event 275 (E5CE513D) Date: 4/13/1897 Description: At 11:15 p.m. two men, Chamberlain and Jones, saw a very large figure walking around in a clearing looking for something near Lake Elmo, Minnesota. Nearby was a grayish white cylindrical object with two rows of lights, red and green. It took off with a rushing sound. Fourteen giant footprints, two feet long by six inches wide, were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 42, Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 84; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0017; St. Paul Pioneer-Press, April 15, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2001 Source: Johnson ### Event 276 (0C1B70AE) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: 7:30 p.m. An airship 100 feet long and 20 feet high in the center lands in a meadow three-quarters of a mile west of Birmingham, Iowa. A large crowd of men and boys sets out to examine the object, but when they are within several hundred feet, it rises with a loud whirring sound and moves away to the northwest. Two men can be distinctly seen inside, one carrying a lantern that he waves as the airship ascends. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Airship Positively Seen,” Burlington \(Iowa\) Hawk-Eye, April 16, 1897, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_171 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 277 (FA655222) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: Night. A man in Denton, Texas, is watching the stars with binoculars when he notices a shadow crossing the Moon. It is caused by a large cigar-shaped object with wings moving slowly to the southeast. In the front it has a powerful searchlight, and along the side appear a row of lighted windows. It remains in sight for 20 minutes. A woman also sees possibly the same object “bounding along through space like a balloon.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Air Ship Again,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, April 15, 1897, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_175 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 278 (6FF0FADA) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: Night. The Rio Grande Railroad operator at Cresson, Texas, sees an object about 60 feet long and “resembling the top of a passenger coach in shape” with a powerful searchlight in the front and several smaller lights on the sides. It is moving to the southwest at a “terrific rate of speed” and has wings “something like that of a bat.” It turns to the southeast after passing the station and disappears in the clouds after a few minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting the Air Ship,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, April 16, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_176 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 279 (43AAA436) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: 3:00 p.m. A brownish cigar-shaped object with wings passes south of Marion, Indiana, coming from the northwest. Six passengers can be seen on board. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Six Men Seen in the Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92016406/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 15, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_170 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 280 (7BF7A366) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: 3:00 p.m. An object landed 2 km south of Gas City on the property of John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some repairs. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gas City, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_20 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 281 (75F72F20) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: At three o'clock in the afternoon in Gas City, Indiana an object landed two kilometers south of Gas City on the property of John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some repairs. Before the crowd could approach the object, it rose rapidly and flew toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182, citing Chicago Chronicle, April 15, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2007 Source: Johnson ### Event 282 (0C2E7BB6) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: Joseph Singler, captain of the "Sea Wing," was fishing with S. H. Davis, of Detroit, when they saw on the lake what they thought was a ship, about 13 m long, with a canopy. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cleveland, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_23 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 283 (87CA6E5A) Date: 4/14/1897 Time: 1500 Description: An object landed 2 km south of Gas City on the property of John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some repairs. Before the crowd could approach the object, it rose rapidly and flew toward the east. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 188 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Gas City, Indiana Source ID: Magnonia_16 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 284 (F93F0B09) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: Joseph Singler, captain of the "Sea Wing", was fishing on Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio with S. H. Davis, of Detroit, Michigan when they saw what they thought was a ship, about 13 meters long, with a canopy. A man, looking to be about 25 years old, wearing a hunting jacket and a cap, was fishing from the deck of the object. Near him were a woman and a 10-year-old child. When the "Sea Wing" came close to the craft, a large, colored "balloon" rose from the object, which flew up with it to an altitude of about 150 meters and circled "like a hawk" before flying away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182, citing the Chicago Tribune, April 16, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2008 Source: Johnson ### Event 285 (D9F7CF27) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: Joseph Singler, captain of the "Sea Wing," was fishing with S. H. Davis, of Detroit, when they saw on the lake what they thought was a ship, about 13 m long, with a canopy. A man, about 25 years old, wearing a hunting jacket and a cap, was fishing from the deck of the object. Near him were a woman and a 10-year old child. When the "Sea Wing" came close to the craft, a large, colored balloon rose from the object, which flew up with it to an altitude of about 150 m and circled "like a hawk" before flying away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 189 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cleveland, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_17 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 286 (C7B9E0C4) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: This was the day before the peak date in a wave of "airship" sightings around the United States and Canada. There were 48 reports of "airships" on this day, including 13 in Michigan alone. Below are summarized two of the more interesting cases involving occupants. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_2006 Source: Johnson ### Event 287 (DC9D4DB3) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: 3:00 p.m. An airship looking like an “immense bird” approaches Gas City, Indiana, from the northwest. As it draws nearer, witnesses see that it is cigar-shaped and “propelled by broad canvas wings.” The object lands briefly one mile from town, terrifying some farm animals. As a crowd rushes toward it, it takes off and vanishes to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[In Daylight,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26569062/the-cincinnati-enquirer/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 15, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_169 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 288 (8E836C98) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: 4:30 a.m. Farmers see an airship land about 3 miles northwest of Howard City, Michigan, and some go to investigate. Inside the craft is a “strange man” dressed in heavy furs although he seems “to have no use for them, as he was almost naked and seemed to be suffering from the heat.” The man is 9.5 feet tall and speaks in a musical language that, however, sounds like bellowing. One farmer gets too close, and the giant kicks him severely enough to break his hip. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Trip of the Airship,” Saginaw \(Mich.\) Courier-Herald, April 17, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_168 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 289 (D5BD5083) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: Early morning. Marble merchant [David W. Paul](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28961108/david-w%5F-paul) is traveling with a party of workmen from Burlington to Frankfort, Indiana. When they are at the middle fork of Wildcat Creek, they hear a “swishing, roaring sound” and see an object with a blinding white searchlight and smaller green and yellow lights. The object is cigar-shaped with wings or fins. It descends to just above the treetops, hovers there for a moment, then rises and noisily shoots off to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “That Mysterious Airship,” Indianapolis Sentinel, April 15, 1897, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_167 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 290 (DE9CB423) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: 8:00 p.m. James McKensie is feeding hogs on his farm north of Casstown, Ohio, when he hears an odd noise like a flock of geese passing overhead. Looking up, he sees an object with wings and a rudder flying slowly along about 150 feet in the air, and he distinctly hears music. As it disappears, he thinks he hears a human voice, and something large and white is thrown overboard. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Talking Heard by the Citizens,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19519082/the-cincinnati-enquirer/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 16, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_172 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 291 (112A4ECA) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: Just after 9:00 p.m. Farmhand John Halley and vintner Adolf Wenke see an airship land on Jefferson Street three miles west of Springfield, Illinois. They supposedly converse with one of its occupants, a bearded scientist who is outside the craft. Inside, they can see another man and a woman. The scientist says little other than “as soon as Congress recognizes Cuban belligerency his air ship would be heard from.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Mystery Solved,” Springfield \(Ill.\) News, April 15, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_173 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 292 (1EE89D10) Date: 4/14/1897 Description: Night. Many persons in Mount Vernon, Illinois, including Mayor [Barton C. Wells](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58962586/barton-charles-wells)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58962586/barton-charles-wells) allegedly see an object “resembling the body of a huge man swimming through the air with an electric light on his back.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Airship’s Travels,” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Commercial Tribune, April 16, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_174 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 293 (E012F3EF) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: Late evening. Telegraph repairman [Patrick C. Byrnes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113775966/patrick-christopher-byrnes) is operating a railroad handcar about 7 miles west of Cisco, Texas, when he sees a light a little distance from the track on the south side. Knowing there is no farmhouse in the area, he goes to investigate. It is a landed cigar-shaped airship about 200 feet long and 50 feet across at its widest point. Several men are repairing its searchlight, and they tell him that the craft is loaded with several tons of dynamite for bombing Spanish troops and ships in Cuba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Oft-Seen Air-Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/71160503/oft-seen-air-ship/)” Fort Worth \(Tex.\) Register, April 18, 1897, p. 11 Source ID: Eberhart_177 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 294 (3FB45EF6) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: 7:45 p.m. This is the first report from the entire period to be declared a possible UFO. Dr. Eddie Bullard provided this report to Brad Sparks in Dec. 2006. A Medical doctor/amateur astronomer observed a cigar shaped object with a telescope. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [18970415](http://www.nicap.org/stlouis18970415dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Louis, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_27 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 295 (52E6E49E) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: 8:15 p.m. [Willie Mahon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41677884/william-p%5F-mahon)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41677884/william-p%5F-mahon) ex-Marshal French, and other residents of Dunkirk, Ohio, watch a winged object “as large as a wagon bed” pass over the town toward the east. It has propellers on each end, a red light in front, and a greenish-yellow light on the tail. Voices can be heard coming from the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Seen at Dunkirk,” Kenton \(Ohio\) News-Republican, April 16, 1897, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_179 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 296 (94CB46A6) Date: 4/15/1897 Time: 2100 Description: A passenger train on the Wabash line, going toward Quincy, was followed by a low-flying object for 15 min between Perry Springs and Hersman. All the passengers saw the craft, which had a red and white light. After Hersman it flew ahead of the train and disappeared rapidly, although the train was then running at 65 km/h. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 190 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Perry Springs, Missouri Source ID: Magnonia_20 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 297 (7693B0EA) Date: 4/15/1897 Time: nightfall Description: A flying object coming closer and closer to the ground followed a train, as reported by the engineer, Joe Wright Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66,4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Howard-Artesian, South Dakota Source ID: Magnonia_19 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 298 (ED659204) Date: 4/15/1897 Time: morning Description: A large object was seen to fly slowly toward the north. It seemed ready to land and five men (F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David Evans, Joe Croaskey, Benjamin Buland) drove toward it. About 7 km north of Linn Grove, they found the craft on the ground, came within 700 m of it but it "spread its four giant wings and rose towards the North." Two strange figures aboard the craft made efforts to conceal themselves. Witnesses were surprised at the length of their hair. Most residents of Linn Grove saw the craft in flight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 190 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Linn Grove, Iowa Source ID: Magnonia_18 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 299 (CD8C2550) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: This was the peak date in a wave of "airship" sightings around the United States and Canada. There were over fifty reports of "airships" on this day, including 18 in Michigan alone. There were six humanoid reports, two in Iowa and one each in Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan. Two of these reports invovled communication with quite human-looking people. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_2011 Source: Johnson ### Event 300 (27516D4A) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: 9:00 p.m. Residents of Farmersville, Texas, notice a dim light traveling toward the city from the south at 60– 80 mph. Thinking it might be a meteor heading toward the Earth, more people gather outside to watch. City Marshal Brown is in the western part of town making his rounds, and the “ship or balloon” passes overhead about 200 feet in the air. Brown can see two men in the object and something like a large Newfoundland dog. He can hear them talking but cannot understand what they are saying. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Airship Seen in Galveston,” Galveston \(Tex.\) Daily News, April 18, 1897, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_180 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 301 (D756EA8E) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. A cigar-shaped airship with a row of red lights along the sides passes above Emerson, South Dakota. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[That Ubiquitous Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92019574/)” Sioux City \(Iowa\) Journal, April 17, 1897, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_181 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 302 (DC51F30B) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped airship without wings and with yellow lights at the bow and stern flew to the north over Hudson, Michigan. It flew at an estimated altitude of 500 feet, and was clearly visible in the bright moonlight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lucius Farish newspaper clipping files Source ID: Johnson_2016 Source: Johnson ### Event 303 (07D2227E) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: At around 9:00 p.m. a passenger train on the Wabash line heading toward Quincy, Illinois had just passed Perry Springs, Missouri when a low-flying object started following it. All the passengers saw the craft, which followed the train for fifteen minutes. It had one red and one white light. It flew ahead of the train and disappeared quickly, although the train was then moving at 65 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chicago Times-Herald, April 15, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2015 Source: Johnson ### Event 304 (A7C8F863) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: Morning. A large object was seen to fly slowly toward the north. It seemed ready to land and five men drove toward it. About 7 km north of Linn Grove, they found the craft on the ground, came within 700 m of it but it "spread its four giant wings and rose towards the North." Two strange figures aboard the craft made efforts to conceal themselves. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Linn Grove, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_24 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 305 (1F0AF055) Date: Mid 4/1897 Description: 3:00 p.m. Railroad conductor Capt. Jim Hooton is hunting near Homan, Arkansas, when he hears a loud mechanical sound like an air brake. Investigating, he discovers an airship undergoing repairs. The aeronauts are not very communicative, so once the repairs are complete, they reenter the airship and take off with a loud hissing sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saw the Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26617085/daily-arkansas-gazette/)” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, April 22, 1897, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_182 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 306 (90EC2904) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: Nightfall. A flying object coming closer and closer to the ground followed a train, as reported by the engineer, Joe Wright (Magonia #19, FSR 66,4) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Howard-Artesian, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_26 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 307 (D720412C) Date: Mid 4/1897 Description: Early evening. J. W. Lansing sees a cigar-shaped airship twice in Grinnell, Iowa. It moves in various directions, sometimes against a strong wind. \(“He Saw It,” Springfield \(Ill.\) News, April 26, 1897, p. 1\) Mid-April – Night. F. Crocker is sitting near the window of his apartment on Barr Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he notices a yellowish light coming from the west. It seems attached to a pear-shaped object with the apex pointed downward. Two yellow rays of light come from its sides as it sways to and fro in the air. He calls R. J. \(or R. T.\) and J. L. Tretheway, who live in the apartment below his, and they also glimpse the object, which is in sight for 20 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighted Here,” Fort Wayne \(Ind.\) Weekly Gazette, April 15, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_183 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 308 (A0C6E359) Date: Mid 4/1897 Description: Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. A man in Eldridge, North Dakota, sees an airship that looks like a car attached to a large, kite-shaped structure with wings. It stops and changes course. At one point the man is close enough to hear a humming sound. Some of the time it displays colored lights; at other times it is completely dark. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[He Saw](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92029256/) [the Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92029256/)” Jamestown \(N. Dak.\) Weekly Alert, April 22, 1897, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_184 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 309 (1C1A68E2) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: 9:00 p.m. A passenger train on the Wabash line, going toward Quincy, was followed by a low-flying object for 15 min between Perry Springs and Hersman. All the passengers saw the craft, which had a red and white light. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Perry Springs, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_28 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 310 (1D742C17) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: At nightfall the same day a flying object followed a train traveling from Howard to Artesian, South Dakota in Miner County. It came closer and closer to the ground as it did, reported the engineer, Joe Wright. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966 Source ID: Johnson_2014 Source: Johnson ### Event 311 (0C82E4EB) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: Night. An airship with red, green, and white lights lands on a farm near Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Five witnesses see an odd-looking man in a fur coat emerge and walk to a farmhouse belonging to [Melvin Bannister](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68901211/melvin-bannister), whose dogs are barking fiercely. The stranger points a lantern-like device at them and sends them running. Bannister answers the door and converses awkwardly with the man, who is speaking an odd language, but loans him a hammer, some nails, and a can of skim milk. The man returns the tools, along with a strange coin. The airship takes off with a whizzing sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Brunswick and Drammen,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92018245/)” Eau Claire \(Wis.\) Leader, April 17, 1897, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_178 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 312 (D3904919) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a strange craft in a field. They had a discussion with its occupants, a woman and two men, and were told the ship-had flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 min and that the crew was making electrical repairs. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_29 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 313 (F5360F71) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a strange craft in a field near the city of Springfield, Illinois around midday. They had a discussion with its occupants, a woman and two men, and were told the ship had flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 minutes and that the crew was making electrical repairs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Flying Saucer Review, January 1965 Source ID: Johnson_2013 Source: Johnson ### Event 314 (9B0C4A10) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a strange craft in a field. They had a discussion with its occupants, a woman and two men, and were told the ship-had flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 min and that the crew. was making electrical repairs. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 65,1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Springfield, Illinois Source ID: Magnonia_21 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 315 (BB849B30) Date: 4/15/1897 Description: A large object was seen in Linn Grove, Iowa in the morning hours of this day in 1897 flying slowly toward the north. It seemed ready to land and five men--F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David Evans, Joe Croaskey, Benjamin Buland--drove toward it in a buckboard wagon. About seven kilometers north of Linn Grove they found the craft on the ground. They came within 700 meters of it but it "spread its four giant wings and rose towards the North". Two figures with shoulder-length hair were seen aboard the craft and made efforts to conceal themselves. Most residents of Linn Grove saw the craft in flight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 16, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2012 Source: Johnson ### Event 316 (642A24D3) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: Morning. A large object passes slowly over Linn Grove, Iowa, heading north. Five men—[James Evans](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72453749/james-evans)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72453749/james-evans) F. G. Ellis, [Ben Buland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44719046/benjamin-buland)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44719046/benjamin-buland) [David Evans](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28007773/david-evans)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28007773/david-evans) and [Joe Croskey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44729877/joseph-l%5F-croskey)—jump into a rig and follow it 4 miles north of town where it has landed. But when the pursuers get within 2,100 feet of the airship, it spreads out four massive wings and ascends again. The two occupants have extremely long beards and make desperate efforts to conceal themselves. They toss two enormous boulders “of unknown composition” out of the airship. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[More Air Ship Fakes,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26312370/the-indianapolis-journal/)” Indianapolis Journal, April 17, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_187 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 317 (D3721150) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: 9:00 p.m. A mysterious airship passed over the city twice on the night of Friday, April 16. According to the Vincennes Morning Commercial, the airship first appeared about nine oclock, traveling along the extreme eastern portion of the horizon (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [18970416](http://www.nicap.org/vincennes18970416dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vincennes, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_31 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 318 (F37B1AE3) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: 8:00 p.m. [Howard R. Bolander](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185391302/howard-r-bolander), superintendent of the Ohio Bicycle Works in Marion, Ohio, is looking at the night sky when he sees the light from a cigar-shaped object moving to the southwest. Its light looks like an incandescent lamp. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Is Your Credulity in Condition for the Only True Airship Story?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26923788/the-marion-star/)” Marion \(Ohio\) Daily Star, April 17, 1897, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_189 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 319 (0656DC4E) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: Shortly before 3:00 a.m. police heard a drumming noise in Saginaw, Michigan and then spotted a 30-foot long cigar-shaped airship with something hanging down ten feet below it. It flew at a speed of 25 miles per hour to the south, and carried red and yellow body lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lucius Farish newspaper files; Saginaw (MI) Evening News, April 17, 1897; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_2044 Source: Johnson ### Event 320 (D23C942B) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: At 12:30 a.m. in Bay City, Michigan a large object was sighted high in the sky. It gradually descended and was estimated to be around 50 to 70 feet in length. It had a red light at each end, that gave the conical shaped craft a dull red glow. It moved at a rapid pace, then slowed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lucius Farish newspaper files; Saginaw (MI) Courrier Herald, April 16, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2043 Source: Johnson ### Event 321 (5CD4FC23) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: Night. Judge [John Spencer Bounds](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24971064/john-spencer-bounds) is riding in a buggy in Hillsboro, Texas, when his horse whirls around in fright. A brilliant light as if from an arc lamp shines on him for less than a minute and then moves over to a nearby field. The light suddenly ascends to an altitude of 1,000 feet. As he watches, the searchlight blinks out and smaller lights surrounding a dark object become visible. The object moves slowly to the south and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Seen near Hillsboro,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, April 17, 1897, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_190 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 322 (347CC7A8) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: While wandering in the hills east of Springfield, Missouri, [W. H. Hopkins](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129777746/w%5F-h%5F-hopkins), a traveling insurance agent, spots a landed airship in a clearing. Next to it is a nude female with hair down to her waist. As she picks flowers, she speaks in an unknown language with a musical voice and fans herself as if the day is hot. In the shade cast by the craft lies a naked man with shoulder-length hair and a long beard. After a few minutes, Hopkins approaches the woman, who shrieks and runs toward the man. Hopkins speaks soothingly and the two aeronauts relax. Hopkins asks where they come from, and they point upward, pronouncing a word that sounds like “Mars.” The two examine Hopkins’s clothing, hair, and watch with great curiosity. They show him the interior of the ship but take off shortly afterward, “laughing and waving their hands.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Golden Haired Girl Is in It,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27731160/st-louis-post-dispatch/)” St. Louis \(Mo.\) Post- Dispatch, April 19, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_188 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 323 (A02CB94B) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: 12:00 midnight. C. G. Williams is walking across a field two miles south of Greenville, Texas, when he comes across a brilliant light and a large, cigar-shaped object resting on the ground. Three aeronauts emerge from it; two go to work on the ship, and the third approaches Williams and asks him to mail some letters. The man tells him that the airship runs on electricity and that his invention was perfected in a small town in New York State. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “C. G. Williams Saw It,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, April 19, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_191 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 324 (DBF5B1E3) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: On the same night a man named Williams in Greenville, Texas came upon a landed airship. He described it as an "immense cigar-shaped vessel" with large wings, and having a "sidewheel like a steamboat" in front, with a fish tail at the rear. He claimed it was 75 feet long and 30 feet wide, and he encountered three men performing repairs on the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 39, citing the Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2047 Source: Johnson ### Event 325 (880368D1) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: On that night there was a sudden flash in the sky over Logan, Ohio and then a 40-foot long dark shape flew over the town slowly. Witnesses thought they could hear voices coming from the object. Some followed it three miles south of town in a buggy. The craft descended to about 50 feet altitude, then rose swiftly and flew out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_2046 Source: Johnson ### Event 326 (2C1495C0) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: While working in his field in Downs Township, Illinois farmer Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke to him for a few minutes before leaving. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 22, citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 17, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2045 Source: Johnson ### Event 327 (4BE0A67E) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: Approximate date. While working in his field, Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke to him for a few minutes before leaving again.(Magonia #22, 191) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Downs Township, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_30 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 328 (5510B59B) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: 12:03 a.m. An airship and a smaller “trailer which followed it very closely” are seen by residents of Danvers, Illinois. The objects are made of aluminum-like material, and its “occupants were dressed in western style.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72179339/the-pantagraph/) [Aerial Mystery,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72179339/the-pantagraph/)” Bloomington \(Ill.\) Daily Pantograph, April 17, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_185 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 329 (B4E12011) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: Approximate date. While working in his field, Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke to him for a few minutes before leaving again. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 191 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Downs Township, Illinois Source ID: Magnonia_22 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 330 (D9362CFB) Date: 4/16/1897 Description: 12:30 a.m. A group of people returning home from a lodge meeting in Bay City, Michigan, notice a large conical object approaching from the south and slowly descending to about 50 feet altitude above Center Avenue. A red light appears at either end of a body that is apparently 50–75 feet long. It shines with a dull red glow, as if there are lights on its upper side. The object moves away to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Air Ship a Reality,” Saginaw \(Mich.\) Courier-Herald, April 16, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_186 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 331 (73A080B0) Date: 4/17/1897 Description: Morning. At least a dozen farmers saw an object maneuver in the sky for an hour before it landed. A strange man near 3 m tall, almost naked and suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williamston, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_32 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 332 (DF3A8C67) Date: 4/17/1897 Description: 6:00 a.m. An airship is said to collide with the tower of Judge [James Spencer Proctor](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35443870/james-spencer-proctor)’s windmill in Aurora, Texas, causing it to explode and strew debris over several acres. The pilot \(reportedly “not of this world,” or a “Martian” according to an alleged Army Signal Service officer named [Thomas Jefferson Weems](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17165126/thomas-jefferson-weems) from nearby Fort Worth\), does not survive the crash and is [buried](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206580789/alien-unknown) “with Christian rites” at the Aurora Cemetery. Wreckage from the crash site is either dumped into a nearby well located under the damaged windmill or ends up with the alien in the grave. Adding to the mystery is the story of [Brawley Oates,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43968438/brawley-hoyle-oates) who purchases Judge Proctor’s property around 1935. Oates cleans out the debris from the well in order to use it as a water source, but later develops an extremely severe case of rheumatoid arthritis, which he claims is the result of contaminated water from the wreckage dumped into the well. As a result, Oates seals up the well with a concrete slab and places an outbuilding on the spot in 1945. The entire yarn is widely regarded as a hoax, although Proctor’s windmill apparently did exist. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Aurora, Texas, UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora%2C%5FTexas%2C%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; “A Windmill Demolishes It,” Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897, p. 5; Donald B. Hanlon, “[Texas Odyssey of 1897,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1966\): 9–10; H. Michael Simmons, “[Once upon a Time in the West,](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2013/11/once-upon-time-in-west.html)” Magonia, no. 20 \(August 1985\); Wallace O. Chariton, The Great Texas Airship Mystery, Wordware, 1991; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 \(March 2012\): 8–10; Clark III 316–318, 592–593; “[Aurora 1897,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=89)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014; Mutual UFO Network, “[Aurora, TX Crash, 1897](https://mufon.com/2021/05/14/aurora-tx-crash-1897/),” May 14, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_193 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 333 (39AB6C49) Date: 4/17/1897 Description: 8:30 p.m. A large white light attached to a cigar-shaped object passes over Trenton, Tennessee, at an altitude of about 1,500 feet. It has a red light on the left side and a green light on the right. The object remains in sight for 5 minutes then disappears to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Trenton Has ‘Em,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92030155/)” Memphis \(Tenn.\) Commercial Appeal, April 18, 1897, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_194 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 334 (31BDE7F9) Date: 4/17/1897 Description: At least a dozen farmers in Williamston, Michigan saw an object maneuver in the morning sky for an hour before it landed. A strange man nearly 3 meters (10 feet) tall, almost naked and suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. "His talk, while musical, seemed to be a repetition of bellowings". One farmer went near him and received a blow that broke his hip. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 184, citing Lansing State Republican, April 18, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2073 Source: Johnson ### Event 335 (A9581DF5) Date: 4/17/1897 Time: morning Description: At least a dozen farmers saw an object maneuver in the sky for an hour before it landed. A strange man near 3 m tall, almost naked and suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. "His talk, while musical, seemed to be a repetition of bellowings." One farmer went near him and received a blow that broke his hip. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 196 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Williamston, Michigan Source ID: Magnonia_23 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 336 (6FDD447B) Date: 4/17/1897 Description: Aurora, TX: An “airship” crashed into Judge Proctor’s windmill and disgorged the mangled body of a little man. Type: ufo crash Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Aurora, TX Source ID: Maj2_20 Source: Maj2 ### Event 337 (F6F85B1D) Date: 4/17/1897 Description: 9:00 p.m. George Alverson, Alex Oxford, and Charley Hunter are walking on Manchester Street near the Cincinnati Southern Railway trestle bridge in Lexington, Kentucky. An airship lands and settles in a vacant lot about 600 feet away. They hurry forward but are stopped by a man who has just emerged from the machine. He is carrying a bucket, which he fills with water from a nearby spring. He declines to answer any of their questions, reenters the airship, and flies away to the southeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Talked with the Airship Man,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92030217/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 19, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_195 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 338 (573790EA) Date: 4/17/1897 Description: 1:30 a.m. R. E. Draughon, a night watchman at a lumber plant in Beaumont, Texas, sees a “globular” object with a bright light the size of a star in one end. It is moving to the northwest at a high altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Seen at Beaumont,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, April 18, 1897, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_192 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 339 (8A1575A3) Date: 4/18/1897 Description: 8:30 p.m. W. E. Roe, captain of the Ohio River packet T. M. Barnsdall, as well as watchman Elmer Hardy and engineer Litus Kinnard, sees a light high in the air above the river as the riverboat is lying at Sistersville, West Virginia. It seems to be moving to the northwest but at other times it retraces its course. Around 12:00 midnight it disappears over a hill to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Airship Seen near Marietta,” Marietta \(Ohio\) Daily Register, April 19, 1897 Source ID: Eberhart_196 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 340 (5BF124A9) Date: 4/18/1897 Description: 9:30 p.m. An object with lights on both ends is seen southeast of Lyons, Nebraska, traveling to the northwest. Some young observers estimate it is moving at 4–6 mph. When the object is south of Bancroft it makes 2–3 large circles and then moves to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Airship’s Lamp Is Lighted,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92030321/)” Omaha \(Neb.\) Daily Bee, April 20, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_197 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 341 (94AC6A46) Date: 4/18/1897 Description: A cigar-shaped UFO hovered over the town of Sisterville, West Virginia at 8:30 p.m.. It directed brilliant searchlights down toward the ground. It appeared to have large fins or wings, and flashing red, white and green lights on the sides and on each end. Several witnesses estimated the length of the object to be 180 feet long. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_2102 Source: Johnson ### Event 342 (7E67FDA9) Date: 4/19/1897 Description: 10:30 p.m. Alexander Hamilton was awakened by a noise among the cattle and went and saw an elongated cigar-shaped object, about 100 m long with a transparent cabin underneath showing narrow reddish bands, hovering 10 m above ground. Inside it were "six of the strangest beings" the witness had seen, also described as "hideous." A cow was dragged away by the object with the help of a strong red cable; it was found butchered in a field the next day. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leroy, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_34 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 343 (5D288434) Date: 4/19/1897 Time: 2230 Description: Alexander Hamilton was awakened by a noise among the cattle and went out with his son and his tenant. They saw an elongated cigarshaped object, about 100 m long with a transparent cabin underneath showing narrow reddish bands, hovering 10 m above ground. They approached within 50 m of it. It was illuminated and equipped with a searchlight. Inside it were "six of the strangest beings" the witness had seen, also described as "hideous." They spoke a language no witness could understand. A cow was dragged away by the object with the help of a strong red cable; it was found butchered in a field the next day. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Anatomy 16; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Leroy, Kansas Source ID: Magnonia_24 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 344 (AA6CE7EB) Date: 4/19/1897 Description: Mr. Sisson, a postmaster, was walking in the woods on this afternoon in Greenfield, Illinois when he saw an airship in the sky, estimated to be only 150 feet up in the air. He could see a woman on the deck of the object catching pigeons with a net. That same day a man nine miles away found a letter with "Airship Co., Oakland, California" letterhead. The note read, "Having delightful time…Mollie…catching [pigeons] with a net," and went on to describe 200 mph jaunts to St. Louis, Chicago, and Kansas City." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0039, citing the St. Louis (MO) Star, April 20, 1897; Carrollton (IL) Patriot, April 23, 1897; Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_2130 Source: Johnson ### Event 345 (D6E8ED5D) Date: 4/19/1897 Description: 10:30 p.m. Rancher [Alexander Hamilton,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24128929/alexander-hamilton) his son Will, and his hired hand Gid Heslip are awakened by a noise in the cattle pen of their ranch at Yates Center, Kansas. They watch as a 300-foot-long, cigar-shaped airship with a carriage underneath descends to about 30 feet above the ground. Two men, a woman, and three children are heard talking in the carriage. They see a calf caught in a nearby fence with a cable knotted around its neck that connects to the airship above. They cut the cable and the airship floats away. A few weeks later, Hamilton admits he made the story up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 130, 593; Jerome Clark, “The Great Airship Hoax,” Fate 30, no. 2 \(February 1977\): 94–97; Jerome Clark, “[The Leroy, Kansas, Calfnapping Hoax of 1897,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 \(April 1977\): 26; Daniel Cohen, The Great Airship Mystery, Dodd, Mead, 1981, [pp. 92–102](http://www.spaceshipsofezekiel.com/html/misc-kansas-airship-cownapping.html) Source ID: Eberhart_202 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 346 (CC8A3EF7) Date: 4/19/1897 Description: 9:00 p.m. A bright light moves from the northwest over Cochransville \[now a ghost town\], Monroe County, Ohio, where it hovers for 20 minutes, flashing red, white, and green lights. Through binoculars a cone-shaped object with large fins on either side can be discerned. It is apparently 180 feet long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Hovered over the Town,” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Commercial Tribune, April 20, 1897, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_201 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 347 (B754F71F) Date: 4/19/1897 Description: 12:00 noon. George Dunlap, a man known to [Davis H. Tucker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62522267/davis-halsey-tucker)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62522267/davis-halsey-tucker) physician at the Harlem Prison Farm \[now the Jester State Prison Farm\] in Fort Bend County, Texas, is riding in the country near Lake Charles, Louisiana, when he sees an airship moving toward him about half a mile distant. It makes a loud whistling noise, scaring his horses and causing him to be thrown from the buggy. As the horses flee, the ship lands, a rope comes down, and two men rush over to apologize. They are the owner Mr. Wilson \(formerly of Fort Worth, Texas\) and his friend Scott Warren. The man is taken into the airship and introduced to two others, a Mr. Waters and a Hispanic man. Wilson tells him the airship is sustained by a gas, and that several of them have been built. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Was Aboard an Airship,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, May 16, 1897, p. 18 Source ID: Eberhart_200 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 348 (DC0F1BDB) Date: 4/19/1897 Description: 2:00 a.m. A man in El Paso, Texas, sees a cigar-shaped object with lighted portholes on each side. The object approaches from the east and passes overhead at 500 feet. Voices from the craft are heard. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Air Ship Seen in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92030378/el-paso-herald/) [El Paso,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92030378/el-paso-herald/)” El Paso \(Tex.\) Herald, April 20, 1897, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_199 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 349 (895AB38A) Date: 4/19/1897 Description: 1:30 a.m. As people are returning from a party at the Armory Hall in Natchitoches, Louisiana, they see a bright light attached to a massive airship in the form of a balloon with a cigar-shaped undercar. The light dims while it is over the city and intensifies again when it has passed beyond it. It moves in undulations and is visible for 30 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Airship Seen in Louisiana,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95279509/)” New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 21, 1897, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_198 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 350 (5614AE04) Date: 4/19/1897 Description: After 11:00 p.m. [John R. Ligon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38196324/john-rudolph-ligon)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38196324/john-rudolph-ligon) an agent for a brewery in Houston, and his son [Charley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106767425/charles-e-ligon) notice lights in a pasture a few hundred yards away near Beaumont, Texas. They walk over and discover four men moving around a large dark object, who ask for water. They accompany Ligon to his house, each bringing two baskets, which they fill and return. One of the men identifies himself as “Wilson” and says they are traveling in a flying machine that has been over the Gulf of Mexico and is now headed toward Iowa. Ligon says the airship is 130 feet long and 20 feet wide, propelled by four large wings and powered by electricity. Wilson gives Ligon a tour of the ship and says it is one of five built in a small Iowa town. Rabbi [Aaron Levy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41239517/aaron-levy) of Beaumont also claims to have met aeronauts from a landed airship near the city around the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Inspected the Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26383442/the-houston-post/)” Houston \(Tex.\) Daily Post, April 21, 1897, p. 2; “[The Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26726900/the-times-picayune/)” New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 25, 1897, p. 7; Jerome Clark, “Mystery Aeronauts of Texas,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 5–6; Clark III 81–82 Source ID: Eberhart_203 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 351 (836C268F) Date: 4/20/1897 Description: 6:00 p.m.Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an object in a clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, lateral wheels, and horizontal blade over it. Hooton spoke with a man who wore dark glasses and walked behind the craft. There were three or four occupants. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Homan, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_37 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 352 (DEE6851F) Date: 4/20/1897 Description: Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan, Arkansas when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an object in a clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, lateral wheels, and had a horizontal blade overhead. Hooton spoke with a man who wore dark glasses and walked behind the craft. There were three or four occupants in total. The witness was told this was indeed "The Airship" and that it used compressed air for propulsion. Capt. Hooton saw the wheels spin when the craft rose and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 184; Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966 Source ID: Johnson_2149 Source: Johnson ### Event 353 (EDF95023) Date: 4/20/1897 Time: 1800 Description: Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an object in a clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, lateral wheels, and horizontal blade over it. Hooton spoke with a man who wore dark glasses and walked behind the craft. There were three or four occupants. The witness was told this was indeed "The Airship" and that it used compressed air for propulsion. Hooton saw the wheels spin as the craft rose and flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Homan, Arkansas Source ID: Magnonia_25 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 354 (46755C96) Date: 4/20/1897 Description: 10:00 p.m. Sheriff [Henry W. Baylor](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33531179/henry-weidener-baylor) of Uvalde, Texas, sees a bright light and hears strange voices behind his house. He finds a landed airship and its crew of three men, one of whom is named “Wilson” \(from Goshen, New York\), who inquires after an acquaintance, [C. C. Akers](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/160043209/christopher-columbus-akers) of Eagle Pass, Texas. After procuring water from a hydrant in Baylor’s yard, the men board the airship, which speeds away northward toward San Angelo. County Clerk Henry J. Bowles sees the airship as it passes over Getty Street in Uvalde. Akers tells a reporter in Galveston that he knew a New Yorker named Wilson when he lived in Fort Worth in 1876–1877. Baylor’s seemingly compelling testimony disintegrates after he confesses in late May to making the whole story up, possibly in collusion with Akers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Airship in West Texas,” Galveston \(Tex.\) Daily News, April 24, 1897, p. 3; “[The](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92031234/) [Airship at Uvalde,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92031234/)” Weimar \(Tex.\) Mercury, May 1, 1897, p. 6; “[Airship Story Exploded,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17770700/the-weimar-mercury/)” Weimar \(Tex.\) Mercury, May 22, 1897, p. 7; Jerome Clark, “Mystery Aeronauts of Texas,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 6–7; Clark III 82–83 Source ID: Eberhart_205 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 355 (6442DAF5) Date: 4/20/1897 Description: [Henry Heintz](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21985845/henry-heintz) of Elkton, South Dakota, patents an airship consisting of a cigar-shaped balloon and a structure for passengers beneath it. At some point he allegedly brings his invention out for a test flight in front of the Elkton blacksmith shop. The airship rises 8 feet into the air before plopping to the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Patent, “[Air Ship,](https://patents.google.com/patent/US580941A/)” granted April 20, 1897; Ruth Becken, A History of Elkton, \[City of Elkton,\] 2000, p. 94 Source ID: Eberhart_204 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 356 (DC89E549) Date: 4/21/1897 Description: 12:30 a.m. An employee of the Picayune newspaper in New Orleans, Louisiana, steps outside the office and sees an airship, 50–60 feet long and bearing a powerful searchlight. He returns to tell his colleagues, but by the time they come out, the airship is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95260852/)” New Orleans Picayune, April 21, 1897, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_206 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 357 (7D5F5D62) Date: 4/21/1897? Description: 8:00 p.m. A man is riding his horse between Lancaster and Baltimore, Ohio, when something scares his horse. He sees an object with two brilliant white lights on either end landing in a nearby field. He tethers his horse and approaches the object, which seems as large as a house. Inside he can see two men conversing, so he walks up to ask them questions. One of the aeronauts seems to be Japanese and the other speaks English with a British accent. The craft is called the Aeribarque, and they are on a test flight. The aeronaut says that they often land in remote areas and come to nearby towns for supplies or mechanical parts, posing either as tourists or “harmless cranks trying to invent perpetual motion.” After giving the witness a demonstration of the electrical lighting system, they take off into the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Aeribarque, That’s It’s Official Name,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92031315/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 25, 1897, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_207 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 358 (F1AD0FF7) Date: 4/21/1897 Description: 11:00 p.m. Confectioner [John S. Scheer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9511205/john-s%5F-scheer), [Frank King](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6019275/frank-a%5F-king), and Frank Mulick of Erie, Pennsylvania, watch a cigar- shaped, winged object moving north at a relatively high rate of speed. It has a large propeller on its tail end, but it flies silently and disappears over Lake Erie. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Passed over Erie,” Erie \(Pa.\) Daily Times, April 22, 1897, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_208 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 359 (003CA989) Date: 4/22/1897 Description: John M. Barclay was intrigued when his dog barked furiously and a high-pitched noise was heard. He went out, saw a flying object circling 5 m above ground. Elongated with protrusions and blinding lights, it went dark when it landed. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rockland, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_39 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 360 (5D2178AF) Date: 4/22/1897 Description: Midnight. Frank Nichols, who lived 3 km east of Josserand and was one of its most respected citizens, was awakened by a machine noise. Looking outside, he saw a heavy, lighted object land in his wheat field. He walked toward it, was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw water from his well. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Josserand, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_41 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 361 (128FA090) Date: 4/22/1897 Description: 12:00 midnight. Frank Nichols, a farmer living 2 miles east of Josserand, Texas, is awakened by a whirring noise. Outside, he sees a huge airship in his cornfield. Before he can get close, two men with buckets ask him if they can draw water from his well. Nichols consents and in return they give him a tour of the vessel, whose motive power is “highly condensed electricity.” One aeronaut tells him that five airships have been built in an Iowa town. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[That Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26234423/the-houston-post/)” Houston \(Tex.\) Post, April 26, 1897, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_212 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 362 (5DB24CDD) Date: 4/22/1897 Time: 2400 Description: Frank Nichols, who lived 3 km east of Josserand and was one of its most respected citizens, was awakened by a machine noise. Looking outside, he saw a heavy, lighted object land in his wheat field. He walked toward it, was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw water from his well. He then had a discussion with a half-dozen men, the crew of the strange machine. He was told how it worked but could not follow the explanation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 193; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Josserand, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_27 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 363 (D9B2DE25) Date: 4/22/1897 Description: 7:30 p.m. Prominent citizens, including the mayor, observe a low-flying airship heading slowly southwest above Kenly, North Carolina. Its sails “resembled mosquito netting to the naked eye.” The outlines of two people aboard are plainly visible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Men Seen in the Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92031390/)” Raleigh \(N.C.\) News and Observer, April 25, 1897, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_209 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 364 (EDEE4060) Date: 4/22/1897 Description: 10:10 p.m. A ball of fire is seen moving slowly and horizontally from southwest to northeast over Kokomo, Indiana. Some people can distinguish the faint outlines of a cigar-shaped object and wings. The light is white with a reddish tint and no more than 300 feet in altitude. The witnesses include [Harry M. Grimes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45505516/harry-m%5F-grimes), [William E.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45520445/william-e%5F-sollenberger) [Sollenberger](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45520445/william-e%5F-sollenberger)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45520445/william-e%5F-sollenberger) and banking executive [Frank McCarty](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45505516/harry-m%5F-grimes). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Mysterious Air Ship,” Kokomo \(Ind.\) Daily Tribune, April 23, 1897, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_210 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 365 (6AF33972) Date: 4/22/1897 Description: John M. Barclay was intrigued when his dog barked furiously and a high-pitched noise was heard. He went out, saw a flying object circling 5 m above ground. Elongated with protrusions and blinding lights, it went dark when it landed. Barclay was met by a man who told him his purpose was peaceful and requested some common hardware items to repair the craft. He paid with a ten-dollar bill and took off "like a bullet out of a gun." Type: ufo sighting Reference: 192; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Rockland, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_26 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 366 (C819F896) Date: 4/22/1897 Description: On or about this same night Frank Nichols, who lived two miles east of Josserand, Texas and was one of its most respected citizens, was awakened around midnight by the noise from a machine. Looking outside, he saw a heavy, illuminated object land in his wheat field. He walked toward it but was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw water from his well. He then had a discussion with a half-dozen men who were the crew of the strange craft. He said they told how it worked but he could not follow the explanation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Houston Post, April 26, 1897; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 184-185 Source ID: Johnson_2204 Source: Johnson ### Event 367 (C0F88352) Date: 4/22/1897 Description: 11:00 p.m. [John M. Barclay](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76038714/john-mack-barclay) wakes up when he hears a whirring noise that causes his dogs to bark wildly outside his home near Rockland, Texas. He goes outside and sees an oblong airship with wings and brilliant lights. When he first sees it, the object is hovering 150 feet above the ground. It circles a few times then lands in a nearby pasture. Barclay goes down to investigate with his Winchester rifle, but the lights go out as he gets closer. Some 90 feet away from the airship he is stopped by a man who asks him to put his rifle down. He identifies himself as “Smith” and gives Barclay $10 to purchase lubricating oil, two chisels, and bluestone. When Barclay returns with the materials, the aeronaut will only say he is from “anywhere,” adding that “we will be in Greece tomorrow.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Supplies for Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26495409/the-houston-post/)” Houston \(Tex.\) Post, April 25, 1897, p. 13 Source ID: Eberhart_211 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 368 (DE6F3CEE) Date: 4/22/1897 Description: John M. Barclay of Rockland, Texas was intrigued when his dog started barking furiously at 11:30 p.m. and he heard a high-pitched noise. He went outside and saw a flying object circling five meters above the ground. It was elongated with protrusions and blinding lights. It went dark when it landed. A man who told him his purpose was peaceful met Barclay and requested some common hardware items to repair the craft. He paid with a ten-dollar bill. The craft took off "like a bullet out of a gun." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Houston Post, April 22, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2203 Source: Johnson ### Event 369 (EFAC1BA0) Date: 4/23/1897 Description: Night. [Henry A. Hooks](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11296433/henry-allen-hooks) and [A. W. Hodges](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39090302/armenous-will-hodges) of Kountze, Texas, allegedly meet two aeronauts named Wilson and Jackson when their airship suffers a gas leak and lands. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[That Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8357294/the-houston-post/)” Houston \(Tex.\) Post, April 25, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_213 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 370 (CD5E2016) Date: 4/23/1897 Description: Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas was surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the ground. "It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging from their looks one would take them to be Japs." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 185 Source ID: Johnson_2249 Source: Johnson ### Event 371 (9033BEC1) Date: 4/23/1897 Description: According to the Houston Post, two men reported that they had discovered a landed airship near the town of Kountze, Texas. It was cigar shaped, 50 feet long and 20 feet wide. They talked to the two human occupants of the airship, named Jackson and Wilson, who were allegedly repairing a punctured "air compartment." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Houston Post, April 25, 1897; Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967, p. 25; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_2250 Source: Johnson ### Event 372 (A85C0D77) Date: 4/23/1897 Description: Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas, was surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the ground. "It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging from their looks one would take them to be Japs." (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McKinney Bayou, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_43 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 373 (EAA67E5D) Date: 4/23/1897 Description: Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas, was surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the ground. "It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging from their looks one would take them to be Japanese." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Farish, in Allende Letters - Award Special, 1968 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: McKinney Bayou, Arkansas Source ID: Magnonia_28 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 374 (DF1CE971) Date: 4/24/1897 Description: An airship in need of repairs lands near Stringers Ridge on the other side of the river from Chattanooga, Tennessee. An unnamed journalist talks to one of the aeronauts, who identifies himself as Prof. Charles Davidson of Sacramento, California, the inventor of the airship, which can travel as fast as 93 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Is This a Reality?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92031801/)” Knoxville \(Tenn.\) Morning Tribune, April 25, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_214 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 375 (494FC27F) Date: 4/24/1897 Description: 11:00 p.m. Howard Warn is outside his home in Toledo, Ohio, when he notices bright, multicolored lights moving rapidly toward the southwest. The lights are attached to a cigar-shaped object at an altitude of 500 feet. He calls his father, [Milo S. Warn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150324144/milo-s-warn)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150324144/milo-s-warn) and they watch the lights until the object disappears into heavy clouds to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Say They Saw the Airship,” Cleveland \(Ohio\) Plain Dealer, April 28, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_215 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 376 (92A926A1) Date: 4/24/1897 Description: A man in Louisville, Kentucky heard a buzzing noise, looked up, and saw a cigar-shaped craft 200 feet up. He could see the form of a man standing at the stern. "He looked at me, and I waved my hat. Two other men were sitting in the helm." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Louisville Courier Journal, April 25, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2269 Source: Johnson ### Event 377 (43B015A2) Date: 4/25/1897 Description: Evening. People returning from church observed a heavy object being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Merkel, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_45 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 378 (2857072E) Date: 4/25/1897 Description: Evening. As some residents of Merkel, Texas, are leaving a church service, they notice a heavy, anchor- shaped object being dragged by a large rope that is attached to an airship in the sky not far above them. After 10 minutes, a small figure dressed in a blue sailor suit starts climbing down the rope. But when he sees people watching him, he cuts the rope and returns to the airship, which moves away to the northeast. The anchor goes on exhibit at a local blacksmith shop. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Anchor of the Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25149804/the-houston-post/)” Houston \(Tex.\) Post, April 28, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_216 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 379 (21909DF0) Date: 4/25/1897 Description: Night. [William F. Whittier](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34031943/william-francis-whittier), editor of the Sunbury \(Ohio\) News-Item, sets up his camera in the printing office to take lightning photographs. He manages to take a photo of a nearby lightning strike and develops it the following morning. The negative shows not only the lightning but the outline of what seems to be an airship. Whittier makes many copies of the photo and sells them to Sunbury residents. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Fairy Story: A Sunbury Editor Takes a Photograph,” Dayton \(Ohio\) Daily Journal, April 28, 1897 Source ID: Eberhart_217 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 380 (CC275319) Date: 4/25/1897 Description: People returning from church in Merkel, Texas observed a heavy object being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. After about ten minutes a man came down along the rope and cut the end free. He climbed back aboard the craft, which flew away toward the northeast. The man was small and dressed in a light blue uniform. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Houston Daily Post, April 28, 1897; Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967, p. 24; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 185 Source ID: Johnson_2287 Source: Johnson ### Event 381 (CA85056B) Date: 4/25/1897 Time: evening Description: People returning from church observed a heavy object being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. After about 10 min a man came down along the rope cut the end free, and went back aboard the craft, which flew away toward the northeast. The man was small and dressed in a lightblue uniform. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 194; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Merkel, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_29 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 382 (0464DDC0) Date: 4/26/1897 Description: At 5:15 a.m. in Barring Cross, Arkansas a photograph of a structured flying object was taken. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, July 1967, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_2328 Source: Johnson ### Event 383 (168768C5) Date: 4/26/1897 Description: Approximate date. A lawyer was surprised to see a lighted object fly over. His horse was scared and nearly toppled the carriage. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aquila-Hillsboro, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_46 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 384 (BC28150A) Date: 4/26/1897 Description: Approximate date. A lawyer was surprised to see a lighted object fly over. His horse was scared and nearly toppled the carriage. When the main light was turned off, a number of smaller lights became visible on the underside of the dark object, which supported an elongated canopy. It went down toward a hill to the south, 5 km from Aquila. When the witness was on his way back one hour later he saw the object rising. It reached the altitude of the cloud ceiling and flew to the northeast at a fantastic speed with periodic flashes of light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 195 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Aquila-Hillsboro, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_30 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 385 (92241555) Date: 4/26/1897 Description: A lawyer was surprise to see a lighted object fly over as he was driving his carriage three miles north of Aquila, Texas. His horse shied and nearly toppled the carriage. When the main light was turned off, a number of smaller lights became visible ont he underside of the dark object, which supported an elongated carriage. The airship went down toward a hill to the south, five kilometers from Aquila, Texas. When the witness was on his way back, one hour later, he saw the object ascending. It reached the altitude of the cloud ceiling and flew to the northeast at a fantastic speed with periodic flashes of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 30; Dallas Morning News, April 28, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2327 Source: Johnson ### Event 386 (3DD432EC) Date: 4/26/1897 Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Sidnaw, Michigan several people saw a green ball of light fly overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Marquette (MI) Mining Journal, May 1, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2329 Source: Johnson ### Event 387 (6CE4E765) Date: 4/28/1897? Description: 8:00 p.m. [Hiram C. LaGrone](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20794337/hiram-clark-lagrone) hears a disturbance among his horses on his ranch at Deadwood, Texas. Stepping outside, he sees a brilliant, multicolored light approaching from the southwest. It slows, hovers, then lands in a field. LaGrone walks up and discovers five men, two of whom take rubber bags and procure water from his well. The other three tell him that this is one of five airships touring the country \(and the same one that landed in Beaumont on April 19\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8357123/the-houston-post/)” Houston \(Tex.\) Post, April 30, 1897, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_218 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 388 (0C662475) Date: 5/1/1897 Description: On this evening a mystery airship flew over Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It followed the river to the east, then made a sharp turn over a hospital. Also on the same night a well-lighted flying object with a clear outline flew over Shiloh, Ohio and was reported by a Mr. Chamberlain. It was supported by a narrow, 70 foot long cylindrical vessel that looked to be inflated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 206, citing UFO Roundup; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 46, citing the Ashland Press, May 13, 1897 Source ID: Johnson_2435 Source: Johnson ### Event 389 (C92AB29A) Date: 5/2/1897 Description: 1:00 a.m. Edwin Shaffer is driving a rig about one-half mile west of Cassville, Indiana, when he encounters a landed airship 40 feet long. The object spooks his horse, which will not run past it. Shaffer claims the airship is crewed by midgets who speak no English. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Air Ship at Cassville,” Kokomo \(Ind.\) Daily Tribune, May 4, 1897, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_219 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 390 (11E4C224) Date: 5/4/1897 Description: 9:00 p.m. Louis Dumhoff, a physician living at 112 Garfield Place in Cincinnati, Ohio, sees a red, egg-shaped light, “the rays escaping in the center and at each end.” It passes to the southeast in about 5 minutes, moving in a zigzag, up-and-down course. Conductor J. C. Gaupel and attorney W. J. Klein also see the light in the same neighborhood. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92049767/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, May 5, 1897, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_220 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 391 (DB387EFE) Date: 5/4/1897 Description: The whole town of Jenny Lind, Arkansas watched an airship fly over from the northeast to the southwest at 7:30 p.m. It landed, and a human looking occupant got out. He spoke English, and told them he was out to "catch birds." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 5, 1897; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified: Notes Toward Solving the UFO Mystery, p. 147; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_2498 Source: Johnson ### Event 392 (C986B517) Date: 5/6/1897 Description: Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of Hot Springs, Arkansas when they saw a bright light in the sky. About seven km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. One km farther the horses refused to walk. Two men were seen carrying lights. The lawmen took their rifles, called the strangers, and were told that they crossed the country with a flying craft. The profile of the 20-meter long machine could be seen in the clearing. There was a woman with an parasol or umbrella nearby. It was raining, and the younger man was filling a large container with water. The elder man had a beard and suggested to the policemen that they fly with them "to a place where it does not rain." The same witness went back to the same spot 40 minutes later but found nothing there. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 186, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966 Source ID: Johnson_2573 Source: Johnson ### Event 393 (4FC9D56E) Date: 5/6/1897 Description: During a rainstorm five miles west of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Deputy Sheriff John McLemore and Constable John J. Sumpter Jr. see a light in the sky descend behind a hill one half-mile away. After seeing two persons carrying lights, they draw their rifles and demand to know who is there. A man with a long, dark beard tells them that he and two others are traveling around the country in an airship and hope to end up in Nashville, Tennessee. He invites the officers to take a ride and transport them to somewhere dry, but they tell him they prefer to get wet. They return to the spot 40 minutes later and the airship is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Swore They Saw It,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92049879/)” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, May 9, 1897, p. 1; “[Swear They Saw It,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26231659/the-southern-standard/)” Arkadelphia \(Ark.\) Southern Standard, May 14, 1897, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_221 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 394 (AC1A226A) Date: 5/6/1897 Description: Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of Hot Springs when they saw a bright light in the sky. About 7 km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. One km farther the horses refused to walk. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hot Springs, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_48 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 395 (1D917C8E) Date: 5/6/1897 Description: Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of Hot Springs when they saw a bright light in the sky. About 7 km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. One km farther the horses refused to walk. Two men were seen carrying lights. The lawmen took their rifles, called the strangers, and were told that they crossed the country with a flying craft. The silhouette of the machine, about 2O m long, could be seen in the clearing. There was a woman with an umbrella nearby. It was raining, and the younger of the men was filling a large container with water. The elder man had a beard and suggested that the policemen fly with them "to a place where it does not rain." The same witness went back through the same spot 40 min later and found nothing. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas Source ID: Magnonia_31 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 396 (D3B35FCB) Date: 5/9/1897 Description: 8:00 p.m. Abe Parker of Norwalk, Ohio, sees an object with 10–12 bright white and red lights moving slowly over the town for about 10 minutes. Other witnesses report hearing music coming from it. An unnamed young witness, who follows the object out of town for about one mile after it passes over Main Street, says the shadow cast by the object is round. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “That Airship Again,” Cleveland \(Ohio\) Plain Dealer, May 11, 1897, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_222 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 397 (E78A723B) Date: 5/11/1897 Description: 10:00 a.m. [John E. Hopley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81287132/john-edward-hopley) is one of a small group of people in Sandusky, Ohio, who watch a “fleecy white bulk” floating far away to the west. Through binoculars the object looks like a white bird with long black wings. Hopley guesses that it is 1–2 miles high, 20 miles away, and 60–80 feet long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Air Ship: John E. Hopley](https://www.newspapers.com/image/600597764) [Sees This Modern Invention,](https://www.newspapers.com/image/600597764)” Bucyrus \(Ohio\) Evening Telegraph, May 11, 1897, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_223 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 398 (98B16679) Date: 7/4/1897 Description: 7:45 p.m. Hundreds of witnesses in Lexington, Kentucky, see a lighted object silhouetted against a storm cloud in the southwest moving to the north at 500 feet altitude. When it nears the city, the light goes out and it disappears after passing over the western part of the city. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Air Ship or Its Twin Brother Passes over](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92051598/) [Lexington,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92051598/)” Lexington \(Ky.\) Morning Herald, July 5, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_224 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 399 (F32D7FFD) Date: 7/29/1897 Description: Sunset. Farmer [Andrew Henderson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133414894/andrew-henderson) sees a large, unlighted, oblong object with a suspended car and a huge sail drifting to the northeast over his farm three miles from Whitemouth, Manitoba. He estimates it is only a half-mile away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Could It Be Andree?” Winnipeg Manitoba Free Press, July 31, 1897, p. 1; “Big Balloon Story,” Winnipeg Manitoba Free Press, August 2, 1897, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_225 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 400 (5778C43D) Date: 8/11/1897 Description: At around 6:00 p.m. in Rossland, British Columbia, Canada a luminous red fireball hovered for 15 minutes over a nearby mountain. It flashed colors, circled, then shot off to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 207, citing Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_4854 Source: Johnson ### Event 401 (91C7F8AC) Date: 8/16/1897 Description: On this night at 12:40 a.m. a giant airship followed a train as it rounded a bend in the tracks around Heron Bay, Ontario, Canada and then flew off inland to the north >N inland. It had body lights and light beams. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 208, citing Brad Steiger Source ID: Johnson_5069 Source: Johnson ### Event 402 (B9315225) Date: 8/26/1897 Description: 6:45 p.m. An airship with an attached car is seen moving steadily southwest above Asheville, North Carolina, by Dr. [Willard P. Whittington](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76743448/willard-porter-whittington) and two other men who are standing on Grove Street. It is about one mile in altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Maybe It Was Andree on His Return?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92052256/)” Charlotte \(N.C.\) Observer, August 27, 1897, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_226 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 403 (A88A4E9B) Date: 8/28/1897 Description: 3:00 a.m. [Luther Myers](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55527533/luther-m.-myers) hears dogs barking outside his home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. When he looks through the window, he sees a rapidly moving airship with a light on each end. It has a propeller and rotates as it moves forward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Our Closeby](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92052496/) [Neighbors,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92052534/)” Chambersburg \(Pa,\) Valley Spirit, September 1, 1897, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_227 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 404 (A1EF8CB3) Date: 9/7/1897 Description: 2:00 p.m. V. H. Hollingsworth and his family in Ellsworth \(between Sherman and Denison\), Texas, see an unusual object approaching from the east. It has a fan-like wheel on front and fin-like projections on the side. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Air Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92052647/)” Marshall \(Tex.\) Evening Messenger, September 9, 1897, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_228 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 405 (25389E39) Date: 9/17/1897 Description: In the far eastern reaches of Siberia several people witnessed a round UFO flying toward the northwest. It was seen for five minutes in Antsiferova, Russia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Luminieres dans la Nuit, issue # 204; FSR, January-February 1969, p. 27; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 214 Source ID: Johnson_6037 Source: Johnson ### Event 406 (4FF7132C) Date: 11/2/1897 Description: 12:45 p.m. Engineer Charles W. West sees a balloon of unusual size passing southwest above Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It looks like an inclined cylinder with rounded ends and has a car suspended from it. After 20 minutes it passes out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saw the Man Who Saw the Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78376981/the-boston-globe/)” Boston Daily Globe, November 5, 1897, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_229 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 407 (63924758) Date: 11/19/1897 Description: 11:00 p.m. A telegraph operator in Kellogg, Iowa, sees a bright, bluish light moving rapidly to the southwest. He notifies the operator at Colfax, Iowa, and people in the depot there also see it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[See the Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92053408/)” Chicago \(Ill.\) Chronicle, November 20, 1897, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_230 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 408 (6C4D9A8A) Date: 12/5/1897 Description: Early morning. Engineer John J. Hussey and fireman John Henderson of the Great Northern Railroad in northern Minnesota see a “large, white long light which seemed surrounded by some dark objects” near Deerwood. Other employees of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways also view the light Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Was It an](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7273788/the-saint-paul-globe/) [Air-Ship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7273788/the-saint-paul-globe/)” Saint Paul \(Minn.\) Globe, December 7, 1897, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_231 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1898 (Back to Top) ### Event 409 (6ECB4893) Date: 1898 Description: English author [H. G. Wells](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FG.%5FWells) publishes The War of the Worlds, one of the earliest stories to portray a conflict between humans and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[The War of the Worlds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FWar%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWorlds)” Source ID: Eberhart_232 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 410 (8420F0D6) Date: 1/10/1898 Description: 9:00 p.m. Residents of Rome, Georgia, watch a blue light “attached to some dark and indistinguishable object” as it flies from the northwest to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Star-Gazing in Rome,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92053856/)” Atlanta \(Ga.\) Constitution, January 11, 1898, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_233 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 411 (CD42869B) Date: 2/4/1898 Description: Mid-day. The postmaster of Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, Germany, and 11 other persons see an object crossing the Sun’s disk. They watch the object approach the Sun for 15 minutes, take one hour to pass, and stay visible for another hour until clouds obscure it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Martin Brendel, “[Ueber ein 1898 Febr. 4 in](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106020672595&view=1up&seq=175&skin=2021) [Greifswald beobachtetes Phänomen,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106020672595&view=1up&seq=175&skin=2021)” Astronomische Nachrichten 145 \(1898\): 333–334 Source ID: Eberhart_234 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 412 (7E803BE3) Date: 4/25/1898 Description: Astronomer Michailovitch at the Belgrade Observatory in Serbia, Yugoslavia sighted a fireball at 9:32 p.m. that stopped still in the sky and hovered in one spot for six minutes before continuing on. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 17; Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 196 Source ID: Johnson_2288 Source: Johnson ### Event 413 (1944A863) Date: 5/2/1898 Description: Dusk. Bystanders in front of the Pearson building in downtown New Castle, Pennsylvania, notice a bright arc light moving in from the southwest just below the clouds and remaining visible for 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Mysterious](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92054278/) [Light,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92054278/)” New Castle \(Pa.\) News, May 4, 1898, p. 10 Source ID: Eberhart_235 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 414 (828E2773) Date: 6/1/1898 Description: 8:30 p.m. [Harry McCandliss](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99605907/harry-e.-mccandliss) is riding in the country near Emporia, Kansas, when he sees a cigar-shaped object flying toward the northwest at about 300 feet. It is suspended from a balloon and is peppered with electrical lights. At one point the lights go out then reappear. A searchlight beam in the front skitters in different directions. It ascends to 600 feet and is lost to view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[News note](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92054428/)\], Emporia \(Kan.\) Gazette, June 2, 1898, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_236 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 415 (36292BEC) Date: 10/4/1898 Description: 9:00 p.m. A brilliant object passes over Italy, Greenville, Garland, and Blossom, Texas. Initially moving in an easterly direction, it seems to change course and shoot upwards then burst, throwing out three distinct objects, one red, the other white, and the last one blue. The red and blue lights die out, but the white one continue a few seconds before it too bursts, emitting a shower of sparks. Blossom merchant Dick Moore says the light is so glaring that he thinks his “house was falling on him.” About 2.5 miles north of Sherman, 12-year-old George Campbell is riding with his father when they see the fireball descending, apparently coming as close as 3 feet above the ground before moving upward; they can hear a buzzing noise and think the object is about 10 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Aerial Phenomena in Texas,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, October 5, 1898; “The Meteor,” Dallas Morning News, October 7, 1898; Theo Paijmans, “High Strangeness in Texas,” Fortean Times 286 \(May 2012\): 30 Source ID: Eberhart_237 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 416 (97FFA31F) Date: 10/4/1898 Alternate date: 10/3/1898 Description: Night. At Fort Washita, Oklahoma, Mrs. William Peveto \(possibly [Mary Peveto](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6822240/mary-e-peveto)\) watches a fireball \(probably the same one as October 4\) descend. A few minutes later, distracted by the meteor, she is standing in her kitchen when a “female ghost” appears and chats with her for a few minutes, saying that if she would follow her, she will lead her to a fortune. Peveto becomes terrified, and the entity flees through a closed door. The entity visits her again on other nights, again talking about treasure in the basement. They continue until February 1899 when they occur nightly. At one point the ghost claims to have been murdered years ago in Fort Washita and shows her strangle marks around her neck. Poltergeist phenomena \(tables moving\) occur and a male ghost also talks to her. Peveto becomes ill and apparently moves away from the place. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Ghosts at Old Fort Washita,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, October 20, 1898; “Old Fort Washita Ghosts: Mrs. Peveto Contributes Another Uncanny Chapter to the Record,” Dallas \(Tex.\) Morning News, March 26, 1899; Theo Paijmans, “High Strangeness in Texas,” Fortean Times 286 \(May 2012\): 30–31 Source ID: Eberhart_238 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1899 (Back to Top) ### Event 417 (6976439F) Date: 1899 Description: Serbian-American inventor [Nikola Tesla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%5FTesla) is working in his laboratory near Colorado Springs, Colorado, when he observes unusual signals from his receiver that he speculates are communications from another planet. He mentions them in a letter to a reporter in December 1899 and to the Red Cross Society in December 1900. Reporters treat it as a sensational story and jump to the conclusion Tesla is hearing signals from Mars. In 1901, Tesla writes that it has not been immediately apparent to him that he is hearing “intelligently controlled signals” and that the signals could have come from Mars, Venus, or other planets. It is possible that he is intercepting [Guglielmo Marconi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo%5FMarconi)’s European experiments in July 1899—Marconi may have transmitted the letter S \(dot dot dot\) in a naval demonstration, the same three impulses that Tesla hinted at hearing in Colorado—or signals from another experimenter in wireless transmission. [Brian Dunning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%5FDunning%5F%28author%29) of the Skeptoid podcast attributes Tesla’s signals to pulsars, which are not identified until 1968. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nikola Tesla, “[Talking with the Planets,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112109670726&view=1up&seq=154&skin=2021)” Colliers Weekly 26 \(February 9, 1901\): 4–5; Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time, Dorset Press, 1989 ed., [pp. 111–113](https://archive.org/details/teslamanoutoftim00chen/page/110/mode/2up); Daniel Blair Stewart, Tesla: The Modern Sorcerer, Frog, 1999, [p. 372](https://archive.org/details/teslamodernsorce0000stew/page/372/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 11; W. Bernard Carlson, Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, Princeton University, 2013, [p. 315](https://archive.org/details/teslainventorofe0000carl/page/314/mode/2up); Brian Dunning, “[The Black Knight Satellite,](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4365)” Skeptoid podcast, no. 365, June 4, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_239 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 418 (9AC3FF85) Date: 1899 Description: Swiss psychologist [Carl Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FJung) investigates his 15-year-old cousin, [Hélène Preiswerk](http://jungcurrents.com/helen-preiswerk) \(“S.W.”\), in Basel, Switzerland, who claims to be a spiritualist medium. Her trances frequently involve journeys to other planets. She claims that Martians have flying machines, and they irrigate the land with canals and artificial lakes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1986\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_240 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 419 (F47704A7) Date: Mid 1/1899 Description: Late night. People returning from a dance near McMahan, Texas, see a group of stars in formation, moving in one direction. A few miles further east, hunters camping on a hilltop see the full outline of an airship with headlights and windows. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dallas \(Tex.\) News, January 25, 1899; Clark III 86 Source ID: Eberhart_241 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 420 (87C6D46D) Date: 1/26/1899 Description: 11:00 p.m. People outside the opera house in McAlester, Oklahoma, watch an airship “like a railway car suspended from a large balloon-like arrangement” pass overhead. It shines a bright searchlight along the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[News note](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92056263/)\], Garfield County \(Okla.\) Democrat, February 9, 1899, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_242 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 421 (E249D06B) Date: 4/27/1899 Description: At four o'clock in the afternoon a 10 meter in diameter red ball crossed highway N51 near the town of Baye, Marne department, France on a steady trajectory. It illuminated the surrounding area a red color, and went off to the southwest. There were many witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 129 Source ID: Johnson_2360 Source: Johnson ### Event 422 (A8BB4035) Date: 6/1/1899 Description: Late evening. Observers in Kamen-Rybolov, Primorsky Krai, Russia, see a blue sphere about 28 inches in diameter flying silently from south to north near the steamboat Kazak Ussuriyskiy moored on Lake Khanka. It is seen for 20 minutes, then it returns later in the evening flying north to south at greater speed, disappearing 11 minutes later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 113 Source ID: Eberhart_243 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 423 (065336C8) Date: 7/4/1899 Description: 4:30 p.m. A mystery balloon floats across the sky in Spokane, Washington, from southwest to northeast. Before it disappears, it ascends so high that “nothing but a small black ball far up in the heavens could be discerned.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Who Owns the Big Balloon?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92056412/)” Spokane \(Wash.\) Chronicle, July 5, 1899, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_244 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 424 (1C87569D) Date: 10/1899 Description: Midnight. Physician Malcom McKinnon is driving home to Fosston, Minnesota, in his carriage when a dazzling ball of white light crosses the road ahead about one-quarter of a mile away, lighting up the road like daylight. It resembles an electric arc lamp and moves slowly from north to southeast about 3 feet above the ground, throwing the field furrows into visible relief. As it passes closer, McKinnon sees that it is clearly “disk shaped, about the size of an umbrella.” It is in sight for 30 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Minneapolis Minnesota Journal, October 25, 1899; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 239–251 Source ID: Eberhart_245 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1900 (Back to Top) ### Event 425 (BEB1183F) Date: 1900 Description: Psychic medium [Catherine-Elise Müller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne%5FSmith) \(under the pseudonym “Hélène Smith”\) of Geneva, Switzerland, becomes famous with the publication of Des Indes à la Planete Mars \(From India to the Planet Mars\) by [Théodore Flournoy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore%5FFlournoy)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore%5FFlournoy) professor of psychology at the University of Geneva. The medium and the psychologist remain very close until 1900, when the book is first published, documenting her various series of somnambulatory trances in which she experiences a civilization on Mars and her former lives: the “Martian” cycle, “Ultramartian” cycle, “Hindu,” “Oriental,” and “royal” cycles. She writes out the Martian communications on paper and translates them into French, popularizing automatic writing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Society for Psychical Research, PSI Encyclopedia, “[Hélène Smith](https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/helene-smith)”; Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1986\): 4–6 Source ID: Eberhart_246 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 426 (669E747B) Date: Summer 1900 Description: Dusk. A 12-year-old girl is walking back to her farm from Cadwst, Denbighshire, Wales, when a large disc- shaped object about 14 feet in diameter silently passes above her and over a nearby meadow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_247 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 427 (EF123941) Date: Mid Summer 1900 Description: 3:00 a.m. [Perrian A. McGilvra](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166409902/perrian-a-mcgilvra), 14, is returning on horseback from a dance near Reedsburg, Wisconsin, when his horse begins acting up. He sees a large, dark, dirigible-shaped object passing over a grove of poplar trees. The trees bend like they are in a strong windstorm, but he notices no wind. The object flies over his head with a whooshing sound. The horse remains frightened even after the object leaves. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1161 Source ID: Eberhart_248 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 428 (4DE9EEDE) Date: 12/1900 Description: [Percival Lowell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival%5FLowell) at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, records a shaft of light that projects from a “well-known geographical point” on Mars for 70 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Science Notes,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951001389778y&view=1up&seq=185&skin=2021)” Scientific American 84 \(1901\): 179 Source ID: Eberhart_249 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1901 (Back to Top) ### Event 429 (5C36B00B) Date: 3/7/1901 Description: On this afternoon in 1901, newspaper accounts report a flying machine was photographed in Silver City, New Mexico. The photograph "has the appearance of three cigar-shaped objects, which seemed to be lashed together, the one hanging below the other two." Unfortunately, the photograph was later lost. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerome Clark & William Corliss, UFO Calendar 1999 Source ID: Johnson_1360 Source: Johnson ### Event 430 (9DE4F4C0) Date: Summer 1901 Description: Day. A 10-year-old boy is walking home to Bournbrook, West Midlands, England, through a path behind his family’s garden when he comes upon a large box-shaped device with a small, centrally placed turret. The only opening is a door, through which two small men \(less than 4 feet tall\) in military uniforms \(but no insignia\), each wearing an odd-looking cap with a wire sticking up on both sides, step out. One stays by the door, but the other walks toward the boy and waves him away. The beings go back in the craft, a bright flash surrounds it, and it shoots into the air with a whooshing sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 261; Jenny Randles and Philip Barnet, “[Humanoids](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2024%20N%205.pdf) [Encountered in 1901?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2024%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 \(March 1979\): 28–29; “[UFO Britannia: Part 1, The Early](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread909654/pg1) [Years,](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread909654/pg1)” Above Top Secret, December 19, 2012; Jenny Randles, “The ‘Wes’ Effect 1: The Hut That Flew,” Fortean Times 309 \(Christmas 2014\): 27 Source ID: Eberhart_250 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1902 (Back to Top) ### Event 431 (CC3B746C) Date: 2/9/1902 Description: At 7:40 p.m. a "meteor" turned, looped, and curved for 12 seconds over Paris, France. Its tail lasted 90 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_765 Source: Johnson ### Event 432 (D31A0D9B) Date: 5/13/1902 Description: 8:00 p.m. A blue-colored fireball appears over Austin, Texas, and ascends into the sky until it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Austin \(Tex.\) Daily Tribune, May 14, 1902; Clark III 1168 Source ID: Eberhart_251 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 433 (F0F8496D) Date: 10/28/1902 Time: 0305 Description: Three persons aboard the "Fort Salisbury," including Second Officer A. H. Raymer, saw a huge, dark object bearing lights in the sea ahead. It was observed sinking slowly. Estimated length: 200 m. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fort 641; Anatomy 20 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Gulf of Guinea Source ID: Magnonia_32 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 434 (F80BABF3) Date: 10/28/1902 Description: 3:05 a.m. Three persons aboard the "Fort Salisbury," including Second Officer A. H. Raymer, saw a huge, dark object bearing lights in the sea ahead. It was observed sinking slowly. Estimated length: 200 m. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: At sea, Gulf of Guinea Source ID: NICAP_DB_50 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 435 (68C44DD5) Date: 10/28/1902 Description: Three men aboard the "Fort Salisbury" steaming in the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, including Second Officer A. H. Raymer, saw a huge, dark object bearing two lights in the sea ahead. It was observed submerging slowly. Its estimated length was 150-200 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerome Clark, FSR, May-June 1972, p. 18; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 32; Charles Fort, The Complete Books of Charles Fort, p. 642 Source ID: Johnson_7213 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1903 (Back to Top) ### Event 436 (527B6D29) Date: 3/17/1903 Description: On this evening a father and daughter observed a glowing 100 foot long cigar shaped object with two rows of four equally spaced windows. It was hovering just behind some trees over a farm in Helmer, Indiana. As the man ran toward the object it moved away, and zigzagged across the sky at great speed, accelerating away toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 14; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 5, citing Jerome Clark Source ID: Johnson_1533 Source: Johnson ### Event 437 (2C105D2F) Date: 3/17/1903 Description: Mid-evening. [Madge Brosius,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87360939/madge-leota-allyn) 12, and her father [Charles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48121456/charles-hiram-brosius) see a “huge object like a gigantic ripe cucumber with slightly tapered ends” over the family farm in Helmer, Indiana. Its inside is illuminated, and it has 8 windows in two rows of four each. Her father estimates it is 100 feet long. It begins moving away from him as he moves toward it, zigzagging like a child’s balloon losing air. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Madge Brosius Allyn, “The Flying Cucumber of 1903,” Fate 24, no. 3 \(March 1971\): 45–47; Clark III 1162 Source ID: Eberhart_252 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 438 (95626203) Date: 3/17/1903 Description: During the early evening a family watched a brilliantly glowing cigar-shaped object hovering at treetop level. It had two rows of evenly spaced windows. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Helmer, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_51 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 439 (73EBE821) Date: 9/29/1903 End date: 10/3/1903 Description: An implement dealer named [U. G. Griffith](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157186810/u-grant-griffith) is on his way home in Van Meter, Iowa. As he approaches, he notices a strange point of light like a spotlight emanating from the top of the Mather & Gregg’s building. He approaches cautiously, but the light sails across the street. He tells others about the experience, and over the next few days several people report a half-human, half-animal entity with large bat-like wings. The townsfolk chase the creature toa local mine shaft, down which it disappears, never to be seen again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1216–1218; Craig Woolheater, “The Van Meter Visitor,” Cryptomundo, May 9, 2013; Chad Lewis, Noah Voss, and Kevin Lee Nelson, The Van Meter Visitor, On the Road, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_253 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 440 (CF314743) Date: 12/17/1903 Description: Inventors [Orville and Wilbur Wright](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright%5Fbrothers) make the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier- than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer 4 miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Wright Flyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright%5FFlyer)” Source ID: Eberhart_254 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 441 (AB8CC7EE) Date: 12/24/1903 Description: A priest named Ivanku Petrovszky saw a glistening ball of light illuminate the countryside in Szuhabaranka, Hungary. The object landed and shadowy figures returned to it. A man who had gone to a well at the same time was never seen again. The case of his disappearance was closed ten years later but still unsolved. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 255, citing the UFO Report Annual 1983, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_8583 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1904 (Back to Top) ### Event 442 (C04C5FB3) Date: 1904 Description: Tom Darby, with his brother and mother, saw two whitish-blue objects about 400 m away, from a point situated 3 km north of Rolling Prairie. The objects hovered 2 or 3 m above ground, flew toward a barn, came closer to each other, and were hidden from view by a hill. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rolling Prairie, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_52 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 443 (7FAAB9C4) Date: 1904 Description: Late afternoon. [Wirt M. Covert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39986191/wirt-manley-covert), 17, and [Arthur B. Eldert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225043237/arthur-b-eldert) are returning on horseback from a grocery store in Dixboro, Michigan, when they see a large object in the air moving west behind the steeple of the Dixboro United Methodist Church. He compares its shape to the Confederate ironclad Virginia and it has a thick mast sticking up from its center and orange light shining through some windows. Suddenly it rises at about a 60° angle over the hills, tipping its mast back, and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_255 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 444 (4ED4EC1E) Date: 1904 Description: Tom Darby, with his brother and mother, saw two whitish-blue objects about 400 m away, from a point situated 3 km north of Rolling Prairie. The objects hovered 2 or 3 m above ground, flew toward a barn, came closer to each other, and were hidden from view by a hill. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Hartle 164 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Rolling Prairie, Indiana Source ID: Magnonia_33 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 445 (D1382DF2) Date: 2/28/1904 Description: Mid-evening. The steamer [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FSupply%5F%281872%29) [Supply](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FSupply%5F%281872%29) is transporting the ill Governor of Guam, [William Elbridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FElbridge%5FSewell) [Sewell,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FElbridge%5FSewell) from Guam to San Francisco, California. About 300 miles west-southwest of San Francisco, commanding Lt. [Frank Herman Schofield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FHerman%5FSchofield) observes three objects “beneath the clouds, their color a rather bright red.” As they approach the ship they appear to soar, passing above the broken clouds. After rising above the clouds, they appear to “be moving directly away from the earth. The largest had an apparent area of about six suns. It was egg-shaped, the larger end forward. The second was about twice the size of the sun, and the third, about the size of the sun. Their near approach to the surface appeared to be most remarkable.” The objects are in sight for over two minutes by three people. [Barry Greenwood](http://www.noufors.com/Barry%5FJ%5FGreenwood.htm) thinks they are meteors, but [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) is not so sure. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank H. Schofield, “Remarkable Meteors,” Monthly Weather Review 32 \(March 1904\): 115; Bruce Maccabee, “Even More Remarkable,” IUR 9, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1984\): 14–15; Bruce Maccabee, “[Meteors? Even More Remarkable,](http://brumac.mysite.com/RemarkableMeteors/Remarkable.html)” 2005; NICAP, “[Three Red Objects Sighted from USS Supply](http://www.nicap.org/040228pacific%5Fdir.htm)”; Barry Greenwood, “[The USS Supply Sighting of](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr02.pdf) [1904,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr02.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 2 \(September 1998\): 2–6; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 329–351 Source ID: Eberhart_256 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 446 (90CDC3B7) Date: 2/28/1904 Description: At 35.97 N 128.60 W in the Pacific Ocean between Honolulu and San Francisco at 6:10 a.m., three large dull red bodies flew in from the northwest over the U.S.S. Navy ship Supply. The largest one was egg or pear shaped, and six times the apparent size of the sun. The objects flew in an eschelon formation, flying very fast below the clouds. They gained altitude, turned, and travelled off to the west-northwest while climbing above broken clouds. There were at least three sailors as witnesses, including the main witness named Schofield. The duration of the event was more than two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: New York Herald, March 9, 1904; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 6; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 36; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 90; Bruce Maccabee, International UFO Reporter, September 1984, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_1170 Source: Johnson ### Event 447 (ADB14641) Date: 2/28/1904 Description: Formation of three objects sighted by U.S.S. Supply in North Pacific off San Francisco. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, II) (These were apparently fireball meteors. See report and analysis by Brad Sparks.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [19040228](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/040228USS%5FSupplydir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Francisco (North Pacific off), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_53 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 448 (6C5A3775) Date: 6/1904 Description: 10:00 p.m. When Tony Darby goes outside to the well on his farm 5 miles north of Rolling Prairie, Indiana, he notices two round, orange-colored, silent objects hovering 5–6 feet from the ground near the barn. He estimates they are the size of wagon wheels. One of the objects is 2 feet behind and to the left of the other. Running back to the house, he calls for his mother and brother, and all three walk toward the objects, which move away slightly then stop when the witnesses stop. Soon the objects move steadily away to the northeast, still maintaining their relative positions, at about the speed of a man walking. They pause briefly in a small hollow, then continue over a small hill and out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lore and Deneault, [pp. 91–92](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/90/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_257 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1905 (Back to Top) ### Event 449 (12CA954E) Date: 1905 Description: [Frederick Spencer Oliver](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Oliver-4617)’s book A Dweller on Two Planets is published posthumously. It is a narrative channeled by Oliver in Yreka, California, through automatic writing and mental dictations by a spirit calling itself Phylos the Tibetan, an Atlantean who reveals his story from 1883 to 1886. The book deals with deep esoteric subjects including karma and reincarnation and describes Phylos’s final incarnation in 19th century America where his Atlantean karma plays itself out. In that incarnation \(as Walter Pierson, gold miner and occult student of the Theo-Christic Adepts\) he travels to Venus in an astral body while his physical form remains at a temple inside Mount Shasta, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[A Dweller on Two Planets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%5FDweller%5Fon%5FTwo%5FPlanets)”; Frederick Spencer Oliver, [A Dweller](https://archive.org/details/dwellerontwoplan00oli) [on Two Planets](https://archive.org/details/dwellerontwoplan00oli)[,](https://archive.org/details/dwellerontwoplan00oli) Baumgardt, 1905 Source ID: Eberhart_258 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 450 (DC54957E) Date: 3/23/1905 Description: On or about this night a small red sphere of light, accompanied by two white lights which danced about it, paced in front of an automobile being driven by a man named Jones in Egyryn, Wales. There was also a female passenger in the car, also with the last name of Jones. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roger Sandell, FSR, March-April 1972, p. 31, citing the Barmouth Advertiser, March 23, 1905 Source ID: Johnson_1617 Source: Johnson ### Event 451 (8C311A7C) Date: 3/29/1905 Description: A large luminous cylindrical object hung in the sky in a vertical orientation over Cardiff, Wales, U.K. on this day at 10:00 o'clock in the evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Computer Catalog, case 248 Source ID: Johnson_1716 Source: Johnson ### Event 452 (291EFC12) Date: 8/3/1905 Description: 1:30 a.m. Farmer John A. Jackson is driving a herd of hogs from Silsbee \(a former settlement 6 miles southwest of El Centro\) to Imperial, California, when a bright light flashes on him from above. He is momentarily blinded, and the hogs start running away. Jackson sees it is a searchlight from an airship about 100 feet long and propelled by wings that move up and down. It has smaller lights along the sides. Jackson wakes up W. E. Wilsie, who lives nearby, and they watch it disappear to the northeast. Another farmer, A. J. Morey, also glimpses the airship. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Aerial Navigation in Imperial Valley,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/602649/the-imperial-press/)” Imperial \(Calif.\) Press, August 5, 1905, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_259 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 453 (FD5D40FD) Date: 9/2/1905 Description: An intensely dark object flew over Llangollen, Gwynedd, Wales at an altitude over two miles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Desmond Leslie, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_5561 Source: Johnson ### Event 454 (CEF29689) Date: 9/6/1905 Description: Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity paper published Type: scientific advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity) Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_21 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1906 (Back to Top) ### Event 455 (3861CCA9) Date: 1906 Description: [Herbert Vern DeMott,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148816945/herbert-vern-demott) 10, watches an object come down near his family’s water well in Mitchell, South Dakota. As he approaches it, a door rolls back and he is welcomed inside by two human-like occupants who are sitting inside on camp stools. They converse with him fluently, but he does not know where they come from. He sees a lever that apparently can cut off the earth’s “magnetism,” allowing the object to rise. The occupants take water from the farm’s horse trough to be “used in making electricity.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[DeMott Rock Study Crosses Continents,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92060822/)” Albany \(Oreg.\) Democrat-Herald, August 27, 1973, p. 11; Clark III 261; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1906-usa-mitchell.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1906-usa-mitchell.htm) July 22, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_260 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 456 (27A1BB61) Date: 1/4/1906 Description: Night. Martin Meyerson is on the beach at Paia, Maui, Hawaii, when he sees a green object with the shape and diameter of the full moon appear from behind the southern slopes of the Wailuku Mountains. It is so bright it illuminates the cane fields below, then travels like a “slow-pitched baseball” and disappears behind Mount Haleakala to the southeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1168 Source ID: Eberhart_261 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 457 (0BD4CE6E) Date: 9/16/1906 Description: Late afternoon. Hundreds of people in Indianapolis, Indiana, see a “cigar-shaped object” like an airship pass over the city. It is seen first in Irvington and then floats over the southern side of the business district where it is distinctly seen from downtown. Some estimate it to be 2,000 feet in the air; the watchman at the courthouse tower looks at it through binoculars but cannot see any detail. It disappears to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Ship Founders in Air,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92061086/)” Indianapolis Star, September 17, 1906, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_262 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 458 (05ADDE89) Date: 10/7/1906 Description: 5:00 p.m. An airship again floats over the southeastern portion of Indianapolis, Indiana, and is seen by many as it turns northeast and disappears in the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Ship Floats over City: Hundreds See It in Flight](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25075407/the-indianapolis-star/),” Indianapolis Star, October 8, 1906, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_263 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 459 (1D1EE8D8) Date: 11/1906 Description: Dusk. Roy Russell and four other cotton-pickers are taking a brief respite from work 10 miles southeast of Anadarko, Oklahoma, when they see a fiery object shaped like a stovepipe. From an initial altitude of 60 feet, the object sinks down, comes toward them, and passes within 16 feet at eye level. Then it seems to flatten out and just blacks out. Another similar object follows and then several others. Russell watches them for 20 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Recalls](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92061376/) [Fiery 1906 U.F.O.,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92061376/)” Des Moines \(Iowa\) Tribune, May 4, 1966, p. 36 Source ID: Eberhart_264 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1907 (Back to Top) ### Event 460 (62C76432) Date: 4/20/1907 End date: 4/26/1907 Description: The Nashville American prints some tall tales about encounters with occupants of a balloon who land briefly in various places \(usually near a spring\) around central Tennessee. The witnesses include a farmer named W. A. Smith, Walter Stephenson, Herman Schubert, Asa Hickerson, and A. Mollycoddle. The aeronauts are dressed strangely, play music, and speak a foreign language. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nashville \(Tenn.\) Sunday American, April 21–23, 28, 1907; “[Here’s a Weird Tale,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95281356/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Enquirer, April 25, 1907, p. 6; Theo Paijmans, “The Tennessee Aeronaut Flap of 1907,” Fortean Times 313 \(May 2014\): 28–29 Source ID: Eberhart_265 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 461 (9DC332BF) Date: Summer 1907 Description: While playing along the shore of a lake near Vilppula \[now Mänttä-Vilppula\], Finland, a group of boys see a light come from over the water and settle on the beach nearby. A door opens, and human-like beings emerge, sending the youths running. Searchers who come to the site later find traces and footprints. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 261; Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1900-1909](http://www.cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1900-1909.pdf), p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_266 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 462 (19284D4C) Date: 7/2/1907 Description: Just before 12:00 noon. Bishop [John Stephen Michaud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FStephen%5FMichaud) is talking with Vermont ex-governor [Urban A.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%5FA.%5FWoodbury) [Woodbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%5FA.%5FWoodbury) at the corner of Church and College streets in Burlington, Vermont, when they hear a loud explosion and see a torpedo-shaped object about 6 feet long and 8 inches in diameter suspended in the air about 300 feet away. It is dark, with several tongues of flame issuing from it at various points, as if its covering is ruptured. It slowly begins to move to the southeast. The explosion has either knocked down or stunned a horse in College Street. A strong downpour of rain ensues shortly afterward. Although described as a “possible case of ball lightning,” the object appears more likely to have been an exploded balloon that someone has attached fireworks to in preparation for a Fourth of July celebration. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: William H. Alexander, “[A Possible Case of Ball Lightning,](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Monthly%5FWeather%5FReview/mMBGAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=William%2BH.%2BAlexander%2C%2B%E2%80%9CA%2BPossible%2BCase%2Bof%2BBall%2BLightning%2C%E2%80%9D%2BMonthly%2BWeather%2BReview&pg=PA310&printsec=frontcover)” Monthly Weather Review 35 \(July 1907\): 310–311; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 354–372, reprinted in “Revisiting the Bishop’s Torpedo,” Fortean Times 387 \(Christmas 2019\): 44–51 Source ID: Eberhart_267 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 463 (13259649) Date: 7/2/1907 Description: Burlington, Vermont. The Bishop John Michaud was standing on a Burlington street corner around 2 in the afternoon, engaged in a conversation with Ex-Governor Woodbury and Mr. A.A. Buell, when without warning they were startled by what sounded like a nearby explosion. Looking eastward along College Street they observed a torpedo-shaped object, some 300 feet away, hovering in the air about 50 feet over the tops of the buildings. It was estimated to be about 6 feet long and 8 inches in diameter. It was dark, with red flames being emitted from spots on the surface resembling unburnished copper. The object began to move slowly toward the south. As it moved the surface seemed to be rupturing in places, and through these ruptures came the intense red flames. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Fort, The Complete Books of Charles Fort. New York: Dover, 1974, pg. 292. Source ID: Johnson_3783 Source: Johnson ### Event 464 (217013E8) Date: 7/7/1907 Description: 6:40 p.m. W. E. Thomas is watching a vivid sunset in Phoenix, Arizona, when he sees a “blue disk floating in the heavens apparently close to the sun.” It passes in front of the sun, completely covering it. Other discs appear until there are seven of them. His wife also sees the objects, which are constantly in motion, changing directions and sometimes moving in a straight-line formation. The disks are visible for another hour until sunset, when they are last seen as blue blotches. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Phoenix Man Sees Blue Stars,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92063113/)” Tucson \(Ariz.\) Citizen, July 11, 1907, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_268 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1908 (Back to Top) ### Event 465 (46647B03) Date: 1908 Description: The English ship "Mohican," piloted by Capt. Urghart, was going to Philadelphia when it was surrounded by a thick, luminous cloud which "magnetized" everything on board. The compass was observed to swing wildly. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: At sea, DE Source ID: NICAP_DB_54 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 466 (B325551B) Date: 1908 Description: The English ship "Mohican," piloted by Capt. Urghart, was going to Philadelphia when it was surrounded by a thick, luminous cloud which "magnetized" everything on board. The compass was observed to swing wildly. When seamen tried to move some chains on the bridge, they found that they were glued to the metal floor. Suddenly the cloud rose and was seen above the sea for some time. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 197 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Coast of Delaware Source ID: Magnonia_34 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 467 (EBD22362) Date: 3/30/1908 Description: 10:15 p.m. F. W. Longbottom in Queens Park, Chester, England, is photographing the Whirlpool Galaxy \(NGC 5194\) in Canes Venacti with a 12.25-inch reflector. When the plate is developed, it shows an unknown nebulous object some 25 minutes of arc northeast of the galaxy. He does not see the object when he examines the same spot again on April 6. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: F. W. Longbottom, “[Comet or ———?](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101061668602&view=1up&seq=231&skin=2021)” The Observatory 31 \(1908\): 215–216 Source ID: Eberhart_269 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 468 (0E2E3B1C) Date: 5/1908 Description: Late evening. Helen C. Peterson sees a string of lighted beads in the sky over Great River, Long Island, New York. The first light stops and as the others reach it, they seem to bump into it. It grows a little bigger, appearing like a large star. Suddenly it begins to spin like a pinwheel, but without sparks. The motion stops and what looks like a very bright star takes off at great speed toward the southeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1168–1169 Source ID: Eberhart_270 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 469 (23A57164) Date: Summer 1908 Description: Repeated sightings of unidentified airships, sometimes flying against the wind, take place in Denmark. They usually have wings and searchlights; on one occasion, an antenna is seen jutting from the front end. Other reports are of oddly shaped clouds from which a searchlight emanates, sweeping the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Willy Wegner, “[The](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/UFO%20Register%20%28UK%20Contact%29/UFO%20Register%20-%20Vol%2008%20parts%201-2%201977.pdf) [Mystery ‘Airship’ over Denmark in 1908,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/UFO%20Register%20%28UK%20Contact%29/UFO%20Register%20-%20Vol%2008%20parts%201-2%201977.pdf)” The UFO Register 8, no. 1 \(November 1977\): 3–8; Clark III 1163 Source ID: Eberhart_272 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 470 (53A457C0) Date: 6/30/1908 Description: Tunguska event. Mainstream scientists generally hold that it was a comet or asteroid (in actuality a comet could not have survived to such low altitude, but a stony asteroid might have, but the radioactivity remains unexplained). (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Podkamennaia Tunguska, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_55 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 471 (8130FD80) Date: 6/30/1908 Description: On this morning at 7:17 a.m. the Tunguska, Russia explosion occurred in a remote region of the Siberian taiga, which brightened the pre-dawn sky as far away as London and had the equivalent energy of a 15 to 40-megaton nuclear explosion. Detailed scientific analysis shows that the object that caused the devastation exploded above an altitude of three miles and left an area of destruction for more than 850 square miles, in a heart-shaped pattern. It is widely thought to have been either an asteroid or comet impact, but it has sometimes been interpreted as the crash or mid-air explosion of an alien spaceship. Several anomalies still remain to be explained if the explosion was caused by a celestial body entering Earth's atmosphere. For example, why was radioactive Cesium 137 found in 1908 tree rings from the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: William R. Corliss, Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 281; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 63 Source ID: Johnson_3739 Source: Johnson ### Event 472 (D113F250) Date: 6/30/1908 Description: Unexplained explosion in the taiga, equivalent to a thermonuclear blast, sometimes interpreted as the crash of an interstellar vehicle. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Anatomy 18; Challenge 99 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Podkamennaia Toungouska, USSR Source ID: Magnonia_35 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 473 (497D0B8C) Date: 6/30/1908 Description: 7:14 a.m. A large explosion takes place near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate \[now Krasnoyarsk Krai\], Russia. Evenki natives and Russian settlers in the hills northwest of Lake Baikal observe a column of bluish light, nearly as bright as the sun, moving across the sky. About 10 minutes later, there is a flash and a sound similar to artillery fire. Eyewitnesses closer to the explosion report that the source of the sound moves from the east to the north of them. The sounds are accompanied by a shock wave that knocks people off their feet and breaks windows hundreds of kilometers away. The explosion over the sparsely populated eastern Siberian taiga flattens 770 square miles of forest and possibly causes up to three human casualties. The event is generally attributed to the air burst of a meteoroid. It is classified as an impact event, even though no impact crater has been found. The object disintegrates at an altitude of 3–6 miles rather than hitting the surface of the Earth. The area is so remote that the site is not inspected until 1927 by a team led by Russian mineralogist [Leonid Kulik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%5FKulik), who finds a zone about 5 miles across where trees are scorched and devoid of branches but still standing upright. More exotic explanations for the event include a black hole impact, antimatter, a UFO crash \(as recently as 2004 by Russian ufologist Yuri Labvin\), a nuclear explosion, and an inadvertent experiment by [Nikola Tesla](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nikola%5FTesla). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Tunguska event](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska%5Fevent)”; Hobana and Weverbergh 10–30; John Baxter and Thomas Atkins, [The Fire Came By: The](https://archive.org/details/firecamebyri00baxt%5F0) [Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion](https://archive.org/details/firecamebyri00baxt%5F0)[,](https://archive.org/details/firecamebyri00baxt%5F0) Doubleday, 1976; Surendra Verma, The Mystery of the Tunguska Fireball, Thriplow, 2005; Vladimir Rubtsov, The Tunguska Mystery, Springer, 2009; Phil Plait, “[Aliens Saved](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/aliens-saved-tunguska) [Tunguska!](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/aliens-saved-tunguska)” Bad Astronomy, May 29, 2009; Mark Peplow, “[Rock Samples Suggest Meteor Caused Tunguska](https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.13163) [Blast,](https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.13163)” Nature, June 10, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_271 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 474 (620979B1) Date: 7/25/1908 Description: About 6:00 p.m. A “large airship sailing very high” is seen passing from north to south over the Forestville neighborhood of Bristol, Connecticut. It seems to be an elongated gas bag under which a framework with a propeller is suspended. After “maneuvering” a while, it stops and circles over Lake Compounce then changes course toward the southwest. An East Bristol man named Wilson later claims it was a pig-shaped balloon he had sent up for his daughter’s birthday party, but “balloon” sightings continue in Massachusetts through December. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Large Airship Seen Sailing over East Part of Bristol, Ct.,” Boston Herald, July 26, 1908, p. 16; “The Lake Compounce Airship,” Willimantic \(Conn.\) Daily Chronicle, July 29, 1908, p. 26; Clark III 1163 Source ID: Eberhart_273 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 475 (2CEC2134) Date: 7/26/1908 Description: A special agent force in the Department of Justice, forerunner of the FBI, is created by Attorney General [Charles Bonaparte.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FJoseph%5FBonaparte) Its first chief is [Stanley Finch.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%5FFinch) Attorney General [George W. Wickersham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FW.%5FWickersham) renames the force the Bureau of Investigation in March 1909. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Federal Bureau of Investigation, [Timeline](https://www.fbi.gov/history/timeline)[,](https://www.fbi.gov/history/timeline) March 31, 2002 Source ID: Eberhart_274 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 476 (E46B19F9) Date: 10/1908 Description: Skipper J. H. Stockman of the smack Superb is fishing in the North Sea 35 miles out of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, when he sees a large “star” rise out of the water and approach his ship. He signals it with a red flare, and to his surprise he is immediately answered with a red flare above him. He then shows a white flare and receives a blue flare in response. The object appears sausage-shaped and carries a single light. It disappears in the direction of the Netherlands. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: East Anglian Daily Times, May 20, 1909; Norfolk News, May 22, 1909; Clark III 1163; David Clarke, “[Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm)” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\); Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1908-10-uk-lowestoft.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1908-10-uk-lowestoft.htm) August 17, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_275 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 477 (547F914D) Date: 10/1/1908 End date: 5/26/1927 Description: The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans. The relatively low price was partly the result of Ford’s efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual handcrafting. Type: industrial advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T) Source ID: Maj2_22 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1909 (Back to Top) ### Event 478 (33ED0B0D) Date: 1909 Description: Night. [Frederick G. Hehr](https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/frederick-g-hehr-as-a-fortean) sees a bright white light executing a “curious dance” over a village one mile away in East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany. A minute later the light suddenly streaks in his direction, coming within 300 feet as it passes by at 60 feet altitude. Three seconds later it is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 4, no. 5 \(July 1951\): 95–96; Clark III 1169 Source ID: Eberhart_276 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 479 (6832F030) Date: 2/25/1909 Description: On this night in Anderlues, Belgium a teacher sighted a 25-meter in diameter sphere glide down a road, and then turn and go down a small path. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: SOBEPS, case 163 Source ID: Johnson_1093 Source: Johnson ### Event 480 (58818D8C) Date: 3/4/1909 Description: 8:25 p.m. Charles Maberly, an organist at St. Michael’s Church in Lambourne, Berkshire, England, is returning home from choir practice when he sees a bright searchlight attached to a torpedo-shaped dirigible heading west at 200 feet altitude. He walks for about 50 yards watching it. As it passes out of sight, he hears three explosions at regular intervals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: London Evening News, May 18, 1909; Carl Grove, “[The Airship Wave of 1909:](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf) [A Preliminary Survey,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1970\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_277 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 481 (1C6648E6) Date: 3/23/1909 Description: 5:15 a.m. Police Constable James Kettle of Peterborough, England, sees a powerful light about 1,200 feet in the air above Cromwell Road making an engine-like buzz. The light is on a dark, fast-moving oblong object. It is in view for about 3 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Peterborough Advertiser, March 27, 1909; “[Aerial Mystery](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/thestandard17may1909.htm),” London Standard, May 17, 1909, p. 7; Carl Grove, “[The Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1970\): 9; David Clarke, “[Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm)” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\) Source ID: Eberhart_278 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 482 (4A24610F) Date: 3/23/1909 Description: An unidentified object with a very strong searchlight flew over Peterborough, England at 5:10 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 20; Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1960, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_1618 Source: Johnson ### Event 483 (82C811BE) Date: 4/24/1909 Description: At 9:20 in the morning a white ovoid shaped flying object was seen in the skies over Florence, Italy. Two men dressed in white suits were seen inside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 254 Source ID: Johnson_2270 Source: Johnson ### Event 484 (F80367F5) Date: 5/9/1909 Description: 11:20 p.m. Miss H. M. Boville notices from her bedroom window at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, a “large dark object looming out of the sky” and traveling slowly from the east. After a few seconds it remains nearly stationary for a few minutes in front of her window, and she sees the outline of a torpedo-shaped airship about 1,300 feet in altitude. It rises higher then travels swiftly to the west toward London. It shows two powerful searchlights at each end very briefly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: London Evening News, May 15, 1909; Carl Grove, “[The Airship Wave of](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf) [1909: A Preliminary Survey,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1970\): 10; David Clarke, “[Scareships](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm) [over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm)” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\) Source ID: Eberhart_279 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 485 (C86C27E3) Date: 5/9/1909 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a Mr. Cole sighted a large ovoid object over the city park in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It flashed its searchlight nine times, and then flew off quickly toward Peterborough. At 11:20 p.m. a witness named Boville in Shoeburyness, Essex, England said a torpedo-shaped airship flew silently to the west toward Southend-on-Sea. It hovered for four minutes, and emitted two strong beams. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_2672 Source: Johnson ### Event 486 (FAD8B924) Date: 5/12/1909 Description: A cigar-shaped airship with a searchlight was seen flying over Terrington Marsh, Norfolk, England at 9:45 p.m. It made a rattling motor sound and flew off to the north. It was back again at 10:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_2752 Source: Johnson ### Event 487 (A8D8FC49) Date: 5/13/1909 Description: 9:45 p.m. Fred Harrison of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England, sees a “long, dark object” moving swiftly overhead just above treetop level. It carries a searchlight that illuminates the road, farm buildings, trees, and everything it touches. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Mystery of the Air,” London Daily Express, May 14, 1909, p. 1; David Clarke, “[Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm)” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\) Source ID: Eberhart_281 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 488 (CCC95073) Date: 5/13/1909 Description: Night. C. W. Allen and two other men are motoring through Kelmarsh, Northampton, England, when they hear a loud explosion in the air followed by the rumbling of an engine. Allen sees an oblong dark shape, perhaps 100 feet long, with lights in front and behind moving at an altitude of 500–600 feet. They dimly perceive some men on a platform below it. It passes out of sight at 20 mph northeast toward Peterborough. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: East Anglian Daily Times, May 13, 1909; Carl Grove, “[The Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1970\): 11; David Clarke, “[Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm)” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\) Source ID: Eberhart_280 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 489 (5A4DEAE1) Date: 5/13/1909 Description: 9:45 PM. A cigar-shaped object illuminated the terrain brightly in King's Lynn. Looking up, he saw the airship-like object speed overhead, two men visible in an undercarriage, and disappear in the distance within a few minutes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: King's Lynn, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_56 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 490 (1B6F677B) Date: 5/13/1909 Description: There were several independent witnesses of a brightly illuminated, 80 to 100 foot long, dark airship, flying over King's Lynn, Norfolk, England at 9:45 p.m. Two men were visible in some sort of carriage underneath the object. The object travelled fast, made a whirring sound, and had a searchlight that lit up the road below it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_2788 Source: Johnson ### Event 491 (821854EB) Date: 5/14/1909 Description: On this night a witness named Egenes reported that a cigar-shaped object directed five beams of light at a ship's bridge off the coast of Blyth, Northumberland, England. It then shot away a mile to another ship, and did the same thing again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_2823 Source: Johnson ### Event 492 (04E5CDDE) Date: 5/15/1909 Description: Shortly after 1:00 a.m. two witnesses watched as a cigar-shaped object hovered still over Casnewydd, Wales. Two lights from the object scanned the Newport Bridge for 10 minutes, then it flew away. At 11:30 p.m. an observer on the shore in Lowestoft, Norfolk, England heard a motor sound, then watched a bottle-shaped object fly overhead. There was a pilot sitting in the front. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 17; Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Mysterious Visitors, p. 99; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 265, citing FSR, January 1971 Source ID: Johnson_2848 Source: Johnson ### Event 493 (F75A0560) Date: 5/16/1909 Description: At 1:00 a.m. five people driving in the mountains from Monmouth to Treginach, Gwent, Wales spotted a cigar-shaped object in the sky that maneuvered up and down and with turns. It seemed under perfect control, and had lights on the ends. At 7:45 p.m. a government inspector named Hervey in Broome, Suffolk, England reported that a cigar-shaped airship flew into a strong wind to the north-northeast toward Lowestoft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_2882 Source: Johnson ### Event 494 (A5F3A312) Date: 5/16/1909 Description: 1:30 a.m. A Mrs. Wigg, who lives near Belle Vue Park on Yarmouth Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, wakes up to an engine-like sound. She looks out her window and sees a long, dark, bottle-shaped object pass by at a low altitude. She thinks she can see a man in front, steering the craft. Other people in Lowestoft hear engine sounds and flashes of light around the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: East Anglian Daily Times, May 18–19, 1909; Norfolk News, May 19, 1909, p. 13; David Clarke, “[Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Casos%20OVNI%201909%2CAirship.htm)” Fortean Studies 6 \(1999\) Source ID: Eberhart_282 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 495 (61653DF9) Date: 5/17/1909 Description: At 10:00 p.m. many witnesses in Belfast, Northern Ireland observed a silent cigar-shaped flying object with a light that flashed several times. It rose higher and shot away to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_2913 Source: Johnson ### Event 496 (8A28A2F5) Date: 5/17/1909 Description: The subject of mystery airships is brought up in a debate in the House of Commons. [Arthur Fell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FFell), MP for Great Yarmouth, England, had asked Secretary of State for War [Richard Haldane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHaldane%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FHaldane) if he could give the number of dirigibles, either built or in progress of being built, in Germany. Haldane replies that 7 dirigible airships have been built and another 5 are under construction. [Horatio Myer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio%5FMyer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio%5FMyer) MP for Lambeth North, follows up by asking Haldane: “Will the honourable gentleman, in any report he may circulate, tell us about a certain dirigible supposed to be hovering about our coast?” The question is greeted with laughter and Haldane does not reply. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Neil R. Storey, Zeppelin Blitz: The German Air Raids on Great Britain during the First World War, History Press, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_283 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 497 (18F2336C) Date: 5/18/1909 Description: 11:00 p.m. Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road near the mountains when he saw on the grass a large tubelike machine. Aboard were two men wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not understand. The grass was found depressed at the site after the object had flown off. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caerphilly, Wales, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_58 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 498 (6F352AE2) Date: 5/18/1909 Time: 2300 Description: Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road near the mountains when he saw on the grass a large tubelike machine. Aboard were two men wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not understand. The grass was found depressed at the site after the object had flown off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 198; Anatomy 21 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Caerphilly, Wales Source ID: Magnonia_36 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 499 (20B1B831) Date: 5/18/1909 Description: Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road around 11 p.m. near the mountains in Caerphilly, Wales when he saw on the grass a large tube-shaped machine. Aboard the craft were two men wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not understand. There was a depression in the grass at the site after the object had flown off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 187; Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science, the UFO Enigma, p. 99 Source ID: Johnson_2949 Source: Johnson ### Event 500 (42010464) Date: 5/18/1909 Description: 11:00 p.m. Charles Lethbridge \(part-time dock worker and Punch-and-Judy showman\) is traveling on a “spring cart” from Senghenydd on his way home to Cardiff, South Wales. At the summit of Caerphilly Mountain he sees a long, tube-shaped object sitting on the grass by the roadside, with two men busily working on something. They are wearing heavy fur coats and fur caps that fit tightly over the heads. Lethbridge proceeds to about 60 feet of them when they notice him and start jumping up and jabbering in a foreign language. They quickly pick up something from the ground, then jump into a little carriage suspended from the object \(with wheels at the bottom\), which rises into the air in a zig-zag fashion. When it clears the telegraph wires, two electric lights shine out and the craft heads toward the southeast. Lethbridge returns to the site with a newspaper reporter and they find signs of trampling in the grass for about 45 feet. They also pick up a small red French military label, letterhead from a London stockbroker, many newspaper clippings with references to airships or the German army, and a tin box with paste for polishing metal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Airship Mystery,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31883490/1909-cardiff-mystery-airship/)” The Guardian \(London\), May 20, 1909, p. 7; “Mystery of the Air,” London Daily Express, May 20, 1909, p. 1; Nick Redfern, “[UFOs over Wales: A 1909 Wave,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/05/ufos-over-wales-a-1909-wave/)” Mysterious Universe, May 23, 2016; Brett Holman, “[What the Showman Saw,](https://airminded.org/2014/11/17/what-the-showman-saw/)” Airminded, November 17, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_284 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 501 (67953D5C) Date: 5/19/1909 Description: 11:30 p.m. A lone motorcyclist observes a glowing light traveling in a straight trajectory overhead near Wroxham, Norfolk, England. As it passes, the motorcycle headlight fails. It begins working again after the UFO passes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: East Anglian Daily Times, May 21, 1909; Norfolk News, May 22, 1909; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) [Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 1; Brett Holman, “[Saturday, May 22, 1909,](https://airminded.org/2009/05/22/saturday-22-may-1909/)” Airminded, May 22, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_286 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 502 (8F801B31) Date: 5/19/1909 Description: 1:15 a.m. Robert Westlake, railroad signalman at King’s Junction in the Queen Alexandra Dock at Cardiff, Wales, sees a cigar-shaped object flying swiftly at perhaps 2,600 feet and making a whizzing noise. It has two lights and is moving eastward. Some dock workers who are loading the SS Arndale also see the object for “a minute or two.” It passes over the Bristol Channel towards Weston-super-Mare. Aeronaut [Percival G. Spencer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival%5FG.%5FSpencer) says that he recently sold several of his “man-lifting” 25-foot-long model airships to advertising firms in the UK, one of them in Cardiff. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: London Globe, May 19, 1909; Brett Holman, “[Wednesday, 19 May 1909,](https://airminded.org/2009/05/19/wednesday-19-may-1909/)” Airminded, May 19, 1909; London Standard, May 21, 1909; Brett Holman, “[Friday, 21 May 1909,](https://airminded.org/2009/05/21/friday-21-may-1909/)” Airminded, May 21, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_285 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 503 (70FA2FA8) Date: 5/19/1909 Description: 12:00 midnight. A Mr. Chatten, grocer’s assistant, is cycling home to Tharston, Norfolk, England, when he is dazzled by a bright light with a bluish tinge overhead. It switches off for a few seconds, and Chatten can see a long, cigar-shaped object 300–400 feet above him, moving rapidly toward Norwich. On its underside is a framework with a yellow light at each end. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Airship Mystery,” London Daily Telegraph, May 21, 1909, p. 12; Brett Holman, “[Saturday, May 22, 1909,](https://airminded.org/2009/05/22/saturday-22-may-1909/)” Airminded, May 22, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_287 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 504 (1EE71119) Date: 5/19/1909 Description: At 1:15 a.m. several witnesses on the docks in Cardiff, Wales observed a cigar-shaped airship that curved up and down the coast, making a whirring sound. It was described at fast, with two lights. At 9:30 p.m. several observers in Pontypool, Wales saw a graceful cigar with a quivering light make a 90 degree turn to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, pp. 18, 21 Source ID: Johnson_2967 Source: Johnson ### Event 505 (52F39FB2) Date: 5/19/1909 Description: In Wroxham, Norfolk county, England a searchlight from a white globe of light traveling overhead in a straight trajectory caused the headlamp on a motorcycle to fail at 11:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: East Anglican Daily Times, May 21, 1909; Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 19; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_2968 Source: Johnson ### Event 506 (C6A246F1) Date: 6/16/1909 Description: An elongated object flew toward the east over the town of Donghoi at 4:10 a.m. in Vietnam. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two fishermen to plunge into the sea six kilometers away from the coast after a steady flight lasting about nine minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 21; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 187 Source ID: Johnson_3509 Source: Johnson ### Event 507 (A981D916) Date: 6/16/1909 Time: 0410 Description: An elongated object following a west to east trajectory flew over the town. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two fishermen to plunge into the sea 6 km away from the coast, after a steady flight of about 9 min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Anatomy 21 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Donghoi, Annam Source ID: Magnonia_37 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 508 (52BAF029) Date: 6/16/1909 Description: 4:10 a.m. An elongated object following a west to east trajectory flew over the town. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two fishermen to plunge into the sea 6 km away from the coast, after a steady flight of about 9 min. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Donghoi, Annam Source ID: NICAP_DB_61 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 509 (811D6FE6) Date: 7/1909 End date: 8/1909 Description: A mystery airship wave begins in New Zealand with numerous sightings of unusual nocturnal lights and airships seen in both daytime and nighttime. The sightings are at first most intense over the southern end of South Island. In the following weeks the reports appear to move northward and by August, Australia also falls under the grip of what press accounts call “aerialitis.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[Early Australian Historical Encounters,](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bcausenc.htm)” 1997; Tony Brunt, “[The New Zealand UFO Wave of 1909,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/the-new-zealand-ufo-wave-of-1909/)” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020; Clark III 65–67; Brett Holman, “[Scareships over Australia—1,](https://airminded.org/2010/10/20/scareships-over-australia-i/)” Airminded, October 20, 2010; Brett Holman, “[Scareships over Australia—II,](https://airminded.org/2010/10/23/scareships-over-australia-ii/)” Airminded, October 23, 2010; Brett Holman, “[Scareships over Australia—III,](https://airminded.org/2010/10/25/scareships-over-australia-iii-2/)” Airminded, October 25, 2010; Robert E. Bartholomew, “[The Great Zeppelin Scare of 1909,](https://skeptics.nz/journal/issues/47/the-great-zeppelin-scare-of-1909)” NZ Skeptics, May 1, 1998; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 479–483 Source ID: Eberhart_288 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 510 (99B5D5DE) Date: 7/23/1909 Description: 12:00 noon. Mrs. James Russell and several schoolchildren in Kelso, New Zealand, see an airship shaped like a boat that flies toward them from the east, circles above the school, and returns in the same direction. It seems to have a propeller. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[Early Australian Historical Encounters,](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bcausenc.htm)” 1997; Bryan Dickeson, “[The ‘1909](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/the-1909-kelso-airships-of-new-zealand/) [Kelso Airships’ of New Zealand,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/the-1909-kelso-airships-of-new-zealand/)” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_289 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 511 (620390C1) Date: 7/24/1909 Description: At Kaka Point, southwest of Riwaka, New Zealand six boys on the beach sighted a house-sized luminous dirigible-shaped airship at around 9:00 p.m. It glided and maneuvered near some rocks on the coast, zigzagged, rose and fell, then shot away to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 180; Xenolog, November 1975, p. 10; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 280, citing Bruce Cathie, Harmonic 33, p. 122 Source ID: Johnson_4340 Source: Johnson ### Event 512 (C32B35C2) Date: 7/27/1909 Description: At around ten o'clock in the morning a flying object shaped like a boat flew overhead toward the mountains in Lambourne, New Zealand. It dipped, swerved in the sky, and turned back. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Xenolog, November 1975, p. 12; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 180 Source ID: Johnson_4422 Source: Johnson ### Event 513 (06899312) Date: 7/30/1909 Description: At 3:00 a.m. several farmers in Greendale, New Zealand heard a rumbling sound. Horses out to pasture were spooked by an airship that flew low overhead. It had lights in the front and rear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, Issue 181 Source ID: Johnson_4497 Source: Johnson ### Event 514 (DE9F2D01) Date: 7/30/1909 Description: At 5:00 a.m. in the Waikaia Valley north of Gore, New Zealand two men witnessed a shell-shaped domed disc descend through the mist with a wobbling motion. Two human appearing occupants could be seen inside the clear dome. It circled, it ascended upwards, and flew off toward Otakarama. It had a yellow glow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Xenolog, December 1975, p. 12; Paul Norman, FSR, April 1977, p. 15; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_4498 Source: Johnson ### Event 515 (F3559582) Date: 7/30/1909 Description: 5:00 a.m. Two men working on a dredge on the Mataura River north of Gore, New Zealand, see a lighted object descend out of the mist. It appears to be a narrow, boat-shaped craft that circles the dredge over a period of several minutes, rising and falling like a bird, and varying its speed. Two figures can be seen inside. It disappears into the mist, leaving behind a yellow glare. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[Early Australian Historical Encounters,](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bcausenc.htm)” 1997; Tony Brunt, “[The New Zealand UFO Wave of 1909,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/the-new-zealand-ufo-wave-of-1909/)” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_290 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 516 (70C92348) Date: 7/31/1909 Description: In Greenvale, New Zealand a farmhand saw an "airship" about 150-feet long at dawn. It had a light at each end, and made a strange whirring noise that frightened the horses. A flying fuselage-shaped airship flew over Dunedin, New Zealand later that morning. A brilliant light shone from atop a mast antenna. That afternoon a dark, fat, cigar-shaped object flew over the hills around Fairfax, New Zealand. It had a box-shaped cabin on the bottom, center, and it flew on towards the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7, citing Matsura Ensign, August 1, 1909; Xenolog, December 1975, p. 14; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 181 Source ID: Johnson_4517 Source: Johnson ### Event 517 (55935083) Date: 8/2/1909 Description: In Oamaru, near Sumpter's Hill, Otago, New Zealand a large boat-shaped flying object with three lights was observed at 3:00 a.m., clearly illuminated by the moon. Two figures were visible inside the craft, and the object flew "at a fast rate." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_4587 Source: Johnson ### Event 518 (D6AA08C2) Date: 8/3/1909 Description: A dark silent cigar-shaped object flew slowly at a low altitude over Waihi, New Zealand at 8:30 p.m. It had windows on each side and an intense blue-green light in front. Later that same evening a man was thrown from his horse in Waipawa, New Zealand when a gray cigar or torpedo-shaped object hovered overhead and frightened the animal. Three human looking figures stood on deck, and one waved and shouted. The craft had lights at both ends. It rose to a higher altitude, circled, and then went behind hill. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Luminieres dans la Nuit, issue 181; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century [1900-1946], p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_4620 Source: Johnson ### Event 519 (8C110DCE) Date: 8/3/1909 Description: Night. A man is riding in Waipawa, New Zealand, when his horse becomes nervous. He sees a large, gray, torpedo-shaped object passing overhead. Three persons are visible in it, one of whom shouts to him in an unknown language. The object rises to a great height, showing lights fore and aft. After circling around, it disappears behind a hill. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 261; Hawkes Bay Herald, August 6, 1909; Tony Brunt, “[The New Zealand](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/the-new-zealand-ufo-wave-of-1909/) [UFO Wave of 1909,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/the-new-zealand-ufo-wave-of-1909/)” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_291 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 520 (3825559F) Date: 8/7/1909 Description: 10:30 p.m. Four young men at brick kilns near the railway station in Goulburn, New South Wales, see a bright, pale blue light arise from behind some hills to the east. After ascending, it circles back in the direction it came from. The object is said to be visible every night from August 5–10. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Goulburn ‘Airship,’](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15081292)” Sydney \(N.S.W.\) Morning Herald, August 11, 1909, p. 10; Bill Chalker, “[Historical Australian UFO Reports,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20Newsletter/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20newsletter%20vol%204%20no%203.pdf)” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3 \(Nov.–Dec. 1983\): 27 Source ID: Eberhart_292 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 521 (2CA17EE5) Date: 8/9/1909 Description: 7:30–8:00 p.m. A flying object with lights on its front and back sails at a great altitude from west to east over Concord, New Hampshire, eventually disappearing into a cloud. Capt. [Lyman Jackman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104299568/lyman-jackman) at first thinks it is a balloon, but its estimated speed of 45–50 mph against the wind leads him to think otherwise. \(“Air Ship or Meteor,” Concord \(N.H.\) Evening Monitor, August 10, 1909, p. 3\) At about the same time, Bertha Niles of Vale Perkins, Quebec, watches a similar lighted object moving west to east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Air Ship or What?” Concord \(N.H.\) Evening Monitor, August 13, 1909, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_293 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 522 (287E62DA) Date: 8/9/1909 Description: Night. Residents of Moss Vale, New South Wales, watch a large lighted object like an airship float over the town. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Is It an Airship?](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1511365)” Sydney \(N.S.W.\) Morning Herald, August 10, 1909, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_294 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 523 (59AFEB9E) Date: 8/13/1909 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a top-shaped object was observed through a night glass as it moved in a northerly direction over Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia. Its lower portion was lighted while the upper portion was dark, and as the body of the object revolved a light kept turning on to the terrain beneath. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8, citing Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_4957 Source: Johnson ### Event 524 (B1864F87) Date: 8/18/1909 Description: 2:30 a.m. Four men \(Capt. Edward P. Sisson, Ernest T. Newton, Prentice Lanphear, and Edward M. Knapp\) at the Coast Guard life-saving station on the south side of Fishers Island, New York, see a winged airship 60 feet long and 20 feet wide. Moving swiftly against the wind, it moves in from the northeast, its engines whirring and a dazzling white light at its head. Two dark figures can be seen in the center of the object. Visible for 3 minutes, the object moves off to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Fishers Islanders See Big Aeroplane,” Providence \(R.I.\) Journal, August 19, 1909, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_295 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 525 (FF0012AE) Date: 8/22/1909 Description: The night after a similar sighting, a torpedo shaped object with searchlights was seen again at ten p.m. in Colebrook, Tasmania, Australia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Roberts, Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_5214 Source: Johnson ### Event 526 (9F2BCA34) Date: 8/22/1909 Description: Evening. Residents of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, watch a mystery airplane that emits a large puff of smoke. It descends and flies off to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Airship over Montclair,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/08/24/101892917.pdf)” New York Times, August 24, 1909, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_296 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 527 (D8AA9EB7) Date: 9/1909 Description: 7:30 p.m. E. B. Hanna of South Windham, Connecticut, watches a high-flying, meandering “searchlight” along Windham Center Road for about an hour. After heading toward him, it changes direction and moves southward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “What Mr. Hanna Saw May Have Been the Worcester Airship,” Willimantic \(Conn.\) Chronicle, December 14, 1909, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_297 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 528 (1F8D38B0) Date: 9/3/1909 Description: 9:00 a.m. Several hundred residents of Bloomingdale, Indiana, see a “dirigible balloon” pass over the city for 15 minutes. The car beneath the gas bag is plainly visible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sights Strange Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92090779/)” Indianapolis Star, September 4, 1909, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_298 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 529 (0AC3DC56) Date: 9/20/1909 Description: During the opposition of Mars, astronomer [Eugène Antoniadi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%5FM.%5FAntoniadi) uses the 83cm aperture telescope at Meudon Observatory in Paris, France, to observe Mars. He sees no canals. The outstanding photos of Mars taken at the new Baillaud dome at the Pic du Midi Observatory in the French Pyrenees also bring formal discredit to the Martian canal theory, and the notion of canals begins to fall out of favor. Around this time, spectroscopic analysis also begins to show that no water is present in the Martian atmosphere. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Martian canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%5Fcanal)” Source ID: Eberhart_299 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 530 (A7228348) Date: 9/30/1909 Description: Evening. A balloon “supposed to be from Chicago” passes over Edinburgh, Indiana. Its anchor somehow gets entangled in high-tension wires of the traction station for the Indianapolis, Columbus, and Southern interurban rail. It moves south to Taylorsville a few minutes later, and it is so low to the ground that the occupants are able to talk to passersby. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Tramp Balloon Snaps Wires,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92091176/)” Indianapolis Star, October 1, 1909, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_300 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 531 (FC7743CC) Date: 10/1909 Description: 10:30 p.m. Rev. Ruth Smith and some church members are riding in a wagon in La Porte, Indiana, when the horses rear and a blinding light splashes across the road. A large structure resembling two inverted bowls, separated by a row of lights, is hovering, with several phosphorescent beams extending to the ground. It is encircled in a corona of light and begins moving slowly. After 15 minutes, it blinks out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lore and Deneault, [p.](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/96/mode/2up) [97](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/96/mode/2up); Clark III 1169 Source ID: Eberhart_301 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 532 (394A07BD) Date: 10/25/1909 Description: A blimp shaped aerial object was sighted over Minderoo Station in Western Australia on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_7108 Source: Johnson ### Event 533 (51F1CDC2) Date: 12/13/1909 Description: 10:00 p.m. A. W. Norris of Mabelvale, Arkansas, sees a bright, bobbling light moving through the air about 300 feet above him from the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Airship Flies near Little Rock, Perhaps,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92091497/)” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, December 15, 1909, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_302 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 534 (F5EDBCB0) Date: 12/22/1909 Description: 6:30 p.m. Many residents of Worcester, Massachusetts, see a “brilliant ray” emitted by a large black object 1,000 feet high in the southwestern sky. After circling over the town, the object heads to the west, where it is seen over Marlboro. It returns to Worcester between 7:00 and 7:30 p.m., flying at low altitude and sporting a searchlight. One policeman thinks he sees enormous wings; others detect one or two figures inside. The airship is attributed to a Worcester businessman named [Wallace E. Tillinghast,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace%5FTillinghast) who has told the Boston Herald on December 12 that he has invented a heavier-than-air monoplane and has made more than 100 test flights at night to Boston and New York City. But Tillinghast never offers his aircraft for public viewing, and people gradually realize it is a hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Tells of Flight 300 Miles in Air,” Boston Herald, December 13, 1909, p. 1; “[Airship Seen in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92091755/) [Two Cities,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92091755/)” Boston Globe, December 23, 1909, p. 1; Clark III 1165; Stephen Whalen and Robert E. Bartholomew, “[The Great New England Airship Hoax of 1909,](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1559788)” New England Quarterly 75, no. 3 \(September 2002\) :466–376; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 483–486 Source ID: Eberhart_303 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 535 (EC10B78D) Date: 12/22/1909 Description: "Mysterious Airship" emitting a bright beam of light appeared moving SE to NW, hovered over city, moved away. Seen again two hours later; hovered, moved away to south and turned east. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Worcester, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_62 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 536 (9DB05E3C) Date: 12/23/1909 Description: 10:00 p.m. Thousands of citizens of Boston, Massachusetts, and neighboring communities see an airship with lights flying at an altitude of around 400 feet. Alex Randall of Revere reports wings, tail, and propeller, but other observers only see a cylindrical shape at most. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Skyship of Mystery Flies above Boston,” Boston Journal, December 24, 1909, p.1; Clark III 1165 Source ID: Eberhart_304 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 537 (E238B45A) Date: 12/24/1909 Description: In Providence, Rhode Island, author [H. P. Lovecraft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FP.%5FLovecraft) sees what people are claiming is Tillinghast’s airplane bearing a powerful searchlight, but he identifies it as the planet Venus. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “City Is Airship Mad,” Providence \(R.I.\) Journal, December 25, 1909, p. 2; “Providence Men See Searchlight in Sky,” Providence \(R.I.\) Journal, December 25, 1909, p. 14; H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays, Volume 3: Science, ed. S. T. Joshi, Hippocampus, 2005, p. 99; Clark III 1165 Source ID: Eberhart_305 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1910 (Back to Top) ### Event 538 (360F5AB6) Date: 1/1910 Description: 11:00 p.m. Several witnesses among them the vicar, the Mayor, and a policeman saw a cigar-shaped object hovering at 30 m altitude. A man appeared at a lateral door and was heard shouting some words in an unknown language. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Invercargill, New Zealand, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_63 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 539 (116FBC29) Date: 1/1910 Time: 2300 Description: Several witnesses among them the vicar, the Mayor, and a policeman -saw a cigar-shaped object hovering at 30 m altitude. A man appeared at a lateral door and was heard shouting some words in an unknown language. The opening closed, and the object accelerated and was lost to sight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Stuart 24 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Invercargill, New Zealand Source ID: Magnonia_38 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 540 (032CCC88) Date: 1/12/1910 Description: 4:30 p.m. An unknown airship flies high over Huntsville, Alabama, against the wind, from southwest to northeast, disappearing over the crest of Chapman Mountain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Strange Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92092987/)” Huntsville \(Ala.\) Journal, January 13, 1910, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_307 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 541 (A67DE792) Date: 1/12/1910 Description: 9:30 a.m. An unknown cigar-shaped aircraft is seen moving over Chattanooga, Tennessee, to the northeast. It returns on January 13. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Airship in the Air,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92092637/)” Chattanooga \(Tenn.\) Daily Times, January 13, 1910, p. 7; “[Another Airship Flying,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92092750/)” Chattanooga \(Tenn.\) Daily Times, January 14, 1910, p. 6; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1910-01-13-usa-chattanooga.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1910-01-13-usa-chattanooga.htm) February 20, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_306 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 542 (0128A873) Date: 1/13/1910 Description: Several thousand people in Chattanooga, Tennessee watched a white cigar-shaped object that passed rapidly over the city at around 11:00 a.m. at 500 to 1,000 feet altitude. It disappeared into a bank of smoke along the river. "Flags on the custom house hung limp [so the wind]…would not have propelled a...balloon." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 61; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_291 Source: Johnson ### Event 543 (603BCA5A) Date: 1/14/1910 Description: 6:55 p.m. Two men on Summit Hill in Knoxville, Tennessee, see a large airship moving south. Its outlines are distinct. The men hear a hum of machinery and see sparks from “its motors.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Positive That They Saw an](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92093414/) [Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92093414/)” Knoxville \(Tenn.\) Journal, January 15, 1910, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_308 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 544 (27034C70) Date: Summer 1910 Description: Night. Carl H. Darden is riding near Vernal, Utah, when he notices that his horse is acting strangely. He dismounts and walks the horse into a clearing, where he sees a row of lights a few feet above the ground. They are attached to a huge, hovering disc. After watching it a while, he steps toward it, and it makes a buzzing sound as if in warning. As he advances, it rises slowly into the sky until it reaches an altitude of several hundred feet, when it suddenly streaks off to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1169 Source ID: Eberhart_310 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 545 (F1C1345C) Date: Summer 1910 Description: A man on horseback at night dismounted when his horse became disturbed, and walked to the edge of a clearing in the woods. There he saw a low-hovering disc with a row of lights. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vernal, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_64 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 546 (7D48A25C) Date: Summer 1910 Description: Morning. Lawrence J. Crone is playing on a baseball field in the Violetville neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, when he sees a metallic, brown, blimplike object, more than 100 feet long, hovering above a pine tree 200 feet away. It has a row of colored, rectangular windows. Through one he can see as many as 20 strange entities taking turns looking at him. Their heads are pointed, and they are dressed in light-colored garments with a fur-like texture. Each has small dots for eyes and a slit for a mouth. Two other young men also see the object and are badly frightened. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1910-usa-violetville.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1910-usa-violetville.htm) February 20, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_309 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 547 (921DCE27) Date: 8/12/1910 Description: At around midnight in the South China Sea a bright spinning wheel was see in the ocean, close to surface by four members of the crew of the Dutch ship S. S. Valentijn. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 265; Flying Saucers magazine, June 1970, p. 8, citing National Fisherman, May 1967; Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_4927 Source: Johnson ### Event 548 (7118453C) Date: 8/30/1910 Description: A long black object circled buildings in downtown Manhattan around Madison Square Park in New York City, New York making an engine sound at 8:45 p.m. There were hundreds of witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Keel, FSR, May 11, 1970; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 120; Ralph Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 60 Source ID: Johnson_5483 Source: Johnson ### Event 549 (82559B9D) Date: 9/22/1910 Description: On this evening a UFO landed remotely at the Dunkirk Waterworks in Chautauqua County, New York. It was witnessed by a Mr. D. Ready. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, citing FSR, May-June 1970, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_6216 Source: Johnson ### Event 550 (964C60C1) Date: 10/25/1910 Description: 5:30 p.m. A mystery airship is seen at Minderoo Station, Western Australia, by Mrs. A. J. Roe, wife of the station manager. She says it “looked compact, like a dirigible balloon, but it appeared to be squarer and more like an aeroplane. The sun shone on it, and flashes came from it, as though reflected from something revolving, or from metal work.” Three station hands also see the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mysterious Airship Sighted at Onslow,](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15192789)” Sydney \(N.S.W.\) Morning Herald, December 5, 1910, p. 9; Bill Chalker, “[Early Australian Historical Encounters,](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bcausenc.htm)” 1997; Brett Holman, “[Scareships over Australia—IV,](https://airminded.org/2010/10/27/scareships-over-australia-iv/)” Airminded, October 27, 2010 Source ID: Eberhart_311 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 551 (7C8E1215) Date: 10/27/1910 Description: A cigar-shaped object with red and green lights on the rear and a bright headlight flew overhead on this morning in Swift Current, Saskachewan, Canada at an estimated altitude of 600 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_7177 Source: Johnson ### Event 552 (8B854275) Date: 10/27/1910 Description: 1:10 a.m. An airship with a powerful headlight and red and green taillights is seen flying at 600 feet above Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Observers at Irvine, Alberta, see it at 4:45 a.m. going west. It is also seen at Medicine Hat, Alberta, flying southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unknown Aeronaut in Alberta,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100695931/)” Calgary \(Alberta\) Herald, October 27, 1910, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_312 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 553 (1C990269) Date: 10/29/1910 Description: 5:30 a.m. Two objects flying at a great altitude are seen over East Providence, Rhode Island, by newspaper workers and others up early. They are too distant to be recognized as dirigibles or balloons, but they resemble luminous pumpkins. One is far ahead of the other, but both are “cutting pigeon wings, looping aerial loops, circling and diving like birds and generally doing skylark stunts.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Aviators Seen High Up in Air near City,” Providence Journal, October 30, 1910, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_313 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1911 (Back to Top) ### Event 554 (9E1EBA16) Date: 1/9/1911 Description: Harvard astronomer [William H. Pickering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FHenry%5FPickering) tells the Boston Post that he believes Venus is populated by “huge monsters and lizards such as roamed the earth ages ago.” He adds that “If human life exists on Venus, the people do not live as we do.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Olden Monsters Inhabit Venus?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92094291/)” Chicago Tribune, January 9, 1911, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_314 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 555 (CC257A6C) Date: 5/5/1911 Description: 5:00 p.m. William Nixon is working at his father’s sawmill 18 miles from St. George, Queensland, Australia, when he sees a flying machine carrying two men, one of whom is dressed in dark clothing. He estimates it is traveling from south to northwest at about 1,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mysterious Airships,](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/26340141)” Perth West Australian, May 15, 1911, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_315 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 556 (52B2F696) Date: 7/22/1911 Description: Evening. A ball of fire the size of the full moon is seen for several hours at Durango, Colorado. For a time it grows even larger, then diminishes in size until it disappears entirely. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Large Ball of Fire Is Seen in the Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100814091/)” Reno \(Nev.\) Evening Gazette, July 25, 1911, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_316 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 557 (D21A7724) Date: 8/3/1911 Description: 9:00 p.m. [Adam H. McCullough](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114293354/adam-hale-mccullough) and his wife [Carrie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114293216/carrie-a-mccullough) are driving on Brinkerhoff Avenue in Mansfield, Ohio, when they notice a light, as brilliant as an arc light, in the northern sky. It has an apparent size of 6 inches and looks to be about 50 feet up. It remains visible for several minutes then fizzles out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100820908/) [Phenomenon,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100821009/)” Mansfield \(Ohio\) News, August 4, 1911, p. 10 Source ID: Eberhart_317 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1912 (Back to Top) ### Event 558 (E4068BE2) Date: 3/6/1912 Description: A "splendidly lit craft" passed over Warmley Village, Bath, England at eight o'clock in the evening. It flew very fast to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 249; Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_1327 Source: Johnson ### Event 559 (B01151AD) Date: 4/8/1912 Description: Sunset. Charles Tilden Smith at Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England, observes the apparent fan-shaped shadow of a stationary object 45° in the sky against the altostratus cloud layer. The dark patch remains stationary against the moving clouds and is visible for 30 minutes. Meteorologist [Charles John Philip Cave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FJohn%5FPhilip%5FCave) suspects the object is a pilot balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles Tilden Smith, “[Clouds and Shadows,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001485680&view=1up&seq=176&skin=2021)” Nature 89 \(1912\): 168; Charles J. P. Cave, “[Clouds](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001485680&view=1up&seq=276&skin=2021) [and Shadows,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001485680&view=1up&seq=276&skin=2021)” Nature 89 \(1912\): 268 Source ID: Eberhart_318 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 560 (E431ADBD) Date: 4/15/1912 Description: Sinking of the Titanic Type: disaster Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Titanic) Source ID: Maj2_23 Source: Maj2 ### Event 561 (F9466E0E) Date: Fall 1912 Description: About 2:30 p.m. C. F. Rowling, 15, and two friends see three perfectly round, pale-green objects less than a mile away in the northern sky over Alameda, California. They are traveling in parallel with the horizon in a vertical formation \(one atop the other\) and heading west. They are completely silent and 75–100 feet in diameter. He watches them for 10 seconds before they pass behind some trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1170 Source ID: Eberhart_319 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 562 (E6F848D8) Date: 10/14/1912 Description: 7:00 p.m. Noise from an unseen aircraft startles the residents of Sheerness, Kent, England. Nearby at Eastchurch, residents light flares to guide the craft in case it needs to land. The incident comes up in a debate in Parliament on November 21. MP [William Joynson-Hicks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJoynson-Hicks%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FBrentford) asks First Lord of the Admiralty [Winston Churchill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%5FChurchill) whether the government has any zeppelins capable of traveling at 60 mph, but Churchill answers no. However, some authorities conclude that the incident is caused by the intrusion of the [LZ 13](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ%5F13%5FHansa) [Hansa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ%5F13%5FHansa) Zeppelin over British airspace. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Alleged Visit of a Foreign Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92094843/)” London Times, November 22, 1912, p. 8; Brett Holman, “[The](https://airminded.org/2007/10/14/the-sheerness-incident/) [Sheerness Incident,](https://airminded.org/2007/10/14/the-sheerness-incident/)” Airminded, October 14, 2007; Brett Holman, “[Secrets of the German Aërial Fleet—I,](https://airminded.org/2013/05/29/secrets-of-the-german-aerial-fleet-i/)” Airminded, May 29, 2013; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 486–487; UFOFiles2, [p. 6](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n15/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_320 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1913 (Back to Top) ### Event 563 (E95754F5) Date: 1/4/1913 Description: 5:00 a.m. Council worker John Hobbs hears aerial motors at Dover, England, and sees a light speeding toward him from the sea in a northeasterly direction. It is moving steadily despite a gale-force wind. Two other people, tradesman Mr. Langley and Police Constable Pierce, hear the noise but do not see the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unknown](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92106401/) [Aircraft over Dover,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92106401/)” London Times, January 6, 1913, p. 6; “Mysterious Airship,” London Daily Telegraph, January 6, 1913; Brett Holman, “[Monday, 6 January 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/01/06/monday-6-january-1913/)” Airminded, January 6, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_321 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 564 (D2B256FF) Date: 1/4/1913 Description: An airship with lights was spotted by three witnesses including police as it flew over Dover, Kent, England southeast toward the sea; "motors" were heard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lucius Farish, newspaper clipping, January 6, 1913; Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_80 Source: Johnson ### Event 565 (9BDD263A) Date: 1/6/1913 Description: 10:00 p.m. Two lights “thought to be the lamps of an airship” maneuver in the sky over Lavernock Battery, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Mystery Airships,” London Daily Express, January 7, 1913, p. 5; Brett Holman, “[Friday, 10 January 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/01/10/friday-10-january-1913/)” Airminded, January 10, 1913 Source ID: Eberhart_322 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 566 (35EBC3EC) Date: 1/17/1913 Description: 4:45 p.m. Capt. [Lionel Lindsay](https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/7295), chief constable of Glamorganshire, watches a large, fast-moving object above Cardiff, Wales, leaving in its wake a dense volume of smoke. Other witnesses see the light moving west from Cardiff at considerable speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[An Airship over Cardiff,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92106660/)” London Times, January 21, 1913, p. 10; Brett Holman, “[Tuesday, 21 January 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/01/21/tuesday-21-january-1913/)” Airminded, January 21, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_323 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 567 (7270B55D) Date: 1/25/1913 Description: 7:00–8:30 p.m. Several people see a mysterious aircraft over the Clubmoor neighborhood of Liverpool, England. It is traveling about 25 mph and carries a brilliant light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Aircraft over Liverpool,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92106821/)” London Times, January 28, 1913, p. 13; Brett Holman, “[Tuesday, 28 January 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/01/28/tuesday-28-january-1913/)” Airminded, January 28, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_324 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 568 (2D940EFC) Date: 1/25/1913 Description: 8:25 p.m. Villagers of Chancery, Ceredigion, Wales, watch a mystery airship with searchlights that turns south and leaves in the direction of Carmathenshire. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Mystery Airship,” London Daily Express, January 30, 1913, p. 1; Brett Holman, “[Thursday, 30 January 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/01/30/thursday-30-january-1913/)” Airminded, January 30, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_325 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 569 (127A7AA6) Date: 1/27/1913 Description: 9:00 p.m. A resident of Stretford, Greater Manchester, England, sees an aircraft “like a huge ball” passing silently overhead in a southerly direction. He estimates its speed at 40 mph and its altitude as 700 feet. It has a yellowish light that later turns light red. When it is over Eccles, it turns westward in the direction of Liverpool. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Is It a German Airship?” London Daily Express, January 31, 1913, p. 5; Brett Holman, “[Friday, 31 January](https://airminded.org/2013/01/31/friday-31-january-1913/) [1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/01/31/friday-31-january-1913/)” Airminded, January 31, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_326 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 570 (30570B3C) Date: 1/29/1913 Description: 8:00 p.m. An airplane with a powerful searchlight is seen over Iași, Romania, coming from the direction of Russia. It maneuvers over the town for 10 minutes and then moves toward the barracks. Troops are mustered out and signals are given for the aviator to land. Two warning shots are fired, but the lights go out and the object disappears. Other mystery aircraft are seen this month at military barracks in Focşani, Brăila, and Târgovişte. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [\(“‘Russian Aeroplane’ Scare in Roumania,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92106958/)” Manchester Guardian, January 31, 1913, p. 9; Romania 8–9\) Source ID: Eberhart_327 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 571 (4A2427D8) Date: 2/1/1913 Description: Evening. A Russian airplane equipped with a searchlight is seen maneuvering over Lvov, Ukraine. Another mystery plane, making signals, is spotted over Ternopil, Ukraine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: London Globe, February 4, 1913, p. 3; “Airplane Fired at,” London Daily Express, February 3, 1913, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_328 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 572 (07FED8E7) Date: 2/2/1913 Description: 7:30 p.m. Police Constable Church at Aberavon, Wales, watches an airship flying for an hour over Swansea Bay and the Mumbles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Another Mysterious Airship,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92107029/)” London Times, February 3, 1913, p. 6; Brett Holman, “[Monday, 3 February 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/02/03/monday-3-february-1913/)” Airminded, February 3, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_329 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 573 (0753CD89) Date: 2/2/1913 Description: 8:45 p.m. Mr. Trubshaw of East Croydon, England, sees an airship come in from the southeast and disappear rapidly to the northwest. Rays of light stream from it on the right and the left and downward. Others see the object, said to be moving with the wind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Mysterious Fly-by-Night,” London Daily Express, February 3, 1913, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_330 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 574 (634750EB) Date: 2/2/1913 Description: 9:25 p.m. Robert Lawrence Thornton sees an airship pass over his house in Framfield, East Sussex, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Mystery Airships,” London Daily Express, February 4, 1913, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_331 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 575 (BDE480DB) Date: 2/5/1913 Description: Evening. Numerous witnesses in Newport, Cardiff, and Neath, South Wales, watch a “dirigible” carrying a bright light pass in a northwesterly direction. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The ‘Mysterious Airship,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92107322/)” Manchester Guardian, February 6, 1913, p. 9; Brett Holman, “[Thursday, 6 February 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/02/06/thursday-6-february-1913/)” Airminded, February 6, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_332 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 576 (41D45223) Date: 2/9/1913 Description: At 9:02 p.m. a formation of lights resembling an express train in the sky was seen over Eesterhazy, Mortlach and other parts of southeastern Saskatchewan. It emerged from the northwest, and continued across the sky in several successions for more than three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: William R. Corliss & Jerome Clark, UFO Calendar 1999; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 42; citing Sky & Telescope; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 283, citing The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1913, p. 145 Source ID: Johnson_766 Source: Johnson ### Event 577 (CDC1CEC7) Date: 2/9/1913 Description: 9:00 p.m. An earth-grazing meteor procession is seen from locations across Canada, the northeastern United States, and Bermuda, and from many ships at sea, including eight off Brazil, giving a total recorded ground track of over 7,000 miles. The meteors are particularly unusual in that there is no apparent radiant—no point in the sky from which the meteors appear to originate. Witnesses are surprised to see a procession of between 40 and 60 bright, slow-moving fireballs moving from horizon to horizon in a practically identical path. Individual fireballs are visible for at least 30 to 40 seconds, and the entire procession takes some 5 minutes to cross the sky. Subsequent observers also note a large, white, tailless body bringing up the rear, but the various bodies making up the procession continue to disintegrate and travel at different rates throughout their course, so that by the time observations are made in Bermuda, the leading bodies are described as “like large arc lights in appearance, slightly violet in colour,” followed closely by yellow and red fragments. Research carried out in the 1950s by [Alexander D. Mebane](https://rr0.org/people/m/MebaneAlexander/) uncovers a handful of reports from newspaper archives in the northern United States. At Escanaba, Michigan, the Press states the “end of the world was apprehended by many” as numerous meteors travel across the northern horizon. In Batavia, New York, a few observers see the meteors and many people hear a thundering noise, while other reports are made in Nunda and Dansville, New York \(where several residents again think the world is ending\) and Osceola, Pennsylvania. The observations are analyzed in detail later in 1913 by the astronomer [Clarence Chant,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%5FChant) leading him to conclude that as all accounts are positioned along a great circle arc, the source is a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. One curious feature of the reports, highlighted by Mebane, is that several appear to indicate a second meteor procession on the same course around 5 hours later, although the Earth’s rotation means that there is no obvious mechanism to explain this. One observer, A. W. Brown from Thamesville, Ontario, reports seeing both the initial meteor procession and a second one on the same course at 2:20 a.m. the next day. Chant’s original report also refers to a series of three groups of “dark objects” that pass on the same course as the previous meteors from west to east over Toronto on the afternoon of February 10, which he suggests are “something of a meteoric nature.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1913 Great Meteor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913%5FGreat%5FMeteor%5FProcession) [Procession](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913%5FGreat%5FMeteor%5FProcession)”; Clarence A. Chant, “[An Extraordinary Meteoric Display,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000089857886&view=1up&seq=173&skin=2021)” Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 7 \(1913\): 145–191; Alexander D. Mebane, “[Observations of the Great Fireball Procession of](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1956Metic...1..405M) [1913 February 9, Made in the United States,](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1956Metic...1..405M)” Meteoritics 1, no. 4 \(1956\): 406–421; Condon, [pp. 570–571](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/570/mode/2up); Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 31–35; “[Sample Press](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr12.pdf) [Coverage of the 1913 Meteor Procession,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr12.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 \(September 2006\): 7; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 383–385 Source ID: Eberhart_333 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 578 (780BC264) Date: 2/21/1913 Description: Evening. An airship is seen at several locations around Selby, North Yorkshire, England. It alternately flies and hovers, flashing a searchlight and skirting the roofs of houses before vanishing to the north at “great speed.” At one point a group of businessmen waiting for a train at the Church Fenton railway station are treated to the sight of a powerful searchlight running along the tracks. Other witnesses hear the whir of motors as the vehicle passes by. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Fly-by-Night,” London Daily Express, February 24, 1913, p. 7; “Night Raids by Air,” London Daily Express, February 25, 1913, p. 1; Brett Holman, “[Monday, 24 February 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/02/24/monday-24-february-1913/)” Airminded, February 24, 2013; Brett Holman, “[Tuesday, 25 February 1913](https://airminded.org/2013/02/25/tuesday-25-february-1913/),” Airminded, February 25, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_334 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 579 (D214C770) Date: 2/25/1913 Description: 8:00 p.m. Coast guards at Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, see a bright light traveling to the west and report it to the Admiralty. [Roberrt Falconer Jameson](http://george-powell.co.uk/family/1395.htm) watches it through binoculars and sees that the lights are attached to a cone-shaped craft. A little later, the object appears over Hull, seen by crowds in the city center and Paragon Interchange for over an hour. It alters its course frequently and hovers occasionally. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Airship Mystery,” London Daily Telegraph, February 26, 1913, p. 11; Brett Holman, “[Wednesday, 26 February 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/02/25/tuesday-25-february-1913/)” Airminded, February 26, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_335 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 580 (72FC9E23) Date: 2/28/1913 Description: At 8:15 p.m. the trawler S.S. Othello was returning to port of was 120 miles from the coast of Humberside, England in the North Sea when an airborne object with a powerful searchlight dipped down from the night sky and circled the trawler twice at the height of the ship's masthead, with the searchlight focused on the ship. The UFO made a whirring sound as it flew. The main witness was named Parker. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hull Daily Mail, March 4, 1913; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_1171 Source: Johnson ### Event 581 (424AD3D4) Date: 3/13/1913 Description: 6:00 p.m. Two women walking along a forest road by the Schwielowsee between Caputh and Ferch, Brandenburg, Germany, observe an airship catch fire and explode. The fire brigades of three villages, 40 riflemen from a local garrison, and several police officers and medical attendants rush to the scene. They search the woods south of Potsdam until early morning but find nothing. Though the women are considered trustworthy, they are accused later of hoaxing the report. Later, airman Lt. Zwickau claims that he was firing rockets while flying from Leipzig to Döberitz in order to see his way in the night. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “An Airship Catastrophe near Potsdam?” Berliner Tageblatt, March 13, 1913, p. 3; “The Tale of the Airship,” Berliner Tageblatt, March 13, 1913, p. 4; “Phantom Airships,” London Daily Telegraph, March 14, 1913, p. 15; “[Mysterious Airship near Berlin,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92118298/)” Manchester Guardian, March 14, 1913, p. 8; Brett Holman, “[Friday, 14 March 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/03/14/friday-14-march-1913/)” Airminded, March 14, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_336 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 582 (20FC6B4B) Date: 4/8/1913 Description: 8:23 p.m. An airship reappears over Cardiff, Wales, once again seen traveling at high speed to the southwest by Chief Constable [Lionel Lindsay](https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/7295). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Cardiff Aerial Mystery Again,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92118519/)” Manchester Guardian, April 9, 1913, p. 9; Brett Holman, “[Wednesday, 9 April 1913,](https://airminded.org/2013/04/09/wednesday-9-april-1913/)” Airminded, April 9, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_337 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 583 (66EDFD9B) Date: 5/1913 Alternate date: 5/1914 Description: Morning. [Silbie J. Latham,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40678857/silbie-j-latham) 12, is working with his brothers [Sid](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40678906/sid-latham) and [Clyde](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35653494/clyde-latham) on a cotton farm 2.5 miles west of Farmersville, Texas. Their two dogs, on the other side of a picket fence 50–75 feet away, begin barking and howling. The boys stop work and go to investigate. They see a little man, dark green in color and 18 inches high, who “looked like he was sitting on something.” His arms are hanging down by his sides. He has a Mexican-looking hat on, but no other clothes. Right after the boys get there, the two dogs jump him and tear him to pieces. Blood and internal organs spew out, but it doesn’t cry out. The boys go back and check the spot the next day, but the remains are gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1913-05-usa-farmersville.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1913-05-usa-farmersville.htm) October 19, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_338 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 584 (565501E3) Date: 6/29/1913 Description: Sunset. An aerial object passes over Lansing, Michigan, from southeast to northwest at a great height. It moves swiftly, taking only 3 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Strange Aircraft Passes over Lansing at Great Rate of Speed Sunday,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10767547/lansing-state-journal/)” Lansing \(Mich.\) State Journal, June 30, 1913, p. 3; Clark III 1167 Source ID: Eberhart_339 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 585 (19618F5B) Date: 10/1913 Description: Swiss astronomer Fritjof Le Coultre at the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland reports seeing “bluish-white flashes” on Mars for 17 consecutive nights. Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, also observes them. However, astronomer [Guillaume Bigourdan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume%5FBigourdan) at the Paris Observatory thinks the flashes are merely “auto- suggestion.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Is Mars Trying to Signal Us?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92119005/)” Santa Cruz \(Calif.\) Evening News, November 24, 1913, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_340 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1914 (Back to Top) ### Event 586 (912F76A7) Date: 1914 Description: 3:00 p.m. Hans M. Schnitzler, 7, is sitting in his front yard in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, when he hears a musical humming sound and sees a 30-foot domed object about 25 feet away hovering about 10 feet above the ground across the street in front of a church. An opening appears and eight small entities emerge and begin singing a melody over and over again. Then they return inside. The object rises slowly and disappears behind the church. He remembers the melody and plays it on his harmonica years later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 6 \(Dec. 1982/Jan. 1983\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_341 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 587 (8CF367D4) Date: 1/1/1914 Description: The world’s first scheduled passenger airline service took off from St. Petersburg, FL and landed at its destination in Tampa, FL, about 17 miles (27 kilometers) away. The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line was a short-lived endeavor — only four months — but it paved the way for today’s daily transcontinental flights. Type: aerospace Reference: [link](https://www.space.com/16657-worlds-first-commercial-airline-the-greatest-moments-in-flight.html) Location: St. Petersburg, FL Source ID: Maj2_24 Source: Maj2 ### Event 588 (DEC46897) Date: 3/1914 Description: Twilight. A farmer is returning to his house at Lajoumard, Haute-Vienne, France, when he sees a round, green, luminous object hovering just above a hilltop. Several small beings emerge, walk around the machine, and go back inside. The object takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1914-03-france-lajoumard.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1914-03-france-lajoumard.htm) March 3, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_342 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 589 (63531413) Date: 6/1914 Description: 4:00 a.m. Gustav Herwagen sees a cigar-shaped object with luminous portholes in a field next to his house in Hamburg, Germany. Near it are 4–5 dwarfs about 4 feet tall. He walks toward them, but they flee inside the ship, which ascends and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1914-06-germany-hamburg.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1914-06-germany-hamburg.htm) November 28, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_344 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 590 (EE1831DB) Date: 6/1914 Description: 4:00 a.m. Gustav Herwagen opened the door of his house and saw in a field a shining cigar- shaped object with illuminated windows. Near it were four or five dwarfs 1.20 m tall, clad in light clothing. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamburg, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_65 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 591 (ACBB3B56) Date: 6/1914 Time: 0400 Description: Gustav Herwagen opened the door of his house and saw in a field a shining cigarshaped object with illuminated windows. Near it were four or five dwarfs 1.20 m tall, clad in light clothing. He approached them, but they went aboard the object as soon as they appeared to be aware of his presence. A door closed, and the craft took off silently, climbing vertically. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Nachrichten April, 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hamburg, Germany Source ID: Magnonia_39 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 592 (84EFB945) Date: Summer 1914 Description: Mid-afternoon. For about 60 minutes at Mount Lyndhurst Station, South Australia, an unusual substance floats by at a constant altitude. Some pieces, 6–8 inches long, fall to earth and leave no trace. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_343 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 593 (C2C235C1) Date: 7/28/1914 End date: 11/11/1918 Description: World War 1 Type: war Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I) Source ID: Maj2_25 Source: Maj2 ### Event 594 (2F86EA34) Date: 8/1914 Description: William J. Kiehl and seven other persons saw a spherical craft on the surface of the water. On its deck were two small men wearing green-purple clothes. They seemed to be busy with a hose, plunging it into the water. On the opposite side were three men dressed in light brown, wearing square masks down to their shoulders. Seeing the witnesses, they reentered the craft except for one dwarf, wearing shoes with a curved, pointed tip, who remained outside while the craft rose 3 m above the water and shot upward, leaving a short trail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 199 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Georgian Bay, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_40 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 595 (0967BAFE) Date: 8/1914 Description: William J. Kiehl and seven other persons saw a spherical craft on the surface of the water. On its deck were two small men wearing green-purple clothes. They seemed to be busy with a hose, plunging it into the water. (This was shown to be as a hoax a long time ago.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Georgian Bay, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_67 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 596 (1A448038) Date: 8/1914 Description: William J. Kiehl, 18, is with seven others in a small cove along the shore of Georgian Bay, Ontario. They see a strange machine on the surface of the lake. Two little men wearing square masks and purple-green coveralls are working with a hose leading from the water to inside the UFO. Three other figures, dressed in khaki, are adjusting some rods that are pulsating with various colors. The beings notice the group watching them and run into the machine, which starts vibrating with colors. It starts to ascend, but one being has not made it inside and is hanging on. After hovering 12 feet in the air to balance itself, it rapidly accelerates upward. A likely hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Old-Timer](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36323797/the-news/) [Tells of Outer Spacemen in Letter to Wanaque Police Officer,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36323797/the-news/)” Paterson \(N.J.\) News, August 15, 1966, p. 9; Clark III 262; Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976 Source ID: Eberhart_345 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 597 (FC8EDE59) Date: 8/10/1914 End date: 8/11/1914 Description: Night. Maj. Becke, commander of defenses at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, reports that two or three cigar-shaped airships are seen above the Vickers shipyard. Soldiers fire upon them with machine guns and the only anti-aircraft battery on the west coast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 7–8](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n19/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_346 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 598 (08037287) Date: 8/11/1914 End date: 9/9/1914 Description: Many British residents in South Africa observe a mystery monoplane that is assumed to be on a German reconnaissance mission. Most of the sightings are at night and at a distance. The government issues a statement on August 29 that there are no Union airplanes in South Africa, so any mystery aircraft are assumed to be enemies and should be fired upon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Aeroplane,” Cape Times, August 21, 1914; “Aeroplanes in the Union,” Cape Times, August 22, 1914, p. 7; “Mysterious Airship at Sanday,” Pretoria News, August 24, 1914, p. 5; “Aeroplane Mystery,” Johannesburg Star, August 26, 1914, p. 4; “The Mysterious Aeroplane,” Cape Argus, August 27, 1914, p. 5; “Aviator Discusses Air Visitors,” Cape Times, September 5, 1914, p. 5; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 487–489 Source ID: Eberhart_347 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 599 (5326683F) Date: 8/13/1914 Description: 7:30 p.m. High Constable Hobson and numerous residents of Sweaburg, Ontario, see “two large aeroplanes” pass from east to west. Sporadic sightings of mystery airplanes continue in the region for the next two weeks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Reports Aeroplanes over Oxford Village,” London Free Press, August 13, 1914, p. 2; “Three Aeroplanes Scan Topography of the Province, London \(Ont.\) Free Press, September 5, 1914, p. 8; Barry Greenwood, “[And Yet](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr12.pdf) [More in 1914!](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr12.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 \(September 2006\): 6; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, p. 491 Source ID: Eberhart_348 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 600 (25417C8D) Date: 8/14/1914 Description: Afternoon. A large ball of fire sweeps over the southeast portion of Montpelier, Vermont, seen by employees of the C. P. Gill stone cutting plant near the Winooski River. It is accompanied by a loud noise. One man says the heat of the object has scorched his hands. The plant motor stops as the object passes over, and insulation from some electrical wires is found burned off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Great Ball of Fire,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92120990/)” Rutland \(Vt.\) Daily Herald, August 18, 1914, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_349 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 601 (8DE5CA24) Date: 9/1914 Description: Two schoolboys named Uden and Hopkins are wandering along Caerphilly Mountain, South Wales, when they encounter an unexpected mist. Two white humanoid figures with piercing eyes and unusually tall hats are standing at the edge of it. They approach, and the boys take off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 262–263; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1914-09-uk-caerphilly.htm), March 5, 2013; Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1910–1939,](http://www.cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_351 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 602 (FCFC2E0E) Date: 9/6/1914 Description: Flight Commander C. E. Rathbone of the Felixstowe Naval Air Station, Suffolk, England returned from an early morning patrol in his seaplane to make perhaps the first report of a UFO sighting by a military officer. He reported that, "At 5:35 a.m. whilst on patrol, I sighted an airship steering south-southeast with a silver-colored envelope on the horizon, while flying at 1,300 feet, 27 miles south of Orfordness." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Wordwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 118, citing David Clarke Source ID: Johnson_5671 Source: Johnson ### Event 603 (CD44F48C) Date: 9/9/1914 Description: Mid-day. Amateur astronomer [William Herbert Steavenson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FHerbert%5FSteavenson) points his 3-inch refracting telescope in West Norwood, south London, England, at the planet Mercury, then about 8° distant from the Sun, when a round, luminous object the apparent size of the planet, but brighter, speeds across his field, passing centrally from south to north in about 3 seconds. A few seconds later, another appears going in the same direction. More follow, and the display continues until at least 3:00 p.m. when the sky becomes overcast. He watches several hundred bodies pass; about half are perfectly round and the rest are dumbbell shaped. All the objects are well defined and intrinsically brighter than Venus. The prevailing color is yellowish white. Steavenson sends a telegram to the Rev. [T. E. R. Phillips](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%5FE.%5FR.%5FPhillips) at Ashstead, Surrey, but the sky is now overcast and he cannot confirm the observation. Steavensen thinks high-altitude seeds are the most likely explanation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: W. H. Steavenson, “[Bright Objects](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2924638&view=1up&seq=48&skin=2021) [Observed near the Sun,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2924638&view=1up&seq=48&skin=2021)” Journal of the British Astronomical Association 25 \(1914\): 36–38 Source ID: Eberhart_352 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 604 (336C99E6) Date: Autumn 1914 Alternate date: 1915 Description: Dusk. A man is having an outdoor meal with his family in Bujoreanca, Romania, when they see a reddish object moving to the east 60 feet above the ground, causing trees to bend from its movement, and making a whistling noise. It leaves a trail of glowing sparks and reappears for 6–7 days in the same position. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 224 Source ID: Eberhart_350 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 605 (7B310323) Date: 10/5/1914 Description: At Silver Bell Siding in Tasmania, Australia a lighted object appeared traveling from MacQuarie Heads to Mount Dundas. Two lights were distinctly visible, and intermittent rays of light were thrown to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_6561 Source: Johnson ### Event 606 (0E9756C5) Date: 10/10/1914 Description: Afternoon. Albert Alfred Buss is observing the sun using a spectrographic telescope at Manchester, England, when he sees an “absolutely black spindle-shaped object” against the sun. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Albert Alfred Buss, “[Cosmic](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924069709578&view=1up&seq=314&skin=2021) [and Terrestrial Flotsam and Jetsam,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924069709578&view=1up&seq=314&skin=2021)” English Mechanic 100 \(October 14, 1914\): 256 Source ID: Eberhart_353 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 607 (0ABC8348) Date: 11/21/1914 Description: Some 20–30 people watch an airship flying at 2,300 feet descend to about 1,300 feet and shine a searchlight on a passing ship near Skjaervser lighthouse on the island of Mindlandet, Nordland, Norway. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Airship at Tjølta,” Morgenbladet, November 25, 1914, p. 2; Clark III 1167–1168 Source ID: Eberhart_354 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 608 (EB06560B) Date: 12/15/1914 Description: 4:10 p.m. The crew of a Hull trawler, the SS Ape, is streaming toward Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, when they see a “black object astern” which gradually approaches them. It turns and heads for the Lincolnshire coast where it vanishes in the fog. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 8](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n19/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_355 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1915 (Back to Top) ### Event 609 (11DFE145) Date: 2/9/1915 Description: A large dark airship flew at a low altitude near Bigfork, Montana around five o'clock in the late afternoon. It headed off toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 8 (1977), citing the Flathead Courier, February 11, 1915 Source ID: Johnson_767 Source: Johnson ### Event 610 (A0D11083) Date: 2/14/1915 Description: 9:15 p.m. The mayor and three city constables of Brockville, Ontario, see the lights of unknown aircraft crossing the St. Lawrence River heading for Ottawa. They can hear the sound of motors. A second flying machine is heard as it crosses the river from the direction of Morristown, New York. Three balls of fire drop from it into the river. Two more objects pass from the east and west ends of Brockville. The mayor, who has seen one of the planes flash a searchlight beam that lights up a city block, tells the police chief to alert the mayor and police chief in Ottawa. At 9:30 p.m., the mayor of Gananoque, Ontario, reports that two invisible aircraft are heard flying over his town. Prime Minister [Robert Borden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBorden) hears about the reports and orders the lights on Parliament Hill to be turned off at 11:15 p.m. The entire city follows suit 5 minutes later. The airplanes do not reappear, but Ottawa is placed on high alert. Later, Brockville police find two paper balloons that might explain the sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Ottawa in Darkness Awaits Airplane Raid,” Toronto Globe, February 15, 1915, pp. 1–2; “[Scare in Ottawa over an Air](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/02/15/100139294.pdf) [Raid,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/02/15/100139294.pdf)” New York Times, February 15, 1915, p. 1; Brett Holman, “[The Air Raid That Didn’t,](https://airminded.org/2014/02/13/the-air-raid-that-didnt/)” Airminded, February 13, 2014; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 492–493; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 36–38 Source ID: Eberhart_356 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 611 (E34A03EF) Date: 2/15/1915 Description: Early morning. Residents in a Toronto, Ontario, suburb notify police of a “strange aeroplane” hovering above their homes. Later, a man in Guelph sees “three moving lights passing over” the Ontario Agricultural College. He alerts other residents in his boarding house and they watch the silent lights until dawn. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 37–38 Source ID: Eberhart_357 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 612 (DDFCAAC1) Date: 4/26/1915 Description: Possibly the first UFO film ever made, The Mysterious Airship premieres in the United States. A lost two-reel French short produced by the Ideal Film Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and distributed by United Film Service, the film does involve a mysterious airship built by aeronauts, but it is more of a murder mystery. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[United Film Service,](https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor24newy/page/806/mode/2up)” The Moving Picture World 24 \(May 1, 1915\): 806; Barry Greenwood, “[UFO Feature](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr12.pdf) [Film: In 1914!](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr12.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 \(September 2006\): 2–4; Barry Greenwood, “[The Mysterious](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr14.pdf) [Airship](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr14.pdf)[: An Early Silent Film, Update,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr14.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 14 \(May 2015\): 1–3; Internet Movie Database, “[The Mysterious Airship](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1407257/)” Source ID: Eberhart_358 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 613 (E423978F) Date: 5/24/1915 Description: The Allied Powers (Britain, France, and Russia) jointly issued a statement which for the first time ever explicitly charged a government, the Ottoman Empire, with committing a "crime against humanity" in reference to that regime's persecution of its Christian minorities, including Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks. Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history_(World_War_I_through_World_War_II) Source ID: Maj2_26 Source: Maj2 ### Event 614 (671B240B) Date: Late 6/1915 Description: Just before dawn. Cecilia Peel Yates of Ashburton, Devon, England, is awakened by her dogs barking. She sees outside her bedroom window a bright light in the sky bearing north. It disappears in the direction of Haytor rocks on Dartmoor. This incident is followed by others at Hexworthy and Dartington in July and August, so much so that British Naval Intelligence sends two officers out to investigate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, “[UFOs and the Military,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-the-military-1915-pt-1/) [1915: Pt. 1,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-the-military-1915-pt-1/)” Mysterious Universe, May 7, 2014; Nick Redfern, “[UFOs and the Military, 1915: Pt. 2,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-the-military-1915-pt-2/)” Mysterious Universe, May 8, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_359 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 615 (9E94F56B) Date: 8/21/1915 Description: During severe fighting in the Dardanelles a peculiar cloud engulfed a British regiment which was never seen again. This was observed by 22 men of the First Field Company, NZ Army Corps and stated in an affidavit. (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gallipoli, Turkey Source ID: NICAP_DB_69 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 616 (2D97A49B) Date: 8/21/1915 Description: During severe fighting in the Dardanelles a peculiar cloud engulfed a British regiment which was never seen again. This was observed by 22 men of the First Field Company, NZ Army Corps and stated in an affidavit. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Spaceview 45; LDLN 82; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Gallipoli, Turkey Source ID: Magnonia_41 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 617 (B4984C35) Date: 9/4/1915 Description: 9:30 p.m. Two British Naval Intelligence officers, Lt. Col. [William Price Drury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FPrice%5FDrury) and Lt. C. Brownlow, on Dartmoor, Devon, England, watch a “bright white light, considerably larger in appearance than a planet” ascend steadily from a meadow to a height of 50–60 feet. It then swings 300 feet or so to the left and suddenly vanishes. The officers have been investigating reports of similar lights seen in the region during the summer. In December, GHQ Home Forces issues a 16-page confidential report on the investigation and concludes there is “no evidence on which to base a suspicion that this class of enemy activity ever existed” and that 89% of the reports are explained. Some “moving lights in the air” are attributed to marsh gas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, “[UFOs and the Military,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-the-military-1915-pt-1/) [1915: Pt. 1,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-the-military-1915-pt-1/)” Mysterious Universe, May 7, 2014; UFOFiles2, [pp. 11–12](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n25/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_360 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 618 (4F71BDB4) Date: 11/1915 Description: Einstein presents to the Prussian Academy of Science what are now known as the Einstein field equations, which form the core of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. Type: scientific advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity) Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_27 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1916 (Back to Top) ### Event 619 (D433D4C9) Date: 1916? Description: Mrs. Whiteland of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, sees from an open window a “round platform” on which nearly a dozen men wearing blue uniforms and little round hats stand gripping a handrail. It is moving in the air about 30 feet above the house and coming from the direction of a nearby marsh. It moves toward a railway yard and disappears behind some houses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 263; “[The Aldeburgh Platform,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1969\), pp. 23–24; “[The Aldeburgh Platform,](http://aldeburghplatform.blogspot.com/)” parts 1–3; David Halperin, “[UFOs, Screen Memories,](https://www.davidhalperin.net/ufos-screen-memories-and-the-aldeburgh-platform-mystery/) [and the Aldeburgh Platform Mystery,](https://www.davidhalperin.net/ufos-screen-memories-and-the-aldeburgh-platform-mystery/)” April 8, 2016; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 299–314 Source ID: Eberhart_361 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 620 (5DB5C933) Date: 1/31/1916 Description: British A/c Encounters Object With Row of Illuminated Windows (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [19160131](http://www.nicap.org/160131rochford%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rochford, Essex, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_70 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 621 (09B72601) Date: 1/31/1916 Description: 8:25 p.m. Royal Flying Corps Lieut. [Reginald Maxwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FMaxwell) is cruising his B.E.2c biplane at 10,000 feet near Romford, Essex, England, patrolling for German Zeppelins. He sees an “artificial light” to the north. He follows it northeast for 20 minutes, but it moves higher and he loses it in the clouds. At the same time, Royal Flying Corps pilot Sub-Lieut. J. Eric Morgan, also flying a B.E.2c at 5,000 feet near Rochford, Essex, and looking for Zeppelins, sees an object about 100 feet away with a row of windows “like a railway carriage with the blinds drawn.” He tries to close on it, but his engine is malfunctioning. When he fires his pistol at it, the lights rise and rapidly disappear. Morgan is forced to make a crash landing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Capt. Joseph Morris, The German Air Raids on Great Britain, 1914–1918, Sampson, Low, Marston, 1925, [pp. 81–82](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015046869957&view=1up&seq=115&skin=2021); David Clarke, “Britain’s First Military UFO Encounter?” [Part 1](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015046869957&view=1up&seq=115&skin=2021) and [Part 2](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/hist19162.htm)[,](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/hist19162.htm) The Real UFO Project, 2004; UFOFiles2, [p. 10](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n23/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Pilots UFO](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-romford31jan1916.htm) [Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-romford31jan1916.htm)” August 10, 2021, and “[Near Rochford,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-31jan1916rochford.htm)” August 2, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_362 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 622 (983CF03E) Date: 1/31/1916 Description: Royal Flying Corps pilot Lt. Morgan was flying at 5000 feet over Rochford, Essex, England on this evening on the lookout for Zeppelins. At 8:25 p.m. he saw an object with a row of lights like the windows on a railway carriage with the blinds drawn. He tried to close but his airplane's engine started malfunctioning. When he fired a pistol at the lights they rose rapidly into the heavens and disappeared out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 10 citing J. Morris, p. 81; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 6; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 89 Source ID: Johnson_633 Source: Johnson ### Event 623 (F677B983) Date: 2/29/1916 Description: 4:30 a.m. John Tullyson, head watchman at Globe Elevators, and John Gustavson at the Carnegie Coal Dock in Superior, Wisconsin, hear an engine noise and see a large flying object “50 feet wide and 100 feet long,” with three lights, “one on each end and one in the middle.” Moving swiftly at 600 feet altitude, the object carries a long rope trailing behind it with a large object attached to it. Three “men” are inside the craft, one of them sitting in the front of the machine. The other two seem to be looking around. Possible Chinese lantern or airplane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Mysterious Aeroplane Continues Nocturnal Trips over Superior,” Superior \(Wis.\) Telegram, February 29, 1916, p. 5; Clark III 263; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1916-02-29-usa-superior.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1916-02-29-usa-superior.htm) March 16, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_363 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 624 (F523DCD7) Date: 2/29/1916 Description: In Superior, Wisconsin at 4:30 a.m. several dock workers observed the passage of a large flying machine in which three men were clearly visible. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerome Clark, Anomalist, April 2000, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_1186 Source: Johnson ### Event 625 (0F90B37B) Date: 3/12/1916 Description: Early evening. Claude D. McGee is walking home from a trip to a ranch outside Lowry, South Dakota, when he sees a strange glowing light in the hills ahead of him. Suddenly the light swings in a huge arc down into the valley but stays close to the wall of hills where it comes to rest. It stays there a few moments then swings back to where it had been about 2 miles away. It repeats the action twice then disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1171 Source ID: Eberhart_364 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 626 (6846603E) Date: 5/4/1916 Description: Evening. Astronomers [Charles Dillon Perrine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FDillon%5FPerrine) and [Anna Estelle Glancy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%5FEstelle%5FGlancy) observe an object resembling a comet at the National Observatory in Córdoba, Argentina. It is moving remarkably fast, moving 10° toward the sun within an hour and passes below the horizon. It has a prominent tail of 8°–10° in length. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Comet or Meteor?](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000063000146&view=1up&seq=421&skin=2021)” Scientific American 115 \(1916\): 493 Source ID: Eberhart_365 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 627 (4D73A02A) Date: 7/19/1916 Description: 10:30 p.m. Walter H. Eager and another witness in Huntington, West Virginia, watch a nebulous object in the shape of a dirigible that slowly fades from view. Possibly a light pillar created by a nearby blast furnace. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Walter H. Eager, “[An Unusual Aurora,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000063000146&view=1up&seq=213&skin=2021)” Scientific American 115 \(1916\): 241; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 391–397 Source ID: Eberhart_366 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 628 (CB374D22) Date: 7/19/1916 Description: Elongated Oval Object Hovers Near Ground (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [160719](http://www.nicap.org/1605XXrensselaer%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huntington, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_71 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 629 (CD3531EB) Date: 7/19/1916 Description: A luminous blimp-shaped flying object flew over Huntington, West Virginia at eleven o'clock at night. It vanished and reappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p. 278 Source ID: Johnson_4187 Source: Johnson ### Event 630 (3E65656D) Date: 10/1916 Description: John Boback, 17, was walking along the railroad tracks between Youngstown and Mt. Braddock when he saw a saucer-shaped object with a platform and rows of lights, sitting in a field 30 m to his left. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Youngstown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_72 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 631 (0F6B1D4C) Date: 12/17/1916 Description: On the Western front in Europe, Canadian soldier [Maurice Philipp Tuteur](http://www.francaislibres.net/liste/fiche.php?index=99619) and two sergeant majors watch a Zeppelin-like object rise into the clouds in the rear of their lines. It darts ahead at an estimated speed of 200 mph, turns around, darts backward, and shoots up and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “I Saw a Flying Saucer,” Flying Saucers, May 1959, pp. 6–18, 78; Clark III 1170 Source ID: Eberhart_367 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1917 (Back to Top) ### Event 632 (A0C2BCEA) Date: 4/1917 Description: Night. Residents of the African American neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, report hearing strange, motor-like noises in the air at night for several nights. Some have fleeting glimpses of the swiftly moving dark objects that are causing the noise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Colored People Are Seeing Visions,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/745918/the-charlotte-news/)” Charlotte \(N.C.\) News, April 11, 1917, p. 13 Source ID: Eberhart_368 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 633 (8FA017BE) Date: 4/13/1917 Description: Early morning. Two National Guardsmen from Company L of the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry are stationed on the bridge linking Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine, when they hear the noise of an airplane. They see an unidentified aircraft circling near the bridge. When it descends, apparently to make a pass at the bridge, one of the guardsmen panics and fires his rifle at it. It moves off and disappears in the distance. Other vague reports continue through April 30. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Hunt for Aircraft Base,” Manchester \(N.H.\) Union, April 14, 1917, pp. 1, 3; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 496–497 Source ID: Eberhart_369 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 634 (6685C66D) Date: 5/13/1917 Description: Three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal—[Lúcia dos Santos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%5FL%C3%BAcia) and her cousins [Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%5Fand%5FJacinta%5FMarto) [and Jacinta Marto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%5Fand%5FJacinta%5FMarto)—report seeing a woman “brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun.” The woman wears a white mantle edged with gold and holds a rosary in her hand. She asks them to devote themselves to the Holy Trinity and to pray “the Rosary every day.” The children had seen an “angel” at the cove since the spring of 1916. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Our Lady of Fátima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%5FLady%5Fof%5FF%C3%A1tima)” Source ID: Eberhart_370 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 635 (2ABB466E) Date: 6/13/1917 Description: The three children at Fátima, Portugal, again see the lady, who reveals that [Francisco and Jacinta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%5Fand%5FJacinta%5FMarto) will be “taken to heaven” soon, but [Lúcia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%5FL%C3%BAcia) will live longer to spread the message. The lady also purportedly reveals to the children a vision of hell and entrusts a secret to them, described as “good for some and bad for others.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Our Lady of Fátima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%5FLady%5Fof%5FF%C3%A1tima)” Source ID: Eberhart_371 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 636 (D1ADC63E) Date: 8/13/1917 Description: Some 18,000 people have been flocking to Fátima and nearby Aljustrel, Portugal, drawn by reports of visions and miracles. The assembled multitude hears thunder and witnesses lightning in a clear blue sky. Then the sun grows pale and a cloud hovers above the oak tree where the apparitions usually appear. Provincial administrator [Artur de Oliveira Santos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur%5Fde%5FOliveira%5FSantos), believing that these events are politically disruptive, takes the children into custody, jailing them before they can reach the Cova da Iria. Santos interrogates and threatens the children to get them to divulge the contents of the secrets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_372 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 637 (7DF0986B) Date: 8/13/1917 Description: A luminous globe was seen spinning through the clouds by over 18,000 witnesses who had assembled at Fatima, in the Cova da Iria, Portugal to see another monthly apparition of the "Lady in Blue", thought to be the Virgin Mary by Roman Catholic faithful. The sky turned rainbow colors including pink, yellow, and blue. There was a perceived lowering of the temperature, and angel hair residue. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 145 Source ID: Johnson_4958 Source: Johnson ### Event 638 (537F8755) Date: Late Summer 1917 Description: 12:30 p.m. John Boback is walking along railroad tracks in Youngstown, Pennsylvania, when he hears a swishing sound and sees an elliptical object about 100 feet away on the ground in a pasture. It has portholes emitting ligt from the interior and a smooth surface. Moments later the object ascends smoothly in a gradual climb and flies away to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lore and Deneault, [pp. 104–105](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/104/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_374 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 639 (E418447B) Date: 8/19/1917 Description: Instead of the promised apparition in the Cova da Iria on August 13, the children see the Virgin Mary at nearby Valinhos, Portugal. She asks them again to pray the rosary daily, speaks about the miracle coming in October, and asks them “to pray a lot.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_373 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 640 (3807B310) Date: Early 9/1917 Description: Witnesses at Salida, Colorado, watch distant moving lights flicking on and off over a period of several days. Through a telescope, one light appears to be a revolving wheel with lights on it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Arlene Shovald, “Edwards’ UFO Sighting Not Salida’s First,” Salida \(Colo.\) Mountain Mail, September 7, 1995; Clark III 1171 Source ID: Eberhart_375 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 641 (4672F3CF) Date: 9/13/1917 Description: With the three children in attendance, the crowd at the Cova da Iria, Portugal, see a “luminous globe” sail across the sky. A white cloud envelops the children and the oak tree. A rain of white roses is said to have fallen out of the heavens but dissolves just before landing. Behind the cloud, the crowd can see [Lúcia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%5FL%C3%BAcia) talking to the invisible lady. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_376 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 642 (18C515B9) Date: 10/1917 Description: Seven-year-old [Elizabeth Klarer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%5FKlarer) and her older sister Barbara have their first alleged encounter with a UFO on their parents’ farm Connington in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands, South Africa. While playing outside the farmhouse, Elizabeth claims to witness a giant orange-red wheel rolling across the sky. The plummeting object, also described as a fiery pockmarked meteor or planetoid, is intercepted by a silver disc bathed in a pearly luster. Around this time Elizabeth begins receiving occasional telepathic messages from a friendly space alien named Akon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 657; Elizabeth Klarer, Beyond the Light Barrier, Howard Timmins, 1980 Source ID: Eberhart_377 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 643 (AF62DF74) Date: 10/1917 Description: John Boback, 17, was walking along the railroad tracks between Youngstown and Mt. Braddock when he saw a saucer-shaped object with a platform and rows of lights, sitting in a field 30 m to his left. He watched the object for 1-2 min until it took off with a high-pitched sound, rising gradually like a slow plane. Its size was that of an average car. The top of the object was a dome with elongated windows through which figures could be seen. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Hartle 157 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Youngstown, Pennsylvania Source ID: Magnonia_42 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 644 (F3A9AB4E) Date: 10/13/1917 Description: Approximately 70,000 people crowded the fields surrounding the Cova da Iria, a grotto in Fatima, Portugal to witness a promised miracle. Miraculous events and apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary had been occurring monthly on the 13th of every month since three children--Lucia, Jesus and Marto-- had first met a mysterious lady in blue there in May. Not many of those in the crowd, even those close to the three children, were able to witness the apparition of the Lady on this day, but it is reported that everyone present saw "something." The most common description was of a "gyrating sun" that became a silver disc, and emitted bright rainbow shafts of light, changing colors in succession from red to violet to blue to yellow. The flat silver disc plunged downward toward earth in a zigzag fashion. Catholics present interpreted these events as a sign from God, and the religious event was later sanctioned as a miracle by the Roman Catholic Church. The prophesies revealed that day have been kept secret by the Vatican, but reportedly involve the assassination of "the last Pope." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 12; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 259; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 149; Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 143 Source ID: Johnson_6803 Source: Johnson ### Event 645 (02944276) Date: 10/13/1917 Description: After some newspapers report that the Virgin Mary has promised a miracle for the last of her apparitions, a huge crowd, possibly between 30,000 and 100,000, including reporters and photographers, gathers at Cova da Iria, Portugal. What happens then becomes known as the “Miracle of the Sun.” Various claims are made as to what really happened. The three children report seeing a panorama of visions during the event, including those of Jesus, Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and Saint Joseph blessing the people. Father John de Marchi, an Italian Catholic priest and researcher who wrote several books on the subject, included descriptions by witnesses who believe they observed a miracle created by Mary, the mother of Jesus. After a period of rain, the dark clouds break and the Sun appears as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It appears significantly duller than normal and casts multicolored lights across the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The Sun then seems to careen towards the earth before zigzagging back to its normal position. Witnesses report that their previously wet clothes become “suddenly and completely dry, as well as the wet and muddy ground that had been previously soaked because of the rain that had been falling.” Not all witnesses report seeing the Sun “dance.” Some people only see the radiant colors, and others, including some believers, see nothing at all. The only known picture of the Sun taken during the event does not show anything unusual. No unusual solar phenomena are observed by scientists. Some theologians, scientists, and skeptics have offered alternative explanations that include psychological suggestibility of the witnesses, temporary retinal distortion caused by staring at the intense light of the Sun, a sundog, and optical effects caused by natural meteorological phenomena. The Miracle of the Sun is interpreted by others as a UFO event. Investigator [Joe Nickell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FNickell) thinks that the effects are “a combination of factors, including optical effects and meteorological phenomena, such as the sun being seen through thin clouds, causing it to appear as a silver disc. Other possibilities include an alteration in the density of the passing clouds, causing the sun’s image to alternately brighten and dim and so seem to advance and recede, and dust or moisture droplets in the atmosphere refracting the sunlight and thus imparting a variety of colors.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Miracle of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSun) [the Sun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSun)”; Clark III 484–485; “[O Milagre do Fátima,](http://hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/OBRAS/IlustracaoPort/1917/N610/N610%5Fitem1/P15.html)” Ilustração Portuguesa, no. 610 \(October 29, 1917\): 353– 355; John de Marchi, [The True Story of Fatima](https://archive.org/details/fatimafullstory00marc/page/n3/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/fatimafullstory00marc/page/n3/mode/2up) St. Paul, Minn.: Catechetical Guild Educational Society, 1956; Joe Nickell, “[The Real Secrets of Fatima,](https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2009/11/22164423/p14.pdf)” Skeptical Inquirer 33, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 2009\): 14–17; Jeffrey S. Bennett, When the Sun Danced, University of Virginia, 2012; Auguste Meessen, “[Apparitions and Miracles of the](https://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/Apparitions%5Fand%5FMiracles%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSun.pdf) [Sun,](https://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/Apparitions%5Fand%5FMiracles%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSun.pdf)” in Science, Religion, and Conscience, Actas do Forum International, Centro Transdisciplinar de Estudos da Consciência, October 23–25, 2003, Santos, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_378 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1918 (Back to Top) ### Event 646 (5E2C89D9) Date: Early 1918 Description: Reddish cigar-shaped object, with no motor or rigging, passed silently from SW to NE. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Waco (near), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_73 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 647 (93B73342) Date: 3/1/1918 Description: Early morning. A woman at Tahunanui Beach, Nelson, New Zealand, sees two distinct “seaplanes” flying together near the surface of the water. They soon diverge, one going in the direction of the eastern hills and both getting lost in the clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Seaplanes over Tasman Bay,](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC19180302.2.36)” Nelson Colonist, March 2, 1918, p. 4; Brett Holman, “[The Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—1](https://airminded.org/2013/08/28/the-mystery-aeroplane-scare-in-new-zealand-i/),” Airminded, August 28, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_380 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 648 (2BD7BA41) Date: Summer 1918 Description: 7:30 p.m. At an isolated ranch 60 miles from Malta, Montana, 9-year-old [Theodore Warren](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31960483/theodore-r-warren) sees a cigar- shaped “airship” with windows that shine with greenish light. It flies in from the mountains in the east and hovers above the ranch house. He watches it for a while, and then it “whooshes” away to the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ione Warren Conway, “A UFO\(?\) from the Past,” IUR 7, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1982\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_381 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 649 (213C6154) Date: 8/12/1918 Description: After 5:00 p.m. Two women at Durie Hill, Whanganui, New Zealand, see an airplane moving swiftly off the South Spit heading toward the south. It disappears behind Landguard Bluff. Other witnesses come forward to corroborate the sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Aeroplane off Wanganui,](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19180813.2.17)” Wanganui Chronicle, August 13, 1918, p. 4; Brett Holman, “[The Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—IV,](https://airminded.org/2013/10/26/the-mystery-aeroplane-scare-in-new-zealand-iv/)” Airminded, October 26, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_382 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 650 (2F057179) Date: 8/13/1918 Description: Evening. Mr. C. Rawlinson is cycling to a dance on Carrington Road, New Plymouth, New Zealand, when he sees a bright star against some mountains about 6 miles away. It starts flashing red and white and moves closer and downward, then rises to 400–500 feet and performs other maneuvers. He rides home to tell his sisters, who also see the light until about 8:30 p.m., when it moves off to the sea. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Local and General,](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19180814.2.15)” Wellington Dominion, August 14, 1918, p. 4; Brett Holman, “[The Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—IV,](https://airminded.org/2013/10/26/the-mystery-aeroplane-scare-in-new-zealand-iv/)” Airminded, October 26, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_383 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 651 (0EFB4401) Date: 10/1918 Description: During operations against the Bolshevik Army in Tulgas, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, soldiers of the US 339th Infantry Regiment watch a round object the color of burnished copper, with a faint light and vapor obscuring much of its shape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Letter to J. Allen Hynek; Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_384 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 652 (DADA402F) Date: 11/11/1918 Description: End of World War 1 Type: war Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I) Source ID: Maj2_28 Source: Maj2 ### Event 653 (15DC0D7B) Date: Winter 1918? Description: Edwin T. Bauhan and other soldiers at Rich Field in Waco, Texas, see a noiseless, flame-colored, cigar-shaped object 100–150 feet long flying overhead at an altitude of 500 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lore and Deneault, [p. 105](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/104/mode/2up); Clark III 1170; “[1918 Sighting,](http://www.project1947.com/shg/csi/csiv1-4.html)” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4 \(Winter 1954\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_379 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1919 (Back to Top) ### Event 654 (04B20FF5) Date: 1919 Description: Wireless inventor [Guglielmo Marconi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo%5FMarconi) claims that he has detected large-wavelength radio signals from Mars. He claims the most frequent signal is the Morse code for “S,” or three short dots. The signals, however, are subsequently traced to an experiment conducted by chemist [Irving Langmuir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%5FLangmuir) at the General Electric Laboratories in Schenectady, New York. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Hello, Earth! Hello!’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68563892/tomahawk-hello-earth-hello/)” White Earth \(Minn.\) The Tomahawk, March 18, 1920, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_385 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 655 (0AB60165) Date: 1/22/1919 Description: A two foot wide, intense glowing ball flew slowly at a low altitude over Shuttlewood, Derbyshire, England at 8:10 p.m. It engaged in controlled maneuvers for 45 minutes. There were at least 40 witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ananda Sirisena, FSR, March 1975, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_404 Source: Johnson ### Event 656 (1D8039DF) Date: 1/22/1919 Description: After 10:00 p.m. A brilliant light the size of a tennis ball appears in a garden at Shuttlewood, Derbyshire, England. When the witness approaches it, it moves away at a leisurely pace and passes through wire netting. It follows the top of a hedge, turns right, and ascends until it finds a break in the high branches of a tree, where it hovers for 3 minutes before flying on. The witness then notices his neighbor’s farm is illuminated with bright white light. Several minutes later, the sphere returns to the garden, hovers another 3 minutes, then approaches the witness. As it does so, it turns from white to orange. It moves away, stops above a neighbor’s garden, travels along a hedge, traverses a field, and circles a row of houses before soaring into the sky and disappearing. The light is seen for 40 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Ian Birdsall, “The Luminous Pearl of 1919,” Quest International 10, no. 2 \(1991\): 26–27; Clark III 1171 Source ID: Eberhart_386 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 657 (6066E081) Date: 6/2/1919 Description: 9:30 a.m. A tiny circular cloud appears in an otherwise cloudless sky over Ottertail, Minnesota. Suddenly it expands to several times its size. Seconds later, the window that the witness is watching through starts to shake and creak. By the time it stops, the cloud has expanded more and now has a ragged appearance, bending toward the earth. A black object shoots out of the bottom of the cloud, leaving a vapor trail, and begins making 6–7 barrel rolls. It then peels off in a straight line, headed north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1170; “Supersonic Jet in 1919?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 \(Jan./Feb. 1982\): 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_387 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 658 (159C5A50) Date: 6/2/1919 Description: At 9:00 a.m. a nine-year-old boy in Otter Tail, Minnesota saw a black object emerge from a quick descent, forming an unusual cloud. Windows rattled and the house he was in creaked as the object pealed off, made 6-7 barrel rolls, and left contrails in its wake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frontiers of Science, January 1982, p. 14; UNICAT, case # 39 Source ID: Johnson_3217 Source: Johnson ### Event 659 (98EEC81E) Date: 6/28/1919 Description: Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. One of the most important treaties of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles) Source ID: Maj2_29 Source: Maj2 ### Event 660 (5DBF3FB3) Date: 7/1919 Description: 11:00 a.m. A young brother and sister who live on a farm near Webster City, Iowa, hear a strange chirping sound while out playing. They turn and see a brown-green object under a tree near a creek 75 feet from them. They notice a similarly colored figure standing in a door that has been lowered down. It makes strange guttural sounds. They see another figure running toward the stream leading to a pond. This smaller one dips up some water into a can. The larger figure seems to be hurrying the smaller figure back into the object. The door slams shut with a metallic sound, and the vehicle rises up quickly with its three legs still out and goes over a hill. The soil where the object had been is covered with round spots that resemble cane marks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 263; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1919-07-usa-webstercity.htm)[,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1919-07-usa-webstercity.htm) July 23, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_388 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 661 (E11A56D1) Date: Late Summer 1919 Description: 10:00 p.m. Harry Anderson, 13 \(or 16\), is out riding with his family and two friends when their car runs out of oil east of Barron, Wisconsin. A passing farmer offers to give them some oil, and Harry accompanies him 2 miles away to his farmhouse. Harry walks back to the car alone and sees 20 little men walking in single file towards him. Their heads are bald, and the figures are dressed in leather “knee pants” held up by suspenders. They are mumbling but pay no attention to him. Terrified, he continues and does not look back. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[Jerome Clark\], “Encounters with Little Men,” Fate 31, no. 11 \(November 1978\): 83–86; Clark III 263; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1919-usa-barron.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1919-usa-barron.htm) July 24, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_389 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 662 (27F7345B) Date: 12/1/1919 Description: Boni & Liveright publishes [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FFort)’s first book of scientific anomalies, The Book of the Damned. Fort gathers reports of objects or “vessels” that he humorously speculates might be visitors from a multitude of worlds that have come to earth over the centuries. Among his wilder expressions is the suggestion that floating land masses in the sky harbor civilizations and oceans. Fort also speculates that someone is fishing for us and that an alien race considers us its property, warning off all interlopers. It receives positive reviews from [Ben Hecht](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%5FHecht) and [Booth Tarkington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth%5FTarkington)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth%5FTarkington)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[The Book of the Damned](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FBook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FDamned)”; Clark III 506–507; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 173–174; Ulrich Magin, “The Book of the Damned,” Fortean Times 386 \(December 2019\): 38–43 Source ID: Eberhart_390 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1920 (Back to Top) ### Event 663 (D52DC399) Date: 1920 Description: Day. [Stanley Clason](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60076655/stanley-clason)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60076655/stanley-clason) 10, is walking across his uncle’s pasture in northern Montana when he sees an object traveling from northwest to southeast. It has a “long, slim, pointed shape” and appears “silvery in color.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 7, no. 4 \(April 1954\): 115–116; Clark III 1171 Source ID: Eberhart_391 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 664 (5704FDC2) Date: 1/16/1920 Description: First meeting of the League of Nations Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations) See also: 4/20/46 Source ID: Maj2_30 Source: Maj2 ### Event 665 (E2A16A03) Date: 6/3/1920 Description: Day. [Jesse Clark Linch](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74686285/jesse-clark-linch) is fishing on a pond near Mount Pleasant, Iowa, when he sees a soundless, blue, disc- shaped object emerge from behind a grove of 100-foot-high maple trees. It flies across the pond and lands 15 feet away. Linch gets up and walks toward it, but it rises up, slowly moves over some trees to the west, and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Mini UFO Landed near Mt. Pleasant in 1920,” The UFO Examiner 2, no. 2 \(June 1978\): 8, 19; “[Man Visited by Strange Object While Fishing in Iowa in 1920,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2000/02/February%202000.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 382 \(February 2000\): 12; Clark III 1170 Source ID: Eberhart_393 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 666 (84F5AD8D) Date: 6/3/1920 Description: At 10:30 a.m. a small metallic blue, vertical cylinder, shaped like a "milk-can," landed only 15 feet away from the witness, sat on the ground for 15 minutes northeast of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, then took off and flew away to the west. It made no noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON on-site investigation, report dated September 1, 1973; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_3241 Source: Johnson ### Event 667 (A25E02CD) Date: 6/8/1920 Description: At 6 p.m. a cylindrical object flying at only 75 feet altitude, passing over Rushville, Missouri, was seen by two hundred people. It made a 90-degree turn to the east, and disappeared into a cloud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, October 1973, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 12; Jay David, The Flying Saucer Reader, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_3366 Source: Johnson ### Event 668 (D6EA2720) Date: Summer 1920 Description: 11:00 p.m. A group of young people, including sisters Louise and Marie Grasset, returning from a dance at Nontron, Dordogne, France, observe small beings in the air above a wooded area. Luminous balls surround the figures, who are giving off “musical sounds.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1920-00-00-france-nontron.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1920-00-00-france-nontron.htm) October 3, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_392 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 669 (DA5F9277) Date: Late 10/1920 Description: 3:00 a.m. C. B. Alves sees four flying discs 50 miles north of Freeport, Texas, when he is out fishing with some friends. They look like two big silver plates set edge to edge. Each appears to be about 25 feet in diameter and 10 feet thick at the center. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 8, no. 2 \(February 1955\): 122–123; Clark III 1170 Source ID: Eberhart_394 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 670 (0A8C8E0D) Date: 11/2/1920 Description: First commercial radio broadcast from KDKA in Pittsburgh PA Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/history-of-commercial-radio) Source ID: Maj2_31 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1921 (Back to Top) ### Event 671 (B9749BB9) Date: 1921 Description: Undocumented report of an "abduction" by two beings. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Marseilles, France Source ID: Magnonia_43 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 672 (701BEEF3) Date: 1921 Description: An 8-year-old is playing in the hillocks near a canal in Marseille, France. He is suddenly accosted by two tall, slender men wearing apparent diving suits who drag him into a strange looking “tank.” After a while, an opening appears in the ceiling, and in a few moments he finds himself back on the ground. He must walk all afternoon to get back to the place where the UFO picked him up 5 minutes earlier. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 264; \[Letter\], “J’ai voyagé en soucoupe,” Paris-Match, no. 291, October 23, 1954; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1921-france-marseilles.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1921-france-marseilles.htm) September 7, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_395 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 673 (91077F0A) Date: 1921 Description: Undocumented report of an "abduction" by two beings. (Magonia #43, Quincy) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marseilles, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_74 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 674 (66EBCE19) Date: Late 7/1921 Description: 2:00 a.m. Annie Baker of 39 Highland Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, England, sees a “strange looking bladder like monster the shape of an airship only much wider” during a thunderstorm. It is luminous and remains stationary for several minutes but moves away and disappears quickly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 13–15](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n29/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_396 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 675 (261683B5) Date: 7/29/1921 Description: The Council on Foreign Relations is incorporated. Founded by corporate lawyer [Elihu Root,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu%5FRoot) the organization brings diplomats, high-level government officials, and academics together with lawyers, bankers, and industrialists to engineer foreign policy. The first issue of Foreign Affairs is published in September 1922. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Council on Foreign Relations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%5Fon%5FForeign%5FRelations)” Source ID: Eberhart_397 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 676 (AF83C245) Date: 9/1921 Description: The British Air Ministry has asked the public to submit reports on observations of ball lightning to its Meteorological Office. The results are summarized by geophysicist [Harold Jeffreys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FJeffreys)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FJeffreys) who notes very little uniformity in the observations, with little agreement on size, duration, color, or shape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harold Jeffreys, “[Results](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3485375&view=1up&seq=590&skin=2021) [of the Ball Lightning Inquiry,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3485375&view=1up&seq=590&skin=2021)” Meteorological Magazine 56 \(September 1921\): 208–211; UFOFiles2, [pp. 13–16](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n29/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_398 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 677 (12201D07) Date: 9/1/1921 Description: J. H. C. Macbeth of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company announces that inventor [Guglielmo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo%5FMarconi) [Marconi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo%5FMarconi) is convinced he has intercepted wireless signals from Mars while cruising in the Mediterranean Sea on his mobile laboratory and yacht, the Electra. The signals are regular and “produced high in the meter band.” One of them resembles the letter “V” in the Marconi Code. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Marconi Sure Mars Flashes Messages,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/09/02/107025215.pdf)” New York Times, September 2, 1921, p. 1; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_399 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 678 (5AF62DF1) Date: 10/9/1921 Description: Harvard University astronomer [William Henry Pickering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FHenry%5FPickering) claims that he has discovered, through two years of observation, vegetation growing in lunar craters that contain water and a source of heat. They seem to form strips or “canals” that vary according to season. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Says 2 Crops a Day Grow on the Moon,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/10/09/107027707.pdf)” New York Times, October 9, 1921, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_400 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1922 (Back to Top) ### Event 679 (866C237C) Date: 1922 Description: County Donegal, Ireland: Irish Republic Army man, Lawrence Bradley, wrote to the editor of “Watfordand West-Hersts Post” magazine (4/30/64) that while he was fighting a scattered rear-guard, mostly in the mountains of Donegal, he came upon a cave with vegetation at the entrance that had been scorched. The only occupants in the cave were the sick and the wounded that had been unable to walk. The six able-bodied soldiers that were looking after them said they had been awakened early pre-dawn by a whirring noise outside of the cave and had fired their rifles in the direction of the noise, thinking that it was an armored car. Suddenly the object retaliated by firing jets of flame at the cave entrance. After near suffocation, the soldiers ran out to see the flame throwing UFO ascending into the sky. Clearly visible, it was circular in shape and glowing and of a shiny metal. Type: UFO sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: County Donegal, Ireland Source ID: Maj2_32 Source: Maj2 ### Event 680 (70769F54) Date: 1922 Description: Starting this year, ghost lights are seen every year until 1932 in the desert near the Oregon Canyon Ranch, McDermott, Nevada. They look like lanterns or car headlights in the distance. More than 50 of the sheepherders in the area have seen the lights, including Tito Bengoa, the brother of [Frank](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40548723/frank-bengoa) and [Christopher Bengoa](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40548703/christopher-bengoa) of the King’s River Ranch near Orovada. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth Arnold, “Phantom Lights in Nevada,” Fate 1, no. 3 \(Fall 1948\): 96–98 Source ID: Eberhart_401 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 681 (BB413BBF) Date: 2/22/1922 Description: 5:00 a.m. William C. Lamb was following strange tracks when he heard a high- pitched sound and saw a circular object intercepting starlight. It became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterword, a creature over 2.4 m tall was seen flying from the direction where the object had landed. It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed without results. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hubbell, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_75 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 682 (EB4281DA) Date: 2/22/1922 Description: William C. Lamb was following strange tracks near Hubbell, Nebraska at 5:00 a.m. when he heard a high-pitched sound and saw a circular flying object. It became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterward, a creature over eight feet tall was seen flying from the direction where the object had landed. It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed without results. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 189; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_1043 Source: Johnson ### Event 683 (AABE684B) Date: 2/22/1922 Time: 0500 Description: William C. Lamb was following strange tracks when he heard a high-pitched sound and saw a circular object intercepting starlight. It became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterword, a creature over 2.4 m tall was seen flying from the direction where the object had landed. It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed without results. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Anatomy 22 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hubbell, Nebraska Source ID: Magnonia_44 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 684 (B61F4496) Date: Summer 1922 Description: Many witnesses in Warsaw, Poland, see a silvery object, shaped like two hemispheres divided by a rotating ring, that shoots a beam of light and ascends with a loud noise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists in Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1986\): 15; Poland 8 Source ID: Eberhart_403 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 685 (90949FE3) Date: Summer 1922 Description: A teenage couple, William O’Brien and Irma \(later married surname is Hinz\), walking home from a movie in Detroit, Michigan, see a large disc-shaped object hovering above a vacant lot on South Dragoon Street. Rectangular windows surround the perimeter of the UFO’s base. Seated at those windows are 20 or so bald- headed beings with close-set eyes. They stare at the witnesses, who become unnerved and leave. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 264; Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1910–1939,](http://www.cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) p. 21 Source ID: Eberhart_402 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 686 (41267AE4) Date: 9/9/1922 Description: John Morris and William James saw an object fall into the ocean so slowly that it was thought to be a plane. A boat was sent out, but nothing was found. (Magonia #45, Fort 639) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barmouth, Wales, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_77 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 687 (E260DA39) Date: 9/9/1922 Description: John Morris and William James in Barmouth, Wales saw an object fall into the ocean so slowly that they thought it might have been an airplane. A boat was sent out but nothing was found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 189; citing Charles Fort, The Books of Charles Fort, p. 639 Source ID: Johnson_5783 Source: Johnson ### Event 688 (776C72C6) Date: 9/9/1922 Description: John Morris and William James saw an object fall into the ocean so slowly that it was thought to be a plane. A boat was sent out, but nothing was found. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fort 639 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Barmouth, Wales Source ID: Magnonia_45 Source: ValléeMagnonia --- ## Year: 1923 (Back to Top) ### Event 689 (B7143F97) Date: 1923 Description: Two DePauw University college students, Andrew Wallace Crandall and [Herrick Greenleaf,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20674495/herrick-e%5Fh%5F-greenleaf) watch a revolving red object pass over Greencastle, Indiana. The object, round and glowing, moves silently from northeast to southwest, then vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lore and Deneault, [p. 106](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/106/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_404 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 690 (5414402F) Date: 1923 Description: Revolving red object passed over-head from NE to SW. Two witnesses were college professors. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greencastle, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_78 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 691 (2D437552) Date: 1923 Description: A photograph shows a domed disc hovering near the church tower in Sebeş, Romania. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 10-11 Source ID: Eberhart_405 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 692 (7E6C9719) Date: 6/1923 Description: Early Humanoid Report (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [2306xx](http://www.nicap.org/2306XXmterie%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Northern Wayne County, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_79 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 693 (F82EBCA4) Date: 10/1923 Description: Boni & Liveright publishes New Lands by [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FFort), who writes about odd aerial and astronomical observations: “It seems no more incredible that up in the seemingly unoccupied sky there should be hosts of living things than that the seeming blank of the ocean, should swarm with life.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[New Lands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%5FLands)”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 198–199; Clark III 507, 1098 Source ID: Eberhart_406 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1924 (Back to Top) ### Event 694 (8BB4801E) Date: 1/1924 Description: White oval-shaped object lit up ground, moved out of sight over horizon. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_80 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 695 (48F816A9) Date: 1/1924 Description: 1:00 a.m. Perry G. Powers and Duncan Miller are returning to a ranch when they see a beam of light shining on the snow in the Osage Hills, Oklahoma. It emanates from a large oval-shaped object with white dots of light on the side and blue flame at the trailing end. It makes a slight hissing noise and moves out of sight over the horizon in less than 3 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 129](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=141&skin=2021); “[1924 Sighting,](http://www.project1947.com/shg/csi/csiv1-4.html)” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4 \(Winter 1954\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_407 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 696 (0678C906) Date: 8/22/1924 Description: Mars enters an opposition closer to Earth than at any time in the century before. In the US, a National Radio Silence Day is promoted during a 36-hour period in August 21–23, with all radios quiet for 5 minutes on the hour, every hour, just in case the Martians take the opportunity to communicate with Earth. At the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., an SE-950 radio receiver is lifted 1.9 miles above the ground in a dirigible tuned to a wavelength between 8 and 9 kilometers, using a “radio photo message continuous transmission machine” recently invented by Amherst College and [Charles Francis Jenkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FFrancis%5FJenkins) of Washington. The program is led by retired astronomer [David Peck Todd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FPeck%5FTodd) with the military assistance of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. [Edward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FWalter%5FEberle) [Walter Eberle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FWalter%5FEberle)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FWalter%5FEberle) with [William F. Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FF.%5FFriedman) \(US Army chief cryptographer\), assigned to translate any potential Martian messages. The device records radio signals on chemically treated film. One signal consists of a “fairly regular arrangement of dots and dashes along one side” and on the other “at almost evenly spaced intervals … curiously jumped groups each taking the forms of a crudely drawn human face.” Todd tells a reporter, “It may not be a message from Mars, but if it isn’t from Mars, where is it from?” Astronomer [Frederick E. Fowle](https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris%5Fsic%5F14002) of the Smithsonian thinks they are “disturbances introduced by solar or terrestrial causes not yet understood.” Other scientists suggest the images are caused by static discharge from a passing trolley car, malfunctioning radio equipment, or the natural symphonic radio waves produced by Jupiter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jerome Clark, “Conversations with Martians,” IUR 29, no. 3 \(Fall 2004\): 20; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 11–12; Kristen Gallerneaux, “[Reaching for Mars,](https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/reaching-for-mars)” Past Forward, August 23, 2016; Jessica Leigh Hester, “[Everybody Shut Up! We’re Listening for Mars,](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/radio-signals-from-mars)” Atlas Obscura, August 3, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_408 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 697 (F4A97199) Date: Fall 1924 Description: Dusk. A hunter in a rowboat on Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, sees a faint blue light moving from northeast to southwest. It temporarily disappears behind a mountain but reappears and approaches the boat, passing it at a distance of 200 feet and a speed of 30–40 mph. The object is pearly silver in color with faint dark blue light at the rear. After moving a quarter mile away, it ascends and disappears at terrific speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1171–1172 Source ID: Eberhart_409 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1925 (Back to Top) ### Event 698 (0DE6C376) Date: 1925 Description: Thomas Green is riding with another young man on a farm near Moora, Western Australia, when they come across an object “like two saucers placed edge on edge” resting on a paddock. Some oval-shaped windows are visible, and it is resting on four legs splayed outwards. The two decide to return home. Several days later they return and find the earth “scuffed about” on the spot. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[Historical Australian UFO Reports,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20Newsletter/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20newsletter%20vol%204%20no%203.pdf)” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3 \(Nov./Dec. 1983\): 28 Source ID: Eberhart_410 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 699 (0C6CFB46) Date: 6/1925 Description: 2:30 a.m. A driver stops his Ford Model T to watch a 300-foot-long, cigar-shaped object flying south toward Chicago, Illinois. Red sparks are peeling away from its nose and it has multicolored lights. As it passes in front, the driver feels a heat wave. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: San Diego \(Calif.\) Evening Tribune, August 12, 1965; Clark III 1171 Source ID: Eberhart_411 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 700 (D348DE33) Date: 7/14/1925 Description: A married couple, Mr. & Mrs. Slagle, witnessed a 200 foot long "comet" with illuminated windows on side make a hissing sound as it flew over Akron, Ohio at 9:45 p.m. It then shot up vertically into the sky at an incredible speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucers magazine, January 1962, p. 13; Jerome Clark, Saga UFO Report, October 1975, p. 48; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 362, citing UFO Register, volume 9 (1978 Source ID: Johnson_4043 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1926 (Back to Top) ### Event 701 (E1B10AAD) Date: 1926 Description: UFO’s seen around Altai Himalaya Type: UFO sighting Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Himalaya Mountains Source ID: Maj2_33 Source: Maj2 ### Event 702 (7E793C9D) Date: 1926 Alternate date: 1927 Description: 3:00 p.m. A 14-year-old girl is tending cows in a meadow between Brzezie and Ujazd, Poland. Suddenly the cows become agitated and pull on their halters. She notices three cement-colored spherical objects some 650 feet away in a field to the north. In front of each is a small entity dressed in greenish uniforms. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 9 Source ID: Eberhart_412 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 703 (EC6ADDB3) Date: 1/1926 Description: Several Circular Objects Surrounded Plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [260100](http://www.nicap.org/2601XXwichita%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Witicha, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_81 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 704 (E2B8C223) Date: 1/1926 Description: Aviator [Bert Acosta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%5FAcosta) is flying somewhere between Wichita, Kansas, and Colorado Springs, Colorado, when he notices 6 or so objects that look like manhole covers flying off his starboard wing 600 feet away. They keep pace with his plane for 5 minutes. Finally they turn, change course, and fly away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Ace ed., 1965, [p. 49](https://archive.org/details/anatomyofphenome00vall/page/48/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Pilots UFO Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-wichitajan1926.htm)” August 6, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_413 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 705 (CE0BE721) Date: 6/1926 Description: After midnight. Farmer Ion Bunescu is with his horses on the Leurda plateau near Colun, Romania, when he sees a light ascend from the village of Cârța. An illuminated globe moves toward him with a light so strong that it brightens the River Olt some 2.5 miles away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 224–225; Romania 9–11 Source ID: Eberhart_414 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 706 (E35B6B13) Date: 8/1926 Description: Dusk. Frank Tezky and his father watch 6 disc-shaped objects in Westmont, Illinois. Five smaller discs are trailing in a straight line behind a much larger one, moving west beneath cirrus clouds, which reflect the light cast by the objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1170 Source ID: Eberhart_415 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 707 (98F6F5E8) Date: 9/1926 Description: 11:00 PM. An air mail pilot was repeatedly buzzed by a long, cylindrical object. Each time the object came within about 50 yards, the aircraft engine would begin to sputter and misfire, until the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in a pasture. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salt Lake City (near), UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_82 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 708 (9A9AFCF5) Date: Late 9/1926 Description: 11:00 p.m. An Air Mail pilot named Colin Murphy is repeatedly buzzed by a huge glowing object one hour after he takes off in his DH-4 biplane from Salt Lake City, Utah. The object is a 90-foot-long cylinder with no wings or propeller. Every time the object approaches closer than 150 feet, his engine sputters and misfires. He is forced to land in a sheep pasture, whereupon the object shoots away to the south. Possible hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Pilots UFO Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-utahsep1926.htm)” August 5, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_416 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 709 (B4B58D47) Date: 10/27/1926 Description: Attorney and “telepathist” Hugh Mansfield Robinson, who has been in contact with a female Martian entity named Oomaruru since 1918, convinces the central radio office in London, England, to send out a message, “MMM opesti nipitia secomba” over the airwaves. He intends for it to be picked up by Martian wireless. The next day, he claims that Oomaruru telepathically told him that only the first three letters had been received. Robinson describes the Martians as 7–8 feet tall with large ears, a wealth of black hair, and almond eyes. Over the years he continues receiving messages from Oomaruru while in a trance and attempting to send signals to Mars. Psychic investigator [Nandor Fodor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandor%5FFodor), who has attended some of Robinson’s séances, calls him “as slippery as a human eel.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Earl J. Johnson, “[Imagination Runs Wild about Visit of Martian Realm,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92244406/)” Pomona \(Calif.\) Bulletin, October 28, 1926, p. 1; “[Doctor Files Mars Message by Radio ‘At Sender’s Risk,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92244173/)” Vancouver \(B.C.\) Sun, October 28, 1926, p. 18; Nandor Fodor, The Haunted Mind, Garrett, 1959, [pp. 259–269](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x000352645&view=1up&seq=267&skin=2021); Clark III 1018–1019; Marc Hartzman, “[Earth to Mars in the 1920s: The Strange Case of the Man Who Tried to Contact Martians via Radio,](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/the-strange-case-of-the-man-who-tried-to-contact-martians-via-radio/)” Weird Historian, February 22, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_417 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 710 (004ECAE5) Date: 11/1926 Description: Early evening. Playing hide-and-seek with friends in Bolton, Lancashire, England, Henry Thomas slips into a backyard and finds three figures dressed in odd suits made of silvery gray rubber tubes. They are looking into a window in the back of a house. A tube extends from their helmets into a tank on each figure’s back. They turn to look at him and he sees their heads are pale and “shaped like lightbulbs” and they have slits for mouths. Thomas runs away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[1926: Humanoid Hide and Seek,](https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/1926-humanoid-hide-and-seek/)” ThinkAboutIt; Clark III 264 Source ID: Eberhart_418 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1927 (Back to Top) ### Event 711 (974AD2A2) Date: 1927 Description: For a few weeks, 10-year-old [Cecil “Danny” McGann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151868178/cecil-thomas-mcgann), his family, and other farmers in the area of Fernvale, New South Wales, are terrorized by dancing aerial lights during the night, the unusual deaths of their cattle and pigs, mystery intruders, apparitions, circular areas of scorched grass, large and unfamiliar birds, bizarre noises, and strange men in odd suits. McGann is still terrified of this series of events when he relates them to UFO investigator [Bill Chalker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FChalker) in 1985. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 485–491; Bill Chalker, “Physical Traces,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 190 Source ID: Eberhart_419 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 712 (BAC5A179) Date: Summer 1927 Description: [Reece Andrew Lacey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132622971/reece-andrew-lacey)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132622971/reece-andrew-lacey) 9, sees a large fish-like object with “big fins extended outward near the front, and small, short ones near the rear” in Wolfe County, Kentucky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 11, no. 2 \(December 1958\): 111–112; Clark III 1171 Source ID: Eberhart_420 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 713 (6787CBE9) Date: 7/1927 Description: Agricultural engineer Gheorghe Achimescu sees a smoke-gray, cylindrical object fly silently from west to east over the village of Nicolae Bălcescu, Romania, at an altitude of 650–950 feet. He estimates it is about 50 feet long with a diameter of 10 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 152–153 Source ID: Eberhart_421 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 714 (FC42C292) Date: 8/5/1927 Description: We all saw, in the direction north to south, something big and shiny reflecting sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [270805](http://www.nicap.org/270805himalayasdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Himalayan Mts., Nepal Source ID: NICAP_DB_84 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 715 (4413ABC9) Date: 8/5/1927 Description: At 9:30 in the morning while climbing in the Humbolt Range of the Altai Mountains in Mongolia, explorer Nicholas Roerich and seven companions saw a huge, shiny, flying oval-shaped object that reflected the sunlight. It flew from north to south, then changed direction and flew off to the southeast. The UFO was in view for several minutes and was examined through binoculars. Witnesses of the daylight UFO included members of the mountaineering expedition, Mongols, and Buriat lamas. The lamas believed it was the "Sign of Shambala." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 22; J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_4669 Source: Johnson ### Event 716 (10990C7B) Date: 8/5/1927 Description: Explorer [Nicholas Roerich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%5FRoerich) and others in his caravan observe a UFO near Qinghai Lake, Tibet. “We all saw, in the direction north to south, something big and shiny reflecting sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing our camp this thing changed in its direction from south to southwest, and we saw how it disappeared in the intense blue sky. We even had time to take our field glasses and saw quite distinctly the oval form with the shiny surface, one side of which was brilliant from the sun." Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nicholas Roerich, Altai-Himalaya, Frederick A. Stokes, 1929, [pp. 361–362](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.16090/page/n411/mode/2up); Brad Sparks, “[Analysis: Roerich Case, Aug. 5, 1927](http://www.nicap.org/270805himalayasdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_422 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 717 (C539C83A) Date: Late Summer 1927 Description: Long delayed echoes—radio echoes that return to the sender several seconds after a radio transmission has occurred—are first observed by civil engineer and amateur radio operator Jørgen Hals from his home near Oslo, Norway. The cause of LDEs remains unknown, although A. G. Shlionsky has proposed 15 different explanations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Long delayed echo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%5Fdelayed%5Fecho)”; Carl Størmer, “[Short Wave Echoes and the Aurora Borealis,](https://www.nature.com/articles/122681a0)” Nature 122 \(1928\): 681; Sverre Holm, “[The Five Most Likely Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes,](https://www.mn.uio.no/fysikk/english/people/aca/sverre/articles/lde.html)” March 16, 2004; Sverre Holm, “[15 Possible Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes,](https://www.mn.uio.no/fysikk/english/people/aca/sverre/articles/shlionskiy15.html)” November 6, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_423 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 718 (49515599) Date: 10/18/1927 Description: Richard Sweed is driving west on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California, when he sees a bluish-gray metallic disc with portholes take off from the ground at a 45° angle. It is about 60 feet in diameter and makes a whining sound. He examines the spot where the object had rested and finds the sand “fused like glass crystals.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 18 Source ID: Eberhart_424 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 719 (D8EDFFF9) Date: 10/18/1927 Description: A man by the man of Sweed witnessed a hexagonal flying craft with rivets and a dome that was flying low over a road in Bakersfield, California. A human looking occupant was seen inside a window. The object shot away extremely fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_6946 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1928 (Back to Top) ### Event 720 (DD2D3AAC) Date: 1/3/1928 Description: Kansas journalist [Charles Benedict Driscoll](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FBenedict%5FDriscoll) begins writing about ball lighting in his syndicated column, “The World and All,” keeping the subject alive for many years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles B. Driscoll, “[The World and All,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92248083/)” Lexington \(Ky.\) Herald, January 3, 1928, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_425 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 721 (79A72C75) Date: 5/1928 Description: Mystic and white supremacist [William Dudley Pelley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FDudley%5FPelley) claims he has an out-of-body experience in which he travels to other planes of existence devoid of corporeal souls. He describes his experience in an American Magazine article titled “My Seven Minutes in Eternity,” expanded to a book 1933 as Seven Minutes in Eternity. In later writings, he describes the experience as “hypo-dimensional.” During this event, he meets with God and Jesus, who instruct him to undertake the spiritual transformation of America. He later claims that the experience gives him the ability to levitate, see through walls, and have out-of-body experiences at will. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: William Dudley Pelley, [“Seven Minutes in Eternity” with Their Aftermath](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112052129936&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112052129936&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021) Robert Collier, 1929; Clark III 1285 Source ID: Eberhart_426 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 722 (A3EEF174) Date: 6/13/1928 Description: 9:00–10:00 p.m. Something like a “great blurred electric light” appears over Miami, Florida, for more than 30 minutes. One witness, amateur astronomer R. C. Fahrion, describes it as a comet without a tail, but it does not move, is of an “enormous size,” and disappears very suddenly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Miami Astronomers Unable to Identify Light in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92249976/) [Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92249976/)” Miami Herald, June 14, 1928, p. 1; “[Miamians Watch Sky Mystery, Mistaken for Tailless Comet,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92250138/)” Miami News, June 14, 1928, p. 12; Clark III 1172 Source ID: Eberhart_428 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 723 (EECD9BDA) Date: Summer 1928 Description: A 6-year-old girl sees a black, faceless, 5-foot-high figure with a large head and dangling arms in a field off Anstey Lane, Leicester, England. She thinks it is a scarecrow but notices a “large globe on legs” near the figure. She wakes up her father \(who is resting in the open air\) but when she turns around, the scarecrow and the globe are gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Pauline Berger, “[The Disappearing Scarecrow,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1969\): 29; Clark III 264 Source ID: Eberhart_427 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 724 (F09F4184) Date: 10/1928 Description: Richard E. Byrd’s first expedition to Antarctica. He set up a large base on the Ross Ice Shelf, called Little America. This was the first of the American bases on the continent and was well-equipped. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/) Location: Antarctica Source ID: Maj2_34 Source: Maj2 ### Event 725 (74A46571) Date: 11/1928 Description: A UFO, round "like an inverted soup plate," sped overhead emitting rays of light which illuminated the ground and startled cattle. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milton, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_85 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 726 (6C4AAC6D) Date: Early 11/1928 Description: 10:30 p.m. [Norman H. Sabie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114843467/norman-sabie) and [Thorsten Sabie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114842471/thorsten-sabie) are driving cattle near Milton, North Dakota, watch a round, metallic object, like a “soup bowl turned upside down,” speed by at a low altitude \(15–20 feet\), emitting 4–5 rays of light that illuminate the ground and startle cattle. It makes a sound like air pouring through a tube. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 129](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=141&skin=2021); Clark III 1170 Source ID: Eberhart_429 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 727 (B2F89CAF) Date: 11/28/1928 Description: French diplomatic scholar [Henri Pensa](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%5FPensa) writes that a silvery object trailing fire is seen in Rodez, Aveyron, France, coming from the “direction of Mars.” He says that in the winter of 1927–1928, he has seen a bright light, usually between 8:00 and 11:00 p.m., that brightens the landscape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Giuseppe Stilo, “[Francia, 1928:](https://cieloinsolito.com/?p=724) [Marte Attacca?](https://cieloinsolito.com/?p=724)” Cielo Insolito, October 2, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_430 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1929 (Back to Top) ### Event 728 (EF12D4FB) Date: 1929 Description: In Hertford, England, a 5-year-old girl and her 8-year-old brother have such an unsettling experience that they do not talk about it themselves until about 1960, and the woman herself does not reveal it to outsiders until 1970. They are playing in a garden when they hear engine sounds and see a tiny \(12 or 15 inches wide\) biplane coming over the fence from the direction of an orchard. It swoops down, nearly hitting a trash can, and lands for a few seconds before resuming its flight. While it is stationary, the girl can see a “perfectly proportioned tiny pilot wearing a leather flying helmet, who waved to us as he took off.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[A Weird Case from the](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf) [Past,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 30; Clark III 1173 Source ID: Eberhart_431 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 729 (E5CC37A2) Date: Spring 1929 Description: SAUCER SIGHTED YEAR WALL STREET COLLAPSES - Larry Reynolds of San Francisco, California saw a mysterious object in the clouds. The day was early spring and occasional clouds hid the oval-shaped craft from time to time. At times it was clearly visible and Reynolds judged its size to be tremendous. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fate Magazine 1952 (Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)) Location: Bainbridge Island, WA Source ID: Maj2_35 Source: Maj2 ### Event 730 (F558D3A6) Date: 4/1929 Description: Possible UFO In Old Photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [2904xx](http://www.nicap.org/2904XXward%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ward, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_87 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 731 (45415843) Date: 6/12/1929 Description: Levis Brosseau, age 20, was riding home in Fermeneuve, Quebec on horseback at 11:00 p.m. when he saw a dark object with a yellow light landed on the ground. His horse became very nervous. The object was estimated to be 15 meters in diameter and 5 meters high, and he witnessed four or five dwarfish figures running back and forth within 6 meters of the object. He heard their sharp, childlike voices. The dark object then took off with a machine-like sound and rush of air. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pg. 189 Source ID: Johnson_3431 Source: Johnson ### Event 732 (160B0CDC) Date: 6/12/1929 Description: 11:00 p.m. Levis Brosseau, 20 was returning home when he saw a dark object with a yellow light and his horse became very nervous. Within 6 m of the object four or five dwarfish figures were running back and forth. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fermeneuve, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_88 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 733 (129D81DC) Date: 6/12/1929 Description: 11:00 p.m. As he is driving home at Ferme-Neuve, Quebec, Levis Brosseau, 20, sees something like a black cloud with a yellow light resting on a hillside. He gets out to investigate and discerns a structured object 50 feet in diameter. Outside of it, 4–5 small men of yellowish color are moving quickly about. Soon the object flies overhead, “purring like a milk separator,” and he hears two voices arguing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) [Index 1910–1939](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) p. 31; Clark III 264 Source ID: Eberhart_432 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 734 (60FCEE65) Date: 6/12/1929 Time: 2300 Description: Levis Brosseau, 2O was returning home when he saw a dark object with a yellow light and his horse became very nervous. Within 6 m of the object four or five dwarfish figures were running back and forth. He heard their pointed, childlike voices, then saw the dark object take off with a machinelike sound and a rush of air. Estimated size of object: 15 m diameter, 5 m high. Type: ufo sighting Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Fermeneuve, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_46 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 735 (97E01230) Date: 7/1929 Description: Five persons among them Einar Rostivold, saw a huge ball of light giving off fiery colors, 25 km from Robsart. It landed slowly, vanished gradually after illuminating the whole countryside for 30 min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fate Jan., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Robsart, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_47 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 736 (9EBFA276) Date: 7/1929 Description: Five persons among them Einar Rostivold, saw a huge ball of light giving off fiery colors, 25 km from Robsart. It landed slowly, vanished gradually after illuminating the whole countryside for 30 min. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Robsart, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_91 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 737 (41BC30B2) Date: 9/1929 Description: Medical student William Walton is crossing a street in Oak Park, Illinois, when he sees a very bright yellowish-white light like two saucers pressed together. It approaches his position, and he hears a humming sound like the throbbing of a turbine and feels heat and pressure. The object passes over him at about 100 feet altitude, but the force knocks him to his knees. After it passes, he detects an odor of sulfur. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Linda Zimmerman, More Hudson Valley UFOs, Eagle Press, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_433 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 738 (992C1EB1) Date: 10/4/1929 Description: US stock market crashes Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929) Location: New York City, New York Source ID: Maj2_36 Source: Maj2 ### Event 739 (D89F0C07) Date: 11/29/1929 Description: Richard E. Byrd and his companions would become the first to fly over the South Pole. The flight took 19 hours to fly from Little America to the Pole and return. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/) Location: Antartica Source ID: Maj2_37 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1930 (Back to Top) ### Event 740 (B4E8BD69) Date: 1930 Description: 9:30 p.m. Two men walking along a lane at Tomintoul, Scotland, see a white light “like a meteor.” When it gets brighter, they can see figures moving inside it. The witnesses think it is a ghost light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1930-00-00-uk-tomintoul.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1930-00-00-uk-tomintoul.htm) September 20, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_436 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 741 (2D50EB0F) Date: 1930 Description: Day. Schoolboys and teachers at the Barton Hill Academy in Bristol, England, watch a cigar-shaped metallic object speed across the sky faster than a dirigible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 16–19 Source ID: Eberhart_435 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 742 (0DA6AB7B) Date: 1930 Description: 10:00 a.m. A woman is driving the family car in an isolated hilly area of Texas when she rounds a curve and sees a huge object about 100 feet across by the side of the road. A small door is open with steps leading down to the ground. One side of the object is braced up by two slender legs with round plates for feet. A man of normal size comes walking toward her and forces her to stop. He seems to speak to her telepathically, telling her to leave the road and make a shortcut through a gully. Some 8–10 other figures walk forward, much smaller and with slanted eyes. They are wearing tan coveralls and tight caps. Despite potential damage to her car, she drives through the gully as the larger man walks alongside. The next thing she remembers is walking up to her porch at her home 15 miles away. It is around 12:00 midnight. In March 1968, having read Interrupted Journey about the Betty and Barney Hill case, she writes to the Colorado project and offers herself for hypnosis and research. [Edward Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) files the letter under “psychological” and does not respond. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Too Close for Condon: Close Encounters of the 4th Kind,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 4–5; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1930-00-00-usa-texas.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1930-00-00-usa-texas.htm) August 29, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_434 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 743 (685D6BAC) Date: Spring 1930 Alternate date: Spring 1931 Description: 7:00 p.m. As he walks down a country road near Newberry, Michigan, high school student Ralph Newman sees a “distinctly green fireball” in the low eastern sky that moves from south to north. About the size of the full moon, its light brightens the countryside, then it vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1175 Source ID: Eberhart_437 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 744 (89988EE8) Date: 4/15/1930 Description: A farmer in Largentiere, France saw a bright orange glowing, cone-shaped object on the ground at 5:30 a.m. The object took off slowly and flew away. The grass was flattened where the object had been. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 14, citing Dominique Weinstein Source ID: Johnson_2017 Source: Johnson ### Event 745 (03102681) Date: 5/1930 Description: Day. A top-shaped object 40 feet wide lands in a garden in Greensboro, North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Rankin and their two daughters can see the head and shoulders of a figure inside wearing a tight-fitting outfit and helmet. Some 5–10 minutes later the object ascends quietly and is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) [Index 1910–1939](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) p. 33; Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1930-05-00-usa-greensboro.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1930-05-00-usa-greensboro.htm) September 15, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_438 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1931 (Back to Top) ### Event 746 (D936425F) Date: 1/1/1931 Description: UFO sighted in early morning, had bright light on front which lit up tree-tops, flashing lights on rear. Object made sweeping curve, sped up and climbed out of sight. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cobden, Ont, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_92 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 747 (D200EC66) Date: 1/1/1931 Description: 1:00 a.m. J. Stewart Childerhose and his brother, two farmers of Cobden, Ontario, see an object with a brilliant white light on its front illuminating treetops on the shore of Muskrat Lake. Green and white lights twinkle on its tail end. It moves in a rectangular path, then speeds up suddenly and climbs out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lore and Deneault, [p. 108](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/108/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_439 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 748 (14693F22) Date: 1/26/1931 Description: Author [Tiffany Thayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany%5FThayer) founds the Fortean Society during a dinner with [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FFort) in the Savoy-Plaza Hotel in New York City in order to promote his books and ideas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Fortean Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortean%5FSociety)”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 239–241 Source ID: Eberhart_440 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 749 (EF0B9B48) Date: 2/1931 Description: [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FFort) writes in Lo!, published this month, that “Unknown, luminous things, or beings, have often been seen, sometimes close to this earth, and sometimes high in the sky. It may be that some of them were living things that occasionally come from somewhere else.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lo!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo!)”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 235–243; Clark III 507–508, 1098 Source ID: Eberhart_441 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 750 (1FD00523) Date: 5/1931 Description: 4:30 p.m. Pasquale Masala is out riding his horse with a friend a few miles southeast of Paulilatino, Sardinia, Italy. When they reach a megalithic tomb known as Nuraghe Trudumeddu, they dismount to enjoy the view. Suddenly, a strange object the size and shape of a football emerges from the partially blocked entrance of the tomb. It travels at a height of about 3 feet above the ground at a constant speed of about 10–15 mph and enters a thick patch of undergrowth. Marsala runs after it for about a half mile and notices that the bushes part in front of the object and close up after it passes. His companion is frightened and insists on returning to the village. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mary Boyd, “[An Early Italian Cross-Country Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 \(December 1974\): 21; 1Pinotti 13– 14 Source ID: Eberhart_442 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 751 (1330E374) Date: 6/6/1931 Description: Aviator [Francis Chichester](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%5FChichester) sees a dull gray-white “airship” as he is making the first solo flight in a Gypsy Moth seaplane from New Zealand to Australia over the Tasman Sea. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Francis Chichester, The Lonely Sea and the Sky, Hodder and Stoughton, 1964, [p. 165](https://archive.org/details/lonelyseasky0000chic/page/164/mode/2up); Keith Basterfield, “[Aviator Francis Chichester’s Classic Sighting: Is the](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2018/05/aviator-francis-chichesters-classic.html) [Date Wrong?](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2018/05/aviator-francis-chichesters-classic.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena–Scientific Research, May 29, 2018; Patrick Gross, “[Francis](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/chichester1931.htm) [Chichester Sighting, 1931](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/chichester1931.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_443 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 752 (CC951A30) Date: 6/10/1931 Description: About the middle of the afternoon Sir F. Chichester spotted a dull grayish-white airship while flying over the Tasman Sea, off the coast of Australia. The object reflected light off its front surface. It appeared to draw closer, but then dimished in size, seemed to become transparent, and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James E. McDonald investigation files, case 004 Source ID: Johnson_3402 Source: Johnson ### Event 753 (AFD01F74) Date: Summer 1931 Description: Alice May Williams of Auckland, New Zealand, begins writing letters over a two-year period to [Edison Pettit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%5FPettit) and [Seth Barnes Nicholson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%5FBarnes%5FNicholson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%5FBarnes%5FNicholson) astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California, describing her encounters with telepathic aliens who fly in a circular machine “like a great big lamp.” She writes that “The Planet mars is inhabited by human spirits like us can talk eat & drink wear clothes, but have great power. They are something people of this earth have never seen.” Their ships “are round like the moon with airtight shutter at the front, glass. The machine must be built with some light material, airproof fireproof, waterproof. The inside must be like a room, 2 beds tables & chairs.” Much of her information seems to be derived from articles in the Auckland Star about conditions elsewhere in the solar system. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Herkt, “[Who No: Letters from Alice May](https://publicaddress.net/speaker/who-no-letters-from-alice-may-williams/) [Williams,](https://publicaddress.net/speaker/who-no-letters-from-alice-may-williams/)” Speaker: Public Address, September 3, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_444 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 754 (B693205E) Date: 11/1/1931 Description: Flaming, one-hundred foot blimp (Page 6 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_93 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1932 (Back to Top) ### Event 755 (C2D31FB0) Date: 1932 Description: Danish pilots Lt. Col. Peter Grunnet and Lt. Tage Andersen are flying an H.M.II \(Heinkel HE 8\) seaplane over eastern Greenland as part of a photogrammetric survey. Suddenly, Andersen notices they are being followed by a hexagonal metallic object about a mile behind them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Rufus Drake, “UFO Crisis over Greenland,” Saga, October 1976, pp. 36–38, 54, 60; Patrick Gross, “[Pilots UFO Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-greenland1932.htm)” August 8, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_445 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 756 (43C19A7F) Date: 1932 Alternate date: 1933 Description: About seven brilliant objects in a group flew from 30 degrees elevation in the east to 45 degrees elevation in the west, in an arc. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oakland, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_94 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 757 (8B3A4B80) Date: 1932 Alternate date: 1933 Description: The object was cigar-shaped, emitting a pink glow at its front and a light swirl of grey smoke along its sides. It was huge compared to any other plane, and it had no rudder, \[wings,\] or elevator. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [32 or 33](http://www.nicap.org/hawthorne32xxxxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawthorne, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_95 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 758 (D0427A62) Date: 1/29/1932 Description: Aluminum-like disc with periphery of yellowish lights or "portholes" on underside. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_96 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 759 (9D45CD0B) Date: 4/1932 Alternate date: 5/1932 Description: Airplane. (Page 6 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Durham, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_97 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 760 (46ABD443) Date: 4/1932 Alternate date: 5/1932 Description: Terry F. Lapeza sees an aluminum-like disc with yellowish lights or “portholes” on the underside, about 100 feet in diameter over Durham, New York. It is moving north at about 300 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 129](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=141&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_446 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 761 (5B314DDB) Date: 5/1932 Description: Sutton photo of domed disc (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [320500](http://www.nicap.org/parisoh.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paris, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_98 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 762 (EE47E8C0) Date: 5/4/1932 Description: During a time of personal crises, the witness, now a retired pastor, found himself in a city of 16,000 located 150 miles west of Toronto, Ontario. On this particular night he was standing on a street lit up by a brilliant white light from above. Looking up, he saw the light came from a round cloud with a scalloped edge, about 200 yards overhead. From the cloud-like object streamed down a light like a laser beam. He next saw a young man with golden hair standing beside him, dressed in a suit of a similar color. The man had radiant blue eyes, and was about 5.5 feet tall. He smiled at the witness and told him that his work would be in that city, and reminded him that “the cottages in the rear of the mansion are as important as those who dwell in the mansion.” He told him the witness would reside there for six years and would then work his way to the west coast. According to the man’s account, the prophecies were fulfilled. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1932-01 (A0103), citing John Musgrave & Ted Bloecher Source ID: Johnson_2499 Source: Johnson ### Event 763 (D54B0D0B) Date: 6/1932 Description: Evening. [Reuben D. Knight](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56347611/reuben-d-knight) is standing on the porch of his farmhouse near Wattsburg, Pennsylvania, when he notices a bright speck of light approaching from some woods to the south. Growing in size, it comes to within 4 feet of him and appears as a silvery-blue ball about 14 inches in diameter. It travels in a loop and circles back to the woods in a steady path of 35–40 mph. After it circles past him again, he calls his wife and she sees the ball make a final loop before it disappears in the woods. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file; Clark III 1175; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1932-06-00-usa-wattsburg.htm), August 19, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_448 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 764 (3C2D30A3) Date: Early Summer 1932 Alternate date: Early Summer 1933 Description: 7:30 p.m. Teenager Fred W. Van Sant and his brother Milton see 7–8 “meteors flying in a bunch” over hills east of Oakland, California. They maintain the same altitude from east to west in a great arc. The objects are silent and are so bright they seem to be emitting their own light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file; Clark III 1175 Source ID: Eberhart_447 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1933 (Back to Top) ### Event 765 (B7BE9A5B) Date: 1933 Description: Richard E. Byrd’s 2nd expedition to Antarctica. In 1934 he spends 5 months alone in a hut, 100’s of km’s from the nearest support, in total darkness. He almost dies from carbon monoxide poisoning. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/) Location: Antartica Source ID: Maj2_38 Source: Maj2 ### Event 766 (639895E0) Date: 1933 Description: Earl J. Duncan and a Native American boy are in a truck near Fort Washakie, Wyoming, on the Wind River Indian Reservation. As they reach the crest of a hill, they see three perfectly round, pulsating, orange-red balls about 900 feet away. They are moving “in absolute alignment” about 20 feet from the ground toward the nearest mountain range. After 5 minutes of silent movement they disappear over a nearby mountain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAp case file; Clark III 1175 Source ID: Eberhart_449 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 767 (279E1C19) Date: 1/21/1933 Description: At 10:50 p.m. a luminous white object, with the apparent size of a 12 cm coin held at arms length, hovered over Bondy, Seine-St-Denis, France for five minutes, rose higher in the air, then shot overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 316 Source ID: Johnson_398 Source: Johnson ### Event 768 (CD3878EC) Date: 1/30/1933 Description: Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany. Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power) Location: Germany Source ID: Maj2_39 Source: Maj2 ### Event 769 (E2BE167A) Date: 3/4/1933 End date: 4/12/1945 Description: President Franklin D. Roosevelt in office. Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_40 Source: Maj2 ### Event 770 (0AF182C5) Date: 6/1/1933 Description: English mountaineer [Frank Smythe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FSmythe)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FSmythe) during the British Mount Everest Expedition in the Himalaya Mountains of Nepal, is heading for camp at 27,500 feet when he sees two dark objects floating in the blue sky. In shape they resemble kite balloons, except that one appears to possess short squat wings. As they hover motionless, they seem to pulsate in and out as though they are breathing. A minute or two later they disappear behind mountain mist. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank S. Smythe, Camp Six: An Account of the 1933 Mount Everest Expedition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937, [pp. 264–265](https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6684/page/n301/mode/2up); Barry Greenwood, “[UFOs on Mt. Everest in 1933,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr05.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 5 \(July 1999\): 2–3 Source ID: Eberhart_453 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 771 (2BF092A4) Date: 6/13/1933 Description: An unknown aircraft allegedly crashes at Magenta, just west of Milan, Italy. The Italian government establishes a top-secret group, Gabinetto Ricerche Speziale/33, to examine the craft. It is headed by Prime Minister [Benito Mussolini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito%5FMussolini), Foreign Minister [Galeazzo Ciano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeazzo%5FCiano), and Air Marshal [Italo Balbo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo%5FBalbo), with scientific support from [Guglielmo Marconi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo%5FMarconi) and astronomer [Gino Cecchini](http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/gino-cecchini%5F%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/)[.](http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/gino-cecchini%5F%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/) Debris is reportedly stored in the hangars of the SIAI- Marchetti aircraft company in Vergiate, Varese. Journalists are ordered to keep silent about the incident due to national security. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 12–15](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/12/mode/2up); Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni, Gli “X-Files” del Nazifascismo, 2001; 2Pinotti 179–197 Source ID: Eberhart_454 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 772 (D48E5BF4) Date: Summer 1933 Time: Morning Description: A man observed a faint violet light in a field between this town and Morrestown. Walking to it, he found an ovoid object 3 m in diameter and 2 m thick with a circular opening similar to a vault door. Pushing it, he found the room full of violet light and observed many instruments, no occupant. Smell of ammonia. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Jul., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chrysville, Pennsylvania Source ID: Magnonia_48 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 773 (0193BBB4) Date: Summer 1933 Description: For weeks, strange lights in the sky are reported around Tobin Lake, Saskatchewan. Curious about the reports, two young men and a woman drive to the lake from Napawin. On their way they see a glow near the horizon, so they park and trek a quarter mile into the woods where they can see a large, oval-shaped craft sitting on legs. From an open central doorway shines a bright orange glow; a ladderlike stairway extends downward with a dozen figures dressed in silver suits moving up and down the steps. They appear to be repairing the craft. The witnesses watch for 30 minutes when they decide to return to their truck and get closer. Two nights later they return and find imprints and burn marks, which they photograph. Two of them write an article that they submit to magazines, which refuse to publish what they consider outlandish fiction. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Brent Musgrave, “[Saskatchewan, 1933: UFO](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%206.pdf) [Stops for ‘Repairs,’](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 \(April 1977\): 16–17; Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1933-canada-nipawin.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1933-canada-nipawin.htm) July 15, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_450 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 774 (9E1050E1) Date: Summer 1933 Description: 2:30 a.m. A man who still insists on anonymity in 1964 is driving near Cherryville, Pennsylvania, when his car gets a flat tire. As he is jacking it up, he sees a faint violet light in the field on his right. Curious, he walks about 200 feet toward the light and sees a bell-shaped object about 10 feet in diameter and 6 feet high on the grass. Light is issuing from a circular door about 1 foot in diameter. He pushes it and it swings open. Putting his head inside, he cannot see much because of the peculiar light coming from the ceiling. The chamber inside is about 6 feet in diameter, 4 feet high, and full of tubing and dials on a console. An ammonia scent pervades the room, which is notably chilly. The man then walks around the object, touching the surface, which is slick, metallic, and cold. After 10 minutes, he goes back to the car, replaces the tire, and drives home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Saucer](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92254566/) [Spotted in 1933,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92254610/)” Allentown \(Pa.\) Sunday Call-Chronicle, February 16, 1964, pp. B1–B2; Clark III 1175–1176; “[1933 Sighting Reported,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1964, pp. 7–8; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1933-usa-chrysville.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1933-usa-chrysville.htm) July 16, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_451 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 775 (DC55CC24) Date: Summer 1933 Description: Night. Frank Van Keuren is fishing with others along the waterway off Beach Haven, New Jersey. Suddenly they are illuminated by a searchlight coming from an object moving slowly and silently about 1,000 feet in the air. It goes on to circle some radio towers about 8 miles away, flooding them with light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 19–20 Source ID: Eberhart_452 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 776 (5E21240C) Date: Summer 1933 Description: Morning. A man observed a faint violet light in a field between this town and Morrestown. Walking to it, he found an ovoid object 3 m in diameter and 2 m thick with a circular opening similar to a vault door. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chrysville, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_99 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 777 (E18995FE) Date: 7/4/1933 Description: The Nazis become the only political party left in Germany, after all other parties are banned or split up. Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power) Location: Germany Source ID: Maj2_41 Source: Maj2 ### Event 778 (D0F53CF3) Date: 7/5/1933 Description: A huge circular object dropped down into the center of a formation of RAF fighter aircraft over Sussex, England. Two of the planes suffered engine failure and were forced to make emergency landings. One pilot suffered burns to his face and hands after his airplane passed close by the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_3834 Source: Johnson ### Event 779 (15947F9A) Date: 7/5/1933 Description: Evening. Four RAF Hawker Fury I biplanes flying over Sussex, England, encounter a gigantic light that shines directly into the center of their formation from a higher altitude. Two Hawkers experience mechanical trouble and separate. Capt. Nigel Tompkins and Lt. Bruce H. Thomas make emergency landings when both their planes’ engines quit. On his way down, Thomas passes so close to the light that it causes burns on his face and hands. Probable hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: History of the III Fighter Squadron, RAF, London Press, 1947; Jan Aldrich, “[Aircraft/UFO](http://www.project1947.com/47cats/jan42.htm) [Encounters Prior to 1942,](http://www.project1947.com/47cats/jan42.htm)” Project 1947; Patrick Gross, “[Pilots UFO Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-sussex5july1933.htm)” August 3, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_455 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 780 (F5D67881) Date: 7/5/1933 Description: Gigantic light (Page 6-7 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sussex, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_100 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 781 (9C47AA61) Date: 7/31/1933 Alternate date: 8/1/1933 Description: 9:15 p.m. Somewhere between Butt Valley Reservoir and Humbug Valley, California, high- school science teacher Paul M. Barry Jr. is skywatching when he sees two objects shoot across the sky. They are solid, prolate spheroids with a green luminescence. Their brightness changes considerably as they approach the zenith and diminish as they approach the horizon. He thinks they are 8–10 miles distant. The two objects disappear and are followed by a third. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1175 Source ID: Eberhart_456 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 782 (1638863F) Date: 8/1933 End date: 12/1933 Description: East Coast and Britain, mysterious aircraft (Page 7 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: East Coast United States, East Coast Source ID: NICAP_DB_101 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 783 (97BFEED9) Date: Fall 1933 Description: 11:45 p.m. A chemist in Contra Costa County, California, hears a humming sound outside coming from the northeast. Looking out the window, he sees the yard bathed in a steady blue-purple light. Suddenly the light goes out and the humming ends with a “pow” sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs; The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 19 Source ID: Eberhart_457 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 784 (767F1290) Date: Late 11/1933 Description: After sunset. A lone observer sees what appears to be an aircraft land on ice-covered lake Fjosoken, Sorsele, Sweden. It takes off and circles the lake for one hour, during which time it projects a powerful searchlight on the lake’s surface. However, local police interview the witness and suspect that he was looking at Venus. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 361 Source ID: Eberhart_458 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 785 (CF520BE3) Date: 12/18/1933 Description: At ten o'clock in the morning hundreds of witnesses in Onkerzeele, Belgium watched a Fatima like solar apparition, with sparks and flames from a dancing "Sun". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena magazine, issue # 12 Source ID: Johnson_8484 Source: Johnson ### Event 786 (1361A57E) Date: 12/24/1933 Description: Beam of light coming from machine (Page 7 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kalix, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_102 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 787 (DC14C8BD) Date: 12/24/1933 Description: 6:00 p.m. Witnesses in Kalix, Norrbotten, Sweden, see beams of light coming from a machine that seems to be searching the ground below. The beams are “blinding.” The sighting is part of a wave of “ghost flier” reports of gray monoplanes without identifying markings that are reported over rural areas of Scandinavia from November 15, 1933, through February 11, 1934. The Swedish Military Record Office accumulates 96 reports from Sweden, 234 from Norway, and 137 from Finland, and the Swedish Air Force undertakes at least two reconnaissance missions in search of the mystery planes. More than 50% of the reports take place between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., when Venus is low over the horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 7; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 497–499; Swords 361–363; Anders Liljegren, “[Ghost Flier](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%5FNewsletter/AFU%5F2001%5F41.pdf) [Mystery Still Unresolved,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%5FNewsletter/AFU%5F2001%5F41.pdf)” AFU Newsletter 41 \(September 2001\): 1–3 Source ID: Eberhart_459 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 788 (EAA6A2A0) Date: 12/28/1933 Description: The 4th Swedish Flying Corps begins an investigation of the ghost flyers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John A. Keel, “[Mystery](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf) [Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_460 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 789 (0483B4A7) Date: 12/30/1933 Description: Swedish customs sends a request for air support to Gen. [Eric Virgin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FVirgin%5F%28officer%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FVirgin%5F%28officer%29) head of the Swedish Air Force, to help apprehend the ghost fliers who could be smuggling liquor into Sweden. However, he is cautious and wants more information to evaluate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 361–362; Good Above, [p. 13](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/12/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_461 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 790 (061C0F74) Date: 12/30/1933 Description: Low-flying aeroplane (Page 7 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_103 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1934 (Back to Top) ### Event 791 (784C1BA8) Date: 1934 Description: INDIAN RESERVATION HAS THREE SPACE VISITORS - Earl J. Duncan of Chamblee, Ga., saw three bright round orange objects in the sky above Shoshone Indian Reservation near Fort Washakie. They were soundless and moved at a snail's pace. Duncan's sighting has many things in common with the January 29, 1952 sighting over Korea by Army planes, as appeared in Life Magazine, April 7 1952. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5) Location: Fort Washakie, WY Source ID: Maj2_42 Source: Maj2 ### Event 792 (83A36B14) Date: 1/1934 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) who has been a lecturer and counselor on spiritual topics since about 1928, opens the Monastery of the Royal Order of Tibet at 758 Manzanita Drive, Laguna Beach, California. The monastery serves as his home and headquarters until 1940. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George M. Eberhart, “George Adamski—New Age Meets the Space Age,” IUR 21, no. 2 \(Summer 1996\): 20; “[Laguna Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/laguna-beach/)” The Adamski Case, September 27, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_462 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 793 (33B6723C) Date: 1/2/1934 Description: 3:45 a.m. Olof Hedlund is taking a walk in Sorsele, Västerbotten, Sweden, when he hears an engine above him. There is a full moon and visibility is good. He sees an airplane fly over the city from the west, passing directly above the train station. It turns three times in wide circles, then it takes off to the north, following the railroad tracks. It is at about 1,300 feet altitude and visible for 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John A. Keel, “[Mystery Aeroplanes of](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf) [the 1930s, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_463 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 794 (D8DD88A4) Date: 1/9/1934 Description: A mystery airplane is seen again over Västerbotten province, Sweden. The Swedish Air Force loses two aircraft trying to discover where the plane is based. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mystery Plane Reported,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/01/10/94483337.pdf)” New York Times, January 10, 1934, p. 11; Strange Company 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_464 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 795 (3FB8B8D0) Date: 1/10/1934 Description: Gen. [Pontus Reuterswärd](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd)[,](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd) chief of armed forces in Upper Norrland, Sweden, recommends to officials of Norrbotten County that they request assistance from the Air Force to deal with the ghost fliers. Norrbotten administrator Bernard Gärde is skeptical of the “vague and unreliable” reports at first. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 361–362 Source ID: Eberhart_465 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 796 (ADBDF25B) Date: 1/22/1934 Description: A mystery aircraft flies over the military fortress at Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden, seen by 30 soldiers, and [Reuterswärd](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd) alerts the press that planes had flown over restricted military areas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John A. Keel, “[Mystery](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%204.pdf) [Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part III—The Landings,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1971\): 17; Swords 362 Source ID: Eberhart_466 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 797 (DBEDD536) Date: 1/27/1934 Description: Swedish MP [Arvid Lindman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvid%5FLindman) puts a question to Prime Minister [Per Albin Hansson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%5FAlbin%5FHansson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%5FAlbin%5FHansson) asking what action the government plans to take about the ghost fliers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 362 Source ID: Eberhart_467 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 798 (7E8C1295) Date: 2/1/1934 Description: Night. A mystery aircraft flies in circles for two hours over central London, England. Its engine is noisy, and its course can be clearly seen by its lights. On February 6, Under-Secretary of State for Air [Philip Sassoon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FSassoon) claims that it was an RAF plane carrying out a training exercise in coordination with ground forces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John A. Keel, “[Mystery Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_468 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 799 (10BEF5AF) Date: 2/2/1934 Description: Prime Minister [Hansson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%5FAlbin%5FHansson) tells the Swedish Parliament that most ghost flier sightings are misidentifications or fantasy, while others are unsolved. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 362 Source ID: Eberhart_469 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 800 (25D49C31) Date: 2/2/1934 Description: Night. A large unidentified airplane is seen over eastern Finland close to the Russian frontier, apparently scouting the district. Flights of ghost planes and mysterious lights have been seen for the past month over Helsinki and Vyborg, Finland, as well as Sweden and Norway. The Scandinavian mystery fliers continue to be seen into 1935. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Finnish Alarm Grows over ‘Ghost’ Planes,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/02/04/94488205.pdf)” New York Times, February 4, 1934, p. 9; Strange Company 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_470 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 801 (983AF50C) Date: 2/3/1934 Description: Ghost aviators (as reported by the New York Times) (Page 8 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sweden, Northern Finland, Norway, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_104 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 802 (F1C1F2EA) Date: 2/5/1934 Description: On this evening an unknown mysterious airplane made an emergency landing on Fager Mountain in Malsev, Troms, Norway. Two men were seen clearing away snow, and the engine noise was heard throughout the valley. Parallel marks in found in the snow, 75 meters in length, as well as two sets of footprints. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1971, p. 18; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0107 Source ID: Johnson_695 Source: Johnson ### Event 803 (74936E79) Date: 2/12/1934 Description: Norrbotten, Sweden, administrator Bernard Gärde officially requests assistance of the Air Force with the ghost fliers. But air surveillance has actually been taking place since early January. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 362 Source ID: Eberhart_471 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 804 (5818BBB9) Date: 3/4/1934 Description: Sweden calls off its hunt for the ghost fliers, although sightings are still being reported. Even though 24 airplanes participated in the search, no Swedish pilot has seen a ghost flier. Soldiers on the ground occasionally report sound from a motor or lights in the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 362–363 Source ID: Eberhart_472 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 805 (7C74DBAD) Date: 4/1/1934 Description: A very large aeroplane with eight propellers (Page 8 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oslo, Norway Source ID: NICAP_DB_105 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 806 (60366539) Date: 4/30/1934 Description: Gen. [Reuterswärd](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd) tells the press that several ghost flier reports in January had been of real, unidentified aircraft involved in a violation of Sweden’s airspace. MP [Elof Lindberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elof%5FLindberg) accuses him of not being competent enough to draw such a conclusion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 13](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/12/mode/2up); Swords 363 Source ID: Eberhart_473 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 807 (C745AA76) Date: 6/11/1934 Description: Night. Two mystery airplanes circle around London, England: “The machines were low enough for their outlines, as well as their navigation lights, to be clearly visible against the sky.” Regulations prohibit RAF planes from flying over London at less than 5,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John A. Keel, “[Mystery Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_474 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 808 (3083E060) Date: 6/19/1934 Description: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is established, replacing the Federal Radio Commission. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/history-of-commercial-radio) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_43 Source: Maj2 ### Event 809 (F23F6581) Date: Summer 1934 Description: Day. 9-year-old [Coral E. Lightner](http://www.noufors.com/Jim%5Fand%5FCoral%5FLorenzen.htm) and two friends watch a white object “like an open umbrella without the ribs or spurs” glide silently through the sky from the west-southwest to the northwest over Barron, Wisconsin. It moves silently with a slight undulation before it disappears after 20 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 15–16](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n11/mode/2up); “[The Wisconsin Flying Saucer That Changed UFO Research Forever,](https://www.wisconsinfrights.com/coral-lorenzen-ufo-research/)” Wisconsin Frights, September 20, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_475 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 810 (27229DC3) Date: 7/14/1934 Description: On a clear evening a perfectly circular, vividly white disc-shaped object hovered directly over a French tourist in the New Forest, north-northeast of Ringwood, Dorset, England at 8:30 p.m. A blue halo formed around the object for one minute, and then the UFO changed color from white to yellow to orange to red, whereupon it took off at high speed with a rushing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Faiveley, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1972, p. 22; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 416; Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe, p. 61; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), citing Jerome Clark Source ID: Johnson_4044 Source: Johnson ### Event 811 (3F2D805A) Date: 7/29/1934 Description: Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman is born in Elizabeth, NJ. Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_T._Friedman) Location: Elizabeth, NJ Source ID: Maj2_44 Source: Maj2 ### Event 812 (33C9454D) Date: 8/9/1934 Description: Around 5:00 a.m. Musician [Leon M. Thompson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64262206/leon-miller-thompson) is boating on Keuka Lake in western New York when he notices an odd cloud on the west side of the lake. It is in the form of an elongated cone some 60–75 feet in length and 10–15 feet in diameter at its largest point. Suddenly the sky lights up in a flash and the cloud emits a fireball that arcs across the lake to the east and leaves a fiery train. It falls on a cottage and throws up a cloud of mist or steam that slowly dissipates. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Ball of Fire Brings Thrill to Fisherman,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92277834/)” Elmira \(N.Y.\) Star-Gazette, August 4, 1934, p. 5; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 315–328 Source ID: Eberhart_476 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1935 (Back to Top) ### Event 813 (A758F1FE) Date: 1935 Description: Astronomer [Arthur M. Harding](https://chancellor.uark.edu/about/presidents-chancellors/arthur-m-harding.php) writes that “Surely there must be some forms of life on Venus that are not so very different from what we find on earth.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Arthur M. Harding, Astronomy: The Splendor of the Heavens Brought Down to Earth, Garden City Publishing, 1935, [p. 408](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.168383/page/n423/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_478 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 814 (C45F8AAE) Date: 1935 Description: 10:00 p.m. Edward Winters of the US 4th Coast Artillery Regiment watches a dull-red, Zeppelin-shaped object flying over the Panama Canal Zone at high speed from the Pacific to the Atlantic for about 30 minutes. Later it returns, moving in the opposite direction farther away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_477 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 815 (1AA79DF3) Date: 1935 End date: 1937 Description: UFO activity around Second Italo-Ethiopian War Type: UFO activity Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Ethiopia Source ID: Maj2_45 Source: Maj2 ### Event 816 (E1D65F34) Date: 1/10/1935 Description: Charles Spayde, the operator of a telegraph station west of Lima, Ohio, claims that he has been receiving a “series of strange, unintelligible signals” that are broad in wavelength and “come in all over the dial.” He is convinced they are not static or mechanical disturbances and they do not originate on this planet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jerome Clark, “Conversations with Martians,” IUR 29, no. 3 \(Fall 2004\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_479 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 817 (BF1B60CD) Date: 1/22/1935 Alternate date: 1/23/1935 Description: 8:00 p.m. A woman in Vienna, Virginia, sees a lightning-like flash in the southwest that flares up several times then dies down. It seems to come from a “great blazing light, almost a ball of fire,” that is moving around the horizon. It is lost to view in the southeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A correspondent from Vienna, Va., writes,” Science 81 \(1935\): 294 Source ID: Eberhart_480 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 818 (5DF6C6F2) Date: Spring 1935 Description: Night. A Mr. Aerts sees a brilliant circular object “like aluminum” in the sky above the roofs of nearby houses in Mechelen, Belgium. It lands and he sees two small occupants come out of the rear; they wear square helmets with short antennas and are apparently examining the exterior surface. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) [1910–1939](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1910-1939.pdf) p. 42; Clark III 265 Source ID: Eberhart_481 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 819 (8B89DD09) Date: 4/5/1935 Description: Dusk. A farmer named Mora sees a large, round, brilliant object descend and hover just above the ground near his property in Aznalcázar, Seville, Spain. Several small beings appear and stroll around it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 264–265; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1935-04-05-spain-aznalcazar.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1935-04-05-spain-aznalcazar.htm) April 9, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_482 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 820 (39476733) Date: 4/5/1935 Description: In Aznalcazar, Spain a large brilliant, round object descended from the sky 450 meters away and hovered just above the ground in a field. Several small beings got out and walked around for ten minutes. The witness, Mr. Mora, thought he had seen an emanation from God. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alfredo Moacyr Uchoa, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1971, p. 17; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case no. 5 Source ID: Johnson_1839 Source: Johnson ### Event 821 (40A42FC2) Date: 5/1935 Description: Radu Popescu and his cousin are walking by the Olt River near Drăgășani, Romania, when they come upon what seems to be a Romany wagon. They see five figures—one next to the object, two farther away, and another two next to a boat on the shore. Suddenly the figures run toward the object, something black covers it, an antenna appears, and it rises up above the river. It turns to a white color as it moves away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 121–122 Source ID: Eberhart_483 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 822 (D2AC50F5) Date: 7/1/1935 Description: The US Division of Investigation officially becomes the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Federal Bureau of Investigation, [Timeline](https://www.fbi.gov/history/timeline)[,](https://www.fbi.gov/history/timeline) March 31, 2002 Source ID: Eberhart_484 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 823 (48A6DDF6) Date: 7/8/1935 Description: The Swedish Chief of Staff releases its final report on ghost fliers. After concluding that 42 of the 487 reports investigated by Sweden, Norway, and Finland are of actual aircraft violating borders, the military admits the phenomenon is at least partially real. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 363 Source ID: Eberhart_485 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 824 (64E1EF87) Date: 10/10/1935 Description: A military witness at Nobby's Head, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia took a photograph of a circular flying object at ten p.m. The object, seen revolving on its vertical axis, had clearly visible details, and flew off to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 35 Source ID: Johnson_6695 Source: Johnson ### Event 825 (C9C8E537) Date: 11/24/1935 Description: Bright shaft of light (Page 10 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palestine, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_106 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 826 (ABE64CD7) Date: 12/1935 Description: Snake-like shafts of light hanging motionless in sky (Page 10 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_107 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1936 (Back to Top) ### Event 827 (56F0C39D) Date: 1936 Description: Atmospheric physicist [William Jackson Humphreys,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJackson%5FHumphreys) after examing 280 cases, argues that ball lightning is caused by persistence of vision, meteorites, will-o’-the-wisp, brush discharge, and other natural phenomena. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: W. J. Humphreys, “[Ball Lightning,](https://www.jstor.org/stable/984750?refreqid=excelsior%3A6a5b4e7a4b1a89bfc652ddb14931cc97)” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 76 \(1936\): 613–626 Source ID: Eberhart_486 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 828 (E5C3EBCB) Date: 1936 Description: Late evening. Mrs. E. P. Higgins and another member of the Canal Zone Astronomical Society observe a moving orange-red star passing from north to south near Miraflores Lake, Panama. Suddenly it halts and travels in three small circles from right to left. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lore and Deneault, [pp. 112–113](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/112/mode/2up); Clark III 1176 Source ID: Eberhart_487 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 829 (00E6DFE1) Date: 1/1936 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s Royal Order of Tibet publishes Universal Jewels of Life as a free monthly newsletter for those attending his meetings in Laguna Beach, California. Besides Adamski, talks are also given by Marguerite Weir, Alice Wells, and others. Beginning in May, the Royal Order has a weekly 15-minute slot on local radio stations KFOX in Long Beach and KMPC in Los Angeles. He also publishes Wisdom of the Masters of the Far East, a summary of his “ageless wisdom” teachings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Laguna Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/laguna-beach/)” The Adamski Case, September 27, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_488 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 830 (B86534B4) Date: 6/26/1936 Description: Heinrich Focke designed the world’s first practical, stable transverse twin rotor helicopter Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrich_Focke) Reference: [link](https://upperlimitaviation.edu/when-was-the-first-helicopter-invented/) Location: Germany Source ID: Maj2_46 Source: Maj2 ### Event 831 (C09ED88C) Date: 8/17/1936 Description: A metallic disc with a diameter of 33–40 feet is seen flying soundlessly near Venice, Italy. It has windows and alternating white and red lights. Two fighters from a nearby air base attempt to intercept it but cannot reach it. After maneuvering for an hour and passing above Mestre, Veneto, it appears more like a torpedo-shaped object. Two other smaller, domed discs are also seen following it. A report on the incident is sent to Foreign Minister [Galeazzo Ciano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeazzo%5FCiano)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeazzo%5FCiano)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 12](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/12/mode/2up); Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni, Gli “X-Files” del Nazifascismo, 2001 Source ID: Eberhart_489 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 832 (AEA78CC8) Date: Fall 1936 Description: Before 12:00 midnight. [Louie R. Lindblad](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5664788/louie-roland-lindblad) and five companions from Texarkana, Arkansas, are fox hunting in Bowie County, Texas \[around the current site of the Red River Army Depot\] when they observe numerous star- like objects in a circular formation. Occasionally a light would fly across the circle and take up another position until they all seem to relocate. They watch the display for about 30–40 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, no. 150, August 1980, p. 12 Source ID: Eberhart_490 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 833 (2B5B6A49) Date: 10/1936 Description: Night. Holger Berg and another worker at the Civilian Conservation Corps in Eklutna, Alaska, are walking south toward Anchorage when the see a light approaching them from the south. It is attached to a cigar-shaped object embedded in a blue-green haze and making a strange buzzing noise. As the object passes directly overhead, they notice it actually has a triangular shape and multicolored lights on its tail end. Frightened, they dive into a nearby snowbank then run back to Eklutna. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 64–66 Source ID: Eberhart_491 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 834 (07210B2D) Date: 10/10/1936 Description: 4:15 a.m. Capt. Mario Rossi, flight instructor at the airfield at Orbetello, Grosseto, Italy, is flying a Savoia- Marchetti SM.62 at 12,465 feet over Talamone, Italy, when he sees an unusual light ahead of his plane. He follows the light, which is at a slightly higher altitude and moving at nearly 440 mph. Rossi loses it after flying into a cloud for 12 minutes and finding himself over Elba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ernesto Thayaht, “[Three Sightings in Italy,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CJul-Aug%2CV%201%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 3 \(July/Aug. 1955\): 6; 1Pinotti 15–16; “[Pilots UFO Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-formichedigrosseto10oct1936.htm)” August 7, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_492 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 835 (1E718608) Date: Winter 1936 Description: Robert Damion, an astronomer of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, who has a private observatory in the Alps, claims that for several nights a “certain portion of the sky in the vicinity of Mars” has been lit up with a deep bluish tint for 40 seconds each time. He is convinced that Mars is trying to signal Earth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Strange Light from](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92280807/) [Mars Called Signal to Earth,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92280807/)” Ogden \(Utah\) Standard-Examiner, March 11, 1936, p. 12 Source ID: Eberhart_493 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1937 (Back to Top) ### Event 836 (0C34D2AD) Date: 1/1937 Description: A man who later becomes an administrator in a Missouri state agency chases a disc-shaped object in his private aircraft over Van Buren, Missouri. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena, Prentice-Hall, 1981, [p. 213](https://archive.org/details/rutledge-project-identification/page/213/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_494 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 837 (0328A33E) Date: 1/1/1937 Description: Noon. Pilot Howard S. Behr is flying a Curtiss-Wright CW-15 Sedan at 3,000 feet over Virginia on his way to Raleigh, North Carolina. Suddenly he sees an object beginning to cross his flight path about 1,000 feet below him. It looks like a gondola, gun-metal gray in color, with both of its ends turned up. He estimates it is about 35– 40 feet long and traveling at 150 mph. It moves off to his left and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jerome Clark, Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs, Citadel, 2003, p. 6; Patrick Gross, “[Pilots UFO Sightings,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/acufo-virginia1jan1937.htm)” August 7, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_495 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 838 (62459404) Date: 1/1/1937 Description: 30-40 foot in diameter object, no propellers, gun metal color (Page 10-11 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_108 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 839 (24C1B444) Date: 1/1/1937 Description: At around noon on this day a gondola-shaped object, the color of gun metal, crossed the path in front of a aircraft flying near the Virginia-North Carolina border Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_0 Source: Johnson ### Event 840 (97299278) Date: 1/4/1937 Description: New ghost flier sightings around the fortress at Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden, have prompted Gen. [Pontus](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd) [Reuterswärd](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd) to alert Minister of Defence [Janne Nilsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janne%5FNilsson) about the possibility of foreign spies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 363 Source ID: Eberhart_496 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 841 (DB0A8E9A) Date: Late 1/1937 Description: Ghost fliers return to Västerbotten, Sweden. A light is seen wandering near the horizon east of Umeå. A light brighter than a headlight is reported from a community near Dorotea. A light similar to position lights on an aircraft flies over a village outside Stensele. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 363 Source ID: Eberhart_497 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 842 (3ABBA82C) Date: 2/11/1937 Description: Several fisherman off the coast of Kvalsik, Norway watched what looked like a large plane descend toward the sea around 9:00 p.m. It extinguished its lights and produced a cloud or fog cover, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, September-October 1971, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_816 Source: Johnson ### Event 843 (59DBF987) Date: 2/11/1937 Description: 9:00 p.m. The crew of the fishing vessel Fram is departing Kvalsvik, Norway, when they notice a “large aeroplane” with red and green glowing lights resting on top of the water. The captain turns the boat around to offer assistance, but the object’s lights go out and it is cloaked in a “cloud of smoke” and vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 11 Source ID: Eberhart_498 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 844 (D6647C69) Date: 2/11/1937 Description: Large aeroplane with red and green glowing lights (Page 11, Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kvalsik, Norway Source ID: NICAP_DB_109 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 845 (80F0ECA3) Date: 2/15/1937 Description: MP [Elof Lindberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elof%5FLindberg) demands in the Swedish Parliament that a commission with civil experts, not military, should investigate the ghost flier intrusions. He suspects the military has embellished the reports to direct more resources to the northern region and to the Air Force in general. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 363 Source ID: Eberhart_499 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 846 (633D5DA2) Date: 5/19/1937 Description: [Lindberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elof%5FLindberg)’s request for a civilian ghost flier investigation is rejected by Swedish Minister of Defence [Janne](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janne%5FNilsson) [Nilsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janne%5FNilsson)[,](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janne%5FNilsson) who explains that no new facts have surfaced and few new observations have been reported. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 363 Source ID: Eberhart_500 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 847 (DD636628) Date: 5/30/1937 Description: Amateur astronomer [Latimer J. Wilson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128149374/latimer-james-wilson) of Nashville, Tennessee, is observing Mars through a 12-inch reflector when he sees a series of intermittent bright flashes across the south polar cap. A line of tiny white spots seems to extend across the cap, some coalescing to swell in a brilliant white spot that quickly becomes yellow, then red- yellow, the “phenomenon passing from left to right across the polar cap.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Latimer J. Wilson, “[Apparent Flashes](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1937PA.....45..430W) [Seen on Mars,](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1937PA.....45..430W)” Popular Astronomy 45 \(1937\): 430; Walter H. Haas, “[Flashes on Mars Observed in 1937 and](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2003JALPO..45a..43H) [Some Random Remarks,](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2003JALPO..45a..43H)” The Strolling Astronomer 45, no. 1 \(Winter 2003\): 43–45 Source ID: Eberhart_501 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 848 (3E27F611) Date: Summer 1937 Description: An object allegedly falls from the sky in Langenau \[now Czernica, Poland\] into a field belonging to [Eva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%5FBraun) [Braun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%5FBraun)’s family and is retrieved by German soldiers. It supposedly winds up in [Wernher von Braun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun)’s laboratory, but the story is probably mythical. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 116–117 Source ID: Eberhart_502 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 849 (3C4C0912) Date: 7/20/1937 Description: Light (Nicknamed Ghost Flier) (Page 11 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: London, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_110 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 850 (66CFCEE9) Date: 7/22/1937 Description: Lights of alleged aircraft (Page 11 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: 500 miles off US coast, In Air Space Source ID: NICAP_DB_111 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 851 (DED4B547) Date: 9/1937 Description: [Tiffany Thayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany%5FThayer) publishes the first issue of the Fortean Society Magazine \(retitled Doubt in 1944\) in New York City. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Fortean Society Magazine [1, no. 1](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Fortean%20Society%20Magazine%20%28Fortean%20Society%29/Fortean%20Society%20Magazine%20-%20No%2001.pdf) \(September 1937\); Clark III 516 Source ID: Eberhart_503 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 852 (F6C94E12) Date: 9/10/1937 End date: 9/12/1937 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s Royal Order of Tibet organizes a festival in Laguna Beach, California, dramatizing the “teachings of the universal masters” and a round-table discussion focusing on the “present day needs in unifying all mankind.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Laguna Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/laguna-beach/)” The Adamski Case, September 27, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_504 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 853 (2F011D0E) Date: Late 1937 Description: Objects described as coffins and swords (Page 11 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: German-Polish border, In Air Space Source ID: NICAP_DB_112 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1938 (Back to Top) ### Event 854 (833FB738) Date: 1938 Description: Harvey L. Sperry, 13, sees a white, vapor-like object moving at 5–10 mph at less than 100 feet altitude from north to south in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its rim seems to be “composed of two interwoven parts revolving and moving in opposite directions.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lore and Deneault, [p. 136](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/136/mode/2up); Clark III 1176 Source ID: Eberhart_506 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 855 (B4B7A919) Date: 1938 Description: The Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation begin contributing large amounts of money to the Council on Foreign Relations. They create various Committees on Foreign Relations throughout the country, which later become governed by the American Committees on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Influential men are chosen in several cities and are brought together for discussions in their own communities as well as participating in an annual conference in New York. These local committees serve to influence local leaders and shape public opinion to build support for the council’s policies, while also acting as “useful listening posts” through which the Council and US government can “sense the mood of the country.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Council on Foreign Relations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%5Fon%5FForeign%5FRelations)” Source ID: Eberhart_505 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 856 (08E29CCF) Date: 2/1938 Description: [Raymond A. Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) is hired as editor of Amazing Stories magazine, owned by Ziff-Davis in Chicago, Illinois. He immediately sets out to enliven the periodical, which is close to folding. Concentrating on “space opera” stories, he expands its size to more than 200 pages and encourages readers to contribute content. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Raymond A. Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer\#Career)” Source ID: Eberhart_507 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 857 (3CAD7703) Date: 2/8/1938 Description: Things like glowing spheres that were floating in the British sky (Page 11-12 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_113 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 858 (E86A44DA) Date: Summer 1938 Description: Midnight. Artist Malcolm B. Perry sees what looks like a Navy blimp moving east to west over Somerville, Massachusetts. It has apparent portholes in the sides, and he can see the silhouette of someone looking at him. Other figures are taking turns looking through portholes. It disappears below some low clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 20–21; “1938: Perry’s Alien,” UFO Roundup 5, no. 37 \(September 4, 2000\); Clark III 265 Source ID: Eberhart_508 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 859 (FC7A6A7E) Date: Summer 1938 Description: Silvery object with rectangular portholes (Page 12 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_116 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 860 (8AA8FD60) Date: 7/25/1938 Description: 11:30 p.m. A lieutenant and his aide see a strong light coming from a hovering lens-shaped object near Guadalajara, Spain. It is over 35 feet in diameter and 15 feet high. A platform with two moving figures is lowered from underneath. A blue beam from the object shines on the witnesses, who feel a sudden chill. The platform rises back up, and the object glows with an intense white light and flies away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, [A](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf) [Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf), CUFOS, 1976, p. 2; Clark III 265 Source ID: Eberhart_509 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 861 (593EC860) Date: 7/25/1938 Description: A lieutenant in the Spanish Army in Guadalajara, Spain saw a dark, lens-shaped UFO descend toward the ground at 11:30 p.m. The disc was eleven meters in diameter and the top and bottom secions spun in opposite directions. A transparent column from underneath the object came down slowly, and two figures could be seen moving around inside the column. A blue beam of light was projected at the witness by the UFO, and he felt a chilling cold sensation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos Source ID: Johnson_4371 Source: Johnson ### Event 862 (A3220130) Date: 7/25/1938 Description: Soldiers at the Spanish Civil War battlefront were illuminated by a bright glow, then saw an oval object about 10-12 meters in diameter shaped like “two inverted plates” hovering near the ground. A cylindrical column came down from the center and two beings emerged. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Guadalaraja, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_114 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 863 (85F56B01) Date: 8/27/1938 Description: A 30-meter long fuselage-shaped object flew toward the west over Marle-sur-Serre, France at six o'clock in the evening. It turned toward the north at an estimated speed of 250 kilometers per hour. It had rectangular windows and made a whistling sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 169 Source ID: Johnson_5386 Source: Johnson ### Event 864 (8DAEA1C4) Date: Fall 1938 Description: (Or following year.) Two persons saw a strange "frog-man" 1 m tall with a round head, no neck, and a hump in front of the body. The mouth was a large, straight slit, the eyes were like smaller slits. The skin was brown-green, compared to pegamoid, hands normal. The creature walked in a peculiar "but elegant" fashion, the head waving up and down while the legs moved "carefully." When pursued, the creature accelerated very fast, with feet "fluttering." About 100 m away it vanished completely'. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Juminda, Estonian coast Source ID: Magnonia_49 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 865 (F64F3868) Date: Fall 1938 Description: Two persons saw a strange "frog-man" 1 m tall with a round head, no neck, and a hump in front of the body. The mouth was a large, straight slit, the eyes were like smaller slits. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Juminda, Estonia Source ID: NICAP_DB_117 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 866 (FB2F148E) Date: 10/1938 Description: Dusk. A man is in a cornfield with his father near Alger, Ohio, when an object moves up and hovers about 500 feet above the field. The tractor motor stops running. The object is about 100 feet in diameter and has a ring of pulsating, multicolored lights around it. Soon it makes a right-angle turn and vanishes in the sky, after which they get the tractor working again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_510 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 867 (6FE52FD5) Date: 10/22/1938 Description: Italian Lt. Col. [Mario Pezzi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%5FPezzi%5F%28aviator%29) reaches a record altitude of 56,850 feet in a Caproni Ca.161. It is still the highest a manned, propeller-driven biplane has gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Mario Pezzi \(aviator\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%5FPezzi%5F%28aviator%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_511 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 868 (4F0D3C6A) Date: 10/30/1938 Description: 8:00 p.m. “The War of the Worlds” episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker [Orson Welles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson%5FWelles), is an adaptation of [H. G.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FG.%5FWells) [Wells](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FG.%5FWells)’s novel The War of the Worlds \(1898\). It is performed and broadcast live in New York City as a Halloween episode over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. The episode becomes famous for allegedly causing panic among its listening audience, though the scale of that panic is disputed as the program has relatively few listeners. In the days after the adaptation, widespread outrage is expressed in the media. The program’s news-bulletin format is described as deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the broadcasters and calls for regulation by the FCC, which declines. Some government agencies in the US, Germany, and Russia take note of how segments of the population are easily manipulated into thinking fiction is fact. According to [Annie Jacobsen,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%5FJacobsen) the confusion allegedly inspires [Joseph Stalin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FStalin) to create a similar scenario with a fake alien crash in the US. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[The War of the Worlds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FWar%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWorlds%5F%281938%5Fradio%5Fdrama%29) [\(1938 radio drama\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FWar%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWorlds%5F%281938%5Fradio%5Fdrama%29)”; John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds: A History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the Original Script, McFarland, 2009; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 22](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/22/mode/2up), [211](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/210/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_512 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 869 (EDEA34C0) Date: 10/30/1938 Description: Orson Welles “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast performed and broadcast live over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is disputed. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)) Location: New York City, New York Source ID: Maj2_47 Source: Maj2 ### Event 870 (04E62AA0) Date: 12/17/1938 Description: The process of nuclear fission is discovered by chemist [Otto Hahn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%5FHahn) and his assistant [Fritz Strassmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%5FStrassmann) at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Chemie in Berlin, Germany, producing barium by bombarding uranium with neutrons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” Source ID: Eberhart_513 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1939 (Back to Top) ### Event 871 (1B44B986) Date: 1939 End date: 1941 Description: Richard E. Byrd’s third Antarctic expedition. President Roosevelt asked Byrd to command the U.S. Antarctic programme. This time they again used the Little America base but also set up on Stonington Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula. This expedition would complete extensive studies of Antarctic geology, biology, meteorology and continue exploring new areas. Due to the impending involvement of America in the Second World War, Byrd was recalled to active duty in 1940 and assigned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. The expedition continued without him. Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/) Location: Antartica Source ID: Maj2_49 Source: Maj2 ### Event 872 (4B2C6E21) Date: 1939? Description: Sisters [Lucile](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42196628/anna-lucile-andrew) and [Allene Holt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137657953/margaret-allene-gramly)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137657953/margaret-allene-gramly) daughters of Rev. [Turner Hamilton Holt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30140414/turner-hamilton-holt), claim they are separately told by their father, a cousin of Secretary of State [Cordell Hull](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordell%5FHull)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordell%5FHull) that Hull personally showed Holt a wrecked circular craft of some kind and glass jars holding unknown creatures. These are stored in a sub-basement of the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Both sisters are told the story when Holt is a minister at the Shenandoah Christian Church in Greenwich, Ohio, before 1947, but researchers can find no confirmation in any of Hull’s papers or memoirs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: William E. Jones and Eloise G. Watson, “Pre–World War II ‘Creature’ Retrieval?” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 6–9, 12 Source ID: Eberhart_514 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 873 (D056EC4D) Date: 1/13/1939 Description: The process of nuclear fission is explained theoretically in Stockholm, Sweden, by [Lise Meitner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise%5FMeitner) and her nephew [Otto Robert Frisch,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%5FRobert%5FFrisch) who compares it to the biological fission of living cells. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” Source ID: Eberhart_515 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 874 (8BB642F9) Date: 1/25/1939 Description: A Columbia University team conducts the first nuclear fission experiment in the US in the basement of Pupin Hall on the south side of 120th Street in New York City. The experiment involves placing uranium oxide inside an ionization chamber and irradiating it with neutrons, then measuring the energy released. The results confirm that fission is occurring and hints strongly that it is the isotope uranium-235 that is undergoing fission. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Simon & Schuster, 1986, [pp. 267–270](https://archive.org/details/makingofatomicbo00rhod/page/266/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_516 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 875 (8B1C8F99) Date: 1/26/1939 Description: The Carnegie Institution of Washington holds a press conference at the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics in D.C. to announce the discovery of nuclear fission. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline) [Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” Source ID: Eberhart_517 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 876 (13D053FF) Date: 7/1939 Description: Resembled a modern day jet airliner without wings; weird glow (Page 14 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_118 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 877 (654FD1F1) Date: 8/1939 Description: The turbojet powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft, made its first flight Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_aircraft) Location: Germany Source ID: Maj2_48 Source: Maj2 ### Event 878 (B46B63D4) Date: 8/2/1939 Description: Hungarian-American physicist [Leo Szilárd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%5FSzilard) writes a confidential letter to [President Roosevelt,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) in consultation with fellow Hungarian physicists [Edward Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) and [Eugene Wigner.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%5FWigner) He has persuaded [Albert Einstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FEinstein) to sign it as well. The letter warns that Germany might develop atomic bombs and suggests that the United States should start its own nuclear program. It results in the establishment of research into nuclear fission by the US government, and ultimately to the creation of the Manhattan Project. Delayed by the outbreak of war in Europe, the letter is eventually hand-delivered to Roosevelt by economist [Alexander Sachs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%5FSachs) on October 11. Roosevelt gives the letter to his aide, Brig. Gen. [Edwin “Pa” Watson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%5F%22Pa%22%5FWatson) with the instruction: “Pa, this requires action!” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Einstein–Szilard letter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szil%C3%A1rd%5Fletter)”; Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” Source ID: Eberhart_520 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 879 (30743A76) Date: Early 8/1939 Description: George Pârvu and four other schoolchildren are playing in an open field in Armășești, Romania, when they see a bright light in the sky moving in a zigzag fashion. It circles a few times then descends in their direction, getting bigger and brighter. The egg-shaped object hovers silently at an altitude of 230–260 feet. Suddenly it becomes a dull coppery color and lands about 140 feet away. Two of the children flee but Pârvu and two others remain. The bottom of the object has a ring of small turbine blades that look like paddles in a water mill. It seems to be 16 feet high. A hatch opens and two little men about 4 feet tall come out, dressed in gray diving suits. They walk toward the children, one of them holding a rectangular box pointing at the ground. The children approach them, holding hands, but when they are about 23 feet away the other man points a thick stick-like device at them and they are no longer able to move forward. The little men bow in their direction, waist deep, then turn around and reenter the object, which takes off. The children find a circular area of yellowed grass where the object had been. Pârvu feels energized, but one of the other boys is temporarily sick. Pârvu encounters what he perceives to be the same object in August 1944, August 1949, and the summer of 1954 \(in the center of Bucharest\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Pârvu, La voia destinului, CNI Coresi, 2011; Romania 124–128 Source ID: Eberhart_519 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 880 (C946F841) Date: 8/2/1939 Description: Einstein’s atomic bomb warning letter to President Roosevelt stating "it may be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future... This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs" Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/beginnings/einstein.html) Location: Washington DC Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_50 Source: Maj2 ### Event 881 (6A661B05) Date: Late Summer 1939 Description: A girl sleeping in the back yard of her home in Fort Worth, Texas, is awakened by a whirring noise. She sees a small object approaching from the east at an altitude of 20–30 feet. When it gets close, it descends to the level of her bed and hovers briefly at the foot, so close that she can touch it. It has the shape of an “old-time Mississippi steamboat with a deck around the bottom.” Strata or veins run through it, and a soft, blue-green glow surrounds it. It is 3 feet around and 1 foot high. It rises suddenly and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Woman Says Strange Object](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92336504/) [Flew by Her Bed in Yard,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92336504/)” Fort Worth \(Tex.\) Star-Telegram, March 24, 1950, p. 23; Clark III 1176 Source ID: Eberhart_518 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 882 (1DCDFD06) Date: 9/1/1939 End date: 9/2/1945 Description: World War 2 Type: war Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) Source ID: Maj2_51 Source: Maj2 ### Event 883 (06480191) Date: 10/1939 Description: An egg-shaped object with 8 spots like portholes is observed through an astronomical reflector telescope at Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold, UFO Research Coalition, 2007, p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_521 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 884 (CB2712E0) Date: 10/1939 Description: Egg-shaped object with spots like portholes observed through an astronomical reflector telescope. (Ref. 3; Report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wisconsin Rapids, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_119 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 885 (03EB5BF8) Date: 10/21/1939 Description: After reading [Szilárd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%5FSzilard)’s letter, [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) creates an Advisory Committee on Uranium, which meets for the first time at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C. The committee consists of NBS Director [Lyman James Briggs,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%5FJames%5FBriggs) Army Lt. Col. [Keith F. Adamson,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8789273/keith-frazee-adamson) and Navy Cmdr. [Gilbert C. Hoover.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%5FC.%5FHoover) It is attended by physicists [Fred L. Mohler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149090915/fred-l-mohler) from the National Bureau of Standards and [Richard Brooke Roberts](http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/roberts-richard-b.pdf) from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Szilárd, [Wigner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%5FWigner), and [Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller). [Einstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FEinstein) is invited but declines to attend. Adamson is skeptical about the prospect of building an atomic bomb, but is willing to authorize $6,000 \(equivalent to $107,000 in 2018 dollars\) for the purchase of uranium and graphite for Szilárd and [Enrico Fermi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%5FFermi)’s experiments into producing a nuclear chain reaction at Columbia University. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[S-1 Executive Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1%5FExecutive%5FCommittee)” Source ID: Eberhart_522 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 886 (7F8C13E6) Date: 11/13/1939 Description: Motorist heard high-pitched humming sound, saw a gray bell-shaped object hovering over a field, dark window-like patches visible on its side. (Ref. 3; Jenny Randles & Peter Warrington, Sience & The UFOs, 1985, p. 3.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brockworth, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_120 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 887 (5DEFCAD9) Date: 11/13/1939 Description: 7:00 a.m. A building foreman is driving past a deserted farm near Brockworth, Gloucester, England, when he hears a high-pitched humming sound. He watches a gray, bell-shaped object hovering about 20 feet above a field 100 feet away. He estimates it is about 25 feet across. Dark window-like patches are visible on the side. A “curtain” of blue-green light emanates from the underside. After about two minutes, the green light retracts into the base of the object. The object then tilts to an angle of about 80° and moves away without a sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles and Peter Warrington, Science and the UFOs, Basil Blackwell, 1985, [p. 3](https://archive.org/details/scienceufos0000rand/page/2/mode/2up); Jenny Randles, “Beam Me Up,” Fortean Times 381 \(July 2019\): 29–30 Source ID: Eberhart_523 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 888 (72F93390) Date: 11/13/1939 Description: In 1939 a building foreman drove past a deserted farm in the early morning in Brockworth, England and heard a high-pitched humming sound. He looked and saw a gray, bell-shaped object hovering over a nearby field. It had dark windows on its side, and a curtain of green light underneath, which retracted upwards as if solid. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_7623 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1940 (Back to Top) ### Event 889 (738A833D) Date: 1940 Description: Astronomer Royal [Harold Spencer Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FSpencer%5FJones) publishes Life on Other Worlds, an essay on the cosmos, the possibility of life arising, science’s tools, the development of the Earth, solar system bodies without atmospheres, the giant gas planets, Venus, Mars, the origin of solar systems, and possibilities for life beyond the solar system. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: H. Spencer Jones, [Life on Other Worlds](https://archive.org/details/lifeonotherworld031516mbp)[,](https://archive.org/details/lifeonotherworld031516mbp) Macmillan, 1940; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 \(1994\): 141–142 Source ID: Eberhart_524 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 890 (12B58756) Date: 3/1940 Description: US physicist [John R. Dunning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FR.%5FDunning) and colleagues at Columbia University verify the hypothesis of Danish physicist [Niels Bohr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels%5FBohr) that fission is more readily produced in the rare uranium-235 isotope than the abundant uranium-238 isotope. Dunning begins investigating gaseous diffusion as a process for enriching uranium. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” Source ID: Eberhart_526 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 891 (B9DCB63B) Date: 3/1940 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) moves from Laguna Beach to a property along the Star Route in Valley Center, California, about 9 miles from where Palomar Observatory is under construction to set up a spiritual retreat. He acquires a 15-inch telescope to create an interest in astronomy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Palomar Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/) [Fame,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/)” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_525 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 892 (6DFC3AA1) Date: 3/1940 Description: [Otto Robert Frisch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%5FRobert%5FFrisch) and [Rudolf Peierls,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%5FPeierls) two researchers at the University of Birmingham in England—who ironically have been assigned to investigate nuclear weapons by Australian physicist [Mark Oliphant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%5FOliphant) because, as enemy aliens in Britain, they are ineligible to participate in secret war work—issue the Frisch-Peierls memorandum. It contradicts the common thinking of the time that many tons of uranium would be needed to make a bomb, requiring delivery by ship. The calculation in the memorandum shows that a bomb might be possible using as little as 1–10 kilograms of pure uranium-235, which would be quite practical for aircraft to carry. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Frisch–Peierls memorandum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisch%E2%80%93Peierls%5Fmemorandum)”; Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline) Source ID: Eberhart_527 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 893 (239CF2DB) Date: Spring 1940 Description: William T. Powers (later associated with the Center for UFO Studies) saw five disc-shaped objects traveling at about 100-200 m.p.h. They disappeared into a cloud and did not re-emerge. (Ref. 3; Jerry Clark Encyclopedia, 1992, Vol. II, p. 380.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hinsdale, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_121 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 894 (712FEDAB) Date: Spring 1940 Description: Afternoon. Walking down a street in Hinsdale, Illinois, William T. Powers sees five disc-shaped objects in the northern sky. They are traveling together at 100–200 mph and disappear into a cloud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1177 Source ID: Eberhart_529 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 895 (0E428C78) Date: 3/22/1940 Description: [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) signs Executive Order 8381, creating the three security levels for the most important documents: Restricted, Confidential, and Secret. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US President, Executive Order No. 8381, “[Defining Certain](https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/eo/eo-8381.htm) [Vital Military and Naval Installations and Equipment,](https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/eo/eo-8381.htm)” March 22, 1940 Source ID: Eberhart_528 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 896 (E74CD209) Date: 4/10/1940 Description: The first meeting of the MAUD Committee in England, established in response to the Frisch-Peierls memorandum to determine if an atomic bomb is feasible, meets in the Royal Society committee room in Burlington House, London. The original members are physicists [George Paget Thomson,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FPaget%5FThomson) [James Chadwick,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FChadwick) [John](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FCockcroft) [Cockcroft,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FCockcroft) [Mark Oliphant,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%5FOliphant) and [Philip Burton Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FBurton%5FMoon); physicists [Patrick Blackett,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FBlackett) [Charles Drummond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FDrummond%5FEllis) [Ellis,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FDrummond%5FEllis) and chemist [Norman Haworth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%5FHaworth) are subsequently added, along with a representative of the Director of Scientific Research at the Ministry of Aircraft Production \(MAP\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[MAUD Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAUD%5FCommittee)” Source ID: Eberhart_530 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 897 (3B8C16F8) Date: Mid 5/1940 Description: 9:00 a.m. [Lavern P. Zewiske](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146523030/lavern-paul-zewiske) and his father [Paul](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146523087/paul-edward-zewiske) are checking some recently planted corn on their farm near Fairbank, Iowa. A gray object with multiple hooked “hairs or tentacles” moving around on the bottom passes overhead at 500–1,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Out of the Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1984\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_531 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 898 (672F6A58) Date: 5/21/1940 Description: President [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) authorizes the FBI to conduct electronic surveillance and wiretapping on US spies, saboteurs, or suspicious individuals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Warrantless FBI Electronic Surveillance,](https://sites.google.com/site/cointelprodocs/warrantless-fbi-electronic-surveillance\#sec2b1)” US Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Final Report, April 23, 1976, pp. 271–351 Source ID: Eberhart_532 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 899 (D76E97DE) Date: 5/26/1940 End date: 6/4/1940 Description: Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo) Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation) Location: Dunkirk Source ID: Maj2_52 Source: Maj2 ### Event 900 (0E509639) Date: 5/30/1940 Description: During the morning in Toledo, Ohio a dark ellipsoid object flew toward the northeast making a sizzling sound, then made a 90 degree turn. Its flame-like color changed from red to orange and then to yellow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall: From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_3162 Source: Johnson ### Event 901 (1D09E1D6) Date: 5/30/1940 Description: At sunrise a dark ellipse was seen moving northeast, then making a 90-degree turn. Color visible on the dark object changed from red to orange to yellow. (Ref. 3; Report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_122 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 902 (1BB69163) Date: 6/1940 Description: On a bright sunny day an anti-aircraft unit member focused a height- and range- finder on a flattened sphere moving rapidly on a horizontal course and tracked it for 10 seconds. It's height was computed to be 38,000 feet. (Ref. 3; Randles & Warrington, 1985, p. 9.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hoy Island, The Orkneys, Scotland Source ID: NICAP_DB_123 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 903 (D6847173) Date: Summer 1940 Alternate date: Summer 1941 Description: Near St. Clair, Pennsylvania, as he is walking along a country road, young Frank Sever hears a loud noise in the nearby woods. He sees something like an “aluminum building” partly concealed in the trees. A short distance from it he sees “six small men milling about or looking for something on the ground.” Thinking they are ghosts, he runs. Later he comes back and confirms there is no building on the spot. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 265 Source ID: Eberhart_533 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 904 (16365877) Date: 7/10/1940 End date: 10/31/1940 Description: Battle of Britain Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain) Location: Britain Source ID: Maj2_53 Source: Maj2 ### Event 905 (8CE0D2C1) Date: 7/10/1940 Description: Einstein security clearance approved by the Office of Naval Intelligence, 16 days before the US Army G-2 turned him down. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://books.google.com/books?id=weECGK2rChcC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=Einstein+cleared+by+the+Office+of+Naval+Intelligence+to+work+on+sub+warfare+and+high+explosives+projects&source=bl&ots=dOj5bHKA38&sig=ACfU3U29cLMN28JMmHEVhZ1yH_8cicl53w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjno9nW8a38AhUmF1kFHQ49BOcQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=Einstein%20cleared%20by%20the%20Office%20of%20Naval%20Intelligence%20to%20work%20on%20sub%20warfare%20and%20high%20explosives%20projects&f=false) Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_54 Source: Maj2 ### Event 906 (A7A2CADD) Date: 8/11/1940 Description: The RAF Bomber Command issues a report on “Phenomena Connected with Enemy Night Tactics” concerning unidentifiable aircraft observed by bombing crews over the coast of Holland and the Ruhr Valley of Germany. The report suggests the sightings are either due to observer strain or German “experimental apparatus.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 16–17 Source ID: Eberhart_534 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1941 (Back to Top) ### Event 907 (5C99DAA0) Date: 1941 Description: Physicist and his wife north of Bakersfield, California watch a long slender UFO traveling at 50mph, 200–300 feet altitude Type: UFO sighting Reference: [link](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf) Location: Bakersfield, CA Source ID: Maj2_56 Source: Maj2 ### Event 908 (3F0193A7) Date: 1941 Description: Charles Fort’s four famous books Type: historical event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort) Source ID: Maj2_55 Source: Maj2 ### Event 909 (D1E670CE) Date: 1941 Description: A physicist and his wife are traveling notrh on US Highway 99 north of Bakersfield, California, and pull off to the side to watch a long, slender object of a blazing red, green, and yellow color moving about 8 miles east of them. It is traveling at about 50 mph at an altitude of 200–300 feet and is clearly outlined against the foothills. It seems to be several times longer than a bomber. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Recent Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1957, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_535 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 910 (604CCF6D) Date: 3/1941 Description: The Chain Home radars placed around the English coastline detect a formation of blips moving across the English Channel. RAF fighters are sent to intercept, but their crews see nothing and the blips fade. The radar returns are characterized as radar “angels,” invisible targets in the clear atmosphere. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke, “The Radar Angels,” Fortean Times 195 \(May 2005\): 36–37 Source ID: Eberhart_537 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 911 (E1E7A875) Date: Early Spring 1941 Description: 9:00–9:30 p.m. Rev. [William Guy Huffman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13590056/william-guy-huffman) of the Red Star Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, is summoned to an apparent airplane crash one Saturday. When he arrives at the scene, about 15 miles from town, he finds a weird-looking craft “broken and scattered all around,” but smooth and rounded without edges or seams. A cockpit with a chair facing an instrument panel remains intact. Police officers, military men, and plain-clothes individuals are sifting through the wreckage. He also sees three non-human bodies about 4 feet tall with long arms, oversized heads, and large eyes. He says a prayer for them, and afterward sees someone take a photo of an alien propped up by the arms between two plainclothesmen. The following evening, he is given a copy of the photo by a member of his congregation \(thought to be [Garland D. Fronabarger](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15533576/garland-d-fronabarger)\), but he loans it later to someone who never returns it. Huffman’s wife [Floy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27616322/floy-m%5F-huffman) reveals the story to her granddaughter, Charlette Mann, on her deathbed in 1984, who relates the story to ufologist [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 343–344; Paul Blake Smith, MO41: The Bombshell before Roswell, W&B Publishers, 2015; Billy Booth, “1941 Cape Girardeau, Missouri Crash,” liveabout.com, February 5, 2019; Kevin Randle, “[Cape Girardeau UFO Crash, 1941,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/12/cape-girardeau-ufo-crash-1941.html)” A Different Perspective, December 5, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_536 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 912 (87149704) Date: 3/17/1941 Description: US Army establishes the Western Defense Command for coordinating the defense of the Pacific Coast Type: military Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Defense_Command) Location: West Coast Source ID: Maj2_58 Source: Maj2 ### Event 913 (B1765644) Date: 3/17/1941 Description: The Western Defense Command is established as the command formation of the US Army responsible for coordinating the defense of the Pacific Coast and training soldiers prior to their deployment overseas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Western Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%5FDefense%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_538 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 914 (945EC168) Date: Spring 1941 Description: Charlotte Mann, a Texas woman whose grandfather was a pastor of the Red Star Baptist Church, told Leonard Stringfield, that her grandfather was called out to give last rights to some crash victims, who were described as from a crashed object. There were three bodies. All described as "not human". (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Girardeau, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_124 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 915 (24C01689) Date: 4/5/1941 Description: Farmer abducted into submarine on Mississippi (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [410405](http://www.nicap.org/charleston410405dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charleston, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_125 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 916 (F6DB432A) Date: Late 4/1941 Description: Cape Girardeau, MO Crash Retrieval (MO41) Type: UFO crash retrieval Reference: [link](https://www.kfvs12.com/2021/05/26/alleged-ufo-crash-cape-girardeau-area/) Location: Cape Girardeau, MO Source ID: Maj2_57 Source: Maj2 ### Event 917 (6CBE182F) Date: 5/1941 Description: With the help of the American Legion, volunteers are recruited into the Aircraft Warning Service, the civilian arm of the Army’s Ground Observer Corps. On the east coast, the AWS is under the auspices of the Army Air Force’s 1st Interceptor Command based at Mitchel Field near Uniondale, New York. On the west coast, the AWS is under the auspices of the 4th Interceptor Command based in Riverside, California. On both coasts, observation posts, information centers, and filter centers are established. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Aircraft Warning Service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%5FWarning%5FService)”; Project 1947, “[Aircraft Warning Service \(AWS\): Freeman Observation Post \#52](http://www.project1947.com/fig/freeman52.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_539 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 918 (05307460) Date: 6/20/1941 Description: The Army Air Corps becomes the US Army Air Forces to provide the air arm greater autonomy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States Army Air Forces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FArmy%5FAir%5FForces)” Source ID: Eberhart_540 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 919 (3AE3059F) Date: Late 6/1941 Description: About 5:30 p.m. Helen Michailoff and her mother are in Odessa, Ukraine, when they see a raspberry-red object slowly moving east and emitting smoke. Thinking it is a bomb, they rush to the basement, but there is no explosion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Out of the Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1983\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_543 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 920 (BD22C1DC) Date: 6/26/1941 Description: The first draft of the final report of the MAUD Committee is written by [George Paget Thomson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FPaget%5FThomson) and circulates among committee members. It concludes that an atomic bomb is feasible. [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) receives a copy. Without the help of the MAUD Committee the Manhattan Project would have started months behind. Instead, they are able to begin thinking about how to create a bomb, not whether it is possible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[MAUD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAUD%5FCommittee) [Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAUD%5FCommittee)” Source ID: Eberhart_541 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 921 (52B33AC4) Date: 6/28/1941 Description: [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) establishes the Office of Scientific Research and Development; [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) is appointed director. It subsumes the National Defense Research Committee, whose Uranium Committee becomes the Uranium Section of the OSRD, soon renamed the S-1 for security reasons. To the S-1 Section, Vannevar Bush adds American physicist [Samuel King Allison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FKing%5FAllison)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FKing%5FAllison) Russian-American physicist [Gregory Breit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%5FBreit), American physicist [Edward Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) physicist [Lloyd P. Smith](https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.2811130), and [Henry DeWolf Smyth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FDeWolf%5FSmyth). American physicist [Ross Gunn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%5FGunn) is dropped in line with an NDRC policy not to have Army or Navy personnel in the sections. [Lyman James Briggs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%5FJames%5FBriggs) remains the chairman, with American physicist [George B. Pegram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FB.%5FPegram) as the vice chairman. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Office of Scientific](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5FScientific%5FResearch%5Fand%5FDevelopment) [Research and Development](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5FScientific%5FResearch%5Fand%5FDevelopment)” Source ID: Eberhart_542 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 922 (A35EDE5D) Date: 7/3/1941 Description: The Northrop N-1M, an experimental “flying wing” aircraft with a 38-foot wingspan, is first flown at Baker Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert, California, by test pilot [Vance Breese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance%5FBreese) for several hundred yards. He reports that the aircraft can fly no higher than 5 feet. After this is corrected, the N-1M takes another 28 flights through November. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Northrop N-1M](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FN-1M)” Source ID: Eberhart_544 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 923 (80264881) Date: 7/11/1941 Description: [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) establishes the Office of the Coordinator of Information, a forerunner of the Office for Strategic Services, headed by lawyer [William J. Donovan.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FDonovan) It is tasked with collecting and analyzing national security information. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Office of the Coordinator of Information](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5Fthe%5FCoordinator%5Fof%5FInformation)” Source ID: Eberhart_545 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 924 (C462A6B4) Date: 9/1941 Description: Night. Seaman Mar Doroba, Anthony Kornilak, and others on the British troopship [SS Pulaski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%5FCzar) in the Mozambique Channel see a “strange globe glowing with greenish light, about half the size of the full moon.” They watch it for more than an hour before it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 17; Lore and Deneault, [pp. 130–131](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/130/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_546 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 925 (F7230E53) Date: Early 10/1941 Description: A possible UFO crash/retrieval takes place during preparations for the US Army’s Carolina maneuvers in south central North Carolina \(possibly in or around the Uwharrie National Forest\). The sketchy story is based on the participation of Pvt. [Guy B. Simeone](https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery-beta/img/20035245), who relates a few details about a crash and dead “little people” to his family in a letter and phone call. [Walter N. Webb](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm) reports on his investigation of the incident in 1996. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Walter N. Webb, “An Anecdotal Report of a UFO Crash/Retrieval in 1941: Part 1,” IUR 21, no. 4 \(Winter 1996\): 20–28; Walter N. Webb, “An Anecdotal Report of a UFO Crash/Retrieval in 1941: Part 2,” IUR 22, no. 1 \(Spring 1997\): 28–32 Source ID: Eberhart_548 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 926 (26FFA51B) Date: 10/2/1941 Description: German test pilot [Heini Dittmar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini%5FDittmar) attains an unofficial airspeed record of 623 mph in a rocket-powered Messerschmidt Me 163A at Peenemünde, Germany. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Heini Dittmar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini%5FDittmar)” Source ID: Eberhart_547 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 927 (32383368) Date: 10/9/1941 Description: [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) approves an atomic weapons program after meeting with Office of Scientific Research and Development Director [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) and Vice President [Henry A. Wallace.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FA.%5FWallace) On Bush’s advice, Roosevelt chooses the US Army to run the project rather than the Navy, although the Navy has shown far more interest in the field, and is already conducting research into atomic energy for powering ships. Bush’s negative experiences with the Navy has convinced him that it would not listen to his advice and cannot handle large-scale construction projects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Cameron Reed, “Manhattan Project Mystery,” Forum on the History of Physics, Spring 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_549 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 928 (257D2901) Date: 12/1941 Description: Light moving in counterclockwise circles (Page 17-18 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_127 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 929 (BDFF81D6) Date: 12/1941 Description: Mozambique and Island of Madagascar strange globe glowing with greenish light about half the size of full moon. (Page 17 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mozambique, Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_126 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 930 (114F53D9) Date: Early 12/1941 Description: Army Lt. Walter Hanson and his wife are stranded in the Georgia countryside when they run out of gas. They see a star-like object that swiftly moves in circles counterclockwise. Suddenly it stops and takes off obliquely. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 17–18; Lore and Deneault, [p. 140](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/140/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_550 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 931 (7AEBAB4B) Date: 12/8/1941 Description: Around noon. Red Cross volunteer [Yoshio Taketa](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116296634/yoshio-taketa) is resting on the lawn of the Kuhio School in Honolulu, Hawaii, with 9 others. The smoke is still rising from the Pearl Harbor attack to the west. One of them notices a round white object at about 20,000 feet overhead. It floats away slowly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 501 Source ID: Eberhart_551 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 932 (443EF39F) Date: 12/18/1941 Description: With the US at war, funding for an atomic bomb is now available in amounts undreamed of the year before. At the S-1 Section meeting, American physicist [Ernest Lawrence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%5FLawrence) asks for $400,000 for electromagnetic separation, and the section immediately recommends granting it. MIT physicist [Karl Taylor Compton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton) is allocated $340,000 for nuclear reactor research at Columbia and Princeton, and $278,000 at the University of Chicago. Another $500,000 is earmarked for raw materials. His proposed schedule is no less breathtaking: to produce a nuclear chain reaction by July 1942, and an atomic bomb by January 1945. In January 1942, he creates the Metallurgical Laboratory, centralizing the work at the University of Chicago. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[S-1 Executive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1%5FExecutive%5FCommittee) [Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1%5FExecutive%5FCommittee)” Source ID: Eberhart_552 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 933 (D6891335) Date: 12/22/1941 Description: Electrical engineer George Bogner stops his car at the corner of St. Agnes Avenue and Pleasant Street in Utica, New York, to watch a round, metallic object speed silently across the sky. He estimates it at 100 feet in diameter and moving at 300 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 18; Lore and Deneault, [pp. 140–141](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/140/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_553 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 934 (951B7FF6) Date: 12/22/1941 Description: At 2:15 p.m. a gleaming aluminum or chrome colored disc-shaped object sped silently across the skies of Utica, New York from west to east. It disappeared in 10 seconds. There were two independent witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 141 Source ID: Johnson_8559 Source: Johnson ### Event 935 (AE3733AD) Date: 12/22/1941 Description: Round sharply outlined object with bright aluminum or chrome finish (Patrick, delete single quotes) (Page 18 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_128 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1942 (Back to Top) ### Event 936 (ECCCE93C) Date: 1942 Description: 1:00 a.m. A woman returning home in Prouvy, Nord, France, finds herself face-to-face with three small entities with large round heads and short beards. They have large, luminous yellow eyes and wear tight, one-piece suits with a metallic sheen that leave only their faces exposed. The beings stare at her without moving, so she goes inside to get her husband, but by the time they return the entities have gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf) [Index 1940–1949](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf) p. 3; Clark III 265; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1942-france-prouvy.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1942-france-prouvy.htm) September 26, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_555 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 937 (F51EFB77) Date: 1942 Description: Naval Intelligence Officer Bernard M. Baruch Jr. develops a submarine reporting network, Communication Instruction for Reporting Enemy Sightings on which CIRVIS is modeled in 1948. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Naval War College, [Master Script for “Communication Instruction for Reporting Enemy Sightings,”](https://www.usnwcarchives.org/repositories/2/archival%5Fobjects/4101) undated; NICAP, “[Capt. Bernard](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Baruch.htm) [Baruch Jr.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Baruch.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_554 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 938 (681D64CA) Date: 1942 Description: China (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [420000](http://www.nicap.org/china42.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tientsien, Hopeh Province, N. China Source ID: NICAP_DB_129 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 939 (0260F937) Date: 2/24/1942 End date: 2/25/1942 Description: The Battle of Los Angeles takes place, a rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft barrage over Los Angeles, California. Air raid sirens sound throughout Los Angeles County on the night of February 24. A total blackout is ordered, and thousands of air raid wardens are summoned to their positions. At 3:16 a.m., the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade begins firing .50 caliber machine guns and 12.8-pound anti-aircraft shells into the air at reported aircraft; more than 1,400 shells are eventually fired. Pilots of the 4th Interceptor Command are alerted, but their aircraft remain grounded. The artillery fire continues sporadically until 4:14 a.m. The “all clear” is sounded and the blackout order lifted at 7:21 a.m. Several buildings and vehicles are damaged by shell fragments, and five civilians die as an indirect result of the anti-aircraft fire. Three are killed in car accidents in the ensuing chaos and two die of heart attacks attributed to the stress of the hour-long action. The incident is front-page news along the Pacific coast and earns some mass media coverage. Within hours of the end of the air raid, Secretary of the Navy [Frank Knox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FKnox) holds a press conference, saying the entire incident was a false alarm due to anxiety and “war nerves.” Knox’s comments are followed by statements from the Army on February 26 that reflect General [George C. Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FMarshall)’s belief that the incident was caused by commercial airplanes used as a psychological warfare campaign to generate panic. Some contemporary press outlets suspect a cover-up. Rep. [Leland M. Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland%5FM.%5FFord) \(R-Calif.\) calls for a congressional investigation, saying, “none of the explanations so far offered removed the episode from the category of ‘complete mystification’ ... this was either a practice raid, or a raid to throw a scare into 2,000,000 people, or a mistaken identity raid, or a raid to lay a political foundation to take away Southern California’s war industries.” The Japanese government, after the war ended, declares that they had flown no airplanes over Los Angeles during the war. In 1983, the US Office of Air Force History attributes the event to a case of “war nerves” triggered by a lost weather balloon and exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries. A number of fake documents about this incident have been circulated by [Timothy S. Cooper](https://majesticdocuments.waskosky.com/about/investigation-team/timothy-s-cooper/). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Battle of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%5Fof%5FLos%5FAngeles) [Los Angeles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%5Fof%5FLos%5FAngeles)”; Clark III 1176–1177; NICAP, “[Battle of Los Angeles](http://www.nicap.org/losangeldir.htm)”; Lore and Deneault, [pp. 74–87](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/74/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 15–17](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/14/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 17](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/16/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/16/mode/2up) [31](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/30/mode/2up); “No Bombs Dropped, No Planes Shot Down,” Los Angeles Herald Express, February 25, 1942, p. 1; “[Japanese Carry War to California Coast,](https://books.google.com/books?id=ck4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA19&dq=%22Japanese%2BCarry%2BWar%2Bto%2BCalifornia%2BCoast%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiT8NrRjar1AhVZCM0KHWTFBEYQ6AF6BAgTEAI%23v%3Donepage&q=%22Japanese%20Carry%20War%20to%20California%20Coast%22&f=false)” Life, March 9, 1942, pp. 19–23; Brett Holman, “[New Light on the Battle of Los Angeles,](https://airminded.org/2011/04/20/new-light-on-the-battle-of-los-angeles/)” Airminded, April 20, 2011; David Marler, “[The Battle of LA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh9AM2AzYOk) [UFO Incident,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh9AM2AzYOk)” OpenMindsTV YouTube channel, October 9, 2018; Strange Company 19–22; Robert Wood, “[‘Leaked’ Documents Shed New Light on Outcome of ‘Battle of Los Angeles,’](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2010/06/June%202010.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, June 2010, pp. 3–7; US Office of the Chief of Military History, “History of the Western Defense Command, 17 March 1941–30 September 1945,” five ms. vols., Appendix no. 5, “Chronology of Enemy Operations on Pacific Coast of Continental United States,” pp. 25–27; History, Fourth Anti-Aircraft Command, January 9, 1942, to July 1, 1945, pp. 112–124; Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, The Army Air Forces in World War II: Vol. 1, Plans and Early Operations, Office of Air Force History, 1948, [pp. 283–286](https://archive.org/details/Vol1PlansAndEarlyOperations/page/n331/mode/2up); Lorraine Boissoneault, “[The Great Los](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/great-los-angeles-air-raid-terrified-citizenseven-though-no-bombs-were-dropped-180967890/) [Angeles Air Raid Terrified Citizens—Even Though No Bombs Were Dropped,](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/great-los-angeles-air-raid-terrified-citizenseven-though-no-bombs-were-dropped-180967890/)” Smithsonian Magazine, January 19, 2018; Patrick Gross, “[Los Angeles, February 25, 1942](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/la1942.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_556 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 940 (98CFAD3B) Date: 2/24/1942 End date: 2/25/1942 Description: Battle of LA Type: military Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: Maj2_59 Source: Maj2 ### Event 941 (D99105DF) Date: 2/25/1942 Description: At around 2:30 a.m. on this night in Los Angeles County, California a formation of 6-9 luminous white balls of light flying in a triangular formation flew in from the northwest, moving very slowly. They also appeared as steady radar blips coming in from the sea. As they flew over aircraft factories and this was shortly after the United States entry into World War II, widespread panic resulted, and five people were killed by the anti-aircraft fire hitting the ground and in subsequent traffic accidents. In the evening in Santa Monica, California a white disc was sighted hovering high in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Preston E. Dennett, UFOs over Topanga Canyon, p. 263; Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 74 Source ID: Johnson_1094 Source: Johnson ### Event 942 (4C6D5924) Date: 2/25/1942 Description: Los Angeles, CA, searchlight case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [420225](http://www.nicap.org/losangeldir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_130 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 943 (1924BB4C) Date: 2/26/1942 Description: Royal Netherlands Navy cruiser [HNLMS Tromp,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS%5FTromp%5F%281937%29) returning to Australia after the Battle of Badung Strait \(off Bali in Indonesia\), reports a large, aluminum disc speeding above it in the Timor Sea and maneuvering for nearly 4 hours. It departs at an estimated 3,500 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Australasia,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1957%2CNov-Dic%2CV%203%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1957\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_558 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 944 (201B49AA) Date: 2/26/1942 Description: Army Chief of Staff [George C. Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FMarshall) writes [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) that as many as 15 unknown commercial aircraft, flying at various speeds up to 200 mph and at elevations from 9,000 to 18,000 feet, were responsible for the Battle of Los Angeles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: presidentialufo.com, “General George Marshall Secret Memo to President Roosevelt about the Unidentified Objects over Los Angeles on February 25, 1942”; Good Above, [pp. 17](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/16/mode/2up), [446](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/446/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_557 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 945 (42A55288) Date: 2/26/1942 Description: Secret Memo to the President from Chief of Staff, G. C. Marshall stating: UFO's appeared over Los Angeles, CA, yesterday morning. The 37th Brigade (AA) expended 1430 rounds of ammunition against them. No bombs dropped, no casualties among our troops, no planes (UFOs) shot down, no AA or Navy planes were inaction. (AA Document, OCS 21347–86.) Type: secret memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p17, 446) Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_60 Source: Maj2 ### Event 946 (BA1CE3E0) Date: 2/27/1942 Description: Large disc; departed location at 3,500 miles per hour (Page 23 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Timor Sea, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_131 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 947 (8EBBB68C) Date: 3/5/1942 Description: Benjamin Smith, formerly of the Army Air Corps, sees several blinking lights moving slowly over the Middle River adjacent to Essex, Maryland. They circle the river two or three times then disappear. Smith reports the incident to local police, who then inform Naval Intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Towson \(Md.\) Union News, March 6, 1942; Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_559 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 948 (596F2E4D) Date: 3/9/1942 Description: The Air Service Command becomes a major Army Air Forces unit to support logistical functions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand\#Air%5FService%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_560 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 949 (3C27A582) Date: 3/14/1942 Description: Ground radar and German pilot flying in Banak, Finnmark, Norway at 5:35 p.m. detected a 100m long cigar-shaped object, 15m in diameter, that first hovered, and then shot straight up at an impossible speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, case # 417; Dale Goudie, CUFON Source ID: Johnson_1467 Source: Johnson ### Event 950 (C8EE7A94) Date: Spring 1942 Description: Light gray, sharply defined rectangle; gray in color (Page 23 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_134 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 951 (5ED38B9D) Date: Spring 1942 Description: Powerful searchlight shining down, emanating from unidentifiable object; sometimes remained motionless (Page 23 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_133 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 952 (E3EAB34B) Date: Spring 1942 Description: Rev. Robert H. Moore and six other persons attending the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, watch a small, light-gray, rectangular object over the northern part of town for 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lore and Deneault, [p. 142](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/142/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_561 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 953 (DC94D300) Date: 3/25/1942 Description: At midnight U.S. Airman Sobinski and another Army Air Force crewman sighted a luminous orange object closely following their warplane over the Zuider Zee, North Holland, The Netherlands. They fired several rounds at the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 6, citing Jerome Clark; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 19; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396 Source ID: Johnson_1647 Source: Johnson ### Event 954 (385FB396) Date: 3/25/1942 Description: An RAF bomber returning from a raid on Essen, Germany, was followed by a luminous orange disc or sphere. As it came closer the tail gunner opened fire on it, to no apparent effect. Finally it sped away at an estimated 1,000 m.p.h. (Ref. 3; Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1962.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Zuider Zee, Holland Source ID: NICAP_DB_132 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 955 (8D5D6D84) Date: 4/1/1942 Description: The Materiel Division of the Air Service Command assumes responsibility for R&D and procurement and is redesignated as the Air Corps Materiel Command. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand\#Air%5FService%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_562 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 956 (55C1E394) Date: 4/27/1942 Description: Nazi Amerikabomber long range bomber project study completed Type: project study Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikabomber) Location: Germany Source ID: Maj2_61 Source: Maj2 ### Event 957 (41380FA0) Date: 5/1942 Description: 3:00 p.m. Abdon Gonzales Tello, 13, and other boys see a silvery, cigar-shaped object in the sky to the west of Miraflores, Peru. Its ends are cut off at sharp angles, and it takes 20 seconds to proceed to the south and out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 22 Source ID: Eberhart_563 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 958 (5693ED75) Date: 6/1942 Description: Col. [James C. Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FC.%5FMarshall) is selected to head the Manhattan Project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Manhattan Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject)” Source ID: Eberhart_564 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 959 (CB989B89) Date: 6/13/1942 Description: The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor of the CIA, begins operations Type: historical Reference: [link](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_62 Source: Maj2 ### Event 960 (353ACE83) Date: 6/13/1942 Description: [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) establishes the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime intelligence agency, with Gen. [William J.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FDonovan) [Donovan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FDonovan) at its head. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Office of Strategic Services](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5FStrategic%5FServices)” Source ID: Eberhart_565 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 961 (88E3B078) Date: 6/19/1942 Description: [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) abolishes the S-1 Section and replaces it with the S-1 Executive Committee, tasked with the technical and contractual aspects of producing an atomic bomb, while the Army handles engineering, construction, and site selection. American chemist [James B. Conant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FB.%5FConant) is appointed as its chairman, and [Lyman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%5FJames%5FBriggs) [James Briggs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%5FJames%5FBriggs)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%5FJames%5FBriggs) [Karl Taylor Compton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton) [Ernest Lawrence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%5FLawrence)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%5FLawrence) and American chemists [Eger V. Murphree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eger%5FV.%5FMurphree) and [Harold C.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FUrey) [Urey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FUrey) as its other members. Roosevelt approves the committee’s recommendation to move to the pilot plant stage and build piles to produce plutonium and electromagnetic, centrifuge, and gaseous diffusion plants to produce uranium-235. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[S-1 Executive Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1%5FExecutive%5FCommittee)” Source ID: Eberhart_566 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 962 (9C615FEA) Date: Summer 1942 Description: 5:50 p.m. An RAAF pilot is on flying patrol off the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, following reports by fishermen of strange lights on the waters of Bass Strait. A “singular airfoil of glistening bronze color” appears out of a cloudbank. It’s about 150 feet long, 50 feet in diameter, and has a dome on top. It accompanies his plane for a few minutes before departing at “a hell of a pace.” It turns again and dives into the ocean, throwing up a “whirlpool of waves.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[Australian A.F. UFO Report Files,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201982%2010%2000%20-%20Vol%2030%20No%2010.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 10 \(October 1982\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_569 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 963 (2A9C90C8) Date: Summer 1942 Description: A singular airfoil of glistening bronze color; domed upper surface; possible crew member, Cheshire cat emblem on dome. (Page 29 Ref 1) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bass Strait, Tasman Peninsula Source ID: NICAP_DB_143 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 964 (797A5910) Date: Late 6/1942 Description: Several witnesses heard a motor-like sound and saw a blue-gray oval object with a dome on top hovering just above the ground in a wooded area. (Ref. 3; Michel Bougard, Des Soucoupes Volantes aux OVNI, 1977.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cussey-sur-l'Ognon, Doubs, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_136 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 965 (4CF60FEC) Date: 6/25/1942 Alternate date: 3/25/1942 Description: Midnight. Flight Lt. Roman \(Ray\) Sabiński of the 301 Polish Bomber Squadron is flying an RAF Wellington bomber after returning from a run on the Ruhr Valley, Germany; he sees a bright copper-colored light the “size of the moon” following the aircraft over the Zuiderzee in Holland. When it gets within 200 yards, the rear gunner shoots at it with all four machine guns. After two minutes, it moves at terrific speed to the port side, and the front gunner starts firing at it. Sabiński takes evasive action, but the object keeps pacing him. Finally, it moves in front of the bomber, stays there a while, then takes off at fantastic speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 23–25; Gordon W. Creighton. “[Foo Fighters,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1962%2CMar-Apr%2CV%208%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 2 \(March/April 1962\): 15; Patrick Gross, “[Pilot Reports](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/zuidersee25mar1942.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_567 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 966 (89A86C33) Date: 6/25/1942 Description: Shining copper object, like setting sun, the size of a full moon (Page 23-25 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Holland Source ID: NICAP_DB_135 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 967 (9AA70AB7) Date: 8/1942 Description: Evelyn M. Howell and two other adults see a huge cigar-shaped object hovering near them between Lafayette Township and Newton, New Jersey. It has “two rows of windows” that give off blue, green, white, and red fluorescent lights. They watch it for 10 minutes, after which it silently and slowly takes off. Howell and her husband see a similar object on the drive home to Ogdensburg, New Jersey. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1178 Source ID: Eberhart_571 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 968 (B88159FE) Date: 8/5/1942 Description: Saucer shaped cigar with round dome on top; approximately ninety feet in diameter (Page 27 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Solomon Isl Source ID: NICAP_DB_137 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 969 (3CC986BE) Date: 8/5/1942 Description: Early morning. The Navy destroyer [USS Helm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FHelm%5F%28DD-388%29) is on its way to the Solomon Islands in preparation for the Guadalcanal landings. A radio blackout is in effect. An aircraft approaches, a full alert is sounded, and three cruisers \([Vincennes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FVincennes%5F%28CA-44%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FVincennes%5F%28CA-44%29) [Quincy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FQuincy%5F%28CA-39%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FQuincy%5F%28CA-39%29) [Astoria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FAstoria%5F%28CA-34%29)\) and seven other ships open fire on it. The object is not hit and proceeds to circle around the fleet. An anonymous sailor on security detail on the Helm watches it through binoculars and sees it as 90 feet in diameter, oval, with a round dome on top. The ships continue to fire on the UFO, which attains extremely high speeds. Commanding Officer [Chester Edward Carroll](http://abbot.us/captains/carroll.shtml) later hears that the aircraft is neither German nor Japanese. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 27–28 Source ID: Eberhart_572 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 970 (3D604E9A) Date: 8/11/1942 End date: 8/12/1942 Description: A phenomenon described as a bright white light (Page 29-30 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aachen (near), Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_138 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 971 (16B44B30) Date: 8/12/1942 Description: Day. Sgt. Stephen J. Brickner of the 1st Marine Division on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands is cleaning his rifle when an air-raid warning is sounded. He dives into his foxhole looking to the sky. He hears a roaring sound unlike that of an aircraft. Soon he sees a formation of more than 150 silvery objects, in straight lines of 10 or 12. The objects seem to wobble slightly. They are flying faster than Japanese planes and are soon out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 18](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/18/mode/2up); Strange Company 28–29 Source ID: Eberhart_573 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 972 (D611C4B4) Date: 8/12/1942 Description: Formation of silvery objects directly overhead, numbering close to 150; mighty roaring sound (Page 28 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Solomon Isl Source ID: NICAP_DB_139 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 973 (97DB3F31) Date: 8/12/1942 Description: At ten a.m. a large formation of as many as 150 aerial objects with no wings was seen from Tulagi Island in the Soloman Islands in the Pacific. They were flying in an equally spaced formation, ten across and fifteen deep, in a perfect square. They were definitely not Japanese planes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Denault, Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 126; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 55; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396 Source ID: Johnson_4928 Source: Johnson ### Event 974 (C0E099CB) Date: 8/13/1942 Description: The Manhattan Engineering District, with Brig. Gen. [James C. Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FC.%5FMarshall) as district engineer, is established by Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers Maj. Gen. [Eugene Reybold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%5FReybold)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%5FReybold)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Manhattan Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject)” Source ID: Eberhart_574 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 975 (9D4C5483) Date: 8/13/1942 Description: Sixty-eight UFOs were seen over the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on this night around 11:00 p.m. Photographs were taken, and a big CAA investigation followed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 126 Source ID: Johnson_4959 Source: Johnson ### Event 976 (CF66866A) Date: Late Summer 1942 Description: Pvt. Albert Lancashire, 27, is standing guard at Cresswell radar station near Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland, England, when he sees a cloud-enshrouded light approaching from the North Sea. As it descends, he is drawn up into it by a beam. Small men grab him and carry him into the craft, where he sees other human figures of normal height, including an apparent captain with dark hair and goggles. He is made to lie down on a couch or table. He has only vague memories of what happens next, but he thinks a medical exam is performed. He wakes up back at his sentry post. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1940–1949](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf) p. 4; “New Time Lapse Case from England Uncovered,” MUFON UFO Journal 107 \(October 1976\): 1–18; Clark III 265 Source ID: Eberhart_570 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 977 (F93453E2) Date: Mid 8/1942 Description: Huge cigar-shaped object something like a Zeppelin, but much bulkier and rounder at the front; aluminum hued color. (Page 30-31, Ref 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tula Region, near Moscow, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_141 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 978 (AFAC618B) Date: 8/17/1942 End date: 8/18/1942 Description: A rocket with a long white tail of light (Page 30 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Osnabruk, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_140 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 979 (E8422684) Date: 8/29/1942 Description: Army Air Corps control tower operator Pvt. Michael Solomon sees two small reddish objects descend near the AAC Advanced Flying School at Columbus, Mississippi, then speed away. He later contacts government officials and officers from the school in attempting to confirm his sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1177; Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_575 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 980 (F0CFEBDE) Date: 8/29/1942 Description: At around 7:00 p.m. two soldiers in the air traffic control tower at the Army Air Corps Flying School in Columbus, Mississippi observed the rapid descent of two red round glowing objects that demonstrated extreme maneuverability and then hovered over the woods at the end of the runway. They next experienced an episode of missing time as well as sensory dislocation: they found themselves out in a field with no memory of how they got there. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 129; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 20; Jerome Clark, The Anomalist, April 2000, p. 20, citing NICAP Source ID: Johnson_5453 Source: Johnson ### Event 981 (9A1BF488) Date: 8/29/1942 Description: Control tower operator at Army Air Base saw two round reddish objects hover over field. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_142 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 982 (3C147019) Date: Fall 1942 Description: A research engineer saw a dark elliptical object sharply outlined against the star field in the night sky. A flickering light was visible at the trailing end as it sped from horizon to horizon in 10-15 seconds. "I saw a nose view, side view, and tail view", the witness said. (Ref. 3; Report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Branch, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_144 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 983 (528D74D2) Date: 9/23/1942 Description: Col. [Leslie Groves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FGroves) is promoted to brigadier general and becomes director of the Manhattan Project. The Military Policy Committee, consisting of [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) \(with [James B. Conant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FB.%5FConant) as his alternative\), Maj. Gen. [Wilhelm D. Styer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%5FD.%5FStyer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%5FD.%5FStyer) and Rear Adm. [William R. Purnell,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FR.%5FPurnell) is created to oversee the project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Manhattan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject) [Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject)” Source ID: Eberhart_576 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 984 (2F741096) Date: 9/25/1942 Description: RAF Bomber Command’s Operational Research Section releases a report titled “A Note on Pyrotechnic Activity over Germany.” An unnamed Flak Liaison Officer has coordinated the reports from No. 3 and No. 5 Groups and determines there are two types of phenomena: a ball of fire that is shot from the ground and drips multicolored fragments, and multi-part flares. Another type involves “small coloured balls” that climb to 7,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 32 Source ID: Eberhart_577 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 985 (B4930B37) Date: 9/29/1942 Description: US Under Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FP.%5FPatterson) authorizes the Corps of Engineers to acquire 56,000 acres in Tennessee for Site X, which will become the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, laboratory and production site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Oak Ridge, Tennessee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak%5FRidge%2C%5FTennessee\#Manhattan%5FProject)” Source ID: Eberhart_578 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 986 (31EF1F91) Date: 10/1942 Description: In the evening two witnesses saw an elongated object with a dome on top and lights at either end descend toward the ground. At the apparent landing site a circular burned area and footprints were found. (Ref. 3; Bougard, 1977.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Radway Green, Cheshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_145 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 987 (622C3B97) Date: 10/3/1942 Description: First German V-2 rocket test to get very close to space, 85–90km Type: aerospace Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Germany Source ID: Maj2_63 Source: Maj2 ### Event 988 (5174931C) Date: 10/7/1942 Description: Land at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is acquired by eminent domain for Clinton Engineer Works. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Clinton Engineer Works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton%5FEngineer%5FWorks)” Source ID: Eberhart_579 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 989 (6AE78FE9) Date: 10/9/1942 End date: 10/10/1942 Description: During the Guadalcanal invasion U.S. Navy fleet radar detected an incoming unidentified object which also was observed through binoculars. (Ref. 3; MUFON UFO Journal, No. 185, July 1983; tape-recorded witness interview.) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [421009-10](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/421019guadalcanaldir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Guadalcanal Source ID: NICAP_DB_146 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 990 (AB16805D) Date: Late 1942? Description: According to records released in August 2010, Prime Minister [Winston Churchill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%5FChurchill) supposedly classifies for 50 years an alleged UFO incident because of fears it could create mass panic. The incident allegedly involves an RAF reconnaissance plane returning from a mission in Europe. The aircraft is over or near the English coastline when it is allegedly intercepted by a strange metallic object that matches the aircraft’s course and speed for a time before shooting away. The plane’s crew photograph the object, which “hovered noiselessly” near the aircraft before moving off. According to the documents, details of the cover-up emerge when a man writes to the government in 1999 seeking to find out more about the incident. He describes how his grandfather, who served with the RAF, was present when Churchill and Gen. [Dwight Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) discussed how to deal with the encounter. However, the evidence is hearsay and somewhat questionable. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 20–21](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n39/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_568 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 991 (0BD574F0) Date: 10/19/1942 Description: [Leslie Groves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FGroves) approves [J. Robert Oppenheimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FRobert%5FOppenheimer) to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project at the Site Y laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Manhattan Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject)” Source ID: Eberhart_580 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 992 (69CC190E) Date: 11/1942 Description: Thing massive in size; no wings; electronic interference. (Page 35-36 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bay of Biscay, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_148 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 993 (4ACEDE9C) Date: 11/15/1942 Description: Teams under physicists [Herbert L. Anderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%5FL.%5FAnderson) and [Walter Zinn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FZinn) have constructed 16 experimental nuclear reactors under the Stagg Field stands at the University of Chicago. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Metallurgical Laboratory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical%5FLaboratory\#Chicago%5FPile-1)” Source ID: Eberhart_581 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 994 (21FEBE45) Date: 11/25/1942 Description: The Los Alamos site in New Mexico is acquired for Project Y. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project Y](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FY)” Source ID: Eberhart_582 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 995 (A98DD574) Date: 11/28/1942 Description: On this night a cigar-shaped object flew over Turin, Italy. It was 200-300 feet in length and flew at an estimated 500 mph. It had four red lights spaced at equal distances along its body. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Chester, Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_7977 Source: Johnson ### Event 996 (592747FC) Date: 11/28/1942 End date: 11/29/1942 Description: Object two to three hundred feet in length 500 mph &.four red lights spaced at equal distances along its body. (Page 34-35 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Turin, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_147 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 997 (05B5BEDE) Date: 11/28/1942 Description: 10:40–10:45 p.m. Capt. Lever and the No. 61 Squadron crew of an RAF Lancaster are returning from a bombing raid on Turin, Italy, when about 10–15 miles southwest of the city they see an object 200–300 feet long traveling southeast at a speed of 500 mph. It has four pairs of red lights spaced along its body and is flying on a level course. Five minutes later, as the Lancaster approaches the Alps at 14,000 feet, the crew sees the object again traveling southwest up a valley. It disappears when the red lights go out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 25–26](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n47/mode/2up); Strange Company 34–35; Good Need, [pp. 18–19](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/18/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/18/mode/2up) [32](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/32/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_583 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 998 (47F55A56) Date: 12/1942 Description: A Technical Data Laboratory is established at Wright Field near Dayton, Ohio, as part of the Army Materiel Command. Its operations include the evaluation of foreign aircraft and related equipment. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, “National Air and Space Intelligence Center Heritage,” July 31, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_584 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 999 (2F9A7580) Date: 12/1942 Description: 8:00 p.m. RAAF Lt. [Bruce Clyde Lumsden](https://stalag45.rssing.com/chan-58806349/article11-live.html) is flying a Hawker Hurricane heading for the French coast. About 7,000 feet over the mouth of the River Somme, France, he observes two orange lights climbing, one slightly above the other. He completes a full turn, putting the lights behind him on the port side. They now appear brighter and larger. When they reach his altitude, they stop climbing and stay at his altitude. He makes another full turn, but the objects stay with him. Lumsden dives to 4,000 feet, but the lights match his maneuvers. He increases his speed to 260 mph and gradually leaves them behind. His squadron mates do not believe him, but the next night another squadron member has a similar encounter with a green light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 36 Source ID: Eberhart_585 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1000 (FFF30023) Date: 12/1942 Alternate date: 1/1943 Description: THEY FOLLOW THE LEADER - Mrs. A.M. Strickler, while out walking between 9 and 10pm, sighted in the sky over the Susquehanna Bridge, on Route 30, a string of highly illuminated objects which, she says she can best describe as being similar to a train of passenger coaches, seeming to weave in and out in a highly specialized follow-the-leader pattern. Illumination seemed to emanate from an endless string of portholes which were arranged on a straight line or plane and were yellowish like an incandescent bulb. The objects were cigar-shaped, but could have been one side of a flat, saucer-shaped form. Each "coach" was identical in size and shape except the first, which was larger, brighter and seemed to have a proboscis-shaped appendage in front like a figure head. The objects traveled extremely fast, emitting no noise, jet exhaust, or flame. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5) Location: Columbia, PA Source ID: Maj2_64 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1001 (3EA0152D) Date: 12/1942 Description: Two amber and orange lights, flying in unison; not aircraft. (Page 36 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: French coast (mouth of Somme River), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_149 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1002 (AF21204A) Date: 12/2/1942 Description: Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor, goes critical at the University of Chicago under the leadership and design of [Enrico Fermi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%5FFermi)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%5FFermi) achieving a self-sustaining reaction just one month after construction was started. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Chicago Pile-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%5FPile-1)” Source ID: Eberhart_586 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1003 (8F234C8C) Date: 12/2/1942 Description: Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (criticality) was initiated during an experiment led by Enrico Fermi Type: scientific advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1) Location: Germany Source ID: Maj2_65 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1004 (3556DA51) Date: 12/27/1942 Description: The Northrop N-9M, a prototype flying wing bomber with a wingspan of 60 feet, makes its first test flight at Jack Northrop Field \[now Hawthorne \(Calif.\) Municipal Airport\] with pilot [John Wescott Myers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FWescott%5FMyers). Through May, 44 more flights are made, nearly all terminated by mechanical failures. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Northrop N-](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FN-9M) [9M](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FN-9M)” Source ID: Eberhart_587 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1943 (Back to Top) ### Event 1005 (ED86737E) Date: 1943 (approximate) Description: Sighting of UFO formation by Metropolitan policeman. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: NICAP_DB_150 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1006 (15E9D45B) Date: 1943 (approximate) Description: Object, international orange in color, elliptical shape; wobbled in unstable manner; no wings, jet exhaust, smoke, or vapor trails. (Page 51 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_169 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1007 (B91C1B33) Date: 1943 Description: SAUCERS GIVE NAVAL GUNS THE BRUSHOFF - In conversing with a former Navy man who is presently a radio technician for the Santa Fe railroad, he related that sometime in 1943 while he was stationed at San Diego and assigned to a gun crew on a naval destroyer they were alerted to their stations. Shortly five saucers (such as those pictured by George Adamski) appeared over the ship and hovered. Orders were given to fire upon them. He asserted that they could see the tracers and shells heading directly toward the saucers. The shells either exploded or disintegrated before reaching the objects. This attack continued for 10 minutes but nothing affected them. At the approach of naval planes the saucers disappeared. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff 5) Location: San Diego, CA Source ID: Maj2_66 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1008 (0D47893C) Date: 1/7/1943 Description: Nikola Test dies Type: death Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla) Location: United States Source ID: Maj2_67 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1009 (44F8D0A4) Date: 1/8/1943 Description: In the late afternoon in Chauny, France many people witnessed several small brilliant metallic objects fly silently from the north to the south in groups of three. The UFOs moved faster than balloons, and the procession lasted for a period of two and a half hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_189 Source: Johnson ### Event 1010 (DE95B771) Date: 1/15/1943 Description: During a US bombing raid over Cherbourg, Manche, France, several crews see “large numbers of projectiles resembling ‘schools of flying fish,’ about a foot long and similar to incendiary bombs, coming up from a direction of the town.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 38 Source ID: Eberhart_588 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1011 (6B761DDD) Date: 1/16/1943 Description: [Leslie Groves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FGroves) approves development of the Hanford site in Washington State for plutonium production. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Hanford Site](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford%5FSite)” Source ID: Eberhart_589 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1012 (3D8331EB) Date: 1/16/1943 Description: Approval for the Hanford Site for plutonium production Type: nuclear weapons Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site) Location: Hanford, WA Source ID: Maj2_68 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1013 (D3F12C2E) Date: 2/9/1943 Description: Land for a plutonium production complex is acquired at Hanford, Washington. \(Wikipedia, “[Hanford Site](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford%5FSite)”\) February 18 — Construction begins for Y-12, a massive electromagnetic separation plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Y-12 National Security Complex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-12%5FNational%5FSecurity%5FComplex)” Source ID: Eberhart_590 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1014 (9948054E) Date: 2/18/1943 Description: Construction begins for Y-12 electromagnetic separation plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge Type: nuclear weapons Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-12_National_Security_Complex) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: Maj2_69 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1015 (0BF112D4) Date: 3/13/1943 Description: Roman candlelights; bright very large red light that looked like a huge irregular mass of neon. (Page 39, Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Naples, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_151 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1016 (64FD2157) Date: Spring 1943 Description: Air Craft warning observer spots a very bright repeatedly flashing light SW of Laguna, P-38 dispatched, flashing stopped Type: UFO spotted, P-38 dispatched, UFO got away Reference: [link](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf) Location: Laguna Beach, California Source ID: Maj2_70 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1017 (8772F403) Date: 4/1/1943 Description: Los Alamos Laboratory begins operations in New Mexico Type: nuclear weapons Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Y#Construction) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: Maj2_71 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1018 (299CE9E6) Date: 4/1/1943 Description: Los Alamos Laboratory is established in New Mexico and begins operations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project Y](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FY\#Construction)” Source ID: Eberhart_591 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1019 (034B93BD) Date: 4/5/1943 Description: A military pilot reported that over Long Beach, California at 9:50 a.m. a round, orange object flew alongside and then dove at an Army Air Force BT13A trainer aircraft. It subsequently shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 21; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_1840 Source: Johnson ### Event 1020 (F0F9FC25) Date: 4/5/1943 Description: Flight instructor and student pilot saw a glowing orange disc dive at their aircraft and hover alongside, then accelerate and climb away out of sight. (Ref. 3; Witness report to Jan Aldrich, Project 1947.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Beach, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_152 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1021 (D32FAF35) Date: 4/5/1943 Description: 9:50 a.m. Flight instructor Gerry A. Casey and a student pilot in a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 watch a radiant- orange, elliptical disc dive at their aircraft near Long Beach, California. There is no propellor and it has a rounded hump above and below. It hovers alongside with a slight wobble, then accelerates, turns from orange to white, and climbs out of sight in 2 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1943](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1943a.htm\#casey)”; Gerry A. Casey, “UFO: The Time for the Telling Has Come,” Tacoma \(Wash.\) Western Flyer, July 7, 1989, via [UFO Newsclipping Service](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2008%20-%20no%20241.pdf) 241 \(August 1989\), p. 3; Patrick Gross, “[Observation at Long Beach, 1943](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/longbeach1943.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_592 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1022 (59733403) Date: 4/9/1943 Description: 5:00 p.m. Kazimierz Bzowski and other resistance fighters are monitoring a fire in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland. They notice a flying object approaching them at about 60 mph. Through binoculars it appears to be a sphere colored with tangled strips of both raspberry and blue-green colors. Bzowski estimates it is at an elevation of 200 feet and is about 25 feet in diameter. They observe German and Lithuanian snipers on Bonifraterska street shooting at it, although the bullets seem to pass through it. The object alters course and heads toward Old Town, then stops dead and shoots away at great speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 13 Source ID: Eberhart_593 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1023 (08CE9EFB) Date: 5/1943 Description: Capt. Gordon W. Cammell is flying an RAF Lancaster bomber back over the English Channel when he and his entire crew see a “huge orange ball on or near the sea” 7,000–8,000 feet below them. Over the next 10 minutes, they watch it project a bright and constant light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 41 Source ID: Eberhart_594 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1024 (317E9D61) Date: 5/1943 Description: Einstein hired by USN to work on sub warfare/high explosives. Dr. Vannever Bush asks Einstein to consult for the OSRD, but apparently Einstein turned him down. Type: nuclear weapons Reference: [link](https://books.google.com/books?id=weECGK2rChcC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=Einstein+cleared+by+the+Office+of+Naval+Intelligence+to+work+on+sub+warfare+and+high+explosives+projects&source=bl&ots=dOj5bHKA38&sig=ACfU3U29cLMN28JMmHEVhZ1yH_8cicl53w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjno9nW8a38AhUmF1kFHQ49BOcQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=Einstein%20cleared%20by%20the%20Office%20of%20Naval%20Intelligence%20to%20work%20on%20sub%20warfare%20and%20high%20explosives%20projects&f=false) Location: Princeton, NJ Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_72 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1025 (A95498F4) Date: 5/1943 Description: Sighting of dome-shaped object and humanoid beings. (Ref. 3; Anders Liljegren, AFU Bibliography.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norwich, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_153 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1026 (0D072313) Date: 5/1943 Description: Large, stationary orange balloon on or near the sea. (Page 41 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: English Channel, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_157 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1027 (4C2BE8A8) Date: 5/12/1943 End date: 5/13/1943 Description: Object like meteor; reddish orange in color; emitted a burst giving off a green star. (Ref. 1 Page 39) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Duisburg, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_154 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1028 (1DDA3E56) Date: 5/19/1943 Description: The Northrop N-9M flying wing bomber prototype crashes 12 miles west of Muroc Army Air Base \[now Edwards AFB\], California, killing its pilot [Max Constant](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175865483/max-constant)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175865483/max-constant)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Northrop N-9M](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FN-9M)” Source ID: Eberhart_595 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1029 (09480ACE) Date: 5/23/1943 End date: 5/24/1943 Description: Large number of so-called rockets (Page 39-40 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dortmund, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_155 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1030 (93885D62) Date: 5/26/1943 Description: Late night. Capt. Ray Smith and copilot Sgt. Gordon N. Cockcroft are flying at 18,000 feet in a Halifax bomber on a run near Essen, Germany, when they see a silvery-gold cylindrical object, larger than their aircraft, on the port side. It has several evenly spaced portholes. It is hovering at a 45° angle. After 20–30 seconds it climbs away at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1982\): 4–6; Strange Company 40; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1943](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1943a.htm)”; John Hanson and Dawn Holloway, Haunted Skies: The Encyclopaedia of British UFOs: Volume 1, 1940–1959, Fortean Words, 2010 Source ID: Eberhart_596 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1031 (D863C8E9) Date: 5/27/1943 Description: USAAF bomber crews flying over Essen, Germany encountered a giant, cigarrette shaped UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_3111 Source: Johnson ### Event 1032 (2C79D6E9) Date: 5/27/1943 End date: 5/28/1943 Description: Cylindrical object, silvery-gold in color, with several portholes evenly spaced along its side; motionless until speeding away at several thousand miles per hour. (Page 40-41 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Essen, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_156 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1033 (EC2A298D) Date: 6/1943 Description: The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command meets with Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California, to ask them to develop a jet fighter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Skunk Works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk%5FWorks)” Source ID: Eberhart_597 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1034 (AAA56F37) Date: 6/1943 Description: The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command asks Lockheed to develop a jet fighter Type: aerospace Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works) Source ID: Maj2_73 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1035 (09890B4A) Date: 6/2/1943 Description: Construction begins on K-25, the gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[K-25](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-25)” Source ID: Eberhart_598 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1036 (E97713D0) Date: 6/4/1943 Description: On this day in 1943, 12 brilliant star-like lights were seen maneuvering in all directions over Chauny, France. They flew at a high altitude, and were absolutely silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, Vol. 338 Source ID: Johnson_3266 Source: Johnson ### Event 1037 (BD4738EF) Date: 6/15/1943 Description: Einstein’s USN work announced in JTA Daily News Bulletin Type: scientist Reference: [link](https://www.jta.org/archive/prof-einstein-working-on-explosives-for-u-s-navy-department) Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_74 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1038 (0A79B14C) Date: 6/25/1943 Description: The USAAF First Air Division was flying over the Elbe Estuary in Germany on this day when they saw twelve flat objects, approximately six-feet square, fall like dead leaves. No "flack" or other explosions were noted at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website Source ID: Johnson_3647 Source: Johnson ### Event 1039 (0A903B90) Date: 7/1943 Description: Lockheed Engineer [Kelly Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29) and other associate engineers hand-deliver a proposal for the XP-80 jet fighter to the Air Tactical Service Command. Two days later, the go-ahead is given to Lockheed to start development, and the Skunk Works is born in Burbank, California, with Johnson at the helm. The name supposedly comes from the L’il Abner comic strip, which has a place called “Skonk Works” where a strong beverage is brewed from skunks, old shoes, and other ingredients. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Skunk Works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk%5FWorks)” Source ID: Eberhart_599 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1040 (70C0086C) Date: 7/1943 Description: Skunk Works begins in Burbank CA. Lockheed Engineer Kelly Johnson deliver proposal for the XP-80 jet fighter Type: aerospace Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works) Location: Burbank, CA Source ID: Maj2_75 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1041 (A82D9D68) Date: 7/1/1943 End date: 3/31/1944 Description: Date range of Einstein’s USN pay stubs at National Archives. Type: scientist Reference: [link](https://weare.guru/albert-einsteins-time-sheets/) Reference: [link](https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2015/03/albert-einstein-part-time-civil-servant.html) Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_76 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1042 (CE277093) Date: 7/18/1943 Description: A French prisoner in a German labor camp near Gdynia, Poland, is walking to work along the Baltic Sea when he sees a flat, metallic object embedded in the sand. A human figure is standing next to it, apparently trying to dig it up. When he passes by, the figure, apparently an Asian woman with long blonde hair and dressed in a tight- fitting overall, turns in his direction. The witness assumes she is the famous German aviator [Hanna Reitsch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna%5FReitsch) and helps her dig the experimental aircraft out of the sand. The object is 20 feet in diameter and looks like two metallic saucers put together. The woman touches the witness’s chest with her hand and points to the sky. She touches her belt and a door in the object opens. She crawls inside, the door closes, and the object ascends and departs at a tremendous speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jean Sider, Ultra Top-Secret: Ces OVNIs qui font peur, Axis Mundi, 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_600 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1043 (D05124A3) Date: 7/18/1943 End date: 10/15/1944 Description: Einstein reports on his “explosives” work to USN Type: scientist Reference: [link](https://books.google.com/books?id=weECGK2rChcC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=Einstein+cleared+by+the+Office+of+Naval+Intelligence+to+work+on+sub+warfare+and+high+explosives+projects&source=bl&ots=dOj5bHKA38&sig=ACfU3U29cLMN28JMmHEVhZ1yH_8cicl53w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjno9nW8a38AhUmF1kFHQ49BOcQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=Einstein%20cleared%20by%20the%20Office%20of%20Naval%20Intelligence%20to%20work%20on%20sub%20warfare%20and%20high%20explosives%20projects&f=false) Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_77 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1044 (D4604A7A) Date: 9/1943 Description: During an air battle between the Germans and Russians, a member of the Spanish Blue Division fighting with the Germans near Pushkin outside Leningrad \[now Saint Petersburg\], Russia, notices a disc-shaped object above the planes. It appears to be observing the battle, then disappears at a fantastic speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Antonio Ribera](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%5FRibera), Platillos Volantes en Iberoamerica y España, Santiago Pomaire, 1968, pp. 411–412 Source ID: Eberhart_601 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1045 (548D0D73) Date: 9/1943 Description: [Ray Palmer,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) editor of Amazing Stories magazine, receives a letter from a reader named [Richard S. Shaver,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver) who claims to have discovered “Mantong,” a proto-language that is the source of all earthly languages. In Mantong, each sound has a hidden meaning, and by applying this formula to any word in any language, one can decode the secret meaning. Palmer applies the formula to several words and realizes Shaver might be onto something. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Richard Sharpe Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)”; Clark III 609; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, [p. 136](https://archive.org/details/subterraneanworldswalterkaftonminkel100000yearsofdragonsdwarfsthedeadlostracesufosfrominsidetheearth/page/n139/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_602 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1046 (298E7E86) Date: 9/1943 Description: 4:00 a.m. Navarro Ocampo, driving between Rosario and Cordoba, saw a large, saucer-shaped object on the ground 500 m to the left of the road. It glowed with a bluish-green light, made a whistling sound, rose to 100 m altitude, then left at fantastic speed. A strange metal block is said to have been found at the spot. (Magonia #50, GEPA Dec., 68) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oncativo, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_158 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1047 (88576D01) Date: 9/1943 Time: 0400 Description: Navarro Ocampo, driving between Rosario and Cordoba, saw a large, saucer-shaped object on the ground 500 m to the left of the road. It glowed with a bluish-green light, made a whistling sound, rose to 100 m altitude, then left at fantastic speed. A strange metal block is said to have been found at the spot. Type: ufo sighting Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Oncativo, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_50 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 1048 (975B1ED5) Date: 9/6/1943 Description: Objects resembling silver discs. (Page 43 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stuttgart, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_160 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1049 (663DC169) Date: 9/6/1943 Description: 9:50 a.m. During an aerial fight over Stuttgart, Germany, the crews of two aircraft of the 384th Bomb Group, commanded by Capt. Raymond P. Ketelson, observe two round objects “resembling silvery discs” floating downward through the aircraft formation. One hits the wing of a B-17 bomber, setting it on fire. The bomber does not return from the mission. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 43 Source ID: Eberhart_603 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1050 (97433594) Date: Fall 1943 Description: Light moving high in night sky. (Page 84 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Holland Source ID: NICAP_DB_204 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1051 (28F80A35) Date: Autumn 1943 Description: A Polish bomber unit based in England claims that silver-blue balls of fire appeared near their wing on six missions when they raided the Nazi V-1 weapons plant in Peenemünde, Germany. RAF intelligence officer [Michael Bentine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FBentine) debriefs them later and asks, “But what did it do to you?” They reply, “Nothing.” Bentine points out, “Well it was not a very effective weapon, was it?” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 20](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n39/mode/2up); David Clarke and Andy Roberts, “[The](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/histfoo2.htm) [Foo Fighters: The RAF Experience,](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/histfoo2.htm)” The Real UFO Project, January 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_604 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1052 (1B8D6F51) Date: 10/1943 Description: 9:00 p.m. [Wilberta Finley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87087670/wilberta-murrie-finley), an air spotter for the Civil Air Patrol, notices a “huge dark aerial object approaching” her home in Santa Barbara, California, facing the Goleta Valley. Moving low and soundlessly, it barely skims over a nearby hill. From its front a beam of light shoots down, and at intervals it swings from side to side as if scanning the hills and homes below. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 11, no. 11 \(November 1958\): 116–118; Clark III 1178 Source ID: Eberhart_605 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1053 (3C369CF3) Date: 10/1943 Alternate date: 11/1943 Description: 11:00 p.m. 2Lt [Thomas J. Duzynski](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/608840/thomas-j-duzynski) is stationed at Camp Ibis on the west side of the Dead Mountains Wilderness northwest of Needles, California. Taking a stroll outside his tent, he notices an elliptical- shaped object traveling to the south at high speed parallel to the ground between himself and the mountains. It banks sharply, almost on edge, and gains altitude, disappearing in seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 22–23 Source ID: Eberhart_608 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1054 (F7990250) Date: 10/10/1943 Description: Construction begins for the first reactor at the Hanford site in Washington. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Department of Energy, Office of History and Heritage Resources, “[Hanford Becomes Operational,](https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1942-1944%5Fpu/hanford%5Foperational.htm)” August 7, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_606 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1055 (12D59BD6) Date: 10/14/1943 Description: During a bombing run a B-17 crews of the 384th Group noticed, as fighter attacks suddenly fell off, they encountered a cluster of small discs, described as 3" wide by 1" thick. (Martin Caiden/Andy Roberts) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [431014](http://www.project1947.com/articles/arwwr.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Schweinfurt, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_161 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1056 (37B5699C) Date: 10/14/1943 Description: Night. A group of B-17s from the 384th Bombardment Group are returning from a mission over Germany when they see a cluster of silver-colored discs in the path of their formation and closing with the bombers. The crews talk back and forth, discussing and confirming the sight before them. They describe the objects as “about one inch thick and three inches in diameter…gliding down slowly in a very uniform cluster.” One of the bombers goes directly through the cluster “with absolutely no effect on engines or plane surface,” even though one is heard to strike the tail assembly. A mass of black debris about 3-4 feet long is also observed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 502; Martin Caidin, Black Thursday, Dell, 1962, pp. 188–190; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers—Here and Now! Lyle Stuart, 1967, [pp. 77–78](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersher00edwa/page/76/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_607 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1057 (D104FC4F) Date: 10/24/1943 Description: Discs Put Up Protective Shield Around B-17 Formation ??? (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [431024](http://www.nicap.org/431024schweinfurt%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Schweinfurt, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_162 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1058 (D075F43D) Date: 11/1943 Description: On a dark moonless night a family heard a soft humming sound and saw a disc with dome and square windows hovering about 15 feet above the roof of their house. Human-like silhouettes were visible through the windows. When the woman shone a flashlight, the object blinked out and disappeared. (Ref. 3; Greenwood, UFO Historical Revue, June 1998.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Escondido, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_163 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1059 (EE73B27A) Date: 11/1943 Description: [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) publishes an article, “An Ancient Language?” on the language of Mantong in the January 1944 issue of Amazing Stories and enters into correspondence with [Richard S. Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver), who responds with a 10,000- word document titled “A Warning to Future Man.” Shaver writes of advanced prehistoric races who built underground cities before abandoning Earth for another planet because of damaging radiation from the Sun. Those ancients also abandoned some of their own offspring here, a minority of whom remained noble and human “Teros,” while most degenerate over time into a population of mentally impaired sadists known as “Deros”— short for “detrimental robots.” Shaver’s robots are not mechanical constructs, but robot-like due to their savage behavior. These Deros still live in the cave cities, according to Shaver, kidnapping surface-dwelling people by the thousands for meat or torture. Deros can be blamed for nearly all misfortunes, from minor “accidental” injuries or illnesses to airplane crashes and catastrophic natural disasters. Though generally confined to their caves, the Deros sometimes travel in spaceships or rockets, and have dealings with equally evil extraterrestrials. Shaver claims to possess first-hand knowledge of the Deros and their caves, insisting he had been their prisoner for several years. The article stirs considerable reader interest, and the pages of Amazing Stories are soon filled with stories and articles about the “Shaver mystery.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Richard Sharpe Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)”; \[Richard\] S. Shaver, \[Letter\], “[An Ancient Language?](https://ia801602.us.archive.org/31/items/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv18n01%5F1944-01%5Fcape1736/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv18n01%5F1944-01%5Fcape1736.pdf)” Amazing Stories 18, no. 1 \(January 1944\): 206–207; \[Ray Palmer,\] “[Mantong:](https://ia802506.us.archive.org/0/items/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv19n01%5F1945-03%5FZiff-Daviscape1736/Amazing%20Stories%20v19n01%201945-03%20%28Ziff-Davis%29%28cape1736%29.pdf) [The Language of Lemuria,](https://ia802506.us.archive.org/0/items/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv19n01%5F1945-03%5FZiff-Daviscape1736/Amazing%20Stories%20v19n01%201945-03%20%28Ziff-Davis%29%28cape1736%29.pdf)” Amazing Stories 19, no. 1 \(March 1945\): 71, 206; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, [pp. 136–137](https://archive.org/details/subterraneanworldswalterkaftonminkel100000yearsofdragonsdwarfsthedeadlostracesufosfrominsidetheearth/page/n139/mode/2up); Clark III 872; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction, McFarland, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_609 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1060 (B77E07BE) Date: 11/4/1943 Description: The X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, goes critical. The Y-12 plant is separating uranium- 235 from natural uranium, which is 99.3% uranium-238, by using calutrons to perform electromagnetic isotope separation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[X-10 Graphite Reactor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-10%5FGraphite%5FReactor)” Source ID: Eberhart_610 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1061 (20974C88) Date: 11/26/1943 Description: Approximate year. During World War Two, on a bombing mission over Bremen, Germany crew members of the United States 8th Air Force reported that green "rings of flame 2 or 3 feet in diameter" corkscrewed through their formation, as if floating. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website on aerial encounters Source ID: Johnson_7932 Source: Johnson ### Event 1062 (4CF9528C) Date: 12/1943 Description: At 10:30 p.m. four women in a car saw an orange bell-shaped object ascending. Three automobiles in the vicinity experienced EM effects and the engines stalled. A 1.5-meter diameter area of melted snow was found on the ground. (Ref. 3; Australian Flying Saucer Review, No. 7, 1967; cited by Project 1947.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oslo, Norway Source ID: NICAP_DB_165 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1063 (D601D598) Date: 12/1943? Description: Matt P. Dillingham is on evening duty adjacent to Mullinix Field \[now Bonriki International Airport\] on Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. He begins receiving radar plots showing a north-south track to the west moving at 750 mph. It disappears, but two other targets on the same trajectory appear, moving at the same speed. The same targets are repeated for several nights following. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Out of the Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 \(Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_611 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1064 (DC467B86) Date: 12/2/1943 Description: Night. Some 105 German Junkers Ju 888 bombers attack the port of Bari, Italy, a key supply center for Allied forces. 28 Allied ships are sunk, including the US Liberty ship [SS John Harvey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%5FJohn%5FHarvey)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%5FJohn%5FHarvey) which is carrying mustard gas intended for retaliation in case German forces use chemical warfare. Liquid sulfur mustard from the bombs spills into waters already contaminated by oil from the other damaged vessels. The many sailors who abandoned their ships into the water become covered with the oily mixture. The wounded are pulled from the water and sent to medical facilities whose personnel are unaware of the mustard gas. Medical staff focus on personnel with blast or fire injuries. Within a day, the first symptoms of mustard poisoning appear in 628 patients and medical staff, including blindness and chemical burns. That puzzling development is further complicated by the arrival of hundreds of Italian civilians also seeking treatment, who have been poisoned by a cloud of sulfur mustard vapor that blows over the city when some of John Harvey’s cargo exploded. As the medical crisis worsens, little information is available about what is causing the symptoms, because US military command want to keep the presence of chemical munitions secret from the Germans. By the end of the month, 83 of the 628 hospitalized military victims have died. The number of civilian casualties, thought to have been even greater, cannot be accurately gauged since most have left the city to seek shelter with relatives. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air raid on Bari](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5Fraid%5Fon%5FBari)” Source ID: Eberhart_612 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1065 (13C72F7B) Date: 12/11/1943 Description: US bombers conduct a daylight raid on Emden, Germany, and observe an unknown object about the size of a Thunderbolt aircraft over the target area. It passes below the bombers in a straight line and at terrific speed, leaving a vapor trail that persists. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 51–52 Source ID: Eberhart_613 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1066 (200996A7) Date: 12/11/1943 Description: Unidentified object; size of thunderbolt aircraft; streak-like vapor trail. (Page 51 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edmen, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_167 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1067 (9A76C382) Date: 12/14/1943 Description: Night. British 255 Night Fighter Squadron leader [Patrick Hardy Vesey Wells](http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol095as.html) is flying his Bristol Beaufighter on a patrol mission around Naples, Italy, when he and his navigator notice a small bright light behind them. It stays on their tail, moving from side to side. After 1–2 minutes it goes off in another direction. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 52 Source ID: Eberhart_614 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1068 (4AA896D5) Date: 12/14/1943 Description: A pilot over Naples, Italy had a dogfight with a bright light that climbed much faster than his aircraft, a RAF Beaufighter with the 255th fighter squadron. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website, citing A. Roberts Source ID: Johnson_8387 Source: Johnson ### Event 1069 (8237419B) Date: 12/14/1943 Description: Small round bright light. (Page 52 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Naples, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_168 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1070 (7A14264D) Date: Winter 1943 Description: 3:00 p.m. Harry G. Barnes, a member of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department stationed at No. 1 Precinct, sees three oval-shaped objects in V-formation speeding eastward across the northeast sky. The objects have pulsating, greenish-red exhausts that occasionally flare and curl around them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 64](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=76&skin=2021); Clark III 1177 Source ID: Eberhart_616 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1071 (022CB8C3) Date: Winter 1943 Description: Day. While on a bombing mission over central Germany, Sgt. [Louis Kiss](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17898179/louis-kiss), a tail gunner on the Phyllis Marie, a B-17 of the 390th Bombardment Group, sees an odd-looking sphere approach the plane from behind and below. It seems to be the size of a basketball and shimmery gold. The object hovers just above one wing, then passes over the top to the other wing where it hovers again. Soon it moves to the rear and gets caught in the B-17’s backwash and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[First Official Foo-Fighter Records Discovered,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201992%2006%20%20-%20No%2032%20-%20New%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause, no. 32 \(June 1992\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_615 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1944 (Back to Top) ### Event 1072 (BB2910D3) Date: 1944 Description: Richard Shaver's stories re. UFO Type: paranormal phenomenon Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_79 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1073 (C628641A) Date: 1944 Description: During WW2, E.L. (initials), serving as Carpenter Mate, 1st Class, Hqt. Co. 112th Construction Battalion, came across a landed saucer near a wooded ridge, near the beach of Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii. Description: 50 ft. diam.; metallic; looked like an igloo; topped with a clear glass dome about a foot high with agold colored weather vane-like device spinning inside. Type: scientist Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C) Source ID: Maj2_78 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1074 (FF928F45) Date: 1944 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and his followers move closer to Palomar Mountain, California, along the Road to the Stars where his long-time associate Alice K. Wells sets up a roadside café, Palomar Gardens. According to coworker Charlotte Blodget, “Each member of the group shared in the manual labor that went into this effort, and since heavy restrictions were still in effect regarding materials \[in the war’s aftermath\], anything available had to serve.” Adamski builds a “small observatory” to house his 15-inch telescope to study the skies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Palomar](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/) [Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/)” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019; George M. Eberhart, “Palomar Gardens Café,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_618 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1075 (80A17942) Date: 1944 Description: During a mission to bomb oil fields in Romania, a Russian Tupolev Tu-2 piloted by Maj. Bajenov and Boris Surikov are flying over southwest Ukraine at an altitude of 3 miles when a large, elliptical object approaches them. The bomber starts shaking, the oil pressure rises, and Surikov feels a strong electrostatic charge. Even after the object passes, the bomber’s wings are covered with glowing discharges. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 21–22](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/20/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_617 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1076 (DD02A759) Date: 1/2/1944 End date: 1/3/1944 Description: Two rockets; altered course; fiery head and blazing stern. (Page 54 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Halberstadt, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_170 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1077 (84BB438A) Date: 1/5/1944 Description: Black plate-sized discs. (Page 55 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kiel, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_171 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1078 (83F2325B) Date: 1/15/1944 Description: The Materiel Command becomes the AAF Materiel Command. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand\#Air%5FService%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_619 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1079 (5B57AFA9) Date: 1/28/1944 Description: Airborne red light. (Page 56 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Somewhere over France, In Air Source ID: NICAP_DB_172 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1080 (3D2AE375) Date: 1/29/1944 Description: Red ball; yellow/red flames followed aircraft through evasive action. (Page 56 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Location Unknown, Unknown Source ID: NICAP_DB_173 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1081 (D4C5EAF5) Date: 1/30/1944 Description: On this day several 30-cm amber "foo-fighter" balls followed some US fighter planes of the 415th Squadron flying southwest of Landau, Germany. They were chased away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena, issue 12 Source ID: Johnson_596 Source: Johnson ### Event 1082 (21D929FC) Date: 2/1944 Description: 2:30 a.m. An Australian Beaufort bomber is flying at 4,500 feet over Bass Strait, Australia, when it is joined by an object like a “dark shadow” with a flickering flame coming out of its rear. It appears only 100–150 feet away and stays with the bomber for 18–20 minutes, during which time its radio and direction-finding instruments fail. It shoots away at 700 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[Australian A.F. UFO Report Files,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201982%2010%2000%20-%20Vol%2030%20No%2010.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 10 \(October 1982\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_620 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1083 (F0FBF232) Date: 2/1944 Description: At 2:30 a.m. a bomber crew at 4,500 feet altitude saw a dark shape pull alongside the plane and pace it at a distance of about 100 feet for about 18-20 minutes. (Ref. 3; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, 1996, pp. 35-36.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bass Strait, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_174 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1084 (626CFE44) Date: 2/9/1944 Description: RAF No. 5 Group issues a report of its investigation on “Rocket Phenomena,” concluding that the air crews are seeing either rockets fired from aircraft, parachute rockets, or high-explosive projectiles at maximum altitudes of 18,000 feet. Reports of objects changing their course are either defects causing erratic flight or light flak tracers reaching their highest point and descending. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 57–58 Source ID: Eberhart_621 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1085 (A2F2963F) Date: 2/12/1944 Description: The test launch of a Nazi rocket from Kummerdorf Airfield in Bremen, Germany with both of the top Nazi leaders Goebbels and Himmler present, occurred at 1:00 p.m. on this day. The tracking film showed an unidentified sphere that circled and followed the rocket. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, case 419; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 498 Source ID: Johnson_860 Source: Johnson ### Event 1086 (91D255E5) Date: 2/19/1944 End date: 2/20/1944 Description: Silvery cigar-shaped object like an airship; appeared to be a line of windows along the bottom of the object. (Page 60 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coblence and Aachen, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_177 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1087 (88C61D18) Date: 2/19/1944 End date: 2/20/1944 Description: Two objects: glowing balls; snake-like motion. (Page 59-60 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leipzig-Berlin area, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_176 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1088 (974871EC) Date: 2/20/1944 Description: 2:30 a.m. Two guards of the 3rd Marine Division on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands see what they first assume are the headlight beams of a truck coming from a swamp about three-quarters of a mile from their position. It moves laterally about 50 feet and they see it is a circular light about 50–60 feet long and 20 feet high. It then rises into the air about 25 feet and heads in the direction of the guards at about 45 mph. It makes a 45° turn and passes about 100 feet above the trees of a coconut grove. Several days later, a 200-foot cut in the reeds is discovered in the approximate spot where the light originated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alvin G. McNish, “[Letter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1984\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_622 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1089 (B2466175) Date: 2/23/1944 Description: Brig. Gen. [George C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) is appointed assistant chief of staff for intelligence for the newly created US Strategic Air Forces in Europe. “Many months preceding the collapse of Germany, McDonald recognized the imperative need for the creation of a new type of intelligence activity to investigate and exploit air intelligence objectives in Germany and liberated countries. This unique system was established and consisted of a great number of highly qualified technical and scientific personnel to exploit all the worldwide aeronautical research developments of Germany. This resulted in the collection of priority intelligence information of value in the prosecution of the war against Japan; technical and non-technical information of immediate operational significance and value; as well as a substantial portion of important documents and personnel of the German Air Ministry that enabled the US Army Air Forces to undertake long-range research with respect to many valuable- phases of air doctrine, research, employment, organization, procedure, and plans of the German air force.” Among the personalities involved in the operation are some who will become involved in UFO investigations in the future: Col. [John A. O’Mara,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8773069/john-a-o%5Fmara) Col. [Howard H. McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) Col. [Harold E. Watson,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) and Col. [Malcolm D. Seashore](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49311334/malcolm-d-seashore). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FStrategic%5FAir%5FForces%5Fin%5FEurope)” Source ID: Eberhart_623 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1090 (07530AC1) Date: 2/24/1944 End date: 2/25/1944 Description: Three silver objects & resembling zeppelins & moving independently of the wind & not interconnected. (Page 60 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Quentin, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_178 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1091 (2E719B9E) Date: 2/24/1944 Description: Night. Southwest of Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France, three silver objects are seen by an RAF bomber returning from a mission over Schweinfurt, Germany. They resemble Zeppelins but move independently of the wind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 60 Source ID: Eberhart_624 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1092 (4804FBAB) Date: 3/1944 Description: Air Force pilot saw fast-moving UFO speed out of sight over horizon. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carlsbad, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_179 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1093 (6B962F37) Date: 3/1944 Description: An Army Air Force pilot flying a B-17 sees a fast-moving, glowing green object light up the cockpit and speed out of sight over the horizon at Carlsbad, New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 19](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=31&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_625 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1094 (E5A0D2AE) Date: 3/1/1944 Description: The first prototype H.IX V1, an unpowered glider with fixed tricycle landing gear, is tested in Germany, but there is an accident when the pilot attempts to land without first retracting an instrument-carrying pole extending from the aircraft. The design is taken from the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) and given to Gothaer Waggonfabrik. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Horten Ho 229](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5FHo%5F229)” Source ID: Eberhart_626 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1095 (3371EC9F) Date: Spring 1944 Alternate date: 1945 Description: Two grammar school teachers are driving in the mountains near Auberry, California, when their car stalls and they see a cigar-shaped object with lighted portholes along the side hovering in a nearby ravine. They watch it for several minutes until it begins moving slowly out of the ravine, ascends, and shoots away to the west at a tremendous speed. The car engine remains stalled for a while, then starts by itself. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Past Sightings Come to](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2001%2000%20-%20January-February.pdf) [Light,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2001%2000%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1968, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_627 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1096 (D60FEAEE) Date: 4/1944 Description: The first operation jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, is introduced Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262) Source ID: Maj2_80 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1097 (8B79ED23) Date: 4/1944 Description: Late afternoon. Near the Eastern front in western Slovakia, a man is standing on a hill near his home when he sees a dark round object moving at high speed to his right for less than one minute. It moves at a steady speed and is followed by another object about 20 seconds later. As many as 6 others appear, and five are visible at one time, each beginning as a pinpoint of light, growing bigger, then decreasing back to a pinpoint. The display lasts for about 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1982\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_628 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1098 (B73CD897) Date: 4/5/1944 Description: The Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge has sent 200 grams of enriched uranium to Los Alamos. Italian-American physicist [Emilio Segrè](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio%5FSegr%C3%A8) receives the first sample and within 10 days discovers that the spontaneous fission rate is too high for use in a gun-type fission weapon \(because of pu-240 isotope present as an impurity in the pu-239\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” Source ID: Eberhart_629 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1099 (F147F5A6) Date: 4/11/1944 Description: Projectiles resembling glider bombs; a large orange glow & smoke trail. (Page 66 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Location unknown, probably, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_180 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1100 (D3E3E182) Date: 4/25/1944 Description: Black tear-dropped craft; probable Me-163. (Page 63 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_181 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1101 (96366109) Date: 4/26/1944 Description: Things; four orange glows; short stubby wings; football-sized¬; looking like large oranges. (Page 64-65 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Essen, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_182 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1102 (1048D696) Date: 4/26/1944 Description: Night. RAF pilot Arthur Horton of the 622 Squadron is returning from a bombing mission to Essen, Germany, when he is followed by four orange balls of light with “short stubby wings” and emitting sparks, two on each side of the aircraft. He takes evasive action with his Lancaster, but the objects follow all his maneuvers for 10 minutes. When they reach the coast of Holland, they seem to “burn themselves out.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 64–65; UFOFiles2, [pp. 16, 18](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n31/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_630 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1103 (1A76FE62) Date: 4/30/1944 Description: On this night at 9:00 p.m. a reddish orange glowing light followed an RAF Beaufighter from the 600th Squadron flying over Anzio, Italy during World War II. The two members of the crew reported that the light appeared to be doing evasive maneuvers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, case 7, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Source ID: Johnson_2416 Source: Johnson ### Event 1104 (14E01F0E) Date: 5/29/1944 Description: The Aircraft Warning Service is deactivated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Aircraft Warning Service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%5FWarning%5FService)” Source ID: Eberhart_631 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1105 (FAACB11E) Date: 6/1944 Alternate date: 7/1944 Description: Spheres approximately the size of a football. (Page 70 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Normandy, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_186 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1106 (40B8899C) Date: 6/1944 Description: 12:30 p.m. [David A. K. Morris,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180896335/david-aubrey%5Fkaye-morris) a fitter with Service Unit 10 of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, takes a swim with a friend at Torokina Beach, Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. They see “a huge, dark-gray, seemingly metallic, bulbous mass hanging out of a large cumulus cloud.” It moves silently, its outline fading into the cloud and out of sight. It resembles a Zeppelin or the [R101](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R101) airship, only bigger. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: D. Morris, “[RNZAF Camp UFO](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/rnzaf-camp-ufo-sighting-of-1944/) [Sighting of 1944,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/22/rnzaf-camp-ufo-sighting-of-1944/)” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_632 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1107 (D46E42C9) Date: 6/1944 Description: At 11:00 a.m. a flight of three P-38 fighters at 33,000 feet saw above them, at an estimated altitude of 50,000 feet, a silver disc. The object descended to about 40,000 feet and paced the fighters for 3 minutes, then accelerated and sped away. (Ref. 3; Jan Aldrich, Project ACUFOE, from CUFOS report form.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Adriatic Sea, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_184 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1108 (0C2AF591) Date: 6/1944 Description: Edward W. Ludwig is commanding a small, Coast Guard–manned cargo vessel near Palmyra Atoll. While looking for a lost Navy patrol plane, he observes a bright aerial sphere that alternately moves and stops for 30 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 3, no. 8 \(December 1950\): 82–87 Source ID: Eberhart_633 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1109 (0AB16B28) Date: 6/1944 Description: Luminescent discus-shaped object. (Page 67-68 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Normandy, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_183 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1110 (8EA84DCB) Date: 6/6/1944 Description: Dark ellipsoidal object & blunted on each end like sausage. (Page 67 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Normandy Coast, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_185 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1111 (2CD48154) Date: 6/10/1944? Description: The Liberty ship [SS George E. Badger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%5FGeorge%5FE.%5FBadger) is off Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, when gunner [Edward](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23391167/edward-breckel) [Breckel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23391167/edward-breckel) sees a “dark ellipsoidal object” on the horizon about 5 miles away. “Blunted on each end like a sausage,” the silent craft remains in view for 3 minutes, moving slowly at about 15 feet above the surface of the water. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 67; “[The Case for the ‘Sea-Saucer,’](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 10 \(January 7, 1955\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_634 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1112 (77DAC7A3) Date: 6/18/1944 Description: A man by the name of Langer gave a dramatic account of his encounter with seven belligerent dwarves, 4.5 feet tall, who came from a spherical UFO that had landed on the beach in Oahu near Kaneohe, Hawaii in the morning around 9 a.m. They wore green coveralls. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0120, citing Donald Worley Source ID: Johnson_3530 Source: Johnson ### Event 1113 (E785C25A) Date: Summer 1944 Description: 5:00 p.m. François Panes watches a cigar-shaped object at an altitude of about 5,000 feet above the Kamensko Forest north of Blovice, Czechoslovakia \[now Czech Republic\], glittering brightly with no wings, no rudder, and no propeller. It is about 150 feet in diameter and 300–400 feet long. The object is lit up from underneath. It slowly descends, after which it rises up again and vanishes into the blue sky after 10–15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 215–216 Source ID: Eberhart_641 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1114 (0611A489) Date: Summer 1944 Description: Egg-shaped, metallically glistening motionless object. (Page 78 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_190 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1115 (A42A129F) Date: Summer 1944 Description: Los Angeles columnist George Todt, in a party of four Army officers including a Lt. Col., watched a pulsating red fireball sail up to the front lines, hover for 15 minutes, then move away. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, IV\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Normandy, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_189 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1116 (E76EB066) Date: Summer 1944 Description: Day. [Asa Howard Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3288411/asa-howard) is outside the barracks at RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire, England, when he and other airmen see a pencil-shaped, metallic object moving faster than a jet about a mile away. While watching it for about 2 minutes, they see it pass behind a small cloud before it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_644 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1117 (A1CD377E) Date: Summer 1944 Description: Mid-day. Franceen Andron is at Camp McCain, southeast of Grenada, Mississippi, when she sees a large, fat, cigar-shaped object that changes from dull black to gray to “fog blue.” It is joined by three smaller discs that appear below it after emerging from a cloud. The large object disappears first, followed by the discs, which race away in different directions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_643 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1118 (9174A567) Date: Summer 1944 Description: Fred Wieland and some friends are riding their bicycles on a footpath adjacent to the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, New York City. As they climb a hill, they look up and see a cigar-shaped object “broadside” to them. It is of smooth metallic construction with no windows or openings. They race to the top of the hill for a better look, but by then the object has completely disappeared. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1178 Source ID: Eberhart_642 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1119 (57AAD55C) Date: 6/22/1944 Description: An object was allegedly shot down by the U.S. military as it attempted to depart from the island of Oahu, Hawaii near Kaneohe. One female occupant was captured and flown to Washington, DC. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0122 Source ID: Johnson_3595 Source: Johnson ### Event 1120 (9833208A) Date: 7/1944 Description: Targets flying at extremely high altitudes. (Page 81 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Normandy, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_188 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1121 (1A8FE96F) Date: 7/1944 Description: Two men of the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, saw a large rectangular object with no apparent source of propulsion move steadily over the front lines and out to sea. The UFO at one point passed in front of the moon, briefly obscuring it from view. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brest, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_187 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1122 (A6CA9851) Date: Early 7/1944 Description: 10:30 a.m. During Allied operations in the area around Loreto, Castelfidardo, and Osimo, in Ancona province, Italy, Antoni Szachnowsky, of the 2nd Polish Artillery Regiment, notices an egg-shaped, glistening, metallic, motionless object. The Polish Army anti-aircraft gun fires on it, then the German batteries join in. Eventually both sides stop, and the object remains motionless for a minute. Then it tilts at a 45° angle, moves rapidly upward, and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “1944: An Italian Foo-Fighter?” UFO Sightings Italia, no. 2, March 2002 Source ID: Eberhart_635 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1123 (07114068) Date: 7/4/1944 Description: [Oppenheimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FRobert%5FOppenheimer) reveals [Segrè](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio%5FSegr%C3%A8)’s final measurements to the Los Alamos staff, and the development of the gun-type plutonium weapon “Thin Man” is abandoned. Designing a workable implosion design \(Fat Man\) becomes the top priority of the laboratory, and design of the uranium gun-type weapon \(Little Boy\) continues. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” Source ID: Eberhart_636 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1124 (A1374D89) Date: 7/6/1944 Description: German test pilot [Heini Dittmar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini%5FDittmar) attains an unofficial airspeed record of 702 mph in a rocket-powered Messerschmidt Me 163B at Lagerlechfeld, Bavaria, Germany. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Heini Dittmar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heini%5FDittmar)” Source ID: Eberhart_637 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1125 (F3BD0F4E) Date: 7/9/1944 Description: Afternoon. After a successful air strike by the US 449th Bombardment Group against the Concordia-Vega refinery at Ploești, Romania, witness Grigore Zmeuranu sees a round, yellowish object flying from the north at a speed about 3-4 times that of an aircraft. It leaves a short vapor trail, moves over the bombed area, and returns silently in the same direction. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 226–227; Strange Company 71 Source ID: Eberhart_638 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1126 (01E120A4) Date: 7/17/1944 Description: The Air Service Command and the AAF Materiel Command are placed under AAF Materiel and Services. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand\#Air%5FService%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_639 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1127 (43A87842) Date: Late 7/1944 Description: Evening. Jaakku Kivistö is serving in the Finnish Army as a noncommissioned medical officer stationed on a farm near Impilahti, Karelia \[now Russia\], by Lake Ladoga. He notices a large object next to the corn-drying building on a steep hillside that he at first takes for a military truck. As he walks closer, he sees it is reddish in color, moving slowly about 150–230 feet in the air, 100 feet long, and has a row of black windows. It moves off quickly in the direction of the lake and vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Close Encounter from the Year 1944,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20%28English%20language%29/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%201985%20No%201.pdf)” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1985, no. 1, pp. 3–5 Source ID: Eberhart_640 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1128 (90D1589B) Date: 8/1944 Description: Twelve dismantled V-2 rockets were shipped to Japan. These left Bordeaux in August 1944 on the transport U-boats U-219 and U-195, which reached Jakarta in December 1944. A civilian V-2 expert was a passenger on U-234, bound for Japan in May 1945 when the war ended in Europe. The fate of these V-2 rockets is unknown. Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history) Source ID: Maj2_81 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1129 (C3545157) Date: 8/1944 Description: Cherry-red light; size of large star; sat motionless in sky before disappearing into clouds. (Page 79-80 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bt. St. Lo and Vire, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_191 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1130 (C0D380C2) Date: 8/1944 Description: Night. Officer George Todt of the 38th Regiment, Second Infantry Division, is between Saint-Lô and Vire, Normandy, France, when he sees a cherry-red light one-fifth the size of the moon moving silently west at 120 mph towards Omaha Beach. It stops over the American lines and hovers for 14 minutes. It expands and contracts regularly every few seconds. Col. [Francis Henry Boos](https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/117371) and another officer also observe it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 78– 79 Source ID: Eberhart_645 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1131 (F8076095) Date: 8/1/1944 Description: Reddish orange balls, about the size of a baseball; spherical object, probably 5 or 6 feet in diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange in color. (Page 71-74 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ploesti, Rumania Source ID: NICAP_DB_192 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1132 (1AE2CB5D) Date: 8/10/1944 Description: At a few minutes after midnight a bright reddish-orange, pulsing, maneuvering ball of light paced a U.S. Army Air Force B-29 bomber over the ocean between Palembang, Indonesia and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) at a location about 100 miles northwest of Palembang off the island of Sumatra. There were three witnesses on board the aircraft. The sighting lasted less than eight minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 23; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 83; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396 Source ID: Johnson_4815 Source: Johnson ### Event 1133 (5CF4643F) Date: 8/10/1944 End date: 8/11/1944 Description: Reida Case (M) Reddish orange balls, about the size of a baseball; spherical object, probably 5 or 6 feet in diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange in color. (Page 71-74 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palembang, Sumatra Source ID: NICAP_DB_194 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1134 (334DC7F9) Date: 8/10/1944 Description: Sighting of maneuvering UFO which paced B-29 (Reida case) during mission. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Sumatra Source ID: NICAP_DB_193 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1135 (F8023608) Date: 8/11/1944 Description: Night. RAF Warrant Officer Ronald R. Claridge is over France aboard a No. 7 Squadron Lancaster bomber returning from a bombing run on La Pallice, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France, when his radar screen goes blank. Another crewman shouts to look at a vast disc-shaped object with a long row of lights on their starboard side. They watch it for 3 minutes, then it shoots away in a flash of light. Later he draws a watercolor painting to show how the UFO dwarfed the bomber. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 26–27](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n47/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_647 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1136 (5E0ADBC7) Date: 8/11/1944 Description: Shortly after midnight. Capt. [Alvah M. Reida](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195591754/alvah-michael-reida) is piloting a B-29 bomber based at Kharagpur, India, on a bombing mission over Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia, when his right gunner and copilot notice a sphere “probably five or six feet in diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange in color” that constantly throbs, at about 12,500 feet, pacing them about 1,500 feet off the starboard wing. It keeps up with the B-29, then flying at 210 mph. Reida tries to shake it off his plane, but it stays in the same relative position until, after 8 minutes, it makes an abrupt 90° turn and accelerates rapidly, disappearing in the overcast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 23](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=35&skin=2021); Strange Company 71–75; Good Above, [p. 19](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/18/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_646 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1137 (FD66F166) Date: 8/12/1944 Description: Enormous disc; circular lights (changing from bright yellow top white) like portholes in a ship; motionless. (Page 75 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pelice, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_195 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1138 (5A0B31EF) Date: 8/13/1944 Description: Very brilliant light appearing to hover in air for at least five minutes. (Page 76 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kaoe Bay, Indonesia Source ID: NICAP_DB_196 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1139 (A36B7504) Date: Mid 8/1944 Description: 11:00 a.m. During the Warsaw Uprising in Poland, Zenon Sergisz notices a German bomber passing by, as well as three bright points of light that descend as the bomber moves away. The lights are flattened spheres that move low behind some buildings then rise up at an angle and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_648 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1140 (D0395706) Date: 8/17/1944 Description: The Allied command creates the Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee \(CIOS\), charged in part with investigating the strange balls of fire. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 79 Source ID: Eberhart_649 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1141 (3DE9B012) Date: Late 8/1944 Description: 4:20 p.m. A nurse, Mrs. E. M. Church, on her way to a tram station in Christchurch, New Zealand, sees an object like an “upturned saucer” resting on the ground near the road. It seems to be 20 feet across and 9 feet high. Two beings, not quite 4 feet tall, are inside, visible through a rectangular window. A third stands motionless, just outside an open door. All three seem to be looking toward the lights of a nearby fairground. The nurse cannot decide if their skin color is green or they are dressed in green, but all are encased in a transparent oblong box. The head takes up half of their bodies and there are no apparent legs or arms. She inadvertently makes a noise, and the outside figure notices her. Its helmet flips over automatically, and it drifts inside the object, which rises up and disappears in the clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1940–1949](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf), p. 12; Clark III 265 Source ID: Eberhart_651 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1142 (A2B54396) Date: Late 8/1944 Description: Sgt. Ness and another man of the mine-laying platoon of the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, see a large rectangular object “like a railroad boxcar” with no apparent source of propulsion move steadily at about 90 mph over the front lines near Brest, Brittany, France, and out to sea. At one point the object passes in front of the moon, briefly obscuring it from view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lore and Deneault, [pp. 120–121](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/120/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_650 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1143 (BFC4487A) Date: End of 8/1944 Description: A mysterious man appeared at windows, as if in search of someone. He stunned witnesses by pointing at them a device that "made consciousness dissolve" and left a strange cloying smell behind Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 61, 3; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mattoon, Illinois Source ID: Magnonia_51 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 1144 (006D82DC) Date: End of 8/1944 Description: A mysterious man appeared at windows, as if in search of someone. He stunned witnesses by pointing at them a device that "made consciousness dissolve" and left a strange cloying smell behind (Magonia #51, FSR 61, 3) (Needs to be checked. This did not check out, no newspaper reports could be found. Apparently the entire story was made up many years later. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mattoon, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_197 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1145 (832874DC) Date: 8/30/1944 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a big orange moon-shaped object flew overhead at low altitude in Gardouch, Haute-Garronne, France. Great heat was felt when the object turned white. It flew off to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 165; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_5484 Source: Johnson ### Event 1146 (0F24A173) Date: 8/31/1944 Description: The Army Air Forces Air Technical Service Command is formed as the result of the merging of the Materiel and Air Service Commands. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand\#Air%5FService%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_652 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1147 (E0D3DB02) Date: 9/1944 Description: 9:00 p.m. Canadian Army Lance Cpl. Carson Yorke is just outside Antwerp, Belgium, during a German bombardment. He steps out of his vehicle and sees a glowing globe traveling at about 30 mph and 40 feet altitude from the front lines toward the city \(in the same course that the German V-2s are following\). It seems to be 3–4 feet in diameter and looks “as though it was cloudy glass with a light inside.” It disappears from view, then is followed by another, then five others in succession. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jerome Clark and Lucius Farish, “[The Mysterious ‘Foo](http://www.project1947.com/fig/sagafoo.htm) [Fighters’ of WW II,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/sagafoo.htm)” Saga UFO Report, Spring 1975 Source ID: Eberhart_654 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1148 (D958AA88) Date: 9/1944 Description: Glowing globe, cloudy gas with a light inside; & three to four feet in diameter. (Page 82-83 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Antwerp, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_202 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1149 (46FA1B11) Date: 9/1944 Description: Oak Ridge, TN. Metal tube hovers over gaseous diffusion plant (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: M, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [440900](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/4409xxoakridge%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_198 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1150 (E1A2E25C) Date: 9/1944 Description: White object & egg-shaped & very brilliant. (Page 76 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown Island, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_199 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1151 (BCF8C1AC) Date: 9/1944 Description: Around 9 p.m. in the evening a Canadian soldier, stationed near the front lines close to Antwerp, observed "a glowing globe traveling from the direction of the front line towards Antwerp. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Antwerp, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_200 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1152 (D4E01EDB) Date: 9/1944 Description: Bright spherical object & like a rolling ball. (Page 83 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_201 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1153 (BDA7CE86) Date: 9/1944 Description: Dusk. Three Oak Ridge workers \(a man named Nelson, A. C. Butler, and Albert Profitt\) are driving 2 miles southeast of Oliver Springs, Tennessee, when a strange object appears about 50 feet ahead of them at the level of their windshield. It is glossy white in color and about 30 feet long and 4 feet wide. Nelson eases the car up to the object, but it withdraws; when he stops, it also stops. Soon the light rises high in the air and disappears over Black Oak Ridge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp, 23–24 Source ID: Eberhart_653 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1154 (ED25C4ED) Date: 9/2/1944 Description: Two chemists are killed, and [Arnold Kramish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%5FKramish) almost killed, after being sprayed with highly corrosive hydrofluoric acid while attempting to unclog a uranium enrichment device that is part of the pilot thermal diffusion plant at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Arnold Kramish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%5FKramish\#Manhattan%5FProject)” Source ID: Eberhart_655 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1155 (EF75F659) Date: 9/6/1944 Description: The Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee holds its first meeting in London, England. Present are Air Commodore K. C. Buss \(Air Ministry\), Gen. [George C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) \(AAF Director of Intelligence\), Lt. Col. [Lewis F. Powell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%5FF.%5FPowell%5FJr), Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) \(chief of the Air Technical Section\), [Howard P. Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) \(CalTech physicist\), and Cmdr. [Ian Fleming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%5FFleming) \(Admiralty\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 80 Source ID: Eberhart_656 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1156 (6F7C3DA0) Date: 9/7/1944 Description: First V-2 rocket attacks begin. Two launched at Paris. V-2’s speed and trajectory made it practically invulnerable to anti-aircraft guns and fighters, as it dropped from an altitude of 100–110 km (62–68 mi) at up to three times the speed of sound at sea level (approximately 3550 km/h). The British government, concerned about spreading panic or giving away vital intelligence to German forces, initially attempted to conceal the cause of the explosions by making no official announcement, and euphemistically blaming them on defective gas mains. The public did not believe this explanation and therefore began referring to the V-2s as “flying gas mains”. Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history) Location: Germany Source ID: Maj2_82 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1157 (8B08625B) Date: Late 9/1944 Description: Solid black cylindrical-shaped; red glow emitting from rear. (Page 81-82 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dover, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_203 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1158 (61406D28) Date: 9/29/1944 Description: At 6:00 p.m. Soviet forces in Ukraine reported that they had sighted a "German aircraft" that stood still in the air for two minutes and made no noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 227 Source ID: Johnson_6410 Source: Johnson ### Event 1159 (2CE52569) Date: 9/29/1944 Description: At 10:45 a.m. a German Me-262 jet pilot, while in flight over Rechlin Goggenthin, Lower Saxony, Germany sighted a 100 meter long cigar-shaped object with openings on the side and a long antennae. The UFO shot off at a speed in excess of 1,900 km/h. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dale Goudie, CUFON; Larry Hatch, U computer database, Claude Poher, case # 420 Source ID: Johnson_6409 Source: Johnson ### Event 1160 (EB1CE3C0) Date: 10/1944 Description: Late night. Members of a family who live in an isolated area on the outskirts of Rochester, Pennsylvania, are awakened by a loud noise and flash of light. The father goes to the door, where he sees a 4.5-foot-tall figure dressed in a brown robe. Fifteen feet to its left are five other figures dressed in luminous brown metallic suits. Their heads seem large, with only a slit for a mouth. The arms are long, with long thin fingers. Three of them enter the house and the father accompanies them to a landed craft nearby. He remembers nothing else when he wakes up in the morning. A round, burned circle 20 feet from the house and 25 feet in diameter is found the next day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 265–266 Source ID: Eberhart_657 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1161 (36385D44) Date: 10/1944 Description: Field Artillery officer and men saw a brilliant object moving from NW to SW, crossing an arc of about 90 degrees in about 45 minutes. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Southeast, Holland Source ID: NICAP_DB_205 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1162 (4352EB6F) Date: 10/1944 Description: Nellie Carlin and another woman are about to drive to work in St. Paul, Minnesota, when they see what seems to be an airplane about to crash. It abruptly stops 20 feet above their heads, revealing itself to be a brown, bullet- shaped object with a flat end “like frosted glass with a bright light behind it.” It makes a crackling noise, turns right, and ascends at great speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1178 Source ID: Eberhart_658 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1163 (69D3300D) Date: 10/10/1944 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a man on a bicycle was suddenly illuminated by a light beam from the woods, then he saw a large shining sphere rise rapidly from the ground and hover at treetop height. It appeared moon-like; golden in color, and made no sound. After about 5 minutes the object abruptly disappeared. (Ref. 3; Anders Liljegren AFU archives.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alghut, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_206 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1164 (D0C155FA) Date: 10/10/1944 Description: A bicyclist in Alghult, Sweden reported that on this evening a beam of light from a luminous flying sphere struck the small generator used on the bicycle to generate electricity for the headlamp. The UFO hovered over some nearby woods, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_6696 Source: Johnson ### Event 1165 (A0EE6D4A) Date: 10/16/1944 Description: Small black dot; hanging stationary. (Page Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Formosa, Taiwan Source ID: NICAP_DB_207 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1166 (F6725E94) Date: 10/20/1944 Description: Red light appearance of an aircraft light. (Page 84 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Po Valley, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_208 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1167 (402DDAC6) Date: 10/20/1944 Description: Two orange balls diving into the hills. (Page 84 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: N. Florence, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_209 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1168 (BD500790) Date: Late 10/1944 Description: 9:30 p.m. 1Lt. J. B. Douglas Jr. and other soldiers of the 489th Armored Field Artillery near Weert, Netherlands, watch a bright silvery object through field glasses moving silently from northwest to southwest through an arc of 90° in about 30–45 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [pp. 30](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=43&skin=2021), [129](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=141&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_659 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1169 (A767810B) Date: 10/25/1944 Description: Multiple sightings of possible balloons. (Page 78 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Omura, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_210 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1170 (A86724C1) Date: Late 10/1944 Description: Eight to ten lights in a row, glowing orange, and moving at terrific speed. (Page 95 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Strasbourg, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_219 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1171 (B77DBA14) Date: Late 10/1944 Description: Bright green globe. (Page 95-96 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lingayen Gulf, Philippines Source ID: NICAP_DB_220 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1172 (6A1F8886) Date: 10/28/1944 Description: Physicist [David T. Griggs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FT.%5FGriggs)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FT.%5FGriggs) a civilian adviser on radar to the War Department, is asked by Gen. [Henry H.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FH.%5FArnold) [“Hap” Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FH.%5FArnold) to look into incidents of unusual aerial phenomena in Europe and interview pilots. He later moves his investigation to the Pacific Theater. His report to Arnold at the end of the war has never been located. He was interviewed by [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) on April 10, 1969. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “David Griggs and the Foo Fighters,” IUR 31, no. 1 \(January 2007\): 17–19 Source ID: Eberhart_660 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1173 (66B8C5CB) Date: 10/29/1944 Description: Light blue colored ball of fire approximately three feet in diameter. (Page 85-86 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Munich, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_211 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1174 (5E869C81) Date: 10/30/1944 Description: Late night. RAF Flight Engineer Maurice Juberley of the 640 Squadron is returning from a bombing mission over Köln, Germany. His Halifax III is flying at 19,000 feet above the clouds when the rear gunner reports a ball of orange fire closing in on them. He orders an evasive maneuver and loses the light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 86 Source ID: Eberhart_661 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1175 (AA001602) Date: 10/30/1944 End date: 10/31/1944 Description: A ball of fire; circular, pale orange, clean edged light. (Page 86 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cologne, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_212 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1176 (A8EB8949) Date: 11/1944 Description: 415th Night Fighter Squadron pilot saw formation of round objects. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_213 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1177 (F68CF85D) Date: Early 11/1944 Description: Night. Lieut. Col. [Oris B. Johnson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106584/major-general-oris-b-johnson/)’s 422d Night Fighter Squadron, equipped with P-61 Black Widow fighters, reports seeing 15–20 mystery objects every night over Germany, either alone or in formations of four. Johnson says he could accept that the reports are rocket planes or night fighter jets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 87 Source ID: Eberhart_662 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1178 (47C0ED66) Date: 11/3/1944 Description: The Japanese Army launches the first of some 9,300 Fu-Go bomb-bearing fire balloons intended to land in North America to instill fear and terror. About 300 are found or seen in America. It is likely that more of them land in unpopulated areas. On November 4, a US Navy patrol craft discovers one of the first Fu-Go balloons floating off San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. National and state agencies are placed on heightened alert status when balloons are found in Wyoming and Montana before the end of the month. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Fu-Go balloon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go%5Fballoon%5Fbomb) [bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go%5Fballoon%5Fbomb)”; Franklin Matthias, “[Japanese Balloon Bombs Fu-Go,](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/japanese-balloon-bombs-fu-go)” Atomic Heritage Foundation, August 10, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_663 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1179 (40B71FED) Date: 11/4/1944 Description: Night. RAF Lancaster bombers over Solingen, Germany, report what they call “scarecrow” dummy airplanes that explode with a sheet of flame and dense black smoke. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[German Dummy Planes Explode Amid Our](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/11/06/84004866.pdf) [Own,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/11/06/84004866.pdf)” New York Times, November 6, 1944, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_664 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1180 (4E53C700) Date: 11/5/1944 Description: A long purple-blue parabolic trail. (Page 77-78 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Singapore, Malaya Source ID: NICAP_DB_214 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1181 (98ABB0B1) Date: 11/5/1944 End date: 11/6/1944 Description: Possible jet; single light; 5 free lance visuals on jets, no A.I. or G.C.I. contacts; several flares similar to jets. (Page 86-87 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aachen/Bonn/Cologne, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_215 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1182 (A8D14C5B) Date: 11/8/1944 Description: Nazis officially announce the V-2 rocket on 11/8/1944 Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history) Location: Germany Source ID: Maj2_83 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1183 (DB32A730) Date: 11/12/1944 Description: 9:30 p.m. A radio station in Santiago, Chile, broadcasts a version of The War of the Worlds in Spanish in which Martians land in Puente Alto, causing a panic and the death by heart attack of at least one person in Valparaíso. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds: A History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the Original Script, McFarland, 2009, pp. 99–102 Source ID: Eberhart_665 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1184 (C23634CF) Date: 11/16/1944 Description: 11:55 p.m. Lt. J. L. Besmond, officer of the day on the [USS Gilliam,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FGilliam%5F%28APA-57%29) enroute from Oro Bay, Papua New Guinea, to Leyte Gulf, Philippines, observes an unusual object at a distance of 21 miles. Fire Control Officer P. Kendall Bruce describes it as a bright green globe that rises from behind the ship and moves in a “perfect parabola at great speed, finally disappearing behind the horizon to the north.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO Observed from USS](http://www.nicap.org/441116phillipines%5Fdir.htm) [Gilliam](http://www.nicap.org/441116phillipines%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_666 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1185 (5DFC21EF) Date: 11/22/1944 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a spherical object followed a plane from the RAF IX Squadron west-southwest of Trondheim, Norway for three minutes. It made a violent acceleration and deceleration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 24; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_7791 Source: Johnson ### Event 1186 (B7998E8B) Date: 11/22/1944 Description: Spherical object, fluctuating in brightness, pyrotechnic pink in color, changing speeds violently, swift and jerking movements. (Page 89 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_216 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1187 (EAD9681C) Date: 11/24/1944 Description: Capt. [William D. Leet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139829263/william-dean-leet)’s B-17 crew \(part of the 2nd Bombardment Group, 5th Wing of the Fifteenth Air Force\) is returning from bombing a target at Klagenfurt, Austria. While flying over northeastern Italy near Trieste, Leet notices a blinding light and feels an intense heat. It goes away quickly, but seconds later he sees a “round amber light” sitting off the left wingtip of the B-17. It is bright and perfectly circular. Leet orders the gunners not to shoot at it. Sgt. Harris, the upper gunner, thinks it is 10 feet in diameter and 150–300 feet away. The object stays with them over the Adriatic Sea for 50 minutes, until it “just turned off” like a light bulb. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 90–93 Source ID: Eberhart_667 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1188 (56637217) Date: 11/24/1944 Description: Round amber light, luminous orange-yellow, blinding light; felt unbearable heat. (Page 89-93 Ref.1) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_217 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1189 (1FDEB9F3) Date: 11/26/1944 Description: Red light that disappeared in long red streak. (Page 93-94 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mannheim, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_218 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1190 (B095261C) Date: 11/27/1944 Description: Two Lieutenants, Giblin and Cleary, pilots of the U.S. Army Air Force 415TH NFS, saw a huge orange sphere while flying a P-70 over Speyer, Germany on this night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 23; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7 citing Aeronautical Magazine, February 1986 Source ID: Johnson_7950 Source: Johnson ### Event 1191 (3405068C) Date: 11/29/1944 Description: Night. A Bristol Beaufighter crew \(pilot Lieut. Edward A. Schlueter and radar observer Lieut. Donald J. Meiers of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, and intelligence officer Capt. [Fred B. Ringwald](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135104859/fred-bertrand-ringwald) as observer\) is on a bombing mission and flying above the Rhine River north of Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. They see “eight to 10 bright orange lights off the left wing…flying through the air at high speed.” Neither the airborne radar nor ground control registers anything nearby. Schlueter and Meiers also see red lights on November 26 above Mannheim, Germany. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Zoe Crasney, “[What Were the Mysterious ‘Foo Fighters’ Sighted by WWII Night Flyers?](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/what-were-mysterious-foo-fighters-sighted-ww2-night-flyers-180959847/)” Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine, August 2016; Strange Company 93–95 Source ID: Eberhart_669 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1192 (1A5ED72D) Date: 11/29/1944 Description: 3:00 p.m. [Reginald Herbert Mortimer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104455565/reginald-herbert-mortimer) and his daughter Frances are on the Bruce Peninsula between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, Ontario, when they hear a hissing sound behind them and see 9 disc-shaped objects pass overhead at approximately 2,000 feet. Moving three abreast in a square configuration, they are lost to sight over the lake. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1179 Source ID: Eberhart_668 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1193 (103AE7FB) Date: 11/30/1944? Description: As the [USS Gilliam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FGilliam%5F%28APA-57%29) is transporting troops from Leyte Gulf to Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines, Lieut. JG Kendall Bruce, fire control officer on the ship, observes a bright green, globe-shaped object rising out of the nearby headlands and disappears to the north, It is too slow for a missile. \[Same event as November 16?\] Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO Observed from USS Gilliam](http://www.nicap.org/441116phillipines%5Fdir.htm)”; Strange Company 95–96 Source ID: Eberhart_670 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1194 (411F013E) Date: 12/1944 Description: Amorphous reddish-glow that at times appeared cigar-shaped. (Page 97-98 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ardennes offensive, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_222 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1195 (66886EA2) Date: 12/1944 Description: B-17 pilot (William D. Leet) and crew, on a lone wolf mission, were followed by an amber-colored disc. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Austria, Austria Source ID: NICAP_DB_221 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1196 (24B9EA7F) Date: 12/1944 Description: Three to four very bright balls, completely illuminated red, yellow, white and blue in color; size of tennis ball at arms length. (Page 119 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Frankfurt and Karlsrhue btn., Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_238 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1197 (7EC668C3) Date: 12/1944 Description: String of lights, twelve to fifteen in number, orange to yellow in color, approximately four feet in diameter, stretching twice the length of crews aircraft; no radar contact. (Page 120 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Somewhere bt. eastern France and Western Germany, Europe Source ID: NICAP_DB_239 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1198 (390F3F86) Date: 12/1944 Description: Bright fuzzy round ball, twice the size of full moon; yellow, white, red tint that was not solid color; no radar return. (Page 118-119 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Strasbourg and Manheim Btn., Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_237 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1199 (55D89486) Date: 12/2/1944 Description: A steady, seemingly hanging light. (Page 96 Ref.1) Ghedi Airdrome area (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Villafranca, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_223 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1200 (78B4A677) Date: 12/5/1944 Description: Alleged aircraft that climbed out of range in nothing flat. (Page 96 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rhine River area, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_224 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1201 (163F0CDF) Date: 12/13/1944 Description: SHAEF in Paris, France, issues a press release identifying the fireballs as a “new German weapon” and that the Ninth Air Force has reported seeing “many silver balls floating in the air above enemy territory.” An Army Air Force spokesman says on December 20 that the silver balls have “no detectable effects” on Allied planes. He does not know whether or not they are metallic. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 96, 101 Source ID: Eberhart_671 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1202 (1F695089) Date: 12/14/1944 End date: 12/15/1944 Description: Brilliant red light & appeared to be 4 or 5 times larger than a star going 200 mph. (Page 96,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Erstein, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_225 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1203 (A74C0089) Date: 12/14/1944 End date: 12/28/1944 Description: Numerous balls of light are reported by the Night Fighter Squadrons during bombing raids over Germany. Pilot and operations officer [Charlie Horne](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53881946/charles-lucius-horne) of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron suggests calling the objects “foo fighters,” a name gleaned from the men’s favorite comic strip, “Smokey Stover” by cartoonist [Bill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FHolman%5F%28cartoonist%29) [Holman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FHolman%5F%28cartoonist%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FHolman%5F%28cartoonist%29) The comic follows the escapades of a madcap fire fighter who calls his fire truck the “Foomobile.” Smokey Stover often states, “where there’s foo, there’s fire.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[More Foo-Fighter Records Released,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201992%2009%20%20-%20No%2033%20-%20New%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause, new ser., no. 33 \(September 1992\): 2–6; Strange Company 96–111; Swords 3–5; “[The Foo Fighters of World War](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/foofightersofworldwariipartone.html) [II, Part One,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/foofightersofworldwariipartone.html)” Saturday Night UFOria; Clas Svahn, “The Origin of the Expression ‘Foo Fighter,’” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 18; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Hunneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 47–49](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/46/mode/2up); Barry Greenwood, “[Foo Fighter Archive Donated to UHR,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr17.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 17 \(December 2015\): 2–8 Source ID: Eberhart_672 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1204 (D8408A6C) Date: 12/16/1944 End date: 12/24/1944 Description: Amorphous reddish-glow that at times appeared cigar-shaped. (Page 103-104 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_226 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1205 (DC8287E5) Date: 12/17/1944 Description: 5 or 6 flashing red and green lights in T-shape. (Page 100,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Breisach, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_227 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1206 (A60CB006) Date: 12/22/1944 End date: 12/23/1944 Description: Two lights that appeared to be a large orange glow coming from ground - followed plane - appeared to be under perfect control (Page 102,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hagenau, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_228 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1207 (E88C596E) Date: 12/22/1944 Description: Two huge orange glowing spheres followed a U.S. Army Air Force warplane from the 415th NFS at 10,000 feet altitude over Hagenau, France in the Bas-Rhine region. The pilots names were McFalls and Baker. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 126; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 23; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 116 Source ID: Johnson_8560 Source: Johnson ### Event 1208 (943A858F) Date: 12/23/1944 End date: 12/24/1944 Description: Glowing red object shooting straight up; appeared to be aircraft doing a wingover and going into a dive and disappearing. (Page 103,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_230 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1209 (F9D14D95) Date: 12/23/1944 Description: Night. Navy Lt. [George Arents III](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184270993/george-arents) and copilot Lt. Elon Forster are flying a military DC-3 at 9,000 feet between Blackstone and Richmond, Virginia, when they notice a cigar-shaped object hovering below them at about 4,000 feet. It appears to be 200 feet long and has two horizontal rows of blue-lighted windows and a flaming exhaust coming out of its tail. \(Jan Aldrich\) Late December through February 1945 — Radar operators at Naval Air Station Pasco, Washington, report unusual blips that appear out of nowhere and proceed from northwest to southeast. A Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter is scrambled on at least two occasions with orders to shoot down anything that appears to be hostile, but nothing is seen. In another incident, Lt. JG Clarence R. Clem accompanies Lt. Commander Richard Brown and Ensign C. T. Neal to a waiting aircraft and Brown takes off in pursuit of a ball of fire that quickly leaves him behind as it speeds off to the northwest and is lost to radar. On another occasion, naval officer R. W. Hendershot, flying an SNJ aircraft, is asked by ground radar to make contact with two high-altitude blips flying at the speed of a single- engine Piper Cub. Though he can see nothing, he is convinced the blips are real. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 142; Nukes 43–44; Project 1947, “[UFOs over Hanford: Cdr. R. W. Hendershot,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/1945%5Fhanford%5Freport.pdf)” June 22, 2014; Robert L. Hastings, “[Reports](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/reports-confirm-ufo-activity-at-the-hanford-nuclear-weapons-plant-during-world-war-ii) [Confirm UFO Activity at the Hanford Nuclear Weapons Plant during World War II,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/reports-confirm-ufo-activity-at-the-hanford-nuclear-weapons-plant-during-world-war-ii)” UFOs & Nukes, August 9, 2015; Headquarters Fourth Air Force, “[Air Defense Measures at Hanford Engineering Company,](https://www.ufohastings.com/storage/files/image/2015-08-08/hanford%5F1945%5F1.png)” January 23, 1945; Robert L. Hastings, “[Former US Navy Pilot Says Huge Fireball Maneuvered above the Hanford Atomic](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/former-us-navy-pilot-says-huge-fireball-maneuvered-above-the-hanford-atomic-plant) [Plant during World War II,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/former-us-navy-pilot-says-huge-fireball-maneuvered-above-the-hanford-atomic-plant)” UFOs & Nukes, October 5, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_673 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1210 (32AB3432) Date: 12/23/1944 End date: 12/24/1944 Description: Red streak in sky. (Page 103,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_229 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1211 (D6DB790C) Date: 12/24/1944 Description: A red ball of light climbed to the altitude of a Beaufighter from the 415TH NFS squadron while it was flying over Karisruhe, Germany on this night. The two man crew, Baker and McFalls, watched the light pace their aircraft for awhile and then climb away from them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p 126; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 117 Source ID: Johnson_8584 Source: Johnson ### Event 1212 (E730D003) Date: 12/26/1944 End date: 12/27/1944 Description: Circular, fiery ball; triangle of ovals three circular, reddish-blue in color, vivid lights, looking like flames, in a tight inverted triangle formation. (Page 104-106 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Worms, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_232 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1213 (F7D98973) Date: 12/26/1944 End date: 12/27/1944 Description: Multiple sightings: red balls of fire; two yellow streaks of flame & disappeared from view; the crew thought they felt prop wash; a group of lights that made distinct lines, somewhat like arrows; row of vertical white lights. (Page 103,131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_231 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1214 (ECDAE633) Date: 12/27/1944 Description: Orange lights, singly and in pairs, suspended in air, moving slowly before disappearing. (Page 108 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_234 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1215 (77437B3E) Date: 12/27/1944 Description: Two sets of three red and white lights. (Page 107-108,131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Luneville, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_233 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1216 (1930813E) Date: 12/28/1944 Description: Large white light; no radar contact; went straight up at a tremendous speed; disappeared. (Page 108-110 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ardennes, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_236 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1217 (D8643659) Date: 12/28/1944 Description: A green ball about six inches in diameter; motionless and did not appear to have anything supporting it. (Page 108 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Neuwied / Koblenz, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_235 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1945 (Back to Top) ### Event 1218 (7ABBB44E) Date: 1945 Description: An American soldier saw a disk-shaped object come down rapidly, oscillate, and land. The site could not be found in the dark. The event took place 35 km northwest of the town. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Habbebishopsheim, Germany Source ID: Magnonia_52 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 1219 (40EB14EE) Date: 1945 Description: An American soldier saw a disk-shaped object come down rapidly, oscillate, and land. The site could not be found in the dark. The event took place 35 km northwest of the town. (Magonia #52, Atic) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Habbebishopsheim, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_240 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1220 (B92BD63F) Date: 1945 Description: Hanford Nuclear Plant, Washington, (M) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [450000](http://www.nicap.org/45XXXXhanforddir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hanford Nuclear Plant, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_241 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1221 (EB070EC9) Date: 1945 Description: Soviet underground city Ozyorsk starts construction, using 70,000 prisoners from 12 labor camps. Later turned into the “Chelyabinsk-40” atomic bomb project plant opened (Plutonium production, component manufacturing). Now one of the most contaminated places on Earth. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://sometimes-interesting.com/the-most-contaminated-place-on-earth-chelyabinsk-40/) Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Ozyorsk, Russia See also: 1947 Source ID: Maj2_208 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1222 (49621FA4) Date: 1945 Description: (Approximate date.) Radar signals secretly bounced off the Moon during WW2 according to a public statement by Dr. Oliver J. Lee. Type: scientific advance Reference: [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/we-secretly-bounced-radar-signals-off-the-moon-during-ww2-f4699297038f) Location: New Jersey Source ID: Maj2_85 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1223 (5BE54D44) Date: 1945 Description: Green Fireballs seen in Southwestern US Type: anomalous phenomenon Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: Maj2_84 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1224 (B7B5A718) Date: 1945 Description: Nr. Okinawa, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [450000](http://www.nicap.org/45XXXXguamdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Okinawa (near), Guam Source ID: NICAP_DB_242 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1225 (963FD17C) Date: 1/1945 Description: Another 415th Night Fighter Squadron pilot was followed by three red and white lighted objects over Germany. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_243 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1226 (986301D4) Date: 1/1945 Description: [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) edits, rewrites, and publishes Richard S. Shaver’s description of the cave-dwelling Dero for the March 1945 issue of Amazing Stories under the title “I Remember Lemuria.” The issue sells out and generates quite a response. Between 1945 and 1949, many letters arrive attesting to the truth of Shaver’s claims \(tens of thousands of letters, according to Palmer\). The correspondents claim that they, too, have heard strange voices or encountered denizens of the Hollow Earth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Richard Sharpe Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)”; Richard S. Shaver, “[‘I](https://ia802506.us.archive.org/0/items/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv19n01%5F1945-03%5FZiff-Daviscape1736/Amazing%20Stories%20v19n01%201945-03%20%28Ziff-Davis%29%28cape1736%29.pdf) [Remember Lemuria,’](https://ia802506.us.archive.org/0/items/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv19n01%5F1945-03%5FZiff-Daviscape1736/Amazing%20Stories%20v19n01%201945-03%20%28Ziff-Davis%29%28cape1736%29.pdf)” Amazing Stories 19, no. 1 \(March 1945\): 12–70; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, [pp. 137–144](https://archive.org/details/subterraneanworldswalterkaftonminkel100000yearsofdragonsdwarfsthedeadlostracesufosfrominsidetheearth/page/n141/mode/2up); Clark III 872, 1069; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction, McFarland, 2013; David Halperin, “[The](https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-shaver-mystery-richard-shaver-ray-palmer-and-the-quest-for-lemuria-part-1/) [Shaver Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria \(Part 1\),](https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-shaver-mystery-richard-shaver-ray-palmer-and-the-quest-for-lemuria-part-1/)” July 4, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_674 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1227 (F831EA99) Date: 1/1/1945 Description: Pair of fog lights; bright yellowish orange; flying in tandem; three feet in diameter. (Page 114-117 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ardennes, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_244 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1228 (9A553517) Date: 1/1/1945 End date: 1/2/1945 Description: Foo fighters. (Page 131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Strasbourg (north of), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_245 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1229 (7E0EA851) Date: 1/2/1945 Description: Col. [Clayton Lawrence Bissell,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton%5FLawrence%5FBissell) in the Pentagon’s Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, sends SHAEF in Paris a classified message seeking an explanation for the red balls of fire pacing planes. No response has been located to date. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[Clayton Lawrence\] Bissell, \[[message](http://www.project1947.com/fig/2%5FJanuary%5F1945%5Fwdgbi.pdf)\], January 2, 1945; Project 1947, “[UFO](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm) [Reports, 1945](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_677 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1230 (B23091BB) Date: 1/2/1945 Description: 2:30 a.m. USAAF Lieut. Jack Green and navigator Lieut. Warren Barber, 653rd Bombardment Squadron, are conducting a reconnaissance flight in a Mosquito over the Netherlands and northern Germany when they encounter two balls of fire on three occasions pacing their plane. Barber describes them as a “pair of fog lights, shooting up to 60 or 70,000 feet.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 114–116, 208–209 Source ID: Eberhart_675 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1231 (FB76EEE0) Date: 1/2/1945 Description: The New York Times publishes an article stating that the foo fighters are German weapons. Lieut. Donald J. Meiers of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron says he has been followed by foo-fighters twice. “A foo-fighter picked me up at 700 feet and chased me 20 miles down the Rhine Valley \[Germany\]. I turned to starboard and two balls of fire turned with me. I turned to the port side and they turned with me. We were going 260 miles an hour and the balls were keeping right up with us.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Balls of Fire Stalk U.S. Fighters in Night Assaults over](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/01/02/84625631.pdf) [Germany,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/01/02/84625631.pdf)” New York Times, January 2, 1945, pp. 1, 4; Strange Company 117–118 Source ID: Eberhart_676 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1232 (A35D1684) Date: 1/10/1945 Description: An amber light pass parallel and at same altitude. (Page 125 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Iwo Jima, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_246 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1233 (4A2C7622) Date: 1/14/1945 End date: 1/15/1945 Description: A large orange glow in sky approx. 5 ft. in diameter. (Page 131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ingweiller, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_247 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1234 (A58EE8CD) Date: 1/16/1945 Description: Lt. Col. [Leavitt Corning Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6360350/leavitt-corning) of the XII Tactical Air Command sends a secret memo to the assistant chief of air intelligence requesting further information on the “Night Phenomenon.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 126–127 Source ID: Eberhart_678 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1235 (0119BBC8) Date: 1/18/1945 Description: Large silvery cylinder or balloon that appeared to discharge another balloon or object, each traveling in separate directions. (Page 132 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vancouver Island, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_248 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1236 (D12FBF2F) Date: 1/20/1945 Description: First Tactical Air Force Executive Officer Maj. [Samuel V. Boykin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38941869/samuel-woodson%5Fvenable-boykin) responds to [Corning](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6360350/leavitt-corning) asking for more particulars about the reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 127 Source ID: Eberhart_679 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1237 (C15E66B7) Date: 1/22/1945 Description: On this afternoon Allied POWs on the ground watched a white, football-shaped object following a bomber at 18,000 feet between Heydebreck and Kedzierzyn, Poland. On the same day there was an unexplained skyquake in Louisville, Kentucky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Jenny Randles, Science and the UFOs, p. 9; (2) George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 510, citing Tiffany Thayer, Doubt magazine, 1945, p. 172 Source ID: Johnson_405 Source: Johnson ### Event 1238 (64B99645) Date: 1/22/1945 Description: British prisoners being force-marched out of the German Heydebreck labor camp \(near modern Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland\) see a four-engine bomber overhead. Behind it is a “brilliant light” that is following it closely. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 503 Source ID: Eberhart_680 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1239 (C29D9238) Date: 1/29/1945 Description: Two amber colored lights about one foot in diameter. (Page 129,131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wissembourg and Landau bt., Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_249 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1240 (4634D328) Date: 1/30/1945 Description: 12:10 a.m. A 415th Night Fighter Squadron crew observes two amber-colored “lights in the air at 2,000 feet” between Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, France, and Landau, Germany. They seem to be about a foot in diameter and 20–50 feet apart. The lights follow their Bristol Beaufighter, closing in to about 1,000 feet before disappearing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 129 Source ID: Eberhart_681 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1241 (439B028F) Date: 1/30/1945 Description: Capt. [Fred B. Ringwald](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135104859/fred-bertrand-ringwald)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135104859/fred-bertrand-ringwald) intelligence officer for the 415 Night Fighter Squadron, responds to [Corning](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6360350/leavitt-corning)’s January 16 request by offering a summary of 14 foo fighter reports from December 14, 1944, to January 29, 1945. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 129–132 Source ID: Eberhart_682 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1242 (A00EEDB2) Date: 2/1945 Description: [Meade Layne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meade%5FLayne) founds the Borderland Sciences Research Associates in San Diego, California, and publishes the first issue of its newsletter, The Round Robin. Working with local medium [Mark A. Probert,](https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Mark%5FProbert) who channels “etheric” entities from discarnates with advanced knowledge of spirit and cosmos, Layne and BSRA seek to explore the mysteries of the invisible world. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Borderland Sciences Research Associates, \[[History](https://borderlandsciences.org/history/BSRA.html)\]; Clark III 876; Håkan Blomqvist, “[Round Robin](https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2014/03/round-robin-and-contactee-history.html) [and Contactee History,](https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2014/03/round-robin-and-contactee-history.html)” Håkan Blomqvist’s Blog, March 30, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_683 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1243 (782C554E) Date: 2/1945 Description: Borderland Sciences Research Association (BSRA) Founded by Meade Layne. Works with expert medium Mark A. Probert. Their motto: "Serving Higher Intelligence since 1945". Type: ufological event Location: San Diego, CA Source ID: Maj2_162 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1244 (C8AEF773) Date: 2/1945 Description: Flying wing, giving off a yellowish-red intermittent glow. (Page 149 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chemnitz, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_250 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1245 (4036A93A) Date: 2/1/1945 Description: Unusual green light & moving rapidly. (Page 133 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colmar, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_251 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1246 (A791C6E6) Date: 2/2/1945 Description: The first Hanford plutonium arrives at Los Alamos. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “[Atomic Timeline](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline)” Source ID: Eberhart_684 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1247 (A16C2D50) Date: 2/2/1945 Description: The first flight of the H.IX V2 is made in Oranienburg, Germany. All subsequent test flights and development are done by Gothaer Waggonfabrik in Gotha. By this time, the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) are working on a turbojet-powered design for the Amerika Bomber contract competition and do not attend the first test flight. The test pilot is Leutnant [Erwin Ziller.](http://www.pilotenbunker.de/Unbek%5FHelden/Ziller%5FErwin/ziller%5Ferwin.htm) Two further test flights are made in February. There are reports that during one of these test flights, the H.IX V2 undertook a simulated dogfight with a Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational jet fighter, and that the H.IX V2 outperformed the Me 262. However, the Me 262 is considered by many as unsuitable for fighter missions, being slow in turning. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Horton Ho 229](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5FHo%5F229)” Source ID: Eberhart_685 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1248 (09A8372F) Date: 2/4/1945 Description: One long black stationary object, similar to a small flak burst floating. (Page 59 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dutch Coast, Holland Source ID: NICAP_DB_253 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1249 (7DEFB409) Date: 2/4/1945 Description: Two sightings: stationary object of tear-drop shape, resembling a balloon; shiny silver ball looking like a very bright weather balloon with a metal sheen. (Page 59 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Frankfurt, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_252 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1250 (1E5FAABC) Date: 2/7/1945 Description: Afternoon. Several F6F fighters on patrol \(one piloted by Ensign [Norman P. Stark](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50418180/norman-paul%5Fnorm%5F-stark)\) from the [USS Wasp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FWasp%5F%28CV-18%29) aircraft carrier anchored at Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline Islands are told to investigate a radar target at 30,000 feet some 10 miles west of the fleet. Before they can reach altitude, the object moves back to the west at high speed. They catch a brief visual glimpse of it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: LCDR Norman P. Stark, “[A WWII F6F Navy Fighter Pilot’s Experiences](http://www.battleofsaipan.com/Nstark000101.htm\#Liberty%5Fat%5FMog) [in the Pacific,](http://www.battleofsaipan.com/Nstark000101.htm\#Liberty%5Fat%5FMog)” Battle of Saipan, January 1, 2000 Source ID: Eberhart_686 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1251 (57EF819C) Date: 2/8/1945 Description: Yellow light. (Page 133 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Strasbourg (near), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_255 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1252 (C29FDE01) Date: 2/8/1945 Description: Silver-colored ball-like object changing stationary. (Page 59 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Frankfurt, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_254 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1253 (43466DA0) Date: 2/9/1945 End date: 2/10/1945 Description: Very bright light moving slowly. (Page 133 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Riegel, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_256 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1254 (4DE3F439) Date: 2/10/1945 Description: The Chicago Tribune and Washington Times-Herald reveal [Bill Donovan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FDonovan)’s plans for a postwar intelligence agency and publishes a secret memo he has sent to [Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt) proposing its creation. The article compares the proposed agency to the Gestapo. Knowing that Americans want a smaller federal government after the war, Roosevelt is not entirely sold on Donovan’s proposal, although Donovan feels reasonably confident that he can talk the president into the idea. [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) disapproves of Donovan’s plan, which he sees as a direct threat to FBI authority, even though Donovan has stressed that his agency will operate only abroad, not domestically. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Walter Trohan, “[Super-Spy Idea Denounced As New Deal OGPU,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92406563/)” Chicago Tribune, February 10, 1945, p. 1; Central Intelligence Agency, “[Origins of CIA,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP75B00380R000700080025-4.pdf)” August 3, 2005; Mark Riebling, Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11, Simon & Schuster, 2002, [pp. 59–61](https://archive.org/details/wedgefrompearlha0000rieb/page/58/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_687 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1255 (04B368BC) Date: 2/11/1945 Description: Air Commodore [Colin McKay Grierson,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%5FMcKay%5FGrierson) RAF assistant chief of staff A2, refers [Ringwald](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135104859/fred-bertrand-ringwald)’s report to the Air Ministry. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 133–134 Source ID: Eberhart_688 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1256 (7388533D) Date: 2/13/1945 End date: 2/14/1945 Description: Two sets of lights; separated after being attacked and then returned to original position. (Page 136 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rastatt and Bishwiller bt., Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_257 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1257 (6CF8AF1A) Date: 2/14/1945 End date: 2/15/1945 Description: String of lights & (1 red one in center, 4 white ones on each side) blinking off and on. (Page 136 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Freiburg, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_258 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1258 (36E9DC14) Date: Mid 2/1945 Description: As their C-47 prepares to land at Biggs Field, Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, S/Sgt Ralph Bayer is alarmed to see an aircraft approaching from the left and only 900 feet below them. The object is about 30 feet long and a dull, flat gray in color, and it travels in a straight course 500 feet above the ground until it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1178 Source ID: Eberhart_689 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1259 (E45DE132) Date: 2/15/1945 End date: 2/16/1945 Description: Multiple sightings: flare; flare that seemed to spiral. (Page 136 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pisa, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_259 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1260 (84C07AD2) Date: 2/15/1945 End date: 2/16/1945 Description: Alleged jet; multiple spurts of flame; no radar return. (Page 136 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Viareggio, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_260 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1261 (D24FAF81) Date: 2/16/1945 Description: Possible jet: dropped what looked like white flares; no radar contact. (Page 136- (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Spezia, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_261 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1262 (B9E93E94) Date: 2/17/1945 End date: 2/18/1945 Description: Multiple sightings:(1) blinking light; (2) reddish white light going off and on in spurts, faded out during chase; (3) light, a glow alternating between weak and (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Spezia, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_264 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1263 (8DD4244A) Date: 2/17/1945 Description: Observed two very bright lights appear directly in front of aircraft; fired upon without result. (Page 137 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Po Valley (Central), Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_262 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1264 (2913863C) Date: 2/17/1945 Description: Red ball of fire that did not appear to be Jet A/C. (Page 137 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Massa and Po Valley (Central), Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_263 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1265 (3B90E9E5) Date: 2/18/1945 Description: Disaster strikes during the third test flight of the H.IX V2 in Gotha, Germany. [Erwin Ziller](http://www.pilotenbunker.de/Unbek%5FHelden/Ziller%5FErwin/ziller%5Ferwin.htm) takes off without any problems to perform a series of flight tests. After about 45 minutes, at an altitude of around 800 meters, one of the Jumo 004 turbojet engines develops a problem, catches fire and stops. Ziller is seen putting the aircraft into a dive and pulling up several times in an attempt to restart the engine and save the precious prototype. He undertakes a series of four complete turns at a 20° angle. Ziller does not use his radio or eject from the aircraft. He already is unconscious as a result of the fumes from the burning engine. The aircraft crashes just outside the boundary of the airfield. Ziller is thrown from the aircraft on impact and dies from his injuries two weeks later. The prototype aircraft is completely destroyed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Horton Ho 229](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5FHo%5F229)” Source ID: Eberhart_690 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1266 (757D4E03) Date: 2/21/1945 Description: Alleged flares: cluster of 11 or more colored flares that remained motionless; cluster of 15 orange balls of fire. (Page 139-140 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Po Valley, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_265 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1267 (BA1128F4) Date: 2/21/1945 Description: Two large red balls of fire; hovering. (Page 140 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Piacenza, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_266 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1268 (136672AA) Date: 2/22/1945 Description: Night. A B-24 bomber flying near Chichijima in the Ogasawara \(Bonin\) Archipelago, Japan, sees an object trailing exhaust. It is also picked up on radar and follows the plane for about 20 miles before disappearing off the screen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1945](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_691 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1269 (26077B9E) Date: 2/22/1945 Description: Three lights red-orange in color that did not appear to be flares. (Page 141 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leghorn (near), Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_267 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1270 (9F0E7493) Date: 2/27/1945 Description: Chased three lights in shape of triangle observed; no radar contact. (Page 141-142 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bologna, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_268 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1271 (DEAD8729) Date: 3/1945 Description: Aboard the US attack transport "Delarof," 14 sailors saw a dark sphere rise out of the ocean, follow a curved trajectory, and fly away after circling their ship. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Evidence 30 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Aleutian Islands Source ID: Magnonia_54 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 1272 (3850BA6D) Date: 3/1945 Description: (IFO-Venus) Sailors and Marines on the Battleship U.S.S. New York near the Admiralty Islands at 1:00 p.m. saw through binoculars and radar detected an object hovering overhead at about 20,000 feet. (Ref. 3; MUFON UFO Journal, No. 203, March 1985.) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0) Reference: NICAP: [450300](http://www.nicap.org/4503XXsouthpacific%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Admiralty Islands (near), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_269 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1273 (4657BC01) Date: 3/1945 Description: A man out hunting observed an elongated object flying very slowly, tilted toward the earth. It crashed into some trees at the end of a clearing. (Magonia #53, FS May., 59) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belfast, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_270 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1274 (96A10260) Date: 3/1945 Description: Object aluminum colored, 12 to 14 feet off ground, motionless ,swept away like dragonfly. (Page 142-143 Ref.1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_271 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1275 (C94D123B) Date: 3/1945 Description: Aboard the US attack transport "Delarof," 14 sailors saw a dark sphere rise out of the ocean, follow a curved trajectory, and fly away after circling their ship. (Magonia #54, Evidence 30) \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, IV\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aleutian Islands, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_272 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1276 (4C892457) Date: 3/1945 Description: A man out hunting observed an elongated object flying very slowly, tilted toward the earth. It crashed into some trees at the end of a clearing. The enormous craft seemed undamaged as it rested briefly on the ground, then lifted again with a humming sound, started to spin, released a shower of fine silvery threads, and rose straight up, disappearing in seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS May., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Belfast, Maine Source ID: Magnonia_53 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 1277 (431BD4F1) Date: 3/1945 Description: A man is squirrel hunting in a wooded area near Belfast, Maine, when he sees a huge, elongated object just above the trees. He runs after it, thinking it is a dirigible about to crash. The object crashes into the trees at the far edge of a clearing, splitting a huge pine tree down the middle. He smells burned rubber. The object seems to be as big as several B-36 bombers. As he stands there stunned, the lowest end of the craft begins to rise and he hears a humming sound of increasing intensity. After it rises to a horizontal position, it begins to spin faster and faster and the hum becomes very intense. Suddenly one end spews a shower of fine, silvery threads that glint in the sunlight. The object begins to change to a white metallic color and it takes off straight up at fantastic speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “I Saw a Flying Saucer,” Flying Saucers, May 1959, pp. 6–18, 78; Clark III 1178–1179 Source ID: Eberhart_693 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1278 (B8E6CB38) Date: 3/1945 Description: [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) travels to Barto, Pennsylvania, and spends a weekend with [Richard Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver) and his wife. He witnesses Shaver’s channeling trances and the different voices describing the cavern world that he generates during his sleep. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Richard Sharpe Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)”; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, [pp. 137–144](https://archive.org/details/subterraneanworldswalterkaftonminkel100000yearsofdragonsdwarfsthedeadlostracesufosfrominsidetheearth/page/n141/mode/2up); Clark III 872, 1069; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction, McFarland, 2013; David Halperin, “[The Shaver](https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-shaver-mystery-richard-shaver-ray-palmer-and-the-quest-for-lemuria-part-1/) [Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria \(Part 1\),](https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-shaver-mystery-richard-shaver-ray-palmer-and-the-quest-for-lemuria-part-1/)” July 4, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_694 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1279 (C2D578F0) Date: 3/1945 Description: The K-25 gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, begins production. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[K-25](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-25)” Source ID: Eberhart_692 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1280 (F364A4F0) Date: 3/3/1945 Description: Two balloon-like silver balls. (Page 143 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Misburg, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_273 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1281 (853FD063) Date: 3/5/1945 Description: Two sightings: (1) large orange ball hanging in air; (2) similar ball that was moving horizontally at same altitude. (Page 145 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Either Holland or North Germany, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_274 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1282 (5A84DBCB) Date: 3/9/1945 Description: Three lights; had the appearance of white flares dropped in air; called foo fighters. (Page 145-146 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Fresian Islands, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_275 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1283 (3F75AE7F) Date: 3/10/1945 Description: A Japanese Fu-Go balloon strikes a high-tension wire on the Bonneville Power Administration in Washington State. The balloon causes sparks and a fireball that results in the power being cut. Coincidentally, the largest consumer of energy on this power grid is the Hanford site of the Manhattan Project, which suddenly loses power. The officer in charge at Hanford, Col. [Franklin Matthias](https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/franklin-matthias), says “it shut down the plant cold, and it took us about three days to get it back up to full power again.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Franklin Matthias, “[Japanese Balloon Bombs Fu-Go,](https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/japanese-balloon-bombs-fu-go)” Atomic Heritage Foundation, August 10, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_695 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1284 (D643ADE8) Date: 3/12/1945 Description: Nearly a week after the US Army launches Operation Lumberjack to cross the Rhine River, the Ho 229 is included in the Jäger-Notprogramm \(Emergency Fighter Program\) for accelerated production of inexpensive “wonder weapons.” The prototype workshop is moved to the Gothaer Waggonfabrik \(Gotha\) in Friedrichroda, Germany. In the same month, work commences on the third prototype, the Ho 229 V3. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Horton Ho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5FHo%5F229) [229](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5FHo%5F229)” Source ID: Eberhart_696 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1285 (47CF2DD7) Date: 3/13/1945 Description: Two sightings: (1) 100 hundred balls of orange fire; (2) two balls of foo fire. (Page 147 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bologna, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_276 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1286 (3895E373) Date: Mid 3/1945 Description: Object, silver in color, very shiny & much larger than the brightest star; unaffected by gunfire; departed upward at a fantastic rate of speed . (Page 151-152 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, New Guinea Source ID: NICAP_DB_281 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1287 (3C15164B) Date: 3/17/1945 Description: Nazis fired eleven V-2 missiles at a bridge, their first use against a tactical target and the only time they were fired on a German target during the war Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history) Location: Germany Source ID: Maj2_164 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1288 (059D7408) Date: 3/18/1945 Description: Chased light, no radar contact, then light disappeared. (Page 148 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Florence, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_277 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1289 (B720EE02) Date: 3/18/1945 Description: [Grierson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%5FMcKay%5FGrierson) writes to [Samuel V. Boykin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38941869/samuel-woodson%5Fvenable-boykin) that the Air Ministry thinks the fireballs are either Me-262’s or flak rockets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 147 Source ID: Eberhart_697 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1290 (E043B915) Date: 3/18/1945 Description: Night. A 416th NFS crew is flying a Mosquito 25 miles northwest of Florence, Italy. Suddenly a light is flying alongside them at 13,000 feet. It doesn’t appear on the radar screen. The pilot turns the plane toward the light, keeping on its tail, pursuing at 260 mph and climbing to 16,000 feet. Suddenly the light disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 148 Source ID: Eberhart_698 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1291 (5607BB85) Date: 3/19/1945 End date: 3/20/1945 Description: Saw 2 Foo fighters; one orange and one greenballl. (Page 148 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Speyer, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_278 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1292 (4ADD4923) Date: 3/22/1945 Description: 1:00 p.m. The [USS New York](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FNew%5FYork%5F%28BB-34%29) is off New Guinea preparing to rejoin the Seventh Fleet. Gunner Cpl. Donald Pratt is preparing for a Japanese attack when he sees a shiny silver object hovering directly over the battleship. It remains stationary over the ship for 30 minutes and is tracked on ship radar. Two antiaircraft guns fire on the object, but it does not move or seem affected. Capt. [Kemp C. Christian Sr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3392277/kemp-c-christian) orders the guns to stop. Immediately the object shoots up and away at a fantastic rate of speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 151–152 Source ID: Eberhart_700 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1293 (19575812) Date: 3/23/1945 Description: Stationary airborne object. (Page 150 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Germersheim, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_280 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1294 (2099FB21) Date: 3/23/1945 Description: 2 balls of foo fire. (Page 150 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bergamo/Ghedi, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_279 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1295 (C910FA91) Date: 3/24/1945 Description: Multiple sightings: yellow ball of fire about 6 inches in diameter; orange and red flashes; six white balls of fire; grayish ball of fire about size of soccer ball; red ball of fire. (Page 152-153 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nagoya, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_282 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1296 (6C16458C) Date: 3/25/1945 Description: Six or seven circular, yellowish-orange objects, solid color, and brightness; apparently individually controlled. (Page 153-154 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mannheim and Darmstadt bt., Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_283 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1297 (EE5D79DE) Date: 3/25/1945 Description: Around 10:30 p.m. Company A of the US 44th Armored Infantry Battalion is bivouacked on a hill along the Autobahn between Mannheim and Darmstadt, Germany, when 6–7 circular, glowing, yellow-orange objects approach at 150 feet, roughly following the road. They are not in strict formation and seem individually controlled. John G. Norris recalled that after 5–6 minutes they are hidden by the trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 153– 154 Source ID: Eberhart_701 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1298 (5310F4E3) Date: Late 3/1945 Description: At least two residents of Dresden, Germany, see a round, flat, silver-colored object without propellors or wings hovering silently in the air. It suddenly disappears like a “burst soap bubble.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Weltrundschau,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Switzerland/Weltraumbote/Weltraumbote%20-%20No%2032-33%20-%201958.pdf)” Weltraumbote, no. 32/22 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 14–15; Clark III 503 Source ID: Eberhart_699 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1299 (A58E2A23) Date: 3/26/1945 Description: On this evening several lights followed a night fighter aircraft from the 549th NFS squadron over Iwo Jima, Japan, made a few turns, and had slight radar returns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947, citing the 549th NFS History Source ID: Johnson_1669 Source: Johnson ### Event 1300 (B26F67F8) Date: 3/26/1945 Description: In the Ruhr Valley, Germany a pink sphere (3' in diameter) passed a RAF Spitfire XI fighter from the 541th Squadron at 340 mph at 11:00 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Source ID: Johnson_1670 Source: Johnson ### Event 1301 (F8A72DFE) Date: 3/26/1945 Description: During an air operation, Lieut. [Calvin P. Lamb](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6414390/calvin-powell-lamb) \(pilot\), Lieut. James G. Holmes \(radar observer\), and Sgt. John W. McIsaac \(gunner\) notice lights on an airborne object. The lights follow them through a few turns but move away as the crew orbits north of Iwo Jima, Japan. They give chase, obtaining a slight target on the aircraft radar, then the object pulls out of sight. A similar lighted object is again seen March 28 by Lieut. [William F. Sill](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/202159893/william-floyd-sill) \(pilot\), Flight Officer George W. Hayden \(radar observer\), and PFC William Brasvell \(gunner\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1945](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_702 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1302 (A52E606F) Date: 3/27/1945 Description: Final V-2 rockets used during WW2 Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history) Location: Germany Source ID: Maj2_165 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1303 (97671209) Date: 4/1945 Description: During operations around Okinawa, Japan, the radar crew on the aircraft carrier [USS Independence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FIndependence%5F%28CVL-22%29) frequently notices strange radar returns that move at slow speeds \(30–70 mph\). Aircraft and destroyers sent to search for them never find anything. These radar ghosts are usually detected 25–30 miles away at an altitude of 1,500 feet, but occasionally 3,500 feet. The primary diagnostic for these false returns is their speed. The Navy nicknames them the “ghost of Nansei-shoto” after the Japanese name for the Ryukyu Islands, of which Okinawa is one. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 183–186 Source ID: Eberhart_703 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1304 (216EB3C2) Date: 4/1945 Description: [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) publishes a second story by [Richard Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver) “Thought Records of Lemuria,” in the June issue of Amazing Stories. Here it is revealed that Shaver’s knowledge of the cave world and Lemuria isn’t really a “racial memory,” as the first story had asserted. Shaver, working in a factory, heard voices speaking to him, apparently through his welding gun. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard S. Shaver, “[Thought Records of Lemuria,](https://archive.org/details/Amazing%5FStories%5Fv19n02%5F1945-06.Ziff-Daviscape1736/page/n15/mode/2up)” Amazing Stories 19, no 2 \(June 1945\): 16–52 Source ID: Eberhart_704 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1305 (91B3A1DA) Date: 4/3/1945 End date: 4/4/1945 Description: US B-29 bombers over Honshu, Japan, encounter numerous balls of light tagging along with them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 157–159 Source ID: Eberhart_705 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1306 (40B5F17C) Date: 4/3/1945 Description: The records of the 20th Air Force reveal that as early as this date, flying from the Marianas on a night incendiary mission, some crews reported "Balls of Fire followed our aircraft." (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kawasaki, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_284 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1307 (2C9F3E64) Date: 4/3/1945 End date: 4/4/1945 Description: Multiple balls of fire sightings: size of basketball; streamer of light behind the ball of fire; ball of fire emitting a steady phosphorescent glow; wing in connection with ball of fire &; amber colored searchlight; stream of fire emanating from object, twelve inches in diameter, followed through evasive action. (Page 157-158 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Honshu, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_285 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1308 (3C2B4A6F) Date: 4/7/1945 Description: Ball of fire changing colors; orange to red. (Page 161 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nagoya, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_287 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1309 (E860A652) Date: 4/7/1945 Description: A wingless object, able to stop in mid-flight and travel thousands of miles per hour. (Page 158-159 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Sea, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_286 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1310 (4FB5F318) Date: 4/7/1945 Description: [Walter and Reimar Horten,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) German designers associated with wingless aircraft, are arrested by US troops near Göttingen, Germany. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lance Cole, Secret Wings of World War II: Nazi Technology and the Allied Arms Race, Pen & Sword, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_706 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1311 (79E961FB) Date: 4/10/1945 Description: As part of the Manhattan Project, 18 people in the US are injected with plutonium in doses ranging from 95 to 5,900 nanocuries without their knowledge or consent. The intent is to study how plutonium is absorbed into the digestive tract. The last experiment is conducted on July 18, 1947. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Unethical human](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical%5Fhuman%5Fexperimentation%5Fin%5Fthe%5FUnited%5FStates\#Plutonium%5Fexperiments) [experimentation in the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical%5Fhuman%5Fexperimentation%5Fin%5Fthe%5FUnited%5FStates\#Plutonium%5Fexperiments)” Source ID: Eberhart_708 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1312 (03BB0D96) Date: 4/10/1945 Description: 11:00 p.m. James L. Hendry sees from his porch in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, a bright light that seems to be directly above Fisherville, 3 miles to the east. Its brightness fluctuates and it seems to be moving directly toward his location, casting a light beam downward. After 10 minutes, it goes out “like a snuffed candle.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Meteor?” Louisville Times, April 14, 1945; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1945](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_707 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1313 (1B0E9C5D) Date: 4/12/1945 Description: Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs, Georgia. [Harry S. Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) is sworn in as president. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_709 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1314 (67845251) Date: 4/12/1945 End date: 1/20/1953 Description: President Harry S. Truman in office Type: historical event Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_163 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1315 (F365F0A2) Date: 4/17/1945 Description: Maj. Gen. [James P. Hodges](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106754/major-general-james-p-hodges/) writes a memorandum to Gen. [Henry H. “Hap” Arnold,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FH.%5FArnold) saying that infrared devices are now available to take photographs of “balls of fire” in the Pacific. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1947, “[UFO Reports,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm) [1945](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_710 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1316 (6E9BCB76) Date: 4/18/1945 Description: There were two radar-visual UFO reports on this day from the Far East near Iwo Jima. At three o'clock in the morning ground control radar made radar contact with an unknown radar target over the Pacific Ocean at a distance of 18 to 8 miles from the island. The gunner in a P-61B "Black Widow" aircraft attached to the 549th NFS squadron saw a yellow, star-like light approach and lose altitude. Radar contact was then lost. The gunner saw a second light, but no radar contact was made with it. At 4:15 a.m. Ground control again made radar contact with a target. The gunner of a P-61B plane saw a reddish, round light. Contact on the radar screen showed two blips engaging in evasive action, which soon outdistanced the P-61, one of the fastest propeller driven aircraft of its time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website Source ID: Johnson_2103 Source: Johnson ### Event 1317 (202DABDD) Date: 4/20/1945 Description: A priest gathering mushrooms near Reneve, France around 6 p.m. saw a 17 cm tall midget with gray hair and a gray beard. It popped up less than a foot away and ran off into the forest. The tiny being wore dark-red coveralls with a pointed helmet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Henry-Jean Besset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1975, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_2150 Source: Johnson ### Event 1318 (AC2C8AD5) Date: 4/22/1945 Description: The [USS Lewis Hancock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FLewis%5FHancock) is northeast of Okinawa, Japan, when the SG radar picks up an unidentified target at 6 miles heading their way at 70–115 mph. Its movements are erratic. Two miles out, the ship identifies a “tight formation of more than fifty birds.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 184 Source ID: Eberhart_711 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1319 (6F906CAA) Date: 4/24/1945 Description: The [USS Audubon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FAudubon) is headed for Okinawa, Japan, with US Army passengers and equipment. Radar operators pick up “unidentified aeroplanes” heading their way. The screens show a blip, alternately fuzzy and strong, some 8 miles away headed down the starboard side at 25 mph. Still, nothing can be seen visually, and the radar operator suggests that it is a flock of birds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 184–186 Source ID: Eberhart_712 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1320 (B9CAF60F) Date: 4/25/1945 Description: 9:45 a.m. Acting Squadron Leader Kit Francis Williams of the RAF 617 Bomber Squadron is flying a Lancaster with 25 other aircraft to bomb Hitler’s headquarters at Berchtesgaden, Germany, in the Bavarian Alps. Just after a turn near Kaiserslautern, Germany, at 16,500 feet, Williams witnesses an object like a large woolly blanket that takes up his entire windshield. He thinks it could be as much as 4–5 miles wide. It moves vertically and is gone in an instant. Suddenly his aircraft loses its electrical power and loses one of its bombs. He and his bomber and engineer get severe headaches. They return to base in England after regaining power. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “[Observation by Pilot over Germany, 1945,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2016/11/observation-by-australian-pilot-over.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, November 14, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_713 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1321 (125E8092) Date: 4/26/1945 Description: Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay)’s XXI Bomber Command’s Air Intelligence staff produces a 5-page report representing the most up-to-date information and theories on the balls of fire but cannot find a good explanation for them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 162–163 Source ID: Eberhart_714 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1322 (690FEE18) Date: 5/1945 Description: German scientist [Viktor Schauberger](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%5FSchauberger)[,](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%5FSchauberger) who has been using inmates from the Mauthausen concentration camp to help him develop new aircraft and submarine engines, is captured by Allied forces in Leonstein, Austria. Supposedly his devices and documents, which allegedly include a prototype flying saucer, are kept under lock and key. He is released in March 1946 and moves to Linz, Austria, but the Americans do not confiscate his workshop and laboratory materials, although they prohibit him from further military experimentation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Nazi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi%5FUFOs) [UFOs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi%5FUFOs)” Source ID: Eberhart_715 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1323 (34CA7E92) Date: 5/2/1945 Description: Two airborne objects & red circles of light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [450502](http://www.nicap.org/450502trukdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fala Island, Truk Atoll Source ID: NICAP_DB_288 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1324 (32B97558) Date: 5/3/1945 Description: Early morning. Nine B-24’s with the 11th Bombardment Group’s 431st Squadron are heading out on a bombing mission against Japanese air installations on Truk \[now Chuuk\] Atoll in Micronesia. One plane over Fala Island sees two objects at their altitude of 11,000 feet, changing from cherry red to orange then white, then dying out and turning cherry red again. Both follow the B-24 through all sorts of evasive actions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[B-24 Sights](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr02.pdf) [Circles of Light,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr02.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 2 \(September 1998\): 8; Strange Company 163–165; NICAP, “[May](http://www.nicap.org/450502trukdir.htm) [2, Truk Atoll Sighting](http://www.nicap.org/450502trukdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_716 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1325 (B3508E55) Date: 5/3/1945 Description: In the predawn hours a US Army Air Force B-24 bomber flying over Fala Island in the Truk Atoll, the Pacific Ocean encountered two objects with red circles of light, changing color from cherry-red to orange to white lights, and then back to cherry again; they followed aircraft for over an hour while the bomber performed evasive maneuvers; there were no airborne radar returns picked up from the objects. On this evening five orange spheres flying in a triangular formation were sighted by a 415th NFS fighter pilot east of Pfalzerwald, Germany. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 8; (2) Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 25: Keith Chester, Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II, p. 163 Source ID: Johnson_2463 Source: Johnson ### Event 1326 (F29F199C) Date: 5/5/1945 Description: A pregnant woman, Elsie Mitchell, and five children are killed when they discover a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb that has landed in the forest of Gearhart Mountain near Bly in southern Oregon. \(Wikipedia, “[Fu-Go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go%5Fballoon%5Fbomb\#Single%5Flethal%5Fattack) [balloon bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go%5Fballoon%5Fbomb\#Single%5Flethal%5Fattack)”\) May 23 and 25 — Night. In the wake of two B-29 raids on Tokyo, Japan, both nights, businessman Iomoyo Okado looks up from his air raid shelter and sees slow-moving “roundish objects, like hot cakes, about 20 square yards” in diameter, and silent. They are blue or gray in color. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Flying Hot Cakes’ over Tokyo in 1945,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92430325/)” St. Joseph \(Mo.\) News-Press, July 12, 1947, p. 6; Clark III 503 Source ID: Eberhart_717 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1327 (3EF1966F) Date: 5/7/1945 Description: Several observers on a morning flight on a B-17 between Port Lyauttey, Mauritania and Dakar, Senegal sighted a shiny metallic saucer seen several times; it hovered. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, p. 250 Source ID: Johnson_2611 Source: Johnson ### Event 1328 (9017AA70) Date: 5/14/1945 Description: Red or flame-colored light, constant position, same size as B-29 landing light. (Page 166 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nagoya, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_289 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1329 (92319CFE) Date: 5/25/1945 Description: In early morning on a sunny day with intermittent clouds, a B-17 bomber was en route from Morocco to Dakar, Senegal. A silvery disc or ellipse was observed opposite the sun position, estimated to be 5 to 10 miles distant. The object paced the aircraft, hovering at times. (Ref. 3; Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, 1981, p. 251.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlantic Ocean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_290 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1330 (AEE34960) Date: 5/25/1945 End date: 5/26/1945 Description: Fireball follows a B-29 of the 39th Bombardment Group for 50 miles (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [450525-26](http://www.nicap.org/tokyo450525dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tokyo, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_291 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1331 (98095E86) Date: 6/1/1945 Description: 7:30 p.m. A shiny, tubular object, 5–6 feet long, is observed over Morganton, North Carolina. It streaks toward the northwest, blue flame shooting from the rear. After it vanishes in the mountains near Lake James, witnesses hear an explosion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects—A Prelude, 1896–1949](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-Mystery-of-UFOs-A-Prelude.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-Mystery-of-UFOs-A-Prelude.pdf) The author, 1971, p. 156 Source ID: Eberhart_722 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1332 (2F562D1B) Date: 6/1/1945 Description: The Army Air Force approves a Northrop-recommended change for installing eight jet engines in each of two modified YB-35 piston-driven flying wings, which are redesignated YB-49s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-49](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-49)” Source ID: Eberhart_721 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1333 (9C3D728D) Date: 6/9/1945 Description: XXI Bomber Command Air Intelligence issues an Air Intelligence Report on the balls of fire in the Pacific Theatre. The Truk sighting is attributed to an unknown Japanese experimental aircraft, though not a jet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 177–180 Source ID: Eberhart_723 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1334 (5AE1B868) Date: 6/18/1945 Description: A fluctuating light round in shape that changed from bright red, to dim orange. (Page 180 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_292 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1335 (35713161) Date: 6/19/1945 Description: One bright ball of fire; no fuselage or any wings. (Page 180 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fukuoka, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_294 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1336 (5ACB9ACD) Date: 6/19/1945 Description: B-29 followed by strong white light. (Page 180 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_293 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1337 (2721DCB5) Date: Summer 1945 Description: Crew saw large round object emerging from sea; 150-20 feet in diameter; object circled ship; three white flashes observed in direction object departed. (Page 188- 189 Ref.1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aleutian Islands, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_295 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1338 (817C7A9F) Date: Summer 1945 Description: Ensign Rolan D. Powell and 5 others, while stationed at US Naval Air Station in Pasco WA, were scrambled in their F6F Hellcats to intercept unknown flying craft the size of three aircraft carriers. These craft where hovering at high altitude above the top-secret Plutonium production facility in Hanford, WA. Pilots were ordered above 42k feet, well above their rated ceiling, but were unable to reach the unknown craft. Type: ufo sighting Reference: "Alien Base", Timothy Good, page 152 (photos) Location: Hanford, WA Source ID: Maj2_86 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1339 (9FA002DE) Date: Summer 1945 Description: Radioman Robert S. Crawford and 13 other sailors aboard the US Army Transport [Delarof](http://www.navsource.org/archives/30/22/22027.htm) see a large, dark sphere rise out of the ocean east of Adak in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The UFO, showing darkly against the setting sun, climbs almost straight up for a few moments, then it arcs into level flight, and circles the ship two or three times. All the observers are convinced it is a large object. Crawford estimates the UFO is 150–250 feet in diameter. The gun crews hold their fire. After several minutes, it disappears to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Large Object](http://www.nicap.org/45SUMRaleutianisles%5Fdir.htm) [Emerges from Sea near the](http://www.nicap.org/45SUMRaleutianisles%5Fdir.htm) [Delarof](http://www.nicap.org/45SUMRaleutianisles%5Fdir.htm)”; “[The Question of Submerging UFO’s,”](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/041%20MAR%201968.pdf) UFO Investigator 4, o. 5 \(March 1968\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_720 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1340 (031DCEE4) Date: Summer 1945 Description: Future ufologist [Illobrand von Ludwiger](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illobrand%5Fvon%5FLudwiger) sees an object like a black plate, whose diameter is one-eighth that of the Moon, flying against the wind below the clouds, in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 357](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/357/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_719 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1341 (499B6068) Date: Summer 1945 Description: After 5:00 p.m. Future ufologist [Ann Druffel](https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2020/06/ufologist-ann-druffel-dies.html?fbclid=IwAR3N-uW1ZAkq5p21hxc11siol67dwjxfSq2vLaTl8v0pExaBh0OeTDuLTyc) is on a bus returning from her summer job in Long Beach, California, when she sees out of the left-hand window a bright, stationary, yellowish-white light in the northeastern sky. It looks like Venus but has a yellow color. She gets off the bus and still watches it, walking home. Soon she sees it is moving slowly to the northwest. She gets her mother to view it as well. Druffel thinks it is too high to be a coastal defense balloon. Druffel watches it for 90 minutes, after which it takes on some “activity.” Some 10–15 pieces of light begin separating from it, fading from view after moving several diameters away from the large object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ann Druffel, “UFO Sightings by UFO Researchers: The ‘Inaccessible Cases,’” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 139 \(September 1979\), pp. 14–15; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_718 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1342 (5C4CFC09) Date: 6/26/1945 Description: United Nations charter signed, goes into full force on 10/24/1945 Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations) Location: New York City Source ID: Maj2_166 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1343 (EC614E20) Date: 7/1945 Description: When several balloon-shaped objects appear above Selfridge Field \[now Selfridge Air National Guard Base\] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, the base commander asks for a volunteer to attack them as possible Japanese balloon bombs. Jean Kisling, serving with a Free French Air Force detachment as an instructor on P-47 Thunderbolts, accepts the challenge. He chases one “well beyond the service ceiling of the P-47D” and opens fire with 8 machine guns. The object shoots away sideways on edge, leaving a contrail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 24](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/24/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_726 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1344 (1E075738) Date: 7/1945 Description: In northern Okinawa, Japan, on a bluff looking toward the South China Sea, Artillery Capt. [William A. Mandel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58851118/william-a%5F-mandel) sees a cigar-shaped object with a lighted tail moving at eye level at about 200 –300 mph at an elevation of no more than 400 feet. He estimates its length at 30–40 feet and its diameter at 6–8 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1947, “[UFO](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm) [Reports, 1945](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_725 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1345 (E67905C8) Date: 7/1945 Description: The 9th Bombardment Group on Tinian in the Northern Marianas: “During our night missions in June and July a UFO phenomenon was reported. Our air crews started sighting balls of fire, i.e., glowing objects about the size of a full moon which flew around in the vicinity of our flying patterns over Japan. One of our crews reported that one of the objects followed their airplane halfway to Iwo Jima. I saw them on two missions. I don’t remember any reports of any hostile action by these objects and the reports of sightings stopped after a couple of months. The object of these reports was dismissed by some experts as the planet Venus. And, after these reports started coming in, some crews did mistake the rising full moon as one of these balls of fire. Some reports speculated that these balls of fire were exhausts from a Japanese development called a Baka Bomb, but exhaust flames can only be seen from the rear; and these objects appeared to have the same size and intensity in whatever direction they were traveling. I have never heard of any official assessment as to what these objects were. I had an occasion to ask General [LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) about them several years after the war and he had no explanation. I am sure that what I saw was neither Venus nor the moon nor a Baka Bomb.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 24; Henry C. Huglin, “[Group Commander’s Reminiscences,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-49)” in Lawrence S. Smith, et al., History of the 9th Bombardment Group \(VH\), 9th Bomb Group Association, 1995, pp. 27–28 Source ID: Eberhart_724 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1346 (0EFD3B4C) Date: 7/1945 Description: UFO over AEC plant tracked by radar, F84's scrambled (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [450700](http://www.nicap.org/45XXXXhanforddir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hanford AEC Plant, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_296 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1347 (07A4F14A) Date: 7/1/1945 Description: The Air Technical Service Command is moved into T-2 Intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand\#Air%5FTechnical%5FServices%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_727 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1348 (9381FCA2) Date: 7/2/1945 Description: Several balls of fire much larger than supercharger glow, but of somewhat the same color. (Page 182-183 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_297 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1349 (C1795BC1) Date: 7/4/1945 Description: "After coming away from our bomb drop, we saw the UFO's. I especially recall seeing two groups of them in single file. One group of six were lower than we were and coming towards us from the front, their heading taking them off to or left. The other group was more distant and headed in the opposite direction, but were at about our level. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [450704](http://www.nicap.org/yokohama450704dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yokohama (near), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_298 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1350 (705BECA8) Date: 7/7/1945 Description: Foo fighter; a big ball of fuzzy orange-red light; B-29 fired on object, appearing to hit with no affect. (Page 186 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sasebo, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_299 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1351 (C704EC28) Date: 7/12/1945 Description: Light Phenomenon.Spotted enemy aircraft apparently trailed by large orange light traveling with it at same speed. (Page 186-187 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Honshu, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_300 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1352 (73A9E855) Date: Mid 7/1945 Description: Noon. Pilot Rolan D. Powell and five other F6F Hellcat pilots at Naval Air Station Pasco, Washington, are scrambled after radar reports a fast-moving object over the nearby Hanford facility. They see a bright object with a saucer-like appearance at. It is the size of three aircraft carriers, side-by side, oval shaped, very streamlined like a stretched-out egg and, and pinkish in color. It hovers in a fixed position at 65,000 feet and then goes straight up and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Huge Saucer over Nuclear Reactor—Radar/Visual](http://www.nicap.org/45XXXXhanforddir.htm)”; Strange Company 188; Patrick Gross, “[Alleged UFO Intercept Attempt at Hanford Nuclear Plant, July 1945](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/hanford1945.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_729 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1353 (621B1E99) Date: Mid 7/1945 Description: Object was very bright and had saucer-like appearance; was the size of three aircraft carriers, side-by side, oval shaped, very streamlined like a stretched-out egg and, and pinkish in color; Hovered in fixed position and then went straight-up and disappeared. (Page 188 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_301 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1354 (0E75F973) Date: 7/16/1945 Description: The first detonation of a nuclear weapon \(an implosion-style plutonium-based bomb\) takes place at the Trinity site on what is now the White Sands Missile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico. At this time, the bomb’s price tag, adjusted for inflation, is $28 billion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Trinity \(nuclear test\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%5F%28nuclear%5Ftest%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_728 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1355 (8C5D5995) Date: 7/16/1945 Description: First atomic bomb test “Trinity”, 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, NM (now part of the White Sands Missile Range) Type: atomic Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_%28nuclear_test%29) Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Atomic type: aboveground Atomic KT: 18.6 Source ID: Maj2_167 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1356 (5D19F8DE) Date: 7/20/1945 Description: At 10:50 a.m. a fast moving, silent cigar-shaped object flew over Houdain, France. Its surface was glowing, it had flames shooting from its front, and it left no contrail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, p. 156 Source ID: Johnson_4219 Source: Johnson ### Event 1357 (19C0EFA6) Date: 7/20/1945 Description: The Joint Chiefs of Staff establish Operation Overcast, a forerunner to Project Paperclip, a secret recruitment program to aid in postwar military research. The Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency is established to conduct the operation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Paperclip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPaperclip)” Source ID: Eberhart_730 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1358 (2A7A89DA) Date: 7/24/1945 Description: President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) discloses to Soviet leader [Joseph Stalin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FStalin) that the United States has atomic weapons. Stalin feigns little surprise, since he already knows this through espionage. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gene Dannen, “[Truman Tells Stalin, July](http://www.dannen.com/decision/potsdam.html) [24, 1945](http://www.dannen.com/decision/potsdam.html)” Source ID: Eberhart_731 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1359 (FE3E230E) Date: 8/1945 Description: Cigar-shaped, metallic, and without markings or visible openings, and 35 to 50 feet in length. (Page 189-190 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Okinawa, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_302 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1360 (D2776CD2) Date: 8/1945 Description: 5:00 a.m. Ilona Johansson-Paasonen, staying in a sauna along lake Längelmävesi, Finland, wakes up and sees a 35-foot dazzling ball of fire streaking in her direction along the opposite shore. She throws herself to the floor, but when nothing happens she looks outside and sees a big dog, frozen in terror, its gaze fixed on the lake and a dark log-like object, 6 feet long, gliding through the water with a tall, slender man at the prow. He is dressed in a green coverall. On the other side another man sits steering an engine enclosed within a big glass bulb. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ilona Johansson- Paasonen, “[Humanoideja Längelmävedellä?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Finland/Vimana%20%281967-1972%29/AFU%5F19700000%5FVimana%20no%203-4.pdf)” Vimana 1970, no. 3/4, pp. 22–24; Ilona Johansson-Paasonen, “[Humanoids at Längelmävesi,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2013.pdf)” FSR Case Histories 13 \(February 1973\): 3–4; Clark III 266 Source ID: Eberhart_733 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1361 (513A1514) Date: 8/1945 Description: The Army Signal Security Agency persuades ITT, RCA, and Western Union to continue the wartime cable intercept program, both foreign and domestic, now called Project SHAMROCK. No courts, no warrants. It remains secret from Congress and the President. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project SHAMROCK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FSHAMROCK)” Source ID: Eberhart_732 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1362 (E84BB529) Date: 8/6/1945 Description: 8:15 a.m. An atomic bomb \(a fission weapon containing 64 kilograms of Uranium-235, Little Boy\) is detonated 1,900 feet above Hiroshima, Japan, by the [Enola Gay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola%5FGay). The weapon is considered very inefficient, with only 1.7% of its material fissioning, but it is enough to obliterate the city. Some 78,000 people die instantly or immediately afterward in the firestorm. By the end of the year, another 25,000 will also sicken and die from radiation exposure. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%5Fbombings%5Fof%5FHiroshima%5Fand%5FNagasaki\#Bombing%5Fof%5FHiroshima)” Source ID: Eberhart_734 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1363 (E16B69BF) Date: 8/6/1945 Description: First atomic bomb attack at Hiroshima, Japan. 20,000 soldiers killed, 70,000–126,000 civilians killed. Type: atomic Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki) Location: Hiroshima, Japan Atomic type: aboveground Atomic KT: 16 Source ID: Maj2_168 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1364 (2E755083) Date: 8/7/1945 Description: During a press conference with the Seattle Times, Col. [Franklin Matthias,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FMatthias) officer in charge at the Hanford Engineer Works in Washington, admits the plant has had problems with aerial intrusions, but that radar has been installed and an arrangement made with the Navy to intercept any unidentified aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1947, “[UFOs over](http://www.project1947.com/fig/hendershot.htm) [Hanford: Commander R. W. Hendershot](http://www.project1947.com/fig/hendershot.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_735 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1365 (38210C24) Date: 8/9/1945 Description: 11:01 a.m. Another atomic bomb \(an implosion-type plutonium weapon, Fat Man\) is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by [Bockscar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockscar)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockscar) Although the bomb is more powerful than the one used on Hiroshima, its effects are confined by hillsides to the narrow Urakami Valley. At least 35,000–40,000 people are killed, and 60,000 others are injured. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%5Fbombings%5Fof%5FHiroshima%5Fand%5FNagasaki\#Bombing%5Fof%5FNagasaki)” Source ID: Eberhart_736 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1366 (25C19C0D) Date: 8/9/1945 Description: Second atomic bomb attack at Nagasaki, Japan. 39,000–80,000 killed, At least 150 soldiers killed. Type: atomic Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki) Location: Nagasaki, Japan Atomic type: aboveground Atomic KT: 21 Source ID: Maj2_169 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1367 (C69A6446) Date: 8/10/1945 Description: 3:00 a.m. Pianist Doris La Fountain is driving home along Market Street after finishing a concert at a night club in East Paterson \[now Elmwood Park\], New Jersey. She is accompanied by music store proprietor [Thomas](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170049207/thomas-brino) [Brino](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170049207/thomas-brino) and James Shaw of Clifton, New Jersey. For about 5 minutes they watch a brilliant red and green rectangular object maneuver at ground level about 70 feet away. It shoots off into the sky and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Seeing Saucer Sweet Music to a Pianist,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92439039/)” New York Daily News, September 8, 1957, Passaic-Bergen Sec., p. 22; Lore and Deneault, [p. 145](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/144/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_737 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1368 (0BC9BE56) Date: 8/16/1945 Description: A UFO allegedly crashes near San Antonio, New Mexico, and is discovered by Jose Padilla, 9, and Remigio Baca, 7, when they are looking for a cow. The crashed saucer has created a gouge, and they can see entities moving around inside. They collect two shiny metal parts from the periphery of the crash site. A recent analysis shows that the metal is of terrestrial origin. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paola Leopizzi Harris, “[The Reme Baca and Jose Padilla Witness](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2010/11/1945-san-antonio-ufo-crash-witness.html) [Case,](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2010/11/1945-san-antonio-ufo-crash-witness.html)” The UFO Chronicles, November 30, 2010; John Greenewald, “[Analysis of Two Metallic Parts Purportedly](https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/analysis-two-metallic-parts-purportedly-crashed-unidentified-aerial-object-san-antonio-new-mexico-august-16-1945/) [from a Crashed Unidentified Aerial Object \(San Antonio, New Mexico, August 16, 1945\),](https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/analysis-two-metallic-parts-purportedly-crashed-unidentified-aerial-object-san-antonio-new-mexico-august-16-1945/)” The Black Vault, February 1, 2017; Jacques Vallee and Paola Leopizzi Harris, Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret, StarWorksUSA, 2021; Kevin D. Randle, “[Trinity: The Best Kept Secret](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/06/trinity-best-kept-secret-critique.html)[—A Critique,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/06/trinity-best-kept-secret-critique.html)” A Different Perspective, June 2, 2021; Jacques Vallée, “[The Other Lessons of Trinity,](https://trinitysecret.com/the-other-lessons-of-trinity/)” Trinity blog, December 6, 2021; Kevin D. Randle, “[Jacques](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/12/jacques-vallee-and-ten-unexplained-ufo.html) [Vallée and Ten Unexplained UFO Cases and Metallic Debris,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/12/jacques-vallee-and-ten-unexplained-ufo.html)” A Different Perspective, December 16, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_738 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1369 (621CC3CC) Date: 8/16/1945 Description: “Trinity” Crash Retrieval near San Antonio, NM Type: crash retrieval Reference: [link](https://www.howandwhys.com/astronomer-jacques-vallee-trinity-ufo-crash-encounter/) Location: San Antonio, NM Source ID: Maj2_170 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1370 (83DBBAF9) Date: 8/21/1945 Description: Manhattan Project physicist [Harry Daghlian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FDaghlian) is conducting an after-hours experiment at the remote Omega Site of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico when his hand slips. The test assembly he has built—a ball of plutonium surrounded by tungsten carbide bricks—goes critical. He sees a momentary blue flash and is struck by a wave of gamma and neutron radiation amounting to more than 500 rem. He disassembles the experiment, walks away, and admits himself to medical care. He falls into a coma and dies on September 15, the first person to die accidentally from close exposure to nuclear fission. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, pp. 30–31 Source ID: Eberhart_739 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1371 (44F46E41) Date: 8/22/1945 Description: Stalin appoints Lavrentiy Beria to direct Soviet atomic bomb effort Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Moscow, Russia Source ID: Maj2_171 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1372 (8A226031) Date: 8/28/1945 Description: C-46 had engine trouble, lost altitude, as three UFOs were observed from plane. \[2.\] (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Iwo Jima (near), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_303 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1373 (B1DDBBE7) Date: 8/28/1945 Description: On this day Leonard H. Stringfield was flying to Iwo Jima island onboard a U.S. Army Air Force C-46 shortly after the end of the war with Japan. Three luminous lights began to follow his C-46 transport plane as they approached the island in the Pacific. The plane's engines faltered, its magnetic compass failed, and its engines temporarily stopped. There were thirteen military witnesses on board. Len Stringfield became a life long UFO investigator as a result of this encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 7; NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1965, p. 3; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 9; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_5404 Source: Johnson ### Event 1374 (83A307EA) Date: 8/28/1945 Description: At five o'clock in the morning two women in Langelmayesi, Finland noticed a dark cylindrical object. Inside the prow of object stood a slender man in green coveralls, and another man who was apparently steering the craft inside a glass dome. Their Black Labrador dog reacted in terror. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 138 Source ID: Johnson_5405 Source: Johnson ### Event 1375 (EF9C8E70) Date: 8/28/1945 Description: Twelve 5th Air Force intelligence specialists flying on a C-46 approaching Iwo Jima \(in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan\) see three white, teardrop-shaped objects paralleling the plane. Navigational needles go wild, the engine sputters, and the plane falters until the objects speed away. One of the passengers is future UFO investigator [Leonard Stringfield.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 9–10; Strange Company 191–193, 209–211; NICAP, “[C-46 Encounters Objects / Magnetic Compasses ‘West Wild’](http://www.nicap.org/450828iwojima%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_740 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1376 (1FA884CA) Date: 9/1945 Description: A stationary bluish-whitelight, about the size of a dime at arms length, move and then return to original position. (Page 195-196 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_304 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1377 (9603EFB9) Date: 9/1945 Description: Policy adviser [Ferdinand Eberstadt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%5FEberstadt) writes for Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) a report recommending a complete realignment of national security organizations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Eberstadt Report](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject\#After%5Fthe%5Fwar)” Source ID: Eberhart_743 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1378 (3C6C7B6A) Date: 9/1945 Description: The US Army atomic bomb production unit, Z Division, named for its director, [Jerrold R. Zacharias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrold%5FR.%5FZacharias) from Los Alamos, New Mexico, moves to Oxnard Field, New Mexico, from Wendover Field \[now Airport\], Utah, to be closer to Los Alamos. This marks the beginning of Sandia Base \[now part of Kirtland AFB\]. Nearby Kirtland Field is used as a B-29 base for aircraft compatibility and drop tests. By October, all the staff and facilities at Wendover are transferred to Sandia. As reservist officers are demobilized, they are replaced by about 50 hand- picked regular officers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Manhattan Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject\#After%5Fthe%5Fwar)” Source ID: Eberhart_742 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1379 (20101CB7) Date: 9/1945 Description: The first group of seven German rocket scientists arrive at Fort Strong in Boston harbor, Massachusetts, through Operation Overcast: [Wernher von Braun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun) Erich W. Neubert, Theodor A. Poppel, August Schultze, [Eberhard Rees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard%5FRees)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard%5FRees) Wilhelm Jungert, and Walter Schwidetzky. By the end of the year, they and two other groups are moved to Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands, New Mexico, as “War Department Special Employees.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Paperclip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPaperclip\#Arrivals)” Source ID: Eberhart_741 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1380 (514F37D2) Date: 9/2/1945 Description: End of WW2 Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) Source ID: Maj2_172 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1381 (665BA570) Date: 9/20/1945 Description: The OSS is dissolved by Executive Order, effective October 1, scattering personnel through the Departments of State and War. The Research and Analysis Branch is transferred to the State Department. The War Department takes over Secret Intelligence \(SI\) and Counter Espionage \(X2\), which are rolled up into the Strategic Services Unit \(SSU\) headed by Brig. Gen. [John Magruder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FMagruder%5F%28Brigadier%5FGeneral%29), the former OSS Deputy Director of Intelligence who oversees the OSS liquidation. Most of the other personnel are cashiered. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Office of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject\#After%5Fthe%5Fwar) [Strategic Services](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject\#After%5Fthe%5Fwar)” Source ID: Eberhart_744 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1382 (29B2BF2A) Date: 9/26/1945? Description: Night. Machinist Mate First Class George M. Reynolds, attached to the submarine tender [USS Beaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FBeaver) with Submarine Squadron 45, anchored in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan. He is on the main deck when he sees a bluish light move to the south, turn right, go over to the west, stop, and stand still. When it moves again, it goes back to the general area it started from. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Strange Company 195–196 Source ID: Eberhart_745 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1383 (FCE5160E) Date: 10/1945 Description: 8:00 p.m. While driving a car between Bryan and Stryker, Ohio, [Gerald M. Kryling](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134038168/gerald-m-kryling) and his wife Thelma approach a bright light about 50 feet in the air and 20 feet from the road near some high-tension wires. It appears to be a 35-foot oval object with an amber-colored opening like a window that has shadows moving around inside. It takes off horizontally at great speed and then moves straight up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CUFOS case file Source ID: Eberhart_746 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1384 (609683B4) Date: 10/1945 Description: The temporary successor to the OSS, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), begins Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/) Location: Langley, VA Source ID: Maj2_173 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1385 (539336C1) Date: 10/2/1945 Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch test Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Cuxhaven, Germany Rocket type: V-2 Source ID: Maj2_174 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1386 (CE140A6C) Date: 10/9/1945 Description: Brig. Gen. [George C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/), AAF director of intelligence, writes to Maj. Gen. [Elwood Richard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%5FRichard%5FQuesada) [Quesada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%5FRichard%5FQuesada) in answer to a request for the investigation into wartime “balls of fire.” Exhaustive investigations of German technical personnel and US and UK sources reveal no confirmation of German involvement with the phenomena. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Macdonald–Quesada correspondence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject\#After%5Fthe%5Fwar)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%5FProject\#After%5Fthe%5Fwar) October 1945 Source ID: Eberhart_747 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1387 (A1F9EE1C) Date: 10/15/1945 Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch test Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Cuxhaven, Germany Rocket type: V-2 Source ID: Maj2_175 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1388 (3A5E95A6) Date: 10/24/1945 Description: United Nations charter in full force Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations) Location: New York City, New York Source ID: Maj2_176 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1389 (668B6611) Date: 11/1945 Description: Operation Overcast is renamed Project Paperclip. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Paperclip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPaperclip)” Source ID: Eberhart_748 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1390 (20BADD12) Date: 12/1945 Description: Lt. Col. Jo Chamberlin’s article on foo fighters appears in American Legion Magazine. Intelligence officers have ordered him not to state his military rank or position, but he is a special aide to Gen. [Henry H. “Hap”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FH.%5FArnold) [Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FH.%5FArnold)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FH.%5FArnold)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jo Chamberlin, “[The Foo Fighter Mystery,](https://archive.org/details/americanlegionma396amer%5F0/page/8/mode/2up)” American Legion Magazine 39, no. 6 \(December 1945\): 9, 43–47; “[Foo Fighter Archive Donated to UHR,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr17.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 17 \(December 2015\): 2–8 Source ID: Eberhart_749 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1391 (64AD50EC) Date: 12/5/1945 Description: On this fateful day six U.S. Army Air Force planes, which took off from Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station, Florida disappeared into the Atlantic Ocean Bermuda Triangle. Flight 19, a formation of five TBM avengers became disoriented while flying northeast from Fort Lauderdale, and made increasingly frantic radio calls announcing they were lost and calling for assistance. A huge rescue search operation caused more aboard a Martin Mariner sea rescue plane to be lost. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Miami Herald, December 6, 1945; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 293; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 125; Vincent H. Gaddis, Invisible Horizons, p. 175 Source ID: Johnson_8192 Source: Johnson ### Event 1392 (91ADF844) Date: 12/5/1945 Description: A training flight \(Flight 19\) of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers disappears while over the Atlantic Ocean. The squadron’s flight plan is scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for 141 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 140-mile leg to complete the exercise. The flight never returns to base. A report by Navy investigators concludes that flight leader Lt. [Charles C. Taylor](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7071436/charles-carroll-taylor) mistook small islands offshore for the Florida Keys after his compasses stopped working, resulting in the flight heading over open sea and away from land. The report is later amended by the Navy to read “cause unknown” to avoid blaming Taylor for the loss of five aircraft and 14 men. One of the search-and-rescue aircraft deployed to look for them, a PBM Mariner with a 13-man crew, also disappears. The report attributes the loss of the PBM aircraft to an explosion in midair while searching for the flight. According to contemporaneous sources, the Mariner has a history of explosions due to vapor leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as it might have been for a potentially long search-and-rescue operation. A tanker off the coast of Florida sees an explosion and a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for survivors. The weather is becoming stormy by the end of the incident. None of the Avenger bombers have been found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Flight 19](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight%5F19)”; Larry Kusche, The Bermuda Triangle Mystery— Solved, Harper & Row, 1975, [pp. 97–122](https://archive.org/details/bermudatriangle100kusc/page/96/mode/2up); Larry Kusche, [The Disappearance of Flight 19](https://archive.org/details/disappearanceoff00kusc)[,](https://archive.org/details/disappearanceoff00kusc) Harper & Row, 1980 Source ID: Eberhart_750 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1393 (A973C97D) Date: 12/25/1945 Description: During a blizzard a silver, domed object with a square base landed on the sea off the coast of Ireland. It was surrounded by purple lights, and made a whirring noise. Two beings with squarish shaped feet and wearing diver suits were seen walking on the surface of the water. The craft rose off the surface of the sea and landed in a field on a nearby island, crushing two cows when it came down. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0129, citing Northern Network News, December 1976 Source ID: Johnson_8597 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1946 (Back to Top) ### Event 1394 (3E69235F) Date: 1946 Description: The US nuclear stockpile consists of 9 atomic bombs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ryan Crierie, “[U.S. Nuclear Stockpile, 1945–2009](https://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/ABC%5FWeapons/US%5FNuclear%5FStockpile.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_751 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1395 (503FD69F) Date: 1946 Description: A farmer named Gunyon in Westerham, Kent, England, calls the British Technical Intelligence staff asking that the Air Ministry come and remove one of these “darned contraptions” which has fallen on his farm. The intelligence officers ask for directions and are told to drive from Croydon to Westerham, turning onto a lane when they reach a pub called The White Dog. Amid great security, two staff cars are dispatched, but fail to find the farm. They locate a pub called The White Hart and a farmer named Bunyan, who strenuously denies having made the call. Although the incident appears to be a hoax, few people can reach the Technical Intelligence staff and convince them to make a field visit. Indeed, the intelligence officers believe that former Air Intelligence scientist [Reginald Victor Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FVictor%5FJones), who has been skeptical of foo fighters and ghost rockets, is behind the affair. Jones writes that a signal is received from Gen. [Douglas MacArthur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FMacArthur)’s staff in Tokyo, asking for confirmation of a report that a Russian flying bomb had recently crashed in England. The other Director of Intelligence on the Air Staff, Air Commodore Roland Eugene Vintras, suggests to Jones that this might tie in with the “Westerham Incident.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: R. V. Jones, Most Secret War, Hamish Hamilton, 1978, [pp. 507–513](https://archive.org/details/mostsecretwar0000jone/page/506/mode/2up); “[UFO Britannia: Part 2—World War Foo and](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread909885/pg1) [Post War Cover Ups,](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread909885/pg1)” Above Top Secret forum, December 19, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_754 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1396 (E49B678A) Date: 1946 End date: 1951 Description: Between 1946–1951 the Army fires 67 V-2 rockets from the White Sands V-2 Launching Sight, Launch Complex 33 Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_V-2_Launching_Site) Location: Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Source ID: Maj2_180 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1397 (1B774BFF) Date: 1946 Description: Soviet “Arzamas-16” atomic bomb project plant opened - the Soviet "Los Alamos" (Weapons design and research, warhead assembly) Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Reference: [link](https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Sovwpnprog.html#Chagan) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_178 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1398 (EA5F9030) Date: 1946 Description: Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fourth Antarctic expedition (Operation High Jump). Involved 4,700 men, 13 ships (including the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea), and 25 aircraft. It was the largest Antarctic expedition ever attempted and would map and photograph almost 1,400,000 square km of the Antarctic continent, especially the coastline. Byrd made his second flight over the South Pole and was involved in a number of other flights. In 1948 the U.S. Navy produced a documentary about the operation. It was called The Secret Land and won an Academy Award for best documentary. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/) Location: Antarctica Source ID: Maj2_177 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1399 (856F639A) Date: 1946 Description: American astrophysicist [Charles Greeley Abbot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FGreeley%5FAbbot) writes that he thinks Earth might make contact with Venusians, coming into “fluent communication by wireless with a race brought up completely separate, having their own systems of government, social usages, religions, and surrounded by vegetation and animals entirely unrelated to any here on earth.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles Greeley Abbot, The Earth and the Stars, Van Nostrand, 1946, [p. 110](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015074975395&view=1up&seq=150&skin=2021); Roger D. Launius, “[Venus-Earth-Mars: Comparative Climatology and the Search for Life in the Solar System,](https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/3/255/htm)” Life 2, no. 3 \(2012\): 255–273 Source ID: Eberhart_753 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1400 (082DC687) Date: 1946 Description: Dancers on the roof of a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, watch the rapid passage of four square-shaped lights, reddish in color and aligned side by side, moving from the east and disappearing in the west in less than 60 seconds. One witness, meteorologist and RAF pilot George Raymond Leatherbarrow, estimates their altitude at 50,000 feet based on reflections on cirrus clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: G. R. Leatherbarrow, “[Two Early UFO Cases from the Middle](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Awareness%20%28Contact%20UK%29/Awareness%20-%201976%20-%20Vol%2005%20No%203%20-%20Autumn.pdf) [East,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Awareness%20%28Contact%20UK%29/Awareness%20-%201976%20-%20Vol%2005%20No%203%20-%20Autumn.pdf)” Awareness 5, no. 3 \(Autumn 1976\): 4–5; Clark III 1177 Source ID: Eberhart_752 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1401 (C9F8F9F5) Date: 1946 Description: Ghost Rockets seen in Scandinavia Type: UFO sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Scandinavia Source ID: Maj2_87 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1402 (1ECDD46B) Date: 1946 Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-44” atomic bomb project plant opened (Uranium enrichment) Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_179 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1403 (8407FD20) Date: 1/10/1946 Description: The Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio, issues a restricted-access document, German Flying Wings Designed by Horten Brothers by Capt. N. LeBlanc, detailing the drawings, photos, models, and documents relating to aircraft designed by Nazi aircraft designers the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) that were recovered in Germany by Allied forces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: N. LeBlanc, German Flying Wings Designed by Horten Brothers, Air Material Command, Technical Intelligence summary report no, F-SU-1110-ND, January 10, 1946; H. P. Dabrowski, The Horten Flying Wing in World War II: The History and Development of the Ho 229, Schiffer, 1991; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Roswell and the Flying Wing,” IUR 18, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1993\): 3; John Powell, “[The Horten](https://www.warbirdforum.com/horten.htm) [Flying Wings,](https://www.warbirdforum.com/horten.htm)” War Bird Forum, July 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_755 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1404 (7F3C4264) Date: 1/10/1946 Description: Public announcements of radar signals bounced off Moon Type: scientific advance Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/some-recovered-post-trinity-pre-1947-history-4d653bbff4c3) Location: New Jersey Source ID: Maj2_181 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1405 (075D65B7) Date: 1/18/1946 Description: 11:00 p.m. A US C-54 transport plane is at 7,000 feet over the French countryside on its way to Paris, France. Suddenly the pilot sees a brilliant “shooting star” about 35° above the horizon. It streaks down below the eastern horizon, then reappears and moves in a hyperbola before falling again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_756 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1406 (BC7E4E80) Date: 1/22/1946 Description: President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) creates a National Intelligence Authority \(State, War, Navy, Chief of Staff, and a presidential representative with the DCI as a non-voting member\) for policy and coordination and a Central Intelligence Group for operations under it. Rear Adm. [Sidney Souers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FSouers) heads the CIG as Director of Central Intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[National Intelligence Authority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FIntelligence%5FAuthority)” Source ID: Eberhart_757 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1407 (A6396D49) Date: 2/21/1946 Description: 8:30 p.m. One or more meteors are seen in west Finland and the counties of Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Kopparberg \[now Dalarna\], Gävleborg, Uppsala, Östergötland, and Skaraborg \[now Västra Götaland\] in Sweden. It supposedly sets a farmhouse on fire in Vaasa province, Finland. It leaves a long trail of smoke in the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Archives for the Unexplained, “[Case XXX: The Meteor That Did Not Start a Fire](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/UFO%20reports/Scandinavia/GR%20translations/46-02-21%20Finland%20meteor/1946-02-21%20Report%20Meteor%20over%20Finland%20and%20east%20Sweden.docx)” Source ID: Eberhart_758 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1408 (5AFB0C98) Date: 2/26/1946 Description: Ghost Rocket reports in Scandinavia, Sweden/Finland Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_rockets) Location: Scandinavia Source ID: Maj2_182 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1409 (EED55EE2) Date: 3/1946 Description: The Air Technical Service Command becomes the Air Materiel Command. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Materiel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand) [Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FMateriel%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_759 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1410 (1088081B) Date: 3/5/1946 Description: Sr. Joao Prestes Filho, age 40, had anticipated an uneventful day of fishing in Aracariguama, Sao Paulo State, Brazil but he returned home at 7:30 p.m., terrified by his encounter with a beam of light that came from the sky and struck him without warning nor any noise. He went into his house saying that he had been hit by a silent beam of light, which stunned him and knocked him to the ground. A little while later his flesh looked like it had been cooked, as if it had been exposed to intense microwave energy, and started a rapid deterioration. He died from the effects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Felipe Machado Carrion, FSR, March-April 1973, p. 14; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 124 Source ID: Johnson_1307 Source: Johnson ### Event 1411 (CA637E62) Date: 3/5/1946 Description: 6:00 p.m. João Prestes is returning on foot from a fishery on the banks of the Tietê River to his sister’s home in Araçariguama, São Paulo, Brazil. As he is entering the house, a light from outside strikes and envelopes him. He becomes dizzy and confused but manages to get up and go inside. He summons Araci Gomide, a nurse who has served in the military with him. Gomide describes his friend as being literally cooked, with his flesh detaching from his bones, injuries on his feet and ankles, and his feet clenched like the claws of a bird. His arms are burned and the flesh on his fingers is falling off. His chest, neck, and face also seem to be burned but not charred or red. Prestes dies on the way to a hospital in Santana di Parnaíba at 3:00 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 166–167; Brazil 17–21; Pablo Villarubia Mauso, “[The Incredible Saga of João Prestes,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/prestes.html)” UFO Casebook Source ID: Eberhart_760 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1412 (1300D3AB) Date: 3/6/1946 Description: The Western Defense Command, activated on 3/17/1941, is deactivated Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Defense_Command) Location: Pacific Coast Region, US Source ID: Maj2_183 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1413 (E587E036) Date: 3/6/1946 Description: The Western Defense Command is deactivated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Western Defense Command](https://www.ufocasebook.com/prestes.html)” Source ID: Eberhart_761 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1414 (A151A25E) Date: 3/14/1946 Description: Dusk. Paul Cummings Jr. is driving east on US Highway 136 about 10 miles east of Havana, Illinois, with Douglas Gowdy. A bright orange ball appears in the road about 1 mile ahead, gliding down the highway only one foot above the pavement and possibly touching both shoulders of the road. When it is within 2,000 feet, Cummings pulls the car over and stops, and they rush out to lie down in a ditch, fearing an explosion. When they look up again, the object is nowhere in sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 26–27 Source ID: Eberhart_762 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1415 (22E68EFC) Date: 3/14/1946 Description: Two men, Cummings and Gowdy, driving on a road in Havana, Illinois had a close encounter with a flying saucer at 5:00 a.m. The object buzzed their car ten miles east of town on Highway 136. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 26; Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, case 157 Source ID: Johnson_1468 Source: Johnson ### Event 1416 (E069C90B) Date: 3/15/1946 Description: First static test fire of V-2 missile at White Sands Pad 33 Type: aerospace Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Source ID: Maj2_184 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1417 (6AE1A727) Date: 4/1946 Alternate date: 5/1946 Description: Around 12:00 noon. Richard R. Hill and Stanley Ogdrzyiak are driving in an open convertible on the Country Club Road near Lafayette, New York. Suddenly they see a gleaming, metallic, cigar-shaped object in the sky. It remains motionless at 5,000–10,000 feet altitude, which at that height would make it 300–400 feet long. After 2 minutes, it disappears instantaneously. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Case 84,](http://www.cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%5FVolume%5FII%5F1955-56%5FS.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter 2, no. 3 \(June 3, 1955\): 4; Clark III 1179 Source ID: Eberhart_765 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1418 (E029933A) Date: 4/2/1946 Description: The Strategic Services Unit is transferred to the new Central Intelligence Group and becomes the Office of Special Operations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Strategic Services Unit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic%5FServices%5FUnit)” Source ID: Eberhart_763 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1419 (EE0E97DA) Date: 4/16/1946 Description: First V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, reaching 5.5km altitude (radio cut off after launch, fin 4 failed prior to cutoff) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 5.5km Source ID: Maj2_185 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1420 (E406C651) Date: 4/20/1946 Description: League of Nations dissolved, succeeded by the United Nations (UN) Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations) Source ID: Maj2_186 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1421 (B3A893FA) Date: 4/25/1946 Description: While ice fishing at Anima Nipissing Lake, Ontario, Don Cameron and his family watch 12–14 small disc- shaped objects descend at a 45° angle about 75 feet away. They come spinning down on the ice, rise 2 feet into the air, then come down again. Cameron walks toward them, and they ascend and shoot away at the same angle and direction. They find black marks on the snow and ice. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1179 Source ID: Eberhart_764 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1422 (A640F40E) Date: 5/1946 End date: 12/1946 Description: 2,000 Ghost Rocket sightings in Sweden/Finland Type: ufo sightings Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_rockets) Location: Scandinavia Source ID: Maj2_187 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1423 (EC57F7C6) Date: 5/1946 Description: At twilight while walking home, a prominent industrialist saw a light in the woods and went to investigate. He saw a disc with dome and oval windows on the ground. Around it were about 11 beings with transparent helmets and uniform-like clothing apparently working on the craft. Later he saw the craft take off emitting bright red light, then speed away. Burned grass and other trace marks were found at the site. (Ref. 3; Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1972.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Angelholm, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_305 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1424 (9C779548) Date: 5/1946 Description: Day. Navy Lieutenant Andrew A. Titcomb is on leave and picking oranges at his wife’s family home at La Grange, north of Titusville, Florida, when he hears a whistling noise and sees a dark “flying football” directly overhead at about 1,000 feet elevation moving at 125 mph. It appears 15–20 feet in diameter and flies in an arc to the southeast. It disappears in a cloudbank. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 6](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=18&skin=2021); Clark III 1179 Source ID: Eberhart_766 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1425 (27F82745) Date: 5/1946 Description: A Navy gunnery and radar officer observed a dark elliptical object which moved slowly overhead, disappearing in a cloud bank. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, I\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: LaGrange, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_308 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1426 (EBEFB9A4) Date: 5/10/1946 Description: First nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.6km altitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 112.6km Source ID: Maj2_188 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1427 (BDFBC957) Date: 5/13/1946 Description: Plans for a new test site for the first Soviet ballistic missiles and atomic bombs at Kapustin Yar test site Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://curiosmos.com/kapustin-yar-russias-alleged-area-51-10-things-you-should-know/) Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapustin_Yar) Location: Astrakhan Oblast Source ID: Maj2_189 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1428 (06638ADB) Date: 5/13/1946 Description: The Soviets establish a rocket center called NII-88 \[now TsNIIMash\] at Kaliningrad \[now Korolyov\], Russia, northeast of Moscow. Missile designer [Sergei Korolev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%5FKorolev) is appointed chief designer of Section 3 on long-range missiles. Stalin declares Korolev’s name a secret, which it remains until his death in 1966. Russia keeps dozens of its captured German scientists here, working on special projects until 1955. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[TsNIIMash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TsNIIMash)” Source ID: Eberhart_767 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1429 (936918B6) Date: 5/13/1946 Description: A rocket is seen traveling over Helsinki, Finland, in a southwesterly direction at 1,000 feet. It supposedly moves at supersonic speed, emitting a magnesium-like light and a trail of smoke. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, comp., [The](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Aldrich%2C%20Jan%20-%20The%20Ghost%20Rockets%20File.pdf) [Ghost Rocket File](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Aldrich%2C%20Jan%20-%20The%20Ghost%20Rockets%20File.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Aldrich%2C%20Jan%20-%20The%20Ghost%20Rockets%20File.pdf) Fund for UFO Research, 2000, p. 10 Source ID: Eberhart_768 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1430 (011B1968) Date: 5/18/1946 Description: 10:45 p.m. [Gösta Carlsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta%5FCarlsson%5F%28f%C3%B6retagare%29)[,](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta%5FCarlsson%5F%28f%C3%B6retagare%29) later to become founder and owner of Cernelle AB, is walking in the forested area of Kronoskagen near Ängelholm, Sweden, when he sees a disc-shaped machine more than 50 feet in diameter. On the top is a cupola with oval windows, and beneath it are an oblong “fan,” two legs, a small ladder, and openings. A man dressed in a white, one-piece outfit gestures to Carlsson to stop. Two other occupants, three of them women, all wearing suits and transparent helmets, are nearby. One of the males points a boxlike device at the witness, who leaves the scene but returns by a different route 30 minutes later, just in time to see the UFO depart. A concrete model of the UFO is dedicated in 1963 as a memorial. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[UFO-Memorial Ängelholm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO-Memorial%5F%C3%84ngelholm)”; Sven-Olof Fredrickson, “[The Ängelholm Landing Report,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201972%20V%2018%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1972\): 15– 17; Anders Liljegren, “[High-Quality Investigation of 1946 CEIII Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%20Newsletter%20%28AFU%29/AFU%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2038%20-%201995.pdf)” AFU Newsletter, no. 38 \(March 1995\): 2–3; Clark III 528–529; Clas Svahn, “[Gösta Carlssons möte,](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/gosta-carlsson)” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, July 10, 2018; Håkan Blomqvist, “[UFO-Sweden Memories: Ängelholm 1996,](https://blomqvist62.rssing.com/chan-38075447/latest-article16-live.php)” Håkan Blomqvist’s Blog, July 1, 2020; Clas Svahn and Gösta Carlsson, Mötet i gläntan: Sveriges mest kända närkontakt med UFO, 3rd ed., Parthenon, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_769 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1431 (82506FD6) Date: 5/21/1946 Description: Two motorists report an elongated craft resembling a rocket or Zeppelin over Stora Mellösa, Sweden. One of the witnesses sees two short wings, although the other cannot see any despite watching the object for 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 12 Source ID: Eberhart_770 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1432 (2B1C4E96) Date: 5/24/1946 Description: 2:20 a.m. Witnesses in Landskrona, Sweden, see a wingless, cigar-shaped object, spurting sparks from its tail. About 300 feet above the ground, it is moving at airplane speed toward the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 1; Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_771 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1433 (60C07784) Date: 5/28/1946 Description: The Aftonbladet newspaper in Stockholm, Sweden, is the first to use the term “Spökraket” \(ghost rocket\) in a headline. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 12 Source ID: Eberhart_772 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1434 (C394C6B0) Date: 5/29/1946 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.1km altitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 112.6km Source ID: Maj2_190 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1435 (458A7424) Date: 5/31/1946 Description: 11:43 a.m. A huge, metallic, wingless cigar moves rapidly at 1,000 feet altitude over Katrineholm, Sweden. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 2–3 Source ID: Eberhart_773 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1436 (57C54A73) Date: 6/6/1946 Description: The Joint Research and Development Board is created by the Secretaries of War and the Navy to coordinate research efforts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joint Research and Development Board, [Organization Authority Record,](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10482179) June 6, 1946 Source ID: Eberhart_776 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1437 (E2D84957) Date: 6/9/1946 Description: Night. An enormous light drops earthward over Sala, Sweden, leaving a long, fiery trail. An explosion is heard. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_777 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1438 (56BBBBDE) Date: 6/9/1946 Description: 10:17 p.m. A rocket-like light passes over Helsinki, Finland, at 10,000 feet leaving a smoke trail and making a distant rumble. A luminous afterglow lasts 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_778 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1439 (A4D541EF) Date: 6/10/1946 Description: Lieut. Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) replaces [Souers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FSouers) as director of the CIG. He expands it and wins the right to collect intelligence in Latin America. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CIA Historical Staff, [Chronology 1946–65](http://jfkfacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CIA-Historical-Staff-Chronology-Volume-1-1946-55.pdf)[,](http://jfkfacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CIA-Historical-Staff-Chronology-Volume-1-1946-55.pdf) vol. 1, 1946–1955, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_779 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1440 (39F65B1D) Date: 6/10/1946 Description: Mystery "ghost rockets" were seen over Tampere and Helsinki, Finland. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: H. Edward Hill Source ID: Johnson_3403 Source: Johnson ### Event 1441 (64305094) Date: 6/12/1946 Description: The Swedish Defense staff secretly orders reports of unknown rockets to be collected by military and civilian defense units in Sweden. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33 Source ID: Eberhart_780 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1442 (88950FAD) Date: 6/13/1946 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 117.2km altitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 117.2km Source ID: Maj2_191 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1443 (F6CA09F1) Date: 6/18/1946 Description: A first-strike scenario, the Pincher war plan, is created by the US military to strike Moscow and the Caucasus with 50 nuclear weapons if the Soviets invade the Middle East. It is never officially approved, but the Joint Chiefs agree to use it for planning purposes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Phillip S. Meilinger, “[The Early War Plans,](https://www.airforcemag.com/article/1212war/)” Air Force Magazine, December 1, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_781 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1444 (130B818A) Date: Summer 1946 Description: Late evening. Two women on a walk in Johannesburg, South Africa, see an aerial object hovering 5 feet above the roof of a nearby hotel. It is shaped like a saucer with a round, golden ball in the center, evenly split between the top and bottom sections. They hear a clicking noise, and the ball drops through the saucer until it is level with the roof. More clicks are heard, and the ball rises through and above the saucer 8–9 feet. In the space between the ball and the disc the witnesses see two figures larger than normal height \(7 feet\), fair-complexioned and broad-shouldered, with short wavy hair. They are wearing white uniforms with stiff collars and stand motionless until the object floats away and is lost to view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Judge, “[Near-Landing in 1946 in Johannesburg,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2024%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 \(March 1979\): 14–16; Clark III 266 Source ID: Eberhart_774 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1445 (13DD82BF) Date: Summer 1946 Description: Day. Eleanor Hancock is in Colorado Springs, Colorado, looking southwest toward Cheyenne Mountain when two shining silver objects appear, moving rapidly in tandem from east to west toward the escarpment. Just before they reach the mountain, they turn sharply upward, still in formation, and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1179 Source ID: Eberhart_775 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1446 (3B51EAD8) Date: 6/25/1946 Description: A four-engine Northrop XB-35 flying wing bomber makes its first test flight from Jack Northrop Field \[now Hawthorne Municipal Airport\] to Muroc Army Air Field \[now Edwards AFB\] in California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-35](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-35\#XB-35)” Source ID: Eberhart_782 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1447 (52E54DF2) Date: 6/26/1946 Description: The commander of the military district in Morjärv, Sweden, issues instructions on how to report incidents with “certain kind of light phenomena’ that might be associated with “tests made by foreign powers with guided weapons.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \(Swords 12\). Source ID: Eberhart_783 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1448 (762E3E33) Date: 6/28/1946 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 107.8km altitude (nose separation failure) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 107.8km Source ID: Maj2_192 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1449 (D1716287) Date: 7/1946 Description: Day. A long, silver-colored cigar appears suddenly out of the haze over Crane Beach, Ipswich, Massachusetts, moves noiselessly over the water, then disappears suddenly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lore and Deneault, [p. 148](https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofskies0000lore/page/148/mode/2up); Clark III 1179 Source ID: Eberhart_785 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1450 (C95253A3) Date: 7/1946 Description: Amazing Stories publishes four short articles in its September 1945 issue by William C. Hefferlin, each describing a wonderful new invention that has come to the author, according to editor [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) “from Tibet by mental telepathy.” One of the inventions is a “circle-winged airplane.” In later issues, Hefferlin and his wife Gladys go on to describe the Rainbow City, an underground Martian city beneath Antarctica where the flying saucers originate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Description of Rainbow City from the Hefferlin Manuscript \(Hollow Earth\)](https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tierra%5Fhueca/esp%5Ftierra%5Fhueca%5F26.htm)”; Walter Kafton- Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, [pp. 160–167](https://archive.org/details/subterraneanworldswalterkaftonminkel100000yearsofdragonsdwarfsthedeadlostracesufosfrominsidetheearth/page/n163/mode/2up); Clark III 610 Source ID: Eberhart_784 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1451 (14FD6BDD) Date: 7/1946 Description: 2:00 p.m. Hans Sorensen is cycling near Viskinge, Denmark, when he sees three discs flying silently overhead. The underside is uneven and dull gray, but they are like “polished mirrors” on top. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 16 Source ID: Eberhart_786 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1452 (69C3C101) Date: 7/1946 Alternate date: 8/1946 Description: "Ghost rocket" sightings. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_310 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1453 (466D5DF4) Date: 7/1/1946 Description: Able nuclear test, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Radio-controlled autopilots are installed in eight B-17 bombers, converting them into remote-controlled drones that are then loaded with automatic cameras, radiation detectors, and air sample collectors. Their pilots operate them from mother planes at a safe distance from the detonation. The drones can fly into Able’s mushroom cloud, which would have been lethal to crew members. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Crossroads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FCrossroads)” Source ID: Eberhart_787 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1454 (A4D77572) Date: 7/3/1946 Description: The Joint Research and Development Board is established. Essentially it is [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush)’s existing cadre of brain trust from the still active Office of Scientific Research and the postwar Joint New Weapons Committee. Added to this are other reconstituted R&D committees and advisers like [Lloyd Berkner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner) of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The original founding members are physicist [Alfred Lee Loomis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%5FLee%5FLoomis), biologist [Caryl Parker Haskins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryl%5FParker%5FHaskins), physicist [Luis Walter Alvarez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez) physicist [William Shockley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FShockley), and [George Doriot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%5FDoriot). Two military representatives each from the Army, Navy, and Air Force complete the board’s membership. Counting Bush, this makes a board of 12. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_788 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1455 (C511E485) Date: 7/5/1946 End date: 12/1946 Description: Dr. Oliver J. Lee, director of Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, states in a Los Angeles Examiner article that radar signals were secretly bounced off the Moon during WW2. He also speculates that the saucers are remotely controlled. Type: Newspaper Article Reference: [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/we-secretly-bounced-radar-signals-off-the-moon-during-ww2-f4699297038f) Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Source ID: Maj2_193 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1456 (11BBF607) Date: 7/6/1946 Description: Astronomer [Bertil Lindblad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertil%5FLindblad)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertil%5FLindblad) after consulting with the Swedish Defense staff on ghost rocket reports, remarks that the “adjective ‘cigar-shaped’ is something new.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33 Source ID: Eberhart_790 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1457 (3C98563D) Date: 7/6/1946 Description: A special ghost rocket investigations committee is formed with Col. [Bengt Jacobsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengt%5FJacobsson%5F%28milit%C3%A4r%29) from the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration as chairman. Other members are [Henry Kjellson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FKjellson) and Eric Malmberg from the Air Administration; Maj. Nils Ahlgren and Capt. [Gerdt Stangenberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerdt%5FStangenberg) from the Air Defense department; chemist [Gustaf Ljunggren](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf%5FLjunggren%5F%28chemist%29); physicist [Martin Fehrm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FFehrm); and [Olof Kempe](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof%5FKempe) from the Defense Radio Institute. They hold at least 12 meetings, beginning on July 10. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 13; Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33; Swords 12 Source ID: Eberhart_789 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1458 (D80954C4) Date: 7/7/1946 Description: A cigar-shaped object flew over Gavle, Sweden from the east to the west at 28,000 feet altitude at 7:45 p.m. and was seen by several townspeople. It had a clearly distinguishable outline, and a very bright light at the rear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_3896 Source: Johnson ### Event 1459 (BDB7A4D3) Date: 7/9/1946 Description: 3:30 p.m. A young man in Mockfjärd, Sweden, sees a silver-colored star diving toward the ground with a whistling noise. It comes down about 490 feet away from him, and he is blinded by the intense light. He thinks it crashes into Mt. Landholm. A powerful burning smell lingers for 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_797 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1460 (150B4A27) Date: 7/9/1946 Description: 3:35 p.m. Many people see a bright red, rocket-like object moving swiftly over Turku, Finland, and leaving a short trail. It casts shadows on the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_798 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1461 (76B1222A) Date: 7/9/1946 Description: At 2:30 p.m. a UFO that looked like a silvery thermos bottle flew over Jarna, Sweden. There were six more reports of cigar-shaped objects and eleven reports of fireballs rocketing over Sweden at about this time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_3938 Source: Johnson ### Event 1462 (3F9B9B71) Date: 7/9/1946 Description: At 3:35 p.m. a fast, bright red, cigar-shaped 'rocket' cast shadows as it flew over Turku, Finland from south to north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_3939 Source: Johnson ### Event 1463 (542F114E) Date: 7/9/1946 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 134.4km altitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 134.4km Source ID: Maj2_194 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1464 (5872AEAA) Date: 7/9/1946 Description: 2:30 p.m. A member of the US legation sees a silent ghost rocket falling rapidly over Stockholm, Sweden, according to a July 11 telegram from State Department official [Christian M. Ravndal](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1984/10/28/cm-ravndal-ex-ambassador-dies-in-austria/bac979d2-d6fb-4c27-9ec3-beabb8db76bb/) to Washington, D.C. Hundreds of other observations take place over central Sweden. Ravndal suggests that the Soviets are trying to intimidate the Swedes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, p.11; Clark III 524, 527; Good Above, [p. 20](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/20/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p.p. 6, betw. 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_794 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1465 (B94149F8) Date: 7/9/1946 Description: A journalist finds three dubious fist-size fragments, one of iron and the other two slag-like, after a bright projectile is seen over a beach at Njurunda, Sweden. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, p. 12; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_791 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1466 (DCDB0265) Date: 7/9/1946 Description: 2:30 p.m. [Erik and Asa Reuterswärd](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%5FReutersw%C3%A4rd) take a photo of a greenish-white daylight meteor by a lake at Guldsmedshyttan, northwest of Lindesberg, Sweden. They are atop a forest watchtower and have a good view of the object. The image is circulated to newspapers throughout Sweden; however, the photo probably shows an unusual daylight meteor, not a ghost rocket. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 12–13; Clas Svahn, “The 1946 Ghost Rocket Photo,” \`IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 12–14, 23; Swords 13–14; Clas Svahn, “[Spökraketerna: Den Största Gåtan,](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/fakta/arti/verkligheten-bakom-ufopodden-i-p3/1611-spoekraketerna)” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, March 7, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_792 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1467 (A7CA645E) Date: 7/9/1946 Description: 2:30 p.m. Two people on the north side of Vaxön, Sweden, watch a glowing white object with a blue-white tail streak across the sky in about 2 seconds, disappearing to the southeast. Around the same time, a witness at Järna Station in Södertälje sees an object “like a glass flask in a thermos” descending from a high altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_793 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1468 (5A30418D) Date: 7/9/1946 Description: 2:35 p.m. Efrain Johnson sees a strange, cigar- or sugarloaf-shaped object to the east of Ockelbo, Sweden. It shines like silver and appears “like some glistening mass.” It falls to the ground and is gone in a few moments. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_795 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1469 (508E2CDD) Date: 7/9/1946 Description: About 3:00 p.m. A housewife near Sörbo, Sweden, is washing on the shore of Södra Barken when she sees a falling object coming from the northeast. It changes color from blue to green and has a long tail. It tumbles into the lake about 320 feet away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_796 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1470 (CF2120EF) Date: 7/10/1946 Description: 2:30 p.m. A bluish flying cigar 10–12 times the diameter of the full moon in length passes over Stockholm, Sweden. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_800 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1471 (920DCF9B) Date: 7/10/1946 Description: A brilliantly glowing projectile trailing luminous smoke crashes into a beach near Norrvikssand, Sweden. Airline pilot Torvald Linden and other witnesses find a shallow crater a little more than 3 feet in diameter. A mass of slag-like material, some of it reduced to powder \(which burns the hands when touched\) is found at the site and collected into bags. A journalist from Svenska Dagbladet on July 11 finds a “burnt-brown object with a hollow cylinder” with a diameter of about 1–2 inches. Military authorities take over the site. The debris is taken to Dr. B. Backlund at a laboratory in Kubikenborg, who finds it contains paper with microscopic black-and-white squares like a screen. Some porous, rust-colored fragments are also present. The same day, the beach is visited by Lt. Col. [Rudberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%5FRudberg%5F%28milit%C3%A4r%29), Capt. C. Ljungdahl, and Capt. R. Westlin, who conclude that the material has been in the area for a long time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 10–12 Source ID: Eberhart_799 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1472 (565D0C1C) Date: 7/12/1946 Description: Day. The railway station master at Gryon, Vaud, Switzerland, is watching a B-24 Liberator flying overhead at 15,000 feet when he also sees a “flying bomb” looking like a big star traveling northeast at about 250 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_802 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1473 (620FD3AE) Date: 7/12/1946 Description: Swedish Intelligence agrees to cooperate in sharing ghost rocket information with the British military attaché in Stockholm, Sweden, Maj. de Salis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 20 Source ID: Eberhart_801 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1474 (D2DBE666) Date: 7/12/1946 Description: 10:00 p.m. Inga Eriksson is in her garden in Usta, Örebro, Sweden, when she hears a sharp, sizzling sound in the air and sees three silvery triangular objects traveling horizontally from east to west. They are visible only for 2 seconds, but her mother notes that the electrical power has gone out in their home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: AFU case file Source ID: Eberhart_803 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1475 (A9F17B7A) Date: 7/15/1946 Description: The Swedes provide the British attaché with analytical reports of all observations to date. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 20 Source ID: Eberhart_804 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1476 (7D1F0F3B) Date: 7/16/1946 End date: 7/18/1946 Description: US Secretary of the Navy [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) makes an unexpected visit to Stockholm, Sweden, to meet with the Swedish Defense Minister [Allan Vougt](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%5FVougt) and two members of the special committee on ghost rockets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35 Source ID: Eberhart_805 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1477 (94C983A8) Date: 7/18/1946 Description: 12:00 noon. Sigvat Skaug and his son, who live along Lake Mjøsa in southeastern Norway, and his sister Åse Tandberg watch two rocket-like objects about 7 feet long pass over their heads at a very low altitude. They fall simultaneously into the lake, throwing the water several feet into the air. The objects look like V-1 rockets and come in low from the west at about 150 feet, causing the trees to sway. They fall into the lake about 1.2 miles from the western shore and 4.3 miles from Minnesund. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[‘Ghost Rocket’ Crashes into Lake](http://www.nicap.org/460718norway%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 18–19; Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, pp. 19–20; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “[The Kölmjärv Ghost Rocket](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%20Newsletter%20%28AFU%29/AFU%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2027%20-%201984.pdf) [Crash Revisited,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%20Newsletter%20%28AFU%29/AFU%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2027%20-%201984.pdf)” AFU Newsletter 27 \(Jan./Dec. 1984\): 1–5; Swords 16; Clark III 526 Source ID: Eberhart_807 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1478 (DFB01E48) Date: 7/18/1946 Description: Three workers see a ghost rocket above Ortviken, Sweden. Shortly afterward, Gunnar Falck watches a silvery cylinder moving over the northern part of Sundsvall. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_808 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1479 (01C4B140) Date: 7/18/1946 Description: Two British intelligence officers arrive in Stockholm to meet with their counterparts in Sweden. One is from the Air Ministry \(Squadron Leader Barrie Heath\) and the other \(Maj. Malone\) is from MI10\(a\), a branch of the Directorate of Military Intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 20 Source ID: Eberhart_806 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1480 (94C79084) Date: 7/18/1946 Description: Two fast, low-flying eight-foot long cylinders dove into Lake Mjosa, Norway. They had short wing flaps. There were four witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_4154 Source: Johnson ### Event 1481 (B1E6BDD4) Date: 7/19/1946 Description: 11:45 a.m. Many witnesses see a gray, winged rocket crash into Lake Kölmjärv, Sweden, with a loud bang close to the southwest bank. Knut Lindbäck says it generates a high plume of water when it hits the surface, “followed by another cascade as if something had detonated.” Water lilies and other aquatic plants are torn up and thrown on the shore. Lieut. Karl-Gösta Bartoll from the Boden engineer corps arrives the next day to supervise the salvage operation. Engineers Roland Rynniger and lab technician Torsten Wilner from the Defense Research Department also arrive with a Geiger counter. A three-week search turns up no traces of metal, even though the evidence points to an underwater explosion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[‘Ghost Rocket’ Crashes into Lake](http://www.nicap.org/460719sweden%5Fdir.htm)”; Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, pp. 20–26; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 20, 76; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “[The Kölmjärv Ghost Rocket Crash Revisited,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%20Newsletter%20%28AFU%29/AFU%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2027%20-%201984.pdf)” AFU Newsletter 27 \(Jan./Dec. 1984\): 1–5; Swords 17–20, 24; Clark III 525, 526 Source ID: Eberhart_811 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1482 (FE94B27E) Date: 7/19/1946 Description: 3:00 p.m. Karl and Tyra Axberg are sitting on the porch of their cabin on Lake Vassarajärvi in Norrbotten County, Sweden, when they hear a loud noise. A projectile comes in at a very low angle and hits the water at a 30° angle, continuing underwater for about 600 feet. A military team led by Karl-Gösta Bartoll can find no trace of a “ghost bomb.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 24–25 Source ID: Eberhart_812 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1483 (109A69FD) Date: 7/19/1946 Description: 11:15 a.m. In the village of Bölebyn, Sweden, Leonard Danielsson and his sons Kjell, Dan, and Hans see an “aeroplane” moving against the wind to the southwest. The boys say it looks like a large, metallic milk canister. It travels from horizon to horizon in about 20 minutes before disappearing in the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 17 Source ID: Eberhart_809 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1484 (5725C7C7) Date: 7/19/1946 Description: Failed V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude (oxygen pump explodes) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 4.8km Source ID: Maj2_195 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1485 (7904E930) Date: 7/19/1946 Description: 3:40 p.m. Ingrid Hansson is sunbathing with her father on a floating jetty at the northern end of Lake Marmen, near Sunnanå, Sweden. She hears a violent roaring over the water and looks up to see an object bouncing along the surface, stirring up a wake. The object has created a water column 66 feet high upon impact. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 25 Source ID: Eberhart_813 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1486 (7DBC6896) Date: 7/19/1946 Description: 11:30 a.m. Kurt Larsson, 11, is fishing at the north end of Lake Kattisträsket, Sweden, when he hears a roaring sound. A huge column of water rises out of the lake as if a mine has detonated. Military officers from Boden investigate, but the lake is too muddy to send in a diver. They conclude that whatever fell is buried in 15 feet of mud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 24 Source ID: Eberhart_810 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1487 (D9C904A4) Date: 7/19/1946 Description: Maj. Gen. [George C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) prepares a memorandum for the Commander of the Army Air Forces Gen. [Carl Spaatz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSpaatz) on reports of “rockets” over Scandinavian countries. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, comp., [The Ghost Rocket File](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Aldrich%2C%20Jan%20-%20The%20Ghost%20Rockets%20File.pdf), Fund for UFO Research, 2000, pp. 9–11 Source ID: Eberhart_814 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1488 (B29D0D99) Date: 7/19/1946 Description: During the mystery ghost rocket wave of sightings over Scandinavia this year, at 11:55 a.m. a two-meter long cone-shaped object fell into Kolmjarv Lake, Sweden. An underwater search was attempted but nothing was found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: AFU Sweden Source ID: Johnson_4188 Source: Johnson ### Event 1489 (1762F42C) Date: 7/24/1946 Description: 1:20 p.m. Engineer Tennlund sees a small cigar-shaped object with a pair of small wings south of Vålberg, Värmland, Sweden. It comes from the direction of Norway \(west\) at great speed with no sound. Tennlund thinks it crashes into Vänern lake. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35 Source ID: Eberhart_815 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1490 (83BF61EC) Date: 7/25/1946 Description: Baker nuclear test, Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Crossroads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FCrossroads\#Test%5FBaker)”; Fran Ridge, “[The](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-ridge10.htm) [Baker Blast: Cause for Alarm?](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-ridge10.htm)” May 4, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_817 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1491 (7CC5CDF9) Date: 7/25/1946 Description: The Swedish military states that ghost rockets are not meteors. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 23 Source ID: Eberhart_816 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1492 (08E20506) Date: 7/27/1946 Description: British Air Attaché Capt. Henderson informs the Foreign Office in London, England, that cooperation with Swedish Air Staff should be kept from the Americans. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002; Joel Carpenter, “[Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; Swords 20 Source ID: Eberhart_818 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1493 (5D8ECD1F) Date: 7/28/1946 Description: Night. Sections of Oslo, Norway, are shaken by two violent aerial explosions. An “intense white light” accompanies the blasts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: London Daily Telegraph, July 29, 1946; Clark III 526 Source ID: Eberhart_819 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1494 (AEDFCEBA) Date: 7/29/1946 Description: Norway begins censoring ghost rocket reports just as Sweden is doing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 25 Source ID: Eberhart_820 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1495 (701A3DA7) Date: 7/30/1946 Description: 5:00 p.m. A customs officer on the Norway-Sweden border watches a silvery torpedo with short wings. The object moves in from the south but changes direction with a sharp turn and continues east with a whining sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35 Source ID: Eberhart_823 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1496 (DA805B02) Date: 7/30/1946 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 161.5km altitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 161.5km Source ID: Maj2_196 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1497 (2ADFEABB) Date: 7/30/1946 Description: 1:15 p.m. Two objects shaped like dark crosses are seen in the sky over Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35 Source ID: Eberhart_821 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1498 (A4EB34ED) Date: 7/30/1946 Description: 3:12 p.m. William Jorgensen, a soldier at the fort at Oskar-Fredriksborg, Stockholm, Sweden, sees a silent flying object with short wings at a distance of about 6,560 feet. It is moving faster than a jet aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35 Source ID: Eberhart_822 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1499 (79DD5535) Date: 8/1946 Description: Day. Charles A. Johnson is driving on US Highway 41 along Lake Michigan north of Chicago, Illinois, when he sees three silver discs going from east to west in a triangular formation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1179 Source ID: Eberhart_824 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1500 (AD0B2497) Date: 8/1946 Description: 8:30 p.m. A young man sees a pan-shaped object near a road in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. A small entity holding an acacia branch is nearby. The being enters the object through an opening on the underside. Afterward, traces of burning on the ground are detected. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1940–1949](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf), p. 20; Clark III 266 Source ID: Eberhart_825 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1501 (75C6B35E) Date: 8/1/1946 Description: Puckett Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tampa (near), FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_313 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1502 (2F4CEA53) Date: 8/1/1946 Description: 6:00 p.m. AF Capt. Jack E. Puckett is flying over Tampa, Florida, in a C-47 transport and sees a long cylinder twice the size of a B-29 with luminous portholes. After 3 minutes, it disappears at a speed of 1,500 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Rocket Craft Encounter Revealed by World War 2 Pilot,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/002%20AUG-SEPT%201957.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 2 \(Aug./Sept. 1957\): 15; UFOEv, [p. 19](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=31&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_830 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1503 (7AB1690B) Date: 8/1/1946 Description: At 6:00 p.m. three military witnesses including the pilot named Puckett, flying in a twin engine C-47 transport 40 miles north of Tampa, Florida at 4,000 feet altitude, sighted a cylinder-shaped UFO with luminous portholes that flew in front of the plane. The cylinder was about twice the size of a B-29, and approached to within 1,000 yards. It covered 75 miles in three minutes and appeared on a collision course with the aircraft. The stream of fiery exhaust from the craft was about half the length of the unknown object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, report dated July 24, 1957; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 102; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 23; UNICAT, case # 669 Source ID: Johnson_4553 Source: Johnson ### Event 1504 (0B1FF5FE) Date: 8/1/1946 Description: [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) approves the establishment of the Office of Naval Research for “planning, fostering, and encouraging scientific research” in relation to naval power and national security. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Office of Naval](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5FNaval%5FResearch) [Research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5FNaval%5FResearch)” Source ID: Eberhart_828 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1505 (1BE87D2E) Date: 8/1/1946 Description: Observation of cigar-shaped UFO by Air Corps transport pilot. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_309 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1506 (2FB8A9CC) Date: 8/1/1946 Description: Col. [Edwin Kennedy Wright](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%5FKennedy%5FWright), [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg)’s executive assistant at the Central Intelligence Group, sends a memorandum to President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) saying the ghost rockets conform to a V-1 shape and seem to be launched from the USSR. The report notes that the missiles can turn and fly circular courses, seemingly indicating radio control. Most information comes from the military attaché in Sweden and the conclusions are from the director of intelligence for the War Department general staff. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 21–23; Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 10, 12 Source ID: Eberhart_829 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1507 (FEEA3E58) Date: 8/1/1946 Description: President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) signs the Atomic Energy Act, transferring the control of atomic energy from military to civilian hands, effective on January 1, 1947. It categorizes information on atomic energy as “born classified,” even if it is not created by any US government agency. “Restricted Data” is not a level of classification; rather, a document can be classified as Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret, while also containing Restricted Data. In addition, a document containing Restricted Data can also contain Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information. In this way, a document can be classified as Secret \(S\), Secret//Restricted Data \(S//RD\), or Secret//Restricted Data- Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information \(S//RD-CNWDI\), depending on the type of information it contains. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States Atomic Energy Commission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FAtomic%5FEnergy%5FCommission)” Source ID: Eberhart_827 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1508 (58A423C3) Date: Early 8/1946 Description: An astronomer and meteorologist is looking at some clouds through a telescope in Stockholm, Sweden, and sees a luminous object that he estimates is about 90 feet long, torpedo-shaped, and metallic. It has a “tapered tail that spewed glowing blue and green smoke and a series of fire balls.” The object explodes with a terrific flash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sweden Plans Radar Fight on ‘Rockets,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22475643/the-los-angeles-times/)” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1946, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 39 Source ID: Eberhart_826 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1509 (AED771EB) Date: 8/3/1946 Description: A cigar-shaped object flew over central Norrland, Sweden this evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bjorn Overbye, FSR, May-June 1969, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_4621 Source: Johnson ### Event 1510 (FC6673B9) Date: 8/5/1946 Description: 11:00 p.m. A fast-moving, silent, circular object glitters in the sun over Skåne, Sweden, as it heads toward the south-southwest at a high altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 28 Source ID: Eberhart_832 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1511 (0C4477EF) Date: 8/5/1946 Description: 6:26 p.m. A luminous object is seen by a motorist near Landskrona, Skåne, Sweden. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_831 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1512 (D7FC4E13) Date: 8/6/1946 Description: The US delegation in Budapest, Hungary, reports that a German scientist now working for the Russians has revealed that the Soviets have developed guided rockets called V-3 and V-4 that are able to fly a round trip of 700 miles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_833 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1513 (17A93FCB) Date: 8/7/1946 Description: A Top Secret message from the Commander-in-Chief Air Forces, Pacific, to Gen. [Lauris Norstad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauris%5FNorstad), War Department Operations, requests guidance on the current classification of the substitute code word “Majestic” for Operational Plan Olympic \(the invasion of Northern Japan\). The plan has been downgraded to Restricted \(Message CM1472 IN\). The answer is that both code words had been declassified by the JCS on October 8, 1945 \(Message CM96908 OUT 8 Aug 1946\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich; Murray Bott, “[Military Codenames ‘Olympic’ and](http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2002/apr/m04-033.shtml) [‘Majestic,’](http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2002/apr/m04-033.shtml)” UFO UpDates, April 4, 2002 Source ID: Eberhart_834 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1514 (57DE8CC1) Date: 8/7/1946 Description: Swedish Lt. Lennart Neckman of the Defense Staff’s Air Defense Division sees a clear, yellow flame passing low and slow over the countryside. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 30 Source ID: Eberhart_835 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1515 (4108302E) Date: 8/8/1946 Description: Chief of Swedish Air Defense Maj. Nils Ahlgren says that some of the rockets are seen at low altitude, maneuver in half circles, and appear to come from the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, p. 36 Source ID: Eberhart_836 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1516 (CFEDAD56) Date: 8/11/1946 Description: 8:47 p.m. Astronomer [Bertil Lindblad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertil%5FLindblad) sees an exploding fireball in Ljugarn on Gotland, Sweden. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, p. 38 Source ID: Eberhart_837 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1517 (65CBF02F) Date: 8/11/1946 Description: On this evening a UFO crashed into the sea in a fjord on the western coast of Sweden. At 10:45 p.m. a procession of objects passed over the Mariestad area of Sweden, and a cylindrical object was sighted five minutes later in the sky over southern Norrland province. At Chatillon-sur-Seine, France whistling rockets with glowing contrails were seen on this night and subsequent nights until August 18. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: AFU Sweden, case G101; Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_4855 Source: Johnson ### Event 1518 (AC1B8E7D) Date: 8/11/1946 Description: 9:00–10:00 p.m. Hundreds of people in central and southern Sweden see “ghost bombs” that fly from south to north, giving off a brilliant blue-white light. Sometimes two of the objects are seen flying together. Some witnesses see smaller silver balls come out of the larger objects, which are variously described as cylinders and torpedoes with a “wide nose” and “fire-spurting tail.” Stockholm is said to be “near the boiling point” with ghost rocket speculation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 33– 39; Göran Jansson, “[Spökraketerna 1947,](http://www.zenza.se/spokraketerna1946.pdf)” January 2005, pp. 38–40; Clark III 525; Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 37; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 50–53](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/50/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_838 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1519 (6FCEF89B) Date: 8/12/1946 Description: Over Grants Pass, Oregon an intense red and green object, flaring in intensity, swayed back and forth in a rocking motion between mountain tops for 30 minutes on this night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 67 Source ID: Johnson_4930 Source: Johnson ### Event 1520 (63CF80E2) Date: 8/12/1946 Description: A spool-shaped "rocket bomb" was sighted flying rapidly to the north over the town of Sodertalje, Sweden at 9:00 p.m. It had a magnesium colored flare for an exhaust. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_4929 Source: Johnson ### Event 1521 (FD1D1708) Date: 8/12/1946 Description: 8:15 p.m. A torpedo-shaped ghost rocket moves slowly over a seaport town in southern Sweden, barely grazing the roofs and trailing smoke. It continues out to sea and seems to come down on a small island. Two men go out to investigate, but the island is too overgrown to allow a search. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 40–41 Source ID: Eberhart_840 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1522 (043A563C) Date: 8/12/1946 Description: 10:00 a.m. A twin-engine Saab 18 Swedish Air Force bomber crashes and explodes near Valdshult, Jönköping, Sweden, killing three airmen. Rumors circulate that it collided with a ghost rocket, but an investigation indicates that the pilot lost control. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 39–40](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/38/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_839 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1523 (D130F698) Date: 8/13/1946 Description: The US naval attaché and the Assistant US military attaché in Stockholm interview three Swedish Air Force officers assigned to the General Staff who say that they believe the objects are rockets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joel Carpenter, “[Guided](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm) [Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; Swords 21 Source ID: Eberhart_844 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1524 (E9455EC9) Date: 8/13/1946 Description: The New York Times says the ghost rocket situation is extremely dangerous and that Sweden will not tolerate such violations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Swedes Use Radar in Fight on Missiles,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/08/13/140131842.pdf)” New York Times. August 13, 1946, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_843 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1525 (CD3E2259) Date: 8/13/1946 Description: The Hungarian report of August 6 causes Maj. Gen. [Stephen J. Chamberlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FJ.%5FChamberlin)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FJ.%5FChamberlin) Army assistant chief of staff for intelligence, to ask Budapest for further information. Top-secret requests are sent to military attachés in London, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, and Copenhagen asking for listings of all ghost rocket reports, as well as V-3 and V-4 missiles. The military attaché in Oslo reports that a Soviet ship in the north Baltic Sea has been transmitting code to shore stations regarding the ghost rockets. The military attaché in Moscow asks other European officials about where the rockets originate and gets several answers, which he forwards on to Chamberlin: Hiiumaa island, Estonia; Latvia; or Peenemünde, Germany. Gen. [Joseph T. McNarney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FT.%5FMcNarney) of the US Forces in Europe Theater replies that Peenemünde is a likely origin, since the site has been refurbished. The military attaché in Stockholm suspects Hiiumaa, Peenemünde, or Parikkala in Finland, while the naval attaché in Stockholm thinks that Łeba, Poland, is the launch site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_842 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1526 (CF404DFC) Date: 8/13/1946 Description: Capt. [Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter), US naval attaché in Paris, forwards as top secret a report by the French government on ghost rocket activity in Scandinavia. It states that “a good number of these projectiles are of the V- 1 type in the form of a torpedo with two small wings.” A map shows them originating in the Leningrad \[now St. Petersburg\] area, Russia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 21; Good Need, [pp. 38–39](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/38/mode/2up); Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_841 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1527 (AFA0171F) Date: 8/13/1946 Description: 8:00 p.m. A cigar-shaped object flies past a witness at Karlskrona, Sweden, at a distance of only 150 feet. Only 5 feet long, it emits a faint green light and trails smoke from the rear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 43 Source ID: Eberhart_846 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1528 (2A3E0B5D) Date: 8/13/1946 Description: Afternoon. A troop of Boy Scouts in Denmark see a rocket-like object moving quickly at an altitude of 1,600 feet. They can see small side wings and fins. A blue-white light streams from the bottom, and it diverges from a straight course to a 35° curve. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 43 Source ID: Eberhart_845 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1529 (A49F5E9A) Date: 8/14/1946 Description: 10:02 a.m. Swedish Air Force pilot Lieut. Gunnar Irholm and his signaler, Cpl. Möller, are flying a B-18A bomber at 650 feet 4 miles northeast of Malingsbo in central Sweden when they see a dark cigar-shaped object approaching on their left. It has no visible wings, rudders, lights, flame or projections of any type. It appears to follow the terrain at 370–430 mph, maintaining the same height, then vanishes into a storm cloud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Ghost Rockets over Scandinavia,” Intelligence Review, no. 49, January 9, 1947, US Department of Defense; Don Berliner, Marie Galbraith, and Antonio Huneeus, Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document, UFO Research Coalition, December 1995, [pp. 33–35](https://archive.org/details/rockefeller/Rockefeller-Briefing-Document/page/n25/mode/2up); Swords 15–16; “[Cigar Sighted from B-19 Bomber,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%5FNewsletter/AFU%5F2002%5F44.pdf)” AFU Newsletter, no. 44 \(September 2002\): 1–4 Source ID: Eberhart_848 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1530 (DC8D7461) Date: 8/14/1946 Description: 10:02 a.m. Two witnesses flying a SAAB B-18 bomber on a navigational training flight at 200 meter altitude observed a cigar-shaped object described as 1 meter wide by 15 meters long. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [460814](http://www.nicap.org/460814malingsbo.pdf) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bt. Malingsbo and Krylbo, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_314 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1531 (A8C8FE63) Date: 8/14/1946 Description: The New York Times reports that Secretary of State [Dean Acheson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%5FAcheson) is “very much interested” in the ghost rockets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 46; “[2 Swedes](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/08/14/94056676.pdf) [Escape a ‘Ghost Rocket,’](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/08/14/94056676.pdf)” New York Times, August 14, 1946, p. 11 Source ID: Eberhart_847 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1532 (2897858C) Date: 8/15/1946 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 6.4km altitude (Radio cut-off 16.5s after launch) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 6.4km Source ID: Maj2_197 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1533 (1FED2CFA) Date: 8/15/1946 Description: Night. Several residents of the east side of Waterloo, Iowa, see an object buzzing rapidly around some trees. It gradually ascends, surrounded by a cloud of white vapor, and disappears high in the sky. One person calls it “a great white bird; another, a bomb.” [Mrs. Russell Lampman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188962570/gertrude-jessamine-lampman) says that the object is “6 feet, 3 inches tall, like a large man, and rather rectangular in shape.” She and her [husband](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188962549/russell-james-lampman) watch it for an hour after it starts hovering about 20– 25 feet above a nearby alley. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Al Starr, “Street Scene,” Waterloo \(Iowa\) Sunday Times, August 18, 1946, p. II-1; “[Well, We Saw It First!](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92481379/)” Waterloo Daily Courier, July 7, 1947, p. 2; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports: 1946](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1946b.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_849 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1534 (8CDC6019) Date: 8/16/1946 Description: Col. L. H. Johnson, US naval attaché in Stockholm, transmits a “Top Secret Report R334-46 of 13 August 1946 Subject: SWEDEN Guided Missiles Rocket Sightings Over Sweden.” It concludes: “No tangible evidence to date as to nature or origin of rockets reported over Sweden, although Swedish Defense Staff insists that they are rockets.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joel Carpenter, “[Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; Jan L. Aldrich, comp., [The Ghost Rocket File](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Aldrich%2C%20Jan%20-%20The%20Ghost%20Rockets%20File.pdf), Fund for UFO Research, 2000, pp. 32–35 Source ID: Eberhart_850 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1535 (35D34EA3) Date: 8/16/1946 Description: A missile produces an enormous explosion over Malmö, Sweden, that shakes or breaks many windows. Some witnesses think they can see fragments of the object falling to earth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Windows Broken by Rocket Bomb,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92459570/)” Manchester Guardian, August 17, 1946, p. 6; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 50 Source ID: Eberhart_851 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1536 (CAAD6A8D) Date: 8/18/1946 Description: 8:00 or 10:00 p.m. An aerial object like a 9-foot cigar is seen moving slowly on the north side of Copenhagen, Denmark. It explodes with extraordinary force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 53 Source ID: Eberhart_853 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1537 (C7DFB52E) Date: 8/19/1946 Description: The US military attaché in Moscow reports on the visit of Maj. [Stig Wennerström](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stig%5FWennerstr%C3%B6m%5F%28colonel%29) of the Swedish Air Force, who reveals that radar indicates the ghost rocket launch site is at Peenemünde, Germany. The rockets appear to be radio-controlled, carry no warheads, are self-destructive, and are plotted over a range of 620 miles. Sometimes they follow zigzag courses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_854 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1538 (944A94E1) Date: 8/19/1946 Description: Two US experts on aerial warfare, aviation legend General [Jimmy Doolittle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FDoolittle) and British Group Captain [Douglas Bader](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FBader)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FBader) and General [David Sarnoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FSarnoff)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FSarnoff) president of RCA, arrive in Stockholm, Sweden, ostensibly on private business, and independently of each other. The official explanation is that Doolittle, who is now vice-president of the Shell Oil Company, is inspecting Shell branch offices in Europe, while Sarnoff, a former member of General [Dwight D. Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower)’s London staff, is studying the market for radio equipment. However, the story indicates that the Chief of the Swedish Defense Staff, Col. C. R. Kempf, makes no secret that he “was extremely interested in asking the two generals advice and, if possible, would place all available reports before them.” However, Doolittle denies the correlation to [Barry Greenwood](http://www.noufors.com/Barry%5FJ%5FGreenwood.htm) in 1984, and researchers have found no evidence to support a collaboration. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joel Carpenter, “[Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 53–54; Clark III 527; Swords 21, 24 Source ID: Eberhart_855 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1539 (D32269D1) Date: 8/21/1946 Description: The General Staff in Norway issues a memorandum to the press asking it not to mention any ghost rockets seen over the country and to pass on all reports to the military Intelligence Department. In Sweden, the ban is limited to any mention of where the rockets are seen to land or explode. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: London Daily Telegraph, August 22, 1946; Good Above, [p. 21](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/20/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_856 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1540 (AC6CE0DD) Date: 8/22/1946 Description: Director of the Central Intelligence Group \(CIG\) Lt. Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) writes a top secret memo to [President Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) via Adm. [William D. Leahy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FD.%5FLeahy)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FD.%5FLeahy) stating that the “weight of evidence” points to Peenemünde \(which has become a Soviet naval base\), East Germany, as the origin of the ghost rockets, and that a US military attaché in Moscow has been told by a “key Swedish Air Officer” \[[Wennerström](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stig%5FWennerstr%C3%B6m%5F%28colonel%29)\] that radar course-plotting leads to the conclusion that Peenemünde is the launch site. CIG speculates that the missiles are extended-range developments of V-1s being aimed for the Gulf of Bothnia for test purposes and “do not overfly Swedish territory specifically for intimidation; self-destruct by small demolition charge or burning.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joel Carpenter, “[Guided](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm) [Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; Barry Greenwood, “[Significant Ghost Rocket](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr15.pdf) [Documents Available,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr15.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 15 \(June 2015\): 1–8 Source ID: Eberhart_858 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1541 (08373D82) Date: 8/22/1946 Description: 3:00 p.m. Photographer Gösta Skog takes a color film of a ghost rocket at Getå, 100 miles south of Stockholm, Sweden. The cigar-shaped object appears out of a cloud at 3,000 feet, trailing exhaust. The film turns out to be overexposed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clas Svahn, “[Spökraketerna: Den Största Gåtan,](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/fakta/arti/verkligheten-bakom-ufopodden-i-p3/1611-spoekraketerna)” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, March 7, 2017; Swords 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_857 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1542 (20A6FAEE) Date: 8/22/1946 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km altitude (Control failure led to cut-off command at 6.5s) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 0km Source ID: Maj2_198 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1543 (6E753825) Date: 8/23/1946 Description: The British Foreign Office states that English radar experts, including [Reginald Victor Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FVictor%5FJones)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FVictor%5FJones) having returned from Sweden, had “submitted secret reports to the British government on the origin of the rockets.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 21](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/20/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_859 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1544 (EA3288F0) Date: 8/24/1946 Description: Stockholm Air Attaché Maj. Gen. [Alfred A. Kessler Jr.](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106572/major-general-alfred-a-kessler-jr/) informs the War Department that the Ghost Rockets are an “unintentional hoax which developed naturally but which exploited by Defense staff by implication and lack of frankness possibly interest defense budget and to alert west against east.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joel Carpenter, “[Guided](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm) [Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_860 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1545 (34840589) Date: 8/24/1946 Description: Admiral [Henry Kent Hewitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FKent%5FHewitt), Commander of US Naval Forces in Europe, writes a letter to the US naval attaché in Oslo, Norway, on “Rocket Bombs or Guided Missiles over Norway and Sweden.” Two “missiles” have fallen into a lake near Oslo, and the US Navy is “very interested.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[Adm. Henry Kent Hewitt\], Letter to US Naval Attaché, Oslo, “[Rocket Bombs or Guided Missiles over Norway and Sweden,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/46alusna.htm)” August 24, 1946 Source ID: Eberhart_861 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1546 (7F2717EB) Date: 8/24/1946 Description: Evening. A Norwegian student and a Swedish engineer are boating on a small river “somewhere in Sweden” when a light approaches them from the southeast. It resembles a full moon and emits an intense light: “As it passed immediately overhead, it grew so bright you could see a well as on a sunny day.” The object, about 10 feet long, releases four stars that fall silently to the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 58–59 Source ID: Eberhart_862 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1547 (ACEE13F5) Date: 8/24/1946 Description: A big noise was heard at 4:30 a.m. Huge "'projectiles" like rockets made a whistling sound as several of them flew overhead in the town of Bourges, Cher Department, France. Many people were awakened by the noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 151 Source ID: Johnson_5282 Source: Johnson ### Event 1548 (09C25CE5) Date: Late 8/1946 Description: Disc-shaped craft with windows, humanoid figures visible inside, hovered at low altitude. After about 1-1/2 minutes the object rotated, then sped away disappearig in seconds. (Ref. 3; Case summary by Ted Bloecher, 14 pages. Interviews by Bloecher, Lucius Farish, and Mildred Higgins.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oklahoma City, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_311 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1549 (8E783A76) Date: Late 8/1946 Description: Margaret Sprankle, a civilian employee at Tinker AFB near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is returning from work when she sees, about 300 feet away, a large, metallic, lens-shaped structure about 75 feet in diameter. On the lower right side are 12–14 square windows; in each, visible from the shoulders up, is a figure. Their heads are very round. The object rotates 90° on its vertical axis and silently flies northwest and disappears in seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1940–1949,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf) p. 22; Clark III 266 Source ID: Eberhart_852 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1550 (CEFCDE3E) Date: 8/26/1946 Description: The US military attaché in Stockholm reports that the Swedes, possibly worried about a Soviet veto of their application for UN membership, have canceled their request for British radar equipment. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_863 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1551 (AAC0D72F) Date: 8/29/1946 Description: The American embassy in Stockholm tells the State Department that the ghost rockets are probably Soviet missiles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 63A; \[[Memo on](http://www.nicap.org/docs/460904%5Ffbi.jpg) [telegram of August 27, 1946](http://www.nicap.org/docs/460904%5Ffbi.jpg)\]; Good Above, [pp. 22](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/22/mode/2up), [447](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/446/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_864 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1552 (721F515F) Date: 9/1946 Description: German rocket engineer Walter Ziegler tells Army CIC that 400 men from his former rocket group at Bayerische Motoren Werke \(BMW\) in Munich, Germany, are invited by Russian military officers to a fancy dinner, wined and dined, then taken home. Several hours later, all 400 are woken up by the Russians and forced to take a trip. \(Ziegler is not among them.\) They are transported by train to a small town \(“Kubischew”\) outside Moscow, Russia, where they remain and work on secret military rocket projects under terrible conditions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 42](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/42/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_865 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1553 (C331974D) Date: 9/1/1946 End date: 9/2/1946 Description: Late night and early morning. Rocket-shaped objects are seen over northern Greece, according to Prime Minister [Konstantinos Tsaldaris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantinos%5FTsaldaris)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantinos%5FTsaldaris) Physicist [Paul Santorinis](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B1%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82%5F%CE%A3%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82) is placed in charge of an investigation. He rules out Russian missiles, but the Army ends the investigation in 1947. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 525; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 62–63; Good Above, [p. 23](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/22/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_866 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1554 (8F133776) Date: 9/4/1946 Description: Top Secret Memo, to Mr. Morgan, from Mr. Lyon stating: 800 UFO reports have been reported with new ones coming in daily from Sweden. Full details of these reports have been forwarded to Wash., D.C. by our Military and Naval Attaches Type: top secret memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p22,447) Location: Sweden Source ID: Maj2_199 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1555 (A3AE160F) Date: 9/7/1946 Description: British pilot [Edward Mortlock Donaldson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FMortlock%5FDonaldson) attains an airspeed record of 616 mph in a Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 at Littlehampton, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Edward Donaldson \(RAF officer\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FDonaldson%5F%28RAF%5Fofficer%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_867 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1556 (98D9AD4B) Date: 9/9/1946 Description: The scientific advisor to MI6, English physicist [Reginald Victor Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FVictor%5FJones), considers the ghost rockets a social panic phenomenon. An RAF Intelligence report, “Investigation of Reported Missile Activity over Scandinavia,” identifies eight types of ghost rocket sightings: iron cylinder, magnesium-like light, white core surrounded by blue-green, shining ball with tail, torpedo-shape, black object with flame, small rocket, small missile. It takes the daytime reports seriously but concludes are probably only a few genuine reports of actual missiles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joel Carpenter, “[Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; Swords 26–27; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 63–64 Source ID: Eberhart_868 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1557 (23CFDBE2) Date: 9/11/1946 Description: [Jack Northrop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%5FNorthrop) grounds the XB-35, which has suffered gearbox and propeller control problems, until the Army Air Force can fix its propulsion system. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-35](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-35\#XB-35)” Source ID: Eberhart_870 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1558 (D30B5170) Date: 9/11/1946 Description: 2:00 p.m. [Justin B. Rinaldi](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99039448/justin-beltran-rinaldi) is standing in a friend’s backyard in Engle, New Mexico, when he hears a loud whirring sound and sees a black object whiz by. It is pointed at one end, has a narrow body, and what appear to be fins on the tail. It is traveling fast at an altitude of 75 feet. Rinaldi sees it hit a clump of trees at a ranch house and the “branches parted like a great force had struck.” He and friends go to the site but can find nothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Disc Tales Bring 2 Reports from Engle Area,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52143552/nm-ufojun-29-1947-p1-part-1/)” Albuquerque Journal, June 29, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 530 Source ID: Eberhart_871 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1559 (B3588542) Date: 9/11/1946 Description: In Oak Lawn, Illinois a V-shaped formation of five silver disks, with one trailing behind, were seen heading northeast to Indiana, bypassing Chicago. They were the size of small peas at arms length, traveling high and fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1946 archived webpage, report uploaded April 16, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_5848 Source: Johnson ### Event 1560 (9D9BC869) Date: 9/11/1946 Description: The Chief of Naval Intelligence requires naval attachés to forward information on Soviet rocket research and operations including launches from submarines. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NARA, US Naval Intelligence files; Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_869 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1561 (2A7091AC) Date: 9/12/1946 Description: Cmdr. [Robert A. Winston](https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/04/archives/robert-winston-navy-pilot-in-war-captain-author-of-books-in.html), acting naval attaché in Stockholm, Sweden, writes to the London naval attaché in a secret air mailgram that he suspects there is a secret British-Swedish collaboration on ghost rocket information designed to keep the US from learning the truth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_872 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1562 (ADEC91F6) Date: Mid 9/1946 Description: Two luminous globes that shine “like an electric arc” are seen flying in a straight line over Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 66 Source ID: Eberhart_873 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1563 (E8BFB184) Date: 9/18/1946 Description: Two greenish globes, one following close behind the other, zoom over Castanheira, Portugal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. 67 Source ID: Eberhart_874 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1564 (6728F1D0) Date: 9/21/1946 Description: Chemist [Gustaf Ljunggren](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf%5FLjunggren%5F%28chemist%29) of the Swedish National Defense Research Institute summarizes for the Swedish Defense staff his analysis of 27 finds of mysterious substances, allegedly from ghost rockets. None are radioactive and all have mundane explanations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 33–34 Source ID: Eberhart_875 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1565 (0D190416) Date: 9/22/1946 Description: 3:15 a.m. A rocket-shaped object is seen for 90 seconds over Florence, Italy. It makes an abrupt turn, then speeds south toward Rome. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., p. 69 Source ID: Eberhart_876 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1566 (DE3E4CA4) Date: Fall 1946 Description: 9:00 p.m. Gladys McCage and her 4-year-old son see a yellowish-orange light coming from the northwest at a “terrific speed” toward their farm 8 miles north of O’Neill, Nebraska. Its color changes to red as it approaches, and soon it is hovering above the witnesses. They run toward the house and the cigar-shaped object swings up to the northeast. McCage says it is as big as a football field, has windows, and is making a loud noise. A yellowish- blue-green flame is shooting out near the back, and it is traveling too fast for any plane at the time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 530 Source ID: Eberhart_878 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1567 (CBEC0E56) Date: 9/30/1946 Description: [David Sarnoff,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FSarnoff) in a speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, says that the “ghost bombs are no myth but real missiles.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joel Carpenter, “[Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm) [Two](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron2.htm)”; “[Sarnoff Predicts Weather Control and Delivery of the Mail by Radio,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/10/01/88376074.pdf)” New York Times, October 1, 1946, p. 1, 48 Source ID: Eberhart_877 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1568 (6EC7DB10) Date: 10/1946 Description: Horse reacts to circular light (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [461000](http://www.nicap.org/ar-4610xxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paterson, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_315 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1569 (C0FD5FB1) Date: 10/1946 Description: [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) publishes a letter from [Maurice Doreal](https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/claude-d-dodgin-aka-maurice-doreal-as-a-fortean) \(pseudonym of Claude D. Dodgin\) of the Brotherhood of the White Temple in Denver, Colorado, regarding the “Shaver mystery.” Doreal claims intimate knowledge of the subterranean realms, which he claims are inhabited by the Black Brotherhood and protected by “space-warps.” In 1949 Doreal claims to have visited caves inside Mount Shasta, California, inhabited by Atlantean masters. He equates Shaver’s Dero with an evil group of Lemurians. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, [pp. 154–160](https://archive.org/details/subterraneanworldswalterkaftonminkel100000yearsofdragonsdwarfsthedeadlostracesufosfrominsidetheearth/page/n157/mode/2up); Charmaine Ortega Getz, “The \(Sort of\) Amazing Story of Maurice Doreal and the Brotherhood of the White Temple Revealed at Last,” Weird Colorado, September 6, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_879 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1570 (29E4C62F) Date: 10/1/1946 Description: The US Military Attaché in London, England, writes a top-secret memo to the War Department complaining that the British “may not have given us all information on reported rockets over Scandinavia.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, comp., [The Ghost Rocket File](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Aldrich%2C%20Jan%20-%20The%20Ghost%20Rockets%20File.pdf), Fund for UFO Research, 2000, p. 73 Source ID: Eberhart_880 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1571 (7BD34DC6) Date: 10/9/1946 Description: Newspaper/radio UFO reports after meteor shower over southern CA. BSRA received many phone calls. BSRA mediums established contact and reported it would return Type: ufo sightings Reference: rg Location: San Diego, CA Source ID: Maj2_200 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1572 (7ADA4CA4) Date: 10/9/1946 Description: Evening. [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and some associates are watching a meteor shower associated with Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner when they see a “gigantic spacecraft” hovering above the mountain ridge south of Mount Palomar, California. He claims to meet a military officer a few weeks later who assures him that the object was indeed from another world. Others in San Diego see an object with a long, tube-shaped fuselage, giant wings, and two red lights. The medium [Mark Probert](https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Mark%5FProbert) later tells the press that he has established psychic communication with the occupants and the object is called the Kareeta. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sparks Fly As Comet Passes Earth,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90991422/daily-news/)” Los Angeles Daily News, October 10, 1946, p. 3; Colin Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001, pp. 28–29; Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, Citadel, 1954, [pp. 41–48](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersona00wilk/page/41/mode/2up); Curt Collins, “[1946, Before Saucers, Kareeta: UFO Contact in](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/08/1946-before-saucers-kareeta-ufo-contact.html) [California,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/08/1946-before-saucers-kareeta-ufo-contact.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 8, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_881 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1573 (EAB8E055) Date: 10/10/1946 Description: The defense staff in Sweden admits it cannot explain the ghost rockets because reports are too vague. About 80% appear to be meteors \(“celestial phenomena”\), although radar has tracked a few unusual targets. The report concludes that they are not V-type bombs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Swedish Inquiry Fails to Solve Rocket Case,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/10/11/94061697.pdf)” New York Times, October 11, 1946, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 71–72; Good Above, [p. 23](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/22/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_883 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1574 (60CE9639) Date: 10/10/1946 Description: First picture of Earth from space. V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (subnormal propulsion performance) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 104.6km Source ID: Maj2_202 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1575 (DF1619F3) Date: 10/10/1946 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 173.8km altitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 173.8km Source ID: Maj2_201 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1576 (4F4B3719) Date: 10/10/1946 Description: 4:00 a.m. Waltraut Anlauf, a telephone operator in Friedland Refugee Camp, Lower Saxony, Germany, sees small, elongated flashes at a great height in the sky. They look like cigars and are luminescent white in front and bluish-white in back. She sees about 10 objects pass per minute. Sometimes there is an interruption of about 10 minutes, and then new groups appear. The sighting lasts one hour. Possibly these are part of the Taurid meteor shower. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 529 Source ID: Eberhart_882 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1577 (B2D5B5A0) Date: 10/21/1946 Description: Two persons on the shore of a lake in southern Sweden hear a whistling sound in the air, like a “flock of birds.” They see an object moving over the trees at a low altitude. It is dart-shaped and has short wings and a “ball-shaped tip.” It falls into the lake and possibly explodes on impact. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) [the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf) The Author, 1988 ed., p. p. 74 Source ID: Eberhart_884 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1578 (BA760FA6) Date: 11/1946 Description: The War Department issues a press release on how German scientists are helping out at Wright Field, Ohio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan, [p. 12](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/page/11/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_885 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1579 (3D549FA4) Date: 11/7/1946 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, .32km altitude (Guidance failure preceded emergency cut-off at 31s) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: .32km Source ID: Maj2_203 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1580 (EF2607D0) Date: 11/21/1946 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 101.4km altitude (Sub-normal propulsion performance, beyond Kármán line) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 102.4km Source ID: Maj2_204 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1581 (85DC3868) Date: 11/29/1946 Description: A top secret Air Intelligence report, “Significant Developments of Scientific Warfare in Russia,” designates the ghost rockets as “V-5” weapons produced by the Siebel Works in Halle, Germany. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_886 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1582 (2D7D25AC) Date: 12/3/1946 Description: The Swedish military reports that about 100 impacts were investigated by the Defense Research Institution and not found to be rockets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joel Carpenter, “[Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53,](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron3.htm) [Part Three](http://www.project1947.com/gr/grchron3.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_887 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1583 (129E24D4) Date: 12/5/1946 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 152.9km altitude (Control system failed at altitude) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 152.9km Source ID: Maj2_205 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1584 (20BB0755) Date: 12/10/1946 Description: Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) answers an inquiry from Assistant Secretary of War for Air [Stuart Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) about establishing interim projects at the Air Materiel Center \(AMC\). LeMay’s answer: The Commander of AMC on his own volition may establish an interim project; however, to continue the project it must be approved for the next budget cycle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB; Jan Aldrich, “[Secret Twining Letter:](http://www.nicap.org/twining%5Fletter.htm) [‘The Reported Phenomena Are Real,’](http://www.nicap.org/twining%5Fletter.htm)” October 11, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_888 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1585 (9030A1C9) Date: 12/17/1946 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 184.4km altitude (Rocket exploded at 440s) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 184.4km Source ID: Maj2_206 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1586 (94C871D2) Date: 12/23/1946 Description: [Jacobsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengt%5FJacobsson%5F%28milit%C3%A4r%29)’s ghost rocket committee issues its final report on 987 ghost rocket cases, stating that 225 reports had been made in full daylight. More than 100 reports describe spool-shaped objects with or without wings. It concludes: “Despite the extensive effort, which has been carried out with the means available, and seven months after the first observations, no actual proof that a test of rocket projectiles has taken place over Sweden has been found.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 26; Loren E. Gross, [UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf), The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 75–76; Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 36 Source ID: Eberhart_889 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1947 (Back to Top) ### Event 1587 (2E2C75A6) Date: 1947 Description: 11:00 p.m. Air Force pilot [Edwin T. Yeoman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51424479/edwin-t.-yeoman) is returning home with his wife [Eva](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82894277/eva-etheleen-yeoman) after going to a movie in Sacramento, California. As they drive northeast, they see a stationary light hovering at an altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet above Roseville. After watching it for 5 minutes, the light gets brighter, rises vertically for several thousand feet, makes an abrupt 90° turn, and shoots across the horizon from east to west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CUFOS case file Source ID: Eberhart_891 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1588 (5CF173F9) Date: 1947 Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-45” (Plant 418) atomic bomb project plant opened (Uranium enrichment, warhead assembly) Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Reference: [link](https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/sverdlovsk-45_nuc.htm) Location: N 58 39 E 59 47 Source ID: Maj2_212 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1589 (6D735D78) Date: 1947 Description: Soviet “Chelyabinsk-40 and later 65” atomic bomb project plant opened (Plutonium production, component manufacturing). Now one of the most contaminated places on Earth. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Reference: [link](https://sometimes-interesting.com/the-most-contaminated-place-on-earth-chelyabinsk-40/) Location: Ozyorsk, Russia Source ID: Maj2_209 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1590 (0C97700F) Date: 1947 Description: Einstein sees "Greys" for the first time Type: rumor Reference: anonymous information (R.G.) Location: Roswell, NM Attributes: Einstein Attributes: gallant Source ID: Maj2_207 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1591 (A2D1123C) Date: 1947 End date: 1949 Description: USAF Investigation Summary: Serious investigation, conclusions UFOs real and interplanetary. Type: investigation Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_896 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1592 (A3F58EEC) Date: 1947 Description: Cmdr. Bernard Baruch Jr. makes 44 trips at his own expense to lobby for the implementation of the peacetime Communication Instruction for Reporting Enemy Sightings \(CIRES\) message system. He meets with DCI Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) Rear Adm. [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter), Secretary of the Air Force [Stuart Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) Rear Adm. [Earl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%5FE.%5FStone) [E. Stone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%5FE.%5FStone), Vice Adm. [Arthur W. Radford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FW.%5FRadford), Rear Adm. [John E. Gingrich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FGingrich), Adm. [DeWitt Clinton Ramsey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWitt%5FClinton%5FRamsey), Maj. Gen. [Robert W. Harper](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106862/lieutenant-general-robert-wells-harper/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106862/lieutenant-general-robert-wells-harper/) Lieut. Gen [Idwal H. Edwards](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ihedwards.htm), Vice Adm. [Ralph Riggs](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/05/01/vice-adm-ralph-riggs-wwii-hero-dies/da207236-8814-4736-92ac-e447259bfc7f/), Capt. Richard Burke \(USCG\), and about 20 other officials. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Capt. Bernard Baruch, Jr.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Baruch.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_890 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1593 (D8A7D736) Date: 1/1947 Description: W.H. (initials) of Yucca Valley, Calif., while still serving in the U.S. Navy, was on leave with C.C. (initials) who was just out of the U.S. army. While they were looking for desert property to buy they came upon the Papagos Indian Reservation, north of the rugged Superstition Mtns. west of Globe, Arizona. While traveling on a dirt trail, they came upon a group of military personnel guarding a crashed saucer half buried in the sand. Description: Disc shaped with a domed top; about 30 ft. diam.; two rings on its outer edge which seemed to have windows between them. There was no evidence of an encampment or heavy equipment. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY) Location: Papago Indian Reservation Source ID: Maj2_213 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1594 (D3F66589) Date: 1/1/1947 Description: The civilian US Atomic Energy Commission assumes responsibility for nuclear energy from the wartime Manhattan Project. The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project assumes responsibility for all aspects of nuclear weapons remaining under military control. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States Atomic Energy Commission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FAtomic%5FEnergy%5FCommission)”; Wikipedia, “[Armed Forces Special Weapons Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%5FForces%5FSpecial%5FWeapons%5FProject)” Source ID: Eberhart_892 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1595 (69746B35) Date: 1/7/1947 Description: SKY OBJECT A MYSTERY ROCKET? - A laboratory analysis of the cylindrical object which fell in Portland yesterday from a clear sky established presence of aluminum, titanium, magnesium, calcium, chrome, and zircon. Dr. John E. Allen, chief geologist of the Oregon department of geology and mineral industries, said it gives reasonable basis for the hypothesis that it could have been used in rocket construction. Largest portion of the object has been taken over by an Army investigator for examination. The object was found when a mysterious ice shower occurred Saturday confined to a fifteen foot square area of Hill Military Academy. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Los Angeles Examiner - Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5) Location: Portland, OR Source ID: Maj2_214 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1596 (17843C4E) Date: 1/9/1947 Description: The US Defense Department’s Intelligence Review, no. 49, contains a four-page summary of ghost rocket sightings and suggests some may have been Soviet test missiles or jet airplanes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Ghost Rockets over Scandinavia,” Intelligence Review, no. 49, January 9, 1947, US Department of Defense; Don Berliner, Marie Galbraith, and Antonio Huneeus, Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document, UFO Research Coalition, December 1995, [pp. 33–35](https://archive.org/details/rockefeller/Rockefeller-Briefing-Document/page/n25/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_893 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1597 (39ABB183) Date: 1/10/1947 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 116.2km altitude (Degraded performance led to roll rate of 60 rpm) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 116.2km Source ID: Maj2_215 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1598 (B8EACC83) Date: 1/16/1947 Description: 11:30 p.m. An RAF Mosquito plane chases an unidentified target detected on radar at RAF Trimley Heath Radar Station \[now closed\] near Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, moving at a speed calculated to be faster than sound at an altitude of 38,000 feet over the North Sea, 50 miles north of the Netherlands acoast. It descends to 17,000 feet and takes controlled, evasive action. The plane pursues it for 40 minutes, even though the pilot cannot see it visually, until he loses it over the Norfolk coast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 29](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n51/mode/2up); ClearIntent, [p. 151](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/150/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 16; David Clarke, “[Operation Charlie,](http://project1947.com/1947/opcharlie.html)” 2002; Martin L. Shough, “[A New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf) [1947,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf)” April 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_894 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1599 (D7774464) Date: 1/16/1947 Description: At 11:30 at night in the North Sea an RAF Mosquito pilot picked up a strange object on radar 50 miles north of the coast of Holland. The UFO seemed to be taking evasive maneuvers when approached by the fighter aircraft. The UFO was pursued for 30 minutes until over the Norfolk, England coast, at which point the object darted away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_344 Source: Johnson ### Event 1600 (AB6C60F9) Date: 1/16/1947 Description: 10:30 p.m. (GMT). RAF pilot of Mosquito pursued unidentified radar target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470116](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/470116northseadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Sea, 50 miles from Holland, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_316 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1601 (4F8C2D21) Date: 1/17/1947 Description: 11:37 p.m. After two unidentified targets similar to yesterday’s are reported by RAF Neatishead, northeast of Norwich, England, over the North Sea, another radar track enters the Eastern Sector area, and an RAF Mosquito piloted by Flight Lt. William Kent is scrambled to 18,000 feet. Kent attempts to close in, but his onboard radar is unable to keep it on track because the target is “jerking violently” and taking evasive action. After 20 minutes, the target descends below 2,000 feet and is lost from ground radar. Unofficially the radar operators give the intruder a name—Charlie—and when the Air Ministry later begins a concerted effort to solve the mystery, its code name is “Operation Charlie.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Martin L. Shough, “[A New Study of the British ‘Ghost](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf) [Airplanes’ of 1947,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf)” April 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_895 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1602 (13D0079C) Date: 1/17/1947 Description: 10:30 p.m. (GMT). RAF pilot of Mosquito pursued unidentified radar target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470117](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/470117northseadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Sea, 50 miles from Holland, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_317 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1603 (62ADCFD1) Date: 1/20/1947 Description: In London, [Ben Lockspeiser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%5FLockspeiser)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%5FLockspeiser) chief scientist for the UK Ministry of Supply, after meeting with Swedish scientists and air force authorities, informs the American naval attaché in London, England, Cmdr. Jenkins, that the Swedes doubt the rockets are from Russia but prefer that the US and UK continue to think so. Natural phenomena and popular imagination are considered the causes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 3–5 Source ID: Eberhart_896 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1604 (13EBE90C) Date: 1/23/1947 Description: Night. Three senior RAF officers are visiting RAF Neatishead in Norfolk, England, for an interception exercise when an unidentified radar target makes another appearance at 28,000 feet. RAF Mosquitos from Yorkshire are scrambled, but by the time the aircraft reach the area, the target is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Martin L. Shough, “[A](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf) [New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf)” April 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_897 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1605 (D6F9F5C1) Date: 1/23/1947 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 49.9km altitude (Degraded performance led to roll rate of 80 rpm) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 49.9km Source ID: Maj2_216 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1606 (4FA3C4BC) Date: 1/27/1947 Description: RAF Flying Officer Stewart of the Northern Signals Area, after investigating the Operation Charlie radar incidents at RAF Neatishead, England, issues a report, no longer extant, that suggests that some of the targets are radiosonde balloons released by the USAAF’s 8th Weather Squadron in Downham Market, Norfolk. However, RAF and Air Ministry sources continue to refer to the sightings as unexplained over the following months. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Martin L. Shough, “[A New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/opcharlie.pdf)” April 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_898 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1607 (5039D38E) Date: 1/29/1947 Description: Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FP.%5FPatterson) and Secretary of the Navy [James V. Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) issue a memorandum that formally establishes the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, a new agency to take over responsibility for the aspects of nuclear weapons that still remain under the military. It is to be jointly staffed by the Army and Navy. Los Alamos Laboratory’s ordnance engineering Z Division and AFSWP establish themselves at Sandia Base, New Mexico, bringing the strict secrecy that has prevails at Los Alamos. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Armed Forces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%5FForces%5FSpecial%5FWeapons%5FProject) [Special Weapons Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%5FForces%5FSpecial%5FWeapons%5FProject)” Source ID: Eberhart_899 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1608 (6227F58B) Date: 2/6/1947 Description: Around 7:30 a.m., [Frederick Walter Flavel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/202761273/frederick-walter-flavel) and his wife Emma are walking to their house in Lock, South Australia, when they see five gray, oblong objects rise apparently from the sea and move from northwest to southeast. At 9:00 a.m., [Ronald Ernest Ellis](http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2016/01/port-augusta-south-australia-flying.html) and two other railroad workers in Port Augusta, South Australia, watch five white or light-pink egg-shaped objects moving across the sky from north to south at about 6,000 feet. They quiver, cast shadows on the ground, and move out of sight in a few seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Five Objects Cast](http://www.nicap.org/470206portaugusta%5Fdir.htm) [Shadows](http://www.nicap.org/470206portaugusta%5Fdir.htm)”; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 329–350 Source ID: Eberhart_900 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1609 (0360DC9C) Date: 2/8/1947 Description: A US Navy Privateer bomber flying over Sweden picks up signals that might be directing rockets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Letter from US Naval Forces Europe, London, to Chief of Naval Operations; Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_901 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1610 (098CF434) Date: 2/9/1947 Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright wins writing essay competition Type: scientist Reference: [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright) Location: Coral Gables, FL Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_217 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1611 (D2EA353F) Date: 2/17/1947 Description: Capt. J. B. Pearson Jr., US naval attaché in London, England, sends an intelligence report to the Chief of Naval Intelligence about his conversation with Col. Westergard, head of the Airplane Design Section for the Swedish Air Ministry. Westergard tells him some 40% of the 1,000 ghost rocket sightings are “reliable.” They seem to originate in Peenemünde, Germany, and fly toward Finland. The best observation is from an artillery officer who sees an object in his optical range finder and follows it for about 90 seconds. It is in level flight at 4.5 miles distance and is about 36 feet long and torpedo shaped. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_902 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1612 (E9CE41C0) Date: 2/20/1947 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 109.4km altitude (Blossom 1 — Propulsion degraded at 55.5s) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 109.4km Source ID: Maj2_218 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1613 (6EF93EBD) Date: 2/28/1947 Description: Capt. [Emmet O’Beirne](https://collegiatewaterpolo.org/memorial-day-weekend-hero-rear-admiral-emmet-obeirne/)[,](https://collegiatewaterpolo.org/memorial-day-weekend-hero-rear-admiral-emmet-obeirne/) Chief of the Defensive Air Branch, writes a memorandum to the chief of the USAF Office of Air Intelligence about the branch’s interview with H. W. Flickinger, vice president for exports at Republic Aircraft Corp. after his return from Sweden: “He stated that he had seen one of the Swedish ‘spook rockets’ in flight, which resembled the V-1 buzz bomb but was somewhat smaller. The noise of this missile was more that of a rocket than like a V-1.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_903 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1614 (32E965F0) Date: 2/28/1947 Description: Three "Figures" Near Disc (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [470228](http://www.nicap.org/470228lima%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lima, Peru Source ID: NICAP_DB_318 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1615 (F3F2A02B) Date: 3/7/1947 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.2km altitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 165.2km Source ID: Maj2_219 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1616 (6AD8531A) Date: 3/17/1947 Description: Newspaper article stating Einstein “has helped many young students to find their directions” Type: newspaper article Reference: [link](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101810588/einstein-student/) Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_220 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1617 (818BC922) Date: 3/21/1947 Description: A cigar-shaped object with smoke coming from its tail is seen flying from east to west at considerable height over southern Sweden by several witnesses. It looks metallic and is about 60 feet long, flying slowly. The object seems to turn around and fly back eastward briefly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Phantom Bomb’ Returns to Skies over Sweden,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/03/22/87514553.pdf)” New York Times, March 22, 1947, p. 8; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_904 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1618 (4FD86E92) Date: 3/30/1947 Description: In 1947 at 11:00 a.m., Mrs. J. E. Harp of Lutz, Florida her seven-year-old daughter Sandra, and her mother Mrs. W. H. Brown saw several flying discs while driving. The discs were silvery colored and seemed to appear and disappear. They did not have time to count the number, and could not estimate the altitude, size or speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, UFO Research Coalition, 1997, p. 57, quoting the Orlando Sentinel Star, July 6, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_1725 Source: Johnson ### Event 1619 (C9306475) Date: 4/1947 Description: The June 1947 issue of Amazing Stories is devoted in its entirety to “proofs” of [Richard Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)’s claims and includes four of his novellas. [Vincent Gaddis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%5FGaddis) has written a prescient article on UFOs, titled “Visitors from the Void.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Halperin, “[The Shaver Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria \(Part](https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-shaver-mystery-richard-shaver-ray-palmer-and-the-quest-for-lemuria-part-2/) [2\),](https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-shaver-mystery-richard-shaver-ray-palmer-and-the-quest-for-lemuria-part-2/)” July 11, 2014; Richard S. Shaver, “[Formula from the Underworld,](https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume21Number06%5F692/page/n9/mode/2up)” Amazing Stories 21, no. 6 \(June 1947\): 10–29; Vincent H. Gaddis, “[Visitors from the Void,](https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume21Number06%5F692/page/n157/mode/2up)” Amazing Stories 21, no. 6 \(June 1947\): 159–161 Source ID: Eberhart_905 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1620 (EBC495D0) Date: 4/1947 Description: 11:00 a.m. US Weather Bureau meteorologist Walter A. Minczewski watches a silvery disc through a theodolite while tracking a ceiling balloon in Richmond, Virginia. It is traveling east to west at less than 15,000 feet and has a flat bottom and a dome on top. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Silvery Disc Seen through Theodolite](http://www.nicap.org/4704XXrichmond%5Fdir.htm)”; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#meteorologists)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 62; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 17–21; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 16 Source ID: Eberhart_906 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1621 (46EA4C43) Date: 4/1947 Description: Silvery Disc Seen Through Theodolite (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [4704xx](http://www.nicap.org/4704XXrichmond%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richmond, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_319 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1622 (C2A026C9) Date: 4/1/1947 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 129.2km altitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 129.2km Source ID: Maj2_221 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1623 (C5CE9F85) Date: 4/8/1947 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 102.2km altitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 102.2km Source ID: Maj2_222 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1624 (2A8C074A) Date: 4/15/1947 Description: The US Naval Attaché in Stockholm issues a secret intelligence report, “Sweden: Guided Missiles, Alleged Rockets over Sweden.” Both the naval and military attachés agree that there is nothing to the ghost rocket episode. No foreign missiles have overflown or landed in Sweden, according to the evidence a, vailable. “Swedish officials prefer to dismiss it as an unexplained press sensation.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, p. 16 Source ID: Eberhart_907 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1625 (E4BD8C91) Date: 4/17/1947 Description: Col. [Oliver G. Haywood Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%5FHaywood) of the Atomic Energy Commission writes a memorndum to [Harold A. Fidler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FA.%5FFidler) at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, saying: “It is desired that no document be released which refers to experiments with humans and might have adverse effect on public opinion or result in legal suits. Documents covering such work should be classified ‘secret.’” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Advisory Committtee on Human Radiation Experiments, memo, “Documents Retrieved from Oak Ridge Operations: The Atomic Energy Commission’s Declassification Review of Reports on Human Experiments and the Public Relations and Legal Liability Consequences,” December 6, 1994; Wikipedia, “[Unethical human experimentation in the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical%5Fhuman%5Fexperimentation%5Fin%5Fthe%5FUnited%5FStates\#Human%5Fradiation%5Fexperiments)” Source ID: Eberhart_908 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1626 (3917A6F6) Date: 4/17/1947 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 142.4km altitude (Successful test of ram-jet payload) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 142.4km Source ID: Maj2_223 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1627 (6EE76A74) Date: Late 4/1947 Alternate date: Early 5/1947 Description: 12:05 p.m. Mrs. William Down and Mrs. H. G. Olavick of Tucson, Arizona, see an unusual, fleecy cloud in an otherwise cloudless sky. Moving around it in “yo-yo fashion” are a number of small discs with a dull-white finish. They move up and down and sideways, occasionally disappearing into or behind the cloud. They watch the objects for 5–7 minutes, then all the discs disappear above the cloud, while a larger object emerges from the cloud and moves eastward. Behind it comes a V-formation of nine of the smaller discs, which then climbs at high speed toward the northeast and disappears in 2–3 seconds. The witnesses assume the objects are some new type of aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. ix](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FIntroduction.htm); Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_909 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1628 (480F73F4) Date: 4/29/1947 Description: On this day two women, Mrs. Olavick and Mrs. Down of Tucson, Arizona watched nine white discs and another object behind a steamy cloud in a completely clear sky, arranged in a V-shaped formation. The ten objects moved up and down in an erratic manner, and in and out of the unnatural cloud for 5-6 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 9; George Kocher, Rand Corporation: UFO's: What to Do?, p. 15; Kenneth Larson, Flying Saucers, October 1968, p. 40; UNICAT database, case 819, citing James E. McDonald Source ID: Johnson_2402 Source: Johnson ### Event 1629 (B908ECC6) Date: 5/1947 Description: 9:00 p.m. Harry Bentrup Jr. is on his porch in Jennings, Missouri, when a circular object surrounded by a ring of luminous green lights swoops in quickly from the east, hovers above him for 15 seconds, then takes off to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON case file Source ID: Eberhart_910 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1630 (696FE9FF) Date: 5/1/1947? Description: Mrs. W. C. Clark of Memphis, Tennessee, watches two objects “like tennis balls” fly over her yard. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Three Memphians Say They Saw Objects,” Memphis \(Tenn.\) Commercial Appeal, July 7, 1947, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_911 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1631 (054A4C26) Date: 5/1/1947 Description: Rear Adm. [Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) replaces [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) as Director of Central Intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_912 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1632 (4612F639) Date: 5/1/1947 Description: Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter replaces Hoyt Vandenberg as Director of Central Intelligence. Dr. Leon Davidson notes this as the actual beginning of the CIA in 1961. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_224 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1633 (F560E1BA) Date: 5/5/1947 Description: [Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) writes to Baruch, saying that his CIRES plan is “on the verge of being put into effect.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_913 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1634 (54D89F64) Date: 5/10/1947 Description: Rose Slawuta of Newark, New Jersey, sees a shining, elliptical object with a gold band around it approaching fron the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Newark \(N.J.\) Star-Ledger, July 7, 1947; Bloecher, [p. I-2](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_914 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1635 (C2A265BF) Date: 5/14/1947 Description: 8:30 p.m. A spherical object 3-4 feet in diameter is seen over Budapest, Hungary, passing southeast to northwest at about 3,000 feet altitude in a flat trajectory. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Allied Control Commission for Hungary; George Mitrovic, [The Gateways to the Gods](https://sites.google.com/site/georgemitrovicauthor/excerpts-from-gateways-to-the-gods)[,](https://sites.google.com/site/georgemitrovicauthor/excerpts-from-gateways-to-the-gods) Kindle, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_915 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1636 (3B6288A4) Date: 5/15/1947 Description: 4:11 p.m. A Hermes test missile \(V-2\) at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, goes off course and lands 6 miles east of Alamogordo five and a half minutes after launch. Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Harold R. Turner blames “peculiar phenomena” for the accident. The official explanation is that the V-2 had a defective fin. Trade consultant and former state representative [Jon Andrew Kissner](https://prabook.com/web/jon%5Fandrew.kissner/883947) finds evidence in 1994 that possibly another object was seen in the vicinity of the rocket after the launch that might have been responsible for the failed test. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[V-2 Goes Astray, Lands in Six Miles of Alamogordo,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92531031/)” Las Cruces \(N.Mex.\) Sun-News, May 16, 1947, p. 1; Good Need, [pp. 55–57](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/54/mode/2up); Wikipedia, “[Hermes program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes%5Fprogram)” Source ID: Eberhart_916 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1637 (49E85BE0) Date: 5/15/1947 Description: UFO sighting in Oklahoma City: round, disc-like, ten times longer than thick, high speed, Project Grudge case #82. (Possibly 5/21/1947) Type: ufo sighting Reference: [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) Location: Oklahoma City, OK Source ID: Maj2_226 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1638 (9C8C794B) Date: 5/15/1947 Description: A V-2 test missile at White Sands goes off course. Reaches 135.2km, internal explosion at 64.3s. Commanding Officer blames “peculiar phenomena” for the accident. Former state representative Jon Andrew Kissner finds evidence in 1994 that possibly another object was seen in the vicinity of the rocket after the launch that might have been responsible for the failure. Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [link](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/of-roswell-and-rockets-v2-film) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 135.2km Source ID: Maj2_225 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1639 (A9C7070F) Date: 5/17/1947 Description: 8:30-9 p.m Field Engineer Savage saw a frosty white round and flat objectRound & Flat Object Observed By Field Engineer (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470517](http://www.nicap.org/470517oklacity%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oklahoma City, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_320 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1640 (3B8DAF04) Date: 5/17/1947 Alternate date: 5/19/1947 Description: 8:30 p.m. Byron B. Savage, an RCA field engineer, sees a frosty-white or silvery elliptical object about the size of a B-29 heading northwest at 10,000 feet over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at three times the speed of a jet \(about 1,800 mph\). As it noiselessly passes overhead, it appears to be circular. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Round and Flat](http://www.nicap.org/470517oklacity%5Fdir.htm) [Object Observed by Field Engineer](http://www.nicap.org/470517oklacity%5Fdir.htm)”; Oklahoma City Times, June 26, 1947; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 27–28; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 16 Source ID: Eberhart_917 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1641 (C643A3CA) Date: 5/17/1947 Description: Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. Field Engineer Savage in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma saw a frosty white, round and flat object, with a diameter to thickness ratio of 10:1. It was estimated to be the size of a B-29 (140 feet wingspan) traveling north at a 350° heading at between 10,000 to 18,000 feet moving at three times the speed of a jet, making a slight swishing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oklahoma City Times, June 26, 1947; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1992, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_2914 Source: Johnson ### Event 1642 (6DF56BB5) Date: 5/19/1947 Description: Silver Object Gyrates Then Heads WNW (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [470519](http://www.nicap.org/470519manitousprings%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manitou Springs, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_321 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1643 (3D48C23F) Date: 5/19/1947 Description: At 12:15 p.m. seven railroad workers in Manitou Springs, Colorado watched a silver saucer do acrobatics for 20 minutes. The object flew away quickly to the west-northwest into the wind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Denver Post, June 28, 1947; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 66; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1992, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_2969 Source: Johnson ### Event 1644 (46E86DC8) Date: 5/19/1947 Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge chase #92 Type: ufo sighting Reference: [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) Location: Manitou Springs, CO Source ID: Maj2_228 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1645 (E1D1EDA9) Date: 5/19/1947 Description: Around 12:30 p.m. Navy veteran [Dean A. Hauser](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110621454/dean-arnold-hauser) and six other Pike’s Peak Railway workers \(including Ted Weigand, Marion Hisshouse, T. J. Smith, L. D. Jamison\) at Manitou Springs, Colorado, are taking a lunch break when they watch a silver object come in from the northwest, hover overhead, and gyrate at 1,000 feet. The UFO is moving “erratically in wide circles” and reflects light like it is made of metal. After 20 minutes it disappears in a straight line to the west-northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Manitou Vets Relate Story: Another ‘Disk’ Seen,” Denver Post, June 28, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [p. I-1](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf) [January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jan-Jun-23-SN.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 29–30 Source ID: Eberhart_918 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1646 (4F646F83) Date: 5/19/1947 Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge case #92 Type: ufo sighting Reference: [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) Location: Manitou Springs, CO Source ID: Maj2_227 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1647 (78D1FFAC) Date: Late 5/1947 Description: Four Discs Flying Overhead (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [4705Late](http://www.nicap.org/4705XXbeaufort%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beaufort (near), SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_322 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1648 (62418B81) Date: Late 5/1947 Description: 11:00 a.m. [Colden R. Battey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26920458/colden-rhind-battey), a physician from Augusta, Georgia, is fishing 10 miles off St. Helena Sound, near Beaufort, South Carolina. He notices a formation of four disc-like objects flying overhead in a southeasterly direction at a terrific rate of speed. The discs appear to be spinning on their axes and are at an estimated altitude of 20,000 feet. They are silvery and appear highly polished, and on their undersides Battey can see a circular rim or projection, about one-quarter of the way from the edges. No sound is heard as they fly overhead. The formation speeds out of view in less than 20 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Four Discs Flying Overhead](http://www.nicap.org/4705XXbeaufort%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. I-2](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_919 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1649 (8CD81B09) Date: 5/29/1947 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 79.3km altitude (Hermes II prototype with dummy Organ ramjet test. Lost control after 4s and crashed outside range near Juarez, Mexico. Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 79.3km Source ID: Maj2_229 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1650 (6A21EB76) Date: 5/29/1947 Description: 7:30 p.m. A Hermes II test missile \(a modified V-2\) is launched from White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico to test the “Organ,” a series of ramjet air intakes designed to take pressure measurements. The missile travels south instead of north and lands in the Tepeyac Cemetery, 3 miles south of Juárez, Mexico, creating an international incident. It leaves a crater 50 feet wide and 24 feet deep. German scientists [Wernher Von Braun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun) and [Ernst Steinhoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%5FSteinhoff) are conducting the test. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Hermes program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes%5Fprogram\#Hermes%5FII%29)”; J. Terry White, “[The Hermes II Incident,](https://www.whiteeagleaerospace.com/the-hermes-ii-incident/)” White Eagle Aerospace, May 2, 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_920 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1651 (1D012C65) Date: 5/31/1947 Description: A former military photographer claimed that a UFO, 30-40 feet in diameter and about 15 feet in height, crashed near the area of Socorro, New Mexico and was recovered on this day. One occupant of the craft was killed in the crash, while three others allegedly emerged alive. When they were found by the U.S. military, the survivors reportedly made crying-like sounds and clutched box-like devices to their chests. One of them appeared to be injured. The occupants were of small height and had copper based blood. This object was reportedly eventually sent to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, and ended up at the "Hangar 18" facility. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phillip L Rife, It Didn't Start With Roswell; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3174 Source: Johnson ### Event 1652 (70DD9E20) Date: 5/31/1947 Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright class photo in newspaper Type: newspaper article Reference: [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright/blob/main/miami_news_31_may_1947_diploma_pic.png) Location: Coral Gables, FL Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_230 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1653 (E9F5E61F) Date: 6/1947 Description: Oppenheimer-Einstein Majestic Document on US Space Law, “Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies” Type: majestic document Reference: [Majestic Document](https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/oppenheimer_einstein.pdf) Attributes: Einstein Attributes: majestic Source ID: Maj2_231 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1654 (7045E0C8) Date: 6/1947 Description: AMC civilian engineer W. R. Presley takes a muddy photo of a UFO at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It is most likely a photographic flaw. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hynek UFO Report, [p. 142](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/142/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_921 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1655 (489D2A3F) Date: 6/2/1947 Description: Pilot in aircraft saw a silvery jar-shaped object (Project 1947; McDonald list; FOIA; Bloecher 1967) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470602](http://www.nicap.org/470602rehoboth%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE Source ID: NICAP_DB_323 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1656 (04750111) Date: 6/2/1947 Description: Pilot Wenyon reported that a silver, "mayo-jar" shaped UFO crossed in front of his light plane while flying at between 10,000 and 12,000 feet near Lewes, Delaware on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher investigation files, clipping dated July 8, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_3218 Source: Johnson ### Event 1657 (E5D93F3A) Date: 6/2/1947 Description: At 1:30 p.m. an inverted saucer-shaped disc of brilliant metal was sighted by John Laube and Fred Platte in Waverly, Iowa. It flew just above the top of a 180-foot grain elevator at Waverly Sugar Manufacturing Plant. They had it in sight for five minutes before it was obscured by trees as it flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes, Bordentown, New Jersey, April 16, 2005, citing Waterloo Courier, July 10, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3219 Source: Johnson ### Event 1658 (2004B2FA) Date: 6/2/1947 Description: Private pilot [Forrest Wenyon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132907687/forrest-proffitt-wenyon) is flying over Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and sees a silvery, jar-shaped object cross in front of his plane. It has a silver-white, fiery exhaust. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Jar-Shaped Object Crosses in Front of](http://www.nicap.org/470602rehoboth%5Fdir.htm) [Aircraft](http://www.nicap.org/470602rehoboth%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-9](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 16 Source ID: Eberhart_922 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1659 (F27AA942) Date: 6/4/1947 Description: Project Mogul flight number 4 is allegedly launched from Alamogordo Army Air Field. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 6–7, 23; Robert J. Durant, “[Project Mogul](http://www.cufos.org/Roswell/durant.pdf) [Still a Flight of Fancy,](http://www.cufos.org/Roswell/durant.pdf)” IUR 26, no. 1 \(Spring 2001\): 17–27; David Rudiak, “[The Phony Mogul Balloon](https://roswellproof.homestead.com/Flight4%5FTrajectory.html) [Trajectory,](https://roswellproof.homestead.com/Flight4%5FTrajectory.html)” 2002; Kevin D. Randle, “[Mogul and Roswell,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/07/mogul-and-roswell.html)” A Different Perspective,” July 11, 2013; Kevin D. Randle, “[A Few Facts about Project Mogul,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/07/mogul-and-roswell.html)” A Different Perspective, August 12, 2013; Kevin D. Randle, “[Truth](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/04/truth-about-mogul.html) [about Mogul,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/04/truth-about-mogul.html)” A Different Perspective, April 4, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_923 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1660 (FC6191F8) Date: 6/6/1947 Description: On this evening around 9 p.m. a dazzling fireball was seen over Bombay, India. Then a round blue ball of light appeared, surrounded by smaller objects orbiting it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 652, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (2nd edition), p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_3316 Source: Johnson ### Event 1661 (6B7098CC) Date: 6/9/1947 Description: A still-unlocated air intelligence summary is released, alleging that the Soviets in eastern Siberia are producing \(or may be able to produce\) 1,400 \(or 1,800\) aircraft based on the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers)’ VIII-type, low-aspect, disc- shaped design by 1952. A Russian aviation historian thinks that the factories in question are at the time producing copies of the German Messerschmidt Me 262 jet fighter. A correct, more detailed summary of the intelligence report is published in December 1948 in Air Intelligence Report Number 100-203-79, “Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_924 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1662 (5305ABC9) Date: 6/10/1947 Description: 3:30 p.m. Gyorik Ferenc and others on Arena Street \[modern Dózsa György út\] in Budapest, Hungary, watch four yellow-red discs moving toward the northwest in a straight-line formation for about 30 seconds. They are about 165 feet apart. The objects make a small arc around a corner of a park before disappearing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Project Blue](https://archive.org/details/1947-06-9668691-Hungary/mode/2up) [Book record](https://archive.org/details/1947-06-9668691-Hungary/mode/2up); Joe Brill, “UFOs behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 76, March 1974, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_925 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1663 (D99F6AA1) Date: 6/10/1947 Time: 2300 Description: Coral Lorenzen saw a light rise from the ground in Mexican territory. It took a definite spherical shape and vanished in less than ten seconds among the stars. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. I 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Douglas, Arizona Source ID: Magnonia_55 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 1664 (31351304) Date: 6/10/1947 Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Agua Prieta, Mexico a glowing sphere was seen as it rose from the ground and flew up into the night sky. At the same time in Douglas, Arizona Coral Lorenzen, the co-founder of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization in 1952 and future author of seven books on the UFO phenomenon, witnessed an unidentified light land remotely, take on a definite spherical shape, then shoot up rapidly from the ground and vanish in less than ten seconds among the stars. According to the Air Force files there were more than fifty reports of UFOs seen during the daytime over Budapest, Hungary. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 16; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of the Phenomenon, p. 50; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 191 Source ID: Johnson_3404 Source: Johnson ### Event 1665 (C152B180) Date: 6/11/1947 (estimated) Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright’s last day of high school Type: scientist Reference: [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright) Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_232 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1666 (6E48832F) Date: 6/12/1947 Description: 6:15 p.m. 2 high speed round objects glistening in the sun at high altitude (McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index; Bloecher 1967) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470612](http://www.nicap.org/weiser470612dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Weiser, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_324 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1667 (6896DFA3) Date: 6/12/1947 Description: A bright metallic ovoid object was seen from the highway in Weiser, Idaho by a Mrs. Erickson and her daughter at 6:15 p.m. The UFO zigzagged to the southwest. It and a second object were in view for three minutes before vanishing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_3432 Source: Johnson ### Event 1668 (F7DA5A53) Date: 6/12/1947 Description: 6:15 p.m. [Lovena Erickson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21780741/lovena-erickson) sees two high-speed, round objects at a high altitude over Weiser, Idaho. They move up and down twice and leave a vapor trail that persists for more than an hour. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[June 12, 1947,](http://www.nicap.org/weiser470612dir.htm) [Weiser, Idaho](http://www.nicap.org/weiser470612dir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. II-8](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm)[;](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_926 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1669 (EBF94B18) Date: 6/13/1947 Description: At 11:30 p.m. west of Fleure, France a six-meter long, glowing orange cigar-shaped object surrounded by a bright halo landed in a storm. It stayed on the ground for five minutes, ascended quickly and shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #198 Source ID: Johnson_3453 Source: Johnson ### Event 1670 (5B2BD393) Date: 6/14/1947 Description: At noon in Bakersfield, California a man saw 10 flying saucers fly over in a triangular formation. Their speed was estimated to be 900 kilometers per hour. The report was one of the early cases investigated by the FBI. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_3471 Source: Johnson ### Event 1671 (2D4AF785) Date: 6/14/1947 Description: Ten "Almost Round" Objects In Formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470614](http://www.nicap.org/470614bakersfield%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bakersfield, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_325 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1672 (05430AD5) Date: 6/17/1947 Time: 1030 Description: John A. Petsche, electrical worker and another witness independently saw a disk-shaped object, which seemed to land near Tintown. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. I 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bisbee, Arizona Source ID: Magnonia_58 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 1673 (A92D2DF8) Date: 6/17/1947 Description: On this day in 1947 three platter-shaped discs were seen hovering in the sky for a period of three hours over Bremerton, Washington from late in the afternoon until evening. The objects wavered as they flew, and shot off at extreme speeds toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 26, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3524 Source: Johnson ### Event 1674 (E8C10E02) Date: 6/18/1947 Description: Day. E. H. Sprinkle is one of a half-dozen Eugene, Oregon, residents who spot a formation of round objects “racing overhead” on a course to the northeast. Watching from Skinner’s Butte outside town. Sprinkle takes a snapshot of the objects with an inexpensive camera as they race over. Enlargements of the photograph show “seven dots” in a formation “shaped like an X or a Y, lined up across the sky.” Newspaper photographers say the dots “might be a fault in the developing process” that sometimes appears on a negative that has not been agitated properly in the developer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Local Man Asserts Flights Seen Here,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11713669/case-13-e-h-sprinkle/)” Eugene \(Oreg.\) Guard, June 26, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [p. IV-3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_927 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1675 (C580CB9D) Date: 6/19/1947 Description: USAAF Col. [Albert Boyd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FBoyd) reaches a world airspeed record of 624 mph in a Lockheed P-80R Shooting Star at Muroc AFB \[later Edwards AFB\], California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Albert Boyd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FBoyd)” Source ID: Eberhart_928 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1676 (413D88FE) Date: 6/19/1947 Description: Unidentified woman who saw an occupant inside an object who looked like "a Navy officer." (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Webster, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_326 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1677 (2545C7E2) Date: 6/19/1947 Description: Maj. Gen. [Stephen Chamberlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FJ.%5FChamberlin)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FJ.%5FChamberlin) head of War Department Intelligence, authorizes three electronic signals intelligence flights between July 1 and August 1 to look for radio signals over the Baltic Sea. The Swedish military is told that they are training flights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_929 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1678 (C12339B5) Date: 6/20/1947 Description: 8:00 PM MST. Woman and her daughter observed three revolving groups of three discs in trianglular formation , straight course, S-NE (Bloecher,17,II-9) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hot Springs, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_327 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1679 (16BCF475) Date: 6/21/1947 Description: Harold A. Dahl and others allegedly saw six tire-shaped objects, 30 m in diameter, metallic with dark openings, over Puget Sound. One of the objects exploded, showering the witnesses with metal. Officially regarded as hoax. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Ruppelt ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Maury Island, near Tacoma, Washington Source ID: Magnonia_56 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 1680 (AF76579E) Date: 6/21/1947 Time: 1150 Description: Eight disk-shaped objects the size of a house, were seen flying at 1000 km/h. A civilian woman stated that the objects fell with a deadleaf motion and landed before ten witnesses on the shore of the Saint Joe River, in Idaho. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Spokane, Washington Source ID: Magnonia_57 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 1681 (A4618487) Date: 6/21/1947 Description: Log salvager [Harold A. Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) is patrolling east of Maury Island, Washington, with his 15-year-old son Charles and two crewmen when he allegedly sees six doughnut-shaped objects. Five of them are circling the sixth, which seems distressed. When it is directly above the boat at 500 feet, it supposedly spews some hot slag-like material that breaks Charles’s arm and kills his dog. Dahl claims he filmed the objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 721; John A. Keel, “The Maury Island Caper,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 40–43 Source ID: Eberhart_931 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1682 (FA3E0927) Date: 6/21/1947 Description: 11:55 a.m. [Guy R. Overman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158858384/guy-r-overman) watches several silvery objects moving below a plane at Spokane, Washington. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Eight Disc-Shaped Objects As Big As a House](http://www.nicap.org/470621spokane%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. II-18](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_930 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1683 (D643C924) Date: 6/21/1947 Description: Harold A. Dahl, his son, and others on board a boat allegedly saw six donut-shaped objects, 30 meters in diameter, metallic with dark openings, over a bay next to Maury Island on Puget Sound, Washington. One of the UFOs exploded, showered the witnesses with a slag-like metal. This case has been widely regarded as a hoax because of some deliberate deception of UFO investigator Kenneth Arnold by a shadowy con man named Chrisman who claimed to have been involved, but there are still unexplained elements to this case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 47 Source ID: Johnson_3565 Source: Johnson ### Event 1684 (98797055) Date: Summer 1947 Description: Naval Cmdr. [L. H. Witherspoon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36454572/luther-h-witherspoon) sees a disc-shaped UFO flash over the airport at Pittsburg, Kansas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 30](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=42&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_959 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1685 (3C82EB2D) Date: 6/21/1947 Description: Harold Dahl sees 6 discs near Tacoma Harbor, WA. Drops metal residue. Type: UFO sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Maury Island, WA Attributes: metals Source ID: Maj2_88 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1686 (8957AA9F) Date: 6/21/1947 Description: Maury Island Incident Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/so-whatever-happened-to-harold-a-dahl-of-the-1947-maury-island-incident-fb5a4cdb626e) Reference: [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324) Attributes: metals Source ID: Maj2_233 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1687 (A132C9CA) Date: 6/21/1947 Description: Eight Disc-Shaped Objects Big As A House (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470621](http://www.nicap.org/470621spokane%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Spokane, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_328 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1688 (2554125B) Date: 6/21/1947 Description: Maury Island Incident (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [470621](http://www.nicap.org/maurydir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maury Island, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_329 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1689 (6ECB1F0E) Date: 6/21/1947 Description: Three Flat Objects Faster Than P-38's (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [470621](http://www.nicap.org/470624richland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richland, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_330 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1690 (8A482004) Date: 6/21/1947 Description: Eight disc-shaped objects the size of a house were seen flying at 1,000 kph at 11:55 a.m. in Spokane, Washington. A woman stated that the objects fell with a falling leaf motion and landed before ten witnesses on the shore of the Saint Joe River, in Idaho. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 16; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191 Source ID: Johnson_3566 Source: Johnson ### Event 1691 (FC18F588) Date: 6/22/1947 Description: In 1947 during the beginning days of the great UFO wave of 1947, a rapidly moving, round, silvery-white object was seen at 11:30 a.m. in the town of Greenfield, Massachusetts. It was one of the early cases secretly investigated by the FBI. Later that same day, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Hammond and his son were vacationing in Radium Springs, New Mexico and saw a "flying pie-plate" disc while swimming. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bruce S. Maccabee, UFO Related Information from the FBI File, APRO Bulletin, December 1977, pg. 8; Baker, Oregon Democrat Herald, June 27, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3596 Source: Johnson ### Event 1692 (74043889) Date: 6/22/1947 Description: [Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) claims he is visited by a mysterious dark-suited man who knows all about the sighting. He tells his associate [Fred L. Crisman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman) and they allegedly go to the beach to pick up fragments. Dahl mails [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) in Chicago, Illinois, some fragments. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 721; Kenn Thomas, Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy, IllumiNet, 1999; Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson, “[The Maury Island UFO Incident,](http://www.nwlegendsmuseum.com/MauryIsland.html)” February 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_932 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1693 (B5DFCF9B) Date: 6/22/1947 Description: Evening. Yale University astrophysicist [Lyman Spitzer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%5FSpitzer) is speaking on WTIC radio in Hartford, Connecticut, and speculates that if life on Mars developed a bit earlier than on earth, it is possible that Martians have been civilized for millions of years. “Unless they had spent some time in a large city or had landed sufficiently recently to be photographed, we would have no record of their being here,” he says, and that “any few men who had seen them would probably not be believed by anyone else.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mars May Be Peopled, Says Yale Speaker,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17766510/hartford-courant/)” Hartford \(Conn.\) Courant, June 23, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 455 Source ID: Eberhart_935 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1694 (D721262A) Date: 6/22/1947 Description: [Edward Louis DeRose](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69230713/edward-louis-derose) in Greenfield, Massachusetts, sees a small, round-shaped, silvery-white object moving in a northwesterly direction faster than a speeding plane at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet. The object stays in view for 8–10 seconds until obscured by a cloud bank. It reflects the sunlight strongly as if is made of polished aluminum or silver. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “[Flying Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/garrett%5F073047doc.pdf)” July 30, 1947; Kevin D. Randle, “[Roswell, Nathan Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/roswell-nathan-twining-and-mini-eots.html)” A Different Perspective, October 6, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_933 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1695 (95DFC405) Date: 6/22/1947 Description: 3:30 p.m. [G. Oliver Dickson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146611498/george-oliver-dickson) sees a shiny disc “a little like a blimp” flying north to south about 3,000 feet above Mount Franklin just north of El Paso, Texas. He estimates it is about 40 feet across and 5 feet thick. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[More](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23324523/el-paso-times/) [El Pasoans Report Seeing](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23324523/el-paso-times/) [‘Flying Discs’ in Southwest,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23324567/el-paso-times/)” El Paso \(Tex.\) Times, June 29, 1947, pp. 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_934 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1696 (C593636B) Date: 6/23/1947 Description: 9:30 p.m. [Richard L. Bitters](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70717504/richard-lowell-bitters) and his wife [Martha](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156731314/martha-rose-bitters) are returning from a movie in Wapakoneta, Ohio, when they see a saucer-like object flying an uneven course in the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucer Just Didn’t Fit Editor’s Idea of a ‘Scoop,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101812679/wisconsin-state-journal/)” Madison Wisconsin State Journal, July 7, 1947, p. 2; Bloecher, [p. III-6](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_937 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1697 (AC50F583) Date: 6/23/1947 Description: Railroad engineer saw 10 shiny disc-shaped objects, very high, fluttering along in a string toward NW. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cedar Rapids, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_331 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1698 (B593EE55) Date: 6/23/1947 Description: A large shiny silver ball hovered for several minutes over a mountain in Clayton, Georgia and then zoomed away. There were two witnesses named Cantrell and Pepper. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_3612 Source: Johnson ### Event 1699 (9A30535F) Date: 6/23/1947 Description: Afternoon. Disabled stunt pilot Richard Rankin views 10 flat, circular objects flying in a V-formation over his house in Bakersfield, California. About two hours later, 7 of the objects are seen flying in the opposite direction. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. II-3](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 17; Kevin D. Randle, “[More Pre-Arnold UFO Sightings,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/06/more-pre-arnold-ufo-sightings.html)” A Different Perspective, June 30, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_936 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1700 (FBD116D0) Date: 6/23/1947 Description: In the afternoon, a railroad engineer sees something very strange in the sky and reports it to the local newspaper. "They looked like ten shiny, disc-shaped things. They were very, very high, fluttering along in a string and pretty soon they vanished toward the northwest." He guessed they were travelling at 500mph - faster than any plane he ever saw. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Frank Edwards, ["My First 10,000,000 Sponsors"](https://www.amazon.com/first-sponsers-1956-Leather-Bound/dp/B09SHHSV34), page 111 (paperback) Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa Source ID: Maj2_89 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1701 (ADF05F02) Date: 6/24/1947 Description: 1:50 p.m. Railroad engineer Charles Kastl sees 9 or 10 spinning discs in the air about 12 miles east of Joliet, Illinois. They are a string of flat circular objects “going faster than anything I’ve ever seen.” Kastl can see no connecting link between them, but they act as though the leading disc has a motor in it to power the others, because when it flips, the others do as well. When it rights itself, the others also right themselves. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Discs](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92584166/the-gazette/) [Seen by Railroad Man,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92584166/the-gazette/)” Cedar Rapids \(Iowa\) Gazette, June 28, 1947, p. 2; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 1–2; NICAP, “[Engineer](http://www.nicap.org/470624illinois%5Fdir.htm) [Reports 10 Shiny Flat Discs](http://www.nicap.org/470624illinois%5Fdir.htm)”; Kevin D. Randle, “[The June 23, 1947 UFO Sighting,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-june-23-1947-ufo-sighting.html)” A Different Perspective, March 20, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_939 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1702 (A0FBD5F9) Date: 6/24/1947 Description: Prospector Compass Incident (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: 12) Reference: NICAP: [470624](http://www.nicap.org/470624cascades%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Adams, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_332 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1703 (59C99A5F) Date: 6/24/1947 Description: On this morning a prospector named Johnson in the Hood River region of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon sighted five or six discs flying silently overhead, heading toward the southeast. He noticed that his compass began spinning when the discs passed over. His watch also stopped running. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phoenix Arizona Republic, June 26, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 30; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 1 Source ID: Johnson_3635 Source: Johnson ### Event 1704 (6637E2B4) Date: 6/24/1947 Description: Kenneth Arnold sights 9 discs near Mt. Rainer, Washington Type: UFO sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Mt. Rainer, WA Source ID: Maj2_90 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1705 (8A22ECD2) Date: 6/24/1947 Description: 3:00 p.m. Boise, Idaho, businessman [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold), flying his CallAir Model A-2 from Chehalis to Yakima, Washington, sees a string of nine objects flying in an echelon formation past Mount Rainier, Washington. At first he assumes they are jets, but he can see no trails. They cover the 50-mile distance between Rainier and another peak in 1 minute 42 seconds. He estimates their speed to be at least 1,200 mph. The objects swerve in and out of the smaller peaks, flipping from side to side in unison, dipping, and presenting their lateral surfaces, which reflect the bright sunlight and cause the flashes he saw earlier. They are in view for about two and a half minutes and are last seen heading south over the last high peak of Mount Adams. Arnold tells the airport staff about it in Yakima at 4:00 p.m. and they call ahead to Pendleton, Oregon, to alert them of Arnold’s arrival at an air show and his story. A large crowd awaits him, and a discussion follows. The consensus is that Arnold has seen guided missiles. But no such technology exists at the time that can match the objects’ description and performance, and the late 1990s explanation that Arnold observed a flight of white pelicans is equally improbable. Researcher [Martin](http://www.cufos.org/shough.html) [Shough](http://www.cufos.org/shough.html) concludes in 2010: “Examination of the sighting report in detail improves its evident internal consistency, rather than degrading it, and study of the principal contending explanations reveals that they are each very much less attractive when tried out in quantitative detail against the best information than they may appear at first sight.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold%5FUFO%5Fsighting)”; \[[Project Blue Book file](https://www.fold3.com/image/9668731)\]; NICAP, “[Kenneth Arnold](http://www.nicap.org/470624ranier%5Fdir.htm) [Sighting](http://www.nicap.org/470624ranier%5Fdir.htm)”; Center for UFO Studies, \[[clippings and reports](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1947%5F06%5F24%5FUS%5FOR%5FMt%5FRainier%5FNICAP%5FArnold.pdf)\]; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 9–13; Bloecher, [p. I-2–3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm); Patrick Gross, “[The Kenneth Arnold Sighting, June 24,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/arnold.htm) [1947](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/arnold.htm)”; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 48–53; John A. Keel, “[Kenneth Arnold and the F.B.I.,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201987%20V%2032%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 5 \(August 1987\): 2–12; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Revision.pdf) [History: Volume 1, 1947,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Revision.pdf) The Author, February 1991, pp. 5–9; Bruce Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon: Part One,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 14–17; Bruce Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon: Part Two,” IUR 20, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1995\): 10–13, 24; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, [pp. 14–22](http://nicap.org/docs/loedd/loedd%5Fchapter%5F3.htm); Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 54–59](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/54/mode/2up); Martin Shough, “[The](http://cufos.org/cases/1947%5F06%5F24%5FUS%5FOR%5FMt%5FRainier%5FShough-article%5FArnold.pdf) [Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,](http://cufos.org/cases/1947%5F06%5F24%5FUS%5FOR%5FMt%5FRainier%5FShough-article%5FArnold.pdf)” June 2010; Bruce Maccabee, Three Minutes in June: The UFO Sighting That Changed the World, The Author, 2017; Nigel Watson, “Was It a Bird? Was It a Plane?” Fortean Times 355 \(July 2017\): 46–49; Clark III 169 Source ID: Eberhart_940 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1706 (38462D9B) Date: 6/24/1947 Description: 3:30 p.m. Idaho Lieutenant Governor [Donald S. Whitehead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FS.%5FWhitehead) and Justice of the Peace [Jacob M. Lampert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59830636/jacob-m-lampert) see an object with a brilliant head and a smoky tail from an office window in downtown Boise, Idaho. It dips from view after about 20 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Whitehead, Lampert, Join ‘Disc List,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92600524/the-idaho-statesman/)” Boise Idaho Statesman, July 3, 1947, p. 9; Bloecher, [pp. III-18–19](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_941 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1707 (33547966) Date: 6/24/1947 Description: Afternoon. Fred M. Johnson, a prospector in the Mount Adams, Oregon, area, sees 5-6 oval objects with tails about 30 feet in diameter. He watches one through a telescope. They are not flying in any sort of formation and as they bank in a turn, the sunlight flashes off them. As they approach, Johnson notices that his compass begins to spin wildly. When the objects finally vanish in the distance, the compass returns to normal. Johnson’s report is the very first “unidentified” case in the Project Sign files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Prospector Compass Incident](http://www.nicap.org/470624cascades%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. IV-](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm) [3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm); Clark III 170–171; Bruce Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon: Part Three,” IUR 20, no. 3 \(May/June 1995\): 6–7; Martin Shough, “[The Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,](http://cufos.org/cases/1947%5F06%5F24%5FUS%5FOR%5FMt%5FRainier%5FShough-article%5FArnold.pdf)” June 2010, pp. 106, 109–110; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 58–59 Source ID: Eberhart_942 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1708 (48FA8C9F) Date: 6/24/1947 Description: A humanoid report on the same day Arnold had his sighting (Bloecher). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pendelton, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_334 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1709 (84698993) Date: 6/24/1947 Description: Arnold Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [470624](http://www.nicap.org/470624ranier%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Ranier, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_333 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1710 (70E93434) Date: 6/24/1947 Description: A civilian pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reports seeing 9 flying saucers flying in formation at an altitude of 9200 feet and at almost 1700 mph. He estimated them to be 20 to 25 miles away from him and between 45 to 50feet long Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Source ID: Maj2_234 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1711 (4DC73B4B) Date: 6/24/1947 Description: At 2:58 p.m. Kenneth Arnold, flying his private plane near Mount Rainier, Washington was attracted by reflected sunlight from nine distant metallic flying objects. He watched as they flashed across the sky, one behind the other, "skipping as saucers upon water." They tilted back and forth as they flew. One object was definitely crescent shaped, the others may have been disc shaped or crescent shaped with a 10 to 1 width to thickness ratio. He clocked them as they flew past Mount Adams, and calculated that they were flying at a speed of 1,500 miles per hour and at an altitude of 9,500 feet. When he landed in Pendleton, Oregon he was interviewed at the local radio station where the term "flying saucer" was first coined, despite the fact that the objects he sighted may not have been discs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 9; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9; The Oregonian, June 26, 1947; Kevin Randle, Spaceships of the Visitors, p. 87; UNICAT database, case 354, citing Bruce Maccabee Source ID: Johnson_3636 Source: Johnson ### Event 1712 (50820BF1) Date: 6/24/1947 Alternate date: 6/30/1947 Description: Afternoon. [Bill Schuening](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55395519/william-mathais-schuening)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55395519/william-mathais-schuening) a farmer, is driving his pickup truck down a remote rural road 25 miles north of Pendleton, Oregon, when he hears a loud humming sound. Coming over a rise, he sees in a nearby field a large disc-shaped object hovering 5–6 feet off the ground. He can also see two short \(3 feet tall\) figures wearing green suits and white helmets standing underneath the object. The figures suddenly vanish, and the craft then shoots towards the Columbia River, makes a big circle, and flies towards the mountains. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Man Sees](http://www.nicap.org/470624pendleton%5Fdir.htm) [Figures Standing near Disc](http://www.nicap.org/470624pendleton%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1947-06-24-usa-pendleton.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1947-06-24-usa-pendleton.htm) November 7, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_938 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1713 (E51E40F5) Date: 6/25/1947 Description: [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) goes to the East Oregonian office in Pendleton, Oregon, and speaks with reporters Nolan Skiff and [William C. Bequette](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72655957/william-c-bequette)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72655957/william-c-bequette) Arnold says the “saucer-like” objects were racing over the Cascade Mountains with a peculiar weaving motion “like the tail of a Chinese kite.” Bill Bequette writes the first saucer news story for the newspaper. He does not use the term “flying saucer,” but headline writers in other papers use it \(such as the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 26\), and reporters start picking it up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Impossible! Maybe, But Seein’ Is Believin’, Says Flier,” Pendleton East Oregonian, June 25, 1947, p. 1; “[Flying Saucers Puzzle Pilot,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21137758/the-philadelphia-inquirer/)” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 26, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 170; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952, Palmer, pp. 13–15; Pierre Lagrange, “A Moment in History: An Interview with Bill Bequette,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 15, 20; “[Saturday Night Uforia: ‘It Seems Impossible—But There It Is,](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/4/18/720521/-)’” Daily Kos, April 18, 2009; Phil Wright, “[The Sighting,](https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/local/the-sighting/article%5F1dc33f61-868d-5c36-b159-87c8465fb662.html)” Portland East Oregonian, June 16, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_943 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1714 (F4CF7EB9) Date: 6/25/1947 Description: Shortly after 12:00 noon. W. I. Davenport is working on the roof of a house at 82nd Street and Holmes Road in Kansas City, Missouri, when he hears the sound of a motor. Looking up, he sees 9 objects approaching from the east. They are aluminum-colored and leave vapor trails. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Puzzle in Sky Whiz,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101813674/the-kansas-city-star/)” Kansas City \(Mo.\) Star, June 26, 1947, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_944 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1715 (699E7733) Date: 6/26/1947 Description: In the afternoon on this day, nine shiny discs with fins flew over La Grande, Oregon, weaving in-and-out of formation. There were also four separate daylight disc sightings in Utah between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. in the following locations: Cedar City, Logan, and Diamond Fork Canyon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database: Salt Lake City Tribune, June 28, 1947; Salt Lake City Deseret News, June 30, 1947; Salt Lake City Tribune, July 6, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3665 Source: Johnson ### Event 1716 (EF90A4DB) Date: 6/26/1947 Description: 2:00 a.m. Mrs. J. M. Harrison watches a large fireball pass toward the northwest from her residence at 4639 South Oakenwald, Chicago, Illinois. It breaks up into two dozen small discs that whirl around rapidly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Dr. Urey](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23171861/chicago-tribune/) [Scoffs at ‘Atom Angle’ to Flying Disks,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23171861/chicago-tribune/)” Chicago Tribune, July 6, 1947, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_945 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1717 (E712F5F7) Date: 6/26/1947 Description: [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) is interviewed live on KWRC radio in Pendleton, Oregon, by broadcaster [Theodore A. “Ted”](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77642903/theodore-a%5F-smith) [Smith](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77642903/theodore-a%5F-smith)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77642903/theodore-a%5F-smith)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[About the June 25, 1947, Interview on WKPG Radio by Bill Bequette](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/arnoldrepbequette.htm)”; “[Kenneth Arnold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0D8eAm8h2Y) [Interviewed by Bill Bequette](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0D8eAm8h2Y) \[actually Ted Smith\],” Nutsandbolts UFO YouTube channel, December 12, 2010 Source ID: Eberhart_946 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1718 (270D36D9) Date: 6/26/1947 Description: Northrop delivers a second four-engine XB-35 flying wing aircraft to Muroc AFB \[now Edwards AFB\], California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-35](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-35\#XB-35)” Source ID: Eberhart_947 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1719 (80447F99) Date: 6/27/1947 Description: At 10:00 a.m. a shiny disc-shaped object streaked by Capitan, New Mexico and landed on a nearby hill. At 10:30 a.m. John A. Petsche, an electrical worker, and another person independently witnessed a disc-shaped object, which seemed to land near Tintown, Arizona. The disc had a mirror-like surface. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Albuquerque Journal, July 2, 1947; (2) Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 17; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191 Source ID: Johnson_3690 Source: Johnson ### Event 1720 (6E0C887F) Date: 6/27/1947 Description: 9:50 a.m. Mrs. W. B. Cummings is driving about 5 miles southeast of San Antonio, New Mexico, when she sees a bright silver object descending quickly in the east. It leaves a short white trail. White Sands officials say there has been no missile testing since June 12. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[More El Pasoans Report Seeing ‘Flying Discs’ in Southwest,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23324523/el-paso-times/)” El Paso \(Tex.\) Times, June 29, 1947, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_948 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1721 (5E178FFF) Date: 6/27/1947 Description: Pentagon Army AF Public Relations Officer Capt. Tom Brown says the army has no idea what the discs are. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 1, 1947,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Revision.pdf) The Author, February 1991, p. 16 Source ID: Eberhart_949 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1722 (0AB7CAAF) Date: 6/27/1947 Description: In a United Press dispatch from Pendleton, Oregon, [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) expresses frustration over the furor that his saucer sighting has caused. A preacher has called him from Texas to say that the flying discs are “harbinger of doomsday.” A woman recognizes Arnold in a Pendleton café and runs out shrieking that he is “the man who saw the men from Mars.” He says the whole thing has gotten out of hand: “Half the people I see look at me as a combination Einstein, Flash Gordon, and screwball. I wonder what my wife back in Idaho thinks.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Report of](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52122451/ufo-june-27-1947-p1/) [‘Flying Saucers’ Causes Furor; Texas Preacher Calls Flock for World’s End,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52122451/ufo-june-27-1947-p1/)” Medford \(Oreg.\) Mail Tribune, June 27, 1947, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_950 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1723 (EFDFF094) Date: 6/27/1947 Description: Day. Capt. [Robert D. Dwan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197782484/robert-d-dwan)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197782484/robert-d-dwan) a pilot out of Alamogordo Army Air Field \[now Holloman AFB\], New Mexico, is flying a private plane near Engle, New Mexico, at 3,000 feet, when he looks down and sees a “ball of fire, with a fiery blue tail behind it.” The object is about 2,000 feet below him, and he is “certain it is a meteorite.” The object disintegrates as he watches it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [pp. III-9–10](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_951 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1724 (A9949B7B) Date: 6/27/1947 Description: Afternoon. Clyde Homan sees two groups of loosely bunched objects, rocking back and forth as they fly noiselessly above Woodland, Washington. The objects are bright, flat, and moving at an estimated 600 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [pp. II-1–2](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_952 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1725 (9DEAC763) Date: 6/28/1947 Description: Object Zig-Zags With Bursts of Speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470628](http://www.nicap.org/470628maxwellafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_337 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1726 (86A44C24) Date: 6/28/1947 Description: 3:15 \[1:15 PST?\] p.m. Pilot saw a tight formation of 5-6 white circular 3 ft objects (Ruppelt p. 19; FOIA; FUFOR Index; Bloecher 1967). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470628](http://www.nicap.org/470628ftmeade%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Mead (30 miles NW of), NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_336 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1727 (2A52FEC9) Date: 6/28/1947 Description: 3:43 \[3:45 CST?\] p.m. saw 7-10 saucer-shaped objects fly overhead heading S at high speed (McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index; Bloecher 1967) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470628](https://web.archive.org/web/20111210015950/http://www.nicap.org/rockford470628dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rockfield, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_335 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1728 (6CE767AA) Date: 6/28/1947 Description: Four US Air Force officers saw a fast moving, bright, zigzagging light in the sky over Maxwell AFB, Alabama as 9:20 p.m. The light made quick accelerations and 90 degree turns, and flew off toward the south. Their sighting lasted at least five minutes, and was investigated by the FBI. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 102; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Richard M. Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State, p. 396 Source ID: Johnson_3708 Source: Johnson ### Event 1729 (7B74E697) Date: 6/28/1947 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a shiny disc-shaped object descended into the backyard of a Mr. Johnston in Waterloo, Iowa and hovered less than 25 feet away from him. He experienced a number of physical complaints as the result of his close encounter, including numbness, chest pain, and difficulty breathing. The UFO made a swishing sound as it flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Waterloo (Iowa) Courier, July 6, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3706 Source: Johnson ### Event 1730 (21BE57E9) Date: 6/28/1947 Description: At around 2 p.m. a formation of 5-6 white circular objects approached an F-51 aircraft being piloted by an airman named Armstrong while he was flying thirty miles northwest of Lake Mead, Nevada. This case was also investigated by the FBI at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 95; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_3707 Source: Johnson ### Event 1731 (E2620BB5) Date: 6/28/1947 Description: 1:15 p.m. Lieut. [Eric B. Armstrong](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63573411/eric-baum-armstrong), flying an F-51 at 6,000 feet 30 miles north of Lake Mead, Nevada, sees a formation of 5–6 objects streak by his plane. They are in close formation at an estimated speed of 285 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Formation of 5–6 Objects Head toward P-51](http://www.nicap.org/470628ftmeade%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-10](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_953 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1732 (F578757A) Date: 6/28/1947 Description: 9:20 p.m. Two pilots and two intelligence officers \(Capt. [Wilson H. Kayko](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102557048/wilson-harold-kayko), Capt. John H. Cantrell, 1st Lt. Theodore Dewey, and Capt. Redman\) at Maxwell Field \[now Maxwell AFB\] in Montgomery, Alabama, see a bright light zigzagging across the sky for 25 minutes. When it is directly overhead, the UFO makes a sharp 90° turn and disappears to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Zig-Zags with Bursts of Speed](http://www.nicap.org/470628maxwellafb%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 18 Source ID: Eberhart_954 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1733 (C4D69EBF) Date: 6/29/1947 Description: Line Of Saucers Headed SSE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470629](http://www.nicap.org/470629desmoines%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Des Moines, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_338 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1734 (2A05AB56) Date: 6/29/1947 Description: V-formation of nine UFOs seen by a group of people west of Medford (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [470629](http://www.nicap.org/medford470629dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jacksonville, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_339 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1735 (BBC51898) Date: 6/29/1947 Description: Days before the Roswell Incident on June 29, 1947, Dr. C. J. Zohn (working for a Washington naval research lab) and 3 others see UFO's 20 miles from the V-2 rocket testing grounds at White Sands (which would probably be Pad 33). Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116987855/c-j-zohn-v2-flying-saucer-sighting/) Location: White Sands, NM Source ID: Maj2_235 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1736 (3E3B02E5) Date: 6/29/1947 Description: A 1:15 p.m. four rocket experts saw a silver saucer in the sky over Organ, New Mexico. It flew off to the north at 9,000 feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 109 Source ID: Johnson_3723 Source: Johnson ### Event 1737 (508E63DA) Date: 6/29/1947 Description: About 45 minutes later nine white saucers flying in V-formation flew over Medford, Oregon at a speed of 120 mph. They flew in a spiral over the airport, and appeared to make a cloud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 729 Source ID: Johnson_3724 Source: Johnson ### Event 1738 (1EA3B2DD) Date: 6/29/1947 Description: Between 13 and 18 white oval and disc-shaped objects flew over Clarion, Iowa at 4:45 p.m. They made a noise like that of a dynamo. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 178 Source ID: Johnson_3725 Source: Johnson ### Event 1739 (608E1CC1) Date: 6/29/1947 Description: Naval Research Lab Rocket Scientists See Silver Disc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [470629](http://www.nicap.org/470629lascruces%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Cruces, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_340 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1740 (A0426B0B) Date: 6/29/1947 Description: 1:15 p.m. [Carl J. Zohn](https://www.geni.com/discussions/92999)[,](https://www.geni.com/discussions/92999) a guided missile expert with the Naval Research Laboratory, is 20 miles east-northeast of Las Cruces, New Mexico, to observe a V-2 rocket launch scheduled for July 3. Between 1:00 and 1:30 p.m., he is riding out to the testing grounds with John R. Kauke and NRL scientist [Curtis C. Rockwood](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99407032/curtis-c-rockwood) \(and his wife Nancy\) when they see a silvery disc flying at 8,000–10,000 feet. It has no appendages, wings, tail, or propellers. After about 60 seconds it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Naval Research Lab Rocket Scientists See Silver Discs](http://www.nicap.org/470629lascruces%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-18](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 18; Evelyne Tsezana, “[Grandpa Zohn Saw UFOs in New Mexico,](https://www.geni.com/discussions/92999)” Geni, April 6, 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_955 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1741 (3EBC6DD7) Date: 6/30/1947 Description: 9:10 a.m. Naval Lt. William G. McGinty is flying a P-80 from Williams AFB \[now Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport\], Arizona, near the Grand Canyon when he observes two circular objects diving at inconceivable speed and landing 25 miles south of the canyon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[P-80 Pilot Sees Circular Objects Dive and Land](http://www.nicap.org/470630grandcanyon%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. II-12](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm)[;](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 18 Source ID: Eberhart_956 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1742 (B7CA50AE) Date: 6/30/1947 Description: Eighth Air Force Brig. Gen. [Roger M. Ramey](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1686367/lt-gen-roger-m-ramey/) and intelligence officer Col. [Alfred Kalberer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124983070/alfred-f-kalberer) hold a press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, on the flying discs. Ramey thinks people are “seeing heat waves.” Kalberer labels the sightings as “Buck Rogers stuff.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf) [History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_957 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1743 (6D8C70A3) Date: 6/30/1947 Time: 0910 Description: A Navy lieutenant was flying at 9000 m toward the south when he saw two circular objects diving at "unconceivable" speed. They were gray, about 3 m in diameter, and appeared to land 40 km south of the Grand Canyon. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Grand Canyon, near Williams Field, Arizona Source ID: Magnonia_59 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 1744 (25E41308) Date: 6/30/1947 Description: 9:10 a.m. (MST?). 2 gray, circular objects about 8 or 10 ft diameter (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470630](http://www.nicap.org/470630grandcanyon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grand Canyon (Near S rim of), AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_341 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1745 (E8A9177B) Date: 6/30/1947 Description: A Navy Lieutenant named McGinty was flying in a P-80 fighter aircraft near Williams Field, Arizona at 9000 meters altitude when toward the south when he saw two circular objects diving at an "unconceivable" speed. They were gray, about three meters in diameter, and appeared to land 40 kilometers south of the Grand Canyon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #78; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_3740 Source: Johnson ### Event 1746 (43D0EC13) Date: 6/30/1947 Description: Around this time the Air Force Research and Development office of the Air Materiel Command organizes an informal project at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, to collect UFO reports in the interests of national security. The project officer at Wright Field is Lt. Col. [Edward G. Nabell Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50579195/edward-gordon-nabell)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 13 Source ID: Eberhart_958 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1747 (1318E05E) Date: 7/1947 Description: Area of a sighting of a landed disc and two occupants. (Bloecher) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nashville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_342 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1748 (757622BE) Date: 7/1947 Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright visits Princeton and studies under Einstein Type: scientist Reference: [Bragalia](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/einsteins-secret-trip-to-view-roswell-ufo) Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_236 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1749 (9EFEB465) Date: 7/1947 Description: The Air Force began investigating UFO reports seriously after sightings by airline pilots, other qualified observers. Type: investigation Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_854 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1750 (88178279) Date: 7/1947 Description: Alternate date for the organization of the MAJESTIC-12 group by General George C. Marshall. Established in order to study the crash debris from the Roswell-Magdalena area. Type: majestic document Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian Attributes: Majestic See also: 9/24/1947 Source ID: Maj2_265 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1751 (888A0102) Date: 7/1947 Description: Conclusion to an FBI/ARMY Intelligence Report: Based on a detailed study of the Kenneth Arnold case (6/24/1947) and 15 other UFO encounters during the first month of the “flying saucer” mystery the conclusion is “this flying saucer situation is not all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomenon. Something is really flying around.” (This report was declassified FOIA, 1976.) Type: ufological event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) See also: 6/24/1947 See also: 9/23/1947 Source ID: Maj2_266 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1752 (07AE61C7) Date: 7/1947 Description: 2:30 p.m. (EDT). Fishermen rep "little men" on "sub". (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [470700](http://www.nicap.org/4706xx.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Near Malta, Mediterrian Sea, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_343 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1753 (8BB646C7) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: At 9:58 p.m a red disc-shaped object flew north to south at an extremely fast speed over Charleston, South Carolina. It had been seen earlier at Wilmington, North Carolina at 9:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charleston (SC) News Courier, July 6, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 147 Source ID: Johnson_3767 Source: Johnson ### Event 1754 (86FB44CF) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: Dr. G. Oliver Doctor saw a 'flying disc' zip over the city of El Paso, Texas on this day. It was shaped like two pie pans rim-to-rim, and was estimated to be 30 feet in diameter. It hurtled over Mount Franklin and then flew off towards Mexico. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk, April 16, 2005, p. 4, citing the Norman (OK) Transcript, July 2, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3766 Source: Johnson ### Event 1755 (2509C4B6) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: A target is picked up on radar at Chitose Air Base, Hokkaido, Japan, moving 16 miles north at speeds in excess of 500 mph. The blip instantly reverses course four times, breaks into two objects, then merges into one again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Col. James F. Olive Jr., “[Radar Pick-Ups of High-Speed Targets in the Far East,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/26sept1947letter.pdf)” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1947 Source ID: Eberhart_962 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1756 (A2FC4A22) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: At 3:00 p.m. a woman in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada saw a small silver colored, disc-shaped object three feet in diameter. It flew off toward the southeast with a wavering motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edmonton Journal, July 2, 1947; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_3764 Source: Johnson ### Event 1757 (BE4D345E) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: At noon Mrs. Hunt saw saw six discs maneuvering in the sky over Madras, Oregon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: The Oregonian, July 3, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 136 Source ID: Johnson_3762 Source: Johnson ### Event 1758 (87F281E8) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: At 11:45 a.m. three discs were spotted over Portland, Oregon, then another 10-12 discs showed up, silently tipping from side to side as they followed the river to the west-northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oregon Journal, July 2, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 135; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_3761 Source: Johnson ### Event 1759 (401F7860) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: Day. Animal ecologist [Charles K. Gunn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205141223/charles-kenneth-gunn)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205141223/charles-kenneth-gunn) his wife, and two passengers are driving near North Bedeque, Prince Edward Island, when they see a bright, shapeless object speeding along in the sky for 30 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p.](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) [III-18](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_961 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1760 (F366AA42) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: GCA Unit Tracks UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [470701](http://www.nicap.org/470701japandir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chitose AAB, Hokkaido, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_345 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1761 (5E230AC2) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: This alleged incident is listed for-the-record only and has been declared a hoax. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0, NC) Reference: NICAP: [470701](http://www.nicap.org/470701whitesands%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Sands, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_344 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1762 (B7D832F9) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: Late in the evening at around 11:00 p.m. thirteen silver disc-shaped objects flew over Albuquerque, New Mexico. They flew first toward the south, then turned to the east, and finally flew off to the west. A blue disc was also seen zig-zagging in the northwestern sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albuquerque Journal, July 2, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 152; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 157 Source ID: Johnson_3768 Source: Johnson ### Event 1763 (095E25C6) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: Military installations at White Sands, Alamogordo, and Roswell, New Mexico track high-speed objects on radar, all flying at speeds well above what current jet fighters were capable of doing. With the radar blips penetrating highly secure air space at will, all three facilities go on full alert. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [link](https://www.ufosightingsfootage.uk/2016/11/heres-actual-roswell-main-crash-site.html) Location: White Sands, NM Location: Alamogordo, NM Location: Roswell, NM Source ID: Maj2_237 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1764 (EC2B586E) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: Col. [Alfred Kalberer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124983070/alfred-f-kalberer) holds another press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, and brings astronomer [Oscar Monnig](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%5FMonnig) along to comment that the discs are “an interesting study in human psychology.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 23–24 Source ID: Eberhart_963 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1765 (BBB3C6E1) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: At 12:45 p.m. over Fort Stevens Annex, Oregon an extremely bright disc-shaped object maneuvered for 15 minutes. It then flew north toward the Columbia River. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ashland Budget, July 1, 1947; Oregon Journal, July 2, 1947; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_3763 Source: Johnson ### Event 1766 (C95FC859) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: Radar operators at Chitose Army Air Base on Hokkaido, Japan picked up an unidentified target 16 miles north of the base on course of 180 degrees and a speed in excess of 500 mph. The target reversed course, broke up into two responses, then merged back together again into one large response. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk, April 16, 2005, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_3760 Source: Johnson ### Event 1767 (6647C931) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: Night. Albuquerque, New Mexico, Chamber of Commerce official [Max Hood](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64056498/max-h%5F-hood) sees a bluish disc zigzagging for about 30 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. III-17](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf) [1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 23 Source ID: Eberhart_964 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1768 (4B08E5A4) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: 10:10 p.m. Meteorologist Ellwood E. Unger and his wife watch a round, orange, luminous object going about 100 mph after they leave a movie theater in Louisville, Kentucky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. III-2](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Jun-24-July-6-SN.pdf), The Author, 2000, p. 23 Source ID: Eberhart_965 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1769 (0BBAF624) Date: 7/1/1947? Description: 11:00 p.m. Mrs. A. M. King is with another passenger on the deck of the Union-Castle Mail [SS Llandovery](http://www.polishresettlementcampsintheuk.co.uk/passengerlist/otherships.htm) [Castle](http://www.polishresettlementcampsintheuk.co.uk/passengerlist/otherships.htm) as it is steaming through the Mozambique Channel. They notice a star-like object traveling fast toward the ship. It shines a strong beam of light on the water within 150 feet of the ship, then descends, the beam shortening and becoming brighter as it nears the water. Soon the light switches off and they can see a metallic object that looks like a cigar with the end cut off. It remains about 20 feet above the sea, moving parallel with the ship. King estimates it is about four times the length of the ship and four times as tall. After a few seconds, a large flame erupts from the rear of the object. It vanishes soundlessly in the darkness. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 18–19](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n15/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_966 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1770 (E9A199B6) Date: 7/1/1947 End date: 7/3/1947? Description: According to [Annie Jacobsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%5FJacobsen)’s informant, EG&G engineer [Alfred O’Donnell](https://obituaries.reviewjournal.com/obituary/alfred-o-donnell-1082038666), the upcoming Roswell, New Mexico, crashes are the result of a psychological warfare operation by Soviet leader [Joseph Stalin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FStalin) to fly into US airspace two disc- or wing-shaped aircraft based on a [Horton brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) design obtained at the end of World War II. One craft allegedly contains living dwarves or children \(human guinea pigs\) who had been surgically altered using similar methods to those used in Auschwitz concentration camp by Nazi doctor [Josef Mengele](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%5FMengele). This aircraft is remotely controlled by the crew of the second craft. The idea is to land the first aircraft in a visible location in the US, perhaps in Washington, D.C. The children would exit the craft and present themselves to the highest echelons of the government. However, the two aircraft crash in the New Mexico desert and, he claims, the Atomic Energy Commission is put in charge of the remains. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 367–374](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/366/mode/2up); Kremlin 30–36 Source ID: Eberhart_967 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1771 (320E4D90) Date: 7/1/1947 End date: 7/3/1947 Description: US Signal Corps radar sites in southern New Mexico and one at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque allegedly track an object “flitting around” the sky, frequently returning but finally disappearing on the night of July 4. Much of this story originates with now-discredited Roswell witness [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann), who claims he was ordered to bring a group of radar experts to Alamogordo to evaluate unexplained radar targets at White Sands Missile Range. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 159](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/158/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, [p. 8](https://archive.org/details/historyofufocras0000rand/page/8/mode/2up); Jim Wilson, “[Roswell Plus 50,](http://greyfalcon.us/ROSWELL%20PLUS%2050.htm)” Popular Mechanics 174 \(July 1997\): 48–53; Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 9–11, 26 Source ID: Eberhart_968 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1772 (BEBAA01F) Date: 7/1/1947 Description: In mid-afternoon in Pendleton, Oregon six to nine shiny platter-shaped objects whizzed overhead heading quickly toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oregon Journal, July 3, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 139 Source ID: Johnson_3765 Source: Johnson ### Event 1773 (5FF6B02C) Date: 7/2/1947 Description: Roswell area crash Type: ufo crash Reference: Valerian, Matrix 1 Source ID: Maj2_238 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1774 (5FF6B02C) Date: 7/2/1947 Description: Roswell area crash Type: ufo crash Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian Location: Roswell, NM Source ID: Maj2_239 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1775 (6C03E0A8) Date: 7/2/1947 Description: Magdalena, N.M.: Mr. Barnett sighted a shiny object out in the desert and, upon investigation, came upon a crashed disc-shaped object, 9 meters (30 ft.) across. Later a military truck arrived to supervise the investigation of the crash site. Barnett saw dead bodies strewn about the crash site. They weren’t wearing military uniforms, and in fact didn’t even look human. Seen from a distance, the bodies had on silvery suits and appeared to be about 3 ft. tall. Type: ufo crash Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Magdalena, N.M. Source ID: Maj2_240 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1776 (8C7D1720) Date: 7/2/1947 Description: 8:00 p.m. Spectators at a baseball game at the Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Milling Machine Company watch two slow- moving discs hovering above the field for 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[100 at Ball Game Tell of Seeing Two Mystery Saucers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101830625/the-cincinnati-post/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Post, July 7, 1947, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_969 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1777 (0B5EA373) Date: 7/2/1947 Description: 9:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. [Dan Wilmot](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/paulwilmot.htm) see an oval object like two inverted saucers pass over their house moving northwest in Roswell, New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 19; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 159](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/158/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “When and Where Did the Roswell Object Crash?” IUR 19, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1994\): 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_970 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1778 (34E238AA) Date: Early 7/1947 Description: A cyclist near Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie, Seine-Maritime, France, encounters an oval object, 10 feet long and 5 feet high, resting on the road 100 feet in front of her. Two small beings dressed in outfits and headgear are busy around it. When she honks her horn, the entities scurry into the object, entering it through a 20-inch opening. The UFO rises, oscillates, and streaks away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1947-07-france-amfreville.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1947-07-france-amfreville.htm) August 81, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_960 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1779 (F60BB8EC) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: Famous alleged UFO crash (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases, NC) Reference: NICAP: [470703](http://www.nicap.org/roswelldir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roswell, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_346 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1780 (02C001A9) Date: 7/3/1947 Time: 2:30 PM EDT Description: Witness: astronomer John Cole of South Brooksville, Me. Watched 10-15 seconds while ten very light objects, with two dark forms to their left, moved like a swarm of bees to the northwest. A loud roar was heard. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Harborside, Maine Source ID: BerlinerBBU_0 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 1781 (5705E49A) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: There are 35 unexplained UFO, USO (unidentified submarine object), and humanoid reports for this day in UFOCAT, including the alleged discovery of the famous Roswell debris field by Mac Brazel on a ranch near Corona, New Mexico and the discovery of a crashed disc by Barney Barnett in an arroyo near Magdelena, New Mexico. A cluster of three reports came from around Cincinnati, Ohio between 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. A cluster of another three reports came from Prince Edward Island, Canada at 5:45 p.m. including the sighting of a black cigar-shaped object in Charlottetown. There was a third cluster of sightings from Sonoma County, California where a forest fire lookout in Fort Ross saw what looked like a burning ship sink slowly into the Pacific Ocean where no ship was reported missing. There was a fourth cluster of three sightings between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U Computer database, case 782; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT, case A2038; Cincinnati (OH) Post, July 3, 1947; Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer, July 9, 1947; Windsor (ON) Daily Star, July 5, 1947; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 6); Baltimore Sun, July 6, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3796 Source: Johnson ### Event 1782 (BA2714D2) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: Famous alleged UFO crash and bodies recovered (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, NC) Reference: NICAP: [470703](http://www.nicap.org/roswelldir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roswell, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_347 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1783 (B667C291) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: Astronomer Observes Ten Large Objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 27) Reference: NICAP: [470703](http://www.nicap.org/470703sbrooksville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Brooksville-Harborside, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_348 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1784 (A1A658F9) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: In the village of Mendon, Vermont at 9:00 p.m. Mrs. Spieski sighted a cylindrical UFO, shaped like a flashlight with a white head and green body. It flew at a moderate speed over a meadow at low altitude, heading toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher; Rutland (VT) Herald, July 9, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3798 Source: Johnson ### Event 1785 (74705BA7) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: 8:55 a.m. William F. LeFevre watches a shiny, mirror-like disc zoom over River Drive near West 8th Street in Denver, Colorado, at several thousand feet and make a 45° turn before vanishing toward the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Denver Post, July 5, 1947; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, [p. 44](http://nicap.org/docs/loedd/loedd%5Fchapter%5F3.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_971 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1786 (4FAD223A) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: Landing, seen by a family of ten in Northern Idaho, of eight huge objects (Bloecher) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [470703](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/stmaries470703dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Maries (near), ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_349 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1787 (4CA0C0DA) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: Morning. Project Mogul Flight number 8, a cluster of plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 6–7, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_972 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1788 (B364DFCC) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: 2:30 p.m. Amateur astronomer John F. Cole watches a group of 10 objects moving northwest near Harborside, Maine, at 600–1,200 mph. Each is 50–150 feet wide. The objects are milling about in loose formation like a “swarm of bees” for 10–15 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Astronomer Observes Ten Large Objects](http://www.nicap.org/470703sbrooksville%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-18](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 19; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#astronomers)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 60 Source ID: Eberhart_973 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1789 (97EEA70D) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Air Research Center at Wright Field, Ohio, and the army intelligence service are looking into the flying discs. An INS dispatch states that Commander of the Army Air Force Gen. [Carl Spaatz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSpaatz) has asked Wright Field to look into such reports. Air Materiel Command’s Lt. Gen. [Nathan F. Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) tells Idaho Evening Statesman reporter [David N. Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson) that officials are indeed looking into the discs and that Wright Field has no comparable technology. Lieut. [William C. Anderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FCharles%5FAnderson), Wright Field public relations officer, says there is no confirmation that the discs exist. Maj. [Paul Gaynor](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81697834/paul-f-gaynor) says the Army Air Force needs more concrete information. German scientists working at Wright Field are asked about the discs, but they say they have heard nothing about any such experiments in Europe. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Army Gets Around to Checking ‘Flying](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37261859/army-gets-around-to-checking-flying/) [Discs’ and Is Mystified,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37261859/army-gets-around-to-checking-flying/)” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 3, 1947, p. 1; Dave Johnson, “[AAF Investigates Reports](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92600372/) [of](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92600524/) [Mysterious Air Objects,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92600524/)” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 3, 1947, pp. 1, 9; “[Military Says ‘No Results’ in Disc](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92602735/) [Probe,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92602735/)” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 4, 1947, p. 2; “[Weird ‘Flying Saucers’ Seen over 10 States,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92602122/)” New York Daily News, July 4, 1947, Final ed., p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_974 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1790 (6E436F4A) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: 5:45 p.m. Farmer Ewen McNeill in Village Green, east of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, sees a black, rocket-shaped projectile trailing a blindingly white flame and a smoke trail pass overhead as he is working his fields. It seems to be flying at 10,000 feet and is visible for 15 seconds. Around the same time, a resident of Augustine Cove watches an “object the size of an apple” traveling south at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. II-17](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm); Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 64 Source ID: Eberhart_975 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1791 (EA425CAA) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: 6:30 p.m. Mrs. Walter Johnson and her family see 8–9 discs flying out of the southern sky 6 miles west of Saint Maries, Idaho, over the St. Joe River. The objects came in “very fast, slow down jerkily, then flutter to the ground like leaves.” Mrs. Johnson thinks the objects are about the size of a “five-room house.” When they reach a clearing in the timber, they appear to “settle Down” a few at a time. Mrs. Johnson reports the sighting to intelligence officers at the Spokane Army Air Base \[now Fairchild AFB\], and an intensive air search is carried out by two missions of the National Guard’s 116th Fighter Group. Local sheriff’s deputies also make a ground search, but no traces of alanding can be found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Saucer’ Reports Increase](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101831002/the-spokesman-review/) [As Sky Is Searched in Vain,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101831059/the-spokesman-review/)” Spokane \(Wash.\) Spokesman-Review, July 7, 1947, pp. 1, 6; “[Dishman Residents Saw ‘Flying Saucers’ Land,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101830909/the-spokesman-review/)” Spokane \(Wash.\) Spokesman-Review, July 7, 1947, p. 6; Bloecher, [p. II-12](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_976 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1792 (3A04498E) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: 7:30 p.m. Project Mogul Flight number 9, a cluster of plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 6–7, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_977 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1793 (3C0684EF) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: Harborside, Maine - John F. Cole, an astronomer, watched a series of objects that gave off a roaring noise at 2:30 in the afternoon from Harborside, south of Brooksville, Maine. The objects were in the north and were proceeding northwest at a high speed. He estimated their diameter at 100 feet. Calling the report an "unusually well-supported incident," the Air Force had no explanation. However, years later the Air Materiel Command publicly explained the event as "birds or insects". This sighting was also one of the 1947 cases investigated by the FBI. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, pg. 51; Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, pg. 89 Source ID: Johnson_3797 Source: Johnson ### Event 1794 (18666192) Date: 7/3/1947 Description: Magdalena, NM area crash Type: ufo crash Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian Location: Magdalena, NM Source ID: Maj2_241 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1795 (3B973914) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 1:05–5:30 p.m. Many people in Portland, Oregon—including KOIN newsman Frank Cooley, deputy Clark County Sheriff [Fred Krives](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153181842/fred-c-krives)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153181842/fred-c-krives) Portland police officer [Kenneth A. McDowell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3913015/kenneth-a-mcdowell), and Oregon highway patrol Sgt. Claude Cross—view five large discs moving at high speed to the east, two flying south and three to the east, with an oscillating or wobbling motion, sudden 90° turns or zigzagging. Radio reports alert other officers \(including [Walter Lissy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36301214/walter-arnold-lissy)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36301214/walter-arnold-lissy) [Robert Ellis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/621613/robert-clark-ellis)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/621613/robert-clark-ellis) and [Earl Patterson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3922233/earl-f-patterson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3922233/earl-f-patterson) all WWII veterans\) who see the metallic objects that look like a disc or hubcap or pie-pan or half-moon flashing in the sun. No vapor trail or noise \(except possible humming\) is reported. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Seven Discs Observed by Many Witnesses](http://www.nicap.org/470704portland%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [pp. II-9](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm)[,](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) [III-15](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 20; “Air Liner Crew Confirms Flying Discs over State; Many Seen during Day over City,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1947](https://www.project1947.com/fig/1947c.htm)”; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#cities)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 58; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_984 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1796 (D2C57CC1) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 11:00 a.m. Harry Hale, production manager of the Portland Oregonian, sees one shiny disc moving swiftly just west of Beaverton, Oregon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Air Liner Crew Confirms Flying Disks over State; Many Seen during Day over City,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1947](https://www.project1947.com/fig/1947c.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_983 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1797 (0A16A7E4) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 11:00 a.m. C. J. Bogne and other witnesses in a car near Redmond, Oregon, see four discs flying past Mt. Jefferson on a straight course at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 20](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/20/mode/2up); Bloecher, [p. II-9](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 19 Source ID: Eberhart_982 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1798 (6A93B5C9) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 10:30 a.m. CAA official Irving C. Allen is flying a small aircraft near Moscow, Idaho, when he sees a white disc moving north for 5 minutes as it crosses his path several miles in front of him. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, p. [III-10](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_981 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1799 (85927C81) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: The United Press service rounds up theories about the flying discs. It quotes Army Air Force “experts” saying that the sightings might be caused by weather conditions, or meteorites, or foreign aircraft that it is “our responsibility to know about it and take proper action.” Occultist Ole J. Sneide from San Francisco, California, thinks they are “oblate spheroid space ships from other planets” with hidden bases on the dark side of the moon. This is apparently the first public mention of an extraterrestrial origin for flying saucers in the media. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[U.S. Stops](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92615877/) [‘Laughing Off’ Stories of Flying Disks,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92615877/)” Hollywood \(Calif.\) Citizen-News, July 3, 1947, p. 1; “[Flying Disks Said](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42476035/the-eagle/) [‘Space Ships’ from Other Solar Systems,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42476035/the-eagle/)” Bryan \(Tex.\) Eagle, July 3, 1947, p. 8; “[Buck Rogers Special,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16265447/the-press-democrat/)” Santa Rosa \(Calif.\) Press Democrat, July 4, 1947, p. 2; Curt Collins, “[A 1947 Pioneer of the UFO Extraterrestrial](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-1947-pioneer-of-ufo-extraterrestrial.html) [Hypothesis,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-1947-pioneer-of-ufo-extraterrestrial.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, December 16, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_980 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1800 (C5470B5A) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: After 4:00 a.m. Mrs. Martin Kole is awakened in her home in Alexandria, Virginia, by something shining through her bedroom window. She sees a large, roiund object hovering in the southwestern sky. She watches it for a few minutes, then goes back to bed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. II-6](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_979 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1801 (EF22BA46) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 3:00 a.m. Lenora Woodruff wakes up in her home at 184 S. Arlington Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey, when several airplanes fly overhead. She looks out and sees a “strange goldenish platter” moving swiftly across the sky. It disappears in a second. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[South Plainfield Woman Reports Seeing ‘Flying Saucer’ Formation,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92602987/)” Bridgewater \(N.J.\) Courier-News, July 5, 1947, p.1 Source ID: Eberhart_978 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1802 (C4CF87EB) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: UFO crashes in Horse Mountain Canyon: 2 dead grays, one heavily injured, one surviving Type: ufo crash Reference: anonymous information (R.G.) Location: Magdalena, NM Attributes: gallant Source ID: Maj2_242 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1803 (1C987AA5) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: Portland area mass sightings, hundreds of witnesses, Blue Book Report includes state and local police witnesses Type: mass ufo sighting Reference: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ItsBS_YouTube/status/1608646571675226114) Location: Portland, OR Source ID: Maj2_243 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1804 (079E32D9) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: Capt. E. J. Smith co-pilot & stewardess see UFO’s in PNW Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Island_incident) Reference: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ItsBS_YouTube/status/1611422054758158349) Location: Pacific Northwest Source ID: Maj2_244 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1805 (23A3B9A7) Date: 7/4/1947 Time: 8:17 PM PDT Description: Witnesses: United Air Lines Capt. E.J. Smith, First Officer Ralph Stevens, Stewardess Marty Morrow. Watched for 12-15 minutes while four objects with flat bottoms and rough tops moved at varying speeds, with one high and to the right of the others. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: over Emmet, Idaho Source ID: BerlinerBBU_1 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 1806 (0964B64B) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 9:12 p.m. United Air Lines Flight 105 pilots Capt. Emil J. Smith and First Officer Ralph Stevens are flying from Boise, Idaho, to Seattle, Washington, when they see a formation of five discs over Emmett, Idaho, silhouetted against the sunset. Stewardess Marty Morrow sees them as well. The objects appear to merge and speed away to the northwest. Another group appears and arranges itself in a straight line. The nine objects are seen at least 12 minutes over a distance of 45 miles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “View of ‘Flying Saucers’ over Ontario Dumbfounds Veteran Pilot, Other Crew Member of Airliner,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1947](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1947d.htm)”; NICAP, “[5](http://www.nicap.org/470704emmett%5Fdir.htm) [Discs Sighted by United Flight](http://www.nicap.org/470704emmett%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [pp. III-10–11](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 20; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952, Palmer, pp. 18–19; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots) [Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 41–42 Source ID: Eberhart_993 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1807 (12AD457F) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: At 11:00 p.m. an orange ball of light, "as big around as a barrel," which resolved itself into a disc, frightened Ms. M. Voigt of Edgerton, Wisconsin. The UFO flew fast across the sky but was back again for ten minutes, when it then suddenly vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Madison Capital-Times, July 7, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3815 Source: Johnson ### Event 1808 (3EA069DF) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: At 5:30 p.m. at the residential area of Greenwood Lake in north Seattle, Washington Mr. Larson sighted a round white object descend vertically, then make a ninety-degree turn and proceed horizontally flying toward the south. Two more people at the nearby University of Washington campus also saw the UFO, as did 21 more in the Lake City area of the city. One of the witnesses in the Lake City area took a photograph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, p. 82; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 257; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 8, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3814 Source: Johnson ### Event 1809 (FB564AC6) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: Also that day four silent discs passed the summit of Mount Jefferson in Oregon flying at a high rate of speed. In Troutdale, Oregon a V-shaped object flew toward the northeast over the Columbia River. It made dipping motions during its flight, and was observed through binoculars by three men. In Vancouver, Washington 20-30 round objects flew toward the west and south in straight-line formations. A low humming sound was heard. North of Craig, Montana a string of twelve plate-shaped objects flew over a couple while they were out fishing on a bridge at 3:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; The Oregonian, July 5 & 6, 1947; International UFO Reporter, Winter 1998; Wyoming State Tribune, July 6, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3813 Source: Johnson ### Event 1810 (C84BAD01) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: At 1:05 p.m. a police officer at police headquarters in Portland, Oregon saw five flying discs, two going south, three flying to the east at high speed. They were oscillating around a central vertical axis. Minutes later two police, both pilots, saw three more discs trailing one another. Then four patrolmen reported seeing 3-6 "chrome hubcaps" flying over the city. At about the same time a highway patrolman in Milwaukee, Oregon watched two or three shiny white saucers fly quickly toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 2; Oregon Journal, July 5, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3812 Source: Johnson ### Event 1811 (F8F00AB1) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: A young woman driving in the afternoon on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Texas saw a 25-foot diameter flying disc. She got out of her car and waved. The object tipped and the human-appearing occupants waved back to her, and then the disc flew away in silence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Mysterious Visitors, p. 91 Source ID: Johnson_3811 Source: Johnson ### Event 1812 (F198F00C) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: At noon while flying between Tonopah and Austin, Nevada and cruising at an estimated 10,000 feet altitude, Mr. Harris and his passenger sighted five circular objects flying below his airplane. They were shiny and reflected sunlight. He tried to catch up to them but could not. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Nevada Daily Free Press, July 7, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3810 Source: Johnson ### Event 1813 (C65A8D9B) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: The retrieval of UFO wreckage and bodies allegedly occurred on this day from a crash site near Corona, New Mexico. The bodies were taken later to Roswell AFB, New Mexico and then flown to Carswell AFB in Texas. According to the relatives of witnesses who shared details about the alien humanoid bodies, they had baldheads, small sunken eyes, small noses, no ears, long forearms, and only four long slender fingers on each hand. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to Extraterrestrials: A complete overview of alien life forms based on actual accounts and sightings, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_3809 Source: Johnson ### Event 1814 (F9137C90) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: There are 73 UFO reports from across the United States and one report from Canada recorded for this day in UFOCAT. The majority of the reports fall in a swath from the Pacific Northwest down through the Mississippi River Valley. Most of these sightings were of flyovers by daylight discs, although there was one humanoid report from Fort Worth, Texas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_3808 Source: Johnson ### Event 1815 (62B3F3A7) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 11 a.m. witnesses in a car near Redmond saw 4 discs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Redmond (near), OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_350 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1816 (6769BC0A) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: Many over a wide area saw 5 large discs moving at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470704](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/portland470704dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portland and Milwaukie, OR, Vancouver, WA, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_351 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1817 (FE8CA53C) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 3 metallic discs glinting sunlight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portland, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_352 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1818 (95F870B8) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: A silvery disc-shaped object flipping in an erratic path (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portland, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_353 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1819 (AF0951C6) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: Seven Discs Observed By Many Witnesses (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470704](http://www.nicap.org/470704portland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portland and Milwaukie, OR, Vancouver, WA, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_354 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1820 (C91C2982) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: Frank Ryman-1st known photo of Circular obj which moved across the wind \[UFOE, VII, XII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [470704](http://www.nicap.org/fotocat/470704ryman%5Folmos.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Seattle, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_355 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1821 (3ACEC2F8) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 5 disc-shaped objects with flat bottoms and rough tops. Smith/Stevens Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 34) Reference: NICAP: [470704](http://www.nicap.org/470704emmett%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Emmett, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_356 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1822 (6B294463) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 11:27 p.m. Army Signal Corps radar sites in southern New Mexico supposedly continue to track a mysterious object. Kirtland AFB’s commander scrambles a fighter jet piloted by Kenny Chandler to locate the object, but he cannot find it. Before midnight, [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann) allegedly sees a brilliant glow on the radar display, pulsates a number of times, then explode in a starburst. The belief is that the object has now crashed. [Jim Ragsdale](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61745306/james-raymond-ragsdale) and “Trudy Truelove” supposedly see a bright flash of light and hear a roaring sound that passes overhead. Ragsdale knows that something has struck the ground close to their campsite. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 160](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up); Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 36](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/36/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “When and Where Did the Roswell Object Crash?” IUR 19, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1994\): 14; Kevin D. Randle, “The Truth about the Jim Ragsdale Story,” IUR 21, no. 3 \(Fall 1996\): 13–16, 29–30; Jim Wilson, “[Roswell Plus 50,](http://greyfalcon.us/ROSWELL%20PLUS%2050.htm)” Popular Mechanics 174 \(July 1997\): 48–53; The Roswell Files, “[Jim Ragsdale](http://www.roswellfiles.com/Witnesses/ragsdale.htm),” April 11, 1998; Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 9–11, 26; Kevin D. Randle, “[Jim Ragsdale’s](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/04/jim-ragsdales-roswell-tale.html) [Roswell Tale,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/04/jim-ragsdales-roswell-tale.html)” A Different Perspective, April 22, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_996 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1823 (9035E6F8) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: During a thunderstorm near Corona, New Mexico, [W. W. “Mack” Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) hears a tremendous thunderclap that sounds like an explosion but is somehow different from the rest of the thunder. Others in the area report the same phenomenon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 160](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_995 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1824 (18545DFA) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: The first of the special flights from Washington, D.C., arrives at Roswell Army Air Field \[now closed\], New Mexico \(presumably to investigate the radar reports claimed by [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann)\). On the plane is Warrant Officer Robert Thomas. Thomas and his companions are in uniform upon arrival, but quickly change to civilian clothes. Thomas wants an on-site briefing as soon as it can be arranged. These men remain at RAAF throughout the later retrieval. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 160–161](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_994 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1825 (F3183D60) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: Sunset. M. K. Leisy, a junior intern at the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital at 44th and Market streets in Philadelphia, is reading on the porch of the hospital when he hears a loud roar. A large transport plane passes overhead, but he also sees a dark sphere with a luminous halo around it moving below the clouds at a moderate speed. It disappears into the clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Discs](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12116307/the-philadelphia-inquirer/) [Seen over City,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12116307/the-philadelphia-inquirer/)” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 5, 1947, pp. 1, 3; Bloecher, [pp. II-14–15](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_992 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1826 (6A6813CF) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: Sunset. [Henry Seay](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38951275/henry-e-seay)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38951275/henry-e-seay) a farmer living 2 miles north of Fayetteville, Arkansas, watches three yellow discs flying overhead to the southwest, dropping sparks, and frightening his cattle and horses. The following night it happens again and the cows go into a panic, running off to the other side of the pasture. Some kind of dust falls on Seay, although it does not burn. After several seconds, the object rises up vertically 30–40 feet and shoots off horizontally at 50 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. IV-1](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_991 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1827 (AA53DBD3) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 7:00 p.m. George Aster and others at Hauser Lake, Idaho, watch a flying disc for 30 minutes as it hovers with a lateral oscillation about 30° above the horizon at an estimated 20,000 feet. It shoots straight up and vanishes when a small aircraft approaches it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Disks Seen Here Today, Is Report,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101831840/spokane-chronicle/)” Spokane \(Wash,\) Spokesman- Review, July 7, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [pp. II-6–7](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_990 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1828 (4DD0E347) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 6:30 p.m. United Press correspondent John C. Corlett, along with artist V. H. Selby and their wives, see a white disc speeding over Boise, Idaho, at an altitude of about 10,000 feet. It takes about 3 seconds to disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “View of ‘Flying Saucers’ over Ontario Dumbfounds Veteran Pilot, Other Crew Member of Airliner,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1947](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1947d.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_989 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1829 (3A2E3CEB) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 5:45 p.m. Coast Guard Yeoman [Frank Ryman](http://luforu.org/frank-ryman/) photographs a round disc over his home at 12321 22nd Street NE, Lake City, Seattle, Washington. The object is in sight for 4–5 minutes and is seen by at least 20 others, traveling 500 mph. The photo shows a small, blurred white oval against a background of sky, but when enlarged the object is quite distinct. The Air Force explains it as a weather balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Observers Report Discs](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92620403/) [over Entire Western](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92620514/) [Area,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92620514/)” Salt Lake City Deseret News, July 5, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [pp. IV-3–4](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm); London UFO Research Unit, “[Seattle, Washington, America, North America](http://luforu.org/seattle-washington-america-north-america/)”; Michael D. Swords, “[Can You Learn Anything from UFO](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos.html) [Photos, Part Two,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos.html)” The Big Study, July 5, 2012; Kenneth Lloyd Larson, “A Summer 1947 Sighting,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 19–20 Source ID: Eberhart_988 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1830 (DB4E6DCD) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: After 5:00 p.m. Private pilot Dan Whelan and passenger Duncan Underhill are flying at 5,000 feet west of Long Beach, California, when they see a disc about 2,000 feet above them, traveling at 400–500 mph. They estimate it is 40–50 feet in diameter and flying north-northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Air Disc’ Mystery Grows,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101836806/los-angeles-evening-citizen-news/) [Baffles U.S.,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101836843/los-angeles-evening-citizen-news/)” Hollywood \(Calif.\) Citizen-News, July 5, 1947, pp. 1, 3; Bloecher, [p. III-10](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_987 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1831 (82A0C23F) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 5:00 p.m. Nova Hart and his wife Marveline are picnicing off Old Saint Charles Road west of Pattonville, Missouri. They see a saucer-shaped object, ribbed like a “parachute canopy,” gliding slowly \(50–60 mph\) and silently from south to north about 300 feet off the ground. It seems to have a propellor attached to a red conical structure on its underside and is about 20–25 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. II-14](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_986 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1832 (2447AE96) Date: 7/4/1947 Description: 2:50 p.m. Seven people at Twin Falls Park, seven miles east of Twin Falls, Idaho, watch a group of discs in a rough V-formation flying at great speed. A second flight of 9–10 objects circle overhead in a loose formation. They gain altitude rapidly and move to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Saucer Mystery Grows,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101831558/tucson-daily-citizen/)” Tucson \(Ariz.\) Daily Citizen, July 5, 1947, p. 4; Bloecher, [p. II-5](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_985 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1833 (5CE86DDC) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: Albuquerque, New Mexico - Five discs flew toward the east over the city at 9 o'clock in the morning; one circled back over the city. In the afternoon five witnesses saw a sphere maneuver in-and-out of clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave; Albuquerque Journal, July 6, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3837 Source: Johnson ### Event 1834 (F0D544B9) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: In Augusta, Maine at 1:15 p.m. local time, two witnesses, including the program director of WRDO Radio, saw twelve discs flying rapidly in a straight line toward Bangor in a north-northeasterly direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Daily Kennebec Journal, July 7, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3838 Source: Johnson ### Event 1835 (473C66D7) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: Plains of San Agustin area: Gerald Anderson and family/friends witness a crashed UFO with 4 ET’s, later passes a polygraph test, interviewed by ufologist Stanton Friedman. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [link](https://www.donkeyjunk.com/post/gerald-anderson-ufo-interview-the-man-who-claims-he-witnessed-a-crashed-ufo-and-four-aliens-in-1947) Location: Plains of San Agustin, NM Source ID: Maj2_245 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1836 (2DA913BF) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: There are 59 UFO reports from across the United States and one from Canada recorded for this day in UFOCAT. The geographical distribution of the UFO sightings is similar to the day before, but with many more reports from California and the Great Lakes. The majority of these reports were of flyovers by daylight discs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_3835 Source: Johnson ### Event 1837 (31AE4D83) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: At 8:00 a.m. two discs zoomed in from the west over Sacramento, California. One banked sharply and headed north. According to one witness, it "seemed to stand on one edge as it turned." Both objects left vapor trails. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, citing the Sacramento Bee, July 7, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3836 Source: Johnson ### Event 1838 (9C4EF994) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: Frank Cooley, a former Marine Corps observer now with radio station KOIN in Portland, confirmed numerous reports of witnesses in the Portland are Friday afternoon. Cooley estimated the disks were flying at 20,000 feet. He saw twelve of them and flatly declared them to be manned and maneuverable. Type: ufo sightings Reference: Los Angeles Examiner, Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5) Location: Portland, OR Source ID: Maj2_246 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1839 (D1444099) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: 3:00 a.m. Acting on what he claims are orders from Brig. Gen. [Martin F. Scanlon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FF.%5FScanlon) of the Army's Air Defense Command, discredited Roswell witness [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann) returns to Roswell Army Air Field from Alamogordo to alert Colonel [William H. Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard), Roswell AAF commanding officer, about a potential crash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jim Wilson, “[Roswell Plus 50,](http://greyfalcon.us/ROSWELL%20PLUS%2050.htm)” Popular Mechanics 174 \(July 1997\): 48–53 Source ID: Eberhart_997 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1840 (010944FB) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: at 7:00 p.m. in daylight skies over Neapolis, Ohio a TWA flight crew saw a propeller-shaped object rotating slowly as it flew beneath the airliner. It was flying at an estimated speed of 200 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, newspaper clipping dated July 6, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3841 Source: Johnson ### Event 1841 (EBEFFA2E) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: In clear sky at 3:00 p.m. in Anaconda, Montana a man saw six silvery objects fluttering as they flew toward the east. A woman, an independent witness, also saw the same three fluttering objects disappear over the horizon. Both witnesses called the police. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 80 Source ID: Johnson_3840 Source: Johnson ### Event 1842 (B2491682) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: At 1:00 p.m. in 1947 a party of surveyors in Payette, Idaho saw four silvery discs that each had a dark line in the center fly toward the northwest at an estimated speed of 800 km per hour. They were lost in the clouds at an estimated altitude of 8,000 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 862 Source ID: Johnson_3839 Source: Johnson ### Event 1843 (0CF99547) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: 9:00 AM. Five discs flew toward the east over the city; one circled back over the city. In the afternoon five witnesses saw a sphere maneuver in-and-out of clouds (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_357 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1844 (8A5A954F) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: 10:00 a.m. W/O Robert Thomas and his crew proceed to the impact site. The bodies, originally covered by sheets, are now in lead-lined body bags. Only those with the highest clearance are allowed close to the center of the impact. Guards are posted, facing out, to keep the curious away. According to researcher Kathy Kasten, the dead bodies are taken to Roswell Army Air Field, but one is still alive and taken to Fort Stanton \[now closed\] in Lincoln, New Mexico, whose Marine Hospital was used to confine troublesome German and Japanese detainees during World War II. Allegedly, aerospace physician [William Randolph Lovelace II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FRandolph%5FLovelace%5FII) travels there from Albuquerque to examine the survivor, who reportedly dies one week later and is buried in the Fort Stanton cemetery. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p.](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up) [161](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up); Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 204–221 Source ID: Eberhart_1001 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1845 (5FEF37C1) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: Later that evening, [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) removes the large, circular piece of the debris from the range. Brazel either loads it into the back of his truck or drags it along behind. He stores it in a livestock shed about three miles north of the crash site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p.](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/162/mode/2up) [163](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/162/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1004 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1846 (ADAD17DB) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: 2:30 p.m. Automobile dealer [Kjell Qvale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjell%5FQvale) and dozens of others see a triangular formation of silvery discs flying south near Auburn, California. They appear directly overhead and are in view for 3–4 minutes, disappearing one at a time, but not over the hdorizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Skeptical Experts Call](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101844130/the-san-francisco-examiner/) [Disc Reports ‘Mass Illusion,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101844237/the-san-francisco-examiner/)” San Francisco Examiner, July 8, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [p. II-5](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1003 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1847 (2DD935BB) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: Following the rain the night before, [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) inspects the pastures surrounding the J. B. Foster ranch house southeast of Corona, New Mexico. Riding with him is the young son of the Proctors, [William D. Proctor](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80134486/william-d-proctor). During the inspection, Brazel discovers a large debris field. Scattered on the slopes and into the sinkhole and depressions are plastic-like beams, pieces of lightweight balsawood-like material only stronger, light metallic foil \(which doesn’t stay bent or folded, resumes its original shape, and won’t tear\), and heavy-gauge monofilament. The debris is thick enough that the sheep refuse to cross the field and are driven around it to water more than a mile away. Brazel, taking a few scraps of the material, heads to the home of his closest neighbors, [Floyd](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99049640/floyd-proctor) and [Loretta](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144211794/susan-loretta-proctor%5Fhodges) [Proctor](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144211794/susan-loretta-proctor%5Fhodges)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144211794/susan-loretta-proctor%5Fhodges) He shows them “a little sliver” of material that he can neither burn nor cut. Some of the beams have symbols on them that reminds Brazel of Chinese ideograms. The Proctors suggest he take it into town to show the sheriff. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Did a Balloon Crash at Roswell?” IUR 15, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1990\): 4–5; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 27–](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/26/mode/2up) [32](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/26/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/26/mode/2up) [161](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “[Roswell: Clashing Visions of the Possible,](http://cufos.org/Roswell/Clashing%20Visions.pdf)” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 11–13, 33– 35; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris Field: Size Doesn’t Matter,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 14–19, 30; Donald R. Burleson, “[Roswell Trajectory Feasibility,](http://cufos.org/Roswell/roswell%5Ftraj.pdf)” Center for UFO Studies; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 125–127 Source ID: Eberhart_1002 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1848 (FBC8D283) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: 5:30 a.m. According to discredited Roswell witness [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann), a small contingent of men from Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico drive north on what is now US Highway 285. Near mile marker 132, they turn off the road and began driving across the desert, stopping from time to time to cut the barbed-wire fencing. They discover a heel-shaped craft measuring about 25 feet long and 12 feet wide embedded in a cliff. The soldiers find civilians on the site already. Besides the archaeologists, a local man named Larry Campbell \(later called Jack Armstrong or Cactus Jack\) also claims to have been there. They escort them off while others secure the area. Five bodies are allegedly found on the site. The impact site is cleaned and secured by 11:30 a.m. [Annie Jacobsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%5FJacobsen) has interviewed [Alfred O’Donnell](https://obituaries.reviewjournal.com/obituary/alfred-o-donnell-1082038666), later an engineer at EG&G, who tells her that one of the objects crashed and was recovered by the Joint Chiefs, including the airframe, propulsion equipment, and the power plant. It has no wings or tail. The fuselage is round and there is a dome on top. Inside there are Cyrillic letters stamped or embossed in a ring running around the inside. Army intelligence officers suspect that the craft is the brainchild of German airplane engineers, [Walter and Reimar Horten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers), working for the Russian military. A frantic search to find what happened to the brothers allegedly takes place; informants like Austrian physicist [Adolf Smekal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf%5FSmekal) of Frankfurt, Germany, provide leads, with confusing results for several months. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 161](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/160/mode/2up); Thomas J. Carey, “The Strange Saga of ‘Cactus Jack,’” IUR 22, no. 1 \(Spring 1997\): 3–11; Jim Wilson, “[Roswell Plus 50,](http://greyfalcon.us/ROSWELL%20PLUS%2050.htm)” Popular Mechanics 174 \(July 1997\): 48–53; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 36–40](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/36/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1000 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1849 (3AEF92AA) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: 5:01 a.m. Project Mogul Flight number 10, a cluster of plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 6–7, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_999 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1850 (280AEBAA) Date: 7/5/1947 Description: 5:00 a.m. Archaeologists, including [William Curry Holden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FCurry%5FHolden), working the sites around Roswell, New Mexico, stumble across an impact site where an object has crashed. One of them heads to the closest phone to tell Sheriff [George A. Wilcox](https://www.rdrnews.com/2018/11/12/a-sheriff-without-a-gun-memoirs-of-a-sheriffs-wife/) of the discovery of the remains of a crashed aircraft of some kind. Wilcox calls the local fire department to alert them about the crash. One truck, with [Dan Dwyer](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/dandwyer.htm) on it, responds to the call. The site is about 35–40 miles north of Roswell. The Roswell Fire Department, escorted by members of the Roswell Police Department, makes a run along Pine Lodge Road northwest of Roswell. They are among the first civilians to stumble across the impact site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 33–36](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/32/mode/2up); Thomas J. Carey, “The Search for the Roswell Archaeologists: Casting the Net,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 3–8, 23–24; Thomas J. Carey, “The Continuing Search for the Roswell Archaeologists: Closing the Circle,” IUR 19, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1994\): 4–12; Kevin D. Randle and Anthony Bragalia, “Two Roswell Witnesses, Reconsidered,” IUR 32, no. 3 \(July 2009\): 6–8, 24 Source ID: Eberhart_998 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1851 (BE0D2CFA) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: At 7:00 p.m. a silver disc dipped down out of the sky and climbed back up again south of St. Joseph, Missouri. It then shot to the northeast very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 468 Source ID: Johnson_3868 Source: Johnson ### Event 1852 (2FC0CBFF) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: Mr. Bates, an airline passenger in a plane flying southeast of Boise, Idaho watched a disc flash by his window at one o'clock in the afternoon. It was heading toward the southwest. A stewardess quickly rushed over to look. That evening over Boise, silver discs whirled and changed directions several times in several minutes, as if searching for something. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, letters received by Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Los Angeles, April 5, 1952; Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 7, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3857 Source: Johnson ### Event 1853 (6DAE9292) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: At five o'clock in the morning, Mr. McLean and his son were driving through Pocatello, Idaho at dawn when they saw a three-foot wide disc with a bulge in the middle land on a city street. It rose up, made some jerky movements, and then shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Pocatello Tribune, July 7, 1947; Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer, July 8, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3856 Source: Johnson ### Event 1854 (235B4777) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: There are 127 UFO reports for this day recorded in the UFOCAT database. Cities with multiple reports include St. Louis, Missouri: Birmingham, Alabama; Tucson, Arizona; Patterson, New Jersey; Chicago, Illinois, Darlington, South Carolina; Boise, Idaho; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Portland, Oregon; and Mount Vernon, Washington. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_3855 Source: Johnson ### Event 1855 (416EB949) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: Three airmen flying aboard an Army Air Force B-25 near Clay Center, Kansas saw a silvery circular object, 10-15 meters in diameter, at 1:45 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_3858 Source: Johnson ### Event 1856 (502897E0) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: At 5:15 p.m. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota a silver orb shot toward the southwest "faster than any plane." It flew at an estimated altitude of ten thousand feet. It had what appeared to be a road stuck through the center of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sioux Falls (SD) Daily Argus-Leader, July 7, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3863 Source: Johnson ### Event 1857 (57747B24) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: Round Flat Object Size Of C-54 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 36) Reference: NICAP: [470706](http://www.nicap.org/470706fairfieldsuisan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fairfield-Suisan AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_358 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1858 (83ADC0D0) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: 30-50' Circular Object Paces B-25, Accelerates (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470706](http://www.nicap.org/470706claycntr%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clay Center, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_359 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1859 (DC036F97) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: Aviation engineer saw oval UFO. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: S. Central, WY Source ID: NICAP_DB_360 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1860 (FE826415) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: At 7:00 p.m. three families in West Hartford, Connecticut including a physician, saw a reddish brown disc move at great speed in a straight line flying toward the northwest. At about the same time in New Hampshire two large discs flew over the town of Londonderry, making a whistling noise. That same night a disc with a Maltese cross inscribed on it flew on a straight, northerly course over East Providence, Rhode Island. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hartford Times, July 7, 1947; Manchester Union-Leader, July 7, 1947; Providence Journal, July 7, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3867 Source: Johnson ### Event 1861 (CE4E2BA2) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: 9:00 p.m. Because of the distance to the ranch over roads that are less than adequate, [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel), [Marcel](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/jessemarcel.htm), and [Cavitt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) do not arrive until after dark. They stay at the “Hines” house \(an old ranch house close to the debris field\), eat cold beans, and wait for daylight. Marcel runs a Geiger counter over the large piece of wreckage Brazel has stored in the cattle shed. He detects no sign of radiation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 165](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/164/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1012 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1862 (2E6BAA64) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: 8:45 p.m. Army Staff Sgt. [Ira L. Livingston](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109070324/ira-l-livingston) watches a procession of glowing round objects moving at 500 mph over Birmingham, Alabama. A new one appears every 5 seconds. Many others report UFOs in the area between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. Robert Crossland, a copy reader for the Birmingham Age-Herald, takes a photo that shows two round white spots close together. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [pp. III-3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm)–4, [IV-4](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm); Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, [pp. 67–68](https://www.nicap.org/loedding/LoeddingBook.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1011 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1863 (4D3DC3D8) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: Colonel [William H. Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard), Roswell AAF commanding officer, entrusted with oversight of the first and only atomic-bomb strike force in the world, the 509th Bomb Group, orders [Jesse A. Marcel](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/jessemarcel.htm), the air intelligence officer, to investigate the debris report. Marcel immediately drives to the sheriff’s office. Marcel interviews [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) examines the pieces of the material that Brazel brought in, and decides he had better visit the ranch to examine the field for himself. Marcel, taking some of the debris with him, returns to the base and reports to Blanchard on what he has seen. Blanchard, convinced that he is in possession of something highly unusual, perhaps Soviet, alerts the next higher headquarters. Marcel and Blanchard all know this is from not any type of balloon. Marcel returns to the sheriff’s office with the senior counterintelligence agent assigned to the base, CIC Captain [Sheridan W.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) [Cavitt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) They escort Brazel back to his ranch and examine the debris field. Acting on orders from Major General [Clements McMullen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clements%5FMcMullen)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clements%5FMcMullen) deputy commander of the Strategic Air Command, Blanchard obtains more of the debris from the sheriff’s office. It is sealed in a courier pouch and loaded on an airplane to be flown on to the Fort Worth Army Air Field, where it is given to Colonel [Thomas J. DuBose](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/thomasdubose.htm) for transport on to Washington, D.C. After Marcel and Cavitt leave with Brazel, the two deputies return to say they did not find the debris field but observed a burned area in one of the pastures. There the sand has been turned to glass and blackened. It looks as if something circular has touched down. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 37–40](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/36/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/36/mode/2up) [164](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/164/mode/2up); Good Need, [p. 89](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/88/mode/2up); Nukes 482–483 Source ID: Eberhart_1010 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1864 (0B104169) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: Afternoon. Francis Howell and his wife are in their yard at 317 Ash Street in Tempe, Arizona, when they see an object floating down to the ground with a kite-like motion. It appears to be about 2 feet across and made of aluminum. It disappears behind some trees. The Howells and some neighbors walk toward the place where it apparently has landed, and they see the disc ascend at a 45° angle and move at high speed toward the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Tempeans See ‘Disc,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101844590/arizona-republic/)” Phoenix Arizona Republic, July 7, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [p. II-13](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1009 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1865 (D4CC8687) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: 2:45 p.m. [David A. Kenney](https://www.dailybreeze.com/2019/04/17/decades-after-hush-hush-wwii-role-rancho-palos-verdes-very-own-secret-james-bond-is-honored-with-prestigious-military-medal/), an aircraft instruments engineer, and two others watch an oval-shaped UFO flying at a high altitude for nearly 2 minutes near Encampment, Wyoming. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. III-17](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); David Kenney, “Right Place, Right Time,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(August 2006\): 28 Source ID: Eberhart_1008 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1866 (681B0820) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: A 9:45 p.m. a military witness sighted up to eleven discs and some 40 nocturnal lights over Birmingham, Alabama. The discs whirled through the sky and flew off toward the west. Both the Air Force and the FBI investigated the case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_3869 Source: Johnson ### Event 1867 (B4BB471D) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: Day. Army Air Corps Capt. [James H. Burniston](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98562028/james-herbert-burniston) and his wife watch a round, flat object that oscillates on its lateral axis of travel three quarters of the way across the sky in a few seconds at Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field \[now Travis AFB\] near Fairfield, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Round Flat Object Size of C-54](http://www.nicap.org/470706fairfieldsuisan%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 21 Source ID: Eberhart_1007 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1868 (A2105D76) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: 1:45 p.m. Maj. A. B. Browning and the crew of a B-25 flying over Clay Center, Kansas, see a silvery disc about 30–50 feet in diameter slightly lower than their plane. It paces them for a while then shoots off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[30–50ʹ](http://www.nicap.org/470706claycntr%5Fdir.htm) [Circular Object Paces B-25, Accelerates](http://www.nicap.org/470706claycntr%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. III-11](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 21 Source ID: Eberhart_1006 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1869 (5D114DF3) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: At six o'clock in the evening in Norman, Oklahoma the University of Oklahoma Dean of Engineering and four others watched one, then two more UFOs shoot to the west at a very high speed. They were estimated to be flying at 20,000 feet altitude. A round object flew across the sky to the west "awfully fast" over Anadarko, Oklahoma at 6:30 p.m. That same evening a light colored 40-foot wide disc flew just below the clouds in Edgewood, Texas. It speed was judged to be faster than a plane, and it seemed to be gaining altitude as it flew toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Daily Oklahoman, July 8, 1947; Dallas Morning News, July 7, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3866 Source: Johnson ### Event 1870 (5F56BD89) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: At 6:00 p.m. Mrs. Stollmaier in Terrace Park, Ohio saw two "shiny silver plates" travel north to south at high rate of speed. They appeared to be gaining altitude as they flew. At the same time northwest of Richmond, Virginia twelve shiny metallic discs wavered and flipped across the sky, just below the clouds at an estimated altitude of 500 feet. At 7:00 p.m. a black disc flew across the sky in Portsmouth, Virginia. It flight was silent, "as if towed." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cincinnati Enquirer, July 7, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, cases 442 & 457 Source ID: Johnson_3865 Source: Johnson ### Event 1871 (CA649AD9) Date: 7/6/1947 Time: Daytime Description: Witnesses: Army Air Forces Capt. and Mrs. James Burniston. Watched for 1 minute while one object having no wings or tail rolled from side-to-side three times and then flew away very fast to the southeast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Fairfield-Suisan Air Base, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_2 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 1872 (EDED423A) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: At 5:30 p.m. a low flying shiny circular object, floated like dirigible near the ground over a wheat field in Emporia, Kansas. It veered slowly to pass over a hill and fly toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, p. 85 Source ID: Johnson_3864 Source: Johnson ### Event 1873 (006EEC85) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: Three shiny discs in a delta formation flew high and fast toward the north across Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana at 5:10 p.m. They entered a cloud and were gone from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 451 Source ID: Johnson_3862 Source: Johnson ### Event 1874 (46B3352B) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) gets up early, completes his chores, and then drives into Roswell, New Mexico, about 75 miles away. He stops at the office of Sheriff [George A. Wilcox](https://www.rdrnews.com/2018/11/12/a-sheriff-without-a-gun-memoirs-of-a-sheriffs-wife/)[.](https://www.rdrnews.com/2018/11/12/a-sheriff-without-a-gun-memoirs-of-a-sheriffs-wife/) Contrary to published reports, Wilcox is excited about the find and suggests the military at the Roswell Army Air Field \[now closed\] be notified. While waiting for the military officers to arrive, Wilcox dispatches two of his deputies to the ranch. They have only the directions given by Brazel, but both men are familiar with the territory; and Wilcox believes they will be able to find the debris field. KGFL reporter Frank Joyce calls Wilcox, who tells him Brazel is in his office with an interesting story. Brazel allegedly gets on the phone with Joyce and mentions debris and a stench from dead bodies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 163–164](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/162/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1005 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1875 (AE0F506B) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: At 4:00 p.m. in Savannah, Georgia a metallic ovoid object, then two more metallic ovoid craft flew in the direction of the ESE; descriptions of the UFO differed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomena 1947-1967, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_3861 Source: Johnson ### Event 1876 (36ED8F90) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: On this day Mr. Miller, a farmer in Logansport, Indiana heard a whining roar that drew his attention to a gray, spinning saucer-shaped object in the sky. It descended and hovered for several seconds. It then rose up into the clouds and was gone from view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Indianapolis News, July 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3860 Source: Johnson ### Event 1877 (4FDE525A) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: A Phillips Petroleum aircraft with two men on board, flying near the Kansas-Colorado border, reported that nine metallic, revolving objects came flying at their airplane this afternoon, one-by-one, for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_3859 Source: Johnson ### Event 1878 (62E9A52D) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: A "rolling" luminous disc was seen flying south of Omaha, Nebraska at 11:45 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Omaha World-Herald, July 7, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3871 Source: Johnson ### Event 1879 (FD070A4C) Date: 7/6/1947 Description: Four luminous discs drifted to the west at the same altitude as the clouds at 10:30 p.m. over Woodlawn, Maryland. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Baltimore News-Post, July 7, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3870 Source: Johnson ### Event 1880 (FBC6F3C4) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: A meeting is held in the office of Brig. Gen. [George F. Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html)[,](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) chief of the Requirements Intelligence branch of Army Air Force Intelligence. It is decided to investigate five flying disc incidents with “qualified” observers and obtain detailed statements: two in Seattle, Washington; one in Boise, Idaho; one in Palm Springs, California; and one in Washington State. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) The Author, 2001, p. 16 Source ID: Eberhart_1021 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1881 (23CE1C28) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: 2:30 p.m. Capt. [Robert J. Southey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145990631/robert-j-southey) and [Clem Hackworthy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79255728/clement-r-hackworthy) are flying a private aircraft near East Troy, Wisconsin, when they see a fast-moving silver object flying southeast from Eagle to Muskego, covering 17 miles in 20 seconds \(approximately 3,060 mph\). They try to photograph it, but it quickly disappears, then suddenly reappears about 10 miles away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [pp. III-11–12](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 22; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_1020 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1882 (AD47B02E) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg)’s activity log: 1:10 p.m., answers a Toronto Star reporter’s question about possible secret military aircraft. Vandenberg says no AAF planes are looking for discs, but National Guard planes are looking into the discs on their own. 1:50 p.m., Stephen Leo, public relations officer for AF Secretary [Stuart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) [Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) calls concerning the Shreveport, Louisiana, incident. 1:55 p.m. Leo and Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) discuss the discs. Col. Warren, at Ellington Field \[now Ellington Airport\] in Houston, Texas, calls concerning the Shreveport disc. 4:20 p.m., Col. Warren calls back and says the incident is a hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Rudiak, “[Lt. Gen. Hoyt](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/vandenberg.html\#anchor%5F24) [S. Vandenberg and Roswell,](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/vandenberg.html\#anchor%5F24)” Roswell Proof, 2001 Source ID: Eberhart_1019 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1883 (4F641AD4) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: 9:55 a.m. Newspaper editor John Brackett and his wife Wilma see an object streak across the sky in Reno, Nevada, leaving a trail of bluish-white vapor. It is high in the sky and traveling at about 1,000 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Tiny Speck](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18423646/nevada-reporter-sees-disc/) [Whizzes across Sky Here at Unbelievable Rate of Speed; Many Reno Persons See Small Object,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18423646/nevada-reporter-sees-disc/)” Reno Nevada State Journal, July 8, 1947, p. 14; Bloecher, [pp. III-7–8](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1017 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1884 (0C75BA5C) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: A hoax in Shreveport, Louisiana. A 16-inch aluminum disc with smoke coming out of it is found. Army investigators find “Made in USA” on the disc. It is one of many homemade gadgets, weather balloon radar targets, circular saws, and other disc-like debris that people find or make in order to have some fun in the press or with gullible saucer-seekers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 21; “[Speaking of Pictures: A Rash of Flying Disks Breaks Out over the](https://books.google.com/books?id=YU4EAAAAMBAJ&q=Rash%2Bof%2BFlying%23v%3Dsnippet&q=Rash%20of%20Flying&f=false) [U.S.,](https://books.google.com/books?id=YU4EAAAAMBAJ&q=Rash%2Bof%2BFlying%23v%3Dsnippet&q=Rash%20of%20Flying&f=false)” Life, July 21, 1947, p. 14; ClearIntent, [p. 149](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/148/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Secret Projects and Open Eyes: A Response,” IUR 19, no. 3 \(May/June 1994\): 15–17; Kevin D. Randle, “[The Hoover Memo](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-hoover-memo-again.html) [Again,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-hoover-memo-again.html)” A Different Perspective, July 29, 2015; Maurizio Verga, “[Here They Are! Early Crashes of Flying](https://cieloinsolito.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/heretheyare.pdf) [Saucers, a Visual History,](https://cieloinsolito.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/heretheyare.pdf)” Cielo Insolito, no. 6 \(March 2018\): 8–27 Source ID: Eberhart_1016 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1885 (43E6C9F9) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: AMC commander Lieut. Gen [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) unexpectedly flies to Alamogordo AAF and Kirtland AAF in New Mexico, remaining there until July 11. Army Air Forces Commander Gen. [Carl Spaatz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSpaatz) is supposedly “vacationing” in Washington State. He tells reporters he knows nothing about the flying discs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 165](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/164/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1015 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1886 (7D2FD004) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) takes [Marcel](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/jessemarcel.htm) and [Cavitt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) out to the debris field. It is three-quarters of a mile long and 200–300 feet wide. A gouge starting at the northern end of it extends for 400–500 feet toward the other end. It looks as if something has touched down and skipped along. The largest piece of debris is recovered at the southern edge of the gouge. The debris is as thin as newsprint, but incredibly strong. There is foil that, when crumpled, unfolds itself without a sign of a wrinkle, I-beams that flex slightly and have some symbols on them, and material resembling Bakelite. Marcel and Cavitt walk the perimeter of the field and then range out looking for more details or another crash site but find nothing else. Finally, they return and spend the remainder of the day collecting debris. They load the rear of Marcel’s car and then the jeep carryall driven by Cavitt. About dusk they begin the trip back to Roswell. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “The Roswell Material,” IUR 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1991\): 10–11; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 27–29](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/28/mode/2up), [165](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/164/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “Don’t Bother Me with the Facts…,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 16–17, 24; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris: A Quantitative Evaluation of the Project Mogul Hypothesis,” IUR 20, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1995\): 3–6, 23–24; Charles B. Moore, Robert G. Todd, Mark Rodeghier, and Kevin D. Randle, “Project Mogul and the Roswell Crash: An Exchange,” IUR 20, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1995\): 7–9, 19–22; Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie Brazel’s Story,” IUR 20, no. 3 \(May/June 1995\): 3–5, 24; Robert A. Galganski, “Roswell: Connecting the Debris Field and the Impact Site,” IUR 21, no. 2 \(Summer 1996\): 11–17; Robert A. Galganski, “The Glue Explanation Just Won’t Stick,” IUR 22, no. 4 \(Winter 1997–1998\): 3–7; Robert A. Galganski, “An Engineer Looks at the Project Mogul Hypothesis,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 3–6, 32; Thomas J. Carey, “Will the Real Sheridan Cavitt Please Stand Up?” IUR 23, no. 3 \(Fall 1998\): 14–21; Kent Jeffrey, “[Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F1%5Fjeffrey.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 \(1998\): 79–101; Michael D. Swords, “[A Different View of ‘Roswell: Anatomy](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F1%5Fswords.pdf) [of a Myth,’](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F1%5Fswords.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 \(1998\): 103–125; Robert M. Wood, “[Critique of](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F1%5Fwood.pdf) [‘Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,’](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F1%5Fwood.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 \(1998\): 127–140; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Mack Brazel Reconsidered,” IUR 24, no. 4 \(Winter 1999\): 13–19; Robert A. Galganski, The Roswell Debris Field: An Engineer’s Perspective, Fund for UFO Research, 2002; Kevin D. Randle, “[Bessie](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/09/bessie-brazel-schreiber-and-roswell.html) [Brazel Schreiber and the Roswell Crash,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/09/bessie-brazel-schreiber-and-roswell.html)” A Different Perspective, September 19, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_1014 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1887 (A0E1FA78) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: 2:00 a.m. A special flight \(the first\) leaves Roswell AAF for Andrews AAF in Washington, D.C. Some of the debris and the bodies are on that flight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 165](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/164/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1013 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1888 (30A454FD) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: Secret operation to recover a crashed saucer in NM 75 miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Base (RAAF) Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (crash) Location: Roswell, NM Source ID: Maj2_247 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1889 (BCCD5C47) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: Newspaper article: A P-38 tangles with a flying disc at 32k ft near LA, gets caught in prop wash and appears to disintegrate and crash, pilots forced to recant their story in contradictory manner Type: anomalous incident Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/forgotten-history-a-p-38-tangles-with-a-flying-disc-at-32-400-feet-on-july-7-1947-4a89a5a8c7bb) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: Maj2_248 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1890 (25C69D2E) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: Newspaper article: “Army can’t locate crashed saucers” in Spokane area Type: newspaper article Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/forgotten-history-a-p-38-tangles-with-a-flying-disc-at-32-400-feet-on-july-7-1947-4a89a5a8c7bb) Location: Spokane, CA Source ID: Maj2_249 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1891 (9144F1E3) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: [John Philip Bessor](https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/john-philip-bessor-as-a-fortean) of Zelienople, Pennsylvania, writes to the US Air Force to offer his own theory that UFOs are “a form of space animal, or creature, of a highly attenuated \(ectoplasmic?\) substance, capable of materialization and dematerialization, whose propellant is a form of telekinetic energy.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 4, no. 4 \(May/June 1951\): 88; John P. Bessor, “Are the Saucers Space Animals?” Fate 8, no. 12 \(December 1955\): 6–12; Curt Collins, “[The 1947 ET Hypothesis of John P. Bessor,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-1947-et-hypothesis-of-john-p-bessor.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, February 15, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_1022 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1892 (56A9B2A3) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: 5:20 p.m. Radar technician David W. Chase watches a disc-shaped object passing overhead at Medford, Oregon. It appears to be flying at 600–700 mph on edge at right angles to the surface of the earth, though following its contours at 500–1,000 feet. The object gives off a bright light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. III-18](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Ray Palmer, “New Report on the Flying Saucers,” Fate 4, no. 1 \(January 1951\): 63–81 Source ID: Eberhart_1023 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1893 (F24775A7) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: 7:45 p.m. Five students on a practice baseball field at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, see three metallic oval objects flying swiftly and silently in a triangular formation overhead. They seem to be about 10 feet in diameter and are flying east over the Olentangy River. They are out of sight within 10 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. II-](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) [6](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1024 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1894 (1600D8AF) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: 9:00 p.m. [Orrin Williams](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130342662/orrin-williams) and his wife [Albertine](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130342714/albertine-williams)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130342714/albertine-williams) along with Mr, and Mrs. Cecil Grant, are fishing on Great Pond near Rome, Maine, when they see a “spinning rocket” come out of the southern sky and stop abruptly overhead, where it hovers as a ball of fire. A similar object comes from the east, passing close by the first one. A third object approaches from the east and stops by the first object before moving on. The first object then retraces its path to the south at high speed. The display lasts several minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. II-10](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1025 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1895 (A201434A) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: Bloecher's case 547, from his book, is a humanoid report. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tacoma, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_362 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1896 (7A4EAC3B) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: 9:00 p.m. [William A. Rhodes](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/10/beyond-rhodes-photographs.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/10/beyond-rhodes-photographs.html) an independent scientist and inventor in Phoenix, Arizona, takes two photos of a dark, heel-shaped disc at his home at 4333 N. 14th Street. The photos are reproduced in the July 9 issue of the Arizona Republic. A few weeks later, an Army Air Corps Intelligence officer from Hamilton Army Airfield \[now closed\] in Novato, California, visits Rhodes and takes the prints and negatives, but Rhodes is unable to get them back. However, [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) obtains them on a later visit to Hamilton, and they wind up with [James E.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) Rhodes actually has an informal top-secret clearance because of his invention of a degaussing device for ships. He dies in 2007 at the age of 90. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Rhodes Photo Case](http://www.nicap.org/470707phoenix%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [p. IV-4](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm); Michael D. Swords, “[Can You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, Part Two,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos.html)” The Big Study, July 5, 2012; Swords 53, 54 Source ID: Eberhart_1026 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1897 (BBCAE80E) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: CAMERA CATCHES TWO IN FLIGHT - Photographer Al Hixenbaugh took a photo of a flying saucer at 10:15. There were three objects in the sky, but he had time to snap only two. They made no sound. Neither did Hixenbaugh. He had no comment as to what they might be. They look like either two very bright saucer trails, or two saucers seen flat edge on against a dark sky. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Louisville Times - Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5 ) Location: Louisville, Kentucky Source ID: Maj2_251 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1898 (5021CC52) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: 9:30 p.m. Charles Crockett, 15, is walking along Western Avenue in Manchester, Maine, when he sees a cluster of luminous objects to the west, just above the treetops on the north end of Cobboseecontee Lake. They are still visible when he arrives home and alerts his mother and grandmother. Possible searchlight beams. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Flying](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101847782/the-bangor-daily-news/) [Saucers’ Still Seen](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101847782/the-bangor-daily-news/) [Flitting](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101847866/the-bangor-daily-news/) [in N.E. Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101847916/the-bangor-daily-news/)” Bangor \(Maine\) Daily News, July 8, 1947, pp. 1–2; Bloecher, [p. II-20](https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1027 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1899 (AAD00A0D) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: Robert Meegan and his 14 year old son John saw "13 round objects all going east, single file in a straight line (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Willow Springs, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_361 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1900 (DE54C373) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: 10:15 p.m. Louisville Times photographer [Al Hixenbaugh](http://www.nicap.org/docs/1950%5F06%5F26%5FUS%5FKY%5FLouisville%5FHixenbaugh%5FBackground.pdf) is at Preston Street and Bickels Lane in Louisville, Kentucky, when he notices three “fiery balls” in the sky. He takes a 5-second exposure, capturing two of the objects that show as slightly curved streaks. He estimates they are 1–2 miles away, moving at 200 mph, and at an altitude of 1,000–2,000 feet. Robert Delara of 2745 West Market Street also sees the three objects shooting northward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Louisville \(Ky.\) Times, July 8, 1947; “[‘Flying Liver Pills’ over Kentucky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92678766/)” Cincinnati Enquirer, July 9, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, [pp. IV-4–5](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm); “[La Fotografía \(y la Pélicula\) Al Hixenbaugh 1,](http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2017/02/la-fotografa-y-la-pelcula-al-hixenbaugh-1/)” Marcianitos Verdes, February 5, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_1028 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1901 (F39740F8) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: On this afternoon at around 3:30 p.m. William Rhodes was working in his backyard in Phoenix, Arizona when he heard a whooshing sound and saw an unusual looking, gray flying craft in the sky. He grabbed his camera and took two photographs. The flying object was twenty to thirty feet long, crescent-shaped, and flying at an estimated 1,000 feet altitude. It circled in the east for about 30 seconds. The photograph quality was sharp and clear, although the reproduction below is from the newspaper that first published it and suffers from deterioration in quality due to age and print technique. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Arizona Republic, July 9, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 632; Edward U. Condon (editor), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 508; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 4; Kevin D. Randle & Russ Estes, Spaceships of the Visitors, p. 95 Source ID: Johnson_3901 Source: Johnson ### Event 1902 (AFBE90F5) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: During the afternoon in Tacoma, Washington three male witnesses reported that a disc-shaped object landed on their neighbor's roof. Several "little people" emerged, but disappeared when reporters approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tacoma News Tribune, July 8, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 547 Source ID: Johnson_3900 Source: Johnson ### Event 1903 (467364C0) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: OREGON HAS MORE SAUCERS - David W. chase of Phoenix, Oregon, radar technician saw an object five miles south of Medford, flying eastward, going 6-700 miles an hour at approximately 10,000 feet. It was in view about 60 or 70 seconds before disappearing over the horizon. The total view of the course was about 150 degrees. The saucer flew on edge at right angles to the plane of the earth and gave off a bright blue-white light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5 ) Location: Medford, OR Source ID: Maj2_250 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1904 (449DE2BB) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: At three o'clock in the afternoon in Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie, Seine-Maritime department, France a small disc-shaped UFO landed on the banks of the Seine River. Two short humanoids, about three feet tall, got out and shortly later reboarded the craft. The UFO lifted off silently, and flew off to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1000, citing Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_3898 Source: Johnson ### Event 1905 (4E580A6B) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: The radio announcer at Mexican radio station XEFI, a man named Duran, reported the he had sighted five disc-shaped objects over Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico and that two had been sighted over Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 86, citing Panama City Star, July 8, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3897 Source: Johnson ### Event 1906 (6BFD3FB0) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: Military aircraft pilot Harston saw a bright silver object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shreveport (7 miles N of ), LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_363 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1907 (9EA8A2E2) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: Five "Turtle-Backed" Objects Headed NE (Sound Heard) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470707](http://www.nicap.org/470707lakeland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lakeland, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_364 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1908 (D9B79BC6) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: A bright silver object about the angular size of the moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hickam Field, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_365 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1909 (B8AD0D8D) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: Oscillating Sphere Observed By Test Pilot & Others (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470707](http://www.nicap.org/470707murocaaf%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Muroc Army Air Field, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_366 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1910 (D970CC6C) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: Bet. 10:30 and 11 p.m. (EDT) "blob," the size of a small airplane, reflecting white light (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470707](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/arlington470707dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arlington, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_367 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1911 (4D71BF36) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: The Rhodes Photo Case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [470707](http://www.nicap.org/470707phoenix%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Phoenix, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_368 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1912 (A134AAFF) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: 11:30 a.m. Flight instructor Kenneth Jones out of Elkhart, Wisconsin, is practicing take-offs and landings with a student near Koshkonong. They watch a disc descending vertically on edge through the alto-cumulus clouds at 6,000 feet, stop at 4,000 feet, assume a horizontal orientation, and fly horizontally for 15 seconds, covering 23 miles at 5,500 mph. At one point it heads straight towards them on a course of about 120°, then stops again \(apparently overhead\) and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. III-11](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 22; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_1018 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1913 (AB6633D6) Date: 7/7/1947 Description: At 10:35 a.m. in San Carlos, San Mateo County, California 30 round silvery objects circled over one spot for two minutes at 2,000 feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sacramento Bee, July 7, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 595 Source ID: Johnson_3899 Source: Johnson ### Event 1914 (80987B71) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: There are at least 74 UFO reports recorded for this day in the UFOCAT database. At ten o'clock in the morning an aluminum colored, pancake shaped object was sighted by a farmer as it flew over Corapeake, North Carolina. It flew at an estimated 800 mph at 2,000 feet altitude. He described it as having two windows and protruding pipe-like extensions, and emitting vapor and making a slight noise. At 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time an ovoid object was sighted over Norfolk, Virginia. It was seen rocking and spinning, and followed by smaller objects. An Air Force major observed a metallic object at Muroc Field (now Edwards AFB) in California at noon. The object reflected sunlight and oscillated up and down in the sky, going down to ground level then rising again. It was observed simultaneously by a captain in Rodgers Dry Lake Bed. At the same time a student pilot sighted at flying disc that looked like it had a hole in its center, flying at 500 feet altitude over Spokane, Washington. At 5:33 p.m. an object flew in a zigzag pattern over Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. At 9:47 p.m. five teenagers camping out at a golf course in Madison, Wisconsin saw a flat, brilliant disc close to the horizon. It flew from the southeast to the northwest very quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Norfolk (NC) Pilot, July 9, 1947; (2) newspaper clipping dated July 9, 1947; (3) Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191; (4) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9; (5) Ted Bloecher, Report on the 1947 UFO Wave, case 769, citing newspaper clipping dated July 9, 1947; (6) APRO Bulletin, March-April 1971, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_3923 Source: Johnson ### Event 1915 (ECCA463B) Date: 7/8/1947 Time: 1200 Description: An Air Force major observed a metallic object, reflecting sunlight oscillate, go down to ground level, and rise again. Simultaneously it was observed by a captain in Rodgers Dry Lake. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Muroc Air Field, California Source ID: Magnonia_60 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 1916 (02473602) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 6:29 p.m. An Associated Press story goes out that a Fort Worth Army Air Field officer \([Newton](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=irving-newton&pid=134553090)\) has identified the Roswell debris as a weather balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 46–52](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/46/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/46/mode/2up) [168](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/168/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1046 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1917 (3D0FCA6C) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 5:17 p.m. Special Agent [Percy Wyly II](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64067470/percy-wyly) in the Dallas, Texas, FBI office sends a teletype headed “Flying Disc, Information Concerning” to [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) and Strategic Air Command in Cincinnati, Ohio, expressing some doubt about the balloon explanation: “telephonic conversation between \[Eighth Air Force\] and Wright Field had not borne out this belief. Disc and balloon being transported to Wright Field by special plane for examination.” Wyly receives this information from Maj. Edwin M. Kirton at Fort Worth. Roswell mortician [Glenn Dennis](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/glenndennis.htm), intrigued by inquiries from the base about small caskets, visits the base hospital but is turned away forcibly; a nurse friend \(possibly 1st Lt. [Adeline “Eileen” M. Fanton](https://roswellproof.homestead.com/dennis.html)\) warns him to leave before he gets into trouble and supposedly tells him that three alien bodies had been found. Other witnesses to recovered bodies include T/Sgt [Ernest R. Robbins](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/ernestrobbins.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/ernestrobbins.htm) Maj. [Edwin D. Easley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42373439/edwin-dean-easley), Ruben and Pete Anaya, New Mexico Lieutenant Governor [Joseph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FMontoya) [Montoya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FMontoya)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FMontoya) Sgt. [Melvin E. Brown](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/melvinbrown.htm) \(who says the bodies looked Asian\), Capt. [Oliver “Pappy” W.](http://www.roswellproof.com/henderson.html) [Henderson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3817273/oliver-wendell-henderson), Staff Sgt. [Robert A. Slusher](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/robertslusher.htm), and [Charles H. Forgus](https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/811532/Roswell-new-witness-deputy-sheriff-Charles-Forgus-UFOs-Today-Dr-Irena-Scott). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[Wyly’s teletype message](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/aa4aac%5Fac5616ffd5de40cb8f6a8984540c2d8e.pdf)\]; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 168–169; Good Need, [pp. 91–93](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/90/mode/2up); Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “Who’s the Dummy Now? The Latest Air Force Report,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 10; Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 97–100 Source ID: Eberhart_1045 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1918 (CF3E3961) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 4:30 p.m. The Roswell Daily Record carries the “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer” story. In Fort Worth, Texas, [Ramey](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1686367/lt-gen-roger-m-ramey/) issues a statement saying the Roswell officers were fooled and that the material is a Rawin target device suspended by a Neoprene rubber balloon. \(“Rawin” is a method of determining wind speed and direction by using radar or radio waves to track a balloon carrying either a radar-sensitive target or radio transponder.\). The debris is switched for the newspaper photographer, [James Bond Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47401399/james-bond-johnson), at a press conference held by Ramey and Col. [Thomas J. DuBose](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/thomasdubose.htm) in late afternoon. Johnson takes six photos of the debris and leaves after 20 minutes. One of the photos shows Ramey holding a piece of paper \(the “Ramey memo”\) with words written on it; unfortunately, the resolution is inadequate to decisively “deblur” the text using modern technological methods. A weather officer, Maj. [Irving Newton](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=irving-newton&pid=134553090)[,](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=irving-newton&pid=134553090) is called in to identify the debris as from a balloon. A photo of Newton with the debris is taken by another photographer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 41–43, 168; Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Fort Worth, July 8, 1947: The Cover-Up Begins,” IUR 15, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1990\): 21–23; Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “The Fort Worth Press Conference: The J. Bond Johnson Connection,” IUR 15, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1990\): 5–16; Robert A. Galganski, “Probing the Roswell Thin-Strut Debris,” IUR 24, no. 3 \(Fall 1999\): 8–12, 30; Donald R. Burleson, “Deciphering the Ramey Memo,” IUR 25, no. 2 \(Summer 2000\): 3–6, 32; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris Field: Size Doesn’t Matter,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 14–19, 30; James Houran and Kevin D. Randle, “Interpreting the Ramey Memo,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 10–14, 26–27; Donald R. Burleson, “On Blobs and Chiaroscuro,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 24; James Houran and Kevin D. Randle, “[‘A](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/16/jse%5F16%5F1%5Fhouran.pdf) [Message in a Bottle’: Confounds in Deciphering the Ramey Memo from the Roswell UFO Case,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/16/jse%5F16%5F1%5Fhouran.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 16, no. 1 \(2002\): 45–66; Barry Greenwood, “[An Observation on the Ramey Memo,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr11.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 11 \(March 2004\): 1–8; James Houran, [A Search for Meaning in the Ramey Document: From](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Houran%2C%20James%20-%20A%20search%20for%20meaning%20in%20the%20Ramey%20document.pdf) [the Roswell UFO Case](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Houran%2C%20James%20-%20A%20search%20for%20meaning%20in%20the%20Ramey%20document.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Houran%2C%20James%20-%20A%20search%20for%20meaning%20in%20the%20Ramey%20document.pdf) Fund for UFO Research, 2006; Dennis Balthaser, “[Interview: James Bond Johnson](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2006/03/interview-james-bond-johnson-roswell.html) [\(Roswell Wreckage Photographer\),](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2006/03/interview-james-bond-johnson-roswell.html)” The UFO Chronicles, March 27, 2006; Barry Greenwood, “[Ramey Memo](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr13.pdf) [Redux: Line 5,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr13.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no 13 \(September 2009\): 5–19; Kevin D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century, The Author, 2016; Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conpsiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 232–238 Source ID: Eberhart_1044 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1919 (727B979C) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 4:26 p.m. Thomas Dale is flying a small plane at 2,800 feet over Alton, New Hampshire, with passenger Jere Stetson. They see a metallic object some 2 miles away to the east and some 1,500 feet below their aircraft. It approaches them at great speed before veering to the north. They estimate it is 20 feet long and “not exactly round.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. III-12](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1043 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1920 (5EDCF060) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 3:50 p.m. An Army National Guard pilot flying near Mount Baldy, California, observes a flat object, reflecting light, about the size of a fighter. He gives chase, attempting to keep it in sight, but is unable to do so. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “[Flying Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/garrett%5F073047doc.pdf)” July 30, 1947; Kevin D. Randle, “[Roswell, Nathan Twining, and the](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/roswell-nathan-twining-and-mini-eots.html) [Mini-EOTS,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/roswell-nathan-twining-and-mini-eots.html)” A Different Perspective, October 6, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_1042 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1921 (B66D1841) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 2:41 p.m. The press release is put on the United Press wire. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1041 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1922 (1C5C7AC5) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 2:30 p.m. [Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard) decides it is time to “go on leave.” Too many phone callers into the base are asking to speak with him. He, along with a few members of his staff, drive out to the Corona, New Mexico, debris field. Those left at the base are told to inform the reporters that the colonel is now on leave. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 167](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “When a Leave Is Not a Leave: Col. Blanchard and the Roswell Timeline,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 18–20; Karl T. Pflock, “Taking Liberties with a Leave,” IUR 20, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1995\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_1040 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1923 (125C1AD3) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 2:26 p.m. [Haut](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/walterhaut.htm)’s press release about the recovered disc reaches the Associated Press wire. The story announces: “The army air forces here today announced a flying disc had been found” the previous week. It says that the disc is recovered by intelligence officers of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field \[now closed\], New Mexico, with the help of local ranchers and the Chavez County Sheriff’s Office. It adds that the disc is being loaned by Maj. [Marcel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19717326/jesse-antoine-marcel) “to higher headquarters.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 167](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1039 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1924 (DEEAD3A6) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 1:00 p.m. [Marcel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19717326/jesse-antoine-marcel) goes on a B-29 special flight \(the second\) to Fort Worth Army Air Field, Texas, with the wreckage to report to Gen. [Roger M. Ramey](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1686367/lt-gen-roger-m-ramey/). The pilot is Lt. Col. [Payne Jennings Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne%5FJennings%5FJr) with Lt. Col. [Robert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81472407/robert-ivan-barrowclough) [Barrowclough](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81472407/robert-ivan-barrowclough) riding in the bombardier’s seat. Only a few packages are loaded onto the plane. One, a triangular package about two feet long, is wrapped in brown paper. The other three are about the size of shoe boxes. They are so light that it feels as if there is nothing in them. When it lands in Fort Worth, the enlisted soldiers on the plane are ordered to remain aboard until a guard is posted and Marcel gets off taking one of the packages that he has been carrying on his lap. According to Flight Engineer M/Sgt. [Robert Porter](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/robertporter.htm), the soldiers go to the mess hall once the guard is posted. The remaining debris is transferred to a B-25 that is flying to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. Marcel goes to Ramey’s office and puts the package on his desk. They both go to a map room, where Marcel shows him where the debris was found. When they return to Ramey’s office, Marcel sees that the package he brought has been substituted by a torn-up weather balloon. Ramey proposes a plan that possibly originates from his bosses at the Pentagon. Attention needs to be diverted from the more important impact site north of Roswell by acknowledging the Corona location. Too many civilians are involved, and the press is already alerted. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 167–168](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up); Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Flight to Fort Worth: From Complicity to Cover-Up,” IUR 25, no. 2 \(Summer 2000\): 7–13, 30 Source ID: Eberhart_1038 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1925 (E928832F) Date: 7/8/1947? Description: British radio and TV entertainer [Hughie Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughie%5FGreen) is driving across the US. About 250 miles west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he hears an announcement that a flying saucer “had crashed in New Mexico and that the Army were moving in to investigate. Later the program was interrupted again and quite a few details were given.” When he arrives at Philadelphia, there is nothing in the newspapers or on the radio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Star Puzzled,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CMar-Apr%2CV%201%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 1, no 1 \(Spring 1955\): 3; Clark III 319; “[Hughie Green: ‘Peripheral Witness to Roswell?’](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread892300/pg1)” Above Top Secret forum, October 20, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_1037 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1926 (00959D09) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: Rep. [Lyndon B. Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%5FB.%5FJohnson) \(D-Tex.\) requests information on the flying discs from the War Department. Someone from Gen. [Carl Spaatz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSpaatz)’s office writes back on July 21 to tell him the Army Air Forces are looking into it, but there is “no indication” that the discs are “new or unusual missiles or aircraft.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 38 Source ID: Eberhart_1036 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1927 (AFB519AF) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: The Army Air Force issues a press release saying that, based on a “preliminary study,” the flying discs are not secret bacteriological weapons designed by a foreign power, experimental army aircraft, or spaceships. However, Army and Navy officials are not certain what they are. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Saucer’ Dept.—All Designs,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25102626/numerous-flying-saucer-reports/)” Racine \(Wis.\) Journal Times, July 8, 1947, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_1035 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1928 (637B7BD7) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 11:00 a.m. Col. [William Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard) dictates a press release about the Roswell recovery to Public Information Officer Lt. [Walter Haut](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/walterhaut.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/walterhaut.htm) who delivers the release to radio stations around noon \(the first apparently to Frank Joyce at KGFL\) and the newspapers in Roswell, New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 167](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1034 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1929 (AE762C1A) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 9:30 a.m.–9:20 p.m. Five separate UFO sightings take place at Muroc AFB \[now Edwards AFB\] in southern California, the Air Force’s aircraft testing and development center. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says these are the first sightings “that really made the Air Force take a deep interest in UFOs.” At 9:30 a.m., 1st Lt. [Joseph C. McHenry](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69719785/joseph-charles-mchenry) and three others see three discs heading in a westerly direction. At 10:10 a.m., XP-84 test pilot Maj. [Jowell C. Wise](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41163741/jowell-clark-wise) sees a yellowish-white object at 10,000 feet traveling about 200 mph. At 11:50 a.m., Maj. [Richard R. Shoop](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197896549/richard-raymond-shoop), Col. S. A. Gilkey, and Capt. [John P. Stapp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FStapp) are sitting in an observation truck at Rogers Dry Lake and see a round, white aluminum-like object descending from 20,000 feet for about 90 seconds; it has two knobs or thick fins on the top. Around 4:00 p.m., a pilot flying an F-51 some 40 miles south of Muroc sees a “flat object of a light-reflecting nature”; it is flying too high for him to climb up to it. At 9:20 p.m., spherical objects are again seen in the area, this time at 8,000 feet and moving against the wind at 300 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Observers Sight Saucer over Base](http://www.nicap.org/470708muroc1%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Object Observed by Four Witnesses in Observation](http://www.nicap.org/470708muroc2%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Object Descends to Ground Level,](http://www.nicap.org/470708muroc3%5Fdir.htm) [Rises](http://www.nicap.org/470708muroc3%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Flat Object with Fin Observed by F-51 Pilot](http://www.nicap.org/470708muroc4%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [pp. III-4, 12](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Clark III 783–784; Sparks, pp. 22–23; Patrick Gross, “[The Muroc Army Air Field Incidents](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/muroc.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1033 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1930 (7F4C2F75) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 9:00 a.m. [Cavitt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) and [Lewis S. Rickett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47990919/lewis-s%5F-rickett)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47990919/lewis-s%5F-rickett) who has returned from an assignment in Carlsbad, New Mexico, drive a staff car to the impact site north of Roswell, followed by MPs. They are stopped by the guards who are still posted. When they arrive, they see that a small containment of debris remains that Rickett is allowed to examine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 166](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1032 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1931 (7014F623) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: Noon. Others witnesses independently, including Muroc CO Col. Signa A. Gilkey and engineer Major Richard R. Shoop and wife saw from a different location 5-8 miles away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470708](http://www.nicap.org/muroc470708%5F3dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Muroc AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_373 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1932 (514EB39B) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 6:00 a.m. [Marcel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19717326/jesse-antoine-marcel) and [Cavitt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) visit with [Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard) in his quarters and tell him what they have seen. Blanchard calls base Provost Marshal Maj. [Edwin D. Easley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42373439/edwin-dean-easley) and orders him to post guards on the roads around the debris field. Armed guards encircle the primary areas, denying access to anyone without official business. Easley is directed to locate [Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) and have him escort the MPs to the debris field. Blanchard calls Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, and advises them of the new find. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 166](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1030 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1933 (C50ED7B7) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 2:00 a.m. [Marcel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19717326/jesse-antoine-marcel) stops at home in Roswell to show his wife [Viaud](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87431527/viaud-marcel) and son [Jesse Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116270028/jesse-antoine-marcel) some of the Corona, New Mexico, crash debris. Over the next hour they examine it on the kitchen floor. Marcel Sr. says it is a flying saucer. Marcel is not breaking regulations since nothing has yet been classified. With the help of his son, Marcel loads it into the car to be taken to Roswell AAF. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 166](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up); Robert J. Durant, “C. B. Moore’s Mogul Tape,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 7–9, 32; Robert A. Galganski, “Probing the Roswell Thin-Strut Debris,” IUR 24, no. 3 \(Fall 1999\): 8–12, 30; Karl T. Pflock, et al., “Debris Details,” IUR 24, no. 4 \(Winter 1999\): 28–29 Source ID: Eberhart_1029 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1934 (0FDCA859) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: Newspaper article in England: Maury Island incident fragments sent for analysis to metallurgists at Chicago University Type: Newspaper article Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107820309/metallic-rain/) Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107820455/harold-dahl-metal/) Source ID: Maj2_258 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1935 (D39C1633) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: BSRA (Borderlands) Memorandum found in official FBI UFO files, addressed to “important aeronautical and military authorities, to a number of public officials” that “a serious situation may develop at any time with regard to the flying saucers”. “If one of these should be attacked, the attacking plane will be almost surely destroyed.” “Part of the discs carry crews, others are under remote control.” “Heat resistant metal or alloy not yet known.” Type: FOIA release Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/early-contactees-and-ufologists-millen-cooke-gerald-light-and-meade-layne-1ee70154f31a) Source ID: Maj2_257 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1936 (24C516EE) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: United Press reports on a phone call to Einstein: “absolutely no comment”, claimed no knowledge Type: newspaper article Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108417286/einstein-silent-on-theory-relative-to/) Source ID: Maj2_256 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1937 (B9C28A4E) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: Urgent FBI Memo from Gen. Roger Ramey concerning “flying disc information”: “Maj. Curtan, HQ 8th AF, telephonically advised this office that an object purporting to be a flying disc was recovered near Roswell, N.M., this date...Information provided this office because of national interest in case and fact that (certain media sources) attempting to break the story of location of disc today...(the recovered disc was) being transported to Wright Field by special plane for examination...Maj. Curtan advised would request Wright Field to advise (FBI) results of examination.” Type: memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) See also: 7/2/1947 See also: 7/7/1947 Source ID: Maj2_255 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1938 (E0B2FEA5) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: FBI Dallas teletype to Director: flying saucer crashed and was recovered near Roswell NM Type: teletype Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, RECOVERY) Location: Dallas, TX Source ID: Maj2_254 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1939 (E8BFE3DA) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: Roswell radio announcement, debris being flown by special plane to Wright Field Type: ufological event Reference: [YouTube](https://youtu.be/zUlCBY-K9A8) Location: Roswell, NM Source ID: Maj2_253 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1940 (8F976BB3) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: Intel. Officer Maj. Marcel reports Roswell Army Air Force captures a downed flying saucer near Roswell NM Type: ufological event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-B, J2, RECOVERY) Location: Roswell, NM Source ID: Maj2_252 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1941 (E9391A97) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 7:30 a.m. The regular 9:00 a.m. Roswell Army Air Field staff meeting is moved up 90 minutes. The main topic for discussion is [Marcel](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/jessemarcel.htm) and [Cavitt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177397132/sheridan-wear-cavitt) reporting an extensive debris field near Corona in Lincoln County, New Mexico, approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell. A preliminary briefing is provided by [Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard) about the separate impact site approximately 40 miles north of Roswell. Samples of wreckage are passed around the table. Pieces that resemble metal foil, paper-thin yet extremely strong, and pieces with unusual markings along their length are handed from man to man, each voicing their opinion. No one is able to identify the crash debris. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 166](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/166/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1031 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1942 (7009837B) Date: 7/8/1947 Time: 9:30 AM PDT Description: Witnesses: lst Lt. Joseph McHenry, T/Sgt Ruvolo, S/Sgt Nauman, Miss Janette Scotte. Watched for an unstated length of time while two disc-shaped or spherical objects--silver and apparently metallic--flew a wide circular pattern, and then one of them later flew a tighter circle. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Muroc Air Base, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_3 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 1943 (CBD72AF9) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 4 PM: a flat reflective object with no vertical fin or wings (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Muroc AFB (40 miles S of), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_374 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1944 (7B25ED21) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 11:50 AM - Noon: Sightings of discs had impact on EOTS. A round silver or aluminum-white object at first thought to be a parachute was seen (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470708](http://www.nicap.org/muroc470708%5F2dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Muroc AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_372 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1945 (4D27F293) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: 9:30 AM: 2 disc-shaped or spherical objects, silver and apparently metallic (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 50) Reference: NICAP: [470708](http://www.nicap.org/muroc470708%5F1dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Muroc AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_371 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1946 (563F87A9) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: F-51 pilot (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_370 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1947 (4E192728) Date: 7/8/1947 Description: Bloecher's case 698, from his book, is a humanoid report. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_369 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1948 (BE079D88) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: 2:30 p.m. [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) and [Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) meet again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1058 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1949 (042499FB) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: 10:35 a.m. Assistant Secretary of War for Air [Stuart Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) meets with Lt. Gen. [James Doolittle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FDoolittle) and Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) The conversation is presumably about the flying discs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, 2001 Source ID: Eberhart_1053 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1950 (330E5EB3) Date: 7/9/1947 Time: 12:17 PM PDT Description: Witness: Idaho statesman aviation editor and former (AAF) B-29 pilot Dave Johnson. Watched for more than 10 seconds from an Idaho Air National Guard AT-6 while a black disc, which stood out against the clouds, made a half-roll and then a stair-step climb. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Meridian, Idaho Source ID: BerlinerBBU_4 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 1951 (5E55724A) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: 10:50 a.m. [Doolittle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FDoolittle), [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) and [Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) meet in the office of Army Chief of Staff [Dwight D.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) Maj. Gen. [Lauris Norstad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauris%5FNorstad), director of the Plans and Operations Department, is also present. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, 2001 Source ID: Eberhart_1054 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1952 (63A71BA8) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: 11:58 a.m. [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) calls President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1055 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1953 (183D1405) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: 12:50 p.m. [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) and [Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) meet with the Joint Chiefs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1056 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1954 (5EB595EC) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: 12:17 p.m. Idaho Statesman aviation editor and former B-29 pilot [David N. Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson) flying in an Idaho Air National Guard AT-6 Texan, sees a black object standing out against the clouds as he prepares to land at Gowen Field \[now Boise Airport\], Boise, Idaho. Johnson takes 10 seconds of 8mm motion-picture film \(but it shows no trace of the object\). It makes a slow roll, then makes a stair-step climb, then disappears into the clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[AT-6 Encounters Black Disc](http://www.nicap.org/470709meridian%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [pp. III-12–13](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) The Author, 2001, pp. 39–43, 55; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 23 Source ID: Eberhart_1057 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1955 (CBBBED25) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: At 5:40 a.m. a farmer out plowing his fields in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada saw five disc-shaped objects criss-cross the sky three times in different formations. The objects were silent and had no lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1094; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, A History. 1947, p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_3941 Source: Johnson ### Event 1956 (FFC442E5) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: Two small saucers were seen over Albuquerque, New Mexico on this day. One hovered, the other shot up and than both shot away toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_3942 Source: Johnson ### Event 1957 (591AC342) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: At 12:15 p.m. a huge flat black disc over Boise, Idaho executed a series of staircase maneuvers for 45 seconds. Motion picture filming was attempted, but resulted in poor quality images. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 10, 1947, UNICAT, case # 721, Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 794 Source ID: Johnson_3944 Source: Johnson ### Event 1958 (48CB48C7) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: At eight o'clock in the evening a one-meter diameter disc flew over Llano, Texas heading toward the southwest. It appeared to be spinning, and it possibly landed remotely. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 98, citing Austin American Source ID: Johnson_3945 Source: Johnson ### Event 1959 (38FAE991) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: 10:30 a.m. President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) meets with Sen. [Carl Hatch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FHatch)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \(D-N.Mex.\). Source ID: Eberhart_1052 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1960 (7DE80ACE) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: 4:17 p.m. [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) meets with Maj. Gen. [Emmett O’Donnell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett%5FO%27Donnell%5FJr), director of information for the Army Air Force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \(Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, 2001\). Source ID: Eberhart_1059 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1961 (64B668B5) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: The US Army Air Force issues classified orders requiring reports of any “saucer-like” objects to be investigated and passed on to T-2 Technical Intelligence at Wright Field, Ohio, with summaries sent to the Pentagon. However, most of the early cases still go directly to the Air Force Office of Intelligence at the Pentagon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_1051 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1962 (12363262) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: US Sen. [Glen H. Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen%5FH.%5FTaylor) \(D-Idaho\) says he hopes the saucers will turn out to be space ships from another planet, whose hostility might end all our “petty arguments on earth.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Can’t Laugh Off Saucers,’ Says Senator,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92702991/)” Boston Globe, July 9, 1947, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_1050 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1963 (3BDB868D) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: 1:00 a.m. William Valetta sees 5–6 domed discs streaking eastward as he stands outside his house at 4328 South Emerald Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. They make a swishing noise and he sees a blue flame underneath each of them. Smoke seems to be coming from the tops. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [pp. II-13–14](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1047 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1964 (D4F05881) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: A black disc, standing out against the clouds (Johnson Case (P)) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470709](http://www.nicap.org/470709meridian%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boise (Bet. Meridian and), ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_375 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1965 (32BD1C4E) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: 11:30 p.m. Constable Eric Kearsey sees four yellowish discs flying in close formation above Grand Falls, Newfoundland. He calls other people to watch them as well. They are moving at high speed to the east with a dipping motion. At 11:40 p.m., an egg-shaped object “the size of a barrel head” passes overhead in the same direction. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: St. John’s \(Newf.\) Evening Telegram, July 9, 1947; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) The Author, 2001, pp. 45–46 Source ID: Eberhart_1063 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1966 (E5E92451) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: Black disc made a half-roll and then a stair-step climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Meridian, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_401 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1967 (8D15C774) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Electrician Raymond Edward Lane and his wife are picking huckleberries near Midland, Michigan, when they hear a kind of “puff” noise nearby. Looking up, they see a ball of white, sparkling fire, like a Fourth of July sparkler, about the size of a bushel basket, no more than 100 feet away. It is hovering several feet above a stretch of sand. After about 10 or 15 seconds, the light goes out and the object vanishes. The only thing that remains is a peculiar dark substance on the sand and some metallic fragments. Lane collects fragments of the material in a tin can and brings them the next morning to Robert S. Spencer, a senior researcher at the Dow Chemical Company materials research laboratory in Midland. Spencer goes to the site with Lane and Dow’s internal security chief Edward Fales. Spencer has the Dow spectroscopy laboratory analyze the fragments and reports that the shiny pellets are largely silver mixed with a bit of silicon. They conclude that it consists of fused sand. By the end of September, the lab has analyzed ashlike powder found at the site. It turns out to be thorite that is slightly radioactive, mixed with magnesium hydroxide and other trace minerals. The conclusion is that the sighting is the result of some kind of home-made fireworks experiment, although Dow chemist [John Josef Grebe](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107960608/john-josef-grebe) suspects it might have been a small missile. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Hovers over Sand](http://www.nicap.org/470709midland%5Fdir.htm)”; Bloecher, [pp. IV-2–3](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIV.htm); Joel Carpenter, “[The Midland Fireball: Dow Chemical, UFOs, and Evidence,](http://www.project1947.com/articles/dow.htm)” IUR 23, no. 3 \(Fall 1998\): 28–32 Source ID: Eberhart_1062 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1968 (668CCFE7) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: The FBI interviews Capt. Emil J. Smith and copilot Ralph Stevens at Boise \(Idaho\) Municipal Airport about their July 4 sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 151](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/150/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 253–254](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/252/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1049 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1969 (29FC7E9C) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: Brig. Gen. [George F. Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html), chief of the Requirements Intelligence branch of Army Air Force Intelligence, requests FBI help with the problem of the flying discs from Special Agent [S. Wesley Reynolds](https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MT19611122.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1). Army intelligence claims they are not Army or Navy craft. He says that Air Corps Intelligence is utilizing all its scientists to study the cases to see whether they are natural or artificial or inspired by “individuals of Communist sympathies with the view to causing hysteria and fear of a secret Russian weapon.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: E. G. Fitch, \[[FBI memo](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/aa4aac%5F677b6f3d275b4e7e88a312e65ec5fb48.pdf)\], July 10, 1947; ClearIntent, [p. 148](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/148/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [10th, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) The Author, 2001, p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_1061 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1970 (10CFF270) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: RAAF officers locate [Mack Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) and take him to the base for questioning, then to the Roswell Daily Record and radio station KGPL for a revised, sanitized version of his story, this time saying he found the debris on June 14. Copies of [Haut](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/walterhaut.htm)’s original press release are recovered. Three fully loaded C-54’s carry debris to Los Alamos, New Mexico, via Kirtland AFB, according to Robert E. Smith, First Air Transport Unit. A crate allegedly carrying alien bodies is flown from Roswell to Fort Worth in a B-29, according to Staff Sgt. [Robert A. Slusher](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/robertslusher.htm), who says he was on board. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell, July 9, 1947,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 4–6, 23; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 53–58](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/n77/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/n77/mode/2up) [169–171](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/168/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie Brazel’s Story,” IUR 20, no. 3 \(May/June 1995\): 3–5, 24; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Mack Brazel Reconsidered,” IUR 24, no. 4 \(Winter 1999\): 13–19; Kevin D. Randle, “[Bessie Brazel Schreiber and the Roswell Crash,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/09/bessie-brazel-schreiber-and-roswell.html)” A Different Perspective, September 19, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_1048 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1971 (4633DAB0) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: Late afternoon. 1Lt [Chester P. Barton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14594387/chester-paul-barton), stationed at Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico, is sent by Maj. [Edwin D. Easley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42373439/edwin-dean-easley) to go to the crash site and report back to him about what is going on. He gets no closer than about 50 feet from the wreckage, which appears to have burned. He is convinced it is the remains of a B-29 bomber. He remains at the site for about 90 minutes then reports back to Easley. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joseph Stefula, “The Roswell Testimony of Chester P. Barton,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 21–23, 29–31 Source ID: Eberhart_1060 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1972 (DE367026) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: There are 24 UFO reports recorded for this date in the UFOCAT database, all from North America. To view a map showing the distribution of these reports, click here. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_3940 Source: Johnson ### Event 1973 (DC1CAD57) Date: 7/9/1947 Description: At 5:30 a.m. a shiny gray disc whizzed through the sky over Springfield, Illinois. Its estimated speed was 500 mph moving in a southerly direction. It dipped below the tree line and came back up again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 788 Source ID: Johnson_3943 Source: Johnson ### Event 1974 (70BE9D19) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: Roswell debris and bodies have been flown from Fort Worth to Wright Field, according to future Brig. Gen. [Arthur Exon](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/104819/brigadier-general-arthur-ernest-exon/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/104819/brigadier-general-arthur-ernest-exon/) then stationed at Wright Field, Ohio, who says that a special unit is created to study them. The story is slightly corroborated by [Jack G. Tiffany Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99628518/jack-tiffany), whose father [Jack G. Tiffany Sr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99628518/jack-tiffany) is one of the crew members that flies debris from Fort Worth to Dayton. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 61–66](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/66/mode/2up); Thomas J. Carey and Donald J. Schmitt, Inside the Real Area 51, New Page, 2013, pp. 165–175; Nukes 483–486 Source ID: Eberhart_1065 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1975 (8A577CB1) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: FBI agent E. G. Fitch forwards [Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html)’s request to Assistant Director of the Domestic Intelligence Division [D. Milton](https://bhunt34.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/acme-press-photos/) [“Mickey” Ladd](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Ladd.htm) at FBI headquarters in a memo titled “Flying Disks.” Ladd adds a note saying that the “Bureau does not believe it should go into these investigations” because many cases are “pranks.” Associate FBI Director [Clyde Tolson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%5FTolson) adds, “I think we should do this,” while [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) writes, “I would do it but before agreeing to it we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the La. Case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: E. G. Fitch, \[[FBI memo](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/aa4aac%5F677b6f3d275b4e7e88a312e65ec5fb48.pdf)\], July 10, 1947; RosRept, [pp. 25–](http://www.cufos.org/books/The%5FRoswell%5FReportR2.pdf) [26](http://www.cufos.org/books/The%5FRoswell%5FReportR2.pdf); Good Above, [p. 541](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/540/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “[The Hoover Memo Again,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-hoover-memo-again.html)” A Different Perspective, July 29, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_1064 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1976 (E087FD02) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: 10:00 a.m. [John H. Janssen](https://books.google.com/books?id=d4xka5HgmnMC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=%22John%2BH.%2BJanssen%22%2BMorristown&source=bl&ots=8BznC%5FpcGD&sig=ACfU3U0xTsN0SbtjUsPdc41%5FWojGoYEDDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM5KTJ6JbpAhUHWs0KHVelAAoQ6AEwBnoECB4QAQ%23v%3Donepage&q=%22John%20H.%20Janssen%22%20Morristown&f=false), aviation editor of the Morristown Daily Record, takes a photo of four luminous objects as he is flying his Piper J-3 Cub at 10,000 feet over Morristown, New Jersey. Three of the objects are silvery white, while the fourth is a dull metallic color. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Flying Saucers’ Invade Morristown; 4 Discs](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92703853/) [Photographed near Airport,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92703853/)” Paterson \(N.J.\) Evening News, July 11, 1947, p. 10; NICAP, “[07-10-1947 USA,](http://www.nicap.org/morristown.htm) [New Jersey, Morristown](http://www.nicap.org/morristown.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1066 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1977 (5DC9B9F1) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: 2:40 p.m. Secretary of War [Robert P. Patterson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FP.%5FPatterson) meets with [Groves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FGroves) and [Montague](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMiller%5FMontague). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1069 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1978 (7A024754) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: Harmond Field Photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470710](http://www.nicap.org/470710harmon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harmon Field, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_376 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1979 (F94D2E95) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: 6 DD from aircraft (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [470710](http://www.nicap.org/morristown.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Morristown, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_377 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1980 (B9CB92AF) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: A sharply outlined, white ellipsoidal seemingly luminous 200 ft object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [470710](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ftsumner470710dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Sumner (near), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_378 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 1981 (8205AE43) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: 10:30 a.m. Lt. Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay), deputy chief of Air Staff for Research and Development at the Pentagon, meets with [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg), Maj. Gen. [Leslie Groves,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FGroves) and Lt. Gen. [Robert Miller Montague](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMiller%5FMontague). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1067 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1982 (62ABC687) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: At 8:00 p.m. CDT several airmen near Tulsa, Oklahoma saw a perfect ring of light in the sky that flew toward the northeast at a constant speed and altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 101 Source ID: Johnson_3981 Source: Johnson ### Event 1983 (14D97DED) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: At 5:30 p.m. EDT a "flying tin lid" shaped object flew over Smyrna, Georgia at an incredible speed. It reflected sunlight brilliantly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_3980 Source: Johnson ### Event 1984 (D2AC844B) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: Sometime between 3 o'clock in the afternoon and 5:00 p.m., three ground crewman, including Mr. Leidy, a mechanic for Pan American Airways, took photographs of a C-54 sized translucent disc-or wheel-shaped UFO flying below the clouds over Ernest Harmon Air Field in Newfoundland, Canada. They watched briefly while the UFO flew very fast, leaving a dark blue trail. It then ascended and cut a path through the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 4; International UFO Reporter, December 1998; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3979 Source: Johnson ### Event 1985 (0E6FB370) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: FBI Memo: Gen. George F. Schulgen (Chief of the Air Intelligence Requirements Division) organizes top scientists to determine if the flying discs are indeed fact and whether or not they are a foreign body mechanically devised and controlled. He desired the assistance of the FBI in locating and questioning the individuals who first sighted the discs. Col. L. R. Forney of MID indicated that it has been established that the flying discs are not the result of any Army or Navy experiments and should be of interest to the FBI Type: memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p148) Reference: [link](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/2995977/george-francis-schulgen/) Source ID: Maj2_261 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1986 (EDF9861C) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 16.25km altitude (Early yaw led to termination at 32s.) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 16.25km Source ID: Maj2_259 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1987 (B0B0A47E) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: At 4:47 p.m. astronomers Dr. Lincoln La Paz, Director of the Institute of Meteoritics and Department Head of the Astronomy Department at the University of New Mexico, and Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto, and other family members watched a luminous 300-foot wide saucer ascend at 600 mph near Fort Sumner, New Mexico heading toward the north. In 1948 Dr. La Paz served as a voluntary consultant for the USAF in connection with the "green fireball" investigations. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 819; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947, p. 58 Source ID: Johnson_3978 Source: Johnson ### Event 1988 (3EE931A1) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: At 7:30 p.m. European time (1:30 p.m. EDT) in Skotfoss, Norway a disc flew across the sky from the northwest to the southeast. It was estimated to be the size of a small plane and traveling at normal aircraft speeds, but made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 137 Source ID: Johnson_3977 Source: Johnson ### Event 1989 (92F33D19) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: At 11:00 p.m. PDT (2:00 p.m. EDT) a man in Burien, Washington watched a three-foot diameter round shiny disc-shaped object fly slowly and silently toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 11, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_3976 Source: Johnson ### Event 1990 (8B1DB30A) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: Mac Brazel is still being held at a guest house on the Roswell, New Mexico, base. The officers try to convince him not to say anything about what he has seen. They also try to prevent him talking to reporters. He is given a physical by doctors at the base hospital. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 172](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/172/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1073 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1991 (B24D601D) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: 5:30 p.m. Three civilian airline mechanics \(John N. Mehrman Jr., Robert Leidy, and John E. Woodruff\) at Ernest Harmon AFB \[now Stephenville International Airport\] are returning from a fishing trip and driving up a mountain road near Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland. They see a bluish-black exhaust trail that has cut through some clouds leaving a “hole.” Woodruff sees a disc-shaped object the apparent size of a C-54 transport plane coming out of the clouds and traveling at a terrific rate of speed. The hole remains in the cloud for more than an hour. Leidy takes two Kodachrome photos of the exhaust trail. The sighting later impresses Project Sign personnel to the extent that they ask questions about UFO effects on clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Harmon Field Photo](http://www.nicap.org/470710fortsumner%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 24; Michael D. Swords, “[Can You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, Part Two,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos.html)” The Big Study, July 5, 2012; Swords 38–39; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 1, 1947,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Revision.pdf) The Author, February 1991, pp. 44– 45; Chris Rutkowski, “The Cold, Hard Facts about UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 8–9; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 49–50; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 167, 264–267 Source ID: Eberhart_1072 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1992 (0CF2F9DB) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: 4:47 p.m. University of New Mexico astronomer [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) his wife Leota, and two daughters, Jean and Mary, are driving west on Highway 60 near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, when they see a sharply outlined, white ellipsoidal object wobbling in the sky to the west about 25 miles away. They watch it for about 30 seconds, then it disappears behind a cloud, but reappears 5 seconds later further to the right. He estimates its size as 245 feet long and 100 feet thick at the maximum, with a horizontal speed of 120–180 mph and a vertical speed of 600–900 mph. It moves silently with no vapor trail. It resembles no known aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[200ʹ Ellipsoidal Object](http://www.nicap.org/470710fortsumner%5Fdir.htm) [Sighted by La Paz Family](http://www.nicap.org/470710fortsumner%5Fdir.htm)”; H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “[Have We Visitors from Space?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Life/1952%2004%2007%5FLife%5FHave%20We%20Visitors.pdf)” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 84; Bloecher, [p. III-19](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) [July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-July-7-July-10-SN.pdf) The Author, 2001, p. 58; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 24; James E. McDonald, “[Statement](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#astronomers) [on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#astronomers)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 60 Source ID: Eberhart_1071 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1993 (B6BA299A) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: 4:25 p.m. A V-2 launch is aborted at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, after 32 seconds due to an early yaw. Gen. Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) stops at White Sands before returning to Wright Field, Ohio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1070 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 1994 (2FC4F842) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: At 11:00 a.m. EDT in Valdosta, Georgia a one-meter diameter "cake pan" shaped object flew over at 600 meters altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_3975 Source: Johnson ### Event 1995 (EA7984B7) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: Estimated date student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright accompanies Einstein to Roswell area. She was 17 years, 10 months, 21 days old. Type: scientist Reference: [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright) Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_260 Source: Maj2 ### Event 1996 (3D1BFB46) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: At 10 o'clock in the morning GMT a British Vickers Viking aircraft was flying over the Bay of Biscay in the Atlantic off the coast of France when the crew of three sighted a gray flying object, shaped like a tadpole. It was traveling at an estimated 600 mph and leaving a long vapor trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_3974 Source: Johnson ### Event 1997 (372B59E4) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: There are 19 UFO reports recorded for this day in the UFOCAT database: two from Europe, one from China, one from Newfoundland, and the remainder in the United States. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_3973 Source: Johnson ### Event 1998 (17A4AFA3) Date: 7/10/1947 Time: Between 3 and 5 PM local time Description: Witnesses: three ground crewmen, including Mr. Leidy, for Pan American Airways. Watched briefly while one translucent disc- or wheel-shaped object flew very fast, leaving a dark blue trail and then ascended and cut a path through the clouds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Harmon Field, Newfoundland, Canada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_5 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 1999 (EE5FFD0C) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: 12:15 p.m. [Doolittle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FDoolittle) and [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) meet with [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1068 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2000 (97D5CC11) Date: 7/10/1947 Description: Disc-shaped object flew very fast, leaving a dark blue trail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470710](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/harmondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harmon Field, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_402 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2001 (720D49E4) Date: 7/11/1947 Description: Round 3' Aluminum Object At Great Speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470711](http://www.nicap.org/470711elmendorf%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_379 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2002 (230BCF87) Date: 7/11/1947 Description: Debriefings of all military participants in the debris recovery operation take place. They are taken into a room in small groups and told that the recovery is highly classified and not to talk about it. Military personnel warn civilians around Roswell, New Mexico, that they are not to talk about what happened. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [pp. 72–76](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/72/mode/2up), [172](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/172/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1074 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2003 (528BEF68) Date: 7/11/1947 Description: A Washington beltway newspaper column reporters that a visitor found Einstein “sick”, but Einstein stated not to worry, that the world is sick and the “military mass-minded approach” he saw in Germany was coming here. Type: newspaper article Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106015905/einstein-sick-july-11-1947/) Source ID: Maj2_262 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2004 (033574ED) Date: 7/11/1947 Description: 11:00 a.m. USAAF Col. [Bruce H. Perry](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82831126/bruce-hartley-perry) and Maj. [William E. Geyser](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127611820/william-e-geyser), 59th AACS Group, see a round 2–3 foot or 10-foot aluminum or silver-metallic sphere traveling at great speed to the south of Elmendorf AFB \[now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson\], Anchorage, Alaska. Estimated altitude is 3,000–4,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Round 3ʹ](http://www.nicap.org/470711elmendorf%5Fdir.htm) [Aluminum Object at Great Speed](http://www.nicap.org/470711elmendorf%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 24 Source ID: Eberhart_1075 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2005 (9DD34BE6) Date: 7/12/1947 Description: 6:30 p.m. USAAF Maj. Edward Graham and others at Elmendorf AFB \[now Joint Base Elmendorf- Richardson\], Anchorage, Alaska, see a balloon-like grayish object, 10 feet long, flying northwest at 100 mph at an altitude of 1,500 feet and following the contour of mountains 5 miles away. It is paralleling the course of a landing C-47. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 24 Source ID: Eberhart_1078 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2006 (8DF7EA91) Date: 7/12/1947 Description: In a declassified statement, Kenneth Arnold points out why the unidentified discs he saw couldn’t have been mirages: “I observed these objects not only through the glass of my airplane but turned my airplane sideways where I could open my window and observe them with a completely unobstructed view (without sunglasses).” Type: declassified statement Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-G, p16) Source ID: Maj2_263 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2007 (CF077A24) Date: 7/12/1947 Description: [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) is interviewed at the Hotel Owyhee in Boise, Idaho, by Lt. [Frank M. Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) and Capt. [William](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) [L. Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) who have flown in from Hamilton Army Airfield \[now closed\] in Novato, California. He also submits a written statement to Army Air Force intelligence, referring to the objects as “saucer-like.” At the end of the report he draws a picture of what the objects appeared to look like at their closest approach to Mt. Rainier, Washington. He writes, “They seemed longer than wide, their thickness was about 1/20th their width.” As to motion, Arnold writes, “They flew like many times I have observed geese to fly in a rather diagonal chain-like line as if they were linked together.” \(James Easton suggests in 2007 that Arnold may have seen pelicans, based on their movements, but this seems unlikely.\) While they are at Arnold’s house, Brown and Davidson hear that pilot Emil J. Smith is in Boise on a layover, and all three go to the airport to talk to him. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 21–23; Kenneth Arnold, “[Confidential,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/ka.htm)” Project 1947; Frank M. Brown, “[Memorandum for the Officer in Charge,](https://www.project1947.com/fig/kabrown.htm)” July 16, 1947; James Easton, “[Kenneth Arnold and](https://ufocon.blogspot.com/2007/04/kenneth-arnold-and-pelicans%5F4213.html) [the Pelicans,](https://ufocon.blogspot.com/2007/04/kenneth-arnold-and-pelicans%5F4213.html)” UFO Conjectures, April 4, 2007; Martin Shough, “[The Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth](http://cufos.org/cases/1947%5F06%5F24%5FUS%5FOR%5FMt%5FRainier%5FShough-article%5FArnold.pdf) [Arnold,](http://cufos.org/cases/1947%5F06%5F24%5FUS%5FOR%5FMt%5FRainier%5FShough-article%5FArnold.pdf)” June 2010; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_1076 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2008 (E365FC45) Date: 7/12/1947 Description: The FBI conducts a shorter follow-up interview with Capt. Emil J. Smith. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 153](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/152/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1077 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2009 (2AB6CAD7) Date: 7/12/1947 Description: 6:35 p.m. Seamen John C. Kennedy and Ben Bobberly are on duty at Naval Air Station Seattle at Sand Point \[now closed and redeveloped as Magnuson Park\], Seattle, Washington. They notice a silvery disc-shaped object flying overhead to the east at 12,000 feet. At about the same time, [Arnold Bergh](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140225076/arnold-rolf-bergh) and James Calahan watch three silvery discs flying quickly north from their location near North 82nd Street and 11th Avenue in Seattle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. III-6](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1079 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2010 (2FEED82A) Date: 7/12/1947 Description: Announcement of Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast on “The Immediate Need for World Law” next Thursday (so either July 17th, or the 24th) Type: newspaper article Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106016511/dr-einstein-in-interview/) Source ID: Maj2_264 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2011 (15B4DDF7) Date: 7/13/1947 Description: At 9:30 p.m. four or five bright white, one-meter wide discs flew over New Cumberland, West Virginia one after the other at 15-minute intervals. They flew away to the south. At 10:30 in Topeka, Kansas a disc-shaped object flew in from the northwest, stopped in midair, and circled. Two more discs, one each from the southwest and southeast fly in and join the first one. All three fly away silently toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases 1163 & 1164 Source ID: Johnson_4025 Source: Johnson ### Event 2012 (0B75C532) Date: 7/13/1947 Description: 5:48 p.m. [Warren Baker Eames](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109826757/warren-baker-eames) is driving with his wife [Alice](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184549721/alice-louise-eames) on State Highway 2 near Gardner, Massachusetts, when they see a large, silvery, disc-shaped object in the sky ahead, moving west. As they watch, its nearest edge dips down toward them and it accelerates in a sudden burst of speed to the west-northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. III-1](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1080 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2013 (8AA39BE7) Date: 7/14/1947 Description: At 10:30 a.m. in Syracuse, New York a 13-year-old boy saw a long, featureless cigar-shaped object hovering over an orchard only 100 meters away. At 1:00 p.m. in Wilkesboro, North Carolina a buzzing noise was heard and then a disc shot through the sky fast at an altitude of 1500 meters. At 7:20 p.m. a small disc flew over a farm south of Idaho Falls, Idaho flying on an irregular course, low and slow. It tilted, then flew away to the southwest making an odd sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1167, citing the National UFO Reporting Center; (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (Volume 5), p. 25; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 107 Source ID: Johnson_4045 Source: Johnson ### Event 2014 (3013E80C) Date: 7/15/1947 Description: At 12:15 p.m. Colonel Frank A. Flynn, who was flying over over Concord, California, reported that at least a dozen oval-shaped UFOs in three groups that hung in the sky, swinging back and forth in a pendulum motion. They were white on top, grey and black for the rest, and about 15 feet wide. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: San Francisco News, July 18, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 841 Source ID: Johnson_4064 Source: Johnson ### Event 2015 (90C25905) Date: 7/15/1947 Description: [Mack Brazel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) is returned home after an extensive interrogation at Roswell AAF, New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, [p. 173](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand/page/172/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1081 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2016 (25EE1C0B) Date: 7/15/1947 Description: 12:15 p.m. Col. [Frank A. Flynn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201755669/frank-anthony-flynn) is flying a Vultee BT-13 Valiant over Concord, California, when a group of 12–15 objects approaches and passes him. At first he takes them for birds, but he can see no necks or wings and they are moving in excess of 200 mph. They are moving in a see-saw fashion at three different altitudes about 200 feet apart, and they appear to be about 15 feet across, white on the top and gray and black on the bottom. At their closest point, they are about one mile away. Flynn turns his plane around to pursue them, but they outdistance him quickly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, [p. III-13](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1082 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2017 (113D4BB1) Date: Mid 7/1947 Description: In a paper by U.S. Navy Physicist, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, he stated: “...the Air Force knew by the middle of July, 1947 that saucers were real and not manmade...the technology represented by the (recovered) disc...was so far beyond our own that it could not be understood immediately...Therefore it would be necessary to treat the disc as a military secret. This would mean containing all information about it within some small group.” Type: ufological event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) See also: 1/31/1949 Source ID: Maj2_267 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2018 (D0623119) Date: 7/15/1947 Description: Memo to Mr. Ladd with a handwritten note from J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI stating, ”...before agreeing (to the investigation of crashed saucers)...we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the Soc. (Socorro, N.M.) case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination. Type: memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up), p541, RECOVERY) Source ID: Maj2_268 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2019 (8E73FF2F) Date: 7/16/1947 Description: An initial report on the Ernest Harmon AFB case in Newfoundland is written up by a base intelligence officer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_1083 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2020 (06CDEB8C) Date: 7/18/1947 Description: In Joplin, Missouri a bright, shiny ovoid object, half a meter in length, flew over the railroad freight house at 11:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 109 Source ID: Johnson_4155 Source: Johnson ### Event 2021 (13E3D172) Date: 7/19/1947 Description: The antiaircraft command base of the Chinese Nationalist Government Air Force spots a UFO over Lanzhou City, Gansu, China. It is 50 feet long and has an apparent rudder and two jet pipes in the back. About 8:00 p.m., witnesses in Gansu province watch a red object cross the sky in 2 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dong, The Four Major Mysteries of Mainland China, Prentice-Hall, 1984, [p. 3](https://archive.org/details/fourmajormysteri00dong/page/n13/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1084 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2022 (AAD77E8A) Date: 7/20/1947 Description: At 2:30 a.m. in Idaho Falls, Idaho Mr. Denton saw a UFO swing back and forth in a pendulum motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Idaho Daily Statesman, July 21, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 842 Source ID: Johnson_4220 Source: Johnson ### Event 2023 (5D8EA6AB) Date: 7/21/1947 Description: At 10:15 a.m. Mr. James E. Petteway of Boise, Idaho briefly sighted an oval object flying on a straight steady course to the north-northeast. It was bright, like polished silver, and flew at an estimated speed of 600 miles per hour, at 7000 feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 844, citing the Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 22, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_4258 Source: Johnson ### Event 2024 (5A4D838A) Date: 7/21/1947 Description: A more detailed report on the Ernest Harmon AFB incident is sent to the Pentagon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_1085 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2025 (F50D77DE) Date: 7/21/1947 Description: Life magazine publishes a pictorial news story on the flying discs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Speaking of Pictures: A Rash of Flying](https://books.google.com/books?id=YU4EAAAAMBAJ&q=Rash%2Bof%2BFlying%23v%3Dsnippet&q=Rash%20of%20Flying&f=false) [Disks Breaks Out over the U.S.,](https://books.google.com/books?id=YU4EAAAAMBAJ&q=Rash%2Bof%2BFlying%23v%3Dsnippet&q=Rash%20of%20Flying&f=false)” Life, July 21, 1947, pp. 14–16 Source ID: Eberhart_1086 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2026 (6365B7FC) Date: 7/22/1947 Description: [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) writes to [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) and tells him about the Maury Island, Washington, case, asking him to look into it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jason Colavito, ed., “[Inquiry into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of Investigation,](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/inquiry-into-shaver-and-palmer.html) [1947”](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/inquiry-into-shaver-and-palmer.html); Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, p. 21 Source ID: Eberhart_1087 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2027 (B80C9B07) Date: 7/23/1947 Description: A group of survey workers working northeast of Pitanga, Parana State, Brazil ran away when they heard a hissing noise and saw a disc-shaped object land only 50 meters away from them. Jose C. Higgins saw two figures through a window inside the craft. Later three beings in shiny clothes and translucent suits, with oversized baldheads, huge round eyes, no eyelashes or eyebrows, and a metal box on their back, emerged from the craft. They were over two meters (6.6 feet) tall. They drew a sketch of the solar system and pointed to Uranus as if to suggest that was their point of origin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1961; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191; Jader U. Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, citing O Cruzeiro, November 13, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_4311 Source: Johnson ### Event 2028 (22D8584A) Date: 7/23/1947 Description: A group of survey workers ran away as they heard a hissing noise and saw a disk land 50 m away. Jose C. Higgins saw two figures through, a window. Later three beings in shiny clothes and translucent suits, with oversized bald heads, huge round eyes, no eyelashes or eyebrows, and a metal box on their back, emerged from the craft. They were over 2 m. tall. They drew the solar system and pointed to Uranus as if to suggest that was their point of origin. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Round-up 163; FSR 61, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bauru, near Pitanga, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_61 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 2029 (F9A18EC6) Date: 7/23/1947 Description: On this day a private pilot named Jenssen, flying at 6000 feet over Morristown, New Jersey encountered a shaft of light from above. The aircraft's engine faltered, then died, but the plane maintained its altitude. He felt a prickling sensation and saw a metallic disc above and ahead of him. He was able to re-start the plane by putting the nose down when he got control back. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 70; Leonard G. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 318 Source ID: Johnson_4312 Source: Johnson ### Event 2030 (48FBF0E8) Date: 7/23/1947 Description: José C. Higgens and some assistants are surveying a field in Campina do Amoral in the Colônia Goio-Bang, located between Luiziana and Mamboré, Paraná, Brazil. On hearing a sharp sound, they see a grayish-white disc- shaped object about 100 feet in diameter, which soon lands and rests on curved metal feet. His assistants flee, but Higgens goes up to examine it. He sees a small, glass window, then two odd-looking beings observing him curiously. A door opens in the craft, and three other hairless beings dressed in transparent overalls. They have large, round eyes with eyebrows and pronounced eyelashes. Their legs are disproportionately long and they are about 7 feet tall. One points a small tube at Higgens. They are speaking in an unknown, sonorous language. He walks toward the door and can see only a small cubicle, bordered by another door, and several portholes. Higgens by gestures asks where they are from and the leader draws a map in the dirt, indicating a seventh planet, presumably Uranus. He eludes them by pretending to look for his wife and goes into a hidden spot in the woods. After 30 minutes the beings climb into the object and take off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Caso José Higgens](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso%5FJos%C3%A9%5FHiggens)”; Clark III 576– 577; Brazil 21–23; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_1089 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2031 (DCE447A9) Date: 7/23/1947 Description: Day. [John H. Janssen](https://books.google.com/books?id=d4xka5HgmnMC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=%22John%2BH.%2BJanssen%22%2BMorristown&source=bl&ots=8BznC%5FpcGD&sig=ACfU3U0xTsN0SbtjUsPdc41%5FWojGoYEDDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM5KTJ6JbpAhUHWs0KHVelAAoQ6AEwBnoECB4QAQ%23v%3Donepage&q=%22John%20H.%20Janssen%22%20Morristown&f=false), aviation editor of the Morristown Daily Record, is flying his Piper J-3 Cub at 6,000 feet near the Morristown Airport in New Jersey. He sees a flash of light, the engine gives out, and the plane seems to be motionless. Then he sees two UFOs \(this time with portholes\) and manages to get the propeller going again. This is one of the first cases of “vehicle interference” UFO cases involving an airplane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[07-10-1947](http://www.nicap.org/morristown.htm) [USA, New Jersey, Morristown](http://www.nicap.org/morristown.htm)”; John H. Janssen, “My Encounter with Flying Disks,” Fate 2, no. 3 \(September 1949\): 12–16 Source ID: Eberhart_1088 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2032 (F0B97F66) Date: 7/24/1947 Description: Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast on “The Immediate Need for World Law” Type: newspaper article Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106016511/dr-einstein-in-interview/) Source ID: Maj2_269 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2033 (7D7B08D4) Date: 7/25/1947 Description: A memorandum over the signature of Maj. [Lester M. Garrigues](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84393903/lester-m-garrigues) states that by order of Col. [Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard), the nine men who had been assigned duties in the recovery of the Roswell, New Mexico, crash are relieved from duty on that project. However, it is now largely considered a forgery by [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann). Garrigues has assumed duties in China prior to this and is no longer in Roswell. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 9–11, 26 Source ID: Eberhart_1091 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2034 (752361AF) Date: 7/25/1947 Description: Day. Leonard Robertson is riding his motorcycle northeast of Dumas, Texas, when he sees a flash of light to his left. An oval object like a bubble is floating over a field about one mile away. Suddenly the object explodes, so Robertson takes a side road to the field where he retrieves a piece of metal “lighter than aluminum foil” about 30 inches long and 24 inches wide. There are two small holes in it and the center seems to be burned. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Perryton](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92746030/) [Man Displays Proof of Saucer Story,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92746030/)” Amarillo \(Tex.\) Daily News, August 6, 1947, p. 1; “[Salvage from Mystery](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92746267/) [Blast,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92746267/)” Amarillo \(Tex.\) Daily News, August 9, 1947, p. 5; Curt Collins, “[The Texas UFO Crash Debris Photo from](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-texas-ufo-crash-debris-photo-from.html) [July 1947,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-texas-ufo-crash-debris-photo-from.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, May 21, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_1092 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2035 (87385714) Date: 7/25/1947 Description: Intelligence agents from the Fourth Air Force, Lt. [Frank M. Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) and Capt. [William L. Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) visit [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) in Boise, Idaho, and tell him to contact them if he runs across any interesting UFO evidence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1090 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2036 (E0E9C86A) Date: 7/26/1947 Description: President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) signs the National Security Act, a major restructuring of the military and intelligence agencies. It creates a unified National Military Establishment \(Army and Navy\) and a Department of the Air Force, both under the new Secretary of Defense. The Joint Research and Development Board becomes the R&D brain center. Each of the three service secretaries maintains quasi-cabinet status. It establishes the National Security Council to advise the president and the Central Intelligence Agency, the first peacetime intelligence agency in the US. The CIA is prohibited from conducting domestic surveillance, but [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) ensures it can handle “other functions” affecting “national security” without scrutiny from Congress or \(sometimes\) the president. Much of the CIA’s funding initially comes from wealthy Americans. The act creates the first black military and intelligence budget. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[National Security Act of 1947](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FSecurity%5FAct%5Fof%5F1947)” Source ID: Eberhart_1093 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2037 (8E0674EB) Date: 7/27/1947 Description: [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) wires [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) $200 to investigate the Maury Island, Washington, case. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952, Palmer, pp. 23–24 Source ID: Eberhart_1094 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2038 (4140D5B0) Date: 7/27/1947 Description: Capt. [Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) and Lt. [Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) interview Richard Rankin. The FBI finds that the CIC agents have also interviewed [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) Capt. Emil J. Smith, Flight Officer Ralph Stevens, and Boise Stateman Editor [David](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson) [N. Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson) about their UFO sightings. [Leverett G. Richards](https://apnews.com/1736a07c919af497dd11932e2c39e12a)[,](https://apnews.com/1736a07c919af497dd11932e2c39e12a) aviation editor of the Portland Oregonian, informs the FBI of this information. He also calls Lieut. Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining), who leaves “the impression that the AAF instituted this investigation to wash out the disc reports since they are definitely not of AAF origin.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Memo for FBI Director from Mr. D. M. Ladd, August 14, 1947 Source ID: Eberhart_1095 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2039 (62E8FD2C) Date: 7/28/1947 Description: After assessing the Ernest Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, report, Gen. [Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) orders Col. [Howard M.](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) deputy commander of T-2 intelligence at Wright Field, Ohio, to send a top-level assessment team \(possibly [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) or Col. [William R. Clingerman Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman)\) to Stephenville “immediately” and report directly to the Pentagon afterwards. McCoy suspects German or Russian technology. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 33–34; Swords 39 Source ID: Eberhart_1096 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2040 (B8065690) Date: 7/28/1947 Description: 8:34 p.m. Capt. Charles F. Gibian and First Officer Jack Harvey are piloting United Air Lines Flight 105 and descending above Mountain Home, Idaho, in preparation for landing in Boise. Harvey sees an object that seems to be another aircraft ahead of them and to the south, but it rapidly moves to the northwest in a weaving fashion, diminishing in size and vanishing from view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[United Air Lines Crew Reports Sighting](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101853888/the-idaho-statesman/) [Flying Saucer between](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101854006/the-idaho-statesman/) [Mountain Home and Boise,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101854006/the-idaho-statesman/)” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 29, 1947, pp. 1–2; Bloecher, [pp. III-13–14](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1097 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2041 (26E5DDBD) Date: 7/28/1947 Description: At 12:10 p.m. a shiny silver disc was seen flying toward the west at a high altitude In Norwood, Manitoba. If left behind puffs of smoke at regular intervals. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (Volume 5), p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_4446 Source: Johnson ### Event 2042 (72D4E4A4) Date: 7/28/1947 Description: United Airlines flight 105 flying between Mountain Home and Boise, Idaho had a near collision with a flying disc at 10:34 p.m. The cockpit crew members were named Gibian and Harvey. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Idaho Daily Statesman, July 29, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 849; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_4447 Source: Johnson ### Event 2043 (2D660759) Date: 7/28/1947 Description: DC-3 Crew Observes Disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [470728](http://www.nicap.org/470728mtnhome%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bt. Mountain Home & Boise, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_380 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2044 (C26CDF2F) Date: 7/29/1947 Description: A memo from FBI agent E. G. Fitch says that Special Agent [Reynolds](https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MT19611122.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1) has met with Gen. [Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) again, who assures him that “all discs recovered would be made available for the examination by the FBI agents.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 149–150](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/148/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1098 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2045 (1D8F58CB) Date: 7/29/1947 Description: 6:55 a.m. [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) is flying to Tacoma, Washington, to investigate the Maury Island mystery. As he is over Union, Oregon, preparing to land at La Grande to refuel, he sees a cluster of 25 small \(24–30 inches\) brass- colored discs with a spot in the middle moving at a terrific speed. They come within 1,200 feet of his aircraft before veering away. At La Grande, he phones aviation editor [David N. Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson) about his sighting, then reaches Tacoma at dusk. He gets a room \(502\) at the Winthrop Hotel, where a room and a bath have already been mysteriously reserved for him. [Harold A. Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) visits Arnold that night, then takes him to [Fred Crisman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman)’s place to see some Maury Island fragments. Arnold thinks it looks like lava. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 25–38; Bloecher, [pp. I-15–16](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm)[,](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm) [III-14](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm); Clark III 720–721 Source ID: Eberhart_1099 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2046 (378DF9B2) Date: 7/29/1947 Description: 2:50 p.m. Assistant Base Operations Officer Capt. [William H. Ryherd](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72481935/william-henry-ryherd) and ex-AAF B-29 pilot 1Lt Ward Stewart see two round, shiny, white objects near Hamilton Army Airfield \[now closed\] in Novato, California. The objects are 15–25 feet in diameter and are flying at about 750 mph at an altitude of 6,000–10,000 feet heading south. One object flies straight and level; the other weaves from side-to-side like an escort fighter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bloecher, p. [III-5](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm)[;](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionIII.htm) [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 25 Source ID: Eberhart_1100 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2047 (1837E42C) Date: 7/29/1947 Description: Hamilton Air Base, California At 2:50 p.m. PDT the Assistant Base Operations Officer, Capt. William Rhyerd, and Ward Steward, an ex-B-29 pilot, watched for unknown length of time while two round, shiny, white objects with estimated 15-25 foot diameters, flew 3-4 times the apparent speed of a P-80, also in sight. One object flew straight and level; the other weaved from side-to-side like an escort fighter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4469 Source: Johnson ### Event 2048 (78D66FEC) Date: 7/29/1947 Description: Two 15-25' Spheres Observed By AF Men (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 69) Reference: NICAP: [470729](http://www.nicap.org/470729hamiltonfld%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamilton Field, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_382 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2049 (FE3ED24C) Date: 7/29/1947 Description: 3' Bright Disc Maneuvers At High Speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470729](http://www.nicap.org/470729canyonferry%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canyon Ferry (Helena?), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_381 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2050 (BAF6F59E) Date: 7/29/1947 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 160.7km altitude (Near vertical trajectory.) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 160.7km Source ID: Maj2_271 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2051 (80D07259) Date: 7/29/1947 Time: 2:50 PM PDT Description: Witnesses: Assistant Base Operations Officer Capt. William Rhyerd, ex-AAF B-29 pilot Ward Stewart. Watched for unknown length of time while two round, shiny, white objects with estimated 15-25 foot diameters, flew 3-4 times the apparent speed of a P-80, also in sight. One object flew straight and level; the other weaved from side-to-side like an escort fighter. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Hamilton Air Base, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_6 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2052 (D91CAB58) Date: 7/29/1947 Description: Kenneth Arnold interviews Dahl in Tacoma WA, near Maury Island. Retrieved metals sent to Ray Palmer and sent to a lab for analysis. Metals confiscated by the military from Ray Palmer. Dahl leaves in terror and is tracked down in public archives to the southern Oregon area. Type: ufological event Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/so-whatever-happened-to-harold-a-dahl-of-the-1947-maury-island-incident-fb5a4cdb626e) Source ID: Maj2_270 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2053 (D6E910A3) Date: 7/30/1947 Description: The Garrett Estimate, an Air Force Base Intelligence Report on “Flying Discs”—an informal estimate of the situation based on 16 reports selected by Collections Officer Lt. Col. [George D. Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett)—says that the “flying saucer situation is not all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around.” Also, “Lack of topside inquiries . . . give more than ordinary weight to the possibility that this is a domestic project, about which the President, etc., know.” The study is passed up the line to Gen. [George Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) and [Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) at the FBI for comment, subtly indicating that investigating a domestic project is a waste of time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “[Flying Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/garrett%5F073047doc.pdf)” July 30, 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 32–33, 57–61; Swords 39, 474–475; Kevin D. Randle, “[Roswell,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/roswell-nathan-twining-and-mini-eots.html) [Nathan Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/roswell-nathan-twining-and-mini-eots.html)” A Different Perspective, October 6, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_1104 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2054 (891F7971) Date: 7/30/1947 Description: A memo with the subject line, “Recovery ‘Flying Discs,’” purportedly written by Maj. [Edwin D. Easley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42373439/edwin-dean-easley), acknowledges that the Roswell, New Mexico, crash could “represent an interplanetary craft of some kind.” However, it is now largely considered a forgery by [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 9–11, 26 Source ID: Eberhart_1103 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2055 (E06E6786) Date: 7/30/1947 Description: The FBI issues a policy statement on “Flying Discs,” saying that sightings should be investigated to see whether an “individual might be desirous of seeking personal publicity, causing hysteria, or playing a prank.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Flying Disks,” Section B, Bureau Bulletin no. 42, Series 1947, in Black Vault FBI documents compilation, [p.](https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/fbi/ufo1.pdf) [48](https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/fbi/ufo1.pdf); ClearIntent, [p. 150](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/150/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1102 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2056 (D25CD506) Date: 7/30/1947 Description: [Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) calls United Airlines pilot Capt. Emil J. Smith and asks him to come listen to the Maury Island, Washington, story. Smith arrives in Tacoma in the afternoon and cross-examines [Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) and [Crisman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman). Smith stays with Arnold at the Winthrop Hotel. Journalist [Ted Morello](https://tedmorellojournalist.wordpress.com/) of United Press calls Arnold and says that a crackpot has been calling him, explaining everything that is going on in the hotel room, including conversations with Smith when they are alone. They try but fail to locate a listening device in the room. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 38–46; Clark III 721 Source ID: Eberhart_1101 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2057 (77722B08) Date: 7/30/1947 Description: Mr. Ostrom, a 66-year-old man driving an Army truck on Route 95 one mile north of Tamarack, Idaho a 4:00 p.m. when he saw a silver sphere approach and hit the roof of his truck, and then bounce off. At the point of contact a small surface area of the metal roof, about the size of a silver dollar, had melted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 168; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 853 Source ID: Johnson_4499 Source: Johnson ### Event 2058 (A56C6233) Date: 7/31/1947 Description: [Crisman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman) and [Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) bring heavy fragments and white metal from the Maury Island case to the Winthrop Hotel room in Tacoma, Washington. They cannot locate the photos. [Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) calls [Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) and [Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) at Hamilton Army Airfield in Novato, California. They quickly depart for Tacoma. [Morello](https://tedmorellojournalist.wordpress.com/) calls Arnold and says his informant knows that Brown and Davidson are on their way in a B-25. They arrive in the late afternoon. The five men talk until 11:00 p.m., when Crisman offers to go home and get more Maury Island fragments. He returns with slightly different, more slag-like rock stuffed in a large cereal box, which is loaded into Brown’s army vehicle. Brown and Davidson leave to go back to Hamilton for Air Force Day the next day. Morello calls again and says his informant told him everything about what has just taken place. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 46–57; \[FBI teletype, August 6, 1947\], [pp. 87–88](https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/fbi/ufo3.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1105 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2059 (3BF5DBB2) Date: 7/31/1947 Description: Capt. [Edward Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt): “By the end of July 1947, the UFO security lid was down tight. The few members of the press who did inquire about what the Air Force was doing got the same treatment that you would get today if you inquired about the number of thermonuclear weapons stock-piled in the U.S.’s atomic arsenal. . . \[At T-2 there was\] confusion almost to the point of panic." Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 22](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/22/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1106 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2060 (F98C3831) Date: 8/1947 Description: USAF fighter pilot W. Boyce sees a hovering disc above Media, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 33](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=45&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1107 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2061 (1D28A3F1) Date: 8/1947 Description: Boyce Case, (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Media, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_384 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2062 (4A1D950E) Date: 8/1947 Description: Specimens of an alleged “Flying Saucer” were brought to AMC by Col. H. M. McCoy (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [470800](http://www.nicap.org/danforth4708xxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Danforth, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_383 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2063 (BB77AB1A) Date: 8/1947 Description: The Denver Post runs a story that claims the military is building a secret base consisting of huge caverns for atomic weapons defense purposes. The article says the new base is in the Manzano Mountains southeast of Sandia Base, New Mexico. The military responds by issuing a statement that operations and construction near Sandia Base are top secret. In fact, however, the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project is building one of several bases around the country that will be used for nuclear weapons storage. The AFSWP code-names the base “Site Able.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Sandia Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandia%5FBase\#Manzano%5FBase)” Source ID: Eberhart_1110 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2064 (E2D12E7E) Date: 8/1947 Description: The Air Materiel Command headquarters replaces T-2 Intelligence with the Technical Intelligence Department, tasked with producing reports and estimates on foreign air weapons. It begins to develop a photoanalysis capability. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1109 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2065 (AF0E6175) Date: 8/1947 Description: T-2 Intelligence and Army Air Force Intelligence hold meetings over the next two months and prepare documents requesting an authorized project to investigate UFOs, per General [LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay)’s 1946 instructions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1108 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2066 (3BDA625D) Date: 8/1/1947 Description: [Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) and [Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) make a stop at McChord Field near Tacoma, Washington, to speak with intelligence officer Maj. [George Sander](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72303755/george-sander)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72303755/george-sander) then board the B-25 for Hamilton Army Airfield \[now closed\] in Novato, California. It explodes and crashes near Kelso, Washington, at 1:30 a.m., 20 minutes after taking off, when the left engine catches fire. An army hitchhiker and engineer parachute to safety. Brown and Davidson fail to signal distress or bail out. After hearing the news, [Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) calls [Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) and offers to return his money. Palmer says to just mail him some fragments. Arnold and Smith visit [Morello](https://tedmorellojournalist.wordpress.com/) and [Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) and [Crisman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman). They talk to Tacoma Times reporter [Paul](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107053568/paul-christian-lantz) [Lantz](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107053568/paul-christian-lantz) in the hotel lobby, who writes the article “Sabotage Hinted in Crash of Army Bomber at Kelso.” Debris from the crash is not discovered until 2007. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Air Force Day Marred As B-26 Crashes Here,” Longview \(Wash.\) Daily News, August 1, 1947, p. 1; “[‘Flying Saucers’ Figure in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/786650/kelso-b-25-crash-pt-1-of-2-galveston/) [Two Air Crash Deaths,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/786644/kelso-b-25-crash-pt-2-of-2-galveston/)” Galveston \(Tex.\) Daily News, August 3, 1947, pp. 1, 5; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 57–72; Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson, “[The Maury Island UFO Incident,](http://www.nwlegendsmuseum.com/MauryIsland.html)” February 2014; Leslie Slape, “[Marker Placed near Kelso to Honor Pilots in ‘47 Crash,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90030669/longview-daily-news/)” Longview \(Wash.\) Daily News, August 3, 2007, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_1111 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2067 (BFB13F4F) Date: 8/1/1947 Description: A B-25 plane containing materials retrieved from Harold Dahl near Maury Island WA crashes near Kelso, WA Type: ufological event Reference: [Wikipedia link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Island_incident) Source ID: Maj2_272 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2068 (7CB71298) Date: 8/1/1947 Description: At 8:30 p.m. three dark metallic domed discs flew over the mountains of Areches, Savoie, France heading east-northeast. They made no sound, and had rotating rims. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1968 Source ID: Johnson_4554 Source: Johnson ### Event 2069 (F802C75D) Date: 8/3/1947 Description: Smith contacts Maj. [Sander](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72303755/george-sander)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72303755/george-sander) who relieves [Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) and Smith of all their fragments. He shows them a smelting lot where he finds similar pieces of slag. Smith and Arnold check out of the Winthrop Hotel in Tacoma, Washington. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 73–84 Source ID: Eberhart_1112 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2070 (F20A7EEE) Date: 8/3/1947 Description: Newspaper article: “Crashed Bomber Reported Carrying ‘Flying Disc’”. Maury Island incident metallic fragments were reported to be extremely heavy and subjected to extreme heat. Type: ufological event Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324) Source ID: Maj2_273 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2071 (9425D47F) Date: 8/4/1947 Description: The pilot and co-pilot of an airliner flying over Everett, Massachusetts at 4:00 p.m. sighted a bright glowing orange cylindrical object, 15 feet long and shaped like a cigarette, flying at 150 mph. It had a glaring jet exhaust. At dusk two more pilots on a civilian cargo plane saw another UFO that looked like a fuselage without wings while flying over Bethel, Alaska. This second UFO outdistanced their airplane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1977, p. 10; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4; Bob Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, August 19, 1987 Source ID: Johnson_4640 Source: Johnson ### Event 2072 (F0623DA3) Date: 8/4/1947 Description: Pilots Capt. [Jack](https://alaskaairmuseum.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/jack-peck.jpg) [Peck](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25121894/jack-randall-peck) and Vince Daly see a smooth UFO northwest of Bethel, Alaska, dead ahead as they are flying a DC-3 for Al Jones Flying Service. Peck hauls back on his controls to bring his plane up to safer altitude. Now 1,000 feet higher, the pilots glance downward and spot the UFO closer but on a changed course. Still dark against the sky, it looks to be as large as a C-54. Intrigued, Peck dives on the object as it pulls away, doing his best to get a better view, but it speeds up to an estimated 500 mph and is lost to view in four minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Smooth Black Object Crosses Path of DC-3](http://www.nicap.org/470804bethel%5Fdir.htm)”; Harold D. Johnston, “[Matters of National Interest,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/bethel.htm)” August 5, 1947; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 25 Source ID: Eberhart_1113 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2073 (30DF7D0B) Date: 8/4/1947 Description: A bright orange or deep-gold colored cigarette-shaped (Project 1947; McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470804](http://www.nicap.org/470804everett%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Everett, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_386 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2074 (65A8D9DB) Date: 8/4/1947 Description: Smooth surfaced black object larger than a DC-3 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470804](http://www.nicap.org/470804bethel%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bethel, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_385 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2075 (C8F008CB) Date: 8/6/1947 Description: In Robert Lee, Texas a disc maneuvered in the sky at 10:00 p.m, then flew away. It came back 15 minutes and maneuvered for another 30 minutes, changing its shape to the appearance of a cigar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 137 Source ID: Johnson_4715 Source: Johnson ### Event 2076 (6D3C80DD) Date: 8/6/1947 Description: In Media, Pennsylvania at 6:00 p.m. an ex-U.S. Air Force pilot and two others saw a hovering saucer-shaped object. It shot away at an estimated 725 km/h, emitting a slight hiss and flames. Many observers in nearby Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sighted a "giant firecracker" in the sky at 10:30 p.m. flying at several hundred mph. The FBI inverviewed many of these witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 33; (2) Bruce S, Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1977, p. 10; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4, citing FBI files Source ID: Johnson_4714 Source: Johnson ### Event 2077 (58116022) Date: 8/6/1947 Description: An FBI memo from E. G. Fitch to [D. Milton Ladd](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Ladd.htm) identifies either [Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) or [Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) as a CIC agent on a top secret mission. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jason Colavito, ed., “[Inquiry into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/inquiry-into-shaver-and-palmer.html) [Investigation, 1947”](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/inquiry-into-shaver-and-palmer.html) Source ID: Eberhart_1114 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2078 (EFA910E7) Date: 8/7/1947 Description: The Seattle, Washington, FBI office interrogates [Crisman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FCrisman) and [Dahl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125878620/harold-albert-dahl) and announces the Maury Island incident is a hoax. The FBI file notes that Dahl stated that “if questioned by the authorities he was going to say it was a hoax because he did not want any further trouble over the matter.” Dahl’s daughter Louise admits in 2007 that the whole story was made up, as did her brother Charles in the late 1960s, who called Crisman a “smooth-talking con artist.” The affair had started as a joke and blossomed into something worse. Associated Press reporter Elmer Vogel says that Dahl’s wife had compelled him to tell Vogel the truth. [Morello](https://tedmorellojournalist.wordpress.com/) also speaks to Crisman, who admits the story is baseless. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 721; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 105–111; Jason Colavito, ed., “[Inquiry into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/inquiry-into-shaver-and-palmer.html) [Investigation, 1947”](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/inquiry-into-shaver-and-palmer.html); Kenn Thomas, Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy, IllumiNet, 1999; Anthony Bragalia, “[Maury Island No Longer a Mystery: A UFO Hoax Exposed!](https://www.ufodigest.com/article/maury-island-no-longer-a-mystery-a-ufo-hoax-exposed/)” UFO Digest, July 8, 2010; Brian J. Robb, “Conspiracy Central: The Life and Lies of Fred Lee Crisman,” Fortean Times 355 \(July 2017\): 32–39 Source ID: Eberhart_1115 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2079 (078329E5) Date: 8/8/1947 Description: Lt. Col. [Donald L.](http://www.foreshadower.net/images/Col-Donald-L.Springer-USAF.jpg) [Springer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49321614/donald-l-springer), assistant chief of staff for army intelligence at the Fourth Air Force, who has just returned to Hamilton Army Airfield \[now closed\] in Novato, California, from Tacoma, Washington, says “there is not sufficient evidence or testimony available to this headquarters to conclude whether or not the reports of so- called flying disks in the Tacoma area or any other area have any basis of fact.” He adds that the Maury Island crash “did not occur.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Fourth Air Force Drops Disc Inquiry; Search Held Futile,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92764388/)” San Francisco Examiner, August 9, 1947, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_1116 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2080 (AF58FB0C) Date: 8/9/1947 Description: [John Derry](https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/john-derry)[,](https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/john-derry) serving as acting general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, proposes a set of guidelines that restate the proposition that secrecy can be based on reasons other than national security. The definition of Confidential that he proposes goes beyond the Army and Manhattan Project rules: “CONFIDENTIAL: Documents, information or material, the unauthorized disclosure of which, while not endangering the National security, would be prejudicial to the interests or prestige of the Nation or any Governmental activity, or individual, or would cause administrative embarrassment, or be of advantage to a foreign nation shall be classified CONFIDENTIAL.” The Derry memo calls for review by a classification board assembled from the AEC’s regional sites. In September, this board assembles in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The available documentation does not show that Derry’s proposed rules go into effect, but it does show that the Classification Board blesses the illustrations of matter that “should be graded” Secret or Confidential. The former category includes “certain selected human administration experiments performed under MED \[Manhattan Engineer District\].” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, “Final Report,” October 1995, [chapter 13](https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/research/reports/ACHRE/chap13%5F3.html) Source ID: Eberhart_1117 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2081 (DB1820F8) Date: 8/10/1947 Description: An eight meter diameter domed metallic disc followed a car near Forrest Station, Manitoba, Canada on this day. It hovered over some power lines, then blinked out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 113; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (volume 6), p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_4816 Source: Johnson ### Event 2082 (18D0F82F) Date: 8/13/1947 Description: Mr. A. C. Urie and his two sons were fishing in the Snake River Canyon near Twin Falls, Idaho at about one p.m. when they saw a sky blue, seven-meter wide inverted plate-shaped flying object 100 meters away and 25 meters above the ground. Treetops under it were spinning wildly, although the object itself did not appear to spin. It made a swishing sound. There was a red flame visible on one side of the top. According to the FBI investigative report of this case, at about 1:00 p.m. Mr. Urie "sent his boys to the (Salmon) river to get some rope from his boat. When he thought they were overdue he went outside to his tool shed to look for them. He noticed them about 300 feet away looking in the sky and he glanced up to see what he called the flying disc. This strange object was flying at high speed along the canyon which is about 400 feet deep and 1,200 feet across at that point. It was about seventy-five feet above the floor of the canyon (and so more than 300 feet below the edge of the canyon) and moving up and down as it flew. It seemed to be following the contours of the hilly ground beneath it. Urie, who said he was at about the same level as the UFO, so that he had a side view, estimated it was about twenty feet long, ten feet wide and ten feet high, with what appeared to be exhaust ports on the sides. It was almost hat shaped with a flat bottom and a dome on top.

Its pale blue color made Urie think that it would be very difficult to see against the sky, although he had no trouble seeing it silhouetted against the opposite wall of the canyon. On each side there was a tubular shaped fiery glow, like some sort of exhaust. He said that when it went over trees they didn't sway back and forth, but rather the treetops twisted around, which suggests that the air under the object was being swirled into a vortex. He and his sons had an excellent view of the object for a few seconds before it disappeared over the trees about a mile away. He thought it was going 1,000 miles an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192 Source ID: Johnson_4960 Source: Johnson ### Event 2083 (88283FA9) Date: 8/13/1947 Description: The San Francisco Examiner’s Washington Bureau hears a rumor from a US intelligence source that Soviet agents have been ordered to solve the mystery of flying saucers. It reports that the Kremlin believes that the discs are connected with Army experiments in anti-radar weaponry. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: San Francisco \(Calif.\) Examiner, August 14, 1947, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_1119 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2084 (105B3B33) Date: 8/13/1947 Time: 1300 Description: Two boys and their father saw a sky-blue object 100 m away and 25 m above ground. Treetops under it were spinning wildly, although the object itself did not spin. It made a swishing sound. Shape: inverted plate, 7 m diameter and 3.5 m thick. There was a red flame on one side of the top. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Twin Falls, Smoke River Canyon, Idaho Source ID: Magnonia_62 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 2085 (99C24BA4) Date: 8/13/1947 Description: 1:00 p.m. [Albert Clarence Urie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5096687/albert-clarence-urie) and his two sons [Billy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5096696/william-thomas-urie) and Kenneth see a straw hat–shaped, sky-blue object about 10 wide, 10 feet high, and 20 feet long. It has “pods” on the side emitting flames and is flying along the Snake River Canyon six miles west of Blue Lakes Ranch near Twin Falls, Idaho. The UFO is moving up and down towards them at 1,000 mph and an altitude of 75 feet about 1/2 mile away. Urie is about 300 feet from the object, which is about level with him and silhouetted against the canyon wall. It disappears behind a hill about one mile away. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) for Project Blue Book, later identifies it as an “atmospheric eddy.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Saucer Reported](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72830786/the-times-news/) [Flashing Down Canyon at 1,000 Miles Per Hour;](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72830786/the-times-news/) [Two Others Seen,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72831209/the-times-news/)” Twin Falls \(Idaho\) Times-News, August 15, 1947, pp. 1, 8; NICAP, “[Snake River Case](http://www.nicap.org/470813snakeriver%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 34](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/34/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 26; Story, [pp. 337–338](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/336/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Snake River, August 13, 1947](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/snakeriver1947.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1118 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2086 (9ECA9599) Date: 8/13/1947 Description: Two Discs 6' In Diameter Near Dam (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470813](http://www.nicap.org/470813twinfalls%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Twin Falls, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_387 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2087 (8F821028) Date: 8/13/1947 Description: Snake River Case (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470813](http://www.nicap.org/470813snakeriver%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Snake River, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_388 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2088 (53291638) Date: 8/14/1947 Description: According to files released by the FBI through FOIA requests in the 1970s, at 10:40 a.m. at least two crescent-shaped objects zig-zagged past a military aircraft twice while the plane was flying near Guam over the Pacific Ocean. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, December 1977; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_4997 Source: Johnson ### Event 2089 (45331514) Date: 8/14/1947 Description: At around nine o'clock in the morning R. L. Johannis of Raveo, Italy saw a 10 meter wide, red domed, disc-shaped object with an antenna on top, on the ground across an ice field. There were two dwarfs less than three feet tall near the craft, wearing dark blue coveralls with red collars and belts. They had oversized heads and greenish toned faces. Their eyes were huge, without eyelashes or eyebrows but surrounded by some kind of ring-like muscle. The beings had greenish hands with eight talon-like fingers. They wore something similar to crash helmets. When he waved his ice axe at them in a friendly gesture, one of the beings discharged a thin puff of smoke or "vapor" at him which knocked him down, and the witness started to suffocate, feeling at the same time a strong electrical discharge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 82; Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192 Source ID: Johnson_4998 Source: Johnson ### Event 2090 (47FA2496) Date: 8/14/1947 Time: 0900 Description: R. L. Johannis saw a disk on the ground and two dwarfs less than 1 m tall, wearing dark blue coveralls with red collars and belts. They had oversized heads, greenish faces, huge, salient dark eyes without eyelashes or eyebrows, but surrounded by a ringlike muscle. They wore something similar to crash helmets. The center of their belts projected a "vapor," and the witness suffocated, feeling a strong electrical discharge. The creature had greenish hands with eight talonlike fingers. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 2; Magonia; FRS 67, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Raveo, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_63 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 2091 (8451BAA2) Date: 8/14/1947 Description: The FBI concludes that the plane carrying [Davidson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43927275/william-lee-davidson) and [Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65326329/frank-mercer-brown) was not sabotaged, nor was it carrying actual flying disc parts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Memo for FBI Director from Mr. D. M. Ladd, August 14, 1947 Source ID: Eberhart_1123 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2092 (BC689538) Date: 8/14/1947 Description: Metallic highly polished chromium surface obj 4-6 ft wide(McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470814](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/placerville470814dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Placerville, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_391 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2093 (5CEB6866) Date: 8/14/1947 Description: 10:40 a.m. Three men of the 147th Airways and Air Communications Service Squadron at Harmon Field, Guam, see two small crescent-shaped objects zigzagging at 1,200 feet. They disappear in the clouds and another object emerges and proceeds west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer, “[Flying Disc,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/guam47.htm)” August 27, 1947; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 26 Source ID: Eberhart_1122 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2094 (E213A979) Date: 8/14/1947 Description: 2 small crescent-shaped objects pass over them on a zigzag path (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harmon Field, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_389 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2095 (76623226) Date: 8/14/1947 Description: Professor Encounters "Lens" & Creatures (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [470814](http://www.nicap.org/470814friuli%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Friuli, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_390 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2096 (DABA15CD) Date: 8/14/1947 Description: Shortly after 9:00 a.m. Italian artist and author [Luigi Rapuzzi](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%5FR.%5FJohannis) \(who uses the pseudonym L. R. Johannis\) is hiking along the left bank of the Torrente Chiarzò near Raveo, Udine, Italy, when he sees a vivid red, metallic, domed disc on the riverbank about 165 feet ahead. It is about 33 feet wide and embedded in a cleft in the rock about 20 feet above thqwe stream. Looking around, he sees two “boys” on the edge of a grove of trees. He shouts at them and points to the object, walking toward them, but notices they are actually odd-looking dwarfs who are approaching him stiffly. They are about 3 feet tall and wearing dark blue coveralls with red collars, cuffs, and belts. Their greenish heads are covered in tight-fitting, brownish caps. He looks at them in astonishment for 2–3 minutes, then waves his geologist’s pick at them and asks where they come from. One of the entities raises its right hand to its belt, which emits a puff of smoke that knocks Rapuzzi to the ground as if from an electric shock. As he is lying there, one of them grabs his pick and he notices its green hand has 8 claws. They climb up the rock and into the disc, which soon shoots straight out and into the air, hovering briefly at an angle, then vanishes. Rapuzzi feels a blast of wind that blows him across the ground. His pick is missing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Professor](http://www.nicap.org/470814friuli%5Fdir.htm) [Encounters ‘Lens’ and Creatures](http://www.nicap.org/470814friuli%5Fdir.htm)”; “[The Villa Santina Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201966%20N%201%2CThe%20Humanoids.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 2; 1Pinotti 19–30 Source ID: Eberhart_1121 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2097 (35A5C400) Date: 8/14/1947 Description: The first Gallup poll on UFOs shows that 90% of Americans have heard of flying saucers; 33% don’t know what they are, 39% consider them hoaxes or misidentifications, 16% consider them US or Russian secret weapons. The ETH is not mentioned. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1947, “[August 1947 Gallup Poll](http://www.project1947.com/fig/gallup.htm)”; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 9–10 Source ID: Eberhart_1120 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2098 (797AEDEA) Date: 8/15/1947 End date: 8/20/1947 Description: 12 B-29-Sized Elliptical Objects Seen (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470815-20](http://www.nicap.org/470815rapidcity%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rapid City AFB, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_392 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2099 (B57A7E27) Date: 8/15/1947? Description: 9:30 p.m. Maj. [Elmer H. Hammer](https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=PersonAircraftExt&ID=108161) of the 28th Bombardment Wing at Rapid City Army Air Base \[now Ellsworth AFB\] near Box Elder, South Dakota, sees 12 objects flying at 6,000–10,000 feet in a tight diamond formation at 300–400 mph. The objects level off at approximately 5,000 feet and make a gentle large-radius turn of about 110° to the right about 4 miles away. They start climbing at an angle of 30–40° and appear to accelerate rapidly in the climb. The objects are approximately 100 feet long and have a brilliant yellow-white luminous glow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[12 B-29-Sized Elliptical Objects Seen](http://www.nicap.org/470815rapidcity%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 40](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/40/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 26 Source ID: Eberhart_1125 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2100 (A27E1BE4) Date: 8/15/1947 Description: In response to the August 13 San Francisco Examiner report, FBI Director [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) asks the agency to look into whether Soviet spies are looking into whether the flying discs are a secret US technology. Assistant Director of the Domestic Intelligence Division [D. Milton](https://bhunt34.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/acme-press-photos/) [“Mickey” Ladd](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Ladd.htm) at FBI headquarters assures FBI Deputy Director [Edward Allen Tamm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FAllen%5FTamm) that he is unaware of any such effort. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Memo](https://archive.org/details/a2019795%5Fmvrht%5FUfo/page/n221/mode/2up) to Assistant FBI Director E. A. Tamm from Agent D. M. Ladd, August 15, 1947 Source ID: Eberhart_1124 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2101 (AA631298) Date: 8/16/1947 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a globe of purplish light was seen in Timmins, Ontario, causing a car to stall. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 116; Michael Persinger, Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events, p. 59 Source ID: Johnson_5070 Source: Johnson ### Event 2102 (159FE8F5) Date: 8/17/1947 Description: A forest ranger at a fire lookout tower on Mt. Josephine, Skagit County, Washington, observes an object shaped like a huge clam that appears to fall tipped at an angle northeast of the fire tower. It slows to a stop, levels off, and floats “leisurely as if suspended by a cord” for a few minutes and finally moves off to the southeast with ever increasing speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 1, 1947,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Revision.pdf) The Author, February 1991, p. 61 Source ID: Eberhart_1126 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2103 (58518856) Date: 8/18/1947 Description: At 8:15 p.m. in Sorrento, Louisiana a photograph was taken by a Mr. Hofard of at least 78 torpedo-shaped UFOs, glowing brightly and moving silently low over the trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_5118 Source: Johnson ### Event 2104 (F188C9AB) Date: 8/18/1947 Description: Two silver round flat disc-shaped objects, described as looking like "skeet targets", passed beneath a United Airlines transport plane flying at 8,000 feet near Mountain Home Army Air Base, Idaho at around noon. The objects flew off to the south, at a speed estimated at 900 miles per hour. There were two witnesses on board the aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Boise (Idaho) Statesman, August 20, 1947; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk, April 16, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_5117 Source: Johnson ### Event 2105 (A4EA53E6) Date: 8/18/1947 Description: 2 "skeet target" shaped objects flying under the plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mountain Home (near), ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_393 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2106 (77D6EACF) Date: 8/19/1947 Description: 9:30 p.m. H. H. Hedstrom \(executive director of the Twin Falls Housing Authority\) and three policemen \(Richard A. Frazier, H. E. Roundtree, and Richard Scott\) in Twin Falls, Idaho, see a formation of 12 objects flying in diamond formation at terrific speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[August 19, 1947, Twin Falls, Idaho](http://www.nicap.org/tfalls470819dir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 39](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/38/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 26 Source ID: Eberhart_1128 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2107 (5E52E543) Date: 8/19/1947 Description: FBI memo to [D. M. Ladd](https://bhunt34.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/acme-press-photos/) from E. G. Fitch on “Flying Discs” mentions SAC Reynolds’s conversation with Lt. Col. [George Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) who strongly suspects the Army or Navy is testing some new technology, condluding that “there were objects seen which somebody in the Government knows all about.” However Gen. [Stephen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FJ.%5FChamberlin) [Chamberlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FJ.%5FChamberlin) and the War Department claim to have no involvement. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Memorandum from E. G. Fitch, “[Flying](http://www.nicap.org/docs/fbi%5F081947doc.pdf) [Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/fbi%5F081947doc.pdf)” August 19, 1947 Source ID: Eberhart_1127 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2108 (5FA0DE78) Date: 8/19/1947 Description: 55 \[?\] \[luminous?\] objects in horizontal flight looking like electric lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470819](http://www.nicap.org/tfalls470819dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Twin Falls, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_395 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2109 (D8ED166F) Date: 8/20/1947 Description: An Anglo-American intelligence team releases a report on secret German weapons. Foo fighters are said to be caused by a rocket-propelled plane launched straight up from the ground, intercepting Allied bomber formations by firing a spray of rocket shells from the nose. The pilot then parachutes back to the ground, a chute opens on the rocket, and it is recovered for re-use. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: New London \(Conn.\) Day, August 20, 1947; Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_1129 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2110 (FAA594F9) Date: 8/22/1947 Description: Col. [Robert Taylor III](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rtaylor3.htm)[,](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rtaylor3.htm) Collection Branch of Army Air Force Intelligence, summarizes the findings of Lt. Col. [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett)’s investigations of UFOs in a letter to Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay), Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development. Taylor requests any information on AAF projects that might give rise to such UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August 1st–December 31st,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf) [Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 27; Swords 39–40 Source ID: Eberhart_1130 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2111 (E5990AB7) Date: 8/23/1947 Description: Two railway men, J. A. Martin and Kenneth Smith, working near Livingston, Montana saw disc-shaped machines traveling to the south in the sky just before sundown. Their speed was 40-60 mph; they glided smoothly and made no sound. They were plainly visible. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, NJ talk April 16, 2005, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_5245 Source: Johnson ### Event 2112 (FF230C7A) Date: 8/24/1947 Description: On this day three mountain climbers on Snoqualmie Pass, Washington saw a semi-transparent saucer-shaped object that made a buzzsaw sound. Very fast and near witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1250, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1947, p. 62 Source ID: Johnson_5283 Source: Johnson ### Event 2113 (462CEE66) Date: 8/24/1947 Description: The name Joint Research and Development Board is changed to simply Research and Development Board. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_1131 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2114 (CF1C452E) Date: Late 8/1947 Description: AFOSI Case 2: approx 20:00 - Basketball-Sized Object Explodes Near Colonel (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [4708Late](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/vaughn47latedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vaughn (near), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_397 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2115 (9CF70963) Date: Late 8/1947 Description: Tracked stationary target at 200 miles altitude using a modified CPS-4 radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [4708Late](http://www.nicap.org/4708XXalamogordo%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_396 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2116 (2B5563B3) Date: Late 8/1947 Description: Brig. Gen. [George F. Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) passes the updated Garrett Estimate on to Air Materiel Command head Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) with a request for a statement on the discs so an authorized UFO project can be requested. Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) asks for a meeting between [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) \(aeronautics engineer at T-3\), Lt. Col. [George](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) \(Collections\), and Charles Carroll \(a math and missiles expert who has been correlating UFO sightings with approaches of planetary bodies\) “in order to set up a system for evaluating the information being received.” These four will later form the core of the ETH-friendly faction at Project Sign. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: RosRept, [p. 13](http://www.cufos.org/books/The%5FRoswell%5FReportR2.pdf); Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 33–35; Letter to T-2 from Executive Air Intelligence Requirement Division, September 3, 1947; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 13; Swords 42, 43 Source ID: Eberhart_1135 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2117 (E4002732) Date: 8/25/1947 Description: USMC Maj. [Marion Eugene Carl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%5FEugene%5FCarl) attains a world airspeed record of 651 mph in a Douglas Skystreak at Muroc AFB \[now Edwards AFB\], California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Marion Eugene Carl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%5FEugene%5FCarl)” Source ID: Eberhart_1132 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2118 (C6AF3FD3) Date: 8/26/1947 Description: At 12:30 a.m. ten kilometers southwest of Fkenberg, Sweden the pilot and co-pilot of a DC-3 Swedish postal plane saw a UFO that looked like a green parallelogram. They watched it for 8-10 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: K. Gosta Rehn, UFOs Here and Now, p. 62; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 144 Source ID: Johnson_5351 Source: Johnson ### Event 2119 (D72641C8) Date: 8/26/1947 Description: Late in the day two private pilots flying over Mexico, Missouri sighted three gray discs flying rapidly toward the northwest. They tried to chase them in their plane, but were quickly outdistanced. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, citing the Mexico Weekly Ledger, August 28, 1947; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1256, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (Volume 6), p. 31. Source ID: Johnson_5352 Source: Johnson ### Event 2120 (ACC02C95) Date: 8/28/1947 Description: Microwave Early Warning radar on Shika Island off Fukuoka, Japan, picks up a target moving 450–478 mph at an altitude of 1,500 feet. It changes course, climbs, and is tracked to a distance of 62 miles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Target Tracked in a Climb](http://www.nicap.org/470828japan%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 27 Source ID: Eberhart_1133 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2121 (BF3497B8) Date: 8/28/1947 Description: In Fukuoka, Japan at the U.S. Air Force Mew Radar Station there was a target picked up (radar only) in orbit at a range of 26-30 nautical miles and a bearing of 20-30 degrees. The target changed to a heading of 23 degrees and was tracked to a range of 54 nautical miles where it faded. The UFO was climbing on an outbound course. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown NJ talk April 16, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_5406 Source: Johnson ### Event 2122 (D1D037A8) Date: 8/28/1947 Description: Target Tracked In A Climb (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [470828](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/470828japandir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fukuoka, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_398 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2123 (8A14E99E) Date: 8/29/1947 Description: Gen. [LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) answers Col. [Taylor](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rtaylor3.htm)’s August 22 request stating that there is no such project as described. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 41 Source ID: Eberhart_1134 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2124 (5952F7A2) Date: 9/1947 Description: Astronomer [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, and rediscovers the area of blackened ground earlier found by two of [Wilcox](https://www.rdrnews.com/2018/11/12/a-sheriff-without-a-gun-memoirs-of-a-sheriffs-wife/)’s deputies. He speaks to some witnesses and determines there might have been more than one object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1136 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2125 (1455DA4A) Date: 9/3/1947 Description: Housewife saw 12-15 round, silver objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 85) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Oswego, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_399 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2126 (914FFE4E) Date: 9/3/1947 Time: 12:15 PM PDT Description: Witness: housewife Mrs. Raymond Dupui. Watched for unknown length of time as 12-15 round, silver objects flew an unstated pattern. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Oswego, Oregon Source ID: BerlinerBBU_7 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2127 (E4865E7C) Date: 9/3/1947 Description: Dale Edwards and three friends are camping out in the Desolation Wilderness area west of Lake Tahoe, California, when one of them spots a huge gray UFO accompanied by a rush of warm air. The next day they encounter a circle, 40 feet in diameter, of recently burned grass and skunk cabbage. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 2, no. 3 \(September 1949\): 74–82 Source ID: Eberhart_1138 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2128 (3D7AC496) Date: 9/3/1947 Description: A memo from Col. R. H. Smith at Air Defense Command headquarters at Mitchel Field on Long Island, New York, states that the intent of USAF cooperation with the FBI was to “relieve the numbered Air Forces of the task of tracking down all the many instances which turned out to be ash-can covers, toilet seats, and whatnot.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 156](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/156/mode/2up); Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe, 1997, [p. 66](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9781569247815/page/65/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1137 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2129 (21369138) Date: 9/5/1947 Description: In Washington, D.C., [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) \(as Wright Field T-2’s liaison with the Pentagon\) meets with [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) and Carroll. Flying disk reports at the Pentagon are transferred to Wright Field, Ohio, shortly afterwards. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 34 Source ID: Eberhart_1140 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2130 (EE406F16) Date: 9/5/1947 Description: In response to the Garrett Estimate, Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) states in a memo, copied to the FBI, that “a complete survey of research activities discloses that the Army Air Force has no project with the characteristics similar to those which have been associated with the Flying Discs.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Hall and Wendy A. Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, [p. 83](https://www.nicap.org/loedding/LoeddingBook.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1139 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2131 (93C2FADD) Date: 9/6/1947 Description: V-2 missile test from USS Midway reaches 1.5km (Operation Sandy. Aircraft carrier launch successful. Exploded at 1524m) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 1.5km Source ID: Maj2_274 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2132 (FA5E4F79) Date: 9/6/1947 Description: Four sailors, including a Richard Cruthers, onboard the US Navy oiler Chipola in the Persian Gulf spotted eight round spots of light flying in a group. They passed within half of a mile of the ship, made a climbing turn in echelon formation, and then went out of sight. They were a white or blue color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 120; Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown NJ talk April 16, 2005; Astorian Budgeteer, November 4, 1947 Source ID: Johnson_5672 Source: Johnson ### Event 2133 (37BC7BF4) Date: 9/8/1947 Description: 5 groups of a total of 12 \[?\] white or yellowish objects traveling at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470908](http://www.nicap.org/logan470908dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Logan, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_400 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2134 (91AC8297) Date: 9/13/1947 Description: A bright light with no blue or red tinge split in 2 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470913](http://www.nicap.org/470913midway%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Midway Island to Oahu, Hawaii, in airspace Source ID: NICAP_DB_403 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2135 (AD1334AB) Date: Mid 9/1947 Description: [Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) passes the Garrett Estimate on to Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) Maj. Gen. [Alden Crawford](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107429/major-general-alden-rudyard-crawford/) \(chief of T-3\), Gen. [Franklin O. Carroll](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107470/major-general-franklin-o-carroll/) \(director of research and development\), Col. C. K. Moore \(aircraft laboratory chief\), Col. Russell Minty \(power-plant laboratory chief\), and Brig. Gen. [Edgar P. Sorenson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108681/brigadier-general-edgar-p-sorensen/) \(Air Institute of Technology commander\). They each study [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett)’s report and hold a conference on the discs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 33 Source ID: Eberhart_1141 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2136 (FD390F90) Date: 9/16/1947 Description: An incoming radar target is picked up at Itazuke Air Base \[now Fukuoka Airport\], Fukuoka, Japan, moving 840–900 mph, then fading out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Col. James F. Olive Jr., “[Radar Pick-Ups of High-Speed Targets in the](http://www.nicap.org/docs/26sept1947letter.pdf) [Far East,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/26sept1947letter.pdf)” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1947 Source ID: Eberhart_1142 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2137 (C27C6038) Date: 9/16/1947 Description: Radar Tracks Incoming Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [470916](http://www.nicap.org/470916japandir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fukuoka, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_404 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2138 (EAAB37DD) Date: 9/17/1947 Description: The US Senate confirms [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) as the first Secretary of Defense. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1143 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2139 (9F3C7410) Date: 9/17/1947 Description: A 2-3 ft silver sphere traveling S at tremendous speed (McDonald list; Mary Castner/CUFOS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [470917](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ftrich470917dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Richardson, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_405 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2140 (DB1A69CC) Date: 9/18/1947 Description: The reorganization of military and intelligence agencies under the National Security Act takes effect. The US Army Air Forces is disbanded and becomes the US Air Force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1144 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2141 (4E8E8AAD) Date: 9/18/1947 Description: CIA officially begins, directed by Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, USN Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/) Location: Langley, Virginia Source ID: Maj2_275 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2142 (B915D75C) Date: 9/19/1947 Description: A Humble Oil geophysicist in Grand Isle, Louisiana was testing radar to detect bad weather at 5:30 p.m. when his radar detected a UFO shooting to the southwest at a speed greater than 1,000 mph for less than a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 43, citing Houston Press, March 24, 1950 Source ID: Johnson_6078 Source: Johnson ### Event 2143 (6D6C7E88) Date: 9/19/1947 Description: FBI Special Agent [Harry M. Kimball](http://imtfe.law.virginia.edu/contributors/harry-m-kimball) in San Francisco passes Col. R. H. Smith’s memo up the chain to [Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 156](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/156/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1145 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2144 (5E0923CE) Date: 9/19/1947 Description: A dubious document, allegedly written on this date by DCI Adm. [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) and titled “Examination of Unidentified Disc-Like Aircraft near Military Installations in the State of New Mexico: A Preliminary Report,” has been circulated by [Timothy S. Cooper](https://majesticdocuments.waskosky.com/about/investigation-team/timothy-s-cooper/). It purports to verify the “recovery of unidentified planform aircraft” in two locations on July 6. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 95](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/94/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1146 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2145 (487CEA6F) Date: 9/19/1947 Description: 5:30 p.m. A geophysicist employed by the Humble Oil and Refining Company is testing a weather radar at Grand Isle, Louisiana, when the radar detects an object moving in a southwesterly direction at about 1,000 mph. It persists for about one minute, so he records it in his notebook and discusses the sighting with other scientists. No visual sighting is made. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Houston Press, March 24, 1950; Jan L. Aldrich, “[Project 1947: A Progress](http://www.project1947.com/articles/ufomag96.htm) [Report,](http://www.project1947.com/articles/ufomag96.htm)” March/April 1996 Source ID: Eberhart_1147 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2146 (E13D1F88) Date: 9/19/1947 Description: Dr. Bronk’s team determines the recovered saucer from NM is a short range reconnaissance craft (from a mother ship) Type: majestic document Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) Reference: [link](https://coolinterestingstuff.com/the-facts-about-the-majestic-12-and-ufo-evidence) Attributes: Majestic See also: 11/30/1947 Source ID: Maj2_276 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2147 (F04D1663) Date: 9/20/1947 Description: A flaming object fell into the sea off the shore of San Diego, California. An investigation by the U.S. Coast Guard found no missing aircraft nor floating debris. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 72 Source ID: Johnson_6115 Source: Johnson ### Event 2148 (A3A00666) Date: 9/21/1947 Description: Arrangements are made to transfer UFO files from [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett)’s office in the Pentagon to [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) at AMC. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 43 Source ID: Eberhart_1148 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2149 (542BF702) Date: 9/23/1947 Description: USAF project "SIGN" started Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_92 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2150 (44D8AE0F) Date: 9/23/1947 Description: Head of Air Materiel Command Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) responds to [Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html)’s request for UFO information with a classified letter composed by Col. [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) with the assistance of [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding), “AMC Opinion Concerning ‘Flying Disks.’” Twining notes the discs are “real and not visionary or fictitious.” Reports \(based on the cases in the Garrett Estimate\) include “extreme rates of climb, maneuverability \(particularly in roll\), and action which must be considered evasive.” Twining gives three reasons to study the discs: They might represent a deep-black domestic project; to pick up physical evidence; and to find out if they are nuclear- propulsion devices from Russia or elsewhere. The letter lists common descriptions of the objects and recommends that USAF “issue a directive assigning a priority, security classification, and code name for a detailed study of the matter.” This will ultimately result in Project Sign. Henceforth all disc reports are to be sent to the Army and Navy Research and Development Board, the USAF Scientific Advisory Group, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Project RAND, and the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft project at Oak Ridge. Twining promises a detailed “Essential Elements of Information” \(EEI\) to be formulated immediately so that all agencies will have guidance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, “[AMC Opinion](http://www.nicap.org/docs/470923.pdf) [Concerning ‘Flying Disks,’](http://www.nicap.org/docs/470923.pdf)” September 23, 1947; RosRept, [p. 14](http://www.cufos.org/books/The%5FRoswell%5FReportR2.pdf); Swords 42, 476–478; Good Above, [pp. 260–](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/260/mode/2up) [262](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/260/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/260/mode/2up) [476–478](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/476/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1149 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2151 (C63DCEC7) Date: Fall 1947 Description: [Claude Degler](http://jophan.org/mimosa/m30/williams.htm)[,](http://jophan.org/mimosa/m30/williams.htm) under the pseudonym John Chrisman, publishes a single issue of the first flying saucer fanzine, Weird Unsolved Mysteries. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf) [August 1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, pp. 56–69; Curt Collins, “[Claude Degler, One](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/04/claude-degler-one-of-ufologists-that.html) [of the Ufologists That Time Forgot,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/04/claude-degler-one-of-ufologists-that.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, July 15, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_1158 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2152 (D6E406ED) Date: 9/23/1947 Description: Confirmation sighting of Arnold's discs by Fred Johnson Type: UFO sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_91 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2153 (9A473341) Date: 9/23/1947 Description: The Chief of Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) sent a letter to the Air Force Commanding General stating the conclusion of ATIC that UFOs were real, and urging the establishment of a permanent project to analyze future reports. Type: letter Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 31](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_855 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2154 (D8A52958) Date: 9/23/1947 Description: Secret Briefing Document to Brig. General George Schulgen, AC/AS-2, from Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4), Commanding Officer, AMC, stating: Flying Saucers are REAL! Concerning “Flying Discs” the phenomenon reported is something real, not fictitious. These objects approximate the shape of a disc and appear to be as large as man-made aircraft. They have operating characteristics such as extreme rate ofclimb and maneuverability. Under a Security Code Name copies of this information will be sent to Army, Navy, AEC, JRDB, SAG, NACA, RAND and NEPA Projects. (AAF Record, U-39552) Type: secret briefing Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) See also: 7/1947 See also: 9/15/1950 See also: 8/1954 Source ID: Maj2_277 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2155 (CA84C344) Date: 9/24/1947 Description: A fake memo from President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) to Secretary of Defense [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) allegedly establishes a top-secret control group, Operation Majestic Twelve \(MJ-12\), to deal with the UFO problem. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 360; Joe Nickell and John R. Fischer, “The Crashed-Saucer Forgeries,” IUR 15, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1990\): 4–20; Ted R. Spickler, “The Truman MJ-12 Letter,” IUR 16, no. 3 \(May/June 1991\): 12–13; Good Above, [p. 551](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/550/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1152 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2156 (9D75ADF4) Date: 9/24/1947 Description: [President Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) meets with [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush), chairman of the Research and Development Board, at the White House. Secretary of Defense [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) is also present. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stanton T. Friedman, Top Secret / MAJIC, Marlowe, 1996, [pp. 68–69](https://archive.org/details/topsecretmajic0000frie/page/68/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1151 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2157 (4F4E9272) Date: 9/24/1947 Description: DCI [Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) in a letter to AMC, designates T-2 and the Air Intelligence branch of the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics as National Assets. He indicates that he does not plan to duplicate air technical intelligence assets within the CIA. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_1150 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2158 (FCEBDB15) Date: 9/24/1947 Description: A covert operation, MAJESTIC-12, is established and classified Top Secret by President H.Truman. It consists of 12 persons selected to control all branches of government, both military and non-military. This ultimately led to silencing of UFO witnesses, confiscating of UFO photos, harassing and debunking of witnesses (and rumors of worse). (ref. “Black Budget”; JMP letter) Type: majestic document Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Reference: [link](https://coolinterestingstuff.com/the-facts-about-the-majestic-12-and-ufo-evidence) Attributes: Majestic See also: 2/15/1987 See also: 9/4/1987 See also: 7/1947 Source ID: Maj2_278 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2159 (92C3B289) Date: 9/24/1947 Description: Col. [Miles E. Goll](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Goll%5FM.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Goll%5FM.htm) in a memo signed for Col. [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html), asks about a radar case in Japan that Charles Carroll had mentioned to [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) in their meeting of September 5. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dr. Carroll’s UFO files; Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_1153 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2160 (D70A58E9) Date: 9/25/1947 Description: A memorandum from Maj. Robert J. Thomas lists the names of nine military personnel in charge of events in the aftermath of the Roswell, New Mexico, recovery. However, it is now largely considered a forgery by [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 9–11, 26 Source ID: Eberhart_1154 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2161 (73773D69) Date: 9/26/1947 Description: A memorandum from Col. James F. Olive Jr., Chief of Air Intelligence Division, to the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, A-2, summarizes three radar trackings of high-speed targets in Japan \(Chitose Air Base, July 1; and MEW Radar Station, Fukuoka, August 28 and September 16\). It concludes that there is insufficient information to state that they involved aircraft or missiles but supports the conclusion that they were not natural phenomena. The report is forwarded to T-2 on September 29. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \(Col. James F. Olive Jr., “[Radar Pick-Ups of High-](http://www.nicap.org/docs/26sept1947letter.pdf) [Speed Targets in the Far East,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/26sept1947letter.pdf)” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1947\). Source ID: Eberhart_1155 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2162 (5DBB349B) Date: 9/27/1947 Description: [Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) notifies USAF Maj. Gen. [George C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/), assistant chief of air staff, that he is advising all FBI agents to discontinue all flying disc investigations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Letter,](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/aa4aac%5Ff0eedb874d1543789a0c586ad02b88cc.pdf) J. Edgar Hoover to Gen. George C. McDonald, September 27, 1947; ClearIntent, [p. 158](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/158/mode/2up); Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe, 1997, [p. 67](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9781569247815/page/67/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1156 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2163 (652DA331) Date: 9/28/1947 Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright: Newspaper college freshman photo Type: scientist Reference: [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright) Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_279 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2164 (14D139BE) Date: 9/30/1947 Description: [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) is appointed head of the new Research and Development Board in the National Military Establishment. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Research and Development Board: History and Functions](https://archive.org/details/researchdevelopm00u/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/researchdevelopm00u/mode/2up) US National Military Establishment, June 1, 1948 Source ID: Eberhart_1157 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2165 (E16CFB9D) Date: 10/1947 Description: Article on student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright receiving Barry Scholarship Type: scientist Reference: [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright) Attributes: Einstein Source ID: Maj2_280 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2166 (813026B9) Date: 10/1947 Time: 11 PM CDT Description: Witness: one unnamed civilian man. Watched for 1 hour while an undescribed object flew counterclockwise circles. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Dodgeville, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_8 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2167 (0C35A25E) Date: 10/1/1947 Description: Bureau Bulletin 59 ends all FBI cooperation with the Air Force on UFO investigation, although the FBI continues its own inquiries. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 159](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/158/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1160 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2168 (76449512) Date: 10/1/1947 Description: A letter from [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) to [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) appears to bear the original Truman signature used in the MJ-12 fake memo. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1161 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2169 (B0DB17C9) Date: 10/1/1947 Description: First flight of the prototype jet fighter XP-86 flies from Muroc Dry Lake (now Edwards AFB), CA — led to the F-86 Sabre Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre#Operational_history) Source ID: Maj2_281 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2170 (FDA70A11) Date: 10/1/1947 Description: Man saw an undescribed object fly counterclockwise circles (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 91) Reference: NICAP: [471001](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/dodgeville4710xxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dodgeville, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_406 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2171 (0DCF7FE2) Date: Early 10/1947 Description: Private pilot Selman E. Graves claims to have witnessed part of the recovery of a crashed UFO in Paradise Valley, Arizona, on property owned by his friend, Walt Salyer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 394–397](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/394/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1159 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2172 (561D21B4) Date: 10/7/1947 Description: Capt. R. V. A. Therien of the Royal Swedish Navy states at USAF headquarters that some ghost rockets have been observed making 180° turns, and about 33 of the incidents are considered factual. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August 1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf) The Author, 2001, p. 76 Source ID: Eberhart_1162 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2173 (0017222E) Date: 10/8/1947 End date: 10/9/1947 Description: AAF reserve Capt. Moore saw object traveling at 700 mph (McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [471008-09](http://www.nicap.org/lvegas471008dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_407 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2174 (9884A40C) Date: 10/9/1947 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 156.1km altitude (Internal explosion at 83.5s) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 156.1km Source ID: Maj2_282 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2175 (5F5E637A) Date: 10/14/1947 Time: Noon MDT Description: Witnesses: ex-AAF fighter pilot J.L. Clark, civilian pilot Anderson, third man. Watched 45-60 seconds while one 3-foot "flying wing"-shaped object, which looked black against the white clouds and red against the blue sky, flew straight at an estimated 380 m.p.h., at 8-10,000 feet, from NW to SE. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 11 mi. NNE of Cave Creek, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_9 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2176 (E24FC573) Date: 10/14/1947 Description: [Bernt Balchen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernt%5FBalchen)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernt%5FBalchen) Norwegian Airline director and former USAF Colonel, gives USAF headquarters information about two radar locations and a rocket firing incident observed in the Petsamo region \(Pechengsky District\) of Finland, recently ceded to Russia. Gen. [Alfred A. Kessler Jr.](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106572/major-general-alfred-a-kessler-jr/), former US military attaché in Sweden, disputes Therien’s information. He says only two ghost rocket sightings are possibly factual, but there is no evidence to authenticate them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf) [August 1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Aug-1-Dec-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 76 Source ID: Eberhart_1163 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2177 (8DA87863) Date: 10/14/1947 Description: Test pilot [Chuck Yeager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%5FYeager) unofficially breaks the sound barrier \(670 mph\) for the first time in an experimental rocket-powered Bell X-1 at Muroc \[now Edwards\] AFB, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Chuck Yeager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%5FYeager)” Source ID: Eberhart_1164 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2178 (15D06C6A) Date: 10/14/1947 Description: 3-foot “flying wing,” black against the white clouds and red against the blue sky (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 95) Reference: NICAP: [471014](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/cavecreek471014dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cave Creek (11 miles NNE of ), AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_408 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2179 (AC40DBCE) Date: 10/18/1947 Description: First Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 207km (Vehicle disintegrated at atmospheric reentry) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Kapustin Yar Rocket type: V-2 Rocket range: 207km Source ID: Maj2_283 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2180 (5F70F7DB) Date: 10/20/1947 Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 231km (Deviated 181 kilometres from intended flight path) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Kapustin Yar Rocket type: V-2 Rocket range: 231km Source ID: Maj2_284 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2181 (D133DB05) Date: 10/20/1947 Description: A farmer named Britton sees two cigar-shaped UFOs traveling a straight course at high speed about one mile in height in trail formation near Dayton, Ohio. They leave a slight vapor trail then disappear suddenly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Farmers Observes Two Cigars](http://www.nicap.org/471020dayton%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 89; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 29 Source ID: Eberhart_1165 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2182 (8AA56661) Date: 10/20/1947 Description: Saw a round 1 ft object at 1,500 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [471020](http://nicap.org/471020zeniadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Xenia, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_409 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2183 (03D01D76) Date: 10/20/1947 Description: 2 cigar-shaped objects reflecting brilliant sunlight (McDonald list; FOIA; Mary Castner/CUFOS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [471020](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/dayton471020dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dayton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_410 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2184 (E7FCDF4A) Date: 10/21/1947 Description: A preliminary EEI document, indicating that the radar detection of UFOs near Fukuoka, Japan, on September 16 has played a role in concerns about disc maneuverability, is circulated to the European Command by Lieut. Col. [Malcolm D. Seashore](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49311334/malcolm-d-seashore)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49311334/malcolm-d-seashore) former acting chief of the Analysis Section at AMC under [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html). It expresses concern about German/Russian technology and adds disc characteristics of hovering, disappearance, quick grouping, and sudden appearance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Flying Disc’ Information Request to European Command, October](http://www.nicap.org/docs/471021.pdf) [1947](http://www.nicap.org/docs/471021.pdf)”; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 35; Swords 43, 479–484 Source ID: Eberhart_1166 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2185 (DED1406C) Date: 10/21/1947 Description: The jet-propelled Northrop YB-49 makes its first test flight from Jack Northrop Field in Hawthorne, California, reaching Muroc AFB in 32 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-49](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-49)” Source ID: Eberhart_1167 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2186 (C136C26C) Date: 10/23/1947 Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km (Observation of vehicle was hampered by low cloud cover. Vehicle disintegrated, possibly due to the warhead failure.) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Kapustin Yar Rocket type: V-2 Rocket range: 29km Source ID: Maj2_285 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2187 (8CB93887) Date: 10/28/1947 Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km (Success) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Kapustin Yar Rocket type: V-2 Rocket range: 29km Source ID: Maj2_286 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2188 (9EEF10C6) Date: 10/28/1947 Description: Brig. Gen. [George F. Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html)[,](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) Chief of USAF Intelligence Requirements Division, writes a five-page report based on the characteristics listed in the September 23 [Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) letter \(though in greater detail\) and the preliminary EEI of October 21. Titled “Intelligence Requirements on Flying Saucer Type Aircraft: Draft of Collection Memorandum,” it lists things investigators should try to determine about UFO propulsion, control, construction, arrangement, landing gear, and power plant. It considers the objects “to be a manned aircraft, of Russian origin, and based on the perspective thinking and actual accomplishments of the Germans” \(page 5, paragraph 4\). \[However, a fake version of this document has the phrase “it is the considered opinion of some elements that the object may in fact represent an interplanetary craft of some kind…. The presence of an unconventional or unusual type of propulsion system cannot be ruled out and should be considered of great interest.” Other deletions and additions are present in the fake document.\] Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George F. Schulgen, “[Intelligence](http://www.nicap.org/schulgen.htm) [Requirements on Flying Saucer Type Aircraft: Draft of Collection Memorandum,](http://www.nicap.org/schulgen.htm)” October 30, 1947 \[[PDF](http://www.nicap.org/docs/schulgen.pdf) of real memo, pp. 1–6, [PDF](http://www.nicap.org/docs/schulgen.pdf) of fake memo, pp. 7–12\]; RosRept, [p. 35](http://www.cufos.org/books/The%5FRoswell%5FReportR2.pdf); Good Above, [p. 262](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/262/mode/2up); Robert G. Todd, “[Fake Air](http://www.roswellfiles.com/FOIA/SchulgenMemo.htm) [Force Memo Exposed,](http://www.roswellfiles.com/FOIA/SchulgenMemo.htm)” The Roswell Files; Robert G. Todd, “[Fake Air Force Memo Exposed, Part 2,](http://www.roswellfiles.com/FOIA/SchulgenMemo2.htm)” The Roswell Files; Robert G. Todd, “[Fake Air Force Memo Exposed, Part 3,](http://www.roswellfiles.com/FOIA/SchulgenMemo3.htm)” The Roswell Files; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 35–36 Source ID: Eberhart_1168 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2189 (1AB1261A) Date: 10/31/1947 Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 2km (Started rolling after lift-off and crashed) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Kapustin Yar Rocket type: V-2 Rocket range: 2km Source ID: Maj2_287 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2190 (484561B8) Date: 11/1947 Description: Former Messerschmidt test pilot [Fritz Wendel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%5FWendel) tells US Army CIC that the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) were working on an advanced aircraft in Heiligenbeil, East Prussia \[now Mamonovo, Russia\] right after the war. The airplane is 33 feet long, shaped like a half-moon, and has no tail. It can fly to 12,000 feet. Wendel’s story is corroborated by a German informant named Prof. George, who describes a later Horten craft as able to fly at 1,200 mph because it is propelled by rockets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 41–42](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/40/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1169 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2191 (80649490) Date: 11/2/1947 Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 260km (Success) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Kapustin Yar Rocket type: V-2 Rocket range: 260km Source ID: Maj2_288 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2192 (5702F537) Date: 11/2/1947 Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar (2nd that day), 260km (Lost fins after launch) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Kapustin Yar Rocket type: V-2 Rocket range: 260km Source ID: Maj2_289 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2193 (DA51B2BF) Date: 11/2/1947 Description: An almost round or oval or saucer-shaped object with bright light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_411 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2194 (890458FB) Date: 11/4/1947 Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 268km (Success) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Kapustin Yar Rocket type: V-2 Rocket range: 268km Source ID: Maj2_290 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2195 (C48AB03A) Date: 11/6/1947 Description: [Chuck Yeager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%5FYeager) again makes an unofficial airspeed record of 891 mph in a Bell X-1 at Muroc AFB, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Chuck Yeager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%5FYeager)” Source ID: Eberhart_1170 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2196 (F8DDCCFC) Date: 11/10/1947 Description: Lt. Col. Walker sends a memo to his field commands in Germany in response to the September 23 [Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) letter. It calls for a discreet canvass into finding German engineers who might know of similar technology. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Walker Memo,](http://www.roswellfiles.com/FOIA/WalkerMemo.htm)” The Roswell Files Source ID: Eberhart_1171 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2197 (6ADE4E5E) Date: 11/10/1947 Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 24km (Control failure) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Kapustin Yar Rocket type: V-2 Rocket range: 24km Source ID: Maj2_291 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2198 (92D80B00) Date: 11/12/1947 Description: Early morning. US Navy Second Officer Williamson on the [USS Ticonderoga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTiconderoga%5F%28CV-14%29) 40 miles north or south of Cape Blanco, Oregon, sees two fireballs with fiery tails heading northwest at 700–900 mps. Possible meteors. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 29 Source ID: Eberhart_1172 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2199 (F85D1197) Date: 11/12/1947 Description: 2 balls of fire with a fiery trail headed NW at 700-900 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Blanco (40 miles from), OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_412 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2200 (BFEE4154) Date: 11/13/1947 Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Launched 5 hours after previous rocket and landed within 700 m of target) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Kapustin Yar Rocket type: V-2 Rocket range: 270km Source ID: Maj2_293 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2201 (1046857B) Date: 11/13/1947 Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Broke up upon re-entry. Landed within 180m of target.) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: Kapustin Yar Rocket type: V-2 Rocket range: 270km Source ID: Maj2_292 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2202 (05CB8B68) Date: 11/15/1947 Description: 8:25 p.m. USAF B¬47 crew and passengers saw an elliptical blue-white object with orange or red tail, moving erratically. (BB Status Rpt?) \[Same case as above??\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wichita, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_414 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2203 (934D015A) Date: 11/15/1947 Description: Man watched an orange object varied in shape, as it made jerky upward sweeps with 10-15 sec pauses. 3-5 mins. (Berliner) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 2224) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wichita, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_413 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2204 (CCB2E45D) Date: 11/15/1947 Description: At 11:30 a.m. 47,000 people in a new football stadium in Managua, Nicaragua saw several silver saucers descend, spin and hover for several seconds; then they shot straight up and away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 121 Source ID: Johnson_7682 Source: Johnson ### Event 2205 (5F0E6756) Date: 11/18/1947 Description: Boise Idaho Statesman Aviation Editor [David N. Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson), having heard of the USS Ticonderoga sighting, writes to Gen. [George E. Stratemeyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FE.%5FStratemeyer) at Mitchel Field, New York, for information and asking eight questions about the Army’s investigation. Stratemeyer passes the query on to [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) and [Taylor](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rtaylor3.htm). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 43 Source ID: Eberhart_1173 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2206 (128557B4) Date: 11/20/1947 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 26.7km altitude (GE technology proving flight) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 26.7km Source ID: Maj2_294 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2207 (4D73B899) Date: 11/30/1947 Description: In a Top Secret Document, Dr. Bronk’s scientific team classifies extraterrestrials as EBE’s (Extra Biological Entities). Type: majestic document Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) Reference: [link](https://coolinterestingstuff.com/the-facts-about-the-majestic-12-and-ufo-evidence) Attributes: Majestic Source ID: Maj2_295 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2208 (282E2E8D) Date: 12/1947 Description: By now, ATIC has received 156 UFO reports. Aerodynamicists at ATIC and AMC agree that no German design can match UFO performance. The USAF Aeromedical Laboratory says that even if such a craft can be built, the human body cannot withstand the maneuvers, and USAF materials specialists say that no known material can withstand them either, as well as the heat of high speeds. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) later writes, “Why couldn’t these people, whoever they might be, stand these horrible maneuver forces? Why judge them by earthly standards? I found a memo to this effect was in the old Project Sign files.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 28](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/28/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1183 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2209 (C1794B20) Date: 12/8/1947 Description: Moving reddish UFO emitted flash of light, shot upwards out of sight. \[XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_415 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2210 (C97D0E3B) Date: 12/8/1947 Description: Pilots observe a reddish light moving at moderate speed over Las Vegas, Nevada. It emits a flash of green light and shoots upwards at a “tremendous speed.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 149](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=161&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1174 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2211 (FAC14E59) Date: 12/8/1947 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (Stable flight but less than planned altitude) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 104.6km Source ID: Maj2_296 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2212 (C350BA38) Date: 12/11/1947 Description: [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) and [Taylor](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rtaylor3.htm) write a memorandum to the USAF Public Relations Office outlining the proper answers to questions such as [Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39757884/david-n%5F-johnson) has asked. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 44 Source ID: Eberhart_1175 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2213 (4A72EDE2) Date: 12/14/1947 Description: 12:20 a.m. Six staff sergeants at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, watch a domed disc with a glowing green corona surrounding it moving slowly at a slightly tilted angle. It skims the treeline \(causing the tops of the trees to wave slightly\) and takes off to the northwest. They estimate it is 50–75 feet in diameter and flying at 200 feet altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Project 1947 case file](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/3C.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1176 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2214 (F786636A) Date: 12/16/1947 Description: Army Lt. Col. [Harry H. Pretty](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22404230/harry-h-pretty) in Berlin writes a memo to the Deputy Director of Intelligence in Berlin stating that the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) \(Reimer and Walter\) have been located in Göttingen, Germany. He says they are eccentric and quarrelsome. Though they were responsible for the Horten Ho 299 \(a prototype fighter/bomber flying wing design\), his investigation concludes that no saucer design “ever existed nor was projected by any of the German air research institutions.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lt. Col. Harry H. Pretty, “[Horten Brothers \(Flying Saucers\),](http://www.project1947.com/fig/horten1.htm)” December 16, 1947 Source ID: Eberhart_1177 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2215 (DDAAFFE0) Date: 12/17/1947 Description: US Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. [Carl Spaatz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSpaatz) tells the Idaho Statesman he does not rule out the possibility of the flying disks being “foreign experimentation.” He adds that the Air Force is still investigating and he still wants people to report their sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Spaatz Leaves Door open on Chance ‘Flying Discs’ Are of](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89743190/the-idaho-statesman/) [Foreign Origin,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89743190/the-idaho-statesman/)” Boise Idaho Statesman, December 17, 1947, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_1178 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2216 (956C324F) Date: 12/18/1947 Description: Pentagon Col. James F. Olive Jr. \(chief of AFOAI\) and Lieut. Col. J. E. Thomas of the Offensive Air section \(AFOAI-OA\) respond to a request by deputy chief of Air Staff for Research and Development Gen. [Curtis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) [LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) on the status of flying disc analysis. They complete their reanalysis of the earlier documents from the Pentagon and Wright-Patterson, rewrite a new EEI indicating a potentially serious but puzzling phenomenon, and turn this over to Chief of Air Force Intelligence [McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) for his signature. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Analysis of ‘Flying Disc’ Reports,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/471218.pdf)” December 18, 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 36; Swords 43, 485–491 Source ID: Eberhart_1179 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2217 (7D5B4F13) Date: 12/19/1947 Description: The Research and Development Board has its first meeting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1180 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2218 (F0C782DC) Date: 12/22/1947 Description: The final EEI, called “Analysis of Flying Disc Reports,” is issued by Chief of USAF Intelligence [George](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) [C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) who concurs with AMC’s recommendation of September 23 and forwards it to director of USAF Research and Development Gen. [Laurence Cardee Craigie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%5FCardee%5FCraigie) for a reply. Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell), the new chief of AFOIR, signs off on this. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Analysis of ‘Flying Disc’ Reports,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/471218.pdf)” December 18, 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 36 Source ID: Eberhart_1181 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2219 (26A89251) Date: 12/23/1947 Description: First transistor was successfully demonstrated at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. Bell Labs was the research arm of American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T). Type: scientific advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor) Location: Muray Hill, NJ Source ID: Maj2_297 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2220 (4C221B85) Date: 12/26/1947 Description: At the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago, Illinois, University of Iowa astronomer [Charles C. Wylie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FWylie%5F%28astronomer%29) proposes a coast-to-coast sky patrol to report on rockets, meteors, or flying saucers. He says that “mass hysteria” about saucers could have been prevented with a sky patrol in place. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sky](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92786179/) [Patrol Recommended by Scientist,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92786179/)” Richmond \(Va.\) Times Dispatch, December 27, 1947, p. 8; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 1, 1947,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-Revision.pdf) The Author, February 1991, p. 76 Source ID: Eberhart_1182 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2221 (4655B8C1) Date: 12/30/1947 Description: USAF project "Saucer" started Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_93 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2222 (434B1B54) Date: 12/30/1947 Description: High speed low altitude object trailing red, green and other colored flames (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [471230](http://nicap.org/pilot471230dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pilot Hill (1 mile W of), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_416 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2223 (4F8066D5) Date: 12/30/1947 Description: Project SIGN formed to obtain information about saucer performance characteristics and their purpose on earth (with "2A" Security Classification at Wright-Patterson) Type: ufological event Reference: [Wikipedia link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sign) Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, B1-G p23) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_298 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2224 (D671F1DF) Date: 12/30/1947 Description: Gen. [Laurence C. Craigie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%5FCardee%5FCraigie), director of USAF R&D and successor to Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) \(who has returned to Europe\), advises the AMC commanding general that USAF policy is not to ignore UFO reports, but to collect, evaluate, and act on the information. He establishes Project Sign \(Project HT-304 under USAF Technical Instruction no. TI-2185\) in a memo titled “Flying Discs.” [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding), who is convinced that the flying discs are extraterrestrial, may have come up with the “Sign” designation. It carries a 2A restricted classification. \(Gen. Laurence C. Craigie, “Flying Discs,” Memorandum to Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, December 30, 1947; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 11; Condon, [p. 896](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/896/mode/2up); “[Report by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf) [Committee on Unidentified Aerial Objects,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf)” April 28, 1949, p. 2; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 24\). Craigie, after his retirement from the Air Force in 1955, indicates that he believes UFOs are a waste of time and only approved Project Sign because of internal USAF politics. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joel Carpenter Source ID: Eberhart_1184 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2225 (6EBC6933) Date: 12/30/1947 Description: A high speed object trailing green and blue flames (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [471230](http://www.nicap.org/sawtooth471230dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sawtooth National Forest, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_417 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1948 (Back to Top) ### Event 2226 (D5560561) Date: 1948 Description: British author and ex-MI5 operative [Bernard Newman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FNewman%5F%28author%29) publishes a novel titled The Flying Saucer, the first book to use that phrase in its title. The story revolves around a group of scientists who create a fake Martian threat in order to bring the world together. Plot elements include a trio of staged saucer crashes \(in New Mexico, Russia, and the UK\), propaganda, and even an alien autopsy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bernard Newman, The Flying Saucer, Gollancz, 1948; Andrew May, “[The Flying Saucer,](http://forteana-blog.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-flying-saucer.html)” Retro-Forteana, June 30, 2013; Kremlin 43–45 Source ID: Eberhart_1187 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2227 (0FFFE288) Date: 1948 Description: Capt. Virgil Armstrong Postlethwaite Captain of G-2 Air, received a Top Secret incoming TWX from 3rd Army Headquarters, Atlanta, directed to the Commanding General (with a copy sent to G-2), White Sands Proving Grounds. Message: Crash of a 100 ft. diam. saucer, 30 ft. ht.; one portal window blown; 5 Aliens suffocated; each Alien approx. 4 ft. in ht., oversized heads; hull of craft paper-thin but impenetrable by conventional tools. Private property purchased to facilitate movement of recovered disc. (Armstrong’s book confusingly indicated the craft landed inside the secure area of White Sands.) Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY) Reference: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1552547805369143296) Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM See also: 3/25/1948 See also: 2/13/1948 Source ID: Maj2_310 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2228 (CDF23F6E) Date: 1948 Description: Mr. Galbraith twice saw an object land. The first time, it was a disk-shaped craft with a humanoid figure-the second time, cigar shape with three figures. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Swastika, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_64 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 2229 (24B13825) Date: 1948? Description: Sylvia Hall, 11, wakes up at her home on the corner of Riggs Road and Lateral 1 Road south of Yakima, Washington, when her bedroom fills with bluish-white light pouring in through the closed west window. Some 100 feet above the ground is a huge bright cloud. Gliding down from it in groups of four on something like a ramp are tall people with bluish-silvery robes. She watches them for 10 minutes, then she has an overpowering desire to go back to bed. She tells no one about the experience until she is an adult. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Greg Long, “Strangeness at Yakima,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 16–17 Source ID: Eberhart_1188 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2230 (0F905C5A) Date: 1948 Description: More Ghost Rockets seen in Europe Type: UFO sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Europe Source ID: Maj2_95 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2231 (00187DDE) Date: 1948 Description: An airman stationed in Arizona is called out with a scientific team to examine a flying saucer that has crashed near Taos, New Mexico. When he arrives, the area is roped off and under military guard. The object is metallic with a flat circular airfoil. The cabin at the top center is too small for a normal-sized human. He is told by workers on the scene that bodies of “little men” have been removed from the craft. They discover that the ship is constructed of interlocking sections pinned together, but they cannot locate a power plant, except possibly some electromagnets below the cabin. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: L. J\[ames\] Lorenzen, “[Aimé Michel’s Orthotenic Lines,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201958%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1958, pp. 6–7; Clark III 325 Source ID: Eberhart_1186 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2232 (CAD6E0DB) Date: 1948 Description: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt stated: “With the Soviets practically eliminated as a UFO source the idea of interplanetary spaceships was becoming more popular.” Type: ufological event Reference: [Wikipedia link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Ruppelt) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_299 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2233 (92C05B4B) Date: 1948 Description: David T. Keating, an employee of the USAF Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft group, is flying with the 166th Fighter Squadron of the Ohio National Guard out of Lockbourne AFB \[now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base\] in Lockbourne, Ohio. While executing a flip of his P-51 at 18,000 feet, he sees a silvery disc zoom above his plane. He goes in pursuit of it at 325 mph and closes to within 240 feet of it. It seems to be 40 feet in diameter and 6 feet thick, with a vertical stabilizer rudder on the end. He keeps flying after it even when he loses sight of it. “About 10 miles south of the Ohio River,” he claims, “I spotted litter on a hillside and a path that had obviously been ripped up by a crashing plane.” Short on fuel, he returns to Lockbourne. He persuades his major to fly over the crash scene, and they send a truck to retrieve the remains. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Helen Knox, “Ridge Newcomer Tells of Game of Tag with ‘Saucer,’” The Oak Ridger, September 18, 1950; Clark III 325 Source ID: Eberhart_1185 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2234 (425B09C7) Date: 1/1948 Description: Fate Magazine 1948 Volume 1 #1 page 26 reports on the Maury Island incident metallic fragments, described as a “lava oxide metal” Type: ufological event Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324) Reference: [link](https://ia904604.us.archive.org/17/items/fate-1948-1_202110/FATE_1948_1.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_300 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2235 (0F26EB2A) Date: 1/3/1948 Description: A disc-shaped object shot across the sky from west to east in 30 seconds over the coast of Vaasa, Finland. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files, case 99; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1289; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_48 Source: Johnson ### Event 2236 (CCDCB108) Date: 1/6/1948 Description: Mrs Bernice Zaikowski of Chehalis, Washington heard a “sizzling and whizzing” sound at three o'clock in the afternoon, and looked up to see a “birdman” hovering 200 feet above her barn. She watched “a man equipped with long silver wings fastened over the shoulders with a strap” ascend rapidly, hover, bank, then fly away. “He flew in an upright position and appeared to be manipulating controls strapped to his chest.” The wings did not flap, instead they retracted close to his body during ascent, and were extended to hover or proceed in horizontal flight. Mrs Zaikowski said five other adult witnesses and a number of children also saw the birdman. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1948-05, citing The Portland (Oregon) Journal, April 30, 1950; Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 117; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 206 Source ID: Johnson_161 Source: Johnson ### Event 2237 (6D19D2F6) Date: 1/6/1948 Description: 3:00 p.m. [Bernice Zaikowski](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70010841/bernice-mary-zaikowski), 61, of Chehalis, Washington, hears a “sizzling and whizzing” sound and looks up to see a “birdman” hovering 200 feet above her barn. She watches “a man equipped with long silver wings fastened over the shoulders with a strap” ascend rapidly, hover, bank, then fly away. “He flew in an upright position and appeared to be manipulating controls strapped to his chest.” The wings do not flap; instead they retract close to his body during ascent, and are extended to hover or proceed in horizontal flight. Zaikowski says five other adult witnesses and a number of children also see the birdman. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Flying Man’ Is Chehalis Report,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92801673/)” Coos Bay \(Oreg.\) World, January 21, 1948, p. 2; Lyle Zapato, “[The Birdmen of Cascadia,](https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200703240080.the%5Fbirdmen%5Fof%5Fcascadia)” ZPi blog, March 24, 2007; Clark III 270 Source ID: Eberhart_1189 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2238 (79A0A62C) Date: 1/7/1948 Description: 2:50 p.m. Capt. [Thomas F. Mantell Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell) a 25-year-old Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, and three others are flying F-51D fighters to Louisville, Kentucky. After Mantell reports his position to Standiford Field in Louisville, Tech/Sgt. [Quinton A. Blackwell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39533254/quinton-a%5F-blackwell) at Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox breaks in over the radio to request Mantell to intercept and identify the object. The object maintains a constant angular position as seen from Godman as it apparently moves away at about 240–300 mph at an altitude of 50,000–60,000 feet during most of Mantell’s pursuit. Flying at 300 mph and gradually climbing to about 22,000–23,000 feet, Mantell gradually overtakes the UFO from below, past Bowling Green, Kentucky, at about 3:10 p.m. In one of his last radio reports, Mantell says the UFO “appears to be a metallic object or possibly reflection of sun from a metallic object, and it is of tremendous size.” At 3:15 p.m., at 22,500 feet with oxygen running low, two other F-51Ds quit the chase. Mantell continues to 25,000, blacks out, and crashes at 3:18 p.m. about 4 miles south-southwest of Franklin, Kentucky. The UFO disappears from view behind a cloud at Godman at 3:50 p.m. The Project Sign staff, still not yet formally organized, are under pressure to come up with some kind of answer, so they quickly float Venus \(offhandedly suggested by Ohio State University astronomer [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)\) as an explanation. This implausible explanation is not even believed by the Air Force, but it remains unchallenged for several years. In 1952, [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) reopens the case and identifies the object as a secret Skyhook balloon, although he cannot confirm a launch that day. Army veteran [Clifford Stone](https://ufology.fandom.com/wiki/Clifford%5FStone) finds later that there had been no Skyhook launches since late December. However, [Barry J. Greenwood](http://www.noufors.com/Barry%5FJ%5FGreenwood.htm) and [Robert Todd](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/04/robert-todd-is-gone.html) tentatively identify the balloon as one launched from Camp Ripley near Little Falls, Minnesota, on January 6. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Mantell UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantell%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[The Mantell](http://www.nicap.org/480107fortknox%5Fdir.htm) [Case](http://www.nicap.org/480107fortknox%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 706–710; Ruppelt, [p. 31](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/30/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 262–263](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/262/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 104–105](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/104/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), pp. 30– 31; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 37; “[The Mantell](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201994%2003%20%20-%20No%2039%20-%20New%20Series.pdf) [UFO: A Smoking Gun, Maybe!](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201994%2003%20%20-%20No%2039%20-%20New%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause, no. 39 \(March 1994\): 9–10; “[The Mantell UFO: A Smoking Gun,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201994%2006%20%20-%20No%2040%20-%20New%20Series.pdf) [Maybe! Part Two](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201994%2006%20%20-%20No%2040%20-%20New%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause, no. 40 \(June 1994\): 8–12; Christopher D. Allan, “The Mantell Case—50 Years Later,” IUR 23, no. 1 \(Spring 1998\): 7–9, 31–32; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 137–138; Kevin D. Randle, “[The Mantell Analyses,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-mantell-analyses.html)” A Different Perspective, September 21, 2017; Center for UFO Studies, \[[clippings](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1948%5F01%5F07%5FUS%5FKY%5FFranklin%5FMoore%5FMantell%5Fa.pdf) and [documents](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1948%5F01%5F07%5FUS%5FKY%5FFranklin%5FMoore%5FMantell%5Fd.pdf) on Mantell case\]; Swords 51–52; Francis Ridge, [The Mantell Incident: An Anatomy of a Re-Investigation](http://www.nicap.org/books/Mantell%5FIncident/The%5FMantell%5FIncident.pdf), The Author, 2010; [Flight](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1948%5F01%5F07%5FUS%5FKY%5FFranklin%5FMoore%5FMantell%5Fb.pdf) [Handbook, USAF Series F-51D Aircraft](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1948%5F01%5F07%5FUS%5FKY%5FFranklin%5FMoore%5FMantell%5Fb.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1948%5F01%5F07%5FUS%5FKY%5FFranklin%5FMoore%5FMantell%5Fb.pdf) January 20, 1954 Source ID: Eberhart_1192 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2239 (AD9F35BB) Date: 1/7/1948 Description: 4:45–7:06 p.m. USAF 1Lt. [Paul I. Orner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8773157/paul-i-orner) tracks an unidentified white light with red coloration in a weather theodolite at Godman Army Airfield in Fort Knox, Kentucky, for more than 2 hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 31 Source ID: Eberhart_1193 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2240 (A70735A9) Date: 1/7/1948 Description: 7:15 p.m. Air Traffic Controller and pilot [Alex A. Boudreaux](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65980757/alex-a-boudreaux) and VHF Direction-Finding \(DF\) Operator and amateur astronomer [Frank M. Eisele](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86972303/frank-m-eisele)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86972303/frank-m-eisele) 103rd AACS Squadron, at Lockbourne AFB \[now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base\] in Lockbourne, Ohio, spot a bright object to the southwest of the airfield that appears and disappears intermittently. Fighter pilot USAF Capt. [Charles E. McGee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FMcGee%5F%28pilot%29) sees the object on runway 23 landing approach when he is at about 1,800 feet. The light seems to be at about 3,000 feet to the southwest about 4–5 miles away, then later on the ground to the west about 6–7 miles away. USAF VHF DF Operator and pilot Albert R. Pickering, Detachment 733, 103rd AACS Squadron, is awakened by the sudden emergence of a lighted amber- colored round or oval object about the size of a C-47 or larger \[60+ feet\] dropping out of the overcast bank 10,000 feet overhead. Lockbourne Control Tower at the same time radios a report of the object, which then maneuvers over to Commercial Point about 3–5 miles away to the west-southwest, then makes three full 360° circles over one spot in 30-40 seconds per turn over the runway, at a speed of more than 500 mph, leaving a luminous, amber- colored trail or exhaust about 5 times its length. Then the UFO goes to another location and does more 360° turns. At one point, it disappears into the overcast for one minute, then reappears. Just before departing, it hovers or “appeared to touch down” on the grass extension past the end of the Lockbourne AFB runway for 10 seconds then leaves at 120° \(ESE\) heading into the overcast. It is also sighted by the pilot of a C-45 at 5,000 feet off the right wing at 7:53 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Circles Base at High Speed / Touches Down](http://www.nicap.org/480107lockbourne%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 32 Source ID: Eberhart_1194 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2241 (07485F70) Date: 1/7/1948 Description: 7:35 p.m. Base personnel at Clinton County AFB \[now Wilmington Air Park\] near Wilmington, Ohio, where Skyhooks are launched a couple years later, watch a quickly maneuvering object. It dances up and down and changes from red to green before speeding to the southwest. Sgt. LeRoy Ziegler thinks he can detect a faint exhaust trail. Project Sign calls it Venus, because it disappears about the time Venus does. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object](http://www.nicap.org/480107lockbourne%5Fdir.htm) [Circles Base at High Speed / Touches Down](http://www.nicap.org/480107lockbourne%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Part 2-11: ‘…Was Not the Planet Venus,](http://www.nicap.org/mantell/mantell%5Fpart%5F2%5F11.htm)” June 4, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_1195 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2242 (3E17579A) Date: 1/7/1948 Description: A very large saucer-shaped object descended over the Clinton County, Ohio Air Force Base at 7:20 p.m. It was witnessed by several including the control tower staff, who viewed it through binoculars. It came so close to the ground that it may have landed. It then ascended and shot away to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wilmington (OH) News Journal, January 8, 1948 Source ID: Johnson_178 Source: Johnson ### Event 2243 (A050ABFE) Date: 1/7/1948 Description: Capt. Mantell of USAF is killed while pursuing UFO Type: UFO encounter Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Godman Air Base, Kentucky Source ID: Maj2_94 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2244 (0CAD96D2) Date: 1/7/1948 Description: Appearance of a flaming red cone in the skies of Wilmington, Ohio, on January 7, 1948, at between 7:20 and 7:55 P.M. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [480107](http://nicap.org/docs/mantell/wilmington480107pr.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wilmington, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_419 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2245 (CD82EF7D) Date: 1/7/1948 Description: Mantell Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [480107](http://www.nicap.org/480107fortknox%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Knox, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_418 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2246 (34A2CFCE) Date: 1/7/1948 Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec. k.) Capt. Thomas Mantell, a Nat. Guard pilot, was killed trying to chase an UFO up to 30,000 ft. His last message to the tower was, “it appears to be metallic object....oftremendous size.directly ahead and slightly above....I am trying to close for a better look.” The F-51 exploded in mid-air and disintegrated before it struck the ground. The aircraft’s metal was hit with fragments before it collided with the ground. State Police estimated the saucer to be 250 ft. diam. Type: ufological event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) Location: Maysville, KN Source ID: Maj2_302 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2247 (D2A0F793) Date: 1/7/1948 Description: Maysville, KN: The local Highway Patrol are notified that an UFO has been sighted high up in the sky and they notify Godman AFB of the sighting...At 1:45 pm T. Sgt. Quinton Blackwell visually scanned the skiessouth of Godman AFB and picked out a dim light in the hazy sky. By the time base commander Col. Guy Hixarrived at 2:20 pm the UFO looked like “an ice cream cone” through binoculars. About 20 minutes later 4 National Guard aircraft flew into the vicinity with Capt. Thomas Mantell in one of the F-51s. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Maysville, KN Source ID: Maj2_301 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2248 (7F8B00E7) Date: 1/7/1948 Description: Object Circles Base At High Speed / Touches Down (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [480107](http://www.nicap.org/480107lockbourne%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus (Lockbourne AFB), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_420 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2249 (B9136BC4) Date: 1/7/1948 Description: 1:00 p.m. Kentucky State Police telephone Commanding Officer Col. Guy F. Hix’s office at Godman Army Airfield in Fort Knox, Kentucky, reporting an unidentified object near Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Another call to Hix comes from state police at about 1:10 p.m. of an observation by a civilian in Madisonville, Kentucky, through a Finch telescope of a cone-shaped object about 100 feet tall by 43 feet wide, at an altitude of 4 miles and moving at 10 mph. This is apparently General Mills Skyhook balloon Flight B, which passes about 40 miles to the southwest of Madisonville. Other reports come in from Lexington and Mannsville, Kentucky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 30 Source ID: Eberhart_1190 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2250 (B8C412BF) Date: 1/7/1948 Description: 1:20–2:10 p.m. Army Flight Service reports to Godman Army Airfield control tower that the object is over Irvington then Owensboro, Kentucky. Godman Tower Operator Tech/Sgt [Quinton A. Blackwell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39533254/quinton-a%5F-blackwell), Capt. James F. Duesler Jr., Base Air Inspector Lt. Col. E. Garrison Wood, and other USAF personnel see a round or ice-cream- cone-shaped white or silver object with a revolving red streamer toward the south beginning at 1:50 p.m. Many others see it as well after 2:07 p.m., such as Operations Officer Capt. Cary W. Carter and Col. Guy F. Hix. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 30 Source ID: Eberhart_1191 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2251 (DA973AC6) Date: 1/9/1948 Description: A blue circular flame pass the plane, turn, then blink \[out?\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [480109](http://www.nicap.org/480109cartersville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cartersville (near), GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_421 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2252 (3F6042F6) Date: 1/9/1948 Description: 11:30 p.m. Eastern Airlines pilot [Hugh DuBose](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196415297/hugh-chester-dubose), flying a DC-3 aircraft at 3,000 feet altitude near Cartersville, Georgia, observes a circular object with a flat top cross his flight path at the same altitude and then turn earthward. The object is light sky-blue in color and is traveling at an estimated speed of 400 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Passes DC-3, Turns](http://www.nicap.org/480109cartersville%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 32 Source ID: Eberhart_1196 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2253 (090A76BA) Date: 1/10/1948 Description: Saw a "saucer" or "queer light" approach from the ocean (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wildwood, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_422 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2254 (86CEED23) Date: 1/11/1948 Description: Transport Crew Sees Diving Disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [480111](http://www.nicap.org/480111hartford%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hartford, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_423 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2255 (5D8D38D8) Date: 1/11/1948 Description: Two U.S. Air Force transport pilots, Helton and Pargoe, flying over Hartford, Connecticut in the afternoon observed a red disc-shaped object that flew at high speed, dove at a 45 degree angle, and had a blue center. The Air Force explained the report as a daytime meteor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1294; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1948, p. 13; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_248 Source: Johnson ### Event 2256 (37CB00E5) Date: 1/15/1948 Description: USAF officially a separate service Type: history Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Air_Force) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_303 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2257 (B3F0CC9A) Date: 1/21/1948 Description: Col. [Riley F.](http://www.generals.dk/general/Ennis/Riley%5FFinley/USA.html) [Ennis](https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/all-feasible-means), chief of the Army Intelligence Division, in a memo reiterates the [Schulgen](http://www.generals.dk/general/Schulgen/George%5FFrancis/USA.html) Draft of Collection Memorandum and stresses the need to investigate Soviet development of a jet-propelled flying wing aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Department of the Army, “[Unconventional Aircraft,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/hort1.htm)” Intelligence Collection Memorandum number 7, January 21, 1948 Source ID: Eberhart_1197 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2258 (6055A9A0) Date: 1/22/1948 Description: Project "Sign" (popular name "Saucer") established at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, to investigate UFO reports. Type: project established Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton OH Source ID: Maj2_856 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2259 (4E4A7026) Date: 1/22/1948 Description: Project Sign officially launches at Wright Field. The primary investigators are Capt. [Robert R. Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) \(project chief\), [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) \(T-3 engineer\), [Lawrence Truettner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58335429/lawrence-hess-truettner) \(T-2 engineer\), and Col. [Albert Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg) \(analyst in Intelligence Analysis Division\). Also involved are Maj. [Raymond Llewellyn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124634808/raymond-anderson-llewellyn) \(chief of special projects branch\), Lt. Howard W. Smith, [George W. Towles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59257302/george-w%5F-towles), and others as assigned. How much interest Col. [Howard](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) takes in the project is unknown. Its task is to collect, collate, evaluate, and distribute information on sightings in the atmosphere “which can be considered of concern to national security.” [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) later says that to be considered an “unknown,” it has to come from a competent observer and contain a reasonable amount of data. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 36–37; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 11; Ruppelt, [p. 10](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/10/mode/2up); NICAP, “[Project Sign Begins, 22 Jan 1948](http://www.nicap.org/waves/480122SIGNinit.htm)”; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_1198 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2260 (43701D95) Date: 1/22/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 159.3km altitude (Payload separation failure) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 159.3km Source ID: Maj2_305 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2261 (8A655F05) Date: 1/23/1948 Description: Col. [William E. Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman) writing for Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) at Wright Field, asks Lt. Col. [George Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) of Air Force Intelligence for all files on “Swedish incidents” in 1946 and 1947. He receives at least 44 documents, none of which have been released. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 13; Swords 30 Source ID: Eberhart_1199 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2262 (369E8EED) Date: 1/26/1948 Description: Project Sign becomes formally operational as Project HT-304. Lt. Col. James C. Beam becomes its first project director. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 13 Source ID: Eberhart_1200 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2263 (052491C4) Date: 1/31/1948 Description: The Research and Development Board dismisses flying saucers as “a mirage induced by mass self- hypnosis” in stories that appear in newspapers of this day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “‘Flying Discs’ Book Declared Closed,” Pendleton East Oregonian, January 31, 1948; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1948](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948a.htm)”; Swords 52–53 Source ID: Eberhart_1201 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2264 (48A4CB10) Date: 2/1948 Description: 2:00 a.m. Glancing out his window while getting a drink of water, farmer C. Bruce Stevenson notices a bight orange-amber glow near his farm buildings a few miles from Circleville, Ohio. He expects to find the buildings on fire, but instead there is a large, domed flying saucer gliding silently over the roof of his pig house about 100 feet away. The UFO, about 60 feet in diameter, maintains a slow speed and low altitude until it disappears from sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Bruce Stevenson Reveals](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92806196/) [Close-Up View of Saucer,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92806336/)” Circleville \(Ohio\) Herald, August 2, 1952, pp. 1–2; “[Bruce Stevenson Certain Saucer Wasn’t Reflection,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92806529/)” Circleville \(Ohio\) Herald, August 7, 1952, p. 1; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1948](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948a.htm)”; Pete Hartinger, “America’s First Classic Close Encounter,” Pickaway Quarterly, Fall 1996, pp. 11–13 Source ID: Eberhart_1202 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2265 (8981BA41) Date: 2/1/1948 Description: Large 60 ft domed disc, with bright orange-amber glow from within (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Circleville, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_424 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2266 (94808578) Date: 2/1/1948 Description: At shortly after two a.m. in Circleville, Ohio a Mr. Stevenson, a hog farmer, witnessed an 18 meter in diameter domed disc that hovered six meters above his hog barn, then flew over a shed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ed McCann, Circleville Herald, August 3, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_650 Source: Johnson ### Event 2267 (F26B8301) Date: 2/4/1948 Description: Capt. [Richard W. Geuss](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/693651/richard-william-geuss), acting assistant adjutant general, writes a memo on behalf of Lieut. Gen. [George](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FE.%5FStratemeyer) [E. Stratemeyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FE.%5FStratemeyer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FE.%5FStratemeyer) to ADC and USAF commanding generals on “Investigation and Reporting of ‘Flying Disc’ Incidents.” It specifies that Air Force commanders are charged with evaluating military UFO incidents, in cooperation with CIC personnel and local FBI offices. Even hoaxes are to be passed on to the FBI. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Capt. Richard W. Geuss, “[Investigation and Reporting of ‘Flying Disc’ Incidents,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/480204investigation%5Freporting.pdf)” February 4, 1948 Source ID: Eberhart_1203 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2268 (A63F12B9) Date: 2/6/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 111km altitude (Successfully maneuvered by ground control for first 40s of flight) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 111km Source ID: Maj2_306 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2269 (A4578AFB) Date: 2/12/1948 Description: Brig. Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) chief of the Air Intelligence Requirements Division, sends a secret memo to Maj. Gen. [Samuel E. Anderson.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FE.%5FAnderson) director of Plans and Operations, stating that the Commanding General of AMC feels that the responsibility for collecting information on “flying disks” should be complemented by a requirement that all USAF installations “provide a minimum of one each aircraft, with necessary crews, on a continuous alert basis. These aircraft should be equipped with gun camera, and such armament as deemed advisable, in order to secure photographs necessary to the obtainment of all possible data on any reported and sighted unusual phenomena, of the ‘flying disk’ type, in the atmosphere.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 263](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/262/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1204 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2270 (BC5BF77C) Date: 2/13/1948 Description: Alternate date for Crash/Recovery at Aztec, N.M. 16 little human-like beings were found dead aboard a crashed saucer in NM. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based), ALIENS Location: Aztec, NM See also: 3/25,1948 Source ID: Maj2_304 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2271 (52598B4B) Date: 2/18/1948 Description: 5:00 p.m. A smoke trail begins over Nebraska and runs south. A bolide explodes over Norcatur, Kansas, and the concussion from the blast breaks windows and rocks buildings over a wide area of Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. A huge shower of meteoritic stones fall over a large area of Norton County, Kansas, and Furnas County, Nebraska. Two Army B-29 bombers circle the area until nightfall. A farmer near Stockton, Kansas, sees a hovering object that leaves a bare spot in the ground. [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) is persuaded that reports of the Norton County meteorite fall might actually have been UFO-related. Astronomer [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) directs the recovery of the massive achondritic meteorite in 1948. More than 100 stones are recovered, including one weighing about one ton. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Norton County \(meteorite\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%5FCounty%5F%28meteorite%29)”; “[Norton County,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%5FCounty%5F%28meteorite%29)” Meteorite Recon, October 8, 2015; Luna Meteorite Hunters, “[Norton County, KS Fall 18FEB1948 More Than 60 Years Ago,](https://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2009/02/norton-county-ks-fall-18feb1948-more.html)” February 26, 2009; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1948](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 15–16; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 37–40 Source ID: Eberhart_1205 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2272 (1021B168) Date: 2/18/1948 Description: At 4:56 p.m. a farmer in Stockton, Kansas saw a 4-foot wide disc that approached to within six feet and appeared to aim some type of tube or pipe at him. The UFO then wobbled and emitted some flames. It shot away flying toward the northwest. At 5:05 p.m. a Mr. Wray took a photograph of an irregular-shaped UFO north of Norton, Kansas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 91, Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, Coming of the Saucers, p. 179 Source ID: Johnson_976 Source: Johnson ### Event 2273 (47EC8415) Date: 2/20/1948 Description: 2:00 a.m. In Palm Beach, Florida, lawyer and writer [Charles Francis Coe](https://prabook.com/web/charles%5Ffrancis.coe/1076827) and his son Alan see a globe of light shooting across the sky to the northeast at terrific speed. Coe calls it a “ray or blob of light” and insists it is not a meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mystery ‘Globe’ Seen by Editor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92800368/)” Palm Beach \(Fla.\) Post, February 21, 1948, p. 1; “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 1, no. 3 \(Fall 1948\): 105–113; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, p. 139 Source ID: Eberhart_1206 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2274 (B2CA8B6D) Date: 2/20/1948 Description: 1:15 p.m. Six surveyors, including Idaho Power Company surveyor [E. G. Hall](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/250653535486425230/), see a small flat, heart- shaped UFO flying in the sky at Emmett, Idaho. Through his theodolite it looks fuzzy across its back edge as if “dipped in cream.” He says it was about the size of a Piper Cub airplane and flying point first below the cloud level at between 2,000 and 4,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Emmett \(Idaho\) Messenger, February 26, 1948; Kenneth Arnold, “Are Space Visitors Here?” Fate 1, no. 2 \(Summer 1948\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_1207 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2275 (75EC85E3) Date: 2/20/1948 Description: Six surveyors working in Emmett, Idaho saw a small flat, heart-shaped UFO flying in the sky at 1:15 p.m. It was fuzzy across its back edge as if "dipped in cream", and was flying point first below the cloud level at between 2,000 and 4,000 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Emmett (ID) Messenger, February 26, 1948; Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 69; UNICAT database, case # 206, citing Kenneth Arnold, Fate Magazine, July 1948, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_1020 Source: Johnson ### Event 2276 (B7413C79) Date: 3/1/1948 Description: A missile-like object flying at 20,000 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coast of, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_425 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2277 (45B5770C) Date: 3/3/1948 Description: Maj. Gen. [Samuel E. Anderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FE.%5FAnderson), USAF Director of Plans and Operations at the Pentagon, rejects a proposal by Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) and Brig. Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) for stationing fighter aircraft at all bases on continuous alert for UFOs. It costs too much and proper interceptions are unlikely. He orders all bases to send UFO information to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Maj. Gen. S. E. Anderson, “[Flying Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/480303AFdoc.pdf)” March 3, 1948; Good Above, [pp. 263–264](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/262/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1208 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2278 (A32D230F) Date: 3/12/1948 Description: Maj. [Earl S. Browning Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123116993/earl-staten-browning), in a memo to the European command of the 970th CIC, writes that the [Horten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) [brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) have been located and interrogated by US officials. Walter Horten has remained in Germany as an officer in the German Air Force. He thinks that sufficient types of flying wing prototypes existed when the Russians invaded Germany and may have served as models for flying discs. Reimar Horten had emigrated to Argentina when the war ended. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 43](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/42/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1209 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2279 (8D30004C) Date: 3/17/1948 End date: 3/18/1948 Description: The USAF Scientific Advisory Board meets in Room 3E-869 of the Pentagon, with physicist [Theodore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n) [von Kármán](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n) presiding. Col. [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) is present and speaks briefly about Project Sign, saying it has over 300 reports, many of them from experienced observers: “I can’t even tell you how much we would give to have one of those crash in an area so that we could recover whatever they are.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Howard McCoy, “[Scientific Advisory Board](http://www.project1947.com/fig/afsab.htm) [Conference Held 17–18 March 1948, Room 3E-869, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.](http://www.project1947.com/fig/afsab.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1211 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2280 (635B3716) Date: 3/17/1948 Description: Memo on “Flying Discs” from Maj. Gen. [George C. McDonald](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106278/major-general-george-c-mcdonald/) director of USAF intelligence, to the AMC commander, considers Col. [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)’s proposal to maintain fighters on alert for UFOs “unfeasible.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Maj. Gen. George C. McDonald, “[Flying Discs,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/mcdonald.htm)” March 17, 1948 Source ID: Eberhart_1210 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2281 (C8326E0F) Date: 3/19/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.5km altitude (Low altitude flight prevented any data recovery) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 5.5km Source ID: Maj2_307 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2282 (09D1F5EE) Date: Spring 1948? Description: President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) asks Col. [Robert B. Landry](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106440/major-general-robert-b-landry/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106440/major-general-robert-b-landry/) his USAF aide, to provide him with quarterly verbal reports on the state of UFO information and research. He does so to the end of 1952, with possibly 18 briefings in all. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James R. Fuchs, “[Oral History Interview with Robert B. Landry,](https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/oral-histories/landryr)” Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, February 28, 1974 Source ID: Eberhart_1216 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2283 (145292F2) Date: Spring 1948 Description: [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) visits the Landing Aids Experiment Station in Arcata, California, and interviews [Kenneth W.](https://history.lbl.gov/Publications/Currents/Archive/Sep-4-1998.html\#RTFToC12) [Ehlers](https://history.lbl.gov/Publications/Currents/Archive/Sep-4-1998.html\#RTFToC12)[,](https://history.lbl.gov/Publications/Currents/Archive/Sep-4-1998.html\#RTFToC12) a radar technician \(and later physicist\) working on airport operational systems, including radar. He has been accumulating information on unidentified radar targets \(he calls them “gizmos”\) that cannot be seen with the naked eye and sending reports on their flight paths to Navy meteorologist [Florence Van Straten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence%5Fvan%5FStraten) and [Luis Walter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez) [Alvarez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez) the inventor of Ground Control Approach System radar. In many cases, the target indicates a small solid target flying around 30 mph. The targets always fly in the same path from northwest to southeast, along the coast. Sometimes they come to a complete halt; at other times they split into two objects, merging later. Ehlers notes that the targets have been attributed to insects, but he is skeptical. Later, he suspects they might be plasmas occurring at the inversion layer, but that does not explain their behavior. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wesley Price, “[The Sky Is Haunted,](https://archive.org/details/sim%5Fsaturday-evening-post%5F1948-03-06%5F220%5F36/page/n13/mode/2up)” Saturday Evening Post 220, no. 36 \(March 6, 1948\): 13; Ray Palmer, “New Report on the Flying Saucers,” Fate 4, no. 1 \(January 1951\): 63–81; “[Landing Aids Experiment Station,](https://www.taloa.org/2n-landing-aids-experiment-station)” Transocean Air Lines; Greg Long, “In Search of Gizmos: A 1947 Radar Case,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 15–20 Source ID: Eberhart_1215 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2284 (4052A2B0) Date: Spring 1948 Description: [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) and Flying magazine editor [Curtis Fuller](https://occulthealth.com/fuller-curtis-1912%E2%80%931991/) publish the first issue of Fate magazine at Clark Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois. It features a first-hand story and a 30-page UFO roundup by [Kenneth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) [Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) as well as a history of unconventional aircraft by Curtis Fuller. Palmer and Fuller use the shared pseudonym “Robert N. Webster.” The issue sells a healthy 50,000 copies. It is still being published in 2022. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth Arnold, “[I](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/4/mode/2up) [Did](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/4/mode/2up) [See the Flying Disks!](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/4/mode/2up)” Fate 1, no. 1 \(Spring 1948\): 4–10; Kenneth Arnold, “[The](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/18/mode/2up) [Mystery of the Flying Disks,](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/18/mode/2up)” Fate 1, no. 1 \(Spring 1948\): 18–48; Robert N. Webster \[Curtis Fuller\], “[What Were](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/12/mode/2up) [the ‘Doughnuts’?](https://archive.org/details/fate-1948-1%5F202110/page/12/mode/2up)” Fate 1, no. 1 \(Spring 1948\): 12–17; Clark III 872 Source ID: Eberhart_1214 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2285 (2B8DC8BB) Date: 3/23/1948 Description: RAF pilot [John Cunningham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FCunningham%5F%28RAF%5Fofficer%29) reaches an altitude of 59,430 feet in a de Havilland Vampire turbojet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[John Cunningham \(RAF officer\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FCunningham%5F%28RAF%5Fofficer%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_1212 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2286 (CB00DA4C) Date: 3/25/1948 Description: Aztec area NM landing and retrieval incident near Hart Canyon. UFO detected by 3 strategically located radars in the southwest, including a powerful experimental radar in the Four Corners region. The Army OSI and the IPU put on Red Alert and the ADC activated the local military units when a UFO crashed in the vicinity of Aztec, NM. When the saucer got into range of a Special High-Powered radar at the Four Corners Range (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado) it began to flutter and wobble from side-to-side and took a trajectory towards the ground. It seems that the beam from this special radar had an ill-effect on the control system of the saucer. The 100 ft. saucer crash-landed on Mr. H.D.’s (initials) property. H.D. and family were sworn to secrecy. Note: This may have been the White Sands 1948 incident mentioned by Virgil Armstrong. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p27, RECOVERY) Reference: [book link](https://www.amazon.com/Aztec-UFO-Incident-Elaborate-Perplexing/dp/B01CPKBOUC) Reference: [book link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) Reference: [book link](https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Flying-Saucers-Frank-Scully-ebook/dp/B00OEM62AC) Reference: [Robert Spencer Carr](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2020/05/robert-spencer-carr-aztec-ufo-incident.html) Reference: [Robert Spencer Carr](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/05/robert-spencer-carr-and-hangar-18.html) Location: Aztec, NM See also: 2/13/1948 Source ID: Maj2_308 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2287 (D2B58BAD) Date: 3/25/1948 Description: 5:00 a.m. According to writer [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully), who hears the tale from a scientist he refers to as “Dr. Gee” and a Texas oilman, a UFO crashes on a rocky plateau off Hart Canyon Road east of Aztec, New Mexico. When Air Force investigators and government scientists arrive on the scene, they crawl through a broken porthole and find the bodies of 16 small humanlike beings \(3–3.5 feet tall\) dressed in the “style of 1890.” Their skin is charred a chocolate color, apparently as a result of the rush of terrestrial air through the shattered window. After a thorough study, the scientists conclude that the “vehicle probably flew on magnetic lines of force.” Segments of the craft, as well as the bodies, are supposedly transported to Wright Field in Ohio. Dr. Gee, who claims to have been on the scene, said the UFO is likely from Venus, as Martians “would probably be three or four times as large as human beings.” Soon afterward, a crash occurs in Arizona and 16 bodies are taken from the wreckage. A third spaceship goes down near Phoenix with 2 dead occupants. The story turns out to be a hoax dreamed up by two con men named [Silas Newton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127850405/silas-mason-newton) and [Leo GeBauer](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/leo-gebauer-and-silas-newton-flak-one-of-their-defense-news-photo/162001660) \(“Dr. Gee,” although Scully claims this was a composite character incorporating 8 informants, one of whom is said to be geophysicist [Carl A. Heiland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205437488/carl-a%5F-heiland)\). The hoax is loosely based on a 1949 science fiction film titled The Flying Saucer. GeBauer and especially Newton are in later years involved in various swindles and fraudulent mining claims. In 1987, [William S. Steinman](https://rr0.org/people/s/SteinmanWilliamS.html) and [Wendelle C. Stevens](http://www.openminds.tv/wendelle-stevens-passes-214/5310) release UFO Crash at Aztec, which draws on speculation, rumor, unnamed informants, and paranoia to defend and embellish the original story. The latest to champion the Aztec crash is a North Carolina man named [Scott](https://www.daily-times.com/story/archives/2015/03/28/ufo-authors-return-hart-canyon-67-years-after/75996314/) [Ramsey](https://www.daily-times.com/story/archives/2015/03/28/ufo-authors-return-hart-canyon-67-years-after/75996314/)[,](https://www.daily-times.com/story/archives/2015/03/28/ufo-authors-return-hart-canyon-67-years-after/75996314/) who with his wife Suzanne has spent thousands of dollars looking for and interviewing witnesses and trying to prove it involves a real UFO crash and coverup in his 2015 book The Aztec UFO Incident. Ramsey thinks the object was tracked on radar by Air Force Station P-8 near El Vado Dam. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Aztec, New](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec%2C%5FNew%5FMexico%5FUFO%5Fhoax) [Mexico UFO hoax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec%2C%5FNew%5FMexico%5FUFO%5Fhoax)”; Frank Scully, [Behind the Flying Saucers](https://archive.org/details/behindflyingsauc00scul)[,](https://archive.org/details/behindflyingsauc00scul) Holt, 1950; J. P. Cahn, “[Flying Saucers and the](https://www.physics.smu.edu/%7Epseudo/UFOs/Scully/Cahn1.pdf) [Mysterious Little Men,](https://www.physics.smu.edu/%7Epseudo/UFOs/Scully/Cahn1.pdf)” True, September 1952, pp. 17–19, 102–112; J. P. Cahn, “[Flying Saucer Swindlers,](https://www.physics.smu.edu/%7Epseudo/UFOs/Scully/Cahn2.pdf)” True, August 1956, pp. 36–37, 69–72; William S. Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo Archives, 1987; Clark III 1044–1047; William E. Jones and Rebecca D. Minshall, “Aztec, New Mexico—A Crash Story Reexamined,” IUR 16, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1991\): 11–15, 23; Good Above, [pp. 388–394](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/388/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 117–123](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/116/mode/2up); Jerome Clark, [review of](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/26/jse%5F26%5F3%5FReviewClark.pdf) [The Aztec Incident](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/26/jse%5F26%5F3%5FReviewClark.pdf)[,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/26/jse%5F26%5F3%5FReviewClark.pdf) in Journal of Scientific Exploration 26, no. 3 \(2012\): 709–716; Scott Ramsey, Suzanne Ramsey, and Frank Thayer, The Aztec UFO Incident, New Page, 2015; Curt Collins, “[Flying Saucer Swindlers: Silas Newton and the UFO Crash,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/10/scientist-predicts-et-contact-fbi.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, April 5, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_1213 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2288 (80BEEDD0) Date: 3/25/1948 Description: IPU Scout Team sights the object 12 miles NE of Aztec NM, radios back to HQ in Camp Hale, which relayed the message to General Marshall. Marshall orders head of IPU to conduct a recovery operation, Marshall contacts Dr. Vannevar Bush (director of the Research and Development Board) who organizes an impromptu scientific team. Team meets at Durango Airfield in Durano CO. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Reference: [link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) Location: Aztec, NM Source ID: Maj2_309 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2289 (87E3B65C) Date: 4/1948 Description: Morning. US Weather Bureau meteorologist Walter A. Minozewski at the Richmond, Virginia, weather station and his staff catch sight of a bright metallic, elliptical disc while they are tracking a small ceiling balloon at 15,000 feet. He checks his observation through a theodolite telescope. The disc flies just below the balloon and remains in sight for 15 seconds, appearing much bigger than the balloon. It has a flat, level bottom and a dome on top. It remains on a westward heading at high speed, then vanishes off into the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 41](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/40/mode/2up); Bloecher, [p. I-1](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFOWave1947%5FSectionI.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1217 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2290 (9500FB60) Date: 4/1948 (estimated) Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/1949 he flew from Hollywood with Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and boards a bus with blacked-out windows. He sees and photographs a huge disc-shaped object sitting on the ground with military brass, intelligence guards and officers, and scientific personnel all around it, also photographs small bodies. Type: witness statement Reference: [link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: Maj2_311 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2291 (5ECF861A) Date: 4/1/1948 Description: 9:55 a.m. USAF 1stLt. Robert W. Meyers is leading a flight of four P-47s from the 67th Fighter Group about 9 miles southeast of Sorsogon City, Luzon, Philippines. At 1,500 feet, he notices an unusual silvery object about 3 miles to the east. Shaped like a flying wing or half-moon with a “turtle back,” it resembles no military craft in use at the time. The object flies below the squadron at 200 mph and an altitude of about 1,000 feet. Meyers estimates it is about 30 feet wide and 20 feet long. When he attempts to contact the other three P-47s, he realizes his radio is dead. As he makes a 270° left turn to get a closer look, the object makes a 90° left turn and moves away at tremendous speed. It is only visible for about 5 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[P-47 Flight Encounters Half-Moon Object](http://www.nicap.org/480401philippines%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 33 Source ID: Eberhart_1218 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2292 (9A344CB3) Date: 4/1/1948 Description: Pilot saw a half-moon shaped "flying wing" about 30 ft wide 20 ft long (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Luzon Island, Philippines Source ID: NICAP_DB_426 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2293 (0A86D325) Date: 4/1/1948 Description: At 9:55 a.m. a ten meter wide silver half disc maneuvered in the sky over Manila in the Philippines and made a number of ninety-degree turns. Lt. Meyers of the U.S. Air Force was leading a flight of four F-47S Thunderbolt fighters of the 67th Fighter Squadron and was flying south at 1,500 ft altitude when he saw a half-moon shaped "flying wing" or crescent about 30 feet wide and 20 feet long, with a small dorsal fin. It was flying on a northerly heading at about 1,000 feet three miles to his east. It made a 90° left turn and leveled out on a westerly heading accelerating rapidly to vanish in five seconds. There was no trail. Estimated terminal velocity was about 11 miles per second or 39,000 mph. Radio interference was reported at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics; International UFO Reporter, December 1998; Fund for UFO Research Source ID: Johnson_1778 Source: Johnson ### Event 2294 (6D68364C) Date: 4/2/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 144km altitude (Three previous launch attempts failed in year prior. Excellent performance) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 144km Source ID: Maj2_312 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2295 (CA7C50E2) Date: 4/3/1948 Description: At 6:35 a.m. in San Martino, Lombardy, Italy bus driver Guiseppe Langiano and railway stationmaster Sr. Bavota saw a luminous orange domed disc hovering about 10 meters above the ground at Fara Di Cigno which stopped 12 meters away from them. It was shaped like an inverted bowl, about 10-15 meters in diameter, and surmounted by a transparent looking dome or “upside-down cup.” It was also emitting a very bright beam of white light. A humanoid being floated down to the ground from the object. He wore a stiff, metallic looking one-piece garment with heavy metallic gauntlets. He looked like a "big puppet" about 1.5 meters (5 feet) in height. He had "two round holes in place of eyes.” When Sr. Langiano approached, it re-entered the UFO, which then took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Solas Boncompgni, UFO in Italia, p. 94; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1948-06 (A0145), citing Solas Boncompgni; Verga Maurizio, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_1811 Source: Johnson ### Event 2296 (0A0214DF) Date: 4/5/1948 Time: Afternoon Description: Witnesses: Geophysics Lab balloon observers Alsen, Johnson, Chance. Two irregular, round, white or golden objects. One made three loops then rose and disappeared rapidly; the other flew in a fast arc to the west during the 3O^second sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_10 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2297 (B84D62E3) Date: 4/5/1948 Description: At 2:00 in the afternoon at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico three base personnel reported having witnessed two silent disc-shaped objects, 35 meters in diameter, executing a series of violent turns and maneuvers. The discs made no noise during the 30 seconds they were in view, and were viewed through a theodolite. One of the discs shot up vertically. Project Blue Book listed this as an "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, pp. 52-53; R. B. McLaughlin, True magazine, March 1950, p. 25; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 79 Source ID: Johnson_1841 Source: Johnson ### Event 2298 (067DF342) Date: 4/5/1948 Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. L.): 3 trained balloon observers from the Geophysics Lab, NJ spot UFO moving quickly undergoing “violent” maneuvers at high speed near Holloman AFB Type: top secret report Reference: [NICAP — Air Intelligence Report — ONI](http://www.nicap.org/docs/airintelrpt100-203-79.pdf) Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) Location: Holloman AFB Source ID: Maj2_313 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2299 (883076D1) Date: 4/5/1948 Description: Afternoon. At Holloman AFB, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, three highly trained balloon observers \(Joseph Olson, Johnson, and Chance\) are working on a secret project for the Air Force’s Watson Laboratories. They see two objects. One observer follows one object, and the others follow the second as they diverge. All are certain that the objects aren’t balloons. They are large, whitish, roundish, very high, faster than any aircraft, and perform rapid, erratic motions. One object is lost at a low altitude. The other goes up quickly and seems to just disappear. The observation lasts about 30 seconds. The case is deemed important enough to send [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) and one of [Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman)’s assistants, Lt. Col. James C. Beam \(the head of Project Sign\), to New Mexico to interview Project Mogul scientist James W. Peoples and the other witnesses. Unfortunately, they are gone when Sign arrives. \(They are later interviewed at the USAF Watson Laboratory complex in Red Bank, New Jersey.\) The witnesses are very sure of themselves and the case is classed as “Unidentified.” While at Holloman, Loedding and Beam talk with Lt. Herbert G. Markley, who has worked with the Watson team. Markley remembers one of them speaking of unusual radar returns from their equipment, but later the Watson personnel say that these were probably just “angels” \(spurious echoes due to atmospheric microstructures, insects, equipment malfunction, or other stimuli\). Markley does report that UFOs are seen around Holloman often. He himself has seen a disc in late August 1947 and flat, round aeroforms on at least two further occasions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Team Watches 35-Meter Disc](http://www.nicap.org/480405holloman%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [p.](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/70/mode/2up) [71](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/70/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 40–41; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 33; Project 1947, “[Holloman AFB UFO Sightings](http://www.project1947.com/holloman/index.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1219 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2300 (268BF113) Date: 4/5/1948 Description: Team watches 35 meter disc executing a series of violent turns and maneuvers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 139, NC) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [480405](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/sands480405.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_427 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2301 (BD3E4ABD) Date: 4/7/1948 Description: Three men in dark drab flight suits were seen flying through the air at 250 feet altitude over Longview, Washington in the middle of the afternoon. They circled the city as fast as a freight train. They had apparatus on their sides that looked like they may have been wearing guns in holsters. They were seen briefly by three witnesses with the last names of Johnson and Pittman. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Longview (WA) News, April 8, 1948; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 207; APRO Bulleltin, June 1980, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_1877 Source: Johnson ### Event 2302 (3C96B585) Date: 4/8/1948 Description: Delaware?\]. Paines (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [480408](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/ashley480408dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ashley, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_429 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2303 (14C68C10) Date: 4/9/1948 Description: Viola Johnson of Longview, Washington, and another witness see three “flying men” circling the town. She says they are “dressed in khaki-colored flying suits with helmets over their faces.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 777 Source ID: Eberhart_1220 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2304 (F02B0A7D) Date: 4/9/1948 Description: A silver parachute-shaped 8 ft disc with a 5 ft long cable (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [480409](http://www.nicap.org/480409montgomery%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montgomery, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_431 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2305 (95847B1A) Date: 4/9/1948 Description: 2:06 p.m. (MST). (Trakowski GRUDGE rpt) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_430 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2306 (38A43F85) Date: 4/11/1948 Description: (38.90° N, 90.17° W). Siegmund. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alton, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_432 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2307 (51137E56) Date: 4/15/1948 Description: 6:17 a.m. The X-Ray nuclear device is detonated near Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. B-17 pilotless drone aircraft are flown through the cloud, and a drone light tank is used to recover soil samples from the crater. Unfortunately, it becomes bogged and must be towed out 10 days later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Sandstone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FSandstone)” Source ID: Eberhart_1221 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2308 (8A4128B8) Date: 4/18/1948 Description: A noiseless object with a flat discus shaped object 8 inches in size (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fairbanks, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_434 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2309 (1EC96545) Date: 4/18/1948 Description: N Atlantic bet. Iceland and Greenland (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Atlantic, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_433 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2310 (769AD464) Date: 4/19/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 56km altitude (Faulty steering led to high roll rate and then flight termination) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 56km Source ID: Maj2_314 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2311 (173D7354) Date: 4/19/1948 Description: A stationary silvery or white sphere directly overhead. Size estimated at slightly smaller than a 42 ft AT-6 at the indicated altitude. (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [480419](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/greenville480419dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenville AFB, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_435 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2312 (FB656931) Date: 4/23/1948 Description: A preliminary 25-page report, written by Project Sign’s Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) and Lt. Col. James C. Beam, summarizes UFO reports received through February 1, with attached memos and documents. It is addressed to Chief of Staff [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) and Director of Intelligence [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell). The Rhodes photos and 99 other cases are listed. A comment by chemist [Irving Langmuir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%5FLangmuir) is appended, noting his doubts about the reality of flying discs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Col. Howard M. McCoy, “[Project Sign,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/PrelimSignRpt23Apr1948.pdf)” April 23, 1948; Swords 54–55 Source ID: Eberhart_1222 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2313 (9ACE5AEE) Date: 4/26/1948 Description: A flying humanoid was spotted on this morning in St. Louis, Missouri and reported to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper by a Mrs. Dolezal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 26, 1948; Kansas City Star, April 29, 1948 Source ID: Johnson_2330 Source: Johnson ### Event 2314 (F82EB689) Date: 4/27/1948 End date: 4/28/1948 Description: Physicist [Joseph Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan), a member of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, visits the Kirtland AFB Office of Special Investigations, AEC’s Sandia Base, and Los Alamos in New Mexico, under orders from [Theodore Von Kármán](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n) chairman of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, to review UFO reports and investigations from the area. Kaplan and [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) meet with security personnel at Los Alamos. Kaplan reports that “these occurrences relate to the National Defense of the United States” and should be investigated scientifically.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 266](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/266/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1223 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2315 (99E312F2) Date: 4/30/1948 Description: Yellow sphere in opposite course S to N at constant altitude (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [480430](http://www.nicap.org/480430anacostia%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Anacostia NAS, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_436 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2316 (AEB9B813) Date: 4/30/1948 Description: At 10:15 a.m. at the Anacostia Naval Air Station on the Potomac River in Washington, D. C. a yellow sphere was spotted moving from the south to north at a constant altitude, 1000 feet below an aircraft. It flew in the opposite direction of the wind, and crossed over the no-fly zone over the nation's Capitol. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich Jan, Project 1947 website, citing USAF Office of Defense Intelligence 1948 Source ID: Johnson_2417 Source: Johnson ### Event 2317 (88EE5900) Date: 4/30/1948 Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. M.): Lt. Comdr. Marcus L. Lowe while on a flight observed a yellow or light colored sphere 25 to 40 ft. diam. moving at a speed of approx. 100 mph against wind Type: top secret report Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) Source ID: Maj2_315 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2318 (70F97647) Date: 5/1948 Description: An article on secret Skyhook balloons \(without mentioning the project name\) by [Devon Francis](https://books.google.com/books?id=3yEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=%22Devon%2BFrancis%22%2Bwriter&source=bl&ots=IzdAVqBh3t&sig=ACfU3U1jXdvaejIiBIFywFJVygyCQNFasA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi1k8TAsczmAhWQGs0KHdyUCyc4ChDoATABegQIChAB%23v%3Donepage&q=%22Devon%20Francis%22%20writer&f=false) is published in Popular Science. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Devon Francis, “[New Balloons Explore Roof of the Airways,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/mantell/Popular%5FScience%5F194805.pdf)” Popular Science, May 1948, pp. 98–104 Source ID: Eberhart_1224 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2319 (62F46E28) Date: 5/1948 Description: 100' Oval with Three Bumps Tracked By Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R) Reference: NICAP: [480500](http://www.nicap.org/480500oxforddir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oxford/Bicester, England Source ID: NICAP_DB_437 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2320 (75E53A0A) Date: 5/5/1948 Description: \[or Adapazari\], Turkey (40°45' N, 30°23' E). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Adapasari, Turkey Source ID: NICAP_DB_438 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2321 (D9C59E91) Date: 5/5/1948 Description: An Efficiency Rating report is written up for [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) from [Miles E. Goll](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Goll%5FM.htm), which mentions his work as a monitor for Project Sign. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Miles E. Goll, “[Efficiency Rating of Mr. Alfred C. Loedding,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/loedd/sign%5Floeddingdoc1.htm)” May 5, 1948 Source ID: Eberhart_1225 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2322 (C0256E55) Date: 5/6/1948 Description: A ball of fire explode like a shell (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wake Island (near), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_439 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2323 (F9C60421) Date: 5/7/1948 Description: (35.14° N, 90.03° W) Bray and Kaiser (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [480507](http://nicap.org/memphis480507dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Memphis, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_440 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2324 (1FB69003) Date: 5/7/1948 Description: Afternoon. Mr. and [Mrs](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87207324/evelyn-w%5F-kaiser)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87207324/evelyn-w%5F-kaiser) [Fordyce J. Kaiser](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87207277/fordyce-justin-kaiser) and their housekeeper Jean Bray, at 251 W. Waldorf Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, see 50–60 unusual objects, apparently moving very high and fast, traveling in straight lines with slight zigzagging. They are shiny like bright aluminum with silvery trails. Lt. Col. James C. Beam of Project Sign goes to investigate. On the way back, he consults with astronomer [Paul Herget](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FHerget) of the Cincinnati Observatory in Ohio, who thinks the objects are meteors and recommends Ohio State University astronomer [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) in Columbus as a project consultant. \(Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1948](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948.pdf), The Author, 1988, pp. 28–29; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 34; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 41; Swords 55–56\) May 12 — European Command HQ sends the director of intelligence at the US Forces in Austria a memo alleging that [Walter Horten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) has admitted he has been in contact with the Russians. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 43](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/42/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1226 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2325 (B6FA5602) Date: 5/7/1948 Description: At 3:45 p.m. several witnesses including Kaiser and Bray in Memphis, Tennessee saw 50 or more lights make sharp turns in the sky for three hours. They flew from east to west. Not meteors, according to astronomer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Memphis Commercial Advertiser, May 8, 1948; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1309, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 241, citing FBI Source ID: Johnson_2612 Source: Johnson ### Event 2326 (57C0CBDA) Date: 5/12/1948 Description: A private pilot flying over Westfield, Indiana reporting seeing a small "Graf-Zeppelin" that zoomed away at jet speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 129; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_2753 Source: Johnson ### Event 2327 (A7BA6174) Date: 5/13/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 127.3km altitude (Bumper 1 Premature cut-off of WAC 2nd stage) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 127.3m Source ID: Maj2_316 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2328 (FFF67844) Date: 5/14/1948 Description: Douglas Aircraft Company creates the RAND Corporation, a global think tank to offer research and analysis to the US military. It is financed by the US government, endowments, corporations, universities, and private individuals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[RAND Corporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND%5FCorporation\#RAND%5FCorporation)” Source ID: Eberhart_1227 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2329 (27BE206D) Date: 5/15/1948 Description: During the Zebra nuclear detonation at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a manned aircraft accidentally flies through the mushroom cloud. Because the pilot and crew “suffered no ill effects,” the Air Force decides that piloted aircraft could collect samples. The Los Alamos, New Mexico, personnel assigned to remove the filters from the B-17 drones have apparently carried out the same procedure on X-Ray and Yoke without problems, but this time three of them suffer radiation burns on their hands serious enough to be hospitalized and need skin grafting. One of the men who carries out the procedure for Yoke is then also found to have burns on his hands and is also hospitalized but is discharged on May 28. Once again, the drone tank gives trouble and bogs in the crater, but the soil samples are retrieved by the backup drone tank. Both tanks are subsequently dumped in the ocean. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Sandstone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FSandstone)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 224](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/224/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1228 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2330 (6A5B4A33) Date: 5/15/1948 Description: A piston-driven YB-35 flying wing bomber makes its first and only flight at Edwards AFB in California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-35](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-35\#YB-35)” Source ID: Eberhart_1229 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2331 (F8FE9884) Date: 5/17/1948 Description: Day. William A. Bonneville sees a bright white ball, three times as bright as a locomotive headlight, sail over the hills to the northwest between Plevna and Miles City, Montana. It moves south, then west, repeating these maneuvers for 20 minutes until it flies into a dark cloud. It is silent, and a long, bright light shoots out from beneath. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 41–44 Source ID: Eberhart_1230 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2332 (2313B3D5) Date: Late 5/1948 Description: 11:40 a.m. Sgt. T. G. Jones and three other officers and two crew are aboard a York transport aircraft, accompanied by a formation of six Meteor jets, cruising at 10,000 feet above the Oxford/Bicester area in England, bound for RAF Acklington. Visiting US Maj. [Robin Olds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%5FOlds) is in one of the jets. They encounter a 100-foot oval object with three bumps or protrusions on the bottom, as Jones describes it through binoculars. Ground radar tracks the object, which is stationary and above 25,000 feet. Two jets go up to try to get a better look and get within a few thousand feet. The object departs vertically at a speed of 1,500 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, [pp. 92–93](https://archive.org/details/ufoconspiracyfir00rand/page/92/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1231 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2333 (DA97E3D6) Date: 5/25/1948 Description: Jumping from a coal train at night in post-war Wesserbillig, Luxemborg 45-year-old Mr. Klotzbach suffered severe leg injuries and experienced a lot of bleeding. He fainted, but surprisingly when he woke up he found himself inside a UFO. The UFO occupants spoke to him in German. They shared with him some undisclosed messages, and he next experienced a further loss of time. He awoke again four days later in Luxemborg, legs fully healed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 59; Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1969, p. 20; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0148 Source ID: Johnson_3079 Source: Johnson ### Event 2334 (E553857B) Date: 5/27/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude (Steady flight with low roll rate) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 139.7 Source ID: Maj2_317 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2335 (E553857B) Date: 5/27/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude (Steady flight with low roll rate) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 139.7 Source ID: Maj2_318 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2336 (E7A0788E) Date: 5/28/1948 Description: 3:00 p.m. USAF Reserve 1st Lt. Alexander Kokolonis is flying a C-47 at 6,000 feet six miles east of Monroe, Michigan, when he sees out of the navigator’s window three discs 2 miles to the left. He estimates they are 300– 400 feet in diameter, silvery-gold, and traveling well over 500 mph. They are seen for only 10–15 seconds. Shortly afterwards, Kokolonis sees two similar objects and he alerts M/Sgt Ernest Davis Jr., who also sees them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Air Force Transport Buzzed by 3 UFOs](http://www.nicap.org/480528monroe%5Fdir.htm)”; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 45 Source ID: Eberhart_1232 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2337 (71AA08A8) Date: 5/28/1948 Description: 3 objects seen - 300 to 400 feet in size, silvery-gold in color, and traveling at well over 500 MPH (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [480528](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/monroe480528dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Monroe, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_441 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2338 (7315C574) Date: 5/31/1948 Description: In 1948 at 1:20 in the afternoon, a cigar-shaped object moved through the sky at terrific speed over Wilmington, North Carolina. Mrs. H. D. Alspach reported that the object emitted smoke, appeared about three feet long, veered, slowed down, and then speed away toward the east at a high altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wilmington, North Carolina Morning Star, June 1, 1948; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 129 Source ID: Johnson_3175 Source: Johnson ### Event 2339 (13B31DFB) Date: 5/31/1948 Description: 1:20 p.m. A cigar-shaped object moves through the sky from the northwest at terrific speed over Wilmington, North Carolina. Mrs. H. D. Alspach, Mrs. Charles Colvin, and Mrs. [Isabell Hufham](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35784611/isabell-hufham) see the object emit smoke. It appears about 3 feet long. It slows down over the Cape Fear River, veers off to the east, and then speeds away at a high altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Cigar Slows Down Then Speeds Up](http://www.nicap.org/480531wilmington%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 34 Source ID: Eberhart_1233 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2340 (57075610) Date: 5/31/1948 Description: (34.23° N, 77.94° W). Alspach and Colvin (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wilmington, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_442 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2341 (3C42852A) Date: 6/1948 (approximate) Description: “Cornet” or “Coronet” Magazine article on a saucer landing and retrieval with dead occupants. Issue was near-instantly censored/banned and almost all copies recalled, several copies still in private hands. This would have been the first article revealing the crash retrieval program. Type: historical event Reference: [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Armstrong-Report-Virgil/dp/0925390070) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_319 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2342 (539BB9E0) Date: 6/5/1948 Description: A jet-propelled Northrop YB-49 crashes north of Muroc \[now Edwards\] AFB in California after completing a number of maximum forward center-of-gravity tests, killing its pilot, Maj. [Daniel Forbes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FForbes) \(for whom Forbes AFB in Topeka, Kansas, is named\), copilot Capt. [Glen Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen%5FEdwards%5F%28pilot%29) \(for whom Edwards AFB is named\), and three other crew members. The aircraft suffers structural failure, with both outer wing sections becoming detached from the center section. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Northrop YB-49](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FYB-49)” Source ID: Eberhart_1236 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2343 (DFB754A4) Date: 6/11/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 62.3km altitude (Blossom 2 — Cut-off at 57.7s; payload separation at 96s) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 62.3 Source ID: Maj2_320 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2344 (1AC7FD18) Date: 6/15/1948 Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-2): Mr. Booneville observed a reddish glow with a jet exhaust in the vicinity of Miles City, Montana. Made no sound, traveled at twice the speed of conventional aircraft Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up), p481) Location: Miles City, MT Source ID: Maj2_321 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2345 (FF79E6C6) Date: 6/16/1948 Description: Soviet test pilot Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin is flying at an altitude of 6.5 miles above a solid layer of clouds south of the Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. He sees an unconventional aircraft in the shape of a cucumber with cones of light radiating from it descending across his path. The base tells him it has tracked the object on radar and given it instructions to land, but it does not respond. Apraksin is ordered to intercept it and open fire if it refuses to land. When he closes to within 6 miles, the light beams open up like a fan and shine into his aircraft, blinding him. The plane’s electrical systems malfunction. He glides the plane to a safe landing after the UFO disappears. Apraksin is interrogated heavily. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 221](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/220/mode/2up); Joe Brill, “UFO’s behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 87, February 1975, pp. 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_1237 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2346 (0929825B) Date: 6/16/1948 Description: A banana or cucumber-shaped object with beams of light was tracked on radar when it descended across the course of Russian test pilot Aprasksin flying over the Kapustin Yar test flight facility in Astrakhan, Soviet Union. The experimental aircraft he was flying experienced a total electrical failure when it was hit by a cone of light, with the engine and controls failing. Although temporarily blinded, he was able to glide the plane to a landing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, p. 124; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 004; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 137 Source ID: Johnson_3510 Source: Johnson ### Event 2347 (591ED556) Date: 6/18/1948 Description: The National Security Council issues Directive 10/2, calling for covert action against the USSR, and granting the authority to carry out covert operations against “hostile foreign states or groups” that could, if needed, be denied by the US government. To this end, the Office of Policy Coordination \(OPC\) is created inside the new CIA. [Frank Wisner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FWisner)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FWisner) the head of the OPC, answers not to the CIA director, but to the secretaries of defense, state, and the NSC, and the OPC’s actions are a secret even from the head of the CIA. Most CIA stations have two station chiefs, one working for the OSO, and one working for the OPC. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Note on U.S. Covert Actions,](https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v12/actionsstatement)” from Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XII, Western Europe, Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, US Department of State Source ID: Eberhart_1238 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2348 (268FF329) Date: 6/19/1948 Description: A silver cigarette-like object appeared above the Soviet Kapustin Yar secret atomic/missile test site. Several military planes were sent to intercept the object. One of them likened the “flying cigarette” to a rocket, but the UFO managed to emit a bright beam that blinded the pilot. It is said that both the plane and the UFO crashed and the wreckages were taken to the underground hangars before they could attract attention. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [link](https://curiosmos.com/kapustin-yar-russias-alleged-area-51-10-things-you-should-know/) Location: Kapustin Yar Source ID: Maj2_322 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2349 (B419A9AE) Date: 6/20/1948 Description: Scott AFB (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belleville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_446 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2350 (5CA3913C) Date: Summer 1948 Description: Physicist [Carl A. Mitchell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84905457/carl-a%5F-mitchell) sees three luminescent greenish discs, one second apart, passing across the sky above Easton, Pennsylvania, from north to south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 49](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=61&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1235 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2351 (18C7E657) Date: Summer 1948 Description: UFO tracked on radar at 9,000 m.p.h. \[UFOE,VIII\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [48Summer](http://www.nicap.org/48XXXXgoosedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_445 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2352 (47213479) Date: Summer 1948 Description: Physicist watched 3 luminescent greenish discs cross sky. \[UFOE,VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Easton, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_444 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2353 (AE4731F2) Date: Summer 1948 Description: USAF Maj. [Edwin A. Jerome](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49237425/edwin-anthony-jerome) reports that a high-speed radar target appears during an inspection visit at Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador. It is calculated at going 9,000 mph at an altitude of 60,000 feet. The commanders assume that the US equipment is faulty, but the Canadians have tracked the same target. The following day, an object hovers over the base at 45,000 feet and moving only 10 mph. \(NICAP, “[Edwin](http://www.nicap.org/48XXXXgoosedir.htm) [Jerome Radar Case](http://www.nicap.org/48XXXXgoosedir.htm)”; UFOEv, [pp. 83–84](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=95&skin=2021); Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 151–152; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 51–52; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 264\) Summer \[possibly 1958\] — Early afternoon. Aircraft instrumentation engineer [Victor G. Didelot](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10708087/victor-george-didelot) watches an elliptical UFO moving rapidly west to east roughly parallel to the shoreline of Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania. It suddenly and silently ascends vertically at three times its horizontal speed and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [pp. 55–56](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=67&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1234 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2354 (EC6B0155) Date: Summer 1948 Description: Engineer saw elliptical UFO which flew horizontally, then ascended rapidly. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Erie, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_443 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2355 (C82A15CA) Date: 6/29/1948 Description: ATIC’s chief of operations, C. A. Griffith, writes to a military representative in Norway to send all UFO reports to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1948](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 32–33 Source ID: Eberhart_1239 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2356 (36F60D9D) Date: 6/29/1948 Description: An oval luminous object "rolling" vertically on its edge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [480629](http://www.nicap.org/uniontown480629dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: W. Uniontown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_447 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2357 (F4FCD184) Date: 6/30/1948 Description: (35.98\* N, 83.92° W) Whitehouse (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Knoxville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_448 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2358 (B9C54106) Date: 6/30/1948 Description: Pfutzenreuter. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hecla, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_449 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2359 (26D399B8) Date: 6/30/1948 Description: A couple are driving near Hecla, South Dakota, when they see an unusual star. They stop the car and get out, but it is not moving. They drive on and stop again. A few pieces break off the original star and arrange themselves in a triangle formation. They all now look like polished aluminum; they rise to a great height and vanish. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 45–46; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 35; Swords 57 Source ID: Eberhart_1240 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2360 (6E6952F3) Date: 7/1948 Time: Shortly after sunset Description: Or August, 1948. Witness: Max Abbott, flying a Bellanca Cruisair four-passenger private airplane. A single bright white light accelerated and turned up a valley. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: vicinity of Marion, Virginia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_13 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2361 (4E725954) Date: 7/1948 Description: Pilot reports domed disc near AEC area (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: M, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [480700](http://www.nicap.org/4807XXpasco%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pasco, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_450 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2362 (CDFB0871) Date: 7/1948 Description: 1:00 p.m. Former Air Force pilot Don Newman and three friends watch a disc-shaped, domed UFO, about 100 feet in diameter, maneuvering over Pasco, Washington. “The exterior finish appears to be spun or burnished aluminum.” The object slows, then accelerates rapidly, dives, and climbs over the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 38](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=50&skin=2021); NICAP, “[Summary of letter from Witness to Major Keyhoe, dated March 10, 1958](http://www.nicap.org/reports/4807XXpasco%5Freport.pdf)” Source ID: Eberhart_1241 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2363 (794BC9E9) Date: 7/1/1948 Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. N.): Maj. Hammer, Rapid City Air Base, reported seeing 12 discs over the base. These disks were oval-shaped and about 100 ft. diam., speed in excess of 500 mph. Made 30 and 40 degree climbing turn, accelerating very rapidly out of sight Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) Location: Ellsworth Air Force Base Source ID: Maj2_323 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2364 (E8219059) Date: 7/1/1948 Description: A Maj. Hammer is flying above Rapid City AFB \[now Ellsworth AFB\], South Dakota, when he sees 21 brilliant, yellow-white, oval-shaped objects. They are about 100 feet in diameter and flying in a tight diamond formation. They make a high-speed dive, level, make a perfect turn in formation, angle upwards at 30°–40°, and accelerate out of sight. He estimates their cruising speed at 500 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 57–58; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 35 Source ID: Eberhart_1242 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2365 (6DB447A8) Date: 7/4/1948 Description: Jannicky. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dravesburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_451 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2366 (B453CA6F) Date: 7/4/1948 Description: Revolving silver circular object soared upward at ''terrific speed." \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nr. Longmont, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_452 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2367 (EB44DB26) Date: 7/4/1948 Description: Day. Edward E. Thompson watches a brilliant spherical UFO for five minutes while sitting in Johnson Park in Camden, New Jersey, across from the Cooper Free Public Library. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Report from the Readers](https://archive.org/details/fate-1949-4%5F202110/page/93/mode/2up),” Fate 1, no. 4 \(Winter 1949\): 93–94 Source ID: Eberhart_1243 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2368 (A3D4B79A) Date: 7/7/1948 Description: A silver, disc-shaped object allegedly crashes some 30 miles south-southwest of Laredo, Texas. US servicemen are reportedly dispatched from a nearby military base to cordon off the UFO crash site until a special US retrieval team arrives to examine the wreckage and carry it away to a military base in San Antonio, Texas. Supposedly the badly burned body of a nonhuman entity is recovered from the crash site. Ufologist [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) hears rumors of the crash in 1977, but few further details emerge. Early in 1978, Stringfield describes the humanoid found at the crash site as “about 4 feet, 6 inches tall, completely hairless, with hands that had no thumbs.” That description seems to fit the body shown in two photographs that are mailed to Willard F. McIntyre in December 1978. The body depicted in the photos sent to McIntyre has come to be known as the “Tomato Man” due to its large, roundish head. Many UFO researchers, including [Ron Schaffner](http://www.unknownexplorers.com/ronschaffner.php) and [Kevin Randle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle), believe the body is that of a human pilot who is badly disfigured by intense heat following a plane crash. They argue that one of the photos shows a pair of eyeglasses, such as a human pilot would wear, near the body. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: William S. Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo Archives, 1986, pp. 402–422; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, [p. 188](https://archive.org/details/historyofufocras0000rand/page/188/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 397–398](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/396/mode/2up); “[Laredo 1948,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=80)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, March 8, 2009; Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte, The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas– Mexico Border, Roswell Books, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_1244 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2369 (6AF1DD16) Date: 7/8/1948 Description: Veway and Geltz. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McKeesport, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_453 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2370 (655F4255) Date: 7/9/1948 Description: Two Air Force officers reported approximately 20 discs or spheres milling around in formation and making a jet-like sound. (Fund Report \* C-7; 2 pp.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_455 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2371 (5FBEF3C4) Date: 7/9/1948 Description: Luminous yellowish-white object traveling E to W (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Osborn, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_456 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2372 (DE5290B9) Date: 7/9/1948 Description: Caramia. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fielding Lake, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_454 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2373 (A01D079A) Date: 7/9/1948 Description: Caramia and Carpenter, two officers of the USAF 72nd Reconnaissance Group, are fishing at Fielding Lake, Alaska, when they hear a loud roar and notice about 20 gray discs or spheres moving at 500 mph in loose formation from west-northwest to east-southeast at about 5,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Barry Greenwood, “[The Estimate of the](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr16.pdf) [Situation: Well, Not Exactly!](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr16.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 16 \(July 2015\): 5–10 Source ID: Eberhart_1245 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2374 (69ECC8E3) Date: 7/9/1948 Description: 9:47 p.m. While on the ground in Osborn, Ohio, the USAF Project Sign officer who had flown to investigate the Hecla case, sees a self-luminous, yellow-white object flying at 500–600 mph. It seems to pulse its lights at 3- second intervals as it moves away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 58; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 35 Source ID: Eberhart_1246 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2375 (27C8C3B1) Date: 7/11/1948 Description: Burlington, Vermont -- A fresh wave of UFO reports started Sunday, July 11, 1948 when Robert H. Streeten of West Bolton, Vermont notified authorities that he had sighted a "flying saucer" at 4:40 p.m. Three hours later Mrs. Ralph Holmes, wife of a University of Vermont physics professor, said she observed a fiery object whizzing through the sky. Miss Alice Giroux, a University of Vermont coed, and Miss Irene Audette of Hartford, Connecticut, a visiting skier, both reported seeing a flying saucer. One Vermonter, Dr. C. H. Vaughn of Burlington, said he saw a bluish-white flying saucer land in Massachusetts between Concord and Lexington. He was driving his car when he saw the object. Altogether, 20 people reported sighting flying saucers--round ones, square ones, and a few with handsome flue tails--in Chittenden and Franklin Counties. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch, July 14, 1948. Source ID: Johnson_3990 Source: Johnson ### Event 2376 (E1C25300) Date: 7/14/1948 Description: Day. [Charles W. Shangle Jr.](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/itn48p7.html) watches two groups of about 16 UFOs maneuvering at 300–600 mph over Boise, Idaho. Two of the objects exhibit a “falling leaf” motion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 2, no. 1 \(May 1949\): 75–79 Source ID: Eberhart_1247 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2377 (BF0A652E) Date: 7/15/1948 Description: An Army Major and a second witness reported seeing a large, silent, glowing metallic cigar-shaped object that flew from west to east over Alajarvi, Finland. The craft had no wings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1322, citing Awareness, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_4065 Source: Johnson ### Event 2378 (0978DD70) Date: 7/17/1948 Description: Group of 7 aluminum circular possibly spherical objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [480717](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/sanacacia480717dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Acacia Dam, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_457 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2379 (AD6DF743) Date: 7/17/1948 Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. O): Kirtland AFB reported 7 UFOs flying a “J” formation in the vicinity of San Acacia, N.M., at altitude of 20,000 ft. Formation varied from “J” to “L” to “O” after passing zenith. Est. speed 1500 mph Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) Location: Kirtland Air Force Base Source ID: Maj2_324 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2380 (A86200A6) Date: 7/17/1948 Description: 4:50 p.m. Two Kirtland AFB sergeants on a fishing trip with their families five miles south of San Acacia Diversion Dam, New Mexico, see a group of 7 aluminum-like, spherical objects approach from the south at 20,000 feet pass overhead at 1,500 mph. They first appear like snub-nosed jet fighters of an unknown type, shifting from V -ormation to L-formation to circular formation to no regular formation. A regular pulsating flashing light appears in the group at 30° from zenith to the north, and at this oblique angle the objects do not appear circular. There is no noise or trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Military Families Report Seven Objects](http://www.nicap.org/480717san-acacia-dam%5Fdir.htm)”; Swords 58 Source ID: Eberhart_1248 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2381 (0BC09787) Date: 7/17/1948 Description: At 4:50 p.m. two Kirtland Air Force Base Sergeants on a fishing trip with their families to San Acacia Dam, New Mexico saw a group of seven aluminum circular, possibly spherical, objects approach from the south at 20,000 feet and pass overhead at 1,500 mph. They shifted from a V formation to an L formation, and then to a circular formation and finally to no regular formation, at which point a regular pulsating flashing light appeared amidst the group at 30° from zenith to the north. At this oblique angle the objects no longer appeared circular. They made no noise nor did they leave a trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 146; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_4116 Source: Johnson ### Event 2382 (D547E000) Date: 7/20/1948 Description: Two Eastern Airlines pilots reported having seen a huge flying craft similar to a V2 pass their aircraft in flight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arnhem, Netherlands Source ID: NICAP_DB_458 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2383 (67CE637C) Date: 7/20/1948 Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.Q): A.D. Otter and his daughter Arnham, in the Netherlands, sight UFO similar to the UFO sighted on July 25, 1948, by two Eastern Airlines pilots Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) Location: Netherlands See also: 7/25/1948 Source ID: Maj2_325 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2384 (26890A3D) Date: 7/20/1948 Description: A cigar-shaped object with two rows of windows was seen four times in Arnhem, Holland around 1:30 in the afternoon. It moved through the sky very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, July 1948; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 249 Source ID: Johnson_4221 Source: Johnson ### Event 2385 (7F1D8402) Date: 7/20/1948 Description: The Netherlands government reports that a wingless, cigar-shaped object with two decks of windows is seen flying rapidly on four separate occasions by two Dutch citizens over The Hague \(and/or Arnhem\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[High](http://www.nicap.org/480720netherlands%5Fdir.htm) [V-2-Like Craft Observed](http://www.nicap.org/480720netherlands%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1948](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948.pdf), The Author, 1988, p. 86 Source ID: Eberhart_1249 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2386 (6355A7DE) Date: 7/21/1948 Description: (34.18° N, 118.45° W). (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Van Nuys, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_459 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2387 (80DC7FE4) Date: 7/21/1948 Description: The USAF Research and Development division sends a formal letter to the RAND Corporation authorizing them to select scientists to evaluate the possibility that the flying discs might be human-built spaceships. RAND’s reply is not known. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 58 Source ID: Eberhart_1250 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2388 (A19014E6) Date: 7/24/1948 Description: 1:45 a.m. A bright object is seen at Robins AFB in Houston County, Georgia, by ground maintenance crewman Walter Massey, who sees a “stream of fire” in the north. As it moves overhead, it seems more cylindrical. It moves off to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[July 24, 1948, 0250E, Warner Robins AFB, Georgia](http://www.nicap.org/wrobbins480724dir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1251 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2389 (8C44B19C) Date: 7/24/1948 Description: Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter: At roughly 2:45 AM on July 24, 1948, two commercial pilots, Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted, claimed to have observed a "glowing object" pass by their plane before it appeared to pull up into a cloud and travel out of sight. The object closed on their DC-3 in a matter of seconds, and both men later said they saw the object fly past the right side of their plane at high speed before it pulled "up with a tremendous burst of flame out of its rear and zoomed up into the clouds." They observed the object for a total of ten to fifteen seconds. Chiles and Whitted stated that the object "looked like a wingless aircraft...it seemed to have two rows of windows through which glowed a very bright light, as brilliant as a magnesium flare." Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiles-Whitted_UFO_encounter) Location: Montgomery, Alabama Source ID: Maj2_326 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2390 (3F02C036) Date: 7/24/1948 Description: At 2:45 a.m. the captain and co-pilot of an Eastern Airlines DC-3, Chiles and Whitted, while flying over Montgomery, Alabama reported seeing a torpedo-shaped UFO with two rows of lighted windows and a red exhaust. It buzzed them head on, veered to the right, and then shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers -Serious Business, p. 90; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 44; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 164 Source ID: Johnson_4341 Source: Johnson ### Event 2391 (5A3290BA) Date: 7/24/1948 Description: Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted see UFO Type: UFO sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Montgomery, Alabama Source ID: Maj2_96 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2392 (AC4253F0) Date: 7/24/1948 Description: Aircraft observed what they thought was an unusual meteor traveling in a southerly direction (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [480724](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/docs/chiles/blackstone480724docs1.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: btn Blackstone, Va and Greensboro, N.C., Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_460 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2393 (70A3446B) Date: 7/24/1948 Description: 2:45 a.m. Capt. [Clarence S. Chiles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22086850/clarence-shipe-chiles) and copilot [John B. Whitted](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177623060/john-b-whitted) are flying an Eastern Airlines DC-3 at 5,000 feet, 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, when they see an object about 100 feet long moving rapidly toward them on their right. Torpedo-shaped and wingless, the object has flames jetting 50 feet from its rear. There are two rows of square windows through which a bright light is glowing. They only see it for 5–10 seconds. It is half a mile away and moving at about 700 mph. After it passes the plane it swoops into a cloud bank at 6,000 feet. One passenger, [Clarence L.](https://digital.klnpa.org/digital/collection/wcnp01/id/11648) [McKelvie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141102895/clarence-mckelvie) of Columbus, Ohio, also sees it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Chiles-Whitted UFO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiles-Whitted%5FUFO%5Fencounter) [Encounter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiles-Whitted%5FUFO%5Fencounter)”; NICAP, “[Chiles-Whitted Case](http://www.nicap.org/480724chiles%5Fdir.htm)”; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 90–91; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 42–43; Clark III 234–236; UFOEv, [p. 48](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=60&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 36; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 46–47; Swords 58–60; Good Above, [pp. 264](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up) [479](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/478/mode/2up); Joel Carpenter, “[Watershed: The Chiles-Whitted ‘Rocketship’ Sighting,](https://www.project1947.com/gr/chileswhitted.htm)” 2002; Martin Shough, “[Analysis of the](https://www.nicap.org/reports/480724montgomery%5Fshough.pdf) [Chiles-Whitted Sightings, July 24, 1948,](https://www.nicap.org/reports/480724montgomery%5Fshough.pdf)” February 2011; Kevin D. Randle, “[Chiles/Whitted and Skepticism,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/01/chileswhitted-and-skepticism.html)” A Different Perspective, January 21, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_1252 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2394 (364269B2) Date: 7/24/1948 Description: Griebel. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Altoona, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_461 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2395 (D999257E) Date: 7/24/1948 Description: Massey, a member of civilian alert, observed a squash-shaped object with flaming exhaust (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [480724](http://www.nicap.org/wrobbins480724dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Robbins AFB, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_462 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2396 (CCEEEDB1) Date: 7/24/1948 Description: Chiles/Whitted Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [480724](http://www.nicap.org/480724chiles%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montgomery (near), AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_463 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2397 (226A810C) Date: 7/25/1948 Description: Chief of Air Force Intelligence Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) phones [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)’s office at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Sign is ordered to get into the field immediately and investigate the Chiles-Whitted case. By that afternoon, [Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) [Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg)[,](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg) and [Llewellyn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124634808/raymond-anderson-llewellyn) \(now apparently director of Project Sign\) are flown by Capt. Clarence Groseclose to Atlanta, Georgia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 13; Swords 60 Source ID: Eberhart_1253 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2398 (B4652449) Date: 7/25/1948 Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec.Q): Two Eastern Airlines pilots reported seeing an object like a huge V-2 Rocket pass their jet. Sighted 4 times through scattered clouds and unlimited visibility, travelling at high speed and high altitude. Description: Appeared wingless, had two decks, and made a sound similar to that of a V-2. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) Location: US See also: 7/20/1948 See also: 8/3/1948 See also: 1/31/1950 Source ID: Maj2_327 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2399 (7EA7F2D1) Date: 7/25/1948 Description: At 2:00 P.M. and at 4:20 P.M., a silvery moon-sized flying blob was seen by hundreds of witnesses over the city of Yakima. Hundreds of calls flooded into the CAA office concernig the flying object. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [480725](http://nicap.org/yakima480725dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yakima, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_464 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2400 (526B0F28) Date: 7/26/1948 Description: Aeronautical engineer [Molt Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molt%5FTaylor) speculates to the Associated Press that “If we can build such craft, what is to prevent others from doing so, assuming that a similar order of intelligence exists on other planets? You and I may see the day when we will be united with Russia defending this planet against attack from space.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[It May Be](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92838283/) [Men from Mars, Expert Says of ‘Saucers,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92838283/)” San Francisco Examiner, July 28, 1948, p. 32; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948-SN.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1948, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948-SN.pdf), The Author, 2000, p. 65 Source ID: Eberhart_1255 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2401 (0FE01EC9) Date: 7/26/1948 Description: Six people in Chamblee, Georgia briefly saw a luminous football-shaped UFO that glowed, bobbed, weaved, and maneuvered over the town at 9:30 p.m. It flew off rapidly toward the south at an estimated 5,000 feet altitude. The Air Force explanation was that they saw a meteor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #00165; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_4406 Source: Johnson ### Event 2402 (2F618B03) Date: 7/26/1948 Description:  [Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) [Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg)[,](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg) and [Llewellyn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124634808/raymond-anderson-llewellyn) interview [Chiles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22086850/clarence-shipe-chiles) and [Whitted](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177623060/john-b-whitted) in the Henry Grady Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia. They are impressed with their account. Mulling the case through September, Project Sign is disturbed even more than the [Mantell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell) incident, according to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) Capt. [Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) considers the shape aerodynamically feasible; consultant [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) says it might be a fireball but considers that “far-fetched.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 60 Source ID: Eberhart_1254 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2403 (68A720A6) Date: 7/26/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 86.9km altitude (Turbine overspeed led to premature propellant cut-off at 61s. 2rpm roll began at 70s) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 86.9 Source ID: Maj2_328 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2404 (88C33E5C) Date: 7/26/1948 Description: Green light with a silver tail about the size of a football (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [480726](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/docs/chiles/chamble480726docs1.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chamblee, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_465 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2405 (C9DB191D) Date: 7/27/1948 Description: At 8:35 a.m. a University of New Mexico scientist in Albuquerque, New Mexico saw a flat metallic disc-shaped object that hung motionless in the sky for ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 54 Source ID: Johnson_4423 Source: Johnson ### Event 2406 (425A3F9F) Date: 7/27/1948 Description: Air Intelligence Memorandum on “Pattern of Flying Saucers” requires that a study be made by the Air Intelligence Division to examine the pattern of tactics of reported UFOs and develop conclusions as to their probability. This leads to the EEI “Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States” \(100-203-79\) of December 10. The JIC report gives the incorrect date as August 6. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Col. Brooke E. Allen, “[Analysis of Flying](http://www.project1947.com/fig/memo4chf.htm) [Object Incidents in the U.S.,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/memo4chf.htm)” October 11, 1948; “[Report by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf) [Intelligence Committee on Unidentified Aerial Objects,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf)” April 28, 1949, p. 2; Jan L. Aldrich, “[New Top Secret](http://www.project1947.com/fig/49docdex.htm) [Document Revealed,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/49docdex.htm)” Project 1947 Source ID: Eberhart_1256 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2407 (2663A903) Date: 7/27/1948 Description: AFOSI Case 3: 08:33-08:45 - Flat, round obj reflecting light, stationary at times (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_466 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2408 (E5747422) Date: 7/29/1948 Description: James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of a rug cleaning firm in Indianapolis, Indiana saw a shiny aluminum object, shaped something like an airplane's propeller, with 10-12 small cups protruding from either blade, at 9:38 a.m. Its estimated size was 6-8 feet long and 1.5-2 feet wide. The object glided across the road a few hundred feet in front of their vehicle and apparently came down in a wooded area. The sighting lasted a few seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 185; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4470 Source: Johnson ### Event 2409 (C2AAA4E5) Date: 7/29/1948 Time: 9:55 AM Description: Witnesses: James Toney, Robert Huggins, both employees of a rug cleaning firm. One shiny aluminum object, shaped something like an airplane's propeller, with 10-12 small cups protruding from either blade. Estimated size 6-8' long, 1.5-2' wide. The object glided across the road a few hundred feet in front of their vehicle and apparently went down in a wooded area. Sighting lasted a few seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_11 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2410 (37714514) Date: 7/29/1948 Description: 9:18 a.m. James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of an Indianapolis, Indiana, rug cleaning firm, are in a truck headed west when they see a shiny, propeller-shaped, aluminum object with 10–12 small cups protruding from either blade. It is 6–8 feet long and flying silently above the trees at 30 feet altitude some 300 feet away heading south. It approaches to about 100 feet at its closest. The object glides across the road at 25–30 mph in a slight descent then makes a 20° bank to the east and goes down in a wooded area. Toney and Huggins stop the truck and get out to look, but the object has disappeared behind trees. A later search finds no traces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Close Encounter with ‘Propeller-Shaped’ Object](http://www.nicap.org/480729indy%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 36 Source ID: Eberhart_1257 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2411 (6A968226) Date: 7/29/1948 Description: Shiny propeller-shaped aluminum object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 185) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_467 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2412 (3C853B1E) Date: 7/29/1948 Description: An object swept over a road at 10 m altitude. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Source ID: Magnonia_65 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 2413 (25FD6A63) Date: 7/31/1948 Description: In Indianapolis, Indiana at 8:25 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert sighted a UFO shaped like a cymbal, or domed disc; about 20 feet in diameter and 6-8 feet thick. It was white without any shine. It flew straight and level from horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds, shimmering in the sun as if spinning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; UNICAT, case # 632, citing Project Blue Book Special Report # 14, p. 84; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4518 Source: Johnson ### Event 2414 (B7146793) Date: 7/31/1948 Description: Cymbal shaped or domed disc object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 190) Reference: NICAP: [480731](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/indy480731dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis (central), IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_468 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2415 (46FA1FB6) Date: 7/31/1948 Description: Light Spotted By Pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 191) Reference: NICAP: [480731](http://www.nicap.org/480731marion%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marion, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_469 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2416 (0285C28B) Date: 7/31/1948 Description: On that evening a 30-foot in diameter disc-shaped object with a transparent center flew slowly and silently over Columbus, Ohio. There were separate, independent witnesses, including one named Geshorn. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 98 Source ID: Johnson_4519 Source: Johnson ### Event 2417 (32D5F1D0) Date: 7/31/1948 Time: 8:25 AM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert; he was an electrician. Object was shaped like a cymbal, or domed disc; about 20' across and 6-8' thick, and was white without any shine. It flew straight and level from horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds, shimmering in the sun as if spinning. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_12 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2418 (21EC76DF) Date: 7/31/1948 Description: 8:25 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. [Vernon Swigert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174882124/vernon-b-swigert) of south-central Indianapolis, Indiana, see a cymbal-shaped or domed- disc object to the west of their home. It is about 20 feet across, 6–8 feet thick, white without any shine but shadowing on upper right. It flies straight and level from horizon to horizon, west to east heading 90°. They estimate its altitude as 2,000 feet covering a distance of 5 miles in 10 seconds. It shimmers in the sun as if spinning, is silent, and has no trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Cymbal-Shaped Object Observed by Couple](http://www.nicap.org/480731indianapolis%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 37 Source ID: Eberhart_1258 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2419 (724BA045) Date: 8/1/1948 Description: On this morning everyone on a Air France airliner flying over the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Saigon, Vietnam saw a huge metallic cigar-shaped object flying south, and then make a 90-degree turn into the clouds. Later that day at Clark Field in the Philippines American military observers also sighted a wingless cigar-shaped object with a row of lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 54; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers are Real, p. 72 Source ID: Johnson_4555 Source: Johnson ### Event 2420 (7F9E2131) Date: 8/2/1948 Description: (39.98° N, 82.99° W). Saunders (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_470 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2421 (9F7EC2C9) Date: 8/3/1948 Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.R): UFO sighted over Moscow that is similar to the UFO sighted on July 25, 1948, by two Eastern Airlines pilots. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Moscow See also: 7/25/1948 Source ID: Maj2_329 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2422 (6AEA787A) Date: 8/3/1948 Description: At 8 a.m. a long metallic cylinder with no wings flew at a very high altitude and was seen in the skies 25 kilometers northwest of Moscow in Russia. It moved silently and very fast towards the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book, August 1948; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1338, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_4622 Source: Johnson ### Event 2423 (42C99969) Date: 8/3/1948 Description: (55°45' N, 37°42' E). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moscow, USSR Source ID: NICAP_DB_471 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2424 (5EFD348E) Date: 8/4/1948 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Powder, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_472 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2425 (982A6601) Date: 8/5/1948 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.7km altitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 165.7km Source ID: Maj2_330 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2426 (AB14E6B0) Date: 8/5/1948 Description: This date given by [Edward Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) for the lost “Estimate of the Situation,” in which Project Sign concludes that UFOs are interplanetary, is probably too early. See September 30. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1259 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2427 (8B3156DB) Date: 8/11/1948 Description: A round, dull gray or silver object 2 ft diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamel, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_473 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2428 (1B4307FF) Date: 8/11/1948 Description: Two boys were playing outside at noon in Hamel, Minnesota when a dull gray, round object 70 cm in diameter landed near them with a metallic noise. It spun, went up, hovered, maneuvered to avoid telephone lines and trees, and flew away to the northeast. An FBI man from St. Paul found an area 70 cm in diameter where the ground showed signs of extreme pressure. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90 Source ID: Johnson_4856 Source: Johnson ### Event 2429 (10264240) Date: 8/11/1948 Time: 1200 Description: Two boys were playing outside when a round dull gray object 70 cm in diameter, 30 cm thick, landed near them like a balloon with a metallic noise. It spun, went up, hovered, maneuvered to avoid Phone lines and trees, and flew away to the northeast. An FBI man from St. Paul found an area 70 cm in diameter where the ground showed signs of extreme pressure. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hamel, Minnesota Source ID: Magnonia_66 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 2430 (6C60D4C3) Date: 8/15/1948 Description: In the early afternoon many people in Phoenix, Arizona witnessed four silver disc-shaped objects that flew fast from east to west, then flipped in sequence. Three of the objects were seen again later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 208, citing MUFON; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1341, citing Ronald D. Story, Encyclopedia of UFOs, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_5028 Source: Johnson ### Event 2431 (193EA1DC) Date: 8/15/1948 Description: Morning. Future ufologist [Walter H. Andrus Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152550777/walter-harrison-andrus), his wife Genevieve, and son Donald see four UFOs flying in formation east to west over downtown, Phoenix, Arizona. They simply vanish in sequence, then the first three reappear one at a time in the northwest where they pass out of sight to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [pp. 17–18](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/16/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1260 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2432 (03A89EC3) Date: 8/19/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 13.4km altitude (Bumper 2 First stage failed due to propellant flow interruption) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 13.4km Source ID: Maj2_332 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2433 (67645FEA) Date: 8/21/1948 Description: A possible Russian rocket trail is seen over Katrineholm, Sweden, that remains visible for three hours “resembling a brilliant star surrounded by streamers of fire like the tentacles of an octopus.” However, there is no known record of a launch on this date of a V-2 or R-1 missile from the Russian base at Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. It may be the same object viewed by Swedish Armed Forces Supreme Commander [Helge Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helge%5FJung) of an “aerial explosion considered to be some form of guided missile originating from Estonian islands, possibly Dagö or Osel.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Sky Octopus’ Seen above Swedish Town,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92839742/)” Richmond \(Ind.\) Palladium-Item, August 23, 1948, p. 2; “Sky Octopus over Sweden,” Fate 2, no. 1 \(May 1949\): 35; Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_1261 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2434 (EB6B78AB) Date: 8/29/1948 Description: Farmer Niswenger saw a large silvery sphere rise from a wooded area and hover above his farm, dropping a silvery substance that disintegrated before touching the ground. (Vallée Magonia 67; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [480829](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/maple480829dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maplewood, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_474 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2435 (F4CE9CB3) Date: 8/29/1948 Description: At 5:03 a.m. a farmer in Maplewood, Ohio observed a silvery sphere of large dimension rise from a wooded area and hover above his farm. It dropped a silvery substance that disintegrated before touching the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #169; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193 Source ID: Johnson_5454 Source: Johnson ### Event 2436 (8308F3DF) Date: 8/29/1948 Time: 0503 Description: A farmer observed a silvery sphere of large dimension rise from a wooded area and hover above his farm, dropping a silvery substance that disintegrated before touching the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Maplewood, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_67 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 2437 (818E5C45) Date: 8/31/1948 Description: At 12:20 a.m. a large unknown object was sighted flying at 50,000 feet altitude over Mint Canyon, California. It trailed a column of flames. It was also reportedly seen at Muroc Field, now Edwards AFB. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1344, citing Charles Berlitz and William Moore, The Roswell Incident, p. 139 Source ID: Johnson_5515 Source: Johnson ### Event 2438 (B3D25A33) Date: 9/1948 Description: Top Secret "Estimate of the Situation", concluding UFOs were interplanetary, sent from ATIC to Air Force Chief of Staff, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. (Report was kicked back for additional proof; later declassified and burned). Type: top secret report Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 62-63, 67](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_857 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2439 (97D925E1) Date: 9/1948 Description: About this time Capt. [Robert R. Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) becomes a co-chief of Project Sign with Lt. Howard W. Smith. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_1262 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2440 (93F5449B) Date: 9/1/1948 Description: The CIA Office of Policy Coordination is formally established with the responsibility to engage in “propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Office of Policy Coordination](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5FPolicy%5FCoordination)” Source ID: Eberhart_1263 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2441 (74C96A70) Date: 9/2/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.6km altitude (Vehicle broke up at 370s at 84 km altitude.) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 150.6km Source ID: Maj2_333 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2442 (F11A2C77) Date: 9/11/1948 Description: At 3:20 p.m. a U.S. Air Force pilot and copilot flying a C-45 transport ten miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania saw a round white object moving at high speed on a SW heading. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website Source ID: Johnson_5849 Source: Johnson ### Event 2443 (63867EF6) Date: 9/12/1948 Description: Round white object moving at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pittsburgh (8-12 miles SE of), PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_475 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2444 (09957601) Date: 9/12/1948 Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-1) Pilot and Co-pilot of a Pan Am aircraft en route from Midway to Honolulu, saw a blue-white light approaching, changing to twin reddish glows upon withdrawal. Est. speed: 1000 knots Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481) Location: Midway Source ID: Maj2_331 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2445 (04648CF1) Date: 9/13/1948 Description: At seven o'clock in the evening a seminarian in Oristano, Sardegna, Italy watched as a domed disc-shaped object tilted in the air, so that two humanoid beings were visible inside its transparent dome. The object flew off to the east toward Madau. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1346, citing a website Source ID: Johnson_5906 Source: Johnson ### Event 2446 (587065B4) Date: 9/15/1948 Description: USAF Maj. [Dick Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%5FJohnson%5F%28test%5Fpilot%29) reaches an official airspeed record of 671 mph \(slightly more than [Yeager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%5FYeager)’s first record\) in a North American F-86A-3 Sabre at Muroc \[now Edwards\] AFB, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[North](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FF-86%5FSabre) [American F-86 Sabre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FF-86%5FSabre)” Source ID: Eberhart_1264 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2447 (59ACBE02) Date: 9/16/1948 Description: Before dawn. Fred Scott, 63, is walking around Grassy Mountain, Malheur County, Oregon, when he looks up and sees two “flying persons” to the south. They are 150–250 feet up, one following the other at a distance of 8–10 feet. Their wings are narrow and rounded at the tip and do not flap. Their legs are unusually short. They remain visible while Scott walks for at least another mile. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf) [1940–1949,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1940-1949.pdf) p. 43; Clark III 270 Source ID: Eberhart_1265 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2448 (0CB0FC11) Date: 9/18/1948 Description: Bright white aluminum half-spherical object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shreveport, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_476 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2449 (2A32B905) Date: 9/22/1948 Description: Co-Pilot in C-47 Sees Wingless Metallic Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [480922](http://www.nicap.org/480922albany%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albany (near Turner AFB), GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_477 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2450 (0D61DDEE) Date: 9/23/1948 Description: San Pablo, California. At twelve noon Sylvester Bentham and retired U.S. Army Colonel Horace Eakins observed two daylight UFOs: one a buff or gray rectangle with vertical lines, the other a translucent "amoeba" with a dark spot near the center. The arms of the "amoeba" undulated. Both objects traveled very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90 Source ID: Johnson_6244 Source: Johnson ### Event 2451 (D943733A) Date: 9/23/1948 Description: At 9:40 a.m. a group at the Los Alamos, New Mexico airport saw a tilted, silver disc-shaped UFO with the apparent diameter of a dime at arm's length. Its estimated distance was 15 miles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1347, citing Jerome Clark Source ID: Johnson_6243 Source: Johnson ### Event 2452 (7C730C66) Date: 9/23/1948 Description: Sun-reflecting glint in the sky from a flat circular metallic object (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: M, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [480923](http://www.nicap.org/480923losalamos%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_479 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2453 (8085347C) Date: 9/23/1948 Description: Fast-flying irregularly shaped translucent white “amoeba” (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 208) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Pablo, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_478 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2454 (49B9D2AB) Date: 9/23/1948 Time: 12 noon Description: Witnesses: Sylvester Bentham and retired U.S. Army Col. Horace Eakins. Two objects: one, a buff or grey rectangle with vertical lines; the other a translucent "amoeba" with a dark spot near the center. The arms of the "amoeba" undulated. Both objects travelled very fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: San Pablo, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_14 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2455 (2F07A1F0) Date: 9/23/1948 Description: 9:40 a.m. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, a group of people are waiting for an airplane at the landing strip when one of them notices something glint in the sun. It is a flat, circular object, high in the northern sky. The appearance and relative size is the same as a dime held edgewise and slightly tipped, about 50 feet away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Flat Dime On-Edge Observed by Lab Personnel](http://www.nicap.org/480923losalamos%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 38 Source ID: Eberhart_1266 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2456 (49FEF676) Date: 9/26/1948 Description: 2:00 p.m. P. L. Lewis sees a white object moving rapidly across the sky at Port Hope, Ontario, then disappear when it is nearly overhead. Other white objects follow at about 50 mph in a northeasterly direction, accompanied by strands of spider web. Lewis speculates that the objects are balls of spiders’ threads, held together by thistledown. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: P. R. Bishop, “Cobwebs or Flying Saucers?” Weather 4 \(1949\): 121–122; Philip J. Imbrogno, Files from the Edge: A Paranormal Investigator’s Explorations into High Strangeness, Llewellyn, 2010, [p. 54](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Files%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FEdge/yoqQRS7cY7cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%E2%80%9CCobwebs%2Bor%2BFlying%2BSaucers%3F%E2%80%9D%2BWeather&pg=PT68&printsec=frontcover) Source ID: Eberhart_1267 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2457 (11A21DB5) Date: 9/28/1948 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Simeon, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_480 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2458 (720BF3C0) Date: 9/30/1948? Description: Project Sign officer Capt. [Robert R. Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) has decided that the time has come to climax Project Sign’s task and write the required “Estimate of the Situation.” Every intelligence operation’s task is ultimately to present such a best-guess summary, strongly backed with as much fact as possible. Using the Chiles-Whitted case as the core and collecting around it many cases from the summer of 1947 to September 1948, Sneider composes the document. The most recent case known to have been listed in the document is the September 23 Los Alamos National Laboratory sighting in New Mexico. Two prominent USAF intelligence officers \([Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and [Dewey J.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) [Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm) Jr.\) see the document in 1952. “It was a rather thick document with a black cover and it was printed on legal-sized paper. Stamped across the front were the words TOP SECRET.” Ruppelt says the Estimate concludes that the best evidence indicated an extraterrestrial origin for UFOs. Sneider is probably the primary author. [Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) [Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) and [Truettner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58335429/lawrence-hess-truettner) almost certainly are part of the writing. [Llewellyn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124634808/raymond-anderson-llewellyn) certainly looks in. All these people, as well as higher-ups in [Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman)’s and [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)’s offices, must approve it, at least in some sense. And an Estimate of UFOs as extraterrestrial is no small thing to assent to. The Estimate is probably addressed to Chief of Staff Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg), but it really is meant for Director of Intelligence Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) It is probably sent near the end of September, just before the [George Gorman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/711216/george-f-gorman) “UFO dogfight” in Fargo, North Dakota, on October 1. It probably lands in [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett)’s Collections office and is hand-carried to Cabell. Cabell may or may not be shocked. With a pro-ETH Wright-Patterson intelligence group on one side, an anti-ETH Pentagon Intelligence Requirements Office on the other, and open-minded collections officers and the powerful Research and Development chief \(Gen. [Donald L. Putt](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105883/lieutenant-general-donald-leander-putt/)\) in between, Cabell doesn’t want to decide this on his own. He hands the Estimate further upstairs to Vandenberg himself, who rejects it and bats it back to Cabell with a strong sense of disapproval. Ruppelt adds that some months later the Estimate is completely declassified and “all but a few copies” are destroyed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 45](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/44/mode/2up); Clark III 436–437; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 48–51; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 13–14](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/12/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “The Lost Words of Edward Ruppelt,” IUR 20, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1995\): 14–15; Swords 62 Source ID: Eberhart_1268 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2459 (C1E0BE5F) Date: 9/30/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.3km altitude (Bumper 3 WAC stage failed) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 150.3km Source ID: Maj2_334 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2460 (455E3F9E) Date: 10/1948 Description: [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) resigns as chairman of the Research and Development Board, passing the job on to [Karl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton) [Taylor Compton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_1269 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2461 (564E0B80) Date: 10/1/1948 Description: Lt. G. Gorman air duels with UFO for 25 minutes Type: UFO sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Fargo, North Dakota Source ID: Maj2_97 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2462 (A1E59844) Date: 10/1/1948 Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.S) 2nd Lt. George F. Gorman (North Dakota Air Nat. Guard), sighted a UFO 3000 ft. below him while he was flying his F-51 at 4500 ft. The pilot pursued the UFO which took evasive tactics. The UFO out-turned, out-speeded and out-climbed the F-51 in every attempt at intercept. The pilot lost contact with the UFO. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481, B1-F p234, B1-G p28) Location: North Dakota Source ID: Maj2_335 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2463 (0041471A) Date: 10/1/1948 Description: Small 6-8-inch round white ball of light with a flat, no-depth disc-like appearance Gorman "Dogfight" (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [481001](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/gormandir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fargo, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_481 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2464 (8C7732D7) Date: 10/1/1948 Description: 8:30 p.m. 2d Lieut. [George F. Gorman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/711216/george-f-gorman) of the North Dakota National Guard, flying an F-51 near Fargo, North Dakota, spots an object traveling east to west. He describes it as a light 6–8 inches in diameter displaying incredible movements. He repeatedly gives chase beginning at 9:07 p.m., but each time is outmaneuvered by the light, which moves up to 600 mph. On his first pass he gets as close as 500 feet from the light at about 5,000 feet altitude. Gorman climbs to 14,000 feet but stalled out, unable to intercept the light, which is at about 16,000 feet. The light makes evasive and aggressive maneuvers, such as seeming to try to ram the F-51. When it drops to 11,000 feet, Gorman attempts to dive at it, but the light pulls up, rises vertically, and disappears at high speed. The light is also seen by airport control tower operators [Lloyd D. Jensen](https://www.johnsoncountychapel.com/obituary/Lloyd-Jensen) and Manuel E. Johnson, as well as others on the ground and pilot [Arthur E. Cannon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102783600/arthur-earl-cannon) flying a Piper Cub at 1,600 feet. Jensen watches the dogfight through 6x30 binoculars, the UFO appearing perfectly round with sharp edges and no fuzzy outline. Project Sign personnel arrive within hours and interview the witnesses. Eventually they conclude the object was a balloon, with evasive maneuvers the product of Gorman’s imagination, since ground observers do not see anything comparable. Some ufologists, among them [Aimé Michel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9%5FMichel) and [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald), have rejected the balloon explanation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Gorman dogfight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorman%5Fdogfight)”; NICAP, “[Gorman \(Fargo\) Case](http://www.nicap.org/481001fargo%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 41–43](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/40/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 39; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 138; Clark III 536–537 Source ID: Eberhart_1271 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2465 (5763B92C) Date: 10/1/1948 Description: The first Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Publication \(JANAP\) 146, based on Bernard Baruch Jr.’s CIRES system, is issued. It consists of instructions for military and civilian personnel on how to report sightings of enemy aircraft, missiles, submarines, and surface vessels. This version does not include UFOs. It is tabled shortly afterward by Maj. Gen. [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Antonio F. Rullán, “[Blue Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships: Analysis of the](http://www.waterufo.net/bluebook/bbpdf.pdf) [Blue Book Ship Database,](http://www.waterufo.net/bluebook/bbpdf.pdf)” December 10, 2002, pp. 8–9; Swords 122 Source ID: Eberhart_1270 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2466 (DA450AB9) Date: 10/1/1948 Description: At 9:00 p.m. an aerial encounter occurred on this day over Fargo, North Dakota between an F-51 fighter plane and a somewhat flattened white circular unidentified object, blinking on and off. The UFO made a head-on approach toward the F-51, then veered off, next made a 180 degree turn, then out climbed the performance aircraft, rising straight up until out of sight. Its close turns were tighter than could be made by the fighter plane. The encounter lasted 27 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May 1954; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 59; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 33; UNICAT, case # 532 Source ID: Johnson_6459 Source: Johnson ### Event 2467 (9D07824B) Date: 10/7/1948 Description: A set of letters, composed not by [Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) but actually by [Samuel Z. Hunnicutt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63506334/samuel-z-hunnicutt), a member of T-2 and the Sign team, and approved by MCI heavyweights [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) [Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman) and [Leland Money](https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rrw34101), goes out to the CIA, US Army Intelligence, and the Office of Naval Intelligence. The query: What domestic technological developments do you know of that might explain UFOs and help us differentiate them from inimical \(Soviet\) foreign developments? Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 50 Source ID: Eberhart_1273 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2468 (1AFF1C25) Date: 10/7/1948 Description: A document from Project Sign to [Garrett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33467541/george-duncan-garrett) and [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) is an upbeat [Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) report on the initial investigation of the [Gorman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/711216/george-f-gorman) dogfight, making the object sound extremely unusual and intelligent in behavior. This is almost like a supplement to the Estimate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 50 Source ID: Eberhart_1272 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2469 (7162AF1D) Date: 10/11/1948 Description: Neubiberg AFB (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Munich, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_482 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2470 (53EEC148) Date: 10/12/1948 Alternate date: 10/22/1948 Description: Project Sign’s Col. [William R. Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman) writes a letter to USAF Chiefs of Staff requesting a study of UFOs by the RAND Corporation, similar to the one made by USAF R&D in July, especially the possibility that “some of the unidentified aerial objects that have been reported both in the United States and in foreign lands may have been experimental spaceships.        it is believed more likely that they represent the effort of a foreign nation, rather than a product from beyond the Earth.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Col. W. R. Clingerman, “[Request for Study by](http://www.project1947.com/gr/48randufostudy.htm) [Rand Project,](http://www.project1947.com/gr/48randufostudy.htm)” October 12\(?\), 1948; Swords 58, 492–493 Source ID: Eberhart_1274 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2471 (77C2BCFD) Date: 10/13/1948 Description: (41.68° N, 86.26° W). Brooke and Thompson (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Bend, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_483 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2472 (52154B4F) Date: 10/14/1948 Description: Air Force pilot, major, saw a UFO flying in an oscillatory path, up and down motions. Intelligence report missing. (Fund Report \* C-13; 2 pp.) (Project GRUDGE Report Case No. 181) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Between Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Ind, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_484 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2473 (2EE8F5CD) Date: 10/15/1948 Description: At 11:05 p.m. U.S. Air Force pilot Halter and radar operator Hemphill in a propeller driven P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter tracked up to six objects on radar over Fusuoka, Japan. The six bogeys were seen on the radar by Hemphill, and his radar picked up the targets five miles ahead of the plane. Only one of the bogeys was seen visually. It was a dull or dark object, shaped like a bullet or dirigible with a flat bottom and with a heel-shaped clipped tail end. Pilot Halter attempted to close on the visual object, but it dove below the F-61, then reappeared, and finally took off with a burst of speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 218; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 135; UNICAT, case # 273; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6843 Source: Johnson ### Event 2474 (27C4E5EC) Date: 10/15/1948 Description: Bright nearly moon-shaped object with distinct bright center (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: 50 miles E of Virginia coast, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_486 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2475 (EB59C486) Date: 10/15/1948 Description: Japan, A,V 6 interceptions of objects tracked on airborne radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 218) Reference: NICAP: [481015](http://www.nicap.org/481015japan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fukuoka, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_485 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2476 (647C2079) Date: 10/15/1948 Description: 11:05 p.m. On night patrol, 1st Lt. [Oliver “Bud” Hemphill Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36271029/oliver-hemphill) of the 68th Fighter Squadron is flying a Northrup F-61 Black Widow some 50 miles northwest of Fukuoka, Japan, when the crew picks up an object on radar going 200 mph. As he closes to intercept, the object speeds up to 1,200 mph then slows down again. The plane tries closing in six times, but each time the object speeds away. On one pass the crew sees the object’s silhouette, which looks like a “rifle bullet” 20–30 feet long. The object “seems cognizant of the whereabouts of the F-61 at all times.” Radar operator Barton Halter thinks it is a “new type of aircraft.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F-61 ‘Black](http://www.nicap.org/481015japan%5Fdir.htm) [Widow’ Radar Case](http://www.nicap.org/481015japan%5Fdir.htm)”; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#radar)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 69–70; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 134–137](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/134/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 40 Source ID: Eberhart_1275 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2477 (AB111F8F) Date: Late 1948 Description: The search for a suitable US location for nuclear testing, codenamed “Project Nutmeg,” commences under the direction of expert meteorologist and Navy Captain Howard B. Hutchinson. The government is looking for a place where nuclear tests would have little impact on the American people or the American economy. Five primary sites are considered: Dugway Proving Ground, Utah; Alamogordo–White Sands Guided Missile Range, New Mexico; an area in Nevada between Fallon and Eureka; the Tonopah–Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range \(the site finally chosen in 1950, now part of Nellis Air Force Base\); and the Pamlico Sound area off the coast of North Carolina. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Project Nutmeg: The Birth of the Nevada Test Site,](https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps100925/www.nv.doe.gov/library/factsheets/DOENV%5F767.pdf)” National Nuclear Security Administration, June 2004; Philip Howard, “[Project Nutmeg,](https://www.villagecraftsmen.com/tag/project-nutmeg/)” Village Craftsmen, April 21, 2012; Diane Tennant, “[How Outer Banks Almost Became a Nuclear Test Site,](https://www.pilotonline.com/life/article%5F6662e143-8b1c-51b8-b3ef-2729d9bd713f.html)” Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, January 27, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_1278 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2478 (974A27F0) Date: 10/15/1948 Time: 11:05 PM Description: Witnesses: pilot Halter and radar operator Hemphill of a P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter. Up to six objects tracked on radar, only one seen visually. Dull or dark object shaped like a dirigible with a flat bottom and clipped tail end. Six seen on radar separately Pilot attempted to close on visual object, but it dove away fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Fusuoka, Japan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_15 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2479 (C581501E) Date: 10/15/1948 Description: An F-61 “Black Widow” fighter tracked UFO on radar and tried to intercept it 6 times without success. It would speed up from 200 mph to 1200 mph, leaving the interceptor behind. Description: shaped like a rifle bullet and apparently 20 to 30 feet long Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p235) Location: Japan Source ID: Maj2_336 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2480 (D94C8616) Date: 10/16/1948 Description: A flattened football or lozenge shaped black object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sterling, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_487 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2481 (89C56B9A) Date: 10/17/1948 Description: Blimplike object much too fast and maneuverable for a blimp (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crescent City, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_488 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2482 (EA241D1A) Date: 10/18/1948 Description: Bright Silver Object Cruises Across Sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [481018](http://www.nicap.org/481018oahu%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Heights, Oahu, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_394 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2483 (1550C03B) Date: 10/18/1948 Description: Round or elliptical bright silver object 10-15 ft in size (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Heights, Oahu, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_489 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2484 (E6409C00) Date: 10/20/1948 Description: The US Air Force Security Service is activated at Arlington Hall in Washington, D.C., with the mission of cryptology and communications security. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States Air Force Security Service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FAir%5FForce%5FSecurity%5FService)” Source ID: Eberhart_1276 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2485 (07CE8256) Date: 10/24/1948 Description: Huber. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Junction City (10 miles SW of), KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_490 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2486 (86E9A395) Date: 10/24/1948 Description: Peterson. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Phoenix, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_491 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2487 (34912A16) Date: 10/24/1948 Description: Brilliant golden-white round object suddenly appear (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moorhead (4 miles SE of), MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_492 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2488 (A9EB740E) Date: 10/24/1948 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Sanders were driving northwest on Highway 52 towards Moorhead, Minnesota (46.88° N, 96.78° W) when they saw a brilliant golden-white round object suddenly appear as if a light had been switched on. It was about three miles away to the northeast at 1,000 feet altitude in a gradual climb traveling at an estimated 600-1,000 mph and heading west towards Moorhead. It made no sound, and was about half the size of a full moon in angular size. When they reached the northern outskirts of Moorhead the object suddenly made a right turn and one second later disappeared by suddenly switching off. The Air Force said they had seen a meteor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 192; Fund for UFO Research index of cases Source ID: Johnson_7067 Source: Johnson ### Event 2489 (F217CFE0) Date: 10/29/1948 Description: Five US Air Force pilots observe a silvery object over Neubiberg Air Base \[now closed\] near Munich, Germany. The object disappears at a terrific speed after having remained over the air base more than 30 minutes. A similar object is seen days before by another group of American pilots. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich, “[Early Top Secret UFO](http://www.project1947.com/fig/jtt.htm) [Document Discovered,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/jtt.htm)” 2000 Source ID: Eberhart_1277 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2490 (F367B8A7) Date: 10/29/1948 Description: Slow moving unidentified targets were tracked at low altitude (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [481029](http://www.nicap.org/481029goosedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_493 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2491 (56AA9AC1) Date: 10/30/1948 Description: Kunsman. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) ADC Directs F-82 to 10-20 EggShaped Objects (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [481030](http://www.nicap.org/481030graysharbordir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gray's Harbor, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_494 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2492 (334EC930) Date: 10/31/1948 Description: (53.33° N, 60.41° W). (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [481031](http://www.nicap.org/481031goosedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_495 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2493 (B6C64A8E) Date: 10/31/1948 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown Location, Azores Source ID: NICAP_DB_496 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2494 (56B47A79) Date: 11/1948 Description: Green fireballs prominent in New Mexico Type: anomalous phenomenon Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: Maj2_98 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2495 (DA406AE0) Date: 11/1/1948 Description: Radar operator M/Sgt Francis H. Mills at Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador, tracks an object too large for a bird, too small for a plane, flying at 60 mph. Not confirmed visually. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[600 MPH](http://www.nicap.org/481101goosedir.htm) [Track at Goose Bay](http://www.nicap.org/481101goosedir.htm)”; NICAP, “[October 29, October 30, and November 1, 1948, Incident Nos. 188, 195, and 196:](http://www.nicap.org/reports/4810-11gooserep.htm) [Goose Bay, Labrador,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/4810-11gooserep.htm)” June 28, 2009; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 42 Source ID: Eberhart_1279 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2496 (7DDDA225) Date: 11/1/1948 Description: (53.33° N, 60.41° W). (Ruppelt manuscript) G 600 MPH Track (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [481101](http://www.nicap.org/481101goosedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_497 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2497 (5635A491) Date: 11/1/1948 Description: A UFO was tracked by U.S. Army radar at Goose Bay Base, Labrador, Canada on this day. It was moving at a high rate of speed, in excess of 600 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 33; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 83 Source ID: Johnson_7364 Source: Johnson ### Event 2498 (583DB18B) Date: 11/1/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude (Bumper 4 Explosion in tail of V-2) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 4.8km Source ID: Maj2_337 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2499 (11E1CD24) Date: 11/3/1948 Description: Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) writes a firm letter to Wright Field in Ohio, asking Project Sign for another Estimate. It is possibly composed by Maj. [Aaron “Jere” Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm) or Col. [Edward H. Porter](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105922/brigadier-general-edward-h-porter/) at the USAF Defensive Air Branch. While admitting that the objects seem real, it also cautions that they are not identified. \(Read: You may not identify them as extraterrestrial craft.\) Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “[Flying Object Incidents in the United States,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/loedd/doc159.htm)” November 3, 1948; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 50– 51, 62; Swords 62, 64 Source ID: Eberhart_1281 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2500 (A50685B5) Date: 11/3/1948 Description: Against most predictions, [Harry S. Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) wins the US presidential election against Republican [Thomas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FE.%5FDewey) [E. Dewey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FE.%5FDewey)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FE.%5FDewey) Secretary of Defense [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal), like everyone else, expects to have a new boss in January. His relationship with Air Force Secretary [Stuart Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) has deteriorated, and he has not obtained a budget consensus from the Joint Chiefs. His mental health, physical condition, and authority are deteriorating. He is convinced that “foreign-looking men” are following him and that Symington is spying on him. Secret Service Chief [Urbanus E. Baughman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.%5FE.%5FBaughman) begins to think Forrestal is suffering from a “total psychotic breakdown.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1280 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2501 (DF68B923) Date: 11/3/1948 End date: 11/4/1948 Description: AFOSI Case 6; app 22;00 - white round obj larger than basketball (McDonald list, FUFOR index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [481103-04](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/vaughn481103dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vaughn, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_498 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2502 (66E19D86) Date: 11/4/1948 Description: A USAF Europe document transmits some information on the Swedish ghost rockets. “They have been reported by so many sources and from such a variety of places that we are convinced that they cannot be disregarded and must be explained on some basis which is perhaps slightly beyond the scope of our present intelligence thinking.” One of the objects was observed crashing into a lake by Swedish Gen. [Helge Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helge%5FJung) and his party. A salvage operation was unsuccessful. USAF officers visit Swedish Air Intelligence officials who have reached the conclusion that “these phenomena are obviously the result of a high technical skill which cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth.” The document is distributed to the CIA \(which in response to a FOIA request claims no record\), Armament Intelligence Branch, and AMC. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[USAFE 14, TT 1524, Top Secret,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/481104usafedoc.pdf)” November 4, 1948; Jan Aldrich, “[Early Top Secret UFO Document Discovered,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/jtt.htm)” 2000; Swords 62–63; Good Need, [p. 115](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/114/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1282 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2503 (C01E6811) Date: 11/6/1948 Description: (45°26' N, 141°43' E). (McDonald list) Target Circles Radar Site (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [481106](http://www.nicap.org/481106wakkanai%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wakkanai, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_499 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2504 (03EAAC70) Date: 11/6/1948 Description: Two UFOs, maneuvering like planes in a dogfight, are tracked on USAF radar over Wakkanai, Japan. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Target Circles Radar Site](http://www.nicap.org/481106wakkanai%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, [p. 34](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 42 Source ID: Eberhart_1283 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2505 (CADEACF9) Date: 11/8/1948 Description: A letter is sent with Col. [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)’s signature to Gen. [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) Written by Sign operative [Albert Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg)[,](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg) it is overtly submissive but covertly rebellious. It contains several comments agreeing with Cabell that the UFO phenomenon is not identifiable and that no concrete physical proof exists to identify it. At the same time it drops all sorts of hints, doubtless the same arguments used in the original Estimate, that the objects really are extra- terrestrial whether the Pentagon thinks so or not: It mentions the ETH; it mentions plotting waves against planetary approaches and finding a correlation; it mentions the books of [Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FFort) as indicating that this has been going on for at least a century; it mentions that odd shapes \(like the Chiles-Whitted case\) can fly but require more advanced power plants than we have. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Col. H. M. McCoy, “[Flying Object Incidents in the United States,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948c.htm)” November 8, 1948; Michael D. Swords, “The McCoy Letter,” IUR 22, no. 1 \(Spring 1997\): 12–17, 27; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 51, 63–64; Swords 62, 65, 494– 496 Source ID: Eberhart_1284 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2506 (E2DF3590) Date: 11/12/1948 Description: Project Sign personnel travel to the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., to attempt to convince [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) and [Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) on the ETH. It includes [Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider), and perhaps [Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) [Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding), [Truettner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58335429/lawrence-hess-truettner), and [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)[.](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) On the Pentagon side, [Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm) and [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) are there and perhaps Vandenberg, and they are having none of the ETH. Back at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, Deyarmond and Truettner begin writing a sanitized Project Sign report. More scientific oversight is requested for Sign personnel. The Scientific Advisory Board and [George](http://news.mit.edu/1999/valley-1020) [Valley](http://news.mit.edu/1999/valley-1020) of MIT are to be made aware of all cases. So too are Boggs’s office, ONI, and maybe even the NBS. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) is to be formally commissioned for an assessment, as well as [Irving Langmuir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%5FLangmuir) and Project Rand. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Col. H. M. McCoy, “[Transmittal of Project ‘SIGN’ Incident Summaries,](http://www.project1947.com/gr/nbsconference.htm)” November 12, 1948; Swords 65; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 51–52 Source ID: Eberhart_1285 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2507 (146973B2) Date: 11/12/1948 Description: Very large 300 ft long 140 ft wingspan snow-white aircraft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clark AFB, Manila, Philippines Source ID: NICAP_DB_500 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2508 (DF29F2D0) Date: Mid 11/1948 Description: Late afternoon. [Clifford DeWitt Fife](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81760336/clifford-dewitt-fife) hears a whirring in the air near Nevada, Missouri. He looks up and sees a hovering, disc-like object. Two bright objects drop down out of the disc about 200–300 feet, then speed off to the southwest. The large object moves off to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nevada \(Mo.\) Daily Mail, November 30, 1948; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_1286 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2509 (DD24C290) Date: 11/15/1948 Description: South of Nevada, Missouri a witness first heard a whirring sound at 4 p.m., then saw a large disc-shaped object hovering. Two small objects dropped from the disc and flew away to the southwest. The disc then flew off toward the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1358, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 95 Source ID: Johnson_7683 Source: Johnson ### Event 2510 (E1BE6EF9) Date: 11/17/1948 Description: Bright orange flaming egg-shaped object flying (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Peace River, Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_501 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2511 (F35FB254) Date: 11/18/1948 Description: Report from Project SIGN, incident ?207 in Blue Book files: at approx. 2200 hours, Lt. Henry G. Combs (AFRes) spotted an oval shaped UFO while flying in a T-6 plane. The UFO accelerated rapidly from 80mph to 500 or 600 mph. It remained under observation for some 10 minutes. The UFO displayed “evasive controlled tactics and an ability to perform tight circles, quick variation of air speed, vertical ascents and evasive movements.” Type: report Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-G p28, B1-F p236) Location: Andrews AFB Source ID: Maj2_339 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2512 (3DEAFE6B) Date: 11/18/1948 Description: 10:00 p.m. USAF Reserve pilot Lt. [Henry G. Combs](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/512170/henry-gordon-combs) is flying a T-6 Texas combat trainer when he sees an object flying west to east over Andrews AFB, Maryland. It has one continuously glowing white light. He makes a pass to check on it, but it takes evasive action and he duels with it for 10 minutes. The object performs very tight curves and quick accelerations to 600 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Lt. Combs / T-6 Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/481118andrews%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 42; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 236–237 Source ID: Eberhart_1287 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2513 (728AC8E7) Date: 11/18/1948 Description: The Lt. Combs / T-6 Encounter (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [481118](http://www.nicap.org/481118andrews%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Camp Springs, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_502 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2514 (B97E58A5) Date: 11/18/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 145.3km altitude (First Hermes B ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of payload section. Nominal performance.) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 145.3km Source ID: Maj2_338 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2515 (88F9B33D) Date: 11/23/1948 Description: 10:20 p.m. The first \[although see October 15\] documented radar-visual UFO case takes place at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in Bavaria, Germany. A UFO is seen circling at 27,000 feet. An F-80 pilot sent to intercept it describes it as bright red. It climbs abruptly to 50,000 feet at 900 mph. A second F-80 pilot verifies the report. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Grnd Visual / Grnd Radar Track Object at 27,000ʹ](http://www.nicap.org/481123germany%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [p. 46](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/46/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 43 Source ID: Eberhart_1289 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2516 (0B5D2106) Date: 11/23/1948 Description: AFOSI Case 7; app 22;00 - Colonel Hayes obs ball of light, descending vertically, which burst 100-200 feet from the ground (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [481123](http://nicap.org/vaughn481123dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vaughn, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_503 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2517 (EF12AE7F) Date: 11/23/1948 Description: An aerial encounter with a red UFO involving radar and visual confirmation occurred over Germany on this night at 10:20 p.m. Two U.S. Air Force Captains flying in a F-80 fighter, and a 1st Lt. from the 23rd Fighter Squadron on the ground at Furstenfeldbruck AFB saw the reddish star-like object to the east moving south over Munich at 200-500 mph, turning slightly southwest and then southeast. Captain Slater in the F-80 called the Racecard DF Radar Station which tracked the unidentified target at 27,000 feet and 30 miles to the south of Munich, climbing to 40,000 feet at 40 miles south of Munich, then circling around in a high speed ascent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 162; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 68; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 237; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_7833 Source: Johnson ### Event 2518 (CF7100CA) Date: 11/23/1948 Description: Furstenfeldbruck AFB reddish star-like object G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [481123](http://www.nicap.org/481123germany%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Munich, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_504 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2519 (4BB284DF) Date: 11/23/1948 Description: Wire Report from Germany to Project SIGN: Capt. (blank) is an experienced pilot and completely reliable. While flying an F-80 over a US Air Base in the Fursten-Feldbruck area of Germany, he had radar and visual contact with a circling red-lighted UFO at 2200 hours at 27,000 ft. Ground radar determined that it was going 900 mph and climbed quickly to 50,000 ft. in a matter of minutes and disappeared Type: report Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p237) Location: Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany Source ID: Maj2_341 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2520 (6057C91B) Date: 11/23/1948 Description: 10:00 p.m. US Army Col. William P. Hayes sees a bright white, round light “larger than a basketball” descend slowly as he is driving 10 miles east of Vaughan, New Mexico. It explodes without a sound some 400– 500 feet above the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Another Object in Vertical Descent Explodes near Colonel](http://www.nicap.org/vaughn481123dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 43; Clark III 539 Source ID: Eberhart_1288 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2521 (52EC31A3) Date: 11/24/1948 Description: Writer Sidney Shalett has asked for USAF cooperation in writing an article on UFOs for the Saturday Evening Post. In a “Memorandum for the Record,” the USAF Directorate of Intelligence indicates that “publicity of this nature is undesirable but, if such articles are written, they will be less harmful to the national interest if a degree of guidance in their preparation is exercised.” Signed November 24 by [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) Director of Intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[Maj. Gen. Charles P. Cabell\], “[Memorandum for Record,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948d.htm)” November 24, 1948 Source ID: Eberhart_1290 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2522 (BA6B227F) Date: 11/26/1948 Description: Young. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington and Oregon, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_505 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2523 (A7E0B127) Date: 11/30/1948 Description: Maj. Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) in an Air Staff Summary Sheet, admits that he has tried to dissuade the press from publishing articles like Shalett’s. Cabell has asked Secretary [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) for permission to feed Shalett some statistics, but the memo is apparently never sent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “[Publicity on Flying Saucer](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948e.htm) [Incidents,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948e.htm)” Air Staff Summary Sheet, November 30, 1948; “[Memorandum for Mr. Forrestal](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948f.htm)” \[unsent\] Source ID: Eberhart_1291 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2524 (9FF6EB15) Date: 11/30/1948 Description: Letter from [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) at AMC Dayton to Commanding General, Air Defense Command, Mitchel AFB \[now closed\], Long Island, New York. “It is requested that all reports of unusual sightings by radar stations of your command be made directly to this Headquarters by the most expeditious means.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[1948 UFO](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1948fullrep.htm) [Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1948fullrep.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1292 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2525 (5DA740C8) Date: 11/30/1948 Description: An interim report by Project Sign, one that apparently takes seriously the possibility that UFOs represent interplanetary probes, is accidentally destroyed. USAF Intelligence later requests a replacement copy from TID at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. A recent FOIA to the National Archives answers that such a document would be in Project Blue Book files, but it is not. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_1293 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2526 (F601C173) Date: 12/1948 Description: Project SIGN evolves into Project GRUDGE and is conducted under the code name BLUE BOOK. The liaison between Project GRUDGE and MJ-12 is the Air Force officer in head of BLUE BOOK. (Capt. Ruppelt?) Type: report Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) Location: Dayton, OH See also: 3/1952 Source ID: Maj2_342 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2527 (048E8F50) Date: 12/1948 Description: Dec. 5 - 8,11,13,14,20 & 28, 1948; Los Alamos, NM. OSI, pilots, Los Alamos (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [481200](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-losalamos.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_506 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2528 (FD70A240) Date: 12/1948 Description: A first-strike war plan \(Sizzle\) is developed to use 133 nuclear aerial bombs against 70 cities of the USSR. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Nuclear ‘Pincher’: The START II Treaty, the American ‘Escalation of Superiority’ Strategy, and Russia’s](https://nuke.fas.org/control/abmt/news/sov95091.htm) [Strategic Nuclear Forces,](https://nuke.fas.org/control/abmt/news/sov95091.htm)” from Sovetskaya Rossiya, April 8, 1995 Source ID: Eberhart_1294 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2529 (C2E1528A) Date: 12/3/1948 Time: 8:15 PM Description: Witness: USAF Sgt., control tower operator. One round, white light flew for 25 seconds with varying speed, bouncing motion, and finally a rapid erratic climb. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Fairfield-Suisan AFB, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_16 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2530 (3B6FE1C4) Date: 12/3/1948 Description: Round, white light fly with varying speed, bouncing motion (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 257) Reference: NICAP: [481203](http://www.nicap.org/fairfsuis481203dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fairfield-Suisan AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_507 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2531 (B3EEA937) Date: 12/3/1948 Description: (39.75° N, 84.18° W). Hoffman (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dayton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_508 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2532 (7865A95A) Date: 12/3/1948 Description: 8:15 p.m. Sgt. [Bruce Earlin McFarland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72821691/bruce-earlin-mcfarland)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72821691/bruce-earlin-mcfarland) control tower operator at Fairfield-Suisun AFB \[now Travis AFB\] at Fairfield, California, watches for 25 seconds a round, white light fly with variable speed \(200–400 mph\) and a bouncing motion, finally disappearing after a rapid, erratic climb to 20,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Fairfield-Suisun AFB,](http://www.nicap.org/fairfsuis481203dir.htm) [Dec. 3, 1948, UFO Report](http://www.nicap.org/fairfsuis481203dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 43 Source ID: Eberhart_1295 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2533 (E55911DA) Date: 12/5/1948 Description: AFOSI Case 9; Commercial Pilot Reports Green Flare (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [481205](http://www.nicap.org/481205lvegas2%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_510 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2534 (212749FB) Date: 12/5/1948 Description: Flying east of Las Vegas, New Mexico a C-47 pilot and two others saw a huge luminous green fireball at 9:27 p.m., which appeared to maneuver. The same night 12 green fireballs seen traveling rapidly north to south by security guards at military installations from 1930 to 2330 hours, including guards at Sandia Base, New Mexico where atomic bombs were being assembled. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 73; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 398; (2) Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 48; Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI Connection: The Secret History of the Government's Cover-Up, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_8193 Source: Johnson ### Event 2535 (CE65AD1D) Date: 12/5/1948 Description: AFOSI Case 8; AF C-47 Pilot Observes UFO Similar To Green Flare (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [481205](http://www.nicap.org/481205lvegas%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas (W of), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_509 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2536 (8F2B971A) Date: 12/5/1948 Description: 9:05 p.m. Pilot Capt. [William R. Goade](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106982/brigadier-general-william-r-goade/) is flying a USAF C-47 from Denver to Phoenix. Just west of Las Vegas, New Mexico, he and his copilot Maj. Roger Carter spot a bright green flash. Some 22 minutes later, an identical flash rises from the east slope of Sandia Peak and follows a parabolic curve as the C-47 passes 20 miles northeast of Albuquerque. Capt. Ernest Van Lloyd and the crew of Pioneer Airlines Flight 63 also see the second object, described as first orange, then green. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 8: AF C-47 Pilot Observes UFO Similar to](http://www.nicap.org/481205lvegas%5Fdir.htm) [Green Flare](http://www.nicap.org/481205lvegas%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 539; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 43 Source ID: Eberhart_1296 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2537 (C36FC41E) Date: 12/6/1948 Description: AFOSI Case 10; AESS Observed Green Flare Directly Over Sandia Base (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [481206](http://nicap.org/albuq481206dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_511 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2538 (353A6C34) Date: 12/6/1948 Description: 10:55 p.m. Atomic Energy Security Service Officer [Joseph Toulouse](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110603553/joseph-harrison-toulouse) sees a greenish flare one-third the apparent size of the moon at Sandia Base outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is visible for 3 seconds before it arcs downward and vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 10: AESS Observed Green Flare Directly over Sandia](http://www.nicap.org/albuq481206dir.htm) [Base](http://www.nicap.org/albuq481206dir.htm)”; Clark III 539; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 44 Source ID: Eberhart_1299 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2539 (A170AF84) Date: 12/6/1948 Description: Project Sign is ordered to send copies of all its future cases and analyses to Maj. [Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm) of the Office of Defensive Air, the ONI, and the USAF Scientific Advisory Board. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 65 Source ID: Eberhart_1298 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2540 (A1512EA4) Date: 12/6/1948 Description: Lt. Col. [Doyle Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) commander of the Seventeenth District AFOSI at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, orders an investigation into the previous night’s green fireball. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 539 Source ID: Eberhart_1297 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2541 (B7B16FF3) Date: 12/8/1948 Description: Two AFOSI officers, Capts. [Melvin E. Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) and John J. Stahl Jr., interview every agency that might know something about green-flare operations but come up short. That evening, they are flying a T-7 out of Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 5,000 feet when they see a brilliant green light, larger and more brilliant than a meteor or flare, traveling a flat trajectory 2,000 feet above them. They see it for 2 seconds before it burns out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 11: Agents in T-7 Observe Intense Green Fireball at 13,000ʹ](http://www.nicap.org/481208lvegas%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 539; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 44 Source ID: Eberhart_1300 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2542 (8639D319) Date: 12/8/1948 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chanute AFB, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_513 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2543 (5FF1A904) Date: 12/8/1948 Description: AFOSI Case 11; Agents In T-7 Observe Intense Green Fireball At 13,000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [481208](http://www.nicap.org/481208lvegas%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas (20 miles E of), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_512 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2544 (E5CACA5D) Date: 12/9/1948 Description: USAF officers saw round object tothe N on converging course (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pittsburgh (near), PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_514 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2545 (8C65F746) Date: 12/9/1948 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 108.4km altitude (Vane failure at 22s caused erratic flight) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 108.4km Source ID: Maj2_340 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2546 (2C03423C) Date: 12/9/1948 Description: Capt. [Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) informs [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) director of meteoritics at the University of New Mexico, about the green fireball sightings. He says they do not sound like any meteors he is familiar with. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 539 Source ID: Eberhart_1301 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2547 (A73E725E) Date: 12/10/1948 Description: Top Secret Air Intelligence Report 100–203–79 issued Type: top secret report Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Dayton, OH See also: 1/7/1948 See also: 11/1/1948 Source ID: Maj2_343 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2548 (66DAB13E) Date: 12/10/1948 Description: The revised Project Sign report is issued, Air Intelligence Report Number 100-203-79, “Analysis of Fly- ing Object Incidents in the U.S.” \(AIR 203\) \[Some copies are confusingly dated April 28, 1949.\] This is the cul- mination of Sign’s work since early August, augmented by ONI collaboration over the past two months. UFOs are not extraterrestrial \(the idea is hardly noticed\). UFOs are probably real, but if so, there is a small chance that they are Soviet and therefore dangerous. All in all, the word “Soviet” dominates the commentary. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, Directorate of Intelligence, [Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.: Summary and Conclusions](http://www.nicap.org/docs/airintelrpt100-203-79.pdf), Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79, December 10, 1948; [copy](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948air.htm)[,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948air.htm) dated April 28, 1949; Bruce Maccabee, “Hiding the Hardware,” IUR 16, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1991\): 7–8; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 52; Swords 65–66; Good Above, [pp. 265](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up) [480–481](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/480/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1302 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2549 (B1623C0C) Date: 12/12/1948 Description: 9:02 p.m. [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) and two USAF officers \(Sandia Base Intelligence Officer Lt. Allan B. Clark and Sandia’s AF-Civil Air Patrol Liaison Officer Maj. Charles L. Phillips\) see a green fireball near Bernal, New Mexico. He calculates that it is flying directly over Los Alamos National Laboratory, and it maintains its horizontal flight at the low altitude \(for a meteor\) of 8–10 miles. LaPaz arranges with the Atomic Energy Security Service to set up a patrol with Speed Graphic cameras to try to photograph the fireballs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[AFOSI Case](http://www.nicap.org/starve481212dir.htm) [13: LaPaz, Captain, CAP Intel Officer Observed Green Fireball](http://www.nicap.org/starve481212dir.htm)”; Clark III 539–540; Good Above, [p. 266](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/266/mode/2up); Joel Carpenter, “[Green Fireball Chronology,](http://www.project1947.com/gfb/gfbchron.html)” October 6, 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_1303 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2550 (790193EE) Date: 12/12/1948 Description: AFOSI Case 13; LaPaz, Captain, CAP Intel Officer Observed Green Fireball (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [481212](http://nicap.org/starve481212dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Starvation Peak (near Bernal), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_515 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2551 (19F914EF) Date: 12/12/1948 Description: A silent green fireball flew over Bernal, New Mexico toward the west for 2.2 seconds at a low altitude, then ascended. It was seen by Dr. La Paz, a meteor expert who later prepared a report on these anomalous green fireballs. He concluded that what he saw was not a meteor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, December 1948; Richard M. Dolan, UFO’s and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 398 Source ID: Johnson_8351 Source: Johnson ### Event 2552 (24469EC2) Date: 12/13/1948 Description: Aeronautical engineer [James E. Lipp](http://www.astronautix.com/l/lipp.html) writes an 8-page memo to Brig. Gen. [Donald Putt](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105883/lieutenant-general-donald-leander-putt/) on “Special Design and Performance Characteristics That Are Believed to Distinguish Spaceships.” Rejecting out of hand any links between UFO sightings and space travelers, it later appears as an appendix in the Project Grudge report. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. Lipp, “[Special Design and Performance Characteristics That Are Believed to Distinguish Spaceships,](http://www.nicap.org/waves/481213lipp%5Fletter.htm)” December 13, 1948 Source ID: Eberhart_1305 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2553 (66DC1579) Date: 12/13/1948 Description: Project Sign files are sent to the Navy by Col. [William R. Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Project ‘SIGN’ Files](http://www.nicap.org/docs/mantell/mantell480107docs27.htm) [Sent Directly to the Navy,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/mantell/mantell480107docs27.htm)” December 13, 1948 Source ID: Eberhart_1304 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2554 (62E27308) Date: 12/16/1948 Description: Brig. Gen. [Donald Putt](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105883/lieutenant-general-donald-leander-putt/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105883/lieutenant-general-donald-leander-putt/) Director of USAF Research and Development, orders that the code word Sign be changed to Grudge \(since the Air Force bears a grudge against UFO reports, according to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)\), effective in February. Morale plummets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Report by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence Committee](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf) [on Unidentified Aerial Objects](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf)[,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf)” April 28, 1949; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 11 Source ID: Eberhart_1307 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2555 (B5C9D077) Date: 12/16/1948 Description: Astronomer [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) is officially tasked by Project Sign with studying UFO cases for astronomical explanations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \(AMC contract W33-038-1118\). Source ID: Eberhart_1306 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2556 (DAE6D03C) Date: 12/17/1948 Description: Formation of 8 white luminescent rotating spherical objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Ambridge, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_516 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2557 (A32402A6) Date: 12/20/1948 Description: [Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider) sends his summary of the Chiles-Whitted case, Air Intelligence Report number 102-122-79, to [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) It is later called “The Ghost of the Estimate” by some researchers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Capt. Robert R. Sneider, \[[untitled](http://www.nicap.org/docs/480724montgomery%5Fdocs.pdf) [memorandum](http://www.nicap.org/docs/480724montgomery%5Fdocs.pdf)\], December 20, 1948; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 52 Source ID: Eberhart_1308 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2558 (3A38EE50) Date: 12/20/1948 Description: AFOSI Case 14; AESS OP Sighted Green Fireball With Triangulation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [481220](http://nicap.org/alamos481220dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos (W of), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_517 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2559 (F74CB75D) Date: 12/20/1948 Description: In a confidential memo to Lt. Col. [Doyle Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) argues that the green fireball he saw on December 12 was no meteor he has ever studied. He writes that the object moved far too slowly to have been a meteor and left no “trail of sparks or dust cloud” as would be typical of meteors flying at low altitudes. Other anomalous characteristics were the intense lime-green color, low altitude of only 8–10 miles yet exhibiting no sound, flat rather than arced trajectory, and turning on and off like a light switch. The interest in green fireballs inspires the creation of an informal group, the Los Alamos Astrophysical Association, whose members, all scientists and engineers with security clearances, are permitted to examine some classified Project Sign reports. This is essentially the beginning of Project Twinkle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 540; World History Project, “[Project Twinkle Established](https://worldhistoryproject.org/1948/12/20/project-twinkle-established-to-monitor-green-fireball-sightings) [to Monitor Green Fireball Sightings](https://worldhistoryproject.org/1948/12/20/project-twinkle-established-to-monitor-green-fireball-sightings)” Source ID: Eberhart_1309 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2560 (5C3D60FB) Date: 12/20/1948 Description: 8:54 p.m. Shortly after they have packed up their Speed Graphic cameras provided by [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) to try to photograph the green fireballs, personnel \(William D. Wilson, [Buford G. Truett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41035455/buford-glenn-truett), [Clifford E. Strang](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49358793/clifford-e-strang), and George S. Skipper\) at an Atomic Energy Security Service post west of Los Alamos, New Mexico, spot a blue-white fireball moving in a nearly flat trajectory. Two objects separate from the main body and trail behind it. Thanks to an independent observation at another site, LaPaz is able to triangulate its flight path as 7–8 miles, west to east toward Los Alamos. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 14: AESS OP Sighted Green Fireball with Triangulation](http://www.nicap.org/alamos481220dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 46 Source ID: Eberhart_1310 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2561 (EA742127) Date: 12/28/1948 Description: AFOSI Case 15: 04:31 - white obj disappeared w/greenish flash (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [481228](http://www.nicap.org/alamos481228dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_518 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2562 (34435E17) Date: 12/29/1948 Description: The Fourth Army sums up the UFO situation in the southwest in a statement. In December 5–28, there were 23 reports of “flares or moving lights.” All but two are in New Mexico and are an intense white or greenish- white light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 540 Source ID: Eberhart_1311 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2563 (C815246C) Date: 12/30/1948 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown Location, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_519 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1949 (Back to Top) ### Event 2564 (A4AA1A1D) Date: 1949? Description: Evening. USAF Brig. Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/) is stationed at Mather AFB \[now Sacramento Mather Airport\] in Sacramento, California. He and a few other people, including some command pilots, are sitting in their yard when they see a “bright, silvery, round object” going too fast for an airplane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, “[Brigadier General](http://www.project1947.com/fig/garland.htm) [William Madison Garland, USAF](http://www.project1947.com/fig/garland.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1312 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2565 (5B05C20E) Date: 1949 End date: 1990 Description: Soviet Union tests 969 nuclear devices — the more nuclear testing than any nation in the planet. 214 nuclear devices were tested in the open atmosphere between 1949–1962. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_347 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2566 (20204327) Date: 1949 Description: Day. A student pilot is flying a two-seat Taylorcraft over Los Angeles, California. Just as he turns to a westerly flight heading, he sees an object speeding across the sky from north to south. Suddenly it stops abruptly, and the pilot heads toward the object climbing to within a few hundred feet. An intense flash of white comes from its tail and in less than a minute it is completely out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Recently Reported,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 10 \(October 1981\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_1314 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2567 (3ECB517E) Date: 1949 Description: Claude E. Steene Sr., Fullerton CA: While practicing in Bishop CA in 1949, was called on by a member of a special military unit to examine a living being reportedly taken from a crashed saucer. Kept alive in a controlled environment, appeared reptilian. Type: ufological event Reference: [link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) Location: Bishop, CA Source ID: Maj2_346 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2568 (627A80D1) Date: 1949 Description: United States Air Force’s Strategic Air Command had F-86 Sabres in service from 1949 through 1950. The F-86 was the primary U.S. air combat fighter during the Korean War, with significant numbers of the first three production models seeing combat. Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre#Operational_history) Location: Dayton, OH Source ID: Maj2_344 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2569 (69BD2A44) Date: 1949 Description: 1:00 a.m. A group of soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, are tasked with standing guard over a plateau in a remote, fenced-off part of the base. After a few weeks, they see bright lights in the sky. They approach the plateau and descend slowly and silently. Suddenly, part of the plateau opens up and they can see light coming from inside. The lights descend into the opening, which closes over them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmermania: A Step Too Far into the Timmerman Files?” IUR 27, no. 4 \(Winter 2002–2003\): 9; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 146 Source ID: Eberhart_1313 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2570 (6697B08E) Date: 1949 Description: Soviet “Tomsk-7” atomic weapons project plant opens (Uranium enrichment, component manufacturing) Type: atomic plant Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Siberia Source ID: Maj2_348 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2571 (D112E17F) Date: Early 1949 Description: USAF General Orders the AF to stop investigating saucers and Project GRUDGE is ordered to close at the end of 1949. Type: ufological event Reference: [Leon Davidson](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) Location: Dayton, OH Source ID: Maj2_345 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2572 (D756160D) Date: 1/1949 Description: Early morning. [Sarah Elizabeth Lampe](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92059354/sarah-elizabeth-lampe) watches an odd, disc-like electrical discharge, about 3 feet in diameter, that persists for “fully two minutes” during the Big Snow, 8 miles from Beatty, Nevada. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 4, no. 2 \(March 1951\): 84–89 Source ID: Eberhart_1316 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2573 (E3B158AA) Date: 1/1949 Description: Project Sign personnel begin to be reassigned. [Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) disappears from project records. [Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg)’s attention goes elsewhere. [Truettner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58335429/lawrence-hess-truettner) makes one last serious attempt at interviewing about nuclear propulsion \(at Oak Ridge, Tennessee\) and is given a negative opinion on UFOs by Col. [Ralph L. Wassell](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105267/brigadier-general-ralph-lowell-wassell/). He, too, disappears from the project. The civilian members are relieved of their duties and reassigned to other intelligence tasks within T-2. For Loedding in particular, his role and prestige are never the same. After a few further years of intelligence work, both he and Truettner leave AMC. For the higher military ranks \([Llewelyn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124634808/raymond-anderson-llewellyn) and [Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider)\), all we know is that they are soon no longer involved, perhaps not even assigned to the same base. Even [Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman) and [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) become less involved, perhaps because they have also heard that their tenures will soon be up and they will be sent to school and then transferred. The only persons left active on the project are two of the lower ranks: Lieut. Howard W. Smith and civilian [George W. Towles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59257302/george-w%5F-towles)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59257302/george-w%5F-towles) Their job is reduced basically to collection and filing. In this condition, or worse, the Air Force commitment to a UFO investigation project will remain until the summer of 1951. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 52–53 Source ID: Eberhart_1315 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2574 (DB358EFF) Date: 1/1/1949 Description: Cigar-shaped object cross the sky in front of his plane (Project 1947; McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490101](http://www.nicap.org/490101jackson%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jackson, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_520 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2575 (2231B96A) Date: 1/1/1949 Description: 5:00 p.m. Pilot [Thomas A. Rush](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81587285/thomas-a-rush) and his wife are in a private plane flying east of Jackson, Mississippi. They see a cigar-shaped object, 60 feet long and 10 feet wide, cross their path at an altitude of 1,500–1,600 feet. It is only about 500 feet distant. The speed is approximately 200 mph, and it accelerates to 400–500 mph. The object makes a 50° turn and is visible for 10–12 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Cigar-Shaped Object Encountered by Bush Pilot](http://www.nicap.org/490101jackson%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 1–2; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 46 Source ID: Eberhart_1318 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2576 (4D477765) Date: 1/1/1949 Description: The CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence is established. [Willard Machle](https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online%5Farticles/chromium-cancer-and-the-cia) becomes assistant director for scientific intelligence. Problems almost immediately involve recruitment and filling positions with competent professionals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Rear Adm. R. H. Hillenkoetter, “[Scientific Intelligence,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79-01143A000300020001-7.pdf)” January 4, 1949 Source ID: Eberhart_1317 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2577 (13F14C1D) Date: 1/4/1949 Description: 2:00 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. [Paul R. Stoney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49358280/paul-roberts-stoney)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49358280/paul-roberts-stoney) on the ground at Hickam Field \[now part of Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam\] near Honolulu, Hawaii, sees a flat, white, elliptical object about the size of a T-6 aircraft, circle at about 3,000 feet while oscillating to the right and left. It is apparently several miles off the base and slowly circling. It is bright white on the underside and darker on top and possesses no other structures. It proceeds for 15 minutes to make “rhythmical undulation” maneuvers in a cyclical manner. The “object seemed to maneuver under control at all times completing 360° turns and 90° turns.” The object then “departed climbing \(into the northeast\) at accelerated speed out of sight.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Disc Circles, Maneuvers, Climbs into the NE](http://www.nicap.org/490104hickam%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 47 Source ID: Eberhart_1319 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2578 (D983ABEB) Date: 1/4/1949 Description: A flat white, elliptical object, with a matte top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 275) Reference: NICAP: [490104](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/hickam490104dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hickam Field, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_521 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2579 (DD3015B8) Date: 1/4/1949 Description: At 2:07 p.m. in Hickham Field, Honolulu, Hawaii Captain Paul Storey sighted a large, round, flat disc-shaped object that "blinked" and flew silently with a type of whitish reflection. The top of the craft looked dark. It flew at 3,000 feet altitude and circled the airfield, blinking once per second, finally flying away climbing into the northeast sky. The sighting is listed by the Air Force as an “unknown.” Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 275; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_81 Source: Johnson ### Event 2580 (78941C5F) Date: 1/4/1949 Time: 2 PM Description: Witness: USAF pilot Capt. Paul Stoney, on ground. one flat white, elliptical object with a matte top circled while oscillating to the right and left, and then sped away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Hickam Field, Hawaii Source ID: BerlinerBBU_17 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2581 (EF35E632) Date: 1/5/1949 Description: Unknown Object On Radar in Far East (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [490105](http://www.nicap.org/490105seaofjapan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sea of Japan, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_522 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2582 (3B2BF7B3) Date: 1/5/1949 Description: The USAF Technical Information Division at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, transmits Project Sign’s list of UFO incidents to the Air Weather Service for analysis and recommendations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_1320 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2583 (EDCE8513) Date: 1/6/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 17: 03:10 - brilliant green obj at high speed disappeared behind mountainous horizon - Mexico (35.89° N, 106.31° W). (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490106](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/albuq490106dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_524 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2584 (BE689ED2) Date: 1/6/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 16: 17:50 - bright white diamond shaped obj faster than jet disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490106](http://www.nicap.org/kirtland490106dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_523 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2585 (7A64F84E) Date: 1/6/1949 Description: 5:30 p.m. PFC Everitt sees a bright-white, diamond-shaped light in horizontal flight from southeast to northwest above the Ordnance section at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is about 1,500–2,000 feet altitude and flying faster than a jet. Possible meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Diamond-Shaped Light](http://www.nicap.org/490106kirtland%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 47 Source ID: Eberhart_1321 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2586 (0C39FA92) Date: 1/6/1949 Description: Rocket shaped UFO sighted near Los Alamos, NM Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Los Alamos, NM See also: 1/31/1949 See also: 7/25/1948 Source ID: Maj2_349 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2587 (CFB48E38) Date: 1/7/1949 Description: The Research and Development Board writes a memo to USAF Intelligence on the green fireballs. It is signed by David Z. Beckley, chief of the R&DB Technical Intelligence Branch. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_1322 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2588 (20D6BD5A) Date: 1/10/1949 Description: FBI special agent [Charlton C. McSwain](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63259754/charlton-c%5F-mcswain) sends a memo to [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) enumerating the views of an AMC resident engineer \(identified only as “Mr. E”\) with the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft project at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee that the flying discs are human-made nuclear missiles originating in Russia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1988, pp. 6–10 Source ID: Eberhart_1323 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2589 (3DE143A2) Date: 1/11/1949 Description: Angered over his opposition to defense economization policies and meeting secretly with [Thomas Dewey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FE.%5FDewey)’s Republicans, [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) tells [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) that [Louis A. Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FA.%5FJohnson) will soon replace him as Secretary of Defense. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1324 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2590 (5D027EBC) Date: 1/13/1949 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (1st Hermes II test) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Source ID: Maj2_350 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2591 (EFCE06A0) Date: 1/13/1949 Description: CONFIDENTIAL 4th Army MESSAGE: Col. Eustis L. Poland stated: “Unconventional Aircraft” have been sighted (see Report, Control No. A-1917). Possible Radiological warfare tests are being made over sensitive Bases in NM area. A foreign power may be making “sensing shots” with some super-stratosphere devise designed to be self-disintegrating. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p482) Location: NM Source ID: Maj2_351 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2592 (510AC293) Date: 1/13/1949 Description: Col. [Eustis L. Poland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55674765/eustis-leland-poland) of US Army Intelligence \(G-2\) sends a memo on behalf of the Commander of Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, to the Director of Army Intelligence concerning the green fireballs. It recommends a scientific study because “these incidents are of such great importance, especially as they are occurring in the vicinity of sensitive installations.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Col. Eustis L. Poland, “[Unconventional Aircraft,](http://www.project1947.com/gfb/poland.htm)” January 13, 1949; Good Above, [pp. 265](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up) [482](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/482/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1325 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2593 (FDF75FF9) Date: 1/23/1949 Description: Shiny, silvery, round stationary object about 10-15 ft size (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490123](http://www.nicap.org/tilla490123dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tillamook (4 miles S of), OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_525 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2594 (29A923D2) Date: 1/24/1949 Description: An FBI memo from [D. M. Ladd](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Ladd.htm) to [Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) documents speculation on a Soviet nuclear-powered disc by USAF Col. [Clyde D. Gasser](http://www.project1947.com/gfb/gasser.htm) of the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft \(NEPA\) project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Gasser reports rumors coming from Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio that nuclear-powered disc-shaped planes might be making incursions into US airspace and returning to the USSR over the North Pole. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: D. M. Ladd, “[Flying Discs](http://www.nicap.org/docs/fbi%5Fmemo490124.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/fbi%5Fmemo490124.htm)” January 24, 1949 Source ID: Eberhart_1326 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2595 (C741B997) Date: 1/24/1949 Description: Pilots saw a red glow on the ocean 1 mile in size emitting beams of light. (Project 1947) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490124](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/bermuda490124dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bermuda (About 250 miles SW of), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_526 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2596 (9EA8DCD8) Date: 1/27/1949 Description: A cigar shaped object as long as 2 pullman cars with 7 lighted square windows and throwing sparks (Berliner; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 284) Reference: NICAP: [490127](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/cortez490127dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cortez-Bradenton, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_527 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2597 (1FADAE16) Date: 1/27/1949 Description: 10:20–11:20 p.m. Capt. [Eckerman Sannes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140394050/eckerman-sannes), acting chief of the Aircraft Branch at Eglin AFB near Valparaiso, Florida, and his wife are driving slowly on Cortez Road between Bradenton and Cortez, Florida, when they observe a “cucumber-shaped” object. The object, seen through binoculars, seems as long as two Pullman cars, with 7 lighted, square windows. It is throwing sparks and approximately 8–10 miles away. In the first sighting at 10:20 p.m., the object approaches from the south going north, moving from an altitude of 8,000 feet in a gradual descent until lost behind trees. In the second sighting at 11:20 p.m., the object is seen in the north, heading south and making a gradual turn to the west. It descends then climbs with a bouncing motion \(up 4,000 feet, down 2,000 feet\) at about 400–500 mph, resulting in an overall climb and loss to view at an altitude of around 40,000 feet. The bouncing appears to start after the final 270° course change to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two](http://www.nicap.org/490127cortez%5Fdir.htm) [Sightings of Object with Lighted Windows](http://www.nicap.org/490127cortez%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 49 Source ID: Eberhart_1327 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2598 (206EA0F3) Date: 1/27/1949 Time: 10:20 PM Description: Witnesses: Capt. Sames, acting chief of the Aircraft Branch, Eglin AFB, and Mrs. Sames. They watched for 25 minutes while a cigar-shaped object as long as two Pullman cars and having seven lighted square windows and throwing sparks, descended and then climbed with a bouncing motion at an estimated 400 m.p.h. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Cortez-Bradenton, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_18 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2599 (666C600B) Date: 1/28/1949 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 59.9km attitude (Defective performance) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 59.9km Source ID: Maj2_352 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2600 (4A678C27) Date: 1/30/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 18; 20: 17:54 - green ball shaped obj broke into pieces (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490130](http://www.nicap.org/sands490130dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Paso (Near Amarillo and Lamesa), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_528 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2601 (3ECB0121) Date: 1/30/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 19: 200 observers. W-E, 2000', horizontal flight, blue green, moving slowly, disappeared in shower of lighted fragments (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490130](http://www.nicap.org/sands490130dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roswell, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_529 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2602 (E43870D7) Date: 1/30/1949 Description: 5:54 p.m. Hundreds of people see a green meteor come out of the northwest and vanish southwest of Roswell, New Mexico. It is completely silent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 18: Green Fireball Event Witnessed in New](http://www.nicap.org/sands490130dir.htm) [Mexico](http://www.nicap.org/sands490130dir.htm)”; Commanding Officer, Kirtland AFB, “[Nr. OSI-1-90,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/foia05.jpg)” January 31, 1949; Clark III 540; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1988, pp. 15–16; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 49 Source ID: Eberhart_1328 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2603 (D6037CEF) Date: 1/31/1949 Description: The FBI field office in San Antonio, Texas, issues a memo on UFOs, “Protection of Vital Installations.” It is sent to [Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) G-2, ONI, OSI, and mentions a meeting among these groups on UFOs, “considered top secret by intelligence officers of both the army and the air forces.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: SAC, San Antonio, “[Protection of Vital Installations,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490131%5Ffbi.pdf) [Bureau File \#65-58300,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490131%5Ffbi.pdf)” January 31, 1949; ClearIntent, [p. 149](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/148/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 267](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/266/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/266/mode/2up) [483](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/482/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1330 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2604 (0E26D413) Date: 1/31/1949 Description: Kirtland AFB in New Mexico notifies the Pentagon that it will launch an immediate investigation of the green fireballs, noting that “local commanders \[are\] perturbed by implications of phenomena.” [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) speaks to dozens of witnesses of the January 30 fireball and manages a rough triangulation of the fireball’s 143-mile path from Amarillo to Lamesa, Texas. He estimates its speed at 25,000–50,000 mph, with a beginning altitude of 60,000 feet and a final altitude around 40,000 feet. LaPaz accompanies search teams to bring back any fragments. They end up in the area of Lamesa but give up after a few days of fruitless search. He later tells AFOSI agent Paul Ryan that the fireballs are artificial, perhaps radio-controlled missiles directed by enemy agents in the Southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Commanding Officer, Kirtland AFB, “[Nr. OSI-1-90,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/foia05.jpg)” January 31, 1949; Clark III 540 Source ID: Eberhart_1329 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2605 (C2F488DE) Date: 1/31/1949 Description: MEMO, Director of FBI: Flying Saucers have been discussed by the OSI, FBI and the Fourth Army and is “considered TOP SECRET by Intelligence Officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.” It was thought that the first UFOs over Sweden were of Russian origin. Memo also makes reference to the Eastern Airlines sighting of July 25, 1948. Also, on 10 different days, between 12/05/1948 and 01/06/1949, sightings of UFOs were concentrated over the A.E.C. plant at Los Alamos, N.M. (Circulation of this Memo to: El Paso, Little Rock, Dallas, Oklahoma City) Type: memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p483, B1-G p30) Location: NM See also: 7/25/1948 See also: 7/1947 See also: 8/4/1950 Source ID: Maj2_354 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2606 (ADCCD58D) Date: 1/31/1949 Description: Confidential Army Staff Message: Approx. 30 people sighted UFO’s on Jan. 30, 1949. Estimate at least 100 total sightings. Sightings reported from El Paso, Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Roswell, Socorro, and other locations. All sightings appear to be of the same object viewed from different angles. Will attempt to locate the impact point, if any. (Possible search teams in UFOs.) Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p53, CRASH) Location: NM Source ID: Maj2_353 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2607 (6E2C613F) Date: 2/1949 Description: Chemist [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm), from the New York office of the Atomic Energy Commission, is appointed assistant director of scientific intelligence at the CIA. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_1331 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2608 (48A7E39D) Date: 2/1949 Time: 1630 Description: C. A. V. an oil company employee, 30, was driving to Lima when he saw a shiny disk at ground level. He walked toward it for 10 min. Three figures came out as he was 20 m away. They looked like mummies, had joined legs and one large foot. They "slid" along the ground. They were covered with a strange "towely" skin, asked the witness where they were, had a lengthy discussion with him, and took him for a trip in their craft. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 122 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pucusana, Peru Source ID: Magnonia_68 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 2609 (CC48D5B1) Date: 2/1949 Alternate date: 3/1949 Description: 4:30 p.m. A representative of the International Petroleum Company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, is driving noth along the Pan-American Highway about 6 miles south of Lima, Peru, when he sees a metallic disc hovering low above the desert on his right. He walks over to it, and three mummy-like creatures about 5 feet tall emerge. They speak to him in both English and Spanish, explaining to him that they come from another star system, are concerned about our use of atomic energy, use solar power, no longer have sex, and reproduce by subdividing. They invite him inside the disc, which from the inside has transparent walls. He sees no instruments, only a padded ledge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 122–148 Source ID: Eberhart_1346 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2610 (F8822AD8) Date: 2/1949 Description: Part of the Final Report of Project SIGN, written by Prof. George Valley, of MIT stating: “If there is an extraterrestrial civilization which can make objects as are reported, then it is most probable that its development is far in advance of ours. Such a civilization might observe that on earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, they would be alarmed. We should, therefore, expect at this time above all to behold such visitations.” Type: final report Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Dayton, OH Source ID: Maj2_355 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2611 (FEFAE01E) Date: 2/1/1949 Description: Col. Hanna \(?\), assistant chief of the Power Plant Laboratory \(at Wright-Patterson?\) and project engineer for Project Sign, meets with other Project Sign personnel and concludes that nuclear-powered UFOs are improbable. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project Status Report on Project Sign, February 4, 1949; Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_1333 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2612 (F76DCF98) Date: Early 2/1949 Description: Writer Sidney Shalett is given a guided tour of AMC at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, a glimpse of low-interest UFO cases, and a few conservative opinions by Air Force personnel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 73 Source ID: Eberhart_1332 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2613 (21F16B2A) Date: 2/4/1949 Description: CONFIDENTIAL Army Staff MESSAGE dated Jan. 31, 1949 read by OSI: “all out investigation of possible crashed saucer, OK’d.” Type: confidential message Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p53, RECOVERY) Source ID: Maj2_356 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2614 (5E13B70F) Date: 2/8/1949 Description: UCLA geophysicist [Joseph Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) meets with [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He finds LaPaz’s understanding of the green fireball reports unsettling. He discusses the matter with Capt. [Melvin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) [Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) and Maj. [William Godsoe](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3528007/william-archibald-godsoe) \(Fourth Army Intelligence liaison officer at Sandia Base\). He promises to alert Scientific Advisory Board chairman [Von Kármán](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n) and urge an investigation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 540 Source ID: Eberhart_1334 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2615 (86D0BBDC) Date: 2/10/1949 Description: Meteor or UFO Observed By Air Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 1) Reference: NICAP: [490210](http://www.nicap.org/490210dayton%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dayton (North of), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_530 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2616 (D5EE0B9E) Date: 2/11/1949 Description: Project Sign releases a final sanitized report, “Unidentified Aerial Objects: Project ‘Sign,’” Technical Report F-TR-2274-1A, authored by [Lawrence Truettner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58335429/lawrence-hess-truettner) and [Albert B. Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg) and approved by Col. [Clingerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman) \(chief of USAF Technical Intelligence Division\) and Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) \(chief of the Intelligence Department\). 72 pages are visible in the NICAP copy and 1,537 pages \(some illegible\) are available on the Blue Book microfilm. Its conclusions are based on 273 reports \(243 US and 30 foreign\) and it summarizes the characteristics of four types of UFOs: flying discs, cigar-shaped objects, spherical objects, and balls of light. It acknowledges the possibility that “these aerial objects are visitors from another planet” and refers to commentary in Appendix D by [James Lipp](http://www.astronautix.com/l/lipp.html) of the RAND project. “No definite and conclusive evidence is yet available that would prove or disprove the existence of these unidentified objects as real aircraft of unknown and unconventional configuration. It is unlikely that positive proof of their existence will be obtained without examination of the remains of crashed objects.        Evaluation of reports of unidentified objects is a necessary activity of military intelligence agencies. Such sightings are inevitable, and under wartime conditions rapid and convincing solutions of such occurrences are necessary to maintain morale of military and civilian personnel. In this respect, it is considered that the establishment of procedures and training of personnel is in itself worth the effort expended on this project.” Truettner and Deyarmond, in a between-the-lines rebuke of [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)’s order not to consider the ETH, recommend that if enough cases are examined and proven to have no security risks, then the project should be terminated. The report is distributed to AMC, USAF Intelligence Directorate, ONR, Cambridge Labs, Air Weather Services, [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) at Ohio State University, the RAND Project, and the USAF Scientific Advisory Board. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: L. H. Truettner and A. B. Deyarmond, [Unidentified Aerial Objects: Project “Sign,”](http://www.nicap.org/docs/SignRptFeb1949.pdf) Air Materiel Command Technical Report no. F-TR-2274-IA, February 1949; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 12; Swords 72 Source ID: Eberhart_1336 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2617 (8B6E9EA0) Date: 2/11/1949 Description: Project name changed to "Grudge." Because of internal disagreement about the significance of UFOs, reports were then "evaluated on the premise that UFOs couldn't exist." Type: project name change Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 85-88](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_858 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2618 (5375F7C6) Date: 2/11/1949 Description: [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) meets in Washington, D.C., with [Von Kármán](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n) who is impressed enough to write Gen. [Charles P.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) that the green fireballs look like a serious issue that needs to be addressed, perhaps by [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 79, 497 Source ID: Eberhart_1335 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2619 (FE111204) Date: 2/11/1949 Description: USAF Project "GRUDGE" started Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH Source ID: Maj2_99 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2620 (B5E75E1B) Date: 2/12/1949 Description: Another realistic Spanish-language radio version of The War of the Worlds is broadcast in Quito, Ecuador, causing panic, a riot, and a major fire. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds, McFarland, 2009, pp. 102– 113 Source ID: Eberhart_1338 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2621 (914F6A62) Date: 2/12/1949 Description: Project Sign officially becomes Project Grudge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 12 Source ID: Eberhart_1337 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2622 (D3558F68) Date: 2/14/1949 Description: At 18:40 p.m. two people driving near East Ganado Mission, Arizona saw a greenish white fireball hover, then arc downward toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_912 Source: Johnson ### Event 2623 (12430BAF) Date: 2/14/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 22: 18:40 - brilliant white, slightly green stationary obj fell to the west (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canado, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_531 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2624 (86BCEB76) Date: 2/15/1949 Description: Maj. Gen. [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) sets out a revised list of Air Intelligence reporting requirements for “unconventional aircraft.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “[Unconventional Aircraft,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/AFOIN%5FAIR%5FMemo%5FNo.4%5FFeb.15%2C1949.pdf)” Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum no. 5, February 15, 1949 Source ID: Eberhart_1339 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2625 (87155BA0) Date: 2/16/1949 Description: A Conference on Aerial Phenomena is held at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico with military representatives [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz), [Norris E. Bradbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris%5FBradbury), [Marshall Holloway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%5FHolloway), [Frederick Reines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FReines), and [Edward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) [Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) in attendance. Representatives from Project Grudge are noticeably absent. LaPaz tells the attendees that while most meteors are blue-green, the green fireballs are described as pale green or yellow-green. Normal meteors rarely move in long, horizontal paths with nearly constant velocities. He says there are 10 incidents that strongly fit the pattern and 20 others that might. The scientists agree to set up a series of instrument stations to photograph and analyze the fireballs. Teller thinks the fireballs might be electrical-optical phenomena. Navy Commander [Richard S. Mandelkorn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133083603/richard-shai-mandelkorn)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133083603/richard-shai-mandelkorn) who is in attendance, writes in his report that “there is cause for concern of the continued occurrences of unexplainable phenomena of this nature in the vicinity of sensitive installations.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Cmdr. Richard S. Mandelkorn, [Report of a Trip to Los Alamos, New Mexico, 16 February 1949,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490216Secret%5FConf%5Fon%5FAP%5FLosAlamos.pdf) February 18, 1949; Lt. Col. Doyle Rees, \[[Minutes of February 16 Conference on Aerial Phenomena, Los Alamos](http://www.project1947.com/gfb/cap21649.html)\], March 29, 1949; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 23–53; Swords 79–80; Good Above, [pp. 265–266](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/264/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1340 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2626 (CE20DE5A) Date: 2/17/1949 Time: night Description: Alain Berard saw a large, bright object land near his farm with a green lightning flash. It became dark. As he approached the craft, the witness saw three figures with stocky short legs, apparently without heads. Frightened, he fired at them three times. A moment later the object took off vertically. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Oltre il Cielo, Vol. I ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: France, exact location unknown Source ID: Magnonia_69 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 2627 (9927E26A) Date: 2/17/1949 Description: 5:57 p.m. University of New Mexico Professor of Civil Engineering Marvin May sees a brilliant white object in the west at 6° elevation for less than 6 minutes in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The object is first round then shifts to an ellipse as it approaches, then it appears to be elongated like a bent pipe with corners, one full moon in length. It makes a slight climbing turn to the north, shifts to peach color as it makes a rapid sharp turning climb to the south, disappearing in cloudless sky by diminishing in size and brightness. At the same time, 100 guards at Sandia Base, New Mexico, including the officer of the guard, see a yellow-orange cigar-shaped object for seven minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 24: Vertical Climb, Then Leveled Off](http://www.nicap.org/albuq490217Bdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 50 Source ID: Eberhart_1341 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2628 (77973387) Date: 2/17/1949 Description: Alain Berard saw a large, bright object land near his farm in France with a flash of green lightning. It then became dark. As he approached the craft, the witness saw three figures with stocky short legs, apparently without heads. Frightened, he fired a gun at them three times. A moment later the object took off vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193, citing Oltre il Cielo, Volume I Source ID: Johnson_957 Source: Johnson ### Event 2629 (B7EAE766) Date: 2/17/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 23: 10:00 - oval orange luminous object moving south in vertical climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490217](http://www.nicap.org/albuq490217dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grants, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_532 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2630 (F7EFDC30) Date: 2/17/1949 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 100.6km attitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 100.6km Source ID: Maj2_357 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2631 (9B7A51B0) Date: 2/17/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 24; time unknown - Vertical Climb, Then Leveled Off (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490217](http://www.nicap.org/albuq490217Bdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_533 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2632 (C939BFF0) Date: 2/18/1949 Description: A Fourth Air Force letter quotes Project Sign’s requirements for radar reporting, as stated by the Continental Air Command \(NORAD’s predecessor\) on February 4. The USAF Air Defense Command is subordinate to ConAC at this time. The requirements admit that a “large number of targets appearing on radar screens remain unidentified.” It refers to [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html)’s November 30, 1948, letter on Sign’s preference for radar tracks of aerial objects that show extremely fast or slow speeds, vertical or near vertical ascent or descent, extraordinary maneuverability, and extreme altitudes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 810 Source ID: Eberhart_1343 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2633 (175F878D) Date: 2/18/1949 Description: [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) writes [Von Kármán](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n) and says he has a transcript of the Los Alamos meeting and that [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) is studying the green fireballs topic. He adds: “It seems unlikely that domestic incidents can be attributed to the activity of a foreign power or a science unknown to our specialists.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) [January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_1342 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2634 (319364C4) Date: 2/23/1949 Description: [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) sends Capt. Roger Groseclose and Lt. Howard Smith to Kirtland AFB’s Office of Special Investigations to discuss the green fireballs with [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) and [Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) and to mollify them for not showing up at the February 16 conference. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 541 Source ID: Eberhart_1344 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2635 (220144D5) Date: 2/23/1949 Description: "Sausage" Circles T-11 At High Speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490223](http://www.nicap.org/490223sandbergpass%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sanberg Pass, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_534 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2636 (7C104D74) Date: 2/24/1949 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 129km attitude (Successful flight. Separation of stages at 32.2 km) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 129km Source ID: Maj2_358 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2637 (0B966CDE) Date: 2/24/1949 Description: Groseclose and Smith have an unpleasant exchange with [Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) Agent Jack Boling, and Army Maj. [Godsoe](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3528007/william-archibald-godsoe)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3528007/william-archibald-godsoe) who says it’s not worth AFOSI’s time to conduct investigations for AMC. The AMC officers retort that the fireballs are not an Army concern. Groseclose and Smith say they are concerned with all anomalous aerial phenomena. Disgusted, Godsoe leaves the room. Groseclose and Smith then turn on LaPaz, criticizing him for only sending AMC raw data and not finished analyses. LaPaz says he is on leave as a volunteer and must go back to the University of New Mexico, unless he sees a contract. However, AMC agrees to set up a network of observation posts with cameras, transits, and trained personnel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) [January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 11, 14–15; Clark III 541 Source ID: Eberhart_1345 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2638 (014AF0A9) Date: 2/27/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 25; 19:05 - Green-white fireball in horizaontal flight low in the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490227](http://www.nicap.org/alamos490227dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_535 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2639 (C4AFBAC4) Date: 3/1949 Description: An analysis of the Maury Island incident metal fragments appears in the BSRA’s “Round Robin” publication Type: publication Reference: [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324) Location: San Diego, CA Source ID: Maj2_359 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2640 (4C4FF7BA) Date: 3/1949 Description: Strategic Air Command head Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) delivers the first SAC Emergency War Plan, which calls for dropping 133 atomic bombs on 70 cities in the USSR within 30 days. LeMay predicts that World War III will last no longer than 30 days. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay)” Source ID: Eberhart_1347 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2641 (8C10C65B) Date: 3/2/1949 Description: Sidney Shalett provides the USAF Directorate of Intelligence a draft of his upcoming article for review. The Air Force is not pleased, objecting to Shalett stating an “official” USAF position, his claim that the Air Force is his sole source of information \(although it is\), a quote by [Irving Langmuir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%5FLangmuir) criticizing Project Sign, and any inference that the Air Force and Navy are not cooperating. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 73 Source ID: Eberhart_1348 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2642 (660BB84E) Date: 3/2/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 26; 00:10 - AESS Inspector Reports High Speed Light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490302](http://www.nicap.org/alamos490302dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_536 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2643 (453EB069) Date: 3/3/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 27; 01:59 - bright green obj went straight down and disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490303](http://www.nicap.org/alamos490303dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_537 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2644 (B7AC8C25) Date: 3/6/1949 Description: Blue-white object about 2 ft x 1 ft in size (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490306](http://www.nicap.org/killeen490306dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_538 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2645 (068FEF31) Date: 3/6/1949 End date: 3/7/1949 Description: 8:30 p.m. Army Pvts. Martin Fensterman and Frank Luisi, on security patrol near Killeen Base \[now West Fort Hood\], Texas, a nuclear weapons storage site, see a flash of pale blue light in the sky to the northeast. At 8:55 p.m., a quarter mile away, Pvt. Harold Moore sees a white light with an orange trail flash across the western horizon. At 9:00 p.m., from inside the base boundary, Sgt. Hubert Vickery and Pfc. John Ransom notice a pale blue-white light streaking across the western sky low over the horizon. Between 1:15 and 2:00 a.m., four more security patrols report burst of lights like a flash bulb. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: SAC, San Antonio, “[Protection of Vital Installations,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490322%5FFBI.pdf) [Bureau File 65-58300,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490322%5FFBI.pdf)” March 22, 1949; Clark III 541–542; Sparks, pp. 50–51; “[Fort Hood Sightings, 1949,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=594)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_1349 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2646 (7E8D78C8) Date: 3/7/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 32-34; PFC. Max Eugene Manlove, 1st Provost Squadron, Camp Hood, Texas, observed a teardrop-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_539 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2647 (052703E4) Date: 3/8/1949 Description: One white and one yellowish-red light in level flight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490308](http://www.nicap.org/alamos490308dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_542 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2648 (F56FA4FD) Date: 3/8/1949 Description: 1:03 a.m. Two infantrymen half a mile apart at Killeen Base, Texas, see apparently separate streaking bright lights \(one white, the other yellowish red\). The latter one covers 60° of sky, appearing and disappearing at about the same angle above the horizon. Cpl. Luke Sims is able to run 10 paces to a field telephone before it vanishes. All observers insist these are not meteors and are more like flares. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas,](http://www.nicap.org/killeen490308dir.htm) [OSI Case 39](http://www.nicap.org/killeen490308dir.htm)”; SAC, San Antonio, “[Protection of Vital Installations, Bureau File 65-58300,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490322%5FFBI.pdf)” March 22, 1949; Clark III 542; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 52 Source ID: Eberhart_1350 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2649 (ED12D29D) Date: 3/8/1949 Description: A silent greenish-white object was sighted in the sky near the Los Alamos Atomic Energy research facility in New Mexico. It flew toward the southeast at the altitude of the cloud layer, and was seen by guards Patterson and Lang from two guard stations: 103 and 106. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs a History - 1949 (volume 1), p. 57; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, March 1949 report Source ID: Johnson_1374 Source: Johnson ### Event 2650 (9754BE09) Date: 3/8/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 36; 18:36 - bright white w/greenish tint went out or disappeared behind cloud (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490308](http://www.nicap.org/alamos490308dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_540 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2651 (C4A08F40) Date: 3/8/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 37; 18:35 - white aluminum colored elliptical obj disappeared behind trees (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_541 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2652 (A7371C16) Date: 3/13/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 40; 21:55 - Bluish-greenish white obj 1/2 diameter of full moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490313](http://www.nicap.org/sandia490313dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_543 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2653 (429E1A7E) Date: 3/13/1949 Description: 9:53 p.m. Two MPs guarding the Technical Area at Sandia Base, New Mexico, see a silent, spherical object, bluish- or greenish-white, with a flaming blue tail twice as long as the body, which is apparently half the size of the full moon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[March 13, 1949, Sandia Base, NM, OSI Case 40](http://www.nicap.org/sandia490313dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 52 Source ID: Eberhart_1351 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2654 (B18E05A1) Date: 3/15/1949 Description: A memo on UFOs to [Willard Machle](https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online%5Farticles/chromium-cancer-and-the-cia) by a Dr. Stone from the CIA Office of Scientific Investigation dismisses the idea of UFOs as foreign aircraft and suggests they are misidentifications of other phenomena. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 113](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/112/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1352 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2655 (04E8A181) Date: 3/17/1949 Description: 7 separate sightings by trained artillery observers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 319) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_544 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2656 (02FCA20D) Date: 3/17/1949 Time: 7:52 PM Description: Witnesses: guards of the 2nd Armored Division. While awaiting the start of a flare firing, they watched, for an hour, while eight large, green, red and white flare-like objects flew in generally straight lines. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Camp Hood, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_19 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2657 (A4DFDA88) Date: 3/17/1949 Description: Seven sightings of large, green, red, and white flares take place at Killeen Base, Texas, including the previously skeptical Capt. [Horace McCulloch](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/972881/horace-w-mcculloch), assistant G-2 of the Second Armored Division at Camp Hood, who is driving between Camp Hood and Killeen Base to prepare a test firing of some flares to prove that recent sightings are not anomalous. McCulloch puts the entire base on alert. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 542; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 52 Source ID: Eberhart_1353 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2658 (0AA69B3C) Date: 3/18/1949 Description: Red light like an aircraft light traveling W to E at high altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Chimo, Quebec, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_545 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2659 (CB2EDD74) Date: 3/21/1949 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km attitude (Blossom 3 — Parachute not ejected) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 133.5km Source ID: Maj2_360 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2660 (38F046F7) Date: 3/22/1949 Description: SAC San Antonio, Texas, sends a memo to FBI headquarters regarding the January 31 communication on Protection of Vital Installations, emphasizing that USAF and the Army consider the matter “secret.” Fourth Army Intelligence is now calling UFOs “unconventional aircraft” and ATIC’s office is now Project Grudge. It also discusses green fireball cases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: SAC, San Antonio, “[Protection of Vital Installations, Bureau File 65-58300,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490322%5FFBI.pdf)” March 22, 1949 Source ID: Eberhart_1354 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2661 (FB210268) Date: 3/25/1949 Description: [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) sends a memo to a large number of FBI offices indicating that “flying discs are believed to be man-made missiles rather than natural phenomenon,” probably made in Russia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Edgar Hoover, “[Flying](http://www.nicap.org/docs/AFOIN%5FAIR%5FMemo%5FNo.4%5FFeb.15%2C1949.pdf) [Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/AFOIN%5FAIR%5FMemo%5FNo.4%5FFeb.15%2C1949.pdf)” March 25, 1949; ClearIntent, [p. 161](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/160/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1355 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2662 (FFD886B9) Date: 3/27/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 44; 10:15 - bright orange, long and narrow obj faded in distance (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490327](http://www.nicap.org/tucum490327dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucumcari, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_548 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2663 (54279B17) Date: 3/27/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 42; 18:00-18:05 - amber colored, long and narrow obj faded out in distance (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490327](http://www.nicap.org/tucum490327dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucumcari, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_546 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2664 (8AB7887C) Date: 3/27/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 43; 18:00 - a contrail-like yellow-amber-orange object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490327](http://www.nicap.org/tucum490327dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montoya, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_547 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2665 (E166EC8A) Date: 3/27/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 45; 18:00 - orange obj about the size of C-47 at 10,000 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490327](http://www.nicap.org/tucum490327dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucumcari, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_549 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2666 (E8E64557) Date: 3/28/1949 Description: [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) leaves office in a formal ceremony. He rides back to the Pentagon with his opponent [Stuart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) [Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FSymington) who talks to him about something troubling. Forrestal appears traumatized. Forrestal sits in his office, dazed and incoherent, repeating, “You are a loyal fellow.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1356 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2667 (CE914081) Date: 3/29/1949 Description: Bombers see a dull-yellowish light flying at 2,400 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shemya AFB - Aleutian Islands, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_550 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2668 (75395CC4) Date: 3/31/1949 Description: A reddish white ball of fire pass horizontally over the base airstrip (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood (east of), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_551 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2669 (7D5F5C76) Date: 3/31/1949 Description: CIA’s H. L. Bowers writes a memo to Dr. [Machle](https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online%5Farticles/chromium-cancer-and-the-cia)[,](https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online%5Farticles/chromium-cancer-and-the-cia) “Notes and Comments on Unidentified Aerial Objects-- Project Sign,” stating that [Deyarmond](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ori-ahvZRlU/VWjL8ELOjzI/AAAAAAAALts/kwi03CO17vE/s1600/Deyarmond%2BAlbert%2B7pictures%2B%2528dragged%2529.jpg) thinks UFOs will turn out to be another “sea serpent.” Nonetheless, they must be investigated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Document released to [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) but not in subsequent CIA FOIA releases; Good Above, [p. 330](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/330/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1358 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2670 (A0F57394) Date: 3/31/1949 Description: [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) is flown to Hobe Beach, Florida, to stay with his friend Under Secretary of State [Robert A. Lovett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FLovett), where his wife is vacationing. He meets with psychiatrist [William C. Menninger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FC.%5FMenninger) \(who diagnoses “severe depression” of the type “seen in operational fatigue during the war”\) and psychologist Capt. George N. Raines from the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Maryland. Forrestal has several hysterical episodes when they are there, ranting about Communists following him, and perhaps one suicide attempt. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1357 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2671 (09E146AA) Date: 3/31/1949 Description: 11:50 p.m. Lieut. Frederick Davis, on patrol east of Killeen Base, Texas, sees a reddish-white ball of fire passing horizontally above the base airstrip. After 10–15 seconds it disappears without descending. He notes interference on the telephone line when he calls the report in. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Field Telephone Affected by BOL](http://www.nicap.org/490331killeen%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 542; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 53 Source ID: Eberhart_1359 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2672 (607FBCF6) Date: 4/1949 Description: 2 UFO's tracked by theodolite at White Sands, New Mexico. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico Source ID: Maj2_101 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2673 (082E3725) Date: 4/2/1949 Description: [Menninger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FC.%5FMenninger) and Raines fly [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he can be treated quietly. On the drive to the hospital from the airport, Forrestal attempts to jump out of the car but is restrained. Forrestal declares he does not expect to leave the hospital alive. He is admitted under the care of Raines, who diagnoses him with involutional melancholia and places him in a VIP suite on the 16th floor. Forrestal’s personal diaries are removed from his old office and taken to the White House, where they remain for a year. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1360 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2674 (16586673) Date: 4/3/1949 Description: Broadcaster [Walter Winchell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FWinchell) announces on his radio program that the “flying saucers, never explained by anyone in authority are now definitely known to have been guided missiles shot all the way from Russia.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Anatomy of a Hoax, Part Two,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/anatomyofahoax-part2.html)” Saturday Night Uforia Source ID: Eberhart_1361 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2675 (56EF902A) Date: 4/3/1949 Time: 11:55 AM Description: Witnesses: construction company owner Gosta Miller and three other unnamed persons. One object shaped like two plates attached face-to-face; matte bottom, bright aluminum top; 20' diameter, 4-5' thickness. It rocked or rotated in six cycles, descended, rocked, flew, rocked; all this was very fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Dillon, Montana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_20 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2676 (805AC795) Date: 4/3/1949 Description: Object like 2 inverted plates-matte blue-grey non-reflected bottom (Berliner; cf. FOIA; Jan Aldrich) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490403](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/dillon490403dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dillon (1 mile SE of), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_552 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2677 (658C6431) Date: 4/3/1949 Description: In Dillon, Montana construction company owner Gosta Miller and three others watched an unidentified flying object shaped like two plates attached face-to-face at 11:55 a.m. The object had a matte bottom and a bright aluminum top. The dimensions of the object were estimated to be 20-feet in diameter by 4-5 feet thick. It rocked or rotated in six cycles, descended, rocked, flew, and rocked. All of these maneuvers happened very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 60 Source ID: Johnson_1812 Source: Johnson ### Event 2678 (5AB2FEE2) Date: 4/4/1949 Description: William Parrott, former Air Force pilot and Major, sighted a round object with a curved bottom and dull coloring at 10:20 p.m. in Merced, California. The object gave off a clicking sound until overhead. Parrott's dog reacted by barking and running around while the UFO was in sight, about 35 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1829 Source: Johnson ### Event 2679 (9DE2F515) Date: 4/4/1949 Time: 10:20 PM Description: Witness: William Parrott, former Air Force pilot and major. One generally round object with a curved bottom and dull coloring. The object gave off a clicking sound until overhead. Parrott's dog reacted. 35 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Merced, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_21 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2680 (DBE02A45) Date: 4/4/1949 Description: Witness and dog heard an intense clicking sound coming from the sky and saw a dark object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490404](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-490404.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Merced, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_553 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2681 (B1283BEE) Date: 4/5/1949 Description: 10:00 p.m. A huge green fireball with a red afterglow is seen streaking approximately 300 feet above the southern slope of Fejarito Mountain, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. It disappears behind the mountain. Another fireball is seen at 11:00 p.m., and the next two nights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[1949 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1949fullrep.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 54 Source ID: Eberhart_1362 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2682 (C29C5CAF) Date: 4/5/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 47; 22:00 - green w/red afterglow obj of tremendous speed disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_554 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2683 (148AA3DF) Date: 4/6/1949 End date: 4/7/1949 Description: 6-9 climbing, diving, whirling yellow or silvery oval objects which avoided 3-4 airplanes (FOIA) 2-4 hrs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490406-07](http://www.nicap.org/memphis490406dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Memphis, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_558 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2684 (9B1D500C) Date: 4/6/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 48; 12:05 - btwn light and dark green object traveling very fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_555 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2685 (C92C5BAE) Date: 4/7/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 50; 01:00 - green obj going S to N moving slowly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_557 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2686 (93A0EBDF) Date: 4/7/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 49; 01:35 - green obj sighted about 200 yds from top of hill moved slowly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_556 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2687 (1F58899C) Date: 4/7/1949 Description: Four Dome-Shaped Objects Separate From Tank-Shape (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490407](http://www.nicap.org/490407marchafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: March AFB, Riverside, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_559 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2688 (C70EE5FD) Date: 4/8/1949 Description: In response to [Winchell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FWinchell)’s claim, the Air Force admits it is impossible to “deny categorically” that the flying saucers originate in Russia. A spokesman says that some unknown incidents are placed in a classified category, denied to everyone except authorized military personnel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Air Force Isn’t Committing Self on Flying Disks,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93008312/)” Cedar Rapids \(Iowa\) Gazette, April 8, 1949, p. 22 Source ID: Eberhart_1363 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2689 (82F5DE2B) Date: 4/9/1949 Description: At 4:30 p.m. an orange colored UFO was seen over some telephone lines by J. Bova at the Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The object suddenly moved from right to left, then moved again passing behind the telephone pole. It then returned to its original position, finally engaging in some erratic movements and ascending into a cloud. It changed color as it did so, from orange to white. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, CSI Los Angeles case files, citing letter from J. Bova in 1952; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 155 Source ID: Johnson_1917 Source: Johnson ### Event 2690 (166B7011) Date: 4/9/1949 Description: [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) has been treated for one week at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland,with narcosis through sodium amytal. For the next 30 days, he undergoes a regimen of insulin sub-shock combined with psycho-therapeutic interviews. Raines says the treatment occasionally throws Forrestal into a confused state with a great deal of agitation and confusion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1364 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2691 (EC07AF2D) Date: 4/11/1949 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 87.2km attitude (Degraded performance from 43s) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 87.2km Source ID: Maj2_361 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2692 (DA16B83F) Date: 4/12/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 51; 19:30 - white round obj 1/8 size of moon just extinguished (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490412](http://www.nicap.org/albuq490412dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_560 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2693 (EE8B4592) Date: 4/12/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 52; Witness reported grayish object rose straight up leaving smoke trail, 15 minutes duration (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Paso, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_561 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2694 (08B4501C) Date: 4/14/1949 Description: Col. [Reid Lumsden](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/934202/reid-r-lumsden)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/934202/reid-r-lumsden) commander of the AFOSI district office at Kelly AFB \[now Kelly Field Annex\] in San Antonio, Texas, hands the Army reports of flares at Killeen Base to Col. William Carpenter, deputy director of special investigations at the Pentagon. Carpenter promises to investigate. \(Clark III 542\) April 16 and 18 — Mysterious flares are again observed at Killeen Base, Texas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 10; Clark III 542 Source ID: Eberhart_1365 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2695 (9B383C2C) Date: 4/18/1949 Description: The US Air Force Security Service moves its headquarters from Arlington Hall in Washington, D.C., to Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FIntelligence%2C%5FSurveillance%5Fand%5FReconnaissance%5FAgency) [Reconnaissance Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FIntelligence%2C%5FSurveillance%5Fand%5FReconnaissance%5FAgency)” Source ID: Eberhart_1366 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2696 (75891D99) Date: 4/19/1949 Description: AFOSI at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, sends to USAF headquarters a list of all green fireball reports it has investigated \(39 in all\) from December 5 to April 12. The common characteristics of most of the incidents are: “a. Green color, sometimes described as greenish-white, bright green, yellow-green, or blue green. b. Horizontal path, sometimes with minor variations. c. Speed less than that of a meteor, but more than any known type of aircraft. d. No sound associated with observation. e. No persistent trail or dust cloud. f. Period of visibility from one to five seconds.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Scientific Advisory Board to the Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, Conference,](https://www.project1947.com/gfb/sab11349.html)” November 3, 1949; Clark III 541; Swords 133–135 Source ID: Eberhart_1367 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2697 (9E66FA8B) Date: 4/20/1949 Description: Fast-moving "comet with a tail" cross the sky disappearing over lake Michigan (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ludington, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_562 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2698 (F2DD07E6) Date: 4/21/1949 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 49.9km attitude (Premature V-2 cut-off; WAC stage failed to fire) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 49.9km Source ID: Maj2_362 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2699 (168AC9B3) Date: 4/22/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 54; 09:05 - round, flat thin disc-shaped aluminum obj disappeared behind mtns (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490422](http://www.nicap.org/cliff490422dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cliff, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_563 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2700 (C7D9DD3C) Date: 4/22/1949 Description: 9:05 a.m. A round, flat, thin, metallic disc is seen traveling west to east, dropping slowly, over Cliff, New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 55 Source ID: Eberhart_1368 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2701 (FDC4C276) Date: 4/24/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 55; 10:33 - white-yellow ellipsoid obj disappeared at tremendous rate of speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 358, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490424](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/sands490424dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arrey (3 miles N of), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_564 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2702 (051CCA88) Date: 4/24/1949 Description: Arrey, NM: Aerologist Charles B. Moore, Jr., while tracking a weather balloon for General Mills Co. with a theodolite, suddenly noticed a UFO rapidly crossing the sky. He and 4 other technicians turned the 25 power theodolite to track the UFO. It was a featureless ellipse, its length about 2–1/2 times its width. After about 60 seconds the object disappeared in a sharp climb. Based on measurements with the mountain range behind it, it was calculated to be going between 18,000 mph and 25,000 mph (in the atmosphere!). Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Arrey, NM Source ID: Maj2_363 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2703 (9DEB1616) Date: 4/24/1949 Description: A high speed, maneuvering object was tracked with a theodolite by five government contractors from General Mills as it sped through the sky. They were at a missile range near Arrey, New Mexico at 10:20 a.m. It looked like a featureless, whitish featureless ellipse, and its length was 2.5 times its width. After 60 seconds it disappeared in a sharp vertical climb. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 238 Source ID: Johnson_2271 Source: Johnson ### Event 2704 (73E86282) Date: 4/24/1949 Time: l0:30 AM Description: Witnesses: General Mills meteorologist and balloon expert C.B. Moore and others on a balloon launch crew. One white, round ellipsoid, about 2.5 times as long as wide. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Arrey, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_22 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2705 (DCB0D85A) Date: 4/24/1949 Description: 10:30 a.m. General Mills meteorologist [Charles B. Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FB.%5FMoore) and four Navy Skyhook balloon launch crewmen \(Navy Chief Fire Controlman William Akers, Davidson, Fitzsimmons, Moorman\) see a white, round object, shadowed yellowish on one side, cross the sky from the south to the east, three miles north of Arrey, New Mexico. [Joseph Gordon Vaeth](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138676358/joseph-gordon-vaeth) is present as the Navy representative in charge of ground handling. Moore tracks it for 60 seconds on a theodolite. The distance is unknown, but assuming the object is 57 miles away, it would have a velocity of 18,000 mph, a width of 40 feet, and a length of 100 feet; but this is speculative. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[White](http://www.nicap.org/490424arrey%5Fdir.htm) [Sands Incident / C. B. Moore Case](http://www.nicap.org/490424arrey%5Fdir.htm)”; R. B. McLaughlin, \[[Letter to J. A. VanAllen](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490512mclaughlin%5FVan-Allen.pdf)\], May 12, 1949; J. Gordon Vaeth, 200 Miles Up: The Conquest of the Upper Air, Ronald Press, 1951; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#meteorologists) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#meteorologists)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 63–64; ClearIntent, [pp. 114–115](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/114/mode/2up); UFOEv, [pp.](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=14&skin=2021) [2–3](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=14&skin=2021); Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 72–73](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/72/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 56–57; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 8–9; Kevin D. Randle, “Charles Moore, New Mexico UFOs, and the Air Force,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 3–4; Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 10; Michael D. Swords, “Balloons, Missiles, and UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\):16–17; Swords 84–85; Clark III 541 Source ID: Eberhart_1369 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2706 (AC3B78DA) Date: 4/25/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 56; 00:50 - silvery spherical objects over a lake at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490425](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/springer490425dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springer Lake, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_565 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2707 (A2BAEEA1) Date: 4/25/1949 Description: Lt. Col. [Doyle Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) wires AFOSI headquarters to ask if he can send two of his men to AMC to find out if Project Grudge plans to do anything about the green fireballs. Before Rees has a response, [Joseph Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) arrives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, having been directed there by AF Intelligence Director Maj. Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) and Scientific Advisory Board Chairman [Theodore Von Kármán](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%5Fvon%5FK%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n), who wants Kaplan to set up a field investigation. They emphasize that Grudge is not to be informed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 542; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) [History: 1949, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 1988, p. 52 Source ID: Eberhart_1371 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2708 (C0E69C1B) Date: 4/25/1949 Description: 6:30 a.m. A man named Abreu and a friend are fishing at Springer Lake, northwest of Springer, New Mexico, when they hear a high-pitched whistle and see a number of silvery-white balls passing overhead quickly. They reappear repeatedly over the next hour. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Various Formations Observed](http://www.nicap.org/490425springer%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 541; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 57 Source ID: Eberhart_1370 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2709 (4C0CE51D) Date: 4/27/1949 Description: 9:20 p.m. Two Army patrolmen southeast of Killeen Base, Texas, see a blinking violet light no more than 1.5 inches in diameter and only 10–12 feet from them, 6–7 feet above the ground. During the 60-second observation, the light passes through the branches of a tree. At 9:25 p.m., 2 miles away, four Army soldiers see a 4-inch light with a 2–4-inch metallic cone attached to the back. It silently approaches them in a level flight at 60–70 mph. It disappears to the southwest at a distance of 150 feet. At about 9:37 p.m., a 2-inch-wide white light appears 100 feet away to the northwest, flying in a zig-zag fashion in a level path 6 feet above the ground. It vanishes abruptly. A third light shows up at 9:39 p.m. in the west-southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Close Encounters with Drones/Probes at](http://www.nicap.org/490427camphood%5Fdir.htm) [Weapons Storage Site](http://www.nicap.org/490427camphood%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 57–58; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 10; Clark III 542 Source ID: Eberhart_1375 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2710 (2337BAA7) Date: 4/27/1949 Description: A 22-page memorandum for the press \(629-49\) on “Project Saucer” is released by the Pentagon Office of Public Information, scheduled deliberately to coincide with part one of Shalett’s article in the Saturday Evening Post. The writer is unknown, but it is more pro-ETH than the current Project Grudge mentality, listing several solid and dramatic cases. It concludes: “The ‘saucers’ are not a joke. Neither are they a cause for alarm to the population.” The discrepancy between Shalett’s mostly dismissive tone and the positivity of the Project Saucer statement causes Maj. [Donald E. Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) to wonder if there is a major disagreement about UFOs within the Air Force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: National Military Establishment, Office of Public Information, “[Project ‘Saucer,’](http://www.nicap.org/docs/SaucerRptApr1949.pdf)” April 27, 1949; Swords 74–75 Source ID: Eberhart_1374 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2711 (29557873) Date: 4/27/1949 Description: USAF press release admits that saucers may exist Type: historical event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_100 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2712 (FE639C2A) Date: 4/27/1949 Description: Blinking violet object passing through branches of a tree (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/hood490427dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood (SE of), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_566 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2713 (6158D651) Date: 4/27/1949 Description: [Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) and [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) brief Armed Forces Special Weapons Project personnel at Sandia Base, New Mexico. LaPaz outlines plans for a network of visual, photographic, spectrographic, and radar observations covering Los Alamos, Sandia, and White Sands. Scientist [William D. Crozier](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44600139/william-dwight-crozier) of the New Mexico School of Mines offers to handle air sampling. Rees urges that the Killeen Base in Texas be included. Kaplan, who says the project is “of extreme importance” because “these occurrences relate to the National Defense of the United States,” recommends LaPaz to handle the project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lt. Col. Doyle Rees, “[Unknown \(Aerial Phenomena\),](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490512%5FAFOSI%5FRees%5F%20memo%5Fo%20Kaplan%5Fvisit.pdf)” May 12, 1949; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1949 January–June,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf) [Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 60–62; Clark III 542 Source ID: Eberhart_1372 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2714 (8C5C9E9C) Date: 4/27/1949 Description: Project Saucer report released: About 30% of the sightings investigated to date were said to be explained as conventional objects. An equal number, the report said, probably would be explainable after further probing. Type: report released Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_859 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2715 (4685B2D8) Date: 4/27/1949 Description: USAF Directorate of Intelligence briefs the USAF Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations on UFOs. “Investigations continue in an effort to find definite explanations for the many unidentified aerial objects which have been reported during the past two years.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unidentified Aerial Objects,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/project1947.com%5Ffig%5Fairbrf.pdf)” Air Brief, Special Study Part Two, April 27, 1949 Source ID: Eberhart_1373 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2716 (B0A961A3) Date: 4/28/1949 Description: Some printed copies of Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79, “Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States,” bear this date, although it was originally released December 10, 1948. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, Directorate of Intelligence, [Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.: Summary and Conclusions](http://www.nicap.org/docs/airintelrpt100-203-79.pdf), Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79, December 10, 1948; [copy](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1948air.htm), dated April 28, 1949 Source ID: Eberhart_1377 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2717 (A007846D) Date: 4/28/1949 Description: USAF Director of Intelligence [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) sends a report on “Unidentified Aerial Objects” to the Joint Intelligence Committee. It summarizes the history of Project Sign up to its redesignation as Grudge and adds an appendix on “Unidentified Aerial Objects: Fact and Discussion,” which is basically a short version of the sanitized February 11 Sign report, with some green fireball information added. It recommends sending reports of unidentified “light phenomena” to the scientific community and reports of “atomic powered craft of unusual design” to the AEC. It concludes that “There are numerous reports from reliable and competent observers for which a conclusive explanation has not been made” and that some “involve configurations and described performance which might conceivably represent an advanced aerodynamical development. A few unexplained incidents surpass these limits of credulity. It is unlikely that a foreign power would expose a superior aerial weapon by a prolonged ineffectual penetration of the United States.” This essentially resurrects the ETH as a possibility, without clearly stating it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Report by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf) [Committee on Unidentified Aerial Objects,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf)” April 28, 1949; Jan Aldrich, “[Top-Secret 1949 Document,](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/IUR%5Farticle1.pdf)” IUR 23, no. 1 \(Spring 1998\): 3–6, 31; Swords 76–77 Source ID: Eberhart_1376 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2718 (3B97C801) Date: 4/28/1949 Description: Pursued 6 flying discs 10 inches diameter by car (FOIA) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490428](http://www.nicap.org/homer490428dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Homer, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_567 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2719 (A802A2BF) Date: 4/28/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 57; app 17:45 - a very large bright, sausage-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 361, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490428](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/tucson490428dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_568 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2720 (4E17F452) Date: 4/28/1949 Description: Six silver discs flew in a wide circle over Homer, Michigan toward the west at 40 mph and at an estimated 500 feet altitude. At 5:45 p.m. a 700 foot long metallic cigar-shaped object flew over Tucson, Arizona at an estimated altitude of five miles. It rolled and soared off toward the southwest at an estimated speed of 500 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, April 1949, case 361; Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 1392 & 1393 Source ID: Johnson_2388 Source: Johnson ### Event 2721 (8E944DBF) Date: 4/28/1949 Description: A variety of strange lights, mostly slow-moving changing color from white to red to green (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood (SE of), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_569 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2722 (244AE965) Date: 4/28/1949 Description: 8:30 p.m. Several security patrols at Killeen Base, Texas, report nine separate sightings of lights southeast of the base. Most change color from white to red to green. On one occasion, four lights appear together; on another, 8–10 show up in each other’s company. No debris or evidence of flares are found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 10; Clark III 543; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 58 Source ID: Eberhart_1381 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2723 (2F3186B6) Date: 4/28/1949 Description: [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) [Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) and [Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) meet with security officers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to discuss green fireball observations at that facility. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1949 January–June, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 62–63 Source ID: Eberhart_1378 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2724 (5B8A2F86) Date: 4/28/1949 Time: 5:45 PM Description: Witnesses: Howard Hann, Mr. Hubert, Tex Keahey. One bright, sausage-shaped object was observed for 40 minutes while it rolled and flew fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tucson, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_23 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2725 (45A3F1FE) Date: 4/28/1949 Description: 8:00 a.m. Businessman and private pilot Leon A. Faber is flying at 3,000 feet near the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, when he sees a metallic disc moving east about 10,000 feet away. He is chatting with some ham radio operators on the ground during the 5 minutes the object is in sight before it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Flying Saucer Observed from Aircraft](http://www.nicap.org/490428gary%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1379 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2726 (EC421315) Date: 4/28/1949 Description: 5:45 p.m. Howard Hann \[Hamm?\], a Mr. Hubert \[Huber?\], and Tex Keahey see a very large, bright, sausage- shaped object travel from northeast to southwest over the rim of the Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Arizona, over a period of 12 minutes. The object is shiny metallic and reflects the sun, apparently revolving as it moves like the “slow roll of an airplane.” There is no noise, nor is there exhaust or a vapor trail. There are no wings or engines or “protuberances of any sort.” It appears to be traveling at 300–600 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Cigar-Shaped Object](http://www.nicap.org/490428tucson%5Fdir.htm) [Observed in Daylight](http://www.nicap.org/490428tucson%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1380 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2727 (3564C8E4) Date: 4/29/1949 Description: The April 30 issue of the Saturday Evening Post with part one of Sidney Shalett’s “What You Can Believe about Flying Saucers” hits the newsstands. The USAF Public Relations Office has cooperated fully with Shalett, who sets out a fairly even-handed introduction to the phenomenon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sidney Shalett, “[What You Can Believe](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Saturday%20Evening%20Post/1949%2004%2030%5FSaturday%20Evening%20Post%5FShalett.pdf) [about Flying Saucers, Part One,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Saturday%20Evening%20Post/1949%2004%2030%5FSaturday%20Evening%20Post%5FShalett.pdf)” Saturday Evening Post, April 30, 1949, pp. 20–21, 136–139; Swords 73 Source ID: Eberhart_1382 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2728 (1ED85B74) Date: 4/30/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 58; 22:15 - Blue-green round obj abt 10th size of moon just went out (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_570 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2729 (E14C8F6E) Date: 4/30/1949 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) turns in his astronomical analysis of Sign’s 237 cases. His contract with Sign is over. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 199–200](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/198/mode/2up); Hynek UFO Report, [p. 17](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/16/mode/2up); O’Connell 45 Source ID: Eberhart_1383 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2730 (84DCF938) Date: 5/1949 Description: Saw 13 saucer shaped objects in a perfect straight line formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [490500](http://www.nicap.org/4905XXalamosdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_571 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2731 (ECA45954) Date: 5/2/1949 Description: At 10:20 a.m. north of Elko, Nevada three metallic discs with an estimated diameter of 10 meters flew over the desert to the southwest at 400 kph and an altitude of 4200 meters. They were silent, and all three veered to the south with the same precise tilt. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1394; citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 3), p. 64 Source ID: Johnson_2452 Source: Johnson ### Event 2732 (F8F15B72) Date: 5/2/1949 Description: 3 flying discs 30 ft diameter at 14,000 ft make a left turn and depart ahead of a United airliner taking off from Elko airport. (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490502](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/elko490502dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elko, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_572 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2733 (B6609C7C) Date: 5/3/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 60; 21:26;21:43;22:05 - Large white size like airplane landing lights obj (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_574 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2734 (FDE1455A) Date: 5/3/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 59; 21:43 - bright white obj went very fast (up to 1,000 mph) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_573 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2735 (1ED7BD74) Date: 5/3/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 61; 21:26-white baseball diamond lights; 21:40 - slightly larger than firebox lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_575 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2736 (BAAB42FC) Date: 5/3/1949 Description: Bright shiny disc high overhead wavering, climbing and descending slightly on a straight path. (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490503](http://www.nicap.org/sidney490503dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sidney, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_576 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2737 (459BE22F) Date: 5/4/1949 Description: The US Fourth Army creates an operational plan for a green fireball observation and tracking network at Killeen Base in Camp Hood, Texas. Although it lacks cameras, it has four six-man observation posts equipped with instruments to obtain directional bearings. One of the posts serves as the plotting center to coordinate and triangulate UFO sightings. Each day, a roving patrol gets new orders. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \(Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 10–12; Clark III 543; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, pp. 43–44\). Source ID: Eberhart_1384 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2738 (864CE5F4) Date: 5/4/1949 Description: Bright silver flat circular object to the SE traveling NE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maplewood (4.5 Miles W of), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_577 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2739 (3436A4C2) Date: 5/5/1949 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8.85km attitude (Second Hermes II ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of payload section) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 8.85km Source ID: Maj2_364 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2740 (83BC37AE) Date: 5/5/1949 Description: 11:40 a.m. Army officers Maj. Charles D. May Jr., Maj. James N. Olhausen, and Capt. [Molloy C. Vaughn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1276756/molloy-clark-vaughn) on the Waco no. 4 firing range at Fort Bliss, Texas, watch for 30–50 seconds two oblong white discs pass through a field of fire. They are flying at about 200–250 mph at an altitude of 1,000 feet. The objects make a shallow turn. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[May 5, 1949, 1140 MST, Fort Bliss, Texas](http://www.nicap.org/fbliss490505dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 59 Source ID: Eberhart_1386 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2741 (B04E1CE5) Date: 5/5/1949 Description: 10:00 a.m. The Fourth US Army has approached AFOSI in San Antonio to offer assistance in investigating green fireballs and the Killeen lights. They arrange a meeting with AFOSI, ONI, CIC, the FBI, and the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project at Camp Hood, Killeen, Texas, the first of several weekly meetings. Army and Navy officials agree that the fireballs remain unexplained. AFSWP personnel believe they are natural phenomena; AFOSI and FBI give no opinion. The Fourth Army urges AFOSI to create an observation system, even though it had just secretly created one of its own on May 4. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 10–11; Clark III 543 Source ID: Eberhart_1385 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2742 (B0E597DA) Date: 5/5/1949 Description: 2 oblong white discs, flying at about 200-250 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 376) Reference: NICAP: [490505](http://www.nicap.org/fbliss490505dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Bliss, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_578 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2743 (4D7F1D0F) Date: 5/5/1949 Time: 11:40 AM Description: Witnesses: Army officers Maj. Day, Maj. Olhausen, Capt. Vaughn. Two oblong white discs, flying at an estimated 200-250 m.p.h., made a shallow turn during the 30-50 second observation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ft. Bliss, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_24 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2744 (D83C9251) Date: 5/6/1949 Time: 9:35 AM Description: Witness: C. G. Green. Two shiny, disc-like objects rotated around each other and banked. Then one shot upwards with a grey trail and rejoined the other. The sighting lasted 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Livermore, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_25 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2745 (3DC7F383) Date: 5/6/1949 Description: Part two of Shalett’s article on UFOs appears in the May 7 issue of the Saturday Evening Post, which takes a more skeptical tone than the first part, with the Gorman case receiving a particularly harsh thrashing. However, he treats Chiles-Whitted favorably and ends with some hints on how to make good observations. Within a few days, the frequency of UFO reports hits an all-time high. USAF issues another long press release completely debunking UFOs, but it has no effect. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sidney Shalett, “[What You Can Believe about Flying Saucers, Part Two,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Saturday%20Evening%20Post/1949%2005%2007%5FSaturday%20Evening%20Post%5FShalett.pdf)” Saturday Evening Post, May 7, 1949, pp. 36, 184–186; Swords 74; Ruppelt, [p. 63](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/62/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1389 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2746 (D90409A7) Date: 5/6/1949 Description: Soviet test pilot Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin takes a new airplane for a flight at the Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. At its maximum ceiling of 9.3 miles, he encounters a cucumber-shaped object, similar to the one he encountered on June 16, 1948, that directs cones of light at his aircraft from a distance of 6–7 miles. The lights cause his communications equipment to fail and damage part of his plexiglass cockpit canopy that results in a loss of air pressure. He manages to land on the banks of the Volga River 30 miles from Saratov. He wakes up in a hospital in Saratov. He again undergoes intense interrogation, psychotherapy, and medical procedures. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 221–223](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/220/mode/2up); Joe Brill, “UFO’s behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 87, February 1975, p. 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1387 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2747 (73E081A0) Date: 5/6/1949 Description: At 8:30 a.m. EDT witnesses Stump, Herman and Quinn in Sidney, Ohio saw a bright object about half a mile to the west moving south at high speed. It left no trail and made no sound. One of the witnesses said it was too bright to tell what shape it had, but the others said it had a flat, circular shape. It was in sight for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Source ID: Johnson_2575 Source: Johnson ### Event 2748 (2B105108) Date: 5/6/1949 Description: At 9:35 a.m. a witness named C. G. Green reported to the U.S. Air Force that two shiny disc-shaped objects circled each other and banked over a field in Livermore, California. One of the objects shot straight up with a gray trail. The sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 379; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1397; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_2576 Source: Johnson ### Event 2749 (C8A554E8) Date: 5/6/1949 Description: Object with no trail or sound-too bright to see the shape (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sidney, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_579 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2750 (815B4666) Date: 5/6/1949 Description: 2 shiny, disc-like objects rotate around each other (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 379) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Livermore, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_580 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2751 (61AE5914) Date: 5/6/1949 Description: At Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas a UFO observation network set up two days earlier, employing Army artillery observers, tracked their first object. They sighted and triangulated on a brilliant light 4000 yards in the distance. It moved very slowly, dropping from an altitude of 1200 feet to 440 feet. It was the apparent size of a half dollar at arm's length. Its color was pinkish to green, and was in sight for 50 minutes. The main witness was Lt. Mardell E. Ward. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, FOIA, http://www.nicap.org/hood490506dir.htm Source ID: Johnson_2577 Source: Johnson ### Event 2752 (C09F217D) Date: 5/6/1949 Description: Col. [Lumsden](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/934202/reid-r-lumsden) of the San Antonio, Texas, AFOSI office informs headquarters that the “matter has reached a fairly serious stage and some positive action is necessary.” He does not send this message to Project Grudge. Headquarters responds quickly and orders him to investigate all sightings but reminds him to inform AMC. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 11; Clark III 543 Source ID: Eberhart_1388 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2753 (CE43384A) Date: 5/6/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 62; 21:40 - 21:30 - Army artillery observers est 2 days earlier, tracks its first object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: NICAP: [490506](http://nicap.org/hood490506dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_581 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2754 (ED5A84C9) Date: 5/6/1949 Description: On this day, a decorated Soviet test pilot named Apraksin was flying over the Volga River in Russia, 40 kilometers north of the city of Saratov, when his aircraft's electrical system was knocked out of operation by a cone of light from a cucumber-shaped UFO after he attempted to approach it. He was blinded by the light, but managed to land the crippled aircraft despite his incapacitation in an abrupt emergency landing. He then lost consciousness and was confined to hospital to recuperate. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, pp. 124-126; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 138, citing Felix Zigel; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 4; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_2574 Source: Johnson ### Event 2755 (9975FB1C) Date: 5/6/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 63; 01:05 - round green obj 1/8 sz of moon disappeared W of Jamez mtns (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_582 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2756 (5212F526) Date: 5/7/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 65; 19:40 - reddish greenish white diamond shaped obj dimmed and went out (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_585 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2757 (C78A6B18) Date: 5/7/1949 Description: Sun glinting off a flat reddish-brown object "somewhat triangular" shaped (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Louis, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_583 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2758 (DF929C63) Date: 5/7/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 64; 20:25-21:05 - brilliant white diamond-shaped obj at triangulated location (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_584 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2759 (08EAC669) Date: 5/8/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 66; 20:08-20:17 - brilliant white diamond-shaped object caused severe radio interference (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_586 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2760 (BF639113) Date: 5/8/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 67; 09:30-11:00 - white metallic circular obj from motionless to faster than jet (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_587 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2761 (A5D81E9F) Date: 5/9/1949 Description: An article in Time magazine reports on the Air Force press release, remarking that “Spinners of yarns about flying saucers, including a score or so of Air Force pilots, stuck stoutly to their stories.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Things That Go Whiz,](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0%2C33009%2C800261%2C00.html)” Time, May 9, 1949; “[Anatomy of a Hoax, Part Six,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/anatomyofahoax-part6.html)” Saturday Night Uforia Source ID: Eberhart_1390 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2762 (37887B09) Date: 5/9/1949 Time: 2:30 PM Description: Witness: M/Sgt. Troy Putnam. Two round, flat silvery objects, estimated to be 25' in diameter, flew 750-1,000 m.p.h. in a banked but steady manner. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tucson, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_26 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2763 (467D33C4) Date: 5/9/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 68; app 14:30 - silvery, round and flat obj at 750-1000 mph faded from view (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 384, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_588 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2764 (586EEA8D) Date: 5/9/1949 Description: Editor [Ken Purdy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%5FPurdy) asks Maj. [Donald E. Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) to investigate the flying saucer mystery for True magazine, warning him to watch out for “fake tips” from the Pentagon. Keyhoe is initially skeptical, but after talking to his old friends Adm. [Delmer S. Fahrney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130744428/delmer-stater-fahrney) and Adm. [Calvin M. Bolster](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49125157/calvin-m-bolster)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49125157/calvin-m-bolster) his opinion changes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, pp. [18–22](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chII.htm), [44](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chV.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1391 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2765 (7859079D) Date: 5/9/1949 Description: Naval Unit Commander [Robert B. McLaughlin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72103423/robert-bright-mclaughlin), with several other officers, witnesses a white object overhead during the launch of a WAC Corporal B rocket at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. It disappears “in a blinding burst of speed to the west.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: R. B. McLaughlin, \[[Letter to J. A. VanAllen](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490512mclaughlin%5FVan-Allen.pdf)\], May 12, 1949; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 61 Source ID: Eberhart_1392 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2766 (CC024396) Date: 5/9/1949 Description: Sgt. Putnam sighted two flat 25-foot diameter silver discs in the sky over Tucson, Arizona at 2:30 p.m. They flew at a speed in excess of 750 mph in a smooth and steady banked trajectory. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 384 Source ID: Johnson_2673 Source: Johnson ### Event 2767 (CC22787B) Date: 5/11/1949 Description: At 10:30 a.m. four gray discs flew over Houston, Alaska heading north. According to witness George Mertz, they had thicker tops, and flew with a "decided list to the port side" at a speed in excess of 1000 mph. Their diameter was estimated to be from 80-100 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, letter from witness in 1952 to the Civilian Saucer Intelligence office, Los Angeles Source ID: Johnson_2733 Source: Johnson ### Event 2768 (FD8B6413) Date: 5/11/1949 Description: Israel admitted to the UN Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel) Location: New York City Source ID: Maj2_365 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2769 (7574416C) Date: 5/12/1949 Description: Donald H. Menzel sighting (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_589 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2770 (0D52E54B) Date: 5/12/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 69; 21:15-21:30 - white w/greenish twinge 1/4 diameter of full moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_590 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2771 (78D97A4B) Date: 5/12/1949 Description: Commander [McLaughlin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72103423/robert-bright-mclaughlin) writes to his friend, atmospheric physicist [James Van Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FVan%5FAllen), describing the [Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FB.%5FMoore) theodolite case and his own sighting a few days earlier. He thinks they must involve technology because they have been seen accelerating and maneuvering. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: R. B. McLaughlin, \[[Letter to J. A. VanAllen](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490512mclaughlin%5FVan-Allen.pdf)\], May 12, 1949 Source ID: Eberhart_1393 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2772 (C3FD9458) Date: 5/12/1949 Description: 9:30 p.m. Astronomer [Donald H. Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) leaves Holloman AFB on Highway 70 for Alamogordo, New Mexico. Shortly after noticing the star Antares, he sees another fuzzy object in the sky nearer to the horizon. A second object appears three degrees to the south. Determining that the objects are not Castor and Pollux or reflections, Menzel watches them another 4 minutes. Both objects vanish abruptly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald H. Menzel, Flying Saucers, Harvard University, 1953, [pp. 3–4](https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.248019/page/3/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.248019/page/3/mode/2up) [99–100](https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.248019/page/99/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 62; J. Allen Hynek, “Vignettes of UFO History: Dr. Menzel Reports a UFO!” IUR 7, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1982\): 11; Clark III 741–742 Source ID: Eberhart_1394 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2773 (0298F023) Date: 5/13/1949 Description: Newspaper coverage of BSRA's “second memorandum of importance” on flying discs. Type: publication Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106990093/etheria/) Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/bsras-2nd-memorandum-of-importance-d79897233025) Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Source ID: Maj2_366 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2774 (3D489055) Date: 5/13/1949 Description: In 1949 on this day at 11:05 a.m. a U.S. Air Force Airman Smith, driving along Highway 20 west of Boise, Idaho spotted first one disc, then five more silver discs flying in a V formation. The objects spiralled down, then shot out and away to the southwest at an estimated 700 kilometers per hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 85 Source ID: Johnson_2789 Source: Johnson ### Event 2775 (90A8954D) Date: 5/16/1949 Description: Object was described as black, round and flat in shape, similar to a washtub. It maintained the same altitude, fluttering as it disappeared behind an obstacle. Ground/visual from a military source. 8-10 seconds (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [490516](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/dmonthan490516dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Davis Monthan AFB, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_591 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2776 (D918C29E) Date: 5/16/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 70; app 17:00 - black round solid flat obj at 800-1000 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_592 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2777 (7FB15CD9) Date: 5/18/1949 Description: Reply letter concerning BSRA’s “second memorandum of importance”, concerning a solution to the flying saucer mystery, from Air Materiel Command Wright-Patterson AFB Col. Clingerman, Chief Analysis Division, Intelligence Department. Memorandum was forwarded to analysts for review and study. Found in the private BSRA archives now at the AFU in Sweden. Type: memorandum Reference: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555607667770626048) Location: Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton OH Source ID: Maj2_367 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2778 (C285F828) Date: 5/18/1949 Description: George N. Raines leaves Washington, D.C., for four days to attend a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. He says [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) seems “somewhat better,” having regained 12 pounds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1395 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2779 (CB749487) Date: 5/18/1949 Description: [Walter Winchell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FWinchell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FWinchell) in his “On Broadway” syndicated column, writes: “The N.Y. World-Telegram on Saturday \[May 14\] confirmed this reporter’s exclusive report of several weeks before—which newspapermen have denied—about the Flying Saucers . . . Said the front-page piece in the W-T: ‘Air Force people are convinced the flying disc is real. The clincher came when the air force got a picture recently of three discs flying formation over Stephenville, Newfoundland. \[The July 10, 1947, hole-in-the-cloud case?\] They outdistanced our fastest ships. Some air force men believe the discs are a new type flying machine utilizing gyroscopic principles’ . . . At the time we added that the reality of the flying discs or saucers could not be denied truthfully.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Anatomy of a Hoax,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/anatomyofahoax-part2.html) [Part Two,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/anatomyofahoax-part2.html)” Saturday Night Uforia Source ID: Eberhart_1396 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2780 (ABABA177) Date: 5/19/1949 Description: Numerous military witnesses observed a round silver thin object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [490519](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ftbliss490519dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Bliss, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_593 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2781 (FC0E50EB) Date: 5/19/1949 Description: Wright-Patterson Air Material Intelligence Commander Col. [Howard McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) forwards a copy of the Project Sign final report to the Research and Development Board, along with some appendices that later find their way into the Project Grudge final report. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_1397 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2782 (4E6DE00D) Date: 5/19/1949 Description: The Fourth Army’s observation system near Killeen Base, Texas \(without cameras, but with four 6-man observation posts equipped with instruments\), is revealed to the intelligence community at one of its weekly meetings. Two trucks serve as a roving Artillery Patrol observation post linked to the Killeen plotting center by radio. AFOSI Lt. Col. [Doyle Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) has meanwhile set up a 24-hour visual observation post in the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is equipped with a wide-angle-lens camera fitted with a spectrographic grating. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 12; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, pp. 43–44; Clark III 543 Source ID: Eberhart_1398 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2783 (7E84BDF3) Date: 5/19/1949 Description: A 20-foot diameter disc flew over New Orleans, Louisiana going north at 4:15 p.m., again on this date. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_2970 Source: Johnson ### Event 2784 (7D054A11) Date: 5/21/1949 Description: On this afternoon a silvery disc was spotted hovering over the Hanford Atomic Energy Commission radar station outside of Moses Lake, Washington by a US Air Force F-82 pilot flying over the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 141 Source ID: Johnson_3013 Source: Johnson ### Event 2785 (547293CF) Date: 5/21/1949 Description: Silvery disc-shaped object hovering over Hanford - F-82/RV Case (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [490521](http://www.nicap.org/490521hanforddir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hanford AEC plant, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_594 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2786 (FD1902A9) Date: 5/21/1949 Description: 1:30 p.m. An F-82 is dispatched from Moses Lake AFB \[now Grant County International Airport\] in Washington State to intercept a UFO that is hovering in restricted air space over the Hanford Atomic Works at an altitude of 17,000–20,000 feet. The silvery disc is seen from the ground at Hanford and on radar. Before the F-82 can take off, the disc speeds away faster than a jet fighter. It disappears from ground radar and the F-82 cannot locate it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Hanford AEC Plant / F-82/RV Case](http://www.nicap.org/490521hanforddir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 63; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 141](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/140/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1399 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2787 (EDBF6D08) Date: 5/22/1949 Description: 1:45 a.m. At the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) is awake and refuses a sedative. Five minutes later, the Navy corpsman guarding him finds the room empty. Forrestal’s body is found on a third-floor roof below the 16th-floor kitchen, No suicide note is found other than part of a translation of [Sophocles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles)’s tragedy Ajax that he is copying. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal\#Death)”; J. C. Hawkins, Betrayal at Bethesda: The Intertwined Fates of James Forrestal, Joseph McCarthy, and John F. Kennedy, The Author, 2017; David Martin, The Assassination of James Forrestal, McCabe, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_1400 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2788 (E684054D) Date: 5/22/1949 Description: Secretary Forrestal (MJ-3) found dead after falling 16 floors from an insane asylum window, supposedly shouting, “we’re being invaded!” before he fell to his death. Some suspect he was murdered to silence him. Type: historical event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) Location: Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland Source ID: Maj2_368 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2789 (1778C9C8) Date: 5/24/1949 Description: A metallic disc with a tail fin was viewed through binoculars as it moved on a horizontal flight course in Rogue River, Oregon at 5:00 p.m. It gradually increased its speed until it reached that of a jet aircraft. No propulsion method was apparent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue files counted in official statistics, May 1949 Source ID: Johnson_3059 Source: Johnson ### Event 2790 (C0872DE9) Date: 5/24/1949 Description: Rogue River Incident (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [490524](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/rogue490524dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bend, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_595 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2791 (C7440161) Date: 5/24/1949 Description: 5:00 p.m. Five witnesses \(NACA Ames Research Lab employees Don Heaphy, Gilbert Rivera and his wife, Mrs. Roy L. McBeth, and Mrs. William McBeth\) on a fishing boat on the Rogue River, Oregon, near Elephant Rock, see a round, silvery object the size of a transport aircraft. It comes from the east, then turns southwest and leaves no exhaust trail. The disc appears flattened and has a wrinkled surface with a vertical stabilizer fin. The time of observation is less than 3 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Rogue River Incident](http://www.nicap.org/490524rogue%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 64; Swords 83–84; Bruce Maccabee, “[An Assessment of the UFO Sighting at Rogue River, Oregon \(May 24, 1949\),](http://www.nicap.org/reports/490524rogueriver%5Fmaccabee.htm)” December 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_1401 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2792 (F089E415) Date: 5/24/1949 Description: Hamburger-shaped metallic disc about 25-35 ft to 100 ft wide (1-1/2 miles E of Rogue River ) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490524](http://www.nicap.org/490524rogue%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gold Beach, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_596 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2793 (BF8C997F) Date: 5/25/1949 Description: A flat, metallic object flew ove a farm in Loudon, Tennessee on this day, making a "flapping noise." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Larry Fawcett, UFO Coverup, p. 172 Source ID: Johnson_3080 Source: Johnson ### Event 2794 (1F69C1A0) Date: 5/27/1949 Description: 2:25 p.m. Pilot and businessman [Joseph Shell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25846612/joseph-claude-shell), ferrying an SNJ trainer for North American Aviation from Red Bluff, California, to Burns, Oregon, sees 5–8 oval objects, twice as long as wide and one-fifth as thick, around Hart Mountain, Oregon. They fly in trail formation, with an interval equal to 3–4 times their length, except that the second and third are closer together. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Pilot Encounters 5–8 Egg-Shaped Metallic Objects](http://www.nicap.org/490527hartmtn%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 65 Source ID: Eberhart_1402 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2795 (E8805F8D) Date: 5/27/1949 Description: Pilot Encounters 5-8 Egg-Shaped Metallic Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 404) Reference: NICAP: [490527](http://www.nicap.org/490527hartmtn%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hart Mtn (near), OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_597 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2796 (9DB1A3BB) Date: 5/27/1949 Description: Joseph Shell, flying over Hart Mountain, Oregon at 2:25 p.m., witnessed 5-8 metallic, oval-shaped objects flying in single file. They were each 20 feet long and 10 feet wide, and followed the contour of the terrain. Their estimated speed was 230 mph, and they were observed to change course. This case is listed as a Project Blue Book "unknown" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 404; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11; UNICAT database, case 625, citing Loren E. Gross; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p. 78; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179; APRO Bulletin, April 1978 Source ID: Johnson_3112 Source: Johnson ### Event 2797 (9B2A1BAA) Date: 5/27/1949 Time: 2:25 PM Description: Witness: Joseph Shell, ferrying SNJ trainer for North American Aviation, from Red Bluff, California, to Burns, Oregon. Five to eight oval objects, twice as long as wide, and 1/5 as thick. They flew in trail formation, with an interval equal to 3-4 times their length, except that the second and third were closer together. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: South-central Oregon Source ID: BerlinerBBU_27 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2798 (84A7C519) Date: 5/31/1949 Description: The Navy review board, convened by Adm. [Morton D. Willcutts](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60007154/morton-douglas-willcutts), completes hearings on [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal)’s death. The cause of death is remarkably inconclusive, and the investigation leaves many questions unanswered. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1404 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2799 (37D38CD2) Date: 5/31/1949 Description: The Air Force Office of Special Investigations sends Project Grudge a copy of [Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees)’s report on [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan)’s visit on April 28, the trip that USAF Intelligence had arranged to explore the possibility of a clandestine investigation separate from Grudge. Thus AMC learns of the conspiracy to keep it in the dark, but Rees fails to mention the involvement of USAF Intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1403 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2800 (7C36F96E) Date: 5/31/1949 Description: F-80 Pilot Sees Circular Object At High Speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490531](http://www.nicap.org/490531misawa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Misawa AFB, Honshu, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_598 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2801 (4E9EDE3B) Date: 6/1/1949 Description: Yellow oblong soundless object appear and disappear every few mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stewart Field, Newburgh, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_599 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2802 (8770BBC9) Date: 6/2/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 71; 00:40 - green ball of light with no sound (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_600 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2803 (D29662E3) Date: 6/2/1949 Description: A silver disc-shaped object flew toward the northwest into Little Tujunga Canyon near Glendale, California at around noon. It traveled very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #1409, citing Ann Druffel Source ID: Johnson_3220 Source: Johnson ### Event 2804 (E57CAB18) Date: 6/5/1949 Description: On this night in 1949 a huge fireball zigzagged 800 miles toward the northeast from the southern tip of Florida to Georgia. There were several reports along the west coast of Florida as it flew across the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1410. Source ID: Johnson_3290 Source: Johnson ### Event 2805 (28DF609E) Date: 6/6/1949 Description: 9:05-9:08 p.m. Williams, Jones and others in UFO observation and triangulation network tracked a hovering orange object about 30-70 ft in diameter, 2 mils angular size, 1 mile above ground, 3 miles S of the observation post, 4-1/2 miles S of the Plotting Center, which suddenly started moving in level flight then exploded in a shower of particles. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_601 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2806 (ACD044B4) Date: 6/6/1949 Description: 9:05 p.m. Two observation posts at Killeen Base, Fort Hood, Texas, spot a hovering orange light. Lts. Virgil Williams and Marvin L. Jones are at one site and Lts. Bernard G. Raferty and [Alfred H. Jones](https://www.columbiamissourian.com/obituaries/family%5Fobituary/alfred-h-jones-june-april/article%5Ffd2cc992-66e6-11e9-b20d-83d2f6ecf611.html) are at the other. When they triangulate its location, they find it is 3 miles south of one observation post and 4.5 miles south of the plotting center, hovering 5,280 feet in the air. It is 30–70 feet in diameter. Suddenly it starts moving in level flight, then bursts into small particles. The duration is less than 3 minutes. This observation involves the first real- time triangulation of a UFO sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 12; Clark III 543; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 66; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf) [Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 43 Source ID: Eberhart_1407 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2807 (51F22F19) Date: 6/10/1949 Description: T-6 Chases / Loses 100' Tubular UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490610](http://www.nicap.org/490610boston%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boston (20 miles SW of), MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_602 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2808 (0819C3A1) Date: 6/10/1949 Description: A team of Navy engineers and technicians under the command of Robert B. McLaughlin watched two white discs pace a V-2 rocket during its test launch from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. One of the discs passed through the rocket's exhaust and then shot straight up. The event was witnessed by at least five U.S. Navy rocket scientists and engineers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 112; Donald E. Keyhoe, True Magazine, March 1950, p. 25; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 238 Source ID: Johnson_3405 Source: Johnson ### Event 2809 (268090D3) Date: 6/10/1949 Description: White Sands, NM: Scientists tracking a test missile at 2k ft/second suddenly picked up two small circular UFOs that paced the missile. One of the UFO’s passed thru the missiles exhaust and rejoined the other UFO, and together they quickly accelerated upwards leaving the missile behind. Cmdr. McLaughlin received reports from 5 observation posts: ALL had witnessed the performance of the 2 circular UFOs. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p238) Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Source ID: Maj2_369 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2810 (BD964B9F) Date: 6/10/1949 Description: Two round white UFOs maneuvered around a missile in flight. (Confirmed by Capt. R. B. McLaughlin, USN) \[II\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Sands, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_603 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2811 (E79D88B5) Date: 6/11/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 72; 20:57 - obj green then red at end of flight - about the size of a star (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_604 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2812 (604B6EE5) Date: 6/14/1949 Description: Two UFOs Pace V-2 Rocket (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [490614](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/wsands2dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Sands, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_606 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2813 (1349E348) Date: 6/14/1949 Description: 3:35 p.m. A crew of Navy engineers under Capt. [Robert Bright McLaughlin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72103423/robert-bright-mclaughlin) is testing an Air Force V-2 rocket at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. When the V-2 attains a speed of 2,000 feet per second in its upward flight, it is joined by two smaller circular objects that pace it, one on each side. One then passes through the rocket’s exhaust, joins the other, and together accelerate upwards leaving the V-2 behind. Five other missile observation crews also see the objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two UFOs Pace V-2 Rocket](http://www.nicap.org/490614wsands%5Fdir.htm)”; Robert McLaughlin, “[How](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2003%2000%5FTrue%5FCommander%20McLaughlin.pdf) [Scientists Tracked a Flying Saucer,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2003%2000%5FTrue%5FCommander%20McLaughlin.pdf)” True, March 1950, pp. 25–27, 96–99; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 66; Swords 92–93 Source ID: Eberhart_1408 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2814 (08796B22) Date: 6/14/1949 Description: McLaughlin crew sights UFO pacing Navy missile (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [490614](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/wsands2dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Sands, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_605 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2815 (289E3A70) Date: 6/14/1949 Description: Hovering orange object about 30-70 ft in diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_607 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2816 (F47F7F03) Date: 6/14/1949 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km attitude (Blossom 4 — Nominal performance.) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 133.5km Source ID: Maj2_370 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2817 (170A0BFD) Date: 6/20/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 74; 20:10 - blue-green obj directly overhead vanished (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_609 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2818 (5FA3D027) Date: 6/20/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 73; 20:10 - round, green obj turned red before vanishing (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_608 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2819 (BC016809) Date: Summer 1949 Description: The gouge is said to be still visible in the debris field near Corona, New Mexico. [Mack Brazel,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9454979/william-ware-brazel) having found various scraps and bits for the past two years, mentions to someone in a bar in Corona that he has some material. The next day, a Capt. Armstrong and three others from Roswell Army Air Field supposedly confiscate the pieces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1405 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2820 (B0D8D749) Date: Summer 1949 Description: 4:00 p.m. The French Navy patrol boat [La Rusé](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%5FRus%C3%A9%5F%28PC-472%29) \(formerly the USS PC-472\) encounters a cigar-shaped bluish object about one mile away off Casablanca, Morocco. The crew watches it for 1 minute until it shoots toward the horizon and out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p, 36 Source ID: Eberhart_1406 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2821 (1C484FAF) Date: Summer 1949 Description: USAF Project "Twinkle" started Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_102 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2822 (4AB05FBC) Date: 6/22/1949 Description: Three women \(one a schoolteacher, another a biologist working at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and a third who is the wife of a member of the Security Division, AEC, Oak Ridge\) observe an odd trio of “flying saucers” for about 15 minutes: “It was described as consisting of two identical rectangular-shaped objects which appeared to be coordinated in movement and which moved in wave-like motion. The third object was circular in shape and appeared to be in level flight between and above the two rectangular objects. The rectangular objects appeared to be bright metal on top but dark underneath, while the color of the circular object was the same as that of frosted glass. The ‘flying saucer,’ when last sighted, was in level flight and was flying in a northwesterly direction. The weather was clear with high cumulus clouds. The ‘flying saucer’ flew at speed of from 10 to 15 mph over an area just about the center of Oak Ridge.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-Jan-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1988, pp. 83–84 Source ID: Eberhart_1409 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2823 (387E6B3A) Date: 6/22/1949 Description: In Oak Ridge, Tennessee on this evening in 1949, a teacher, a scientist, and one other watched two delta-shaped UFOs and a disc fly over the US government nuclear research facility around 7 p.m.. The objects appeared to be metallic, and flew slowly toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1415 Source ID: Johnson_3597 Source: Johnson ### Event 2824 (18DAE271) Date: 6/24/1949 Description: Five objects observed by two witnesses. One object moved vertical. Described as steel gray and at least one was a disc with two flanges (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [490624](http://www.nicap.org/mesa490624dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mesa, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_610 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2825 (DA097D4D) Date: 6/27/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 76; 01:38 - round obj slightly more orange than star went behind building (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_611 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2826 (F9079D2A) Date: 6/27/1949 Description: A brass domed-disc with a transparent clear dome was seen at only 10 meters altitude in Albera Ligure, Italy at 8:20 p.m. It emitted a gaseous cloud of vapor, then flew away over a hill. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1416 Source ID: Johnson_3691 Source: Johnson ### Event 2827 (C7C589BD) Date: 6/29/1949 Description: Naval rocket expert observed a silvery disc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Sands, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_612 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2828 (4F2C2618) Date: 6/29/1949 Description: 6:30 p.m. A former US Air Force tech sergeant observes three separate flights of three V-shaped or triangular objects from his front porch in Baltimore, Maryland. The objects veer sharply into a cloud at 2,500 feet altitude and then fly around it repeatedly. They have the ability to reverse their course 180° instantaneously. Through binoculars, they look like black, open boomerangs. More objects join them until there are 15–20, and he watches them for two hours. The formation moves from southeast to northeast and disappears. Fifteen other witness also see the display. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 126–128 Source ID: Eberhart_1410 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2829 (6B3D3A47) Date: 7/3/1949 Description: A blue-green fireball was sighted at dawn north of Vaughn, Montana. It lit up the sky from horizon to horizon. At 10:40 a.m. 200 spectators watched three identical disc-shaped objects fly over an air show being held in Longview, Washington. Another disc-shaped flying object was sighted in Astoria, Oregon at 1:00 p.m. At 3:00 p.m. in Sterling State Park on the shore of Lake Erie in Michigan, Mr. D. Swarz was watching 2 AT6 airplanes when his attention was drawn to a metallic disc high above moving rapidly in opposite direction. The object went south over the western end of Lake Erie and was gone in 11 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los Angeles letters from witnesses; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 86; newspaper clipping datelined Astoria, OR July 5, 1949. Source ID: Johnson_3799 Source: Johnson ### Event 2830 (8341095B) Date: 7/3/1949 Description: 10:40 a.m. Aeronautical engineer [Molt Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molt%5FTaylor), airport manager at Longview, Washington, is preparing for an air show when someone points out an object in the sky to the northwest. He announces it over the PA system to the crowd of 150–200 observers, including pilots, who watch a metallic disc cross to the southeast with a falling-leaf motion. Estimated altitude is 30,000 feet at 300 mph, with the approximate size of 100 feet. A second object is seen at 10:49 a.m. for 2 minutes. A third sighting takes place at 11:25 a.m. An object approaches from the west at about the same altitude, oscillating at 48 per minute, and disappears into the sun. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Metallic Discus](http://www.nicap.org/490703longview%5Fdir.htm) [Object Observed by 150–200 Observers](http://www.nicap.org/490703longview%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 67; Swords 82–83; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#multiwit) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#multiwit)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 48–49 Source ID: Eberhart_1411 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2831 (5D9ADDE4) Date: 7/3/1949 Description: Metallic Discus Object Observed By 150-200 Observers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490703](http://www.nicap.org/490703longview%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Longview, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_613 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2832 (FBF1B669) Date: 7/8/1949 Description: Eight metallic discs flew 300 meters over a boat in a lake at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming at seven o'clock in the morning. They were completely silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, July 1949 summary Source ID: Johnson_3924 Source: Johnson ### Event 2833 (0D43DE95) Date: 7/13/1949 Description: [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) responds to a July 1 letter from Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) inquiring about his April visit to Los Alamos, New Mexico. He explains that he has deliberately waited two months to report because he wanted to have a cooling off period from the deep impression the New Mexico witnesses had on him. Moreover, he wants to see if the green fireballs are still reported \(they are\) before he recommends a full-scale instrumented program. He says that [Norris Bradbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris%5FBradbury)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris%5FBradbury) the Los Alamos lab director, has urged that a classified scientific conference be held to discuss the phenomena. Kaplan suspects that the fireballs are an auroral phenomenon, but concedes that their horizontal motion and southern appearance are “difficult to explain.” He recommends a photographic and spectrographic patrol that would stay on to look out for the fireballs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1412 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2834 (B17F93CE) Date: 7/18/1949 Description: An unidentified nocturnal light flew over the city of Galveston, Texas this night. It stopped, and then shot continued on at a fantastic speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1426 Source ID: Johnson_4156 Source: Johnson ### Event 2835 (C93314A2) Date: 7/21/1949 Description: Two Silver Objects On Headon Course (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490721](http://www.nicap.org/490721mountpleasant%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Pleasant, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_614 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2836 (F59F7C47) Date: 7/23/1949 Description: 2 observers fishing saw some 12-meter objects circle and play in the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [490723](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/490723delphidir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Delphi (north of), IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_615 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2837 (A6CB2040) Date: 7/23/1949 Description: At 11:40 a.m. two people fishing in a flooded quarry north of Delphi, Indiana saw two 40-foot long metallic UFOs circle and maneuver at 1500 feet altitude for three hours. There was also a third witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book, July 1949; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1428; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_4313 Source: Johnson ### Event 2838 (4DB9C900) Date: 7/24/1949 Description: 12:03 p.m. Henry Clark, manager of a flying service, is flying a Piper PA-16 Clipper at 19,000 feet 10 miles northwest of Mountain Home, Idaho, when he sees a tight formation of 7 delta-shaped objects, 35–55 feet in diameter near his plane. They make a perfect and unbanked right turn 1,500 feet ahead of his plane, then they turn right again, passing the aircraft at about 450–500 mph. Clark’s engine runs rough during the sighting, which lasts 10 minutes. After he lands, he finds all his spark plugs burned out. When Blue Book investigates the case, they confiscate the spark plugs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Piper Clipper Encounters Seven Delta-Shaped Objects](http://www.nicap.org/490724mtnhome%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 68 Source ID: Eberhart_1413 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2839 (E3D9D8E8) Date: 7/24/1949 Description: Piper Clipper Encounters Seven Delta-Shaped Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 483) Reference: NICAP: [490724](http://www.nicap.org/490724mtnhome%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mountain Home, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_616 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2840 (48E4ED83) Date: 7/24/1949 Description: Green fireball sighting-left possible copper particles (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Socorro (near), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_617 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2841 (34CBB1EB) Date: 7/24/1949 Description: A pilot flying a twin engine plane over Mountain Home, Idaho at 12:03 p.m. encountered seven dark delta-wing objects flying in a V formation at a speed of 600 mph and an altitude of 8500 feet. They executed a sharp turn without banking. His plane experienced engine difficulty with one engine. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 143; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179; newspaper clipping dated July 25, 1949 Source ID: Johnson_4342 Source: Johnson ### Event 2842 (701EBDD8) Date: 7/24/1949 Description: 8:30 p.m. An Air Force major and captain watch seven bluish-white lights pass over Fort Worth, Texas, in a V formation, moving rapidly from south to north. The distance between the lights does not vary during the 4–5 seconds they are visible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1949 July–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-July-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1988, p. 13 Source ID: Eberhart_1414 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2843 (0AC34ED3) Date: 7/24/1949 Time: 12 noon Description: Witness: Henry Clark, manager of a flying service, flying a Piper Clipper. Seven delta-shaped objects, 35-55' in span, 20-30' long, 2-5' thick; light colored except for a 12' diameter dark circle at the rear of each. They flew in a tight formation of twos with one behind, and made a perfect, but unbanked, turn. During the 10 minute sighting, they displayed decreasing smooth oscillations. Clark's engine ran rough during the sighting, and upon landing was found to have all its spark plugs burned out. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Mountain Home, Idaho Source ID: BerlinerBBU_28 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2844 (785CF14A) Date: 7/24/1949 Description: A green fireball is seen falling close to Socorro, New Mexico. The next day, scientist [William D. Crozier](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44600139/william-dwight-crozier) collects dust samples from the School of Mines campus at Socorro. The samples contain copper particles of unusually large size. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 543–544; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 68 Source ID: Eberhart_1415 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2845 (850D2B46) Date: 7/26/1949 Description: At 10:30 a.m. in Redmond, Oregon a disc-shaped object described as looking like a "flat aluminum sheet" soared overhead at tremendous speed. It flashed brightly as it reflected the sunlight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Newspaper clipping, July 27, 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_4407 Source: Johnson ### Event 2846 (1FB846D6) Date: 7/26/1949 Description: At 3:10 p.m. a doctor named Laubach sighted a seven meter diameter disc in Mitchell, Nebraska that whirled across the sky at 6,000 feet altitude, passing through some clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated July 27, 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 13; Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 143 Source ID: Johnson_4408 Source: Johnson ### Event 2847 (040975E4) Date: 7/27/1949 Description: A cropduster in Puyallup, Washington named Sagmiller saw a disc pass overhead at 9:40 a.m. It reflected the sunlight brilliantly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 28, 1949 Source ID: Johnson_4424 Source: Johnson ### Event 2848 (7F26E50D) Date: 7/30/1949 Description: Object with 1 white light and 2 red lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 496) Reference: NICAP: [490730](http://nicap.org/mounthood490730dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Hood, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_618 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2849 (BFB04210) Date: 7/30/1949 Time: 9 PM Description: Witnesses: Northwest Airlines Capt. Thrush, two Portland control tower operators, and one flying instructor. One object with one white light and two red lights, maneuvered and hovered. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Mt. Hood, Oregon Source ID: BerlinerBBU_29 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 2850 (57390669) Date: 8/1949 Description: Actor, producer, and director [Mikel Conrad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikel%5FConrad), in promoting his soon-to-be-released film The Flying Saucer, claims that the movie contains actual footage of a spaceship recovered in Alaska by government agents. He produces a bogus FBI agent to “confirm” the story. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations interviews Conrad, who admits to perpetrating a publicity hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jerome Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash Claims,” IUR 18, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1993\): 16; Internet Movie Database, “[The Flying Saucer](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042469/)” Source ID: Eberhart_1417 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2851 (2DFC12F2) Date: 8/1949 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) publishes Pioneers of Space, detailing his out-of-body visits to the Moon, Mars, and Venus. In private correspondence he later explains “how one may venture from one place to another, while his physical is in one place and he is in another. That is the way I have written this book. I actually have gone to the places I speak of.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Adamski \[ghost-written by Lucy McGinnis\], Pioneers of Space, Leonard-Freefield, 1949; “[Palomar Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/)” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_1416 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2852 (1450DC33) Date: 8/1/1949 Description: In Tampico, Mexico in the State of Veracruz a torpedo-shaped UFO zipped over the countryside. It was described as looking like a "4th of July sparkler." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_4556 Source: Johnson ### Event 2853 (4291071D) Date: 8/6/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 89; 20:15 - round, whitish yellow w/red tail obj twice as fast as falling star (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_624 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2854 (85FEB614) Date: 8/6/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 85; 20:00 - round bluish green obj disappeared behind building (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Cruses, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_620 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2855 (B564069F) Date: 8/6/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 87; 20:00 - round, bright white w/slight reddish cast 1/2 size of moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_622 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2856 (69243E28) Date: 8/6/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 86; 20:00 - reddish blue/green round obj app 6" in diameter disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Cruses, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_621 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2857 (1D6F6AD1) Date: 8/6/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 90; 20:30 - round, white/bluish obj similar to falling star went out (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_625 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2858 (BBF6A45B) Date: 8/6/1949 Description: AFOSI Case 88; 20:00-20:05 - white obj large as auto at arm's length disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_623 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2859 (447C3D1F) Date: 8/8/1949 Description: Objects, varying from 1 to 7, traveling slow to very fast. Air Force Conclusion: Balls of thistle (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [490808](http://www.nicap.org/medford490808dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Medford, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_626 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2860 (6F663F34) Date: 8/8/1949 Description: 11:30 p.m. Six airmen and tower operators at Medford Municipal Airport \[now the Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport\] in Oregon see 1–7 shiny objects traveling at variable speeds at an estimated altitude of 30,000 feet. They fly in formation for a while, then break off and return to formation again. Control tower operators using binoculars seem to distinguish wings on the objects. They remain visible until around 12:30 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Winged Objects Cavort over Airport](http://www.nicap.org/490808medford%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1418 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2861 (9FA8CB73) Date: 8/8/1949 Description: On this afternoon five luminous disc-shaped objects flew in V-formation over Medford, Oregon and were sighted by three witnesses in flight aboard a military aircraft. The discs were estimated to be 35 feet in diameter, and were flying to the east-southeast at 10,000 feet altitude at a speed of 150 mph. The pilot attempted to chase them, but they outflew his airplane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_4769 Source: Johnson ### Event 2862 (991C4A7C) Date: 8/10/1949 Description: USAF’s AMC issues a final 600-page report, “Unidentified Flying Objects—Project Grudge,” Technical Report 102-AC-49/15-100, or “The Grudge Report,” authored by Lt. Howard W. Smith and [George W. Towles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59257302/george-w%5F-towles). [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s April analysis is included as an appendix. Based on 237 cases, Hynek finds that 32% can be explained astronomically. Others say 12% are balloons, 33% are other misidentifications, hoaxes, or insufficient information. That leaves 23% \(55\) classed as unknowns. Despite this, witnesses are mostly deluded, hysterical, lying, or crazy, and “further study along present lines would only confirm the findings presented herein.” The report concludes there is little evidence to prove UFOs are real and do not represent a security threat. It recommends that press releases be created to “aid in dispelling public apprehension.” On the other hand, it suggests that military and government agencies interested in “psychological warfare” be informed of the findings. Appendix D is written by USAF Scientific Advisory Board member [George E. Valley](http://news.mit.edu/1999/valley-1020), who writes that extraterrestrial civilizations “might observe that on Earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, they should be alarmed. We should, therefore, expect at this time above all to behold such visitations.” Project Grudge enters a period of dormancy until July 1950. The report is classified Secret until August 1, 1952. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lt. Howard W. Smith and George W. Towles, “[Unidentified Flying](https://www.academia.edu/43389931/Project%5FGRUDGE%5FReport%5F1949) [Objects—Project Grudge,](https://www.academia.edu/43389931/Project%5FGRUDGE%5FReport%5F1949)” Air Materiel Command Technical Report 102-AC-49/15-100; Hynek UFO Report, [p.](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/18/mode/2up) [18](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/18/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 12 Source ID: Eberhart_1419 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2863 (55CB902C) Date: 8/10/1949 Description: The National Military Establishment is renamed the Department of Defense to unify the Army, Navy, and Air Force under the Secretary of Defense. It establishes the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FDepartment%5Fof%5FDefense) [Department of Defense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FDepartment%5Fof%5FDefense)” Source ID: Eberhart_1420 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2864 (7792A92D) Date: 8/16/1949 Description: A young girl in Wola Drzewiecka, Poland, sees a dark green object nearby like two bowls put together and about 5 feet in diameter. She walks right up to it and touches its metallic surface with her index finger, getting a mild electric vibration and making her fingertip turn red. The object begins rotating, then rises up and disappears to the south at an altitude of 50 feet. In the distance she sees another object that she says remained in the same spot for several days. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 18–19 Source ID: Eberhart_1422 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2865 (C9D8F4D5) Date: 8/17/1949 Description: [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) submits the fifth of a series of reports on “anomalous luminous phenomena.” He notes that “Many of the green fireballs now appearing descend in nearly vertical paths, whereas, in earlier months almost all of the green fireballs observed moved almost horizontally. There appears to be a concentration of New Mexico incidents near weekends, especially on Sunday and near the hour of 8:00.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-July-Dec.pdf) [1949 July–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1949-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1988, pp. 28–29 Source ID: Eberhart_1421 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2866 (833E6C91) Date: 8/18/1949 Description: [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) and USAF scientists meet with [William D. Crozier](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44600139/william-dwight-crozier) to find out about his July 25 dust collection in Socorro, New Mexico. Crozier says he thinks the copper particles may have come from a campus building, although samples from the open country contain the same particles. LaPaz notes that copper is extremely rare in meteorites, although it might explain the yellow-green color of the fireballs. He suggests that further air and ground samples be taken in areas where the fireballs are seen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 543–544 Source ID: Eberhart_1423 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2867 (F458D965) Date: 8/19/1949 Description: Two prospectors in Death Valley, California allegedly observed a disc-shaped object land. Two dwarfs emerged but were lost in the sand dunes when pursued. The object disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193 Source ID: Johnson_5152 Source: Johnson ### Event 2868 (E7287441) Date: 8/19/1949 Description: Two prospectors, Buck Fitzgerald and Mase Garney, report that a flying saucer crashed near them in Death Valley, California. Two little men jump out and start running. The prospectors chase them over a sand dune, but lose them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Little Men’ in Flying Disc,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93020559/)” San Francisco Examiner, August 20, 1949, p. 2; Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1949-08-19-usa-deathvalley.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1949-08-19-usa-deathvalley.htm) August 22, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_1424 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2869 (12404D2A) Date: 8/19/1949 Description: UFO in searchlight (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [490819](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/norwooddir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norwood, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_627 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2870 (BB7AC81F) Date: 8/19/1949 Description: 8:15–11:00 p.m. Rev. [Gregory Miller](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5347017/gregory-a-miller)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5347017/gregory-a-miller) pastor of the St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio, has purchased from Army surplus an 8-million-candlepower searchlight for his church carnival. Sgt. Donald R. Berger of ROTC of the University of Cincinnati is to operate it. During the festivities, Berger’s sweeping searchlight suddenly flashes across a stationary circular object in the sky. Miller and others join in and observe. When Berger moves the searchlight away, the disc continues to glow. Hundreds of calls are received by Cincinnati Post and Cincinnati Enquirer offices regarding fireballs and comet-like objects all across the Cincinnati area this first night. The searchlight picks up the same or similar objects on nine further occasions, the last being on March 10, 1950. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[More Proof That ‘Saucers’ Exist,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 5 \(August 6, 1954\): 1–2; NICAP, “[The Ohio Searchlight Incident](http://www.nicap.org/490819norwood%5Fdir.htm)”; Patrick Gross, “[The Norwood Searchlight Incident](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/norwood49.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1425 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2871 (EF3A44F1) Date: 8/19/1949 Description: Two prospectors are said to have observed a disk-shaped object land. Two dwarfs emerged but were lost in the sand dunes when pursued. The object disappeared. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Death Valley, California Source ID: Magnonia_70 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 2872 (1BCB066A) Date: 8/19/1949 Description: Fitzgerald and Gamey see little men in desert. Type: ce3 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_103 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2873 (EDA63F59) Date: 8/20/1949 Description: A rigid formation of faint bluish-green rectangles (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Cruses, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_628 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2874 (E40422A5) Date: 8/20/1949 Description: At 10:15 p.m. in Las Cruces, New Mexico Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto, reported sighting six to eight green, rectangular UFOs flying in a symmetrical formation. He had a second sighting 30 minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 130, citing letter from Tombaugh dated August 7, 1957; UNICAT, case # 530, citing Dr. James E. McDonald Source ID: Johnson_5164 Source: Johnson ### Event 2875 (6B8CFB17) Date: 8/20/1949 Description: 10:45 p.m. Astronomer [Clyde Tombaugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%5FTombaugh), his [wife](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83427769/patricia-tombaugh), and [mother-in-law](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67133021/irene-b-edson) see a formation of rectangular bluish- green lights at Las Cruces, New Mexico, for about 3 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Tombaugh Observes UFO Formation](http://www.nicap.org/490820lascruces%5Fdir.htm)”; H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “[Have We Visitors from Space?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Life/1952%2004%2007%5FLife%5FHave%20We%20Visitors.pdf)” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 89; “[Dr. Clyde](http://cufos.org/CSI%5FNY/CSI%5FNY%5F%2322.pdf) [Tombaugh Provides Details on His Own Famous Sighting,](http://cufos.org/CSI%5FNY/CSI%5FNY%5F%2322.pdf)” CSI News Letter, no. 10 \(December 15, 1957\): 27; UFOEv, [p. 53](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=65&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 70; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#astronomers)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 59–60; Clark III 1129–1130; Swords 81–82 Source ID: Eberhart_1426 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2876 (E10DD7B8) Date: 8/22/1949 Description: In Alaska, a scientist on Tigvariak Island sighted six disc-shaped object flying in a circular formation, making a whining sound. A seventh disc then was seen weaving through the sky. They went from the northeast to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p. 42 Source ID: Johnson_5215 Source: Johnson ### Event 2877 (A12565E0) Date: 8/29/1949 Description: First Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-1 “First Lightning” at Semipalatinsk in Semipalatinsk Test Site, NE Kazakhstan (Joe 1) Type: atomic Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_%28nuclear_test%29) Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-1) Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site Atomic type: aboveground Atomic KT: 22 Source ID: Maj2_371 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2878 (227AA2E8) Date: 8/29/1949 Description: 7:00 a.m. The Soviet Union secretly conducts its first successful nuclear weapon test \(First Lightning\) at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. The design is very similar to the first US “Fat Man” plutonium bomb. The project is led by physicist [Igor Kurchatov.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%5FKurchatov)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[RDS-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-1)” Source ID: Eberhart_1427 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2879 (6CA447B6) Date: 9/1949 Alternate date: 10/1949 Description: A Swiss Air Force officer sees a silvery disc 20 feet in diameter with jagged edges above Payerne, Vaud, Switzerland. He observes it flying at about 700 mph for 12 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[Payerne case file](http://cufos.org/cases/1949%5F10%5F13%5FCH%5FVD%5FPayerne%5FBB%5FDD%5FColor.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_1433 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2880 (D0E36D5E) Date: 9/1/1949 Description: Col. John W. Schweizer of AFOIN writes to the director of USAF Intelligence: “reports that fall in the ‘fireball’ category will no longer be included in HQ Air Materiel Command and Directorate of Intelligence, HQ USAF, investigative activity on unidentified aerial incidents.” AMC hands green fireball reports over to the USAF Cambridge Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts. AFOIN rejects an Army request for further facilities to study the green fireballs from field locations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 543 Source ID: Eberhart_1428 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2881 (6085BB0C) Date: 9/3/1949 Description: USAF WB-29 lands at Eielson Air Force Base AL with filter paper samples indicating a Soviet nuclear weapons test Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://www.ll.mit.edu/about/history/sage-semi-automatic-ground-environment-air-defense-system) Location: Eielson Air Force Base, AL Source ID: Maj2_372 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2882 (D10D58EB) Date: 9/5/1949 Description: 2 USAF pilots flying military aircraft saw an oval object climb at tremendous speed to the S. (Project 1947) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490905](http://www.nicap.org/490905lebec%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lebec, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_630 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2883 (7317ACDF) Date: 9/5/1949 Description: Perfectly round, silver object with curved sides coming to a smooth round edge, about the size of a P-38 wingspan (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [490905](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/reno490905dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Reno (east of), NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_629 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2884 (4A5D9352) Date: 9/6/1949 Description: At 10:12 a.m. a military flight instructor flying over Payerne, Switzerland watched a metallic disc-shaped object at 2 km altitude fly to the southeast at a speed in excess of 1200 km/h. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_5673 Source: Johnson ### Event 2885 (6C0CD680) Date: 9/9/1949 Description: High-Speed Egg-Shaped Object Goes Into Clouds (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [490909](http://www.nicap.org/490909goosebay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_631 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2886 (E4161752) Date: 9/9/1949 Description: DCI Admiral Hillenkoetter hands Truman a carefully worded report of “an abnormal radio-active contamination” indicating “An atomic explosion on the continent of Asia.” Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-09-09/detection-first-soviet-nuclear-test-september-1949) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_373 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2887 (D5DFC4DC) Date: 9/14/1949 Description: Over a 30-minute period starting at 9:30 p.m. several small round silver objects, that were not birds, flew over Lubbock, Texas in groups of 3 to 50. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1454; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_5939 Source: Johnson ### Event 2888 (8408168E) Date: 9/14/1949 Description: The Geophysical Sciences Branch of the Air Force Research and Development orders the new AMC commander Lt. Gen. [Benjamin Chidlaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw) to have the Cambridge Research Laboratory in Massachusetts evaluate the New Mexico and Texas green fireball cases and consider the creation of an instrumented network. AMC is directed to send representatives from Boston to a meeting in New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lt. Col. John McK. Tucker, “[Light](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490914%5FLight%5FPhenomena.pdf) [Phenomena,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/490914%5FLight%5FPhenomena.pdf)” September 14, 1949; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 16; Clark III 544 Source ID: Eberhart_1429 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2889 (BB375C52) Date: 9/14/1949 Description: 9:30–10:00 p.m. Two residents of Lubbock, Texas, see 9 clusters of objects “similar to ducks flying in formation,” bright silver and roughly round in shape. There are as many as 50 objects in all the formations except one. They seem to be traveling at 5,000 feet altitude, going north to south. Each light is visible for about 10 seconds, but it takes 30 minutes for all the objects to pass overhead. One witness is convinced the objects are ducks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 692–693 Source ID: Eberhart_1430 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2890 (9A88CC03) Date: 9/16/1949 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 4.2km attitude (Blossom 5 — payload. Explosions led to early termination) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 4.2km Source ID: Maj2_374 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2891 (C9DCEAA3) Date: 9/20/1949 Description: A silvery cylindrical object with an orange-white exhaust was seen by a U.S. Air Force C-54 pilot flying northeast of Rome, New York at 9:06 a.m. It was seen again by another pilot at 10:00 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1989, p. 13; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_6116 Source: Johnson ### Event 2892 (FB396C8E) Date: Fall 1949 Description: Five Objects Cross Radarscope At Key Atomic Base (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [49Fall](http://www.nicap.org/49FALLnmexico%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Key Atomic Base, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_619 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2893 (CEDD8D2E) Date: Fall 1949 Description: Don Bushnell, plant superintendent with Southwestern Porcelain Steel Corp., saw an object fall in front of his car as his radio was blocked. He applied the brakes; object vanished. Type: ufo sighting Reference: KeyhoeS ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma Source ID: Magnonia_71 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 2894 (6A6C2113) Date: Fall 1949 Description: A radar-tracking UFO case takes place at a key atomic base \(probably Los Alamos, New Mexico\). The base radar scope covers 200 miles of sky up to 100,000 feet. A legitimate radar contact tracks five apparently metallic objects at a great height moving south and crossing the radar scope in less than 4 minutes \(an average of about 4,500 mph\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “[Have We Visitors from Space?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Life/1952%2004%2007%5FLife%5FHave%20We%20Visitors.pdf)” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 89 Source ID: Eberhart_1434 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2895 (AFB410A5) Date: Fall 1949 Description: Night. Donald Bushwell and his wife are traveling along a straight highway in New Mexico. Suddenly a disc about 50–60 feet across comes straight down the road toward them about 4 feet off the ground. It raises up a little before reaching the car and passes overhead. As it does so, his radio turns to static. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tulsa \(Okla.\) Tribune, December 10, 1957; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 77 Source ID: Eberhart_1435 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2896 (06C0DB8C) Date: 9/23/1949 Description: Truman made headlines with an announcement that the Soviet Union had tested a nuclear device several weeks earlier Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-09-09/detection-first-soviet-nuclear-test-september-1949) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_375 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2897 (650FC65C) Date: 9/25/1949 Description: A yellow, rocket-shaped object flew within 100 feet under an airplane that was flying four miles southwest of Parkersburg, West Virginia at 2:45 p.m. The rocket had what looked to be fins. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_6308 Source: Johnson ### Event 2898 (4E98DA28) Date: 9/26/1949 Description: 6:30 p.m. [Lester Wolfe](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79461100/lester-wolfe) and five others 5 miles southeast of Lexington, Nebraska, are threshing wheat when they see three objects coming from the general direction of the sun \(southwest\). As the objects move, they give off a dazzling brilliance. They maintain a level flight with two of the objects changing positions as they fly. The power of the illumination remains constant throughout the incident \(no pulses or flashes\). Once the objects reach a direction northwest of the observers, they make a smooth 90° turn straight upwards and climb rapidly out of sight. Dean Wolfe is a recent graduate of a two-year course in aeronautical design and thinks the objects look like domed discs when viewed face forward, but are more like stubby, wingless, tailless fuselages when seen from the side. About 5 miles away, [Don](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69079333/donald-e%5F-ballheim)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69079333/donald-e%5F-ballheim) [Minnie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69079543/minnie-estelle-ballheim)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69079543/minnie-estelle-ballheim) [Elmer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61298580/elmer-v-ballheim) and [Irene Ballheim](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135430478/irene-m%5F-ballheim) see two fast-moving objects flying in the distance at level flight before abruptly turning straight up and flying upward. This group of people does not know their distant neighbors. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[90-Degree Turn Straight Up](http://www.nicap.org/490926lexington%5Fdir.htm)”; Swords 83–84 Source ID: Eberhart_1431 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2899 (68F6A238) Date: 9/26/1949 Description: Over the town of Winchendon, Massachusetts a cigar-shaped UFO emitted a cloud of smoke. It flew from the northwest to the southeast slowly, and then disappeared. The sighting lasted 15 minutes and the report was made by two men named Peckham and Clements. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, Volume 2, p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_6340 Source: Johnson ### Event 2900 (599A1EA3) Date: 9/26/1949 Description: Southeast of Lexington, Nebraska three ovoid objects, about four meters in size, flew toward the northeast at 6:40 p.m. Two of the objects left trails of sparks. There were five witnesses, and the report was made by someone named Wolfe. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, Volume 4, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_6341 Source: Johnson ### Event 2901 (FE40D3A4) Date: 9/27/1949 Description: 1:30 and 3:00 a.m. At least five observers at Sandia Base, New Mexico, see fireballs of various colors traveling either in an arc or in tangent to the Earth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Francis Ridge, “[The Nuclear Connection Project: The New](http://www.nicap.org/nmexico/newmexicosightings.htm) [Mexico Sightings,](http://www.nicap.org/nmexico/newmexicosightings.htm)” September 3, 2005; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 71 Source ID: Eberhart_1432 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2902 (50F1E44B) Date: 9/29/1949 Description: An ovoid object composed of luminous, translucent rings flew quickly to the south over Humboldt, Nebraska. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p. 47 Source ID: Johnson_6411 Source: Johnson ### Event 2903 (8DAE6134) Date: 9/29/1949 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 150.8km attitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 150.8km Source ID: Maj2_376 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2904 (64D8F4AD) Date: 10/1/1949 Description: Rush Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jackson, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_632 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2905 (E34B44C9) Date: 10/2/1949 Description: On this day in Holland, Michigan a very bright disc flew into a cloud heading west, then exited the cloud from the same point and flew off rapidly to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 473 Source ID: Johnson_6481 Source: Johnson ### Event 2906 (C7F01CB6) Date: 10/6/1949 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (2nd Hermes II test) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Source ID: Maj2_377 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2907 (D40FA755) Date: 10/10/1949 Description: 1:07 a.m. A bluish-green fireball is seen moving to the northeast at 45° above the horizon at Sandia Base, New Mexico. Duration is from 4 to 15 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Francis Ridge, “[The Nuclear Connection Project: The New](http://www.nicap.org/nmexico/newmexicosightings.htm) [Mexico Sightings,](http://www.nicap.org/nmexico/newmexicosightings.htm)” September 3, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_1436 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2908 (3C918462) Date: 10/11/1949 Description: The Navy releases only a brief summary of its findings in the death of [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal). The complete transcript is not released until 2004. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ayn Rand Institute Watch, “[The Willcutts Report on the Death of James](http://ariwatch.com/VS/JamesForrestal/WillcuttsReport.htm) [Forrestal](http://ariwatch.com/VS/JamesForrestal/WillcuttsReport.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1437 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2909 (085EA520) Date: 10/12/1949 Description: Four Airman View Metallic Craft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [491012](http://www.nicap.org/491012davis-monthan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_633 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2910 (4F3B6D1F) Date: 10/12/1949 Description: H. S. Object Observed By Flight Engineer & Mechanics (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BB) Reference: NICAP: [491012](http://www.nicap.org/491012holloman%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_634 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2911 (BB4F3A8A) Date: 10/12/1949 Description: Columnist [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully) writes an article in Variety alleging that the US government has retrieved crashed spaceships in the southwestern desert. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank Scully, “[Scully’s Scrapbook,](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Scully%27s%5FScrapbook%5Fof%5FOctober%5F8%2C%5F1949)” Variety, October 12, 1949; Clark III 595, 1044 Source ID: Eberhart_1438 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2912 (40467C04) Date: 10/12/1949 Description: Frank Scully’s Variety article “One Flying Saucer Lands In New Mexico” Type: publication Reference: [link](https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Frank_Scully) Location: Hollywood, CA Source ID: Maj2_378 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2913 (1FAB3C11) Date: 10/14/1949 Description: 1:15 p.m. [Harley C. Marshall](http://palomarskies.blogspot.com/2009/04/who-are-you-callin-dummy.html)[,](http://palomarskies.blogspot.com/2009/04/who-are-you-callin-dummy.html) manager of public relations at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, is driving away from the observatory when he sees a perfect “V of V’s” formation of about 16–18 silver objects without tails or wings overhead traveling at high speed to the northwest and emitting a sound like jets. He stops and watches them disappear behind the cloud cover. Returning to the observatory, he phones electrician [Benjamin B. Traxler](https://calisphere.org/item/aa361e48f44cf8ee0f94886f6639c1db/)[,](https://calisphere.org/item/aa361e48f44cf8ee0f94886f6639c1db/) who at 1:20 p.m. sees one dark UFO traveling to the southwest. Marshall checks the Navy Electronics Laboratory Geiger counter on site and sees that the needle has jumped off the scale for several seconds. For the next 10 days, another 21 incidents of off-scale cosmic-ray detector incidents occur at scattered times, fitting a periodic 1.5-hour time schedule, a phenomenon not seen before or after, and unexplainable by equipment failure or radio interference from aircraft. Two representatives of the Office of Naval Research and two from the Naval Electronics Laboratory in Point Loma, California \([Joseph P. Maxfield](http://maxfieldgenealogy.com/maxfieldjs9001.html) and G. L. Bloom\), visit the observatory to investigate the readings, but not before they stop in at Alice Wells’s Palomar Gardens Café on the way in. After [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) claims he has seen increased UFO activity in the area \(including a sighting about the same time as another observation by Traxler on October 21\), they ask him if he would send them any photos he might take with one of his telescopes. He gives them a copy of a telescopic photo he took in February 1949 with his 15-inch reflector. The Naval Electronics Lab later attributes the photo to “electric discharge which frequently occurs in cameras during film pulling in dry or cold climates.” Several Navy aircraft of differing prop and jet types are flown near the observatory using radio, altimeter, and radars on October 21 and November 2 in an unsuccessful effort to trigger the Geiger counter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Geiger Counters Detect](http://www.nicap.org/491014palomar%5Fdir.htm) [UFO Presence](http://www.nicap.org/491014palomar%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 38, 949–950; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 74–75; Swords 86–87; Maurice Weekley and George Adamski, “Flying Saucers As Astronomers See Them,” Fate 3, no. 6 \(September 1950\): 56–59; Colin Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001, pp. 29–30 Source ID: Eberhart_1440 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2914 (1CB44F66) Date: 10/14/1949 Description: At another conference in Los Alamos, New Mexico, attended by 16 representatives of AFOSI, AMC \([Joseph Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) and Maj. [Frederic C. E. Oder](https://www.nap.edu/read/12473/chapter/39)\), Fourth Army, the FBI, AFSWP, and Los Alamos scientists \([Edward Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) [George Gamow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FGamow)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FGamow) and [Stanislaw Ulam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw%5FUlam)\), the green fireballs are identified as probably atmospheric in origin, but more observational data is needed. [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) and [Neef](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100488651/melvin-ellis-neef) speak at length. Oder’s Cambridge Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts, is selected for a field project, under LaPaz’s supervision. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 16; Clark III 544; Swords 81; Good Above, [pp. 266–267](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/266/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1439 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2915 (11270C79) Date: 10/14/1949 Description: Perfect "V of V's" formation of about 16-18 silver \[round?\] objects (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [491014](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/palomar491014dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Palomar Observatory, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_635 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2916 (C330DA29) Date: 10/17/1949 Description: Observatory Asst. Superintendent-Electrical B. B. Traxler saw a small black object without apparent projections moving at high speed (Sparks) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Palomar Observatory and Palomar Gardens, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_636 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2917 (BE922665) Date: 10/21/1949 Description: Elongated slightly curved or banana shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Palomar Observatory, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_637 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2918 (D62EB202) Date: 10/23/1949 Description: 7:15–10:45 p.m. Rev. [Gregory Miller](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5347017/gregory-a-miller) has set up his searchlight once again at St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio. Sgt. Berger turns on the light and picks up a large object in the beam. At about 10:00 p.m., the searchlight picks up two distinct groups of five triangular objects that seem to emerge from the main disc. They descend on the beam then turn out of it. The same performance is repeated 30 minutes later. About 50 persons, including newspaper reporters observe the objects. Miller takes several photographs and asks Sgt. Leo Davidson of the Norwood police department to film the display. He uses three rolls, 25 feet each, and a Hugo-Meyer F-19- 3" camera with telephoto lens. Davidson also takes 10 still photographs of the large disc-shaped object that flies in and out of the searchlight beam, using a Speed-Graphic camera with a 14-inch Wallensach telephoto lens. Two of these are exceptional shots, showing both the parent object and the smaller group. These two pictures are last seen by Time-Life correspondent Harry Mayo, who has prepared a feature story for Time, which was to include them. But Mayo’s story and Miller’s photos were not used in Time or Life and, in spite of requests by Miller, these two photos are never returned. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harry Mayo, “[What Glows on Here? Norwood Muses,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100226193/)” Cincinnati Post, April 6, 1950, p. 1; “[More Proof That ‘Saucers’ Exist,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 5 \(August 6, 1954\): 1–2; NICAP, “[The Ohio](http://www.nicap.org/490819norwood%5Fdir.htm) [Searchlight Incident](http://www.nicap.org/490819norwood%5Fdir.htm)”; Patrick Gross, “[The Norwood Searchlight Incident](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/norwood49.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1441 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2919 (1CC1804A) Date: 10/23/1949 Description: In Norwood, Hamilton County, Ohio outside of Cincinnati a black-and-white motion picture film was made showing a large disc-shaped craft hovering in a searchlight beam; it emitted five triangular or delta-shaped objects. The entire event began at 7:15 p.m., lasted over 210 minutes, and was witnessed by more than 50 people. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 72; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_7033 Source: Johnson ### Event 2920 (CB774326) Date: 10/28/1949 Description: At six o'clock in the morning several independent observers in Montecarotto, Italy watched an eight meter long cigar-shaped object as it flew 100 meters overhead towards the north-northeast. Tree branches thrashed about as it passed by. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 103 Source ID: Johnson_7214 Source: Johnson ### Event 2921 (AEEF938B) Date: 10/30/1949 Description: Observed a white round solid disc-shaped object that was approximately 50 feet in diameter. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [491030](http://www.nicap.org/novato491030dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Novato (10 miles N of), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_638 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2922 (514EECFF) Date: 11/1949 Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/1949 he flew from Hollywood with Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and sees and makes detailed photographs of a large disc-like object. Type: witness statement Reference: [book "The UFO Crash at Aztec" by Steinman and Stevens](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) See also: 3/25/1948 See also: 4/1948 Source ID: Maj2_379 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2923 (4758ACFA) Date: 11/3/1949 Description: 11:00 a.m. USAF Capt. William H. Donnelly is driving south about 2 miles north of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, with a friend when he sees four objects to the east at a high altitude. All are oval and a metallic white color. They are constantly changing formation, moving up and down, back and forth. The objects continue to fly south rapidly and move in a horizontal line and disappear from sight in 20–40 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_1444 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2924 (2192E226) Date: 11/3/1949 Description: [Karl Taylor Compton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FTaylor%5FCompton) resigns as chairman of the Research and Development Board around the same time that [Lawrence R. Hafstad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%5FR.%5FHafstad) succeeds [Lloyd Berkner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner) as executive secretary. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_1443 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2925 (25C7C4AA) Date: 11/3/1949 Description: [Joseph Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) brings the green fireball plan to the USAF Scientific Advisory Board at the Pentagon. By this time, he is convinced the fireballs are a rare type of meteor. But others are puzzled by the brightness, trajectories, and soundlessness, Kaplan says, “This high selectivity of direction seems to indicate that some group was trying to pinpoint Los Alamos with a new sort of weapon.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 544 Source ID: Eberhart_1442 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2926 (722AA289) Date: 11/3/1949 Description: U.S. Air Force Captain W. Donnelly sighted a flight of four disc-shaped object north of Rosarita Beach, Baja California, Mexico. The objects had a cavorting flight formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, CSI/LA investigation files, letter dated April 6, 1952; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_7422 Source: Johnson ### Event 2927 (464A4A81) Date: 11/3/1949 Description: Donnelly Case, (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baja (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_639 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2928 (98948C34) Date: 11/11/1949 Description: 6:30 p.m. USNR Commander [J. R. Bodler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131997317/j%5F-r%5F-bodler) is in charge of a merchant vessel \(possibly the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FHemminger) [Hemminger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FHemminger)\) in the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. He observes a huge, pulsating submarine light wheel, some 1,000–1,500 feet in diameter, one mile from his ship. It is revolving around an ill-defined center with streaks of light like searchlight beams moving counterclockwise “like the spokes of a gigantic wheel.” He thinks it is caused by natural phosphorescence, stimulated by some marine life. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. R. Bodler, “[An Unexplained Phenomenon of the Sea,](https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1952/january/unexplained-phenomenon-sea)” US Naval Institute Proceedings 72 \(January 1952\): 66–67; Carl Feindt, [waterufo.net](http://www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=63) Source ID: Eberhart_1445 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2929 (364FB846) Date: 11/18/1949 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 123.9km attitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 123.9km Source ID: Maj2_381 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2930 (B04C3FF1) Date: 11/21/1949 Description: Rectangular object flying at 500 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Akita, Honshu, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_640 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2931 (71B80281) Date: 11/21/1949 Description: An F-80 fighter pilot flying over Akita, Japan saw a rectangular-shaped UFO flying at 500 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, November 1949 report Source ID: Johnson_7762 Source: Johnson ### Event 2932 (A677888E) Date: 11/23/1949 Description: Frank Scully Variety article “Flying Saucers Dismantled, Secrets May Be Lost” Type: publication Reference: [link](https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Frank_Scully) Location: Hollywood, CA Source ID: Maj2_380 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2933 (8AFD6885) Date: 11/25/1949 Description: Flying discs first observed near the observatory at Mt. Palomar. A recording geiger counter was so activated at the times of these sightings, that it went completely off scale (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: NICAP: [491125](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/palomar491125dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Palomar, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_641 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2934 (76C97D64) Date: 11/25/1949 Description: In 1949 a cloud cigar-shaped object was sighted by three witnesses driving between Edna and Inez, Texas at 2:30 p.m. It flew off rapidly to the south toward Edna. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 145 Source ID: Johnson_7899 Source: Johnson ### Event 2935 (6355A297) Date: 11/27/1949 Description: 6:00 p.m. Kirtland AFB Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col. Charles E. Lancaster Jr. is driving near McIntosh, New Mexico, when he sees a green fireball descend near Albuquerque. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 77 Source ID: Eberhart_1447 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2936 (6767640F) Date: 11/27/1949 Description: 5:49 p.m. Civil Aeronautics Administration Chief Controller W. W. Jones watches a blue-white fireball moving 5°–7° per second over Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Francis Ridge, “[The Nuclear](http://www.nicap.org/nmexico/newmexicosightings.htm) [Connection Project: The New Mexico Sightings,](http://www.nicap.org/nmexico/newmexicosightings.htm)” September 3, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_1446 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2937 (2EA1286A) Date: 12/1949 Description: Capt. Bernard Baruch Jr. suggests to Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) that UFOs be added to JANAP 146 as required reporting subjects and that civilian pilots report UFO sightings according to military chains of command. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 122 Source ID: Eberhart_1448 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2938 (16B24909) Date: 12/1949 Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes “The Flying Saucers are Real” in True Magazine Type: publication Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Saucers_Are_Real) Location: WA Source ID: Maj2_390 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2939 (566E82F0) Date: 12/2/1949 End date: 12/3/1949 Description: The US government releases radioactive fission products at the Hanford Site plutonium production facility in eastern Washington in an operation called Green Run. The radioisotopes are supposed to be detected by US Air Force reconnaissance. Sources cite 5,500–12,000 curies of iodine-131 are released and an even greater amount of xenon-133. The radiation is distributed over 500,000 acres encompassing three small towns and causes the cessation of intentional radioactive releases at Hanford until 1962, when more experiments commence. There are some indications that many other tests are conducted in the 1940s prior to Green Run, although this is a particularly large test. Evidence suggests that filters to remove the iodine are disabled during the test. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Green Run](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%5FRun)” Source ID: Eberhart_1449 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2940 (ADBBF190) Date: 12/4/1949 Description: C-47 Crew Encounters 600 MPH+ Silver Sphere (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [491204](http://www.nicap.org/491204covington%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hammond (bet Covington and), LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_642 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2941 (64033C5C) Date: 12/4/1949 Description: A 23-year-old man named Restier was driving home from Barra Mansa to Volta Redonda, Brazil at around 5:00 a.m. when he saw a 15-meter diameter disc land near the highway. Two beings came out, who looked human and were 1.65 meters tall but acted robotic in many ways. He claimed he went with them on an otherworld journey, during which he was put into a tub of liquid for the duration. After what seemed like three days he was returned, but the elapsed time had actually been four months (the return date was April 14th, 1950). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0155, citing Walter Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, April 1968, p. 15; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 157 Source ID: Johnson_8171 Source: Johnson ### Event 2942 (7F81F446) Date: 12/4/1949 Description: 5:00 p.m. Mario Restier is returning home from his father’s place in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when he notices a disc land about 32–50 feet from the road. He hears a voice telling him not to be afraid and asking if he wants to know what it’s all about. Two beings about 5 feet 5 inches emerge from the UFO wearing togas and helmets. Restier asks them if they believe in God, and they answer, “God is one.” Encouraged, he enters the craft where he is offered a trip, put in a tub filled with liquid, and taken on a trip to a city on another world. He is shown a screen that depicts human nature, ambitions, and violence. After about 6 hours, he is returned to the spot where he was abducted. Returning to his father’s house, he finds it is April 14, 1950, and has lost nearly four months of earth time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil 23–24 Source ID: Eberhart_1450 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2943 (94C300AC) Date: 12/8/1949 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 130.3km attitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 130.3km Source ID: Maj2_382 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2944 (54B98F03) Date: 12/13/1949 Description: Unknown Aerial Phenomenon Sighted (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [491213](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/holloman491213dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_643 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2945 (DBB935F7) Date: 12/17/1949 Description: On this evening in 1949 two witnesses aboard a ferry in Puget Sound bound for Victoria, British Columbia from Seattle, Washington saw a nocturnal light zigzagging in the sky toward the northwest. It spiralled up into the night sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (volume 2), p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_8456 Source: Johnson ### Event 2946 (2DC3488C) Date: 12/20/1949 Description: Following consideration by the Defense Department’s Research and Development Board, [Joseph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan)’s green fireball project is approved by AMC. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Col. B. G. Holzman, “[Light Phenomena,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/491209%5FLight%5FPhenomena.pdf)” December 20, 1949; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 16; Clark III 544 Source ID: Eberhart_1451 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2947 (FE9169EB) Date: 12/24/1949 Description: The January 1950 issue of True magazine is published, with [Donald Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s article, “The Flying Saucers Are Real.” Keyhoe argues that the Air Force knows UFOs are real, alien, and covering up information from the public in order to avoid panic: “For the past 175 years, the planet Earth has been under systematic close- range examination by living, intelligent observers from another planet.” The Air Force finds itself buried in letters, telegrams, and phone calls demanding information about flying saucers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, “[The Flying](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2001%2000%5FTrue%5FDonald%20Keyhoe%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf) [Saucers Are Real,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2001%2000%5FTrue%5FDonald%20Keyhoe%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf)” True, January 1950, pp. 11–13, 83–87 Source ID: Eberhart_1452 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2948 (2AAA4F05) Date: 12/27/1949 Description: Project Grudge report released: Explained away all reports to date as delusions, hysteria, hoaxes and crackpot reports. Announcement that project had disbanded. Type: report released Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_860 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2949 (27BD769A) Date: 12/27/1949 Description: USAF announces that Project Grudge is terminated. Its files are put into storage. The Grudge report is released again, reiterating that UFOs are the “result of \(1\) misinterpretations of various conventional objects; \(2\) a mild form of mass hysteria; or \(3\) hoaxes.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 932–933 Source ID: Eberhart_1453 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2950 (25726E88) Date: 12/27/1949 Description: USAF Project "Saucer" closed Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_104 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2951 (1D9D278A) Date: 12/28/1949 Description: Richmond VA area: Radio play about a crashed saucer with 12 dead midget crewmen Type: radio show Reference: [link](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105319343/flying-saucer-crash-12-midetmen-crewman/) Location: Richmond, VA Source ID: Maj2_383 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2952 (F2F8981F) Date: 12/29/1949 Description: Blimp-shaped object outdistance the \[4?\] planes at high speed. (Project 1947; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [491229](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/fayette491228dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenwood (Bet Hamlet and), NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_644 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2953 (E19D3A3C) Date: 12/31/1949 Description: Newspaper articles on a crash saucer “almost 3 years ago”, research program, exotic metals defying analysis, small occupants, very high technology, acclimation program references. There are 2 years, 5 months, 23 days between 7/8/1947 and 12/31/1949. Type: newspaper articles Reference: [link](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105191549/crash-retrieval/) Reference: [link](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107741958/wes-izzard-columnist-tells-story-of/) Source ID: Maj2_384 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 1950 (Back to Top) ### Event 2954 (AD5E156B) Date: 1950's Description: At least 11 nuclear explosions were carried out at the Soviet Kapustin Yar test site, in addition to all other launches Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapustin_Yar) Location: Kapustin Yar Source ID: Maj2_386 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2955 (89A44C8A) Date: 1950's Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout maps. Type: book reference Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar Location: Area 51 Source ID: Maj2_385 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2956 (B39DDBA6) Date: 1950 End date: 1951 Description: USAF Investigation Summary: These conclusions challenged on basis of lack of proof; "explain-away" approach adopted by investigators. Type: investigation Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_897 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2957 (B0DD2638) Date: 1950 Description: Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-26” atomic weapons project plant opens (Plutonium production) Type: atomic plant Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_388 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2958 (DFF07604) Date: 1950 Description: [N. Meade Layne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meade%5FLayne) publishes The Ether-Ship Mystery and Its Solution, which identifies UFOs as emanating from the etheric world, which coexists with and interpenetrates ours. The etherians must lower their “vibrational” rate in order to enter our realm. UFOs are “thought-constructs” that can take many forms and densities. He considers the etherians benign. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Meade Layne, [The Ether-Ship Mystery and Its Solution](https://borderlandsciences.org/project/etheria/mimeo/esm/index.html)[,](https://borderlandsciences.org/project/etheria/mimeo/esm/index.html) Borderland Sciences Research Associates, 1950 Source ID: Eberhart_1454 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2959 (5E34ECF7) Date: 1950 Description: William Ortiz, a deaf-mute, claims to have the first of three close encounters \(the others in 1969 and 1975\) with large-eyed aliens in UFOs in Colombia. After the first two events, he finds his hearing temporarily restored. The entities communicate to him using hand signals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[First Reported CEIII Alien Communicating with Deaf-Mute,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1982\): 1, 3 Source ID: Eberhart_1455 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2960 (EDDD5476) Date: 1950 End date: 1951 Description: This period has been called the "Dark Ages" of UFO investigation. Following the Project Grudge report, the project was not disbanded. However, those who believed in a more positive investigation could not win support for their views--until late in 1951 when the situation was reviewed partly due to public protests. Type: time period Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_861 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2961 (85EC9337) Date: 1950 Description: Aviator Kenneth Arnold publishes the pamphlet “The Flying Saucer as I Saw It” Type: publication Reference: [Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/AFU_19840500_APRO_Bulletin_v32_n3/page/n1/mode/2up?q=%22The+Flying+Saucer+As+I+Saw+It%22) Location: WA Source ID: Maj2_389 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2962 (CC68ECBF) Date: Early 1950 Description: Author and military historian Fletcher Pratt initiated rumor waves in the press by announcing that he had obtained through confidential channels information that a flying saucer had crashed to earth and that bodies of a vaguely human appearance and about 35 inches tall had been found dead in the wreckage. Type: rumors Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/a-list-of-forgotten-pre-roswell-crash-retrieval-c-r-authors-lecturers-d68daebe6dba) Source ID: Maj2_392 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2963 (CC4828EF) Date: 1/1950 Description: The Ground Observer Corps, an organization of civilians who watch the skies for enemy airplanes, is created by the US Air Defense Command. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Ground Observer Corps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%5FObserver%5FCorps)” Source ID: Eberhart_1456 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2964 (B5822C76) Date: 1/1950 Description: TRUE magazine publishes first article on Flying Saucers Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_105 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2965 (E9C4532A) Date: 1/1950 Description: On the Seattle, Washington, to Anchorage, Alaska, route, an air freighter is paced for five minutes by a UFO. When the pilots try to close in, the craft zooms away at terrific speed. Later, the airline head reports that intelligence officers quizzed the pilots for hours. “From their questions,” he said, “I could tell they had a good idea of what the saucers are. One officer admitted they did, but he wouldn’t say any more.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, [p. 10](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chI.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1457 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2966 (41FA1B92) Date: 1/1950 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) meets with Gen. [Sory Smith](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105625/major-general-sory-smith/), director of public relations for the Air Force; Maj. [Jesse E. Stay](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27668584/jesse-e%5F-stay) and Jack T. Shea, press officers; and Maj. [Jere Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm) Pentagon liaison to Project Grudge. Most of the interview involves questions for Boggs. Keyhoe is given two looseleaf notebooks with summaries of “Project Saucer” cases. His request to visit Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to look at the actual case files is turned down weeks later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, [pp. 147–154](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chXVI.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1458 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2967 (73C8DE55) Date: 1/1/1950 Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes a condensed version of “The Flying Saucers are Real” in Newspapers Type: publication Reference: [Wikipedia](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116737446/the-flying-saucers-are-real-keyhoe/) Source ID: Maj2_391 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2968 (4B777AC2) Date: 1/6/1950 Description: Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper: “Coulter” (George T. Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, saucer near a radar installation, exotic metals, acclimation program, etc. Type: rumors Reference: [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115954706/car-dealer-reports-saucer-from-venus/) Source ID: Maj2_393 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2969 (4916CEF6) Date: 1/6/1950 Description: Crew of C-47 transport saw a 30-60 ft silver football-shaped object flying in straight level flight. (Project 1947; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500106](http://www.nicap.org/500106howard%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Howard (near), KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_645 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2970 (5CFB729B) Date: 1/6/1950 Description: Three military witnesses, including one named Zimmerman, were flying in a U.S. Air Force C-47 transport plane near Howard, Kansas on this day when they sighted a silverly metallic, football-shaped object flying on a straight level flight path. They estimated the object was between 30 and 60 feet long, was flying at 2,000 feet altitude at a speed of 400 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, January 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 2; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_162 Source: Johnson ### Event 2971 (5F827084) Date: 1/7/1950 Description: 10:15 p.m. The assistant maintenance officer at Holloman AFB is driving south of Corona, New Mexico, when he sees a green fireball. It descends at a 60° angle, then levels out and travels 10° east before dropping out of sight behind a mountain. When first seen, it is yellowish-white, changes to orange as it descends, then turns bright blue-green as it levels out and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[January 7, 1950, Corona, NM, OSI Case 161](http://www.nicap.org/corona500107dir.htm)”: Clark III 544; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 78 Source ID: Eberhart_1459 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2972 (0C1540AA) Date: 1/7/1950 Description: OSI Case 161 yellowish-white ball of light at about 45° elevation changing color to orange with trailing flame (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [500107](http://www.nicap.org/corona500107dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corona (south of), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_646 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2973 (F75EA45D) Date: 1/9/1950 Description: Time magazine reports on rumors of crashed saucers and small humanoids in New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Visitors from](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0%2C33009%2C811681%2C00.html) [Venus](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0%2C33009%2C811681%2C00.html),” Time, January 9, 1950 Source ID: Eberhart_1460 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2974 (5FE306D0) Date: 1/10/1950 Description: A man and his father stated that an object was within their vision for approximately twenty five (25) seconds and that the appearance of the object was pure silver, round "like a balloon" and apparently constructed of. a solid material, "a metal". (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [500110](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/500110lasvegasdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas AFB, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_647 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2975 (73F693E8) Date: 1/12/1950 Description: The AF Directorate of Intelligence quietly cancels the special intelligence collection directives to various government agencies for reporting UFO incidents, though routine intelligence channels still require UFO reporting, per AFCIR-CC7, “Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft.” Cancellation is a follow-up to the widely announced closure of “Project Saucer.” AFOIN Director Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) believes that in fact AMC is taking its UFO project underground by announcing the closure. Months later Cabell discovers that AMC Intelligence under Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) is not running a secret UFO investigation, and Cabell is forced to make up for AMC’s negligence by conducting his own UFO investigations via his AF Intelligence staff. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “[Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB89-381.pdf)” January 12, 1950; Swords 498 Source ID: Eberhart_1461 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2976 (75375A11) Date: 1/12/1950 Description: 11:25 p.m. A B-29 aircraft is flying over the Gulf of Mexico \(southwest of Florida\) on a course of 260° when three objects are noted on the radar scope orbiting the B-29 from all quadrants. The objects are noticed by the radar operator, aircraft commander, navigator, and bombardier. One object is first sighted on a bearing of 330° traveling south. The objects travel across the scope in approximately 15–20 seconds on the 100-mile range setting. In a few minutes this object is joined by two others, which disappear in a few minutes. At short ranges the object is large and well-defined on the radar scope. The object goes off for about 100 miles, turns and comes in as if for an attack, passes through the center of the scope, and emerges on the other side. The estimated speed of the object is 2,500–3,000 mph. The one object remains on the radar scope for approximately 30 minutes, following the B-29 all the time. The radar operator switches ranges on the scope and picks up the object on the 20- and 50- mile settings. Twice the object comes to within 20 miles of the aircraft and then apparently has the ability to hover, because the movement on the radar scope ceases for 5–15 seconds. After altering course the object no longer appears, but the radar is jammed for approximately 10 minutes. The crew makes no visual sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[B-29 Radar Tracks Objects](http://www.nicap.org/500112gulf%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 58; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 79 Source ID: Eberhart_1462 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2977 (3E0B2FAF) Date: 1/12/1950 Description: Flying over the Gulf of Mexico northwest of Cuba, a USAF B-29 picked up three unidentified radar blips. The bogeys hovered for awhile, and then orbited the B-29 at 3,000 mph. The bomber's airborne radar jammed for an additional ten minutes after the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_272 Source: Johnson ### Event 2978 (F3497711) Date: 1/12/1950 Description: At 24° 0' N, 85°20' W. (McDonald list) B-29 Radar Tracks Objects (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500112](http://www.nicap.org/500112gulf%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf of Mexico (SW of Florida), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_648 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2979 (90F35045) Date: 1/13/1950 Description: Observed a bright white object that changed color to red and green in northern sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [500113](http://www.nicap.org/holloman500113dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_649 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2980 (A49341B5) Date: 1/14/1950 Description: At 4:45 p.m. Fairchild plant workers at the nuclear research facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee watched a brilliant fiery ball of light hover over restricted military airspace for about two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_307 Source: Johnson ### Event 2981 (4BAD5E0C) Date: 1/14/1950 Description: F6F Picks Up Object Tracked By Gnd Radar At 480 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [500114](http://www.nicap.org/501114keywest%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Key West, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_659 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2982 (EE9D1539) Date: 1/15/1950 Description: UFO Tracked By Gnd Radar Nr. Two F6F Aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [500115](http://www.nicap.org/501115keywest%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Key West, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_660 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2983 (3E76C234) Date: 1/16/1950 Description: CLASSIFIED USAF Staff Message: At a radar station near New Mexico a person reported seeing 2 saucers. One was badly damaged the other almost perfectly intact. Description: Each consisted of 2 parts, a cockpit or cabin about 6 ft. diam.; a ring approx. 18 ft. across and 2 ft. thick surrounding cabin, resembling aluminum, but actual metal has defied analysis by the Dearborn Plant. Two crew members in the damaged ship were charred but in the undamaged ship the two crew members were perfectly preserved. Type: classified staff message Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p27, RECOVERY) See also: 1/6/1950 See also: 1/30/1950 Source ID: Maj2_394 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2984 (B53CE056) Date: 1/16/1950 Description: The AFOSI office at Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska, sends a message that recounts stories from Denver, Colorado, about crashed saucers in the southwest. The metal allegedly “defied analysis.” Bodies are said to be 3 feet tall. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, p. 74 Source ID: Eberhart_1463 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2985 (742E79B3) Date: 1/16/1950 Description: [Tsuneo Saheki](https://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Ecmo/cmo/175/cmo175.html) of the Osaka Planetarium in Japan sees an explosion on Mars, 60 miles high and 900 miles in diameter. Thomas Dobbins and William Sheehan investigate and find that this and other Martian flashes are likely caused by solar reflections on patches of ice crystals on the surface of Mars. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Terrific Explosion’ on Mars](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89517126/st-louis-post-dispatch/) [Reported by Japanese Observers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89517126/st-louis-post-dispatch/)” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 27, 1950, p. 13; John J. O’Neill, “[Mars Blast](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89517518/the-ottawa-citizen/) [Puzzles Science,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89517518/the-ottawa-citizen/)” Ottawa \(Ont.\) Citizen, July 16, 1952, p. 30; “[Some Curious Objects: Meteoritic Perhaps,](http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/djalpo/42-1/DJALPO42-1-free.PDF)” The Strolling Astronomer 4, no. 5 \(May 1, 1950\): 8–9; Thomas Dobbins and William Sheehan, “[Solving the Martian](http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/mars/articles/MartianFlaresALPO.pdf) [Flares Mystery,](http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/mars/articles/MartianFlaresALPO.pdf)” 2002 Source ID: Eberhart_1464 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2986 (B48F15EB) Date: 1/18/1950 Description: T-6 Crews Encounter Object At 15,000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500118](http://www.nicap.org/500118denver%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Denver, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_650 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2987 (2366F56B) Date: 1/18/1950 Description: A slow moving disc-shaped or spherical UFO moved through the sky over Summit, New Jersey at 7 p.m. It was reddish-orange in color, and gave off a steady light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los Angeles case files, letter dated 1952 from W. Wilkinson Source ID: Johnson_363 Source: Johnson ### Event 2988 (8C49EAAD) Date: 1/22/1950 Description: Maneuvering red exhaust-like or orange ball of fire circle (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500122](http://www.nicap.org/500122kodiak%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kodiak NAS (near), AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_653 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2989 (FF89BA01) Date: 1/22/1950 Description: USN P2V3 Patrol Plane and USS Tillamook Encounter "threatening" Radar Target and E-M (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: NICAP: [500122](http://www.nicap.org/500122kodiak%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kodiak NAS, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_651 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2990 (CAFB72A5) Date: 1/22/1950 Description: At around 4:00 a.m. a radar blip was detected approaching the Kodiak Islands at 1,800 mph over Kodiak, Alaska, according to airborne radar. It then buzzed several planes and boats. A U.S. Navy plane failed to intercept the UFO because it was too highly maneuverable. It had two orange lights rotating about the center, and made no detectable sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1978, p. 7; UNICAT, case # 359; Lawrence Fawcett & Barry J. Greenwood, UFO Coverup, p. 164; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 399 Source ID: Johnson_406 Source: Johnson ### Event 2991 (11F62A76) Date: 1/22/1950 Description: U.S. Navy patrol plane pilot, Lt. Smith, was on routine security flight when he picked up a radar track on an UFO, two times. Smith then radioed Kodiak radar station and was advised that no known traffic was in his radar area. Moored south of Kodiak was the USS Tillamook with Master Morgan standing on watch. Suddenly, at 3 a.m., “a very fast moving red glow appeared to be of exhaust nature, seemed to come from the south-east, moved clockwise in a large circle in the direction of, and around Kodiak and returned out in a generally south-east direction. The UFO was moving so fast that it was actually leaving a streak on Smith’s radarscreen. It was estimated to be moving at a speed of 1800 mph. Described as “two orange lights rotating about a common center like two jet aircraft making slow rolls in tight formation.” The UFO then made an abrupt turn and headed directly towards Smiths’ aircraft in a threatening gesture so Smith quickly turned off all of his lights turn make his plane less conspicuous in the inky colored sky. The UFO flew by him and disappeared in the south-east in a matter of minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Kodiak, Alaska Source ID: Maj2_395 Source: Maj2 ### Event 2992 (F619BA1D) Date: 1/22/1950 Description: 2:40 a.m. Navy patrol pilot Lieut. Smith makes a routine security flight out of Naval Air Station Kodiak \[now Coast Guard Base Kodiak\], Alaska. He obtains a radar reading on an object 20 miles north. It quickly vanishes. At 2:48, he tracks a similar object 10 miles southeast. Kodiak radar reports no known aircraft in the vicinity, but they are seeing the same track. At 3:00 a.m., the tug [USS Tillamook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTillamook%5F%28ATA-192%29) is south of Kodiak when one of the men on deck sees a “very fast-moving red glow light, which appeared to be of exhaust nature.” The object comes from the southeast, moves clockwise around Kodiak, and returns to the southeast. Another officer sees it for 30 seconds and describes it as a “large ball of orange fire.” At 4:40 a.m., Lieut. Smith picks up another blip moving so fast that it leaves a trail on his screen. His crew sees the UFO close a five-mile gap in 10 seconds, an apparent speed of 1,800 mph. Witnesses report two orange lights that rotate around a common center. The object makes a sharp turn and heads directly towards Smith’s plane. Smith considers this a threatening situation and turns off his lights; the UFO flies by and disappears. At least 35 copies of Smith’s report are sent to FBI, CIA, AFOSI, and the State Department. None are ever officially released or published. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[USN P2V3 Patrol](http://www.nicap.org/500122kodiak%5Fdir.htm) [Plane and USS](http://www.nicap.org/500122kodiak%5Fdir.htm) [Tillamook](http://www.nicap.org/500122kodiak%5Fdir.htm) [Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/500122kodiak%5Fdir.htm)”; ClearIntent, [pp. 165–166](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/164/mode/2up); Clark III 58; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 80; Swords 90–91 Source ID: Eberhart_1465 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2993 (9936F56A) Date: 1/23/1950 Description: At 4:40 a.m. a U.S. Navy P2V3 patrol plane flying from the Kodiak Naval Air Station in Alaska spotted two orange lights rotating about a common central point, which maneuvered in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, September 1978, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_437 Source: Johnson ### Event 2994 (33098C05) Date: 1/24/1950 Description: 4:50 p.m. USAF Capt. G. B. Edwards and copilot Theron C. Fehrevach are flying a C-45 transport plane from Pope AFB \[now Pope Field\], Fayetteville, North Carolina, to Bolling AFB \[now Joint Base Anacostia- Bolling\], Washington, D.C. While at 5,000 feet near Blacksburg, Virginia, Fehrevach notices a dark, 200–250 foot in diameter, hemispherical parachute-shaped object above them about 5–10 miles away. A large black smoky region is below it, possibly obscuring the lower portion of a sphere. The UFO is darker than the 50% cloud cover and “easy to distinguish as not being cloud.” The object moves smoothly without any noticeable turn radius. Edwards puts the C-45 into a climb to 7,000 feet so they are at the same altitude as the UFO and turns to head directly toward it. Army Courier Service passenger 1st Lt. [John H. Van Santen](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57018521/john-henry-van%5Fsanten) is alerted by Fehrevach and also sees the object move right then left again, then they all see the object recede at high speed and disappear. About 90 seconds later the object reappears about 30°–45° to the right of their heading, then oscillates right to left. It moves horizontally to dead ahead again and disappears by receding in the distance at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[C-25](http://www.nicap.org/500124blackstone%5Fdir.htm) [Transport Crew Encounters Object](http://www.nicap.org/500124blackstone%5Fdir.htm)”; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “[Blackstone, Virginia, USA: January](http://www.nicap.org/500124blackstone%5Fdir.htm) [24, 1950,](http://www.nicap.org/500124blackstone%5Fdir.htm)” September 30, 2015; Swords 91 Source ID: Eberhart_1466 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2995 (9376EAE2) Date: 1/24/1950 Description: At 4:50 p.m. a UFO shaped like a hemisphere with a flattened lower part, and estimated to be 70-80 meters in diameter, maneuvered in the sky five miles away from a C-45 transport plane flying from Pope AFB in Halifax County, North Carolina. The C-45, flying at an airspeed of 160 mph, could not catch up with it. The object oscillated with a pendulum motion. The Air Force explanation was that the object sighted by military pilots Fehrevach and Edwards was a balloon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 14; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_473 Source: Johnson ### Event 2996 (7F7C5F1E) Date: 1/24/1950 Description: C-45 Transport Crew Encounters Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500124](http://www.nicap.org/500124blackstone%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Blackstone (near), VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_654 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 2997 (464922FC) Date: Late 1/1950 Description: Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell), possibly inspired by the Kodiak, Alaska, case, sends a letter to ATIC asking why Project Grudge has ended, because he never disbanded it. ATIC responds that Grudge is no longer a special project and that UFO reports will be processed through normal intelligence channels. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 69–70](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/68/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1467 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 2998 (BD80D252) Date: 1/26/1950 Description: Three orange cylinders flew to the north at 1600 km/h over Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. It was witnessed by a Lieutenant Colonel and another military witness. It was lost from sight when it disappeared into an odd looking, lone small thin cloud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1498 Source ID: Johnson_512 Source: Johnson ### Event 2999 (CFF552A2) Date: 1/26/1950 Description: 4:00 p.m. Lt. Col. [Lester F. Mathison](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102721979/lester-f-mathison)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102721979/lester-f-mathison) commanding officer of the 625th Aircraft and Warning Squadron at Elmendorf AFB \[now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson\], Anchorage, Alaska, notices three reddish objects above the cirrus cloud layer at 25,000–30,000 feet. They are moving to the north in a sightly curled trail fashion and disappear into some clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Extract: History of the 57th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, January 1–March 31, 1950](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr08.pdf) [\(Elmendorf AFB, Alaska\),](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr08.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 8 \(February 2001\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_1468 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3000 (A590D85B) Date: 1/29/1950 Description: Mr. Quintana of Denver, Colorado saw a silvery green ovoid object hovering about 15 meters above a slope on South Table Mountain. It landed slowly in a small ravine. Then it shot upward at very high speed. Its diameter was about 20 meters, and it had a revolving middle band. A greenish light flashed under it, and the witness felt a rush of air and a pungent smell. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 194, citing Flying Saucers, July 1959 Source ID: Johnson_570 Source: Johnson ### Event 3001 (17E2E342) Date: 1/29/1950 Description: Mr. Quintana of Denver saw a silvery-green ovoid object hovering about 15 m above a slope and landing slowly in a small ravine. Then it shot upward at very high speed. Its diameter was about 20 m, and it had a revolving middle band. A greenish light flashed under it, and the witness felt a rush of air and a pungent smell. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Jul., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: South Table Mountain, Colorado Source ID: Magnonia_72 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3002 (8BAD8B6C) Date: 1/30/1950 Description: The Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee, prints article referring to the Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper article on “Coulter” (George T. Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, acclimation program. Type: newspaper article Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115954706/car-dealer-reports-saucer-from-venus/) Location: Kodiak, Alaska See also: 1/6/1950 Source ID: Maj2_396 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3003 (DCC6EED3) Date: 1/31/1950 Description: Office MEMO, Director FBI, SAC, San Antonio: A UFO resembling a rocket ship without wings appeared out of a thunderhead of clouds narrowly missing an Eastern Airlines flight and disappeared into another cloud. It was traveling approx. 2700 mph and no sound or air disturbance was noted with it. During the past two months the UFO sightings appeared to be concentrated near Los Alamos, N.M. This UFO was also sighted near Los Alamos on Jan. 6, 1949. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Los Alamos, NM See also: 1/6/1950 Source ID: Maj2_397 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3004 (59ED8170) Date: 1/31/1950 Description: 3 ft red and white elliptical object flying (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500131](http://nicap.org/aleut500131dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aleutian Islands (north of), AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_655 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3005 (7858704F) Date: 2/1/1950 Description: A meteor-like object spewing smoke is seen by many people over Tucson, Arizona. The radio operator at Davis-Monthan AFB asks 1st Lieut. [Roy L. Jones Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3594082/roy-l-jones) to investigate it in his B-29, but he cannot catch up with it. [Edwin Francis Carpenter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%5FFrancis%5FCarpenter)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%5FFrancis%5FCarpenter) head of the University of Arizona astronomy department, says he is certain the object is not a meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, [pp. 10–12](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chI.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 81 Source ID: Eberhart_1470 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3006 (FC65D8BF) Date: 2/1/1950 Description: [Harry S. Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) issues Executive Order 10104 and creates the “Top Secret classification” designation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Office of the Federal Register, “[Executive Order 10104](https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/10104.html)” Source ID: Eberhart_1469 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3007 (F68FD3F9) Date: 2/2/1950 Description: [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) citing the press of academic duties, withdraws from Project Twinkle. \(Clark III 544\) February 5 — 5:10 p.m. Four people at Falmouth Airport \[now part of Frances Crane Wildlife Management Area north of Hatchville, Massachusetts\] see two illuminated cylindrical objects in the western sky. The witnesses include [Marvin R. Odom](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48772567/marvin-r.-odom)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48772567/marvin-r.-odom) owner of the airport, and Lt. [Philip Foushee Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57692982/philip-amos-foushee) of Otis AFB \[now Otis Air National Guard Base\] near Mashpee. As the objects are maneuvering, a fireball drops from one. Five minutes later they both climb at high speed and disappear from view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Feb. 5, 1950; Teaticket, Mass.](http://www.nicap.org/teaticket500205dir.htm)”; Hyannis \(Mass.\) Cape Cod Standard Times, February 6, 1950; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 81 Source ID: Eberhart_1471 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3008 (9C32913F) Date: 2/2/1950 Description: Saw object trailing smoke (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_656 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3009 (D070DFED) Date: 2/5/1950 Time: 5:10 PM Description: Witnesses: Marvin Odom, former U.S. Navy fighter pilot, USAF Lt. Philip Foushee, pilot from Otis AFB, and two others. Two thin, illuminated cylinders, one of which dropped a fireball, maneuvered together and then disappeared high and fast after 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Teaticket, Massachusetts Source ID: BerlinerBBU_30 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3010 (A5CCE6FA) Date: 2/5/1950 Description: 2 thin, illuminated cylinders, one dropped a fireball, both maneuvered together then disappeared high and fast. (Berliner) 5 mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500205](http://www.nicap.org/teaticket500205dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Teaticket, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_657 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3011 (C97B3BD6) Date: 2/5/1950 Description: Seven people witnessed two cylindrical objects maneuvering in the sky at 5:10 p.m. near Falmouth Airport on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A fireball dropped from one of them, then they climbed into the western sky and disappeared. Listed as a Project Blue Book "unknown" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cape Cod Standard Times, February 6, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 17; Project Blue Book, February 1950 summary report Source ID: Johnson_696 Source: Johnson ### Event 3012 (E7A1F40E) Date: 2/7/1950 Description: A 30-foot wide cone-shaped object flew in over the shoreline at Alameda Naval Yard in California. There were six military witnesses in total, and the sighting lasted several minutes. One witness reported it as possibly a plane with engine trouble. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated February 9, 1950 Source ID: Johnson_731 Source: Johnson ### Event 3013 (A64A0C5E) Date: 2/8/1950 Description: AFOSI Letter \#85 is issued, directing Air Force personnel to relay UFO sightings to the Pentagon or AMC only if they are of “priority Counterintelligence interest.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 5, January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) [March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, p. 18 Source ID: Eberhart_1472 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3014 (6C468CD1) Date: 2/8/1950 Description: B-29 Crew, Others, See 300' Object At 2,000 MPH (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500208](http://www.nicap.org/500208tampa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tampa, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_658 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3015 (00FD6A71) Date: 2/13/1950 Description: In Norre Nebel, Denmark a disc-shaped object maneuvered over a farm at around 9 p.m. and then vanished in a flash. A second disc passed over the area eight minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1505 Source ID: Johnson_890 Source: Johnson ### Event 3016 (4B9031FA) Date: 2/15/1950 Description: In a newspaper story published in December 1967, a man from Salzburg, Austria claimed that he was abducted by a five-foot tall Grey humanoid UFOnaut who wore a silver uniform with a fishbowl style helmet. The incident reportedly occurred in a forest five miles north of Salzburg at around 11:00 p.m. at night. He was paralyzed and was floated up to the top of a round craft that had landed in a nearby field. The UFO had a dark interior, and the experience involved an off-Earth journey. The encounter lasted about an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1967, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_920 Source: Johnson ### Event 3017 (353C2D1E) Date: 2/17/1950 Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 148.7km attitude Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 148.7km Source ID: Maj2_398 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3018 (A288E302) Date: 2/20/1950 Description: [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) writes to [Peter H. Wyckoff](https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0477-63.2.215) of the USAF Cambridge Research Laboratories in Massachusetts that a “fireball project” ought not be pursued because any objects that are not meteors are probably US test missiles. But he concedes he might be wrong and says in that case, “intensive, systematic investigation of these objects should not be delayed.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 544 Source ID: Eberhart_1473 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3019 (F905B7FB) Date: 2/21/1950 Description: Project Twinkle, with the assistance of Land-Air, Inc., has set up its first operations post, manned by two observers who scan the sky over Holloman AFB, New Mexico, with theodolite, telescope, and camera. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 544; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 45 Source ID: Eberhart_1474 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3020 (1B3E8DF6) Date: 2/21/1950 Description: At 4:55 a.m. in Durban, South Africa three men in a truck and several other people witnessed a dark red, torpedo-shaped object that had a dark center, flying straight and level. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 896; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1030 Source: Johnson ### Event 3021 (55F294D7) Date: 2/22/1950 Description: USAF denies existance of flying saucers Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_106 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3022 (C9DAE60A) Date: 2/22/1950 Description: Navy pilots and others see two glowing UFOs, confirmed by radar, above the Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida. A plane is sent to investigate but it is “hopelessly outdistanced.” After hovering momentarily at a high altitude \(50 miles?\), they speed away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, [p. 12](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chI.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 81 Source ID: Eberhart_1475 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3023 (617D49B0) Date: 2/24/1950 Time: 1:55 PM Description: Witnesses: Municipal Airport Weather Observers Luther McDonald, Harrison Manson. One white, slightly elongated oval was watched for 1.5 minutes through a theodolite while it flew straight and level. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_31 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3024 (32F48E38) Date: 2/24/1950 Description: 7:30 p.m. USAF Cpl. [Lertis E. Stanfield](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63307920/lertis-eugene-stanfield) and other Holloman AFB Photographic Branch project staff at an observation post at Datil, New Mexico, take five photos \(using a Cineflex camera with 3-inch focal length lens\) of a circular, luminous white object that changes to red and green. Its angular velocity is greater than 0.5°/min in azimuth calculated by [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) The object moves in a smooth straight-line motion from about 8:00–9:30 p.m. to the west, blinking red and green. It disappears at high altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[AFOSI Case 175; Datil](http://www.nicap.org/datil500224dir.htm) [Observation Post Photographs Object](http://www.nicap.org/datil500224dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 82 Source ID: Eberhart_1476 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3025 (9D5AFA0B) Date: 2/24/1950 Description: UAO observed over Los Alamos (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 642, NC) Reference: NICAP: [500224](http://www.nicap.org/albuq500224Adir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_661 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3026 (3E576BA0) Date: 2/24/1950 Description: Saw and photographed a circular luminous object (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [500224](http://www.nicap.org/datil500224dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Datil, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_662 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3027 (2EB6B3F2) Date: 2/24/1950 Description: At 1:15 p.m. 16 A.E.S.S. inspectors watched an aluminum colored, round UFO hovering over Los Alamos, New Mexico. It moved around for 20 minutes as if observing the nuclear facility, zigzagged, and shot straight up in the sky. At 1:55 p.m. two Albuquerque, New Mexico Municipal Airport Weather Observers, Luther McDonald and Harrison Manson, watched a white, slightly elongated oval-shaped UFO for 90 seconds through a theodolite while it flew straight and level. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 26; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 642; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1073 Source: Johnson ### Event 3028 (71C2C15D) Date: 2/25/1950 Description: AEC Investigators Sighted cylinder with tapered ends, silver and flashing (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 645, NC) Reference: NICAP: [500225](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/alamos500225Bdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_663 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3029 (E258DCFF) Date: 2/25/1950 Time: 3:55 PM Description: Witnesses: Twelve Atomic Energy Commission security inspectors. One cylinder with tapered ends, silver and flashing, flew slow and hen fast, fluttered and oscillated, and changed course. observations by individuals varied from 3 seconds to 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_32 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3030 (7CA8C022) Date: 2/25/1950 Description: Los Alamos, New Mexico. Twelve Atomic Energy Commission security inspectors sighted a cylindrical UFO at 3:55 p.m. while at the Los Alamos nuclear facility. It was silver colored and was flashing, and had tapered ends. The object flew slowly and then sped up, fluttered and oscillated, and changed course. The observations by the various individuals lasted from three seconds up to two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1095 Source: Johnson ### Event 3031 (CA5C64A4) Date: 2/26/1950 Description: 2:45 p.m. Three witnesses observe a bronze-colored object that looks like two cigarette ashtrays placed face to face over Vancouver, British Columbia. It slows down as it passes overhead and wobbles as it moves along. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 64 Source ID: Eberhart_1477 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3032 (A72B615E) Date: 2/27/1950 Description: Object in the shape of a discus approximately 60 feet in diameter, 10 feet thick in the middle and thin at the edges seen from private plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [500227](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/500227coultervilledir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coulterville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_664 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3033 (450C6BC8) Date: 2/27/1950 Description: In Jamesburg, New Jersey two witnesses watched a metallic saucer-shaped object ringed with lights hovering at a low altitude, when it suddenly took off with a swishing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950 (volume 4), p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_1148 Source: Johnson ### Event 3034 (B2760D29) Date: 3/1950 Description: James J. Rodgers is named a chief of Project Grudge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_1478 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3035 (E08DBD13) Date: 3/1950 Description: According to [Karl T. Pflock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FT.%5FPflock)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FT.%5FPflock) two CIA agents clandestinely visit Aztec, New Mexico, UFO crash storyteller [Silas Newton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127850405/silas-mason-newton) and tell him that, although they know he is lying, they want him to continue spreading the tale as disinformation. The two agents later wind up involved in the Psychological Strategy Board created in 1951. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kremlin 37–42 Source ID: Eberhart_1480 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3036 (2F12114D) Date: 3/1950 Description: Naval Commander [Robert Bright McLaughlin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72103423/robert-bright-mclaughlin), in charge of a team of Navy scientists at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, writes about the [Charles B. Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FB.%5FMoore) sighting of April 24, 1949, in a True magazine article and speculates on saucer propulsion systems. McLaughlin writes that the saucers are indeed “spaceships from another planet, operated by animate, intelligent beings.” The Navy, having gotten a preview of the article, removes him from White Sands and gives him an assignment at sea aboard the destroyer [USS Bristol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FBristol%5F%28DD-857%29). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert B. McLaughlin, “[How Scientists Tracked a Flying Saucer,](http://www.nicap.org/datil500224dir.htm)” True, March 1950, pp. 25–27, 96–99; Ruppelt, [pp. 70–](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/70/mode/2up) [72](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/70/mode/2up); Swords 94–95 Source ID: Eberhart_1479 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3037 (5DB8BC8D) Date: 3/1/1950 Description: Radio amateur tracks UFO with radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0) Reference: NICAP: [500301](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/knoxville500301dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Knoxville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_665 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3038 (815F88E0) Date: 3/1/1950 Description: A metallic disc hovered over Chihuahua Airport in Mexico at five kilometers altitude during the day, then shot off quickly toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated March 5, 1950; Inforespace, December 1975 Source ID: Johnson_1195 Source: Johnson ### Event 3039 (AF48A514) Date: 3/1/1950 Description: Military and civilian radars tracked a UFO flying at between 40,000 and 80,000 feet near Knoxville, Tennessee. At 11:15 a.m. Stuart Adcock, a Knoxville radio amateur with experience in radar technology, called the local FBI agent, Mr. Robey, to report that he had detected an object using a surplus military radar set. The object was circling at at altitude of about 40,000 feet over Oak Ridge nuclear facility. Mr. Adcock reported another detection the next day. No planes were scheduled in the area at the time. The US Air Force suggested that the visual sightings may have been due to a mirage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI Connection, p. 169 Source ID: Johnson_1196 Source: Johnson ### Event 3040 (EBEDF77C) Date: 3/3/1950 Time: 11:05 PM Description: Witness: 1st Lt Frank Mattson. One intense, dull yellowish light descended vertically, then flew straight and level very fast for 4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_33 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3041 (5C798AC1) Date: 3/3/1950 Description: An intense, dull yellowish light descend vertically (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 650) Reference: NICAP: [500303](http://nicap.org/selfridge500303dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Selfridge AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_666 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3042 (174D09F8) Date: 3/3/1950 Description: At Selfridge AFB \[now Selfridge Air National Guard Base\] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, a lone UFO causes multiple radar trackings and is logged at speeds up to 1,500 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Descends Vertically,](http://www.nicap.org/500303selfridge%5Fdir.htm) [Levels Out](http://www.nicap.org/500303selfridge%5Fdir.htm)”; Patrick Gross, “[Selfridge AFB, Michigan, March 3, 1950](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/selfridge50.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 83 Source ID: Eberhart_1481 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3043 (1E0686DF) Date: 3/3/1950 Description: At Selfridge AFB in Macomb County, Michigan two radars tracked an unusual object in the sky at 11:10 p.m. whose presence was confirmed with a visual sighting by a witness named Mattson. The UFO was visible for four minutes and made wide swings and abrupt turns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 650; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_1268 Source: Johnson ### Event 3044 (5D7927AB) Date: 3/4/1950 Description: A man was driving east approximately two miles east of the junction of Indiana State Hwy 66 and 261 north of Newburgh, when he observed an object he believed to be a rocket at a distance of approximately 50-75 yards in front of his automobile. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [500304](http://www.nicap.org/500304newburghdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newburgh (near), IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_667 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3045 (8EAFC5D3) Date: 3/5/1950 Description: At 1:30 a.m an ex-Air Force officer driving on Highway 80 in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania said he watched a turtle shell-shaped disc hovering at low altitude. The 15 meter wide object kept away from him when the witness attempted to approach it. At 7:00 a.m. on this same date twenty witnesses watched a 25 foot wide, extremely bright UFO maneuver in the sky over Gering, Nebraska. It appeared to change shape as it flew off toward the southeast. In the afternoon a metallic flying disc trailing some kind of ribbon hovered, darted about, and jumped into some clouds over Houston, Texas. It left flying toward the east. That night in Bloomfield, New Mexico a dark, five-foot diameter disc paced a car. When the driver stopped the car the object circled the car, then sped away at a high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clippings, March 10, 1950 and March 27, 1950; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History, 1950: January-March, pp. 11, 31-32 Source ID: Johnson_1308 Source: Johnson ### Event 3046 (4DBE7CEB) Date: 3/5/1950 Description: Night. A dark, five-foot diameter disc paced a car. When the driver stopped the car the object circled the car, then sped away at a high speed. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bloomfield, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_668 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3047 (9826FE67) Date: 3/7/1950 Description: In 1950, two discs passing over Durango, Mexico stopped in the sky for two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211, citing the Los Angeles Times Source ID: Johnson_1361 Source: Johnson ### Event 3048 (FFD2E180) Date: 3/8/1950 Description: Mysterious "Silas Newton" speaks at University of Denver Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_107 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3049 (59AB9C21) Date: 3/8/1950 Description: Three Aircraft Spot UFO / Radar Track At ATIC (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [500308](http://www.nicap.org/500308wright-pat%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dayton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_669 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3050 (54F3A05B) Date: 3/8/1950 Description: Kerr/Miller/Rabenek Case (AL) Three Aircraft Spot UFO / Radar Track At ATIC (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [500308](http://www.nicap.org/500308wright-pat%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dayton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_670 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3051 (CC7AB146) Date: 3/8/1950 Description: Tape recorded University of Denver lecture on three crash retrievals. Tape recently found at the AHC in Frank Scully’s papers in Laramie WY. Was going to be given by a scientist involved in the retrieval that knew or worked with Dr. Vannever Bush during WW2, but was instead given by Silas Newton at the last minute. Type: lecture Reference: [YouTube - Part 1](https://youtu.be/ASCUGdnsQxw) Reference: [YouTube - Part 2](https://youtu.be/aNcpr3f8Eew) Location: University of Denver Source ID: Maj2_399 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3052 (4200DE78) Date: 3/8/1950 Description: Mid-morning. TWA pilot Capt. W. H. Kerr reports to the CAA that he and two other TWA pilots \(D. W. Miller and [Malvern H. Rabeneck](https://www.terraceparkfuneralhome.com/notices/Malvern-Rabeneck)\) are watching a UFO hovering at high altitude near Dayton, Ohio. The CAA has already received about 20 other reports about it from Vandalia, Ohio. ATIC control tower operators at Wright- Patterson AFB pick it up visually and on radar \(“a good, solid target”\). Four F-51 interceptors are sent up. They see it as a huge, round, metallic object, but clouds move in. The object climbs vertically out of sight at high speed. ATIC calls it the planet Venus, with radar returns from ice-laden clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Three Aircraft Spot UFO /](http://www.nicap.org/500308wright-pat%5Fdir.htm) [Radar Track at ATIC](http://www.nicap.org/500308wright-pat%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 84](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=96&skin=2021); Ruppelt, [pp. 72–75](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/72/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 5, January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) [March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 32–37 Source ID: Eberhart_1482 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3053 (E31DCE98) Date: 3/8/1950 Description: A Naval commander sighted a UFO in the sky over Mazatlan, Mexico which he described as an "artificial device." At five o'clock in the morning the crew of two airliners, the Air Traffic Controller, and many other ground witnesses at Vandalia Airport, Ohio sighted a bullet-shaped UFO being chased by military jets. The UFO ascended very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 84 Source ID: Johnson_1375 Source: Johnson ### Event 3054 (9B594337) Date: 3/9/1950 Description: Selfridge AFB, Michigan, G,V,A air defense ground radar trackings of an object erratically varying height & speed (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500309](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/500309selfridgedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Selfridge AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_671 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3055 (3C61E9E1) Date: 3/9/1950 Description: 7:45 p.m. A crew of three radar controllers at Selfridge Air Force Base \[now Selfridge Air National Guard Base\] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, is busy monitoring the night flying units of the 56th Fighter-Interceptor Group. 1st Lt. [Francis E. Parker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117698545/francis-everett-parker)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117698545/francis-everett-parker) 1st Lt. [Frank K. Mattson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101130001/frank-kansas-mattson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101130001/frank-kansas-mattson) Sgt. McCarthy, and Cpl. Melton observe an intermittent target on the height range indicator \(HRI\) scope of the CPS-4 radar at 47,000 feet altitude and higher. Further indications of what Parker describes as a well-defined, clear target like an aircraft are picked up with increasing regularity over the next 45–60 minutes. During this time, the target seems to stay in the area where the F-80s are flying, but 20,000 feet above them. The radar operators are monitoring two different systems—a CPS-5 radar operating on long-wave frequencies at 40,000 feet, and a CPS-4 radar operating on short-wave frequencies—and the target appears on both scopes simultaneously without fade. The speed varies from a hover in low-density air to nearly 1,500 mph, well in excess of the fastest operational jet at the time, and a climb rate of up to 7,000 feet per minute. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Selfridge AFB Incident](http://www.nicap.org/500309selfridge%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 84; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 123–](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/122/mode/2up) [125](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/122/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/122/mode/2up) [295–297](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/294/mode/2up); Clark III 1047–1049; Martin L. Shough, “Radar and the UFO,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 215–217 Source ID: Eberhart_1483 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3056 (C52B7B37) Date: 3/9/1950 Description: At ten o'clock in the morning a disc-shaped object was sighted by witnesses on the ground as well as by passengers and crew of an airliner flying from Santiago to Antilla, Cuba. The ground observers tracked the UFO with a theodolite. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 54 Source ID: Johnson_1389 Source: Johnson ### Event 3057 (732073C2) Date: 3/10/1950 Description: A publisher and others see a bright disc hover over Orangeburg, South Carolina, for 15 minutes. It speeds away, leaving a trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 149](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=161&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1484 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3058 (7E4DDDF7) Date: 3/10/1950 Description: An oval-shaped, aluminum colored object hung in sky at 40,000 feet altitude over Indian School Road southeast of Phoenix, Arizona at 6:00 p.m. It was estimated to be 200 feet in diameter, tapering to narrower proportions in the rear. It moved silently through the sky with a red fiery trail one hundred feet long, but left no vapor trail. It was gone from sight in 4 to 5 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 45 Source ID: Johnson_1401 Source: Johnson ### Event 3059 (8075367E) Date: 3/10/1950 Description: Disc hovered over city, sped away. \[XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orangeburg, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_672 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3060 (FD509C37) Date: 3/11/1950 Description: A car was buzzed by a brilliant blue disc at 9:00 p.m. as it was being driven from Chualar to Salinas, California. The UFO made a loop, then shot off to the south. There were many calls to the authorities reporting sightings of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 47 Source ID: Johnson_1421 Source: Johnson ### Event 3061 (BF1CA769) Date: 3/11/1950 Description: Silver ping-pong-shaped object at extreme altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Punta Arenas, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_673 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3062 (B59057AA) Date: 3/12/1950 Description: On this night a featureless four-meter wide disc circled a ranch in Falfurrias, Texas at 300 meters altitude for a few minutes. It flew off in a southwesterly direction toward Mexico. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950 Supplement, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_1430 Source: Johnson ### Event 3063 (5294CD22) Date: 3/13/1950 Description: An nine meter in diameter object, described as a spaceship with a propeller, allegedly landed in Penon de Los Banos, Mexico on this day. The pilot of the craft conversed in the Spanish language with the witness. His message was that "they" will colonize after we destroy ourselves. There was a reported odor of sulphur accompanying the presence of the UFOnaut. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0157, citing the Durango Herald, March 19, 1950; El Universal, March 14, 1950 Source ID: Johnson_1446 Source: Johnson ### Event 3064 (CC533E28) Date: 3/13/1950 Description: A glowing light descended, then hovered with a swaying motion over farm country in Clarksburg, California at 5:00 a.m. It made a droning sound, and stayed in the area for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: R. B. McLaughlin, True magazine, March 1950, p. 25; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 49, citing Civilian Saucer Intelligence Newsletter, October 1958, p. 83 Source ID: Johnson_1445 Source: Johnson ### Event 3065 (E8FAB143) Date: 3/13/1950 Description: Saucer-shaped object descended, hovered with swaying motion, moved away. \[IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clarksburg, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_674 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3066 (262DD764) Date: 3/13/1950 Description: Airport observers saw 4 UFOs, one through theodolite. \[V, Xl (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mexico City, MX Source ID: NICAP_DB_675 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3067 (57FA865D) Date: 3/13/1950 Description: Early morning. Army Signal Corps \(Reserve\) Maj. Taylor in Clarksburg, California, is sleeping when an odd droning noise wakes him up. Going outside, he notices the noise is coming from a brilliant light in the sky, one- half the size of the full moon. It sways for about 15 minutes, then moves away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) [Volume 5, January–March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, p. 49 Source ID: Eberhart_1485 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3068 (4BA10841) Date: 3/13/1950 Description: Day. At the Central Airport in Mexico City, Mexico, Santiago Smith \(weather observer for Mexicana de Aviación\), J. de la Vega of the airport commander’s office, and others see a total of four UFOs passing overhead. Smith observes one of them through a theodolite, describing it as the shape of a “half-moon.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 44](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=56&skin=2021); “[‘Saucers’ No Illusion: Hundreds See Shy Visitors,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93070351/)” Oakland \(Calif.\) Tribune, March 14, 1950, p. 9; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 50–51 Source ID: Eberhart_1486 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3069 (F95A0D21) Date: 3/14/1950 Description: At around noon a teenager named Richardson, who was located 16 km northeast of Santa Fe, New Mexico, saw a huge shiny sphere hovering over the mountains. It made a sudden burst of speed to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated March 15, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950 (Volume 4), p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_1470 Source: Johnson ### Event 3070 (BC582734) Date: 3/14/1950 Description: At 1:00 p.m. in a cemetery in Veghenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy a witness witnessed a six-meter in diameter metallic saucer with legs. Six four-foot tall humanoids climbed ladders, then gestured. The craft took off and flew to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2046 Source ID: Johnson_1469 Source: Johnson ### Event 3071 (88F25AC6) Date: 3/14/1950 Description: On this day a farmworker in Kailua, island of Oahu, Hawaii sighted a silver disc; it had trailing it smaller shining streaks. It flew from the southeast to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. January-March, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_1471 Source: Johnson ### Event 3072 (AF4452FC) Date: 3/14/1950 Description: On this night a private pilot at Mexico City Airport, Mexico witnessed a 7 meter in diameter dome with a green glow on the bottom. It shot up vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: H. Edward Hill, Catalog Through 1950, case #315; Frank Scully, Behind the Flying Saucers, p. 209; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 44; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1556 Source ID: Johnson_1472 Source: Johnson ### Event 3073 (3FBE84F0) Date: 3/14/1950 Description: At 11:30 p.m. in Pacific Beach, Washington civilians watched a UFO maneuver erratically for about five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book, March 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. January-March, p. 51 Source ID: Johnson_1473 Source: Johnson ### Event 3074 (07A8A362) Date: 3/15/1950 Description: An Air Force Captain Hall, flying in Guatemala, hears from other pilots at La Aurora Airport in Guatemala City that large, fast, and highly maneuverable objects have flown directly over the runway. The stories also appear in the local press. When Hall returns to Brookley Air Force Base \[now Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley\] in Mobile, Alabama, he is interrogated by a USAF intelligence officer and told: “Listen, there is no such thing as a flying saucer. You won’t discuss them.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 96 Source ID: Eberhart_1487 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3075 (9DE918B7) Date: 3/15/1950 Description: At 6:15 p.m. a disc-shaped object circled a motorist on highway 153 north of Clearfield, Pennsylvania. There were humanoids inside the craft that were visible through windows, and a bluish-green ray was shot in the direction of the witness but missed. A white light lingered in the area for more than 30 seconds, then the UFO flew off toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: William Baggs, Miami Daily News, March 15, 1950; St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 2, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_1521 Source: Johnson ### Event 3076 (E554BE61) Date: 3/16/1950 Description: Swiss engineer Julian Gardiol reported he spotted a UFO stop in the air stop for 5 minutes (Denver Post Special) Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116741771/swiss-engineer-sees-ufo-behind-the/) Reference: ["Behind the Flying Saucers" by Frank Scully](https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Flying-Saucers-Frank-Scully-ebook/dp/B00OEM62AC) Location: Lima, Peru Source ID: Maj2_400 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3077 (CDFEBAF8) Date: 3/16/1950 End date: 3/18/1950 Description: Farmington Armada mass UFO sighting: 100’s of UFO’s spotted over town, and from nearby Aztec. Some UFO’s appeared red colored. Seen by thousands of witnesses over a period of several days. Local newspapers reportedly censored. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [link](https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/2020/03/17/ufo-armada-reportedly-filled-skies-above-farmington-1950/5073795002/) Location: Farmington, NM Location: Aztec, NM Source ID: Maj2_401 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3078 (21165C57) Date: 3/16/1950 End date: 3/18/1950 Description: 11 a.m.–noon. Former Army Engineer Capt. and Farmington Times business manager [Clayton J. Boddy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203856575/clayton-joseph-boddy) [Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203856575/clayton-joseph-boddy) and dozens of others watch 12–15 shiny “saucer-like discs” cavorting around the sky over Farmington, New Mexico. They hover, then move in great bursts of speed. The objects appear three days in a row. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The](http://www.nicap.org/500316farmington%5Fdir.htm) [Farmington Invasion](http://www.nicap.org/500316farmington%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 56–64; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 84; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#multiwit)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 47–48 Source ID: Eberhart_1490 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3079 (4337D9CA) Date: 3/16/1950 Description: Just before 12:00 noon. Chief Petty Officer Charles Lewis sees a flying disc streak across the sky at Naval Air Station Dallas \[later Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex\] near Dallas, Texas. It buzzes a high- flying B-36. It hovers under the bomber for a moment, then flies off and disappears. NAS Commander Capt. [Milton Adolphus Nation](https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/21419) vouches for Lewis and says that the base tower operators had seen a UFO 10 days before. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Disc Buzzes B-36](http://www.nicap.org/500316dallas%5Fdir.htm)”; “‘Flying Saucers’ Sighted by Two,” Dallas Morning News, March 18, 1950; Ruppelt, [p. 75](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/74/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1489 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3080 (19280678) Date: 3/16/1950 Description: The efforts of [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) and Maj. [Oder](https://www.nap.edu/read/12473/chapter/39) to start a fireball research project come to fruition when the AF Geophysical Research Directorate headed by Oder issues a letter directive authorizing Project Twinkle. A $20,000 half-year contract is signed with Land-Air, Inc. which operates the phototheodolites at White Sands, New Mexico. Land-Air is to set up a 24-hour watch at a location in New Mexico to be specified by the Air Force, and the phototheodolite operators at White Sands are to film any unusual objects that happen to fly past. The official contract gives April 1 as the starting date. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1488 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3081 (C7B8062F) Date: 3/16/1950 Description: Navy Chief Petty Officer at Naval Air Station saw a flat oval UFO pass under a B36 bomber. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dallas, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_676 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3082 (3801EED6) Date: 3/17/1950 Description: Retired Army Captain, others, saw dozens of discs gyrating in sky. \[IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Farmington, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_677 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3083 (80B3DD9A) Date: 3/17/1950 Description: Six bluish white disc-shaped objects turned in the sky over Ankara, Turkey on this day. They next shot straight up into the sky and vanished from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211 Source ID: Johnson_1534 Source: Johnson ### Event 3084 (125E484D) Date: 3/17/1950 Description: Six to twelve black octagon-shaped objects were seen from the air over Little Rock, Arkansas at 4:30 p.m. The object made a sharp sudden turn to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, March 1950 report; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179 Source ID: Johnson_1535 Source: Johnson ### Event 3085 (92C4C3D5) Date: 3/18/1950 Description: 8:40 a.m. Private pilot Robert Fisher, flying a Beechcraft Bonanza over Bradford, Illinois, encounters an oval object with a metallic sheen. He can still see the object when it flies behind some thin clouds. It moves away at an estimated speed of 600–1,000 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 38](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=50&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1491 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3086 (26540B19) Date: 3/18/1950 Description: The USAF publicly denies that UFOs are secret missiles or space-exploration devices. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, [p. 13](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/chI.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1492 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3087 (D4E41837) Date: 3/18/1950 Description: A large number of saucers, performing aerobatics, appeared over Farmington, New Mexico around noon, and then flew away at an estimated 1000 mph. A luminous, metallic appearing disc was sighted five miles northeast of Bradford, Illinois at 8:40 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: unnamed newspaper clippings, March 18 and 19, 1950 Source ID: Johnson_1546 Source: Johnson ### Event 3088 (3A771B51) Date: 3/18/1950 Description: At a ranch in Lago Argentino, Argentina, Mr. Wilfredo H. Arevalo, a rancher, saw two objects, one of which landed at 6:30 p.m. He walked within 150 meters of the aluminum looking craft that gave off a blue-green vapor with "an intense smell of burning benzene." A large, flat section on top was revolving above a glass cabin in which could be seen four tall men with pallid faces, dressed in something like cellophane, working at various instruments. When they saw him they shone a light in his direction while a blue light illuminated the craft. The vapor increased and flames, alternately red and green, shot out of the base while the object rose with a faint hum. Both craft flew away toward Chile, leaving bluish trails. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 108; The Humanoids, FSR Special Issue #1, p. 32; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 194 Source ID: Johnson_1547 Source: Johnson ### Event 3089 (A589905E) Date: 3/18/1950 Time: 1830 Description: A rancher, Wilfredo H. Arevalo, saw two objects, one of which landed. He walked within 150 m of the aluminum-looking craft which gave off a greenish-blue vapor and "an intense smell of burning benzine." A large, flat section on top was revolving above a glass cabin in which could be seen four tall men, dressed in something like cellophane, working at various instruments. They saw him and shone a light in his direction while a blue light illuminated the craft; the vapor increased and flames (alternately reddish and greenish) shot out of the base while the object rose with a faint hum. Both craft flew away toward Chile, leaving bluish trails. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 32 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lago Argentino, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_73 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3090 (E176F3C8) Date: 3/18/1950 Description: Fisher Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bradford (near), IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_678 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3091 (69338106) Date: 3/18/1950 Description: At the Atlanta Municipal Airport, Georgia six airline pilots on the tarmac reported sighting an aluminum colored disc that flew silently toward the southwest at between 6000 and 7000 feet altitude. It then made an "impossible climb." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon, 1947-1987, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_1545 Source: Johnson ### Event 3092 (9AC94395) Date: 3/18/1950 Description: On this day in 1950, several sightings of daylight discs occurred over the United States, Europe, and South America. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_1544 Source: Johnson ### Event 3093 (4DA5BF97) Date: 3/19/1950 Description: In 1950 in Sonderborg, Denmark at 2:30 a.m., mechanic J. Matiszewski heard a whistling sound that drew him outside. He then watched a UFO land in a meadow. When he approached to within 50 meters he suddenly felt paralyzed, and he observed that birds and cows in the vicinity were also unable to move. He stood motionless as four handsome men with brown complexions, wearing shiny black suits and translucent helmets, emerged from the craft and engaged in repair activities. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Willy Wegner, UFO-Landinger 1 Danmark, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_1561 Source: Johnson ### Event 3094 (65034004) Date: Spring 1950 Description: Commander Augusto Vars Ortega of the Chilean Navy takes about 1,200 feet of color film of UFOs—one above the other, turning at tremendous speeds—in Antarctica. When NICAP asks the Chilean Embassy about the film in 1956, it tells [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) that the film is classified and not available. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dan Lloyd, “[Things Are Hotting Up in](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CSep-Oct%2CV%2011%2CN%205.pdf) [the Antarctic,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CSep-Oct%2CV%2011%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1965\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_1506 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3095 (CC411B27) Date: 3/20/1950 Description: 9:26 p.m. Chicago and Southern Airlines Capt. [Jack Adams](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169984401/jack-alvin-adams) and First Officer G. W. Anderson Jr., flying a DC-3 at 2,000 feet and heading west from Memphis, Tennessee, to Little Rock, Arkansas, see a circular disc 100 feet in diameter approximately over Hazen, Arkansas. In the top center of the object is an extremely bright light blinking at an estimated 3 flashes per second. The bottom of the object appears to have 9–12 symmetrical oval or circular portholes in a circle approximately 75% of the distance from the center to the outer edge. The object passes directly in front of the airliner at a distance of not more than 2,640 feet and approximately 1,000 feet higher than the airliner. They watch the object for 25–35 seconds. Adams estimates its speed is greater than 1,000 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[DC-3 Encounters 100ʹ Disc](http://www.nicap.org/500320littlerock%5Fdir.htm)”; Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, July 24, 1955; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 85; Swords 95–96; Tom Howell YouTube channel, “[UFO from the 1950s,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj3VL8MGiHw)” October 3, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_1493 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3096 (96BAA4CE) Date: 3/20/1950 Time: 9:26 PM Description: Witnesses: Chicago & Southern Airlines Capt. Jack Adams, First Officer G. W. Anderson, Jr. One 100' circular disc with 9-12 portholes along the lower side emitting a soft purple light, and a light at the top which flashed 3 times in 9 seconds, flew at not less than 1,000 m.p.h. It was seen for 25-35 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Stuggart, Arkansas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_34 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3097 (30BA7C69) Date: 3/20/1950 Description: Spherical then elongated object flying at 2,000 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clovis (35 miles SE of), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_680 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3098 (43C04EFC) Date: 3/20/1950 Description: 100 ft flat cylinder-section circular disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 671) Reference: NICAP: [500320](http://www.nicap.org/500320littlerock%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stuttgart, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_679 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3099 (D5C0B8FB) Date: 3/21/1950 Description: 4925th Test Group Sees UFO (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [500321](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/kirtland500321dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_681 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3100 (C519BAB2) Date: 3/21/1950 Description: 1:00–1:30 p.m. Sergeant Woods at Sandia Base, New Mexico, reports four round, silvery objects to the northeast. The objects appear to be more maneuverable than any known aircraft. The maneuvers are similar to those in dogfights involving two aircraft, but there seems to be no similarity to a conventional plane. They make right-angle turns and reverse direction instantaneously. The duration is about 30 minutes. Other witnesses at Sandia and Kirtland AFB report similar observations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Base Personnel Sight Strange Objects](http://www.nicap.org/500321kirtland%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 85 Source ID: Eberhart_1494 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3101 (2D892F34) Date: 3/22/1950 Description: At Kirtland AFB, New Mexico eleven USAF Sergeants watched a tan-colored flying wing head towards the northwest, turn to the north, and then fly off at a fantastic speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_1612 Source: Johnson ### Event 3102 (C80FF9C1) Date: 3/22/1950 Description: At 5:45 a.m. two industrialists in Spain saw a bright blue, cloud-like object while driving in Villarta de San Juan, Ciudad Real Province. It emitted a very bright light that appeared to collide with the object. The UFO was seen again 20 times during their drive. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, citing Stendek, June 1970, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_1611 Source: Johnson ### Event 3103 (2B2467DC) Date: 3/22/1950 Description: 11:00 a.m. Eleven sergeants in the 4925th Test Group watch a UFO northwest of Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. The shape is “similar to a flying wing air craft and tan in color, turning to brown around the edges.” It first travels northwesterly at 25,000–30,000 feet, then turns north and disappears with a tremendous burst of speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Atomic Test Group Witnesses UFO in Broad Daylight](http://www.nicap.org/500322kirtland%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 85 Source ID: Eberhart_1495 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3104 (48FEF7AF) Date: 3/22/1950 Description: FBI “Guy Hottel” Memo: 3 saucers recovered in NM (corroborating Frank Scully’s later book on 8/1950). Description: Circular with raised centers, approx. 50 ft. diam. Each one occupied by 3 bodies, only 3 ft. tall, dressed in metallic suite, taped like high-speed flyers. It is believed that a very high powered Radar Station interfered with their control mechanisms, causing them to crash. Type: memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p116, B1-F p326, ["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p527, RECOVERY) Location: Washington DC See also: 3/25/1948 Source ID: Maj2_402 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3105 (50F2FFE6) Date: 3/22/1950 Description: Dept. Transportation, Ottawa Canada, announces plans to build and test free energy geomagnetic engine. Also state that "Dr. Vannevar Bush heads highest secret saucer research group in the USA Type: announcement Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, ["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p464) Location: Ottawa, CA Source ID: Maj2_403 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3106 (C7751715) Date: 3/22/1950 Description: 4925th Test Group Sees UFO (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [500322](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/docs/kirt1950/500322%5F4925dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_682 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3107 (BE32D9E9) Date: 3/22/1950 Description: FBI agent [Guy L. Hottel](https://gwsports.com/hof.aspx?hof=81) writes to FBI headquarters about a rumor that three UFOs have crashed and are recovered in New Mexico. They are 50 feet in diameter and “each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots.” It goes on, “According to Mr. \[redacted\], informant, the saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the Government had a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with the controlling \[sic\] mechanism of the saucers." The informant is probably [Silas M. Newton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127850405/silas-mason-newton) or [Leo GeBauer](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/leo-gebauer-and-silas-newton-flak-one-of-their-defense-news-photo/162001660). On March 25, 2013, the FBI issues a release saying that the Hottel memo was simply a second- or third-hand claim “that we never investigated. Some people believe the memo repeats a hoax that was circulating at that time, but the Bureau’s files have no information to verify that theory.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Guy Hottel, “[Flying Saucers, Information Concerning,](https://vault.fbi.gov/hottel%5Fguy/Guy%20Hottel%20Part%201%20of%201/view)” March 22, 1950; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 326–327; Good Above, [p. 527](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/526/mode/2up); Federal Bureau of Investigation, “[UFOs and the Guy](https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/ufos-and-the-guy-hottel-memo) [Hottel Memo,](https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/ufos-and-the-guy-hottel-memo)” March 25, 2013; Robert L. Hastings, “[The March 22, 1950 FBI Memo on Crashed Flying](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/the-march-22-1950-fbi-memo-on-crashed-flying-saucers) [Saucers,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/the-march-22-1950-fbi-memo-on-crashed-flying-saucers)” UFOs & Nukes, April 18, 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_1496 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3108 (B30A92D2) Date: 3/23/1950 Description: A Mexican newspaper, El Universal, reported that at least 300 disc-shaped UFOs were sighted zooming around the sky above the city of Jalapa Enriquez, in the State of Veracruz, Mexico on this night. In Yuma, Arizona a UFO hovered over the park at 20,000 feet for two minutes during the day, then left at high speed to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 78, citing El Universal, March 24, 1950; (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 75 Source ID: Johnson_1619 Source: Johnson ### Event 3109 (6DFB4EE8) Date: 3/23/1950 Description: Blue-White Flame Approaches C-47 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2) Reference: NICAP: [500323](http://www.nicap.org/500323jacksonville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jacksonville, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_683 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3110 (35AB7789) Date: 3/26/1950 Description: 8:50 p.m. CAA Tower operator Marie H. Matthews and United Airlines employees Robert Higbee and Fred Hinkle see a brilliant light northeast of Hubbard Field \[now Reno–Tahoe International Airport\] outside Reno, Nevada. It hangs motionless for 5–6 minutes, then moves slowly across the sky with a green light on either side of it. It suddenly zooms upward into a cloud bank. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [pp. 44–45](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=56&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1500 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3111 (FDB08C40) Date: 3/26/1950 Description: CAA control tower operator saw maneuvering light source. \[V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Reno, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_684 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3112 (D7323302) Date: 3/26/1950 Description: Mar 26, 1950; near Washington, DC, Totten (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington (near), D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_685 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3113 (A677A41B) Date: 3/26/1950 Description: Vice-Admiral [Louis Mountbatten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma) in a letter to his friend [Charles Eade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FEade)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FEade) editor of the London Sunday Dispatch, rejects the idea that flying saucers are secret weapons, admitting that “they do not come from our Earth…. Maybe it is the Shackletons or Scotts of Venus or Mars who are making their first exploration of our Earth.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 37](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n63/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1497 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3114 (9DE56B2E) Date: 3/26/1950 Description: Day. [Bertram A. Totten](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40112790/bertram-a-totten)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40112790/bertram-a-totten) a clerk at the Library of Congress, is flying his plane at 5,000 feet over Fairfax County, Virginia, when he spots an aluminum-colored disc about 40 feet in diameter and 10 feet thick flying 1,000 feet below him. He dives toward it, but it speeds up into the overcast. It glints when the sun hits it, and he notices a vapor trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 79–80 Source ID: Eberhart_1498 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3115 (EFA6448F) Date: 3/26/1950 Description: 4:00 p.m. Former First Lady [Eleanor Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%5FRoosevelt) interviews airline pilots Jack Adams and G. W. Anderson about their March 20 UFO sighting on her NBC television program, Today with Mrs. Roosevelt. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Anatomy of a](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/anatomyofahoax-part5.html) [Hoax, Part Five,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/anatomyofahoax-part5.html)” Saturday Night Uforia Source ID: Eberhart_1499 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3116 (ECE5BB98) Date: 3/26/1950 Description: Several discs were seen from a Lebanese airliner off the coast of the ancient city of Acre (now Akko), Israel. They were travelling north and flying at a high altitude while emitting trails of smoke. At 11:15 a.m. five disc-shaped UFOs were seen, first three, then another two, flying over Bruswick, Georgia. They were silver in color, and flew at 30,000 feet altitude at a speed greater than 1,800 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_1671 Source: Johnson ### Event 3117 (F4DE0ED8) Date: 3/27/1950 Time: 10:30 AM Description: Witness: USAF radar operator Cpl. Bolfango. Tracked on radar for 2 minutes while it was stationary and then moved at 500 m.p.h.. Visual observation not detailed, only mentioned in summary. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Motobo, Okinawa Source ID: BerlinerBBU_35 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3118 (05243151) Date: 3/27/1950 Description: Radio broadcaster [Henry J. Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FJ.%5FTaylor)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FJ.%5FTaylor) on his syndicated radio program Your Land and Mine, announces the “wonderful news” that saucers are in fact US secret weapons, which will reassure the nation when the US Air Force confirms it. Within days, the story is twisted to specifically credit the Navy’s alleged “top secret” project the Flying Flapjack Vought XF5U. The story is apparently disinformation planted by ex-Hollywood writers in the CIA Office of Policy Coordination’s Political and Psychological Warfare staff headed by [Joseph Bryan III](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993)[,](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993) a future president and board chairman of NICAP. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Radio Man Certain U.S. Is Owner of ‘Flying Saucer’ Missile](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93072159/) [Secret,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93072159/)” Miami \(Fla.\) News, March 29, 1950, p. 9; NICAP, “[1950 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1950fullrep.htm)”; Swords 97; Curt Collins, “[1950 Disclosure: UFOs Are Made in the USA,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/11/1950-disclosure-ufos-are-made-in-usa.html)” November 9, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_1502 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3119 (A98C1C5D) Date: 3/27/1950 Description: 10:30 a.m. USAF antiaircraft radar operator Cpl. Bolfango tracks a stationary target on radar over the Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa, Japan, at 18 miles range for 10 minutes at 13,000 feet. The object then moves on a 220° heading for 16.9 miles in 2 minutes \(about 500 mph\) to a point over a mountain, where it is lost. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Tracked Stationary Target at 18 Miles](http://www.nicap.org/500327okinawadir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 85 Source ID: Eberhart_1501 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3120 (09B7D4BA) Date: 3/27/1950 Description: Tracked stationary target on radar at 18 miles range for 10 mins (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 678) Reference: NICAP: [500327](http://www.nicap.org/500327okinawadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Motubu Peninsula, Okinawa Source ID: NICAP_DB_686 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3121 (6C5E36A2) Date: 3/28/1950 Description: [Samuel Eaton Thompson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FEaton%5FThompson) is on his way home to Centralia, Washington, from Markham. He drives through a wooded area between Morton and Mineral and decides to stop to take a break. On foot, he comes upon a large, globe-shaped craft hovering above a clearing. Naked children with dark tans and blond hair are playing on steps that lead from an open door to the side of the UFO. Several naked adults—humanoid, attractive, and also deeply tanned—then appear at the ship’s door. After realizing that Thompson means them no harm, they beckon him closer. The crew consists of 20 adults and 25 children, the latter from about 5–15 years of age. Thompson claims to have spent the next 40 hours with the humanoids. They are from Venus, he learns, and have stopped at Earth despite the fact that other Venusian saucers have been shot at by Earth-based military forces. The Venusians further claims that they are vegetarian and that they never grow ill. Thompson also claims the Venusians are naïve and childlike; they do not know who has built their flying saucers and seem to possess little to no curiosity. He goes back to get a camera and tries to take photos, but the object is too bright to appear on film. Thompson returns home on March 30. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Centralian Tells Strange Tale of Visiting Venus Space Ship in Eastern Lewis County,” Centralia \(Wash.\) Daily Chronicle, April 1, 1950; Clark III 1127–1129; Jerome Clark, “The Coming of the Venusians,” Fate 34, no. 1 \(January 1981\): 49–55; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1950-03-28-usa-centralia.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1950-03-28-usa-centralia.htm) November 16, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_1504 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3122 (D34D5FC1) Date: 3/28/1950 Description: In response to a request from [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) to his aide [D. Milton \(“Mickey”\) Ladd](https://bhunt34.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/acme-press-photos/) on “just what are the facts re ‘flying saucers,’ agent [S. Wesley Reynolds](https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MT19611122.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1) interviews Maj. [Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm) and Lieut. Col. [John V. Hearn Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36938515/john-vernon-hearn) of Air Force Intelligence, who tell him that most UFOs are misidentifications and weather balloons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 95; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 84–85 Source ID: Eberhart_1503 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3123 (2044FC82) Date: 3/28/1950 Time: 3:15 PM Description: Witness: M/Sgt. Patterson, of the office of the U.S. Air Attache. One white object observed for 5-10 seconds through binoculars while it flew high and fast, crossing 30 degree of sky. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Santiago, Chile Source ID: BerlinerBBU_36 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3124 (7A5E0F6B) Date: 3/28/1950 Description: White object through binoculars flying at extreme altitude and speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 680) Reference: NICAP: [500328](http://www.nicap.org/chile500328dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santiago, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_687 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3125 (C7D07C82) Date: 3/29/1950 Time: 7 AM Description: Witnesses: real estate salesmen Whiteside and Williams. Six-twelve dark objects shaped like 300-lb. bombs, estimated 5 feet long. Flew 500 m.p.h. and descended, making a noise like wind blowing through the trees. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Marrowbore Lake, Tennessee Source ID: BerlinerBBU_37 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3126 (AE22D910) Date: 3/29/1950 Description: 6-12 dark objects shaped like 300-lb. bombs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 682) Reference: NICAP: [500329](http://nicap.org/marrowbone500329dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marrowhode Lake, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_688 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3127 (E967F16D) Date: 3/30/1950 Description: A UFO was seen hovering over Adrian, Michigan at noon. At 11:00 p.m. that night another UFO was seen hovering between Worland and Greybull, Wyoming. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clippings, March 31, 1950 Source ID: Johnson_1726 Source: Johnson ### Event 3128 (027CA98E) Date: 3/30/1950 Description: Three discs flew in formation over Autaugaville, Alabama at 5:30 p.m. They went up, down, and then flew away. Thirty-eight minutes later Mr. Townsend, a radio engineer, and 20 others in Selma, Alabama sighted three discs zip across the sky toward the west. One stopped for five minutes, and then shot up vertically, the other two continued on westward. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1623; newspaper clippings, March 31, 1950; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_1727 Source: Johnson ### Event 3129 (B9BCFE7E) Date: 3/30/1950 Description: On this night astronomer Harold Wilkins watched a very bright oval glow illuminate the Aristarchus-Herotodus crater on the Moon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 74 Source ID: Johnson_1728 Source: Johnson ### Event 3130 (44435A6A) Date: 3/31/1950 Description: In 1950 a woman driving at night on Highway 80 in Jacumba, California reported that she saw a little man jump out of a landed disc-shaped UFO, and then run down the highway "faster than Jesse Owens." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International News Service, March 31, 1950; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0161 Source ID: Johnson_1757 Source: Johnson ### Event 3131 (6FC28FC3) Date: 3/31/1950 Description: Syndicated columnist [Drew Pearson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew%5FPearson%5F%28journalist%29) publishes “Worried about Flying Saucers?” in which he sympathizes with the Air Force, which has to reply to groundless public excitement. His USAF contact has told him, “there ain’t no such animal.” Pentagon Public Relations Officer Maj. [DeWitt Searles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWitt%5FSearles) tells the press that all UFO cases are the result of misinterpretations, mass hysteria, and hoaxes: “As far as the Air Force goes, there’s no such thing as a flying saucer.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Drew Pearson, “[Worried about Flying Saucers?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92526588/)” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, March 31, 1950, p. 5; “[Major Debunker of Flying Saucers, Keeps Saying, ‘No, No, 1,000 Times No,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92525956/the-rock-island-argus/)’” Rock Island \(Ill.\) Argus, March 31, 1950, p. 18; Swords 96–99 Source ID: Eberhart_1505 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3132 (5B16779F) Date: 3/31/1950 Description: Secret tape of an AFOSI interrogation of radio time salesmen George Koehler (“Coulter” in newspaper articles), recorded at station KMYR in Denver. The 2 federal agents were looking for “parts” and “gadgets” from crashed flying saucers. Digitized from the Frank Scully archive at the American Heritage Center (Box #34 Item #17). Type: tape recording Reference: [YouTube](https://youtu.be/aVzZy9dKY1Q) Location: Denver, CO Source ID: Maj2_404 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3133 (0E7F0A0D) Date: 3/31/1950 Description: Memo to Director, FBI pertaining to flying saucers. Memo names a person in Denver, Colorado that claims to possess a UFO radio transmitter. Type: memo Reference: [YouTube](https://youtu.be/aVzZy9dKY1Q) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_405 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3134 (2C777FDD) Date: 4/1950 Description: Daytime. While working on her lawn in Canby, Oregon, Ellen Jonerson glances over at her neighbor’s yard and sees a 12-inch-tall man with his back turned to her. When he turns around, she sees that he has a heavily tanned face, is of stocky build, and wears overalls and a plaid shirt. There is a skullcap on his head. She dashes inside to call a friend, then runs outside again in time to see the figure “waddling” away. He walks under a parked car and disappears. [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) who interviews her, is convinced of her sincerity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index, 1950–1951,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1950-1951.pdf) p. 2; Clark III 270 Source ID: Eberhart_1507 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3135 (BD2C1D2B) Date: 4/1950 Description: Mikel Konrad made a movie of eight disks he saw landing and taking off 60 km north of Jun.au. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Juneau, Alaska Source ID: Magnonia_74 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3136 (5E71EEA8) Date: 4/1/1950 Description: Project Twinkle officially begins. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1508 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3137 (8272C617) Date: 4/1/1950 Description: At seven o'clock in the evening the crew of a fishing boat off the coast of Perugia, Italy watched an ovoid object dive into the sea and a column of water shoot up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 117. Source ID: Johnson_1779 Source: Johnson ### Event 3138 (29102294) Date: 4/4/1950 Description: Presidential press secretary [Charlie Ross](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%5FRoss%5F%28journalist%29) states that [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) has conferred with his two top military advisers, Rear Adm. [Robert Dennison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FDennison%5F%28United%5FStates%5FNavy%5Fofficer%29) and Brig. Gen. [Robert B. Landry](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106440/major-general-robert-b-landry/), and that they claim the US has no such technology. Furthermore, the Air Force study has concluded there are no such things as flying saucers. Caltech aeronautics professor [Clark Blanchard Millikan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark%5FBlanchard%5FMillikan) agrees, saying: “If anyone should know about such a project, I should know—and I know of no development in the aircraft or guided missile field.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 97–99 Source ID: Eberhart_1509 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3139 (5DC752B7) Date: 4/5/1950 Description: Sen. [Richard Russell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FRussell%5FJr) \(D-Ga.\) states to the press that he is “completely baffled” by flying saucer reports that are made by many pilots who would not be fooled by hallucinations or clouds. Sen. [Millard Tydings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millard%5FTydings) \(D-Md.\), chair of the Armed Services Committee, says he thinks saucers might be experimental US aircraft “in embryo stage.” Rep. [Albert J. Engel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FJ.%5FEngel) \(R-Mich.\) thinks the same. Sen. [Kenneth S. Wherry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FS.%5FWherry) \(R-Neb.\) says the saucers are “like our foreign policy. It is in a state of confusion and no one seems to know what it is all about.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Congress](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93077613/) [Split](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93077613/) [about Saucers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93077743/)” Miami \(Fla.\) News, April 5, 1950, pp. 1, 6; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) [April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 9–10; Swords 98 Source ID: Eberhart_1510 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3140 (6C7B0EC2) Date: 4/6/1950 Description: A huge sparkling saucer shaped object moved across the sky heading west over Westfield, Massachusetts on this day. It made a roaring sound as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_1855 Source: Johnson ### Event 3141 (C7F53113) Date: 4/6/1950 Description: 4:45 p.m. Lt. [John J. Sevila](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117282898/john-j.-sevila)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117282898/john-j.-sevila) a pilot with the 131st Fighter Squadron, hears a sound like a flight of jet airplanes and rushes out of his house in Springfield, Massachusetts, to see them. Instead, he sees a perfectly circular object moving slowly westward at an altitude of 25,000 feet. He watches it for 5 minutes as it moves at a speed of 50– 100 mph. When the sun hits it directly, it shines like a mirror. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: The Thunderbolt 1, no. 12 \(April 1950\): 5; Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_1511 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3142 (FB27C6D9) Date: 4/7/1950 Description: Newsman [Edward R. Murrow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FR.%5FMurrow) produces the first extended TV commentary on UFOs, “The Case of the Flying Saucer” on CBS. He begins with the [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) case, mentions Muroc AFB cases and [Mantell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell), and quotes both True magazine and [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) Also on the show are [Henry J. Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FJ.%5FTaylor)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FJ.%5FTaylor) engineer [Charles H. Zimmerman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FH.%5FZimmerman), and [Charlie Ross](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%5FRoss%5F%28journalist%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%5FRoss%5F%28journalist%29) as well as people on the street. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Transcript of Ed Murrow–Kenneth Arnold Telephone](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf) [Conversation,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1984\): 3; Edward R. Murrow, “[The Case of the](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVvz8ebUeSk) [Flying Saucer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVvz8ebUeSk) \[audio only\],” Bryce Zabel YouTube channel, February 24, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_1513 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3143 (45D63591) Date: 4/7/1950 Description: Two ferrymen in Saint Ignace, Michigan watched a flying saucer race all over the sky over the Strait. It gave off a plasma glow. On the same day two railroad workers saw a flying saucer the size of a large airplane 3,000 feet over their train. Two silver discs were seen flying over Jericho and Ramallah in Israel and Palestine. At eleven o'clock in the morning a silver, rotating disc flew over a pen factory in Fort Madison, Iowa. It left a shower of sparks behind it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clippings, April 11 & 8, 1950; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History - 1950: April-July, pp. 10 & 12; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211 Source ID: Johnson_1878 Source: Johnson ### Event 3144 (C464E2E0) Date: 4/7/1950 Description: A CAA control tower operator at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, watches a blue light split into two lights that revolve around each other for 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 65–68](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/64/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 86 Source ID: Eberhart_1512 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3145 (6AF9D505) Date: 4/7/1950 Description: US News and World Report comes out with a story on saucers that hints they are top-secret, jet-propelled Navy aircraft “that can outfly other planes.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Saucers—the Real Story: U.S. Built First One in 1942,](https://www.flickr.com/photos/34917706%40N07/7114216827/in/photostream/)” US News and World Report 28, no. 14 \(April 7, 1950\): 13–15; Michael D. Swords, “Balloons, Missiles, and UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_1514 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3146 (60BBB00F) Date: 4/7/1950 Description: The National Security Council presents President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) with Report 68 \(NSC-68\), a 56-page top secret policy paper that provides the “blueprint for the militarization of the Cold War.” It advocates a large expansion in the military budget, the development of a hydrogen bomb, and increased military aid to US allies for the containment of Communist expansion. It essentially warns Truman that the US is losing the Cold War. Truman does not approve it until 1951. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[NSC-68](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSC%5F68)” Source ID: Eberhart_1515 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3147 (EF38BB46) Date: 4/7/1950 Description: Deep-blue ellipsoid object at 15° elevation moving SW-NE opposite the winds (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boston (Logan Airport), MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_689 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3148 (60109245) Date: 4/7/1950 Description: Letter sent from BSRA to President Type: letter Reference: [Twitter Link](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555559492540157954) Location: San Diego, CA See also: 5/16/1950 Source ID: Maj2_406 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3149 (9994289D) Date: 4/8/1950 Description: Later that day shortly before noon near Amarillo, Texas, David Lightfoot, age 12, and his brother Charles saw a disc land behind a hill. They were able to walk up to it and touch it. It was the size of a car tire, about 30 cm high, with a rounded top that rotated. It had a pivot between the base and the top. It took off very fast. The faces and arms of the boys later became red with welts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 194 Source ID: Johnson_1894 Source: Johnson ### Event 3150 (EFB02214) Date: 4/8/1950 Description: Grey metallic disc, 50 ft in diameter, 15 ft thick, top-shaped (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 706) Reference: NICAP: [500408](http://nicap.org/kokomo500408dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kokomo, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_690 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3151 (0378409D) Date: 4/8/1950 Description: [Paul Limerick](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41728149/paul-r-limerick), commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Shelby, North Carolina, watches a round, aluminum-colored object with four other people for 2 minutes. It follows a horizontal course toward the southwest without making a sound, then shoots straight up and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) [April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 13 Source ID: Eberhart_1516 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3152 (81629C7E) Date: 4/8/1950 Description: On the same day two disc-shaped objects buzzed a house in San Francisco, California. They stopped in mid-flight, then went up and around like playing a game of tag. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_1895 Source: Johnson ### Event 3153 (0EFACF97) Date: 4/8/1950 Time: afternoon Description: David, 12, and Charles, 9, Lightfoot saw a disk land behind a hill and touched it. It was the size of a car tire, about 30 cm high, with a rounded top that rotated and a pivot between the base and the top. It took off very fast. The faces and arms of the boys later became red. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 200 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: River Road near Amarillo, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_76 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3154 (51C7F197) Date: 4/8/1950 Time: 2 AM Description: Witness: Earl Baker. One grey metallic disc, 50' in diameter, 15' thick; top-shaped with a "conning tower" at the top and three ports on the rim giving off a blue light. It hovered for 2 minutes, then flew away. Baker aroused from sleep by his dog. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kokomo, Indiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_38 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3155 (485343E4) Date: 4/8/1950 Time: 0200 Description: A metal worker was awakened by his dog and observed an object 60 m away at low altitude. It was a gray metal disk, 5 m in diameter, shaped like a top with a kind of turret. It was oscillating, spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a blue-white light. It hovered for about 2 min, left toward the north, very fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Kokomo, Indiana Source ID: Magnonia_75 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3156 (4E8714AB) Date: 4/8/1950 Description: At 2:00 a.m. Mr. Earl Baker, a metal worker in Kokomo, Indiana was awakened by his dog and observed an object outside his bedroom window only 60 meters away hovering at a low altitude. It was a gray metallic disc, five meters in diameter and 15-feet thick. It was shaped like a top with a kind of "conning tower" turret on top. It had three ports on the rim giving off a blue light. It was oscillating, spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a blue-white light. It hovered for about 2 minutes and then left toward the north at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #706; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 166; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1893 Source: Johnson ### Event 3157 (B5BD3CC7) Date: 4/9/1950 Description: A bright red pencil-shaped UFO, about six meters in length, moved through the sky over Hapeville, Georgia, flying to the south. It flickered like a neon light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: M. Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_1918 Source: Johnson ### Event 3158 (2653BAFF) Date: 4/10/1950 Description: Object flying to the NE or E over Brookley AFB at 3,500 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mobile (Brookley AFB & Bates Field), AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_691 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3159 (653270CA) Date: 4/10/1950 Description: 7:00 p.m. Several University of California, Berkeley, graduate students, including [Garniss H. Curtis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garniss%5FCurtis), [Robert](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santacruzsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=robert-scott-creely&pid=148482398) [Scott Creely](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santacruzsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=robert-scott-creely&pid=148482398), and [Louis I. Briggs](https://lsa.umich.edu/earth/about-us/faculty-history/louis-i--briggs.html)[,](https://lsa.umich.edu/earth/about-us/faculty-history/louis-i--briggs.html) watch a bright light moving against the wind at about 10–15 mph at 1,500 feet altitude about 3–4 miles away from Berkeley, California, for two hours. It turns slowly to the south then turns around and heads slowly back. Four high school students in Monterey, California, see a gleaming object over San Francisco in the early afternoon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file; “[Saucer Visits San Francisco, Schoolboys Say,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93087065/)” Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1950, p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_1517 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3160 (29C307FA) Date: 4/14/1950 Description: 4 rectangular, amber objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 711) Reference: NICAP: [500414](http://www.nicap.org/monmouth500414dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Monmouth, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_692 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3161 (A11C2AC2) Date: 4/14/1950 Time: 2:30 PM Description: Witness: Army M/Sgt. James. Four rectangular, amber objects, about 3' by 4'. changed speed and direction rapidly; the group of objects rose and fell during the 3-4 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey Source ID: BerlinerBBU_39 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3162 (60D50D8E) Date: 4/14/1950 Description: RAND Corporation writer Jean M. Hungerford writes a 32-page research memorandum for the US Air Force titled “The Exploitation of Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological Warfare.” She uses recent examples of religious miracles that were used in Western propaganda, as well as horoscopes, chain letters, and folklore. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jean M. Hungerford, “[The Exploitation of Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological Warfare,](https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research%5Fmemoranda/2008/RM365.pdf)” USAF Project Rand Research Memorandum, RM-35, April 14, 1950 Source ID: Eberhart_1518 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3163 (0775BCCA) Date: 4/17/1950 Description: More than 15 people report seeing a UFO for 20 minutes at 2,000 feet on the eastern horizon at Los Alamos, New Mexico. One scientist watches the object through a telescope and says it looks flat, circular, metallic, and roughly 9 feet in diameter. It moves faster than any conventional aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) [Volume 6, April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 26; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 86 Source ID: Eberhart_1520 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3164 (DFF85B37) Date: 4/17/1950 Description: Three flat, metallic flying objects were sighted east of the Los Alamos AEC nuclear facility in New Mexico by 15 University of California scientists at 1:30 p.m. The sighting lasted for 20 minutes and the UFO was viewed through a telescope. They estimated the size of the objects as approximately nine feet in diameter, and they flew faster than conventional aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, FSR, volume 25, number 2 Source ID: Johnson_2074 Source: Johnson ### Event 3165 (AADFDB20) Date: 4/17/1950 Description: Variety author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Sauces” announced coming soon. Type: announcement Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115865814/behind-the-flying-saucers-book/) Location: Glens Falls, NY Source ID: Maj2_407 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3166 (AB6F2292) Date: 4/17/1950 Description: At 8:15 p.m. EDT two teenagers were driving in a car in Springfield, Massachusetts when their vehicle was bussed by two glowing saucers. The objects then hopped about in the sky, ascend very fast and are gone from sight in about a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_2075 Source: Johnson ### Event 3167 (CE470924) Date: 4/17/1950 Description: Newsweek publishes an article, “Flying Saucers Again,” on crashed saucers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Flying Saucers Again,” Newsweek, April 17, 1950, p. 29 Source ID: Eberhart_1519 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3168 (81F5FEB1) Date: 4/18/1950 Description: Object Triangulated, Observed From F-61C (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500418](http://www.nicap.org/500418memphis%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Memphis (near), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_693 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3169 (A5FA14BC) Date: 4/18/1950 Description: CAA observers in Clarendon, Texas saw an unidentified object to the southeast, while observers in Childress, Texas about 50 miles to the SE saw the object to the northwest, and triangulated the stationary object about midway between, near Memphis, Texas. The sighting began around 9 a.m. and the object was on radar for four hours. This radar-visual case involved the crew of an F-61C as it was flying over Memphis around 11:00 a.m. as well as separate ground radars. A silver sphere that tilted was seen, and it did not move significantly despite winds aloft. Northrop engineering test pilot Max Stanley and observers Lloyd Balsam and Sam F. West were asked to intercept the object when they took off in their F-61C (AF 8357) from Amarillo on an MX-775 test of a Navaho missile celestial guidance test. A B-36 was also scrambled and took off from Fort Worth to intercept. On the same day at 10:50 a.m. two military wives in Sherman, Texas saw 18-20 flat silent silver discs race to the north, then maneuver for 4-5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, pp. 26-27; Jan Aldrich Source ID: Johnson_2105 Source: Johnson ### Event 3170 (B96BA8D6) Date: 4/18/1950 Description: At 10:30 a.m. three observers in Pullman, Washington saw two dark delta-shaped objects fly to the north; they joined a saucer-shaped object and circled a hill. The saucer then flew off to the north, while the "kites" flew off to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1691; newspaper clipping dated April 21, 1950 Source ID: Johnson_2104 Source: Johnson ### Event 3171 (49A08E48) Date: 4/19/1950 Description: A silver, cigar-shaped object was sighted by a pilot in the morning sky over Clarendon, Texas. It flew slowly and vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, page 12 Source ID: Johnson_2131 Source: Johnson ### Event 3172 (FFA4B1AD) Date: 4/20/1950 Time: night Description: Jack Robertson was driviug about 13 km west of town when he saw a round object about 3 m in diameter hovering about 7 m above him with a dull red glow. It took off with a "swooshing roar" as sparks flew from a slot under it. Minutes later the witness feIt a burning sensation on his face. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Jul., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lufkin, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_77 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3173 (22EAF259) Date: 4/20/1950 Description: Mr. Robertson was driving about 13 km west of Lufkin, Texas when he saw a round object about three meters in diameter hovering about 7 meters above him. It had a dull red glow. It took off with a "swooshing roar" as sparks flew from a slot under it. Minutes later the witness felt a burning sensation on his face. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucers, July 1959; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195 Source ID: Johnson_2151 Source: Johnson ### Event 3174 (E195F7AE) Date: 4/22/1950 Description: On this morning in Princeton, Missouri several farmers, including one named Kincaid, saw a flying disc speed by, leaving a trail of white smoke. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs, A History: 1950: April-July, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_2205 Source: Johnson ### Event 3175 (A654AE97) Date: 4/23/1950 Description: Red Bud, IL (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Red Bud, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_694 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3176 (39ADBE32) Date: 4/24/1950 Description: 10:00 p.m. Bruno Facchini steps outside his house on the outskirts of Abbiate Guazzone, Varese, Italy, and notices something flashing near a power line. He goes to investigate and encounters a landed disc with an open door and steps leading down. Three or four men in diving suits and helmets are inside. One seems to be welding a pipe. Facchini speaks to them, but they respond with growling sounds. One points a small “camera” at him that emits a beam that knocks him over. Facchini lies still while the repairs are completed, and the UFO takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Pino Carminati Ghidelli, “[Un Diaco è Atterrato,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201971%2001-02%20No%2037.pdf)” Notiziario UFO, no. 37 \(Jan./Feb. 1971\): 19–22; Antonio Giudici, “[The Case of Bruno Facchini,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 6 \(April 1975\): 30–32; Ezio Barnardini, “[Facchini: Un CE3 Rivisitato,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201985%2003-1986%2001%20-%20Vol%2020-21%20No%20104.pdf)” Notiziario UFO, no. 104 \(March 1985/Jan. 1986\): 4–7; Clark III 267; Marcus Lowth, “[Bruno Facchini’s Extraterrestrial Encounter in Varese, Italy,](https://www.ufoinsight.com/aliens/encounters/bruno-facchinis-extraterrestrial-encounter)” UFO Insight, September 5, 2020; 1Pinotti 30–40; Patrick Gross, “[Abbiate Guazzone, Italy, April 24, 1950](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/abbiateguazzone.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1521 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3177 (7F85F05F) Date: 4/24/1950 Description: At 12:30 a.m. three men watched a crescent-shaped object maneuver through the sky over Ansonia, Connecticut. The object looked like a half-moon with a squared off end, and was sighted by two policemen and a restaurant proprietor. It moved unevenly thru the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_2272 Source: Johnson ### Event 3178 (00F6C13B) Date: 4/24/1950 Time: 2200 Description: Bruno Facchini heard and saw sparks coming from a dark, hovering object, near which a man dressed in tight-fitting clothes and wearing a helmet seemed to be making repairs. Three other men were seen near the craft. When the work was finished, a trap through which light had been shining was closed and the thing took off. The witness had the time to note many details of the machine and its occupants. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 63, 2; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Abbiate Guazzone, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_78 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3179 (0D096482) Date: 4/24/1950 Description: Later, at 10 p.m. in Abbiate Guazzone, Italy, Sr. Bruno Facchini heard and saw sparks coming from a dark, hovering object. Nearby stood a man dressed in tight fitting clothes and wearing a helmet who seemed to be making repairs. Three other men were seen near the craft. When the work was finished, a trapdoor through which light had been shining was closed and the thing took off. The witness time to note many details about the craft and its occupants. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Antonio Giudici, Flying Saucer Review, April-May 1975, p. 30; Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 120; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195 Source ID: Johnson_2273 Source: Johnson ### Event 3180 (FF17475E) Date: 4/25/1950 Description: Early morning. Military security patrols at the deactivated Dugway Proving Ground in western Utah view a series of unusual lights and objects moving above an ammunition storage area. One object is “surrounded by an aura of spears of light jutting diagonally from the main body.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History, Volume 6:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) [April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 34 Source ID: Eberhart_1522 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3181 (B1CC8D4E) Date: 4/25/1950 Description: 3:00 p.m. Enrique Hausmann Muller takes a film of a bright, circular UFO with rays of flame spinning off its edge in a pinwheel fashion in Montuïri, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Probable hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 88](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=100&skin=2021); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf), The Author, 1990, p. 32; Matías Morey Ripoll, “[El Caso](http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2019%5F09%5F21%5Farchive.html\#es) [Hausmann: Una Aproximación desde Ibiza,](http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2019%5F09%5F21%5Farchive.html\#es)” UFO Fotocat Blog, September 20, 2019; Centro Ufologico Nazionale, \[[Hausmann photo](https://www.centroufologiconazionale.net/1950fotolofocun.JPG)\] Source ID: Eberhart_1523 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3182 (1F064BB2) Date: 4/25/1950 Description: At 4:00 p.m. a 200 foot long cone-shaped device flew over the Vancouver, British Columbia airport at 15,000 feet altitude, and there were many calls to the police and news media. A white substance hung about the tail of the object but it left no condensation trail. The sighting lasted one minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: The Oregonian, April 26, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 35 Source ID: Johnson_2290 Source: Johnson ### Event 3183 (8C806AEC) Date: 4/25/1950 Description: A series of unknown lights and UFOs where seen near the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. A "flying icebox," surrounded by an aura of spears was seen over the Ammunition Storage Area near Dougway Mountain at 3:00 a.m. A 24-hour search of the area ensued. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_2289 Source: Johnson ### Event 3184 (5A39A3F7) Date: 4/27/1950 Description: Rectangular cream-colored flat object about 20 ft high, 60 ft long (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hachinohe (NE of Camp Haugen), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_695 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3185 (3CC9B880) Date: 4/27/1950 Description: Cinetheodolite Film Taken By Tracking Station (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [500427](http://www.nicap.org/500427whitesands%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo (Holloman AFB), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_696 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3186 (C7C2FC1D) Date: 4/27/1950 Description: TWA flight 117 sights UFO Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_108 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3187 (EAE0678E) Date: 4/27/1950 Description: Adickes/Manning Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/adickesdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goshen, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_697 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3188 (03C7D739) Date: 4/27/1950 Description: 8:25 p.m. TWA Flight 117 pilot Capt. [Robert Adickes](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-05-fi-33312-story.html) and Flight Officer Robert F. Manning are flying near Goshen, Indiana, when they see a bright-red disc-shaped UFO behind their DC-3. It overtakes the plane in about 2 minutes. Stewardess Gloria Henshaw and 11 passengers \(including Boeing engineers C. H. Jenkins and [Dean C.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69300704/dean-c%5F-bourland) [Bourland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69300704/dean-c%5F-bourland) and executives E. J. Fitzgerald and S. N. Miller\) also see the object. It veers off at 400 mph, drops down to 1,500 feet, and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Adickes TWA DC-3 Case](http://www.nicap.org/500427goshen%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 89; Donald E. Keyhoe, “[Flight](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2008%2000%5FTrue%5FDonald%20Keyhoe%5FGreenwood%20scan.pdf) [117 and the Flying Saucer,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2008%2000%5FTrue%5FDonald%20Keyhoe%5FGreenwood%20scan.pdf)” True, August 1950, pp. 24–25, 75–79; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 46–47 Source ID: Eberhart_1525 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3189 (804298EE) Date: 4/27/1950 Description: Light-brown flat oval object that climbed to 28,000 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/plymouth500427dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Plymouth, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_698 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3190 (90F51900) Date: 4/27/1950 Description: While preparing for an MX-776A Shrike air-to-ground missile test at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, Charles Riggs, a member of the Project Twinkle cinetheodolite camera crew supplied by Land-Air Inc., sees, tracks, and manages to film four high-flying objects streaking across the sky. Another station also tracks the objects. The photos show only a smudgy dark object, but the triangulation results in a calculation by mathematician Wilbur L. Mitchell and Capt. Perry Bryant of the objects’ size as 30 feet in diameter and 150,000 feet in altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Cinetheodolite Film Taken by Tracking Station](http://www.nicap.org/500427whitesands%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [p. 88](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/88/mode/2up); Clark III 544–545; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 88; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 44; Good Above, [pp. 354–355](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/354/mode/2up); Bruce Maccabee, “The White Sands Films,” IUR 21, no. 1 \(Spring 1996\): 22–25 Source ID: Eberhart_1524 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3191 (B16FAC2C) Date: 4/27/1950 Description: At 9:00 a.m. a U.S. Air Force F-86 Sabre jet had an encounter with a flat oval-shaped object near Plymouth, Massachusetts. The object was light brown in color, climbed away from the jet, and at 28,000 feet turned and flew away. At 8:25 p.m. a huge reddish-orange disc passed a TWA DC-3 airliner being flown over South Bend, Indiana by the crew named Adickes, Manning, and Hinshaw. The UFO approached the plane from below and behind, overtaking the aircraft, then moved rapidly away when the pilot attempted a closer approach. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 12; (2) True Magazine, August 1950; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 145; Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 150 Source ID: Johnson_2361 Source: Johnson ### Event 3192 (8256186C) Date: 4/28/1950 Description: Unidentified Target Tracked / F-80 Intercepts (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500428](http://www.nicap.org/500428japan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wakkanai (About 2 miles W of), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_699 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3193 (85D72ED3) Date: 4/30/1950 Description: At around 8:00 p.m. police and five other independent witnesses in Savannah, Georgia reported seeing an upside-down, hat-shaped disc with small fins. It was an estimated 15 meters in diameter. It hovered for a few seconds, then shot off toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping, May 1, 1950; Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_2418 Source: Johnson ### Event 3194 (7CDE187E) Date: 5/3/1950 Description: At 3:00 p.m. several girls in Savoyeux-Haute, Haute-Saone department, France saw a large cylindrical object fly rapidly from the south to the north shooting silvery rays. At 4:30 p.m. four discs were sighted by numerous observers in Neuville-sur-Sarthe, Sarthe department, France flying at a low altitude slowly toward the the horizon. They left a trail of smoke. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211 Source ID: Johnson_2464 Source: Johnson ### Event 3195 (891D25F2) Date: 5/4/1950 Description: At 10:00 p.m. in Birmingham, Alabama a ghostly object grew and changed shape; it flashes; then suddenly shoots up and is gone. There were two witnesses together and an additional independent observer, and the event lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1722; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_2500 Source: Johnson ### Event 3196 (F8A25D81) Date: 5/5/1950 Description: 11:30 p.m. Capt. Marcellus D. O’Sullivan, 1Lt. [William J. Reisinger](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194896161/william-j-reisinger), and three enlisted men of the 625th Aircraft and Warning Squadron at Elmendorf AFB \[now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson\], Anchorage, Alaska, see a reddish-orange object hovering in the sky for 5 minuites. It puts on a burst of speed and disappears over the horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[From History: 57th Fighter Interceptor Wing \(Alaska\), January–June 1950,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr05.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 5 \(July 1999\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_1526 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3197 (8A2C7DF4) Date: 5/6/1950 Description: Crowds of observers in Rome, Italy watched two flashing saucer-shaped object one mile over the Piazza Colonna at 4:30 p.m. They were spinning and moved slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 126; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 42 Source ID: Johnson_2578 Source: Johnson ### Event 3198 (BB270107) Date: 5/6/1950 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a squadron of discs flew in circles for 20 minutes above the city of Abington, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. There were many witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Riverside Daily Press, May 8, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 42 Source ID: Johnson_2579 Source: Johnson ### Event 3199 (FFD85269) Date: 5/7/1950 Time: 6:45 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. George Smith and their grandson. One silvery white object hovered at 100' altitude, moved back and forth for 10 minutes and then flew up and away. Note in case file: "No investigation." Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Nine miles sough of Ely, Nevada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_40 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3200 (E6EA359E) Date: 5/7/1950 Description: Silvery white object hover at 100 ft altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 721) Reference: NICAP: [500507](http://www.nicap.org/ely500507dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ely (9 miles S of), NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_700 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3201 (D2114050) Date: 5/7/1950 Description: A couple and their grandson were returning from a picnic at 6:45 p.m. when they saw a silvery white object at treetop level. They were about nine miles south of Ely, Nevada at the time. It hovered for ten minutes, then oscillated "as if attempting to rise" and suddenly flew out of sight at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 721; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 79 Source ID: Johnson_2613 Source: Johnson ### Event 3202 (45743C19) Date: 5/7/1950 Time: 1845 Description: A couple and their grandson were returning from a picnic when, about 14 km south of Ely, they saw a silvery-white object at treetop level. It hovered for 10 min, then oscillated "as if attempting to rise" and suddenly flew out of sight at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ely, Nevada Source ID: Magnonia_79 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3203 (F197EE96) Date: 5/9/1950 Description: Object with erratically varying height, position and speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Selfridge AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_701 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3204 (288CD7ED) Date: 5/11/1950 Description: Paul Trent Photos (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500511](http://www.nicap.org/500511mcminnville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McMinnville (9 miles W of), OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_702 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3205 (104A8FB7) Date: 5/11/1950 Description: McMinnville UFO photographs, also known as the Trent UFO photos, were taken by a farming couple, Paul and Evelyn Trent near McMinnville, Oregon. Type: ufo photo Reference: [link](https://kval.com/news/local/fight-over-ufo-photos-pits-family-versus-newspaper) Reference: [link](https://saucerco.com/blogs/saucer-encounters/mcminnville-ufo-photos) Location: McMinnville, OR Source ID: Maj2_408 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3206 (C98C4706) Date: 5/11/1950 Description: Two famous UFO photographs were taken on this evening by Mr. Paul Trent in McMinnville, Oregon. The UFO was also witnessed by his wife. The images show a dark metallic, asymmetric hat-shaped disc. The upper structure was described as like a "parachute canopy", with slightly off-center triangular post or antenna. It hovered, rocking slowly like a rowboat riding at anchor, and made no sound. The photos were published in Life Magazine. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: McMinnville (OR) Telephone Register, June 8, 1950; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 6; Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 396 Source ID: Johnson_2734 Source: Johnson ### Event 3207 (B6799FD1) Date: 5/11/1950 Description: 7:30 p.m. [Evelyn Trent](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84284227/evelyn-mae-trent)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84284227/evelyn-mae-trent) who lives on a farm nine miles from McMinnville, Oregon \[near Sheridan, Oregon\], is walking back to her farmhouse after feeding rabbits. Before reaching the house, she sees a slow-moving, metallic disk-shaped object heading in her direction from the northeast. She yells for her husband [Paul](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84283949/paul-arthur-trent), who is inside the house; he comes out and also sees the object. After a short time, he goes back inside to get a camera and manages to take two photos of the object before it speeds away to the west. Paul Trent’s father briefly sees the object before it flies away. The Trents assume they have seen some exotic military aircraft. They do not develop the film in the camera until they use it up and show the photos only to a few friends. Eventually it reaches the cover of Life magazine, but the Trents show no desire to make any money from the photos. Although the Colorado project initially thinks the photos seem genuine, three Interface Pilote pour l’Analyse de Clichés d’OVNIs researchers in 2013–2015 claim to find evidence of a model suspended from a string. Researcher [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) finds major mathematical and scientific errors in IPACO’s work, which actually supports a UFO conclusion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[McMinnville UFO Photographs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnville%5FUFO%5Fphotographs)”; “[Farmer Trent’s Flying Saucer,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Life/1950%2006%2026%5FLife.pdf)” Life, June 26, 1950, p. 29; NICAP, “[Trent /](http://www.nicap.org/500511mcminnville%5Fdir.htm) [McMinnville Photos](http://www.nicap.org/500511mcminnville%5Fdir.htm)”; Story, [pp. 223–226](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/222/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 90; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 244–245](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/244/mode/2up); Condon, [pp. 396–](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/396/mode/2up) [407](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/396/mode/2up); Bruce S. Maccabee, “[On the Possibility that the McMinnville Photos Show a Distant Unidentified Object](http://www.cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf) [\(UO\),](http://www.cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf)” Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Center for UFO Studies, 1976, pp. 152–163; Bruce S. Maccabee, “[The McMinnville Photos,](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FSpectrum%5Fof%5FUFO%5FResearch.pdf)” The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988, pp. 13–57; Bruce S. Maccabee, “[The Trent Farm Photos,](http://brumac.mysite.com/trent1.html)” April 2000; Bruce S. Maccabee, “[The Trent Farm Photos Appendix,](http://brumac.mysite.com/trent1b.html)” April 2000; Bruce S. Maccabee, “[The McMinnville Photos,](http://brumac.mysite.com/trent2.html)” May 2000; Michael D. Swords, “[Can We Learn Anything](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-we-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos%5F15.html) [from UFO Photos? Part Five,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-we-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos%5F15.html)” The Big Study, July 15, 2012; Antoine Cousyn, François Louange, and Geoff Quick, “[The McMinnville Pictures](http://www.ipaco.fr/ReportMcMinnville.pdf),” Interface Pilote pour l’Analyse de Clichés d’OVNIs, May 2014; Clark III 702–704 Source ID: Eberhart_1527 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3208 (08C857A6) Date: 5/15/1950 Description: Afternoon. Architect Enrique Carotenuto Bossa is driving in an isolated region in Bahía Blanca Partido \(possibly between Macachín and Estación Hidalgo Ferrocarril Sarmiento\), La Pampa, Argentina, when he sees a metallic disc resting on the ground to the left of the highway. He stops the car to investigate, approaches it, and sees an open door in its side. He goes inside and sees a “curved divan with three seats, two of which were occupied by small beings covered from head to foot \(except for an opening for the face \(in a kind of tight-fitting overall of a brown color.” The bodies are about 4 feet tall, and their faces seem charred or burnt. In front of them is a screen with “rays playing on it,” and on top of the screen is a rotating globe. The engineer runs out and drives back to his hotel. He returns the next day with two companions and finds only an ash heap. But they look up and see three UFOs—one a cigar-shaped object and two discs, hovering above them at 1,800 feet. The discs merge with the cigar and speed away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: El Universal \(Caracas, Venezuela\), May 7, 1955; “[Man Enters Grounded Disc,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2008%2000%20-%20August%5F%28underlinings%29.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, August 1955, pp. 1–3; Clark III 327–328; Willy Smith, “The Curious Case of the Argentine Crashed Saucer,” IUR 11, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1986\): 18–19; Roberto E. Banchs and Richard W. Heiden, “Crash Landing in the Pampas,” IUR 24, no. 2 \(Summer 1999\): 4–10, 30; Roberto Banchs, “[General Acha \(LP\): Un](http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2009/07/general-acha-lp-un-accidentado-aterrizaje-primera-parte/) [Accidentado Aterrizaje \(Priemra Parte\),](http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2009/07/general-acha-lp-un-accidentado-aterrizaje-primera-parte/)” Marcianitos Verdes, July 4, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_1528 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3209 (61A87067) Date: 5/16/1950 Description: Reply letter from White House to BSRA Type: letter Reference: [Twitter Link](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555559492540157954) Location: Washington DC See also: 4/7/1950 Source ID: Maj2_409 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3210 (4A4B4E08) Date: 5/17/1950 Description: At three o'clock in the morning four oil men in Hay Creek, Wyoming watched two saucers over an oil field for two hours. The object had lights and flames around its rim. It made dives and maneuvers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 45 Source ID: Johnson_2915 Source: Johnson ### Event 3211 (DF6602C4) Date: 5/17/1950 Description: On this night a military witness reported that a saucer-shaped object landed at the Amarillo, Texas airport for five minutes. Its touchdown set the grass on fire. It took off and flew to the west. There was an OSI investigation. On the same night a dark, "absolutely solid smoke ring" sped through the clouds of Timperley, Cheshire, England. It was the size of a plane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, pp. 44 & 47 Source ID: Johnson_2916 Source: Johnson ### Event 3212 (DF35AC20) Date: 5/19/1950 Description: Triangular Object Tracked By Gnd Radar & Observed By F-80 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500519](http://www.nicap.org/500519honshu%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Honshu (100 miles E of), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_703 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3213 (38FC565C) Date: 5/20/1950 Description: Astronomer/meteorologist observed a "powered" disc-like object from the grounds of Lowell Observatory. \[I\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Flagstaff, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_704 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3214 (0E6DAECB) Date: 5/20/1950 Description: 12:15 p.m. Meteorologist [Seymour L. Hess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour%5FHess) is strolling the grounds of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, when he notices a round, gray-colored object approaching from the southeast at about 12,000 feet altitude. He follows it with a 4x spyglass as it passes in front of a small cumulus cloud. Hess estimates it is about 4 feet in diameter and moving about 100 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 3](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=15&skin=2021); Condon, [pp. 245–248](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/244/mode/2up); James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#astronomers)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 61–62 Source ID: Eberhart_1529 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3215 (B88DBD99) Date: 5/21/1950 Description: A second Gallup poll on UFOs is released, showing that 5% of respondents think “these flying saucers” are “comets, shooting stars, something from another planet.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6, April–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) [1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 48-49; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_1530 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3216 (2C0666DB) Date: 5/21/1950 Description: 3:50 p.m. T/Sgt Edward Eles, [Earl DuQuoin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88216492/earl-e.-duquoin)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88216492/earl-e.-duquoin) and four other airmen of the 187th Fighter Squadron of the Wyoming National Guard are on the airfield at the Municipal Airport in Cheyenne, Wyoming, when they see a V- shaped formation of four round, pure-white discs flying in a northerly direction. In a matter of seconds, the objects change formation and make a sharp right-angle turn, flying single file, and speed out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Cheyenne Wyoming State Tribune, May 22, 1950, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_1531 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3217 (A5CE00B2) Date: 5/21/1950 Description: A huge round object hung in the sky over Montrose, Colorado. It was joined by a second large object. Both started heading to the north, but turned and flew off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 48, citing UPI release, May 22, 1950 Source ID: Johnson_3014 Source: Johnson ### Event 3218 (C629D367) Date: 5/24/1950 Description: Askania Theodolite Films Objects At Tracking Station (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [500524](http://www.nicap.org/500524whitesands%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo (Holloman AFB), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_705 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3219 (9BC3F3CD) Date: 5/24/1950 Description: During an MX-674 Tarzon controllable vertical bomb test at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, Floyd Fannon and other USAF crew members see eight unidentified objects. They separately track and film two of the objects down the North American Aviation missile firing range. Project Twinkle cinetheodolite station P-8 films one object to the northeast for 6 frames \(1.0 sec\) moving uniformly to the south. Cinetheodolite station P-10, located 5.7 miles down range to the north from P-8 and 7 feet higher, films another object, hence no triangulation is possible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Cinetheodolite Film Taken by Tracking Station](http://www.nicap.org/500427whitesands%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 91; Good Above, [pp. 354–355](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/354/mode/2up); Bruce Maccabee, “The White Sands Films,” IUR 21, no. 1 \(Spring 1996\): 22–25 Source ID: Eberhart_1532 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3220 (4AE7CBE3) Date: 5/25/1950 Description: Lt. Col. [Doyle Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) of the USAF Office of Special Investigations writes a confidential memo to Brig. Gen. [Joseph F. Carroll](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107471/lieutenant-general-joseph-francis-carroll/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107471/lieutenant-general-joseph-francis-carroll/) Director of Special Investigations. In part, it states: “In a liaison meeting with other military and government intelligence and investigative agencies in December 1948, it was determined that the frequency of unexplained aerial phenomena in the New Mexico area was such that an organized plan of reporting these observations should be undertaken. The organization and physical location of units of this District were most suitable for collecting these data, therefore, since December 1948, this District has assumed the responsibility for collecting and reporting basic information with respect to aerial phenomena in this general area.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Summary of Observations of Aerial Phenomena, New Mexico Area, Dec 1949 to May 1950](http://www.nicap.org/waves/500525doc.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1533 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3221 (C96FB28E) Date: 5/29/1950 Description: Sperry/Gates Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [500529](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/500529mtvernondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_706 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3222 (5CEEB710) Date: 5/29/1950 Description: 9:20 p.m. Capt. [Willis T. Sperry](http://www.nicap.org/docs/500529%5FWillis%5FT.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/500529%5FWillis%5FT.pdf) copilot Bill Gates, flight engineer [Robert Arnholt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135568763/robert-carl-arnholt), a stewardess, and several passengers on an American Airlines DC-6 airliner headed southwest out of Washington, D.C., en route to Nashville, Tennessee, are flying at 7,500 feet at 250 mph. About 7 miles west of Mount Vernon, Virginia, Gates alerts Sperry to a bright blue or bluish light ahead of them and increasing in size. Sperry makes an evasive 45° turn to the right and the object passes from 11 o’clock to 7 o’clock position to the left at a slightly higher altitude. The light very briefly passes between the aircraft and the upper part of the moon, revealing an object with a long silhouette \(somewhat reminiscent of a submarine\) without visible wings or empennage. The blue light is on the front of the object. Sperry turns left back onto his original course to get the object back in view, but it apparently stays stationary for about 30 seconds. Gates then notices the object circling around to the right side. Sperry banks right again, while the object paces the airliner about 20–30 seconds before it climbs to the east at a 30° angle at “fantastic” speed and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Sperry UFO Case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperry%5FUFO%5Fcase)”; NICAP, “[Capt. Willis Sperry Sighting](http://www.nicap.org/500529mtvernon%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 52–53; Project 1947, “[UFO](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1950b.htm) [Reports 1950](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1950b.htm)”; Sparks, p. 91 Source ID: Eberhart_1534 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3223 (AF027A86) Date: 5/29/1950 Description: At 9:15 p.m. an American Airlines DC-6 flying at 8000' altitude, climbing from Washington, D.C. and approximately over Rappahannock, Virginia encountered a spindle-shaped UFO. The object changed course to parallel the plane, then circled the aircraft, and reversed direction before it went out of sight very fast. It had a blue light on its front end. The sighting lasted approximately one minute, and the object was not detected on radar. There were three witnesses among the crew: Sperry, Bates, and Arnholt. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 39; UNICAT, case # 719, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July; True Magazine, August 1950 Source ID: Johnson_3144 Source: Johnson ### Event 3224 (70349D1F) Date: 5/29/1950 Description: A spindle-shaped 150 ft long metallic object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon (about 7 miles W of), VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_708 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3225 (FAAC3F35) Date: 5/29/1950 Description: A shiny, bright object streaking across the sky is spotted by two cine-theodolite stations at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, just before firing a test missile. The object is tracked and photographed by both stations. After the films are developed, it turns out that the stations had photographed different objects. Analysts estimate that the objects were higher than 40,000 feet, traveling more than 2,000 mph, and over 300 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 89](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/88/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf), The Author, 1990, p. 36 Source ID: Eberhart_1535 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3226 (03272BAF) Date: 5/29/1950 Description: Theodolite photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Sands, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_707 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3227 (A18BBEEA) Date: 6/1950 Description: Many sightings Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_109 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3228 (E33EE81A) Date: 6/1/1950 Description: A pilot on patrol from RAF Tangmere in West Sussex, England, sights a “bright circular metallic object” that speeds past his Gloster Meteor jet fighter at 20,000 feet. As he undergoes a debriefing by squadron intelligence, he finds out that four RAF controllers at the radar station at RAF Wartling near Eastbourne have, at the same time, tracked an “unusual response” that vanishes from their screens, moving at terrific speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke, “[Flying Saucer Working Party,](https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/national-archives-ufo-files-7/flying-saucer-working-party/)” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism, January 3, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_1538 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3229 (A186DA28) Date: 6/8/1950 Description: Gen. [Earle E. Partridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle%5FE.%5FPartridge) of the Fifth Air Force, responsible for the Korean Theatre, writes to Commanding Gen. [George E. Stratemeyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FE.%5FStratemeyer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FE.%5FStratemeyer) asking for an analysis of certain UFO cases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 100–101 Source ID: Eberhart_1539 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3230 (026E24F5) Date: 6/12/1950 Description: Eastern Airlines executive [Eddie Rickenbacker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%5FRickenbacker) tells the press that if flying saucers “do exist, you can rest assured that they are ours.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 100 Source ID: Eberhart_1540 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3231 (0ACD6456) Date: 6/12/1950 Description: 4:00 p.m. Working in a quarry somewhere in California, geologist John Zimmerman and civil engineer Charles Fisher are watching a jet aircraft speeding through the sky and leaving a vapor trail. Suddenly Zimmerman notices that the vapor trail has been cut. Looking more closely, he notices a metallic disc making vertical loops around the jet. Two other discs come into view and perform the same aerobatics. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wells Alan Webb, Mars, the New Frontier, Fearon, 1956, p. 124; UFOEv, [p. 50](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=62&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1541 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3232 (8010C1C6) Date: 6/12/1950 Description: Geologist saw disc-shaped object loop around plane. \[VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_709 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3233 (536AED7E) Date: 6/14/1950 Description: 4:45 PM. Fairchild plant workers at the nuclear research facilities watched a brilliant fiery ball of light hover over restricted military airspace for about two minutes. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 3). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_710 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3234 (6F5159C6) Date: 6/16/1950 Description: Triangular Object Passes C-47 At 700 MPH (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500616](http://www.nicap.org/500616tucson%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_711 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3235 (80451FDC) Date: 6/17/1950 Description: 40-50 ft frying pan-shaped object with two rows of 1 ft holes (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hasselbach, East Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_712 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3236 (440B3B95) Date: 6/17/1950 Description: Oskar Linke and his 11-year-old daughter saw two little men in silver suits in a forest outside of Hasselbach, Germany in 1950. His motorcycle had gotten a flat tire and they were pushing it toward the village around 2:30 a.m. when his daughter Gabriele pointed to what she thought was a young deer about 150 yards away. He approached and realized that what she had seen were apparently human figures, wearing shimmering metallic clothing. They stood about 1.5 meters (4 feet) in height, and one of them wore a light on its chest that flashed at regular intervals. He stealthily approached to about 30 feet from them, peering over a small ridge. Next to them was a pan-shaped disc, approximately 40-50 feet (15-20 meters) in diameter. The object was metallic and had two rows of holes along the sides each about a foot in diameter, spaced 1.5 feet apart. Out of the top rose a ten-foot high black, cylindrical "conning tower."

When his daughter called to him it apparently alarmed the two figures, for they rushed back to the object, clambering up the side of the conning tower and disappearing inside. The outer rim of the disc in which the holes were sunk began to glow a blue-green color, and a humming sound started. As the glow and sound increased, the tower was retracted into the center of the object, and the whole object rose from the ground. From the swirling effect he got the impression the object was spinning like a top. The color of the disc turned to red as it took off. A two-meter circular depression of compressed ground, freshly made, was found at the landing site, with ground indentations. At the time Mr. Linke lived in communist controlled East Germany. He told his story to a judge and U.S. Military intelligence when he was able to cross into West Germany two years later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, pp. 8-9, citing Leonard Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 158. This case is often erroneously cited as occurring in 1952 Source ID: Johnson_3525 Source: Johnson ### Event 3237 (743A3F79) Date: 6/17/1950 Description: Oskar Linke and his 11-year-old daughter Gabriele are walking toward Haselbach, Thuringia, East Germany, in the twilight when she notices something about 420 feet away. It appears to be two men dressed in shiny metallic clothing who are stooped over and looking at something on the ground. Linke approaches to 30 feet away, looks over a small fence, and sees a large object about 40 feet in diameter that looks like a huge frying pan. It has two rows of holes in its periphery and a black conical tower about 9 feet high. The two men suddenly jump inside. The inside lights up, the object starts humming and rises slowly from the ground, rotating like a top. It rises from the ground with the aid of a central cylinder and is surrounded by flames, then takes off in the direction of Stockheim. Later he finds a circular depression in the ground at the spot. Linke resettles in West Berlin in 1951. He tells his story to a notary there on July 1, 1952, which is how it turns up in the Western press and explains a confusion in the date of the sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[CE III by Two Witnesses / Oskar Linke Case](http://www.nicap.org/500617hasselbach%5Fdir.htm)”; Central Intelligence Agency, “‘[Flying Saucers’ in East Germany,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000015464.pdf)” July 9, 1952; Andreas Müller, “[Das Haselbach-UFO](https://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de/haselbach-ufo-1950-augenzeugin-spricht20160126/) [von 1950: Die Augenzeugin spricht,](https://www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de/haselbach-ufo-1950-augenzeugin-spricht20160126/)” grenzWissenschaft-aktuell.de, January 26, 2016; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 92; Good Above, [pp. 513–514](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/512/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1542 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3238 (5BA91B9C) Date: 6/21/1950 Description: Disc Makes Five Passes At Control Tower (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [500621](http://www.nicap.org/500621hamilton%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamilton AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_714 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3239 (AB9C898E) Date: Summer 1950 Description: Evening. An 8- or 10-foot-disc lands in a field behind Mrs. Mason Vaughan’s house in Beaverdam, Virginia. From an open cockpit a “man with unusual goggles or headpiece” looks out. Surprised, the disc takes off abruptly, breaking off a limb from an oak tree on the way up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 267; Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index](http://www.cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1950-1951.pdf) [1950–1951,](http://www.cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1950-1951.pdf) p. 20 Source ID: Eberhart_1537 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3240 (078D20BD) Date: Summer 1950 Description: Physicist [Enrico Fermi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%5FFermi) first formulates the “Fermi Paradox” during a casual conversation \(in Los Alamos, New Mexico?\) with fellow physicists [Edward Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) [Herbert York](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%5FYork)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%5FYork) and [Emil Konopinski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%5FKonopinski)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%5FKonopinski) While walking to lunch, the men discuss recent UFO reports and the possibility of faster-than-light travel. The conversation moves on to other topics, until during lunch Fermi allegedly says suddenly, “But where is everybody?” \(although the exact quote is uncertain\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Enrico Fermi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%5FFermi)” Source ID: Eberhart_1536 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3241 (D6857E3A) Date: 6/21/1950 Description: 1:35 a.m. Control tower operators Cpl. Roger G. Pryor and S/Sgt. [Ellis R. Lorimer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99049849/ellis-reed-lorimer) and airways communications staffer S/Sgt. Virgil Cappuro watch a flying disc speeding at 1,000–1,500 mph over Hamilton AFB \[now closed\] in Novato, California. The object shoots blue flame and makes a roar like thunder as it makes five passes over the base. They observe it through binoculars for 25 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Disc Makes Five Passes](http://www.nicap.org/500621hamilton%5Fdir.htm) [at Control Tower](http://www.nicap.org/500621hamilton%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 92 Source ID: Eberhart_1543 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3242 (22C3B649) Date: 6/21/1950 Description: 30' Disc Seen From Golf Course (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [500621](http://nicap.org/500621misawa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Misawa AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_713 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3243 (F19A47EA) Date: 6/23/1950 Description: Huge ball of fire descend slowly in 1-1/2 mins in a wavy spiral path (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf of Mexico, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_715 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3244 (F65F0BA0) Date: 6/24/1950 Description: A cigar-shaped UFO paces a United Airlines plane \(Capt. E. L. Remlin, First Officer David Stewart, and observer Capt. [Samuel B. Wiper](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16889611/samuel-b%5F-wiper)\) for 20 minutes near Daggett, California. The object is also seen by the crew of another airliner and a navy transport plane. The Navy pilot sees for 3 minutes a dark gray object with heat radiation at the tail end. He estimates altitude as 50,000–100,000 feet and a speed of 1,000–1,500 mph. The crews discuss the matter with two CAA ground stations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Three Aircraft Crews Observe UFO](http://www.nicap.org/500624daggett%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 31](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=43&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 93 Source ID: Eberhart_1544 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3245 (A37F8051) Date: 6/24/1950 Description: Navy transport pilot Case (AL, M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500624](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/daggett.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Daggett, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_716 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3246 (294477AD) Date: 6/25/1950 Description: Korean War Type: war Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War) Location: Korea Source ID: Maj2_410 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3247 (C6D87462) Date: 6/25/1950 Description: North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Korean War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%5FWar\#Course%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fwar)” Source ID: Eberhart_1545 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3248 (A7DF82B8) Date: 6/27/1950 Description: President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) orders US air and sea forces to help South Korea. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Korean War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%5FWar\#Factors%5Fin%5FUS%5Fintervention)” Source ID: Eberhart_1546 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3249 (03BF21A6) Date: 6/27/1950 Description: Huge "Dishpan" Flies Over Arsenal (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 738) Reference: NICAP: [500627](http://www.nicap.org/500627texarkana%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Texarkana, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_717 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3250 (9B4D3E0B) Date: 6/27/1950 Description: 4:15 p.m. Al Hixenbaugh, a photographer for the Louisville Times, is at the corner of Longest and Everett avenues in Louisville, Kentucky, when he hears the sound of a DC-3 airplane overhead. He looks up and sees the plane as well as a large disc with a slight corona around it. He shoots 50 feet of film with his 16mm movie camera as the object remains motionless for 10 seconds before it starts getting smaller and disappears to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Louisville \(Ky.\) Times, June 28, 1950, p. 1; “[How to Film UFO’s,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20%28Max%20B%20Miller%29/Saucers%20vol%206%20no%203.pdf)” Saucers 6, no. 3 \(August 1958\): 3; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 93 Source ID: Eberhart_1547 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3251 (696447D7) Date: 6/27/1950 Description: Movie film of UFO taken by newspaper reporter Al Hixenbaugh (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Louisville, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_718 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3252 (4EAB25C4) Date: 6/27/1950 Time: 7:50 AM Description: Witnesses: Terrell and Yates, employees of Red River Arsenal. One object, bright, shaped like two dishpans face-to-face, flew straight and level, fast for 4-5 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Texarkana, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_41 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3253 (2070A703) Date: 6/30/1950 Description: Royal Canadian NAS, G,V Navy Men Report Radar Contact (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [500630](http://www.nicap.org/500630dartmouth%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dartmouth, NS, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_719 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3254 (8F9AD7A1) Date: 6/30/1950 Description: Midnight. Rev. Ross Vermillion, a former bomber pilot, and his wife are driving 9 miles west of Kingman, Kansas, when they see a bright red light hovering over US Hwy 54 near Cunningham, Kansas. They estimate it to be about 250 feet in diameter with a small canopy on top. The family of druggist Dwayne Mulnix of Meade, Kansas, also sees the object and they stop and watch it for about 20 minutes along the highway. They begin to drive closer, but it speeds away. As seen in the bright moonlight, the object looks made of bright metal and has an elliptical body “as big as the cross-section of a B-29” with a rotor turning counterclockwise around its body. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[WWII Pilot Tells of Seeing Flying Saucer](http://www.nicap.org/500630cunningham%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6, April–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) [1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 66–69 Source ID: Eberhart_1548 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3255 (7A9CF3F7) Date: 6/30/1950 Description: 11:15 p.m. Two navy men \(Petty Officer Carter and Able Seaman Connelly\) at Royal Canadian Naval Air Station Shearwater, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, are pulling duty on radar watch from dusk until dawn. They report four separate radar contacts bearing 160° at 5 miles over 90 minutes. Visual confirmation of two glowing objects is made by a chief petty officer in North Dartmouth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Navy Men Report Radar Contact](http://www.nicap.org/500630dartmouth%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1549 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3256 (219239FE) Date: 6/30/1950 Description: Rotating disc hovered, sped away when car approached \[XII\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kingman (near), KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_720 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3257 (5EEDB75B) Date: 7/1950 Description: Flying Magazine: “THE FLYING SAUCERS-FACT OR FICTION?” Type: publication Reference: [link](https://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/ahcpublic/UFO/1950_Flying%20magazine_ah12722.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_411 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3258 (D3EC3C71) Date: 7/1950 Description: CAA flight engineer observed a "wingless, fuselage-shaped" UFO. \[V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cincinnati, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_721 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3259 (3134CA14) Date: 7/1950 Description: USAF Director of Intelligence Maj. Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) orders secret UFO field investigations to be conducted by his staff Technical Capabilities Branch in the Evaluation Division under Maj. [Milton D. Willis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49365086/milton-dean-willis). These begin this month and last until October 1951 when Cabell is replaced by Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 936 Source ID: Eberhart_1550 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3260 (8D014522) Date: 7/1950 Description: Editor [Curtis Fuller](https://occulthealth.com/fuller-curtis-1912%E2%80%931991/)’s article, “The Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction?” appears in Flying magazine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Curtis Fuller, “[The Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Flying%20Magazine/1950%2007%2000%5FFlying%20Magazine%5FCurtis%20Fuller.pdf)” Flying 47 \(July 1950\): 16–17, 59–61 Source ID: Eberhart_1551 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3261 (2CE5AD01) Date: 7/1950 Description: Armed Forces Special Weapons Project concludes a top secret study, named Project Nutmeg, to search for an atomic weapons site in the continental US. AFSWP concludes that a site on the Air Force’s Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range in Nevada is the right place. President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) approves the location, known as Frenchman Flat. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Sandia Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandia%5FBase\#The%5FArmed%5FForces%5FSpecial%5FWeapons%5FProject%5Fand%5Fits%5Fsuccessors)”; “[Project Nutmeg: The Birth of the Nevada Test Site,](https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps100925/www.nv.doe.gov/library/factsheets/DOENV%5F767.pdf)” National Nuclear Security Administration, June 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_1552 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3262 (738C728F) Date: 7/1950 Description: Mid-day. Electronics engineer Cliff Booth is having lunch in his office at a private contractor’s building at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, when he gets a call that a UFO has been reported by one of the range stations. Booth and an Askania cinetheodolite operator are asked to drive to another range station with a manually operated Askania and look for the object. Through the finders on the theodolite the object presents a side view to the observers and appears to be cigar-shaped and metallic, with a straw-colored iridescent radiance or luster. It also has fins one-third of the way back from the front of the fuselage and a row of at least three oblong ports extending to the rear of the object and located above the center line of the fuselage. The ports are a dark smoky gray but not luminescent. The object hovers in an almost horizontal position, elevation 20°–25°, azimuth northeast. Shortly after the men focus the instrument on the object to take a film, it begins maneuvering. Turning toward the camera, the object moves in, and the men can see the front—a round shape with the fins extending out from the sides. It then drops abruptly, as though beginning to fall, but stops. It moves toward the camera, turns sideways, then drops as before, but this time it exposes the side view again. The operator leaves to report the coordinates to headquarters, and when he returns the object is gone. The men turn over their exposed film to the Data Reduction Division for development and analysis. A week or so later they are called in and questioned by a young first lieutenant unknown to them who asks them over and over again if they have taken pictures and to describe the object they had seen. Then they are asked if they can identify the film of the object they photographed. One of the men becomes angry about the questioning, telling the officer he had seen what he reported, had photographed the object, and is convinced it is some sort of a vehicle from outer space. He is shown a film of 14 frames on a Recordak projector. The black-and-white presentation shows a blurred ellipsoid with a dark center, but no details. \(Puzzled about the film, he later talks to a mathematician-analyst employed by Land-Air, Inc.; she conjectured the object had been oscillating in the air, preventing a stable image.\) The men are then told by their superiors to forget the whole thing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 27–29](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n23/mode/2up); Project 1947, “[APRO Files: Coral E.](http://www.project1947.com/folio/apro%5Fholloman.htm) [Lorenzen, Holloman Air Force Base UFO Sighting, July, 1950](http://www.project1947.com/folio/apro%5Fholloman.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1553 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3263 (80853085) Date: 7/1950 Description: 1:45 p.m. A Civil Aviation Authority flight engineer observes a “wingless, fuselage-shaped” object maneuvering over Cincinnati, Ohio. The object climbs at a steep angle to 16,000–18,000 feet, hesitates, dives, and speeds away to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 45](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=57&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1554 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3264 (16D26F44) Date: 7/2/1950 Description: In a story strangely similar to that of Mr. Kiehl (Aug., 1914) (Case 40) a man and his wife saw a double saucer with portholes and a rotating antenna come to rest on the surface of the lake. Ten figures, 1.20 m tall, dressed in shiny clothing, emerged and walked on deck like robots "changing direction without turning their bodies." Their faces could not be seen. One of them wore a red cap, had darker arms and legs and "seemed to be their chief." They immersed a hose in the lake, then took off. Fishermen later reported a green moss forming on the lake. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins U ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Steep Rock Lake, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_80 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3265 (DB3F12E4) Date: 7/2/1950 Description: Steep Rock Lake, Ontario, Canada. A man and his wife saw a double saucer with portholes and a rotating antenna come to rest on the surface of the lake. Ten figures, four feet tall, dressed in shiny clothing, emerged and walked on deck like robots "changing direction without turning their bodies." Their faces could not be seen. One of them wore a red cap, had darker arms and legs and seemed to be their leader. They immersed a hose in the lake, apparently extracted water, and then took off. Fishermen later reported a green moss formed on the lake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195 Source ID: Johnson_3784 Source: Johnson ### Event 3266 (FC4E3634) Date: 7/2/1950 Description: Dusk. While picnicking on the shore of Sawbill Bay on Marmion Lake, western Ontario, an anonymous employee of the Steep Rock Iron Mine claims to have seen a UFO resting on the water’s surface. A hatch opens and 10 figures, 3–4 feet tall, emerge, wearing shiny, metallic clothing. They seem to be drawing in lake water with a hose. The object soon rises and hovers, then swiftly takes off. The story appears in the mine’s house newsletter, then gets picked up by some Canadian newspapers and Fate magazine in its February/March 1952 issue. However, Robert Badgley, a Scarborough, Ontario, member of APRO, finds in 1974 that Steep Rock employee Gordon Edwards had written the fictitious tale to entertain readers of the newsletter and to satirize saucer stories. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Steep Rock Flying Saucer,](https://archive.org/details/fate-1952-02/page/68/mode/2up)” Fate 5, no. 2 \(February–March 1952\): 68–72; “[1950 Steep Rock](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201977%2011%2000%20-%20Vol%2026%20No%205.pdf) [Lake, Ontario Case Possible Hoax,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201977%2011%2000%20-%20Vol%2026%20No%205.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 5 \(November 1977\): 5; John Robert Columbo, UFOs over Canada, Hounslow, 1991, pp. 32–41; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1950-07-02-canada-steeprocklake.htm), January 31, 2007; Hammerson Peters, “The Little Green Men of Steep Rock Lake,” Mysteries of Canada, September 7, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_1555 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3267 (339E9DE1) Date: 7/4/1950 Description: Daniel Fry makes UFO contact and is taken to NYC and back in 30 minutes Type: ce4 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Source ID: Maj2_110 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3268 (6B2B57CB) Date: 7/4/1950 Description: Evening. Aerojet engineer [Daniel Fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry) is alone during the holiday at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, when a flying saucer appears and hovers just above the ground. Fry approaches and strokes its surface when a voice booms, “Better not touch the hull, pal, it’s still hot.” After some conversation with the disembodied extraterrestrial named Alan, he is invited on board the craft, which flies him to New York and back in 30 minutes. Fry has further encounters and becomes a celebrity on the contactee circuit. He finally meets Alan in person in 1961. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Daniel Fry, The White Sands Incident, New Age, 1954; Clark III 518–520 Source ID: Eberhart_1556 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3269 (7862B13A) Date: 7/6/1950 Description: A memo by Lt. Col. F. D. McGarrachy, USAF chief of General Investigations Division, expresses strong interest to acquire motion pictures of UFOs taken by civilians, perhaps in cooperation with the FBI, but not in a way to arouse public suspicion of USAF interest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 54–56](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/54/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1557 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3270 (44067CDC) Date: 7/7/1950 Description: Gen. [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) through his aide Col. Barber, sends a notice to AMC Intelligence Chief Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/), that despite the official closing of Project Grudge, the Air Force still desires to receive UFO reports and take them seriously. Project Grudge begins to be reactivated as Project 10073. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 12; Swords 101–102, 498–499 Source ID: Eberhart_1558 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3271 (513A37D2) Date: 7/7/1950 Description: GCA Scope Notices Targets Near Aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [500707](http://www.nicap.org/500707weisbaden%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Weisbaden, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_722 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3272 (C25C9954) Date: 7/11/1950 Description: Two Navy aircraft crews from NAS Millington \[now Naval Support Activity Mid-South\] in Tennessee, across the Mississippi River from Osceola, Arkansas, see a domed disc pass in front of them. Airborne radar confirms it. The object first appears as a round ball; after it crosses their flight path, it appears like an upside-down shallow bowl. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Millington Men Report Seeing ‘Flying Saucer’ and Tracing It,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90116255/the-commercial-appeal/)” Memphis \(Tenn.\) Commercial Appeal, July 12, 1950, p. 1; NICAP, “[Air, Radar/Visual over Arkansas](http://www.nicap.org/500711osceola%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 93 Source ID: Eberhart_1559 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3273 (F2759436) Date: 7/11/1950 Description: Martin/Moore Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500711](http://www.nicap.org/500711osceola%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Osceola (near), AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_724 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3274 (242F7C20) Date: 7/11/1950 Description: USN pilots of 2 planes saw a domed disc A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500711](http://www.nicap.org/500711osceola%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Osceola (near), AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_723 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3275 (D830C838) Date: 7/13/1950 Description: At 1:45 p.m. a CAA flight engineer, flying over Cincinnati, Ohio sighted a metallic cigar-shaped UFO maneuvering silently in the sky. It ascended to 17,000 feet and stopped in midair, hovering in place for ten seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1766 Source ID: Johnson_4027 Source: Johnson ### Event 3276 (74D9B399) Date: 7/13/1950 Description: Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. At 5:00 p.m. two skilled Arsenal employees, witnessed a bowtie-shaped object flying in the sky, appearing like it was made of polished aluminum. It flew straight and level, then one triangle rotated one-quarter of a turn in the opposite direction and returned to its original position. The object then made a ninety-degree turn and accelerated away after at least 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 758; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4028 Source: Johnson ### Event 3277 (45B9F59E) Date: 7/13/1950 Description: USAF weather reconnaissance sighted four groups of round, metallic silvery objects flying over Fort Peck, Montana at 11:51 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book, July 1950 report Source ID: Johnson_4026 Source: Johnson ### Event 3278 (8C6DB8B0) Date: 7/13/1950 Description: Weather Recon flight crew saw 4 groups of round metallic silver objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Peck, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_725 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3279 (0FA5A63F) Date: 7/13/1950 Description: Polished aluminum object, shaped like a bowtie (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 758) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huntsville, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_726 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3280 (8AE6B555) Date: 7/13/1950 Time: 5 PM Description: Witnesses: two skilled Arsenal employees including Mr. Washburn. one object, shaped like a bowtie, and like polished aluminum. Flew straight and level, then one triangle rotated 1/4 turn in the opposite direction and returned to its original position. The object then made a right-angle turn and accelerated away after at least 30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Redstone Arsenal, Alabama Source ID: BerlinerBBU_42 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3281 (DE8CB5B5) Date: 7/18/1950 Description: [Bruce Bliven](https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/bliven-bruce-jr-1916-2002) summarizes flying saucer news in a Look magazine article. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bruce Bliven, “[Flying Saucers: Myth](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Look/1950%2007%2018%5FLook%5FBruce%20Blive%5FFlying%20Saucer%20Myth%20Or%20Menace%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf) [or Menace?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Look/1950%2007%2018%5FLook%5FBruce%20Blive%5FFlying%20Saucer%20Myth%20Or%20Menace%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf)” Look, July 18, 1950, pp. 12–18 Source ID: Eberhart_1560 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3282 (E8C5E133) Date: 7/19/1950 Description: At Holloman AFB, New Mexico at 11:30 p.m. two softball-sized spheres hovered, changed colors, then rose vertically into the sky and vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History: 1950: April-July, p. 78 Source ID: Johnson_4189 Source: Johnson ### Event 3283 (811F9374) Date: 7/19/1950 Description: A memo by Col. [Bruno W. Feiling](https://www.458bg.com/MN-BrunoWFeiling-WEB.jpg)[,](https://www.458bg.com/MN-BrunoWFeiling-WEB.jpg) chief of the USAF Technical Analysis Division, on “Investigation of Flying Saucer Reports” says that UFO investigation takes up too much time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hynek UFO Report, [p. 57](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/56/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1561 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3284 (52D9F314) Date: 7/20/1950 Description: Mr. Campello and several others in a car saw two large, silvery objects by the side of the road, one on a hillock, the other on flat ground, about 50 m away from each other. They came within 600 m of the objects, which went away at "an incredible speed," causing a rush of air that rocked the car. Type: ufo sighting Reference: SBEDV 30 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Porto Novo, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_81 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3285 (5F1CAD84) Date: 7/20/1950 Description: In Porto Novo, Brazil Mr. Campello and several others driving together in a car saw two large, silvery objects by the side of the road, one on a hill, the other on flat ground. They were about 50 meters away from each other. They drove to within 600 meters of the objects, which flew away at "an incredible speed," causing a rush of air that rocked the car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 196 (case 81) Source ID: Johnson_4222 Source: Johnson ### Event 3286 (CC549C77) Date: 7/24/1950 Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 16.1km Rocket range: 320km Source ID: Maj2_412 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3287 (FB8A6C45) Date: 7/29/1950 Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 16.1km Rocket range: 320km Source ID: Maj2_413 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3288 (DC72A359) Date: 7/30/1950 Description: A ten-foot long long glowing cylinder appeared to explode when it flew into the propeller of DC-3 over Williamsville, Illinois. There was no damage to the aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 80 Source ID: Johnson_4501 Source: Johnson ### Event 3289 (FA0910FE) Date: 7/30/1950 Description: USAF jets were scrambled to chase a disc-shaped UFO seen over the Hanford Atomic Energy Commission plant in Washington State. The object was tracked on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, p. 4; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 399 Source ID: Johnson_4500 Source: Johnson ### Event 3290 (A840E8A8) Date: 8/1950 Description: Engineer [Eric A. Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FA.%5FWalker%5F%28engineer%29) becomes executive secretary of the Research and Development Board. He later refers to a real group called MJ-12 and admits attending meetings at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio concerning “recovered UFOs.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_1562 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3291 (BB6C7E9A) Date: 8/1950 Description: A CIA memo sent to FBI headquarters, “Summary of Aerial Phenomena in New Mexico,” discusses the green fireballs and notes that OSI is concerned with the phenomena seen over sensitive installations. It reiterates that [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) does not think they are meteors. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 167–168](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/166/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1563 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3292 (C0AB5D52) Date: 8/1950 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s article on the [Adickes](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-05-fi-33312-story.html) case of April 27, “Flight 117 and the Flying Saucer,” appears in True magazine. \(Donald E. Keyhoe, “[Flight 117 and the Flying Saucer,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1950%2008%2000%5FTrue%5FDonald%20Keyhoe%5FGreenwood%20scan.pdf)” True, August 1950, pp. 24–25, 75–79\) August — 2:00 p.m. Hugh O’Neill views a cigar-shaped object hovering silently about 2–5 miles off the Big Sur coast at Anderson Creek, California, at an elevation of 500–1,000 feet. It moves swiftly away to the south, then returns less than 2 minutes later and slowly circles above the ocean twice for 90 seconds, disappearing again to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, New Directions, 1957, [p. 75](https://archive.org/details/trent%5F0116301751230/page/74/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Aug-Dec-SN.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs a History: 1950 August–December, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Aug-Dec-SN.pdf), The Author, 2000, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_1564 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3293 (E55D5726) Date: 8/1950 Description: Author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Saucers” published Type: publication Reference: [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Flying-Saucers-Frank-Scully-ebook/dp/B00OEM62AC) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_414 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3294 (465719B1) Date: 8/1/1950 Description: Gen. Walter B. Smith fills the vacant MJ-3 position. Type: ufological event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_416 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3295 (833D231C) Date: 8/2/1950 Description: On this day in San Rafael, Marin County, California a strange cloud was seen over the city at 15,000 feet altitude for about an hour, moving against the wind. It radiated many different colors: green, blue, red, and orange. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gerald Heard, Is Another World Watching?, p. 150 Source ID: Johnson_4588 Source: Johnson ### Event 3296 (DDF7EF15) Date: 8/4/1950 Description: The crew \(Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn\) of the M/V Marcala in the North Atlantic between Nova Scotia and the US Eastern seaboard watch an aluminum-colored cylinder-shaped UFO, apparently 10 feet in diameter, 50–100 feet above the surface. It initially moves 25 mph, makes no noise, wobbles slightly, disappears over the horizon, then reappears. The ship’s captain watches the object through binoculars for 90 seconds. One of the other witnesses describes the sighting as “one of the most frightening experiences I have ever had.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object 100ʹ above Sea Observed by Ship MV](http://www.nicap.org/500804northatlantic%5Fdir.htm) [Marcala](http://www.nicap.org/500804northatlantic%5Fdir.htm)”; ClearIntent, [pp. 115–116](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/114/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 340–341](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/340/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1566 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3297 (FEAC2BD8) Date: 8/4/1950 Time: 10 AM EDT Description: Witnesses: Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn, Third Mate, of M/V Marcala. One 10' cylindrical object at 50-100' altitude, flying with a churning or rotary motion, accelerated at end of 15 second sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: approx. 100 mi. SE of New York City (39' 35' N, 72' 24.5' W) Source ID: BerlinerBBU_43 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3298 (9F23FA59) Date: 8/4/1950 Description: A memo from Army Maj. [Ulysses Grant Carlan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8778340/ulysses-grant-carlan) states that UFOs since July 30 have been seen at the Hanford Site in Washington State. They are above 15,000 feet. Jets attempting interception fail. The AEC says that the investigation is continuing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Maj. U. G. Carlan, “[Flying Discs,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/foia11.htm)” August 4, 1950; Good Above, [pp. 267](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/266/mode/2up), [485](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/484/mode/2up); Nukes 46; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Apr-July.pdf), The Author, 1990, p. 71 Source ID: Eberhart_1565 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3299 (79143D39) Date: 8/4/1950 Description: In the Atlantic Ocean approximately 100 miles southeast of New York City (39.58 degrees N, 72.41 degrees W). At 10:00 a.m. EDT Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn, and the Third Mate of the M/V Marcala sighted a ten-foot long cigar or ovoid object at 50-100 feet altitude, flying with a churning or rotary motion. The UFO was shaped like an egg cut lengthwise, and wobbled as it flew. It also "sparkled in the sunlight." It accelerated away toward the end of their fifteen-second observation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 773; UNICAT, case # 720; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4641 Source: Johnson ### Event 3300 (3A4C81BD) Date: 8/4/1950 Description: Object 100' Above Sea Observed By Ship MV Marcala (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: U, Rating: 5, BB: 773) Reference: NICAP: [500804](http://www.nicap.org/500804northatlantic%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Atlantic, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_727 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3301 (B299E945) Date: 8/4/1950 Description: CONFIDENTIAL MEMO: From Lt. Colonel Mildren (G-3) to Maj. U.G. Carlan (GSC Survey Section): Since July 30, 1950, UFO’s have been sighted over the Hanford AEC Plant. Air Force jets fails to intercept them. FBI, anti-aircraft battalion, radar units and fighter squadrons alerted for further observation. Atomic Energy Commission still investigating. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p485) Location: Hanford, WA Source ID: Maj2_417 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3302 (DEA0F87C) Date: 8/5/1950 Description: On this day one of the most famous UFO movies of all time was shot in Great Falls, Montana. The 16mm film was shot by Nick Mariana and was witnessed by his secretary, Virginia Raunig. It shows aluminum colored discs, "like two new dimes", hovering in the sky at a distance of two miles. It was sent to the U.S. Air Force for analysis, but when it was returned Mr. Mariana claimed many frames from the first part of the film, those showing the best closeup images of the objects, had been deleted. The existing film consists of 280 frames of 16mm film. The UFOs first hovered, then moved smoothly at very high speed (400 mph) in an arch beind a water tower. The objects estimated diameter was 50 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 138; UNICAT, case 310; Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 407 Source ID: Johnson_4670 Source: Johnson ### Event 3303 (A45BCB1B) Date: 8/7/1950 Description: Black Object Chased At 620 MPH (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [500807](http://www.nicap.org/500807santafe%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Fe, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_728 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3304 (EC46D413) Date: 8/12/1950 Description: 1:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Oliver are at the state forestry lookout tower on Round Top Mountain north of Medford, Oregon, when they see two UFOs, one disc-shaped, the other oblong. They are about 100 feet apart, and the oblong one is tumbling in the air end over end. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Lookouts Report Seeing ‘Saucers’ North of Medford,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93136634/)” Medford \(Oreg.\) Mail-Tribune, August 17, 1950, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_1567 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3305 (A92D52B0) Date: 8/12/1950 Description: More than eighty discs maneuvered in the sky over Campello, Ticino canton, Switzerland, leaving behind luminous wakes. They gyrated in the sky with a noise that was described as similar to "organ music". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 104 Source ID: Johnson_4931 Source: Johnson ### Event 3306 (BD6AE761) Date: 8/12/1950 Description: In Yuma, Arizona a disc-shaped object with a glowing outer edge zoomed to a position directly over Main Street at 5:45 p.m., then shot straight up into the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kenneth Arnold, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 153; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_4932 Source: Johnson ### Event 3307 (DD0960EB) Date: 8/14/1950 Description: Neatishead radar tracked an unidentified aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500814](http://www.nicap.org/500814cromer%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cromer (10 miles N of), UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_729 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3308 (406DC139) Date: 8/14/1950 Description: 11:27 a.m. Flight Lt. [Stan J. Hubbard](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11320471/Wing-Commander-Stan-Hubbard-obituary.html) and two other officers at Farnborough Airfield, Hampshire, England, hear a humming noise. Hubbard looks up and sees a flat gray disc, about 100 feet in diameter, at an altitude of 700–1,000 feet. He watches it for 30 seconds as it flies at a speed of 800–1,000 mph and makes a series of S- turns, oscillating as it moves. The other two officers see nothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke, “[Flying Saucer Working Party,](https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/national-archives-ufo-files-7/flying-saucer-working-party/)” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism, January 3, 2015; Good Need, [pp. 149–151](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/148/mode/2up); David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002, pp. 87–93; UFOFiles2, [pp. 40–42](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n69/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1568 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3309 (06DDBC6E) Date: 8/15/1950 Description: Nick Mariana / Montana UFO Color Film (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [500815](http://www.nicap.org/500815greatfalls%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Great Falls, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_730 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3310 (33188D06) Date: 8/15/1950 Description: A top secret meeting on UFOs takes place at the Metropole Building on Northumberland Avenue in London, England. It is chaired by Hugh Young, deputy director of intelligence, and attended by representatives of the Secret Intelligence Service and Wing Commander [Myles Formby](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171579927/myles-hesketh-formby) of the Air Ministry’s technical intelligence branch. Young explains that [Henry Tizard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FTizard), chief scientific advisor to the Ministry of Defence, feels that reports of flying saucers should not be dismissed without investigation and has asked that a working party be set up to look into significant reports. RAF Fighter Command is advised that all future reports of aerial phenomena should go to the Flying Saucer Working Party. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002, pp. 77– 78; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January 1, 1947–December 31,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-1959-SN.pdf) [1959, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-1959-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-1959-SN.pdf) The Author, 2003, p. 35 Source ID: Eberhart_1570 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3311 (2D57331E) Date: 8/15/1950 Description: 11:30 a.m. [Nicholas Mariana](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2006/05/marianas-ufo-film-one-of-best-produced.html) and his secretary Virginia Raunig are inspecting the Great Falls, Montana, baseball stadium in preparation for a game. He walks up to the grandstand and notices two fast-moving bright lights “like two new dimes in the sky.” He rushes to his car, parked 60 feet away, and gets his 16mm movie camera from the glove compartment. He films the objects passing behind a water tower, which provides a frame of reference for measuring distance, size, altitude, azimuth, and speed. In October he takes it to an Air Force officer for analysis. USAF notes that two jet interceptors were in the area and might be the objects on the film, but Mariana and Raunig had seen those too. Controversy soon arises when Mariana claims that the first 35 frames of his film—which he says most clearly show the UFOs as rotating disks—are missing. People in the Great Falls area who view Mariana’s film support him. They claim that the missing frames clearly show the UFOs as spinning, metallic disks with a “notch or band” along their outer edges. USAF personnel deny this accusation and insist that they have removed only a single frame of film that was damaged in the analysis. In 1952, Blue Book reviews the film; so does [Robert M. L. Baker Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FM.%5FL.%5FBaker%5FJr) in 1954, and the Colorado project in 1967. All studies of the film agree that it was not faked and that the objects appear to be disc-shaped. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Mariana UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[Nick Mariana / Montana UFO Color Film](http://www.nicap.org/500815greatfalls%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Nick Mariana UFO Footage 1950 Great Falls Montana,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGIH7ufiBII)” parkerdonaldmusic YouTube channel, September 29, 2012; “[Air Force Takes over Films of Flying Disks,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93138384/)” Spokane \(Wash.\) Chronicle, October 5, 1950, p. 8; “[Colored Films on Saucers to Be Shown,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93139228/)” Twin Falls \(Idaho\) Times-News, October 19, 1950, p. 17; Clark III 767–769; UFOs Yes, 81–108; Condon, [pp. 407–415](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/406/mode/2up); Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [pp. 127–128](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/127/mode/2up); Barry Greenwood, “[On the Question of Tampering](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr07.pdf) [with the 1950 Great Falls UFO Film,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr07.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 7 \(September 2000\): 1–8; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 138–139; Michael D. Swords, “[Can You Learn Anything from UFO Photos? Part Three,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos%5F07.html)” The Big Study, July 7, 2012; Patrick Gross, “[The Great Falls, Montana, UFO Color Film, August 15, 1950](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/montana50.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1569 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3312 (1EF170AC) Date: 8/20/1950 Description: An FBI informant meets with [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) at Alice Wells’s restaurant, the Palomar Gardens Café, south of Mount Palomar, California. In addition to the standard flying saucer tales, Adamski mentions that the Federal Communications Commission has established contact with people from other planets who apparently have a communist economic system. He also predicts that Russia will dominate the world for the next 1,000 years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kremlin 63–71 Source ID: Eberhart_1571 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3313 (672C7948) Date: 8/20/1950 Description: On this afternoon in Nicosia, Cyprus at 1:30 p.m., three military officers sighted a small, round, bright white flying object. MATS liaison officer Lt. William Ghormley, Colonel W. V. Brown, and Lt. Colonel L.W. Brauer reported that the UFO flew fast, straight and level for 15-20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 793; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5165 Source: Johnson ### Event 3314 (454BBD04) Date: 8/20/1950 Time: 1:30 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF MATS liaison officer Lt. William Ghormley, Col. W. V. Brown, Lt. col. L.w. Brauer. One small, round, bright object flew fast, straight and level for 15-20 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Nicosia, Cyprus Source ID: BerlinerBBU_44 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3315 (07B9F0B7) Date: 8/20/1950 Description: Small, round or elliptical, bright object overhead (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 793) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nicosia, Cyprus Source ID: NICAP_DB_731 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3316 (D9FB5C37) Date: 8/23/1950 Description: FBI memo from [Alan H. Belmont](https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbelmontA.htm) to [D. Milton Ladd](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Ladd.htm) on green fireballs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: A. H. Belmont, “[Summary of](http://www.nicap.org/docs/500823%5FFBI.pdf) [Aerial Phenomena in New Mexico, Miscellaneous—Information Concerning,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/500823%5FFBI.pdf)” August 23, 1950 Source ID: Eberhart_1572 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3317 (3590F235) Date: 8/24/1950 Description: Distinct bright unidentified target travel at same speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 787) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bermuda (250 Miles SW of), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_732 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3318 (20648198) Date: 8/25/1950 Time: 8 PM Description: Witness: B-29 radarman S/Sgt. William Shaffer. Radar observation, plus possible blue streak 3 minutes later. B-29 followed unidentified target, then passed it at l/4-mile distance, target followed for 5 minutes, then passed B-29 and sped away. Total time of tracking: 20 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: approx. 250 mi. SW of Bermuda (29' 40' N, 67' 28' W) Source ID: BerlinerBBU_45 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3319 (1BD98BD6) Date: 8/25/1950 Description: 250 miles southwest of Bermuda over the Atlantic Ocean (29.67º N, 67.47º W). At 8:00 p.m. radarman S/Sgt. William Shaffer, flying in a B-29, picked up an unidentified radar blip. The B-29 followed the unidentified target, then passed it at one-quarter-mile distance, whereupon the target followed them for the next five minutes. It passed the B-29 and sped away. A blue streak was seen in the sky three minutes later. Total time of tracking: 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5308 Source: Johnson ### Event 3320 (55E328F5) Date: 8/27/1950 Description: Shiny white spherical object about 20 ft diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brockton (near), MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_733 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3321 (90E829DA) Date: 8/27/1950 Description: A shiny white 20-foot wide sphere sped into the wind over Brockton, Massachusetts. The Air Force explained it as a balloon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Source ID: Johnson_5387 Source: Johnson ### Event 3322 (44B4514A) Date: 8/30/1950 Description: 10:45 a.m. During a Bell Aircraft MX-776 Shrike missile test \(for the later Rascal air-to-ground strategic missile\) a USAF M/Sgt and eight Bell Aircraft employees at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, see two glaringly bright circular or elliptical objects maintaining relative position to each other following the B-50 Superfortress launch aircraft from above on both the dry run and hot run prior to missile release. The objects give a “strong glare at all times” \(not reflected sunlight\), maneuver at high estimated speeds up to 10 times the B-50 \(roughly 2,500 mph\) for short distances, leave no vapor trails, hover, accelerate rapidly, and make abrupt “square” turns with apparent size changing to indicate ascent and descent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Objects Filmed during Shrike Missile](http://www.nicap.org/500830holloman%5Fdir.htm) [Test](http://www.nicap.org/500830holloman%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 98; Maj. R. G. Illing, “[Aerial Phenomena,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1950-08-30%5FUSA%5FHolloman%5FAFB.pdf)” September 13, 1950; Swords 115 Source ID: Eberhart_1573 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3323 (6CECFF95) Date: 8/30/1950 Time: 1:30 PM Description: Witnesses: three local employees, including Kaeel and Alexander, of the Air Force Base. A dark, barrel-shaped object with a pole down from it into the water, flew at 3-5 m.p.h. and 15-20' altitude for 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Sandy Point, Newfoundland, Canada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_46 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3324 (3B38D926) Date: 8/30/1950 Description: (BB# may be wrong) black or yellowish-brown object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 790) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: S of Kippens, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_735 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3325 (C2B8B805) Date: 8/30/1950 Description: A black or dark round object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [500830](http://www.nicap.org/500830harmon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ernest Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_736 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3326 (D1303662) Date: 8/30/1950 Description: Two Objects Filmed During Shrike Missile Test (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [500830](http://www.nicap.org/500830holloman%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo (Holloman AFB), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_737 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3327 (DCBFF862) Date: 8/30/1950 Description: At 1:30 p.m. three local employees of the Air Force Base at Sandy Point, Newfoundland, Canada including Kaeel and Alexander sighted a dark, barrel-shaped object with a pole extending down from it into the water. The object flew very slowly at 3-5 mph just 15-20-feet above the water for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5485 Source: Johnson ### Event 3328 (288C1033) Date: 8/30/1950 Description: A black or dark round object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 790) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sandy Point, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_734 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3329 (3A0D3536) Date: 8/31/1950 Description: 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. After V-2 missile launch no. 51 at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, Project Twinkle cinetheodolite crews track and film multiple objects sporadically several times from different directions at very high speeds over the course of 3 hours. Cinetheodolite station P-5 films an object using a one-frame-per-second 60 cm focal length camera with 35 mm color film. Frames 593 and 595 \(2 seconds of nearly 10 minutes of film\) show its elevation angle changing. An attempted interception by four F-86 jets from Kirtland AFB for one hour fails to locate the objects, which apparently return after the jets leave. Cinetheodolite observers note an object with definite shape and 3D depth but indistinct edges and no smoke or trail. The object seems to “rock or oscillate.” It is lost when the observer looks away to get an angle reading. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Objects Filmed after V-2](http://www.nicap.org/500831holloman%5Fdir.htm) [Launch](http://www.nicap.org/500831holloman%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 99 Source ID: Eberhart_1574 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3330 (3FC5AC9A) Date: 8/31/1950 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 136.4km attitude (Blossom 7- Nominal performance) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 136.4km Source ID: Maj2_415 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3331 (ABA20F33) Date: 8/31/1950 Description: Objects Filmed After V-2 Launch (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [500831](http://www.nicap.org/500831holloman%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo (Holloman AFB), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_738 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3332 (54D929D0) Date: 9/1950 Description: Navy planes on mission approached by two large discs, radar jammed, radio transmitter blocked by buzzing noise each time new frequency tried (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: City not noted, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_739 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3333 (3EFABA94) Date: 9/1950 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) first receives national exposure as coauthor of an article in Fate on his fake UFO photographs. A follow-up article in July 1951 features even more dramatic photos. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 39; Maurice Weekley and George Adamski, “Flying Saucers As Astronomers See Them,” Fate 3, no. 6 \(September 1950\): 56– 59; George Adamski, “I Photographed Space Ships,” Fate 4, no. 5 \(July 1951\): 64–74; George Noory, “[Fate](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/pages/fate-flashback-flying-saucers-in-the-1950-s/) [Flashback: ‘Flying Saucers’ in the 1950’s,](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/pages/fate-flashback-flying-saucers-in-the-1950-s/)” Coast to Coast AM, August 18, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_1577 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3334 (ACA2778E) Date: 9/1950 Description: The first US Army large-scale aerosol vulnerability test occurs in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, using two types of bacteria \(Bacillus globigii and Serratia marcescens\) and fluorescent particles. Six simulated attacks are conducted, with the conclusion that it is feasible to attack a seaport city with biological aerosol agents from a ship offshore. The first open-air tests with biological simulants are conducted in 1950 in various locales, one of which is off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States biological weapons program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5Fbiological%5Fweapons%5Fprogram\#Cold%5FWar%5F%281947%E2%80%931969%29)”; David R. Franz, Cheryl D. Parrott, and Ernest T. Takafuji, “The U.S. Biological Warfare and Biological Defense Programs,” in Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare, Office of the US Surgeon General, 1997, chap. 19 Source ID: Eberhart_1576 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3335 (72B2082D) Date: 9/1950 Description: 7:00 a.m. Three US Navy planes on a combat mission 100 miles south of the Yalu River in Korea are approached from below by two huge discs, at least 600–700 feet in diameter, traveling at 1,000–1,200 mph. The radar shows them as 1.5 miles away. Suddenly the objects halt, back up, and begin a jittering motion, keeping pace with them, circling above and below. When one pilot readies his guns, the aircraft radar goes haywire, apparently jammed. His radio transmitter is blocked by a buzzing noise. The discs are silvery and shaped like a “coolie’s hat, with oblong ports from which emanated a copper-green colored light which gradually shifted to pale pastel-colored lights.” A shimmering red ring circles the top portion of the disc. The objects soon speed away in the direction from which they had come. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Haines, Korea, [pp. 28–30](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch3.htm); Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 30–32](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n27/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1575 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3336 (81678223) Date: 9/1/1950 Description: Strange deep red ball of fire near the horizon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McKorryuk, Nunivak Island, Aleutians, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_740 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3337 (6F503F55) Date: 9/3/1950 Description: Three Pancake-Shaped Objects Observed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 797) Reference: NICAP: [500903](http://www.nicap.org/500903spokane%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Spokane, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_741 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3338 (5CF10E98) Date: 9/3/1950 Time: 2 PM Description: Witnesses: Maj R.J. Gardiner, Mrs. Gardiner and neighbor (former saw three objects, others saw one). Metallic bronze discs, 20-30' long, 2-6' thick. Moved independently and erratically for 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Spokane, Washington Source ID: BerlinerBBU_47 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3339 (01937A52) Date: 9/5/1950 Description: 4:09 p.m. Flight Lt. [Stan J. Hubbard](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11320471/Wing-Commander-Stan-Hubbard-obituary.html) is standing on the watchtower at Farnborough Airfield, Hampshire, England, with five other officers, one of whom is Wing Commander Frank Jolliffe. They all see, at a range of 10– 15 miles, a light gray disc following a rectangular flight path, consisting of a “falling leaf, horizontal flight, an upward “falling leaf,” then another horizontal stretch. The Working Party concludes they have imperfectly viewed some conventional aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke, “[Flying Saucer Working Party,](https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/national-archives-ufo-files-7/flying-saucer-working-party/)” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism, January 3, 2015; Good Need, [pp. 150–151](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/150/mode/2up); David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002, pp. 87–93; UFOFiles2, [p. 41](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n71/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1578 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3340 (6060465F) Date: 9/8/1950 Description: Henry Holt publishes [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully)’s Behind the Flying Saucers, the first book on UFOs. It sensationally claims that the US government has retrieved a crashed flying saucer and several dead pilots. Rep. [Edward H.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FH.%5FJenison) [Jenison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FH.%5FJenison) \(R-Ill.\) condemns the book as contributing to mass hysteria during a time of war in Korea. USAF Public Information Officer Clare Welch estimates that 3–4 million people have heard about saucers, thanks to the book. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank Scully, [Behind the Flying Saucers](https://archive.org/details/behindflyingsauc00scul/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/behindflyingsauc00scul/page/n5/mode/2up) Holt, 1950; John L. Cotton, et al., “[Flying Saucers and Frank Scully,](http://www.physics.smu.edu/%7Epseudo/UFOs/Scully/)” in KNW 2333: The Scientific Method, Critical and Creative Thinking \(Debunking Pseudoscience\), Southern Methodist University; Swords 103; Curt Collins, “[Operation Hush-Hush: The UFO Crash and ET Bodies Cover-](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/02/operation-hush-hush-ufo-crash-and-et.html) [Up,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/02/operation-hush-hush-ufo-crash-and-et.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, February 9, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_1579 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3341 (2276C629) Date: 9/8/1950 Description: Air Force Intelligence Collection Division’s Collection Control Branch \(AFOIN-CC-1\) at the Pentagon issues a new intelligence reporting directive requiring special handling and reporting of UFO incidents, “Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft,” thus reversing the cancellation directive of January 12, 1950. The action reflects the increasing interest by AFOIN Director Gen. [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) and his dissatisfaction with AMC inaction on UFO study at Wright-Patterson AFB. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[1950 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1950fullrep.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1580 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3342 (19BCBCD4) Date: 9/8/1950 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unkown location, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_742 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3343 (E3A0F94C) Date: 9/11/1950 Description: On this day 8 mm motion pictures were shot with a telescopic lens of a spinning disk at Wickup Reservoir in Oregon by a man named Murphy. He shot 10 feet of film showing the spinning disc-shaped object. There was one other witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping, September 12, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_5850 Source: Johnson ### Event 3344 (B4F8F8D5) Date: 9/13/1950 Description: Red Lights On Collision Course With Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [500913](http://www.nicap.org/500913effingham%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Effingham (5 miles SW of), IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_743 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3345 (AD7960FB) Date: 9/13/1950 Description: The Air Force responds to producer [Howard Hawks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FHawks)’s request for the use of military locations, personnel, and equipment for his upcoming film The Thing from Another World by refusing to participate and objecting to any display of USAF personnel or equipment on the grounds that “it is our policy not to participate in any proposal that will perpetuate this hoax.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 103–104 Source ID: Eberhart_1581 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3346 (44351256) Date: 9/15/1950 Description: Canadian engineer [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) attends a classified briefing with physicist [Robert I. Sarbacher](http://www.noufors.com/Dr%5FRobert%5FSarbacher.htm) of the US Defense Dept.’s Research and Development Board. Smith asks if there is any truth to the [Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully) crash- and-retrieval story and [Sarbacher](http://www.presidentialufo.com/old%5Fsite/sarbacher.htm) replies, “The facts reported in the book are substantially correct.” He says that UFOs are “classified two points higher even than the H-bomb.” In 1983, Sarbacher confirms the comment to [Stanton T. Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) although he clarifies that he was speaking about crashed UFOs in general. He tells UFO researcher [William Steinman](https://rr0.org/people/s/SteinmanWilliamS.html) in November 1983 that he “was invited to participate in several discussions associated with the reported recoveries” of UFOs, but is unable to attend the meetings. He claims [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush), [Eric A. Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FA.%5FWalker%5F%28engineer%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FA.%5FWalker%5F%28engineer%29) and [John von Neumann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5Fvon%5FNeumann) are “definitely involved” in the program and probably [J. Robert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FRobert%5FOppenheimer) [Oppenheimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FRobert%5FOppenheimer) as well. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1029–1031; Good Above, [pp. 519–521](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/518/mode/2up); Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “[Dr. Robert Sarbacher](http://www.noufors.com/Dr%5FRobert%5FSarbacher.htm),” March 1, 2010; Wilbert B. Smith, \[[Sarbacher interview notes](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Smith%5F9%5F15%5F50.html)\], September 15, 1950; Dolan II 320; Robert I. Sarbacher, \[[Letter to William Steinman](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Sarbacher%5FNov1983.html)\], November 29, 1983 Source ID: Eberhart_1582 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3347 (2365A9D1) Date: 9/15/1950 Description: In a conference between Canadian Wilbert Smith and Dr. Sarbacher (a consultant to the US Research and Development Board), scientist reveals Frank Scully’s 1950 "Behind the Flying Saucers" book is true and substantially correct, Flying Saucers exist, we haven’t been able to duplicate their performance, it’s pretty certain they didn’t originate on the earth, the subject is classified more highly than the H-bomb. Type: conference Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p519) Location: Washington DC See also: 9/23/1947 See also: 1/26/1953 Source ID: Maj2_418 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3348 (B2349F1F) Date: 9/18/1950 Description: Round object moving erratically at high speed then hover (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Poplar (Bluff?), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_744 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3349 (63CECE43) Date: 9/20/1950 Time: 10:49 AM Description: Witness identified only as a "reliable source". Two large, round, glowing objects and three smaller, internally lit objects. Two hovered for 1 minute, moved, and three smaller ones came from behind or within the two larger objects, and all sped upward and away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kit Carson, Colorado Source ID: BerlinerBBU_48 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3350 (AD6D401E) Date: 9/20/1950 Description: Brilliant white star like object accelerate and decelerate (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 807) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kit Carson, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_745 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3351 (20DEC192) Date: 9/20/1950 Description: Dog cowers at bolide (IFO) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [500920](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-500920.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Murray, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_746 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3352 (50AEA4EC) Date: 9/20/1950 Description: Kit Carson, Colorado at 10:49 a.m. A witness described by Project Blue Book as a "reliable source" reported sighting two large, round glowing objects and three smaller, internally lit objects. The two large objects hovered for one minute and then moved, while the three smaller objects came from behind or from within the two larger objects, and all shot upward and away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6117 Source: Johnson ### Event 3353 (1761038A) Date: 9/21/1950 Time: 9:52 AM Description: Witness: M.I.T. research associate and Air National Guard Maj. M.H. Ligda. Radar tracking of one object during M.I.T tracking of USAF flight of F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. Object speed was 22 miles/minute (l,200 m.p.h.), made turn of 11-12 gs acceleration during 1 minute observation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Provincetown, Massachusetts Source ID: BerlinerBBU_49 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3354 (885D05BF) Date: 9/21/1950 Description: MIT research associate and Air National Guard Maj. [Myron Herbert Ligda](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/919358/myron-george%5Fherbert-ligda) and [Joseph V. Connelly](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/514815/joseph-v-connelly) are testing radar near Provincetown, Massachusetts, under contract to the US Signal Corps, when they track an unknown object on a converging course with two F-86s. The clear target passes the planes at a speed of at least 1,200 mph, makes a right turn, then passes directly over or under the F-86s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[SCR-615B Tracks UFO](http://www.nicap.org/500921provincetown%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 139–141](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/138/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 100; Swords 104 Source ID: Eberhart_1583 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3355 (A13CE448) Date: 9/21/1950 Description: SCR-615B Tracks UFO (BBU 809) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 809) Reference: NICAP: [500921](http://www.nicap.org/500921provincetown%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Provincetown, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_747 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3356 (587A15EF) Date: 9/21/1950 Description: Provincetown, Massachusetts. At 9:52 a.m. an M.I.T. research associate and Air National Guard Major M. H. Ligda observed the radar tracking of a UFO during an M.I.T. tracking of a flight of two USAF F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. The object's speed was calculated as 22 miles/minute (1,200 mph), and it executed a turn of 11-12 Gs acceleration during the one-minute observation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 809; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; J. Allen Hynek, Hynek UFO Report, p. 139; UNICAT, case 275 Source ID: Johnson_6175 Source: Johnson ### Event 3357 (B49AD36E) Date: 9/25/1950 Description: JANAP 146\(A\) is issued: “Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft,” the start of CIRVIS reporting for commercial and military pilots. This adds UFOs to the list of sighting categories. All UFO reports are to be sent to the Air Defense Command at the Pentagon and to the Secretary of Defense. AMC at Wright-Patterson is not mentioned. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 123 Source ID: Eberhart_1584 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3358 (7E034116) Date: 9/25/1950 Description: The Air Force Intelligence office, apparently at the request of Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg), orders all copies of the December 10, 1948, revised Project Sign report destroyed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 114](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/114/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1585 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3359 (79DBF014) Date: 9/26/1950 Description: 10:00 p.m. Policemen John Collins and Joseph Keenan are patrolling on Vare Avenue near 26th Street in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when they see something like a parachute drifting down ahead of them at treetop level. It is about 6 feet in diameter and settles in an open field. After summoning Sgt. Joseph Cook and Patrolman James Casper, they go into the field to investigate. When they turn their flashlights on it, it gives off a purplish glow, “almost a mist, that looked as though it contained crystals.” Collins touches it and it dissolves in his hand, leaving an odorless, sticky residue. It completely evaporates in 25 minutes. This event inspires producer [Jack H. Harris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%5FH.%5FHarris) to ask his friend Irvine H. Millgate to come up with a story for what eventually becomes the 1958 horror film The Blob. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1102; “Flying ‘Saucer’ Just Dissolves,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 27, 1950, pp. 1–2; Rebekah McKendry, “The Supposedly True Story behind the Classic Film The Blob!” 13th Floor, October 21, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_1586 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3360 (7A037237) Date: 10/1950 Description: The Flying Saucer Working Party is created in the UK by Ministry of Defence Chief Science Adviser [Henry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FTizard) [Tizard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FTizard)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FTizard) assisted by [Louis Mountbatten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma) and Air Chief Marshal [Hugh Dowding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FDowding), both who have quietly concluded that flying saucers are real. It has five members, representing UK intelligence branches. Its charge is to study UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Flying Saucer Working Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying%5FSaucer%5FWorking%5FParty)”; Mark Rodeghier, “Britain’s Secret UFO Study,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 21–23 Source ID: Eberhart_1589 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3361 (D96A4FD7) Date: 10/1950 Description: [J\[ack?\] L. Rohn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79820198/jack-l-rohn) is named a chief of Project Grudge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_1588 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3362 (89DD0128) Date: 10/1950 Description: [Donald Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s True article is expanded into a paperback book, The Flying Saucers Are Real, which sells 500,000 copies. It brings many interested civilians and military people to accept UFO reality, government withholding of information, and the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, [The Flying Saucers Are Real](http://www.nicap.org/fsar/fsar-chapters.htm), Gold Medal, 1950; Wikipedia, “[The Flying Saucers Are Real](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FFlying%5FSaucers%5FAre%5FReal)” Source ID: Eberhart_1587 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3363 (91F8683A) Date: 10/3/1950 Description: Geochemist J. D. Laudermilk watches a disc moving with a wobbling motion at 750 mph behind a mountain peak near Pomona, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 49](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=61&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1590 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3364 (9277EFF2) Date: 10/3/1950 Description: Disc-shaped UFO reported by scientist. \[VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pomona, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_748 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3365 (6D6D2184) Date: 10/5/1950 Description: While flying over Van Nuys, California at 7:32 p.m., a CAL airliner had a near collision with a luminous object that looked like a flying wing without a fuselage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: San Francisco Chronicle, October 7, 1950 Source ID: Johnson_6562 Source: Johnson ### Event 3366 (D59206EE) Date: 10/5/1950 Description: Hardin/Conroy Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Francisco (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_750 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3367 (22300AEF) Date: 10/5/1950 Description: California Central Airlines plane buzzed by wing-like UFO. \[V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Fernando, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_749 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3368 (67BA4010) Date: 10/5/1950 Description: A California Central Airlines plane, piloted by Capt. Cecil Hardin and Flight Officer Jack Conroy, is buzzed by a wing-like UFO with 8 bright lights between San Fernando and Van Nuys, California. Bands of blue light are visible across its width. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Now Add This to Saucer Mysteries,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93147090/)” Los Angeles Daily News, October 6, 1950, p. 2; NICAP, “[Mysterious Object Buzzes Airliner](http://www.nicap.org/501005sanfernando%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 34](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=47&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1591 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3369 (E9884CB2) Date: 10/6/1950 Description: Confidential Memo: Headquarters, 5th Army Division: John de Reneaux photographed the saucer which crashed near Aztec, N.M. He said that “army officials” had attempted to take the photographs away from him but that he had given them another roll of film. In a further interview with the 5th Headquarters, de Reneaux denied any knowledge of the Aztec crash. Type: confidental memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p117, RECOVERY) Location: Fort Sam Houston, TX See also: 3/25/1948 Source ID: Maj2_419 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3370 (0D84FE13) Date: 10/7/1950 Description: [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) takes over as director of central intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1592 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3371 (5BFA2B51) Date: 10/12/1950 Description: Military Radar at Knoxville Tracks Eleven Objects (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501012](http://www.nicap.org/501012oakridgedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Knoxville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_751 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3372 (181CCA68) Date: 10/12/1950 Description: The Oak Ridger columnist [Robert Sharon Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FS.%5FAllen) reports that the Atomic Energy Commission Security Service has issued a questionnaire to be used when UFOs are reported at its installations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert S. Allen, “AEC Wants Info on Flying Saucers Seen near A-Plants,” The Oak Ridger, October 12, 1950; Project 1947, “[Robert S.](http://www.project1947.com/allen/index.htm) [Allen Introduction](http://www.project1947.com/allen/index.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1593 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3373 (D19388E7) Date: 10/12/1950 End date: 11/5/1950 Description: Some 15 radar and visual sightings of UFOs take place over restricted airspace at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the observation on October 23, an unexplained increase in alpha-beta background radiation is detected; after the November 29 sighting, an alpha and gamma ray increase is correlated with unidentified radar targets in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 171–173](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/170/mode/2up); Memo from Strategic Air Command Knoxville to Director of FBI, “‘Flying Saucers’ Observed over Oak Ridge Area,” October 25, 1950; J. Edgar Hoover, \[[teletype in response](http://www.nicap.org/docs%5Foakridge/fbi%5F501205.htm)\], December 5, 1950; Bruce S. Maccabee, “[NCP-14: Saucers over Oak Ridge,](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-brumac3.htm)” from UFO–FBI Connection, Llewellyn, 2000, pp. 163–181; Francis Ridge, “[The Oak Ridge Sightings including All the Tennessee Blue Book](http://www.nicap.org/oakridge/oakridgesightings.htm) [Unknowns,](http://www.nicap.org/oakridge/oakridgesightings.htm)” September 22, 2005; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 100–102; Clark III 950; Swords 106–107; Hynek UFO Report, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/142/mode/2up) [142–143](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/142/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1594 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3374 (CF1BBCEC) Date: 10/13/1950 Description: Sightings by AEC security patrols (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501013](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-oakridge501013.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_752 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3375 (C6770615) Date: 10/13/1950 Description: [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) sends a teletype message to the Special Agent in Charge in Los Angeles, California, asking him to determine whether [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully) is the same man who has been active in communist activities since the 1930s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Anthony Bragalia, “[J. Edgar Hoover’s Saucer Crash Secrets,](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/j-edgar-hoovers-saucer-crash-secret)” UFO Explorations, April 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_1595 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3376 (63A75C1C) Date: 10/15/1950 Time: 3:20 PM Description: Atomic Energy Commission Trooper Rymer, J. Moneymaker, Capt. Zarzecki. Two shiny silver objects shaped like bullet or bladder. They dove with a smoke trail and one vanished. The other hovered at 5-6, altitude, 50' away, left and returned several times somewhat further away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee Source ID: BerlinerBBU_50 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3377 (01525185) Date: 10/15/1950 Description: Saw 2 shiny silver objects shaped like bullet (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 819) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Knoxville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_753 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3378 (68C0933C) Date: 10/15/1950 Time: Time unknown Description: Witness: Woodward. Same as previous observation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pope AFB, North Carolina Source ID: BerlinerBBU_52 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3379 (466F6458) Date: 10/15/1950 Time: Time unknown Description: Witness: Daniel. Listed as "unidentified" in folder index, but no supporting data could be found. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pope AFB, North Carolina Source ID: BerlinerBBU_51 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3380 (EAA97CD1) Date: 10/15/1950 Description: 4 round shiny 100 ft objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 821) Reference: NICAP: [501015](http://www.nicap.org/pope501015dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pope AFB, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_754 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3381 (F4438FC8) Date: 10/15/1950 Description: At 4:20 p.m. a pilot named Daniel, flying from Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina sighted four metallic spheres, 100 feet diameter, that flew in a perfect line formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 821; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_6845 Source: Johnson ### Event 3382 (FA5E48C1) Date: 10/15/1950 Description: In Oak Ridge, Tennessee at 3:20 p.m. Atomic Energy Commission Troopers Rymer, J. Moneymaker, and Capt. Zarzecki sighted two shiny silver objects shaped like bullets. They dove in the sky leaving a smoke trail and one vanished. The other hovered at a low altitude only 50 feet away, then left and returned several more times, but somewhat further away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 819; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1833 Source ID: Johnson_6844 Source: Johnson ### Event 3383 (055759F7) Date: 10/15/1950 Description: AEC Security Patrol Encounters Object 200' Away (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501015](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-oakridge501013.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_755 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3384 (68FA6B67) Date: 10/15/1950 Description: 4:20 p.m. After taking off from Raleigh, North Carolina, Miami Airlines DC-4 pilot Capt. George A. Woodward and copilot William Bardsley see four round, metallic objects descending slowly near Pope AFB \[now Pope Field\] at Fort Bragg. They look like two saucers fitted together and are about 100 feet in diameter, flying in a line about 25 feet apart. The pilots pursue the objects for about 3 minutes, but the objects recede then shoot away at tremendous speed. Around the same time, a similar object crosses the path of an Air Force jet near Pope AFB. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Pilots Report 100-Ft Round Objects](http://www.nicap.org/501015pope%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Aluminum-Like Object Crosses Path of Jet](http://www.nicap.org/501015pope2%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1596 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3385 (3C86A774) Date: 10/16/1950 Description: Security Guards Report Spinning Object/ Radar Detects UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501016](http://www.nicap.org/501016oakridge%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_757 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3386 (766CF671) Date: 10/16/1950 Description: Oak Ridge Security Guard Reports Spinning Object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501016](http://www.nicap.org/oakridge501016dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_756 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3387 (2C89D0BA) Date: 10/18/1950 Description: USAF Brig. Gen. [Ernest Moore](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106180/major-general-ernest-moore/) writes a memo to Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, advising him of the standing policy of releasing no details about UFO case investigations. A form letter is to be used: “We have investigated and evaluated         incident and have found nothing of value and nothing which would change our previous estimates on this subject.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 102–103, 500 Source ID: Eberhart_1597 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3388 (445172D8) Date: 10/20/1950 Description: Four people flying over Camaguey province, Cuba in a Beech Bonanza aircraft sighted a circular object with a diameter of 70-80 feet flying at terrific speed at 7:40 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 45 Source ID: Johnson_6993 Source: Johnson ### Event 3389 (4B5D5CB9) Date: 10/20/1950 Description: UFOs sighted over "Control Zone" (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501020](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-oakridge501020.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_758 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3390 (3D0B902F) Date: 10/20/1950 Description: Flying Saucers Observed Over Kirtland AFB and Camp Hood (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501020](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/kirtland500321dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirtland AFB (and over Camp Hood, TX), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_759 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3391 (9B1F4F36) Date: 10/23/1950 Description: A retired USAF pilot watched a metallic blimp with three portholes hover for five seconds over Bonlee, North Carolina. He lost sight of it but saw it again after 40 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 824 Source ID: Johnson_7034 Source: Johnson ### Event 3392 (C4CCC4D0) Date: 10/23/1950 Description: Lab Employee Sees Flash/Radiation Detected at Oak Ridge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501023](http://www.nicap.org/oakridge501023dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_760 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3393 (C8617D3F) Date: 10/23/1950 Description: Aluminum object shaped like a dirigible (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 824) Reference: NICAP: [501023](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/bonlee501023dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bonlee, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_761 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3394 (948F44F7) Date: 10/23/1950 Time: 12:42 PM Description: Witness: ex-USAF pilot Frank Risher. One aluminum object shaped like a dirigible or Convair C-99 cargo plane, with 3 portholes, arrived from southeast, hovered 3-5 seconds and flew away to the south-south-east at end of 40 second sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Bonlee, North Carolina Source ID: BerlinerBBU_53 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3395 (9FC53236) Date: 10/24/1950 Description: Assistant Chief of Security sees UFO and radar tracks at Knoxville (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501024](http://www.nicap.org/501024oakridge%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_762 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3396 (D9ED5F3C) Date: 10/26/1950 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8km attitude (Explosion at 50s at Mach 3 terminated flight) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 8km Source ID: Maj2_420 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3397 (5B8D5927) Date: 10/30/1950 Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Paignton, Devonshire, England a cigar-shaped object dropped from the sky, then ejected two disc-shaped objects. All three craft flew off to the north. The witnesses were two men named Cove and Clark. The sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 47; newspaper clipping dated November 1, 1950 Source ID: Johnson_7298 Source: Johnson ### Event 3398 (8594C342) Date: 11/5/1950 Description: At 11:55 a.m. Fairchild Aircraft illustrator Don Patrick in Oak Ridge, Tennessee saw a translucent pear or bean-shaped object, light gray with a dark core, fly through the sky for 5-10 minutes with rapid, darting movements. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #829; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7465 Source: Johnson ### Event 3399 (E6A060B6) Date: 11/5/1950 Time: 11:55 AM Description: Witness: Fairchild Aircraft illustrator Don Patrick. One translucent object, light grey with dark core, shaped like a pear or bean. Flew for 5-10 minutes with rapid, darting movements. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee Source ID: BerlinerBBU_54 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3400 (C317FE7A) Date: 11/5/1950 Description: Aircraft Illustrator Reports Darting Pear-Shaped Object Over Oak Ridge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 829, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501105](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/oakridge501105dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_763 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3401 (D664A9F4) Date: 11/5/1950 Description: Four Pan American Airways employees \(Fred Wilkinson, Patrick Joseph Maloney, Fred Perrior, and E. Newman\) see a bright object fly east to west over Heathrow Airport, London, at 1,000 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: London Sunday Dispatch, November 12, 1950; “Saucers over England,” Fate 4, no. 2 \(March 1951\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_1598 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3402 (70DB0F69) Date: 11/7/1950 Description: Light Makes 5-6 Head On Passess At Navy Plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [501107](http://nicap.org/501107lakehurst%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lakehurst (E of), NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_764 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3403 (B004A7B4) Date: 11/7/1950 Description: A military pilot flying a Douglas AD-4Q Skyraider near Lakehurst, New Jersey, engages in a dogfight with a steady white light that he at first mistakes for an aircraft. He gets on its tail, then the light reverses suddenly and passes 100–200 feet above his plane at incredible speed. He again tails it and the same thing happens. The light continues to “turn about me in wide, climbing turns, making about two orbits to my one.” He abandons chase at 11,500 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Light Makes 5–6 Head On Passes at Navy Plane](http://www.nicap.org/501107lakehurst%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 68–70](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/68/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 102 Source ID: Eberhart_1599 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3404 (7AA9335D) Date: 11/10/1950 Description: Private letter from BSRA Director Meade Layne to Frank Scully. Mentions increased volume of correspondence since the fall of 1946. Type: letter Reference: [Twitter Link](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1599287488123576321) Location: San Diego, CA Source ID: Maj2_421 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3405 (B85887C5) Date: 11/10/1950 Description: (McDonald list) Uncorrelated Targets Comparable to B-29 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [501110](http://www.nicap.org/501110sruislip%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Ruislip, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_765 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3406 (941B6415) Date: 11/11/1950 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (3rd and Final Hermes II test) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Source ID: Maj2_422 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3407 (97F5906D) Date: 11/14/1950 End date: 11/15/1950 Description: (24.58° N, 81.80° W). (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [501114-15](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/keywest501114dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Key West, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_766 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3408 (C46715AF) Date: 11/16/1950 Description: Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) at AMC brings in news columnist [Bob Considine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FConsidine) for an in-depth interview on flying saucers. Watson says: “I’ve seen lots of flying saucers…and every single saucer turned out to be the sun shining off the wing or body of a distant DC-4, or jet, or a weather balloon, or it was a reflection off a water-tank or something else that is readily explainable.” He characterizes witnesses as crackpots, religious fanatics, publicity hounds, or practical jokers. Considine asks him about airline pilot witnesses. Watson accuses them of being fooled by optical tricks and the power of suggestion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 107–108 Source ID: Eberhart_1600 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3409 (46F8DD38) Date: 11/17/1950 Description: Telenews Productions releases a 9½-minute short film, The Flying Saucer Mystery, apparently the first UFO documentary. The film’s main focus is on the best new evidence of 1950, the alleged first authentic photographs and motion picture film of flying saucers, the two snapshots by farmer [Paul Trent](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84283949/paul-arthur-trent)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84283949/paul-arthur-trent) and the film shot by Louisville \(Ky.\) Times photographer Al Hixenbaugh on June 27, 1950. It also features UFO witness [Arthur](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67846049/arthur-weisberger) [Weisberger](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67846049/arthur-weisberger) of Tucson, Arizona, describing his sighting, apparently the only record of the event, as well as [Donald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) [E. Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and Admiral [Calvin M. Bolster](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49125157/calvin-m-bolster)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49125157/calvin-m-bolster) The film is apparently only shown for a few months and rotates among the Telenews Theaters across the nation. It is lost for decades until it resurfaces in the 1990s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK%5Fs%5F1m7lI8) [Saucer Mystery,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK%5Fs%5F1m7lI8)” historycomestolife YouTube channel, July 3, 2010; Curt Collins, “[The First UFO Documentary:](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-first-ufo-documentary-flying-saucer.html) [The Flying Saucer Mystery,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-first-ufo-documentary-flying-saucer.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 9, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_1601 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3410 (FC6763ED) Date: 11/21/1950 Description: In 1950, Canadian government engineer Wilbert B. Smith met with US scientist Robert J. Sarbacher, and was told that it is the secret opinion of the US military that "flying saucers exist." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 210 Source ID: Johnson_7763 Source: Johnson ### Event 3411 (28323B6A) Date: 11/21/1950 Description: [Wilbert Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) writes a top secret memo to the Canadian Controller of Telecommunications claiming that he has talked to Canadian embassy staff in Washington, D.C., who tell him that the UFOs are the “most highly classified subject in the US government” \(what [Sarbacher](http://www.noufors.com/Dr%5FRobert%5FSarbacher.htm) told him\) and that a “concerted effort is being made by a small group headed by Dr. [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush).” Sarbacher later verifies the information, saying the small group existed within the Research and Development Board. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: W. B. Smith, “[Memorandum to the Controller of](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Smith%5F11%5F21%5F50.html) [Telecommunications,](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Smith%5F11%5F21%5F50.html)” November 21, 1950; NICAP, “[The Smith Memo, November 21, 1950](http://www.nicap.org/smithmemodir.htm)”; Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/182/mode/2up) [183](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/182/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/182/mode/2up) [464–466](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/464/mode/2up); Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_1602 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3412 (1278F2B9) Date: 11/21/1950 Description: Mr. Smith writes a “Top Secret” Memo on Canadian government research into UFO’s and propulsion technology. Type: top secret memo Reference: [link](https://www.howandwhys.com/wilbert-smith-project-magnet/) Location: Canada Source ID: Maj2_423 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3413 (C20DAA64) Date: 11/23/1950 Description: At 3:20 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO flew from the southwest to the northeast near Maxwell Air Force Base, then performed a flip over the city of Montgomery, Alabama. A second disc flew from the southwest to the northeast, then two more flew from the south to the north at a high rate of speed. town. There were three witnesses, and the entire event lasted nine minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 58 Source ID: Johnson_7834 Source: Johnson ### Event 3414 (C52FE60F) Date: 11/23/1950 Description: (32.37° N, 86.36° W). Thompson. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_768 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3415 (8F17FA39) Date: 11/26/1950 End date: 11/27/1950 Description: 11:50 p.m. A “mysterious lighted object” flashing red, white, and green lights is seen above Huron \(South Dakota\) Regional Airport. Weather Bureau observer Gene Fowler, [Winfield Henry](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61621047/winfield-d-henry) of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, and Gordon Moore and Chet Fuqua, ground personnel at Western Airlines, go up to the roof of the airport administration building for a better look. Fowler is able to watch it through a theodolite used for weather balloons for 8 minutes. He says, “The azimuth reading changed from 147 degrees to 161 degrees during that period and went up seven degrees vertically.” The Rapid City weather bureau and Aberdeen CAA in South Dakota estimate the object is 40–50 miles northwest of Bismarck, North Dakota. The object reappears at 1:30 a.m. and is visible, sometimes hovering, until 3:00 a.m. when it disappears to the northwest. In Aberdeen, CAA aircraft communicator William B. Hiller sees a star-like object at 2:00 a.m. and watches it for 90 minutes. It changes colors, glowing white, green, and red alternately. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mysterious Sight May Be ‘Saucer,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93149224/)” Rapid City \(S.Dak.\) Journal, November 27, 1950, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 7, August–December 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Aug-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1982, pp. 59–60 Source ID: Eberhart_1603 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3416 (B68D1C48) Date: 11/26/1950 Description: On this day in 1950, two airmen flying over the Sussex, England coastline saw a silver-blue disc flying south. The object "tumbled over" and disappeared into some clouds at a terrific speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Awareness, April 1979, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_7933 Source: Johnson ### Event 3417 (6536E92E) Date: 11/27/1950 Description: [Bill Blair](https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/capt-c-w-bill-blair)[,](https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/capt-c-w-bill-blair) a commercial pilot and flight instructor, watches six elliptical objects in loose echelon formation over Evansville, Wisconsin. They are making noises like a helicopter and are flying at 500 mph at 10,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 34](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=47&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1604 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3418 (E357C758) Date: 11/27/1950 Description: CAA personnel saw hovering maneuvering UFO. \[V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huron, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_769 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3419 (FD71F068) Date: 11/27/1950 Description: At 10:30 a.m. six elliptical UFOs flew over Evansville, Wisconsin in a loose echelon formation at a speed of 500 mph and at an altitude of 10,000 feet, making a sound like helicopters. They were seen by Mr. B. Blair, a commercial airline pilot in flight at that time. At 9:08 p.m. a bright light made a sharp turn toward a DC-3 transport plane over Bakersfield, California at 9:08 p.m., flew parallel to it for a short while, then pulled ahead and to the left at a speed of over 200 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Edward Sullivan, letter dated April 1952; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 34; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 180; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 68; (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 60 Source ID: Johnson_7951 Source: Johnson ### Event 3420 (5799D638) Date: 11/27/1950 Description: Blair Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Evansville, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_770 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3421 (E0F55C4A) Date: 11/28/1950 Description: On this night a huge green luminous ball dove three kilometers toward a Stratocruiser airliner flying over British Guinea, and was sighted by the entire airliner crew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_7978 Source: Johnson ### Event 3422 (42A7FDE4) Date: 11/29/1950 End date: 11/30/1950 Description: Radar jamming and radiation at AEC plant (Nov 29-30) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 3, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501129-30](http://www.nicap.org/501129oakridge%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Knoxville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_771 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3423 (34F27D38) Date: 11/29/1950 Description: Between 5:00 and 11:00 p.m. radar targets were detected from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Fighter planes were, scrambled but saw nothing. However, at 7:00 p.m. there were Geiger counter detections in the restricted area of Oak Ridge that indicated an abnormal increase in alpha and gamma ray radiation that could not be attributed to any known source. Officials in charge of Oak Ridge security held a two-day meeting to discuss the "operational difficulties" of the early warning radar of the Air Defense Command at Knoxville. AFI was asked to investigate the situation and set up a separate radar set. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI Connection, p. 178 Source ID: Johnson_8024 Source: Johnson ### Event 3424 (E8CA4EDB) Date: 11/30/1950 Description: More UFOs, Radar-Jamming, and Radiation at Oak Ridge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501130](http://www.nicap.org/oakridge501130dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Knoxville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_772 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3425 (760C284C) Date: 12/1950 Description: The US seaplane tender [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FGardiners%5FBay%5F%28AVP-39%29) [Gardiners Bay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FGardiners%5FBay%5F%28AVP-39%29) is steaming up the channel from Incheon, South Korea, when the crew sees two mysterious, smoke-trailing objects that strike the water at tremendous speed. Two columns of water rise to 100 feet in height. No aircraft are sighted overhead. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sanderson, [InvRes](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs)[,](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs) p. 43; “[Sighting Flying](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Naval%5FAviation%5FNews/hmBGAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%E2%80%9CSighting%20Flying%20Discs%20Again%3F%E2%80%9D) [Discs Again?](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Naval%5FAviation%5FNews/hmBGAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%E2%80%9CSighting%20Flying%20Discs%20Again%3F%E2%80%9D)” Naval Aviation News 32, no. 2 \(February 1951\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_1605 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3426 (CED0F900) Date: 12/1950 Description: Science writer [Gerald Heard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%5FHeard) publishes The Riddle of the Flying Saucers in the UK, in which he speculates that with conditions on Mars being severe, the only intelligent beings that can exist there would be advanced insects. A US edition is published in April 1951 as Is Another World Watching? The Riddle of the Flying Saucers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gerald Heard, The Riddle of the Flying Saucers, Carroll and Nicholson, 1950; Lyle Zapato, “[Of Bees and Men:](https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=201501270490.of%5Fbees%5Fand%5Fmen%5Fthe%5Friddle%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fflying%5Fsaucers) [The Riddle of the Flying Saucers,](https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=201501270490.of%5Fbees%5Fand%5Fmen%5Fthe%5Friddle%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fflying%5Fsaucers)” ZPi blog, January 27, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_1606 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3427 (83EDB1FF) Date: 12/1950 Description: Project "Magnet" authorized in Canada Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Canada Source ID: Maj2_111 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3428 (CDF0FFB6) Date: 12/1950 Description: USAF officer saw aluminum-like oval UFO. \[III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cheyenne (near), WY Source ID: NICAP_DB_773 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3429 (0A6DD616) Date: 12/2/1950 Description: At around 9:00 p.m. a brilliant UFO maneuvered over Ellenton, South Carolina for ten minutes, the future site of the Savannah River hydrogen bomb production facility, not yet constructed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History - 1950 (volume 3), p. 62 Source ID: Johnson_8121 Source: Johnson ### Event 3430 (FC9DF15E) Date: 12/2/1950 Description: Cmdr. [Charles Peter Edwards](https://rr0.org/people/e/EdwardsCharlesPeter/), Canadian Deputy Minister of Transport for Air Services, approves [Wilbert](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) [B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)’s proposed plan to use the Department of Transport lab and field facilities during off-hours to gather quality UFO data. It is called Project Magnet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[What Was the Truth about Project Magnet?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CJul-Aug%2CV%2010%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1964\): 29; Clark III 1078; Good Above, [pp. 183–184](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/182/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1607 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3431 (ABDFB732) Date: 12/2/1950 Time: 10:50 AM Description: Mr. and Mrs. L. Scott. One pearly, iridescent object with a flattened top, spun while hovering and made a sound like bees buzzing. Only data in files was from East African "Standard" newspaper. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Nanyika, Kenya Source ID: BerlinerBBU_55 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3432 (FF2BECFA) Date: 12/2/1950 Description: A pearl white, spinning, glowing disc-shaped object closely paced a jeep along a road in Nanyuki, Kenya at 10:45 a.m. It reportedly made a buzzing noise like bees. This case is listed as a Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 845; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_8120 Source: Johnson ### Event 3433 (F5AA6D57) Date: 12/2/1950 Description: Pearly, iridescent object with a flattened top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 845) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nanyika, Kenya, Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_774 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3434 (1F571DE9) Date: 12/3/1950 Description: Stanton Friedman used the Freedom of Information Act to procure a previously classified communique from a field agent named Auerbach (first name not given) in Richmond, Virginia, to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. According to Auerbach, of the Counter Intelligence Corps, his office had been asked to stay attuned to “any data on flying saucers.” Any information, the memo added, would be telephoned, immediately, to Air Force Intelligence. Type: classified communique Reference: [link](https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A16595647&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=c4b5e022) Location: Richmond, Virginia Source ID: Maj2_424 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3435 (66A01062) Date: 12/5/1950 Description: FBI Memo - Detection of UFOs Over Oak Ridge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501205](http://www.nicap.org/docs%5Foakridge/fbi%5F501205.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_776 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3436 (7D034CE8) Date: 12/5/1950 Description: Wife of Security Officer Reports Object Made of Polished Metal (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501205](http://www.nicap.org/oakridge501205dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_775 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3437 (C485F41B) Date: 12/5/1950 Description: On this afternoon a disc-shaped object was seen over the post office for 60 seconds in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It flew to the east, then turned and flew off to the northwest. A separate witness saw it and reported it flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 63 Source ID: Johnson_8195 Source: Johnson ### Event 3438 (4FCFCAE2) Date: 12/5/1950 Description: A postman in the farming community of Newbliss, Monaghan County, Ireland watched at 1:00 p.m. as 8 "table knives" passed over at high altitude, weaving up and down. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 62 Source ID: Johnson_8194 Source: Johnson ### Event 3439 (A07755DB) Date: 12/5/1950 Description: Engineer Lt. Col. John R. Hood disperses radiation counters around the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, National Laboratory’s restricted area. The intent is to map the presence of any unusual radiation, in the wake of numerous UFO reports over the facility. He also sets up a source of radioactive material to see if its presence has an effect on the air above it. If the air is unusually ionized, it might be the source of the anomalous radar targets. He also mentions using a magnetometer array, but there is no documentation of the result of this effort. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 7, August–December 1950](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Aug-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1950-Aug-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1982, pp. 64–65; Swords 107 Source ID: Eberhart_1608 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3440 (B7E33E4C) Date: 12/6/1950 Description: The ConAC Air Defense Controller notified the Headquarters USAF Command Post that at 1030 hours a number of unidentified aircraft were approaching the northeast area of the United States and that there was no reason to believe the aircraft were friendly. By 1040 hours, 40 aircraft at an altitude of 32,000 feet were confirmed by radar in the vicinity of Limestone, Maine. President Truman had been notified and interceptors scrambled. Truman even mentioned the incident in his memoirs, not published until 1979. At the time, he noted in his diary, "It looks like World War III is here. I hope not--but we must meet whatever comes--and we will." Type: ufo sightings Reference: [link](https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A16595647&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=c4b5e022) Location: Limestone, Maine Source ID: Maj2_425 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3441 (007E0800) Date: 12/6/1950 Description: 10:30–11:04 a.m. The ConAC Air Defense Controller notifies the HQ USAF that a number of unidentified aircraft are approaching the northeast area of the United States and that there is no reason to believe they are friendly. By radar contact it is determined that approximately 40 aircraft are in the flight at 32,000 feet on a course of 200° northeast of Limestone, Maine. The White House is notified at 10:31 a.m., and President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) discusses the reports in a meeting with UK Prime Minister [Clement Attlee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement%5FAttlee). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Radar-Inspired National](http://www.nicap.org/501206rina%5Fdir.htm) [Alert](http://www.nicap.org/501206rina%5Fdir.htm)”; Bruce Maccabee, “[Immediate Saucer Alert! The Mystery of December 6, 1950,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/rina4.htm)” July 1999; Clark III 824; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 103 Source ID: Eberhart_1609 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3442 (7B9FF1B0) Date: 12/6/1950 Description: While F-94s are being tested at Dyess AFB near Abilene, Texas, radar catches a UFO on a high-speed intercept course with the planes. Some personnel see the object shortly afterward. Col. [Robert B. Willingham](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151862594/robert-burton-willingham) claims it is not a missile. It makes 90° turns at high speed. NORAD tracks it and the object is said to crash near the Mexican border near Del Rio, Texas. Willingham and a copilot take a light aircraft to the site but are escorted away. They do see part of the crash field and pick up a small piece of metal from the ground. Willingham takes it to a Marine Corps metallurgy lab in Hagerstown, Maryland, for analysis but never sees it again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, [pp. 192–193](https://archive.org/details/historyofufocras0000rand/page/192/mode/2up); Clark III 338; “[Del Rio 1955,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=61)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, March 22, 2010; Kevin D. Randle, “[Del Rio UFO Crash and MJ-12,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/07/del-rio-ufo-crash-and-mj-12.html)” A Different Perspective, July 21, 2010; Kevin D. Randle, “MJ-12’s Fatal Flaw and Robert Willingham,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 4–7 Source ID: Eberhart_1610 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3443 (AB94252B) Date: 12/6/1950 Time: 5 PM Description: Witnesses: former aircraft purchasing agent Harry Lamp and four boys, using lO-power binoculars. One 75' object, 3-4' thick, bubble on top, silver with a red rim having two white and two orange jets along it. The center revolved when the object hovered; then it flew away very fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ft. Myers, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_56 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3444 (C08ACFEC) Date: 12/6/1950 Description: Dubious MJ-12 documents refer to a UFO crash on the Mexico side of the US border in the area between El Indio, Texas, and Guerrero, Coahuila, Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[El Indio 1950,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=375)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_1612 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3445 (E3689A92) Date: 12/6/1950 Description: 5:00 p.m. Former aircraft purchasing agent [Harry Lamp](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42739792/harry-g.lenn-lamp) and four boys spot a 75-foot silver object hovering at 3,000 feet above the northern part of Fort Myers, Florida. Through 10x binoculars Lamp sees it is 3–4 feet thick at the edges and 14 feet thick in the center, which revolves as it hovers. The object has a red rim with two white and two orange jets along it. It flies away at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Large Object with Bubble on Top](http://www.nicap.org/501206ftmyers%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1611 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3446 (831D6E93) Date: 12/6/1950 Description: Radar-Inspired National Alert (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501206](http://www.nicap.org/rina.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Northeastern U.S, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_777 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3447 (3D6458EE) Date: 12/6/1950 Description: 75 ft object, 3-4 ft thick, bubble on top, silver with a red rim having 2 white and 2 orange jets (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 848) Reference: NICAP: [501206](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ftmyers501206dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Meyers, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_778 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3448 (7B10B421) Date: 12/6/1950 Description: Sighting 2 Hours Before National Alert (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [501206](http://www.nicap.org/501206westoverAFB%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westover AFB, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_779 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3449 (CEC4F2F9) Date: 12/6/1950 Description: A second flying saucer crashes in El Indio-Guerrero area. The saucer is recovered and taken to the AEC facility at Sandia, NM. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Reference: [link](https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A16595647&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=c4b5e022) Location: Guerrero, Mexico Source ID: Maj2_426 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3450 (B2E59CD0) Date: 12/8/1950 Description: The FBI office in Richmond, Virginia, sends a telegram to FBI headquarters saying that local Army Intelligence has been put “on immediate high alert for any data whatsoever concerning flying saucers.” It adds, “CIC advises data strictly confidential and should not be disseminated.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Auerbach, \[[teletype memo](http://www.nicap.org/docs%5Foakridge/fbi%5F501208.htm)\], December 8, 1950; ClearIntent, [p. 175](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/174/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1613 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3451 (3774C5DB) Date: 12/10/1950 Description: 7:30 p.m. RAF Group-Captain B. S. Cartmel and two friends are at the Wilderness Golf Course near Sevenoaks, Kent, England, when they see a bright light moving east to west in complete silence. It maintains a steady height of 3,000 feet moving at 130–150 mph and is visible for 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 28–29](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/28/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1614 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3452 (0A1064E4) Date: 12/11/1950 Description: The crew of Northwest Air Lines flight 802 sighted two white flashes, followed by a dark cloud that rose higher in the sky, and then split in two. The sighting occurred ten miles northwest of Gulcana, Alaska at 10:13 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_8334 Source: Johnson ### Event 3453 (333DC931) Date: 12/11/1950 Description: 2 white flashes, followed by dark cloud - rose and split in 2 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 849) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulkana (10 miles NW of), AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_780 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3454 (E91FEE46) Date: 12/11/1950 Time: 10:13 PM Description: Witnesses: crew of Northwest Air Lines flight 802. Two white flashes, followed by a dark cloud which rose and split in two. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: l0 mi. NW of Gulcana, Alaska Source ID: BerlinerBBU_57 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3455 (65A87B61) Date: 12/12/1950 Description: The AFSWP’s Project Nutmeg officially selects the Tonopah–Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range, Nevada, for domestic nuclear testing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Nevada Test and Training Range](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada%5FTest%5Fand%5FTraining%5FRange)” Source ID: Eberhart_1615 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3456 (FAAF6778) Date: 12/13/1950 Description: 4:55 p.m. J. G. F. Moult and his mother are sitting at their home in Kimberley, South Africa, when they observe a bright object “like a huge mirror in the sky,” hovering, and moving laterally and up and down for about 3 minutes. It goes behind a cloud but can still be seen, appearing like a “piece of magnesium wire burning with a bright, purplish-white light.” It dives through the clouds, turns sharply, and shoots out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Marais, “[The Outspan Magazine, January 1, 1954](http://www.project1947.com/fig/outspan54.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1616 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3457 (9BE793C3) Date: 12/14/1950 Description: A group of teardrop-shaped UFOs was picked up on multiple radar units for ten minutes near the Oak Ridge Nuclear facility in Tennessee at around 4 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1978, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_8388 Source: Johnson ### Event 3458 (72766D15) Date: 12/14/1950 Description: Radar Targets Over AEC Plant (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501214](http://www.nicap.org/501214knoxville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Knoxville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_781 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3459 (839B76B8) Date: 12/15/1950 Description: Ground radar tracked an unidentified flying object over the Oak Ridge Nuclear Research Facility in Anderson County, Tennessee at 11:45 p.m. The object was sighted visually as well and described as teardrop shaped. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 67 Source ID: Johnson_8403 Source: Johnson ### Event 3460 (A1230841) Date: 12/16/1950 Description: An unidentified object landed on the surface of Lake Michigan near Grand Haven, Michigan at 11:45 p.m. making the surface glow. It then sank beneath the surface. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 67 Source ID: Johnson_8437 Source: Johnson ### Event 3461 (B98E312F) Date: 12/18/1950 Description: At 8:39 a.m. a circular light changed shape and brilliance as it hovered over Oak Ridge AEC Laboratories, Tennessee. It faded to a star, then flew away to the northwest. There was radar confirmation of the sighting from the nearby McGhee Air Force Base. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bruce S Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1978, pp. 11, 15 Source ID: Johnson_8485 Source: Johnson ### Event 3462 (A9FC6CBF) Date: 12/18/1950 Description: NEPA Employees Report Light In Control Area (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: M, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501218](http://www.nicap.org/501218oakridge%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_782 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3463 (CF95A1B3) Date: 12/20/1950 Description: Another Radar Sighting / Small Smoke Cloud (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501220](http://www.nicap.org/501220oakridge%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_783 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3464 (06DB7FFA) Date: 12/20/1950 Description: Another Radar Report. Log of the 663rd AN and C Squadron, F-82 Intercept (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [501220](http://www.nicap.org/501220oakridge%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_784 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3465 (273A8E7F) Date: 12/23/1950 Description: In Point Loma, California on this date in 1950 seven teardrop-shaped flying objects maneuvered near a weather balloon. Several navy personnel, including one using a theodolite to view the object, watched the UFO turn toward the W and fly away out over the Pacific Ocean. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 68 Source ID: Johnson_8567 Source: Johnson ### Event 3466 (C2035E1A) Date: Late 12/1950 Description: USAF Capt. [J. E. Broyles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3100492/james-edwin-broyles) sees an aluminum-like oval object with a conical tail moving slowly in the sky near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 20](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=32&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1617 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3467 (CF598A4C) Date: 12/26/1950 Description: Harvard University historian [William L. Langer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FL.%5FLanger)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FL.%5FLanger) special assistant for intelligence analysis to US Secretary of State [James F. Byrnes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FF.%5FByrnes)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FF.%5FByrnes) organizes the CIA Office of National Estimates, a forerunner of the National Intelligence Council. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[Staff Conference: Minutes of Meeting Held in Director’s](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80B01676R002300010024-2.pdf) [Conference Room, Administration Building, Tuesday, 26 December 1950, at 1100 Hours](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80B01676R002300010024-2.pdf)” Source ID: Eberhart_1618 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3468 (0E6F9C59) Date: 12/27/1950 Description: Sunset. A TWA flight, piloted by Capt. Art Shutts, is enroute from Chicago to Kansas City. Near Bradford, Illinois, Shutts notices a bright white light ahead of the plane, also flashing red and green occasionally. It begins to “wobble and swerve unsteadily,” then streaks back and forth in a north-south line through an arc of 10–30°, changing direction abruptly. He notices that the horizon near the UFO appears to vibrate as if light is distorted, especially after the object puts on a burst of speed. It dims to a pinpoint and begins to slowly move south. Suddenly it lurches, accelerates rapidly, zooms upward at a 45° angle, makes a nearly square turn, plunges downward, and disappears below the horizon to the north. It is visible for 25 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 40](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=52&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1619 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3469 (5736D6CA) Date: 12/27/1950 Description: Shutts Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bradford (near), IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_785 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3470 (16430594) Date: 12/27/1950 Description: (40.01° N, 74.31° W). Folean. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lakehurst, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_786 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1951 (Back to Top) ### Event 3471 (21CDDFBF) Date: 1951 Description: Craft hit soldier with light beam (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [510000](http://www.nicap.org/springkor.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Iron Triangle, near Chorwon, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_787 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3472 (B78B3A1E) Date: 1951 Description: David Huggins was born in Georgia in 1943 on a farm and claims to be an abductee. At night strange creatures would appear in his bedroom and escort him to a metallic, egg shaped craft. On his first encounter he saw a short alien, covered in brown fur, with large glowing eyes. He also encountered an "Alien Mantis", which often seemed to be in control, followed by typical Alien Grays, eight the first time. There were also short creatures wearing identical blue jumpsuits, and a hybrid named Crescent who appeared initially as a mother figure. Crescent had large eyes, pale skin, long hair that seemed to be a wig, with definite human anatomical features. These encounters ceased when he was 11 and the family moved to Acworth, but then continued when he turned 17. Type: abduction Reference: [Website: "The Night Sky II", Article: David Huggins](https://www.thenightskyii.org/huggins.html) Location: Georgia Source ID: Maj2_901 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3473 (98C13E67) Date: 1951 Description: While flying an F-86 Sabrejet over West Germany, USAF pilot [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FCooper) sees several metallic discs flying at a high altitude. He claims to “have two days of observation of many flights of them, of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Cooper and Bruce Henderson, Leap of Faith: An Astronaut’s Journey into the Unknown, HarperCollins, 2000, pp. 80–81; “[UFO Sightings by](http://www.syti.net/UFOSightings.html) [Astronauts,](http://www.syti.net/UFOSightings.html)” Syti.net, January 30, 2001; “[Astronaut Gordon Cooper Talks about UFOs,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPR8T1o3Dc)” Elhardt YouTube channel, December 27, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_1620 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3474 (76E637D0) Date: 1951 Description: The intelligence unit of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing puts out periodic intelligence reports through 1953 that cover ground and air operations, unusual incidents, and UFO reports in Korea. The UFO reports are in a different category from unidentified aircraft. Some of these reports do not appear in Project Blue Book. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_1621 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3475 (A42B9C86) Date: 1951 Description: The Atomic Energy Commission uses its parallel system of secret-keeping to conduct controversial research, development, and engineering on aircraft and pilot-related projects, entirely without oversight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1622 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3476 (D4DB3E8B) Date: 1951 Description: [Marc Thirouin](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%5FThirouin) founds the first UFO group in France, the Commission Internationale d’Enquêtes sur les Soucoupes Volantes, in Paris. It begins publishing Ouranos in June 1952 and issues 32 numbers through 1966, reviving in 1972 after Thirouin’s death with a new series that lasts until 1980. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Ouranos](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2001%20-%201952%2006.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2001%20-%201952%2006.pdf) no. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_1623 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3477 (820BCD0A) Date: 1951 Description: UFO Circles Fleet of Fourteen Ships / Tracked By Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [510000](http://www.nicap.org/51FALLkorea%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: in airspace over, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_788 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3478 (D10DCAD4) Date: 1951 Description: Project Mercury Astronaut [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper), describes seeing 100's of UFO's flying in formation at very high altitudes over Europe. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [link](https://youtu.be/1GlVRrk0qgU) Location: Europe Source ID: Maj2_705 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3479 (C24282BC) Date: 1951 Description: Meade Layne, BSRA director, founds the “Borderland Sciences Research Foundation” as a CA non-profit (C0254263) research and educational organization for the purpose of studying parapsychology, UFO’s and extended consciousness. Previously, the BSRA was a loose/unofficial association. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://borderlandsciences.org/about.html) Source ID: Maj2_428 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3480 (77FFDA69) Date: Early 1950's Description: Carson’s Field (speculated location), New Zealand: A New Zealand investigator receives a letter from a respected US researcher who spoke with a young American pilot. The pilot mentions he had just been sent on a mission to Australia, where he landed at a vast airport. A gigantic spacecraft was already there, where he meets a group of friendly, intelligent and good-looking men. He was told they were scientists from other planets, and he was to fly them to Scotland for a meeting. He flew them to Scotland and remained with his plane during the conference. He said that scientists from many of the world’s nations were also present. Type: book reference Reference: “Alien Gene”, McGhee, page 69 Location: Carson's Field, New Zealand Source ID: Maj2_387 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3481 (77BAE6BE) Date: 1/1951 Description: Author and journalist [Bob Considine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FConsidine)’s article appears in Cosmopolitan, debunking all UFO stories as delusions and hoaxes, and quoting a weary Air Force Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/), who has replaced [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) in Project Grudge. It offends people so badly that many pilots afterward refuse to report UFO sightings to the Air Force. USAF Public Information Officer Clare Welch, who has set this interview up, believes the Air Force has better things to do and is out of step with Cabell’s renewed interest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Considine, “[The Disgraceful Flying Saucer](https://archive.org/details/sim%5Fcosmopolitan%5F1951-01%5F130%5F1/page/32/mode/2up) [Hoax!](https://archive.org/details/sim%5Fcosmopolitan%5F1951-01%5F130%5F1/page/32/mode/2up)” Cosmopolitan, January 1951, pp. 32–33, 100–102, [republished](http://www.project1947.com/fig/cosmojan51.htm) by Project 1947; Swords 113–114 Source ID: Eberhart_1624 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3482 (0949DD01) Date: 1/1/1951 Description: The Air Defense Command, inactivated since July 1, 1950, is reinstated as a major command at Mitchel AFB \[now closed\] in Long Island, New York. The HQ is moved to Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a week later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Aerospace Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace%5FDefense%5FCommand\#Reformation%5F1951)” Source ID: Eberhart_1626 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3483 (89F95C14) Date: 1/1/1951 Description: 7:00 a.m. Katie Sowell watches an object about 30–50 feet in diameter, like two “upside down saucers” revolving counterclockwise and darting low over her farmhouse near Oak Grove, Louisiana. It has rectangular, opaque windows. It is seen for 15–20 minutes at close range. It banks and disappears, going straight up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Huntsville \(Ala.\) Times, February 5, 1974; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf) [History: 1951, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_1625 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3484 (47D0FA4A) Date: 1/8/1951 Description: Watch 2 stationary groups of red and green lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 864) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Worth (South of ), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_789 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3485 (371A7C94) Date: 1/8/1951 Time: 10:45 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Boggus, plus unidentified drivers and passengers in other cars stopped to watch. Two groups of red and green lights in triangular formations were stationary and then moved. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: South of Ft. Worth, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_58 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3486 (C6238B1A) Date: 1/8/1951 Description: A group of three delta-shaped objects with wingspans of 15’ flew over US Highway 81 south of Forth Worth, Texas at 10:45 p.m. One passed overhead at a low altitude, and made a faint humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics case 864 Source ID: Johnson_190 Source: Johnson ### Event 3487 (49E7FDE1) Date: 1/12/1951 Description: Light with a fan-shaped wake remain motionless like a star (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 868) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Benning, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_790 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3488 (71E1D851) Date: 1/12/1951 Time: 10 PM Description: Witness: U.S. Army 2nd Lt. A.C. Hale. One light with a fan-shaped wake remained motionless like a star about 20 minutes and then sped away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ft. Benning, Georgia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_59 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3489 (C95774AE) Date: 1/12/1951 Description: At 10:05 p.m. two U.S. Air Force airmen at Stewart AFB in Orange County, New York saw a fireball drop from a high altitude, and then zig-zag. It made clear cut maneuvers, and changed colors. At 11:01 p.m. a saucer-shaped object hovered near Fort Benning, Georgia for 20 minutes, then shot off to the south. U.S. Army 2nd Lt. A. C. Hale saw a light with a fan-shaped wake remain motionless like a star then speed away. It was estimated to be the size of a matchhead held at arms length. There were nine other witnesses. A Project Blue Book unknown. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951 (volume 2), pp. 2 & 3; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 868 Source ID: Johnson_273 Source: Johnson ### Event 3490 (E50498B0) Date: 1/14/1951 Description: Private Pilot Reports Mile-Wide Rectangles (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510114](http://www.nicap.org/510114jolon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jolon, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_791 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3491 (ADE08638) Date: 1/14/1951 Description: Pilot Sees 150' Circular Object At 30,000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510114](http://www.nicap.org/510114bigbear%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Big Bear Lake, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_792 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3492 (4DDD01F5) Date: 1/14/1951 Description: At 12:38 p.m. four witnesses flying in an airplane over Big Bear Lake, California saw three circular or disc-shaped UFOs that were 40 to 50 feet in diameter and flying at 30,000 feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 3; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_308 Source: Johnson ### Event 3493 (DBA5808D) Date: 1/14/1951 Description: Einstein student and Roswell witness Shirley J. Wright picked for “Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities” Type: scientist Reference: [link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright) Source ID: Maj2_429 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3494 (89CF588F) Date: 1/16/1951 Time: Time unknown Description: Witnesses: Two members of a balloon project from the General Mills Aeronautical Research Laboratory, the manager of the Artesia Airport, and three pilots. The balloon crew was observing their 110' balloon at an altitude of 112,000' when a dull white, round object was spotted. It appeared larger than the balloon, but made no movement. Later, the balloon crew and the others saw two objects from the airport; flying side-by-side, they circled the balloon and flew away to the northeast. The second observation lasted about 40 seconds. Note: there is confusion over the date of this case, with some USAF records showing it as 1952; however, 1951 appears to be correct. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Artesia, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_60 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3495 (E4A24CF0) Date: 1/16/1951 Description: Raymond Dugan and Raymond E. Stiles, members of the General Mills Aeronautical Research Laboratory balloon project, observe a round disc near their Skyhook balloon over Artesia, New Mexico. The balloon is at a height of 112,000 feet. A short time later, Dugan, Stiles, and four civilian pilots at Artesia Airport see two similar objects circling the same balloon that then fly off to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Discs Approach Skyhook](http://www.nicap.org/510116artesia%5Fdir.htm)”; Project Blue Book, \[[Artesia documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs/510116artesia%5Fdocs.pdf)\]; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 69–70](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/68/mode/2up); Sparks, p. 104; Swords 166 Source ID: Eberhart_1627 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3496 (CB38CB8A) Date: 1/16/1951 Description: Two Discs Approach Skyhook (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510116](http://www.nicap.org/510116artesia%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Artesia (near), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_793 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3497 (97E9DCFE) Date: 1/18/1951 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 1.6km (Stalled on pad for 13s then rose slowly for 38s before exploding) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 1.6km Source ID: Maj2_430 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3498 (08A9CBC0) Date: 1/20/1951 Description: 9:20 p.m. Sioux City, Iowa, CAA Control Tower operator John M. Williams sees an odd light in the west. Capt. [Lawrence W. Vinther](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80862109/lawrence-w-vinther) and copilot [James F. Bachmeier](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/308536/james-f-bachmeier) of Mid-Continent Airlines Flight 9 takes off and Vinther is asked by the tower to look for the light. While still in a climbing turn at about 1,000 feet, the pilots spot the object to the north-northwest at about 8,000 feet and 4 miles away. It looks like a B-29 fuselage with wings but no engines and blinks some lights like running lights. The object comes towards the DC-3, flies across the nose within 200 feet, then suddenly reappears on the other side, paralleling them for 2–3 seconds. The object then flies under them and disappears to the northwest. This is one of the first reports to make it into the CIRVIS system specified by JANAP 146. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO Buzzes DC-3](http://www.nicap.org/510120siouxcity%5Fdir.htm)”; Lawrence W. Vinther, “[Another Saucer Mystery,](https://books.google.com/books?id=a9uIro6WeNoC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=Lawrence%2BW.%2BVinther%2C%2B%E2%80%9CAnother%2BSaucer%2BMystery%2C%E2%80%9D%2BFlying%2BJune%2B1951&source=bl&ots=K4sPgAZVhR&sig=ACfU3U136sQ1yJhwBCv5Yaoa0kzTvEEWSw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAv72w3sX1AhVNITQIHWYgDJwQ6AF6BAgkEAM%23v%3Donepage&q=Lawrence%20W.%20Vinther%2C%20%E2%80%9CAnother%20Saucer%20Mystery%2C%E2%80%9D%20Flying%20June%201951&f=false)” Flying 48 \(June 1951\): 23, 56, [reprinted](http://www.project1947.com/fig/vinther51.htm) by Project 1947; Ruppelt, [p. 84](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/84/mode/2up); Jan Aldrich; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 104; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 43–44 Source ID: Eberhart_1628 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3499 (32F7D21C) Date: 1/20/1951 Description: UFO Buzzes DC-3 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510120](http://www.nicap.org/510120siouxcity%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sioux City, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_794 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3500 (4D617616) Date: 1/20/1951 Description: At 8:26 p.m. the control tower in Sioux City, Iowa warned the Mid-Continental Airlines DC-3 flight to watch for an approaching unidentified aircraft. The crew saw a bright light that quickly closed with them. They saw that it was cigar-shaped with no wings, and it paced their aircraft for a short while before shooting out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, January 1951; Edward Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 118; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_391 Source: Johnson ### Event 3501 (6F8AA0D1) Date: 1/21/1951 Description: F-82 Attempts Intercept of UFO Over AEC Plant / Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [510121](http://www.nicap.org/510121oakridge%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oakridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_795 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3502 (B032148E) Date: 1/21/1951 Description: 4:20 p.m. A UFO that appears to be over the restricted area at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, is sighted on the radarscope of an F-82 fighter. The GCI gives the go-ahead to intercept the target. The radar set on the F-82 is locked on and the run begins. The interception is unsuccessful, and the fighter returns to base. In all, three passes are made at targets, all with radar indications, but they cannot be completed since the target is over the restricted area that includes the X-10 plant. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F-82 Attempts Intercept of UFO over AEC Plant /](http://www.nicap.org/510121oakridge%5Fdir.htm) [Radar](http://www.nicap.org/510121oakridge%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 104 Source ID: Eberhart_1629 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3503 (F6F7BE2B) Date: 1/22/1951 Description: 11:00 a.m. USAF pilots Capt. [Ernest W. Spradley Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3051370/ernest-warner-spradley) of Aerial Photo Lab and Capt. James E. Cocker of All-Weather Flying Division \(both based at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio\), a General Mills Aeronautical lab project engineer named McAleese, and another airman are flying in a C-47 heading east about 50 miles southeast of Holloman AFB, New Mexico, at about 10,000–12,000 feet, tracking a Project Gopher plastic balloon at about 50,000–70,000 feet, when they see a bright star-like object adjacent to the pear-shaped balloon. As they approach and fly under the balloon, they notice the object descend to the balloon’s level and grow larger in apparent size until about one-quarter to one-half the size of the 70-foot balloon. It appears to be round and flat like a dime, milky white or silvery in color, with a clear outline. Cocker and McAleese leave the cockpit and go to the astrodome to observe the object. After 3 minutes they see the object separate from the balloon and head west at high speed. After about 1 minute it emits a series of 3 bright photoflashes at one-second intervals and disappears from sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[C-47 Crew Encounter Object near ‘Gopher’](http://www.nicap.org/510121oakridge%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[White Object Paces Balloon](http://www.nicap.org/510214alamogordo%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 105; Swords 114–115 Source ID: Eberhart_1630 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3504 (BE5122E3) Date: 1/22/1951 Description: C-47 Crew Encounter Object Near "Gopher" (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [510122](http://www.nicap.org/510122holloman%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB (50 miles SE of), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_796 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3505 (7A0B3F6E) Date: 1/22/1951 Description: A saucer-shaped object hovered next to a test balloon 50 miles southeast of Holloman AFB, New Mexico. It grew in dimensions, and flashed once every second. It flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_407 Source: Johnson ### Event 3506 (51276F56) Date: 1/24/1951 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Three Uncorrelated Targets Like A B-36 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510124](http://www.nicap.org/510124westover%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westover AFB, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_797 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3507 (664C79AA) Date: 1/26/1951 Description: Radar tracking of unidentified target at 3,000 knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510126](http://www.nicap.org/510126korea%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sea of Japan (off coast of South Korea), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_798 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3508 (96BF37F5) Date: 1/27/1951 Description: An Air Force B-50D bomber drops the first atomic bomb, the Able blast, for testing in the US onto a dry lake bed known as Frenchman Flat, inside the Nevada Test Site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Ranger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FRanger)” Source ID: Eberhart_1631 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3509 (11C4872B) Date: 1/29/1951 Description: USAF Lt. Col. [Milton D. Willis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49365086/milton-dean-willis) replies to [Robert B. Sibley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204932537/robert-b%5F-sibley), president of the Aero Club of New England, who has written Secretary of the Air Force [Thomas K. Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter) asking that the UFO project be reinstated because pilots are indeed seeing something that could be extraterrestrial. Willis writes that, although the UFO project is disbanded, the Air Force still investigates incidents and sends them to AMC if necessary, and an officer \(Willis himself, who has replaced [Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm)\) monitors all UFO reports. As an aside to his superiors, Willis in a memo notes that “there have been several incidents, during the last six months, which cannot be explained and further investigation may be necessary.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf) [1951, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 7 –8; Swords 113 Source ID: Eberhart_1632 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3510 (254F0470) Date: 2/1/1951 Description: F-82 Encounters Maneuvering Amber Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 886) Reference: NICAP: [510201](http://www.nicap.org/510201johnson%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Johnson AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_799 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3511 (0030BE4A) Date: 2/1/1951 Time: 5:10 PM Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of F-82 night fighter. One amber light made three or four 360 degree turns to the right, reversed toward the F-82 and then climbed out of sight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Johnson Air Base, Japan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_61 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3512 (76FDF535) Date: 2/4/1951 Description: A young girl, who was to have other UFO encounters later in life, was playing in her garden in Withdean, East Sussex, England between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. when she saw a hovering disc-shaped object with a transparent dome on top. Inside the dome she could see three men, and they appeared to be looking down at her. The domed object made a descent into the garden and three humanoids with bald, domed heads exited. The men wore khaki-colored outfits, and carried a weird looking object. They floated toward the girl, then reversed direction, reboarded, and took off. Their exit was "like a film in reverse." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 65 Source ID: Johnson_685 Source: Johnson ### Event 3513 (D9D7DE7E) Date: 2/8/1951 Description: A four engine Super-Constellation R5D Navy transport, flying at a speed of 200 knots at 10,000 feet between Iceland and Newfoundland, saw a UFO ascend from the surface of the Atlantic Ocean in the pre-dawn hours. They watched it on the surface for 8-10 minutes while approaching it, and it was so bright that they thought at first that perhaps the auto-pilot had gone off course and it was the lights from a city. It moved at 1,500 mph with a white flow and with a reddish-purple fiery ring around the rim. It shot up and at the aircraft, and due to the object's high speed, its size and direction of travel it looked like it would collide. The pilot quickly disengaged the auto-pilot and stood by to push the nose of the plane over in hopes that they could pass underneath. Everyone onboard began ducking, including the relief crew. "It stopped its movement toward us and began moving along with us about 45 degrees off the bow to the right, about 100 feet or so below us and about 200 to 300 feet in front of us. It was not in a level position; it was tilted about 25 degrees. It stayed in this position for a minute or so. It appeared to be from 200 to 300 feet in diameter, translucent or metallic, shaped like a saucer." When it moved away it made no turns, and was out of sight in only a few seconds.Gander radar did track the object in excess of 1,800 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, September-October 1970; Weinstein Dominique, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 691; Carl Feindt, www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=76 Source ID: Johnson_752 Source: Johnson ### Event 3514 (11E83777) Date: 2/9/1951 Description: 9:55 p.m. The crew \(including Lt. [Fred W. Kingdon Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69695127/fred-william-kingdon) and US Naval Reserve Lt. [Graham E. Bethune](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78330887/graham-eugene-bethune)\) and passengers of a US Navy R5D transport flying west from Keflavík, Iceland, at 10,000 feet about 212 miles northeast of Gander, Newfoundland, observe a large orange-rimmed UFO with a dark center. It is about 400 feet in diameter and first seen moving above the surface of the ocean. As the plane approaches, the object changes colors, executes a sudden 180° turn and disappears over the horizon. Over time, several attempts to disguise the participants have resulted in confusion over the date. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Bethune Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/510210newfoundland%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Huge Object](http://www.nicap.org/510221newfoundland%5Fdir.htm) [Rushes up from Ocean Surface](http://www.nicap.org/510221newfoundland%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 9–26; “[Casebook: February 8, 1951,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/054%20SEPTEMBER%201970.pdf)” UFO Investigator, no. 54 \(September 1970\): 3; “[Casebook: February 8, 1951,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/055%20OCTOBER%201970.pdf)” UFO Investigator, no. 55 \(October 1970\): 3; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 78–79](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/78/mode/2up); “Unidentified Flying Object: A Provocative Tale,” Naval Aviation News, June 1973, pp. 18–19, [reprinted](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1951a.htm) by Project 1947; Good Above, [pp. 268](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/268/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/268/mode/2up) [486](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/486/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/136/mode/2up) [137–139](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/136/mode/2up); Graham E. Bethune, “[Lights on the Surface,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/Bethunefinaltext.doc)” 1999; Kevin H. Knuth, Robert M. Powell, and Peter A. Reali, “[Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles,](http://www.nicap.org/papers/powell/Estimating.Flight.Characteristics.of.UAP-entropy-21-00939-v2.pdf)” Entropy, September 25, 2019; Patrick Gross, “[The Bethune Flight 124 Airmiss in 1951](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/bethune51.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1633 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3515 (A2BA92FF) Date: 2/10/1951 Description: Bethune Case. Several onboard aircraft compasses slowly rotated or spun during UFO encounter (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [510210](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/candir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gander, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_800 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3516 (36A21C0F) Date: 2/10/1951 Description: Bethune Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [510210](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/candir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gander, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_801 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3517 (F65DF032) Date: 2/10/1951 Description: Confidential Memo to Air Transport Squadron One: Lt. Graham E. Bethune, U.S. Naval Reserve reported seeing a circular, reddish-orange UFO flying at a speed in excess of 1000 mph, approx. 300 ft. diam. approaching and reversing direction within 5 miles of his plane (Flight 125 from Keflavik, Iceland.) Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up), p486) Location: Keflavik, Iceland Source ID: Maj2_431 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3518 (DACF51EF) Date: 2/10/1951 Description: A giant, bright orange-red disc was observed by the pilot of a four-engine, U.S. Navy R-5D transport flying 90 miles from Gander, Labrador, Canada. The UFO maneuvered nearer to the plane, which was flying at 10,000 feet altitude at the time. The UFO sighting was dubbed the "Gander UFO case." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John R. Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 211; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_793 Source: Johnson ### Event 3519 (7D1C5881) Date: 2/13/1951 Description: [William Webster](https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/19/archives/william-webster-power-execijtive-expentagon-official-dead-led-new.html), chair of the Defense Department’s Research and Development Board, convenes a press briefing at the Pentagon and announces that “Careful studies have been made \[referring to the upcoming article in Look\]. I don’t believe anyone who has the opportunity to be informed and to look into this thing believes there is a flying saucer as such. As far as I know there is nothing to the flying saucers.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) [History: Volume 8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_1634 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3520 (F6F5B7A9) Date: 2/14/1951 Description: Two Air Force pilots, while watching a large balloon, saw a flat, round white object hovering at high altitude. \[III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_802 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3521 (DD136A7D) Date: 2/14/1951 Description: U.S. Air Force pilots Cocker and Spradley saw a flat, round white UFO hovering as they were flying near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Daniel Lang, The New Yorker, September 1952, p. 6; Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 154, citing Fate, August 1951, p. 16; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 400 Source ID: Johnson_913 Source: Johnson ### Event 3522 (F6CF0378) Date: 2/15/1951 Description: Radar tracking of unidentified target at 12,000 - 14,000 mph (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510215](http://www.nicap.org/510215seaofjapan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sea of Japan (off coast of South Korea), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_803 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3523 (7ADB7781) Date: 2/19/1951 Description: Lodestar Crew Sees Stationary Silver Elongated Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510219](http://www.nicap.org/510219kilimanjaro%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Kilimanjaro, Kenya, Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_804 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3524 (D228CAC7) Date: 2/19/1951 Description: Pilot saw a green flare \[fireball?\] pass his plane. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rodeo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_805 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3525 (A16BF574) Date: 2/19/1951 Description: Aviation Week praises the upcoming article in Look identifying UFOs as balloons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert H. Wood, “Saucers, Secrecy, and Security,” Aviation Week 54 \(February 19, 1951\): 50, [reprinted](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1951a.htm) by Project 1947 Source ID: Eberhart_1636 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3526 (625A0E47) Date: 2/19/1951 Description: Twelve witnesses flying in an airliner, including two men name Bicknell and Merrifield, while flying near Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania sighted a 200 foot long bullet shaped UFO at 7:20 a.m. At one end of the object was a square-cut, vertical fin. The body of the craft was a dull silver cover, but at intervals along the fuselage were dark vertical bands. The object hovered over Mount Kilimanjaro for several minutes, then moved away fast towards the east at an estimated speed of 1,000 km per hour. They took a photograph of it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Nairobi Sun Post, February 25, 1951; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 9; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6 (1975), p. 36; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri-News, January 1990 Source ID: Johnson_992 Source: Johnson ### Event 3527 (FFBA3D19) Date: 2/19/1951 Description: 7:20 a.m. Capt. Jack Bicknell and Radio Officer D. W. Merrifield are flying a Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar aircraft out of Nairobi, Kenya, when they see a bright object hanging motionless about 10,000 above Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanganyika \[now Tanzania\]. They watch it for 3 minutes, then tell the passengers about it. Bicknell observes it through binoculars and sees a “metallic, bullet-shaped object which must have been over 200 feet long.” It has a vertical fin at one end, and at regular intervals along the fuselage are vertical dark bands. It remains completely stationary for 17 minutes. Two passengers take photos of it. Then it begins rising and moving eastward, disappearing at 40,000 feet. It leaves no vapor trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Lodestar Crew Sees Stationary Silver](http://www.nicap.org/510219kilimanjaro%5Fdir.htm) [Elongated Object](http://www.nicap.org/510219kilimanjaro%5Fdir.htm)”; “[The Flying Saucer: Captain Bicknell’s Own Story,](http://cufos.org/cases/1951%5F02%5F19%5FTZ%5F09%5FMt-Kilimanjaro%5FBaller%5FMultiWit%5FPhotor.pdf)” Nairobi \(Kenya\) Sunday Post, February 25, 1951, p. 15; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1951%5F02%5F19%5FTZ%5F09%5FMt-Kilimanjaro%5FBaller%5FMultiWit%5FPhotor.pdf)\]; UFOEv, [p. 124](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=136&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 105; Patrick Gross. “[February 19, 1951, Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/kilimandjaro1951.htm)”; Barry Greenwood, “[Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, February 19,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr16.pdf) [1951: Photo Located,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr16.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 16 \(July 2015\): 1–4 Source ID: Eberhart_1635 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3528 (6260CDE0) Date: 2/20/1951 Description: The Air Intelligence Training Bulletin publishes a facetious news item on how to recognize flying saucers, but implies they are all reflections. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Recognition of Flying Saucers,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/aitb%5F1.htm)” Air Intelligence Training Bulletin, February 20, 1951 Source ID: Eberhart_1637 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3529 (04A1E87F) Date: 2/21/1951 Description: Dark red, torpedo-shaped object with darker center (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 896) Reference: NICAP: [510221](http://nicap.org/durban510221dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Durban, S. Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_806 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3530 (33148181) Date: 2/21/1951 Time: 4:55 AM Description: Witnesses: three men in a truck, several other persons, none named. A dark red, torpedo-shaped object with darker center, flew straight and level. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Durban, South Africa Source ID: BerlinerBBU_62 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3531 (D265A272) Date: 2/25/1951 Description: Project Twinkle head and chemist Anthony O. Mirarchi at the USAF Cambridge Research Laboratory in Massachusetts tells the Associated Press that he thinks UFOs are not “just balloons” \(in response to [Liddel](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/10/03/urner-liddel-ex-physicist-headed-lunar-planetary-unit/126c1f5b-1d2a-4045-9bb5-9f7327808c1c/)’s upcoming article\) and urges a full investigation of what could be experiments by a “potential enemy of the United States.” He says that UFO reports show “maneuvered motion” that are not characteristic of a natural phenomenon. He says the “Navy report is erroneous. It lulls people into a false sense of security.” He reminds the nation of the critical installations in New Mexico, including Los Alamos, and argues that they are a target of reconnaissance: “If they were launched by a foreign power, then they could lead to a worse Pearl Harbor than we have ever experienced.” He blasts the US government for a policy of “suicide by secrecy.” The FBI and Air Force mull prosecuting Mirarchi for violating AFR 205-1. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A.F. Scientist Warns Saucers Major Threat,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93205228/)” Dayton \(Ohio\) Daily News, February 26, 1951, p. 1; “[Scientist Fears Flying Saucers Portend a Worse ‘Pearl Harbor,’](http://www.nicap.org/articles/MirarchiArticle.htm)” Oklahoma Daily Oklahoman, February 26, 1951, p 1; Swords 119–120; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 18–19 Source ID: Eberhart_1638 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3532 (1527E36C) Date: 2/25/1951 Description: BSRA’s “Gerald Light” associate reports that he was attacked suffering injuries by a saucer, and his neighbor and his neighbor's dog were also affected. Type: ufological event Reference: [link](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555309019648196610) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: Maj2_432 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3533 (742FB25B) Date: 2/26/1951 Description: Ladd AFB, Alaska. At 7:10 a.m. USAF Sgt. J. B. Sells watched a dull gray metallic object, estimated to be 120 feet long and 10-12 feet thick. The UFO hovered, puffed smoke, and sped away after about 90 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1126 Source: Johnson ### Event 3534 (EE88AE67) Date: 2/26/1951 Description: Oblong Object Hovers Over Runway (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 897) Reference: NICAP: [510226](http://www.nicap.org/510226laddafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ladd AFB, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_807 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3535 (614F63AA) Date: 2/26/1951 Time: 7:10 AM Description: Witness: USAF Sgt. J.B. Sells. One dull grey, metallic object, estimated to be 120' long and 10-12' thick, hovered, puffed smoke and sped away after 1-1.5 minutes. Note: may have been Feb. 25. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ladd AFB, Alaska Source ID: BerlinerBBU_63 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3536 (56FE7084) Date: 2/27/1951 Description: Physicist [Urner Liddel](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/10/03/urner-liddel-ex-physicist-headed-lunar-planetary-unit/126c1f5b-1d2a-4045-9bb5-9f7327808c1c/)[,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/10/03/urner-liddel-ex-physicist-headed-lunar-planetary-unit/126c1f5b-1d2a-4045-9bb5-9f7327808c1c/) Office of Naval Research, says in a Look magazine article that there is not a single reliable UFO report that is not attributable to the cosmic \[Skyhook\] balloons. The article is based on Liddel’s study in ONR’s Research Reviews in March. He claims to have studied “hundreds” of sightings in detail \(probably from Project Grudge\). As for UFOs sighted by Skyhook scientists themselves, he discounts them because these technicians are not aware of mirages and internal reflections in optical devices. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard Wilson, “A Nuclear Physicist Exposes Flying Saucers,” Look, February 27, 1951, pp. 60–64; Swords 117–118; Urner Liddel, “[Bogies at Angels 100,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435069145381&view=1up&seq=75&skin=2021)” Research Reviews, March 1951, pp. 1–6 Source ID: Eberhart_1639 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3537 (C715F568) Date: 3/1951 Description: 11:30 p.m. Operations Officer Robert Wood is aboard the [USS Dyess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FDyess%5F%28DD-880%29) approximately 125 miles southeast of Cape May, New Jersey, when he picks up a radar target coming in from due east at a speed of 98–104 mph and an altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet. It stops and hovers about 30 miles away. Wood notifies the bridge, and the captain orders the ship to change course toward the object. About 30 minutes later, the UFO suddenly takes off toward the north at 3,000 mph, getting to within 35–40 miles south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, before it zooms straight up. Altitude-determining radar tracks the object to 100 miles altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[March, 1951: Approximately 125](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1951a.htm) [Miles SE of Cape May, N.J.,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1951a.htm)” Project 1947 Source ID: Eberhart_1641 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3538 (F3115DE3) Date: 3/1951 Description: A ghost light is seen in Suffolk County, Virginia, and investigated by Nansemond County Deputy Sheriff [Hurley Jones](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25642529/hurley-jones)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25642529/hurley-jones) who sees the light three times. It looks like a car headlight 5 feet off the ground, three times. Jeston Reid said his father had seen the light in the 1870s. The location is apparently either Turlington Road or Jackson Road \[they intersect\] south of Suffolk, since locals say the old railroad along the Jackson and Whaleyville logging road used to run down that way, and the light has also been compared to a locomotive headlight. Some 200 people have been gathering along the road, hoping to catch a glimpse. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mystery Light Is a Puzzle in Nansemond,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91144882/the-times-dispatch/)” Richmond \(Va.\) Times-Dispatch, March 6, 1951, p. 2; “[Nansemond’s Mystery Light Is Nothing New to Old-](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91144937/the-times-dispatch/) [Timers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91144937/the-times-dispatch/)” Richmond \(Va.\) Times-Dispatch, March 7, 1951, p. 2; “[Mysterious Suffolk Light Has Deputy Believing](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91145128/statesville-daily-record/) [in Ghosts,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91145128/statesville-daily-record/)” Statesville \(N.C.\) Daily Record, March 8, 1951, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_1640 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3539 (D979CEC7) Date: 3/1951 Description: U.S.S. Dyess Tracks Object at 3,000 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [510300](http://www.nicap.org/5103XXcapemaydir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Off Cape May, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_808 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3540 (76A38645) Date: Early Spring 1951 Description: Dusk. US Army Pfc. [Francis P. Wall](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74275338/francis-patrick-wall) is on maneuvers with the 27th Infantry Regiment near Cheorwon, South Korea, when he sees an orange light like a jack-o-lantern coming down a mountain. Artillery airbursts do not seem to harm it. As it approaches, it turns into a brilliant blue-green disc pulsating with light. Wall asks permission to shoot and fires a round from his M-1 rifle at it. The object starts moving erratically from side to side, flashes on and off, and makes an engine-like noise. It sweeps the soldiers with a beam of light, and they feel a burning and tingling sensation. They retreat to their bunkers and continue to watch the object, which is still lighting up the area, and then it shoots away at a 45° angle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Haines, Korea, [pp. 18–27](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch2.htm); Richard F. Haines, “GI Fires on UFO in Korea,” IUR 15, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1990\): 23–24 Source ID: Eberhart_1644 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3541 (F26A8EE8) Date: 3/8/1951 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 3.1km (Blossom 8 — Three explosions at 15.5; 18.5 and 19.5s destroying tail section) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 3.1km Source ID: Maj2_433 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3542 (8F0B6F18) Date: 3/9/1951 Description: Radar tracking of unidentified target at 3,350 mph (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510309](http://www.nicap.org/510309japan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tsushima Island (about 20 miles SE of), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_809 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3543 (135C0ACD) Date: 3/10/1951 Time: 9:51 AM Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF B-29 bomber, including scanners and tail gunner. A large red-yellow glow burst and became blue-white. No further information in files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Chinnampo, Korea Source ID: BerlinerBBU_64 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3544 (06997E68) Date: 3/10/1951 Description: Large red-yellow glow burst and become blue-white (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chinnampo, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_810 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3545 (7B208FDD) Date: 3/13/1951 Description: Cylinder With Twin Trails (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 907) Reference: NICAP: [510313](http://www.nicap.org/510313sacramento%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McClellan AFB, Sacramento, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_811 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3546 (8509D66E) Date: 3/13/1951 Description: At 3:15 p.m. a 200 foot long cylinder with twin tails was sighted over McClellan AFB in Sacramento County, California. It made a turn to the north and flew off at an incredible speed. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 907 Source ID: Johnson_1447 Source: Johnson ### Event 3547 (73F4B48D) Date: 3/13/1951 Time: 3:20 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF lst Lt. B.J. Hastie, Mrs. Rafferty. A cylinder with twin tails, 200' long and 90' wide, turned north and flew at incredible speed. Two minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: McClellan AFB, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_65 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3548 (006AA256) Date: 3/14/1951 Description: Nine aeronautical engineers at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico watched at least 12 white objects swirl around randomly in the sky, and then shoot off to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_1474 Source: Johnson ### Event 3549 (D35348FF) Date: 3/14/1951 Description: A group of nine Bell Aircraft engineers are flying at 15,000 feet in a B-50 Superfortress near Holloman AFB, New Mexico, during a test of a secret Bell aircraft. They spot a group of unknown objects flying in a confusing “swirl” that breaks into a V-formation and back to a “swirl,” then a V again. The objects are slightly higher than the aircraft and seem to be moving at high velocity. The engineers insist the objects are not geese, which actually can fly this high. \(This may be the same incident as the August 30, 1950, case at Holloman.\) Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 21–22 Source ID: Eberhart_1642 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3550 (F7E7E2E1) Date: 3/15/1951 Description: 20+ Top Shelf Witnesses / Metallic Cigar (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 908) Reference: NICAP: [510315](http://www.nicap.org/510315newdelhi%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Delhi, India Source ID: NICAP_DB_812 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3551 (748A6EB6) Date: 3/15/1951 Time: 10:20 AM Description: Witnesses: 25 members of a flying club, including the chief aerial engineer and his two assistants. One metallic cigar-shaped object with white exhaust which turned black when it accelerated to an estimated 1,000 m.p.h. and made a large loop. Seven minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: New Delhi, India Source ID: BerlinerBBU_66 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3552 (EBBFE821) Date: 3/15/1951 Description: 10:20 a.m. George F. Floate, chief engineer of the Delhi Flying Club, and two assistants observe a swirly white cloud moving from north to south at about 4,000 feet altitude near the club’s hanger in New Delhi, India. The cloud is about 700 feet in length. At the end of it a bullet-shaped object appears, approximately 100 feet long and as big around as a C-47 fuselage. The witnesses shout out, and 17–20 people rush out of the hanger and see the object. It heads south for about 3 minutes where it makes an apparent loop, coming back over the field. At the top of the loop it is out of sight, but it is seen again in its dive. After recovering straight and level flight, the UFO proceeds to the southwest until it is lost to sight. Its speed is estimated at three times greater than the cruising speed of a British Vampire jet. The total duration is about 7 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[20+ Top Shelf Witnesses /](http://www.nicap.org/510315newdelhi%5Fdir.htm) [Metallic Cigar](http://www.nicap.org/510315newdelhi%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 106 Source ID: Eberhart_1643 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3553 (ED8D61C1) Date: 3/15/1951 Description: Three men saw a one hundred foot long metallic cigar-shaped object over the city of New Delhi, India at 9:50 a.m. It gave off a black exhaust when it accelerated. The UFO flew toward the southwest and then vanished from sight. It was visible for over seven minutes. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force files counted in official statistics, case #908 Source ID: Johnson_1522 Source: Johnson ### Event 3554 (F7B155F7) Date: 3/24/1951 Description: Project Twinkle Photographed UFO (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [510324](http://www.nicap.org/holloman510324dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_813 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3555 (5410C840) Date: 4/1951 Description: U.S.S. Princeton Tracks Fast-Moving Targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [510400](http://www.nicap.org/5104XXkoreancoast%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: E. coast of Korea, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_815 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3556 (1F7E8B38) Date: 4/4/1951 Description: The Truman administration forms the Psychological Strategy Board to coordinate and plan for psychological operations. The board is composed of the Under Secretary of State, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Director of Central Intelligence, or their designated representatives. The board’s first director is [Gordon Gray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FGray%5F%28politician%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FGray%5F%28politician%29) later National Security Advisor during the Eisenhower administration. The board is created in response to the growth of Office of Policy Coordination covert activities during the Korean War. The PSB is tasked with creating propaganda that will subconsciously turn people away from communism and toward democracy. It is abolished in 1953. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Psychological Strategy Board](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological%5FStrategy%5FBoard)” Source ID: Eberhart_1645 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3557 (669DB85A) Date: 4/7/1951 Description: [Howard Hawks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FHawks)’s film The Thing from Another World opens, starring [Margaret Sheridan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%5FSheridan), [Kenneth Tobey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FTobey), and [James Arness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FArness)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FArness) about a crashed flying saucer found in the Arctic. It ends with the haunting lines by [Douglas](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0817930/) [Spencer](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0817930/): “Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Watch the skies!” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Internet Movie Database, “[The Thing](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/) [from Another World](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/)” Source ID: Eberhart_1646 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3558 (21958A80) Date: 4/11/1951 Description: Air Defense Command issues a memo on “Unconventional Aircraft” to all USAF facilities, encouraging them to report sightings in a timely manner. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf), The Author, 1983, pp. 25 Source ID: Eberhart_1647 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3559 (AC9D734B) Date: 4/14/1951 Description: Radar tracking of unidentified target at 3,755 mph. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510414](http://www.nicap.org/510414yellowsea%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yellow Sea, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_816 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3560 (7E304837) Date: 4/17/1951 Description: Project Grudge’s Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) notes that JANAP 146 has no provision for UFO reports to be sent to Wright-Patterson AFB under the CIRVIS system. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_1648 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3561 (A9794618) Date: 4/21/1951 Description: Drones are again used in the series of thermonuclear tests designated Operation Greenhouse at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. During the Easy detonation, two T-33 drones are lost. One receives heavy damage from the shock wave, loses control, and crashes; the other refuses to respond to control signals and crashes on uninhabited Bogullua Island. The Air Force concludes that unmanned samplers are unreliable. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: M/Sgt Leland B. Taylor, [History of Air Force Atomic Cloud Sampling](https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=485689)[,](https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=485689) US Special Weapons Center, January 1963, pp. 34–37; Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 225](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/224/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1649 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3562 (150669C5) Date: 4/23/1951 Description: Col. [Harold E. Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) writes a memo to the USAF Director of Intelligence, explaining his view that “little if any results” have been obtained from Project Grudge other than the objects are not from a foreign power. But since there is still dome doubt, all reports should be forwarded to AMC at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio . Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 121 Source ID: Eberhart_1650 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3563 (B7B218FE) Date: 4/27/1951 Description: Science fiction movie “The Thing from Another World” is released Type: movie Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_434 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3564 (14FD16BB) Date: 5/21/1951 Description: Wright-Patterson’s Technical Intelligence Department \(T-2\) becomes the Air Technical Intelligence Center \(ATIC\) and is assigned to the Directorate of Intelligence in the Pentagon. Project Grudge goes along with it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 12; Clark III 936 Source ID: Eberhart_1651 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3565 (8F658473) Date: 5/22/1951 Description: A bluish-white object circled around and paced an American Airlines flight 100 miles southwest of Dodge City, Kansas at 3:20 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p 13 Source ID: Johnson_3031 Source: Johnson ### Event 3566 (A4E494E4) Date: 5/22/1951 Description: Hunt Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dodge City (near), KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_817 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3567 (3CE8CD46) Date: 5/22/1951 Description: 3:20 a.m. American Airlines pilot Capt. W. R. Hunt observes a blue-white, star-like object gyrating around the airplane at 21,000 feet for 20 minutes about 100 miles southwest of Dodge City, Kansas. It moves backward and forward, then up and down, then dives below the plane and speeds away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mysterious Bright Light ‘Plays Tag’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91223699/the-iola-register/) [with Airliner over Kansas,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91223699/the-iola-register/)” Iola \(Kan.\) Register, May 22, 1951, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) [8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) The Author, 1983, p. 26 Source ID: Eberhart_1652 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3568 (DA1E4C7E) Date: 5/29/1951 Description: At 3:41 p.m. there was a procession of a large number of glowing objects--at least 30--over Downey, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: H. B. Darrach, Life Magazine, April 7, 1952; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, July 1954; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 27; Richard F Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 180; Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 212 Source ID: Johnson_3145 Source: Johnson ### Event 3569 (CFF008A2) Date: 5/31/1951 Description: Niagara Falls, New York - A luminous disc with arc-shaped wings rose into the sky at a very fast speed. It was seen by several military witnesses for 35 seconds at 11:20 p.m. This case is a Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #928 Source ID: Johnson_3176 Source: Johnson ### Event 3570 (C96595EA) Date: 6/1951 Description: Project Grudge only has one person on staff to investigate UFO reports, Lt. [Jerry W. Cummings](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Cummings%5FJ.htm), who reorganizes the system and uses a more open-minded approach. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/56/mode/2up) [56–57](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/56/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 14; Swords 121 Source ID: Eberhart_1653 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3571 (9BBBA8FA) Date: 6/1951 Description: The UK Flying Saucer Working Party produces its six-page final report for the Ministry of Defence’s Directorate of Scientific Intelligence, DSI/JTIC Report number 7, Unidentified Flying Objects, classified Secret. The CIA’s chief scientist, [H. Marshall Chadwell,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) attends the meeting when the report is delivered. The report admits that no systematic investigation has been undertaken, but from the evidence examined, including reports by RAF pilots, explanations can probably be found for most reports. Copies are also submitted to Canada as well as US and UK officials. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joe McGonagle, “[Flying Saucer Working Party: Commentary,](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/fswpcmnt2.htm)” part 2, The Real UFO Project; Good Need, [pp. 149–152](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/148/mode/2up); David Clarke, “[Flying Saucer Working Party,](https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/national-archives-ufo-files-7/flying-saucer-working-party/)” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism, January 3, 2015; UFOFiles2, [pp. 38–40](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n65/mode/2up); Mark Rodeghier, “Britain’s Secret UFO Study,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 21–23; Ian Ridpath, “[Report of the UK Government’s Flying Saucer Working Party \(1951 June\),](http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/ukgwp.html)” Ian Ridpath’s UFO Skeptic Pages, January 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_1654 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3572 (999C5C2E) Date: 6/1/1951 Description: Wright-Patterson AFB official watched disc make sharp turn. \[III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dayton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_819 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3573 (83F39077) Date: 6/1/1951 Description: A Wright-Patterson AFB base official saw a disc-shaped object turn sharply southeast of Dayton, Ohio at 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 23; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 400 Source ID: Johnson_3193 Source: Johnson ### Event 3574 (C2FBB774) Date: 6/1/1951 Time: 4:20 AM Description: Witnesses: M/Sgt H.E. Sweeney, 2 enlisted men. One glowing yellow-orange, saucer-shaped object with arc-shaped wings, flew straight up. Seen for 30-40 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Niagara Falls, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_67 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3575 (CAC5CB93) Date: 6/1/1951 Description: 10:00 p.m. An ATIC official at Wright-Patterson AFB is driving west near Dayton, Ohio, when he sees a large, bluish-white light moving parallel to the car. It looks like a “stubby cigar.” After 15–20 seconds, it makes a right- angle turn, becomes circular, and rapidly disappears. Its speed is “faster than an airplane, slower than a meteor.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 23](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=35&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1655 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3576 (AFFDD6B4) Date: 6/1/1951 Description: Glowing yellow-orange, saucer shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 925) Reference: NICAP: [510601](http://nicap.org/niagara510601dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Niagara Falls, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_818 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3577 (C3CF4823) Date: 6/1/1951 Description: At Niagara Falls, New York at 4:20 a.m. three enlisted men watched a glowing yellow-orange, saucer-shaped object with arc-shaped wings, shoot straight up into the sky. It was seen for 30-40 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3192 Source: Johnson ### Event 3578 (F6F30230) Date: 6/9/1951 Description: At 8:10 p.m. in Mikkeli, Finland two witnesses watched a 25 meter diameter disc-shaped object flying at 300 meters altitude. It was absolutely silent and continued to fly slowly at a low altitude toward Leningrad, Russia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_3382 Source: Johnson ### Event 3579 (E41502D4) Date: 6/14/1951 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km (Exploded on pad at start of main-stage thrust after rising 6-inches) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 0km Source ID: Maj2_435 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3580 (8B47EEDD) Date: 6/15/1951 Description: A metallic disc-shaped object, looking like aluminum, appeared to stand motionless in the sky when it was sighted by two military pilots flying between Orange and Aspres Buech, France at 10:37 a.m. in a French Air Force Vampire jet. It then accelerated away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_3495 Source: Johnson ### Event 3581 (2D110C6D) Date: 6/19/1951 Description: In Sonderborg, Denmark Joseph Matiszewski, a mechanic, heard a whistling sound and saw an object land in a meadow. Approaching within 50 meters, he found himself paralyzed and observed that birds had stopped singing and cows seemed to be similarly unable to move. From the object emerged four handsome men who had brown skin and wore black shiny suits and translucent helmets. Eight objects also emerged from the craft and hovered above it. Other men inside the craft and on its deck appeared to be making repairs, then the objects flew to about 100 m altitude and climbed rapidly out of sight. Only then did the paralysis subside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195, citing UFO Nachrichten, May 1959 Source ID: Johnson_3548 Source: Johnson ### Event 3582 (C5A1B037) Date: 6/19/1951 Description: Day. Mechanic Joseph Matiszewski hears a whistling sound as he is walking in Sønderborg, Denmark, and sees an object land in a nearby meadow. Approaching to within 150 feet of it, he finds himself paralyzed and notices that birds have stopped singing and cows seem frozen in place. Four men with brown skin and wearing black shiny suits and translucent helmets emerge from the object and send Matiszewski some telepathic messages. Eight smaller objects are ejected from the large one and float above it. Other figures inside the craft and on its deck appear to be making repairs. The objects ascend to about 300 feet and climb rapidly after that. The paralysis subsides. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1951-06-19-denmark-sonderborg.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1951-06-19-denmark-sonderborg.htm) July 1, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_1656 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3583 (5B7C6D98) Date: 6/19/1951 Time: 1200 Description: Joseph Matiszewski, a mechanic, heard a whistling sound and saw an object land in a meadow. Approaching within 50 m, he found himself paralyzed and observed that birds had stopped singing and cows seemed to be similarly unable to move. From the object emerged four handsome men who had brown skin and wore black shiny suits and translucent helmets. Eight objects also emerged from the craft and hovered above it. Other men inside the craft and on its deck appeared to be making repairs, then the objects flew to about 100 m altitude and climbed rapidly out of sight. Only then did the paralysis subside. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Nachrichten May., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sonderborg, Denmark Source ID: Magnonia_82 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3584 (FBC12CD8) Date: Summer 1951 Description: A dubious story surfaces in 1956 that three UFOs had appeared above Mexico City International Airport at the same time as a visit by US Secretary of Defense [George C. Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FMarshall)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FMarshall) \(However, there is no record of a visit by Marshall at this time; apparently his first visit to Mexico was a vacation in Cuernavaca in February 1952.\) According to the story, Marshall tells a “highly placed American” and “prominent medical scientist” that UFOs are interplanetary and friendly, but they have crashed accidentally on three occasions. In 1965, the American informant is revealed to be [Rolf Alexander](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/creative-realism-rolf-alexander/1132618455), who is in fact Allan Alexander Stirling, a New Zealand seaman who had jumped ship in 1920 and entered the US illegally. To support himself he promoted various dubious health cures while concocting a fictitious personal history. His activities were interrupted by prison sentences for mail fraud and embezzlement, and in 1954–1960 he claimed the ability to break up clouds with his psychokinetic abilities. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Let’s Talk Space: ‘Flying Saucers’ Are Real,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CJan-Feb%2CV%202%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1956\): 2–4; “[Rolf Alexander, M.D.,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CMar-Apr%2CV%2011%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1965\): 9; RosRept, [p. 99](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FRoswell%5FReportR2.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1659 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3585 (1F735DE7) Date: Summer 1951 Description: USAF project "Bluebook" is started Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_112 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3586 (84F70FCB) Date: 6/22/1951 Description: Life magazine reporter [Robert Emmett Ginna Jr.](https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ginna-robert-emmett-jr-1927) visits Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio for the first time to gather information on “Project Saucer” for an article. The visit is coordinated by Jack T. Shea, special assistant to the director of public relations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich; Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_1657 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3587 (82C9292A) Date: 6/25/1951 Description: The UK Flying Saucer Working Party is disbanded. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 152](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/152/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1658 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3588 (3A6DF3FB) Date: 6/28/1951 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.8km (Blossom 9 — Tail explosion at 8s and then cut-off signal given at 22s.) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 5.8km Source ID: Maj2_436 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3589 (BF19CD82) Date: 7/1951 Description: The radiation-counter network set up at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, in December 1950 by Lt. Col. John R. Hood hits paydirt when a UFO appears, sighted both visually and on radar over the facility. He finds that the radiation counters have detected a significant rise in some kind of emission. Hood wants to expand the equipment, adding a debris-catching pursuit plane. However, information is lacking on this case and any follow- up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume 8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) The Author, 1983, p. 42 Source ID: Eberhart_1660 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3590 (89262949) Date: 7/1/1951 Description: Several Pilots Saw Fireballs (Probable IFO) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 2, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510701](http://www.nicap.org/510701seoul%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Seoul, South Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_820 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3591 (326AEE9C) Date: 7/1/1951 Description: 10:50 p.m. Four night pilots of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in different areas around Seoul, Korea, simultaneously report a large green ball, very bright and trailing streaks of red then blue, passing overhead at 10,000–15,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Haines, Korea, [p. 31](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch3.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 106 Source ID: Eberhart_1661 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3592 (6EEEDCB5) Date: 7/4/1951? Description: 10:00 p.m. Future ufologist [Irena Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena%5FScott) and her sister Sue are sleeping at their home in Galena, Ohio, when they wake to see a small glowing light circling their bedroom in a meandering movement, but never bumping into anything. It circles the room three times, maintaining the same shape, brightness, and size \(less than one inch\). After a few minutes, it moves in tight circles around the chandelier, then spirals downward, makes a noise, and emits tiny lights. Terrified, they rush out of the room and tell their father, who inspects the room but finds nothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Irena Scott, “Bedroom Light,” IUR 13, no. 2 \(March/April 1988\): 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_1662 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3593 (08B8E9BF) Date: 7/6/1951 Description: A UFO zigzagged over Lynchburg, Virginia at 8:25 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, letters received by Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Los Angeles, March 2, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_3872 Source: Johnson ### Event 3594 (1242E9D5) Date: 7/9/1951 Description: Day. USAF Lt. [George H. Kinmon II](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186955724/george-herbert-kinmon)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186955724/george-herbert-kinmon) stationed at Lawson AFB \[now Lawson Army Airfield\] with the 117th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, is flying an F-51 over Dearing, Georgia, when he sees a white disc “completely round and spinning in a clockwise direction.” It makes a headlong pass at his aircraft. It travels at “tremendous speed” and leaves no vapor trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Aerial Encounter with Disc](http://www.nicap.org/510709augusta%5Fdir.htm)”; “Saucer Attacked Me, Pilot Declares,” Cleveland Press, July 30, 1952, p. 1, [reprinted](https://members.tripod.com/task%5F2/Saucer%5Fattack.htm) in Saucer Attack, April 1998; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 107; UFOEv, [p. 23](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=35&skin=2021); Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 328–330 Source ID: Eberhart_1663 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3595 (ED9B4E01) Date: 7/9/1951 Description: At 1:40 p.m. a white, disc-shaped UFO, spinning clockwise, confronted an F-51 over Dearing, Georgia with head-on passes several times. Pilot Kinmon said he felt the air disturbance as the UFO barrel-rolled around the airplane for 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 239 Source ID: Johnson_3946 Source: Johnson ### Event 3596 (BA9881E8) Date: 7/9/1951 Description: Augusta, Georgia (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [510709](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/510709dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Augusta, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_823 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3597 (CDFC4194) Date: 7/9/1951 Description: Pilot Lt. Kinmon sees and reports an UFO. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1951fullrep.htm) Location: Columbus, GA See also: 7/10/1951 Source ID: Maj2_437 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3598 (DC851475) Date: 7/9/1951 Description: Red glowing ball about size of full moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corona, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_822 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3599 (888504C6) Date: 7/9/1951 Description: Pilot saw high speed white oval disc about twice size of his plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510709](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/510709dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dearing, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_821 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3600 (DAC86CD8) Date: 7/10/1951 Description: Classified OSI Message from Robins AFB, Macon: UFO sighted by Lt. George H. Kinmon Jr. on July 9, 1951. Description: Flat on top and bottom and appeared from front view to have rounded edges, slightly beveled. Color was white. When it dived from its position it appeared circular with a clockwise spinning motion. Appeared to have a fractured surface. No exhaust fumes or visible means of propulsion. At an approx. distance from his plane the UFO appeared to be 10 to 15 feet in diam. UFO caused air disturbance as it barrel-rolled under his plane. His nose camera malfunctioned. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1951fullrep.htm) Location: Macon, GA Source ID: Maj2_438 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3601 (D79F2F6E) Date: 7/14/1951 Description: At the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on this morning an oval-shaped object flying near a B-29 was viewed from the ground through a telescope during a rocket launch, and then tracked on airborne radar by two jets. The radar confirmed the visual sighting of a fast-moving UFO. Motion picture footage was allegedly obtained, but subsequently lost. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Keyhoe, True Magazine, December 1952; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 48; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 400 Source ID: Johnson_4046 Source: Johnson ### Event 3602 (FB66C8E0) Date: 7/14/1951 Description: Tracking Camera Film (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [510714](http://www.nicap.org/510714holloman%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_824 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3603 (F32FC282) Date: 7/14/1951 Description: White Sands Radar / Visual (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [510714](http://www.nicap.org/510714holloman%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_825 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3604 (F3DEFBF5) Date: 7/14/1951 Description: Morning. During a guided missile launch, two radar operators at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, catch a fast-moving object on their scope. At the same time, a tracker watching a B-29 with binoculars sees a large UFO near the bomber. Another observer sights the UFO and, with a 35mm camera, shoots 200 feet of film. The UFO shows on the film as a round, bright spot. The film has never been released. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[White](http://www.nicap.org/510714holloman%5Fdir.htm) [Sands Radar/Visual](http://www.nicap.org/510714holloman%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 107; Project 1947, “[Radar and Visual UFO Sighting, White Sands Missile](http://www.project1947.com/folio/19510714%5Fwsmr.htm) [Range, New Mexico—July 14, 1951](http://www.project1947.com/folio/19510714%5Fwsmr.htm)”; Good Above, [pp. 354–355](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/354/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1664 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3605 (D15FC034) Date: 7/19/1951 Description: Puerto Maldonado, Cigar Photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maldonado, Uraguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_826 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3606 (AB3C7552) Date: 7/19/1951 Description: Several people witnessed a luminous disc buzz the city of Puerto Maldonaldo, Peru at 4:50 p.m. The object flew off toward the north, emitting fog or smoke. A short wave radio wouldn't work during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History: 1951, p. 35 Source ID: Johnson_4190 Source: Johnson ### Event 3607 (13DCF65F) Date: 7/22/1951 Description: The Soviet R-1V carrier rocket brought the dogs of Dezik and Tsygan to the upper atmosphere and returned them to earth alive. It was the first successful flight of animals into space, but for 40 years the story was classified due to the numerous unsuccessful flights before that. Type: aerospace Reference: [link](https://curiosmos.com/kapustin-yar-russias-alleged-area-51-10-things-you-should-know/) Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-1_(missile)) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_439 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3608 (A0525411) Date: 7/23/1951 Description: Radar-visual sighting of silvery object circling high above aircraft. \[VIII\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: March Field, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_827 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3609 (A59215F4) Date: 7/24/1951 Description: A 150-foot long cylinder with many black spots and fins at one end flew at 900 mph at an altitude of 1500 feet over Portsmouth, New Hampshire at 7:10 p.m. It was seen for 20 seconds by two military witnesses, Cobb and Fein. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 943 Source ID: Johnson_4343 Source: Johnson ### Event 3610 (F92B9E00) Date: 7/24/1951 Description: Greyish 100-200 ft tubular object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 943) Reference: NICAP: [510724](http://nicap.org/portsmouth510724dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portsmouth, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_828 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3611 (DD6FC2EA) Date: 7/24/1951 Time: 7:10 PM Description: Witnesses: Hanscom AFB Operations Officer Capt. Cobb, Cpl. Fein. One 100-200' tubular object, 5 times long as it was wide, with fins at one end, and colored greyish with many black spots. Flew 800-1,000 m.p.h. at 1-2,000' altitude, leaving a faint swath. 20 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire Source ID: BerlinerBBU_68 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3612 (F70A4B5C) Date: 7/25/1951 Description: Personnel at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, write a report compiling the results of an organized skywatch of UFOs at the base. Several photos are taken. The report does not conclude what the objects are, but it does establish that some kind of objects have been seen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Status of Project Blue Book,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf)” T52-6888, \[1952\], p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_1665 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3613 (ED046D55) Date: 7/30/1951 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) CPS-6B Picks Up High Speed Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510730](http://www.nicap.org/510730selfridge%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Selfridge AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_829 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3614 (0E99D6BB) Date: 8/1951 Description: In an article in Popular Science, the editors ask UFO witnesses what they think the objects are. About 70% believe they are intelligently controlled devices, either man-made or extraterrestrial. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[What Were the Flying](https://books.google.com/books?id=lyEDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA74&dq=%22What%20Were%20The%20Flying%20Saucers%3F%22&pg=PA74%23v%3Donepage&q=%22What%20Were%20The%20Flying%20Saucers%3F%22&f=false) [Saucers? Eyewitnesses Believe They Saw Secret Aircraft,](https://books.google.com/books?id=lyEDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA74&dq=%22What%20Were%20The%20Flying%20Saucers%3F%22&pg=PA74%23v%3Donepage&q=%22What%20Were%20The%20Flying%20Saucers%3F%22&f=false)” Popular Science 159 \(August 1951\): 74–75, 228 Source ID: Eberhart_1666 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3615 (BD5985BB) Date: 8/1951 Description: Mining engineer sighted two discs with "portholes." \[VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Central, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_830 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3616 (39DCFF81) Date: 8/1/1951 Description: Three witnesses including police from Beausoleil, France in the Alpes-Maritime viewed a transparent bubble in the sky at nine o'clock in the evening. Two human-looking occupants of the transparent sphere watched the street and the crowd below. The bubble flew off towards the north-northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 175 Source ID: Johnson_4557 Source: Johnson ### Event 3617 (D5590387) Date: 8/3/1951 Description: NICAP Adviser saw a glowing, yellowish UFO which moved on an undulating course. \[VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pinckney (near), MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_831 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3618 (C23CA75F) Date: 8/3/1951 Description: 11:00 p.m. [Walter N. Webb](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm), nature counselor at Camp Big Silver on the shore of Silver Lake in southern Michigan, 3 miles south of Pinckney, is showing two boy campers some celestial objects through a reflecting telescope. He sees a glowing, yellowish light moving westward at a low elevation in an undulating path over hills to the south. It disappears behind the hills before he can train his telescope on it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 50](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=62&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1667 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3619 (7762EBED) Date: 8/8/1951 Description: 20 ft dark cigar-shaped object flying at high speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510808](http://nicap.org/portclinton510808dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Clinton (NE of ), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_832 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3620 (D585B658) Date: 8/11/1951 Description: Former USAF pilot [Robert O. Dodge](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52665496/robert-oliver-dodge) watches three disc-like UFOs in formation over Portland, Oregon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 34](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=46&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1668 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3621 (DB07DED1) Date: 8/11/1951 Description: Dodge Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portland, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_833 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3622 (EEDA6729) Date: 8/14/1951 Description: At around one o'clock in the afternoon, a six-meter in diameter, metallic saucer with legs landed on a farm in Voghenza, Italy. Six four-foot tall humanoids climbed down ladders, then gestured to each other. They later got back aboard and took off, flying off toward the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1951, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, CISU website Source ID: Johnson_4999 Source: Johnson ### Event 3623 (C354611B) Date: 8/15/1951 Description: US test pilot [Bill Bridgeman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FBridgeman) attains an unofficial altitude of 79,494 feet in a Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, an air-launched rocket plane powered by the XLR-11 liquid fuel rocket engine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Bill Bridgeman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FBridgeman)” Source ID: Eberhart_1669 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3624 (DE10040E) Date: Mid 8/1951 Description: 10:30 a.m. Mining engineer Alfred Roos hears a swishing sound at his ranch 10 miles east of Silver City, New Mexico. He looks up and sees two lens-shaped UFOs swooping at tremendous speed then hovering. They go back and forth between his location and Fort Bayard, two miles to the northwest, where they finally disappear into a cloud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 56](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=68&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1670 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3625 (BD262804) Date: 8/15/1951 Description: Five witnesses including an engineer watched maneuvering disc-shaped UFOs in Grant County, New Mexico at around 10:45 a.m. They first saw two disc-shaped objects that swooped down at a 45 degree angle and entered a cloud, next hovered for a short while, and then three objects emerged from the cloud, leaving behind a vapor trail. They went from hovering to speeding off in excess of 500 mph instantaneously, and had portholes or orifices below the rim line. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: letter to Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los Angeles from one of the witnesses, dated March 2, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_5029 Source: Johnson ### Event 3626 (2C02E05D) Date: Mid 8/1951 Description: Midnight. A witness is on his porch in Waco, Texas, looking at the sky when he sees a V-shaped formation of 10–20 round, luminous objects silently pass over from west to east in a matter of seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 41–42 Source ID: Eberhart_1671 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3627 (2F55FC0D) Date: 8/17/1951 Description: 11:30 a.m. [Otto Bock](https://www.arnold.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/410184/otto-bock-helped-make-arnolds-g-range-a-national-defense-asset/)[,](https://www.arnold.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/410184/otto-bock-helped-make-arnolds-g-range-a-national-defense-asset/) a German scientist with a specialty in optics who came to the US as part of Operation Paperclip, observes a high-altitude, metallic object through his 20x telescope for about 4 hours. He says the sighting is confirmed by four other persons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1947, “[Letter to Donald Keyhoe: Otto Bock, August 22,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1951a.htm) [1951](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1951a.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1672 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3628 (6F22E734) Date: 8/20/1951 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Finland AFS, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_834 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3629 (294F253A) Date: 8/20/1951 Description: The CIA, approved by DCI [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) starts Project ARTICHOKE to study hypnosis, morphine addiction, and LSD to produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in subjects, as a way of exploring interrogation methods. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project ARTICHOKE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FARTICHOKE)”; \[Central Intelligence Agency\], “[Project Artichoke,](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st02.pdf)” declassified\(?\), January 31, 1975 Source ID: Eberhart_1673 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3630 (9593BD77) Date: 8/21/1951 Description: (at 41°55' N, 133°52' E). 12:05 p.m. Radar tracking of unidentified target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510821](http://www.nicap.org/510821seaofjapan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sea of Japan, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_835 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3631 (3A6CDD46) Date: 8/22/1951 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 213.4km (Army training test — last 5 launches by “Broomstick Scientists”) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 213.4km Source ID: Maj2_440 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3632 (108D18E9) Date: 8/23/1951 Description: [Frank Wisner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FWisner) succeeds [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) as CIA Deputy Director of Plans in the Office of Policy Coordination, with [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) as chief of operations. In this position, Wisner is instrumental in supporting pro-American forces that [toppled](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953%5FIranian%5Fcoup%5Fd%27%C3%A9tat) [Mohammed Mossadegh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%5FMosaddegh) in [Iran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran) in 1953 and [Jacobo Árbenz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo%5F%C3%81rbenz) in Guatemala [in 1954.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954%5FGuatemalan%5Fcoup%5Fd%27%C3%A9tat) Sometime this year he visits [Richard M. Bissell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) and asks him to finance OPC operations by diverting some Marshall Plan funds, presumably for covert black ops. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 45–46](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/44/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1674 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3633 (64F650EF) Date: 8/25/1951 Description: Evening. Joseph Bryant and his wife, at 407 West Powell Street, Brownfield, Texas, see a loose group of glowing lights heading north to south. They are a “little bigger than a star.” A few minutes later a second group flies over, and then a third, which circles around the house. This time Bryant can hear them, and he identifies them as plovers. When he hears about the Lubbock lights, he is sure the professors are seeing plovers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 691–692 Source ID: Eberhart_1675 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3634 (1EB59018) Date: 8/25/1951 Description: 9:10 p.m. Three Texas Technical College professors \(geologist [Wilbur Irvin Robinson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7739779/wilbur-irvin-robinson), chemist [Aaron](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179646789/aaron-gustav-oberg) [Gustav “Gus” Oberg](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179646789/aaron-gustav-oberg), and petroleum engineer [William Lyon Ducker Jr.](https://swco-ir.tdl.org/handle/10605/7356)\) are sitting in a backyard at Lubbock, Texas, when they see a fast-moving, semicircular formation of 20–30 lights, as intense as bright stars but larger. Blue-green and silent, they move across the sky in seconds. A second group appears and repeats the performance. Others, including Carl Hemminger at Texas Tech, report seeing the same objects the same night. [J. Russell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53450604/jone-russell-heitman) [Heitman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53450604/jone-russell-heitman), head of the Texas Tech journalism department, says he had seen an identical group of lights several days earlier. The professors watch 10–12 such flights through November 1 \(including on September 1 and 5\), sometimes accompanied by colleagues [Ellis Richard Heineman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114607095/ellis-richard-heineman)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114607095/ellis-richard-heineman) E. F. George, [Grayson Mead](https://texasbeyondhistory.net/lubbock/images/Lu1-ge17.html), and John Brand. Some researchers, including [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek), think the witnesses are seeing migrating plovers attracted to Lubbock’s new vapor street lights, although Ruppelt changes his mind later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lubbock Lights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubbock%5FLights)”; NICAP, “[The Lubbock Lights / Carl Hart Photos](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st02.pdf)”; Clark III 688–690; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: Volume](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) [8, 1951](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951.pdf) The Author, 1983, pp. 45–55; Swords 130–132; “[Lubbock 1951,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=152)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, November 15, 1999 Source ID: Eberhart_1676 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3635 (2CE9903B) Date: 8/25/1951 Description: Around 9:58 p.m. Hugh Young, a security guard at Sandia Base, and his wife Emily are in their trailer home in east Albuquerque, New Mexico, and watch a large object like a flying wing, but 1.5 times as large as a B-36, flying at 80 feet at about 300 mph. It has glowing white lights on the trailing edge of the wing and is completely silent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Flying Wing over Sandia Base](http://www.nicap.org/510825albuquerque%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 691; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 108 Source ID: Eberhart_1677 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3636 (261D9A26) Date: 8/25/1951 Description: At 9:10 p.m. four Texas Tech professors--Robinson, Oberg, Ducker, and George--in a backyard in Lubbock, Texas saw the "Lubbock Lights", a string of perhaps 50 beads of light in a semi-circle or wing shape, which passed over from north to south. They were seen again less than one hour later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Grudge Report #2, December 1951, p. 31; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 131; Michael David Hall, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers--1952, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_5309 Source: Johnson ### Event 3637 (74AA4CE6) Date: 8/25/1951 Description: Lubbock, TX; (Hart photos) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [510825](http://www.nicap.org/docs/lubbock/510825dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lubbock, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_837 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3638 (2276F957) Date: 8/25/1951 Time: 9:58 PM Description: Witnesses: Sandia Base Security Guard Hugh Young and wife. A flying wing-shaped craft passed over their heads at an estimated 800-1,000' altitude with no sound. Size estimated at 1.5 times wingspan of B-36 bomber,or 350'. Dark, chordwise stripes on underside, and 6-8 pairs of soft, glowing lights on trailing edge of "wing". Speed estimated at 300-400 m.p.h., object seen for about 30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_69 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3639 (88DA340B) Date: 8/25/1951 Description: Wife saw a flying wing-shaped craft pass overhead (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 955, NC) Reference: NICAP: [510825](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/albuq510825dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_836 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3640 (A2329D16) Date: 8/25/1951 Description: In Albuquerque, New Mexico Sandia Base Security Guard Hugh Young and his wife sighted a huge flying wing-shaped craft pass over their heads at 9:58 p.m. at an estimated 800 to 1,000-feet altitude. The craft made no sound. Its size was estimated as 1.5 times the wingspan of a B-36 bomber, or 350 feet. It had dark, chordwise stripes on the underside, and 6-8 pairs of soft, glowing lights on the trailing edge of "wing". Its speed was estimated at 300-400 m.p.h., object seen for about 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 479; Kevin D. Randall, The UFO Casebook, p. 56 Source ID: Johnson_5310 Source: Johnson ### Event 3641 (14709266) Date: 8/26/1951 Description: 8:28 p.m. A radar station at Larson AFB \[now Grant County International Airport\], near Moses Lake, Washington, tracks a UFO at 13,000 feet going 950 mph on two different sets, AN/CPS-1 and AN/CPS-4, for about 6 minutes. An F-86 is scrambled, but radar contact is lost before the plane gets off the ground. An electronic signal is received from this object that appears to be a mode-one IFF response from an AN/APX-6 transponder. This response is received twice at approx.115 miles and 80 miles from the radar station. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Radars](http://www.nicap.org/510826larson%5Fdir.htm) [Track 900 MPH Target](http://www.nicap.org/510826larson%5Fdir.htm); Clark III 692; Ruppelt, [pp. 96–98](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/96/mode/2up), [108–109](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/108/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 108 Source ID: Eberhart_1678 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3642 (84CC8CC6) Date: 8/26/1951 Description: Two Radars Track 900 MPH Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510826](http://www.nicap.org/510826larson%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Larson AFB, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_838 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3643 (6F742456) Date: 8/26/1951 Description: The driver of a transcontinental train in Australia, on the east/west line, saw a flying object at four o'clock in the morning that illuminated the countryside like a full moon. It flew very fast, came close to the train, appeared ready to land in the desert, then took off and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 196 Source ID: Johnson_5353 Source: Johnson ### Event 3644 (4B6ABCCD) Date: 8/26/1951 Description: At Ellington AFB, Texas a radar operator made a visual sighting of a nocturnal light at 1:18 a.m. The UFO zig-zagged many times, then shot up to a very high altitude, blinking at two second intervals. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Grudge Report #1, November 30, 1951 Source ID: Johnson_5354 Source: Johnson ### Event 3645 (8D4F6600) Date: 8/27/1951 Description: At a conference at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, on the green fireballs, Project Twinkle’s Maj. [Edward A.](http://www.roswellproof.com/Dyvad1951.html) [Doty](http://www.roswellproof.com/Dyvad1951.html) expresses skepticism about the project. Meteorologist [Bernard “Duke” Gildenberg](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/alamogordonews/obituary.aspx?n=bernard-david-gildenberg-duke&pid=166827255) tells those assembled that he has never seen anything out of the ordinary, nor has astronomer [Clyde Tombaugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%5FTombaugh). The commanding officer at Holloman wants to cease allocating funds for the project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 545 Source ID: Eberhart_1679 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3646 (59444D56) Date: 8/27/1951 Description: Large blinding orange light to the SW (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vandalia, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_839 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3647 (15526B96) Date: 8/28/1951 Description: Project Twinkle personnel talk to [LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) about the green fireballs and he insists they are not meteors. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 545 Source ID: Eberhart_1680 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3648 (741DC4C8) Date: 8/30/1951 Description: 11:30 p.m. A Texas Tech freshman named Carl Hart Jr. sees the same formation of 18–20 lights over Lubbock, Texas, and takes five photos. He gets the roll of film developed the next day and takes it to the Lubbock Morning Avalanche, which puts them out on the Associated Press wire. ATIC examines the photos and notes that the “two rows of spots behaved differently. One row only shows slight variation from a precise V formation throughout, whereas the other now appears to pass from above the first row, through it to a position below.” Biologist [James Cecil](https://swco-ir.tdl.org/handle/10605/7399) [Cross](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105726781/james-cecil-cross) looks at the Lubbock photos under a microscope and rules out the bird explanation. See also Life, Apr. 7, 1952. While investigating the Lubbock Lights, [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) also learns that several people in and around Lubbock claim to have seen a “flying wing” moving over the city. Among the witnesses is the wife of Dr. [Ducker](https://swco-ir.tdl.org/handle/10605/7356)[,](https://swco-ir.tdl.org/handle/10605/7356) who reports that in August 1951 she observed a “huge, soundless flying wing” pass over her house. Ruppelt knows that USAF does possess a “flying wing” jet bomber, and he feels that at least some of the sightings are caused by the bomber, although he cannot explain why, according to the witnesses, the wing makes no sound as it flies overhead. Ruppelt says that in addition to Project Grudge investigators, another group of people who, “because of their association with the government, had complete access to our files” \(scientists convinced of the ETH\) were also looking into the Lubbock cases. In March 1955, Ducker sends Ruppelt a telegram indicating that he has figured out that the lights are a “natural phenomenon” and requests no further publicity in his book. However, Texas Tech mathematics professor [Ralph Sylvester Underwood](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183461956/ralph-sylvester-underwood) has also observed three flights and estimates the objects are at 2,000 feet altitude and flying at 700 mph—much too fast for birds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st02.pdf) [Lubbock Lights / Carl Hart Photos](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st02.pdf)”; “‘Flying Whatsits’ Stir Dispute in Area,” Lubbock \(Tex.\) Morning Avalanche, September 6, 1951; Clark III 690–693; Ruppelt, [pp. 96–110](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/96/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “Carl Hart and the Lubbock Lights,” IUR 18, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1993\): 17–19; Michael D. Swords, “Classic Cases from the APRO Files,” IUR 24, no. 2 \(Summer 1999\): 22; “[Lubbock 1951,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=152)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, November 15, 1999; Donald R. Burleson, “New Findings on the Lubbock Lights,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 3–5; “[Lubbock Lights and Roswell,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=329)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, December 7, 2005; Michael D. Swords, “[Can We Learn Anything from UFO Photos? Part Five,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-we-learn-anything-from-ufo-photos%5F15.html)” The Big Study, July 15, 2012; Swords 131– 132 Source ID: Eberhart_1681 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3649 (76E12D06) Date: 8/31/1951 Description: 12:45 p.m. Mrs. Tom Tilson and one or two other women are driving north on Hwy 70 near Matador, Texas, when they see to the west a pear-shaped object the length of a B-29 fuselage \(100 feet\). It is aluminum or silver-yellow with a port or some type of aperture on the side, and it moves with its smaller end forward, drifting slowly at about 150 feet altitude. It then shoots up in a circular fashion and out of sight after a few seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 692; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 109 Source ID: Eberhart_1682 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3650 (17280996) Date: 8/31/1951 Description: Pear-shaped object the length of a B-29 fuselage (100 ft), (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 962) Reference: NICAP: [510831](http://nicap.org/matador510831dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Matador, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_840 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3651 (3238481D) Date: 8/31/1951 Time: 12:45 PM Description: Witnesses: Mrs. Tom Tilson, one or two other women, all apparently of excellent reputations. One pear-shaped object with a length of a B-29 fuselage (100'), aluminum or silver with a port or some type of aperture on the side. It moved with smaller end forward, drifting slowly at about 150' altitude, then headed up in a circular fashion and out of sight after a few seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Matador, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_70 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3652 (34913115) Date: 9/1951 Description: Sept of 1951 to Nov of 1952, Prom. E. Coast AF Base, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Prom. E. Coast AF Base, unknown Source ID: NICAP_DB_841 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3653 (A1E279B9) Date: 9/1951 Description: 9:00 p.m. Louise McDougall is sitting on the lawn outside her trailer park in Bloomington, California, when she has the feeling someone is watching her. She looks up and sees a flying saucer hovering some 20 feet up. It is lenticular, perhaps 100 feet in diameter, and dull silver metallic in appearance. There are tall, rectangular windows in its lower half, in which can be seen against an amber glow four men, in one-piece “jump suits,” with shoulder- length hair. She turns a spotlight on the saucer, whereupon it shoots off silently at incredible speed. About 15 minutes later it returns, hovering in the same spot, the figures still visible at the windows. After 6 or 7 minutes, it takes off again to the southeast. McDougall’s husband and three other people also see it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1951-09-usa-bloomington.htm)[,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1951-09-usa-bloomington.htm) September 15, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_1683 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3654 (35D75CF1) Date: 9/1951 Description: A group of Unmatjera aborigines observed a shiny circular object land near a similar craft, about 12 m in diameter. Several min later, a dwarf dressed in a shiny suit and having "a round, shiny head" came out of one craft and entered the other; both took off with a buzzing sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Edwards 93 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Central Australia Source ID: Magnonia_83 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3655 (8790A432) Date: 9/1951 Description: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt became chief of the newly revitalized AF UFO project (which later became Project Blue Book). Type: personell assignment Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_863 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3656 (A21B4665) Date: 9/6/1951 Description: 6 orange lights in an irregular formation, fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 964) Reference: NICAP: [510906](http://nicap.org/claremont510906dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Claremont, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_842 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3657 (A9C8673C) Date: 9/6/1951 Description: The Air Force issues JANAP 146\(B\), “Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft.” All UFO reports are to go to the Air Defense Command in the Pentagon \(which presumably will send them to AMC at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio\), the Secretary of Defense, and to the nearest US military command. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 123 Source ID: Eberhart_1684 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3658 (DC74EC48) Date: 9/6/1951 Time: 7:20 PM (not really clear) Description: Witnesses: S/Sgt W.T. Smith, M/Sgt L.L. Duel (?). Six orange lights in an irregular formation, flew straight and level into a coastal fog bank after 3-4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Claremont, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_71 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3659 (52FF2B48) Date: 9/6/1951 Description: In Claremont, California Sergeants W. T. Smith and L. L. Deuel saw six orange lights flying in an irregular formation at 7:20 p.m. They flew straight and level into a coastal fog bank after approximately 3-4 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #964; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5674 Source: Johnson ### Event 3660 (73A1B7BE) Date: 9/9/1951 Description: Radar tracking of multiple unidentified targets at 900 mph (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510909](http://www.nicap.org/510909nkorea%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: 50 miles off coast of North Korea, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_843 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3661 (63FE6BC1) Date: 9/10/1951 Description: The Fort Monmouth Radar Incident (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [510910](http://www.nicap.org/510910monmouth%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Monmouth, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_844 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3662 (37E35DA8) Date: 9/10/1951 Description: The Sandy Hook / T-33 Incident (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510910](http://www.nicap.org/510910sandyhook%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sandy Hook, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_845 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3663 (C91838DC) Date: 9/10/1951 Description: U.S. Air Force pilots Lt. Wilbert Rogers and Major Ezra Ballard were flying in a T-33 at 20,000 feet from Dover AFB when at 11:35 a.m. EDT they saw a silvery metallic disc-shaped object to their 11 o'clock position and below their aircraft, three miles northeast of Sandy Hook, New Jersey. It was silhouetted against the ground. Rogers immediately turned left and descended to intercept the craft, which then banked revealing its flat round profile, with no appendages. The UFO curved in a tight turn, covering an estimated 30 nautical miles in two minutes at a speed estimated between 1,000-1,500 mph. The object passed within about 8,000 feet distance of the T-33, descending from about 12,000 feet to 5000 feet and heading out to sea at high speed near Point Pleasant. The aerial sighting lasted two minutes and was rated a high reliability unknown by Project Blue Book and Dr. James McDonald. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May 1954; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 127; UNICAT, case # 637, citing James E. McDonald, 1968 Armed Services Committee Congressional Hearings, p. 66; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 131; Brad Sparks, NICAP 1951 UFO Chronology webpage Source ID: Johnson_5820 Source: Johnson ### Event 3664 (73343669) Date: 9/10/1951 Description: CONFIDENTIAL Air Intel REPORT: Maj. Ballard and Lt. Rogers while flying at 20,000 ft. in a T-33 spotted a disc-shaped UFO the size of an F-86 flying below them at 8000 ft. It was travelling much faster than they were (900+ mph). It was steady in flight, with no visible means of propulsion and shiny silver in color. The radar station at Ft. Monmouth plotted the same UFO on radar at 1110 EDT flying above 700 mph. (p127 of Ruppelt’s book) Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p487) Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1951fullrep.htm) Location: Asbury, NJ Source ID: Maj2_441 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3665 (8739D3DE) Date: 9/10/1951 Description: 11:10 a.m. At the Army Signal Corps radar center at Fort Monmouth \[now closed\], New Jersey, a student operator demonstrating radar functions to a group of visiting officers picks up a target that is moving too fast to be tracked automatically. The object seems to be following the coastline. He follows it off and on for 3 minutes, after which it disappears to the northeast, flying at 700 mph. About 25 minutes later, a T-33 jet trainer piloted by Lt. [Wilbert S. Rogers](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190765231/wilbert-s-rogers)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190765231/wilbert-s-rogers) with Maj. Edward Ballard as passenger, spots a “silver-colored object about the size of a fighter plane” flying at 900 mph at 5,000–8,000 feet over Sandy Hook. It makes a 90° banking turn and disappears out to sea. At 3:15 p.m., a second radar tracking occurs, but this slower object turns out to be a balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Fort Monmouth Radar Incident](http://www.nicap.org/510910monmouth%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[The Sandy Hook / T-33 Incident](http://www.nicap.org/510910sandyhook%5Fdir.htm)”; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#balloons)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 66; Clark III 513– 515; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 110; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, pp. 45–46; Swords 124–127; Good Above, [pp. 269](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/268/mode/2up), [487](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/486/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1685 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3666 (5D56D5A0) Date: 9/11/1951 Description: 10:50 a.m. Two radars at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, pick up another object moving at 1,000 mph. At 1:30 p.m., another radar target appears, apparently hovering. Overcast conditions prevent a visual sighting. The radar then shows it ascending at a rapid rate then streaking to the south at 700+ mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 514 Source ID: Eberhart_1686 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3667 (9C85F9DD) Date: 9/12/1951 Description: Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, officials send ATIC and USAF headquarters a three-foot-long teletype describing the sightings. ATIC’s new chief, Col. [Frank Dunn](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm), gets a wire from Gen. [Charles Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell), who wants somebody from ATIC to find out what’s going on. Dunn sends Lt. [Jerry Cummings](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Cummings%5FJ.htm) \(head of Project Grudge\) and Lt. Col. [Nathan R. Rosengarten](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171879736/nathan-robert-rosengarten) \(chief of the ATIC Aircraft Performance Section\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 514–515; Ruppelt, [pp. 93–94](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/92/mode/2up); Swords 126; Good Need, [pp. 164–165](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/164/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1687 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3668 (3B4245A7) Date: 9/13/1951 Description: Two GCA operators observed what appeared to be three targets on the PPI (Plan Position Indicator) scope. (See report and reference to an attached photo on NARAPBB89-1203) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 969) Reference: NICAP: [510913](http://www.nicap.org/510914goosebay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_846 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3669 (0E750A94) Date: 9/13/1951 Description: 9:30 p.m. T/Sgt Warner B. Maupin and Cpl. John W. Green track two objects on radar at Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador, on a collision course. One of them tries to warn the supposed aircraft of an imminent collision and is surprised to watch one avoid danger by moving to the right. A third unidentified target joins the other two. The incident lasts more than 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, p. 53; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 110; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 261 Source ID: Eberhart_1688 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3670 (DBEC666F) Date: 9/14/1951 Description: At nine o'clock in the evening at the Goose Bay AFB in Labrador, Canada Sgt W. B. Maupin and Corporal J. W. Green tracked three objects on radar. Two were on a collision course when one of the bogeys diverted to the right upon the request, by radio, of one of the radar operators! No aircraft were known to be in the area. A third unidentified track then joined the first two. This incident lasted longer than 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 969; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5940 Source: Johnson ### Event 3671 (A7E1F66A) Date: 9/14/1951 Time: 9:30 PM Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt W.B. Maupin, Cpl. J.W. Green. Three objects tracked on radar. Two were on a collision course, then one evaded to the right upon the request, by radio, of one of the radar operators! No aircraft were known to be in the area. A third unidentified track then joined the first two. More than 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_72 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3672 (A56CDCD4) Date: 9/15/1951 Description: Lt. Jerry Cummings, and a Lt. Col. from ATIC, were called to Washington to brief a General (and a disgruntled group of industrialists and scientists) about the conduct of the investigation. Received orders to set up a new project. Type: briefing Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 128-130](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_862 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3673 (471C44AC) Date: 9/17/1951 Description: B-36 Radar Picks Up Object Seen Visually (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510917](http://www.nicap.org/510917atlantic%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hudson Strait to Baffin Island, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_848 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3674 (909A78A7) Date: 9/17/1951 Description: Cessna In Near-Miss with Swept Wing UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510917](http://www.nicap.org/510916marion%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marion (3 miles NE of), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_847 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3675 (EC57BD88) Date: 9/18/1951 Description: The Day the Earth Stood Still, directed by [Robert Wise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FWise) and starring [Michael Rennie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FRennie) and [Patricia Neal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%5FNeal), premieres in New York City. The ultimate flying saucer science-fiction movie, the plot revolves around an alien who lands in a UFO in Washington, D.C., and demands that atomic testing cease. [Lock Martin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock%5FMartin)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock%5FMartin) who is more than 7 feet tall, plays the robot Gort. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Internet Movie Database, “[The Day the Earth Stood Still](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/)” Source ID: Eberhart_1689 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3676 (AE99BA73) Date: 9/18/1951 Description: 10:20 p.m. USAF B-36 radar operator Maj. Paul E. Gerhart and navigator Maj. Charles J. Cheever are flying northwest at 239 mph over the Hudson Strait in northern Canada when they pick up radar interference coming from an unidentified aircraft moving away from them to the east about 32 miles away. The anti-jamming device on their radar is turned on at 11:20 p.m. but does not affect the jamming on the radar scope. At 11:35 p.m., a UFO is seen visually on the right side of the B-36, which is flying at 18,000 feet over southwest Baffin Island, Nunavut. The object has all-white “unconventional running lights” and two white flashing tail lights, travels about 35 mph faster than the B-36, crosses the front from right to left heading toward the north-northwest, and is in view about 20 minutes. While the object is still visible at 11:50 p.m., the B-36 autopilot and APQ-24 radar set malfunction, the latter coming back a few minutes later when the object disappears. ECM operators S/Sgt. Donald E. Jenkins and S/Sgt. Doty T. Larimore on two B-36 flights over Labrador on September 19 detect carrier wave signals at several frequencies and some radar-like pulses at other frequencies, all below 1,000 MHz. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[B-](http://www.nicap.org/510917atlantic%5Fdir.htm) [36 Radar Picks up Object Seen Visually](http://www.nicap.org/510917atlantic%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 111 Source ID: Eberhart_1690 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3677 (167FB437) Date: 9/18/1951 Description: Science fiction movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is released Type: movie Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_442 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3678 (52BB4C3E) Date: 9/18/1951 Description: 6,000 MPH Targets Tracked By Radar In Three States (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [510918](http://www.nicap.org/510918empireAFS%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: ADC radar sites, Mich, Wisc, Minn, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_849 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3679 (6D15935F) Date: 9/18/1951 Description: A U.S. Air Force B-36 on a training flight near Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada spotted a saucer-shaped object with multiple white lights on a parallel flight course, which then crossed over in front of them from right to left. The ADF went out for a few minutes, then the radar jammed and also went out for a few minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14; J. Allen Hynek files; Richard F. Haines, NARCAP: A Preliminary Report of 64 Pilot Sightings Involving EM Effects on Aircraft, case # 13 Source ID: Johnson_6064 Source: Johnson ### Event 3680 (090A74BE) Date: 9/23/1951 Description: At March AFB \[now March Air Reserve Base\] near Long Beach, California, two F-86 jets try to intercept an object in controlled orbit at around 55,000 feet, but they run low on fuel and have to land. Two more F-86s are scrambled, with the same results. Three of the pilots report seeing a “silver airplane with highly swept- back wings,” although one of them says the UFO looks round and silver. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Swept Wing Aircraft at above](http://www.nicap.org/510923marchfield%5Fdir.htm) [50,000ʹ / Tracked by GCI](http://www.nicap.org/510923marchfield%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 94–95](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/94/mode/2up), [111](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/110/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/110/mode/2up) [113–114](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/112/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 112 Source ID: Eberhart_1691 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3681 (4F7AB166) Date: Fall 1951 Description: Navy pilot Lt. Cmdr. [Marvin C. Davies](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115130534/marvin-cecil-davies) is flying a plane off a CVE class aircraft carrier near Korea when the crew tracks a radar target 3 miles astern. The object has apparently been circling the fleet at an altitude of 5,000 feet and speeds of “slow” to 1,000 mph. The UFO has been tracked on 14 ship radars for 7 hours. It stops circling and takes up a position behind the plane’s wingman, remaining there 5 minutes, then departing at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1937, “[UFO Reports, Korea](http://www.project1947.com/47cats/dekdavies.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 84](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=96&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1692 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3682 (AF5CAE95) Date: 9/23/1951 Description: Swept Wing Aircraft At Above 50,000' / Tracked By GCI (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [510923](http://www.nicap.org/510923marchfield%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: March AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_851 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3683 (365F6AE7) Date: 9/23/1951 Description: A bright silvery aircraft with highly swept back 45° wings (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Victorville (1st jets scrambled from), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_850 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3684 (9CBE0E16) Date: 9/23/1951 Description: On this morning a total of seven F-86 fighters were scrambled to chase a UFO that remained over southern California for nearly ninety minutes. Two F-86 jet interceptors were scrambled from George AFB near Victorville, California then vectored by air defense GCI radar to a target off the Pacific Coast 30 miles west of Long Beach Airport, where the jets circled and then headed east toward Long Beach when the object was seen at 7:55 a.m. PDT at the 12 o'clock high position. It was in a left orbit at about 50,000 feet, above the F-86's. It appeared to be a bright silvery aircraft with highly swept back 45° wings. The F-86's tried to climb to intercept the object but it climbed away in response. Another two F-86's were scrambled from George AFB at about 8:00 a.m. as the first two were running low on fuel and broke off pursuit. The second pair of F-86's was vectored by GCI radar to Camp Pendleton, arrived there at 8:10 a.m. at 43,000 feet, and spotted the object at the one o'clock high position back to the north toward Muroc/Edwards AFB, appearing to be at about 50,000-55,000 feet in a controlled orbit. It looked like a swept wing aircraft that sped up when the F-86's tried to close. The object was again found near March AFB, Riverside, California to the NNW but the jets broke off intercept because they were low on fuel at about 8:20 a.m., landing at 8:45. A third flight of two F-86's were scrambled from George AFB and saw the object shortly after takeoff, heading south. The F-86's made climbing turns up to 43,500 feet under the now round silvery object at 55,000 feet over the San Bernardino Mountains. They broke off the intercept at about 9:25 a.m. A seventh F-86 was scrambled to the south toward Long Beach but the UFO had gone. The Air Force explanation for the sightings was a balloon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Grudge Report #1, November 11, 1951; Project Grudge Report #2, December 31, 1951; Edward J. Ruppelt, Unidentified Flying Objects, pp. 94-95; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 48; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 42; Kenneth Larson, Flying Saucers, June 1968, p. 44; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 400; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14; Blue Book Archive Document Group NARA-PBB85 566 (566-568) -Francis Ridge, From Long Beach to Camp Pendleton -MAXW-PBB8-1583-1588,1596-1617 - Dan Wilson, Blue Book Archive Document Group MAXW-PBB8 1604 (1604-1649) & PBB2 273 - Fran Ridge The Report and the Flimsy Analysis - Francis Ridge The original Project Blue Book Special Report Document, p. 16; Analysis: Air Force Documents Supporting Negative Conclusion, Project Blue Book Special Report, pp. 44-47 Source ID: Johnson_6245 Source: Johnson ### Event 3685 (AC3FB505) Date: 9/24/1951 Description: Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-2 (Joe 2), 38.3kt Type: atomic Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site Atomic type: aboveground Atomic KT: 38.3 Source ID: Maj2_443 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3686 (5E8F870F) Date: 10/1951 Description: [Per Sundh](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%5FSundh) is appointed head of a unit at the Swedish Defence Staff responsible for investigating UFO reports. He remains in charge until October 1954. During that time the department handles 6,000 reports, of which 400 are investigated and 40 remain unexplained. Their astronomical consultant is [Bertil Lindblad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertil%5FLindblad)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertil%5FLindblad) an astronomer at Stockholm University, Sweden. Sundh says that his personnel always took even the weirdest observations seriously. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 364–365 Source ID: Eberhart_1693 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3687 (9C134B2C) Date: 10/1951 Description: Project Grudge is on hold, Intelligence Officer Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt has been assigned to reshape the study and field mounting concern for the Pentagon. Type: historical event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Dayton, OH See also: 12/1948 See also: 3/1952 Source ID: Maj2_444 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3688 (F14543C3) Date: 10/1/1951 Description: 10:00 a.m. At the Pentagon, [Cummings](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Cummings%5FJ.htm) and [Rosengarten](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171879736/nathan-robert-rosengarten) brief [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell), his staff, and a representative from Republic Aircraft Corporation who “supposedly represented a group of top US industrialists and scientists.” The meeting is recorded with a wire recorder. [Edward Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) later head of Project Blue Book, hears the recording before it is ordered destroyed and keeps detailed notes about the meeting. Cabell supposedly learns that Grudge is effectively dead and demands to know “who in hell has been giving me these reports that every decent flying saucer report is being investigated?” Cabell says there is a great deal of doubt in his mind as to what the saucers are and that the Grudge report is the “most poorly written, inconclusive piece of unscientific tripe” he had ever read. He orders Grudge to reactivate itself, and Cummings and Rosengarten go back to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to do just that. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 514–515; Ruppelt, [pp. 93–94](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/92/mode/2up); Swords 127–128, 501–502; Michael Hall, “When UFOs Were Serious Business: Then and Today,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_1694 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3689 (76710A75) Date: 10/2/1951 Description: Three Separate Reports (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [511002](http://www.nicap.org/sands511002dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Sands, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_854 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3690 (A9E7A278) Date: 10/2/1951 Description: Bright oval with a clipped tail fly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 980) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_855 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3691 (08BC9612) Date: 10/2/1951 Time: 6 PM Description: Witness: Battelle Memorial Institute graduate physicist Howard Cross. One bright oval with a clipped tail flew straight and level, fading into the distance after 1 minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Columbus, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_73 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3692 (D62E0D1B) Date: 10/3/1951 Description: At 9:27 p.m. military radar picked up a large sausage-shaped radar blip. It was tracked flying over Kadena AFB, Japan moving at 4,800 mph. Listed as a Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 984 Source ID: Johnson_6517 Source: Johnson ### Event 3693 (E4E99A91) Date: 10/3/1951 Time: 10:27 PM Description: Witnesses: radar operators Sgt. M.W. Watson and Pvt. Gonzales and one other Sergeant. One large, sausage-shaped blip tracked at an estimated 4,800 m.p.h. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kadena, Okinawa Source ID: BerlinerBBU_74 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3694 (14E00A57) Date: 10/3/1951 Description: Large, sausage-shaped blip on radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 984) Reference: NICAP: [511003](http://www.nicap.org/511003okinawadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kadena AFB, Okinawa Source ID: NICAP_DB_856 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3695 (50212ECD) Date: 10/4/1951 Description: 2:00 a.m. Two French aviation officers are camped out several miles northwest of the village of Tessalit, Mali. A luminous dark-yellow disc approaches slowly from the east, loses altitude, makes a 90° turn, accelerates, and ascends at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Tessalit, Mali, October 4, 1951](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/tessalit1951.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1695 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3696 (2F4C68A3) Date: 10/7/1951 Description: CPS-5 Established Radar Contact With UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [511007](http://www.nicap.org/511007honshu%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Honshu, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_853 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3697 (477205B4) Date: 10/7/1951 Description: Radar tracking of unidentified target at 420 mph (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [511007](http://www.nicap.org/511007honshu%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Honshu (a few miles off the coast), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_857 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3698 (F94A1AFD) Date: 10/9/1951 Time: 1:42 PM Description: Witness: CAA Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at Hulman Municipal Airport. One round silver object flew directly overhead, reaching the horizon in 15 seconds. Note: a very similar incident happened 3 minutes later near Paris, Illinois (15 miles NW) and was also listed as "unidentified" for several years, but was eventually reclassified. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Terre Haute, Indiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_75 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3699 (4B9922FD) Date: 10/9/1951 Description: Object appearing as a silvery "flattened tennis ball" (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 985) Reference: NICAP: [511009](http://www.nicap.org/511009terre%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Terre Haute, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_858 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3700 (89A87963) Date: 10/9/1951 Description: Hulman Fld (IN); Paris (IL); Newport atomic plant Unknown (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [511009](http://www.nicap.org/511009parisIL%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paris, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_859 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3701 (9146CD74) Date: 10/9/1951 Description: CAA employee saw h.s. "flattened tennis ball" (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [511009](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/terredir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Terre Haute, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_860 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3702 (0E772966) Date: 10/9/1951 Description: CAA and pilot, "flattened sphere". (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [511009](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/terredir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Terre Haute, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_861 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3703 (6E62C103) Date: 10/9/1951 Description: At 1:42 p.m. CAA Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at Hulman Municipal Airport in Terre Haute, Indiana sighted a round silver object that flew directly overhead. The UFO reached the horizon in 15 seconds. A very similar incident happened three minutes later near Paris, Illinois (15 miles NW) and was also listed as "unidentified" for several years, but was eventually reclassified. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6683 Source: Johnson ### Event 3704 (2CC18771) Date: 10/9/1951 Description: 1:42 p.m. A fast-moving, silvery UFO shaped like a “flattened tennis ball” is sighted by a Civil Aviation Administration Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at Hulman Municipal Airport \[now Terre Haute Regional Airport\], five miles east of Terre Haute, Indiana. At 1:45 p.m., private pilot Charles Warren, flying at 5,000 feet east of Paris, Illinois, sees a silvery “flattened orange” object that appears stationary to his left rear. It picks up speed and heads to the northeast. Project Blue Book plots the sighting and concludes that both cases involve the same object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[October 9, 1951, Hulman CAA / Pilot Case](http://www.nicap.org/511009terre%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Pilot Radios Terre](http://www.nicap.org/511009parisIL%5Fdir.htm) [Haute: Observes ‘Flattened Orange’](http://www.nicap.org/511009parisIL%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 114; Swords 129 Source ID: Eberhart_1696 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3705 (57F2A73F) Date: 10/10/1951 Description: A cigar-shaped object crossed the sky ten miles east of St. Croix, Wisconsin. It made a slight dive, levelled off, then accelerated out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Grudge Report #3; January 31, 1952; Project Blue Book, October 1951; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 56 Source ID: Johnson_6697 Source: Johnson ### Event 3706 (8A6A1D1A) Date: 10/10/1951 Description: 10:10 a.m. Engineer and pilot [Joseph J. Kaliszewski](https://www.heritagesfsd.com/obituary/6140844), flying with copilot Jack Donaghue on a Skyhook balloon tracking mission for General Mills 10 miles east of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, notices a strange object crossing the sky from west to east, much higher and behind the balloon, which is at 20,000 feet. The UFO has a peculiar glow. It comes into sight at a slight dive, then levels off and slows down, makes a sharp left turn, climbs at an angle of 50–60° into the southeast with terrific acceleration, and disappears. It is seen for about 2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Kaliszewski Sightings](http://www.nicap.org/511011minneapolis%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 56](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=68&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 114 Source ID: Eberhart_1697 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3707 (8E74D287) Date: 10/10/1951 Description: Maneuvering Object Spotted By Private Pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [511010](http://www.nicap.org/511010stcroixfalls%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Croix Falls (10 miles E of), WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_862 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3708 (9BF03D43) Date: 10/11/1951 Description: In Minneapolis, Minnesota at 6:30 a.m. General Mills balloon researchers, including aeronautical engineer J. J. Kaliszewski and aerologist C. B. Moore, pilot Dick Reilly in the air, and Doug Smith on the ground sighted a UFO. The flight crew saw the first object, a brightly glowing UFO with a dark underside and a halo around it. The object arrived high and fast, then slowed and made slow climbing circles for about two minutes, and finally sped away to the east. Soon they saw a second UFO, confirmed by ground observers using a theodolite, which sped across the sky. The total time for the sighting of the first object was five minutes, and the second sighting lasted a few seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Grudge Report #1, November 11, 1951; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 56; UNICAT, case # 362; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 12; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6745 Source: Johnson ### Event 3709 (6FD3E7FF) Date: 10/11/1951 Time: 6:30 AM Description: Witnesses: General Mills balloon researchers, including aeronautical engineer J.J. Kaliszewski, aerologist C.B. Moore, pilot Dick Reilly in the air, and Doug Smith on the ground. The flight crew saw the first object, a brightly glowing one with a dark underside and a halo around it. The object arrived high and fast, then slowed and made slow climbing circles for about two minutes, and finally sped away to the east. Soon they saw another one, confirmed by ground observers using a theodolite, which sped across the sky. Total time first object was seen was 5 minutes, second was a few seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Source ID: BerlinerBBU_76 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3710 (78F0CD62) Date: 10/11/1951 Description: 6:30 a.m. [Joseph J. Kaliszewski](https://www.heritagesfsd.com/obituary/6140844) and Dick Reilly are flying at 10,000 feet north of Minneapolis, Minnesota, observing a balloon when they see a brightly glowing object to the southeast of the University of Minnesota airport moving at high speed from west to east. It has a halo around it with a dark under surface. It crosses rapidly, slows down, and starts to climb slowly in lazy circles. Observers Doug Smith and Dick Dorion at the General Mills tracking station at the University of Minnesota watch the object through a theodolite. They watch another object 2 hours later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Kaliszewski Sightings](http://www.nicap.org/511011minneapolis%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 56](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=68&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 114; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 44–45 Source ID: Eberhart_1698 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3711 (E5AF59A2) Date: 10/11/1951 Description: Kalizewski sighting (P). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 989) Reference: NICAP: [511011](http://www.nicap.org/511011minneapolis%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minneapolis, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_863 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3712 (006A6963) Date: 10/16/1951 Description: 11:01 a.m. Air Force pilots flying three F-94 fighters out of McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lewis- McChord\] and naval ground personnel see a round, gray object flying soundlessly at high speed and high altitude west of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Oak Harbor, Washington. Photos taken from the F-94s show the object. After 50 minutes, the aircraft abandon the chase. The Air Force attributes the sighting to Venus. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[3 F-94’s Encounter Round Grey Object / Photos Taken](http://www.nicap.org/511016whidbeyisle%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 391–392; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 115 Source ID: Eberhart_1699 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3713 (DFB2CB1B) Date: 10/16/1951 Description: 3 F-94's Encounter Round Grey Object / Photos Taken (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [511016](http://www.nicap.org/511016whidbeyisle%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Whidbey Island NAS, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_864 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3714 (52DB656B) Date: 10/18/1951 Description: Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-3 (Joe 3), 41.2kt, first air dropped, released at 10km detonated at 400m Type: atomic Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site Atomic type: aboveground Atomic KT: 41.2 Source ID: Maj2_445 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3715 (DE6FDA8D) Date: 10/18/1951 Description: Craft With Sweptback Wings Tracked By Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [511018](http://www.nicap.org/511018yellowsea%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Over Yellow Sea, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_865 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3716 (659FF947) Date: 10/20/1951 Description: [Frank B. Jewett Jr.](https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/03/obituaries/frank-b-jewett-jr.html)[,](https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/03/obituaries/frank-b-jewett-jr.html) director of the Aeronautical Research Laboratory at General Mills Corporation, writes to Assistant Secretary of the Air Force [Eugene M. Zuckert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%5FM.%5FZuckert) about UFOs seen by his personnel. \( Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1951, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1951-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, p. 51 Source ID: Eberhart_1700 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3717 (895918D6) Date: 10/21/1951 Description: (McDonald files; Jan Aldrich; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [511021](http://www.nicap.org/511021ntrurodir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Truro, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_867 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3718 (AD820729) Date: 10/21/1951 Description: Classic domed disc and a Navion aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [511021](http://www.nicap.org/511021battlecreek%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Battle Creek (20 miles E of ), MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_866 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3719 (F993181C) Date: 10/21/1951 Description: Air Intelligence Report: Mr. (name withheld), a civilian pilot of 14 years experience sighted a disk-like, highly polished UFO which closed head on with his Navy aircraft at an extremely high rate of speed near Battle Creek, MI. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Battle Creek, MI Source ID: Maj2_446 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3720 (0E4546D7) Date: 10/22/1951 Description: Radar Tracks Near Truro (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [511022](http://www.nicap.org/511022ntrurodir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Truro, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_868 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3721 (69A32C45) Date: 10/22/1951 Description: The Directorate of Intelligence provides answers to the problem that Col. [Harold Watson](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105276/brigadier-general-harold-e-watson/) identified with the CIRVIS reporting system. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “Flying Saucers: Behind the Cold War Veil of Military Intelligence \(Part II\),” European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies 3, no. 1 \(March 2002\): 32 Source ID: Eberhart_1702 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3722 (A44B79BA) Date: 10/22/1951 Description: Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) officially takes over a revitalized Project Grudge, relieving Lt. [Jerry W.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Cummings%5FJ.htm) [Cummings](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Cummings%5FJ.htm) and 2d Lt. Henry Metscher. He learns from some scientists and engineers who visit ATIC frequently that “UFOs were being freely and seriously discussed in scientific circles.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 114](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/114/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 14; Clark III 933 Source ID: Eberhart_1701 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3723 (8FC609D5) Date: 10/26/1951 Description: Australia. At around four o'clock in the morning the driver of a transcontinental train on the east-west line saw a flying object that illuminated the countryside like the full moon. It flew very fast, came close to the train, and appeared ready to land in the desert, then it took off and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magoinia: A Century of Landings, case # 84, citing Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 249 Source ID: Johnson_7137 Source: Johnson ### Event 3724 (08282041) Date: 10/26/1951 Time: 0400 Description: The driver of a transcontinental train on the east-west line saw an object that illuminated the countryside like the full moon. It flew very fast, came close to the train, appeared ready to land in the desert, then took off and disappeared. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins A 249 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Australia Source ID: Magnonia_84 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3725 (08C36062) Date: 10/27/1951 Description: New AF UFO project (which later became Project Blue Book) officially established. Type: project established Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 154](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_864 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3726 (20A89445) Date: 10/29/1951 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 140.9km (Army training test. Payload released but damaged on impact.) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 140.9km Source ID: Maj2_447 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3727 (E53F1739) Date: 10/30/1951 Description: Squadrons of UFOs over atomic test site (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [511030](http://www.nicap.org/armada51dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yucca Flats, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_879 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3728 (A523AE57) Date: 10/30/1951 Description: 6:40 a.m. A group of servicemen are preparing to observe the Buster Charlie atomic test at Area 7 of the Nevada Test Site. Just before the blast, they see at an altitude of a few thousand feet a formation of 18 silvery, rotating, disc-shaped objects, each with a dome, arranged in six groups of three stretched out in a horizontal row. They fly low over the test site, hover for 30–60 seconds, and depart at an angle, disappearing in seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 68–71 Source ID: Eberhart_1703 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3729 (B0F7CF19) Date: 11/1951 Description: Maj. Gen. [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) is promoted to staff director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is replaced as director of Air Force Intelligence by Maj. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 936 Source ID: Eberhart_1704 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3730 (444ABFB0) Date: 11/1/1951 Description: The Air Force issues a Ground Observer’s Guide for use by members of the Ground Observer Corps, a WWII Civil Defense program reinstated during the Korean War to protect against enemy attack. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Department of the Air Force, [Ground Observer’s Guide,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFM%5F50-12.pdf) AF Manual 50-12, November 1, 1951 Source ID: Eberhart_1705 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3731 (DC06241D) Date: 11/2/1951 Description: Green fireball. (LIFE Incident 10; \[FUFOR Index?\]) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: AZ, NM, TX, OK, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_869 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3732 (CB4DACAC) Date: 11/2/1951 Description: 30 ft disk-shaped flying object in the SW, 10 ft thick, blue green (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mojave (30 (35?) miles N of), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_870 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3733 (873AB53D) Date: 11/2/1951 Description: Later that same night, two forest observers were driving in a canyon 50 kilometers north of the Mojave Desert in California when they saw around 11 p.m. a disc-shaped flying object in the southwest sky. They estimated the diameter to be about 30 feet. It was blue-green in color, with well-defined edges, but surrounded by a glow of same color. Stopping their jeep, they signaled to the object, which approached to within a few meters, then flew away, seeming to play with them. Eventually it vanished "like a magician's trick." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space…The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 204; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 196 Source ID: Johnson_7411 Source: Johnson ### Event 3734 (130DB6ED) Date: 11/2/1951 Time: 2300 Description: Two forest observers were in a canyon 50 km north of the Mojave when they saw a disk-shaped flying object in the southwest; 10 m estimated diameter, 3 m thick, blue-green, well-defined, surrounded with a glow of same color. Stopping their jeep, they signaled to the object, which approached within a few meters, flew away, seemed to play with them. Eventually it vanished "like a magician's trick." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mojave, California Source ID: Magnonia_85 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3735 (D2557AA6) Date: 11/2/1951 Description: At 7:15 a.m. an American Airlines DC-4 passenger plane was followed by a bright green glowing cigar shaped object east of Abilene, Texas. The object paced the airliner for about one minute. It then burst into pieces that looked like red fireballs, which scattered in all directions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space…The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 204 Source ID: Johnson_7410 Source: Johnson ### Event 3736 (267A7E85) Date: 11/2/1951 Description: 7:15 a.m. The crew of an American Airlines DC-4 is flying east of Abilene, Texas, at 4,500 feet. They see a bright-green, projectile-shaped object, about the same size as their airliner, streak past at about same altitude and same easterly heading. The object leaves a trail then explodes, shooting red balls of fire in all directions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 92–93; Nukes 74–75; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 115 Source ID: Eberhart_1706 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3737 (0C00BF5A) Date: 11/3/1951 Description: 9:00 p.m. A green fireball is sighted in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Capitol Airways pilot H. R. DeHoney is flying at 11,000 feet about 20 miles south of Flagstaff, Arizona, watches the object speed by as a bright blue-green ball that leaves a streak of brilliant red fire. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 75–76; “[Mystery Meteor Startles](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93268614/) [NM, Arizona,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93268614/)” Santa Fe New Mexican, November 4, 1951, p. 13 Source ID: Eberhart_1707 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3738 (32F7A3A7) Date: 11/6/1951 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) flies to Reese AFB \[now Reese Technology Center\] in Lubbock, Texas, to begin his investigation of the Lubbock lights, accompanied by OSI agent Howard Bossert. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 691 Source ID: Eberhart_1708 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3739 (CB7E1EE9) Date: 11/7/1951 Description: Evening. A steamship captain and crew watch an elongated orange object with six glowing “portholes” speed toward Ontario over Lake Superior. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 146](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=158&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1709 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3740 (E6456392) Date: 11/7/1951 Description: Steamship Captain and crew watched elongated orange object with six glowing "portholes" speed towards Ontario. \[XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Superior, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_871 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3741 (F42382F0) Date: 11/8/1951 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and an officer from Reese AFB visit Brownfield, Texas, to investigate UFO sightings there. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 691 Source ID: Eberhart_1710 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3742 (C800B97E) Date: 11/9/1951 Description: Since October 30, seven green fireballs of exceptional size have been seen over a seven-state area in the American Southwest. [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) director of the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics, says that frequency is exceptional: “In fact, there has never been a rate of meteorite fall in history that has been one fifth as high as the present fall. If that rate should continue, I would suspect the phenomenon is not natural.” The fireballs travel in straight lines and are completely silent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Southwest’s 7 Fireballs in 11 Days Called ‘Without Parallel in](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/11/10/81778313.pdf) [History,’](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/11/10/81778313.pdf)” New York Times, November 10, 1951, pp. 1, 14; Nukes 76–79 Source ID: Eberhart_1711 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3743 (1BF9B6B5) Date: 11/10/1951 Description: The eighth fireball in 13 days was seen here and as far away as Wyoming. (United Press) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_872 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3744 (23B563BA) Date: 11/11/1951 Description: 8:45 p.m. Thomas Bartis and his older brother [Francis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138128035/francis-j-bartis) are driving through New Haven, Connecticut, when they see a huge yellow fireball with a greenish-blue tail streak through the sky. Probable bolide. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Second](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94115843/) [Fireball](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94115843/) [Is Sighted,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94115926/)” Meriden \(Conn.\) Record-Journal, November 12, 1951, pp. 1, 10 Source ID: Eberhart_1712 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3745 (22844C01) Date: 11/18/1951 Description: Object with several lights, follow the DC-4 for about 20 mins (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [511118](http://www.nicap.org/511118washingtondc%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washinton, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_873 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3746 (B215FBC1) Date: 11/18/1951 Description: near Washington, D.C. The crew of a Capital Airlines DC-4, Flight 610, and Andrews AFB Senior air traffic controller Tom Selby witnessed an unidentified object with several lights at 3:20 a.m. It followed the DC-4 for about 20 minutes and then turned back. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7724 Source: Johnson ### Event 3747 (72BA1B4A) Date: 11/18/1951 Time: 3:20 AM Description: Witnesses: Crew of Capital Airlines DC-4 Fliqht 610, Andrews AFB Senior air traffic controller Tom Selby. One object with several lights, followed the DC-4 for about 20 minutes and then turned back. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: BerlinerBBU_77 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3748 (A11E74E0) Date: 11/20/1951 Description: 6:42 p.m. A vivid green fireball is reported from Dodge City, Kansas, and Lubbock and Big Springs, Texas. Two Air Force pilots landing at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a Trans World Airlines pilot also see the fireball. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 78 Source ID: Eberhart_1713 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3749 (7C86D2C9) Date: 11/24/1951 Description: 3:53 p.m. Air Force Capt. William Fairbrother is flying a P-51 over Mankato, Minnesota, at 25,000 feet when he sees a white object shaped like a flying wing. It hovers at first, then it passes 100 feet above and to the left of his aircraft. He immediately turns to follow but loses sight of it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 115 Source ID: Eberhart_1714 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3750 (0FFBFB17) Date: 11/24/1951 Time: 33:53 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF or ANG pilots W.H. Fairbrother and D.E. Stewart in P-51 Mustangs. One milky white object shaped like Northrop flying wing (broad, slightly swept-back wing with no fuselage or tail). Estimated 8' span. Flew straight and level for 5 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Mankato, Minnesota Source ID: BerlinerBBU_78 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3751 (31B98534) Date: 11/24/1951 Description: A large round object flying at 500-1,000 ft height at about 1,000 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coopersville, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_877 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3752 (4C3A1E75) Date: 11/24/1951 Description: Wingshaped Object Hovers Then Passes P-51 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [511124](http://www.nicap.org/511124mankato%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mankato, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_876 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3753 (2ADFC338) Date: 11/24/1951 Description: Capital Airlines Pilot Confirms Michigan Sightings (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [511124](http://www.nicap.org/511124coopersville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coopersville, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_875 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3754 (1EEE92D7) Date: 11/24/1951 Description: Radar Rumor /Radar Ceases Operation & Antenna Moves (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 4) Reference: NICAP: [511124](http://www.nicap.org/511124selfridge%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Selfridge AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_874 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3755 (E86EFE2A) Date: 11/24/1951 Description: At 3:53 p.m. a milky white object looking like a small Northrop flying wing (V-shaped with no fuselage or tail) hovered in the skies over Mankato, Minnesota. It flew over two Air National Guard F-51 fighter aircraft being flown by pilots W. H. Fairbrother and D. E. Stewart . A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1013; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14; Jay Rath, The M Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_7865 Source: Johnson ### Event 3756 (706D083E) Date: 11/24/1951 Description: 6:24 p.m. A Capital Airlines Flight 94 pilot and several control tower and other ground observers in four different locations in Michigan \(Grand Rapids, Coopersville, Battle Creek, and Selfridge AFB near Mount Clemens\) see a large round object flying west at 500–1,000 feet at about 1,000 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 116; Swords 130 Source ID: Eberhart_1715 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3757 (EF064E00) Date: 11/26/1951 Description: An orange ball of fire with blue tail flying on a level trajectory (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milwaukee (25 miles E of), WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_878 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3758 (E5701085) Date: 11/27/1951 Description: Geophysicist Louis Elterman releases the final report on Project Twinkle. Basically, it admits that the low frequency of occurrence of the fireballs does not justify the $50,000 a year required for a useful monitoring facility. It speculates that “the earth may be passing through a region in space of high meteoric population. Also, the sun-spot maxima in 1948 perhaps in some way may be a contributing factor.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Louis Elterman, [Project](http://www.nicap.org/twinkle/ProjectTwinkleFinalReport.pdf) [Twinkle Final Report](http://www.nicap.org/twinkle/ProjectTwinkleFinalReport.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/twinkle/ProjectTwinkleFinalReport.pdf) Atmospheric Physics Laboratory, November 27, 1951; Clark III 544–545 Source ID: Eberhart_1716 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3759 (A1667BAD) Date: 11/30/1951 Description: Project Grudge issues its first Status Report, classified “confidential.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, [Projects Grudge](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 1–19 Source ID: Eberhart_1717 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3760 (1395D796) Date: 12/1951 Description: Sam Coley and his two children saw an object with a human-looking occupant. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Red Springs, North Carolina Source ID: Magnonia_87 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3761 (CF9B9805) Date: 12/1951 Time: 0300 Description: A man from Lincoln was driving to Indiana when he saw a blue light in the northwest sky. It vanished to the southeast. The witness missed a turn, had to go back toward Auburn, and had reached a point northwest of Peru when he saw an orange glow in the sky. Coming near, he observed the glow came from a cauldron-shaped object on the ground, about 12 m from the road. He stopped to examine the object, which measured about 10 m diameter and seemed to be made of cast iron. Thirty cm from the top was a row of windows, 25 cm in diameter, from which the orange light was coming. On the other side was a blue flamelike glow. There was no noise, no sign of life or activity, and no antenna or protrusion. The witness drove away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Peru, Nebraska Source ID: Magnonia_86 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3762 (0FCF6901) Date: 12/1951 Description: Blue light in the NW, vanish to the SE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Peru (NW of), NB Source ID: NICAP_DB_880 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3763 (968AFCC7) Date: 12/1951 Description: [Ed J. Sullivan](https://obscurantist.com/oma/csi-la/)[,](https://obscurantist.com/oma/csi-la/) a technical writer for North American Aviation, holds a meeting of engineers, scientists, and journalists in Los Angeles, California, who have been following the UFO phenomenon. They form Civilian Saucer Investigation to collect reports and forward them on to ATIC. Its most prominent member is [Walther](https://anniejacobsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/op-16.jpg) [Riedel](https://anniejacobsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/op-16.jpg)[,](https://anniejacobsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/op-16.jpg) German rocket scientist retrieved by Project Paperclip. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 139–140; Clark III 241–242 Source ID: Eberhart_1718 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3764 (0A5CB13A) Date: 12/5/1951 Description: Early morning. Swedish [Prince Carl Bernadotte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FCarl%5FBernadotte) and a friend, [Berl Gutenberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berl%5FGutenberg), are driving near Stockholm, Sweden, when they see a bright flash of light illuminate the sky. Bernadotte stops the car and opens the door to listen for sounds. They go immediately to the Stockholm Criminal Investigation Department, who reports the incident to the Security Police and the military UFO desk. The report is instantly classified, even though the object is probably a meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 366 Source ID: Eberhart_1719 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3765 (0F393066) Date: 12/7/1951 Description: At 8:15 a.m. an Atomic Energy Commission guard named Collins at the Oak Ridge Nuclear Research Facility in Tennessee sighted a "canvas colored" square object, estimated to be 20 feet wide, that moved up and down twice. The case remained unexplained by the Air Force. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1021; Project Grudge Report #3, January 1952, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_8252 Source: Johnson ### Event 3766 (3F735C8C) Date: 12/7/1951 Description: A pilot trainer and his student, flying in an aeronca 65CV airplane over Torrance, California sighted a shiny metallic football-shaped object in the sky at 10:21 a.m. The object seemed to be stationary at first, then it moved away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_8253 Source: Johnson ### Event 3767 (D6AB3319) Date: 12/7/1951 Time: 4:30 PM Description: Witness: amateur astronomer Carl Loar. One silvery sphere seen through telescope. Two specks sighted at sides, object seemed to explode and was replaced by a dark cloud and many specks. 30 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Sunbury, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_79 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3768 (0E74DED3) Date: 12/7/1951 Description: Silvery sphere through telescope; 2 specks sighted at sides (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1023) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sunbury, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_887 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3769 (A58052A5) Date: 12/7/1951 Description: 20' square obs by secty guard; F-47's scrambled (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1021, NC) Reference: NICAP: [511207](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/oakridge511207dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_881 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3770 (ABC21611) Date: 12/7/1951 Time: 8:15 AM Description: Witness: Atomic Energy Commission guard J.H. Collins. One 20' square object, white-grey but not shiny flew above ridge to clouds and back again twice, taking 30-40 seconds each time. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee Source ID: BerlinerBBU_80 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3771 (002ECA09) Date: 12/11/1951 Description: Project Twinkle closes down. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 545 Source ID: Eberhart_1720 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3772 (CED9C6D6) Date: 12/12/1951 Description: 3:50 p.m. USAF Capt. [Donald “Deke” Slayton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deke%5FSlayton), flying a P-51 fighter at 10,000 feet, sees a whitish or gray object off his left wing about one mile away and 1,000 feet below his flight level about five miles southeast of Hastings, Minnesota. It looks like a kite at first, then like a weather balloon, then two rapidly revolving discs that overlap with centers about 1 foot apart. He attempts an intercept, but the UFO increases speed and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[‘Deke’ Slayton / P-51 Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/511212hastings%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 117 Source ID: Eberhart_1721 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3773 (30816D59) Date: 12/12/1951 Description: "Deke" Slayton / P-51 Encounter (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [511212](http://www.nicap.org/511212hastings%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hastings (or near Prescott?), MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_882 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3774 (419A574C) Date: 12/18/1951 Description: Civilian pilot. \[Nov. 18, 1951, case??\] (NARA) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1011) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Andrews AFB, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_883 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3775 (0D2B00BE) Date: 12/19/1951 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) travels to the Pentagon with ATIC Chief Col. [Frank Dunn](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm)[.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm) They visit with Maj. Gen. [John A.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) [Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford), who has replaced [Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) as USAF director of intelligence and who seems “familiar with the general aspects of the problem.” Samford’s aide, Gen. [William M.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49186828/william-madison-garland) [Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/), tells them that ATIC has the sole authorization to carry out UFO investigations for the entire US military \(not exactly true\), and they discuss security problems posed by UFOs at sensitive installations. Ruppelt reveals that his preliminary analysis of UFO sighting patterns has uncovered a disturbing correlation of unexplained sightings around nuclear weapons facilities and highly classified nuclear stockpile sites and some SAC strategic air bases. Gen. Samford orders ATIC to conduct an exhaustive statistical study to verify Ruppelt’s findings, using the newly established ATIC Project WHITE STORK contract with the research think tank Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio \(which eventually spends $100,000 on the study, Subproject PPS-100, confirming Ruppelt’s pattern\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 115–116](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/114/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1722 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3776 (00AEDA27) Date: 12/22/1951 Description: F-84 Encounters Odd Object At 20,000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [511222](http://www.nicap.org/511222columbus%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus (5 miles E of), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_884 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3777 (E4AC8782) Date: 12/24/1951 Description: Military witness(es). \[Nov. 24, 1951, case??\] (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1013) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mankato, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_886 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3778 (78AFBA7B) Date: 12/24/1951 Description: Two men at Selfridge AFB, Michigan sighted a large oblong and brilliantly lighted object moving at a rapid rate of speed with no apparent audible sound. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [511224](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/selfridge511124dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Selfridge AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_885 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3779 (8D2FF95A) Date: 12/26/1951 End date: 12/27/1951 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and Col. [Sanford H. Kirkland Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48770905/sanford-h-kirkland) of ATIC meet with members of the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, and ask them to help out with the USAF evaluation of UFO reports: first, a study of witness perception and recall, then a statistical study of UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7.htm)” CUFON; Clark III 929 Source ID: Eberhart_1723 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3780 (55F32AD9) Date: 12/28/1951 Description: Project Grudge issues Status Report \#2 and a Special Report three days later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, [Projects](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 21–53 Source ID: Eberhart_1724 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1952 (Back to Top) ### Event 3781 (AF6EC31D) Date: 1952 Description: 6:30 a.m. A carpool of people on their way to work at United Airlines in San Mateo, California, observe five smaller objects merging with a much larger, diamond-shaped object. The big one is about 150–200 feet long, charcoal or gunmetal in color, and is hovering 50–75 feet above some salt flats. The UFOs are directly in front of them to the east, about 1,500–1,800 feet away. One of the witnesses, airplane mechanic [Leonard L. Musel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106575158/leonard-l-musel), said the smaller objects entered the large object through a “transparent tail or sleeve.” After they were aboard, the bigger UFO turned edgewise and zoomed off at a fantastic speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_1730 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3782 (03523024) Date: 1952 End date: 1953 Description: USAF Investigation Summary: After review of situation, new serious investigation started; evidence uncovered led many high-ranking officers to conclude UFOs were interplanetary. Type: investigation Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_898 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3783 (3DCE16E1) Date: 1952 Description: World War II air intelligence records are transferred from the Pentagon to Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama. This shift is probably why Blue Book’s Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) later cannot find anything about foo- fighters during his trips to USAF intelligence to locate reports not forwarded to ATIC. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_1727 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3784 (21D02AC2) Date: 1952 Description: The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is established in Livermore, California, as an offshoot of the UC Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley. It is intended to spur innovation and provide competition to the nuclear weapon design laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico. [Edward Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) and [Ernest Lawrence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%5FLawrence)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%5FLawrence) director of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, are regarded as its cofounders. Los Alamos and Livermore soon establish a rivalry, fighting for weapons contracts and feasibility-study awards. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lawrence Livermore National](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%5FLivermore%5FNational%5FLaboratory) [Laboratory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%5FLivermore%5FNational%5FLaboratory)” Source ID: Eberhart_1725 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3785 (6F4596CA) Date: 1952 Description: Summer 1952; Albuquerque, NM, Secret Fighter Base (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520000](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/f-86dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_889 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3786 (0355E487) Date: 1952 Description: Soviet “Zlatoust-36” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Warhead assembly) Type: atomic plant Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_449 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3787 (D2074BDF) Date: 1952? Description: SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION: CIA, (not dated): Walter B. Smith, (MJ-3 replacement), Director of CIA notifies the Psychological Strategy Board that “Flying Saucers” have implications for psychological warfare as well as for intelligence and operations. Suggests discussion on the possible offensive or defensive utilization of these phenomena for psychological warfare purposes. Type: secret information Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p511) Location: Langley, Virginia See also: 10/2/1952 Source ID: Maj2_448 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3788 (BD66B33E) Date: 1952 Description: [José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5FManuel%5FRodr%C3%ADguez%5FDelgado)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5FManuel%5FRodr%C3%ADguez%5FDelgado) a Spanish physiologist at Yale University, coauthors what he claims is the first peer-reviewed paper describing deep-brain stimulation of humans. Over the next two decades, he implants electrodes in some 25 subjects. Most are schizophrenics and epileptics at the now-defunct State Hospital for Mental Diseases in Howard, Rhode Island, where Delgado’s occasional collaborator [Hannibal Hamlin](https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/29/obituaries/dr-hannibal-hamlin-former-neurosurgeon.html) is a staff psychiatrist. Delgado is reticent discussing his experiments on humans. He is more enthusiastic recalling research on monkeys, chimpanzees, and gibbons, which he kept both at Yale and in open-air compounds in the Bahamas and New Mexico. He explores the effects of stimulation not only on individuals but also on groups. In one demonstration, he implants a stimoceiver \(a tiny electrode able to receive and transmit signals over FM radio waves\) in a macaque who terrorizes his cage-mates. Delgado installs a lever in the cage that, when pressed, activates the stimoceiver in the bully and pacify him. A female in the cage soon figures out the lever’s significance and yanks it often and with gusto. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Horgan, “[Tribute to Jose Delgado, Legendary and Slightly](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-jose-delgado-legendary-and-slightly-scary-pioneer-of-mind-control/) [Scary Pioneer of Mind Control,](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-jose-delgado-legendary-and-slightly-scary-pioneer-of-mind-control/)” Cross-Check, Scientific American blog, September 25, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_1726 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3789 (7E576ACA) Date: 1952 Description: 1952, Fall; N.Y. to Puerto Rico, Zamott/Harris/Hutchins (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: N.Y. to Puerto Rico, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_892 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3790 (63849BBB) Date: 1952 Description: Astronomer observed elliptical UFO with 2 bright body lights. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: London, Ont, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_891 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3791 (661E5727) Date: 1952 Description: Summer of 1952; MacDill AFB, Florida, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: MacDill AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_890 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3792 (928FA721) Date: 1952 Description: Summer, 1952; Secret fighter base, Albuquerque, NM, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520000](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/f-86dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_888 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3793 (629152BC) Date: 1952 Description: Night. USAF Pvt. Sinclair Taylor is on guard duty at Camp Okubo in Uji, on the southern outskirts of Kyoto, Japan, when he hears flapping sounds and sees what seems to be an enormous bird. As it gets closer to him, Taylor sees that it is a winged man well over 7 feet tall with a wingspread of 7 feet. Taylor fires at it repeatedly with his rifle and thinks he hit it, but he can’t find the body. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 778 Source ID: Eberhart_1731 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3794 (F61B5546) Date: 1952? Description: An anonymous occupation soldier in Austria meets a diving suit–clad being who paralyzes him, pulls him inside a UFO, and flies him to an otherworldly place he takes to be Mars. He sees other humans who do not acknowledge him. Then he is returned to his base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Prince George \(B.C.\) Citizen, December 11, 1957; Clark 2 Source ID: Eberhart_1729 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3795 (3AA5CE09) Date: 1952 Description: The Argentine Navy establishes a temporary inquiry commission dedicated to the UFO phenomenon at its Puerto Belgrano Naval Base in Punta Alta, Argentina. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Milton Hourcade, “[Argentina: UFO Declassification,](https://www.uapsg.com/2020/07/argentina-ufo-declassification.html)” U.A.P.S.G.–G.E.F.A.I., July 29, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_1728 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3796 (2EC1C1D5) Date: Early 1952 Time: 2242 Description: A fiery, spherical object made a right-angle turn during an observation by a C-54 crew flying from Westover to Goose Bay. It was also seen from the ground by the control tower and by two men who plunged to the earth when the object made a low pass at them. It went away at 2247. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Goose Bay, Labrador Source ID: Magnonia_89 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3797 (F4500A6B) Date: 1/1952 Time: 2230 Description: A 38-year-old rancher saw a "shooting star" that suddenly stopped in mid-air between him and a mountain. It was seen spinning in a clockwise direction. It had one red window periodially facing the observer. It went down toward the Little Powder River and came up again. The witness turned his car to send light signals, to which the object seemed to respond by stopping its red window facing the witness's location. Spinning resumed, the object rose and came down. A similar craft arrived and both went into the deep valley, out of sight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Weston, Wyoming Source ID: Magnonia_88 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 3798 (BA55C083) Date: 1/1952 Description: Some 74% of the CIA’s money goes toward covert operations. It has already infiltrated many US labor, business, church, university, student, and cultural groups, usually channeling the money through foundations. This year it begins HTLINGUAL, a secret project to intercept mail destined for the USSR and China. It also targets domestic peace and civil rights activists. It lasts until 1973, photographing 2 million envelopes and opening 215,000 letters. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank J. Donner, [The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America’s Political](https://archive.org/details/nkj00fran) [Intelligence System](https://archive.org/details/nkj00fran)[,](https://archive.org/details/nkj00fran) Knopf, 1980; Jim Keith, Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mond Control, Adventures Unlimited, 1997; David Wise, [The American Police State: The Government Against the People](https://archive.org/details/americanpolicest000234), Random House, 1976 Source ID: Eberhart_1733 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3799 (8DDC328B) Date: 1/1952 Description: [Jim and Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) found the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Soon, a man claiming to have an intelligence background becomes an active supporter and tries to lead the Lorenzens into “metaphysical areas of research.” Coral Lorenzen rebuffs these attempts. She discovers what seem to be the impressions of an intelligence report about her on one of his letters. In the summer, two suspicious men posing as building contractors seem to be lurking around her home as well as the homes of the APRO treasurer and secretary the same day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, pp. 1–2, 248– 251; Clark III 49 Source ID: Eberhart_1732 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3800 (AF1ACFA5) Date: 1/1952 Description: A "shooting star" stop in mid-air between him and a mountain, spinning (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Weston, WY Source ID: NICAP_DB_893 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3801 (73B57EDD) Date: 1/1/1952 Description: 10:54 p.m. Warrant Officer W. J. Yeo \(a master telecomm specialist\) and Sgt. [D. V. Crandell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133858511/d%5F-v%5F-crandell) watch a silent, reddish-orange object circle and maneuver for nearly 9 minutes at RCAF Station North Bay, Ontario. It appears to be very large and travels at supersonic speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Saucers’ Seen Here:](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93280805/) [2 Sighted at RCAF Station,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93280911/)” North Bay \(Ont.\) Nugget, April 15, 1952, pp. 1–2; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, p. 92 Source ID: Eberhart_1734 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3802 (5A36E260) Date: 1/1/1952 Description: On this night at the North Bay RCAF Base in Nipissing, Ontario, Canada Warrant Officer W. J. Yeo and Airman Crandell observed a strange craft in the sky at a NORAD installation. The UFO swung like a pendulum in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated April 16, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_1 Source: Johnson ### Event 3803 (1593BD0F) Date: 1/3/1952 Description: Brig. Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/), Assistant for the Production of Intelligence, writes a secret memorandum for General [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) that lays down the investigative shortcomings of Project Grudge and suggests policies and agendas for the immediate future. Garland mentions that the aircraft inventions and models by the [Horten brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) had fallen into the hands of the Soviets at the end of World War II. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brig. Gen. William M. Garland, [“\(Secret\) Contemplated Action to Determine the Nature and Origin of the Phenomena Connected with](http://www.nicap.org/waves/garland.htm) [the Reports of Unusual Flying Objects,](http://www.nicap.org/waves/garland.htm)” January 3, 1952; Swords 141–143; Kremlin 34 Source ID: Eberhart_1735 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3804 (F17B9432) Date: 1/6/1952 Description: Contactee [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel), living at Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, receives the first of many psychic messages from extraterrestrial starship commanders. This one is from “Lutbunn, senior in command of first wave, planet patrol, realms of Schare. We have your contact aboard 80,000 feet above this place.” Other messages soon come from Elcar, Clota, Totalmon, Latamarx, Noma, Leektow, Luu, Oblow, Kerrull, Locktopar, Molca, Clatu, Hulda, Lata, Singba, and others. One of his contacts, Ashtar, will become a metaphysical superstar, and in the years ahead many contactees will channel communications from him. These aliens seek to raise humanity’s “vibrationary attunement” so that earthlings will not threaten the wise and peace- loving space people. Van Tassel reprints many of these messages in a misleadingly titled book, I Rode a Flying Saucer! Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George W. Van Tassel, [I Rode a Flying Saucer! The Mysteries of the Flying Saucers Revealed](https://archive.org/details/documents.pub%5Fi-rode-a-flying-saucer-george-van-tassel/page/n1/mode/2up), New Age, 1952; Clark III 1218–1219 Source ID: Eberhart_1736 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3805 (B29E5823) Date: 1/7/1952 Description: A dot appeared in the western sky over the Apple Valley Airport in San Bernardino County, California that grew to a golden shining disc, 100 feet in diameter. The UFO cavorted for several minutes, made 90 degree turns, and flew away at twice the speed of a jet. It also was completely silent. The witness was a 57-year-old man named Mattern. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los Angeles, letter from witness dated April 13, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_179 Source: Johnson ### Event 3806 (7A29575B) Date: 1/8/1952 Description: Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, agrees to help out the Air Force with analyzing UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 929 Source ID: Eberhart_1737 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3807 (87C7403C) Date: 1/9/1952 Description: January 9, 1952; Kerrville, Texas. Odd 'roaring" interference on radio as UFO circled town. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kerrville, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_894 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3808 (88DC4E8F) Date: 1/16/1952 Description: A motionless dull white, round object 5/3 larger than the balloon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1037, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Artesia, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_895 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3809 (23E0D6DD) Date: 1/20/1952 Description: 7:20 p.m. Two master sergeants, both intelligence specialists, are walking down a street at Fairchild AFB near Spokane, Washington, when they notice a large, bluish-white, spherical object approaching from the east. It passes north of their position, traveling horizontally and silently, and disappears in the west. They notice it has a long blue tail. It travels underneath low cloud cover at 4,700 feet at 1,400 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Large Sphere with Blue](http://www.nicap.org/520120spokane%5Fdir.htm) [Tail at 500ʹ,](http://www.nicap.org/520120spokane%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [p. 12](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/12/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 118 Source ID: Eberhart_1738 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3810 (E6B99643) Date: 1/20/1952 Description: Bluish-white spherical object with a long blue tail that flew beneath a solid overcast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520120](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/fairchild520120dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fairchild AFB, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_896 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3811 (ED198429) Date: 1/21/1952 Description: TBM And Possible Balloon? (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520121](http://nicap.org/520121mitchel%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mitchell AFB, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_897 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3812 (9F508CE5) Date: 1/21/1952 Description: Two pilots of a Navy TBM plane from Mitchel AFB on Long Island, New York chased a white, circular, domed disc at 9:50 a.m., which finally accelerated and outdistanced them, climbing away. The TBM torpedo plane was flying at 6000 feet altitude when the crew first spotted the object. The disc was very light on top, but dark on the underside. It was estimated to be from 20 to 30 feet in diameter, at a minimum distance of only 2000 feet. When it was first seen it was at 200 feet, and then climbed to the plane's altitude. It started a rapid climb from there and soon vanished from sight. The official Air Force explanation at the time was that it was a balloon, which nearly everyone who has reviewed the case doubts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 401; Richard H. Hall, Radar-Visual UFO cases in 1952: The UFO sightings that shook the government, p. 9; Terrence Wright, Intelligent Man's Guide to Flying Saucers, p. 139; UNICAT case 807, citing Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 161 Source ID: Johnson_399 Source: Johnson ### Event 3813 (3E008739) Date: 1/21/1952 Description: 9:50 a.m. A Navy pilot lieutenant commander in a TBM Avenger chases a white, dome-shaped object over Mitchel AFB \[now closed\] on Long Island, New York. It accelerates rapidly, makes a 180° turn, and heads out to sea. He estimates it is traveling at least at 300 mph. It looks like a parachute canopy and has a dark undersurface. Although there is a balloon in the area, but its flight path is completely different. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[TBM Chases Climbing](http://www.nicap.org/520121mitchel%5Fdir.htm) [and Accelerating Object](http://www.nicap.org/520121mitchel%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 121–123](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/120/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 118 Source ID: Eberhart_1739 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3814 (72375129) Date: 1/22/1952 Description: Radar operator at ADC tracks object Alaska, G,A (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520122](http://www.nicap.org/520122nenana%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nenana (E of), AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_898 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3815 (EFFED237) Date: 1/22/1952 Description: Bomber chased a a white circular domed-disc which shot away (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mitchell AFB (SE of), NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_899 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3816 (861A1A16) Date: 1/22/1952 Description: 12:20 a.m. At a northern Alaska outpost, Murphy Dome Air Force Station, radar captures a UFO traveling 1,500 mph at 23,000 feet. When an F-94 is sent to intercept, the target stops, slows down, reverses course, and heads directly for the radar station. It comes within 30 miles, then disappears from the screen. The F-94 heads back to refuel, and a second fighter is scrambled. This pilot gets a strong radar return. At first, the object is almost stationary, but then it dives suddenly, at which point ground radar picks it up again. A third F-94 is sent up, also tracks the object on radar, and closes to within 900 feet. At this point, the pilot pulls away to avoid a collision, as the UFO is nearly immobile. Since none of the pilots obtained a visual sighting, the Air Force concludes that the radar returns are weather-related, although the pilots strongly dispute this. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Alaskan Radar Case](http://www.nicap.org/520122nenana%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 123–127](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/122/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 119–120 Source ID: Eberhart_1740 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3817 (EA5C0D26) Date: 1/22/1952 Description: At 12:20 a.m. a radar station at Murphy's Dome, Alaska tracked a UFO moving at 1,500 mph at 23,000 feet. Three F-94s were vectored in. There were solid radar returns on the ground radar as well as two airborne radars. At one point the short range radar stopped working, preventing anything being tracked close to the station. The third jet approached to within 200 meters of the UFO, but pulled up for fear of a mid-air collision. No radar malfunctions were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 165; Michael David Hall, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers -- 1952, p. 86; Project Blue Book Special Report # 3, report dated April 30, 1952; UNICAT, case # 599 Source ID: Johnson_408 Source: Johnson ### Event 3818 (678A75ED) Date: 1/29/1952 Description: Orange luminous rotating and pulsating 3 ft sphere with blue flame halo (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520129](http://www.nicap.org/520129wonsan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wonsan (30 miles SW of), South Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_900 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3819 (8C9649EF) Date: 1/29/1952 End date: 1/30/1952 Description: USAF crew saw an orange sphere follow the B-29 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520129-30](http://www.nicap.org/520129sunchon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sunchon, South Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_901 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3820 (149215D1) Date: 1/29/1952 Description: Evening. Violet M. Winstead and her husband are at an open-air movie theater on Guam when they and others at the theater see an orange light passing silently overhead. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Violet M. Winstead, Letter, IUR 9, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1984\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_1743 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3821 (FF366E88) Date: 1/29/1952 Description: Night. A bright orange, disc-shaped object, also described as a “huge ball of fire,” paces two B-29s on the same night, 80 miles from each other over the towns of Wonsan and Sunchon, North Korea. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Rotating](http://www.nicap.org/520129wonsan%5Fdir.htm) [Light Seen by B-29 Crew](http://www.nicap.org/520129wonsan%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[B-29 Crew Followed by UFO](http://www.nicap.org/520129sunchon%5Fdir.htm)”; Haines, Korea, [pp. 33–37](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch3.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 121; Patrick Gross, “[UFO US Military Reports, Korea, 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/korea29jan52.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1744 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3822 (991E9774) Date: 1/29/1952 Description: On his trip to the Pentagon to brief Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/), [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) visits the AFOIN offices and discovers they have more complete files than ATIC in Dayton, Ohio, does. He arranges to have copies made of the missing files for him at Project Grudge \(though multiple visits are required to obtain the copies and Ruppelt probably does not succeed in getting everything\). The offices with UFO files include the Technical Capabilities Branch \(TCB\) of the Evaluation Division and the Collection Control Branch of the Collection Division. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The 1952 Sighting Wave](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1952FIXED.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1741 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3823 (4C1B5046) Date: 1/29/1952 Description: Several bright discs, each estimated to be three feet in diameter, followed a B-29 Superfortress flying 30 miles west-southwest of Wonsan, Korea at 11:20 p.m. A second sighting occurred at 11:24 p.m. with a different squadron of B-29s flying near Sunchon, Korea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 157; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15; UNICAT, case 625, citing Life magazine, April 7, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_571 Source: Johnson ### Event 3824 (EEDB542B) Date: 1/29/1952 Description: Brig. Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/), USAF Assistant for Production of Intelligence, and his staff are briefed at the Pentagon on the status of Project Grudge by [Edward Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) who with his colleagues at ATIC has prepared sighting maps that show a concentration of cases at White Sands and Los Alamos, New Mexico; Killeen Base, Texas; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and Dayton, Ohio \(where Wright-Patterson AFB is situated\). At this meeting, Garland introduces a new intelligence policy that emphasizes the use of instrumentation for intelligence collection, including the detection and tracking of UFOs \(the basis for terminating Project Blue Book as an intelligence function\). As an interim last-chance measure to prove whether anecdotal sightings have any value, Garland approves Ruppelt’s publicity plan to draw in UFO reports from the public so that triangulations might be obtained. This leads to Garland secretly backing the Life magazine article. Apparently on the same day, Garland gives the welcoming address to the secret MIT Lincoln Laboratory \(Ruppelt calls it the Beacon Hill group\) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he tells the assembled scientists to study ways USAF intelligence methodology can be revolutionized through the use of technology. \(Later Garland sends Ruppelt, Col. [Sanford H. Kirkland Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48770905/sanford-h-kirkland) of ATIC, and Lt. Col. William A. Adams of AFOIN, to brief the Lincoln Lab scientists on UFOs on March 26 and in April 1952, respectively\) Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Status of Project Blue Book,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf)” T52-6888, \[1952\]; NICAP, “[The 1952 Sighting](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1952FIXED.htm) [Wave](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1952FIXED.htm)”; Swords 144; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jan-May.pdf), The Author, 1993, p. 12 Source ID: Eberhart_1742 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3825 (2E72891D) Date: 1/31/1952 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) releases Project Grudge Status Report \#3, in which he reviews the geographic distribution of UFO reports, states the project’s obstacle, and includes a list of 15 cases reported to ATIC in January. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 144; US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 55–64 Source ID: Eberhart_1745 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3826 (01AEBD92) Date: 2/1/1952 Description: Close group of moving lights changing color from blue to green to yellow (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Terre Haute (10 miles W of), IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_902 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3827 (B89A3E24) Date: 2/2/1952 Description: 7:35 p.m. Radar operators aboard the aircraft carrier [USS Philippine Sea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FPhilippine%5FSea%5F%28CV-47%29) pick up an unidentified target off the east coast of Korea. It is first detected at a distance of 25 miles; when it closes to 20 miles, it makes a wide turn to the east directly away from the carrier, accelerating from 600 to 1,800 mph at 52,000 feet altitude. It splits into two targets 5–12 miles apart on a slightly zigzag course to the north. They disappear about 110 miles away. Observers on the carrier see three exhaust flames. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[USS](http://www.nicap.org/520202skorea%5Fdir.htm) [Philippine Sea](http://www.nicap.org/520202skorea%5Fdir.htm) [Tracks Approaching Target](http://www.nicap.org/520202skorea%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 126–127](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/126/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 121 Source ID: Eberhart_1746 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3828 (9C2317D9) Date: 2/2/1952 Description: Radar track of 767 mph unidentified target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520202](http://www.nicap.org/520202skorea%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pusan (40 miles E of), South Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_903 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3829 (E0BB6B5D) Date: 2/8/1952 Description: [Dewey Fournet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) on the Pentagon’s UFO desk, writes to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) at ATIC for help in interpreting the Korean sightings. Ruppelt has brought in an expert from Wright-Patterson AFB’s Engineering Division, [Peter A. Stranges](https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2002-12-28-0212280043-story.html) of the Propulsion Branch Power Plant Group, to help with the analysis, which he passes on to Fournet and [Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/)[.](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/) Stranges compares the Wonsan sighting to the foo fighters of World War II. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \(Swords 144–145\). Source ID: Eberhart_1747 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3830 (5E99D7EF) Date: 2/11/1952 Description: AT-11 Encounters Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1052) Reference: NICAP: [520211](http://www.nicap.org/520211pittsburgh%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pittsburgh, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_904 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3831 (9BAD60E4) Date: 2/11/1952 Time: 3 AM Description: Witnesses: Capt. G.P. Arns and Maj. R.J. Gedson flying a Beech AT-ll trainer. One yellow-orange comet-shaped object pulsed flame for 1-2 seconds of a 1 minute straight and level flight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_81 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3832 (B04D28B6) Date: 2/11/1952 Description: A bright, yellowish orange object with a pulsating flame exhaust was spotted at a high altitude by the crew of a US Air Force AT-11 trainer flying near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at three o'clock in the morning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1052; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15; Project Blue Book Special Report #5, March 31, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_817 Source: Johnson ### Event 3833 (A42FD1AC) Date: 2/12/1952 Description: MATS C-47 Crew Encounter Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520212](http://www.nicap.org/520212baltimore%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baltimore (Bet. Friendship Airfield and), MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_905 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3834 (5C16A9C0) Date: 2/12/1952 Description: The pilot and co-pilot of a MATS C-47 transport plane flying between Friendship Airfield and Baltimore, Maryland sighted a bright white UFO at 10:30 p.m. The object moved slowly at first, then accelerated away. The sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Report #5, dated March 31, 1952; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_861 Source: Johnson ### Event 3835 (B85BBE7C) Date: 2/13/1952 Description: The 3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Group observed an unusual radar return while attempting to score a bomb run (McDonald list; BB Rpt 6) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520213](http://www.nicap.org/520213granite%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Granite City, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_906 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3836 (977F6BC3) Date: 2/13/1952 Description: A luminous cigar-shaped object, blue on the bottom and green at both ends, flew over London, England on this night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated February 14, 1952; UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_891 Source: Johnson ### Event 3837 (E32E8611) Date: 2/16/1952 Description: Large Target Tracked By GCI CPS-5 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520216](http://www.nicap.org/520216pusan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pusan (60 miles E of), South Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_907 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3838 (3D92AD48) Date: 2/17/1952 Description: Unusual Fireball Near B-29 Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520217](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/roswell520217dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roswell (25 miles SE of), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_908 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3839 (7FA4CC31) Date: 2/19/1952 Description: A reddish-orange fireball zig-zagged for 15 minutes over Corona, California shortly after 6:00 p.m. In addition to zigzagging the ball of light swooped up and down. There were three witnesses. The case was listed as an unknown by Project Blue Book. At 8:00 p.m. three or more green balls of light stopped in midair in Richmond, California. They then shot away to the south-southwest toward San Francisco. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2364; (1) & (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_993 Source: Johnson ### Event 3840 (BB838B9B) Date: 2/20/1952 Description: On Collision Course & Definitely Not Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520220](http://www.nicap.org/520220mtdiablo%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Diablo, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_909 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3841 (55FE96F8) Date: 2/20/1952 Description: [Joseph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FAlsop) and [Stewart Alsop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%5FAlsop) examine the January 29 Korean incidents in their syndicated column, “Problems of Scientific Development.” They suspect a Russian origin. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 145–146 Source ID: Eberhart_1749 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3842 (1031E711) Date: 2/20/1952 Description: Congregational Minister saw three very bright silver objects, apparently spherical, traveling in a perfect V. \[VII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenfield, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_910 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3843 (234FE7D0) Date: 2/20/1952 Description: 3:00 p.m. Rev. [Albert Baller](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Baller.htm) is sitting in a train at the station in Greenfield, Massachusetts, when he sees a “sharp flash of light about 35° or more above the horizon.” Looking upward, he sees three perfectly circular, silver objects approaching in a V-formation. They are moving at about the “speed of a second hand on a watch.” They stop and hover for 10 seconds. The lead object reverses and pulls into a line with the other two between them. Then they depart in a direction at right angles to their approach. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 69](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=81&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1748 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3844 (179DE981) Date: 2/21/1952 Description: Sen. [Richard Russell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FRussell%5FJr) \(D-Ga.\), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, requests further information on the January 29 Korean UFO incidents in a letter to Secretary of the Air Force [Thomas K. Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1947, “[UFO Documents, 1952, Korea](http://www.project1947.com/fig/korea52a.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1750 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3845 (01998882) Date: 2/21/1952 Description: Far East Air Forces Commander Lieut. Gen. [Otto P. Weyland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%5FP.%5FWeyland) tells reporters that “no conclusive evaluation had been made at the present time” on the Wonsan/Sunchon, Korea, sightings of January 29–30. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Nothing Conclusive on Globes: Weyland,” Stars and Stripes, Pacific edition, February 22, 1952; Project 1947, “[UFO Documents, 1952, Korea](http://www.project1947.com/fig/korea52a.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1751 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3846 (1A19431A) Date: 2/22/1952 Description: Ground/Visual (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520222](http://www.nicap.org/500222keywest%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Key West, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_911 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3847 (B0B2B0CF) Date: 2/22/1952 Description: The now-completed Site Able is renamed Manzano Base, New Mexico, and turned over to the operational control of the Air Force. What appear to be secure bunkers are visible to people \(mostly military personnel\) who go to a recreational camping area nearby known as Coyote Canyon. The military, however, never officially confirms the nature of the activities at Manzano Base \[now part of Kirtland Air Force Base\]. At one point, a military spokesman says that Manzano Base has nothing to do with Sandia Base. Manzano has since been identified as the first of six original National Stockpile Sites for nuclear weapons. The other original NSS installations similar to Manzano are: Site Baker at Killeen Base, adjacent to Gray AFB \[now Robert Gray Army Airfield\] at Fort Hood, Texas; Site Charlie at Campbell AFB \[now Campbell Army Airfield\] near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and adjacent to Fort Campbell; Site Dog at Bossier Base, adjacent to Barksdale AFB near Bossier City, Louisiana; Lake Mead Base, adjacent to Nellis AFB, Nevada; and Medina Base, adjacent to Lackland AFB \[now Joint Base San Antonio\], Texas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Sandia Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandia%5FBase\#Manzano%5FBase)” Source ID: Eberhart_1752 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3848 (13F14A38) Date: 2/23/1952 Time: 11:15 PM Description: Witness: Captain/B-29 navigator. One bluish cylinder, three times long as wide, with a tail and rapid pulsations, came in high and fast, made several turns and levelled out under B-29 which was evading mild antiaircraft fire. 45 second sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: over North Korea Source ID: BerlinerBBU_82 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3849 (8817F40F) Date: 2/23/1952 Description: Over North Korea. At 11:15 p.m. the navigator of a USAF B-29 sighted a bluish cylindrical UFO, three times longer than it was wide, with a tail. It flew with rapid pulsations, came in high and fast, and made several turns before leveling out under the B-29. The bomber was evading mild anti-aircraft fire at the time, and the UFO seemed to be maneuvering to avoid the flack as well. The sighting lasted an estimated 45 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1061; Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 37; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_1059 Source: Johnson ### Event 3850 (77408064) Date: 2/23/1952 Alternate date: 2/24/1952 Description: 11:15 p.m. The navigator on a B-29 bomber sees a pulsating bluish cylinder while the aircraft is evading antiaircraft fire near Sinuiju, North Korea. It arrives high and fast, makes several turns, and levels out underneath the aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 122 Source ID: Eberhart_1753 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3851 (7B56718E) Date: 2/24/1952 Description: Auto-Sized Cylinder Tries To Intercept B-29? (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1061) Reference: NICAP: [520224](http://www.nicap.org/520224antung%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sinuiju, N. Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_912 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3852 (7FF6B622) Date: 2/24/1952 Description: A bright blue cylindrical object approached a B-29 flying over Antung, Korea at 11:15 p.m. It had a pulsating exhaust trail three times the length of the object. When it came within 3,000 feet it emitted a luminous beam of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Grudge Report #4, February 1952, p. 29; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_1074 Source: Johnson ### Event 3853 (1D2044E8) Date: 2/25/1952 End date: 2/27/1952 Description: Life magazine reporter [Robert Emmett Ginna Jr](https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ginna-robert-emmett-jr-1927). visits USAF headquarters at the Pentagon to gather information for his UFO article. He talks with Brig. Gen. [Joseph F. Carroll](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107471/lieutenant-general-joseph-francis-carroll/), Director of Special Investigations. Brig. Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/) tells him that he has considered firing a guided missile at a UFO to bring it down and requests that Ginna delay publishing an article until the Air Force has come to a more definite conclusion. Ginna also talks to Lt. Col. [Doyle Rees](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43562489/doyle-rees) of OSI. \(Jan L. Aldrich, “[Have We Visitors from Space?](http://www.project1947.com/fig/lifememo52a.htm)” Project 1947\) February 29 — Project Grudge issues a secret Status Report \#4, classified “secret.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 65–78 Source ID: Eberhart_1754 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3854 (974EFFFD) Date: 2/26/1952 Description: Minimum 3-5 Minute Incident Described As Possible Meteor???? (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520226](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/albany520226dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albany, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_913 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3855 (3BC14292) Date: 2/27/1952 Description: B-29 and radar (McDonald list; BB Rpt 5) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Stockton, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_914 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3856 (0CC585EB) Date: 2/28/1952 Description: An oil company employee was driving on the highway in Lomo de Ballena, Peru at 4:30 p.m. when he allegedly encountered a 10 meter in diameter disc hovering 500 meters away. Three uniped beings with rough, towel-like skin that looked something like "mummies" glided from the hovering object toward him. They communicated a message to him, warning of the dangers of atomic energy. He was also given a short tour flight on the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Greenwell, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_1172 Source: Johnson ### Event 3857 (93E5A866) Date: 3/1952 Description: Project Grudge had become a full-fledged organization, the "Aerial Phenomena Group." Soon thereafter, the code name was changed to "Blue Book." Type: organization established Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 176](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_865 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3858 (02B428B1) Date: 3/1952 Alternate date: 4/1952 Description: 5:00 a.m. Two women cryptographers in the US Naval Reserve stationed at the US Naval Training Center at Port Deposit, Maryland, are out taking a walk outside the base on a dirt road. They notice a red light off to one side above the trees. It starts moving toward them and stops about 100 feet above the road in front of them, about 300 feet away. The object is a 250-foot black disc with two large red lights at each side, an illuminated dome, and smaller lights along the rim. A hole opens in the bottom and phosphorescent white sparks drop toward the ground and disintegrate when they hit the road. The two reservists sprint the quarter-mile back to the base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_1755 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3859 (24E0406D) Date: 3/1952 Description: CPS-3 Tracks "Unknown Or Flying Saucer" (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [5203xx](http://www.nicap.org/5302XXfinland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Finland AFS, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_915 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3860 (1E7CFACA) Date: 3/1952 Description: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt recommends a new name for Project Grudge, “Project Blue Book”. Type: ufological event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Dayton, OH See also: 12/1948 See also: 10/1951 Source ID: Maj2_450 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3861 (7C6990FA) Date: 3/1/1952 Description: The 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron is activated under ADC to collect air combat intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CUFON, “[4602d AISS Unit History Sampler](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl1.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1756 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3862 (2C60A824) Date: 3/3/1952 Description: [Robert Emmett Ginna Jr.](https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ginna-robert-emmett-jr-1927) of Life visits ATIC at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, to obtain material for his UFO article. [Walther Riedel](https://anniejacobsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/op-16.jpg), former German rocket scientist at Peenemünde, Germany, tells Ginna he has kept notes on UFO sightings from all over the world: “I am completely convinced that they have an out-of-world basis.” He also meets with visits Air Force UFO spokesman [Albert M. Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php)[.](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) AMC claims it is investigating every serious UFO report, but it can’t find the files he requests. Ginna becomes suspicious. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Status of Project](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf) [Blue Book,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf)” T52-6888, \[1952\]; Jan L. Aldrich, “[Have We Visitors from Space?](http://www.project1947.com/fig/lifememo52a.htm)” Project 1947; Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 9; Swords 120–121 Source ID: Eberhart_1757 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3863 (AFC92D86) Date: 3/4/1952 Description: Huge Oval Encountered By C-54 Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520304](http://www.nicap.org/520304seaofjapan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ashiya AFB (15 miles W of), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_916 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3864 (2343E79E) Date: 3/4/1952 Description: On this date in 1952, at 1:35 a.m. over the Sea of Japan, a bright orange, 75-foot long ovoid object passed by a US Army C-54 at a very high rate of speed. Project Blue Book explained it as a meteor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book cases counted in official statistics. Source ID: Johnson_1289 Source: Johnson ### Event 3865 (C505D8CD) Date: 3/5/1952 Description: The Air Force sends a letter, signed by Lieut. Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining), to Secretary [Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter) in response to Sen. [Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FRussell%5FJr)’s February 21 inquiry. It offers two possible explanations: aircraft exhaust from a Soviet Lavochkin La-9 or La-11 fighter aircraft, or spotlights carried on enemy aircraft that have intercepted US bombers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1947, “[UFO Documents, 1952, Korea](http://www.project1947.com/fig/korea52a.htm)”; Swords 145 Source ID: Eberhart_1758 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3866 (7F0B67D2) Date: 3/7/1952 Description: Physicist [Joseph Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) visits ATIC to discuss methods of obtaining more information on green fireballs using a special diffraction grid to be placed on patrol cameras that can be used as a field spectrometer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Status of](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf) [Project Blue Book,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf)” T52-6888, \[1952\] Source ID: Eberhart_1759 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3867 (F385BC10) Date: 3/7/1952 Description: Bright Light Passes C-54, Drops Down (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520307](http://www.nicap.org/520307tulsa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tulsa (Bet. Claremore and), OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_917 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3868 (4BD355E6) Date: 3/7/1952 Description: On this day in 1952, two flat, silver discs parked in the sky over the Tucson, Arizona suburbs for several minutes. The objects were not detected on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs A History: 1952: January-May, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_1362 Source: Johnson ### Event 3869 (034A53C2) Date: 3/10/1952 Description: An engineering metals inspector watched two dark wing (or hemisphere) shaped objects pass overhead, swaying back and forth like a pendulum. (NICAP report.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oakland, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_918 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3870 (9C304AE2) Date: 3/10/1952 Description: 6:45 a.m. [Clarence K. Greenwood](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3581517/clarence-kirk-greenwood)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3581517/clarence-kirk-greenwood) inspector of engineering metals, sees two dark objects come from behind him at an altitude of 5,000–7,500 feet while he is waiting for a bus in Oakland, California. They pick up speed, one of them moving in a pendulum-like motion. He thinks they are about 45 feet long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [pp. 56–57](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=69&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1760 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3871 (FB7B9531) Date: 3/13/1952 Description: Eight Radar Tracks by GCA Team (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520313](http://www.nicap.org/520313keflavik%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Keflavik, Iceland Source ID: NICAP_DB_919 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3872 (FC3C0A2B) Date: 3/14/1952 Description: Admiral Radford & Navy Sec. Kimball Planes Buzzed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520314](http://www.nicap.org/520314hawaii%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Ocean (near Hawaii), HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_920 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3873 (244F35EF) Date: 3/14/1952 Description: Evening. US Secretary of the Navy [Dan A. Kimball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%5FA.%5FKimball) is flying to Hawaii when he sees two discs moving at 1,500 mph. The UFOs circle his plane twice, then move on 50 miles east to another Navy plane carrying Adm. [Arthur W. Radford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FW.%5FRadford)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FW.%5FRadford) The UFOs circle Radford’s plane then zoom up out of sight. Kimball sends a report to the Air Force, but hears nothing back, despite USAF demanding reports from all Navy witnesses. Kimball threatens to initiate Naval reports on UFOs through ONR to be kept separate from Blue Book. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) hears about this from both Kimball and Chief of ONR Adm. [Calvin M. Bolster](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49125157/calvin-m-bolster). The report is never made public. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Admiral](http://www.nicap.org/520314hawaii%5Fdir.htm) [Radford & Navy Sec. Kimball Planes Buzzed](http://www.nicap.org/520314hawaii%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Navy Secy Dan Kimball’s Pilot’s Sighting, March 14,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/kimball%5Fswords.htm) [1952](http://www.nicap.org/reports/kimball%5Fswords.htm)”; Swords 165 Source ID: Eberhart_1761 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3874 (04D1D5E5) Date: 3/15/1952 Description: 4:30 p.m. (MST). (McDonald list; BB Rpt 7) Flattened Oval As Large As B-29 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520315](http://www.nicap.org/sandia520315dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sandia Base, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_921 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3875 (51725D29) Date: 3/19/1952 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and other representatives of ATIC meet with the commander of the Air Defense Command, Gen. [Benjamin W. Chidlaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw) and Gen. [Grandison Gardner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandison%5FGardner) and his staff in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on getting radar scope camera films as UFOs are being tracked. “They agreed with it in principle and suggested that I work out the details with the Director of Intelligence for the ADC, Brigadier Gen. [Woodbury M. Burgess](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess).” Chidlaw promises to issue a directive to all units explaining procedures in UFO situations, including the scrambling of interceptors. This is issued, apparently in April. Burgess assigns Maj. [Vernon L. Sadowski](https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/2140264/Vernon-L-Sadowski) of his staff to be liaison to Project Grudge., and the Ground Observer Corps is brought into the UFO reporting net. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 128–129](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/128/mode/2up); “[Status of](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf) [Project Blue Book,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB85-612-615.pdf)” T52-6888, \[1952\] Source ID: Eberhart_1762 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3876 (4B93DB8A) Date: 3/20/1952 Description: Dull orange-yellow saucer-shaped light fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1074) Reference: NICAP: [520320](http://nicap.org/centreville520320dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Centreville, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_922 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3877 (CA9BE5D0) Date: Spring 1952 Description: Occultist [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) and his wife Betty move to Prescott, Arizona, and immerse themselves in UFO literature. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 21 Source ID: Eberhart_1775 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3878 (9850C302) Date: 3/20/1952 Time: 10:42 PM Description: Witnesses: WWl/WW2 veteran A.D. Hutchinson and son. One dull orange-yellow saucer-shaped light flew straight and level very fast for 30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Centreville, Maryland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_83 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3879 (E95976B5) Date: 3/21/1952 Description: At 10:42 p.m. a dull orange saucer was sighted moving slowly at first, then very fast for 30 seconds over farmland in Centreville, Maryland. There were two witnesses, named Hutchison. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1074 Source ID: Johnson_1593 Source: Johnson ### Event 3880 (3D4AC236) Date: 3/22/1952 Description: F-94 Crew Made Two Sightings / Gnd Radar Track (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1076) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520322](http://www.nicap.org/520322yakima%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yakima (20 miles S of), WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_923 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3881 (ED137600) Date: 3/23/1952 Time: 6:56 and 7 PM Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of F-94 jet interceptor. On either occasion, a red fireball increased in brightness and then faded over 45 second span. Stationary both times. Note: (May 31, 1952) says target was also tracked by ground radar at 78 knots (90 m.p.h.) at 22,500' and 25,000' altitude. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Yakima, Washington Source ID: BerlinerBBU_84 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3882 (B297BB87) Date: 3/24/1952 Time: 8:45 AM Description: Witnesses: B-29 navigator and radar operator. One target tracked for 20-30 seconds at estimated 3,000 m.p.h. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 60 miles west of Pt. Concepcion, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_85 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3883 (4A4921B4) Date: 3/24/1952 Description: Airborne Radar Tracks 3,000 MPH Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1077) Reference: NICAP: [520324](http://www.nicap.org/520324conception%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Point Conception (60 miles W of), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_925 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3884 (23C09841) Date: 3/25/1952 Description: Project Grudge becomes a separate organization under the title Aerial Phenomena Group and is renamed Project Blue Book, apparently by Lt. Col. Charles Cooke, which he thinks has “no overtones.” Ruppelt says it is based on the books provided for taking college tests at Iowa State University. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jan-May.pdf) [1952, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jan-May.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jan-May.pdf) The Author, 1993, pp. 20–21; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 12; Ruppelt, [p. 131](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/130/mode/2up); Clark III 916 Source ID: Eberhart_1763 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3885 (62C012C4) Date: Late 3/1952? Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) meets with two RCAF officers and briefs them on the new procedures. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 130](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/130/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1767 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3886 (02AD5BED) Date: 3/26/1952 Description: Two yellowish discs passed by slowly; "as they passed the radio was agitated twice." (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Beach, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_927 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3887 (93F75278) Date: 3/26/1952 Description: Day. Henry C. Davis is looking out at the ocean through his second-floor window in Long Beach, California, and listening to the radio. He spots two yellow discs in the sky about one mile high and 2 miles away. He thinks they are 1,000 feet apart and moving southeast to northwest at 100 mph. As they pass, his radio goes to static twice. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 78 Source ID: Eberhart_1764 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3888 (F99239B7) Date: 3/26/1952 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) meets with the MIT scientists he calls the Beacon Hill Group, which recommends that Blue Book use “sound detection apparatus” in areas of UFO activity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 916 Source ID: Eberhart_1765 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3889 (DF87F962) Date: 3/26/1952 Description: Five trials are conducted through April 21 by the US Army Chemical Corps under Operation Dew. The tests release zinc cadmium sulfide along a 100-to-150-nautical-mile line approximately 5–10 nautical miles off the coast of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Two of the trials disperse clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide over large areas of all three states. The tests affect over 60,000 square miles of populated coastal region. The Dew I releases are from a Navy minesweeper, the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTercel%5F%28AM-386%29) [Tercel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTercel%5F%28AM-386%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTercel%5F%28AM-386%29) The conclusion is that long-range aerosol clouds can obtain hundreds of miles of travel and large-area coverage when disseminated from ground level under certain meteorological conditions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Dew](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FDew)” Source ID: Eberhart_1766 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3890 (45BEBA16) Date: 3/26/1952 Description: (Now an IFO) B-50 Radarscope / Scope Photos (Downgraded) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1079) Reference: NICAP: [520326](http://www.nicap.org/520326ftstockton%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Stockton, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_926 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3891 (18C719DD) Date: 3/27/1952 Description: At 12:55 p.m. over Downey, California a bright, aluminum colored spot of light hung motionless in the sky above an aircraft factory for 15 minutes. It appeared to turn on edge, and then went straight up out of sight. In Chicago, Illinois two discs were seen exiting from a cloud. They flipped over completely, and then returned to the same cloud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History - 1952: January-May, p. 27; Edward Sullivan, CSI/Los Angeles case files, letter dated March 27, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_1690 Source: Johnson ### Event 3892 (A51C76D4) Date: 3/29/1952 Description: 6:40 p.m. [Carl J. Henry](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79853419/carl-jefferson-henry)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79853419/carl-jefferson-henry) chairman of the Industrial Commission of Missouri, along with several others, watches a cylinder-shaped, silver UFO for 2 minutes almost directly overhead in Butler, Missouri. It is moving silently in a northwesterly direction leaving no trail or exhaust. He estimates its length at 100 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 68](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=80&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1770 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3893 (1A3E538D) Date: 3/29/1952 Description: Two fiery discs are sighted over the uranium mines in the southern part of the Belgian Congo near Elisabethville \[modern Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo\]. With a diameter of approximately 36– 45 feet, they travel in a precise and light manner, both vertically and horizontally. They emit hissing and buzzing sounds. Changes in elevation from 2,400 to 3,000 feet are accomplished in a few seconds. The discs often move down to within 60 feet of the treetops. A Commander Pierre of the Belgian Air Force sets out in pursuit in a fighter plane from the city airport. On his first approach he comes to within about 260 feet of one of the discs. Suddenly they hover in one spot then takes off in a unique zigzag flight to the northeast at an estimated speed of 930 mph. Pierre gives up his pursuit after about 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Discs over Uranium Mines / Jet in](http://www.nicap.org/520329elizabethville%5Fdir.htm) [Pursuit](http://www.nicap.org/520329elizabethville%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 123; Good Above, [p. 512](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/512/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1769 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3894 (79963B34) Date: 3/29/1952 Description: 11:20 a.m. Near Misawa, Japan, USAF Lt. [David Conant Brigham](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49468988/david-conant-brigham) is flying a T-6 target plane on a practice intercept mission for two F-84s. The first F-84 overtakes him at 6,000 feet when the T-6 pilot notices a small disc gaining on the interceptor. The UFO curves toward the F-84, decelerates rapidly, then flips on edge in a 90° bank. It flies between the two aircraft, pulls away, flips again, passes the F-84, crosses in front, and accelerates out of sight in a near vertical climb. Both pilots notice the object, which comes within 30–50 feet of the T-6. The pilot estimates it is only 8 inches in diameter. There is a ripple around the edge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Brigham/T6 Case: UFO](http://www.nicap.org/520329misawa%5Fdir.htm) [Makes Pass at F-84](http://www.nicap.org/520329misawa%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 5](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=18&skin=2021); Keyhoe, FS from OS, [p. 192](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chXI.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 123 Source ID: Eberhart_1768 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3895 (BA797356) Date: 3/29/1952 Description: 50 ft flat silver disc with cupola/dome (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520329](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/glenburnie520329dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glen Burnie, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_932 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3896 (9ED66737) Date: 3/29/1952 Description: Two Discs Over Uraniam Mines / Jet In Pursuit (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: N, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520329](http://www.nicap.org/520329elizabethville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elizabethville, Belgian Congo Source ID: NICAP_DB_930 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3897 (47C92D76) Date: 3/29/1952 Time: 11:20 AM Description: Witness: Brigham, pilot of AT-6 trainer. One small, very thin, shiny metallic disc flew alongside the AT-6, then made a pass at an F-84 jet fighter, flipped on edge, fluttered 20' from the F-84's fuselage and flipped in the slipstream...all in 10 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 20 miles north of Misawa AFB, Japan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_86 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3898 (CE40A7E2) Date: 3/29/1952 Description: Brigham/T-6 Case: UFO Makes Pass At F-84 (BBU 1082) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1082) Reference: NICAP: [520329](http://nicap.org/520329misawa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Misawa (20 miles N of), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_929 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3899 (31BCF934) Date: 3/29/1952 Description: Chairman of Industrial Commission of Missouri saw cylinder-shaped, silver UFO, \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Butler, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_928 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3900 (636115AB) Date: 3/29/1952 Description: Small, shiny disc made pass at Air Force plane Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Misawa, Japan Source ID: HallUFOE2_0 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 3901 (63C5F7F9) Date: 3/29/1952 Description: 10:45 p.m. Donald F. Stewart and George Tyler III are driving northbound on the Governor Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie, Maryland. A 50-foot silvery domed disc with two portholes and an apparent hatch appears from the northeast and hovers above their car, causing the engine to fail, magnetizing the wiring, and cracking the paint. Stewart takes a sub-machine gun from the back of the car and debates whether to fire it at the object, which remains in view for 3 minutes before turning n its edge and speeding away to the southwest. Tyler changes his story later, denying he was involved. Possible hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[E-M Effects on Car from Domed](http://www.nicap.org/520329glenburnie%5Fdir.htm) [Disc](http://www.nicap.org/520329glenburnie%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 124; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 196–198](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/196/mode/2up); Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 61–64, 229 Source ID: Eberhart_1771 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3902 (BD08FC9B) Date: 3/30/1952 Description: At about 3 p.m. in Greenfield, Massachusetts Mr. Earley sighted a disc that stopped abruptly in the air at 1500-feet altitude. It turned on its edge and then shot off at great speed to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Boston Traveller, May 5, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_1729 Source: Johnson ### Event 3903 (648A731B) Date: 3/31/1952 Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#5. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 81–94 Source ID: Eberhart_1774 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3904 (CB631781) Date: 3/31/1952 Description: ATIC Chief [Frank Dunn](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm) writes to Gen. [Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/) requesting that Project Blue Book be entirely declassified in order to make it easier to encourage civilian pilots to send in reports. That is a bit too much openness for Garland, who compromises by reclassifying certain case investigations as “Restricted,” a relatively low level. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 146 Source ID: Eberhart_1773 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3905 (577D5F6A) Date: 3/31/1952 Description: Battelle begins its UFO study \(referred to as P-47S and nicknamed Little Stork\) under the supervision of William T. Reid, folding it into Project Stork, an initiative to examine the Soviet Union’s technological warfare capabilities. Almost all of the UFO analysis involves compiling IBM punch cards based on data forwarded by Project Blue Book files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 929; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 7–8; Jennie Zeidman and Mark Rodeghier, “The Pentacle Letter and the Battelle UFO Project,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(May/June 1993\): 4–12, 19–21; Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_1772 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3906 (C89E48BC) Date: 4/1952? Description: Amateur astronomer [W. Gordon Graham](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1951JRASC..45..124N) sees a UFO “like a smoke ring, elliptical in shape, and having two bright pinpoints of light along its main axis” at London, Ontario. It sails overhead from west to east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: London \(Ont.\) Free Press, May 1, 1952; UFOEv, [p. 49](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=62&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1776 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3907 (F41E4ADF) Date: 4/1952 Description: Secretary of the Navy [Dan Kimball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%5FA.%5FKimball)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%5FA.%5FKimball) upset with the way the Air Force has treated his UFO sighting, sets up an independent Navy probe of UFOs under Lt. Commander Fred Lowell Thomas of the Office of Naval Research. The project lasts through 1952, but probably not much longer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Navy Secy Dan Kimball’s Pilot’s](http://www.nicap.org/reports/kimball%5Fswords.htm) [Sighting, March 14, 1952](http://www.nicap.org/reports/kimball%5Fswords.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1777 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3908 (0586C4E5) Date: 4/1952 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) again meets with MIT Lincoln Laboratory scientists \(the Beacon Hill group\) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to brief them on Blue Book’s progress. Afterward, he asks them about the flashes seen on Mars in 1951, and a general discussion of life on other planets ensues. [Michael D. Swords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FD.%5FSwords) suspects that some of those present are physicist [George Valley Jr.](http://news.mit.edu/1999/valley-1020)[,](http://news.mit.edu/1999/valley-1020) engineer [Julius Adams Stratton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%5FAdams%5FStratton)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%5FAdams%5FStratton) physicist [Albert G. Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FG.%5FHill), and chemical engineer [Walter G. Whitman](https://www.nae.edu/30667/Walter-G-Whitman)[.](https://www.nae.edu/30667/Walter-G-Whitman)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, “Are There Men on Mars? Or Other Worlds?” IUR 23, no. 1 \(Spring 1998\): 10–12, 31 Source ID: Eberhart_1778 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3909 (0D12E8C5) Date: 4/1952 Description: [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender) a factory worker in Bridgeport, Connecticut, announces the formation of the International Flying Saucer Bureau. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 189, 623 Source ID: Eberhart_1779 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3910 (249297D8) Date: 4/1952 Description: Al Chop appointed public information officer for UFO's. Type: personell appointment Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_866 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3911 (F1213FAA) Date: 4/1952 Description: Air Force Letter 200-5 gave Project Blue Book authority to cut red tape, contact any Air Force unit in the U.S. without going through channels; provided for wire transmission of reports to ATIC, followed with details via Air Mail. Type: air force letter Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_867 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3912 (F1AF76EC) Date: 4/1952 Description: Navy Sec. Exec. Plane Encounters UFOs (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520400](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/hawaii.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawaii (near), HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_933 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3913 (865390E8) Date: 4/1952 Description: Life Magazine article: “Have We Visitors from Space?” Type: article Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) See also: 12/1948 See also: 10/1951 Source ID: Maj2_451 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3914 (FAC8ACB0) Date: 4/2/1952 Description: A man observed a UFO. It was silver in color, very large and at a tremendous altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520402](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/lmeade520402dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Mead, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_934 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3915 (F6E70B9F) Date: 4/2/1952 Description: 9:00 a.m. While on a fishing trip to Lake Mead, Nevada, with his wife and M/Sgt Lester Gossett, M/Sgt Sheldon Smith observes a large silver UFO at a high altitude. It looks like a B-36 without wings. Smith observes it right after a flight of F-86s overfly the area at about 15,000 feet. After watching the hovering object for about an hour at a much higher altitude than the vapor trails from the F-86s, it suddenly disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[B-36](http://www.nicap.org/520402lakemeade%5Fdir.htm) [without Wings](http://www.nicap.org/520402lakemeade%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1781 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3916 (D4995607) Date: 4/2/1952 Description: On the eve of the release of the bombshell Life magazine article, [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and his boss, ATIC Technical Analysis Division Chief Col. [Sanford H. Kirkland Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48770905/sanford-h-kirkland)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48770905/sanford-h-kirkland) give an extraordinary briefing, technically unclassified but in fact quasi-classified, to a group of aerospace engineers and saucer buffs organized as Civilian Saucer Investigation of Los Angeles. These include aeronautical consultant [Felix W. A. Knoll](http://www.pknoll.net/knoll%5Faircraft/), technical writer [Ed J.](https://obscurantist.com/oma/csi-la/) [Sullivan](https://obscurantist.com/oma/csi-la/), and North American Aviation project engineer [Walther A. Riedel](https://anniejacobsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/op-16.jpg). The briefing takes place at the Mayfair Hotel in Los Angeles, California, along with national media reporters and the Life magazine reporters who give them advance copies of the Darrach/Ginna article in exchange. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Minutes of Meeting of Civilian Saucer](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520402csi%5Fminutes.pdf) [Investigations Held Wednesday, April 2, 1952, 8:00 PM in the Mayfair Hotel, Los Angeles, California,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520402csi%5Fminutes.pdf)” April 2, 1952, transcribed by Sign Historical Group; Willard D. Nelson, “When Blue Book Met the Ufologists,” IUR 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1987\): 21–24; Ruppelt, [p. 175](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/174/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1780 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3917 (97B6CD44) Date: 4/3/1952 Description: Bright aluminum shiny oblong object above 54,000 ft (Project 1947; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520403](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/benson520403dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marana, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_935 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3918 (D5BDE9CE) Date: 4/3/1952 Description: The Air Force publicly announces that it has not stopped investigating and evaluating UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1782 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3919 (1CDD9524) Date: 4/4/1952 Description: Secret Report: Unidentified Radar Return (BB 1095) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1095) Reference: NICAP: [520404](http://www.nicap.org/520404duncanville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Duncanville, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_936 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3920 (1A9D2F36) Date: 4/4/1952 Description: At 7:30 p.m. two radar operators of the 147th AC&W Squadron in Duncanville, Texas tracked a UFO for one minute by radar moving at an estimated speed of 2,160 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1830 Source: Johnson ### Event 3921 (D02334FF) Date: 4/4/1952 Time: 7:30 PM Description: Witnesses: two radar operators of the 147th AC&W Squadron. One object was tracked for one minute by radar at an estimated 2,160 m.p.h. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Duncanville, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_87 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3922 (EB3420B1) Date: 4/5/1952 Description: At 11:30 p.m. Lt. W. R. Holder and Lt. A.M. Jones, the flight crew of a USAF F-94 jet interceptor, saw a small luminous object approach Kadena AFB, Japan from the north. It flew straight and level at first at an estimated speed of 1,000 knots, but then began to maneuver and zigzag. Airborne radar tracked the target for 90 seconds. Control tower operators watched for 50-60 minutes while a dark shape with a light flew as fast as 330 knots (380 mph). It hovered, flew curves and performed a variety of maneuvers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 62; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1844 Source: Johnson ### Event 3923 (F591E388) Date: 4/5/1952 Time: 9:15 PM Description: Witnesses: L.E. VanDercar and 9 year old son. Four dark circular objects with mostly fuzzy edges, crossed face of Moon; each was half the apparent diameter of Moon. 2:59 PM Witness: H.L. Russell. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Miami, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_89 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3924 (08D7418B) Date: 4/5/1952 Time: l0:40 AM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Ryan, R.L. Stokes, D. Schook. One large, dull grey circular object, followed by two more, flew straight and level at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Phoenix, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_88 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3925 (8DB407A6) Date: 4/5/1952 Description: At 10:40 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Ryan, R.L. Stokes, and D. Schook of Phoenix, Arizona watched a large, dull gray disc-shaped object fly by, followed by two more objects. All three flew straight and level at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1842 Source: Johnson ### Event 3926 (01D418E6) Date: 4/5/1952 Description: Large, dull grey circular object, followed by 2 more, fly straight and level at high speed. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1096) Reference: NICAP: [520405](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/phoenix520405dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Phoenix (Glendale?), AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_937 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3927 (0629CCF5) Date: 4/5/1952 Description: 4 dark circular objects with mostly fuzzy edges each ½ the angular size of Moon. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1097) Reference: NICAP: [520405](http://nicap.org/miami520405dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_938 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3928 (B13F1D47) Date: 4/5/1952 Description: Miami, Florida. At 9:15 p.m. four dark circular objects with mostly fuzzy edges, crossed the face of the Moon. Each was half the apparent diameter of Moon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1843 Source: Johnson ### Event 3929 (C1EDC412) Date: 4/6/1952 Description: A man named Poprocky wrote to report that at 8:15 p.m. he watched five lights in the evening sky over Sharon, Pennsylvania that looked like "a sideview of someone blowing smoke rings." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence/Los Angeles case files, letter dated April 22, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_1857 Source: Johnson ### Event 3930 (1BE78432) Date: 4/6/1952 Time: 2:59 PM Description: Witness: H.L. Russell. 50-75 grey-white discs changed position within formation continually, tilted in unison every 12-15 seconds during 3.8 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Temple, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_90 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3931 (09617754) Date: 4/6/1952 Description: 50-75 grey white discs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1099) Reference: NICAP: [520406](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/temple520406dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Temple, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_939 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3932 (0C17E54A) Date: 4/6/1952 Description: At 2:59 p.m. in Temple, Texas fifty to seventy-five gray-white discs continually changed position within a flight formation. The UFOs tilted in unison every 12-15 seconds during the 3.8 minute sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1099; Project Blue Book Report # 7, May 31, 1952; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1856 Source: Johnson ### Event 3933 (1369607F) Date: 4/7/1952 Description: [Henry B. Darrach Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%5FDarrach) and [Robert Ginna](https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ginna-robert-emmett-jr-1927)’s article, “Have We Visitors from Space?” appears in Life and reports on the revitalized USAF project. It comes close to advocating the ETH, and its primary sources are high-ranking Air Force officers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “[Have We Visitors from Space?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Life/1952%2004%2007%5FLife%5FHave%20We%20Visitors.pdf)” Life, April 7, 1952, pp. 80–96; NICAP, “[Scholarly Commentary on LIFE Article of April 7, 1952](https://www.nicap.org/life52.htm)”; Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_1783 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3934 (BA70BF69) Date: 4/7/1952 Description: During war games taking place in the vicinity of Lampasas, Texas, nicknamed Operation Longhorn, the Air Force announces that a new “aerial light” attached to a B-26 aircraft is in use that makes an “attacking bomber look like a ball of fire in the sky.” It is essentially a bright magnesium searchlight \(dubbed a “Hell Roarer” flare\) that can illuminate a battlefield for nighttime photography. USAF Public Information Officer Capt. Irving Rappaport implies it could be mistaken for a flying saucer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Light Makes Bomber Resemble Ball of Fire,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94116656/)” Chambersburg \(Pa.\) Public Opinion, April 7, 1952, p. 3; “[It’s No Saucer! Strange Objects in the Sky Are Nothing](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94117530/) [New in Dayton,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94117530/)” Dayton \(Ohio\) Daily News, November 9, 1952, magazine supplement, p. 7; Curt Collins, “[UFOs: Confusing the Public,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2022/01/ufos-confusing-public.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 27, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_1784 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3935 (2E7ACE4E) Date: 4/7/1952 Description: Life Magazine article "Have We Visitors From Space?", inspired by several top officers in the Pentagon. Type: magazine article Reference: [Project 1947: LIFE Magazine - April 7, 1952](http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/lifemag52.html) Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 177-178](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_868 Source: Maj2 ### Event 3936 (1DF4A27C) Date: 4/8/1952 Description: A CBS-TV staff engineer named Smith saw a copper red disc with sharply defined edges fly "unbelievably fast" between Pear Blossom and Big Pine, California. It made no sound as it flew and left no contrail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los Angeles files, letter dated April 9, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_1896 Source: Johnson ### Event 3937 (8BAAF2EA) Date: 4/8/1952 Description: Disc-like UFO observed by TV network engineer. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Big Pines (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_940 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3938 (38D66DF8) Date: 4/9/1952 Description: Crew Of C-46 Encounters Cream-Colored Disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520409](http://www.nicap.org/520409shreveport%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barksdale AFB (Bet. Shreveport and), LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_941 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3939 (0F9FE442) Date: 4/9/1952 Description: Bethune. (Hynek UFO Rpt p. 43; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520409](http://nicap.org/pecos520409dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pecos (6 miles W of near Lackland AFB), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_942 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3940 (574999B9) Date: 4/9/1952 Description: At 2:30 p.m. a USAF C-54 transport plane flying near Shreveport, Louisiana was buzzed by a disc-shaped UFO estimated to be 35 feet in diameter. Air Force jets were scrambled from Barksdale AFB and chased the UFO for 55 miles as it headed off to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Report #6; Project Grudge and Project Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, report dated April 30, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_1919 Source: Johnson ### Event 3941 (30637FDB) Date: 4/9/1952 Description: On the same night a round, red colored UFO moved silently above a drive-in movie screen in Asheville, North Carolina at a high rate of speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, CSI Los Angeles case files, citing letter from F. Branch dated April 16, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_1920 Source: Johnson ### Event 3942 (9E2D7A19) Date: 4/11/1952 Description: On this afternoon six silent disc-shaped objects flew over Temiscaming, Quebec leaving vapor trails. They flew in an up-and-down motion, and were definitely "not planes." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 921, citing the North Bay (Ontario) Nugget Source ID: Johnson_1949 Source: Johnson ### Event 3943 (686C978F) Date: 4/11/1952 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a silent green ovoid object flew to the north in Hammond, British Columbia, turned red, and made a ninety-degree turn. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated April 30, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_1950 Source: Johnson ### Event 3944 (656578E3) Date: 4/12/1952 Description: The round amber object came in from the southwest and moved across the RCAF Station airfield at North Bay, stopped and moved off again in the reverse direction (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1108) Reference: NICAP: [520412](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/ontario520412dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Bay CFS, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_943 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3945 (5B30368B) Date: 4/12/1952 Description: 8:30 p.m. W/O E. H. Rossell and Flight Sgt. Reginald McRae are driving on RCAF Station North Bay, Ontario, when they see a bright amber disc arrive from the southwest, move across the airfield, stop, and then take off in the opposite direction at an angle of 30° at terrific speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Amber Disc Stops, Reverses](http://www.nicap.org/520412northbay%5Fdir.htm) [Direction](http://www.nicap.org/520412northbay%5Fdir.htm)”; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 92–94 Source ID: Eberhart_1785 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3946 (342225D2) Date: 4/12/1952 Time: 9:30 PM Description: Witnesses: Royal Canadian Air Force Warrant Officer E.H. Rossell, Flight Sgt. R. McRae. One round amber object flew fast, stopped, reversed direction, climbed away at 30' angle during a 2 minute observation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: North Bay, Ontario, Canada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_91 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3947 (42A40E20) Date: 4/12/1952 Description: North Bay, Ontario, Canada. At 9:30 p.m. Royal Canadian Air Force Warrant Officer E. H. Rossell and Flight Sgt. R. McRae sighted a round amber object that flew fast, stopped, reversed direction, and climbed away at a 30-degree angle during the two-minute observation. They said it with terrific speed, twice the speed of an F-86. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1108; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 87; UNICAT, case # 810 Source ID: Johnson_1963 Source: Johnson ### Event 3948 (96D4D78D) Date: 4/13/1952 Description: CPS Tracks Silver Disc (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520413](http://www.nicap.org/520413moriarty%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moriarty AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_944 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3949 (DAF43EBD) Date: 4/13/1952 Description: In Torpo, Norway at 10:35 p.m. a fireball came down in some nearby woods. It lit up the area, hovered, maneuvered, then shot away to the south at great speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping, June 7, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_2002 Source: Johnson ### Event 3950 (5BA4D16F) Date: 4/13/1952 Description: At 4:45 p.m. a disc-shaped object with an erratic flight path moved very fast through the sky east of Moriarty, New Mexico. It tilted and vanished, then reappeared. There were four military witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP Projects Grudge and Blue Book Report, p. 109; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_2003 Source: Johnson ### Event 3951 (E56E8F87) Date: 4/14/1952 Time: 6:34 PM Description: Witnesses: U.S. Navy pilots Lt. jg. Blacky, Lt. jg. O'Neil. One inverted bowl, 3' long and 1' high, with vertical slots, flew fast, straight and level, 100 yards from observers' aircraft for 45-60 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Memphis, Tennessee Source ID: BerlinerBBU_93 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3952 (26C3A00B) Date: 4/14/1952 Time: 12:35 PM Description: Witness: unidentified CAL airline pilot. Several light colored objects flew in V-formation. No further details in files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: LaCrosse, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_92 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3953 (9B822153) Date: 4/14/1952 Description: Inverted Bowl Passes Aircraft At 300' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1112) Reference: NICAP: [520414](http://www.nicap.org/520414memphis%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Memphis, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_945 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3954 (677285C4) Date: 4/14/1952 Description: CIRVIS Report / V-Formation Seen By Pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1113) Reference: NICAP: [520414](http://www.nicap.org/520414lacrosse%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Crosse, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_946 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3955 (A1BE8D23) Date: 4/15/1952 Description: That evening in Gardena, California a set of unidentified nocturnal lights flew silently to the north slowly, pulsating at regular intervals. The bright white light had a red glow preceeding it and one behind. When the white light went off the red glows seemed to merge to form a semi-elliptical red glow. It abruptly changed direction in a zigzag maneuver. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence-Los Angeles, letter dated April 26, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_2019 Source: Johnson ### Event 3956 (05CD27E8) Date: 4/15/1952 Time: 7:40 PM Description: Witness: Mr. Hayes, brother of Master Sergeant. Two faint objects observed flying fast along the horizon for 6-8 seconds, using 20x spotting telescope. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Santa Cruz, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_94 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3957 (5F5FE544) Date: 4/15/1952 Description: At Frenchman Flat, Nevada at 9:30 a.m. four to six flying discs passed through the mushroom cloud created after an Atomic bomb test blast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2082 Source ID: Johnson_2018 Source: Johnson ### Event 3958 (0078164F) Date: 4/15/1952 Description: 2 faint objects flying fast along the horizon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1115) Reference: NICAP: [520415](http://www.nicap.org/santacruz520415dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Cruz, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_947 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3959 (588C081B) Date: 4/16/1952 Description: ADC becomes frantic about a possible Soviet attack. Air Force Intelligence warns Brig. Gen. [Woodbury](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess) [Burgess](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess) at ADC Headquarters, Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that a classified source \(possibly an electronic intercept\) has provided an “indication” of ominous Soviet military activity. With the simultaneous appearance of two waves of unidentified targets, there is no alternative. At 3:10 a.m., ADC Commander Gen. [Frederic H. Smith Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%5FH.%5FSmith%5FJr) orders America’s first nationwide Air Defense Readiness alert. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFOs and Alert Scare, April 1952](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/nn-020628.htm)”; “[Radar Scare,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93333332/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Herald, April 19, 1952, p. 23; “[3](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93333141/) [Plane Vapors Cause Alert at Alaska Stations,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93333141/)” Long Beach \(Calif.\) Independent, April 18, 1952, p. 18 Source ID: Eberhart_1786 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3960 (CE8904E6) Date: 4/16/1952 Description: At 10:26 p.m. a U.S. Air Force captain and his neighbor in Shreveport, Louisiana saw a bright white object make a fast approach, reverse direction, then change shape from a flat circular object to a thin lens. It also changed color from pink to red. Its speed was estimated at 1285 mph, and showed a red exhaust tail after making its turn. It was ten times brighter than the brightest star. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. H. Tessier, UNICAT computer database case #812, citing Blue Book; Project Blue Book Report # 6, April 30, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_2048 Source: Johnson ### Event 3961 (0CC3BCA7) Date: 4/16/1952 Description: Observed 5 or 6 semi-circular objects almost overhead, glowing with a yellowishwhite light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520416](http://www.nicap.org/madison520416dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Madison, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_948 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3962 (EA4E44BB) Date: 4/16/1952 Description: Course reversing light. (Willy Smith pp. 25-29; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520416](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/shreve520416dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shreveport, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_949 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3963 (DBA01B97) Date: 4/17/1952 Description: Thirty minutes later two men in Westmont, Illinois, Mr. Harvey and Mr. Hall, tracked an object traveling at a high rate of speed from the east to the north, vanishing just under the Ursa Minor constellation. No tail or exhaust were visible, nor were any signs of propulsion visible. They watched the object through a pair of binoculars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, CSI--Los Angeles letter files, April 17, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_2078 Source: Johnson ### Event 3964 (34C0A7A5) Date: 4/17/1952 Description: At 3:15 p.m. two military weather observers from the 9575 TSU at the Yuma Test Station in Yuma, Arizona watched a circular, flat-white craft with a short trail shoot across the sky from zenith to the horizon in 7 seconds (traveling at 13 degrees a second). It traveled so fast it could not be tracked with a theodolite. There was a similar sighting at the same place the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case 813, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 47; NICAP UFO Investigator, volume 3, number 8 Source ID: Johnson_2076 Source: Johnson ### Event 3965 (A31AE574) Date: 4/17/1952 Description: 12:58 a.m. Four high-altitude contrails heading east-southeast toward Alaska are seen by NORAD defense observers at Nunivak Island, Alaska. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Another Radar-Inspired National Alert](http://www.nicap.org/520417atlantic%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1787 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3966 (EC1C88C6) Date: 4/17/1952 Description: 12:05 p.m. Air Force T/S Orville Lawson, [Rudy Toncer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198096963/rudy-f%5F-toncer) \(sheet metal shop foreman\), and sheet metal shop workers R. K. Van Houtin, Edward Gregory, and [Charles Ruliffson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62143699/charles-f-ruliffson) at Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas, see 18 circular objects flying an easterly course that carry them over or very close to the Nevada Test Site. They watch the objects for about 30 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Work Crew Spots Flying Saucers over A-Test Site,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93332628/)” Salt Lake Tribune, April 18, 1952, p. 1; NICAP, “[April 17, 1952: Nellis AFB, Nevada Large Group of Circular UFOs](http://www.nicap.org/nellis520417dir.htm)”; Nukes 83 Source ID: Eberhart_1789 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3967 (29A07B19) Date: 4/17/1952 Time: 3:05 PM Description: Witnesses: group of Army weather observation students, including several graduate engineers. One flat-white, circular object flew with an irregular trajectory and a brief trail, for about 7 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Yuma, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_96 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3968 (91F1F78A) Date: 4/17/1952 Description: Another Radar-Inspired National Alert (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520417](http://www.nicap.org/520417atlantic%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alaska, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_953 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3969 (AC33B381) Date: 4/17/1952 Description: [Dewey Fournet Jr.](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2009/01/major-dewey-j-fournet-historical.html) responds to a reporter from the Baltimore Sun who has asked about details of the Blue Book investigation with a two-and-a-half-page memo, vagued up a bit, but essentially saying that “nothing detrimental to our national security has materialized from these incidents.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 147 Source ID: Eberhart_1790 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3970 (47A4A6FE) Date: 4/17/1952 Description: Two engineers watched several silent noctunal lights make erratic maneuvers and ninety-degree turns in the sky over Longmeadow, Massachusetts at 8:30 p.m. The sighting lasted for 400 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs a History, 1952: January-May, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_2077 Source: Johnson ### Event 3971 (CBE85C70) Date: 4/17/1952 Time: 8:30 PM Description: Witnesses: S.B. Brooks, chemical engineer J.A. Eaton. One round, deep orange object flew fast and erratic, occasionally emitting a shaft of light to the rear during a 40 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Longmeadow, Massachusetts Source ID: BerlinerBBU_95 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3972 (841BCEFF) Date: 4/17/1952 Description: Large group of circular UFOs. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520417](http://www.nicap.org/nellis520417dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nellis AFB, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_952 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3973 (4F2C6D2D) Date: 4/17/1952 Description: 5:10 a.m. Radar at Caswell Air Force Station \[now closed\] in Limestone, Maine, tracks five unknown targets headed southwest into the US. Three are later identified as off-course civilian airliners, while two remain unidentified. A nationwide Air Defense Readiness Alert is declared at 5:11 a.m. SAC is notified to prepare launch of nuclear missiles. The alert is canceled at 7:40 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Another Radar-Inspired National Alert](http://www.nicap.org/520417atlantic%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1788 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3974 (F1A0AEE0) Date: 4/17/1952 Description: Round, deep orange object fly fast and erratic (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1124) Reference: NICAP: [520417](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/longmead520417dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Longmeadow, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_950 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3975 (40387936) Date: 4/17/1952 Description: Flat-white, circular object flew with an irregular trajectory (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1127) Reference: NICAP: [520417](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/yuma520417dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yuma Test Station, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_951 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3976 (226D79C1) Date: 4/18/1952 Description: 12:07 p.m. Detachment 21 of the 618th Aircraft and Warning Squadron, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, picks up a radar target over the Korea Strait north of Kyushu Island, Japan, moving at 2,700 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object](http://www.nicap.org/520418kyushu%5Fdir.htm) [Tracked at 2,700 MPH](http://www.nicap.org/520418kyushu%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 127 Source ID: Eberhart_1791 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3977 (C810EF32) Date: 4/18/1952 Time: 4 AM Description: Witness: janitor C. Hamilton. One yellow-gold object made a sharp turn and left a short, dark trail during l minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_101 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3978 (519E50A0) Date: 4/18/1952 Time: Time unknown Description: Witness: one radar operator. Tracked unidentified target for 1 minute at 2,700 m.p.h. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 50 miles northwest of Kyushu, Japan (129' 51' E, 34' 19' N) Source ID: BerlinerBBU_100 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3979 (420D4580) Date: 4/18/1952 Time: l0:l0 PM Description: Witness: reporter Chic Shave. One round, yellow-gold object flew south and returned during 1.5 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_99 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3980 (C80B517B) Date: 4/18/1952 Time: l1:30 AM Description: Witnesses: R. Poerstal and three other men. Seven to nine circular, orange-yellow lights in a V-formation flew overhead silently for 4-8 seconds, from south to north. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Bethesda, Maryland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_98 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3981 (FC357E1B) Date: 4/18/1952 Time: Time unknown Description: Witnesses: two Army weather observation students. One flat-white circular object flew for 5-10 seconds in a very erratic manner. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Yuma, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_97 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 3982 (BA701C20) Date: 4/18/1952 Description: 7-9 circular, orange-yellow lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1128) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bethesda, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_954 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3983 (DFFA2339) Date: 4/18/1952 Description: Janitor saw a yellow-gold object make a sharp turn, leaving a short, dark trail. (Berliner; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1129) Reference: NICAP: [520418](http://www.nicap.org/newf520418dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corner Brook, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_955 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3984 (A715DD7E) Date: 4/18/1952 Description: Object Tracked At 2,700 MPH (Berliner; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1130) Reference: NICAP: [520418](http://www.nicap.org/520418kyushu%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kyushu (50 miles northwest of), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_956 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3985 (DE8C0765) Date: 4/18/1952 Description: Round, yellow-gold object fly S then return (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1131) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corner Brook, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_957 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3986 (BAD76125) Date: 4/18/1952 Description: 50 miles northwest of Kyushu, Japan (129.85 E, 34.32 N). Radar tracked an unidentified target for one minute flying at 2,700 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_2106 Source: Johnson ### Event 3987 (44147C50) Date: 4/18/1952 Description: At 4:00 a.m. in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada Mr. C. Hamilton, a janitor, saw a yellow-gold colored spherical object make a sharp turn in the sky. It left a short, dark trail for one minute. Eighteen hours later at 10:10 p.m. a newspaper reporter, Chic Shave, sighted the same round, yellow-gold object as it flew to the south and then returned. His sighting lasted 90 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, April 19, 1952; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_2107 Source: Johnson ### Event 3988 (4FF55F55) Date: 4/18/1952 Description: In Bethesda, Maryland at 11:30 a.m. Mr. R. Poerstal and three other men sighted seven to nine circular, orange-yellow lights in a 40-degree V or U-formation as they flew overhead silently for eight seconds at a high speed, from south to north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1128; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_2108 Source: Johnson ### Event 3989 (4749BB19) Date: 4/18/1952 Description: On this day in Yuma, Arizona two Army weather observation students sighted a flat-white circular object flying in a very erratic manner. The sighting lasted approximately 10 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_2109 Source: Johnson ### Event 3990 (7461A56F) Date: 4/19/1952 Description: 9:20 p.m. USAF Brig. Gen. [Edwin M. Day](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107267/brigadier-general-edwin-m-day/) is reclining on a patio in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, when he sees an object traveling parallel to the ground at a constant altitude \(between 10,000 and 20,000 feet\) and moving in his direction. Its speed is greater than a jet’s. It breaks into two parts at one point but maintains its constant course. He follows it visually for 5–6 seconds until it disappears to the north-northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “When UFOs Were Serious Business: Then and Today,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_1792 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3991 (A3FAC07C) Date: 4/19/1952 Description: At 2:30 p.m. a silvery cigar-shaped object flew over Brooklyn, New York. It had a light orange streak two-thirds of the way to the top of the object for its entire length. It flew into a cloud, causing a sparkling light to emanate from the cloud, and did not emerge. That night in Chestertown, Maryland a yellow-orange disc-shaped UFO that was self-luminous moved through the sky in a zigzag motion. It passed over the eastern horizon in two minutes, leaving a trail. At 10:30 p.m. 50 or more pale orange lights in a V formation were seen flying in the sky over Toronto, Ontario. They crossed 30 degrees of sky in seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los Angeles case files, letter dated April 25, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_2132 Source: Johnson ### Event 3992 (182B123B) Date: 4/20/1952 Description: At 9:15 p.m. several people at a drive-in theatre in Flint, Michigan saw several groups of UFOs fly over. There were two to nine objects in a group, and a total of 20 groups. The UFOs were shaped like "oat kernels" and made changes in direction like conventional aircraft at a high rate of speed, but a red glow surrounded each object. The weather was clear at the time, and the sighting was reported to the Air Force by a Naval Aviation student. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; Project Grudge/Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, May 1955; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 121, citing UNICAT Source ID: Johnson_2153 Source: Johnson ### Event 3993 (7580B574) Date: 4/20/1952 Description: 9:15 p.m. Naval aviation student Edmund Kogut and his wife Shirley are at a drive-in movie theater in Flint, Michigan, when they see several groups of UFOs fly over. There are 2–9 objects in a group and about 20 groups, all flying in a straight line except for some changes in direction accomplished unlike any known aircraft. They are shaped like conventional aircraft but have an odd reddish glow surrounding them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, \[[Flint, Michigan, case](http://nicap.org/docs/520420flint%5Fdocs.pdf) [documents](http://nicap.org/docs/520420flint%5Fdocs.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 128 Source ID: Eberhart_1793 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 3994 (9477F813) Date: 4/20/1952 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a commercial pilot named J. Fidelli, on the ground at McClellan Air Field in Sacramento, California saw eight luminous objects moving in a undulating motion at a high rate of speed. They appeared to be following an aircraft during a landing approach. The formation of objects passed thru 20 degrees of arc in 6-8 seconds. They made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: letter to Civilian Saucer Intelligence from witness dated April 10, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 51 Source ID: Johnson_2154 Source: Johnson ### Event 3995 (5FFB9F7D) Date: 4/20/1952 Description: Twenty Groups of Objects Observed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520420](http://www.nicap.org/520420flint%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Flint, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_958 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3996 (2A89F3F3) Date: 4/20/1952 Description: Pilot Tracks 11 Objects on radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520420](http://www.nicap.org/520420toronto%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toronto (west of), CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_959 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 3997 (167E01F8) Date: 4/20/1952 Description: A dark cylinder was sighted over London, England at 10 o'clock in the morning, flying at 40,000 feet altitude. It was moving from north to south at a speed in excess of 1,500 mph. Jet interceptors couldn't reach or catch it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Toronto (Ontario) Globe & Mail, April 21, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_2152 Source: Johnson ### Event 3998 (8DE139FE) Date: 4/21/1952 Description: At 10:30 a.m. eight crescent-shaped objects flew over Walla Walla, Washington. A dull gray disc with a hump in the middle, looking something like a fin, was seen at 2:30 in the afternoon by the Gmyrek family in Browerville, Minnesota. The disc made no sound at first but as it was fading away behind some trees "we heard a very low hum." It left no vapor trail, and flew at an estimated speed of 300 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Project Blue Book Report # 7, reported dated May 31, 1952; Edward Sullivan, CSI - Los Angeles, citing letter from R. Gmyrek dated June 2, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_2176 Source: Johnson ### Event 3999 (E0ACE456) Date: 4/21/1952 Description: A flying disc was sighted in Tuxedo, Manitoba at 8:26 p.m. Four minutes later several discs and cylindrical UFOs were sighted in Molson, Manitoba. The UFOs were changing colors quickly, and one object stopped in flight, reversed direction, and backtracked by shooting off toward the north. At 10:15 p.m. there were two separate sightings of nocturnal lights glowing green and white in Winnipeg, Manitoba. One of the lights made a ninety-degree turn and turned back in flight toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Winnipeg Free Press, April 23, 1952; Desmond Leslie, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 60; Toronto Daily Star, April 23, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_2177 Source: Johnson ### Event 4000 (EB080D65) Date: 4/22/1952 Description: At 12:30 p.m. MDT, three hours after an atomic bomb test explosion, Mrs. M. Kennedy saw a propeller shaped object moving at high speed and high altitude across the sky from Temple Bar on the Colorado River, Nevada. It took only a few seconds to come into view and then go completely across the sky, heading toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los Angeles files, letter dated June 5, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_2207 Source: Johnson ### Event 4001 (0547DE23) Date: 4/22/1952 Description: At 12:15 p.m. PDT three disc-shaped objects were sighted flying toward the east in a V formation north of Condon, Oregon. They were bottom on the bottom and had silver tops. The larger disc turned and led the formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_2208 Source: Johnson ### Event 4002 (D19B4CC1) Date: 4/22/1952 Description: Elliptical object followed by 2 then another 2 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1144) Reference: NICAP: [520422](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/naha520422dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Naha AFB, Okinawa Source ID: NICAP_DB_960 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4003 (13BB6063) Date: 4/22/1952 Time: 99 PM Description: Witnesses: crew of B-29 bomber, on ground. One elliptical object, followed by two and then another two, each with a white light that blinked every 1-2 seconds as they performed erratic maneuvers for 10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Naha AFB, Okinawa Source ID: BerlinerBBU_102 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4004 (5B1D7CD3) Date: 4/22/1952 Description: The Canadian Defence Research Board establishes a UFO study group that meets for the first time today. Project Second Storey, formed by [Omond M. Solandt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omond%5FSolandt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omond%5FSolandt) DRB chairman, meets at least five times. It is chaired by astrophysicist [Peter M. Millman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FMillman) and includes [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) and representatives from Naval Intelligence, Military Operations and Planning, and the Defence Research Board. At its April 24 meeting, it decides to meet with the US government on UFO matters. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Project Second Storey Minutes, 1952.04.24](http://luforu.org/ottawa-ontario-canada-north-america/)”; Clark III 1078; Good Above, [p. 186](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/186/mode/2up); Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, p. 225– 226 Source ID: Eberhart_1794 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4005 (2A6F6C7D) Date: 4/22/1952 Description: Six military witnesses saw a white elliptical object, three feet in diameter and blinking regularly fly over Naha Air Force Base in Okinawa, Japan at 9:00 p.m. Two more similar looking discs then followed the first, then two more in a procession passed over flying east to west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1144; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 54; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 181; UNICAT, case # 814 Source ID: Johnson_2206 Source: Johnson ### Event 4006 (32186097) Date: 4/23/1952 Description: 10:45 a.m. Engineers [Carl Hawk](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34712578/carl-newton-hawk) and [Marvin Harvey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77517774/marvin-l-harvey) are at Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, when they look up to watch a jet fighter as it shoots to the north above the Sandia Mountains. They also notice a soundless, flat, rectangular, wing-like object streaking through the sky from east to west above Tijeras Canyon. The object is completely black except for a distinct, bright yellow “V” on its bottom. Two slight points extend from its rear corners. Hawk estimates that it is passing overhead at 2,000 feet altitude at 200–400 mph and is roughly 60 feet wide by 20 feet long. They watch it for 10 seconds until it disappears in a cloud above downtown Albuquerque. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[What Soared Against Duke City Sky That Day in April, 1952?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93334249/)”Albuquerque \(N.Mex.\) Tribune, November 21, 1957, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_1796 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4007 (04CEE4C1) Date: 4/23/1952 Description: 9:30 a.m. R. C. Munroe, engineering standards section head for Raytheon Manufacturing Company, notices an object near an AT-6 Texan trainer aircraft above Lexington, Massachusetts. He estimates its altitude at 40,000 feet. It decelerates abruptly and goes into a flat turn. He writes, “It is inconceivable to me that any human being could have withstood the deceleration or acceleration displayed by this aircraft.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 57](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=69&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1795 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4008 (4E397731) Date: 4/24/1952 Description: C-124 Crew Encounter Three Circular Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1147) Reference: NICAP: [520424](http://www.nicap.org/520424bellevue%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bellevue Hill, VT Source ID: NICAP_DB_961 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4009 (EDB5917E) Date: 4/24/1952 Time: 2:30 PM Description: Witnesses: three Cambridge Research Center electronics engineers, one named Buruish. Two flat, red squares flew wobbly in level flight, climbed, levelled out during 1.5 minute observation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Milton, Massachusetts Source ID: BerlinerBBU_104 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4010 (DA81C543) Date: 4/24/1952 Time: 5 AM Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF C-124 transport plane. Three circular, bluish objects in loose "fingertip" formation twice flew parallel to airplane during 3-4 minute period. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Bellevue Hill, Vermont Source ID: BerlinerBBU_103 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4011 (880B6DE3) Date: 4/24/1952 Time: 8:10 PM Description: Witness: USAF light Surgeon Maj. E.L. Ellis. Many orange-amber lights, sometimes separate, sometimes fused, behaved erratically. Speed varied from motionless to very fast during 5 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Clovis, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_105 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4012 (5A89682F) Date: 4/24/1952 Description: Orange-amber lights, sometimes separate, sometimes fused (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1151, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clovis, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_964 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4013 (D9B1CAF3) Date: 4/24/1952 Description: Dark (object) with luminous glow, swept wing, no fuselage. Straight and level maneuvers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520424](http://nicap.org/colsprings520424dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colorado Springs, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_963 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4014 (CA0CAFBF) Date: 4/24/1952 Description: An Air Force Intelligence memorandum to Col. [Frank Dunn](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm), chief of ATIC, transmits nine reports \(not released\) of unidentified submarine objects reported to the Office of Naval Intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 141](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/140/mode/2up), [145](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/144/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1797 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4015 (BB3DD97C) Date: 4/24/1952 Description: Squarish Objects Observed By Tower Crew (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 1148) Reference: NICAP: [520424](http://www.nicap.org/520424milton%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milton, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_962 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4016 (13F1593A) Date: 4/25/1952 Description: Battelle releases its first status report on Project Stork, noting that it has selected a panel of consultants, initiated a news clipping service, and devised a coding scheme for UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Seven Status Reports for](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7.htm) [Project Stork,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7.htm)” CUFON Source ID: Eberhart_1799 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4017 (0F12D629) Date: 4/25/1952 Description: UFO sighted flying over San Jose, CA, near Mt. Hamilton by two scientists, Dr. W (biochemist; name withheld) and Dr. Y (bacteriologist, name also withheld). Description of hovering disk: at about 50 ft. it appeared to be 4 to 5 ft. in diam. The wobble of the disk allowed them to estimate it’s thickness to be approx. 1.5ft. No sound or means of propulsion observed. Later they observed a higher flying silvery disc approx. 100 ft. in diam. Next to it more UFOs appeared and bobbed around like boats in a stream. The objects disappeared around 11:15 a.m. The two scientists decided not to report the incident to Moffett Field for fear of ridicule. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p241) Location: San Jose, CA Source ID: Maj2_452 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4018 (C68DCD4E) Date: 4/25/1952 Description: C-47 Has Near Collision With UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520425](http://www.nicap.org/520425rhein%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rheim-Main AFB, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_965 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4019 (D902F18A) Date: 4/25/1952 Description: 11:00 a.m. A biochemist and a bacteriologist are driving to their office in San Jose, California, when they see a metallic-looking disc rotating around a vertical axis and wobbling. It is moving slowly over the office and is about 4–5 feet in diameter. It flies in a slow arc. Then they see a black object hovering at a high altitude under an overcast. This one is about 100 feet in diameter. Two identical objects come into view out of the clouds. The three objects “jittered about like boats in a stream.” Then the small disc stops spinning, hovers, then shoots upwards, followed by one of the black objects. The remaining two objects linger another minute or so, then take off separately. The episode lasts 15 minutes. The biochemist calls Moffett Field in Santa Clara County, but hangs up before reporting the sighting, which they describe as a “most disturbing experience.” The object “utilized some propulsion method not in the physics books.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Scientist Sighting / Extraordinary Propulsion Implied](http://www.nicap.org/520425sanjose%5Fdir.htm)”; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 241–242 Source ID: Eberhart_1798 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4020 (2AF4268E) Date: 4/25/1952 Description: At three a.m. a shining white metallic disc with legs, a ladder, a tube, and a transparent dome landed in the Serchio River in Liguria, Italy. It shot red beams of light at the witnesses, who were able to avoid being hit by them by jumping into a ditch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Marco Marianti, FSR, June 1977, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_2291 Source: Johnson ### Event 4021 (CC20320A) Date: 4/25/1952 Description: Scientists close encounter with small daylight disc (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520425](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520425dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Jose, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_966 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4022 (4F9161BF) Date: 4/27/1952 Time: 8:30 PM Description: Witnesses: M/Sgt. and Mrs. G.S. Porter (he was off-duty control tower operator). Bright red or flame-colored discs, appearing as large as fighter planes. Seven sightings of one disc, one of two in formation during 2 hours. All seen below 11,000' overcast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Yuma, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_107 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4023 (9CEA8D96) Date: 4/27/1952 Description: 11:06 pm. Witness observed an object approximately 200 feet in daiameter and approximately 200 feet off the ground. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/pontiac520427dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pontiac, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_968 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4024 (BD2752E9) Date: 4/27/1952 Description: At 8:30 p.m. Master Sgt. G. S. Porter, an off-duty control tower operator, and his wife observed two bright red or flame-colored discs that appeared in the sky over Yuma, Arizona. They were said to be as large as fighter planes. They had seven sightings of one disc, and two objects that they saw flying in formation. They watched the UFOs for a total of two hours. All were seen below an 11,000-foot overcast sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1163; UNICAT database, case # 818; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 59; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_2364 Source: Johnson ### Event 4025 (33EBF0CF) Date: 4/27/1952 Description: Bright red or flame-colored discs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1163) Reference: NICAP: [520427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/yuma520427dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yuma, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_970 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4026 (522B6A04) Date: 4/27/1952 Description: Silver oval roll, descend and stop (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1160) Reference: NICAP: [520427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/roseville520427dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roseville, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_967 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4027 (AC35DC92) Date: 4/27/1952 Time: 4:15 PM Description: Witnesses: H.A. Freytag and three male relatives, including a minister. One silver oval rolled, descended and stopped. Two silver cigar-shaped objects appeared, one departing to the east and one to the west. A third silver cigar-shaped object flew by at high speed. Sightings lasted 45 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Roseville, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_106 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4028 (9A795C7E) Date: 4/27/1952 Description: Witness observed an object approximately 200 feet in daiameter and approximately 200 feet off the ground (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520427](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/pontiac520427dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Birmingham, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_969 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4029 (A4B68F0B) Date: 4/27/1952 Description: A Ground Observer Corps member (GOC) in Waskish, Minnesota sighted a silent aluminum colored cigar-shaped object that flew over 30 miles to the north in less than one minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Report #6, report dated April 30, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 60 Source ID: Johnson_2363 Source: Johnson ### Event 4030 (CA2D6516) Date: 4/27/1952 Description: At 4:15 p.m. H. A. Freytag and three male relatives, including a minister, sighted a silver oval-shaped UFO that rolled across the sky in Roseville, Michigan. The UFO descended and stopped. Two silver cigar-shaped objects appeared, one departing to the east and one to the west. A third silver cigar-shaped object flew by at high speed. These sightings lasted for 45 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1160; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 61; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_2362 Source: Johnson ### Event 4031 (73B2A917) Date: 4/28/1952 Description: Two civilian witnesses reported to the Air Force that an object in the SE that resembled a white parachute was apparently circling a large airplane for about three minutes. Not listed in BB unknowns (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520428](http://nicap.org/home520428dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Homewood, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_971 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4032 (EF8D88DE) Date: 4/29/1952 Description: Private pilot saw a round white object fly straight with side-to-side oscillation (Berliner; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: 1167) Reference: NICAP: [520429](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/marshall520429dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marshall, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_972 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4033 (17AC9DF7) Date: 4/29/1952 Description: B-29 Encounters Pulsing Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1168) Reference: NICAP: [520429](http://www.nicap.org/520429goodland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goodland (North of ), KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_973 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4034 (F276AE74) Date: 4/29/1952 Description: At 3:30 p.m. on this same day in Marshall, Texas private pilot R. R. Weidman sighted a round, white object that flew straight and low but with a side-to-side oscillation for 1.5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1167; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_2404 Source: Johnson ### Event 4035 (5C6AC01F) Date: 4/29/1952 Description: An Air Force memorandum written to justify a trip by Lt. Col. E. Sterling and [Stefan Possony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%5FThomas%5FPossony) to Europe mentions that their work for USAF Intelligence’s “Special Study Group” is to evaluate Soviet advanced aerial delivery systems, as well as to shed “some much needed light” on the “vexing ‘flying saucer’ problem.” It adds that the “Air Force cannot assume that flying saucers are of non-terrestrial origin, and hence, they could be Soviet.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 10; Swords 151 Source ID: Eberhart_1801 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4036 (9105CCD6) Date: 4/29/1952 Description: Secretary of the Air Force [Thomas K. Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter) issues Air Force Letter 200-5, which directs intelligence officers at every base to report UFOs immediately to ATIC and all major USAF commands. It enables Project Blue Book staff to communicate directly with any Air Force base without going through the normal chain of command, and provides for wire transmission of reports to ATIC, followed with details via air mail. AFL 200-5 is modified by AFR 200-2 in 1953. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Department of the Air Force, “[Unidentified Flying Objects Reporting,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFL%5F200-5.pdf)” Air Force Letter 200-5, April 29, 1952; Ruppelt, [pp. 132–133](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/132/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1800 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4037 (47C6288A) Date: 4/29/1952 Time: 3:30 PM Description: Witness: private pilot R.R. Weidman. One round, white object which flew straight, with a side-to-side oscillation for 1.5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Marshall, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_108 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4038 (F5438F8C) Date: 4/29/1952 Description: While flying over Goodland, Kansas at one o'clock in the afternoon, B-29 bombardier Lt. R. H. Bauer sighted a white fan-shaped light that pulsed 8 times per second for four seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1167; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_2403 Source: Johnson ### Event 4039 (F596B7EA) Date: 4/29/1952 Time: 100 PM Description: Witness: B-29 bombardier Lt. R.H. Bauer. One white fan-shaped light pulsed 3-4 times per second for 2 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Goodland, Kansas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_109 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4040 (AA9238BC) Date: 4/30/1952 Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#6. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 95–112 Source ID: Eberhart_1802 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4041 (2F3B1960) Date: 4/30/1952 Description: Radar tracking of 4,000 mph first (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520430](http://www.nicap.org/520430moriartydir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moriarty AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_974 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4042 (0794444E) Date: 4/30/1952 Description: At 6:00 p.m. two whitish-silver disc-shaped objects rumbled high in the sky over a valley in Korea at the front lines of the Korean War, according to military witnesses Webb, Jones, and Smith. Later two anomalous holes, 25 feet apart and two feet wide by 7.5 feet wide, were found in the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 63 Source ID: Johnson_2419 Source: Johnson ### Event 4043 (5BE8A63E) Date: 4/30/1952 Description: 6:00 p.m. Six members of the 3rd Platoon, Heavy Mortar Company, 180th Infantry Regiment at the front lines around Panmunjeom, Korea, see two silvery wingless objects, one behind the other, flying in a valley in a southeasterly direction. Pfc H. B. Webb thinks they are flying at 900–1,000 mph. Some slower northbound F-86 Sabre jets pass above them. They make a rumbling sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Haines, Korea, [p. 63](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch4.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1803 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4044 (A1B6E20E) Date: 5/1952 Description: Target Follows Sweep (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520500](http://www.nicap.org/520500willowgrovedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: NAS, Willow Grove, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_975 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4045 (A884B37C) Date: 5/1952 Description: Army radar specialist Jay Nogle is stationed near Washington, D.C., when he picks up an unknown target on his M33 scope at an altitude of 18,000 feet about 130 miles from the capital \(which would put it over eastern Pennsylvania\). Two other Army units also detect the object, which remains stationary for 30 minutes before moving. By the time the object reaches the edge of the radar scope, it is traveling at 1,000 mph. The report goes all the way to the Pentagon, where orders are given to fire on it if it returns. Nogle says that radar targets are frequently seen in May or June, and units have their antiaircraft guns loaded after the first incident. When fighters are scrambled from McGuire AFB \[now part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst\] in Burlington County, New Jersey, the targets move speedily out of range. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 153 Source ID: Eberhart_1804 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4046 (5B8C979F) Date: 5/1/1952 Description: The Case of the Missing Report (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520501](http://www.nicap.org/520501davismonthan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson (Davis-Monthan AFB), AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_977 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4047 (884A392D) Date: 5/1/1952 Description: 1:45 p.m. Albuquerque Journal composing room employee Eugene Cline sees four silvery objects seemingly playing tag with a formation of 12 Air Force bombers—either B-29s or B-50s—flying west over Albuquerque, New Mexico. The round objects are keeping up with the planes at the same altitude, moving in a “tumbling or pitching manner.” One object shoots straight up and takes off in a southerly direction. About the same time, workmen \(one of them Howard Burgess\) erecting an antenna at nearby Sandia Base watch three UFOs pass directly overhead. One comes from the west and moves south; another comes from the north and moves south; and a third, tan-colored rather than silver like the others, passes low overhead and looks like a “cylinder tumbling end over end.” Burgess and the others are debriefed and sworn to secrecy about what they have witnessed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Saucers Play Tag with Bombers over City,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5965299/albuquerque-journal/)” Albuquerque \(N.Mex.\) Journal, May 2, 1952, p. 2; Nukes 56–58 Source ID: Eberhart_1809 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4048 (59C281F4) Date: 5/1/1952 Description: At 10:50 a.m. several Air Force officers and enlisted men at George AFB in San Bernardino County, California watched five flat, white discs make a sudden 90 degree turn, then disappear. The sighting lasted half a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1176; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 107; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 108; UNICAT database, case 263, citing J. Allen Hynek, Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 261; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 401 Source ID: Johnson_2437 Source: Johnson ### Event 4049 (38E16778) Date: 5/1/1952 Description: At 5:32 a.m. two men who worked for the Atomic Energy Commission, Eggan and Shipley, sighted a silver, wingless object at Moses Lake, Washington for 90 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1174; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 261 Source ID: Johnson_2436 Source: Johnson ### Event 4050 (6231C345) Date: 5/1/1952 Description: 10:50 a.m. At George AFB \[now Southern California Logistics Airport\] near Victorville, California, five independent witnesses in the base control tower see a group of five white discs moving in formation for about 30 seconds. The objects appear very maneuverable, seem to almost collide, then break away in a right-angle turn. They are traveling an estimated 900–1,200 mph and are 1,000–1,200 feet in diameter. Four miles away at Apple Valley, California, the base’s wing director of personnel, playing on a golf course, sees one of the UFOs at the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[George AFB / Apple Valley, CA Radar Case](http://www.nicap.org/520501george%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 107–109](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/106/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 131; Swords 147–148; Good Need, [p. 166](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/166/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 10, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1808 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4051 (4713F289) Date: 5/1/1952 Description: 9:10 a.m. Air intelligence officer Maj. [Rudolph Pestalozzi](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31478705/rudolph%5Fpestalozzi%5Fobituary/) and an airman standing outside the Davis-Monthan AFB base hospital, Tucson, Arizona, watch two shiny, round objects overtake a B-36 flying above. The objects slow down to match the plane’s speed and remain in formation with them for 20 seconds. Then they make a sharp, no-radius turn away from the B-36, moving away a bit. Then one of the objects stops and hovers. Both are silent, and the crew estimates they have a diameter of 20–25 feet and a thickness of 10–12 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The](http://www.nicap.org/520501davismonthan%5Fdir.htm) [Case of the Missing Report](http://www.nicap.org/520501davismonthan%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 109–112](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/108/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/108/mode/2up) [292–294](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/292/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 131; Good Need, [pp. 166–](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/166/mode/2up) [167](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/166/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1807 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4052 (76D65AAA) Date: 5/1/1952 Description: Civilian AEC employees observed a slow moving wingless silver object at 5,000 feet altitude in the Hanford area (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1174) Reference: NICAP: [520501](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/moses520501dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moses Lake, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_976 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4053 (68CFC182) Date: 5/1/1952 Description: Two disc-shaped UFOs approached close to B-36 bomber, also seen from ground Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ Source ID: HallUFOE2_1 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 4054 (C88EC7AC) Date: 5/1/1952 Time: 10:50 AM Description: Witnesses: three men on the arms range, plus one Lt. Colonel 4 miles away. Five flat-white discs about the diameter of a C-47's wingspan (95') flew fast, made a 90^ turn in a formation of three in front and two behind, and darted around, for 15-30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: George AFB, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_111 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4055 (5B74A54B) Date: 5/1/1952 Time: 5:32 AM Description: Witnesses: Two Atomic Energy Commission employees, Eggan and Shipley. One silver object without wings flew straight and level for 1.5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Moses Lake, Washington Source ID: BerlinerBBU_110 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4056 (826EFAA7) Date: 5/1/1952 Description: 5 flat white discs about the diameter of a C-47's wingspan (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1176) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520501](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520501georgedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: George AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_978 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4057 (34B42554) Date: Early 5/1952 Description: 10:00 p.m. A senior CIA official is having a lawn party at his home near Alexandria, Virginia, for some VIPs. He and two others notice a light approaching silently from the west. It stops then climbs almost vertically, stops again, then levels out. Then it goes into a nearly vertical dive, levels out, and streaks off to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 135–136](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/134/mode/2up); Swords 148 Source ID: Eberhart_1805 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4058 (0DCE0816) Date: Early 5/1952 Description: A meeting is held in the Pentagon office of [Stefan Possony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%5FThomas%5FPossony), acting chief of the Directorate of Intelligence Study Group under Maj. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) to hear Harvard University astronomer [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) express his views. Present are Possony, Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt), ATIC chief Col. [Frank Dunn](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Dunn.htm) Brig. Gen. [William M.](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/) [Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/) Possony’s assistant [Leslie Rosenzweig](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Rosenzweig%5FL.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Rosenzweig%5FL.htm) and one other officer. Menzel announces that he has solved all UFO reports and claims to have helped out in the development of the cameras in Project Twinkle. His attitude irks everyone in the meeting. When he asks the Air Force to support his views in upcoming publications in Time and Look, Gen. Garland gets angry. Col. Dunn says that Blue Book would have put some money into more formal versions of his experiments, but he can only offer a statement that Menzel has told them of his theory. Now Menzel gets agitated, saying it is no theory. He refuses to leave them a copy of his book to pass on to [Joseph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) [Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) and [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) In the evening, Possony speaks with astronomer Francis J. Heyden at Georgetown University, who tells him that Menzel’s work is based on no more than a “couple of meaningless high school physics experiments.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 743; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days, Part 2,” IUR 32, no. 2 \(December 2008\): 9; Swords 152 Source ID: Eberhart_1806 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4059 (6DBFD16C) Date: 5/3/1952 Description: On this day two bright discs played tag in the sky over Warragul, Victoria, Australia. They then joined together, merged into one object, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 69; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2146 Source ID: Johnson_2466 Source: Johnson ### Event 4060 (337FA7D7) Date: 5/3/1952 Description: At dawn in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia at least 13 witnesses, including pilots and the RAAF, witnessed a huge "flying submarine" with flashing lights. It was reported to be huge, three times larger than an airliner. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 45; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 68; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2147 Source ID: Johnson_2465 Source: Johnson ### Event 4061 (1DCB468A) Date: 5/3/1952 Description: On this evening three men in Chestertown, Maryland heard a strange whooshing noise. Looking up, they saw a black speck, high in the sky, moving back and forth. It went straight up out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence/Los Angeles investigation files, letter from E. Mifflin dated May 5, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_2467 Source: Johnson ### Event 4062 (143B1DD4) Date: 5/5/1952 Description: On this day two silver discs were sighted by over a dozen witnesses near the Vanadium Corporation's uranium processing plant in Durango, Colorado. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 72 Source ID: Johnson_2533 Source: Johnson ### Event 4063 (0B009962) Date: 5/5/1952 Description: 6-7 objects translucent, cream-yellow (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1183) Reference: NICAP: [520505](http://www.nicap.org/tenafly520505dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tenafly, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_980 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4064 (8B1E8902) Date: 5/5/1952 Time: 10:45 PM Description: Witness: Mrs. M.M. Judson. Six or seven translucent, cream-yellow objects. One moved in an ellipse, while the others moved in and out. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tenafly, New Jersey Source ID: BerlinerBBU_112 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4065 (21075F93) Date: 5/5/1952 Description: At 10:50 p.m. six to seven translucent cream-colored objects were sighted over Tenafly, New Jersey. One object circled the area, while another flew away and then came back. This case is listed as a Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1183; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 261 Source ID: Johnson_2534 Source: Johnson ### Event 4066 (D051C4B1) Date: 5/7/1952 Time: 12:15 PM Description: Witnesses: Capt. Morris, a Master Sergeant, a Staff Sergeant, and an Airman First Class. Ten times, an aluminum or silver cylindrical object was seen to dart in and out of the clouds during a 5-10 minute period. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Keesler AFB, Mississippi Source ID: BerlinerBBU_113 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4067 (E037FBCF) Date: 5/7/1952 Description: Five very clear photographs were taken on this day at 4:30 p.m. in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They show a disc-shaped object with a double protuberance on top. Its estimated size was 300 feet in diameter. An apparent discrepancy with some shadows was explained by the Brazilian UFO investigator, Dr. Olavo T. Fontes, as having been due to some broken leaves. The witnesses were named Keffel and Martins. The Brazilian Air Force conclusion on the photos is that the "object is several kilometers from the camera." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, July 1973, p. 1; UNICAT, case # 402, citing Stendek; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, photo plate 2; William K. Hartmann, in Edward Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 415 Source ID: Johnson_2614 Source: Johnson ### Event 4068 (1E68A1FB) Date: 5/7/1952 Description: 12:15 p.m. A Captain Morris and three enlisted men at Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Mississippi, see one or two aluminum or silver cylindrical objects darting in and out of the clouds 10 times. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[Blue Book case report](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520507keesler%5Fdoc2.pdf)\]”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 131 Source ID: Eberhart_1811 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4069 (EBFF5891) Date: 5/7/1952 Description: 4:30 p.m. Magazine writer Ed Keffel, in the company of João Martins, takes five photographs of a UFO over Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the first, the UFO resembles an airplane coming directly toward them over a large group of trees. The second shows the object as disc-shaped. The third photo is taken as the object tilts slightly, showing both the top with a slight dome and the now obvious disc shape. More trees, including a very tall palm, can be seen in the photograph. The fourth picture, taken as the object tilts the other way, shows a raised ring on the bottom. The final picture is taken as the object is nearly vertical, seen over part of the ocean and some distant hills. The UFO disappears shortly afterward. NICAP does not see any negatives and is skeptical. The Colorado project finds a “glaring internal inconsistency” in the illumination and dismisses the photos as hoaxes. Today, the best evidence seems to suggest the case is a hoax, perpetrated by two magazine writers who wanted an interesting story. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Barra da Tijuca Photos](http://www.nicap.org/520507barra%5Fda%5Ftijuca%5Fdir.htm)”; Olavo T. Fontes, “[The Barra da Tijuca Disc,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201961%2010%2000%20-%20October%5FSpecial%5Freport%5Fon%5FBarra%5Fda%5FTijuca.pdf)” APRO Special Report no. 1 \(October 1961\): 1–6; Condon, [pp. 83,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/82/mode/2up) [415–418](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/414/mode/2up); Swords 460–461; Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga, “Os 90 Anos do O Cruzeiro, a Revista que Inaugurou a Era Moderna dos Discos Voadores no Brasil,” October 11, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_1812 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4070 (D8872697) Date: 5/7/1952 Description: Aluminum or silver cylindrical object dart in and out of the clouds 10 times. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1185) Reference: NICAP: [520507](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/keesler520507dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Keesler AFB, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_981 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4071 (75E4DDB0) Date: 5/7/1952 Description: Brazil photos (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520507](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/barradir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barra da Tijuca, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_982 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4072 (B2F4B093) Date: 5/7/1952 Description: 12:22 a.m. Mrs. Hanley Marks sees a light-green, ball-shaped object fall from the sky into the Sandia Mountains, New Mexico, from her home in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Albuquerque. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Fireball Falls near](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93334929/) [Sandias Early Today,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93334929/)” Albuquerque Journal, May 7, 1952, p. 1; “[Green Fireball Falls in Southwest, Three Here](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93334874/) [Report,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93334874/)” Albuquerque Journal, May 7, 1952, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_1810 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4073 (4B82C02B) Date: 5/8/1952 Description: Pan American Airlines flight 203 was flying 600 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida over the Atlantic Ocean at 2:27 a.m. when the pilot and co-pilot encountered three round, white lights in a line that buzzed their aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 177; UNICAT database, case #345, citing Ruppelt; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 132; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 77 Source ID: Johnson_2649 Source: Johnson ### Event 4074 (249F2C18) Date: 5/8/1952 Description: Three UAO Sighted By Constellation Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520508](http://www.nicap.org/520508atlantic%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jacksonville (over the Atlantic 600 Miles E of), FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_983 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4075 (74F1AC0D) Date: 5/8/1952 Description: Capt. Ruppelt and a Lt. Col. from ATIC briefed Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter for one hour. Type: briefing Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 185](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_869 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4076 (1098A8C5) Date: 5/8/1952 Description: Air Force Secretary [Thomas Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter) and his staff \(including his special assistant, covert CIA agent [Joseph](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993) [Bryan III](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993)\) receive a secret one-hour briefing on UFOs from [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and Lt. Col. R. J. Taylor that covers USAF investigations over the previous five years. Finletter asks questions about some specific sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p.](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/138/mode/2up) [138](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/138/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1814 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4077 (9569F24A) Date: 5/8/1952 Description: 2:27 a.m. Pan American Airways pilot Clayton C. Gallagher and his copilot, flying a Lockheed Constellation aircraft at 8,000 feet en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to New York, see a light, 10 times the size of an airplane landing light, approach them over the Atlantic Ocean east of South Carolina. It streaks past their left wing about a quarter mile away, followed by two smaller orange balls of fire. Probable meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Three](http://www.nicap.org/520508atlantic%5Fdir.htm) [UAO Sighted by Constellation Crew](http://www.nicap.org/520508atlantic%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 131 Source ID: Eberhart_1813 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4078 (FAD82669) Date: 5/9/1952 Description: At 12:10 a.m. a ghostly domed saucer circled the powerplant in Mishawaka, Indiana. It flew off quickly toward St. Joseph Airport. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2154, citing Project Blue Book; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_2674 Source: Johnson ### Event 4079 (ADD99353) Date: 5/9/1952 Description: 1194-2 2 \[3?\] PM MST - dull white arrowhead-shaped object fly straight and level (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: George AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_985 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4080 (AEBEF4B2) Date: 5/9/1952 Description: 1194-1 Two F-86 Pilots Sight Round Silver Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520509](http://nicap.org/520509georgeafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: George AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_984 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4081 (58A542C2) Date: 5/9/1952 Time: 5:20 PM Description: Witness: A/lc G.C. Grindeland. One dull white, arrowhead-shaped object flew straight and level for 10 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: George AFB, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_114 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4082 (12EE35D8) Date: 5/9/1952 Description: Two F-86 pilots saw a round, silver object flying north from George AFB, California at 10:20 a.m. A Project Blue Book "unknown." At 12:30 two more UFOs were seen moving with the current or breeze at a slow speed. They were silver metallic in color, with a dark spot in the center, and at certain angles gave off a glare. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1194A & 1194B; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns; Michael Hall, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers -- 1952, p. 100 Source ID: Johnson_2675 Source: Johnson ### Event 4083 (B6428F3B) Date: 5/10/1952 Description: Luminous circular object rise from sea level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520510](http://www.nicap.org/paphos520510dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paphos, SW, Cyprus Source ID: NICAP_DB_987 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4084 (C825DB47) Date: 5/10/1952 Description: UFO Incident at Savannah River (AEC) Plant (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1198, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520510](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/savannah520510dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Ellenton, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_988 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4085 (370D280A) Date: 5/10/1952 Description: 10:45 p.m. Four employees of DuPont Corporation at the AEC’s Savannah River Laboratory near Jackson, South Carolina, see four disc-shaped objects approach, then two other discs pass high overhead from different directions. They are a luminous yellow-gold color and move at a high rate of speed. One of the discs approaches at such a low altitude that it must ascend to pass over some tall tanks at the facility. One witness says that the objects are weaving from left to right while continuing on a steady course. The case is investigated by the FBI and passed on to the Pentagon and the Atomic Energy Commission. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Objects Sighted near Vital](http://www.nicap.org/520510savannah%5Fdir.htm) [Installation](http://www.nicap.org/520510savannah%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 132; Nukes 84 Source ID: Eberhart_1817 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4086 (DCADF4DD) Date: 5/10/1952 Time: 10:45 PM Description: Witnesses: 4 duPont employees at the Savannah River nuclear plant. Up to four yellow, disc-shaped objects were seen on five occasions between 10:45 and shortly after 11:15. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ellenton, South Carolina Source ID: BerlinerBBU_115 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4087 (107CE0A0) Date: 5/10/1952 Description: 8:30 p.m. A British scientist and others at Paphos, Cyprus, see a luminous circular object rise from the sea and waver back and forth before fading from sight directly overhead. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 132; Good Above, [p. 540](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/540/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1816 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4088 (C45B8FA1) Date: 5/10/1952 Description: 3:00 p.m. USAF Lt. Col. Maurice G. Bechtel and his wife are in the yard of their home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when they see two silvery disc-shaped objects flying straight and level, one after the other, moving southwest to northeast at above 20,000 feet. The first object seems to waver on its axis, the second object follows a similar path but at a higher altitude. The first object is the size of a B-36 at high altitude. Bechtel alerts the radar station but it is unable to track the objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Discs Observed by Lt. Colonel and Wife](http://www.nicap.org/520510albuq%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 132 Source ID: Eberhart_1815 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4089 (9FB9D3C4) Date: 5/10/1952 Description: Saw 2 silvery disc-shaped objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520510](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/albuq520510dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_986 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4090 (A492C427) Date: 5/10/1952 Description: At 11:40 p.m. four yellow disc-shaped objects approached the Savannah River AEC nuclear facility near Ellenton, South Carolina from the south at a very low altitude. They flew straight and level for a short period of time, but they had to rise to pass over tall tanks on the ground. They made no sound, and weaved left to right as they flew. Four DuPont workers were the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Report #7, May 31, 1952; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1198; George D. Fawcett, Rense.com, citing Look, June 24, 1952; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 262 Source ID: Johnson_2711 Source: Johnson ### Event 4091 (6277B395) Date: 5/10/1952 Description: RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report signed by Col. William L. Travis, Chief USAF Intelligence Division. stating: at 2030 hours, in the city of Paphos, S.W. Cypress, a group of persons including a noted British Scientist sighted an UFO which appeared to rise sharply from the level of the sea and disappeared into the sky. It was of a circular shape and emitted a luminous light. It appeared to waver back and forth before fading out of sight directly overhead. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p540) Location: Paphos, Cypress Source ID: Maj2_453 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4092 (9AE01C59) Date: 5/11/1952 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: George AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_989 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4093 (83046C1C) Date: 5/12/1952 Description: An object was seen that was blue-green in color and its estimated altitude above the terrain was 30,000 to 40,000 feet. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520512](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520512roswelldir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roswell (near), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_990 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4094 (5EA64838) Date: 5/12/1952 Description: A restricted military document shows that a UFO was sighted at 2145 hours UST 40 miles west of Roswell, New Mexico. The object was blue-green in color and its estimated altitude was 30,000-40,000 feet. The object traveled three times over approximately the same triangular course. The rate of speed could not be estimated precisely, but was faster than a jet aircraft. The intensity of its color brightness varied with the object's altitude Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fran Ridge, http://www.nicap.org/waves/1952fullrep.htm, citing AF Form 112 Source ID: Johnson_2754 Source: Johnson ### Event 4095 (72706D1F) Date: 5/12/1952 Description: “Blue Flash” phenomenon reported over Seattle on front page of NY Times, reported as possible meteor but meteorologists were not convinced as it did not follow the usual patterns Type: anomalous phenomenon Reference: [Dr. Leon Davidson](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) Reference: [NY Times](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/05/12/84315928.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0) Location: Seattle, WA Source ID: Maj2_454 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4096 (6A500D29) Date: 5/12/1952 Description: 8:45 p.m. A UFO is seen by Walker AFB T/Sgt. Raymond Bare in a car in downtown Roswell, New Mexico. The object is blue-green in color, and its estimated altitude above the terrain is 20,000–30,000 feet. It appears to be about 40–50 miles distant over some low mountains east of Ruidosa. The object travels three times over approximately the same south-to-north / east-to-west, swaying, triangular course. Rate of speed cannot be precisely estimated but is faster than that of jet aircraft. Intensity of color brightness varies with the object’s altitude. The Air Force explains it as the planet Venus, but Venus is on the other side of the earth at the time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[High-Speed Object Maneuvers over Mountains](http://www.nicap.org/520512roswell%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 390–391; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 132 Source ID: Eberhart_1818 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4097 (C71D947B) Date: 5/13/1952 Description: 10:33 p.m. James Richardson and three other amateur astronomers \(among them [Cyril Thomas Wyche](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142432399/cyril-thomas-wyche) and [Harry B. Mooney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23310388/harry-balch-mooney)\), set up telescopes at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, when they see a diamond formation of 4 oval, reddish-yellow or reddish-brown luminous objects nearly overhead. They disappear after 3 seconds moving through a 12° arc. The apparent size is a half dollar at arms length. They wobble in flight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Diamond Formation of 4 Objects Observed by Astronomers](http://www.nicap.org/520513greenville%5Fdir.htm)”; Willy Smith, “Blue Book Pearls: Greenville, S.C.,” IUR 20, no. 3 \(May/June 1995\): 8–9, 24; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 133; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 10, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1820 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4098 (C1E82812) Date: 5/13/1952 Description: 4 oval reddish-yellow or reddish-brown luminous objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520513](http://www.nicap.org/520513greenville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenville, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_992 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4099 (C19DC8F2) Date: 5/13/1952 Description: F9F Encounters "Shooting Star" (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520513](http://www.nicap.org/520513elcentro%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Centro NAS, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_993 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4100 (6FAEC913) Date: 5/13/1952 Description: Meteor-like obj seen descending in a curving path to the northwest over the San Diego Bay area (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520513](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/natcity520513dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: National City, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_994 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4101 (66FE5D35) Date: 5/13/1952 Description: Observers In T-6 Watch Round Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520513](http://nicap.org/520513georgeafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: George AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_991 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4102 (9C700729) Date: 5/13/1952 Description: 8:55 p.m. Aeronautical engineer Donald R. Carr sees a meteor-like object descend over National City, California, flying a curving path to the northwest. At 9:25 p.m., Carr watches a similar object, seemingly returning from the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 4](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=16&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1819 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4103 (9A9FFCC5) Date: 5/13/1952 Description: At 10:33 p.m. EST in Greenville, South Carolina James Richardson and three other amateur astronomers set up telescopes in a dark area of Furman University, when they saw a box or diamond formation of four oval dull glowing, reddish object nearly overhead. They were the apparent size of a half dollar at arms length, one-quarter turned and wobbling in flight. They disappeared after 3 seconds after moving through 12 degrees of arc. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Report #8; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 148; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 181, UNICAT, case 705 Source ID: Johnson_2792 Source: Johnson ### Event 4104 (07B8EABD) Date: 5/13/1952 Description: At 3:15 a.m PST an F9F pilot taking off from El Centro Naval Air Station, California saw what appeared to be a shooting star diving at an angle of 60 degrees. At around the same time the El Centro's Sheriff's Office received reports of five "flying saucers" as large as B-36's with a light underneath. They disappeared to the southwest at terrific speed. All together there were four separate reports of UFOs in the El Centro area on this date. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Report #7 Source ID: Johnson_2791 Source: Johnson ### Event 4105 (1E6319B6) Date: 5/13/1952 Description: On this morning a cigar-shaped object flew back and forth in the sky several times over the town of Alcobaca, Portugal before "blowing up." Over the town of Santarem, Portugal a dazzingly brilliant sphere that left a vapor trail was observed for several minutes. Later that evening at 7:20 p.m. two orange balls of light were sighted over the shoreline of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. One of the object hovered while the second object darted out and back. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 78; (2) Edward Sullivan, letter from Garcia-Mendez dated May 14, 1952 to Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Los Angeles Source ID: Johnson_2790 Source: Johnson ### Event 4106 (8FAEE006) Date: 5/14/1952 Description: T-6G Crew Encounters Hovering Metallic-Looking Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520514](http://www.nicap.org/520514georgeafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: George AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_995 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4107 (1C7BF440) Date: 5/14/1952 Description: 2 shining orange spheres (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1213) Reference: NICAP: [520514](http://nicap.org/puerto520514dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mayaquez, Puerto Rico Source ID: NICAP_DB_996 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4108 (D09AA696) Date: 5/14/1952 Time: 7 PM Description: Witnesses: Attorney and ex-USAF pilot Mr. Stipes, Sr. Garcia-Mendez. Two shining orange spheres: one was stationary, while the other darted away and back for 30 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Mayaquez, Puerto Rico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_116 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4109 (CA5C4062) Date: 5/15/1952 Description: An U.S.A.F. F-51 aircraft flying over North Korea watched an unidentified object following a jet interceptor at 6:35 p.m. The object was subsequently in front of the F-51, with a positive radar lock-on. At 6,000 yards distance the object pulled away with an acceleration of 20 G's. At 8:00 p.m. a silvery oval object was seen below two F-86E jets flying south of Changson-Ni, North Korea at 8,000-10,000 altitude. The object was estimated to be 20 miles away, and travelled at a speed of 1,200 -1,500 mph in a "rolling maneuver." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_2849 Source: Johnson ### Event 4110 (2F276A43) Date: 5/15/1952 Description: (11 AM) silvery oval shaped object larger than a MiG jet airplane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520515](http://www.nicap.org/520515nkorea1%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: S of Changsong-ni and N of Nangnim Mt \- #1, North Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_997 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4111 (1968B3EF) Date: 5/15/1952 Description: (6 PM) silvery oval shaped object larger than a MiG jet airplane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520515](http://www.nicap.org/520515nkorea2%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: S of Changsong-ni and N of Nangnim Mt \- #2, North Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_998 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4112 (18AEC07A) Date: 5/15/1952 Description: Soft golden glowing oval object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520515](http://nicap.org/georgetown520515dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_999 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4113 (5720AEF0) Date: 5/15/1952 Description: 8:00 p.m. Two F-86E pilots of the 61st Fighter-Interceptor Wing are on a mission in North Korea when they see a silvery disc larger than a MiG aircraft 20 miles away and below them at 8,000–10,000 feet. Seen for only 3– 5 seconds, the object is traveling at 1,200–1,500 mph in a rolling maneuver. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Haines, Korea, [p. 39](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch3.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1823 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4114 (35FD9F2C) Date: 5/15/1952 Description: 6:35 p.m. The pilot of an F-51 assigned to the 18th Fighter Bomber Group flying at 9,000 feet over North Korea encounters a silver object estimated to be 50 feet in diameter. It appears ahead of him to the right and begins climbing at 1,000 mph to the east, pauses, then descends into some haze. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Haines, Korea, [pp. 39–40](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch3.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1822 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4115 (358B2596) Date: 5/15/1952 Description: USAF Intelligence Special Study Group Chief Lieut. Col. E. Sterling and [Stefan Possony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%5FThomas%5FPossony) begin a five-week temporary duty trip to Europe to study Soviet missiles and aircraft. As a side project they study “flying saucers” that might be of Soviet origin. No documents have yet been found on this trip’s results. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 151 Source ID: Eberhart_1821 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4116 (FC385DB2) Date: 5/16/1952 Description: On this night a luminous object like a "glass lit from the inside" moved silently across the sky in Malung, Kopparberg, Sweden. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 78 Source ID: Johnson_2883 Source: Johnson ### Event 4117 (B21D5738) Date: 5/18/1952 Description: Four amateur astronomers observed a diamond-shaped formation, oval shaped objects, wobbled in flight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenville, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1000 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4118 (DCECA7DC) Date: 5/19/1952 Description: RB-36 Crew Sees Seven Stacked Donuts (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520519](http://www.nicap.org/520519sanangelo%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Angelo (30 miles SW of), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1001 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4119 (2EBED0FF) Date: 5/20/1952 Time: l0:l0 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF pilots Capt. J. Spurgin and Capt. BB. Stephan. One bright or white oval object moved from side-to-side while making a gradual turn for 90 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Houston, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_117 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4120 (091E0B3A) Date: 5/20/1952 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 103.5km (Army training test. Also designated TF-2) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 103.5km Source ID: Maj2_455 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4121 (2516C6E1) Date: 5/20/1952 Description: Bright or white oval object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1219) Reference: NICAP: [520520](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/houston520520dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1003 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4122 (2CC243B9) Date: 5/20/1952 Description: 1:25 p.m. (PST) (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: George AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1002 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4123 (A64E2EA5) Date: 5/22/1952 Description: Top CIA Official & Guests Have Notable Sighting (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520522](http://www.nicap.org/520522alexandria%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alexandria, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1004 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4124 (35DB39D7) Date: 5/23/1952 Description: After 11:00 p.m. Lockheed worker [Orfeo Angelucci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfeo%5FAngelucci) is driving home on Victory Boulevard from his job in Burbank, California, when he senses a force and sees a red, glowing UFO. After a while he begins to follow it, and after he crosses the Los Angeles River and turns onto Forest Lawn Drive, he gets to within 30 feet of it when it hovers. Just before it streaks away, two smaller green globes, 3 feet in diameter, shoot out of it and approach him. He hears a voice saying, “Don’t be afraid, Orfeo, we are friends.” This begins his contact with benevolent beings from other planets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Orfeo Angelucci, The Secret of the Saucers, Amherst Press, 1955, [pp. 1–15](https://archive.org/details/secretofsaucers00ange/page/n25/mode/2up); Bryant and Helen Reeve, Flying Saucer Pilgrimage, Amherst Press, 1957, [pp. 222–232](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-156/page/n223/mode/2up); Clark III 127–129 Source ID: Eberhart_1825 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4125 (DCA9E583) Date: 5/23/1952 Description: Silvery or aluminum color flat on the bottom, slightly rounded on top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520523](http://www.nicap.org/520523kirtland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1005 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4126 (53C6728E) Date: 5/24/1952 Description: Two Reddish Torpedos Near TWA (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520524](http://nicap.org/520524zuni%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Zuni, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1006 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4127 (71CB00B2) Date: 5/25/1952 Description: 9:27 a.m. An Air Force captain in charge of the navigation section of Combat Crew Training School at Randolph AFB near San Antonio, Texas, his wife, and another pilot see a group of about 12 orange-white, tear- drop shaped lights in 3 groups of 4 moving from west to east at 2,000 mph and 10,000 feet altitude. They hear deep, soft intermittent noise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 140](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/140/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 134 Source ID: Eberhart_1826 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4128 (8041727E) Date: 5/25/1952 Time: 9:15 PM Description: Witnesses: seven persons, including John Hoffman, his family and friends. One large white circular object having dark sections on its rim, flew straight and level for 30 minutes, appearing red when behind a cloud. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Walnut Lake, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_118 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4129 (0628C3BC) Date: 5/25/1952 Description: Radiation was detected at Los Alamos at 2330 hours (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: NICAP: [520525](http://nicap.org/alamos520525dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1010 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4130 (0DE624AB) Date: 5/25/1952 Description: 12 orange-white tear-drop shaped lights (McDonald files; Jan Aldrich; cf. Ruppelt p. 140; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520525](http://www.nicap.org/randolph520525dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Randolph AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1008 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4131 (F2470F61) Date: 5/25/1952 Description: Large white circular object having dark sections on its rim (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1227) Reference: NICAP: [520525](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/walnutlake520525dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Walnut Lake, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1009 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4132 (B0CFBAAA) Date: 5/25/1952 Description: Unknown Tracked At 1800 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520525](http://www.nicap.org/520525tierraamarilla%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tierra Amarilla AFS, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1007 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4133 (5CF82EC6) Date: 5/25/1952 Description: A glowing disc-shaped object dropped from the sky, darted about, flipped over, and then vanished in place over the New Jersey shore at nine o'clock in the morning. It was sighted by a group of fishermen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1952: January-May, p. 84 Source ID: Johnson_3081 Source: Johnson ### Event 4134 (673E6B31) Date: Late 5/1952 Description: 1:00–3:00 a.m. Royal Canadian Navy Commander George R. McFarlane is officer of the watch on the Canadian warship [HMCS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%5FIroquois%5F%28G89%29) [Iroquois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%5FIroquois%5F%28G89%29) in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Guam en route to Korea. He sees many different lights, some single, others in formations of 3, 5, or 6, appearing and disappearing instantly. Suddenly one of the objects appears off the port bow at close range and low elevation. McFarlane and the signalman on watch see that the light is attached to a disc-shaped object with two dozen black windows running along its side. It hovers nearby for at least 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 142–143](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/142/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1824 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4135 (256A538B) Date: 5/26/1952 Description: 3:20 a.m. Ground radar alerts the crew of an F-94 Starfire interceptor jet over North Korea that an unidentified target is on its tail. The jet turns, locks onto the object with onboard radar at 21,000 feet and begins to close. Both the pilot and radar operator see a brilliant white light straight ahead. The UFO performs a steady climbing turn and accelerates away at a tremendous speed. The jet loses the object at a distance of 7,800 feet after 15 seconds of contact. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Haines, Korea, [pp. 40–44](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch3.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1827 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4136 (965A1B61) Date: 5/26/1952 Description: At 3:20 a.m. a brilliant white object was seen overhead by a US Air Force F-94C fighter jet flying in Grid Area CT 4856 in Korea during the Korean War. The UFO was picked up by both ground and airborne radar. It shot away with tremendous acceleration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics Source ID: Johnson_3095 Source: Johnson ### Event 4137 (F7C64FA8) Date: 5/26/1952 Description: Bright white object that accelerated to high speed and tracked by ground radar. (Weinstein; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520526](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520526koreadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: unknown location, North Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1011 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4138 (C67CAFFE) Date: 5/28/1952 Description: 8:30–8:40 p.m. A green fireball about one-third the size of the full moon is seen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from eight ground points and five aircraft. [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) pinpoints the fall near Santa Fe. Around the same time, the crew of a Flying Tiger Line C-46 near Otto, New Mexico, sees a green fireball rise up and drop steeply down. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[2 Green Fireballs Seen by Many, LaPaz Reports,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93336128/)” Albuquerque Journal, May 29, 1952, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_1829 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4139 (D9BFA676) Date: 5/28/1952 Time: 1:45-2:40 PM Description: Witnesses: two city fire department employees. Two circular objects--one shiny silver and the other orange or light brown--were seen three times performing fast maneuvers. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_120 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4140 (E980C686) Date: 5/28/1952 Time: 10:30 AM Description: Witnesses: many in crowd watching a ceremony. One white-silver disc-shaped object flew straight and fast for 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Saigon, French Indo China Source ID: BerlinerBBU_119 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4141 (B8D7B864) Date: 5/28/1952 Description: 1:45 p.m. Albuquerque, New Mexico, fire department employees Martin Romero and Don Atteberry see two circular objects, one shiny silver and the other orange or light brown, performing fast maneuvers on three different occasions over the course of an hour above the northeast part of the city. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, \[[Blue Book case](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB10-931-933.pdf) [documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB10-931-933.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 135 Source ID: Eberhart_1828 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4142 (6AF4C4C3) Date: 5/28/1952 Description: (8:20-8:40 PM) 2 circular objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1233, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520528](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/albuq520528dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1015 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4143 (AE140DC2) Date: 5/28/1952 Description: (1:45-2:40 PM) 2 circular objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1233, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520528](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/albuq520528dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1014 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4144 (C435B040) Date: 5/28/1952 Description: White-silver disc-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1232) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saigon, Indochina Source ID: NICAP_DB_1013 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4145 (BC0955DF) Date: 5/28/1952 End date: 5/29/1952 Description: During a night refueling mission at 8:10 p.m., the crews of five USAF B-29 bombers see green spherical objects. The primary sighting takes place near Albuquerque, New Mexico, and involves three B-29s flying at 15,000 feet. Another sighting takes place around 11:30 p.m. about 10 miles southwest of Tulsa, Oklahoma. That crew is flying at 25,000 feet. Three hours later the final sighting takes place near Enid, Oklahoma, also with a B- 29 at 25,000 feet. The aircrews making these reports do not think the objects are meteorites. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Five B-29](http://www.nicap.org/520528albuq%5Fdir.htm) [Bomber Crews Observe Green Objects](http://www.nicap.org/520528albuq%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 135 Source ID: Eberhart_1830 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4146 (0253CFB1) Date: 5/29/1952 Description: Gulf of Mexico near the Florida Keys -- At approximately 1700 hours two eliptically shaped objects, larger than a fighter aircraft, were observed from the USN aircraft carrier Oriskany CV-34. One observer watched the objects through a telescope, while the radar officer viewed the objects on the radar scope. The objects had a bubble dome on the top. Each object flew at an estimated altitude of between 10,000 and 15,000 feet at a supersonic speed and left a white vapor trail. The objects' course paralleled that of the carrier. The duration of the sighting was from 15 to 20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis Ridge, Nuclear Connection Project, OSI report, NARA Project Blue Book Roll 90, NARA-PBB90-1166 Source ID: Johnson_3146 Source: Johnson ### Event 4147 (0A7D8355) Date: 5/29/1952 Description: Carrier Oriskany OSI Report Describes Domed Discs & Radar Track (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520529](http://www.nicap.org/520529floridakeys%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: near the Florida Keys, at sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1017 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4148 (DD9EC31F) Date: 5/29/1952 Description: Bright tubular object tilt from horizontal to vertical (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1236) Reference: NICAP: [520529](http://www.nicap.org/sanant520529dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Antonio, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1016 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4149 (24CBDCCB) Date: 5/29/1952 Time: 7 PM Description: Witness: USAF pilot Maj. D.W. Feuerstein, on ground. One bright tubular object tilted from horizontal to vertical for 8 minutes, then slowly returned to horizontal, again tilted vertical, accelerated, appeared to lengthen and turned red. The entire sighting lasted 14 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: San Antonio, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_121 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4150 (98A5BFBF) Date: 5/30/1952 Description: C-54 Crew Encounters Round Black Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520530](http://www.nicap.org/520530nearjapan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oshima island (Japan Sea, S of), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1018 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4151 (8D1D7DEC) Date: 5/30/1952 Description: USAF Maj. [William D. Leet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139829263/william-dean-leet)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139829263/william-dean-leet) copilot on a C-54 transport mission at 8,500 feet near Oshima, Japan, sees a dark object hovering in clouds for 7 minutes. It disappears, speeding away in seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[C-54 Crew](http://www.nicap.org/520530nearjapan%5Fdir.htm) [Encounters Round Black Object](http://www.nicap.org/520530nearjapan%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jan-May-SN.pdf) [January–May, Supplemental Notes,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jan-May-SN.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 82–83; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 136 Source ID: Eberhart_1831 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4152 (B98E261A) Date: 5/31/1952 Description: Multiple sightings, RV (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520531](http://www.nicap.org/520531chorwon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chorwon (South of ), Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1019 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4153 (438BBE31) Date: 5/31/1952 Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#7. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 113–130 Source ID: Eberhart_1833 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4154 (DD6BBC03) Date: 5/31/1952 Description: Radar Visual case in Korea, (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520531](http://www.nicap.org/520531chorwon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chorwon (South of ), Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1020 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4155 (894F75D1) Date: 5/31/1952 Description: South of Chorwon, Korea - At 4:20 a.m. pilot Hufberry turned his F-94 jet to descend and intercept a round, bluish white UFO. The F-94's radar locked onto the object, whereupon the UFO made a left turn climb, silhouetting the F-94 against the dawn sky. The UFO accelerated away after the fighter jet made two unsuccessful attempts to pass the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices During the Korean War, p. 47 Source ID: Johnson_3177 Source: Johnson ### Event 4156 (F2798AEF) Date: 5/31/1952 Description: About 4:00 a.m. Over Cheorwon, South Korea, several US soldiers see a bright UFO that looks like a falling star, except that it stops falling and begins to climb again. It then moves northeast at 150 mph, reverses course twice, then climbs at a 45° angle and fades from sight. One guard hears a pulsating sound. An F-94 attempts to intercept the brilliant white object, which takes clearly evasive maneuvers and pulls away at 30,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Jerky Object Observed and Tracked on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/520531chorwon%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 87–90](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/86/mode/2up) ; Haines, Korea, [pp. 63–64](http://www.nicap.org/books/aadkw/aadkw%5Fch4.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 136; Patrick Gross, “[UFO US Military Reports, Korea, 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/korea31may52.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1832 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4157 (BDB35F72) Date: 5/31/1952 Description: 9:30 p.m. Mr. R. Baits is on the beach at Derna, Libya, with three companions when he notices a soft orange- yellow light traveling soundlessly toward them from inland at great speed and in a straight line. Suddenly, as it reaches a point overhead, it swerves to the east over the town, gaining height. After a few seconds it moves to the south and begins zigzagging until it fades away into the background of stars. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Newcastle \(UK\) Evening Standard, June 13, 1952; Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_1834 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4158 (51824A1F) Date: 6/1952 Description: Reports of UFO's in Korean War Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_113 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4159 (BDF39FA7) Date: 6/1952 Description: Sunset. In Tombstone, Arizona, Navy Lieut. Cmdr. John C. Williams, his wife Josephine, and a guest see a “huge circular object” flying toward them from the direction of Tucson. Suddenly it stops in mid-flight, hovers, then reverses direction and retraces its course. A few seconds later it returns, stops gain, and appears to oscillate and tilt from one side to the other. Again it reverses its course, repeating everything 2–3 more times. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 31](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=43&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1838 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4160 (C96868CB) Date: 6/1952 Description: Jet pilots allegedly discover the wreck of a flying disc on Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. It is taken to Narvik, where it is identified as either a Russian or extraterrestrial device. Other variants of the legend claim it is a Nazi device or that it is actually discovered on Heligoland, Germany, in the North Sea. [Nick Redfern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FRedfern) suspects the story is planted by either Soviet or US intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Auf Spitzbergen landete Fliegende Untertasse,” Saarbrücker Zeitung, June 28, 1952; Hessische Nachrichten, July 26, 1954; E. W. Grenfell, “[First Report on the](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Sir/1954%2009%2000%5FSir%5FGershtein%20scan.pdf) [Captured Flying Saucer,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Sir/1954%2009%2000%5FSir%5FGershtein%20scan.pdf)” Sir! September 1954, pp. 16–17, 56–57; Le Lorrain, October 15, 1954; Verdens Gang, December 19, 1954; Condon, [pp. 90–91](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/90/mode/2up); William Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo Archives, 1987, pp. 353–366; Ole Jonny Brænne, “Legend of the Spitsbergen Saucer,” IUR 17, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1992\): 14–20; Kremlin 45–46 Source ID: Eberhart_1837 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4161 (D872EE1B) Date: 6/1952 Description: In the wake of mass public and governmental interest in UFOs kindled by the provocative Life magazine article, CIA intelligence experts [Sidney N. Graybeal](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/03/22/arms-control-negotiator-sidney-graybeal-dies-at-73/8f3e8cdf-fef7-41b4-b2a8-e6f11f481dc2/) \(Chief, Guided Missiles Branch, Weapons and Equipment Division, Office of Scientific Intelligence\) and [Irl D’Arcy Brent](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62821794/irl-d%5Farcy-brent) \(Chief, Ground Branch, W&E Division, OSI\) prepare a summary of the UFO subject for the CIA/OSI hierarchy based on the past several years of OSI intelligence \(and OSI predecessor documents going back to ghost rockets of 1946\) and mentioning sightings going back to the Bible. The possibility of swamp gas in Michigan as an explanation for UFOs is suggested by Brent \(foreshadowing the [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) swamp-gas fiasco in Michigan in 1966\). This report has never been acknowledged or released by the CIA despite FOIA litigation. Its existence and contents are revealed in [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm)’s interviews with Brent and Graybeal and other OSI officials in 1975–1976. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The 1952 Sighting Wave](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1952FIXED.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1836 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4162 (B66B149A) Date: 6/1952 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) has four officers, two airmen, and two civilians on his permanent Blue Book staff \(including Lt. [Anderson G. Flues](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Flues.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Flues.htm) Robert M. Olsson, and Kerry Rothstien\), as well as a number of scientific consultants, including [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek). In the Pentagon, Maj. [Dewey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) [Fournet Jr.](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2009/01/major-dewey-j-fournet-historical.html) is a full-time Blue Book liaison. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 140](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/140/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1835 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4163 (C7A16FD1) Date: 6/1952 Description: Williams Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tombstone, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1021 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4164 (42D0B133) Date: 6/1952 Description: Truman Bethurum meets Aura Rhanes and visits saucer many times Type: ce4 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_115 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4165 (8E35CFCF) Date: 6/1952 Description: Big month for sightings Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_114 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4166 (A852B88D) Date: 6/1/1952 Description: USAF A/1c Beatty and two civilians saw at least 5 long silver objects which flew in a neat box formation with a leader. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1243) Reference: NICAP: [520601](http://nicap.org/rapcit520601dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rapid City, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1025 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4167 (E219253A) Date: 6/1/1952 Description: Radar Tracks Object Which Suddenly Climbs To 55,000 Feet (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520601](http://www.nicap.org/520601losangeles%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1024 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4168 (A265A1F7) Date: 6/1/1952 Description: At six o'clock in the evening Airman Beatty and two civilians in Rapid City, South Dakota watched at least five long silver objects flew in a neat box formation with a leader for 15-20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1243; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 263; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3197 Source: Johnson ### Event 4169 (B4CA3664) Date: 6/1/1952 Description: Soap Lake, Washington. Sometime after three o'clock in the afternoon Ray Lottman sighted three glimmering objects that flew straight and level for 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3196 Source: Johnson ### Event 4170 (3F6E033E) Date: 6/1/1952 Description: Walla Walla, Washington. At 1:00 p.m. ex-military pilot Major W. C. Vollendorf sighted an oval-shaped object with a "definite airfoil" performed a fast climb for 7 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3195 Source: Johnson ### Event 4171 (A9F83968) Date: 6/1/1952 Description: Morning. The chief of a radar test section for Hughes Aircraft Company tracks an unidentified target coming across the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles, California. It is moving at 180 mph toward Santa Monica at an altitude of 11,000 feet. The object suddenly triples its speed to 550 mph, turns, and climbs over Los Angeles at 35,000 feet per minute. The target then levels out for a few seconds, goes into a high-speed dive, and levels out again at 55,000 feet. They lose the blip somewhere near Riverside. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Radar Tracks Object Which](http://www.nicap.org/520601losangeles%5Fdir.htm) [Suddenly Climbs to 55,000 Feet](http://www.nicap.org/520601losangeles%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 141–143](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/140/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1841 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4172 (3C30B255) Date: 6/1/1952 Description: 2:40 a.m. A cargo ship anchored at the wharf in Port-Gentil, Gabon, observes a mysterious object fly from behind the city, make a double loop, pass over the roadstead, and then dive toward the sea. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 119](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/118/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1840 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4173 (73930302) Date: 6/1/1952 Time: 3+ PM Description: Witness: Ray Lottman. Three glimmering objects flew straight and level for 10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Soap Lake, Washington Source ID: BerlinerBBU_124 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4174 (5988B479) Date: 6/1/1952 Time: 6 PM Description: Witnesses: A/lc Beatty and two civilians. At least five long silver objects flew in a neat box formation with a leader for 15-20 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Rapid City, South Dakota Source ID: BerlinerBBU_122 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4175 (97F4DCB9) Date: 6/1/1952 Description: 3 glimmering objects fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1246) Reference: NICAP: [520601](http://nicap.org/soaplake520601dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Soap Lake, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1027 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4176 (50F708E4) Date: 6/1/1952 Description: On this morning the Hughes Aircraft radar facility in Los Angeles, California tracked a UFO that climbed to 35,000 feet, dove and then pulled out of the dive, heading off to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ruppelt Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 190 Source ID: Johnson_3194 Source: Johnson ### Event 4177 (B3B7CE66) Date: 6/1/1952 Description: Oval object with a "definite airfoil" perform a fast climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1245) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Walla Walla, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1026 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4178 (3FA428DC) Date: 6/1/1952 Time: 1 PM Description: Witness: ex-military pilot Reserve Maj. W.C. Vollendorf. One oval object with a "definite airfoil" performed a fast climb for 7 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Walla, Washington Source ID: BerlinerBBU_123 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4179 (08E9311F) Date: 6/2/1952 Description: In Bayview, Washington eight witnesses watched an irregular bluish-white or silver sphere hover in the sky. They viewed it through a theodolite. An intercept was attempted with a C-47 but abandoned when the transport place couldn't close with the UFO. At 5:02 p.m. Larry McWade observed a purple object for an unknown length of time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1249; Kevin Randall, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 263; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3221 Source: Johnson ### Event 4180 (47502A3E) Date: 6/2/1952 Description: Fulda, West Germany. On this night Lt. John Hendry, the photo-navigator on a RB-26C reconnaissance bomber, sighted a porcelain-white object that flew very fast for an unknown length of time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1249; Kevin Randall, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 263; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3222 Source: Johnson ### Event 4181 (59A8229F) Date: Early 6/1952 Description: 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. Violet M. Winstead and her husband are driving in a narrow valley somewhere between Charleston and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, when they see a number of lights on a bridge crossing the valley. They begin blinking off, one by one. When they get to the bridge, they see no street lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Violet M. Winstead, Letter, IUR 9, no.1 \(Jan./Feb. 1984\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_1839 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4182 (911DA87F) Date: 6/2/1952 Description: Purple object for unknown length of time (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1249) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bayview, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1028 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4183 (AA87128E) Date: 6/2/1952 Time: 5:02 PM Description: Witness: Larry McWade. One purple object seen for unknown length of time. No further information in files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Bayview, Washington Source ID: BerlinerBBU_125 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4184 (FEC44691) Date: 6/2/1952 Time: Time unknown Description: Witness: lst Lt. John Hendry, photo-navigator on an RB-26C reconnaissance bomber. One porcelain-white object flew very fast for an unknown length of time. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Fulda, West Germany Source ID: BerlinerBBU_126 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4185 (082A0400) Date: 6/2/1952 Description: Porcelain-white object fly very fast for an unknown length of time (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1250) Reference: NICAP: [520602](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/fulda520602dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fulda, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_1029 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4186 (2E4B67DC) Date: 6/3/1952 Description: Ten Targets With Gnd Radar / No Visuals By Jets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520603](http://www.nicap.org/520603chicago%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1030 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4187 (139AD219) Date: 6/4/1952 Description: RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report. Type: intelligence report Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) See also: 5/10/1952 Source ID: Maj2_456 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4188 (1711710E) Date: 6/4/1952 Description: Air Force Secretary [Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter) issues a press release about his May UFO briefing, saying, “No concrete evidence has yet reached us either to prove or disprove the existence of the so-called flying saucers. There remain, however, a number of sightings that the Air Force investigators have been unable to explain. As long as this is true, the Air Force will continue to study flying saucer reports.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FS from OS, [p. 51](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1842 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4189 (24338823) Date: 6/4/1952 Description: In 1952 at 6:45 p.m., two small and one very large disc were sighted flying at 15,000 feet altitude in Chartres, France. The three discs hovered, and then shot straight up and away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, computerized catalogue, case #655; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_3267 Source: Johnson ### Event 4190 (78D72372) Date: 6/4/1952 Description: Circular object with white lights on the leading edge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stuttgart, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_1031 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4191 (5229CFA0) Date: 6/5/1952 Time: 11 PM Description: Witnesses: Dan Benson, Mr. Bacon. A total of eight yellow circular objects, like large stars, were seen during 45 minutes. The first two were in a trail formation, the others were seen singly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lubbock, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_127 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4192 (E4103520) Date: 6/5/1952 Description: Shiny round object fly 5-6x as fast as an F-86 jet (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1256, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520605](http://www.nicap.org/albuq520605dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1033 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4193 (9BC57497) Date: 6/5/1952 Time: 11 PM Description: Witnesses: 2nd Lt. W.R. Soper, a Strategic Air Command top secret control officer and former OSI agent; and two other persons. One bright red object remained stationary for 4.5 minutes before speeding away with a short tail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska Source ID: BerlinerBBU_129 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4194 (405A318C) Date: 6/5/1952 Description: On this evening in 1952 three cases occurred that were listed by the Air Force Project Blue Book as "unknowns." At 6:15 p.m. in Albuquerque, New Mexico a shiny disc was reported moving through the sky by a military witness. Its speed was estimated as 5-6 times faster than a F-86 jet and was seen for six seconds. At Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska three security guards saw a large red nocturnal light hover 1000 feet over the main gate to the Strategic Air Command's major airbase at 11:00 p.m. At the same time, eight star-like objects were seen flying over Lubbock, Texas. The first two lights flew over in a trailing formation and the others followed singly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, cases 1255, 1256, and 1257 Source ID: Johnson_3291 Source: Johnson ### Event 4195 (77B6DABA) Date: 6/5/1952 Time: 6:45 PM Description: Witness: S/Sgt T.H. Shorey. One shiny round object flew 5-6 times as fast as an F-86 jet fighter for 6 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_128 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4196 (4D446C46) Date: 6/5/1952 Description: Bright red stationary object for 4-5 mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1257) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_1034 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4197 (CBC1B316) Date: 6/5/1952 Description: 8 yellow circular objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1255) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lubbock, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1032 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4198 (7628DD9D) Date: 6/6/1952 Description: At 8:42 a.m. local time a UFO traveled at 300 mph in a straight line while revolving. It stopped over airfield K-14 at Kimpo, Korea. Next it rose straight up for ten seconds, disappearing from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 48; Project Blue Book Special Report #14, p. 83 Source ID: Johnson_3317 Source: Johnson ### Event 4199 (9B2C6340) Date: 6/6/1952 Time: Time unknown Description: Case missing from official files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kimpo AFB, Korea Source ID: BerlinerBBU_130 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4200 (B97E4B44) Date: 6/6/1952 Description: Battelle issues its second status report on Project Stork to ATIC. It describes a “tentative” data sheet for observers to fill out, a more detailed coding scheme, an example of an IBM punch card that will be used, and plans for statistical studies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7.htm)” CUFON; “[Seven Status Reports for Project](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7a.htm) [Stork, Part 2,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7a.htm)” CUFON; Clark III 929 Source ID: Eberhart_1844 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4201 (41D794F0) Date: 6/6/1952 Description: 8:42 a.m. Flight Sgt. [Kenneth Dudley Smith](https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/500799) from the 77th RAAF Squadron at Kimpo Air Base \[now Gimpo International Airport\] in Seoul, Korea, observes a dull silver object in the shape of a coin performing spinning and tumbling maneuvers for 4 minutes at 345 mph. Flight Sgt. Kenneth Fawner also sees the UFO for 30 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[Blue Book case documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs/1952%5F06%5F05%5FKOR%5FKR-11%5FKimpo-AFB%5FBB%5FSmith.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 137 Source ID: Eberhart_1843 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4202 (FA81009E) Date: 6/6/1952 Description: (Case missing) cylinder-section flat disc-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kimpo AB, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1035 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4203 (4C4561D8) Date: 6/7/1952 Time: 11:18 AM Description: Witnesses: crew of B-25 bomber #8840 at 11,500'. One rectangular aluminum object, about 6'x4', flew 250-300' below the B-25. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_131 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4204 (93557495) Date: 6/7/1952 Description: B-25 Crew Encounters Rectangular Object / Close Encounter (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1260, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520607](http://www.nicap.org/520607albuq%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1036 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4205 (6548E1CA) Date: 6/7/1952 Description: On this day in 1952, at 4:00 a.m., security guards watched a light hover at 1,000 feet over the 5th Air Force Base near Seoul, South Korea. The light bobbed in the sky, then rose rapidly to the east, changing colors as it went. Several hours later, at 11:18 a.m. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a rectangular-shaped, aluminum colored object followed a B-25 bomber during its flight. Both of these reports were listed by Project Blue Book as "unidentified" cases. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, cases #1259 and #1260; (2) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_3347 Source: Johnson ### Event 4206 (646F2273) Date: 6/8/1952 Description: 10:50 a.m. Four flat, round, shiny objects in a diamond formation are seen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from the ground by Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Markland. The objects are approximately 15,000 feet in altitude and traveling 300 mph. There is no audible sound. They are first seen at about 60° above the horizon to the north and are traveling to the southwest at approximately 240°. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Diamond Formation of Flat Objects Observed](http://www.nicap.org/520608albuquerque%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 138; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 10, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1845 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4207 (05E59C88) Date: 6/8/1952 Description: During a launch of a pibal balloon at Calgary, Alberta, a silvery ellipse with a sharp outline reflecting sunlight and an aspect ratio of 8:1 crosses the field of vision of the observer’s theodolite. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich; Project Magnet Case V Source ID: Eberhart_1846 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4208 (247CB6A7) Date: 6/8/1952 Time: 10:50 AM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Markland. Four shiny objects flew straight and level in a diamond formation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_132 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4209 (9AD872B9) Date: 6/8/1952 Description: In Albuquerque, New Mexico at 10:50 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Markland sighted four shiny objects flying straight and level in a diamond formation. They made no sound, and were silver white in color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1263; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 264; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3367 Source: Johnson ### Event 4210 (B1437DD1) Date: 6/8/1952 Description: 4 shiny objects fly straight and level in a diamond formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 1263, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520608](http://www.nicap.org/520608albuquerque%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1037 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4211 (A2A4E0BB) Date: 6/9/1952 Description: Astronomer [Donald H. Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) writes in Time magazine that most UFOs are light reflections caused by ice crystals, refractions, or temperature inversions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[An Astronomer’s Explanation: Those Flying Saucers,](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0%2C33009%2C806457%2C00.html)” Time, June 9, 1952; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_1847 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4212 (C34F7316) Date: 6/9/1952 Time: Time unknown Description: Case missing from official files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Source ID: BerlinerBBU_133 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4213 (8FA58F6F) Date: 6/9/1952 Description: (Case missing) Berliner (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minneapolis, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1039 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4214 (D557329E) Date: 6/11/1952 Description: 6:44 p.m. Two round objects, dark blue with gray centers, are seen moving southwest to northwest for 40 seconds at 500 mph and 6,000 feet altitude several miles east of O’Hare Airport in Chicago, Illinois. One passes the other before disappearing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_1848 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4215 (20DDEA5B) Date: 6/12/1952 Description: Unidentified target at 650 knots at 60,000+ ft altitude (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1270) Reference: NICAP: [520612](http://www.nicap.org/520612moroccodir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marrakech, Morocco Source ID: NICAP_DB_1041 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4216 (5DB3A85A) Date: 6/12/1952 Time: 7:30 PM Description: Witnesses: U.S. Army Major and Lt. Colonel, using binoculars. One orange ball with a tail flew with a low angular velocity. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ft. Smith, Arkansas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_134 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4217 (BFA68989) Date: 6/12/1952 Description: At 11:26 a.m. at a U.S. Air Force radar facility in Marakesch, Morocco Sgt. H. D. Adams, operating an SCR-584 radar set, tracked an unidentified radar blip moving at 650 knots (750 mph) and at an altitude greater than 60,000 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1270; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3435 Source: Johnson ### Event 4218 (F7094C50) Date: 6/12/1952 Description: At 7:30 p.m. A U.S. Army Major and a Lt. Colonel, using binoculars, watched an orange ball with a tail fly with a low angular velocity in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1269; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 264 Source ID: Johnson_3434 Source: Johnson ### Event 4219 (1C98DD8D) Date: 6/12/1952 Description: At 4:00 p.m. several disc-shaped UFOs followed an airliner over Mill Valley in Marin County, California for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_3433 Source: Johnson ### Event 4220 (75C84435) Date: 6/12/1952 Time: 11:26 AM Description: Witness: T/Sgt. H.D. Adams, operating an SCR-584 radar set. One unidentified blip tracked at 650 kts. (750 m.p.h.) at greater than 60,000' altitude. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Marakesch, Morocco Source ID: BerlinerBBU_135 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4221 (2B039EB4) Date: 6/12/1952 Description: Orange ball with a tail fly with a low angular velocity (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1269) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Smith, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_1040 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4222 (59DACC8E) Date: 6/13/1952 Time: 8:45 PM Description: Witness: R.S. Thomas, Olmstead AFB employee and former control tower operator. One round, orange object travelled south, stopped for 1 second, turned east, stopped 1 second, and went down. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Middletown, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_136 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4223 (975AA07A) Date: 6/13/1952 Description: In Middletown, Pennsylvania at 8:45 p.m. Mr.R. S. Thomas, an Olmstead AFB employee and former control tower operator, sighted a round, orange flying object traveling south. It stopped for one second, turned east, stopped a second time for one second, and then went down below the tree line. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1273; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3454 Source: Johnson ### Event 4224 (F72041CE) Date: 6/13/1952 Description: 1:00 a.m. M. Veillot and M. Damiens, air traffic control operators at Paris–Le Bourget Airport, France, watch a prominent orange-red light hover in the sky for about one hour. Eventually it begins moving and crosses the sky southwest of the airport, accelerating rapidly. The light is also seen by M. Navarri, the pilot of an approaching Air France plane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michel, Truth About FS, 165–166 Source ID: Eberhart_1849 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4225 (CBEBE9F5) Date: 6/13/1952 Description: Control tower operators and pilot watched brilliant light source cross sky SW of field after hovering for about an hour. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Le Bourget (airport), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1043 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4226 (FBD3B537) Date: 6/13/1952 Description: Object described as similar to a discus used in athletics, about 25 to 30 feet in diameter hovering (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520613](http://www.nicap.org/foxhill520613dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fox Hill, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1042 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4227 (EEAE585D) Date: 6/13/1952 Description: Orange object travel S, stop for 1 sec (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1273) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Middletown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1044 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4228 (68126485) Date: 6/15/1952 Description: 11:50 p.m. Edward Duke, a former Navy radar technician, sees an unidentified cigar-shaped object in the vicinity of Standiford Field \[now Louisville International Airport\], Louisville, Kentucky. It has a light on either side of the fuselage and a reddish hue on the trailing end. The object appears to be moving at about 400–500 mph and maneuvers around in several directions for 15 minutes, then descends and flies away to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[Blue](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB10-1258.jpg) [Book document](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB10-1258.jpg)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 138 Source ID: Eberhart_1852 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4229 (0E3C9437) Date: 6/15/1952 Description: Large, cigar-shaped object with a blunt front (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1285) Reference: NICAP: [520615](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/louisville520615dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Louisville, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1045 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4230 (8062144B) Date: 6/15/1952 Description: Men at work in the forest saw large, circular objects similar to parachutes coming down. Half a dozen witnesses. Type: ufo sighting Reference: France-Soir Jun. 18, 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Magneville, France Source ID: Magnonia_92 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 4231 (1FC23A8A) Date: Mid 6/1952 Description: Capt. Ruppelt briefed General Samford, Director of Intelligence, others; given directive to take further steps to obtain positive identification of UFOs. Type: briefing Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 196-199](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_870 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4232 (CA0F62C1) Date: 6/15/1952 Description: 8:32 a.m. A meteorological assistant on reserve army maneuvers sees a large silver disc in the sky southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It moves southwest for 30 seconds at an altitude of 5,000–8,000 feet and then rises and merges in 2–5 seconds with altocumulus clouds at 11,000–12,000 feet. Its diameter is about 100 feet and speed at least 800 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 184](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/184/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1850 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4233 (5B6CEB96) Date: 6/15/1952 Time: 11:50 PM Description: Witness: Edward Duke, ex-U.S. Navy radar technician. One large, cigar-shaped object with a blunt front, lit sides and a red stern, maneuvered in a leisurely fashion for 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Louisville, Kentucky Source ID: BerlinerBBU_137 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4234 (C4FCD15D) Date: 6/15/1952 Description: An intercept operation took place in Richmond, VA. An Air Force T-33 jet tried to intercept a “shiny sphere” south of Gordonsville. It was a “round, shiny object with a golden glow” above 35000 feet altitude. At 20:05 the jet lost sight of the UFO. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Gordonsville, VA Source ID: Maj2_459 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4235 (66D90AFB) Date: 6/15/1952 Description: 4:20 p.m. A round shiny object is seen over Gordonsville, Virginia. At 4:25 p.m., the crew of a commercial airliner reports a silver sphere over Richmond, Virginia. At 4:33 p.m., a Marine fighter jet is scrambled from Marine Corps Base Quantico in Prince William County, Virginia, and attempts to intercept a target south of Gordonsville but fails and returns to base. At 5:43 p.m., an Air Force fighter attempts to intercept the same shiny sphere but after reaching 35,000 feet turns back. At 7:35 p.m., a UFO emitting a golden glow is seen over Blackstone, Virginia. Fighter jets from Langley AFB in Hampton, Virginia, are scrambled, but the object is gone by the time they get there at 8:05 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 194–195](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/194/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1851 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4236 (CD8096DB) Date: Mid 6/1952 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) briefs Maj. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) and his staff, two Navy captains from ONI, and “some people I can’t name.” The meeting is contentious. One USAF colonel argues that Blue Book’s investigation is biased against the ETH, which launches an emotional debate. Ruppelt is directed to “take further steps to obtain positive identification” of UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 147–149](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/146/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1857 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4237 (CF8C38A3) Date: 6/16/1952 Description: S/Sgt. Sparks saw 5-6 greyish discs, in a half-moon formation fly at 500-600 mph. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1295, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520616](http://www.nicap.org/walker520616dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Walker AFB, Roswell, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1046 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4238 (577FF3E0) Date: 6/16/1952 Description: A Staff Sergeant saw five gray discs in a arc formation shoot to the east over Walker Field, Roswell, New Mexico at 8:30 p.m. They flew at an estimated speed of 550 mph. A Project Blue Book "unknown" report. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1285; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 265; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_3511 Source: Johnson ### Event 4239 (CF2BD812) Date: 6/16/1952 Time: 8:30 PM Description: Witness: USAF maintenance specialist S/Sgt. Sparks. Five or six greyish discs, in a half-moon formation, flew at 500-600 m.p.h. for l minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Walker AFB, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_138 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4240 (ABF876DC) Date: 6/17/1952 Time: Between 7:30 and 10:20 PM Description: Witnesses: many and varied. From one to five large silver-yellow objects flew erratically, stopped and started for about 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: McChord AFB, Washington Source ID: BerlinerBBU_139 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4241 (124485DE) Date: 6/17/1952 Time: 1:28 AM Description: Witness: pilot of USAF F-94 jet interceptor. A light like a bright star crossed the nose of the airplane while being observed for 15 seconds. No further information in the files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts Source ID: BerlinerBBU_140 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4242 (2DE87E80) Date: 6/17/1952 Description: 40-50 ft frying pan-shaped object with two rows of 1 ft holes (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hasselbach, East Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_1048 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4243 (9ED3F3F8) Date: 6/17/1952 Description: 1:28 a.m. A USAF F-94 pilot sees a light like a bright star cross the nose of his jet at blinding speed over Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for 15 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 138 Source ID: Eberhart_1853 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4244 (640FB90D) Date: 6/17/1952 Description: Light like a bright star cross the nose of a jet (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1299) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Cod, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1049 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4245 (1C074D02) Date: 6/17/1952 Description: 8:45 p.m.. Orville Foster, a US Weather Bureau observer at the Pueblo \(Colorado\) Memorial Airport, watches a UFO through the bureau’s theodolite. It circles leisurely for 10 minutes, then disappears toward the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “‘Flying Saucer’ Sighted at Pueblo,” Leadville \(Colo.\) Herald-Democrat, June 18, 1952; Project 1947, “[UFO](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1952a.htm) [Reports, 1952](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1952a.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1856 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4246 (CF32DF68) Date: 6/17/1952 Description: 7:30–10:20 p.m. Many witnesses at McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lewis-McChord\] south of Tacoma, Washington, see 5–6 yellowish discs, tracked by radar and theodolite. Several F-94s are scrambled. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[1–](http://www.nicap.org/520617mcchord%5Fdir.htm) [5 Silver Yellow Objects Stop and Start](http://www.nicap.org/520617mcchord%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 138 Source ID: Eberhart_1855 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4247 (7F796314) Date: 6/17/1952 Description: Astronomer [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) writes in an article in Look magazine about how he creates temperature-inversion UFOs in his laboratory. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald H. Menzel, “[The Truth about Flying Saucers,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Look/1952%2006%2017%5FLook%5FDonald%20Menzel%5FFlying%20Saucers%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf)” Look 16, no. 13 \(June 17, 1952\): 35–39; NICAP, “[The Truth about Flying Saucers,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/look61752.htm) [Look](http://www.project1947.com/fig/look61752.htm) [Magazine](http://www.project1947.com/fig/look61752.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1854 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4248 (E1AC46BB) Date: 6/17/1952 Description: Two cases from Project Blue Book's list of unexplained reports occurred on this day in 1952. On Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a bright light crossed the sky in front of a USAF F-94 fighter plane at 1:28 a.m. local time. The light was observed for 15 seconds. Later that evening at McChord AFB outside of Tacoma, Washington many military observers tracked 5-6 discs with a theodolite as USAF F-94 jets pursued them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book, cases #1299 and #1298 Source ID: Johnson_3526 Source: Johnson ### Event 4249 (B9F41253) Date: 6/17/1952 Description: Many witnesses saw 1-5 large silver yellow objects flying erratically, stop and start. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1298) Reference: NICAP: [520617](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/mcchord520617dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McChord AFB, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1047 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4250 (2BDFB3CD) Date: 6/18/1952 Time: 9 AM Description: Witness: R.A. Finger. One crescent-shaped object hovered for several seconds and then sped away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Columbus, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_141 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4251 (E53E9D61) Date: 6/18/1952 Time: 10 PM Description: Witnesses: Marron Hoffman and four relatives, using 4x binoculars. One orange light was observed zigzagging and then hovering for an unspecified length of time. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Walnut Lake, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_142 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4252 (DDFB213A) Date: 6/18/1952 Description: Crescent-shaped object hover then speed away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1302) Reference: NICAP: [520618](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/columbus520618dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1050 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4253 (949F33C7) Date: 6/18/1952 Description: Orange light zigzag then hover (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1305) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Walnut Lake, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1051 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4254 (93D32568) Date: 6/18/1952 Description: UFO Paces B-25 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520618](http://www.nicap.org/520618march%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: March AFB (100 miles E of), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1052 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4255 (5F2EB614) Date: 6/18/1952 Description: 5:00 p.m. USAF Capt. Erie P. Ashton and 2nd Lt. Clifton Ashley, while flying a B-25 about 100 miles east of March AFB \[now March Air Reserve Base\] in southern California, sight a silver object at approximately 11,000 feet in altitude off their left wing. The object is longer than it is wide and is in sight for about 39 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO Paces B-25](http://www.nicap.org/520618march%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 138 Source ID: Eberhart_1858 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4256 (07D4AFA5) Date: 6/18/1952 Description: According to Sgt. [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard)’s 1980s disinformation, the living alien retrieved in 1949 \(EBE-1\) and kept at Los Alamos, New Mexico, dies of unknown causes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 364 Source ID: Eberhart_1859 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4257 (5D4E6F59) Date: 6/18/1952 Description: EBE1 dies of unknown causes according to the Carter Aquarius document Type: majestic document Reference: [link](https://obscurantist.com/texts/396-2/) Attributes: Majestic Source ID: Maj2_457 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4258 (1D32796A) Date: 6/19/1952 Time: 2:37 AM Description: Witness: 2nd Lt. A'Gostino and unidentified radar operator. One red light turned white while wobbling. Radar tracked a stationary target during the 1 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_143 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4259 (3702BAA4) Date: 6/19/1952 Description: One red light turned white while wobbling. Radar tracked a stationary object G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1308) Reference: NICAP: [520619](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520619goosedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1053 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4260 (57AAC393) Date: 6/19/1952 Description: Pilot saw a round, white object fly straight and level (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1310) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yuma, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1054 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4261 (F0836A3E) Date: 6/19/1952 Description: 2:37 a.m. At Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador, radar men pick up a UFO track. 2nd Lt. A’Gostino and others outside see a strange, red-lighted object come in over the field. The radar blip suddenly enlarges, as if the device has banked, exposing a larger surface to the radar beam. The watching airmen see the red light wobble or flutter. After a moment the light turns white and quickly disappears. Apparently, the unknown craft has gone into a steep climb. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) assumes the radar and visual sightings are simultaneous, but Blue Book records indicate they are separate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Target Suddenly Enlarges](http://www.nicap.org/detection/radar/520619goose%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, [p. 52](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chIII.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 139; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 55–56 Source ID: Eberhart_1860 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4262 (2DEF9811) Date: 6/19/1952 Description: 1:30 p.m. Four silvery UFOs are seen by many witnesses in Tacoma, Washington, flying silently at a high altitude. Unofficial sources report that the objects are tracked on radar at McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lewis- McChord\] in Tacoma and jets are scrambled. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tacoma \(Wash.\) Reporter, June 20, 1952; Shoot 9; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 11, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1861 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4263 (AD3A9E60) Date: 6/19/1952 Description: 6:00 p.m. Army Capt. Harold Hermann and his wife see a round, silver UFO speeding across the sky at Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [\(“‘Flying Saucers’ Sighted,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/06/24/84327623.pdf)” New York Times, June 24, 1952, p. 26\) Source ID: Eberhart_1862 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4264 (1EDCE776) Date: 6/19/1952 Description: 9:50 p.m. A former Army Air Force ground crew member sees a UFO flying in a swirling motion over the backyard of his home in Trenton, New Jersey. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_1863 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4265 (2B5C2B28) Date: 6/19/1952 Time: 2 PM Description: Witness: USAF pilot John Lane. One round, white object flew straight and level for 10 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Yuma, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_144 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4266 (060D172C) Date: 6/20/1952 Description: Cone-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paulette (near), MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1056 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4267 (8E3BDA03) Date: 6/20/1952 Description: F4U-4B Corsairs Encounter Circling UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520620](http://www.nicap.org/520620korea%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Central Korea, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1055 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4268 (7A89A052) Date: 6/20/1952 Description: F4U-4B Corsairs Encounter Circling UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520620](http://www.nicap.org/520620korea%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Central Korea, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1038 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4269 (CCB4417D) Date: 6/20/1952 Description: Central Korea. At 3:03 p.m. four Marine Corps Captains and pilots of F4U-4B Corsair fighter planes of the 7302nd Squadron sighted a 10-20 foot diameter white to silver oval object for 60 seconds. The daylight UFO made a left-hand orbit of the target area, and then shot away to the east outdistancing pursuit aircraft at a terrific speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1313; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3550 Source: Johnson ### Event 4270 (A5AF4547) Date: 6/20/1952 Description: 3:03 p.m. A flight of four US Marine Corps captains and pilots \([Bobbie Foster](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118916528/bobbie-gene-foster)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118916528/bobbie-gene-foster) Richard Francisco, [Teddy L.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3841406/teddy-l-pittman) [Pittman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3841406/teddy-l-pittman)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3841406/teddy-l-pittman) and [Ronnie A. McDonald](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150828155/ronnie-angus-mcdonald)\) of F4U-4B Corsair fighters with the 7302nd Squadron over central Korea see a silvery-white object passing below them, banking into a left turn. As the object circles around, Foster dives toward the object, which appears to be 10–20 feet in diameter. It flies away at an estimated speed of 1,000 mph and disappears toward friendly lines. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F4U-4B Corsairs Encounter Circling UFO](http://www.nicap.org/520620korea%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 139 Source ID: Eberhart_1864 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4271 (5BC60125) Date: 6/20/1952 Time: 3:03 PM Description: Witnesses: four Marine Corps Captains and pilots of F4U-4B Corsair fighter planes. One 10-20' white or silver oval object made a left-hand orbit at terrific speed for 60 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Central Korea Source ID: BerlinerBBU_145 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4272 (C0E756B0) Date: 6/21/1952 Description: B-29 Encounters Flat Object With Pointed Front (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1319) Reference: NICAP: [520621](http://www.nicap.org/520621kellyafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kelly AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1057 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4273 (EDE6A922) Date: Summer 1952 Description: USAF Colonel, B-29 pilot investigated radar target, saw glowing ellipse which reversed direction and sped away. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [52Summer](http://www.nicap.org/52SUMRmacdillafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: MacDill AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1182 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4274 (268605E2) Date: Summer 1952 Description: Mrs. Rogers saw an object descend slowly and pass across a pasture at 7 m altitude. She stopped her car and observed it was "wobbling" in mid-air, was shaped like a turtle, and showed three oarlike protrusions that moved slowly. Estimated dimensions: 5 by 4 m, 1 m thick. It was greenish-gray in color, emitted a blue flame, but showed no other light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Barker 78 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Martin County, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_91 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 4275 (078A4B2C) Date: Summer 1952 Time: 0300 Description: A woman was awakened by a thunderclap and a strong bluish light. As she got out, she saw a large number of hovering disk-shaped machines resembling "inverted soup plates" 200 m away at an altitude of about 1 m. She observed them for 30 min, saw two figures standing on one of the craft and looking at the sky. They went back inside, and shortly thereafter the "fleet" took off, one object at a time. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68,1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Itenhaem, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_90 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 4276 (EB22CB9A) Date: Summer 1952 Description: Denis Plunkett forms a British branch of [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender)’s International Flying Saucer Bureau in Bristol, England. When Bender closes down IFSB in late September 1953, the branch becomes the British Flying Saucer Bureau, with his son E. L. Plunkett as president. It publishes Flying Saucer News from Spring 1953 to Spring 1956 and Flying Saucer News Bulletin from February 1955 through 1957. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Flying Saucer News](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20%28BFSB%29/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20-%20No%2001%20-%201953%20Spring.pdf), no. 1 \(Spring 1953\); [Flying Saucer News Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20Bulletin%20%28BFSB%29/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20Bulletin%20-%20No%2001%20-%201955%2002.pdf), no. 1 \(February 1955\) Source ID: Eberhart_1880 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4277 (C6A8C727) Date: Summer 1952 Description: Night. Radar at MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida, picks up a target at 40,000 feet flying at 460 mph. A nearby B-29 volunteers to investigate, searching until midnight. The pilot, a USAF colonel, finally reports a visual sighting of the UFO, flying at 40,000 feet and 250 mph and appearing as a glowing white light shaped like a football. The object changes course and disappears at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 25](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=37&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1881 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4278 (AA0471BD) Date: 6/21/1952 Description: Radar Visual Near AEC Plant (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520621](http://www.nicap.org/520621oakridge%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oakridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1058 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4279 (7D6937A1) Date: 6/21/1952 Description: 12:30 p.m. T/Sgt. Howard Davis, flight engineer of a B-29 bomber flying at 8,000 feet altitude near Kelly AFB \[now Kelly Field\] in San Antonio, Texas, sees a small, flat object with a sharply pointed front and rounded rear. It is white with a dark blue center and red rim and trails sparks as it dives past the B-29 at a distance of 500 feet in one second. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[B-29 Encounters Flat Object with Pointed Front](http://www.nicap.org/520621kellyafb%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 140 Source ID: Eberhart_1865 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4280 (55DCCC30) Date: 6/21/1952 Description: 10:58 p.m. A Ground Observer Corps spotter at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, sees a small \(6–8 inches in diameter\), slow-moving UFO near the AEC plant. GCI radar obtains the target, but it fades from the scope. An F-97 on combat air patrol engages in a “dogfight” with the object, which makes “ramming attacks” at the aircraft. It blinks until it speeds away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Radar Visual near AEC Plant”](http://www.nicap.org/520621oakridge%5Fdir.htm); Ruppelt, [p. 43](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/42/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 139 Source ID: Eberhart_1866 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4281 (B6DFA606) Date: 6/21/1952 Description: Near Kelly AFB, Texas. At 12:30 p.m. Sgt. Howard Davis, the flight engineer of a B-29 bomber flying at 8,000' altitude, witnessed a flat object with a sharply pointed front and rounded rear. It was white with a dark blue center and red rim. It trailed sparks as it dove past the B-29 at a distance of 500 feet for a very brief time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1319; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 16; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_3567 Source: Johnson ### Event 4282 (144F5367) Date: 6/21/1952 Description: At 11:00 p.m. that night at the Oak Ridge, Tennessee nuclear facility a radar target was picked up and later sighted as a featureless nocturnal light over the AEC site by a member of the Ground Observer Corps. The light eluded an F-47 fighter sent to investigate it, flying at 8,000 feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_3568 Source: Johnson ### Event 4283 (DEB8728F) Date: Summer 1952 Description: While Operation INTERCEPT was in effect, two North American F-86 Operation INTERCEPT Sabre fighters were vectored onto a target UFO. The pilots had a broad daylight view of the UFO and fired tracer bullets at it before it accelerated out of range. The officer who fired the bullets was debriefed by his Colonel (name withheld) and the base commander told Capt. Ruppelt to destroy the report (according to Ruppelt himself). Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) See also: 7/1952 Source ID: Maj2_458 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4284 (7A3CEC54) Date: Summer 1952 Description: Famous F-86 shooting incident. Date unknown. Case report destroyed. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [52Summer](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/f-86dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1022 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4285 (F65822C8) Date: 6/21/1952 Time: 12:30 PM Description: Witness: T/Sgt. Howard Davis, flight engineer of B-29 bomber at 8,000' altitude. One flat object with a sharply pointed front and rounded rear; white with a dark blue center and red rim, trailed sparks as it dove past the B-29 at a distance of 500', in l second. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kelly AFB, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_146 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4286 (6945C74F) Date: Summer 1952 Description: USAF Colonel, B-29 pilot investigated radar target, saw glowing ellipse which reversed direction and sped away. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0) Reference: NICAP: [52Summer](http://www.nicap.org/52SUMRmacdillafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: MacDill AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1023 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4287 (026F9617) Date: 6/22/1952 Description: 4 ft diameter orange object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1323) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pyungthek, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1060 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4288 (D133CF4F) Date: 6/22/1952 Description: 10:45 p.m. Two US Marine sergeants see a 4-foot diameter orange object dive at a runway from the north, dropping from 800 to 100 feet altitude over the west end of the runway at Pyeongtaek military base, South Korea, shooting 2–5-foot red flames. It then heads west at about 300–450 mph for 2–3 seconds, hovers briefly over a hill, turns 180° in 45–60 seconds, flashes, heads east a half mile, flashes again, and blinks out. No sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 82–83](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/82/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 140 Source ID: Eberhart_1867 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4289 (C323BD31) Date: 6/22/1952 Description: Near the Korean front in 1952, two sergeants sighted an orange disc four feet in diameter just above an airstrip. It dove vertically, emitting a red flame 2-5 feet long as it did so, and stopped momentarily 100 feet over the end of the runway. The object then flew to the west, circled back taking about 45 to 60 seconds to execute the 180-degree turn, flashed, the flew on to the east. A second bright flash was seen followed by complete darkness: the disc had vanished. No sound was heard coming from the object. The case was unexplained by Project Blue Book. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 82 Source ID: Johnson_3598 Source: Johnson ### Event 4290 (B002C131) Date: 6/22/1952 Time: 10:45 PM Description: Witnesses: Two Marine Corps Sergeants. One 4 ft. diameter object dove at a runway shooting red flames, hovered briefly over a hill, turned 180, flashed twice and was gone. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pyungthek, Korea Source ID: BerlinerBBU_147 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4291 (269F43F3) Date: 6/23/1952 Time: 10:00 AM Description: Witness: National Guard Lt. Col. O. L. Depp. Two objects looking like "giant soap bubbles", reflecting yellow and lavender colors, flew in trail for 5 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Owensboro, Kentucky Source ID: BerlinerBBU_152 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4292 (B5019759) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: Round disc with a metallic shine flash and flutter like a flipped coin. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1331) Reference: NICAP: [520623](http://www.nicap.org/spokane520623dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Spokane, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1061 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4293 (5272558D) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: Black coin-shaped object, 15-20 ft in diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: unknown location, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1065 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4294 (FD402720) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: (Case missing) Seven ADC Men Track 3,600 MPH Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520623](http://www.nicap.org/520623kirksville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirksville, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1063 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4295 (77322558) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: Oak Ridge, Tennessee. At 3:30 a.m. Martha Milligan, a secretary, saw a bullet-shaped object with burnt-orange exhaust fly straight and level for 30-60 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1334; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 266 Source ID: Johnson_3614 Source: Johnson ### Event 4296 (03639B4D) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: McChord AFB, Washington. At around 9 p.m. Lt. K. Thompson watched a very large light that flew straight and level for 10 minutes. Four miles west of the Air Base several yellow-whitish nocturnal lights in a V formation made precise maneuvers in sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1332; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 23; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 266 Source ID: Johnson_3617 Source: Johnson ### Event 4297 (C952B1C4) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: Airport weather observer Rex Thompson in Spokane, Washington sighted a round disc with a metallic shine at 4:05 pm. It flashed and fluttered like a flipped coin for 5-7 minutes. Many others saw a fiery light that might have been a meteor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1331; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3616 Source: Johnson ### Event 4298 (5452F35C) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: Grid area CV 4, Korea. Information came via Japan H.Q. "CV 4359". At 6:08 a.m. a USAF pilot of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Group sighted a black coin-shaped object about seven times wider than it was thick, with an estimated diameter of 15-20 feet, that made an irregular descent. It flew at a fixed altitude for 6-7 seconds, approached the pilot's plane, then disappeared into a cloud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_3613 Source: Johnson ### Event 4299 (395D2F51) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: In Owensboro, Kentucky at 10:00 a.m. National Guard Lt. Col. O. L. Depp and another man heard a sound like an airplane and witnessed two objects looking like "giant soap bubbles", reflecting yellow and lavender colors. They flew one behind the other for five seconds, then vanished from view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1335; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 267 Source ID: Johnson_3615 Source: Johnson ### Event 4300 (3E25DB01) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: 2 obj looking like “giant soap bubbles” reflecting (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1335) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Owensboro (near), KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1066 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4301 (203FBD29) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: A very large light fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1332) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McChord AFB, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1062 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4302 (AE798A55) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: Secretary Martha Milligan saw a bullet-shaped object with burnt-orange exhaust fly straight and level. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1334, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520623](http://nicap.org/oak520623dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1064 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4303 (9FC22F39) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: 1:30 a.m. USAF ADC radar operators Lt. A. N. Robinson Jr. and Airman Ray H. Foote, plus 5 other controllers, officers, and maintenance technicians at Kirksville Air Force Station in Missouri, track a hard target with a clear sharp return about the size of a B-29. It suddenly appears 85 miles north-northwest of the station, moving at a constant speed of about 3,600+ mph on a straight path for about 125 miles for 2 minutes. Then it vanishes. A second target appears at 1:35 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Seven ADC Men Track 3,600 MPH Target](http://www.nicap.org/520623kirksville%5Fdir.htm)”; Michael D. Swords, “Case Missing,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 20; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 141 Source ID: Eberhart_1868 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4304 (B0D84FBB) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: 3:30 a.m. Secretary Martha Milligan sees a bullet-shaped object emitting a burnt-orange exhaust fly straight and level over Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[June 23, 1952: Oak Ridge, Tenn.](http://www.nicap.org/oak520623dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 141 Source ID: Eberhart_1869 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4305 (6B3AB483) Date: 6/23/1952 Time: 6:08 AM Description: Witness: USAF pilot of the l8th Fighter-Bomber Group. One black coin-shaped object, 15-20' in diameter, made an irregular descent. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Location unknown, but information came via Japan Hq. "CV 4359" Source ID: BerlinerBBU_153 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4306 (6F2B1791) Date: 6/23/1952 Time: 3:30 AM Description: Witness: secretary Martha Milligan. One bullet-shaped object with burnt-orange exhaust flew straight and level for 30-60 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee Source ID: BerlinerBBU_151 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4307 (738953BA) Date: 6/23/1952 Time: Time unknown Description: Case missing from official files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kirksville, Missouri Source ID: BerlinerBBU_150 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4308 (5AA2AD12) Date: 6/23/1952 Time: 9 PM Description: Witness: 2nd Lt. K. Thompson. One very large light flew straight and level for 10 minutes. No further information. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: McChord AFB, Washington Source ID: BerlinerBBU_149 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4309 (EC6ACE55) Date: 6/23/1952 Time: 4:05 PM Description: Witness: Airport weather observer Rex Thompson. One round disc with a metallic shine flashed, and fluttered like a flipped coin for 5-7 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Spokane, Washington Source ID: BerlinerBBU_148 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4310 (75BB7058) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: 10:00 a.m. National Guard Lt. Col. [Oren Laramore Depp](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145485153/oren-laramore-depp) \[[Johnny Depp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%5FDepp)’s grandfather\] sees two objects looking like giant soap bubbles reflecting yellow and lavender colors flying in line over Owensboro, Kentucky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 141 Source ID: Eberhart_1870 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4311 (D942BD33) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: 4:05 pm. Airport weather observer Rex Thompson sees a round disc with a metallic shine flash and flutter like a flipped coin for 5–7 minutes over Geiger Field \[now Spokane International Airport\], Spokane, Washington. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[June 23, 1952: Spokane, Wash.](http://www.nicap.org/spokane520623dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 140 Source ID: Eberhart_1871 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4312 (1820BE7B) Date: 6/23/1952 Description: 9:00 p.m. 2d Lt. K. Thompson sees a very large light flying straight and level for 10 minutes at McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lews-McChord\] near Tacoma, Washington. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 140; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 11, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1872 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4313 (56477AA7) Date: 6/24/1952 Description: The first issue of Ouranos is published by the Commission Internationale d’Enquêtes sur les Soucoupes Volantes, in Paris. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Ouranos](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2001%20-%201952%2006.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2001%20-%201952%2006.pdf) no. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_1873 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4314 (98BAA5C5) Date: 6/25/1952 Description: [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) writes an “Interim Report on Project Magnet,” in which he states: “If, as appears evident, the flying saucers are emissaries from some other civilization, and actually do operate no magnetic principles, we have before us the fact that we have missed something in magnetic theory but have a good indication of the direction in which to look for the missing quantities.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 185](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/184/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1874 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4315 (1D88A3EE) Date: 6/25/1952 Description: 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Daniel Norbury and Lawrence Matheis see a bright yellow-white, egg-shaped object, sometimes with a red tail, make seven circles over Chicago, Illinois. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[June 25, 1952: Chicago, Illinois](http://www.nicap.org/chicago520625dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 141 Source ID: Eberhart_1875 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4316 (F66EC0CE) Date: 6/25/1952 Description: At 20:23 p.m. over Suwon, Korea a silver coin-shaped object was seen spinning in a counterclockwise direction. The edges of the disc were dark blue, with its diameter seven times larger than its thickness. It changed course, paused, then rose vertically straight up. A bright yellow-white egg-shaped light flew at a slightly higher elevation than the planet Venus over Chicago, Illinois. Occasionally had a red tail light visible. It made a large continuous circle in the night sky at a slow speed. Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1344 Source ID: Johnson_3648 Source: Johnson ### Event 4317 (CFF1BEAF) Date: 6/25/1952 Description: Bright yellow-white, egg-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1344) Reference: NICAP: [520625](http://nicap.org/chicago520625dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1069 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4318 (68C9842A) Date: 6/25/1952 Time: 8:30 PM Description: Witnesses: Mrs. Norbury, Mr. Matheis. One bright yellow-white, egg-shaped object which sometimes had a red tail, made seven circles in 1 1/2 hours. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Chicago, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_154 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4319 (93562489) Date: 6/25/1952 Time: Time unknown Description: Case missing from official files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Japan-Korea area Source ID: BerlinerBBU_155 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4320 (00342ABE) Date: 6/25/1952 Description: (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: unknown location, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1070 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4321 (CD90F9D7) Date: 6/25/1952 Description: Military witness(es). Case missing \[?\]. (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1347) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Japan, Korea Area, Far East Source ID: NICAP_DB_1068 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4322 (A6B03F90) Date: 6/25/1952 Description: No information (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1340) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tokyo, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1067 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4323 (B8842F76) Date: 6/26/1952 Description: Undescribed object fly at 600 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1348) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Terre Haute, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1071 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4324 (FBCF992C) Date: 6/26/1952 Description: 3 different sightings of flashing lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1351) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pottstown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1072 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4325 (61D7A263) Date: 6/26/1952 Description: In Celina, Ohio at 1:30 a.m. a married couple saw a glowing but dark colored disc fly over the town slowly toward the south, at a low altitude. It flew with a slight tilt, and made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2259 Source ID: Johnson_3666 Source: Johnson ### Event 4326 (B3038B6C) Date: 6/26/1952 Time: 11:50 PM Description: Witness: assistant manager of airport. Three sightings of flashing lights: two lights separated by 2 miles, with the leader flashing steadily and the other irregularly; two similarly flashing lights, but with l mile separation; finally a single light. Speed estimated at 150-250 m.p.h.. Total of 1/2 hour. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pottstown, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_157 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4327 (037C7907) Date: 6/26/1952 Description: Later that day in Pottstown, Pennsylvania a procession of discs flew by. At 11:50 p.m. two objects flew side-by-side in tandem-one had steady lights and the other had flashing lights. Fifteen minutes later two more passed over in the same configuration. After another fifteen minutes a single object flew over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1351 Source ID: Johnson_3667 Source: Johnson ### Event 4328 (90E16020) Date: 6/26/1952 Time: 2:45 AM Description: Witness: USAF 2nd Lt. C. W. Povelites. Undescribed object flew at 600 m.p.h. and then stopped. No further information in files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Terre Haute, Indiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_156 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4329 (EED709C4) Date: 6/27/1952 End date: 6/30/1952 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) visits McChord AFB in Tacoma, Washington, to look into recent sightings there. Capt. Harnnagy of the 4704 Air Defense Wing Intelligence tells him that the objects are always seen in the northern sky around 8:00 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 23–24 Source ID: Eberhart_1876 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4330 (1EEA1222) Date: 6/27/1952 Description: A military pilot named Kelly saw a UFO hover at 6:50 p.m. and pulsate a brilliant red over Topeka, Kansas. The shape of the object varied from circular to oval in the vertical dimension as the object pulsated. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1355; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 27; Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 267 Source ID: Johnson_3692 Source: Johnson ### Event 4331 (ACF9418B) Date: 6/27/1952 Time: 6:50 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot 2nd Lt. K. P. Kelly and wife. One pulsating red object which changed shape from a circular to a vertical oval as it pulsed. Was stationary for about 5 minutes, then went out. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Topeka, Kansas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_158 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4332 (20263001) Date: 6/27/1952 Description: Pulsating red object change shape from circular to a vertical oval (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1355) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Topeka, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1073 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4333 (E069F063) Date: 6/28/1952 Description: 1:20 p.m. Two observers at the Cargo Air Service hangar at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, see two silvery discs high in the sky and moving to the south. They noiselessly climb nearly vertically at high speed, one going south-southeast, the other heading almost due east. The observation lasts 30 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, THE UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 68–69](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/68/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 142 Source ID: Eberhart_1877 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4334 (170D166F) Date: 6/28/1952 Description: 2 silvery disc-like objects high in the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1074 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4335 (71A3C1A4) Date: 6/28/1952 Time: 4:10 PM Description: Witness: Capt. T. W. Barger, USAF electronics countermeasures officer. One dark blue elliptical-shaped object with a pulsing border flew straight and level at 700-800 m.p.h.. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Nagoya, Japan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_160 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4336 (BA05E449) Date: 6/28/1952 Time: 6 PM Description: Witness: G. Metcalfe. One silver-white sphere became an ellipse as it turned and climbed away very fast. 10 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lake Kishkanoug, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_159 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4337 (3BFCFBDF) Date: 6/28/1952 Description: At 6 o'clock in the evening a silvery white sphere was observed flying over Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin. It made a 180 degree turn and assumed an elliptical shape during the turn, then returned to a spherical appearance as it flew on. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 28; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 268 Source ID: Johnson_3710 Source: Johnson ### Event 4338 (D2CFC293) Date: 6/28/1952 Description: Kirtland AFB, New Mexico - Two round silver disks were sighted by two men aboard a Carco Air Service cargo plane flying south of Kirtland AFB at 1:20 p.m. The craft initially moved slowly and silently to the south, but picked up speed instantly speed and climbed vertically. After climbing one object veered to the east and the second continued on in a south-southeasterly direction. They made no detectable sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, p. 60; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 181 Source ID: Johnson_3709 Source: Johnson ### Event 4339 (7C89BB15) Date: 6/28/1952 Description: A flashing disc shaped object hovered vertically in the air by some woods near Lake Caluso in the Piemonte region of Italy around nine o'clock in the evening. It rotated 90 degrees into a horizontal position, and left behind an odor of ozone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 136 Source ID: Johnson_3711 Source: Johnson ### Event 4340 (701FDD11) Date: 6/28/1952 Description: Dark blue elliptical-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1363) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nagoya, Honshu, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1076 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4341 (6D6F7570) Date: 6/28/1952 Description: Bright Light Crosses C-97's Path (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520628](http://www.nicap.org/520628pacific%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific bet. Hawaii and Calif., in airspace Source ID: NICAP_DB_1077 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4342 (DB98EF22) Date: 6/28/1952 Description: Silver-white sphere become an ellipse (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1361) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Kishkonoug, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1075 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4343 (B537005F) Date: 6/29/1952 Description: 5:45 p.m. Three Air Force police officers of the 83rd Air Base Squadron at O’Hare Airport in Chicago spot a flat, oval object as it hovers between two radio towers about 7 miles away. It is bright silver in color, encircled by white haze, and appears about 30 feet in diameter. During the next 45 minutes the object moves to the southwest and then back north. It accelerates instantaneously to a speed faster than a jet fighter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[Blue Book documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520629ohara%5Fdocs.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 143 Source ID: Eberhart_1878 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4344 (D765C808) Date: 6/29/1952 Description: At 9:05 p.m. EDT a BOAC airliner with 22 witnesses aboard tracked a group of at least seven objects for 18 minutes over Canada, first encountering the objects around Sept-Iles in Quebec. The objects were seen flying in and out of broken cloud cover. There were six small ovals and a larger dark object, which was continually changing shape. It was described as changing shape "like a swarm of bees might do." The six smaller orbs were "strung out in a line." The explanation provided by the US Air Force, that they were witnessing Mars, was impossible at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Brinsley LePoer Trench, The Flying Saucer Story, p. 33; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 139; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p.23 Source ID: Johnson_3727 Source: Johnson ### Event 4345 (E2502451) Date: 6/29/1952 Description: On this night three military policemen in Park Ridge, Illinois near O'Hare Airport sighted a thirty foot in diameter disc with a blue glow hovering over two civilian radio towers. It jumped about in the sky for 45 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1364. Source ID: Johnson_3726 Source: Johnson ### Event 4346 (0A113656) Date: 6/29/1952 Time: 5:45 PM Description: witnesses: three USAF air policemen. One bright silver, flat oval object surrounded by a blue haze, hovered, then moved very fast to the right and to the left, and up and down for 45 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_161 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4347 (3088E2DA) Date: 6/29/1952 Description: A bright silver smooth surfaced, flat oval 30 ft object (Jan Aldrich; unpublished Ruppelt manuscript) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1364) Reference: NICAP: [520629](http://www.nicap.org/ohara520629dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: O'Hare Airport, Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1078 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4348 (0D0B08DD) Date: 6/30/1952 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says that by this time there is a split in opinion in the military about what to do about UFOs. One group assumes that UFOs are interplanetary, and information must be withheld at a top-secret level. “The enthusiasm of this group took a firm hold in the Pentagon, at Air Defense Command headquarters, on the Research and Development Board, and many other agencies.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 152–153](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/152/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1879 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4349 (3C607880) Date: 6/30/1952 Description: Gaudet \[and Wolf?\]. (Jan Aldrich; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Phoenix, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1080 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4350 (EBCE4A8C) Date: 6/30/1952 Description: Circular object flattened on top and bottom (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sea of Japan, at sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1081 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4351 (C4A6CBF1) Date: 6/30/1952 Description: Object at extreme distance irregularly changing color from red to green (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbia, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1079 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4352 (954B79BB) Date: 7/1952 Description: The administration and faculty of Ohio Northern University, in Ada, Ohio, announce the formation of Project A: Investigation of Phenomena, saying that members of the engineering, pharmacy, law, and liberal arts colleges will examine the evidence for UFOs under the direction of Dean [Warren L. Hickman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158923731/warren-l%5F-hickman). Project A personnel seek reports from the public and collect newspaper clippings. The project receives a disappointing 54 completed questionnaires, far lower than the 200 they would like for a scientific sampling. However, they do estimate that about 20% involve “unnatural phenomena.” After unsuccessful attempts to obtain reports from Civilian Saucer Investigation in Los Angeles and other groups, the university closes the project down in mid-1954. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 3; Clark III 916; Curt Collins, “[Project A: The Short](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/09/project-the-short-life-of-ufo-study.html) [Life of a UFO Study,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/09/project-the-short-life-of-ufo-study.html)” September 21, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_1884 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4353 (7C925E3C) Date: 7/1952 Description: Afternoon. A man driving a car near Schenectady, New York, sees an oblong object hovering nearby. A gondola lowers from the object and a bunch of “Navy officers in white hats” rush to the windows. All are wearing huge dark glasses. The gondola goes back up, and three smaller UFOs appear and go inside the bigger one. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1952–1953,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1952-1953.pdf) p. 10; Clark III 267 Source ID: Eberhart_1883 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4354 (CCF4CC9B) Date: 7/1952 Description: Pilots Nash and Fortenberry see 6 discs. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_117 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4355 (6B6F23B9) Date: 7/1952 Description: [Edgar Jarrold](http://theozfiles1.rssing.com/chan-25625913/all%5Fp4.html) begins the Australian Flying Saucer Bureau in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia’s first civilian UFO organization, following his personal observation of two fast-moving yellow lights in the sky over Fairfield, New South Wales. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucers on His Mind,](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18407496)” Sydney \(N.S.W.\) Morning Gazette, February 2, 1954, p. 7; Clark III 632 Source ID: Eberhart_1882 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4356 (64B8CE28) Date: 7/1952 Description: Ohio Northern University sets up Project "A" to investigate the UFO's. Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Ohio Northern University Source ID: Maj2_116 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4357 (7D96D225) Date: 7/1/1952 Description: 7:25 am. Two silvery elliptical UFOs were observed visually near Boston, where an F-94 interceptor was sent up to investigate (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520701](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/lynn520701dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boston, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1082 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4358 (BAF5E485) Date: 7/1/1952 Description: Lynn, Massachusetts - At about 7:25 in the morning two F-94's were scrambled to intercept a UFO that a Ground Observer Corps spotter reported was travelling southwest across Boston. Radar couldn't pick it up so the jets were vectored into the general area. At 7:30 a.m. a man and his wife in Lynn noticed the two vapor trails from the F-94 interceptors and looked around the sky to see if they could spot what the jets were after. They saw a bright silver cigar-shaped object "about six times as long as it was wide" moving southwest. As they watched they saw an identical UFO was following the first one some distance back. Both were moving just a little faster than the two jets. The UFOs appeared to be at a very high altitude, and the couple watched as the two F-94's searched back and forth far below the UFOs. The Air Force lists the explanation of the objects as probable balloons. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956, pg. 150 Source ID: Johnson_3769 Source: Johnson ### Event 4359 (F35CF5A8) Date: 7/1/1952 Description: 7:25 a.m. A Ground Observer Corps spotter sees a UFO headed southwest across Boston, Massachusetts. Two F-94s are scrambled. Erwin W. Nelson and his wife at Lynn, Massachusetts, notice two vapor trails from the climbing jets, look around, and see in the west a bright silver “cigar shaped object about six times as long as it was wide” heading over Boston at a very high altitude. An identical UFO is following the first some distance back. No vapor trails are visible. The witnesses watch the F-94s search back and forth far below the UFOs. At 7:30, USAF Capt. [Robert E. Metcalf](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49260481/robert-eugene-metcalf), petroleum officer for the 6520th Test Support Wing, and USAF air policemen M/Sgt [James Stiner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50612319/james-stiner) and M/Sgt Joseph R. Bosh, 6520th Air Police Squadron, at Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts, see the two jets, look for what they are intercepting, and see to the east a 100-foot-long silvery ellipse “fatter than a cigar” traveling southwest. At two points, the object seems to hover, then continues at about 40,000 feet. The object’s path intersects contrails of the two jets heading southeast. Metcalf loses sight of the object on his way to the tower after a few minutes, then sees it again at about 7:40 a.m., noting it has increased distance “considerably,” but finally loses sight of it at the tower. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[Blue Book document](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB11-326-328.pdf)\]; UFOEv, [p. 160](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=172&skin=2021); Ruppelt, [pp. 150–151](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/150/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 144 Source ID: Eberhart_1886 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4360 (6AFCAE62) Date: 7/1/1952 Description: 2 big lights about 20 ft diameter fly straight and level, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520701](http://www.nicap.org/520701fortmonmouth%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Monmouth, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1083 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4361 (94C1F80C) Date: 7/1/1952 Description: [J. Robert Moskin](http://www.jrobertmoskin.com/)‘s article appears in Look magazine. It features Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg)’s declaration that “we cannot afford to be complacent” about UFOs. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) says that the article has upset the “silence group” in the Pentagon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Robert Moskin, “[Hunt for the Flying Saucer,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/look7152.htm)” Look. July 1, 1952, pp. 37–41; Keyhoe, FS from OS, [pp. 52–53](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chIII.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_1885 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4362 (692BE83B) Date: 7/1/1952 Description: 8:40–9:15 a.m. Two silvery objects move south along the East Coast and hover near Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, for about 5 minutes at 50,000 feet. As radar at Fort Monmouth detects the objects, they put on a burst of speed and head southwest toward Washington, D.C., confirmed visually. At about 12:00 noon, a physics professor at George Washington University in D.C. sees a grayish UFO hovering and arcing back and forth across the sky for about 8 minutes. He guesses about 500 people are watching the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Objects Tracked at 50,000ʹ,](http://www.nicap.org/520701fortmonmouth%5Fdir.htm) [G/V](http://www.nicap.org/520701fortmonmouth%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 151–152](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/150/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 36– 37; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 144 Source ID: Eberhart_1887 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4363 (121CDD86) Date: 7/2/1952 Description: The Tremonton, Utah / Newhouse Color Film (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520702](http://www.nicap.org/520702tremonton%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tremonton, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1084 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4364 (D4D8538E) Date: 7/2/1952 Description: 11:10 a.m. As he is driving on a highway seven miles north of Tremonton, Utah, US Navy Chief Petty Officer Delbert C. Newhouse and his wife see a strange object in the sky. Newhouse pulls the car to the side of the road, gets out, and watches 12–14 UFOs at about 10,000 feet. Looking like “two pie pans, one inverted on top of the other,” they are clustered in a loose formation, “milling around.” He takes about 75 seconds worth of film through the telephoto lens of his 16mm movie camera, though the objects have receded a bit to shiny points of light. At one point a single object leaves the pack, heading east, and Newhouse holds the camera still so the UFO crosses the field of view. He repeats the procedure 3-4 times. Blue Book obtains the film and sends it to the USAF Photo- Reconnaissance Laboratory and the Navy’s Photo Interpretation Laboratory. Both analyses eliminate the possibility of aircraft or birds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Tremonton, Utah / Newhouse Color Film](http://www.nicap.org/520702tremonton%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Delbert Newhouse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLvzgJMsIQ) [UFO Footage, 1952, Tremonton, Utah,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLvzgJMsIQ)” parkerdonaldmusic YouTube channel, September 29, 2012; Ruppelt, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/220/mode/2up) [220–222](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/220/mode/2up); UFOEv, [pp. 88](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=100&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=100&skin=2021) [112](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=124&skin=2021); Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 235–239](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/234/mode/2up); Condon, [pp. 418–426](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/418/mode/2up); “Turner on Tremonton,” IUR 3, no. 5 \(May 1978\): 6; Swords 149; Clark III 1203–1204; Kevin D. Randle, “[Newhouse’s Tremonton, Utah](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/12/newhouses-tremonton-utah-movie-revisited.html) [Movie Revisited,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/12/newhouses-tremonton-utah-movie-revisited.html)” A Different Perspective, December 12, 2013; Patrick Gross, “[Tremonton, Utah, UFO Color](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/tremonton.htm) [Film of July 2, 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/tremonton.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1888 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4365 (2FE85066) Date: 7/3/1952 Description: 2 bright pastel green discs fly straight and level very fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1382) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1086 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4366 (292E65CB) Date: 7/3/1952 Description: 4:15 a.m. A witness on the Manitou Beach Highway near Rome Center, Michigan, watches two circular lights about 20 feet in diameter flying horizontally at tremendous speed at only a few hundred feet altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[July 3, 1952: Selfridge AFB, Mich.](http://www.nicap.org/selfridge520723dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 145 Source ID: Eberhart_1889 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4367 (A4FF1E87) Date: 7/3/1952 Description: 11:50 p.m. Mrs. J. D. Arbuckle sees two bright pastel-green discs fly straight and level very fast for 6 seconds over Chicago, Illinois. The next day the Air Force public information office at O’Hare Airport says it has received 16 reports of UFOs over Chicago in the past week. An Air Force spokesman says that jet patrols are on alert 24 hours a day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 145; “[Deny Reports of ‘Saucers’ Alerts,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93380946/)” Waterloo \(Iowa\) Courier, July 4, 1952, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_1890 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4368 (D303953B) Date: 7/3/1952 Description: 2 big lights about 20 ft diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1380) Reference: NICAP: [520703](http://www.nicap.org/selfridge520723dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Selfridge AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1085 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4369 (BF0DBDC6) Date: 7/3/1952 Time: 11:50 PM Description: Witness: Mrs. J. D. Arbuckle. Two bright pastel green discs flew straight and level very fast for 6 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Chicago, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_163 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4370 (9D2EE059) Date: 7/3/1952 Time: 4:15 AM Description: Witnesses not identified. Two big lights, estimated at 20' diameter, flew straight and level at tremendous speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_162 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4371 (E0909A19) Date: 7/5/1952 Description: Three Dark Discs Sighted From State Patrol Airplane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1390) Reference: NICAP: [520705](http://www.nicap.org/520705norman%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norman, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1089 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4372 (D651C207) Date: 7/5/1952 Description: (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1087 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4373 (6B6D7FC1) Date: 7/5/1952 Description: 6:00 a.m. Four commercial pilots flying at 9,000 feet above the Hanford atomic site in Washington State observe a disc just below a deck of wispy clouds directly above their C-46. The witnesses are Capt. John Baldwin, Capt. George Robertson, H. D. Shenkel, and Steven Summers. Baldwin says that the disc stands still at first and then seems to back away and change shape, becoming flat, gaining speed, and then disappearing. Robertson says “we couldn’t pick it up on our radar. We reversed our course and went back, but we couldn’t spot it again.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[C-46 Crew Observe Disc over AEC Plant](http://www.nicap.org/520705hanford%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 53](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/52/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 145; Swords 149 Source ID: Eberhart_1891 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4374 (5571EF19) Date: 7/5/1952 Description: Hanford Atomic Works - perfect circular white disc above the site (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richland, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1088 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4375 (D336D87A) Date: 7/5/1952 Time: 7:58 PM Description: Witness: Oklahoma State Patrolman Hamilton in State Patrol airplane. Three dark discs hovered and then flew away, silhouetted against a dark cloud. 15 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Norman, Oklahoma Source ID: BerlinerBBU_164 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4376 (C03A553B) Date: 7/5/1952 Description: C-46 Crew Observe Disc Over AEC Plant (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520705](http://www.nicap.org/520705hanford%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hanford AEC Plant (at Richland), WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1090 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4377 (83DD700B) Date: 7/5/1952 Description: 7:58 p.m. Oklahoma State Patrolman Arthur Myers Hamilton is flying five miles south-southeast of Norman, Oklahoma, in a State Patrol airplane when he sees three dark discs 4–8 miles away at 6,000 feet hover for 15 seconds then fly away, silhouetted against a dark cloud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Three Dark Discs Sighted from State Patrol](http://www.nicap.org/520705norman%5Fdir.htm) [Airplane](http://www.nicap.org/520705norman%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 145 Source ID: Eberhart_1892 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4378 (8C34F185) Date: 7/6/1952 Description: Amateur photographer Neff was making time exposures at Governors Island, New York. He didn't see a UFO at the time, but an unidentified object appeared on the film when developed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1397 Source ID: Johnson_3873 Source: Johnson ### Event 4379 (D48382C1) Date: 7/6/1952 Time: 11:00 PM Description: July 6-12, 1952. Witness: Charles Muhr. Four pictures taken of some indistinct light which was admittedly not seen visually, but which appeared on the negatives. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Elizabeth, New Jersey Source ID: BerlinerBBU_165 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4380 (6C6E4DDA) Date: 7/6/1952 End date: 7/12/1952 Description: 4 photos of some indistinct light (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: 1397) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Governors Island, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1091 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4381 (AC2FA544) Date: 7/7/1952 Description: Battelle issues its third status report on Project Stork to ATIC. It mentions that Hynek has been consulted on the observer’s data sheet, suggested some changes, and is in the process of interviewing astronomers about any potential sightings made by them. The group has studied and coded UFO reports from 1948. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Seven Status](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7.htm) [Reports for Project Stork,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7.htm)” CUFON Source ID: Eberhart_1893 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4382 (38C5529B) Date: 7/8/1952 Description: A commissionaire on duty at an army depot in Ottawa, Ontario, sees a bright orange light about a quarter size of the full moon travel from south to north, turn, and travel south again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich; Project Magnet Case X Source ID: Eberhart_1894 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4383 (10F66D67) Date: 7/9/1952 Time: 3:35 PM Description: Witnesses: S/Sgt. D.P. Foster and three other persons. Three times, a single white, disc-shaped object sped by, straight and level, in 5 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Rapid City AFB, South Dakota Source ID: BerlinerBBU_168 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4384 (17E62D61) Date: 7/9/1952 Time: 6:30 PM Description: Witness: farmer John Mittl. One aluminum, oval-shaped object changed direction and attitude, finally tipping on end and departing after 20 seconds. Case file includes three vague photographs. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kutztown, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_167 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4385 (BD94C1B7) Date: 7/9/1952 Time: 12:45 PM Description: Witness: USAF pilot Maj. C. K. Griffin. One object shaped like an airfoil less its trailing edge, luminous white, moved slowly and erratically for 12 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado Source ID: BerlinerBBU_166 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4386 (F14D333D) Date: 7/9/1952 Description: An aluminum colored disc maneuvered with flips and up-and-down motion over Kutztown, Pennsylvania at 6:30 p.m. Observers took three poor-quality photographs of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1409 Source ID: Johnson_3949 Source: Johnson ### Event 4387 (6D1F1092) Date: 7/9/1952 Description: A sergeant and three airmen reported that three milky white discs were between 30,000 and 40,000 feet. The airmen observed the objects which appeared between 3 and 4 inches in diameter (at arm’s length), moving faster than any jet aircraft they have seen (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520709](http://www.nicap.org/rapidcity520709dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rapid City AFB, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1094 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4388 (CB302AD6) Date: 7/9/1952 Description: Aluminum, oval-shaped object change direction (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1409) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kutztown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1093 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4389 (A77E34A9) Date: 7/9/1952 Description: Object shaped like an airfoil less its trailing edge, luminous white, move slowly and erratically. 12-mins. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1405) Reference: NICAP: [520709](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/colosprings520709dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colorado Springs, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1092 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4390 (4279F920) Date: 7/9/1952 Description: At 12:45 p.m. a luminous white airfoil without a trailing edge glided through the sky over Colorado Springs, Colorado for 12 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1405 Source ID: Johnson_3947 Source: Johnson ### Event 4391 (4024BDF1) Date: 7/9/1952 Description: A large silver disc hovered over a tire factory in Miami, Oklahoma at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. It had a halo of smoke around its rim. It descended to a low, nearby spot, then rose up and shot away toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2300 Source ID: Johnson_3948 Source: Johnson ### Event 4392 (EEE95FF6) Date: 7/9/1952 Description: 5:30 p.m. Farmer John Mittl watches an aluminum, oval-shaped object silently change direction and attitude above his farm 2 miles east of Kutztown, Pennsylvania, finally tipping on end and departing. He manages to take three photos. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Claude Falkstrom and Curt Collins, “[John Mittl: From Unsolved UFOs to Astral Encounters,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/07/john-mittl-from-unsolved-ufos-to-astral.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot,” July 13, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_1896 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4393 (8E65BD5B) Date: 7/9/1952 Description: 12:45 p.m. USAF Maj. [Claude K. Griffin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49193646/claude-k-griffin) is driving one mile north of Colorado Springs, Colorado, when he sees a luminous white object shaped like an airfoil moving slowly and erratically like a corkscrew. He estimates its size at 100 feet, distance at 15–20 miles, and altitude at 30,000 feet, heading northwest. Griffin stops the car to watch for 12 minutes. USAF Maj. E. R. Hayden and his wife come out of their house and look at the object in a 4x rifle scope. He describes it as rectangular, silver on one side, and black on the other. It flutters as it moves slowly north-northwest above 20,000 feet 20 miles away. It gains altitude and gradually diminishes to a black dot, then accelerates to a high speed and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[Blue Book documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB11-670-676.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 145 Source ID: Eberhart_1895 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4394 (0BC797D6) Date: 7/10/1952 Description: Light Maneuvers Near C-60 Airliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520710](http://www.nicap.org/520710quantico%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Quantico (near), VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1095 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4395 (30966405) Date: 7/10/1952 Description: Navy Destroyer Observes Two Discs / Tracks On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0) Reference: NICAP: [520710](http://www.nicap.org/520710korea%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Korea (near), Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1096 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4396 (747137A7) Date: 7/10/1952 Description: Night. Forty crew members of the Canadian destroyer [HMCS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%5FCrusader%5F%28R20%29) [Crusader](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%5FCrusader%5F%28R20%29) off Korea see two shiny discs and track them on radar. The radar fix places them at 10,560 feet altitude and 7 miles distant. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Naval](http://www.nicap.org/520710korea%5Fdir.htm) [Destroyer Observes Two Discs / Tracks on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/520710korea%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1899 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4397 (CF2C08B2) Date: 7/10/1952 Description: Night. A Marine pilot on night maneuvers near Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, spots two green objects shoot straight across the sky at terrific speed at a high altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Radar Sees ‘Saucers,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93382148/) [AF Investigating,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93381862/)” July 22, 1952, pp. 1A, 6A Source ID: Eberhart_1898 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4398 (9DE801CE) Date: 7/10/1952 Description: 8:18 p.m. Capt. James E. Lundy and First Officer Leon Blanks are flying a National Airlines C-60 airplane 15 miles south of Quantico, Virginia, when they see an object resembling an aircraft landing light. The object becomes brighter as it approaches from the north. It then performs a climbing turn away from the aircraft and its appearance changes, resembling a light emitted by a red flare. Visible for 10 minutes, it is flying too fast for any known aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Light Maneuvers near C-60 Airliner](http://www.nicap.org/520710quantico%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 146 Source ID: Eberhart_1897 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4399 (21127376) Date: 7/11/1952 Description: The Air Technical Liaison Office, Directorate of Intelligence for the Far East Air Force, prepares Intelligence Report \#29-52, detailing Air Force, Navy, and Marine radar UFO reports for 1950–1952 in Korea and Japan. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Capt. Charles J. Malven, “[FLYOBRPT: Japan/Korea Area,](http://www.project1947.com/feaf/FEAF%5FIR-29-52.pdf)” IR-29-52, July 11, 1952 Source ID: Eberhart_1900 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4400 (727EBAB7) Date: 7/11/1952 Description: Oscar Linke, former Wehrmacht major, and his daughter Gabrielle, 11, had to leave their motorcycle when they had a flat tire. Inside the woods the girl noticed two men in silvery suits examining the ground in a clearing near a pink disk-shaped object, 8 m in diameter, showing a double row of openings around the rim and a black turret on top. One of the men had a flashing box. Both men went inside, and the disk vibrated, rose along the turretlike cylinder, then spun faster and rose out of sight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Guieu 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hasselbach, Germany Source ID: Magnonia_93 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 4401 (E9A60FEE) Date: 7/12/1952 Time: 3:30 PM Description: Witness: insurance company president William Washburn. Four large, elliptical-shaped objects were seen to fly very fast, stop, turn 90 degrees and fly away in 7-8 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Annapolis, Maryland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_169 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4402 (20FD5E8D) Date: 7/12/1952 Description: 8:42 p.m. O’Hare AFB weather observer Capt. W. J. Shea and a civilian, Jane Morrison, watch three lights, one main red light with smaller white lights on each side, traveling 500 mph at 40,000–50,000 feet over Montrose Beach, Chicago, Illinois, from the west-northwest. They accelerate to the south and make a 180° turn heading north-northwest, then disappear. The UFO is seen by 400+ people, with 14 others making reports to the 4706th Defense Wing located at O’Hare Airport. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 153](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/152/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), pp. 146–147 Source ID: Eberhart_1901 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4403 (7A3328DB) Date: 7/12/1952 Description: Radars had picked up strange objects in several areas heading west and north at different altitudes, 3000 mph and above. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/520712williamsbay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williams Bay, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1100 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4404 (410E90A4) Date: 7/12/1952 Description: Air Force weather officer, many others at Montrose Beach saw large red object with small white lights on side reverse course directly overhead. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1101 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4405 (7E420846) Date: 7/12/1952 Description: Five Radar Tracks In 50 Minutes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/520712belleville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belleville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1106 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4406 (52167965) Date: 7/12/1952 Description: Three Radars Track Objects At High Speed (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/520712williamsbay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williams Bay, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1105 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4407 (C771844C) Date: 7/12/1952 Description: Several big radar blips tracked at 1,500 knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1436) Reference: NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/520712kirksville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirksville, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1104 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4408 (2B180878) Date: 7/12/1952 Description: 2 brilliant round white lights hovering at 21,000 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520712](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/dayton520712dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dayton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1103 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4409 (2AA6695D) Date: 7/12/1952 Description: 9:04 p.m. Two USAF F-86 Sabre jets with the 62nd Flight Squadron are flying at 22,000 feet on a routine training mission \(or on a scramble mission\) over Arlington Heights, Illinois. Capt. Robert W. Casey Jr., after coming out of a right turn, sees an oblong yellowish lighted object with an exhaust moving in a straight course about 15 miles away south of Elgin, Illinois, at 22,000 feet traveling at 800 mph. The F-86 pursues at maximum speed, but the object pulls away. Both pilots hear a strange radio transmission on their restricted communications channel during the pursuit saying the name of the pursuit pilot, Casey, in an ethereal “ghost-like” monotone. Apparently, this is a prank by Casey’s fighter pilot buddies at the 62nd who are monitoring his channel, though this is later officially denied by the 62nd. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F-86 on Scramble Mission / Strange Radio Transmission](http://www.nicap.org/520712arlington%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 147 Source ID: Eberhart_1902 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4410 (BF1DF1F8) Date: 7/12/1952 Description: At 3:30 p.m. four elliptical-shaped objects, one-third the size of a transport plane, flew four abreast in formation at a high rate of speed over Annapolis, Maryland. They stopped in mid-air, executed a 90-degree turn, then accelerated and vanished in mid-air. At 9:00 p.m. an object the size of a B-36 bomber was picked up on radar flying over Kirksville Air Force Base, Missouri at a speed of 1,700 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1431; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 51; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 269; (2) Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 57 Source ID: Johnson_3999 Source: Johnson ### Event 4411 (2905804C) Date: 7/12/1952 Description: Co-pilot saw object paralleling the plane then dropping down (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenfield (near), IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1102 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4412 (906B5DFD) Date: 7/12/1952 Description: Oblong yellowish lighted object with a trail flying in a straight course (Project 1947) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/520712arlington%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arlington, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1099 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4413 (566B241D) Date: 7/12/1952 Description: F-86 On Scramble Mission / Strange Radio Transmission (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/520712arlington%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arlington, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1098 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4414 (A3543407) Date: 7/12/1952 Description: 3:30 p.m. Insurance company president William Washburn saw 4 large, elliptical- shaped objects fly very fast, stop, turn 90° and fly away. 7-8 secs. (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1431) Reference: NICAP: [520712](http://www.nicap.org/anna520712dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Annapolis, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1097 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4415 (56831AC1) Date: 7/12/1952 Time: 9 PM Description: Witnesses: many radar controllers who were military officers. Several big blips tracked on radar at 1,500 kts. (1,700 m.p.h.). There was no visual sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kirksville, Missouri Source ID: BerlinerBBU_170 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4416 (959F8EA4) Date: 7/13/1952 Description: 4:00 a.m. Capt. William Bruen, piloting National Airline Flight 611 heading north from Jacksonville, Florida, sees a round ball of bluish-white light about 60 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., hovering to the west then ascending to the airliner’s altitude of 11,000 feet, then parallel course off left wing at about 2 miles distance. It takes off upwards at 1,000 mph when Bruen turns on all aircraft lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Light Ascends, Paces Aircraft,](http://www.nicap.org/520713washington%5Fdir.htm) [Takes Off Vertically](http://www.nicap.org/520713washington%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 90–91](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/90/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 148 Source ID: Eberhart_1903 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4417 (13128FF6) Date: 7/13/1952 Description: A National Airlines flight flying some sixty miles southwest of Washington, D.C. over Virginia reported that a bluish-white light approached their plane, hovered, and then moved away. The UFO was tracked on radar by Washington National radar operators. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Source ID: Johnson_4029 Source: Johnson ### Event 4418 (94F9C86A) Date: 7/13/1952 Description: Very Large Object Tracked, No Visual (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520713](http://www.nicap.org/520713fordland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fordland, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1107 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4419 (29782E23) Date: 7/13/1952 Description: Saw round ball of bluish-white light hovering Bruen Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520713](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/washington520713dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington (60 miles SW of ), D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_1108 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4420 (A3B9FD4F) Date: 7/13/1952 Description: Eleven UFOs Tracked On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520713](http://www.nicap.org/520713osceoladir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Osceola, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1109 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4421 (EB1CB7CE) Date: 7/14/1952 Description: Strange red and green lights slowly rolling between the aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520714](http://www.nicap.org/520714hollomanafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1113 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4422 (95263664) Date: 7/14/1952 Description: A spherical object to the north of the base. The object was moving straight down, but its course changed immediately as it moved to the northeast across the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520714](http://nicap.org/okinawa520714dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Okinawa (near), Guam Source ID: NICAP_DB_1112 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4423 (02B375DD) Date: 7/14/1952 Description: The Ground Observer Corps expands into Operation Skywatch, consisting of 750,000 volunteers aged 7 to 86 years old working around the clock in shifts at more than 16,000 posts and 73 filter centers to detect a sneak attack against the United States. The expansion follows an Army announcement from a few weeks earlier that antiaircraft guns and personnel are on continuous duty in key areas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Radomes.org, “[Ground Observer Corps,](https://www.radomes.org/museum/documents/GOC/GOC.html)” January 31, 2001; Shoot 21–22 Source ID: Eberhart_1904 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4424 (8C8E6C96) Date: 7/14/1952 Description: OSI doc confirms Nash/Fortenberry Incident (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520714](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520714langleyafb.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Langley AFB, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1111 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4425 (F1307425) Date: 7/14/1952 Description: At 7:40 p.m. a group of three engineers in Hillandale, Alabama watched a round glowing object descend to the north, then make an instant reversal in direction and head south. At 8:00 p.m. a famous sighting occurred over Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk, Virginia by two pilots named Nash and Fortenberry. The men were flying a DC-4 aircraft for Pan American Airways when they sighted six luminous reddish-orange disc-shaped objects that were joined by two brighter discs. They were each estimated to be 100 feet in diameter, and they suddenly flipped on edge, revealing a flat, coin-like shape. They made a sharp turn, blinked off and on in unison, and then flew off in formation as the disappeared in the distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 8), p. 71; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1444; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 40; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 67 Source ID: Johnson_4047 Source: Johnson ### Event 4426 (2BDCAA4B) Date: 7/14/1952 Description: Pan American pilots see formation of UFO's. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_118 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4427 (07D230EB) Date: 7/14/1952 Description: 9:12 p.m. Some 8,000 feet above the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland/Virginia, Capt. [William B.](https://clipperpioneers.com/william-b-nash/) [Nash](https://www.fortmyersmemorial.com/obituaries/William-Nash-21291/%23!/Obituary) and copilot First Officer [William H. Fortenberry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%5FAm%5FFlight%5F7)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%5FAm%5FFlight%5F7) flying a Pan American Airways DC-4, see six crimson dots at 30°. The dots are streaking in their direction like tracer bullets. As they get closer, they resolve into reddish-orange circles, about 100 feet in diameter and 15 feet thick, with sharply defined edges. Nash says they are holding a “narrow echelon formation.” When they are nearly underneath the aircraft, “they flipped on edge, the sides to the left of us going up and the glowing surfaces facing right. While all were in the edgewise position, the last five slid over and past the leader so that the echelon was now tail foremost.” Then they all flip over again into a flat attitude. Two new, brighter UFOs join the formation, and the lights of all eight objects blink out then come on again. They all speed westward \(Nash estimates 6,000–12,000 mph\) and climb in a graceful 45° arc. The entire sighting lasts only 15 seconds. Possible corroboration comes from a sighting in Camden, New Jersey, although the date is uncertain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting”; “[Miami Pilots Spot 8 Saucers](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93387815/) [Flying in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93388058/) [Formation,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93388058/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Herald, July 16, 1952, pp. 1A, 8A; NICAP, “[Nash / Fortenberry Case](http://www.nicap.org/520714norfolk%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 150; William B. Nash and William H. Fortenberry, “[We Flew Above Flying Saucers,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1952%2010%2000%5FTrue%5FNash%20and%20Fortenberry%5FGreenwood%20scan.pdf)” True, October 1952, pp. 65, 110–112; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 47; Clark III 791; Good Above, [pp. 269–270](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/268/mode/2up); “[The Pilot’s Tale,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/thepilotstale.html)” Saturday Night Uforia; Swords 149–150; Shoot 22–24; Michael D. Swords, “Classic Cases from the APRO Files,” IUR 24, no. 2 \(Summer 1999\): 21–22; Thomas Tulien, “The 1952 Nash/Fortenberry Sighting Revisited,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 20–23, 27–28, [reprinted](https://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/tulien%5Fnashfort.htm) in Project 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 11, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1905 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4428 (A8BDC222) Date: 7/14/1952 Time: 8:12 PM Description: Witnesses: Pan American Airways First Officer William Nash, Second Officer William Fortenberry. Eight large, round, glowing red objects maneuvered below their airliner, in formation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Norfolk, Virginia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_171 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4429 (B24625C8) Date: 7/14/1952 Description: Nash/Fortenberry Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1444) Reference: NICAP: [520714](http://www.nicap.org/520714norfolk%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norfolk (20-25 miles N of ), VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1110 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4430 (55D317B2) Date: 7/15/1952 Description: Discus-shaped object, greyish, except when hovering (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1451) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: West Palm Beach, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1115 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4431 (7070CB02) Date: Mid 7/1952 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says that rumors persist that the Air Force is braced for an expected invasion by UFOs. “Had these rumormongers been at ATIC in mid-July they would have thought that the invasion was in full swing.” He talks to a scientist “from an agency that I can’t name” about the build-up of UFO reports. From his study of reports, the scientist predicts that “within the next few days they’re going to blow up and you’re going to have the granddaddy of all UFO sightings. The sighting will occur in Washington or New York, probably Washington.” [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) identifies the scientist as [Stefan T. Possony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%5FThomas%5FPossony)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%5FThomas%5FPossony) acting chief of the AFOIN Special Study Group and adviser to Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 154–155](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/154/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/154/mode/2up) [157](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/156/mode/2up); NICAP, “[The 1952 Sighting Wave](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1952FIXED.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1907 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4432 (67ACCB43) Date: 7/15/1952 Description: Many civilians in 5 cars and an Oregon State Trooper observed a spherical-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520715](http://nicap.org/pendleton520715dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pendleton, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_1116 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4433 (4FBD833D) Date: 7/15/1952 Description: The [Lorenzens](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) publish the first issue of the APRO Bulletin. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [APRO Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201952%2007%2015%20-%20Vol%201%20No%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(July 1952\) Source ID: Eberhart_1906 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4434 (4EC7AE94) Date: 7/15/1952 Description: At 1:20 a.m. a misty, glowing red UFO zig-zagged over the city of Pasco, Washington. There was a mist surrounding the UFO as it went quickly toward the southeast and away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2342, citing Loren E. Gross Source ID: Johnson_4066 Source: Johnson ### Event 4435 (D99D1A95) Date: 7/15/1952 Description: At 10:10 a.m. a gray object, slightly yellow, and looking like "a flattened out donut without the hole", approached West Palm Beach, Florida very rapidly. It then hovered in place for 90 seconds. Finally, it picked up speed and disappeared out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1451; Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 269; UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 58 Source ID: Johnson_4067 Source: Johnson ### Event 4436 (73D17C82) Date: 7/15/1952 Description: Object "Rolling" Between Two Fighters (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520715](http://www.nicap.org/520714mcChordafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McChord AFB (20 miles S of ), WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1114 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4437 (00CDF073) Date: Mid 7/1952 Description: Every Air Force installation in U.S. swamped with UFO reports. Type: ufo sightings Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 205](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_871 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4438 (25DA4849) Date: 7/15/1952 Time: 10:10 PM Description: Witnesses: J. Antoneff and two other persons. One discus-shaped object, greyish, except when hovering, when it appeared muddy. Hovered over Palm Beach International Airport, then followed an SA-l6 twin-engined amphibian and flew away after 40-60 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: West Palm Beach, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_172 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4439 (D25ABA55) Date: 7/16/1952 Description: A U.S. Coast Guardsman, Shell R. Alpert, took a famous photograph of four oval globs of light in a V-formation moving over parked cars near a power plant in Salem, Massachusetts at 9:35 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1501; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 91 Source ID: Johnson_4092 Source: Johnson ### Event 4440 (20BB7665) Date: 7/16/1952 Description: 2 amber-colored objects approach from the S (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hampton Roads, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1117 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4441 (82C504D1) Date: 7/16/1952 Description: 9:35 a.m. US Coast Guard photographer Seaman [Shell R. Alpert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9302407/shell-r%5F-alpert) sees several bright lights through a window screen \(no glass\) from his position inside the photo lab at Coast Guard Air Station Salem \[now Winter Island Marine Park\], Massachusetts, while cleaning a camera. He watches them for 5–6 seconds, calls out to Hospitalman 1st Class [Thomas E. Flaherty](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/652942/thomas-e-flaherty) from sick bay to see them. The objects dim then brighten suddenly. Alpert grabs a camera and films 4 roughly elliptical irregular blobs of light in formation through the screen, on Super XX cut film 4-by-5-inch format. The lights disappear suddenly in a flash. The photo is explained as showing reflections of light sources from inside the building, but this ignores the fact that the window is open, and the camera is not pointed through glass. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 88](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=100&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 151; Joe Nyman and Barry Greenwood, “The July 1952 Coast Guard Photo Revisited,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 3–5, 25–30; Michael D. Lampen, “Mystery Alpert Objects,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 27; “[The Photographer’s Tale,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/thephotographerstale.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, December 3, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_1908 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4442 (DEBBCA58) Date: 7/16/1952 Description: 9:00 p.m. [Paul R. Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FR.%5FHill), an aeronautical research engineer, is watching the sky with his future wife, Frances Hoback, on Chesapeake Avenue \(near LaSalle Avenue\) in Hampton, Virginia, when he notices two amber- colored lights coming in over Hampton Roads from the south at 500 mph. They slow down and make a U turn, moving side by side until they revolve around each other at a high rate of speed in a tight circle 200–300 feet in diameter. A third UFO comes racing up from the direction of Virginia Beach and falls in several hundred feet below the other two, making a V formation. A fourth UFO comes in from up the James River and joins the group, which heads south at 500 mph. “Their ability to make tight circling turns was amazing.” Around 9:03 p.m., the four UFOs have moved out of sight to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Pairs of Objects Maneuver Overhead](http://www.nicap.org/520716hampton%5Fdir.htm)”; \[[Blue](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520716hampton%5Fdocs.pdf) [Book documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs/520716hampton%5Fdocs.pdf)\]; UFOEv, [p. 57](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=70&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 150 Source ID: Eberhart_1909 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4443 (E9A4AF82) Date: 7/16/1952 Time: 9:35 AM Description: Witness: U.S. Coast Guard photographer Shell Alpert. Four roughly elliptical blobs of light in formation photographed through window of photo lab. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Beverly, Massachusetts Source ID: BerlinerBBU_173 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4444 (80C1173C) Date: 7/16/1952 Description: German mayor states two human-like figures wearing shimmer metallic clothing about 4 feet high come out of a landed 40ft diameter saucer Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104864241/flying-saucers-real-thing-engineer-says/) Location: Germany Source ID: Maj2_460 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4445 (6ED124C4) Date: 7/16/1952 Description: Roughly elliptical irregular blobs of light in formation filmed (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: 1501) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beverly, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1118 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4446 (718977F2) Date: 7/16/1952 Description: At 9:00 p.m. EDT aeronautical engineer Paul R. Hill along with his wife Frances saw two amber lights in the sky make a U-turn over Hampton, Virginia and then revolve around each other. They were joined by two more amber lights, then all four sped off toward the south at an estimated speed of 500 mph. They moved jerkily when flying slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 208; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: Report on Multiple UFO, p. 115, citing the Newport News Press Source ID: Johnson_4093 Source: Johnson ### Event 4447 (4863E4CB) Date: 7/17/1952 Description: At 11:00 a.m. an elliptical object was sighted from Lockbourne AFB, Ohio with a pinpoint of flame at the rear that would occasionally flare. The object had a resonant beat as it moved through the sky at high speed. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1476 Source ID: Johnson_4118 Source: Johnson ### Event 4448 (0A514022) Date: 7/17/1952 Description: State Highway Patrolmen observed two or three round blue flourescent colored objects approximately 100 feet in diamter. The objects were observed for approximately 30 minutes. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520717](http://nicap.org/batesville520717dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Batesville, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1119 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4449 (F40D6054) Date: 7/17/1952 Description: At the same time as the Lockbourne AFB sighting, a pilot for United Airlines flying over Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio saw a saucer-shaped object pacing his airliner. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_4119 Source: Johnson ### Event 4450 (726B83D7) Date: 7/17/1952 Time: 11 AM Description: Witness: Air National Guard employees. One light like a big star was seen for 3 hours, but disappeared when an aircraft approached. Also seen the night of July 20, 22 and 23. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lockbourne, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_175 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4451 (13943F25) Date: 7/17/1952 Description: Amber-colored elliptical-shaped object with a small flame (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1476) Reference: NICAP: [520717](http://nicap.org/lockbourne520717dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lockbourne AFB, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1121 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4452 (6130E373) Date: 7/17/1952 Time: 3:10 PM Description: Witness: Mrs. Florence Daley. Two round objects, bluish-white with brighter rims, flew in formation, making a sound like bombers, only softer. Note: Later, the witness stated she heard many feminine voices coming from the objects. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: White Plains, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_174 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4453 (12DA566E) Date: 7/17/1952 Alternate date: 7/18/1952 Description: 10:10 p.m. T/Sgt. Thurman C. Mahone and A/3c [Gene A. Jennings](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/835391/gene-arthur-jennings) at Lockbourne AFB \[now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base\] in Lockbourne, Ohio, see an amber-colored, elliptical-shaped object with a small flame at the rear, periodically increasing in brightness. It moves swiftly, giving off a resonant beating sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[July 18, 1952: Lockbourne, Ohio](http://nicap.org/lockbourne520718dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 151 Source ID: Eberhart_1911 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4454 (F0157863) Date: 7/17/1952 Description: 2 round objects, bluish white with brighter rims, fly in formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1502) Reference: NICAP: [520717](http://nicap.org/whiteplains520717dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Plains, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1120 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4455 (0FA61BF9) Date: 7/17/1952 Description: At 2 o'clock in the afternoon two red glowing spheres followed a plane across the sky in Balliettsville, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2360 Source ID: Johnson_4120 Source: Johnson ### Event 4456 (CD6CFAA4) Date: 7/17/1952 Description: At ten minutes after midnight on State Route 33 in St. Paul, Minnesota four two-foot diameter discs flew through a lightning storm at only 200 feet altitude, making sharp turns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 59 Source ID: Johnson_4117 Source: Johnson ### Event 4457 (1B5CB8B0) Date: 7/17/1952 Description: At 3:10 p.m. a woman saw two large flying discs over White Plains, New York flying on their edge and making a whirring sound. They were in sight for 5-6 seconds. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1502 Source ID: Johnson_4121 Source: Johnson ### Event 4458 (38CB0B77) Date: 7/17/1952 Description: In the evening a Master Sergeant near Rapid City, South Dakota saw 12-14 glowing orange objects in the sky. They flew straight and level, and seemed to be going faster than jet aircraft. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1479 Source ID: Johnson_4122 Source: Johnson ### Event 4459 (D0DE32E8) Date: 7/17/1952 Description: Military (USAF?) witness(es). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1479) Reference: NICAP: [520717](http://nicap.org/rapidcity520717dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rapid City, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1122 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4460 (CAA6B691) Date: 7/17/1952 Description: A formation of twelve circular luminous objects moving in the same direction as balloons just released (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520717](http://nicap.org/tsuiki520717dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tsuiki Air Base, Kyushu, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1123 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4461 (4837DFC1) Date: 7/17/1952 Description: 6:30 p.m. A woman leaving Yarmouth Harbour, Nova Scotia, on the SS Yarmouth watches seven silvery objects in an inverted triangular formation for 2 minutes. They hover momentarily, descend slowly, and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 268–269 Source ID: Eberhart_1910 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4462 (3B8701DA) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: At 8:50 p.m. a white sphere flew fast toward the southeast, stopped over Front Royal, Virginia and then zigzagged back toward the northwest at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2374 Source ID: Johnson_4160 Source: Johnson ### Event 4463 (4866DAB2) Date: 7/18/1952 Time: 9:10 PM Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. Mahone, A/3c Jennings. One amber-colored, elliptical-shaped object with a small flame at the rear, periodically increased in brightness. It moved very fast for l 1/2 minutes, giving off a resonant beat sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lockbourne, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_176 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4464 (C0B4AA0D) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: Series of hovering and maneuvering red-orange lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 1485) Reference: NICAP: [520718](http://www.nicap.org/520718patrickAFB%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Patrick AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1126 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4465 (27EBC3C8) Date: 7/18/1952 Time: 11 AM Description: Witnesses: E. R. Raymer and daughter. One opaque, silvery bubble flew very fast at a right-angle to the wind direction for 10 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Miami, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_177 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4466 (9CF3062F) Date: 7/18/1952 Time: 9:45 PM Description: Witnesses: three USAF officers and four enlisted men. Over an hour period, a series of hovering and maneuvering red-orange lights were observed moving in a variety of directions. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Patrick AFB, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_178 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4467 (7E7F904D) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: Opaque, silvery bubble fly very fast at a right-angle to the wind (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1483) Reference: NICAP: [520718](http://nicap.org/miami520718dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1125 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4468 (6FE47F0D) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: A light like a big star that disappeared when an aircraft approached (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1482) Reference: NICAP: [520718](http://nicap.org/lockbourne520718dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lockbourne AFB, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1124 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4469 (6F9C2DB9) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: Carpenter Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Denver, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1127 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4470 (2E2F97FD) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: 9:45 p.m. Three Air Force officers and four enlisted men at Patrick AFB, near Cocoa Beach, Florida, see a series of hovering and maneuvering red-orange lights moving in a variety of directions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Hovering and](http://www.nicap.org/520718patrickAFB%5Fdir.htm) [Maneuvering Lights](http://www.nicap.org/520718patrickAFB%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 151 Source ID: Eberhart_1915 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4471 (DB1385AA) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a procession of bright orange discs in single file veered over Washington, D.C. and disappeared in a regular sequence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files, report dated July 18, 1952, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 160 Source ID: Johnson_4158 Source: Johnson ### Event 4472 (97EC7031) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: At 11:00 o'clock in the morning in Miami, Florida Mr. E. R. Raymer and his daughter spotted an opaque, silvery bubble for 10 seconds. The object flew very fast perpendicular to the wind direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1483; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4159 Source: Johnson ### Event 4473 (D3D6302D) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: 6:10 p.m. André Frégnale is hiking near Lac Chauvet, Puy-de-Dôme, France, when he sees a disc flying west to east in a straight line at constant speed. He immediately takes two photos when the object is at its largest apparent size, then two others when it is moving away to his left. It is in view for 50 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Une soucoupe](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/lemeridional25jul1952.htm) [volante,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/lemeridional25jul1952.htm)” Le Méridional, July 25, 1952, pp. 1, 8; Pierre Guérin, “[A Scientific Analysis of Four Photographs of a](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/8/jse%5F08%5F4%5Fguerin.pdf) [Flying Disk near Lac Chauvet \(France\),](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/8/jse%5F08%5F4%5Fguerin.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 8, no. 4 \(1994\): 447–469; Alain Delmon, “[Les Cas Solides: Lac Chauvet, France, 1952,](http://adelmon.free.fr/Lac%5FChauvet.html)” Les OVNIs: Intelligences non-humaines ou mythe moderne?, December 26, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_1914 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4474 (8F07738C) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: Capt. [Edward Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) tells the press in Dayton, Ohio, that ground radar has tracked UFOs at speeds of 1,500– 2,000 mph, that jet fighters scrambled to intercept them have failed, and that “persons making these reports actually see something in the sky,” but the Air Force does not know what they are. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [\(“‘Saucer’ Sightings Spur](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93389332/) [AF’s Drive](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93389332/) [to End Mystery](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93389470/),” Dayton \(Ohio\) Journal Herald, July 18, 1952, pp. 1, 10; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf) [History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 66\) Source ID: Eberhart_1913 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4475 (88D1E434) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: At 6:00 p.m. in Pouilly, Cote-d'Or department, France six witnesses spotted a 30 meter long vertical cloud-cigar with regularly spaced brief lights. It was emitting a thick white smoke. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 66 Source ID: Johnson_4157 Source: Johnson ### Event 4476 (9E140557) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: Early morning. American Airlines pilot Capt. Paul L. Carpenter, First Officer George Fell, and Flight Engineer Quilici watch several dull-red objects with a “yellowish tinge” speeding around in the air at an altitude of 25,000– 30,000 feet near Denver, Colorado, during a non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Chicago. A maximum of three objects are seen at one time over a 2-minute period. Carpenter says they seem to be about 100 miles away. The first object is moving south by southeast. One minute after it disappears, two more come into view going westward and another one eastward. “The two traveling westward disappeared about two seconds then reappeared traveling eastward.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 60 Source ID: Eberhart_1912 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4477 (DB8D21CE) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: At 9:45 p.m. EDT three USAF officers and four enlisted men watched a series of hovering and maneuvering amber to reddish-orange lights for over an hour in the sky over Patrick AFB, Florida. They were observed maneuvering in a variety of directions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Grudge and Project Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, December 1952, p. 31; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4162 Source: Johnson ### Event 4478 (A5B8E180) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: Technical Sgt. Mahone and Airman Third Class Jennings saw a UFO at 9:10 p.m. in Lockbourne, Ohio. It was amber colored, circular object, somewhat smaller than the average airplane. It had a small flame coming from the rear of the craft that periodically increased in brightness, and its rim gave off an orange and green glow. It moved very fast for 90 seconds, giving off a resonant beat sound. It appeared several times over a four-hour period. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1482; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4161 Source: Johnson ### Event 4479 (B41EDCED) Date: 7/18/1952 Description: Fregnale Photos (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lac Chauvet, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1128 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4480 (591CAA61) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: 2:55 a.m. An experienced civilian pilot watches an elliptical-shaped object with a light fringe over Williston, North Dakota, for 5 minutes. It descends fast and makes a 360° then a 180° turn. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 151 Source ID: Eberhart_1916 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4481 (98C6A2CD) Date: 7/19/1952 Time: 2:55 AM Description: Witness: one experienced civilian pilot. One elliptical-shaped object with a light fringe, travelled down fast, made a 360 degree and then a 180 degree turn in 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Williston, North Dakota Source ID: BerlinerBBU_179 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4482 (CA2E653A) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: Saw 2 star-like lights maneuver, hover and speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 1494) Reference: NICAP: [520719](http://www.nicap.org/520719lavalette%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elkins Park, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1134 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4483 (87B09566) Date: 7/19/1952 Time: 11:35 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot Capt. C.J. Powley and wife. Two star-like lights maneuvered, hovered and sped for 5-7 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Elkins Park, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_180 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4484 (E4A53AA4) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: At 10:50 p.m. seven round flat objects were seen at sea level from Bald Top, California. One object ascended while five followed it in spirals. One object stayed behind for twenty minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2385 Source ID: Johnson_4193 Source: Johnson ### Event 4485 (6501AAF3) Date: 7/19/1952 End date: 7/20/1952 Description: Washington National Airport Air Route Traffic Control radar tracked the UFO to within about 4 miles of the airport (1st event) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520719-20](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520719wnsdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_1136 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4486 (C3300925) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: Famous Photo of Objects Over Capitol (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 0) Reference: NICAP: [520719](http://www.nicap.org/520719washington%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1135 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4487 (57398E8E) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: 11:35 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. [Charles John Powley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33034027/charles-john-powley) and his wife [Janet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145064742/janet-powley) see two star-like lights maneuver, hover, and speed up for 5–7 minutes over Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Three Groups of Witnesses See Strange](http://www.nicap.org/520719lavalette%5Fdir.htm) [Lights](http://www.nicap.org/520719lavalette%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 151; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 12, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1921 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4488 (154D7476) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: 10:00 p.m. Six luminous round objects are seen by a Chicago, Illinois, woman moving horizontally and vertically as they cavort around in the sky. The same night, a UFO is seen by three witnesses at the Ground Observer Corps post at the city hall in Elgin, Illinois. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 68 Source ID: Eberhart_1920 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4489 (7D918D5C) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: Elliptical-shaped object with a light fringe, descend fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1492) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williston, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_1133 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4490 (12CCFBB1) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: Associated Press reporter Saul Pett about midnight saw an intensely glowing, nonblinking orange ball of light moving steadily overhead from the northwest to the southeast for 1-2 minutes (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: River Edge, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1132 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4491 (BF63FEA7) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: Photograph of oval UFO taken by customs official. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Porto Maldo, Peru Source ID: NICAP_DB_1131 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4492 (4683B6B1) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: 2 cigar-shaped objects, one hovering the other moving to the E (Battelle Unknown #4) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: unknown location, Unknown Source ID: NICAP_DB_1130 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4493 (C60FAEFA) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: Hundreds of employees from AEC witnessed UFO cavort (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520719](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/5207xxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Savanna River, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1129 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4494 (4E610900) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: A tobacco farmer sighted two cigar-shaped objects on this night in the southern United States (location undisclosed). The sighting occurred around midnight at the beginning of the new da y.One object hovered while the other one moved east and then came back, then both objects ascended vertically until gone from view. Both had some type of exhaust, and were illuminated from the inside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Grudge and Project Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, May 1955 Source ID: Johnson_4191 Source: Johnson ### Event 4495 (796598C0) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: 4:30 p.m. Agricultural engineer Pedro Bardi and others on a farm in the Madre de Dios region of Peru see a UFO flying at 325 feet shortly after their short-wave radio goes dead. Bardi says it is a bit smaller than a DC-3 and is making a buzzing sound. It shows up 4 minutes later at Puerto Maldonado, 75 miles away, and Customs Administrator Domingo Troncosco photographs it. The photo shows an elongated object trailing smoke, passing over the top of a tree and in front of a cumulus cloud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Curt Collins, “[The Case of the Smoking Saucer,](https://www.jimmoseley.com/2014/11/the-case-of-the-smoking-saucer/)” In Honor of Jim Moseley, November 3, 2014; Curt Collins, “[Jim Moseley: The Case of the Smoking Saucer,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/08/jim-moseley-case-of-smoking-saucer.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 18, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_1919 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4496 (E19714CE) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: 12:00 midnight. A part-time farmer named Constantine and a hired hand named Davis are curing tobacco when they see two cigar-shaped objects—one hovering, the other moving to the east—for 3–4 minutes near Centerville, Virginia. Both objects are translucent, lit from within, and emit an exhaust from one end. They both ascend until they disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 151 Source ID: Eberhart_1923 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4497 (8D77CCAD) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: An experienced civilian pilot reported that he observed an unidentified elliptical object with a lighted fringe at 2:55 a.m. while flying over Williston, North Dakota. The object made a fast descent, executed a 360° and then a 180° turn. He had the object in sight for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1492; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4192 Source: Johnson ### Event 4498 (801B7093) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: Washington, D.C.: Long range “overfly” RADAR picked up a formation of seven blips that were 15 miles south and not far from Andrews AFB. Radar operator, Ed Nugent, thought that they were military traffic until two of the targets suddenly accelerated at fantastic speeds and disappeared off the radar scope. These strange UFOs were monitored by Harry Barnes, Senior Controller, and controllers Howard Cocklin and Joe Zacko. Also, Andrews AFB had also been tracking the UFOs as they intruded over the White House which was Washington Air Space restricted air space. The UFOs were traveling at speeds of up to 7000 mph before stopping abruptly and then cruising about in unconventional patterns. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Washington DC See also: 7/26/1952 Source ID: Maj2_461 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4499 (1D7A40EB) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: 10:00 a.m. Engineer John A. Anderson and other technicians at the Savannah River Atomic Site near Aiken, South Carolina, watch a greenish glowing object dart back and forth silently and erratically at high speed above the plant. It is in view for 2 minutes, moving constantly and changing direction at sharp angles. The object disappears over the horizon at “tremendous velocity.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Multiple Witnesses Observe Strange](http://www.nicap.org/520719savannah%5Fdir.htm) [Maneuvering Object](http://www.nicap.org/520719savannah%5Fdir.htm)”; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#multiwit)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 51; Nukes 47–48 Source ID: Eberhart_1918 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4500 (BB59CDFC) Date: 7/19/1952 Description: [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) tells newspapermen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that UFOs “can reverse directions and cruise back and forth; they travel at high speeds in wide sweeping circles…. They travel at high altitudes and can be followed as long as 3½ minutes.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Luminous Objects Flooding Southwest Skies Not Shooting Stars or](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7924767/albuquerque-journal/) [Meteorites, Says LaPaz,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7924767/albuquerque-journal/)” July 20, 1952, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Jun-July-20.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 67 Source ID: Eberhart_1917 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4501 (4958DB81) Date: 7/19/1952 End date: 7/26/1952 Description: UFO's detected by radar over Washington., D.C. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Washington DC Attributes: radar Source ID: Maj2_119 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4502 (D4482E7E) Date: 7/19/1952 End date: 7/20/1952 Description: 11:40 p.m. Air traffic controller Edward Nugent at Washington National \[now Ronald Reagan National\] Airport’s Air Route Traffic Control \(ARTC\) in D.C. picks up a formation of seven objects on his long-range radar. They are southeast of Andrews AFB \[now Joint Base Andrews\] in Prince George’s County, Maryland, moving along at 100–130 mph. Two of the targets suddenly accelerate and vanish off the scope within seconds. One apparently reaches a speed of 7,000 mph. A second, shorter-range radar in the airport control tower \(operated by [Howard Cocklin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68160004/howard-arthur-cocklin) and [Joseph Zacko Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158964070/joseph-charles-zacko)\) and another at Andrews AFB has also tracked the objects. For 6 hours, between 8 and 10 UFOs are tracked on radar. Senior Air Traffic Controller Harry G. Barnes says that “They followed no set course, were not in any formation, and we only seemed to be able to track them for about three miles at a time…. I can safely deduce that they performed gyrations which no known aircraft could perform.” Several Capitol Airlines pilots \(one of them Capt. S. C. “Casey” Pierman\) see the objects visually as white or orange lights in restricted air space over the White House and Capitol. Ground observers at Andrews \(Capt. Harold C. May, Staff/Sgt Charles Davenport\) watch red or orange lights. Radar and visual sightings are also taking place at Bolling AFB \[now Joint Base Anaconda-Bolling\] in Washington, D.C. By 3:00 a.m., the UFOs are all gone, just as two F-94 interceptors arrive belatedly from New Castle AFB \[now New Castle Air National Guard Base\] in Delaware. The jets depart, and the UFOs return, observed by Capt. Howard Dermott, a Capitol Airlines pilot, and Sgt. Davenport at Andrews. Radar trackings continue, the last at 5:30 a.m. Civilian radio engineer E. W. Chambers sees five huge discs circling in a loose formation; they tilt upward and leave in a steep ascent. Blips appear on radar for at least another day, until the evening of July 20. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1952 Washington,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952%5FWashington%2C%5FD.C.%5FUFO%5Fincident) [D.C. UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952%5FWashington%2C%5FD.C.%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[The Washington National Sightings](http://www.nicap.org/520719wns%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Andrews Tower Radar Confirms](http://www.nicap.org/520720andrewsafb%5Fdir.htm) [Washington Target](http://www.nicap.org/520720andrewsafb%5Fdir.htm)”; “Washington’s Blips: ‘Somethings’ over the Capital Are Traced on Radar,” Life, August 4, 1952, pp. 39–40; Ruppelt, [pp. 158–161](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/158/mode/2up); James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#radar)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 71–72; Clark III 1250–1252; Swords 154–155; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 151; Condon, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/152/mode/2up) [153–157](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/152/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/152/mode/2up) [862–867](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/862/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, HarperTorch, 2001, pp. 32– 58; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 139; Shoot 28–34 Source ID: Eberhart_1922 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4503 (A060A8AC) Date: 7/20/1952 Description: At 12:30 a.m. in Dai-el-Aouagri, Morocco Mr. R. Petijean observed a 20-meter wide luminous object on the ground. It gave off bluish flashes as it took off, and left behind the smell of burning sulphur. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 199 Source ID: Johnson_4223 Source: Johnson ### Event 4504 (FCCC168B) Date: 7/20/1952 Description: Airlines Flight Visual / Ground Radar Tracks (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520720](http://www.nicap.org/520720herndon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Herndon, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1143 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4505 (A40503A3) Date: 7/20/1952 Description: Air Force radar tracked up to 10 UFOs for 15-20 minutes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520720](http://www.nicap.org/520720andrewsafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Andrews AFB, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1140 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4506 (F3719C49) Date: 7/20/1952 Description: Pierman/Wheaton Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_1138 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4507 (CD6CB43B) Date: 7/20/1952 Description: Classified Spot Intelligence Report (dated 7/23/1952): 3 UFO spotted by 5 base personnel at Andrews AFB at 0030 hours EST. UFOs reddish orange in color, moving erratically at an undetermined altitude. Approach Control picked up another UFO at 0415 EST which was on the radar scope for 30 seconds before fading. Lt. Hyatt, Operations Officer during this period, said that he had been receiving “flying saucer” reports that evening and the objects had been picked up by radar. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Andrews AFB Source ID: Maj2_462 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4508 (D18EECEB) Date: 7/20/1952 Time: 12:20 AM Description: Witness: Seton Hall Univ. chemistry professor Dr. A.B. Spooner. Two large orange-yellow lights with some dull red coloring flew in trail, turned and circled for 5-6 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lavalette, New Jersey Source ID: BerlinerBBU_181 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4509 (67731C42) Date: 7/20/1952 Description: 2 large orange-yellow lights with some dull red color fly in trail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 1504) Reference: NICAP: [520720](http://www.nicap.org/520719lavalette%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lavalette, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1139 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4510 (B268C936) Date: 7/20/1952 Time: 0030 Description: Approximate date. R. Petijean saw a luminous object, 20 m diameter, on the ground. It gave off bluish flashes as it took off, leaving a smell of burning sulphur. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Dai-el-Aouagri, Morocco Source ID: Magnonia_94 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 4511 (8ACFE3EE) Date: 7/20/1952 Description: An Army officer saw a red, cigar-shaped object hover for four minutes over Alexandria, Virginia at 9:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files, report dated May 28, 1963 Source ID: Johnson_4227 Source: Johnson ### Event 4512 (C26872BC) Date: 7/20/1952 Description: At 4:30 a.m. additional unidentified radar targets were picked up and tracked on ARTC radar at National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO cases in 1952: The UFO sightings that shook the government, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_4226 Source: Johnson ### Event 4513 (183D6509) Date: 7/20/1952 Description: At 1:05 a.m. at Andrews AFB in Maryland five witnesses visually observed three red-orange objects moving erratically around the sky. During the evening USAF radar operators at the weather tower tracked ten UFOs for 15-20 minutes at Andrews AFB, Maryland. The objects approached the runway, scattered, and then made sharp turns and reversals in direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files, report dated September 14, 1960 Source ID: Johnson_4225 Source: Johnson ### Event 4514 (8FD3E637) Date: 7/20/1952 Description: Seton Hall University chemistry professor Dr. A. B. Spooner of Lavalette, New Jersey reported to the Air Force that he sighted two large orange-yellow lights with some dull red coloring in trail at 12:20 a.m. The lights turned and circled for 5-6 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4224 Source: Johnson ### Event 4515 (3D029CDC) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: An elongated, fuselage-shaped object fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1522) Reference: NICAP: [520721](http://nicap.org/randolph520721dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Randolph AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1149 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4516 (9AD307C6) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: While flying ten miles northwest of Kermit, Texas a private pilot experienced total radio failure when he encountered a brilliant white light playing in the sky near a bank of high altitude clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49, citing Jan Aldrich Source ID: Johnson_4261 Source: Johnson ### Event 4517 (AF5858E0) Date: 7/21/1952 Time: 8:10 PM Description: Witnesses: one military officer, two enlisted men. One aluminum, delta-shaped object with a vertical fin, flew straight and level, and then hovered during a 3 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Rockville, Indiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_185 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4518 (8F24F41E) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: A blue circle with a blue trail hover then accelerate (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1516) Reference: NICAP: [520721](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/sanmarcos520721dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Marcos AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1148 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4519 (C4D6B0D0) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: At 10:30 a.m. a UFO was tracked on radar at Dobbins AFB, Georgia at a speed of 1200 miles per hour and at an altitude of 50,000 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, citing newspaper source; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 9), p. 3; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 160 Source ID: Johnson_4260 Source: Johnson ### Event 4520 (73BA15F2) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: At 6:30 p.m. two U.S. Air Force officers, Dougher and Strong, in separate locations at Wiesbaden Air Base in Hesse state, Germany watched two to four long, slender objects for 10-15 minutes. The UFOs were described as bright yellow lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted as official statistics, case 1514; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 271; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4259 Source: Johnson ### Event 4521 (9B4AAEE5) Date: 7/21/1952 Time: 6:30 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot Capt. E.E. Dougher, WAF Lt. J.J. Stong, situated miles apart. Four bright yellowish lights were seen by Dougher to separate, with two climbing and two flying away level in the opposite direction. Stong watched two reddish lights fly in opposite directions. Sightings lasted about 10-15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Weisbaden, West Germany Source ID: BerlinerBBU_182 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4522 (DF3F8B7A) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: On the second day in a row more than 25 workers at the Northrup Aircraft Factory in Los Angeles, California watched as two flying saucers were sighted hovering and cutting capers over their aircraft plant for more than an hour. This occurred for a total of four evenings in a row, beginning at around 7:00 p.m. The objects were high in the sky and resembled pulsating stars, but they shot away as if controlled. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk on April 16, 2005, p. 47, citing San Francisco Chronicle, July 24, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_4262 Source: Johnson ### Event 4523 (9EE4D172) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: Round, yellow, flashing light fly downward (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1524) Reference: NICAP: [520721](http://www.nicap.org/holyoke520722dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holyoke, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1150 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4524 (08C1C35E) Date: 7/21/1952 Time: 10:40 PM Description: Witnesses: one Lieutenant, two Staff Sergeants, three airmen. One blue circle with a blue trail was seen to hover and then accelerate to near-sonic speed (700+ m.p.h.) after 1 minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: San Marcos AFB, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_183 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4525 (0E7209FF) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: Dobbins AFB, Georgia, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dobbins (Turner AFB), GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1151 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4526 (5BDE4090) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: Brilliant orange, cone-shaped object size of four engine aircraft sighted at 15,000 to 20,000 feet then dove to 2000 feet (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520721](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/balt520721dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baltimore, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1145 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4527 (EEF449D9) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: Blip Makes Passes On Wind-Finding Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520721](http://www.nicap.org/520721dobbinsAFBdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dobbins (Turner AFB), GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1146 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4528 (6A1DF4F1) Date: 7/21/1952 Time: 4:30 PM Description: Witness: wife of USAF Capt. J. B. Neal. One elongated, fuselage-shaped object flew straight and level, made a right-angle turn and went out of sight at more than 300 m.p.h., all in 3-5 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Converse, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_184 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4529 (C96210CE) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: 6:30 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. [Edward E. Dougher](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8769632/edward-ervin-dougher) and WAF Lt. [Josephine J. Stong](http://images.library.wisc.edu/History/EFacs/GerRecon/omg1951April/reference/history.omg1951april.i0024.pdf), separated by one mile on the ground in Wiesbaden, Germany, see 4 bright yellowish lights. Dougher watches them separate, with two climbing and two flying away level in the opposite direction. His wife [Barbara](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131544832/barbara-dougher) joins him as they fly away. Stong sees two reddish lights fly in opposite directions for 10–15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Separated Witnesses Observe Maneuvering](http://www.nicap.org/520721wiesbaden%5Fdir.htm) [Lights](http://www.nicap.org/520721wiesbaden%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 152; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 12, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1926 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4530 (5080DE8C) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: 10:30 a.m. Radar used to measure wind velocity in the upper atmosphere at Dobbins Air Force Base, Marietta, Georgia, detects an unusual object flying at 50,000 feet. Observing the blip are four radar technicians who state that “it could have been an electromagnetic phenomenon but they did not believe it was.” A second blip appears on the radar moving toward the wind-finding weather balloon and passing through it three separate times. USAF officials report “in private conversations” that the object moves at 1,200 mph, slows considerably for 3–5 minutes, then disappears. The Civilian Defense director in Atlanta, [George M. “Pup” Phillips](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170666077/george-marshall-phillips), receives a report of the object but has “no details.” Col. [Murray C. Woodbury](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60053447/murray-clarke-woodbury)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60053447/murray-clarke-woodbury) commander of the 35th Air Division at Dobbins, checks with “defense officials in Washington” before telling the press that such reports are sent to the Air Technical Intelligence Center \(Project Blue Book\) in Dayton, Ohio, for evaluation. Surprisingly, he admits, “We try to intercept such objects and identify them, but so far we have been unsuccessful.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Blip Makes](http://www.nicap.org/520721dobbinsAFBdir.htm) [Passes on Wind-Finding Target](http://www.nicap.org/520721dobbinsAFBdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf) [July 21st–31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 3; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 152 Source ID: Eberhart_1925 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4531 (7D82F7F8) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: 10:00 a.m. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) first hears about the National Airport sightings in D.C. when he buys a newspaper in the Washington National Airport terminal. He has been to Andrews AFB in Maryland the day before with his boss Col. [Donald L. Bower](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower) and no one had said anything. At 1:00 p.m., Maj. [Dewey Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm) calls Ruppelt to come to a briefing with Capt. Berkow, a USAF intelligence officer from Bolling AFB in D.C. Ruppelt hears that President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) is personally interested and wants a full investigation, but Bower orders Ruppelt to return to Wright- Patterson AFB in Ohio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 158–159](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/158/mode/2up); Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf) [UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf) Sign Historical Group, November 2001, pp. 46–47 Source ID: Eberhart_1924 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4532 (C64D8470) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: Separated Witnesses Observe Maneuvering Lights (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1514) Reference: NICAP: [520721](http://www.nicap.org/520721wiesbaden%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wiesbaden, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_1147 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4533 (AC2706A7) Date: 7/21/1952 Description: Aircraft Has Radar Contact But No Visual (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520721](http://www.nicap.org/520721beluga%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beluga Lake, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1152 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4534 (3573A35C) Date: 7/22/1952 Time: 10:50 PM to 12:45 AM, July 23 Description: Witnesses: crews of several USAF F-94 jet interceptors from Dover AFB, Del. Thirteen visual sightings and one radar tracking of blue-white lights during two hours. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Trenton, New Jersey Source ID: BerlinerBBU_190 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4535 (86B3A56C) Date: 7/22/1952 Time: 10:47 PM Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet interceptor. One round blue light passed F-94, spinning. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: between Boston and Provincetown, Massachusetts Source ID: BerlinerBBU_189 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4536 (91185864) Date: 7/22/1952 Time: After midnight Description: Witness: Mrs. A. Burgess. One round, yellow, flashing light went downward. No further information in files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts Source ID: BerlinerBBU_186 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4537 (7AB0EFA0) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: At 10:50 p.m. eight lights in a V formation crossed the sky at a drive-in movie theater in Portales, New Mexico and then reversed direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_4290 Source: Johnson ### Event 4538 (AFCF644E) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: Very Large Disc Sighted By Private Pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520722](http://www.nicap.org/520722nsmyrna%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Smryna (near), FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1161 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4539 (C7FD3D25) Date: 7/22/1952 End date: 7/23/1952 Description: 10:50 p.m. Crews of several USAF F-94 jet interceptors from Dover AFB, Delaware, make 13 visual sightings and one radar tracking of blue-white lights around Trenton, New Jersey, continuing until 12:45 a.m. White, green, and blue lights are seen by ground observers and F-94 pilots moving in arcs and blinking out suddenly. One F-94 crew gets a radar lock-on from 30,000 feet away of an object the size of an F-94. At 9,000 feet distance, the object makes a sharp right turn, suddenly drops in height, and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 156 Source ID: Eberhart_1932 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4540 (A0E14530) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: A triangular-shaped flying object, the size of C-47 transport plane, flew across the sky over Rockville, Indiana. It stopped to hover about half a minute, then resumed its flight, disappearing in the distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 272, case 2 Source ID: Johnson_4289 Source: Johnson ### Event 4541 (ADD313B8) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: At 2:45 p.m. Mr. Epperly, a weather observer, sighted a 30-foot diameter silver disc-shaped object that flew 100 degrees through the sky over Uvalde, Texas in 48 seconds, between cloud banks. It seemed to climb, and moved at an estimated speed of 1,000 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1536; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 272, case 3; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_4288 Source: Johnson ### Event 4542 (12101956) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: At 10:50 a.m. Mr. D. Weins, the Los Alamos Airport control tower operator at the AEC Los Alamos nuclear research facility in New Mexico, and two others, saw eight round, aluminum-colored objects. They were described as large and very fast moving UFOs. They made several sudden turns and reversals, and were seen for 25 minutes. An unexplained Project Blue Book report. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1538; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 272, case 4; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_4287 Source: Johnson ### Event 4543 (D9CEB189) Date: 7/22/1952 Time: 10:50 AM Description: Witnesses: control tower operator Don Weins, and two pilots for Carco. Eight large, round, bright aluminum objects flew straight and level, then darted around erratically during 25 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_187 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4544 (4692A85A) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia at 8:00 p.m. a railroad guard received electric shocks and his gun shook when he had a close encounter with an orange glowing, lantern-shaped UFO over some railroad tracks. The UFO flew away at an estimated 400 mph. Guard receives electrics shocks, gun shakes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James Holledge, Flying Saucers over Australia, p. 32; John Schuessler, Physiological Effects from UFOs, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_4286 Source: Johnson ### Event 4545 (D0435B73) Date: 7/22/1952 Time: 2:46 PM Description: Witness: Don Epperly, Trans Texas Airlines station manager and weather observer. One large, round, silver object flew at more than 1,000 m.p.h. for 45 seconds, while gyrating. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Uvalde, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_188 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4546 (DF224D55) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: At Wright-Patterson AFB, [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) meets with ATIC electronics specialist Capt. [Roy L. James](http://www.project1947.com/feaf/feafintros.htm) \(who harbors a “personal dislike for UFOs”\). He tells Ruppelt that weather conditions caused the Washington radar returns. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_1927 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4547 (936D4679) Date: 7/22/1952 End date: 7/23/1952 Description: 10:30 p.m. An air traffic control tower operator at MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida, watches for 30 minutes a red-greenish-blue object to the west-southwest at about 45° elevation with 2 other objects to the north of it, smaller and lower in elevation. He sights another object to the south-southeast about 30° elevation at 11:30 p.m. MacDill radar tracks an object at 12:03 a.m. 37 miles away at 41,200 feet altitude heading almost directly toward the base at 532 mph. It also tracks an object to the south-southeast at an altitude of 41,000 feet \(reportedly Navy and CAA radars also track the object\). At 12:08 a.m., the pilot and copilot of a B-29 bomber on landing approach are vectored by MacDill tower operator to investigate the UFO. They see a high-speed object at 40,000 feet heading towards MacDill and traveling faster than the B-29. The B-29 fire control radar locks onto the object and prepares to fire just as the UFO changes course and disappears at 4,600 mph. Four airmen at the MacDill radar site see an object as it passes nearly overhead. MacDill radar loses the object at about 12:15 a.m. Civilians in Tampa also see two yellowish-orange discs maneuvering around the air base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 156; Tampa \(Fla.\) Daily Times, July 23, 1952, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_1931 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4548 (89395A5B) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: 10:20 p.m. A bluish-green UFO is seen over Boston, Massachusetts, and a few minutes later it is picked up by GCI radar. When Ground Control vectors an F-94 toward the UFO, the pilot sees the UFO near Braintree and locks on to it with his own radar. But the object easily leaves the jet behind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F-94B Chases Object /](http://www.nicap.org/520722braintree%5Fdir.htm) [With Airborne Radar Tracking](http://www.nicap.org/520722braintree%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, [p. 67](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chIV.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), pp. 154–155 Source ID: Eberhart_1930 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4549 (CB2B4E6D) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: 10:00 p.m. Eubert T. White and his wife see three silvery objects whizzing across the sky above Worcester, Massachusetts, “like planes in attack formation.” One of the objects has a bluish glow in the front and a reddish tint behind it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Strange Objects in Worcester Sky,” Lawrence \(Mass.\) Eagle, July 23, 1952; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 July 21st–31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 14; Shoot 36 Source ID: Eberhart_1929 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4550 (88BEB6C2) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: Large, round, silver object fly at 1,000+ mph while gyrating (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 1536) Reference: NICAP: [520722](http://www.nicap.org/520722uvalde%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Uvalde, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1154 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4551 (092D7C9B) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: An aluminum delta-shaped object with vertical fin (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1533) Reference: NICAP: [520722](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/rockville520722dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rockville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1153 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4552 (66788608) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: At 2240 CST one bluish green object was observed at 8,000 feet. The object climbed to 14,000 in arc very rapid. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520722](http://www.nicap.org/520722maxwelldir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maxwell, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1155 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4553 (9764856F) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: Pikes Peak Broadcasting Company President Joseph H. Rohrer gives a lecture \(one of a series\) on flying saucers at a chamber of commerce meeting in Pueblo, Colorado. He mixes a few genuine cases with some crashed saucer fiction, claiming that 7 discs have been retrieved by the US government, three of them forced down in Montana. One occupant has survived, he says, a little man 3 feet tall who is later kept alive in a secret site in California. Rohrer claims he has been inside a 100-foot-diameter disc in 1942, but he has made up these stories for entertainment purposes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Flying Saucer Talk Startles Chamber Membership Meeting,” Pueblo \(Colo.\) Chieftain, July 23, 1952, p. 3; Keyhoe, FS from OS, [pp. 111–113](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chVII.htm); James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 90–92; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1942-00-00-usa-california.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1942-00-00-usa-california.htm) August 6, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_1928 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4554 (1B7E01E4) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: F-94B Chases Object / With Airborne radar Tracking (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1556) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520722](http://www.nicap.org/520722braintree%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boston (near Braintree between Provincetown and), MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1157 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4555 (E31D56E4) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: Barrel-shaped black object 3.5-4 ft diameter, emitting black smoke trail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520722](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/mobile520722dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brookley AFB (Mobile), AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1159 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4556 (698C2221) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: ADC Personnel In Cessna See Silver Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520722](http://www.nicap.org/520722petersonfld%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Peterson Field (12 miles E of ), CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1160 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4557 (DC135CB0) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: Bright ovoid object hover then move in stops and starts (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1654) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stafford, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1162 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4558 (79BC97D6) Date: 7/22/1952 Description: Saw 8 large, round, bright aluminum objects fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1538, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520722](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/alamos520722dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1156 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4559 (1C21715F) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: USAF pilot Capt. H. W. Kloth saw 2 bright blue-white objects flying together, then the rear one veered off. 9 mins. (Berliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1578) Reference: NICAP: [520723](http://nicap.org/sbend520723dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Bend, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1177 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4560 (6A5E4829) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: Bt. 8:05 and 10:15 p.m. two lights, some described them as white globes, were seen high in the sky. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/springfield520723dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1176 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4561 (5C640D12) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: "Possible GCI Sighting" of Circular Lights (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/520723santacruz%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Cruz, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1175 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4562 (E4BF3420) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: Crews of several USAF F-94 jet interceptors saw 13 visuals (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1572) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/520723trenton%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Trenton, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1173 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4563 (AE918658) Date: 7/23/1952 Time: 12:50 PM Description: Witnesses: two-man crews of two USAF F-94 jet interceptors at 35-46,000' altitude. Three cylindrical objects in a vertical stack formation flew at an altitude of 50-80,000'. Seen for 20 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Altoona, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_192 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4564 (BADBD039) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: 2:15 a.m. Seaman [Henry J. Arnpriester](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72766295/henry-j-arnpriester) is on watch at Nahant \(Massachusetts\) Coast Guard Station \[now closed\] when he sees two bluish lights approximately 5 feet in diameter. They appear as flat, disc-shaped objects having no aerodynamic features and move without sound or exhaust trail at a speed faster than a four-engine airliner at an altitude of 1,100 to 2,000 feet. When they are approximately 1.5 miles from the point of observation, they execute an extremely sharp turn similar to the path of a ball bouncing off a wall. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lt. Col. Robert S. Jones, “[Spot Intelligence Report,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/NARA-PBB89-1103-1105.pdf)” July 29, 1952; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 156 Source ID: Eberhart_1933 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4565 (F94B6E8E) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: Numerous witnesses observed four (4) objects hovering in the vicinity of the Lockbourne AFB, Columbus, Ohio. Two F-84 jets were dispatched from Lockbourne AFB, but were unable to identify the objects. Approximately 90 per cent of the personnel at the base observed the objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/lockbourne520723dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lockbourne AFB, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1181 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4566 (0D06632D) Date: 7/23/1952 Time: 8:40 AM Description: Witnesses: the two-man crews of three USAF F-94 jet interceptors. One large silver object, shaped like a long pear with two or three squares beneath it, flew at 150-180 kts. (170-210 m.p.h.), while a smaller object, delta-shaped or swept back, flew around it at 1,000-1,500 kts. (1,150-1,700 m.p.h.). Seen by crews for 1-4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pottstown, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_191 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4567 (E7C36BED) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: 3 cylindrical objects in a vertical stack formation (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1567) Reference: NICAP: [520723](http://nicap.org/altoona520723dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Altoona, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1172 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4568 (F649C563) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: Silver object, shaped like a long pear with 2-3 squares beneath (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1554) Reference: NICAP: [520723](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/pottsdown520723dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pottstown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1171 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4569 (08242998) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: USAF pilot flying F-94 jet fighter chased blue-green fireball. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/japan520723dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Misawa AFB (E of ), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1170 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4570 (C5DB6DF0) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: Night. Contactee [Orfeo Angelucci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfeo%5FAngelucci) feels compelled to walk over the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge in Glendale, California. He feels an odd sensation and suddenly sees in front of him a soap-bubble-like object that turns into a metallic craft. He gets aboard and is taken on his first trip into outer space. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Orfeo Angelucci, The Secret of the Saucers, Amherst Press, 1955, [pp. 18–36](https://archive.org/details/secretofsaucers00ange/page/18/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1939 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4571 (CBFBF1B6) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: Jets Scrambled Again / High Speed Target At 42,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520723](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520723jamestown%5F02%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jamestown, RI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1169 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4572 (B53AF5C8) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: USN radar tracked high speed target heading N at 42,000 ft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520723](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520723jamestown%5F01%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jamestown, RI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1168 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4573 (11405B5A) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: 7:00–8:00 p.m. Owner Edwin C. Johnston and more than 20 employees of Aircraft Hydroforming at Culver City, California, see a bright silvery elliptical object that moves northwest over the Northrup aircraft plant in nearby Hawthorne, then stops and hovers. Two small discs emerge and circle around the area before rejoining the mother ship. The object then climbs straight up out of sight at tremendous speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Aircraft Co. Owner Sees](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93397593/) [‘Discs’ Four Nights in Row,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93397593/)” Redlands \(Calif.\) Daily Facts, July 24, 1952, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_1937 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4574 (AFE5886C) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: \[Same as or continuation of July 22 sightings near Braintree?\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/boston520723dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boston, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1167 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4575 (696CE808) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: 8:40 a.m. The crews of three USAF F-94 jet interceptors see a large silver object, shaped like a long pear with 2–3 squares beneath it, flying at 170–210 mph over Pottstown, Pennsylvania. A smaller object, delta-shaped or swept-back, flies around it at 1,150-1,720 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[Blue Book document](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB12-1174.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 157 Source ID: Eberhart_1935 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4576 (D7C9086E) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: 7:36 a.m. US Navy radar at Jamestown, Rhode Island, tracks a high-speed target heading north at 42,000 feet. It is confirmed by ADC radar at Camp Hero \[now closed\] at Montauk Point, New York. F-94s and F-86s are scrambled unsuccessfully from Westover AFB \[now Westover Air National Guard Base\] in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Jets Scrambled / High Speed Object at 45,000ʹ Feet](http://www.nicap.org/520723jamestown%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 156 Source ID: Eberhart_1934 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4577 (5D9EE267) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: Saucer Hit By Jet Gunfire, Fragment Recovered? No Evidence. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 0) Reference: NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/520723washington%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1165 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4578 (4B2AD594) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: Two Discs Emerge From Elliptical Object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/520723culvercity%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Culver City, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1164 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4579 (36820AFA) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: In an Air Mail reply from Dr. Einstein to Mr. Louis A. Gardner in LA, he said in regards to UFO's “Those people have seen something. What they saw I do not know, and I am not curious to know”. Type: letter Reference: [link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X) Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p128) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: Maj2_463 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4580 (573B9AF6) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: 7:15 p.m. Many witnesses at Lockbourne AFB \[now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base\] in Lockbourne, Ohio, including visiting Capt. Eugene E. McManus from Turner AFB \[now Naval Air Station Albany\] in Albany, Georgia, observe four round, fluorescent white objects hovering near the base at 75,000 feet. An Air force pilot named Capt. Swartz in Flight Service at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, radios in the report that the objects are balloons. Two F-84 jets are scrambled at 8:15 p.m. and identify them as a balloon cluster. The objects, seen over many other areas of central Ohio \(Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says he was called out to see it over Wright- Patterson\), are probably USAF reconnaissance balloons sent up from Clinton County Airport in Wilmington, Ohio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[July 23, 1952, Lockbourne, Ohio, UFO Report](http://www.nicap.org/lockbourne520723dir.htm)”; Clark III 395–398 Source ID: Eberhart_1938 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4581 (F026BE35) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: At 9:15 p.m. a group of evening shift aircraft workers in Culver City, California watched a silvery elliptical object flying over their aircraft plant. It emitted two small discs, which later returned to the main object. The sighting lasted several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 156; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 60; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 182 Source ID: Johnson_4319 Source: Johnson ### Event 4582 (4C5825ED) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: At 8:20 p.m. local time a blue green ball of light approached an F-94 jet flying over the ocean east of Misawa AFB in Japan. The jet gave pursuit, but the UFO suddently shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 17; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_4317 Source: Johnson ### Event 4583 (39026816) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: At 9:10 p.m. three prison guards in Norfolk, Virginia watched a silent, circular shadow overhead. It shot off at high speed in less than a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_4318 Source: Johnson ### Event 4584 (26E755D1) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: 12:50 p.m. Crews of two USAF F-94 jet interceptors flying at 35,000–46,000 feet altitude near Altoona, Pennsylvania, see three cylindrical objects in a vertical-stack formation fly at an altitude of 50,000–80,000 feet for 20 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[July 23, 1952: Altoona, Penna.](http://nicap.org/altoona520723dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 157 Source ID: Eberhart_1936 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4585 (B8A6547F) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: At 3:50 a.m. an F-94 interceptor obtained a radar lock-on while chasing a blue-green light, which circled Braintree, Massachusetts at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 132; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 97 Source ID: Johnson_4316 Source: Johnson ### Event 4586 (60E39DD8) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: At three o'clock in the morning four fiery teardrop-shaped flames flew rapidly toward the east over Gordonsville, Virginia and then veered sharply upward. They then repeated this staircase maneuver. The sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2434; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 9), p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_4315 Source: Johnson ### Event 4587 (DEA41380) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: At two o'clock in the morning a witness in Springfield, Massachusetts reported a silent orange glowing ovoid object maneuvering in the sky in a T pattern for 40 minutes. At 2:15 a.m. a Ground Observer Corp volunteer in Nahant, Massachusetts named Armpriester sighting two disc-shaped objects that flew to the northwest at 1500 feet altitude, circled Bird Rock, then flew off to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1 & 2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 9; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1556; NICAP files, citing newspaper clipping dated July 23, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_4314 Source: Johnson ### Event 4588 (9CAC92E8) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: 9:00 p.m. A red object, size undetermined, was sighted southwest of Alexandria, Virginia. The object hovered for 10 minutes, then disappeared in a westerly direction at a high rate of speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/alexandria520723dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alexandria, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1166 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4589 (BB355799) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: Numerous witnesses observed four (4) objects hovering in the vicinity of the Lockbourne AFB, Columbus, Ohio. The objects were round and flourescent white in color. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/lockbourne520723dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lockbourne AFB, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1180 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4590 (05826AB3) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: Orfeo Angelucci takes ride in saucer Type: ce4 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_123 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4591 (2243D756) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: G,A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Braintree, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1179 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4592 (9F1295EB) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: Oval Object Zig Zags Over Naval Ship Yard (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520723](http://www.nicap.org/520723longbeach%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Beach, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1163 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4593 (9594A0AF) Date: 7/23/1952 Description: 2:15-218 a.m. A Seaman on watch at Nahant Coast Guard Station observed two (2) bluish lights approximately 5 feet in diameter, appearing as flat, disc-shaped objects having no aerodynamic features (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520723](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/nahant520723dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nahant, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1178 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4594 (72892573) Date: 7/23/1952 Time: 11:35 PM Description: Witness: USAF pilot Capt. H. W. Kloth. Two bright blue-white objects flew together, then the rear one veered off after about 9 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: South Bend, Indiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_193 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4595 (39C45B13) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: At 3:40 p.m. near Carson Sink, Nevada three silver arrowhead-shaped or triangular UFOs flew in a V formation at an estimated speed 1000 mph, crossing the sky in front of a B-25 USAF bomber. The military witnesses onboard the bomber were named McGinn and Barton, and their sighting was brief, lasting less than 10 seconds. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1584; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 182; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 273 Source ID: Johnson_4346 Source: Johnson ### Event 4596 (A25F753C) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: At 7:30 p.m. in Arnheim, The Netherlands four discs passed over the city, followed by 50 Saturn-shaped objects flying in a V formation. They all suddenly shot straight up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 26; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 129 Source ID: Johnson_4347 Source: Johnson ### Event 4597 (964CF875) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: At 10:20 p.m. ground based air defense radar picked up a bogey over Alaska southeast of Talkeetna. A fighter jet was vectored into the location and also made radar contact but no visual sighting, and it couldn't catch up with the UFO moving at 550 knots. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_4348 Source: Johnson ### Event 4598 (EAAD12CD) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Fayetteville, Arkansas two in car watched six 6- inch diameter discs overhead. One passed over the hood of their car, emitting smoke. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_4349 Source: Johnson ### Event 4599 (7CF416D1) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: At 11:30 p.m. orange balls of light were seen flying in circular orbits over the ocean in Key West, Florida. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 9), p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_4350 Source: Johnson ### Event 4600 (915D2091) Date: 7/24/1952 Time: night Description: A man who was fishing in the Serchio River saw a disk hovering for 10 min. From it hung a hose that plunged into the water. The object was 20 m in diameter, with five propellers in the rear and a dome with something like blades on top. An orange glow could be seen through slits along the deck. A man wearing a diving helmet looked at the witness through a window, and he received a kind of electric shock as a "green ray" hit him. He looked up with difficulty, in time to see the object fly away toward the east. Six days later a stranger with a foreign accent contacted the witness and intimidated him. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 69,1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Vico, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_95 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 4601 (9D3C9D2C) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: 3:40 p.m. Two USAF pilots, Lt. Col. John L. McGinn and Lt. Col. [John R. Barton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63852700/john-r%5F-barton), are flying a B-25 out of Hamilton AFB \[now closed\] in Novato, California, for Colorado Springs. They are over Carson Sink, Nevada, at 11,000 feet when they see three unknown objects make a left bank and fly to within 400–600 yards of the plane. They are three bright silver, delta-wing craft with no tails and no canopies. The pilots see a clean upper triangular wing with a definite ridge that runs from the nose to the tail. They estimate the speed as at least three times that of any conventional jet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Carson Sink UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson%5FSink%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “B-26 Crew Encounters 3 Triangular UFOs”; NICAP, “[The Carson Sink Case](http://www.nicap.org/july24.htm)”; Sparks, p. 157; Ruppelt, [pp. 10–12](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/10/mode/2up); Michael Hall, “When UFOs Were Serious Business: Then and Today,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 5; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 12, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1940 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4602 (B529A5CF) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: At Travis AFB, California a bright orange light witnessed by three military men--Mezo, Hanson, and Steen--looked like it was coming in for a landing, but then it stopped and hovered, made a slow turn to the west, and shot off at high speed. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1588; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 273 Source ID: Johnson_4345 Source: Johnson ### Event 4603 (D6641345) Date: 7/24/1952 Time: 3:40 PM Description: Witnesses: two USAF Lt. Colonels McGinn and Barton in a B-25 bomber. Three silver, delta-shaped objects, each with a ridge along the top, crossed in front of and above the B-25 at high speed, in 3-4 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Carson Sink, Nevada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_194 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4604 (47360E03) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: BSRA sends a warning letter to the President, a large swath the US military, US government, representatives, and press concerning the recently announced USAF “Shoot Down” order. Warning found in official FBI UFO files. Type: letter Reference: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1528563227612913666) Location: San Diego, CA Source ID: Maj2_464 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4605 (FCD1E28E) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: B-26 Crew Encounters 3 Triangular UFOs (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1584) Reference: NICAP: [520724](http://www.nicap.org/520724carsonsink%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carson Sink, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_1183 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4606 (D0FC7B71) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: 2 oval-shaped objects, reddish-orange neon glow, approx 3-4 mi high and trav E approx speed 400-600 MPH. In formation approx 1-1½ mi apart on level course- no vapor trails, no sound. Duration approx 4 mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520724](http://nicap.org/clovis520724dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clovis (Clovis AFB), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1184 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4607 (CA8F12D2) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: At 2215 hours PDST, thirteen witnesses of the 1501st Maintenance Squadron observed a round object with a reddish center with a halo around the object. (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1588) Reference: NICAP: [520724](http://nicap.org/travis520724dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Travis AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1185 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4608 (35F0775C) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: (FUFOR Index) F-94 Makes Radar Contact (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520724](http://www.nicap.org/520724elmendorf%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1186 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4609 (C83DA0F7) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: At three o'clock in the afternoon many witnesses and television cameras outside the Democratic Convention in Columbus, Ohio equipped with telephoto lens followed a UFO across the sky being chased by a USAF jet interceptor. The report was carried by the Associated Press wire service. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_4344 Source: Johnson ### Event 4610 (36E8DF3E) Date: 7/24/1952 Description: USAF Colonel, B-29 pilot investigated radar target, saw glowing ellipse which reversed direction and sped away. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520724](http://www.nicap.org/520724macdill%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: MacDill AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1187 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4611 (8E2074FD) Date: 7/25/1952 Description: A man who was fishing in the pre-dawn hours in the Serchio River in the Tuscany region of Italy saw a disc hovering for ten minutes. From it hung a hose that plunged into the water. The object was 20 meters in diameter, with five propellers in the rear and a dome with something like blades on top. An orange glow could be seen through slits along the deck. A man wearing a diving helmet looked at the witness through a window, and he received a kind of electric shock as a "green ray" hit him. He looked up with difficulty, in time to see the object fly away toward the east. Six days later a stranger with a foreign accent contacted the witness and intimidated him. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 137; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181 (case 95); Peter Rogerson, A Worldwide Catalog of Type I Reports, p. 244 Source ID: Johnson_4372 Source: Johnson ### Event 4612 (14FF0A8E) Date: 7/25/1952 Description: F-94 Checks Out Object Sighted By 647th AC&W (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520725](http://www.nicap.org/520725manassas%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manassas, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1189 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4613 (9D4CE502) Date: 7/25/1952 Alternate date: 4/25/1952 Description: 3:00 a.m. Carlo Rossi is on his way to a fishing spot on the Serchio river near San Pietro a Vico, Lucca, Italy. He notices an odd light above the river and finds that it belongs to an enormous disc-shaped object with a transparent dome. It is about 82 feet in diameter and apparently taking up water through a long tube. The object is standing in the river on three legs and has a ladder reaching down next to the tube. Rossi thinks it is hovering by means of propellors. Suddenly a porthole opens, and a human figure looks out and notices him. Rossi begins to leave, but a green ray passes above his head and he feels an electric shock. The object takes off and disappears to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Le Nostre Analisi: Precisazioni sul Caso di S. Pietro e Vico \(1952\),](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201975%2007-09%20No%2067.pdf)” Notiziario UFO, no. 67 \(July/Sept. 1975\): 4–9; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1952-07-25-italy-sanpietro.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1952-07-25-italy-sanpietro.htm) September 12, 2006; 1Pinotti 42–46 Source ID: Eberhart_1941 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4614 (B8831614) Date: 7/25/1952 Description: Ground Radar and Air Visuals (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 1) Reference: NICAP: [520725](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/osceola520725dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Osceola, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1188 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4615 (52371477) Date: 7/25/1952 Description: Capt. J. W. Titus of the 140th Wing Medical Group sees two oval-shaped objects flying in formation at 400– 600 mph in Portales, New Mexico. They are silent and leave no vapor trail. At one point, they make an abrupt 80° turn and fly off to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 85–86 Source ID: Eberhart_1942 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4616 (65038D6C) Date: 7/25/1952 Description: Afternoon VA employee saw 2 discs reflecting light in a climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wilmington, DE Source ID: NICAP_DB_1190 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4617 (213F8BD9) Date: 7/26/1952 Time: 12:15 AM Description: Witnesses: USAF Capt. H. A. Stone, men in control towers at Fairfax Field and Municipal Airport. One greenish light with red-orange flashes was seen for 1 hour as it descended in the northwest from 40 degree elevation to 10 degree elevation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kansas City, Missouri Source ID: BerlinerBBU_196 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4618 (A0AE2A95) Date: 7/26/1952 Time: Time unknown Description: This was a continuation of the extensive sightings and radar tracking reports reported throughout the Washington, DC. area, all night long. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Andrews AFB, Maryland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_197 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4619 (25669349) Date: 7/26/1952 Time: 12:05 AM Description: Witness: Airman lst Class J.M. Donaldson. Eight to ten orange balls in a triangular or V-formation flew very fast for 3-4 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kirtland AFB, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_198 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4620 (0AB04AB0) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: Washington, DC: Long range “overfly” RADAR picks more blips, just one week after the previous invasion of restricted air space over Washington, D.C. Capt. Ruppelt told Maj. Dewey Fournet to get over to the airport in Washington. Fournet was a radar specialist with Project HOLCOMBE and arrived at the airport with Al Chop, AF Press Officer, just in time to see the UFO blips on the radar sets and to hear ground-to-air conversations of the pilots of two F-94s vectored towards the UFOs. Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_465 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4621 (4D498BF9) Date: 7/26/1952 Time: Time unknown Description: Case missing from official files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Williams, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_199 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4622 (1DEA986F) Date: 7/26/1952 End date: 7/27/1952 Description: Andrews AFB and Washington National Airport (2nd event) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1661) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520726-27](http://www.nicap.org/520726wnsdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington - Andrews AFB, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_1196 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4623 (BC8C6135) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: Eastern Flight 606 Encounters H. S. Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520726](http://www.nicap.org/520726florence%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Florence, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1200 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4624 (AD16D1FA) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: 3 amber edged \[?\] white flashing objects traveling at Mach 1 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New York City (Atlantic 200 miles S of), NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1199 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4625 (5E8D7507) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: T-33 Crew Encounters Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520726](http://www.nicap.org/520726plainview%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Plainview, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1198 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4626 (B215D7B2) Date: 7/26/1952 Time: 8 PM Description: Event occurred until after midnight. Witnesses: radar operators at several airports, airline pilots. Many unidentified blips tracked by radar all over Washington area, at varying speeds. Pilots spotted unidentified lights. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: BerlinerBBU_195 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4627 (B5A4A7A8) Date: 7/26/1952 End date: 7/27/1952 Description: 8:15 p.m. Flying saucers return to the nation’s capital, only one week after a massive number of radar- visual UFO sightings above restricted air space in Washington, D.C. At 8:15 p.m., pilot Capt. Berkow and a stewardess of a National Airlines flight near Washington National Airport \[now Ronald Reagan National\] see several objects resembling the glow of a cigarette high above them. The lights move at around 100 mph. Soon, the airport and Andrews AFB in Maryland are tracking a dozen UFOs throughout much of the sky, all traveling 90– 100 mph. By midnight, two F-94s are scrambled from New Castle AFB in Delaware to intercept them. National Airport staff hustle newspaper reporters away from the air traffic control tower, saying that interceptions are classified \(but Project Blue Book chief Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) suspects that the Air Force does not want the press around when they finally get a good look at a saucer\). The UFOs are seen on radar for 2 hours, but when the jets approach, the blips disappear. When the pilots return to base, they show up again. Reports are reaching Langley AFB about rotating objects that give off alternating colors over Newport News, Virginia. Another F-94 is scrambled, the pilot gets a radar lock, and the target speeds away. At National Airport, the objects reappear shortly before dawn, and two more F-94s are scrambled. The pilots obtain radar locks; again, the objects speed away. USAF press spokesman [Albert M. Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) is in the airport radar tower and notes that everyone there believes the targets are “very probably caused by solid metallic objects.” One F-94 pilot, Lieut. William Patterson, says, “I saw several bright lights. I was at my maximum speed, but even then I had no closing speed.” A USAF air intelligence report later states that the radar crew is emphatic that the returns are solid and not temperature inversions. In 1969, however, Colorado project physicist [Gordon David Thayer](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/) concludes that the radar events involved temperature inversions. He believes the visual sightings were caused by meteors and scintillating stars. University of Arizona atmospheric physicist [James McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) disagreed, arguing that Thayer’s own data did not support his conclusion. Colorado project psychologist [Michael Wertheimer](https://dgozli.com/interview-with-michael-wertheimer/) interviews many of the radar operators; nearly all disagree with the inversion explanation and maintain that all experienced radar operators have no trouble identifying such phenomena. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Washington National Sightings](http://www.nicap.org/520726wnsdir.htm)”; Richard Hall, “[The](http://www.nicap.org/waves/washinvas.htm) [Washington Invasion, July 26/27, 1952](http://www.nicap.org/waves/washinvas.htm)”; Clark III 1252–1255; Ruppelt, [pp. 163–167](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/162/mode/2up); Condon, [pp. 157–158](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/156/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/156/mode/2up) [862–](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/862/mode/2up) [867](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/862/mode/2up); Swords 156–159; Good Above, [pp. 270–272](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/270/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[The Washington D.C. UFO Flap of 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/usa1952.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 158; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, HarperTorch, 2001, pp. 68– 76,127–148, 253–260; Shoot 42–47 Source ID: Eberhart_1943 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4628 (D77D14B5) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: 5:15 p.m. Air Defense Command radar detects a UFO over Williams, California. An F-94 jet interceptor is scrambled and locks onto the object with its radar. The crew sees a yellow-orange light. As confirmed by ground and airborne radar, the UFO plays tag with the F-94, alternately accelerating away when it gets close, then slowing down until it catches up again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F-94 Intercept with ADC Detection](http://www.nicap.org/520726williams%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 158 Source ID: Eberhart_1944 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4629 (F7E93D5F) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: 11:00 p.m. Three women in Oran, Algeria, notice a large, orange-red, luminous patch in the sky. It travels from east to west, halts, then vanishes. It is one of many UFOs seen in the province of Oran over several weeks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 120–121](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/120/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1945 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4630 (E410EB9A) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: At 1450 hours an unidentified target was observed on a radar scope. The target stopped and hovered for 2 minutes and then resumed its flight at an extremely high speed. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520726](http://www.nicap.org/520726langley%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Langley AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1195 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4631 (0F62D9A4) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: F-94 Intercept With ADC Detection (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520726](http://www.nicap.org/520726williams%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williams, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1194 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4632 (BEB91BFE) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: 8-10 orange balls in triangular or V-formation flying fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1637, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1193 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4633 (368BF877) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: Light with red-orange flashes descend in the NW (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1628) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kansas City, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1192 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4634 (A27C5884) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: Navy Ground Radar / & Airborne Radars Track UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520726](http://www.nicap.org/520726norfolk%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hampton (and between Newport News and Langley AFB), VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1191 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4635 (218E314D) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: In Washington, D.C. on this date, from 8:00 p.m. until after midnight, radar operators at several airports tracked many unidentified blips by radar all over the Washington area, at varying speeds. Airline pilots reported spotting unidentified lights during this period as well. Sharp UFO targets on the ARTC radar at National Airport at 9:08 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Visual sightings were reported by civilians four times, near Herndon, Virginia and from Maryland. A National Airlines flight near Andrews AFB saw a UFO "directly over the airliner." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 69; Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO cases in 1952: The UFO Sightings that Shook the Government, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_4412 Source: Johnson ### Event 4636 (3871C34E) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: At Kirtland AFB, New Mexico at 12:05 a.m. Airman 1st Class J. M. Donaldson observed eight to ten orange balls flying very fast for a 3-4 second duration traveling in a triangular or V formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4411 Source: Johnson ### Event 4637 (11F8EED0) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: At 12:15 a.m. USAF Capt. H. A. Stone and Air Traffic Controllers in the control towers at Fairfax Field and Municipal Airport, Kansas City, Missouri saw a green light with red-orange flashes descend in the northwestern sky for 1 hour. It moved from 40 elevation to 10 elevation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4410 Source: Johnson ### Event 4638 (0599A603) Date: 7/26/1952 Description: At Andrews AFB, Maryland from midnight until dawn, there were more UFO reports that were a continuation of the extensive sightings and radar tracking reports reported throughout the Washington, D.C. area from the evening before. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4409 Source: Johnson ### Event 4639 (FF71FF85) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: At 7:30 p.m. Both Air Force personnel and National Airport employees observed a large round object reflecting sunlight as it hovered over the U.S. Capitol Building. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520727](http://www.nicap.org/520726wnsdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1207 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4640 (4D08E30D) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: Biologist reported "flotilla" of rocket-like UFOs. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ann Arbor, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1206 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4641 (3EE7F7AF) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: At 11:30 p.m. at a drive-in movie theater in Spokane, Washington twelve UFOs were seen in the skies for 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_4431 Source: Johnson ### Event 4642 (9950A22D) Date: 7/27/1952 Time: 8:30 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Ellis. Two disc-shaped objects, illuminated by a phosphorus light, flew at an estimated l,000 m.p.h. for 15 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Wichita Falls, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_201 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4643 (8D922BCF) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: 10:40 a.m. Bowling Green State University biologist [Charles H. Otis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64357313/charles-h-otis) sees a “flotilla” of UFOs “seemingly floating along, making no sound” at 3724 Dexter Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He grabs a pair of 5x binoculars and studies them until they disappear. He counts 15 of them in a loose formation, moving slowly. One object leaves the formation and disappears in a burst of speed. The body of each seems to be elongated but split at the rear. A bright glow is visible in the front, and they have a bifurcated tail streaming out horizontally, never changing in length Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [pp. 50–51](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=62&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1946 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4644 (D00AC0D0) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: B-25 Crew & Pentagon Brass See Lights (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520727](http://www.nicap.org/520727columbus%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus (10 miles SSW of), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1204 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4645 (410C14EC) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: 6:35 p.m. A group of eight pilots and engineers see a large, silvery object moving rapidly at a high altitude over Manhattan Beach, California. After it makes a turn, the UFO separates into 7 discs that form into groups, circle, and speed out of sight. Former Navy pilot and aircraft engineer J. E. Kempf says the formation looks like a “stack of coins.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Large Object Separates into 7 Discs](http://www.nicap.org/520727manhattanbeach%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 159; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 13, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1947 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4646 (F8270A2B) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: \[Same as July 25 case?\] (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1664) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wilmington, DE Source ID: NICAP_DB_1203 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4647 (89C3331D) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: In Nevada at four o'clock in the morning highway worker Truman Bethurum had finished working the night shift and decided to visit a nearby hilltop called Mormon Mesa because he heard it was a good place to look for seashell fossils. After he parked his truck he used a flashlight to hunt for seashells, but he had no luck finding any, and after searching for an hour or so he returned to the truck and napped awhile. A “mumbling around the truck” awakened him. The mumbling came from eight to ten olive-skinned beings speaking an unintelligible language. All were about 4 feet 8 inches to 5 feet tall. They were not dwarfs but fully developed men. The strange men made no effort to disturb him, although Bethurum said he was afraid to attempt a getaway.

He was still in the truck cab when one man spoke to him in a foreign tongue. Bethurum shook his head, indicating he could not understand. Then the small man said: “You name it.” It was perfect English, recalled Bethurum, who answered: “My God, you can speak English, too?” “We have no trouble with any language,” replied the man. Bethurum then climbed out of the truck and stopped, awestruck. He saw a flying saucer parked about 75 yards away from his truck. It looked like burnished stainless steel. Bethurum shook hands with all the “friendly” men and asked if their captain was around. The spokesman for the group volunteered to escort Bethurum to the captain, and led him toward the parked craft. Meanwhile, Bethurum looked around and saw that the short men were “Latin types,” with complexions “something like Italians.” All were neatly dressed in uniforms similar to those “worn by Greyhound bus drivers.” All had coal black hair and dark eyes. Their skin complexion was perfect and had no wrinkles or blemishes. The spokesman for the group took hold of Bethurum’s right elbow. While holding the arm the man seemed to “have me in his power completely. He gave the impression of great strength.” Soon the group arrived at the ship. Bethurum described it as being metallic. He learned that it measured 300 feet in diameter and was “six yards deep in the center.” A three-foot metal rim with beveled edges surrounded the saucer-shaped craft, and the rim was about two feet thick. The ship had no rudder or stacks. They entered the ship through a large door that Bethurum estimated was 4 ½ feet wide and about 10 to 12 feet long. It was located atop the ship close to the metal rim around the edge. Inside he met the woman captain, Aura Rhanes. He described her as having a “slender” Latin-type face. She wore a “radiant red skirt, black velvet short sleeved blouse and a black beret with red trim.” He went into her lounge and they talked. The woman captain said she was from the planet Clarion, which could not be seen from earth. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1952-07, citing Truman Bethurum, Aboard a Flying Saucer; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 237 Source ID: Johnson_4426 Source: Johnson ### Event 4648 (1B714D74) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: At 12:15 a.m. seven "good, solid targets" appeared on radar at National Airport near Washington, D.C. F-94 interceptors were sent from Deleware, but they made no visual contact as the UFOs were gone by the time they arrived. It was noted that there were only minor temperature inversions at the time, and these were not the likely cause of the radar blips. Five minutes later an F-94 pilot made vsual contact with a round UFO. Both the UFO and the F-94 jet were seen on radar flying at the same speed. But when the jet tried to overtake the UFO it disappeared visually and on radar. "Incredible speed of the object," said the pilot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO Cases in 1952: The UFO Sightings that Shook the Government, p. 11 cases 6 & 7; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_4425 Source: Johnson ### Event 4649 (33DB39C7) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: James R. Thomas observed one cylindrical object with a domed top and bottom moving northwest to southeast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520727](http://nicap.org/wilm520727dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wilmington, DE Source ID: NICAP_DB_1202 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4650 (0C8EA407) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: Four Large Objects Tracked On Ground Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 1) Reference: NICAP: [520727](http://www.nicap.org/520727belleville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belleville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1201 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4651 (96F9CFCA) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object moved slowly toward the northeast with an "oscillating rolling motion" seen from Andrews AFB, Maryland. Clouds at the time were moving toward the southeast, and the UFO entered the base of the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 161; Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO Cases in 1952: The UFO Sightings that Shook the Government, p. 11 case 8 Source ID: Johnson_4429 Source: Johnson ### Event 4652 (32B26C44) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: A cigar-shaped object split into seven or eight smaller objects over Manhattan Beach, California at 6:25 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 68; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 3-012 Source ID: Johnson_4428 Source: Johnson ### Event 4653 (48D89CEB) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: Large Object Separates Into 7 Discs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520727](http://www.nicap.org/520727manhattanbeach%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manhattan Beach, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1209 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4654 (E01EB8AF) Date: 7/27/1952 End date: 7/28/1952 Description: At 2000 hours July 27 and 0200 hours July 28, 1952, Mrs. XXXXXXX observed a white light immediately over the Pentagon, then it made a direct descent toward the Pentagon, stopped and veered off. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520727-28](http://www.nicap.org/pent520727dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington (The Pentagon), DC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1210 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4655 (5EE8D9A0) Date: 7/27/1952 Time: 10:05 AM Description: Witnesses: three B-29 bomber crewmen on ground. Many round, white objects flew straight and level, very fast. Two at 10:05, one at 10:10, one at 10:15, one at 10:20. Each was seen for about 30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_200 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4656 (F3CCF583) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: Many round white objects fly straight and level, very fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1680) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Selfridge AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1205 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4657 (AE7268C9) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: At 10:05 a.m. a procession of white saucer-shaped objects was sighted at Selfridge AFB, Michigan. They flew very fast and made no sound. Each passage of UFOs took 30 seconds. First two objects flew over, then one, then another, and then a last one. A Project Blue Book unidentified case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1680; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 274 Source ID: Johnson_4427 Source: Johnson ### Event 4658 (71ED177B) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: 2 disc-shaped objects illuminated by a phosphorus light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1684) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Witchita Falls, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1208 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4659 (A4106DED) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: Truman Bethurum visits spaceship and meets crew. Many other visits. Type: ce4 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_122 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4660 (D1D458F9) Date: 7/27/1952 Description: At 8:30 p.m. in Wichita Falls, Texas two people witnessed two phosphorescent disc-shaped objects flying at 1,000 mph. They were seen for 15 seconds. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1684; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 274 Source ID: Johnson_4430 Source: Johnson ### Event 4661 (C094F94E) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: At around 11 p.m. over Washington, D.C. eight to twelve nocturnal lights flew in various formations making sharp maneuvers, darkening and then becoming brighter again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 65; Richard F Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 99 Source ID: Johnson_4450 Source: Johnson ### Event 4662 (3A638582) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: Canadian researcher [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) allegedly shows Rear Admiral [Herbert B. Knowles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121964370/herbert-bain-knowles) a metallic piece from a saucer that was shot down near Washington, D.C. It is twice the size of a man’s thumb and has been loaned to him by the Air Force, but he must return it to the CIA \(or another secret agency\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Rudiak, “[Wilbert B.](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/debris8%5Fmisc.html\#anchor%5F3699) [Smith,](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/debris8%5Fmisc.html\#anchor%5F3699)” Roswell Proof; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 48–49](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/48/mode/2up); Good Above, [p. 188](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/188/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1954 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4663 (171814D3) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: Early morning. While napping between shifts as a heavy-equipment operator in the Nevada desert, [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) [Bethurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) is awakened by 8 small men who “seem to be of Latin extraction.” They take him to a nearby flying saucer where he meets the captain, a “gorgeous woman, shorter than any of the men, neatly attired, and also having a Latin appearance: coal black hair and olive complexion. She appeared to be about 42 years old,” although Bethurum learns that she is hundreds of years old. Her name is Aura Rhanes. Her ship is called a “scow,” and her crew is from the planet Clarion, a world that is always on the other side of the moon. He later tells this story and his later adventures in his 1954 book Aboard a Flying Saucer, ghostwritten by Mary Kay Tennison. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Truman Bethurum, Aboard a Flying Saucer, DeVorss, 1954; Clark III 192–194 Source ID: Eberhart_1948 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4664 (A8D2CD12) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: USAF Maj. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) secretly orders a deemphasis on or elimination of human anecdotal UFO reports. Instead, they would be “going on instruments,” as worded in his briefing, so that he can close down Blue Book. Technological hurdles and budget limits greatly delay the plan, but Blue Book does transition into a propaganda debunking mission over the next 6 months. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 813 Source ID: Eberhart_1949 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4665 (7FAA31BF) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: Late afternoon. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and Maj. Ed Gregory arrive in Washington, D.C., dodging newspaper reporters at the Roger Smith Hotel. Blue Book receives an astonishing total of 50 UFO reports in a single day. UFO inquiries are jamming the Pentagon telephones. Air Force and CIA officials concede that the Soviet Union might take advantage of the confusion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 166–167](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/166/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1950 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4666 (8C03273A) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: According to the United Press, the Air Defense Command has alerted jet interceptor pilots to take off instantly in pursuit of any flying saucers. The International News Service amplifies this by quoting the Air Force that orders have been issued to shoot them down if they refuse to land. The Air Force refuses to confirm this, but USAF Deputy Press Officer Lt. Col. [Moncel A. Monts](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61435014/moncel-adron-monts) states that “jet pilots are, and have been, under orders to investigate unidentified objects and to shoot them down if they can’t talk them down.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Air Force Alerted for](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93402643/) [‘Discs’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93402643/): [Sightings over Washington Put Jets at Ready,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93402831/)” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, July 28, 1952, p. 1; “[Jets on 24-](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68880923/the-san-francisco-examiner/) [Hour Alert to Shoot Down ‘Saucers,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68880923/the-san-francisco-examiner/)” San Francisco Examiner, July 29, 1952, p. 2; Shoot 49–50; David Rudiak, “[1952 Flying Saucer ‘Shoot Down’ Stories](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/ShootDown%5FINS%5F72952.html),” Roswell Proof Source ID: Eberhart_1951 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4667 (09F91BFB) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: In charge of jet interceptions over Washington, D.C., during the big UFO flap, USAF Director of Operations Gen. [Roger M. Ramey](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1686367/lt-gen-roger-m-ramey/) issues an ambiguous public denial that the interceptors have been ordered to shoot down any saucers. However, newspaper articles and other documents say there was such an order. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Rudiak, “[Background on Gen. Roger M. Ramey,](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/ShootDown%5FINS%5F72952.html)” June 4, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_1952 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4668 (BC158E60) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) resting in Kansas City, Missouri, after the Democratic Convention, calls CIA Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) and asks him to investigate the Air Force’s mishandling of the Washington National sightings. Smith later directs, through Deputy Director for Intelligence [Loftus E. Becker](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/lawyer-loftus-e-becker-to-us-state-department-in-his-office-news-photo/50709548), that a CIA/OSI group be put together to review the USAF UFO intelligence program at ATIC. Truman’s involvement is meant to be kept Top Secret and is not revealed until 1992. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1012 Source ID: Eberhart_1953 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4669 (75A08099) Date: 7/28/1952 Time: 10:20 PM Description: Witnesses: Sgt. B.C. Grassmoen, WAC Pfc. A.P. Turner. One saucer-shaped object having an appearance of light metal and giving off shafts of white light, flew slow, made a 90^ turn and climbed away fast after 4-5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Heidelberg, West Germany Source ID: BerlinerBBU_202 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4670 (7BD8A964) Date: 7/28/1952 Time: 2:15 AM Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. Walstead, S/Sgt. Calkins of the 635th AC&W Squadron. One dull, glowing, blue-green ball,.the size of a dime at arms' length, flew very fast, straight and level. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: McChord AFB, Washington Source ID: BerlinerBBU_204 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4671 (0686EA69) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: UK Prime Minister [Winston Churchill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%5FChurchill) writes to [William Sidney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FSidney%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FDe%5FL%27Isle), Secretary of State for Air, and scientific adviser and friend [Lord Cherwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FLindemann%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FCherwell), saying, “What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at your convenience.” The response, dated August 9, begins: “The various reports about unidentified flying objects, described by the Press as ‘flying saucers,’ were the subject of a full Intelligence study in 1951” \[presumably the report by the Flying Saucer Working Party\]. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Records Show](https://thecosmicreport.com/records-show-winston-churchills-interest-in-ufos/) [Winston Churchill’s Interest in UFOs,](https://thecosmicreport.com/records-show-winston-churchills-interest-in-ufos/)” The Cosmic Report, December 12, 2020; Good Above, [pp. 30](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/30/mode/2up), [448–449](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/448/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 43–44](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n73/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1955 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4672 (9DA17EC2) Date: 7/28/1952 Time: 6 AM Description: Witness: Ground Control Approach radar operator M/Sgt. W.F. Dees, and persons in the base control tower. Radar tracked a large cluster of very distinct blips. Visual observation was of oblong objects having neither wings nor tail, which made a very fast turn and at one time were in echelon formation. Entire episode lasted 55 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: McGuire AFB, New Jersey Source ID: BerlinerBBU_203 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4673 (F64C1F58) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: Personal Minute from Prime Minister W.S. Churchill to Secretary of xxxxxxx Air Ministry stating: What does all this stuff about Flying Saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at your convenience. Type: secret memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p505, Churchhill) Location: Britain See also: 8/9/1952 Source ID: Maj2_467 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4674 (649CD71C) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: USAF on 24 hour alert. Shoot Down order newspaper articles Type: letter Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102175368/jets-keeping-24-hour-alert-for-saucers/) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_466 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4675 (8B699260) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hallock, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1211 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4676 (8CA9514C) Date: 7/28/1952 End date: 7/29/1952 Description: Jets vectored to UFO during ECM exercise (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520728-29](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520729dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Huron (20 miles W of), MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1212 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4677 (16E972B1) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: Saucer-shaped object having appearance of light metal (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1700) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Heidelberg, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_1213 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4678 (F419E83D) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: GCA Radar/Visual Of Blip Cluster (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1707) Reference: NICAP: [520728](http://www.nicap.org/520728mcguire%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McGuire AFB, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1214 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4679 (97BE8D0F) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: Dull, glowing, blue green ball, size of a dime at arms' length (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1708) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McChord AFB, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1215 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4680 (9DA4B190) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: FLYOBRPT. Mr. S. Robert Tralins observed 17 shooting lights moving in varied directions at extremely high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520728](http://www.nicap.org/balti520728dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baltimore, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1216 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4681 (379AB700) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: Radar visual that raised eyebrows (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520728](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520729dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Central Michigan, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1217 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4682 (A33C860F) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: UFO by radar, target speed 550 knots (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520728](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520729dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Central Michigan, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1218 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4683 (3B3FB564) Date: End of 7/1952 Description: SECRET MEMO to Director, CIA, from H. Marshall Chadwell, Office of Scientific Intelligence stating: ATIC has set up a worldwide reporting network for Flying Saucers and major Air Force bases have been ordered to make INTERCEPTIONS of UFO’s. Battello Memorial Institute is to handle machine indexing of all official reported sightings. From 1947 to date, there have been 1500 official sightings with 250 of them in 1952 alone. Of the 1500, 28% remain UNEXPLAINED. UFO’s are of such importance that the matter should be brought before the National Security Council. Type: secret memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p31,506, war escalation) Location: Dayton OH See also: 9/19/76 See also: 5/10/80 See also: 5/19/86 See also: 9/4/87 Source ID: Maj2_469 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4684 (F6964878) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: There are 20 UFO reports recorded for this day in the UFOCAT computer database. Outside of the continental United States there were sightings in Hawaii, Cuba, and Germany. Four occurred at military air bases and two more involved aircraft encounters with UFOs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_4448 Source: Johnson ### Event 4685 (8D52ADFF) Date: 7/28/1952 Description: At 10:15 p.m. a saucer-shaped object, light metallic in color, flew over Heidelberg, Germany. It gave off shafts of white light, flew slowly, made a 90-degree turn, and climbed away fast. It was in sight for 4.5 minutes. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1700; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 24; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 274 Source ID: Johnson_4449 Source: Johnson ### Event 4686 (715398F7) Date: 7/29/1952 Time: 3:44 or 4:35 PM Description: Witnesses: Herbert Mitchell and one employee. One dark, discus-shaped object, trailed by a silvery light 2 lengths behind, tipped on its side, dove, hesitated and then circled very fast during the 2 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Merced, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_208 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4687 (508456B3) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Air Force reserve colonel at Los Alamos saw a strange ellipse shaped light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520729](http://www.nicap.org/520729albuquerque%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1230 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4688 (D43BE87B) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: 9:35 p.m. Marine Pfc Ralph C. Mayher, using 16 mm film exposed at 24 frames per second, obtains footage of a high-speed UFO over Miami Beach, Florida. Retaining a few frames for personal study, Mayher submits the main portion of the film to the Air Force for analysis. The film is never returned, and no analysis report is ever released. Enlargements of a few frames show a fiery looking, roughly circular object, symmetrical, with two small peaks or projection on opposite sides of the disc. The CIA examines the film in 1957 and returns it with no comment or analysis. The Mayher case features prominently in the subsequent lawsuit by Ground Saucer Watch against the CIA and is important because it is a confirmed case of direct interaction of the CIA with a witness, clearly indicating that there was CIA interest in the subject. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Ralph Mayer / Miami Film](http://www.nicap.org/520729miami%5Fdir.htm)”; Ralph Mayer, “[I Proved Flying Saucers Are Real,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1952mayher.htm)” Pic, June 1954; Good Above, [pp. 355–356](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/354/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1967 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4689 (5F0332BC) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: 9:15 p.m. Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. [Robert G. LeCompte](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17567749/robert-g-lecompte) sees a flight of at least 10 luminous objects pass over Albuquerque, New Mexico. At first they appear overhead in no pattern, heading north, then shift to a V formation. They then shift into two rows. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[AF Reserve Colonel Observes Rapid Ellipse](http://www.nicap.org/520729albuquerque%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 163; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 13, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1966 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4690 (E483DAE8) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: [Ralph L. Clark](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/01/28/ralph-clark-dies/a5579bb9-2ac2-400e-8c13-af6cc74befde/)[,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/01/28/ralph-clark-dies/a5579bb9-2ac2-400e-8c13-af6cc74befde/) acting assistant director of the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence, sends a memo to OSI Deputy Director [Robert Amory Jr.](https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/21/obituaries/robert-amory-jr-74-ex-official-of-cia-and-us-budget-bureau.html)[,](https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/21/obituaries/robert-amory-jr-74-ex-official-of-cia-and-us-budget-bureau.html) indicating that the agency will be looking into UFO matters a bit more thoroughly, even though it has been collecting cases for the past three years \(since 1949\): “a special study group has been formed to review the subject to date. D/CI \[[Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith)\] will participate in this study with D/SI \[[H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm)\], and a report should be ready about 15 August.” It alludes to his meeting with CIA rocket consultant [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) and others the previous day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ralph L. Clark, “[Recent Sightings of Unexplained](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100060002-4.pdf) [Objects,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100060002-4.pdf)” July 29, 1952, [reprinted](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) in “The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler”; Good Above, [pp. 330](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/330/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/330/mode/2up) [505](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/504/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1962 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4691 (F90DF466) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Bright white circular object with a flat bottom fly very fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1739) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Witchita, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1229 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4692 (F00D4AB0) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Sidney Eubank went to the Enid police station and told Sergeant Vern Bennell that an enormous disk had buzzed his car as he drove between Bison and Waukonis on Highway 81. The rush of air made the car leave the road while the object flew west very fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Anatomy 134 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Enid, Oklahoma Source ID: Magnonia_96 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 4693 (D8741A4C) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Movies taken of high-speed UFO; film submitted to Air Force, never released. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1228 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4694 (7704062B) Date: 7/29/1952 Time: 1:30 AM Description: Witnesses: radar operators on ground, pilot of F-5l Mustang in flight. Several clusters of up to 10 small radar targets and one large target. Small targets moved from southwest to east at 50-60 kts. (60-70 m.p.h.), following each other. The large one moved at 600 kts. (700 m.p.h.). One hour total time. Pilot confirmed one target. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Osceola, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_205 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4695 (B0B8A629) Date: 7/29/1952 Time: 2:30 PM Description: Witness: USAF Capt D.G. Moore, of military air traffic control system. One undescribed object flew at an estimated 2,600 m.p.h., below 5,000' altitude, toward the air base for about 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Langley AFB, Virginia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_206 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4696 (90701423) Date: 7/29/1952 Time: 2:50 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. Moore, Gilfillan electronics representative W. Yhope. One radar target tracked moving away, stopped for 2 minutes, again moved very, very fast. Four minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Langley AFB, Virginia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_207 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4697 (4BCFB82A) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: 2,600 MPH Target Approaches Base (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1732) Reference: NICAP: [520729](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520729langley%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Langley AFB, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1222 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4698 (944E75FE) Date: 7/29/1952 Time: 12:35 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF shop employees Douglas and Hess at Municipal Airport. One bright white circular object with a flat bottom flew very fast, and then hovered 10-15 seconds over the Cessna Aircraft Co. plant, during the 5 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Wichita, Kansas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_209 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4699 (2404D2ED) Date: 7/29/1952 Time: 12:30 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF persons, alerted that UFOs were coming from the direction of Seattle, Wash. Two to five flat disc-shaped objects: one hovered 3-4 minutes, while the others circled it. Sighting length of 30 minutes not explained further. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ennis, Montana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_210 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4700 (2D7D0BFE) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Sidney Eubank went to the Enid, Oklahoma police station and told Sergeant Vern Bennell that an enormous disc had buzzed his car as he drove between Bison and Waukonis on Highway 81. The rush of air made the car leave the road while the object flew west very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP investigation files, reported dated July 30, 1952; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 134; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 199 Source ID: Johnson_4473 Source: Johnson ### Event 4701 (29320F84) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: At 12:30 p.m. USAF personnel near Ennis, Montana were alerted that UFOs were coming from the direction of Seattle, Washington and headed toward their position. Twelve of them saw two to five flat disc-shaped objects fly over. One hovered for 3-4 minutes, while the others circled it. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 1747; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4474 Source: Johnson ### Event 4702 (35651F27) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Robert L. Farnsworth, president of the American Rocket Society, urges President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) and defense officials to restrain the US armed forces from shooting at UFOs. He says that hostile action might alienate us from “beings of far superior powers.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert L. Farnsworth, \[[Telegram to President Truman](http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Protests%5F1952.html)\], July 28, 1952; “[A Pro-Saucer](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93410948/) [Voice Heard,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93410948/)” New York Daily News, July 29, 1952, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_1963 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4703 (A20181FB) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: USAF pilot pursues UFO over Michigan Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Michigan Source ID: Maj2_120 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4704 (AFD35E8B) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: CAA radar in the early morning tracked 8 to 12 UFOs at a time traveling about 100-120 m.p.h. in a 10-mile arc around the Nations Capital. When an Eastern Airlines pilot tried to check on the radar targets at CAA request at 3:00 a.m., he saw nothing. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1226 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4705 (2C98B035) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Dark, discus shaped object, trailed by a silvery light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1738) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Merced, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1225 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4706 (85022A89) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: SECRET, EYES ONLY MEMO to Deputy Director/Intelligence from Ralph L. Clark, Acting Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence stating: In the past several weeks numerous UFOs have been sighted visually and on RADAR. This office (CIA) has maintained a continuing review of reputed sightings for the past three years and a special group has been formed to review the sightings to date. O/CI and O/SI will participate in this study and prepare a report on UFOs by August 15, 1952. Type: secret memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p505) Location: Britain Source ID: Maj2_468 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4707 (18F8EEB3) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: An orange, oblong stationary object is observed at the airport in Macdonald, Manitoba, in the south- southwestern sky for 2 minutes. It seems to change into a group of small round lights. They all disappear together. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich; Project Second Storey Source ID: Eberhart_1964 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4708 (A27FF6E2) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: White object moving E to W & light-brown egg shaped object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520729](http://www.nicap.org/520729losalamos%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1224 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4709 (317E6A7D) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Sighted several high-speed discs through theodolite (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Walker AFB, Roswell, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1223 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4710 (8EF142C5) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Langley AFB, Virginia. At 2:30 p.m. USAF Captain D.G. Moore, of military air traffic control, sighted a UFO coming toward the air base that flew at an estimated speed of 2,600 mph below an altitude of 5,000 feet. It was in sight for two minutes. Twenty minutes later Captain Moore and electronics technician W. Y. Hope tracked a UFO on radar moving away. The object stopped for two minutes, then moved away again very, very fast. Total duration four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol; p. 275; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4475 Source: Johnson ### Event 4711 (2D61EB2C) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: 10:00 a.m. President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) tells his air force liaison, [Robert B. Landry](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106440/major-general-robert-b-landry/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106440/major-general-robert-b-landry/) to find out what is going on with UFOs. Landry calls ATIC and eventually reaches [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt), who tells him that weather may have caused the radar targets, but there is no proof. He later learns that Truman is listening in. There is some evidence that Truman or Landry soon contact the National Security Council directly to find out how to proceed with the UFO problem. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 167](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/166/mode/2up); Swords 170 Source ID: Eberhart_1958 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4712 (F9053384) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Early morning. CAA radar tracks 8–12 UFOs at a time traveling 100–120 mph in a 10-mile arc around Washington, D.C. When an Eastern Airlines pilot tries to check on the radar targets at the request of the CAA at 3:00 a.m., he sees nothing. The targets disappear from CAA radar when the airliner approaches then come back in behind him after he passes through the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Air Force Debunks ‘Saucers’ As Just ‘Natural Phenomena,’](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/07/30/84338117.pdf)” New York Times, July 30, 1952, pp. 1, 10 Source ID: Eberhart_1957 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4713 (26FF8A7E) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: At 3:44 Herbert Mitchell and his employee in Merced, California sighted a dark, discus-shaped object, trailed two lengths behind by a silvery light. It tipped on its side, dove, hesitated, and then circled very fast. They watched it for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 1738; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4476 Source: Johnson ### Event 4714 (094A0B5A) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: In Wichita, Kansas at 12:35 p.m. USAF shop employees Douglas and Hess saw a bright white circular craft with a flat bottom at the Municipal Airport. The object flew very fast, and then hovered 10-15 seconds over the Cessna Aircraft Co. plant. Their sighting lasted five minute sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 1739; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4477 Source: Johnson ### Event 4715 (EB58BF9E) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: 1:30 a.m. An Air Defense Command radar outside of Osceola, Wisconsin, picks up some unidentified targets. Four F-51s from St. Paul, Minnesota, are scrambled, but the targets are moving around so quickly that it is impossible to vector in on a single target. The F-51 pilots see many lights; one pilot at 25,000 feet sees an object blaze across the nose of his airplane. Two other pilots vainly try to climb up to a hovering light that is in the same position as the radar targets. ATIC’s Robert M. Olsson and Wendell Swanson explain the radar incident as a temperature inversion and the visual sighting as a meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “Clusters of Small Targets and One Large Target”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 July 21st–31st,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf) [Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, pp. 80–85; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 161 Source ID: Eberhart_1956 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4716 (4D18DB82) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Four weather observers at Walker AFB \[now closed\] in Roswell, New Mexico, watch several high-speed discs through a theodolite. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 114–115](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/114/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 161 Source ID: Eberhart_1960 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4717 (E4E3A33D) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: 4:00 p.m. The Air Force holds its largest and longest press conference since the end of World War II. Maj. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) director of USAF intelligence, leads it. He is accompanied by Eighth Air Force Maj. Gen. [Roger M. Ramey](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1686367/lt-gen-roger-m-ramey/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1686367/lt-gen-roger-m-ramey/) director of operations and commander of the Eighth Air Force; USAF Col. [Donald L. Bower](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower), Technical Analysis Division, Air Technical Intelligence Center \(ATIC\), Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio; Project Blue Book head Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt); USAF Capt. [Roy L. James](http://www.project1947.com/feaf/feafintros.htm), ATIC radar specialist; and [Burgoyne L. Griffing](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107124036/burgoyne-lee-griffing), electronics branch, ATIC. Samford says that the Air Force has been monitoring US air space since 1947. Approximately 20% of UFO reports come from “credible observers of relatively incredible things,” which keeps the Air Force concerned. He explains that the Washington, D.C., sightings earlier in July were caused by “weather phenomena” that caused radar beams to bend and pick up objects on the ground. James offers more technical explanations about temperature inversions that cause radar echoes. Pro-UFO Maj. [Dewey J.](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm) [Fournet Jr.](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm)[,](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm) USAF public relations officer [Al Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php)[,](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) and Navy radar specialist Lieut. John Holcomb are conspicuous by their absence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[General Samford’s Press Conference,](http://www.nicap.org/waves/pressconf%5F1952.htm)” July 29, 1952; Ruppelt, [pp. 168–](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/168/mode/2up) [169](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/168/mode/2up); “[General Samford’s UFO Press Conference, Pentagon, July 29, 1952,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcRtkA1Rmvw)” knightskross YouTube channel, August 3, 2010; “[The Air Force Makes a Pass at the Saucer Stories,](https://books.google.com/books?id=TFYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20magazine&pg=PA35%23v%3Donepage&q&f=true)” Life 33, no. 6 \(August 11, 1952\): 35; Swords 159–163; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 60–63](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/60/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, HarperTorch, 2001, pp. 77–126; Shoot 53–57 Source ID: Eberhart_1965 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4718 (4D0C913A) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Clusters of Small Targets & One Large Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1731) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520729](http://www.nicap.org/520729osceola%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Osceola, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1219 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4719 (B0EC779E) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Jets scrambled from Kirtland (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520729](http://www.nicap.org/520729losalamos%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1221 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4720 (ABB715DD) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: USAF Gen. Samford holds UFO press conference Type: historical event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_121 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4721 (686A0088) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: 10:00 a.m. Several employees of Los Alamos Scientific Labs, New Mexico \(including Robert B. Leachman, W. Schafer, E. T. Jurney\), see a white object moving east to west with a gyrating motion. Two jet interceptors from Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque arrive 5 minutes later. The object disappears but reappears in front of the jets, makes a 360° turn, comes around in back, follows for 2 minutes, then disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Jets Scrambled from](http://www.nicap.org/520729losalamos%5Fdir.htm) [Kirtland](http://www.nicap.org/520729losalamos%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 61–64](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/60/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 161 Source ID: Eberhart_1959 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4722 (8BAC1855) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: An FBI memo from Victor P. Keay on “Flying Saucers” discusses a classified briefing about UFOs by Cmdr. [Randall Boyd Jr.](https://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=520321) of the Air Intelligence Estimates Division to [Norman W. Philcox](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155730842/norman-walter-philcox)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155730842/norman-walter-philcox) an FBI liaison to the Air Force. The Air Force has “failed to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion” on UFOs. Reports are being received from all parts of the US and distant parts of the world. Boyd explains that USAF has made no progress in ascertaining the nature of UFOs, but it is filing them into three classifications: reports by civilians on the ground, reports by commercial or military pilots, and reports by pilots that are confirmed by radar or ground observations. He concludes by writing that it is “not entirely impossible that the objects sighted may possibly be ships from another planet such as Mars,” but he adds that “air intelligence is fairly certain that these objects are not ships or missiles from another nation in this world.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf) [History: 1952 July 21st–31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, pp. 55–56; ClearIntent, [pp. 175–177](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/174/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1961 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4723 (2FF3A1D3) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: Twelve Witnesses Observe Discs / Movies & Stills Taken (BBU 1747) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: 1747) Reference: NICAP: [520729](http://www.nicap.org/520729ennis%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ennis, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1231 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4724 (B1D0AB18) Date: 7/29/1952 Alternate date: 7/28/1952 Description: 9:40 p.m. An Aircraft and Warning Station in Port Huron, Michigan, tracks an unidentified return on radar for 20 minutes. GCI asks Capt. Edward J. Slowinski flying an F-94B on a practice run to investigate. The pilot sees a bright, flashing, colored light in the location of the blip 29 miles west of Port Huron and follows it for 20 minutes. Slowinski is unable to close on the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Key Radar Case \(CCL \#17\)](http://www.nicap.org/520729porthuron%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 160; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#radar)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 72–73; Center for UFO Studies, \[[documents and case files](http://cufos.org/cases/1952%5F07%5F29%5FUS%5FMI%5FPort-Huron%5FNICAP%5FAir-to-Air-RV.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_1968 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4725 (C03808F8) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: There are 39 unexplained UFO reports recorded in the UFOCAT database for this day. Most are lacking any detail and so fall into the category of "insufficient information." All but five come from the United States. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_4471 Source: Johnson ### Event 4726 (90F83913) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: 9:40 p.m. CST an Air Force radar station plotted an unidentified target moving at 550 knots. An F-94 in the area was asked to investigate, and its airborne radar locked onto the UFO which appeared as a bright flashing colored light. The object, showing on ground radar along with the F-94, outdistanced the interceptor. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520729](http://www.nicap.org/520729porthuron%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Huron, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1227 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4727 (8AABEC7D) Date: 7/29/1952 Description: At 1:30 a.m. radar operators on the ground in Osceola, Wisconsin witnessed several clusters of up to 10 small radar targets and one large target. The small targets moved from southwest to east at 50-60 knots (60-70 mph), following each other. The large object moved at 600 knots (700 mph). One hour total time. The pilot of a F-51 Mustang in flight confirmed a visual sighting of one of the targets. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Condon Committee investigation files; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4472 Source: Johnson ### Event 4728 (0DC76FCA) Date: 7/30/1952 Time: 11:02 PM Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. George Funk. One orange light remained stationary for 10 minutes. No further details in files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_211 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4729 (C45DB581) Date: 7/30/1952 Time: 10 AM Description: Witnesses: E.E. Nye and one other person. One round, white object flew slow and then sped away after 20-30 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: San Antonio, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_212 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4730 (9180BE7E) Date: 7/30/1952 Description: Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) tells the press that, although he does not believe there are flying saucers, he dislikes the “mass hysteria” about them. He says the Air Force has had experts investigating them since the end of World War II and never found anything substantial. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Double Vision,’ Vandenberg,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93411553/)” Santa Rosa \(Calif.\) Press-Democrat, July 31, 1952, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_1970 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4731 (C5337CE1) Date: 7/30/1952 Description: 1:10 p.m. [Willie Vaught](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36454642/willie-i-vaught) of Alexandria, Indiana, sees a strange looking cloud and calls her two teenage daughters \([Laura](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96294064/laura-n-humphries) and [Patsy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38958136/patsy-l-vaught)\) and [Laura Oliver](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193684621/laura-a-oliver) to see it. While looking at it, they see six flat, aluminum-like objects streak across the cloud, merge, and disappear within a minute. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Alexandria Family Reports Seeing](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93412845/) [‘Flying Saucers,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93412845/)” Alexandria \(Ind.\) Times-Tribune, July 31, 1952, p. 1; Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_1971 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4732 (5403FA1D) Date: 7/30/1952 Description: Flight Sgt. Roland Hughes of No. 20 Squadron RAF is on a training flight in a de Havilland Vampire FB-9 jet fighter and returning to base at RAF Oldenburg, Germany, when he sees a “gleaming silver, metallic disc” drop down from above and fly alongside his aircraft for several seconds before speeding off. The object is about 100 feet long. Its surface is shiny “like tinfoil,” highly reflective, and “without a single crease or crinkle in it.” On August 5, Hughes is ordered to fly to RAF Faßberg for further questioning. He arrives and finds a number of officers, including his commander and the UK Minister of Supply, [Duncan Sandys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%5FSandys) \([Winston Churchill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%5FChurchill)‘s son-in- law\), who asks Hughes how many beers he had before his saucer sighting. The Air Commanding Officer then reveals that the object had also been tracked on radar going faster than any known aircraft. This convinces Sandys that the case is a serious one, a view that he communicates to [Lord Cherwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FLindemann%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FCherwell), the government’s chief scientific adviser, in a letter, saying there is “ample evidence of some unfamiliar and unexplained phenomenon.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 44–46](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n75/mode/2up); “[The UFO Sighting That Convinced a Government Minister,](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/9292417/The-UFO-sighting-that-convinced-a-Government-minister.html)” The Telegraph, May 27, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_1969 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4733 (74136D3F) Date: 7/30/1952 Description: Round, white object fly slow then speed away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1758) Reference: NICAP: [520730](http://www.nicap.org/sanantonio520730dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Antonio, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1235 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4734 (51491299) Date: 7/30/1952 Description: (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlanta, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1232 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4735 (548E0CA4) Date: 7/30/1952 Description: Stationary orange light. No further details in files (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1755, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1233 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4736 (671CD2CA) Date: 7/30/1952 Description: PPI Scope Of CPS-5 Tracks Slow Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520730](http://www.nicap.org/520730keesler%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Keesler AFB, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1234 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4737 (28F72FE7) Date: 7/30/1952 Description: (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1236 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4738 (EDEE6162) Date: 7/30/1952 Description: At ten o'clock in the morning a white round object was seen flying slowly over San Antonio, Texas. After 20-30 minutes it sped away. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1758; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 64; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276 Source ID: Johnson_4502 Source: Johnson ### Event 4739 (5E3A74A9) Date: 7/31/1952 Description: Brig. Gen. [Alfred R. Maxwell](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106293/brigadier-general-alfred-r-maxwell/) of the Research and Development Board prepares a memorandum that generally supports the official position that UFO reports contain no information of value, he writes: “The Air Force has made very little progress in learning what the phenomena or objects are.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman, Crash at Corona, Marlowe, 1994, [pp. 30–31](https://archive.org/details/crashatcoronausm0000berl/page/30/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1972 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4740 (94BFA3CE) Date: 7/31/1952 Description: Pilot saw object at 7,000 ft off their left (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yokota AFB (15 miles E of), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1237 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4741 (06B56F63) Date: 7/31/1952 Description: This entry has the incorrect date. Go the the entry for Sept 1, 1952 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yaak (near), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1239 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4742 (829D95DA) Date: 8/1952 Description: Inverted tin colored saucers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington County (Skylight Mtn.), AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_1238 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4743 (894E395D) Date: 8/1952 Description: Rotating light UFO seen by ground observers, including police. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520800](http://www.nicap.org/5208xxfallschurch%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falls Church, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1240 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4744 (9F5A8777) Date: 8/1952 Description: Study of UFO maneuvers initiated, to determine whether objects displayed intelligent control. Type: study initiated Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 250-251](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton OH Source ID: Maj2_872 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4745 (166EC72F) Date: 8/1952 Description: Hollywood producer [Clarence Greene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%5FGreene) and a friend see a “sphere of light” in the sky over Los Angeles, California. Visible for 5 minutes, the object alternately hovers and turns before speeding off over the horizon. The next morning, Greene tells his business partner [Russell Rouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%5FRouse) about the sighting. As he reflects on the experience, he grows ever more irritated by the stigma attached to UFO sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1188 Source ID: Eberhart_1973 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4746 (E6C71207) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: [Edward Tauss](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3005011/edward-tauss)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3005011/edward-tauss) acting chief of the Weapons and Equipment Division of the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence, writes a letter to OSI Deputy Assistant Director [Ralph L. Clark](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/01/28/ralph-clark-dies/a5579bb9-2ac2-400e-8c13-af6cc74befde/)[,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/01/28/ralph-clark-dies/a5579bb9-2ac2-400e-8c13-af6cc74befde/) saying that less than 100 credible reports remain unexplainable. “interplanetary aspects and alien origin not being thoroughly excluded from consideration.” He recommends the CIA continue to cooperate with ATIC, but “no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 123](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/122/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_1975 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4747 (76446F80) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: At 9:50 p.m. a Scripps-Howard reporter saw a cluster of glowing white objects overhead (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1243 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4748 (40EB8E33) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: 2 brilliant red lights hovering and maneuvering (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1771) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lancaster, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1244 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4749 (0B321177) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: 8:30–9:00 p.m. We, the People, a 30-minute TV news show produced by Life magazine, devotes its airtime to the recent UFO sightings over Washington, D.C. WNBW-TV, which originates the program, rents a DC-3 airliner, fills it with 20 newsmen, and has the plane circle over Washington, just in case the saucers return. On the ground in the radar room of Washington National Airport there are more newsmen and TV cameras. The show features editors and journalists [Frank Blair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FBlair%5F%28journalist%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FBlair%5F%28journalist%29) [David Brinkley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FBrinkley)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FBrinkley) [Clay Blair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay%5FBlair)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay%5FBlair) and various UFO witnesses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Curt Collins, “[UFOs on TV: The 1952 Washington, DC Saucer Flap,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/07/ufos-on-tv-1952-washington-dc-saucer.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, July 5, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_1976 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4750 (7A4EBC83) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: At ten o'clock in the morning in Afton, New York UFOs first appeared near the position of the Sun and then dispersed across the sky. Scattered disc-shaped objects were seen in the skies for the next two hours. At 10:10 a.m. a large group of UFOs described as looking like "70 white ping pong balls" passed across the sky in Sidney, New York flying from the southwest to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tiffany Thayer, Doubt, 1953, p. 206; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 17; and UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_4559 Source: Johnson ### Event 4751 (AB3EB73F) Date: 8/1/1952 Time: 1:14 AM Description: Witnesses: sheriff's deputies and other persons, one named Mallette. Two brilliant red lights hovered and maneuvered for 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lancaster, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_213 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4752 (9422B3C5) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: Gun-camera photos Smith/Hemer Case (M) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520801](http://www.nicap.org/520801troy%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dayton (WPAFB), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1245 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4753 (62B91ECE) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: AF F-86's Smith/Hemer Case (M) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520801](http://www.nicap.org/520801troy%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bellefontaine, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1246 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4754 (683B7C3F) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: 9:50 p.m. Scripps-Howard reporter [Howard Doyle Kline](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150963009/howard-doyle-kline) sees a cluster of glowing white objects overhead in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The objects shift around into various patterns, including a perfect V at one point. Their shifts in position are incredibly swift and fantastically violent, he says. “They made” a flying saucer believer out of me.” He reports the incident to [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz), University of New Mexico meteoriticist, and Col. [William A. Matheny](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59346824/william-albert-matheny)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59346824/william-albert-matheny) commander of the 34th Air Defense Division. The report, which is one probably used in Maj. [Dewey Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm)’s Motion Study, is missing from the Project Blue Book files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: New York World-Telegram, August 2, 1952; UFOEv, [pp. 69–70](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=81&skin=2021); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf) [1952 July 21st–31st, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-July-21-31-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, p. 95 Source ID: Eberhart_1977 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4755 (8F3198E6) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: Three men witness maneuvering disc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520801](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/vincennes.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vincennes, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1247 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4756 (057524A9) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: Brilliant white disc observed at low altitude. Others reported oval object. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sharonville, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1242 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4757 (59E3A569) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: 10:51 a.m. An Air Defense Command radar site on Campbell Hill at Bellefontaine, Ohio, tracks a target 20 miles NNW of Wright-Patterson AFB, traveling 500 mph against the wind. It vectors two F-86s piloted by Maj. James B. Smith and Lt. [Donald J. Hemmer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81269106/donald-john-hemmer). They make visual contact but climb to 48,000 feet twice without reaching it. Smith gets a weak return on his radar gun sight and shoots a gun camera film of a white or silvery sphere estimated at 60,000 feet. They break off the intercept at 11:13 a.m. about 100 miles west-southwest of Dayton. The film reportedly shows a UFO in the upper right of the frames with noticeable motion to the lower left. Although Blue Book Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)’s assistants Lt. [Anderson G. Flues](https://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/look-back-ufo-sightings/image%5F7b99baf9-07e8-5407-b231-d7d2bd474abe.html) and Lt. Robert Olsson initially declare the case an “unknown,” Ruppelt changes that evaluation a few weeks later after ATIC Technical Analysis Division Chief Col. [Donald L. Bower](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower) transfers out, explaining it as two separate but coincidental IFOs—a weather balloon and a jet. Ruppelt goes to great lengths to debunk the case in his ADC briefings to the Robertson Panel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Gun Camera R/V Case](http://www.nicap.org/520801troy%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 161–163](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/160/mode/2up); Clark III 392–395; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 21](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/20/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 165; Patrick Gross, “[The Bellefontaine, Ohio, Radar/Visual/Photographic Case, 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/bellefontaine52.htm)”; Shoot 71–73; Center for UFO Studies, \[[Blue Book documents and files](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1952%5F08%5F01%5FUS%5FOH%5FBellefontaine%5FNICAP%5FAir-to-Air-RV.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_1974 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4758 (3A260C6C) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: Gun Camera R/V Case (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520801](http://www.nicap.org/520801troy%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Troy (near), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1241 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4759 (61F64E29) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: CIA Memo from acting Chief of Weapons and Equipment Division: “It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public.” Type: secret memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Langley, Virginia Source ID: Maj2_470 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4760 (09B95358) Date: 8/1/1952 Description: At 1:14 a.m. two brilliant red lights hovered together and maneuvered for five minutes over Lancaster, California. Witnesses included sheriff deputies. One light swung in a pendulum motion, the other shot off to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1771 Source ID: Johnson_4558 Source: Johnson ### Event 4761 (9E478FF4) Date: 8/2/1952 Description: At 3:00 a.m. on this morning USAF First Lt. W.A. Theil and an enlisted man named Edwards watched a red ball with a blue flaming tail fly straight and level for 3-4 seconds over Lake Charles, Louisiana. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1783; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4589 Source: Johnson ### Event 4762 (5D71E3F8) Date: 8/2/1952 Description: Five civilian men observed a metallic looking spherical shaped object hanging in the air. The only apparent movement was a quivering motion. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520802](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/lubbock520802dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lubbock, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1249 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4763 (13AFB733) Date: 8/2/1952 Description: Saw 21 objects traveling 200-600 mp (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houlton, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_1250 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4764 (FBC12EEB) Date: 8/2/1952 Time: 3 AM Description: Witnesses: USAF lst Lt. W.A. Theil, one enlisted man. One red ball with a blue flame tail flew straight and level for 3-4 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_214 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4765 (71C12034) Date: 8/2/1952 Description: 3:00 a.m. USAF 1st Lt. W. A. Theil and enlisted man Edwards see a red ball with a trail of blue flame fly straight and level over Lake Charles, Louisiana. \([Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 165\) August 2 \[or July 30\] — [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) and his wife Betty are visited in Prescott, Arizona, by two other metaphysics enthusiasts, Alfred C. Bailey and his wife Betty of Winslow, Arizona. This evening, in the course of an automatic-writing experiment using a sort of Ouija board, they receive a message from an extraterrestrial in a spacecraft. In the days and weeks that follow, “Nah-9 of Solar X Group” and many other planetary and star people communicate with them. The space people call earth “Saras.” Nah-9 says that the good men of Saras must unite with good space people to avert a calamity. More Ouija sessions take place through August 17. A message comes through that they will be contacted via radio with an International Morse Code message on August 22. Bailey approaches a coworker on the Santa Fe Railroad, a ham radio operator named [Lyman Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter) and asks for his help in picking up the space signals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1283; George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 21–22; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 178–181 Source ID: Eberhart_1978 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4766 (4133DDC2) Date: 8/2/1952 Description: Red ball with blue flame tail fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1783) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Charles, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1248 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4767 (E84E0815) Date: 8/3/1952 Description: 3:00 p.m. An Air Force master sergeant on the ship Santa Luisa observes three round, flat, metallic objects hovering at 30,000–40,000 feet some 10 miles away from his position at the mouth of the Rio Guayas near Isla Puná, Ecuador. After 5 seconds, one object dives to the west then turns back northwest. They all disappear after another 5 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1947, \[[case documents](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1952%5F08%5F03%5FPuna%5FIsland-EC.pdf)\]; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1952](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1952a.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1979 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4768 (CB997E61) Date: 8/3/1952 Description: 4:15 p.m. Two huge silvery discs are observed visually and tracked on radar for 1 hour and 15 minutes over Hamilton AFB \[now closed\] near Novato, California. The ground observers are pilots Capt. [Leslie R. Hadley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185176492/leslie-r%5F-hadley)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185176492/leslie-r%5F-hadley) Capt. [Wayne T. Perske](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105621103/wayne-t-perske)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105621103/wayne-t-perske) and 2d Lt. [Duane A. Swimley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82411150/duane-a%5F-swimley)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82411150/duane-a%5F-swimley) They dive at each other and maneuver as if in a dogfight. After F-86s are dispatched to intercept, 6 more objects appear, take up a diamond formation, and accelerate out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Eight Huge Objects Observed by 8 Witnesses and Radar](http://www.nicap.org/520803hamilton%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 165; Project 1947, “[Hamilton Air Force Base, Hamilton, California, August 3, 1952](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1952%5F08%5F03%5Fhamafb.htm)”; Project 1947, \[[Blue Book documents and](http://www.nicap.org/520803hamilton%5Fdir.htm) [files](http://www.nicap.org/520803hamilton%5Fdir.htm)\]; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 14, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1980 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4769 (262040C6) Date: 8/3/1952 Description: At 3:13 p.m. eight military witnesses and radar confirmed the presence of two silver colored discs in the sky over Hamilton AFB in Marin County, California. The discs appeared to be dogfighting. They were joined by six other discs and formed a diamond formation. They sped away as USAF F-86 fighter jets were scrambled. The sighting lasted 75 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 120; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 35; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Dolan Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 403 Source ID: Johnson_4623 Source: Johnson ### Event 4770 (96A6E50D) Date: 8/3/1952 Description: 10:20 p.m. Civilian engineer Paul L. Anderson sees 3 light-green cylindrical objects at Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. They are hovering at 45° elevation in an inverted-V formation, switching to echelon when one object moves with a rolling motion along its long axis. It disappears by rapidly rising vertically. The observation lasts 9 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Three Cylindrical Objects Observed by Engineers](http://www.nicap.org/520803truth%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 165; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 14, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_1981 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4771 (63018CEF) Date: 8/3/1952 Description: 3 light green cylindrical objects hovering at 45° elevation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520803](http://www.nicap.org/520803truth%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Truth or Consequences, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1251 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4772 (FB8532A6) Date: 8/3/1952 Description: August 3, 1952; Hamilton AFB, California, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520803](http://www.nicap.org/520803hamilton%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamilton AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1252 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4773 (1B22E36E) Date: 8/4/1952 Description: At 2:20 a.m. in Phoenix, Arizona USAF Airman W. F. Vain sighted a yellow ball of light that lengthened and narrowed to the shape of a plate, then flew straight and level for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1812; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276 Source ID: Johnson_4642 Source: Johnson ### Event 4774 (5EA15EE8) Date: 8/4/1952 Description: A woman with two children in Mount Vernon, New York reported that they observed a white donut-shaped object for two hours, beginning at 11:37 a.m. It emitted black smoke from its top and made a 15-degree arc in the sky in 1.5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1813; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276 Source ID: Johnson_4643 Source: Johnson ### Event 4775 (12A59CFB) Date: 8/4/1952 Description: Yellow ball which lengthened and narrowed to plate shape (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1812) Reference: NICAP: [520804](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/phoenix520808dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Phoenix, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1253 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4776 (E391773D) Date: 8/4/1952 Description: Object, shaped like a lifesaver or donut emitting black smoke from its top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1813) Reference: NICAP: [520804](http://www.nicap.org/520804mtvernondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Vernon, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1254 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4777 (002BB806) Date: 8/4/1952 Time: 11:37 AM Description: Witnesses: one woman, two children. One object, shaped like a lifesaver or donut, emitted black smoke from its top and made a 15' arc in 1.5 minutes. Observed for 2 hours. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_216 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4778 (8CE029C2) Date: 8/4/1952 Time: 2:20 AM Description: Witness: USAF A/3c W.F. Vain. One yellow ball which lengthened and narrowed to plate shape, flew straight and level for 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Phoenix, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_215 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4779 (8D90DC30) Date: 8/5/1952 Description: 12:25 a.m. A trio of brilliant white dots of indefinite shape, at an altitude of an estimated 5,000 feet, passes over Westover AFB \[now Westover Reserve Air Base\] in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The second object is half the size of the first, and the third is half the size of the second one. The first one resembles an automobile headlight. The appearance of other two is not given. The three are in a triangular formation. No jet activity is recorded over the airbase at the time and witnesses say the objects are moving “faster than jets.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) [History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 23 Source ID: Eberhart_1982 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4780 (629E5ADA) Date: 8/5/1952 Time: 11:30 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF F-94 jet interceptor pilots lst Lt. W.R. Holder and lst Lt. A.M. Jones, and Haneda control tower operators. Airborne radar tracked a target for 90 seconds. Control tower operators watched 50-60 minutes while a dark shape with a light flew as fast as 330 kts. (380 m.p.h.), hovered, flew curves and performed a variety of maneuvers. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Haneda AFB, Japan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_217 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4781 (6AB3E92A) Date: 8/5/1952 Description: Experienced amateur astronomer observed two copper-like discs. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baltimore, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1255 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4782 (5DB2C5AD) Date: 8/5/1952 Description: Another famous case, a radar-visual confirmation, occurred in Japan on this day. A UFO hovered over the Haneda U.S. Air Force base near Tokyo and had several ground military witnesses in addition to radar tracking. It looked like a dark shape with a light, and it flew at 330 knots, then hovered, then performed a variety of maneuvers. It was tracked by airborne radar for 90 seconds.The UFO moved off at extreme speed, and then divided into three parts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book, case # 1827; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, pp. 21, 84; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 95; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 160; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 54; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 277 Source ID: Johnson_4671 Source: Johnson ### Event 4783 (E7B59CDE) Date: 8/5/1952 Description: At 5:10 a.m. an airline pilot named Quinn, flying a DC-3 for PAGA Airlines between Lima and Hueca, Peru, took a photograph of three saucer-shaped objects flying in V formation which maneuvered around his plane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 24; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_4672 Source: Johnson ### Event 4784 (B2D00CBF) Date: 8/5/1952 End date: 8/6/1952 Description: Up to 10 Targets On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520805-06](http://www.nicap.org/520805washington%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_1259 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4785 (0BA2C008) Date: 8/5/1952 Description: Dark shape with a light flew as fast as 330 knots (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1827) Reference: NICAP: [520805](http://www.nicap.org/520805haneda%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Haneda AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1258 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4786 (5106BB6C) Date: 8/5/1952 Description: F-94 Pilots Tracked Object For 90-Seconds (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1827) Reference: NICAP: [520805](http://www.nicap.org/520805haneda%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Haneda AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1257 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4787 (4952BEEB) Date: 8/5/1952 Description: 3 saucer-shaped objects in a V-formation maneuver (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huacho (between Lima and), Peru Source ID: NICAP_DB_1256 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4788 (C1CBB5AC) Date: 8/5/1952 Description: 11:45 p.m. A complex radar-visual sighting takes place at Haneda AFB \[later Tokyo International Airport\], Japan. Control tower operators watch a disc as it passes over Tokyo Bay at about 1,500 feet. It is a dark round shape surrounded by a bright light with a curved outer edge and smaller lights around it. While being tracked on radar, a scramble alert is issued at 11:55 p.m., and an F-94 Starfire jet from nearby Johnson Air Base \[now Iruma Air Base\] in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture, goes after the object. The interceptor, piloted by 1Lt. [Wesley R. Holder](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65715214/wesley-r-holder) and Radar Observer 1Lt. Aaron M. Jones Jr., chases the object, which speeds away while being tracked by onboard radar. During the next 30 minutes, the UFO disappears and reappears throughout the sky, vanishes when the jet closes in, performs intricate maneuvers, and at one point splits into three radar targets. The jet searches over Tokyo Bay until 12:33 a.m. when it is recalled. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F-94 Pilots Tracked Object for 90 Seconds](http://www.nicap.org/520805haneda%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 187–189](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/186/mode/2up); Condon, [pp. 123–126](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/122/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 166; Martin L. Shough, “Radar and the UFO,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 217–219; Patrick Gross, “[The Haneda AFB Case, Japan, August 5, 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/haneda.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1986 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4789 (93EDDD72) Date: 8/5/1952 Description: 10:45 p.m. Eight residents of Camden, New Jersey, report a bright, round, orange object hovering or moving slowly in the western sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[8 City Residents Report ‘Saucers’ on Nocturnal Sweep through Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93433118/)” Camden \(N.J.\) Courier-Post, August 6, 1952, p. 16 Source ID: Eberhart_1985 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4790 (3A5F3E63) Date: 8/5/1952 Description: 9:46–12:00 midnight. A visual sighting is made at 9:46 p.m. by an observer on the ground at Manassas, Virginia, who spots a brilliant oval flying south. About 10:50 p.m., Andrews AFB in Maryland picks up two unidentified blips moving slowly and steadily away from Washington, D.C., on a course toward Mount Vernon, Virginia. Minutes later the fluorescent screens at Andrews show two more UFOs to the east of the field moving for a short distance, stopping, and then moving again. The speed of the targets is a slow 60 mph. The height of the targets is unknown. Planes from both Andrews AFB and Bolling AFB are sent up to investigate but rainy weather forces them to turn back after they reach 15,000 feet altitude. Around 12:00 midnight yet another target appears on radar, and jets from New Castle AFB in Delaware are scrambled. The jets see no UFOs when they arrived over Washington; however, a spokesman for Andrews radar tells the press that “no radar sightings were made while the planes were overhead.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flock of ‘Saucer’ Objects Again Puzzles Wash. DC,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93432794/)” Visalia \(Calif.\) Times-Delta, August 6, 1952, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1986, pp. 23–24 Source ID: Eberhart_1984 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4791 (A3A8D6A5) Date: 8/5/1952 Description: Day. During a daylight observation of Venus, astronomer [James C. Bartlett Jr.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Bartlett%5Fpending.htm) watches two discs fly overhead in a southerly direction at Baltimore, Maryland. They move away to the east, then two more objects with dome-like protrusions in the center fly past. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Two Huge UFOs Sighted by Baltimore Astronomer,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/005%20AUG-SEPT%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 5 \(Aug./Sept. 1958\): 1, 3 Source ID: Eberhart_1983 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4792 (7D7134C4) Date: 8/6/1952 Time: Time unknown Description: This is a continuation of the Haneda AFB sightings. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tokyo, Japan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_218 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4793 (256AF1B2) Date: 8/6/1952 Description: A U.S. Air Force radar installation in Port Austin, Michigan picked up several large flying objects that flew at speeds in excess of 1200 knots. The UFOs were in vicinity of Gore Bay, Ontario, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1845; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 277 Source ID: Johnson_4717 Source: Johnson ### Event 4794 (12F765EA) Date: 8/6/1952 Description: At 8:30 a.m. a dark circular object hovered for thirty minutes over the U.S. Haneda Air Force Base near Tokyo, Japan. It was tracked on radar as its blip hovered, then shot away at 300 knots, and in the process divided into three evenly spaced radar targets. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1827 Source ID: Johnson_4716 Source: Johnson ### Event 4795 (5C8280D1) Date: 8/6/1952 Description: Several Targets Over Andrews AFB (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520806](http://www.nicap.org/520806andrews%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Andrews AFB, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1260 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4796 (F93380A7) Date: 8/6/1952 Description: 9:00 p.m. James J. Allen sees a UFO 6 feet high, 8 feet long, and lighted inside strike the chimney of his home in West Lumberton, North Carolina. It crashes into his backyard. When he approaches it, the lights go off and he sees a man about 30 inches tall standing next to it. He asks if he is hurt, then the figure reenters the vehicle and it zooms away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[West Lumberton Event Added](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58948450/the-robesonian/) [to Growing ‘Saucer’ Reports,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59021152/the-robesonian/)” Lumberton \(N.C.\) Robesonian, August 7, 1952, pp. 1, 4; Clark III 326; Curt Collins, “[James J. Allen’s Alien Encounter](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/01/james-j-allens-alien-encounter.html) [Embarrassment: Aug. 6, 1952,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/01/james-j-allens-alien-encounter.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 19. 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_1988 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4797 (BDA3E472) Date: 8/6/1952 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) sends Project Blue Book a report on his interviews with 45 astronomers about their opinions on UFOs at a June meeting of the American Astronomical Society and finds that five \(11%\) have seen a UFO, seven are indifferent to the subject, more express at least some interest, and a few are very interested but wary of publicity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “[Special Report on Conferences with Astronomers on Unidentified Aerial Objects,](https://www.fold3.com/image/1/11883955)” August 6, 1952; “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 2,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7a.htm)” CUFON; “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 3,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7b.htm)” CUFON; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 83–85 Source ID: Eberhart_1987 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4798 (9493A096) Date: 8/6/1952 End date: 8/7/1952 Description: Marine engineer designer saw two disc-shaped objects with superstructures. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kerkrade, Holland Source ID: NICAP_DB_1265 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4799 (3284C201) Date: 8/6/1952 End date: 8/7/1952 Description: Brilliant white disc-shaped luminous object with red blinking light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Lyautey, Fr. Morocco Source ID: NICAP_DB_1264 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4800 (10F4B08D) Date: 8/6/1952 Description: FPS-3 Radar Tracks Objects At 1200 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 1845) Reference: NICAP: [520806](http://www.nicap.org/520806portaustin%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Austin, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1263 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4801 (53A534CF) Date: 8/6/1952 Description: Military witness(es) (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1843) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belleville, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1262 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4802 (1EFEE00D) Date: 8/6/1952 Description: Continuation of Haneda AFB sightings. (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1841) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tokyo, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1261 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4803 (8EA67172) Date: 8/6/1952 Time: Time unknown Description: Case missing from official files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Port Austin, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_219 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4804 (2AB0FC12) Date: 8/6/1952 Description: At around 9 p.m. an orange colored flying sphere struck the chimney of a house in West Lumberton, North Carolina, breaking it, and fell into the back yard. The object was eight feet long and stood six feet high. A little man only 30 inches tall was standing beside it. When the witness, Mr. J. Allen, asked him if he was hurt, he and the craft vanished with a loud noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumberton (NC) Robesonian, August 7, 1952; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0196, citing Lumberton Robesonian Source ID: Johnson_4718 Source: Johnson ### Event 4805 (944A69D8) Date: 8/7/1952 Description: 9:08 a.m. Mrs. Susan Pzuhl \(or Pfuhl\) observes over San Antonio, Texas, four round UFOs that give off a color similar to white-hot metal. The objects appear to be approximately 18 inches in diameter and are observed one at a time at intervals of approximately 20 minutes. With the exception of one object that moves slowly, the speed must have been 3 times as fast as a propeller-driven aircraft. No sound can be heard. Their maneuvers consist of radical directional change by the first object, straight and level flight by the second object, a slight directional change by the third object, and a large circular maneuver by the fourth object. An aircraft passes under the fourth object with no apparent reaction by the plane or the object. It vanishes suddenly like an extinguished light. Duration is 70 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “Four 18ʺ UFOs Observed”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 166 Source ID: Eberhart_1990 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4806 (95FB7742) Date: 8/7/1952 Description: 4 glowing white discs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1855) Reference: NICAP: [520807](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/520807sanantondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Antonio, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1266 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4807 (A8B8C871) Date: 8/7/1952 Description: 12:02 a.m. At Kerkrade, Netherlands, marine engineer Will Jansen watches a domed object swoop down to a low altitude, hover, zigzag, then speed away. He sees a similar object hovering further away. It finally tilts up vertically and shoots out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 122](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=134&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_1989 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4808 (E839F9D4) Date: 8/7/1952 Description: 3:00 p.m. Two Ground Observer Corps skywatchers in Silverton, Oregon, [Ida Pfeifer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179055768/ida-elizabeth-pfeifer) and Dorothy Sthamann, see an aluminum-colored object 3 miles away that appears at first triangular, then more saucer shaped. Army and air observers in Portland confirm that jet interceptors are at that moment in pursuit of the object. Replacement skywatchers [Sadie Barkhurst](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91684694/sadie-e-barkhurst) and Mrs. Olaf Teglund also see the object at 5:00 p.m. All agree that the UFO is headed east at a moderate speed, but darts “fiercely” toward the interceptor when it approaches. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Saucer](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93434942/) [at Silverton,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93434942/)” Salem \(Oreg.\) Capital Journal, August 9, 1952, p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_1991 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4809 (B12E2402) Date: 8/7/1952 Time: 9:08 AM Description: Witness: Mrs. Susan Pfuhl. Four glowing white discs: one made a 180 degree turn, one flew straight and level, one veered off, and one circled during the 70 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: San Antonio, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_220 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4810 (FF892EB2) Date: 8/8/1952 Description: Object immediately stop without appearing to decelerate (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warren AFB, WY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1267 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4811 (0075C17E) Date: 8/8/1952 Description: A special CIA/Office of Scientific Intelligence team consisting of [Philip Grandin Strong](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49359563/philip-grandin-strong)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49359563/philip-grandin-strong) Ransom L. Eng, and [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) visits Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio for a comprehensive briefing about UFOs from Blue Book staff. This classified visit is in response to secret orders from President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) to the CIA to investigate the Air Force’s mishandling of UFOs during the Washington National Airport cases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CUFON, “[The](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Clark III 397; Swords 172–173 Source ID: Eberhart_1992 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4812 (CCBB672D) Date: 8/9/1952 Description: At 8:57 p.m. local time a U.S. Marine Corps ground control radar in Grid Area K-3, Pohang, Korea made contact with a moving ball of fire with a stream of flame travelling at a high rate of speed: 1500 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 51 Source ID: Johnson_4788 Source: Johnson ### Event 4813 (77E8A716) Date: 8/9/1952 Description: Disc-shaped object fly S at 5,000 ft at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1870) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Charles AFB, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1270 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4814 (8177421C) Date: 8/9/1952 Description: Fireball with stream of flame pass an aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520809](http://www.nicap.org/520809SEkoreadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pohang (K-3 area E of), Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1268 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4815 (CBE870CD) Date: 8/9/1952 Description: Reply from Air Ministry, Whitehall, S.W. to W.S. Churchill stating: All UFO sightings are either astronomical phenomena, mistaken sightings of balloons, birds, etc., optical illusions or hoaxes. The Americans have reached a similar conclusion. Type: secret memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p449) Location: Britain See also: 7/28/1952 Source ID: Maj2_471 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4816 (C9C98F15) Date: 8/9/1952 Description: 1:45 a.m. A/3C [Joseph F. Raley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73773013/joseph-f%5F-raley) is walking to work at Lake Charles Air Force Station \[now closed\] in Lake Charles, Louisiana, when he observes a disc-like object from a distance away of 3,000–5,000 feet. The object is at an estimated altitude of 5,000 feet. It moves several hundred mph faster than any known jet aircraft. No sound is heard. The object is first seen moving north to south until it crosses the air station, where it stops and hovers for approximately 2 seconds, then takes off to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Faster-Than-Jet Disc Stops, Hovers Two Seconds,](http://www.nicap.org/520809lakecharles%5Fdir.htm) [Accelerates](http://www.nicap.org/520809lakecharles%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 167 Source ID: Eberhart_1993 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4817 (B3E806D5) Date: 8/9/1952 Description: At 10:50 a.m. a military witness named Raley at Chennault Air Force Base, Louisiana saw a disc-shaped object that flew very fast for five minutes, and hovered for two seconds. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1870; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_4787 Source: Johnson ### Event 4818 (C8C4F407) Date: 8/9/1952 Time: 10:50 AM Description: Witness: USAF A/3c J.P. Raley. One disc-shaped object flew very fast and then hovered for 2 seconds during a 5-6 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_221 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4819 (F5F64EFE) Date: 8/10/1952 Description: Object moving down from 8,000 to 1,500 ft then hovering and vanishing (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In airspace over, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1271 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4820 (5C9C0BCA) Date: 8/10/1952 Description: 5:38 p.m. Roy E. Munson is resting in his hammock at 1231 Widergren Drive, Rockford, Illinois, when he sees a disc-shaped object moving west to east and streaking across the sky in 6 seconds. Within minutes, another appears on the same flight path. Some family members and neighbors join him to watch the objects, which keep appearing for the next 90 minutes by which time a total of 54 have gone by. Munson alerts the CAA operator at the Rockford airport, who calls O’Hare Airport in Chicago, which sends two USAF jet interceptors to the area. They appear just as the last of the discs, which seem surrounded by a haze, disappears. Of the 54 objects, 36 appear larger that the others and move faster. Fifty follow the straight west-to-east path out of sight. Three deviate from the path to the north, and one deviates to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Rockford, Illinois, Monday, August 11,](http://www.nicap.org/rockford520811dir.htm) [1952](http://www.nicap.org/rockford520811dir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_1994 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4821 (0F3B2FFC) Date: 8/11/1952 Description: A CIA memo refers to a meeting of the newly created study group on UFOs attended by eight operatives. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[Minutes of Branch Chief’s Meeting of 11 August 1952](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020014-5.pdf)”; CUFON, “[The CUFON](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Swords 173 Source ID: Eberhart_1995 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4822 (4AC6DDCC) Date: 8/11/1952 Description: Series of 7 yellowish-orange low-flying objects climb away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hampton, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1272 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4823 (19B7AF49) Date: 8/11/1952 Description: Fifty - four "flying saucers" were sighted streaking over Rockford Sunday evening by at least 14 persons (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [520811](http://nicap.org/rockford520811dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rockford, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1273 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4824 (D18A30CE) Date: 8/12/1952 Description: 1:43 a.m. An Air Force F-94B jet fighter from Dover AFB in Delaware is flying at 20,000 feet when both the pilot and his radar crewman sight a glowing object 45° to their left and at a lower altitude, with the waters of the Delaware Bay as a dark backdrop. Curious, the jet pilot adjusts his course and heads directly at the object, which is stationary. In an apparent reaction, the object loses some of its brilliance and diminishes in size, apparently moving away. The pilot determines that the object had halted above Cape May, New Jersey, where it again hovers. Without success, the pilot tries to raise the local CCI station on the radio on F channel to request a radar scan of the Cape May area. Low on fuel, the pilot cannot pursue the UFO any further, so he breaks off the chase and heads for home. The UFO follows the jet, increasing in apparent size as it draws near and overtakes it. Eventually, the UFO loses interest and flies away to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 36 Source ID: Eberhart_1996 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4825 (F9D805C4) Date: 8/12/1952 Description: In Toulouse, Haute-Garonne department, France more than a dozen witnesses saw a white disc-shaped object that stopped over the city in the middle of the afternoon. It was joined by two more similar looking objects, and then all three flew away fast together. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 129 Source ID: Johnson_4933 Source: Johnson ### Event 4826 (FD2956BE) Date: 8/12/1952 Description: At 9:48 p.m. two military witnesses sighted two disc-shaped UFOs while in flight over Wink, Texas. The objects were described as aluminum colored, and shaped like pie-pans. They rose rapidly from a lower altitude and passed the plane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_4934 Source: Johnson ### Event 4827 (B555D124) Date: 8/12/1952 Description: Stationary glowing object lose brightness and diminish in size (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape May (near), NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1274 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4828 (9F1319F5) Date: 8/12/1952 Description: Light flying at 500 mph and 15,000 ft pass his aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Big Spring, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1275 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4829 (9D343656) Date: 8/12/1952 Description: Several pie-pan-shaped aluminum colored objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wink (70 miles W of), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1276 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4830 (2F833A8D) Date: 8/13/1952 Description: Jacoby/McNaulty (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dallas, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1278 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4831 (4B9489F7) Date: 8/13/1952 Description: 11:10 p.m. USAF Reserve Capt. Stanley W. Thompson sees a formation of lighted objects flying rapidly over Tucson, Arizona. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 39 Source ID: Eberhart_2001 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4832 (E36BBADF) Date: 8/13/1952 Description: Orange light fly a left orbit at 8,000 ft and 230 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1889) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tokyo, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1277 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4833 (78DBDD21) Date: 8/13/1952 Description: 9:10 p.m. A witness in Oakland, California, calls Hamilton AFB \[now closed\] in Novato to notify them he is watching “two balls of fire” making a 10-mile circle and leaving in the direction of Hamilton. When the report is made to Capt. [Kenneth Broden](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69038388/kenneth-broden)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69038388/kenneth-broden) Hamilton AFB Airdrome Officer, he orders an F-94 jet scrambled to search the bay between Oakland and the air base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 39 Source ID: Eberhart_1999 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4834 (41582FE5) Date: 8/13/1952 Description: Around 7:00 p.m. Two civilians in the Tampa, Florida, area watch three UFOs. One object changes its course abruptly to the west, moving in excess of 600 mph. The same object hovers for about 5 minutes then moves at an excessive rate back to the east and resumes its course to the north and disappears. The two other objects do not alter course but disappear to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 39 Source ID: Eberhart_1997 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4835 (3862B16B) Date: 8/13/1952 Description: Multiple Targets C (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520813](http://www.nicap.org/520813washington%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_1280 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4836 (E41F2B71) Date: 8/13/1952 Description: 9:45 p.m. In Tokyo, Japan, US Marine Corps pilot Maj. [James D. McGough](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115912870/james-deasy-mcgough) sees an orange light fly a left orbit at 8,000 feet and 230 mph, then spiral down to no more than 1,500 feet, remain stationary for 2–3 minutes, and go out. An attempted interception is unsuccessful. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Orange Light Maneuvers Then Stops in Mid-](http://www.nicap.org/520813tokyo%5Fdir.htm) [Air](http://www.nicap.org/520813tokyo%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 167 Source ID: Eberhart_2000 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4837 (787C7165) Date: 8/13/1952 Description: Stanley Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1279 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4838 (514D8A95) Date: 8/13/1952 Description: While flying over Tokyo, Japan at 9:45 p.m. USAF Marine Corps pilot Major D. McGough sighted an orange light that flew a left orbit at 8,000' and 230 mph. It then spiraled down to no more than 1,500 feet altitude, remained stationary for 2-3 minutes more, and went out. An attempted interception was unsuccessful. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278 Source ID: Johnson_4961 Source: Johnson ### Event 4839 (C9F1B2F7) Date: 8/13/1952 Description: Night. Pioneer Airlines pilot Capt. Max M. Jacoby sees a mystery light while on a routine test flight out of Dallas Love Field, Texas. He tries to intercept it, but the light evades him and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) [a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 39 Source ID: Eberhart_1998 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4840 (66885BEF) Date: 8/13/1952 Time: 9:45 PM Description: Witness: USAF Marine Corps pilot Maj. D. McGough. One orange light flew a left orbit at 8,000' and 230 m.p.h., spiralled down to no more than 1,500', remained stationary for 2-3 minutes and went out. An attempted interception was unsuccessful. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tokyo, Japan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_222 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4841 (6A423B5A) Date: 8/14/1952 Description: Australian Minister for Air [William McMahon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FMcMahon) states facetiously in Parliament that flying saucer reports are “probably based on flights of imagination,” but indicates he will “cause a thorough investigation to be made.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 376 Source ID: Eberhart_2002 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4842 (2764E43F) Date: 8/14/1952 Description: At around noon, inflight over Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia an RAAF Vampire fighter pilot encountered a large circular light, from which 6-10 small lights emerged and surrounded the larger object. The sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 50; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 175; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_5000 Source: Johnson ### Event 4843 (41CAB836) Date: 8/14/1952 Description: The CIA’s special UFO study group meets for the first time and is given a summary \(probably written by [A.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85827067/alexander-ray-gordon) [Ray Gordon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85827067/alexander-ray-gordon)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85827067/alexander-ray-gordon) project officer of the CIA’s Physics and Electronics Branch\) of UFO history, an analysis of Project Blue Book, and a discussion of explained sightings and theories about unexplained sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020013-6.pdf)” August 14, 1952; Good Above, [pp. 331–333](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/330/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2003 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4844 (3B9C7D44) Date: 8/14/1952 Description: 7:20 p.m. People on the docks of Phillippeville \[modern Skikda\], Algeria, see an enormous red disc leaving behind a greenish trail. At 9:15 p.m., two people in Constantine, Algeria, watch a luminous object flying at high speed. It emits a bright light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 122](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/122/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2004 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4845 (6D769F00) Date: 8/14/1952 Description: 10:30 p.m. A yellow ball of light undulates up and down and from side to side over the Mathieson chemical plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It is also seen to shoot ahead abruptly and come to a halt in the same manner. Witnesses estimate that the ball passes over at 5,000 feet, growing fainter and fainter as it moves away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 43 Source ID: Eberhart_2005 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4846 (9FF36AD9) Date: 8/15/1952 Description: CIA operative [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) \[and/or Ransom L. En\] writes a top-secret draft memo for DCI [Walter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) [Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) on the OSI teams visit to Wright-Patterson AFB and a summary of its findings. It offers an analytical description of UFOs going back to the 1946 Scandinavian ghost rockets. It rules out the possibility of Russian secret weapons and mentions the sightings at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge at a time when the “background radiation count had risen inexplicably. Here we run out of even ‘blue yonder’ explanations that might be tenable, and, we still are left with numbers of incredible reports from credible observers.” Yet “even though we might admit that intelligent life may exist elsewhere and that space travel is possible, there is no shred of evidence to support this theory at present.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” August 15, 1952; CUFON, “[The](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Clark III 397; Swords 172–173 Source ID: Eberhart_2008 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4847 (1D89755A) Date: 8/15/1952 Description: RAAF Flight Lt. William H. Scott, chief test pilot of the Government Aircraft Factories, is flying a de Havilland Vampire jet between 35,000 and 36,000 feet near Rockhampton, Queensland. Looking east toward the coast, he sees a large, circular light at a lower elevation. It is the color of an ordinary incandescent light bulb. After about 60 seconds, 6–10 smaller lights break off from the main light, surrounding it for 2 minutes before disappearing. After another 2 minutes, the big light also disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 376 Source ID: Eberhart_2009 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4848 (3EACCF52) Date: Mid 8/1952 Description: 10:30 p.m. [John D. Moorman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151329100/john-daggett-moorman), deputy sheriff of Starke County, is fishing in a boat with [Surphin Casper](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56081712/surphin-casper) on the Tippecanoe River about 3 miles northwest of Monterey, Indiana. Moorman looks up and sees 7–8 objects hovering. They watch for a few seconds until the objects move away to the west. About half of them return east momentarily, and all of them disappear by blinking out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_2006 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4849 (80304A10) Date: 8/15/1952 Description: 4:20 a.m. Ground Observer Corps observers in Davis, California, see a rainbow-colored, round object hovering in the air. Soon they notice eight more objects of a strange appearance. At 5:30 a.m., two more UFOs are seen, one moving west while the other moves east. The Air Force scrambles a F-94 jet interceptor to search the area at altitudes of 10,000–20,000 feet. The military claims the pilot can see nothing unusual, although the GOC spotters say that the UFOs and the jet are both visible in the sky at the same time and possibly at the same altitude. At 5:00 a.m., in Napa, California, GOC post observer Diane Robinson sights a “cigar-shaped silver thing” traveling at tremendous speed at 10,000 feet toward the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) [1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 43 Source ID: Eberhart_2007 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4850 (65DE60C9) Date: Late Summer 1952 Description: As a Signal Corps employee working the night shift, Vivian Walton handles decoded teletype messages inside a high-security building at the Defense Supply Center near Columbus, Ohio. She walks into the photo lab, where colleague Joe Sheehy is developing photos, one of which he says is a UFO that had landed in the “hill country” somewhere near Columbus. He says the object is 30 feet in diameter and unoccupied, with minimal damage. A few days later, an alert is sounded, allegedly because of danger of attack by UFOs. Walton claims the downed UFO has gone through the depot on the way to Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James W. Moseley, “[The Wright Field Story, or Who’s Lying?](http://cufos.org/Nexus/1954%5F09%5F00%5FNexus03.pdf)” Nexus 3, no. 1 \(September 1954\): 11–15; James W. Moseley, The Wright Field Story, Saucerian, 1971; Jerome Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash Claims,” IUR 18, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1993\): 18; Irena Scott and William E. Jones, “Crash Claims,” IUR 18, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1993\): 21; Good Need, [p.](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/158/mode/2up) [159](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/158/mode/2up); Clark III 329 Source ID: Eberhart_2032 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4851 (34F14A25) Date: 8/16/1952 Description: CIA analysis report of a Vienna news article of a UFO report from the Belgian Congo: Commander Pierre of Elisabethville Airfield was sent out to intercept two Flying Saucers. They had a diam. of 12 to 15 meters with a stationary central hub with visible portholes and an extremely fast rotating outer disk that glowed as if on fire. Color similar to aluminum. They emitted a loud whistling sound which could be heard over his own engines. He estimated their speed at over 1500 kilometers/hour. Type: report Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p512) Location: Langley, Virginia Source ID: Maj2_472 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4852 (F8E0B7F7) Date: 8/17/1952 Description: At 9:30 p.m. on a road north of Pontijou, France two witnesses saw an orange ball of light hovering over highway N824. It made no sound. It flew off in a southerly direction, stopped, zigzagged, stoped again, then flew away toward the southwest. The duration of the sighting was nine minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 155 Source ID: Johnson_5108 Source: Johnson ### Event 4853 (6DC26BAD) Date: 8/17/1952 Description: An intensely bright bright white round object hovering (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Athens, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1281 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4854 (D9AB708B) Date: 8/17/1952 Description: Oblong polished metal object climbing at 500 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Abilene, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1282 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4855 (239724EA) Date: 8/18/1952 Time: 12:50 AM Description: Witnesses: three policemen. One object changed color like a diamond, and changed directions during the 30 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Fairfield, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_223 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4856 (46CCF024) Date: 8/18/1952 Description: Object change color from red green-orange-blue (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1920) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fairfield, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1284 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4857 (C88402E3) Date: 8/18/1952 Description: August 18, 1852; near West Palm Beach, FL. "Desvergers Case", "Scoutmaster Case". (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520818](http://www.nicap.org/scoutmasdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: West Palm Beach (near), FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1285 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4858 (C98EA323) Date: 8/18/1952 Description: Lights Tracked By Ground Radar (R/V) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520818](http://www.nicap.org/520818duncanville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Duncanville, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1283 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4859 (C8875529) Date: 8/18/1952 Description: Three policemen in Fairfield, California sighted a UFO at 12:50 a.m. The object changed color and intensity like a diamond, and flew in different directions during the 30-minute sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book reports counted in official statistics, case # 1920; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 42; Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5119 Source: Johnson ### Event 4860 (5A0BF6F4) Date: 8/19/1952 Time: evening Description: Ronny Desvergers saw a large, round, dark object above him in a clearing. It had a turret on top. Red balls of light were emitted by the object and burned him. He also observed a "hideous" creature aboard the craft. Grass roots were scorched at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Ruppelt 222; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: West Palm Beach, Florida Source ID: Magnonia_97 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 4861 (1D5C01BC) Date: 8/19/1952 Description: On this evening Ronny Desvergers saw a large, round, dark object above him in a clearing in West Palm Beach, Florida. It had a turret on top. Red balls of light were emitted by the object and burned him. He also observed a "hideous" short creature aboard the craft. The roots of grass growing at the site were scorched. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 199 Source ID: Johnson_5154 Source: Johnson ### Event 4862 (9D530A05) Date: 8/19/1952 Description: J. D. Desvergers (scoutmaster) has contact with saucer. Is burned. Type: ce3 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Attributes: injury Source ID: Maj2_124 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4863 (5BE7DFF4) Date: 8/19/1952 Description: At 2:38 p.m. in Red Bluff, California Ground Observer Corps observer Albert Lathrop sighted two objects shaped like fat bullets that flew straight and level, very fast for 25 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5153 Source: Johnson ### Event 4864 (0D3CFEFB) Date: 8/19/1952 Time: 2:38 PM Description: Witness: Ground Observer Corps observer Albert Lathrop. Two objects, shaped like fat bullets, flew straight and level, very fast for 25 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Red Bluff, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_224 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4865 (D3B69EA2) Date: 8/19/1952 Description: GOC Observer saw 2 objects, shaped like fat bullets (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1928) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boron, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1286 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4866 (52B418E2) Date: 8/19/1952 Description: USAF pilot saw tailess object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 1928) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Red Bluff, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1287 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4867 (E76544D7) Date: 8/19/1952 Description: The CIA/OSI study group prepares an internal 6-page document of its findings. It has made a study of the Soviet press that shows “not one report or comment” about UFOs, which indicates official censorship. It perceives a danger that the Russians might try to infiltrate civilian UFO groups \(such as Civilian Saucer Investigation of Los Angeles\) or add UFO disinformation during a nuclear attack: “We give Russia the capability of delivering an air attack against us, yet at any given moment now, there may be a dozen official unidentified sightings plus many unofficial.” It briefs CIA Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) on August 20. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” August 19, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Clark III 1013; Swords 174 Source ID: Eberhart_2010 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4868 (1882BD9E) Date: 8/19/1952 Description: 2:38 p.m. Ground Observer Corps observer Albert Lathrop sees two objects shaped like fat bullets flying straight, level, and fast over Red Bluff, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 167 Source ID: Eberhart_2011 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4869 (C11EEED9) Date: 8/19/1952 Description: 8:00 p.m. An oval disc is seen above Boron Air Force Station \[now closed\] in Boron, California. Two jet fighters are guided into the area by Capt. [Ralph J. Borgerson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3553913/ralph-john-borgerson) at the base, but the object speeds away to the east as they close in. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 49; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 167 Source ID: Eberhart_2012 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4870 (1B76C8A9) Date: 8/19/1952 Description: About 10:00 p.m. Scoutmaster D\[unham\] S\[anborn\] “Sonny” DesVergers is driving with three scouts on the edge of the Everglades south of West Palm Beach, Florida, when he sees a light in a wild palmetto grove. The boys do not see it, so he drives on. Another boy admits he has seen a light in that direction too, so DesVergers returns to the spot and goes into the grove, telling the boys to stay in the car unless he is delayed. Soon all three boys see red lights flashing in the grove. This alarms them, and they go to a nearby house for help. They return to see DesVergers staggering out of the grove, incoherently saying he has been zapped into semiconsciousness by some kind of red flare coming from a hatch in a red ball of light \(and burns his cap as well\). An area of flattened and burned grass is found after the event. DesVergers has a reputation as a prankster and hopes to monetize his story somehow, but the scouts do corroborate his story and there are physical traces. Grass samples from the site sent to the Air Force show root damage extending 4 inches or more into the soil, suggesting overheating, possibly by microwave radiation. [Karl Pflock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FT.%5FPflock) thinks it is a hoax, but [Jerry Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark) isn’t 100% sure. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Florida](http://www.nicap.org/scoutmas.htm) [Scoutmaster Case](http://www.nicap.org/scoutmas.htm)”; “[Attack by Flying Saucer](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93449895/) [Described by Scoutmaster,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93450016/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Daily News, August 24, 1952, pp. 1A, 4A; “[‘Line Forms at Left’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93449572/) [for That Saucer Yarn,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43214689/the-miami-news/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Daily News, August 25, 1952, p. 1A; “[Boy Scout Wants New Saucer Hunt,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93449087/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Daily News, August 26, 1952, p. 2A; “[‘Saucer’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93448814/) [Witnesses](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93448814/) [Talking,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93448912/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Daily News, August 27, 1952, pp. 1A, 8A; Clark III 496–498; Ruppelt, [p. 176](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/176/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 August, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug-SN.pdf), The Author, 2001, pp. 115–119; Story, [pp. 128–131](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/128/mode/2up); Jenny Randles, UFO Reality, p. 143; Karl T. Pflock, “[The Best](http://www.nicap.org/bhoax.htm) [Hoax in UFO History?](http://www.nicap.org/bhoax.htm)” 1997; “[The Scoutmaster’s Tale,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/thescoutmasterstale.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, March 27, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_2013 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4871 (66974AA3) Date: 8/20/1952 Description: At 3:10 a.m. Bill Ford and two others in Neffsville, Pennsylvania watched an unidentified object fly through the sky at 500 feet altitude for several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1938; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278 Source ID: Johnson_5166 Source: Johnson ### Event 4872 (5C8B7A13) Date: 8/20/1952 Description: Air Defense Command radar at Congaree AFB \[now McEntire Joint National Guard Base\], southeast of Columbia, South Carolina, tracks a target traveling more than 4,000 mph some 60 miles from the base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[ADC Tracks Object at 4,000 MPH](http://www.nicap.org/520820congaree%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 78](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=90&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2015 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4873 (95017760) Date: 8/20/1952 Description: The CIA/OSI UFO study group briefs CIA Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) who then orders the preparation of a National Security Council Intelligence Directive for submission to the NSC stating the need for a UFO investigation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: H. Marshall Chadwell, “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020008-2.pdf)” December 2, 1952 Source ID: Eberhart_2014 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4874 (BF1DC2A1) Date: 8/20/1952 Description: Undescribed object flying at 500 ft altitude (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 1938) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Neffesville, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1288 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4875 (E8D06ACA) Date: 8/20/1952 Description: ADC Tracks Object At 4,000 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520820](http://www.nicap.org/520820congaree%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Congaree AFB, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1289 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4876 (A9108F9B) Date: 8/20/1952 Description: August 20, 1952; WPAFB, Ohio, gun-camera photos (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dayton (WPAFB), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1290 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4877 (E2629308) Date: 8/20/1952 Time: 3:10 AM Description: Witnesses: Bill Ford and two others. An undescribed object flew at 500' altitude for several minutes. No further data in files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Neffesville, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_225 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4878 (A3DD17BE) Date: 8/20/1952 Description: Memorandom for Director CIA: the DCI, after a briefing by OSI on the subject of UFOs, directed the preparation of an NSCID for submission to the Council stating the need for investigation and directing agencies concerned to cooperate in such investigations. It was decided that Dr. Whitman, chairman of P&DB, would investigate undertaking R&D studies through Air Force agencies. Signed: H. Marshall Chadwell. (See continuation of this briefing.) Type: memorandom Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Langley, Virginia See also: 11/25/1952 Source ID: Maj2_473 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4879 (D0AD9622) Date: 8/20/1952 Description: Air Defense Command radar tracked a UFO 60 miles from the Congaree Air Force Base, South Carolina at speeds of 4,000 mph at around 10:00 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 132; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 96 Source ID: Johnson_5167 Source: Johnson ### Event 4880 (CAF4B58C) Date: 8/21/1952 Time: 11:54 PM Description: Witness: Jack Rossen, ex-artillery observer. Three blue-white lights hovered then descended; 1.5 minutes later, one of them descended more. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Dallas, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_226 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4881 (55FBD001) Date: 8/21/1952 Description: 3 blue-white lights hover then descend (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1944) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dallas, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1291 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4882 (4AD1BE56) Date: 8/21/1952 Description: 10:10 p.m. Ground Observer Corps Supervisor D. C. Scott spots a yellowish-white light flying in the sky at 2,000 feet northeast of Elgin, Illinois. Several times it rises to 5,000 feet in three minutes, hovers, then descends again. Scott alerts Capt. Everett A. Turner at the Chicago Filter Center, who tells him to call again when the light settles down. After one hour and 23 minutes the light begins to hover, Scott calls Turner again, and Turner has at least one F-86 Sabre jet scrambled from O’Hare Airport in Chicago. The pilot makes four passes between 10,000 and 2,000 feet. On the fourth pass, it heads directly toward the light, which blinks out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Jets Pursue Mystery](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93453893/) [Light,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93453893/)” Carbondale Southern Illinoisan, August 23, 1952, p. 1; UFOEv, [p. 66](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=78&skin=2021); Shoot 102–103 Source ID: Eberhart_2016 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4883 (E4C212C5) Date: 8/21/1952 Description: Dallas, Texas. Jack Rossen, an ex-artillery observer, saw three blue-white lights hover and then descend at 11:54 p.m. Ninety seconds later one of the lights descended further. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5206 Source: Johnson ### Event 4884 (DBCB1154) Date: 8/22/1952 Description: George G. Carey, CIA assistant director for operations, writes a memo to [Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) on “USSR and Satellite Mentions of Flying Saucers” that reviews mentions of UFOs in the Soviet press during the past two years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[USSR and Satellite Mentions of Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” August 22, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996 Source ID: Eberhart_2017 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4885 (9862E5F3) Date: 8/22/1952 Description: Two Teardrop-Shaped Objects Cross Flight Path (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520822](http://www.nicap.org/520822ontario%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ontario, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1292 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4886 (BDF497A2) Date: 8/22/1952 End date: 8/23/1952 Description: Evening. [Lyman Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter) sees unusual lights near Winslow, Arizona, and hears strange signals on his ham radio. Not long afterward, Lyman, his wife, and Alfred C. Bailey hear a mysterious code coming through the air itself. Eventually, at 2:00 a.m., a Morse Code-like message comes through the radio from Regga of Mars and Zo and Nah-9 from Neptune. Zo refers to Affa from Uranus, who thinks earth is too evil. He also warns them that the evil Orion Solar System is coming to earth in a “square star body.” [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) arrives from Prescott on August 23. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 22; Clark III 1283–1284 Source ID: Eberhart_2019 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4887 (52209899) Date: 8/22/1952 Description: USAF jets, guided by Ground Observer Corps, chased a pulsating yellowish light. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elgin, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1293 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4888 (F8582242) Date: 8/22/1952 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 78km (Army training test. Thrust decreased after 53s. Tail separation at 217s.) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 78km Source ID: Maj2_474 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4889 (4F009EB0) Date: 8/22/1952 Description: [A. Ray Gordon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85827067/alexander-ray-gordon)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85827067/alexander-ray-gordon) project officer of the CIA’s Physics and Electronics Branch, provides a briefing document explaining the “Air Force Stand on ‘Flying Saucers’” to CIA Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith), who then briefs President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) on the CIA UFO study group’s reports at his regular Friday intelligence briefing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Air Force Stand on ‘Flying Saucers’,” August 22, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Clark III 1013 Source ID: Eberhart_2018 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4890 (2ABF717E) Date: 8/23/1952 Time: 4:10 AM Description: Witnesses: USAF 2nd Lt. H.K. Funseth, a ground radar observer, and two U.S. Navy men. One pulsing amber light was seen to fly straight and level for 7 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Akron, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_227 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4891 (28FF78C4) Date: 8/23/1952 Description: Telenews Productions re-releases its 1950 UFO documentary short, The Flying Saucer Mystery, edited and expanded to 12½ minutes with new material. It features footage from the July 29, 1952, press conference given by Air Force Maj. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford), the UFO photo taken by [Shell Alpert](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9302407/shell-r%5F-alpert), a photo taken by [August C. Roberts](https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2018/08/the-moon-is-venusian-colony-part-ii.html), German UFO occupant witnesses Oskar and Gabriele Linke, [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully), and U.S. Army Engineers physicist Noel W. Scott. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Flying Saucer Mystery \(Full\) \(1952\),](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-gobjVfFiQ)” TheUFOVideoChannel YouTube channel, September 1, 2010; Internet Movie Database, “[The Flying Saucer Mystery](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188624/)”; Curt Collins, “[The Flying Saucer](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-flying-saucer-mystery-and-1952-ufo.html) [Mystery](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-flying-saucer-mystery-and-1952-ufo.html) [and the 1952 UFO Flap,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-flying-saucer-mystery-and-1952-ufo.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 9, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_2020 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4892 (F640B189) Date: 8/23/1952 Description: Orange-red cigar-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sinuiju, North Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1294 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4893 (F97A23EF) Date: 8/23/1952 Description: CIA analysis report of an Athens news article of an UFO landing in Communist Berlin, Germany: Former Mayor of Gleimershausen, Oscar Linke and his 11 year old daughter, Gabriella, spotted a landed Flying Saucer near the town of Hasselbach. The huge “frying pan” was approx. 13 to 15 meters in diameter and had two rows of holes on its periphery, about 30 centimeters in circumference. The space between the two rows was about 0.45 meters. On top was a black conical object about 3 meters high. Two men dressed in shiny metallic clothing were standing outside the craft. Upon hearing my daughters voice the two men retreated into the UFO which then began to rotate. As the UFO began to spin the conical tower slid down into the UFO and the UFO began to rise and rotate like a top. It seemed to be supported by the conical tower that was now underneath it. (More details were included in report, see 02/23/1955, See also the movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers”) Type: report Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p513) Location: Langley, Virginia See also: 2/23/1955 Source ID: Maj2_475 Source: Maj2 ### Event 4894 (A5EB7245) Date: 8/23/1952 Description: At 4:10 a.m. USAF Lt. H. K. Funseth, a ground radar observer, and two U.S. Navy men watched an unidentified pulsing amber light fly straight and level for seven minutes outside of Akron on US Highway 224 in Atwater, Ohio. The object was pulsating in intensity from very intense to normal. They reported observing a light only, and could not discern what the object looked like. It was described as amber-orange, round, the size of a car headlamp on dim, and traveling at a speed of 200 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 63; UNICAT, case # 740 Source ID: Johnson_5246 Source: Johnson ### Event 4895 (3FEF05EB) Date: 8/23/1952 Description: Pulsing amber light fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1956) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Akron, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1295 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4896 (FBB54C56) Date: 8/24/1952 Time: 0600 Description: A man driving through a wood encountred a strange object and stopped to observe it. It looked like two turtle shells glued together, about 25 m long, with a humanoid creature in what appeared to be a control cabin in front. Windows lighted by an intense blue light and a throbbing sound were also reported. The object was oscillating and suddenly flew straight up with a strong humming noise. The middle section supported what looked like propellers. The object hovered 3 m above ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Frontenac, Kansas Source ID: Magnonia_98 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 4897 (9D98DE4A) Date: 8/24/1952 Time: 10:15 AM Description: Witness: Georgia Air National Guard F-84G jet fighter pilot Col. G.W. Johnson. Two 6' silver balls in abreast formation, one turned grey rapidly, the other slowly. One changed to long grey shape during a turn. Sighting lasted about 10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Hermanas, Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_228 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4898 (75E4990D) Date: 8/24/1952 Time: 9:30 PM, 10:30 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sharp. One object, shaped like a spinning top, changing color from red to yellow to blue, and with a fiery tail, hovered for 20 minutes, whistling, then flew away. It, or another like it, returned an hour later. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Levelland, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_230 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4899 (93C31331) Date: 8/24/1952 Time: 5:40 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. George White. One large round, metallic, white light with a vague lower surface, flew slowly, then fast With a dancing, wavering motion, for about 1 minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tucson, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_229 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4900 (C3398A7A) Date: 8/24/1952 Description: 10:15 a.m. USAF Col. [Gerald W. Johnson](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/gwjohnson.htm) is flying an F-84G when he sees two silver balls in the vicinity of Hermanas \(a ghost town\), New Mexico. They seem to be 6 feet in diameter and 2 miles away. One seems to change into a long, gray object as it is turning to the right. After 3 minutes they disappear, then reappear 7 minutes later, by which time the F-84 is over El Paso, Texas. One after the other, the objects climb straight up 2,000–3,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F-84 Encounters Two Silver Balls](http://www.nicap.org/520824hermanas%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 168; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 14, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_2021 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4901 (9C455F05) Date: 8/24/1952 Description: Levelland, Texas. 9:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sharp. One object, shaped like a spinning top, changing color from red to yellow to blue, and with a fiery tail, hovered for 20 minutes, whistling, then flew away. It, or another like it, returned an hour later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5287 Source: Johnson ### Event 4902 (44C69AF0) Date: 8/24/1952 Description: [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) [Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter), and Bailey receive coded radio messages indicating the saucer intelligences intend to land, inviting them to help. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954 Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_2022 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4903 (7823043A) Date: 8/24/1952 Description: Tucson, Arizona. 5:40 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. George White. One large round, metallic, white light with a vague lower surface, flew slowly, then fast With a dancing, wavering motion, for about one minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5286 Source: Johnson ### Event 4904 (AE32270D) Date: 8/24/1952 Description: Hermanas, Mexico. 10:15 a.m. Georgia Air National Guard F-84G jet fighter pilot Col. G.W. Johnson. Two six-foot silver spheres in abreast formation, one turned grey rapidly, the other slowly. One changed to long grey shape during a turn. Sighting lasted about 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5285 Source: Johnson ### Event 4905 (28D3ADE6) Date: 8/24/1952 Description: A man driving through some woods at 6:00 a.m. in Frontenac, Kansas encountered a strange object and stopped to watch it. It looked like two turtle shells glued together and was about 25 meters long. There appeared to be a humanoid being in something like a control cabin in front. Windows on the object were lit by an intense blue light and a throbbing sound was also reported. The object was oscillating and suddenly flew straight up with a strong humming noise. The middle section supported what looked like propellers. The object hovered three meters above the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 199-200 Source ID: Johnson_5284 Source: Johnson ### Event 4906 (277861E2) Date: 8/24/1952 Description: Two 6 ft silver balls in abreast formation (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 1961, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520824](http://www.nicap.org/520824hermanas%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hermanas, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1296 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4907 (76FD12ED) Date: 8/24/1952 Description: A large round, metallic, white light with a vague lower surface (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1964) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1297 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4908 (B13A9C8A) Date: 8/24/1952 Description: Object shaped like a spinning top, changing color (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1969) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leveland, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1298 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4909 (5519994F) Date: 8/25/1952 Time: 5:35 AM Description: Witness: radio station musician William Squyres. One dull aluminum object, shaped like two meat platters, face to face, estimated at 75' long, 45' wide, and 15' thick. Through a window in the front section shone a blue light; the head and shoulders of a man could be seen. The mid section had numerous windows through which could be seen some kind of regular movement. A series of small propellers were spaced close together along the outer edge of the object, revolving at high speed. The object was hovering about 10' above the ground, 100 yards off the road, with a slight rocking motion. It then ascended vertically with a sound like a large covey of quail starting to fly at the same time. Vegetation showed signs of having been disturbed under the object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pittsburg, Kansas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_231 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4910 (0A6F4B39) Date: 8/25/1952 Description: At Holloman AFB, New Mexico around 3:40 p.m., civilian supervisor Fred Lee and foreman L.A. Aquilar saw a round silver object fly south, turn and fly north, then make a 360-degree turn and shoot up vertically after 3-5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, UNICAT, case # 741 Source ID: Johnson_5311 Source: Johnson ### Event 4911 (FA2CDD15) Date: 8/25/1952 Time: 3:40 PM Description: Witnesses: civilian supervisor Fred Lee, foreman L.A. Aquilar. One round silver object flew south, turned and flew north, made a 360 turn and flew away vertically after 3-5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_232 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4912 (57E06CCA) Date: 8/25/1952 Description: 3:40 p.m. At Holloman AFB, New Mexico, plant supervisor Fred Lee and foreman [Lawrence A. Aguilar](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64152017/lorenzo%5Flawrence-arthur-aguilar) watch a round silver object for 5 minutes. It flies south, turns and flies north, makes a 360° turn, then flies away vertically. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Silver Sphere Maneuvers over Base](http://www.nicap.org/520825holloman%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 168 Source ID: Eberhart_2023 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4913 (DD0C0547) Date: 8/25/1952 Description: 5:50 a.m. [William Squyres](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106009163/william-v%5F-squyres)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106009163/william-v%5F-squyres) a radio station musician at KOAM \[now KKOW-AM\] is driving from his home northeast of Frontenac, Kansas, to the station at Pittsburg. He is in his 1952 Jeep station wagon on a rough gravel road about a quarter of a mile from US Highway 160 when he sees a large, disc-shaped object hovering 10 feet in the air on the right side of the road 750 feet away. The UFO looks like two bowls placed together end to end, 75 feet long, 40 feet wide, and 15 feet high in the midsection. Through a window he can see the head and shoulders of a motionless human figure. Along its outer edge are a series of propellers 6–8 inches in diameter, spaced closely together and mounted on a bracket so they revolve “in a horizontal plane” along the edge of the object. He stops and gets out to watch it. As he is walking toward the object, it rises into the air and flies away at great speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 200–203](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/200/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Project Blue Book Unexplained Cases](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/bb/1972.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 168 Source ID: Eberhart_2024 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4914 (2FE6DBE6) Date: 8/25/1952 Description: 9:25 p.m. Affa of Uranus contacts the Baileys, the Streeters, and the Williamsons \(as well as two students named Ronald Tucker and Betty Bowen\) by radio, using 405 or 450 kilocycles. Zo and Um of Neptune, Regga of Mars, and other aliens continue sending messages by both radio and telepathy. [Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter) sees a dark spot in the sky that he claims is Affa. [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) sees a blue light that he thinks is Zo. Everyone signs an affidavit that the events have truly taken place. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(August 2006\): 22, 24; Clark III 1284 Source ID: Eberhart_2025 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4915 (7BF63A4B) Date: 8/25/1952 Description: Round silver object fly S, turn and fly N (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1979, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1301 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4916 (ECF7121C) Date: Late 8/1952 Description: Albert and Betty Bailey go to the Palomar Gardens Café in California to visit [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and tell him about their contacts and their friendship with [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_2031 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4917 (62336212) Date: 8/25/1952 Description: (NARA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1915) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Delaware, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1300 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4918 (7E99D50E) Date: 8/25/1952 Description: 70-75 ft inverted platter-shaped dull aluminum color (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1972) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Frontenac-Pittsburg, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1299 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4919 (B7D29EA9) Date: 8/25/1952 Description: In Pittsburg, Kansas at 5:35 a.m. radio station musician William Squyres saw a dull aluminum object, shaped like two meat platters, face to face. The object was hovering about 10 feet above the ground, 100 yards off the road, with a slight rocking motion. He estimated its size at 75-feet long, 45-feet wide, and 15-feet thick. The head and shoulders of a man could be seen through a window in the front section, through which a blue light shone. The midsection had numerous windows through which could be seen some type of regular movement. A series of small propellers were arranged along the outer edge of the object spaced close together, revolving at high speed. It ascended vertically with a sound like a large covey of quail starting to fly at the same time. Vegetation showed signs of having been disturbed under the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; The Hynek UFO Report, p. 200; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 292 Source ID: Johnson_5312 Source: Johnson ### Event 4920 (6297E7E3) Date: 8/26/1952 Time: 12:10 AM Description: Witness: USAF Capt. D.A. Woods. One large, round, very bright object with a V-shaped contrail having a dark cone in the center, flew very fast, hovered, made an instantaneous 90 turn, followed by a gentle climb and finally sudden acceleration. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lathrop Wells, Nevada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_233 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4921 (355823ED) Date: 8/26/1952 Description: (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1987) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Biloxi, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1303 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4922 (F2A3E2B8) Date: 8/26/1952 Description: At Watkins Glen, New York a "flying saucer" dove into a lake, splashing water eight to ten feet high. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 226, citing Buffalo Evening News, August 26, 1952 Source ID: Johnson_5356 Source: Johnson ### Event 4923 (5F159E75) Date: 8/26/1952 Description: At 12:10 a.m. USAF Captain D.A. Woods sighted a large, round, very bright object with a V-shaped contrail in Lathrop Wells, Nevada. It had a dark cone in the center. The object flew very fast, stopped and hovered, made an instantaneous 90-degree turn, and began a gentle climb followed by a final sudden acceleration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1986; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 280 Source ID: Johnson_5355 Source: Johnson ### Event 4924 (480C61B3) Date: 8/26/1952 End date: 8/30/1952 Description: Object traveling in straight line out to sea with buzzing noise (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1994) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Veracruz, Mexico Source ID: NICAP_DB_1304 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4925 (696DAAA7) Date: 8/26/1952 Description: V-shaped contrail, a dark cone in the center (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 1986) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lathrop Wells, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_1302 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4926 (165263BB) Date: 8/27/1952 Description: At 12:30 a.m. in Lumberton, North Carolina a 30-foot wide saucer-shaped craft landed after hitting a chimney. A little man about 70 cm tall (2.3 feet) emerged. The witness asked if he was hurt but he did not answer. He re-entered the craft and it took off with a whistling sound. At 5 o'clock in the morning a disc circled in the sky over MacDonald, Manitoba. It was gone in one second after the airport tower beacon hit it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 268; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 99; NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1969, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_5388 Source: Johnson ### Event 4927 (FF5AB32E) Date: 8/27/1952 Description: 4:45 a.m. Two meteorological officers at Macdonald Airport in Manitoba see a disc-shaped object with shadows on it. It makes two turns around the airfield. When the rotating airport beacon light strikes it, the object glints like shiny aluminum, speeds away to the northeast, and vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 184–185](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/184/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2026 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4928 (B60164B7) Date: 8/27/1952 Description: Object reported hovering over open field; bluish lights seen through ports; swift ascent when observed (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: T, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [520827](http://www.nicap.org/520827pittsburg%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pittsburg, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1305 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4929 (A9AC1BC9) Date: 8/27/1952 Description: A saucer-shaped craft, 3 by 2 m, landed on the witness's property after hitting a chimney. A little man, about 70 cm tall, emerged and was asked whether he was hurt, but he did not answer. The craft took off with a whistling sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins A 268 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lamberton, North Carolina Source ID: Magnonia_99 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 4930 (3C614027) Date: 8/28/1952 Description: A family on the ground in Le Roy, New York, sees a disc making tight vertical circles around an airliner. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 10](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=22&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2027 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4931 (87DE0D2E) Date: 8/28/1952 Description: At 9:30 p.m. USAF control tower operators at Chickasaw and Brookley AFB, Alabama, an officer from the USAF Office of Special Investigations, and others watched six UFOs hover and fly erratically for 75 minutes. They varied in color and intensity from fiery red to sparkling diamond white in appearance. They flew erratically up and down, and were tracked on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2006; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 442 Source ID: Johnson_5407 Source: Johnson ### Event 4932 (F7892DEB) Date: 8/28/1952 Time: 9:30 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF control tower operators, officer from USAF Office of Special Investigations, and others. Six objects, varying from fiery red to sparkling diamond appearance, hovered, flew erratically up and down for 1 hour and l5minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Chickasaw and Brookley AFB, Alabama Source ID: BerlinerBBU_234 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4933 (78E63475) Date: 8/28/1952 Description: Police watched maneuvering UFO. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlanta, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1309 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4934 (B691CA34) Date: 8/28/1952 Description: Disc circled airliner verttically. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: LeRoy, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1308 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4935 (E81A7074) Date: 8/28/1952 Description: Multiple red stationary and maneuvering objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2006) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520828](http://www.nicap.org/520828brookleydir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brookley AFB, Mobile, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1306 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4936 (8F044500) Date: 8/28/1952 Description: 9:30 p.m. Three civilians in Chickasaw, Alabama, report to Brookley AFB \[now Mobile Downtown Airport\] in Mobile, Alabama, their observation of multiple red stationary and maneuvering objects to the south, and another one moving from south to west, all in the direction of Brookley. AFOSI agent Charles A. Robinson arrives in Chickasaw at 9:50 p.m. to investigate and sees the same four objects to the south and southwest at an estimated 8–12 miles distance. One fiery red object is stationary for 15 minutes then drifts 15°–20° to the right after which it is stationary again. Radar operator A/2C [Irl A. Whitaker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187133390/irl-allen-whitaker) visually spots a red-green object over Chickasaw to the north. USAF duty officer Capt. William A. Edwards and control tower operators see one object to the southwest to the right and lower than the moon, and another object to the west at 10°–20° elevation. The latter is confirmed by radar as a stationary target at four miles range and 4,000 feet altitude. Robinson and others see one object explode, and another does a figure 8 maneuver. There are 4–6 objects larger than a star or planet varying from fiery red, red-blue, red-green, and sparkling diamond appearance. A civilian Air Force employee sees a flat oval shape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[GCA Paints Stationary Target](http://www.nicap.org/520828brookleydir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 169 Source ID: Eberhart_2028 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4937 (0B56817F) Date: 8/29/1952 Description: Unidentified bright blue light observed through theodolite; once appeared as luminous white bar edged with black. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Villacoublay, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1310 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4938 (6D708554) Date: 8/29/1952 Description: Three Objects Shake Up Air Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520829](http://www.nicap.org/520829thule%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Thule (West of), Greenland Source ID: NICAP_DB_1312 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4939 (2C909741) Date: 8/29/1952 Time: 10:50 AM Description: Witnesses: two U.S. Navy pilots flying a P4Y-2 patrol plane. Three white disc-shaped or spherical objects hovered, then flew very fast in a triangular formation, in 2-3 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: west of Thule, Greenland (77' N, 75' 15' W) Source ID: BerlinerBBU_236 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4940 (423D8AC6) Date: 8/29/1952 Description: 3 objects 50 ft in diameter, 10 ft high, aluminum (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2013) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colorado Springs, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1311 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4941 (E0BD6AF3) Date: 8/29/1952 Description: 8:35 p.m. Civil Air Patrol pilot [Carlton A. Magruder](http://www.nicap.org/520829colorado%5Fdir.htm) sees three aluminum-colored objects with a red-yellow exhaust over Colorado Springs, Colorado. They are 50 feet in diameter and 10 feet high, flying in line at about 1,500 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Pilot Reports Three Objects 50ʹ in Diameter](http://www.nicap.org/520829colorado%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 169; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) [History: 1952, August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 80 Source ID: Eberhart_2030 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4942 (94A69A4B) Date: 8/29/1952 Time: 8:35 PM Description: Witness: pilot C.A. Magruder. Three objects, 50' in diameter, 10' high, aluminum with red-yellow exhaust, flew in trail at estimated 1,500 m.p.h. for 4-5 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado Source ID: BerlinerBBU_235 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4943 (757D5EA5) Date: 8/29/1952 Description: 10:50 a.m. Pilot LtJG William A. O’Flaherty and navigator LtJG R. S. Moore are flying a P4Y-2 patrol plane west of Thule Air Base, near Qaanaaq, Greenland. They are following an 85-foot-diameter Skyhook balloon launched from an icebreaker, US Coast Guard Cutter [Eastwind](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC%5FEastwind%5F%28WAGB-279%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC%5FEastwind%5F%28WAGB-279%29) when, upon release of the parachute instrument package from the balloon, they see 3 white discs or globes, about ½ to almost the full apparent size of the balloon, in triangle formation clustered to the right of the Skyhook instrument package at 74,000 feet for some 2–3 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Three Objects Shake Up Air Crew](http://www.nicap.org/520829thule%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 167 Source ID: Eberhart_2029 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4944 (F6F1BF2E) Date: 8/29/1952 Description: Two U.S. Navy pilots flying a P4Y-2 patrol plane witnessed three white disc-shaped or spherical objects hovering west of Thule, Greenland (77.00º N, 75.25º W) at 10:50 a.m. They flew very fast in a triangular formation, and were in sight for 2-3 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer from Outer Space, p. 255; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 743; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 281 Source ID: Johnson_5455 Source: Johnson ### Event 4945 (05D7155F) Date: 8/29/1952 Description: At 7:30 p.m. at least seven observers with a theodolite sighted a luminous bar in the sky over the city of Villacoublay, Yvelines, France. The object flew to the northwest in jumps, and then shot up vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 179-180; UNICAT, case # 200; GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1968 Source ID: Johnson_5456 Source: Johnson ### Event 4946 (53C23ACB) Date: 8/29/1952 Description: At 8:35 p.m. pilot C. A. Magruder, flying near Colorado Springs, Colorado saw three aluminum colored objects with yellowish-red exhaust, 50-feet in diameter and 10' high. They flew in a trail formation at estimated 1,500 m.p.h. for 4-5 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2013; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 281 Source ID: Johnson_5457 Source: Johnson ### Event 4947 (0E248F9E) Date: 8/30/1952 Description: Horizontal bar-shaped objects appearing and disappearing (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Monica, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1313 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4948 (8D53BE50) Date: 8/31/1952 Description: Herbert Long saw an object land 15 m away from the road. He made a drawing of it. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins A 257 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pennsylvania, exact location unknown Source ID: Magnonia_100 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 4949 (AF01D4E2) Date: 9/1952 Description: Civilian Saucer Investigation in Los Angeles publishes the first of only four issues of its CSI Quarterly Bulletin. The final issue appears in early 1954. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [CSI Quarterly](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/CSI%20Quarterly/CSI%20Quarterly%20-%201952%20Fall.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/CSI%20Quarterly/CSI%20Quarterly%20-%201952%20Fall.pdf) no. 1 \(Fall 1952\) Source ID: Eberhart_2035 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4950 (73AE30A4) Date: 9/1952 Description: 10:00 a.m. A radar scope near Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, picks up an unknown target approaching at 700 mph then slows down to 100 mph northeast of the airfield. Two F-86 Sabre jets are scrambled but at first cannot locate the target. The second pilot suddenly spots what seems to be a balloon but as he gets closer it looks more like a “doughnut without a hole.” He gets as close as 1,500 feet before the object accelerates. When it is again at a range of 3,000 feet, the pilot begins firing at the object, but it pulls up in a climb and disappears in seconds. Capt. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) is given this report by an intelligence officer \(probably Lt. Glen Parrish\) at the base, who is about to forward the incident report to ATIC but the commanding officer \(Brig. Gen. [William A.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FA.%5FMatheny) [Matheny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FA.%5FMatheny)\) orders it destroyed. Parrish shows the last copy of the report to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) during a visit to Kirtland. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 1–5](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/n13/mode/2up); NICAP, “[F-86 Shooting Incident / 700 MPH Target](http://www.nicap.org/5209XXalbuquerque%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2033 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4951 (D2AFD4B8) Date: 9/1952 Description: UFO witness turned researcher [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) releases The Coming of the Saucers, coauthored by his friend and publisher, [Raymond A. Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) As publicity, the story “Flying Saucer-y” is prepared by King Features Syndicate and carried in many newspapers as a full-page story. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952; Curt Collins, “[Kenneth Arnold’s 1952 UFO Book Promotion,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/09/kenneth-arnolds-1952-ufo-book-promotion.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, September 28, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_2034 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4952 (EE8C620E) Date: 9/1952 Description: F-86 Shooting Incident / 700 MPH Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [5209XX](http://www.nicap.org/5209XXalbuquerque%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1315 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4953 (91009EE1) Date: 9/1952 Description: [John P. Cahn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27512833/john-p%5F-cahn) publishes an exposé of [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully)’s Behind the Flying Saucers in True magazine. Scully’s sources are an oil prospector named [Silas M. Newton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127850405/silas-mason-newton) and a mysterious “Dr. Gee,” later identified as [Leo](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/leo-gebauer-and-silas-newton-flak-one-of-their-defense-news-photo/162001660) [GeBauer](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/leo-gebauer-and-silas-newton-flak-one-of-their-defense-news-photo/162001660)[,](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/leo-gebauer-and-silas-newton-flak-one-of-their-defense-news-photo/162001660) a con man with a long arrest record. The tale is a ploy to gain the attention of potential investors in a bogus oil detection scheme allegedly linked to alien technology. [Jerome Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark) writes that Scully was himself a victim, not a perpetrator. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. P. Cahn, “[Flying Saucers and the Mysterious Little Men,](http://www.physics.smu.edu/%7Epseudo/UFOs/Scully/Cahn1.pdf)” True, September 1952, pp. 17–19, 102–112; Clark III 1044–1045 Source ID: Eberhart_2036 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4954 (5FA0AF27) Date: 9/1/1952 Time: 10:30 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. Bowman (ex-artillery officer) and 24 others. A red, white, and blue-green object which spun and shot off sparks for 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Marietta, Georgia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_240 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4955 (8E1A22BB) Date: 9/1/1952 Description: 8:23 p.m. Air Defense Command radar at Yaak Air Force Station in Montana picks up UFOs exhibiting changes of direction as many as five times a minute. Some course changes are 90° and speeds are measured at 1,400–1,600 mph. Six blips at one time appear on the FPS-3 radar scopes and the strange targets come within 10 miles of the GCI site. So close is the indicated range the radar personnel leave their windowless operations room to check the sky. Six objects can be seen an estimated 10 miles away. When first spotted, the UFOs are in an in- trail formation, and shortly thereafter that changes to an in-line abreast grouping. Finally, the UFOs switch to a vertical stack. S/Sgt. William Kelly remembers tracking the UFOs on the radar executing vertical climbs that exceed the limit of the site’s height-finding equipment. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Radar/Visual at Air Force Radar Site](http://www.nicap.org/520901yaak%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 170 Source ID: Eberhart_2037 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4956 (9F3CB9B1) Date: 9/1/1952 Time: 10:50 PM Description: Witness: ex-AAF B-25 gunner. Two large white disc-shaped objects with green vapor trails flew in trail formation, merged, flew away very fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Marietta, Georgia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_237 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4957 (94EA7503) Date: 9/1/1952 Description: At 10:30 p.m. in nearby Marietta, Georgia an unidentified witness using binoculars viewed two large objects shaped like spinning tops and displaying red, blue and green colors. They flew side-by-side leaving a trail of sparks for 30 minutes. At the same time Mr. Bowman, an ex-artillery officer, and 24 others saw a red, white, and bluish-green object spinning and throwing off sparks for 15 minutes. Twenty minutes later an ex-AAF B-25 gunner saw two large white disc-shaped objects with green vapor trails flying in trail formation. They merged together and flew away very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5551 Source: Johnson ### Event 4958 (E3E4428B) Date: 9/1/1952 Description: At 9:43 p.m. in Atlanta, Georgia Mrs. William Davis and nine other witnesses saw a light, similar to the evening star, move up and down for a long period of time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5550 Source: Johnson ### Event 4959 (1BF7A042) Date: 9/1/1952 Time: 10:30 PM Description: Witness: one unidentified person using binoculars. Two large objects shaped like spinning tops and displaying red, blue and green colors, flew side by side, leaving a sparkling trail for 30 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Marietta, Georgia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_238 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4960 (E93CDB5C) Date: 9/1/1952 Description: 10:30 p.m. An ex-artillery officer named Bowman and 24 others at Marietta, Georgia, see a red, white, and blue-green object that spins and shoots off sparks. An unidentified witness using binoculars sees two large objects shaped like spinning tops with red, blue, and green colors, flying side by side and leaving a sparkling trail for 30 minutes. At 10:50 p.m., a former Army Air Force B-25 gunner sees two large white disc-shaped objects with green vapor trails fly in trail formation, merge, and fly away quickly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Discs in Trail](http://www.nicap.org/520901marietta%5Fdir.htm) [Formation](http://www.nicap.org/520901marietta%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 170 Source ID: Eberhart_2038 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4961 (A6D560A5) Date: 9/1/1952 Time: 4:45 AM Description: Witnesses: Visual sighting by two USAF enlisted men, radar tracking seen by three men using AN/FPS-3 radar set. Two small, varicolored lights became black silhouettes at dawn; flew erratically. One hour. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Yaak, Montana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_241 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4962 (A0718C89) Date: 9/1/1952 Time: 9:43 PM Description: Witnesses: Mrs. William Davis and nine other persons. One light, similar to the evening star, moved up and down for a long period of time. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Atlanta, Georgia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_239 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4963 (CE40105E) Date: 9/1/1952 Description: Radar/Visual At Air Force Radar Site (BBU 2023) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2023) Reference: NICAP: [520901](http://www.nicap.org/520901yaak%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yaak, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1319 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4964 (0822BDEC) Date: 9/1/1952 Description: 2 large white disc-shaped objects with green vapor trails (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marietta, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1318 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4965 (5DE1949F) Date: 9/1/1952 Description: Red, white, and blue-green object which spun and shot off sparks (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2022) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marietta, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1317 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4966 (1586174C) Date: 9/1/1952 Description: At a U.S. Air Force radar site in Yaak, Montana at 4:45 a.m. two Air Force enlisted men sighted lights in the sky at the same time radar tracked two blips on an AN/FPS-3 radar set monitored by three radar operators. The two small, multi-colored lights became black silhouettes at dawn and flew around erratically for an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5549 Source: Johnson ### Event 4967 (9D0E3875) Date: 9/1/1952 Description: Light, similar to the evening star, move up and down (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlanta, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1316 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4968 (43DC797F) Date: 9/2/1952 Description: At three o'clock in the morning Mr. Turason, a radar operator working for ground control at Midway Airport in Chicago, Illinois picked up 40 targets flying in miscellaneous directions, up to 175 mph. Two of the blips seemed to fly in formation with a DC-6 airliner. The radar sightings lasted a total of eight hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2025; UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 3; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5562 Source: Johnson ### Event 4969 (8089E102) Date: 9/2/1952 Time: 3 AM Description: Witness: radar tracker Turason (ground controlled approach) at Midway Airport. 40 targets flew in miscellaneous directions, up to 175 m.p.h. Two seemed to fly in formation with DC-6 airliner. Total of 8 hours. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Chicago, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_242 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4970 (3C465345) Date: 9/2/1952 Description: At 5:50 p.m. two military observers at Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona saw seven large saucer-shaped objects, identical in appearance, in changing formations. When they changed direction for the last time all of them vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. September-October 1952, p. 7; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 183; UNICAT, case 744 Source ID: Johnson_5563 Source: Johnson ### Event 4971 (6F074BAC) Date: 9/2/1952 Description: 12:01 a.m. CAA radar controllers [Robert L. Terneuzen](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100317697/robert-l-terneuzen) \(GCA\), Ralph L. Frick, Dale E. Warner, Warren J. Weber, and Radar Maintenance Technician Gordon R. Copeland track as many as 30 targets simultaneously at Midway Airport in Chicago, flying in various directions with an average speed of 175 mph at about 2,000 feet. The 755th Aircraft Control and Weapons radar station in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, claims that the Midway Airport Tower supervisor has called them at 2:50 a.m., saying there are 40 targets plotted by airport radar flying from 3,000 to 6,000 feet at a speed of 120–150 mph. The targets are the size of blips from light planes or larger \(the best target quality is in the 6–10-mile range\) and move in no particular pattern—sometimes erratically and sometimes in straight lines up to 15 miles long. In at least one instance, the targets fly in formation with an aircraft. At 5:14 a.m., the Air Defense Command is alerted and authorizes the scramble of two jets from the 4706th Interceptor Wing at O’Hare Airport in Chicago. At 5:55 a.m., a pair of F-86 Sabre jets piloted by Capt. [William W. Maitland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42353620/william-ward-maitland) and Lt. Beverly L. Dunhill, lift off and are vectored right through the targets as shown on radar, making passes at 800 and at 4,000 feet without making contact. The F-86s are evidently without airborne radar because they only mention visual descriptions. Maitland and Dunhill later tell the media: “We didn’t hit anything. We didn’t see anything. We went through the target showing on the scope and there was nothing there, not even a cloud.” The jets break off their aerial search at 6:19 a.m. and return to base. By 7:00 a.m. all of the mysterious targets disappear off the scopes toward the south. The Midway radar crews are convinced the targets are returns from tangible bodies, but CAA chief Bob Zeigler overrules them and blames “peculiar atmospheric conditions.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sabre Jets Fly through ‘Object,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93459288/)” Spokane \(Wash.\) Spokesman-Review, September 3, 1952, p. 1; NICAP, “[40 Targets at Midway Airport](http://www.nicap.org/520902chicago%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 171 Source ID: Eberhart_2039 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4972 (CA161D66) Date: 9/2/1952 Description: Midway Airport 40 targets flying in miscellaneous directions (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2025) Reference: NICAP: [520902](http://www.nicap.org/520902chicago%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1321 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4973 (69ABA9E3) Date: 9/2/1952 Description: (McDonald list) GCI Has Radar Targets At Two Sites (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520902](http://www.nicap.org/520902tokyo%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tokyo, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1320 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4974 (2B897092) Date: 9/3/1952 Description: At 9:00 a.m. a flight instructor and one other witness witnessed a dark ovoid object that made two separate loops over Tucson, Arizona. It finally flew off quickly to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_5585 Source: Johnson ### Event 4975 (A573C79D) Date: 9/3/1952 Time: 99 AM Description: Witnesses: civilian pilots McCraven and Thomas. One shiny, dark ellipse made three broad, curving sweeps in 1.5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tucson, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_243 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4976 (DA56AEE0) Date: 9/3/1952 Description: Shiny, dark ellipse make three broad, curving sweeps (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1322 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4977 (0946F0BF) Date: 9/3/1952 Description: 9:00 a.m. Instructor pilot [Donald L. McCraven](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36505184/donald-l-mccraven) and N. D. Thomas observe a dark elliptical object reflecting sunlight 6 miles north of Tucson, Arizona. The object makes three well-coordinated turns with no perceptible sound. It moves at tremendous speed during a slight climb and is observed for approximately 90 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Dark Ellipse Makes Three Coordinated Turns](http://www.nicap.org/520903tucson%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 172 Source ID: Eberhart_2040 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4978 (8E7BDE89) Date: 9/3/1952 Description: 12:30 p.m. [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) meets in the Cabinet Room with Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49186828/william-madison-garland)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49186828/william-madison-garland) Col. [John Gordon Fowler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FGordon%5FFowler), and three other USAF officers; [Lawrence J. Henderson Jr.](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/03/28/97122067.html?pageNumber=26) and [Walter W. Niles](http://cv14.com/shipmates2.html) from the RAND Corporation; and [Robert B. Landry](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106440/major-general-robert-b-landry/) and four others from the National Security Resources Board. The topic is the Washington UFO incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank Stalter, “[The Real Majestic 12: Harry Truman’s 1952 DC UFO Meeting,](http://ufopartisan.blogspot.com/2009/10/trumans-white-house-meeting-on-1952-dc.html)” The UFO Partisan, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_2041 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4979 (89045B95) Date: 9/5/1952 Description: Two 12 meter long cigar-shaped objects circled the area of Springhill, Nova Scotia for 12 minutes at aircraft speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_5648 Source: Johnson ### Event 4980 (2116F4B2) Date: 9/6/1952 Time: 4:55 PM Description: Witnesses: ex-Congresswoman Mrs. Isabella King and Bill McClain. One orange teardrop-shaped object whirled on its vertical axis, descended very fast, stopped, retraced its path upwards, while whirling in the opposite direction. 1.5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tucson, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_245 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4981 (74480009) Date: 9/6/1952 Time: l:30 AM Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. J.E. Wilson and two enlisted men. One bright star-like light moved about the sky for 2 hours. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lake Charles AFB, Louisiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_244 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4982 (855B5F7F) Date: 9/6/1952 Description: Sergeant J. E. Wilson and two enlisted men at the Lake Charles AFB in Louisiana sighted a bright star-like light moving about the sky at 1:30 a.m. The light stayed visible for two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #2045; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5675 Source: Johnson ### Event 4983 (A589C667) Date: 9/6/1952 Description: At 10:10 a.m. fourteen people in Enfield, Connecticut watched a metallic flying object zigzag downward in a descent. They heard a "bang," and the UFO then shot upwards at a high speed, executing a 90-degree angle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_5676 Source: Johnson ### Event 4984 (7E99F47B) Date: 9/6/1952 Description: In Tucson, Arizona at 4:55 p.m. ex-Congresswoman Mrs. Isabella King and Bill McClain witnessed an orange teardrop-shaped object whirl on its vertical axis, descend very fast, stop, re-trace its path upwards, and then whirl in the opposite direction. Their sighting lasted 1.5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5677 Source: Johnson ### Event 4985 (EF283B8B) Date: 9/6/1952 Description: Bright star-like light move about the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2045) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Charles AFB, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1323 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4986 (9CA5B492) Date: 9/6/1952 Description: 10:10 a.m. Walter Borys and George McCracken, two guards at the Osborn Prison Farm \[now Osborn Correctional Institute\] in Somers, Connecticut, are with 13 inmates in the yard when they hear an odd motor noise and see a silvery object in the northern sky. It appears to be descending in a zigzag motion but stops and shoots upward at a right angle at terrific speed after releasing a puff of smoke. Other witnesses in the area think it is a jet aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hartford \(Conn.\) Courant, September 7, 1952, p. 1; Audrey H. Hennis, “[The ‘Flying Saucer’ Was from](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93468816/) [a Jet After-Burner,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93468816/)” Hartford \(Conn.\) Courant, September 19, 1952, p. 18; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf) [1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1986, pp. 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_2042 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4987 (F203FF0B) Date: 9/7/1952 Description: Orange teardrop-shaped object whirl on its vertical axis, (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2048) Reference: NICAP: [520907](http://www.nicap.org/tucson520907dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1324 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4988 (CDD60A89) Date: 9/7/1952 Description: Orange object or light (color temperature 2,000° F.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2049) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Antonio, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1325 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4989 (50DCC339) Date: 9/7/1952 Time: 10:30 PM Description: Witnesses: chemist J.W. Gibson and others. One orange object or light (the color of 2,000' F.) exploded into view. Seen for from 3-20 seconds by various observers. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: San Antonio, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_246 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4990 (7826A7AF) Date: 9/7/1952 Description: In San Antonio, Texas at 10:30 p.m. Chemist J. W. Gibson and others watched an orange object or light (the color of iron heated to 2,000º F) explode into view. It was seen for 3-20 seconds by various observers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #2049; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5707 Source: Johnson ### Event 4991 (ADCDE50A) Date: 9/7/1952 Description: (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2052) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Antonio, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1326 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4992 (845E2506) Date: 9/8/1952 Description: [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) and Department of Transport associates launch a large weather balloon with a magnesium flare over Ottawa, Ontario, but it does not inspire any UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1078; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 17–18 Source ID: Eberhart_2043 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4993 (22846A51) Date: 9/9/1952 Description: Two oval objects observed in searchlight beam. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portland, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_1327 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4994 (00802D0E) Date: 9/9/1952 Description: In Rabat, Morocco at 9:00 p.m. Mr. E. J. Colisimo, a civilian illustrator with USAF Intelligence, sighted a disc with lights along part of its circumference. It flew twice as fast as a T-33 jet trainer, in a slightly curved path for five seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5784 Source: Johnson ### Event 4995 (AC59ED74) Date: 9/9/1952 Time: 9 PM Description: Witness: E.J. colisimo, a civilian illustrator with USAF Intelligence. One disc with lights along part of its circumference, flew twice as fast as a T-33 jet trainer, in a slightly curved path for 5 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Rabat, French Morocco Source ID: BerlinerBBU_247 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 4996 (12F3B5C9) Date: 9/9/1952 Description: Disc with lights along part of its circumference (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2062) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rabat, Fr. Morocco Source ID: NICAP_DB_1328 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 4997 (966242B0) Date: 9/9/1952 Description: 9:00 p.m. US Air Force civilian illustrator E. J. Colisimo sees a disc with lights along part of its circumference over Rabat, Morocco. It is flying twice as fast as a T-33 jet trainer in a slightly curved path. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Disc Twice As Fast As T-33](http://www.nicap.org/520909rabat%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 172 Source ID: Eberhart_2044 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4998 (D246456D) Date: 9/10/1952 Description: Battelle issues its fifth status report on Project Stork to ATIC. It says that 800 copies of its revised report questionnaire have been sent to the Air Force, many of which were passed on to military witnesses as a trial test. The group has now examined UFO reports from 1947–1949 and 1951. It decided to discontinue the news clipping service. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 3,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7b.htm)” CUFON Source ID: Eberhart_2045 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 4999 (E261FD86) Date: 9/10/1952 Description: 2:30 p.m. The wife of a civilian employee at Andrews AFB \[now Joint Base Andrews\] in Prince George’s County, Maryland, sees a shiny, metallic, elliptical, silent object moving back and forth near the base. It is visible for 2–3 minutes. \(Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1986, p. 25\) September 11 \[or 7 or 17\] — CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence Director [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) writes a memorandum to Director of Central Intelligence [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) that sets out two national security implications of UFOs for the government of the United States: the potential for psychological panic by citizens, and demonstrating the nation’s vulnerability by air. It recommends that “A national policy should be established as to what should be told the public regarding the phenomena, in order to minimize risk of panic.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: H. Marshall Chadwell, “[Flying](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf) [Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” September 11, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Swords 175–181, 503–507; Good Above, [p. 224](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/224/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2046 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5000 (6A0EB3E5) Date: 9/11/1952 Description: That same evening in Allen, Maryland at 9:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. David Kolb, of the Ground Observer Corps, viewed a white light with red trim through binoculars. It had streamers of light coming off it as it flew toward northeast for 35 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book case files, case # 2077; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5853 Source: Johnson ### Event 5001 (8853D48B) Date: 9/11/1952 Description: A group of young people in Flatwoods, West Virginia saw a bright red "meteor" land on top of a hill at around 7:15 p.m. A fluctuating orange-red light was seen on the hill, so they went up to the site to investigate. They were accompanied by beautician Kathleen Hill and her two sons and another youth, Gene Lemon. When the seven witnesses got close to the hilltop, they observed a globe as large as a house, making a throbbing or hissing sound. A huge black figure with glowing orange eyes blocked their path. The figure was about 12 feet high (4 meters), and it had a reddish pear-shaped head or helmet, with two luminous eyes from which beams of bluish light emerged; it also had a dark metallic green body that "floated" toward the witnesses, who fled in terror. The “entity” glided toward them, then toward a luminous, 20-foot wide pear-shaped about 50 feet away, which was pulsating between bright orange and dull red. There was also a mist in the area which had a choking, metallic smell. Gene Lemon fainted, so some of the others had to drag him away with them, while the others ran. Lemon vomited all night long. Reporters who went to the site later that evening saw no object, but could still smell the lingering odor. Next day, a 15-foot circle of flattened grass, some “skid marks”, and a strip of browned vegetation were found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, September 14, 1952; O Cruzeiro, November 13, 1954; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 116; Ivan T. Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors, p. 50; Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 52; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 101; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1952-16 (A0200), citing Gray Barker & Ivan T Sanderson; Michael D. Hill, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers - 1952, pp. 192-3 Source ID: Johnson_5852 Source: Johnson ### Event 5002 (8FF083C3) Date: 9/11/1952 Description: [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) [Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter) and Bailey receive a radio message saying, “I hope we might have a landing soon,” and later, “We must make landing contact soon… If you believe us, you will act accordingly.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_2047 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5003 (F560CDFE) Date: 9/11/1952 Description: A UFO was seen over Belem, Brazil near the mouth of the Amazon River on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael D. Hill, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers - 1952, p. 193 Source ID: Johnson_5851 Source: Johnson ### Event 5004 (DCF2E1EA) Date: 9/12/1952 Description: Around 7:15 p.m., in Flatwoods, West Virginia, two brothers, Edward and Fred May, and their friend Tommy Hyer \(ages 13, 12, and 10 respectively\) witness a bright object cross the sky, coming to rest on land belonging to local farmer [G. Bailey Fisher](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34255036/george-bailey-fisher)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34255036/george-bailey-fisher) The boys go to the home of the May brothers’ mother, [Kathleen May](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93511683/kathleen-may)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93511683/kathleen-may) where they tell the story of having seen a UFO crash land. From there, Mrs. May, accompanied by the three boys, local children Neil Nunley, 14, and Ronnie Shaver, 10, and West Virginia National Guardsman Eugene Lemon, 17, walk to the Fisher farm. At the top of a hill, they reportedly see a large pulsating “ball of fire” about 50 feet to their right. They also detect a pungent mist that makes their eyes and noses burn. Lemon then notices two small lights over to the left of the object, underneath a nearby oak tree and directs his flashlight towards them, revealing a creature, which May reports as bounding towards them. Other sources describe it as emitting a shrill hissing noise before gliding towards them, changing direction and then heading off towards the red light. The group flees in panic. Sheriff [Robert L. Carr](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44567805/robert-l-carr) and his deputy [Burnell J. Long](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112739758/burnell-j%5F-long) search the area separately, but find no trace of the encounter other than the smell. Early the next morning, [A. Lee Stewart](http://www.genealogybuff.com/wv/wv-kanawha-obits78.htm)[,](http://www.genealogybuff.com/wv/wv-kanawha-obits78.htm) co-owner of the Braxton Democrat, visits the site of the encounter for a second time and discovers two elongated tracks in the mud, as well as traces of a thick black liquid. It is later revealed that the tracks are likely those of a 1942 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by local [Max Lockard](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133730941/max-junior-lockard)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133730941/max-junior-lockard) who had gone to the site to look for the creature some hours prior to Stewert’s discovery. [Ivan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%5FT.%5FSanderson) [T. Sanderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%5FT.%5FSanderson) interviews the witnesses several days later and concludes that a flight of “intelligently controlled objects flew over West Virginia.” The Air Force concludes that people have seen a meteor and that the monster was only the glowing eyes of a barn owl. [Joe Nickell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FNickell) also concludes in 2000 that the bright light in the sky reported by the witnesses on September 12 was most likely a meteor, that the pulsating red light is likely an aircraft navigation/hazard beacon, and that the creature described by witnesses closely resembles a barn owl. Nickell claims that the experience was distorted by the heightened state of anxiety felt by the witnesses after having observed the original meteor. However, [Frank C. Feschino](http://www.flatwoodsmonster.com/index-id%3D228330%26fuseaction%3Dbrowse%26pageid%3D22.html) has done extensive research to support his hypothesis that the Flatwoods incident was only one small part of a major UFO display involving multiple objects \(many of them reported as “meteors” or “balls of fire” or “flaming planes”\) passing in westerly and other directions across the eastern and southern United States between 6:50 and 7:25 p.m. The trajectory of one of these objects \(moving first northwest then northeast then south\) alone takes it over Baltimore, Catonsville, Frederick, Hagerstown, Cumberland, and Garrett County, Maryland; Preston County, Morgantown, Fairmont, Wheeling, Charleston, Parkersburg, Nitro, Ward, and Chelyan, West Virginia; Selma, Columbus, Zanesville, St. Clairsville, Ohio; it is last seen moving south around Bluefield, West Virginia. Another object is seen over Washington, D.C., heading due west towards West Virginia, apparently landing in Flatwoods. A third object travels southwest over Roanoke and Pulaski, Virginia, possibly landing near Arcadia, Tennessee. Feschino thinks that these three objects had been damaged by fire directed at them by Air Force interceptors. Five other objects are observed in North Carolina in that time period, and these Feschino suspects may have been attempting to look for and assist the damaged objects. He also speculates that the disappearance of an F-94 jet fighter out of Tyndall AFB in Panama City, Florida, piloted by 2Lt [John A. Jones](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27843010/john-a-jones) and radar operator 2Lt [John S. DelCurto](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73733140/john-s%5F-delcurto)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73733140/john-s%5F-delcurto) might have involved a tragic UFO interception that began three hours earlier; the last known contact with the fighter is at 5:43 p.m. over the Gulf of Mexico 70 miles northwest of Tampa, the accident takes place under unusual circumstances, and the wreckage has never been found. Feschino thinks that a UFO damaged in dogfights with many interceptors over the Gulf might have triggered the second battle over the Atlantic seaboard around 7:00 p.m. Then a second wave of multiple objects is observed 8:00–8:10 p.m. in the Washington, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, and West Virginia region that, according to Feschino, involves a search for a second downed UFO. Although Feschino jumps to many conclusions and his documentation for specific incidents and conditions is somewhat confusing, he may well have grasped more truth than the meteor-and-owl explanation of the skeptics. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Flatwoods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods%5Fmonster) [Monster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods%5Fmonster)”; Gray Barker, “The Monster and the Saucer,” Fate 6, no. 1 \(January 1953\): 12–17; Gray Barker, They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, University Books, 1956, [pp. 11–35](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/page/n5/mode/2up); Keyhoe, FS from OS, [pp. 116–120](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chVII.htm); Clark III 494–495; Ivan T. Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors, Cowles, 1967, pp. 39–51; Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “[The Braxton Democrat](http://www.noufors.com/the%5Fbraxton%5Fdemocrat.html)”; Shoot 112–313, 320–327; Joe Nickell, “[The Flatwoods UFO](https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2000/11/22164839/p15.pdf) [Monster,](https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2000/11/22164839/p15.pdf)” Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 2000\): 15–19; Michael D. Swords, “[Peeking at Ivan’s SITU](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2011/04/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-flatwoods.html) [Files: The Flatwoods Monster,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2011/04/peeking-at-ivans-situ-files-flatwoods.html)” The Big Study, April 11, 2011; Frank C. Feschino, The Braxton County Monster: The Cover-Up of the Flatwoods Monster Revealed, Quarrier Press, 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_2049 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5005 (F412ED87) Date: 9/12/1952 Description: A white light with red trim and streamers fly NE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2077) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Allen, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1329 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5006 (7A486F65) Date: 9/12/1952 Description: Space "monster" appears from saucer near Sutton, West VA Type: ce3 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Sutton, West Virgina Source ID: Maj2_125 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5007 (FE0FDF4A) Date: 9/12/1952 Description: A group of young people in Flatwoods, West Virginia saw a "meteor" land on top of a hill and went to the site. They were accompanied by Kathleen Hill and three men. They observed a globe as large as a house making a throbbing or hissing sound. A huge black figure with glowing orange eyes blocked the path. About 12 feet high (4 meters), the figure had a reddish face and "floated" toward the witnesses, who fled in terror. A lingering smell and skid marks were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_5899 Source: Johnson ### Event 5008 (95F91DDF) Date: 9/12/1952 Time: sunset Description: A group of young people saw a "meteor" land on top of a hill and went to the site with Kathleen Hill and three men. They observed a globe as large as a house making a throbbing or hissing sound and a huge figure with glowing orange eyes nearby. About 4 m tall, the figure had a red face and "floated" toward the witnesses, who fled in terror. A lingering smell and skid marks were found. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Flatwoods, West Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_101 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5009 (F7D98B5C) Date: 9/12/1952 Description: That same evening in Allen, Maryland at 9:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. David Kolb, of the Ground Observer Corps, viewed a white light with red trim through binoculars. It had streamers of light coming off it as it flew toward northeast for 35 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5900 Source: Johnson ### Event 5010 (345F5A54) Date: 9/12/1952 Time: 9:30 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. David Kolb, of the Ground Observer Corps, using binoculars. One white light with a red trim and streamers flew northeast for 35 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Allen, Maryland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_248 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5011 (8B56BECD) Date: 9/12/1952 Description: 1:30 a.m. Two oil well drillers, William Darling and Donald Davis, see a lighted object with windows on one side circling 150 feet above the ground silently for nearly 30 minutes at Bladensburg, Ohio. Suddenly it makes a noise like steam blowing and shoots out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 6, no. 2 \(February 1953\): 108 Source ID: Eberhart_2048 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5012 (5696ADA4) Date: 9/13/1952 Time: 7:40 PM Description: Witness: private pilot W.A. Hobler, flying a Beech Bonanza. One object, shaped like a fat football, flaming orange-red color, descended and then pulled up in front of the witness' airplane. Seen for 2 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_249 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5013 (BDF57FAA) Date: 9/13/1952 Description: Mr. and Mrs. George Snitowski and their little girl suddenly found their car stalled, and an unpleasant smell (ether mixed with sulphurous smoke) filled the air. Mr. Snitowski thought a chemical plant might be burning in the area and walked toward a strong light visible in the woods, in spite of the nauseous smell. Coming near it, he felt pricklings throughout his body, had to stop, lost his balance several times as he returned to the carwhere he found his wife terrified, pointing to a giant creature (3 m tall), human-shaped, 10 m away. They locked the car as "it" inspected the vehicle, glided away and went into the woods. Soon afterward, the sphere of light was observed to rise gradually, to swing like a pendulum, and to leave a luminous trail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Paul Lieb ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Frametown, West Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_102 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5014 (6421D72C) Date: 9/13/1952 Description: On that same night in Allentown, Pennsylvania at 7:40 p.m., private pilot W.A. Hobler was flying his Beech Bonanza airplane when he sighted a flying object shaped like a fat football, fiery orange-red in color, descend and then pull up in front of his airplane. This encounter was very brief, and lasted only two 2 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2085; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_5908 Source: Johnson ### Event 5015 (F9488DD2) Date: 9/13/1952 Description: A white light with red trim and streamers fly NE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2085) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Allentown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1330 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5016 (F2CA1000) Date: 9/13/1952 Description: At around 8:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. George Snitowski and their little girl suddenly found their car stalled in Frametown, West Virginia. An unpleasant odor filled the air, similar to the smell of ether mixed with sulphur. Mr. Snitowski thought a chemical plant might be burning in the area and walked towards a strong light visible in the woods, in spite of the noxious smell. Coming near it, he felt a prickling sensation throughout his body, had to stop, and then lost his balance several times as he returned to the car where he found his wife terrified, pointing at a giant creature. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 200; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case # 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1952-17, citing Paul Lieb, Jacques Vallee & Mark Hall; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, September 1972, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_5907 Source: Johnson ### Event 5017 (5FCA0D41) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: North Sea area/military exercise Ruppelt's version (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 2087, NC) Reference: NICAP: [520914](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/mainbrace.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Operation Mainbrace, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1332 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5018 (492F8B8D) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: Blue white light travel straight and level, then fly up (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2086) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Barbara, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1331 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5019 (1CF83EB6) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: Blue light fly very fast on a collision course with airliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 2093) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Olmsted AFB, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1335 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5020 (0E7A95EB) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: Several people in Charleston, West Virginia saw a luminous white disc-shaped object land at around 9:00 p.m. Two men wearing bright suits emerged from the craft and reportedly climbed a nearby tree. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_5947 Source: Johnson ### Event 5021 (DB659C90) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: Santa Barbara, California. At 8:40 p.m. Mr. Tarbutton, a USAF C-54 transport pilot, sighted a blue-white light that traveled straight and level, then went up. It was seen for 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5946 Source: Johnson ### Event 5022 (F0429A79) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: While flying over Olmstead AFB, Pennsylvania the pilot of a Flying Tiger Airlines transport plane, # N67977, saw a blue light that flew at his plane very fast on a collision course. Note: the summary card attached to the file showed completely different information. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2093; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 18; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5944 Source: Johnson ### Event 5023 (8A77B98D) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland. Military witnesses from several countries aboard ships participating in the NATO "Operation Mainbrace" exercise had several UFO sightings. Among the sightings: a blue-green triangle was observed flying at 1,500 mph while another three objects in a triangular formation gave off a white light exhaust while moving at 1,500 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5943 Source: Johnson ### Event 5024 (1141AEC7) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: An animal reaction case occurred on a farm in Belle Glade, Florida just before dawn at 4:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December 1967, p. 24; NICAP case files; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_5941 Source: Johnson ### Event 5025 (60C9017B) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico between 11:30 p.m. and 1:20 a.m. the next day R. J. Portis, a consulting engineer, and three others sighted six groups of 12-15 luminous spheres or discs. The UFOs flew in formations varying from arcs to inverted-Y's, and moved very fast through the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5942 Source: Johnson ### Event 5026 (6142A466) Date: 9/14/1952 Time: 7 PM Description: Witness: Ground Observer Corps observer L.W. Barnes, using binoculars. One red, cigar-shaped object, with three puffs behind it, flew west, then south, and then was gone. Seen 30-40 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: White Lake, South Dakota Source ID: BerlinerBBU_252 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5027 (132A0904) Date: 9/14/1952 Time: Time unknown Description: Witnesses: military persons from several countries aboard ships in the NATO "Operation Mainbrace" exercise. Among the sightings: one blue-green triangle was observed flying 1,500 m.p.h; three objects in a triangular formation gave off white light exhaust at 1,500 m.p.h. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_251 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5028 (71EF8C41) Date: 9/14/1952 End date: 9/15/1952 Description: 6 groups of 12-15 luminous spheres or discs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ciudad Jaurez, Mexico Source ID: NICAP_DB_1336 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5029 (66C31729) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: White Lake, South Dakota. At 7:00 p.m. L.W. Barnes, a Ground Observer Corps observer using binoculars spotted a red, cigar-shaped object. It left three puffs behind it, flew to the west, then to the south, and then was gone. It was viewed for 30-40 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #2089; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5945 Source: Johnson ### Event 5030 (9060AE87) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: 10:13 p.m. The Danish destroyer [Willemoes](https://www.navalhistory.dk/English/TheShips/VW/Willemoes%281947%29.htm), during the Exercise Mainbrace maneuvers, is north of Bornholm island, Denmark, in the Baltic Sea. Lt.Cmdr. G. Schmidt-Jensen and several members of the crew see an unidentified object, triangular in shape, that moves at high speed toward the southeast. It emits a greenish glow and jets three rays of fire from its rear. Jensen estimates the speed at 930 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Operation Mainbrace](http://www.nicap.org/reports/5209XXmainbrace%5Freport.htm) [Sightings](http://www.nicap.org/reports/5209XXmainbrace%5Freport.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 28; Marler 128– 129, 265 Source ID: Eberhart_2052 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5031 (8EB9AE6A) Date: 9/14/1952 Time: 8:40 PM Description: Witness: USAF C-54 transport pilot Tarbutton. One blue-white light travelled straight and level, then went up. Seen for 30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Santa Barbara, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_250 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5032 (94A720BB) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: Exercise Mainbrace begins in the North Sea. It is the first large-scale naval exercise undertaken by NATO and jointly commanded by Admiral [Lynde D. McCormick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynde%5FD.%5FMcCormick) and Gen. [Matthew B. Ridgway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%5FRidgway). It involves the US Navy and the navies of Great Britain, France, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Netherlands, and Belgium. Its objective is to convince Denmark and Norway that they can be defended against an attack from the USSR, and involves 80,000 men, 200 ships, and 1,000 aircraft. The operation lasts through September 25. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Exercise Mainbrace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise%5FMainbrace)” Source ID: Eberhart_2051 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5033 (ACAB4477) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: 4:30 a.m. Fred J. Brown is preparing to milk the cows at the Everglades Experiment Station \[now the Everglades Research and Education Center\] in Belle Glade, Florida, when he spots a circular object about 35 feet in diameter hovering about 100 feet above the ground. It has a row of red and amber lights spaced around the outside rim and the underside. As it descends to about 40 feet, the 13 cows bolt as the object disappears to the west. As Brown is rounding up the cows, the object appears again, moving from south to north at a speed of 30 mph, making a high-voltage buzzing noise, and emitting an odor “like acid or ammonia” that makes Brown’s eyes smart. The cows stampede once again. The object’s glow illuminates the ground as it passes, and it gains altitude and disappears again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Cattle Stampeded Twice by Mysterious ‘Object,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93472641/)” Palm Beach \(Fla.\) Times, September 16, 1952, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_2050 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5034 (98848DC8) Date: 9/14/1952 Time: 11:30 PM Description: Event occurred to 1:20 AM, Sept. 15. Witnesses: consulting engineer R. J. Portis and three others. Six groups of 12-15 luminous spheres or discs, which flew in formations varying from arcs to inverted-Y's, very fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ciudad Jaurez, Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_253 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5035 (E0EA89CA) Date: 9/14/1952 Time: Time not known Description: Witness: pilot of Flying Tiger Airlines airplane N67977. One blue light flew very fast on a collision course with the airliner. Note: the summary card attached to the file showed completely different information. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Olmstead AFB, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_254 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5036 (7F018AF3) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: Iceland, North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland. Witnesses: military persons from several countries aboard ships in the NATO “Operation Mainbrace” exercise. Among the sightings: one blue-green triangle was observed flying 1,500 mph; three objects in a triangular formation gave off white light exhaust at 1,500 mph Type: report Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: North Atlantic Source ID: Maj2_476 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5037 (95300364) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2092) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Paso, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1334 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5038 (576E42DC) Date: 9/14/1952 Description: Red, cigar-shaped object, with three puffs behind it (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2089) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Lake, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1333 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5039 (05FA18E1) Date: 9/16/1952 Time: 7:30 PM Description: Witnesses: three USAF officers, two civilians. Two white lights flew abreast, at 100 m.p.h., for 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Warner-Robbins AFB, Georgia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_256 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5040 (086A1626) Date: 9/16/1952 Time: 6:22 PM Description: Witnesses: crew of U.S. Navy P2V Neptune patrol plane, visually and via radar. A group of five lights was seen at the same time a long, thin blip was being tracked on radar. Note: consideration was given to this being USAF KC-97 airplanes involved in a refueling operation. The sighting involved 20 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Portland, Maine Source ID: BerlinerBBU_255 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5041 (C0A20197) Date: 9/16/1952 Description: RV: Navy Patrol Plane Crew / Five UFOs Picked Up On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2099) Reference: NICAP: [520916](http://www.nicap.org/520916portlanddir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portland, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_1337 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5042 (F6C29AEE) Date: 9/16/1952 Description: Circular object with row of lights on underside passed low overhead; cattle bolted. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belle Glade, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1338 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5043 (9CA94C90) Date: 9/16/1952 Description: White lights fly abreast at 100 mph (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 2100) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warner Robins AFB, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1339 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5044 (F89CF6F3) Date: 9/16/1952 Description: The crew of a U.S. Navy P2V Neptune patrol plane, Boak, Prentis and Hara, flying near Portland, Maine at 6:22 p.m. sighted a dark elongated cigar and a group of five unidentified lights and picked up a long thin blip on radar. Investigators considered whether the crew had sighted a USAF KC-97 aircraft involved in a refueling operation, but decided that this was unlikely. The sighting lasted 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2099; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 146; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Cominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19; UNICAT, case # 746 Source ID: Johnson_6004 Source: Johnson ### Event 5045 (407DA169) Date: 9/16/1952 Description: At 7:30 p.m. three Air Force officers and two civilians at Warner-Robbins AFB, Georgia observed two unidentified white lights flying abreast, at a speed of 100 mph, for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6005 Source: Johnson ### Event 5046 (1C02A5BE) Date: 9/17/1952 Time: 11:40 AM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hollingsworth. Two groups of three large, flat, shiny objects flew in tight formations: the first group slow, the second faster. Seen for 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tucson, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_257 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5047 (510B6365) Date: 9/17/1952 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hollingsworth of Tucson, Arizona sighted two groups of three large, flat, shiny objects at 11:40 a.m. north of the city. The daylight objects flew in tight formations: the first group slowly, the second group faster. The sighting lasted for 2 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2105; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 36; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6038 Source: Johnson ### Event 5048 (4FB9322A) Date: 9/17/1952 Description: 2 groups of 3 large, flat, shiny objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2105) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1340 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5049 (59259EDA) Date: 9/19/1952 Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 27km (Army training test. Tail explosion at 27s terminating thrust.) Type: rocket launch Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945) Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM Rocket type: V-2 Rocket altitude: 27km Source ID: Maj2_477 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5050 (82BEABAA) Date: 9/19/1952 Description: Five men in a RAF Meteor aircraft, including John W. Kilburn, were flying at 5,000 feet altitude over Dishforth, North York, England when they sighted a UFO at 1,000 feet above their plane at 10:53 a.m. They described it as round and silvery, and it changed shape to something more elliptical. It was solid looking, and it swung like a pendulum as it lost altitude. Ten British officers had just deplaned from Operation Mainbrace at Dishforth Aerodrome when they spotted the same UFO. It appeared as a white, round, glimmering circular object, followed by the RAF Meteor jet aircraft two miles back. The UFO lost altitude, and then fluttered like a leaf in a pendulum-like motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 136; UNICAT, case # 413; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 24; Michael David Hall, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers - 1952, p. 194 Source ID: Johnson_6079 Source: Johnson ### Event 5051 (0DB2E252) Date: 9/19/1952 Description: Swaying Silver Object Follows Jet (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520919](http://www.nicap.org/520919topcliffe%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yorkshire (Topcliffe RAF Station), UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1343 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5052 (12EF4C8C) Date: 9/19/1952 Description: September 19, 1952; Operation Mainbrace color photos (Denmark & Norway) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [520919](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/mainbrace.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Operation Mainbrace, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1341 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5053 (F5CB30C9) Date: 9/19/1952 Description: 10:53 a.m. During Exercise Mainbrace maneuvers, a silvery, spherical UFO appears near RAF Topcliffe in North Yorkshire, England, following an RAF Meteor jet \(possibly piloted by Flight Lt. John W. Kilburn and Flight Lt. Marian Cybulski\) about to land. It has been following about 5 miles behind the jet at15,000 feet, swinging like a “falling sycamore leaf” and descending. As the jet turns toward Dishforth, the object follows but begins rotating on its axis then suddenly accelerates and disappears. Several ground crew members of RAF 269 Squadron \(Master Signaller Albert Thomson, Sgt. Flight Engineer Thomas Deweys, Flight Lt. R. Paris, and Leading Aircraftman George Grime\) and civilians also see it. [Prince Philip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FPhilip%2C%5FDuke%5Fof%5FEdinburgh) suggests to RAF Air Marshal [Peter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FHorsley) [Horsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FHorsley)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FHorsley) who is serving as equerry to the duke, that he investigate credible reports of UFOs, especially those by fighter pilots who have seen them. He arranges for RAF Fighter Command to send copies of any reports for examination at Buckingham Palace and begins an informal study that lasts until 1955. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Swaying Silver](http://www.nicap.org/520919topcliffe%5Fdir.htm) [Object Follows Jet](http://www.nicap.org/520919topcliffe%5Fdir.htm)”; Richard Hall, “Operation Mainbrace Sightings”; Good Above, [pp. 31–32](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/30/mode/2up), [450](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/450/mode/2up); Nick Redfern, “[UFOs and NATO: The Mainbrace Affair,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/04/ufos-nato-the-mainbrace-affair/)” Mysterious Universe, April 22, 2014; David Clarke, “The Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 18–19; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 173; Ruppelt, [pp. 195–196](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/194/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [p. 47](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n79/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2053 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5054 (3F5A871B) Date: 9/20/1952 Description: Between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., a silver spherical UFO appeared over the North Sea end of the English Channel during the NATO naval exercise Operation Mainbrace and was seen by several aboard several different warshaps. It was photographed by Wallace Litwin aboard the U.S.S. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 256; UNICAT, case # 584; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 403 Source ID: Johnson_6118 Source: Johnson ### Event 5055 (6002C190) Date: 9/20/1952? Description: Sometime during Exercise Mainbrace, at the underground RAF Ash, near Woodnesborough, Kent, England, Senior Aircraftman William Maguire tracks on radar a huge UFO high above the English Channel for 18 minutes. Eventually it splits into three and speeds away, one object to the north, another toward France, and the third toward Eastern Europe. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 152](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/152/mode/2up); Nick Redfern, “[UFOs, NATO, and Military Encounters,](http://interestingandcuriosities.blogspot.com/2018/10/ufos-nato-and-military-encounters.html)” Interesting and Curiosities, October 28, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_2054 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5056 (00A44F14) Date: 9/20/1952 Description: Air Ministry, London: A number of airmen and officers of the R.A.F., Topcliffe, observed an UFO. As it descended it was swinging in a pendular motion like a falling leaf. Pendulous motion ceased and object began rotary motion about its own axis. Suddenly accelerated at an incredible speed. (9/19/1952, cont’d) It was not identifiable with any known aircraft and acceleration was in excess of that of a shooting star! Craft was silver in color and circular. (Operation Mainbrace) Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p31,450, B1-G p43) Location: North Yorkshire, England See also: 9/20/1952 Source ID: Maj2_478 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5057 (89222929) Date: 9/20/1952 Description: Naval personnel on the US aircraft carrier [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) in the North Sea observe a silvery sphere moving across the sky behind the fleet. Photographer Wallace Litwin takes three color photos that are developed and examined by naval intelligence officers. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says they “turned out to be excellent … judging by the size of the object in each successive photo, one could see that it was moving rapidly.” No balloon has been launched. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Photographed during Operation Mainbrace](http://www.nicap.org/520920norway-denmark%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 195–196](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/194/mode/2up); UFOEv, [p. 162](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=174&skin=2021); “[In the News 1952,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/itn52part43.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_2055 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5058 (6E266A25) Date: 9/20/1952 Description: 7:30 p.m. At Air Base Karup in Jutland, Denmark, three Danish Air Force officers see a shiny, metallic UFO pass overhead and disappear in clouds to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS, 133 Source ID: Eberhart_2056 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5059 (F3A0D8DC) Date: 9/20/1952 Description: An UFO similar to the Topcliffe one (see 9/19/1952) is sighted over a U.S. Carrier ship out with the fleet between England and Scandinavia. An American photographer doing a story of the fleet exercise took pictures of the UFO which was ascertained not to have been a balloon. The Navy never released the photos of the UFO. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Between England and Scandinavia See also: 9/19/1952 Source ID: Maj2_479 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5060 (C0545151) Date: 9/21/1952 Description: Six RAF jets on maneuvers over the North Sea saw a “sphere” heading towards them, coming from the direction of the English fleet. It was tracked on radar then disappeared and reappeared behind them. One Meteor pilot attempted an intercept but was completely outrun by the UFO. Capt. Ruppelt was later told by RAF Intelligence that the incidents of the past three days caused the RAF to officially recognize the UFO situation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: North Sea See also: 7/1952 See also: 6/24/1953 Source ID: Maj2_480 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5061 (9263DC8C) Date: 9/21/1952 Description: A silver spherical UFO was tracked by RAF jets over the North Sea during the NATO Operation Mainbrace. An attempted intercept by three jets and a total of six air crew members failed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 258; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973, p. 403 Source ID: Johnson_6176 Source: Johnson ### Event 5062 (E9B5F323) Date: 9/21/1952 Description: Six RAF Jets Approached By Shiny Sphere (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520921](http://www.nicap.org/520921northsea%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Sea (Operation Mainbrace), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1344 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5063 (61E23C68) Date: 9/21/1952 Description: Six RAF Meteor jets flying above the North Sea observe a shiny sphere approaching from the direction of the Mainbrace fleet. It eludes their pursuit and disappears. As they are returning, it reappears following one of the jets, but when he turns to chase it, it speeds away. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says the Mainbrace sightings forced the RAF to “officially recognize the UFO.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Six RAF Jets Approached by Shiny Sphere](http://www.nicap.org/520921northsea%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [p. 196](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/196/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 173 Source ID: Eberhart_2057 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5064 (D85417D6) Date: 9/22/1952 Description: Police observed 3-4 UFOs maneuvering erratically. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fairfax County, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1345 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5065 (F438AEF2) Date: 9/22/1952 Description: Night. A UFO hovers over the Army’s Camp Drum \[now Fort Drum\] near Watertown, New York, for 30 minutes. Eight soldiers say the object is 200 feet across, trailing red-orange sparks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mysterious, Gyratuing](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35533354/democrat-and-chronicle/) [Object Looks Down on Camp Drum,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35533354/democrat-and-chronicle/)” Rochester \(N.Y.\) Democrat and Chronicle, September 27, 1952, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_2058 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5066 (B3D90BB6) Date: 9/23/1952 Description: Bright white light, which reflected on the lake (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2119) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gander Lake, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1346 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5067 (4D70CAD4) Date: Fall 1952 Description: Evening. [Paul Solem](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88132621/paul-renshaw-solem) has his first contact with a flying saucer around the Lost River Sinks a few miles from his ranch in Howe, Idaho. After watching a metallic object land, Solem sees a man with long blond hair and dressed in a white uniform standing next to it. He tells Solem to call him “Paul 2.” He says he is from Venus and tells Solem to work with Indians in North America in preparing for a postapocalyptic social order. This will be the first of many contacts for Solem. Over the next 17 years he wanders through the western states, speaking with Indians and contactees, gathers a small group of followers, and generally avoids the limelight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1094 Source ID: Eberhart_2068 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5068 (5F1C4977) Date: 9/23/1952 Description: Gander Lake, Newfoundland, Canada. No time given. Pepperell AFB operations officer and seven other campers witnessed a bright white light, which reflected on the lake. It flew straight and level at 100 mph for ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6246 Source: Johnson ### Event 5069 (F55B5E28) Date: 9/23/1952 Time: No time shown Description: Witnesses: Pepperell AFB operations officer and seven other campers. One bright white light, which reflected on the lake, flew straight and level at 100 m.p.h. for 10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Gander Lake, Newfoundland, Canada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_258 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5070 (FC126A70) Date: Fall 1952 Description: Three Pan American Airways pilots watched UFO hover, speed away. \[UFOE, V\]. Zammett/Harris/Hutchins (AL) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: NY to Puerto Rico, In Airspace Source ID: NICAP_DB_1314 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5071 (4219997B) Date: 9/24/1952 Time: 3:30 PM Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF B-29 bomber. A lot of bright, metallic particles or flashes, up to 3' in length, streamed past the B-29 for 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Charleston, West Virginia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_259 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5072 (96726EBF) Date: 9/24/1952 Description: Bright metallic particles or flashes, up to 3 ft in length (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2124) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charleston, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_1347 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5073 (99B5E15A) Date: 9/24/1952 Description: TBM-18 chased an orange light with greenish tail (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Source ID: NICAP_DB_1348 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5074 (6097B7B9) Date: 9/24/1952 Description: CIA Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) writes a 4-page memo to CIA Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith), summarizing his earlier memo and stating that since 1947 unexplained sightings were running at 20% and in 1952 they rose to 28%. “I consider this problem to be of such importance that it should be brought to the attention of the National Security Council in order that a community-wide coordinated effort toward its solution may be initiated.” His CIA scientific consultants \([Julius Stratton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%5FAdams%5FStratton)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%5FAdams%5FStratton) and perhaps [Lloyd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner) [Berkner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner) and [Howard P. Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson)\) think the answer will be found “on the margins of just beyond the frontiers of our present knowledge in the fields of atmospheric, ionospheric, and extraterrestrial phenomena, with the added possibility that the present dispersal of nuclear waste products might also be a factor.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: H. Marshall Chadwell, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” September 24, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Good Above, [pp. 328–329](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/328/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/328/mode/2up) [506–507](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/506/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2059 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5075 (15AC2F31) Date: 9/24/1952 Description: The crew of a USAF B-29 bomber, flying near Charleston, West Virginia at 3:30 p.m. reported seeing a lot of bright, metallic particles or flashes, up to three feet in length, stream past their aircraft for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2124; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6277 Source: Johnson ### Event 5076 (36A7FDF2) Date: Late 9/1952 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) visits the headquarters of the Air Defense Command at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado to brief Gen. [Benjamin W. Chidlaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw) and his staff on the past few months of UFO activity at a lunch at the officer’s club. One of the attendees is Maj. [Vernon L. Sadowski](https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/2140264/Vernon-L-Sadowski), the ADC Intelligence liaison to Blue Book, who says that “no one can understand why Intelligence is so hesitant to accept the fact that something we just don’t know about is flying around in our skies, unless you are trying to cover up something big.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 194–197](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/194/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2060 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5077 (A554FEB3) Date: 9/25/1952 Description: Several witnesses watched a 20 foot diameter disc hover over Camp Drum near Watertown, New York at 6:00 p.m. It circled the base making a sound like a "dynamo." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 54 Source ID: Johnson_6309 Source: Johnson ### Event 5078 (9B80399F) Date: 9/26/1952 Description: Air Crews Observe Green Lights (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2126) Reference: NICAP: [520926](http://www.nicap.org/520926azores%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Azores Islands (400 miles NNW of), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1349 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5079 (0EE33003) Date: 9/26/1952 Time: 11:16 PM Description: Witnesses: pilot, copilot, engineer and aircraft commander of USAF C-124 transport plane. Two distinct green lights were seen to the right and slightly above the C-124, and at one time seemed to turn toward it. The lights alternated leading each other during more than 1 hour of observation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 400 miles NNW of Azores Islands Source ID: BerlinerBBU_260 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5080 (E327AA95) Date: 9/26/1952 Description: In the Atlantic Ocean 400 miles NNW of the Azores Islands. 11:16 p.m. The pilot, copilot, engineer and aircraft commander of an USAF C-124 transport plane reported observing two distinct green lights to the right and slightly above the C-124 at 11:16 p.m. At one point the lights seemed to turn toward their aircraft. The lights alternated leading each other during the aerial encounter, which went on for more than one hour of observation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Report #8, report dated December 31, 1952; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 748 Source ID: Johnson_6342 Source: Johnson ### Event 5081 (7DD1C87F) Date: 9/26/1952 Description: 11:16 p.m. The pilot and crew of a USAF C-124 see two distinct green lights to the right and slightly above the plane, about 400 miles north-northwest of the Azores Islands. At one point, they appear to turn toward the plane. They remain visible until the plane sights the islands. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Air Crews Observe Green Lights](http://www.nicap.org/520926azores%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 174 Source ID: Eberhart_2062 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5082 (077D37C3) Date: 9/26/1952 Description: Syndicated aviation columnist [Robert S. Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FS.%5FAllen) writes in his column that the “Air Force has a breathtaking report” ready on UFOs. The study expresses the belief that some reports are genuine and originate from “sources outside of this planet.” The supposed document also says that some sightings involve secret US military devices. The study is allegedly based on more than 1,800 sightings in the past 5 years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert S. Allen, “[Report on Flying Saucers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93486106/)” Los Angeles Mirror News, September 26, 1952, p. 43; Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_2061 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5083 (8100DC63) Date: 9/27/1952 Time: 10 PM Description: Witnesses: two couples, using a 5x telescope. One large, round object, which went through the color spectrum every 2 seconds, was seen to fly straight and level for 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Inyokern, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_261 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5084 (F639368B) Date: 9/27/1952 Description: Inyo, Kern County, California. Two couples, looking through a 5x telescope at 10 p.m., observed a large, round object, which went through the color spectrum every 2 seconds. It flew straight and level for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6372 Source: Johnson ### Event 5085 (80E651F9) Date: 9/27/1952 End date: 9/28/1952 Description: Throughout West Germany, Denmark, and southern Sweden, there are widespread UFO reports. A luminous object with a comet-like tail is seen moving irregularly near Hamburg and Kiel, Germany. Once, three satellite objects are reported moving around a larger object. A cigar-shaped UFO moving silently eastward is also seen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 163](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=175&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2063 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5086 (6950130F) Date: 9/27/1952 Description: White-silver circular flat disc flying erratically at 600-700 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hempstead, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1350 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5087 (9EFEF276) Date: 9/27/1952 Description: 2 couples using a 5x telescope saw a large, round object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2128) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Inyokern, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1351 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5088 (AD34511B) Date: 9/28/1952 Description: 2:00 p.m. [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson), [Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter), and Bailey attempt to meet the saucer intelligences for a landing somewhere in the Arizona desert, but apparently get lost. They return to Streeter’s home, where the radio sends sinister-sounding messages about the radio being dangerous, a man coming, and Streeter having a deep secret \(perhaps that Streeter has attempted psychic contact once before in 1950\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_2064 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5089 (01CD0B9F) Date: 9/28/1952 Description: 8:35 p.m.–10:09 p.m. USAF radar operator A/3c Carlton L. Hall, stationed on the southwest coast of Tsushima Island, Japan, notices unusual targets on six separate occasions, each time for a duration of 2–4 sweeps. On two separate outbound tracks from Itazuke Air Base \[now Fukuoka Airport\], a series of targets appear directly behind aircraft when entering an azimuth of 50°–70° from nearby Tsutsusaki Lighthouse. The objects appear as normal aircraft but are rounder in shape, trailing about 2–3 miles to the rear of the aircraft. A/2c Warren D. Grovenstein also observes four of these anomalies with Hall. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[Blue Book report](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/1952-09-28%20TsuShima-Japan-min.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_2065 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5090 (5C5004E8) Date: 9/28/1952 Description: Object Similar to Aircraft Tracked on GCA Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [520928](http://www.nicap.org/520928goosebay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1353 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5091 (EA865683) Date: 9/28/1952 Description: (35°11’ N, 136°45’ E). (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tsushima Island, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1352 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5092 (5B10EAC5) Date: 9/29/1952 Description: 6:30 p.m. Capt. Dursemaine, commanding officer of the Gendarmerie Maritime en Allemagne, watches a luminous, egg-shaped object with a black spot in its center flying at an altitude of 3.7 miles above his home 1.2 miles south of Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It emits a low-pitched hum and white exhaust. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_2066 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5093 (BD3BA8F3) Date: 9/29/1952 Description: Green ellipse. with a long tail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2140) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Southern Pines, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1358 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5094 (C31D5927) Date: 9/29/1952 Time: 8:15 PM Description: Witnesses: U.S. Army Res. lst Lt. C.H. Stevens and two others. One green ellipse with a long tail orbited for 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Southern Pines, North Carolina Source ID: BerlinerBBU_263 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5095 (9F91E697) Date: 9/29/1952 Time: 3:15 PM Description: Witness: USAF T/Sgt. B.R. Hughes. Five or six circular objects, bright white but not shiny, circled in trail formation for 5-6 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Aurora, Colorado Source ID: BerlinerBBU_264 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5096 (31F779A9) Date: 9/29/1952 Description: At 8:15 p.m. U.S. Army Reserve Lieutenant C. H. Stevens and two others in Southern Pines, North Carolina observed a green ellipse with a long tail orbiting in the sky for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2140; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6415 Source: Johnson ### Event 5097 (C4043296) Date: 9/29/1952 Description: 2 flat objects hovering then speeding away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2136) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rochester, England, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1354 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5098 (B3F80879) Date: 9/29/1952 Description: 5-6 circular objects, bright white but not shiny (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aurora, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1355 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5099 (07C86477) Date: 9/29/1952 Description: On this day a cigar-shaped mothership and accompaning disc-shaped UFOs were seen together over Denmark. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1987, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_6412 Source: Johnson ### Event 5100 (E014A057) Date: 9/29/1952 Description: Rochester, England. At 3:55 p.m. GMT the Rochester Police Department received a report that two flat unidentified objects had hovered over the city for three minutes, and then sped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2136; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6413 Source: Johnson ### Event 5101 (C944ADFB) Date: 9/29/1952 Time: 3:55 PM Description: Witnesses unknown, but report came via the Rochester Police Dept. Two flat objects hovered for 3 minutes, and then sped away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Rochester, England Source ID: BerlinerBBU_262 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5102 (D48B4707) Date: 9/29/1952 Description: In Aurora, Colorado at 3:15 p.m. USAF Sgt. B. R. Hughes witnessed five or six circular objects, bright white but not shiny. They circled in trail formation for 5-6 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6414 Source: Johnson ### Event 5103 (263CC61B) Date: 9/30/1952 Description: \[Same as Sept. 29 Aurora case?\] (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2138) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Denver, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1356 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5104 (C1E03429) Date: 9/30/1952 Description: 10:30 a.m. A North American Aviation Company film crew, headed by Dick Beemer, is at Edwards AFB in southern California to film some tests. They are at Rogers Dry Lake when a B-29 passes overhead. Cameraman Carlos Garcia sees an unusual object moving near the plane. A second object appears. Soon the whole crew is looking up. Beemer says the objects are silent, leave no vapor trail, take turns maneuvering around each other, and look like “flattened spheres.” They have a color motion picture camera with them, but the UFOs are too near the sun. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [pp. 57–58](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=69&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2067 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5105 (15E09A7D) Date: 9/30/1952 Description: Aviation photographer, others, observed two discs alternately hovering and darting around. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edwards AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1357 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5106 (11275119) Date: 10/1952 Description: Stanley Glickman, an American artist living in Paris, France, joins a group of fellow Americans at a café, one of whom is CIA mind-control and poison specialist [Sidney Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) A heated political debate ensues, and when Glickman decides to leave, he is offered a drink to soothe ill feelings. Gottlieb surreptitiously slips LSD into Glickman’s drink and it derails his life. Glickman suffers a complete mental breakdown from which he never recovers. In 1977, he learns about Gottlieb and CIA’s LSD experiments on unwitting involuntary subjects from the [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FKennedy) congressional hearings. Glickman sues in 1981, but the trial is delayed 17 years on technical grounds, by which time Glickman has died in 1992. His sister, Gloria Kronisch, pursues the case in the US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, as his executrix in 1998, but it is thrown out on July 9 because the statute of limitations has passed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: H. P. Albarelli Jr., [A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Cold](https://archive.org/details/terriblemistake00hpal/page/n3/mode/2up) [War Experiments](https://archive.org/details/terriblemistake00hpal/page/n3/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/terriblemistake00hpal/page/n3/mode/2up) Trine Day, 2009; [Kronisch v. United States](https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1364923.html), US Court of Appeals, 2d Circuit, July 9, 1998 Source ID: Eberhart_2072 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5107 (3ED2E568) Date: 10/1952 Description: Evening. Aeronautical engineer and former Project Sign liaison [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) and his wife Marion see an odd object while driving near Plainsboro, New Jersey. At first, they think it is an aircraft crashing, but the object levels off and flashes away at high speed, emitting a bluish-green light. He estimates it is 100 feet in diameter and 500–600 feet high, and it gives off a “weird light like looking at a firefly” while changing shape. Loedding says Rep. [L. Gary Clemente](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%5FGary%5FClemente) \(D-N.Y.\) is also a witness. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Saucer Design Practical, WADC Aid Says; U.S.](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59508517/the-journal-herald/) [Interested,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59508517/the-journal-herald/)” Dayton \(Ohio\) Journal Herald, August 9, 1957, p. 13 Source ID: Eberhart_2073 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5108 (83E1BA73) Date: 10/1952 Description: The first number of [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender)’s Space Review is published. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Space Review](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Space%20Review%20%28Bender%29/Space%20Review%20-%20Volume%201%20number%201%20-%201952%2010.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(October 1952\); Clark III 189 Source ID: Eberhart_2069 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5109 (546E89CE) Date: 10/1952 Description: Opal Church is driving with her nephew in a car between Salem and Corvallis, Oregon, when they see an 8- foot, heavily built figure walking with “fluid movements” along the road. It is wearing an Arab-style headdress and a uniform, with gloves and boots, of fine metallic mesh. A ribbed belt surrounds the waist. Its face is pale and the huge round eyes, nearly 3 inches in diameter, glow. Inside them are reticulations “resembling the filament in old electric light bulbs.” Church turns around immediately, but the figure is gone, even though the terrain is flat. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1952–1953,](http://www.cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1952-1953.pdf) p. 28; Clark III 267 Source ID: Eberhart_2070 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5110 (9F15AF29) Date: 10/1952 Description: [Andrija Puharich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija%5FPuharich)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija%5FPuharich) a medical doctor interested in parapsychology, discovers that a person’s ESP abilities are enhanced when they are placed inside a Faraday cage. His experimental subject is none other than gifted psychic [Eileen J. Garrett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen%5FJ.%5FGarrett)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen%5FJ.%5FGarrett) whom he has tasked with clairvoyantly perceiving cosmic ray bursts of sufficient magnitude to trigger a signal in a detector. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days, Part 2,” IUR 32, no. 2 \(December 2008\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_2071 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5111 (49C9319D) Date: 10/1/1952 Time: 6:57 PM Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. T.J. Pointek, pilot of RF-8O reconnaissance jet. One bright white light flew straight, then vertical, then hovered, and then made an abrupt turn during a 23 minute attempted intercept. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Shaw AFB, South Carolina Source ID: BerlinerBBU_265 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5112 (C00E08CB) Date: 10/1/1952 Time: 7:40 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. C.C. McLean and one other person. One round, milky-white object, shaped like a powder puff, hovered for 5-10 minutes then flew away very fast in an arc. A loud blast was heard at the start of the 22 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pascagoula, Mississippi Source ID: BerlinerBBU_266 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5113 (9CEBAA7A) Date: 10/1/1952 Description: Heard a loud blast and saw a round, milky-white object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2143) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pascagoula, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1360 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5114 (F3647DCA) Date: 10/1/1952 Description: Bright white light fly straight, then vertical (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2142) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shaw AFB, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1359 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5115 (001F0655) Date: 10/2/1952? Description: Shortly before 7:00 a.m. One Thursday this month, Johannes Nordlien is waiting for coworkers when he hears a howling sound. A white, saucer-shaped object, 13 feet in diameter, comes in from the west at high speed and passes him only 325 feet away. It falls with a violent splash into the river Lågen \[Gudbrandsdalslågen?\] in Norway. When his colleagues show up, the water is still roiling. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_2074 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5116 (52813D34) Date: 10/2/1952 Description: CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence Director [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) writes a memorandum to Director of Central Intelligence [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) recommending he advise the National Security Council that more research is needed on UFOs to investigate their national security threat. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: H. Marshall Chadwell, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” October 2, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Good Above, [pp. 509–510](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/508/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2075 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5117 (CE873FFA) Date: 10/2/1952 Description: SECRET MEMO to Director CIA from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence: ATIC is the only group devoting appreciable effort to the study of UFOs. Flying Saucers pose two elements of danger to the United States. The first involves mass psychological considerations and the second concerns vulnerability of the U.S. to air attack. Recommend that the DCI discuss this subject with the Psychological Strategy Board. Type: secret memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p509) Location: Langley, VA See also: 11/25/1952 Source ID: Maj2_481 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5118 (145AA2B8) Date: 10/3/1952 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a UFO zigzagged over Abidjan, Ivory Coast. That evening, at Cocoa Beach, Florida a white ovoid object hovered near Cape Canaveral for two and a half hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_6518 Source: Johnson ### Event 5119 (C8C02A7E) Date: 10/6/1952 Description: A cigar-shaped object was seen in Oran, Algeria at 6:30 p.m. At 7:28 p.m. two witnesses onboard an Air France DC-4 flying over Draguignan, Var, France sighted a white luminous object that looked like an elongated egg with a bluish-white tail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1987, p. 18; (2) Aime Michel, The World of Flying Saucers, p. 145; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_6594 Source: Johnson ### Event 5120 (0AF14296) Date: 10/7/1952 Time: 8:30 PM Description: Witness: USAF Lt. Bagnell. One pale blue oval, with its long axis vertical, flew straight and level for 4-5 seconds, covering 30 in that time. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Alamagordo, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_267 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5121 (97B98311) Date: 10/7/1952 Description: Pale blue oval, with its long axis vertical, fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2150, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1361 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5122 (4F9661F2) Date: 10/8/1952 Description: A thin, silver disc-shaped craft hovered and wobbled 500 meters over the heads of three witnesses in Guimiliau, Finistere department, France on this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. It made a whistling sound as it shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131 Source ID: Johnson_6637 Source: Johnson ### Event 5123 (BCE62109) Date: 10/9/1952 End date: 10/11/1952 Description: At the Optical Society of America meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) presents a paper on “Unusual Aerial Phenomena,” in which he expresses skepticism for most reports, except for nocturnal lights that do “not appear to be readily explainable on an astronomical basis, or by mirages, balloons, or by conventional aircraft.” Astronomer [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) presents a dismissive paper on radar angels and mirages, while [Urner](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/10/03/urner-liddel-ex-physicist-headed-lunar-planetary-unit/126c1f5b-1d2a-4045-9bb5-9f7327808c1c/) [Liddel](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/10/03/urner-liddel-ex-physicist-headed-lunar-planetary-unit/126c1f5b-1d2a-4045-9bb5-9f7327808c1c/) presents “Phantasmagoria or Unusual Observations in the Atmosphere,” dismissing UFO reports as mass hysteria, fear psychosis, and sensation-seeking. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. A. Hynek, “[Unusual Aerial Phenomena,](https://opg.optica.org/josa/abstract.cfm?uri=josa-43-4-311)” Journal of the Optical Society of America 43 \(1953\): 311–314; Urner Liddel, “[Phantasmagoria or Unusual Observations in the](https://opg.optica.org/josa/abstract.cfm?URI=josa-43-4-314) [Atmosphere,](https://opg.optica.org/josa/abstract.cfm?URI=josa-43-4-314)” Journal of the Optical Society of America 43 \(1953\): 314–317 Source ID: Eberhart_2076 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5124 (FE8DA131) Date: 10/10/1952 Description: At 6:30 p.m. three enlisted men at Otis AFB, Massachusetts watched a blinking white light swing in the sky like a pendulum for 20 minutes. It then shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2155; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6698 Source: Johnson ### Event 5125 (57868E3E) Date: 10/10/1952 Time: 6:30 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF S/Sgt., two other enlisted men. One blinking white light moved like a pendulum for 20 minutes, and then shot straight up. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Otis AFB, Massachusetts Source ID: BerlinerBBU_268 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5126 (200A4CE0) Date: 10/10/1952 Description: Blinking white light move like a pendulum then shoot straight up (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2155) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Otis AFB, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1362 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5127 (5C545DBF) Date: 10/10/1952 Description: Battelle issues its sixth status report on Project Stork. UFO reports through 1951 have been coded and put on IBM punch cards. About 60% of the reports have been evaluated. The panel has looked at two films and soil and vegetation samples from cases in Florida and Pittsburg, Kansas. The witness questionnaire is further refined and will become the basis for Project Blue Book’s form. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 3,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7b.htm)” CUFON; “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 4,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7c.htm)” CUFON Source ID: Eberhart_2077 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5128 (F3E095B8) Date: 10/11/1952 Description: A Ground Observer Corps spotter sees a disc hovering in one spot for 20 minutes over Newport News, Virginia. When two interceptors arrive from Langley Air Force Base, the object tilts up, accelerates, and shoots away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 150](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=162&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2078 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5129 (EA050AB2) Date: 10/11/1952 Description: Ground Observer Corps spotter saw disc-shaped UFO with "dome". \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newport News, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1363 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5130 (802623CF) Date: 10/12/1952 Description: Harold H. Fulton founds Civilian Saucer Investigation \(New Zealand\) in Auckland. It begins publishing a quarterly newsletter, Flying Saucers, in May 1953, which continues until September 1959 with a name change in 1958 to Space Probe. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Flying Saucers](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/New%20Zealand/Flying%20Saucers%20%28CSI%20NZ%29/Flying%20Saucers%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2001%20-%201953%2005.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(May 1953\); [Space Probe](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/New%20Zealand/Space%20Probe%20%28CSI%20NZ%29/Space%20Probe%20-%201958%2012.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/New%20Zealand/Space%20Probe%20%28CSI%20NZ%29/Space%20Probe%20-%201958%2012.pdf) Christmas 1958 Source ID: Eberhart_2079 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5131 (09523E3D) Date: 10/12/1952 Description: V-formation of six apparent discs. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palo Alto, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1364 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5132 (F9C7170B) Date: 10/13/1952 Description: [James Q. Reber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FQ.%5FReber)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FQ.%5FReber) assistant director of CIA intelligence coordination, writes a memo to the CIA deputy director of intelligence, arguing that fundamental research into the question of positive identification is the responsibility of the Defense Department and that while investigating Soviet knowledge of UFO phenomena is a “primary concern” for the CIA, it “is far too early in view of the present state of our knowledge regarding Flying Saucers for psychological warfare planners to start planning how the United States might use U.S. Flying Saucers against the enemy.” Reber goes on to recommend that when “intelligence has submitted the National Estimate on Flying Saucers there will be the time and basis for a public policy to reduce or restrain mass hysteria.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James Q. Reber, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf)” October 13, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996 Source ID: Eberhart_2080 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5133 (83AA12B0) Date: 10/13/1952 Description: 7:08 p.m. USAF pilot Maj. [William D. Leet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139829263/william-dean-leet) and his engineer, flying a C-54 troop carrier, watch an elliptical UFO hovering in clouds near Oshima, Japan. It speeds away after 7 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 24](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=36&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2081 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5134 (12D0449B) Date: 10/13/1952 Description: Air Force pilot and engineer saw round object in cloud formation; object became elliptical in appearance, sped away disappearing in seconds. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oshima, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1365 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5135 (73547602) Date: 10/14/1952 Description: OSI Deputy Assistant Director [Ralph L. Clark](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/01/28/ralph-clark-dies/a5579bb9-2ac2-400e-8c13-af6cc74befde/) writes a memorandum for the record suggesting a meeting on October 20 or 21 to work out a research and intelligence program on UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ralph J. Clark, “[Flying Saucers](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005515939.pdf) [Problem,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005515939.pdf)” October 14, 1952 Source ID: Eberhart_2082 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5136 (D6E91236) Date: 10/15/1952 Description: At 7:10 p.m. beings with helmets and masks were seen through lighted windows in a craft on the ground at the Le Vigan Airport, Gard, France. The cigar-shaped object was 30 meters long, 6 meters in diameter, and had a rounded forward section. A fog was noted at both ends of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 62 & 141; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 103 Source ID: Johnson_6846 Source: Johnson ### Event 5137 (711C772F) Date: 10/15/1952 Time: 1910 Description: Approximate date. Figures with helmets and masks were seen through lighted windows inside a bright yellow, cigar-shaped object on the ground. Length 30 m, diameter 6 m. Forward section was rounded, and a sort of fog was noted at both ends of object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy; Anatomy 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Le Vigan, France Source ID: Magnonia_103 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5138 (B40BC82D) Date: 10/15/1952 Description: As Many As Five Targets Observed (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521015](http://www.nicap.org/521015ashiya%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ashiya, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1366 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5139 (5E8B95B3) Date: 10/16/1952 Description: [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) is in a state of panic from the messages he and the Baileys have received from space people. He writes an associate doing missionary work in Guatemala that disaster will strike the earth before December 1. He says radio contacts have stopped and that he has been told there will be a direct contact with a spaceman: “Professor [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) is in on this too.” The Baileys have already met with Adamski \(in August\) and now the messages are urging another meeting with him. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Y. N. ibn Aharon \[Yonah Fortner\], “Diagnosis: A Case of Chronic Fright,” Saucer News 4, no. 5 \(Aug./Sept. 1957\): 3–6; Clark III 1284 Source ID: Eberhart_2083 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5140 (D0C264CD) Date: 10/17/1952 Time: 11 PM Description: Witness: one military person (no detail). One white streamer moved at an estimated 3,000 m.p.h. in an arc for 20 seconds. No further details in files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_271 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5141 (CE0C1BC3) Date: 10/17/1952 Description: At 12:50 a.m. in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Alpes-Maritimes, France a whitish cylinder-shaped UFO hovered at a 45 degree angle in the sky with 30 other UFOs in front of it. Through binoculars the small objects were made out to be red spheres with a yellow ring around them. Angel hair filament material fell to the ground. The fibers resembled wool or nylon strands, except when balled together became gelatinous, and sublimed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 153; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 100; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 62; Roberto Pinotti, FSR, May-June1970, p. 7; UNICAT, case 641 Source ID: Johnson_6908 Source: Johnson ### Event 5142 (B31C1E5F) Date: 10/17/1952 Time: 10:15 PM Description: Witnesses: Ministers Greenwalt and Kluck. Ten lights, or a rectangle of lights, moved more or less straight and level for 5 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Killeen, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_270 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5143 (047AA443) Date: 10/17/1952 Time: 9:15 PM Description: Witnesses: Four USAF officers One round, bright blue light moved from north to northeast at an elevation of 45 degree for 2-3 seconds and then burned out. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Taos, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_269 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5144 (CF90B725) Date: 10/17/1952 Description: Early afternoon. Residents of Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, see a large cigar-shaped structure in the blue sky, inclined at a 45° angle. The witnesses include the family of Yves Prigent, general superintendent of the local high school. A plume of white smoke is escaping from its upper end. At some distance in front of the cylinder, about 30 round, puffy objects with a central red spot are following the same trajectory. The smaller objects move in pairs following a broken, zig-zag path. They leave an abundant trail of a white substance \(angel’s hair\) behind them, which slowly falls to the ground as it disperses. For several hours, clumps of it hang on the trees, on the telephone wires, and on the roofs of houses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Les Soucoupes Volantes vues à](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FSpectrum%5Fof%5FUFO%5FResearch.pdf) [Oloron le 17 Octobre,](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FSpectrum%5Fof%5FUFO%5FResearch.pdf)” France-Dimanche, October 26, 1952, in The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988, p. 114; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, Hutchinson, 1956, pp. 87–92; Jacques Vallee and Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Regnery, 1966, [pp. 120–121](https://archive.org/details/challengetoscien00vall/page/119/mode/2up); Clark III 123; Patrick Gross, “[Documents: Found in the Attic](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/attic/1952-10-17-oloron-dr.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 73–74; Lotharson, “[Unidentified Flying Spiders in Southern France?](https://shardsofmagonia.wordpress.com/2017/03/12/unidentified-flying-spiders-in-southern-france/)” Shards of Magonia, March 12, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_2084 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5145 (87856946) Date: 10/17/1952 Description: Rectangle of 10 lights, move more or less straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2172) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1368 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5146 (45975EB4) Date: 10/17/1952 Description: Whites streamer move at an estimated 3,000 mph in an arc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2173, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tierra Amarilla AFS, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1369 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5147 (88A9D038) Date: 10/17/1952 Description: Round bright blue light move from N to NE at an elevation of 45° (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2171, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Taos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1367 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5148 (E5B799A8) Date: 10/17/1952 Description: At 9:15 p.m. in Taos, New Mexico four USAF officers observed a round, bright blue light moved from north to northeast at an elevation of 45 degrees for 2-3 seconds and then burnt out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6909 Source: Johnson ### Event 5149 (4F56BCA2) Date: 10/17/1952 Description: In Killeen, Texas two ministers, Reverends Greenwalt and Kluck, sighted ten lights, or a rectangle of lights, moving more or less straight and level through the sky for 5 seconds at 10:15 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6910 Source: Johnson ### Event 5150 (2494C112) Date: 10/17/1952 Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico a military witness sighted what looked like a white streamer move in an arc through the sky at an estimated 3,000 mph. The sighting lasted for 20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6911 Source: Johnson ### Event 5151 (CFB4EE52) Date: 10/18/1952 Description: 9:44 p.m. Journalist Keith Hooper is returning home from an assignment for the Adelaide Advrtiser when he sees a greenish-white, cigar-shaped object about the size of a Boeing 707 some 10 miles away over the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, moving southeast to northwest. The object makes a sharp, right-angle turn upward, recedes, then vanishes at tremendous speed. The duration is 5–7 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Hooper, “[My Flying](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93520589/) [Saucer,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93520589/)” Sydney \(N.S.W.\) Morning Herald, March 13, 1965, p. 13 Source ID: Eberhart_2085 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5152 (A567CEFE) Date: 10/19/1952 Description: 3 circular aluminum objects, one olive-drab colored on the side (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2177) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Antonio, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1371 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5153 (4D1204D5) Date: 10/19/1952 Description: Transport Crew Encounters 100' Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2175) Reference: NICAP: [521019](http://www.nicap.org/521019pacific%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawaii (500 miles S of), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1370 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5154 (ECC35399) Date: 10/19/1952 Time: 6:58 PM Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF C-50 transport plane. One round yellow light, with a red glowing edge, estimated at 100' in diameter, flew at 300-400 kts. (350-450 m.p.h.) for 20 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 500 miles south of Hawaii Source ID: BerlinerBBU_273 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5155 (982C4484) Date: 10/19/1952 Description: CAP Pilot Sees Silver Ball At 1000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [521019](http://www.nicap.org/521019momence%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Momence, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1372 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5156 (532A9FFA) Date: 10/19/1952 Time: 1:30 PM Description: Witness: one ex-USAF aircrewman Woolsey. Three circular aluminum objects, one of which was olive-drab colored on the side, flew in a rough V-formation. One object flipped slowly, another object stopped, during the 3-4 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: San Antonio, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_272 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5157 (D648C6BF) Date: 10/19/1952 Description: San Antonio, Texas. At 1:30 p.m. ex-USAF aircrewman Woolsey saw three circular aluminum objects, one of which was olive drab colored on the side. They flew in a rough V-formation. One object flipped slowly and another object stopped during the 3-4 minute sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2177; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 77; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6963 Source: Johnson ### Event 5158 (1FFC82AF) Date: 10/19/1952 Description: The crew of an USAF C-50 transport plane, flying 500 miles to the south of Hawaii at 6:58 p.m., sighted a round yellow light with a red glowing edge. The object was estimated to be 100 feet in diameter and it flew at 300-400 knots (350-450 mph). They watched it for 20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2175; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 77; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6964 Source: Johnson ### Event 5159 (22F8F668) Date: 10/21/1952 Description: Afternoon. Flight Lt. Michael Swiney and a student pilot, Royal Navy Lt. David Crofts, are flying a Meteor T.7 trainer out of RAF Little Rissington, Gloucester, England, for a high-altitude navigation exercise at 35,000 feet. Not long after breaking out of a cloud during a climb at 13,000–14,000 feet, they see three circular, white objects in front of them. As the aircraft get closer and turns to avoid them, the objects become visible as discs. They disappear quickly when the pilot looks away briefly. Two Meteor F.8 fighters are scrambled from RAF Tangmere \[now closed\] in West Sussex to chase three unknown radar targets moving at 3,000 mph but fail to intercept them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Little Rissington UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%5FRissington%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002, pp. 98–102; UFOFiles2, [pp. 47–49](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n79/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2086 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5160 (AA82DBC2) Date: 10/21/1952 Time: No time given Description: Witnesses: persons at airport weather station. Six white lights flew in a loose formation for 1-2 minutes, and made a shallow dive at a weather balloon. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Source ID: BerlinerBBU_274 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5161 (09835F63) Date: 10/21/1952 Description: Persons at the Knoxville, Tennessee airport weather station saw six white lights flying in a loose formation for one to two minutes. The unknown lights made a shallow dive at a weather balloon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7006 Source: Johnson ### Event 5162 (3EFB5DFD) Date: 10/21/1952 Description: RAF Meteor VII Encounters Object Tracked by Ground Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [521021](http://www.nicap.org/521021gloucestershiredir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nr. Gloucestershire, England Source ID: NICAP_DB_1373 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5163 (F7A23237) Date: 10/21/1952 Description: 6 white lights fly in a loose formation, make a shallow dive (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2179) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Knoxville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1374 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5164 (DCFBA6E1) Date: 10/23/1952 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) holds a briefing on UFOs at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico. Afterward Assistant Director for Scientific Personnel William H. Crew arranges a special meeting for Ruppelt and Col. [Bower](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower) with seven people from the laboratory. Several of them have evidence that there is a possible correlation between sightings of UFOs and unusual radiation detection. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, \[[Message referring to a December 1](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB7-926-927.pdf) [telephone call](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB7-926-927.pdf)\], December 2, 1952 Source ID: Eberhart_2087 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5165 (2123154F) Date: 10/24/1952 Description: At 8:26 p.m. flying over Elberton, Alabama at 5,000 feet in a Beech T-11 trainer, USAF Lt. Rau and Capt. Marcinko sighted a deep orange, plate-shaped flying object with a brilliant front and vague trail. It flew with its concave surface forward and was in sight for five seconds. It moved much faster than F-80, and showed constant acceleration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 82; UNICAT, case # 750 Source ID: Johnson_7068 Source: Johnson ### Event 5166 (BFB51236) Date: 10/24/1952 Description: Object, shaped like a plate, with a brilliant front and vague trail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2184) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elberton, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1375 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5167 (4086F024) Date: 10/24/1952 Time: 8:26 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF Lt. Rau, Capt. Marcinko, flying a Beech T-ll trainer. One object, shaped like a plate, with a brilliant front and vague trail, flew with its concave surface forward for 5 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Elberton, Alabama Source ID: BerlinerBBU_275 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5168 (50030177) Date: 10/24/1952 Description: President [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) signs National Security Council Directive 6, a 7-page document that eliminates the Armed Forces Security Agency formed in 1949 to unite all military signal intelligence operations and creates the National Security Agency. Since the memo is a classified document, the existence of the NSA is not known to the public. Due to its ultra-secrecy the US intelligence community refers to the NSA as “No Such Agency." The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. NSA inherits Project Shamrock from the AFSA. It also inherits collection of UFO data, at least by 1958, but probably in 1953. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 189](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/188/mode/2up); Thomas L. Burns, The Origins of the National Security Agency, 1940–1952, National Security Agency, 1990, pp. 97–99 Source ID: Eberhart_2088 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5169 (ED63C7FF) Date: Late 10/1952 Description: Night. Radioman Tom Kramer is serving aboard the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FCurtiss%5F%28AV-4%29) [Curtiss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FCurtiss%5F%28AV-4%29), the AEC flagship for Ivy Mike, the first detonation of a hydrogen bomb at Elugelab Atoll in the Marshall Islands. After an onboard movie, Kramer and other crewmen see a round, silent, bright white light that is motionless at first, then starts zigzagging for less than 10 seconds and takes off at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 100–101 Source ID: Eberhart_2089 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5170 (3BFEA012) Date: Late 10/1952 Description: 3:45 a.m. Seaman Abelardo Marquez, posted on the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFletcher%5F%28DD-445%29) [Fletcher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFletcher%5F%28DD-445%29) near Eniwetak Atoll for the upcoming Ivy Mike thermonuclear test, is going on duty to the bridge when he notices that the ship is uncharacteristically moving at full speed. Other crew members tell him it is because of a round white light that has been moving above the ship. Marquez sees it descending, then it stops and hovers about 40°–45° above the horizon and perhaps one-half mile from the ship. Capt. [Grover L. Rawlings](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/islandpacket/obituary.aspx?n=grover-l-rawlings&pid=180203035) is talking with other officers on the bridge, saying they do not know what the light is, and that is not tracked on radar. After about 4–5 minutes, the light takes off straight up at the same speed it had descended. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 101–105 Source ID: Eberhart_2090 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5171 (30E9FB19) Date: 10/27/1952 Description: At three o'clock in the afternoon white trails appeared in the sky over Forbach, France and some 40 small gray spheres exited and flew to the north toward Saar, Germany. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_7181 Source: Johnson ### Event 5172 (1F830738) Date: 10/27/1952 Description: Hundreds of citizens saw 16 UFOs in formation surrounding a cigar-shaped object. "Angel's hair" fell. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gaillac, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1376 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5173 (B759B45D) Date: 10/27/1952 Description: Five military witnesses at Woomera Open Air Theatre saw a cigar-shaped object fly on a straight, horizontal course at 8:00 p.m. in Woomera, South Australia. It flew from right to left, had to porthols and interior lighting, and was faster than a jet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Debbie Payne, Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_7178 Source: Johnson ### Event 5174 (AAD3FB6C) Date: 10/27/1952 Description: Several sighting reports came from France on this day. The earliest was at 2:03 a.m. at Marignane Airport, where customs official Gabriel Gachignard saw a 15-foot long football or cigar-shaped object, throbbing with soft changing tints. It had a metallic grillwork and four rectangular windows, 8 to 12 inches wide. It made a dull sound when it touched the ground, and a soft swishing sound on its quick departure when the witness ran towards it. The acceleration was instantaneous, and the UFO was gone from view in three seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, pp. 159-160; Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 6; UNICAT, case # 410 Source ID: Johnson_7179 Source: Johnson ### Event 5175 (801C795E) Date: 10/27/1952 Description: Two glowing balls hovered over Lignan-de-Bazas, France for ten minutes at 7:45 a.m., then seemed to burst. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131 Source ID: Johnson_7180 Source: Johnson ### Event 5176 (F141C37E) Date: 10/27/1952 Description: At five o'clock a white cylinder surrounded by eight pairs of Saturn-like red balls were seen at 300 to 400 meters altitude over the town of Gaillac, France. Angel hair filaments fell on the roofs of houses in the area. Thirty minutes later a UFO was seen hovering over Brives-Charensac, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, pp. 155 & 159; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 62; John Magor, Canadian UFO Report, Spring 1974; UNICAT case #642 Source ID: Johnson_7182 Source: Johnson ### Event 5177 (87F56252) Date: 10/27/1952 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a large round white object flew from east to west over Eyrans, France. It had a pointed end and threw off sparks. Angel hair residue also fell to gound here as well. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131 Source ID: Johnson_7183 Source: Johnson ### Event 5178 (CA683A70) Date: 10/27/1952 Description: 2:03 a.m. Customs officer Gabriel Gachignard observes a cigar-shaped object land briefly on a runway of the airport at Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, 100 meters away, producing a dull sound. The object is dark with four lighted windows. It takes off with a “swish” and a shower of sparks when he runs toward it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 243–244; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, Hutchinson, 1956, p. 53; Michel, The Truth about FS, pp. 152–156; Jacques Vallee and Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Regnery, 1966, [pp. 6–11](https://archive.org/details/challengetoscien00vall/page/5/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1986, pp. 82–84 Source ID: Eberhart_2091 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5179 (CEFDF776) Date: 10/27/1952 Description: An FBI memorandum to [Alan H. Belmont](https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbelmontA.htm) from Victor P. Keay reports that “Air Intelligence still feels that the so-called flying saucers are either optical illusions or atmospheric phenomena. He pointed out, however, that some Military officials are seriously considering the possibility of interplanetary ships.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: V. P. Keay, “[Flying](http://www.nicap.org/docs/docs85-86.pdf) [Saucers,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/docs85-86.pdf)” October 27, 1952 Source ID: Eberhart_2092 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5180 (E2C85FEE) Date: 10/27/1952 Description: 4:00 p.m. Residents of Gaillac, Tarn, France, see a formation of 16 disc-shaped UFOs ranged in twos. An elongated cylinder is in the center of the objects, all of which are discharging angel’s hair like glass wool. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS, p. 148; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, September–October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Sept-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1986, pp. 84–85; Lotharson, “[Unidentified Flying Spiders in Southern France?](https://shardsofmagonia.wordpress.com/2017/03/12/unidentified-flying-spiders-in-southern-france/)” Shards of Magonia, March 12, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_2093 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5181 (0A865F7C) Date: 10/27/1952 Time: 0203 Description: Customs officer Gabriel Gachignard observed a cigar-shaped object land briefly on the airfield 100 m away, producing a dull sound. The object was dark with four lighted windows. It took off with a "swish" and a shower of sparks when the witness ran toward it. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Challenge 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Marignane Airport, France Source ID: Magnonia_104 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5182 (9CF1F77D) Date: 10/27/1952 Description: Air Intelligence Memo: “Some military officials are seriously considering the possibility of (UFOs being) interplanetary ships.” Type: secret memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Dayton, OH Source ID: Maj2_482 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5183 (FD127A77) Date: 10/29/1952 Time: 7:50 AM Description: Witnesses: USAF S/Sgt. Anderson, A/2c Max Handy. One round object, silhouetted against a cloud, flew straight and level and smooth at 400 m.p.h. for 20 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Erding Air Depot, West Germany Source ID: BerlinerBBU_276 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5184 (026FCD33) Date: 10/29/1952 Description: Round object, silhouetted against a cloud (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2196) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Erding Air Depot, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_1377 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5185 (B3AADB07) Date: 10/29/1952 Description: At 7:50 a.m. at Erding Air Depot in West Germany U.S. Air Force S/Sgt. Anderson and A/2c Max Handy sighted a round flying object silhouetted against a cloud. It flew straight, level and smooth at an estimated speed of 400 mph for 20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2196; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 10; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7265 Source: Johnson ### Event 5186 (000D4BBE) Date: 10/29/1952 Description: Oct 29, 1952; near Richmond, Virginia, Rivas Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richmond (near), VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1379 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5187 (7B2744F8) Date: 10/29/1952 Description: Two F-94's Encounter Controlled Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521029](http://www.nicap.org/521029hempstead%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hempstead, Long Island, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1378 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5188 (D3D0007B) Date: 10/29/1952 Description: At two a.m. a white luminous object was seen by the pilots of two F-94s over Hempstead, England. It maneuvered at high speed, exhibiting extreme acceleration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_7264 Source: Johnson ### Event 5189 (12AC7123) Date: 10/29/1952 Description: 5:10 a.m. Two USAF F-94 crews see a white luminous object maneuvering at high speed for 20 minutes above Hempstead, Long Island, New York. Lt. William F. Hamilton and Lt. Norman W. Booth write: “Based on my experience in fighter tactics, it is my opinion that the object was controlled by something having visual contact with us. The power and acceleration were beyond the capability of any known aircraft.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two F-](http://www.nicap.org/521029hempstead%5Fdir.htm) [94’s Encounter Controlled Object](http://www.nicap.org/521029hempstead%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 177 Source ID: Eberhart_2094 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5190 (4AACA23E) Date: 10/31/1952 Description: Orange blimp-shaped object, 80 ft long 20 ft wide (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 2200) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [521031](http://www.nicap.org/fayetteville521031dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fayetteville, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1380 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5191 (C1B3FA0D) Date: 10/31/1952 Time: 7:40 PM Description: Witness: USAF Lt. James Allen. One orange, blimp-shaped object, 80' long and 20' high, flew at treetop level, crossed over Allen's car (at which time his radio stopped playing), then climbed out at 45' and tremendous speed at the end of a 1 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Fayetteville, Georgia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_277 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5192 (32C986C4) Date: 10/31/1952 Description: At 7:40 p.m. in Fayetteville, Georgia on highway 85 USAF Lt. James Allen watched an 80 foot long orange, blimp-shaped object. It flew at treetop level and crossed over Allen's car. As Lt. Allen's car passed underneath it his radio went completely dead. The UFO hovered for 20 seconds, then climbed up at a 45 degree angle and climbed out of sight at a tremendous speed in 30-40 seconds. The sighting lasted one minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2200; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 191; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 1; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 290 Source ID: Johnson_7327 Source: Johnson ### Event 5193 (666B49C4) Date: 11/1952 Description: Panel of four scientists convened at ATIC to make preliminary review of accumulated reports. Recommended convening panel of top scientists. Type: scientific panel Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 250-251](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton OH Source ID: Maj2_873 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5194 (B8350BAA) Date: 11/1952 Description: A child was burned when a strange disk, 25 cm in diameter, landed near Dublin. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Dublin, Ireland Source ID: Magnonia_105 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5195 (0F5CE1D6) Date: 11/1952 Description: [Aladino Félix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladino%5FF%C3%A9lix) and a friend are climbing a hill near Angatuba, São Paulo, Brazil. When they get to the top, Félix claims they see numerous UFOs flying around. Félix comes back another day by himself; eventually a saucer lands and he is invited inside to meet its crew and examine the technology. Several months later, he is visited at his home in São Paulo by the saucer captain, who claims to come from one or two of the satellites of Jupiter. Félix, under the pseudonym of Dino Kraspedon, writes about his various conversations with the spaceman in Meu Contato com os discos voadores in 1957. He writes other mystical and religious tracts under the names Dunatos Menorá and Sábado Dinotos. In 1967–1968, Félix is operating a right-wing terrorism group that sets off bombs, steals arms and explosives, and robs a bank. He serves three years in prison. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 661–662; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 164–165 Source ID: Eberhart_2095 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5196 (E330CD62) Date: 11/1/1952 Description: Nuclear test Ivy Mike is the first successful full-scale test of a multi-megaton thermonuclear weapon \(“hydrogen bomb”\) using the Teller-Ulam design the size of an airplane hangar. Unlike later thermonuclear weapons, Mike uses deuterium as its fusion fuel, maintained as a liquid by an expensive and cumbersome cryogenic system. It is detonated on Elugelab in the Marshall Islands yielding 10.4 megatons, almost 500 times the yield of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The fireball is 3 miles wide and completely destroys the atoll. USAF Capt. [Jimmy Priestly Robinson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22314541/jimmy-priestly-robinson) of the 561st Fighter-Day Squadron, is lost near the end of his mission to successfully pilot his F-84G through the mushroom cloud’s stem to collect radiochemical air samples. After re- emerging from the cloud, both he and his wingman, pilot Captain [Bob Hagan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172623461/robert-s%5F-hagan)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172623461/robert-s%5F-hagan) encounter difficulties picking up navigational beacons due to “electromagnetic after effects” of the detonation. By the time they are successful in finding the signal four hours later, they are dangerously low on fuel, and before reaching the runway, both have depleted their reserves. While Hagan is able to glide to the runway and achieve a hard landing, Robinson is too far out to follow the same path and therefore attempts to land on water. Neither his plane nor his body has ever been found; his family only learned the truth in 2008 after repeated FOIA requests. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Ivy Mike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy%5FMike)” Source ID: Eberhart_2096 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5197 (55937D5D) Date: 11/3/1952 Description: A long, elliptical, white-grey light fly very fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2202) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Laredo AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1382 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5198 (2009EDFB) Date: 11/3/1952 Time: 66:29 PM Description: Witnesses: two control tower operators, including Lemaster. One long, elliptical, white-grey light flew very fast, paused, and then increased speed during a 3-4 second observation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Laredo AFB, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_278 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5199 (AABED87A) Date: 11/4/1952 Description: T-6 Crew Observes Unidentified White Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521104](http://www.nicap.org/521104caribou%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caribou, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_1385 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5200 (B68025CA) Date: 11/4/1952 Description: 2 groups of 2-3 whirling discs of light fly toward the the SE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2206) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vineland, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1386 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5201 (A1C659B4) Date: 11/4/1952 Description: Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and Lt. Robert M. Olsson visit Col. [John R. Hood Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40669343/john-r%5F-hood), AMC chief of the Nuclear Powered Aircraft Branch of Wright Air Development Center. Hood had contacted ATIC in December 1950 in regard to certain sightings of UFOs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, in which he and a naval officer attempted to obtain correlation between sightings and peaks in radiation backgrounds. Now there are indications that there may be some correlation present between unknown radar pickups and rises in radiation, and he suggests that ATIC begin an instrumented radiation program. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Visit to WADC](http://www.nicap.org/docs/MAXW-PBB7-932-933.pdf),” November 4, 1952; Patrick W. Hayes, “[Unconventional Aircraft,](http://www.nicap.org/madar/radiation/501221OakRidge%5Fdocs.pdf)” Spot Intelligence Report, Dec. 1950 Source ID: Eberhart_2097 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5202 (2ECADA5B) Date: 11/4/1952 Description: The National Security Agency is established in Fort Meade, Maryland, in a memo by Secretary of Defense [Robert A. Lovett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FLovett)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FLovett) making the new agency responsible for all communications intelligence. The existence of the NSA is not known to the public at this time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[National Security Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FSecurity%5FAgency)” Source ID: Eberhart_2098 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5203 (EC57E10B) Date: 11/4/1952 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbia (Congaree AFB), SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1383 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5204 (7FDBA347) Date: 11/4/1952 End date: 11/6/1952 Description: The Baileys and Williamsons come up together for a visit to the Palomar Gardens Café. [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) tells them he has been making special trips into the desert in hopes of meeting a saucer. Soon Adamski begins channeling space messages in the presence of the Williamsons and the Baileys. At one of these sessions, a space being declares that a face-to-face meeting will take place soon. [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) and Bailey ask Adamski to call them before he attempts his next contact. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 23; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, p. 357 Source ID: Eberhart_2099 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5205 (51BEED79) Date: 11/4/1952 Description: At six o'clock in the morning, over a hospital in Laval, Mayenne department, France a brilliant cigar-shaped UFO changed color and then change shape into a disc-shaped object, then back into a cigar shape, and then faded away. The sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Luminieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131 Source ID: Johnson_7456 Source: Johnson ### Event 5206 (BB0FF84D) Date: 11/4/1952 Description: NSA is established Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/cryptologic-spectrum/early_history_nsa.pdf) Location: Fort Meade, Maryland Source ID: Maj2_483 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5207 (3942B02D) Date: 11/4/1952 Description: (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: West Hokkaido, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1384 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5208 (0CC13432) Date: 11/4/1952 Time: 5:40 PM Description: Witness: housewife Mrs. Sprague. Two groups of 2-3 whirling discs of light flew toward the southeast over a period of 30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Vineland, New Jersey Source ID: BerlinerBBU_279 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5209 (CFB26AED) Date: 11/5/1952 Description: [Dwight D. Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) is elected president. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_2100 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5210 (7D0BAC46) Date: 11/8/1952 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) FPS-3 Tracks Maneuvering Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [521108](http://www.nicap.org/521108amarilla%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tierra Amarilla AFS, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1387 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5211 (7DB53E90) Date: 11/10/1952 Description: Battelle’s Project Stork notes in its seventh status report that current UFO reports “are now in more detail and often consist of sightings of one object by more than one individual.” 500 copies of a final version of the sighting questionnaire were delivered to ATIC at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. It expects to have all UFO reports dated before June 15, 1952, processed and evaluated by December 10, ready for IBM analysis later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 929; “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 4,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7c.htm)” CUFON Source ID: Eberhart_2101 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5212 (E51FC012) Date: 11/12/1952 Time: 10:23 PM Description: Witness: security inspector. Four red-white-green lights flew slowly over a prohibited area for 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_280 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5213 (5EA28303) Date: 11/12/1952 Description: 4 red-white-green lights fly slowly over prohibited area (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2219, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1388 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5214 (EF273EB0) Date: 11/13/1952 Description: At both Opheim Army Base and Glasgow AFB in Montana in 1952, an unidentified flying object was picked up on radar between 2:20 and 2:43 a.m. There was visual confirmation of the UFO by military personnel near Opheim. According to Earl Oksendahl, a qualified and reliable weather bureau witness, at 2.43 a.m. five glowing objects in formation made a 90 degree turn overhead, and then flew to the southwest. The two outside objects seemed to bank. They were oval shaped, 30-50 feet in diameter, had no trail, no exhausts, and made no noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2220; UNICAT, case # 752; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 22; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 76 Source ID: Johnson_7624 Source: Johnson ### Event 5215 (542CBCC6) Date: 11/13/1952 Time: 2:43 AM Description: Witness: U.S. Weather Bureau observer Earl Oksendahl. Five oval-shaped objects, with lights all around them, flew in a V-formation for about 20 seconds. Each object seemed to be changing position vertically by climbing or diving as if to hold formation. Formation came from the northwest, made a 90 degree overhead, and flew away to the southwest. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Glasgow, Montana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_282 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5216 (2FE18353) Date: 11/13/1952 Time: 2:20 AM Description: Witness: radar tracking by USAF 779th AC&W station. An unexplained track was followed for 1 hour, 28 minutes, at 158,000' altitude (30 miles) and a speed of 240 m.p.h. Radar was FPS/3 (PPI). Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Opheim, Montana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_281 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5217 (8C0D364C) Date: 11/13/1952 Description: Tracked an unidentified target on FPS-3 radar at 158,000 ft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2220) Reference: NICAP: [521113](http://www.nicap.org/521113ophiem%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Opheim, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1389 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5218 (C42EC042) Date: 11/13/1952 Description: 5 oval- shaped objects with lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2220) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glasgow, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1390 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5219 (88704178) Date: 11/15/1952 Description: during the Korean War, two Americans flying in a T-6 aircraft over Pyongyang Sector CT 7943 at 1:07 p.m. local time saw a 10 foot diameter silver sphere below their plane. It flew north for 5 miles, then made a 180 degree turn to the south and climbed in altitude. When the plane banked toward the UFO, it banked into a left-hand orbit around the aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices during the Korean War, p. 57; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19; UNICAT, case # 753). Also in 1952, a elliptical blue-white light was spotted from an Air Force B-47 bomber over Wichita, Kansas at 20:25 p.m. It had an orange or red tail, and moved erratically. The case is listed as a Project Blue Book "unknown." At 6:45 p.m. a ring of colored lights, rotating counter-clockwise, was sighted at 400' altitude north of Frederica, Delaware. (Sources: Project Blue Book, case 2224; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1952: November-December, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_7684 Source: Johnson ### Event 5220 (E341A2BE) Date: 11/15/1952 Time: 7:02 AM Description: Witnesses: USAF Maj. R.L. Wallander, Capt. Belleman, A/3c Phipps. One orange object (a blue streak?) varied in shape, as it made jerky upward sweeps with 10-15 second pauses during a 3-5 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Wichita, Kansas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_283 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5221 (F62B0019) Date: 11/15/1952 Description: Sphere Circles Below T-6 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521115](http://www.nicap.org/521115pyongyang%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pyongyang (near), North Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1391 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5222 (4ABF32A5) Date: 11/15/1952 Description: B-47 crew and passengers saw an elliptical blue-white object with orange or red tail, moving erratically (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wichita, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1392 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5223 (9AE26F40) Date: 11/15/1952 Description: Elliptical blue-white object with orange or red tail (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 2224) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wichita, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1393 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5224 (139C8302) Date: 11/16/1952 Description: A 41-year-old farmer named N. Ferrari in Castelfranco Emilia, Italy saw a 20 meter wide plate-shaped disc hovering at 9:30 a.m. It had a five meter long cylinder rotating on the top and bottom of the object and made a sound like an electric motor. The plates separated and three human-appearing occupants were visible inside. They wore rubber suits with masks. They spoke something like "Verren…firg…unch", and then the craft went straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 157; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0205, citing S. Boncompagni Source ID: Johnson_7713 Source: Johnson ### Event 5225 (F44476C6) Date: 11/16/1952 Description: Around 5:00 p.m. An air traffic controller at Florence Airport, South Carolina, watches a huge, gleaming disc through binoculars and sees it tilt up sharply before climbing out of sight. About 6 minutes later, people see a group of round, glowing objects north of Landrum, South Carolina. [David S. Bunch](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89210457/david-sumter-bunch) takes 40 minutes of film with an 8mm camera and telephoto lens before the UFOs disappear to the west. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) reviews the film along with some Air Force officers. It shows five glowing, oval-shaped objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FS from OS, [pp. 4–5](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chI.htm); UFOEv, [p.](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=101&skin=2021) [89](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=101&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 180 Source ID: Eberhart_2102 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5226 (1E9CBFCE) Date: 11/16/1952 Description: Hundreds of people saw a huge disc, watched through binoculars by air-traffic controller. (UFOE) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Landrum (near), SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1394 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5227 (7CB68717) Date: 11/18/1952 Description: President-Elect [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) receives a 43-minute national security briefing on matters that are still classified. Gen. [Nathan Twining,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) Gen. [Omar Bradley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%5FBradley)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%5FBradley) Adm. [William Fechteler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FFechteler)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FFechteler) Gen. [J. Lawton Collins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FLawton%5FCollins), Gen. [Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuel%5FC.%5FShepherd%5FJr)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuel%5FC.%5FShepherd%5FJr) and Secretary of Defense [Robert A. Lovett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FLovett) are present. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ 12: The Evidence So Far,” IUR 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1987\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_2104 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5228 (74B7B4B3) Date: 11/18/1952 Description: MAJESTIC “Preliminary Briefing” document to President (elect) Eisenhower from Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (MJ-1) Type: majestic document Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) Reference: [link](https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/mj4-majestic-dan-burisch-stargates-and-et/) Location: Washington DC Attributes: Majestic Source ID: Maj2_484 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5229 (123683C2) Date: 11/18/1952 Description: Date of the fake four-page “Briefing Document: Operation Majestic 12. Prepared for President-Elect [Dwight D. Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower): Eyes Only.” It states that UFOs are the product of an extraterrestrial civilization, that several had crashed and came into the possession of the US government, and that the US had custody of an alien for some time before it died. It says that [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FS.%5FTruman) established the MJ-12 group in 1947. Called Majestic-12, the group supposedly consists of CIA Director [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) [Vannevar Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar%5FBush) Secretary of Defense [James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) [Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) \(replaced by Gen. [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) in 1950\), Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining), Gen. [Hoyt Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg), [Detlev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlev%5FBronk) [Bronk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlev%5FBronk)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlev%5FBronk) [Jerome Clarke Hunsaker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClarke%5FHunsaker)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClarke%5FHunsaker) [Sidney Souers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FSouers)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FSouers) [Gordon Gray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FGray%5F%28politician%29), [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) Gen. [Robert Miller Montague](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMiller%5FMontague), and [Lloyd Berkner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Briefing Document: Operation Majestic-12, Prepared for President-Elect Dwight D.](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/MJ-12%5FDocument) [Eisenhower \(Eyes Only\),](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/MJ-12%5FDocument)” November 18, 1952; Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ 12: The Evidence So Far,” IUR 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1987\): 13–17; Joe Nickell and John R. Fischer, “The Crashed-Saucer Forgeries,” IUR 15, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1990\): 4–20; Good Above, [pp. 257–260](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/256/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/256/mode/2up) [544–550](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/544/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2103 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5230 (7FFC131A) Date: 11/18/1952 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) telephones [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) and tells him that the space people have informed him a physical encounter will take place on November 20. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1284; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 23; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, p. 358 Source ID: Eberhart_2105 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5231 (40865014) Date: 11/18/1952 Description: Nello Ferrari, 41, a farmer from Castelfranco, Italy found himself flooded with a reddish light on this morning when a large plate-shaped object flew ten meters above him. The 20-meter diameter disc was golden to copper in color. At the center of the bottom surface was a cylindrical section, about five meters wide, made up of a rapidly rotating part that produced a noise similar to an electric motor. On the upper surface was a transparent turret inside which three occupants were visible. The beings looked directly at him. They looked to be normal humans in appearance, and wore rubber coveralls and transparent facemasks. They spoke a few words, which were not understood. A loud metallic noise was heard; and the top part of the object lowered itself toward the lower plate. The sound gained intensity, and the craft flew up vertically at very high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Il Tempo, July 12, 1963; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 201 Source ID: Johnson_7725 Source: Johnson ### Event 5232 (337E29E4) Date: 11/18/1952 Description: Nello Ferrari, 41, a farmer, found himself flooded with a reddish light and saw a large plate 10 m above him, between gold and copper in color. At the center of the bottom surface, 20 m in diameter, was a cylinder of 5 m diameter made of rapidly rotating parts, producing a noise similar to that of an electric motor. On the upper surface was a turret inside which three occupants were visible, looking directly at the witness. They looked perfectly human, wore rubber coveralls and transparent face masks. They spoke a few words, which were not understood; a loud metallic noise was heard; and the top part of the object lowered itself toward the lower plate. The sound gained intensity, and the craft flew vertically at very high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 102 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Castelfranco, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_106 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5233 (A462A755) Date: 11/19/1952 Description: Pilot J. Slade Nash reaches 698.5 mph in a North American F-86D Sabre over the Salton Sea, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bryan R. Swopes, “[19 November 1952,](https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/james-slade-nash/)” This Day in Aviation, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_2106 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5234 (B91719AA) Date: 11/20/1952 Description: 9:00 p.m. The Williamsons and the Baileys, with [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s permission, drive to Phoenix, Arizona, and tell the story of their contact to reporters at the Phoenix Gazette. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 363 Source ID: Eberhart_2111 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5235 (EE37C7B9) Date: 11/20/1952 Description: 2:15 p.m. As he is packing up his telescope, [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) sees a man waving to him from about a quarter- mile away. He walks over to him and meets an entity named Orthon as his 6 companions watch from a distance. Five-and-a-half feet tall, Orthon \[could Adamski have thought of this name from Kodak Ortho film?\] is a beautiful being with long blond hair and an extremely high forehead. Through gestures, sign language, a few words, and telepathy, Adamski learns that he is from Venus and the Venusians are visiting earth out of concern for nuclear weapons. The conversation lasts about 45 minutes. Orthon declines to be photographed but asks Adamski to borrow one of his unexposed photos. After Orthon leaves in his Scout ship around 3:04 p.m., Adamski finds tracks in the desert floor. His companions rejoin him at the site. Around 3:45 p.m., [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) takes casts with plaster of paris, which he just happens to carry with him in case he runs into a stray bone. Each track contains within it a distinct set of symbols. After several hours of assessing the situation and waiting for the plaster to dry, the group returns to Desert Center, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Desmond Leslie and George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, British Book Centre, 1953, [pp. 185–215](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucershav00lesl/page/184/mode/2up); Adamski Foundation, “[The Landing](http://www.adamskifoundation.com/html/Landing.htm)”; James W. Moseley, “[Special Adamski Exposé Issue,](https://app.box.com/s/ffh3qv14hz8i5vcbwn5x)” Saucer News, no. 27 \(October 1957\); Curt Collins, “[Saucer News](https://www.jimmoseley.com/2014/05/saucer-news-presents-the-george-adamski-expose/) [Presents: The George Adamski Exposé,](https://www.jimmoseley.com/2014/05/saucer-news-presents-the-george-adamski-expose/)” In Honor of James Moseley, May 30, 2014; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 41–89, 360–362; Clark III 39–40, 1284; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(August 2006\): 23; Michael D. Swords, “Adamski in the Desert,” IUR 31, no. 3 \(October 2007\): 22; Rene Erik Olsen, \[[George Adamski photo analysis](http://www.adamskifoundation.com/Rene%20Erik%20Olsen%20-%20Denmark/Rene-Denmark.html)\], Adamski Foundation; Marc Hallet, [A Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke to the Space Brothers](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) The Author, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_2110 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5236 (BC965EE6) Date: 11/20/1952 Description: 1:57 p.m. [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) stays behind to set up his equipment as McGinnis and Bailey return to the rest of the group. At 2:04 p.m., another UFO, this time a “Scout ship,” appears near Adamski, who takes seven photos through his telescope. The cigar-shaped UFO is still visible through binoculars. At 2:12 pm., Adamski takes three more photos of the Scout ship with a Kodak Brownie before it disappears behind a hill. Air Force jets circle the area at least twice. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 359–360 Source ID: Eberhart_2109 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5237 (A6424E19) Date: 11/20/1952 Description: 1:00 p.m. [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s group picnics along the roadside. At 1:30 p.m., they see a cigar-shaped UFO that appears shortly after a US Air Force B-29 passes overhead going in the direction of Parker, Arizona. Adamski asks Lucy McGinnis, accompanied by Alfred Bailey, to drive him a bit more than half a mile away to a flatter area near the foot of Coxcomb Mountain where he can set up his telescope. The cigar-shaped UFO is allegedly following them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 54–56, 358–359 Source ID: Eberhart_2108 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5238 (0D6E47D8) Date: 11/20/1952 Description: Morning. [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and two associates, Lucy McGinnis and Alice Wells, drive out from the Palomar Gardens Café. They meet the Williamsons and the Baileys at Blythe, California, at 8:00 a.m., and they drive to Desert Center, California, taking Desert Center Rice Road 117 toward Coxcomb Mountain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1284; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, p. 358 Source ID: Eberhart_2107 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5239 (2FDECC79) Date: 11/20/1952 Description: B-50 Pilot Spots Object Changing Colors (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521120](http://www.nicap.org/521120saltonsea%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salton Sea, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1395 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5240 (CA971DF2) Date: 11/20/1952 Description: George Adamski contacts man from Venus. Type: ce3 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: CA Source ID: Maj2_126 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5241 (4E3172DE) Date: 11/21/1952 Description: At a place alled "La Butte" a luminous sphere, which seemed to spin, its color changing from orange to white, was seen at low altitude. It oscillated left and right, then took off toward the southwest, according to the witness, Mr. Gauci. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Challenge 56 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Belle-Ile, France Source ID: Magnonia_107 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5242 (32B88340) Date: 11/21/1952 End date: 11/23/1952 Description: An Air Force review panel meets at ATIC for three days and recommends that a “higher court” be formed to review UFOs. It schedules this tentatively for late December or early January. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 200–201](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/200/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2112 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5243 (C26B5F20) Date: 11/21/1952 Description: At a place called "La Butte" on Belle-Ile, France a luminous sphere was seen at a low altitude. It seemed to be spinning and its color changed from orange to white. It oscillated to the left and right, then took off toward the southwest, according to Mr. Gauci the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 201-202 Source ID: Johnson_7765 Source: Johnson ### Event 5244 (9E97B263) Date: 11/21/1952 Description: Shortly after 9:00 p.m. a UFO flew in a zigzag pattern over Fort Benning, Georgia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, November 1952 report Source ID: Johnson_7764 Source: Johnson ### Event 5245 (EF43D722) Date: 11/21/1952 Description: Bright Red Object Paces Aircraft (Photo ?) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [521121](http://www.nicap.org/521121carribbean%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carribean Sea, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1396 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5246 (BD0CE352) Date: 11/22/1952 Description: 10:00 p.m. Fr. Carlos Maria, a Capuchin missionary, and five others are driving along the road to Bocaranga, Ubangi-Shari \[now Central African Republic\] when they notice a large disc speeding overhead. Later, they see four others, motionless. They watch the UFOs for 20 minutes, changing shape and color. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS; Jimmy Guieu \[pseudonym of Henri René Guieu\], Les soucoupes volantes viennent d’un autre monde, Fleuve Noir, 1954; ClearIntent, [pp. 128–129](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/128/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2113 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5247 (8B0E923A) Date: 11/22/1952 Description: A cigar-shaped object flew rapidly to the northeast over Orleans, Loiret department, France at 8:40 a.m. It made two stops, then shot away to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 131 Source ID: Johnson_7792 Source: Johnson ### Event 5248 (C8400D69) Date: 11/24/1952 Description: The first printed account of the encounter with Orthon appears in the Phoenix Gazette. The newspaper publishes one of [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s photos as well as a photo of the Williamsons and the Baileys. Adamski becomes instantly famous, and [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) moves to Palomar Gardens for several days. When he tells Adamski he is planning to write a book about his channelings and contacts, Adamski warns him not to mention the contacts have been largely psychic. Adamski discourages him and they have a falling out. Alfred C. Bailey later says he has seen neither spaceship nor spaceman and doubts that anyone else has either. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 45–52, 99, 358–363; “[Palomar Mountain, 1940–1960:](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/) [From Obscurity to World Fame,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/)” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_2115 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5249 (BE725100) Date: 11/24/1952 Description: [Andrija Puharich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija%5FPuharich)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija%5FPuharich) invited by an Army colonel friend who is chief of the Research Section of the Office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare, delivers a lecture on ESP to high-ranking Pentagon officers in the Army’s Psychological Warfare Research Section and the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations. Col. [Howard](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) [McCoy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-howard-mccoy-and-mj-12.html) is probably present. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, The Pyramids and the Pentagon, New Page, 2012; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days, Part 2,” IUR 32, no. 2 \(December 2008\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_2114 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5250 (3AA90C92) Date: 11/24/1952 Time: 6:30 PM Description: Witness: L.L' Brettner. One round, glowing object flew very fast, made right angle turns and reversed course during a 1 hour sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Annandale, Virginia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_284 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5251 (7A23188C) Date: 11/24/1952 Description: Round, glowing object fly very fast, make right angle turns (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2246) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Annandale, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1397 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5252 (57D51B81) Date: 11/24/1952 Description: Annandale, Virginia. 6:30 p.m. Witness L. L. Brettner reported seeing a round, glowing object that flew very fast, made right angle turns, and reversed course during a 1 hour sighting. There was also a second witness but the information about his or her sighting is missing from the file. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 42 Source ID: Johnson_7866 Source: Johnson ### Event 5253 (CBA4763B) Date: 11/25/1952 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Sands, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1398 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5254 (409F51D3) Date: 11/25/1952 Description: Two Objects Tracked By A/A Gun Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [521125](http://www.nicap.org/521125pcanal%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Panama Canal, Panama Source ID: NICAP_DB_1399 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5255 (F9420584) Date: 11/25/1952 Description: ATIC Col. [Donald L. Bower](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower) and Maj. [Dewey Fournet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) brief CIA consultants [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) and [Edward Tauss](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3005011/edward-tauss) on Blue Book’s top three cases: the Tremonton UFO film of July 2; a dubious sighting of an object seen at Presque Isle and Limestone AFB \[now Loring International Airport\], Maine, on the night of October 10– 11 \(which [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) has already explained as a theodolite miscalibration causing Jupiter and its 4 prominent moons to be visible\); and the problematic Florida scoutmaster case of August 19. USAF wants the CIA to think these are good cases until they unravel at the proposed Robertson Panel meeting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Clark III 1014 Source ID: Eberhart_2116 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5256 (02E9A5F6) Date: 11/25/1952 End date: 11/26/1952 Description: Two UFOs are tracked by defense radar in the Panama Canal Zone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Objects Tracked](http://www.nicap.org/521125pcanal%5Fdir.htm) [by A/A Gun Radar](http://www.nicap.org/521125pcanal%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 168–170](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/168/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2117 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5257 (F6C8CC44) Date: 11/25/1952 Description: (cont’d briefing from 8/20/1952): Memorandum for Director CIA: Another meeting by A-2 and ATIC personnel was held on this date. UFOs must have immediate attention. UFOs have been sighted at great altitudes and at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations and can NOT be attributed to natural phenomena or KNOWN types of aerial vehicles. OSI is proceeding to establish an immediate PRIORITY research and development on UFOs under the aegis of CANIS. Signed: H. Marshall Chadwell. Type: memorandum Reference: [link](https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/mj4-majestic-dan-burisch-stargates-and-et/) Location: Langley, VA See also: 8/10/1952 See also: 10/2/1952 See also: 11/25/1952 Source ID: Maj2_485 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5258 (24B48336) Date: 11/26/1952 Description: F-94 chased maneuverable disc that changed color from white to red (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1400 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5259 (749D2465) Date: 11/26/1952 Description: 5:56 p.m. An F-94B from the USAF 59th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador, for 15 minutes chases a maneuverable object that changes color from white to red, heading south or southwest. The fighter gets a brief radar lock-on. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1952, November–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Nov-Dec.pdf) [December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1952-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1986, p. 44; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 181 Source ID: Eberhart_2118 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5260 (42D067D2) Date: 11/27/1952 Time: 12:10 PM Description: Witnesses: pilot and crew chief of UAAF B-26 bomber. A series of black smoke bursts (4-3-3-4-3), similar to antiaircraft fire, was seen over a 20 minute period. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_285 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5261 (699F37E1) Date: 11/27/1952 Description: Series of 20 ft black smoke bursts similar to antiaircraft fire (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2249) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_1401 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5262 (B9368DB0) Date: 11/27/1952 Description: In Albuquerque, New Mexico at 12:10 p.m. a pilot and a crew chief of a U.S. Air Force B-26 bomber reported seeing a series of black smoke bursts (4-3-3-4-3), similar to antiaircraft fire, which was seen over a 20 minute period. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2249; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7952 Source: Johnson ### Event 5263 (A678E871) Date: 11/28/1952 Description: At 7:40 p.m. an odd fireball moved too slowly to be a meteor, then zigzagged for 20 minutes. It's estimated altitude was 50,000 feet; "not a star" according to the witness, who was flying over Delta, Utah in a U.S. Air Force T-33 trainer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_7980 Source: Johnson ### Event 5264 (E29E31D0) Date: 11/28/1952 Description: At 4:00 p.m. a motion picture film crew filmed a disc-shaped object at MGM Studio L2 in Culver City, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1968, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_7979 Source: Johnson ### Event 5265 (4C6FAD8D) Date: 11/30/1952 Time: 12:30 PM Description: Witnesses: radar operators at Washington National Airport. Radar trackings similar to those of July 26, 1952. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: BerlinerBBU_286 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5266 (0877AC0D) Date: 11/30/1952 Description: Radar trackings similar to those of July 26, 1952 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: 2253) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington National Airport, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_1402 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5267 (D43BF0D1) Date: 11/30/1952 Description: Air Traffic Control operators at Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia had radar trackings similar to those of July 26, 1952. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2253; Project Blue Book Report #9, report dated January 31, 1953; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_8064 Source: Johnson ### Event 5268 (B6E81A85) Date: 11/30/1952 Description: 12:30 a.m. Numerous slow-moving 90–100 mph radar targets appear on the MEW VG-2 radar at Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. Suggestive of anomalous propagation, but they are unlike the July 1952 cases since there is no visual confirmation, no other radars confirming, and no fighters scrambled. A pilot at 6,000 feet sees nothing. CAA Senior Airways Specialist Austin M. Stapf claims the same thing was observed at same time on November 29, and that the Andrews AFB watch supervisor could not visually confirm targets over Andrews displayed on the ARTCC radar scope. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 181 Source ID: Eberhart_2119 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5269 (9D5E5375) Date: 12/1952 Description: Maj. [Dewey Fournet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) completes a study of UFOs to assess whether their motions are random or ordered. He concludes that their reported movements show that UFOs are under intelligent control. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp. 189–190](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/188/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “[Intelligent Motions,](http://www.project1947.com/articles/swordsfournet.htm)” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 8–15 Source ID: Eberhart_2120 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5270 (E3E18F48) Date: 12/2/1952 Description: CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence Director [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) writes another secret memo to Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) on UFOs: “At this time, the reports of incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention. The details of some of these incidents have been discussed by AD/SI with DDCI. Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles.” Physicist [Julius Adams Stratton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%5FAdams%5FStratton) and economist [Max Millikan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%5FMillikan) tell Chadwell that scientists at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory would like to be a part of any scientific study of the UFO phenomenon, perhaps through Millikan’s MIT Center for International Studies. Stratton indicates that Lab Director [Albert G.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FG.%5FHill) [Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FG.%5FHill) should organize the study. Attached is a draft of an intelligence directive by Chadwell on behalf of Smith to the National Security Council recommending that the CIA “formulate and carry out a program of intelligence and research activities required to solve the problem of instant positive identification of unidentified flying objects.” But Smith refuses to approve or sign the directive because he is briefing the president directly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: H. Marshall Chadwell, “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020008-2.pdf)” December 2, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Swords 175; Clark III 1013 Source ID: Eberhart_2121 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5271 (C33F5975) Date: 12/2/1952 Description: Statement by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence, CIA: “The reports of (UFO) incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention.” Type: statement Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Langley, VA See also: 10/2/1952 See also: 11/25/1952 Source ID: Maj2_486 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5272 (72FF2730) Date: 12/3/1952 Description: In another “Flying Saucer” memo, [Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) admits the Air Force would be suspicious of any MIT Lincoln Lab involvement, and that Princeton or Cal Tech would do, and that “it will be necessary to secure the full backing of the DCI in order that a scientific review of the problem may be laid on.” However, he recommends that this “External Research Project Concerned with Unidentified Flying Objects” be administered by Max Millikan at the MIT Center for International Studies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: P. G. Strong, “[Flying Saucers,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005515940.pdf)” December 3, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Swords 185–186 Source ID: Eberhart_2122 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5273 (FE589232) Date: 12/3/1952 Description: In 1952 at 10:10 p.m. in the city of Bordeaux, France a long, bright cigar-shaped UFO moved slowly in the sky, then suddenly shot away, leaving a blue trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131 Source ID: Johnson_8155 Source: Johnson ### Event 5274 (E2BD86A6) Date: 12/4/1952 Description: The CIA Intelligence Advisory Committee recommends that “the Director of Central Intelligence will ‘enlist the services of selected scientists to review and appraise the available evidence in the light of pertinent scientific theories.’” The meeting, chaired by [Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) is attended by [Robert Amory Jr.](https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/21/obituaries/robert-amory-jr-74-ex-official-of-cia-and-us-budget-bureau.html), Gen. [John Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford), Rear Admiral [Carl F. Espe](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9048606/carl-f-espe)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9048606/carl-f-espe) Gen. [John M. Willems](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/16/archives/maj-gen-john-willems-dies-at-74-served-under-patton-in-africa.html)[,](https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/16/archives/maj-gen-john-willems-dies-at-74-served-under-patton-in-africa.html) [William Park Armstrong](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105095607/william-park-armstrong)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105095607/william-park-armstrong) [Walter F. Colby](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118649040/walter-francis-colby)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118649040/walter-francis-colby) Col. [Edward R.](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105922/brigadier-general-edward-h-porter/) [Porter](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105922/brigadier-general-edward-h-porter/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105922/brigadier-general-edward-h-porter/) and Col. [Jere Boggs](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm)[.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Boggs%5FJ.htm) This is to be done “immediately” through a National Security Council Intelligence Directive and is essentially the go-ahead for what will be the Robertson Panel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert Amory Jr., “[Intelligence](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85S00362R000200030039-4.pdf) [Advisory Committee: Minutes of Meeting Held in Director’s Conference Room, Administration Building, Central](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85S00362R000200030039-4.pdf) [Intelligence Agency, on 4 December 1952,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85S00362R000200030039-4.pdf)” December 4, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Swords 184, 186–187; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 20](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/20/mode/2up); Clark III 1013 Source ID: Eberhart_2123 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5275 (E483F31C) Date: 12/4/1952 Description: 8:46 p.m. USAF pilot Lt. Robert O. Arnold, 3640th Pilot Training Wing, Laredo AFB \[now Laredo International Airport\], Texas, is flying a T-28 trainer at 6,000 feet when he sees a bright bluish-white glowing object below him at about 1,500–2,000 feet and rapidly climbing to his level. It shows no navigation lights. He tightens his left turn to keep the object in view, but it suddenly climbs to 9,000 feet in several seconds and drops down to his altitude again, then stops and hovers. Arnold pursues but after 2 seconds the object suddenly heads towards him on a collision course at high speed at 8:53 p.m., wavering slightly at about 300 feet. He sees the object as a blurred reddish-bluish haze smaller than his T-28. It rapidly ascends to 15,000 feet then circles left as if positioning for another pass. In fear Arnold turns off his running lights, spirals down to 1,500 feet while keeping the object in sight as it continues to head towards him in a dive, then pulls up and climbs out of sight. A lighted weather balloon is launched at 8:53 p.m. from Laredo AFB but it is not observed near any aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Laredo / ‘Earl Fogle’ Case](http://www.nicap.org/521204laredo%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 182 Source ID: Eberhart_2124 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5276 (B1B2E1EE) Date: 12/4/1952 Description: Object Tracked By AN/MPS-5 At 6,000 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [521204](http://www.nicap.org/521204congaree%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Congaree AFB, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1404 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5277 (D2CBF2CC) Date: 12/4/1952 Description: Blue white object almost crashes into fighter (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521204](http://www.nicap.org/521204laredo%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Laredo (8 miles SW of), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1405 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5278 (C7383D85) Date: 12/4/1952 Description: (McDonald) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colorado Springs, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1403 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5279 (663FCF7A) Date: 12/4/1952 Description: At 8:48 p.m. an F-51 pilot, Lt. Robert O. Arnold, flying out of the Laredo, Texas Air Force Base chased a glowing bluish-white object that made extremely tight turns. He had a near collision with the lighted object when it made a head-on pass at his plane. The UFO flew at extreme speeds, and there was a possible crash and subsequent retrieval of the UFO. The incident lasted seven minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 42; UNICAT database, case 754; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 53; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 404; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_8172 Source: Johnson ### Event 5280 (D3449E7D) Date: 12/5/1952 Description: Pilot saw blue light maneuver in a counterclockwise orbit (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lackland AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1406 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5281 (01653976) Date: 12/6/1952 Description: Tracked on radar 4 high speed targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521206](http://www.nicap.org/521206gulf%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf of Mexico (89 miles S of Louisiana), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1408 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5282 (A4B53985) Date: 12/6/1952 Description: 2 shiny spheres connected by a solid rod heading S (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Angoon, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1407 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5283 (ED9E1950) Date: 12/6/1952 Description: Air Force bomber tracked "mother ship," smaller high-speed objects, on radar Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Gulf of Mexico Source ID: HallUFOE2_2 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 5284 (53F2D3CD) Date: 12/6/1952 Description: 5:24 a.m. The 3-man crew of a USAF B-29 \(1st Lt. [Norman Karas](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194604791/norman-karas) and 1st Lt. William W. Naumann\) over the Gulf of Mexico 100 miles south of Louisiana track five unidentified blips on the bomber’s radar. They maneuver around the plane at a speed of 5,240 mph. The crew sees some flashes of light, but the targets are 20 miles or more away. The five UFOs merge with a huge blip that accelerates and vanishes at a speed of 9,000 mph. Additional crewmen involved are 1st Lt. William W. Naumann, Jr., Staff Sgt B. R. Purcell, Staff Sgt. William J. De Rause, 2nd Lt. Robert J. Eckert, and Staff Sgt. Harry D. Shogren. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[B-29 Encounters High Speed](http://www.nicap.org/521206gulf%5Fdir.htm) [Objects over Gulf](http://www.nicap.org/521206gulf%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, [pp. 161–166](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/chIX.htm); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 183; Condon, [pp. 148–150](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/148/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[B-](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/coleman52.htm) [29 Radar and Visual Multiple Witnesses Observations, Dec. 6, 1952](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/coleman52.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2125 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5285 (20B03ECC) Date: 12/6/1952 Description: At 5:25 a.m. five blue objects buzzed a B-29 flying at 5000 mph off the Louisiana coast, then merged with a huge object that was a half-inch blip on radar screen. The huge object shot away at 9,000 mph. The entire incident lasted ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James McDonald, UNICAT database case # 672, citing Radar Meteorological Proceedings, November 1970, p. 17; Aime Michel, The Truth about Flying Saucers, p. 95; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 70; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward U. Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 148; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 161 Source ID: Johnson_8229 Source: Johnson ### Event 5286 (65CE6BDF) Date: 12/6/1952 Description: More than six separate unknowns, seen on the B-29 radarscopes (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521206](http://www.nicap.org/521206gulf%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf of Mexico (89 miles S of Louisiana), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1409 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5287 (13BC6A8C) Date: 12/8/1952 Time: 8:16 PM Description: Witnesses: pilot lst Lt. D. Dickman and radar operator lst Lt. T. Davies in USAF F-94 jet interceptor (s/n 49-2522). One white, oval light which changed to red at higher altitude, flew straight and level for 2 minutes, then climbed at phenomenal speed on an erratic flight path. Sighting lasted 10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ladd AFB, Alaska Source ID: BerlinerBBU_287 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5288 (CE05E35A) Date: 12/8/1952 Description: White, oval light which changed to red at higher altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2266) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ladd AFB, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1411 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5289 (232543F9) Date: 12/8/1952 Description: Thorpe/Plowe (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1410 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5290 (0663126A) Date: 12/9/1952 Description: Col. [Donald L. Bower](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49126583/donald-langlitz-bower) forbids [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) from visiting the CIA to give its Office of Scientific Intelligence certain UFO cases in preparation for the Robertson Panel in January. CIA consultant Frederick C. Durant learns about this the same day in a phone call to Ruppelt. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frederick C. Durant, “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020005-5.pdf)” December 9, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 47; Clark III 1014 Source ID: Eberhart_2126 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5291 (52CBE87F) Date: 12/9/1952 Description: 4 bright lights, in diamond formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2267) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Madison, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1412 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5292 (44F9A3C7) Date: 12/9/1952 Time: 5:45 PM Description: Witnesses: Capt. Bridges and lst Lt. Johneon in USAF T-33 jet trainer. Four bright lights, in diamond formation, flew at 400 m.p.h. and were passed by the T-33 at 450 m.p.h. during the 10 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Madison, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_288 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5293 (C7EEAA16) Date: 12/10/1952 Description: On this day in 1952 the Civilian Aeronautics Administration issued its report explaining the radar blips recorded over Washington, D.C. in July and August as temperature inversions. Ironically, on that same day unidentified bogeys appeared on radar screens over at least three US air bases. At 9:20 a.m. a UFO appeared on the radarscope at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. It stayed in position eight miles south of the base for eight hours. At Ladd AFB near Fairbanks, Alaska Project Blue Book explained a brief sighting by two airmen as a meteor. But at 7:15 p.m. an F-94 fighter jet with a two-man crew flying near Odessa, Washington had a UFO encounter that was not so easily explained. They sighted a large round, white UFO and obtained a radar lock on the target. The UFO reversed direction almost instantly, did a chandelle in front of the jet, rushed head-on toward them, then stopped, and pulled up. Even though they were flying at 600 mph they were unable to close with the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doubt Magazine, 1953, p. 206; Project Blue Book case files; UNICAT case 687, citing James E. McDonald, Proceedings of the 1968 U.S. Congressional House Armed Services Committee, p. 67 Source ID: Johnson_8292 Source: Johnson ### Event 5294 (ED33EDA6) Date: 12/10/1952 Description: Object appeared large, round and white with reddish light (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [521210](http://www.nicap.org/neardir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hanford AEC Plant, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1416 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5295 (AC55536A) Date: 12/10/1952 Description: Near Hanford Plant, Washington, DC, (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [521210](http://www.nicap.org/neardir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hanford AEC Plant, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1417 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5296 (AD714D4B) Date: 12/10/1952 Description: (McDonald list) Four Radars Paint Bright Circular Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521210](http://www.nicap.org/521210pope%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pope AFB, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1413 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5297 (AD44DEAF) Date: 12/10/1952 Description: USN pilot flying aircraft in near-collision with orange fireball (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hungnam, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1414 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5298 (8470556F) Date: 12/10/1952 Description: [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) writes to [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) that OSI has been working with mathematician [Howard P. Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) of Cal Tech to establish a panel of scientists \(including astronomer [Thornton Leigh Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton%5FLeigh%5FPage)\) and engineers to review the status of UFOs in January. Somewhere along the line, MIT’s Lincoln Labs and CIS have been eliminated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Thornton Page, \[[Letter](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020005-5.pdf)\], December 12, 1952; CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; Swords 187–188 Source ID: Eberhart_2127 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5299 (6CB5C1C6) Date: 12/10/1952 Description: 7:15 p.m. The pilot and radar observer of an F-94 patrolling from Moses Lake AFB \[now the Grant County International Airport\] spots a light over the Hanford nuclear plant near Richland, Washington, while flying at 26,000 feet. They contact the ground control station, which reports that they know of no planes in the area and that their ground radar shows nothing. They close in on the object, which is large, white, and round and features a dim reddish light coming from two windows. They lose visual contact then get a lock-on from their ARC-33 airborne radar. As they attempt to close in, the object reverses direction and dives away. They attempt several more times to approach the light and have to alter course to avoid a collision that seems imminent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F-94 R/V with Round Object](http://www.nicap.org/521210odessa%5Fdir.htm)”; Ruppelt, [pp. 61–62](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/60/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 185; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#balloons) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#balloons)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 66; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case file](http://cufos.org/cases/1952%5F12%5F10%5FUS%5FWA%5FOdessa%5FNICAP%5Fpilots-Air-to-Air-Radar.pdf)\]; Patrick Gross, “[Radar Visual Aircraft UFO Encounter near Hanford Nuclear Plant, December 10, 1952](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/hanford10dec52.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2128 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5300 (EEEEEF7B) Date: 12/10/1952 Description: F-94 R/V With Round Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521210](http://www.nicap.org/521210odessa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Odessa, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1415 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5301 (52BE72DF) Date: 12/12/1952 Description: The CIA, having learned that ATIC is withholding significant case reports for the upcoming Robertson Panel, sends a three-man team to Wright-Patterson AFB in order to obtain relevant documents. The team includes [Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) himself, CIA Assistant Director [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) and CIA rocket consultant [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1)[,](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) a personal friend of [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) who urges him to comply. At ATIC they meet with personnel from Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, which has been studying the UFO data in great secrecy. Battelle requests the CIA to postpone the panel until March so they can finish the study. Robertson agrees to postpone the panel, but is later overruled by CIA Director Gen. [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CUFON, “[The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm) [Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm)” May 17, 1996; NICAP, “[The 1952 Sighting Wave](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1952FIXED.htm)”; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 47; Clark III 1014 Source ID: Eberhart_2129 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5302 (263D1D2B) Date: 12/13/1952 Description: Morning. [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s scout ship makes a second appearance, this time at the Palomar Gardens Café in California, ostensibly so that Orthon can return the photo he borrowed. The film holder is pushed out of a porthole to the ground. One of the three Venusian photos taken by Adamski, though credited to [Jerrold E. Baker](https://rr0.org/time/1/9/5/5/01/Nexus07/%23/TheEvidencePresentedbyMrJerroldBaker)[,](https://rr0.org/time/1/9/5/5/01/Nexus07/%23/TheEvidencePresentedbyMrJerroldBaker) is taken secretly the day before by Adamski, probably of a model. [Bill Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) claims in 1985 that the photos resemble the prototype space vehicle described in [Mason Rose](http://www.linux-host.org/energy/rose.htm)’s A Simplified Explanation of the Application of the Biefeld-Brown Effect to the Solution of the Problems of Space Navigation, published in February 1952 Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 40; Desmond Leslie and George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, British Book Centre, 1953, [pp. 217–](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucershav00lesl/page/216/mode/2up) [221](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucershav00lesl/page/216/mode/2up); Paul E. Potter, “The Flying Saucer”; “[Some New Facts about](http://www.cufos.org/Nexus/1955%5F01%5F00%5FNexus07.pdf) [Flying Saucers Have Landed,](http://www.cufos.org/Nexus/1955%5F01%5F00%5FNexus07.pdf)” Nexus 2, no. 1 \(January 1955\): 13–17; James W. Moseley, “[Special Adamski Exposé Issue,](https://app.box.com/s/ffh3qv14hz8i5vcbwn5x)” Saucer News, no. 27 \(October 1957\); Curt Collins, “[Saucer News Presents: The George Adamski Exposé,](https://www.jimmoseley.com/2014/05/saucer-news-presents-the-george-adamski-expose/)” In Honor of James Moseley, May 30, 2014; George M. Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 21; Rene Erik Olsen, “[The 13th December 1952 Photos of George Adamski Analysis,](http://www.nemmehjemmesider.dk/aspuploader/savefiles/17090/3191Research%20into%20the%2013th%20December%201952%20George%20Adamski%20photos.pdf)” April 23, 2019; Rene Erik Olsen, \[[George](http://www.adamskifoundation.com/Rene%20Erik%20Olsen%20-%20Denmark/Rene-Denmark.html) [Adamski photo analysis](http://www.adamskifoundation.com/Rene%20Erik%20Olsen%20-%20Denmark/Rene-Denmark.html)\], Adamski Foundation; Marc Hallet, [A Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) [Who Spoke to the Space Brothers](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) The Author, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_2130 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5303 (5A973F11) Date: 12/14/1952 Description: Light orange elliptical shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charlottesville, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1418 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5304 (D200A7EA) Date: 12/15/1952 Description: F-94 pilot chased disc - changed from bright red to white, A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 4, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521215](http://www.nicap.org/521215goose%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1419 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5305 (AFC0100B) Date: 12/15/1952 Description: (McDonald list) Large Blip on AN/TPS Radar At 1320 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521215](http://www.nicap.org/521215honshu%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Honshu, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1420 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5306 (8099488B) Date: 12/15/1952 Description: Bright circular or spherical silvery object, losing and gaining altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greensboro, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1421 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5307 (6189DF2E) Date: 12/15/1952 Description: 7:15 p.m. Two Air Force pilots get a momentary lock on a strange object above Goose Bay, Labrador. A T-33 and an F-94B \(piloted by Capt. E. T. Johnson and Radar Observer Lt. H. S. Norris\) see a bright red and white light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Momentary Lock On](http://www.nicap.org/521215goose%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 126–127](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/126/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 186 Source ID: Eberhart_2131 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5308 (B8BD654E) Date: 12/16/1952 Description: [Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) tells CIA Acting Deputy Director for Intelligence [Robert Amory Jr.](https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/21/obituaries/robert-amory-jr-74-ex-official-of-cia-and-us-budget-bureau.html) that he is unimpressed with the three Blue Book cases, especially since Presque Isle was identified as the planet Jupiter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1014 Source ID: Eberhart_2132 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5309 (04563D0C) Date: 12/16/1952 Description: In Gisborne, New Zealand at ten o’clock in the evening some “angel hair” residue fell from a fast moving, luminous blue object that made erratic maneuvers in the sky and flew off quickly towards the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 68 Source ID: Johnson_8438 Source: Johnson ### Event 5310 (17872837) Date: 12/17/1952 Description: Two or more objects described as cigar or disc shaped that emanated bright light in smooth flight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521217](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/sandiego521217dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Diego, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1422 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5311 (BE409CEA) Date: 12/17/1952 Description: At 4:15 p.m. six people sighted two discs maneuvering over the coast and the city of San Diego, California. The objects moved at slow to very high speeds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics Source ID: Johnson_8457 Source: Johnson ### Event 5312 (21716BBC) Date: 12/18/1952 Description: Five Plots on AN/MPS-5 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [521218](http://www.nicap.org/521218itazuke%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Itazuke AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1423 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5313 (5F6999BD) Date: 12/18/1952 Description: Oak ridge, TN, RV (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oakridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1424 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5314 (81B7E351) Date: 12/19/1952 Description: B-17 Crew Encounters Cylinder Reported By Ground Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521219](http://www.nicap.org/521219andersonafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Anderson AFB, Guam Source ID: NICAP_DB_1425 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5315 (EC75B1F3) Date: 12/21/1952 Description: Evening. J. E. Hawkey, civil commissioner of Fort Victoria \[now Masvingo\], Zimbabwe, is driving near Mvuma when he sees a bright red light crossing the road about 30 feet in the air, then hovering. Suddenly it shoots straight up and disappears. After a short while it descends some distance away and travels straight down the road. Hawkey follows it at about 80 mph, after which it speeds up and disappears at three or more times the speed. He has the object in sight for about 20 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Southern Rhodesia Newsletter; Jan Aldrich Source ID: Eberhart_2134 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5316 (98461CA2) Date: 12/21/1952 Description: [Lyman Streeter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111409702/lyman-h%5F-streeter) and five other witnesses observe a large, cigar-shaped object over Winslow, Arizona. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(Aug. 2006\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_2133 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5317 (65FB902B) Date: Winter 1952 Description: Blips Cause Scramble of F-94s (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [52WINT](http://www.nicap.org/52WINT%5Fgoosedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1438 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5318 (D6046764) Date: 12/22/1952 Description: Hat-shaped glowing object rising vertically in odd spurts right and left (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moses Lake (Larson AFB), WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1426 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5319 (981E487D) Date: 12/22/1952 Description: 7:30 p.m. An instrument technician driving toward Larson AFB \[now Grant County International Airport\] near Moses Lake, Washington, stops his car to watch a hat-shaped glowing object rising vertically in odd spurts right and left, then level off at high speed. The object glows white with a red side when it is rotated. Halfway through a roll the light disappears, then it holds stationary in the sky with jumpy movements. Duration is about 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Hat-Shaped Object Observed by Technician](http://www.nicap.org/521222larson%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 16 Source ID: Eberhart_2136 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5320 (0D37C81F) Date: 12/22/1952 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) finds out that the CIA Robertson Panel is back on again after being postponed on December 12. Apparently under pressure from the Air Force, which is setting a trap to embarrass the CIA with sensational IFO cases dressed up as “best” unknown UFO cases, CIA Director Gen. [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) reverses the decision to postpone the panel meeting till March 1953 or later. Smith orders the Robertson Panel to be carried out immediately. A rush-to-judgment panel will have no time to reflect on the USAF trickery involved in the IFOs-as- UFOs deception and will just react in dismissive skepticism that there is no scientific evidence for UFO reality, and hence no reason for the CIA to intrude into USAF jurisdiction over air intelligence matters such as unidentified aerial threats \(UFOs\). Ruppelt calls ADC to say that he will not be able to conduct the ADC UFO briefing tour as previously scheduled due to the CIA meeting now tentatively set in early January 1953 \(he confirms the call by teletype December 23\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf) [History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf) Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 48; Clark III 1014 Source ID: Eberhart_2135 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5321 (FC5D0035) Date: 12/24/1952 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Camp Carson, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1427 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5322 (55762292) Date: 12/24/1952 Description: Intelligent Behavior / Object Tracked by Two Radars (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [521224](http://www.nicap.org/521224dallas%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dallas (near), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1428 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5323 (FC231AF1) Date: 12/27/1952 Description: Pilot Reports\* Object Seen Six Minutes Later From Ground (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [521227](http://www.nicap.org/521227borger%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Borger, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1429 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5324 (3548C873) Date: 12/28/1952 Time: Time unknown Description: Case missing from official files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Marysville, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_289 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5325 (20D6A02E) Date: 12/28/1952 Description: Civilian witness(es). (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2302) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marysville, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1430 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5326 (B964BF12) Date: 12/28/1952 Description: A semi-circular cloud maneuvered and veered about in the sky over Beverly, Massachusetts at 6:00 p.m. It then rose vertically and was gone from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_8627 Source: Johnson ### Event 5327 (F4EE4A60) Date: 12/29/1952 Description: 7:48 p.m. Col. [Donald J. M. Blakeslee](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49123726/donald-j-blakeslee), 27th Fighter Escort Wing, while flying near Misawa, northern Honshu, Japan, in an F-84G at 27,000 feet in altitude, observes an object like a rotating cluster of lights colored white, green, and red. Blakeslee climbs to 35,000 feet, at which point he is level with the unknown object. He attempts a pursuit, but the UFO disappears in 30 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Col. Blakeslee / F-84 Incident](http://www.nicap.org/521229misawa%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 187; Swords 212–213 Source ID: Eberhart_2137 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5328 (D42BF493) Date: 12/29/1952 Description: Object emitting 3 beams of light and tracked on airborne radar (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521229](http://www.nicap.org/521229misawa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chitose AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1435 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5329 (D38C49C4) Date: 12/29/1952 Description: USAF crews of B-26 (Ashley and Wood) and F-84G (Col. Donald J.M. Blakeslee) saw object emitting 3 beams of light and tracked on airborne radar. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521229](http://www.nicap.org/521229misawa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chitose AFB, Misawa, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1434 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5330 (5A09B979) Date: 12/29/1952 Description: Extremely large and intense bright round bluish-white light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Amarillo (About 35 miles W of), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1433 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5331 (1FE1697C) Date: 12/29/1952 Description: Object emitting 3 beams of light and tracked on airborne radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [521229](http://www.nicap.org/521229misawa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chitose AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1431 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5332 (ECCF1F60) Date: 12/29/1952 Description: 9:05 p.m. Capt. [William T. Bowley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122145578/william-theodore-bowley) and Capt. [Herbert T. Lange](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54063034/herbert-theodore-lange), both of Perrin AFB \[now North Texas Regional Airport\] near Denison, Texas, are piloting a B-26 on a training flight headed west at 6,000 feet altitude and 300 mph when they see a large, intense, bluish-white light near Vega, Texas. It is about 350 feet long at their 11 o’clock position, paralleling their course at the same altitude and closing slightly. After 5 minutes, the object suddenly climbs vertically 7,000 feet in 5 seconds \(about 2,000 mph\) to disappear in thin clouds at 13,000 feet and causing the clouds to glow as if lit by a searchlight. Bowley radios the CAA controller in Tucumcari, New Mexico. Shortly after, the object reappears under the clouds and the CAA controller is told to look for it but he can’t see it \(possibly because he is told to look in the wring direction\). After 2 minutes, it climbs to the west and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Closing on B-36 Suddenly Climbs](http://www.nicap.org/521229vega%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 187 Source ID: Eberhart_2138 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5333 (22263AB5) Date: 12/30/1952 Description: Extremely brilliant carbon-arc bright object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Terrigal, New South Wales, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_1436 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5334 (7D614F12) Date: 12/31/1952 Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#8, classified “confidential.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, [Projects Grudge](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 131–154 Source ID: Eberhart_2139 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5335 (044ED00B) Date: 12/31/1952 Description: Red-Orange Ball Passes RB-36 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [521231](http://www.nicap.org/521231puertorico%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ramey AFB (NE of), Puerto Rico Source ID: NICAP_DB_1437 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1953 (Back to Top) ### Event 5336 (468AC571) Date: 1953 Description: Fred P. Stone founds the Australian Flying Saucer Club in Adelaide, South Australia. It later becomes the Australian Flying Saucer Research Society and publishes the Australian Saucer Record from 1955 to 1963. From 1962 to 1971, it publishes Panorama. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Australian Saucer Record](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Saucer%20Record%20%28Stone%29/Australian%20Saucer%20Record%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2002%20-%201955.pdf) 1, no. 2 \(2nd Quarter, 1955\); [Panorama](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Panorama%20%28Stone%29/Panorama%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2001%20-%201962.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(1962\) Source ID: Eberhart_2143 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5337 (017FCF2A) Date: 1953 Description: Director of Project Blue Book, Capt. Ruppelt stated: “Two RAF Intelligence Officers who were in the US on a classified mission brought six single-spaced typed pages of questions they and their friends wanted answered regarding UFOs.” Type: classified mission Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Dayton, OH See also: 9/21/1952 Source ID: Maj2_487 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5338 (A682C026) Date: 1953? Description: Pilot (name withheld) stated, “a saucer crashed in a desert area”. He was sure that it was just inside the Arizona border. He also saw the bodies first-hand at Wright-Patterson AFB. The crates arrived at night by DC-7. Description of bodies: approx. 4 ft. high. Resting un-shrouded on a special blanket on dry ice. Heads were hairless, narrow, disproportionately large for their bodies. Skin had brown tint. Open eyes, small mouth, indistinct nose, hands and feet. Wore tight fitting, dark colored suites. One Alien appeared to be female. One Alien had been alive at the crash site but attempts to save its’ life with oxygen failed. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B3-B Case A-1 p2,3, RECOVERY, BODIES) Location: Arizona Location: Wright-Patterson AFB Source ID: Maj2_488 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5339 (BA00A2BE) Date: 1953 Description: Project xxxxxx (name censured) established by President Eisenhower and renamed Project AQUARIUS (1960, 1968) Type: majestic document Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (AQUARIUS, B1-A) Attributes: Majestic Source ID: Maj2_490 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5340 (A2224D04) Date: 1953 Description: During off-shore combat maneuvers, a squadron of carrier-based Navy AD-3 attack planes is approached by a rocket-shaped UFO that swoops down on the flight from above. The object levels off about 1,000 feet overhead, slows, and paces the aircraft. When the Squadron Commander leads his flight in pursuit of the UFO, it turns sharply so that its tail is pointed away and shoots upward out of sight in seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \(Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 266–267\). Source ID: Eberhart_2140 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5341 (A147B39A) Date: 1953 Description: Midday. A member of the crew of a Shell tanker in Hong Kong harbor, China, watches, along with many others on shore and aboard the ship, a silver-white disc hovering at 6,000–7,000 feet. Within a second or so, it moves a full 45° arc to an area where there are some white clouds at about 5,000 fee. It shines through the cloud cover like the moon through a mist. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “A Daylight Disc in Hong Kong Harbor,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_2141 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5342 (9E2B90A2) Date: 1953 Description: Avensa Airlines pilot reported round gray object paced plane. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Anaco, Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_1442 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5343 (7EB8F206) Date: 1953 Description: Evening. An Air Force pilot and a student are flying an F-84 Thunderjet on the home leg of a training flight over North Texas when the student notes an out-of-place light. At first the pilot thinks it’s Venus, but they realize it is moving. The student steers the plane toward the light, but it zooms past them at high speed. The pilot takes the stick and turns the aircraft to follow it. The light, which now looks like a metallic domed disc with windows, passes them again. The pilot accelerates to more than 500 mph and pursues it; the disc roars past them again. The chase goes on for 10–15 minutes until a final pass when the object shines a bright light into the cockpit. The pilot takes an evasive measure and flies back to base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CUFOS case file Source ID: Eberhart_2142 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5344 (CB1C9DB1) Date: 1953 Description: A3-D's Approach Rocket-Shaped UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530000](http://www.nicap.org/53XXXXunknown%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Location: Confidential, unknown Source ID: NICAP_DB_1439 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5345 (AF1C42A2) Date: 1953 Description: Daytime. This incident, witnessed by none other than George Townsend Withers (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530000](http://www.nicap.org/530000salisburyplaindir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salisbury Plain, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1440 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5346 (5EC29A1D) Date: 1953 Description: Summer of 1953; Yaak, Montana, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yaak, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1441 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5347 (81208A90) Date: 1953 Description: The “flying cup” photo. Blue Book listed as hoax, which it probably was. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [530000](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/musk5307XXdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Muskogee, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1443 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5348 (A23A6A9B) Date: 1/1953 Description: Beams of microwaves, varying between 2.5 and 4 gigahertz, from Soviet sources aimed at the US embassy in Moscow are first detected, increasing in intensity by 1975. Detected by routine background radiation testing, the beams come from a source in a Soviet apartment building about 325 feet west of the embassy, affecting the west façade of the central building, with highest intensities between the third and eighth floors. The microwave transmissions are only five [microwatts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwatt) per square centimeter, well below the power level of microwave ovens and well below what would be needed to [heat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat) anything. Shielding is put in place by 1964, but the discovery is kept secret. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Moscow Signal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%5FSignal)”; J. Mark Elwood, “[Microwaves in the Cold War: The Moscow Embassy](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233417821%5FMicrowaves%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fcold%5Fwar%5Fthe%5FMoscow%5Fembassy%5Fstudy%5Fand%5Fits%5Finterpretation%5FReview%5Fof%5Fa%5Fretrospective%5Fcohort%5Fstudy) [Study and Its Interpretation,](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233417821%5FMicrowaves%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fcold%5Fwar%5Fthe%5FMoscow%5Fembassy%5Fstudy%5Fand%5Fits%5Finterpretation%5FReview%5Fof%5Fa%5Fretrospective%5Fcohort%5Fstudy)” Environmental Health 11 \(2012\) Source ID: Eberhart_2144 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5349 (CB0FC3A0) Date: 1/1/1953 Description: At 9:45 p.m. in Lewis and Clark County, northwest of Craig, Montana a disc with illuminated windows was seen over the Missouri River for ten seconds. It was estimated to be about 10 meters in length and flew at 3,600 miles per hour. Fifteen minutes later a bright object hovered in the sky over the northwest horizon of Calgary, Alberta for ten minutes. It too shot away at a high speed with fantastic acceleration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953 (volume 1), p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_2 Source: Johnson ### Event 5350 (4208A301) Date: 1/1/1953 Description: 8:45 p.m. While driving on Hwy 91 between Craig and Wolf Creek, Montana, [Warner E. Anderson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22993632/warner-eldon-anderson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22993632/warner-eldon-anderson) manager of a photo shop with wartime air spotter experience; Mrs. Greta C. Wills, manager of women’s apparel store; and teenager Marlene Wills see a saucer-shaped object above horizon about 5 miles away to the southwest. The object is an estimated 25–40 feet long and 6–8 or 18–25 feet thick and looks like two soup bowls joined at the rims. It has a red glowing bottom and portholes. The object dives low over the Missouri River to within 150–300 feet away then climbs fast horizontally at an estimated 3,600 mph to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The 1953 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1953fullrep.htm)”; Sparks, p. 188 Source ID: Eberhart_2145 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5351 (3866E5FE) Date: 1/1/1953 Time: 8:45 PM Description: Witnesses: Warner Anderson and two women. A silver, saucer-shaped object with a red glowing bottom, flew low over a river and then climbed fast in a horizontal attitude. Ten second sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Craig, Montana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_290 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5352 (4F78EFAC) Date: 1/1/1953 Description: Bluish-white object 1-2 ft size with a short exhaust trail in rapid level flight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mobile, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1444 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5353 (A273C6CC) Date: 1/1/1953 Description: Silver, saucer-shaped object with a red glowing bottom (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2315) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Craig, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1445 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5354 (010DBD4C) Date: 1/2/1953 Description: Near Adelaide, South Australia a ghastly looking creature over six-feet tall, with a long scaly body, hissed at residents of Berri from the top of a tree. It leapt to the ground and ran off when someone fetched a gun. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 157 Source ID: Johnson_24 Source: Johnson ### Event 5355 (7883AA25) Date: 1/2/1953 Description: Two UFO photographs were taken on this day, one in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and a second in North Bankstown, Australia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS, letter; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 157 Source ID: Johnson_25 Source: Johnson ### Event 5356 (59F5BF0B) Date: 1/3/1953 Description: The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron \(AISS\) is created at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, by Air Defense Command Regulation AFR 24-4. One of its missions is to collect physical UFO evidence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Skow and Terry Endres, “The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron and UFOs,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_2146 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5357 (61231302) Date: 1/3/1953 Description: At one o'clock in the afternoon a metallic dome shaped UFO maneuvered five feet above a hayfield in Santana dos Montes, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Two 5.1 foot tall men jumped out. They had a shining ball on each of their square-toed shoes. There was a third occupant visible in the hatchway of the craft. One of the men had a cylinder that it pushed into ground, and withdrew. They then got back into the craft and it flew away. The witness, Sr. M. Ramos Bessa, had a severe headache after his close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 143 Source ID: Johnson_49 Source: Johnson ### Event 5358 (41A54314) Date: 1/6/1953 Description: 1:05 a.m. The 147th AC&W Squadron at Duncanville, Texas, is notified by the CAA at Meacham Field \[now Fort Worth Meacham International Airport\] about a UFO northeast of Dallas. Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City reports a radar target 20 miles southwest of Paris, Texas. An arrowhead-shaped UFO with green and white lights is seen by some witnesses in the Dallas area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Arrow-Shaped Object Tracked at 600 Knots](http://www.nicap.org/530106duncanville%5Fdir.htm)”; “[‘Flying Arrowhead’ Seen over Dallas: ‘Not a Star or Plane,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98856097/)” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 6, 1953, p. 1; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 188 Source ID: Eberhart_2147 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5359 (1B2471F4) Date: 1/6/1953 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530106](http://nicap.org/dallas530106dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dallas (near), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1446 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5360 (9103C28F) Date: 1/6/1953 Description: Strange lighted object seen by CAA tower operator and others. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530106](http://www.nicap.org/530106duncanville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Duncanville, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1447 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5361 (7C04AB0C) Date: 1/8/1953 Description: 10:20 p.m. A triangular object with a brilliant reddish glow is seen for 10 minutes at Mosgiel, New Zealand. It fades, then reappears with a rising and falling motion, accompanied by a small white light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The New Zealand](https://archive.org/details/Flying%5FSaucer%5FNews%5FNo%5F01%5F1953%5FSpring/page/n7/mode/2up) [Sightings,](https://archive.org/details/Flying%5FSaucer%5FNews%5FNo%5F01%5F1953%5FSpring/page/n7/mode/2up)” Flying Saucer News, no. 1 \(Spring 1953\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_2149 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5362 (965D9ADB) Date: 1/8/1953 Description: 7:15–7:30 a.m. USAF ADC 82nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron personnel at Larson AFB \[now Grant County International Airport\], Moses Lake, Washington, all on the ground, see a green, disc-shaped object about the size of large weather balloon flying to the southwest. It has a vertical bobbing motion and makes sideways movements at about 8,000 feet below scattered clouds. It moves away against the wind until it disappears in the distance. The object is also observed by base personnel at Ephrata, Washington. An F-94 is scrambled at 7:43 a.m. and searches for 30 minutes, but the UFO is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The 1953 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1953fullrep.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 188; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#multiwit)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 50–51 Source ID: Eberhart_2148 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5363 (E7EB7958) Date: 1/8/1953 Description: Green disc shaped or round object fly SW (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2323) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moses Lake (Larson AFB), WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1448 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5364 (3AD00A60) Date: 1/8/1953 Time: 7:15 AM Description: Witnesses: men from the 82nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, including the squadron commander; all were on the ground. One green, disc-shaped or round object flew southwest for 15 minutes, with a vertically bobbing motion and sideways movements, below clouds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Larson AFB, Washington Source ID: BerlinerBBU_291 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5365 (51356407) Date: 1/9/1953 Description: Radio station KVET in Kerrville, Texas, blames a 75-second interruption in its operation on a red-orange oval object seen by four junior high school students over the city at the same time. Ivan Young, 13, and Edgar Rasmussen, 14, see the object fly in from the west, circle, and disappear to the north. They see two fins on its end shooting out red and green flames. It is making a buzzing noise. KVET engineer Britt Lamb says the radio interference is the weirdest he has ever seen—heavy static “with a roar that traveled up and down the scale.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Fiery Object Jams Radio at Kerrville,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99630276/)” Fort Worth \(Tex.\) Star-Telegram, January 10, 1953, p. 2; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 78–79 Source ID: Eberhart_2152 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5366 (B7AEB80D) Date: 1/9/1953 Description: 6:50 p.m. An F-94 makes radar contact with a UFO at a range of about 13.5 miles over Misawa Air Base, Honshu, Japan. The radar locks on at 15,000 feet and contact is broken at a range of 600 feet. The radar observer reports unusual interference on the set throughout the mission, but the set appears to be operative both before and after. The radar contact lasts approximately 2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F-94 Radar/Visual of Rotating UFO](http://www.nicap.org/530109misawa%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 189 Source ID: Eberhart_2153 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5367 (591A16A2) Date: 1/9/1953 Description: The CIA/OSI attempts to get [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith)’s approval for “two series” of scientific panels in January and February, which would buy some time, but the suggestion is rejected. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1014 Source ID: Eberhart_2151 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5368 (128C9F3A) Date: 1/9/1953 Description: Howard C. Cross, a senior staff member at Battelle, writes a letter to Col. [Miles E. Goll](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Goll%5FM.htm) of ATIC, arguing that “agreement between Project Stork \[Battelle’s study\] and ATIC should be reached as to what can and what cannot be discussed at the meeting in Washington on January 14–16.” He suggests a “controlled experiment” be undertaken by USAF to obtain physical data. This would consist of “observation posts with complete visual skywatch, with radar and photographic coverage, plus all other instruments necessary or helpful in obtaining positive and reliable data on everything in the air over the area.” The suggestion is that “Many different types of aerial activity should be secretly and purposefully scheduled within the area,” meaning that the Air Force would release balloons to generate spurious UFO phenomena. The memo is a desperate effort to buy time for Battelle to finish its statistical analysis. [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) speculates that this letter by Cross \(to whom Vallée assigns the pseudonym “Pentacle”\) could have led to the military setting up artificial UFO waves and simulated cases in selected areas; however, this is clearly not the case, as [Jennie Zeidman](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/jennie-zeidman-obituary?pid=195927848) and [Mark Rodeghier](http://cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html) elaborately demonstrate in IUR. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [H. C. Cross letter to Miles E. Goll](http://www.nicap.org/papers/Pentacle/pentacle%5Fdoc.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/papers/Pentacle/pentacle%5Fdoc.htm) January 9, 1952; NICAP, “[The ‘Pentacle Memorandum,’](http://www.nicap.org/reports/pentacle.htm) [Including Text of Correspondence with Dr. Jacques Vallee,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/pentacle.htm)” August 17, 1993; Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 191](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/190/mode/2up); The Hynek UFO Report, [p. 21](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/20/mode/2up); Jacobs, The UFO Controversy, Signet ed., 1976, [p.](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/78/mode/2up) [79](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/78/mode/2up); Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, North Atlantic, 1992, [p. 428](https://archive.org/details/forbiddenscience00vall%5F0/page/427/mode/2up); Clark III 1214–1215; Thomas Tulien, ed., [Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop](https://sohp.us/Sign-Historical-Group-Workshop-Proceedings.pdf), Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 48; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 7–12, 23; Jennie Zeidman and Mark Rodeghier, “The Pentacle Letter and the Battelle UFO Project,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(May/June 1993\): 4–12, 19–21 Source ID: Eberhart_2150 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5369 (9B0DB527) Date: 1/9/1953 Description: B-29 Bomber Crew Watch V-Formation (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530109](http://www.nicap.org/530109santa%5Fana%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Ana, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1451 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5370 (055A992D) Date: 1/9/1953 Description: Japan, A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown Location in Japan, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1450 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5371 (5527DD68) Date: 1/9/1953 Description: (McDonald list) F-94 Radar/Visual of Rotating UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530109](http://www.nicap.org/530109misawa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Misawa AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1449 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5372 (CF57CBE2) Date: 1/9/1953 Description: 7:27 p.m. B-29 copilot 1st Lt. Charles C. Loveless sees a V-formation of bluish-white lights approaching his aircraft over Santa Ana, California. Pilot 1st Lt. Lowell D. Brandt turns to avoid them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “B-29 Bomber Crew Watch V-Formation”; UFOEv, [p. 21](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=33&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2154 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5373 (72472F9F) Date: 1/10/1953 Description: Flat Object At 2,400 MPR (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 2326) Reference: NICAP: [530110](http://www.nicap.org/530110sonoma%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sonoma, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1452 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5374 (3A1B674F) Date: 1/10/1953 Time: 3:45 PM or 4 PM Description: Witnesses: retired Col. Robert McNab, and Mr. Hunter of the Federal Security Agency. One flat object, like a pinhead, made three 360 degree right turns in 9 seconds, made abrupt 90 degree turns to the right and left, stopped, accelerated to original speed and finally flew out of sight vertically after 60-75 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Sonoma, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_292 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5375 (CC90C2AD) Date: 1/10/1953 Description: 4:45 p.m. Retired Air Force Col. Robert McNab and a Mr. Hunter of the Federal Security Agency see a flat object to the northwest of their location 8 miles west of Sonoma, California. It is traveling about 2,400 mph and makes three 360° right turns in 2–3 seconds each in about 1/8 the radius required for jets \(about 1/4 mile\) and two abrupt 90° turns to the right and left, each turn 5 seconds apart. It almost stops, accelerates to its original high speed, almost stops again, speeds up again, and finally flies out of sight vertically. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Flat Object at 2,400](http://www.nicap.org/530110sonoma%5Fdir.htm) [MPH](http://www.nicap.org/530110sonoma%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 189 Source ID: Eberhart_2155 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5376 (1A1380D5) Date: 1/10/1953 Description: At 3:45 p.m. northwest of Sonoma, California two military witnesses with high credibility and training, named McNab and Hunter, saw a UFO make 90-degree and 180-degree turns and full stops, rise vertically, then shoot off toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 115; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2326; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 38; MUFON UFO Journal, issue 237 Source ID: Johnson_237 Source: Johnson ### Event 5377 (7DF3965C) Date: 1/11/1953 Description: A huge reddish-orange glowing ovoid object buzzed and then circled the town of Kerrville, Texas at around 6 p.m. causing odd TV and radio interference. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Maney, Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 190; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2947 Source ID: Johnson_249 Source: Johnson ### Event 5378 (6FF6EBA3) Date: 1/12/1953 Description: The Air Force (reportedly with the assistance of the Central Intelligence Agency) convened a panel of top scientists to weigh the accumulated evidence. ["Robertson Panel" - headed by Howard P. Robertson] The panel was to decide whether the evidence indicated UFOs were interplanetary, whether it was all explainable, or whether the project should continue and seek better data. (p. 275). A study of UFO maneuvers concluding the objects were interplanetary was presented to the panel by Maj. Dewey Fournet. Type: scientific panel Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 285](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_874 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5379 (A6A9CCF8) Date: 1/12/1953 Description: 1:00 p.m. Maurício Ramos is driving on grassy terrain near Santana dos Montes, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when he sees a luminous, metallic disc smaller than a Volkswagen hovering 6 feet from the ground. He approaches to within 6 feet of it, and a door opens. Two entitles shorter than 5 feet tall, wearing lead-colored clothing with shiny balls fitted to the shoes, jump out. Ramos thinks they invite him aboard, but he does not answer because he is getting an increasingly severe headache as he watches. When the headache goes away, the disc and creatures have disappeared. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Pesquisas sobre Tripulantes de DV,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20055-59%20-%201967.pdf)” Boletim SBEDV, no. 55/59 \(1967\): 1– 2, 8–9; Brazil 25–26 Source ID: Eberhart_2156 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5380 (C1068F29) Date: 1/12/1953 Description: In Santana dos Montes, Minas Gerais, Brazil Sr. M. Ramos Bessa had a close encounter with a small domed disc-shaped UFO that landed in a field at 1:00 p.m. Two humanoids wearing "brilliant lead" colored suits w shining ball on each of their square-toed shoes. Soil sample.Physiological effect: severe headache. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, case # 265 Source ID: Johnson_274 Source: Johnson ### Event 5381 (F9328A0F) Date: 1/14/1953 Description: 9:30 a.m. The opening meeting of the Robertson Panel convenes in the OSI conference room at CIA Building “M” in Washington, D.C. Present are scientists [Howard P. Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) [Samuel A. Goudsmit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FGoudsmit), [Luis Walter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez) [Alvarez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FWalter%5FAlvarez) and [Thornton Leigh Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton%5FLeigh%5FPage)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton%5FLeigh%5FPage) CIA members [Philip Grandin Strong](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49359563/philip-grandin-strong)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49359563/philip-grandin-strong) Lt. Col. [Frederick C. E. Oder](https://www.nap.edu/read/12473/chapter/39), David B. Stevenson, and [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) are also present. All are skeptical, if not openly hostile to UFO reports. Page later says that “H. P. Robertson told us in the first private \(no outsiders\) session that our job was to reduce public concern and show that UFO reports could be explained by conventional reasoning.” The panel first reviews the CIA OSI study from August, the ATIC November 21 meeting, the December 4 IAC decision, the visit to ATIC by [Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) and Robertson, and CIA concern over potential national security dangers. They watch the Montana and Utah films. Lt. [Robert S. Neasham](https://rr0.org/people/n/NeashamRobertS/) and Harry Woo of the Navy Photo Interpretation Laboratory report on their analyses of both films, which conclude that the objects are unidentified. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) speaks for 40 minutes on the Blue Book method of UFO investigation. It is possibly here that he first suggests using 4602nd AISS field units to conduct Blue Book field investigations. The meeting adjourns at 5:15 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frederick C. Durant, “[Report of](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf) [Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, January 14–18, 1953,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf)” memorandum for Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, February 16, 1953; Clark III 1014–1015; Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1995\): 16–20; Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/334/mode/2up) [335–339](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/334/mode/2up); Swords 188–192 Source ID: Eberhart_2157 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5382 (3EFC4ED8) Date: 1/15/1953 Description: The second day of the Robertson Panel. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) completes his presentation, then [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) discusses Battelle’s Project Stork. The CIA shows a film of seagulls in flight. Lt. Col. [Oder](https://www.nap.edu/read/12473/chapter/39) gives a 40-minute presentation on Project Twinkle. In the afternoon, Gen. [William M. Garland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49186828/william-madison-garland) states his desire to increase the use of thoroughly briefed USAF intelligence officers to investigate UFO reports, declassify as many reports as possible, and enlarge Blue Book. Other USAF representatives discuss the difficulties of setting up instrument watches to monitor sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frederick C. Durant, “[Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf) [January 14–18, 1953,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf)” memorandum for Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, February 16, 1953; O’Connell 87–89; Clark III 1015; Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1995\): 16–20 Source ID: Eberhart_2158 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5383 (15B57619) Date: 1/16/1953 Description: The third day of the Robertson Panel. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) speaks again, followed by Maj. [Dewey Fournet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) who talks about his motion studies of UFOs that indicate controlled flight. Physicist [Lloyd Berkner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner) joins the panel in the afternoon. In the afternoon, panel members talk about conclusions they have reached, and [Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) agrees to draft a report for review \(although it has already been written by [Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) prior to the meetings, which Fournet has suspected\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frederick C. Durant, “[Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf) [Objects, January 14–18, 1953,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf)” memorandum for Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, February 16, 1953; O’Connell 87–89; Clark III 1015; Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1995\): 16–20 Source ID: Eberhart_2159 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5384 (1DA24950) Date: 1/17/1953 Description: The final day of the Robertson Panel. The panel reviews [Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson)’s draft report \([Berkner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBerkner) has already seen it\) and puts it into final form. \(By 11:00 a.m., both CIA Director [Walter Bedell Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FBedell%5FSmith) and Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) have seen and approved the draft.\) The scientists agree that since most sightings can be explained, the rest can be accounted for with further investigation, which is a “great waste of effort.” They reject [Fournet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet)’s UFO reports as “raw” and “unevaluated.” The Montana film is said to depict aircraft. They reject the Navy analysis of the Utah film, calling the objects “high reflectivity of seagulls in bright sunlight.” Because the “mass receipt of low-grade reports \[tends\] to overload channels of communication with material quite irrelevant to hostile objects that might some day appear” \(a phony issue invented by [Thornton Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton%5FLeigh%5FPage)\), the Air Force should embark on a debunking campaign that would “result in reduction of public interest in flying saucers” with the help of scientific pronouncements \(suggested by [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)\) and media, including [Walt Disney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt%5FDisney) Inc. animated cartoons. Blue Book should be expanded to 18 staff members \(it has 5\) so that it can educate and debunk effectively, but this never happens. Civilian UFO groups such as CSI and APRO should be watched “because of their potentially great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur. The apparent irresponsibility and the possible use of such groups for subversive purposes should be kept in mind.” The panel and report are kept classified until a brief summary is declassified in 1958, and the CIA’s involvement is kept secret until 1966. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frederick C. Durant, “[Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, January 14–18, 1953,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4.pdf)” memorandum for Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, February 16, 1953; Clark III 1014–1016 ; Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1995\): 16–20; Swords 192–200 Source ID: Eberhart_2160 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5385 (2B495CC0) Date: 1/17/1953 Description: 3:55 p.m. Geologist/salesman John Townsend Sackett is riding in a bus with about a dozen passengers near Guatemala City, Guatemala, when he observes a brilliant greenish-gold object, shaped like the Goodyear blimp. It is later described as being about twice the size of a DC-3. The object is traveling at about 400 mph straight and level in a northwesterly direction at about 6,500 feet. It almost stops in mid-flight then rises vertically about 1,500 feet, hovers for about 2 seconds, then immediately resumes flight at a new altitude. The object is lost to view because of intervening terrain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Blimp-Like Object Sighted by Geologist](http://www.nicap.org/530117guatemala%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 189 Source ID: Eberhart_2161 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5386 (5440F613) Date: 1/17/1953 Time: 3:55 PM Description: Witness: geologist/salesman J.J. Sackett. One brilliant green-gold object, shaped like the Goodyear blimp with its length twice its height, flew 400 m.p.h. straight and level, stopped, then went straight up with one stop. Sighting lasted 22 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: near Guatemala City, Guatemala Source ID: BerlinerBBU_293 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5387 (704D6460) Date: 1/17/1953 Description: The conclusions of the scientific Robertson Panel were not made public at the time. Since then, two conflicting versions have been released:

Conclusions Reported by Ruppelt, 1956: The panel recommended that the UFO project be expanded, the investigative force quadrupled in size and staffed by trained scientists; that tracking instruments be established all over the country, and that the public be told "every detail of every phase" of the investigation. The scientists believed this program would "dispel any of the mystery" created by military security procedures, and also keep the investigation on a scientific basis. The recommendations were not adopted.

Summary Released by Air Force, 1958: The panel concluded that UFOs constituted no "direct physical threat to national security," there was no evidence of "foreign artifacts capable of hostile acts," and no "need for the revision of current scientific concepts." The panel recommended "immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired." The panel suggested "an integrated program designed to reassure the public of the total lack of evidence of inimical forces behind the phenomena."

Exactly what transpired at the conclusion of this meeting is not clear, though it is strongly suggested that the whole story has not been told. If the decision of the panel had been clearly negative, as the 1958 summary implies, there would have been no reason to be so secretive about it. On the contrary, there would have been every reason to make an immediate public announcement.

What is known about the affair is the public manifestation of the UFO project following the meeting. After a period of apparent serious interest in gathering better data (which supports Ruppelt's version of the panel conclusions), the Air Force began debunking UFOs. Since then the Air Force does not admit to having the slightest shred of evidence that anything at all out of the ordinary is taking place. Type: scientific panel conclusions Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 293-298](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_875 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5388 (0D0DCDE3) Date: 1/17/1953 Description: Brilliant green-gold object, shaped like the Goodyear blimp (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2337) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Guatemala City (near), Guatemala Source ID: NICAP_DB_1453 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5389 (E0563E53) Date: 1/18/1953 Description: Upon [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s return to Ohio State University from the Robertson Panel, he and his new research assistant [Jennie Zeidman](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/jennie-zeidman-obituary?pid=195927848) come up with the name “Project Henry” to describe his consultancy with the Air Force. It is based on the Flit bug-spray advertisement that has a woman saying, “Quick, Henry, the Flit!” About once a week, a courier from Battelle arrives at Hynek’s office with a manila envelope stuffed with teletype UFO reports for him to examine. Hynek travels to the Blue Book facility in Building 263 at Wright-Patterson about 2–3 times a month, with Zeidman sometimes accompanying him, Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 7–12, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_2162 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5390 (E6F4F8D8) Date: 1/20/1953 Description: [Dwight D. Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) is sworn in as president. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_2164 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5391 (7A78E5F1) Date: 1/20/1953 Description: [Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) writes a letter to [Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) saying “perhaps that’ll take care of the Forteans for a while” and mentions an upcoming meeting with the “NSA group” on February 5. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 189 Source ID: Eberhart_2163 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5392 (8C45827B) Date: 1/20/1953 End date: 1/20/1961 Description: President Eisenhower in office Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower) Source ID: Maj2_491 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5393 (58BDE751) Date: 1/22/1953 Description: At 2400 Z four airmen at Patrick AFB, Florida, visually observed for three minutes a fiery red-orange ball traveling soundlessly from north to south at high speed. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [530122](http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=NARA-PBB85-813) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Patrick AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1455 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5394 (44ABD431) Date: 1/22/1953 Description: An unidentified flying object described as red, white and blue and oval-shaped, was observed visually from the weather station, control tower, base operations office, and a nearby AC&W site (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [530122](http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=NARA-PBB85-812) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harmon AFB, Newfoundland Source ID: NICAP_DB_1454 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5395 (3D5B13F9) Date: 1/23/1953 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Unidentified Return For 19 Minutes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530123](http://www.nicap.org/530123bergstromdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bergstrom AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1456 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5396 (8033E6DC) Date: 1/24/1953 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) travels to Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to brief the 4602nd AISS on how they might help Blue Book investigate UFOs. He also puts in for a transfer to Air Defense Command here. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_2165 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5397 (3C129CFA) Date: 1/24/1953 Description: At 1550 hrs. in Suwon, Korea two 0.36 meter diameter discs were spotted by an airman in the sky to the east of the airfield. They were lost from view in the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 65 Source ID: Johnson_474 Source: Johnson ### Event 5398 (062926A5) Date: 1/26/1953 Description: At 9:15 p.m. MST Air Force personnel stationed at the 769th AC&W station in Continental Divide, New Mexico observed an aerial phenomenon simultaneously by electronic and visual means. To the naked eye the object appeared as a very bright reddish-white object estimated to be 10 miles west of the radar site. The object passed behind a hill and then reappeared, apparently heading in a northerly direction at a slow speed. The airman making this visual observation reported it to personnel manning the radar equipment. They stated that they had an unidentified blip on the radar scope, appearing west of the station approximately 9 miles away. The scope showed the object to be on a 270 azimuth at an altitude of 10,000-15,000 feet moving away from the site at 12-15 mph. It was eventually lost on radar at the 18 mile range. The object was under visual and radar observation intermittently for 45 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Report #10, report dated February 27, 1953; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward U. Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 192; UNICAT, case # 653; (NARA-PBB85-814) Source ID: Johnson_514 Source: Johnson ### Event 5399 (4B4E847B) Date: 1/26/1953 Description: At 2115 MST Air Force personnel stationed at an AC&W station in this area observed an aerial phenomenon simultaneously by electronic and visual means. To the naked eye the object appeared as a very bright reddish-white object estimated to be 10 miles west of the radar site (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [530126](http://www.nicap.org/530126contdividedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Continental Divide, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1457 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5400 (869EFCE7) Date: 1/26/1953 Description: The Dept. of Defense, Washington, D.C. states in a letter to the Henry Holt & Co. that Maj. Donald Keyhoes’ book on “flying saucers” is accurate and that if the reported controlled maneuvers of the saucers are accurate then the saucers may be from another planet. Signed, Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk. Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A10, ["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p542) Location: Washington DC See also: 9/15/1950 Source ID: Maj2_493 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5401 (4FFB8EEF) Date: 1/26/1953 Description: The ROBERTSON PANEL convenes, headed by Prof. H.P. Robertson. He was chosen because of being renowned as a nuclear physicist. Some of the persons involved with this panel were Capt. Ruppelt, Dr. Allen Hynek, Prof. S. GOUDSMIT, L. ALVAREZ, Sam Goudsmit, Prof. Luis Alvarez, Dr. Lloyd Berkner and Prof. Thornton Page. Type: historical event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Source ID: Maj2_492 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5402 (23ED0115) Date: 1/26/1953 Description: At 6:20 p.m. an airman witnessed a 60 meter long luminous cigar-shaped or rectangular object with hazy ends, that flew from east to west over Sampson Air Force Base in Ontario County, New York while climbing slightly. It made a high frequency humming sound. It flew at an estimated 2500m altitude. In one minute the object traveled through an arc of 70 or 80 degrees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2958, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 5; Project Blue Book Report #10, report dated February 27, 1953; NARA-PBB85-816 Source ID: Johnson_513 Source: Johnson ### Event 5403 (504C5763) Date: 1/26/1953 Description: At 2320 Z an airman at Sampson AFB, New York, visually observed one large luminous rectangular shaped unidentified flying object. In one minute the object traveled through an arc of 70 or 80 degrees, while emitting a humming sound. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [530126](http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=NARA-PBB85-816) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sampson AFB, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1458 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5404 (F42B2E1D) Date: 1/26/1953 Description: Air Force Press Officer [Albert M. Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) writes a letter to [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s publisher Henry Holt & Co., declaring that all the sighting reports he is using for his upcoming Flying Saucers from Outer Space were cleared and made available to him from Air Technical Intelligence records. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Albert E. Chop, [Letter to Henry Holt & Company](http://nicap.org/chop2let.htm), January 26, 1953; Good Above, [p. 542](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/542/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2166 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5405 (81126279) Date: 1/27/1953 Description: Bean (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Livermore (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1460 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5406 (AA2A3A98) Date: 1/27/1953 Description: Crew Of T-29 Encounters Several Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530127](http://www.nicap.org/530127mather%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mather AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1459 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5407 (0C219B4E) Date: 1/28/1953 Description: C-47 Encounters Maneuvering Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530128](http://www.nicap.org/530128stuttgart2%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stuttgart, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_1467 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5408 (83F32014) Date: 1/28/1953 Description: 9:40 p.m. Maj. Hal W. Lamb, USAF senior pilot at Moody AFB in Valdosta, Georgia, apparently sees the setting planet Venus \(although this is disputed\) changing color and shape while flying a T-33 \(or an F-86\). It is also seen by Turner AFB \[now Naval Air Station Albany\] tower operators in Albany \[not Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta\], Georgia \(with time errors of about 10 minutes\). About the same time, two GCA radar maintenance men at Turner AFB radar track three moving targets and a stationary target. At 10:10 p.m., the GCA reports two stationary targets at 17 and 27 miles, both 300° azimuth. No visual confirmation, though binoculars are used. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Several Radar Contacts](http://www.nicap.org/530128georgia%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 191; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953, January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Jan-Feb.pdf) [March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Jan-Feb.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Jan-Feb.pdf) The Author, 1988, p. 66; Marler 129–130 Source ID: Eberhart_2171 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5409 (94946ACF) Date: 1/28/1953 Description: 9:00 p.m. The control tower at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro \[now closed\], California, spots a large, luminous, red object and asks Maj. Harvey N. Patton to give chase. He pursues it from Newport Beach to Long Beach and has it in sight for 3–4 minutes but is unable to gain on it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Marine Fighter Asked to Check on](http://www.nicap.org/530128eltoro%5Fdir.htm) [Amber Object](http://www.nicap.org/530128eltoro%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2170 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5410 (5E16AF28) Date: 1/28/1953 Description: A Maj. Geyer at Mitchel AFB \[now closed\] near Uniondale, New York, investigates reports of a UFO seen by both civilian and military witnesses. The UFO is an oval object glowing with different colors and having a tail or projection. He quickly concludes that it is a meteor and submits a report to Blue Book. However, one of the witnesses, author Marie Armstrong Essipoff \([Ben Hecht](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%5FHecht)’s first wife\), later writes to [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) saying that she had told Geyer that the object wobbled and it had a turret on top. She draws a picture and Geyer says it looks like one of their flight simulators. But it’s “still a meteor,” he says. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 199–200 Source ID: Eberhart_2169 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5411 (CFF663EF) Date: 1/28/1953 Description: 2:20 p.m. Northrop Aircraft test pilot Rex Hardy Jr. is flying over Malibu, California, when he and two other crew members see a formation of four UFOs the size of a B-36. They are circular in shape, aluminum- colored, and flying at 1,200 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 50 Source ID: Eberhart_2168 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5412 (1BCDD5A3) Date: 1/28/1953 Description: 1:06 p.m. R. W. Love and a Mr. Ferrenti, while engaged in retrieving radio-controlled drones on a boat 1,100 yards offshore and south of Naval Air Station Point Mugu \[now Naval Base Ventura County\] near Oxnard, California, see a white, flat disc with fuzzy or shimmering edges rapidly approach from the northwest flying straight and level, overtake a jet aircraft, pass overhead, and disappear in the haze to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Flat Disc Observed Overtaking](http://www.nicap.org/530128pointmugu%5Fdir.htm) [Jet](http://www.nicap.org/530128pointmugu%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 190 Source ID: Eberhart_2167 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5413 (42E167F6) Date: 1/28/1953 Time: No time given Description: Witnesses: radar maintenance personnel. Radar tracked one stationary target for 20 minutes. A visual sighting about the same time was explained. No further information in the files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Albany, Georgia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_296 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5414 (32C2CA27) Date: 1/28/1953 Time: 6:05 PM Description: Witness: USAF T/Sgt. George Beyer. Five 25' green spheres flew in V-formation, then changed to trail formation at which time the end objects turned red. Sighting lasted 12 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Corona, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_295 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5415 (404E63BC) Date: 1/28/1953 Time: 1 PM Description: Witness: R.W. Love, owner of Love Diving Co., engaged in retrieving radio-controlled drones. An 18-20' white, flat disc flew straight and level, overhead, for 6 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pt. Mugu, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_294 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5416 (8B3BF643) Date: 1/28/1953 Description: C-47 Encounters Light Making Volent Maneuvers (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530128](http://www.nicap.org/530128stuttgart%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stuttgart, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_1466 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5417 (3BAF5297) Date: 1/28/1953 Description: Rose-orange 7-inch \[?\] shiny disc-shaped object with a "white tail" (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Georges, DE Source ID: NICAP_DB_1465 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5418 (93A00E5D) Date: 1/28/1953 Description: Five 25 ft green spheres fly in V-formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 2364) Reference: NICAP: [530128](http://www.nicap.org/530128corona%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corona, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1464 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5419 (D8822731) Date: 1/28/1953 Description: Marine Fighter Asked To Check On Amber Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530128](http://www.nicap.org/530128eltoro%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Toro Marine Base, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1463 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5420 (A1019BDE) Date: 1/28/1953 Description: 18-20-inch white, flat disc with fuzzy or shimmering edges (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2361) Reference: NICAP: [530128](http://www.nicap.org/ptmagoo530128dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Point Mugu, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1462 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5421 (B8926EE8) Date: 1/28/1953 Description: Radar tracked 3 moving targets and a stationary target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2365) Reference: NICAP: [530128](http://www.nicap.org/530128georgia%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dobbins (Turner AFB), GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1461 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5422 (B34113D1) Date: 1/28/1953 Description: On this evening in 1953, at 6:10 p.m., 5 silent orbs flew over Corona, California in a V Formation. Flying at an estimated 2,000 feet altitude, they changed into a row formation, then back again into a V formation. Speed was estimated at 150 mph. They flew from the southeast to the northwest. Later that same evening, over the Naval Air Station at Point Mugu on the California coast, US Marine Corps jet fighters pursued a red disc-shaped UFO. The UFO out accelerated the jets and moved away at high speed. Project Blue Book listed this later case as an official "unknown". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1953, p. 067; Project Blue Book files, case #2361 Source ID: Johnson_550 Source: Johnson ### Event 5423 (153FE883) Date: 1/29/1953 Description: Hearing a commotion in his barn, a farmer observed an object about 7 m long and 4 m wide at treetop level. It was light gray in color and lit up inside. It resembled a half egg. The witness fired his gun at the object. Numerous livestock died "mysteriously" in the area after the sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Conway, South Carolina Source ID: Magnonia_108 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5424 (9747E57B) Date: 1/29/1953 Description: Four B-36-Sized Discs Observed By 3-Man Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530129](http://www.nicap.org/530129malibubeach%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mailbu Beach, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1468 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5425 (FDD399C1) Date: 1/29/1953 Description: 9:55 a.m. A small gray oval-shaped object is seen between Houlton and Chatham, Maine, by 2nd Lt. Fred T. Goetting Jr., pilot of an F-94B. Goetting points out the object to his radar observer, Lt. [Howard C. Kelley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186885214/howard-clay-kelley). The object appears to be 10° above the F-94B, which is at 23,000 feet. Goetting attempts to intercept the object at a speed of 0.8 Mach. This chase continues for 8 minutes without the F-94 gaining, and the chase is broken off because of low fuel. The object is seen by at least two fighter aircraft from other squadrons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Gray Oval](http://www.nicap.org/530129presqueisle%5Fdir.htm) [Sighted by 3 Fighter Aircraft](http://www.nicap.org/530129presqueisle%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 191 Source ID: Eberhart_2174 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5426 (81FF81F8) Date: 1/29/1953 Description: 11:30 p.m. A farmer named [Lloyd C. Booth](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82693987/lloyd-cooper-booth) just north of Conway, South Carolina, hears a commotion of animals, grabs his .22 revolver, and sees an oblong-shaped, lighted object 10 feet above the trees moving slowly or hovering, with a low humming sound. He shoots at the object twice. The first bullet bounces off with a metallic sound; at the second shot the object tilts slightly and ascends at a 65° angle to the west at 600–700 mph and disappears. One of his cows had died the previous evening. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Man Fires 0.22 at Hovering Object](http://www.nicap.org/530129conway%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 191; “[Conway S.C. Man Shoots Saucer,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201953%2003%2015%20-%20Vol%201%20No%205.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 1, no. 5 \(March 15, 1953\): 1, 4–5; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 64–66 Source ID: Eberhart_2175 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5427 (2E98BD2A) Date: 1/29/1953 Description: Radar tracking (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530129](http://www.nicap.org/530129presqueisle%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Presque Isle AFB, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_1469 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5428 (930A22E6) Date: 1/29/1953 Description: 2:20 p.m. Northrup test pilot [Rex Hardy Jr.](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-apr-18-me-hardy18-story.html), test pilot Chester Mathews, and Northrup photographer Jim Wilkinson see four metallic, disc-shaped object the size of a B-36 flying in squadron formation over Malibu Beach, California. They estimate their height as 20,000 feet and speed as 1,200 mph. They watch for about 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Four B-36-Sized Discs Observed by 3-Man Crew](http://www.nicap.org/530129malibubeach%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2176 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5429 (73814E46) Date: 1/29/1953 Description: Hearing a commotion in his barn, a farmer in Conway, South Carolina observed an object about seven meters long and four meters wide at treetop level. It was light gray in color and lit up inside. It resembled an egg sliced in half lengthwise. The witness fired his gun at the object. Numerous livestock died "mysteriously" in the area after the sighting. At 2:00 p.m. four huge metallic discs, each the size of a B-36 bomber, flew over Malibu Beach, California at a speed in excess of 1,000 mph. At five minutes before midnight an F-94 jet interceptor and two other fighter aircraft reported seeing a dark gray, oval-shaped UFO flying over Presque Isle, Maine. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202; Fate Magazine, June 1953, p. 12, citing Los Angeles Examiner; Project Blue Book files; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 219 Source ID: Johnson_572 Source: Johnson ### Event 5430 (785439CC) Date: 1/29/1953 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) still thinks that the Robertson Panel has accepted [Garland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49186828/william-madison-garland)’s recommendation to expand Blue Book \(it hasn’t\) and that its education and debunking recommendation means that UFO information should be released to the public \(it didn’t\). [Fournet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) [Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php), and Col. Teabert \([Kenneth E. Thiebaud](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54677903/kenneth-e%5F-thiebaud)?\) of AFOIN-2 think the same. In Washington, Ruppelt hears that the press has heard rumors about the Utah film, and he decides to release it, focusing on the seagull explanation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: The Hynek UFO Report, [p. 236](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/236/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2172 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5431 (1B7C5160) Date: 1/29/1953 Description: A briefing of the Office of Naval Estimates Board by the CIA on UFOs includes the showing of the Utah and Montana films. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frederick C. Durant, “[Briefing of ONE Board on Unidentified Flying Objects,](http://www.nicap.org/cia/cia530130memo.htm)” January 30, 1953 Source ID: Eberhart_2173 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5432 (DABF067E) Date: 1/29/1953 Description: Fowl and mules vocalize as disc passes overhead (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, Code: aM, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530129](http://www.nicap.org/530129conway%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Conway, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1470 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5433 (E50FDD18) Date: 1/30/1953 Description: Research chemist Wells Alan Webb and two other witnesses were traveling on Highway 80 seven miles east of Yuma, Arizona when a nocturnal light appeared and spun in the sky over a mechanic in a plane; the UFO then accelerated up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Maney & Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 152; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 51; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 54 Source ID: Johnson_597 Source: Johnson ### Event 5434 (97FFA924) Date: 1/31/1953 Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#9. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 155–174 Source ID: Eberhart_2177 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5435 (C0E991F0) Date: 2/1953 Description: Two strange men from another planet hired in San Francisco - mysterious, then disappear. Type: anomalous event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: San Francisco, CA Source ID: Maj2_127 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5436 (2B4DBE75) Date: 2/1953 Description: 6:29 a.m. (CST). (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Finland AFS, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1471 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5437 (76A0D5A6) Date: 2/1953 Description: [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender) appoints [Gray Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%5FBarker) as IFSB’s chief investigator. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[IFSB Forms Dept. of Investigation,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Space%20Review%20%28Bender%29/Space%20Review%20-%20Volume%202%20number%202%20-%201953%2004.pdf)” Space Review 2, no. 2 \(April 1953\): 1; Clark III 189 Source ID: Eberhart_2178 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5438 (CFB7472F) Date: 2/1/1953 Description: 9:30 p.m. A T-33 flying 10 miles west of Terre Haute, Indiana, sights a close group of moving lights changing color from red to blue, to green to yellow. The pilot estimates their altitude to range between 15,000 feet to 30,000 feet flying in a manner similar to conventional aircraft. Searchlights from the St. Louis, Missouri, area seem to be following the unidentified lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[T-33 Pilot Observes Unidentified Lights](http://www.nicap.org/530201terrehaute%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2179 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5439 (BE0A9375) Date: 2/1/1953 Description: Sighting of a UFO by a T-33 pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530201](http://www.nicap.org/530201terrehaute%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Terre Haute, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1472 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5440 (A17C0B4C) Date: 2/3/1953 Description: 8:00 p.m. [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) and his wife Betty Jane watch two UFOs near the ground from their home on Brookside Boulevard in Prescott, Arizona. Another UFO passes over the house at 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 363–364 Source ID: Eberhart_2180 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5441 (47957F67) Date: 2/3/1953 Description: At 3:15 p.m. a silver disc-shaped object silently zig-zagged to evade US military jets over Dietrich, Idaho. It then shot off toward the west at a very high altitude. Project Blue Book lists the explanation for the encounter as due to a weather balloon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, February 1953, case 9; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: January-February, p. 74 Source ID: Johnson_674 Source: Johnson ### Event 5442 (15F9421B) Date: 2/3/1953 Description: Radar operators tracked 4 unidentified targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2384) Reference: NICAP: [530203](http://www.nicap.org/530203icelanddir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Keflavik Airport, Iceland Source ID: NICAP_DB_1473 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5443 (76877BF7) Date: 2/3/1953 Time: 5:25 PM Description: Witnesses: radar operators. Four unidentified targets were tracked for 24 minutes. No further data. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Keflavik, Iceland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_297 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5444 (C5D5C84B) Date: 2/4/1953 Time: 1:50 PM Description: Witness: U.S. Weather Bureau observer Stanley Brown, using a theodolite. One white, oblong object was tracked flying straight up, leveling off and being joined by a second, similar, object. The second twice flew away and returned to the first. After 5 minutes, both were lost to sight behind clouds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Yuma, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_298 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5445 (F66D6FFA) Date: 2/4/1953 Description: 1:50 p.m. US Weather Bureau observer Stanley H. Brown in Yuma, Arizona, tracks with a theodolite a white, oblong object. It is surrounded by a thin white mist and flies straight up and levels off. After 20 seconds, the object is joined by a second one that flies away twice and returns. Both are lost to sight behind clouds to the south-southwest. The sighting lasts 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Theodolite Tracking of Two Elliptical Objects](http://www.nicap.org/530204yuma%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 191; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#meteorologists)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 62–63 Source ID: Eberhart_2181 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5446 (03B55E74) Date: 2/4/1953 Description: White, oblong object with a solid dull pure white color (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 2388) Reference: NICAP: [530204](http://www.nicap.org/530204yuma%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yuma, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1474 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5447 (2D6238F3) Date: 2/4/1953 Description: At 1:50 p.m. U.S. Weather Bureau observer Stanley H. Brown in Yuma, Arizona, using a theodolite, sighted a dull white, oblong object that was tracked flying straight up vertically, then leveling off and being joined by a second, similar looking object. The second UFO twice flew away and returned to the first. The two dull white objects maneuvered errratically, then in unison against the wind, one degree apart. A thin mist was seen around the edges of the objects.After five minutes both objects were lost to sight behind some clouds. A Project Blue Book unknown. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2388; UNICAT case # 795, citing Dr. James E. McDonald; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 40; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 240; Project Blue Book Report #10, February 27, 1953; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 78 Source ID: Johnson_686 Source: Johnson ### Event 5448 (8386CAA8) Date: 2/6/1953 Description: At 1:13 a.m. PST a B-36 was flying in the vicinity of Rosalia, Washington inbound to Spokane AFB when a round white omni-directional light was sighted. The light was at an altitude of approximately 7,000 feet on a southeasterly course, and began circling the B-36 and rising above it as the aircraft approached it. The light was visually observed for a period of three to five minutes. The B-36 made a 180 degree turn toward the light which was estimated to be moving at a speed of 150 to 200 knots.The report contains a very accurate sighting description, showing that the object circled as the B-36 approached it, and the light commenced flashing at short intervals. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p 133; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 240; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_718 Source: Johnson ### Event 5449 (66486966) Date: 2/6/1953 Description: Bullet-Shaped Object At 500' (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530206](http://www.nicap.org/530206trukisland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Truk Atoll, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1476 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5450 (B4645C9C) Date: 2/6/1953 Description: 1:34 a.m. A B-36 aircraft piloted by Maj. [Leo J. Moffatt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49266802/leo-james-moffatt) is over Rosalia, Washington, when he sees one round white omnidirectional light at an altitude of approximately 7,000 feet on a southeast course, circling and rising as it proceeds. It is visually observed for a period of 3–5 minutes. The B-36 makes a 180° descending turn toward the light, which is estimated to be moving at a speed of 170–230 mph. Blue Book explains it as a weather balloon launched from Geiger Field \[now Spokane International Airport\]. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[B-36 Encounters Light at](http://www.nicap.org/530206rosalia%5Fdir.htm) [7,000ʹ](http://www.nicap.org/530206rosalia%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 192; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#balloons)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 67–68 Source ID: Eberhart_2182 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5451 (951ADF3C) Date: 2/6/1953 Description: B-36 Encounters Light At 7,000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530206](http://www.nicap.org/530206rosalia%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rosalia, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1475 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5452 (019EE406) Date: 2/7/1953 Description: 9:22 p.m. A USAF F-94 crew and other witnesses near Nemuro, Hokkaido, Japan, see a bright orange object change color to red and green at intervals and disappear behind a cloud. It is also tracked by ground radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F-94 Crew in Air and Ground Radar Tracking](http://www.nicap.org/530207okinawa%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [p. 122](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/122/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 192 Source ID: Eberhart_2183 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5453 (74282DE1) Date: 2/7/1953 Description: Bright orange object change color to red and green at intervals (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530207](http://www.nicap.org/530207okinawa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: unknown location, Okinawa Source ID: NICAP_DB_1477 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5454 (751F2C0D) Date: 2/7/1953 Description: An orange light was seen in the sky over Korea and an F-94 fighter jet was scrambled to intercept it. The F-94 pilot saw the bright object change speeds and altitude, then pull away from him. The UFO's presence was confirmed on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405; Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 60; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 257; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 133; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_732 Source: Johnson ### Event 5455 (BA0247E8) Date: 2/7/1953 Description: Korean area, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Korea (near), Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1479 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5456 (9E7714B0) Date: 2/8/1953 Description: Object With Falling Leaf Motions Over Airfield (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530208](http://www.nicap.org/530208barters%5Fisle%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barter Island, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1478 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5457 (10E24BD4) Date: 2/9/1953 Description: A U.S.Marine Corps pilot chased a rocket-like object for over three minutes over Cherry Point, North Carolina at 10:30 a.m. The luminous object with a red glow climbed rapidly. It had no wings or tail section. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files, February 1953; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #2981 Source ID: Johnson_768 Source: Johnson ### Event 5458 (D26F46D4) Date: 2/9/1953 Description: F9F Chases Silver Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530209](http://www.nicap.org/530209washington%5Fnc%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1480 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5459 (52049CED) Date: 2/9/1953 Description: Border. Marine Corps pilot chased rocket-like object. \[UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Virginia, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1481 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5460 (C01EAF82) Date: 2/9/1953 Description: [Al Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) has written a press release on the Utah film with the approval of Capt. Harry B. Smith of AFOIN. They decide to also release the USAF \(possible aircraft\) and Navy \(self-luminous or light sources\) analyses, otherwise the press might suspect a cover-up. The release would state that, although no positive identification has been made, further analysis will result in an identification. Gen. [Garland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49186828/william-madison-garland) approves the release, which then goes on to the Pentagon, which “screamed ‘No!’” [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) is ordered into silence. Chop says the CIA “killed the whole program. We’ve been ordered to work up a national debunking campaign, planting articles in magazines and arranging broadcasts to make UFO reports seem like poppycock.” Ruppelt tells [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) that Blue Book must even discredit USAF pilots who report UFOs. “It’s a raw deal, but we can’t buck the CIA.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 228](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/228/mode/2up); Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 70–71](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/70/mode/2up); The Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 236–237](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/236/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2184 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5461 (913AC6C4) Date: 2/9/1953 Description: CIA agent Hayden Channing writes a memo to the Domestic Contact Division describing a recent \[late January?\] public meeting of the Civilian Saucer Investigation group in Los Angeles, California. North American Aviation project engineer [Walther A. Riedel](https://anniejacobsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/op-16.jpg) is a member of the organization, and he describes the analyses of the UFO reports it receives. Only about 25 sightings are unidentified, and these they forward to Project Blue Book. Channing writes: “Apparently, an eye and interest are also directed to the USSR for reactions to sightings as reported in the PRAVDA.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hayden Channing, “[California Committee for Saucer Investigation,](http://www.project1947.com/shg/csi/csicia.html)” February 9, 1953 Source ID: Eberhart_2185 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5462 (A237684B) Date: 2/10/1953 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530210](http://www.nicap.org/530210misawadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Misawa AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1482 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5463 (64BF4632) Date: 2/11/1953 Description: A U.S. Air Force C-119 was paced by an unknown object while flying over North Africa. A disc-shaped object passed the transport plane while flying between Tunis, Tunisia and Tripoli, Libya at 9:45 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 240; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 133; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405 Source ID: Johnson_818 Source: Johnson ### Event 5464 (498023F0) Date: 2/11/1953 Description: UFO Paces C-119 Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530211](http://www.nicap.org/530211tunis%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bet. Tunis, Tunisia, and Tripoli, Libya Source ID: NICAP_DB_1483 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5465 (B03B3A58) Date: 2/11/1953 Alternate date: 2/19/1953 Description: 10:00 p.m. At the Naval Auxiliary Air Station \[now Northeastern Regional Airport\] in Edenton, North Carolina, Marine 1st Lt. Edward Balocco is on intercept stand-by duty when the alert whistle goes off. Minutes later he is in his F9F Panther jet heading north to Virginia Beach, Virginia, while being vectored to an unknown target by the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock, North Carolina. By the time he gets close to the target, it has disappeared from radar at Norfolk, Virginia. After searching the area for 15 minutes, he heads back for fuel. Flying south at 20,000 feet, he notices a light below him on the port side on or near the ocean. After turning his navigation lights back on, he notices that the light has risen to his altitude and is only 2,000 feet away. Closing in on it, he sees it is a disc with blinking red lights. At 350 feet away, his cockpit is bathed in blue-white light and everything seems motionless and silent. He looks at his gloved hand and he can see the bones in his hand like an X-ray. Suddenly there is a flash, and the UFO breaks away as sound and motion return. Balocco tries to pursue it again unsuccessfully. Captain Thomas Riggs, whose F9F Panther has also been scrambled, reports the UFO is moving south along the North Carolina coast. He is debriefed and told not to mention the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Cherry Point, N.C.,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201953%2003%2015%20-%20Vol%201%20No%205.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 1, no. 5 \(March 15, 1953\): 9–10; Good Need, [pp. 183–184](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/182/mode/2up); Shoot 60–61 Source ID: Eberhart_2186 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5466 (D4C4E8A7) Date: 2/12/1953 Description: Object On Apparent Collision Course With C-47 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530212](http://www.nicap.org/530212vichy%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vichy, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1484 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5467 (C74AB0BB) Date: 2/13/1953 Description: 3 bright lights of equal intensity in stacked vertical echelon formation (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530213](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/530213carswelldir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Worth (Carswell AFB), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1485 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5468 (FA8F901B) Date: 2/13/1953 Description: A UFO that first appeared saucer-shaped, but revealed itself to be cigar-shaped when it tilted, darted all over the sky over Inverness, Scotland at 2:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: January-February, p. 84 Source ID: Johnson_892 Source: Johnson ### Event 5469 (DA0ABAD9) Date: Mid 2/1953 Description: Weapons engineer [Chester W. Lytle Sr.](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31822266/chester-wallace-lytle-death-notice/)[,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31822266/chester-wallace-lytle-death-notice/) deputy director of operations for SAC’s Eighth Air Force Headquarters, is visiting Eielson AFB near Moose Creek, Alaska, with Gen. [William H. Blanchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FH.%5FBlanchard) when he finds out his wife is about to give birth in Chicago, Illinois. Blanchard offers to personally fly him in a bomber to an air force base in Illinois so he can get home quickly. During the long flight, their conversation turns to UFOs. Blanchard unexpectedly mentions the 1947 Roswell incident and that a crashed alien spacecraft had indeed been recovered. He tells Lytle that four dead humanoid beings had been aboard. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 478–481 Source ID: Eberhart_2187 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5470 (4C95EA5F) Date: 2/16/1953 Description: A big reddish flying object passed a USAF C-47 transport plane flying over Anchorage, Alaska at 11:50 p.m. and was witnessed by the pilot and co-pilot. It then hovered for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405 Source ID: Johnson_940 Source: Johnson ### Event 5471 (3734E3C2) Date: 2/16/1953 Description: C-47 Chases Maneuvering Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530216](http://www.nicap.org/530216willow%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Willow, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1487 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5472 (63F46AB7) Date: 2/16/1953 Description: Hawk and Stern. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ramer, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1486 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5473 (EAA74DE9) Date: 2/17/1953 Description: At 10:04 p.m. five airmen of the US Air Force 754 AC&W Squad in Port Austin, Michigan picked up a clear and steady radar return at a distance of 9 miles. The slow moving light changed color from red to pink to pale white to white and then back to red. An explanation of the sighting was changed to "Venus" in the Air Force files in 1963. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2419; Project Blue Book Report #10, report dated February 27, 1953; UNICAT, case # 760; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_958 Source: Johnson ### Event 5474 (6E24B640) Date: 2/17/1953 Description: Nocturnal light with rapid vertical takeoff (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1488 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5475 (D2C380A5) Date: 2/17/1953 Description: Object larger and brighter than a star change color (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2419) Reference: NICAP: [530217](http://www.nicap.org/530217portaustindir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Austin, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1489 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5476 (D949270C) Date: 2/17/1953 Time: 10:04 PM Description: Witnesses: two officers and three airmen of USAF AC&W squadron, visually and by radar. Visual object appeared to larger and brighter than a star and changed color; it was seen to move slowly for 5 minutes until 10:09 PM Radar picked up a target at 10:08 PM moving in a similar direction for 17 minutes, at similar speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Port Austin. Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_299 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5477 (CFCDE449) Date: 2/20/1953 Description: Bright yellow light seen for 8 mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2426) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pittsburg-Stockton, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1490 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5478 (84CC4205) Date: 2/20/1953 Time: #1 time unknown; #2, 10:30 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF B-25 bomber pilots. #1 was a bright yellow light seen for 8 minutes. #2 was a bright light which flew on a collision course, dimmed and climbed away fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pittsburg-Stockton, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_300 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5479 (6CEE7B34) Date: 2/21/1953 Description: In Malang, Indonesia on the island of Java a metallic disc-shaped object was seen twice, at high and low altitudes. It rose up very fast, and shot off quickly to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: January-February, p. 92 Source ID: Johnson_1031 Source: Johnson ### Event 5480 (32743783) Date: 2/22/1953 Description: 150' Silvery Disc Reported By Former Navy Gunner (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530222](http://www.nicap.org/530222erie%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Erie, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1491 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5481 (E527615E) Date: 2/23/1953 Description: Project Stork’s William T. Reid writes to [Miles E. Goll](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Goll%5FM.htm) at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, saying that UFO reports have been processed through October 15, 1952, and evaluations completed for reports through July 31, 1952. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Seven Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 4 of 4 Parts,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7c.htm)” CUFON Source ID: Eberhart_2188 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5482 (1BCF7817) Date: 2/24/1953 Description: 2 bright red, round objects with big halos fly in small circles (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2441) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sherman, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1492 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5483 (0D778C73) Date: 2/24/1953 Time: 7:43 PM Description: Witnesses: Warrant Officer and Mrs. Alden. Two bright red, round objects with big halos flew in small circles, climbed and faded during a 3-7 second sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Sherman, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_301 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5484 (0C29C2B8) Date: 2/24/1953 Description: On this evening Warrant Officer and Mrs. Alden saw two bright red, round objects with big halos fly in small circles over Sherman, Texas at 7:43 p.m. The UFO climbed and then faded out over a 3-7 second interval. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1075 Source: Johnson ### Event 5485 (4F3734C3) Date: 2/25/1953 Description: Pentagon press officer [Albert M. Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) writes to Maj. [Donald E. Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and verifies that the files on 41 cases investigated by the Air Force for his upcoming book Flying Saucers from Outer Space were indeed cleared for release by ATIC. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Albert M. Chop, [Letter to Donald E. Keyhoe](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/stork1-7c.htm), February 25, 1953; NICAP, “[The Chop](http://nicap.org/chop.htm) [Clearance List](http://nicap.org/chop.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2189 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5486 (769F523C) Date: 2/25/1953 Description: Project Second Storey meets for the last known time, chaired by astrophysicist [Peter M. Millman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FMillman) of the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa, Ontario, and consisting of military and intelligence officers, as well as [Wilbert](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) [Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)[.](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) It concludes that, because details of most sightings cannot be adequately confirmed, UFO reports do not lend themselves to a “scientific method of investigation.” It determines that UFOs do not require a Canadian armed forces investigation, but reports should still be sent to the Directorate of Scientific Intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Wilbert](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) [B. Smith,](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, p. 229; Good Above, [p. 182](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/182/mode/2up); Story, [p. 276](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/276/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2190 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5487 (15F7AE85) Date: Late 2/1953 Description: ADC commander [Benjamin Chidlaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw) at Ent AFB \[now US Olympic Training Center\] near Colorado Springs, Colorado, tells future UFO researcher Robert C. Gardner that he has “stacks of reports about flying saucers. We take them seriously when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stringfield, [3-0 Blue](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/3-0%5FBlue.pdf), p. 91; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 137–138 Source ID: Eberhart_2191 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5488 (C2973A30) Date: 2/25/1953 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) FPS-3 Sights Unusual Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530225](http://www.nicap.org/530225charleston%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charleston, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_1493 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5489 (1514BA02) Date: 2/25/1953 Description: A bright disc was sighted hovering in the night sky in the Sultanate of Brunei, northern Borneo. It remained for 40 minutes and was seen rotating at 30,000 feet altitude over a big oil field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 63 for February 1953 Source ID: Johnson_1096 Source: Johnson ### Event 5490 (C7C5C870) Date: 2/26/1953 Description: Prominent Blip on GCA PPI While Tracking C-124 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530226](http://www.nicap.org/530226thule%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Thule Air Base, Greenland Source ID: NICAP_DB_1494 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5491 (55E11124) Date: 2/27/1953 Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#10, classified “secret.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 175–198 Source ID: Eberhart_2192 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5492 (B3EF192F) Date: 2/27/1953 Time: 11:58 AM Description: Witness: USAF airman/private pilot. Five yellow discs made circular turns, fluttered, three of them vanished, the other two flew erratic square turns for a total of 4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Shreveport, Louisiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_302 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5493 (D287FB6F) Date: 2/27/1953 Description: 5 yellow discs make circular turns, flutter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2543) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shreveport, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1496 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5494 (4A9258B1) Date: 2/27/1953 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530227](http://www.nicap.org/530227greatfallsdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Great Falls AFB, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1495 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5495 (8704C8BF) Date: 2/27/1953 Description: At 11:58 a.m. in Shreveport, Louisiana a USAF airman and private pilot spotted five yellow discs making circular turns and fluttering in the daytime sky. Three of the discs vanished while the other two flew objects flew erratic square turns for a total of four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1149 Source: Johnson ### Event 5496 (5AFA2015) Date: 2/28/1953 Description: Capt. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) transfers out of Blue Book for a seven-month assignment in Denver, Colorado. He is replaced by Lt. Robert M. Olsson, who has one staff member. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 228](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/228/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2193 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5497 (5CE3AD5F) Date: 2/28/1953 Description: Philippe Daurces and four other witnesses in Beirut, Lebanon sighted a procession of 12 disc-shaped objects with distinct contours at 6:30 p.m. Each craft had a bluish leading edge and left a trail of smoke. They flew across the sky one after the other, crossing the sky on parallel courses within a few minutes. When viewed through binoculars, each had a crimson red light. They flew at a constant speed, and it took them three minutes to fly from zenith to the horizon. They made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, The Truth about Flying Saucers, p. 129; UNICAT database, case 412, citing Aime Michel; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 30 Source ID: Johnson_1173 Source: Johnson ### Event 5498 (937C603E) Date: 3/1953 Description: 10:00 a.m. Pilot [Howard C. Strand](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175238576/howard-c%5F-strand) is flying a routine patrol mission in a F-94B out of Selfridge AFB \[now Selfridge Air National Guard Base\] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, when he is asked to check out a radar target over downtown Detroit. He and his radar operator see tiny specks that seem to be a ragged formation of aircraft. As he approaches, he cannot see any wings or tails. Ground radar has the UFOs as “good, strong targets.” Strand looks at his instruments briefly and when he looks up the objects are gone, though ground radar tracks them another 4 minutes. [Gordon Thayer](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/) calls it an inferior mirage. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July-SN.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1953 March–July, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July-SN.pdf) The Author, 2002, pp. 24–26; Condon, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/150/mode/2up) [151–153](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/150/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2194 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5499 (98FDD67E) Date: 3/1953 Description: Harvard University astronomer [Donald H. Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) publishes Flying Saucers, in which he explains all UFO sightings as known phenomena such as mirages and temperature inversions. It is the first book-length argument against UFOs, one of the few published by an academic institution, and the first UFO book by a scientist. ATIC personnel are displeased that Menzel has used a few classified reports supplied to him for an examination of patterns, which he has never produced. However, he has an imaginative vision of what Venus looks like, with “warm seas” in which life teems. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald H. Menzel, [Flying Saucers](https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.248019/page/n3/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.248019/page/n3/mode/2up) Harvard University, 1953; Getty Images, “[Dr. Donald H. Menzel, Harvard Professor and Native Denverite, Refers to His Book,](https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/dr-donald-h-menzel-harvard-professor-and-native-denverite-news-photo/162381615)” March 13, 1953; Clark III 742 Source ID: Eberhart_2195 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5500 (BA8D68E7) Date: 3/1953 Description: Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) is interviewed in See magazine and provides straightforward, factual answers about Project Blue Book, UFOs, and the inadequacy of [Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel)’s theories. He claims the view of the Air Force is that “many credible people have seen incredible things.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 210–211 Source ID: Eberhart_2196 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5501 (2151FBF8) Date: 3/1/1953 Description: A case of spontaneous human combustion occurred on this day on Highway 291 in Greenville, South Carolina to a victim named Wood. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 450; Fate magazine, July 1953, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_1197 Source: Johnson ### Event 5502 (1E626BAC) Date: 3/3/1953 Description: A USAF F-84 fighter jet flying out of Luke AFB near Quartzite, Arizona filmed 30 feet of 16mm gun camera film that showed a cigar or fuselage-shaped object with a long contrail in a clear sky. The length of the object was estimated to be 100 meters, and the duration of the sighting was seven minutes. Project Blue Book lists the explanation as aircraft, but UFO investigators Richard Hall and Jacques Vallee didn't agree with the interpretation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Report #11, May 1953; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 229; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 42 Source ID: Johnson_1269 Source: Johnson ### Event 5503 (4EC0F779) Date: 3/3/1953 Description: March 3, 1953; Luke AFB, Glendale, AR. Contrail (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [530303](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/lukedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glendale, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1498 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5504 (191ECCB6) Date: 3/3/1953 Description: 1:25 p.m. USAF Capt. [Roderick D. Thompson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17406215/roderick-dhu-thompson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17406215/roderick-dhu-thompson) 3600th Fighter Training Group out of Luke AFB near Glendale, Arizona, is an instructor pilot flying an F-84 at 25,000 feet over Blythe, California. He spots am object 300–500 feet wide leaving a contrail crossing his path from left to right at about 35,000–45,000 feet at about 400 mph. It is visible only by condensation vapor emitted from its manta-ray shaped flat surface. Student pilots flying two F-84s, Lt. Jack E. Brasher and Lt. Thomas W. Hale, also see the object but do not follow in pursuit. When Thompson turns to pursue it, the object makes a slight dipping turn to the northwest and begins climbing at about 20°. It appears to be very thin and immediately begins to form a heavy condensation trail behind it for roughly 1,000 feet and splits in two. Thompson reaches 30,000 feet and closes to within roughly 5–10 miles to a point over the Colorado River north of Parker Dam on the Arizona border. He takes 151 frames of gun camera film of object with a 16 mm N-9 camera, apparently at 16 fps 1/40 second exposure setting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Three F-94 Pilots Encounter Manta-Ray, Gun Camera](http://www.nicap.org/530303luke%5Fdir.htm) [Shots](http://www.nicap.org/530303luke%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 194; Swords 213–214 Source ID: Eberhart_2197 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5505 (5C83B994) Date: 3/3/1953 Description: Three F-84 Pilots Encounter Manta-Ray, Gun Camera Shots (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530303](http://www.nicap.org/530303luke%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Luke AFB (130 miles W of), AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1497 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5506 (5E1E1949) Date: 3/5/1953 Description: Brig. Gen. [Woodbury M. Burgess](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess) commander at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, sends a memo to Air Defense Command and the director of intelligence at Ent suggesting that field teams of 4602nd personnel interview UFO witnesses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Maj. Robert C. Brown, “[Utilisation of](http://www.nicap.org/docs/530305Hornsby-ADC%5Fletter.pdf) [4602nd AISS Personnel in Project Blue Book Field Investigations,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/530305Hornsby-ADC%5Fletter.pdf)” March 5, 1953; Kevin D. Randle, “[UFO](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2011/06/ufo-cover-up-early-days.html) [Coverup: The Early Days,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2011/06/ufo-cover-up-early-days.html)” A Different Perspective, June 20, 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_2198 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5507 (7CF85F70) Date: 3/5/1953 Description: At 3:45 p.m. (EST), the assistant director of security at the Savannah River Project, Mr. J. Howard Jones, observed a silver crescent-shaped object at a very high altitude over the project. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530305](http://www.nicap.org/530305congareedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Congaree AFB, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1499 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5508 (1CABD1B4) Date: 3/5/1953 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shaw AFB, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1500 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5509 (CAE40664) Date: 3/5/1953 Description: Two separate UFO radar-visual events occurred at two locations, in northeast Georgia and across the river in South Carolina. An object maneuvered in the sky at 5:07 p.m., then circled Congareee AFB in Sumter County, South Carolina, flying into a prohibited area. An earlier radar-visual sighting of a disc-shaped object was made at the Savannah River (Nuclear) Project. at 3:45 p.m. The sighting lasted for two hours and seven minutes, and RF-80 fighter jets and Air National Guard F-51's were scrambled to intercept. The U.S. Air Force attempted to explain the sightings as a weather balloon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Report #11, report dated May 31, 1953; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_1309 Source: Johnson ### Event 5510 (BCBA92EF) Date: 3/7/1953 Description: Air Force officers at a gunnery meet observed about 12 disc-shaped objects that dove down and hovered over the base during the meet. \[AP story, Mar. 9th; UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yuma, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1501 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5511 (B4E8B255) Date: 3/8/1953 Description: Journalist [Peter H. Wyden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FH.%5FWyden)’s interview with [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) appears in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Ruppelt tells him that Project Blue Book “has no evidence of any of these objects being anything other than misinterpretation of known objects…. We can’t say positively because our data isn’t good enough. But we’re not worried.” The lengthy article provides a good overview of Blue Book’s investigations and staff of seven, including Ruppelt’s assistants Lt. [Anderson G. Flues](https://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/look-back-ufo-sightings/image%5F7b99baf9-07e8-5407-b231-d7d2bd474abe.html) and Max Futch. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Peter Wyden, “They’re Still Chasing Flying Saucers,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 8, 1953, p. 1G Source ID: Eberhart_2199 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5512 (58096F6C) Date: 3/8/1953 Description: 9:02 p.m. Physics teacher [Leigh Van Etten](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111058162/leigh-van%5Fetten), two other teachers, and 10 students at Kents Hill School, Maine, watch a big red ball of fire moving west-northwest for 12 minutes before it disappears beyond the horizon. He estimates it is about 40–60 miles away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_2200 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5513 (6D23913A) Date: 3/9/1953 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kyushu (Ashiya AFB), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1502 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5514 (01B0FB64) Date: 3/10/1953 End date: 3/11/1953 Description: Large light, blinking at 10-15 times per minute (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2490) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hackettstown, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1503 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5515 (A8D66A1B) Date: 3/11/1953 Time: 4 AM Description: Witness: Mrs. Nina Cook, an experienced private pilot and wife of a Pan Am flight engineer. A large light, blinking at 10-15 times per minute, moved up and down along a mountain range. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Hackettstown, New Jersey Source ID: BerlinerBBU_303 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5516 (5CEA103D) Date: 3/12/1953 Description: Steep Climb Observed By Ground and Airborne Witnesses (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530312](http://www.nicap.org/530312chatham%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: RCAF Station Chatham, New Brunswick, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1504 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5517 (0B36CD5A) Date: 3/14/1953 Description: At 11:43 p.m. in the Sea of Japan near Hiroshima, Japan a dozen crewmembers flying in a U.S. Navy P2V-5 patrol witnessed several groups of 5-10 lights flying slowly on the left side of the aircraft. A Project Blue Book unknown. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2496; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20; J. Allen Hynek case files Source ID: Johnson_1475 Source: Johnson ### Event 5518 (55E1D5D6) Date: 3/14/1953 Time: 11:45 PM Description: Witnesses: radar and visual observation by 10 crew members of U.S. Navy P2V-5 patrol plane. Groups of 5-10 colored lights, totalling 90-100, slowly moved aft off the left side of the airplane, as detected visually and by airborne radar for 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: north of Hiroshima, Japan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_304 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5519 (70C789ED) Date: 3/14/1953 Description: 11:43 p.m. Lt. Robert J. Wooten is flying a Navy P2V-5 antisubmarine plane over the Sea of Japan northwest of Nishinoshima, Japan, when he encounters an “electrifying display” of groups of 5–10 colored lights, totaling 90–100, slowly moving to the left side of the aircraft at a range of 3–7 miles and maintaining an extremely precise formation. Some of the objects are also tracked on radar. A 1955 RAND report falsely attributes this to an armada of 100 MiG-15 fighter aircraft \(actually only 11\) that menaced four US Navy Panther jets from the carrier [USS Oriskany](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FOriskany%5F%28CV-34%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FOriskany%5F%28CV-34%29) but this earlier incident took place on November 18, 1952, resulting in damage to one of the MiGs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Groups of Lights / IFF Signals](http://www.nicap.org/530314seajapan%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 53–59; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 195; Swords 214 Source ID: Eberhart_2201 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5520 (D2C38DDE) Date: 3/14/1953 Description: A huge saucer-shaped object was witnessed by at least four observers at Skilak Lake, Anchorage, Alaska over the Kenai Mountains. It bobbed up and down several times for 55 minutes, and then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_1476 Source: Johnson ### Event 5521 (3A954990) Date: 3/14/1953 Description: Sea of Japan Radar Case (BBU 2496) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2496) Reference: NICAP: [530314](http://www.nicap.org/530314seajapan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: N of Hiroshima (Sea of Japan), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1506 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5522 (6F82EB27) Date: 3/14/1953 Description: 5-10 colored lights, totalling 90-100, slowly move aft, R/V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2496) Reference: NICAP: [530314](http://www.nicap.org/530314seajapan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: N of Hiroshima (Sea of Japan), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1505 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5523 (C7DABE5E) Date: 3/15/1953 Description: The International Flying Saucer Bureau declares today World Contact Day and calls upon the UFO occupants to make a public appearance on earth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Albert K. Bender, FS and the Three Men, Saucerian, 1962 Source ID: Eberhart_2202 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5524 (DD94C3D1) Date: 3/17/1953 Description: An FBI agent and two AFOSI officers interview [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and ask him to draft a statement saying that neither the FBI nor Air Force has approved material used in his speeches. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) [1953, March–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) The Author, 1989, pp. 4–5; Clark III 44 Source ID: Eberhart_2203 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5525 (0F7D8BA1) Date: 3/18/1953 Description: Ohio Northern University’s Project A reports that UFOs are usually disc-shaped, silent, and fast-moving. “Our major conclusion to date is that no one explanation fits all sightings, and about 20% of all the sightings definitely fit the category of unnatural phenomena.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953, March–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) The Author, 1989, pp. 15, 18 Source ID: Eberhart_2204 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5526 (BD9D23A6) Date: 3/19/1953 Description: In 1953 US Army spotter planes saw a round white UFO flying 25 miles northeast of Panmunjon, Korea. It was described as 10 feet in diameter, and moving with a vibrating motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_1562 Source: Johnson ### Event 5527 (0451B2EC) Date: 3/19/1953 Description: A small round object -- flaming like red-hot iron -- plunged from the sky (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [530319](http://www.nicap.org/newhaven530819dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Haven, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1507 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5528 (67C3FF7B) Date: 3/19/1953 Description: Jack Clerk (Jack Charles Pryal Clerk, 1919–1996, US Marine Corps Reserves), an Electrical Engineer attached to Army Ordinance as a consultant, was giving public presentations at the Glendale CA Lions Club area about three Crash Retrievals (“grounded saucers”) that occurred in the southwest. His talks were “cleared by Security”, and it says parts of his talk had to be “dummied up” at the request of the government. Type: public presentation Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/early-50s-public-presentations-about-crash-retrievals-64d2cc8766e3) Location: Glendale, CA Source ID: Maj2_494 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5529 (819DA592) Date: Spring 1953 Description: After 12:00 noon. RAF Flight Lt. Cyril George Townsend-Withers is asked to test some new ECM radar equipment using an experimental English Electric Canberra aircraft. The jet has been stripped of all removable parts to make it as light as possible. With this modification, he is able to leave RAF Boscombe Down \[now MoD Boscombe Down\] in Wiltshire, England, and soar to 55,000 feet, then a record for the aircraft. Cruising over Salisbury Plain, Townsend-Withers picks up a blip on his screen. It shows an object traveling 5 miles behind him and maintaining a steady course. His immediate reaction is to curse the “anomalous propagation” effects that they have gone to so much trouble to avoid. However, he soon becomes aware that this was an image of something flying right behind them. The science officer goes up to the turret to take a look and sees, glinting in the sun or pouring out a fantastic amount of its own light, a round shape trailing in their wake. Townsend-Withers calls his pilot on the microphone and tells him that he can see an unknown and suggests trying to outpace it. They reach 260 mph but the thing cannot be shaken off, so the pilot executes a sweeping radius turn. As the Canberra comes around from its turn, the object comes into view dead ahead. For half a minute they are on a collision course, swiftly trying to calculate what to do next. The object is round like a thin disc, but with two small tailfins at the rear. It seems to be metallic and enormous, and it is simply sitting there waiting for them to fly right into it. Suddenly, it flips vertically into the air and climbs upwards at an astonishing rate. Leaving no vapor trail, wake, or detectable sound, the object vanishes within just a couple of seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Canberra Crew Encounters UFO /](http://www.nicap.org/530000salisburyplaindir.htm) [Radar/Visual](http://www.nicap.org/530000salisburyplaindir.htm)”; Jenny Randles, “Collision Course,” IUR 27, no. 4 \(Winter 2002–2003\): 16–18; Jenny Randles, “Scramble, UFO! Part Three, The Team,” Fortean Times 388 \(January 2020\): 31 Source ID: Eberhart_2208 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5530 (FD541B68) Date: 3/20/1953 Description: AP radio news service summary of April 5, 1953, indicates that luminous objects traveling at supersonic speeds have been observed and tracked on radar within the past few days in Pork Chop and Old Baldy Hills area, Western Korean Front (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530320](http://www.nicap.org/530320porkchophilldir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pork Chop Hill, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1508 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5531 (246FBC0C) Date: 3/21/1953 Time: 3:05 PM Description: Witness: Ground Observer Corps observation post. Six discs in a group flew high and fast for a few seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Elmira, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_305 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5532 (8C11F473) Date: 3/21/1953 Description: Beers Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Prescott, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1510 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5533 (4DC46D1E) Date: 3/21/1953 Description: Six disc-shaped objects flew directly over the city of Elmira, New York at 3:05 p.m. They flew high and fast, and were viewed through binoculars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2511; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 18; Project Blue Book Report #11, May 31, 1953 Source ID: Johnson_1594 Source: Johnson ### Event 5534 (FB4701F8) Date: 3/21/1953 Description: 6 discs in a group fly high and fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2511) Reference: NICAP: [530321](http://www.nicap.org/530321elmiradir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elmira, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1509 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5535 (61F62F7D) Date: 3/22/1953 Description: At two o'clock in the morning in an isolated cabin in Tujunga Canyon, California two young women in their early twenties, Shaw and Whitley, remembered seeing an oscillating light followed by a period of about two hours of missing time. Under hypnosis an abduction scenario was recalled. Seven or eight beings, all dressed in black tight-fitting one-piece suits, entered the cabin through closed windows (that is, they somehow passed through the glass panes in the windows). They had oval-shaped, hairless faces. Six of the beings were about five feet tall. Two of the beings were of average height but thin, estimated at 5 feet 7 inches tall. They all had slender builds, narrow shoulders, and long arms. The abductees were paralyzed, taken aboard a domed disc, and given physical exams. The UFOnauts communicated with each other using an unintelligible language, but they used telepathy with the abductees, and allegedly left them with some information about future events. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1976, p. 8; Ann Druffel & Scott Rogo, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, p. 15; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions, The Measure of a Mystery, case 193a Source ID: Johnson_1613 Source: Johnson ### Event 5536 (F0020FB9) Date: 3/22/1953 Description: 2:00 a.m. Sara Shaw and Jan Whitley, who share an isolated one-bedroom cabin in the forest around Tujunga Canyon north of Burbank, California, wake up when an odd light shines through the window. An eerie silence falls over the cabin and neighboring forest. They get out of bed but feel paralyzed. Then suddenly and inexplicably, it is 4:20 a.m. Shaw, who was originally kneeling on the bed, is now sitting on it with her feet on the floor. The two women flee the cabin. As they run, they pass an apparition or “vaporous something” with the “head and shoulders of a long-haired” person. When they return to the cabin two days later, they feel a sense of dread. Shaw can remember nothing more and the two women move apart. In 1975 Shaw watches a UFO documentary that evokes some memories, and she contacts ufologist [Ann Druffel](https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2020/06/ufologist-ann-druffel-dies.html?fbclid=IwAR3N-uW1ZAkq5p21hxc11siol67dwjxfSq2vLaTl8v0pExaBh0OeTDuLTyc). During three hypnotic regression sessions—December 5, 1975; February 26, 1976; and October 22, 1978—Shaw recalls her abduction by black-garbed aliens. She undergoes a physical examination and the aliens show her a cure for cancer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, Prentice-Hall, 1980, updated in New American Library, 1989 Source ID: Eberhart_2205 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5537 (AC7AEAA2) Date: 3/23/1953 Description: Gen. [Burgess](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess)’s 4602nd AISS plan is approved. It is seen as aiding ATIC and giving AISS personnel valuable experience in field interrogations and cooperating with other agencies Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, The Government UFO Files, Visible Ink, 2014, p. 249 Source ID: Eberhart_2206 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5538 (31CB18C3) Date: 3/23/1953 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Object On Radar 25 Seconds (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530323](http://www.nicap.org/530323pasadena%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pasadena, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1512 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5539 (D53AA526) Date: 3/24/1953 Description: The Upshot-Knothole Nancy nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Area 4 sends radioactive fallout on livestock across the region, including those grazing at Papoose Lake, Nevada. Sixteen horses and numerous cows belonging to local farmers, the Stewart brothers, die from acute radiation poisoning. The Army compensates them for the horses, but claim the cows died from Vitamin A deficiency. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Upshot–Knothole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FUpshot%E2%80%93Knothole)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 102](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/102/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2207 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5540 (1FC51B77) Date: 3/25/1953 Time: 3:05 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF Capt. and Mrs. D.E. Cox. Several lights, some of which moved straight, others which made 360 degree turns for 1.5 hours. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: San Antonio, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_306 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5541 (74929A14) Date: 3/25/1953 Description: Light above at 7,000 to 8,000 ft maneuvering in spiral pattern over airfield (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530325](http://www.nicap.org/530325moroccodir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rabat (Nouasseur AFB), Fr. Morocco Source ID: NICAP_DB_1514 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5542 (DB254F47) Date: 3/25/1953 Description: Several lights, some moving straight, others making 360° turns (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2521) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Antonio, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1513 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5543 (56D27A46) Date: 3/27/1953 Time: 7:25 PM Description: Witness: pilot of USAF F-86 jet fighter at 600 kts. (700 m.p.h.). One bright orange circle flew at 800 kts. (900 m.p.h.), and executed three fast rolls. Pilot chased object for 4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Mt. Taylor, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_307 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5544 (17B22B82) Date: 3/27/1953 Description: 900 MPH Target Pursued By F-86 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2524, NC) Reference: NICAP: [530327](http://www.nicap.org/530327mttaylor%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Taylor, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1515 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5545 (49ECC2E2) Date: 3/27/1953 Description: A bright orange circular UFO was chased by a USAF F-86 fighter jet over Mount Taylor, New Mexico at 7:25 p.m. The case is listed as an Air Force Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics, case 2524; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_1691 Source: Johnson ### Event 5546 (32178DE6) Date: 3/29/1953 Time: 3:45 PM Description: Witness: L.C. Gillette. One aluminum, circular object flew high and fast, twice reversing its course. Note: Mr. Gillette saw a similar object in 1938. Fifteen second sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Spooner, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_308 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5547 (46A8127D) Date: 3/29/1953 Description: Aluminum, circular object fly high and fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2526) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Spooner, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1516 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5548 (79DC1EC7) Date: 3/31/1953 Description: F-84 Encounters Object With "Legs" (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530331](http://www.nicap.org/530331honshu%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Honshu, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1517 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5549 (0F3553D3) Date: 3/31/1953 Description: At 7:50 p.m. a USAF F-94 pilot reported sighting a white disc-shaped UFO emitting red and blue beams of light. It maneuvered all about the sky over the northeast corner of Honshu Island, Japan. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History - 1953: March-July, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_1758 Source: Johnson ### Event 5550 (8DCA5414) Date: 3/31/1953 Description: Silver Disc Encountered By Test Pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530331](http://www.nicap.org/530331williams-afb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williams AFB, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1518 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5551 (D5DCDA78) Date: 4/1953 Description: [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) is drafting a report on Project Magnet for the Canadian Department of Transport. He writes [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) that their conclusion will probably be that UFOs are alien vehicles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1078 Source ID: Eberhart_2209 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5552 (DA9C8287) Date: 4/1953 Description: Wilford Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Laredo, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1519 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5553 (06067D17) Date: 4/1953 End date: 6/1953 Description: The US Army Chemical Corps’ Dew II project involves the secret release of fluorescent particles \(zinc cadmium sulfide\) and plant spores \(Lycopodium\) from an aircraft over St. Louis, Missouri. \(Minneapolis, Minnesota, was a previous target.\) It only targets black ghetto sections of St. Louis and arranges for local police surveillance “to minimize the possibility of loss of equipment.” The Army reports “much less curiosity and interference” than Minneapolis. Dew II is described in a 1953 Army report that remains classified at the time of a 1997 report by the US National Research Council concerning the zinc cadmium sulfide dispersion program. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard A. Cole, Clouds of Secrecy: The Army’s Germ Warfare Tests over Populated Areas, Rowman & Littlefield, 1988, [pp. 63–65](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780822630012/page/62/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2210 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5554 (E383BF35) Date: 4/8/1953 Description: At 7:55 p.m. Lt. D. J. Pichon, pilot of a USAF F-94B jet interceptor, watched a bright blue light descend, accelerate, and then fly parallel to his F-94 over Fukuoka, Japan. The object increased its speed and blinked out after 45 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1897 Source: Johnson ### Event 5555 (C027C5B2) Date: 4/8/1953 Description: F-94 Encounters Maneuvering Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2535) Reference: NICAP: [530408](http://www.nicap.org/530408fukuoka%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fukuoka, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1520 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5556 (14503B00) Date: 4/8/1953 Description: MATS Crew Sees Light In Descending Turn (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530408](http://www.nicap.org/530408goosebay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador (between Sondrestrom AFB, Greenland and), CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1521 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5557 (12AA679F) Date: 4/8/1953 Time: 7:55 PM Description: Witness: lst Lt. D.J. Pichon, pilot of USAF F-94B jet interceptor. One bright blue light descended, accelerated, flew parallel to the F-94, increased its speed and blinked out after 45 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Fukuoka, Japan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_309 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5558 (D95E5ED6) Date: 4/12/1953 Description: At 10:31 local time an unidentified target appeared on the radar scope at Torbat Airport, Newfoundland, Canada. It was on a magnetic course of approximately 270 degrees. One of the radar operators looked outside and saw what he thought was a B-29 aircraft, but when the object disappeared, he returned to the radar set and observed the object make a 180 degree turn 8 miles west of the airport. If fade from the radar scope 30 miles away in a northeast direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: www.nicap.org/waves/1953fullrep.htm citing Dan Wilson Source ID: Johnson_1964 Source: Johnson ### Event 5559 (3302CC0B) Date: 4/12/1953 Description: GCA Radar Tracks Unidentified Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530412](http://www.nicap.org/530412torbay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Torbay Airport, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1523 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5560 (1AB63F2B) Date: 4/12/1953 Description: Ten Round Flat Objects Changing Formation (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530412](http://www.nicap.org/530412sweetwater%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sweetwater, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_1522 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5561 (78F629A5) Date: 4/12/1953 Description: 4:10 p.m. Ten round, flat, metallic objects changing formation are observed traveling at a high rate of speed at an estimated altitude of 7,500 feet over Sweetwater, Nevada. No trail, sound, or exhaust are noted. The objects pass under the right nacelle of the observers’ C-47 aircraft, which is en route to Stead AFB \[now Reno Stead Airport\]. The copilot takes control of the aircraft and turns to the right in a tight 300° turn for a better view. The objects are then picked up unassisted by two more members of the crew. The objects are seen in a right turn of a greater radius than that of the C-47 and at a lower altitude. They are observed for approximately 120° of their turn and disappear on a heading of 300°. Observers are unable to estimate the speed of the objects because of the distance and the large turn radius. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Ten Round Flat Objects Changing Formation](http://www.nicap.org/530412sweetwater%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 197 Source ID: Eberhart_2211 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5562 (88D83653) Date: 4/12/1953 Description: At 3:10 p.m., while flying over Sweetwater, Nevada in a USAF C-47 transport 80 miles southwest of Reno, USAF Major Padelford, Lt. White and Lt. Cripe, the pilot, co-pilot, and navigator, sighted 9-10 flat, darkish metallic discs flying against the terrain. They were flying enroute from Long Beach to Stead AFB, NV at an altitude of 10,500 feet. They described the discs as having fuzzy edges, as they flashed beneath their aircraft descending. The co-pilot took control of the C-47, and turned to the right in a tight 300 degree turn for a better view of the objects. The objects were then picked up unassisted by two more members of the crew. The objects were observed in a right turn of greater radius than that of the C-47, and at a lower altitude. The object were observed for approximately 120 degrees of their turn, and disappeared on a heading of 300 degrees. The observers were unable to estimate the speed of the objects because of the distance and the objects'' large radius of turn. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 32; UNICAT, case # 762; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1988, p. 19; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 183; Project Blue Book files; James McDonald files Source ID: Johnson_1965 Source: Johnson ### Event 5563 (B7482000) Date: 4/12/1953 Description: At 10:00 p.m. miners in Coniston, Ontario, Canada watched as a glowing cigar-shaped object hovered over their smelter in a light wind. Over the next several minutes in began to shrink and it changed color. The duration of the sighting was 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1953 Source ID: Johnson_1966 Source: Johnson ### Event 5564 (5D178B0B) Date: 4/13/1953 Description: The MKUltra project is launched on the order of CIA Director [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) and under the direction of [Sidney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) [Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) Its aim is to develop mind-controlling drugs for use against the Soviet bloc, largely in response to alleged Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean use of mind-control techniques on US prisoners of war in Korea. The project attempts to produce a perfect truth drug for use in interrogating suspected Soviet spies, and generally to explore any other possibilities of mind control. Another MKUltra effort, Subproject 54, is the Navy’s top secret “Perfect Concussion” program, which uses subaural frequency blasts to erase memory. However, the program is never carried out. Because most MKUltra records are deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order of then–CIA director [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) it is difficult, if not impossible, for investigators to gain a complete understanding of the more than 150 individually funded research subprojects sponsored by MKUltra and related CIA programs. A cache of some 20,000 documents survive Helms’s purge, as they are incorrectly stored in a financial-records building and discovered following a FOIA request in 1977. These documents are fully investigated during the Senate Hearings of 1977. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project MKUltnra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FMKUltra)”; US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Project MKUltra, the CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioral Modification, 95th Congress, 1st Session, August 3, 1977; John D. Marks, [The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control](https://archive.org/details/searchformanchur00john), Times Books, 1978; Jon Ronson, [The Men Who Stare at Goats](https://archive.org/details/menwhostareatgoa00rons%5F0/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/menwhostareatgoa00rons%5F0/page/n5/mode/2up) Simon & Schuster, 2004; “[Project MK-Ultra: The CIA’s](https://zazenlife.com/2011/12/18/project-mk-ultra-the-c-i-as-experiments-with-mind-control/) [Experiments with Mind Control,](https://zazenlife.com/2011/12/18/project-mk-ultra-the-c-i-as-experiments-with-mind-control/)” ZazenLife.com, December 2011; Stephen Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, Henry Holt, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_2212 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5565 (C27B5043) Date: 4/14/1953 Description: 9:23–11:50 p.m. A Navy P2V Neptune spy plane on an electronic intelligence \(ELINT/ferret\) mission over the Sea of Japan \(about 200 miles southeast of Vladivostok, Russia\) is paced and attacked by 10 agile and highly maneuverable UFOs. The encounter takes place with only 400 feet of distance between the aircraft and the sea. The objects make more than “70 aggressive non-firing passes” in “high-speed runs,” many just a few hundred feet directly underneath the Navy aircraft for just over an hour. The UFOs transmit Morse Code light signals \(the letter “D”\), an unprecedented occurrence in UFO history. The objects are tracked on radar and by the Navy’s ELINT systems \(which pick up and analyze radar beams emitted from the objects\) for almost two and a half hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Lights Flashing Morse Code Letter ‘D’](http://www.nicap.org/CATEGORIES/10-Nuclear%5FConnection%5FCases/530414sea%5Fof%5Fjapan%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 198; Clark III 53–59 Source ID: Eberhart_2213 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5566 (9E4A97F4) Date: 4/15/1953 Time: 5:45 PM Description: Witness: S/Sgt. V.A. Locey. Three orange lights were seen for: 3 minutes, 30 seconds, and a few seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tucson, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_310 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5567 (00D42DC9) Date: 4/15/1953 Description: Several persons observed UFOs. Objects were circular, about 230' feet in diameter, and silver in color. Speed estimated at 400-600 mph. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [530415](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/530416eprairiedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: East Prairie, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1526 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5568 (02F41BE9) Date: 4/15/1953 Description: 3 orange lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2542) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1525 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5569 (935381DD) Date: 4/16/1953 Description: 3:45 p.m. The crew of a commercial Maritime Central airliner flying at 9,000 feet above Chatham, New Brunswick, watches a metallic disc approach their plane and pass underneath. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 64–67 Source ID: Eberhart_2214 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5570 (A1D88023) Date: 4/16/1953 Description: The crew of a Maritime Central DC-4 flying near Chatham Royal Canadian AFB, New Brunswick sights an eight meter in diameter metallic disc at 3:34 p.m. that is heading toward their aircraft. The UFO passed underneath at 300 knots, just under the nose of the aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 37; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_2049 Source: Johnson ### Event 5571 (77E4775B) Date: 4/18/1953 Description: A huge cigar-shaped UFO flew over Wilmington, Delaware at 11:15 a.m. and was sighted by a Ground Observer Corps observer. It was flashing as it passed over the city, heading northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wilmington News, July 9, 1954; Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 186 Source ID: Johnson_2110 Source: Johnson ### Event 5572 (2FC81C80) Date: 4/19/1953 Description: A white, rounded delta-shaped UFO, seven feet in estimated diameter, flew 100 feet above the ground at 60-80 mph in a vibrating motion over enemy territory northeast of Pammunjon, Korea at 1:00 p.m. It was witnessed by three U.S. soldiers named Morgan, Rymus, and Myers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July 1953 Source ID: Johnson_2133 Source: Johnson ### Event 5573 (EC9C1D3B) Date: 4/19/1953 Description: 7:19 PM (CST): Lake Superior area (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530419](http://www.nicap.org/530419calumet%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Calumet, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1527 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5574 (C1C42903) Date: 4/19/1953 Description: 1:00 p.m. Four US Army reconnaissance observers \(including pilot Lt. Julius T. Morgan, Lt. [James O.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149287981/james-ollen-rymus) [Rymus](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149287981/james-ollen-rymus)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149287981/james-ollen-rymus) and Lt. Jack E. Myers\) in two aircraft see a white, rounded, delta-shaped object 5–7 feet in diameter flying at 60–80 mph with a “vibrating” motion over Communist territory in Korea. An official G-2 Intelligence Report says the object is in the Old Baldy \(Hill 266\) and Pork Chop Hill areas. Radar supposedly tracks them also moving faster than sound \(\>767 mph\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, \[[news clippings](http://www.nicap.org/docs/530419korea.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 199; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_2215 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5575 (EE8BCA3A) Date: 4/23/1953 Description: 3:00 p.m. Two witnesses in Iberville \[now Saint-Jean-de-Richelieu\], Quebec, see a disc the size of a car approach their house while they are eating dinner. It stops 250 feet above the Richelieu River a bit more than a half-mile away. The man runs outside for a better look and sees that it as a dome and is spinning as it hovers. After 15 seconds it flies to the southwest and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 65, 68–69, 151 Source ID: Eberhart_2217 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5576 (9E044451) Date: 4/23/1953 Description: Gen. [Charles P. Cabell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FP.%5FCabell) becomes deputy director of the CIA. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_2216 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5577 (C92332BA) Date: 4/28/1953 Description: At 10:30 a.m. a brown, cigar-shaped UFO flew near the Laredo Air Force Base in Texas at an estimated altitude of 60,000 feet, moving at an estimated speed of 1200 miles per hour. It was sighted by a pilot in a T-33 military aircraft. At 8:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time a USAF T-6 pilot flying over Fontana, California spotted two amber colored, circular UFOs that were joined by two more such objects, which then flew away in formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21; NICAP reprint of Project Gurdge and Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, May 1953, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_2389 Source: Johnson ### Event 5578 (0BB4C12B) Date: 5/1953 Description: CIA Assistant Director [H. Marshall Chadwell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/Chadwell.htm) transfers chief responsibility for keeping abreast of UFOs to OSI’s Physics and Electronic Division. [Todos M. Odarenko](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47075734/todos-michael-odarenko)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47075734/todos-michael-odarenko) chief of the division, does not want to take on the problem, saying it requires too much analytic and clerical time. Given the Robertson Panel findings, he proposes to call the project “inactive” and devote only one part-time analyst and a file clerk to maintain a reference file of activities of USAF and other agencies on UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gerald K. Haines, “[CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005517742.pdf)” Studies in Intelligence, 1997, p. 72 Source ID: Eberhart_2219 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5579 (8B7B9D1C) Date: 5/1953 Description: A flawed CAA report states the July 1952 Washington National Airport radar returns were weather targets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Civil Aviation Authority, [A Preliminary Study of Unidentified Targets Observed on Air Traffic Control](http://cufon.org/cufon/wash%5Fnat/CAA%5FRadar%5FStudy.pdf), Technical Development Report 180, May 1953 Source ID: Eberhart_2218 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5580 (ABEDC2AA) Date: 5/1953 Description: The Air Force publishes, under the signatures of Chief of Staff Gen. [Hoyt S. Vandenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt%5FVandenberg) and Air Adjutant General Col. [Kenneth E. Thiebaud](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54677903/kenneth-e%5F-thiebaud), Air Force Manual 200-3, titled Handbook for Air Intelligence Officers. It is classified Restricted. Intended as a general guide for air intelligence officers conducting any type of investigation, the 6-page manual’s only illustration is of an Air Force plane accompanied by three flying saucers; the caption is “The Air Technical Intelligence center is responsible for the prevention of technological surprises.” It is discovered by [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) in 1961 because someone forgot to reclassify the manual as Confidential in November 1953 when the Restricted classification is retired. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Department of the Air Force, Handbook for Air Intelligence Officers, Air Force Manual 200-3, May 1953, chapter 9, [pp. 9-1–9-6](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFM%5F200-3.pdf); Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 80](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/80/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2220 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5581 (B10A52E3) Date: 5/1/1953 Time: 11:35 PM Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet interceptor, and control tower operator. One white light evaded interception attempt by F-94 during 30 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_311 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5582 (EF9EA933) Date: 5/1/1953 Description: Unidentified Evades Interception By F-94 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2555) Reference: NICAP: [530501](http://www.nicap.org/530501goose%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1528 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5583 (0CE3A869) Date: 5/1/1953 Description: 11:35 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. R. L. Emberry and radar operator 1Lt J. R. Morin are flying an F-94 interceptor at 24,000 feet about 10 miles south of Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador. Both men and a control tower operator see a white light with a visible afterburner at 10,000 feet. The F-94 pursues it, both climbing to 40,000 feet, but the object climbs out of sight after 30 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Unidentified Evades Interception by F-](http://www.nicap.org/530501goose%5Fdir.htm) [94](http://www.nicap.org/530501goose%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 199; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 262 Source ID: Eberhart_2221 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5584 (68620DF1) Date: 5/2/1953 Description: BOAC Flight 783, a de Havilland Comet 1, crashes in a severe thundersquall six minutes after taking off from Calcutta-Dum Dum \[now Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport\], India, killing all 43 on board. Witnesses observe the wingless Comet on fire plunging into the village of Jagalgori. A British aviation investigator, J. H. Lett, announces that the plane “collided with a fairly heavy body” and UFO rumors persist for about a year. However, leading investigators suspect structural failure. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[de Havilland Comet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%5FHavilland%5FComet\#Operational%5Fhistory)”; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p, 141 Source ID: Eberhart_2222 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5585 (FF81443A) Date: 5/4/1953 Description: 1:50 a.m. A witness sees a football-shaped, metallic object caught in the glare of a rotating beacon near Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador. It is traveling south at high speed and a low altitude, and disappears into low-hanging stratus clouds. She hears a sound “like tins striking together.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 199; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 262 Source ID: Eberhart_2223 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5586 (2552CC61) Date: 5/4/1953 Description: Football-shaped light metal colored object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1529 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5587 (59264060) Date: 5/4/1953 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Antung, Manchuria, China Source ID: NICAP_DB_1524 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5588 (08F35FA5) Date: 5/4/1953 Description: On this afternoon at 1:50 p.m. a military witness at Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, Canada watched a flying football fly by at low altitude and high speed, heading south. It made a tinny sound. The sighting had a 3 second duration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 47 Source ID: Johnson_2501 Source: Johnson ### Event 5589 (91CA8B91) Date: 5/5/1953 Description: One mile north of the Yuma, Arizona USAF fighter base, Wells A. Webb noticed a strange object in the clear blue sky at 9:45 a.m. The UFO initially seemed to be a cloud, but it made a sharp 90 degree turn, and he then saw the cloud resolve into a silver disc-shaped object. Through polaroid glasses Mr. Webb could see dark concentric rings around the craft, possibly due to a force field around the disc. With the glasses off the rings disappeared. He continued to watch for 15 minutes while the UFO receded into the distance. No sound was reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 52; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 52; John Fuller, Aliens in the Skies, p. 134; UNICAT, case #363, citing Bruce Maccabee paper, 1984 Source ID: Johnson_2535 Source: Johnson ### Event 5590 (53B7A084) Date: 5/5/1953 Description: Scientist observed silvery disc; concentric rings visible through Polaroid glasses. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yuma, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1531 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5591 (583808D7) Date: 5/5/1953 Description: 9:45 a.m. Chemist Wells Alan Webb is standing in a field near the Vacuum Cooling Company plant, not far from Spain Flying Field and about a mile north of Yuma AFB \[now Marine Corps Air Station Yuma\] near Yuma, Arizona, when he sees a fuzzy-white oblong object at an angle of 45° in the north. He observes it both with the naked eye and with Polaroid glasses with a greenish tint that he uses for cloud observations. It is about one-half the diameter of the full moon. After 5 minutes, the object moves to a position 30° eastward and suddenly becomes circular in appearance, becoming gradually smaller. Three concentric dark rings appear around the object, the largest about six times its diameter when viewed with Polaroid glasses. Webb thinks that the rings are the result of the rotation of polarized light scattered from the atmosphere \(Faraday effect\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Polaroid Glasses Expose](http://www.nicap.org/530505yuma%5Fdir.htm) [Concentric Circles around Disc](http://www.nicap.org/530505yuma%5Fdir.htm)”; Wells Alan Webb, Mars, the New Frontier: Lowell’s Hypothesis, Fearon, 1956, pp, 126–127; UFOEv, [p. 51](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=63&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2224 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5592 (100E20F3) Date: 5/5/1953 Description: Light above at 7,000 to 8,000 ft maneuvering in spiral pattern over airfield (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1530 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5593 (F878A062) Date: 5/7/1953 Description: Air Force officers at a gunnery meet observed about 12 disc-shaped objects that dove down and hovered over the base during the meet. \[AP story, Mar. 9th; UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yuma, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1532 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5594 (48C4FA43) Date: 5/10/1953 Description: 6:08 p.m. Capt. B. L. Jones is flying an Australian National Airways DC-3 just south of Mackay, Queensland. He radios the local control tower that a “strange object like a lighted glass dome” is maneuvering around his plane. He and his copilot watch the object for about 5 minutes during which time it climbs and dives at a speed of 200–700 mph. Finally, it crosses the path of the aircraft and disappears swiftly to the west. A Mr. W. Overell, the officer in charge at Mackay tower, sees the light climbing from about 4,000–5,000 feet in the west at great speed, although the radar shows no other aircraft in the vicinity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 52; Swords 377–378 Source ID: Eberhart_2225 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5595 (4B856822) Date: 5/10/1953 Description: A white dome shaped UFO circled a DC-3 flying south of MacKay, Queensland, Australia at 6:10 p.m. at speeds between 200 and 700 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_2712 Source: Johnson ### Event 5596 (4B29CE98) Date: 5/10/1953 Description: 11:00 p.m. Capt. Bob Jackson is piloting an Australian National Airways DC-3 near Woronora Dam, New South Wales, when he sees an object with an orange-colored light at the tail flash past toward the east near Wollongong. The radar tower at Mascot shows no traffic in the area. About 2 minutes later, the object reappears, makes a complete circle around the airliner, and speeds away toward the coast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 378 Source ID: Eberhart_2226 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5597 (93546EBD) Date: 5/11/1953 Description: A declassified MKUltra document indicates hypnosis is a major focus. Experimental goals include: the creation of “hypnotically induced anxieties,” “hypnotically increasing ability to learn and recall complex written matter,” studying hypnosis and polygraph examinations, “hypnotically increasing ability to observe and recall complex arrangements of physical objects,” and studying "relationship of personality to susceptibility to hypnosis.” Experiments are conducted with drug-induced hypnosis and with anterograde and retrograde amnesia while under the influence of such drugs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project MKUltra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FMKUltra\#Hypnosis)” Source ID: Eberhart_2227 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5598 (92643C41) Date: 5/12/1953 Description: Ground & Airborne Contacts / No Visuals (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530512](http://www.nicap.org/530512pacificnw%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Northwest, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_1533 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5599 (FDAA5D82) Date: 5/12/1953 Description: 3:20 a.m. USAF F-94 pilot Lt. D. C. Rogers and radar operator Lt. J. A. Lane track a radar target about 39 miles northwest of Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador. Rogers attempts to intercept but cannot make visual contact. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 199; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 262 Source ID: Eberhart_2228 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5600 (8F31BC38) Date: 5/16/1953 Description: In Bouffioulx, Hainaut, Belgium at 5:30 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO and occupant were seen briefly by a single witness named Chermanne before disintegrating, leaving behind a black smoke. Two photographs were taken of the disc enveloped in some form of "radiation." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 57; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6 (1975), p. 39; Jacques Bonabot, Catalog of Belgian Cases, case 27 Source ID: Johnson_2884 Source: Johnson ### Event 5601 (C6377826) Date: 5/16/1953 Description: 8:15 p.m. Photographer Herman Charmanne is near Bouffioulx, Belgium, when he hears a strange metallic vibration. Looking up, he sees a long white trail in the wake of an object that shoots off at a great speed. The object, a luminous sphere, stops and hovers, allowing him to take two photos that depict a fried-egg-looking shape with a long tail. Recent analyses indicate that the photos are likely the result of a chemical reaction during the developing process, perhaps a flammable fluid deliberately poured on the image carrier that is then ignited. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, [Belgium in UFO Photographs, Volume 1 \(1950–1988\)](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F)[,](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F) FOTOCAT Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 12–30 Source ID: Eberhart_2229 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5602 (E2942D79) Date: 5/18/1953 Description: 6:55 p.m. A bright, luminous object is seen over Abadan, Iran. It travels very fast and is visible for 20 minutes. It is also seen over oil fields in Khuzestan Province. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 129–130](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/128/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2230 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5603 (5EC8B227) Date: 5/18/1953 Time: 10:30 PM Description: Witness: C.S. Chapman, 15. One white, fuzzy, flashing light hovered and darted around for 4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: New Plymouth, New Zealand Source ID: BerlinerBBU_484 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5604 (6B276C08) Date: 5/20/1953 Description: At the junction of Jordan and Marble Creeks in Plumas National Forest, northern California, titanium prospector John Q. Black sees a silvery object, 8 feet in diameter, land on a nearby sand bar. On June 20 the saucer returns, along with a barrel-chested “midget pilot” wearing a “forest-green outfit” and a “peak-billed cap with a cord” around it. The UFO is about 40 feet away, resting on a rock, and has tripod-like landing gear. The pilot fills a rubber-like pail with creek water and goes back inside the craft \(which has one small window\) after hearing Black step on a stick. The craft takes off at a 45° angle with a hissing sound. Black had seen the same object on March 20, for a total of seven times. Black is alone for each sighting, so his partner John Van Allen cannot corroborate the story. The UFO’s expected return on July 20 does not occur, perhaps because scores of sightseers descend on the Brush Creek area \(snack bars are set up so that no one goes hungry during the vigil\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wallace Kunkel, “The Little Man Who Wasn’t There,” Fate 7, no. 5 \(May 1954\): 48–52; Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1953-05-20-usa-brushcreek.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1953-05-20-usa-brushcreek.htm) December 15, 2006; Curt Collins, “[Flying Saucer Ambush: Brush Creek, CA, 1953,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/11/flying-saucer-ambush-brush-creek-ca-1953.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, November 17, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_2231 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5605 (9BA903A4) Date: 5/20/1953 Description: Two miners in Brush Creek, California, John Q. Black, age 48, and John Van Allen, reported that they saw a silvery object land on a sand bar 50 m away from them. It was 2.5 meters in diameter with tripod landing gear. An occupant described as a broad-shouldered dwarf, wearing clothing that covered the head and body was also seen. His arms and legs were covered with tweed-like cloth fastened at the wrists and ankle. The UFO occupant filled a shiny pail with water and handed it to someone inside the craft. He then appeared to notice Mr. Black and jumped into the craft, which made a hissing sound when it departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202 Source ID: Johnson_3003 Source: Johnson ### Event 5606 (7777EF2A) Date: 5/20/1953 Time: 1830 Description: Two miners, John Q. Black, 48, and John Van Allen, reported that an object, silvery, 2.5 m in diameter, 2 m thick, with a tripod landing gear, landed on a sand bar 50 m away from them. An occupant described as a broadshouldered dwarf wearing clothing that covered the head and the trunk was also seen. His arms and legs were covered with tweedlike cloth fastened at the wrists and ankle. He filled a shiny pail with water and handed it to someone inside the craft. He then appeared to notice Black and jumped into the craft, which made a hissing sound and departed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Brush Creek, California Source ID: Magnonia_109 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5607 (2F7DE58A) Date: 5/20/1953 Description: Dr. Ed Doll orders Fritz Werner to report for special duty the next day. (Indian Springs AFB.) Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Kingman, AZ See also: 5/21/1953 Source ID: Maj2_495 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5608 (F1D4FA67) Date: 5/21/1953 Description: According to a letter by Fritz A. Werner to J. Allen Hynek dated May 15, 1973, 16 AEC engineers were taken by the U.S. Air Force on this day into the desert outside Kingman, Arizona aboard a bus with its windows blackened out to view a crashed disc. The object was oval shaped, 30 feet in diameter, and with a surface that looked like a highly polished brushed metal. In a nearby tent was a dead body, 4 feet tall. The body was clothed in a silvery metallic suit with a skull cap. The dead pilots body had brown skin, with the other unusual feature being a small mouth. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Center for UFO Studies files; Raymond E. Fowler, Official UFO, April 24, 1976; Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1978, p. 10; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 209 Source ID: Johnson_3015 Source: Johnson ### Event 5609 (70BE0D67) Date: 5/21/1953 Description: A veteran private pilot watched as eight disc-like objects "swooped around in formation, peeled off, and shot directly up and down in a manner that could not be duplicated by a plane." The objects maneuvered overhead for about an hour. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Prescott, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1534 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5610 (D9FD535B) Date: 5/21/1953 Description: Date of alleged UFO crash and retrieval near Kingman, Arizona. “Fritz Werner” \[pseudonym of [Arthur G.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16956670/arthur-g-stansel) [Stansel Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16956670/arthur-g-stansel)\] claims to have worked on the retrieval. An informant in 1977 tells [Leonard Stringield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) that he had seen three alien bodies in a crate at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio after a UFO crash in Arizona. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, “[Retrievals of the Third Kind: Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 6–7; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 171–185; Clark III 335–338; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, [pp. 57–68](https://archive.org/details/historyofufocras0000rand/page/56/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 398–400](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/398/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2233 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5611 (45CFF1E9) Date: 5/21/1953 Description: 10:00 a.m. Eight disc-like objects are observed maneuvering in the sky for an hour or so above Prescott, Arizona, by sportsmen’s club president Bill Beers, post office employee Ray Temple, and O. Ed Olson. Two of the discs are stationary, while the other six discs participate in maneuvers similar to a dogfight. The six swoop around in formation, peel off, and shoot directly up and down in a maneuver that cannot be duplicated by a plane. When they move, they vary from very slow to speeds faster than a jet plane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Prescott \(Ariz.\) Evening Courier, May 22, 1953; Nukes 87 Source ID: Eberhart_2232 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5612 (12610FA4) Date: 5/21/1953 Description: Fritz Werner (pseudonym), engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB, assisted in the investigation of a crashed UFO. It was constructed of an unfamiliar metal, similar to aluminum [magnesium?]. It had impacted 20 inches into the sand without any signs of structural damage. It was oval and 30 ft. in diam. An opened hatchway was 3 1/2 ft. long and 1 1/2 ft. wide. Inside the craft were 2 swivel seats, oval cabin and lots of instrumentation and displays. A tent pitched nearby contained the corpse of the pilot. It was approx. 4 ft. tall and had a brown complexion, two eyes, a small round mouth, two nostrils [no nose?], and two ears. It wore a silvery metallic-like suite and a skull cap of the same material. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Kingman, AZ See also: 5/20/1953 Source ID: Maj2_496 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5613 (17A97D70) Date: 5/23/1953 Description: Cape, So. Africa, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape, S. Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_1511 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5614 (0BE62CA4) Date: 5/23/1953 Description: A cigar-shaped object darted into a high altitude cloud over Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at noon on this day. It then flew back out again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 91; APRO Bulletin, November 1953 Source ID: Johnson_3043 Source: Johnson ### Event 5615 (7B05F011) Date: 5/23/1953 Description: AN/FPS-3 Tracks Five Or More Targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530523](http://www.nicap.org/530523lackland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lackland AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1536 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5616 (43428FCF) Date: 5/23/1953 Description: South African headquarters announced in November that on May 23, radar had tracked an unidentified object near the Cape at over 1000 mph. \[Prescott Evening Courier, May 22; UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530523](http://www.nicap.org/530523capetown%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Capetown, Union of South Africa, Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_1535 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5617 (7A83F7C5) Date: 5/23/1953 Description: Radar tracks a target over Cape Province, South Africa, that makes six passes at more than 1,250 mph at 5,000–15,000 feet altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS, p. 123; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#radar) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#radar)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 70–71 Source ID: Eberhart_2234 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5618 (99C1FBB1) Date: 5/26/1953 Description: 5:10 a.m. D. Beyers, driving 80 miles south of Brandvlei in Northern Cape Province, South Africa, sees a bright yellowish-green light in the clouds, then emerges. The light has the appearance of “burning hydrogen” and emits three streaks that maintain a fixed position with regard to the main light. He watches it for 50 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 130](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/130/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2235 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5619 (BB96EB17) Date: 5/27/1953 Description: 9 separate meandering lights sighted by many (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2577) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Antonio, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1537 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5620 (615B1D1F) Date: 5/27/1953 Time: 8:30 PM Description: Witnesses: many unidentified civilians, including Jacobson. Nine separate meandering lights were seen during 15 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: San Antonio, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_312 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5621 (0BCA40C2) Date: 5/30/1953 Description: On this day a small bright blue UFO made irregular motions in the sky over Palmerston North, New Zealand. "Angel hair" fell to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_3163 Source: Johnson ### Event 5622 (2CCA80C2) Date: 5/30/1953 Description: After a small, bright-blue object with a strange irregular motion passes overhead at Palmerston North, New Zealand, numerous filaments of a “substance resembling spider webs, white in color and ashy in texture” float to earth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Palmerston North, New Zealand,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201953%2009%2015%20-%20Vol%202%20No%202.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 2, no. 2 \(September 15, 1953\): 8; Clark III 124 Source ID: Eberhart_2236 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5623 (9D82190C) Date: 5/31/1953 Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#11. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 199–214 Source ID: Eberhart_2237 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5624 (920B01A5) Date: 6/1953 Description: Lt. Robert M. Olsson and [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) visit [Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) in Wisconsin and try to convince her that it is in the national interest for her to reduce excitement about UFOs by publishing cases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 197; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 82–83](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n79/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2242 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5625 (01CA5950) Date: 6/1953 Description: F-94C Disappears During UFO Intercept Mission (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530600](http://www.nicap.org/5306XXotisafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Otis AFB, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1538 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5626 (BA63157A) Date: 6/1953 Description: Secretary of Defense [Charles Erwin Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FErwin%5FWilson) abolishes the Research and Development Board for the politically motivated reason that suspected communist sympathizer [Robert Oppenheimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FRobert%5FOppenheimer) is a sitting member. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_2241 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5627 (B53A6B71) Date: 6/1953 Description: Night. An F-94C Starfire with classified electronic gear takes off from Otis AFB \[now Otis Air National Guard Base\] in western Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Piloted by Capt. Suggs and radar operator Lt. Robert Markhoff, the jet takes off in a westerly direction. Shortly after attaining 1,500 feet over the Base Rifle Range, the engine quits functioning and the electrical system fails. The jet’s nose drops and Suggs signals Barkhoff to bail out. Suggs bails out and he and his parachute wind up in a homeowner’s backyard. The jet should have crashed nearby, but neither Markhoff or the airplane can be located, despite months of searching. Although this account comes from M/Sgt [Clarence O. Dargie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183719276/clarence-oscar-dargie)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183719276/clarence-oscar-dargie) and investigator [Raymond Fowler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FE.%5FFowler) obtains the accident report from Norton AFB \[now San Bernardino International Airport\], California, there appears to be no open record of this incident. The F-94C models, especially at first, have fire-control problems and electrical short circuiting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, Prentice-Hall, 1974, pp. 287–291; Good Need, [pp. 189–191](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/188/mode/2up); Bob Pratt, “[Conversations](http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/MUFON/Pratt/DonaldKeyhoe.pdf) [with Major Donald Keyhoe,](http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/MUFON/Pratt/DonaldKeyhoe.pdf)” Mutual UFO Network; Barry Greenwood, “[Questions on a 1953 Cape Cod](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr08.pdf) [Mystery,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr08.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 8 \(February 2001\): 1–3 Source ID: Eberhart_2240 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5628 (25452FFC) Date: 6/1953 Description: [Max B. Miller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%5FB.%5FMiller) publishes the first issue of Saucers, a digest-sized quarterly of Flying Saucers International in Los Angeles, California. It continues until the Fall 1959 issue. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Saucers](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20%28Max%20B%20Miller%29/Saucers%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(1953\); Clark III 1033 Source ID: Eberhart_2243 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5629 (DD5B1A0C) Date: 6/9/1953 Description: [Sidney Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) approves Project MKUltra’s “Subproject 8” on LSD. Experiments include administering LSD to mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts, and prostitutes—“people who could not fight back,” as one agency officer puts it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_2244 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5630 (2789B970) Date: 6/10/1953 End date: 6/11/1953 Description: Radar tracks 25 separate unidentified objects near base (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530610-11](http://www.nicap.org/530611goosedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1541 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5631 (338C787D) Date: 6/16/1953 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Antonio, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1542 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5632 (D61382D3) Date: 6/17/1953 Description: 7:30 a.m. Several witnesses in Galveston, Texas, see a large, cigar-shaped object silently flying in from the Gulf of Mexico. One estimates it to be about 300 feet long and no greater than 150 feet in the air. The object makes a cloud and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_2245 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5633 (A7542261) Date: 6/18/1953 Time: 0230 Description: Howard Phillips, Hilda Walker and Judy Meyers saw in a garden at 118 East Third Street a strange "shadow" on the lawn which resembled a "flying man," and they watched it take off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins A 261 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Houston, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_110 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5634 (988ED5BB) Date: 6/18/1953 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530618](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/530618iwodir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: unknown location, Iwo Jima Source ID: NICAP_DB_1543 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5635 (586BF9B1) Date: 6/18/1953 Description: At 2:30 a.m. Howard Phillips, Hilda Walker and Judy Meyers were in a garden on 118 East Third Street in Houston, Texas when they noticed a strange "shadow" on the lawn that resembled a "flying man." They watched him take off and fly away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 261; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202 Source ID: Johnson_3531 Source: Johnson ### Event 5636 (21ABCE1C) Date: 6/20/1953 Time: 1830 Description: John Q. Black, witness of the May. 20 incident, observed an exact repetition of the scene, including the "little man." Van Allen saw only the landing marks, about 30 cm wide and re sembling elephant tracks. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Brush Creek, California Source ID: Magnonia_111 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5637 (6BED55CF) Date: 6/20/1953 Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA spot UFO’s Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104864241/flying-saucers-real-thing-engineer-says/) Location: California Coast Source ID: Maj2_498 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5638 (15FEE147) Date: 6/20/1953 Description: Brush Creek, California. John Q. Black, one of two miners who witnessed a landing and humanoid at Brush Creek on May 20th of this year, witnessed a complete repetition of the scene, including the "little man" with the pail of water. The little man was dressed in a suit like a parka, and he descended from a 8-foot wide landed lens-shaped silver craft with tripod landing gear. The "midget" scooped up a pail of water, saw that he was being watched, then scurried back to the craft and zoomed away. His partner Mr. John Van Allen only saw the tripod landing gear marks, which were about 30 cm wide and resembled "elephant tracks." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: The Humanoids, p. 53; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red, The UFO Siege!, pp. 49-51 Source ID: Johnson_3551 Source: Johnson ### Event 5639 (E4FF216E) Date: 6/21/1953 Time: 7 PM Description: Witnesses: Nine Japanese and Okinawan weather observers. One unidentified light moved slowly for 20 minutes. No further data in files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Naha, Okinawa Source ID: BerlinerBBU_313 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5640 (E08BC46A) Date: 6/21/1953 Description: Weather observers saw an unidentified light move slowly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Naha, Okinawa Source ID: NICAP_DB_1544 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5641 (1216E249) Date: Summer 1953 Description: 2:00 p.m. The photo was allegedly taken in the Summer of 1953 by Mr. XXXXX of Tulsa, Oklahoma. According to Air Force report, at 1400 hours he took a photo of an unidentified flying object which appeared in the sky (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [53Summer](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/musk5307XXdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Muskogee, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1540 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5642 (78EAE78C) Date: Summer 1953 Description: Saucer crash lands near Camp Polk, Louisiana. US Army Pvt. H.J. (initials) under Sgt. R.S. (initials) in Company B ordered to stay by the saucer until the ambulance and superior officers arrive. Three Aliens walked away from the crash. One Alien was carried on a stretcher. All aliens eventually died, taken to storage facility near Washington D.C. Alien description: Large helmeted heads, tight fitting suits, legs stiff when they walked, 3.5 to 4.0 feet tall, used Alien language. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B3-C, RECOVERY, ALIENS) Location: Camp Polk, Louisiana Source ID: Maj2_497 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5643 (B8EA52D1) Date: Summer 1953 Description: 10:00 p.m. A family is returning home on Scenic Avenue in Central Point, Oregon, when they see three entities along the side of the road only 6 feet away. They stop the car, and the beings glide across the road and disappear into the woods. They are 4 feet high, white, with satiny fur, and resemble very large geese, but with no beaks or wings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[No UFO Seen: Just Creatures,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 2 \(April/May 1984\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_2239 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5644 (C9D8BDEB) Date: Summer 1953 Description: Radar-visual sighting of six UFOs in formation. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yaak, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1539 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5645 (512435E2) Date: Summer 1953 Description: Two F-94 jets are scrambled at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base \[now Stephenville International Airport\], near Stephenville, Newfoundland, after base radar picks up an unknown target. One of the pilots gets radar and visual confirmation, then radios that he is going into a steep climb to give chase. The jet crashes into a mountain. The base is supposedly placed on red alert. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 142 Source ID: Eberhart_2238 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5646 (730A3B9C) Date: 6/22/1953 Description: At 2:10 a.m. the pilot and radar operator of a USAF F-94 jet interceptor flying from Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada sighted a red light flying at an estimated 1,000 knots (1,100 mph). The object eluded the pursuing F-94 after five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3599 Source: Johnson ### Event 5647 (8E66E8F1) Date: 6/22/1953 Time: 2:10 AM Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet interceptor. One red light, flying at an estimated 1,000 kts. (1,100 m.p.h.) eluded the chasing F-94 after 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_314 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5648 (2B4C819A) Date: 6/22/1953 Description: Red Light Eludes F-94 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2601) Reference: NICAP: [530622](http://www.nicap.org/530622goosebay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1545 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5649 (E104B8F5) Date: 6/24/1953 Description: USAF EMERGENCY Intelligence Report: Two jets out of Quonset Point have had mid-air collision at 2130E with UFO. American and Eastern Airlines pilots reported UFO. Jets fell in flames 15 miles West of Quonset Point. Type: ufo collision Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p488) Location: Quonset Point, Rhode Island See also: 6/26/1953 Source ID: Maj2_499 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5650 (346F1AE9) Date: 6/24/1953 Description: 11:30 a.m. A weather observer stationed at remote Simiutaq island, western Greenland, is tracking a weather balloon with a theodolite. He notices a rotating red object flying from southeast to northwest and approaching the balloon, which is at 18,000 feet. The object collides with the balloon, disintegrating it. Afterward, it hovers in a circular motion for 15 seconds and departs into the wind. He watches it another 5 minutes until it is lost to view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 69–70 Source ID: Eberhart_2246 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5651 (7D268312) Date: 6/24/1953 Description: Night. A flight of US Navy F2H Banshee jets out of NAS Quonset Point \[now Quonset Point Air National Guard Station\] are on a night training mission over southern Rhode Island when two aircraft in the formation collide in mid-air. The crash occurs at 19,000 feet near or over the Exeter/West Greenwich town lines, and debris is scattered for several miles in all directions. The pilot of one Banshee, Lt. Jg. [Jack Oliver Snipes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142209158/jack-oliver-snipes), is killed. An emergency cable sent to the Director of Air Force Intelligence in the Pentagon indicates that “flying objects” are seen by the pilots prior to the accident. Its distribution list includes the fledgling National Security Agency. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Exeter/West Greenwich, Rhode Island: June 24, 1953,](https://newenglandaviationhistory.com/exeterwest-greenwich-r-i-june-24-1953/)” New England Aviation History, October 2017; Good Above, [pp. 272–273](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/272/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/272/mode/2up) [488](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/488/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2247 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5652 (BE32C178) Date: 6/24/1953 Time: 11:30 PM Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF KB-29 aerial tanker plane. Radar tracked an unidentified target which twice approached to within .5 miles of the airplane, and once to within 6 miles, during a 2 minute observation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands Source ID: BerlinerBBU_315 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5653 (158FF335) Date: 6/24/1953 Description: Radar tracked an unidentified target that twice approached (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 2605) Reference: NICAP: [530624](http://www.nicap.org/530624iwodir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bonin Islands, Iwo Jima Source ID: NICAP_DB_1547 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5654 (960412C7) Date: 6/24/1953 Description: Saw through a theodolite a rotating red delta shaped (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Rating: 5, BB: 2606) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Simiutak, Greenland Source ID: NICAP_DB_1548 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5655 (22D73718) Date: 6/24/1953 Description: A woman in Hampton Bay, New York saw something like "a large aircraft" about 30 meters wide flying very slowly and low at 6:30 p.m. It had a lighted red band around the middle and was coming straight toward her house with an oscillating motion. She still thought it was an aircraft of some new design when it stopped near her, only 25 meters above the ground. Then it flew backward over the water and hovered, making the same noise as a swarm of bees. The top section supported a series of red lights and a cabin with four portholes through which a control panel was visible. No occupants were seen. The cabin section rose above the object, rotated, then glided back. The object tilted toward the west and rose toward the southeast, disappearing within three seconds at an 80-degree angle of climb after the three minute long sighting. Two days later a yellowish moss was observed at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, June 1953, case 22; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 203 (case 112) Source ID: Johnson_3637 Source: Johnson ### Event 5656 (456744A4) Date: 6/24/1953 Description: "a large aircraft" of exotic design with a lighted red band around the middle (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hampton Bays, Long Island, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1546 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5657 (1437E3B9) Date: 6/24/1953 Time: 11:30 AM Description: Witness: weather observer A/2c R.A. Hill. One red triangle hovered and rotated for 15 seconds, then climbed for 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Simiutak, Greenland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_316 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5658 (CBC0932C) Date: 6/24/1953 Time: 0018 Description: A civilian woman saw something like "a large aircraft" flying very slowly and low. It had a lighted red band around the middle and was coming straight toward her house with an oscillating motion. She still thought it was an aircraft of some new design when it stopped near her, 25 m above ground. Then it flew backward over the water and hovered, making the same noise as a swarm of bees. The top section supported a series of red lights and a cabin with four portholes through which a control panel was visible. No occupant was seen. The cabin rose above the object, rotated, then glided back. The object tilted toward the west and rose toward the southeast, disappearing within 3 sec at an 80 degree angle of climb after the 3-min sighting. Diameter: 30 m. Two days later a yellowish moss was observed at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hampton Bay, Long Island Source ID: Magnonia_112 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5659 (BB877C7E) Date: 6/26/1953 Description: USAF Intelligence Report, EMERGENCY JEDUP JEDEN JEDFF JEPHQ JEPRS 555. Distribution: OOP, OOP-CP, OAC, ARMY, NAVY, JCS, CIA, NSA, Tech Intelligence Center Wright Patterson AFB. (see 06/24/1953 for details of report) Type: ufo collision Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p488) Location: Dayton, OH See also: 6/24/1953 Source ID: Maj2_500 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5660 (AE84C199) Date: 6/30/1953 Description: Pinetreeline Radar Site. UFO was observed for, a period of twenty minutes in the northern sky moving to the southeast by at least 10 personnel of the 912th AC&W Squadron. (not tracked) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [530630](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/ramore530630dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ramore, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1549 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5661 (F45C3AEB) Date: 6/30/1953 Description: 11:45 p.m. An orange-colored, oval object is seen for a period of 20 minutes in the northern sky moving to the southeast by at least 10 personnel of the US 912th Air Control and Warning Squadron stationed at Ramore Air Station radar site \[now CFS Ramore\], 3 miles west of Ramore, Ontario. The first person to see it is A/2c Dean McDonald who comes out of the maintenance room to inspect a power unit that has caused a minor breakdown of the search radar set. He calls two other airmen to witness it. One of the two thinks the object is the moon. The first airman gets hysterical and calls the Charge of Quarters at the Domestic Area three miles to the southwest. At least seven witnesses in that area see the object, and two of them report that the moon is visible and the UFO is distinct and separate. The object soon fades away slowly to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[Project Blue Book file](https://archive.org/details/1953-06-6385545-Ramore-Ontario-Canada/mode/2up)\] Source ID: Eberhart_2248 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5662 (200E0FC3) Date: 7/1953 Description: Lt. Robert M. Olsson of Project Blue Book sends five supposedly unsolved UFO cases of 1953 to Cal Tech physicist [Howard P. Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) in an effort to see if any change in the Robertson Panel’s conclusions is warranted. One of them is the Sea of Japan ELINT case of April 14. Apparently, Robertson’s mind is not changed. He is now heading up the Robertson Committee of the newly formed National Security Agency, tasked with developing better use of intercepted communications and radars in order to provide strategic warning of a military attack by the Soviet Union. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 55 Source ID: Eberhart_2250 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5663 (8D1E8C37) Date: 7/1953 Description: The 4602nd AISS has taken over nearly all of Blue Book’s field investigations. \(Ruppelt, [p. 232](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/232/mode/2up)\) Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_2249 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5664 (81ED1DCE) Date: 7/1/1953 Description: 1:00 p.m. A cowherd, Maximo Munoz Olivares \[or Hernáiz\], 14, sees a “big balloon” on the ground behind him in Villares del Saz, Cuenca, Spain, after a faint whistling attracts his attention. Shaped like a water jug, the object is metallic. Through an opening come three dwarfs 2 feet tall, with yellow faces, narrow eyes, and oriental features. They speak in a language he cannot understand. They are dressed in blue and have a sort of flat hat with a visor in front and a metal sheet on their arms. One of them smacks the boy’s face, then they reenter the machine, which glows very brightly, makes a soft whistling sound, and goes off “like a rocket.” Footprints and four holes 2 inches deep, forming a perfect square 13 inches in size, are found by police. Possible hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) [History: 1953, March–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) The Author, 1989, pp. 92–93; Antonio Ribera, “[The Landing at Villares del Saz,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201966%20N%201%2CThe%20Humanoids.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, pp. 28–30; Clark III 270 Source ID: Eberhart_2251 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5665 (E5A67C83) Date: 7/1/1953 Description: On this day or the next, at around 11:00 a.m. in Villares del Saz, Cuenca, Spain an illiterate cowherd, 14-year-old Maximo Munos-Olivares Hernaiz, heard an intermittent whistling soung behind him. When he turned around he saw a "big balloon" on the ground. It was shaped like a water jug and was metallic in appearance. Through an opening came three dwarfs 60 cm tall, with yellow faces, narrow eyes, and oriental features. They spoke in a language he could not understand. They were dressed in blue, had a sort of flat hat with a visor in front, and a metal sheet on their arms. One of them smacked the boy's face, then they re-entered the machine, which glowed very brightly, made a soft whistling sound and went off "like a rocket." There were footprints left behind at the site and four holes 5 cm deep forming a perfect square, 36 cm on each side, that were found by the police. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Antonio Ribera, in Charles Bowen (editor), The Humanoids, p. 29; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 113; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1953-07 (A0215); UNICAT, case # 438, citing The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 77 Source ID: Johnson_3770 Source: Johnson ### Event 5666 (94FE392E) Date: 7/2/1953 Time: 1300 Description: Approximate date. An illiterate boy cowherd, Maximo Munos Olivares, 14, saw a "big balloon" on the ground behind him when a faint whistling attracted his attention. Shaped like a water jug, it was metallic. Through an opening came three dwarfs 60 cm tall, with yellow faces, narrow eyes, and oriental features. They spoke in a language he could not understand. They were dressed in blue, had a sort of flat hat with a visor in front and a metal sheet on their arms. One of them smacked the boy's face, then they reentered the machine, which glowed very brightly, made a soft whistling sound and went off "like a rocket." Footprints and four holes 5 cm deep forming a perfect square 36 cm in side were found by police. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 29 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Villares des Saz, Spain Source ID: Magnonia_113 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5667 (BD8A8092) Date: 7/3/1953 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tipp City, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1550 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5668 (D37E1F10) Date: 7/7/1953 Description: Evening. An Atlanta, Georgia, barber named Edward Watters buys a monkey from a pet shop, shaves and kills it, cuts off its tail, then takes it with two friends, Tom Wilson and Arnold Payne, to US Highway 78 near Leland, Georgia, and waits for the first car to stop. They tell the driver, who turns out to be Cobb County policeman [Sherley Brown](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187468612/sherley-eugene-brown)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187468612/sherley-eugene-brown) that they had seen a flying saucer and accidentally killed one of its occupants. They bring the dead animal to the Atlanta Constitution office, where reporter Thomas McRae notifies the FBI, which alerts the Air Force at Dobbins AFB \[now Dobbins Air Reserve Base\] in Marietta. The animal is taken to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where Anatomy Professor Marion Hines identifies it properly as a shaved Capuchin monkey. Watters admits the hoax and is fined $40 by a judge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Martian Monkey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%5FMonkey)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) [History: 1953, March–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Mar-July.pdf) The Author, 1989, pp. 96–102; Clark III 593 Source ID: Eberhart_2252 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5669 (F10D81F0) Date: 7/9/1953 Description: Circular, silver UFO seen at North American Aviation plant. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1551 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5670 (D3823E3E) Date: 7/9/1953 Description: A disc swooped down over the Sheppard AFB hospital building in Texas. It was glowing and moved very fast. It headed off toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, investigation report dated July 12, 1953 Source ID: Johnson_3950 Source: Johnson ### Event 5671 (E6417301) Date: 7/13/1953 Description: Elliptical Object Encountered By RF-80 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530713](http://www.nicap.org/530713shaw%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shaw AFB, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1552 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5672 (57387C5F) Date: 7/16/1953 Description: Lt. Col. William F. Barns attains an official world airspeed record of 716 mph in a North American F-86D Sabre over the Salton Sea, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[North American F-86D Sabre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FF-86D%5FSabre)”; “[16 July 1953,](https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/william-f-barns/)” This Day in Aviation History, July 16, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_2253 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5673 (657DAF7E) Date: 7/19/1953 Description: Black objects maneuvered over area near an F-86 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [530719](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-oakridge530719.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Ridge, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1553 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5674 (EAD8DA25) Date: 7/19/1953 Description: Near the Oak Ridge Nuclear Research Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee around the middle of the afternoon a silent black flying object was joined by two others. They displayed amazing acceleration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405 Source ID: Johnson_4194 Source: Johnson ### Event 5675 (046A2D01) Date: 7/19/1953 Description: Confidential Message to the Adjutant General, Wash. 25 D.C.: An F-86 aircraft was observed in flight over the Oak Ridge residential area by a writer and his wife. While observing the F-86 through 6 power field glasses an UFO, black in color, moved out of a high white cloud directly over the area where the F-86 had been circling. The UFO began circling at a tremendous speed for at least 5 minutes. It appeared at times to be cigar shaped and at other times to be round in shape. No sound or visible means of propulsion was observed from the UFO. It flew away at tremendous speed for 3 miles where it was joined by 2 other UFOs into a ‘V’ formation and sped away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Oak Ridge, TN See also: 7/27/1953 Source ID: Maj2_501 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5676 (4E402BE9) Date: 7/19/1953 Description: 3:00 p.m. After an F-86 has been circling over a particular spot in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a black object emerges from a high white cloud and takes up its position after the plane has left toward Knoxville. “This object was extremely black in color, having an appearance of a deep black metal exterior with a fine gloss. It did not leave a vapor trail or were there any lights of shine noticed. No sound was heard. The object flew east at a tremendous speed for what appeared to be approximately three miles where it stopped. The object was then joined by two more of these same objects. A formation similar to a spread V was formed and the objects, at a tremendous speed flew in an eastward direction.” The report is made by the Atomic Energy Commission and addressed to Army Adjutant General [William Edward Bergin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FEdward%5FBergin) in Washington, D.C. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Black Objects](http://www.nicap.org/530719oakridge%5Fdir.htm) [Maneuver over Area nr F-86](http://www.nicap.org/530719oakridge%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Air Space Violation at Oak Ridge, Tennessee,](http://www.nicap.org/army%5Fdocs/army530719.htm)” July 27, 1953 Source ID: Eberhart_2254 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5677 (8CCFE95E) Date: 7/20/1953 Description: (McDonald list) Rawin Crew Tracks 3 UFOs On SCR-584 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530720](http://www.nicap.org/530720offutt%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Omaha (Offutt AFB), NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_1554 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5678 (A7475551) Date: 7/20/1953 Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA spot UFO’s Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104864241/flying-saucers-real-thing-engineer-says/) Location: California Coast Source ID: Maj2_502 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5679 (DD35B8B8) Date: 7/20/1953 Description: [Ed Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) returns to Project Blue Book as either acting chief or consultant until August 31. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 14; Clark III 55 Source ID: Eberhart_2255 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5680 (7B120FAB) Date: 7/24/1953 Description: Large silver object circled over town. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1555 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5681 (85139996) Date: 7/25/1953 Description: ATIC guide, How to Make FLYOBRPTS, a 68-page manual for officials required to make UFO reports, is published. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Air Technical Intelligence Center, [How to Make FLYOBRPTS,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/FLYOBRPT.pdf) July 26, 1953 Source ID: Eberhart_2256 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5682 (15134C61) Date: 7/26/1953 Description: 9:39 p.m. At Perrin AFB \[now North Texas Regional Airport\] in Sherman, Texas, ground observers see 7 UFOs, each carrying a bright red light, hovering at 5,000–8,000 feet. They are in a formation of two groups of three, and one trailing, then come together to form the letter “Z.” Then they circle, gain altitude, and fade from sight. Citizens in Sherman and Denison also see the objects. Total duration is 16 minutes. This is classified as a “Vital Intelligence Sighting” and sent to the Air Defense Command, the Secretary of Defense, and the CIA. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [CIRVIS Report](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/foia85.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/foia85.htm) July 26, 1953 Source ID: Eberhart_2257 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5683 (DD056323) Date: 7/26/1953 Description: Emergency Message to Air Defence Command: CIRVIS 3346N 9632W sighted 7 UFOs hovering at altitude of 5 to 8 thousand feet near Perrin Tower, TX. Visually observed by citizens of Denison and Sherman, TX. The UFOs were grouped in a Z (Zebra) formation, then circled to higher altitudes and faded from sight. Each UFO had one bright red light on it. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p359) Location: Perrin Tower, TX Source ID: Maj2_503 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5684 (4C1207EE) Date: 7/26/1953 Description: Ground observed seven unidentified objects with one bright red light on each object hovering at estimated altitudes from five to eight thousand feet. Visually observed from Perrin Tower and citizens of Denison and Sherman Texas. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [530726](http://www.nicap.org/530726perrindir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Perrin AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1556 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5685 (183191B2) Date: 7/27/1953 Description: Security Information, Confidential Message to Adjutant General, Wash. 25 D.C. Type: Confidential Message Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Washington DC See also: 7/19/1953 Source ID: Maj2_504 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5686 (BBA0CE8D) Date: 7/30/1953 Description: Science journalist [John Joseph O’Neill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FJoseph%5FO%27Neill%5F%28journalist%29) observes through a telescope a feature on the western edge of the lunar Mare Crisium that he interprets as a giant natural bridge. The observation is prematurely confirmed by amateur Welsh astronomer [Hugh Percy Wilkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FPercy%5FWilkins)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FPercy%5FWilkins) Although it turns out to be an illusion, the location is still known as O’Neill’s bridge. When viewing conditions are poor or the telescope’s aperture is small, the feature resembles a bridge joining the tips of the capes Promontorium Lavinium and Promontorium Olivium. If viewing conditions are good and the instrument is large enough, the feature is seen as two small, eroded crater pits. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: The Moon Wiki, “[O’Neill’s Bridge](https://the-moon.us/wiki/O%27Neill%27s%5FBridge)”; Andrew May, “The Lost Ruins of the Moon,” Fortean Times 358 \(October 2017\): 56–57 Source ID: Eberhart_2258 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5687 (02A174DB) Date: 7/30/1953 End date: 8/1/1953 Description: A large UFO is seen for three nights over Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California. Park Superintendent [Elvind T. Scoyen](https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online%5Fbooks/cabr2/adhip1.htm) and his staff observe it once at close range. On August 1, a squadron of Air Force fighters sees the object streaking downward just before midnight. It stops abruptly then shoots upward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 40–41](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/40/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2259 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5688 (3F6C5E32) Date: 7/31/1953 Description: Lt. Robert Olsson leaves Project Blue Book. He later tells [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) his 5-month tenure “was like being president of Antarctica on a nonexpedition year.” He is replaced by Airman 1C Max G. Futch. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 228](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/228/mode/2up); Clark III 55; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_2260 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5689 (1C263EAE) Date: 7/31/1953 Time: 1900 Description: A metallic object 30 m in diameter was observed by five Polish and two German workers as it landed in a field close to a railway. It was shaped like a sphere with a flat disk around it, showing numerous openings at the periphery. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Intelligence Digest Nov., 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Wolin, Poland Source ID: Magnonia_114 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5690 (D2D622E9) Date: 7/31/1953 Description: 7:00 p.m. Five Poles and two Germans see a disc-shaped object about 16 feet in diameter land in a field near a railroad track on Wolin Island, Poland. After several minutes it rises up and flies away at great speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists in Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1986\): 15; Vallée, Magonia, [p. 203](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/202/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2261 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5691 (D478FCD4) Date: 7/31/1953 Description: A metallic object 30 meters in diameter was observed by five Polish and two German workers as it landed in a field close to a railway in Woolen, Poland. It was shaped like a sphere with a flat disk around it, showing numerous openings at the periphery. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 105; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 203, citing Intelligence Digest, November 1953 Source ID: Johnson_4520 Source: Johnson ### Event 5692 (ED46D761) Date: 7/31/1953 Description: Unidentified white light viewed through field glasses. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Clinton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1557 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5693 (431A0582) Date: 8/1953 Description: [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) completes his classified report on Project Magnet for the Canadian Department of Transport, writing that it can be deduced that UFOs are 100 or more feet in diameter, they can travel at speeds of several thousand miles per hour, and can reach high altitudes. “It is difficult to reconcile this performance with the capabilities of our technology \[and\] we are forced to the conclusion that the vehicles are probably extraterrestrial, in spite of our prejudices to the contrary.” The DOT agrees to his proposal to set up an electronic station for a “24-hour watch for flying saucers” in a hut at Shirley’s Bay, off Lake Manitou, Ontario. Equipment includes am ionospheric reactor, electronic sound measurement devices, gamma-ray detector, gravimeter, magnetometer, and radio set. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1078–1079 Source ID: Eberhart_2262 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5694 (8663BBB3) Date: 8/1/1953 Description: The US Air Force Security Service moves its headquarters from Brooks Air Force Base \[now closed\] to Kelly Air Force Base \[now Kelly Field Annex\], both in San Antonio, Texas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Force Intelligence,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FIntelligence%2C%5FSurveillance%5Fand%5FReconnaissance%5FAgency) [Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FIntelligence%2C%5FSurveillance%5Fand%5FReconnaissance%5FAgency)” Source ID: Eberhart_2263 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5695 (B8D58AFD) Date: 8/1/1953 Description: UFO, changing color, flickered and jumped in sky. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1558 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5696 (241ACC9C) Date: 8/2/1953 Description: Highly polished spinning top or cone-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saraland, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1559 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5697 (6F501269) Date: 8/3/1953 Time: 12:04 PM Description: Witness: Airport control tower chief C.S. Brown. One round and reflective or translucent object flew straight, stopped for 7 seconds, sped along, stopped again, was joined by a similar object and they flew off in different directions, after a total of 56 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Amarillo, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_317 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5698 (7A154819) Date: 8/3/1953 Description: Round and reflective or translucent object fly straight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2663) Reference: NICAP: [530803](http://www.nicap.org/amarillo530803dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Amarillo, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1560 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5699 (C1C531C4) Date: 8/3/1953 Description: At 12:04 p.m. over the Amarillo Airport, Texas a transparent disc stopped and hovered in the sky. A second, identical object was seen behind it. They were not balloons, according to the official Air Force investigation. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2663; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_4624 Source: Johnson ### Event 5700 (C379C3BA) Date: 8/5/1953 End date: 8/6/1953 Description: Pilots vectored and saw silvery object like the brightest star (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530805-06](http://www.nicap.org/530805ellsworth%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rapid City (east of), SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1561 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5701 (A25D9944) Date: 8/5/1953 End date: 8/6/1953 Description: Around 8:00 p.m. Ground Observer Corps observer Phyllis Killian spots a UFO in Black Hawk, South Dakota. Soon after, radar at Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City tracks a “well-defined, solid, and bright” object. The base scrambles an F-84 and the pilot sees the UFO. Many witnesses see the object accelerate and climb. The F-84 pursues but can reach no closer than 3 miles. Now low on fuel, the F-84 returns, followed by the UFO. Immediately, another F-84 is sent up. Before long, the pilot receives strong radar returns of a target right in front of him. Fear prevails and he breaks off the chase. The UFO goes off the scope, traveling northeast. Reports soon come from Brunswick of a fast-moving, bright blue object, similar to the Rapid City object. It hovers near an air filter center, performing more maneuvers and disappearing after midnight. Before it leaves, three more UFOs are seen at 10,000 feet for three hours. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) personally investigates and calls it “the best” in the USAF files, [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) writes that the “entire incident…has too much of an Alice-in-Wonderland flavor for comfort.” [Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) blames the star Capella. The official file is several hundred pages long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Rapid City / Ellsworth](http://www.nicap.org/530805ellsworth%5Fdir.htm) [AFB Incident \(RV\)](http://www.nicap.org/530805ellsworth%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 132–136](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/132/mode/2up); Ruppelt, [pp. 232–235](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/232/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 203; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) [History: 1953, August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1990, pp. 2–3; Swords 215; Jan Aldrich; Patrick Gross, “[The](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/ellsworth53.htm) [Ellsworth AFB Radar Multiple Visual Case, 1953](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/ellsworth53.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2264 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5702 (F78399D4) Date: 8/6/1953 Description: 5:00 p.m.–12:00 midnight. An estimated 75 objects with lights are seen by many witnesses on the ground around Naval Air Station Barbers Point \[now Kalaeloa Airport\], Hawaii, from the airport control tower and from the air. Many are also detected by radar. At 9:00 p.m., the crew of a Navy patrol aircraft reports three head-on passes. These close calls alarm the pilot so much he lands immediately. Jet fighters are scrambled and the same night an interceptor pilot sees a “glowing blob” rising rapidly toward him. It comes to a sudden stop just behind his aircraft then accelerates briefly until it is beside him for four more seconds before accelerating away out of sight at several times his own top speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), p. 63; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) [August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 30 Source ID: Eberhart_2265 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5703 (26480BDD) Date: 8/6/1953 Description: At Barbers Point Naval Air Station near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 75 radar blips on screen at various times around five p.m., hovering and maneuvering. Nocturnal lights and ovoid shaped objects were sighted, and possibly a figure was seen inside one of them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 63 Source ID: Johnson_4719 Source: Johnson ### Event 5704 (91B54859) Date: 8/9/1953 Description: Three F-86's Chase Disc Spotted By GOC (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [530809](http://www.nicap.org/530809moscow%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moscow, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_1562 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5705 (3D90659C) Date: 8/9/1953 Description: 9:34 p.m. Supervisor Larry E. Towner and other Ground Observer Corps personnel report a glowing disc about 200 feet in diameter over Moscow, Idaho. At 10:10 p.m., the first of two F-86s is scrambled. The object lingers, with other lights seen, until around 5:00 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Three F-86’s Chase Disc Spotted by GOC](http://www.nicap.org/530809moscow%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953, August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_2266 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5706 (608628D0) Date: 8/9/1953 Description: A 60-meter diameter luminous disc-shaped object accompanied by four nocturnal lights, flying near Moscow, Idaho at 9:20 p.m., shot up and away when three F-86 Sabre jets attempted to intercept them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 30; Larry E. Towner, Fate magazine, May 1954, p. 32; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_4789 Source: Johnson ### Event 5707 (67908A49) Date: 8/10/1953 Description: [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) issues another report on Project Magnet, in which he concludes there is a “substantial probability of the real existence of extraterrestrial vehicles” that use a “technology considerably in advance of what we have.” The report is eventually sent to Prime Minister [Louis St. Laurent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FSt.%5FLaurent). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 185](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/184/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/184/mode/2up) [187](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/186/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2267 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5708 (A8AA817E) Date: 8/12/1953 Description: The USSR tests its first thermonuclear device, RDS-6s or Joe 4, at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. A tenfold increase in explosive power is achieved by a combination of fusion energy and neutron- initiated fission. Scholars dispute the authenticity of RDS-6 as a true thermonuclear device, as it does not manage to produce a yield consistent with a true hydrogen bomb. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Joe 4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5F4)” Source ID: Eberhart_2268 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5709 (C05B74CA) Date: 8/12/1953 Description: Gun-camera (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [530812](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ellsworth.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ellsworth AFB, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1563 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5710 (33EBA6E2) Date: 8/12/1953 Description: First Soviet hydrogen bomb test (Joe 4), 400kt, Semipalatinsk Test Site Type: atomic Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site Atomic type: aboveground Atomic KT: 400 Source ID: Maj2_505 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5711 (165FB6BB) Date: 8/12/1953 Description: Date is incorrect - see 530805-06 entry (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rapid City, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1564 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5712 (87A58844) Date: 8/13/1953 Description: Paramount Pictures’ The War of the Worlds premieres in New York City. It is a modern retelling of [H. G.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FG.%5FWells) [Wells](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FG.%5FWells)’s story of an invasion from Mars and features a Northrop YB-49 flying wing dropping an atomic bomb on the invading Martians. The color footage comes from a test flight. The film is produced by [George Pal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FPal), directed by [Byron Haskin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron%5FHaskin)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron%5FHaskin) and stars [Gene Barry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%5FBarry) and [Ann Robinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%5FRobinson)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%5FRobinson)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[The War of the Worlds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FWar%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWorlds%5F%281953%5Ffilm%29) [\(1953 film\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FWar%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWorlds%5F%281953%5Ffilm%29)”; Internet Movie Database, “[The War of the Worlds](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046534/)” Source ID: Eberhart_2269 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5713 (8179E59A) Date: 8/13/1953 Description: Science fiction movie “The War of the Worlds” released Type: movie Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_506 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5714 (7F7F1FAA) Date: 8/14/1953 Description: Lighted object came straight down out of sky, stopped, then sped out of view. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1566 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5715 (5DDC9814) Date: 8/15/1953 Description: Circling light changed color, white, red, green. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crestline, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_1567 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5716 (682DEFBD) Date: 8/16/1953 Description: Claude Pasquier saw two discs flying very low and quite slowly along a straight course in Tours, France at 8:30 p.m. They made a "hard" sound as they flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 65; Melbourne Age, July 10, 1963; Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 203 Source ID: Johnson_5071 Source: Johnson ### Event 5717 (2321DA14) Date: 8/16/1953 Description: Flying Saucers International holds the first UFO conference at the Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, California, featuring contactee speakers. However, [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel)’s first Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention launches the same day near Landers, California, for three days with speakers [Frank Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully), George Van Tassel, [Orfeo Angelucci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfeo%5FAngelucci), [George Adamski,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and the [Amazing Criswell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FAmazing%5FCriswell). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [p. 91](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/90/mode/2up) ; Orfeo Angelucci, “[A Release: On Flying Saucers First Convention,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Interplanetary%20News%20Digest/Interplanetary%20News%20Digest%20-%20vol%201%20no%202.pdf)” Interplanetary News Digest 1, no. 2 \(October 1953\): 1; “[Blast from the Past: UFO Conventions from Giant Rock in Landers,](https://www.desertsun.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2014/07/25/blast-from-the-past-ufo-conventions-at-giant-rock-in-landers/13146043/)” Palm Springs \(Calif.\) Desert Sun, July 25, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_2270 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5718 (EF7824E0) Date: 8/16/1953 Time: 2030 Description: Claude Pasquier saw two disks flying very low, quite slowly, along a straight course, with a "hard" sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Anatomy 65, 141 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Tours, France Source ID: Magnonia_115 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5719 (7798E82D) Date: 8/17/1953? Description: Lina Ivanova Kravets is in her garden in Shtanivka, Ukraine, when she sees a trio of intruders cutting branches off her apple, plum, and cherry trees. Approaching closer, she sees they are 11-foot-tall entities wearing dark overalls, helmets, and gloves. They claim to be extraterrestrials, converse with her about God and their peaceful home world that is prone to natural disasters and somehow affected by the earth’s wars, and insist they are on a mission to rescue a missing scout team. They then point out a silvery sphere hovering just above the ground with similar tall being standing next to it. Before the lengthy encounter ends, the beings offer Kravets a piece of bread the size of a small coin. Breaking it open, she sees something dark and odorless inside, so she refuses it. The beings then walk to the sphere in a peculiar waddling manner, wave as they enter, and take off in the craft at terrific speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Peter Rogerson, “[INTCAT 1953](http://intcat.blogspot.com/2012/08/intcat-1953.html)”; Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332 \(November 2015\): 44 Source ID: Eberhart_2271 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5720 (B642F248) Date: 8/17/1953 Description: In Ciudad Valles, Mexico at six o'clock in the evening Sr. S. Villanueva, age 37, had the engine of the vehicle he was driving fail. Two four-foot-tall beings approached, and he next saw a domed disc, 40 feet, making a humming sound. The beings entered the craft, and the UFO ascended vertically at high speed. The landing traces included crushed bushes and broken sticks in a circular area 40-45 feet wide. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 32; P. M. H. Edwards, FSR, January-February 1970, p. 11; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 100 Source ID: Johnson_5109 Source: Johnson ### Event 5721 (0BA61314) Date: 8/17/1953 Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the Southern Cross Astronomical Society in the Miami area Type: lecture Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: Maj2_507 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5722 (B7D56F3F) Date: 8/18/1953 Time: evening Description: Approximate date. Cab driver Salvador Villanueva, 40, observed two creatures 1.2 m tall wearing coveralls with wide, shiny, perforated belts, metal collars, and small, black, shiny boxes on their backs. They had helmets under their arms. The witness thought they were pilots of Indian race. One of them spoke to him in Spanish, "stringing the words together" in a strange accent. Trivial matters were discussed until dawn, when they returned to their craft, 13 m in diameter, through a staircase under the lower disk. The witness ran away when invited to follow them. The object rose with a pendulum motion and shot up vertically. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 32; FSR 56, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ciudad Valleys, Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_116 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5723 (F23F0419) Date: 8/18/1953 Description: In the early evening on or about this day Salvador Villanueva, a taxi cab driver, was trying to repair his broken down car out in the country near Ciudad Valles, Mexico when he was joined by two short, human looking men. They were only about four and a half feet tall, and they wore one-piece gray garments made out of corduroy that covered even their feet. They also had on wide, shiny black belts, metal collars, and small black shiny boxes connected to the collars on the back of their necks. Under their arms they carried football-style crash helmets. Because it was raining he invited them to shelter inside his taxi, where they had a conversation that lasted all night. They spoke Spanish with a strange accent. The spokesman eventually told him they were from another planet, which Villanueva scarcely believed, but he accompanied them to their craft. While walking there he noticed that the mud puddles did not get their feet wet, and that their belts glowed whenever the mud was repelled. The UFO was disc-shaped and looked like two soup plates joined at the rim, with a shallow dome on top with portholes. It rested on the ground on three spheres that acted like landing gear. He was invited inside, but declined to go. The two men climbed up some stairs to get aboard. Glowing white, the vessel zigzagged upwards, and then shot up vertically, making only a faint whistling sound. A 40-foot circle of broken bushes was left behind at the landing spot. It's possible the presence of the UFO may have caused his car to malfunction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing APRO Bulletin, April 1955; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 116, citing Flying Saucer Review, March 1962 Source ID: Johnson_5120 Source: Johnson ### Event 5724 (11C1FA0E) Date: 8/19/1953 Description: A small, fast-moving, ricocheting fireball rips a foot-wide hole through a metal billboard at Middlestone Avenue and Front Street in East New Haven, Connecticut. IFSB investigator [August C. Roberts](https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2018/08/the-moon-is-venusian-colony-part-ii.html) and Joseph Barbieri steal a piece of the sign during an investigation by Naval Ordnance personnel. IFSB sends the sample to Col. [Robert B. Emerson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8470193/robert-b%5F-emerson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8470193/robert-b%5F-emerson) an Army physicist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, who contacts friends at Oak Ridge Laboratory in Tennessee to have it analyzed, but nothing else is heard of this sample. APRO arranges for a separate analysis of the deposits on the sign performed by Anderson Laboratories in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Chicago Spectrographic Service Laboratory. They determine that the fragments consist of copper and copper oxide and are not meteoritic. [Michael D. Swords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FD.%5FSwords) suggests that Roberts’s retrieval of the metal fragments would have attracted the attention of federal officials. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[New Haven Signboard Case](http://www.nicap.org/newhaven530819dir.htm)”; Michael D. Swords, “Tales from the Barker Zone,” IUR 17, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1992\): 5–7; Clark III 728–729 Source ID: Eberhart_2272 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5725 (024423E0) Date: 8/20/1953 Description: 9:05 p.m. The crew of a TB-29 sees a grayish oval object near Castle AFB \[now Castle Airport Aviation and Development Center\], northeast of Atwater, California. The UFO makes four passes at the plane, then dives vertically as if it consists of two objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[TB-29 Crew Files CIRVIS Report](http://www.nicap.org/530820castleafb%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 203 Source ID: Eberhart_2273 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5726 (74740693) Date: 8/20/1953 Description: The crew of a TB-29 bomber/trainer aircraft flying near Castle AFB in California reported that at 9:05 p.m. PDT a gray oval object made four passes at their airplane (three times at 10-20 miles distance), then dived vertically as if two objects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2686; Project Blue Book Report #12; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, p. 21; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_5168 Source: Johnson ### Event 5727 (B2742160) Date: 8/20/1953 Description: TB-29 Crew Files CIRVIS Report (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2686) Reference: NICAP: [530820](http://nicap.org/530820castleafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Castle AFB (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1568 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5728 (83832203) Date: 8/20/1953 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a large round black object stopped in the air over the radio tower in Burlington, Vermont for three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3114, citing APRO Bulletin, 1953 Source ID: Johnson_5169 Source: Johnson ### Event 5729 (5D2C64AB) Date: 8/20/1953 Time: 9:05 PM Description: Witnesses: crew of TB-29 bomber/trainer plane. One greyish oval object made four passes at the airplane (three times at 10-20 miles distance), then dived vertically as if two objects. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: near Castle AFB, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_318 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5730 (6004DB6A) Date: 8/21/1953 Description: Test pilot Lt. Col. [Marion Eugene Carl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%5FEugene%5FCarl) reaches an unofficial altitude of 83,235 feet in a Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Marion Eugene Carl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%5FEugene%5FCarl)” Source ID: Eberhart_2274 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5731 (F4A99B67) Date: 8/21/1953 Description: Black oval with green and red lights around perimeter. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maumee, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1569 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5732 (A8737F6C) Date: 8/22/1953 Description: On this day a silver cigar-shaped object descended from the clouds over East Bolton, Quebec, Canada. It stopped near the ground, making an odd noise, then shot up vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3116, citing APRO Bulletin, November 1953 Source ID: Johnson_5216 Source: Johnson ### Event 5733 (51936D6D) Date: 8/23/1953 Description: Movie film taken by Drury (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Moresby, New Guinea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1571 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5734 (A741B4A9) Date: 8/23/1953 Description: At 12:30 a.m. in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada two witnesses experienced two hours of missing time after their car had stalled in the presence of a black, 14 meter in diameter circular object, which hovered overhead. During hypnosis it emerged that telepathy was used for communication. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_5247 Source: Johnson ### Event 5735 (1717A11B) Date: 8/23/1953 Description: The Drury Film (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Australia, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_1572 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5736 (B92D87B5) Date: 8/23/1953 Description: Soviet tactical atomic bomb test RDS-4, 28kt Type: atomic Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site Atomic type: aboveground Atomic KT: 28 Source ID: Maj2_508 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5737 (8CB0670D) Date: 8/23/1953 Description: Red and white object moving very slowly upward, observed by Ground Observer Corps. (UFOE) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1570 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5738 (F4748127) Date: 8/23/1953 Description: 12:00 noon. Tom P. Drury, deputy director of the Civilian Aviation Department at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, takes 24 frames of 8mm color film of a silvery object that emerges from a cloud and climbs quickly, leaving a vapor trail. The Royal Australian Air Force and USAF intelligence are said to have studied the film, which has since disappeared, with only a few third-generation stills of poor quality remaining. Later researchers suspect a daytime meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Drury Film / Saucer-Like Object Climbing](http://www.nicap.org/530823australia%5Fdir.htm)”; Norman Cruttwell, “[The New](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201961%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf) [Guinea Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201961%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1961, p. 6; Clark III 416–417; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 204; Good Above, [pp. 162–163](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/162/mode/2up); Bill Chalker, “[The Drury UFO Film Affair: A Study of a Celebrated Australian Case, Part 1,](https://www.auforn.com/Bill%5FChalker%5F4.htm)” 2001; Bill Chalker, “[The Drury UFO Film Affair: A Study of a Celebrated Australian Case, Part 2,](https://www.auforn.com/Bill%5FChalker%5F5.htm)” 2001; Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 17–18; Keith Basterfield and Paul Dean, “[Cold Case Review of the 23 August 1953, Port Moresby Visual Sighting and Colour Movie Film,](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kbpddrury.htm)” April 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_2275 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5739 (FBDCC994) Date: 8/24/1953 Description: Contactee [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel) gets to step, for the first time, inside a flying saucer, when an extraterrestrial named Solganda wakes him up and leads him to a waiting ship, giving him a tour of the interior and a technique for rejuvenating the human body before dropping him off and shooting back into space. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jody Rosen, “[Welcome](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/20/style/tmagazine/welcome-to-the-integratron.html) [to the Integratron,](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/20/style/tmagazine/welcome-to-the-integratron.html)” New York Times Magazine, August 20, 2014; Lesla Miller Schnur, “[G. W. Van Tassel’s](https://thehauntedlibrarian.com/tag/dorris-andre-van-tassel/) [Integraton,](https://thehauntedlibrarian.com/tag/dorris-andre-van-tassel/)” The Haunted Librarian, August 27, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_2276 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5740 (75E56737) Date: 8/26/1953 Description: USAF issues Air Force Regulation 200-2, which tightens UFO reporting and investigating procedures, further restricting the release of UFO information and superseding Air Force Letter 200-5. It directs that all confirmed UFO reports be sent electronically to air force intelligence. Tangible evidence must go to ATIC in Dayton. It also confines UFO investigations to three groups: USAF intelligence at the Pentagon, the 4602nd AISS, and ATIC \(although ATIC only gets reports after they go to the 4602nd\). Sightings are only to be discussed with “authorized personnel.” Reports by USAF personnel no longer go to Project Blue Book, which is now only a PR front. Some good cases still go there, but far fewer unidentifieds. Only solved cases are to be discussed publicly; those still unidentified are to remain classified at the Restricted level. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unidentified Flying Objects](http://www.nicap.org/directives/AFR%20200-2%2C%20Aug%20%2026%2C1953.pdf) [Reporting,](http://www.nicap.org/directives/AFR%20200-2%2C%20Aug%20%2026%2C1953.pdf)” Air Force Regulation 200-2, August 26, 1953; Clark III 918; Swords 198–199 Source ID: Eberhart_2277 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5741 (63C5FD1C) Date: 8/26/1953 Description: AF Regulation 200-2 issued by Secretary of Air Force; procedures for reporting UFOs, restrictions on public discussion. Type: Air Force regulation Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_876 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5742 (9B6187F3) Date: 8/26/1953 Description: Air Force Regulation 200-2 issued by Secretary of Air Force: "Intelligence. Unidentified Flying Objects Reporting." Paragraph 9 forbids public release of unexplained sightings. Paragraph 8 requires classification of radar-scope photographs of UFOs. Air Force personnel instructed to discuss sightings only with "authorized personnel." (Note rapid drop-off of officially reported sightings after this date.) Type: regulation Reference: The UFO Evidence page 22, Richard H. Hall Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) See also: 8/12/1954 Source ID: Maj2_509 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5743 (D333CA5E) Date: 8/27/1953 Description: USAF pilot, M/Sgt., others, all on the ground, saw a light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2692) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenville, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1573 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5744 (5582D740) Date: 8/27/1953 Description: In Greenville, Mississippi at 9:45 p.m. several ground witnesses including an Air Force pilot, Sergeant and others watched an unidentified meandering light for 50 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5389 Source: Johnson ### Event 5745 (2267CDA0) Date: 8/27/1953 Time: 9:45 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot, M/Sgt., others, all on the ground. One meandering light was observed for 50 minutes. No further details in file. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Greenville, Mississippi Source ID: BerlinerBBU_319 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5746 (83444228) Date: 8/27/1953 Description: 9:45 p.m. A USAF pilot, M/Sgt, and others, all on the ground, see a meandering light for 50 minutes at Greenville AFB \[now Mid-Delta Regional Airport\], Mississippi. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 204 Source ID: Eberhart_2278 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5747 (92721B88) Date: 8/28/1953 Description: Fourteen oval flying objects were sighted by a Ground Observer Corps watcher in San Rafael, California at 2:25 a.m. They flew silently and were in view for three minutes. A report on the encounter was sent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the NSA. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, August 1953, case 32; Project Blue Book Report #12, November 30, 1953; Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 278 Source ID: Johnson_5408 Source: Johnson ### Event 5748 (36CE3FCA) Date: 8/28/1953 Description: A Ground Observer Corps volunteer watches 14 cigar-shaped UFOs silently moving over San Rafael, California. One appears to be leading the formation at about 200 mph. They are first seen heading west through breaks in the clouds, then turn north and disappear behind clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 278](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/278/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2279 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5749 (3924A61A) Date: 8/31/1953 Description: A disc-shaped object flew toward the east in the sky over Vernon, France at 4:00 p.m. It shot up rapidly to a higher altitude, then stopped and circled. Two more discs engaged in wild maneuvers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 65; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_5516 Source: Johnson ### Event 5750 (D70DC03D) Date: 8/31/1953 Description: [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) leaves Project Blue Book permanently, leaving Max Futch in charge as acting chief through December. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 14; Clark III 55 Source ID: Eberhart_2280 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5751 (2341D8A3) Date: 9/1953 Description: Genevieve A. Johnston begins publishing the contactee newsletter Interplanetary News Digest in Joshua Tree, California. It continues through spring 1955. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Interplanetary News Digest](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucershav00lesl) 1, no. 1 \(September 1953\) Source ID: Eberhart_2283 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5752 (626B0529) Date: 9/1953 Description: London, England, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: London, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1574 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5753 (976B0D7C) Date: 9/1953 Description: [Gray Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%5FBarker) starts publishing The Saucerian Bulletin in Clarksburg, West Virginia, which covers UFO reports, monster yarns, contactee tales, and the latest rumors about [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender). It continues through October 1962. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Saucerian Bulletin](http://cufos.org/Saucerian/1953%5F09%5F00%5FSaucerian%5FVol-1%231%28W%231%29.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(September 1953\); Clark III 178 Source ID: Eberhart_2284 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5754 (33FAFC4F) Date: 9/1953 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s account \(ghostwritten by [Clara John](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70322188/clara-louise-john)\) of his meeting in the desert with the Venusian named Orthon is appended to an already completed manuscript on modern and historical UFO reports by Irish occultist [Desmond Leslie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%5FLeslie) and published as Flying Saucers Have Landed. Leslie asserts that the first spaceman \(a Venusian\) arrived on earth in 18,617,841 B.C. \[in the early Miocene Epoch\] and claims that early UFOs were called vimanas in Sanskrit epics like the Ramayana. He also argues that the Great Pyramid and megalithic structures were built with levitation techniques derived from space people. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Desmond Leslie and George Adamski, [Flying Saucers Have Landed](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucershav00lesl)[,](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucershav00lesl) British Book Centre, 1953; Clark III 40 Source ID: Eberhart_2281 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5755 (55F2B8EC) Date: 9/1953 Description: Airline stewardess [Gloria Lee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria%5FLee) of Westchester, California, begins to hear a voice in her head that identifies itself as “J.W.,” a resident of Jupiter. Lee insists on a physical visit. Not long afterward, as she is hanging wash in her backyard, she hears the voice say, “Well, you’ve been wanting to see me.” She looks up and sees “a saucer, big as life, flying toward Santa Monica.” She has other experiences and founds the Cosmon Research Organization to publish and study J.W.’s teachings, much of which resemble philosophy in the 1882 book Oahspe, produced by automatic writing by [John Ballou Newbrough](https://history-computer.com/People/NewbroughBio.html)[.](https://history-computer.com/People/NewbroughBio.html) She goes on the contactee lecture circuit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 682–683 Source ID: Eberhart_2282 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5756 (A61075C9) Date: 9/1953 Description: The book “Flying Saucers Have Landed” by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski published. Type: book Reference: [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucers-Have-Landed/dp/1500235040) Location: California Source ID: Maj2_489 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5757 (1FABD6DB) Date: 9/2/1953 Time: 9:14 PM Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. William Moore and lst Lt. J.H. McInnis, flying a USAF C-47 transport plane. One very bright light was on a collision course with the C-47, levelled out, made 180 degree turn during 3 minute observation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Sidi Slimane AFB, French Morocco Source ID: BerlinerBBU_320 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5758 (F76458AA) Date: 9/2/1953 Description: At 9:14 p.m. at Sidi Slimane AFB, Morocco pilot Lt. Col. William Moore and co-pilot Lt. J. H. McInnis, flying in a C-47 transport plane at 140 mph at 6000 feet altitude on a training mission, encountered a very bright light that appeared on a collision course with their aircraft. At the last minute the UFO levelled out. It subsequently made a 90 degree and then it executed a 180 degree turn. It descended to 700 feet or less, slowed and seemed to hover. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21; UNICAT, case # 767; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5564 Source: Johnson ### Event 5759 (EA210BC6) Date: 9/2/1953 Description: Air Force C-47 Encounters Maneuvering Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530902](http://www.nicap.org/530902morocco%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sidi Slimane AFB, Fr. Morocco Source ID: NICAP_DB_1575 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5760 (CF7139B0) Date: 9/3/1953 Time: Unknown time Description: Two bright silver ovals moved very fast. Case missing from files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Portland, Oregon Source ID: BerlinerBBU_321 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5761 (6B48116A) Date: 9/3/1953 Description: On this day a very large, luminous UFO hovered close to ground in Bedford Park, near Cleveland, Ohio. It threw up rocks and sticks from the ground, and then flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3126, citing Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 297 Source ID: Johnson_5586 Source: Johnson ### Event 5762 (D9D70C84) Date: 9/4/1953 Description: Mrs. Deshais, a farmer's wife in Tonnerre, France saw two UFOs at 9:30 p.m., a five-meter long elongated object and a sphere, both on the ground. There were three 1.5-meter (5 foot) tall men running toward the craft. They had oversized heads and wore helmets and boots. One entered the elongated object, which then spread some "wings" that made it look like a butterfly. It then shifted to a vertical position, resting on tripod landing gear, and took off at the same time as the spherical object into which the other two beings had gone. Traces were found at the spot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1968; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 204, case 117 Source ID: Johnson_5624 Source: Johnson ### Event 5763 (EA220C0C) Date: 9/4/1953 Time: 2130 Description: A woman saw two objects on the ground and three 1.5-m-tall men running toward the craft. They had oversized heads and wore helmets and boots. One entered the elongated object, 5 m long, 1.5 m wide, which spread "wings" that made it look like a butterfly. It then took a vertical position, resting on a tripod, and took off with the spherical object into which the other two creatures had gone. Traces were found at the spot. Type: ufo sighting Reference: GEPA 68, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Tonnerre, France Source ID: Magnonia_117 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5764 (60BD10CE) Date: 9/7/1953 Description: 6:30 p.m. Don P. Hollister, a technical writer for Goodyear Aircraft, notices a grayish-blue object heading north directly over his backyard in Cleveland, Ohio, at less than 3,000 feet altitude. It is shaped like an equilateral triangle, but rounded somewhat on the sides and angles. It is rotating on a central axis. The object disappears after 5 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 70](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=82&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2286 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5765 (BDB0C3D8) Date: 9/7/1953 Description: While flying over Vandalia, Ohio at eight p.m. two onboard a U.S. Navy FG1D research aircraft sighted a white light that shot up and away vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, September 1954, p. 5; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 48; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_5708 Source: Johnson ### Event 5766 (81A110B3) Date: 9/7/1953 Description: British pilot [Neville Duke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville%5FDuke) reaches 728 mph in a Hawker Hunter Mk.3 at Littlehampton, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Neville Duke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville%5FDuke)” Source ID: Eberhart_2285 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5767 (4D1DF6C8) Date: 9/7/1953 Description: Technical writer watched rotating triangle pass overhead (cf., May 22, 1960, Majorca sighting). \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cleveland, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1577 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5768 (808EE173) Date: 9/7/1953 Description: Navy pilots (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vandalia, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1576 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5769 (38229C9B) Date: 9/11/1953 End date: 9/13/1953 Description: Police Chief, others, watched top-like UFOs three consecutive nights. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chiloquin, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_1580 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5770 (5F2E582A) Date: 9/11/1953 Description: A large yellow nocturnal light zigzagged over Fort Meade, Maryland. It vanished temporarily, then reappeared. It was also seen over Andrews Air Force Base. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1953 Source ID: Johnson_5854 Source: Johnson ### Event 5771 (F2CA2A94) Date: 9/11/1953 Description: Brovst, Denmark was the scene of an attempted abduction of a girl by two humanoids emitting a golden light. Their hands were rugged and cold like a fish. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jimmy Guieu, Les SV Viennent d'un Autre Monde; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 204 Source ID: Johnson_5855 Source: Johnson ### Event 5772 (1C2039A8) Date: 9/12/1953 Description: Brovst was the scene of an attempted abduction of a girl by two humanoids emitting a golden light. Their hands were rugged and cold like a fish. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Guieu ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Brovst, Denmark Source ID: Magnonia_118 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5773 (6F1D122D) Date: 9/12/1953 Description: Brovst, Denmark was the scene of an attempted abduction of a girl by two humanoids emitting a golden light. Their hands were rugged and cold like a fish. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jimmy Guieu, Les SV Viennent d'un Autre Monde; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 204 Source ID: Johnson_5901 Source: Johnson ### Event 5774 (DD25BBFE) Date: 9/15/1953 End date: 9/19/1953 Description: Operation Top Hat, a “local field exercise,” takes place at the Army Chemical School \[now the US Army CBRN School\] at Fort McClellan \[now closed\], Alabama. The experiments use Chemical Corps personnel to test decontamination methods for biological and chemical weapons, including sulfur mustard and nerve agents. The personnel are deliberately exposed to these contaminants, are not volunteers, and are not informed of the tests. In a 1975 Pentagon Inspector General’s report, the military maintain that Operation Top Hat is not subject to the guidelines requiring approval because it is a line-of-duty exercise in the Chemical Corps. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Top Hat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FTop%5FHat)” Source ID: Eberhart_2287 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5775 (89B20CE3) Date: 9/16/1953 Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the USAF Air Reserve 9882nd Volunteer Air Reserve Squadron in the North Miami area Type: lecture Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: Maj2_511 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5776 (5D6BF4AC) Date: 9/22/1953 Time: 11:45 AM Description: Witness: civilian, Mr. Bray, using a small telescope. One thin, yellow triangle moved slowly, made a rapid acceleration and a vertical climb during the 5-8 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Hayward, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_322 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5777 (45EE6835) Date: 9/22/1953 Description: At 9:00 a.m. an object shaped like an airplane "wing tank" fell from the sky over Ontario, California. It stopped in midair, turned into a circular shape, then shot off toward the north at an extreme speed. There were four military witnesses. Another UFO was seen later that day by a man named Bray in Hayward, California in Alameda county at 11:45 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 23; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1953, case 14 Source ID: Johnson_6217 Source: Johnson ### Event 5778 (0E378B0A) Date: Autumn 1953 Description: Dusk. Cecil Tenney is driving near Dutton, Montana, when he sees a cigar-shaped object about 200 feet away. Apparently in trouble, it belches fire and smoke, and after a few minutes he hears an explosion. Balls of fire rain down from the sky. He tells the story to a highway patrol officer at a nearby bar before driving on to Conrad, Montana. That evening a colonel from Great Falls AFB \[now Malmstrom AFB\] calls and tells him to show up at the base in the morning. He is interrogated there for 30 minutes, and on the way out sees soldiers carrying bags that he thinks might contain body parts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, “Retrievals of the Third Kind: A Case Study of Alleged UFOs and Occupants in Military Custody,” MUFON 1978 UFO Symposium Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1978, pp. 77–105; Clark III 342 Source ID: Eberhart_2293 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5779 (89386392) Date: 9/24/1953 Description: Ground Observer Corps report: silvery disk followed plane. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus (Bexley), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1581 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5780 (B7486374) Date: Late 9/1953 Description: Night. Baltimore, Maryland, astronomer [James C. Bartlett Jr.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Bartlett%5Fpending.htm) is observing a transit of the star Fomalhaut when he notices four large lights moving slowly in the sky. He looks at them through binoculars and sees that they are on the noses of two enormous cigar-shaped objects at about 3,000 feet altitude. He can also see an apparent cabin and portholes and he hears a sound like a piston engine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Two Huge UFOs Sighted by](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/005%20AUG-SEPT%201958.pdf) [Baltimore Astronomer,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/005%20AUG-SEPT%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 5 \(Aug./Sept. 1958\): 1, 3 Source ID: Eberhart_2291 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5781 (3F688F33) Date: 9/26/1953 Description: British pilot [Mike Lithgow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FLithgow) attains an official world airspeed record of 736 mph in a Supermarine Swift F 4 at Castel Idris, Tripoli, Libya. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Mike Lithgow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FLithgow)” Source ID: Eberhart_2288 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5782 (C196C9A5) Date: 9/28/1953 Description: 7:10 p.m. In Palmdale, California, a UFO appears on an F-94C radarscope for a period of 15 seconds. The object is traveling on a 60° course at an estimated speed of 2,300 mph. It is 4 miles away when first seen and compares with a C-47 in size on the radarscope. The F-94 was moving at 345 mph at 21,000 feet. The same or another object is observed visually from another F-94C for six seconds at 7:00 p.m. The object is described as round, orange in color, and traveling on the same course as the first object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F-94C Tracks UFO at 200 Knots](http://www.nicap.org/530928palmdale%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 204 Source ID: Eberhart_2290 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5783 (CA697BA7) Date: 9/28/1953 Description: [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender) confides to [Gray Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%5FBarker) and a few others that three menacing men dressed in black suits have called on him, told him the answer to the UFO mystery, and insisted that he will go to jail if he repeats it. The experience allegedly terrifies him, and he decides to close the International Flying Saucer Bureau. Barker immortalizes the episode in a 1956 book, They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, and Bender breaks his long silence in 1962 with Flying Saucers and the Three Men, in which he claims that the visitors are not government agents but monsters from the distant planet Kazik. Even Barker concedes privately that he cannot swallow Bender’s fantastic tale of abduction to the South Pole by monstrous space beings. Bender does little to promote the book and soon moves to Los Angeles and secures an unlisted telephone number. However, the book does reveal Bender’s long-time obsession with science fiction, horror movies, and the occult. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gray Barker, [They Knew](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/page/n1/mode/2up) [Too Much about Flying Saucers](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/page/n1/mode/2up) University Books, 1956; Albert K. Bender, Flying Saucers and the Three Men, Saucerian, 1962; Clark III 189–192, 623; Story, [pp. 50–51](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/50/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Tales from the Barker Zone,” IUR 17, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1992\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_2289 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5784 (7C710BDA) Date: 9/28/1953 Time: 7 PM Description: Witness: radar observer of USAF F-94C jet interceptor. One object tracked at 2,000 kts. (2,300 m.p.h.) for 15 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Palmdale, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_323 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5785 (F684FEA3) Date: 9/28/1953 Time: 7 PM Description: Witness: radar observer of USAF F-94C jet interceptor. Visual observation one orange ball travelling 500-600 kts. (600-700 m.p.h.) for 6 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Newhall, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_324 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5786 (BAF970E8) Date: 9/28/1953 Description: (McDonald list) F-94C Tracks UFO at 200 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [530928](http://www.nicap.org/530928palmdale%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palmdale, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1578 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5787 (84E3D6DA) Date: 9/29/1953 Description: The vertical hold on a TV set went out when a UFO emitting white vapor passed overhead in Easton, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Whalley, Flying Saucers magazine, October 1968, p. 26; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_6416 Source: Johnson ### Event 5788 (7093A8BF) Date: 9/29/1953 Description: Television picture "began going up and down real fast," as UFO passed overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Easton, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1579 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5789 (0EF04EFD) Date: 9/30/1953 Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report \#12. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Air Force, [Projects Grudge and Blue Book Reports](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) [1–12,](https://www.slideshare.net/alexpituba/projects-grudge-and-bluebook-reports-1-12-nicap) NICAP, 1968, pp. 215–235 Source ID: Eberhart_2292 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5790 (0F98AD66) Date: 10/1953 Description: The final issue of Space Review edited by [Albert K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender) states that UFOs are “no longer a mystery. The source is already known, but any information about this is being withheld by orders from a higher source.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Statement of Importance,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Space%20Review%20%28Bender%29/Space%20Review%20-%20Volume%202%20number%204%20-%201953%2010.pdf)” Space Review 2, no. 4 \(October 1953\): 1; Clark III 189 Source ID: Eberhart_2294 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5791 (6BE92B75) Date: 10/1/1953 Description: [Donald E. Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s Flying Saucers from Outer Space is published by Henry Holt. Excerpts appear in the October 20 issue of Look. His message is that aliens are here, the military knows it, and they are covering it up from the public to avoid panic. He has gotten clearance from [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and [Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) to include 51 classified UFO reports from the Air Technical Intelligence Center, which runs Project Blue Book. The Air Force states that Keyhoe is misrepresenting their analyses, so he sends a telegram to USAF Secretary [Harold E. Talbott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FTalbott) and Gen. [Sory Smith](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105625/major-general-sory-smith/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105625/major-general-sory-smith/) saying that if he really misrepresented anything, as a Marine Corps officer he should be disciplined. The Air Force offers no comment. In the book, he takes note of a curious document \(never published and now lost\) prepared by USAF Col. [William C. Odell](https://obits.gazette.com/obituaries/gazette/obituary.aspx?n=william-c-odell&pid=127051838&fhid=6109) titled “Planet Earth: Host to Extraterrestrial Life,” in which he speculates on aliens crossing space in search of new planets to live on once their own fails. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, [Flying Saucers from Outer Space](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/fsos.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsos/fsos.htm) Holt, 1953; Wikipedia, “[Flying Saucers from Outer Space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying%5FSaucers%5Ffrom%5FOuter%5FSpace)”; Keyhoe, [FS](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) [Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 55; Michael D. Swords, “Colonel Odell and the Invasion of Earth,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 3– 6 Source ID: Eberhart_2295 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5792 (FE3D9016) Date: 10/2/1953 Description: Industrial engineer Jack W. Grant gives a presentation titled "Flying Saucers Have Landed" to the Federation of Women's Clubs at a hotel. He had travelled the country for the past 6 years and was convinced the topic was of immense significance. He said the government would eventually tell the public and his presentation would help soften the blow. Type: lecture Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116905302/jack-w-grant-flying-saucers-are-real/) Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116904993/jack-w-grant-on-flying-saucers-have/) Location: Lancaster, Ohio Source ID: Maj2_512 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5793 (0C0D5450) Date: 10/3/1953 Description: USN pilot [James B. Verdin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3436976/james-bernard-verdin) reaches 753 mph in a Douglas F4D Skyray over the Salton Sea, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Douglas F4D Skyray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FF4D%5FSkyray)” Source ID: Eberhart_2296 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5794 (06F74507) Date: 10/8/1953 Description: A glowing disc flew at high speed over Akron, Ohio at 8:40 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May 1954 Source ID: Johnson_6638 Source: Johnson ### Event 5795 (7903A6D6) Date: 10/9/1953 Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers at the Aerodex Management club Type: lecture Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: Maj2_513 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5796 (C23A8324) Date: 10/9/1953 Description: 4:30 p.m. Three unidentified objects are tracked on radar at RAF Bawdsey \[now Bawdsey Manor\], Suffolk, England, at an altitude of 36,000 feet above the Netherlands. Soon they are tracked flying east to west over the Harwich area. Some jets at RAF Waterbeach \[now Waterbeach Barracks\], Cambridgeshire, are scrambled but can locate nothing. Airmen at Bawdsey can see nothing but four contrails heading north. The objects then reverse and move back across the English Channel at 32,000–34,000 feet. The apparent speed on the approach is 430 mph, increasing to 483 mph on the short leg over the UK and 564 mph on the return. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Three UFOs Flew over](http://www.nicap.org/531009unitedkingdom%5Fdir.htm) [Area, Tracked on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/531009unitedkingdom%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2298 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5797 (D5B18964) Date: 10/9/1953 Description: 3:50 p.m. A UFO is seen at Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria, discharging a white trail described as “strange shiney filaments” that cover wires and trees. A sample turns out to be a “nylon-like amorphous mass with traces of magnesuim, calcium, boron, and silicon.” It shrinks from 3 inches to one-half inch in an air-tight container. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Wispy Threads from Sky,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201966%2011%20-%20no%209%20UFOIC.pdf)” Australian Flying Saucer Review \(UFOIC\), no. 9 \(November 1966\): 12; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 101; Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_2297 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5798 (58251A37) Date: 10/9/1953 Description: Three UFOs Flew Over Area, Tracked on Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [531009](http://www.nicap.org/531009unitedkingdom%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dutch Islands, Harwich area, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1755 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5799 (B09C80FE) Date: 10/13/1953 Description: Object Detected on SCR-584 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [531013](http://www.nicap.org/531013offuttdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_1582 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5800 (75E58135) Date: 10/13/1953 Description: Object At 500' On Weather RADAR (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [531013](http://www.nicap.org/531013dobbins%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dobbins AFB, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1583 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5801 (1C66D032) Date: 10/13/1953 Description: Four maneuvering, nocturnal UFOs and the fall of "angel hair" was reported to have occurred in Pleasant Hill, California this night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 201 Source ID: Johnson_6804 Source: Johnson ### Event 5802 (686CFC9C) Date: 10/15/1953 Description: 10:10 a.m. During the tracking of a Project Grab Bag balloon launch, a 40-foot object leaving a brief vapor trail is seen by three General Mills Aeronautical Lab research engineers \([James A. Winker](http://stratocat.com.ar/stratopedia/25.htm), [Fletcher L.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145580122/fletcher-lavallee-bartholomew) [Bartholomew](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145580122/fletcher-lavallee-bartholomew)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145580122/fletcher-lavallee-bartholomew) and [Richard J. Reilly](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088DJMYW4/ref%3Ddbs%5Fa%5Fdef%5Frwt%5Fhsch%5Fvapi%5Ftkin%5Fp1%5Fi0)\) near Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is traveling south in horizontal flight at 1,100 mph, moving 10° in nine seconds at about 40,000 ft altitude and 25° elevation. The object goes into a vertical dive for about 10-15 seconds, then glows or flashes in the sun two or three times for 1 second each. It is seen in the theodolite as a gray mass. It levels off and the vapor trail stops. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Project GRAB BAG Sighting](http://www.nicap.org/531015minneapolis%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 205; Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine eds., 1974, [pp. 71–72](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/70/mode/2up); Hynek UFO Report, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/112/mode/2up) [113–114](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/112/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2299 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5803 (F707E43A) Date: 10/15/1953 Description: 40 ft object leaving brief vapor trail was seen by 3 gm employees (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [531015](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/minn.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minneapolis, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1584 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5804 (51A0DB58) Date: 10/15/1953 Description: At 10:10 a.m. a saucer maneuvered at 45,000 feet for 40 seconds over the General Mills Research Laboratory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was viewed through a theodolite by three scientists. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 113; UNICAT, case # 265 Source ID: Johnson_6847 Source: Johnson ### Event 5805 (A7FDA1C9) Date: 10/15/1953 Time: 10:10 AM Description: Witnesses: three General Mills research engineers including Bartholomew. One glowing grey mass with a vapor trail dived for 10-15 seconds, levelled out and the trail stopped, leaving the grey mass visible. Total of 40 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Source ID: BerlinerBBU_325 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5806 (C9305323) Date: 10/16/1953 Description: Harvard astronomer [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) writes to USAF Director of Intelligence Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) that he would like to meet with ATIC officers in Washington, D.C. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 278](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/278/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2300 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5807 (E37764BF) Date: 10/16/1953 Description: 4:00–4:30 p.m. Emerson “Slim” F. Morris watches a large, cigar-shaped object as it approaches Brigantine, New Jersey, from over the Atlantic. It releases several smaller objects from both ends. The smaller discs are white, rotating counterclockwise, and rapidly speed away. Before the large object disappears, it emits a blinding ray of light toward the ground that hurts Morris’s eyes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_2301 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5808 (F94CFD95) Date: 10/16/1953 Description: (McDonald list) 25 Targets on GCA Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [531016](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/531016presqudir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Presque Isle, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_1585 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5809 (D2865EF8) Date: 10/16/1953 Time: 10 PM Description: Witness: USAF Capt. H.W. Watson, Maj. G. Watson. Two white or blue lights in trail formation, travelled very fast straight and level, then made a turn. Ten second sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Nicosia, Cyprus Source ID: BerlinerBBU_326 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5810 (E59AE318) Date: 10/18/1953 Description: Fletcher/Lemon Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: English Channel, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1586 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5811 (4709FF25) Date: 10/19/1953 Description: 12:10 a.m. Capt. J. L. Kidd is flying an American Airlines DC-6 between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., when over the Conowingo Dam, Maryland, his copilot sees something gleaming in the moonlight dead ahead and closing rapidly. Kidd blinks on his landing lights and the UFO beams back a blinding light back at the DC-6. Kidd puts the plane into a steep dive. Caught unaware, the passengers are tossed about the cabin, many suffering injuries. Kidd radios Washington National Airport \[now Ronald Reagan International Airport\] to report a near collision and complain about air traffic. Air traffic control reports no known aircraft in his vicinity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 60–61; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953, August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1990, pp. 34, 38; Good Above, [p. 282](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/282/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2302 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5812 (8873652B) Date: 10/19/1953 Time: 9:35 PM Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. Rommanis, T/Sgt. Osiecki, two others. One white white sphere with a white or red tail, ascended at 20 degree angle, performed a loop and returned. Fifty second sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: BerlinerBBU_327 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5813 (CE294298) Date: 10/19/1953 Description: A near collision occurred between a UFO and an American Airlines DC-6 airliner at 12:10 a.m. over the Conowingo Dam near Baltimore, Maryland. The UFO, a dark mass with a blindingly bright white beam of light, was about the same size as the aircraft. Passengers were injured in the avoidance maneuver. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 67 Source ID: Johnson_6965 Source: Johnson ### Event 5814 (59338999) Date: 10/20/1953 Description: The NSA Robertson Committee report is completed and classified top secret. It recommends better and faster use of electronic intelligence in radar activity that might indicate an imminent attack, noting that the Air Force is not cooperating with the Army or Navy on these matters. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 55–56 Source ID: Eberhart_2303 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5815 (56DB8E2C) Date: 10/22/1953 Description: [Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) meets with USAF headquarters personnel \(including Col. [George E. Perry](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/03/16/col-george-perry-dies-taught-math-at-lee-high/b4f4157b-12bd-4762-8631-9c06cca74446/)\) and ATIC at the Pentagon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 279](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/278/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2304 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5816 (610E9F3C) Date: 10/25/1953 Time: 2130 Description: Jim Milligan, 16, was driving through a park when he saw something fall in front of his car and stopped as the object landed in some bushes. He walked toward it, found a craft that looked like two ship hulls, about 3 m long, 2 m wide glued together. When he tried to touch it, the object flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins A 223 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_119 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5817 (7CBF000A) Date: 10/25/1953 Description: 8:15–8:30 p.m. Air Force weather observers at Lubbock, Texas, notice a V formation of 5–7 dull white lights sweep north to south. In three seconds, the formation goes from a point overhead to 3° above the horizon where they disappear. Other groups of two or more lights follow at about 5-minute intervals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953, August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 35–36 Source ID: Eberhart_2305 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5818 (55DEE080) Date: 10/25/1953 Description: At 9:30 p.m. Jim Milligan, age 16, was driving through a park in Santa Fe, New Mexico when he saw something fall in front of his car. He stopped his car when the object landed in some bushes. He walked toward it and found a craft that looked like two ship hulls glued together, about three meters (10 feet) in length. When he tried to touch it the object flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albuquerque Tribune, November 3, 1953; Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 223; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 204 Source ID: Johnson_7109 Source: Johnson ### Event 5819 (2EF5D28A) Date: 10/28/1953 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Omaha (Offutt AFB), NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_1587 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5820 (74CC205B) Date: 10/29/1953 Description: USAF pilot [Frank Kendall Everest Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FKendall%5FEverest%5FJr) reaches 755 mph in a North American F-100 Super Sabre over the Salton Sea, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Frank Kendall Everest Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FKendall%5FEverest%5FJr)” Source ID: Eberhart_2306 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5821 (148712A1) Date: 10/29/1953 Time: 8:30 PM Description: Witnesses: two high school students, including Morrison. One blue object with a flaming trail, and two dark green glowing objects with white and blue-green fringe, flew from south to north with some erratic motions for l hour. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Mapleton, Maine Source ID: BerlinerBBU_328 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5822 (3A1978B1) Date: 10/30/1953 Description: Daytime Bright Object In Vertical Climb Near C-45 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [531030](http://www.nicap.org/531030norton%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norton AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1589 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5823 (81A81A9E) Date: 10/30/1953 Description: Round, silver object circled at low altitude. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1588 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5824 (F1689F70) Date: 10/31/1953 Description: At Logansville, Ohio at 7:30 p.m. a huge, Ferris wheel shaped object with many multicolored lights appeared in the sky. It's apparent size was 30 cm at arms length. It flew rapidly to the west, and turned and shot off to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_7328 Source: Johnson ### Event 5825 (5123EDA1) Date: 11/1953 Description: Mr. Trygve, Mrs. Bufflot and a neighbor saw an object rise from behind a hill, oscillate over a lake, follow their car, and stop ahead of them just above the ground. They stopped, felt "pricklings" until the craft took off vertically. A watch stopped working, and numerous people vouch for the fact that the paint on the car changed from dark beige to bright green. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Mar., 62; FSR 56, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Gjasjoen Bridge, Norway Source ID: Magnonia_120 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5826 (BD58F058) Date: 11/1953 Description: Capt. [Charles A. Hardin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49197803/charles-alton-hardin) takes charge of Project Blue Book. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_2307 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5827 (44824BE4) Date: 11/1953 Description: 6:30 p.m. Trygve Jansen and two other witnesses are driving north on the Gamle Mossevei road at the Gjersjøen bridge, Norway, when they see an object rise from behind a hill, swing out over the lake, and move back to the road, circling and following their car. Suddenly it stops and hovers above the road 30 feet in front of them, emitting a green light. Jansen stops, and all three witnesses experience mild electrical shocks until the object rises and disappears. When he returns home, Jansen’s wife points out that the car’s beige paint has turned a bright green. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Carl Olsen, “[Chased by a Flying Saucer!](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CSep-Oct%2CV%202%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1956\): 16; K. Gösta Rehn, “[Saucer Blocked Road in Norway,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201962%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1962, pp. 1, 3 Source ID: Eberhart_2308 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5828 (44D5C047) Date: 11/2/1953 Description: Changes updated for UFO reporting. New Regulation AFR 200–2A. Type: regulation Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Source ID: Maj2_510 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5829 (DBDB62B9) Date: 11/3/1953 Description: 2:45 p.m. In Lee, southeast London, a solid target is tracked on radar by the 256th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment moving slowly at a distance of 17 miles. Through a telescope it appears to be a circular white object. The target is tracked for 25 minutes by four aircraft technicians, including Sgt. H. Waller, who says it is about 350–450 feet in diameter and definitely not a balloon. The War Office claims the object is a radiosonde balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Tracks UFO](http://www.nicap.org/531103londondir.htm)”; Good Above, [pp. 35–36](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/34/mode/2up); Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), p. 79 Source ID: Eberhart_2310 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5830 (C1F32106) Date: 11/3/1953 Description: A very large, 300-foot diameter disc-shaped object zoomed by a RAF Vampire reconaisance jet from West Malling RAFB, Kent, England at 10:00 a.m. The encounter lasted 30 seconds. Radar returns were picked up from the same or another UFO at 1439 hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 35; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_7423 Source: Johnson ### Event 5831 (DFE54D2D) Date: 11/3/1953 Description: London, England, G,V Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Tracks Huge UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [531103](http://www.nicap.org/531103londondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: London, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1590 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5832 (3EF42F03) Date: 11/3/1953 Description: 10:00 a.m. An RAF NF.10 Vampire pilot \(Flight Lt. Terry S. Johnson\) and navigator \(Flying Officer Geoffrey Smythe\) flying at 30,000 feet near RAF West Malling \[now closed\], Kent, England, see a star-like light far above them. Suddenly it moves toward them at tremendous speed. They see it as circular and emitting a bright light around its periphery. The duration is 30 seconds. Air Minister [George Ward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FWard%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FWard%5Fof%5FWitley) calls it a “balloon”; when author [Desmond Leslie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%5FLeslie) calls him up to suggest this is incorrect, Ward tells him: “I know it wasn’t a balloon. You know it wasn’t a balloon. But until I’ve got a saucer on the ground in Hyde Park and can charge the public sixpence a go to enter, it must be balloons, otherwise the government would fall and I’d lose my job.” It is possible that this object was a Skyhook balloon launched from Holloman AFB in New Mexico on October 27 that failed to drop into the Atlantic after a 12-hour flight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Desmond Leslie, “[Politicians and the UFO,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1963%2CMay-Jun%2CV%209%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1963\): 8–9; Good Above, [pp. 35](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/34/mode/2up), [53](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/52/mode/2up); Good Need, [p. 154](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/154/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 57,](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n95/mode/2up) [62–63](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n101/mode/2up); David Clarke, “The Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_2309 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5833 (B2E0947B) Date: 11/5/1953 Description: President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) issues Executive Order 10501, abolishing the classification of “Restricted.” UFO sightings are unaffected, as meaningful sightings are classified at higher levels. There are now explicit guidelines for the remaining three classification levels to prevent a systematic flood of classified documents coming from the Pentagon and other agencies. The Pentagon responds by creating its own “special access” labels to further insulate classified information from outside influence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Executive Order 10501](https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/eo10501.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2311 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5834 (8B572B35) Date: 11/9/1953 Description: At 11:45 p.m. a large red, cigar-shaped or cylindrical object hovered in the sky over Omaha, Nebraska. Several satellite objects orbited around it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 136; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December Source ID: Johnson_7557 Source: Johnson ### Event 5835 (F4DEF38F) Date: 11/10/1953 Description: A. K. Bender UFO researcher silenced. Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_128 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5836 (A7FCE252) Date: 11/12/1953 Description: At 5 p.m. two silver discs exited a solidary white cloud in the sky, hover over the river bed in Ojai, California and then vanish. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March 1954; Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_7604 Source: Johnson ### Event 5837 (BF882590) Date: 11/13/1953 Description: Miami Herald: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers Type: lecture Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: Maj2_514 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5838 (61A3152A) Date: 11/13/1953 Description: At 7:00 p.m. 2 RAF pilots in Southend, Essex, England saw an orb and a disc in the sky. They noticed that orb the was actually also disc shaped when it banked sideways. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 62 Source ID: Johnson_7625 Source: Johnson ### Event 5839 (7D6BACF2) Date: 11/14/1953 Description: In 1953, two disc-shaped objects bank and fly over New Orleans, Louisiana at 6:10 p.m.On the same date, a photographer using infrared film with a red filter obtained a photo of a disembodied globe of light Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History: 1953, p. 47.) Source: Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, May 1954 Source ID: Johnson_7662 Source: Johnson ### Event 5840 (EB78BC3F) Date: 11/14/1953 Description: UFO flashing various colors observed climbing. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo (near), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1591 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5841 (E7273044) Date: Mid 11/1953 Description: Rumors a saucer and its occupant were in custody at Edwards AFB, originally heard up by ex-Naval aviator and intelligence officer George Williams. Recorded by author Frank Scully in his private notes now at the AHC. Type: private notes Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4) Location: CA Source ID: Maj2_515 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5842 (5DCCFA97) Date: 11/16/1953 Description: At shortly after ten o'clock in the morning a huge silver sphere was seen following some jet aircraft in the San Fernando Valley. In Reseda, California some "angel hair" residue was seen falling to the ground after the UFO flyby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: ed jets. Lockheed investigation. (Sources: Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 49; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 100; Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 227; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 35 Source ID: Johnson_7714 Source: Johnson ### Event 5843 (030074FD) Date: 11/16/1953 Description: A fluffy material streams out of a UFO over the San Fernando Valley, California, and falls to the ground. A reporter who examines it describes it as “dead-white, almost ephemeral in its delicacy and apparently electrically charged.” A similar fall occurs in the same area on February 1, 1954. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 227–228; Clark III 124 Source ID: Eberhart_2312 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5844 (C731A0A4) Date: 11/18/1953 Time: 12:45 PM Description: Witness: R.J. Bassett, a pilot for 31 years. One silver sphere or disc hovered several times during 45 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Manitowoc, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_329 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5845 (7656BA70) Date: 11/19/1953 Description: Bacteriologist [Frank Olson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FOlson) is a leading scientist at the army’s Chemical Corps, Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, Maryland. SOD supplies the CIA with an array of deadly microbes and chemicals that cannot be detected in an autopsy. It also supplies delivery methods for anthrax. The CIA pays SOD $200,000 a year for these services until 1969. Olson is duped into a meeting with MKUltra Director [Sidney Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) at a secluded cabin. Olson has a very bad trip and still hasn’t recovered after several days. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: H. P. Albarelli Jr., [A](https://archive.org/details/terriblemistake00hpal/page/n3/mode/2up) [Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Cold War Experiments](https://archive.org/details/terriblemistake00hpal/page/n3/mode/2up), Trine Day, 2009; Stephen Kinzer, “[The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments,](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/15/cia-fort-detrick-stephen-kinzer-228109/)” Politico Magazine, September 15, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_2313 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5846 (F544BA4E) Date: 11/20/1953 Description: Silver Egg Observed By Navy Unit (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [531120](http://www.nicap.org/531120atlantic%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: 36.55N 76.00 (Atlantic), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1592 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5847 (E52CAA07) Date: 11/20/1953 Description: Australian Minister for Air [William McMahon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FMcMahon) tells Parliament that all UFO reports “are still being investigated closely and recorded as an aid to further research,” but the RAAF’s approach is a bit more ad hoc. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 377 Source ID: Eberhart_2314 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5848 (B4124AAE) Date: 11/22/1953 Description: 10:00 p.m. A man who works in the supply transport office of the RAAF Woomera Rocket Range near Woomera, South Australia, sees a green object like a saucer fly to the north between Woocalla and Birthday Siding. It is emitting blue exhaust. Another man driving the same route around 2:00 a.m. about 50 miles from Woomera sees a bluish-green circular object moving north. It is seen again by another man in the same area around 2:30 a.m. A fourth party sees two orange flares dropping from the sky near Pimba at 3:15 a.m. All of the objects are at an altitude of more than 5,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “[Listing of Reports from Woomera, South](https://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kbwoomera.htm) [Australia,](https://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kbwoomera.htm)” 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_2316 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5849 (F3422759) Date: 11/22/1953 Description: Navy Capt. [Walter Karig](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FKarig)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FKarig) author of the 1947 novel Zotz!, writes “Operation UFO: The Official Truth about Flying Saucers” for The American Weekly newspaper insert. He covers Secretary of the Navy [Kimball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%5FA.%5FKimball)’s 1952 UFO sighting and the ONR saucer probe. He emphasizes the Air Force’s 20% unexplained rate and does not rule out the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Walter Karig, “[Operation UFO:](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93713891/) [The Official Truth about Flying Saucers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93713929/)” American Weekly insert, San Francisco Examiner, November 22, 1953, pp. 4–5; Swords 217 Source ID: Eberhart_2315 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5850 (9710D056) Date: 11/23/1953 Description: Kinross AFB, Michigan, G; UFO Intercept/Missing F-89 Case (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [531123](http://www.nicap.org/531123kinrossdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kinross AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1593 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5851 (1F96B368) Date: 11/23/1953 Description: The famous Kinross Air Force Base disappearance of an F-89 fighter plane occurred on this date. An F-89 was scrambled from Kinross AFB at 6:41 p.m. to pursue a UFO over Lake Michigan and the Upper Pennisula of Michigan. The radar blips of the UFO and the jet merged into one near Soo Locks and Keeneenaw Point, Michigan then the jet disappeared and the UFO flew away. An extensive air search and rescue found no trace of the missing aircraft, with the two airmen named Moncla and Wilson. The radio communication between the pilot and Air Traffic Controllers has never been released. The massive search and recovery effort went on for an extensive period of time, and failed to find any wreckage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sault Ste. Marie Evening News, November 24, 1953; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 670; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 406; UNICAT database, case # 670 Source ID: Johnson_7835 Source: Johnson ### Event 5852 (58A91349) Date: 11/23/1953 Description: Evening. ADC radar detects an unknown object moving at 500 mph over Lake Superior. An F-89C Scorpion interceptor, piloted by Lt. [Felix Moncla Jr.,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FMoncla) with radar observer Lt. [Robert L. Wilson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81072331/robert-l%5F-wilson) in the rear cockpit, is dispatched from Kinross AFB \[now Chippewa County International Airport\], south of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The jet heads toward the target under radar guidance. At 8,000 feet, 160 miles northwest of the Soo Locks, the blips of the F-89 and the UFO merge then fade from the screen. Nothing more is heard from the plane and no trace of it is found. A Pentagon spokesman claims the UFO was an RCAF C-47 that was never closer than 3-4 miles to the F-89, which has crashed for unknown reasons. In 2006, a group of divers claimed to have discovered the F-89 and taken photos on side-scan sonar, but the claim is a hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO Intercept /](http://www.nicap.org/531123kinrossdir.htm) [Missing F-89 Case](http://www.nicap.org/531123kinrossdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 13–23; UFOEv, [pp. 114–115](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=126&skin=2021); Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 106–109; Good Above, [p. 273](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/272/mode/2up); Andrew Griffin, “[Missing! Avoyelles Parish Man’s Disappearance](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90642412/lt-felix-e-moncla-disappeared-after/) [Still a Mystery after 50 Years,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90642479/2nd-half-of-lt-felix-moncla-missing/)” Alexandria \(La.\) Town Talk, July 20, 2003, pp. E1, E3; Clark III 654–656 Source ID: Eberhart_2317 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5853 (9D427B66) Date: 11/24/1953 Description: The British Parliament discusses the November 3 Lee case and others. [Nigel Birch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%5FBirch%2C%5FBaron%5FRhyl), Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, explains the sightings as experimental weather balloons. MP [George Isaacs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FIsaacs) asks, “Will the Minister agree that this story of flying saucers is all ballooney?” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 36](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/36/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2318 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5854 (2EF4B38B) Date: 11/27/1953 Description: Climbing Blue Light Observed From C-47 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [531127](http://www.nicap.org/531127keflavik%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Keflavik AFB, Iceland Source ID: NICAP_DB_1594 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5855 (AF450A8F) Date: 11/28/1953 Description: On this day two men, Pedro Serrate and Francisco Teixeira, were duck hunting on the Baia dos Patos, near the city of Pedras Negras in Maranhao State, Brazil when a disc-shaped UFO hovered over and then alighted on the bay, only 15 feet away from one of them. The dark blue hull was like two “basins” put together; 16 feet long, 8 feet high, and 6 feet wide. Around the perimeter was a three foot rim of transparent glass. It had two curved pipes or tubes that were pouring out water, and behind the hull was a sort of rudder three feet long. Sr. Serrate could see four young human looking men and two young women sitting in a row inside the craft. They all had red hair with pinkish faces, and the women had long hair. All of them wore dark blue uniforms. When then noticed that they were watched, the craft took off at a fantastic speed, and disappeared from sight within seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: O Cruzeiro newspaper, November 13, 1954; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 196; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1953-13 (A0223), citing J. Escobar Faria and Richard Hall Source ID: Johnson_7981 Source: Johnson ### Event 5856 (68861615) Date: 11/28/1953 Description: [Frank Olson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FOlson) is depressed, incoherent, and uncommunicative after his LSD dose nine days earlier. His CIA contacts take him to a “doctor” in New York City, who prescribes him alcohol. He then plunges to his death from the 10th floor window of the Hotel Statler in New York City. The US government calls it a suicide, the Olson family alleges murder because, especially in the aftermath of his LSD experience, he has become a security risk who might divulge state secrets associated with highly classified CIA programs of which he has direct personal knowledge. A few days before his death, Olson quits his position as acting chief of the Special Operations Division at Camp Detrick \[later Fort Detrick\] in Frederick, Maryland, because of a severe moral crisis concerning the nature of his biological weapons research. Among Olson’s concerns are the development of assassination materials used by the CIA. The CIA’s use of biological warfare materials in covert operations, experimentation with biological weapons in populated areas, collaboration with former Nazi scientists under Operation Paperclip, LSD mind-control research, and the use of psychoactive drugs during “terminal” interrogations under a program code-named Project ARTICHOKE. Later forensic evidence conflicts with the official version of events; when Olson’s body is exhumed in 1994, cranial injuries indicate that Olson was knocked unconscious before he exited the window. The medical examiner terms Olson’s death a “homicide.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Ignatieff, “[What Did the C.I.A. Do to His Father?](https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/magazine/cia-what-did-the-cia-do-to-his-father.html)” New York Times Magazine, April 1, 2001, pp. 56– 61; H. P. Albarelli Jr., [A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Cold War Experiments](https://archive.org/details/terriblemistake00hpal/page/n3/mode/2up), Trine Day, 2009; Stephen Kinzer, “[The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/15/cia-fort-detrick-stephen-kinzer-228109/) [Experiments,](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/15/cia-fort-detrick-stephen-kinzer-228109/)” Politico Magazine, September 15, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_2319 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5857 (D3A135A4) Date: 12/1953 Description: Mrs. Orfei heard a knock at the door in the middle of the night and obtained no answer when she asked who it was. When more furious knocks were heard, her Alsatian dog jumped toward the door, but suddenly retreated, trembling as if terrified and retired to a corner. Mrs. Orfei went to an upper door and saw two "indescribable" shadows go away from the house. A while later a big, round object took off 100 m away with a blue-green lightning. The police found broken bushes as evidence of an enormous weight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Oltre il Cielo, Vol. I ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sherbrook, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_121 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5858 (D93C94DE) Date: 12/1953 Description: [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) sets up his Department of Transport observatory at Shirley’s Bay, Ontario. His equipment includes an ionospheric reactor, electronic sound measurement devices, gamma-ray detector, gravimeter, magnetometer, and radio set. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project Magnet \(UFO\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FMagnet%5F%28UFO%29)”; Good Above, [pp. 185–186](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/184/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2320 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5859 (8241B914) Date: 12/1953 Description: Meeting of a private “industrial group” discussing matters that “confront the country” concerning custody of several beings off a saucer. Meeting was to be held at “Muroc Dry Lake” (Edwards AFB), but it was held somewhere else. Type: private notes Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4) Location: CA Source ID: Maj2_516 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5860 (F7D259BF) Date: 12/1953 Description: Australian UFO researcher [Edgar Jarrold](http://theozfiles1.rssing.com/chan-25625913/all%5Fp4.html) is visited four times by a mysterious man who swears him to secrecy. What the visitor tells him amazes him “beyond belief,” but he never publicly reveals who the man is. However, it turns out that the man is Gordon Deller, a minor figure in Australian ufology who has some quaint and original theories about the saucers. He believes that UFOs are piloted by etherians from another dimension. He tells Jarrold this, along with some insights into a geological cataclysm and telepathic communication. [Harold](http://ufoupdateslist.com/1997/oct/m03-020.shtml) [Fulton](http://ufoupdateslist.com/1997/oct/m03-020.shtml)[,](http://ufoupdateslist.com/1997/oct/m03-020.shtml) a ufologist from New Zealand, suspects Deller is a nut. However, Jarrold’s obsession with UFOs leads to the breakup of his family and the disintegration of his personal life by 1955. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 632–633 Source ID: Eberhart_2322 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5861 (6A1DE539) Date: 12/1953 Description: [Noall Bryce Cornwell](https://rr0.org/people/k/KirkwoodGuy/) \(who uses the pseudonyms Mel Noel and Guy Kirkwood\) claims to have been stationed at Lowry AFB \[now Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum\] in Denver, Colorado, and engaged in several dogfight-type maneuvers with UFOs involving gun-camera film. His stories are bogus, and later he runs phony investment scams and becomes a contactee who describes meeting pink-haired, platinum- skinned, fish-eating Martians said to be running a Mars-Earth transportation system. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mel Noel, The Mel Noel Story, Saucerian, 1960; Good Above, [pp. 273–277](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/272/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “[Mel Noel / Guy Kirkwood in the 1960s,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2010/12/mel-noelguy-kirkwood-in-1960s.html)” A Different Perspective, December 20, 2010; Adam Gorightly, “[Mel Noel’s Phony Flying Saucer Trip to the](https://chasingufosblog.com/2020/04/17/mel-noels-phony-flying-saucer-trip-to-the-stars/) [Stars,](https://chasingufosblog.com/2020/04/17/mel-noels-phony-flying-saucer-trip-to-the-stars/)” Chasing UFOs, April 17, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_2321 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5862 (15918595) Date: 12/1/1953 Description: The Air Force announced in Washington it had set up cameras around the country equipped with diffraction gratings to analyze the nature of light from UFOs. Type: public annoucement Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_877 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5863 (FB47EE43) Date: 12/1/1953 Description: On this day in 1953, some gardeners in Strasbourg, France watched a brilliant disc move back and forth in the sky. It shot off to the south at a very high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1953, p. 056 Source ID: Johnson_8100 Source: Johnson ### Event 5864 (834853AA) Date: 12/3/1953 Description: A tiny reddish-brown oval luminous object flying steady (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newark, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1597 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5865 (D1961665) Date: 12/3/1953 Description: (McDonald list) B-25 / (Gnd) Radar/Visual of 700 MPH Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [531203](http://www.nicap.org/531203ntrurodir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Truro, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1595 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5866 (9C44F9D5) Date: 12/3/1953 Description: Silver grey bright light with "skipping" motion (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston (Ellington AFB), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1598 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5867 (2A186AAE) Date: 12/3/1953 Description: (McDonald list) Four Objects Detected on Ground Radar PPI (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [531203](http://www.nicap.org/531203hollomanAFB%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holloman AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1596 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5868 (B9B1E378) Date: 12/3/1953 Description: In 1953 at 6:02 p.m. Eastern Standard Time jets were scrambled from North Truro, Massachusetts in response to a radar bogey. Ground radar showed rapid changes in the UFO’s speed and altitude. At 7:35 p.m. a pulsating orange ovoid object was seen over Bellmore, New York. It made a sudden, ninety-degree turn and shot away at over 1800 miles per hour. Unidentified radar returns were also reported that day at Holloman AFB, New Mexico and Ellington AFB, Texas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, December 1953, cases 2, 3 and 4 Source ID: Johnson_8156 Source: Johnson ### Event 5869 (076D021B) Date: 12/5/1953 Description: Children saw yellow-orange ellipse with 40x telescope (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1599 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5870 (1E569D66) Date: 12/7/1953 Description: Radio Moscow proclaims that saucers are “figments of the imagination of western warmongers.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [p. 156](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/n195/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2324 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5871 (55CC3561) Date: 12/7/1953 Description: 9:30 p.m. Pfc Alfred V. De Bonise and Sgt1C James Conley of the 89th Anti-Aircraft Battalion at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, spot a white object, “shining like a star.” It makes a noise like an artillery shell in flight. It moves erratically and eventually falls out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 280](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/280/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) [History: 1953, August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1990, p. 60 Source ID: Eberhart_2323 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5872 (DA778403) Date: 12/8/1953 Description: CIA Evaluation of the UFO situation: It was pleased to note that the number of sightings had decreased dramatically, due, it believed, to the success of its’ implemented policies. Some sightings still would have “possible scientific intelligence value”. The CIA concluded that the panel’s (name?) recommendations might have been interpreted by saucer believers as “debunking”. Type: report Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Langley, VA Source ID: Maj2_518 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5873 (B8480695) Date: 12/8/1953 Description: The CIA reports that UFO sightings have fallen dramatically in 1953, though there are some of “possible scientific intelligence value.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, [p. 45](https://archive.org/details/ufoconspiracyfir00rand/page/44/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2325 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5874 (903EEC84) Date: 12/9/1953 Description: 3:45 p.m. Charles Huaut sees a luminous, golden, round object poised motionless at a high altitude over Saint-Émilion, Gironde, France. After 10 minutes it noiselessly changes position and assumes the form of several horseshoes enveloped in smoke trails. Then it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[Sightings of](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005516168.pdf) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005516168.pdf)” April 20, 1954, p. 2; ClearIntent, [p. 130](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/130/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2326 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5875 (24BD7627) Date: 12/10/1953 Description: In 1953, two rings of white smoke appeared over Seymour, Indiana. These unusual smoke rings had lights around the perimeter. They seemed to stand in place, then made abrupt turns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953, p. 57 Source ID: Johnson_8293 Source: Johnson ### Event 5876 (B38DECDC) Date: 12/11/1953 Description: At around 1 p.m. a huge white disc-shaped UFO with brilliant beams of light was seen over Marcillat-en-Combraille, Allier department, France. It shot up and away, leaving behind a red crescent-shaped object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_8335 Source: Johnson ### Event 5877 (B48FC296) Date: 12/13/1953 Description: Rocket-like UFO with white lights at both ends observed by Ground Observer Corps. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Central, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1600 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5878 (0A5B1152) Date: 12/14/1953 Description: In 1953 in England at 5 p.m. GMT many city residents saw a dagger-shaped object with many bright colors pass over Exmouth, Devon handle-end first. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 139 Source ID: Johnson_8389 Source: Johnson ### Event 5879 (87900F93) Date: 12/15/1953 Description: 2:37 p.m. While flying a Transair Sweden DC-3 in the vicinity of Hässleholm, Skåne, Sweden, pilot [Ulf](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf%5FChristiernsson) [Christiernsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf%5FChristiernsson) and flight mechanic Olle Johansson encounter an “unorthodox, metallic, symmetric, round object” closing in on their aircraft for about 10 seconds. It passes about 1,970 feet under the DC-3 at an altitude of 7,055 feet. Air Force Gen. [Bengt Nordenskiöld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengt%5FNordenski%C3%B6ld) calls in reports from all relevant Swedish radar stations to identify the object, and the Defence Research Institute spends many hours reconstructing the event. However, the owner of a local perfume company confessed in late December to releasing 300 hydrogen-filled balloons south of Hässleholm as an advertising promotion around 12:30 p.m. that day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 365 Source ID: Eberhart_2327 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5880 (08771224) Date: 12/15/1953 Description: At one o’clock in the morning a terrified growling dog alerted the witness to a presence outside the house in Sherbrooke, Quebec. There was a knock on the door heard next. Checking outside the witness could see a 100-meter wide UFO flying off. Crushed bushes were discovered at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case no. 121 Source ID: Johnson_8404 Source: Johnson ### Event 5881 (7DA5475C) Date: 12/16/1953 Description: The Lockheed UFO Case (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [531216](http://www.nicap.org/531216agoura%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Agoura (Ground site 3 miles WNW of), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1603 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5882 (E9694F55) Date: 12/16/1953 Description: The British Air Ministry sends orders to all RAF stations saying that UFO reports are to be classified “Restricted” and personnel must not communicate any sighting information to unauthorized persons. Reports must be sent to the air intelligence branch DDI \(Tech\) that is now responsible for UFO investigations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 57–60](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n95/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2328 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5883 (D7C6775D) Date: 12/16/1953 Description: 4:58 p.m. Lockheed Skunk Works chief [Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29) and his wife Althea \(near Agoura, California\) and a Lockheed crew \(Rudy Thoren, [Roy Wimmer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18629149/roy-edwin-wimmer), and 3 others\) flying the WV-2 Warning Star aircraft near Long Beach, California, independently of each other observe a black flying-wing \(or ellipse or crescent-shaped\) object about 170–230 feet wide flying at about 15,000 ±2,000 feet altitude to the west, hovering about 30–60 miles away. At 5:04 p.m., after four minutes \(to the Johnsons\) and six minutes \(to WV-2 crew\) the UFO suddenly takes off in a shallow climb accelerating to approximately earth escape velocity \(25,000 mph\) to the west over the Pacific. It disappears in 10–13 seconds \(to WV-2 crew\) or in 90 seconds \(to Johnson using 8x binoculars\) after reaching 90+ miles altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Lockheed UFO Case](http://www.nicap.org/531216agoura%5Fdir.htm)”; Joel Carpenter, “The Lockheed UFO Case, 1953,” IUR 26, no. 3 \(Fall 2001\): 6–9, 33; Joel Carpenter, “[The Lockheed UFO Case,](http://cufos.org/cases/The%5FLockheed%5FUFO%5Fcase.pdf)” 2001; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 206 Source ID: Eberhart_2329 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5884 (F8E087B1) Date: 12/16/1953 Description: Group of lights changing from red to white, each appearing to revolve. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1601 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5885 (1350947A) Date: 12/16/1953 Description: At the test launch of a V-2 rocket at Point Mugu, California many ground observers watched a huge, fast moving white disc fly off toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 64 Source ID: Johnson_8439 Source: Johnson ### Event 5886 (5CE5FCE9) Date: 12/16/1953 Description: (McDonald list) Ground Radar Picks Up Objects (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [531216](http://www.nicap.org/531216meddir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mediterranean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1602 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5887 (7F9890AB) Date: 12/17/1953 Description: After the crew of a Swedish airliner reports a wingless circular UFO over Hässleholm, Sweden, the Swedish Armed Forces orders a full-scale investigation. Capt. [Ulf Christiernsson](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf%5FChristiernsson) says the object is an “entirely unorthodox, metallic, symmetrical, and circular object.” Later reports claim it is a radiosonde balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p.](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=133&skin=2021) [121](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=133&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 206 Source ID: Eberhart_2330 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5888 (63488B3E) Date: 12/17/1953 Description: In Marseilles, France at 6:10 a.m. a huge white disc with a blue fringe flew off toward the southeast at an extremely fast speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 68 Source ID: Johnson_8458 Source: Johnson ### Event 5889 (88243E64) Date: 12/17/1953 Description: (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2838) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hassleholm, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_1604 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5890 (EF03C858) Date: 12/17/1953 Time: 2:37 PM Description: Witness: Capt. Ulf Christiernsson, chief pilot for Transair, flying a DC-3. One shiny metal spherical ellipse, 2,000' below DC-3, flew at approximately 700 m.p.h. for 6-7 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Hasslehom, Sweden Source ID: BerlinerBBU_330 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5891 (9B014B5D) Date: 12/17/1953 Description: A memo from [Todos M. Odarenko](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/08/archives/dr-todos-m-odarenko.html)[,](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/08/archives/dr-todos-m-odarenko.html) chief of the CIA/OSI physics and electronics division, condescendingly reviews the status of various government UFO efforts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Todos M. Odarenko, “[Current Status of](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005515979.pdf) [Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFOB\) Project,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005515979.pdf)” December 17, 1953 Source ID: Eberhart_2331 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5892 (60378F11) Date: 12/17/1953 Description: At 2:37 p.m. transair chief pilot Ulf Christiernsson and airline mechanic Johansson saw a nearly round, slightly elliptical UFO with a metallic shine flying close to the speed of sound in the opposite direction from their aircraft, while they were flying over Hassleholm, Sweden. The object was in sight for ten seconds. This case is a Project Blue Book unknown, but the possibility of the object having been a Russian drone was not fully discarded at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 121; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2838; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; UNICAT, case # 769 citing Project Blue Book Source ID: Johnson_8459 Source: Johnson ### Event 5893 (6168A717) Date: Winter 1953 Description: Salisbury Plain, England: Flight Lt. C.G. Townsend- Withers was flying an experimental Canberra aircraft at 55,000 ft. when he picked up on the new experimental radar an UFO following his plane. The science officer went up to the turret for a visual and spotted a circular craft five miles behind them. They tried to outpace the UFO by accelerating to 225 knots but it kept up with their plane. Townsend-Withers initiated a wide sweeping turn and lost radar contact with the UFO but came into direct visual on a collision course with the UFO. Then the UFO flipped vertically in the air and climbed from 50 to 70 thousand feet, as quickly as you could say it. Description: Round, thin disc with two tail fins at the rear, appearing metallic and enormous. Leaving no vapor trail, wake or detectable sound, it vanished within a couple of seconds up into the blue sky. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Salisbury Plain, England Source ID: Maj2_517 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5894 (93ABBDF7) Date: 12/23/1953 Description: 4 yellowish-white oval objects in trail formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bismarck, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_1605 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5895 (37A21C18) Date: 12/23/1953 Description: USAF Intelligence Col. [George E. Perry](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/03/16/col-george-perry-dies-taught-math-at-lee-high/b4f4157b-12bd-4762-8631-9c06cca74446/) writes to Gen. [Woodbury M. Burgess](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess) ADC Deputy for Intelligence at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, recommending that when the 4602nd investigates a UFO sighting and it is not a conventional object, personnel should state “The information on this sighting will be analyzed by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Dayton, Ohio,” and leave it at that. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Col. George E. Perry, [Letter to Brig. Gen. W. M. Burgess](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/foia20.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/foia20.htm) December 23, 1953 Source ID: Eberhart_2332 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5896 (5D47B6E6) Date: 12/24/1953 Time: 8:04 AM Description: Witnesses: U.S. Navy Lts. J.B. Howard and L.D. Linhard, flying F9F-2 jet fighters. Ten silver, oval objects flew at more than 400 kts. (450 m.p.h.), straight and level, for 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: El Cajon, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_331 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5897 (17868029) Date: 12/24/1953 Description: 2 oval extremely brilliant silver objects with mirror-like reflections (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Scott AFB, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1607 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5898 (1F73A5AB) Date: 12/24/1953 Description: Navy Lts. Encounter 10 Oval Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2840) Reference: NICAP: [531224](http://www.nicap.org/531224elcajon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Cajon, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1606 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5899 (5EFB7B82) Date: 12/24/1953 Description: Ten silverly oval-shaped objects were sighted flying horizontally over El Cajon, California at 8:04 a.m. Two Navy F-9F Panther jets attempted to catch up with them but failed. The UFOs were flying at 50,000' altitude at a speed in excess of 400 knots. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #2840; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 71; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 184 Source ID: Johnson_8585 Source: Johnson ### Event 5900 (ED3C1074) Date: 12/24/1953 Description: 8:04 a.m. US Navy Lts. J. B. Howard and L. D. Linhard, flying F9F-2 jet fighters, see 10 silver oval objects flying in formation at 450+ mph, straight and level, over El Cajon, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Navy Lts.](http://www.nicap.org/531224elcajon%5Fdir.htm) [Encounter 10 Oval Objects](http://www.nicap.org/531224elcajon%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 206 Source ID: Eberhart_2333 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5901 (7D3574D6) Date: 12/26/1953 Description: A kite-shaped or diamond-shaped object turned towards a T-6 aircraft flying over Grid Area CS in Korea at 4:25 p.m. It was orange in color and seemed translucent, with what appeared to be sparks extending a short distance behind it The object was estimated to be six feet long and a foot and a half in thickness. The military pilot got to within 600 and 800 feet distance from it. The duration of the sighting was five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_8611 Source: Johnson ### Event 5902 (A966549C) Date: 12/26/1953 Description: The first of a series of articles in the Washington \(D.C.\) Times-Herald by Richard Reilly questions the Air Force’s openness about UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan, [p. 145](https://archive.org/details/ufosnationalsecu00dola/page/145/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2334 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5903 (A81C2A7F) Date: 12/26/1953 Description: T-6 Encounters Strange Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [531226](http://www.nicap.org/531226nkorea%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: CS 4859 (Mil Grid), Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1608 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5904 (4AC61F8C) Date: 12/28/1953 Description: Saucer with a brilliant blue light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2844) Reference: NICAP: [531228](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/531228marysvilledir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marysville, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1609 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5905 (EAD05A9B) Date: 12/28/1953 Time: 11:55 AM Description: Witness: Yuba County Airport Manager Dick Brandt. One saucer, with a brilliant blue light, reflecting on a nearby building, hovered briefly during the 1.5 minute observation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Marysville, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_332 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5906 (A644A67C) Date: 12/29/1953 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) has a confrontation with [Delos Smith](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/06/02/79859540.html?pageNumber=34), the science editor of the United Press wire service, and a UP executive editor. Smith is preparing a three-part series debunking Keyhoe’s claims because a “certain Air Force general swears your book is a complete fraud.” Forewarned by [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29), Keyhoe counters his arguments with documentation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 85–88 Source ID: Eberhart_2335 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5907 (3F92541A) Date: 12/30/1953 Description: 9:05 p.m. Pfc Norman Viet, on guard duty at the tank park in Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, watches a blinking red light about 18 inches in diameter moving slowly over a tree line about 200 feet away. It soon drops down out of sight. Fifteen minutes later it is seen again, rising up and floating toward the tank shed. Viet says it is completely soundless. At 10:15 p.m. it returns, also witnessed by Sgt. Francis R. Salinder, who alerts the base and a combat team searches the area. At midnight, a red light appears above the search area, spooking a guard. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [p. 202](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/202/mode/2up); Washington \(D.C.\) Daily News, January 5, 1954; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1953, August–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1953-Aug-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 75 Source ID: Eberhart_2336 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5908 (170421B9) Date: 12/30/1953 Description: On this day in Johannesburg, South Africa a disc-shaped object followed a car on a road into an outlying town. On the same day a blue disc-shaped object flew over Bentwaters RAF Airbase in Suffolk County, England. It made crackling sounds, flashed and hissed as it went over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 3236 & # 3237, citing Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, pp. 136 & 65 Source ID: Johnson_8650 Source: Johnson ### Event 5909 (3CE9813B) Date: 12/31/1953 Description: Two marines at the Quantico Marine Corps base in Virginia observed the landing of a round UFO that throbbed and pulsated, emitting red lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 210; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 122 Source ID: Johnson_8665 Source: Johnson ### Event 5910 (24897B21) Date: 12/31/1953 Description: Marines observed the landing of an unknown round object which throbbed and pulsated, emitting red lights. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins U 210 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Quantico Marine Base, Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_122 Source: ValléeMagnonia --- ## Year: 1954 (Back to Top) ### Event 5911 (52D1BCF3) Date: 1954 Description: US Satellite Program: “The U.S. Earth satellite program began in 1954 as a joint U.S. Army and U.S. Navy proposal, called Project Orbiter, to put a scientific satellite into orbit during the International Geophysical Year. The proposal, using a military Redstone missile, was rejected in 1955 by the Eisenhower administration in favor of the Navy’s Project Vanguard, using a booster advertised as more civilian in nature. Following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957, the initial Project Orbiter program was revived as the Explorer program to catch up with the Soviet Union.” Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_519 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5912 (0BC1FE75) Date: 1954 Description: Project SIGMA established as part of Project xxxx (name CENSURED). Top Secret project that looked into how to communicate with aliens. That projects existence was revealed in the PROJECT AQUARIUS Briefing Document and is said to have succeeded in 1964 when a USAF intelligence officer met two other aliens at a prearranged location in a desert in New Mexico. Became a separate project in 1976. Type: majestic document Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, SIGMA) Location: US Attributes: Majestic Source ID: Maj2_520 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5913 (8F08420C) Date: 1954 Description: Contactee [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel) begins building the Integratron at Giant Rock, California, based on the rejuvenation techniques imparted to him by space aliens from Venus. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Integratron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integratron)”; Jody Rosen, “[Welcome to the Integratron,](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/20/style/tmagazine/welcome-to-the-integratron.html)” New York Times Magazine, August 20, 2014; Lesla Miller Schnur, “[G. W. Van](https://thehauntedlibrarian.com/tag/dorris-andre-van-tassel/) [Tassel’s Integratron,](https://thehauntedlibrarian.com/tag/dorris-andre-van-tassel/)” The Haunted Librarian, August 27, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_2338 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5914 (7B04FB5D) Date: 1954 Description: A promotional photo of a Martin B-57 Canberra bomber taken near Edwards Air Force Base in California shows a saucer-like object in the upper right portion of the frame. No one actually reports seeing the object, which seems to be trailing the B-57 in flight. NICAP photoanalyst Ralph Rankow points out that the object has dimension, does not appear to be a scratch or rub on the film, and has a pattern of light and shadow consistent with the rest of the photo. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [pp. 36–37](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/36/mode/2up); Robert A. Schmidt, “[The Strange Case of the B-57 Photographs,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201971%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 6 \(August 1971\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_2340 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5915 (9D499D7B) Date: 1954 End date: 1964 Description: USAF Investigation Summary: Evidence again challenged as "proof," this time by panel of scientists. Conflicting versions of whether expanded investigation was recommended (and adopted) to obtain more data. Public relations program adopted to assure public UFOs posed no danger, or threat to national security. Type: investigation Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_899 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5916 (677040CA) Date: 1954 Description: The powerful Type 80 centimetric radars introduced in the UK this year are plagued by radar “angels” that become a hazard for air traffic controllers. A Fighter Command investigation concludes that most of them are caused by migrating seabirds, and others are the result of “anomalous propagation.” Later computers filter out smaller echoes and increase the strength of those created by aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke, “Gremlins and Black Projects,” Fortean Times 291 \(August 2012\): 26–27 Source ID: Eberhart_2341 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5917 (DEEE55B6) Date: 1954 Description: After RCAF pilots fail to intercept several UFOs in Canadian air space, the Defence Research Board sets up a restricted landing field near the Suffield Experimental Station \[now CFB Suffield\], Alberta. All RCAF planes and commercial aircraft are restricted from the area. However, the effort is abandoned after the government determines that UFOs are not a national security risk. The project is kept secret until July 1967 when it is revealed by Defence Minister [Paul Hellyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FHellyer). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Landing Site was 13-Year Secret,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102277109/the-ottawa-journal/)” Ottawa \(Ont.\) Journal, July 20, 1967, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_2342 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5918 (B375FB62) Date: 1954 Description: An official in the UK Deputy Directorate of Intelligence \(Technical\) mentions to investigator Ronald N. Russell that the DDI has 15,000 reports on file since 1947 stored in nine drawers in three wooden filing cabinets with Yale locks, doubly secured by a hinged plate locked with a large padlock. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Pitt, “[‘Tell Us Please, Mr.](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CSep-Oct%2CV%202%2CN%205.pdf) [Birch,’](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CSep-Oct%2CV%202%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1956\): 10–13; Good Above, [p. 33](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/32/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2339 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5919 (0AA0AEFB) Date: 1954 Description: Air Force Lt. Colonel saw two maneuvering UFOs. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dayton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1611 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5920 (BD3821A8) Date: 1954 Description: August or September 1954; White Plains, New York, G,A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Plains, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1610 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5921 (4C6D2E56) Date: 1954 Description: [Jim and Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) move from Wisconsin to Alamogordo, New Mexico, to work as civilian employees at Holloman AFB. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 50 Source ID: Eberhart_2337 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5922 (BDCB401D) Date: 1/1954 Description: Radio commentator Frank Edwards states that the US government has an “object” under examination in California. Type: radio Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4) Location: California Source ID: Maj2_521 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5923 (D4DCE3CC) Date: 1/1954 Description: Giant UFO Over Baltimore and Washington. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_129 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5924 (E60914A5) Date: 1/1954 Description: 5:00 a.m. A strange object streaks across the sky over Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia, seen and heard by four Native Australians. On the same day, an anonymous photographer is taking photos of Mount Gillen, Northern Territory, when suddenly an enormous \(150 feet\) round object appears from behind it. It moves high, then drops low. He takes a photo, then it shoots off at high speed to the west. The photo, reproduced in the newspaper, shows a dubious-looking round object on edge with six spokes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alice Springs Centralian Advocate, January 15, 1954; Alice Springs Centralian Advocate, February 5, 1954; Keith Basterfield, “[Cold Case: The](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/cold-case-mount-gillen-photograph-alice.html) [Mount Gillen Photograph, Alice Springs, 1954,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/cold-case-mount-gillen-photograph-alice.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena–Scientific Research, January 12, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_2344 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5925 (39226BED) Date: 1/1954 Description: [Ed J. Sullivan](https://obscurantist.com/oma/csi-la/)‘s Civilian Saucer Investigation Los Angeles disbands. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[CSI Conclusions,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/CSI%20Quarterly/CSI%20Quarterly%20-%201954%20Winter.pdf)” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4 \(Winter 1954\): 7–9 Source ID: Eberhart_2343 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5926 (0FA05C48) Date: 1/1/1954 Description: Airline pilot saw huge, apparently metallic, elliptical UFO. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_1612 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5927 (631BA5F9) Date: 1/1/1954 End date: 1/2/1954 Description: 10:35 p.m.–12:05 a.m. Navy pilot Lt. JG George G. Morgan of Naval Air Station Lakehurst \[now Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst\], Toms River, New Jersey, police chief [Richard Clement](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78778369/richard-d-clement), police officer [Oliver G.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79222140/oliver-g-osborne) [Osborne](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79222140/oliver-g-osborne), and other witnesses see 3–12 round white objects with fuzzy edges slightly smaller than the full moon hovering in the south for 90 minutes as 2 objects circled around another one. They then switch places. Some witnesses attempt to drive toward the objects to investigate. The objects suddenly depart to the southwest at extremely high speed, growing smaller until they disappear in 1–2 seconds. Multiple independent witnesses across a baseline of at least 12 miles allow for triangulation that locates the objects near Beach Haven, New Jersey, from distances of 15–40 miles. At least five witnesses use binoculars. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) calculates a departure speed of 90,000 mph, a hovering altitude of 4 miles, and a diameter of 1,500 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Multiple-Witness Sightings](http://www.nicap.org/540101tomsriver%5Fdir.htm) [Triangulate Location](http://www.nicap.org/540101tomsriver%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 207; Swords 223–224 Source ID: Eberhart_2346 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5928 (72942A51) Date: 1/1/1954 Description: Multiple-Witness Sightings Triangulate Location (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540101](http://www.nicap.org/540101tomsriver%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toms River, Marlton, Woodbury, and Surf City, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1613 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5929 (5DC206CD) Date: 1/1/1954 Description: 10:15 a.m. Capt. Douglas Barker, a pilot with Australian National Airways, is at his home in Doncaster East, Melbourne, Victoria. He sees a “metallic, mushroom-shaped object” flying over the Yarra River valley toward the Templestowe brickworks in the northwest. He estimates it is traveling at 700 mph at a height of 2,000 feet. Its apparent size is four times that of a DC-4 aircraft. It is oscillating rapidly in and out of thick cloud. It is elliptical with a “long shaft about the same length as its body hanging below it.” Total duration of the sighting is 12 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Mushroom Flying over Yarra Valley](http://www.nicap.org/540101australia%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2345 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5930 (2CB688A3) Date: 1/4/1954 Description: Shortly after 9:00 p.m. A round luminous machine, coming from the south, lands at the Marignane Airfield \[now Marseille Provence Airport\], Bouches-du-Rhône, France. There is only one witness present, a fireman at the airport named Chesneau. The machine disappears while he is telephoning the control tower. Careful scrutiny of the runway the next morning turns up a few pieces of metallic debris. The story is confirmed by a Marseille resident who is driving from Arles to Marseille and sees a large, round, reddish fireball, but places the time at 10:45 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jimmy Guieu, Les soucoupes volantes viennent d’un autre monde, Fleuve Noir, 1954; ClearIntent, [p.](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/132/mode/2up) [132](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/132/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/4jan1954marignane.htm)” March 15, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2347 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5931 (3DE3AC95) Date: 1/4/1954 Description: 9:00 p.m. Shortly after, a round luminous machine, coming from the South, landed at the Marignane airfield in Bouches-du-Rhone Department. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marignane Airfield, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1615 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5932 (1C4F407C) Date: 1/4/1954 Description: Red revolving or blinking lights, hovering and moving soundlessly at tree-top height reportedly seen for six nights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Quantico, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1614 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5933 (42F40FEC) Date: 1/4/1954 Description: Mr. Chesneau, a fireman at the Marignane Airport in France, saw a round luminous object slowly coming down and called the control tower to report it. When he came out again, the object had disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jimmy Guieu, Les SV Viennent d'un Autre Monde; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 205 Source ID: Johnson_82 Source: Johnson ### Event 5934 (DF7BE0C9) Date: 1/4/1954 Time: 2100 Description: Mr. Chesneau, fireman, saw a round luminous object slowly coming down and called the control tower to report it. When he came out again, the object had disappeared. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Guieu ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Marignane Airport, France Source ID: Magnonia_123 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5935 (472AA386) Date: 1/5/1954 Description: Three separate observers in Murchison, Texas witnessed a bright silver, saucer-shaped UFO that hovered for 3 minutes. It was gone in seconds. It was also seen in Tyler, Texas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3179; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_111 Source: Johnson ### Event 5936 (677D58F7) Date: 1/5/1954 Description: In Tooma, New South Wales, Australia three bright orbs moved very fast through the sky to the west at noon, orbited one another, then turned to the south in a line. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_108 Source: Johnson ### Event 5937 (6D1FDC1C) Date: 1/5/1954 Description: A red circular object landed and took off at night in San Sebastian, Spain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3178; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 104 Source ID: Johnson_109 Source: Johnson ### Event 5938 (A7759C47) Date: 1/5/1954 Description: Mr. Chesneau, a fireman, saw a round luminous object slowly descend toward the Marignane Airport, France at 9:00 p.m. He went inside and called the control tower to report it. When he came outside again, the object had gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 123, citing Jimmy Guieu Source ID: Johnson_110 Source: Johnson ### Event 5939 (AF7898AE) Date: 1/6/1954 Description: Reporters seeking information on UFOs were banned from Wright-Patterson AFB. [Cleveland Press] Type: historical event Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: Wright-Patterson AFB Source ID: Maj2_878 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5940 (083414E1) Date: 1/6/1954 Description: The Cleveland Press runs the headline “Brass Curtain Hides Flying Saucers” and reveals that ATIC will no longer allow reporters seeking UFO information into Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Its reporter is given the runaround on the Utah film. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Air Force Closes Brass Curtain,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93761020/)” Knoxville \(Tenn.\) News-Sentinel, January 14, 1954, p. 3; UFOEv, [p. 134](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=146&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2348 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5941 (9A6073E2) Date: 1/7/1954 Description: 4:27 a.m. A fiery disk, followed by a luminous trail, was sighted in Arras, Pas-deCalais department (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arras, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1616 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5942 (025031AE) Date: 1/7/1954 Description: 4:27 a.m. A fiery disk, followed by a luminous trail, is seen in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. The disc remains motionless in the sky for an instant, after which it flies away and disappears over the horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 133](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/132/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/7jan1954arras.htm)” December 4, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_2349 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5943 (BA15A3EA) Date: 1/9/1954 Description: 6:00 a.m. Three residents of Meurthe-et-Moselle Department claim to have seen a round object flying from North to South (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Luneville, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1617 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5944 (0F08FAF1) Date: 1/9/1954 Description: Three residents of Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, see a round object flying from north to south. The object flies more slowly than a jet plane and leaves a luminous yellow trail. It flies noiselessly, although it appears to be at a low altitude. Several students of the College de Lunéville also see the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 132](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/132/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/9jan1954luneville.htm)” December 28, 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_2350 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5945 (35FEFA10) Date: 1/10/1954 Description: Brilliant white stationary object, stellar magnitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sonoita (5 mi N of), AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1618 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5946 (5981184E) Date: 1/10/1954 Description: 5:25–5:40 p.m. [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald), two other University of Chicago meteorologists, and another passenger are driving on Hwy 83 north of Sonoita, Arizona, when McDonald spots a brilliant white stationary object in the southwest above the Santa Rita Mountains about 10 miles away. They lose sight of it as the car moves on. McDonald searches carefully for alternate explanations, but can find none, so he reports the sighting to the Air Force in a 4-page letter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 695; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 207 Source ID: Eberhart_2351 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5947 (7A5B6482) Date: 1/13/1954 End date: 1/16/1954 Description: Gen. [Woodbury M. Burgess](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49223590/woodbury-m-burgess) chairs a conference at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with 4602nd officers Capt. Joseph A. Cybulski and Capt. Bellovin and emphasizes that it is now the agency responsible to ATIC for investigating UFOs. Cybulski says that “We here in Headquarters will keep a complete file on all the sightings. That’s why we want the information copied. We will file them under separate headings, such as the type of personnel involved, military or civilian, or air-lines. We will record it under the type of object it was eventually determined to be.” Capt. Cybulski leaves for Dayton, Ohio, the next day to coordinate activities more closely. He reports that [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) is “ready to quit” because he is “ridiculed by members of my profession for chasing these imaginary objects.” But Burgess persuades him to stay. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CUFON, “[4602d AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 3 of 7 Parts](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl3.htm)”; Brian Skow and Terry Endres, “The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron and UFOs,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 9–10; Capt. Joseph A. Cybulski, “How the Air Force Investigated UFOs,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 11, 30–32 Source ID: Eberhart_2353 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5948 (A7C27ED0) Date: 1/13/1954 Description: Mutual Radio broadcaster [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29) alleges on his show that the wreckage of a flying saucer is being held in a “West Coast military field.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 330–331 Source ID: Eberhart_2352 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5949 (D22FA6CF) Date: 1/14/1954 Description: (McDonald list) One to three blips on PPI Scope with speeds of 100 to 6,000 mph in 30 mile area. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540114](http://www.nicap.org/540114kellyAFB%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kelly AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1619 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5950 (0CB97CCE) Date: 1/14/1954 Description: Passengers saw a fiery object hit the aircraft wing without any damage (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New York City, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1620 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5951 (0E1A8F74) Date: 1/18/1954 Description: 1:30 p.m. Many people in Saint-Arnaud \[now El Eulma\], Algeria, observe an object that leaves a double trail of white smoke, making an immense circle over the town. Several officers at Bordj de la Remonte fort \(southwest of Magra\) hear the object make a strange sound. It seems to arrive from the north. A meteorological station near Oued Hmimim \(southeast of Constantine\) observes a double trail of smoke at 2:00 p.m., but it concludes that the smoke comes from a plane flying at great altitude. At 2:30 p.m., inhabitants of Sétif see an object arrive from the east, emitting bluish smoke trails and moving relatively slowly. After circling above the town for several seconds, it suddenly heads back in the direction of Saint-Arnaud at great speed. Witnesses describe it as it being cigar-shaped and flying at high altitude. Finally, at 4:45 p.m., a large, luminous, rectangular- shaped object is seen over Ouled Djellal \(125 miles southwest of Sétif\) for over 30 minutes following a rectilinear course. The object comes from the east and disappears toward the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 133](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/132/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2355 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5952 (9C32D9BF) Date: 1/18/1954 Description: 1:30 p.m. Many persons in Saint Arnaud observed an object leaving a double trail of white smoke, describing an immense circle over the town. Several officers at La Remonte Military base nearby even heard a strange sound made by the object which seemed to have come from the north. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Constantine Department, Algeria Source ID: NICAP_DB_1621 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5953 (A5153B5B) Date: 1/18/1954 Description: A cigar-shaped object circled the town of Setif, Algeria at a high altitude. It left a blue smoke trail as it flew off toward Saint Arnaud in the east, where it was also seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 17; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History: 1954: January-May, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_364 Source: Johnson ### Event 5954 (864BC527) Date: 1/18/1954 Description: Cosette Weiss of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is visiting the Kilbourne Hole, a maar volcanic crater in the Potrillo Volcanic Field of southern New Mexico, to collect gemstones with a companion, Mrs. Sanders. They discover 25–30 disc-shaped tracks in the sand. The largest are about 2 feet in diameter, perfectly round, and consist of four concentric rings. They find more fresh tracks on January 22. Sanders reports this to White Sands Proving Grounds. Two Army security agents, Capt. [Ross Orcutt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8773133/ross-dana-orcutt) and CID agent Henry Herman, spend the night of February 6 at the location and report that the tracks are “nothing more than a combination of wind, sand, and roots.” The mystery lights seen in the area by Weiss are labeled “vehicular traffic.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 7, no. 6 \(June 1954\): 109–129; Michael D. Swords, “Fun and Games in the Desert near Las Cruces,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 21 Source ID: Eberhart_2354 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5955 (5CFEA572) Date: 1/24/1954 Description: Author Frank Scully records in his private notes 11/1953 rumors of a saucer and its occupant in custody at Edwards AFB. He also records that an “industrial group” discussing matters that “confront the country” will be meeting at Muroc Dry Lake concerning the custody of several beings off a saucer. Type: private notes Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4) Location: Edwards AFB See also: 11/1953 See also: 12/1953 Source ID: Maj2_522 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5956 (FB967C9D) Date: 1/25/1954 Description: 10:00 p.m. A civilian employee and astronomer, [Robert D. Schaldach](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FD.%5FSchaldach) in the Technical Service Unit at White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico, is setting up his ballistic camera to monitor a missile test. As he looks at the stars to calibrate his instrument, he notices a yellow-white light moving from northeast to southeast in a shallow arc. It pulses in brightness at regular intervals. At the same time, another observer 17 miles to the southeast also sees the object. They perform some triangulation measurements and determine that the object is about 12 miles distant and moving at 12,000 mph. Schaldach says it is not a meteor. Blue Book, no doubt [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) labels it as a meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Fun and Games in the Desert near Las Cruces,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 20–21 Source ID: Eberhart_2357 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5957 (D3F6A5DE) Date: 1/25/1954 Description: The British Air Ministry and the British War Office order airmen and soldiers to tell the public nothing about UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, Citadel, 1954, [p. 318](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersona00wilk/page/317/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2356 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5958 (B12AE93B) Date: 1/27/1954 Description: The US successfully launches a Redstone surface-to-surface missile that flies 55 miles from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[PGM-11 Redstone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-11%5FRedstone)” Source ID: Eberhart_2358 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5959 (6C9B098A) Date: 1/28/1954 Description: Red Fireball Hovers Near C-54 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540128](http://www.nicap.org/540129coldbay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cold Bay, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1622 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5960 (EFE119EC) Date: 1/28/1954 Description: Circular Bright Light Observed by Air & Ground Observers (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [540128](http://www.nicap.org/540128blackstone%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Blackstone, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1623 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5961 (E0DE1AF0) Date: 1/28/1954 Time: 110-10:15 AM Description: Witness: Wilhelm Reich. Two bright lights moved into valley, and were seen against the mountain background, for 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Rangeley, Maine Source ID: BerlinerBBU_333 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 5962 (B0CBAEE4) Date: 1/28/1954 Description: Australian Minister for External Affairs [Richard Casey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FCasey%2C%5FBaron%5FCasey) suggests there is a correlation between UFO sightings and “periods of intense meteorite activity.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 374 Source ID: Eberhart_2359 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5963 (568C0C3A) Date: 1/29/1954 Description: A married couple was driving six miles south of Santa Ana, California in the afternoon when their car radio quit and the engine missed as a disc-shaped UFO passed low over their car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March 1954; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_573 Source: Johnson ### Event 5964 (6F8B6FF2) Date: 1/29/1954 Description: Car radio quit and motor missed as UFO passed low over car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Ana (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1625 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5965 (819A26FC) Date: 1/29/1954 Description: Two bright lights moved into valley (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rangeley, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_1624 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5966 (C69C4F53) Date: 1/29/1954 Description: Afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Whitaker are driving 6 miles south of Santa Ana, California, when they see a round object emitting a blurry light-blue light moving off a hilly field. It passes over their car at an altitude of 25 feet. The radio goes blank and the motor coughs and continues to act roughly after the UFO had gone. Whitaker estimates it is 60 feet in diameter and traveling at 600 mph. It makes a vertical ascent and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_2360 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5967 (0AA050C7) Date: 2/1954 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Forster stated they saw a craft on the ground, with a woman close by. She was wearing luminous clothing, a sort of hood, and thick glasses and held a tube in one hand and a box in the other. Mrs. Forster had to be taken to the hospital in a state of shock. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Barker ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Peakskill, New York Source ID: Magnonia_125 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5968 (9235CD85) Date: 2/1954 Description: Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York is founded by [Ted Bloecher](http://www.noufors.com/Ted%5FBloecher.htm)[,](http://www.noufors.com/Ted%5FBloecher.htm) Isabel Davis, and [Alexander Mebane](https://rr0.org/people/m/MebaneAlexander/). The group holds regular meetings, sponsors lecturers, and begins publishing a CSI Newsletter in February 1955. It disbands in 1959. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Civilian Saucer Intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian%5FSaucer%5FIntelligence)”; [CSI Publication](http://www.cufos.org/CSI%5FNY/CSI%5FNY%5F%2300.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/CSI%5FNY/CSI%5FNY%5F%2300.pdf) no. 0 \(April 23, 1954\); Clark III 241 Source ID: Eberhart_2361 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5969 (82AD2DF6) Date: 2/1954 Description: [Clara John](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70322188/clara-louise-john) begins publishing The Little Listening Post newsletter in Washington, D.C. It continues through August 1965. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Little Listening Post](http://cufos.org/Little%5FListening%5FPost/LLP%5F1954%5F02-04%5FPreVol.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/Little%5FListening%5FPost/LLP%5F1954%5F02-04%5FPreVol.pdf) February 9, 1954 Source ID: Eberhart_2362 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5970 (A05EDABC) Date: 2/1954 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Forster of Peekskill, New York, see a UFO on the ground with a woman close by. She holds a tube in one hand and a box in the other, wears luminous clothing and a hood over part of her head. Mrs. Forster has to be taken to the hospital in a state of shock. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dominick C. Lucchesi, “[They Saw a Saucer Woman,](http://cufos.org/Saucerian/1954%5F09%5F00%5FSaucerian%5FVol-2%232%28W%234%29.pdf)” The Saucerian 2, no. 2 \(September 1954\): 12–17; Vallée, Magonia, [p. 205](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/204/mode/2up); Clark III 267 Source ID: Eberhart_2363 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5971 (799B143B) Date: 2/1954 Description: Newlyweds [Ernest L. Norman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%5FL.%5FNorman) and [Ruth E. Norman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%5FNorman) found a contactee group, the Unarius Academy of Science, in Los Angeles, California. Ernest, a spiritualist medium, wants the group to promote the interdimensional science of life expounded in the books he has written, all of them channeled psychically from extraterrestrial intelligences. Both claim impressive credentials from past lives. Ruth styles herself the Archangel Uriel and after the death of Ernest in 1971, she becomes the public face of Unarius. Before her death in 1993, she predicts a mass landing of flying saucers in 2001 on a piece of scrubland near the Unarius headquarters in El Cajon, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Unarius Academy of Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unarius%5FAcademy%5Fof%5FScience)”; Clark III 1186–1187; Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, [pp. 27–37](https://archive.org/details/inadvanceoflandi00doug/page/26/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2364 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5972 (A4966A10) Date: 2/1954 Description: A native was riding a horse over a low ridge when a spherial object about 13 m in diameter "nearly skittled me off my horse." It went up suddenly with a heavy wind, rumbling and emitting four columns of smoke. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins U 211 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Todd River Downs, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_124 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 5973 (DB7FB0A8) Date: 2/1/1954 Description: Two bright white objects approached a cosmic ray research balloon over Tuscaloosa, Alabama at 2:00 p.m. It was witnessed by several scientists from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and one of them named Baumgartner took some photographs. The first two objects were joined by four others. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 152, citing Loren Gross Source ID: Johnson_651 Source: Johnson ### Event 5974 (5E7625F3) Date: 2/1/1954 Description: Naval Research A/c Encounters 6 Objects Nr Cosmic Ray Balloon (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540201](http://www.nicap.org/540201tuscaloosa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tuscaloosa (35 miles SW of, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1626 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5975 (B4C183DC) Date: 2/1/1954 Description: 10:00 a.m. Mrs. W. J. Daily of La Puente, California, sees a silvery, bright, round object through binoculars. It tilts, revealing a fiery-red bottom. The UFO spins and drifts away with an odd-looking vapor trail. A large amount of cobwebby substance falls on her property. She takes three samples to the Mount Wilson Observatory. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: San Fernando \(Calif.\) Valley Times, February 15, 1954; James C. McNamara, “Angel’s Hair,” Pageant 10 \(November 1954\): 52–56; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf), The Author, 1990, pp. 24–25; Story, [p. 19](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/18/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, no. 1 \(August 2008\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_2365 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5976 (F5894D1E) Date: 2/2/1954 Description: At 7:45 p.m. in Greenwich, Connecticut a low-flying luminous disc-shaped object turned north and followed the local river upstream. It glowed from the inside, and scared the two boys named Morrell and Moshier who observed it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_660 Source: Johnson ### Event 5977 (718A8A56) Date: 2/3/1954 Description: At 11:15 a.m. a rotating top-shaped object, with beams of light streaming from its portholes, was seen by several on board an airliner flying near Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Radio contact with the control tower was interrupted when the plane's radio operator tried to tell the airport about the UFO. The UFO was green with a red strip in middle, and descended very rapidly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 34; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 65 Source ID: Johnson_675 Source: Johnson ### Event 5978 (5DDED95F) Date: 2/4/1954 Description: (Shough) Radar/Visual With Two Radars (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540204](http://www.nicap.org/540204carswell%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Worth (Carswell AFB), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1627 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5979 (7DB26A23) Date: 2/4/1954 Description: 11:00 p.m. A target is detected by the Carswell AFB \[now Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth\] Ground Control Approach radar, near Fort Worth, Texas, at a distance of 13–15 miles to the southwest. A “mystery aircraft” passes over Carswell tower at just over 3,000 feet. Seen through binoculars, the UFO has a long fuselage, elliptical wings, some kind of stabilizer, a bright light on its nose and tail, two yellowish lights on the bottom, and possible lights on each wing tip. It is silent. The report is sent directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA, and NSA. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Radar/Visual with Two Radars](http://www.nicap.org/540204carswell%5Fdir.htm)”; Good Above, [pp. 281–282](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/280/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/280/mode/2up) [495–496](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/494/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 208 Source ID: Eberhart_2366 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5980 (508C70B2) Date: 2/4/1954 Description: At 5:29 p.m. four air traffic controllers at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth, Texas sighted and tracked on radar a huge cigar-shaped object that flew without making any noise at 4,000 feet altitude. Separate blips on the radar screen parted and rejoined. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 281 Source ID: Johnson_687 Source: Johnson ### Event 5981 (BCC16D3C) Date: 2/6/1954 Description: CONFIDENTIAL Air Force Staff Message: (DTG 061800Z) From Commander 19, A-Division, Carswell AFB, TX: UFO sighted over base. Had long fuselage, elliptical wings, stabilizer and no visible means of propulsion. It was larger than a B-36, had no tail, left no trail of exhaust and emitted no sound. Passed directly over tower at an Alt. of 3000 to 4000 ft. and was visible to all persons on duty. The UFO, when viewed on 10 mile scope gave a return of 1 inch. Copy of this report sent to: CSAF, WASH DC; COMDR ADC, ENT AFB, COLO; COMDR ATINTEL, CRT WPAFB, OHIO; COMDR 8TH AF, CARSWELL AFB, TEX. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p495) Location: Carswell AFB, TX Source ID: Maj2_523 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5982 (B3C203D3) Date: 2/13/1954 Description: Astronomer [Clyde Tombaugh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%5FTombaugh) gives a talk to the Astronomical Society of Las Cruces, New Mexico. He predicts an increase in UFO sightings and tells the audience to keep its eyes open and be ready to report sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 99 Source ID: Eberhart_2368 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5983 (28DACD29) Date: 2/13/1954 Description: [Jim G. Lucas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%5FG.%5FLucas) of Scripps-Howard papers reports that representatives of major US airlines will meet in Los Angeles with Military Air Transport Service intelligence officers to discuss speeding up UFO reporting procedures. “Airline pilots are asked not to discuss their sightings publicly or give them to newspapers.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Airline](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93779227/) [Pilots Sighting](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93779227/) [5–10 ‘Saucers’ Nightly,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93779340/)” Pittsburgh \(Pa.\) Press, February 13, 1954, pp. 1, 3; UFOEv, [p. 134](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=146&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2367 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5984 (E054DEC6) Date: 2/15/1954 Description: Radar tracked high speed unidentified target the size of 2 normal aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [540215](http://www.nicap.org/540215savannah%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Savannah River AEC (near), SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1628 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5985 (8B123DD8) Date: 2/15/1954 Description: Morning. [Stephen Darbishire](https://www.beckstonesartgallery.co.uk/index.php/artists/stephen-darbishire.html), 13, and his cousin Adrian Meyer, 8, set off for an expedition to the Old Man of Coniston, a fell in the Lake District, England, armed with a Kodak box camera. Meyer notices an object above Dow Crag with a silvery, glassy appearance, shining like aluminum. It glides toward them and approaches within 400 yards, travelling at tremendous speed, and then stops suddenly and hovers noiselessly, in the sky. Darbishire takes two photos, which resemble those of scoutships taken by [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) in the US. A probable hoax, although Darbishire still refuses to say anything explicit about the photos, which no longer exist. \(Clark III 42; Leonard G. Cramp, Space, Gravity, and the Flying Saucer, British Book Centre, 1955; Good Above, [p. 377](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/376/mode/2up); David Clarke and Andy Roberts, “[UFO Hoaxing and the Story of Stephen Darbishire,](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2013/12/darbishire.html)” Magonia, no. 75 Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: July 2001 Source ID: Eberhart_2371 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5986 (88F0A0B9) Date: 2/15/1954 Description: Aviation Week publishes an article describing new Soviet jet bombers capable of carrying a nuclear bomb to the US. The aircraft is the Myasishchev M-4 Bison. The rumors are soon debated publicly in the press and Congress. The Air Force begins promoting its unfounded myth of a bomber gap, in which the Soviet Union has 500 bombers capable of delivering nuclear weapons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Myasishchev M-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myasishchev%5FM-4)”; David A. Anderton, “[Pictures Reveal Reds’ New ‘Sunday Punch,’](https://archive.aviationweek.com/issue/19540215)” Aviation Week, February 15, 1954, pp. 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_2370 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5987 (2D1396AD) Date: 2/15/1954 Description: American syndicated columnist [Dorothy Kilgallen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%5FKilgallen) writes: “Flying saucers are regarded as of such vital importance that they will be the subject of a special hush-hush meeting of world military heads next summer.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dorothy Kilgallen, [“Voice of Broadway” column,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93779981/) Dover \(Ohio\) Daily Reporter, February 15, 1954, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_2369 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5988 (A9910EB1) Date: 2/15/1954 Description: Two small boys see and take pic of UFO near Coniston, England. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Coniston, England Attributes: ufo photo Source ID: Maj2_131 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5989 (A521F6DB) Date: 2/17/1954 Description: Commercial airline representatives meet with Military Air Transport Service officers at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and are told that pilots are subject to JANAP 146 \(CIRVIS\) and must radio reports to the nearest airport and make no public statements or face a prison term of 10 years and/or a fine of $10,000. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 146](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/146/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/146/mode/2up) [283](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/282/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2372 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5990 (E8C9FC9B) Date: 2/18/1954 Description: On the same day as Cedric Allingham alleged UFO contact UFO sightings were reported in southern California. In Los Angeles an astronomer reported sighting a huge ellipsoidal object that was first seen flying toward the west, but made an instant turn to the north at an estimated speed of 1200 mph. At the same time a retired U.S. Air Force pilot sighted a flying disc in Van Nuys that made incredible maneuvers but no sound. It flew off toward the west as a second disc circled. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History, 1954: January-May, p. 39; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3288 Source ID: Johnson_978 Source: Johnson ### Event 5991 (6F2399E7) Date: 2/18/1954 Description: At 3:30 p.m. while walking along the coast near Lossiemouth, Scotland UFO contactee Cedric Allingham heard a swishing sound and looked up. He saw a flying saucer that through binoculars looked only slightly different from the one reported by UFO contactee George Adamski. Three hours later he heard and saw it again as it came in for a landing only 50 yards away. "The whole metallic body seemed to glow faintly," but was not translucent. The disc was 50 feet wide and 20 feet high and looked like polished aluminum. A six-foot-tall man with a deep tan and a high forehead got out. His garment covered him from the neck down and he wore no shoes. In each nostril was a tiny tube. When Allingham drew a sketch of planetary orbits, he nodded when Mars was pointed out, and repeated "Mars." In further exchanges he verified Allingham's suggestions that the Martian canals consisted of a central string of water surrounded by vegetation. Allingham touched and photographed the saucer and also photographed the pilot, from a side rear angle. These photos are reproduced in his book. A slight humming sound marked the take off of the saucer. The interview had lasted ½ hour. Allingham's contact claims are regarded with extreme skepticism by most UFO investigators. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-03, citing Cedric Allingham, Flying Saucers From Mars Source ID: Johnson_977 Source: Johnson ### Event 5992 (A3C79E4D) Date: 2/18/1954 Description: Cedric Allingham meets and takes a picture of a man from Mars and saucer. Type: ce4 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_130 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5993 (F99788BE) Date: 2/19/1954 Description: CIA agent [Morris “Morse” Allen](http://visupview.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-office-of-security-tale-of-sex%5F86.html) simulates the ultimate experiment in hypnosis: the creation of a “Manchurian Candidate,” or programmed assassin. Allen’s victim is a secretary whom he puts into a deep trance and tells to keep sleeping until he orders otherwise. He then hypnotizes a second secretary and tells her that if she cannot wake up her friend, “her rage would be so great that she would not hesitate to ‘kill.’” Allen leaves a pistol nearby, which the secretary has no way of knowing is unloaded. Even though she has earlier expressed a fear of firearms of any kind, she picks up the gun and pulls the trigger on her sleeping friend. After Allen brings the “killer” out of her trance, she has apparent amnesia for the event, denying she could ever shoot anyone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John D. Marks, The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control, Times Books, 1978, [pp. 182–](https://archive.org/details/searchformanchur00john/page/182/mode/2up) [186](https://archive.org/details/searchformanchur00john/page/182/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2373 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5994 (7C498DA6) Date: 2/20/1954 Description: Rumors of President Eisenhower disappearing from reporters at Palm Springs for a secret meeting at Edwards AFB to captured saucers and perhaps have a meeting. One reporter issues and then immediately retracts a wire story that the President was dead. Dentist visit a cover story. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [book link](https://www.amazon.com/President-Eisenhowers-Close-Encounters-Blake-ebook/dp/B08KFM46H3) Location: Edwards AFB, CA See also: 4/2/1954 Source ID: Maj2_524 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5995 (9E2DB84E) Date: 2/20/1954 End date: 2/21/1954 Description: President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) is on a golf vacation at Smoke Tree Ranch in Palm Springs, California, when he breaks the porcelain cap of his “upper left central incisor” and has it repaired by Dr. [Francis A. Purcell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25177579/francis-andrew-purcell). However, the incident is not reported in the press, and rumors start buzzing that he made a secret trip to Edwards Air Force Base to view the remains of aliens who had crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Later stories claim he actually visited with live aliens and conducted a treaty with them. The lack of any dental record from Purcell’s office has fueled the rumors, but Ike’s dental history is thoroughly covered in the November 1995 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Dentistry. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Object’ Studied at Edwards Air Base as ‘Brass Curtain’ Falls around](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Flying%20Saucer%20News-Service%20Research%20Bulletin%20%28Comella%29/Flying%20Saucer%20News-Service%20Research%20Bulletin%20%28Comella%5Fv1%5Fn09%2Bn10%5F1955%5FAug%2BSept.pdf) [Saucer Data,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Flying%20Saucer%20News-Service%20Research%20Bulletin%20%28Comella%29/Flying%20Saucer%20News-Service%20Research%20Bulletin%20%28Comella%5Fv1%5Fn09%2Bn10%5F1955%5FAug%2BSept.pdf)” Flying Saucer News-Service Research Bulletin 1, no. 9 \(August 20, 1955\): 3; Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [pp. 45–48](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/44/mode/2up); Riley Crabb, Flying Saucers and the Coming Space Probes, The Author, 1959; Michael D. Swords, “Tales from the Barker Zone,” IUR 17, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1992\): 4–10; Jerome Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash Claims,” IUR 18, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1993\): 18, 24; James M. Mixson, “[A History of](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9482088/) [Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Oral Health,](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9482088/)” Journal of the History of Dentistry 43, no. 3 \(November 1995\): 93–103; Good Need, [pp. 208–209](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/208/mode/2up); Juan A. Lorenzo Rivas, “[President Eisenhower’s ‘E.T.’ Encounter: What](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201999%20V%2044%20N%203.pdf) [Really](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201999%20V%2044%20N%203.pdf) [Happened at Muroc Base?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201999%20V%2044%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 \(Autumn 1999\): 2–6; Gordon Creighton, “[More on](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201999%20V%2044%20N%203.pdf) [the ‘Muroc’ Story,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201999%20V%2044%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 \(Autumn 1999\): 6–10; Michael E. Salla, “Eisenhower’s 1954 Meeting with Extraterrestrials: The Fiftieth Anniversary of First Contact?” Research Study No. 8, Exopolitics, February 12, 2004; Peter Carlson, “[Ike and the Alien Ambassadors,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/02/19/ike-and-the-alien-ambassadors/4698e544-1dc8-4573-8b8d-2b48d2a6305e/)” Washington Post, February 19, 2004; John Joyce, “[Ike’s Space Alien Encounter,](https://www.nps.gov/eise/learn/news/ike-blog-nov-dec-2011.htm)” The Ike Blog, November 10, 2011; Clark III 330–331 Source ID: Eberhart_2374 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5996 (93E675CE) Date: 2/22/1954 Description: Observers saw 14 discs climb when the fighters approached (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: York, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1629 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 5997 (BB103869) Date: 2/23/1954 Description: Scripps-Howard papers said the Air Force had worked out a plan with commercial airline companies to report sightings quickly. Type: newspaper article Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_879 Source: Maj2 ### Event 5998 (4E212FB0) Date: 2/23/1954 Description: Scripps-Howard papers report that the “nation’s 8,500 commercial airline pilots have been seeing a lot of unusual objects while flying at night, here and overseas.” They confirm that plans for a detailed reporting system were agreed upon at the February 17 meeting in Los Angeles, California, so that the Air Force can investigate quickly. Each airline is to have an “internal security specialist” as a liaison with the military. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Saucers](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93785307/) [Reports System to Be Organized,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93785307/)” Albuquerque \(N.Mex.\) Tribune, February 23, 1954, p. 10; UFOEv, [p. 134](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=146&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2375 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 5999 (7DE8273E) Date: 2/24/1954 Description: Lecturer and engineer Norman S. Bean states that saucers are already in “captivity”, one saucer was or still is in Dayton OH, military is investigating the saucer, saucer people look like humans, after the British atomic bomb tests in Australia saucer reports took off there, claimed Air Force permission to talk. Type: newspaper article Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104864241/flying-saucers-real-thing-engineer-says/) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: Maj2_525 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6000 (E693F56B) Date: 2/26/1954 Description: Silver disc, with a white trail make a loud roar (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2913) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newburyport, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1630 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6001 (5B1B7144) Date: 2/26/1954 Time: 2:30 PM Description: Witnesses: architect R.M. Pierce, marine engineer George Avery and one other person. One silver disc, with a white trail, made a loud roar for 30-60 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Newburyport, Massachusetts Source ID: BerlinerBBU_334 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6002 (9D342FC0) Date: 2/26/1954 Description: Architect R.M. Pierce, Marine Engineer George Avery and one other witness sighted a silver flying disc at 2:30 p.m. in Newburyport, Massachusetts. It had a white trail and made a loud roaring noise for 30-60 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1127 Source: Johnson ### Event 6003 (B0A00203) Date: 3/1954 Time: early Description: Rubem Hellwig again saw a strange machine the next day. He observed a tall, faircomplexioned man and two women, who had light brown skin, long black hair, dark, slanted eyes. All three wore one-piece garments of a fabric resembling suede, with zippers. They told Hellwig that they were scientists, spoke of the natural riches of Brazil, and expressed surprise that he did not run away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 1; Humanoids 33 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Santa Maria, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_127 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6004 (A2098146) Date: 3/1954 Description: Sec. of Air Force Talbott's aircraft paced by UFO over Fresno, CA Type: ufo encounter Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Fresno, CA Source ID: Maj2_132 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6005 (93D90EF3) Date: 3/1954 Description: Cincinnati, Ohio, businessman Thomas B. Eickhoff informs [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) that Flying Saucers from Outer Space was “not submitted to the air force for authentication prior to publication,” although it contains official UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 108 Source ID: Eberhart_2377 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6006 (9CFA1A29) Date: 3/1954 Description: Disc-shaped UFO photographed. (UFOE) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rouen, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1631 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6007 (096E5348) Date: 3/1954 Time: 1700 Description: Rubem Hellwig was driving when he saw a football-shaped machine, the size of a Volkswagen, on the ground. He walked toward it and met two men of slim build, normal height, their faces brownish, wearing no helmets. One was inside the object while the other collected grass samples. They spoke to Hellwig in a strange language, and yet he said he understood they were asking for ammonia. He directed them to a nearby town. The craft vanished silently and instantly with blue and yellow flames. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 1; Humanoids 33 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Santa Maria, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_126 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6008 (B03E5B37) Date: 3/1954? Description: Two Native Australians, employees of Arthur Pope, see a UFO at close range 100 miles south of Alice Springs, Northern Territory. One named Sonny is riding up over a ridge when a spherical object flies directly toward him then veers away. Sonny feels a heavy wind when the UFO passes. Others see the object, which has a glassy appearance, with four trails of smoke coming from each side. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alice Springs Centralian Advocate, April 2, 1954; Keith Basterfield, “[Alice Springs: 1954 Encounter,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2012/02/alice-springs-1954-encounter.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, February 7, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_2376 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6009 (E4B5D885) Date: 3/1/1954 Description: "Castle Bravo" hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, the most powerful nuclear device detonated by the United States at 15mt. Type: atomic Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo) Location: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands Atomic type: aboveground Atomic MT: 15 Source ID: Maj2_526 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6010 (81D8EDA0) Date: 3/1/1954 Description: An article in American Aviation planted by the Air Force attributes the latest wave of sightings to [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s 1953 book Flying Saucers from Outer Space. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Saucers Again,” American Aviation 17 \(March 1, 1954\): 3; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 104; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 49 Source ID: Eberhart_2380 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6011 (7E96F722) Date: 3/1/1954 Description: Morning. Airborne Radar Operator W/O [Olin H. Hasty](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92487387/olin-hallman-hasty) is aboard an RB-36 controller aircraft monitoring the Castle Bravo test at Bikini Atoll. Shortly after the detonation, the RB-36 is flying at 40,000 feet and Hasty picks up two or three unidentified targets operating above 60,000 feet. From the cockpit the pilot and copilot can see the objects, which are flying in holding patterns above the area of the blast. Task force headquarters advises them that the objects are Canberra aircraft flown by the Royal Australian Air Force on air-sampling missions. However, there is only one British Canberra in the area at the time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 110–113 Source ID: Eberhart_2379 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6012 (4E7D90DE) Date: 3/1/1954 Description: Time not given. Numerous bathers at the beaches near Montevideo observed a "flying saucer," a sort of metallic disk emitting yellowish reflections (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montevideo, Uruguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_1632 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6013 (52DA4B36) Date: 3/1/1954 Description: The Castle-Bravo H-Bomb test occurred this day at 6:40 a.m. on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The explosion and energy release was much stronger than expected. Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States (and just under one-third the energy of the most powerful ever detonated), with a yield of 15 megatons of TNT. That yield, far exceeding the expected yield of 4 to 6 megatons, combined with other factors and led to the most significant accidental radiological contamination ever caused by the United States. Radioactive fallout from the detonation—intended to be a secret test—poisoned some of the Bikini islanders on their return, as well as the crew of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5"), a Japanese fishing boat, and created an international incident nearly severing diplomatic relations with Japan. The irony of the name "Lucky Dragon" of the fishing boat was not lost on any of the newspapers reporting the incident at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database; Gerard DeGroot, The Bomb: A Life (London: Jonathan Cape, 2004) Source ID: Johnson_1198 Source: Johnson ### Event 6014 (C9375652) Date: 3/1/1954 Description: 6:45 a.m. Castle Bravo is the most powerful nuclear device detonated by the US and its first lithium deuteride–fueled thermonuclear weapon. The test’s yield is 15 megatons of TNT, 2.5 times the predicted 6.0 megatons \(due to unforeseen additional reactions involving lithium-7\), which leads to the unexpected radioactive contamination of areas to the east of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. At the time, it is the most powerful artificial explosion in history. Fallout, the heaviest of which in the form of pulverized surface coral from the detonation, falls on residents of Rongelap and Utirik atolls, while the more particulate and gaseous fallout spreads around the world. The inhabitants of the islands are not evacuated until three days later and suffer radiation sickness. Twenty-three crew members of the Japanese fishing vessel [Daigo Fukuryū Maru](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo%5FFukury%C5%AB%5FMaru) are also contaminated by the heavy fallout, experiencing acute radiation syndrome. The blast incites international reaction over atmospheric thermonuclear testing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Castle Bravo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle%5FBravo)” Source ID: Eberhart_2378 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6015 (1CE1AF59) Date: 3/1/1954 Description: 2:30 p.m. Employees at Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay, watch a strange oval object above the northeast horizon. It changes shape and ejects a smaller body that moves below and behind. An operator named de Rizzardo in the control tower sees an oval object with protuberances, accompanied by a pair of smaller bodies. Chief Controller Pedro V. Ocamp is still fumbling with binoculars as the objects speed away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 45 Source ID: Eberhart_2382 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6016 (EEC1B488) Date: 3/1/1954 Description: Numerous bathers at the beaches near Montevideo, Uruguay, observe a metallic disc emitting yellowish reflections. It remains stationary for 2 minutes at an altitude of several thousand feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 133](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/132/mode/2up); Lorenzen, The Whole Story, Signet, 1969; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf), The Author, 1990, p. 45 Source ID: Eberhart_2381 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6017 (D2ED12B2) Date: 3/1/1954 Description: Three daylight discs were spotted over Carrasco Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay at 2:30 p.m. They were swinging back and forth in a falling leaf motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 55; Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_1199 Source: Johnson ### Event 6018 (71882F16) Date: 3/2/1954 Description: Saw 3 objects, each with two lights, fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2923) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisburg (near), PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1633 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6019 (709D61B0) Date: 3/2/1954 Time: 10 PM Description: Witness: research engineer R.C. Swengel. Three objects, each with two lights, flew straight and level at medium speed for an unknown length of time. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_335 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6020 (FAFF04EE) Date: 3/5/1954 Description: A photo supposedly taken near Rouen, France, by a fighter pilot is actually a retouched photo showing the 1950 McMinnville, Oregon, UFO photo taken by [Paul Trent](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84283949/paul-arthur-trent). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[RAF Flying Review Photo](http://www.nicap.org/france57rep.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2384 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6021 (27A3CF20) Date: 3/5/1954 Time: 8 PM Description: Witnesses: crews of USAF KC-97 aerial tanker planes. One object or light made passes at KC-97s, the other flew straight and level. Sighting duration unknown. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Nouasseur, French Morocco Source ID: BerlinerBBU_336 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6022 (235C543A) Date: 3/5/1954 Description: Aircraft (2) Encounter Lights On Collision Course (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2926) Reference: NICAP: [540305](http://www.nicap.org/540305frenchmorocco%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nouasseur, Fr. Morocco Source ID: NICAP_DB_1634 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6023 (D9A16C66) Date: 3/5/1954 Description: Evening. At Nouasseur Air Base \[now closed\] near Casablanca, Morocco, crews of USAF KC-97 aerial tanker planes and a C-54 transport see one or two white or amber objects or lights make passes at the aircraft on collision courses as they practice ground-controlled approach landings. At 7:15 p.m., KC-97 pilots Capt. G. E. Brown, 1st Lt. L. B. Gordon, and 1st Lt. J. P. Glover, 301st Air Refueling Squadron, 301st Bomb Wing, while flying a KC-97 to a practice landing at 1,500 feet about 5-8 miles southwest of the base, see two white lights to the right on an apparent collision course. The KC-97 takes evasive action. Later \[at 8:20 p.m.? 9:20 p.m.?\], after landing and takeoff, they see the same or similar two white lights on the same course from the south on a collision course and they made an evasive 360° turn. At 7:38 p.m., pilots Capt. Robert R. Zadnick, Lt. Paul R. Fisher, and Lt. George A. Kerr flying another KC-97 at 1,500 feet about 5 miles southwest of Nouasseur base see a light at about the same altitude and to the left, apparently headed west on a collision course. As it crosses, they see 2 lights like jets but with no aircraft running lights. One light passes over and one under the KC-97. At 9:55 p.m., senior pilot Capt. [William M. Pond](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87659448/william-martin-pond)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87659448/william-martin-pond) copilot Lt. I. W. Gilchrist, and navigator Capt. James F. Pullen, while flying a C-54 at 2,000 feet at Nouasseur base see a white or amber light like an aircraft landing light at about the same altitude approaching on a collision course heading west 2–3 miles away. It then turns onto a direct head-on course, passing within 2 miles, then suddenly disappears like turning off a light. It then reappears 10–15 seconds later, hovers, descends to the ground, then rises and disappears behind the C-54 after completing its turn onto final landing approach. No radar or other visual contact is made. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Aircraft \(2\) Encounter Lights on Collision](http://www.nicap.org/540305frenchmorocco%5Fdir.htm) [Course](http://www.nicap.org/540305frenchmorocco%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 210 Source ID: Eberhart_2383 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6024 (88CEF57B) Date: 3/6/1954 Description: On this night in Hollywood, California three luminous discs hovered at a tilted angle. Two shot away toward the northwest and a short time later the third followed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_1328 Source: Johnson ### Event 6025 (ACA26E22) Date: 3/8/1954 Description: 11:07 p.m. A red disc-shaped UFO flies over Laredo AFB \[now Laredo International Airport\], Texas. It tilts to a vertical orientation and then shoots straight up into the sky. It is reported by a pilot. Ten to twenty nocturnal lights in a crescent formation—possibly a single crescent-shaped object—fly over San Antonio, Texas. They make no sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 110 Source ID: Eberhart_2385 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6026 (A168FA2F) Date: 3/8/1954 Description: A red disc-shaped UFO flew over the Laredo Air Force Base in Laredo, Texas on this day. It tilted to a vertical orientation and then shot straight up into the sky. It was reported by a pilot at the base. At 11:07 p.m. ten to twenty nocturnal lights in a crescent formation--possibly a single crescent-shaped object--flew over San Antonio, Texas. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May 1954; Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 110 Source ID: Johnson_1376 Source: Johnson ### Event 6027 (F80A0990) Date: 3/9/1954 Description: Pulsating bluish-white luminous halo surrounding a dark ellipsoidal object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540309](http://www.nicap.org/540309cincindir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cincinnati, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1635 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6028 (9154CDC6) Date: 3/9/1954 Description: Mr. J. Stewart, a pilot driving in his car, observed a dark ovoid UFO with a blue glow that stopped and hovered over the Cincinnati GE plant in Hamilton County, Ohio for four minutes before flying off toward the east at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, April 1954, p. 4; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 37 Source ID: Johnson_1390 Source: Johnson ### Event 6029 (80AA14D3) Date: 3/10/1954 Description: [Leonard H. Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) founds Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects \(CRIFO\) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1114 Source ID: Eberhart_2387 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6030 (4F2D0CE0) Date: 3/10/1954 Description: JANAP 146 \(C\), “Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft and Waterborne Sources.” This directive allows waterborne sources for CIRVIS and adds MERINT reports. Civilian pilots must also report UFOs to the Air Force and refrain from talking about it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint Communications–Electronics Committee, “[JANAP 146\(C\) Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/janp146c.htm) [Intelligence Sightings from Airborne and Waterborne Sources,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/janp146c.htm)” March 10, 1954; Good Above, [p. 283](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/282/mode/2up); Antonio F. Rullán, “[Blue Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships,](http://www.waterufo.net/bluebook/bbpdf.pdf)” December 10, 2002 Source ID: Eberhart_2386 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6031 (D97475D0) Date: 3/11/1954 End date: 3/12/1954 Description: (McDonald list) Anti-Aircraft Units Track Objects For Over 6 Hours (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540311-12](http://www.nicap.org/540311pittsburgh%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pittsburgh, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1636 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6032 (0BE06CE6) Date: 3/11/1954 Description: Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers. Type: lecture Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: Maj2_527 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6033 (BA620B0A) Date: 3/12/1954 Description: F-86 Chases Object At 500 MPH (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2937) Reference: NICAP: [540312](http://www.nicap.org/540312fmorocco%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nouasseur AFB, Fr. Morocco Source ID: NICAP_DB_1637 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6034 (8A583A9C) Date: 3/12/1954 Description: 9:35 a.m. USAF 1st Lt. Robert Johnson, flying an F-86 over Nouasseur Air Base \[now closed\] near Casablanca, Morocco, chases an object at more than 530 mph for 30 seconds, but is unable to catch it. The object appears to be the size of a fighter plane but has neither tanks nor vapor trails. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F-86 Chases Object at](http://www.nicap.org/540312fmorocco%5Fdir.htm) [500 MPH](http://www.nicap.org/540312fmorocco%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 210 Source ID: Eberhart_2388 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6035 (C02F33EC) Date: 3/12/1954 Description: A torpedo shaped UFO was seen on this afternoon at 3:20 p.m. over Klang, Selangor, Malaysia. It shot straight up into the sky when it left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_1431 Source: Johnson ### Event 6036 (83CB55B5) Date: 3/12/1954 Description: A U.S. Air Force F-86 fighter jet was scrambled to pursue a UFO over Nouasseur AFB in Morocco at 10:35 a.m. The UFO flew off toward the north, and the jet couldn't catch up with it despite accelerating to 530 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2937; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_1432 Source: Johnson ### Event 6037 (46BD8D27) Date: 3/12/1954 Time: 9:35 AM Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. Robert Johnson, flying an F-86 jet fighter. He chased an object at more than 530 m.p.h. for 30 seconds, but was unable to catch it. It appeared to be the size of a fighter plane but had neither tanks nor trails. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Nouasseur, French Morocco Source ID: BerlinerBBU_337 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6038 (07195355) Date: Mid 3/1954 Description: [Prince Philip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FPhilip%2C%5FDuke%5Fof%5FEdinburgh)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FPhilip%2C%5FDuke%5Fof%5FEdinburgh) Duke of Edinburgh, invites probable UFO photo hoaxer [Stephen Darbishire](https://www.beckstonesartgallery.co.uk/index.php/artists/stephen-darbishire.html) to Buckingham Palace in London, England, to relate his story to an aide. A full report of the interview is sent to the duke, who is in Australia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 39](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/38/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2390 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6039 (FF7A06BC) Date: 3/15/1954 Description: A memo about a recent Project Second Storey meeting show that experiments at [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)’s Shirley’s Bay detecting station is running experiments correlating UFO reports with magnetic disturbances and gamma radiation. It recommends looking into as yet undiscovered gravity waves. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 187–188](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/186/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2389 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6040 (7B88F8BF) Date: 3/18/1954 Description: Six round or disc-shaped, shiny aluminum objects were observed traveling in a "V" shaped formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [540318](http://www.nicap.org/alexandria540318dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alexandria, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1638 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6041 (DE4ECC14) Date: 3/18/1954 Description: 4:25 p.m. Two conservation officers stationed on Hecla Island in Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, are driving their snowmobile across the frozen lake when they see a slim silver object 100 feet long and only 8 feet thick. They watch the object as it changes orientation from vertical to horizontal and back again. They estimate it is 15,000 feet high and 10 miles away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 69 Source ID: Eberhart_2391 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6042 (1E1409FD) Date: 3/23/1954 Description: Capt. [William B.](https://clipperpioneers.com/william-b-nash/) [Nash](https://www.fortmyersmemorial.com/obituaries/William-Nash-21291/%23!/Obituary) gives a talk at a Greater Miami \(Florida\) Aviation Association luncheon at the Seven Seas Restaurant and offers his assessment of the Air Force’s handling of UFO investigations. He suspects that the Air Force has concluded that UFOs are a real phenomenon, but they fear creating a state of panic by admitting as much. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_2392 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6043 (0852BBAB) Date: 3/23/1954 Description: A disc at very high altitude was seen hovering over Norwich, England at 4:00 p.m. The edges glowed while the center of the object was dark. It flew off to the west at 6:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 60 Source ID: Johnson_1620 Source: Johnson ### Event 6044 (D3C9B476) Date: 3/24/1954 Description: Maneuvering formation of UFOs observed by Civil Defense official. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baltimore, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1639 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6045 (5259F7C9) Date: 3/24/1954 Description: Night. Civil Defense Deputy Coordinator Adolph Wagner sees 13 sharply defined triangular objects moving west to east over Baltimore, Maryland, in a V formation. They are glowing a fluorescent blue. From the north, a larger object approaches and stations itself in front of the V. When a commercial airliner appears, the objects split formation. Six execute a sharp turn, the color shifts to purplish, and they head toward the airplane in single file. The other 8 objects continue flying east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Multiple Object Sightings by Creditable Observers Continue,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit, July 2, 1954, p. 3; UFOEv, [p. 66](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=78&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2393 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6046 (65438147) Date: 3/24/1954 Description: A U.S. Marine Corps pilot named Holland, flying a military transport, pursued a silver flying disc-shaped object with extreme maneuverability over Fresno, California on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, June 1954, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 23; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 406 Source ID: Johnson_1634 Source: Johnson ### Event 6047 (8B023015) Date: 3/25/1954 Description: Ball With Golden Ring Stops Near F-9F (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540325](http://www.nicap.org/540325ftlauderdale%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft Lauderdale, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1640 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6048 (EC608771) Date: 3/25/1954 Description: At 3:30 p.m. a U.S. Marine Corps pilot sighted a disc-shaped object flying at 3000 feet altitude over Cape Canaveral, Florida. The UFO evaded being filmed by the warplane's gun camera. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 115; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_1648 Source: Johnson ### Event 6049 (08D7BA98) Date: 3/25/1954 Description: 3:20 p.m. USMC Capt. [Dan C. Holland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80227535/daniel-clark-holland) is flying one of three jets with the 3rd Marine Air Wing on an easterly heading at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at about 26,000 feet and 400+ mph. He sees a gleaming white, ball- shaped object with a gold ring around the lower third, about 2 times size of his jet, descending vertically on a collision course. He takes evasive action and radios the other jet pilots to look. The object suddenly stops 3,000– 4,000 feet above his jet. He banks toward it and activates the gun camera, but the UFO accelerates and disappears to the east at tremendous speed in about 15 seconds. The other two pilots flying ahead of him do not see the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Ball with Golden Rings Stops near F-9F](http://www.nicap.org/540325ftlauderdale%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 211; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf) [1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 61–62 Source ID: Eberhart_2394 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6050 (6C288B9B) Date: 3/28/1954 Description: Following the success of Flying Saucers Have Landed, [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) gives a talk to the Detroit Flying Saucer Club at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, which draws 4,700 people. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Palomar Mountain, 1940–](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/) [1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/)” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_2396 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6051 (9DED76E0) Date: 3/28/1954 Description: After seeing mysterious lights descend over Sumner, Washington five witnesses drove on this evening to an isolated area near some power lines and soon saw a white glowing ball of light wobbling and gliding down from the sky. It apparently went into a clump of nearby trees. The light then approached their vehicle, and moments later the white globe of light passed in front of their car. At that same moment one of the witnesses saw a tall, well-built, broad-shouldered man standing at the same spot where the globe of light had been seen. The figure was encased in a glowing white light. It suddenly disappeared in plain sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1862, citing George Hunt Williamson, Other Tongues Other Flesh Source ID: Johnson_1707 Source: Johnson ### Event 6052 (127BBCAE) Date: 3/28/1954 Description: 1:25 a.m. Capt. [Willis T. Sperry](http://www.nicap.org/docs/500529%5FWillis%5FT.pdf) and his copilot on United Air Lines Flight 600, flying east at 19,000 feet 12 miles east of Cherokee \(near Creston\), Wyoming, spot a bright green glowing object at 12°–15° above the horizon coming downward at an angle of 30° to the left of vertical and disappearing behind a cloud bank. It is also seen by the pilot of a DC-3 west of Sinclair, Wyoming, at 13,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 283–284](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/282/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 211 Source ID: Eberhart_2395 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6053 (D94EA2A7) Date: 3/30/1954 Description: A 15-foot diameter silvery sphere hovered over a kite-flying contest in Newton, Massachusetts at 3:30 in the afternoon. It remained stationary in one place despite the 30 mph wind. After 30 minutes in moved away slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July 1954 Source ID: Johnson_1730 Source: Johnson ### Event 6054 (49DA415C) Date: 3/31/1954 Description: A small disc-shaped UFO flew over Hammersmith, England at 8:10 p.m. at a high rate of speed. It had a misty looking appearance despite the clear sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3316 Source ID: Johnson_1759 Source: Johnson ### Event 6055 (07A35E1F) Date: 4/1954 Description: Oak Park, Illinois, contactee [Dorothy Martin](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/) has been channeling entities through automatic writing. One introduces himself as Sananda, who lives on the utopian planet Clarion. She begins typing up the messages in newsletters and distributing them to readers, including Charles and Lilian Loughead from Detroit, Michigan, whom she met in March. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 717 Source ID: Eberhart_2400 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6056 (FF816C27) Date: 4/1954 Description: The Royal Australian Air Force issues its first statement of policy on UFOs, admitting that it does attempt to evaluate reports: “There is no doubt that reliable observers have reported sightings which today are inexplicable within the resources available to the RAAF.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1947, “[The Former Air Board / Department of Air / Current](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kb%5Fuasgov.htm\#fab) [RAAF](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kb%5Fuasgov.htm\#fab)” Source ID: Eberhart_2399 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6057 (1153FF49) Date: 4/1954 Description: 2:00 p.m. Two male witnesses watch through binoculars a vividly white object hovering high in the sky for 10 minutes above Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. A cone-shaped mist appears on its leeward side, then the object shoots straight up and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jessup, The UFO Annual, Citadel, 1956; Nukes 114 Source ID: Eberhart_2398 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6058 (8F56D98B) Date: 4/1954 Description: SOM1–01 "MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual" document Type: majestic document Reference: [Wikipedia](https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/som101_part1.pdf) Location: US See also: 12/1994 Source ID: Maj2_528 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6059 (E91B9857) Date: 4/1/1954 Description: The witness heard a clanking sound at 2:40 a.m., then saw a five-meter wide domed disc land in Menton, France. Two human-looking occupants left the craft. The witness was paralyzed by a beam of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3317 Source ID: Johnson_1780 Source: Johnson ### Event 6060 (D13391DC) Date: 4/4/1954 End date: 4/5/1954 Description: Contactee [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel) holds the first Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention at Giant Rock, a huge boulder in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California. Speakers include [Orfeo Angelucci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfeo%5FAngelucci), [Truman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) [Bethurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum), [Daniel Fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry) and [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson). It draws a crowd variously estimated at 2,500–6,000. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention Draws 6,000,” San Bernardino County \(Calif.\) Sun, April 5, 1954, p. 9; Clark III 531, 717 Source ID: Eberhart_2402 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6061 (568DEC3D) Date: 4/4/1954 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) meets with [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Anegels, California, and shares recent UFO reports. Ruppelt agrees to write a letter supporting the claim that Keyhoe has used genuine ATIC reports for his book. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 116–120 Source ID: Eberhart_2401 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6062 (20D13E5D) Date: 4/5/1954 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) appears on [The Betty White Show](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty%5FWhite) and asserts that, contrary to what the Air Force claims, some UFO reports are kept secret. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 117–118 Source ID: Eberhart_2403 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6063 (F7DBDF5C) Date: 4/7/1954 Description: US Carrier Carrying Nuclear Weapons Buzzed By UFO (USS Curtiss) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, NC) Reference: NICAP: [540407](http://www.nicap.org/docs/castle/castdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: At Sea (USS Curtiss), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1642 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6064 (6FA2C595) Date: 4/7/1954 Description: [Leonard H. Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) publishes the first issue of CRIFO Newsletter. \([CRIFO Newsletter](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf) 1, no. 1 Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: April 7, 1954; Clark III 1114 Source ID: Eberhart_2404 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6065 (6B1076B0) Date: 4/7/1954 Description: Navy F-6F Follows Two Saucers (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540407](http://www.nicap.org/540407fentress%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fentress (3 miles SW of), VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1641 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6066 (1573E2D2) Date: 4/7/1954 Description: 11:05 p.m. US Navy sailors and Marines, as well as nuclear scientists from Los Alamos and Sandia Laboratories in New Mexico, are aboard the AEC flagship [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FCurtiss%5F%28AV-4%29) [Curtiss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FCurtiss%5F%28AV-4%29) cruising between Bikini and Enewetak atolls in the Marshall Islands just hours after the Castle Koon thermonuclear test on Bikini. An unidentified oval- shaped luminous object, yellowish-orange in color, passes silently over the ship from bow to stern, traveling at a high rate of speed and low altitude. Once it is clear of the ship, the object performs some zigzag maneuvers before racing away at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 107–109 Source ID: Eberhart_2405 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6067 (CB7FA1F9) Date: 4/8/1954 Time: 4:30 PM Description: Witness: Lelah Stoker. One white round-topped disc, with a humanoid suspended beneath it, skimmed over the water, landed, and an occupant in a green suit walked around. It then took off very, very fast. Sighting lasted 30 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Chicago, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_338 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6068 (B891F438) Date: 4/8/1954 Description: 4:30–5:00 p.m. Lelah H. Stoker of 3121 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois, sees a brilliant white round- topped disc, parachute-shaped, with a humanoid suspended beneath it, skim back and forth over the water of Lake Michigan. Stoker calls the Coast Guard. A cutter appears after 10 minutes, then the UFO approaches the shore. Stoker sees a short human-like occupant in a green, tight, one-piece suit suspended below the object. It gets out in undergrowth along the shore then walks around. When the cutter gives up searching, the occupant returns to the object which moves back over the lake then takes off at high speed to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Lady Observes Saucer /](http://www.nicap.org/540408chicago%5Fdir.htm) [Small Entity Gets Out](http://www.nicap.org/540408chicago%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 270; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 211 Source ID: Eberhart_2406 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6069 (3B796617) Date: 4/8/1954 Description: In Chicago, Illinois Lelah Stoker sighted a white, domed disc with a humanoid suspended beneath it over Lake Michigan at 4:30 p.m. It skimmed above the surface of the lake in all directions. She called in another tenant of the building, Mr. Boruszak, who also saw the object. She called the Coast Guard to report it. The object diminished in size till it was no bigger than a piece of newspaper, as it descended and landed. The human figure, now on the ground, was short and wore a tight-fitting, green, one-piece suit that covered even the head. He walked up and down the lakefront until the Coast Guard search boat had passed. Then the UFO enlarged and rose up again; the suspended "pilot" entered it, and it took off very, very fast with no sound. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-06; citing Project Blue Book Source ID: Johnson_1898 Source: Johnson ### Event 6070 (242403D0) Date: 4/8/1954 Description: Lady Observes Saucer / Small Entity Gets Out (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: 2962) Reference: NICAP: [540408](http://www.nicap.org/540408chicago%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1643 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6071 (28952E39) Date: 4/10/1954 Description: On this night near Caracas, Venezuela Sr. Emelino Martinez was walking back from hunting in the hills outside of the city when there was a sudden movement in the nearby bushes. Martinez stopped and stood motionless, shotgun at the ready, when the thrashing noise happened again. He waited briefly before resuming his walk toward his parked automobile. He next heard a blood curling guttural noise. Terrified, he dropped his day's catch and ran for his car. An unintelligible shout behind him indicated that whatever creature it was, it was close to him. He stopped for an instant to glance back toward his pursuer. He then saw two bizarre creatures running after him. They were short, and looked like a half man, half monkey. They were covered with dark hair. Martinez reached the car fumbling with his pockets for the keys. He dropped the keys and picked them up and attempted to open the car. He was then suddenly grabbed from behind. He fell together with his assailant into a ditch besides the road. He dropped his shotgun as two powerful arms closed over his throat. He managed to break free and scrambled towards the car. The creature jumped on top of him, screaming, growling, and biting like a mad animal. He could not reach his shotgun, so he grabbed a large rock and repeatedly smashed his attacker on the head. Screams of pain slashed through the dark night.

Martinez saw his attacker move backward, blood spurting from his head wounds. He then dashed to his car. He snapped the door locked as the two creatures lunged against the car, pounding their hairy fists against the windows in frustrated rage. He managed to start the car and drove away at very high speed directly to the police station. The next day, Martinez and some friends returned to the site and recovered his shotgun they also found some blood stained leaves. They questioned locals and were told that strange disc shaped objects had been seen in the area and that; cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, and two young farmhands had disappeared on the mountain. The farmers have also seen black, bristly haired dwarfs that hid in caves and kidnapped both livestock and humans. Martinez never returned to the area to hunt again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 2992, citing Warren Smith, Triangle of The Lost Source ID: Johnson_1937 Source: Johnson ### Event 6072 (C93ED811) Date: 4/11/1954 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)’s letter to [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) states that the request to clear classified UFO reports came from both AF Intelligence and the Office of Public Information, after which his superiors cleared them; Keyhoe has correctly quoted the ATIC material; the Utah film analysis is classified; a 1953 letter from [Al Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) to Henry Holt & Co. attacking the “silence group” is quoted accurately; and except in a very few cases, ATIC rejects [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel)’s explanations of halos, sundogs, and mirages for UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 119–120, 307–308 Source ID: Eberhart_2407 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6073 (8A0D5849) Date: 4/12/1954 Description: Between 6:30 and 7:15 PM a saucer crashed in the desert, NM. K.A. (initials) and Rescue Team 4 were sent from Roswell AFB to investigate the crashed disc. The saucer was 40–50 ft. in diameter. There were 4 dead Aliens scattered about the desert by the saucer. Alien description (seen from helicopter at 30 ft. alt.): Height was between 4.0 to 4.5 ft. Large proportioned heads, no helmets. Tight fitting dark blue suite. Faces, under ‘copter spotlight, were light green with a luminous tint. The saucer was stored in Hanger-18, Top Security. Hanger-18 was later expanded to 9 stories high and 11 stories deep with heavy refrigeration equipment, radar equip., and sophisticated computer equip. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B3-C, A5, RECOVERY, desert - NM) Location: NM See also: 2/10/1954 See also: 4/24/1954 See also: 3/7/1955 Source ID: Maj2_529 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6074 (25F3C836) Date: 4/13/1954 Description: Approximate date of Eisenhower meeting with others at Edwards AFB. Event witnessed by occultist, medium and author “Gerald Light” (possibly R.G. McFarland, his “publisher”) and a detailed account along with 3 other witness names is immediately published by the BSRA. Einstein, Paperclip scientists, and government officials were present according to witnesses. Type: ce3 event Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/early-contactees-and-ufologists-millen-cooke-gerald-light-and-meade-layne-1ee70154f31a) Location: Edwards AFB See also: 4/15/1954 Source ID: Maj2_530 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6075 (69EA2BD8) Date: 4/14/1954 Description: Night. Capt. John M. Schidel of United Air Lines Flight 193 is forced to make a sharp climbing turn in order to avoid colliding with an unknown object over Long Beach, California. One passenger \(Coles Barber\) is thrown to the floor and suffers a knee fracture, and stewardess [Naomi J. Penaat](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88933667/naomi-j-penaat) breaks an ankle. The object is only in sight for 2 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Two Injured As Airliner Banks in Sudden Turn,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93788135/)” Los Angeles Times, April 16, 1954, p. II- 3; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 130–132 Source ID: Eberhart_2408 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6076 (43EECF74) Date: 4/15/1954 Description: Two residents of Correge Department, observed an elongated, cone-shaped object with two red and green lights at the base, flying at a high altitude from the northwest toward the southwest. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saint Mexant, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1644 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6077 (6990DA0A) Date: 4/15/1954 Description: Date of Gerald Light’s detailed bulletin of meeting with others at Edwards AFB. Type: public bulletin Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/early-contactees-and-ufologists-millen-cooke-gerald-light-and-meade-layne-1ee70154f31a) Location: Edwards AFB See also: 4/13/1954 Source ID: Maj2_531 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6078 (9F7CDAD6) Date: 4/16/1954 Description: School superintendent, explorer, watched elongated UFO with "portholes" pass overhead. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grand Canton, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1645 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6079 (E06FC78A) Date: 4/18/1954 Description: Airline pilot [William B.](https://clipperpioneers.com/william-b-nash/) [Nash](https://www.fortmyersmemorial.com/obituaries/William-Nash-21291/%23!/Obituary) writes to his friend Capt. [William Joseph Hull](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166663770/willam-j%5F-hull) about the emphatic denials of UFO reality issued by the Air Force shortly after his March 23 speech. He reveals that in August 1952 he was participating in a TV panel in New York City when someone in the WJZ-TV studio said he had just gotten back from Washington, D.C., where he has been given the “whole story” about the National Airport sightings. He claims the Air Force had operated a radio found in a retrieved saucer and that had caused the flurry of sightings. Nash also admits hearing rumors, especially one from syndicated aviation columnist [Robert S. Allen,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FS.%5FAllen) about a pro- UFO report that USAF was going to release in the fall of 1952 but never did. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_2410 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6080 (BBDB29D3) Date: 4/18/1954 Description: Colin McCarthy and two other men are driving an Austin sedan in the Australian outback near the border of Western Australia and South Australia when a UFO begins pacing them. They snap some 200 photos and take some ciné film of the object. Shortly after they report the incident, a helicopter suddenly appears and lands in front of their car. An RAAF officer gets out, walks over to their car, and confiscates the photos and film. They are never returned. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stan Seers and William Lasich, “[North Queensland UFO Saga, 1966,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2029%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 1 \(October 1983\): 20–21; Good Above, [p. 163](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/162/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2409 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6081 (B69E5142) Date: 4/22/1954 Description: American military personnel saw a cigar-shaped object of a gray color come down to the ground on San Nicholas Island on the California coast. Smoke was seen to rise from where it landed, but a search yielded no results. At 11:00 p.m. in Hot Springs, Arkansas a ten-foot diameter sphere chased men on foot and in their car. It dodged a beam of light that was directed at it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 206; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1954 Source ID: Johnson_2209 Source: Johnson ### Event 6082 (63A401E1) Date: 4/22/1954 Description: 10:30 p.m. Six workers from the Reynolds Metals plant in Jones Mills, Arkansas, are waiting on a carpool near Pearcy, Arkansas, to go to work when they see a gleaming white ball about 10 feet in diameter float 50 feet above a house. It appears alternately as a sphere and an oblong, and sometimes circles and sometimes hovers above the house for a total of 20 minutes. One man claims it approaches him to within a few feet, causing him to duck behind a car. One of the vehicles has a spotlight that they try to point at the object, but it always avoids the beam. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hot Springs \(Ark.\) Sentinel-Rhview, April 23, 1954, pp. 1, 3; “[Fire Ball Sighted in Arkansas Skies,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93788644/)” Montgomery Alabama Journal, April 23, 1954, p. 11 Source ID: Eberhart_2412 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6083 (0B39790A) Date: 4/22/1954 Description: 2:00 p.m. USN Seaman Apprentice James B. Stephens Jr. and Seaman Bernard G. Klein Jr., are driving a vehicle on the Naval Outlying Field San Nicolas Island, California, when they see a 4–6-foot long, gray, cigar- shaped object with a pointed nose traveling just above the ground on a near-parallel course. The object suddenly hits the ground, sends up a cloud of dirt, and disappears from sight. They stop and search for 20+ minutes but find nothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “April 22, 1954: San Nicholas Island, Calif.”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 212 Source ID: Eberhart_2411 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6084 (B29031E3) Date: 4/22/1954 Description: 4-6 ft long gray cigar-shaped object with pointed nose (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Nicholas Island, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1646 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6085 (E45EC8F8) Date: 4/22/1954 Time: 1400 Description: American military personnel saw a cigar-shaped object of a gray color coming to the ground. Smoke was seen to rise where it landed, but a search yielded no results. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: San Nicholas Island, California Source ID: Magnonia_128 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6086 (CAF1A685) Date: 4/23/1954 Description: On this evening a three meter wide glowing ball of light circled a house in Pearcy, Arkansas slowly, stopping at irregular intervals. It then dove at a man walking in the yard. When he tried to put a spotlight on it, it would dodge the beam every time. There were six male witnesses, and the encounter lasted 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, newspaper clipping dated April 24, 1954; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 339, Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 165, citing AP report Source ID: Johnson_2251 Source: Johnson ### Event 6087 (E501E8B8) Date: 4/23/1954 Description: Silver circular saucer shaped object with a dome (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2974) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pittsfield, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_1647 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6088 (FC7E88A6) Date: 4/23/1954 Time: 9:30 AM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. F.E. Robinson. One silver dollar-shaped object with a dome and a flashing light made a sound like a swarm of bees. It hovered and tilted, flew horizontally, then rose vertically without tilting. Stones underneath it moved. Four minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pittsfield, Maine Source ID: BerlinerBBU_339 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6089 (3832A0DF) Date: 4/24/1954 Time: 6:10 PM Description: Witness: D. Robinson. One large, silver, oblong object with a dome and a flashing light flew straight and level and then straight up. Total of 15 minutes under observation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Hartland, Maine Source ID: BerlinerBBU_340 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6090 (D15AE8BC) Date: 4/24/1954 Description: Buck Nelson takes a trip to Venus, Moon, Mars in saucer. Type: ce4 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Mt. View, MO Source ID: Maj2_140 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6091 (C3BFF19B) Date: 4/24/1954 Description: Very large silver, oblong object with a dome on top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2976) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hartland, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_1648 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6092 (FDD180AD) Date: 4/24/1954 Description: A saucer crashed at Bandelier, NM, as reported by K.A. (initials) of the Roswell, N.M. Rescue Team 4. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (RECOVERY) Location: Edwards AFB See also: 4/12/1954 Source ID: Maj2_532 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6093 (9280488D) Date: 4/25/1954 Description: Three trained weather observers at Kadena Air Force Base in Kadena, Japan sighted bluish-white circular objects overhead at 11:30 p.m. The USAF specialists named Spillem, Duracher, and Conner watched the UFOs make two circles, then zigzag to the south. They made another circle, and then went off to the southeast. Circular, bluish-white in color. No sound, no radar tracks, no balloons aloft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_2292 Source: Johnson ### Event 6094 (3E8250C6) Date: Late 4/1954 Description: Afternoon. Roger Mougeolle and Gilbert Doridant are logging in a clearing in a forest area near Bois-de- Champ, Vosges, France, when they hear a noise above them “like the sound of a train passing over a metal bridge.” They then see three metallic, cigar-shaped objects silently approaching them from over a nearby hill. Two pass over them, but the third slowly descends above their clearing and stops only a few feet from the ground. It is over 600 feet long. Doridant flees, but Mougeolle walks toward it and touches it. The object is smooth, cold, and hard like steel. He touches it with his woodsman’s axe, and he is instantly thrown about 18 feet away toward the base of a large rock. He feels paralyzed for a few minutes, but the object ascends and disappears, and he can move again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joël Mesnard, “[The ‘Steel Airship’ at Bois-de-Champ \(April 1954\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201987%20V%2032%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 5 \(August 1987\): 16–19 Source ID: Eberhart_2413 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6095 (15C15D60) Date: 4/26/1954 Time: 7:35 PM Description: Witnesses: C. Cartey, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hopkins and their daughter. Fifteen to twenty yellow objects in a V-formation, flew from south to north for 10 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Athens, Georgia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_341 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6096 (5C78A897) Date: 4/26/1954 Description: Round UFO making sharp turn observed by architect. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newburyport, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1650 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6097 (0E25CA16) Date: 4/26/1954 Description: Saw 15-20 yellow objects in a V shaped formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2983) Reference: NICAP: [540426](http://www.nicap.org/540426athensdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Athens, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1649 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6098 (9780D92E) Date: 4/26/1954 Description: What first appeared to be a flaming ring made sharp turns in the sky over a school in Newburyport, Massachusetts at around 3:30 p.m. It resolved into a solid silver, disc-shaped object with a dark center and protruding top. It made an intense roaring sound that lasted five seconds. It left a bright white tail in descent, and flew off rapidly to the southeast. At 8:35 p.m. 15 balls of light in a V-formation buzzed a University of Georgia professor of aeronautics and four other witnesses in Athens, Georgia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 66; UNICAT database, case 773, citing Project Blue Book; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2983; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 59; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 79 Source ID: Johnson_2331 Source: Johnson ### Event 6099 (1E4483CF) Date: 4/28/1954 Description: A huge blue disc buzzed two men, Smith and Beacon, 45 miles west of Geelong, Victoria, Australia at 6:30 a.m. It then shot straight up into the sky until gone from view. At noon a cigar-shaped UFO flew over Sare, France heading south towards Spain. It flew at an estimated 2,000 meters altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3343, citing Larry Fawcett and Barry Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, p. 133 Source ID: Johnson_2390 Source: Johnson ### Event 6100 (B7339740) Date: 4/28/1954 Description: A group of persons taking a walk near Sare in the region close to the Pyrenees border observed a cigar-shaped object traveling rapidly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pyrenees, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1651 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6101 (83C66F89) Date: 4/29/1954 Description: 10:11 p.m. An unidentified illuminated object is seen above the Second Army Radio Station, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, by the supervisor radio operator and two coworkers, Cpl. Flath and Pfc. Hough. Described as round, the color of the sun, and 3–4 times the size of a star, the UFO appears in the southwest, blinking on and off. As it reaches the station, it stops blinking and disappears by going straight up. The sighting lasts 7 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 86; Good Above, [p. 281](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/280/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2414 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6102 (F0CD0F24) Date: 5/1954 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)’s article appears in True magazine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, “[What Our Air Force Found Out about Flying](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1954%2005%2000%5FTrue%5FEdward%20Ruppelt%5FLagrance%20scan.pdf) [Saucers,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1954%2005%2000%5FTrue%5FEdward%20Ruppelt%5FLagrance%20scan.pdf)” True, May 1954, pp. 18–30, 124–134 Source ID: Eberhart_2415 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6103 (441F3688) Date: 5/1954 Description: Car lights and radio went off, motorist saw three round or oval UFOs moving as unit, emitting beams of light toward ground (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Porte, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1652 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6104 (F200B458) Date: 5/1/1954 Description: 11:55 p.m. A large explosion is heard, felt, and seen over an 8-mile area near Logan, Utah. The blast nearly upsets cars, throws open heavy doors, and sends an earthquake-like shock through the area. Some people report seeing a glowing ball before the explosion; other witnesses report a flash of light at ground level. [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) investigates, along with [J. Stewart Williams](https://geo.usu.edu/information/giving-to-usu-geology/j-stewart-williams) and Clyde T. Hardy at Utah State Agricultural College \[now Utah State University\]. LaPaz says it is either a falling object of an explosive nature or buried high explosives set off by pranksters. A crater 16 feet in diameter and at least 6 feet deep is found, but no debris, even though LaPaz digs down 25 feet for five days. Nearly 50 years later, Theron Blazzard admits to the Logan Herald-Journal that as a geology student at Utah State he had detonated some dynamite at the spot because he had to dispose of it in order to move out of state. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Meteor Sought in Crater](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93794709/) [after Logan Explosion,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93794729/)” Salt Lake Tribune, May 3, 1954, p. 21; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 138–139; Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [pp. 223–224](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/222/mode/2up); “[Friday Finishers:](https://www.hjnews.com/opinion/columns/friday-finishers-when-meteor-mania-struck-cache-valley/article%5F18054429-6d95-5d09-b43f-20e409ef97cb.html) [When Meteor Mania Struck Cache Valley,](https://www.hjnews.com/opinion/columns/friday-finishers-when-meteor-mania-struck-cache-valley/article%5F18054429-6d95-5d09-b43f-20e409ef97cb.html)” Logan \(Utah\) Herald-Journal, November 30, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_2416 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6105 (ACE045BD) Date: 5/1/1954 Description: TV pictures distorted as UFO passed over (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tokyo, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1653 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6106 (BD6C2BFC) Date: 5/4/1954 Description: On the night of May 4th, 1954, three police officers in Canfield, Ohio watched a reddish orange, glowing disc fly out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 144 Source ID: Johnson_2502 Source: Johnson ### Event 6107 (13726733) Date: 5/5/1954 Description: The young boy was sitting with his goat on a small hill near the village of Fregim Amarante, Portugal when he heard a whistling sound at around four o'clock in the afternoon. He ran in the direction of the sound, which came from a nearby hollow. Once there he saw one dome-shaped object leaving the area headed towards a nearby river, but an identical object still rested on the ground. It was a metallic colored, dome shaped, and had a metal ring on the bottom and a transparent section on top. It also had a conical protrusion, brown in color, on the top. As the object left the boy felt a wave of heat. Inside this second object he could see two beings with large heads and large eyes that were wide apart; both appeared to have antennae on top of their heads, and their mouths appeared like round holes. They wore metallic blue outfits, and appeared seated with one of them operating levers while the other looked out at the witness. Ground traces were later found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case HC # 104, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis Source ID: Johnson_2537 Source: Johnson ### Event 6108 (5D131ECA) Date: 5/5/1954 Description: Over the Woomera Missile Test Range in South Australia a disc-shaped object was viewed throuth binoculars flying to the west. It then turned and shot off to the south and out of sight at a speed estimated to be 5,800 kph. The object was estimated to be 10 feet in diameter, and the sighting reportedly lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 85 Source ID: Johnson_2536 Source: Johnson ### Event 6109 (3846C507) Date: 5/5/1954 Description: 4:45 p.m. Sydney Baker is at a radar post in the RAAF Woomera Range Complex in South Australia when he notices a gray, circular object at 60,000 feet maneuvering around an English Electric Canberra aircraft he is monitoring from about 35 miles away. It appears to be traveling three times as fast as the Canberra. He watches it for about 5 minutes before it shoots out of sight to the south at about 3,600 mph. The same object is apparently tracked on Woomera radar at approximately the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, \[[case documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/1955%5FMay%5F5%5FSouth%5FAustralia.pdf)\]; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files: The Australian UFO Story, Duffy and Snellgrove, 1996, p. 85; Swords 381–383 Source ID: Eberhart_2417 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6110 (C8AA843D) Date: 5/6/1954 Description: At noon, three linemen working in Heppner, Oregon watched three - 36m domed discs cross the sky in a V-formation, traveling at 2200 kph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 144; NICAP files, newspaper clipping dated July 1, 1954; APRO Bulletin, volume 3, number 1 Source ID: Johnson_2580 Source: Johnson ### Event 6111 (AA42614E) Date: 5/6/1954 Description: Washington, DC, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_1654 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6112 (0BB44886) Date: 5/7/1954 Description: Nr. Washington, DC, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington (near), D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_1655 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6113 (D95B772E) Date: 5/7/1954 Description: Naval radar around Washington, D.C., tracks a huge object maneuvering at 90,000 feet and moving down to 15 miles altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 144–145 Source ID: Eberhart_2418 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6114 (0B7CF178) Date: 5/8/1954 Description: [George King](https://www.aetherius.org/dr-george-king/) is washing dishes in his flat in Maida Vale, London, England, when he receives a psychic message telling him that he has been chosen to be the voice of the Interplanetary Parliament. Several days later, while he is in a meditative trance, an Indian yoga master enters his flat and tells him he has been selected to act as the Primary Terrestrial Channel for messages from cosmic intelligences who are visiting Earth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, [p. 63](https://archive.org/details/inadvanceoflandi00doug/page/62/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2419 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6115 (2CCADDD0) Date: 5/9/1954 Description: At 1:10 a.m. five observers with binoculars north-northwest of Linden, Michigan spotted a glowing ovoid flying to the northwest. It was glowing with distinct colored bands, none on the rim. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing APRO Bulletin, July 1954 Source ID: Johnson_2676 Source: Johnson ### Event 6116 (D7EEE40B) Date: 5/10/1954 Description: Week of UFO sightings investigated by military authorities. Scores of residents reported strange glowing objects maneuvering low over forests. (UFOE) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Northern Area, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_1656 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6117 (C1396577) Date: 5/10/1954 Description: RAF squadron leader Donald Higgin, flying in the second of two Navy F3D-2 jet fighters over Elsinore, California at 12:40 p.m. sighted a delta winged UFO as it passed the first Navy jet at a speed in excess of 240 knots. The UFO was half the length of the F3D-s (which is 22 feet long), had a wing span about equal to it (20 feet), and had a third fin on its upper half. It was the color of gun metal. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2994; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 23; UNICAT database, case 309, citing Project Blue Book Source ID: Johnson_2713 Source: Johnson ### Event 6118 (C2AB49F9) Date: 5/10/1954 Time: 12:40 PM Description: Witness: U.S. Marine Corps Squadron Leader D.R. Higgin, flying an F3D-2 jet fighter. One dark gunmetal delta-shaped object, 22' long and 10' wide, with a fin on the top, descended at a 25-30' angle under the lead airplane of a formation, and over the airplane of Higgin. Sighting lasted a few seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Elsinore, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_342 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6119 (6C37298F) Date: 5/11/1954 Time: 10:45 PM Description: Witnesses: three USAF. air policemen at Washington National Airport. Two bright lights were seen on three occasions to fly straight and level, make 90 degree turns and fade. Each sighting lasted about 45 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: BerlinerBBU_343 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6120 (ACCA56E3) Date: 5/11/1954 Description: Piloceman saw 2 bright lights on 3 occasions fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 2997) Reference: NICAP: [540511](http://www.nicap.org/washdc540511dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_1657 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6121 (7A2B5E6D) Date: 5/11/1954 Description: On this day in 1954 a lone witness in Lawton, Oklahoma watched a disc-shaped object hovering ten feet above the ground. Below the object stood a four-foot tall figure. The humanoid disappeared in a flash of light after seeing the witness, then the object shot away at high speed towards the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1412, citing Kevin D. Randle, The October Scenario Source ID: Johnson_2735 Source: Johnson ### Event 6122 (B2D4647E) Date: 5/12/1954 Description: 4:45 a.m. Three USAF Air Policemen \(A/1C [Mason W. Augst](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101683167/mason-wilbert-augst)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101683167/mason-wilbert-augst) A/1C George F. Wright, and A/1C Elmer A. Cruver\) are standing guard next to a hangar at National Airport in Washington, D.C. They see a formation of two UFOs fly over the Capitol building, and again at 5:15 a.m. and 6:10 a.m. The objects are glowing white. They appear just above the horizon to the northeast in a straight line, make a 90° turn, then move away to the south. Each pass takes 45 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, January–May](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Jan-May.pdf) The Author, 1990, p. 94; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 212; Edwards, FS—Here and Now!, Lyle Stuart, 1967, [pp. 84–85](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersher00edwa/page/84/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2420 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6123 (FE923CB6) Date: 5/12/1954 Description: 4:00 p.m. White, silky filaments fall in strands averaging 30 feet in length over Shepparton, Victoria, Australia. A witness gathers some and, although they become wrinkled, they do not disintegrate. An analysis indicates in is a “pure white, silky, odorless, warm on touch like cotton, and different from cobwebs.” The threads are not sticky and stretch easily. It resembles raw silk or nylon, is not water soluble, and burns rapidly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 6–7; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 101 Source ID: Eberhart_2421 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6124 (827AA96F) Date: 5/12/1954 Description: Multiple witnesses spot a disc hovering for 15 minutes over Dayton, OH, close to Wright-Patterson AFB, jets intercept Type: ufo sighting Reference: Leonard Stringfield’s CFIRO Newsletter 6/4/1954 Location: Dayton, OH Source ID: Maj2_533 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6125 (E6820CA6) Date: 5/12/1954 Description: In 1954 a UFO shaped like a red dinner plate hung in the sky on edge for 15 minutes over Dayton, Ohio at around 7 p.m. It tipped, changed shaped, and then sped off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, June 1954, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_2755 Source: Johnson ### Event 6126 (7F0B561F) Date: 5/13/1954 Description: At 11:30 p.m. Navy Commander H. R. Penrose was driving homeward from Derby to Burton in Derbyshire, England when a bright light appeared ahead of his car, heading towards him. When it reached him he experienced a crash and was thrown forward against the windshield. The car then seemed to be lifted from the ground, and he was moved through the air while the bright light stayed above him. The car came to rest atop some metal railings, and he was lifted from it by a man in a one piece uniform, who effortlessly carried him through an entrance on the underside of a large round object that was hovering overhead, giving out a bright light. He was taken inside to a room, which had some controls that were being operated by men and women with short hair in coveralls. They questioned him telepathically about his naval experiences and his work with radar. Then a woman injected some green fluid into his arm, after which he had no more conscious memories of the experience. He was found, suffering from concussion, in his car atop some iron railings it had knocked down, and was taken to hospital. After his recovery he revisited the spot and succeeded in finding a railway signalman who said he had seen a car, with an extremely bright light above it, go past his signal box. Hypnotic regression was planned at the time of the report in 1978. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Margaret & Geoffrey Westwood, FSR, January 1978, p. 23; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-11, citing Westwood Source ID: Johnson_2793 Source: Johnson ### Event 6127 (4B4E275D) Date: 5/13/1954 Description: Morning. Three persons in three different areas observed a "brilliant, silver colored sphere with a tail." (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norrbotten Province, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_1658 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6128 (EAFBBF11) Date: 5/13/1954 Description: Object Signals In Reponse To A/C Blink Lights (LBR) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540513](http://www.nicap.org/540513pacific%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific bet. Hawaii and Calif, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1659 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6129 (1352C87E) Date: 5/13/1954 Description: Ground Visual Over WNA For 3 Hours (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [540513](http://www.nicap.org/540513washington%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_1660 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6130 (D738D737) Date: 5/14/1954 Description: Around 12 noon. A flight of Marine Reserve jets led by Maj. Charles Scarborough is headed north near Dallas, Texas. At a point 6 miles west of the city, Scarborough sights 16 unidentified objects in groups of four, dead ahead but at higher altitude, 15° above. He radios Capt. Roy L. Jorgensen, whose jet he has in sight by its contrail. Jorgensen, at a higher altitude, sees the UFOs below his left wing. Just as the two pilots try to box in the UFOs, Scarborough sees them fade from glowing white to orange and disappear, apparently speeding away due north. Triangulation shows that the UFOs were at about 32,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[4 Jet Fighters Report Race with ‘Saucers’ over](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1954a.htm) [Dallas,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1954a.htm)” Dallas \(Tex.\) Times Herald, May 18, 1954; NICAP, “[Four Navy Fighters Encounter 16 UFOs](http://www.nicap.org/540514dallas%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 32](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=44&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 213 Source ID: Eberhart_2422 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6131 (5158170D) Date: 5/14/1954 Description: 30 ft silver or gray round object as seen from below, showing thin silhouette (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540514](http://www.nicap.org/540514greatyarmouth%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Great Yarmouth (10 miles NNW of), UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1661 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6132 (AB447E0D) Date: 5/14/1954 Description: Four Navy Fighters Encounter 16 UFOs (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540514](http://www.nicap.org/540514dallas%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dallas, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1662 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6133 (54B12B8E) Date: Late Spring 1954 Description: Noon. A family living in a cottage on the outskirts of Norco, California, is sitting down for lunch when they hear a metallic droning sound. The mother and daughter go outside and see an object like a rowboat with a transparent dome, 20 feet long and 10 feet wide, pass slowly overhead, then stop and hover over a nearby tree. Inside the dome are five helmeted men staring at the witnesses. Their “rather long faces” are olive-colored, and their eyes and hair are dark. After a minute the droning sound resumes, and the object takes off slowly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald B. Hanlon, “[Occupants Observed at Norco,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 3 \(May/June 1968\): 15–16; Clark III 267 Source ID: Eberhart_2397 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6134 (57C5140F) Date: 5/15/1954 Description: Gen. [Nathan F. Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) USAF Chief of Staff, speaking at an Armed Forces Day dinner at Amarillo AFB \[now Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport\], Texas, says that the Air Force has the best brains in the country working on the “flying saucer problem.” He adds that about 90% of the reports are pure imagination, with the rest unexplained. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Air Force Looks into ‘Saucers,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93824927/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Herald, May 17, 1954, p. 38; Keyhoe, [FS](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) [Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 145–146 Source ID: Eberhart_2423 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6135 (99839B63) Date: 5/15/1954 Description: Air Force Chief Nathan Twining tells audience in Amarillo that best brains of Air Force are trying to solve the riddle of the flying saucers: "If they come from Mars, there is nothing to be alarmed about!" Type: statement Reference: ["My First 10,000,000 Sponsors" by Frank Edwards](https://www.amazon.com/My-First-10-000-Sponsors/dp/B0018MZV76), page 123 Location: Amarillo, TX Source ID: Maj2_534 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6136 (1DB5C769) Date: 5/15/1954 Description: General Nathan F. Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff, stated the best brains in the country were working on the UFO problem; Air Force could not explain 10 per cent of the sightings. [Quoted by United Press; Amarillo, Texas]. Type: public statement Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_880 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6137 (60856649) Date: 5/15/1954 Description: Three discs in formation. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vienna, Austria Source ID: NICAP_DB_1663 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6138 (7DE71F60) Date: 5/16/1954 Description: At least six observers in a 65 square kilometer area around Roma, Queensland, Australia sighted a yellow, V-shaped object flying to the east. It was estimated to be four meters wide. It turned over a house, and was absolutely silent as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3371, citing APRO Bulletin, September 1954 Source ID: Johnson_2885 Source: Johnson ### Event 6139 (7462AC88) Date: 5/18/1954 Time: 1900 Description: Two persons witnessed the landing of a lens-shaped object the size of a house. It came to the ground near the railroad tracks, kicking up a small sand storm in the desert. One witness first decided to approach it, then ran away in fear. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Binder ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_129 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6140 (3012CEBF) Date: 5/18/1954 Description: House-size lens-shaped object land near railroad tracks (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cannon AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1664 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6141 (4E36856A) Date: 5/18/1954 Description: [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29) mentions CRIFO on his radio program, and within a week [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) gets 6,000 letters. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_2424 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6142 (921E5E6E) Date: 5/18/1954 Description: Two people witnessed the landing of a lens-shaped object, the size of a house, at Cannon AFB, New Mexico. It came to the ground near the railroad tracks, kicking up a small sandstorm in the desert. One witness started to approach it, then ran away in fear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Otto Binder, What We Really Know about Flying Saucers; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 206 Source ID: Johnson_2950 Source: Johnson ### Event 6143 (153FF6B9) Date: 5/18/1954 Description: Dark blue almost black gun-metal "glint" delta-shaped object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 2994) Reference: NICAP: [540518](http://www.nicap.org/540518elsinore%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elsinore, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1665 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6144 (E785905F) Date: 5/19/1954 Description: A Ms. Heffer in the hamlet of Shobley, in the New Forest, Hampshire, England saw an intense glare in the sky at around 11 p.m. A 50-foot orb descended to the treetops; it then glided down road toward Bruton, Somerset where a close encounter occurred at 2 a.m. the next morning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_2971 Source: Johnson ### Event 6145 (A7721E3B) Date: 5/19/1954 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a fisherman in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi watched three reddish-yellow objects that hung in the sky for 45 minuts. They bobbed up and down, and glided away fast to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 100 Source ID: Johnson_2972 Source: Johnson ### Event 6146 (1033A0CA) Date: 5/20/1954 Description: Mr. Nigel Frapple was cycling home from a dance in Wincanton, England. At Redlynch crossroads he saw an orange glow in a field and stopped to observe it from a hedge. The glow came from a huge object on the other side of the hedge only 35 meters away, hovering less than seven meters above the ground. It made a throbbing sound. After a minute it moved toward away the northwest, accelerating and climbing into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 206-207 Source ID: Johnson_3004 Source: Johnson ### Event 6147 (61D06FCE) Date: 5/20/1954 Description: Private Frank Scully note at AHC: CIC officers told 3 weeks ago by Maj. May that 30 diamond drill bits were destroyed attempting to drill into a saucer with no effect (actual event could have been a long time before). Type: private notes Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4) Location: California Source ID: Maj2_535 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6148 (B0041208) Date: 5/20/1954 Time: 0200 Description: Nigel Frapple was cycling home from a dance in Wincanton. At Redlynch crossroads, he saw an orange glow in a field and observed it from a hedge. It came from a huge object 35 m away, less than 7 m above the ground, which made a throbbing sound. After 1 min, it moved toward the northwest, accelerating and climbing. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 2; Humanoids 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bruton, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_130 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6149 (062155B2) Date: 5/20/1954 Description: FBI officials recommend that Attorney General [Herbert Brownell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%5FBrownell%5FJr) authorize FBI break-ins to install bugs during national security investigations. The FBI would seek the Attorney General’s prior approval, as with wiretaps. Brownell concurs, but concludes that he “would be in a much better position to defend the Bureau in the event there should be a technical trespass if he had not heretofore approved it.” His directive empowers the FBI to break into homes and offices and install surveillance microphones without having to notify him or obtain advance approval in each case. The FBI has carte blanche on this until 1965. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bernie Horowitz, “[Wiretapping and J. Edgar](https://unredacted.com/2010/12/20/wiretapping-and-j-edgar-hoover/) [Hoover,](https://unredacted.com/2010/12/20/wiretapping-and-j-edgar-hoover/)” Unredacted, December 20, 2010 Source ID: Eberhart_2425 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6150 (29EB7FFF) Date: 5/22/1954 Description: A bright light make a shallow climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3009) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Porte, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1666 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6151 (54B6C703) Date: 5/22/1954 Time: 9:15 PM Description: Witnesses: highway engineer R.W. Dring, engineer Geert Tibma. One bright light made a shallow climb for 45 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: LaPorte, Indiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_344 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6152 (F72E4E0D) Date: 5/24/1954 Description: At 12:25 p.m. a B-17 on a photo mapping mission over Richmond, Indiana and flying at an altitude of 18,500 feet, suddenly noticed a UFO below and to the right of the plane, moving on a different heading. Leo Brubaker, one of the crewmembers, took a photograph of the object, directed downward toward the clouds, which shows an overexposed bright round blob of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, report form dated May 24, 1954; UNICAT database, case 604, citing David R. Saunders, UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee went wrong, p. 69 Source ID: Johnson_3060 Source: Johnson ### Event 6153 (B4954C79) Date: 5/24/1954 Description: A classic disc-shaped, luminous UFO hovered only a meter above the ground along Highway 3, 15 kilometers outside of Colonel Brandsen, Argentina at 11:50 p.m. Two human-like shadows were seen moving around inside the object. There were two witnesses named Atencio and Garcia and the sighting lasted for about a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roberto Enrique Banchs, Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1976, p. 25; UNICAT datbase, case 541, citing Roberto Banchs, OVNIS y sus Ocupantes, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_3061 Source: Johnson ### Event 6154 (5AA723BE) Date: 5/24/1954 Description: 12:25 p.m. While flying on a photographic mapping mission 10 miles west-northwest of Richmond, Indiana, in a B-17, USAF Maj. [Leo N. Brubaker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8793163/leo-nace-brubaker) observes and photographs a bright object below the plane for 45 seconds. The aircraft is flying at an altitude of 18,500 feet at 253 mph. The speed of the object is estimated at 506 mph. The object travels six miles at that speed. The photos are taken with a USAF T-11 mapping camera. Brubaker denies the object is a sundog. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[B-17 Photographic Mission Case](http://www.nicap.org/540524richmond%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 213 Source ID: Eberhart_2426 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6155 (E4876719) Date: 5/24/1954 Description: 2 USAF crew members of RB-29 saw circular object below the plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dayton (15 miles NW of ), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1667 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6156 (173C077A) Date: 5/24/1954 Description: B-17 Photographic Mission Case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540524](http://www.nicap.org/540524richmond%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richmond, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1668 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6157 (5ACF113E) Date: 5/28/1954 Description: Test pilot [Arthur W. Murray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FW.%5FMurray) reaches an unofficial record altitude of 90,440 feet in a Bell X-1A. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Arthur W. Murray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FW.%5FMurray)” Source ID: Eberhart_2427 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6158 (1A46E741) Date: 5/29/1954 End date: 5/31/1954 Description: The first conference of European and North American political, business, finance, academic, and media leaders later to become known as the Bilderberg group, meets at the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, Netherlands. Its agenda, originally to prevent another world war, is now defined as bolstering a consensus around free market Western capitalism and its interests around the globe. The first meeting is initiated by several people, including Polish politician-in-exile [Józef Retinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef%5FRetinger) who, concerned about the growth of anti-Americanism in Western Europe, proposes an international conference at which leaders from European countries and the United States would be brought together with the aim of promoting Atlanticism. Retinger approaches [Prince Bernhard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FBernhard%5Fof%5FLippe-Biesterfeld) of the Netherlands who agrees to promote the idea, together with former Belgian prime minister [Paul van Zeeland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5Fvan%5FZeeland) and the then-head of Unilever, [Paul Rykens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FRykens)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FRykens)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Bilderberg meeting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg%5Fmeeting)” Source ID: Eberhart_2428 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6159 (0EB36B3B) Date: 5/30/1954 Description: 12:25 a.m. David Reese, [Christopher Muir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%5FMuir), and four others are at the doorstep of a house in East Malvern, Victoria, Australia, when they see an orange, oval-shaped UFO appear in the sky at close range. The UFO maneuvers in a downward curve and then pulls up. A cloud of yellow smoke and flame is seen at the rear. Three of the witnesses see shapes that look like human-shaped shadows inside the craft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files: The Australian UFO Story, Duffy and Snellgrove, 1996; UFO Evidence, “Human Figures Seen in Saucer”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 January–May, Supplemental Notes](http://www.cufos.org/UFO%5FHistory%5FGross/1954%5F01%5F05%5FHistorySN.pdf), The Author, 2002, pp. 46–50 Source ID: Eberhart_2429 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6160 (A18A324D) Date: 5/30/1954 Description: Five men and a woman on the doorstep of a house in East Malvern, Victoria, Australia watched an orange, oval-shaped UFO appear in the sky at close range at 12:25 a.m. The UFO maneuvered in a downward curve and then pulled up. A cloud of yellow smoke and flame was seen at the rear. Three of the witnesses saw shapes that looked like human-shaped shadows inside the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Melbourne Argus, May 31, 1954; Melbourne Daily Telegram, May 31, 1964; James Holledge, Flying Saucers Over Australia, p. 53; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_3164 Source: Johnson ### Event 6161 (A26277DE) Date: 5/30/1954 Description: Silvery elliptical UFO with four "portholes" accelerated and shot away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bambridge, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1669 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6162 (30F9B121) Date: 5/31/1954 Description: Very white, elongated object fly extremely fast then blink out (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3020) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Concord, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1670 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6163 (A35812B1) Date: 5/31/1954 Time: 10:15 AM Description: Witness: Mrs. L.K. Stevens. One very white, elongated object flew very, very fast, and then blinked out after 8-10 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Concord, New Hampshire Source ID: BerlinerBBU_345 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6164 (A5D12AF8) Date: 6/1/1954 Description: TWA Crew Spot White Disc / Kratovil Case (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540601](http://www.nicap.org/540601boston%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boston (near), MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1671 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6165 (173B4548) Date: 6/1/1954 Description: The Air Force announces that it only received 87 UFO sightings in January–April. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Most ‘Saucers’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93830164/) [Explainable,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93830164/)” Traverse City \(Mich.\) Record-Eagle, June 1, 1954, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_2433 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6166 (E8ECFB70) Date: 6/1/1954 Description: At 9:00 p.m. the crew of a USAF B-47 jet bomber was flying at 34,000' altitude located 400 miles south of Minneapolis, Minnesota when they spotted an unknown craft with running lights that flew at 24,000-44,000' altitude for one hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #3029; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 45 Source ID: Johnson_3198 Source: Johnson ### Event 6167 (5870B1BB) Date: 6/1/1954 Description: 9:30–9:40 a.m. TWA pilot Capt. [Charles J. Kratovil](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47885416/charles-joseph-kratovil)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47885416/charles-joseph-kratovil) copilot W. R. Davis, and flight engineer Harold Raney, on a Paris to New York TWA Constellation heading southwest, spot near Boston, Massachusetts, “a large, white- colored disc-like object” overhead, occasionally losing it behind overlying clouds. Flying into west-southwest headwinds at 300 mph, they conclude it cannot be a balloon, and radio Boston airport control tower, which tells them jets are scrambled. They then see the object at about 10,000 feet higher than their 10,000 feet altitude but cannot close with the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[TWA Crew Spot White Disc / Kratovil Case](http://www.nicap.org/540601boston%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 214; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#balloons)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 68–69 Source ID: Eberhart_2432 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6168 (2B67E3E3) Date: 6/1/1954 Description: Object with running lights fly at 24,000-44,000 ft altitude (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3029) Reference: NICAP: [540601](http://www.nicap.org/540601minneap%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minneapolis, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1672 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6169 (A3748C68) Date: 6/1/1954 Time: 9 PM Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF B-47 jet bomber at 34,000' altitude. One object with running lights flew at 24-44,000' altitude for 1 hour. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: from 400 miles south to Minneapolis, Minnesota Source ID: BerlinerBBU_346 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6170 (BF655B78) Date: 6/4/1954 Description: From Leonard Stringfield’s CRIFO newsletter: “Mantle of Mystery Shrouds Muroc”. A source in CA writes in a letter that the US government has “captured discs”. “In the strictness secrecy these objects are being examined by the top ‘brains’ in the country…Information regarding the discs propulsion, metal and structure would be sugar in the hands of the Russians.” Type: letter Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4) Location: Edwards AFB Source ID: Maj2_536 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6171 (DE654517) Date: 6/5/1954 Description: 6:23 p.m. Janette Brown, 16, is standing on Princes Highway \(M1\) at Dandenong, Victoria, Australia, when she hears a loud drumming noise. A large, dark cylinder, about 30 feet long and 15 feet high with a canopy and window on top and a window at each end, appears above a nearby factory. She shines a flashlight on it, and it whirrs toward her. It hovers about 60 feet away. Her friend, Jeanette Johnston, 13, arrives and watches it before it disappears behind trees. Janette’s wristwatch stops, although it starts running again when it is demagnetized. The case is investigated for the RAAF by University of Melbourne physicist O. H. “Harry” Turner. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFO Evidence, “[Teenage Girls See Saucer](http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case19.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2434 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6172 (451B6CEE) Date: 6/5/1954 Description: In East Dandenong, Victoria at 6:23 p.m. on this evening in 1954, a sixteen-year-old girl and her best friend were terrified by a 10 meter long cylinder that hovered only 20 meters above them. A wristwatch stopped working and their flashlight's battery was reportedly drained. The craft had a window on top and a bluish light on each end, and made a drumming noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files. Source ID: Johnson_3292 Source: Johnson ### Event 6173 (D9B3AAB5) Date: 6/7/1954 Description: 2 glowing discs descend vertically then rise rapidly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: unknown Location, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_1673 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6174 (B35EFF73) Date: 6/7/1954 Description: On this day in 1954, while driving between Indio and Brawley, California on US highway 99, a witness spotted a 12-meter diameter metallic disc hovering one mile above Mount Superstition for more than 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 339 Source ID: Johnson_3348 Source: Johnson ### Event 6175 (3D6CDC19) Date: 6/7/1954 End date: 6/8/1954 Description: PIO Capt. Robert White at the Pentagon repeats the 87 reports statistic from June 1 and counters that reports are at a three-year-low because of less publicity. [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield)’s colleague, Cincinnati, Ohio, businessman Tom Eickhoff, storms into the office of ATIC Deputy Commander of Intelligence Col. [John O’Mara](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/OMara.htm) and demands that ATIC press legal action against contactees [Truman Bethurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) O’Mara replies that these people are obvious hoaxers and need no special action. But he lets slip that USAF fighters regularly carry movie cameras to take photos of UFOs. Eickhoff says that is a big waste of money if there is nothing to UFOs. O’Mara then states to Stringfield the next day that the Air Force actually receives 700 UFO reports a week, the 87 figure only applies to cases under “special analysis,” over 1,000 leading scientists are working on government UFO projects, the material used by [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) in his book was not cleared through official channels, and the Utah film exists but only shows conventional objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 157–160; “[700 ‘Saucer’ Sightings Weekly Reported to Air Force,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 4 \(July 2, 1954\): 1; “[Proof of](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf) [Air Force Cover-Up,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 4 \(July 2, 1954\): 1–2; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 85, 167–168; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 137–138](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/136/mode/2up); Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers—Here and Now! Lyle Stuart, 1967, [p. 86](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersher00edwa/page/86/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2435 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6176 (291CCAEC) Date: 6/8/1954 Description: Sometime after one o'clock in the morning and before 2:30 a.m. Mr. L. T. Prewitt, an employee of the Red River Arsenal, sighted a golden yellow light fly over his house in Texarkana, Texas for two minutes, making a "shhhh" or buzzing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #3037; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3368 Source: Johnson ### Event 6177 (2016F85C) Date: 6/8/1954 Description: Contactee Frances Swan of Eliot, Maine, has been in telepathic contact with Affa, a spaceman from Uranus, since 1954. She manages to impress her next-door neighbor, retired Adm. [Herbert B.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Knowles.htm) [Knowles](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/03/06/75711948.html?pageNumber=23), sufficiently for him to write Rear Adm. [Carl F. Espe](https://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=525257), head of the Office of Naval Intelligence. He encloses some of Affa’s transcribed messages and suggests that ONI try to communicate with Affa through Band CMM-306, repeating the signal M4M4 AFFA. Two ONI officers, Captains John Bromley and [Harry Baltazzi](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18708343/harry-warner-baltazzi), visit Swan and through her interview Affa, who agrees to communicate with them by radio on June 10. When that does not happen, Espe writes to Knowles saying that ONI will pursue the matter no further. He turns the letters over to the Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1118 Source ID: Eberhart_2436 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6178 (A589C8A6) Date: 6/8/1954 Time: 1 AM or 2:30 AM Description: (file not clear). Witness: L.T. Prewitt, employee of Red River Arsenal. One golden yellow light flew over his house, making a "shhh" or buzzing sound for 2 minutes. 9:09 PM Witness: USAF pilot ht. One white light descended at Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Texarkana, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_347 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6179 (92E16C3F) Date: 6/9/1954 Description: Man saw golden yellow light fly over his house (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3037) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Texarkana, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1674 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6180 (CB8F82C2) Date: 6/9/1954 Description: Col. [Frank Milani](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95411954/frank-milani)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95411954/frank-milani) director of Civil Defense in Baltimore, Maryland, demands that the Air Force ease its restrictions on UFO information and blasts its policy on [Lou Corbin](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/index.html)’s radio show. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Lot of People Are Upset,” Washington \(D.C.\) Daily News, June 10, 1954; Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1954](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/1954goc.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2437 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6181 (BBBC61CD) Date: 6/9/1954 Time: 1820 Description: Janet Brown, 16, and a 13-year-old friend heard a loud noise and saw a large, dark object that "burst into light" hovering 20 m away at the height of a factory gate. It was cylindrical, 10 m long, 5 m high, with a canopy on top. It flew away and was lost to sight behind some trees. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins U 216 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: East Dandenong, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_131 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6182 (7C3AB8EA) Date: 6/9/1954 Description: Janet Brown, age 16, and a 13-year-old friend of East Dandenong, Victoria heard a loud noise at 6:20 p.m. and saw a large, dark object that "burst into light" hovering 20 meters away at the height of a factory gate. It was cylindrical, 10 meters long, 5 meters high, with a canopy on top. It flew away and was lost to sight behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 216; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 207 Source ID: Johnson_3383 Source: Johnson ### Event 6183 (13D931C3) Date: 6/10/1954 Time: 9:09 PM Description: Witness: USAF pilot Capt. Bill McDonald, in flight. One white light descended at 45 degrees from great altitude, passed under his aircraft, made two 360' turns and went out after 30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Estacado, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_348 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6184 (BED2B3CD) Date: 6/10/1954 Description: AF Pilots See Light Descend, Maneuver (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3042) Reference: NICAP: [540610](http://www.nicap.org/540610estacado%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Estacado, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1675 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6185 (B38CA2D0) Date: 6/11/1954 Description: While flying from Charleston, West Virginia to Atlanta on this morning, British astronomer H. Percy Wilkins observed two brilliant, oval shaped objects above the clouds 2 miles away. "Sharp edged," bright gold in color, they "looked exactly like polished metal plates reflecting the sunlight," he wrote. They moved in slow motion northwards as the clouds drifted south. He also noticed a third UFO, this one gray in color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers --Serious Business, pg. 47. Source ID: Johnson_3416 Source: Johnson ### Event 6186 (7BD6257F) Date: 6/11/1954 Description: Huge glowing object seen by GOC observers; alternately hovered, moved rapidly. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baltimore, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1676 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6187 (7AEC7E71) Date: 6/12/1954 Description: 11:30 p.m. [Walter L. Tatspaugh](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65740781/walter-ludlow-tatspaugh) of Hyattsville, Maryland, observes a large bluish-green oval or round object circling and hovering in the sky for at least 45 minutes. The Baltimore GOC Filter Center allegedly tracks an object on radar over Wilmington, Delaware, for an hour. Two F-86D fighters are scrambled but cannot reach it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Tracked / Jets Scrambled](http://www.nicap.org/540612baltimore%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 161–162 Source ID: Eberhart_2439 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6188 (10E1F127) Date: 6/12/1954? Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and [Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29) find out about the [O’Mara](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/OMara.htm) interview, and Edwards puts it on his radio broadcast, generating more press calls to ATIC. Capt. [Charles A. Hardin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49197803/charles-alton-hardin)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49197803/charles-alton-hardin) head of Blue Book, states that “Colonel O’Mara’s words were misinterpreted. What he meant to say was that if all the sightings were reported to the Air Force, they would total about 700 a week.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 157–160; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf) [June–August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 11–14 Source ID: Eberhart_2438 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6189 (3011BFD1) Date: 6/12/1954 Description: Baltimore & Washington, DC area, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [540612](http://www.nicap.org/540612baltimore%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baltimore & Washington, DC area, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_1677 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6190 (FE3CA63C) Date: 6/13/1954 Description: A sphere was observed hovering over Boston, Massachusetts at 8:00 p.m. Two lights exited from the sphere and returned to it. The object then vanished, but shortly reappeared, then shrank in size and brightness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. June-August 1954, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_3455 Source: Johnson ### Event 6191 (4B52E683) Date: 6/14/1954 Description: Jets were scrambled but could not reach a hovering craft at high altitude in the sky between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State: A chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 407 Source ID: Johnson_3472 Source: Johnson ### Event 6192 (A7A31383) Date: 6/14/1954 Description: A UFO is again tracked over Wilmington, Delaware, flying in a rectangular course at 75,000 feet for more than 2 hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 161–162; UFOEv, [p. 66](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=78&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2440 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6193 (2A10FF80) Date: 6/18/1954 Description: Sighted an unidentified flying object over Laketi in the Likuala Mossaka region of the middle Congo. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: French Equatorial, Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_1678 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6194 (2C19869D) Date: 6/18/1954 Description: 7:35 p.m. Monsignor [Émile Élie Verhille](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile%5F%C3%89lie%5FVerhille), Apostolic Vicar of Fort-Rousset \[modern Owando, Republic of the Congo\], reports in the Brazzaville newspaper La Semaine de L’akf that he and others had seen a UFO over Laketi Mission in the Mossaka District. A luminous globe arrives from the north and heads towards Laketi. It suddenly stops, rises and falls, stops again, gyrates, and seems to shake. A noise like that of an airplane engine is heard until the moment when it also stops. Seen through binoculars, the object has a dark mass in the center with light rays of unequal length coming out of it alternately. It goes through its maneuvers for 15 minutes then shoots back over the northern horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 134](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2441 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6195 (CF8BF423) Date: Summer 1954 Description: Late night. A young girl in Arbutus, Maryland, wakes up when a bright light shines into her bedroom window. Looking outside, she sees a triangle of brilliant white lights parallel to the ground, illuminating everything, hanging in the air, and pointing directly at her. All of a sudden they are gone. Fort the next two days, she has a fever that forces her to stay home from school. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_2431 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6196 (01B87013) Date: Summer 1954 Description: [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) spends a few months in Noblesville, Indiana, working at Soulcraft Publications, run by mystic and fascist [William Dudley Pelley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FDudley%5FPelley)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FDudley%5FPelley) Mostly he contributes UFO news for the magazine, but some of Pelley’s anti-Semitic attitudes creep into Williamson’s later writings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1285; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 100–103 Source ID: Eberhart_2430 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6197 (DC4FA7D3) Date: 6/21/1954 Description: Car motor quit as UFO crossed highway ahead of car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ridgeway, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1679 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6198 (6189E068) Date: 6/21/1954 Description: Object appeared to be similar to an airplane with a glass bottom with orange lights shining through the object. Mr. XXXXX had sighted the same object on 21 and 23 June 1954. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [540621](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/aca%5F540621.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Savannah, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1680 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6199 (412ED192) Date: Summer 1954 Alternate date: Summer 1955 Description: Evening. Dianne Vezza and two other teen girls are sitting in a backyard in Marietta, Ohio, when they see a star-like light moving at great speed. Suddenly it comes to a dead stop and two other stars speed in and come to an abrupt stop. The three objects form a perfect triangle. An oval object then becomes visible as the starlike objects disappear. Two other oval objects take up the same triangular position with the first. They then begin a light display with wildly colored lights that continues for a few seconds. The lights go out, and each of the objects beams a bright white light to the center of the triangle. The beams meet in the center for a few seconds and then go out. The oval objects disappear and the starlike lights return, but they soon speed off in different directions faster than a jet. The display is completely soundless. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Another Type of UFO Display,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_2452 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6200 (C1B0C719) Date: 6/21/1954 Description: Bright round disc-shaped object with dome-like stucture on top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Delray Beach, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1681 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6201 (CF392E12) Date: 6/21/1954 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Guy Baker saw a hovering, domed disc-shaped object in Ridgeway, Ontario. It was about 14 meters in diameter (40 feet) and had several rotating, flashing lights around the rim. They drove their car to get a closer look. The object crossed the road in front of the car and landed in a field. The car stalled and they had to push it because it would not re-start, although it had never given them trouble before the incident or since. They watched as the lights moved around in the area. They found a large, brown, circular spot in the pasture where the disk had been resting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gregory Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Report, p. 6; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 2, case 9 Source ID: Johnson_3569 Source: Johnson ### Event 6202 (129FE74D) Date: 6/21/1954 Description: 8:14 p.m. An unidentified radar blip located over central Vancouver Island, British Columbia, responds to coded IFF Mode 1 signals from the Naselle Air Force Station radar site \[now Fort Stevens Historic Site\] in southwestern Washington State, and instantly transmits back the correct coded responses. The blip is tracked on 3 ground radars at both Naselle and McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lewis-McChord\] in Tacoma. The UFO splits into two \(or consists of two objects in close formation\), separates, and outmaneuvers one of two F-86D jet interceptors, both of which also radar-tracked the UFOs. Possible visual sightings of the radar target are called in to sheriff’s offices and news media. The case is forwarded to Project Blue Book, but it does not appear in its files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Coded IFF Signal from UFO](https://www.nicap.org/540622wash%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 215 Source ID: Eberhart_2443 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6203 (79B55A53) Date: 6/21/1954 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Guy Baker saw a disk, about 14 m in diameter, with a dome and several rotating lights. They had to push their car, which could not be started until the object left the ground. They found a large, brown, circular spot in the pasture where the disk had been resting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 104 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ridgeway, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_132 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6204 (4F00FA68) Date: 6/21/1954 Description: 1:00 a.m. Near Ridgeway, Ontario, [Guy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157706195/guy-h%5F-baker) and [Valeria Baker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157706288/valeria-b%5F-baker) see a hovering, domed disc about 40 feet in diameter with several rotating, flashing lights around the rim. They drive to get a closer look. The object crosses the road in front of them and lands in a field. The car stalls, and they watch as the lights move around the area. They find a large, brown, circular spot in the pasture where the disc has been resting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 6–7; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) CUFOS, 1981, p. 2; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug-SN.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 June–August, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug-SN.pdf), The Author, 2002, pp. 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_2442 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6205 (7A1929D9) Date: 6/22/1954 Time: 9 PM Description: Witnesses: U.S. Marine Corps Maj. E. Buchser and Maj. J.V. Wilkins. One meteor-like object descended, stopped, and became extremely bright. Sighting lasted 7 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Miami Beach, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_349 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6206 (ADF2B2DA) Date: 6/22/1954 Description: At around 9 p.m. U.S. Marine Corps Major E. Buchser and Major J. V. Wilkins In Miami Beach, Florida witnessed a meteor-like object descend, stop, and become extremely bright. Sighting lasted 7 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3600 Source: Johnson ### Event 6207 (2E216469) Date: 6/22/1954 Description: Also in 1954 an eighty-foot long blimp-shaped UFO drifted over Cleveland, Ohio at 300 feet altitude. The object veered up sharply and shot away after about 5-10 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics Source ID: Johnson_3601 Source: Johnson ### Event 6208 (C684C52E) Date: 6/22/1954 Description: Meteor like object descend, stop, and become extremely bright (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3062) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miami Beach, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1682 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6209 (CF8F33AB) Date: 6/23/1954 Description: Something Follows C-47 & Observed By RB-47 Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540623](http://www.nicap.org/540623columbus2%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bt. Dayton & Columbus, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1684 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6210 (D87EE247) Date: 6/23/1954 Description: F-51 Trailed By Object / Lt. Roe Sighting (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540623](http://www.nicap.org/540623columbus%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus (near), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1683 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6211 (13D44E23) Date: 6/23/1954 Description: 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. Pilot Capt. [Harry Roe Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137887279/harry-l%5F-roe)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137887279/harry-l%5F-roe) flying an Ohio Air National Guard F-51 Mustang fighter at 240 mph from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio, sees a round white object with no exhaust trailing him in the same position a little above and behind at close range, possibly detected on airborne radar. Roe maneuvers to try to lose it or collide with it, but the UFO remains in relatively the same position until it departs to the southeast. S/Sgt Maynard Harris at Wright-Patterson AFB picks up the plane and the UFO on radar. He scrambles two F-86s in the Columbus area to check it out, but they see nothing. At 10:00 p.m., Maj. Frank J. Gshwandtner and 2nd Lt. Robert P. Lommori, flying in the Columbus area in an RB-47E aircraft, observe a white object the size of a baseball at 25,000 feet. The object is extremely fast and makes a gradual turn to begin a slight climb. It then flies out of sight. The duration is 30 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[F-51 Trailed by Object / Lt. Roe Sighting](http://www.nicap.org/540623columbus%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Something Follows C-47 and Observed by RB-47 Crew](http://www.nicap.org/540623columbus2%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 167–168; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 216 Source ID: Eberhart_2444 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6212 (A582468D) Date: 6/24/1954 Time: 12:45 PM Description: Witness: R.B. Tomer, director of commercial engineering for CBS-Hytron. One white, elliptical-shaped object covered 45^ of sky in 30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Danvers, Massachusetts Source ID: BerlinerBBU_350 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6213 (A2BF9181) Date: 6/24/1954 Description: White, elliptical-shaped object cover 45° of sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3067) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Danvers, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1685 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6214 (BB60E08F) Date: 6/25/1954 Time: 5:05 PM Description: Witnesses: experienced private pilot John Mark, flying Navion lightplane; radar at Dayton, Ohio airport, tracked very fast target at same location. One silver or aluminum round object with a flat bottom, raised front edge, inverted cone on top, and a diameter of about 60'. Flew horizontally, hovered, made a high-G pull up and then a steep climb into an overcast. Sighting lasted 3-5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Indian Lake, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_351 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6215 (9CBD5E23) Date: 6/25/1954 Description: A 40-foot diameter disc with a cone-shaped top was sighted by a private pilot over Indian Lake, Ohio at 4:05 p.m. Jets were seen pursuing the object. Ground radar returns confirmed the presence of the UFO. Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3072 Source ID: Johnson_3649 Source: Johnson ### Event 6216 (6F1F3CB3) Date: 6/25/1954 Description: Navion Encounters Flat-Bottomed Object / Tracked On Ground Radar (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3072) Reference: NICAP: [540625](http://www.nicap.org/540625indianlake%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indian Lake, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1686 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6217 (0323432F) Date: Late 6/1954 Description: Some 300 people in West Berlin, Germany, see three silvery UFOs on several occasions. Moving in a zigzag motion and accelerating at high speed. Rudolf Hermes, a director at Tempelhof Airport \[now closed\], says the witnesses describe the objects as “shiny.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Triangle Saucers Reported Seen near Berlin,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98856881/)” Lancaster \(Pa.\) Sunday News, July 4, 1954, p. 19 Source ID: Eberhart_2445 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6218 (B3E85099) Date: 6/26/1954 Description: Airliner Investigates Strange Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [540626](http://www.nicap.org/540626ohio%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus (near), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1687 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6219 (E23DA437) Date: 6/26/1954 Description: 12:40 a.m. The Atomic Energy Commission’s National Reactor Testing Station near Idaho Falls, Idaho, is suddenly lit up by a blinding glow that explodes in the night sky. Kelly Brooks and A. L. Taylor say the source of the light remains motionless for a few seconds, then shoots upwards at a tremendous speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) [Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 168 Source ID: Eberhart_2446 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6220 (3A58AC7E) Date: 6/26/1954 Description: Around 7:30 a.m. A metallic blob is seen high in the sky near Columbus, Ohio. According to a newspaper article, a crew of an airliner is asked to investigate; the crew circles under the object while the 60 passengers take a look. Zanesville Radio says at 5:55 a.m. a round, silvery object is detected on an azimuth of 80°. At 5:35 a.m., an Air Force charter flight, No. 46 AF 23-24 to Wilmington, Delaware, flying at 3,000 feet observes an object in the Zanesville, Ohio, area at approximately 18,000 to 20,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Airliner Investigates Strange](http://www.nicap.org/540626ohio%5Fdir.htm) [Object](http://www.nicap.org/540626ohio%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2447 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6221 (E046000F) Date: 6/27/1954 Description: The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering in Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, Russia, becomes the first grid-connected nuclear power plant in the world. The plan achieves criticality on May 6 and now is set up to provide electrical power to Moscow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obninsk%5FNuclear%5FPower%5FPlant)” Source ID: Eberhart_2448 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6222 (43EAB4C7) Date: 6/29/1954 End date: 6/30/1954 Description: Large opaque or black object with 6 smaller satellite objects on a horizontal line BOAC Case (AL) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540629-30](http://www.nicap.org/540629boac%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: E of Seven Isles, Quebec, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1688 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6223 (A219F48A) Date: 6/29/1954 Description: 5:03 p.m. A BOAC Stratocruiser leaves New York City bound for London, England. 30 minutes later, Capt. James R. Howard receives directions from Boston Air Traffic Center to hold his position over the Rhode Island coast. Howard circles for 10–12 minutes, after which Boston tells him to detour over Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Around 11:30 p.m. while crossing at 19,000 feet near Sept-Îles, Quebec, Howard, his copilot Lee Boyd, and navigator H. McDonnell see a large cigar-shaped object and six smaller black ovals moving the same speed as his airliner, 265 mph, on a parallel course. The small objects are strung out in a line, changing relative positions but always at the same level. The large object slowly and continually changes shape, “in a way that a swarm of bees might alter its appearance.” They appear opaque, hard-edged, gray in color, with no lights or flames visible. Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador, orders an F-94 to vector toward the location. Just as Howard is giving the pilot his position, the small objects disappear. McDonnell says they enter the large object. As the F- 94 approaches, the large object dwindles in size and disappears. Howard lands at Goose Bay and is questioned by RCAF and USAF officials \(McConnell says they take the flight logs\); when he lands in London, the Air Ministry does the same, telling the pilots they viewed a solar eclipse \(which took place at 7:00 a.m. on June 30\). Howard later hears that there are UFO sightings in Massachusetts while he is in a holding pattern, and he contests in the December 11 issue of Everybody’s Magazine that what he saw was solid, not a mirage. [Gordon Thayer](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/) of the Colorado project identifies the objects as superior mirages, reflections of the “dark terrain below seen against the bright, ‘silvery’ sky to the left of the setting sun,” a “phenomenon so rare that it apparently has never been reported before or since.” [James McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) disagrees. In 2010, ufologist [Martin Shough](http://www.cufos.org/shough.html) reexamines the case and concludes that the object might well have been an unusual mirage. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[BOAC Stratocruiser Case](http://www.nicap.org/540629boac%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 216; Clark III 195; Condon, [pp. 139–140](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/138/mode/2up); James Howard, “We Were Shadowed from Outer Space,” Everybody’s Weekly, December 11, 1954; John Carnell, “[BOAC’s Flying Jellyfish,](https://archive.org/details/fate-1954-11%5F202110/page/16/mode/2up)” Fate 7, no. 11 \(November 1954\): 16–23; Leonard Cramp, “[Mystery over Labrador,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CMar-Apr%2CV%201%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 1 \(Spring 1955\): 6–8; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 46; “[Captain James Howard Reflects on His Sighting of 1954 \(BOAC\),](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oq%5FiWc0HTM)” nutsandbolts ufo YouTube channel, March 7, 2009; Good Above, [pp. 189–191](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/188/mode/2up); Phillip Robertson, “[Some Considerations on the Seven Isles, Quebec,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/robertson%5Fboac.htm) [Canada, Case of June 29, 1954,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/robertson%5Fboac.htm)” May 31, 1991; Martin Shough, “[Study of an Unusual Phenomenon Observed by](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/BOAC%20aircrew%20sighting.pdf) [BOAC Aircrew over Labrador, Newfoundland, June 29, 1954,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/BOAC%20aircrew%20sighting.pdf)” September 2009; Martin Shough, “[The BOAC](https://www.caelestia.be/BOAC.html) [Labrador Sighting of June 29, 1954,](https://www.caelestia.be/BOAC.html)” Caelestia, October 31, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_2449 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6224 (5A059827) Date: 6/29/1954 Description: A BOAC Strato Cruiser (British Airways) on a trans Atlantic flight with Capt. James Howard in command was traveling at 260 knots at 19,000 ft. when the crew saw a large CIGAR shaped UFO with six smaller UFOs flying close to it. Among the others to witness these events were First Officer Lee Boyd and Navigator Capt. H. McDonnell. After 15 minutes of observing the UFOs, Capt. Howard radioed Goose Bay, Canada, for backup escort, upon which the smaller UFOs entered the bigger Cigar shaped one which then shot away. Upon landing, Howard and Boyd were debriefed by intelligence officers and their flight logs were confiscated by USAF personnel. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Atlantic Ocean Source ID: Maj2_537 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6225 (CC1EE144) Date: 6/30/1954 Description: 6:50 p.m. Four civilians and several military personnel at Brookley AFB \[now Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley\] in Mobile, Alabama, see a brilliant silver or white object with short stubby wings approach from the south, circle over Mobile, then depart to the northeast. A radar contact at 6:30 p.m. with a stationary object is evidently unrelated anomalous propagation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object with Short Stubby Wings Tracked on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/540630mobile%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 216 Source ID: Eberhart_2451 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6226 (186BC3B0) Date: 6/30/1954 Description: Two silvery disks observed and photographed from eclipse expedition planes. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oslo, Norway Source ID: NICAP_DB_1690 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6227 (B2BDED21) Date: 6/30/1954 Description: 2:17 p.m. Johnny Björnulf and Raun Conradi are aboard one of three Scandinavian Airlines planes flying above the Lifjell plateau, Telemark, Norway, to observe a total solar eclipse. Conradi takes some footage through a window on the north \(port\) side of one airplane. When developed it shows two small light sources that are fairly obvious window reflections, but media coverage causes much confusion about the circumstances under which the film is shot. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: E. Graham, “[Scandinavian Eclipse Expedition Films U.F.O.s,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CJan-Feb%2CV%202%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1956\): 6–7; UFOEv, [p. 5](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=17&skin=2021); Clas Svahn, “[The Björnulf Solar Eclipse Film,](https://csblogg.ufo.se/csblogg3/?p=5240)” Clas Svahns Blogg, October 6, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2450 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6228 (AB4B505C) Date: 6/30/1954 Description: At 6:50 p.m. a silvery metallic fuselage-shaped UFO with stubby wings was tracked on radar and also observed from the tower by two air traffic controllers at Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile, Alabama. The object came from the south and circled the city. There was no sound detected from the craft as it flew in what was described as a highly maneuverable manner and at a high speed, shooting off to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 176; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 23; UNICAT case # 447, citing Robert D. Boyd, A Comparative Unit, p. 58; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 134 Source ID: Johnson_3741 Source: Johnson ### Event 6229 (DB9426BF) Date: 6/30/1954 Description: Object With Short Stubby Wings Tracked On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540630](http://www.nicap.org/540630mobile%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brookley AFB (Mobile), AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1689 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6230 (CC524D97) Date: 7/1954 Description: A saucer-buff zine titled Nexus is first published by [James W. Moseley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FW.%5FMoseley) in New Jersey. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Nexus](http://cufos.org/Nexus/1954%5F07%5F00%5FNexus01.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(July 1954\); Clark III 1032 Source ID: Eberhart_2453 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6231 (CC58CF6C) Date: 7/2/1954 Description: 11:05 a.m. An F-94C Starfire takes off from Griffiss AFB \[now Griffiss Business and Technology Park\] in Rome, New York, on an operational training mission. It is only a few miles out when the Griffiss control tower orders the plane diverted to intercept an unidentified aircraft. When Pilot Lt. William E. Atkins cannot find the aircraft, the controller tells him about a second unidentified aircraft, which Atkins identifies as an Air Force C-47. The control tower vectors him back to the first target. Atkins cannot see any aircraft above the cloud cover, so he descends below the clouds. During the descent, a furnace-like heat fills the cockpit and the engine plenum chamber fire warning light goes on. Atkins shuts the engine off, but the light remains on. Atkins and his radar man, Henry F. Coudon \[or Condon\], eject, landing without injury. At 11:27 a.m., the plane crashes into the town of Walesville, west of Utica, striking a building and an auto, killing 4 people, and injuring 5 others. Atkins tells reporters about the heat but clams up under Air Force pressure. The official investigation confirms the fire was caused by a malfunction of the fire detector circuit. There is no evidence of an in-flight fire. [Kevin Randle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle) suspects a balloon is responsible for one of the radar targets, because an apparent balloon is sighted later, from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m., in a 25-square-mile area from Rome to Frankfort, New York. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Abandoned Jet Kills 3 in Car,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/07/03/84614854.pdf) [1 in House,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/07/03/84614854.pdf)” New York Times, July 3, 1954, pp. 1, 6; “[Jet Plane Crashes in Flames,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93872663/) [Kills 3 in Auto, One in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93872710/) [House,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93872710/)” Syracuse \(N.Y.\) Post-Standard, July 3, 1954, pp. 1, 3; NICAP, “[The Walesville Incident / F-94 Crash](http://www.nicap.org/540702walesville%5Fdir.htm)”; Kevin D. Randle, “Walesville Revisited,” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 3–5; Frank J. Reid, “Keyhoe’s Context,” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 6–7, 28–29; Kevin D. Randle, “[Walesville UFO Jet Chase,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2009/03/walesville-ufo-jet-chase.html)” A Different Perspective, March 28, 2009; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 174–177; Condon, [p. 161](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/160/mode/2up); Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 22–23](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/22/mode/2up); “[‘Balloon’ Excites Utica,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/07/03/84615056.pdf)” New York Times, July 3, 1954, p. 13 Source ID: Eberhart_2454 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6232 (9B848E94) Date: 7/2/1954 Description: Walesville, New York, G,A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [540702](http://www.nicap.org/540702walesville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Walesville, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1691 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6233 (9756C822) Date: 7/3/1954 Description: Radar scope photos of a geometric formation of 7 objects. G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540703](http://www.nicap.org/540703bermuda%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bermuda (near), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1694 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6234 (BADBDBCD) Date: 7/3/1954 Description: Albuquerque, New Mexico, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [540703](http://www.nicap.org/540703albuquerque%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1693 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6235 (0F4EBA4B) Date: 7/3/1954 Description: Nine green spheres hover, speed away at 2,600 mph, and are tracked on radar at 24,000 feet 20 miles north of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 85](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=97&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2455 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6236 (2A0BA3A5) Date: 7/3/1954 Description: 8:15 a.m. The captain, officers, and 463 passengers of a Dutch ocean liner watch a “greenish-colored, saucer- shaped object about half the size of a full moon” speed across the sky and disappear in clouds. \[same as July 29 entry?\] Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 237](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/236/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2456 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6237 (47AC7545) Date: 7/5/1954 Description: (Jan Aldrich) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: West Berlin, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_1695 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6238 (1D62BC53) Date: 7/7/1954 Description: A miner in Garson, Canada saw a landed object and a giant man with strange, burning eyes. He fainted. When he regained consciousness, the object and entity had vanished. This case was investigated by the Royal Canadian Air Force. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 184 Source ID: Johnson_3902 Source: Johnson ### Event 6239 (5DE073CB) Date: 7/7/1954 Description: A miner saw a landed object and a giant man with strange, burning eyes. He fainted. When he regained consciousness, object and entity had vanished. Investigated by the Royal Canadian Air Force. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Keyhoe C 184 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Garson, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_133 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6240 (EC04E8FD) Date: 7/8/1954 Description: British astronomer saw a silvery object with 15-20 smaller satellite objects. \[NICAP, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lancashire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1696 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6241 (22E180C8) Date: 7/8/1954 Description: 9:25 p.m. Amateur astronomer [Harold Hill](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2006JBAA..116..203S) is at his observatory in Orrell, Greater Manchester, England, when he sees a bright star in the southern sky that he at first thinks is a supernova. Soon it resolves itself into a bright, metallic globe with a cluster of 15–20 smaller, dimmer objects moving around. Clouds intervene and when they clear, he sees two bright objects, gyrating and flashing and moving slowly around each other. The objects are at a great altitude, because even through binoculars they have “shown no sensible size.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-1959-SN.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January 1, 1947–December 31, 1959](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-1959-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1947-1959-SN.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 80– 81; “An Unusual Sky Phenomenon,” Strolling Astronomer 9 \(1955\): 48 Source ID: Eberhart_2457 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6242 (EA8EF7BD) Date: 7/9/1954 Description: Die Weltwoche in Zürich, Switzerland, publishes two letters by psychologist [Carl Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FJung), who says he has been interested in UFOs since 1946, but he has difficulty comprehending what they might be, since they seem to have both subjective and objective properties. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 636–637 Source ID: Eberhart_2458 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6243 (DBD6E147) Date: 7/9/1954 Description: 6-7 objects appeared to be triangular in shape (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [540709](http://www.nicap.org/lowry540709dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lowry AFB, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1697 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6244 (B1EE52ED) Date: 7/11/1954 Description: UK Air Chief Marshal [Hugh Dowding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FDowding) states in an article in the London Sunday Telegraph that “I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial source.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 122](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=134&skin=2021); Good Above, [pp. 47–48](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/46/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2459 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6245 (D840291E) Date: 7/11/1954 Description: 4 bombers saw a disc-shaped object pace their planes (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hunterdon County, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1698 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6246 (224BBC1E) Date: 7/14/1954 Description: MJ-12 SSP briefing letter, briefing scheduled for July 16, 1954. MEMO to General Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4) requesting his presence at an MAJESTIC-12 meeting with President Eisenhower on July 16. Note by Stanton Friedman: Letter was discovered in the National Archives by Wm. Moore and Jamie Shandera on 1985 in the 126th box of USAF files. Carbon of the original form. Type: majestic document Reference: [link](https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/mj4-majestic-dan-burisch-stargates-and-et/) Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p84, majic) Location: Washington DC Attributes: Majestic Source ID: Maj2_538 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6247 (5B1DEE58) Date: 7/14/1954 Description: A fake memo, supposedly written by or for [Robert Cutler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FCutler)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FCutler) special assistant to President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) to Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) indicates that an MJ-12 briefing should take place at the White House July 16. Cutler is in Europe at the time of the memo, although the memo could have been prepared by NSC Executive Secretary [James](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jslayjr.htm) [S. Lay Jr.](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jslayjr.htm) or his associate, J. Patrick Coyne. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert Cutler, “[Memorandum for General Twining: NSC/MJ-12](http://brumac.mysite.com/CutlerTwiningMemo/CutlerTwining.html) [Special Studies Project,](http://brumac.mysite.com/CutlerTwiningMemo/CutlerTwining.html)” July 14, 1954; Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “[Majestic-12](http://www.noufors.com/majestic-12.htm)”; Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ-12: The Evidence So Far,” IUR 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1987\): 14–18; Stanton T. Friedman, Top Secret / MAJIC, Marlowe, 1996, [pp. 86–102](https://archive.org/details/topsecretmajic0000frie/page/86/mode/2up); “[Majestic-12 or ‘MJ-12’ Reference Report,](https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos\#mj12)” US National Archives, September 29, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_2460 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6248 (8C508DA2) Date: 7/14/1954 Description: 1.5-foot sheet-like object maneuvering (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Louis, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1699 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6249 (14D3EDBB) Date: 7/15/1954 Description: A woman recalled in 1986, that as an eleven year old girl collecting mushrooms in Poland she had a close encounter and missing time experience with UFOnauts. While walking alone near a cliff in Wegierska Gorka, Cracow, Poland she saw a glowing, oval-shaped UFO. She felt drawn to it, and was met by five entities, who had the height, skin and hands of humans. They wore tight fitting clothes, and had small mouthes and no noses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_4068 Source: Johnson ### Event 6250 (ADCE6B8A) Date: 7/16/1954 Description: Secret Meeting between Gen. Nathan Twining (MJ-4) and President Eisenhower. Type: secret meeting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (MJ-4) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_539 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6251 (B3D5B841) Date: 7/18/1954 Time: 8:40 PM Description: Witness: A.T. Chamblin. One greenish-white disc was seen for 30 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Normandy, Missouri Source ID: BerlinerBBU_352 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6252 (282118DA) Date: 7/18/1954 Description: At 8:40 p.m. Mr. A.T. Chamblin saw a greenish-white disc flying over Normandy, Missouri. The sighting lasted about 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3116; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4163 Source: Johnson ### Event 6253 (DB669E75) Date: 7/18/1954 Description: Greenish-white disc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3116) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Normandy, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1700 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6254 (32DE7D06) Date: 7/19/1954 Description: (Jan Aldrich) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: French Equatorial, Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_1701 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6255 (656B91EB) Date: 7/20/1954 Description: Near this city, two men were chased by an object and stopped their car to observe it. After the sighting, a watch stopped working and the paint on the car allegedly changed color. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Challenge 129; 3; cf. Case 120 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Oslo, Norway Source ID: Magnonia_134 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6256 (E0F10E5A) Date: 7/20/1954 End date: 7/21/1954 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) visits the Project Blue Book office at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to gather information for his upcoming book. He is told that all UFO publicity is handled by a lieutenant colonel in Air Force intelligence. He writes in an August 3 letter to [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe): “They claim to have gotten the unknowns down to about 10% but from what I saw this was just due to a more skeptical attitude. The reports are just as good as the ones we got and their analysis procedures are a hell of a lot worse.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, “[The Captain Ruppelt Letters,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/014%20OCT%201961.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 2 \(October 1961\): 6; Clark III 1023 Source ID: Eberhart_2462 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6257 (4B180AC1) Date: 7/20/1954 Description: Two men are chased in their car by a UFO near Oslo, Norway, and stop to observe it. Afterward, one of the witnesses’ watches stops working and the car’s paint changes color. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 207](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/206/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2461 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6258 (D7D36A99) Date: 7/20/1954 Description: Two men were chased by a UFO near Oslo, Norway when they had stopped their car to look at it. After the sighting a watch stopped working and the paint on their car changed color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 207 Source ID: Johnson_4228 Source: Johnson ### Event 6259 (80EBE5E0) Date: 7/22/1954 Description: At 7:15 p.m. five metallic spheres or ovoid shaped objects flew toward the west in a V formation in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They were in sight for 30 seconds, and they reportedly looked like "Christmas tree ornaments." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 57 Source ID: Johnson_4291 Source: Johnson ### Event 6260 (9C2AFC2E) Date: 7/23/1954 Description: The US Navy issues a new directive that orders the immediate reporting of UFO sightings \(FLYOBRPTs\) to the director of AFOSI, ATIC, commanding officer of Eastern ADC, director of Naval Intelligence, commanding officer of the Eastern Sea Frontier, and the commandant of the Potomac River Naval Command. The directive cites JANAP 146, AFR 200-2, OPNAV 3820, and Directive 3820.2 and is intended to plug leaks coming from navy and marine personnel. It is unpublicized but unclassified, so it threatens disclosure of AFR 200-2, which is still classified. USAF begins work on a new version of AFR 200-2 without the “restricted” label. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) [Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 188–189, 309–311 Source ID: Eberhart_2463 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6261 (63FEC26D) Date: 7/24/1954 End date: 7/25/1954 Description: A security officer at the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics develops a personal interest in the Frances Swan contact case and accepts Adm. [Knowles](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/03/06/75711948.html?pageNumber=23)’s invitation to Eliot, Maine, to visit with Swan. On his return, he gives the FBI a report on his visit. On July 29 an FBI agent interviews him, and on August 9 [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) sends an account of the interview to Rear Adm. [Carl F. Espe](https://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=525257) and to the Army’s Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2. Hoover writes, “No further action is being taken in this matter by this Bureau.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1118 Source ID: Eberhart_2464 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6262 (0768BEFE) Date: 7/25/1954 Time: 7:12 PM Description: Witness: attorney L.B. Tussing. One black cylinder, 12 times long as wide, moved fast along the surface of the lake. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Middle Sister Island, on U.S.-Canadian border in western Lake Erie Source ID: BerlinerBBU_353 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6263 (58C00BBE) Date: 7/25/1954 Description: Middle Sister Island, on U.S.-Canadian border in western Lake Erie. At 7:12 p.m. L.B. Tussing, an attorney, saw a black cylindrical object, 12 times longer as it was wide, moving fast across the surface of the lake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3483 Source ID: Johnson_4373 Source: Johnson ### Event 6264 (5DA5F8F4) Date: 7/25/1954 Description: Black cylinder, 12:1 length/width ratio, moving fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Middle Sister Island, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1702 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6265 (6AA444DF) Date: 7/25/1954 Description: Policeman J. H. Flanagan and friends see 6 UFOs over Enkeldoorn \[now Chivhu\], Zimbabwe. Nearly stationary, they are visible for about 20 minutes and disappear when night falls. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 134](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2465 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6266 (1B9E1A64) Date: 7/25/1954 Description: J. H. Flanagan (a policeman) and some friends recently observed six unidentified objects in the sky over Enkeldoorn (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Southern Rhodesia, Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_1703 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6267 (7814B45D) Date: 7/27/1954 Description: Two Objects From Aircraft Radar Tracked (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540727](http://www.nicap.org/540727pepperrellafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1704 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6268 (4C98A943) Date: 7/28/1954 Description: "Sparkling green light" appeared to land in orchard, television reception interrupted (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brentwood, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1705 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6269 (6B9FEFFA) Date: 7/28/1954 Description: [Wilbert Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)[,](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) at the invitation of retired Navy Adm. [Herbert B. Knowles](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/03/06/75711948.html?pageNumber=23)[,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/03/06/75711948.html?pageNumber=23) visits contactee Frances Swan in Eliot, Maine, his neighbor. Her two space friends, Affa and Alomar, direct Swan’s hand to draw a series of circles demonstrating the use of magnetic fields in spacecraft propulsion. Smith asks the aliens to communicate by radio at an appointed time a few days later, but the message does not come through. Nevertheless, Smith attempts to decipher the alien charts in hopes of learning how to build a saucer for Canada. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1079–1080, 1118 Source ID: Eberhart_2466 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6270 (BC46B932) Date: 7/28/1954 Description: Dutch ship observed disc with apparent portholes. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Atlantic, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1706 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6271 (60EFA311) Date: 7/29/1954 Description: Huge, bright pale blue or whitish-blue egg or blimp-shaped 300-500 ft object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Key Largo, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1708 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6272 (D404B82B) Date: 7/29/1954 Description: Capt. Jan P. Bos and five officers of the Dutch ocean liner [Groote Beer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groote%5FBeer) see a moon-like object rising out of the Atlantic Ocean 90 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. They watch it through a sextant, allowing them to estimate its rate of ascent at a half degree in 2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, June–August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1990, p. 60 Source ID: Eberhart_2467 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6273 (7AD272CE) Date: 7/29/1954 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: unknown location, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1707 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6274 (B78564EF) Date: 7/30/1954 Time: 10:15 AM Description: Witness: Hughes Aircraft test pilots Englert and Peterson, flying a B-25 bomber. One metallic, pencil-shaped object flew slowly or hovered for an unstated length of time. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Los Angeles, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_354 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6275 (15A2A5F7) Date: 7/30/1954 Description: Pencil-Shaped Object Encountered By B-25 Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3140) Reference: NICAP: [540730](http://www.nicap.org/540730losangeles%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles (15 miles SE of), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1709 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6276 (ECC8B529) Date: 7/31/1954 Description: On this day in Durban, Natal province, South Africa a good photograph was taken of a gray elliptical object that moved slowly back and forth over some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6, p. 41, citing Outspan, December 1954, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_4521 Source: Johnson ### Event 6277 (4B768C54) Date: 8/1954 Description: Round UFO Tracked By RADAR & GOC (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [5408xx](http://www.nicap.org/5408XXnewyork%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New York State, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1710 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6278 (4D3A0733) Date: 8/1954 Description: 10:30 p.m. An astronomer sees a bright white disc, 20 times the apparent size of the moon, moving from west to northeast at a high rate of speed over Park Hills, Kentucky. The seemingly solid object is about 100 feet in diameter and flying at an altitude of 500 feet. It disappears abruptly after 3–4 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Astronomers and UFO’s: A Survey, Part 2, Sightings,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_2468 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6279 (4FB3E1E8) Date: 8/1954 Description: Frank Edwards, pro-saucer newscaster fired. Type: historical event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_133 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6280 (D0F80B52) Date: 8/1954 Description: Statement by Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, head of the RAF during WWII: “Of course the flying saucers are real! And, they are inter planetary!” Type: public statement Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) See also: 9/23/1947 See also: 10/9/1955 Source ID: Maj2_540 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6281 (F3677324) Date: 8/1/1954 Description: 11:15 p.m. Desmond O’Reilly and others at Templeogue Tennis Club in Dublin, Ireland, watch an object fly over the Dublin Mountains in the direction of Howth. Initially he thinks he is looking at a meteor because he can only see it when it passes by gaps in the clouds. He watches it split into two pieces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Irish Times, August 5, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 54 Source ID: Eberhart_2469 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6282 (1EF3DC21) Date: 8/1/1954 Description: 11:30 p.m. P. D. McCormack sees a bluish-white object flying at 1,000 mph at an altitude of 5,000 feet above the Dublin Mountains, Ireland, to the south. The trails seem to “fall away from the object at each side.” Two men fishing in the River Dargle near Powerscourt, County Wicklow, see a rocket-shaped object dropping balls of fire. At 11:35 p.m., on the North Beach in Rush, County Dublin, Mrs. W. Gray and others watch an object “like a bright electric bulb” fly overhead from the mountains and out to sea. Possible meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Irish Times, August 3, 5, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 54 Source ID: Eberhart_2470 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6283 (A8EC3975) Date: 8/2/1954 Description: Thin bright ellipse, like polished metal, hover for 5-8 secs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3149) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westlake, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1711 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6284 (2768C324) Date: 8/2/1954 Description: At 5:17 p.m. in Westlake, Ohio amateur astronomer Mr. N. E. Schroeder, an ex-Army Air Force B-17 gunner--who had flown on 19 combat missions--saw a thin, bright silver ovoid hovering in the sky for 5-8 seconds. It then dropped down 3,000 feet in three seconds and hovered again for ten seconds, and finally faded out after being in view a total of 20 seconds. It looked like it was made of highly polished metal, and was at a minimum distance of six miles from the observer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3149; UNICAT, case # 777; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 62; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4590 Source: Johnson ### Event 6285 (EB200BB9) Date: 8/2/1954 Description: The US Joint Chiefs of Staff direct the establishment of a Continental Air Defense Command. Secretary of Defense [Charles Erwin Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FErwin%5FWilson) announces the command’s formation publicly later in the month to integrate “the air defense capabilities of the three military departments into an air defense system responsible to the control of one military commander.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Continental Air Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%5FAir%5FDefense%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_2471 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6286 (18A326DC) Date: 8/2/1954 Time: 5:17 PM Description: Witness: ex-AAF B-17 gunner (19 missions) N.E. Schroeder. One thin, bright ellipse, like polished metal, hovered for 5-8 seconds, dropped down 3,000' in 3 seconds, hovered again and faded out after a total of 20 seconds in view. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Westlake, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_355 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6287 (00D3A575) Date: 8/4/1954 Description: Bt. 11:00 and 12:00 p.m. Ten firemen and their chief observed the two flying saucers. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: The Hague, Netherlands Source ID: NICAP_DB_1712 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6288 (F7EB0970) Date: 8/4/1954 Description: 11:00 p.m.–12:00 midnight. Ten firemen and their chief observe two flying saucers over The Hague, Netherlands. The objects are seen in the clear night air at a high altitude. They move at incredible speed, at times remaining motionless for as long as 30 seconds. They are described as flat ovals with whitish-gray light. All agree that the objects are neither aircraft or balloons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 134](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2472 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6289 (BE65F98A) Date: 8/6/1954 Description: White elliptical light change to yellow, orange, pink (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3155) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Antonio, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1713 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6290 (6EE4D6B0) Date: 8/6/1954 Description: A bright white ball shoots across the sky over Santa Fe, New Mexico, leaving a luminous trail that persists for 15 minutes. Meteorite expert [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) says it is not a meteor. It apparently disrupts TV signals and aircraft transmissions, but not ham radio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [p. 226](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/226/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2473 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6291 (7C0B6E21) Date: 8/6/1954 Description: Starting at 10 p.m. a DC-3 flying over the ocean at Baranagua Bay, Parana State, Brazil was continuously buzzed by an orange fireball for two hours. It would turn blue on acceleration. Jets were scrambled and gave chase, where upon it shot off to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case # 559, citing Olavo T. Fontes Source ID: Johnson_4721 Source: Johnson ### Event 6292 (3C0FE4EC) Date: 8/6/1954 Description: In Santa Fe, New Mexico a brilliant white ball of light left a luminous trail as it flew over. There was TV and aircraft radio interference reported, but an amateur radio was not effected. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, pp. 226, 237 Source ID: Johnson_4720 Source: Johnson ### Event 6293 (E838DC02) Date: 8/6/1954 Time: 6 PM Description: Witness: mechanical engineer L.H. Hormer. One intensely white elliptical light changed to yellow, then orange, then pink, four or five times while flying straight and level for 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: San Antonio, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_356 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6294 (3485AF62) Date: 8/7/1954 Description: (Jan Aldrich) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: unknown location, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_1714 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6295 (2C2785FA) Date: 8/7/1954 Description: On the same evening at 11:28 p.m. the German military in Kaiserlautern, Rhineland-Palatine, Germany witnessed a UFO that changed shape from an ovoid object to a sphere, and then to a dome. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 66 Source ID: Johnson_4759 Source: Johnson ### Event 6296 (0C56C188) Date: 8/7/1954 Description: At 7:30 p.m. Gabriel Coupal, age 13, and another boy were out riding a horse when they saw a luminous, nine foot wide sphere land 150 feet away from them in Hemmingford, Quebec. After landing the sphere turned black. A door opened, and "a big tall man with big round eyes" got out. He was dressed in a skintight black rubber diver suit that covered his entire body except his head, and was carrying what looked like a "machine gun." There was a "buzz like a bee." The man approached and the boys galloped their horse for the house. The UFO rose, passed close by them, and landed again near the horse barn. It "had a black cable with a square thing hanging" from it. In the moonlight the landed UFO looked "like a soap bubble," and three men were seen walking around it. Mrs. Coupal telephoned Hemmingford to get another witness, but when three more people arrived the object took off, glowing orange. It had been present for an hour or more. There was a circle of flattened grass 30 feet in diameter where the object had rested. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-42, citing Dr. Adolph Dittmar, Civilian Saucer Intelligence; newspaper clipping, August 17, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_4758 Source: Johnson ### Event 6297 (8E0ED23A) Date: 8/7/1954 End date: 8/8/1954 Description: One of the first UFO meetings in California is held on the slopes of Palomar Mountain, with lectures by [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski), [Daniel Fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry) [Truman Bethurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) and [Desmond Leslie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%5FLeslie). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Palomar Mountain, 1940–1960: From](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/) [Obscurity to World Fame,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/mount-palomar/)” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_2474 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6298 (2A56C208) Date: 8/8/1954 Description: 3:01 p.m. Project Magnet’s only UFO incident of note occurs when the Shirley’s Bay, Ontario, gravimeter indicates a greater deflection in the gravitational field than a conventional object would cause. Heavy clouds obstruct [Wilbert Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)’s view of the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1079; “[Wilbert B. Smith,](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Good Above, [p. 186](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/186/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2475 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6299 (AD579B5A) Date: 8/10/1954 Description: At 9:30 p.m. 13-year-old Gabriel Coupal and his younger siblings said they saw a brightly lighted object follow them to their farm in Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada. It landed and a figure wearing a black diver suit and with round eyes exited, and appeared to engage in some repair activity. Mr. Coupal and his oldest son went to the field where the children had been playing and saw an orange object rise from the ground and speed off to the west. The grass was flattened down over a 15-meter area, with two tracks about five meters long. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 237; Huntingdon Gleaner, August 18, 1954; Fate, March 1955, p. 19; Albany (NY) Times-Union, November 27, 1955; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 135 Source ID: Johnson_4817 Source: Johnson ### Event 6300 (878E4E54) Date: 8/10/1954 Description: The Canadian Department of Transport officially folds Project Magnet but permits [Wilbert Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) to continue using its facility on his own time at no expense to the government. Smith continues his work privately until his death in December 1962. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [p. 276](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/276/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2476 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6301 (77CBC204) Date: 8/10/1954 Time: 2130 Description: The Coupal childrm said that a brightly lighted object followed them to the farm. Mr. Coupal and his oldest son went to the field where the children had been playing and saw an orange object rise and speed off to the west. Grass was flattened over 15 m, with two tracks about 5 m long. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins U 237 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hemmingford, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_135 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6302 (23F8DE68) Date: 8/11/1954 Description: Off Yoron Jima, near Okinawa at 8:55 p.m. P. L. Percharde, an electrical engineer and assistant manager of the Moeller Shipwrecker Co., and Kosei Nakamoto sighted a line of blue lights that flew over their ship at the site of the S.S. Docteur Angier shipwreck. When overhead the two men could see that underneath the lights was a blue ring with a black center. After passing over the ship it climbed vertically, illuminating and agitating the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case 778, citing Project Blue Book report IR-4-54; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 76; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4857 Source: Johnson ### Event 6303 (EE9ADA7D) Date: 8/11/1954 Description: At three o'clock in the morning a compass started spinning wildly and other types of EM effects occurred in Remiremont, Vosges department, France and two other towns when at least one UFO briefly flew over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science, the UFO Enigma, p. 129, citing Jimmy Guieu; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 262 Source ID: Johnson_4858 Source: Johnson ### Event 6304 (2A694C60) Date: 8/11/1954 Time: 8:55 PM Description: Witness: P.L. Percharde, electrical engineer and assistant manager of Moeller Shipwrecker Co., of Okinawa. A line of blue lights, underneath. a blue circle with a black center. Flew over ship and climbed, illuminating and agitating the clouds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Yoron Jima, near Okinawa Source ID: BerlinerBBU_357 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6305 (75AFC688) Date: 8/11/1954 Description: 8:55 p.m. P. L. Percharde, electrical engineer and assistant manager of the Moeller Shipwrecker Company, of Okinawa, sees a line of blue lights underneath a blue circle with a black center fly over the SS Docteur Angier off Yoron-Jima, Japan, and climb, illuminating and agitating the clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Disk Seen from SS](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/drangier54.htm) [Docteur Angier, August 11, 1954](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/drangier54.htm)”; Sparks, [p. 219](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_2479 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6306 (0B1C1FC0) Date: 8/11/1954 Description: [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29) is fired by his sponsor at the Mutual Broadcasting Network, the American Federation of Labor. He had offered to resign on August 7, citing a conflict over the type of material he has been required to report on, including AFL interests and [George Meany](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FMeany)’s personal outlook. His UFO reportage may or may not be an issue. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 435; Frank Edwards, “[The Plot to Silence Me,](https://archive.org/details/fate-1957-06/page/16/mode/2up)” Fate 10, no. 6 \(June 1957\): 17–23 Source ID: Eberhart_2477 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6307 (31ADCE0B) Date: 8/11/1954 Description: Two Helicopters Encounter Saucer (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540811](http://www.nicap.org/540811maxwellafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1716 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6308 (9FD70387) Date: 8/11/1954 Description: Line of blue lights underneath a blue circle with a black center (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3162) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yoron-Jima Island, Okinawa Source ID: NICAP_DB_1715 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6309 (061B859B) Date: 8/11/1954 Description: 8:54 p.m. A1C Chase E. Lewis, tower operator at Lawson AFB \[now Lawson Army Airfield\] in Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, sees a strange stationary object in the west. It varies in brightness, changing color from white to red to orange to white again, with seemingly high-speed motions. An Army helicopter piloted by WO R. T. Wade is sent to investigate; he locates the object 20 miles west of Lawson at 2,000 feet. Wade abandons the chase due to low fuel after 2 minutes. At 9:05 p.m., two additional tower operators \(including A1C William N. Watson\) view the object. A second Army helicopter, piloted by U. S. Tarma, is diverted to the object at 9:27 p.m. He sees it, but it disappears at 9:29 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Helicopters Encounter Venus \(CIRVIS\)](http://www.nicap.org/540811lawson%5Fdir.htm)”; Good Above, [pp. 284–285](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/284/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, June–August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf), The Author, 1990, pp. 77–80; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 219 Source ID: Eberhart_2478 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6310 (40FB3E98) Date: 8/11/1954 Description: At 1:30 p.m. a flaming object bashed a hole in the side of a house in Lawrence, Massachusetts. That evening, at 7:54 p.m., a disc-shaped object glowed and soared around the control tower at Maxwell Field in Alabama. It was seen by both ground and air observers, and confirmed on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, February 1956, p. 3; Blue Book files counted in official statistics Source ID: Johnson_4859 Source: Johnson ### Event 6311 (0CC23069) Date: 8/12/1954 Description: UFOs seemingly visited two U.S. military bases on the same night in the southern United States. At 2:30 a.m. EDT in Georgia, a disc-shaped object hovered to the west of the tower at Fort Benning. It flew away and then came back, but finally vanished when a helicopter approached. At Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama nearly an hour later, at 2:29 a.m. CDT, four military men on U.S. Army helicopters saw a glowing red disc soar around the base tower. There were both ground and air observers to this second sighting, as well as radar-visual confirmation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 22; (2) Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 284; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 407 Source ID: Johnson_4935 Source: Johnson ### Event 6312 (A7C83873) Date: 8/12/1954 Description: S. S. Docteur Close Encounter (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540812](http://nicap.org/540812yoron-jima%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yoron-Jima Island, Okinawa Source ID: NICAP_DB_1717 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6313 (2CF91075) Date: 8/12/1954 Description: 2:29 a.m. Four military men on US Army helicopters at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, see a glowing red disc soar around the base tower. There are both ground and air witnesses, as well as radar-visual confirmation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 284–285](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/284/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/284/mode/2up) [493–494](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/492/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2480 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6314 (E1A389C5) Date: 8/12/1954 Description: An updated version of AFR 200-2 is issued by the Department of the Air Force and declassified by Air Force Chief of Staff [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) The public can now know that the 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron was brought in to assist ATIC \(Blue Book\) with preliminary and field UFO investigations, and that USAF considers UFOs to be “any airborne object which by performance, aerodynamic characteristics, or unusual features, does not conform to any presently known aircraft or missile type, or which cannot be positively identified as a familiar object.” It lists the objectives of UFO reporting as: “First as a possible threat to the security of the United States and its forces, and secondly, to determine technical aspects involved.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Department of the Air Force, “[Unidentified Flying Objects Reporting,](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FRegulation%5F200-2%2C%5FUnidentified%5FFlying%5FObjects%5FReporting)” Air Force Regulation 200-2, August 12, 1954; Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/488/mode/2up) [489–492](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/488/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2481 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6315 (7F00EB39) Date: 8/12/1954 Description: New updated reporting of UFOs. Regulation AFR 200–2, (see Aug. 26, 1953), by order of N.F. Twining (MJ-4), Chief of Staff, USAF. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p489) Location: Washington DC See also: 8/26/1953 Source ID: Maj2_542 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6316 (A7505B73) Date: 8/12/1954 Description: EMERGENCY CIA MESSAGE: Sighted Saucer hovering at 2000 ft. above Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Dispatched local helicopter NBR ARMY267 to investigate. Definitely NOT a star. Helicopters fuel low, returned to base. In coming helicopter ARMY294 proceeded toward UFO which then completely disappeared. Pilot of ARMY294 lost sight of it, would be glad to be called upon to verify saucer light. Pilots of Army helicopters were: R.T. Wade, 506th helicopter Co., U.S. Tarma, also of the 506th, Ft. Genning, GA. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p493) Location: Maxwell AFB Source ID: Maj2_541 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6317 (D73B1B52) Date: 8/15/1954 Description: At 10:20 p.m. USAF Major W. J. Davis and Captain R. D. Sauers were flying a U.S. Air Force C-47 transport plane over San Marcos AFB, Texas when they sighted a dark blue oblong object that paced the C-47, veered away, then crossed in front of it. The incident lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 77 Source ID: Johnson_5030 Source: Johnson ### Event 6318 (554B6FB7) Date: 8/15/1954 Time: 10:20 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF Maj. W.J. Davis, Capt. R.D. Sauers, flying a C-47 transport plane. One dark blue oblong object paced the C-47, veered away, then crossed in front of it. Five minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: San Marcos, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_358 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6319 (0971D111) Date: 8/15/1954 Description: C-47 Encounters Blue Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3166) Reference: NICAP: [540815](http://www.nicap.org/540815sanmarcos%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Marcos, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1718 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6320 (33024010) Date: 8/16/1954 Description: 5:00 p.m. A green ball is seen in the sky over Tananarive \[now Antananarivo\], Madagascar, and disappears behind a hill. It reappears a minute later and flies over the higher part of Tananarive. When the object flies in front of them, some witnesses see a lentil-shaped device with a silvery metallic aspect enveloped in electric luminous gas. According to Jean-Luc Bruneau, inspector general at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Gen. [Charles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5Fde%5FGaulle) [de Gaulle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5Fde%5FGaulle) is concerned about this sighting and quietly approves having a French study group involved with investigating UFO cases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[1954, Tananarive, Madagascar: Multiple Witnesses to UFOs,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/2010/madagascar1954.html)” UFO Casebook, July 30, 2008; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 11; Patrick Gross, “[Tananarive, Madagascar, August 1954](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/tana54.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2482 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6321 (185917A7) Date: 8/18/1954 Description: A brilliant metallic sphere was witnessed at 6:30 p.m. by a witness while driving between the towns of Coire and Chur, Switzerland. The sphere maneuvered in the western sky toward Ilanz at three kilometers altitude, making sudden turns. It finally shot straight up into the sky and was gone. At 8:00 p.m. a reddish yellow disc seen over the town of Stein-Saeckingen, Switzerland for 12 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 3518 & 3519; unsourced newspaper clipping dated August 25, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_5121 Source: Johnson ### Event 6322 (DDB87B85) Date: 8/20/1954 Description: On this afternoon two sisters in Norway met the pilot of a UFO. While picking blueberries in fields around Ceydalen, near Mosjoen, Norway 24-year-old Edith Jacobsen and her sister, Asta Solvang, were approached by a man with a tanned complexion and long hair who smiled and made friendly hand gestures. Curious, they decided not to run away. The stranger wore a greenish one-piece coverall, which covered him all the way up to his neck, and they could not see any buttons or seams. He also wore a very wide belt around his waist. But what really grabbed their attention was the man’s long, light brown hair. His eyes were light blue and somewhat slanted, and his skin was a bronze color. After waving back to the visitor, they asked who he was. The man extended his hand towards the women but instead of shaking hands he slightly brushed their palms, and then spoke in a "sing song type manner” and in a language they could not comprehend, even though both women were fluent in English, German, and Russian and were knowledgeable in Spanish and French. “His hands were beautiful,” said one of the women, “with long well manicured fingers like that of an artist”. The stranger took something out of his coverall that resembled a pencil and what appeared to be a piece of paper, when he then proceeded to draw a central point surrounded by several circles, which seemed to represent the orbits of the planets within our solar system. After pointing out the Earth and the moon, the stranger pointed at a ‘planet’ which the women were unable to distinguish due to their state of excitement. Moments later he put both items back into his tunic through a seam that neither woman was able to see. At this point both women were starting to feel a little concerned, but the smiling man motioned for them to follow him. Both women obeyed and soon arrived in a small clearing in which rested a metallic lenticular-shaped object with a small dome on top. The object measured some 4 to 5 meters in diameter and was about 1.30 meters in height, and was grayish-blue in color. As they started to approach the craft the man motioned for them to step back. He then opened a hatch at the base of the object and climbed in, and then closed the hatch. The women then heard a slight whistling sound, and moments later the object began to rise up into air with a rotating motion. Once the craft had climbed to about 45 meters it stopped momentarily, and then it increased its rotation, quickly rising up into the sky in a diagonal trajectory and disappearing from sight. The women notified the police after the encounter and according to police officials both women were of sound mind and well respected in the community. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-44 (A0243), citing Oddvar J. Larsen; Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 129 Source ID: Johnson_5170 Source: Johnson ### Event 6323 (687CF7D4) Date: 8/20/1954 Description: Morning. Edith Jacobsen, 2, and Åsta Solvang, 32, are on a blueberry-picking trip to Øyfjellet, near Mosjøen, Norway, with their uncle, Halvdan Jacobsen. The two sisters wander off to a fen when suddenly they see a man in the distance. They approach him and he smiles and stretches out his hand, but he only brushes Edith’s palm with it. He has long hair with a natural wave, a dark complexion, and a tight-fitting suit with a wide belt. He begins to talk but they can’t understand him. It does not sound like Norwegian, English, German, Spanish, French, or Russian. He takes out a “little mirror” from a pocket and with something like a pencil draws circles, apparently representing planets. He finally indicates he wants the women to accompany him and he takes them to a landed disc in a clearing. It is gray-blue and looks like two giant pot lids put together. He makes a sign to not come too close, then he opens a hatch on the top, crawls in, and shuts the door. The sisters hear a faint humming and the UFO rises while rotating on its own axis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[Mosjøen: An Early Norwegian](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201989%20V%2034%20N%202.pdf) [CE-III Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201989%20V%2034%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 34, no. 2 \(June 1989\): 1–7; Clark III 267–268 Source ID: Eberhart_2484 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6324 (5512978F) Date: 8/20/1954 Description: Contactee [Dorothy Martin](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/) of Oak Park, Illinois, and Charles and Lilian Laughead of Detroit, Michigan, send out a 7-page press release announcing that a geological disaster will cause great environmental changes in North America and Europe. It warns that December 20 will be the last available date for evacuation, as a great flood will strike on December 21. Martin and her followers hope to board a landed flying saucer before doom falls. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 718 Source ID: Eberhart_2483 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6325 (97301DE1) Date: 8/21/1954 Description: Cecil Sutton and family have run in with spacemen. Type: ce3 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Hopkinsville, Kentucky Source ID: Maj2_141 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6326 (75F88BA4) Date: 8/22/1954 Description: Jan Aldrich (date could be 23rd) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: N France or W Germany, Europe Source ID: NICAP_DB_1719 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6327 (95557E9E) Date: 8/22/1954 Description: In East Chicago, Indiana on this day two refinery workers sighted a crescent-shaped object that darted all over the sky above the oil refinery were they worked for two minutes. It flew at an estimated altitude of 2,500 feet and left going south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 155 Source ID: Johnson_5217 Source: Johnson ### Event 6328 (9331536A) Date: 8/23/1954 Description: Outside of Vernon, near Paris, France a giant cigar-shaped object was observed standing on end at 1:00 a.m. It emitted a disc-shaped object, dropped in free fall, then slowed and swayed. The disc was surrounded by a red halo. Over the next 45 minutes it emitted four more discs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 19; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 82; APRO Bulletin, January 1980, p. 5; UNICAT, case # 483 Source ID: Johnson_5248 Source: Johnson ### Event 6329 (CD09AC8D) Date: 8/23/1954 Description: Approximate date. A strange object hovered low over the house of Mr. Lucas and left straight up. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Varennes, near Diges, France Source ID: Magnonia_136 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6330 (CC6719AD) Date: 8/23/1954 Description: Elise Blanc approached an object looking like an aluminum trailer with two small beings in silvery dress, grunting like pigs, standing close by. The craft took on a fiery color and flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Challenge 129 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lugrin, near Thonon, France Source ID: Magnonia_137 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6331 (A124DBB6) Date: 8/23/1954 Description: On this day Elise Blanc approached an object that looked like an aluminum trailer in Lugrin, France. Standing close to it were two small beings dressed in silver uniforms. They made grunting sounds like pigs. The object took on a glowing, fiery color and flew away. [Note: the Airstream model of trailer, common for this period, is aluminum in color and somewhat ovoid shaped.] Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 129; Passport to Magonia, p. 208 Source ID: Johnson_5249 Source: Johnson ### Event 6332 (7A5FDAD2) Date: 8/23/1954 Description: 1:00 a.m. Businessman [Bernard Miserey](https://www.societe.com/societe/monsieur-bernard-miserey-733641336.html) has just parked his car in a garage at Vernon, Eure, France, when he notices a sudden illumination. He sees an object like an enormous \(300 feet long\) cigar standing on end, hovering above the north bank of the Seine River about 1,000 feet away. Suddenly from the bottom of the object comes a horizontal disc that drops, slows, and suddenly dives horizontally across the river at him. It vanishes at a high rate of speed toward the southwest. Three other discs follow in sequence. A fifth disc drops much lower than the earlier ones and remains still for an instant, swaying slightly. During this time the cigar has faded and sinks into darkness. The spectacle has lasted 45 minutes. Two police officers and an Army engineer also see the display. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 293; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954, June–August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-June-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1990, pp. 77–80; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 85–86; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/23aug1954vernon.htm),” February 2, 2007; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_2485 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6333 (B4E2A4D3) Date: 8/24/1954 Description: Egilstadir, Iceland. At 8:30 p.m. a farmer saw a small cylindrical flying object, 2-2.5 feet long and 4-5 feet in diameter that made a loud whizzing sound. It flew straight, level and fast; then slowed down and fell into a sandbar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5288 Source: Johnson ### Event 6334 (7CFFC88D) Date: 8/24/1954 Time: 8:30 PM Description: Witness: one unnamed farmer. A cylinder, 2-2.5' long, 4-5' in diameter, made a loud whizzing sound, flew straight and level fast, then slow, then fell into sandbar. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Egilstadir, Iceland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_359 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6335 (C9105DB0) Date: 8/24/1954 Description: Flat cylinder, 2-2.5 ft long, 4-5 ft in diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3180) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Egilstadir, Iceland Source ID: NICAP_DB_1720 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6336 (CE6C8211) Date: 8/25/1954 Description: Two girls in Norway meet spaceman. Type: ce4 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Norway Source ID: Maj2_134 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6337 (60E487B4) Date: 8/26/1954 Time: 6:15 AM Description: Witness: Rev. W.L. Shelton. Two domed ellipses, 20' long, 8' thick, 10' at ends; glowing silver or orange. Hovered, then climbed side-by-side while getting brighter. Observed for 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Danville, Virginia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_360 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6338 (35922782) Date: 8/26/1954 Description: 9:35 p.m. Crowds of people in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. see an object traveling at great speed over Bray Head. It is a brilliant blue light, traveling at “2,000 miles an hour” toward the sea before changing direction and moving toward Wicklow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Irish Times, August 27, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 54 Source ID: Eberhart_2486 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6339 (1826897C) Date: 8/26/1954 Description: Rev. W. L. Shelton saw two domed ellipses in Danville, Virginia at 6:15 a.m. They were 20-feet wide, 8-feet thick, and glowed silver and orange. The orange glow extended about ten feet. They hovered at first, then climbed vertically at a terrific speed side-by-side while getting brighter. He observed them for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3182; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 93 Source ID: Johnson_5357 Source: Johnson ### Event 6340 (7C8E1BEB) Date: 8/26/1954 Description: 2 domed ellipses, 20 ft long, 8 ft thick, 10 ft at ends (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3182) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Danville, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1721 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6341 (FC7BCB93) Date: 8/27/1954 Time: 1 PM Description: Witness: E.A. Srazdes. Seven large, white, teardrop-shaped objects turned blue. Flew in line formation and increased speed during the 2 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Dorchester, Massachusetts Source ID: BerlinerBBU_361 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6342 (E5D4ED99) Date: 8/27/1954 Description: At 10:30 p.m. in Boston Creek, Ontario a wingless, circular UFO was seen by Bill Supa, an employee of the Caswell Construction Co. It landed about two kilometers away from him. He approached to within 300 meters before it took off and flew away. The grass had been flattened where it had rested. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 218 Source ID: Johnson_5392 Source: Johnson ### Event 6343 (F5B32D26) Date: 8/27/1954 Time: 2030 Description: A wingless flying object was seen by Bill Supa, an employee of the Caswell Construction Co. It landed about 2 km way from the witness, who approached within 300 m before it took off and flew away. Grass was flattened where it had landed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins U 227 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Boston Creek, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_138 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6344 (D0621B8C) Date: 8/27/1954 Description: In Woodside, California a mystery explosion was followed by an asphalt fire at 4:15 p.m. A rectangular area 70' x 270' on Portola Road was engulfed in the blaze. Metal pellets were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, October 1954, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_5391 Source: Johnson ### Event 6345 (94F78C15) Date: 8/27/1954 Description: Seven large white teardrop-shaped objects flew in a single file over Dorchester, Massachusetts at two o'clock in the afternoon, EDT. They turned the color blue when they sped up. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3185; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5390 Source: Johnson ### Event 6346 (887C4914) Date: 8/27/1954 Description: 7 large, white, teardrop-shaped objects turn blue (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3185) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dorchester, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1722 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6347 (5FBA29DF) Date: 8/28/1954 Description: Two boys in Quebec saw an unidentified craft land and two or three men were seen exiting the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. 277 Source ID: Johnson_5409 Source: Johnson ### Event 6348 (FA7B7F55) Date: 8/28/1954 Description: 8:30 p.m. Several USAF fighter pilots pursue a triangular formation of 15 objects near Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City, tracked by ground radar. As the jets approach, the formation breaks, changes to a semicircle, and the objects speed up and vanish to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “USAF Fighters Report Formation Tracked by Radar”; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 25–26; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 220 Source ID: Eberhart_2487 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6349 (F82CC974) Date: 8/28/1954 Description: Two boys saw a craft land and two or three men come out. No details given. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Constance 277 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Quebec, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_139 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6350 (F0023DD2) Date: 8/28/1954 Description: Two boys in Quebec, Canada see spaceship land. Two or three men get out. Type: ce3 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Quebec, Canada Source ID: Maj2_135 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6351 (861D80A5) Date: 8/28/1954 Description: A triangular formation of 15 objects, tracked by ground radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540828](http://www.nicap.org/540828tinker%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tinker AFB, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1723 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6352 (E8E1FC2F) Date: 8/29/1954 Description: Lens-shaped objects veer north (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3189) Reference: NICAP: [540829](http://www.nicap.org/540829greenland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Prince Christian, Greenland Source ID: NICAP_DB_1724 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6353 (037A5978) Date: 8/29/1954 Time: 11:05 AM Description: Witnesses: lst Officer H.G. Gardner, engineer J.V.D. Whitisy, flying Royal Dutch Airlines DC-4 (PH-DBZ). Three or four dark, lens-shaped objects veered north and changed position in formation during the 10 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Prince Christian, Greenland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_362 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6354 (CE6474EC) Date: 8/29/1954 Description: First Officer H.G. Gardner and engineer J. V. D. Whitisy, flying a Royal Dutch Airlines DC-4 (PH-DBZ) at 11:05 a.m. near Prince Christian, Greenland sighted three or four dark, lens-shaped objects that veered to the north and changed position in formation for ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 167; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 779 Source ID: Johnson_5458 Source: Johnson ### Event 6355 (FB4ACD81) Date: 8/29/1954 Description: 11:05 p.m. First Officer H. G. Gardner and Engineer J. V. D. Whitisy, flying on a Royal Dutch Airlines DC- 4, see 3–4 dark, lens-shaped objects over Prins Christianssund radio and weather station, Greenland. They veer north and change position in formation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Lens-Shaped Objects Veer North](http://www.nicap.org/540829greenland%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 220 Source ID: Eberhart_2489 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6356 (5BB75FE2) Date: 8/29/1954 Description: A witness in Mérida, Venezuela, sees a large, intensely yellow, glowing object moving at great speed from west to east. When it reaches the Sierra Nevada de Mérida, it suddenly stops and two disc-shaped blue objects emerge from it. All three continue to the east and disappear behind buildings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 58 Source ID: Eberhart_2488 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6357 (0BD3B730) Date: 8/30/1954 Description: North Bay, Ontario. At 5:25 a.m. Sgt. Durdle of the R.C.A.F. saw a brilliant, circular object fly across Lake Nipissing toward the Royal Canadian Air Force base. An oblong canister was hung down from the central section, which supported a long cone with a spinning globe on top. When the object tilted he was able to see regulator-looking devices inside the machine through a vertical lighted slit. Six brilliant appendages that looked like necklaces hung from the craft. Sgt. Durdle woke up four other Air Force men, who observed the object spiraling away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 227; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 140 Source ID: Johnson_5486 Source: Johnson ### Event 6358 (CBB05611) Date: 8/30/1954 Time: 0525 Description: Sgt. Durdle saw a brilliant, circular object flying across Lake Nipissing toward the Royal Canadian Air Force base. An oblong canister was hanging down from a central section, which supported a long cone with a spinning globe on top. When it tilted, the witness was able to observe regulatorlike devices inside the machine through a vertical lighted slit. Six brilliant appendages, which looked like necklaces, were hanging from the craft. Durdle woke up four Air Force men, who observed the object spiraling away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins U 227 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: North Bay, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_140 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6359 (B3DE1924) Date: 8/30/1954 Description: House lights failed as UFO passed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_1725 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6360 (C3E37B3D) Date: 8/31/1954 Description: At 8:00 p.m. an Australian Navy Hawker Sea Fury II was paced on either side by two dark, 50 meter long cigar-shaped objects flying near Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. The UFOs were tracked on radar for 10 minutes before shooting off toward the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 82 Source ID: Johnson_5517 Source: Johnson ### Event 6361 (B788EE5A) Date: 8/31/1954 Description: At 12:25 a.m. in the town of Kirkland Lake, Ontario Police Constable Grabovski saw a shiny ovoid UFO sail slowly through the sky headed north. It vanished in sparks, which were followed by a blue rain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 219 Source ID: Johnson_5518 Source: Johnson ### Event 6362 (220E2303) Date: 8/31/1954 Description: O'Farrell Case (Sea Fury Incident), G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [540831](http://www.nicap.org/540831nowra%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nowra, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_1726 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6363 (93E65BD3) Date: 8/31/1954 Description: In Asnieres-le-Dijon, France a disc travelled through the sky at 12:50 p.m. from east to west at great speed without stopping. It changed color from red to orange tosilver. It was observed near military aircraft. In Orly, France at 7:30 p.m. two luminous orange objects at high altitude came from the west at high speed and crossed the sky rapidly flying toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 31, citing C. Garreau Source ID: Johnson_5519 Source: Johnson ### Event 6364 (6A95E691) Date: 8/31/1954 Description: At 8:50 p.m. a reddish yellow sphere flew very slowly at an estimated 5 mph to the north in Stafford, England. At 8:55 p.m. a sombrero-shaped saucer was sighted at Stone, Staffordshire, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3542, citing Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 58 Source ID: Johnson_5520 Source: Johnson ### Event 6365 (46FDCBA1) Date: 8/31/1954 Description: 7:10 p.m. RAN Lieutenant J. A. “Shamus” O’Farrell is returning to HMAS Albatross Naval Air Station near Nowra, New South Wales, after a night cross-country in a Hawker Sea Fury aircraft. After contacting Nowra, O’Farrell sees a very bright light closing fast at one o’clock. It crosses in front of his aircraft, taking up position on his port beam, where it appears to orbit. A second and similar light is observed at nine o’clock. It passes about a mile in front of the Sea Fury and then turns in the position where the first light was observed. According to O’Farrell, the apparent crossing speeds of the lights are the fastest he has ever encountered. He has been flying at 250 mph. O’Farrell contacts Albatross, which in turn confirms that it has two radar “paints” in company with him. Radar operator Petty Officer Keith Jessop confirms the presence of 2 objects near the Sea Fury on the GCI remote display. The two lights reform at nine o’clock and then disappear on a northeasterly heading. O’Farrell can only make out “a vague shape with the white light situated centrally on top.” The Directorate of Naval Intelligence at the time writes that O’Farrell is “an entirely credible witness” and that he “was visibly shaken by his experience but remains adamant that he saw these objects.” News of the incident leaks out in December, but the official RAN file remains classified until 1982. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[‘Sea Fury’ Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/540831nowra%5Fdir.htm)”; Swords 379–380; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#radar)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 70; Good Above, [p. 162](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/162/mode/2up); An Adelaide UFO Researcher, “[The ‘Sea Fury’ Radar Incident Revisited,](http://www.nicap.org/540831nowra%5Fdir.htm)” 2017; “[The Sea Fury Incident,](http://australiandisclosureproject.blogspot.com/2006/04/sea-fury-incident-date-august-31-1954.html)” Australian Disclosure Project, April 30, 2006; Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 18–19 Source ID: Eberhart_2490 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6366 (6228B0B4) Date: 8/31/1954 Description: Deputy Department of Transport Minister [John Baldwin](https://ottawacitizen.remembering.ca/obituary/john-baldwin-1066080489) closes the Shirley’s Bay, Ontario, UFO station to save money, although he says [Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) can work on his own time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucer Station Closes,](http://www.cufos.org/Saucerian/1955%5F03%5F00%5FSaucerian%5FVol-3%232%28W%2306%29.pdf)” The Saucerian, no. 6 \(Spring 1955\): 12; Clark III 1079 Source ID: Eberhart_2491 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6367 (2CB8028D) Date: 8/31/1954 Description: O'Farrell Case (Sea Fury Incident) (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [540831](http://www.nicap.org/540831nowra%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nowra, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_1727 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6368 (72434DA8) Date: 9/1954 Description: England, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: City not noted, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1728 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6369 (24075CD0) Date: 9/1/1954 Description: The Continental Air Defense Command is established, primarily to defend the continental United States against air attack. It is also tasked to support US commanders in the Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean, Alaska, Northeast, and of Strategic Air Command in their missions to the maximum extent consistent with its primary mission. ADC’s commander, Gen. [Benjamin W. Chidlaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%5FW.%5FChidlaw) becomes the first CINCONAD, and USAF is designated as the executive agency. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Continental Air Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%5FAir%5FDefense%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_2492 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6370 (F6D697CA) Date: 9/2/1954 Description: Twelve-year-old John Jacob Swain of Coldwater, Kansas had just finished driving a tractor at 10:00 p.m. when he saw a dark complexioned little man about the size of a five year old child crouching about 20 feet away. The man had pointed ears and a pointed nose, and wore shiny clothing. He also was carrying two two-foot long cylinders on his back. He ran or glided, apparently floating across the ground, to a 50 foot wide disc-shaped object hovering five feet above the ground. He jumped in and took off without tilting the saucer. Lights shone from windows or the craft as it flew off faster than a jet. At the site were found numerous pear-shaped footprints 2 inches wide x 4.5 inches in length, with very narrow heels. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wichita Evening Eagle, September 8, 1954; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 677; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-46, citing Sheriff Floyd Hadley & Rev. Albert Baller Source ID: Johnson_5565 Source: Johnson ### Event 6371 (69B2FFCC) Date: 9/2/1954 Description: Dusk. John Jacob Swaim, 12, is working on a tractor at his family’s farm in Coldwater, Kansas, when he sees a small man about 3 feet tall with long, pointed ears and a pointed nose standing in a crouched position about 20 feet away. It is dressed in a shiny garment and has two cylinders strapped on its back. The being floats to a nearby UFO hovering 5 feet from the ground. The next day his father and Sheriff Floyd Hadley find pear-shaped footprints, wide at the toes and tapering to a narrow heel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Little Man in Kansas Wheat Field,](http://www.cufos.org/Saucerian/1955%5F03%5F00%5FSaucerian%5FVol-3%232%28W%2306%29.pdf)” The Saucerian, no. 6 \(Spring 1955\): 12–13; Clark III 270–271; Curt Collins, “[A Flying Cucumber Comes to Kansas, Sept. 1954,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-flying-cucumber-comes-to-kansas-sept.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, February 23, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_2493 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6372 (9869B788) Date: 9/3/1954 Description: U.S.A.F. Major R. J. Waste and the nine man crew of his B-47 bomber were flying near Dallas, Texas at 4:30 p.m. when they were directed to investigate a UFO. It was a missle shaped object that dogged them for more than an hour, then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case #3, citing Paul Cerny, International UFO Reporter, September 1983, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_5589 Source: Johnson ### Event 6373 (74ECF8DC) Date: 9/3/1954 Description: A dazzling cigar-shaped UFO did loops over Weston, Staffordshire, England at 7:30 p.m. It turned vertical and moved off quickly toward the south. It was absolutely silent during the entire two minutes of the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3552, citing Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 60 Source ID: Johnson_5588 Source: Johnson ### Event 6374 (D99197BB) Date: 9/3/1954 Description: 4:30 p.m. USAF Maj. [Robert J. Waste](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63524631/robert-jackson-waste) and the 9-man crew of his B-47 bomber are flying at 25,000 feet in the vicinity of Dallas, Texas, on their way to Barksdale AFB in Bossier City, Louisiana. Carswell AFB \[now Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth\] in Texas directs them to be on the lookout for unusual objects. The crew discovers they are being paced by a missile-shaped object only 100 feet overhead that is slightly larger and longer than their own fuselage. It has two rows of oval-shaped portholes along the sides and an orange exhaust. The bottom of the object seems to be glowing. After pacing the B-47 a short time, it shoots ahead and zooms upward at incredible speed. Carswell tells them to pursue, but they can’t keep up. The UFO then descends to within 300 feet of the bomber and begins circling it. The UFO stays with the plane, pacing it above and below, and performing figure-eights and other maneuvers for over an hour. Two other B-47s in the squadron are behind the lead bomber and also view the object. The UFO finally shoots upward and disappears again. Waste takes 32 frames of 35mm color film of the UFO with his personal camera, but his film and that of his copilot is confiscated during a 3-day debriefing at Barksdale. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Cerny, “Close Encounter at 25,000 Feet: Government Coverup,”: IUR 8, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1983\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_2494 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6375 (53677203) Date: 9/3/1954 Description: Many workers in the fields 12 km south of the town saw an object apparently made of transparent plastic fly over the houses, stop on edge, and swing like a pendulum a few meters above the ground. It made several erratic jumps, then resumed its horizontal position and flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Souk-el-Khemis, Tunisia Source ID: Magnonia_141 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6376 (9682A1CC) Date: 9/3/1954 Description: At 1:00 p.m. many workers in the fields 12 kilometers south of the town of Souk-el-Khemis, Tunisia saw an object apparently made of transparent plastic fly over the houses, stop on its edge, and swing like a pendulum just a few meters above the ground. It made several erratic jumps, then resumed its horizontal position and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 141 Source ID: Johnson_5587 Source: Johnson ### Event 6377 (AF4029FA) Date: 9/4/1954 Description: On this morning in Obersuessbach, Bavaria, Germany between ten and eleven a.m. a schoolteacher and four others sighted a flat circular, silver colored object that had a funny looking rim. The edge of the craft gave them the impression of fringe. It passed over at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_5625 Source: Johnson ### Event 6378 (F768838A) Date: 9/4/1954 Time: 3 AM Description: Witness: J. Faltemeier, CAA communications specialist. Twenty-thirty lights, as if on a string, flew straight and level for 1.5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Butler, Missouri Source ID: BerlinerBBU_363 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6379 (9929F3F8) Date: 9/5/1954 Description: Ten witnesses including three police officers saw a disc-shaped object that flew over the city of Graz, Austria from east to west at 9:30 a.m. It came back again 90 minutes later, and was also seen in Bavaria, Germany. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 35 Source ID: Johnson_5649 Source: Johnson ### Event 6380 (D6ABA455) Date: 9/5/1954 Description: 3 AM CST 20-30 lights, as if on a string, fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3196) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Butler, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1729 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6381 (91023920) Date: 9/5/1954 Description: 12:23 AM CST silver or white object with a slightly swept-back leading edge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3198) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Butler, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1730 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6382 (42EA8D19) Date: 9/5/1954 Time: 12:23 AM Description: Witness: J. Faltemeier, CAA communications specialist. One silver or white object with a slightly swept-back leading edge and a following exhaust, flew straight and level, then veered southwest to south after 30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Butler, Missouri Source ID: BerlinerBBU_364 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6383 (9300FD58) Date: 9/6/1954 Description: Two spheres hovered over Ain Khabbeb, Morocco at 10:30 p.m., attached to each other. With green lines dangling from the attached spheres, they flew off quickly toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 228 Source ID: Johnson_5678 Source: Johnson ### Event 6384 (40FB4383) Date: 9/7/1954 Description: 12:30 a.m. Robert Chovel and his wife and father-in-law were driving home from the theater in Hirson, Aisne Department when they saw a luminous, red-orange "disk" flying above the railroad tracks. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Origny, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1731 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6385 (A4299BBA) Date: 9/7/1954 Description: Between Harponville and Contay, Somme department, France two bricklayers, Emile Renard, age 27, and Yves DeGillerboz, age 23, saw a bluish-gray object floating in midair over a field at 7:15 a.m. "It looked like an unfinished haystack, with a plate turned upside down on top of it." When they tried to approach it took off. It had a diameter of ten meters (33 feet), and they noticed it had a kind of door. The observation lasted over three minutes, at which point the object released some smoke as it departed straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Le Figaro, September 9, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 35; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pp. 208-209 Source ID: Johnson_5710 Source: Johnson ### Event 6386 (A9B0F527) Date: 9/7/1954 Description: At 12:30 a.m. three members of the Chovel family saw an orange-red disc with a luminous plume coming from the opposite side of its direction of movement above some railroad tracks in Origny-en-Theirache, Aisne department, France. It changed direction suddenly, rose, then hovered, and finally flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 38; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_5709 Source: Johnson ### Event 6387 (C26E792C) Date: 9/7/1954 Time: 0715 Description: Between Harponville and Contay, two bricklayers, Emile Renard, 27, and Yves Degillerboz, 23 saw an object floating in mid-air over a field: "It looked like an unfinished haystack, with a plate turned upside down on top of it." When they approached, it took off. Diameter 10 m, height 3 m. A kind of door was noticed. The observation lasted over 3 min. The object released smoke when it departed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 6; M 35 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Harponville, France Source ID: Magnonia_142 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6388 (266A0BDA) Date: 9/7/1954 Description: At eight o'clock in the evening three members of the Guibert family in the city of Marseille, France sighted a red luminous spherical object that hovered for 30 seconds, then flew in a complicated course. It was seen through binoculars, and swayed when it turned. The entire sighting lasted seven minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 39; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_5711 Source: Johnson ### Event 6389 (659F93CE) Date: 9/7/1954 Description: 12:30 a.m. Robert Chovel and two others are driving home from the theater in Hirson, Aisne, France, when they see a luminous red-orange disc flying above the railroad tracks. It stops suddenly across the road, 900– 1,200 feet from the ground. When the car reaches the bridge at Buire, the object shoots away at great speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 134](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/6sep1954orignyenthierache.htm)” May 12, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2495 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6390 (61AEE628) Date: 9/7/1954 Description: 7:15 a.m. Two bricklayers, Emile Renard, 27, and Yves DeGillerboz, 23, see a bluish-gray object floating in midair over a field as they are bicycling between Harponville and Contay, Somme, France. It looks like an unfinished haystack “with a plate turned upside down on top of it.” When they try to approach, it takes off. It has a diameter of 33 feet, and they notice it has a kind of door. The observation lasts more than 3 minutes, at which point the object releases some smoke as it departs straight up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight Line, p. 35; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/7sep1954harponville.htm)” March 20, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2496 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6391 (88CE5032) Date: 9/8/1954 Description: 11:00 p.m. Thomas Farquhar sees a “large oval-shaped disc,” crackling and hissing, fly over Derryhubbert, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He thinks it is about 3 feet wide and flying at a height of 2,000 feet. Daniel McWilliam and James Bingham, in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, see a rocket soar into the sky and explode silently. Mr. L. Hauser is on a boat leaving Belfast when he sees a rocket come up out of the sea and explode when it reaches about 15,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Belfast Telegraph, September 9–11, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 54 Source ID: Eberhart_2497 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6392 (04CA3573) Date: 9/8/1954 Description: A cigar-shaped object with a glowing underside was seen for 20 minutes in Stafford, England. It traveled in waves, moving every four minutes. It finally turned off its light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_5754 Source: Johnson ### Event 6393 (B5F0D209) Date: 9/9/1954 Description: Hovering disc photographed. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nelson, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1732 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6394 (F7149906) Date: 9/9/1954 Description: 2:20 a.m. Mr. K. M. Gibbons of Nelson, New Zealand, gets out of bed and sees through the window three discs hovering above a mudflat 3 miles away in a V-formation. They radiate a blue-white light from their edges. He grabs a camera with a telephoto lens and takes a photo. After 5 minutes, the discs begin to wobble, tip on edge, then shoot vertically out of sight. Other reports come from the area that morning. The photo shows a blurry oval with a small dark area on top. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [pp. 89](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=101&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=101&skin=2021) [92](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=104&skin=2021); Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [opp. p. 96](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/96/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2498 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6395 (DA64AA9D) Date: 9/9/1954 Description: A photograph of three disc-shaped UFOs was taken on this night at 2:20 a.m. by witnesses Gibbons and Ingram in Nelson, New Zealand. It has been rated as a highly reliable unknown. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, November 5, 1954, pp. 5-6; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, pp. 89-92; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 3-30; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 95; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, pp. 13 & 15 Source ID: Johnson_5785 Source: Johnson ### Event 6396 (7ACC6D53) Date: 9/10/1954 Description: A metal worker, Marius Dewilde, age 34, came out of his house in Quarouble, France at 10:30 p.m. when his dog was barking and saw a dark object sitting on the railroad tracks. He then observed two dwarfs walking toward it. When he tried to stop them, he found himself blinded and paralyzed by a strong orange beam of light that was projected at him. The beings were under 1 meter (3.3 feet) tall, bulky, and wore dark diving suits with diver's helmets. No faces or arms were visible. Imprints were made by an object, that an engineer estimated must have weighed 30 tons. French police and the French Air Force investigated the case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Le Parisien, September 13, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 44; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 209; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 467 Source ID: Johnson_5822 Source: Johnson ### Event 6397 (E25FF34B) Date: 9/10/1954 Time: 2030 Description: A farmer, Mr. Mazaud was walking home when he was suddenly confronted with a helmeted being of average height who made friendly gestures, then went back into the brush, entered a cigar-shaped object about 4 m long, which took off toward Limoges. A few minutes later witnesses in Limoges reported a disk-shaped, red object leaving a bluish trail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 7; M 40 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mourieras, France Source ID: Magnonia_143 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6398 (61FCD79D) Date: 9/10/1954 Description: Mourieras, France. A farmer, Mr. Mazaud, age 50, was walking home when he was suddenly confronted with a helmeted being of average height who made friendly gestures, then went back into the brush, entered a cigar-shaped object about four meters long, which took off toward Limoges. A few minutes later witnesses in Limoges reported a disc-shaped, red object leaving a bluish trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Le Parisien, September 14, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 40; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 209 Source ID: Johnson_5821 Source: Johnson ### Event 6399 (98C7D3E9) Date: 9/10/1954 Time: 2230 Description: A metal worker, Marius Dewilde, 34, came out of his house as a dog was barking and saw a dark object on the railroad tracks, then observed two dwarfs walking toward it. When he tried to stop them, he found himself paralyzed as a strong orange light was projected at him.The creatures were under 1 m tall, bulky, and wore dark diving suits. No face or arms were visible. Traces made by an object of estimated weight 30 tons were noted by French Air Force and police on the ballast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 8; M 44; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Quarouble, France Source ID: Magnonia_144 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6400 (2CDD59C9) Date: 9/10/1954 Description: 8:30 p.m. Antoine Mazaud is walking home from his fields at Mourieras, north of Bugeat, Corrèze, France, when he is confronted by a helmeted being of average height who makes friendly gestures. It shakes hands with him and embraces him while uttering unintelligible words. Then it goes back into the brush, enters a cigar-shaped object about 13 feet long, which takes off to the northwest. A few minutes later, witnesses in Limoges report a disc-shaped, red object leaving a bluish trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/10sep1954mourieras.htm)” June 21, 2005; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_2499 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6401 (48AD5A19) Date: 9/10/1954 Description: Around 10:30 p.m. 34-year-old metal worker Marius Dewilde comes out of his house at Quarouble, Nord, France, to see why his dog is barking. He hears hurried footsteps on his right and with his flashlight sees two creatures just beyond his fence walking in single file toward a dark object sitting on the railroad tracks. The creatures are about 3.5 feet tall with wide shoulders, short legs, and helmets covering large heads. No faces or arms are visible. When he tries to cut them off and gets within 6 feet, he finds himself paralyzed as a powerful orange beam of light is projected at him from a square opening in the dark object. The creatures continue toward the railroad tracks, a door closes, the dark object rises to 100 feet, hovers, and speeds away. Five imprints on three wooden railroad ties are found, made by an object that an engineer estimates must have weighed 30 tons. French police and the French Air Force investigate the case. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Marius Dewilde](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius%5FDewilde)”; Aimé Michel, Straight Line, 44–46; Marc Thirouin, “[Marius Dewilde n’a pas menti,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2025%20-%201960.pdf)” Ouranos, no. 25 \(1960\): 20–25; Vallée, Magonia, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/16/mode/2up) [17–18](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/16/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/16/mode/2up) [209](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/208/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/10sep1954quarouble.htm)” July 22, 2004; Jean F. Gilles, “[The Bankruptcy of the French](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2028%20N%205.pdf) [UFO Research Body, GEPAN,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2028%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 5 \(June 1983\): 15–16; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_2500 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6402 (7198653D) Date: 9/11/1954 Description: On this afternoon a merchant driving a van near Quarouble, Nord department, France saw a domed disc descend vertically, and then hover near a grove of trees. Several human-looking beings were then seen in front of the craft. When the witness walked toward it, he was hit by a luminous beam of light and paralyzed. The object took off going straight up vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-15 (A1688), citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne, p. 131; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 77-78 Source ID: Johnson_5856 Source: Johnson ### Event 6403 (CF889736) Date: 9/12/1954 Alternate date: 9/13/1954 Description: Late afternoon. A witness is driving a van in the vicinity of Quarouble, Nord, France, when he sees a domed disc descending vertically into a small thicket about 160 feet off the road and land. He can see a kind of gallery around the dome where human-like beings are standing. He stops the car, gets out, and walks toward the object, but when he gets closer the object shines a green ray at him. The disc immediately ascends vertically, then moves gently away. His paralysis ceases. A rush of air shakes him at the time it takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marc Thirouin, “[Marius Dewilde n’a pas menti,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2025%20-%201960.pdf)” Ouranos, no. 25 \(1960\): 25; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/12sep1954quarouble.htm)” March 23, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2501 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6404 (2422A3FE) Date: 9/14/1954 Time: 2200 Description: John J. Swain, 12, was driving a tractor back from the fields when he saw a small man no bigger than a 5-year-old child a few meters away from him. He had a long nose and long ears and seemed to "fly" when he moved toward a saucershaped craft hovering less than 2 m above ground. It "opened up" and the creature "popped inside." The craft became luminous and went out of sight. Strange traces were found by police. The creature was dressed in shiny clothes, and his shoes seemed to have "fins." He carried two cylinders on his back and had long, pointed ears. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 9; Humanoids 53; Wilkins U 239 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Coldwater, Kansas Source ID: Magnonia_145 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6405 (DBB48DFB) Date: 9/14/1954 Description: Night. Several people see a circular UFO over Helsinki, Finland. Flying at 2,600 feet, it gives off an intense light and leaves a trail of reddish smoke about 3 times its diameter. It is visible 7 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p.](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) [134](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2503 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6406 (30D1C9C7) Date: 9/14/1954 Description: At 5:00 p.m. over 200 witnesses in St.-Prouant, Vendee department, France watched a cigar or carrot-shaped UFO as it emerged from a cloud, tilted toward the ground, hovered, and then elevated its front end quickly into a vertical position. It emitted vapor from its lower end. Next, a metallic disc-shaped object flew out, spun around the cigar, and then re-entered the mothership. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 23, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 16; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 44 Source ID: Johnson_5948 Source: Johnson ### Event 6407 (49436C7B) Date: 9/14/1954 Description: John J. Swain, age 12, was driving a tractor back from his family's fields in Coldwater, Kansas when he saw a little man no bigger than a 5-year-old child a few meters away from him. He had a long nose and long ears and seemed to fly or glide as he moved toward a saucer-shaped craft hovering just two meters above ground. It "opened up" and the creature "popped inside." The craft became luminous and shot out of sight. Unusual traces were found by police. The being was dressed in shiny clothes, and his shoes seemed to have "fins" attached. He carried two cylinders on his back and had long, pointed ears. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 239; Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 53; Lincoln Nebraska Star, late September 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 209 Source ID: Johnson_5949 Source: Johnson ### Event 6408 (7074EBF9) Date: 9/14/1954 Description: 5:00 p.m. Farm worker Georges Fortin, 34, and more than 200 other witnesses in Saint-Prouant, Vendée, France, watch a cigar or carrot-shaped UFO as it emerges from a cloud, tilts toward the ground, hovers, and then elevates its front end quickly into a vertical position. It emits vapor from its lower end. Next, a metallic disc- shaped object flies out, spins around the cigar, and then reenters the vertical object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/14sep1954saintprouant.htm) [French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/14sep1954saintprouant.htm)” July 2, 2004; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 5; Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 10–12; Clark III 293; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “[‘Cloud Cigar’ over Saint-Prouant, France,](https://www.caelestia.be/saintprouant.html)” June 13, 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_2502 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6409 (B4BE43CE) Date: 9/14/1954 Description: Several people reported having seen a circular flying object. The object, flying at an altitude of 800 meters, gave off an intense light and left a trail of reddish smoke about three times its diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Helsinki, Finland Source ID: NICAP_DB_1733 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6410 (5B446DBA) Date: 9/15/1954 Description: At 8:45 p.m. a red cigar-shaped shaped object reappeared over the town of Bois-en-Ardres, Pas-de-Calais, France and circled the area, giving off a red and white glow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 49; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 79 Source ID: Johnson_5980 Source: Johnson ### Event 6411 (2BAE1D5C) Date: 9/15/1954 Description: At 3:20 a.m. a red disc-shaped object surrounded by a green halo was sighted by a married couple in Roubaix, Nord department, France for 35 seconds. It rose vertically until a point of light, and disappeared when at the zenith. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_5978 Source: Johnson ### Event 6412 (94750974) Date: 9/15/1954 Description: A white light suddenly swept the road in front of Roland M., age 19, who was driving in Feyzin, Rhone department, France at 11:30 p.m. He observed that it came from a large, dark object shaped like an ellipse about ten meters above the ground, 50 meters away. It flew away, making a noise like wet fireworks, and throwing magnesium-like sparks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Le Parisien, September 29, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 49; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 210 Source ID: Johnson_5982 Source: Johnson ### Event 6413 (6C80CD3B) Date: 9/15/1954 Description: Gray disc hovered, emitted smoke and climbed away at high speed. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bihar, India Source ID: NICAP_DB_1734 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6414 (39A18DFF) Date: 9/15/1954 Description: Driving on a secondary road at around 11:00 p.m. in Feurs, St. Etienne, Loire department, France the witness's car engine quit. Soon a bright saucer-shaped object descended and landed very close to the car. A small being, described as wearing a Hitler-like uniform, ran by the car and was seen by several observers. It ran away from the group of witnesses when they attempted to approach and communicate with him. The craft soon took off. A dog was supposedly excited during the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3582; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 79 Source ID: Johnson_5981 Source: Johnson ### Event 6415 (3F238C00) Date: 9/15/1954 Description: On this afternoon in Kadori, Bihar, India a noisy disc-shaped object approximately 20 feet in diameter was sighted by over 800 people, hovering for a few minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 26; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 45 Source ID: Johnson_5979 Source: Johnson ### Event 6416 (9BCE5EED) Date: 9/15/1954 Time: 2320 Description: A white light suddenly swept the road in front of Roland M., 19, who observed that it came from a large, dark object 10 m above ground. It flew away with the noise of a wet firework, throwing magnesiumlike sparks. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 10; M 49 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Feyzin, France Source ID: Magnonia_146 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6417 (FE6EEA8B) Date: 9/15/1954 Description: Ijapada Chatterjee, the manager of the Kadori mica mine, and hundreds of others watch a disc descend to an altitude of 500 feet over three adjoining villages \(Kadori, Barshi, and Mangalda\) in the Manbhum district, West Bengal, India. It hovers, then soars upwards at terrific speed, creating a tremendous gust of wind. The UFO is over a mine that supplies beryllium for the US Atomic Energy Commission. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “800 Biharis See Flying Saucer,” Times of India \(Bombay\), October 3, 1954; UFOEv, [p. 124](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=136&skin=2021); Project 1947, “[UFO Reports, 1954](http://www.project1947.com/fig/1954a.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2504 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6418 (B1542951) Date: 9/16/1954 Description: At 5:45 p.m. a metallic round flat object, was seen gliding along rapidly in calm air over Le Pin, Isere, France by four witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_6006 Source: Johnson ### Event 6419 (A1A4AE42) Date: 9/16/1954 Description: 6:00 a.m. The radio transmitter for WMEV in Marion, Virginia, fails as a round, shiny object, 10–15 feet in diameter, flies over the tower toward the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Saucers Are Sighted in Virginia,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99712060/)” Lancaster \(Pa.\) Intelligencer-Journal, September 17, 1954, p. 44; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 79 Source ID: Eberhart_2505 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6420 (B5DFC839) Date: 9/16/1954 Description: In Marion, Virginia a radio station transmitter failed as a round shiny UFO passed by the tower. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74 Source ID: Johnson_6007 Source: Johnson ### Event 6421 (36A64E3F) Date: 9/16/1954 Description: Shiny, round object buzzed radio tower; transmitter failed to operate properly. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roanoke (near), VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1735 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6422 (C9225B17) Date: 9/16/1954 Description: Radio station transmitter failed to operate properly as round shiny UFO passed tower (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marion, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1736 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6423 (34589D37) Date: 9/17/1954 Description: Rome, Italy, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rome, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_1737 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6424 (6CA42528) Date: 9/17/1954 Time: 2230 Description: Between Cenon and Vouneuil, Yves David, 28, met a being in a diving suit who made friendly gestures. He was very small and had a voice "inhuman and incomprehensible." The witness could not move throughout the encounter. He saw the creature enter an object on the road, about 3 m by 1 m in size; it took off "like lightning," throwing a greenish light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 11; M 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cenon, France Source ID: Magnonia_147 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6425 (8AE8D028) Date: 9/17/1954 Description: Around 4:45 p.m. Hundreds of people see a UFO over Rome, Italy, making staccato thunder sounds as it hovers. It makes a brief dive, returns to position, then zooms straight up, leaving a stream of white smoke behind. Around 5:45 p.m., Lt. Bruno Giustiniani and other personnel at a military unit at Ciampino Airport in Rome see it as a “half cigar” moving at 179 mph at 3,500 feet. Blue Book receives a teletype about the object, saying it is in the shape of a jellyfish when stationary but in the shape of a cigar when in motion. At 6:49 p.m., radar at Pratica di Mare Air Base south of Rome picks up a target for 20–45 minutes, plotting a slow course along the coast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954 September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Sept.pdf), The Author, 1994, pp. 24–27; 1Pinotti 54–58 Source ID: Eberhart_2506 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6426 (0571CC7B) Date: 9/17/1954 Description: Between Cenon and Vouneuil, France at 10:30 p.m. Yves David, age 28, met a being in a diving suit who made friendly gestures. The being was very small and had a voice "inhuman and incomprehensible." The witness could not move throughout the encounter. He saw the creature enter a three-meter wide by one-meter tall object sitting on the road, and it took off "like lightning." It cast a greenish light as it did so. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Le Figaro, September 30, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 58; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 210; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-50 (A0249), citing Aime Michel Source ID: Johnson_6041 Source: Johnson ### Event 6427 (024D2D02) Date: 9/17/1954 Description: At 7:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object was seen through a 25x telescope and was witnessed by at least 11 people in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome, France. It was black with a luminous tail, and the trail was exceptionally luminous. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 57 Source ID: Johnson_6040 Source: Johnson ### Event 6428 (74CA4D6D) Date: 9/17/1954 Description: At 4:45 p.m. a silver bullet-shaped object was seen in the sky by over a thousand people including military witnesses near the Ciampino Airport, ten miles outside of Rome, Italy. It rotated from a horizontal orientation to vertical with the point down. It had an estimated altitude of 2500 feet and a speed of 150-180 miles per hour. It left a luminous vapor trail and was tracked on radar. At the same time in Pitigliano, Italy in Tuscany two hunters, Bacherini and Formiconi, heard a series of detonations and then saw a round white craft moving slowly with lateral oscillation as it advanced. It blew toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 55-57; Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_6039 Source: Johnson ### Event 6429 (C1BCFAC5) Date: 9/17/1954 Description: 7:15 p.m. A widow named Mellé sees a luminous, orange-yellow, cigar-shaped object near her villa in Gelles, Puy-de-Dôme, France. Her neighbors also see it and watch for 5 minutes. Possible contrail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/17sep1954gelles.htm),” April 11, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2507 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6430 (797A55C1) Date: 9/18/1954 Time: 5:55 AM Description: Witnesses: two control tower operators, a weather forecaster and a weather observer. One round object, like polished aluminum, flew straight and level for 11-13 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kimpo Air Base, Japan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_365 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6431 (156470CD) Date: 9/18/1954 Description: 8:30 p.m. A round glowing UFO is seen approaching then hovering above Danané, Ivory Coast, by many people: a Catholic priest named Fr. Myard, the local chief of police, a Dr. Mariani, a businessman named Sory Diallo, and a group of women. The object moves again at 9:05 p.m., changes from a circle to an ellipse, then flies away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight Line, 61; Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1954 September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Sept.pdf), The Author, 1994, pp. 28–29 Source ID: Eberhart_2508 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6432 (3198AE3F) Date: 9/18/1954 Description: 8:40 p.m. A huge green fireball streaks across Colorado and New Mexico. It zooms above Santa Fe, New Mexico, giving off a blinding glare and takes 30 seconds to cross the sky, disturbing TV and radio signals. [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) remarks that it does not seem to be an ordinary meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 198–199; Ruppelt, [p. 47](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/46/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 220 Source ID: Eberhart_2509 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6433 (BFC811FC) Date: 9/18/1954 Description: Large green fireball observed; radio and television interference noted over wide area (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: City not noted, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1738 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6434 (CE1ED283) Date: 9/18/1954 Time: 2015 Description: A small gray disk flew over a car at very high speed, followed by cold air currents. This was reported by Mr. Guitta of Casablana. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Ouranos ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Casablanca, Morocco Source ID: Magnonia_148 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6435 (9985B228) Date: 9/18/1954 Description: At 8:15 p.m. a small gray disc flew over a car from the rear at very high speed in Casablanca, Morocco. The car was being driven by a Mr. Guitta. The car was pulled to the left by an unseen force, and this was followed by a blast of cold air. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ouranos magazine; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 210; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 47 Source ID: Johnson_6066 Source: Johnson ### Event 6436 (0E465242) Date: 9/18/1954 Description: At 5:55 a.m. two control tower operators, a weather forecaster and a weather observer at Kimpo Air Base in Korea watched a round object, like polished aluminum, fly straight and level for 11-13 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3213; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6065 Source: Johnson ### Event 6437 (E53C8DB2) Date: 9/18/1954 Description: Round object, like polished aluminum, fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3213) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kimpo AB, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1739 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6438 (D19E3645) Date: 9/18/1954 Description: Green fireball seen by thousands of witnesses heading SE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Denver (near), CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1740 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6439 (C2589347) Date: 9/19/1954 Description: 10:00 p.m. Yves David, 28, is riding his moped on the D-1 road south of Cenon-sur-Vienne, France, when his headlight begins malfunctioning and he feels a prickling sensation like electricity. He sees a 9-foot-long UFO in the road ahead and a small man in a diving suit coming toward him. It touches David on the shoulder, mutters something incomprehensible, and returns to the object. The object emits a green light that temporarily stuns David before it takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/19sep1954cenon.htm),” March 20, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2510 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6440 (626FD742) Date: 9/19/1954 Description: At 4:30 p.m. five women in Col du Beal, Puy-de-Dome, France saw a flat gray, metallic disc-shaped object that hovered for 30 seconds, then accelerated rapidly and flew away to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 62 Source ID: Johnson_6080 Source: Johnson ### Event 6441 (773ABD3D) Date: 9/19/1954 Time: 2115 Description: A bright light was seen in the east, came to the ground, lost its brightness, remained on the spot about 40 sec. It was the size of a small bus, and there was a figure in front of it. It rose and took on the appearance of a red ball. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 12; M 63 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Oberdorff, France Source ID: Magnonia_149 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6442 (27429269) Date: 9/19/1954 Description: Officials watched oval UFO with dome and "searchlights". \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Danane, Fr. West Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_1741 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6443 (EEA37F5C) Date: 9/19/1954 Description: At 9:15 p.m. a policeman, Louis Moll, saw a bright light land on the heights in Oberdoff, Moselle department, France, then darken. The object was the size of a small bus. The light from the object became reddish, and he could see a black silhouetted figure moving around in front of it. After 40 seconds the object then rose up into the air again, and took on the appearance of a red ball. It flew off to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 63; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-51 (A0250); Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 149 Source ID: Johnson_6081 Source: Johnson ### Event 6444 (ABE676F3) Date: 9/20/1954 Description: A bright light was seen in the east by residents of Oberdorff, France at 9:15 p.m. It came to the ground, lost its brightness, and remained in one spot for approximately 40 seconds. It was reported to be about the size of a small bus, and there was a figure standing in front of it. The object rose and took on the appearance of a red ball. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Le Parisien, September 23, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 63; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 210 Source ID: Johnson_6119 Source: Johnson ### Event 6445 (3111B964) Date: 9/20/1954 Description: Three farmers saw a saucer land in La Chassagne, Correze department, France at 11:00 p.m. It brushed a tree, leaving behind burnt leaves and ground marks in the dirt. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 85 Source ID: Johnson_6120 Source: Johnson ### Event 6446 (E16A7D8E) Date: 9/20/1954 Description: In the North Atlantic on Santa Maria Island in the Azores, at 11:00 p.m. Vitorino Monteiro, an airport guard at Santa Maria Airport, saw a bluish metallic pecan shaped object 5’ x 10’ land on 4 legs, with a hum or whine. In its nose was an orange light. There was a Plexiglas type section in the forward end, which contained the pilot. There were four pole-like appendages, two at each end, which supported parallel aerials. A blond man 5’10” tall, wearing a gray aviator suit got out of a door located in the Plexiglas section, he approached the witness & spoke in an unknown language; he understood neither Portuguese nor French. He patted the guard’s shoulder, got back into his craft, fastened safety belts, and took off, turning almost straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 132; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-52, citing Robert D. Gammell, Project Blue Book Source ID: Johnson_6121 Source: Johnson ### Event 6447 (CD04A00A) Date: 9/20/1954 Description: Late on this night two men, Srs. Atencio and Garcia, watched a luminous object in the sky for about an hour as they waited for roadside assistance next to their stranded vehicle that they had driven into a ditch. Later, they saw a luminous craft, which resembled a full moon, land behind a grove near Monte-Brandsen, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Two one-meter tall dwarves dressed in white with big silver helmets got out and walked in their direction. When they saw the two frightened witnesses they glided back in the direction of the craft, which promptly took off fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: La Razon, April 19, 1973; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0251; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case #1325, citing Hector P. Anganuzzi, Historia de Los Platos Voladores en Argentina Source ID: Johnson_6122 Source: Johnson ### Event 6448 (14298C3A) Date: 9/20/1954 Time: 2300 Description: A guard saw a craft, 3.5 m in diameter and 1.5 m thick, land on the airfield. The witness, Vitorino Lourenco Monteiro, said a figure emerged from the craft and said something he could not understand, before taking off again. There were antennalike protrusions on top of the object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Santa Maria Airport, Azores Source ID: Magnonia_150 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6449 (D9723C2E) Date: 9/20/1954 Description: 9:00 p.m. Elie Cisterne, a farm worker in the hamlet of La Chassagne, Ussac, Corrèze, France, is returning home on his tractor when he sees a luminous object coming toward him. He jumps off the tractor and lies down, fearful, as the object stops a short distance above the road and hovers silently for several minutes. Cisterne runs away when the UFO starts moving again, flying over his tractor and into the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/20sep1954ussel.htm),” December 29, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_2511 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6450 (20C46823) Date: 9/20/1954 Description: Dark saucer-shaped UFO arced overhead, levelled off and moved into distance. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cuyahoga Falls, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1742 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6451 (E7320C14) Date: 9/21/1954 Time: 1 AM Description: Witnesses: two local policemen, four U.S. Marine Corps police, one highway patrolman. One red-orange ball giving off sparks, and a smaller light, made a zigzag descent and then hovered. Total of 20 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Barstow, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_366 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6452 (0DFDA700) Date: 9/21/1954 Time: 9:45 PM Description: Witness: airport guard. One 10'x5' light metallic blue, pecan-shaped object with a clear glass or plastic nose having a door, and with poles or aerials on the nose. Humming or whining, it hovered, landed vertically, 50' away. A blond man, 5' 10" tall appeared, spoke in a strange language, patted the guard on the shoulder, got in the object, hooked up his harness, pushed a button, took off with the object's nose pointed up, then levelled off and climbed vertically. Sighting lasted 2-3 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Santa Maria, Azores Islands Source ID: BerlinerBBU_367 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6453 (0A523A1B) Date: 9/21/1954 Description: 10 ft x 5 ft light metallic blue, pecan-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3224) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Maria Airport, Azores Source ID: NICAP_DB_1745 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6454 (6EBDB552) Date: 9/21/1954 Description: A red-orange ball giving off sparks (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3222) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barstow, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1744 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6455 (45E0B0A9) Date: 9/21/1954 Description: 9:45 p.m. A guard at the Santa Maria Airport in Vila so Porto, Azores, sees a 10 x 5-foot, light metallic blue, pecan-shaped object with a clear glass or plastic nose and door, poles or aerials on its nose. It hums or whines as it hovers, then lands vertically 50 feet away. A blond man, 5 feet 10 inches tall, appears, speaks in a strange language, pats the guard on the shoulder, gets in the object, hooks up his harness, pushes a button, takes off with the object’s nose pointed up, then levels off and climbs vertically. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Blond Humanoid Reported](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/20sep1954ussel.htm) [by Airport Guard](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/20sep1954ussel.htm)”; Sparks, p. 220 Source ID: Eberhart_2512 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6456 (B1389C21) Date: 9/21/1954 Description: Two weathermen with a theodolite watch a delta-shaped object, larger than balloon, maneuver thru sky over Durban, South Africa and ten o'clock in the morning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_6177 Source: Johnson ### Event 6457 (93C197CB) Date: 9/21/1954 Description: At one o'clock in the morning in Barstow, California two local policemen, four U.S. Marine Corps police, and a California highway patrolman watched a reddish-orange ball of light giving off sparks. A smaller orange ball of light make a zigzag descent and then hovered. Their sighting lasted a total of 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3222; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_6178 Source: Johnson ### Event 6458 (DE7B99F5) Date: 9/21/1954 Description: [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) has a private talk for 26 minutes with Lt. Col. [John O’Mara](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/OMara.htm), USAF Deputy Commander for Intelligence, who tells him that flying saucers do exist—three types, actually: a craft from outer space, a secret US aircraft, and unexplained natural phenomena. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard Stringfield, “[Private Talk with Lt.](http://www.cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf) [Colonel John O’Mara, Deputy Commander, Intelligence, Confirms the Existence of ‘Flying Saucers,’](http://www.cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 7 \(October 1, 1954\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_2513 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6459 (8C83E43A) Date: 9/22/1954 Description: Thin, translucent, tan asymmetrical boomerang-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3226) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marshfield (3 miles E of), MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1746 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6460 (5E1DC165) Date: 9/22/1954 Description: Shortly after 8:00 p.m. Mme. Gamundi is driving on the N7 north of Fontainebleau, France, when she notices a light in the sky. She stops and gets out and sees a huge luminous ball hanging motionless. It is reddish and surrounded by a luminous, moving smoke. Suddenly, another bright ball emerges from the bottom, falls, slows, turns, and disappears at high speed. At least 4 other objects emerge. When an aircraft from Orly Airport approaches, the ball rises at high speed and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/22sep1954fontainebleau.htm),” April 9, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2514 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6461 (C0FB86B1) Date: 9/22/1954 Description: 11:00 p.m. Jean Besse, a draftsman for a power company in Tulle, Corrèze, France, watches a UFO through binoculars. It changes color three times in a few seconds. Probably astronomical. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/22sep1954tulle.htm) [1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/22sep1954tulle.htm)” March 23, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2515 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6462 (51763798) Date: 9/22/1954 Time: 9 AM Description: Witnesses: private pilot J.N. Williams, E.J. Ash. A thin, translucent tan asymmetrical boomerang-shaped object revolved, then tumbled down behind some trees. Marks were found in the dirt. Sighting lasted 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Marshfield, Missouri Source ID: BerlinerBBU_368 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6463 (0BE61EB6) Date: 9/22/1954 Description: At 8:00 p.m. red luminous cloud-cigar was seen by three people emitting disc-shaped UFOs in Fontainebleu, France. The object was surrounded by a luminous vapor. The cigar-shaped UFO flew in a manner to avoid a passing airplane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 66 Source ID: Johnson_6218 Source: Johnson ### Event 6464 (78A504DC) Date: 9/22/1954 Description: In Marshfield, Missouri at eleven o'clock in the morning private pilot J. N. Williams and his friend E. J. Ash observed a thin, translucent tan asymmetrical boomerang-shaped object as it came down behind some trees. The object appeared to be revolving, and it then tumbled down behind the trees. Marks were found in the dirt at the supposed landing site. The ground was "pulverized" with dirt torn up and small rocks disturbed. Their sighting lasted 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3226; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 178; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6219 Source: Johnson ### Event 6465 (F535662E) Date: 9/23/1954 Description: At the same time as the Patient family sighting, Mrs. Vignolles of Lencouacq, France saw a luminous object come down from the sky very rapidly. It made no noise as it landed in a nearby field, next to a church. It took off very fast a few seconds later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 77; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 211 Source ID: Johnson_6250 Source: Johnson ### Event 6466 (F0F692B3) Date: 9/23/1954 Description: At 9:00 p.m. in Le Jou, France the Patient family witnessed the landing of a bright object that gave off a magnesium-like light, a red glow, and a narrow beam of light. It took off again a moment later and followed their car until they reached Fontland. Policemen in Plombieres and several other independent witnesses observed the object as it flew erratically over the area for 60 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 69; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 210 Source ID: Johnson_6249 Source: Johnson ### Event 6467 (DF9D055F) Date: Fall 1954 Description: Marine Corps weather observer saw 7 discs oscillating in formation.\[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1743 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6468 (8E11E825) Date: 9/23/1954 Description: 9:00 p.m. Irene Vrignolles sees a “flying cigar” that lands slowly in a meadow behind a rectory in Lencouacq, Landes, France. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/23sep1954lencouacq.htm)” December 16, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_2517 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6469 (FF841B14) Date: 9/23/1954 Description: Afternoon. Several residents of Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, see three mysterious objects high in the sky. One witness, policeman M. Corrions, says they are arranged in the shape of a triangle. Possible helicopters. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/23sep1954bayonne.htm),” April 20, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2516 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6470 (46525739) Date: 9/23/1954 Description: In Gatlinburg, Tennessee at 9:45 a.m. Dave Owenby sighted two daylight UFOs. The two bright silver, wheel-shaped objects flew from north to south in trail formation for two minutes Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6248 Source: Johnson ### Event 6471 (897F0BA6) Date: 9/23/1954 Time: 9:45 AM Description: Witness: Dave Owenby. Two bright silver, wheel-shaped objects flew from north to south in trail for 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Gatlinburg, Tennessee Source ID: BerlinerBBU_369 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6472 (247108B2) Date: 9/23/1954 Description: At three o'clock in the morning an ovoid-shaped UFO was sighted on Highway N269 in Moussoulens, France. Two human-looking occupants exited the craft, gestured, then re-entered it and the object took off, flying to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3617; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 166 Source ID: Johnson_6247 Source: Johnson ### Event 6473 (3D5F22A0) Date: 9/23/1954 Description: 2 bright silver, wheel-shaped objects fly N to S in trail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3227) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gatlinburg, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1747 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6474 (37ED2C63) Date: 9/23/1954 Time: 2100 Description: The Patient family witnessed the landing of a bright object giving off a magnesiumlike light, a red glow, and a narrow beam of light. It took off again a moment later and followed their car until they reached Fontland. Policemen in Plombieres and several independent witnesses observed the object as it flew erratically over the area for 60 min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 13; M 69 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Le Jou, France Source ID: Magnonia_151 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6475 (34369A24) Date: 9/23/1954 Time: 2100 Description: Mrs. Vignolles saw a luminous object come down rapidly, without noise, and land in a field near the church. It took off very fast a few seconds later. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 15; M 77 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lencouacq, France Source ID: Magnonia_152 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6476 (797AF0DF) Date: 9/24/1954 Description: At 10 o'clock in the morning Cesar Cardoso and three others saw two individuals, 2.5 meters (8.3 feet) tall emerge from a landed craft in Almaseda, near Castelibranco, Portugal. They were dressed in shiny uniforms, and were gathering flowers, shrubs, and other vegetation and putting it in a shiny box. Before they took off they seemed to be inviting the witnesses aboard, but their language was not understood. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 55; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 211 Source ID: Johnson_6279 Source: Johnson ### Event 6477 (EDB5FF4B) Date: 9/24/1954 Description: At nine o'clock in the morning two women, Mrs. Geoffroy and Miss Gazelle Fin, independently witnessed a dark gray disc, six meters in diameter, in a clearing in Becar, near Diges, Yonne, France. A man of normal height was seen standing close to it. He wore dark clothes and some kind of cap. Miss Fin came within 30 meters of the craft and said that it looked like the man was repairing it. Traces were found on the grass. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Le Parisien, September 28, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 211 Source ID: Johnson_6278 Source: Johnson ### Event 6478 (0E78739A) Date: 9/24/1954 Description: Mr. Cisterne lived on the Farm Lachassagne, near Ussel, France. He was driving back to the barn at 11:00 p.m. with his tractor when he saw a luminous object fly very low over him. There were two other witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 76; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 211 Source ID: Johnson_6283 Source: Johnson ### Event 6479 (9C3FADA9) Date: 9/24/1954 Time: 0900 Description: Two women (Widow Geoffroy and Miss Gisele Fin) made independent reports of a dark gray disk, 6 m in diameter, 1 m high, seen in a clearing. A man of normal height was standing close to it. He wore dark clothes and a kind of cap. Miss Fin came within 30 m of the craft and stated the man was repairing it. Traces were found on the grass. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 14; Carrouges 98 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Becar, near Diges and "Les Michauts" or "Les Jolivets", France Source ID: Magnonia_153 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6480 (9EEFE2A4) Date: 9/24/1954 Time: 1000 Description: Cesar Cardoso and three others saw two individuals, 2.5 m tall, dressed in shiny clothes, emerge from a landed craft and gather flowers, shrubs, and twigs in a shiny box, then take off. They seemed to be inviting the witnesses aboard, but their language was not understood. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins U 55, 245; 24 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Almaseda, near Castelibranco, Portugal Source ID: Magnonia_154 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6481 (3C004BCE) Date: 9/24/1954 Time: 2300 Description: Mr. Cisterne, who was coming back with his tractor, saw a luminous object fly very low over him. Two other witnesses. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 16;M 76 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Farm Lachassagne, near Ussel, France Source ID: Magnonia_155 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6482 (C234D8C2) Date: 9/24/1954 Description: Hoaxed story of an alleged sighting by Cesar Cardoso at Castelo Branco, Portugal, who sees two entities in shining metal suits emerge from a landed UFO and pick up flowers, shrubs, and twigs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-09-24-portugal-almaseda.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-09-24-portugal-almaseda.htm) December 8, 2006; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_2518 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6483 (9462130A) Date: 9/24/1954 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a large 40-50 meter in diameter domed disc, which was bright red with an orange glow and a blue-violet colored dome, was sighted south-southwest of Civray, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Coudert, Ouranos, vol. 24 (1978), p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_6282 Source: Johnson ### Event 6484 (00EDA773) Date: 9/24/1954 Description: At dusk a fast, silent, luminous object landed for a few seconds in a field by a church in Lencouacq, Landes, France and was seen by a Miss Vignolles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 77 Source ID: Johnson_6281 Source: Johnson ### Event 6485 (6A44A661) Date: 9/24/1954 Description: At sometime before 3:00 p.m. in Bayonne, Pyrenees-Atlantique, France three metallic ovoid objects hovered in a triangular formation for over one minute, then flew away fast. At 3:00 p.m. a fast silent cigar-shaped object crossed the sky slowly over the Vichy stadium, Allier, France and was seen by many. These are two of the defining sightings of the Bayonne to Vichy (BAVIC) orthotenic line discovered by Aime Michel and confirmed by Dr. David R. Saunders. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 76; David R. Saunders, Is BAVIC Remarkable?, FSR, Vol. 17, No. 4, July-August 1971 Source ID: Johnson_6280 Source: Johnson ### Event 6486 (A455AE9F) Date: 9/25/1954 Description: A disc-shaped object descended and landed along the banks of the River Marne in Joinville-le-Pont, France at 9:20 p.m. Two humanoids about 1.10 meters tall exited the machine. Their faces were covered with hair. A beam of light paralyzed both of the witnesses, and one of the humanoids approaches the witness with the initials M.P. and tore off his trousers. The short humanoids then boarded their machine, which rose vertically and disappeared at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 168 Source ID: Johnson_6310 Source: Johnson ### Event 6487 (B602FD73) Date: 9/26/1954 Description: 2:30 p.m. At Chabeuil, Drôme, France, Lucette Leboeuf is walking her dog when she sees a short being wearing a translucent helmet and diving suit. She can see large eyes looking at her through the helmet. The creature approaches her, hopping. The dog barks at it and she runs away and hides in a bush. About 15 feet away, she sees an object about 16 feet in diameter resembling a top with a flat top. It rises above the cornfield and takes off at tremendous speed. Other people notice a circular area about 10 feet in diameter where the ground and grass are tightly packed. Tree branches are broken from above. Shocked, she stays in bed for two days. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/26sep1954chabeuil.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2519 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6488 (B1A895D9) Date: 9/26/1954 Description: One minute after the radio station sighting a short humanoid in a diver suit was seen by a Mr. Guyard at the Challes Airport in Savoie department, France. The being waddled quickly toward and got into a saucer-shaped craft. A ten-foot circle was found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 81 Source ID: Johnson_6345 Source: Johnson ### Event 6489 (69FC088B) Date: 9/26/1954 Description: Hearing her dogs barking and howling at 2:30 p.m., Ms. Lucette Leboeuf of Chabeuil, Drome, France saw what first resembled a "scarecrow" in a cornfield. After approaching to within eight feet she saw it to be a "diving suit" of transparent plastic, 3.5 feet high. A little man with large eyes was inside, resembling "a child in a plastic bag, with eyes larger than human eyes." She could see no arms on the creature. When he began waddling toward her she fled. A flat, circular four meter wide disc was seen to rise up making a whistling sound and fly away toward the northeast. An eleven foot wide circle of crushed foliage was found at the site. Ms. Leboeuf was in a state of shock and was in bed for the next two days. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 70; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 211; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 67; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-55, citing Aime Michel; UNICAT, case # 611 Source ID: Johnson_6343 Source: Johnson ### Event 6490 (2C9F4886) Date: 9/26/1954 Description: DC-6 Crew Paced By Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [540926](http://www.nicap.org/540926altoona%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Altoona, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1748 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6491 (B8A72520) Date: 9/26/1954 Description: A disc-shaped object maneuvered around the sky and then hovered over a radio station on a mountain peak in Col-de-Chat, Savoie department, France at 5:14 p.m. There were 15 witnesses, and the sighting lasted at least 4 minutes. A photograph was taken. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 50; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 81 Source ID: Johnson_6344 Source: Johnson ### Event 6492 (F3B5294D) Date: 9/26/1954 Time: 1430 Description: Mrs. Leboeuf was suddenly confronted with a creature resembling "a child in a plastic bag, with eyes larger than human eyes." This creature entered a flat, circular machine, which took off toward the northeast with a soft whistling. Traces. Witnesses in state of shock. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 17; Carrouges 116; Anatomy 70; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chabeuil, France Source ID: Magnonia_156 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6493 (A02FC284) Date: 9/27/1954 Description: Two flying cigars were seen in Sauzet, Drome, France at 9:40 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 92 Source ID: Johnson_6378 Source: Johnson ### Event 6494 (EF1418EE) Date: 9/27/1954 Description: Four children in Premanon, France came outside of their home at 8:30 p.m. because their dog was barking furiously. They saw a large object on the ground and a small being they thought was a "ghost" in their yard. Raymond Romand (or Rolland), age 12, threw stones at the intruder. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 212; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 91-92 Source ID: Johnson_6377 Source: Johnson ### Event 6495 (C8DDEB35) Date: 9/27/1954 Description: A luminous disc-shaped object was observed in Lanta, Haute-Garonne, France at 8 o'clock in the evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 92 Source ID: Johnson_6376 Source: Johnson ### Event 6496 (A6CAB4F7) Date: 9/27/1954 Description: Perpignan, France. A college student saw a circular object on the ground this afternoon. Two beings came out of it, then reentered the craft and left. The witness was reportedly in a state of shock. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 212 Source ID: Johnson_6375 Source: Johnson ### Event 6497 (2ED77D2C) Date: 9/27/1954 Description: Children in Figeac, France saw "a box" and "an unknown man" standing nearby it at 8:40 a.m. The object took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 90 Source ID: Johnson_6374 Source: Johnson ### Event 6498 (3893D858) Date: 9/27/1954 Description: Foussignargues, France. At "Revety," people on a bus saw a reddish light with a halo come down from the sky at 2:30 a.m.. Later Mr. and Mrs. Louis Roche noticed a softly glowing red object on the ground a short distance from their house, but were afraid to approach it. It remained there for several hours. It was described as "a sort of glowing tomato, with antennae on top." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 89-90 Source ID: Johnson_6373 Source: Johnson ### Event 6499 (E7BF177F) Date: 9/27/1954 Time: 0230 Description: At "Revety," people in a bus saw a reddish light coming down. Later Mr. and Mrs. Roche noticed an object on the ground, softly glowing, a short distance from their home, but were afraid to approach it. It remained there for several hours. It was described as "a sort of glowing tomato, with antennae on top." Type: ufo sighting Reference: 18; M 84; Anatomy 71 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Foussignargues, France Source ID: Magnonia_157 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6500 (A7479CBB) Date: 9/27/1954 Time: 0840 Description: Children saw "a box" and "an unknown man" standing nearby. The object took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Figeac, France Source ID: Magnonia_158 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6501 (373E663C) Date: 9/27/1954 Time: afternoon Description: A college student saw a circular object on the ground. Two beings came out of it, then reentered the craft and left. Witness in a state of shock. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 19;M 88 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Perpignan, France Source ID: Magnonia_159 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6502 (22C1A30F) Date: 9/27/1954 Time: 2030 Description: Four children came out of their home as dog barked furiously. They found a large object on the ground and a small being they thought was a "ghost" in the yard. Raymond Romand, 12, threw stones at the intruder. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 20; Challenge 170 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Premanon, France Source ID: Magnonia_160 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6503 (89193266) Date: 9/27/1954 Description: 8:30 p.m. 12-year-old Raymond Romand and two other children on an isolated farm near Prémanon, Jura, France, see a brilliant rectangular object. He sees two occupants and throws stones at them, but he is thrown to the ground by an “ice-cold invisible force.” Raymond confesses 6 weeks later that he made up the whole story, including making some physical trace marks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/27sep1954premanon.htm),” March 7, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2520 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6504 (136C1AFC) Date: 9/28/1954 Time: 2130 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Alexis Lartillot and Georgette Mongot observed a large, bright object oscillate, then land. It changed color and was lost to sight behind some trees. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 21; M 94 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Froncles, France Source ID: Magnonia_161 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6505 (05E0133C) Date: 9/28/1954 Time: 2230 Description: At "Le Grand Tertre" Mr. Mercier observed that someone had stolen grapes from his vineyard. He decided to stay late and catch the "robbers." He was amazed when he saw a luminous mass fall from the sky about 50 m away, and found himself "paralyzed" as three figures emerged from the light and moved about. He lost consciousness. When he came to his senses, everything had vanished. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 22; M 97 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bouzais, France Source ID: Magnonia_162 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6506 (917E6799) Date: 9/28/1954 Time: 2310 Description: At "La Butte Rouge" two railroad engineers, Bernard and Potraux, who were bringing a locomotive from Nantes to Auray, saw a dark object take off with a purple glow and follow them for 15 sec before veering off. Potraux had to see a doctor. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 23; M 95; Anatomy 70 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saint Nicolas de Redon, France Source ID: Magnonia_163 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6507 (2E93F5F9) Date: 9/28/1954 Description: At "Le Grand Tertre" in St-Amand-Montrond, France Mr. Mercier, a vintner, observed that someone had stolen grapes from his vineyard. He decided to stay late and catch the "robbers." Around 10:30 p.m. he was amazed when he saw a luminous mass descend from the sky about 50 meters away, and found himself paralyzed while three figures emerged from the light and moved about. He lost consciousness. When he came to his senses, everything had vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 125; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 93 Source ID: Johnson_6389 Source: Johnson ### Event 6508 (BDA111F5) Date: 9/28/1954 Description: At 11:10 p.m. near St. Nicolas de Redon, France two railroad engineers, Emile Gerard, age 49, and Victor Paroux, age 40, were bringing a locomotive from Nantes to Auray. When they reached "La Butte Rouge" they saw a dark object take off with a purple glow and follow them for 10-15 seconds before veering off. Mr. Paroux was so agitated he had to see a doctor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Le Parisien, September 30, 1954; Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 112; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212-213; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 93-94 Source ID: Johnson_6390 Source: Johnson ### Event 6509 (E0EC6790) Date: 9/28/1954 Description: At 9:30 p.m. Georgette Mongot and Mr. and Mrs. Alexis Lartillot in Froncles, France observed a large, bright object oscillate, then land. It changed color and was lost to sight behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Aime Michel, Mysterieux Objets celestes, p. 94; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 92 Source ID: Johnson_6388 Source: Johnson ### Event 6510 (3AB2A524) Date: 9/28/1954 Description: At 11:45 p.m. in Albias, Tarn-Garonne department, France a three meter wide disc was seen resting on legs in a field by a single witness. Three beings were seen outside the craft for two minutes. When they reboarded the UFO rose vertically up into the air, then shot away horizontally at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #3661, citing J. Sider, p. 173 Source ID: Johnson_6391 Source: Johnson ### Event 6511 (389C75FA) Date: 9/28/1954 Description: 10:30 p.m. Vintner M. Mercier of Saint-Armand-Montrond, Cher, France, notices that someone has stolen grapes from his vineyard and decides to stay up late and catch the thief. He sees a luminous object descend and three figures emerge. He is then paralyzed and loses consciousness. There is no sign of anything when he wakes up. Probable hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/28sep1954saintamandmontrond.htm),” April 5, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_2522 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6512 (798EA4CC) Date: 9/28/1954 Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Two witnesses at Rixheim, Haut-Rhin, France, watch an elongated luminous object through binoculars. Ten or more smaller luminous points are circling it in all directions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/28sep1954rixheim.htm)” April 1, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_2521 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6513 (E656DD2B) Date: 9/29/1954 Description: In La Riche, near Tours, France three witnesses in a truck saw a seven-meter long ovoid object on the ground near the road at 1:20 p.m. It rose vertically, then flew off to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 319 Source ID: Johnson_6417 Source: Johnson ### Event 6514 (9E9DD75E) Date: 9/30/1954 Description: There are 20 UFO reports recorded in UFOCAT for this day in 1954: one humanoid report from Michigan, one luminous daylight disc from Holland, and the rest were from France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_6432 Source: Johnson ### Event 6515 (6C5B687D) Date: 9/30/1954 Description: While driving to work in Dearborn, Michigan Lawrence Cardenas, age 41, a laundry employee, saw 15 strange men wearing dark green uniforms along the side of the road to his right. They had cylinders on their shoulders, tight fitting skullcaps with pointed peaks in front, and heavy goggles. They were of medium height, and a taller man seemed to be their leader and giving them instructions. About 80 meters away from them was a 4-meter high craft with colored lights, flickering on and off. The witness drove away as fast as he could. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 230; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213 Source ID: Johnson_6433 Source: Johnson ### Event 6516 (08AA681F) Date: 9/30/1954 Description: At one o'clock in the afternoon in Blanzy, France two bricklayers, Romain de Bastiani, age 21, and Bruno Burato, age 20, witnessed a partially yellow, partially maroon colored cigar-shaped object landed on the ground. They started to approach the three-meter long object when it took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow; the rest of the object was reddish-brown. Two foot-like appendages extended to the ground from the fore section. (Note: Vallee incorrectly lists the date as October 1.) Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Le Figaro, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 94-95 Source ID: Johnson_6434 Source: Johnson ### Event 6517 (88417C09) Date: 9/30/1954 Description: At 3:30 p.m. in Chereng, France, 10-year old Jean-Claude Delmotte, a school student, saw a three-meter diameter sphere at the edge of some woods, about 300 meters away. It was yellow-orange in color and quite bright. There were landing traces: a circle 1.5 meters in diameter and landing pad imprints 16 cm long. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: La Voix du Nord, October 6, 1954; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 95-96 Source ID: Johnson_6435 Source: Johnson ### Event 6518 (44C0AEF6) Date: 9/30/1954 Description: At 4:30 in the afternoon, Georges Gatay, construction supervisor, and seven construction workers in Marcilly-sur-Vienne, France saw a disc at ground level, with a humanoid standing next to it. Both vanished in a very odd manner. Physiological effects in all witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Carrouges, Les apparitions de Martiens, pp. 123 & 125; France Soir, October 3, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 96 Source ID: Johnson_6436 Source: Johnson ### Event 6519 (3C4B9809) Date: 9/30/1954 Description: At sea between Brest and Roven, France on the Atlantic Ocean, the crew of the tanker "Port Lyautey" observed a UFO touch the surface of the sea. It then took off vertically, giving off a red flame before being lost to view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Le Figaro, October 2, 1954; France Soir, October 3, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 97 Source ID: Johnson_6437 Source: Johnson ### Event 6520 (837A7DC5) Date: 9/30/1954 Description: Jean Andrieux, a ferry operator in Grand-Couronne, France and another witness, saw a large white sphere at 10:00 p.m. A smaller green sphere accompanied it and hung below, both object remaining stationary above the Seine River for 20 minutes. It eventually flew away to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213 Source ID: Johnson_6438 Source: Johnson ### Event 6521 (5C433DE3) Date: 9/30/1954 Description: Around 4:30 p.m. Georges Gatay and his team of construction workers at Marcilly-sur-Vienne, Indre-et- Loire, France, see a disc-shaped object on the ground with a small, helmeted being standing nearby. In his hand he holds an elongated object: “It could have been a pistol, or it could have been a metal rod.” On his chest is a light projector. Gatay tries to run, but he finds himself helplessly nailed to the spot. He is thus “paralyzed” during the whole observation until the object leaves. So are his seven coworkers, in a unique case of collective physiological reaction. Almost certainly a hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/30sep1954marcillysurvienne.htm),” November 8, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2525 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6522 (C1994CAC) Date: 9/30/1954 Description: Aviation pioneer [Eugène Farnier](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne%5FFarnier) watches an unknown object for 20 minutes above his property at Jouy- sue-Morin, Seine-et-Marne, France. It is swinging back and forth over an area of about 984 feet. Farnier thinks it looks similar to the cigar-shaped object seen at Marignane in October 1952. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[UFOs in the Daily](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/lecourrierdelouest19oct1954.htm) [Press](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/lecourrierdelouest19oct1954.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2524 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6523 (BD40006E) Date: 9/30/1954 Description: Gen. [Jimmy Doolittle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FDoolittle) submits a 69-page classified report on clandestine operations directly to President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) It negates the Second Hoover Commission’s recommendation on intelligence oversight. It says: “We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage, and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard A. Best Jr. and Herbert Andrew Boerstling, “[Proposals for Intelligence Reorganization, 1949–1996,](https://irp.fas.org/congress/1996%5Frpt/ic21/ic21018.htm)” Report to the US House Select Committee on Intelligence, Congressional Research Service, February 28, 1996, p. 11 Source ID: Eberhart_2523 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6524 (387EF687) Date: 9/30/1954 Description: Mr. Celeste Simonutti was returning home at 10:00 p.m. near La Flotte-en-Re, on the Ile de Re, France when he saw a brilliant light and, fearing a fire, rushed to the scene. There he observed a luminous sphere 12 meters in diameter, hovering one meter above the ground. The object changed colors from red to blue, and took off. Two other witnesses also saw it leave. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sud-Ouest, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 214; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 98 Source ID: Johnson_6439 Source: Johnson ### Event 6525 (6CB70793) Date: 9/30/1954 Time: 0445 Description: While driving to work, Lawrence Cardenas, 41, a laundry employee, saw 15 strange men wearing dark green uniforms to his right. They had cylinders on their shoulders, tight-fitting skull caps with pointed peaks in front, and heavy goggles. They were of medium height, and a taller man seemed to be giving them instructions. About 80 m away was a craft 4 m high with colored lights flickering on and off. The witness did not wait. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins U 230 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Dearborn, Michigan Source ID: Magnonia_164 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6526 (872C550D) Date: 9/30/1954 Time: 1630 Description: Georges Gatay and seven construction workers saw a disk at ground level, with a humanoid standing close by. Both vanished in a very strange manner. Physiological effects in all witnesses. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 25; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Marcilly-sur-Vienne, France Source ID: Magnonia_165 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6527 (1B35C48F) Date: 9/30/1954 Time: dusk Description: At sea between Brest and Roven, the crew of the tanker "Port Lyautey" observed an object touch the surface of the sea, then take off vertically and give off a red flame before being lost to view. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 26 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Brest, France Source ID: Magnonia_166 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6528 (34DA1364) Date: 9/30/1954 Time: 2200 Description: Jean Andrieux, ferry operator, saw a large white sphere, with a smaller green sphere below, hang motionless above the Seine for 20 min. Two witnesses. It eventually flew away to the southwest. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 27 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Grand-Couronne, France Source ID: Magnonia_167 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6529 (B935846C) Date: 9/30/1954 Time: 2200 Description: As he was returning home near La Flotte-en-Re, Celeste Simonutti saw a bright light and, fearing a fire, rushed to the scene. There he observed a luminous sphere 12 m in diameter hovering at 1 m altitude, turning red, blue, and taking off. Two other witnesses. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 28 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Isle of Re, France Source ID: Magnonia_168 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6530 (CC6FACC7) Date: 10/1954 Description: Day. RAF pilot Michael Forrest, stationed at RAF Sek Kong \[now Shek Kong Airfield\] near Hong Kong is scrambled in a de Haviland Vampire ground attack fighter to intercept a target detected by ground radar approaching from China. The target appears to be the size of an aircraft and traveling at high speed with a continuous track. Ground control tells him that at times it is stationary, but it has the ability to change direction and height at fantastic speeds. Forrest and another pilot are vectored into the blip at 30,000 feet, but they can see nothing. Ground radar insists the blip is right there with them. After 15 minutes the aircraft break off and head home. On the base, he is told that the blip was caused by “anomalous propagation.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “‘Scrambled for Bogies’: An Incident at RAF Sek Kong,” Fortean Times 403 \(March 2021\): 45 Source ID: Eberhart_2527 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6531 (8E049524) Date: 10/1954 Description: Project "Magnet" discontinued Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Canada Source ID: Maj2_136 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6532 (06146AD7) Date: 10/1954 Description: Engineer sighted maneuvering disc. \[UFOE, I\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cherry Valley, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1749 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6533 (C910FFB2) Date: 10/1954 Description: London publishing house Frederick Muller publishes a contactee book, Flying Saucer from Mars, allegedly written by one [Cedric Allingham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric%5FAllingham), who claims that while vacationing in Scotland in February 1954 he saw a saucer land and talked to its occupant, a human-looking Martian. In 1969, science writer Robert Chapman concludes that no such person as Allingham existed. Christopher Allan and [Steuart Campbell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steuart%5FCampbell) allege in 1986 that the book was written by arch-skeptical astronomer [Patrick Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FMoore) using a pseudonym. His motive was to spoof Adamski and embarrass ufologists, but Moore never admits to the hoax. The photo of “Cedric Allingham” is really Peter Davies, who posed for the photograph with Moore’s reflecting telescope. Davies also edited the book to conceal Moore’s distinctive style of writing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Cedric Allingham, Flying Saucer from Mars, Frederick Muller, 1954; Clark III 98; Robert Chapman, Unidentified Flying Objects, Barker, 1969; Christopher Allen and Steuart Campbell, “[Flying Saucer from Moore’s?](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2013/10/allingham.html)” Magonia 23 \(July 1986\): 15–18; Curt Collins, “[Contact! A Close](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/10/contact-close-encounter-of-third-kind.html) [Encounter of the Third Kind from 1954,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2017/10/contact-close-encounter-of-third-kind.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, October 13, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_2526 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6534 (C28E2669) Date: 10/1/1954 Time: 2000 Description: Near Saint Jan d'Angely, two businessmen, Messrs. Estier and Phelippeau, who were driving back from Royan, saw a little man cross ing the road in front of their car. Having stopped, they saw the figure disappear into the woods. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 28 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: La Roulerie, France Source ID: Magnonia_174 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6535 (8204C75E) Date: 10/1/1954 Time: 2200 Description: Coming home at night, Gilbert Prudent saw a lighted object on the side of the road. It had a flat section and a sort of "mushroom" on top. As he approached it, the object became dark and took off vertically with a soft whistling sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Branges, near Louhans, France Source ID: Magnonia_175 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6536 (BBCED89A) Date: 10/1/1954 Time: 2200 Description: Returning home, fireman Jean Dufix, 26, saw an oval light in the sky and thought it was a shooting star. Later he was alarmed when his yard seemed to be ablaze. Rushing out again, he saw a disk rise from the ground with a whistling sound. It flew off, became luminous again, and took off at fantastic speed. A neighbor, Jean Labonne, 61, saw the disk, 3 m in diameter, resting on three legs in the yard. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 31 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bergerac, France Source ID: Magnonia_176 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6537 (685344BF) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: The Swedish Defense Ministry allegedly requests a secret investigation into UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) [Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 27 Source ID: Eberhart_2529 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6538 (DDFF4615) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: 9:20 a.m. An RCAF test pilot is flying at 30,000 feet over Montreal, Quebec, in an F-86 Sabre Mk 5 jet fighter when he notices a contrail high over the north end of Lake Champlain. He climbs to 51,000 feet at 540 mph but is unable to close on the object, which appears to him as a black dot. He turns to a different heading and sees that the contrail makes a similar turn abiut 10,000 feet above him. As he returns to Montreal, the contrail climbs at a 45° angle and disppears to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2002, pp. 91–92 Source ID: Eberhart_2530 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6539 (0F842E2A) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: 4:00 p.m. An anonymous man and his dog are paralyzed as a luminous white object dives toward them and climbs away again at Bry-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/1oct1954bry.htm),” March 25, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2531 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6540 (FD110BCE) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: A woman reported to police she had seen a luminous disk leaving a long trail. It landed in a field, then took off again. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 29; Challenge 132 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Dhubri, India Source ID: Magnonia_169 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6541 (6EE43E47) Date: 10/1/1954 Time: 1300 Description: Two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, approached a cigar-shaped object 3 m long, 80 cm wide, which took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow, the rest brown. From the fore part, two appendages extended to the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 30 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Blanzy, France Source ID: Magnonia_170 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6542 (07B3278A) Date: 10/1/1954 Time: 1600 Description: A man and his dog were "paralyzed" as a luminous white object dived toward them and climbed again. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bry, France Source ID: Magnonia_171 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6543 (167A698B) Date: 10/1/1954 Time: 1815 Description: Approximate date. A farmer saw a white craft in a field. Flattened grass was later found at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ressons-sur-Matz, France Source ID: Magnonia_172 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6544 (D1B2F669) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: Around 10:00 p.m. Jean Defiz, a factory worker in Bergerac, Dordogne, France, is returning home on his bicycle when he sees a large shooting star. Later, he sees an intense light in his yard and rushes out to see a disc rise with a whistling sound. It becomes luminous and flies off. A neighbor also sees it and estimates it is 10 feet wide. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/1oct1954bergerac.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2534 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6545 (072D9B51) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: 7:50 p.m. Mechanic Ernest Delattre, 19, is riding to his home in Croix d’Épine, Oise, France, on his motor scooter when a bright egg-shaped object lands on the left side of the road 45 feet away. He sees short, dark shapes “like potato bags” moving around the object. He speeds up and the UFO changes its color and takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/1oct1954croixdepine.htm),” March 27, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2533 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6546 (22523CDF) Date: 10/1/1954 Time: 1900 Description: Two young men saw a luminous white disk moving in the sky. It dived to the ground and two men, described as being very tall and dressed in white, emerged from it and made gestures. The witnesses ran away in fear. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Jussey, France Source ID: Magnonia_173 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6547 (FD5FDA2D) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: There are 26 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in UFOCAT for this day. There is one from the Assam region of India, two are from Italy, and the remainder are from France, which appears to have been at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. Notice how the humanoid cases tend to occur at intersections of the major great circle routes described by four or more points on a straight line. Below are some of the more interesting reports on this day: Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_6460 Source: Johnson ### Event 6548 (F1E37B51) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: A woman in Dhubri, Assam, India reported to police that she had seen a luminous disc leaving a long trail in the sky. It landed in a field, and then took off again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 132; Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 169 Source ID: Johnson_6461 Source: Johnson ### Event 6549 (D84CE1D2) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: At 1:00 p.m. two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, approached a cigar-shaped object in Blanzy, Saone-Loire department, France that was sitting on the ground. It was three meters long, 80 cm wide, and it took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow, the rest brown. From the fore part, two appendages extended to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 170 Source ID: Johnson_6462 Source: Johnson ### Event 6550 (28EAC5C9) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: At 4:00 p.m. a man and his dog in Bry, Nord department, France were "paralyzed" and frozen in place when a luminous white object dove toward them, then climbed back into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 171 Source ID: Johnson_6463 Source: Johnson ### Event 6551 (87F1562C) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: Two young men in Jussey, Haute-Saone department, France saw a luminous white disc moving in the sky at 7:00 p.m. It dove to the ground and two very tall beings, dressed in white, emerged from it and made gestures. The witnesses ran away in fear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 173; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 104 Source ID: Johnson_6464 Source: Johnson ### Event 6552 (63A96C03) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: Near St. Jean d'Angely, France two businessmen, Messrs. Estier and Phelippeau, who were driving back from Royan at eight o'clock at night, saw a little man crossing the road in front of their car. When they stopped the car the figure disappeared into the woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sud-Ouest, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 174; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 105 Source ID: Johnson_6465 Source: Johnson ### Event 6553 (6E82F025) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: Mechanic Ernest Delattre, age 19, was riding home on his motor scooter between Lormaison and St-Crepin-Ibouvillers, France at eight o'clock when a brilliantly illuminated egg-shaped object landed on the left side of the road 15 meters away. He saw short, dark shapes "like potato bags" moving about the object. He sped up, saw the object, the size of a small bus, taking off while its color changed from orange to blue and then to grayish-blue. The witness fainted while telling his story. Two persons in neighboring villages independently reported observing the object. (Note: Vallee lists the date as October 2nd but Figuet & Ruchon believe the correct date is October 1st.) Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 215; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 104 Source ID: Johnson_6466 Source: Johnson ### Event 6554 (F3107147) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: At 8:30 p.m. several inhabitants of St-Michel-sur-Meurthe, France saw a cigar-shaped object in the sky with very bright white lights fly towards the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 106 Source ID: Johnson_6467 Source: Johnson ### Event 6555 (E81CA96A) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: In Branges, near Louhans in Saone-Loire department, France. While coming home at night around 10:00 p.m., Gilbert Prudent and one other witness saw a lighted object on the side of the road. It had a flat section and a sort of large "mushroom" on top (domed disc). As he approached it, the object became dark and took off vertically with a soft whistling sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 175; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 105 Source ID: Johnson_6468 Source: Johnson ### Event 6556 (BB16665D) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: 6:45 p.m. Bernard Devoisin and René Condette are bicycling west of Ligescourt in the direction of Vron, Somme, France. They see a glowing orange object shaped like a beehive in the middle of the road. A small entity, about 3 feet tall and dressed in a “diving suit,” is standing close to it. When they get to within 200 feet of it, the object takes off at great speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/1oct1954ligescourt.htm)” May 8, 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_2532 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6557 (A5FAA988) Date: 10/1/1954 Description: Returning home from work in Bergerac, Dordogne department, France fireman Jean Dufix, age 26, saw an oval light in the sky at 10 o'clock. He first took it to be a shooting star, but later he was alarmed when his yard looked to be ablaze. Rushing outside, he saw a disc rise from the ground with a whistling sound. It flew off, became luminous again, and then shot off at a fantastic speed. His neighbor, Jean Labonne, age 61, also saw the disc resting on three legs in the yard. They estimated the disc was three meters (10 feet) in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Le Figaro, October 6, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings , p. 214, case 176 Source ID: Johnson_6469 Source: Johnson ### Event 6558 (CB5E8C09) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: In the immediate vicinity of the sighting on the day before (October 1) in Louhans, France, Mr. Nicolas saw a domed disc on the ground at 2:30 a.m. between the road and the railroad tracks. Through some openings in the object a strong yellow light shone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bourgogne Republicaine, October 3, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 109; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215 Source ID: Johnson_6485 Source: Johnson ### Event 6559 (B6CDF325) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: There are 39 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in the UFOCAT database for this day. There is one from Denmark and one from the Orkney Islands of Great Britain. The rest are from France, which appears to have been at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_6482 Source: Johnson ### Event 6560 (72036E0D) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: In Levroux, France two single women (Janicki and Lacotte) independently reported to police that a luminous disc about three meters in diameter had flown very low over their village of Cerisier. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 106 Source ID: Johnson_6483 Source: Johnson ### Event 6561 (322CDE66) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: Two creatures were seen on the ground in Jonches, France. Two hours later a luminous red object was observed at the same spot, at a very low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107 Source ID: Johnson_6484 Source: Johnson ### Event 6562 (53949891) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: At 8:00 p.m. in Poncey-sur-Lignon and the region of Cote-d'Or, France several persons observed a huge cigar-shaped luminous object that flew silently to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107 Source ID: Johnson_6488 Source: Johnson ### Event 6563 (6BBEDCD7) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: At 8:00 p.m. in Croix d’Epine, Oise department, France Ernest Delattre, age 19, a mechanic, was riding home on his motor scooter when a brilliantly illuminated egg-shaped object landed on the left side of the road 15 meters away. He saw some short, dark shapes, “like potato bags” moving about the object. He sped up, then saw the object, which was the size of a small bus, take off. During the ascent the object's color changed from orange to blue. The object was observed by two other witnesses. As an additional note, Mr. Delattre fainted while telling his story Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-65 (A0267); Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 215 Source ID: Johnson_6489 Source: Johnson ### Event 6564 (17C4CD68) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: At 10:00 p.m. in Bergerac, Dordogne department, France a luminous mushroom-shaped object was seen in the garden by J. Labonne, who described it as "constructed of plexiglass." Three meters away moved a short shadowy figure that "slid over to the machine." The object rose into the sky, leaving behind a luminous trail. There were three imprints found in the ground and some black mushrooms. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0268 Source ID: Johnson_6490 Source: Johnson ### Event 6565 (8FD812FB) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: 3:45 p.m. A teacher, Mlle. Jaillet, along with 23 schoolchildren, see an elongated object in the sky to the southeast at Les Rousses, Jura, France. It approaches rapidly and they see it is a “cloud cigar.” It switches from horizontal to vertical and hovers. At one point, a gleaming yellow disc emerges from it and moves away. The long object switches to horizontal again and moves away to the northwest. The incident lasts 4–5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/2oct1954lesrousses.htm),” March 25, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2536 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6566 (73DED240) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: The French Air Ministry allegedly launches a UFO investigation after 267 citizens come forward to report UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [pp. 60–61](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/60/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2535 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6567 (A7617C63) Date: Early 10/1954 Description: Maxime Pignatelli, 65, is hunting with his dog on the banks of the Durance River near Corbières, Alpes- de-Hautes-Provence, France. He sees a gray object about 12 feet long and 3 feet high on the ground about 130 feet away. Two helmeted figures emerge from a dome. The man flees. His dog also retreats a bit later, walking awkwardly as if partly paralyzed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, “[Un siècle d’atterrissages,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20103.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 103 \(December 1969\): 7; Francis Schaefer and Pierre Delval, “[Un recit d’atterrissage inedit à Corbières,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Phenomenes%20Inconnus/Phenomenes%20Inconnus%20-%20No%2014%20-%201971-%20CFRS-CFRU.pdf)” Phénomènes Inconnus 1, no. 14 \(1971\): 10–13; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/17oct1954cabasson.htm)” May 20, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2528 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6568 (54554F04) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: At 10:00 o'clock in the morning several people in the city of Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome department, France saw a luminous, metallic object oscillating in the sky, then fly off rapidly to the north-northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107 Source ID: Johnson_6486 Source: Johnson ### Event 6569 (5BD47BF0) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: In Vichy, Allier department, France at 6:30 p.m., bus passengers observed a luminous object rapidly traverse the sky flying in the direction of Cote St.-Amand. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107 Source ID: Johnson_6487 Source: Johnson ### Event 6570 (195796F0) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: At the Bourg du Cerisier, two women (Janiki and Lacotte) independently reported to police that a luminous disk about 3 m in diameter had flown very low over the village. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 32 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Levroux, France Source ID: Magnonia_177 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6571 (A9207910) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: Two creatures were seen on the ground, and two hours later a luminous red object was observed at the same spot, at very low altitude. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Jonches, France Source ID: Magnonia_178 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6572 (9DD00AB9) Date: 10/2/1954 Time: 0230 Description: In the immediate vicinity of case 175, Mr. Nicolas saw a craft with a dome on top, on the ground between the road and the railroad tracks. Through some openings a strong yellow light shone. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 33;M 109 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Louhans, France Source ID: Magnonia_179 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6573 (F749D860) Date: 10/2/1954 Time: 2000 Description: A mechanic, Ernest Delattre, 19, was riding home on his motor scooter when an egg-shaped object, brilliantly illuminated, landed on the left side of the road 15 m away. He saw short, dark shapes "like potato bags" moving about the object. He sped up, saw the object, the size of a small bus, taking off while its color changed from orange to blue and then to grayish-blue. The witness fainted while telling his story. Two persons in neighboring villages independently reported observing the object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Croix d'Epine, France Source ID: Magnonia_180 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6574 (0E4C6552) Date: 10/2/1954 Time: 2345 Description: A disk emitting a weak green glow landed in a field. Witnesses: Messrs. Domant and Gilcher. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 105 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Guebling, France Source ID: Magnonia_181 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6575 (1EEF52E8) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: Near La Rochelle, France at 11:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw a red glowing round object, five meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high, hovering for several minutes one meter above the ground. The UFO then rose vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot. (Note: Vallee lists the date as October 3rd, but Figuet & Ruchon believe this is in error and that October 2nd is the correct date). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 131; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 216; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 110 Source ID: Johnson_6491 Source: Johnson ### Event 6576 (9BD70323) Date: 10/2/1954 Description: At 11:45 p.m. Messrs. Domant and Gilcher saw a disc-shaped UFO in a field in Guebling, France. It was emitting a weak green glow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 105; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215 Source ID: Johnson_6492 Source: Johnson ### Event 6577 (2ED943E0) Date: 10/3/1954 Description: At 10:45 p.m. a circular craft was seen by Mr. Jean Allary, age 22, while riding a motorcycle between Montmoreau and Villebois Lavalette, France. It seemed to be gliding over the ground. It showed luminous spots and became completely illuminated when it took off. It was about 1.2 meters high. Grass was found flattened and scorched over an area seven meters across. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 114 Source ID: Johnson_6523 Source: Johnson ### Event 6578 (47ADDAF2) Date: 10/3/1954 Description: Near La Rochelle, France at 11:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw an object, five meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high, hovering for several minutes one meter above the ground. The UFO then rose vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 131; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216 Source ID: Johnson_6524 Source: Johnson ### Event 6579 (5C554D07) Date: 10/3/1954 Description: 11:15 p.m. Young farmer Jean Allary sees a circular object near Ronsenac, Charente, France, that seems to be gliding on or near the ground, has luminous spots, and lights up as it takes off. He finds flattened and scorched grass over an area 25 feet across. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/3oct1954ronsenac.htm),” January 31, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_2539 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6580 (4DB72095) Date: 10/3/1954 Description: 7:20 p.m. Villagers of Chereng, Nord, France, are having their Ducasse festival meal when they see a fast, luminous object in the sky suddenly stop, give off sparks, and descend to ground level. As people run to the spot, it takes off again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/3oct1954chereng.htm)” January 9, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_2538 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6581 (1279F7A9) Date: 10/3/1954 Description: Dawn. Stockyard employee Angelo Girardo is going to his job in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, France, when he sees a small being wearing a diving suit standing near a circular craft about 10 feet in diameter. It swiftly takes off. Hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/3oct1954bressuire.htm),” August 3, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_2537 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6582 (4CF7F657) Date: 10/3/1954 Time: 2110 Description: Less than 3 hrs after case 183, an orange object chased a car for 8 km, then flew away toward the sea. Witness: Georges Galant, a butcher. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 35; M 116 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Quend, France Source ID: Magnonia_185 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6583 (E6BBC850) Date: 10/3/1954 Time: dawn Description: Angelo Girardo, 55, a stockyard employee, was going to work when he saw a circular craft 3 m diameter and a small figure wearing a diving suit, standing close by. The object took off at a fantastic speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 32; M 130 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bressuire, France Source ID: Magnonia_182 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6584 (447CF69D) Date: 10/3/1954 Time: 1845 Description: Between Rue and Quend on Road D27, Rene Coudette and B. Devoisin were riding bicycles with a third witness when they saw an orange object, shaped like a honeycomb, on the road ahead of them. A strange "man" wearing a diving suit was standing close to it. When they got within 70 m of it, the object took off very fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 3Z; M 118 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Vron, France Source ID: Magnonia_183 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6585 (1DADBDF7) Date: 10/3/1954 Time: 1920 Description: The crowd at a fair saw a luminous object arrive very fast in the sky, stop in flight, emit sparks, and come down to ground level. As witnesses rushed to the spot, it took off again. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 113 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chereng, France Source ID: Magnonia_184 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6586 (13B2A960) Date: 10/3/1954 Description: Between Rue and Quend, France on Route D27, near the village of Vron, Rene Coudette and B. Devoisin were riding bicycles with a third witness when they saw an orange object, shaped like a beehive, on the road ahead of them. A small strange "man" wearing a diving suit, about 0.9 meters (3 foot) tall, was standing close to it. When they got within 70 meters of it, the object took off very fast. Less than three hours later, the same or a similar orange object chased a car down a road in Quend for eight kilometers, then flew away toward the sea. The witness was a butcher named Georges Galant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, pp. 118, 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216 Source ID: Johnson_6521 Source: Johnson ### Event 6587 (6DD23A74) Date: 10/3/1954 Time: 1245 Description: A circular craft was seen by Jean Allary between Montmoreau and Villebois-Lavalette. It seemed to be gliding on the ground. It showed luminous spots and became completely illuminated when it took off. It was about 1.20 m high. Grass was found flattened and scorched over an area 7 m across. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 36; M 130 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ronsenac, France Source ID: Magnonia_186 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6588 (7124D7E0) Date: 10/3/1954 Time: 1300 Description: Near La Rochelle. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw an object, 2.5 m high, 5 m diameter, hover for several minutes 1 m above ground, then rise vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 34; M 131 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Benet, France Source ID: Magnonia_187 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6589 (5CC57CC1) Date: 10/3/1954 Description: At 7:20 p.m. the crowd at a fair in Chereng, France saw a luminous object arrive very fast in the sky, stop in flight, emit sparks, and come down to ground level. As witnesses rushed to the spot it took off again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 113; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216 Source ID: Johnson_6522 Source: Johnson ### Event 6590 (8F3F2883) Date: 10/3/1954 Description: UFO paced car. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Waben (near), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1750 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6591 (50D68C2F) Date: 10/3/1954 Description: There are 81 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in UFOCAT for this day. There is one from India, one from Lebanon, one from Quebec, one from Switzerland, two each from England and Italy, and three from Austria. The rest are from France, which appears to be at the center of this massive wave of UFO sightings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_6519 Source: Johnson ### Event 6592 (DD392921) Date: 10/3/1954 Description: Angelo Girardo, 55, a stockyard employee, was going to work in Bressuire, France at dawn when he saw a circular craft with a three-meter diameter and a small figure wearing a diving suit, standing close by. The object took off at a fantastic speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 215; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 111 Source ID: Johnson_6520 Source: Johnson ### Event 6593 (D7008F8D) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: Several people noticed an object hovering near a hilltop in the evening in Tregon, France. They drove to the site, but it flew away. What seemed to have been the same object was seen at Megrit, 25 km to the southwest, hovering over a farm. It was described as metallic, flat, and emitting light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 139; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217 Source ID: Johnson_6547 Source: Johnson ### Event 6594 (AE3509D4) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: At 8:10 a.m. Mr. Lacambre, a forester, saw a little man or dwarf in a streambed 200 meters from his house in St-Perdoux, Lot, France. The being wore a wide leather belt or girdle, boots, and a tunic. He put water in a bottle, and some pebbles in a belt pouch; he then rose up into air and vanished. The creature had two pear-shaped boxes under his arms that may have assisted his ascent. Footprints were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 116-117 Source ID: Johnson_6546 Source: Johnson ### Event 6595 (BE0E9EB0) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: Mr. Garreau, a farmer in Chaleix, France saw an object the size of a carriage land in his field. Two men of normal height emerged through a sliding door. They wore khaki overalls and were of European type. They shook hands with the witness and said some thing like: "Paris? Nord?" (According to another version they spoke indistinct words.) They gave a pat on the back to Mr. Garreau's dog and took off at an amazing speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Liberation, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217 Source ID: Johnson_6545 Source: Johnson ### Event 6596 (3BE4CB98) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: Andre Garcia and Andre Darzais were driving a truck between Lagrasse and Villemagne and were near the village of Lezignan, France when they saw a luminous object coming slowly to the ground. It measured about 10 meters in diameter and took off with a burst of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: France-Soir, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217 Source ID: Johnson_6544 Source: Johnson ### Event 6597 (81F19118) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: An object was said to have landed in the yard of Mr. Montagne, a railroad employee, in Limoges, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: France-Soir, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216 Source ID: Johnson_6543 Source: Johnson ### Event 6598 (E605C8A2) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: There are 41 UFO and humanoid reports on this date in UFOCAT, including six CE-III reports. One report is from Tel Aviv, Israel and one of the humanoid reports is from Salta, Argentina. The rest are from France, which was at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_6542 Source: Johnson ### Event 6599 (E4D245D1) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: Gloster "Meteor" Encounters Disc / Salandin Case (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [541004](http://www.nicap.org/541004essex%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Weald, Essex, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1751 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6600 (2E98F157) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: At 10:00 p.m. Mr. Henry Leherisse, age 23, in Megrit, France saw two shadows moving about inside a flat luminous, metallic, three-meters wide object, that hovered 50 meters above his garage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping, October 7, 1954; Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 122 Source ID: Johnson_6552 Source: Johnson ### Event 6601 (FE9FCEAB) Date: 10/4/1954 Time: evening Description: Several people noticed an object hovering near a hilltop. They drove to the site, but it flew away. What seems to be the same object was seen at Megrit, 25 km to the southwest, hovering over a farm. It was described as metallic, flat, emitting light Type: ufo sighting Reference: 38;M 139 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Tregon, France Source ID: Magnonia_191 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6602 (3836AFFA) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: 8:00 p.m. In Poncey-sur-l’Ignon, Côte-d’Or, France, Mme. Yvette \(or Thérèse\) Fourneret sees a luminous orange object about 10 feet wide land in a meadow on her farm. She runs to tell some men, who arrive at the spot with rifles but find nothing. Instead, they discover a strange quadrilateral hole from which soil appears to be sucked up. The roots of plants are not damaged. The French Air Force and local police investigate and learn there are other witnesses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/4oct1954poncey.htm),” March 10, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2540 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6603 (54BD1178) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: Mrs. Fourneret, a housewife, ran away as an orange, circular object 3 meters in diameter that swung in midair and landed near her farm in Poncey-sur-Lignon, France. When Messrs. Girardot and Vincent arrived with rifles, they found that the earth had been "sucked up" over a quadrilateral area. Francois Bouiller confirmed he had seen a luminous object in flight. Extensive investigation by French Air Force and police. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Liberation, October 7, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 134; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 71; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217 Source ID: Johnson_6553 Source: Johnson ### Event 6604 (CE4969CB) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a six-meter in diameter red, round, domed object, hovered 10-12 meters above the ground in Taupignac, France. Four little men, one meter tall (3.3 feet) exited. As the three male witnesses approached they quickly entered the object. The domed disc changed color from blue to orange and then to red, and made no noise as it took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 159 Source ID: Johnson_6551 Source: Johnson ### Event 6605 (9325F9B4) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: On a road in Lessard-le-National, France at 7:20 p.m., a silver cigar-shaped object stopped in a vertical position when illuminated by car headlights. Landing traces found nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 319 Source ID: Johnson_6550 Source: Johnson ### Event 6606 (97A7E7C2) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: An object was said to have landed in the yard of Mr. Montagne, a railroad employee. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 35 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Limoges, France Source ID: Magnonia_188 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6607 (BB908B0F) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: Andre Garcia and Andre Darzais were driving a truck betwem Lagrasse and Villemagne when they saw a luminous object coming slowly to the ground. It measured about 10 m diameter and took off with a burst of light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 35 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lezignan, France Source ID: Magnonia_189 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6608 (0A645857) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: A farmer, Mr. Garreau, saw an object the size of a carriage land in his field. Two men of normal height emerged through a sliding door. They wore khaki overalls and were of European type. They shook hands with the witness and said something like: "Paris? Nord?" (According to another version they spoke indistinct words.) They gave a pat on the back to Mr. Garreau's dog and took off at an amazing speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 37; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chaleix, France Source ID: Magnonia_190 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6609 (4FB5378E) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: Villers-le-Tilleul, France. Ten year old Bertiaux saw an object at 6:40 p.m. "like a tent" with an unknown man nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217 Source ID: Johnson_6549 Source: Johnson ### Event 6610 (D50D7CE7) Date: 10/4/1954 Time: 1830 Description: At Les Chavannes, about 20 people, among them Remy Gaudicourt of Sanvignes, saw a circular, luminous object rise from the vicinity of the railroad tracks. It took off vertically. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 138 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Montceau-les-Mines, France Source ID: Magnonia_192 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6611 (C8F65C0B) Date: 10/4/1954 Time: 1840 Description: Ten-year-old Bertiaux saw an object "like a tent" and an unknown man near it. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Villers-le-Tilleul, France Source ID: Magnonia_193 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6612 (53F3F6A2) Date: 10/4/1954 Time: 2000 Description: Mrs. Fourneret, a housewife, ran away as an orange, circular object 3 m in diameter swung in mid-air and landed near her farm. When Messrs. Girardot and Vincent arrived with rifles, they found that the earth had been "sucked up" over a quadrilateral area. Francois Bouiller confirmed he had seen a luminous object in flight. Extensive investigation by French Air Force and police. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 37; M 134; Anatomy 71 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Poncey-sur-Lignon, France Source ID: Magnonia_194 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6613 (DE046913) Date: 10/4/1954 Description: Montceau-les-Mines, France. At 6:30 p.m. about 20 people, among them Remy Gaudicourt of Sanvignes, saw a circular, luminous object rise vertically from the vicinity of the railroad tracks. There were no traces found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 138; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217; Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 118 Source ID: Johnson_6548 Source: Johnson ### Event 6614 (9022A93E) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: A farmer saw a humanoid occupant inside a UFO on this evening in Cote du Nord, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jimmy Guieu, Fying Saucers come from another world, p. 195; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 217 Source ID: Johnson_6572 Source: Johnson ### Event 6615 (7EBD5077) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: Roverbello, Italy. A red clad being who spoke an unknown language approached a fisherman. It quickly left when the witness called to his wife. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Newspaper clipping, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218 Source ID: Johnson_6564 Source: Johnson ### Event 6616 (FFFD6B36) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: There are 43 UFO reports recorded for this date in UFOCAT, including nine close encounters. Five reports are from North Africa, one each from Germany and Italy, and the rest are from France, which was at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_6563 Source: Johnson ### Event 6617 (F252217E) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: 7:15 a.m. A road worker named Narcy sees an object near a road in Mertrud, Haute Marne, France. He also sees a hairy dwarf wearing an orange, tight-fitting jacket climb through a porthole on the UFO, which consists of a cigar-shaped section under a flat disc. Tracks are found. Probable hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/5oct1954mertrud.htm),” March 25, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2543 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6618 (2B452F54) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: At 6:30 a.m., east of Le Mans, France on Route N23, some Renault employees were going to work when they saw by the road a luminous object on the ground and felt a prickling sensation and a form of paralysis. The glowing UFO emitted a burst of green light and flew away, very low over the fields. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218 Source ID: Johnson_6567 Source: Johnson ### Event 6619 (AA0F0922) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: An Egyptian military officer in Behnay, Egypt photographed a "rotating saucer." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 232 Source ID: Johnson_6566 Source: Johnson ### Event 6620 (C2438F83) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: 3:45 p.m. In Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France, witnesses Brun, Marfaron, Douti, and Marplat see a luminous ball moving west to east 1,500 feet away from them. It approaches to within 450 feet, and they feel paralyzed with faintness as a nitrobenzene odor spreads around them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/5oct1954beaumont.htm),” March 24, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2544 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6621 (817EF493) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: A spindle-shaped UFO is seen for 20 minutes by hundreds of people over El Mahalla El Kubra, Egypt. At Bahnay, aerial cylinders emit dark smoke. One explodes, knocking a farmer to the ground, and kills two cows, whose hides show burn marks. Lt. Tewrik takes a photo of a rotating UFO that emits smoke above El-Qantara el- Sharqîya on the western side of the Suez Canal. He sends it to the Egyptian Army and to Khedivial Astronomical Observatory in Helwan. Adm. Youssef Hammad, director of the Egyptian Ports and Lights Administration, alerts pilots and astronomers to keep watch for UFOs over Cairo. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [pp. 231–232](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/230/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1991, p. 12 Source ID: Eberhart_2541 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6622 (9811E385) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: 4:00 a.m. M. P. Lucas, a baker in Loctudy, Finistère, France, is getting water from his well when he sees a UFO hovering nearby. A small being comes out of the object; it has an oval head covered with hair and large eyes. The creature touches Lucas’s shoulder and speaks to him in an unknown language. He calls for his boss, and the creature runs into the object and takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/5oct1954loctudy.htm),” October 3, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2542 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6623 (74A0EF27) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: Loctudy, France. At 4:00 a.m. a baker, Mr. P. Lucas, was draining water from a well when he noticed an object some distance away. It was circular and about three meters in diameter. From it emerged a dwarf with an oval-shaped face, covered with hair, and big eyes "as large as raven eggs." The short being touched him on the shoulder and spoke to him in an unknown language. The dwarf then went away and the object took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218 Source ID: Johnson_6565 Source: Johnson ### Event 6624 (C49959D5) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: A fisherman met with a red-clad being who spoke an unknown language. No details. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Roverbello, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_195 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6625 (2ABFDAF4) Date: 10/5/1954 Time: 0400 Description: A baker, P. Lucas, was draining water from a well when he noticed an object some distance away. It was circular, about 3 m diameter. From it emerged a dwarf with an oval face covered with hair and eyes "as large as raven eggs" who touched him on the shoulder and spoke to him in an unknown language. The dwarf went away, and the object took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 34 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Loctudy, France Source ID: Magnonia_196 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6626 (5C31466E) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: Ten kilometers from Beaumont, France several people saw an flying object coming toward them and getting brighter at 3:45 in the afternoon. When it was about 150 meters away they felt "a strange sensation" and found themselves unable to move. The object left a smell compared to that of nitrobenzene. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218 Source ID: Johnson_6571 Source: Johnson ### Event 6627 (60BFBC95) Date: 10/5/1954 Time: 0630 Description: East of Le Mans on Route N23, Renault employees were going to work when they saw near the road a luminous object on the ground and felt "pricklings and a sort of paralysis." The object emitted a burst of green light and flew away very low over the fields. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 42; Vuillequez; M 143 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Le Mans, France Source ID: Magnonia_197 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6628 (362C95EB) Date: 10/5/1954 Time: 0715 Description: A roadmender, Mr. Narcy, saw an object near the road between Voillecomte and La Neuville. In a report to police, he stated he saw a hairy dwarf wearing an orange tight-fitting jacket climb aboard the craft, which consisted of a cigarshaped section under a flat disk. Between the two sections was a kind of porthole through which the entity entered the object. Traces were found at the spot. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 38, 39 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mertrud, France Source ID: Magnonia_198 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6629 (7BE95827) Date: 10/5/1954 Time: 1545 Description: Ten km from here, several persons saw an object coming toward them and getting brighter. When it was about 150 m away, they felt "a strange sensation" and found themselves unable to move. The object left a smell compared to that of nitrobenzine. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 34; Challenge 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Beaumont, France Source ID: Magnonia_199 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6630 (5644FC89) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: (McDonald list; Mary Castner/CUFOS) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [541005](http://www.nicap.org/541005houston%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1752 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6631 (FA9C3F2F) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: At 11:45 a.m. in Bordeaux, France, five people saw two bright metallic discs fly over a factory. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 125 Source ID: Johnson_6570 Source: Johnson ### Event 6632 (35AE9232) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: In Wassy, France a golden-orange sphere with a dome on top plunged to the ground and bounced several times across a field this morning. The witness, Mr. G. Oldut, saw a one-meter tall dwarf emerge and then re-enter the craft. It rose up into the sky and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paris Radar, October 17, 1954; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT Humanoid Report Database Source ID: Johnson_6569 Source: Johnson ### Event 6633 (1DB0AD5A) Date: 10/5/1954 Description: Mertrud, France. A road crew member, Mr. Narcy, saw an object near the road between Voillecomte and La Neuville at 7:15 a.m. In a report to the police, he stated he saw a hairy dwarf wearing an orange tight fitting jacket climb aboard the craft, which consisted of a cigar-shaped section under a flat disk. Between the two sections was a kind of porthole through which the entity entered the object. Traces were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218 Source ID: Johnson_6568 Source: Johnson ### Event 6634 (1838EBFB) Date: 10/6/1954 Description: In the predawn hours a 30-year-old mechanic, Joseph Roy, was returning home by motorcycle on National Highway 51 from Reims to Rethel, France. Near the Isles-sur-Suippe he noticed a sharp reddish gleam on the road ahead of him. It suddenly disappeared, and when he arrived at the point where he had seen the light he noticed an odd looking object in a field. It was about three meters in length and had the form of a large artillery shell with several portholes on the front. He was also able to distinguish a vague dark silhouette of a small humanoid figure. However, seized with fright he did not stay longer to investigate and sped away as quickly as he could. Three other workmen reported seeing the same gleaming light in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-23 (A0280), citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 126; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7 (1978), p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_6595 Source: Johnson ### Event 6635 (EED21CD0) Date: 10/6/1954 Description: At 7:15 a.m. a 1.2 meter tall hairy dwarf was seen next to a sphere that was 10 meter in diameter. The object made a jet powered takeoff, leaving behind ground traces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case , citing Dominique Weinstein Source ID: Johnson_6596 Source: Johnson ### Event 6636 (29539A8E) Date: 10/6/1954 Description: At 7:15 p.m. an astronomer named Potter and one other witness in Norwich, England viewed a domed disc hovering for three minutes through a telescope. It had lit windows in the dome, and at one point made a 180 degree turn. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard L. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 374; Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 140 Source ID: Johnson_6597 Source: Johnson ### Event 6637 (6A566766) Date: 10/6/1954 Description: On this evening Mr. and Mrs. Laroche from Paris saw a fiery sphere land near Chantonnay, Monchamps, France. At 9:30 p.m. near the military barracks in La Fere, Aisne, France two soldiers saw a strange luminous torpedo-shaped object on the ground 300 meters away. As one of them approached the four meter long craft, which stood about 80 cm high, he found himself paralyzed. Finally, at 10:30 p.m. two women, Mrs. Salabrino and her adult daughter, saw a whitish light in the western sky in Villers-le-Lac, France. It seemed to slowly approach the ground, and was later seen between the railway station and the bridge 100 meters away from their house. When it moved, a very bright light was visible under its dark mass. It gave off a flow of sparks and rose, hovered for a moment, and then flew away rapidly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 200-201; (2) The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 12; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 127; (3) Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 138 Source ID: Johnson_6598 Source: Johnson ### Event 6638 (46A2320D) Date: 10/6/1954 Description: Around 6:00 a.m. Mechanic Joseph Roy is riding to work on his bicycle at Isles-sur-Suippe, Marne, France, and sees a dazzling light at low altitude. It blinks out. When he gets to the spot where it disappeared, he sees a large object like an artillery shell 9 feet long. A small, dark form is standing in front of it. Roy becomes frightened and races to the nearest gendarmerie. Probable confusion, helicopter, and military personnel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/6oct1954islessursuippe.htm) [1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/6oct1954islessursuippe.htm)” January 16, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2545 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6639 (56829055) Date: 10/6/1954 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Laroche, from Paris, saw a fiery sphere landing near Chantonnay. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 40 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Monchamps, France Source ID: Magnonia_200 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6640 (07B515B6) Date: 10/6/1954 Time: 2130 Description: Near the military barracks, soldiers saw a strange object on the ground 300 m away. As one of them approached the torpedo-shaped object, which was about 80 cm high, he found himself paralyzed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: La Fere, France Source ID: Magnonia_201 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6641 (55D7E51E) Date: 10/6/1954 Time: 2230 Description: Two women (Mrs. Salabrino and her daughter) saw a whitish light in the western sky. It seemed slowly to come toward the ground, and was later seen between the railroad station and the bridge 100 m away from their house. When it moved, a very bright light was visible under its dark mass. It gave off a flow of sparks and rose, hovered for a moment and flew away rapidly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 138 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Villers-le-Lac, France Source ID: Magnonia_202 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6642 (7E44A10D) Date: 10/6/1954 Description: 9:30 p.m. Two soldiers at the military barracks in La Fère, Aisne, France, watch a luminous craft in the shape of an artillery shell landed on the ground less than a quarter-mile away. As one soldier approaches it, he becomes paralyzed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/6oct1954lafere.htm)” April 9, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2546 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6643 (D27C23AE) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: The two Lanssellin children witnessed the landing of a luminous, red object shaped like a half-egg, and saw two occupants who looked like normal men. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 145 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hennezis, France Source ID: Magnonia_203 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6644 (4D2DF8AE) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: 6:20 a.m. A group of workers at the Renault manufacturing plant at Le Mans, Sarthe, France, are bicycling to work when they feel an unpleasant tickling at the same moment an intense greenish light is emitted from a luminous object hovering above the Route N23 road. They are almost paralyzed, then the UFO leaves, flying low over the fields. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 143; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 8–9; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://www.ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/7oct1954lemans.htm)” October 22, 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_2547 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6645 (A30E8919) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: Beruges, France. A farmer, Edouard Thebault, age 31, awoke at 4:15 a.m. to see a luminous object, two or three meters in diameter, emitting a beam of light that swept the countryside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 219; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 129 Source ID: Johnson_6619 Source: Johnson ### Event 6646 (3C32ED34) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: St.-Jean-d'Asse, France. Mr. Alexandre Tremblay, a café owner, was driving on Route N138 at 6:20 a.m. when he saw an intense, blue light coming toward him. The object producing it was a one-meter long cigar, red and blue in color. The engine and headlights of his vehicle died. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 220; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 129-130 Source ID: Johnson_6620 Source: Johnson ### Event 6647 (6CE22680) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: Hennezis, France. At 6:30 p.m. Claude and Francoise Lanssellin, ages 10 and 9, witnessed the landing of a luminous, red object. It was shaped like a half egg (sliced lengthwise), They saw two occupants who looked like normal men. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 219; Jimmy Guieu, Black Out sur les Soucoupes Volantes, pp. 199-202; Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 182; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 132-133 Source ID: Johnson_6621 Source: Johnson ### Event 6648 (DD73117E) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: Plozevet, France. Early in the day the crew of several fishing boats at sea saw a luminous, orange-colored object over the coast, apparently surrounded by dense smoke. Villagers in Plozevet saw the same object and stated independently that it came within 10 meters of the ground, then flew away to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: France-Soir, October 9, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 219; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 131 Source ID: Johnson_6622 Source: Johnson ### Event 6649 (480570A0) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: Two red mushroom-shaped objects, six feet in diameter, landed this morning in Mendionde, France. Two little men, 2.5 feet tall stood beside it, speaking an unknown language and gesticulating to the witness to come closer. However, when he did they shut the door in his face, and the UFO took off straight up. The grass at the site was crushed and turned yellow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1689 Source ID: Johnson_6623 Source: Johnson ### Event 6650 (9AEEA94E) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: Jettingen, France. A railroad employee, Rene Ott, saw a mushroom-shaped object three meters in diameter, in a field three meters away from Route N16 and one meter above the ground. A luminous rectangle, like a door, was seen on the side. It took off and flew about five meters over the head of the witness, following him to the next village. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 143; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 219 Source ID: Johnson_6624 Source: Johnson ### Event 6651 (D1B84AFB) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: A red ovoid object was seen in Eurre, Drome, France at 7 o'clock in the evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 133 Source ID: Johnson_6626 Source: Johnson ### Event 6652 (107A8700) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: Marcel Guyot was coming home from work at 7:30 p.m. near the village of St.-Etienne-sous-Barbuise, France, and his son Jacques followed the same road 10 minutes later. Both saw three objects on the ground at a railroad crossing that gave off a bright white light. One was circular, the other two were cigar-shaped. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 146; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 220 Source ID: Johnson_6627 Source: Johnson ### Event 6653 (ABA07A90) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: Mr. Sebelli saw an object land in the village of Bompas, France shortly before midnight. He called his neighbors, and they observed the departure of the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 146; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 220 Source ID: Johnson_6628 Source: Johnson ### Event 6654 (601C3ABE) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: Night. Witnesses at Corbigny, Nièvre, France, see a luminous cylinder that appears orange when vertical and motionless, and white when moving forward horizontally. At one point, two small discs emerge from its lower part. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/7oct1954corbigny.htm),” September 12, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_2550 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6655 (A3001E9D) Date: 10/7/1954 Time: 2400 Description: Mr. Sebelli saw an object land in the village. He called his neighbors, and they observed the departure of the craft. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 43; M 146 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bompas, France Source ID: Magnonia_210 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6656 (2F1021F8) Date: 10/7/1954 Time: 1930 Description: Etienne-sous-Barbuise (France). Marcel Guyot was coming from work near this village, and his son Jacques followed the same road 10 min later. Both saw, at a railroad crossing, three objects on the ground that gave a bright white light. One was circular, the others cigar-shaped. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 42; M 146 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: St Source ID: Magnonia_209 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6657 (49E835CA) Date: 10/7/1954 Time: 1430 Description: R. Margaillan saw an object that had landed in a field. It was hemispherical, about 2.5 m in diameter. The witness gasped for air and felt "paralyzed." Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 145; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Monteux, France Source ID: Magnonia_208 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6658 (33F4CC0A) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: On Route N138, a truckdriver, Mr. Tremblay, saw an intense, blue light coming toward him. The object producing it was cigarshaped, red and blue. Engine and headlights died. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 41;M 143 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saint-Jean-d'Asse, France Source ID: Magnonia_207 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6659 (B662682A) Date: 10/7/1954 Time: dawn Description: A railroad employee, Rene Ott, saw a mushroom-shaped object 3 m in diameter, in a field 3 m away from Route N16 and 1 m above ground. A luminous rectangle, like a door, was seen on the side. It took off and flew about 5 m above the witness, following him to the next village. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 41; M 143 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Jettingen, France Source ID: Magnonia_206 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6660 (FDA7DC1F) Date: 10/7/1954 Time: 0400 Description: A farmer, Mr. Thebault, saw a luminous object, 2 or 3 m in diameter, emitting a beam of light which swept the countryside. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 41; M 142 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Beruges, France Source ID: Magnonia_205 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6661 (1489930F) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: The Italian Air Ministry allegedly sets up UFO detection posts for 24/7 vigilance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [p. 232](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/232/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2548 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6662 (8B297329) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: Car motor and headlights failed; UFO over road. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St.-Jean-d'Asse, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1753 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6663 (CD4AEDFE) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: 2:30 p.m. Farmer René Margaillon goes to work and notices a mysterious object about 300 feet away in a field between Monteux and Althen-des-Paluds, Vauclude, France. He approaches the object, which is about 8 feet tall and phosphorescent. Suddenly it disappears and he feels suffocated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/7oct1954monteux.htm)” April 5, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2549 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6664 (44FAC87B) Date: 10/7/1954 Time: early Description: The crew of several fishing boats saw a luminous, orange-colored object over the coast, apparently surrounded by dense smoke. Villagers saw the same object and stated independently that it came within 10 m of the ground, then flew away to the southeast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 41; M 140 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Plozevet, France Source ID: Magnonia_204 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6665 (AFAF9A54) Date: 10/7/1954 Description: Monteux, France. At 2:30 p.m. Rene Margaillon, a farmer, was traveling between Monteux and Althen-des-Paluds when saw a metallic object that had landed in a field. It was hemispherical, about 2.5 meters in diameter. The witness gasped for air and felt "paralyzed." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 145; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 220; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 131 Source ID: Johnson_6625 Source: Johnson ### Event 6666 (EB00027A) Date: 10/8/1954 Description: At 7:00 a.m in the town of Stintino on the island of Sardegna, Italy a single witness named Milia watched a white UFO that looked like "an oval sail" descend to five feet above the ground about 60 feet away. Attached to it was a man dressed in black, who wore a helmet. When the UFOnaut saw the witness, the witness claims he threw out some pamphlets that were written in an unknown language. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0284 Source ID: Johnson_6641 Source: Johnson ### Event 6667 (906DCC5D) Date: 10/8/1954 Description: At 9:15 p.m., on the road to Boulogne in Pas de Calais department, France a bluish domed disc-shaped object dove toward the ground, became white and then flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 212 Source ID: Johnson_6642 Source: Johnson ### Event 6668 (25AB8F88) Date: 10/8/1954 Description: At 11:00 p.m. in St. Claude, Charente, France a human silhouette was seen standing motionless near where a luminous ovoid shaped UFO had landed. Strip of burnt, crushed grass found at spot, trodden down. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1690, citing Charente Libre, October 11, 1954; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 189 Source ID: Johnson_6643 Source: Johnson ### Event 6669 (68F3B9BE) Date: 10/8/1954 Description: At 11:15 p.m. an orange disc-shaped object danced "arabesques" in the sky over the city of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3823; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 135 Source ID: Johnson_6644 Source: Johnson ### Event 6670 (CD592E65) Date: 10/8/1954 Time: 0230 Description: Ghaseme Fili, of Amireah Street, was on the second floor of his house when he saw a luminous, white flying object stop in mid-air 2O m away. lights were shining from the rear and the sides of the craft, inside which could be seen a small man dressed in black, wearing a mask with a trunk like an elephant. "I was standing with both hands on the bar of my balcony, looking with astonishment at this strange object, when I suddenly felt as though I were being drawn up toward the object by a magnet." Mr. Fili cried out in terror and woke up his neighbors. The object shot straight up, emitting sparks, and it was lost to sight almost immediately. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 52, 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Teheran, Iran Source ID: Magnonia_211 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6671 (22EB6948) Date: 10/8/1954 Description: Mr. Ghaseme Fili, of Amireah Street, Teheran, Iran was on the balcony of the second floor of his house at 2:30 a.m. when he saw a luminous, white flying object stop in mid-air, only 20 meters away from him. Lights shone from the rear and the sides of the craft, and inside there was a small man dressed in black, wearing a mask or breathing apparatus that resembled the trunk of an elephant. "I was standing with both hands on the bar of my balcony, looking with astonishment at this strange object, when I suddenly felt as though I were being drawn up toward the object by a magnet." Mr. Fili cried out in terror and woke up his neighbors. The object shot straight up, emitting sparks, and it was lost to sight almost immediately. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1967, p. 23; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 211 Source ID: Johnson_6639 Source: Johnson ### Event 6672 (2C3A46D0) Date: 10/8/1954 Description: In the predawn hours a motorcyclist, R. Ott, riding through farm county in Jettingen, Haut-Rhin department, France saw a 10 foot wide mushroom-shaped object with an open 5 foot by 2 foot wide doorway near the ground. He saw no UFO occupants, but after driving by he was struck by a powerful beam of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 143; Jacques Vallee, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0283, citing Mulhouse Alsace, October 9, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_6640 Source: Johnson ### Event 6673 (6564E1CB) Date: 10/8/1954 Time: 2115 Description: On the road to Boulogne a bluish object, clearly seen with a dome on top, dived toward the ground, became white and went away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 44, 45;M 154 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Calais,, France Source ID: Magnonia_212 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6674 (5B37D235) Date: 10/8/1954 Description: 7:30 p.m. Four children—Gilbert Calda, 12, Daniel Hirsch, 9, J. P. Hirsch, 5, and Robert Maguin, 16—are roller skating at Pournoy-la-Chétive, Moselle, France, when they see a luminous object near the cemetery. It is round, about 8 feet in diameter, and standing on three legs. A dwarf, about 4 feet tall, dressed in black, with a face covered in hair and large eyes, emerges and shines a blinding light at them. It says something in an unknown language. The children run away but look back in time to see the object flying away high in the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 269; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, 154; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/8oct1954pournoylachetive.htm)” March 7, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2551 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6675 (6F8F2571) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: Between Montaren and Serviers, 1 km from "Le Mas Blanc," Dr. Fabre, Mr. Court, and six others saw an orange oval object oscillating in mid-air. It was very bright and "fiery," and it came very low. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Montaren, France Source ID: Magnonia_214 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6676 (26F0D9DD) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: Some men out hunting in Dreux, France saw a luminous sphere take off and fly toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 153; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221 Source ID: Johnson_6686 Source: Johnson ### Event 6677 (DFB18067) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: A mailman in Huy, Belgium saw a cigar-shaped object land. Two silhouettes "approximately human" in appearance were seen on board the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221 Source ID: Johnson_6684 Source: Johnson ### Event 6678 (D8699126) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: In Rinkerode, Germany Willi Hoge, a projectionist, was returning home in the evening when he saw four occupants of an object that had descended to ground level 70 meters from the road he was on. Seeing a blue light at first, he thought that an airplane had made an emergency landing. However, the cigar-shaped object was wingless. There were four humanoid beings wearing some type of rubber coveralls working under it. They were about 1.2 meters tall and had very large chests and oversized heads; their legs were short and thin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221 Source ID: Johnson_6688 Source: Johnson ### Event 6679 (F8E5CFD3) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: Near the Landeforet pool in Beauvain, France Christopher Carette saw a fiery sphere flying at treetop level for ten seconds. It had a protuberance or dome on top, and was estimated to be about 4 meters in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 152; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221 Source ID: Johnson_6689 Source: Johnson ### Event 6680 (07EE55C0) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: As he was driving near Carcassonne, France at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Jean Bertrand saw a bright, metallic sphere ahead on the road. The top half appeared to be made of transparent plastic, and two humanlike figures were seen standing inside. It took off quickly, flying away to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 145; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pp. 221-222 Source ID: Johnson_6690 Source: Johnson ### Event 6681 (3A6A4A27) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: A mailman saw a cigar-shaped object land. Twn silhouettes "approximately human" were seen aboard. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 45; M 154 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Huy, Belgium Source ID: Magnonia_213 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6682 (E3DDF5F9) Date: 10/9/1954 Time: 1600 Description: As he was driving near Carcassonne, Jean Bertrand saw a bright, metallic sphere on the road ahead. The top half seemed to be made of transparent plastic, and two humanlike figures were standing inside. It took off rapidly, flying east. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 48; M 145 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Carcassonne, France Source ID: Magnonia_219 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6683 (4A5664D3) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: Pournoy-la-Chetive, France. Four children--Gilbert Calda, age 12; Daniel Hirsch, age 9; J. P. Hirsch, age 5; and Robert Maguin, age 16--were roller skating at 6:30 p.m. when they saw a luminous object near the cemetery. It was round, about 2.5 meters in diameter, on stood on three legs. A dwarf, about 1.2 meters tall, dressed in black, having a face covered with hair and large eyes, came out and shone a blinding light at them. It said something in an unknown language. The children ran away, but looked back in time to see the object flying away high in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222 Source ID: Johnson_6691 Source: Johnson ### Event 6684 (C4D8637A) Date: 10/9/1954 Time: 2215 Description: The local representative of a German firm, Max Favell, saw an object give off a white light and land. It took off vertically, with a spinning motion, and was lost to sight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 51 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Beirut, Lebanon Source ID: Magnonia_223 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6685 (1C3D96D5) Date: 10/9/1954 Time: 2030 Description: On Route N631 at "La Caiffe," a technician, J. P. Mitto, was coming back from Toulouse with two other persons when they saw two small figures, the height of 11-year-old children, cross the road about 5 m in front of the car and jump into a pasture. Stopping immediately, the witnesess saw a large convex disk take off vertically. It was about 6 m in diameter, orange in color and was literally "sucked up" into the sky. Brown oily spots were found at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 43, 50 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Briatexte, France Source ID: Magnonia_222 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6686 (470DA603) Date: 10/9/1954 Time: 1900 Description: Mr. Barrault was riding his bicycle when he suddenly saw a figure in a diving suit aiming a double beam of light at him. The individual had boots without heels and very bright eyes, walked on the road for one minute and went into the forest. The witness was "paralyzed" throughout the incident. The entity had a hairy chest and two lights, one above the other, in front of him. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 45, 48; M 153; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lavoux, France Source ID: Magnonia_221 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6687 (A0586DE0) Date: 10/9/1954 Time: 1830 Description: Four children-Gilbert Calda, 12; Daniel Hirsch, 9; J. P. Hirsch, 5; and Robed Maguin 16-were roller-skating when they saw a luminous object near the cemetery. It was round, about 2.5 m in diameter, standing on three legs. A dwarf, about 1.2 m tall, dressed in black, having a face covered with hair and large eyes, came out and shone a blinding light at them, and said something in an unknown language. The children ran away, but looked back in time to see the object flying away high in the sky. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 49; M 154; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pournoy-la-Chetive, France Source ID: Magnonia_220 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6688 (D7ED3B70) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: Mr. Barrault was riding his bicycle in Lavoux, France at seven o'clock in the evening when he suddenly saw a figure in a diving suit aiming a double beam of light at him. The individual had boots without heels and very bright eyes. It walked along the road for about a minute and then went into the forest. The witness was paralyzed and was unable to movethroughout the incident. The entity had a hairy chest and two lights, one above the other, in front of him. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 153; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222 Source ID: Johnson_6692 Source: Johnson ### Event 6689 (025F6518) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: In Soubran, France several local people saw a luminous, spherical object land in a pasture. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221 Source ID: Johnson_6687 Source: Johnson ### Event 6690 (C3F6B4D4) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: Briatexte, France. At 8:30 p.m. on Route N631 at "La Caiffe," a technician named J. P. Mitto was returning from Toulouse with two other friends when they saw two small figures cross the road in front of their car and jump into a pasture. The beings were about the height of 11-year-old children and crossed only five meters in front of them. Stopping immediately, the witnesses saw a large convex disc take off vertically. It was about six meters in diameter, orange in color, and was literally "sucked up" into the sky. Brown oily spots were found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222 Source ID: Johnson_6693 Source: Johnson ### Event 6691 (1869A886) Date: 10/9/1954 Time: evening Description: Near the Landeforet pool, Christain Carette saw for 10 sec a fiery sphere flying at treetop level. Diameter: 4 m. Protuberance on top. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 48;M 152 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Beauvain, France Source ID: Magnonia_218 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6692 (893774FC) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: Car motor and headlights failed as cigar-shaped UFO passed above (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cuisy (Seine-Et-Marne), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1754 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6693 (FED122D6) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: In Beirut, Lebanon at 10:15 p.m. the local company representative of a German firm, Max Favell, saw an white flying object land. It took off vertically, spinning, and was lost from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222 Source ID: Johnson_6694 Source: Johnson ### Event 6694 (090D2B18) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: 8:30 p.m. Jean-Pierre Mitto and his two cousins are driving on Road 631 from Toulouse to Briatexte, Tarn, France, at a crossroads known as “La Caiffe” when they see two small figures about the size of 11-year-old children cross the road. They enter a pasture where a convex disc rises vertically and shoots upwards rapidly. It is about 20 feet in diameter and orange. Brown, oily residue is found at the site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/9oct1954briatexte.htm) [Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/9oct1954briatexte.htm)” March 26, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2555 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6695 (9423DB56) Date: 10/9/1954 Time: evening Description: Willi Hoge, a projectionist, saw four occupants of an object that had come to ground level 70 m from the road. He was returning home when he observed a blue light and thought an airplane had made an emergency landing. The object was cigar-shaped, and four men wearing rubber coveralls were working under it. They were about 1.2 m tall and had very large chests and oversized heads; their legs were short and thin. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 47 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Rinkerode, Germany Source ID: Magnonia_217 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6696 (35EF139F) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: Evening. As he is driving home from his job as a movie projectionist in Rinkerode \[now part of Drensteinfurt\], North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, Willi Hoge sees a blue light to one side of the road. He looks closer and sees four small figures with big heads and chests and small, thin legs, apparently doing repair work on a spindle-shaped machine. All are dressed in one-piece elastic body suits. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1991, p. 24; Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [p. 233](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/232/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2558 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6697 (C517C7A8) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: 10:15 p.m. Max Favell, a representative of a German firm in Beirut, Lebanon, sees a white flying object land. It takes off vertically, spinning, and is lost to sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 222–223](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/222/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2557 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6698 (9AFFEAAF) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: 9:20 p.m. Mechanics André Bartoli and Jean-Jacques Lalevée see the sky light up with a yellow-orange glow in Cuisy, Seine-et-Marne, France. Bartoli’s car motor and headlights fail, and they both see a yellow-orange cigar-shaped object moving to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 150–152; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 9–11; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/9oct1954cuisy.htm)” August 26, 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_2556 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6699 (1446FA7B) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: Around 7:00 p.m. Roger Barrault, a worker in Lavoux, Vienne, France, is riding a bicycle when he is stopped on the road by a double beam of light coming from a 4-foot-tall figure that looks like a diver. It wears boots without heels and has brilliant eyes and a large moustache. Hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/9oct1954lavoux.htm)” March 26, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2554 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6700 (33B983A7) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: 4:00 p.m. Jean Bertrand is driving near Carcassonne, Aude, France, when he comes upon a metallic sphere in the road ahead. The top half seems to be transparent, and he sees two human-shaped figures inside. As he approaches, the object takes off at high speed. Probable helicopter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/9oct1954carcassonne.htm),” March 26, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2553 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6701 (D2A0F81F) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: The US Air Force releases a press statement saying that after studying 3,500 reports, it has found “no authentic physical evidence” that UFOs are spaceships or weapons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 22 Source ID: Eberhart_2552 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6702 (ED091A77) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: Several local people saw a luminous, spherical object land in a pasture. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 46; M 154 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Soubran, France Source ID: Magnonia_216 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6703 (E0125ED6) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: Between Montaren and Serviers, France, 1 kilometer from "Le Mas Blanc," Dr. Fabre, Mr. Court, and six others saw an orange oval object oscillating in midair. It was very bright and "fiery," and came very low to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221 Source ID: Johnson_6685 Source: Johnson ### Event 6704 (E11C22EF) Date: 10/9/1954 Description: People out hunting saw a luminous sphere take off and fly toward the southwest. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy; M 153 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Dreux, France Source ID: Magnonia_215 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6705 (1C7DD963) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: In the predawn hours four beings 1.2 meters tall were busy underneath a blue cigar-shaped object hovering 1.5 meters over a field in Rinckerode, Lower Saxony, Germany. The witness was a 42-year-old man named Hogl. They had thin legs, broad chests, large heads, and they wore rubber suits.They re-entered the craft via a ladder; the object then tilted to one side, and shot up and away at an angle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 47 Source ID: Johnson_6702 Source: Johnson ### Event 6706 (CF3C5126) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: At 6:15 a.m. Michel Toutain was bicycling in Marville-Moutier-Brule, Eure-et-Loir department, France when he saw a red ball of light above which was a greenish circular disc resembling the cover of a washbasin, four meters in diameter. Inside the green dome he could see that there were four dark silhouettes. He was unable to advance towards the object, stopped by some unseen force. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 141, citing La Gazette Francaise, October 16, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_6703 Source: Johnson ### Event 6707 (569720C2) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: At 6:30 a.m. Roger Thiriet, a jailer in the Ecouvres detention center, was riding his motorcycle in Charmes-la-Cote, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France when he suddenly saw an aluminum-colored object shaped like a plate, with a dome on top and two portholes. It was about two meters in diameter and one meter high. It took off immediately. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: France Soir, October 21, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 227 Source ID: Johnson_6704 Source: Johnson ### Event 6708 (049D207A) Date: 10/10/1954 Time: 1400 Description: A math professor, Mr. Bon, observed a silvery disk about 7 m in diameter rise silently from a point about 250 m to the side of the road. Spinning, it dived to the ground from an altitude of about 800 m, then flew off horizontally at a dizzying speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 55, 57 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saint-Germain-de-Livet, France Source ID: Magnonia_228 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6709 (28C1579D) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: Approximate date. Many farmers observed the landing of a "marvelous luminous object," hemispherical in shape, emitting multicolored beams. The central part appeared to be metallic. The object shot straight up suddenly and vanished while the crowd watched. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Creighton; 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mahallat, Persia Source ID: Magnonia_224 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6710 (062FA0B2) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: Second landing here, seen by Marius Dewilde (cf. Case 144) and his 4-year-old son. A disk, 6 m diameter, about 1 m high, landed again on the tracks. Seven little men emerged and spoke in an unknown language. The craft then vanished without noise or smoke. Traces larger than the first, and symmetrical, were observed. Dewilde refused to report the case. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Quarouble, France Source ID: Magnonia_226 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6711 (781E587E) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: A cylindrical UFO with red and green lights is seen over Alexandria, Egypt. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [pp. 232–233](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/232/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2560 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6712 (BDCF48E9) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: The Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle announces it will act as a clearinghouse for UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [p. 233](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/232/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2559 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6713 (AB9478A6) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: At 2:02 p.m. a math professor, Mr. Bon, observed a silvery disc about seven meters in diameter rise silently from a point about 250 meters to the side of the road in St-Germain-de-Livet, Calvados, France. Spinning, it dove towards the ground from an altitude of about 800 meters, then flew off horizontally at a dizzying speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: France Soir, October 14, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 228 Source ID: Johnson_6705 Source: Johnson ### Event 6714 (D6A0F432) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: In the evening at Saillat-sur-Vienne, Haute-Vienne, France Mssr. Roger Gayout and his family saw a very bright object come very close to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223-224, case 229 Source ID: Johnson_6706 Source: Johnson ### Event 6715 (61DBEBEC) Date: 10/10/1954 Time: nightfall Description: Roger Gayout and family saw a very bright object come very close to the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 56; M 162 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saillat-sur-Vienne, France Source ID: Magnonia_229 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6716 (88757DDF) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: In a newspaper interview, [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) alludes to the 1948 Estimate of the Situation without calling it that. Loedding shows a study of some 100+ UFO reports to one of the “country’s leading scientists,” who glances at it briefly, then declares that “flying saucers are a figment of the imagination.” Shortly afterwards, the skeptics in Project Sign win out, and Loedding’s efforts are ignored. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Trenton \(N.J.\) Sunday Times-Advertiser, October 10, 1954; Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 13, 32 Source ID: Eberhart_2562 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6717 (6DB5996D) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: Between Epoisses and Toutry, Daniel Grapin and Francois Bolatre, topographers saw a luminous sphere 3.5 m diameter on the ground near Route N454. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Epoisses, France Source ID: Magnonia_225 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6718 (E59C3679) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: Quarouble, Nord, France. At 11:30 p.m. a second landing with occupants was witnessed here by Marius Dewilde and his four-year-old son. A disc, six meters in diameter and about one meter tall, landed again on the railroad tracks. Seven little men about one meter tall emerged from the craft and spoke in an unknown language. The craft then vanished without noise or smoke. Traces larger than the first, and symmetrical, were observed. Dewilde refused to report the case to the authorities. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 226 Source ID: Johnson_6707 Source: Johnson ### Event 6719 (A20EEB61) Date: 10/10/1954 Time: 0630 Description: Roger Thiriet, jailer in Ecouvres detention center, was riding his motorcycle when he suddenly saw an aluminum colored object shaped like a plate, with a dome and two portholes. It was about 2 m in diameter and 1 m high. It took off immediately. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 54 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Charmes-la-Cote, France Source ID: Magnonia_227 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6720 (6399ACEC) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: On or about this day a large group of farmers in Mahallat, Iran witnessed a luminous hemispherical object land. It emitted multi-colored beams of light. The central part of the object appeared to be metallic. The object suddenly shot straight up and was soon gone from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 224 Source ID: Johnson_6699 Source: Johnson ### Event 6721 (7BA95C95) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: At around 2:00 a.m. in Epoisses, Côte-d'Or, France between Epoisses and Toutry, Daniel Grapin and Francois Bolatre, two topographers, saw a luminous sphere 3.5 meters in diameter on the ground near Route N454. The encounter lasted four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 225; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 208; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 141 Source ID: Johnson_6700 Source: Johnson ### Event 6722 (018C9D25) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: At 4:30 a.m. a bulging ovoid object was seen on the road ahead in Cavanac, Aude, France. It gave off sparks, and took off vertically making no noise during its ascent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3845 Source ID: Johnson_6701 Source: Johnson ### Event 6723 (48F7DEC9) Date: 10/10/1954 Description: 11:30 a.m. Marius Dewilde, along with his 14-year-old son, allegedly has a second encounter with a UFO occupant at Quarouble, Nord, France. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/10oct1954quarouble.htm)” April 3, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2561 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6724 (44998287) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: Car motor and headlights failed, passengers felt shock and numbness; round UFO took off from nearby field (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clamecy (Nievre), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1758 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6725 (434EC80C) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: Car motor and headlights failed as UFO crossed road ahead of car, below cloud cover (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fronfrede (Loire), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1759 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6726 (25C752DF) Date: 10/11/1954 Time: 0500 Description: A large disk flying very low over a road scared two truck drivers, Messrs. Gaston Breau and Amoura, who stopped their gasoline truck and ran away into the fields while the object flew on toward Medea in silence. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lavarande, Algeria Source ID: Magnonia_237 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6727 (0469737B) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: Farmers in Doncourt-Village, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France were awakened by a whistling sound and saw a flat object land near the woods. It soon rose up vertically very fast, and flew away. The ground was found calcified. Soil samples were taken by the police for analysis. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Figaro, October 13, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 230 Source ID: Johnson_6746 Source: Johnson ### Event 6728 (C23395EF) Date: 10/11/1954 Time: dawn Description: A large red object was seen flying very fast at treetop level while cattle panicked. Three witnesses. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy; M 162 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bauquay, France Source ID: Magnonia_236 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6729 (9D13B577) Date: 10/11/1954 Time: 0300 Description: Two men riding motorcycles saw a bell-shaped craft about 2.5 m high, hovered 1 m above the Evreux-Louviers railroad line. The lower part was ringlike, and the object gave off reddish and greenish sparks. A burst of orange light was seen as it jumped about 10 m high, then it remained motionless for about 1 hr, during which time a third witness joined the first two. It ultimately turned brighter and flew away toward the east. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 55; M 162 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Acquigny, France Source ID: Magnonia_231 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6730 (BDCBC2DD) Date: 10/11/1954 Time: dawn Description: Anny Pracht, her sister Roselyne, and two other persons saw a luminous object on the ground. It became fiery red in color and flew away when they came near. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 56; M 162 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Heimersdorf, France Source ID: Magnonia_235 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6731 (6EDCE1D7) Date: 10/11/1954 Time: 0430 Description: Messrs. Gallois and Vigneron who were driving from Clamecy to Corbigny felt an "electric shock" as the car headlights died. They then saw a craft in a pasture 50 m away. It was cylindrical, fairly thick, and three dwarfs were standing close by. No light was seen, except a small, reddish point. Both witnesses were "paralyzed" until the craft left. A third witness, Mr. Chaumeau, had seen a lighted object fly over the woods at La Carie. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 57; M 158 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sassier, near La Carie, France Source ID: Magnonia_234 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6732 (7B630F63) Date: 10/11/1954 Time: 2200 Description: A round craft, 4 m diameter, landed in a pasture. It gave off a powerful red light, took off with a formidable acceleration when witnesses (garage owner Mr. Carriere and son; Mr. Gardelle, farmer; Mr. Ginestre, shoemaker; and two others) came close to it. Mr. Gardelle felt "an electric shock." Type: ufo sighting Reference: 60, 61; M 162 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Montbazens, France Source ID: Magnonia_240 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6733 (88771AE1) Date: 10/11/1954 Time: 0420 Description: Mr. Labonde was driving at the intersection of D14 and D104 when he was followed by a sort of luminous globe surrounded with a reddish glow, about 2 m in size. It stayed within 25 m of the car. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 58; M 158 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lacanche, France Source ID: Magnonia_233 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6734 (A6964725) Date: 10/11/1954 Time: 0415 Description: Baptiste Jourdy, who was making the daily collection of milk, was suddenly stopped as the engine and headlights of his truck died. He got out and saw a light above him. After it crossed the road, the headlights came on again and he was able to restart his truck. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 57 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Fonfrede, near Chambon Feugerolles, France Source ID: Magnonia_232 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6735 (248A2499) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a luminous, mushroom-shaped saucer made fast, silent maneuvers over La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendee, France. A Mrs. Drouillard was the single witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: October, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_6758 Source: Johnson ### Event 6736 (2086BAE5) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: 9:50 p.m. Julia Juste, Maria Barbereau, and Marion Tanneur are driving along D14 about 1 mile from Chateauneuf-sur-Charente, Charente, France. Two luminous globes, one smaller than the other, appear in the sky ahead of them at low altitude, and their car stalls and the headlights go out. The larger one becomes brilliant white with a reddish halo. After 5 minutes, they move out of sight in the Charente valley. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 160; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 13; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/11oct1954birac.htm)” April 6, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2567 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6737 (18A74E96) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: The Romanian magazine Contemporanul claims that UFOs are US propaganda designed to “stir up against Moscow a flying-saucer psychosis.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucers Are Not!](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93914297/)” Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct. 12, 1954, p. 4; Ruppelt, [p.](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/238/mode/2up) [238](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/238/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2566 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6738 (00AA75B3) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: 6:00 a.m. Baptiste Potin of Méral, Mayenne, France, is riding a bicycle to his workplace when he spots a huge orange ball in the sky that seems to be above Saint-Poix. It apparently descends to the ground as he approaches, barring the road. After watching it 8–10 minutes, it rises slowly and disappears in the northwest. He finds when he arrives at a farm that he is covered in white fluff embedded in his clothes. Probably an observation of the moon, accompanied by plant seeds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/11oct1954meral.htm),” April 14, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2565 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6739 (052DD401) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: Motorcycle stalled, round lighted UFO observed about 50 yards ahead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brosses-Thillot, Saone-Et-Loire (near), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1756 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6740 (CE0AB97E) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: 4:15 a.m. Baptiste Jourdy is delivering milk near Fonfrède, Loire, France, when the truck engine dies and the headlights fail. He gets out to investigate and sees a glowing, multicolored object, moving at great speed, cross the road and disappear in the distance. The headlights return and he starts the truck again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 157; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 11–12; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/11oct1954fonfrede.htm)” April 6, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2563 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6741 (C4C5A8B2) Date: 10/11/1954 Time: 0130 Description: Farmers awakened by a whistling sound saw a flat object land near the woods. It soon rose very fast, vertically, and flew away. The ground was found calcined. Samples were taken by police officials for analysis. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 56 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Doncourt-Village, France Source ID: Magnonia_230 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6742 (CFE19EC8) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: At 9:50 p.m. four persons in Birac, Charente, France--among them Julia Juste, Maria Barbeau, and Marion Le Tanneur, of Jarnac--saw two luminous spheres flying in the same direction. Having stopped and maneuvered in midair, the larger one took on a deep red color, turned to an intense white light with a red aura, and both landed. Witnesses did not wait around to investigate further. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 160; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 225-226, case # 239; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_6756 Source: Johnson ### Event 6743 (368B124C) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: At 7:30 p.m. three men driving near Taupignac, Charente-Maritime, France got out of their car to observe an intense red sphere in the sky. Then they discovered a round disc-shaped machine with a dome, six meters in diameter, giving off a yellow-red light, only 200 meters away from them at 10 meters altitude. It was motionless and silent. It suddenly moved horizontally for a short distance and landed behind a woods. Two witnesses went closer and saw four dwarfs, one meter tall, who seemed busy with the machine. The creatures rushed inside when the witnesses arrived within 15 m. The witnesses was blinded by a sudden burst of light blue, then orange, then red, and the object took off vertically at fantastic speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225, case # 238; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 468 Source ID: Johnson_6755 Source: Johnson ### Event 6744 (C88D5351) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: At 6:40 p.m. horses panicked and ran when a bluish yellow saucer approached them to within 20 meters in Bremondans, Doubs, France. A figure was seen for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3872, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 196 Source ID: Johnson_6754 Source: Johnson ### Event 6745 (31D5104A) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: In Lavarande, Algeria a large disc flew very low over a road and scared two truck drivers, Messrs. Gaston Breau and Amoura, who stopped their gasoline truck and ran away into some fields while the object flew on toward Medea in silence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225; France Soir, October 17, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_6753 Source: Johnson ### Event 6746 (9AD5EAF8) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: In Bauquay, Calvados, France a large red object was seen flying very fast at treetop level while cattle panicked. There were three witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 159; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225, case # 236 Source ID: Johnson_6752 Source: Johnson ### Event 6747 (7DBCB4EF) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: Ms. Anny Pracht, her sister Roselyne, and two other witnesses in Heimersdorf, Haut-Rhin, France saw a luminous object on the ground. It became fiery red in color and flew away when they came near. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225, case # 235 Source ID: Johnson_6751 Source: Johnson ### Event 6748 (00C5AF1B) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: At 4:30 a.m. in Sassier, near La Carie, Nievre, France two men, Messrs. Gallois and Vigneron, were driving from Clamecy to Corbigny when felt an "electric shock" at the same time their car headlights died. They then saw a craft in a pasture 50 meters away. It was cylindrical and fairly thick in shape. Three dwarf humanoids were standing close by. No light was seen, except a small, reddish point of light. Both witnesses were paralyzeduntil the craft left. A third witness, Mr. Chaumeau, had seen a lighted object fly over the woods at La Carie, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 224-225, case # 234; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 52 Source ID: Johnson_6750 Source: Johnson ### Event 6749 (3A3C4C4E) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: At 4:20 a.m. in Lacanche, Côte-d'or, France Mr. Labonde was driving at the intersection of D14 and D104 when he was followed by a sort of luminous globe surrounded with a reddish glow, about two meters in size. It stayed within 25 meters of his car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 233 Source ID: Johnson_6749 Source: Johnson ### Event 6750 (F75F308E) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: In Fonfrede, near Chambon Feugerolles, Loire, France. Baptiste Jourdy, who was making the daily collection of milk at 4:15 a.m., was suddenly stopped as the engine and headlights of his truck died. He got out and saw a light above him. After it crossed the road, the headlights came on again and he was able to restart his truck. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 157; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 232 Source ID: Johnson_6748 Source: Johnson ### Event 6751 (36115B8E) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: Two men riding motorcycles near Acquigny, Eure, France saw a bell-shaped craft about 2.5 meters tall while it hovered just a meter above the Evreux-Louviers railroad line. The lower part was ringlike, and the object gave off reddish and greenish sparks. A burst of orange light was seen as it jumped about 10 meters high, then it remained motionless for about one hour. During this time a third witness joined the first two. The UFO ultimately brightened and flew away toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 231 Source ID: Johnson_6747 Source: Johnson ### Event 6752 (398CE297) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: At 10:00 p.m. in Montbazens, Herault, France a round craft, four meters in diameter, landed in a pasture. It gave off a powerful red light and took off with extreme acceleration when witnesses (garage owner Mr. Carriere and son; farmer Mr. Gardelle, shoemaker Mr. Ginestre, and two others) came close to it. Mr. Gardelle felt an electric shock. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226, case # 240 Source ID: Johnson_6757 Source: Johnson ### Event 6753 (11E8CE63) Date: 10/11/1954 Time: 2150 Description: Four persons, among them Julia Juste, Maria Barbeau, and Marion Le Tanneur, of Jarnac, saw two luminous spheres flying in the same direction. Having stopped and maneuvered in midair, the larger one took on a deep red color, turned to an intense white light with a red aura, and both landed. Witnesses did not wait. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy; M 160 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Birac, France Source ID: Magnonia_239 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6754 (F07ECFB7) Date: 10/11/1954 Time: 1930 Description: Three men driving near Taupignac got out of their car to observe an intense red sphere in the sky. Then they discovered a round machine with a dome, 6 m diameter, giving off a yellowred light, 200 m away at 10 m altitude. It was motionless and silent. It suddenly moved horizontally for a short distance and landed behind a woods. Two witnesses went closer and saw four dwarfs, 1 m tall, who seemed busy with the machine. The creatures rushed inside when the witnesses arrived within 15 m. The witnesses wae blinded by a sudden burst of light, blue, then orange, then red, and the object took off vertically at fantastic speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Taupignac, France Source ID: Magnonia_238 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6755 (7FABA0DA) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: Car motor and headlights failed; two UFOs observed at low altitude ahead of car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chateauneuf-Sur-Charente, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1757 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6756 (18DCE566) Date: 10/11/1954 Description: 4:30 a.m. Two merchants, Henri Gallois and Louis Vigneron, are traveling to a fair in a van near Clamercy, Nièvre, France, when they both feel electrical shocks. The van motor dies, and the headlights go out. They become paralyzed and see on the ground, 150 feet away, a round object with three small figures around it. The figures go inside the object, which then leaves rapidly. The headlights come back on, the paralysis ends, and the engine can be restarted. Hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 158; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 12–13; Patrick Gross, “[The](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/11oct1954clamecy.htm) [1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/11oct1954clamecy.htm)” April 7, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2564 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6757 (9EBD38E8) Date: 10/12/1954 Description: A businessman, Mr. Vielle, was on Route N471 between Frasnes and Pontarlier when he saw a circular flying craft, which gave off a yellowish and a purple light. Losing altitude, the craft came very close to the ground, changed its course to southwest, and rose again in the sky. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy; M 167 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Dompierre-les-Tilleuls, France Source ID: Magnonia_246 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6758 (27584B04) Date: 10/12/1954 Description: Jan Marty, age 42, a mechanic, was in his shop in Leguevin, France when he saw a luminous disc land. It was about 6.5 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters thick. He tried to approach it, but the craft rose vertically and silently at an amazing speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226 Source ID: Johnson_6797 Source: Johnson ### Event 6759 (92D08422) Date: 10/12/1954 Description: A railroad employee, Mr. Laugere, saw a torpedo-shaped, metallic craft on the ground near a gas/oil tank in Montlucon, France. An hairy humanoid was standing nearby, emitting sounds that were not understood. The witness went to get his friends, but the thing had disappeared in the meantime. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 167; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226 Source ID: Johnson_6796 Source: Johnson ### Event 6760 (327BC318) Date: 10/12/1954 Description: A farmer, Mr. Beuc, saw a small pilot enter an object in Orchamps, France. It glided over the road for 30 meters and then rose rapidly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 167; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226 Source ID: Johnson_6795 Source: Johnson ### Event 6761 (83A8DCA3) Date: 10/12/1954 Time: afternoon Description: A French engineer driving to Port Lyautey saw a dwarf about 1.2 m in height enter an object which soon took off. The little man was wearing silver coveralls. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mamora Forest, Morocco Source ID: Magnonia_241 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6762 (18709663) Date: 10/12/1954 Time: 2100 Description: A farmer, Mr. Beuc, saw a small pilot enter an object. It glided over the road for 30 m, then rose rapidly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 167; Carrouges 98 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Orchamps, France Source ID: Magnonia_242 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6763 (FDDEF0A7) Date: 10/12/1954 Time: evening Description: A railroad employee, Mr. Laugere, saw a torpedo-shaped, metallic craft on the ground near a gas-oil tank. An individual covered with hair was standing nearby, emitting sounds that were not understood. The witness went to get his friends, but the thing disappeared in the meantime. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 63; M 167 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Montlucon, France Source ID: Magnonia_243 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6764 (45FB30E1) Date: 10/12/1954 Time: 2230 Description: Jan Marty, 42, mechanic, was in his shop when he saw a luminous disk about 6.5 m diameter and 2.5 m thick, land. He tried to approach it, but the craft rose vertically and silently at an amazing speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 62, 63 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Leguevin, France Source ID: Magnonia_244 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6765 (3F4F4271) Date: 10/12/1954 Time: 2230 Description: Gilbert Lelay, 13, saw a phosphorescent cigar in a pasture and a man near it, wearing a gray suit, boots, and a gray hat. He held a flashing sphere and told Gilbert in French not to touch it. He went back inside the craft, which flew in loops and vanished. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Carrouges 103; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sainte-Marie d'Herblay, France Source ID: Magnonia_245 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6766 (332ED84B) Date: 10/12/1954 Description: Mamora Forest, Morocco - A French engineer driving to Port Lyautey in the afternoon saw a dwarf about 1.2 meters in height enter an object which soon took off. The little man was wearing silver coveralls. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226 Source ID: Johnson_6794 Source: Johnson ### Event 6767 (5C00E675) Date: 10/12/1954 Time: 2330 Description: Roger Ramond, a nightwatchman saw a great light and noticed an oval object which landed 300 m away. It looked like a fieryorange ball, illuminated the vinyard for nearly 3 hrs, then assumed a vertical position, rose slowly, hovered 30 m above ground for a few seconds, and took off at fantastic speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 64; M 168 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Vielmur, France Source ID: Magnonia_247 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6768 (39CD552A) Date: 10/12/1954 Description: Morning. A UFO supposedly lands in a populous district on the south side of Tehran, Iran. It is said to have tried to kidnap a terrified man, Ghasim Faili, who says that on waking up he sees the UFO within 60 feet of him. It emits a magnetic force to capture him, but he shouts and neighbors gather, forcing the apparatus to take off. Later sources add some dubious details. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, [URECAT](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-10-12-iran-tehran.htm)[,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-10-12-iran-tehran.htm) July 20, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_2568 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6769 (9B256B23) Date: 10/12/1954 Description: Afternoon. A French engineer driving to Kenitra, Morocco, sees a small figure in a metallic suit climbing abroad a UFO that quickly lifts off and flies away. The location is said to be Mamora Forest, which could be modern Mehdya, on the coast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967, [p. 95](https://archive.org/details/flyingsauceroccu00lore/page/94/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2569 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6770 (F616C955) Date: 10/12/1954 Description: Around 2:00 p.m. A math professor at Lisieux named Bon is in Saint-Germain-de-Livet, Calvados, France, when he sees a silvery disc with a diameter of 21–24 feet hovering over a wooden area off the road. It dives toward the ground, then rises suddenly and silently into the sky at tremendous speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/12oct1954saintgermaindelivet.htm) [French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/12oct1954saintgermaindelivet.htm)” October 24, 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_2570 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6771 (D5227089) Date: 10/12/1954 Description: Roger Ramond, a night watchman, saw a great light and noticed an oval object land 300 meters away in Vielmur, France. It looked like a fiery orange ball, illuminated the vineyard for nearly 3 hours, then assumed a vertical position, rose slowly, hovered 30 meters above the ground for a few seconds, and took off at fantastic speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 168; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 227 Source ID: Johnson_6800 Source: Johnson ### Event 6772 (8F87CDCD) Date: 10/12/1954 Description: Dompierre-les-Tilleuls, France - Mr. Vielle, a businessman, was on Route N471 between Frasnes and Pontarlier when he saw a circular flying craft that gave off a yellowish and a purple light. Losing altitude, the craft came very close to the ground, changed its course to southwest, and then rose again in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 167; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 227 Source ID: Johnson_6799 Source: Johnson ### Event 6773 (38C84FBE) Date: 10/12/1954 Description: Ste.-Marie d'Herblay, France. Gilbert Lelay, age 13, saw a phosphorescent cigar-shaped UFO in a pasture and a man standing near it, wearing a gray suit, boots, and a gray hat. He held a flashing sphere and told Gilbert in French not to touch it. He went back inside the craft, which flew in loops and then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226 Source ID: Johnson_6798 Source: Johnson ### Event 6774 (0E236FA5) Date: 10/13/1954 Description: At 10:05 a.m. a weather observer in Nouasseur, French Morocco, following a balloon in his theodolite, saw a round, flat, silver object fly straight and level. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6805 Source: Johnson ### Event 6775 (3FEB645B) Date: 10/13/1954 Time: 10:05 AM Description: Witness: weather observer, following a balloon with his theodolite. One round, flat, silver object flew straight and level for 30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Nouasseur, French Morocco Source ID: BerlinerBBU_370 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6776 (56BB8888) Date: 10/13/1954 Time: 1930 Description: At Donjon de Montlaur, five persons, among them J. Dubois, saw a round craft maneuver, give off a blinding light. It had some openings or portholes, and seemed to land far from them. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Crocq, France Source ID: Magnonia_248 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6777 (163311A1) Date: 10/13/1954 Time: 1935 Description: Messrs. Olivier and Perano and a third man saw a reddish disk about 4 m diameter with a small being close by, about 1.2 rn tall, wearing a diving suit: "His head was large with respect to the rest of the body and he had two enormous eyes. The suit was bright and shiny like glass." The craft was surrounded by a sort of misty glow. One of the men came within 2O m of it and found himself paralyzed. The craft took off, throwing him to the ground, and rose very fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 62, 63 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bourrasole, France Source ID: Magnonia_249 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6778 (CE91A8D6) Date: 10/13/1954 Description: At 4:30 p.m. in Graulhet, Tarn department, France, numerous witnesses consistently reported that a white object flew southward at full speed without leaving a vapor trail and then exploded. At the same time a circular object, much smaller and silvery, seemed to spurt out of the mass of debris and continue straight toward the south. The burst of fragments scattered throughout the sky and fell gently down like shreds of paper or cloth. The debris, which resembled silvery filaments clinging together like cobwebs, "wilted away" when handled. This volatile "angel hair" dropped by UFOs, usually in the month of October, has been described many times since 1947. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 170 Source ID: Johnson_6806 Source: Johnson ### Event 6779 (B0F01896) Date: 10/13/1954 Description: Three hours later in Crocq, France, at Donjon de Montlaur, J. Dubois and four other witnesses saw a round craft maneuver, giving off a blinding light. It had some openings or portholes, and seemed to come down and land far away from them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 227 Source ID: Johnson_6807 Source: Johnson ### Event 6780 (3D7FC398) Date: 10/13/1954 Description: On that same night Messrs. Olivier and Perano and a third man in Bourrasole, France saw a reddish disc about 4 meters in diameter with a small humanoid close by. The being stood about 1.2 meters (5 feet) tall, wearing a diving suit. "His head was large with respect to the rest of the body and he had two enormous eyes. The suit was bright and shiny like glass." The Disc was surrounded by a sort of misty glow. One of the witnesses came within 20 meters of it and found himself paralyzed. The craft took off, throwing the man who stood closest to the ground, and rose into the sky very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: La Croix, October 16, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 227 Source ID: Johnson_6808 Source: Johnson ### Event 6781 (F5F1B2DE) Date: 10/13/1954 Description: Round, flat, silver object fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3260) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nouasseur, Fr. Morocco Source ID: NICAP_DB_1760 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6782 (1293DAF8) Date: 10/13/1954 Description: 7:35 p.m. Three witnesses \(Olivier, Perano, and a third man\) see a reddish disc about 12 feet in diameter near Bourrasol, a suburb of Toulouse, France. A small being about 4 feet tall is standing nearby wearing a diver’s suit. Its head is large, and it has enormous eyes. One witness approaches to within 60–70 feet and is paralyzed. The UFO soon takes off. Definite hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/13oct1954toulouse.htm),” April 24, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2571 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6783 (D29B6C1E) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: Between Saint-Romain-sous-Gourdon and les Brosses-Tillots, Saone-et-Loire department, France Mr. B. saw a circular craft shaped like an upside-down plate just after dark. At the same time, the engine on his motorcycle stalled. After watching for some time, he pushed the motorcycle down the road, where it could be restarted. In the same area an engineer also saw a luminous object coming down rapidly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 259; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3919; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 128 Source ID: Johnson_6831 Source: Johnson ### Event 6784 (2AA1F908) Date: 10/14/1954 Time: nightfall Description: A farmer saw a bright object, which came almost to the ground. When he tried to approach it the object produced an intense "screen of light" and vanished without a noise. Several persons in Angles observed the scene. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Angles, France Source ID: Magnonia_254 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6785 (C8D649FE) Date: 10/14/1954 Time: nightfall Description: A farmer observed an orange sphere land and went near it. He found it was shaped like a flattened dome, 5.5 m in diameter, and gave off a blinding light, which illuminated the countryside for about 200 m. It was transparent, and a dark figure could be seen inside. After remaining at ground level for 10 min it flew north, while a bright cloud slowly fell to the ground at the site. When the witness arrived home he found his clothes covered with a white film of adhesive substance, not unlike paraffin wax. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 62; M 174 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Meral, France Source ID: Magnonia_255 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6786 (52853305) Date: 10/14/1954 Time: nightfall Description: Mr. Lonjarret observed a luminous orange object on the ground near a corn field. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy; M 175 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saint-Germain-du-Bois, France Source ID: Magnonia_256 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6787 (6C351DD0) Date: 10/14/1954 Time: 1930 Description: South of Gueugnon, Messrs. Jeannet and Garnier saw a reddish fireball fly low over their car as their engine and headlights died. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 175) Anatomy 130 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chazey Wood, France Source ID: Magnonia_257 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6788 (86F0927E) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: At 8:10 p.m. on the road between Thieulloy-la-Ville and Beauvais, Somme, France Mr. Covemacker saw an object fly over his car as the headlights died. It went on toward the north, seemingly following a train. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 259 Source ID: Johnson_6832 Source: Johnson ### Event 6789 (0548DFEC) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: At dusk, around 6:00 p.m., a farmer in Angles, Vendee department, France saw a bright object, which came almost to the ground. When he tried to approach it the object produced an intense "screen of light" and vanished without a noise. Several other persons in Angles also observed the scene. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: La Croix, October 16, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 254 Source ID: Johnson_6826 Source: Johnson ### Event 6790 (26CB86ED) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: A farmer was getting ready to leave his home when he saw an orange colored ball arrive and land on the ground not far from him. He approached the object and saw that it was a dome shaped disk with a flat bottom, and it emitted a blinding light which illuminated the field for about 600' around. The craft appeared to be translucent, and a dark shape could be seen silhouetted inside it. For approximately 10 minutes, the farmer watched the thing. Then the color of the object changed from white to red and it took off and disappeared into the north at great speed. After the thing had left, the witness went to the spot where the craft had been and found a sort of luminescent stream that was falling to the ground. He watched for a while and then went home. When he arrived there and took off his jacket, he found that his clothes were covered with a layer of white, somewhat sticky residue, not unlike paraffin, which soon disappeared without leaving any trace. This particular phenomenon is very similar to the substance called angel hair which has been seen streaming from the objects in flight. It usually melts when it comes into contact with heat, and this may be the reason for the fact that the witness in the Meral sighting did not discover any of the stuff on his face or hands. His body heat would have dissipated it as it came into contact with his skin. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Trace Cases](https://www.thenightskyii.org/trace.html) Location: Meral, Mayenne, France Source ID: Magnonia_1 Source: Trace ### Event 6791 (396ED6BF) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: At 6:15 p.m. a municipal employee, Jose Casella, was riding home in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes department, France when he suddenly found in front of him on the road an oval-shaped aluminum object about 5.5 m in diameter, 1 m high. As he applied the brakes, the object took off at very high speed. Sev- eral persons confirmed the sighting. The disk was gray, supported a dome, and emitted a soft whistle. It took off when Casella was only six meters away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paris Presse, October 21, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 253; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 160-161, citing Jimmy Guieu, Black-out sur les Soucoupes Volantes, p. 219 Source ID: Johnson_6825 Source: Johnson ### Event 6792 (9CC831C7) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: A farmer and his wife see a light green object traveling at tremendous speed, possibly 3,000 mph, in Kenya. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [p. 234](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/234/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2574 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6793 (2002C7D5) Date: 10/14/1954 Time: nightfall Description: Mr. B. saw a circular craft shaped like an upside-down plate. At the same time, the engine on his motorcycle stalled. In the same area an engineer saw a luminous object coming down rapidly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Anatomy 130 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saint-Romain, France Source ID: Magnonia_259 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6794 (78A573B4) Date: 10/14/1954 Time: 2010 Description: On the road between Thieulloy-la-Ville and Beauvais, Mr. Covemacker saw an object fly over his car as the headlights died. It went on toward the north, seemingly following a train. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Thieulloy-la-Ville, France Source ID: Magnonia_260 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6795 (0C454C8E) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: At around 7:00 p.m. Messr. Duvivier, a farmer in Meral, Mayenne department, France observed an orange sphere land and he walked out to approach it. When he got close he found it was shaped like a flattened dome, 5.5 meters in diameter, and it gave off a blinding light, which illuminated the countryside for about 200 meters. It was also transparent, and a dark figure could be seen inside. After remaining at ground level for 10 minutes it left by flying to the north, while a bright cloudy misty material fell slowly to the ground at the site. When the witness arrived home he found his clothes were covered with a white film of adhesive substance, not unlike paraffin wax. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: La Croix, October 16, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 174; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 255; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 97; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_6828 Source: Johnson ### Event 6796 (7940204A) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: At 8:50 p.m. an engineer, Mr. G. Mouillon from Genelard, was driving between Ciry-le-Noble and Montceau-les-Mines, Saone-et-Loire, France when he witnessed an enormous luminous object that descended toward the ground without any noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 166 Source ID: Johnson_6833 Source: Johnson ### Event 6797 (D70D2954) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: At 3:30 p.m. in Erchin Wood in Lewarde, Nord department, France Casimir Starovski, a miner, met a strange being of small height and bulky figure with large slanted eyes. Its body was covered with fur. Its nose was flat, and it had thick lips. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 143; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, case # 252; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0301 Source ID: Johnson_6824 Source: Johnson ### Event 6798 (11F569F7) Date: 10/14/1954 Time: nightfall Description: Andre Cognard, coming from Gueugnon, was blinded by a light as a diskshaped object flew low over his car. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Anatomy 130 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chazey Wood, France Source ID: Magnonia_258 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6799 (B8FE7F51) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: Twilight. A witness is riding a moped on the road between Saint-Romain-sous-Gourdon and Les Brosses Tillots, Saône-et-Loire, France. Suddenly his motor fails and, as he gets off the cycle, a bright circular object bursts ahead of him. He walks back with his moped and is able to start it again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight- Line, p. 175; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 14; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/14oct1954saintromainsousgourdon.htm)” September 25, 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_2579 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6800 (4634C8EE) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: 6:20 p.m. André Cognard is driving on the D60 road to the east of Gueugnon, Saône-et-Loire, France, when a brilliant reddish fireball passes near his car to the west at low altitude. It is so bright that he stops his car. Probable meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/14oct1954gueugnon.htm)” April 20, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2578 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6801 (5A75306C) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: 4:15 p.m. Flight Lt. James R. Salandin of the 604th Fighter Squadron is flying a Gloster Meteor Mk.8 out of North Weald Airfield, Essex, England, at 16,000 feet. He sees three objects heading towards him. Two of them \(one gold, one silver\) veer off to his port side, while the third closes to within a few hundred yards before veering to his port side. It is saucer-shaped with “buns” on top and underneath, silvery and metallic, with no portholes or flames. The report is sent to the Air Ministry where it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Gloster ‘Meteor’ Encounters Disc /](http://www.nicap.org/541004essex%5Fdir.htm) [Salandin Case](http://www.nicap.org/541004essex%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Week-end Pilot in Near Collision with Flying Saucer,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CMar-Apr%2CV%201%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 1 \(Spring 1955\): 2; “[The Famous Salandin Sighting,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2030%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 2 \(December 1984\): 13–15; Good Above, [pp. 36–38](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/36/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 154–155](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/154/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[October 14, 1954, North Weald, Essex, UFO](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/salandin54.htm) [Encounters RAF Meteor Jet](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/salandin54.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2577 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6802 (0F2CE3CE) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: 3:30 p.m. Casimir Starovski, a miner, meets a strange figure in Erchin Forest, near Lewarde, Nord, France. It has large, slanted, protruding eyes and a squat, furry body. Its nose is flat, it has thick lips, and it wears a skullcap on its oversized head. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/22oct1954lewarde.htm),” December 21, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_2576 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6803 (759D01DF) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: Flight Lt. Jimmy Salandin took off in his Meteor jet at 4:15pm and climbed up to 16,000 ft. When he was over Southend, England, two circular UFOs shot past him at 9o’clock high. One UFO was silvery and the other gold in color. A third UFO appeared ahead of him on a collision course. It had a bun-shaped top, a flange like two saucers in the center and a bun shaped dome underneath and was silvery in color. It flew close enough to his jet to overlap his windshield. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: North Weald Airfield, Essex, England Source ID: Maj2_543 Source: Maj2 ### Event 6804 (84FB0CE8) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: 12:00 noon. Farmer Antonio Crepaldi is leading his cows to a pond near Ca’ Pisani, Rovigo, Italy, when an egg-shaped object emitting intense heat swoop over his house at an altitude of 50 feet. The cows panic and run away, apparently suffering burns. Some haystacks catch fire. The sighting lats 2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 1Pinotti 59 Source ID: Eberhart_2575 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6805 (DDAFA321) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) hears from an informant that the 4602nd AISS has a “crashed object” program. His contact [Lou](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/index.html) [Corbin](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/index.html) thinks the Air Force already has some recovered material. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 214–215 Source ID: Eberhart_2573 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6806 (2F03FDED) Date: 10/14/1954 Time: 1815 Description: A municipal employee, Jose Casella, was riding home when he suddenly found in front of him on the road an oval-shaped aluminum object about 5.5 m in diameter, 1 m high. As he applied the brakes, the object took off at very high speed. Several persons confirmed the sighting. The disk was gray, supported a dome, and emitted a soft whistle. It took off when Casella was only 6 m away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Biot, France Source ID: Magnonia_253 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6807 (772CA88D) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: At 6:30 p.m. a grocer and his wife, Mr. & Mrs. Vitre, inhabitants of the village of Chevigny-en-Valiere, together with some farmers, watched a fast luminous disc-shaped UFO maneuver and change colors over Rte. D111 in Meursanges, Cote-d'or department, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 173; Aime Michel, A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 211 Source ID: Johnson_6827 Source: Johnson ### Event 6808 (D693B9DA) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: 6:30 a.m. A resident of Shamsabad \[which one?\], Iran, sees a star-like object about 300 feet away from his house. Approaching to 60 feet, he sees a “short young man” who is standing on a circular piece of metal in the middle of the object and glancing around him. The man seems to be “laughing” at the witness. The UFO shoots up into the air and vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 42 Source ID: Eberhart_2572 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6809 (05E21353) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: Several witnesses saw seven small beings flee into a phosphorescent object when they were approached. It took off immediately. It is claimed that "unknown seeds" were found at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saint-Ambroix, France Source ID: Magnonia_250 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6810 (3F08755F) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: At 12:15 a.m. five kilometers north of Nimes, France Mr. & Mrs. Dupuy saw an object shaped like a rugby ball resting on crutch-like landing gear. It was lit by a greenish light and had three portholes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 159-160, citing Le Provencal, October 15, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_6820 Source: Johnson ### Event 6811 (1D584CD6) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: Just after dark, around 7:00 p.m., in Saint-Germain-du-Bois, Saone-et-Loire department, France Mr. Lonjarret observed a luminous circular orange object on the ground near a corn field off of highway D91. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 256, citing Quincy; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_6829 Source: Johnson ### Event 6812 (5C8DD4AB) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: In Chazey Wood, south of Gueugnon, Saone-et- Loire department, France at 7:30 p.m. Messrs. Jeannet and Garnier saw a reddish fireball fly low over their car as their engine and headlights died. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 257).

1954 - Again in Chazey Wood, Saone-et-Loire department, France a short time later, Andre Cognard, who was coming from Gueugnon, was blinded by a light from a luminous disc-shaped object as it flew low over his car. The projected light beam was so bright and blinding that he was forced to stop his car. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 258; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 163-164 Source ID: Johnson_6830 Source: Johnson ### Event 6813 (8496D6D9) Date: 10/14/1954 Time: 0630 Description: A man coming out of his house saw a luminous object resembling a bright star. Coming near, he observed it was an object 5 m long, near which a "short young man" was standing on a circular piece of metal, laughing at the witness's terrified expression. The witness was 20 m away when the craft took off at unbelievable speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Shamsabad, Iran Source ID: Magnonia_251 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6814 (B205A2B9) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: At 3:40 a.m. a brilliant, yellow machine in the shape of a mushroom, two meters in height and four meters in diameter, was seen resting on railroad tracks in Saint-Pierre Halte, France by a baker's assistant from Calais. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 160, citing La Croix, October 16, 1954; Aime Michel, A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 220 Source ID: Johnson_6821 Source: Johnson ### Event 6815 (A2C3581A) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: Several witnesses including one named Chasseurs in Saint-Ambroix, Gard department, France saw seven small beings flee into a phosphorescent object when they were approached. It took off immediately. It is claimed that "unknown seeds" were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 250; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 104 Source ID: Johnson_6822 Source: Johnson ### Event 6816 (C44EA396) Date: 10/14/1954 Time: 1530 Description: In Erchin Wood, Casimir Starovski, a miner, met a strange being of small height and bulky figure with large slanted eyes. Its body was covered with fur. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Anatomy 143; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lewarde, France Source ID: Magnonia_252 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6817 (14C136A8) Date: 10/14/1954 Description: Shamsabad, Iran. At 6:30 a.m. a man coming out of his house saw a luminous object resembling a bright star. When he approached, he observed that it was a 5-meter long object, next to which a "short young man" was standing on a circular piece of metal, laughing at the witness's terrified expression. The witness was 20 meters away when the craft took off at unbelievable speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 251 Source ID: Johnson_6823 Source: Johnson ### Event 6818 (DD8D6DC5) Date: 10/15/1954 Time: 1950 Description: A yellow, cigarshaped object with brilliant portholes, 30 m long, 6 m diameter, was seen on the ground. Figures with helmets covering the head could be seen inside. A sort of haze was observed at both ends of the craft. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Nimes-Courbessac Airfield, France Source ID: Magnonia_266 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6819 (BD4831A2) Date: 10/15/1954 Time: afternoon Description: Farmers saw a disk-shaped object land, then take off vertically. At the site was found a deep crater about 6 m in diameter. Poplar trees were partially burned. Official investigation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 65; M 181 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Po-di-Gnocca, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_265 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6820 (15122A0E) Date: 10/15/1954 Time: 1300 Description: An ovoid object made a pass over a range of trees; two caught fire. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 83 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Luino, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_264 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6821 (E922C332) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: A farmer leading cows to a pond suddenly saw an object fly over his house. The cows panicked and ran away, throwing a girl to the ground, while the object emitted a burst of light. The witness ran to the house and fainted; three other persons saw the craft depart. Dark, surrounded by short blue and yellow flames, the object was egg-shaped, flew 15 m above the ground, and emitted intense heat. The little pond was found desiccated, and haystacks caught fire as it flew over, while the cattle suffered burns. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 67; Plantier 104 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Boaria, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_262 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6822 (603D8C63) Date: 10/15/1954 Time: 0340 Description: A baker saw a brilliant yellow craft descend rapidly and land on the railroad tracks. It was shaped like a mushroom, about 4 m diameter, 2 m high. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 62; M 180 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saint-Pierre-Halte, France Source ID: Magnonia_263 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6823 (F2EF86EE) Date: 10/15/1954 Time: night Description: Truck driver Rene Le Viol saw a flat craft, shaped like an inverted plate, fly very low toward the sea. A second disk followed shortly afterward. Both emitted a red glow. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 69; M 182 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Fouesnant, France Source ID: Magnonia_269 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6824 (C1E032CD) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: Near the swimming pool in Saint-Assiscle, Damien Figueres, 56, was walking with his dogs when a reddish, luminous sphere landed 30 m away and an individual in a diving suit walked around it. The dogs barked at him. He boarded the machine, and it flew away in silence. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 65; Carrouges 120 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Perpignan, France Source ID: Magnonia_261 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6825 (0AEBD778) Date: Mid 10/1954 Description: A merchant and his deliveryman are driving a van northeast of the village of Erquières, Pas-de-Calais, France, when they see a blinding light in front of them. As it passes over the van, the engine stalls and the headlights fail. Both men feel an electric shock. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 204–205; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 19; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/2225oct1954erquieres.htm)” March 12, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_2597 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6826 (135258E4) Date: 10/15/1954 End date: 10/25/1954 Description: Thousands of witnesses in the former Yugoslavia report low-flying UFOs and high-flying cigar-shaped objects, especially around Ljubljana, Slovenia; Sarajevo, Bosnia; and Belgrade, Serbia. Yugoslavia announces on October 27 that it intends to launch an official investigation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 61; Hobana and Weverbergh 90–91 Source ID: Eberhart_2584 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6827 (5ECC6FF5) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: A steelworker in Isbergues, France observed a luminous sphere land in the countryside on this night. After landing it then emitted lights of various colors. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 181; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 268 Source ID: Johnson_6855 Source: Johnson ### Event 6828 (5C1CFD8A) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: On this night Ms. Pat Hennessey ran away when she saw an object land on the road near Chalkwell Park, Southend, England. It had vanished silently when she looked back. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 267).

Starting on this date in 1954 and for the next two nights, fifty objects with illuminated bottoms were seen flying very fast in a V-formation on successive nights over Kingfisher, Oklahoma at around 8:45 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3269; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_6854 Source: Johnson ### Event 6829 (EB779177) Date: 10/15/1954 End date: 10/16/1954 Description: 50 objects with illuminated bottoms were seen flying (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3269) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kingfisher, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1761 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6830 (2F2151C4) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: At 7:50 p.m. at the Courbessac Airfield in Nimes, France a yellow, cigar-shaped object with brilliant portholes, 30 m long, 6 m diameter, was seen on the ground. Figures with helmets covering their heads could be seen inside. A sort of haze was observed at both ends of the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 266 Source ID: Johnson_6853 Source: Johnson ### Event 6831 (78F0C6EE) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: On this afternoon in Po-di-Gnocca, Italy farmers saw a disc-shaped object land, then take off vertically. At the site was found a deep crater about 6 m in diameter. Poplar trees were partially burned. Official investigation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 181; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 265 Source ID: Johnson_6852 Source: Johnson ### Event 6832 (BEF945C0) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: In Luino, Italy an ovoid object made a pass over a range of trees; two of the trees caught fire. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 264 Source ID: Johnson_6851 Source: Johnson ### Event 6833 (6A6A572A) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: In Boaria, Italy a farmer was leading his cows to a pond when he suddenly saw an object fly over his house. The cows panicked and ran away, knocking a girl to the ground, while the object emitted a burst of light. The farmer ran to the house and then fainted. Three other persons saw the craft depart. It was dark in color but surrounded by short blue and yellow flames. It was egg-shaped, flew at 15 meters above the ground, and emitted intense heat. The little pond was found desiccated, and haystacks caught fire as it flew over while the cattle suffered burns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 229-230, case # 262 Source ID: Johnson_6849 Source: Johnson ### Event 6834 (2BFB7CE9) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: Near the community swimming pool in Saint-Assiscle, Perpignan, France Damien Figueres, age 56, was walking with his dogs when a red luminous sphere landed 30 meters away. A humanoid being in a diving suit got out and walked around it. The dogs barked at him. The being then boarded the craft and it flew away in silence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 229, case # 261; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 120 Source ID: Johnson_6848 Source: Johnson ### Event 6835 (CD6A0367) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: St.-Pierre-Halte, France. At 3:40 a.m. a baker saw a brilliant yellow craft descend rapidly and land on some railroad tracks. It was mushroom shaped, about four meters diameter, and two meters high. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 180; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230 Source ID: Johnson_6850 Source: Johnson ### Event 6836 (1F7BC8E5) Date: 10/15/1954 Time: 8:45 PM Description: Oct. 15, 16 and 17, 1954. Fifty objects with illuminated bottoms were seen flying in a V-formation, very fast, on successive nights. Only data is on summary card. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kingfisher, Oklahoma Source ID: BerlinerBBU_371 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 6837 (B3E714F5) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: Early in the morning. A large, luminous, red object streaks across the sky above Hungary. A teacher from Györ-Moson-Sopron county takes two photos of what is an apparent meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 199–201 Source ID: Eberhart_2580 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6838 (C2F18A35) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: Afternoon. Farmers near the Po della Donzella river channel, Veneto, Italy, see a disc-shaped object land then take off vertically. At the site is a deep crater about 18 feet in diameter. Poplar trees are partially burned. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight Line, p. 181 Source ID: Eberhart_2582 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6839 (EC925691) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: Evening. Veterinarian Henri Robert of Londinières in Normandy, France, is driving on route RN 314, near Baillolet, Seine-Maritime, France. He sees four orange objects flying one above the other at 1,000 feet. One floats down like a leaf, landing about 350 feet in front of his car. Robert feels an electric shock and his engine dies for 20 seconds and the object disappears. Robert continues driving. As he is going through the village of Bailleul- Neuville, he sees in his headlights a four-foot-tall bluish-gray figure with arms and legs spread. His headlights go off then on again. He then sees on his left a 27-foot-long cigar-shaped object at the edge of a slope. It takes off vertically and quickly moves toward the north. Possible hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 184–185; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 15–16; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/15oct1954londiniere.htm)” April 7, 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_2583 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6840 (37C9FC80) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: In Boaria Pisani, Padua, Italy, a farmer is leading his cows to a pond when he sees an object fly over his house. The cows panic and run away, knocking a girl to the ground, while the object emits a burst of light. The farmer runs to the house and then faints. Three other persons see the craft depart. It is dark in color but surrounded by short blue and yellow flames. The object is egg-shaped, flies at 50 feet above the ground, and emits intense heat. The little pond is found desiccated, and haystacks catch fire as it flies over while the cattle suffers burns. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 229–230](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/228/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2581 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6841 (F86A6AF5) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a fireball was seen by two witnesses driving in a car as it zig-zagged over the N68 highway between Niffer and Kembs, France

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. It headed off to the southeast toward the Rhine River. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182 Source ID: Johnson_6858 Source: Johnson ### Event 6842 (718D96B9) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped object landed in Saint Privat, Vallongue, Lozere department, France. It took off vertically making a whistle sound and blazing red in color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 107 Source ID: Johnson_6857 Source: Johnson ### Event 6843 (628BDFC6) Date: 10/15/1954 Description: While driving at night in Fouesnant, France truck driver Rene Le Viol saw a flat craft, -shaped like an inverted plate, fly very low toward the sea. A second disc followed shortly afterward. Both emitted a red glow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 269 Source ID: Johnson_6856 Source: Johnson ### Event 6844 (367FE12E) Date: 10/15/1954 Time: night Description: A steelworker observed a luminous sphere land in the countryside; it then emitted lights of various colors. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 54, 68; M 181 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Isbergues, France Source ID: Magnonia_268 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6845 (DF3DACAD) Date: 10/15/1954 Time: night Description: Pat Hennessey ran away when she saw an object land on the road near Chalkwell Park. It had vanished silently when she looked back. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 182; Humanoids 4; FSR 62, 12 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Southend, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_267 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6846 (7FB6CB05) Date: 10/16/1954 Description: Two objects were seen, one of which made a pass at treetop level. It top-shaped, and a small, gesticulating human figure was seen under it. The witness was a bus driver, Mr. De Rossi. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 84 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Quasso, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_270 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6847 (72B2AAA7) Date: 10/16/1954 Description: Approximate date. An object landed about 30 m away from a woman, who fainted. The witness suffered from a skin disease following the incident. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Challenge 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Thin le Moutiers, France Source ID: Magnonia_271 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6848 (34B90B85) Date: 10/16/1954 Description: Guy Puyfourcat, 22, who was coming back from the fields, leading a mare by the bridle, was surprised when the animal became restless. Rising from the side of the road, a gray object about 1.5 m in diameter flew over them. The mare rose about 3 m in the air, and the witness had to release the bridle. Then the animal fell like a mass and for 10 min was unable to move. At last, it rose and attempted to walk, but it was still trembling and stumbling with fear. The object had long since flown away at high speed. The witness himself had felt absolutely nothing. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cier-de-Riviere, France Source ID: Magnonia_272 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6849 (574ED305) Date: 10/16/1954 Time: 1730 Description: Mr. Bachelard was driving a light truck on road D52-E between Chanat and Couhay when suddenly the engine seemed to slow down and he felt "paralyzed." He then saw in a field near the road a brown object about 10 m long, 2.5 m high. Silent, it gave off no light and showed no opening. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 70;M 198 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mazaye, France Source ID: Magnonia_273 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6850 (424E8BC7) Date: 10/16/1954 Time: 2145 Description: Messrs. Deschamp and Laclotre saw a craft, about 20 m diameter, 2 m high, come within 4 m of the ground for 3 or 4 min. It gave off a yellowish light and a glow extended for 4 m around. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Dompierre, France Source ID: Magnonia_275 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6851 (A6ABE8C7) Date: 10/16/1954 Time: 2400 Description: Several people saw a landed object in a meadow. It appeared phosphorescent and of large size. It took off very suddenly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 83 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Siena, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_276 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6852 (AF501629) Date: 10/16/1954 Description: 4 UFOs at low altitude ahead of car. One descended toward road; driver felt shock, numbness, car motor, headlights failed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Banlolet, Seine-Infeneure, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1762 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6853 (D95CBC39) Date: 10/16/1954 Time: nightfall Description: Dr. Robert, while driving through this village, saw four objects, at about 300 m altitude, flying slowly in echelon formation. Suddenly one of them dropped to the ground with a dead-leaf motion, 100 m away. The witness felt an electric shock as engine and headlights died, and the car stopped when the object touched the ground. Incapable of moving, Dr. Robert saw a figure about 1.2 m tall moving in the light of the object, then all went dark. Some time later the headlights resumed operation by themselves, and Dr. Robert saw the craft take off toward the north. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 71; M 185 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Baillolet, France Source ID: Magnonia_274 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6854 (16C1D7E0) Date: 10/16/1954 Description: At 5:30 p.m. in Mazaye, France Mr. Bachelard was driving a light truck on road D52E between Chanat and Couhay when suddenly the engine seemed to slow down and he felt "paralyzed. " He then saw in a field near the road a brown object about 10 m long, 2. 5 m high. Silent, it gave off no light and showed no opening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 198; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 231 Source ID: Johnson_6888 Source: Johnson ### Event 6855 (E899B0C7) Date: 10/16/1954 Description: In Cier-de-Riviere, France Guy Puyfourcat, age 22, was coming back from the fields leading a mare by her halter when the horse surprised him by suddenly becoming restless and jumpy. Rising from the side of the road, a gray object about 1.5 meters in diameter flew over them. The mare rose about three meters into the air and the witness had to release her. Then the animal fell to the ground like a mass and for 10 minutes was unable to move. At last, it got up and attempted to walk, but it was still trembling and stumbling with fear. The object had long since flown away at high speed. The witness himself had felt absolutely nothing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 231 Source ID: Johnson_6887 Source: Johnson ### Event 6856 (044BBB79) Date: 10/16/1954 Description: Two objects were seen in Quasso, Italy one of which made a pass at treetop level. It was top-shaped, and a small, gesticulating human figure was seen under it. The witness was a bus driver, Mr. De Rossi. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 270, citing Il Tiempo, October 17, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_6891 Source: Johnson ### Event 6857 (2AA4DA20) Date: 10/16/1954 Description: On or about this date a UFO landed in Thin le Moutiers, France only thirty meters away from a woman, who promptly fainted. Following the incident the witness suffered from a skin condition that she linked to the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: the UFO Enigma, p. 53; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 231 Source ID: Johnson_6886 Source: Johnson ### Event 6858 (D424E061) Date: 10/16/1954 Description: Messrs. Deschamp and Laclotre saw a craft, about 20 meters in diameter and two meters tall come within four meters of the ground in Dompierre, France. The object stayed near the ground for 3-4 minutes. It gave off a yellowish light and a glow extended around it for an estimated distance of four meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232 Source ID: Johnson_6890 Source: Johnson ### Event 6859 (8E92CFC0) Date: 10/16/1954 Description: At midnight several people saw a landed object in a meadow in Siena, Italy. It appeared phosphorescent and to be large in size. It took off very suddenly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, citing Il Tiempo, October 16, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_6892 Source: Johnson ### Event 6860 (0C89FDAD) Date: 10/16/1954 Description: Dr. Robert, driving through Baillolet, France at nightfall, saw four objects flying slowly in echelon formation at about 300 meters altitude. One of UFOs dropped abruptly to the ground with a falling leaf motion, landing only 100 meters away. The witness felt an electric shock as the engine and headlights of his car died, and his car stopped the moment the object touched the ground. Incapable of moving, Dr. Robert watched as a figure about 1.2 meters (4 feet) tall moved around in the light of the object, then all went dark. Some time later the headlights came back on by themselves, and Dr. Robert saw the craft take off toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 185; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 231-232 Source ID: Johnson_6889 Source: Johnson ### Event 6861 (B946B4F0) Date: 10/17/1954 Description: Around 9:30 a.m. Guy Puyfourcat is returning from the fields near Cier-de-Rivière, Haute-Garonne, France, with his mare on a halter. The horse suddenly becomes restless and jumpy. A gray object about 4 feet in diameter rises from one side of the road and passes over them. The mare rises about 9 feet into the air and Puyfourcat releases her, and the animal falls to the ground and is unable to move for 10 minutes. The UFO moves away at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/17oct1954cier.htm)” October 16, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_2585 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6862 (5854ABAF) Date: 10/17/1954 Description: At 8:30 p.m. in Varigney, Haute-Saone department, France several witnesses, among them policeman Beuclair, saw a bright red dome-shaped object descend to ground level 20 meters away. The underside displayed red and white lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 188; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 280; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 56 Source ID: Johnson_6917 Source: Johnson ### Event 6863 (A8A8FFB1) Date: 10/17/1954 Description: At 8:30 p.m. three witnesses in Dole Gray, Jura department, France reported watching a luminous object maneuver in the sky, changing colors for ten minutes. Each color lasted several minutes. It finally shot away at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 187 Source ID: Johnson_6916 Source: Johnson ### Event 6864 (34C4B9DE) Date: 10/17/1954 Description: A man was returning from fishing along the canal at Reims, Marne, France in the earlty evening when he saw a brightly lit cigar-shaped object resting on the grass near the canal. As he approached he saw it was about 26 feet long and 7 feet high. From one end came “phosphorescent” lights, which reflected on the metallic hull of the object. A door appeared from which emerged three hairy dwarves, about 3 feet 9 inches tall, walking “crab-wise,” or sideways. Then an even smaller being, a little more than a meter tall appeared, whose lower legs appeared transparent. The witness tried to get closer, but the beings rushed back inside the object at surprising speed. Just then the witness was paralyzed by a red beam of light coming from a porthole in the craft, which turned yellow. The object took off and flew rapidly towards Tinquex. The witness was then able to recover his freedom of movement. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-31 (A0340); Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 206 Source ID: Johnson_6915 Source: Johnson ### Event 6865 (D4EEF192) Date: 10/17/1954 Description: In Cabasson, France a 65-year-old man was hunting with his dog at 2:30 p.m. near the junction of the Brillance Canal and the Durance River. He saw a gray object, about four meters long and one meter high on the ground and 40 meters away. It had a dome from which two helmeted figures emerged. The witness fled, but his dog started toward the object. The dog soon retreated, walking awkwardly as if partially paralyzed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 279; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0310 Source ID: Johnson_6914 Source: Johnson ### Event 6866 (6D11685C) Date: 10/17/1954 Description: Manuel Madeira saw a landed object while out hunting in O Alvito, Portugal. It took off and flew away as he approached it, rose quickly into the sky, and was lost to sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 278 Source ID: Johnson_6913 Source: Johnson ### Event 6867 (628CB337) Date: 10/17/1954 Time: night Description: On Capri, an artist Raffael Castelle, saw a disk 5 m in diameter land on the property of Curzio Malaparte. Upon approaching it, he discovered it was not a helicopter and saw four dwarfs wearing coveralIs emerge from it. After 30 min the craft made a soft whirring sound and rose vertically, leaving blue sparks. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 72 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cape Massulo, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_281 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6868 (58A49A26) Date: 10/17/1954 Description: Leon B., a city councilor in St-Cyr-sur-Mer, France saw a circular, orange craft take off from the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232 Source ID: Johnson_6912 Source: Johnson ### Event 6869 (E9FED8BD) Date: 10/17/1954 Description: At 10:00 p.m. several people in the town of Ascoli Pisceno, Marche, Italy witnessed an umbrella-shaped disc that slowed down, then shot straight up vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, citing Voce Adriatic Source ID: Johnson_6920 Source: Johnson ### Event 6870 (7EEB9E9F) Date: 10/17/1954 Time: 2030 Description: Several witnesses, among them Mr. Beuclair a policeman, saw a bright red domeshaped object descend to ground level 20 m away. The underside showed red and white lights. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 188 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Varigney, France Source ID: Magnonia_280 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6871 (4D48EBA5) Date: 10/17/1954 Time: 2030 Description: A 65-year-old man was hunting with his dog, near the junction of the Brillance Canal and the Durance River, when he saw a gray object, about 4 m long and 1 m high on the ground and 40 m away. It showed a dome from which two helmeted figures emerged. The witness fled, but his dog started toward the object. The dog soon retreated, walking awkwardly as if partialIy paralyzed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cabasson, France Source ID: Magnonia_279 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6872 (FADEEAA7) Date: 10/17/1954 Description: Cape Massulo, Italy. On the Isle of Capri an artist, Raffael Castelle, saw a disc five meters in diameter land on the property of Curzio Malaparte on this night. Upon approaching it he discovered it was not a helicopter as he first thought, and he saw four dwarfs wearing coveralls emerge from it. After 30 minutes the craft made a soft whirring sound and rose vertically, leaving blue sparks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: France Soir, October 20, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232-233, case # 281; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-103 (A0311) Source ID: Johnson_6919 Source: Johnson ### Event 6873 (0CDBAB22) Date: 10/17/1954 Description: At 7:20 p.m. a luminous orb descended over Naples, Italy. It stopped and hovered just five meters above the ground. It rose again, then flew away to the north, generating a great deal of national excitement and press coverage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3977 Source ID: Johnson_6918 Source: Johnson ### Event 6874 (4A1BC605) Date: 10/17/1954 Description: A hunter, Manuel Madeira, saw an object, which flew away as he approached it, rose in the sky, and was lost to sight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: O Alvito, Portugal Source ID: Magnonia_278 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6875 (8048F61D) Date: 10/17/1954 Description: Leon B., a city council member, saw a circular, orange craft take off from the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, France Source ID: Magnonia_277 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6876 (244CE63F) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: 5:30 p.m. A M. Bachelard is driving a light truck southeast of Gelles, Puy-de-Dôme, France. As he goes around a bend, he feels paralyzed and his truck slows down to less than 20 mph. In a nearby field he sees an elongated object about 5 feet high. A few minutes later he reaches the village of Coheix, which is off his normal route, and starts telling people about the event. Later ufologists suspect there may be some missing time involved. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 198; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 16–17; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/18oct1954chambois.htm)” March 20, 2003; “[The Landing at Gelles,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201971%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 5 \(June 1971\): iii Source ID: Eberhart_2586 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6877 (DF9FFB93) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: J. Augard and J. Chanzotte saw an oval object with a dome, emitting a bright white light, resting in a field. When they approached it, the object rose vertically, leaving a reddish trail, and flew to the northeast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 70; M 198 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cisternes-la-Foret, France Source ID: Magnonia_282 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6878 (5586A3DF) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: 6:00 p.m. Two farmers near Saint-Cirgues, Haute-Loire, France, watch two bright balls connected by a rod for 15 minutes. They disappear at a fast pace. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/18oct1954saintcirgues.htm)” December 21, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2587 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6879 (842A3276) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: 9:00 p.m. M. and Mme. Labussière are driving on the N150 southwest of Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France, when they see a balance-shaped object in the sky. One side is red and the other orange, while the rod connecting them is a luminous green. The object pauses above a field near their car, which they pull over to watch more closely. The green rod soon dissipates, and the two balls settle in the field. In the dim light emitted by the objects, the Labussières see a small creature emerge from each, walk toward each other, pass without stopping, and enter the other object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/18oct1954saintes.htm)” December 29, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2588 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6880 (0EAE1C4C) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: At 10:45 p.m. Miss Marie Louise Bourriot saw a bright red light on Route N437 near an old factory in St.-Point Lake, Le Vezenay, Doubs, France. She was on a motorbike and saw that the luminous object was over the road. Next to it stood a man of normal stature in a trenchcoat. He was motionless, and he was joined by two dwarves who crossed the road ahead of her. She had to swerve to avoid hitting them.The craft took off, flying over the lake at a high speed. Small footprints were later found at the site. Jean-Luc Rivera thinks that woman was witnessing an abduction taking place, and that the man in trenchcoat was an abductee, and not one of the UFO occupants. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 97; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 197; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 233-234; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-106 (A0314); J. Tyrode, FSR Case Histories, October 1970, p. 16; Jerome Clark, Anomalist, April 2000, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_6955 Source: Johnson ### Event 6881 (B0BAB2EA) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: At 8:45 p.m. three witnesses observed a cylinder or rocket shaped device with several illuminated portholes following a complex trajectory along a river in Formerie, Oise department, France. The craft then landed close to the witnesses and several humanoids described as about 1.50 meters in height, with dark skin and wearing metallic helmets and metallic garments, exited the craft. As the witnesses watched stupefied, they suddenly experienced headaches and memory loss. Apparently they did not see the object and its occupants depart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Claude Poher, GEPA “Statistics from 735 UFO observations” Source ID: Johnson_6953 Source: Johnson ### Event 6882 (04F5C1FB) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: At Pont l’Abbe d’Arnoult, Charente-Maritime, France Mr. Meunier, a construction supervisor, was terrified by a strange craft, which rose vertically from the ground. He said he had never been so afraid, even during the war. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 196; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233, case 283 Source ID: Johnson_6949 Source: Johnson ### Event 6883 (B8D5DAA0) Date: 10/18/1954 Time: 2245 Description: Miss Bourriot saw a bright red light on Route N437 near the old factory. Near it were three beings: two, dwarfs, crossed the road ahead of her; the third was a man of medium size. The craft took off, flying over the lake at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy; M 197; LDLN 97; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saint-Point Lake, France Source ID: Magnonia_286 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6884 (6627C2F3) Date: 10/18/1954 Time: 2100 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Labassiere and other witnesses saw two disks in the sky, one orange and the other red, with a sort of luminous "bridge" between them. They landed, and one dwarf came out of each craft and went into the other without any sign. After this exchange of pilots both objects flew away with a tremendous flash. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 74 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Royan, France Source ID: Magnonia_285 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6885 (F172C380) Date: 10/18/1954 Time: 2040 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Lherminier saw a cigar-shaped red object dive toward them with a reddish trail and land near the road. Upon reaching the top of the hill, they were confronted with a bulky human figure, about 1 m tall. The creature wore a helmet and his eyes were glowing with an orange light. One witness fainted on the spot. Four others saw the object in flight from separate locations. The countryside was illuminated over 2 or 3 km. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Fontenay-Torcy, France Source ID: Magnonia_284 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6886 (80962057) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: Sometime before midnight 15-year-old Albert Geraud was on his bicycle on route D216 between Andigne and Saint-Martin du Bois, France when he saw a light that turned from green to red. It descended in a jerky motion and landed on the road, revealing a saucer-shaped object giving off a red gleam on the ground. The panicked witness felt like his legs were paralyzed. Inside the object he could see a small being covered with hair, that stared at him with large eyes. Abruptly the object lifted off, emitting a strong gush of wind toward the teenager, and it zipped away in the direction of Lyon. After the incident the witness had to lie prostrate in bed for several days. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 182-183, citing Ouest France, October 20, 1954; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 2435, citing Figuet & Ruchon Source ID: Johnson_6956 Source: Johnson ### Event 6887 (2EAB3B34) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: At just before midnight salesman Renzo Pugina, age 37, was parking his car in Erba, Como, Italy after returning home from seeing a movie. Pugina noticed a soft glow in the park of the villa, but he attributed this to the moon. After he had climbed a half-flight of stairs connecting the lane to the villa, he observed a strange figure at the top of the steps, near to a tree. The creature was 1.3 meters tall, and facing to the right. The creature was surrounded by a soft, warm light and appeared to be wearing armor. It wore a helmet with a transparent visor, and it seemed most of the light emitted by the creature was concentrated at the top of its head. Its upper body was covered in slightly luminous overalls comprised of metallic scales while the lower part was contained by a large “pipe” 50 cm high and 20 centimeters wide (no legs were visible). A much smaller pipe 1.5 meters in length was attached horizontally to the first one, just centimeters above the ground. Near the end of this pipe was a luminous disc “as large as a bicycle wheel.” Its upper part was dome-shaped and orientated horizontally over the pipe, but there was no contact between the two elements. Pugina continued to climb the steps, but after a few seconds, the creature rotated his trunk towards him. He also slowly rotated his head, as if manipulated by a mechanism. The creature held a flashlight type device in its right hand, and it was directed at the witness, who instantly felt paralyzed when struck by a beam of light. He remained unable to move for some time. Pugina noticed that the outer features of the creature’s face were rather normal yet striking, featuring almost no forehead and eyes that were almond-shaped. Its face was olive in shade “as if it had been splashed with motor oil.” Once Pugina was able to grasp a bunch of keys in his hand he regained control of his body . Pugina took a few more steps forward, pronouncing in Italian the word “Marte!” (Mars!). He did this because he thought the being was a Martian, and in order to tell him not to leave. The creature appeared to grimace, and when Pugina advanced another step the creature alighted one meter off the ground and flew away along the villa lane, maintaining a flight path below the tree branches. The flight produced a soft buzzing noise. Pugina ran after him, but the creature disappeared around a curve. The entire sighting lasted but a few minutes. His wife was at home asleep but she woke up when Pugina made a hasty entrance. She saw he was in shock and could not speak, and was shivering. Pugina’s wife said that her husband shivered the rest of the night. The press reported that Pugina remained in bed for two days after his encounter. Some form of trace material was found on the gravel lane of the villa the following day. It was odorless, dry and greaseless. A couple of days later this trace area had greatly expanded. The local Carabinieri claimed that Pugina was a “normal” individual not known to drink or to suffer from psychological problems. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Maurizio Verga, When Saucers Came to Earth Source ID: Johnson_6957 Source: Johnson ### Event 6888 (27EF6AF5) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: Mrs. Paquet was tending her cows in a field in Moutier-Rozeille, Creuse, France at around ten o'clock in the morning when she suddenly heard a peculiar sounding language which she could not understand. The conversation came from a nearby heather field. Then two men approached to within 50 meters of Mrs. Paquet. One of them turned towards the mill of Mr. Blanchon, emitting a yell and making gestures. Two more men next showed up, and walked in the direction of the Rozeille River, where they then joined the first two and all four vanished. Fiteen minutes later Mrs. Paquet's dog began to bark furiously, and she see a silent dark cigar-shaped object rise into the air and disappear towards the southwest. The men were approximately 1.80 meters in height and wore dark blue combinations suits. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 184-185, citing La Montagne, October 27, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_6947 Source: Johnson ### Event 6889 (E9E81400) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: Cisternes-la-Foret, Puy-de-Dome, France. Messrs. J. Augard and J. Chanzotte saw an oval object with a dome, emitting a bright white light and resting in a field. When they approached it the object rose vertically, leaving a reddish trail, and flew off toward the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 198; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233 Source ID: Johnson_6948 Source: Johnson ### Event 6890 (C733C1CE) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: Mr. Meunier, a construction supervisor, was terrified by a strange craft, which rose vertically from the ground. He said he had never been so afraid, even during the war. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 73; M 196 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pont l'Abbe d'Arnoult, France Source ID: Magnonia_283 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6891 (7EB32AAE) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: In Royan, Charente-Maritime, France Mr. and Mrs. Labassiere and other witnesses saw two discs in the sky at 9:00 p.m, one orange and the other red, with a sort of luminous "bridge" between them. They landed, and one dwarf came out of each craft and went into the other without any sign. After this exchange of pilots both objects flew away with a tremendous flash. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 193; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233, case 285 Source ID: Johnson_6954 Source: Johnson ### Event 6892 (B708211F) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: Fontenay-Torey, Oise, France. At 8:40 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Lherminier saw a red, cigar-shaped object dive toward them with a reddish trail and land near the road. Upon reaching the top of the hill, they were confronted by a bulky human figure about one meter (3.3 feet) tall. The creature wore a helmet and his eyes were glowing with an orange light. One witness fainted on the spot. Four others saw the object in flight from separate locations. The countryside was illuminated over 2 or 3 kilometers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-104 Source ID: Johnson_6952 Source: Johnson ### Event 6893 (BEB3C447) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: An anonymous schoolboy returning from his evening studies in Louvigne-Du-Desert, Ille-Et-Vilaine, France was approaching the hamlet of Salmoniere when he suddenly saw a small being with an odd face, which frightened him enormously. The creature entered a machine that was lying in a ditch, and then the machine rose up in the air at a tremendous rate of speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste Source ID: Johnson_6951 Source: Johnson ### Event 6894 (EACABD56) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: Driving a van four miles from Coheix, Puy-de-Dome, France Mr. Bachelard, age 42, was going around a bend in the road at 5:30 p.m. when he felt half paralyzed and his van's motor began missing and slowed to 20 mph. He then saw hovering in a nearby field a motionless, silent elongated or flattened object 30 feet long. A police investigation was conducted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 198; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_6950 Source: Johnson ### Event 6895 (0B47C6BE) Date: 10/18/1954 Description: Driver of light truck felt half paralyzed, motor began missing; dark elongated object seen in nearby field (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coheix, Puy-De-Dorne, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1763 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6896 (E5D5CE41) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: On this day two French Air Force jets chased a white disc-shaped object with colored lights over Avignon, Vaucluse, France.The flying disc easily outpaced them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, November 1954, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: October, p. 67 Source ID: Johnson_6967 Source: Johnson ### Event 6897 (CE0C61F4) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: At 9:10 a.m. a silent aluminum colored cigar-shaped object flew to the southeast over Taza, Tetouan, Morocco, then curved its trajectory to the east, becoming spherical. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4005, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #228 Source ID: Johnson_6966 Source: Johnson ### Event 6898 (2DCAFCD3) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: 8:00 p.m. A M. Fillonneau is driving in Criteuil-la-Madeleine, Charente, France, when he sees a bright fireball. His headlights go out and the engine stops, and he finds that his battery is completely dead and the headlight bulbs burned out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/19oct1954criteuil.htm)” February 5, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_2589 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6899 (320538CD) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Renzo Pugina has just put his car in his garage at Parravicino, Como, Italy, when he sees a humanoid about 4 feet 3 inches tall in a scaly, luminous suit standing near a tree. The lower part of its body is like a cone. It aims a light beam at Pugina that paralyzes him briefly. He only manages to move some fingers, but with some concentration makes a clenching motion with his fist on the garage keys that he holds in his hand. Freed from the temporary paralysis, he runs to attack the intruder, who flees with a soft whirring sound. A police investigation finds a spot of oil at the location. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 235–236](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/234/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf), The Author, 1991, p. 74; 1Pinotti 60 Source ID: Eberhart_2590 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6900 (5ED7EA4C) Date: 10/19/1954 Time: 1920 Description: Filippo Corridoni saw a half-empty balloon at ground level near the Isonzo River. Near it, a disk 10 m in diameter was resting on a strange frame. The upper part was white with a black domelike turret, around which was a series of portholes, some illuminated with a very bright, bluish-white light, which suddenly went out as the object took off spinning and rising vertically, pulling the balloon with it. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 86 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Gorizia, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_288 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6901 (E00CD49B) Date: 10/19/1954 Time: 2230 Description: Two men saw a disk-shaped object, 6 m diameter, hovering and emitting small violet flashes. On top of it was a very high antenna. Two small robotlike beings, 1.2 m tall, descended from it on a long ladder. Their eyes were "sharp" and dark red. They said something that sounded like "Dbano da skigyay o dbano," went back aboard their craft, and flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 87 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Fabriano, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_289 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6902 (96FC4361) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: Bruno Senesi saw two shining objects emitting smoke land in a field. Out of them came small, red, monstrous beings who chased him. In a state of great excitement Senesi was brought to a hospital, where he tried to hide under a bed, screaming and trembling in terror. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 85 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Livorno, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_287 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6903 (BF6EB0A2) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: At 11:50 p.m. a disc or orb-shaped object was seen at ground level in some woods in Laqueuille, Puy-de-Dome, France. It was seen by two witnesses from a truck, and reportedly had an 'arc-welder' glare. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 115 Source ID: Johnson_6977 Source: Johnson ### Event 6904 (E79E55FF) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: At 10:30 p.m. in Fabriano, Marche, Italy two men, satirist Paolo Cutizi and writer Guilio Emery, were in a local park when they saw a disc-shaped object, six meters in diameter, hovering and emitting small violet flashes. On top of the object was a very tall antenna. Two small robot-like beings, 1.2 meters or four feet tall, descended from it on a long ladder. Their eyes were dark red and "sharp." They spoke something that sounded like "Dbanoda skigyay o dbano," then went back aboard their craft and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 289, citing Il Messagero, October 24, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_6976 Source: Johnson ### Event 6905 (3B9F330D) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: At 9:00 p.m. several UFOs flew over Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files; Jacques Vallee citing Jimmy Guieu and Aime Michel Source ID: Johnson_6975 Source: Johnson ### Event 6906 (DE6ED8A3) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: Also at 8:45 p.m. near St. Samson-La-Poterie, France 25-year-old Andre Vasseur and his wife were returning home on their tandem bicycle and were approaching the descent that precedes Hericourt-St. Samson when their attention was drawn to a hovering red cigar shape gleaming in the sky. The shiny cigar-shaped object plunged abruptly towards the ground at a terrific clip, leaving behind a red trail and disappearing behind a hedge a few hundred meters from the road. When the young couple arrived at the top of the hill, Mrs. Vasseur cried about when she was confronted by a strange being on the edge of the road, just inches from her handlebars. The figure was of human shape, but squat, and his head was capped with a helmet that came down to the shoulders. The strange being stood staring fixedly at her, and a pencil beam of orange light came from his eyes, which followed the woman. His wife lost consciousness and fell into her husband's arms, but Andre continued on with his wife. When he turned around to look back the being had still not moved. They both suffered from insomnia after the incident. Police reportedly found mysterious footprints at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing LDLN Source ID: Johnson_6974 Source: Johnson ### Event 6907 (41C87109) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: At 8:45 p.m a flaming object buzzed a truck driving in St. Didier-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France causing the engine and headlights to die. They functioned again after the object departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 115 Source ID: Johnson_6973 Source: Johnson ### Event 6908 (A203C99E) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: At 7:20 p.m. Filippo Corridoni saw what he thought was a half empty balloon at ground level near the Isonzo River in Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. Near it, a ten-meter wide disc-shaped object was resting on a strange frame. The upper part of the disc was white with a black dome, around which was a series of portholes. Some of the portholes gave off a very bright, bluish-white light that suddenly went out as the object took off. The disc rose vertically while spinning and pulling the balloon with it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 288, citing Il Messagero, October 21, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_6972 Source: Johnson ### Event 6909 (4F310AD5) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: At 7:00 p.m. a disc-shaped object landed in a field in St. Avold, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. Trees were scorched and the ground was plowed up at the landing site. Figures may have been seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 116 Source ID: Johnson_6971 Source: Johnson ### Event 6910 (F835CF29) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: A 14-year-old girl in Montlandon, France reported seeing a strange disc-shaped object descend and land in a field next to some woods. A man dressed in a sort of white cassock or smock was seen briefly onboard the object. The craft immediately took off again and disappeared from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Raoul Robe, Regional Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_6970 Source: Johnson ### Event 6911 (DA37F773) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: Bruno Senesi saw two shining objects emitting smoke land in a field in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. Out of the craft came several small, monstrous red beings that chased after him. Mr. Senesi was brought to a hospital in a state of great distress , where he tried to hide under a bed while screaming and trembling in terror. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 287, citing Il Messagero, October 20, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_6969 Source: Johnson ### Event 6912 (356CADE8) Date: 10/19/1954 Description: At noon 70 people in the city of Amiens, Somme, France saw a fiery object spinning high in sky, shooting out green beams of light. Also, at the same time in Montandon, Haute-Marne, France a teenager saw a saucer-shaped object land by some woods near a pasture. A man wearing a white spacesuit exited the craft. His report was investigated by the police. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues # 321 & 260 Source ID: Johnson_6968 Source: Johnson ### Event 6913 (3F25FF13) Date: 10/20/1954 Time: night Description: Renzo Pugina, 37, bad just put his car in the garage when he saw a strange being covered with a "scaly" luminous suit, about 1.3 m tall, standing near a tree. The creature aimed the beam from a sort of flashlight at him, and he felt paralyzed, until a motion he made when clenching his fist on the garage keys seemed to free him. He attacked the intruder, who rose and fled with a soft whirring sound. An oily spot was found at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 77;Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Panavicino d'Erba, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_295 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6914 (43CE88B3) Date: 10/20/1954 Time: 1830 Description: Mr. Schoubrenner, 25, a truck driver, saw a bright light in the distance and soon found his road blocked by a strange object. The engine died, and he felt paralyzed: "My hands were as though glued to the wheel." The craft looked like an inverted cone, the lower part phosphorescent, the middle dull, the top luminous with a yellow or orange point. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 76; M 204 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Turquenstein, France Source ID: Magnonia_294 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6915 (63B04BB2) Date: 10/20/1954 Description: 9:15 p.m. Jean Lalle \(or Jean Lasse\) is riding a motorcycle between Biozat, Alliers, and Effiat, Puy-de- Dome, France, when his engine dies suddenly. He sees an egg-shaped object with a bright trail climbing in the sky. The motorcycle restarts once the object has left. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/20oct1954effiat.htm)” December 21, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_2592 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6916 (3C3BD7C3) Date: 10/20/1954 Description: On or about this date, in Binghamton, New York a Mr. White reported that he met two humanoids dressed in metallic snowsuits on the golf course. They spoke English with a peculiar accent, and said they would intervene in the event of a nuclear war. The UFO they arrived in was round, disc-shaped with a glass ring on the rim. Ground traces included burnt soil in a circle 14 feet in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files Source ID: Johnson_6996 Source: Johnson ### Event 6917 (E97D6B72) Date: 10/20/1954 Description: 6:30 p.m. Jean Schonbrenner is driving a truck southbound near Turquestein-Blancrupt, Moselle, France, when he sees a bright glow ahead on route N393. He continues to drive but feels paralyzed, his hands glued to the wheel. At about 30 feet away, his engine stops and the yellow-orange glow rises slowly and heads northwest. He feels a sensation of warmth and sees that the glow contains a cone-shaped object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 203; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 17–18; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/20oct1954turquestein.htm)” April 21, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2591 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6918 (D678A09B) Date: 10/20/1954 Description: During a rainstorm on this late afternoon in the Lusigny Forest in Aube department, France Roger Reveille saw an oval flying object close to the ground. It was six meters long and hovered at treetop level. He felt intense heat coming from it. It shot up vertically at great speed. Inside the woods the heat had become intolerable and a cloud of dense smoke had formed under the rain. After 15 minutes the witness was able to approach the site, and he found the trees, grass, and ground perfectly dry. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 204; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 292 Source ID: Johnson_6997 Source: Johnson ### Event 6919 (0F2441B5) Date: 10/20/1954 Description: On this evening Mr. Renzo Pugina, age 37, had just parked his car in the garage at his residence in Parravicino d'Erba, Italy when he saw a strange being wearing a "scaly" luminous suit. It stood near a tree and was about 1.3 meters (4.3 feet) tall. The entity had what looked like a flashlight, and aimed a beam of light from it at him. He felt paralyzed and was unable to move until he made a clenching motion with his fist on the garage keys that he held in his hand. Freed from the temporary paralysis he ran to attack the intruder, who fled with a soft whirring sound. An oily spot was found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 235-236, case 295 Source ID: Johnson_7000 Source: Johnson ### Event 6920 (A371A0A8) Date: 10/20/1954 Description: In Turquenstein, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Schoubrenner, a 25-year-old truck driver, saw a bright light in the distance and soon found his road blocked by a strange object. The engine died, and he felt paralyzed: "My hands were as though glued to the wheel." He also felt a sensation of heat inside his vehicle. The craft looked like an inverted cone, the lower part phosphorescent, the middle dull, and the top luminous with a yellow or orange point. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, pp. 203-204; Flying Saucers, September 1962, p. 34; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 294 Source ID: Johnson_6999 Source: Johnson ### Event 6921 (D023E551) Date: 10/20/1954 Description: At 2:30 a.m. Lazlo Ujvari, age 40, saw a dark domed disc in Raon-l'Etape, Vosges, France that made a whining noise. He was suddenly confronted by a man wearing a jacket, boots, and some type of cloth headgear, like a pilot's leather helmet. The man pointed a gun at him and said something he could not understand. When Ujvari spoke to him in Russian, the man answered in the same language. He asked whether he was in Spain or Italy, and how far he was from Germany. When he asked the time, Ujvari said "2:30." The man took out a watch and said "You lie, it's 4:00." Then he wanted to know how far away and in what direction was Marseilles. He forced Ujvari to walk with him on the road, and they soon came to a gray craft with an antenna on top. The man left him there and went aboard. When Ujvari had walked about 200 meters from the craft he heard a soft whistling sound and saw it fly straight up, then take an oblique trajectory. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 291; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 99 Source ID: Johnson_6995 Source: Johnson ### Event 6922 (5575C538) Date: 10/20/1954 Description: Lucien Fisch saw an object land near Route N83. It was luminous. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy; 75 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Issenheim, France Source ID: Magnonia_290 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6923 (614F4704) Date: 10/20/1954 Description: Several unknown objects maneuvered for two hours near the village of St-Valery, Somme, France. One of them was very brilliant and landed in a pasture. Two others were seen near a cliff in Mers, France. They appeared to be in communication with UFOs in another group by means of light signals. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 293; Paris Presse, October 22, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_6998 Source: Johnson ### Event 6924 (DAB0DC2F) Date: 10/20/1954 Description: Lucien Fisch saw an object land near Route N83 in Issenheim, Haut-Rhin, France. It was luminous. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 290 Source ID: Johnson_6994 Source: Johnson ### Event 6925 (3F2C4E3E) Date: 10/20/1954 Description: Motorist felt paralyzed, motor stalled, heat felt; UFO on road (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Schirmeck, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1764 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6926 (42A5EF8B) Date: 10/20/1954 Time: 0230 Description: Forty-year-old Lazlo Ujvari was suddenly confronted by a man wearing a jacket, boots, and cloth headgear (like a pilot's) who pointed a gun at him and said something he could not understand. When Ujvari spoke to him in Russian, the man answered in the same language, asked whether he was in Spain or Italy, and how far he was from Germany. When he asked the time, Ujvari said: "2:30." The man took his watch and said "You lie; it's 4:00." Then he wanted to know how far and in what direction Marseilles was. He made Ujvari walk on the road with him, and they came close to a gray craft with an antenna on top. When he was about 200 m away, he heard a soft whistling sound and saw it fly straight up, then take an oblique trajectory. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Carrouges 99; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Raon-l'Etage, France Source ID: Magnonia_291 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6927 (4E773563) Date: 10/20/1954 Description: Roger Reveille saw an oval object, 6 m long, at treetop level, and felt intense heat from it. It took off vertically at great speed. Inside the woods, the heat had become intolerable and a cloud of dense smoke was forming under the rain. After 15 min the witness was able to approach the site, and he found the trees, grass, and ground perfectly dry. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy; M 204 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lusigny Forest, France Source ID: Magnonia_292 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6928 (A8DC3EA2) Date: 10/20/1954 Description: Several unknown objects maneuvered for 2 hrs near this village. One of them was very brilliant and landed in a pasture. Two others were seen near the cliff in Mers, and seemed to be in communication by means of light signals with objects in another group. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 75 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saint-Valery, France Source ID: Magnonia_293 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6929 (74D95490) Date: 10/21/1954 Description: Evening. A motorist is driving on the D220 road with his 4-year-old son between Paillé and Pouzou, Charente-Maritime, France. He feels a tingling like electric shocks all over his body. The child cries, the engine stops, and the headlights go out as a luminous red body with a tail flashes briefly in front of them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 204; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 18–19; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/21oct1954pouzou.htm)” April 21, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2595 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6930 (2824D662) Date: 10/21/1954 Time: 2130 Description: Between Serifere and Paille, a man from Cherbonnieres suddenly felt painful pricklings similar to electric shocks and his 4-year-old child started crying. They felt increasing pain as the car went on, and suddenly the engine died and the lights went off. They were blinded by a strong red light, which turned orange. It came from an object hovering above the road, and everything returned to normal when it went away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 80; M 341 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pouzou, France Source ID: Magnonia_300 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6931 (31EEAC34) Date: 10/21/1954 Description: 9:25 p.m. Three observers at the Woomera Test Range in South Australia see an erratic, dancing light adjacent to rocket Launcher Apron 1, Range B, approximately 500 feet away. The light alternates from deep orange to yellow and is egg-shaped. Its apparent size is three times the magnitude of Venus. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Dancing](http://www.nicap.org/541021australia%5Fdir.htm) [Light Adjacent to Rocket Launcher](http://www.nicap.org/541021australia%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2596 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6932 (B3BB551A) Date: 10/21/1954 Description: Ranton, England. Near Shrewsbury, England Jennie Roestenberg and her two children observed a disc-shaped, aluminium object hovering above their house at 4:45 p.m. Through two transparent panels they saw two men with white skin, long hair to their shoulders, and very high foreheads. They wore transparent helmets and turquoise-blue clothing, resembling ski suits. The object hovered at a tilted angle while the two occupants looked at the scene "sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR Special Issue #1: The Humanoids, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236 Source ID: Johnson_7009 Source: Johnson ### Event 6933 (965AB260) Date: 10/21/1954 Description: 4:45 p.m. Jessie Roestenburg and her two children observe a disc-shaped, aluminum object hovering above their house in Ranton, Stafford, England. Through two transparent panels they see two men with white skin, having shoulder-length hair and high foreheads. They wear transparent helmets and turquoise-blue clothing resembling ski suits. The object hovers at a tilted angle while the two occupants look at the scene “sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 268; Charles Bowen, “[Few and Far Between,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201966%20N%201%2CThe%20Humanoids.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 4; Gordon Creighton, “[The](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201993%20V%2038%20N%201.pdf) [Roestenburg Story \(1954\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201993%20V%2038%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 38, no. 1 \(Spring 1993\): 6–9; Curt Collins, “[Jessie](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2018/10/jessie-roestenburgs-1954-ufo-encounter.html) [Roestenburg’s 1954 UFO Encounter and Beyond,](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2018/10/jessie-roestenburgs-1954-ufo-encounter.html)” Blue Blurry Lines, October 19, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_2594 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6934 (FF7100F1) Date: 10/21/1954 Description: Pouzou, France. Between Serifere and Paille, a man from Cherbonnieres suddenly felt painful pricklings similar to electric shocks and his 4-year-old child started crying. They felt increasing pain as the car went on, and suddenly the engine died and the lights went off. They were blinded by a strong red light, which turned orange. It came from an object hovering above the road, and everything returned to normal when it went away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 204; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236-237 Source ID: Johnson_7011 Source: Johnson ### Event 6935 (DEF41939) Date: 10/21/1954 Description: Criteuil-la-Madeleine, France. The car driven by a bricklayer, Mr. Fillonnau, stopped when a large fiery ball flew near it. A violent air displacement was felt. "The battery was dead and the headlights were burned out. " Thorough police investigation failed to identify the cause of the phenomenon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236; Gregory Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Report Source ID: Johnson_7010 Source: Johnson ### Event 6936 (4457ACC7) Date: 10/21/1954 Description: A young man hears a rustling sound and sees a landed UFO outside Melito di Napoli, Italy. It gives off a powerful bronze-green light. He then sees an occupant dressed in a diving suit emerge. A dog begins barking and the entity retreats inside and takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 74; 1Pinotti 61 Source ID: Eberhart_2593 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6937 (479DA99F) Date: 10/21/1954 Description: A young man walking in a field in Melito, Italy heard a rustling noise and saw a strange craft land nearby. Getting closer to investigate, he saw a pilot with a diving suit coming out of the craft, which emitted bronze-green rays of light, flooding the whole countryside. The witness was paralyzed. A dog barking about 100 m away caused the rapid escape of the pilot into the craft, which took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236 Source ID: Johnson_7008 Source: Johnson ### Event 6938 (5CD96508) Date: 10/21/1954 Description: An egg-shaped object, about 5.5 meters in diameter, hovered and landed near the road in Pons, France. Two dwarf humanoids, about 1.25 meters (4.1 feet) tall, emerged from it, and went back inside almost immediately. The craft took off vertically leaving a red trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236 Source ID: Johnson_7007 Source: Johnson ### Event 6939 (C19559E8) Date: 10/21/1954 Description: An egg-shaped object, about 5.5 m diameter, hovered and landed near the road. Two dwarfs, about 1.25 m tall, emerged from it, and went back inside almost immediately. The craft took off vertically leaving a red trail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 78 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pons, France Source ID: Magnonia_296 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6940 (BE198652) Date: 10/21/1954 Time: 1645 Description: Near Shrewsbury, Jennie Roestenberg and her two children observed a diskshaped, aluminum object hovering above the house. Through two transparent panels they saw two men with white skin, long hair to their shoulders, and very high foreheads. They wore transparent helmets and turquoise-blue clothing, resembling ski suits. The object hovered at a tilted angle while the two occupants looked at the scene "sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ranton, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_298 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6941 (3F6C7AA8) Date: 10/21/1954 Description: A young man walking in a field heard a rustling noise and saw a strange craft land nearby. Getting closer to investigate, he saw a pilot with a diving suit coming out of the craft, which emitted bronze-green rays of light, flooding the whole countryside. The witness was paralyzed. A dog barking about 100 m away caused the rapid escape of the pilot into the craft, which took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 88 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Melito, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_297 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6942 (66F5B576) Date: 10/21/1954 Time: 2000 Description: The car driven by a bricklayer, Mr. Fillonnau, stoped as a large ball of fire flew near it. A violent air displacement was felt. "The battery was dead and the headlights were burned out." Thorough police investigation failed to identify the cause of the phenomenon. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 79 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Criteuil-la-Madeleine, France Source ID: Magnonia_299 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6943 (7EB20526) Date: 10/21/1954 Description: Motorist and child felt shock and heat, motor and headlights failed; then luminous UFO became visible ahead of car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Rochelle (near), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1765 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6944 (441426ED) Date: 10/22/1954 Description: Afternoon. Roger Reveillé is walking in the Fôret de Lusigny, Aube, France, when he hears a rustling noise. He looks up and sees an oval-shaped object about 20 feet long at treetop level. At the same time he feels an intense heat that also seems to be creating a thick fog. After a few minutes the object disappears upward, but the heat continues. Although it is raining, the ground underneath where the object had been is dry. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 204; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 18; Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/22oct1954lusigny.htm)” September 28, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2598 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6945 (245EAD25) Date: 10/22/1954 Description: 3:00 p.m. Principal [Rodney Warrick](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/202448597/rodney-r-warrick) and teacher Mrs. George Dittmar of Jerome, Ohio, Special School watch a large, silvery, cigar-shaped object hanging motionless in the sky. Soon it takes off, and in its wake it leaves a trail of whitish, web-like substance that floats down and begins to hang from wires along the road. It descends in both strands and balls for 45 minutes. Both adults get greenish stains on their hands from it. All of it dissipates, but the substance placed in closed jars dissipates more slowly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Strange ‘Flying Cigar’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93774701/) [Puzzles Union](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93774857/) [Countians,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93774857/)” Marion \(Ohio\) Star, November 2, 1954, pp. 1, 10; “[Web-Spinning Saucer Visits Marysville, Ohio,](http://www.cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter, December 3, 1954, p. 5; Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, no. 1 \(August 2008\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_2599 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6946 (346EEEE6) Date: 10/22/1954 Description: School principal, teacher, 60 students saw silver cigar-shaped UFO with "portholes" hover over school, then speed away; "angel's hair" fell. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marysville, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1766 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6947 (FA64BD02) Date: 10/22/1954 Description: At 3:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with portholes maneuvered in the sky over a school in Marysville, Ohio accompanied by many smaller discs. It was witnessed by 60 students of Jerome Elementary School and teachers Rodney Warrick and Mrs. George Dittmar, as well as thousands of witnesses at an afternoon high school football game. The silver cigar-shaped object traveled at high speed, and wafted a blanket of a web-like material, commonly referred to as "angel hair," which fell to the ground over a three mile area. The UFO flew off quickly in a westward direction. Within minutes of touching the substance it would disappear, leaving a green stain on the fingers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Marysville (OH) Journal-Tribune, October 25, 1954 & July 22, 1958; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, December 1954, p. 5; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 59; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185 Source ID: Johnson_7017 Source: Johnson ### Event 6948 (98627DBF) Date: 10/22/1954 Description: At four o'clock in the morning an object that resembled a white cloud with lights on each end descended over a country road in Segre, Maine-et-Loire, France. It illuminated the road like daylight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4039, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 119 Source ID: Johnson_7014 Source: Johnson ### Event 6949 (D7E94C6A) Date: 10/22/1954 Description: At 7:20 p.m. engine of a motorcycle died in Ecaillon, Nord, France and then a cigar-shaped UFO was seen in a field by the rider. Four of more beings were seen inside the craft. One spoke an unintelligible language which sounded like "Chinese" to the listener. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4039, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 216 Source ID: Johnson_7015 Source: Johnson ### Event 6950 (7CAC750A) Date: 10/22/1954 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a disc-shaped object emerged from the ocean off the coast of Guethary, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France. When it dove down it illuminated the surface of the water. It then made a final ascent and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4040, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 118 Source ID: Johnson_7016 Source: Johnson ### Event 6951 (EE6D104A) Date: 10/23/1954 Description: Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse in the evening in St. Hilaire-des-Loges, Vendee, France when she saw a luminous disc hovering in the sky and called to her family. When everyone saw the object come closer they locked all the doors and spent a sleepless night inside. They did not observe the object's departure, but noticed an unnatural silence that pervaded the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: France-Soir, October 26, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 301 Source ID: Johnson_7040 Source: Johnson ### Event 6952 (A3FF2953) Date: 10/23/1954 Description: On this afternoon baker M. Lelu was in his vehicle on Route 101 in Trondes, France and had come to a bend on the road when he spotted two phosphorescent points of light near a glade. He approached the area, thinking it was another car, when he saw a tall blond haired man standing immobile in a nearby field. Thinking that the figure might be an extraterrestrial he drove away from the area in order to get additional witnesses. Later, the harassed owner of the field claimed that the mysterious blond figure was merely a Polish farmer, but this was never confirmed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Raoul Robe, Regional Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_7039 Source: Johnson ### Event 6953 (23AF7E34) Date: 10/23/1954 Description: At 1:30 a.m. EDT in Cincinnati, Ohio a witness heard his radio shriek and his dog began barking. He looked out and saw a huge silent red disc surrounded by halo circles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, December 1954, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_7036 Source: Johnson ### Event 6954 (7ADB9C90) Date: 10/23/1954 Description: 3:00 a.m. A farmer named Carmelo Papotto near Tripoli, Verona, Italy, watches a UFO land 150 feet away with a sound like a compressor. It seems to be an oval machine with six wheels and complex machinery. The top half is transparent and flooded with bright light. Aboard are six men in yellowish overalls with human faces. When he touches part of the object, he gets an electric shock. One occupant warns him to stay away. For the next 20 minutes he watches them fiddle with instruments. The object then rises to 150 feet and takes off at a dizzying speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 237](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/236/mode/2up); 1Pinotti 61–62; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 17–18 Source ID: Eberhart_2601 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6955 (AB44D42F) Date: 10/23/1954 Description: At 5:10 a.m. a brilliant crescent-shaped object landed in Ernemont, France. Three shadowy figures exited the object and went in different directions. This was followed by a power outage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4044 Source ID: Johnson_7038 Source: Johnson ### Event 6956 (FAD27FBB) Date: 10/23/1954 Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman in Cincinnati, Ohio, has fallen asleep listening to the radio. Suddenly it makes a harsh shrieking noise and the volume increases. Dogs begin barking in the neighborhood, so she looks outside and sees a large reddish-orange disc with a halo around it moving in a circle overhead. After a minute it moves off to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Fort Wayne and Cincinnati Tie-In,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 9 \(December 3, 1954\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_2600 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6957 (6287D270) Date: 10/23/1954 Description: A farmer named Carmelo Papotto in Tripoli, Libya saw a flying craft descend to ground level at 3:00 a.m. It hovered about 50 meters away, making a sound like that of an air compressor. It was an egg-shaped machine with six wheels and complex machinery. The top half was transparent and flooded with a bright white light. Aboard were six men in yellowish coveralls; they looked human and had on facemasks. When he touched part of the craft he got a strong electric shock. One of the occupants motioned for him to stay away. For the next twenty minutes the witness was able to observe the six men, apparently busy with their instruments. Reliable investigations were made. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 303; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-113 Source ID: Johnson_7037 Source: Johnson ### Event 6958 (94FEBD52) Date: 10/23/1954 Time: 0300 Description: A farmer saw a flying craft descend to ground level about 50 m away, with a sound like that of a compressor. It was an egg-shaped machine with six wheels and complex machinery. The top half was transparent, flooded with bright white light. Aboard were six men in yellowish coveralls, having human faces and masks. When he touched part of the craft, the witness felt a strong electric shock. One of the occupants motioned for him to stay away. For the next 2O min, the witness was able to observe the six men, apparently busy with instruments. Reliable investigations were made. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Tripoli, Libya Source ID: Magnonia_303 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6959 (9DBD348C) Date: 10/23/1954 Description: Radio made harsh shrieking noise, volume increased; then reddish disc seen circling overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cincinnati, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1768 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6960 (6CFE483C) Date: 10/23/1954 Description: At one o'clock in the morning two persons in a car saw an object resting by the side of the road in San Giovanni Vesuviano, Italy. They stopped and walked toward the craft, which was two meters in diameter. As they approached it suddenly changed its clear light into a red glow and took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Il Tempo, October 23, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 302 Source ID: Johnson_7035 Source: Johnson ### Event 6961 (53273B21) Date: 10/23/1954 Time: 0100 Description: Two persons in a car saw an object resting by fhe side of the road. They stopped and walked toward the craft, 2 m diameter, which suddenly changed its clear light into a red glow and took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 89 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: San Giovanni Vesuviano, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_302 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6962 (90670CE3) Date: 10/23/1954 Description: (McDonald list) FPS-10 Tracks UFO at 3200 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [541023](http://www.nicap.org/541023tinkerdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tinker AFB, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1769 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6963 (E85F10D2) Date: 10/23/1954 Description: Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse when she saw a luminous disk in the sky and alled her family. When everyone saw the object come closer, they locked all doors and spent a sleepless night. They did not observe the object's departure. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 81 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saint-Hilaire-des-Loges, France Source ID: Magnonia_301 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6964 (6B864ADA) Date: 10/23/1954 Description: That same night a big, bifurcated "black radish" shaped creature was seen walking around Wittenheim, Haut-Rhin department, France. Mr. Muller, a policeman, saw the being in his garden. There were three other witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paris Radar, October 31, 1954; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-114 Source ID: Johnson_7041 Source: Johnson ### Event 6965 (E3FA009B) Date: 10/24/1954 Description: Formation of silver, circular objects sped over Air Force base. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_1770 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6966 (60BF91F4) Date: 10/24/1954 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a doctor driving his car in Pancole, Tuscany, Italy saw a luminous globe stop at 20 meters altitude, just 50 meters away. It took off when he stopped his car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #4055, citingMaurizio Verga, ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_7075 Source: Johnson ### Event 6967 (0FE02D5C) Date: 10/24/1954 Description: Between Biozat and Effiat, Puy-de-Dome, France at nine o'clock in the evening, on the road from Clermont to Vichy, the engine of a motor scooter died when an egg-shaped object took off from the side of the road and rose without a noise, leaving a bright trail behind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 306; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_7074 Source: Johnson ### Event 6968 (97AFE09C) Date: 10/24/1954 Description: At first, a dull white aluminum colored UFO was seen zig-zagging in the sky, starting at one o'clock in the afternoon, over Gravatai Air Force Base in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It began making fast, tight circular turns through the clear blue sky, and kept up this behavior for over two hours. There was a misty halo around the object when it moved. A second UFO arrived sometime after two hours had elapsed, and circled the first one. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 212; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 119; UNICAT, case 561; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 104; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1989, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_7076 Source: Johnson ### Event 6969 (D62ECD34) Date: 10/24/1954 Time: 2100 Description: Between Biozat and Effiat, on the road from Clermont to Vichy, the engine of a motor scooter died as an egg-shaped object took off from the side of the road and rose without noise, leaving a bright trail behind. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Biozat, France Source ID: Magnonia_306 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6970 (AB6E5D86) Date: 10/24/1954 Time: 1730 Description: Near Sainte Catherine, a child saw a man emerge from a strange craft. He was "dressed in red, his clothes looked like iron. He walked with his legs stiff, had long hair and a hairy face. His eyes were large, like those of the cows." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Les Egots, France Source ID: Magnonia_305 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6971 (EF1A1154) Date: 10/24/1954 Description: On this night a small man with strange glowing eyes was seen on the Mediterranean shore in Ain-el-Turck, Oran, Algeria. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 304; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-116 (A0325) Source ID: Johnson_7073 Source: Johnson ### Event 6972 (B6106AA4) Date: 10/24/1954 Description: At 5:30 p.m. in Les Egots, Rhone, France near Sainte Catherine, a child saw a man emerge from a strange craft. He was "dressed in red, his clothes looked like iron." He walked stiff-legged, and had long hair and a hairy face. His eyes were large, "like those of the cows." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, pp. 237-238, case 305; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-115 (A0323) Source ID: Johnson_7072 Source: Johnson ### Event 6973 (AC4C0509) Date: 10/24/1954 Description: In Saint Etienne de Baigorry, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France at around 3:00 p.m. a shepherd watching his flock on a mountain peak called “Moumboa”, located at about 800 meters, reported seeing two “men” standing on the slope opposite him, looking around. At first he thought they were excursionists, but he soon noticed a brown craft shaped like a large shell between them, so he did not dare approach. It was three to four meters in diameter and a little more than a meter in height. In the center there was a small cabin, and at the two ends he could distinguish a number of small propellers. He said he did not notice any portholes. At the broad back end there was a bent tripod. After awhile the two men approached the machine, which they then placed upright on the tripod. The witness supposed that the machine must have been made out of some very light weight material. One of the men then opened a narrow door and both individuals disappeared into the cabin. Without any noise the two groups of propellers started to turn, but in opposite directions. The machine took off vertically to an altitude of about 100 meters, and then flew off quickly to the north. The two men were similar to humans, Caucasian in appearance, and between 1.70-1.75 meters tall. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, computerized catalog (N=3073), case 1793, citing Jimmy Guieu; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Jean Sider Source ID: Johnson_7071 Source: Johnson ### Event 6974 (06F85319) Date: 10/24/1954 Description: At around six o'clock in the morning Ulderico Cardinali, a farmworker, was walking down a path in a marshy meadow in Castiglion Della Pescaia, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy. He entered a patch of fog and started hearing a buzzing noise. When the fog became less dense, he could see a strange object on the ground which he first thought was a downed airplane. It resembled a large "plate" resting on the ground; it was two meters wide and made of some sort of highly polished material. There was a very peculiar looking creature standing beside the craft, who appeared to be no taller than 1.40 meters and was dressed in a yellowish-brown uniform. It seemed that the being was performing some sort of task, moving about the craft. Once it had stopped moving about it went inside the object, entering a sort of cabin, and disappeared from sight. Then the object took off from the location, emitting a slight buzzing noise and flying at very low altitude, nearly brushing the tops of the trees in the meadow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1600, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_7069 Source: Johnson ### Event 6975 (7632BE08) Date: 10/24/1954 Description: A small man with strange glowing eyes was seen on the Mediterranean shore. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ain-el-Turck, Algeria Source ID: Magnonia_304 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6976 (83F38487) Date: 10/24/1954 Description: Rocket expert [Hermann Oberth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%5FOberth) writes in the American Weekly: “It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries.” He thinks UFOs might fly by “distorting the gravitational field.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hermann Oberth, “[Flying Saucers Come](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6301707/the-cincinnati-enquirer/) [from a Distant World,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6301726/the-cincinnati-enquirer/)” American Weekly, October 24, 1954, in Cincinnati Enquirer; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 83; Hermann Oberth, “[Lecture Notes for](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20UFO%20Bulletin/Australian%20UFO%20Bulletin%20-%201991%2009%20-%20September.pdf) [Lecture about Flying Saucers, 1954,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20UFO%20Bulletin/Australian%20UFO%20Bulletin%20-%201991%2009%20-%20September.pdf)” Australian UFO Bulletin, September 1991, pp. 4–9 Source ID: Eberhart_2602 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6977 (0E39B42B) Date: 10/24/1954 Description: A small man with strange glowing eyes is seen near Aïn El Turk, Algeria, along the coast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 237](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/236/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2603 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6978 (B75E6D30) Date: 10/24/1954 Description: 1:00–6:00 p.m. Officers and men at the Canoas Air Force Base near Porto Alegre, Brazil, watch a number of “circular silver-colored” objects moving at high speed. They are also seen by personnel of Varig airlines and some civilians. There are more than 100 witnesses. The chief military witness, jet pilot Lt. H. Ferraz de Almeida, sees a dull silver object moving apparently slowly above the base in a zigzag fashion. He estimates its altitude as 40,000–45,000 feet and suggests that its real speed must be tremendous. Maj. J. Magalhaes Mota is watching the same object as another one rapidly approaches the first and stops next to it. The second object then moves rapidly, abruptly changes course, and flies off in an arc. When the object is in motion, it is surrounded by a misty halo, and when it stops the halo disappears. Their movements appear mechanical and intermittent. The report is forwarded to the Air Ministry in Rio de Janeiro with a request to investigate. Brazilian Air Force Chief of Intelligence Col. João Adil de Oliviera heads the investigation, which concludes on December 2 that the “saucers appear to be some kind of revolutionary aircraft” that are not “conventional phenomena or illusions.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p.](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=131&skin=2021) [119](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=131&skin=2021); Swords 461–462 Source ID: Eberhart_2604 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6979 (749C393C) Date: 10/24/1954 Description: At 10:30 a.m. a three-meter in diameter disc-shaped object landed in the woods near Lalizolle, Allier, France. Dogs refused to go near it. It left behind a three-meter wide area of flattened grass. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4048, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 128 Source ID: Johnson_7070 Source: Johnson ### Event 6980 (92988DF6) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: At eleven o'clock at night in Jonquerets-de-Livet, Eure, France two 18-year-old farm workers, Jean Cheradame and Rene Marais, encountered a bright light source in a field. When they approached the light, two featureless illuminated humanoid forms emerged from the light source. They lacked both arms and legs, and essentially resembled "white plastic bags" lit from within. The figures emerged from the light source in the field and separated into two distinct forms as they approached. When they receded they again merged into one form before merging with the light source. They were about five feet tall. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-117, citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 220 Source ID: Johnson_7120 Source: Johnson ### Event 6981 (DE2A299D) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: On or about this date Mr. A. Treussard and a friend were nearly blinded by a brilliant, luminous disc that landed in a pasture in Plemet, Cotes-du-Nord, France Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 307 Source ID: Johnson_7110 Source: Johnson ### Event 6982 (0D45355B) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: High speed objects some egg-shaped seen by hundreds. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belgrade, Yugoslavia Source ID: NICAP_DB_1771 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 6983 (4BAF7016) Date: 10/25/1954 Time: 1830 Description: G. Mahou, municipal muncilor, 30, saw a phosphorescent craft shaped like a brooder, about 2 m in diameter, 1 m high, rise vertically from the road, leaving a luminous trail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 91 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Arraye-et-Han, France Source ID: Magnonia_309 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6984 (07678F55) Date: 10/25/1954 Time: 0600 Description: Ulderico Cardinali saw a disk-shaped craft among the reeds of a swamp. It was 2 m in diameter, and near it was a small being, 1.40 m tall, clad in yellowish-brown coveralls. This creature went inside the machine, which took off at very high speed, touching the tops of the reeds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 90 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Northern Italy, exact place unknown Source ID: Magnonia_308 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6985 (96AEA2F7) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: Approximate date. A. Treussard and a friend were almost blinded by a luminous disk, which landed in a pasture. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Plemet, France Source ID: Magnonia_307 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 6986 (A446E17F) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: A reddish disc-shaped object that emitted a luminous streak from its rear landed near a witness in Benabbio, Liguria, Italy at around eight o'clock in the evening. Two human like figures briefly emerged from the object, then went back inside. The object then took off at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1569, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database, quoting from Nuovo Corrier Source ID: Johnson_7118 Source: Johnson ### Event 6987 (6DEDC49F) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: At six o'clock in the morning Ulderico Cardinali saw a disc-shaped craft among the reeds of a swamp in northern Italy. It was two meters in diameter and near it stood a small being, 1.40 m (4.6 feet) tall, clad in yellowish-brown coveralls. This creature went inside the machine, which took off at very high speed, touching the tops of the reeds as it flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 308; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0326, citing Oltre il Cielo-Missili e Razzi Source ID: Johnson_7111 Source: Johnson ### Event 6988 (05DB4E9D) Date: Late 10/1954 End date: Early 11/1954 Description: The UK War Office receives six reports of 40–50 unidentified radar targets that appear from nowhere, usually at midday, flying at a height of 12,000 feet. The targets first appear in a U-formation, then converge into two parallel lines and take up a Z-formation before disappearing. The location of the radar trackings is not revealed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 38–39](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/38/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2613 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6989 (C6628925) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: Two twelve year olds, Giampieri and Santucci, were walking home next to a field in Colcerasa Di Cing, Marche, Italy at around 5:00 p.m. when their dog became agitated and started barking. One of the youths went ahead to see what was wrong and observed three very short, dark figures with huge flattened heads standing next to a large keg like object. They wore shiny black outfits. The first boy yelled for his friend to come and look, whereupon the short humanoids ran into the object. It took off emitting a loud whistling sound, knocking the first witness down with a strong gust of wind. Another witness who was nearby saw the same or a similar object fly over the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0327; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1602, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database Source ID: Johnson_7117 Source: Johnson ### Event 6990 (BECA3CCB) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: At 6:30 p.m. Mr. G. Mahou, age 30, a municipal councilor in Arraye-et-Han, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France saw a phosphorescent craft shaped like a chicken brooder, about two meters in diameter and one meter high. It rose vertically from the road leaving a luminous trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Parisien, October 27, 1954; France-Soir, October 27, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 309 Source ID: Johnson_7116 Source: Johnson ### Event 6991 (1D98AE9A) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: 6:15 a.m. Several UFOs, some described as spear-shaped and others as egg-shaped, speed over Belgrade, Yugoslavia \[now Serbia\], trailing bluish tails for about an hour. Witnesses include aeronautical engineer Vladimir Ajvas, AF Capt. Stjepan Djitkol, and staff at the nearby Zemun Polje Airport. The event is a culmination of UFO sightings over Yugoslavia since October 15, few of which make the newspapers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 123](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=135&skin=2021); Hobana and Weverbergh 90–91 Source ID: Eberhart_2605 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6992 (D8EF7D3A) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: Lucien Jeune, mayor of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Vaucluse, France, following numerous UFO sightings, issues a police order prohibiting “The overflight, landing, and take-off of aircraft, so-called flying saucers or flying cigars, on the communal territory.” The announcement, which also threatens the confiscation of any craft and the arrest of occupants, is done as a publicity stunt. Claude Avril, the city mayor in 2016, refuses to rescind it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Louis de Gouyon Matignon, “[The French Anti-UFO Municipal Law of 1954,](https://www.spacelegalissues.com/the-french-anti-ufo-municipal-law-of-1954/)” Space Legal Issues, May 29, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_2606 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6993 (8685BEDC) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: 7:30 p.m. Farmer Gilbert Hée is gathering pears on his farm at Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet \[now Mesnil-en- Ouche\], Eure, France, when he sees an elongated object about 7 feet long with a green and a red light at both ends resting in the pasture. Some cows have gathered around it. The object is moving slowly and stops at a barbed wire fence. Hée goes inside. At 11:00 p.m., his son-in-law René Marais and a friend, Jean Chéradame, arrive on a motorcycle. Chéradame agrees to ride into the field and take a look, but he only goes 300 feet along the road before the engine fails. He falls from the bike and sees two short creatures walking stiffly and wearing bright clothes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/25oct1954lesjonqueretsdelivet.htm)” April 11, 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_2607 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 6994 (947B9C8D) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: At 6:30 a.m. a luminous disc-shaped object with a glowing light was seen rising from a field nearby some beet scales in Calais, France. It was absolutely silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 121 Source ID: Johnson_7115 Source: Johnson ### Event 6995 (912FCAEB) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: At 6:30 a.m. a round silver disc with a flashing light crossed the sky quickly in Varennes-sur-Teche, Allier, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 199 Source ID: Johnson_7114 Source: Johnson ### Event 6996 (21D19458) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: At 6:15 a.m. a brilliant disc-shaped object was seen by many independent observers spinning over the city of Vienna, Austria. It left a trail behind, and the event lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 326 Source ID: Johnson_7113 Source: Johnson ### Event 6997 (D44DA79E) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: At 6:15 a.m. at least four witnesses at the Belgrade, Yugoslavia airport sighted over twenty UFOs. There was one large cigar shaped object and some high speed circular and egg-shaped objects, which were reportedly seen by hundreds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1989, p. 23; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 58 Source ID: Johnson_7112 Source: Johnson ### Event 6998 (36F1C489) Date: 10/25/1954 Description: At 9:30 p.m. many observers on Terceira Island, The Azores in the Atlantic Ocean watched a four meter long cigar-shaped object fly through the sky for two minutes, making a noise and emitting smoke and fire. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lourenco Victor, PORTUCAT - Portuguese UFO database; Project Blue Book case # 3287 Source ID: Johnson_7119 Source: Johnson ### Event 6999 (96498EED) Date: 10/26/1954 Description: On this night Mrs. Irene Sarris and Mr. Socrates Caraliamis saw a flying object emitting a blinding light in the sky over Antimachia, Kos Island, Greece. The UFO had the shape of a basket, and for a while it headed toward Antimachia, but changed course suddenly and went away. That same night Mr. George Cacamoundis saw a "winged man" crossing the sky over the village, at approximately the same time as the luminous UFO. The witness, terrified, ran to hide in the nearby church, where he stayed for a long time refusing to come out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Thanassis Vembos, Hellenicos Vorras Source ID: Johnson_7144 Source: Johnson ### Event 7000 (9C42027C) Date: 10/26/1954 Description: At 9:30 p.m. Mrs. Spinner and another witness in Heiteren, Haut-Rhin department, France saw a flying object come from the west and land a kilometer away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 239, case 313 Source ID: Johnson_7143 Source: Johnson ### Event 7001 (C653EF77) Date: 10/26/1954 Description: Late in the day at Les Metairies, situated near Saint Quirin, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, Mrs. Louis and her sons Marc and Yvon observed a six-meter diameter orange craft that flew over them as their tractor engine died. The headlights on the tractor also went out, and the battery was found to be dead after the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 239, case 312; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_7142 Source: Johnson ### Event 7002 (276EB3C8) Date: 10/26/1954 Description: At 6:00 p.m. several railroad workers in Chateaudun, Eure-et-Loir, France ran toward a luminous ball of light over the railroad tracks. It floated out over a field and then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 122 Source ID: Johnson_7140 Source: Johnson ### Event 7003 (734CBDC1) Date: 10/26/1954 Description: On this evening in La Madiere, Creuse, France Aime Boussard, a 47-year-old farmer, was suddenly confronted by an unusual individual of normal height (1.60 m) wearing a sort of diving suit with a pale green light emitted from either side of the helmet. The being aimed two beams of blue light at the witness, who was thrown backward when struck by the rays. No craft was observed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Le Parisien, October 28, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 311; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 120 Source ID: Johnson_7141 Source: Johnson ### Event 7004 (AE8534CF) Date: 10/26/1954 Description: On this day a five meter long cigar-shaped object came down in some woods in Ranes, Orne, France. It began to rise off the ground slowly, then shot away when the witness approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 121 Source ID: Johnson_7139 Source: Johnson ### Event 7005 (732C609F) Date: 10/26/1954 Description: Vincent Casamajou and his wife saw a large cauldron-shaped craft, the size of a truck (about 7 m) at 50 m distance, near the road, 18 km from this town, going toward Paris. It took off without noise, leaving a white trail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 9Z ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Angouleme, France Source ID: Magnonia_310 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7006 (E658775E) Date: 10/26/1954 Description: At six o'clock in the morning Vincent Casamajou and his wife saw a large cauldron-shaped craft, the size of a truck (about seven meters long) at 50 meters distance. It was near the road to Paris, 18 kilometers from the town of Angouleme, Charente, France. It took off without a sound, leaving a white trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Le Parisien, October 28, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 310 Source ID: Johnson_7138 Source: Johnson ### Event 7007 (1A3DF603) Date: 10/26/1954 Time: evening Description: Aime Boussard, 47, a farmer, was suddenly confronted with an individual of normal height (1.60 m) wearing a sort of diving suit with a pale-green light on either side of the helmet. The individual aimed at the witness the beam of two blue lights, and he was thrown backward. No craft was observed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 92 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: La Madiere, France Source ID: Magnonia_311 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7008 (AAA78BBB) Date: 10/26/1954 Time: 2030 Description: Approximate date. At this place situated near Saint Quirin, Mrs. Louis and her sons Marc and Yvon observed an orange craft, 6 m diameter and 3 m high, fly over them as their tractor engine died. The lights also went out, and the battery was found dead after the sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Les Metairies, France Source ID: Magnonia_312 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7009 (680BB6E1) Date: 10/26/1954 Time: 2130 Description: Mrs. Spinner and another witness saw a flying object come from the west and land 1 km away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Heiteren, France Source ID: Magnonia_313 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7010 (12D2D33A) Date: 10/26/1954 Description: 10:45 p.m. Aimé Bousard is returning on his bicycle from the town hall at Alleyrat, Creuse, France, to his residence at La Vaureille when he sees a figure crouching on the roadway. When he stops, the figure stands up and points two powerful light-blue lights at him. The entity is 5 feet 3 inches tall and dressed in a diver’s suit. It has two green lights on either side of its head. Bousard is paralyzed for 10 minutes while the lights are aimed at him. Then the entity crosses the road and disappears and Bousard can move again. Gendarmes investigate and note that his right hand is swollen and he has difficulty writing. They find a 27-inch circle of disturbed earth at the site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/26oct1954labadiere.htm)” September 6, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_2608 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7011 (F5870CA0) Date: 10/27/1954 Description: A 12-year-old girl approached a one-meter long ovoid object on the road northeast of Plouezoch, Finistere, France. She received electric shocks and was temporarily paralyzed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4074, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 122 Source ID: Johnson_7188 Source: Johnson ### Event 7012 (5435C76E) Date: 10/27/1954 Time: 1400 Description: A young man named Fabrizio Bruni heard a strange hissing sound and saw an object in a field. It was stationary, 1 m above the ground, seemed transparent and emitted a blinding glare. The witness fell on the ground "because of his strong emotions" at the sight. The object took off vertically and suddenly, leaving a trail. Very white, glistening threads were found on the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 93 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ciolica Alta, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_316 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7013 (5440B33E) Date: 10/27/1954 Time: 1930 Description: A farmer, Gilbert Hee, was gathering pears when he suddenly saw an elongated object with a light at both ends resting in the pasture. He dared not investigate, but he saw cows gathering around the object. A minute later, the lights went out, and the witness lost interest and went home. Two hours later, an 18-year-old man named Cheradame fell from his motorcycle as it suddenly failed at the same spot, and alerted neighbors saw the object again. It had moved only slightly and two occupants were seen. They were about 1 m tall, walked in stiff fashion, and had clothes resembling bright armor. They vanished suddenly, and the craft took off without noise. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet, France Source ID: Magnonia_317 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7014 (0D55E955) Date: 10/27/1954 Time: 2030 Description: An object was seen on the ground by a schoolboy and his school director. Triangular traces were reported. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Moussey, France Source ID: Magnonia_318 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7015 (4B348E42) Date: 10/27/1954 Description: Finally, at 11:30 p.m. Ms. Ermellina Lanzillo was in her house near Grosseto, Italy looking for her cat, when she saw from her window a strange entity standing in her garden. The being appeared fat but had narrow shoulders, ape-like eyes, and a head like a diving helmet. At first she was paralyzed with terror, but she was able to regain self-control when called by her niece and withdrew from the window. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 320; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-121, citing Vallee Source ID: Johnson_7189 Source: Johnson ### Event 7016 (0FA3DA67) Date: 10/27/1954 Description: Several sightings and close encounters occurred this day in France and Italy, and a photograph was taken of a UFO in Und, Hungary. On this night in the Chicama Valley of Peru a brilliant disc flashed in the sky, moved slowly at first, then sped up, dropped diagonally, then hovered in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_7184 Source: Johnson ### Event 7017 (15C68FEA) Date: 10/27/1954 Time: 2315 Description: On Route N40, the Mayor's secretary saw for 15 min a bright, cigar-shaped object, flying very low and following the turns of the road at 20 m altitude. Suddenly it tumed at a right angle from the road and flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Oye-Plage, France Source ID: Magnonia_319 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7018 (6FB871C2) Date: 10/27/1954 Time: 2330 Description: Near Grosseto, Ermellina Lanzillo, who was looking for her cat, saw from her window a strange entity standing in the garden. The being appeared fat and had narrow shoulders, apelike eyes, and a head like a diving helmet. Paralyzed with terror, she regained self-control when called by her niece and withdrew from the window. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 94 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Grosseto, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_320 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7019 (6850AD0A) Date: 10/27/1954 Description: A shop owner and his employee felt an electric shock as a very bright object flying very low stopped the engine and turned off the lights on their car in Linzeux, France. In Mezieres, France two policemen on bicycles saw a craft which took off from a field. They noted that the cows in the field appeared to be afraid, bellowing and grouping in the pasture. They saw a trail of sparks trailing from the object about 5 meters in length, heard a whistling, purring noise as it moved away. The minimum distance to the object was 150 m. They found that a fence had been damaged. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 314 & 315; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 204; UNICAT, case # 424, citing Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 200-201 Source ID: Johnson_7185 Source: Johnson ### Event 7020 (FBD16B14) Date: 10/27/1954 Description: 1:30 p.m. More than 10,000 soccer fans witness two luminous discs during a game at Florence, Italy. A large amount of “white filaments” falls that clings to everything. Engineering student Alfredo Jacopozzi collects samples in a jar and takes it to Prof. Cozzi at the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Florence. The lab finds the samples have a “fibrous structure, with mechanical resistance to contraction and torsion, burns rapidly, leaving a transparent residue.” It contains calcium, silicon, aluminum, magnesium, iron, and boron. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Italy, Too!](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20%28BFSB%29/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20-%20No%2007%20-%201954-55%20Winter.pdf)” Flying Saucer News, no. 7 \(Winter 1954–1955\): 6; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 101; Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, no. 1 \(August 2008\): 5–6; 1Pinotti 63–64 Source ID: Eberhart_2609 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7021 (FEB667DE) Date: 10/27/1954 Description: Headlights and motor failed, passengers felt ''electric shock"; UFO passed ahead of car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Linzeux (near), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1772 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7022 (A37296C3) Date: 10/27/1954 Description: Policemen saw a craft, which took off from the ground. No details were given. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mezieres, France Source ID: Magnonia_315 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7023 (0E3E593A) Date: 10/27/1954 Description: At two o'clock in the afternoon in Ciolica Alta, Italy a young man named Fabrizio Bruni heard a strange hissing sound and saw an object in a field that was emitting a blinding glare. It was stationary, hovering one meter above the ground, and seemed transparent. The witness fell to the ground "because of his strong emotions" experiencing thae sight of sruch a ts. The object took off vertically and suddenly, leaving a trail. Very white, glistening threads were found on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 316 Source ID: Johnson_7186 Source: Johnson ### Event 7024 (411CCCEE) Date: 10/27/1954 Description: A shop owner and his employee felt an electric shock as a very bright object flying very low stopped the engine and turned off the lights on their car. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 92; M 204 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Linzeux, France Source ID: Magnonia_314 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7025 (150BFD60) Date: 10/27/1954 Description: The close encounter experiences continued unabated during that evening. At 7:30 p.m. farmer Gilbert Hee, in Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet, France was gathering pears when he suddenly saw an elongated object with a light at both ends resting in the pasture. He didn't dare get closer to investigate, but he did see cows gathering around the object. A minute later, the lights on the object went out, and the witness lost interest and went home. Two hours later, an 18-year-old man named Cheradame fell from his motorcycle when it suddenly failed at the same spot, and alerted neighbors saw the object again. It had moved only slightly and two occupants were seen. They were short, about one meter tall, and walked in a stiff fashion. They had on clothes resembling bright armor. They vanished suddenly, and the craft took off without making a sound. At 8:30 p.m. a schoolboy and his school director saw a UFO on the ground in Moussey, France. Triangular ground traces were reported. At 11:15 p.m. in Oye-Plage, France on Route N40, the Mayor's secretary saw a bright, cigar-shaped object for 15 minutes. It was flying very low and following the turns of the road at 20 meters altitude. It suddenly tumed at a right angle from the road and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 317-319; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-120, citing Vallee Source ID: Johnson_7187 Source: Johnson ### Event 7026 (E6A285C8) Date: 10/28/1954 Description: In Padua (Padova), Italy three witnesses watched an eight meter long ovoid object hover just 12 meters over a tree at 9:00 p.m. It directed a beam of light at the house, and one of the witness's eyes were red and irritated for days following the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4088; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO catalogue Source ID: Johnson_7216 Source: Johnson ### Event 7027 (B7132BB6) Date: 10/28/1954 Description: There are several reports for this day from France and Italy and one from Japan. To view the distribution of reports, click on map. In Japan, Olen C. Cook and James W. Brown, both military pilots, viewed a round or oval object approaching the Miho AFB at 5:32 p.m. after sunset. The object was silhouetted against the clouds, and climbed and turned to the north. It entered a cloud but did not emerge. It was viewed through binoculars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3281; UNICAT database, case 780 Source ID: Johnson_7215 Source: Johnson ### Event 7028 (EE12EDA7) Date: 10/28/1954 Description: Brilliant white, round-oval object climb in front of clouds (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3281) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miho AB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1774 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7029 (19AE91A2) Date: 10/28/1954 Description: Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, American Ambassador, others sighted luminous, round UFO. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rome, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_1773 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7030 (2443F764) Date: 10/28/1954 Description: Three luminous UFOs soar over Rome, Italy, seen by Associated Press reporter Maurizio Andreolo and US Ambassador [Clare Booth Luce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare%5FBoothe%5FLuce). Some witnesses report “fine cotton or wool particles” falling from them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 212–213; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 91; 1Pinotti 64 Source ID: Eberhart_2611 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7031 (1319FBF5) Date: 10/28/1954 Description: Hoaxed report of a landed UFO and occupants at Tradate, Italy, near Milan. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 108–109](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/108/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) [History: 1954 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 89; 1Pinotti 64 Source ID: Eberhart_2610 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7032 (C5BC646A) Date: 10/28/1954 Time: 5:32 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF pilots Lt. Col. O.C. Cook and Lt. J.W. Brown, on ground using 7x50 binoculars. One brilliant white, round-oval object climbed in front of clouds, brightened, turned 90 to the north. Seen for 45 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Miho Air Base, Japan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_372 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7033 (6431841D) Date: 10/28/1954 Description: At the same time in Chatel-Blanc, Doubs, France a group of nocturnal lights zigzagged through the sky and may have landed, but the witness fled the scene. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4090, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 123 Source ID: Johnson_7220 Source: Johnson ### Event 7034 (6776AF32) Date: 10/28/1954 Description: At ten p.m., on or about this date, according to the Milan, Italy newspaper Milano Notte dated October 29, 1954 a large number of witnesses in Tradate watched a saucer land on tripod landing gear, and saw three humanoids emerge who spoke in a gutteral, uncomprehensible language. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Milano Notte, October 29, 1954; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0330; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 191 Source ID: Johnson_7219 Source: Johnson ### Event 7035 (DF8D9408) Date: 10/28/1954 Description: In Thoury, Allier, France an orange football shaped object bounced up and down, then blinked out at 9:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4089; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #128 Source ID: Johnson_7218 Source: Johnson ### Event 7036 (4A0F87E0) Date: 10/28/1954 Description: Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, American Ambassador to Italy, and others sighted a luminous, round UFO. Angel hair residue reportedly fell to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 100; Charles A. Maney, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 59; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_7217 Source: Johnson ### Event 7037 (C048901D) Date: 10/29/1954 Description: At nine o'clock in the evening four Portuguese nationals at the airport on Terciera Island in the Azores sighted a UFO shaped like a stovepipe. It had a central bulge and short wings; they estimated it was 10 in length, three feet in diameter, and had wings three feet long. The wings of the object had concave wingtips, and it was gray in color. The UFO made a gargling sound when hovering, then disappeared into the glare of the airplane's landing lights. The sighting lasted 4-5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3287; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos files, newspaper clipping dated November 3, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_7270 Source: Johnson ### Event 7038 (8476F6F7) Date: 10/29/1954 Description: At 6:00 p.m. the crew of a U. S. Air Force C-47D transport plane flying over the Philippines saw a long narrow bright blue oblong object emitting deep ­orange sparks from the front and rear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website Source ID: Johnson_7269 Source: Johnson ### Event 7039 (32A7203C) Date: 10/29/1954 Description: At 2:25 p.m. several workers in a field in Palagonia, Italy sighted a luminous translucent disc-shaped object with two red lights on top descend and then hover above them. From inside of the object an unknown creature (not described) could be seen staring at the workers. As the creature scrutinized them they became frightened. The object suddenly descended then shot back up into the sky, emitting a very loud sound as it quickly disappeared from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1598; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database Source ID: Johnson_7268 Source: Johnson ### Event 7040 (2DED1FC2) Date: 10/29/1954 Description: At 7:45 a.m. in Mesples, France a 14-year-old boy sought asylum in the farmhouse owned by Mrs. Gentil, screaming that he was being chased by a flying saucer. A disc three times the apparent diameter of the sun, red and purple in color, and spinning rapidly, was seen descending swiftly toward the ground. It then vanished. There was an investigation of the incident by the local police. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 240, case 321; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 232 Source ID: Johnson_7267 Source: Johnson ### Event 7041 (C747FA41) Date: 10/29/1954 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a glowing cylindrical object was seen along the roadside in Coulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. It had a row of portholes on its side, four tubes and four fins, and took off vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4092, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 124 Source ID: Johnson_7266 Source: Johnson ### Event 7042 (2364F1C1) Date: 10/29/1954 Description: Grey object, shaped like a stovepipe (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3287) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Terciera Islands, Azores Source ID: NICAP_DB_1776 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7043 (F829367E) Date: 10/29/1954 Time: 9 PM Description: Witnesses: four Portuguese nationals. One object, shaped like a stovepipe with a center bulge and short wings (10' long, 3' in diameter, 3' wings) having concave wingtips, and grey colored. Made a gargling sound when hovering, then disappeared in the glare of airplane landing lights. Sighting lasted 4-5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Terciera Islands, Azores Source ID: BerlinerBBU_373 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7044 (DCB6C003) Date: 10/29/1954 Description: Long narrow bright blue object emitting deep-orange sparks (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: SE of Taiwan, Taiwan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1775 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7045 (91CABB27) Date: 10/29/1954 Time: 0745 Description: A 14-year-old child sought asylum in the farmhouse owned by Mrs. Gentil, crying that he had been chased by a saucer. A disk three times as large as the sun, red and purple, spinning rapidly, was seen descending swiftly toward the ground and then it vanished. Investigation by local police. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mesples, France Source ID: Magnonia_321 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7046 (E7E699FC) Date: 10/30/1954 Description: 1:00 p.m. UFO researcher [Alberto Perego](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/alberto-perego/) is driving past the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy, when he notices a crowd of about 100 people gazing up at the sky. He sees two “white dots” moving toward the south then vanish in opposite directions. Later, two other objects appear and move to the north at an altitude of about 6,500 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alberto Perego, “[The Great ‘Cross’ above the Vatican,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2015.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 15 \(June 1973\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_2612 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7047 (EBA8A8CC) Date: 10/30/1954 Time: 0930 Description: Two objects were seen by hunters. One touched the ground 50 m away. It was rhomboidic, and from the bottom a cylinder was hanging. A peculiar sound could be heard. The object shifted its position and the cylinder hit trees, bouncing three times. Then the craft gained altitude and flew away, leaving a bluish trail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 82 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Muro Lucano, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_322 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7048 (F676E79B) Date: 10/30/1954 Description: Two UFOs were seen by hunters in Muro Lucano, Italy. One touched the ground 50 meters away. It was rhomboid in shape, and a cylinder was hanging from the bottom. A peculiar sound could also be heard. The object shifted its position and the cylinder hit trees, bouncing three times. The craft then gained altitude and flew away, leaving a bluish trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 240, case 322 Source ID: Johnson_7299 Source: Johnson ### Event 7049 (B64DE650) Date: 10/30/1954 Description: Twenty eight kilometers north of Tapas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil at 11:35 p.m. four lights approached, then surrounded a car until the four witnesses drove away. The UFO changed color from white to blue to violet to orange to red. When the round lights on the object changed color they saw the shape was that of either a dome or sphere. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case # 558 citing Olavo T. Fontes Source ID: Johnson_7300 Source: Johnson ### Event 7050 (466D8DAB) Date: 10/31/1954 Description: Mr. P. Petit and his employee, Mr. Tillier, with shop owner Mr. Pecquet, saw an oval object on the ground in Corrompu, Somme, France. When it took off the lights of a tractor went out. It measured about 4.5 meters (15 feet) in length and emitted a bright light similar to a welder's torch. It came back, turned, and flew off toward the southwest. It reportedly made the same noise as a swarm of bees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 240, case 323; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_7329 Source: Johnson ### Event 7051 (4F0CC56E) Date: 10/31/1954 Description: Near Long, P. Petit and his employee, Mr. Tillier, with a shop owner, Mr. Pecquet, saw an oval object on the ground. When it took off, the lights of a tractor went out. It measured about 4.5 m, emitted a bright light similar to a welder's torch. It came back, turned, and flew to the southwest. It made the same noise as a swarm of bees. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Corrompu, France Source ID: Magnonia_323 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7052 (11FC5E2C) Date: 11/1954 Description: The Hungarian government gets an “expert” to state that UFOs do not exist because all reports “originate in bourgeois countries, where they are invented by the capitalist warmongers.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 238](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/238/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2615 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7053 (C9ED288D) Date: 11/1954 Description: Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) summons Col. [John O’Mara](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-WAS/OMara.htm) from Dayton and directs him to clear up any confusion about [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s use of USAF data. O’Mara writes Eickhoff and says he had misunderstood and that Keyhoe’s book does contain officially released Air Force UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), p. 231 Source ID: Eberhart_2614 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7054 (48EDE724) Date: 11/1/1954 Description: 10:40 p.m. Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos is driving at a spot called Curva del Obispo 42 kilometers from A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, when his engine stalls and the lights go out. He sees a large glowing red object near the road. After a while it moves upwards with a “soft explosion.” At the same time, the radio-telegraph station in A Coruña is affected by severe interference and static. Probable meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Antonio Ribera, “[A UFO Survey of Spain:](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1963%2CJan-Feb%2CV%209%2CN%201.pdf) [More Evidence,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1963%2CJan-Feb%2CV%209%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 9, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1963\): 16; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 18; Juan Carlos Victorio, “[El ‘platillo volante’ de](http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2018/04/el-platillo-volante-de-ordenes-coruna.html) [Órdenes \(A Coruña\),](http://misteriosdelaire.blogspot.com/2018/04/el-platillo-volante-de-ordenes-coruna.html)” Misterios del Aire, April 17, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_2618 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7055 (DE9DFA2A) Date: 11/1/1954 Description: 6:30 a.m. Rosa Lotti Dainelli sets out for the church at the castle of Cennina, Arezzo, Italy. As she passes through a wooded area, she sees a spindle-shaped object standing upright next to a cypress tree. It has two portholes and a little door, through which she can see two chairs. Two little men come out from behind the object; they are dressed in gray suits, cloaks that come down to their waists, and red helmets. They speak in an unintelligible language and snatch flowers from her hands and throw them inside the UFO. Dainelli flees, glancing back only once. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 228–229; 1Pinotti 65–74; Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “[The](http://www.noufors.com/the%5F1954%5FCennina%5Flanding%5Fand%5Fencounter%5Fwith%5Fhumanoids.html) [1954 Cennina Landing and Encounter with Humanoids](http://www.noufors.com/the%5F1954%5FCennina%5Flanding%5Fand%5Fencounter%5Fwith%5Fhumanoids.html)”; Società Cooperativa Dramatica Filarmonica di Ambra, “[Incontro con umanoidi di Rosa Dainelli nei Lotti](http://www.ambrafilarmonica.it/archivio/cennina%5Fufo/cennina%5F1954.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2617 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7056 (5C2A65E6) Date: 11/1/1954 Description: 6:00 a.m. Jack Holloway sees a large, round object that leaves a vapor trail that sprays sparks and moves at high speed for a few seconds to the south of Salem, Oregon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_2616 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7057 (E34FA93F) Date: 11/1/1954 Description: At 3:30 p.m. a farmer in Modigliana, Emilia-Romagna, Italy named Adelmo Monti saw a “dark spot” just over the ground, about 500 meters away from him. The object had an apparent diameter of one meter and was surrounded by a number of small cylinders. Monti observed a “very tiny, hard to make out figure” to one side of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0332; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1567, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_7366 Source: Johnson ### Event 7058 (AE1FB2D7) Date: 11/1/1954 Description: A fisherman, G. Seenza, was on the Dese River in Mogliano Veneto, Treviso, Italy on this foggy night placing nets in the water. He noticed a greenish light through the thick fog. Because there were no houses in the area, Sr. Seenza began shouting in order to make contact with the people he thought were associated with the light. When he got no reply he decided to get closer. Seenza sighted a mushroom-shaped object that had landed on the river bank. The object was emitting a green light and around it there were several small stocky beings. They were moving back and forth in an erratic manner. Seenza shouted again and made gestures so as to be noticed, but was unsuccessful. Then suddenly, the object silently took off straight up. Some beams of silver colored light emanated from the object’s “stem” illuminating the surrounding area. The object made aerial maneuvers and then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1568, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_7367 Source: Johnson ### Event 7059 (DD66FC05) Date: 11/1/1954 Description: At 10:40 p.m. taxi driver Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos' cab broke down in Ordenes, La Coruna, Spain. He saw a strange white spherical object take off, estimated to be six meters in diameter, while at the same time all the dogs in the area were barking. Other witnesses nearby reported seeing the UFO, estimated to have been 400 meters away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 15, citing Oscar Rey; UNICAT, case # 437 Source ID: Johnson_7368 Source: Johnson ### Event 7060 (51FA62A6) Date: 11/1/1954 Time: 0730 Description: A 40-year-old lady going to a cemetery suddenly observed an object, shaped like two cones with a common base, resting on a grassy space. Two small seats were visible inside the lower cone. From behind the object appared two dwarfs, 1 m tall, wearing gray coveralls and reddish helmets. Speaking words she could not understand, and with smiles that showed fine white teeth, they took a pot of flowers from the witness and flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Poggio d'Ambra, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_324 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7061 (CCEEF51C) Date: 11/1/1954 Description: At 6:30 a.m. Rosa Lotti Dainelli, age 40, was walking into Cennina, Toscana, Italy carrying her stockings and shoes, and a bunch of carnations on her way to visit the cemetery, when she suddenly observed an object, shaped like double cone with a common base, resting vertically on a grassy space. Two small seats were visible inside the lower cone. From behind the object appeared two dwarfs, each about one meter tall, who approached her with friendly expressions, the older one laughing. They wore a sort of gray, tight fitting, one-piece coverall that covered their feet, short gray cloaks, and doublets with shiny buttons; on their heads were reddish helmets with what looked like leather earflaps. They were speaking in an unintelligible language that sounded like Chinese, ‘liu, lai, loi.” Their mouths showed strong, rather protruding white teeth. Approaching Sr. Dainelli, they abruptly snatched the carnations from her and one of her stockings, wrapped the flowers in the stocking, and then threw them into the “spindle” shaped UFO. Then one of them took out a brown wrapped circular object, carrying it in the crook of its arm. Lotti ran away, and when she looked back, after running 100 yards, she saw that the little men were still there. A stonemason, R. Berti, saw the object, which he described as a luminous “rocket,” rise up into the air. A deep hole in the ground was later found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sergio Conti, FSR, September-October 1972, p. 11; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-123 (A0331); UNICAT, case # 615; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 241, case # 324 Source ID: Johnson_7365 Source: Johnson ### Event 7062 (DB016CED) Date: 11/1/1954 Description: At 11:45 p.m. a red ovoid object buzzed a man on a motorcycle at a low altitude on a road near Bucine, Tuscany, Italy. It had a blinding light that illuminated the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database Source ID: Johnson_7369 Source: Johnson ### Event 7063 (B43E2EDF) Date: 11/2/1954 Description: At 10:30 a.m. Maurilio Braga Godoi left the Santo Amaro, Brazil streetcar terminal and started to walk home. The area was deserted at that hour, and when he arrived at a street corner he was surprised to see a large circular object sitting in an empty lot between two houses. The UFO was 90 to 120 feet in diameter and surrounded by a strange bluish-red or violet glow. Curious, he decided to investigate and approached. He soon realized it was much larger than he originally thought and became somewhat apprehensive. It was like nothing he had ever seen before and he thought about going to the police to report it. He felt like running but felt rooted to the ground. He tried to call for help but no sound would come from his mouth. This strange sensation persisted for awhile but finally left him. Godoi noticed that there was an open sliding door in the object, and he went in. He saw a large circular room illuminated by a soft light. He saw no lamps. There was no one in sight and the craft seemed to be deserted. At the center was an oddly shaped table and on it were charts and maps. One of these was a map of the South American continent and it had a glowing or phosphorescent quality. Upon closer examination he noticed little mushroom-shaped symbols scattered about the map.

He had just finished scrutinizing the map when he looked up and confronted three men. They seemed normal in appearance except that they were less than five feet tall. They had dark brown skin, short black hair, and were dressed in one-piece garments like an overall, which were light gray in color. Each wore a belt around his waist which appeared to support an object that Godoi worried might be a weapon. They made no move toward Godoi, but stood staring at him, occasionally conversing among themselves in an unknown language. He noticed that the "K" sound was repeated quite often at the beginning of words more than other sounds.Bynowhisfear had returned and he tried to converse with them to convince them that he meant no harm, but they were expressionless and continued to stare at him intently. He suddenly became aware that, without intention, he was backing out of the craft, literally dragging his feet backwards one step after another. They made no attempt to stop him. When he reached the door he jumped to the ground and started to run away. When about 30 feet away he turned to look back and saw that the craft was now hovering about 30 feet above the ground, having at the bottom center a spinning "screw without end." The UFO climbed silently at high speed with a violet glow around its edges. The witness was examined by several psychiatrists in Sao Paulo who concluded that he showed no signs of mental illness. The case is listed as an "unknown" by the Brazilian Air Force. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, pp. 198-199 Source ID: Johnson_7413 Source: Johnson ### Event 7064 (BC0B43DA) Date: 11/2/1954 Description: 10:30 a.m. Taxi driver Maurilio Braga Godoi leaves the streetcar trailer at Santo Amaro, a suburb of São Paulo, Brazil, and starts to walk home. When he arrives at the corner of Rua Andaguara, he is startled to find a glowing, circular object landed in an empty lot. It is about 90–120 feet in diameter and surrounded in a violet glow. He approaches it hesitantly from 60 feet away, feeling like running but he is rooted to the spot and is unable to call for help. The anxiety dissipates, and he walks toward it again, noticing a sliding door on the object. He goes inside, entering a circular room illuminated by a soft light. On a table he sees some maps, including one of South America with mushroom-shaped marks on it. He looks up and sees three humanoids less than 5 feet tall with dark brown skin and dressed in a light gray coverall and a belt that holds what might be a weapon. They appear to be conversing in an unknown language. He tries talking to them, but they don’t understand. He backs out of the object, dragging his feet. He jumps out of the door and runs away. Looking back at the object from 30 feet away, he sees it is hovering 30 feet above the ground then takes off swiftly and silently. Godoi is examined by psychiatrists, who find him neither neurotic nor psychotic. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967, [pp. 198–199](https://archive.org/details/flyingsauceroccu00lore/page/202/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2619 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7065 (06AD3E80) Date: 11/2/1954 Time: 1800 Description: Two students, Pietro Alberini and Pericle Sacchi, who were hunting, saw a dwarf 1 m tall with a "rubber" head and a flexible tube connecting his face to a cylindrial container on his back. When they came close to it, the being wrapped itself in a bluish cloud. The witnesses ran away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 90 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cremona, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_325 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7066 (7291A317) Date: 11/2/1954 Description: A green disc landed on a farm near Viomenil-Bataille, France at 6:15 a.m. It left no physical traces, but there were independent witnesses to the event, who reported seeing a second disc fly over heading quickly to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 125 Source ID: Johnson_7412 Source: Johnson ### Event 7067 (112A3537) Date: 11/3/1954 Description: At 6:00 a.m. a reportedly reliable witness encountered a thick fog in Palavas, Herault, France. Inside was a hovering blue, disc-shaped UFO. It stayed stationary a short while, and then shot straight up at an extremely fast speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4122, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 223 Source ID: Johnson_7425 Source: Johnson ### Event 7068 (CA950CDB) Date: 11/3/1954 Time: 0700 Description: Maroc-Presse reported that one of its employees, Mr. E., driver of a delivery truck, "a man of sane judgment and excellent eyesight," observed an object flying over the Beth River. "I am positive it was not an aircraft or any known machine but a circular, flat craft which had the appearance of copper. It flew normally for some time, then it suddenly flipped over. Therefore, I was able to see the whole disk and was amazed when it came down into a field where it landed on edge, very gently. Almost immediately it rose into the sky at great speed, resumed its horizontal position and was soon lost to sight." Type: ufo sighting Reference: 95 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Oued Beth, Morocco Source ID: Magnonia_326 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7069 (C89BE73E) Date: 11/3/1954 Description: At 6:30 a.m. in Burleson, Texas a witness named McDowell saw a 10-foot diameter disc-shaped object with a red-orange glow. It flew silently with trails of white sparks for more than two minutes. It was gone in a sudden burst of speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_7427 Source: Johnson ### Event 7070 (97463B49) Date: 11/3/1954 Description: Two dwarf humanoids wearing metallic suits with helmets were seen in a thick fog at 6:30 a.m. at a farm in Mareil-sur-Loir, France. They glided over ground. There is the possibility that the two witnesses experienced an episode of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4123, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 224 Source ID: Johnson_7426 Source: Johnson ### Event 7071 (25659462) Date: 11/3/1954 Description: Oued Beth, Morocco. Maroc Presse reported that one of its employees, Mr. E., the driver of a delivery truck and "a man of sane judgment and excellent eyesight," observed an object flying over the Beth River. "I am positive it was not an aircraft or any known machine but a circular, flat craft which had the appearance of copper. It flew normally for some time, and then it suddenly flipped over. Therefore, I was able to see the whole disc and was amazed when it came down into a field where it landed on edge, very gently. Almost immediately it rose into the sky at great speed, resumed its horizontal position and was soon lost to sight." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 241; Maroc-Presse, November 4, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_7424 Source: Johnson ### Event 7072 (099EF289) Date: 11/4/1954 Description: A laborer named Jose Alves of Pontal, São Paulo, Brazil, is night fishing in the Rio Pardo in a deserted spot. He sees a silvery, glowing UFO like two washbowls placed on top of each other, closing in from a westerly direction and wobbling. It lands near him and three little men emerge from a window, 3 feet tall with dark brown skin. They are dressed in white clothes with tightly fitting skullcaps, and collect samples of grass, herbs, and leaves, as well as water, which they put into a metal tube. They jump back into the object, which takes off vertically. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, [URECAT](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-11-04-brazil-pontal.htm)[,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-11-04-brazil-pontal.htm) November 22, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2620 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7073 (533EDD9D) Date: 11/4/1954 Alternate date: 11/7/1954 Description: 3:15 p.m. A motorcyclist, Gianni Cambosu, sees a silvery, disc-shaped object about 50 feet in diameter land near the road at Monte Ortobene, Sardinia, Italy. He swerves sharply to avoid it and falls off his cycle. A taxi driver, Francesco Tanca, stops to observe the object, which is making a soft whirring sound before it takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, [pp. 237–238](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersunc00wilk/page/236/mode/2up); 1Pinotti 76 Source ID: Eberhart_2621 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7074 (A57F23B1) Date: 11/4/1954 Description: At 6:30 a.m. a six-meter wide diameter disc was seen spinning in the sky over a farm in Le Sourn, Morbihan department, France. It flew toward the south, making multiple landings and emitting beams of light. The farm animals were frightened by it. The incident lasted 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4129, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 125 Source ID: Johnson_7457 Source: Johnson ### Event 7075 (2421ECDB) Date: 11/4/1954 Description: At quarter past three in the afternoon on the island of Sardinia a domed disc-shaped UFO, estimated to be 15 meters in diameter, was observed on the roadside in Nuoro, Italy near Monte Ortobene. It had grates on the bottom. After eight minutes it took off vertically making a noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alberto Perego, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 5; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_7458 Source: Johnson ### Event 7076 (405C9ECC) Date: 11/4/1954 Description: On this evening Jose Alves was fishing on the river in Pontal, Sao Paulo state, Brazil when he saw a luminous object come "wobbling" down from the sky. It was 3-4 meters (10-15 feet) in diameter, and it looked like "two washbowls joined together." It came down and hovered six feet above the ground and only a few feet away from the witness. Three small dwarfish men with dark skin and wearing white uniforms with "skull caps" emerged from the disc. They collected foliage and a sample of the river water in a metal tube. They then jumped back in the craft. The UFO rose vertically, making no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4136, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 146; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 50; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-126 (A0338), citing Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, July 1957, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_7459 Source: Johnson ### Event 7077 (BCEF26CA) Date: 11/4/1954 Description: On or about this date, at night in the Amacuro Delta, Venezuela Fernando de Moya, age 39, was hunting from his launch, when he saw a luminous sphere hovering six feet above the ground. The two Indians with him fled in terror, but he approached and saw two three-foot tall figures with round heads andlarge eyes running back and forth to the sphere. They ran making little jumps, and picking up various things. They entered through one of two windows in the UFO. When they saw De Moya, they jumped into the object, which ascended vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-127 (A0338), citing APRO Bulletin, November 1954; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 68 Source ID: Johnson_7460 Source: Johnson ### Event 7078 (47F684D3) Date: 11/4/1954 Time: night Description: Jose Alves was fishing in the Pardo River when he suddenly saw a craft approach with a wobbling motion and landing near him. Shaped like two washbowls placed together, it was about 4.5 m in diameter. Too terrified to move, the witness saw three little men, dressed in white, wearing tight-fitting skull caps, with dark skin, come out of the craft, gather vegetables and water and fly away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 33; Lor. I 44 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pontal, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_327 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7079 (2A942C25) Date: 11/5/1954 Description: Orange elliptical object with blue "portholes" observed. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lookout Point, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1777 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7080 (DCB8F70C) Date: 11/5/1954 Description: La Coruna, Spain. Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos, whose car had broken down, saw a large, shining disc rise 150 meters away with a slight noise like an explosion. It flew away at fantastic speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 328, citing Le Parisien, November 8, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_7466 Source: Johnson ### Event 7081 (5888A1AB) Date: 11/5/1954 Description: In La Roche-en-Brenil, France at 10:10 a.m. Raymond R. saw a craft that made a noise like a large transformer and gave off an orange light, land in a pasture. Three men in dark coveralls were standing nearby. One was holding a sort of box, "which emitted a beam of light three meters long." The other two were holding objects that looked like weapons. Another witness fled and felt pricklings on his face as he ran. Four photographs of the scene were taken. Traces included a whitish substance and a circle three meters in diameter where the ground had an ashlike appearance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 329; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 445 Source ID: Johnson_7467 Source: Johnson ### Event 7082 (313A9AE4) Date: 11/5/1954 Description: Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos, whose car had broken down, saw a large, shining disk rise 150 m away with a slight noise like an explosion and fly away at fantastic speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 96 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: La Coruna, Spain Source ID: Magnonia_328 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7083 (3A27FAC3) Date: 11/5/1954 Time: 1010 Description: Raymond R. saw a craft, which made a noise like a large transformer and gave off an orange light, land in a pasture. Three men in dark coveralls were standing nearby. One was holding a sort of box, "which emitted a beam of light three meters long." The other two were holding objects that looked like weapons. Another witness fled and felt pricklings on his face as he ran. Four photographs of the scene were taken. Traces: a whitish substance and a circle 3 m in diameter where the ground had an ashlike appearance. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: La Roche-en-Brenil, France Source ID: Magnonia_329 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7084 (E2F40037) Date: 11/5/1954 Description: 10:09 a.m. A witness in La Roche-en-Brénil, Côte d’Or, France, sees an orange object making a noise like a generator land in a nearby pasture. He notices three men standing near it. One is holding a box that emits a beam of light and the other two hold objects that look like weapons. Physical traces are found at the landing site: a white substance and a circle 10 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/5nov1954larocheenbrenil.htm)” April 16, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2622 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7085 (5855D2AD) Date: 11/6/1954 Description: Ray Stanford contacts spacecraft with many witnesses Type: ce3 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Padre Island, TX Source ID: Maj2_137 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7086 (6B632A4E) Date: 11/6/1954 Description: At 11:00 a.m. in the morning Alberto Perego watched about 100 white spots traveling in the sky over Rome, Italy with short white trails. They flew in formations of two, three, four, seven, and twelve for over a two hour period. They often would form lozenge-shaped formations of four objects ov V-shaped formations of seven. They executed curves, and an "angel hair" residue fell to the ground. On the same day several unknown radar blips were tracked over England for a two hour period. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alberto Perego, Flying Saucers, March-April 1970, p. 17; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_7488 Source: Johnson ### Event 7087 (47B0088A) Date: 11/6/1954 Description: 11:00 a.m. [Alberto Perego](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/alberto-perego/) is in the Tuscolana district in Rome, Italy, when he sees dozens of small, white objects in the sky at a height of 4–5 miles. They are moving at variable speeds, as high as 750–850 mph. At first he calculates that there are about 50 of them, but later realizes there are 100. Sometimes they are single, other times in pairs, threes, fours, sevens, or twelves. Frequently they are in diamond formations of four or V- formations of seven. At 12:00 noon, a formation of 20 objects appears from the east, followed by another 20 moving from the west. The two V-formations converge until their vertices form a St. Andrews cross, with 10 objects to each bar. The convergence takes place over the Trastevere–Monte Mario district above Vatican City. The cross then performs a three-quarter turn on its axis, turning into an X-formation, then breaks off into two separate curves that take off in opposite directions. Another concentration of about 100 objects appears 10 minutes later and Perego notices shining filaments falling from the sky. He grabs a handful of the glassy substance, which evaporates in a few hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alberto Perego, “[The Great ‘Cross’ above the Vatican,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2015.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 15 \(June 1973\): 4–5; 1Pinotti 76–80 Source ID: Eberhart_2623 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7088 (065E7763) Date: 11/7/1954 Description: In Monte Ortobene, Sardinia, Italy a motorcyclist saw a disc-shaped machine land near the road. He tried to turn too sharply and fell off his motocycle 50 meters away from it. A taxi driver stopped to observe the object, which gave off a soft whirring sound and soon took off. Farmers on the other side of the mountain saw it fly away. The disc, about 15 meters in diameter, was made of a silvery, rough metal. It supported a dome and showed several portholes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 242 Source ID: Johnson_7522 Source: Johnson ### Event 7089 (3DF169B8) Date: 11/7/1954 Time: 1515 Description: A motorcyclist saw a disk-shaped machine land near the road. He tried to turn too sharply and fell 50 m away. A taxi driver stopped to observe the object, which gave off a soft whirring sound and soon took off. Farmers on the other side of the mountain saw it fly away. The disk, about 15 m in diameter, was made of a silvery, rough metal. It supported a dome and showed several portholes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 97; Wilkins U 237 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Monte Ortobene, Sardinia Source ID: Magnonia_330 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7090 (7A46D9D5) Date: 11/7/1954 Description: 11:30 a.m. [Alberto Perego](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/alberto-perego/) is returning from the Tuscolana district of Rome, Italy, when he sees more formations of about 50 white objects that remain for about two-and-a-half hours. They arrive from different directions and always in formation. More filamentous material falls from the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alberto Perego, “[The Great](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2015.pdf) [‘Cross’ above the Vatican,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2015.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 15 \(June 1973\): 5; 1Pinotti 80 Source ID: Eberhart_2624 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7091 (85029401) Date: 11/8/1954 Description: At 1:00 a.m. a man in Croydon, London, England was outside looking after his rabbits when a small disc-shaped object flew over. The next day he became sick to his stomach and ended up in the hospital. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_7525 Source: Johnson ### Event 7092 (86ECCE26) Date: 11/8/1954 Description: At 10:30 a.m. a crowd of about 150 people jumped barriers to get closer to a luminous craft that had landed in the stadium in Monza, Italy. The object rested on three legs and had a dome emitting a blinding white light and supported an antenna. Two small figures dressed in white and gray, wearing transparent helmets, were seen. They spoke with guttural sounds. One of them had a black face with sort of trunk. When a man sicced a boxer dog onto the dwarfs, the animal turned around and bit him. The object rose with a shrill sound and vanished rapidly. Probable fabrication according to Italian researchers on the Project 1947 list. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 237; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 242, case 331 Source ID: Johnson_7526 Source: Johnson ### Event 7093 (50AB50CE) Date: 11/8/1954 Description: At 6:00 p.m. a number of people in the Vacheresse Forest in Voussac, France reported seeing a luminous sphere land at the edge of the forest and then become dark. The next morning, an investigation disclosed that an area 4 or 5 meters in diameter had no leaves, while the ground elsewhere was covered with them. The earth seemed to have been dug up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 238; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 243, case 332 Source ID: Johnson_7527 Source: Johnson ### Event 7094 (9A32C27C) Date: 11/8/1954 Description: At dusk in La Tessoualle, France Andre Chaillou felt pricklings in his hands, "in spite of his gloves," when a blue disc came close to his motorcycle and his electrical system failed. He was unable to move or articulate a word for several minutes. As soon as the blue light was turned off, he started again and went near the light when it reappeared 200 meters away. He saw the object, a cone 5.5 meters in size, rise vertically with a soft whistling, then fly horizontally to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 243, case 333 Source ID: Johnson_7528 Source: Johnson ### Event 7095 (AE4F868C) Date: 11/8/1954 Time: 1030 Description: A crowd of about 150 people, destroying barriers to come closer, gathered to observe a luminous craft landed in a stadium. The object rested on three legs and had a dome emitting a blinding white light and supporting an antenna. Two small figures dressed in white and gray, wearing transparent helmets, were seen. They spoke with guttural sounds. One of them had a black face with sort of trunk. When a man sicced a boxer dog onto the dwarfs, the animal turned around and bit him. The object rose with a shrill sound and vanished rapidly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins U 238 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Monza, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_331 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7096 (78D4FA92) Date: 11/8/1954 Time: 1800 Description: In the Vacheresse Forest, reliable persons reported seeing a luminous sphere land at the edge of the forest and become dark. The next morning, investigation disclosed that an area 4 or 5 m in diameter had no leaves, while the ground elsewhere was covered with them. The earth seemed to have been dug up. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Voussac, France Source ID: Magnonia_332 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7097 (D6BA5159) Date: 11/8/1954 Time: dusk Description: Andre Chaillou felt pricklings in his hands, "in spite of his gloves," when a blue disk came close to his motorcycle and his electrical system failed. He was unable to move or articulate a word for several minutes. As soon as the blue light was turned off, he started again and went near the light when it reappeared 200 m away. He saw the object, a cone 5.5 m in size, rise vertically with a soft whistling, then fly horizonally to the north. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 98 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: La Tessoualle, France Source ID: Magnonia_333 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7098 (180BDCB2) Date: 11/8/1954 Description: 6:00 p.m. Witnesses near Voussac, Allier, France, in the Vacheresse Forest watch a luminous sphere land and then dim, fading to black. Investigators find an area 12–15 feet in diameter where there are no leaves and the ground seems excavated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/8nov1954voussac.htm)” April 18, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_2625 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7099 (BE0FFD91) Date: 11/8/1954 Description: 7:30 p.m. Blacksmith André Chaillou is riding a moped one mile north of Loublande, Deux-Sèvres, France, when he notices a small blue light in front of him. His engine fails and he nearly falls off the bike. The blue dot is projecting a strong light and hovering about 6 feet in the air. He finds himself temporarily paralyzed with a tingling in his hands. The blue light goes out and he is able to move again and restart his moped, but the light reappears about 450 feet away, seemingly 18 feet long and cone-shaped. It takes off vertically with a whistling sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/8nov1954latessoualle.htm)” October 22, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2626 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7100 (EDBAE683) Date: 11/9/1954 Description: Phillip Molava, age 13, living at an orphanage in Shirley, Surrey, England at the time, had been mysteriously losing baby rabbits from his locked rabbit hutch, so he was keeping watch on it by night. At around 1:00 a.m. he noticed a small, white, discus-shaped object floating toward him at about five mph. It had no lights and no markings, and was only as big as a large plate. As it flew low over him, he jumped up trying to grab it, but could not quite reach it and it flew away. The next day, or perhaps a day later, he felt almost paralyzed all day, and was in the infirmary. That night, he was awaked in his bed when he saw a misty mass, as wide as the bed, form at the foot of the bed. It passed up the bed toward his head, “freezing” his body with cold as it passed. Then it stopped, and three figures materialized from the mist at the foot of his bed. They next moved up to him, two on one side, one on the other, and bent over him. He had the feeling they were going to help him, to “make me at ease with myself.” They were dressed in black, or dark, robes, like the habits worn by monks, so he could not see their faces, and could not describe their hands. He tried to speak to them, but they did not answer. He had no memory of their departure. The next day he felt well again. The rabbits were shortly afterwards taken from him by the orphanage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Janet & Colin Bord, FSR, November 1978, p. 16; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-36, citing Janet & Colin Bord Source ID: Johnson_7558 Source: Johnson ### Event 7101 (6120A79A) Date: 11/9/1954 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a house in Damascus, Ohio was shaken by some outside force. Next, the witness looked out and observed a 30 meter long, glowing metallic ovoid object hovering over a nearby school. When a jet circled the area, the UFO vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter N.Webb, NICAP case files; APRO Bulletin, March 1955 Source ID: Johnson_7562 Source: Johnson ### Event 7102 (DCCB6F27) Date: 11/9/1954 Description: A nine meter long, bullet-shaped cigar hovered at 30 meters altitude over a farm in Froberville, Seine-Maritime department, France. Two observers ran beneath it. The object then made a whistling sound, brightened, and shot up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 260 Source ID: Johnson_7561 Source: Johnson ### Event 7103 (27277E02) Date: 11/9/1954 Description: At 6:00 a.m. a 25 meter in diameter disc-shaped object tilted, 50 meters over a field in Inchy, Nord department, France. It then rose vertically and vanished as the witnesses approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 129 Source ID: Johnson_7559 Source: Johnson ### Event 7104 (3AE8B2C3) Date: 11/9/1954 Description: Two villagers in Bois de Villers, Belgium reported the landing of a two-meter-high "flying egg" in a pasture. Screams seemed to be emanating from it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 251; Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 334 Source ID: Johnson_7560 Source: Johnson ### Event 7105 (79AC8303) Date: 11/9/1954 Description: Two villagers reported the landing of a 2-m-high "flying egg" in a pasture. Screams seemed to emanate from it. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Wilkins U 251 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bois de Villers, Belgium Source ID: Magnonia_334 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7106 (6139F3AE) Date: 11/10/1954 Description: An agronomist and his family in their car saw a landed disk from which two men, normal in height, with long hair and coverall-like clothes, emerged and came toward the car with arms raised. As the frightened witnesses sped away, they saw the men reenter the disk, which rose and flew off at very great speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. I 42 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_335 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7107 (DEBE1F30) Date: 11/10/1954 Description: An agronomist and his family encounter a landed UFO along a road in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Two men with long hair and one-piece suits emerge and approach them with raised arms. The witnesses speed away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 268; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 48–49](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n45/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2627 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7108 (B3877F57) Date: 11/12/1954 Description: 3:00–6:00 p.m. A white, motionless object appears over Louisville, Kentucky. A radar unit 30 miles southwest of Louisville tracks the object but loses sight about 12 miles northwest of Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox. It is later sighted at Bedford, Indiana. Kentucky National Guard pilot Lt. Col. [Lee J. Merkel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3303252/lee-joseph-merkel) notifies Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, which sends an F-86 to investigate. The pilot sees nothing and returns to the base. Merkel and another National Guard pilot give chase in F-51 Mustangs, but they are also unsuccessful. Merkel says the object is moving into the wind, which is not likely for a balloon. [Henry P. Julliard](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/857079/henry-p-julliard), deputy director of Standiford Field \[now Louisville International Airport\] follows the object for 45 minutes on the weather bureau’s theodolite; he says the object has no more motion than a star and that after sundown the object turns amber. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[That ‘Thing’ in the Sky](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93930189/) [Still ‘Unidentified Object,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93930381/)” Louisville \(Ky.\) Courier-Journal, November 13, 1954, pp. 1, 12; “[Louisville Stops Work to Watch Saucer,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20I%201954-1955R.pdf)” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 9 \(December 3, 1954\): 3–4; NICAP, “[Sphere Startles Thousands](http://www.nicap.org/541112louisville%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 134](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=146&skin=2021); Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 51–52](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/50/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2629 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7109 (046AAE77) Date: 11/12/1954 Description: A spherical UFO hovered for a long period over Louisville, Kentucky. U.S. Air Force jets chased it over Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. It was also observed from the ground through a theodolite. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 134 Source ID: Johnson_7606 Source: Johnson ### Event 7110 (8FA08A7D) Date: 11/12/1954 Description: A fisherman watched a three meter wide transparent globe descend at eight o'clock in the morning, stop and hover momentarily, and then dive into the canal in Arqua'Polesine, Italy leaving behind a cloud of vapor. At eleven o'clock that same morning a Brazilian priest working at the Vatican's Castel Gandolfo mountain residence in Italy had a close encounter with two UFOs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Verga Maurizio, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue; Alberto Perego, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_7605 Source: Johnson ### Event 7111 (637FB157) Date: 11/12/1954 Description: Kentucky (Indiana & Ohio), G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kentucky (Indiana & Ohio), Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_1778 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7112 (23771910) Date: 11/12/1954 Description: 11:30 a.m. [Alberto Perego](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/alberto-perego/) watches even more formations of white objects over Rome. He has contacted the Italian air defense office, which tells him that the objects would be out of radar range. This time the objects are also observed by Fr. Zilwes, a Brazilian priest at the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alberto Perego, “[The Great ‘Cross’ above the Vatican,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2015.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 15 \(June 1973\): 5–6; 1Pinotti 81–82 Source ID: Eberhart_2628 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7113 (900A204F) Date: 11/13/1954 Description: Curitiba, Parana State, Brazil - At 3:30 a.m. Mr. Cheminot, a Brazilian railway employee, saw three short beings in tight fitting, luminous coveralls examining the railroad tracks with a lantern. When they saw him, they entered a lens-shaped craft, which rose rapidly into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, pp. 109-110; Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 33; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-129 [A0343]; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 338 Source ID: Johnson_7628 Source: Johnson ### Event 7114 (13A0B37A) Date: 11/13/1954 Description: 2:00 a.m. A witness is driving in Buchy, Seine-Maritime, France, and sees a luminous object take off as he feels a mild electric shock and is paralyzed. His car engine slows but does not stall. The object leaves, the paralysis goes away, and the car returns to normal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The 1954 French Flap,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/13nov1954buchy.htm)” October 22, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2630 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7115 (A6E40A2F) Date: 11/13/1954 Time: 0330 Description: A lens-shaped object was seen on the railroad tracks. Near it, three dwarfs wearing tight-fitting suits were looking at the tracks with a light. When the witness approached, the machine took off very fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 99; Humanoids 33 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Curitiba, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_338 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7116 (8B3AEF19) Date: 11/13/1954 Description: At the intersection of Routes N28 and N319 in Buchy, Seine-Maritime, France Mr. R. L. of Rouen saw a luminous craft take off while he feIt pricklings and was paralyzed. The engine of his car slowed down but did not stall. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paris-Normandie, November 15, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 337 Source ID: Johnson_7627 Source: Johnson ### Event 7117 (537A1953) Date: 11/13/1954 Description: At 3:30 a.m. near the local airport in Berck, Pas-de-Calais, France, Mr. Davril saw a craft shaped like a round hut 300 meters away. It took off without making any noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 336 Source ID: Johnson_7626 Source: Johnson ### Event 7118 (FA5DFDCE) Date: 11/13/1954 Description: At intersection of Routes N28 and N319, Mr. R. L., of Rouen, saw a luminous craft take off while he feIt pricklings and was paralyzed. The engine of the car slowed down but did not stall. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Buchy, France Source ID: Magnonia_337 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7119 (FA4DA9A1) Date: 11/13/1954 Time: 0330 Description: Near the local airport, Mr. Davril saw a craft like a round hut 300 m away. It took off without noise. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Berck, France Source ID: Magnonia_336 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7120 (C3BF8B37) Date: 11/14/1954 Time: afternoon Description: Amerigo Lorenzini, a farmer, saw a bright, cigar-shaped craft land near him and took cover. Out of it came three dwarfs dressed in metallic diving suits. They centered their attention on rabbits in a cage while speaking among themselves in an unknown language. Thinking they were going to steal the animals, the farmer aimed a rifle at the intruders, but it failed to fire and the witness suddenly felt so weak that he had to drop the gun. The dwarfs took the rabbits, and their craft departed, leaving a bright trail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 100 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Isola, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_339 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7121 (2AE5B839) Date: 11/14/1954 Time: night Description: Approximate date. Marcel Pipers a gardener saw a craft resting near the road give off a very bright light. His clothing was partially burned when he went close to it. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Wasmes, Belgium Source ID: Magnonia_340 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7122 (1D655268) Date: 11/14/1954 Description: 3:30 a.m. Railroad worker Jose Rodrigues comes across three figures in tight-fitting suits inspecting the ground with the help of luminous objects near railroad tracks near Urai, Paraná, Brazil. They see him and run back into the UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Railroad Men See ‘Men’ Inspecting Tracks](http://www.nicap.org/54113brazil%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2631 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7123 (42C45350) Date: 11/14/1954 Description: Two or three tractor drivers in Forli, Italy, watch a bright-red, luminous UFO approach them in a farm field. As it approaches, the engine that works by internal combustion fail, but the diesel engine still runs. The men run away; when they return, the UFO has departed. The engine that failed still causes some trouble after the sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 62–63, 145 Source ID: Eberhart_2632 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7124 (32C4336B) Date: 11/14/1954 Alternate date: 11/11/1954 Description: 7:45 p.m. Near Isola, Spezia, Italy, Amerigo \(or Americo\) Lorenzini sees a cigar-shaped UFO land and a trio of small creatures wearing diving suits emerge. They walk over to Lorenzini’s rabbit cages and stare at the animals, talking in a strange language. He runs inside to grab his gun and tries to pull the trigger as they are taking some rabbits to the UFO, but he becomes paralyzed. The UFO takes off, leaving a bright trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, pp. 20–21; 1Pinotti 88 Source ID: Eberhart_2633 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7125 (C2B55F05) Date: 11/14/1954 Description: UFO Disables One Tractor But Not The Diesel (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [541114](http://nicap.org/541114forli%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Forli, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_1779 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7126 (40EE39BB) Date: 11/14/1954 Description: On the same day in La Spezia, Italy at 7:45 p.m. a bright cigar-shaped object landed in a farmer's field. Three dwarf humanoids wearing metallic "diving suits" emerged from the craft, speaking among themselves in an unintelligible language. When the farmer became convinced that the humanoids were intent on stealing some of his rabbits, he attempted to shoot at them with his shotgun, but the gun suddenly felt heavy, failed to fire, and he was unable to move or speak, and suddenly felt so weak that he dropped the gun. The dwarfs took the rabbits, and the paralysis wore off when the UFO took off. At about the same time but in the Eastern US time zone, around 2:00 p.m., in Frederick, Maryland, another electro-magnetic interference effect case occurred. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 339; Project Blue Book Source ID: Johnson_7664 Source: Johnson ### Event 7127 (005B485A) Date: 11/14/1954 Description: On this date in 1954, a well-known UFO vehicle ignition interference case occurred in Forli, Italy. Two tractors, one diesel powered and the other powered by a gasoline-combustion engine, were driving down a farm road in the evening when a red beam of light from a dark flying object overhead swept the field, hitting both vehicles. The tractor with the gas-powered engine stalled but the diesel tractor did not. The beam of light was seen for over an hour by a large number of witnesses throughout the countryside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, p. 211. Source ID: Johnson_7663 Source: Johnson ### Event 7128 (EE96869C) Date: 11/14/1954 Time: night Description: A shange beam of red light, apparently from some flying source, was reported sweeping the countryside. As it illuminated two tractors, one of them stalled, but the other, a diesel, continued. The beam was seen for about one hour by a large number of persons. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 211 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Forli, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_341 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7129 (20F8FFC2) Date: 11/15/1954 Description: 10 gold, circular objects fly in vertical V-formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3326) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Augusta, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_1780 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7130 (4E5334F8) Date: 11/15/1954 Time: 44 PM Description: Witness: N. Gallant, manager of radio station WFAV. Ten gold, circular objects flew in vertical V-formation, straight and level for 3 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Augusta, Maine Source ID: BerlinerBBU_374 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7131 (1AD756E9) Date: 11/15/1954 Description: In Augusta, Maine 10 gold circular objects flew slowly in a vertical V formation at a low altitude at four o'clock in the afternoon. The civilian witness was named Gallant, and the sighting lasted three minutes. This is a Project Blue Book case classified as "unidentified". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3326; Don Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_7685 Source: Johnson ### Event 7132 (76A7CB63) Date: 11/17/1954 Description: 4:10 p.m. [Iden K. Zimmerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121158001/iden-k-zimmerman) is standing just under the roof of a shed by the railing of gate number six of the Willamette Falls Locks in Oregon City, Oregon. His gloved hands are resting on the railing. He feels something like “icy rain” on his hands. The rain seems to penetrate his clothing and gloves as if his arms are bare. He feels the same thing on his legs, from the knees down. Looking up, he sees a bright orange object as large as the full moon flying in a straight line from west to east. It disappears over the Crown Zellerbach Paper Mill roof across the river. He can find no trace of rain on the wooden deck or cement walks, and the moisture disappears from his clothing. A few minutes later he begins to feel dizzy and has trouble maintaining his balance. The effect wears off in about one hour. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf), NICAP, 1969, pp. 16–17 Source ID: Eberhart_2634 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7133 (F00A4391) Date: 11/17/1954 End date: 11/18/1954 Description: Blue Book head Capt. [Charles Hardin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49197803/charles-alton-hardin) and [Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) meet with Col. John M. White Jr., commander of the 4602nd AISS at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in order to help out with a guide for investigating and processing UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Col. John M. White Jr., “[Report of Visit of ATIC](http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/4602HistoryUFOs.pdf) [Representatives,](http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/4602HistoryUFOs.pdf)” November 23, 1954, in History of 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron, vol. 1, January 1– June 30, 1955, pp. 55–57 Source ID: Eberhart_2635 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7134 (0B5BAA3D) Date: 11/18/1954 Description: At six o'clock in the morning a 12-year old girl in St. Maudan, Cotes-Nord, France saw a UFO looking like "a glowing boat" land in a nearby field. Three hairy dwarf humanoids emerged from the object and began to gather apples from the nearby orchard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dan la Nuit, issue #325; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4177; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 225 Source ID: Johnson_7726 Source: Johnson ### Event 7135 (8449B4AD) Date: 11/19/1954 Description: Bright white light hover 8.5-9 mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3331) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corvallis, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_1782 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7136 (B5B3E671) Date: 11/19/1954 Description: P. J. Gunn, an assistant professor of art at Oregon State University and an ex-U.S. Navy aviation cadet, sighted a bright white light hovering over Corvallis, Oregon at 4:15 p.m. It remained stationary for 8.5 to nine minutes, then crossed 20 degrees of sky in 3-3.5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7736 Source: Johnson ### Event 7137 (59CD4780) Date: 11/19/1954 Description: DC-6 Crew Encounters Blue Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [541119](http://www.nicap.org/541119neworleans%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Orleans (130 miles ESE of), LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1781 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7138 (98690AD6) Date: 11/19/1954 Time: 4:15 PM Description: Witness: P.J. Gunn, assistant professor of art at Oregon State University and ex-U.S. Navy aviation cadet. One bright white light hovered 8.5-9 minutes, then crossed 20 of sky in 3-3.5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Corvallis, Oregon Source ID: BerlinerBBU_375 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7139 (DE26487F) Date: 11/21/1954 Description: On this night a round-shaped UFO buzzed an airliner flying over the Paraiba River near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There were more than 16 witnesses onboard, and the passengers panicked. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 26; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers - Top Secret, p. 224; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_7767 Source: Johnson ### Event 7140 (4510400D) Date: 11/21/1954 Description: 11:30 a.m. Copilot Cmdr. Armando Braulino, pilot Cmdr. Pedro Luiz Teixeira, steward, radio operator, and passengers of National Airlines Douglas PP-ANM airliner at 9,000 feet over Paraíbo do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, see a UFO formation, described as disc-shaped with cupola or dome on top, like aluminum with a polished surface. The formation is coming from the northeast at 7,200 feet and passes below the airliner at high speed. The duration is 40–50 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Shiny Objects Encountered by Airliner](http://www.nicap.org/541121rio%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2636 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7141 (47153355) Date: 11/21/1954 Description: At noon in Teignmouth, Devon, England 20 golden spheres raced across the sky in formation, causing a huge wave of radar blips. They flew off to the south out to sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4182, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_7766 Source: Johnson ### Event 7142 (E4807376) Date: 11/21/1954 Description: Shiny Objects Encountered By Airliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [541121](http://www.nicap.org/541121rio%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_1783 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7143 (10142CAB) Date: 11/22/1954 Description: Charles Laughead is forced to resign his position at Michigan State College \[now Michigan State University\] in East Lansing, Michigan, because of his flying saucer activities. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 718 Source ID: Eberhart_2637 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7144 (D5D421E0) Date: 11/22/1954 Description: 9:45 p.m. At Santa Maria Air Force Base, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, radio operator Arquimedes Fernandez sees a strange cloud above the trees, like an upside-down washbowl. It is a solid body 160 feet across, oscillating with a small light on top. Fernandez radios a report to weather headquarters at Porto Alegre. The object remains in view until his duty shift ends at 1:15 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 51–52](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n47/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, pp. 28–29 Source ID: Eberhart_2639 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7145 (82E55363) Date: 11/22/1954 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a radio operator at the Santa Maria Air Force Base, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil saw a huge, dark disc-shaped object about 30 meters in diameter hovering at treetop height. With four other persons he watched it for several hours, sometimes glowing softly, sometimes coming down almost to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July 1957; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 51; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 342 Source ID: Johnson_7793 Source: Johnson ### Event 7146 (C57223F2) Date: 11/22/1954 Description: Anor Ferreira da Silva, a bored telegraph operator in Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil, transmits a Morse code message to his friend Geraldo Bastos in Belo Horizonte, claiming that a flying saucer has crashed in a nearby quarry. His messages continue for an hour, repeatedly asking the authorities to defend the city from Martian invaders. Bastos takes the messages seriously, and a friend looking over his shoulder runs out to the nearest newspaper office to relay the news. The telephone system of Caratinga shuts down from all the press inquiries, and soon the Brazilian military investigates, finding nothing amiss in the city. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds, McFarland, 2009, pp. 114–119 Source ID: Eberhart_2638 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7147 (FFC35E93) Date: 11/22/1954 Time: 2145 Description: A radio operator at the local air base saw a huge, dark object about 30 m in diameter hovering at treetop height. With four other persons he saw it for several hours, sometimes softly glowing, sometimes coming down almost to the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. I 4511 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Santa Maria, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_342 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7148 (098D48FB) Date: 11/22/1954 Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk on flying saucers in Northwest Miami Type: lecture Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) Location: Northwest Miami, FL Source ID: Maj2_544 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7149 (8CC42DCA) Date: 11/23/1954 Description: Afternoon. A UFO follows three 10-year-old girls \(Anne Storedal, Tora Storedal, and Tora Moy Haugo\) returning home from school in Torpo, Viken County, Norway. It descends and hovers only 3 or 4 feet away from them. It is round, about 10 feet in diameter, and the bottom is black, trimmed with yellow spots which could have been lights, with a number of small “red jags.” The upper part is a transparent dome; a man who is operating controls is visible inside. He wears black trousers, a black jacket, and immense red goggles over his eyes. He stares at one of the girls. When the craft ascends it collides with a high-tension power line making a shower of sparks, and the girls run away. They notice a smell “like fried sausages.” A “streak” is found in the snow, apparently left by the craft having brushed the surface of the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 268; Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1954,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1954.pdf) p. 160 Source ID: Eberhart_2640 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7150 (A7F213C8) Date: 11/23/1954 Description: At around five o'clock in the evening two young shepherds, M. G. and P. T., age 12, were returning to their flock in Colcerasa, Macerata, Italy when they noticed that the sheep had moved from were they had left them and that their sheep dog was barking. M. G. observed three “dark colored, animal like creatures” moving between some bushes and a couple of bonfires that the shepherds had lit earlier. They also saw what looked like a small barrel, 60-70 centimeters wide by 1.5 meters long. The edges of the object were flattened. M. G. was unable to view the beings clearly; they stood approximately 35 cm tall and had rather disproportionately large, flat-topped heads. They appeared to be dressed in dark shiny suits, as if made out of plastic. The creatures quickly retreated into the object, which quickly took off producing a hissing sound. When the object had reached an altitude of 20 meters it expelled a large fireball. This exploded just before touching the ground, and a strong gust of wind struck both boys. The object sported something like “antennae” situated on its forward section, which vibrated when the object lifted off. The craft zipped rapidly in an easterly direction and disappeared from view to the left of Mount La Cesa. Both boys ran home to relate what they had just seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1602, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_7836 Source: Johnson ### Event 7151 (F36674CF) Date: 11/23/1954 Description: On this afternoon three 10-year-old girls returning from school in Torpo, Norway--Anne & Tora Storedal and Tora Moy Hauge--found themselves being followed by a flying saucer. It came down to hover only 3 or 4 feet away from them. It was round, about 10 feet in diameter, and the bottom was black, trimmed with yellow spots which could have been lights, with a number of small, "red jags." The upper part was a transparent dome, and a man who was operating controls was visible inside. He wore black trousers, a black jacket, and immense red goggles over his eyes. He stared at one of the girls. When the craft rose it collided with a high-tension power line with a shower of sparks, and the girls ran away. They noticed a smell "like fried sausages." A "streak" was found in the snow, apparently left by the craft having brushed the surface of the snow covered ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-132 (A0345), citing Oddvar J. Larsen, CSI-New York Source ID: Johnson_7837 Source: Johnson ### Event 7152 (C4FD6065) Date: 11/24/1954 Description: A woman astronomer named Marley, with a telescope in Southampton, England saw a small white disc-shaped object fly to the south at 12:15 a.m., and then suddenly turn 180 degrees to fly off rapidly to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_7867 Source: Johnson ### Event 7153 (A16CBE81) Date: 11/25/1954 Description: Meteorologist, control tower operator at airport watched two hovering luminous objects (official report from Argentine Embassy). \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cordoba, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_1784 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7154 (189B7F8B) Date: 11/25/1954 Description: A weatherman and an air traffic controller watched two luminous objects hover over the Cordoba, Argentina airport for two hours starting at 5:25 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 119; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, June 1955, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_7901 Source: Johnson ### Event 7155 (831DA6DB) Date: 11/25/1954 Description: On this evening in Calcerosa, Sicily, Italy two 12-year-old boys, G. Marziano and P. Santucci, watched three 1.2-foot-tall beings with very large heads and gray skin enter a small sphere concealed 10 meters away from them, behind some bushes. The UFO had two propellers in front that started spinning. The object took off with a hissing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 136; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, case 343, citing Oltre Cielo Source ID: Johnson_7900 Source: Johnson ### Event 7156 (CD993540) Date: 11/25/1954 Time: 1700 Description: Two 12-year-old boys, G. Marziano and P. Santucci, suddenly saw three figures who, as soon as they were discovered, entered a small spherical craft concealed 10 m away behind some bushes. The beings were small, about 35 cm tall, had very large heads and lead-gray skin. The craft had two sharppointed propellers in front, which started spinning. The craft took off suddenly with a hissing sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 90 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Calcerosa, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_343 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7157 (FE3897EF) Date: 11/26/1954 Description: Formation of round objects. (Confidential report from college professor.) \[UFOE, VII\] Millville, N. J. Disc with four body lights. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Matasquan, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1785 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7158 (77D7DC62) Date: 11/26/1954 Description: On this night in 1954, an object with four reddish-yellow lights forming a rectangle circled over Millville, New Jersey. Shortly afterward a searchlight caught the object, revealing it to be a huge disc. As soon as the light touched it, the UFO sped up and swiftly disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 232 Source ID: Johnson_7934 Source: Johnson ### Event 7159 (34A109A0) Date: 11/27/1954 Description: At 8:30 p.m. about a hundred people in Kariambkam, Madras, India saw the passage of a UFO described as “a flying boat” with a brilliant light on the back. The object then approached the ground and performed a vertical landing. Three people wearing “western” suits emerged and made hand gestures to the locals, who panicked and ran to their houses. The object remained on the ground for five minutes and took off in a vertical ascent, disappearing at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings Source ID: Johnson_7954 Source: Johnson ### Event 7160 (B1D957A4) Date: 11/27/1954 Description: At 10:15 a.m. a green colored cylindrical object hovered over Red Square in Moscow, Russia for more than 25 minutes. It was estimated to be about 250 meters in length. It rose into the sky like a jet, and flew off toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 133; Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 282 Source ID: Johnson_7953 Source: Johnson ### Event 7161 (04AA4823) Date: 11/28/1954 Time: 10:50 AM Description: Witness: one anonymous medical doctor. One flat-bottomed, domed object (65-70' across, 18-20' high), bright orange with yellow discs attached and an exhaust trail. Flew north, stopped, reversed its course during 4 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Manilla, Phillipine Islands Source ID: BerlinerBBU_376 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7162 (78C8AAEE) Date: 11/28/1954 Description: 2:00 a.m. Meat merchants José Ponce and Gustavo Gonzáles are driving a panel truck along Calle Bella Vista in Petare, Caracas, Venezuela. They find their way blocked by a 10-foot-wide, glowing ball hovering 6 feet above the street. When they get out to investigate, they are confronted by a dwarfish creature covered with stiff, bristly hair. Gonzáles grabs it, but it tosses him to one side. Two more dwarfs, gathering dirt and rocks nearby, approach. Ponce sees them and runs to find a police station. Gonzáles recovers in time to see two of the entities climb through an opening in the UFO. The third comes toward him, claws extended, and Gonzáles tries to stab it in the shoulder with his knife, but the blade glances off. One of the dwarfs inside the UFO points a tube at Gonzáles that emits a brilliant beam of energy. He is paralyzed and temporarily blinded but manages to stagger to the police station. A doctor at the emergency room at Esquina de Sálas hospital treats an abrasion on Gonzáles’s left side. Other witnesses to a UFO in the area come forward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 57–58](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n53/mode/2up); Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, pp. 144–145; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) [the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, pp. 32–33; Michael D. Swords, “Classic Cases from the APRO Files,” IUR 24, no. 2 \(Summer 1999\): 31; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-11-29-venezuela-petare.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-11-29-venezuela-petare.htm) November 4, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2641 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7163 (855B1E62) Date: 11/28/1954 Description: A group of peasants at Palmarito, Mérida, Venezuela, see a strange craft land. Three small-statured beings emerge from it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-11-28-venezuela-palmarito.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-11-28-venezuela-palmarito.htm) November 5, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2642 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7164 (B732C326) Date: 11/28/1954 Description: Flat-bottomed, domed object 65-70 ft across, 18-20 ft high (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3341) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manila, Philippines Source ID: NICAP_DB_1786 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7165 (E90D5D22) Date: 11/28/1954 Description: At 2:00 a.m. in the city of Petare, Venezuela two men had a violent encounter with three hairy dwarfs. They first saw a luminous sphere on the ground with a hatch door open. Out of it came three hairy dwarfs wearing loincloths. They were about three feet tall with clawed fingers. The dwarves fought with the men, who reported that they appeared to have phenomenal strength. At one point one of the man attempted to stab one of the creatures with a knife, but the blade glanced off as if the creature’s body was made of steel. There was a blinding light and the creatures and the craft were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated November 30, 1954; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 52 & 103; APRO Bulletin, November 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 344; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-135).

On that same night in 1954 in Palmarito, Venezuela a group of peasants saw a sphere land and discharge three very short dwarfish men. When they re-boarded and the object flew away, they reported the craft left behind a slightly visible trail in the sky. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen and Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 63; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 239; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-134 Source ID: Johnson_7982 Source: Johnson ### Event 7166 (A4F25B91) Date: 11/28/1954 Description: Also in 1954 at 12:45 p.m. five miles east of the city of Manila in the Philippines, two 39-year-old men, one of them a doctor with a degree in physics, watched an orange domed disc maneuver through the sky. The craft was about 70 feet in diameter, and had five evenly spaced yellow portholes. The body of the object itself was flecked with red streaks, and it made no sound as it moved. The UFO reversed direction and was gone in three seconds. Listed as a Project Blue Book “unknown” case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case number 3341; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 61; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 59 Source ID: Johnson_7983 Source: Johnson ### Event 7167 (F98C384B) Date: 11/28/1954 Time: 0200 Description: G. Gonzales and Jose Ponce, truck drivers, found their road blocked by a luminous sphere over 3 m diameter, hovering 2 m above ground. A small creature with claws and glowing eyes came toward them. Gonzales grabbed it, found it strangely light (less than 2O kg), and observed its body was very hard and covered with fur. But the creature pushed him back, while two other dwarfs emerged from the bushes and leaped into the sphere, carrying stones and other samples. Gonzales was blinded by a light from the craft and the strange beings flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor I 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Caracas, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_344 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7168 (73B664B9) Date: 11/29/1954 Description: At 8:30 p.m. an orange cigar-shaped object flew toward the northeast from Bourbon-L'Archambault, Allier, France. It stopped in midair, then shot back toward the southwest into the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4198, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #128 Source ID: Johnson_8027 Source: Johnson ### Event 7169 (0963C58A) Date: 11/29/1954 Description: At seven p.m. a single witness saw a luminous object that had landed in a wheatfield in St. Martin-d'L-Place, Maine-et-Loire, France at the same time as a power outage. A 1.2 meter (4 foot) tall humanoid was seen standing next to it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4197, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #325 Source ID: Johnson_8026 Source: Johnson ### Event 7170 (01DBD55D) Date: 11/29/1954 Description: At 6:00 a.m. in Moze-sur-Louet, Maine-et-Loire, France a beam of light from the sky searched back and forth, then struck and gave an electric shock to a bicyclist. It then shocked him a second time, but no object was seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4196, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 132 Source ID: Johnson_8025 Source: Johnson ### Event 7171 (B088F32A) Date: 11/30/1954 Description: Meteorite or something hurls thru roof of Mrs. H. Hodges in Alabama. Type: anomalous event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Alabama Source ID: Maj2_138 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7172 (7E73FAF5) Date: 12/1954 Description: Aviation inventor [Bill Lear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FLear) sees a flying disc giving off greenish light near Palm Springs, California. It hovers for 2 seconds then swiftly moves out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf), The Author, 1992, p, 22 Source ID: Eberhart_2643 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7173 (4AFEDFBE) Date: 12/1954 Description: Contactee [Orfeo Angelucci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfeo%5FAngelucci), now working in Twentynine Palms, California, is at Tiny’s Café when he meets someone named Adam, who claims to have read his book and gives him some kind of mind-altering pill. After taking the pill, Angelucci finds himself in an “exalted state” and talks freely with Adam about outer space and politics. Prior to this time, Angelucci has caught the attention of the FBI because he has been approached several times by a group of seeming left-wing agents. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Orfeo Angelucci, [The Son of the Sun](https://archive.org/details/angelucci-orfeo-son-of-the-sun%5F202012/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/angelucci-orfeo-son-of-the-sun%5F202012/page/n1/mode/2up) DeVorss, 1959; Kremlin 100–107 Source ID: Eberhart_2645 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7174 (E1F6F026) Date: 12/1954 Description: The US Air Force acknowledges that it is contemplating a “New type of jet aircraft, powered by a turbine larger than any now in use, \[that\] is expected to take off, land vertically, and be able to hover. It may cruise at 1,500 knots and have a range of 15,000 nautical miles.” It speculates: “If the Soviets now have such an aircraft in operational use, would the United States air defense system be able to detect, identify, intercept and destroy a bomber or reconnaissance aircraft moving at a 1,500 knot clip at an altitude of 65,000 feet?” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Flying Disc,](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/flydisc.htm)” Air Intelligence Digest 7, no 12 \(December 1954\): 6+ Source ID: Eberhart_2644 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7175 (D3A9025C) Date: 12/1954 Description: Charles Laughead and his wife Lillian meet [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) at a lecture he is giving in Detroit, Michigan. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, p. 103 Source ID: Eberhart_2646 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7176 (3F5DC331) Date: 12/1954 Description: Early in December, the director of Barquisimeto College was chased by a luminous disk as he was driving near Guanare. He fired at the object with his revolver, without effect. He stopped another car in which a lawyer and two policemen were traveling. All four saw the machine fly away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. I 43 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Guanare, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_345 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7177 (F034C89E) Date: 12/1/1954 Description: President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) approves the development of the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane as a CIA project under the direction of [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed U-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FU-2)” Source ID: Eberhart_2647 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7178 (89A57724) Date: 12/1/1954 Time: 0430 Description: A 39-year-old civilian saw an oval light, very bright, illuminating the countryside. After some maneuvers and oscillations in mid-air, it landed for a couple of minutes less than 3 km away, then flew off to the east. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bassoues, France Source ID: Magnonia_346 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7179 (D7C50E04) Date: 12/2/1954 Description: Gnd Radar/ Air Visual (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [541202](http://www.nicap.org/541202ceuta%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cueta, Sp. Morocco Source ID: NICAP_DB_1787 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7180 (81CF9392) Date: 12/3/1954 Description: Morning. Victoriano Maeso, Luis Brugeda, and Francisco Huertos are at Las Gastanas farm about 3 miles from Granja de Torrehermosa, Badajoz, Spain, when they hear an unusual noise and notice an object in the branches of an oak tree about 165 feet away. It is pyramid-shaped and about 8 feet high and 2 feet in diameter, with four fins and a box suspended from it by apparent ropes. They approach it, but the object rises and disappears toward the west. This observation is the first of about a dozen others reported over the next two weeks in Badajoz, Zaragoza, Teruel, Guipúzcoa, and Huelva provinces that seem to involve wayward balloons released in Germany by Radio Free Europe that carry leaflets intended to be dropped in the Soviet bloc. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “[Los ovnis de diciembre de 1954,](https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS%5FOVNIS%5FDE%5FDICIEMBRE%5FDE%5F1954)” Academia.edu Source ID: Eberhart_2648 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7181 (71FBA6BD) Date: 12/3/1954 Description: Civil Aeronautics Administration personnel watched round, yellowish UFO through binoculars. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wilmington, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1789 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7182 (6F09E434) Date: 12/3/1954 Time: 12:12 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. S.P. Mellen. One translucent grey, round, flat object rotated on its vertical axis at high r.PM for 30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Gulfport, Mississippi Source ID: BerlinerBBU_377 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7183 (018F98C4) Date: 12/3/1954 Description: On this morning in 1954 in the town of Montebuono, Italy a 10 meter long cigar-shaped object passed overhead at 40-meters altitude. It had a large porthole on its side. It abruptly changed direction and shot straight up into the sky and away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Verga Maurizio, ITACAT - Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_8157 Source: Johnson ### Event 7184 (D18BEF35) Date: 12/3/1954 Description: A translucent grey, round, flat object rotating (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3352) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulfport, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1788 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7185 (6C29817A) Date: 12/4/1954 Description: Twelve workers saw what they described as a square machine, with a side of 10 m, land and take off at great speed, flying toward the south. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Zuaga, Spain Source ID: Magnonia_347 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7186 (E9E72D2A) Date: 12/4/1954 Time: night Description: For several minutes a waiter saw a circular object stationary in a pasture 50 m away. It was blue with symmetrical openings, from which a bright red light was emitted. The witness got a rifle and fired twice at the very tall figure who came out of the turret on the craft. Immediately a very strong wind was felt, and the craft took off amidst a reddish glow. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 101 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Caselle di Nogara, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_348 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7187 (5158BB45) Date: 12/4/1954 Description: On this night a waiter saw a circular object in a pasture in Caselle di Nogara, Italy. It remained stationary for several minutes, and was about 50 meters away. It was blue with symmetrical openings which emitted a bright red light. The witness got a rifle and fired twice at a very tall figure that emerged from the turret on the craft. Immediately, a very strong wind was felt and the craft took off amidst a reddish glow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-137, citing Vallee). Source ID: Johnson_8173 Source: Johnson ### Event 7188 (FD2022CB) Date: 12/4/1954 Description: At six o'clock in the morning in the city of Coronel Pringles, Argentina Sr. E. Aguirre Zavala, an employee of a commercial firm, observed a very bright disc come down to just 20 inches above the ground, where it remained suspended. In the middle of this disc there moved about a strange looking figure, which seemed to be a dwarf with an enormous head. The UFO rose up shortly afterward after emitting a very bright light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-136, citing a newspaper source Source ID: Johnson_8174 Source: Johnson ### Event 7189 (B162C583) Date: 12/5/1954 Description: 8:15 a.m. Miguel Sevil is hunting in the Montes de Zuera north of Zaragoza, Spain, when he hears a prolonged whistle and sees a luminous, transparent object landed about 165 feet away. It has several rods protruding from it, each apparently with a propeller. Two men about 6 feet tall with blond hair and speaking an unintelligible language enter the UFO through a door on the side. It rises vertically at tremendous speed and disappears. Probable hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “[Los ovnis de](https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS%5FOVNIS%5FDE%5FDICIEMBRE%5FDE%5F1954) [diciembre de 1954,](https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS%5FOVNIS%5FDE%5FDICIEMBRE%5FDE%5F1954)” Academia.edu Source ID: Eberhart_2649 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7190 (01B770AB) Date: 12/5/1954 Description: House radio "pulsated" as UFO observed hovering low over Lake Erie (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North East, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1790 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7191 (0D64B942) Date: 12/7/1954 Description: At 1:15 p.m. a weather officer in Cape Province, South Africa using a theodolite, saw a white, semi-circular, flat object with a dome fly from west to east, then turned north. The sighting lasted seven minutes. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3356 Source ID: Johnson_8255 Source: Johnson ### Event 7192 (70A8A416) Date: 12/7/1954 Description: 1:15 p.m. R. H. Kleyweg, officer-in-charge of the meteorological station at Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa, is looking for a red balloon he has just released. He sees an object just east of the sun, moving slowly west, but when he begins tracking it with a theodolite, he realizes it is white, not red. It looks like a half circle with sunlight gleaming from its sloped top. He follows it for 3 minutes, but then it accelerates and he cannot keep it in sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#meteorologists)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 63 Source ID: Eberhart_2651 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7193 (399D6AB4) Date: 12/7/1954 Description: A Project Blue Book memo acknowledges the many “Foreign Sightings” in Europe, but attributes the cause to an increase in “meteorite activity” and overseas translations of [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s book Flying Saucers from Outer Space. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) [December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, pp. 49 Source ID: Eberhart_2650 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7194 (ED185AA8) Date: 12/7/1954 Description: White, semi-circular, flat object with a dome (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3356) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Province, S. Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_1791 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7195 (33A7A46F) Date: 12/7/1954 Description: Object Accelerates Away From Marine TV-2 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [541207](http://nicap.org/541207edenton%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edenton, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1792 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7196 (40F56FE0) Date: 12/7/1954 Time: 1:15 PM Description: Witness: weather officer, using a theodolite. One white, semi-circular, flat object with a dome flew from west to east, then turned north. Sighting lasted 7 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Cape Province, South Africa Source ID: BerlinerBBU_378 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7197 (35C134F3) Date: 12/7/1954 Description: A 26-year-old man riding a bicycle near a farm in Gainchurizqueta, Irun, Spain saw an object land nearby. It came from the sea on a north to south flight path, and passed within six meters. It was round, three meters in diameter, with a headlight and four fins. Traces: ground marks and metallic samples. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 16 Source ID: Johnson_8254 Source: Johnson ### Event 7198 (461D82F7) Date: 12/9/1954 Description: Giovanni Aquilante, a farmer of Gricignano d’Aversa, Caserta, Italy, disappears after leaving home to work in the fields. His family and police fail to find him. On December 10, near 12:00 midnight, two of Aquilante’s sons and a friend see two mysterious entities with luminous eyes in a field. They quickly vanish. Aquilante returns home on the morning of December 11, silent and shocked, and explains that he met two “dwarfs” in the field wearing multicolored suits. They float him in the air and take him to “unknown places.” They release him, but promise to come back for him later. Aquilante is terrified of being abducted again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 1Pinotti 89 Source ID: Eberhart_2652 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7199 (12FE507A) Date: 12/9/1954 Time: evening Description: A farmer, O. da Costa e Rosa, observed a stranger standing near a machine shaped like "a tropical helmet," cream-colored, surrounded with haze, making the same noise as a sewing machine. Another man was looking at a fence, and the head and arms of a third one were visible inside the craft. As the witness dropped his hoe, the man smiled, picked it up, and gave it back to him, after which they motioned him to stay away and took off. They were of average height, had broad shoulders, long hair, very white skin, and slanted eyes. They wore brown coveralls ending with shoes without heels. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. I 46; Humanoids 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Linha Bela Vista, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_349 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7200 (4F007455) Date: 12/9/1954 Description: On this evening Sr. Da Costa e Rosa, a farmer living in Linha Bela Vista, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil heard a sound something like a sewing machine, and saw a cream-colored object "shaped like a tropical helmet" hovering just above the ground. A broad-shouldered man with pale skin was inside the craft. Another was outside examining a fence, while a third was closer to the farmer. Da Costa dropped his hoe, and this third man, with a smile, picked it up and gave it back to him. All three men were broad shouldered, with very pale skin, slanted eyes, and long blond hair. They wore light brown coveralls fastened to shoes without heels. After plucking a few plants, the men returned to their craft, which rose into the air slowly for 30 feet and then shot off at a high speed. The witness had never previously heard about flying saucers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 52; Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1970, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-139 (A0351), citing Donald Hanlon, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_8280 Source: Johnson ### Event 7201 (CAB4FD53) Date: 12/9/1954 Time: 1930 Description: Ernst Jung and his wife saw an intense red, luminous object descending toward them at great speed. It hovered 5 m above ground when they stopped their motorcycle. It was cigarshaped, 5 m long, 2 m wide. They saw it turn off its lights and fly toward the forest. Other people in a bus saw the same thing. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 56 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Dorf-Gull, Germany Source ID: Magnonia_350 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7202 (12421E48) Date: 12/9/1954 Description: Night. Lorenzo Flores and Jésus Gómez are hunting rabbits near an unfindable town called Carera along the Transandean Highway in Venezuela. They run across a huge red UFO like two washbowls put together hovering above the road with flames spurting out. Four small hairy figures, 3 feet tall, scramble out and grab Gómez and try to drag him toward the craft. Flores strikes one with his gun butt, but it has no effect and feels like striking rock. The wooden rifle butt cracks from the impact. Gómez faints from fright, and both men are scratched and bruised. A passing motorist takes them to a police station, their clothes torn and skin abraded. When they tell their story to the police, it is obvious that their shirts have been shredded into ribbons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Hunters Clawed and](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf) [Beaten,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 3, no. 4 \(January 15, 1955\): 2; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 56–57](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n53/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, pp. 51–52; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_2654 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7203 (F9CABE49) Date: 12/9/1954 Description: Evening. Farmer Olmiro de Costa e Rosa is feeding his animals at Linha Bela Vista, said to be 2.5 miles from Venâncio Aires, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, when he hears a sound like a sewing machine that causes some of his cows to run. An object shaped like an “enormous polished brass kettle” with a rectangular structure on top is hovering in the air with an oscillating motion. Two small humanoids “enveloped in a kind of yellow sack from head to toe” are standing in a nearby field. As he approaches, one runs toward him and the other raises its arm. The first one kneels down and plucks a tobacco plant from the field, then both jump into the craft, which vanishes within a few seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-12-09-brazil-linhabelavista.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-12-09-brazil-linhabelavista.htm) December 27, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_2653 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7204 (A61BDE7C) Date: 12/10/1954 Description: Several daylight disc sightings and two humanoid encounters, one at night, occurred in Venezuela on this date in 1954. A photograph of five objects was taken in El Tigre. At 6:30 p.m. a doctor driving with his father in Floresta, Venezuela stopped his car to watch two little men run into some bushes. Shortly afterward they saw a luminous, disc-shaped object take off from behind the bushes at a high speed and dart off into the sky with a sharp "sizzling" sound. Later that same night in Chico-Cerro de las Tres Torres, Venezuela two hunters, Lorenzo Flores and Jesus Gomez, saw a luminous object "like two washbowls put together." It was three meters wide and hovering just two feet off the ground. Flames emanated from the base of the object. Four hairy dwarfs, three feet tall, emerged and grabbed Gomez and tried to drag him toward their craft. Flores struck one with his gun butt, but it had no effect and felt like striking rock. The wooden rifle butt cracked from the impact. Gomez fainted from fright, and both young men were scratched and bruised. When they told their story to the police it was obvious that their shirts had been shredded into ribbons. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion From Outer Space, p. 49; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-141, citing APRO Bulletin, January 1955 Source ID: Johnson_8295 Source: Johnson ### Event 7205 (5B285B3D) Date: 12/10/1954 Time: evening Description: Having seen a bright object land near the Trans-Andean Highway, two young men approached it, found it was shaped like two bowls g]ued together, about 3 m diameter. The underside was a source of fiery light. Four small beings emerged and attacked them, in an apparent kidnapping attempt. The dwarfs were extremely strong, their bodies covered with hair. They fled into the machine, and it took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. I 51 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chico, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_352 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7206 (F6F688AD) Date: 12/10/1954 Time: 1830 Description: A doctor from Caracas who was driving with his father near this town stopped his car as two little men were running into the bushes. Soon thereafter, a luminous disk rose from the side of the road with a sizzling sound and flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. I 43 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Floresta, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_351 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7207 (D64ED0ED) Date: 12/10/1954 Description: In Lisbon, Portugal at around 2:45 p.m. local time a witness reported seeing a flying silver ball expelling a blue flame for 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Victor Lourenco, PORTUGAT UFO computer catalog, case #25, citing Noticias Source ID: Johnson_8294 Source: Johnson ### Event 7208 (F7C5CC66) Date: 12/10/1954 Description: 6:30 p.m. A doctor is driving near Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base in Caracas, Venezuela, when he and his father see two little men running near the road and ducking into shrubbery. Moments later a UFO rises up from the same spot and zooms away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) [History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 52; “[Doctor Sees Little Men, Disc,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 3, no. 4 \(January 15, 1955\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_2656 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7209 (BE74AAE0) Date: 12/10/1954 Description: An American petroleum engineer takes a photo of a formation of UFOs over El Tigre, Venezuela. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1991, p. 52 Source ID: Eberhart_2655 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7210 (7F91C586) Date: 12/11/1954 Description: At 5:00 p.m. farmer Pedro Morais of Linha Bela Vista, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil first noticed a disturbance among his chickens in the farmyard. He then saw a UFO shaped like an "enormous polished brass kettle" with a rectangular structure on top, making a sound like a sewing machine, hovering in the air with an oscillating motion. Two small humanoids "enveloped in a kind of yellow sack from head to toe" were standing in a nearby field. As he approached, one ran toward him, the other raised its arm. The first one knelt down and plucked a tobacco plant from the field, then both jumped into the craft, which vanished within a few seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Hanlon, FSR Special Report #1: The Humanoids, p. 34; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 53; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 171; Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1970, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-142 (A0355), citing Donald Hanlon & Coral Lorenzen; Jader U. Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, p. 80, citing O Cruzeiro, January 15, 1955 Source ID: Johnson_8337 Source: Johnson ### Event 7211 (A32F5C77) Date: 12/11/1954 Description: On this morning a young girl, Miss Frassinetti, saw a luminous barrel hovering vertically over a nearby field in Predale, Casina, Italy. She said that a "man" was watching her through a window in the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0354 Source ID: Johnson_8336 Source: Johnson ### Event 7212 (576D1193) Date: 12/11/1954 Time: 1700 Description: Near the site of Case 349, Pedro Morais saw two human beings dressed in "yellow bags" take a tobacco plant and a chicken, then go away. Their craft "had a bottom like an enormous polished brass kettle," hovered with an oscillating motion, and made a noise like a sewing machine. Its upper part resembled a jeep hood. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. I 46; Humanoids 34 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Linha Bela Vista, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_353 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7213 (3B5E119C) Date: 12/13/1954 Description: Three gray discs performed acrobatics over farmland in Campinas, Sao Paulo state, Brazil at dusk. One peeled off from the others, diving low over the roof of a woman's house, where it dropped a liquid substance "like silver rain." Chemical analysis revealed that the metallic material collected at the site was 90% tin with some other alloys. Jacques Vallee believes this case may provide clues to the propulsion system employed by the vehicles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, in Peter Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, p. 242 Source ID: Johnson_8368 Source: Johnson ### Event 7214 (03E7A2C1) Date: 12/14/1954 Description: 11:00 a.m. Three bright lights appear in the sky above Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Around 12:00 noon, they descend to a lower altitude, and witnesses see they are metallic discs. The Brazilian Air Force scrambles some jets, but they fail to intercept any of the objects. By 1:00 p.m., several groups of witnesses around the city are watching when two of the objects take off to the south, while the third comes closer and approaches some buildings in the city center. Chief of Police Col. Carlos Assunção sees a “reddish and slightly bluish object” moving at incredible speed. Maxim Cicaida, a professional photographer for Foto Heisler, snaps a photo of the disc above a building. He sends the negatives to the Brazilian Naval School in Rio de Janeiro, but they are never returned, and no analysis is released. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil 29–31 Source ID: Eberhart_2657 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7215 (EE1DC23E) Date: 12/14/1954 Description: Three gray disc performed aerobatics over the city of Campinas, Sao Paulo state, Brazil on this afternoon in 1954. One of the UFOs peeled off, dove low over the roof of a local woman's house, and dropped a liquid substance "like silver rain." Chemical analysis revealed that the solidified material was 90% tin with other alloys. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_8390 Source: Johnson ### Event 7216 (6D52D2D5) Date: 12/15/1954 Description: A man is fishing in a river near Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, when he sees an unusual object landing a few hundred feet away. His dog gets nervous and begins to howl. He uses his telescopic gunsight to get a closer look. He sees two spheres of different sizes, the smaller one revolving around the larger one, which is about 6 feet above the ground and has three balls attached to its underside. Soon he sees small beings come down from the large object, moving rapidly. One is holding a phosphorescent bucket, and another has a metallic tube that is cone-shaped at one end. They use these tools to collect calcareous soil from the riverbank. They take two buckets’ worth inside the craft, which then takes off. The witness later finds square-shaped holes in the riverbank. Col. Adil de Oliveira of the Brazilian Air Force has the soil analyzed and it yields a composition of 61% silica, 19% aluminum oxide, 11% magnesium and iron, with other trace elements. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, Signet, 1967, [pp. 195–196](https://archive.org/details/flyingsauceroccu00lore/page/198/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2658 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7217 (6A584AAF) Date: 12/15/1954 Description: Asked about UFOs at a press conference, [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) says that it is “completely inaccurate to believe that they came from any outside planet or other place.” Immediately after the press conference, Eisenhower asks for a full briefing on UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[President Discounts ‘Saucer’ from Space,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/12/16/84446420.pdf)” New York Times, December 16, 1954, pp. 1, 26; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, p. 62; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 238 Source ID: Eberhart_2659 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7218 (901C9DB7) Date: 12/15/1954 Description: On this day in 1954 a man had a close encounter with three aliens in Brazil. While fishing in the river in Campo Grande in the state of Mato Grosso del Sol, he saw a small sphere revolving around a larger sphere, about two meters above the ground. The larger object had landing gear shaped like three round balls. Three human-looking occupants who were small in stature got out. They had with them a luminous basket and a metal tube with a cone-shaped end. They used these tools to collect soil samples. On the same day a Royal Australian Navy pilot reported that two UFOs paced his aircraft. The UFOs appeared on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 195, citing an investigation by Olavo T. Fontes; Richard M. Dolan, UFO’s and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 408 Source ID: Johnson_8405 Source: Johnson ### Event 7219 (BC46739B) Date: 12/16/1954 Description: Jésus Paz, Luis Mejia, and another young man are driving home after dinner at a restaurant in San Carlos, Venezuela, when Paz stops to relieve himself in a park. He claims he is jumped by a hairy dwarf from a flying disc \(both of which his friends see when he screams\). His friends rush the unconscious Paz to a hospital. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1954-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1991, p. 60; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_2660 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7220 (382EEAB3) Date: 12/16/1954 Description: Three young men saw a dwarf, who attacked one of them, Jesus Paz, before fleeing into a disk-shaped machine, which flew off immediately. It was flat and shiny and had been hovering 1 m above ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. I 50; Humanoids 35 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: San Carlos, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_354 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7221 (24AC281F) Date: 12/16/1954 Description: Taking a rest stop while driving along the Pan-American highway near San Carlos del Zulia, Venezuela, Jesus Paz left his two friends in their car and walked off a short distance to relieve himself. They heard him screaming and then saw him fall unconscious. A small hairy dwarf ran off from the spot to a flat, shiny hovering UFO. The machine shot off with a loud whistle. Jesus Paz had deep scratches on his body from the creature. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 55 Source ID: Johnson_8440 Source: Johnson ### Event 7222 (4F720CAE) Date: 12/17/1954 Description: At 5:00 p.m. on a country road in Bersaillin, France in Jura department, a woodsman sighted a very bright light on the road, coming from a dark craft some 80 meters away. When the light became brighter the man felt an intense wave of heat and he thought that he would die. After a short while the light moved away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 355; Jacques Vallee, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_8460 Source: Johnson ### Event 7223 (7C8CF67D) Date: 12/17/1954 Time: 1700 Description: A woodsman from Poligny saw a very bright light on the road, first thought it was an American car with its headlights on, but soon observed it came from a dark craft about 80 m away. The light turned brighter; the witness felt an intense heat wave and thought he was going to die. Finally, the light went away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bersaillin, France Source ID: Magnonia_355 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7224 (906A7BE3) Date: 12/18/1954 Description: At 3:45 a.m. several hundred people, including sentries guarding the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil witnessed a yellow glowing ovoid object that slowed from a high speed and stopped in just three seconds, and then hovered for 20 minutes. It illuminated the surface of the water in Guanabara Bay, and finally climbed up at an oblique angle, and was gone in 4-5 seconds. Two small jets of exhaust were seen flowing from the lower part of the object while it was accelerating. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case 557, citing Colonel Adil de Oliveira, Brazilian Government report dated October 1956; APRO Bulletin, July 1957 Source ID: Johnson_8486 Source: Johnson ### Event 7225 (491D56F4) Date: 12/19/1954 Time: 2300 Description: Jose Parra, an 18-year-old jockey, saw six small creatures loading stones into a disk-shaped machine hovering about 3 m above ground. He tried to run away but was paralyzed by a violet beam aimed at him by one of the creatures. All the creatures entered the craft, and it took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. I 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Valencia, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_356 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7226 (CD389A9F) Date: 12/19/1954 Description: At eleven o’clock in the evening Mr. Parra, an 18-year-old resident of Valencia, Venezuela watched a disc-shaped UFO land and six three foot tall humanoids disembarked and set about collecting vegetation samples. When he attempted to approach he was paralyzed. The UFO left behind ground traces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Newspaper clipping dated December 21, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_8507 Source: Johnson ### Event 7227 (D4DF0AFC) Date: 12/19/1954 Description: UFOs shot through the sky over Vienna, Austria. There were many reports including several from police witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 122 Source ID: Johnson_8505 Source: Johnson ### Event 7228 (13C06CBF) Date: 12/19/1954 Description: On the same night in Cartaya, Huelva Province, Spain a circular craft landed 50 meters away from two witnesses. As the witnesses walked towards it the UFO rose up to a very high altitude and flew away toward Portugal, making a great deal of noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Newspaper clipping dated December 20, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_8506 Source: Johnson ### Event 7229 (D842504A) Date: 12/19/1954 Description: 11:00 p.m. José Parra, an 18-year-old jockey, watches a disc-shaped UFO land in Valencia, Venezuela. Six 3-foot-tall humanoids disembark and set about collecting vegetation samples and loading stones into the disc. When he tries to approach them, he is paralyzed by a violet beam aimed at him by one of the creatures. All the short beings enter the craft and it takes off. The UFO leaves behind ground traces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 270; “[‘Little Men’](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf) [Fail in Kidnap Attempt!!](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 3, no. 4 \(January 15, 1955\): 3; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1954-12-19-venezuela-valencia.htm), November 24, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2661 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7230 (933FC03B) Date: 12/19/1954 Description: High-speed UFOs reported. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vienna, Austria Source ID: NICAP_DB_1793 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7231 (6F4BC67C) Date: 12/20/1954 Time: 0000 Description: An employee of the Barbula sanatorium saw an object on the ground but did not report it. Three hours later, another employee saw the craft. It was luminous and took off soon afterward. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. I 52 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Valencia, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_357 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7232 (95493AB5) Date: 12/20/1954 Description: At 3:00 a.m. on this day in Valencia, Venezuela an employee of the Barbula Sanatorium saw a luminous UFO on the ground but decided not to report it until another employee, three hours later, saw the same craft. It took off soon after the second witness spotted it Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 357; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_8526 Source: Johnson ### Event 7233 (2752AEF5) Date: 12/20/1954 Description: Red-orange circular UFO, with white glow from "portholes" at front, sped overhead. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pontiac, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1794 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7234 (5009253D) Date: 12/20/1954 End date: 12/21/1954 Description: A group of [Dorothy Martin](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/)’s followers has gathered at her Oak Park, Illinois, home to await the midnight arrival of a flying saucer that is to rescue them from planetary disaster. They have left jobs, college, and spouses, and given away money and possessions to prepare for their departure. When no spaceman arrives, the group sits in stunned silence. Martin begins to cry, and at 4:45 a.m. she receives a message by automatic writing saying that the God of Earth has decided to spare the planet from destruction. The cataclysm has been called off: “The little group, sitting all night long, had spread so much light that God had saved the world from destruction.” The group begins an urgent campaign to spread its message to a broader audience. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, When Prophecy Fails, Harper Torchbooks, 1956; Wikipedia, “[When Prophecy](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf) [Fails](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2001%2015%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204.pdf)”; Clark III 718–719 Source ID: Eberhart_2662 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7235 (BF24DACF) Date: 12/22/1954 Description: World catastrophe predicted by Prof. Loughead via Dorothy Martin. Type: channelling Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_139 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7236 (7DE42AAB) Date: 12/23/1954 Description: Air Radar/Visual For 40 Minutes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [541223](http://www.nicap.org/541223nogales%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nogales (NE of), AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1795 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7237 (894C7811) Date: 12/26/1954 Description: 8:30 p.m. Willis St.-Jean, a hoistman at the Agaunico Mine on the shore of Lake Timiskaming northeast of Cobalt, Ontario, sees a bright white light maneuvering in the sky. He calls John Hunt, a reporter at the North Bay Nugget office in Cobalt, to drive 3 miles to the mine to view it. The light is emanating from a large, rotating, slightly wedge-shaped disc. They watch the object for an hour after he arrives there. It circles, moves away, dances in the sky, disappears \(apparently when it banks\), and returns repeatedly, and at one point it flies over the lake, illuminating the surface. It disappears for good shortly after 10:15 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Hunt, “[Reporter Sees ‘Saucer’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98861495/) [over Cobalt Mine,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98861495/)” North Bay \(Ont.\) Nugget, December 27, 1954, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_2664 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7238 (7A93A44B) Date: 12/26/1954 Description: Australian physicist O. H. “Harry” Turner has been tasked with reviewing UFO reports in the RAAF files and writing an assessment for the Australian Directorate of Air Force Intelligence. Now in England, he sends the report to the Secretary, Department of Air, in Melbourne, Victoria. He writes: “If one assumes these Intelligence reports are authentic, then the evidence presented is such that it is difficult to assume any interpretation other than that unidentified flying objects are being observed…. Indeed, the superiority is such that it is highly improbable that such objects have a terrestrial origin… the evidence presented by the reports held by the RAAF tend to support the above conclusion—namely that certain strange aircraft have been observed to behave in a manner suggestive of an extra-terrestrial origin.” Turner goes on to recommend appointing at least one full-time investigator; publicity to encourage more people to report sightings; a liaison with the USAF to exchange information and verify [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s claims; liaison with the RAF and the possibility of forming a panel to assist in analyzing reports. The Director of RAAF Intelligence checks with USAF on the reliability of Keyhoe’s work, and they ultimately reject it as impractical and unjustified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Project 1947, “[The Former Air Board /](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kb%5Fuasgov.htm\#fab) [Department of Air / Current RAAF](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kb%5Fuasgov.htm\#fab)”; Bill Chalker, “[UFOs Sub Rosa, Down Under: The Australian Military and](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bcoz1.htm) [Government Role in the UFO Controversy,](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bcoz1.htm)” 1996; “[The Project Interviews Harry Turner,](http://www.auforn.com/NEWSLETTER-SIXTEEN.html)” Disclosure Australia Newsletter, no. 16, September 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_2663 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7239 (F20A8EED) Date: 12/27/1954 Description: Alerted by some children to the presence of a UFO around ten o'clock in the morning, Elizabeth Klarer ran to a nearby hill in Mooi River, South Africa. Twenty yards away was a domed disc-shaped object, about 60 feet in diameter, that silently descended to 10-12 feet above the ground. It had a flat hull rotating around a flattish dome, which contained portholes. In one of the porthole windows she saw a man "with a thin face, aquiline nose, and high cheekbones," who looked at her with hypnotic intensity. Then, with a blast of hot air, the craft rose and shot away at tremendous speed. Ms. Klarer had a contactee experience 18 months later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, Fate, August 1969; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 146; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-146 (A0359), citing Cynthia Hind Source ID: Johnson_8621 Source: Johnson ### Event 7240 (2EF3455C) Date: 12/27/1954 Description: [Elizabeth Klarer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%5FKlarer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%5FKlarer) having been alerted by her sister May that the local Zulu people are reporting appearances of a mythical lightning bird in the sky, travels from Johannesburg, South Africa, with her children to a hill southwest of Rosetta, KwaZulu Natal, that she later calls Flying Saucer Hill. There she claims to see a star ship descend and hover 8 feet above the ground, emitting a soft hum. Its hull is spinning, though its central dome remains stationary. The friendly extraterrestrial Akon, with whom she has been in telepathic contact, is clearly visible through one of three portholes, but a blast of heat emanating from the ship prevents her from approaching. The UFO leaves by shooting high into the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 657; Elizabeth Klarer, [Beyond the Light Barrier](https://archive.org/details/beyond-the-light-barrier), Howard Timmins, 1980 Source ID: Eberhart_2665 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7241 (489B3AAE) Date: 12/28/1954 Description: Traveling by car to Mendoza on Route # 143, a concert pianist and six others traveling together saw a brilliant glow at the side of the road near San Rafael Moreno, Argentina at 3:30 a.m. It was a luminous object about 100-200 meters away in a nearby field, and it was emitting a bluish light like that from a welding torch. According to the description by Professor Maria Luisa de Amaya, it had the form of two deep dishes placed together rim to rim. They could not make out any structural details. The witnesses stopped their car and got out, then walked toward the object. When they were about 50 meters away they noticed two human figures next to it. The beings were of normal height, wearing dark one piece diver's suits, with their heads covered with a kind of cowl. One of the humanoids was crouching next to the object. After he got up, the two individuals entered the UFO through a rectangular door. The object began to emit smoke from its central region and rose up vertically, stopping a few meters from the ground and throwing out two flickering red lights. Alarmed, the witnesses rushed back to their car and took off driving at high speed. The object pursued them for 20 minutes, until by the first light of dawn they could no longer see it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A Uriondo, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 10, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-38, citing Roberto Banchs Source ID: Johnson_8628 Source: Johnson ### Event 7242 (586A0681) Date: 12/28/1954 Description: The NSC 5412/2 Special Group, often referred simply as the Special Group, is an initially secret, but later public, subcommittee of the US National Security Council responsible for coordinating government covert operations. Presidential Directive NSC 5412/2 assigns responsibility for coordination of covert actions to representatives of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the President respectively. All proposals pass through the Special Group on the way to [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) at the CIA, who is responsible for covert operations. It changes names several times to avoid public exposure. In 1964, it is known as the 303 Committee, and in 1970 it is renamed the 40 Committee. Within this organization—which includes such familiar names as [Nelson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%5FRockefeller) [Rockefeller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%5FRockefeller)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%5FRockefeller) [Robert McNamara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMcNamara)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMcNamara) [McGeorge Bundy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGeorge%5FBundy)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGeorge%5FBundy) [Gordon Gray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FGray%5F%28politician%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FGray%5F%28politician%29) and [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles)—is a subcommittee dealing with science and technology. It is here that the connection between the corporate and financial world and government-held technological secrets can be found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Oversight of United States covert operations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oversight%5Fof%5FUnited%5FStates%5Fcovert%5Foperations%23From%5FNSC%5F10/2%5Fto%5FNSC%5F5412%5F%28June%5F1948%E2%80%93March%5F1955%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_2666 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7243 (A9DB1E75) Date: 12/29/1954 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a red oval-shaped object was seen on the ground near a river in Bru, Gironde, France, 50 meters away from witnesses. The main witness, a Mr. Gamba, tried to approach it but was unable to move. The object rose up into the air, and as it did it changed color from white to red. Traces found at the site showed that the ground had been dug up, and some small trees had been cut. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 20; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 358, citing Sud Quest, December 31, 1954 Source ID: Johnson_8640 Source: Johnson ### Event 7244 (46D1B07F) Date: 12/29/1954 Time: 2100 Description: Near Gardonne, Mr. Gamba saw an oval red object 50 m away. When he tried to approach it, he found he was unable to move. As soon as this "paralysis" subsided, he ran to get his brothers and came back to the craft, which turned white, then red. It rose and flew away toward the east. It had been on the ground for at least 15 min. Strange traces were found, as if the ground had been dug up. Small trees near the river were found damaged, as if they had been cut with a knife. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 103 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bru, France Source ID: Magnonia_358 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7245 (0F2EF741) Date: 12/29/1954 Description: Crew flying B-47 saw 2 objects pass the plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Diego, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1796 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7246 (64601D64) Date: 12/29/1954 Description: In Bergamo, near Clusone, Italy a cigar-shaped object was seen hovering 25 meters from the ground at midnight. Several figures could be seen inside a transparent compartment. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 240; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #326 Source ID: Johnson_8641 Source: Johnson ### Event 7247 (1B8BCFC0) Date: 12/30/1954 Description: Fifty residents of Lima, Peru, watch a flight of 5 iridescent silver UFOs for at least 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: La Nación, December 31, 1954 Source ID: Eberhart_2667 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7248 (FBBD4788) Date: 12/30/1954 Description: A man was walking along a path near a local church in Sommaprado, Italy at 6:30 a.m. when he heard a sound like a motor. He looked around but did not see anything, but moments later he heard the noise again. This time he saw a shiny brass colored cigar-shaped object hovering nearby. It had a "bump" or dome in the middle and six rotor blades, three in front and three in the rear. The rear of the object was transparent and inside he could see two short beings dressed in black and wearing large helmets. The beings looked human with olive colored skin and black hair. They looked at the witness and smiled at him. The frightened witness fell to the ground and watched as the object departed at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4251; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1564, citing ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_8651 Source: Johnson ### Event 7249 (6A29080D) Date: 12/31/1954 Description: At ten minutes after midnight, four men in a forest in Camaqua, Brazil in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, saw a 30-meter wide disc stop and hover silently one meter above the ground. A human looking occupant got out of the craft and walked around it with a lamp of some kind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Felipe Machado Carrion, Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1971, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_8666 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1955 (Back to Top) ### Event 7250 (EBCF3333) Date: 1955 End date: 1957 Description: UFOs all but faded out of the news. Queries to the Air Force were answered by a "fact sheet" referring back to the 1955 report. A 1957 "fact sheet" stated the unexplained cases had been reduced "from approximately 10% in 1954 to 3%, as of now." Type: USAF fact sheets Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_883 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7251 (72F7C451) Date: 1955 Description: After selling his share of Fate magazine to [Curtis](https://occulthealth.com/fuller-curtis-1912%E2%80%931991/) and [Mary Margaret Stiehm Fuller](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-07-21-9203050547-story.html)[,](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-07-21-9203050547-story.html) [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) founds a would- be competitor, Mystic \(later Search\) and several short-lived SF titles. Other Worlds evolves in 1957 into Flying Saucers, a more or less nonfiction magazine that features articles of widely varying credibility and a column of saucer fan-club news. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 873 Source ID: Eberhart_2672 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7252 (3C78D874) Date: 1955 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s Inside the Space Ships, ghostwritten by Adamski follower Charlotte Blodget, is published by Abelard Schuman in the United States and Foster and Scott in Canada. Adamski claims that Orthon arranged for him to be taken on a trip to see the Solar System, including the planet [Venus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus) the location where Orthon said the late Mary Adamski had been reincarnated. He claims that in another voyage he met the 1,000-year-old “elder philosopher of the space people,” who is called “the Master.” Adamski says he and the Master discussed philosophy, religion, and the “Earth’s place in the universe.” Adamski learns that he has been selected by Nordic aliens to bring their message of peace to Earth people and that other humans throughout history have also served as their messengers, including Jesus Christ. Adamski further claims that aliens are peacefully living on Earth, and that he has met with them in bars and restaurants in Southern California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Adamski, [Inside the Space](https://archive.org/details/insidespaceships00adam/page/n3/mode/2up) [Ships](https://archive.org/details/insidespaceships00adam/page/n3/mode/2up), Abelard-Schuman, 1955; Clark III 40; Lou Zinsstag and Timothy Good, George Adamski: The Untold Story, Ceti, 1983; David Stupple, “The Man Who Talked with Venusians,” Fate 32, no. 1 \(January 1979\): 30–39 Source ID: Eberhart_2673 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7253 (33CB8335) Date: 1955 Description: The US nuclear stockpile totals 2,422 bombs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ryan Crierie, “[U.S. Nuclear Stockpile, 1945–2009](https://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/ABC%5FWeapons/US%5FNuclear%5FStockpile.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2670 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7254 (71070380) Date: 1955 Description: Soviet “Penza-19” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Warhead assembly) Type: atomic plant Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_547 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7255 (0DB91A90) Date: 1955 Description: According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, USSR’s Ministry of Defence formed a UFO Research Committee. Stroganov claimed that Russian intel chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to discuss the problem in 1956. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the issue top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses, the media and UFO research grounds. Type: ufological event Reference: [“The Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69](https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Gene-Interactions-Humanity-Visitors/dp/0958704538) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_546 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7256 (43C2125A) Date: 1955 Description: Navy pilot observed domed disc. \[UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Virginia, nr. Washington, D. C, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1798 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7257 (1B578A98) Date: 1955 Description: Truck driver and hotel manager driving over mountain road saw luminous object fly overhead, truck engine stopped (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Agrinion, Greece Source ID: NICAP_DB_1797 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7258 (AF5A7541) Date: 1955 Description: Project Rover, a US project to develop a nuclear-thermal rocket, is initiated at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, and runs until January 1973. It begins as an Air Force project to develop a nuclear- powered upper stage for an intercontinental ballistic missile. The project is transferred to NASA in 1958 after the Sputnik crisis. It is managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office, a joint agency of the Atomic Energy Commission and NASA. Project Rover becomes part of NASA’s Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application \(NERVA\) project and henceforth deals with the research into nuclear rocket reactor design, while NERVA involves the overall development and deployment of nuclear rocket engines and the planning for space missions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project Rover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FRover)”; Wikipedia, “[NERVA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 303–312](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/302/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2669 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7259 (1010EE10) Date: 1955 Description: [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) founds OTC Enterprises in Baltimore, Maryland, to advance and supply technology originating from ideas of [Nikola Tesla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%5FTesla)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%5FTesla) Carr claims he met Tesla while working as a night clerk in New York City’s Hotel Pennsylvania, where Tesla was living in the late 1920s. Tesla befriended Carr and revealed to him secrets he was not ready to make public yet. Carr attracts the funding of local businessman [Wilfred C. Gosnell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/711706/wilfred-claude-gosnell). Soon he hires a promotions man named Norman Evans Colton and sends out regular information bulletins to investors. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 860 Source ID: Eberhart_2671 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7260 (0F8EBE65) Date: Early 1955 Description: A secure test site is needed for the CIA Project Aquatone \(the Lockheed U-2 spy plane\). Lockheed test pilot [Kelly Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29) sends project pilot [Tony LeVier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FLeVier) and Skunk Works chief foreman Dorsey Kammerer on a two- week survey mission to scout locations for a new base in an unmarked Beechcraft V-35 Bonanza. CIA official [Richard M. Bissell Jr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) reviews 50 potential sites with USAF liaison Col. [Osmond J. Ritland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105825/major-general-osmond-j-ritland/). None seem to meet the stringent requirements of the program. They reject Johnson’s proposed Site I \(Mud Lake?\) because it is too close to populated areas. Ritland recalls a “little X-shaped field” just off the eastern side of Groom Lake, Nevada, just outside the AEC nuclear proving ground at Yucca Flat. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Peter W. Merlin, “[Groom Lake Timeline: The First](https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html) [Fifty Years,](https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_2668 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7261 (EC332B44) Date: 1/1955 Description: [George King](https://www.aetherius.org/dr-george-king/) gives the first public demonstration of his contacts with the Cosmic Masters in Caxton Hall, London, England. After mounting the platform, he enters a trance, and Aetherius \(the Cosmic Master from Venus\) reveals a plan for human peace and enlightenment. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, [p. 63](https://archive.org/details/inadvanceoflandi00doug/page/62/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2674 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7262 (5F129D37) Date: 1/1/1955 Time: 6:44 AM Description: Witnesses: instructor and student pilot in USAF B-25 bomber/trainer. A metallic disc, shaped like two pie pans face-to-face, and 120-130' in diameter, paced the B-25, showing both its edge and its face, for 5-7 minutes. Only item in case file was summary form. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Cochise, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_379 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7263 (D6D82528) Date: 1/1/1955 Description: Huge Metallic Disc Paces B-25 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3382, NC) Reference: NICAP: [550101](http://www.nicap.org/550101cochise%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cochise, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1799 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7264 (8D3A08D4) Date: 1/2/1955 Description: Airliner enroute to Maracaibo approached by luminous UFO. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Punta San Juan (near), Venezula Source ID: NICAP_DB_1800 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7265 (490279F4) Date: Early 1/1955 Description: [Dorothy Martin](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/) leaves the Chicago area for Prescott, Arizona, home of the like-minded [George Hunt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) [Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) after being threatened with arrest and involuntary commitment. She later founds the Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara. Under the name Sister Thedra, she continues to practice channeling and participate in contactee groups until her death in 1992. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 719 Source ID: Eberhart_2675 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7266 (B89D80F5) Date: 1/3/1955 Description: 4:00 p.m. Félix Galarraga and Gerardo Izuesta see a red balloon-like object about 7–10 feet in diameter land near Oiartzun, Spain. Galarraga rushes towards it, but the UFO rises and speeds away. From a separate location, brothers Miguel and Martín Arraspio also see the object descend. Possibly another Radio Free Europe balloon with leaflets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) The Author, 1992, p. 4; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Juan Carlos Vistorio Uranga, “[Los ovnis de diciembre de](https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS%5FOVNIS%5FDE%5FDICIEMBRE%5FDE%5F1954) [1954,](https://www.academia.edu/16786792/LOS%5FOVNIS%5FDE%5FDICIEMBRE%5FDE%5F1954)” Academia.edu Source ID: Eberhart_2676 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7267 (3EAF0378) Date: 1/3/1955 Time: 0725 Description: Two persons in a car saw a flying object come within 70 m of them after their vehicle was stopped. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Melbourne, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_359 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7268 (F0194CF3) Date: 1/3/1955 Description: At 7:25 a.m. two people in a car in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia saw a flying object approach to within 70 meters of them after their vehicle was stalled. On that same day in Vienna, Austria six silver discs flew overhead, leaving a trail of red vapor. Some citizens were panicked. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 248; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4260; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 30, citing Vallee Source ID: Johnson_50 Source: Johnson ### Event 7269 (0080274F) Date: 1/5/1955 Description: A red circular object 3 m in diameter was observed to land and take off again. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: San Sebastian, Spain Source ID: Magnonia_360 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7270 (2BC4328C) Date: 1/5/1955 Description: A red circular object three meters in diameter was observed to land and take off again in San Sebastian, Spain. Three independent witnesses saw the object come to ground. They described it as a very bright red globe 2.5 meters in diameter, which they thought was made of a metallic material. When one witness approached to within 100 meters, the object took off. The principal witness was a 23-year-old man named Galarraga. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 248; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 18; UNICAT database, case 565, citing Stendek Source ID: Johnson_112 Source: Johnson ### Event 7271 (8954456F) Date: 1/7/1955 Description: The Air Force Information Services Letter warns that service members are talking too much about UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [p. 228](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/238/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2677 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7272 (24F9BB8F) Date: 1/14/1955 Description: 5:30 p.m. A luminous UFO drops from the sky near Idyllwild, California. Immediately afterwards, a B-47 pilot reports to March AFB \[now March Air Reserve Base\] near Riverside, California, that an “unknown object just hit our wing.” The pilot guides the plane to a landing. No trace of a crashed object can be found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) [Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) pp. 247–248 Source ID: Eberhart_2678 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7273 (16927CB8) Date: 1/14/1955 Description: An unknown object struck the wing of a USAF B-47 flying over California. The plane was able to make a safe emergency landing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 408 Source ID: Johnson_309 Source: Johnson ### Event 7274 (18F2EE0C) Date: 1/14/1955 Description: Airliner pilot saw a dark object leaving a contrail (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bet. Virginia and Kansas, air space Source ID: NICAP_DB_1801 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7275 (87528E4C) Date: 1/16/1955 Description: At 1:00 p.m. a pilot of a light plane flying over Talara, Peru encountered a domed, disc-shaped UFO maneuvering at 20,000 feet. It focused a beam of light onto his plane. He gave chase but the disc ascended to an altitude too high to follow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24, citing the APRO Bulletin Source ID: Johnson_345 Source: Johnson ### Event 7276 (4730F834) Date: 1/19/1955 Description: Military pilot saw a white-reddish globular object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Ocean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1802 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7277 (72277A11) Date: 1/26/1955 Description: At 6:15 p.m. J. M. Holland saw a black smoke trail make a circle in Lakeland, Florida. There was an explosion and some objects fell from sky. A Project Blue Book unknown. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3401; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 102; Don Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_515 Source: Johnson ### Event 7278 (AB3CCCBF) Date: 1/26/1955 Time: 6:15 PM Description: Witness: J.M. Holland. A black smoke trail made a circle. There was an explosion and some objects fell. No further information in file. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lakeland, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_380 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7279 (9D8EC676) Date: 1/26/1955 Description: A black smoke trail/circle-explosion and some objects fell (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3401) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lakeland, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1803 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7280 (306EC6FA) Date: 1/28/1955 Description: On this night in 1955, a blue nocturnal light followed a snowplow in the Blue Mountains in Oregon. It moved away when the snowplow stopped, but came back when plowing resumed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March 1955 Source ID: Johnson_551 Source: Johnson ### Event 7281 (34F570DB) Date: 1/28/1955 Description: GCI Tracks Uncorrelated Target Over Alaska (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [550128](http://www.nicap.org/550128fairbanksdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fairbanks, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1804 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7282 (B5D468ED) Date: 1/29/1955 Description: Light Outmaneuvers T-33 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550129](http://www.nicap.org/550129winterset%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winterset, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1805 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7283 (06376AE0) Date: 1/31/1955 Description: 2:00 a.m. Peruvian Air Force Commander Guillermo Serpa and Col. Juan Rodriguez Cavero are returning to El Pata Air Force Base near Talara, Peru, by car through the Sechura Desert on the Pan-American Highway 1N when they see a bright light in the sky ahead. The object, a deep red domed disc, draws nearer and Serpa stops the car to observe it. It tilts slightly toward them, making occasional clicking sounds. Several minutes later it accelerates quickly in their direction, changing to a bright orange color then to a bright white as it shoots past them at terrific speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs a History: 1955, January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf) [June, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-Jun-SN.pdf), The Author, 2002, pp. 14–18 Source ID: Eberhart_2679 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7284 (58CBDC16) Date: 1/31/1955 Description: Military pilots saw a white circular object, no trail moving against wind (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fuju \[?\],, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1806 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7285 (336B3C82) Date: 2/1/1955 Description: 7:55 p.m. Instructor Capt. [Delwyn F. Ritzdorf](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49361425/delwyn-franklin-ritzdorf) and aviation cadet Frederick W. Miller are flying a TB-25 bomber-trainer about 20 miles east of Cochise, Arizona, at 13,000 feet and 238 mph when they see a bright round object with red and white hues. It approaches them then hovers off the left wing for 5 minutes about 5° above the horizontal. Radio interference prevents Ritzdorf from reporting the sighting. The object climbs rapidly on a parallel flight track for 3 minutes before pulling away at 500–600 mph and disappearing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Huge](http://www.nicap.org/550101cochise%5Fdir.htm) [Metallic Disc Paces B-25](http://www.nicap.org/550101cochise%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2680 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7286 (D870A29E) Date: 2/1/1955 Time: 7:55 PM Description: Witnesses: Instructor Capt. D.F. Ritzdorf, aviation cadet F.W. Miller in TB-25 bomber/trainer. One red and white ball hovered off the left wing of the TB-25 for 5 minutes, then made a very fast climb. Total time of sighting was 8 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 20 miles east of Cochise, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_381 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7287 (7D3E3EF9) Date: 2/1/1955 Description: Pilot saw a very bright round object with red and white hues (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3414, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cochise (20 miles E of ), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1807 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7288 (9EF8E306) Date: 2/2/1955 Description: At the Miramar Naval Air Station, California at 11:50 a.m. USN Cmdr. J. L. Ingersoll sighted a highly polished sphere with reddish-brown coloring. The object appeared to be falling in the sky, then it instantly accelerated to between 1,000-1,500 m.p.h. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3416; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 19; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_662 Source: Johnson ### Event 7289 (CE099030) Date: 2/2/1955 Description: 11:15 a.m. A Venezuelan Aeropostal airliner piloted by Captain Dario Celis is flying between Barquisimeto and Valera, Venezuela, at 7,500 feet. Celis and his copilot B. J. Cortes spot a strange, round “apparatus” flying swiftly toward the plane. Rotating counterclockwise, the object shines with a greenish light. Around its center is a red ring or band that emits flashes of brilliant light. Above and below this band are lighted portholes. Hurriedly the pilot cuts in his mike to call the Barquisimeto radio station. After reporting the UFO, he waits for an answer, but the receiver is dead. Later the radio operators state that just as the pilot began his report, communication is cut off. The copilot banks toward the rotating UFO. Instantly the object whirls downward, then levels off, and races away at tremendous speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Plane Encounters Saucer and Radio Goes Dead](http://www.nicap.org/550202venezuela%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 249–250 Source ID: Eberhart_2682 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7290 (A70783D6) Date: 2/2/1955 Time: 11:50 AM Description: Witness: USN Cmdr. J.L. Ingersoll. One highly polished sphere, with reddish-brown coloring, fell, then instantly accelerated to 1,000-1,500 m.p.h. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Miramar Naval Air Station, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_382 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7291 (2E54AACB) Date: 2/2/1955 Description: Aviation inventor [Bill Lear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FLear), during a press conference in Bogotá, Colombia, states his belief that “flying saucers came from outer space and are piloted by beings of superior intelligence.” He suspects that they might use gravitational fields as propulsion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) [1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) The Author, 1992, p. 18 Source ID: Eberhart_2681 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7292 (6963BC53) Date: 2/2/1955 Description: Highly polished sphere, with reddish-brown coloring (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3416) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miramar NAS, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1808 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7293 (1A6DD62D) Date: 2/2/1955 Description: Airliner en route fr Barquisimeto; radio went dead both at Valera and Barq. as pilot started to report a UFO sighting (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Valera (near), Venezula Source ID: NICAP_DB_1809 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7294 (1BF4D434) Date: 2/2/1955 Description: At 11:15 a.m. Dario Celis and his co-pilot Cortes were flying 25 miles southwest of Barquisimento, Venezuela when their radio cut out. Their aircraft was then buzzed by a multicolored Saturn or top-shaped object that was rotating counterclockwise. The body of the craft was green, but around the center of the object was a red ring or band that emitted flashes of brilliant light. Above and below this band were lighted portholes. The UFO leveled off and raced away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 249; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_661 Source: Johnson ### Event 7295 (74136556) Date: 2/4/1955 Description: A woman on a moped saw four blue-green lights in the middle of a vineyard in Cerat, Pyrennes-Orientales, France at 7:25 p.m. The lights were arranged in an arc, five feet above the ground. Two tall beings stood motionless nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_688 Source: Johnson ### Event 7296 (933E0AEC) Date: 2/6/1955 Description: Several witnesses in Greymouth, New Zealand, see a dazzling, silvery, cigar-shaped object moving inland at a high speed. Two observers see it consisting of two parts, with the leading part larger than the other. A loud explosion like a thunderclap is heard, causing the earth to tremble slightly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[World Roundup,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CMay-Jun%2CV%201%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 2 \(May/June 1955\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_2683 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7297 (6EEEC143) Date: 2/7/1955 Description: Flying Tiger Pilot Sees Brilliant Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550207](http://www.nicap.org/550207harrisburg%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1811 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7298 (FF695474) Date: 2/7/1955 Description: Airliner Encounters 5 Objects That Departed At High Speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550207](http://www.nicap.org/550207ftwayne%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Wayne, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1812 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7299 (30F7D56D) Date: 2/7/1955 Description: Winged Unidentified Executes Verical Climb Near Jets (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [550207](http://www.nicap.org/550207knightslanding%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Knights Landing, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1810 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7300 (2166B66D) Date: 2/10/1955 Description: Object, shaped like a small portion of the bottom of moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3427) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bethesda, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1813 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7301 (7843F18E) Date: 2/10/1955 Description: In Altamira, Venezuela at 9:30 p.m. a teenage couple saw a huge disc-shaped UFO fly from horizon to horizon. It had two pulsing blue lights on the bottom, and was in view for more than six minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 64 Source ID: Johnson_794 Source: Johnson ### Event 7302 (0874EF58) Date: 2/10/1955 Description: 9:30 p.m. Many residents of Caracas, Venezuela, see a strange object crossing the sky silently from northeast to southwest. José Agustín Díaz in Altamira clocks its time as 6–8 minutes. It looks like a disc with two bright, pulsating, bluish lights on the underside. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 64 Source ID: Eberhart_2684 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7303 (460AA8BF) Date: 2/10/1955 Time: 10:03 PM Description: Witness: E.J. Stein, model maker at U.S. Navy ship design facility. One object, shaped like a small portion of the bottom of the Moon, with a radiant yellow color, hovered for 30 seconds. Its bottom changed to a funnel shape. Total sighting lasted 1.5-2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Bethesda, Maryland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_383 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7304 (0AE83DAC) Date: 2/11/1955 Description: Pan American Airways flight saw two reddish-green objects speed past under wing. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miami to New York, In Airspace Source ID: NICAP_DB_1815 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7305 (950AEF44) Date: 2/11/1955 Description: C-124 Encounters 1,000 MPH Jack 'o' Lantern (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550211](http://www.nicap.org/550211ryukyu%5Fisles%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ryukyu Islands, South Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1814 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7306 (0A3220B6) Date: 2/11/1955 Description: At 7:15 p.m. a US Air Force C-124 crew flying over Ryuku Island, near Okinawa, Japan sighted a yellow or amber object, shaped like a "Jack-O-Lantern", flying at 1,000 miles per hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_819 Source: Johnson ### Event 7307 (E6D59368) Date: 2/13/1955 Description: Midnight. A green fireball shoots across east Texas like a “huge electric arc,” passing from Tyler towards Lufkin. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf), The Author, 1992, p. 24 Source ID: Eberhart_2685 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7308 (5AAA069D) Date: 2/14/1955 Description: Disc Hovers At 500' / Air Force Doesn't Investigate (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [550214](http://www.nicap.org/550214greencity%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Green City, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1816 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7309 (2A9947CF) Date: 2/15/1955 Description: ATIC sends a memo to Maj. Joseph A. Cybulski, commander of the 4602nd AISS at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, complaining about the high number of unknowns. It suggests that AISS and ATIC “strive to reach as many case solutions as possible, thereby reducing the percentage of the unknowns to a bare minimum.” As long as there is sufficient information, most cases “will fit to some extent one of the hypotheses.” The probable and possible cases are merged into the “identified” category. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Maj. T. G. Connair Jr., “Evaluation of Unidentified Flying Objects,” February 15, 1955, in CUFON, “[4602d](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl7.htm) [AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 7 of 7 Parts](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl7.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2686 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7310 (4C3E84E2) Date: 2/16/1955 Description: An aluminum colored hemisphere with a dome on top (a domed disc) hovered for a couple of minutes over a volcano at 1:00 p.m., then flew off quickly to the east. It emitted a small object, which flew off to the west. It was sighted by several pilots and crew members of the Peruvian Air Force, flying to the southeast of Quito, Ecuador. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March 1955; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_941 Source: Johnson ### Event 7311 (C74419E7) Date: 2/17/1955 Description: Pilot saw an extremely large light-blue object at 35,000 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Blackstone, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1817 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7312 (2397F2E2) Date: 2/18/1955 Description: The nuclear Teapot Wasp test takes place at the Nevada Test Site. Ground forces take part in Exercise Desert Rock VI, which includes an armored task force Razor moving to within 3,000 feet of ground zero, under the still-forming mushroom cloud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Teapot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FTeapot\#Wasp)” Source ID: Eberhart_2687 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7313 (F916B2AB) Date: 2/21/1955 Description: Early morning. “Cobwebby gray fibers” fall in Horseheads, New York, covering one-half square mile. Some “ragged sheets” are many feet in length. Chemist [Charles B. Rutenber](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110704304/charles-blackman-rutenber) of Elmira College in Elmira, New York, describes it as “badly damaged, slightly radioactive cotton fiber” that might have come from a Nevada atomic test. He concludes it is a “short-staple cotton, possibly lint from waste cotton used in industrial plants.” [John B. Diffenderfer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99576762/john-b-diffenderfer)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99576762/john-b-diffenderfer) a chemist at a local Westinghouse laboratory, finds it is 30% carbon, with calcium, silica, aluminum, iron, and 10 other trace elements. He thinks it comes from powdered milk residue, perhaps from the Dairylea milk processing plant in Elmira. But milk plant chemists Louis R. Hermani and Robert L. Mix say the material is composed of “cotton and wool fibers with pieces of fine copper wire mixed in” and looks like it comes from a carpet sweeper bag. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Further Tests Made of Fibers Collected in Horseheads Area,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93406826/)” Elmira \(N.Y.\) Star- Gazette, February 23, 1955, p. 13; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 101–102 Source ID: Eberhart_2688 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7314 (9A5A926B) Date: 2/23/1955 Description: A 30-foot diameter top-shaped object with portholes was seen hovering over a field on the Lord Montbatten estate in Broadlands, near Romsey, Hampshire, England by a cyclist at 8:30 in the morning. A shaft of light came from the center of the silver top. There was a man on a platform on the object, who wore dark colored overalls and a helmet. When a blue flash shot from one of the portholes the witness fell to the ground, paralyzed. The shaft of energy was then retracted, and the UFO rose silently away. When it was gone the witness could move again, but was still dizzy. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1955, citing Timothy Good, Above Top Secret; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4301, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_1060 Source: Johnson ### Event 7315 (D8AF1AAF) Date: 2/23/1955 Description: 8:30 a.m. Frederick S. Briggs, a bricklayer and former army sergeant employed at Broadlands, Romsey, Hampshire, England, the manor then owned by [Lord Mountbatten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma), [Prince Philip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FPhilip%2C%5FDuke%5Fof%5FEdinburgh)’s uncle, sees a large disc-shaped UFO over a nearby meadow as he is bicycling to work. The object is shaped like a spinning top, metallic, and about 20–30 feet in diameter with portholes around the center. Watching from less than 100 yards away, Briggs estimates that the object is 80 feet above the ground. He sees a humanoid figure dressed in what look like overalls and a helmet descend from the craft on some sort of column with a platform at the bottom. He is then dazzled by a bright blue light from the craft and falls over, unable to move, as if held by a strange force. The UFO then flies off at high speed. Mountbatten takes a personal interest in this incident, interviews Briggs, and searches the area of the meadow over which the UFO is seen. He subsequently has a statement prepared, detailing Briggs’s claims. This story is written up by [Desmond Leslie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%5FLeslie) in Flying Saucer Review in 1981. Mountbatten’s signed statement on the incident is held with many of his other private papers at the Broadlands Archive. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Desmond Leslie, “[Did](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%205.pdf) [Flying Saucers Land at Broadlands?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 \(January 1981\): 2–4; Good Above, [pp. 40–](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/40/mode/2up) [42](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/40/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/40/mode/2up) [451–454](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/450/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2689 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7316 (C2769AE3) Date: 2/23/1955 Description: Broadlands Archives Record: Sworn statement by Lord Mountbatten and Frederick Briggs describing a Saucer that landed on Lord Mountbattens property. It was shaped like a child’s humming top, between 10 to 30 ft. diameter. Looked like kitchen saucepan. Had cylindrical column about the size of a man descending from the center. Had portholes all around the middle, like a steamer boat. I noticed a man standing on the end of the central column. He was dressed in a dark suit of overalls, and wearing a close fitting hat or helmet. As the Saucer powered up a bright blue light came from one of the portholes (like a mercury-vapor lamp). A force knocked me over. The Flying Saucer proceeded to rise and retract the central column. (See movie ”Earth vs. the F.S.”) Type: ce2 event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p451-453, ALIEN) Location: Britain See also: 8/23/1952 Source ID: Maj2_548 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7317 (06A0E095) Date: 2/24/1955 Description: On this morning a cyclist riding his bicycle in Broadlands, Hampshire, England saw a man wearing blue coveralls signal him to stop. The man then grabbed the witness by his hand, and using telepathy invited him to board a UFO hovering above a nearby field. The man accepted the invitation and was allegedly flown on a trip to see the pyramids in Egypt. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 858, citing Flying Saucer Review Source ID: Johnson_1076 Source: Johnson ### Event 7318 (8D45DB07) Date: 3/1955 Description: Technician and businessman [Morris K.](https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/morris-ketchum-jessup-as-a-fortean) [Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) publishes The Case for the UFO, the first book to use the relatively new US Air Force term “UFO” instead of flying saucer. He engages in speculation about Fortean phenomena, ancient astronauts, levitating forces to explain megalithic structures, and experiments in ancient times with flight and even space flight. He identifies 1877–1887 as an “Incredible Decade,” in which astronomers observe strange space objects, and meteorologists note strange falls from the sky. He speculates that mysterious disappearances of ship crews might constitute a curiosity among “our space friends” on “what has happened to us since they put us down here.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Morris K. Jessup, The Case for the UFO, Citadel, 1955; Clark III 634; Story, [p.](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/50/mode/2up) [51](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/50/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2690 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7319 (CDEB667B) Date: 3/1955 Time: 0400 Description: Robert Hunnicutt, a businessman, saw three men kneeling on the side of the road. They were about 1 m tall, had gray skin, and wore tight-fitting gray clothes. They had froglike face, long slender arms, normal eyes, but no eyebrows. One of them held a dark object (emitting blue flashes) between his raised arms. Hunnicutt tried to go near but "must have lost consciousness," because he found himself driving to the police station without remembering what took place in the meantime. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Stringfield; FS May., 61; Sanderson 147 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Branch Hill, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_361 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7320 (0C426FB4) Date: 3/1955 Description: M-33 Radar Tracks Unidentified A/C At 2000 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [550300](http://www.nicap.org/550300losangelesdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles (SW OF), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1818 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7321 (76999F08) Date: 3/1955 Description: The CIA obtains quantities of Hemophilus pertussis, whooping cough bacteria, from Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. The agency field tests it covertly along Florida’s Gulf Coast. The incidence of whooping cough triples this year, but the CIA’s role remains unknown until 1979. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Richards, “[Report Suggests CIA Involvement in](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/12/17/report-suggests-cia-involvement-in-fla-illnesses/5b10205e-170b-4e38-b64e-2e9bca8f50df/) [Fla. Illnesses,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/12/17/report-suggests-cia-involvement-in-fla-illnesses/5b10205e-170b-4e38-b64e-2e9bca8f50df/)” Washington Post, December 17, 1979 Source ID: Eberhart_2692 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7322 (7BF454A3) Date: 3/1955 Description: [James S. Rigberg](https://richardaguilar.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/in-search-ofjames-s-rigberg-and-the-flying-saucer-news-bookstore-and-prosperity-clinic/)[,](https://richardaguilar.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/in-search-ofjames-s-rigberg-and-the-flying-saucer-news-bookstore-and-prosperity-clinic/) owner of the Flying Saucer Bookstore in New York City, begins publishing Flying Saucer News as the official publication of the Flying Saucer News Club of America, founded in 1953. It is published twice a year until at least May 1982. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Flying Saucer News](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20%28Rigberg%29/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20-%201955%2003%20-%20March.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(March 1955\) Source ID: Eberhart_2691 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7323 (D5217DF4) Date: 3/1/1955 Description: The Douglas Aircraft Company is conducting a study of “Unconventional Propulsion Schemes/Systems” for the USAF Air Technical Information Center from 1954 to 1955, headed by [Wolfgang Klemperer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%5FKlemperer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%5FKlemperer) who writes a memo to E. P. Wheaton that says: “Our studies of the possible merit or significance of occasionally appearing publications concerning Unconventional Propulsion Systems have been carefully continuing since the first memo \(MTM-622\) about the progress to mid-December 1954.” Apparently the project examined some UFO reports \(including Willis Sperry’s\) and UFO books. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Douglas Aircraft Company, “[Unconventional Propulsion Schemes,](https://rense.com/general96/DouglasDocsPreface.pdf)” MTM-622, March 1, 1955; Keith Basterfield, “[Documents Located from that 1955 ‘Secret’ UAP Study by](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/01/documents-located-from-that-1955-secret.html) [Douglas Aircraft Company,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/01/documents-located-from-that-1955-secret.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, January 11, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_2693 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7324 (71AB4E9F) Date: 3/2/1955 Time: 1700 Description: A car was followed for 10 min by three elongated "balloons," each showing eight red lights and about 7 m long. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Huntley, Illinois Source ID: Magnonia_362 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7325 (4DCF1C22) Date: 3/2/1955 Description: Car Followed By Three Black Objects With Lights (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550302](http://www.nicap.org/550302huntley%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huntley, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1819 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7326 (23B42446) Date: 3/2/1955 Description: At 3:00 p.m. MST a hovering, rectangular-shaped object was seen rocking in the sky over Tucson, Arizona. One hour later, at about 5:00 p.m. CST, a car driving ten miles north of Huntley, Illinois was followed for ten minutes by three elongated "balloons." The objects were each about seven meters long and showed eight red lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, p. 249 case 362 Source ID: Johnson_1239 Source: Johnson ### Event 7327 (6D1C09A4) Date: 3/7/1955 Description: K.A. (initials) from Rescue Team 4, Roswell AFB, N.M. given a general discharge from the USAF because he told his Sergeant about the Top Secret recovery of a UFO on April 12, 1954. Type: personnel discharged Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C) Location: Roswell, NM See also: 4/12/1954 Source ID: Maj2_549 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7328 (4C746400) Date: 3/9/1955 Description: On this day at 5:50 p.m. a witness named Metcalfe on the ground in Paris, Illinois reported seeing a bell-shaped flying "swallow" an airplane. No aircraft were reported missing at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Brent Raynes, Flying Saucers, June 1970, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_1391 Source: Johnson ### Event 7329 (0062312E) Date: 3/11/1955 Description: 7:50 p.m. Lawrence Grab and his son see a brilliant flash of light from their home at 714 West Lakeside Street in Madison, Wisconsin, then watch a phosphorescent object speed over the city from southwest to northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Season’s First Saucer Flies in at High Speed,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94013731/)” Madison Wisconsin State Journal, March 12, 1955, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_2694 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7330 (FC744C30) Date: 3/11/1955 Description: At 1:15 a.m. in Bexley, London, England a glowing disc-shaped object flew toward the southwest, stopped, then turned back toward the Thames Rivers, then flew off quickly to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 35 Source ID: Johnson_1422 Source: Johnson ### Event 7331 (5F627C5B) Date: 3/12/1955 End date: 3/13/1955 Description: [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel)’s second Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, attracts a smaller crowd than the first. This time [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) is in attendance, along with Charles Laughead, [Dorothy Martin](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/)[,](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/) [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson), [Dana Howard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%5FHoward%5F%28contactee%29), [Daniel Fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry), [Truman Bethurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum), and Dick Miller. Retired USAF Project Blue Book head [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) is in the audience and writes up a report. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, “Among the Contactees,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 3–6, 23–24; Clark III 531; “[Six](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94013959/) [Claim Rides on](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94013959/) [Interplanetary](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94014068/) [Ships,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94014103/)” Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1955, pp. 3, 4 Source ID: Eberhart_2695 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7332 (CA52461B) Date: 3/14/1955 Description: A V-shaped formation of lights flew over Lake Harris, Florida at 8:50 p.m. They were reported by two witnesses, Tetrault and Boltman. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Morris K. Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 115 Source ID: Johnson_1477 Source: Johnson ### Event 7333 (BF718BD4) Date: 3/15/1955 Description: The 4602nd AISS guide to investigating UFOs is complete and gets distributed to appropriate personnel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 4602d AISS, “[UFOB Guide,](http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/4602HistoryUFOs.pdf)” in History of 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron, vol. 1, January 1–June 30, 1955, reprinted in CUFON, “[4602d AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 6 of 7 Parts](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl6.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2696 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7334 (703B9A0C) Date: 3/16/1955 Description: B-47 Pilot Sees Circular Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550316](http://www.nicap.org/550316saltonsea%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salton Sea (35 miles N of), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1820 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7335 (51267749) Date: Spring 1955 Description: Flying Saucer Review is launched in London, England, as a small-circulation quarterly, with aviation journalist and former RAF pilot [Derek Dempster](http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/02/obituary-for-derek-dempster.html) as its first editor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Denis Montgomery, “[How It All Began: Founding the](http://www.fsr.org.uk/fsrintroduction.html) [Flying Saucer Review,](http://www.fsr.org.uk/fsrintroduction.html)” May 5, 2004; [Flying Saucer Review](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CMar-Apr%2CV%201%2CN%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(Spring 1955\); Clark III 498 Source ID: Eberhart_2699 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7336 (330A9A52) Date: 3/20/1955 Description: Pilots flying 2 aircraft tracked an unidentified target by airborne radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550320](http://www.nicap.org/550320tokyodir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tokyo, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1821 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7337 (922593E6) Date: 3/24/1955 Description: 2:30 p.m. The pilot of a private Beechcraft plane is flying at 1,500 feet with a student in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. They see a domed disc with three windows about 900 feet on their left that appears to change color from white to orange and back again. Over the next few minutes, the object flies over, in front of, and under the airplane. When the pilot puts the plane into a dive, the craft stays with it. The plane’s instruments stop working. The pilot makes a steep right turn but the object still paces the plane. When the Beechcraft’s engine begins to stall, the pilot calls Naha Airport on Okinawa, which alerts the US Kadena Air Base. Two jets are scrambled, but by the time they arrive the object is long gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 65–66 Source ID: Eberhart_2697 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7338 (3400B3E5) Date: 3/24/1955 Description: Hat-shaped object with 3 windows on top section change color (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ryukyu Islands, South Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1822 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7339 (DFFE93C6) Date: 3/24/1955 Description: At 2:30 p.m. a hat-shaped metallic disc with three windows in the top section flew in front of and under a Beechcraft airplane over the Ryuku Islands, Okinawa, Japan. The plane's Instruments ceased to function, and the engine experienced interference. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 65; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 10; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_1635 Source: Johnson ### Event 7340 (A88743F1) Date: 3/29/1955? Description: Early morning. A bus driving past Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, sees a silver, triangular object hovering above the base for 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2008%2000%20-%20August%5F%28underlinings%29.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, August 1955, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_2698 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7341 (37D1C3A4) Date: 3/29/1955 Description: (McDonald list) Object Rises Almost Vertically, Blip On Radar (BBU) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550329](http://www.nicap.org/550329sonomadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sonoma (and Soledad), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1823 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7342 (941A3C8B) Date: 3/30/1955 Description: Andy Florio sighted a disc-shaped object at least 100 feet in diameter while driving near Tucson, Arizona. It made a humming sound and had bluish-green lights on its top and amber lights around the rim. He stopped his car when his car radio failed, his headlights dimmed, and the car lost power and slowed to 12-15 mph. The UFO swayed back and forth while hovering and shot a beam of white light at the witness, burning his elbow and bubbling paint on the car. Mr. Florio also felt heat and a tingling sensation. After the sighting the car was checked by a mechanic, and was found to have a defective battery, a dead radio, and only three spark plugs were still firing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_1731 Source: Johnson ### Event 7343 (621C4468) Date: 4/1955 Description: U-2 project director [Richard M. Bissell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) secures a presidential action adding the Groom Lake area in Nevada to the AEC proving grounds for CIA use. [Kelly Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29) meets with CIA officials in Washington, D.C., and discusses progress on Project Aquatone, proposing to use the name “Paradise Ranch” for the new base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Peter W. Merlin, “[Groom Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,](https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_2701 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7344 (D8B31C13) Date: Early 4/1955 Description: Pentagon press officer Capt. Robert White writes to [Claude H. Marck Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204706550/claude-h%5F-marck)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204706550/claude-h%5F-marck) an interested citizen in Colorado, that Dewey Fournet’s motion studies project was a personal endeavor, that the probability of UFOs being spacecraft is “extremely remote,” and that the Air Force does not try to influence public opinion on the matter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 209–210 Source ID: Eberhart_2700 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7345 (9ADE7026) Date: 4/5/1955 Description: Producer [Ivan Tors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%5FTors) debuts Science Fiction Theatre, a science fiction anthology TV series that presents scientifically plausible stories in an unsensational manner. Many episodes deal with UFO or alien themes, including the season opener, “Beyond,” in which a test pilot bails out and loses his plane because he thinks he’s going to crash into a UFO. The program runs 78 episodes through 1957 and is hosted by veteran announcer [Truman Bradley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBradley%5F%28actor%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBradley%5F%28actor%29) Each episode opens with Bradley on a laboratory set, sometimes quoting from a recent Scientific American article, and he discusses and demonstrates a scientific principle that plays a role in the story he is introducing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Internet Movie Database, “[Science Fiction Theatre](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047767/)”; Curt Collins, “[The UFO Message of](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-ufo-message-of-science-fiction.html) [Science](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-ufo-message-of-science-fiction.html) [Fiction Theatre](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-ufo-message-of-science-fiction.html)[,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-ufo-message-of-science-fiction.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 18, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_2703 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7346 (331FEF58) Date: 4/5/1955 Description: 9:55–10:15 a.m. Three or four fireballs fall in various places in southern New Mexico. Air Force Sgt. Camilla Saenz is stationed on Sacramento Peak near Cloudcroft when she sees a yellow fireball with a red tail traveling fast from east to west on the south side of the peak. An airplane from Biggs Air Force Base \[now Biggs Army Airfield\] in El Paso, Texas, sees an apparent meteor strike near Weed, New Mexico, but USAF planes comb the area for 2 hours afterward without finding anything. Bill Watson sees a dark object smash into the earth near Oil Center, New Mexico, but he can find no fragments. [Lincoln LaPaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%5FLaPaz) reports that heavy shortwave and TV interference accompany the appearance of the fireballs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Fireballs Shower on State,](https://www.newspapers.com/image/87916164/)” Alamogordo \(N.Mex.\) Daily News, April 6, 1955, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_2702 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7347 (0502804B) Date: 4/6/1955 Description: Briggs. (Hynek UFO Rpt p. 44; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beaumont, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1824 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7348 (E4D30384) Date: 4/6/1955 Description: Night. Three unusual green fireballs pass over New Mexico. Radio and TV interference are reported over a wide area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), pp. 264–265 Source ID: Eberhart_2704 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7349 (79ED8619) Date: 4/8/1955 Description: Silver Disc Shot Down Over Rockford (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [550408](http://www.nicap.org/550408rockford%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rockford, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1825 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7350 (4F8C6949) Date: 4/8/1955 Description: 9:25 p.m. Three residents of Albuquerque, New Mexico, watch a blue-green fireball streak west over the city. It appears to have a rose-orange tail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Fire Balls Again Seen over City,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94015061/)” Albuquerque Journal, April 9, 1955, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_2705 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7351 (A241E6FE) Date: 4/18/1955 Description: Albert Einstein dies Type: scientist Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein) Location: Princeton, NJ Source ID: Maj2_550 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7352 (69D9E05B) Date: 4/21/1955 Description: L-19 Encounters Silver Delta (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550421](http://www.nicap.org/550421neworleans%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Orleans (3 miles NE of Moisant Airport), LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1826 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7353 (6E806281) Date: 4/21/1955 Description: Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter, 5 adult and 7 child witnesses, UFO spotted, “twelve to fifteen” short, dark figures who repeatedly popped up at the doorway or peered into the windows. Type: ufological event Reference: [link](https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/the-hopkinsville-alien-invasion-of-1955/) Location: Hopkinsville, KY Source ID: Maj2_551 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7354 (2B2BCE6E) Date: 4/22/1955 Description: At 7:45 a.m. a ten-meter diameter Saturn-shaped sphere flew slowly over a road in Tintinara, South Australia, then made a ninety-degree turn. It then sped away to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australian Centre for UFO Studies, case SA55001; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 135 Source ID: Johnson_2210 Source: Johnson ### Event 7355 (BE68C299) Date: 4/22/1955 Description: Saturn-shaped UFO made sharp turn, ascended. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tintinara, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_1827 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7356 (B5D1DDB7) Date: 4/25/1955 Description: 1:00–1:30 a.m. Residents and motorists see a brilliant fireball streak across the sky above Council Bluffs, Iowa. State Highway Patrolman John Ebert says the light was as bright as an arc welder. One resident sees the light burst into flame and drop to earth. Witnesses in Nebraska think the fireball descends abut 3 miles southeast of Waverly, Nebraska. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Council Bluffs \(Iowa\) Nonpareil, April 25, 1955; Nukes 93 Source ID: Eberhart_2706 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7357 (2F2945A2) Date: 4/28/1955 Description: (McDonald list) Theodolite Tracks UFO & Radar Confirms (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550428](http://www.nicap.org/550428dahlgrendir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dahlgren, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1828 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7358 (00DC023D) Date: 4/30/1955 Time: 7:30 AM Description: Witness USAF Wing Intelligence Officer Maj. L..J. Pagozalski. Four black objects in a cluster made a whooshing sound like a zephyr. Sighting lasted 2-3 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Travis County, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_384 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7359 (2EC862E6) Date: 4/30/1955 Description: A member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences tells a radio audience that UFOs do not exist. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/238/mode/2up) [238–239](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/238/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2707 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7360 (7BB9C36F) Date: 4/30/1955 Description: In Travis County, Texas USAF Intelligence Officer Major L. J. Pagozalski sighted four black objects at 7:30 a.m. flying in a cluster. They made a whooshing sound like a zephyr. The sighting was very brief and lasted for only 2-3 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #3517; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_2420 Source: Johnson ### Event 7361 (FDF7D984) Date: 4/30/1955 Description: 4 black objects in a cluster make a whooshing sound (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3517) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Travis County, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1829 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7362 (55ED6296) Date: 5/1955 Description: 15-year-old Jacques Vallée and his mother see a “gray, metallic disc with a clear bubble on top” hovering above a church in Pontoise, France. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, North Atlantic, 1992, [pp. 15–16](https://archive.org/details/forbiddenscience00vall%5F0/page/15/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2709 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7363 (9EDCFC73) Date: 5/1955 Description: The UK Air Ministry announces that the report in March on a five-year investigation into UFOs by the RAF has been submitted to high-ranking officers, but the results cannot be released publicly for security reasons. MP Maj. [Patrick Wall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FWall) asks the Under-Secretary of State for Air [George Ward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FWard%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FWard%5Fof%5FWitley) to confirm whether or not he would publish a report. Ward replies that only 10% of UFO reports are unidentified and that is because of lack of data. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Derek Dempster, \[[Editorial](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CMay-Jun%2CV%201%2CN%202.pdf)\], Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 2 \(May/June 1955\): 1; Good Above, [p. 43](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/42/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [p. 60–](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n99/mode/2up) [61](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n99/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2708 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7364 (600CD721) Date: 5/4/1955 Time: 12:38 PM Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. E.J. Stealy, lst Lt. J.W. Burt. About 10 round, white objects, one of which left a brief smoke trail, flew in an irregular formation, some of them making erratic movements during the 5-8 second sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Keflavik, Iceland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_385 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7365 (40A5FA65) Date: 5/4/1955 Description: One year later, at 1:38 p.m. at the Keflavik Air Force Base in Iceland, two USAF officers, USAF Lt. Col. E. J. Stealy and 1st Lt. J. W. Burt, spotted 10 white oval-shaped objects, some 60-70 feet in diameter, moving "rapidly and jerkily." One of them left a brief smoke trail. The UFOs moved at a tremendous rate of speed, and were gone from sight in five seconds. This case was listed as an "unknown" by Project Blue Book. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book case files counted in official statistics, case #3523; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_2503 Source: Johnson ### Event 7366 (52467A56) Date: 5/4/1955 Description: Afternoon. Lt. Col. [Edward J. Stealy](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tampabaytimes/obituary.aspx?n=edward-j-stealy&pid=101444799)[,](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tampabaytimes/obituary.aspx?n=edward-j-stealy&pid=101444799) commander of the 57th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Keflavík Airfield, Iceland, and 1stLt. Joseph Burt see 10–15 flying objects, 60–70 feet in diameter, at about 25,000 feet. They fly in loose formation for about 4–5 seconds and are traveling at a tremendous rate of speed \(perhaps 1,150 mph\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf), The Author, 1992, pp. 5–58; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 226; Clark III 376 Source ID: Eberhart_2711 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7367 (2F72ECF8) Date: 5/4/1955 Description: A survey team arrives at Groom Lake, Nevada, and lays out a 5,000-foot north to south runway on the southwest corner of the lakebed and designates a site for a base support facility. The “Ranch” initially consists of little more than a few shelters, workshops, and trailer homes in which to house its small team. In a little over three months, the base consists of a single paved runway, three hangars, a control tower, and rudimentary accommodations for test personnel. The few amenities include a movie theater and volleyball court. There is also a mess hall, several wells, and fuel storage tanks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Area 51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%5F51)”; Peter W. Merlin, “[Groom Lake](https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html) [Timeline: The First Fifty Years,](https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_2710 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7368 (16385428) Date: 5/4/1955 Description: 10 round, white objects, one of which left a brief smoke trail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3523) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Keflavik Airport, Iceland Source ID: NICAP_DB_1830 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7369 (F3C582EB) Date: 5/5/1955 Description: ATIC declassifies Battelle Memorial Institute’s 1951–1954 study of UFOs, completed in March 1954, as Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 but does not release it until October 25. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Special Report No. 14: Analysis of](http://www.nicap.org/docs/pbbsr/BBA-PBSR14.pdf) [Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects](http://www.nicap.org/docs/pbbsr/BBA-PBSR14.pdf), US Air Force, 1955; Clark III 929–932 Source ID: Eberhart_2712 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7370 (39FC37BF) Date: 5/5/1955 Description: Project Blue Book "Special Report No. 14" declassified. Type: declassified report Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_881 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7371 (A81E15E0) Date: 5/9/1955 Description: At 12:05 p.m. four witnesses in Arroyo Seco Canyon, California watched many 2-foot white silver saucers circle and flip over near Mount Wilson. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 60 Source ID: Johnson_2677 Source: Johnson ### Event 7372 (A1A939C7) Date: 5/12/1955 Description: DC-7 Encounters Object At 20,000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550512](http://www.nicap.org/550511thurmon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Thurmon, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1831 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7373 (EA07BB2C) Date: 5/13/1955 Description: (McDonald list) F-89D Locks Onto Target at 1000 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550513](http://www.nicap.org/550513duluthdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Duluth, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1832 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7374 (D7D53671) Date: 5/14/1955 Description: At 12:15 a.m. in Dinan, Cotes-Nord, France Mr. M. Droguet sighted a large domed disc hovering five feet above the courtyard outside his house. Two short humanoids in Michelin Man spacesuits exited the craft. Both wore boxes on their chests. Mr. Droguet was paralyzed in place and could not move during the encounter, and he was temporarily blinded by a blue-green light. The men walked with an ackward gait. The UFO left silently by making a vertical ascent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Cresson, FSR Case Histories, October 1970, p. 13; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, Volume 7, p. 44; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0365 Source ID: Johnson_2824 Source: Johnson ### Event 7375 (63BEC91A) Date: 5/17/1955 Description: Nine Moving Red Objects / TV Interference (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [550517](http://www.nicap.org/550517mojave%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mojave, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1833 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7376 (13F58220) Date: 5/17/1955 Description: At McDill Air Force Base, Florida a disc appeared at 7:00 p.m. as a large, square glowing object. It was at an estimated 30,000 feet altitude. It made 90 degree turns for 3 minutes, and then left by shooting straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June Source ID: Johnson_2917 Source: Johnson ### Event 7377 (50C7C14D) Date: 5/18/1955 Description: F-86 Pilot Encounters 10' Sphere (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [550518](http://www.nicap.org/550518niagarafalls%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Niagara Falls, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1834 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7378 (1E2CBF67) Date: 5/18/1955 Description: News release from AEC announcing “preliminary work” had begun “on a small satellite installation” within the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range. Contractor was adding “Limited additional facilities and modifications” to a small installation near Groom Lake (now known as Area 51). Type: news release Reference: [“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar](https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-Autobiography-Bob-Lazar/dp/0578437058) Location: Groom Lake Source ID: Maj2_552 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7379 (A1CD9C52) Date: 5/19/1955 Description: At 7:15 p.m. three silver disc-shaped UFOs played tag over Mount Wilson for 50 minutes. They were seen by several thousand from Pasadena, Tujunga, and Montrose, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, August 1955, p. 5; Lenoard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, June 1955, p. 5; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 115 Source ID: Johnson_2973 Source: Johnson ### Event 7380 (80ABA5FE) Date: 5/20/1955 Description: Swept Wing Object Over Tokyo (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [550520](http://www.nicap.org/550520tokyo%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tokyo, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1835 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7381 (911DABE2) Date: 5/22/1955 Description: Journalist [Dorothy Kilgallen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%5FKilgallen) writes in the Los Angeles Examiner that “British scientists and airmen” have examined the wreckage of a crashed flying saucer. Her informant is a “British official of Cabinet rank,” who tells her that the “saucers were staffed by small men—probably under four feet tall.” Flying Saucer Review editor [Gordon Creighton](https://www.ufoinfo.com/news/gordoncreighton.shtml) later researches this story in detail and thinks Kilgallen’s source is First Sea Lord [Louis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma) [Mountbatten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FMountbatten%2C%5F1st%5FEarl%5FMountbatten%5Fof%5FBurma) Some suggest that Kilgallen picked the story up at a cocktail party hosted by Mountbatten. Her story is widely dismissed as a hoax, but other events put her claims in a new light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[U.F.O. Crash in Britain?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1955%2CJul-Aug%2CV%201%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 3 \(July/Aug. 1955\): 6; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf), The Author, 1992, p. 69; Good Above, [pp. 43–44](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/42/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2713 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7382 (A33B9AEA) Date: 5/23/1955 Description: 2 slender, vertical rectangles low on the horizon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3565) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cheyenne, WY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1836 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7383 (7D053BBA) Date: 5/23/1955 Time: Midnight Description: Witnesses: USAF Airman/Basic I.J. Shapiro and E.C. Ingber. During a 5 minute period, two slender, vertical rectangles were seen low on the horizon, and two ovals with tops (dark, with dark blue illumination) flew higher. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming Source ID: BerlinerBBU_386 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7384 (0B4C4BC6) Date: 5/23/1955 End date: 5/26/1955 Description: At the Fifth AISS Commander’s Conference at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\], Colorado Springs, Colorado, an analysis of UFOs and science fiction is presented that notes: “General public not qualified to evaluate material propounded in science fiction. Absurd and fantastic theories given credence solely on the basis of ignorance.” Also, “Abnormal predisposition to attach belief to the more fanciful aspects of UFOBs, e.g. ‘Flying Saucers’ would tend to negate the source’s reliability as a factual observer.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Report of Fifth Commander’s Conference, 23 May to 26 May 1955,” in History of 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron, vol. 2, January 1–June 30, 1955, reprinted in CUFON, “[4602d AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 7 of 7 Parts](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/4602smpl7.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2714 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7385 (6A8C3CC2) Date: 5/24/1955 Description: 7:48 p.m. GOC spotter [Charlotte Whitecotton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141227881/charlotte-whitecotton) and another woman at Loveland, Ohio, watch four UFOs in formation pass low over their enclosure, then zoom to the north. They report the incident to the Columbus Filter Center. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf), The Author, 1992, p. 71; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, [Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf), CUFOS, 1978, pp. 145–146 Source ID: Eberhart_2715 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7386 (07D52C5E) Date: 5/25/1955 Description: Circular, luminous object approached B-47, quickly reversed direction and shot away. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alexandra Park, London, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1837 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7387 (357DFFF6) Date: 5/25/1955 Description: Mr. Robert Hunnicutt was driving down a road in Branch Hill, Ohio at 3:30 a.m. when he saw three 3.5 foot tall hunchbacked gray entities by the side of the road. They had forehead folds, slit mouths, and lopsided chests. They were standing by the roadside as his car passed. Mr. Hunnicutt reported an odor like alfalfa and almonds. No UFO was seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Isabel Davis, Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, p. 138; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 60; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0366; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 115 Source ID: Johnson_3082 Source: Johnson ### Event 7388 (FA06C328) Date: 5/25/1955 Description: Around 3:30 a.m. Robert Hunnicut is driving along the Loveland-Madeira Road in the Branch Hill area of Loveland, Ohio. At the Hopewell Road intersection, his headlights illuminate three short figures kneeling next to the road. They are grayish humanoids with a wide slit for a mouth, an indistinct nose, and normal eyes without eyebrows. The heads are hairless with prominent wrinkles on the forehead. They are wearing one-piece grayish garments. One arm seems longer than the other and the upper torso is lopsided. One of the figures is holding a rod emitting blue-white sparks. Hunnicut gets out of the car and walks towards them. They look towards him and there is a 3-minute standoff. Hunnicut goes to the police station and returns with Police Chief John K. Fritz. No trace of anything is found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stringfield, [3-0 Blue](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/InsidesaucerPost3-0Blue.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/InsidesaucerPost3-0Blue.htm) CRIFO, 1957, pp. 66–68; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 115–116; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, [Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf), CUFOS, 1978, pp. 138–148; Clark III 270; Rob Ryder, “On the Trail of the Loveland Frogman,” Fortean Times 361 \(Christmas 2017\): 38–41 Source ID: Eberhart_2716 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7389 (318A9903) Date: 5/27/1955 Description: A perfectly circular chrome disc flew over Ecclesfield, England at 1:00 p.m. at high speed. The disc reflected sunlight and went off toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4354 Source ID: Johnson_3113 Source: Johnson ### Event 7390 (1CE73B8E) Date: 5/29/1955 Time: 1920 Description: Approximate date. Three farmers, among them Thomas Robinson, saw a light growing in size for 2 min and flying between them and Mt. Williams. Looking like a "light airplane on fire," it changed course, losing altitude and trailing flames. It touched the ground, lighting up the whole area, rose again, and began to "feel its way along the crooked edge of the cane field and the swamp toward our house." It returned to earth four times. The dogs ran out barking as it landed within 100 m of the witnesses before taking off again. Type: ufo sighting Reference: UFO Bulletin Mar., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Smithfield, near Cairns, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_363 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7391 (E1B2BE7E) Date: 5/29/1955 Description: Five rhomboid-shaped objects circled the airport at Pisco, Peru at 11:00 p.m. They flew at one kilometer altitude, and were viewed through a theodolite. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, August 1955; Richard F Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 122 Source ID: Johnson_3147 Source: Johnson ### Event 7392 (F6575877) Date: 5/31/1955 Time: 1110 Description: A farmer, 74-year-old J. B. Collange, was watching his cows on a clear, calm morning when he suddenly observed, in an easterly direction, a vertical circular object about 3 m away, the bottom edge about 30 cm from the ground. It measured about 1.10 m in diameter, was very luminous, white, but not blinding. Many filaments of various colors were radiating from the disk. Their length varied between 0.5 and 2 m. The object rose over a hedge and was lost to sight behind some woods. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Ouranos 14, 15, 22 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Puy-Saint-Gulmier, France Source ID: Magnonia_364 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7393 (619DAAD4) Date: 5/31/1955 Description: At 11 o'clock in the morning on the farm of Messr. Coulange, in Puy St. Gulmier, France a 1.1 meter (5 feet) in diameter luminous white disc hovered vertically only a few meters away from the 74-year-old farmer, and only three meters from the ground. Many multi-colored filaments of light radiated from the UFO. The object rose up, went over the old man's head, and flew out of sight behind some nearby woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 253 Source ID: Johnson_3178 Source: Johnson ### Event 7394 (67BEA1F6) Date: 6/1955 Description: Cincinnati, Ohio, businessman Thomas Eickhoff buys a copy of [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)’s Inside the Space Ships. Upset with Adamski’s statement that his space contacts can be corroborated, he takes steps to take him to federal court to make him prove his story or face fraud for using the US mail system to sell his book. Eickhoff’s lawyer brings in a government adviser who advises them to drop the lawsuit. Eickhoff’s efforts eventually bring a reply from a lawyer for CIA Director [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) who says the problem is that Adamski could “prevent anyone from testifying in court concerning this book because maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.” The lawyer says he would be subject to a countersuit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 169–170; Good Above, [pp. 341–342](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/340/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2719 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7395 (8E116BE6) Date: 6/1955 Description: [James W. Moseley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FW.%5FMoseley) renames Nexus as Saucer News and it becomes a popular bimonthly UFO magazine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1032 Source ID: Eberhart_2718 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7396 (9B1F237B) Date: 6/2/1955 Description: A huge luminous sphere hovered at ten meters over the beach at Catia La Mar, Venezuela and then flew along the beach. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, August 1955 Source ID: Johnson_3223 Source: Johnson ### Event 7397 (A3FBD1D0) Date: 6/4/1955 Description: Two Sightings From T-33 / Magnetic Variations Reported (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550604](http://www.nicap.org/550604parker%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Parker, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1838 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7398 (D3AF308A) Date: 6/4/1955 Description: A Boeing RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft of the Air Force Special Security Service \(air arm of NSA?\) tracks an unknown object visually and by radar for 9 minutes near Melville Sound, Nunavut, Canada. The crew chief describes it as “glistening silver metallic.” The crew obtains gun camera film, but of poor quality. The object speeds off to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 285](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/284/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 226 Source ID: Eberhart_2720 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7399 (BF5484F0) Date: 6/4/1955 Description: Over the Melville Sound in the Northwest Territories of Canada, a National Security Agency RB-47 jet bomber, newly re-fitted for aerial electronic surveillance, made radar and visual contact with a disc-shaped UFO for 9 minutes. This encounter occurred in 1955 near the north magnetic pole. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #4362; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 408 Source ID: Johnson_3268 Source: Johnson ### Event 7400 (709D4A4E) Date: 6/5/1955 Description: Namur, Belgium (images) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [550605](http://www.nicap.org/belg55.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Namur, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_1839 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7401 (D735DB06) Date: 6/5/1955 Description: In 1955 a British fishing trawler crew spotted a silver daylight disc flying over the North Sea off the coast of Holland at 7:30 p.m. It flew at an estimated 3000 meters altitude, and crossed the sky in five minutes. It was definitely "not a plane," according to the witnesses. At the same time, a sequence of three photographs were taken in St. Marc, Belgium showing a convex, lens-shaped disc object in front of some clouds. The object had a bright bottom and dark, shadowed top. Motion is implied by the different angles in the photos. The UFO was seen low nearby the witness's car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4364; Jacques Bonabot, Catalogue of Belgian UFO Cases, case #77 Source ID: Johnson_3293 Source: Johnson ### Event 7402 (44B6A18B) Date: 6/5/1955 Description: 7:30 p.m. François-Gilbert Muyldermans is cycling on a deserted road near Saint-Marc, near Namur, Belgium, when he sees a bright disc moving at a high speed at an altitude of around 4,900 feet. He takes out his camera and snaps a photo. The object descends, then rises again emitting a cloud of white smoke. He takes two more photos. Anomalies in the blurred grain, inconsistencies in orientation, and the circumstances by which the story entered UFO lore suggest a deliberate hoax, perhaps with the help of a journalist. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A ‘Classic’ from Belgium,](https://bufora.org.uk/documents/BUFORAJournalVolume4No.12MarchApril1976.pdf)” BUFORA Journal 4, no. 12 \(March/April 1976\): 12–13; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, [Belgium in](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F) [UFO Photographs, Volume 1 \(1950–1988\)](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F)[,](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F) FOTOCAT Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 38–69 Source ID: Eberhart_2721 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7403 (1BA3CE88) Date: 6/6/1955 Description: Three unusual green fire balls; heavy radio and TV disturbance reported (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: City not noted, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1840 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7404 (B43D4AC0) Date: 6/7/1955 Description: An RB-47 en route to Eielson AFB, Fairbanks, Alaska, registers an electronic contact southeast of Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, at 10,500 feet range. The radar return is small and rectangular. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/286/mode/2up) [286](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/286/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 227 Source ID: Eberhart_2722 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7405 (95176275) Date: 6/10/1955 Description: Science fiction movie “This Island Earth” is released. A group of scientists receive special materials that are technologically more sophisticated than anything available at the time from a secret research group. Type: movie Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Island_Earth) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_553 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7406 (D0CDF84E) Date: 6/10/1955 Description: In Petare, Venezuela five ovoid objects descended on a hillside. They emitted smoke or fog and beams of light. Figures could be seen moving around inside the haze. The objects took off flying to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, August 1955 Source ID: Johnson_3406 Source: Johnson ### Event 7407 (F18E4792) Date: 6/13/1955 Description: [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29) travels with a TV film producer to the Navy Department at the Pentagon and asks for some unclassified photos of rockets. When the Navy learns that Edwards wants to show them on TV during a panel discussion on UFOs, the office refuses to cooperate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf), p. 269 Source ID: Eberhart_2723 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7408 (F72BA77A) Date: 6/15/1955 Description: A cigar-shaped craft zoomed over the town of Anita, Iowa at an altitude under 1000 feet at 9:47 p.m. It was luminous with a white and blue glow, and red exhaust. It made a hissing sound. The file on the case is missing from the US Air Force records. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, June 1955; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 103 Source ID: Johnson_3496 Source: Johnson ### Event 7409 (3889AEF6) Date: 6/17/1955 Description: Silver oblong UFO viewed through binoculars; hovered; moved away behind clouds as an aircraft neared. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Adelaide (near), AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_1841 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7410 (ACF79CBC) Date: 6/17/1955 Description: In 1955 a silver, oblong object hovered over Adelaide, South Australia at 2:15 p.m. The object was viewed through binoculars, and was seen to hide in some clouds when a plane approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 135 Source ID: Johnson_3527 Source: Johnson ### Event 7411 (D9DEEDF0) Date: Summer 1955 Description: 12:30 a.m. Dumitru Coca watches a strange object emitting a ring of white sparks at an altitude of 3,000 feet above Hârşeni, Romania. It is blue with white stripes and flying noiselessly at high speed. He watches it for 3 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverberh 229–230; Romania 11 Source ID: Eberhart_2717 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7412 (155E8F78) Date: 6/23/1955 Description: 12:15 p.m. A Mohawk Airlines DC-3 is cruising at 3,000 feet in good daylight visibility about 15 miles east of Utica, New York, on a heading to Albany. Both pilot and copilot see an object come over the top of the aircraft from behind, an estimated 500 feet above their altitude. They estimate the length of the object at about 150 feet. It is described as “light gray, almost round, with a center line        Beneath the line there were several \(at least four\) windows which emitted a bright blue-green light. It was not rotating but went straight. \[The lights\] seemed to change color slightly from greenish to bluish or vice versa \[as the object receded\]. A few minutes after it went out of sight, two other aircraft \(one, a Colonial DC-3, the other I did not catch the number\) reported that they saw it and wondered if anyone else had seen it. The Albany control tower also reported that they had seen an object go by on Victor-2 \[airway\]. As we approached Albany, we overheard that Boston radar had also tracked an object along Victor-2, passing Boston.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[150ʹ Object Passes over DC-3 Crew from Behind](http://www.nicap.org/550623utica%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [p. 143](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/142/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2724 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7413 (A96C6D14) Date: 6/23/1955 Description: 150' Object Passes Over DC-3 Crew From Behind (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [550623](http://www.nicap.org/550623utica%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Utica, NY / Boston, MA, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_1842 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7414 (E53DB10D) Date: Late 6/1955 Alternate date: Early 7/1955 Description: Early evening. A 19-year-old Civil Defense worker named Carlos Flannigan is driving a truck across a bridge over the Little Miami River near Loveland, Ohio, when he notices 4 small figures about 3 feet high on the riverbank. A terrible smell hangs over the area. He only watches them for about 10 seconds then immediately drives to police headquarters to report the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, [Close Encounter](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf) [at Kelly and Others of 1955](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf) CUFOS, 1978, pp. 129–132; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-usa-loveland.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-usa-loveland.htm) February 14, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_2730 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7415 (207D09A7) Date: 6/25/1955 Description: 10:45 p.m. Two civilian and two military witnesses see a yellow, shining sphere with a trail 4–5 times its length over Hillcrest Heights, Maryland. It appears to oscillate in the air, stops, oscillates again, then finally moves away at high speed. It travels nearly overhead and then is lost in the sky at a 45° elevation. It is visible for 7 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Air Force UFO Investigations in the Mid-1950s,” IUR 29, no. 3 \(Fall 2004\): 8– 10 Source ID: Eberhart_2725 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7416 (E590DAAB) Date: 6/26/1955 Description: Several civilian and military witnesses in Holt, Florida, see a disc with blinking lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 227; Michael D. Swords, “Air Force UFO Investigations in the Mid-1950s,” IUR 29, no. 3 \(Fall 2004\): 10; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 45](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/44/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2726 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7417 (6210C0CD) Date: 6/26/1955 Description: 10:45 p.m. A brilliant round object with a trail 4–5 times its own length approaches National Airport in Washington, D.C., stops, oscillates, and moves off at high speed. Ceiling lights at the airport go out when the object approaches and return to operation when the UFO leaves. Searchlights are trained on the object, but when they catch it in their beams, the searchlights go out. A check with the Silver Hill Observatory in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, determined that a small weather balloon carrying a magnesium flare was released aboiut the same time as the visual sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 236; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 21; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) [of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955, January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Jan-June.pdf) The Author, 1992, pp. 84–85 Source ID: Eberhart_2727 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7418 (08F77F84) Date: 6/26/1955 Description: A brilliant round object with trail 4 or 5 times its own length approached National Airport, stopped, oscillated, and moved off at high speed. Ceiling lights at airport went out when object approached; returned to operation when UFO left. \[UFOE, VIII, XII\] (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_1843 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7419 (AB9A4C0F) Date: 6/26/1955 Description: Civilian and military witnesees. (Hynek UFO Rpt p. 45) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holt, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1844 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7420 (4FFE806A) Date: 6/29/1955 Description: The Second Hoover Commission presents its final report to Congress on streamlining procedures in the executive branch. Gen. [Mark W. Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%5FW.%5FClark), heading the commission’s task force on intelligence, notes the CIA’s lack of accountability and recommends establishing an intelligence oversight committee. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover%5FCommission\#Second%5FHoover%5FCommission) [Commission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover%5FCommission\#Second%5FHoover%5FCommission)”; Richard A. Best Jr. and Herbert Andrew Boerstling, “[Proposals for Intelligence Reorganization,](https://irp.fas.org/congress/1996%5Frpt/ic21/ic21018.htm) [1949–1996,](https://irp.fas.org/congress/1996%5Frpt/ic21/ic21018.htm)” Report to the US House Select Committee on Intelligence, Congressional Research Service, February 28, 1996, pp. 9–10 Source ID: Eberhart_2728 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7421 (6EF4413D) Date: 6/30/1955 Description: The 4602nd AISS reports that of its 194 preliminary UFO reports for 1955, it has made 23 field investigations and has 25 unsolved reports, or an unknown rate of 13%. Going back to August 12, 1954, and removing cases of insufficient evidence, the percentage of unknowns is lower: 23 unknowns from 306 reports, or about 7.5%. In reality, however, none of these numbers mean much; they reflect the creativity and audacity of the explainers at ADC and ATIC. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_2729 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7422 (C28CAF65) Date: 6/30/1955 Description: A tanker crew in a vessel near Pantelleria Island off the coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, at around ten o'clock in the morning, sighted a cigar-shaped object at 7,000 feet altitude, emitting strong beams of light. The crew watched it for more than 16 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 86 Source ID: Johnson_3742 Source: Johnson ### Event 7423 (99675D96) Date: 7/1955 Description: Construction of the Groom Lake base in Nevada is completed and the CIA begins utilizing it, along with the US Air Force, for Project Aquatone, the development of the Lockheed U-2 strategic reconnaissance aircraft, the nation’s first aerial espionage program. It consists of one paved runway, three hangars, a control tower, a makeshift mess hall, and rudimentary accommodations. A movie theater and volleyball court are added. CIA officer Richard Newton is assigned as base commander. Other key organizations are briefed on Area 51’s existence—the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the US Navy, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. A small group of four Lockheed test pilots, two dozen Lockheed mechanics and engineers, a handful of CIA officers who double as security guards, and some of Col. [Ritland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105825/major-general-osmond-j-ritland/)’s staff take up residence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 5](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/4/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/4/mode/2up) [51–53](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/50/mode/2up); Peter W. Merlin, “[Groom Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,](https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021; “[Pilots of the U-2,](https://area51specialprojects.com/u2%5Fpilots.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_2731 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7424 (5571D50F) Date: 7/1955 Description: 2:00 p.m. Col. [William T. Coleman](http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1243564/pg1) is flying a B-25 out of Miami, Florida, with a copilot, flight engineer, a Lockheed test engineer, and a General Motors jet engine technician. As he is moving northward into southern Alabama, he spots at 2 o’clock high what he calls a “craze” in the windshield. He calls the others’ attention to it. He gives chase to it at low altitude over farmland and sees its shadow on the ground, as well as two vortices coming out of the shiny metallic disc that kicks up dust on the ground. When he tries to cut it off at a maximum speed of 345 mph, the object is gone, leaving behind the vortices on the ground. Duration of the sighting is 10–11 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Col. Coleman Case / Chases UFO at Low Altitude](http://www.nicap.org/5507XXs%5Falabama%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2732 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7425 (1C614A23) Date: 7/1955 Description: Col. Coleman Case / Chases UFO At Low Altitude (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [550700](http://www.nicap.org/5507XXs%5Falabama%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In air over S. Alabama, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1845 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7426 (FBB8D686) Date: 7/1/1955 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: China Lake, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1847 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7427 (B9B62708) Date: 7/1/1955 Description: CRIFO Newsletter becomes CRIFO Orbit. This issue reviews several airplane crashes and disappearances that [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) thinks might be related to UFO activity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[World’s Air Forces, in Joint Operations, Challenge](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20II%201955-56R.pdf) [Incursion of UFO’s,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20II%201955-56R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 2, no. 4 \(July 1, 1955\): 1– 2; Clark III 460, 1114 Source ID: Eberhart_2733 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7428 (07DAE7F2) Date: 7/1/1955 Description: Air/Grd Radar Tracks Vertical Descent of Silver Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [550701](http://www.nicap.org/550701sacramentodir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sacramento, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1846 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7429 (B48781CD) Date: 7/3/1955 Description: Mrs. Wesley Symmonds was driving near this town when she saw four "bug-eyed" creatures near the road. They were small beings with thin arms, large eyes, and pointed chins. Two were turned away from the witness; one was bending over with something like a stick in its hand; and the fourth one was facing her with its right arm raised. It had bulging eyes, a sort of cap, no visible mouth, a long pointed nose, a chin which came to a sharp point, and long thin arms with claws. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Stringfield; Humanoids 54 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Stockton, Georgia Source ID: Magnonia_365 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7430 (C797241F) Date: 7/3/1955 Description: 3:30 a.m. [Margaret Symmonds](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46367235/margaret-susan-symmonds) is driving on US 129 seven miles south of Stockton, Georgia, when four small humanoid figures with caps and huge eyes are caught in the headlights. They seem to be digging a hole in the road with some sticks. She yells and swerves the car, driving past them. The figures seem oblivious. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf), The Author, 1992, pp. 2–3; Stringfield, [3-0 Blue](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/InsidesaucerPost3-0Blue.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/InsidesaucerPost3-0Blue.htm) CRIFO, 1957, pp. 63–64; Clark III 270; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, [Close](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf) [Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf) CUFOS, 1978, pp. 149–160; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-07-03-usa-stockton.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-07-03-usa-stockton.htm) February 16, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_2734 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7431 (71B85253) Date: 7/3/1955 Description: Mrs. Wesley Symmonds was driving near Stockton, Georgia when she saw four "bug-eyed" creatures near the road. They were small beings with thin arms, wide shoulders, large eyes, and pointed chins. Two were turned away from the witness; one was bending over with something like a stick in its hand; and the fourth one was facing her with its right arm raised. It had bulging eyes, a sort of cap, no visible mouth, a long pointed nose, a chin that came to a sharp point, and long thin arms with claws. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 249-250 Source ID: Johnson_3800 Source: Johnson ### Event 7432 (39F4D76C) Date: 7/5/1955 Description: 3:00 a.m. USAF pilot Lt. [Homer H. Speer Jr](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22005282/homer-h-speer) and copilot Lt. [Paul Daily](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147844977/paul-bryan-daily), call sign Archie 29, and pilot Lt. Robert W. Schneck and copilot Lt. David Cueldner, call sign Archie 91, are flying Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighters at 20,000 feet on a refueling mission off the coast of Newfoundland. They see two bright objects at 20,000 feet, apparently stationary. Ground radar picks up several objects, some in a distant cluster flying erratically. Speer is able to maintain visual contact, calling direction change of the object to the radar site by radio. The objects are tracked on radar for 49 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Archie 29 KC-97 Radar Case](http://www.nicap.org/550705archie29dir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 228; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 296–297; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 263–264 Source ID: Eberhart_2735 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7433 (551FF17A) Date: 7/5/1955 Description: During refueling mission pilots saw 2 bright objects at 20,000 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1848 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7434 (01500F90) Date: 7/5/1955 Description: Newfoundland, G,V; Archie 29 KC-97 Radar Case (BBU) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [550705](http://www.nicap.org/550705archie29dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1849 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7435 (3307579F) Date: 7/8/1955 Description: Green Object With Trail Tracked (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [550708](http://www.nicap.org/550708augusta%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Augusta, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_1851 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7436 (DDD2618A) Date: 7/9/1955 Description: Family aboard boat saw a round cylinder, greyish and white, surrounded by a "haze of fumes." UFO zig-zagged upward, then sped away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Catalina Channel, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1852 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7437 (3986CE31) Date: 7/9/1955 Description: A perfectly round, gray-white disc paced a pleasure boat for six minutes nine miles west of Newport Beach, California at 1:32 p.m. It was surrounded by a "haze of fumes." It suddenly rose upward in a zigzag motion and flew into a cloudbank. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Morris Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 225 Source ID: Johnson_3951 Source: Johnson ### Event 7438 (87956FC4) Date: 7/10/1955 Description: About seven to nine miles west of Newport Beach, California at 2:32 in the afternoon, a perfectly round, grayish-white UFO paced a pleasure boat for six minutes. It was surrounded by a "haze of fumes." It suddenly rose upward in a zigzag flight path and flew into a cloud bank. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 167 Source ID: Johnson_3982 Source: Johnson ### Event 7439 (37462C39) Date: 7/11/1955 Description: C-47 Pilot Sees Light Changing Color (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550711](http://www.nicap.org/550511france%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toulab, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1854 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7440 (3838AB20) Date: 7/11/1955 Description: Round reddish-orange light changing color to bright white (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [550711](http://www.nicap.org/550711ChinaLakedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: China Lake, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1853 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7441 (F388D9D0) Date: 7/12/1955 Description: Unusual UFOB report from Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland. UFO sighted by a tanker aircraft (KC97) pilot and ground radar. “Unusual” in that the pilot of the Archie 29 called direction changes of the UFO to ground radar which correlated exactly with those painted by the radar scope. This observation went on for 49 minutes. Signed: Todos M. Odarenko. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland Source ID: Maj2_554 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7442 (867C327C) Date: 7/16/1955 Description: UFOs observed over wide area, jets scrambled. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eastern United States, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_1855 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7443 (46B6F681) Date: 7/17/1955 Description: Disc hovered, climbed away as airliner approached. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1857 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7444 (F423AE68) Date: 7/17/1955 Description: Silver oblong UFO viewed through binoculars; hovered; moved away behind clouds as an aircraft neared. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nr. Adelaide, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_1856 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7445 (B71080D1) Date: 7/17/1955 Description: At dusk a man in Meopham, Kent County, England had taken his dog out for a walk through some local fields when he suddenly felt that he was being watched. Also, his dog was acting peculiar and the hairs on his dog's back were standing straight up. He looked up and saw a very large, hovering cigar-shaped object with large rounded windows, almost directly overhead. The windows were brightly lit and inside he could see several humanoid figures who appeared to be observing him. The object followed him without making any noise, as he ran with his dog across the fields and to his home. The witness hid inside his house, and he last saw the object hovering over some nearby buildings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, case # 838, citing Mrs M. Fry, Contact, FSR, Volume. 27, # 5 Source ID: Johnson_4124 Source: Johnson ### Event 7446 (C7577EF7) Date: 7/17/1955 Description: Shortly before noon in Bexleyheath, England and while driving a country road with two passengers, Mr. Fry noticed a dark shadow hanging over the road. His car began to slow down, and stop and start intermittently. Above was an gray oval-shaped disc 100 to 150 feet in diameter. It was spinning and making a swishing or humming noise. The UFO flipped over and rose up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, November 1976, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_4123 Source: Johnson ### Event 7447 (335942D6) Date: 7/18/1955 Time: 0300 Description: Mr. Maupin and five other witnesses on the airfield were blinded by a light from a disk-shaped object 150 m away. It left orange glows in its trail. Silent, flying slowly, it hovered near the Metro station, close to the ground, but did not actually land. It left toward the northwest. A woodsman from Mareul-Caubert, Mr. Rolle, saw the object half-an-hour earlier. It came from the direction of Amiens. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Plessiel Airfield, near Abbeville, France Source ID: Magnonia_366 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7448 (11103A24) Date: 7/18/1955 Description: At 3 o'clock in the morning at Plessiel Airfield, near Abbeville, France Mr. Maupin and five other witnesses on the field were blinded by the light from a disc-shaped object 150 m away. The disc left an orange glowing trail. It was silent, flew slowly, and hovered near the Metro station close to the ground, but did not actually land. It left toward the northwest. A woodsman from Mareul Caubert, Mr. Rolle, saw the object half an hour earlier. It came from the direction of Amiens. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of UFO Landings, p. 250 Source ID: Johnson_4164 Source: Johnson ### Event 7449 (B2749B44) Date: 7/20/1955 Description: 2 fighter pilots saw round object with/silver lower part climb when approached (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portland, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_1858 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7450 (685CBC06) Date: 7/20/1955 Description: In the afternoon a farmhand in Edison, Georgia saw a four-foot tall, hairy little gray man without clothes emerge from some nearby woods and walk along a fence. The dwarf was visible for 25 minutes before he returned to woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Atlanta (GA) Constitution, July 26, 1955; Ted Bloecher Source ID: Johnson_4229 Source: Johnson ### Event 7451 (82BD7E4D) Date: 7/22/1955 Description: At eleven o'clock at night a formation of several bright silver balls was sighted that changed positions as they flew over Leicester, England. There were widely reported sightings of these objects as they flew off toward the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_4292 Source: Johnson ### Event 7452 (7B1F261F) Date: 7/22/1955 Description: At 2:30 p.m. several witnesses including one name Estes saw a UFO land in the Atlantic Ocean. It was seen on the surface of the ocean near Santa Maria Island in the Azores. Project Blue Book's explanation of this sighting was that it might have been an aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 5; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_4293 Source: Johnson ### Event 7453 (1AB37B88) Date: 7/22/1955 Description: At 5:30 p.m. Mr. E. Mootz was gardening in his yard in Cincinnati, Ohio when he was pelted with a dark reddish colored liquid from a pear-shaped object flying slowly at 1,000 feet altitude. The liquid caused his bare skin to feel like someone had poured kerosine on a wound. When he washed the substance off he felt better. The next day his peach tree was dead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, September 1955, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_4294 Source: Johnson ### Event 7454 (319B10BC) Date: 7/24/1955 Description: The Groom Lake “Ranch” in Nebada receives it first delivery of U-2s from Burbank, California, in a C-124 Globemaster II cargo plane, accompanied by Lockheed technicians on a Douglas DC-3. Regular Military Air Transport Service flights are set up between Area 51 and Lockheed’s offices in Burbank. To preserve secrecy, personnel fly to Nevada on Monday mornings and return to California on Friday evenings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%5F51) [51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%5F51)” Source ID: Eberhart_2737 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7455 (678B39EB) Date: 7/25/1955 Description: Pilot flying F-86 fighter saw an orange object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Syracuse (near), NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1859 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7456 (09F4A8A1) Date: Late 7/1955 Description: A man, a female companion, and two children are picnicking on a Lake Ontario beach in St. Catharines, Ontario, when a silvery disc approaches them rapidly across the water, then hovers above them before heading to another family nearby. It swings back to the original group, “moving like a clock pendulum.” The man flees to his car but finds it will not start. Through the windows of the UFO, just a few feet above the ground, the witnesses see the faces of four pale-faced men with black hoods covering their ears and heads, sitting straight and rigid. The object shoots over the lake, ascends rapidly, and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 268 Source ID: Eberhart_2736 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7457 (36DE329D) Date: 7/26/1955 Description: A brilliant round object with a trail 4–5 times its own length approaches National Airport \[now Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport\] in Washington, D.C., stops, oscillates, and moves off at high speed. Ceiling lights at the airport go out when the object approaches and returns to operation when the UFO departs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 135](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=147&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2738 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7458 (7A176BB4) Date: 7/26/1955 Description: B-47 Encounters Moving At 1,300 Knots (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550726](http://www.nicap.org/550726kansascity%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kansas City, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1861 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7459 (36A0DC3D) Date: 7/26/1955 Description: Members of British Gliding Association watched boomerang -shaped object (or flattened triangle) hover above glider then speed away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lasham, Hants, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1860 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7460 (416C4266) Date: 7/29/1955 Description: In Columbus, Nebraska at 10:45 p.m.Morrice Raymond watched four orange flashing lights and one whIte flashing light move up and down like yo-yos for 5-6 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4478 Source: Johnson ### Event 7461 (793F8AF7) Date: 7/29/1955 Description: Zigzagging UFO made shrill sound. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cincinnati, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1862 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7462 (C75A2A65) Date: 7/29/1955 Description: President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) announces a program to launch a scientific satellite during the International Geophysical Year. The program will be run by the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences, with advice coming from the Department of Defense. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Amy Shira Teitel, “[How the Stage Was Set for the Satellite](https://www.popsci.com/how-stage-was-set-for-satellite-race/) [Race,](https://www.popsci.com/how-stage-was-set-for-satellite-race/)” Popular Science, January 3, 2016; Amy Shira Teitel, [Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of](https://archive.org/details/breakingchainsof0000teit/page/n5/mode/2up) [Spaceflight before NASA](https://archive.org/details/breakingchainsof0000teit/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/breakingchainsof0000teit/page/n5/mode/2up) Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_2739 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7463 (F4A8867E) Date: 7/29/1955 Description: 8:30–9:30 p.m. An aircraft engineer and four others notice a “2nd magnitude star” in the vicinity of Saturn at Lake Ronkonkoma on Long Island, New York. The star moves in a perfect circle around Saturn, heads east until it gets to the Moon, where it executes a half-circle pass and disappears. The object then appears 120° away and moves horizontally until it takes an abrupt turn vertically. It disappears again at about 70° above the horizon. Then it reappears in a straight dive-like descent until it reacquires its original 30° elevation. It proceeds horizontally again, makes an abrupt angular shift again downwards, and is lost in the trees. Through binoculars the object looks spherical and yellowish. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 8–9; Swords 227 Source ID: Eberhart_2740 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7464 (814F0642) Date: 7/29/1955 Time: 10:45 PM Description: Witness: Morrice Raymond. Four orange flashing lights and one whIte flashing light moved up and down like yo-yos for 5-6 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Columbus, Nebraska Source ID: BerlinerBBU_387 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7465 (A2634289) Date: 7/29/1955 Description: 4 orange flashing lights and a white flashing light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3673) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_1863 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7466 (4C8307B8) Date: 8/1955 Description: Hundreds of people gather each night at the Black Arch, on the Antrim Coast Road near Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, to watch a mysterious display of lights at sea. The light flashes three or four times in quick succession, then flashes again about 6 minutes later. The Larne police suspect that the lights are flares dropped from aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Larne Times, August 18, 1955; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 54–55 Source ID: Eberhart_2741 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7467 (F4D920D7) Date: 8/1955 Description: Police from Luzern, Switzerland, investigate a sighting of a shiny metallic disc seen at Waldibrücke and Eschenbach. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Forscher findet verschollene UFO-Akten der Schweiz,](http://grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.blogspot.com/2013/07/forscher-findet-verschollene-ufo-akten.html)” Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell, July 8, 2013; “The Swiss X-Files,” Fortean Times 312 \(April 2014\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_2742 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7468 (3178EF35) Date: 8/1955 Description: Dog bolts as cigar-shaped object flies by (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [550800](http://www.nicap.org/jedburghdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jedburgh, Scotland, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1864 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7469 (2551C6EF) Date: 8/1/1955 Description: 8:45 p.m. William M. Sheneman, the owner of a radio/TV store in Willoughby, Ohio, pulls into his driveway and walks across the street to check his mailbox. He sees a red light about 1,000 feet away coming at him at a right angle. He thinks it is a plane about to crash. Then the ground is illuminated with two brilliant lights aimed directly from the object. He runs back into the house as the UFO moves over his garage about 50–100 feet in the air. He sees a big red light at the front and a green light at the rear. Then all the lights turn off and the object moves away over the woods. He and his wife can now see the outline of a dome lit up with tiny lights inside. It hovers there for 5 minutes then moves away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 114](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=126&skin=2021); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) The Author, 1992, pp. 31–32; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, [Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Close%5FEncounter%5Fat%5FKelly.pdf) CUFOS, 1978, p. 180; Clark III 244–245 Source ID: Eberhart_2744 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7470 (7207B559) Date: 8/1/1955 Description: The first test flight of the Lockheed U-2 takes place at Groom Lake, Nevada. During a high-speed-taxi test in the first U-2, Lockheed’s chief test pilot, [Tony LeVier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FLeVier)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FLeVier) inadvertently becomes airborne after accelerating the U-2 to 70 knots. He is unable to land the U-2 on his first attempt, and it bounces back into the air, but he manages to successfully bring it down on a second try. Damage to the prototype U-2 is very minor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FU-2) [U-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FU-2)”; “[Area 51 and the Accidental Test Flight,](https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/area-51-and-the-accidental-test-flight/)” Central Intelligence Agency, August 6, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_2743 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7471 (5DB08997) Date: 8/1/1955 Time: night Description: Two persons in a car saw a lighted object dive toward them and hover about 30 m above the road. A disk, 12 m in diameter, it flew around the car and went away without noise. The witnesses were tourists, who went straight to the Arles police. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 105 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Salon, near Arles, France Source ID: Magnonia_367 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7472 (2B2D9D87) Date: 8/1/1955 Description: On this night two tourists in a car in Salon, near Arles, France saw a lighted object dive toward them and hover 30 meters above the road. The disc-shaped object flew around the car and flew away without making a sound. The witnesses went straight to the Arles police. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 250 Source ID: Johnson_4562 Source: Johnson ### Event 7473 (A1901793) Date: 8/1/1955 Description: Mr. Sheneman had just driven home from Willoughby, Ohio and was preparing to go into his house at around 9:00 p.m. He got out of his car and saw a circular object with a red light on it. The UFO came down fast, hovered, and emitted two beams of light. The witness fled toward his house while the object appeared to pursue him less than 70 meters above the ground. The domed disc was estimated to measure about 30 meters in diameter. His wife and their two children saw it fly away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 114; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 250 Source ID: Johnson_4561 Source: Johnson ### Event 7474 (CBA780BB) Date: 8/1/1955 Time: 2100 Description: Mr. Sheneman, who was coming from Willoughby, came out of his car and saw a circular object with a red light on it that came down fast, hovered, and emitted two beams of light. The witness fled toward his house, and the object appeared to chase him at less than 70 m altitude. It measured about 30 m in diameter and supported a dome. Mr. Sheneman, his wife, and their two children saw it fly away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Evidence 114 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chardon Road, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_368 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7475 (ED519EE1) Date: 8/1/1955 Description: Joseph Whaley, age 20, was cutting the grass along Highway 118 in Bronwood, Georgia when he saw a six-foot “gorilla” come running towards him. It was covered with shaggy gray hair and had tusk like teeth, and it grunted like a pig. Whaley struck at it with his scythe and then ran to this jeep, but it pursued him and clawed at him, ripping his shirt and scratching his shoulder. It moved “in a lumbering and slow moving” manner. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Atlanta Constitution, August 3, 1955; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1955-14 (A0376) Source ID: Johnson_4560 Source: Johnson ### Event 7476 (06E184C2) Date: 8/2/1955 Description: [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) informs the Sixth Congress of the International Astronautical Federation in Copenhagen, Denmark, that President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) has decided to back the launch of a US scientific satellite during the upcoming International Geophysical Year. Not to be outdone, Soviet delegate [Leonid I. Sedov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%5FI.%5FSedov) calls a press conference and announces that Russia can launch an artificial satellite within the next 2 years that will be more sophisticated than the Americans’ efforts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Amy Shira Teitel, “[How the Stage Was Set for the Satellite Race,](https://www.popsci.com/how-stage-was-set-for-satellite-race/)” Popular Science, January 3, 2016; Amy Shira Teitel, [Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight](https://archive.org/details/breakingchainsof0000teit/page/n5/mode/2up) [before NASA](https://archive.org/details/breakingchainsof0000teit/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/breakingchainsof0000teit/page/n5/mode/2up) Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_2745 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7477 (556ECA25) Date: 8/5/1955 Description: At 2:30 p.m. Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, disc-shaped machines coming down in Buzancy, Ardennes, France. They maneuvered at great speed. One of them flew under the others, then two discs appeared to land 300 meters away near the German cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 369 Source ID: Johnson_4675 Source: Johnson ### Event 7478 (34EA7EBC) Date: 8/5/1955 Description: Buzancy, Ardennes, France - At 2:30 p.m. Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, disc-shaped craft come down from the sky and fly back up again at a high rate of speed. One of them flew under the others. Two discs appeared to land 300 meters away near the German cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 250 Source ID: Johnson_4673 Source: Johnson ### Event 7479 (76F5EDF1) Date: 8/5/1955 Description: A photograph of a spherical UFO was taken at a school in Anchorage, Alaska by a man named G. Henning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Max Miller, Saucers, May 1956, p. 1; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6, 1975, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_4674 Source: Johnson ### Event 7480 (53485A7D) Date: 8/5/1955 Time: 1430 Description: Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, disk-shaped machines coming down and up again at great speed. One of them flew under the others, then two disks appeared to land 300 m away near the German cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Buzancy, Ardennes, France Source ID: Magnonia_369 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7481 (99C743F6) Date: 8/6/1955 Description: Oval-shaped UFO observed ascending at high speed. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cincinnati, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1865 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7482 (55FDC13C) Date: 8/6/1955 Description: A UFO witness watched an extremely brightly lit UFO over Cincinnati, Ohio for less than 10 seconds. He later suffered from red, irritated eyes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CRIFO Orbit, September 1955, p. 2, Leonard Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 148; T. Scott Crain, Jr., Flying Saucers magazine, June-July 1971, p. 7, Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 85 Source ID: Johnson_4722 Source: Johnson ### Event 7483 (B9949DA0) Date: 8/8/1955 Description: The CIA’s [Todos Odarenko](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/08/archives/dr-todos-m-odarenko.html) writes an office memorandum recommending that the CIA should maintain a file of UFO sightings but deny that all investigations are inactive, and separate explainable UFOs from unidentifiable reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 75–76](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/74/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2746 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7484 (B98958B3) Date: 8/9/1955 Description: A bright object, the apparent size of the Moon, hovered low near the horizon near Moon Lake, Nebraska for two hours. Nocturnal lights exited from it and flew off to the north. There were several witnesses from three families. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, August 1955; Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_4790 Source: Johnson ### Event 7485 (943F894E) Date: 8/11/1955 Description: Iceland. At 11:45 a.m. Lt. E. J. Marlow sighted twelve gray objects, from cigar to egg-shaped, flying in formation. The objects varied their formation from elliptical to wavy line to scattered to straight line to trail formation. Speeds varied from hovering to 1,000 mph. His sighting lasted 3-4 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, February 1956, p. 3; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4860 Source: Johnson ### Event 7486 (B2CDB721) Date: 8/11/1955 Description: A very bright triangular object flew over Cairo, Illinois at 9:30 p.m. and rapidly flew off to the north-northwest low on the horizon. It was silent, and left no contrail. The sighting lasted for 20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, August 1955 Source ID: Johnson_4861 Source: Johnson ### Event 7487 (6D7BDFAB) Date: 8/11/1955 Description: 9:30 p.m. A witness in Cairo, Illinois, sees a triangular-shaped UFO low on the horizon above the trees, heading silently north and slightly west. Its front end is dark, its middle section bluish green, and its end very bright. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201955%2008%2000%20-%20August%5F%28underlinings%29.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, August 1955, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_2747 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7488 (2A57FD5E) Date: 8/11/1955 Time: 11:45 AM Description: Witness: 2nd Lt. E.J. Marlow. Twelve grey objects, from cigar to egg-shaped, varied their formation from elliptical to wavy line to scattered to straight line to trail formation. Speed varied from hover to 1,000 m.p.h. Sighting lasted 3-4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Iceland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_388 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7489 (8DF7FDD9) Date: 8/11/1955 Description: 12 Objects Observed By AF Officer (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 3699) Reference: NICAP: [550811](http://www.nicap.org/550811iceland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown Location in Iceland, Iceland Source ID: NICAP_DB_1866 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7490 (EC553C64) Date: 8/14/1955 Description: On this afternoon in Dogtown, Indiana a woman swimming in the Ohio River, a Mrs. Johnson, had her left leg grabbed by a hairy creature with large claws. It pulled her under the water twice, and she was left with scratches and brushes. A shiny round object was seen in the sky across the river a few minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Evansville Press, August 15, 1955; Isabel L. Davis & Ted Bloecher, Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, p. 181; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0377 Source ID: Johnson_5001 Source: Johnson ### Event 7491 (5624B7F0) Date: 8/16/1955 Time: 0400 Description: Mr. Ernest Suddard, 35, and his 13-year-old son were in a lorry on Roundhill Street when they saw what seemed to be a human being about 1.20 m tall, dressed in skin-tight black clothes. It held its arms close to its sides, its feet close together, and walked by a series of jumps. On its chest was a silver disk perforated with holes. It turned off suddenly into a passageway and was lost to sight. The witnesses were too amazed to follow it. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Constance 222 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bradford, England Source ID: Magnonia_370 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7492 (D5D4C2E3) Date: 8/16/1955 Description: Mr. Ernest Suddard, age 35, and his 13-year-old son were driving in a truck in Bradford, England at 4:00 in the morning when they saw what seemed to be a short human being about 1.20 meters (4 feet) tall, dressed in skin-tight black clothes. It held its arms close to its sides, its feet close together, and walked by a series of jumps. On its chest was a silver disc perforated with holes. It turned off suddenly into a passageway and was lost from view. The witnesses were too amazed to follow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jack Ibson, Flying Saucer Review, September 1955, p. 4; Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. 222; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 250-251; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0378 Source ID: Johnson_5072 Source: Johnson ### Event 7493 (1F730C93) Date: 8/16/1955 Description: 3:55 p.m. Mechanic Hugh Saunders sees a silver object above a white cloudbank above Cave Hill in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is flat and moves swiftly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Belfast Telegraph, August 17, 1955; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 55 Source ID: Eberhart_2749 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7494 (DFB87EB9) Date: 8/16/1955 Description: Early morning. Truck driver Ernest Suddard and his 13-year-old son are returning home to Bradford, West Yorks, England, when their headlights light up a small figure in the street. It is 4 feet tall, dressed in skin-tight black clothes, and is hopping forward in a series of jerky movements. A circular, silvery object, perforated with holes, appears on the figure’s chest just below its throat. It approaches the truck then turns away abruptly into a passage. Suddard alerts the police, but they find nothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) The Author, 1992, p. 50; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-08-16-uk-bradford.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-08-16-uk-bradford.htm) February 19, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_2748 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7495 (A97A81A9) Date: 8/19/1955 Time: 2330 Description: About 700 m away from Roundhill street, Mr. Wood, a warehouseman, saw a bright, bullet-shaped, silvery object behind a hillock. It measured about 4 m in height, 1.5 m in diameter, had a surface similar to chromium and made a highpitched buzzing sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Constance 222 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bradford, England Source ID: Magnonia_371 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7496 (D838060E) Date: 8/19/1955 Description: At 11:30 p.m. about 700 meters away from the site of another humanoid encounter only three days before in Bradford, England, Mr. Wood, a warehouseman, saw a bright, silvery, bullet-shaped object behind a hillock. It measured about four meters in height and 1.5 meters in diameter. It had a highly polished chrome-like surface and made a high-pitched buzzing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. 222; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings , p. 251 Source ID: Johnson_5155 Source: Johnson ### Event 7497 (D1ED6666) Date: 8/19/1955 Description: 2:00 p.m. A “shining, glittering ball” zigzags across the sky over Lisburn, Northern Ireland. It is seen by many people for about 10 minutes. Jeffrey Moore, 17, says it looks like a steel ball at first, then as it gets closer it appears “cross-shaped.” It moves in a variety of directions before disappearing into the clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Belfast Telegraph, August 20, 1955; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 \(September 2014\): 55 Source ID: Eberhart_2750 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7498 (8956C435) Date: 8/20/1955 Description: At 10:45 p.m. two men on a lake in Kenora, Ontario, Canada saw a saucer-shaped UFO come in front of them, hovering just 40 feet over the water. It was silver white in color, four or five feet across, and at a distance of less than 75 meters. It slid sideways, hovered again, tilted on its side, straightened out, then shot away. It was gone in three seconds, covering 40 degrees of arc in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 97; UNICAT, case # 382 Source ID: Johnson_5171 Source: Johnson ### Event 7499 (BCC4D9B3) Date: 8/20/1955 Description: 10:45 p.m. The president of a small Canadian air service and his nightwatchman are checking their seaplanes in their dock at Kenora, Ontario, when they see an object “shaped like two saucers with their open tops touching, one above the other” streaking toward them from the west. It is silvery-white in color and sending out rays from its surface or sparkling “as if some electric force or very hot air was flowing from all the surfaces.” It tilts on its side about 600 feet from them, then straightens out with the flat side parallel with the ground and hovers about 225 feet from them and 40 feet above the surface of the lake. It is completely silent and looks to be only 4–5 feet across. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 111–112](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/110/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2752 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7500 (6A2B93CC) Date: 8/20/1955 Description: Pilot [Horace A. Hanes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19085768/horace-a-hanes) attains an airspeed record of 822 mph in a North American F-100C Super Sabre at Palmdale, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[North American F-100 Super Sabre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FF-100%5FSuper%5FSabre)” Source ID: Eberhart_2751 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7501 (E4E0D2A3) Date: 8/21/1955 Time: 2030 Description: The Sutton family saw a light landing near their farmhouse, then several nightmarish entities about 1 m tall, with glowing silver clothing, an oversized round head, huge eyes and ears, and a slit-like mouth harassed them for several hours, in spite of heavy gunfire. At one point, one of the entities was knocked down from the roof by a bullet: it "floated down." Running out of ammunition, the Suttons got the police, who observed a lighted object in the sky, flying very fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic, Anatomy 173; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hopkinsville, Kentucky Source ID: Magnonia_372 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7502 (BA2C3FD9) Date: 8/21/1955 End date: 8/22/1955 Description: Sutton (Kelly / Hopkinsville) Encounter (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550821-22](http://www.nicap.org/550821hopkinsville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kelly (7 miles N of Hopkinsville), KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1867 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7503 (9F9A0B67) Date: 8/21/1955 Description: Glowing-white Saturn-shaped object hovered, rotating; turned sideways and shot away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chalmette, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1868 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7504 (6FAF9D4B) Date: 8/21/1955 Description: Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The Sutton family saw a light land near their farmhouse. Shortly after several goblin-like entities about one meter tall, with glowing silver clothing, oversized round heads, big eyes and huge pointed ears harassed them for several hours. They got out their hunting rifles and started shooting at them. At one point one of the entities was struck by gunfire and was knocked off their roof, but inside of falling normally it "floated down" Close to running out of ammunition, the Suttons fled their farmhouse and got the police, who observed a lighted object in the sky, flying away very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book; Isabel Davis, Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 173; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 251 Source ID: Johnson_5207 Source: Johnson ### Event 7505 (1236A918) Date: 8/21/1955 End date: 8/22/1955 Description: About 7:00 p.m. Billy Ray Taylor goes into the backyard of the Elmer “Lucky” Sutton farmhouse 7 miles north of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and sees a bright object come from the south-southwest, pass over, and descend into a gully about 500 feet north and about 35-40 feet lower elevation. [Glennie Lankford](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10354868/glennie-mae-lankford) and 6 other adults \(Elmer Sutton, Vera Sutton, John Charley Sutton, Alene Sutton, June Taylor, O. P. Baker\) plus 3 children \(Charlton, Lonnie, and Mary Lankford\), see several gremlin-like creatures float down from trees and approach the house from the dark. They are about 3 feet high with roundish heads, elephantine ears, slit-like mouths extending ear to ear, huge and wide-set eyes, no visible necks, and long arms ending in clawed hands. They wear glowing silver clothing. When they run, they drop on all fours. When one of them approaches the house, Sutton and Taylor fire shotguns through the window screen, scoring a direct hit. The creature is knocked over, but gets up and scuttles off. Taylor walks out the door and one of the creatures grabs at his head. This activity continues the greater part of the night and includes heavy gunfire at times. Sutton fires point blank at it, knocking it from the roof, but it just “floats down.” At about 11:00 p.m. they run out of ammunition, and the entire group flees in terror in two cars and drives at high speed into Hopkinsville to report the incident to the police. A state patrolman leaves the Shady Oaks restaurant 3 miles north of Hopkinsville in a car to respond to the call and sees several meteor- like objects streaking over him sounding like artillery fire. He sees two in a series looking like meteors coming from the southwest, headed towards Kelly from the direction of Fort Campbell, a US Army installation. City, county, state, and military police and reporters drive out to the Sutton farm to investigate from 11:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. The UFO entities return at about 2:30 a.m. Glennie Lankford is trying to get to sleep when she sees one outside her window stretching its claw-like hands up to the screen. Elmer Sutton again shoots at them without effect. The last one is seen at about 5:15 a.m. Clark writes that investigations by “police, Air Force officers from nearby Fort Campbell, and civilian ufologists found no evidence of a hoax”; however, [Brian Dunning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%5FDunning%5F%28author%29) reports that “the claim that Air Force investigators showed up the next day at Mrs. Lankford’s house has been published a number of times by later authors, but I could find no corroborating evidence of this.” Dunning also observes that “the four military police who accompanied the police officers on the night of the event were from an Army base, not an Air Force base.” Skeptic [Joe Nickell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FNickell) notes that the family could have misidentified great horned owls, which are nocturnal, fly silently, have yellow eyes, and aggressively defend their nests. He thinks Taylor and Sutton were drinking heavily. Meteor sightings also occurred at the time that could explain Billy Ray Taylor’s claim that he saw “a bright light streak across the sky and disappear beyond a tree line some distance from the house.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville%5Fencounter)”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) The Author, 1992, pp. 54–75; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15-SN.pdf) [of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15-SN.pdf) The Author, 2002, pp. 18– 36; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 172–178](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/172/mode/2up); Story, [pp. 190–192](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/190/mode/2up); Clark III 642– 643; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS, 1978; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 230; “The Close Encounter of the Third Kind at Kelly Re-examined,” IUR 3, no. 5 \(May 1978\): 4–6; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 53–56; Joe Nickell, “[Siege of ‘Little Green Men’:](https://skepticalinquirer.org/2006/11/siege-of-little-green-men-the-1955-kelly-kentucky-incident/) [The 1955 Kelly, Kentucky, Incident,](https://skepticalinquirer.org/2006/11/siege-of-little-green-men-the-1955-kelly-kentucky-incident/)” Skeptical Inquirer 30, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 2006\); Brian Dunning, “[The Kelly-](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4331) [Hopkinsville Encounter,](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4331)” Skeptoid podcast no. 331, October 9, 2012; Patrick Gross, “[The Kelly-Hopkinsville](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/kelly55.htm) [Case, 1955](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/kelly55.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2753 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7506 (2C7F61AD) Date: 8/22/1955 Description: One of the most famous humanoid reports ever, came to a conclusion on this date at the Sutton farm in Kelly, near Hopkinsville, Kentucky. After the police had searched the Sutton farm and found no creatures, they left and at two a.m. the little “men” returned, with at least one of them putting its “little clawed hands” up on the window screen. Again they were fired at with rifles without apparent effect. The last of the creatures was seen about half an hour before sunrise. No ground traces of the creatures' presence could be found anywhere during the search that occurred later that same day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Isabel L. Davis & Ted Bloecher, Close Encounters at Kelly and Others of 1955; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1955-18 Source ID: Johnson_5219 Source: Johnson ### Event 7507 (3EAFFE7F) Date: 8/22/1955 Description: Casa Blanca, near Riverside, California. At two o'clock in the afternoon some children were playing in the garden of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas when they observed a hovering object that disappeared and reappeared as a spinning disc with curved lines radiating from it. Other objects, silvery and semitransparent, soon appeared and were seen by all of the children. They made musical sounds as they vanished and reappeared. One of them landed, and a creature the size of a four-year-old child, transparent and wearing a belt with a bright disc on it, was seen nearby. Another creature appeared and spoke to one of the boys. All the children experienced visions of the object and the creatures, as well as "arms" which appeared to beckon to them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 16; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings, p. 251, case 373 Source ID: Johnson_5218 Source: Johnson ### Event 7508 (1DA266F3) Date: 8/22/1955 Time: 1400 Description: A group of children was playing in the garden of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas when they observed a hovering object which disappared and reappeared as a spinning disk with curved lines radiating from it. Other objects, silvery and semi-transparent, soon appeared and were seen by all children. They made musical sounds as they vanished and reappeared. One of them landed, and a creature the size of a 4-year-old child, transparent, wearing a belt with a bright disk, was seen nearby. Another creature appeared and spoke to one of the boys. All the children experienced visions of the object and the creatures, as well as "arms" which appeared to beckon to them. Type: ufo sighting Reference: TSR 67, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Casa Blanca, near Riverside, California Source ID: Magnonia_373 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7509 (D9F33A4A) Date: 8/23/1955 End date: 8/24/1955 Description: 11:50 p.m. Personnel at the Ground Observer Corps tower in Hamilton County, Ohio, notice three white spheres between Columbus and Cincinnati. Tracking the UFOs on radar, they notify SAC at Lockbourne AFB \[now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base\], which scrambles jets to investigate. The UFO approaches the tower and hovers in pendulum-like motions directly above it. The interceptors give chase, but the UFO disappears at an incredible speed. The Greater Cincinnati Airport also tracks unidentified blips on radar. To his surprise, [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) obtains clearance to write about these sightings in CRIFO Orbit. But when he tries to interest the Cincinnati newspapers, they are not interested. A Wright-Patterson AFB spokesperson denies the incident to the press and claims to know nothing about Stringfield’s relationship with ADC. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 12–14; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 230; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf) [1955 July–September 15th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-July-Sept-15.pdf), The Author, 1992, p. 75 Source ID: Eberhart_2754 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7510 (6E077841) Date: 8/23/1955 Description: In Arlington, Virginia at 10:45 a.m. G.M. Park, using a 400x telescope, witnessed several orange lights moving singly and in groups, circling and stopping for 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5250 Source: Johnson ### Event 7511 (19858E52) Date: 8/23/1955 Description: Several (6+) orange lights moving singly or in groups (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3720) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arlington, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1871 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7512 (290BE9BB) Date: 8/23/1955 Description: Jet Fighters Dogfight With UFO Picked Up On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [550823](http://www.nicap.org/550823cincinnati%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cincinnati, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1869 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7513 (E830BDBA) Date: 8/23/1955 Time: 10:45 AM Description: Witness: G.M. Park, using a 400x telescope. Several orange lights moved singly or in groups, circling and stopping during 30 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Arlington, Virginia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_389 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7514 (0F832E6F) Date: 8/25/1955 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Catch-Me-If-You-Can UFO on Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [550825](http://www.nicap.org/550825fordlanddir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fordland, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1873 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7515 (ADCEC8B3) Date: 8/25/1955 Description: 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Lloyd Wright and Mrs. Lester Parsons of Bedford, Indiana, see a huge white object with a black streak down the center. The object seems to expand and contract regularly as it hovers over Mrs. Parsons’s home. The houselights appear to dim and pulsate in rhythm with the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 114 Source ID: Eberhart_2755 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7516 (BAA419AD) Date: 8/25/1955 Description: Four adolescents in a car saw a creature with a luminous body, standing near a fireplug. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Stringfield 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Greenhills, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_374 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7517 (D2E1336B) Date: 8/25/1955 Description: Four teenagers in a car in Greenhills, Ohio saw a creature with a luminous body, standing near a fireplug. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 64; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 252 Source ID: Johnson_5313 Source: Johnson ### Event 7518 (4BBA5DF9) Date: 8/25/1955 Description: House lights dimmed and brightened as hovering UFO pulsated (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bedford, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1872 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7519 (7B26F436) Date: 8/26/1955 Description: There were three reports of unusual humanoids in Ohio on this date, two from Hamilton County and one from Franklin County. A child with the last name Perry, in Camp Washington, Ohio was reported in hysterics after seeing a "green man" at the window in the evening. Several people in Mount Air, Ohio saw a dwarf creature that night. A man from Cheviot, Ohio called Donna Meiers to tell her that he had experienced a similar incident involving a "little man" about the same time as the Winton Woods encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases A0383, A0385, A0386; Cincinnati Times-Star, August 27, 1955; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 63 Source ID: Johnson_5359 Source: Johnson ### Event 7520 (09F4BF27) Date: 8/26/1955 Description: On this day many witnesses in Guarenas, Venezuela saw a silver orb zipping back-and-forth and hovering over the town, making a humming sound. The witnesses reported feeling a tickling sensation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Morris K. Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 355 Source ID: Johnson_5358 Source: Johnson ### Event 7521 (6CB5F9CC) Date: 8/28/1955 Description: Board of Education official and others saw a white Saturn-shaped object through a telescope. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yonkers, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1874 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7522 (844FF1F3) Date: 8/29/1955 Description: RAF pilot [Walter Gibb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FGibb) reaches an official record altitude of 65,876 feet in an English Electric Canberra B.2 turbojet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Walter Gibb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FGibb)” Source ID: Eberhart_2756 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7523 (591DC1E6) Date: 8/29/1955 Description: Eight children in Casa Blanca, Riverside County, California, from 4-15 years of age, saw a “semi transparent” round object of various colors in the sky at around three o'clock in the afternoon. It would appear and disappear with musical “pings.” Some adults were called to come see it, but they saw nothing. An object, “as large as 3 houses,” came down to hover three feet from the ground. Beside it appeared a transparent being 3.5 feet tall, with red eyes and mouth, and a brilliant disc on its belt. Other similar objects also landed, one on a housetop. One boy started walking toward one of the vessels and was forcibly restrained. Another saw a beckoning, disembodied arm in mid-air. A creature with four arms appeared, and told two of the boys to climb a tree to be “picked up.” They did so, and a UFO started to approach with little men riding on its rim. One boy climbed down after a garden hose was turned on him by the other children; the other “slid” onto a nearby roof and then walked off it, landing on his head, stunned but with no apparent serious injury. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Riverside Daily Press, August 30, 1955; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1955-21 (A0387), citing Bob Boden, Jean Rowlands & Mary Starbuck for BSRA, Uranus, February 1956 Source ID: Johnson_5459 Source: Johnson ### Event 7524 (A053714B) Date: 8/30/1955 Description: 9:30 a.m. Pedro Navarro, 25, takes a photograph of some swirling storm clouds over Dudignac, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. When he develops them, he notes that the disturbance looks more like a giant disc. The newspapers reproduce enhanced versions of the photo, but it is never critically analyzed until several decades later. The best guess is that the photo shows a round cloud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester-Olmos, “[Exigesis of the](http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021%5F12%5F26%5Farchive.html) [Dudignac Saucer of 1955,](http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2021%5F12%5F26%5Farchive.html)” UFO FOTOCAT Blog, December 26, 2021; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “[Exegesis](https://www.academia.edu/69431110/Exegesis%5Fof%5Fthe%5FDudignac%5FSaucer%5Fof%5F1955) [of the Dudignac Saucer of 1955,](https://www.academia.edu/69431110/Exegesis%5Fof%5Fthe%5FDudignac%5FSaucer%5Fof%5F1955)” January 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_2757 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7525 (1A6983E9) Date: 8/31/1955 Description: A large disc-shaped object with windows around the rim flew at a low altitude in Ponteland, Northumberland, England. It made a droning sound as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_5521 Source: Johnson ### Event 7526 (7BE1AE2E) Date: 9/1955 Description: Austrian Countess [Zoe Wassilko von Serecki](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe%5FWassilko%5Fvon%5FSerecki) writes an article for American Astrology in which she conceives of UFOs as living animals that inhabit the ionosphere and are attracted to electrical sources. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Zoë Wassilko-Serecki, “Startling Theory on Flying Saucers,” American Astrology 23 \(September 1955\): 2–5; Clark III 1099–1100 Source ID: Eberhart_2758 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7527 (3325975D) Date: 9/1955 Description: Day. Several witnesses see four silver discs flying in formation over Lima, Ohio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_2759 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7528 (B2BF9E70) Date: 9/2/1955 End date: 9/4/1955 Description: 9:05 p.m. [Eddy Geddes](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17944025/eddy-stewart-geddes) notices a fireball as he is driving to Kalispell, Montana, from Whitefish. He stops at a Ground Observer post and notifies the women stationed there. Jets are scrambled from Malmstrom AFB in Great Falls and arrive shortly after midnight, long after the object is gone, but another fireball is apparently seen later. The same scenario occurs on September 4 when five F-94C Starfire jets \(as well as other aircraft from Great Falls and Spokane, Washington, are sent to the Kalispell area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Air Force Jets Called in Search for](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98864723/) [‘Fireball’ over Kalispell,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98864723/)” The Missoulian, September 5, 1955, p. 7; “[Recent Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201956%2009%2015%20-%20Sept%5F%28AFU%29.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 15, 1956, p. 19 Source ID: Eberhart_2760 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7529 (12C6EED6) Date: 9/3/1955 Description: White pinpoint move slowly across 30° of sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3743) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bellingham, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1875 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7530 (E8ADB2B2) Date: 9/3/1955 Time: Unknown time Description: Witness: Observer Saunders for Ground Observer Corps. One white pinhead moved slowly across 30 degrees of sky in 15 minutes. No further information. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Bellingham, Washington Source ID: BerlinerBBU_390 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7531 (1B0EA5B6) Date: 9/7/1955 Description: Glowing round object fly an arc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3750) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_1876 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7532 (AC3E2B7D) Date: 9/7/1955 Time: Unknown time Description: Witnesses: Two photographers, one plate maker for the Army Map Service (one named Smith). One glowing round object flew an arc for 1 minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: BerlinerBBU_391 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7533 (5F569771) Date: 9/7/1955 Description: Washington, D.C. Two photographers and an engraving plate maker for the Army Map Service sighted a glowing round object that flew in an arc through the sky for one minute at 6:30 a.m. EST. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #3750; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5713 Source: Johnson ### Event 7534 (1282AAE7) Date: 9/7/1955 Description: At 8:00 a.m. GMT a teacher and ten students aboard a school bus in Dunoon, Scotland, UK sighted five shiny, metallic saucers that reflect sunlight as they flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January 1956 Source ID: Johnson_5712 Source: Johnson ### Event 7535 (DB8B297E) Date: 9/8/1955 Description: Test pilot [Ray J. Goudey](http://m.roadrunnersinternationale.com/obits/goudey.html) reaches an altitude of 65,000 feet in a Lockheed U-2 at Groom Lake, Nevada, a feat not revealed until declassification in 1998. “From where I was up above Nevada I could see the Pacific Ocean, which was 300 miles away.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed U-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FU-2)” Source ID: Eberhart_2761 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7536 (51B2E230) Date: 9/9/1955 Description: Capt. Hugh McKenzie of the Air Defense Command in Columbus, Ohio, contacts UFO researcher [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) in Cincinnati and asks for CRIFO’s cooperation in providing them with new UFO reports. He also says that Ground Observer Corps in southwestern Ohio is to report UFO activity to CRIFO for screening. Screened reports are then to be forwarded to the ADC filter center using the code “Fox Trot Kilo 3-0 Blue.” All expenses will be reimbursed by the Air Force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 11; Clark III 1114 Source ID: Eberhart_2762 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7537 (43722548) Date: 9/9/1955 Description: At noon on this day Mr. M. N. Dawkins, using binoculars, spotted a brown, almost square object near Alcoa, Tennessee that flew with a circular motion for 10-15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5786 Source: Johnson ### Event 7538 (8086C60C) Date: 9/9/1955 Description: Brown, almost square object fly with a circular motion (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3757) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rock Garden, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1877 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7539 (38B7CA3D) Date: 9/9/1955 Time: 12 noon Description: Witness: M.N. Dawkins, using binoculars. One brown, almost square object flew with a circular motion for 10-15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: near Alcoa, Tennessee Source ID: BerlinerBBU_392 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7540 (6C4E759E) Date: 9/13/1955 Description: At 2:10 a.m. a silent red sphere flew across the sky to the northeast in St. Louis, Senegal, curving and spiraling. It made an ascent to a higher altitude, flew to the southeast, and then shot off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1968 Source ID: Johnson_5909 Source: Johnson ### Event 7541 (193C2E64) Date: 9/16/1955 Description: Boisseuges, France. A young shepherd heard a whistling sound at 6:00 p.m. as a dark mass appeared to fall from the sky and a rush of air swept him from his feet. The object looked like a machine with an opening where a stairway became visible. Two occupants were seen. One was observed to have a reddish face, a baldhead, and very fine teeth. The craft was round, about 3.5 meters in diameter, and two meters high; it was lighted with a neon-like light. The occupants gathered some plants and flew away to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 252 (case 375); Gamard Alain, UFO Register 1978 (volume 7), p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_6008 Source: Johnson ### Event 7542 (CC75C411) Date: 9/16/1955 Time: 1800 Description: A young shepherd heard a whistling sound as a dark mass appeared to fall from the sky and a rush of air swept him from his feet. The object looked like a machine with an opening where a stairway became visible. Two occupants were seen. One was observed to have a reddish face, a bald head and very fine teeth. The craft was round, about 3.5 m diameter, 2 m high, lighted with neon-like light. The occupants gathered some plants and flew away to the northwest. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Boisseuges, France Source ID: Magnonia_375 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7543 (0FFB0CED) Date: 9/17/1955 Description: Pine Bush, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Bordes of New York City were fishing at night when they heard a loud splash and a "gurgling sound." They then saw a pink, iridescent, mushroom-shaped object rise about 70 cm out of the water, then sink back into the reservoir. Later, they saw the object again. It was about five meters long and surrounded by turbulence. After it took off it reversed direction several times without turning around and finally flew away at a high rate of speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. 226; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1955; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 226; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 252 Source ID: Johnson_6042 Source: Johnson ### Event 7544 (0387FF89) Date: 9/17/1955 Time: night Description: Mr. and Mrs. Bordes, of New York City, were fishing when they heard a loud splash and a "gurgling sound," saw a pink, iridescent, mushroom-shaped object rise about 70 cm above the water, and sink into the reservoir. Later, they saw the object again, about 5 m long and surrounded with turbulence. It reversed direction several times without turning around and finally flew away very fast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Constance 226; FSR 55,5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bush Pine, New York Source ID: Magnonia_376 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7545 (9CCBC27C) Date: 9/20/1955 Description: In response to a September 13 letter from Rep. [Gordon H. Scherer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FH.%5FScherer) \(R-Ohio\) about the contactee claims of [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) CIA Director [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) replies that the “CIA shall have no police, subpoena, law- enforcement powers, or internal-security functions” over mail fraud related to UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Allen W. Dulles, [Letter to](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80R01731R001600090043-3.pdf) [Gordon H. Scherer,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80R01731R001600090043-3.pdf) September 20, 1955 Source ID: Eberhart_2763 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7546 (FE069AF0) Date: 9/21/1955 Description: Soviet underwater atomic bomb test, 3.5kt Type: atomic Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Soviet Union Atomic type: aboveground Atomic KT: 3.5 Source ID: Maj2_555 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7547 (D6F24386) Date: 9/22/1955 Description: At Hickham Field in Honolulu, Hawaii at 7:30 p.m. a huge sausage-shaped craft, traveling at a speed of 1,700 mph and an altitude 32,000 feet, was tracked on several radar sets and seen visually by many. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Civilian Saucer Intelligence (New York) Newsletter, February 1956, p. 29, citing M. Myerson; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1955: September 15-December, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_6220 Source: Johnson ### Event 7548 (4A7BF729) Date: 9/23/1955 Description: An eight meter wide gray colored plate-shaped disc flew at only 50 meters altitude over the town of Kreuzlingen, Switzerland on this day. It was rotating as it flew by, six cycles per second. It tilted upward and flew away. There were two witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: L. Zinstag, UFO Sichtungen, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_6251 Source: Johnson ### Event 7549 (7AD32E6A) Date: 10/1955 Description: 8:00 p.m. A student at St. Joseph’s Minor Seminary in Peterborough, New Hampshire, sees four glowing, bluish-white objects to the southwest. One appears to be on the ground with 3–4 figures beside it. He goes into the recreation room to find more witnesses. When they go outside, the objects are slowly moving above the school building toward the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[New Hampshire,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 2 \(April/May 1985\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_2765 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7550 (E91E6205) Date: 10/1955 Description: President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) gives the CIA control over the U-2 spy plane program and Area 51. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 58](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/58/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2764 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7551 (12D57211) Date: 10/2/1955 Description: Hovering disc- like UFO observed over wide area. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Akron and Alliance, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1878 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7552 (3DB3E116) Date: 10/2/1955 Description: Airline Pilots Report Round Blue-White Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [551002](http://www.nicap.org/551002poughkeepsie%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Poughkeepsie, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1879 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7553 (209EC814) Date: 10/3/1955 Description: A B-47 from Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona, crashes northwest of Lovington, New Mexico. The lone survivor, 2nd Lt. William Daniel Borggen, says the plane is flying at 15,000 feet when three instruments go out after it breaks away from a refueling plane in a pre-dawn flight. The crew drops 5,000 feet, then the bomber hits something and crashes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[B-47 Crash Is Probed,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94020580/)” Clovis \(N.Mex.\) News-Journal, October 3, 1955, pp. 1-2 Source ID: Eberhart_2766 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7554 (09C3CCC4) Date: 10/4/1955 Description: United States Senator Richard Russell, Head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was on a high-level diplomatic mission to the Soviet Union and was traveling on the trans-Caucasus railway outside of Baku, Azerbaijan on this day in 1955. While on the train at 7:10 p.m. he and his aide saw a disc-shaped UFO slowly ascend to 6000 feet and then shoot to the North. A second disc appeared and maneuvered about the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 240 Source ID: Johnson_6554 Source: Johnson ### Event 7555 (DF076CB0) Date: 10/4/1955 Description: 7:10 p.m. Senator [Richard B. Russell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FRussell%5FJr) \(D-Ga.\), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, on a trip to the USSR, is on a Soviet train near Baku, Azerbaijan, when he spots a disc-shaped craft taking off near the tracks. Russell sees the “first flying disc ascend and pass over the train” and goes “rushing in to get Mr. Efron \[Reuben Efron, his interpreter\] and Col. Hathaway \[Col. E. U. Hathaway, his aide\] to see it,” the report says. “Col. Hathaway stated that he got to the window with the Senator in time to see the first \[UFO\], while Mr. Efron said that he got only a short glimpse of the first. However, all three saw the second disc and all agreed that they saw the same round, disc-shaped craft…as the first.” A fourth witness is unidentified. “One disc ascended almost vertically, at a relatively slow speed, with its outer surface revolving slowly to the right, to an altitude of about 6,000 feet, where its speed then increased sharply as it headed north,” the report states. “The second flying disc was seen performing the same actions about one minute later. The take-off area was about 1–2 miles south of the rail line.” The Air Force report is written by Lieut. Col. Thomas Ryan, who interviews Russell’s companions in Prague, Czechoslovakia \[now Czech Republic\], on October 13, after they arrive there from Russia shortly after the sighting. The report remains Top Secret until April 30, 1959, and Secret until March 1985 when [Stanton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) [Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) manages to get it declassified following a FOIA request. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Senator Russell Observes UFO](http://www.nicap.org/551004russia%5Fdir.htm) [from Train](http://www.nicap.org/551004russia%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 1049–1050; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 231; Joel Carpenter, “[The Senator, the Saucer, and](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [Special Report](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [14,](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 3–7; Swords 227–228; Good Above, [pp. 224–226](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/224/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2767 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7556 (172FE5B3) Date: 10/5/1955 Description: Letter from US Navy Rear Admiral J. L. Herlihy at Pearl Harbor to the future director of the BSRA, Riley Crabb. They gave him an award of $200 in recognition of his superior performance in his duties. Type: letter Reference: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555631683269009410) Location: Pearl Harbor Source ID: Maj2_556 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7557 (1F51A372) Date: 10/7/1955 Description: Retired Gen. [Douglas MacArthur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FMacArthur) tells [Achille Lauro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille%5FLauro), the mayor of Naples, that he does not think there will be a war with the Soviet bloc, but that “because of the developments of science all countries on earth will have to survive and to make a common front against attack by people from other planets.” The meeting takes place in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[M’Arthur Greets Mayor of Naples,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/10/08/83780778.pdf)” New York Times, October 8, 1955, p. 7; “[Space War Possible Is MacArthur Hint,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20II%201955-56R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 2, no. 8 \(November 4, 1955\): 1; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 September 15th–December 31st](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf) The Author, 1993, pp. 15–17 Source ID: Eberhart_2768 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7558 (15C9C442) Date: 10/8/1955 Description: Round, silver or white object fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3800) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Loogootee, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1880 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7559 (DE422BEE) Date: 10/8/1955 Description: R. D. Prather and H. Ahern sighted a round, silverly white flying object at 4:38 p.m. in Loogootee, Indiana that zoomed through the sky at a speed in excess of 1,000 m.p.h. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3800; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6645 Source: Johnson ### Event 7560 (C43825A0) Date: 10/8/1955 Time: 4:38 PM Description: Witnesses: R.D. Prather, H. Ahern. One round, silver or white object flew straight and level at more than 1,000 m.p.h. for an unstated length of time. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Loogootee, Indiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_393 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7561 (1BD70FE7) Date: 10/10/1955 Description: The Air Force releases a statement from Fort Worth, Texas, saying that anyone reporting flashing lights for the next two months across the US is seeing wind-driven experimental plastic balloons that might travel as fast as 110 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, [FS Conspiracy](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/fsc/flying-saucer-conspiracy.pdf) p. 206; Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 43 Source ID: Eberhart_2769 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7562 (0EBFF126) Date: 10/11/1955 Description: Round object, white in daylight and turning red (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3810) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Point Lookout, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1881 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7563 (C9478E07) Date: 10/11/1955 Description: At four o'clock in the afternoon in Point Lookout, Maryland witnesses B. Hale and A. Ostrom sighted a round UFO that looked white in the daylight and turned red with sparks toward the end of their two and a half hour long sighting. It made a deep roaring sound, unlike any known aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3810; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6759 Source: Johnson ### Event 7564 (173BDBDA) Date: 10/11/1955 Time: 4 PM Description: Witnesses: B. Hale, A. Ostrom. One round object which looked white in the daylight and turned red with sparks toward the end of the 2.5 hour sighting, made a deep roar, unlike an aircraft. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pt. Lookout, Maryland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_394 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7565 (3D518E4D) Date: 10/14/1955 Description: Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr. (D-GA)—then chairman of the Armed Services Committee—was on a Soviet train when he spotted a disc-shaped craft taking off near the tracks. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [551014](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/russia551014dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Transcaucasus region, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_1882 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7566 (1F49E4B2) Date: 10/15/1955 Description: In a forest east-southeast of Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, France a huge, 400 meter long UFO was seen flying only six meters over some oak trees by a witness while driving on highway D3. It had 76 porthole-shaped windows in three rows. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1977 Source ID: Johnson_6859 Source: Johnson ### Event 7567 (F150D4DC) Date: 10/18/1955 Description: CIA Director [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) informs the joint Intelligence Advisory Committee about Senator [Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FRussell%5FJr)’s sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joel Carpenter, “[The Senator, the Saucer, and](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [Special Report](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [14,](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_2770 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7568 (A82C74D1) Date: 10/19/1955 Description: [Wilton E. Lexow](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71325540/wilton-e-lexow)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71325540/wilton-e-lexow) head of the CIA Applied Science Division, notes the similarity of the objects seen by Sen. [Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FB.%5FRussell) to the Avro Canada Project Y-2 \(Silver Bug\), a proposed vertical take-off gyroplane now under development by the US Air Force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada\#Supersonic%5FAvrodynes)”; Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)”; Joel Carpenter, “[The Senator, the Saucer, and](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [Special Report](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [14,](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_2771 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7569 (14094142) Date: 10/19/1955 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) F-86 Unable to Close on Radar/Visual Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [551019](http://www.nicap.org/551019knoxvilledir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Knoxville (40 miles NW of ), TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1883 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7570 (33C3A394) Date: 10/20/1955 Description: Object Makes 90-Degree Turns & Tracked On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [551020](http://www.nicap.org/551020minneapolis%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minneapolis, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1884 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7571 (B9665A90) Date: 10/20/1955 Description: Manuel Gonzalez Vazquez and his neighbor Erminda where in a field tending some cattle in Portela de Pau, Orense, Spain in the late afternoon when they felt a slight tremor that lasted a few minutes. Moments later they saw an undetermined figure inside a “screen-like” image in the sky. The figure had a definite human shape. Seconds later they spotted a second flying figure approaching under the clouds. As the figure approached they could tell that it was a female figure, flying at three meters above the ground. It resembled an 18-year-old girl, and was a little over a meter in height. Her hair was gathered up in a bun and she was wearing a light turquoise colored cloak. The woman flew by the two witnesses and turned to look at them but did not say anything. It eventually glided away and disappeared from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1955, citing Gaceta OVNI Source ID: Johnson_7001 Source: Johnson ### Event 7572 (6DE1B11C) Date: 10/25/1955 Description: Summary of Blue Book report released to press; linked with statement that Air Force would soon have its own saucer-shaped aircraft, the AVRO disc. (The AVRO disc project subsequently was scrapped without producing a flying model). Reported no evidence that UFOs "constituted a threat to the security of the United States. . ." Type: summary of report Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_882 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7573 (FAE3872D) Date: 10/25/1955 Description: Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 is released, months after it is completed by analysts at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, using cases supplied by the Air Force and tabulated on IBM punch cards. The original report by Battelle is about 300 pages, but the Air Force distills this down to 100. It is accompanied by a press release in which Secretary of the Air Force [Donald A. Quarles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FA.%5FQuarles) states: “On the basis of this study we believe that no objects such as those popularly described as flying saucers have overflown the United States.” \(At the same time, Quarles states that the Air Force is working on radical new aircraft that “are sure to be mistaken for flying saucers.”\) Only 100 copies are printed initially, but scientist [Leon Davidson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%5FDavidson) prints and sells copies of it beginning in 1956, along with his analysis and commentary. The report includes 3,201 reported UFO sightings. Battelle employs four scientific analysts, who divide cases into knowns, unknowns, and a third category of insufficient information. They also break down knowns and unknowns into four categories of quality, from excellent to poor. For a case to be called identified, two analysts must independently agree on a solution; for a case to be called unidentified, all four analysts must agree. A report classified as unidentified is defined as: “Those reports of sightings wherein the description of the object and its maneuvers could not be fitted to the pattern of any known object or phenomenon.” Out of 3,201 cases, 69% are judged to be identified, 22% are unidentified, and 9% have insufficient information to make a determination. The report further breaks these results down based on whether the identification is considered certain or merely doubtful. For example, in both the astronomical and aircraft IFO categories, 12% are considered certain and 9% are doubtful. Overall, of the 69% listed as IFOs, 42% are thought to be solved with certainty, while 27% are still considered doubtful. In addition, if a case is lacking in adequate data, it is placed in the insufficient information category, separate from both IFOs and UFOs. A key feature is to statistically compare IFOs and UFOs by six characteristics: color, number of objects, shape, duration, speed, and brightness. If there are no significant differences, the two classes are probably the same, the UFOs then representing merely a failure to properly identify prosaic phenomena that can already account for IFOs. On the other hand, if the differences are statistically significant, this suggests IFOs and UFOs are indeed distinctly different phenomena. In the initial results, all characteristics except brightness test significant at less or much less than 1% \(brightness is greater than 5%\). By removing astronomical sightings from the knowns and redoing the test, just two categories, number and speed, are significant at less than 1%, the remainder having results between 3% and 5%. This indicates that there is a statistically significant difference between the characteristics ascribed to UFOs and IFOs, but perhaps not as significant as the initial results suggested. For two characteristics, brightness and speed, the significance actually increases with the revised test. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) later calls the Battelle report a “shamefully biased interpretation of statistics to support a preconceived notion.” [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) asks [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) what he thinks. Ruppelt says the report “was a shock to me. I was the one that had the IBM system tried out. It didn’t prove a thing, and I had written it off as worthless before I left the project… also this report was drawn up in 1953, yet the Air Force released it as the latest hot dope in October, 1955.” The Air Force releases a second edition, with a new preface and an addendum that brings the subject up to date, in July 1957. In the 1990s, after interviewing three men \(Art Westerman, [Perry Rieppel](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/star-gazette/obituary.aspx?n=perry-rieppel&pid=87901417)[,](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/star-gazette/obituary.aspx?n=perry-rieppel&pid=87901417) and William T. Reid\) who had participated in the Battelle project, [Mark Rodeghier](http://www.cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html) and [Jennie Zeidman](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/jennie-zeidman-obituary?pid=195927848) of the Center for UFO Studies conclude that the engineering mindset at Battelle had caused a disconnect between its data and its conclusions. Because the project cannot reverse engineer a UFO from the reports \(because of faulty witness testimony, multicausal UFOs, etc.\), the engineers conclude that a structured craft does not exist. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Identification studies of UFOs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification%5Fstudies%5Fof%5FUFOs\#Project%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5FNo.%5F14)”; Wikipedia, “[Project Blue Book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FBlue%5FBook\#Project%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5FNo.%5F14)”; US Air Force Air Technical Intelligence Center, [Special Report No. 14; Analysis of Reports](https://www.academia.edu/49680297/Project%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5F14) [of Unidentified Flying Objects](https://www.academia.edu/49680297/Project%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5F14), May 5, 1955; Leon Davidson, [Flying Saucers: An Analysis of Project Blue Book](http://cufos.org/books/Air%5FForce%5FProject%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5F14R.pdf) [Special Report No. 14](http://cufos.org/books/Air%5FForce%5FProject%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5F14R.pdf), \[1956\], 3d ed., Ramsey-Wallace, 1966; “[Plan Radical New Aircraft,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3391549/the-news-herald/)” Franklin \(Pa.\) News-Herald, October 26, 1955, p. 1; Clark III 929–932; Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 123–126](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/56/mode/2up); Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 770; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 7–8; Jennie Zeidman and Mark Rodeghier, “The Pentacle Letter and the Battelle UFO Project,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(May/June 1993\): 4–12, 19–21; Joel Carpenter, “[The Senator, the Saucer, and](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [Special Report](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf) [14,](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/the%5Fsenator.pdf)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 3, 9; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf) [15th–December 31st](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf) The Author, 1993, pp. 30–63; Swords 220–224, 239–241 Source ID: Eberhart_2772 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7574 (6C7ECBCF) Date: 10/25/1955 Description: A mysterious object passes over Serbia and is seen throughout the country. [Milorad B. Protić](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorad%5FB.%5FProti%C4%87) and other astronomers at Belgrade Observatory track the object and determine that it is not a meteor. After the launch of Sputnik in November 1957, Protić decides that the object must have been an experimental Soviet satellite. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 68 Source ID: Eberhart_2773 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7575 (83082831) Date: 10/26/1955 Description: \[Same as Oct. 21, 1955, case?\] (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minneapolis, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1885 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7576 (E4F7E464) Date: 10/27/1955 Description: Afternoon. [Hosea D. Lambeth](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204660895/hosea-dewood-lambeth), principal of Whitsett Elementary School, North Carolina, and about 100 students watch 10 objects like “steel balls” dart through the sky for 25 minutes. Light-colored wispy material in 2–3-inch strips falls from the sky at the same time. Nearby Burlington Industries tests a sample and declares it not a synthetic material. No spiders are found in the strands. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 124; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf) [the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 September 15th–December 31st](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1955-Sept-15-Dec-31.pdf), The Author, 1993,pp. 72–75 Source ID: Eberhart_2774 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7577 (A56D493C) Date: 10/28/1955 Description: A disc-shaped object with a row of blue lights on the periphery slowly maneuvered above a car on a deserted road In Galloway, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 135, Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 377 Source ID: Johnson_7221 Source: Johnson ### Event 7578 (A487D5C6) Date: 10/28/1955 Description: Disc with row of blue lights on rim, maneuvered slowly over car on lonely road. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Galloway, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1886 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7579 (7740A3C4) Date: 10/28/1955 Description: A disk with a row of blue lights on the periphery slowly maneuvered above a car on a deserted road. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Evidence 135, 146 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Galloway, England Source ID: Magnonia_377 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7580 (04CC13CE) Date: 10/31/1955 Description: Bright object passed National Airlines DC-3. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nr. Auckland, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1887 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7581 (6BBB925C) Date: 11/1955 End date: 4/1956 Description: Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fifth Antarctic expedition (Operation Deep Freeze). By 1955 Byrd was in charge of the United States’ Antarctic program and supervised the U.S. Navy’s Operation Deep Freeze, which was sent to support the International Geophysical Year (1957–58). This was Byrd’s final visit to Antarctica and although he was only there for a week, he also took his last flight over the South Pole on January 8, 1956. This expedition also established permanent Antarctic bases at McMurdo Sound (McMurdo Station) and the South Pole (Amundsen-Scott Base). Type: lecture Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deep_Freeze) Location: McMurdo Station Source ID: Maj2_545 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7582 (7B9B7BF5) Date: 11/1955 Description: J. Heinrich Ragaz begins publishing Weltraumbote in Zürich, Switzerland. It continues through June 1961. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Weltraumbote](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Switzerland/Weltraumbote/Weltraumbote%20-%20No%2001%20-%201955-1956.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Switzerland/Weltraumbote/Weltraumbote%20-%20No%2001%20-%201955-1956.pdf) no. 1 \(November 1955\) Source ID: Eberhart_2775 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7583 (B4BEFEBE) Date: 11/1/1955 Description: 8:06 p.m. A flying light paces New Zealand National Airways DC-3 Flight 108 west of Waitara, New Zealand, at 8,000 feet for about 5 minutes. Capt. [William T. Rainbow](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/212072634/wiliam-thomas-rainbow) and Copilot [Stanley G. Trounce](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/232262515/stanley-grant-trounce) spot the object behind them flying along the coast on a parallel course. Changing color from white to yellow to gold to red, it overtakes the aircraft and flies alongside it for 15 miles, then picks up speed and disappears into the distance ahead. Rainbow estimates it is traveling at 850 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 125](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=137&skin=2021); “[1955: ‘Flying Light’ Seen by](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/1955-flying-light-seen-by-nac-capt-and-crew/) [NAC Captain and Crew,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/1955-flying-light-seen-by-nac-capt-and-crew/)” Ufocus.nz, June 15, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_2776 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7584 (2884FAF4) Date: 11/1/1955 Description: Astronomer observed cigar-shaped UFO and smaller disc. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mojave Desert, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1888 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7585 (D863D178) Date: 11/1/1955 Description: An 800 foot long cigar-shaped object was seen during the middle of the day over the Mojave Desert in California and then a second object, disc shaped, appeared suddenly and joined it quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers -- Serious Business, p. 41; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185 Source ID: Johnson_7370 Source: Johnson ### Event 7586 (DCE2CF0B) Date: 11/2/1955 Description: Police, others saw as many as six oval-shaped objects in formation. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williams, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1889 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7587 (67F186EC) Date: 11/2/1955 Description: Deputy-sheriff A. H. Perkins, C. F. Bell, and a dozen other witnesses saw six bellshaped objects moving by successive leaps. One came close to a patrol car; the men inside felt that their arms and legs "went dead" and that their clothes were burning them. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Evidence 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Williston, Florida Source ID: Magnonia_378 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7588 (F528BA47) Date: 11/5/1955 Description: Minister observed elliptical UFO with square "windows". \[UFOE, VIl\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cleveland, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1890 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7589 (988E864C) Date: 11/9/1955 Description: Newspaper photographers and others saw 12 silvery-white round objects in formation. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Philadelphia, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1891 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7590 (3394E22D) Date: 11/12/1955 Description: A clearly defined disc-shaped object flew over the Thames River at Goring, Oxfordshire, England, shooting sparks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Nachtrichten, July 1957 Source ID: Johnson_7607 Source: Johnson ### Event 7591 (3EECEE59) Date: 11/14/1955 Description: Fast Object With Light On Rear Observed By Airliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [551114](http://www.nicap.org/551114deming%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Deming, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_1893 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7592 (2D0CD15E) Date: 11/14/1955 Description: In 1955, Dr. Leslie Ward of Redlands, California, was flying with a passenger over Desert Hot Springs from Phoenix, Arizona. He saw what he first thought was an airliner and blinked his lights twice as a recognition signal. The fiery globe flipped its lights out twice in answer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Morris Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 349 Source ID: Johnson_7665 Source: Johnson ### Event 7593 (CA0B20A7) Date: 11/14/1955 Description: Pilot saw a globe of white light approach plane, blinked landing lights; object blinked in seeming response, reversed course. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Bernardino Mts, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1892 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7594 (1CFAFF44) Date: 11/17/1955 Description: At 6:10 a.m. in St. Louis, Missouri Mr. J. A. Mapes sighted twelve round, flat objects flying in a four-deep formation. They were silver on top and dark on the bottom. They tipped in pitched and rolled as they flew by. They were in sight for 45 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7720 Source: Johnson ### Event 7595 (77ADA869) Date: 11/17/1955 Time: 6:10 AM Description: Witness: J.A. Mapes. Twelve round, flat objects, silver on top and dark on the bottom, flew in 4-deep formation, tipping in pitch and roll, for 45 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: St. Louis, Missouri Source ID: BerlinerBBU_395 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7596 (926CE267) Date: 11/17/1955 Description: Saw 12 round, flat objects, silver on top/dark on bottom (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3860) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Louis, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1894 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7597 (D3BC03B2) Date: 11/20/1955 Description: 5:20 p.m. Operations Officer Capt. [Edward G. Denkler Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/574396/edward-george-denkler) and 5 men of the USAF 663rd AC&W Squadron see two oblong, bright orange, semi-transparent objects fly erratically at terrific speed toward and away from each other, over Lake City \[now Rocky Top\], Tennessee. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Seven Witnesses Observe Maneuvering](http://www.nicap.org/551120lakecity%5Fdir.htm) [Objects near Oak Ridge Plant](http://www.nicap.org/551120lakecity%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 232 Source ID: Eberhart_2777 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7598 (708D54E2) Date: 11/20/1955 Time: 5:20 PM Description: Witnesses: Operations Officer Capt. B.G. Denkler and five men of the USAF 663rd AC&W Sqdn. Two oblong, bright orange, semi-transparent objects flew at terrific speed and erratically, toward and away from each other. Observed by various persons form 4 to 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lake City, Tennessee Source ID: BerlinerBBU_396 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7599 (5B28F2EF) Date: 11/20/1955 Description: 2 oblong, bright orange, semi-transparent objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3862) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake City, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1895 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7600 (7E8F9353) Date: 11/22/1955 Description: First megaton-class Soviet hydrogen bomb test RDS-37 at the Semipalatinsk Test Site Type: atomic Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-37) Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site Atomic type: aboveground Atomic MT: 1.6 Source ID: Maj2_557 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7601 (CA00A9B2) Date: 11/22/1955 Description: The first Soviet test of a true thermonuclear bomb takes place at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[RDS-37](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-37)” Source ID: Eberhart_2778 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7602 (27B67B0A) Date: 11/23/1955 Description: Ground Observer Corps spotters reported a brilliant object which changed color, moved erratically. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Spirit Lake, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1896 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7603 (17A4B683) Date: 11/25/1955 Description: Dirigible-shaped object, fat front, tapered toward the tail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3869) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: LaVeta, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1897 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7604 (60FF0833) Date: 11/25/1955 Time: 10:30 AM Description: Witness: State Senator S.T. Taylor. One dirigible-shaped object (fat front, tapered toward the tail) object, which was luminous green-blue and jellylike, appeared overhead diving at a 45' angle, then reduced angle to 30'. Object seen for 5 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: La Veta, Colorado Source ID: BerlinerBBU_397 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7605 (22AEFCB7) Date: 11/25/1955 Description: State Senator S. T. Taylor reported seeing a dirigible-shaped object in La Veta, Colorado with a fat front, tapered toward the tail, which was luminous green-blue and jellylike. It first appeared overhead diving at a 45 degree angle, then reduced the angle to 30 degrees. The object was seen for 5 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7902 Source: Johnson ### Event 7606 (A0514C91) Date: 11/30/1955 End date: 12/2/1955 Description: The New York Herald Tribune and Miami Herald publish two articles by aviation journalist [Ansel Talbert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel%5FTalbert) in which he lists the names of aerospace firms conducting gravity-control propulsion research, including Glenn L. Martin Company, Convair, Bell Aircraft, Lear Inc., Clarke Electronics, and Sperry Gyroscope Division. The Gravity Research Group indicates these companies have constructed “rigs” to improve the performance of [Thomas Townsend Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FTownsend%5FBrown)’s gravitators through attempts to develop materials with high dielectric constants. Articles about the gravity propulsion research by the aerospace firms cease after 1974. Follow-up studies on Brown’s work and other claims are conducted by [R. L. Talley](https://www.scirp.org/%28S%28351jmbntvnsjt1aadkozje%29%29/reference/referencespapers.aspx?referenceid=916159) in 1990 and 2013 US Air Force studies, NASA scientist [Jonathan W. Campbell](https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2003/03-132.html) in a 2003 experiment, and [Martin Tajmar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FTajmar) in a 2004 paper. They find that no thrust can be observed in a vacuum and that Brown’s and other [ion-lifter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft) devices produce thrust along their axis regardless of the direction of gravity—consistent with electrohydrodynamic effects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5Fgravity%5Fcontrol%5Fpropulsion%5Fresearch\#Aerospace%5FResearch%5FLaboratories%5F.28ARL.29) [States gravity control propulsion research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5Fgravity%5Fcontrol%5Fpropulsion%5Fresearch\#Aerospace%5FResearch%5FLaboratories%5F.28ARL.29)”; Wikipedia, “[Anti-gravity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-gravity\#Thomas%5FTownsend%5FBrown%27s%5Fgravitator)”; Ansel E. Talbert, “[Scientists Taking First](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94024431/) [Steps](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94024431/) [in Assault on Gravity Barrier,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94024450/)” Miami Herald, November 30, 1955, pp. 1–2; Ansel E. Talbert, “[Future](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94024507/) [Planes May Defy Gravity and Air Lift in Space Travels,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94024507/)” Miami Herald, December 2, 1955, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_2779 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7607 (05B15F19) Date: 12/6/1955 Description: MATS Pilot Tracks Unidentifed Target (BBU) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [551206](http://www.nicap.org/551206mariannadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marianna, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1899 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7608 (A567A743) Date: 12/6/1955 Description: Several people watched a cigar-shaped object with long rows of brilliant, reddish body lights, moving slowly south. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ashfield & Greenfield, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1898 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7609 (3A967C48) Date: 12/9/1955 Description: A bluish white elongated UFO was sighted by a married couple from a terrace of an apartment building in Boonton, New Jersey at 7:00 p.m. as it slowly descended toward the ground above the Empire State Building and the New York City skyline. After several seconds it "blinked out as if lights had been turned off." At 7:30 p.m. a luminous green, bullet-shaped UFO was seen from the New Jersey Turnpike as it flew to the west. It had two round portholes that gave off a white light. It was in full view before it vanished. "It was there and then it wasn't," said the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence New York Newsletter, February 1956, p. 29 & January 1956, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_8281 Source: Johnson ### Event 7610 (19664EC9) Date: 12/11/1955 Description: 9:00 p.m. Near Jacksonville, Florida, two airline pilots and ground observers see a fast-maneuvering, orange-red, round object, with ground radar tracking. Two USN jets on a practice night-flying mission are vectored to the object by a Naval Air Station Jacksonville controller. On approach the object suddenly rises up to 30,000 feet then dives back down in a circle, buzzing the jets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 232 Source ID: Eberhart_2780 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7611 (35EA2DF3) Date: 12/11/1955 Description: Fast maneuvering orange-red round object, with ground radar tracking (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jacksonville (near), FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1900 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7612 (97E4BBC1) Date: 12/12/1955 Description: In 1955 there were three UFO reports from London, Hertfordshire, and West Sussex, England. At 6:45 a.m. an observer in the Beckenham neighborhood of London felt the urge to look up, and then watched a golden colored disc streak across the sky. At 4:40 p.m. a bright silver disc curved down and then flew back up into the clouds over Hitchin, England. It then shot away to the southwest very fast. Twenty minutes later a 25-foot wide golden disc streaked across the sky in Horsham, England heading toward the south. It flew at an estimated altitude of 2500 feet and vanished quickly from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Spaceships, pp. 128-130 Source ID: Johnson_8352 Source: Johnson ### Event 7613 (81682FCF) Date: 12/13/1955 Description: B-47 Tracks Oblong Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [551213](http://www.nicap.org/551213caddolake%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caddo Lake, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1901 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7614 (952280C1) Date: 12/17/1955 Description: (McDonald list) Radar Ops Tracked Target For 13 Minutes / Up To 3000 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [551217](http://www.nicap.org/551217laguna%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Laguna, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1902 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7615 (FDCC4ED0) Date: 12/21/1955 Time: 111 PM Description: Witness: Roberta V. Jacobs. One round, very bright gold, domed disc made a short climb, rotated, hovered and then accelerated during the 6-8 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Caribou, Maine Source ID: BerlinerBBU_398 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7616 (488E3558) Date: 12/21/1955 Description: Round, very bright gold, domed disc in short climb, then rotate (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 3893) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caribou, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_1903 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7617 (6AAECE10) Date: 12/21/1955 Description: From her bedroom window in Washburn, Maine Mrs. Jacobs watched a reddish-orange glare resolve into a golden domed elliptical saucer at eleven o’clock at night. In the lower part of the dome she could see figures moving about, like people "walking in front of a light." The experience made her feel nauseous, and at the same time she had a definite feeling of being watched. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 19; Project Blue Book cases counted in official statistics, case no. 3893; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 71 Source ID: Johnson_8545 Source: Johnson ### Event 7618 (0A353540) Date: 12/29/1955 Description: Shiny object hovered, sped away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Britain, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1904 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1956 (Back to Top) ### Event 7619 (B1421DCB) Date: 1956 Description: Much UFO activity in South America Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: South America Source ID: Maj2_143 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7620 (1125CE70) Date: 1956 Description: [Gray Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%5FBarker) publishes They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, a bestselling book about the supposed [Albert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender) [K. Bender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FK.%5FBender) mystery and his encounter with three men in black. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gray Barker, [They Knew Too Much about Flying](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/mode/2up) [Saucers](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/graybarkertheyknewtoomuchaboutflyingsaucers%5F201910/mode/2up) University Books, 1956; Clark III 178, 190; David Halperin, “[‘They Knew Too Much’: The Book That](https://mshorror.com/they-knew-too-much-the-book-that-almost-scared-me-under-my-bed/) [\(Almost\) Scared Me under My Bed,](https://mshorror.com/they-knew-too-much-the-book-that-almost-scared-me-under-my-bed/)” Ms.Horror.com, March 16, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_2782 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7621 (713F991C) Date: 1956 Description: E. R. Rayburn, Twin Falls, Idaho see saucer capture 400lbs steer from farm Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Twin Falls, Idaho Attributes: cattle mutilation Source ID: Maj2_146 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7622 (6B7BCCC8) Date: 1956 Description: Late 1956; Castle AFB, CA, luminous elliptical object and two F-86's, radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: NICAP: [560000](http://www.nicap.org/late56dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Castle AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1905 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7623 (DE47895D) Date: 1956 Description: [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) publishes The UFO Annual, an anthology of newspaper and magazine articles about UFOs, and UFO and the Bible, the first book-length attempt to connect biblical miracles with space visitors. Jessup is the first writer to use the term “ufology” in his introduction \(dated December 31, 1955\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Morris K. Jessup, The UFO Annual, Citadel, 1956; Clark III 106, 634–635 Source ID: Eberhart_2783 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7624 (66399C97) Date: 1956 Description: Late 1956; Castle AFB, CA. Luminous ellipt. object and two F-86's (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: NICAP: [560000](http://www.nicap.org/56latedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Modesto (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1906 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7625 (4D76183E) Date: 1956 Description: 1956, Late; Bet. N. & S. Dakata. Filmed by AF crew (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [560000](http://www.nicap.org/560000dakotasdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North/South Dakota Airspace, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_1907 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7626 (15B14B9D) Date: 1956 Description: Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-45” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Uranium enrichment) Type: atomic plant Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_559 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7627 (9323E68A) Date: 1956 Description: RB-36H Encounter / Gnd radar Track of UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [560000](http://www.nicap.org/560000dakotasdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North/South Dakota Airspace, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_1908 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7628 (29FDCA4B) Date: 1956 Description: According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, Russian intel chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to discuss the UFO problem. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the issue top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses, the media and UFO research groups. Type: secret meeting Reference: [“The Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69](https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Gene-Interactions-Humanity-Visitors/dp/0958704538) See also: 1955 Source ID: Maj2_558 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7629 (0D54E80C) Date: 1956 Description: Fall/Winter 1956; North/South, Dakota, Military a/c CE (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [560000](http://www.nicap.org/560000dakotasdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North/South Dakota Airspace, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_1909 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7630 (051CA587) Date: 1956 Alternate date: 1957 Description: 7:45 p.m. W. J. Kyncy is aboard the destroyer [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FMaddox%5F%28DD-731%29) [Maddox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FMaddox%5F%28DD-731%29) in the North Pacific between Midway Island and Japan. He and some 30 other sailors on the stern see a steady orange light coming toward them at about 50 mph. It stops for 2 minutes about 1,300 feet away at about 400 feet altitude. It begins moving again at 35 mph then blinks out after 5–10 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1982\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_2786 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7631 (48C8AA18) Date: 1956 Description: Fishermen at lake Ozero Blagodati, Primorsky Krai, Russia, allegedly see an enormous silvery object with an apparent diameter of 4,900 feet rapidly flying above them at 1,960 feet. It resembles a hat with red portholes around its rim and is accompanied by loud grinding sounds and black smoke. The object emits numerous thin metal threads resembling horse hairs that the fishermen pick up the next day. The object crashes into the Sea of Japan. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 113–114 Source ID: Eberhart_2785 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7632 (A5E6DD51) Date: 1956 Description: Much UFO activity and interest in Mexico. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Mexico Source ID: Maj2_142 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7633 (AECDFCD6) Date: 1956 Description: Soviet polar aviator [Valentin Akkuratov](https://www.peoples.ru/military/aviation/valentin%5Fakkuratov/) is flying a Tupolev Tu-4 aircraft near Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland, performing strategic ice reconnaissance. Dropping down below the clouds, he sees an unknown object moving on the port side parallel to his course. It looks like a “large pearl-colored lens with wavy, pulsating edges.” Thinking it is a US aircraft, Akkuratov heads back into the clouds. After flying for 40 minutes to the southeast, the cloud cover ends and Akkuratov encounters it again. He decides to approach the object, which changes course and paces the airplane at the same speed. After 15–18 minutes, the UFO sharply alters course, speeds ahead, and rises quickly until it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Felix Ziegel, “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210023618901&view=1up&seq=103&skin=2021)” Soviet Life, no. 137 \(February 1968\): 27– 29; Good Above, [pp. 226–227](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/226/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2784 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7634 (F208A9AB) Date: 1956 Description: French ufologist [Aimé Michel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9%5FMichel) publishes The Truth about Flying Saucers, one of the best early books on UFOs, originally published in French in 1954. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, The Truth about Flying Saucers, Criterion, 1956; “[First](https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2012/02/first-read-aime-michels-truth-about.html) [Read: Aimé Michel’s ‘The Truth about Flying Saucers,’](https://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2012/02/first-read-aime-michels-truth-about.html)” Magonia, February 25, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_2781 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7635 (EED61FD2) Date: 1/1956 Description: [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)’s Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is published. His candid opinions about UFOs contradict many of the positions taken on UFOs by the Air Force. He has personally seen the Estimate of the Situation, he confirms the existence of [Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm)’s motion study, and he first describes the basic contours of the Robertson Panel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, [The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/page/n5/mode/2up) Doubleday, 1956; Michael D. Swords, \[Review\], JUFOS 3 \(1991\): 179–183 Source ID: Eberhart_2788 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7636 (B2D88B75) Date: 1/1956 Description: The US Army Chemical Corps begins classified human experiments at its Edgewood Arsenal facility at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The Medical Research Volunteer Program \(1956–1975\) is driven by intelligence requirements and the need for new and more effective interrogation techniques. Overall, about 7,000 soldiers take part in these experiments that involve exposure to more than 250 different chemicals. Some of the volunteers exhibit symptoms at the time of exposure to these agents but long-term follow-up is not planned as part of the Department of Defense studies. The experiments are abruptly terminated by the Army in late 1975 amid an atmosphere of scandal and recrimination as lawmakers accuse researchers of questionable ethics. Many official government reports and civilian lawsuits follow in the wake of the controversy. The chemical agents include VX, sarin, mustard gas, atropine, scopolamine, 2-PAM chloride, LSD, PCP, cannabinoids, riot control agents, alcohol, and caffeine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Edgewood Arsenal human experiments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood%5FArsenal%5Fhuman%5Fexperiments)” Source ID: Eberhart_2787 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7637 (5BBF3EE1) Date: 1/5/1956 Description: At midday two soldiers at Fort Wood, Missouri saw a big silver balloon like object fly by slowly. No balloons were scheduled for release in the area at that time. The object rotated, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4893 Source ID: Johnson_113 Source: Johnson ### Event 7638 (91C4B1EC) Date: 1/8/1956 Description: At nine o’clock in the morning on Robertson Island, Antarctica a photograph was taken by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition of two cigar-shaped objects, hanging in a vertical position in the sky for 64 minutes. The objects were estimated to be 150 meters in length, and their presence was reportedly confirmed by radar. They shot away at an estimated speed of 40,000 kilometers per hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1968, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_191 Source: Johnson ### Event 7639 (6D062F0A) Date: 1/9/1956 Description: The CIA’s Applied Science Division takes on the job of holding UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 135](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2789 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7640 (5C72C52E) Date: 1/11/1956 Description: Culpepper and Complaer. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) F-89 Has Radar LockOn (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560111](http://www.nicap.org/560111wurtsmithdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wurtsmith AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1910 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7641 (4014A211) Date: 1/12/1956 Description: At 5:30 a.m. a scarlet colored object streaked across the northeast sky in Kuantan, Malaysia and then dove into the sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, case # 17 Source ID: Johnson_275 Source: Johnson ### Event 7642 (F9A9AE97) Date: 1/13/1956 Description: UFO researcher [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) receives a letter from someone in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, who calls himself [Carlos Miguel Allende](https://www.de173.com/carlos-miguel-allende-carl-allen/) \[a pseudonym of Carl Allen\], who alludes to a US Navy experiment to make a destroyer invisible in October 1943 \[the bogus Philadelphia Experiment\]. He writes another letter postmarked May 25 that suggests hypnosis or truth serum might bring out more details. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Philadelphia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%5FExperiment\#Origins%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fstory) [Experiment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%5FExperiment\#Origins%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fstory)”; Clark III 95; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “[The Carl Allen Letters,](https://www.de173.com/carl-allen/)” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, January 31, 2001 Source ID: Eberhart_2790 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7643 (1CAF092D) Date: 1/14/1956 Description: A 51-year-old amateur astronomer in Houston, Texas named Johnson reported sighting four gray ovoid objects flying by at 10:15 p.m. in linear echelon formation, toward Ellington Field. They made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS files, letter dated April 16, 1966; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956 (Volume 6), p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_310 Source: Johnson ### Event 7644 (00DACFFC) Date: 1/15/1956 Description: An object the apparent size of a washtub is seen falling into the sea 150 feet offshore Busan, South Korea, by large numbers of townspeople. The glow continues for an hour and a half before the object sinks. Korean and American military authorities are alerted. Military Police Cpl. Ben Elliot observes the glow, which resembles burning alcohol or benzene. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Samuel Norman, “Recent UFOs over Japan,” Fate 9, no. 6 \(June 1956\): 22–24 Source ID: Eberhart_2791 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7645 (FFE6B3AC) Date: 1/17/1956 Description: Disc-shaped UFO seen at close range; rings of light visible on bottom. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orangeville, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1911 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7646 (458C0C0D) Date: 1/18/1956 Description: Object With No Trail Zooms Over Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 1, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560118](http://www.nicap.org/560118itazuke%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Itazuke AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1912 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7647 (0C208B7E) Date: 1/18/1956 Description: A 50-meter wide glowing object dove into the ocean north of Maiqueta, Venezuela on this night. A large-scale search of the area found nothing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July 1956 Source ID: Johnson_365 Source: Johnson ### Event 7648 (048A5FE2) Date: 1/22/1956 Description: [Jonathan N. Leonard](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/16/archives/jonathan-n-leonard-dies-at-71-author-and-time-science-editor.html) reviews [Harold T. Wilkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FT.%5FWilkins)’s Flying Saucers Uncensored, [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s Flying Saucer Conspiracy, and [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)’s Report on UFOs in the New York Times. He calls Wilkins a mystic, Keyhoe “repetitious and unconvincing,” and Ruppelt \(most unfairly\) “the longest and dullest of the current crop of saucer books.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jonathan N. Leonard, “[Visitors from Space,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/01/22/90749911.pdf)” New York Times Book Review, January 22, 1956, p. 25 Source ID: Eberhart_2792 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7649 (1DEB08AE) Date: 1/22/1956 Description: PanAm engineer saw large elongated object, emitting yellow flame \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf of Mexico (nr. New Orleans), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1913 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7650 (48A609BF) Date: 1/22/1956 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a Pan American Airways flight engineer named Mueller sighted a saw long cylindrical object with yellow exhaust while flying not far from New Orleans over the Gulf of Mexico from Louisiana to Florida. The UFO flew to the east into the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January 1957; Paris Flamonde, UFO Exist!, p. 435; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 246; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_409 Source: Johnson ### Event 7651 (9CF22962) Date: 1/24/1956 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Object Tracked For 12 Minutes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560124](http://www.nicap.org/560124wheelus%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wheelus AFB, Tripoli, Libya Source ID: NICAP_DB_1914 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7652 (B1C6EA68) Date: 1/26/1956 Description: On this afternoon a woman in her driveway in Toledo, Ohio spotted a silver, pancake-shaped disc that flew by smoothly for about a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence New York Newsletter, February 1956, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956 (volume 6), p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_516 Source: Johnson ### Event 7653 (A43345B2) Date: 1/30/1956 Description: At 9:30 p.m. in Lamar, nine miles east of Holdenville, Oklahoma a low flying, 120 foot long ovoid object illuminated an area 15 acres in size; it then pursued four witnesses in a car for 16 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_598 Source: Johnson ### Event 7654 (A3E2B946) Date: 1/31/1956 Description: 3:24 p.m. Kentucky National Guard pilot Lt. Col. [Lee J. Merkel](http://www.nicap.org/reports2/Merkel%20Lee%20J.pdf) is flying an F-51 Mustang out of Standiford Field \[now Louisville International Airport\] in Louisville, Kentucky, on a maintenance test flight. His aircraft crashes 10 miles north of Bedford, Indiana, following some confusing information from various sources about an unknown radar target or visual observation in the vicinity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 62–63](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/62/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 215–](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/214/mode/2up) [216](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/214/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2793 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7655 (6FAF82E8) Date: 2/1956 Description: Test Pilot Chases Disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [5602XX](http://www.nicap.org/5602XXfishguard%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nr. Fishguard, S. Wales Source ID: NICAP_DB_1917 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7656 (62CB82F9) Date: 2/2/1956 Description: Radar Tracks Objects In Three Instances (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: NICAP: [560202](http://www.nicap.org/560202campirwin%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Camp Irwin, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1915 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7657 (1926541E) Date: 2/5/1956 Description: Soviet atomic bomb test R-5M. The RDS-4 comprised the warhead of the R-5M, the first medium-range ballistic missile in the world, which was tested with a live warhead for the first and only time on February 5, 1956. Type: atomic Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Soviet_nuclear_tests) Location: Kapustin Yar Atomic type: aboveground Atomic KT: .3 Source ID: Maj2_560 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7658 (D9F59187) Date: 2/7/1956 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Biloxi (Keesler AFB), MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1918 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7659 (BF65D82D) Date: 2/7/1956 Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture to a discussion group in Coral Gables, FL Type: lecture Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) Location: Coral Gables, FL Source ID: Maj2_561 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7660 (66F3E7F5) Date: 2/8/1956 Description: Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers Type: lecture Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: Maj2_562 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7661 (0FFA5355) Date: 2/9/1956 Description: In a memo, “Responsibility for Unidentified Flying Objects,” the CIA’s Applied Science Division retains files for incoming raw reports that might provide information on foreign weapons R&D. Other \(more significant?\) reports are forwarded to the Fundamental Sciences Area for review of information on foreign science developments. Still others are to be destroyed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 135–136](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/134/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2795 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7662 (CBB79747) Date: 2/9/1956 Description: 1:30 a.m. Patrolmen Marvin Poer and John Freeland see a ball of fire plunge behind the breakwater at Redondo Beach, California. It bobs on the water’s surface before sinking into 15 feet of water some 300 feet off the shore. Five county lifeguards row out to look for it and retrieve a US Army Signal Corps battery light that was dropped from an airplane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sea Cools Mystery of Hot Disk,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100118264/)” Los Angeles \(Calif.\) Mirror-News, February 9, 1956, p. 8; “[Sea-Saucer or Searchlight?](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20II%201955-56R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 2, no. 12 \(March 2, 1956\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_2794 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7663 (45C10D40) Date: 2/10/1956 Description: On this night in Costa Mesa, California two flame-colored discs hovered over the Marine Corp Air Base for two minutes. They flew away when approached by a plane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1956 Source ID: Johnson_795 Source: Johnson ### Event 7664 (8AC1F32A) Date: 2/11/1956 Description: C-124 Encounters "Jack O'Lantern" At 1,000 Knots (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560211](http://www.nicap.org/560211sjapan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Japan (S of), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1919 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7665 (FB248A96) Date: 2/11/1956 Description: In Bastrop, Louisiana at 4:00 p.m. at least five silver disc-shaped objects emitted a "smoke screen," darted rapidly, then ejected smaller satellite objects that dispersed in all directions." The duration of the sighting was 45 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, May 1956, citing a newspaper account Source ID: Johnson_820 Source: Johnson ### Event 7666 (33B9D762) Date: 2/12/1956 Description: Green & Red Object Circles Jet, Tracked on Radar (BBU 3969) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 3969) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [560212](http://www.nicap.org/560212goosedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1920 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7667 (1C9EE1BD) Date: 2/12/1956 Time: 11:25 PM Description: Witnesses: F-89 pilot Bowen, radar observer Crawford. One green and red object rapidly circled the aircraft while being tracked on radar during 1 minute sighting. No further details. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_399 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7668 (E6405185) Date: 2/12/1956 Description: 10:55 p.m. Two F-89D fighters flying at 20,000 feet, one crewed by pilot Bowen and radar observer Crawford, suddenly see a green and red object 40 miles southeast of Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador. It rapidly circles thir jet, and the other fighter tracks it on radar but cannot see it visually. About 15 minutes later, operators at Goose Bay paint a stationary target about 40 miles southwest of the base. The two pilots vectot toward the object and obtain radar contact, but it vanishes when they get within 8 miles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 233; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 262 Source ID: Eberhart_2796 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7669 (392EF11D) Date: 2/15/1956 Description: While a large luminous disc hovered over Keansburg, New Jersey in Monmouth County at 9:30 p.m. two small satellite objects were ejected from it and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York Newsletter, May 1956, p. 4; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_922 Source: Johnson ### Event 7670 (2D84B561) Date: 2/15/1956 Description: At 12:40 p.m. a brown cigar-shaped object was seen flying on a straight and level course over Riverside, California by a US Navy enlisted man named Taylor. The sighting lasted eight minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 027 Source ID: Johnson_921 Source: Johnson ### Event 7671 (7DE324B5) Date: 2/15/1956 Description: F9F Encounters Brown Cigar (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560215](http://www.nicap.org/560215riverside%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Riverside, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1922 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7672 (81083768) Date: 2/17/1956 Description: Paris, France, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paris, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1923 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7673 (5204AB32) Date: 2/17/1956 Description: Multiple radar sets at Orly Airport, Paris, France tracked an unknown blip for four hours beginning at 10:50 p.m. It was twice the size of and airliner, and made 2,000 mph bursts of speed. A visual sighting of the object was briefly made by a pilot landing at the airfield. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence-NY Newsletter, February 1956, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 17; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 260 Source ID: Johnson_959 Source: Johnson ### Event 7674 (EDCACB05) Date: 2/17/1956 Description: In Anderson, South Carolina at 4:15 p.m. several thousand frantic birds took off and flew off >S, some died in the process. A silvery wheel-shaped UFO was sighted by a separate witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Anderson (SC) Independent, February 21, 1956; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, April 3, 1956 Source ID: Johnson_960 Source: Johnson ### Event 7675 (BC89D671) Date: 2/17/1956 Description: 10:50 p.m. Air traffic controllers at Orly Airport, Paris, France, see a target appear on their radar screens that is twice the size of a conventional aircraft. It cruises around, hovers, and accelerates at fantastic speeds, and is tracked for a total of 4 hours. When it first appears on radar it is directly above Gometz-le-Châtel, Seine et Oise, and 30 seconds later it is 19 miles away, having moved at nearly 2,500 mph. A second, smaller target appears, identified as an Air France DC-3 airliner flying over the Les Mureaux military base, Yvelines, at 4,500 feet \(800 feet lower than the UFO\). Orly radios the pilot to alert him to the unidentified target. Radio Officer Beaupertuis sees the object through a window on the starboard side of the plane—enormous in size, indistinct in outline, and lit in some areas with a red glow. Capt. Michel Desavoye confirms the sighting, saying he and the crew watch the object for 30 seconds and are certain it is no civil airliner. The sighting duration is nearly 3 hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Large UFO Tracked on Ground Radar](http://www.nicap.org/560218parisdir.htm)”; “[A Saucer Shows Up over Paris and Creates a Stir in a Radar Room and](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CMar-Apr%2CV%202%2CN%202.pdf) [a Cockpit,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CMar-Apr%2CV%202%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 2 \(March/April 1956\): 3; Patrick Gross, “[Orly Airport, France, February](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/orly1956.htm) [1956](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/orly1956.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2797 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7676 (167C349C) Date: 2/18/1956 Description: A round dot change color every 30 secs from white to red to green (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montelimar Airdrome (N of), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1924 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7677 (735AB897) Date: 2/18/1956 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a golden colored disc-shaped UFO with haze around it circled slowly over the treetops in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It then darted into the air and out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping Source ID: Johnson_979 Source: Johnson ### Event 7678 (9F3898E1) Date: 2/18/1956 Description: [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) receives a letter from [Lord Hugh Dowding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FDowding) that says he doesn’t think there is an official “British attitude to UFOs.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 165 Source ID: Eberhart_2798 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7679 (7D07B5E3) Date: 2/18/1956 Description: Light red blinking light flying erratically, tracked by ground radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560218](http://www.nicap.org/560218parisdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orly Airport, Paris, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_1925 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7680 (1E97FC80) Date: 2/19/1956 Time: 6:07 AM Description: Witnesses: crew of Eastern Airlines Super Constellation. One intense white light, moving 4-5 times the speed of the airplane, was evaded by the pilot. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Houston, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_400 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7681 (359AE3E2) Date: 2/19/1956 Description: An Eastern Airlines flight crew reported that a white nocturnal light buzzed their plane over Houston, Texas at 6:07 p.m., and then paced them for 28 minutes. A Project Blue Book unknown. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book "unidentified" case #3977; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1992, p. 15; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_994 Source: Johnson ### Event 7682 (805C1CD2) Date: 2/19/1956 Description: Object Evades Crew of Airliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 3977) Reference: NICAP: [560219](http://www.nicap.org/560219houston%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1926 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7683 (DD2BFC1D) Date: 2/23/1956 Description: In the middle of the afternoon, a blue luminous disc-shaped object was watched by an Army Sergeant for 15 minutes in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It made a loud rumbling noise, and left behind a white trail of smoke. That evening several French soldiers near Lamoriciere, Algeria watched a huge UFO hover and flash for three hours. It had a ring of portholes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 42; Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York Newsletter, February 1956, p. 6; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4935, citing LDLN Lecteurs Source ID: Johnson_1061 Source: Johnson ### Event 7684 (6B3D0E7A) Date: 2/29/1956 Description: At 6:00 a.m. two witnesses in Donelson, Tennessee (a neighborhood of Nashville) watched in astonishment as a 12 inch wide metallic disc flew past their window, banged into a garage, and then flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4936; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956 (volume 6), p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_1187 Source: Johnson ### Event 7685 (A7F5555D) Date: 3/1956 Description: Mechanix Illustrated publishes a story on the Avro Canada MX-1794 \(Y-2, or Silver Bug\) vertical take-off gyroplane under development by the US Air Force. The cover proclaims, “U.S. Air Force Reveals Our Flying Saucer.” Through 1958, Avro spends $2.5 million and the USAF $5.4 million funding the project. Numerous models are built, and wind-tunnel testing is undertaken at MIT and Wright-Patterson AFB. The design includes eight Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojet engines, a very large center rotor/impeller with Lundstrom compressor turbines, with the cockpit mounted in the top center. Control is achieved through eight small exhausts at the outer edge, directed either through the top or bottom, in addition to the main turbine exhaust through the bottom center of the craft. A multiengine test rig is built and tested in 1956, resulting in powerful thrust, a great deal of noise, and vibrations. In 1957, the USAF provides additional funding to extend the project, by then highly classified and designated as Weapon System 606A. The concept developed is for a circular-winged, supersonic aircraft. Over 1,000 hours of wind-tunnel testing are performed. Drawings developed by Avro show an aircraft that appears to be a merging of a flying saucer with more conventional fuselage shapes—a tailless aircraft with circular wings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada\#Supersonic%5FAvrodynes)”; Willy Ley, “[How the Flying Saucer Works,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Mechanix%20Illustrated/1956%2003%2000%5FMechanix%20Illustrated%5FWilly%20Ley.pdf)” Mechanix Illustrated 52 \(March 1956\): 78–81; Good Need, [p. 215](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/214/mode/2up); Charles Mandel, “[A Saucer from Mars? Nope, Canada,](https://www.wired.com/2001/07/a-saucer-from-mars-nope-canada/)” Wired, July 5, 2001 Source ID: Eberhart_2799 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7686 (444DD66C) Date: 3/3/1956 Description: Science fiction movie “Forbidden Planet” is released Type: movie Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_563 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7687 (55DFC319) Date: 3/3/1956 Description: 4:40 PM PST, (04/0040Z) 1st Lt. Donald A. Stoner flying an F-86D at 22,000 feet on an air defense mission saw a target on his radar that moved up the scope rapidly and faded. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560303](http://www.nicap.org/560303spokanedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Spokane, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1928 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7688 (9A3D064E) Date: 3/3/1956 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560303](http://www.nicap.org/560303spokanedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Spokane, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1927 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7689 (CDA33B2A) Date: 3/4/1956 Description: In 1956 a 3-meter long metallic blimp with 3 or more windows was sighted in La Guaira, Venezuela at about 10 o'clock in the morning. It flew over the hills silently and slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin Source ID: Johnson_1290 Source: Johnson ### Event 7690 (458708B3) Date: 3/5/1956 Description: UFO formation photographed. (UFOE, VIII) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Honolulu, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1929 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7691 (0769ED6A) Date: 3/10/1956 Description: British pilot [Peter Twiss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FTwiss) reaches an official airspeed of 1,132 mph in a Fairey Delta 2 over Chichester, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Peter Twiss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FTwiss)” Source ID: Eberhart_2800 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7692 (A5100862) Date: 3/13/1956 Description: At 9:30 a.m. a silent, silver colored disc flew over Ponta Grossa, Brazil and off to the west, making wild maneuvers in the sky. It flew away with a bang. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4941, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1956 Supplement, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_1449 Source: Johnson ### Event 7693 (B550390B) Date: 3/13/1956 Description: At 3:00 a.m. a violet colored saucer-shaped object made several passes over the city of Barquismeto, Venezuela. There were more than 17 witnesses who reported the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_1448 Source: Johnson ### Event 7694 (408A8324) Date: 3/16/1956 Description: [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) receives a letter from Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) that ends his affiliation with ADC. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_2801 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7695 (500FED83) Date: Spring 1956 Description: The Flying Saucer Discussion Group begins meeting on a more-or-less monthly basis at the YWCA in Washington, D.C. It is begun by Mrs. [Walton C. “Clara” John](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70322188/clara-louise-john)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70322188/clara-louise-john) the publisher of a mimeographed zine called The Little Listening Post, which often covers UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Toward a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/067%20OCTOBER%201971.pdf) [NICAP Began,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/067%20OCTOBER%201971.pdf)” UFO Investigator, October 1971, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_2802 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7696 (947ECFA4) Date: 3/23/1956 Description: While walking along the river bank in Grand Ledge, Michigan at three o'clock in the morning a 27-year-old lab technician named Bassett "felt the presence of something" and looked up. He saw a rapidly descending metallic sphere that gave off an orange glow, then stopped just ten feet away and only four feet above the ground. It made no sound. He "lost all track of time" and felt the UFO had tried to make contact with him. There was possible missing time associated with this case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerome Clark, The Anomalist, April 2000, p. 21, citing the Lansing State Journal, March 23, 1956 Source ID: Johnson_1621 Source: Johnson ### Event 7697 (B3B796C3) Date: 3/23/1956 Description: Object Trailing Sparks Observed By Aircrew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [560323](http://www.nicap.org/560323goosebay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1930 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7698 (19C49A21) Date: 3/26/1956 Description: At 9:17 PM. A strange blip appeared on Westover tower radar scopes. Jets were quickly scrambled, then vectored toward the circling UFO. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [560326](http://www.nicap.org/560326westoverdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westover AFB, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1931 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7699 (2AC838FD) Date: 3/31/1956 Description: Three round lights moved erratically and silently over Miami, Florida at 9:00 p.m. in a perfect equilateral triangle formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History - 1956: January-April, p. 57; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185 Source ID: Johnson_1760 Source: Johnson ### Event 7700 (F4FF3D92) Date: 4/1956 Description: An annotated copy of the paperback edition of [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup)’s The Case for the UFO \(1955\) is sent in a manila envelope from Seminole, Texas, to Adm. [Frederick R. Furth](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49185633/frederick-r-furth), chief of the Office of Naval Research. The annotations are written in three different colors of ink, apparently by three persons, A, B, and Jemi, who claim to know a great deal about the UFO intelligences. They mention space people, underwater cities, force fields, and much more. The book falls into the possession of Maj. [Darrell L. Ritter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191296509/darrell-lloyd-ritter)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191296509/darrell-lloyd-ritter) USMC aeronautical project officer at ONR, who brings it to the attention of ONR Capt. Sidney Sherby and ONR Projects Officer Cmdr. [George W.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49206910/george-w-hoover) [Hoover](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/us-navy-commander-reveals-roswell)[,](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/us-navy-commander-reveals-roswell) who become interested and get permission \(as long as it does not involve official naval personnel\) to send the copy to the Varo Manufacturing Company, in Garland, Texas, which has contracts with the military. Varo publishes 25 spiral-bound copies of the book in black and red ink, which shows the annotations. Meanwhile, Jessup has been receiving at least two strange letters \(January 13 and May 25, 1956\) from someone calling himself [Carlos Miguel Allende](https://www.de173.com/carlos-miguel-allende-carl-allen/)[,](https://www.de173.com/carlos-miguel-allende-carl-allen/) which claim that as a result of a strange experiment at sea utilizing principles of Einstein’s Field Theory, a destroyer \(identified by some as the [USS Eldridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FEldridge) and others by the [USS Engstrom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FEngstrom), which were not in the Philadelphia Navy Yard at the time\) and all its crew became invisible in October 1943, but the sailors showed side effects. Allende says he has witnessed all of this. Sherby talks to Jessup about the Varo edition; Jessup isn’t much interested but tells him about the Allende letters, which talk about the same things as the annotations and are obviously written by the same person. [Gray Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%5FBarker)’s Saucerian Press publishes the Varo edition in July 1972. Sometime in the 1970s, Carlos Allende appears at APRO headquarters and confesses that the whole annotations thing was a hoax, but he surfaces a few years later saying that the CIA coerced him into saying it was a hoax. In the late 1970s, [Robert A. Goerman](https://robertgoerman.wixsite.com/paranormal) identifies Allende as Carl Allen, who lives near him in Pennsylvania. In the October 1980 issue of Fate, Goerman explains the entire mess, saying that Allen had written all three of the annotation types. [Bill Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) and [Charles Berlitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FBerlitz) take the whole thing seriously enough to write The Philadelphia Experiment in 1979, which links the force fields back to [T. Townsend Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FTownsend%5FBrown), later the founder of NICAP. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Morris K. Jessup, The Case for the UFO, [annotated Varo ed.](https://archive.org/details/THECASEFORTHEUFOVaroEditionM.K.Jessup/mode/2up), Saucerian, 1972; Wikipedia, “[Philadelphia Experiment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%5FExperiment)”; Ivan T. Sanderson, “[Jessup and the Allende Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Pursuit%20-%20SITU%20%28Sanderson%29/Pursuit%20-%20No%2004%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%204%20-%201968.pdf)” Pursuit 1, no. 4 \(September 30, 1968\): 8–10; William L. Moore, with Charles Berlitz, [The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility](https://archive.org/details/philadelphiaexpe00moor), Grosset and Dunlap, 1979; Robert A. Goerman, “Alias Carlos Allende,” Fate 33, no. 10 \(October 1980\): 69–75; Clark III 95–97; Kevin D. Randle, “[The Allende Letters,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2009/07/allende-letters.html)” A Different Perspective, July 5, 2009; Kevin D. Randle, “[Chasing Sources: The Philadelphia Experiment,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/08/chasing-sources-philadelphia-experiment.html)” A Different Perspective, August 9, 2016; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “[Carlos Miguel Allende or Carl Meredith Allen or…,](https://www.de173.com/carlos-miguel-allende-carl-allen/)” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, August 13, 2016; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “[The Varo Edition,](https://www.de173.com/the-varo-edition/)” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, December 13, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_2804 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7701 (D41CCD35) Date: 4/1956 Description: USAF Capt. [George T. Gregory](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory) succeeds Capt. [Charles Hardin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49197803/charles-alton-hardin) as director of Project Blue Book. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_2803 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7702 (42DAD03B) Date: 4/3/1956 Description: A flying humanoid, described as a "silver-colored angel" was sighted flying north over a coal and iron plant in Birmingham, Alabama on this night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, May 1956, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_1813 Source: Johnson ### Event 7703 (3B37C71E) Date: 4/3/1956 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) writes a lengthy letter to Sen. [Harry F. Byrd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FF.%5FByrd) \(D-Va.\), criticizing Air Force secrecy, deconstructing Blue Book Special Report no. 14, and requesting a congressional hearing. Keyhoe asks Byrd to forward his letter to the Air Force for a response, but he forwards it himself anyway, as does Byrd. The Air Force’s Gen. [Joe W.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FW.%5FKelly) [Kelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FW.%5FKelly) responds, dismissing both Keyhoe and UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 222–223 Source ID: Eberhart_2806 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7704 (DD1B396F) Date: 4/3/1956 Description: CIA agent [Joseph Bryan III](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993) writes to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt), saying that while he served as special assistant to Air Force Secretary [Thomas Finletter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FK.%5FFinletter) he tried to “have him prepare a statement for release when communication was established with a saucer.” Finletter declines to do so. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers, Rose Press International, 2000, p. 10 Source ID: Eberhart_2805 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7705 (058438B0) Date: 4/4/1956 Time: 3:15 PM Description: Witnesses: Capt. Roy Hall, U.S. Army, ret.; Charles Anderson and others; some observed through a 6" telescope, others through a 55-200x telescope. One fat, oblong object with two lines around its middle, remained stationary for 6 hours. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: McKinney, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_401 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7706 (D78A1548) Date: 4/4/1956 Description: Fat, oblong, stationary object with two lines around its middle (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4050) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McKinney, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1932 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7707 (E4F5E460) Date: 4/4/1956 Description: At 3:15 p.m. retired US Army Captain Roy Hall, Charles Anderson and others in McKinney, Texas observed through telescopes a stationary oblong object. One telescope was a 6" diameter model and the other was a 55-200x telescope. The fat, oblong object had two lines around its middle. It remained stationary for six hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1831 Source: Johnson ### Event 7708 (563C7AA2) Date: 4/5/1956 Description: A flying humanoid was seen in Birmingham, Alabama. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 398 Source ID: Johnson_1845 Source: Johnson ### Event 7709 (C5E68267) Date: 4/5/1956 End date: 5/10/1956 Description: Some 156 overflight missions into Soviet territory by RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft from Thule Air Base in Greenland begin in Operation Home Run. They fly over the North Pole and into Siberia, probing for electronic intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project HOMERUN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FHOMERUN)”; R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie, eds., Early Cold War Overflights, 1950–1956: Symposium Proceedings Held at the Tighe Auditorium, Defense Intelligence Agency, 22–23 February 2001, Volume 1, US National Reconnaissance Office, 2003, [pp. 259–313](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433032546263&view=1up&seq=285&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2807 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7710 (FFD61BD6) Date: 4/5/1956 Description: Circular silver object with no trail or sound descending from 45° elevation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newport (Almy Pond), RI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1933 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7711 (26D552E5) Date: 4/6/1956 Description: Two men saw a silvery, balloon-shaped craft about two meters in diameter land in a field 100 meters away from them, about eight kilometers east of McKinney, Texas. They stopped their car to investigate, but the object took off at fantastic speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pp. 252-253 Source ID: Johnson_1858 Source: Johnson ### Event 7712 (F2961140) Date: 4/6/1956 Description: Two men saw a silvery, balloonshaped craft about 2 m in diameter land in a field 100 m away from them, about 8 km east of McKinney. They stopped their car to investigate, but the object took off at fantastic speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: McKinney, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_379 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7713 (4673987D) Date: 4/6/1956 Description: 6 ft silvery, balloon-shaped craft land in a field 300 ft away from them (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McKinney (5 miles E of ), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1934 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7714 (470C96F7) Date: 4/7/1956 Description: Elizabeth Klarer, South Africa takes ride in saucer, talks to Venusians. Type: ce4 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: South Africa Source ID: Maj2_144 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7715 (B728B26C) Date: 4/7/1956 Description: [Elizabeth Klarer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%5FKlarer) returns to Flying Saucer Hill southwest of Rosetta, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, drawn by a strange compulsion. The spaceship is waiting for her, and Akon takes her in his hands and says, “Not afraid this time?” He leads her on board the craft, which she learns also carries a second alien, who looks much like Akon except he is darker and more muscular. As the ship first rises into space, Akon says he has been watching her for some time. He lets her look at the earth below through a viewing lens that also has x-ray capability. The saucer goes to a “mother ship” filled with friendly space people. At one point a huge video image projected on the wall allows her to view scenes from their home planet, Meton, in the Alpha Centauri system. They serve her a vegetarian meal. Klarer and Akon begin a lifelong romantic attachment that includes sexual activity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Landing in](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CNov-Dec%2CV%202%2CN%206.pdf) [South Africa,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CNov-Dec%2CV%202%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1956\): 2–5; Elizabeth Klarer, [Beyond the Light Barrier](https://archive.org/details/beyond-the-light-barrier), Howard Timmins, 1980; Clark III 657; Paul Seaburn, “[Woman from Earth Claimed to Have Already Been to](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/08/woman-from-earth-claimed-to-have-already-been-to-proxima-b/) [Proxima b,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/08/woman-from-earth-claimed-to-have-already-been-to-proxima-b/)” Mysterious Universe, August 31, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_2808 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7716 (F34DBC54) Date: 4/8/1956 Description: At 11:45 p.m. near Exauroux, France two brothers, ages 18 and 20, saw a red ball of light come down to their left and hover at tree height. It then left at fantastic speed. Three additional witnesses reported it independently. The object was a disc about 7.5 meters in diameter, with a red dome, and rotating fins under it. It emitted a yellow-orange glow. It moved away extremely quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 253 (case 380) Source ID: Johnson_1899 Source: Johnson ### Event 7717 (44CA657D) Date: 4/8/1956 Description: 10:15 p.m. Capt. [Raymond E. Ryan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62514778/raymond-e-ryan)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62514778/raymond-e-ryan) First Officer William Neff, flight attendant Phyllis Reynolds, and many passengers take off on American Airlines Flight 715 from Albany, New York, heading north then nearly due west at 260 mph and 6,000 feet north of Schenectady, when a brilliant white light about 2–3 miles away is spotted about 90° to the left appearing like an airliner heading in to land at Albany. The white light moves about 90° to dead ahead position about 8–10 miles away at high speed, estimated at about 800–1,000 mph, where it changes color to orange and seems to block the airliner’s path or risk collision. It disappears briefly and reappears as an orange light again but standing still ahead of the airliner to the west. The Convair airliner contacts Griffiss AFB \[now Griffiss International Airport\], Rome, New York, where controllers ask Ryan to turn his lights off and on to help identify aircraft. He is told the airliner is seen and the orange UFO are to the south. The airliner is ordered to maintain course to follow the UFO to the west, skipping its scheduled landing at Syracuse after nearly 30 minutes of following the object. The promised fighter jet interception is never seen. The object disappears at high speed to the northwest towards Oswego, New York. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Air Force Requests Plane Loaded with Passengers to Chase UFO](http://www.nicap.org/560408ryan%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 236; “[Cover-Up Suspected in Reported Air–UFO Chase,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/003%20JANUARY%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 3 \(January 1958\): 10–12; UFOEv, [p. 117](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=129&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2809 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7718 (32BB255D) Date: 4/8/1956 Time: 2345 Description: Near Exauroux, two brothers, 18 and 20, saw a red ball to their left coming down and hovering at tree height. It then left at fantastic speed. Three additional witnesses reported it independently. The object was a disk about 7.5 m in diameter, with a red dome, and rotating fins under it. It emitted a yellow-orange glow. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Elboeuf, France Source ID: Magnonia_380 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7719 (7E7E481D) Date: 4/8/1956 Description: Air Force Requests Plane Loaded With Passengers To Chase UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560408](http://www.nicap.org/560408ryan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Schenectady, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1935 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7720 (D4C3803C) Date: 4/9/1956 Description: A round UFO surrounded by a "circle of red, blue and green lights" traveled at a high speed from the northeast to the southwest over Northampton, New York as "rays of penetrating light shot from it." There were three witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Mebane, CSI-NY Newsletter, May 1956; Amsterdam Record, April 12, 1956 Source ID: Johnson_1921 Source: Johnson ### Event 7721 (09A1DF23) Date: 4/16/1956 Description: On U.S. Route 1 in Henderson, North Carolina just before dawn, two government employees saw for a few seconds a large, top-shaped object passing over their car. It was as large as the road and made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 253 Source ID: Johnson_2050 Source: Johnson ### Event 7722 (117DD392) Date: 4/16/1956 Time: 0500 Description: On Route 1, just before dawn, two government employees saw for a few seconds a large, top-shaped object passing over their car. It was as large as the road and made no sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Henderson, North Carolina Source ID: Magnonia_381 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7723 (7450AD5F) Date: 4/16/1956 Description: An interview with [Ryan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62514778/raymond-e-ryan) and Neff is taped on the TV show Meet the Millers. They claim that Griffiss AFB “asked us our next point of landing and to identify the aircraft. I told them Syracuse and identified the flight number. Then they told us: ‘Abandon that next landiat-postcardat-postcardng temporarily. Maintain your course and altitude. We’re sending two jets to intercept the object.’” About the UFO, Ryan says, “This was absolutely real. I’m convinced there was something fantastic up there.” [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) obtains a copy of the tape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, \[[transcript of](http://www.nicap.org/reports/chase2.htm) [Meet the Millers](http://www.nicap.org/reports/chase2.htm) [program,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/chase2.htm) April 16, 1956\] Source ID: Eberhart_2810 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7724 (76E2202B) Date: 4/16/1956 Description: Top-shaped object as large as the road pass over their car, no sound (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Henderson, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1936 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7725 (DA188314) Date: 4/16/1956 Description: Two police officers, Perkins and Williams, in Lexington, Kentucky sighted a small, pale-red light in the western sky at 11:55 p.m. They drove closer to get a better look. After 5 minutes the object disappeared; it left a glow in the sky for a few seconds. The object appeared to change shape, from round to ellipse, and then back to a circle again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lexington Herald, April 17, 1956; Alexander Mebane, CSI-NY News, June 1956, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_2051 Source: Johnson ### Event 7726 (C741A781) Date: 4/27/1956 Description: Five silent cigar-shaped objects flew south over Vuyyuru, Andra Pradesh State, India in a delta formation at 8:30 p.m. They left behind a light contrail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, monthly report April 1956; UFO Nachtrichten, February 1957; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4964, citing Flying Saucer Review, volume 2, number 4 Source ID: Johnson_2365 Source: Johnson ### Event 7727 (AA911122) Date: 4/28/1956 Description: At the third Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention near Landers, California, contactee Dick Miller plays tape recordings allegedly made by Mon-Ka, a Martian, in which he asks Los Angeles radio stations to shut down for two minutes at 10:30 p.m. on November 7, 1956, so that Mon-Ka can speak from his spacecraft. As a publicity gimmick, two radio stations \(KATY \[now KYNS\] of San Luis Obispo and KBIA of Los Angeles\) go off the air at that time, and KTTV in Los Angeles sends up an airplane to watch for the approaching spacecraft. Nothing happens. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 531, 766–767 Source ID: Eberhart_2811 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7728 (A08D85F7) Date: 4/28/1956 Description: Bright white star increase in brightness in the E at “high altitude” (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newport (near), UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1937 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7729 (52F4F5E8) Date: 5/1/1956 Description: 7:55 p.m. Koto Ward, a factory worker, along with many others, see a large bright object flying low over the rooftops in Tokyo, Japan. Turuko Kurihara, in a different location, sees a greenish object at 7:59 p.m. The object makes no noise but causes severe distortion on the TV sets in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 103 Source ID: Eberhart_2814 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7730 (4D375575) Date: 5/1/1956 Description: Air Force Manual section 190-4 goes into effect. It affects all USAF official press releases, statements to Congress and the public, and publications about UFOs. It requires the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Information to “delete all evidence of UFO reality and intelligent control, which would, of course, contradict the Air Force stand that UFOs do not exist.” NICAP is made aware of the regulation in 1962 when former USAF information spokesman Maj. [William T. Coleman](http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1243564/pg1) admits to a NICAP member that Maj. [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker)’s book Flying Saucers and the US Air Force was reviewed under AFM 190-4. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Air Force Reveals Censorship](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/016%20MAR-%20JUL%201962.pdf) [Controls,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/016%20MAR-%20JUL%201962.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 4 \(July 1962\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_2813 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7731 (E279539F) Date: 5/1/1956 Description: USAF Gen. [Joe W. Kelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FW.%5FKelly) writes to Sen. [Harry F. Byrd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FF.%5FByrd) \(D-Va.\) that there is a “total lack of evidence that \[UFOs\] are interplanetary vehicles.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[How about Those Three Secret Reports, General Kelly?](http://www.cufos.org/CSI%5FNY/CSI%5FNY%5F%2317.pdf)” CSI News Letter, no. 5 \(September 21, 1956\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_2812 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7732 (CC51A053) Date: 5/3/1956 Description: At 7:32 a.m. several observers including a Ground Observer Corp member, watched two saucers circle in the sky over Pueblo, Colorado and then "wink out". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files, report dated May 3, 1956; Alexander Mebane, CSI-New York News, June 1956, p. 8; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 2; MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 277 Source ID: Johnson_2468 Source: Johnson ### Event 7733 (CBA14935) Date: 5/3/1956 Description: Hollywood producer [Clarence Greene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%5FGreene) releases a semi-documentary about the UFO phenomenon in the US, U.F.O. [Edward J. Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) [Dewey Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm), and [Albert M. Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) assist in the production. The principal character is Chop, played by Los Angeles Examiner journalist [Tom Towers](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1898817/bio), and examines his career going from skeptical USAF public information officer to Pentagon UFO press spokesman. The film uses only one professional actor, [Harry Morgan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FMorgan)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FMorgan) in a voiceover part. UFO witnesses Delbert Newhouse, [Nicholas Mariana](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2006/05/marianas-ufo-film-one-of-best-produced.html)[,](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2006/05/marianas-ufo-film-one-of-best-produced.html) and [Willis Sperry](http://www.nicap.org/docs/500529%5FWillis%5FT.pdf) play themselves, and Los Angeles policemen stand in for Ruppelt, Fournet, and Gen [William Garland](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107003/brigadier-general-william-m-garland/). The Air Force carefully monitors its reception and readies itself to counter the film’s impact. The documentary analyzes two famous pieces of UFO footage: the Montana film of 1950 and the 1952 UFO Utah film \(both shown for the first time in public\). It concludes with the famous 1952 Washington, D.C., UFO incident, in which Chop played a central role, and recreates his experiences. At the end of the documentary, Chop states his belief that UFOs are a real, physical phenomenon of unknown origin. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[UFO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO%5F%281956%5Ffilm%29) [\(1956 film\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO%5F%281956%5Ffilm%29)”; Internet Movie Database, “[Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131627/)”; Robert Barrow, “Unidentified Flying Objects, Accidental Epic,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 3–6; Robert Barrow, “Tom Towers: The Other Al Chop,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(August 2006\): 17–19; Clark III 1188–1189; Swords 222; Curt Collins, “[Project Blue Book:](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/08/project-blue-book-ufo-motion-picture.html) [UFO,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/08/project-blue-book-ufo-motion-picture.html) [the](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/08/project-blue-book-ufo-motion-picture.html) [Motion Picture,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/08/project-blue-book-ufo-motion-picture.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 24, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_2815 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7734 (7377ABC4) Date: 5/4/1956 Description: 9:30 p.m. Rev. Charles Burmeister, an amateur astronomer, sees five “orange blobs” flying in a U-shape formation east to west at high speed over Marinette, Wisconsin. His son joins him to watch. One more object passes in the same flight path, then a group of six, then one more, followed by another. Blue Book classes the sighting as meteors without even consulting [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) who later says that meteors do not fly in formation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 May–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-May-July.pdf), The Author, 1993, pp. 2–7; Swords 229–230 Source ID: Eberhart_2816 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7735 (1B3E9D94) Date: 5/8/1956 Description: At 9:48 a.m. (EST), a flight of seven objects, silver in color, appearing the size of a baseball held at arm's were observed moving south over Aliquippa, Pennsylvania at an altitude of 5,000 to 15,000 feet at an estimated speed of 36 mph. An F-86D fighter was scrambled, but there were negative sightings. The sighting was visual and electronic by TPS 1D radar. Length of observation was 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: McDonald list, Brad Sparks, Dan Wilson, http://www.nicap.org/waves/1956fullrep.htm Source ID: Johnson_2650 Source: Johnson ### Event 7736 (F0C9C238) Date: 5/8/1956 Description: On this evening a large "mothership" hovered for three hours over Vista, California in San Diego County. Several small objects with square windows were seen orbiting it. They all flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_2651 Source: Johnson ### Event 7737 (B30F13DD) Date: 5/8/1956 Description: (McDonald list) RV Draws Scramble of F-86 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560508](http://www.nicap.org/560508aliquippa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aliquippa, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1938 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7738 (52B9D17B) Date: 5/9/1956 Description: A small disc flew in and out of a larger disc at a low altitude in Jacksonville, Florida shortly after 11:00 p.m. They made no noise. Two girls, Joan Frost and Gertie Wynn, while waiting for a bus, saw two pulsating lights flying horizontally and disappearing. Fifteen minutes later the lights were seen again, stopping at the zenith, merging, and diving to an altitude of only 50 meters. It seemed that the disc-shaped objects had separated and the girls were in fear of being abducted when the bus arrived, and they ran to the vehicle in terror. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, July 1956, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 382, citing APRO Bulletin, March 1959; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 86 Source ID: Johnson_2678 Source: Johnson ### Event 7739 (AA2C11C3) Date: 5/9/1956 Time: 2300 Description: Two girls, Joan Frost and Gertie Wynn, while waiting for a bus, saw two pulsating lights flying horizontally and disappearing. 15 min later the lights were seen again, stopping at the zenith, merging, and diving to 50 m altitude. As the bus arrived, it seemed that the objects had separated and were about to abduct the witnesses, and they ran to the vehicle in terror. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Mar., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Jacksonville, Florida Source ID: Magnonia_382 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7740 (BB6F0D57) Date: 5/12/1956 Description: At 3:30 a.m. in Lakewood, Los Angeles County, California several witnesses had a close encounter with a silent, brilliant saucer-shaped object with wires around its edge. It made four turns, then shot away extremely fast. There were at least two independent witnesses, and there were physiological effects reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_2756 Source: Johnson ### Event 7741 (AEEFD472) Date: 5/15/1956 Description: Two police watched four 30 meter diameter discs exit from a 150 meter cigar-shaped mother craft over Johot Baharu, Malaysia at 9:15 p.m. The discs then flew to the south in a V formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4981, citing Flying Saucer Review, volume 3, number 1 Source ID: Johnson_2850 Source: Johnson ### Event 7742 (F22FC4B6) Date: 5/16/1956 Description: At 10:15 p.m. in Woodstown, Salem County, New Jersey Mr. Locuson, a building contractor, watched an orange-red light zig-zag across the sky near the Delaware River and Delaware Bay. It went north, veered to the west, shot off to the south, and then zig-zagged away. It was very fast and bright. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Salem Sunbeam, May 22, 1956; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 27; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4983 Source ID: Johnson_2886 Source: Johnson ### Event 7743 (7E5BFA8E) Date: 5/17/1956 Description: A man by the name of Meyer reported a formation of twenty silvery gray discs flying in close formation at a low altitude over Ada, Oklahoma at 10:22 p.m. The sighting lasted less than three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, letter dated May 24, 1956; Flying Saucer Review, July 1956, p. 27; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185 Source ID: Johnson_2919 Source: Johnson ### Event 7744 (7CEADBCC) Date: 5/17/1956 Description: On the same day a Sasquatch was sighted by a man named Hunt along Highway 1 in Flood, British Columbia, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 21, citing the Toronto Globe, July 6, 1957 Source ID: Johnson_2920 Source: Johnson ### Event 7745 (8E4C1F95) Date: 5/17/1956 Description: At 6:30 p.m. several people in South Bay, New York including witnesses named Winchell, Green and Harris observed a metallic saucer-shaped craft with a rim hovering over nearby East Mountain from the eastern shore of Lake George. It was silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence New York Newsletter, June 1956, p. 9, citing Glens Falls Post Statesman, May 18, 1956; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_2918 Source: Johnson ### Event 7746 (3E3D825F) Date: 5/22/1956 Description: Elliptical Object Comes Straight At T-33 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560522](http://www.nicap.org/560522monroe%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Monroe (58 miles NW of ), LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1939 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7747 (41F95237) Date: 5/22/1956 Description: 11:05 p.m. USAF 1st Lt. Earl D. Holwadel and 1st Lt. Curtis Carley are piloting a T-33 jet at 18,000 feet 58 miles northwest of Monroe, Louisiana, when they see a bright light due east. They see it again in the east at 11:15 p.m. Holwadel banks right to the southeast somewhat behind the object, which is now a great distance away. The object suddenly comes straight at them at high speed, passing in front of the T-33 at about 225 feet away. It flashes an intensely bright white light from a “greenhouse-shaped dome” or cockpit window at its front end that lights up the canopy of the T-33. The object is about 30-40 feet long, elliptical in shape, shorter than a C-47 but wider, a small steady red running light in the center, with no wings, only stubby protrusions extending 3-4 feet and 25 feet long on each side. The bottom surface is like steel with ribs extending down 2–4 feet with a wave-like appearance. It moves away then returns at high speed on a westerly course with “fantastic” maneuverability. It never changes flight attitude at any time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Elliptical Object Comes Straight at T-33](http://www.nicap.org/560522monroe%5Fdir.htm)”; Walter N. Webb, “Inside Building 263: A Visit to Blue Book, 1956,” IUR 17, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1992\): cover, 5; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 237 Source ID: Eberhart_2817 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7748 (0E4C735C) Date: 5/26/1956 Description: At 2:40 p.m. hundreds of witnesses at a military airshow in Flutag outside of Bern, Switzerland watched a white triangle-shaped craft hover at three kilometers altitude. The center of the craft was spinning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Nachrichten, October 1956 Source ID: Johnson_3096 Source: Johnson ### Event 7749 (5C3C4D0F) Date: 5/28/1956 Description: A blue glowing disc flying on edge pursued a car in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe in what was then Rhodesia. It made instantaneous maneuvers, and illuminated a farm as it flew over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, January 1996 Source ID: Johnson_3131 Source: Johnson ### Event 7750 (33458ADF) Date: 6/1956 Description: 10:00 p.m. Two women are driving north toward New Hampshire, Ohio, when a bright light approaches them from a small wooded area. They stop their car to look at it. The light is attached to a large rectangular object resembling a railroad box car that settles near the ground at the edge of the highway opposite to them about 30 feet away. Suddenly the side of the object facing them lights up from inside with a pale green light and they can see three small entities. One is standing next to a console “operating some kind of controls,” and the two others are also active. For 5 minutes, they appear to be observing the women. The entities have dark hair on their heads and arms and are wearing short-sleeved smocks. The object moves up and away toward the southwest and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unreported 1956 CEIII Discovered in Ohio,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 3 \(June/July 1982\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_2821 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7751 (E1FB3EA2) Date: 6/1956 Alternate date: 6/1957 Description: RNZAF Airman Derek Mansell is a passenger in a Bristol 170 Freighter Mk 31M near Wellington, New Zealand, when the aircraft encounters severe turbulence and its compass and other instruments spin wildly. All communications fail and the engine spurts intermittently for 25 minutes before everything returns to normal. When the Freighter lands at RNZAF Base Ohakea near Bulls, the pilot of a Douglas C-47 Dakota lands and asks them whether they had seen a huge metallic disc about 250 feet in diameter with a blue light on top and a red light on the bottom, which he had observed just above the Freighter pacing it. The Dakota crew apparently took photos, but these have not turned up. After a two-hour debriefing, both crews are told never to discuss the matter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 432–433](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/432/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2820 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7752 (2A402EC9) Date: 6/2/1956 Description: Military pilot of Convair T-29 saw white-green light on parallel course (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newton, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1940 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7753 (12A6B1A0) Date: 6/4/1956 Description: There was a reported landing of a UFO near Hicksville, New York on Long Island at just after midnight in 1956. The unconfirmed report said there were landing traces, but the report couldn't be followed up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York Newsletter, June 1956, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_3269 Source: Johnson ### Event 7754 (4B378C76) Date: 6/6/1956 Time: 5:30 AM Description: Witness: Mr. Bierman. One thin disc with a small dome, shimmering silver, hovered about 100 yards away for 8-10 seconds, then zoomed up. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Banning, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_402 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7755 (36005D98) Date: 6/6/1956 Description: Banning, California - At 5:30 a.m. PDT Mr. Bierman watched a thin disc with a small dome on top, shimmering silver, hover about 30 yards up and 100 yards away for 8-10 seconds. It crossed the road slowly, turned, and crossed the road again behind his car. It then suddenly shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 4127; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 253 Source ID: Johnson_3318 Source: Johnson ### Event 7756 (272CEBC8) Date: 6/6/1956 Description: Thin disc with a small dome, shimmering silver (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4127) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Banning, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1941 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7757 (8E173F15) Date: 6/6/1956 Time: 0430 Description: An object hovered about 30 m above and 100 m away from the witness's car. Showing something like a dome on top, it crossed the road slowly, turned, and crossed the road again behind the car, then vanished suddenly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Banning, California Source ID: Magnonia_383 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7758 (9BC30517) Date: 6/11/1956 Description: Nueces River, Texas - Dan Martin claimed he was taken aboard a large landed UFO, where he spent seven hours being lectured by the master of the ship. He wrote a book about his experience, entitled 7 Hours Aboard a Space Ship. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hollywood Citizen-News, July 20, 1956 Source ID: Johnson_3417 Source: Johnson ### Event 7759 (65FCC536) Date: 6/13/1956 Description: Science fiction movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” is released Type: movie Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_vs._the_Flying_Saucers) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_564 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7760 (1A795593) Date: 6/13/1956 Description: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, an American black-and-white science fiction film from Columbia Pictures, produced by [Charles H. Schneer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FH.%5FSchneer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FH.%5FSchneer) directed by [Fred F. Sears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FF.%5FSears), starring [Hugh Marlowe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FMarlowe) and [Joan Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%5FTaylor), and with special effects by [Ray Harryhausen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%5FHarryhausen)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%5FHarryhausen) is released in Los Angeles. The film’s storyline is suggested by [Donald E.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s nonfiction Flying Saucers from Outer Space \(1953\), but bears little resemblance to the content. Keyhoe has sold the rights to Clover Productions in Hollywood. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Earth vs. the Flying Saucers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%5Fvs.%5Fthe%5FFlying%5FSaucers)”; Internet Movie Database, “[Earth vs. the Flying Saucers](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049169/)”; Clark III 434 Source ID: Eberhart_2822 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7761 (AF0CAE9F) Date: 6/14/1956 Description: [Walter N. Webb](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm) visits and interviews Project Blue Book head Capt. [George T. Gregory](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory) at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohiob . Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Walter N. Webb, “Inside Building 263: A Visit to Blue Book, 1956,” IUR 17, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1992\): 3–5 Source ID: Eberhart_2823 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7762 (B3B98097) Date: 6/17/1956 Description: In 1956 a bright blob of light zoomed away when approached by a Royal New Zealand Air Force Vampire jet interceptor, near Ohakea AFB, New Zealand. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28). In Abingdon, England on this night in 1966, an astronomer, a second scientist, and five others watched a domed disc w headlights maneuver in the sky for 90 minutes, beginning at 8:50 p.m. (Source: Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1966, p. 27). Four pinkish-white football-shaped objects, flying in a rectangular formation, paced a private plane flying between Ladd and Peru, Illinois in the early morning hours of this day in 1969. (Source: Data-Net Report, April 1971). In 1971 at 9:40 p.m. a domed disc with flashing red and green lights repeatedly buzzed the Smith family farmhouse in Gorae West, Victoria, Australia. Watched through binoculars, the Smiths could see that a silver flash emanated from the object when it swooped low over the farmyard. It moved back and forth at high speed for 55 minutes. (Source: Portland (Victoria) Observer, June 21, 1971). In 1972 a 350-meter wide bright orange object descended near George Air Force Base in California at 11:50 p.m. More than thirty base personnel witnessed it. (Source: APRO Bulletin, May 1972 Source ID: Johnson_3528 Source: Johnson ### Event 7763 (0E97364F) Date: Summer 1956 Description: 11:30 p.m. A cigar-shaped UFO with lighted portholes is seen by two witnesses in the southwest part of Springfield, Illinois. The car driven by one of the witnesses quits, and the UFO seems to affect the traffic lights as well. The object looks slightly smaller than a blimp. After about 30 seconds it moves straight up and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 14, 30 Source ID: Eberhart_2819 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7764 (F5A9EBE6) Date: 6/21/1956 Description: At 10:35 p.m. a group of boy scouts and their scoutmaster sighted several silvery discs in the southeastern sky near Homestead, Pennsylvania maneuvering at high speed among the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence Newsletter, September 1956, p. 3; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186 Source ID: Johnson_3570 Source: Johnson ### Event 7765 (B4CBFB0A) Date: Summer 1956? Description: [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) is invited to the Office of Naval Research to examine the mysteriously annotated version of his The Case for the UFO. He becomes convinced that his correspondent [Carl Allen](https://www.de173.com/carlos-miguel-allende-carl-allen/) has written all or most of it. Capt. Sidney Sherby and Cmdr. [Hoover](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/us-navy-commander-reveals-roswell) ask for the Allen letters and these are included in a special printing of the annotated book by the Varo Publishing Company of Garland, Texas. In 1969, Allen confesses to APRO that he had written the annotations, but he retracts the confession later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \(Clark III 95–97; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “[The](https://www.de173.com/the-varo-edition/) [Varo Edition,](https://www.de173.com/the-varo-edition/)” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, December 13, 2016\). Source ID: Eberhart_2818 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7766 (7EC74730) Date: Summer 1956 Description: A pilot driving through the desert and bound for Nellis Air Force Base experienced a sudden and inexplicable engine failure. He tried to start the car with no success, then started walking. He saw a strange shape at the side of the highway and, being curious, approached it. To his surprise it took off. Before it left, however, he got a good look, it was a circular disk shaped with a dome on top. When it took off, he clearly saw 3 circular appendages underneath. The pilot went back to his car which started with no trouble. When he reached Nellis, he reported the incident to intelligence and he and one of their officers immediately drove back to the scene. On the ground at the location of the sighting, they found 3 clearly defined concave impressions in the sand. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Trace Cases](https://www.thenightskyii.org/trace.html) Location: Nellis Air Force Base Source ID: Magnonia_2 Source: Trace ### Event 7767 (5DE94B21) Date: 6/25/1956 Description: ATIC’s Col. [John Eriksen](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132078491/john-gordon-eriksen), writing for Secretary of the Air Force [Donald A. Quarles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FA.%5FQuarles), replies to a query from Rep. [John E. Moss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FMoss) \(D-Calif.\), explaining why USAF is not handing out multiple copies of Blue Book Special Report no. 14 and that it does not intend to withhold UFO information from the public. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 223 Source ID: Eberhart_2824 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7768 (79D57137) Date: 6/27/1956 Description: Luminous object hovered, sped away. (UFOE, XII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Trieste, IT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1942 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7769 (9BF81F43) Date: 6/27/1956 Description: Two ball-shaped objects were seen hovering over Mahonoy City, Pennsylvania at 8:15 p.m. They glistened brilliantly at the height of normal aircraft height, when suddenly they shot straight up vertically, leaving behind short vapor trail in their wakes. One of the witnesses was a newspaper reporter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 60; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186 Source ID: Johnson_3693 Source: Johnson ### Event 7770 (9B3F3177) Date: 6/29/1956 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Object Tracked At 59,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560629](http://www.nicap.org/560629losang%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles to San Diego, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1943 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7771 (E0C33B32) Date: 6/30/1956 Description: At 2:30 p.m. three glowing cigar-shaped objects sped over the city of Wellington, New Zealand. At 5:54 p.m. several orange discs were later seen for several minutes over Nelson, New Zealand. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, August 1956, p. 4; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 64; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186 Source ID: Johnson_3743 Source: Johnson ### Event 7772 (7F41D4D5) Date: 7/1956 Description: [Brinsley Le Poer Trench](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinsley%5FLe%5FPoer%5FTrench%2C%5F8th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FClancarty)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinsley%5FLe%5FPoer%5FTrench%2C%5F8th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FClancarty) 8th Earl of Clancarty, takes over as editor of Flying Saucer Review from [Derek](http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/02/obituary-for-derek-dempster.html) [Dempster](http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/02/obituary-for-derek-dempster.html)[.](http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/02/obituary-for-derek-dempster.html)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Flying Saucer Review](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CJul-Aug%2CV%202%2CN%204.pdf) 2, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1956\); Clark III 498 Source ID: Eberhart_2825 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7773 (DAEF7CF7) Date: 7/1956 Description: US parapsychologist [Andrija Puharich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija%5FPuharich) and Dutch psychic [Peter Hurkos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FHurkos) accidentally meet Charles Laughead and his wife Lillian in Acámbaro, Guanajuato, Mexico, both groups in town to view the famous figurines of [Waldemar Julsrud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ac%C3%A1mbaro%5Ffigures)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ac%C3%A1mbaro%5Ffigures) during the time that Hurkos is being studied by Puharich at his medical facility in Glen Cove, Maine. The Laugheads are convinced that Puharich and Hurkos are space people come to assist them, based on the channelings of their associate [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) \(although they do not name him\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Andrija Puharich, Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller, Bantam, 1975, [pp. xviii–xxiv](https://archive.org/details/urijournalofmyst00puha/page/n19/mode/2up); Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, p. 104 Source ID: Eberhart_2826 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7774 (33F595BF) Date: 7/2/1956 Description: A bright object crossed and re-crossed the sky over Conway, Massachusetts. The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette said that "although traveling at what appeared to be a high rate of speed" the object "was able to reverse its course completely". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky. New York: Citadel Press, 1956, pg. 280 Source ID: Johnson_3785 Source: Johnson ### Event 7775 (CDE4D698) Date: 7/4/1956 Description: Pilot [Hervey Stockman](https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2010-featured-story-archive/agency-u-2-pilots-hervey-stockman.html) makes the first of eight U-2 flights over Soviet Russia, Mission 2013. He flies from Wiesbaden over East Germany and Poland before crossing the Soviet border near Grodno, Belarus, then over bomber bases at Minsk, Belarus; Leningrad \[now St. Petersburg\], Russia; and the Baltic states. The mission is tracked by Soviet radar; a number of MiG fighters unsuccessfully try to intercept the U-2. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Spyflight, “Lockheed U-2”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 86–88](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/86/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2827 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7776 (F45CFD9B) Date: 7/6/1956 Description: 9:37 AM. One spherical object, large, white in color, appeared to be revolving at 5 to 6 thousand feet. Ground visual and ground radar sighting. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560706](http://www.nicap.org/560706eucliddir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Euclid, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_1944 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7777 (98945EC9) Date: 7/9/1956 Description: One early U-2 mission, Mission 2020, flown by [Martin Knutson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FKnutson), flies over Engels-2 airfield, near Saratov, Russia, and photographs 20 M-4 Bison bombers on the ramp. Multiplying by the number of Soviet bomber bases, the intelligence suggests the Soviets are already well on their way to deploying hundreds of aircraft. Ironically, the U-2 has actually photographed the entire Bison fleet; there is no bomber at any of the other bases. Similar missions over the next year finally prove that. At least in official circles, the bomber gap is disproven. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Spyflight, “Lockheed U-2” Source ID: Eberhart_2828 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7778 (D4A5A6FB) Date: 7/10/1956 Description: The Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, coastline and suburbs are draped with “angel hair” that hangs from utility lines and trees. It vanishes within hours, but a sample is recovered for analysis by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation. It cannot be identified, although six scientists rule out wool, cotton, feathers, cellulose, and synthetic fibers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 102; Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_2829 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7779 (89373300) Date: 7/12/1956 Description: On the Pacific island of Levuka in the Fiji Islands, several people on a fishing boat saw a cigar-shaped UFO. It was close enough that the witnesses were able to describe square windows visible in the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1956 Source ID: Johnson_4000 Source: Johnson ### Event 7780 (0D591166) Date: 7/16/1956 Description: 7:00 p.m. Lawyer \(or law professor\) João de Freitas Guimarães is taking a walk on the beach at Caraguatatuba, São Paulo, Brazil, when he observes a hat-shaped, luminous object leave the sea between São Sebastião and Ilhabela and land only a few yards away from him. A door opens, a metallic stairway emerges, and two tall, human-looking men with long, fair hair emerge wearing green jumpsuits. Through gestures, they encourage him to enter the craft. Inside, the saucer takes off and the crew communicate with him telepathically, telling him about a radiation protection system that exists around the ship and that they have left the atmosphere. They are supposedly from Venus. His alleged trip lasts an hour. When he returns, his watch no longer works. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Luiz do Rosário Real, “[Caso Dr. Freitas Guimarães,](http://querepublicaeessa.an.gov.br/images/Ovni/BR%5FDFANBSB%5FARX%5F0%5F0%5F0006%5Fd0001de0001.pdf)” April 1976; Clark III 548–549; Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 257–258](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/256/mode/2up); Equipe UFO, “[João de Freitas Guimarães, o advogado que passeou em um UFO,](https://ufo.com.br/artigos/joao-de-freitas-guimaraes-o-advogado-que-passeou-em-um-ufo.html)” Portal UFO, October 1, 2013; Brazil 32–35 Source ID: Eberhart_2830 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7781 (88EAE2BB) Date: 7/17/1956 Description: Brief Sighting By AF Pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2) Reference: NICAP: [560717](http://www.nicap.org/560717mastic%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mastic, Long Island, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_1947 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7782 (6EF0F4A2) Date: 7/17/1956 Description: [Elizabeth Klarer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%5FKlarer) takes several photos of a silvery disc as it is hovering around Flying Saucer Hill, southwest of Rosetta, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 657–658 Source ID: Eberhart_2831 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7783 (EE7AEC5F) Date: 7/17/1956 Description: Uncorrelated Target Tracked At 2400 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560717](http://www.nicap.org/560717westover2%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westover (Otis AFB), MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1945 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7784 (670EE2D0) Date: 7/17/1956 Description: Jet Pilot Sees Object Reverse Course (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560717](http://www.nicap.org/560717westover%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westover (Otis AFB), MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1946 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7785 (C52F31BE) Date: 7/19/1956 Description: July 19, 1956; Hutchinson, Kansas, G,V; NAS Tracks UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [560719](http://www.nicap.org/560719hutchinsondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hutchinson, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_1949 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7786 (5B04146E) Date: 7/19/1956 Description: At four o'clock in the morning at the Hutchinson Naval Air Station in Hutchinson, Kansas a teardrop-shaped UFO was tracked on radar and visually observed by State Police as it erratically moved about the sky. That afternoon in Panorama City, California three independent witnesses claimed to have seen three beings emerge from a sphere. They were two meters (6.6 feet) tall, had long blond hair, and wore tight-fitting green uniforms. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Topeka (KS) Daily Capital, July 19, 1956; Hollywood (CA) Citizen-News, July 20, 1956 Source ID: Johnson_4195 Source: Johnson ### Event 7787 (646E0696) Date: 7/19/1956 Description: President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) temporarily halts U-2 overflights above eastern Europe. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed U-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FU-2\#%22Bomber%5Fgap%22%5Fdisproven)” Source ID: Eberhart_2832 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7788 (A0657765) Date: 7/19/1956 Description: Naval Air Station Hutchinson \[now Hutchinson Air Force Station\], Kansas, reports tracking “a moving unidentified object” on radar, observed visually by state police as a “teardrop shaped” light source. Witnesses report “noticeable maneuvers of UFO vertically and horizontally over a wide area of the sky.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[NAS Tracks](http://www.nicap.org/560719hutchinsondir.htm) [UFO](http://www.nicap.org/560719hutchinsondir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2833 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7789 (1388D1AA) Date: 7/19/1956 Description: Michael Savage, Cal. takes pic of saucer. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: California Attributes: ufo photo Source ID: Maj2_145 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7790 (8A28575B) Date: 7/19/1956 Description: Luminous round object hovered, sped away. (UFOE, XII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Phoenix, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1948 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7791 (0C1C51E1) Date: 7/20/1956 Description: At three o'clock in the morning a brilliant light was seen in the sky over Long Beach, California. It appeared to be a saucer-shaped craft with wires around the edges. The wires seemed to be rotating while the disc flew eastward. At 4:30 a.m a photo was taken of a light seen east of Wichita, Kansas. There were several reports from this area, but most of them appear to be misidentifications of either Mars or Venus. Three witnesses in Panorama City, California independently claimed to have observed a huge, ball-shaped object from which three beings emerged. They were nearly two meters (6.6 feet) tall, had long, blond hair, and wore tight, green suits. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, The fifth horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 82; Civilian Saucer Intelligence-New York Newsletter, September 1956, p. 5; Project Blue Book files; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 253 Source ID: Johnson_4230 Source: Johnson ### Event 7792 (5BAEFB70) Date: 7/20/1956 Description: In a lecture delivered at a meeting of [Clara John](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70322188/clara-louise-john)’s Flying Saucer Discussion Group, author [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) declares that it is time for a new UFO organization. A consensus is reached that a Washington, D.C.–based agency should investigate UFOs, and [T. Townsend Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FTownsend%5FBrown) offers to draft a preliminary proposal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 792; “[‘Toward a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How NICAP Began,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/067%20OCTOBER%201971.pdf)” UFO Investigator, October 1971, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_2834 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7793 (063DD88A) Date: 7/20/1956 Description: Three witnesses in the Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, independently observe a huge, ball-shaped object from which emerge three beings. They are nearly 6 feet tall and have long, blond hair, and wear tight, green suits. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald B. Hanlon, “[Questions on the Occupants](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201966%20N%201%2CThe%20Humanoids.pdf),” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 64 Source ID: Eberhart_2835 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7794 (55499F45) Date: 7/20/1956 Description: Three witnesses independently claimed that they observed a huge, ballshaped object from which emerged three beings. They were nearly 2 m tall, had long, blond hair, and wore tight, green suits. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Hanlon; Humanoids 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Panorama City, California Source ID: Magnonia_384 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7795 (5C3A1166) Date: 7/21/1956 Description: At 11:00 a.m. police in Escuintla, Guatemala sighted a luminous, cigarette-shaped object that zig-zagged silently through the sky. After that four disc-shaped objects whizzed by, low and fast, flying o the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4677; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 87 Source ID: Johnson_4263 Source: Johnson ### Event 7796 (73725ECA) Date: 7/22/1956 Description: A married couple named McMullins driving between Bakersfield and Pixley, California reporeted seeing a bluish green light at 5:30 a.m. that appeared to be burning as it flew rapidly toward the west. It exploded in the air and fell in two pieces. At the same time a Mrs. Brown, driving near Highway City between Fresno and Pixley, California saw an egg-shaped object that flew south, emitting a green light like a flame from the back. It made no sound when it exploded in the air and crashed to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York Newsletter, citing Californian, July 23, 1956; (2) Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, September 1956, p. 1; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 71 Source ID: Johnson_4295 Source: Johnson ### Event 7797 (EB0F4E16) Date: 7/22/1956 Description: 5:30 a.m. Mrs. Ray Brown sees an egg-shaped object giving off a green-colored light from its rear end over Highway City, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 72 Source ID: Eberhart_2836 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7798 (17E0110E) Date: 7/22/1956 Description: 11:00 a.m. USAF Maj. [Merwin Stenvers](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1220372/merwin-mauritz-stenvers) is flying at 16,000 feet over Pixley, California, in a Convair C-131D and is suddenly staggered and knocked to the right by a terrific blow. He makes an emergency landing at Kern County Airport \[now closed\] in Lost Hills. An examination shows that more than half of the left elevator control surface is gone or smashed, leading to speculation that the airplane had been hit by something. However, an accident investigation team finds that a series of rivets had popped, jamming a rod that controls the elevator servotab and causing the elevator to get stuck. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Plane’s Dive Is Laid to Control Device Failure,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100119663/)” Fresno \(Calif.\) Bee, July 25, 1956, p. 4-B; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 71–73; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 39–40](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/38/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2837 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7799 (F8657861) Date: 7/23/1956 Description: Springfield, Massachusetts - Ms. Virginia Maratea and her sister were sitting on the back porch of her sister's home in the evening, facing west, when suddenly a glowing red object came into view. The object was shaped like a barbell, with two bulbous spheres on each end connected by an amorphous bar. The ends scintillated and were a fiery red, while the part in the center was dimly visible. She estimated the size as that of a large bomber at high altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_4320 Source: Johnson ### Event 7800 (640C8D76) Date: Late 7/1956 Description: A group of US Navy pilots based at Naval Air Station Los Alamitos \[now Joint Forces Training Base–Los Alamitos\], California, tell news reporters from Orange County News Service that they have orders to shoot down any UFOs that seem hostile. The pilots say this is a standard command issued to pilots on the US to Hawaii run. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unanswered Questions: No. 4, Have UFOs Been Fired Upon?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1957%2CJan-Feb%2CV%203%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1957\): 18–19 Source ID: Eberhart_2838 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7801 (444A8D92) Date: 7/26/1956 Description: Huge Cigar Observed & Tracked On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [560726](http://www.nicap.org/560726acc%5Ffdr%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rio de Janeiro (USS FDR), Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_1950 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7802 (D63D6765) Date: 7/26/1956 Description: DC-7 Encounters Object Over Atlantic (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [560726](http://www.nicap.org/560726atlantic%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlantic 43.12N 49.30W, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1951 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7803 (176ADD68) Date: 7/26/1956 Description: 8:20 p.m. Physician J. L. Bennet and his wife watch two spinning, powder-blue lights for 10 minutes outside his home in Kilburn Estate, in District 21 near King Albert Park, Singapore. They dart about the sky “like fish in a tank,” come together, hover, and separate at great speed, disappearing from sight. He manages to take several photos, one of which shows two objects, one a nearly perfect oval, the other blurred. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 73 Source ID: Eberhart_2840 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7804 (58FE5E64) Date: 7/26/1956 Description: Two disc-shaped objects are suspended in mid-air, one above the other, over the aircraft carrier [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) [Franklin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) [D. Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) as it is berthed in the port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They are 75–100 feet in diameter and have two rows of counter-rotating lights. The upper one releases a ball of fire that drops into the top of the lower one. Within seconds they vanish with tremendous speed. One of the witnesses is Petty Officer 3rd Class \(OI\) [Leon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168572511/leon-alton-treadwell) [Treadwell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168572511/leon-alton-treadwell)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168572511/leon-alton-treadwell) who signs papers agreeing he will tell no one for 20 years. Chief Warrant Officer John C. Hau reports that the ship’s radar tracked a cigar-shaped object the day before or after. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 231](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/230/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2839 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7805 (5B37DB83) Date: 7/28/1956 Description: 9:55 p.m. Seven witnesses in Brentwood, California, see a sparkling green light flash through the sky and seemingly land in an orchard. Television reception is briefly interrupted. Sheriff’s deputies and reserve officers search a square-mile area for 3 hours but find nothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mystery Light Falls in Contra Costa Co.,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99720171/)” Oakland \(Calif.\) Tribune, July 29, 1956, p. 1; “[Saucer Sightings Mount As Mars Swings Close,](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%20Volume%20III%201956-57R.pdf)” CRIFO Orbit 3, no. 6 \(September 7, 1956\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_2841 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7806 (16BC1EB5) Date: 7/28/1956 Description: A green flash was seen in the sky over Brentwood, California and something crashed in an orchard there. When the unknown object passed over witnesses reported TV interference. The object gave off green sparks. Traces found in the orchard reportedly included a light metal and cardboard impregnated with "unknown substances." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence-New York Newsletter, September 1956, p. 6; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, September 1956, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_4451 Source: Johnson ### Event 7807 (176714D2) Date: 7/29/1956 Description: July 29, 1956; Pasadena, California, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [560729](http://www.nicap.org/pasadena560729dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pasedena, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1952 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7808 (784266F8) Date: 8/1956 Description: Late night. Two young men are camping near Newark, Ohio, when they see five bright lights in a rigid V- formation. They fly in erratic, sharp-turning patterns for about 5 minutes, including sharp 30° turns. One man takes a photo. They report the sighting to the newspapers and the Air Force, but a USAF officer confiscate both the print and the negatives; the newspaper’s copies are also taken. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_2845 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7809 (986E41C4) Date: 8/1956 Description: [John P. Cahn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27512833/john-p%5F-cahn) publishes a second article in True on the [Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FScully) hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. P. Cahn, “[Flying Saucer Swindlers,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/True/1956%2008%2000%5FTrue%5FJ%20P%20Cahn.pdf)” True, August 1956, pp. 36–37, 69–72 Source ID: Eberhart_2843 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7810 (114B2AB3) Date: 8/1956 Description: FBI Director [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) launches COINTELPRO \(counter-intelligence programs\). These are employed against American dissidents and their organizations; the first one targets the American Communist Party. Typical methods are anonymous or fictitious letters, false defamatory or threatening information, forged signatures, and other disinformation. The FBI blackmails insiders to spread false rumors or promote factionalism. It creates bogus organizations to attack or disrupt a bona fide group, and instigates hostile actions through third parties, such as employers, elected officials, and the media. It enables the FBI to investigate any political organization on the pretext of checking for Communists, including the NAACP, women’s rights groups, and gay rights groups. These programs prompt nearly 330,000 FBI investigations and create a Security Index of over 200,000 dangerous Americans to be detained in the event of war. Documents relating to these programs are marked “Do not file,” offering no clues that they exist. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO)” Source ID: Eberhart_2842 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7811 (DA87BC2E) Date: 8/1956 Description: Research technician observed formation of five flat, circular UFOs. (UFOE, VI) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boulder City, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_1954 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7812 (FB80C3C2) Date: 8/1956 Description: August-September 1956; Bornholm Island, Denmark, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bornholm Island, Den Source ID: NICAP_DB_1953 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7813 (D8192506) Date: 8/1956 Description: [George King](https://www.aetherius.org/dr-george-king/) forms the Aetherius Society in London, England, as the result of what King claims are contacts with extraterrestrial intelligences, whom he refers to as “Cosmic Masters.” The main goal of the believer is to cooperate with these Cosmic Masters to help humanity solve its current earthly problems and advance into the New Age. Life on other planets is described as free from war, hatred, disease, want, and ignorance. According to King, the civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria both vanished during an atomic war. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Aetherius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetherius%5FSociety) [Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetherius%5FSociety)”; Clark III 52–53; Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, [pp. 62–69](https://archive.org/details/inadvanceoflandi00doug/page/62/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2844 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7814 (E9288B47) Date: 8/3/1956 Description: A press leak from the Air Force Association reveals that proposals for two types of UFO-detecting satellites are under development. A television subsystem is cancelled as impractical, but an infrared subsystem requires much lower data transmission rates. Lockheed has signed an Air Force contract. The CIA’s [Richard M. Bissell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) later reveals that the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence Deputy Director Gen. [Philip G. Strong](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/25/archives/gen-philip-strong-expert-on-u2-dies.html) has been pushing the Air Force to develop an infrared tracking satellite. The infrared system actually begins as planned in 1968, with initial operational status in 1970. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 813, 1032 Source ID: Eberhart_2846 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7815 (A5E06642) Date: 8/4/1956 Description: September 4, 1956; Copenhagen, Denmark, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Copenhagen, Den Source ID: NICAP_DB_1955 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7816 (7723488C) Date: 8/8/1956 Description: Blue-white pulsating light fly fast straight and level (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 4270) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Quartsite (20 miles south of), AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_1956 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7817 (88B4EB60) Date: 8/8/1956 Time: 11 PM Description: Witnesses: attorneys W.B. Buttermore and J.W. Smith. One blue-white pulsating light flew fast, straight and level, for 5-7 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 20 miles south of Quartsite, Arizona Source ID: BerlinerBBU_403 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7818 (E3FB8623) Date: 8/8/1956 End date: 8/19/1956 Description: Concentration of sightings over 12-day period. Retired fire department engineer in Hartford saw an oblong UFO with halo (August 8); an egg-shaped UFO was seen over West Redding (August 11); unidentified white lights reported over West Hartford by Ground Observer Corps (August 14) (UFOE) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Various Cities, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1957 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7819 (6C9C5900) Date: 8/10/1956 End date: 8/11/1956 Description: McConnell. (Jan Aldrich; McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Radar / Visual With CPS6B (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560810-11](http://www.nicap.org/560810duncanville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dallas (near Duncanville AFS, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1958 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7820 (AE17EC27) Date: 8/11/1956 Description: A woman by the name of Stauffer reported to the local newspaper that at around 9:00 a.m. a bright steel-gray, saucer-shaped object hovered over the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for two hours, and then disappeared by flying off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, 19560903; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: August, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_4863 Source: Johnson ### Event 7821 (299DCC60) Date: 8/11/1956 Description: A photograph of a UFO shaped like a dome was taken on this evening in Mo, Norway. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6 (1975), page 44, case # 115, citing Oslo Nation, September 21, 1956 Source ID: Johnson_4862 Source: Johnson ### Event 7822 (FB322A82) Date: 8/12/1956 Description: A Mrs. McCaffrey and her daughter saw an oval disc-shaped object blazing with white lights over Denver, Colorado at around three o'clock in the morning. The object moved to the east, then hovered several minutes, and finally flew off to the west. The edges of the object were clearly defined. The sighting lasted several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Rocky Mountain News, August 13, 1956; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, September 1956, p. 3; Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, September 1956, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_4936 Source: Johnson ### Event 7823 (8CCD5C6C) Date: 8/13/1956 Description: August 13, 1956; Eastern England, G,V,A (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560813](http://www.nicap.org/560813bentwaters%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lakenheath AFB, Bentwaters, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1959 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7824 (6F186D7C) Date: 8/13/1956 Description: At Bentwaters RAF Base in Suffolk, England radar returns at 9:20 p.m. showed a large unidentified craft moving in excess of 4,000 mph. The crew of a C-47 confirmed a visual sighting of a blur of light moving at high speeds. Both air and ground radars confirm fantastic maneuvers were performed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James E. McDonald, FSR, March 1970, p. 10; John W. Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 86; Michael D. Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 242; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_4962 Source: Johnson ### Event 7825 (3E9833DD) Date: 8/13/1956 End date: 8/14/1956 Description: 9:30 p.m. A radar-visual UFO sighting begins at RAF Bentwaters \[now Bentwaters Parks\], Suffolk, England. A blip traveling approximately 4,000–8,000 mph on an east-west course is picked up on radar. It moves in a straight line to a position about 15 miles northwest of Bentwaters. Within a few minutes, about a dozen normal targets are spotted 8 miles southwest, moving northeast at about 100 mph. In front of the targets are three objects in a triangular formation, about 1,000 feet apart. All the targets then appear to converge into one extremely large target \(several times the size of a B-36\), which continues moving to the northeast, then stops for a few minutes, then resumes, and is lost to radar. The entire sighting up to this point takes 25 minutes. Five minutes later, another solid target appears, flying east to west at 4,000 mph or more, then vanishes when it moves out of range. A T-33 trainer from the 512th Fighter Interceptor Squadron crewed by 1st Lts. Charles Metz and Andrew Rowe is sent to investigate the radar contacts, but sees nothing. No visual sightings of the objects are made from Bentwaters in this period, with the exception of a single amber star-like object which was subsequently identified as probably being Mars. At 10:55 p.m., another target is picked up 30 miles to the east, traveling west at 2,000–4,000 mph. It passes directly overhead and is seen as a white light by both air \(a C-47 at 4,000 feet reports it passed underneath him\) and ground observers. Bentwaters notifies RAF Lakenheath, also in Suffolk, about what is going on, and Lakenheath personnel see a luminous object stop, then zoom off to the east. Also, two white lights are seen joining from different directions, which are tracked on two screens at Lakenheath. According to T/Sgt. Forrest Perkins, watch supervisor at the Lakenheath radar center, at midnight Lakenheath notifies RAF Neatishead, Norfolk, that a strange object is buzzing the base. A de Havilland Venom night fighter is scrambled, directed by Neatishead radar controller Flight Lt. Freddie H. C. Wimbledon. Perkins and Wimbledon claim the jets are sent up around midnight, but the crews think it is at 2:00 a.m. The Venom, crewed by Flight Officers David Chambers and John Brady from 23 Squadron at RAF Waterbeach \[now closed\] in Cambridgeshire, finds the object on radar north of Cambridge and sees it as a bright white light, which then disappears. The navigator says it is the “clearest target I have ever seen on radar.” The object, however, is behind the plane and stays there for some time, despite climbs, dives, and circling. Ground radar operators say that the object is glued right behind the fighter. After 10 minutes, the fighter heads back. The UFO follows briefly, then stops and hovers. Another Venom, crewed by Flight Officers Ian Fraser-Ker and Ivan Logan, is scrambled at 2:40 a.m. but experiences engine problems and aborts. Ministry of Defence officer Ralph Noyes says that one of the Venom pilots has taken a gun-camera film, which was later shown at a briefing in Whitehall. The object is tracked on two radars, leaving the area at 600 mph. The encounter is classified until 1969, when it is analyzed by the Colorado project. [Gordon Thayer](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/) suggests that the “apparently rational, intelligent behavior of the UFO suggests a mechanical device of unknown origin as the most probable explanation of this sighting.” A later investigation is conducted by [David Clarke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29) [Andy Roberts](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/bioar.htm)[,](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/bioar.htm) and [Jenny Randles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles) In contrast to the reports given in the original classified teleprinter message \(from 3910th Air Base Group to ADC at Ent AFB, now the US Olympic Training Center\) three days after the event and in the accounts of both Wimbledon and Perkins, the air crews now state that the radar contacts were unimpressive and that no “tail-chase” or action on the part of the target occurred. They also assert no visual contacts were made. Chambers and Brady comment that “my feeling is that there was nothing there, it was some sort of mistake,” while Ivan Logan, the second Venom’s navigator, states that “all we saw was a blip which rather indicated a stationary target.” At the time 23 Squadron decides that the radar contact had, if anything, been with a weather balloon. [Martin Shough](http://www.cufos.org/shough.html) concludes that there are actually several incidents at different times and places and that the relationship between each is unclear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakenheath-Bentwaters%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[Several Incidents of R/V at Bentwaters](http://www.nicap.org/560813bentwaters%5Fdir.htm)”; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents 1](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1956%5F08%5F13-14%5FGB%5FSFK%5FBentwaters-Lakenheath-RAFs%5FCUFOS%5FMultiWit%5FRVar.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1956%5F08%5F13-14%5FGB%5FSFK%5FBentwaters-Lakenheath-RAFs%5FCUFOS%5FMultiWit%5FRVar.pdf) [case documents 2](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1956%5F08%5F13-14%5FGB%5FSFK%5FBentwaters-Lakenheath-RAFs%5FCUFOS%5FMultiWit%5FRVbr.pdf), [case documents 3](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1956%5F08%5F13-14%5FGB%5FSFK%5FBentwaters-Lakenheath-RAFs%5FCUFOS%5FMultiWit%5FRVcr.pdf)\]; Condon, [pp. 163–164](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/162/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/162/mode/2up) [248–256](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/162/mode/2up); James E. McDonald, “[UFOs over Lakenheath in 1956,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1970\): 9–17, 29; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 91](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/90/mode/2up); RAF Fighter Controller \(Rtd.\), “[UFOs over](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20vol%2024%20no1.pdf) [Lakenheath,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20vol%2024%20no1.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 1 \(June 1978\): 31; Ian Ridpath, “New Light on Lakenheath,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 6–7; Martin L. Shough, “[Background & History](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Lakenheath/background.htm)”; Martin L. Shough, “Radar and the UFO,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 219–226; Clark III 665–670; Good Above, [pp. 44–46](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/44/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 238; Ivan Logan, \[[Letter to Dave Clarke](http://martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Lakenheath/logan3.htm)\], October 23, 2000; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 64–66](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/64/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 66–69](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n111/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2847 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7826 (8AFB88F8) Date: 8/13/1956 Description: Aug 13, 1956; Lakenheath AFB, Bentwaters, England RV (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560813](http://www.nicap.org/560813bentwaters%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lakenheath AFB, Bentwaters, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1960 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7827 (ED16D07B) Date: Mid 8/1956 Description: 10:15 p.m. North American Aviation research technician [Edison F. Carpenter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169807294/edison-fredrick-carpenter) observes a formation of five flat, circular, pinkish UFOs over Boulder City, Nevada. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1956%5F08%5F00%5FUS%5FNV%5FBoulder-City%5FNICAP%5FCarpenter%5FNL.pdf)\]; UFOEv, [p.](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=70&skin=2021) [58](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=70&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2849 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7828 (DDD49FC1) Date: 8/15/1956 Description: The RAND Corporation releases a top-secret 1955 summary detailing more than 143 aircraft incidents in the Far East. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alexander L. George, “[Case Studies of Actual and Alleged Overflights, 1930–1953,](https://www.rand.org/pubs/research%5Fmemoranda/RM1349.html)” Rand Corporation, RM-1349, August 15, 1956; Clark III 56 Source ID: Eberhart_2848 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7829 (69AFBDBC) Date: 8/16/1956 Description: Object Makes Passes / DC-4 Takes Evasive Action (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560816](http://www.nicap.org/560816azores%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Near Azores, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1961 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7830 (64D73330) Date: 8/16/1956 Description: The CIA’s [Richard M. Bissell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) assembles a group of advisers to begin work on solving the problem of Soviets tracking the U-2 flights. Among the group are [Edwin H. Land](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%5FH.%5FLand), [Edward Mills Purcell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FMills%5FPurcell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FMills%5FPurcell) and [Kelly Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29) They look into radar-absorbing paint. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed A-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12)” Source ID: Eberhart_2850 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7831 (663F5A04) Date: 8/17/1956 Description: (McDonald list) F-89 Tracks Object 500 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560817](http://www.nicap.org/560817spragueville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Spragueville (SSW \[of\] ), ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_1962 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7832 (2414B746) Date: 8/19/1956 Description: Fiery object made turn, dimmed, window-like markings became visible. (UFOE, XII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newington, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_1963 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7833 (9678A3CC) Date: 8/20/1956 Description: Camillo. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Object Tracked At 54,000 Feet (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560820](http://www.nicap.org/560820northbend%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Bend, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_1965 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7834 (CB6EA02C) Date: 8/20/1956 Description: Man & wife saw 25 or more bright, Saturn-like UFOs in a rough semi-circle formation. (UFOE, XII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Citrus Heights, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1964 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7835 (B0DF1025) Date: 8/21/1956 Description: F-89 Crew Encounter Daylight Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 3) Reference: NICAP: [560821](http://www.nicap.org/560821hamiltonafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamilton AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1967 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7836 (9CBAB48E) Date: 8/21/1956 Description: Dumbbell-shaped UFOs approached plane. (UFOE, VII) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wyoming-Montana, In Air Source ID: NICAP_DB_1966 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7837 (E37A779B) Date: 8/21/1956 Description: A reddish orange elongated object jerked up and down over Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley in California on this evening for several minutes around 9:30 p.m. A later report at 11:30 p.m. was made in El Monte, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Los Angeles Times, August 1956, p. 22; Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, November 1956, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_5208 Source: Johnson ### Event 7838 (C42A9B38) Date: 8/22/1956 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index); Objects Orbiting Location & Tracked on Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560822](http://www.nicap.org/560822bornholm%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bornholm Island, Den Source ID: NICAP_DB_1968 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7839 (75BEEEB9) Date: 8/22/1956 Description: From the bedroom a witness in Turlock, California saw an orange-red ovoid UFO fluttering up behind the garage at 10:50 p.m. It went away quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1956 Source ID: Johnson_5220 Source: Johnson ### Event 7840 (C6C9C978) Date: 8/22/1956 Description: 8:50–11:59 p.m. Radars on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, first report 2–3 objects on an easterly heading at 800 mph. Approximately 2 hours later, four objects appear and orbit over the location. About 90 minutes later, the tracks fade. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Objects Orbiting Location and Tracked on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/560822bornholm%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2852 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7841 (EF9682F9) Date: 8/22/1956 Description: 3:40 p.m. A man named Sheetz and another civilian in a car chases a 50-foot, black, bell-shaped object bearing two bright, white lights at the top several miles east of Naval Air Station Cecil Field, near Jacksonville, Florida. Their engine stalls when the object hovers 10 feet away. The underside resembles a disc with fins. When a jet takes off from the airfield, the object shoots out of sight almost instantly. The car battery is completely dead. Noise from the object compares to a helicopter, but there is no helicopter in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Car Chases Bell-](http://www.nicap.org/570827cecil%5Fdir.htm) [Shaped Object, Engine Stalls](http://www.nicap.org/570827cecil%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 246 Source ID: Eberhart_2851 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7842 (CF40648F) Date: 8/23/1956 Description: The crew of an F-86 fighter jet flying at 36,000 feet over the Canadian Rockies, near Fort MacLeod, Alberta photographed in color "an intensely brilliant, oval-shaped object" that was emitting a plasma glow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1965, p. 6; John R. Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 211 Source ID: Johnson_5251 Source: Johnson ### Event 7843 (8D6F1498) Date: 8/27/1956 Description: RCAF Pilot Photographs Object Radiating Power (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [560827](http://www.nicap.org/560827alberta%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Macleod, Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_1970 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7844 (F10D91EC) Date: 8/27/1956 Description: An hour later, at 10:55 p.m. a domed disc with a transparent dome twirled like a top only four feet above the ground over a backyard in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The witness, a married woman, felt a cold wind. The object ascended rapidly into the sky. No traces were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Civilian Saucer Intelligence-New York Newsletter, September 1956, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_5394 Source: Johnson ### Event 7845 (CB225641) Date: 8/27/1956 Description: 7:20 p.m. Royal Canadian Air Force pilot [Robert James “Chick” Childerhose](http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/childerhose%5Fr%5Fj%5Fchick) is flying nearly due west over the Canadian Rockies near Fort Macleod, Alberta. He is flying at 36,000 feet in the second position \(far left side\) of a formation of four F-86 Sabre jet aircraft. While approaching a large thunderhead \(cumulonimbus\) at a ground speed of about 460 mph, he sees at a much lower altitude a “bright light which was sharply defined and disc- shaped” or “like a shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal.” He takes a color photo. An analysis suggests that it would have been radiating in excess of a gigawatt of power within the spectral range of the film. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[RCAF Pilot](http://www.nicap.org/560827alberta%5Fdir.htm) [Photographs Object Radiating Power](http://www.nicap.org/560827alberta%5Fdir.htm)”; Jacques Vallée, “[Estimates of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf) [Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 \(1998\): 346–348; Richard F. Haines, “Analysis of Photograph of a High-Speed Ball of Light,” JUFOS 8 \(2003\): 27–48; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 68–69 Source ID: Eberhart_2853 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7846 (0A5925E5) Date: 8/27/1956 Description: Bright disc with a clear dome fly vertically, then N (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4348) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Juniata, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1969 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7847 (8FAE7840) Date: 8/27/1956 Description: In Juniata, Pennsylvania at 9:55 p.m. Mrs. R.S. Pope saw a bright disc-shaped object with a clear transparent dome. It flew vertically, and then went off toward the north. A very cold breeze originated from the object during the three-minute sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5393 Source: Johnson ### Event 7848 (D5377BBE) Date: 8/27/1956 Time: 9:55 PM Description: Witness: Mrs. R.S. Pope. One bright disc with a clear dome flew vertically, then north. A very cold breeze seemed to have been originated by the object during the 3 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Juniata, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_404 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7849 (C4494209) Date: 8/28/1956 Description: Mr. Corbett, age 57, was driving two miles south of Innerkip, Ontario, Canada on this night when he encountered a disc-shaped object overhead that shone a strong beam of light on his truck, then chased it for ten kilometers. Some EM effects were noted during the pursuit. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fate Magazine, December 1956, p. 11; APRO Bulletin, January 1957; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, September 1962, p. 36; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 893 Source ID: Johnson_5410 Source: Johnson ### Event 7850 (55B15871) Date: 8/28/1956 Description: 11:30 p.m. León Febres, Miguel Talavera, Jesús Prada, and Tomás Hernández are returning home in Calabozo, Venezuela, when the ground around them is lit up by a bright white light. Looking up, they see a large disc hovering silently. Several smaller objects emerge from the large disc, leaving behind a wake of phosphorescent smoke that dissipates quickly. The whole group flies off to the west in a V formation with the large object in the lead. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 74 Source ID: Eberhart_2854 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7851 (0E4AD7F5) Date: 8/29/1956 Description: [T. Townsend Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FTownsend%5FBrown) files incorporation papers for a new UFO group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena in Washington, D.C. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Toward a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/067%20OCTOBER%201971.pdf) [NICAP Began,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/067%20OCTOBER%201971.pdf)” UFO Investigator, October 1971, pp. 2–3; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Aug.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956 August](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Aug.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Aug.pdf) The Author, 1994, pp. 46–56, 82, 85; Clark III 792 Source ID: Eberhart_2855 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7852 (124162FB) Date: 8/29/1956 Description: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena organized in Washington DC Type: historical event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_147 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7853 (E6D17255) Date: 8/30/1956 Description: Day. Two RAF Gloster Javelin interceptors, one piloted by E. H. “Wilbur” Wright, are flying west over the English Channel south of the Isle of Wight, England, when one of the navigators obtains a radar return at 19 miles distance \(later calculations indicate it has a diameter of 600 feet\). The pilots get permission to abandon their test exercise and investigate the object. Wright turns north toward the object on his right wing, but it has apparently slowed down and is maintaining its position. The second Javelin pilot has caught up from behind and confirms radar and visual sightings. The two aircraft bank steeply so the object is at 15 miles dead ahead on the radar screen They close the distance to 10 miles and see that the object has a metallic gray appearance. At 8 miles distance, the object suddenly climbs vertically too fast for radar to track \(estimated at 18,000 mph\) and vanishes. After landing at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, the crews are told that ground radar at RAF Sopley \[now closed\] has tracked the object. They are ordered not to speak about the event. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Scramble, UFO!” Fortean Times 386 \(December 2019\): 26–27 Source ID: Eberhart_2856 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7854 (9D3EF196) Date: 9/1956 Description: The General Physics Laboratory of the Aeronautical Research Laboratories \(ARL\) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, launches an intense program to coordinate research into gravitational and unified field theories with the hiring of [Joshua N. Goldberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%5FN.%5FGoldberg). The precise rationale for creating the program and justifying its budgets and personnel may never be determined. Neither Goldberg nor USAF Deputy for Scientific and Technical Information [Walter Blados](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197955958/walter-roman-blados) can locate the founding documents. [Roy Kerr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%5FKerr)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%5FKerr) a former ARL scientist, says the antigravity propulsion purpose of ARL was “rubbish” and that “The only real use that the USAF made of us was when some crackpot sent them a proposal for antigravity or for converting rotary motion inside a spaceship to a translational driving system.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States gravity control propulsion research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5Fgravity%5Fcontrol%5Fpropulsion%5Fresearch\#Aerospace%5FResearch%5FLaboratories%5F.28ARL.29)” Source ID: Eberhart_2857 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7855 (9A22ACEA) Date: 9/1956 Description: Just before 8:00 a.m. A domed, disc-shaped craft allegedly lands within White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, just 150 feet away from US Highway 70. Radios and ignition systems of passing cars go dead, as witnesses—including two USAF colonels, two sergeants, and dozens of base personnel—observe the object as it takes off with a whirring sound. All personnel at Holloman AFB are assembled in a hangar, debriefed, and sworn to secrecy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ralph and Judy Blum, Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs, Bantam, 1974; Good Need, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/218/mode/2up) [219–220](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/218/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2858 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7856 (6E0CB1C5) Date: 9/1956 Time: 2030 Description: O. Guarichi was walking on the beach with his dogs when he saw an object come from the sea and land. Two men, 1.80 m tall, wearing metallic-looking uniforms, emerged. One of them picked up objects from the beach. There was an exchange of gestures with the witness. One of the dogs turned away when the witness approached the craft, which was 20 m wide 3 m high and showed flashing lights as it left. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Nachrichten Mar., 61 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cabo Frio, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_385 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7857 (F1BB95C5) Date: 9/2/1956 Description: At 4:30 a.m. a six meter long ovoid UFO hovered 5 feet over a golf course in Dayton, Ohio. It illuminated an area 40 feet wide. The sighting lasted more than 30 minutes, but the UFO vanished when the 19-year-old witness shone a light on it. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 4379; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 135; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_5566 Source: Johnson ### Event 7858 (BD4EDE82) Date: 9/3/1956 Description: At 10:00 p.m. many people on the beach in Higuerote, Venezuela watched several silent disc-shaped objects with square windows on the rim; one hovered over the sea, while another one landed on the surface of the ocean. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4771, citing APRO Bulletin, September 1956 Source ID: Johnson_5590 Source: Johnson ### Event 7859 (4812F63F) Date: 9/4/1956 Time: 9 PM Description: Witnesses: U.S. Marine Corps T/Sgt. R.D. Rogers and family. One large star, changing to red color, remained stationary for 20 minutes, then went west at 200 kts. (230 m.p.h.). Sighting lasted 23 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Dallas, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_405 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7860 (AD653ED4) Date: 9/4/1956 Description: Several fireball-like objects fly over Copenhagen, Denmark, tracked by radar at about 1,800 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 79](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=91&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2859 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7861 (C79AE378) Date: 9/4/1956 Description: Family saw a large star, changing to red color, remain stationary (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4379) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dallas, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_1971 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7862 (C24166C2) Date: 9/4/1956 Description: Radar tracking of several UFOs at about 1800 mph. (UFOE, VIII) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Source ID: NICAP_DB_1972 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7863 (23EDD670) Date: 9/5/1956 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a delta-shaped UFO with a transparent cockpit on the front passed over Kaponga, New Zealand making a hissing noise. Its wings were rounded at the ends. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bruce Cathie, Harmonic 33, p. 106 Source ID: Johnson_5650 Source: Johnson ### Event 7864 (6C30B2DE) Date: 9/6/1956 Description: White lights were seen flying erratically over Pasadena, California at 1:10 a.m. and were reported to the US Air Force by two airline pilots for Western Airlines. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, October 1956, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_5679 Source: Johnson ### Event 7865 (B8FECE12) Date: 9/6/1956 Description: Airline Pilot Reports UFO To Air Defense Command (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [560906](http://www.nicap.org/560906pasadena%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pasadena, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1973 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7866 (09C48EE4) Date: 9/7/1956 Description: A fast moving, brilliant domed disc with windows was seen in the night sky by many separate witnesses southeast of Chihuahua, Mexico. It was estimated to be about four meters in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1956 Source ID: Johnson_5715 Source: Johnson ### Event 7867 (1920A4F6) Date: 9/7/1956 Description: 12:30 p.m. Thomas J. and Maud Hutchinson watch an object drop out of low clouds and land in the middle of a bog at The Loup \(near Moneymore\), County Derry, Northern Ireland. They wade 600 feet into the bog until they come upon the small \(3 feet high, 18 inches in diameter\), red, rubbery, motionless object. There are 3 white stripes around the middle and it is pointed at both ends. Hutchinson kicks the object, which rolls over then resumes its upright position. He picks it up and is surprised at its lightness \(estimated 2 pounds\); the top is spinning while the bottom \(a small, saucer-shaped base\) remains stationary. It appears to be made of canvas-like material. They try to take it back with them, but Thomas has to put it down to negotiate a hedge, and the object takes off and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Irishman Caught a ‘Saucer,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94205175/)” The Guardian \(UK\), September 8, 1956, p. 10; Desmond Leslie, “[The Strangest UFO Case of All,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1956%2CSep-Oct%2CV%202%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1956\): 2–4; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 74–76; Clark III 328 Source ID: Eberhart_2860 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7868 (98321DBF) Date: 9/7/1956 Description: In Moneymore, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom at noon on this day a three-foot long cigar-shaped UFO landed in a nearby bog. The witness, a Mr. Hutchinson, attempted to capture it, but it began spinning and rose out of sight. It had three red stripes around the center, and a saucer-shaped base. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March-April 1963, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_5714 Source: Johnson ### Event 7869 (CB82ABC2) Date: 9/7/1956 Description: Hutchinson of Moneymore, Ireland wrestles with UFO. Disc escapes. Type: ufo encounter Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Moneymore, Ireland Source ID: Maj2_148 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7870 (A5454632) Date: 9/7/1956 Description: Test pilot [Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iven%5FCarl%5FKincheloe%5FJr) reaches an altitude of 126,283 feet in the Bell X-2. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Iven](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iven%5FCarl%5FKincheloe%5FJr) [Carl Kincheloe Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iven%5FCarl%5FKincheloe%5FJr)” Source ID: Eberhart_2861 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7871 (C587C4C4) Date: 9/7/1956 Description: An attorney and two ranch hands on a ranch 40 miles south of Twin Falls, Idaho reported watching a 200-foot diameter saucer-shaped object land near a steer. When it sped off the steer was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, July-August 1970, p. 35 Source ID: Johnson_5716 Source: Johnson ### Event 7872 (FDD35504) Date: 9/8/1956 Description: 9:30 p.m. Frank C. Clark is observing Mars with a 12.5-inch reflector in Las Cruces, New Mexico, when he sees a faint starlike object passing in a direction opposite to the apparent drift of Mars. It is visible for 10 seconds before passing out of the field. Clark moves the telescope and is able to see it again for another 10 seconds. It is a yellowish color. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank C. Clark, “[An Observation of an Unidentified Celestial Object,](http://www.the1963aristarchusevents.com/JALPO%5FVols%5F%5F10-14.pdf)” The Strolling Astronomer 10 \(May/June 1956\): 67–68 Source ID: Eberhart_2862 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7873 (9BC0D263) Date: 9/11/1956 Description: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory officially launches Operation Moonwatch, an effort to enlist amateur astronomers in tracking an artificial satellite that the US intends to launch during the International Geophysical Year. The announcement is made at a news conference by [Armand Spitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand%5FSpitz), coordinator of visual satellite observations. The program is largely the brainchild of Harvard University’s [Fred Whipple](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FLawrence%5FWhipple), who recruits [J.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) as assistant director to help with the central operation. Until professionally manned optical tracking stations \(using Baker-Nunn camera-telescopes\) come online in 1958, this network of amateur scientists and other interested citizens plays a critical role in providing crucial information on the world’s first satellites. The team records some 36 UFO reports from 1957 to 1966. The program is discontinued in 1975. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FMoonwatch) [Moonwatch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FMoonwatch)”; Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 4–5; Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 9–16, 24; Center for UFO Studies, “[Moonwatch](http://www.cufos.org/Moonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites/1958-1962%5FMoonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites.pdf) [Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962](http://www.cufos.org/Moonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites/1958-1962%5FMoonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites.pdf)” Source ID: Eberhart_2863 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7874 (2E94AE72) Date: 9/11/1956 Description: Radar sightings of “mysterious objects” during previous three weeks (Altus (Okla.) Times-Democrat; 7-11-56.) (UFOE) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baltic Sea, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_1974 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7875 (1764A03D) Date: 9/13/1956 Description: Commercial Pilots Report High Speed Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [560913](http://www.nicap.org/560913stockton%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stockton, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1975 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7876 (3C9A53A9) Date: 9/14/1956 Description: Policeman saw 14 yellow-to-red round objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4399) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Highland, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1976 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7877 (BC4511C9) Date: 9/14/1956 Description: At one o'clock in the morning in Highland, North Carolina three men, one a policeman, sighted fourteen yellow-to-red round objects giving off a tremendous exhaust and flew in a vague formation from southwest to east to northeast and back again, while swooping up and down. The sighting lasted 1.5 hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5950 Source: Johnson ### Event 7878 (677E56F4) Date: 9/14/1956 Time: 1 AM Description: Witness: Scaly, N. Car. policeman O.S. Gryman. Fourteen yellow-to-red round objects with tremendous exhaust, flew in a Vague formation from southwest to east to northeast and back again, while swoooping up and down. Sighting lasted 1.5 hours. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Highland, North Carolina Source ID: BerlinerBBU_406 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7879 (3BDB2A48) Date: 9/15/1956 Description: About 6:30 a.m. A married couple is driving in Salem, Indiana, when they notice a saucer hovering about 100 feet away in a field by the road. They stop the car and get out for a better look. The object is gunmetal gray in color and looks like two shallow bowls with a dark gap between them. Wisps of smoke are coming from the gap. The object looks as large as the town’s courthouse. It begins undulating as it hovers. After 5 minutes, it tips over on its edge and vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_2864 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7880 (80ED59CC) Date: 9/20/1956 Description: The witness was sitting on the bank of a pond on a sunny day in Hope, Arkansas when at twelve noon he observed nine silver saucers that appeared at a very high altitude in the sky. The sighting lasted 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded to September 1956 webpage on April 16, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_6123 Source: Johnson ### Event 7881 (49E054E6) Date: 9/22/1956 Description: 7:50 p.m. An amateur astronomer in Williston, North Dakota, sees a dull-metallic, elliptical object the size of a small plane, oscillating side to side as it moves at 150 mph above the Missouri River. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Williston \(N.Dak.\) Plains Register, September 22, 1956; Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “[A 1956 Military Aircraft–UFO](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm) [Close Encounter,](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 25 Source ID: Eberhart_2865 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7882 (82CAD523) Date: 9/22/1956 Description: At 7:50 p.m. Mr. Borrud, an amateur astronomer, sighted a dull metallic elliptical object over Williston, North Dakota. It was the size of a small airplane, and it oscillated in a side-to-side motion as it moved above the Missouri River. The estimated speed of the craft was 150 miles per hour, and the sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, November 1956, p. 3; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 79; Richard F. Haines, International UFO Reporter, April 2000, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_6221 Source: Johnson ### Event 7883 (9DDDDA2B) Date: Fall 1956 Description: A man in Falls City, Nebraska, sees a winged human with a demonic face that approaches him from three blocks away. It is about 8–9 feet tall and approaches him closely, hovering in the air about 25 feet away. As it passes over him, the man feels numb and paralyzed. The episode haunts him for the next 23 years when he talks to an investigator. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 778 Source ID: Eberhart_2868 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7884 (ACC9E22B) Date: Fall 1956 Description: More than 30 pilots, navigators, and flight engineers are on their way home from special duty in Europe on a US Navy Super Constellation transport. When they are about 50 miles northeast of Gander, Newfoundland, the pilot notices a cluster of lights beneath the aircraft. Suddenly, the lights dim and spread out, the largest light ascending on an apparent collision course with the transport. As it reaches the plane’s altitude, it tilts, shoots to one side, and paces them at a distance of 300 feet. It is a huge metallic disc, 30 feet thick at the center and 350–400 feet wide, with a blurry glow around the rim. Gradually it pulls ahead, tilts upward, accelerates, and zooms away in 5–8 seconds. Gander Airport confirms that it had a radar target near them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 16–19; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 78–84; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 104–106 Source ID: Eberhart_2867 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7885 (88DD0555) Date: Fall 1956 Alternate date: Winter 1956 Description: Shortly after 12:00 noon. An Air Force Convair RB-36H of the 28th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing based at Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota, captained by Lt. C. Lenny Marquis, is flying in northern South Dakota at 423 mph when one of the crew sees a metallic disc 100 feet in diameter fly toward the airplane from the left and take up a fixed position on the left wing less than 300 feet away. Other crew members rush to the portholes to take photos. The object has a low dome at the top with three round openings or light sources. The bottom is nearly flat. Its narrow vertical sides are populated by many separate light sources, each a different color. The rest of the disc is a “light golden” hue. After 5–8 minutes, the object suddenly accelerates in parallel with the B-36 and then rises about 30° above the horizontal. The peripheral lights become brighter and turn greenish as it speeds out of sight in several seconds. Both inflight and ground radars detect the object. Substitute navigator Lt. Jimmie Lloyd says the crew turned in all photos, logs, and equipment to an intelligence unit after landing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “[A 1956 Military Aircraft–UFO Close Encounter,](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 22–25 Source ID: Eberhart_2869 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7886 (A36D1168) Date: 9/24/1956 Description: Two 10 meter wide disc-shaped objects were observed at 300 meters altitude in Gibston, Tennessee at 5:30 a.m. One hovered while the other rocked back and forth. They both had a dark circle around their rims. They suddenly shot off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: September-October, p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_6284 Source: Johnson ### Event 7887 (FBB3B195) Date: 9/25/1956 Description: [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield)’s wife [Adelia](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200546241/adelia%5Fdell%5F-stringfield) observes several white tufts of angel’s hair floating down in the front yard of their home in Cincinnati, Ohio. She places it in an airtight jar. After the Stringfields contact the Air Force, M/Sgt Oliver D. Hill retrieves the sample on October 12. Analysis was done by C. G. Cocks and L. Leatherland, who find that the fibers are “multifilament bundles” that are characteristic of “regenerated cellulose fibers, either viscose or cuprammonium rayon,” perhaps from a defective filter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 102–103 Source ID: Eberhart_2866 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7888 (0477F783) Date: 9/25/1956 Description: Pilot saw 2 delta-shaped objects flying S under the right wing (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grand Rapids, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_1977 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7889 (6CDA0362) Date: 9/30/1956 Description: On this evening several UFOs were observed over Cherry Valley, Illinois by Mr. & Mrs. L. L Leonard, and afterward "angel hair", in the form of a spider web-like substance, was found floating to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stringfield Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, pp. 49-50; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 101; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 57 Source ID: Johnson_6440 Source: Johnson ### Event 7890 (885723E1) Date: 10/1956 Description: Karl L. Veit founds the Deutsche UFO/IFO-Studiengemeinschaft in Wiesbaden, Germany, which publishes the newspaper-format UFO-Nachrichten. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[60 Jahre](https://www.ufo-nachrichten.net/ufo-nachrichten/jubilaeum.html) [UFO-Nachrichten,](https://www.ufo-nachrichten.net/ufo-nachrichten/jubilaeum.html)” 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_2870 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7891 (FF33C198) Date: 10/1956 Description: October 1956; Oslo, Norway. Motorist felt "prickly sensation," wristwatch magnetized when UFO flew in front of car and hovered over road (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oslo, Norway Source ID: NICAP_DB_1978 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7892 (F4B7ED19) Date: 10/2/1956 Description: 3:45 a.m. Harry J. Sturdevant is on duty as a night watchman at Herbert Elkin and Company, a construction firm in Trenton, New Jersey. He sees a cigar-shaped object some 60–100 feet long and 15 feet in diameter swiftly descending toward him. Emitting a red glow, the object is making a hissing noise like steam and generating a foul odor. It swoops past him and vanishes. He loses his sense of taste and smell, possibly permanently. His face is burned to the point where he cannot shave for two weeks. He begins to lose hearing in his right ear. When he returns to work the next day, he finds leaves on the ground that have burned up like tissue paper. Sturdevant applies for workmen’s compensation from the state for his medical expenses. An adjudicator awards him the money based on the fact that he may have only thought he saw something, but was injured when he went to investigate it, which his job required. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Emil Sloboda, “He Collected on a Flying Saucer,” Fate 10, no. 6 \(June 1957\): 66–69; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_2871 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7893 (26090BF4) Date: 10/2/1956 Description: Harry Sturdevant, a night watchman of some 20 years, said, “a red light in the sky shot at him. This UFO had no wings, fins or propulsion sounds, except for the sound of “escaping steam”. It was about 60 to 100 ft. in diam. and cigar shaped. The UFO gave him “the greatest shock of my life”. There was a nauseating smell like sulfur and brimstone. He lost the sense of taste and smell and couldn’t swallow properly. He collapsed on the ground and was unable to move for half an hour, after which he managed to drive to his home and call for aid. Six weeks later, a New Jersey workmen’s compensation referee decided that Sturdevant should be paid for medical expenses incurred for the injury done by the UFO. Type: ufo sighting with injury Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Trenton, NJ Source ID: Maj2_566 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7894 (8067ED76) Date: 10/6/1956 Description: USAF witness Pollock. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) GCA Targets Big As B36's (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [561006](http://www.nicap.org/561006essexdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wetherfield, Essex, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_1979 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7895 (5213E96A) Date: 10/7/1956 Description: 10:45 p.m. UFO reports by police and civilians around Merced, California, reach Castle AFB \[now Castle Airport Aviation and Development Center\] and a lighted elliptical object about 100–120 feet in diameter is seen by the tower. Two interceptors are scrambled. The object ducks under and above a narrow cloud bank. The pilots can see it from various angles and as close as a few hundred yards. It appears to be a flattened circular shape. The pilots decide to fly one above and one below the overcast. Ground radar picks up the planes but not the UFO. One pilot breaks off to return but sees that the UFO is now chasing his buddy’s plane. Several officers arrive from another base to debrief the pilots and they appear very knowledgeable about UFOs. They seek “confirmation, not information” and tell the pilots not to discuss the sighting at all. Citizen witnesses are told the pilots were chasing ducks or geese. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956 November–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Nov-Dec.pdf) [December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Nov-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1994, pp. 52, 59; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 242–244; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 239 Source ID: Eberhart_2872 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7896 (7B8FF619) Date: 10/10/1956 Description: At 10:30 p.m. three balls of light flew from north to south over Villamassargia, Sardegna, Italy and then circled an arriving 60 foot long cigar-shaped object. There were several witnesses, and the sighting lasted 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1963, p. 3; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 82; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 45 Source ID: Johnson_6708 Source: Johnson ### Event 7897 (EAC86810) Date: Late 1956 Description: Cat.9/11. Luminous elliptical object and two F-86's, radar. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Castle AFB, nr. Modesto, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2001 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7898 (7BAEE85E) Date: Late 1956 Description: UFO filmed by AF crew. Radar. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Between N. Dakota and S. Dakota, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_2002 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7899 (E805C4FF) Date: Late 1956 Description: Castle AFB, California: A.A. and J.R. (names withheld) were flying F-86’s near Modesto, CA, on alert duty due to civilian UFO reports in a nearby town. Base instructed them to return because their was an UFO near the control tower. With afterburners on they closed rapidly on a luminous elliptical UFO that moved above and below cloud cover at 10 to 12 thousand feet as if to elude them. The two pilots played cat-and-mouse with the UFO until they ran low of fuel and returned to base. Local citizens that witnessed these events were told by the Air Force that the pilots had been chasing ducks or geese. Type: movie Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Castle AFB, CA Source ID: Maj2_565 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7900 (ABA5F3E7) Date: 10/17/1956 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) F-86's Had Radar Contact With Slow-Moving Objects (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [561017](http://www.nicap.org/561017wheelus%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wheelus AFB, Tripoli, Libya Source ID: NICAP_DB_1980 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7901 (3FDC2321) Date: 10/19/1956 Description: NICAP’s initial board of governors includes [T. Townsend Brown](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Brown.htm) \(founder\), [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29), Leon C. LeVan, [Albert H. Baller](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Baller.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Baller.htm) [Charles A.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129667039/charles-a%5F-maney) [Maney](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Maney.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Maney.htm) [Talbot T. Speer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130100340/talbot-taylor-speer)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130100340/talbot-taylor-speer) [Abraham M. Sonnabend](https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-Sonnabend/6000000040289386820)[,](https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-Sonnabend/6000000040289386820) Col. [Robert B. Emerson](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Emerson.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Emerson.htm) Rear Adm. [Delmer S.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Fahrney%5FD.htm) [Fahrney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130744428/delmer-stater-fahrney)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130744428/delmer-stater-fahrney) Gen. [William E. Kepner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FEllsworth%5FKepner)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FEllsworth%5FKepner) and Brig. Gen. [Thomas B.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10755048/thomas-benton-catron) Catron. Gladys Rose Hackett and Margaret Naylor are hired to do secretarial work, and [Martin H. Heflin](https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/28/archives/martin-heflin-rites.html) is hired as public relations specialist. The headquarters are at 1536 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Incorporation is granted on October 24. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Toward a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How NICAP Began,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/067%20OCTOBER%201971.pdf)” UFO Investigator, October 1971, p. 3; Clark III 792; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956 September–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Sept-Oct.pdf) [October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Sept-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Sept-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1994, pp. 77–78 Source ID: Eberhart_2873 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7902 (AEDEFFDD) Date: 10/24/1956 Description: NICAP established. One of its board of directors was Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, former CIA director and rumored MJ-12 member. From this position Hillenkoetter and others could steeer NICAP from the inside in any direction they wanted. Type: historical event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_567 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7903 (71E81ADC) Date: 10/28/1956 Description: October 28, 1956; Minot, North Dakota, photos by missile crew, radar (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_1981 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7904 (721F32CC) Date: 10/28/1956 Description: October 28, 1956; Minot, N. Dakota, Missile base, RV, Photo, EM (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_1983 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7905 (17A7C0C7) Date: 10/28/1956 Description: A bright red-orange object was seen by a B-52 crew flying over North Dakota. At same time a missile maintenance man at Minot AFB saw the same or a similar bright orange-red UFO. The B-52 was vectored closer by the base which was tracking the object on radar, some 30 miles to the northwest of the base. The search for the UFO, which may have landed, was complicated by a period of unexplained radio interference. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, Hynek UFO Report, p. 137; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1991; UNICAT, case # 274 Source ID: Johnson_7222 Source: Johnson ### Event 7906 (19A3C245) Date: 10/28/1956 Description: Oct 28, 1956; Minot, ND, photo from missile crew, RV (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_1982 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7907 (7C3EBAEC) Date: 10/29/1956 Description: [Howard Menger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FMenger), a sign painter from High Bridge, New Jersey, goes public on the [Long John Nebel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%5FJohn%5FNebel) show on WOR-AM in New York City with a story of his contacts with “Aryan-type” Venusians in spaceships. Menger reports that his contacts started in childhood, when he experienced flashbacks of life on another world and sightings of flying discs. In 1932 he met a beautiful blonde woman who could read his mind, and in 1946 he again sees her stepping out of a flying saucer. She is supposedly 500 years old, although she looks 25. Many contacts follow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 738 Source ID: Eberhart_2874 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7908 (F029186A) Date: 11/1956 Description: Flat oval object with three window-like markings on underside flew low, through searchlight beam. (UFOE, XII) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Malibu, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1984 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7909 (44295279) Date: 11/1/1956 Time: 5:30 PM Description: Witness: USAF Capt. W..M. Lyons, Intelligence Division Chief (Aerial Weather Reconnaissance Officer), flying a T-33 jet trainer. One orange light with a blue tinge, flew across the sky for 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 60 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri, in Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_407 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7910 (531A5156) Date: 11/1/1956 Description: H. S. Yellow Object Observed By T-33 Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 4489) Reference: NICAP: [561101](http://www.nicap.org/561101stlouis%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Louis (60 miles east of), MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_1985 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7911 (E05CC02B) Date: 11/4/1956 Description: NICAP issues its first news release. [T. Townsend Brown](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Brown.htm) emphasizes the group’s “growing membership of responsible citizens from every walk of life and profession” and stresses that “there does exist more than enough evidence of certain and obvious aerial phenomena to justify independent evaluation.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Project](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%5FSelected%5FDocuments/Press%20Releases%20%26%20Clippings/1956%5F11%5F04%5FNewsRelease%5F1.jpg) [Skylight,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%5FSelected%5FDocuments/Press%20Releases%20%26%20Clippings/1956%5F11%5F04%5FNewsRelease%5F2.jpg)” November 4, 1956 Source ID: Eberhart_2875 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7912 (FB4E05BD) Date: 11/4/1956 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Two Objects Tracked By Ground Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [561104](http://www.nicap.org/561104pointarena%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Point Arena, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1986 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7913 (81ACD180) Date: 11/5/1956 Description: A huge round object with sharply outlined edges passed overhead in Malvern, South Africa at 8:30 p.m. The flying object made no sound as it flew into a cloud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4816, citing Flying Saucer Review, Volume 3, No. 1 Source ID: Johnson_7468 Source: Johnson ### Event 7914 (F585E4AA) Date: 11/8/1956 Description: A UFO flap covering the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota began on November 8, 1956. The sightings occurred during nearly every hour of the day and night and continued until December 2, 1956. More than 85 separate sighting reports from some 60 different localities were received from this three state area. Due to the unusually large number of reports, it was possible in some instances to determine that the same UFO or UFOs were seen in widely separate places. At other times the sighting reports suggested that a large number of different objects were aloft at the same time.

The flurry of UFO reports began with a sighting in Dickinson, South Dakota. Farmer Laudie Dvorak was driving into his farmyard about 8:30 p.m., on this date when he glanced up and saw what at first appeared to be a falling star, off to the north. But in a few seconds it seemed to be "right in front of me." He thought it might be an airplane, but it wasn't. "It went too fast," Dvorak said, "even for a jet - maybe 800 to 1000 miles per hour. It was just a streak through the buttes as it approached from the north and traveled in a southerly direction." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, Looking Back November 1956, National UFO Reporting Center website Source ID: Johnson_7529 Source: Johnson ### Event 7915 (E9453504) Date: 11/8/1956 Description: While the UFOs were busy over the northern Plain States they surprised a few people in southern Florida as well. About nine a.m. on November 8th, several witnesses in Coco Beach, Florida observed two UFOs move in behind an F-100 jet fighter. Through 7x50 binoculars, and also with the naked eye, they watched as the jet moved across the sky at about 1250 miles per hour. The UFO came up fast and the jet pilot made a tight turn, but couldn't catch the object. It was learned later that the same object was seen earlier pursuing a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral.

About two hours after the UFO pursued the jet and rocket, a mysterious object which apparently played tag off the tip of Florida for several minutes before shooting into space at 4000 miles per hour was reported by a Pan American World Airways radar expert. Donald Freestone said he picked up the UFO while testing weather radar equipment in the FAA shops at Miami International Airport. Surprised by the unexpected target return on the screen, he called fellow employees. Six of his colleagues confirmed the finding. None knew what it was. "I didn't believe in such things before," said Freestone. "But after this happened, I got some books and read up on it. Now I'm convinced it was something that is out of our experience, so far as aircraft is concerned."

Freestone said the UFO was "four to five times larger than any aircraft observed in the past." It appeared to be egg-shaped or oval-shaped, and to have a double pattern resembling an hourglass or figure eight. The radar expert said he was working on a Bendix RDR-lA weather radar which FAA uses in some planes to spot bad weather ahead. It is capable of "seeing" storms and thunderstorms 150 miles in the path of planes. With the radar at "zero tilt" - that is, pointed straight out, Freestone first saw the UFO. "It appeared at approximately 65 miles southwest of Miami, at an altitude of between 7000 and 8000 feet. It disappeared and reappeared several times. I found that by turning the antenna tilt up, it could be brought back on the screen. It disappeared once at 70 miles and reappeared at about 55 miles, then moved back to 70 miles. The speed was estimated at 550 to 650 miles per hour."

"It then moved in to 50 miles and remained stationary for two to three minutes. Then it began going off in the south-southwest direction it had come from. One time it was noticed that the target moved 20 miles in about six sweeps or rotations of the antenna, which rotates at a speed of 20 times a minute. (Calculations indicate that this showed a flying speed of about 4000 miles per hour.) The object was last observed at about 100 miles from Miami, still moving south-southwest. It was on the radar screen for about 20 minutes from 11:15 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. From the returns the target appeared fairly large, being four to five times larger than any normal aircraft. It had a definite shape and moved on a definite course. Homestead Air Force Base, south of Miami, Florida was placed on an "alert status." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, Looking Back, November 1956, National UFO Reporting Center website Source ID: Johnson_7530 Source: Johnson ### Event 7916 (19C50A97) Date: 11/8/1956 Description: November 8, 1956; Miami, Florida, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1987 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7917 (DEA03F3A) Date: 11/9/1956 Description: A long, narrow, fuselage-shaped object with a series of bright orange lights was sighted by an airman flying over Destin, Florida at 6:00 p.m. in a U.S. Air Force RF-84F aircraft from the 3242rd reconaisance squadron. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: November-December, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_7563 Source: Johnson ### Event 7918 (EA160F1A) Date: 11/9/1956 Description: Pilot saw a long narrow object with a series of bright orange lights (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Destin, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1988 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7919 (3C9249D5) Date: 11/11/1956 Description: Objects Seen & Tracked For Eight Hours (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [561111](http://www.nicap.org/561111eltoro%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1989 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7920 (6AA63C62) Date: 11/11/1956 Description: At around 10 pm. in the town of Vaddo, near Stockholm, Sweden a car's engine and headlights died when a gray, elliptical flattened sphere came down over the road in front of the vehicle and landed nearby. There were two witnesses inside the car, Mr. Edberg and Mr. Sjoberg. A three-sided piece of metal about the size of a matchbox was found at the landing site. Metalurgical analysis revealed that it was 94.86% tungsten. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_7594 Source: Johnson ### Event 7921 (B40ABD54) Date: 11/11/1956 Description: 10:00 p.m. Stig Ekberg and Harry Sjöberg are building a house on the island of Väddö, about 56 miles northwest of Stockholm, Sweden. Ekberg is driving his Ford V8 pickup when they see a bright flying object with the shape of a flattened sphere 24 feet wide and 9 feet high approaching from the east. It moves about a half mile in front of them at an altitude of 300 feet. As it makes a sharp turn toward them, the truck engine sputters and dies and the headlights go out. The object starts “slowly gliding down,” rocks back and forth, and comes to a stop in the middle of the road, about 300 feet in front of them, 3 feet above the ground. The object illuminates the surrounding landscape with such a tremendous amount of light that a nearby barn is clearly visible. The air smells of ozone and smoldering insulation. After about 10 minutes the object gets brighter, lifts off the ground, moves to the left and up, makes a sudden turn, and speeds away in the direction it had come. Ekberg restarts the truck and the headlights come back on. Seeing that the grass at the landing site is flattened, they investigate further and find a shiny rock that is hot to the touch. It is a heavy, three-sided piece of metal about the size of a matchbox. After several unsuccessful attempts to have the sample studied, it is taken to the Saab aircraft company where Sven Schalin conducts a thorough analysis. Other tests are later run in laboratories in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany. The general conclusion is that the rock is composed of tungsten carbide and cobalt, consistent with manufactured products. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, “[Physical Analyses in Ten Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F2.pdf) [Samples,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F2.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 \(1998\): 365–366 Source ID: Eberhart_2876 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7922 (E836F552) Date: 11/14/1956 Description: 10:10 p.m. Captain [William Joseph Hull](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166663770/willam-j%5F-hull) and his copilot Peter H. Macintosh are flying Capital Airlines Flight 77 from New York City to Mobile, Alabama. While approximately above Jackson, Alabama, they see something like a brilliant meteor flash by the aircraft. The object stops, hovers, and engages in a range of acrobatics \(crazy gyrations, lazy 8’s, square chandeliers\) for several minutes before shooting out over the Gulf of Mexico at “fantastic speed.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sign Historical Group, “[Captain Joe Hull’s UFO Sighting](https://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/nash%5Fhull%5Fletters.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 127–129](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/126/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 240; Swords 230–231 Source ID: Eberhart_2877 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7923 (E35A5C2A) Date: 11/14/1956 Description: Capital Airlines Pilots Sees Acrobatic UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [561114](http://www.nicap.org/561114jackson%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jackson, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_1990 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7924 (544E45C4) Date: 11/14/1956 Description: Luminous object descended, hovered in front of airliner, then sped away at upward angle Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Mobile, AL Source ID: HallUFOE2_3 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 7925 (4B46C04C) Date: 11/16/1956 Description: Morning. Telephones and an automatic railroad block mechanism in Lemmon, South Dakota, fail to operate as a glowing red object about 3 feet in diameter flies over the railroad yards. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mobridge \(S.Dak.\) Tribune, November 22, 1956; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 21–22; Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “[A 1956 Military Aircraft–](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm) [UFO Close Encounter,](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 25 Source ID: Eberhart_2878 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7926 (A89E8CA7) Date: 11/16/1956 Description: November 16, 1956; Lemmon, S.D. Railroad phones, automatic block system "mysteriously dead" as UFO passed over railroad yards (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lemmon, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1991 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7927 (853C3483) Date: 11/19/1956 Description: V-formation of blue-white, elliptical UFOs. (UFOE, X) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [561119](http://www.nicap.org/frankfurt561119dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Frankfurt, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_1992 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7928 (EA910726) Date: 11/21/1956 Description: 8:23 p.m. A customs officer named Ueda and a maritime safety officer named Kume are walking along Number 1 Pier, Kobe, Japan, when they hear an explosion. They see something resembling fireworks on the bay and watch as two whirling balls of fire submerge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sanderson, [InvRes](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs), p. 46 Source ID: Eberhart_2879 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7929 (661CF425) Date: 11/21/1956 Description: On this night in 1956, six Civil Air Patrol members and a service station attendant who was fixing their car's flat tire watched a rectangular-shaped object fly in the southeast sky near Carlstadt, New Jersey. It glowed orange. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Morris K. Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 337 Source ID: Johnson_7768 Source: Johnson ### Event 7930 (A3E87EF0) Date: 11/24/1956 End date: 11/25/1956 Description: Ground/air/visual. Widespread UFO sightings for several days. State police chased UFO, Air Force jets scrambled. (UFOE, VII) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [561124-25](http://www.nicap.org/561124pierre%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pierre (near), SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1993 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7931 (0F166BCE) Date: 11/25/1956 Description: 4:30 a.m. Police radio at Hot Springs, South Dakota, picks up transmissions made by a jet interceptor from the 54th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City that makes three passes at a brilliantly lit UFO bobbing up and down in the sky. On the third pass, the pilot reports that the object registers on his radar. It is rumored that a blip is picked up on ground radar by the 740th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron. A sheriff and deputy at Rapid City watch a green stationary UFO with a flashing red light for 30 minutes; an upward-shining white light appears at intervals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Gnd/Air/Visual, Jets Scrambled](http://www.nicap.org/561124pierre%5Fdir.htm)”; “[‘Saucers’ Stir](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94021254/) [Speculation,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94021254/)” Rapid City \(S.Dak.\) Daily Journal, November 26, 1956, p. 1; “[Hills Residents](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94021274/) [Tell of Shining](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94021296/) [Objects,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94021296/)” Rapid City \(S.Dak.\) Daily Journal, November 26, 1956, pp. 1, 7; Pierre \(S.Dak.\) Capitol Journal, November 26, 1956; UFOEv, [pp. 22](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=34&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=34&skin=2021) [79](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=91&skin=2021); Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “[A 1956 Military Aircraft–UFO](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm) [Close Encounter,](http://www.nicap.org/IURhaines1956.htm)” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 25 Source ID: Eberhart_2880 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7932 (2354CBEF) Date: 11/25/1956 Description: At 4:30 a.m. near Hot Springs, South Dakota a USAF fighter jet from the 54th Fighter Squadron made three passes at a brilliantly lit UFO that was bobbing up and down. On the third pass the UFO was picked up on radar by the 740th ACW squadron. East of Pierre, South Dakota on highway 34, two police officers sight a UFO that plays a game of cat-and-mouse tag with their patrol car. At around 7 p.m. on the same day Mary Whelan was walking a colt on her farm in Reading, Minnesota when it was spooked by six disc-shaped objects that flew over in a semi-circle. Others horses were also frightened when these UFOs made 5-6 more passes in formation following the same maneuver. The discs gave off a green light as they flew past. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Minneapolis Star, November 28, 1956; Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, January 1957, p. 2; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 47 Source ID: Johnson_7903 Source: Johnson ### Event 7933 (B40FEABD) Date: 11/25/1956 Description: November 25, 1956; Hot Springs, So. Dakota, G,A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hot Springs, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_1994 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7934 (3084A79A) Date: 11/28/1956 Description: A strange customer in John Whitworth's shop in Biggelswade, England, someone with a very high forehead, told him that he could see a flying saucer if he would go to a certain spot on this night. Whitworth went there and did see a hovering object like a humming top, with lighted portholes. Just one year later the visitor returned and told him he would again have a contact this time, at another spot. Whitworth went with a crowd of others, including a BBC recording van, and was disappointed. Later he received a telephone call, “in an unearthly voice,” which reproached him for bringing the others. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1956-12, citing Flying Saucer Review, Volume 4, issue # 3, July 1958, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_7984 Source: Johnson ### Event 7935 (62E1E0E0) Date: 11/29/1956 Description: A milky green saucer-shaped object was seen by two men from a Capital Airlines flight northeast of Hickory, North Carolina. It was between 60 and 100 feet in diameter, and remained motionless for awhile, and then began moving. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_8028 Source: Johnson ### Event 7936 (6269C441) Date: 11/30/1956 Description: Driving on Highway 61 three miles south of Petersburg, Indiana a Mr. Malott had a close encounter with a small UFO flying at low level at noon CST. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, February 1957, p. 1; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 84 Source ID: Johnson_8067 Source: Johnson ### Event 7937 (A72E6A29) Date: 11/30/1956 Time: 12:48 PM Description: Witness: USAF aerial navigator Maj. D.D. Grimes. One unspecified object flew at an estimated 100' altitude over water for 10 minutes. No further details. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Charleston AFB, South Carolina Source ID: BerlinerBBU_408 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 7938 (104B186F) Date: 11/30/1956 Description: At 12:48 p.m. U.S. Air Force aerial navigator Maj. D. D. Grimes saw an unidentified object fly at an estimated 100 feet altitude over water from Charleston AFB, South Carolina. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 4543; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_8066 Source: Johnson ### Event 7939 (EB14187B) Date: 11/30/1956 Description: At 8:00 p.m. in Kettering, Northhampton, England a disc-shaped object with a hole in the center flew by at jet speed, shooting off to the northeast. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4842, citing Flying Saucer Review Source ID: Johnson_8065 Source: Johnson ### Event 7940 (DE233D6C) Date: 11/30/1956 Description: Unspecified object fly at an estimated 100 ft altitude over water (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4543) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charleston AFB, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_1995 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7941 (357F3FF4) Date: 12/1956 Description: December 1956; Far East, A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Far East, Asia Source ID: NICAP_DB_1997 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7942 (955434E3) Date: 12/1956 Description: December 1956, Far East. Visual & radar sighting of round UFO by Air Force jet pilot. Radar jammed by strong Interference (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Far East, Asia Source ID: NICAP_DB_1996 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7943 (406191DD) Date: 12/1956 Description: Chemical engineer [Leon Davidson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%5FDavidson) begins to distribute privately printed copies of Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, together with his analysis and commentary. He has become convinced that UFOs are secret devices developed by the US government and that Special Report No. 14 is a clever attempt to hide the fact. Mostly, however, he focuses on discrepancies in the Air Force’s public announcements and the actual data in the report. Davidson publishes further editions in October 1957, July 1966, January 1971, and 1976. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leon Davidson, [Flying Saucers: An Analysis of Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14](http://cufos.org/books/Air%5FForce%5FProject%5FBlue%5FBook%5FSpecial%5FReport%5F14R.pdf), \[1956\], 3d ed., Ramsey-Wallace, 1966; Clark III 930 Source ID: Eberhart_2881 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7944 (938FD26E) Date: 12/1/1956 Description: In Valley City, North Dakota at 1:20 a.m. in 1956, a round, reddish UFO caused interference on a police radio while being observed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Source ID: Johnson_8101 Source: Johnson ### Event 7945 (CB70564D) Date: 12/1/1956 Description: 12:20 a.m. A round object, red to orange in color, is observed moving at approximately 1,000 foot above Valley City, North Dakota. It moves rapidly up, down, sideways, and hovers. A police car approaches it, but the car loses radio contact with the station. Valley City also loses contact with Jamestown, South Dakota. All radio contact returns after the object leaves the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, \[[Blue Book file](http://www.nicap.org/docs/561201valleycity%5Fdocs.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_2882 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7946 (102C1C8E) Date: 12/2/1956 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a luminous ovoid object maneuvered in the sky, descended, and then ascended to a somewhat higher altitude in Forest Lake, Minnesota. The witness, Mr. Moffett, chased it in his car. The UFO flew to the east slowly, then turned toward the south and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, March 1957, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_8122 Source: Johnson ### Event 7947 (90608AB9) Date: 12/2/1956 Description: [Dorothy Martin](https://web.archive.org/web/20180819041022/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/May-2011/Dorothy-Martin-the-Chicagoan-Who-Predicted-the-End-of-the-World-and-Inspired-the-Theory-of-Cognitive-Dissonance/) sets off from Prescott, Arizona, with the Laugheads, ufologist brothers [Ray](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/tireless-tracker-rewrote-the-book-on-dinosaurs-in-maryland/2012/04/17/gIQARzRcTT%5Fstory.html) and [Rex G.](http://archived.parapsych.org/psiexplorer/rexstanford.htm) [Stanford](http://archived.parapsych.org/psiexplorer/rexstanford.htm), and [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson), his wife Betty, and toddler son Mark. They are acting in response to a series of Williamson channelings that had begun April 18 when Lord Aramu-Muru announced that “those we have commissioned” are to establish a priory of the Brotherhood of the Seven Rays “in a remote area of another country to the south.” After spending some time in Mexico, they head for Moyobamba, Peru, under the direction of their spirit masters. The Laugheads \(who apparently were in Mexico in July\) and Stanfords leave around this time. After a while, those remaining move to the Valley of Pariahuanca east of Lima, Peru, and set up the Outer Retreat of the Monastery of the Seven Rays, which has some cult-like attributes. There they attract new members, including Williamson’s later coauthor John McCoy. Williamson devotes himself for several years to paranormally guided archaeological expeditions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 719–720, 1286; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 105–115 Source ID: Eberhart_2883 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7948 (3C68B7AF) Date: 12/3/1956 Description: In 1956 a disc paced a transport plane over Baltimore, Maryland for a short while, then broke away, spinning counterclockwise. The plane attempted to follow the UFO but was unable to keep up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, February 1957, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_8158 Source: Johnson ### Event 7949 (16CD9E5A) Date: 12/10/1956 Description: 2:00 p.m. A US Air Force pilot sees a silver object with a “straight wing, having engine rods or large wing pods \[or\] intakes” flying at 56,000–62,000 feet for 15 minutes at Victoria, Texas. The pilot’s description is a dead ringer for a secret U-2 aircraft, which is what Blue Book suspects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “The U-2 Spy Plane and Blue Book: Another Look,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 20–21 Source ID: Eberhart_2884 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7950 (E0571A34) Date: 12/10/1956 Description: Three teenagers sighted a round, silver football that hovered silently over a Railroad Station in Tsurumi, Japan for a couple of minutes, then shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Y. Matsumura, APRO Bulletin, January 1957 Source ID: Johnson_8296 Source: Johnson ### Event 7951 (B6871226) Date: 12/13/1956 Description: Capt. Karl Hars Dersson and the crew of the Danish ship [Dorthe Maersk](https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/396230/cat/503) view an intensely bright fireball giving off weird flashes of light for 2–3 minutes north of Isla La Orchila, Venezuela. It explodes on hitting the water. Afterwards, the surface of the sea shimmers with various colors and is disturbed for 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956 November–December, Supplemental](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Nov-Dec-SN.pdf) [Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Nov-Dec-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1956-Nov-Dec-SN.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 39–40 Source ID: Eberhart_2885 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7952 (6958D7B1) Date: 12/15/1956 Description: 11:00 a.m. While out gathering Christmas greens near Derry, New Hampshire, A. G. Horne looks up and sees a 2-foot tall green dwarf with a high-domed head, floppy ears, a face like a bloodhound, and lidless eyes like a snake. His skin hangs in folds like an elephant’s. After a few minutes, the being “started for me with a kind of screeching sound,” and Horne flees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1956](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1956.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1956.pdf) p. 23; Clark III 271 Source ID: Eberhart_2886 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7953 (13A5A771) Date: 12/15/1956 Description: While out gathering Christmas trees around 11:00 o’clock in the morning in Derry, New Hampshire, a Mr. Horne saw a two-foot tall, green colored dwarf, with a high forehead, large floppy ears, and short arms and legs. The texture of the creature’s skin was course, like the skin of an elephant. The dwarf made a screeching noise when approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter N. Webb case investigations, report dated November 4, 1964 Source ID: Johnson_8406 Source: Johnson ### Event 7954 (B1360B3F) Date: 12/17/1956 Description: Radar / Visual From F-86 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [561217](http://www.nicap.org/561217itazuke%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Itazuke AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_1998 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7955 (5FC2D9D7) Date: 12/17/1956 Description: 4:20 p.m. Near Itazuke Air Base \[now Fukuoka Airport\] in Fukuoka, Japan, a USAF pilot flying an F- 86D interceptor picks up a large blip on airborne radar. The pilot sees a tan object, round on top, at 9.2 miles and closes to within 5.7 miles. The object starts to pull away from the fighter and at 13.8 miles all radar disappears. The pilot estimates its speed as 1,700–2,000 mph. Both the pilot and his wingman report interference resembling ECM \(radar jamming\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Radar/Visual from F-86](http://www.nicap.org/561217itazuke%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 240; “Jet Planes Chased Big Flying Object,” Auckland \(N.Z.\) Star, October 4, 1957; “[Jet Chase of Large Circular Object Investigated by Far East Air](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/002%20AUG-SEPT%201957.pdf) [Force,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/002%20AUG-SEPT%201957.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 2 \(Aug./Sept. 1957\): 1–2; Richard Hall, “Radar/Visual UFOs and Air Force Debunking,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(May/June 1993\): 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_2887 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7956 (CF480953) Date: 12/17/1956 Description: Night. Marie Carow goes outside her home in Conashaugh, Pennsylvania, with a flashlight and discovers two little men, 3.5 and 3 feet tall, standing motionless in her back lawn. Both wear helmets and snug-fitting suits of silvery material. Carow shines the light on them for 3 minutes, then runs back to tell her husband. 15 minutes later, they are gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Berthold Eric Schwarz, “[UFO Occupants: Fact or Fantasy?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct, 1969\): 16–18; Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1956-12-17-usa-conashaugh.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1956-12-17-usa-conashaugh.htm) October 18, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_2888 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7957 (C8788E51) Date: 12/17/1956 Description: At 3:20 p.m. at Itazuke AFB in Japan a brownish-golden colored UFO was sighted from the air by a pilot and co-pilot. It flew at a high rate of speed and was tracked on radar. Radio interference between the warplane and the base was also noted at the time. On that same night a humanoid encounter occurred in the United States. At about 9 p.m. in Conashaugh, Pennsylvania Ms. M. Carow, a 68-year-old woman, went out in her backyard with a flashlight and was surprised to see two dwarves. One was three feet tall, the other one three and a half feet tall. Both wore tight silver suits and helmets. The shorter one was stocky but the taller one was slender. She shone her flashlight on them for three minutes before they walked away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; NICAP UFO Intestigator, August 1957; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, 104; UNICAT, case # 802; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28, citing International UFO Reporter; (2) Berthold E. Schwarz, FSR, September-October 1969, p. 16, citing Pike County Dispatch, April 17, 1958 Source ID: Johnson_8461 Source: Johnson ### Event 7958 (AD924421) Date: 12/27/1956 Description: Real estate investor saw three spherical UFOs reflecting sunlight. (UFOE, VII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_1999 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7959 (9FF2AA1C) Date: 12/31/1956 Description: Pilot saw a round, white object fly under the jet (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 4577) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Airspace over Guam, Guam Source ID: NICAP_DB_2000 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7960 (25CF2B8D) Date: 12/31/1956 Time: 2:10 AM Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. Ted Brunson, flying an F-86D jet interceptor. One round, white object flew under the F-86D, which was unable to turn as sharply as the object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Guam Source ID: BerlinerBBU_409 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns --- ## Year: 1957 (Back to Top) ### Event 7961 (51EBBD3E) Date: 1957 Description: Cynthia Appleton, Birmingham, England is visited by spacemen Type: ce3 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Birmingham, England Source ID: Maj2_153 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7962 (74FC3F7F) Date: 1957 Description: [George Fawcett](https://www.gastongazette.com/article/20130123/News/301239944) founds the New England UFO Study Group in Marlborough, Massachusetts. It publishes the New England UFO Newsletter from 1976 to 1982. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_2894 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7963 (BE894944) Date: 1957 Description: A radioactive waste containment sector near Ozyorsk failed and exploded with a force between 70-100 tons of TNT. Radiation was immediately spread throughout the region, affecting over 250,000 people. The radioactivity released into the atmosphere was estimated to only be one-fourth that of the later Chernobyl disaster. By 1959 every tree within a 12-mile radius of the Chelyabinsk-40 complex was dead. Type: radiological event Reference: [link](https://sometimes-interesting.com/the-most-contaminated-place-on-earth-chelyabinsk-40/) Location: Ozyorsk, Russia Source ID: Maj2_210 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7964 (2554450B) Date: 1957 Description: Soviet “Chelyabinsk-70” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Weapons design and research) Type: atomic plant Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Source ID: Maj2_569 Source: Maj2 ### Event 7965 (DE01FB95) Date: 1957 Description: Engineer Pantelimon Mizof and others see an object in the Bucegi Mountains, Romania, pass over them silently and land. Some of them approach to get a better look, but when they are 150 feet away, it takes off suddenly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 158–159 Source ID: Eberhart_2896 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7966 (8301C116) Date: 1957 Description: Ground Saucer Watch is established in Phoenix, Arizona, by Ted Starrett. William H. Spaulding is the Western Division Director, with James A. Spaulding as the Eastern Division Director in Cleveland, Ohio. It publishes Ground Saucer Watch Bulletin from 1976 to 1982. By 1979, GSW has analyzed nearly 700 UFO photographs and films, of which they verify 38 as bona fide. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p, 132](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/131/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2893 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7967 (24223EB4) Date: 1957 Description: Metaphysical author [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) writes Other Tongues—Other Flesh \(although it bears a copyright date of 1953\), the first of three books that set forth an alternative occult history shaped by Atlantis, Lemuria, reincarnation, and space people—both benign and malevolent. He writes that space people first arrived 1 billion years ago \[prior to the earliest known multicellular life on land\], were 12 feet tall, and built an underground city beneath Lake Titicaca, Peru. Migrants from the “Sirius system” arrive during the Miocene Epoch \[23–5 million years ago\] looking for terrestrial bodies to inhabit—they select the evolving apes. The next visitation took place in Arizona in 10,000 B.C. \[the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution\] when Venusians land and interact with the Lemurians. Records documenting earth’s unknown history are hidden in various inaccessible places \(“secret places of the lion”\) around the globe. Williamson’s book Secret Places of the Lion follows in 1958 and Road in the Sky in 1959. These are among the first ancient astronaut books. In the latter book, Williamson claims that the Hopi’s ancestors are Martians, while their neighbors the Navajo are from Maldek, the planet whose destruction formed the asteroid belt. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Hunt Williamson, [Other Tongues—Other Flesh](http://dl.lilibook.ir/2016/03/Other-Tongues-Other-Flesh.pdf), Amherst, \[1957\]; George Hunt Williamson, [Secret Places of the Lion](https://archive.org/details/secretplacesofli0000will/page/n3/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/secretplacesofli0000will/page/n3/mode/2up) Destiny Books ed., 1996; Clark III 104–106, 1286; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 23–26; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 113–120, 235–243 Source ID: Eberhart_2890 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7968 (75687DD9) Date: 1957 Description: The Victorian branch of the Australian Flying Saucer Research Society becomes a separate organization, the Victorian UFO Research Society. It publishes the Australian UFO Bulletin from 1957 to September 2007, edited by Les Bristol. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 24; [Australian UFO Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20UFO%20Bulletin/Australian%20UFO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2012%20-%20December%20-%20vol%201%20no%203.pdf) 1, no. 3 \(December 1957\) Source ID: Eberhart_2897 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7969 (FF5F6698) Date: 1957 Description: [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) announces his invention of a fourth-dimensional space vehicle, a Circular-Foil Spacecraft powered by an Utron Electric Accumulator that makes use of the “free energy of the universe.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 860 Source ID: Eberhart_2892 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7970 (58460EE0) Date: 1957 Description: [Hayden C. Hewes](http://www.cryptozoonews.com/hewes-obit/) founds the International UFO Bureau in Edmond, Oklahoma. It publishes the Interplanetary Intelligence Report from 1965 to 1966. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_2895 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7971 (8A05227D) Date: 1957 Description: [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) publishes The Expanding Case for the UFO, which argues that human “little people” \(like the pygmy peoples of the Congo basin\) were “planted” from UFOs thousands of years ago. Citing reports of anomalous lights on the moon, Jessup speculates that the pygmy races either colonized the moon or came to the Earth from there. They are the remnants of an advanced civilization that developed levitation, teleportation, and space flight, but had to leave Earth when Atlantis and Mu were sinking into the oceans. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Morris K. Jessup, [The](https://archive.org/details/TheExpandingCaseForTheUFO/page/n5/mode/2up) [Expanding Case for the UFO](https://archive.org/details/TheExpandingCaseForTheUFO/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/TheExpandingCaseForTheUFO/page/n5/mode/2up) Citadel, 1957; Clark III 106–107, 635; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_2889 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7972 (2176160A) Date: 1957 Description: New Jersey contactee [Howard Menger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FMenger) releases an album of “Authentic Music from Another Planet,” featuring a narrative by Menger and bland piano music written by his wife [Connie](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tcpalm/obituary.aspx?n=constance-v-menger&pid=186951650) \(under her nom de plume Marla Baxter, sister of the blonde spacewoman he had met in 1946\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Discogs, “[Authentic Music from Another Planet](https://www.discogs.com/release/3138492-Howard-Menger-Authentic-Music-From-Another-Planet)”; “[Authentic Music from Another Planet by Howard Menger,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9LTUAMM0V0)” Libertad450 YouTube channel, February 22, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_2891 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7973 (66703014) Date: 1957 Description: The Centro de Estudios Interplanetarios is founded in Barcelona, Spain. From 1970 to 1981 it publishes a quarterly magazine titled Stendek, and since then it has published occasional groups of papers on UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Stendek](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Stendek%20%28CEI%2C%20eISSN%202604-1383%29/Stendek%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2001%20-%20June%201970.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(June 1970\); [Papers d’OVNIs](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Papers%20d%27Ovnis%20%28CEI%2C%20eISSN%202604-1391%29/1a%20epoca/Papers%20d%27Ovnis%20-%201a%20epoca%20-%20No%2001.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Papers%20d%27Ovnis%20%28CEI%2C%20eISSN%202604-1391%29/1a%20epoca/Papers%20d%27Ovnis%20-%201a%20epoca%20-%20No%2001.pdf) no. 1 \(1994\); [Nous Papers d’OVNIs](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Nous%20Papers%20d%27Ovnis%20%28CEI%2C%20eISSN%202604-1405%29/Nous%20Papers%201.pdf), no. 1 \(December 2014\) Source ID: Eberhart_2898 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7974 (75DBAB22) Date: 1957 Description: April or May 1957; Moriah Center, N. Y. "Television started to have all sorts of trouble"; witness called out-doors in time to see red disc pass overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moriah Center, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2005 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7975 (5D196B8F) Date: 1957 Description: 1957; Rouen, France, RAF Flying Review photo (hoax) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [570000](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/france57.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rouen, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_2006 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7976 (B9773146) Date: 1/1957 Description: [Norbert F. Gariety](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10841839/norbert-f%5F-gariety) begins publishing S.P.A.C.E. \(Saucer Phenomena and Celestial Enigma\), a monthly newsletter, in Coral Gables, Florida. It continues until January 1963. \([S.P.A.C.E.](http://cufos.org/SPACE%5FGariety/1957%5FSPACE%5FGariety.pdf), no. 1 Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: January 1957 Source ID: Eberhart_2900 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7977 (2356591A) Date: 1/1957 Description: Contactee [Gabriel Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%5FGreen) establishes the Los Angeles Interplanetary Study Groups, which in 1959 evolves into Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America in Los Angeles, California. It assumes that UFOs are piloted by friendly extraterrestrials. Around the same time, Green announces his meeting with flying saucer crewmen from the hitherto unknown planet Korendor, orbiting the triple star Alpha Centauri. At its peak, AFSCA has more than 5,000 members. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Gabriel Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%5FGreen)”; Clark III 99; [Thy Kingdom Come](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Thy%20Kingdom%20Come%20%28Gabriel%20Green%29/Thy%20Kingdom%20Come%20-%20No%204.pdf), no. 4 \(April/May 1957\) Source ID: Eberhart_2899 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7978 (877B5938) Date: 1/1/1957 Description: At 2:10 a.m. a F-86D USAF pilot flying near Guam in the Pacific Ocean sighted a UFO that remained unexplained by Project Blue Book. At four o'clock in the morning in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand two people in Rissington saw a huge luminous cigar hovering low over the horizon, and shooting beams of light in several directions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 4577; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, A History, 1957: January-March 22, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_3 Source: Johnson ### Event 7979 (C5F2A5B0) Date: 1/1/1957 Description: Shortly before 12:00 midnight. Herbert Naderson and his wife and sons are driving northeast to their home in Ashby, Minnesota, when they see a triangular object traveling slowly at a high altitude. They watch it for 45 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Fergus Falls \(Minn.\) Daily Journal, January 3, 1957; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March 22nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) The Author, 1995, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_2901 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7980 (785508EA) Date: 1/2/1957 Description: At nine o’clock in the evening in the South Yorkshire town of West Melton, England two witnesses saw a domed disc-shaped UFO spinning and rising into the sky. It reversed course and passed overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: January-March 22, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_26 Source: Johnson ### Event 7981 (DB383E82) Date: 1/10/1957 Description: Six witnesses in Stafford, England including a man named Roestenberg sighted a cigar-shaped object moving toward the southwest at 4:35 p.m. It left behind an orange trail twice its own length. When a jet plane approached it rose vertically and vanished into the sky. The duration of the sighting was five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, CE5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 170; Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1957, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_238 Source: Johnson ### Event 7982 (0AC88729) Date: 1/13/1957 Description: Two men, West and Liddell, watched as a forty meter in diameter fluorescent oval-shaped object nearly touched down on the grass in Balfour, New Zealand at 3:10 a.m., but it jumped away as the two men approached. It changed to a bluish-white sphere with a dark red center. It cleared a fence, and then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 106 Source ID: Johnson_292 Source: Johnson ### Event 7983 (5895D024) Date: 1/14/1957 End date: 1/16/1957 Description: [T. Townsend Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FTownsend%5FBrown) has proven so financially inept that the NICAP board asks him to step down. [Delmer S. Fahrney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130744428/delmer-stater-fahrney) replaces him as board chairman, [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) steps in as director, and Fahrney convenes a press conference in which he announces that UFOs are under intelligent control, but that they are not American or Soviet aircraft. [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) is made public relations adviser. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: T. Townsend Brown, [Letter to NICAP Board of](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%20Founding/1957%5F01%5F16%5FBrown%5FKeyhoe.jpg) [Governors](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%20Founding/1957%5F01%5F16%5FBrown%5FKeyhoe.jpg)[,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%5FSelected%5FDocuments/NICAP%20Founding/1957%5F01%5F16%5FBrown%5FKeyhoe.jpg) January 16, 1957; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) [January–March 22nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) The Author, 1995, pp. 14–20; “[High Speed Objects Reported in the Sky,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/01/17/87258098.pdf)” New York Times, January 17, 1957, p. 31; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 15; Clark III 792 Source ID: Eberhart_2902 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7984 (27A09CF6) Date: 1/15/1957 Time: early Description: William West and Wallace Liddell saw an object similar to a shooting star coming close to them appearing then as an oval, fluorescent craft, about 40 m in diameter, which almost touched the grass. They rushed to catch it, but it jumped away, turning into a bluish-white sphere with a dark red center. Each time they tried to reach it, the craft jumped farther away. It cleared a high fence and slowly vanished. The Invercargill Weather Bureau had no explanation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 107 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Balfour, New Zealand Source ID: Magnonia_386 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 7985 (FD2BBBAE) Date: 1/15/1957 Description: In the early morning hours of this day in Balfour, New Zealand, William West and Wallace Liddell saw an object similar to a shooting star come close to them. As it got closer it appeared to be an oval-shaped craft, fluorescent, about 40 cm in diameter. It came down toward the ground and nearly touched the grass but did not land. They rushed towards it to capture it, but it jumped away and turned into a bluish-white sphere with a dark red center. Each time they tried to catch it the object jumped further away. It cleared a high fence and slowly vanished. The Invercargill Weather Bureau had no explanation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Grey River Argus, January 15, 1957; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 254 Source ID: Johnson_330 Source: Johnson ### Event 7986 (5B25A989) Date: 1/16/1957 Description: 8:00 p.m. The crews of two Air Force B-25s are flying about 90 miles north of Sweetwater, Texas, when they see a round white object make rapid maneuvers. Pilot Lt. Col. [Howard T. Wright](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49339109/howard-t-wright) notes that his radio compass starts pointing directly toward the object, following its movements. The entire object begins blinking on and off. When the aircraft gets within range of Lubbock, Texas, the object flies off on a straight-line course in about 12 seconds. One of the B-25s refuels and is sent on a 4-hour search of the vicinity with no results. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Maneuvers near B-25’s / EME](http://www.nicap.org/570116ftworth%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 241; Swords 244–245 Source ID: Eberhart_2903 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7987 (84EA311B) Date: 1/16/1957 Description: The crewmen of a USAF B-25 flying northwest of Fort Worth, Texas sighted a round, white light at eight o’clock in the evening making rapid maneuvers in the night sky. It made several 45-degree turns. The radio compass flipped over toward the UFO and held there during the duration of the 40-minute sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: USAF Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics Source ID: Johnson_346 Source: Johnson ### Event 7988 (852FD5A0) Date: 1/16/1957 Description: Object Maneuvers Near B-25's (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570116](http://www.nicap.org/570116ftworth%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lubbock (Bet. Ft. Worth and), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2007 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7989 (73F7AE7F) Date: 1/18/1957 Description: At 10:00 a.m. many people in Campo Quijano, Argentina witnessed a metallic ovoid UFO land on the slopes of the mountain Cerro Negro. It was viewed through binoculars, and was visible for seven hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, supplement 12, December 1972, p. 9; Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_366 Source: Johnson ### Event 7990 (8F7CB531) Date: 1/21/1957 Description: 10:45 a.m. Near Kagnew Station \[now closed\], Asmara, Eritrea, five enlisted men of the US Army’s 4th Detachment of the Second Signal Service Battalion \(M/Sgt Billy J. Woodruff, Sgt. Frank Haverly, SP2 Robert O. Clewell, SP2 George R. Dean, and SP3 Gerald L. Fennell\) watch a large, shiny, metal sphere hovering at about 2,000 feet. It suddenly disappears but reappears later for a few minutes, then disappears again. Later in the day, Woodruff and Capt. Jesse M. Strong see two brownish, disc-shaped objects maneuvering in formation at a high altitude. One breaks away from the other, moving at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 29](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=41&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2904 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7991 (91F1A723) Date: 1/21/1957 Description: A l arge shiny metallic sphere hovered over an Army military installation in Arlington, Virginia at 10:45 a.m. It vanished and reappeared twice. Meanwhile, some small brown discs were also seen maneuvering in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: January-March 22, p. 28; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 409 Source ID: Johnson_400 Source: Johnson ### Event 7992 (3D24CABE) Date: 1/24/1957 Description: Commercial pilot and many others saw four brilliant white lights, in-line formation; trailing object larger, egg-shaped and pulsating. \[NICAP UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2008 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 7993 (675EDAD5) Date: 1/24/1957 Description: On this night an airline pilot flying over Indianapolis, Indiana and many others saw four brilliant nocturnal lights trailing a large pulsating ovoid object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 136; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_476 Source: Johnson ### Event 7994 (1D60338F) Date: 1/24/1957 Description: At around 11:00 a.m. an airman and two others on the ground in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England witnessed a dark saucer-shaped object with a black stripe that appeared behind a jet. It abruptly vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucers, August 1957, p. 36; UFO Nachtrichten, September 1957 Source ID: Johnson_475 Source: Johnson ### Event 7995 (536F8CFF) Date: 1/27/1957 Description: Former CIA director Rear Adm. [Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) joins NICAP’s board of directors. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March 22nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf), The Author, 1995, p. 31 Source ID: Eberhart_2905 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7996 (07CB32ED) Date: 1/31/1957 Description: US Army Order number 30-13, “Sightings of Unconventional Aircraft,” stipulates that personnel involved in sightings must “not discuss or disseminate such information to persons or agencies other than their superior officer\(s\) and other personnel authorized by the Acting Chief of Staff, G-2, this headquarters,” by order of Col. [Charles L. Olin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83339384/charles-l-olin)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83339384/charles-l-olin)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Air Force Sees Plenty: Tells Nothing,](http://www.cufos.org/CSI%5FNY/CSI%5FNY%5F%2320.pdf)” CSI News Letter, no. 8 \(July 25, 1957\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_2906 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7997 (7D9016E5) Date: 2/1957 Description: Project MKUltra chief [Sidney Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) organizes field trials of psilocybin for injection into 9 black inmates at the Addiction Center in Lexington, Kentucky. [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) approves psychiatrist [Donald Ewen Cameron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FEwen%5FCameron\#MKULTRA%5FSubproject%5F68)’s application for mind-control experiments to be administered at the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University in Montreal, funded through the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, a CIA cutout organization. Cameron does not know that the money originates from the CIA. In addition to LSD, Cameron experiments with various paralytic drugs, electroconvulsive therapy at 30–40 times the normal power, and sensory deprivation in a “sleep room.” This is a dimly lit dormitory of about 20 beds, which the nurses call “The Zombie Room.” His “psychic driving” experiments consist of putting subjects into drug-induced comas for weeks at a time \(up to three months in one case\) while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His experiments are typically carried out on patients who have entered the institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum depression, many of whom suffer permanently from his actions. His treatments result in victims’ incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators are their parents. The Canadian government is apparently unaware of these activities. [Naomi Klein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi%5FKlein) argues that Cameron’s research and his contribution to the MKUltra project is actually not about mind control and brainwashing, but about designing “a scientifically based system for extracting information from ‘resistant sources.’ In other words, torture.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Thomas, [Journey into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical](https://archive.org/details/journeyintomadne0000thom) [Abuse](https://archive.org/details/journeyintomadne0000thom)[,](https://archive.org/details/journeyintomadne0000thom) Bantam, 1989; Anne Collins, In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988; John D. Marks, [The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA](https://archive.org/details/searchformanchur00john) [and Mind Control](https://archive.org/details/searchformanchur00john)[,](https://archive.org/details/searchformanchur00john) Times Books, 1978; Naomi Klein, [The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism](https://archive.org/details/shockdoctriner00unse/page/n11/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/shockdoctriner00unse/page/n11/mode/2up) Picador, 2008; Jim Keith, [Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control](https://archive.org/details/JimKeithMindControlWorldControlTheEncyclopediaOfMindControl/page/n9/mode/2up), 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_2907 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 7998 (61181173) Date: 2/3/1957 Description: A woman named Salter was driving in an uninhabited part of Georgetown, Connecticut around ten p.m. when she encountered a five-meter long cigar-shaped object close to the ground on the left side of the road. It had several portholes, half a meter in diameter, that were lit by a yellow light. She saw shadows moving about inside. After a short while the UFO took off going straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0416, citing investigator Harvey Courtney, APRO Bulletin, March-April 1962, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_676 Source: Johnson ### Event 7999 (735EA4DB) Date: 2/7/1957 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) 54 Targets / Two Ground Radars & Four Aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [570207](http://www.nicap.org/570207lascruces%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Cruces, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2009 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8000 (8F28C6A3) Date: 2/9/1957 Time: 2200 Description: Approximate date. Ina Salter was driving on Route 53 in a desolate area when she encountered a cigar-shaped objert about 5 m long, showing several portholes, which was hovering close to the ground to the left of the road. The portholes, about 50 cm in diameter, were illuminated with a yellowish light, and there were shadows moving behind. As she passed the object, it took off straight up, hovered for a few seconds, then rose out of sight Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Mar., 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Georgetown, Connecticut Source ID: Magnonia_387 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8001 (325872A6) Date: 2/9/1957 Description: On or about this date a woman driving along a desolate road in Ridgefield, Connecticut encountered a five meter long cigar-shaped object close to the ground on the left side of the road. It had several portholes about half a meter in diameter that were lit by a yellow light. Shadows could be seen moving around behind the windows. It took off going straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 86, citing APRO Bulletin, March 1962, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_769 Source: Johnson ### Event 8002 (D1B9F7DE) Date: 2/11/1957 Description: At 11:45 a.m. in Honolulu, Hawaii a luminous disc-shaped object entered some clouds, then rose above them accompanied by a second, smaller object. Both objects maneuvered about for a couple of minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: January-March 22, p. 40 Source ID: Johnson_821 Source: Johnson ### Event 8003 (A27FC1C6) Date: 2/13/1957 Description: Three bright disc-shaped objects were seen flying over Burbank, California at 7:00 p.m. They searched the sky with light beams, then they rose vertically in departure. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated February 14, 1957; APRO Bulletin, March 1957, p. 5; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, March 1957 Source ID: Johnson_893 Source: Johnson ### Event 8004 (DBE50DFE) Date: 2/13/1957 Description: 9:40 p.m. Amateur astronomer Steve Papina is walking south in Placerville, California, when he notices off to his left the ionized track of what he takes to be a meteor. It is about 20° above the eastern horizon, rising at a 70° angle. The trail begins widening at about 35° above the horizon and veers in a westerly direction. Suddenly a black disc appears directly in front of the trail, whose diameter is approximately the width of the trail and the size of a nickel held at a distance of 5 feet. Its surface is not smooth but crisscrossed with grooves. It continues to move from east to west and acquires a white, dusty appearance before speeding directly away from Papina at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[ALPO Refers Sighting to APRO,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1957, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_2909 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8005 (1BDEB745) Date: 2/13/1957 Description: Martin (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Nebulous Targets At High Altitude (R/V) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570213](http://www.nicap.org/570213marrero%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marrero, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2011 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8006 (145820A7) Date: 2/13/1957 Description: Meyer. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Two Objects On AN/FPS-3 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [570213](http://www.nicap.org/570213tierraamarilla%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tierra Amarilla AFS, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2012 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8007 (F484B521) Date: 2/13/1957 Description: Police received many calls about oval-shaped objects over city. Officer Robert Wells, who went to investigate, confirmed sighting. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burbank, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2013 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8008 (02BA54AC) Date: 2/13/1957 Description: Radar tracked several targets flying behind an airliner , G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570213](http://www.nicap.org/570213lincolnAFBdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lincoln AFB, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_2010 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8009 (CFE2B8CA) Date: 2/13/1957 Description: 2:30 a.m. The USAF operations director and three tower controllers at two radar sites within Lincoln AFB \[now Lincoln Airport, Nebraska\], the GCA and NCOIC, track several targets flying behind an airliner at a distance of 5–6 miles and traveling twice as fast. There is no IFF response. The objects hover and move at high speed. One splits into two objects, another executes an 180° turn. The radar blips are the size of a B-47. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Radar/Visual at Lincoln AFB](http://www.nicap.org/570213lincolnAFBdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 241; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/96/mode/2up) [96–97](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/96/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2908 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8010 (58930356) Date: 2/14/1957 Description: Two Radar Sites Track UFOB (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [570214](http://www.nicap.org/570214steadafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stead AFB, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2014 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8011 (135C4E76) Date: 2/15/1957 Description: 10:00 p.m. A large, circular object is seen by independent witnesses in Wardle, Lancashire, England. Shortly afterward, a commercial aircraft is seen following the same course as the UFO and displaying unusually powerful lights. Later, at a point along the flight path, a small radio transmitter like those attached to balloons is found, then another piece of meteorological equipment in another spot. In the House of Commons, MP [Tony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FLeavey) [Leavey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FLeavey) asks the Secretary of State for Air for an explanation. On March 20, Under-Secretary of State for Air [Ian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%5FOrr-Ewing%2C%5FBaron%5FOrr-Ewing) [Orr-Ewing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%5FOrr-Ewing%2C%5FBaron%5FOrr-Ewing) responds, saying that the objects were toy balloons illuminated by a flashlight bulb released by Neil Robinson, a laundry mechanic from Rochdale. But on April 17, the Air Ministry sends an investigator to interview the witnesses and tells them not to talk about the sighting. Robinson says he has no idea how to launch a balloon, but there is some evidence that he has considerable technical know-how and a penchant for pranks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clifford Thornton, “[The Wardle Mystery,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1957%2CMay-Jun%2CV%203%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 3 \(May/June 1957\): 4; Geoffrey Norris, “[Something in the Sky,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20Kingdom/RAF%20Flying%20Review/1957%2007%2000%20%5FRoyal%20Air%20Force%20Flying%20Review.pdf)” Royal Air Force Flying Review, July 1957, pp. 14–16, 46; Good Above, [pp. 46–47](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/46/mode/2up); David Clarke, “The Wardle ‘Thing,’” Fortean Times 196 \(June 2005\): 40–41 Source ID: Eberhart_2910 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8012 (4A437544) Date: 2/19/1957 Description: In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics officials [Hugh Latimer Dryden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FLatimer%5FDryden) and [Jimmy Doolittle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FDoolittle) are asked about UFOs. They “flatly denied the existence of such space vehicles.” When asked why they don’t speak out more often, they remark that they “cannot compete with the science-fiction people.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US House Appropriations Committee, Hearings, Independent Offices Appropriations for 1958, National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, February 19, 1957, [pp. 1417–1419](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hearings/Sk7VAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1417&printsec=frontcover) Source ID: Eberhart_2911 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8013 (18B263E7) Date: 2/26/1957 Description: UK Air Chief Marshal [Hugh Dowding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%5FDowding) writes to retired Italian diplomat [Alberto Perego](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/alberto-perego/) that he is most interested in “accounts of intelligible contacts between human beings and the occupants of interplanetary ships.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 48](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/48/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2912 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8014 (5FC45954) Date: 2/27/1957 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) 6,000 MPH Objects On Three CPN-18 Radars (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570227](http://www.nicap.org/570227castleafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Castle AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2015 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8015 (50A2F374) Date: 3/1/1957 Description: [Leonard H. Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) publishes the final issue of CRIFO Orbit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [CRIFO Orbit](http://cufos.org/Orbit/ORBIT%5FVolume%5FIII%5F1956-57%5FS.pdf) 3, no. 12 \(March 1, 1957\); Clark III 1114 Source ID: Eberhart_2913 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8016 (4206A86B) Date: 3/2/1957 Description: At 8:15 a.m. a small metallic disc flew over some gardens in Kyoto, Japan at a low altitude. It then made a fast exit at a sharp angle up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: January-March 22, p. 60 Source ID: Johnson_1240 Source: Johnson ### Event 8017 (F8B7DE96) Date: 3/5/1957 Description: On this morning at 8:13 a.m. a fighter pilot flying over Rouen, France photographed a hat-shaped saucer identical in appearance to the McMinnville, Oregon photograph taken by Paul Trent in 1950. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Life Magazine, April 1, 1966; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers: Here and Now, pp. 46 & 80; Brinsley LePoer Trench, The Flying Saucer Story, p. P-7 Source ID: Johnson_1310 Source: Johnson ### Event 8018 (2D8866F0) Date: 3/6/1957 Description: 2:00 p.m. Hearing the family dogs barking in the backyard, a Mrs. Martin who lives on Hope Road near Great Meadows, New Jersey, looks outside and sees the dogs looking at a white hovering object that looks like a “huge derby hat” about 50 feet in diameter. It is rocking slightly in the air and makes a low, rumbling sound. Beneath it are “streamers or lines” that “twinkle like the fragile strands” of Christmas tinsel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 150–](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/150/mode/2up) [154](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/150/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 241 Source ID: Eberhart_2914 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8019 (2B0E0D80) Date: 3/6/1957 Description: At two o'clock in the afternoon in Hope Township, New Jersey Mrs. Martin heard her dogs barking. She looked outside to see a Derby hat-shaped UFO with a rounded dome, 30-40 feet high and 50 feet in diameter. It made a gentle rocking motion and a low rumbling sound. Beneath it there were streamers or lines of twinkling material. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, Civilian Saucer Intelligence, New York; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 151 Source ID: Johnson_1329 Source: Johnson ### Event 8020 (1F4948B1) Date: 3/6/1957 Description: White derby-hat-shaped object 50+ ft wide hovering low over a field (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570306](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-570306dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Great Meadows-Hope, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2016 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8021 (B644EDEE) Date: 3/8/1957 Time: night Description: A pilot saw a circular object flying against the wind. It was luminous, about 5.5 m in diameter, and flew so low that it appeared to suck up the snow. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Keyhoe S ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Baudette, Minnesota Source ID: Magnonia_388 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8022 (A1D52799) Date: 3/8/1957 Description: Long Object With Green Light In Nose (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [570308](http://nicap.org/570308mockville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Btn Mockville and Arrity, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2018 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8023 (38D78FCF) Date: 3/8/1957 Description: UFO Maneuvers Near DC-3 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [570308](http://www.nicap.org/570308pasadena%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston (near) Pasadena, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2017 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8024 (59FCBC81) Date: 3/8/1957 Description: A pilot saw a circular object flying against the wind in Baudette, Minnesota. It was luminous, about 5.5 meters in diameter, and flew so low that it appeared to suck up the snow on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Top Secret; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 254 Source ID: Johnson_1377 Source: Johnson ### Event 8025 (8818318C) Date: 3/8/1957 Description: A pilot watches a UFO from the ground at Baudette, Minnesota. It is circular, 15–18 feet in diameter, and its odd glow shines on the snow-covered ground. It is flying so low that it seems to suck the loose snow up under it as it passes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 56; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) [1957 January–March 22nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) The Author, 1995, p. 74 Source ID: Eberhart_2915 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8026 (827B1A69) Date: 3/8/1957 Description: 9:45 p.m. Victor Hancock and Guy Miller are flying a DC-3 owned by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company above Pasadena, Texas, when they see a UFO bearing three brilliant white lights. After the UFO speeds by the aircraft, it slows down. When the DC-3 catches up, it speeds ahead. This cat-and-mouse chase continues for some 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO Maneuvers near DC-3](http://www.nicap.org/570308pasadena%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March 22nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Jan-Mar-22.pdf) The Author, 1995, pp. 68–69 Source ID: Eberhart_2916 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8027 (7F14EDAE) Date: 3/9/1957 Description: 4:33 a.m. Capt. [Matthew A. Van Winkle](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155966765/matthew-armstrong-van%5Fwinkle)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155966765/matthew-armstrong-van%5Fwinkle) piloting a Pan American World Airways DC-6A airliner at a point over the Atlantic Ocean approximately 350 miles northeast of Jacksonville, Florida, observes a “burning greenish white round object” to the right of the aircraft that appears to be on a collision course. Van Winkle pulls the plane upward in a climb to avoid the object. This sudden maneuver causes four of the passengers to be thrown out of their seats, resulting in injuries. Copilot Dion W. Taylor and Flight Engineer John Washuta also observe the object. Washuta says the UFO is a high-intensity light that appears to stand still for approximately four seconds until it is lost to sight during the evasive action. [Ed Perry](https://clipperpioneers.com/2015-obituaries/)[,](https://clipperpioneers.com/2015-obituaries/) piloting Pan Am Flight 269 about 175 miles behind him, also sees it. Miami Air Traffic Control sends a flash message to the Civil Aeronautics Board describing the incident: “Pilot took evasive action, object appeared to have a brilliant greenish-white center with an outer ring which reflected the glow from the center. … Above description fits with what seven other flights saw…. Miami reports no missile activity…. Original reports of jet activity discounted.” The Air Force quickly explains the sighting as a meteor, but the CAB declares it unexplained after a thorough investigation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[DC6-A Crew](http://www.nicap.org/570309jacksonville%5Fdir.htm) [Take Evasive Action](http://www.nicap.org/570309jacksonville%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 54–56; Swords 245–246; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 38–39](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/38/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 282–283](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/282/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2917 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8028 (2A2DC084) Date: 3/9/1957 Description: DC-6A Crew Take Evasive Action (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [570309](http://www.nicap.org/570309jacksonville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jacksonville, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2020 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8029 (594B16B0) Date: 3/9/1957 Description: Airliner Encounters Green Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 3) Reference: NICAP: [570309](http://www.nicap.org/570309atlantic%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlantic Ocean (off Carolinas), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2021 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8030 (7EB1A437) Date: 3/9/1957 Description: Pan American Airways pilot took evasive action as fiery round, greenish-white object passed plane. \[NICAP UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Juan (near), PR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2019 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8031 (D7586065) Date: 3/9/1957 Description: Fiery Ball With Tail Passes C-47 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2) Reference: NICAP: [570309](http://www.nicap.org/570309columbia%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbia, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2022 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8032 (9DF0F565) Date: 3/10/1957 Description: Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to San Juan, P.R. run) Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: New York Attributes: aerospace Source ID: Maj2_150 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8033 (9DF0F565) Date: 3/10/1957 Description: Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to San Juan, P.R. run) Type: ufo encounter Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: New York Attributes: aerospace Source ID: Maj2_149 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8034 (344C8227) Date: 3/11/1957 Description: Two White Lights Observed From Navy Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [570311](http://www.nicap.org/570311glynco%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glynco NAS, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2023 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8035 (C218E36F) Date: 3/22/1957 Description: Several independent witnesses saw maneuvering lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oxnard AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2026 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8036 (5D0112BA) Date: 3/22/1957 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Point Mugu, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2024 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8037 (C08EBA13) Date: 3/22/1957 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Rectangular Targets Tracked On Radar? Maybe Not. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570322](http://www.nicap.org/570322longbeachdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Beach-Los Angeles Airport, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2025 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8038 (7227D961) Date: 3/22/1957 Description: At 11:55 p.m., two objects then one were picked up on radar at Los Angeles International Airport. The targets were rectangular and the size of a conventional target. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570322](http://www.nicap.org/570322longbeachdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Beach-Los Angeles Airport, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2027 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8039 (CEB2DBB4) Date: 3/22/1957 End date: 3/23/1957 Description: Mrs. Robert Beaudoin, the wife of an [Air Force officer](https://www.fidler-isburgfuneralchapels.com/obituary/robert-beaudoin), along with her 17-year-old daughter Carol Litten, sees a series of unusual lights at 11:15 p.m. northeast of Camarillo, California. First they see a large, soundless, and pulsing light, with something like a pole on top, making fast and erratic motions. She calls a military friend and then 1st Lt. [Leonard E. Ott](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107037003/leonard-edwin-ott) at nearby Oxnard AFB \[now Camarillo Airport\]. At 12:30 a.m., they see a green object accompanied by two smaller red lights below the horizon of the Los Palos Hills. The green object seems to be hovering over the North American Rocketdyne plant in the Simi Hills. At this time both the green object and the red objects seem to jump around, and the two red objects are zooming past the green object at tremendous velocities. Ott inquires about radar and a Lt. Martin tells him that radar is detecting a stationary object in the same area. The sheriff’s office is contacted, and they send a patrol car. Deputy Sheriffs Segura and Rausch confirm Beaudoin’s report, with the exception that by that time there are five red objects flying well below the green one. All are in motion and constantly changing altitude. Radar calls Ott back and says they have a scramble underway and they will have the aircraft check the area upon their return. Upon the arrival of the interceptors from Oxnard the red objects join the green object and speed away up and to the east. The aircraft are unsuccessful and return to base. At this time two Navy aircraft are sent to the area. Somehow, between the time of this report to Oxnard and the later Air Force investigation by the 4602nd, these red objects are changed, on the report, to stars and the moon above. This happens despite the witness stating that the red lights were below the hills on the horizon. To deal with that, the Air Force adds the theory that a temperature inversion caused light to bend the images of the stars, or, alternatively, the witness saw lights on a barn. Beaudoin herself is judged hysterical due to her pregnancy. The Air Force’s explanation is completed without anyone bothering to interview the teenage daughter or taking anything associated with the airbase into account \(for example, the radar returns\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Objects Seen, Radar Tracked, Jets Scrambled](http://www.nicap.org/570323oxnardafb%5Fdir.htm)”; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 58–61; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 53–54](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/52/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 242; Swords 246–247 Source ID: Eberhart_2918 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8040 (4D584248) Date: 3/23/1957 Description: Agriculturist Luis Petriera, along with several others, watches a glowing object plunge into Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. No planes are missing. Officials drag the lake but find nothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Report from Venezuela,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1957, p. 10 Source ID: Eberhart_2919 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8041 (FC441823) Date: 3/23/1957 Description: At 12:22 a.m. Civil Aviation Agency radar tracked a UFO over Oxnard Air Force Base, California. Visual reports of the object were made by a GOC observer, police, and Oxnard AFB personnel. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York files, citing newspaper clipping; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 85 Source ID: Johnson_1622 Source: Johnson ### Event 8042 (E3FE1147) Date: 3/23/1957 Description: At 6 p.m. a huge ball of fire rose up from behind a barn in Puyallup, Washington. It emitted two strong beams of light. It rose vertically, then flew off quickly to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tacoma News Tribune, March 28, 1957 Source ID: Johnson_1623 Source: Johnson ### Event 8043 (EABB7500) Date: 3/27/1957 Description: C-45 Encounters Three Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [570327](http://www.nicap.org/570327roswell%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roswell, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2028 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8044 (DBCA2AAE) Date: 3/28/1957 Description: AEC physician and Navy Capt. [Charles Wesley Shilling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FWesley%5FShilling) releases a press statement saying that “excessively hot baths can be as damaging to the human sex glands as radioactive fallout in the amount received in the last five years from the testing of atomic weapons.” It is intended to counter the antinuclear activism of biochemist [Linus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%5FPauling) [Pauling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%5FPauling)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%5FPauling)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Says Hot Baths As Bad for Sex Glands As Fallout,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94239912/)” Newport \(R.I.\) Daily News, March 29, 1957, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_2920 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8045 (58D33F77) Date: 3/28/1957 Description: Cigar-shaped, golden in color, glowing object was observed at approximately 60 degrees above the horizon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [570328](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/reseda570328dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Reseda, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2029 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8046 (D34DDE53) Date: 3/29/1957 Description: Pan American Airways pilot observed brilliant pulsating light, confirmed by radar. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Off East Coast, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2030 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8047 (FE24D820) Date: 4/1957 Alternate date: 5/1957 Description: "Television started to have all sorts of trouble"; witness called out-doors in time to see red disc pass overhead. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moriah Center, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2037 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8048 (A72292DF) Date: 4/1957 Description: 7:30 a.m. An anonymous resident of Córdoba, Argentina, is motorcycling to Rio Ceballos when his engine stops. He sees a large UFO hovering nearby, from which a human-like occupant emerges. He entices the man to enter the UFO with him. Inside, he sees 5–6 screens and intricate equipment, at each of which a similar occupant is seated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 March 23rd–May 25th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf) The Author, 1995, pp. 63–64 Source ID: Eberhart_2922 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8049 (1A9CF0AE) Date: Early 4/1957 Description: USAF Brig. Gen. Arno H. Leuhman, director of Air Force information, tells the press that “There’s no valid evidence that there are flying saucers.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[AF Intelligence Chief Visits Here,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94240280/)” Miami \(Fla.\) News, April 14, 1957, p. 12A Source ID: Eberhart_2921 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8050 (6ECE4003) Date: 4/4/1957 Description: Five unusual radar contacts are detected simultaneously on three tracking radars of the Bombing Trials Unit based at RAF West Freugh \[now MOD West Freugh\], southeast of Stranraer, Scotland, and followed for 36 minutes. The three radars are located at two different sites near Luce Bay, Wigtownshire, Scotland. The object flashes across the sky at 60,000 feet, dives to 14,000 feet, circles, and speeds away. Wing Commander Walter Whitworth, in command at West Freugh, is ordered to say nothing about the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Three Radars](http://www.nicap.org/570404scotland%5Fdir.htm) [Track Maneuvering UFO](http://www.nicap.org/570404scotland%5Fdir.htm)”; Good Above, [pp. 48–49](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/48/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 51–53](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n87/mode/2up); Martin Shough, “[Study of Unusual](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/westfreugh.pdf) [Radar Observations near RAF West Freugh, Wigtownshire, SW Scotland, April 4, 1957,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/westfreugh.pdf)” March 2010; Patrick Gross, “[The West Freugh Incident, 1957](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/westfreugh57.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2924 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8051 (0BFB8721) Date: 4/4/1957 Description: Pilot [Robert L. Sieker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38254200/robert-lee-sieker) takes a U-2 covered in radar-deflecting paint for a test run out of Area 51 and flies almost 90 miles without incident when suddenly the paint causes the aircraft to overheat, spin out of control, and crash near Pioche, Nevada. Sieker ejects but is killed when a piece of metal hits him in the head. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aviation Safety Network, “[Wikibase Occurrence \#155905](https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/155905)” Source ID: Eberhart_2923 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8052 (1706EB57) Date: 4/4/1957 Description: Three Radars Track Maneuvering UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [570404](http://www.nicap.org/570404scotland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wigtownshire, Scotland, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2031 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8053 (5C55B3C5) Date: 4/7/1957 Description: An ovoid shaped UFO hovered over a beach in Tahunanui, New Zealand at 3:30 p.m. It had sharply defined edges, and was five times the apparent size of the moon. It suddenly shot away to the north-northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History - 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_1879 Source: Johnson ### Event 8054 (F6A5C8CD) Date: 4/8/1957 Description: USAF Maj. Gen. [Joe W. Kelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FW.%5FKelly) answers a question from Rep. [Lee Metcalf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FMetcalf) \(D-Mont.\) and denies that the Air Force has muzzled pilots. “Answers are provided on any unidentified flying objects which have attracted national attention.” He admits that interceptors are still sent up “as a matter of security.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS Source ID: Eberhart_2925 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8055 (1DF7577E) Date: 4/10/1957 Description: [Delmer S. Fahrney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130744428/delmer-stater-fahrney) leaves NICAP’s board of directors for urgent and personal reasons, partially because his [wife](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130744427/agnes-whiting-fahrney) is seriously ill, but also because of the ridicule generated by his peers in the military. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 792–793 Source ID: Eberhart_2926 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8056 (EEFAAE07) Date: 4/11/1957 Description: At 7:00 p.m. fighter jets were observed chasing a golden colored disc through the sky in Cohasset, Massachusetts. The disc made fast, sharp turns, and shot away from the jets. The jets were seen circling the area for the next hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_1951 Source: Johnson ### Event 8057 (7F8E0280) Date: 4/12/1957 Description: At 8:00 a.m. an odd cone-shaped UFO descended to the side of highway N562 in Figanieres, Var, France, causing the engine of the witness's car to stall. Vegetation at the site was later found to be dead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1972 Source ID: Johnson_1967 Source: Johnson ### Event 8058 (EF4BB3E9) Date: 4/14/1957 Time: 1500 Description: At an intersection, two women, Mrs. Garcin and Mrs. Rami, suddenly heard a noise and saw behind them a top-shaped object, 1 m high and 1 m wide, nearly touching the ground. It made a sudden jump and landed again: There were a number of antennalike projections on top of it. The noise did not come from the object, but from a metallic road sign vibrating in its vicinity. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 207; Challenge 14 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Vins-sur-Caramy, France Source ID: Magnonia_389 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8059 (A7A3F405) Date: 4/14/1957 Description: 3:00 p.m. Marie Garcin and Julia Rami are walking along road D24 a half-mile east of Vins-sur-Caramy, Var, France, when they hear a deafening noise and see a 5-foot-tall, 3-foot-wide, metallic, top-shaped object covered with vibrating sharp spines that is landing near a road sign. The sign starts to vibrate loudly, then the object hops over the road at a height of about 15–30 feet. Another witness, Jules Boglio, is about 1,000 feet away and sees the object land a second time in the adjoining road, then jump over another road sign which then vibrates loudly. Two other witnesses see the object at a much greater distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Top-Shaped Object Hovers at 300](http://www.nicap.org/570414france%5Fdir.htm)”; Jimmy Guieu, “[Vins-sur-Caramy \(Var\), 14 avril 1957,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20No%2021%20-%203e%20trim%201957.pdf)” Ouranos, no. 21 \(1957\): 50–52; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 145–146; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 154–156](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/154/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2927 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8060 (26573C93) Date: 4/14/1957 Description: 5 ft tall 3 ft wide metallic top-shaped object covered with vibrating sharp spines (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vins sur Caramy (1/2 mile E of), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_2032 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8061 (BD248D9C) Date: 4/19/1957 Description: Airliner en route to Maiquetia sighted UFO; strange radio signals received at Maiquetia airport at same time (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maiquetia, Venezula Source ID: NICAP_DB_2033 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8062 (FB4643B3) Date: 4/19/1957 Time: 1152 Description: Japanese fishermen aboard the "Kitsukawara Maru" saw two metal disks come into the sky. This was followed by violent turbulence. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Round-up 147 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pacific Ocean, near Japan Source ID: Magnonia_390 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8063 (BFCD3239) Date: 4/19/1957 Description: 11:52 a.m. Two metallic discs are seen entering the Pacific Ocean about 300 miles southeast of Tokyo, Japan, by Japanese fisherman aboard the Kitsukawa Maru. A violent turbulence disturbs the ocean after they submerge. The objects are 30 feet long and wingless. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Discs Enter Pacific](http://www.nicap.org/570419pacific%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2928 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8064 (CBC6194F) Date: 4/22/1957 Time: 1300 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Firmin Bason heard an unusual noise and saw a whirlwind of flames 10 or 15 m above ground, coming down toward the vineyard. It was red and blue, spinning wildly, flying slowly. It hovered for 5 min over plants which moved violently, then it flew south with a deafening roar, hovered again and departed to the southwest. Diameter at the top: about 5 m. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Ouranos 21 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Palalda, France Source ID: Magnonia_391 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8065 (B8A2B976) Date: 4/22/1957 Description: A flaming cone or disc-shaped object, five-meters in diameter, hovered over a vineyard in Palada, France. It was witnessed by Mr. & Mrs. Firmin Bason. The vines thrashed about as the object spun wildly, and the object then rose rapidly with a loud roar and shot away toward the northeast. The low level whirlwind produced by the object created magnetic effects. The encounter lasted five minutes, and was followed by a police investigation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, computerized catalogue, case #2320; UNICAT database, case 806, citing Jimmy Guieu, Ouranos; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 391; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_2212 Source: Johnson ### Event 8066 (A6759DAE) Date: 4/22/1957 Description: A 10:00 p.m. four silent, odd-colored ovoid objects giving off smoke zigzagged across the sky for four minutes in Daegu, Korea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, volume 3, number 4; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4865 Source ID: Johnson_2211 Source: Johnson ### Event 8067 (C41BE69E) Date: 4/24/1957 Description: 6:27 a.m. Project 57 is an open-air nuclear “dirty-bomb” test conducted in Area 13 at the Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada. The high explosives of a nuclear weapon are detonated asymmetrically to simulate an accidental detonation of an XW-25 warhead in an airplane crash. The purpose of the test is to verify that no yield would result, as well as study the extent of plutonium contamination. Some 4,000 galvanized steel pans sprayed with tacky resin are set up around a 10-by-16-square-mile block of land to capture plutonium samples. Some 68 air- sampler stations equipped with micropore paper are spread over 70 square miles. Mock-ups of sidewalks, curbs, and asphalt are set up in the desert; cars and trucks are added; giant air-sampling balloons are tethered in place; 9 burros, 109 beagles, 10 sheep, and 31 white rats are put in cages. Afterward, the contaminated area is fenced off and the contaminated equipment buried in place. Data from the test confirms that plutonium has a 24,000-year half-life; many of the test animals are killed, but security guard [Richard Mingus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FMingus) manages not to inhale any particles. A radiological survey team detects alpha radiation, but no serious beta or gamma radiation. In 1981, the US Department of Energy decontaminates and decommissions the site. Hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of soil and debris are removed from Area 13 and disposed of in a waste facility at the Nevada Test Site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project 57](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5F57)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 100–116](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/100/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2929 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8068 (D7B08221) Date: 4/25/1957 Description: Military witness Robertson. Case missing (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4706) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ringgold, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2034 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8069 (04969A1B) Date: 4/25/1957 Time: Unknown time Description: Military witness Robertson. Case missing from official files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ringgold, Louisiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_410 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8070 (368DC22C) Date: 4/29/1957 Description: Two men, Lerdahl and Ellison, reported that three dozen UFOs flew over Virginia, Minnesota in groups of 6-8 for 40 minutes beginning at 10:15 p.m. The UFOs were greenish, disc-shaped objects flying in crescent formations, and were viewed through binoculars. They went from east to west, and each group flew from horizon to horizon in eight seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1960, p. 7; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_2405 Source: Johnson ### Event 8071 (9128C904) Date: 4/29/1957 Description: 10:15 p.m. Robert Lerdahl and Alex Ellison saw about 36 UFOs which passed overhead in groups of 6 and 8 during a forty minute period. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Virginia, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2035 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8072 (317F5B4C) Date: 4/29/1957 Description: Mysterious Objects Sighted Over English Channel (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [570429](http://www.nicap.org/570429englishdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: English Channel, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2036 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8073 (10133442) Date: 5/1957 Description: Pilot Milton Torres flew a F-86 D Sabre from the Royal Air Force base at Manston, Kent and ordered to shoot down a large “aircraft carrier” sized UFO flying at more than 7600mph. Object disappeared, ordered to stay silent and threatened with a national security breach if he talked. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Reuters Link](https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-ufo/u-s-pilot-was-ordered-to-shoot-down-ufo-idUKTRE49J1P620081020) Location: Manston, Kent Source ID: Maj2_570 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8074 (D269976A) Date: 5/1957 Description: Frances Stichler, who lived on a farm, was working in her barn when she heard a whirring sound and saw a bowl-shaped object, 7 m in diameter, with a rim over 1 m wide about 5 m above ground. It stopped with one side tilted toward her. A man dressed in a loose, shiny, gray suit, wearing a tight-fitting helmet, was facing her from inside the object. He seemed of average height had deep-set eyes, tanned skin, and a long face with a "quizzical" expression. Almost immediately the object left toward the southeast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 108; Humanoids 57 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Milford, Pennsylvania Source ID: Magnonia_392 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8075 (F54DB329) Date: 5/1957 Description: NICAP is fed a phony UFO crash story in the Everglades, Florida, by an Associated Press employee who is a “former Signal Corps engineer” with possible ties to the NSA. He admits faking the story but refuses to give any motive. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 64–68 Source ID: Eberhart_2931 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8076 (F00B3398) Date: 5/1957 Description: 4:50 a.m. A truck driver pulls over at the edge of the disused RAF Winkleigh Airfield \[now the site of the West of England Transport Collection\], Devon, England, to drink some coffee. He notices an object like a metallic, fluorescent-blue submarine with tail fins sitting at the end of the runway. It is about the size of an airliner. He watches it a while, then gets out of the truck and approaches it. He has the object in sight a total of 10–15 minutes and realizes it is hovering just above the ground. When he is 600 feet away, he encounters a type of force field that prevents him from approaching. The object then rises straight up into the sky to about 1,200 feet and shoots off to the north. The force field disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ron Toth, “[UFO Landing at War-time Aerodrome,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Pegasus%20%28SIGAP%29/Pegasus%20-%20Vol%2002%20No%203%20May-June%201970.pdf)” Pegasus 2, no. 3 \(May-June 1970\): 2–4 Source ID: Eberhart_2932 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8077 (4272E42C) Date: 5/1957 Description: 6:00 a.m. Frances Stichler is working in her barn in Milford, Pennsylvania, when she hears a whirring sound and sees a bowl-shaped object approaching at a height of 15 feet. It is 15 feet in diameter with a rim about 3 feet wide. It hovers with one side tilted toward her 50 feet away. Its lone occupant, a helmeted figure with a long, olive- colored face and a shiny, light gray suit, gazes at her with a quizzical expression on his tanned face. It is sitting on the far rim with feet and legs hidden by the lower part of the object. Inside the open vehicle, she can see levers. After a minute, the object takes off to the southwest making a spinning sound. Her chickens do not seem disturbed by any of this. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Berthold Eric Schwarz, “[UFO Occupants: Fact or Fantasy?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1969\): 14–15; Clark III 268; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-May-24-July-31.pdf) [History: 1957 May 24th–July 31st](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-May-24-July-31.pdf), The Author, 1996, p. 10; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-05-usa-milford.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-05-usa-milford.htm) December 17, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2933 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8078 (9BF38922) Date: 5/1957? Description: 3:45 p.m. Two men in Orlando, Florida, see an oval object emerge from a larger cigar-shaped UFO about 75– 100 feet long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 7, 25 Source ID: Eberhart_2934 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8079 (50BCCA69) Date: 5/1/1957 Description: On or about this day a motorcyclist was traveling down a road near the Pajas Blancas Airport in Cordoba province, Argentina shortly after 7 a.m. when his motorcycle stalled. The driver then saw a disc-shaped object 20 meters in diameter, hovering 15 meters above the ground. An elevator descended from the base, and a human-like being of average height, around five foot eight inches tall, was seen in the elevator. The witness was offered the choice of whether he wanted to enter the craft or not, and he decided to go inside the craft. Inside there were another five or six men dressed in something similar to diving suits working some instrument panels. He was taken for a 30 minute ride. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 393, citing The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 35; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 63; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0417, citing The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_2438 Source: Johnson ### Event 8080 (6F859A44) Date: 5/1/1957 Time: 0700 Description: When his motorcycle suddenly failed, the driver observed a disk, 2O m in diameter and 5 m thick, hovering about 15 m above ground. He hid in a ditch and saw the craft come down, making a sound similar to air escaping from a valve. A sort of lift descended from its base almost to the ground. In it was a man of average height, who made friendly gestures to the witness. He was dressed in a plastic diving suit. The witness entered the machine and saw inside several people seated before instrument panels, lighted by an extraordinary light. He was then escorted out, and the disk rose to the northwest. During the next hour, six sightings were made along the same course by independent witnesses. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 35; FSR 65, 1; FSR 65, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pajasblancas Airport, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_393 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8081 (CC8482A5) Date: 5/1/1957 Description: 7:00 a.m. A man driving a motorcycle about 9 miles from Pajas Blancas International Airport in Córdoba, Argentina, sees a UFO shortly after his engine fails. It is 65 feet in diameter and 16 feet thick, hovering about 50 feet above the ground. He hides in a ditch and sees the craft come down, making a sound similar to air escaping from a valve. A lift descends from its base almost to the ground. In it is a man of average height who makes friendly gestures. He is dressed in a plastic diving suit. The witness enters the machine and sees several people inside seated in front of instrument panels, lit by an extraordinary light. He is then escorted out, and the disc rises to the northwest. During the next hour, there are 6 other sightings made by independent witnesses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 March 23rd–May 25th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf) The Author, 1995, pp. 61–64; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_2935 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8082 (75FBD8A8) Date: 5/2/1957 Description: 6:55–7:20 a.m. Frank E. Baker, supervisor of civilian camera operators at Edwards AFB, California, sends the standard two-man crews out to their Askania tracking telescopes for their daily shifts. Veterans James D. Bittick and [John R. Gettys Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132228244/john-robert-gettys) are in their pickup expecting a normal day. As they approach their station in the Mojave Desert, they see a bright object in the sky. It is initially at about a 45° elevation and seems to be hovering. They need to get permission from Baker to photograph anything, so they call it in, begin readying the scope, load the film, and wait for the okay. Gettys says the base of the object has a circular appearance when high in the sky. Baker gives them his approval and they begin filming, each viewing the object through spotting scopes while the film rolls. They shoot about 100 feet then stop. During filming, the object moves from 1 mile away to 5 miles. What they see is a disc-shaped object with a low dome on top. They contact the base, which scrambles two jets, but they are too late. After they turn the film in, three officers show up and interrogate them. Future astronaut [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FCooper) claims he was there that day, involved with the tracking. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Edwards AFB](http://www.nicap.org/570502edwardsafb%5Fdir.htm) [Case](http://www.nicap.org/reports/570502edwards%5Fcontinued.htm)”; “[Unidentified Flying Object Filmed, Studied,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94247945/)” Miami \(Fla.\) News, May 12, 1957, p. 2; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#photo)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 75–76; Michael D. Swords, “As Great an Enigma As the UFOs Themselves,” IUR 30, no. 1 \(October 2005\): 10–12; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 243; “[Astronaut Gordon Cooper Talks about UFOs,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPR8T1o3Dc)” Elhardt YouTube channel, December 27, 2007; Swords 247–248; Gordon Cooper and Bruce Henderson, Leap of Faith: An Astronaut’s Journey into the Unknown, HarperTorch, 2000, pp. 83–86; Good Need, [pp. 220–222](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/220/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2936 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8083 (4167558A) Date: 5/2/1957 Description: Edwards AFB Case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [570502](http://www.nicap.org/570502edwardsafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edwards AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2038 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8084 (BA9C4C1A) Date: 5/3/1957 Description: Astronaut [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper) spots a UFO landing at Edwards AFB. Type: ce2 event Reference: [YouTube](https://youtu.be/1GlVRrk0qgU) Location: Edwards AFB Source ID: Maj2_151 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8085 (A7D99208) Date: 5/4/1957 Description: Lights Pass In Front & Below RC-121 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570504](http://www.nicap.org/570504califcoast%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Near Calif. coast (McClellan AFB), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2039 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8086 (F7620174) Date: 5/5/1957 Description: Orange Objects Fly Over & Under Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570505](http://www.nicap.org/570505santarosa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Rosa Island, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2040 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8087 (131526EF) Date: 5/10/1957 Description: After 10:45 p.m. At Beaucourt-sur-l’Ancre, Somme, France, a 29-year-old Hungarian refugee named Fekete is cycling when he is “dazzled by a strange projectile.” He sees four men 4–5 feet tall approaching him in a threatening manner. One of them carries a bright light which prevents him from seeing much detail. He flees on his cycle to a nearby home, where others look out and see the occupants 300 feet away. The UFO is emitting red and white \(or yellow\) rays of light alternatively. They watch for about 20 minutes until 11:15 p.m. when the UFO takes off at a 45° angle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf) [23rd–May 25th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Mar-23-May-25.pdf) The Author, 1995, pp. 69–72 Source ID: Eberhart_2937 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8088 (5B7D0D93) Date: 5/10/1957 Time: 2250 Description: A Hungarian refugee, Michel Fekete, was riding his bicycle when he saw an object hovering 30 cm above ground and four little men nearby. The police found lavalike fragments at the site. Six other witnesses vouch for the sighting including Messrs. Iklef and Lepot and their wives. The craft was luminous, pulsating between red and white (remaining red longer). When white, it was more blinding than a powerful searchlight. It was 50 m away from the group of witnesses. Occupants were about 1.30 m tall with a beige-gray body, an abnormally large black head, and a waddling gait. The object flew away when a car came into view. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 109; M 211 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France Source ID: Magnonia_394 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8089 (571729AB) Date: 5/10/1957 Description: An abductee named McBride reported being abducted by aliens while driving along the highway in Lake Isabella, California at dusk. The witness first spotted a white bubble-shaped object floating above the trees. It descended to just 10 feet above the ground. Thin, bony looking humanoids, seven to eight feet tall, emerged from the object wearing transparent clothing. They communicated using telepathy. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ann Drufel, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1978, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_2714 Source: Johnson ### Event 8090 (5B4EF032) Date: 5/10/1957 Description: At 10:45 p.m. a 29-year-old man named Fekete was bicyling home along a road in Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France when he was temporarily blinded by a light from above. Together with three of this neighbors, he saw a pulsating object on the ground with the silhouettes of three short men (4-5 feet tall) with large heads and a torrering gait. The light rose into sky when a car passed. A circular ground mark was found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 211, Ouranos, issue #21 Source ID: Johnson_2715 Source: Johnson ### Event 8091 (C8A834A2) Date: 5/11/1957 Description: While attending the Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, [Wayne Sulo Aho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%5FSulo%5FAho) goes for a walk and sees a “majestic egg-shaped light.” He directs a telepathic message to it, and the UFO lands 2 miles away. He begins receiving subtle psychic messages on his earthly mission. That night, Aho undergoes a “cosmic initiation.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 59; Wayne S. Aho, Mojave Desert Experience, May 11, 1957, New Age, 1972 Source ID: Eberhart_2938 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8092 (EFDC4C2F) Date: 5/12/1957 Description: Round, blue-green UFO sped past below observer's altitude. \[UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moab, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2041 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8093 (53D47FF7) Date: Late Spring 1957 Description: Between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. Airman 2nd Class Wallace Fowler is sitting on the front steps of his barracks at Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City, South Dakota, when a silver domed disc with portholes appears directly above him. Shadows are moving behind the portholes. The UFO is motionless and the size of a house. After about 2–3 minutes it takes off straight up at high speed. Many others on the base have seen the object as well, and jets are scrambled. The UFO maneuvers around the jets as if toying with them. One of the pursuing jets allegedly goes missing and the wreckage is never found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 218–219](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/218/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2930 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8094 (ECFE0C55) Date: 5/17/1957 Description: At 7:45 a.m. two observers in Roswell, New Mexico saw a shiny white disc in the sky fly to the east against the wind; it made a 90 degree turn to the north tilted on a slant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1957 Source ID: Johnson_2921 Source: Johnson ### Event 8095 (CB714F71) Date: 5/20/1957 Description: Milton Torres / Intercept Mission (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [570520](http://www.nicap.org/570520eastanglia%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: East Anglia, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2042 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8096 (13562D6C) Date: 5/20/1957 Description: OPERATION INTERCEPT: Two USAF fighters intercept a UFO. The F-86D’s fired Mighty Mouse missiles at the UFO and missed it. The UFO left their 30 mile range area and fell off the radar scope. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [link](https://web.archive.org/web/20070828174845/http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1998/jun/m07-034.shtml) Location: Manston, Kent Source ID: Maj2_571 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8097 (061C37EA) Date: 5/20/1957? Alternate date: 1956? Description: Near 12:00 midnight. USAF Lt. Milton Torres is flying F-86D Sabre fighters with the 406th Bomber Wing based at RAF Manston \[now closed\], Kent, England. He receives an order from an RAF controller, who is tracking an unidentified target from Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker \[now closed\] in Essex, to go up with a wingman to 32,000 feet over East Anglia in pursuit. Over the radio he receives an order to fire a salvo of rockets at the target; the order is so unusual that Torres seeks authentication before firing. Torres locates the large target on his aircraft radar, but when he closes in on it, it shoots away at tremendous speed, disappearing from the radar screens. The target might be explained by a secret CIA-MoD experiment, codenamed [Palladium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%5FIntelligence%5FAgency%5FDirectorate%5Fof%5FScience%5F%26%5FTechnology\#ELINT)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%5FIntelligence%5FAgency%5FDirectorate%5Fof%5FScience%5F%26%5FTechnology\#ELINT) to simulate an aircraft blip on Soviet radar screens. On his return to base, Torres is debriefed by a secret service agent and told his mission is top secret. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Milton Torres / Intercept Mission](http://www.nicap.org/570520eastanglia%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOFiles2, [pp. 69–72](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n117/mode/2up); David Clarke, “Intercept and Destroy,” Fortean Times 242 \(December 2008\): 34–35; Paul Crickmore, “[Project](http://aviationtrivia.blogspot.com/2011/01/project-palladium-testing-soviet-radars.html) [Palladium: Testing Soviet Radars,](http://aviationtrivia.blogspot.com/2011/01/project-palladium-testing-soviet-radars.html)” Tails Through Time, January 3, 2011; Curt Collins, “[Area 51, the CIA, and](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2014/01/area-51-cia-and-cold-war-ufos-td-barnes.html) [Cold War UFOS: T. D. Barnes,](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2014/01/area-51-cia-and-cold-war-ufos-td-barnes.html)” Blue Blurry Lines, January 9, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_2939 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8098 (3E6DDDE1) Date: 5/21/1957 Description: At 4:40 p.m. a metallic ovoid flew overhead to the northwest near Knoxville, Tennessee making a noise. It then hovered in silence, and may have made a possible landing behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York case files; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_3016 Source: Johnson ### Event 8099 (FBC67D5A) Date: 5/23/1957 Description: At 8:15 in the morning over Kansas City, Kansas four discs were sighted flying in a box formation. Two of the objects turned and flew to the northwest, while two shot ahead to the north, joining another pair also going to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 94; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 110 Source ID: Johnson_3044 Source: Johnson ### Event 8100 (587F2062) Date: 5/25/1957 Description: At around 6:00 a.m. a seven meter in diameter bowl-shaped object was sighted low over the ground in Milford, Pennsylvania by a 62-year-old woman named Stichler. It hovered only five meters above the ground, and then tilted. A human-looking occupant inside the craft, with bronze-colored skin and wearing a silver-colored uniform and helmet, studied the witness for a short while. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: May 24-July 31, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_3083 Source: Johnson ### Event 8101 (5D0F1121) Date: 5/26/1957 Description: Starting at around 5:00 a.m. a yellow cigar-shaped object maneuvered in the sky in all directions for 45 minutes over Ben Lomond, Strathclyde, Scotland. It ascended, descended, then sped away toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_3097 Source: Johnson ### Event 8102 (764D81DA) Date: 5/26/1957 Description: An article in the UK Empire News on “Flying Saucer Clubs Probe: Peace Messages ‘from Outer Space’” reveals that [George King](https://www.aetherius.org/dr-george-king/)’s Aetherius Society has been publishing channeled messages in its Cosmic Voice newsletter that are antiwar and anti-nuclear. It attracts the attention of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch, thanks to an informant on the newspaper. King writes to explain that his group is religious and not political. A Special Branch officer visits King in his home in London, England, on May 31, and the group’s writings and activities are watched for at least the next two years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kremlin 121–126 Source ID: Eberhart_2940 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8103 (E37DF2BE) Date: 5/28/1957 Description: Boltzmann, the first of 29 nuclear tests in Operation Plumbbob, takes place at the Nevada Test Site. At 12 kilotons, it is about the same size as the Hiroshima bomb and causes Area 51 personnel 11 miles away to be temporarily evacuated. Another test blast buckles aircraft hangar doors in Area 51, shatters windows in the mess hall, and breaks a dormitory ventilator panel. The Plumbbob tests continue until October 7, 1957. While most tests contribute to the development of warheads for intercontinental and intermediate range missiles, they also test air defense and anti-submarine warheads with small yields. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Plumbbob](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPlumbbob)” Source ID: Eberhart_2941 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8104 (2E381EB8) Date: 5/29/1957 Description: (McDonald list) AN/MPS-7 Tracks Object at 100,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570529](http://www.nicap.org/570529houma%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houma, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2043 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8105 (AF751F79) Date: 5/30/1957 Description: (McDonald list) Blip Size of Two Aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570530](http://www.nicap.org/570530detroit%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Detroit, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2044 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8106 (DBE30BE3) Date: 5/31/1957 Description: Airliner suffered radio failure during UFO sighting. Normal functions returned when UFO left (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kent, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2045 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8107 (1E3B9E80) Date: 5/31/1957 Description: 7:17 a.m. A British airliner is flying over Kent, two miles south of Rochester, England, when both the captain and first officer see a brilliant light approaching them. All radio communications cut out. The UFO blinks out and the radio equipment goes back into operation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 122–123; Good Above, [p. 50](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/50/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2942 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8108 (614A359B) Date: 5/31/1957 Description: At 7:17 a.m. a British Airways airliner flying over Kent, England experienced radio and radar failure when a UFO was sighted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 12, citing Flying Saucer Review; Leonard G. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 148; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49, citing Geoffrey Falla Source ID: Johnson_3179 Source: Johnson ### Event 8109 (B8182700) Date: 6/2/1957 Description: Letter to BSRA about a recent nuclear test that was postponed for 2 weeks because the winds would blow fallout in occupied areas. The eventually conducted test blew the fallout over occupied areas anyway. Type: letter Reference: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1556515931978956801) Location: Nevada Source ID: Maj2_572 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8110 (9C521C2F) Date: 6/3/1957 Description: Shortly after takeoff from Shreveport Airport a small light was visible nearby, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570603](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/hynekrv6.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shreveport (near), LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2046 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8111 (9C9E6B69) Date: 6/3/1957 Description: 9:35 p.m. Shortly after takeoff from Shreveport \(Louisiana\) Airport, Capt. Lynn Kern and Flight Officer [Abbey](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203353809/abbey-zimmerman) [Zimmerman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203353809/abbey-zimmerman)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203353809/abbey-zimmerman) flying Trans-Texas Airlines Flight 103, are told by the control tower that a small light is visible nearby. They see the star-like, blue-green object at about 400 feet altitude. It then climbs rapidly to 1,000 feet and parallels the airliner at a higher altitude and about a half-mile away. Kern flashes his landing lights, and the object responds with a beam of light. A second blue-green, pulsating object joins the first on the opposite side of the airliner \(then at 9,000 feet\). A crew from the air tower confirms that it has both objects on radar and visually through binoculars. The objects head south, climbing to about 10,000 feet, and follow the airliner to Converse, Louisiana, where the pilot queries ADC radar site, England AFB \[now Alexandria International Airport\], which confirms the two targets in the airliner’s vicinity. The objects disappear from sight in a cloud deck to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Flight 103 & 2 UFOs Tracked on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/570603shreveport%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks,](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 244; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 94–96](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/94/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2943 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8112 (B42D984C) Date: 6/5/1957 Description: AEC Commissioner [Willard Libby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard%5FLibby) tells Congress that nuclear weapons testing is a “small risk” that must be measured against the “risk of annihilation.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Bomb Testing Is Viewed As Risk to Be Compared with](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94249283/) [Annihilation,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94249283/)” Spokane \(Wash.\) Chronicle, June 5, 1957, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_2944 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8113 (70D1691B) Date: 6/5/1957 Description: Undocumented report of a landing and of "bellicose dwarfs." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Uriman, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_395 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8114 (56358F9C) Date: 6/5/1957 Description: In Uriman, Venezuela on this night in 1957, members of a local Indian tribe saw a luminous object land and several little men emerge from the object. When they tried to capture one of these dwarf-like creatures, it slashed at them with some kind of knife, and gave one of them a deep arm cut. On the same night another close encounter occurred near Warrensburg, Missouri. At 10:30 p.m. on highway 13 north of town, three people driving together in a car had an orange ball of light approach and follow their car. Several small blue lights exited the larger object and flew off in every direction. A watch stopped working and there was interference on their car radio during the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher files; J. Allen Hynek investigation files, case P44 Source ID: Johnson_3294 Source: Johnson ### Event 8115 (DC50988E) Date: 6/6/1957 Description: At five o'clock in the afternoon a silver disc was seen hovering over Dixons Corners, Ontario at an estimated altitude of 8,000 meters. That night a fireball descended over San Felipe, Venezuela but stopped in midair. It came down between two hills, then rose up and flew away. Also that evening, around 10 p.m. two friends out stargazing saw seven perfectly circular objects fly over Hicksville, New York. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Flying Saucers magazine, February 1958, p. 64; (1 & 2) Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History,1957: May 24-July 31, pp. 16-17; (3) National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, update to website posted April 16, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_3319 Source: Johnson ### Event 8116 (685B8583) Date: 6/7/1957 Description: New Jersey & Atlantic coast, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Jersey & Atlantic coast, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_2047 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8117 (FE895DAF) Date: 6/9/1957 Description: On this night a flat glowing object passed near a LAV DC-3 airliner flying between Puerto Cabello and Valencia, Venezuela. It flew by at an incredible speed and was seen by several onboard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1992, p. 18; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_3384 Source: Johnson ### Event 8118 (12422CC6) Date: 6/11/1957 Description: CIA operative [Wallace R. Lampshire](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46087129/wallace-r-lampshire) sends a memo to CIA operative [Richard M. Bissell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr), explaining that the agency’s involvement with UFOs is passive, handing off reports to its geophysics or former weapons units. Lampshire has talked with Gen. [Philip J. Strong](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/25/archives/gen-philip-strong-expert-on-u2-dies.html)[,](https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/25/archives/gen-philip-strong-expert-on-u2-dies.html) who knows of no Soviet technology that might be responsible for UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 264–265 Source ID: Eberhart_2945 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8119 (121F7397) Date: 6/12/1957 Description: Object Approaches, Zigzags, Shoots Up (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 4760) Reference: NICAP: [570612](http://www.nicap.org/570612milan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milan, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_2048 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8120 (A2120E23) Date: 6/12/1957 Description: At 7:30 p.m. in Milano, Italy Mr. G. U. Donadio, a translator for export-import firm, sighted a UFO as "big as a hen's egg" that flew very fast, zigzagged, hovered and revolved, then shot straight up and away after 17 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3436 Source: Johnson ### Event 8121 (5E0A573D) Date: 6/12/1957 Time: 7:30 PM Description: Witness: G.U. Donadio, translator for export-import firm. One object "big as a hen's egg" flew very fast, zigzagged, hovered and revolved, then shot up after 17 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Milan, Italy Source ID: BerlinerBBU_411 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8122 (0EFA015F) Date: 6/14/1957 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) One Vertical Descending Radar Target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570614](http://www.nicap.org/570614mcchord%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McChord AFB, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2049 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8123 (661EDFBE) Date: 6/15/1957 Description: 5:06 p.m. George Marsden watches a Saturn-shaped UFO with portholes through a telescope at Mawdesley, Lancashire, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 146](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=158&skin=2021); Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1957%5F06%5F15%5FGB%5FLAN%5FMawdesley%5FNICAP%5FMarsden.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_2947 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8124 (FCCE98C4) Date: 6/15/1957 Description: A report in the UK weekly newspaper Reynold’s News claims that the Air Ministry conducts top secret UFO research in Room 801 of one of its offices on Northumberland Avenue, London, England. A ministry spokesman is quoted as saying the room has “something like 10,000 sightings” on file and a large map of the British Isles with thousands of colored pins representing sightings. Flying Saucer Review editor [Gordon Creighton](https://www.ufoinfo.com/news/gordoncreighton.shtml) says the office belongs to the Deputy Directorate of Intelligence \(Technical\), which employs UFO researchers full-time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 49](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/48/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2946 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8125 (F7689596) Date: 6/15/1957 Description: Saturn-like UFO with "portholes" observed through telescope in bright daylight. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lancashire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2050 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8126 (F7F72780) Date: 6/16/1957 Description: Radar tracked an inbound target at average speed of about 6,200 mph for 48 secs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2051 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8127 (29C4475B) Date: 6/17/1957 Description: Radar-transmitting UFO which correlated with visual of brilliant white-red light (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulfport, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2052 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8128 (0748A796) Date: 6/18/1957 Description: Captain and crew of freighter Hawaiian Fisherman saw three brightly lighted objects "like small moons." \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Ocean, 150 miles off San Francisco, at Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2054 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8129 (BF3387F4) Date: 6/18/1957 Description: Physics professor sighted UFO with "a halo of light around it and what appeared to be three portholes." \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jackson, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2053 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8130 (F3A34E48) Date: 6/18/1957 Description: 8:00 p.m. Captain C. G. Wertz and the crew of the Matson freighter Hawaiian Fisherman see two brightly lit objects off the port beam as they are steaming 150 miles off San Francisco, California. A third object joins them at 8:15. They appear as small moons, giving off a cold, white, unchanging light. The three move off in a V formation and pace the ship for a short time. The lights continue their controlled flight as dusk turns to night. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 78 Source ID: Eberhart_2948 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8131 (35DC5C20) Date: 6/20/1957 Description: Mysterious radar echoes begin turning up on Bluff Hill, near Invercargill, New Zealand, for several months. The targets are visible from several minutes up to an hour and are located somewhere in the ionosphere. [Michael](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2004JBAA..114...47G) [Gadsden](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2004JBAA..114...47G) of the Imperial College in London is in New Zealand for the International Geophysical Year and he says the targets’ movements are unusual and suspects that ionized particles are the cause. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 81–82 Source ID: Eberhart_2949 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8132 (4FD7CAED) Date: Summer 1957 Description: Early morning. Contactee [Trevor Constable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%5FJames%5FConstable) and an associate named James Woods take many infrared photos of the desert sky over southern California. When developed, the film reveals a variety of shapes from vague blobs and amoeba-like forms to clearly defined discs. Constable calls them “critters” and thinks they are some kind of life form invisible to the naked eye. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1102; Trevor James \[Constable\], They Live in the Sky, New Age, 1958 Source ID: Eberhart_2951 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8133 (7A6BE864) Date: Summer 1957 Description: [P. Craig Phillips](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306354070%5FP%5FCraig%5FPhillips%5FAquarist%5FAuthor%5Fand%5FArtist%5F1922-2009)[,](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306354070%5FP%5FCraig%5FPhillips%5FAquarist%5FAuthor%5Fand%5FArtist%5F1922-2009) curator of the Miami Seaquarium, and two other scientists witness a fall of angel hair for two hours as they are sailing northward toward the Florida Keys. Assuming them to be cobwebs from migrating airborne spiders, Phillips takes some samples and puts them in a mason jar. But when he uncaps the jar later in his office, no trace of the material is found, which is uncharacteristic of spider web. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [pp. 99–100](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=111&skin=2021); Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 \(Fall 2001\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_2950 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8134 (434F5BF3) Date: Summer 1957 Description: Allan Haney and some friends “on a number of occasions” climb onto someone’s roof in Levelland, Texas, to watch 3–4 objects hovering over Reese AFB \[now Reese Technology Center\] in Lubbock, 26 miles to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_2952 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8135 (DCF72E3D) Date: 6/22/1957 Description: Two patrolmen at Rye, New York watched a large object with two white lights and one red light plunge into Long Island Sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_3602 Source: Johnson ### Event 8136 (2AAAABC6) Date: 6/25/1957 Description: Car radio stopped playing and street lights went out as formation of seven white discs with red rims passed overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baltimore, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2055 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8137 (B9AB43B0) Date: 6/25/1957 Description: Baltimore, Maryland: "Car radio stopped playing and street lights went out as formation of seven white discs with red rims passed overhead." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 42, citing Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I) Source ID: Johnson_3650 Source: Johnson ### Event 8138 (ED99A617) Date: 6/30/1957 Description: Disc-like object paced, maneuvered around airliner. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2056 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8139 (34AC3A0B) Date: 6/30/1957 Description: Starting at 6:30 p.m. a bright red-orange disc maneuvered around a Real Aerovias DC-3 airliner flying from Belo Horizonte to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and subsequently paced the aircraft for 40 minutes. It made several passes, crossing above or under the airliner, and then in front and behind it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 120, citing El Diaro Popular, July 7, 1957; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28, citing Richard Hall Source ID: Johnson_3744 Source: Johnson ### Event 8140 (7BDD332B) Date: 7/1957 Description: NICAP learns that the US Senate Subcommittee on Investigations is considering hearings on UFOs and wants its assistance. [Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) suggests withholding the best cases, at least initially. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) asks [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt), who is now an engineer with Northrup Aircraft, to join the NICAP board at a rehearsal for the I’ve Got a Secret Show on which he is appearing. Ruppelt considers it an honor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 70–79 Source ID: Eberhart_2955 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8141 (8F20D02B) Date: 7/1957 Description: NICAP publishes the first issue of The UFO Investigator. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO Investigator](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/001%20JULY%201957.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(July 1957\); Clark III 793 Source ID: Eberhart_2954 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8142 (D3AD5BC4) Date: 7/1957 Description: The Air Defense Command disbands the 4602nd AISS and reassigns UFO investigative duties to the 1127th Field Activities Group of the 1006th AISS at Norton AFB \[San Bernardino International Airport\], California. Soon afterwards, the Air Force reduces funds for the unit, impairing its investigative ability. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 919 Source ID: Eberhart_2953 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8143 (D75FB3BE) Date: 7/1/1957 Description: "Disc with amber lights around edge made wobbling vertical descent. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Azusa, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2057 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8144 (33D976E2) Date: 7/1/1957 Description: Cigar-shaped UFO with green lights like windows. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Avon, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2058 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8145 (60735CCC) Date: 7/1/1957 Description: International Geophysical Year (IGY). It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War when scientific interchange between East and West had been seriously interrupted. Sixty-seven countries participated in IGY projects. The IGY encompassed eleven Earth sciences: aurora and airglow, cosmic rays, geomagnetism, gravity, ionospheric physics, longitude and latitude determinations (precision mapping), meteorology, oceanography, seismology, and solar activity. The timing of the IGY was particularly suited for studying some of these phenomena, since it covered the peak of solar cycle 19. Both the Soviet Union and the U.S. launched artificial satellites for this event; the Soviet Union’s _Sputnik 1_, launched on October 4, 1957, was the first successful artificial satellite.[3] Other significant achievements of the IGY included the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts by Explorer 1 and the defining of mid-ocean submarine ridges, an important confirmation of plate-tectonic theory. Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Geophysical_Year) Source ID: Maj2_568 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8146 (D9ADBA6A) Date: 7/4/1957 Description: Disc with dome and portholes paced airliner. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Campos (near), Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2059 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8147 (CAF89560) Date: 7/4/1957 Description: A disc with brightly illuminated windows followed a REAL airliner flying between Campos and Victoria, Brazil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1957, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_3816 Source: Johnson ### Event 8148 (02FD3303) Date: 7/5/1957 Description: During the 74-kiloton Plumbbob Hood nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site, the Marine Corps conducts a tactical maneuver involving the use of a helicopter airlift, tactical air support, and an amphibian tractor called the LVTP5. Despite the AEC’s assurance that no thermonuclear devices are being tested, Hood is thermonuclear and is the largest atmospheric test in the continental US. All Area 51 personnel are evacuated prior to the blast, but the military neglects to secure the sensitive information in the buildings with security guards. Seventy anesthetized Chester White pigs in military uniforms \(as test fabrics\) are placed in cages a short distance from ground zero. Several types of wood houses are constructed to see how each handles the blast. The Mosler Safe Company sponsors the construction of a steel vault to withstand the blast. Some 100 soldiers, lying in trenches, are stationed to gauge the psychological impact of the bomb. The flash is visible from Canada to Mexico and 800 miles out in the Pacific. The blast wave reaches Los Angeles 25 minutes later. Afterwards, security guard [Richard Mingus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FMingus) has to drive through a highly radioactive ground zero to reach the buildings at Area 51 ten miles away. Area 51 remains an evacuated ghost town until the summer of 1959. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Desert Rock exercises](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%5FRock%5Fexercises)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 119–123](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/118/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2956 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8149 (BBE00699) Date: 7/9/1957 Description: Attorney saw speeding, white elliptical UFO. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamilton, Ont., CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2060 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8150 (9DF7B7F4) Date: 7/10/1957 Description: [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson), exploring in Peru from his base at the Monastery of the Seven Rays and spurred by his own channelings, rediscovers a wall of petroglyphs \[now known as the Petroglyphs of Pusharo, in the Manú National Park\] in an area northeast of Cuzco called Cadena del Pantiacolla. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Hunt Williamson, “[Project](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1957%2CNov-Dic%2CV%203%2CN%206.pdf) [Scroll,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1957%2CNov-Dic%2CV%203%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1957\): 18–19; George Hunt Williamson, Road in the Sky, Neville Spearman, 1959; Brother Philip \[Williamson\], Secret of the Andes, Neville Spearman, 1961; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 97–98, 109–115 Source ID: Eberhart_2957 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8151 (C51660DF) Date: Mid 7/1957 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) meets with US Rep. [James C. Healey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FC.%5FHealey) \(D-N.Y.\) regarding USAF secrecy about UFOs. He shows Healey the 1949 Grudge report and apparently convinces him that the Air Force’s explanations for the 24 cases are “sheer speculation” or “deliberately fitted.” He also presents him Gen. [Joe W. Kelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FW.%5FKelly)’s April 8 letter to [Lee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FMetcalf) [Metcalf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FMetcalf)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FMetcalf) indicating serious interest in UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 81–82, 91, 96 Source ID: Eberhart_2958 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8152 (AF7470EE) Date: 7/16/1957 Description: 1:56 p.m. 1st Lt. Clifford E. Pocock, scope operator A2C Walter Lyons, and control technician A1C Armand Therrien at Las Vegas Air Force Station \[now closed\] at Angel Peak, Nevada, are using the FPS-3A L-band search radar and track an inbound target at about 6,200 mph when it “stopped abruptly” and “remained stationary” for 12 seconds to the east-northeast 85 miles away to the north of Grand Canyon in Arizona. Then it heads outbound at about 7,000 mph before disappearing at the radar’s maximum range at 224 miles \(near Marble Canyon, Arizona\). The target responds to encrypted military IFF transponder signals and transmits encrypted responses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[6200 MPH Target Hovers near Grand Canyon](http://www.nicap.org/570716lasvegas%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 244 Source ID: Eberhart_2959 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8153 (E319A127) Date: 7/16/1957 Description: Radar tracked an inbound target at average speed of about 6,200 mph for 48 secs \[?\] when it "stopped abruptly" and "remained stationary" for 12 secs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570716](http://www.nicap.org/570716lasvegas%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2061 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8154 (239B6673) Date: 7/17/1957 Description: Flight 655 en route from Dallas to Los Angeles, piloted by Capt. Ed Bachner, has a near collision with an object “at least the size of a B-47” over the salt flats some 100 miles east of El Paso, Texas. Bachner puts the plane into a dive and the object passes only 50 feet above them. Two passengers suffer slight injuries and are taken to the hospital on landing. No known aircraft are in the vicinity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 79; Good Above, [p. 283](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/282/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2961 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8155 (76124C25) Date: 7/17/1957 Description: South-Central States, RB-47 case (M) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [570717](http://www.nicap.org/570717RB47%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mississippi, through Louisiana and Texas and into Oklahoma, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_2062 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8156 (C2FBB57A) Date: 7/17/1957 Description: Before dawn. The crew of a USAF RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft is flying out of Forbes Field \[now Topeka Regional Airport\], Kansas, on an electronic warfare training flight over Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. The RB-47 is carrying a 6-man crew, of whom three are electronic warfare officers manning ECM gear in the aft portion of the aircraft. Their names are Lewis Dormon Chase, pilot; [James H. McCoid](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71416736/james-harvey-mccoid), copilot; Thomas H. Hanley, navigator; John J. Provenzano, No. 1 monitor; Frank B. McClure, No. 2 monitor; and [Walter A.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40906934/walter-alex-tuchscherer) [Tuchscherer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40906934/walter-alex-tuchscherer)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40906934/walter-alex-tuchscherer) No. 3 monitor. The crew detects on its Electronic Intelligence \(ELINT\) equipment an airborne radar source that mimics some but not all of the signal characteristics of a common air defense ground radar. Aircraft normally do not carry such high-powered radars. As the key ELINT officer on the RB-47 puts it, “an antenna bigger than the airplane” would be required to emit as strong a signal as he detected from the UFO. Because the UFO signal appears to have comparable or greater received signal strength than the one-megawatt ground radar beam and the UFOs distance is about 5 times closer than the ground radar, a crude estimate of the UFO radar power output using the inverse-square law would be about 40 kilowatts. The maneuvering radar signal coincides in location with a bright UFO. At times the signal moves ahead of the RB-47, then circles around as if airborne, highly maneuverable, and flying faster than the RB-47. The 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing Intelligence report states that the Wing’s director of intelligence “has no doubt the electronic D/F’s coincided exactly with visual observations by a/c numerous times thus indicating positively the object being the signal source.” An air defense radar station near Dallas, Texas, reportedly confirms tracking a UFO at the same location reported by the RB-47 crew but later tries to deny it in an unclassified message to ATIC. The UFO is reportedly tracked by the RB-47’s airborne navigation radar as well, though the crew has differing recollections on this point. Twice the UFO blinks out visually when pursued by the RB-47. At the same time the strange signal disappears, either that, or the ground radar site and the RB-47 onboard radar loses the object from their scopes. At least once, the UFO suddenly reappears visually at about the same time the ground radar regains tracking of the object. The main part of the incident occupies 30 minutes over the Fort Worth, Texas, area from 5:30–6:00 a.m. Some earlier ELINT and visual incidents are noted as early as about 4:30 a.m., but they catch the crew off guard, and consequently reports at the time and later recollections have had to be carefully reconstructed. The UFO may have trailed the RB-47 up to 6:40 a.m. following the main events, for a total duration of possibly more than 126 minutes. The RB -47 incident is the first conclusive instrumented proof for the existence of UFOs. Calibrations of the RB-47’s electronic measurements provide an irrefutable case. When the Colorado Project scientists asked the Air Force for the Blue Book file on the RB-47 case, the file could not be found. Ultimately, the case was put together by better file searching at Blue Book, [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)’s success at locating several crew members and interviewing them, and FOIA searches that located more of the lost documents. Particularly in the [George T. Gregory](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory) years at ATIC, this sort of rejection of the need to clarify almost any significant aspect of a UFO case was constant. If we did not know, from our earlier information, what Captain Gregory understood to be his duty as chief of Blue Book, we would label this as reckless and incompetent. Colorado project investigator [Gordon Thayer](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/) declares the case unexplained, and later describes the official USAF explanation \(airliner\) as “literally ridiculous.” [Brad](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) [Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) sums it up in 1998 \(and in 2018\): “This case certainly now ranks as among the best documented unexplained UFO incidents in history, and it has the potential for further revealing disclosures if records of an extremely highly classified investigation can be found and released. All of the UFO observations by multiple visual observers, multiple ELINT receivers, and multiple radar sets, as well as the serendipitous calibrations of the UFO signals against the separately identifiable Duncanville radar signals, provide a unique, tight, interlocking web of intricately fitted evidence.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[RB-47 Incident](http://www.nicap.org/570717RB47%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 244; Condon, [pp. 56,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/56/mode/2up) [136–139,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/136/mode/2up) [260–](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/260/mode/2up) [266](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/260/mode/2up); James E. McDonald, “[The 1957 Gulf Coast RB-47 Incident,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 3 \(May/June 1970\): 2–6; Gert Herb, “A Rebuttal to Philip J. Klass’s Analysis of the RB-47 Incident of July 17, 1957,” CUFOS Bulletin, Summer 1977, pp. 3–10; Philip J. Klass, \[response to Gert Herb\], CUFOS Bulletin, Fall 1977, pp. 7–10; Gert Herb, “Gert Herb Replies,” CUFOS Bulletin, Fall 1977, pp. 9–10; Swords 248–249; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-May-24-July-31.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 May 24th–July 31st](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-May-24-July-31.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-May-24-July-31.pdf) The Author, 1996, pp. 64–71; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case interviews](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1957%5F07%5F17%5FUS%5FMI-LA-TX-OK%5FAirCraft-RB-47%5FMcDonald%5FChase-McCoid-Hanley-Provensano-McClure-Tuchscherer.pdf)\]; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1957%5F07%5F17%5FUS%5FMI-LA-TX-OK%5FAirCraft-RB-47%5FNICAP%5FChase-McCoid-Hanley-Provensano-McClure-Tuchscherer.pdf)\]; Center for UFO Studies, \[more case documents\]; UFOs Yes, 126–127; Clark III 953–999 Source ID: Eberhart_2960 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8157 (122558F6) Date: 7/18/1957 Description: 10:46 p.m. Capt. Claiborne F. Bickham and a radar crew at Mount Lemmon Air Force Station \[now closed\] northeast of Tucson, Arizona, using both MPS-7 L-band search and MPS-14 S-band height-finder radars, track a stationary target at 42,000 feet to the northwest about 82 miles away south of Chandler. The target responds to encrypted military IFF Mode 3 transponder signals and transmits encrypted responses that result in “normal Mode 3 paint” on radar scopes. A very slight strobe comes from the object that appears like ECM jamming. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Ground Radar Track Responds to IFF Mode 3](http://www.nicap.org/570718MtLemmon%5Fdir.htm)”; Sparks, p. 245 Source ID: Eberhart_2962 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8158 (185F7BA8) Date: 7/18/1957 Description: Height-finder radars tracked a stationary target at 42,000 ft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570718](http://www.nicap.org/570718MtLemmon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Lemmon, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2064 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8159 (7C8CC33F) Date: 7/19/1957 Description: The Plumbbob John nuclear test at Yucca Flats, Nevada, is the only test of the Air Force’s AIR-2 Genie missile with a nuclear warhead. On the ground, the Air Force carries out a public relations event by having five Air Force officers and a videographer stand under ground zero of the blast, which takes place at between 18,500 and 20,000 feet altitude, with the idea of demonstrating the possibility of the use of the weapon over civilian populations without ill effects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Plumbbob](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPlumbbob)” Source ID: Eberhart_2963 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8160 (BBB0B9FD) Date: 7/22/1957 Description: Night. Capt. G. M. Schemel, the pilot of a TWA Constellation aircraft, is flying at 18,000 feet near Amarillo, Texas, when a big red and green light bears down on his plane in a collision course. He puts the aircraft into a dive and the object passes above him. Schemel has to make an unscheduled landing at Amarillo to hospitalize one passenger who is injured during the maneuver. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Kenosha Pilot Tells of Mysterious Object,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100127421/)” Kenosha \(Wis.\) News, July 24, 1957, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_2964 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8161 (FBC0BFB8) Date: 7/24/1957 Description: Russian antiaircraft batteries on the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, in the Pacific Ocean open fire on luminous, fast-moving UFOs. No hits are made. The US claims it has no aircraft in the area. However, at 10:00 a.m., two USAF pilots flying F-86s are scrambled to intercept a disc-shaped object over the Nemuro Strait, north of Hokkaido, Japan, that is tracked by ground radar and seen by ground witnesses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 42](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/42/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 245 Source ID: Eberhart_2965 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8162 (EFA53D4A) Date: 7/24/1957 Description: White Sands Missile Flight Safety Director [Nathan Wagner](http://www.wsmr-history.org/HallOfFame52.htm) is driving with his wife [Alma](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106431664/alma-s%5F-wagner) south of Las Cruces, New Mexico, when they see a large, fast object at high altitude moving east toward the Organ Mountains. They watch it for 30 seconds until it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Space Vehicles Sighted?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100129577/)” El Paso \(Tex.\) Times, July 30, 1957, p. 1; NICAP, “[Missile Safety Chief Says Object Unknown](http://www.nicap.org/570724lascruces%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2966 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8163 (98460265) Date: 7/24/1957 Description: 86 jet fighters scrambled to intercept disc-shaped object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nemuro Strait, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2065 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8164 (E67A4C37) Date: 7/25/1957 Description: Russian coastal artillery batteries fired on high speed UFOs on this day along the Pacific Coast of the Soviet Union. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana, UFOs from behind the Iron Curtain, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_4374 Source: Johnson ### Event 8165 (84162025) Date: 7/25/1957 Description: At 12:45 p.m. a brilliant disc spun as it flew fast across the sky at a slight tilt in Oregon City, Oregon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files Source ID: Johnson_4375 Source: Johnson ### Event 8166 (98DDE091) Date: 7/25/1957 Description: Mr. Joao Guimaraes, who was a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Law in Santos, was sitting near the shore in Sao Sebastiao, Brazil at 7:10 p.m. when he saw a hat-shaped, luminous craft approach from the sea and land near him. From it came a metallic stairway. Two normal men with long, fair hair hanging to their shoulders, a youthful appearance and wearing one-piece suits, came down, gave no verbal answers to his questions, but invited him "telepathically" to come aboard the craft. Inside the illuminated compartment, he sat on a circular seat with the crew. The machine rose for a short flight. On his return, Guimaraes found that his watch no longer worked. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, The Humanoids: FSR Special Issue #1, p. 36; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 256 Source ID: Johnson_4376 Source: Johnson ### Event 8167 (46F84B61) Date: 7/25/1957 Description: A UFO was seen zigzagging through the sky over North Havre, Montana at 11:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Source ID: Johnson_4377 Source: Johnson ### Event 8168 (CF3F022A) Date: 7/25/1957 Description: 4:00 a.m. Several workers are taking a break at the Daye Steel Plant in Huangshi, Hubei, China, when they hear a humming sound. They notice a bright spot in the clear sky that is increasing in apparent size. As it comes closer, it is seen as a circular plate giving off a dazzling white light and leaving a white trail. It flies above the observers at an altitude of 3,300 feet and produces a whistling sound that is louder than a jet. As the object approaches the witnesses, the low pitch changes to a high pitch. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983 Source ID: Eberhart_2967 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8169 (EF6FB7BF) Date: 7/25/1957 Time: 1910 Description: Mr. Joao Guimaraes, who is a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Law in Santos, was sitting near the shore when he saw a hat-shaped, luminous craft approach from the sea and land near him. From it came a metallic stairway. Two normal men with long, fair hair hanging to their shoulders, a youthful appearance and wearing one-piece suits, came down, gave no verbal answers to his questions, but invited him "telepathically" to come aboard the craft. Inside the illuminated compartment, he sat on a circular seat with the crew. The machine rose for a short flight. On his return, Guimaraes found that his watch no longer worked. (Humanoids 36; FSR 57, 6 Type: ufo sighting Reference: ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sao Sebastiao, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_396 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8170 (B877EC0B) Date: 7/25/1957 Description: CPS6 ADC Radar Tracks Brilliant White Light (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570725](http://www.nicap.org/570725niagarafalls%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Niagara Falls, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2066 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8171 (73E4DE87) Date: 7/27/1957 Time: Early morning Description: Or July 29, 1957. Witness: J.L. Siverly. One thick disc, ice blue, with a top like honeycomb (interconnected hexagons), hovered and rocked below the hill tops for 10 minutes. Middle band was scalloped, bottom had four kidney-shaped forms. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Longmont, Colorado Source ID: BerlinerBBU_412 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8172 (6DB9D798) Date: 7/27/1957 Description: A thick disc, ice blue, with a top like honeycomb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4841) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Longmont, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2067 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8173 (5A5B25B8) Date: 7/28/1957 Description: A Douglas Aircraft Company employee named Edward K. Current Jr. makes an emergency landing on the former U-2 airstrip at Groom Lake, Nevada. He claims he has been on a cross-country training flight when he became lost and ran low on fuel. The area is still evacuated for nuclear testing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 125–126](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/124/mode/2up); T. D. Barnes, “[False Emergency Landings at Groom Lake,](https://roadrunnersinternationale.com/coldwarstories/gl%5Femergencies.html)” Roadrunners Internationale, November 22, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_2968 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8174 (2C774BC7) Date: 7/29/1957 Time: 11:45 AM Description: Witness: E.E. Henkins. One pale yellow fireball glided into the water and exploded. Viewed for 1 minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Oldsmar, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_414 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8175 (FECAECBE) Date: 7/29/1957 Description: Flight CAL 841 over Cleveland, Ohio at 10:31 p.m. Capital Airlines Captain R. L. Stimley and First Officer F. J. Downing sighted a large, round, yellow-white object that dimmed once, and then crossed the bow of their airliner. They gave chase but were unable to catch it. Their sighting last eight minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 4847; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4479 Source: Johnson ### Event 8176 (B945F999) Date: 7/29/1957 Description: In Oldsmar, Florida at 11:45 a.m. witness E. E. Henkins observed a pale yellow fireball glide into the water and explode. It was viewed for approximately one minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 4848; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4480 Source: Johnson ### Event 8177 (DE5D2736) Date: 7/29/1957 Time: 10:31 PM Description: Witnesses: Capital Airlines Capt. R.L. Stimley, First Officer F.J. Downing. One large, round, yellow-white object dimmed once, crossed the bow of the airliner, which then gave chase but was unable to catch it. Sighting last 8 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Cleveland, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_413 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8178 (85988DFF) Date: 7/29/1957 Description: A pale yellow fireball glide into the water and exploded (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4848) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oldsmar, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2069 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8179 (9E979E45) Date: 7/29/1957 Description: Airliner Unable To Catch Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 4847) Reference: NICAP: [570729](http://www.nicap.org/570729cleveland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cleveland, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2068 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8180 (82645B2A) Date: 7/30/1957 Description: Jack Stephens, Galt, Ontario sees spaceship on ground for 45 minutes Type: ce2 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Galt, Ontario Source ID: Maj2_152 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8181 (66C2AF3D) Date: 7/30/1957 Description: In Galt, Ontario at 10:30 a.m. a young man named Galt witnessed a silvery disc-shaped object descend close to ground near a power transmission station. It made a humming sound, and flames came from underneath the object. Dogs reacted by barking furiously. At the landing site the ground and vegetation were burned and charred. Large claw-like impressions were also found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 51 Source ID: Johnson_4503 Source: Johnson ### Event 8182 (7B2A91C7) Date: 7/30/1957 Description: A great deal of excitement was generated in the community when a group of frightened teenagers came within inches of a spaceship. Jack Stephens, a very trustworthy young man according to his parents and teachers, said the party of 5 had accidentally stumbled upon the object, complete with portholes, as it rested on 2 ball shaped landing gears in a field outside town. Additional proof of the incident came after an analysis was made of the scorched Earth discovered on the spot. Paul Hartman, a writer for the Galt Reporter, says the change in soil composition at the site was incredible. Topsoil dug up from the landing area glowed in the dark. Also, when grain samples from the burned patch were studied under a microscope, it was found that they were healthier and sturdier than the samples taken from elsewhere in the field. Finally, the insects there had undergone a certain instability and peculiarity in character. Ants, where the saucer had touched down, were larger and stronger looking than their counterparts in untouched areas. The ant hills themselves, according to Hartman, were much higher than usual and a spider which had accidentally found its way into a jar containing soil from the Galt UFO landing site, had grown to about 10 times the normal size for this particular species. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Trace Cases](https://www.thenightskyii.org/trace.html) Location: Galt, Ontario, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_4 Source: Trace ### Event 8183 (246181BB) Date: 7/30/1957 Description: Dog snarled and barked at landed domed disc (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [570730](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ar-570730dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Galt, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2070 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8184 (673E4FCC) Date: 7/30/1957 Description: 10:30 a.m. Jack Stephenson is walking his dog four miles south of Galt, Ontario, when he sees an aluminum- colored object with a dome. It circles, stops, and hovers, then lands in a gulley surrounded by woods. He watches it for 45 minutes as it hovers about 2 feet off the ground. It finally takes off at a 45° angle to avoid a power line, then shoots away. Local residents examine the area and find burned patches on the ground and small tree limbs that are broken. There are four burned or charred areas, each about 1 foot 3 inches in diameter, forming a four- sided figure with these measurements: 20 feet x 20 feet x 6.5 feet x 11.5 feet. Two large three-toed prints are also found, but the relationship of the prints to the object is unknown. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Boy Reports ‘Saucer,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96057701/)” Brantford \(Ont.\) Expositor, August 3, 1957, p. 1; “[Says He Saw Flying Saucer for 45 Minutes,](https://redstarfilms.blogspot.com/2015/03/galt-ontario-ufo-sighting-1957.html)” Milk River \(Alberta\) Review, August 25, 1957; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 51–53 Source ID: Eberhart_2969 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8185 (920B8DC9) Date: 7/30/1957 Description: Jack Stephenson was walking about 7 km from Galt when he saw a flash in the sky. A circular object making a whirring sound came down and landed with a throw of flames. It took off again 30 min later,leaving the ground blackened and branches broken. The craft had a stationary dome, but the periphery was spinning. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Round-up 188 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Galt, Ontario, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_397 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8186 (6BC1A8A2) Date: 7/31/1957 Description: Businessman watched two erratically maneuvering brilliant white objects. \[VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Calistoga, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2071 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8187 (E5596A78) Date: 8/1957 Description: Night. A young woman is driving home after work in Peru, Indiana, and notices people standing along the road looking at the sky. She stops, and they point to a large black object hovering above some nearby trees at about 100 feet. It is about 1,000 feet long and has a “soft delta” shape with rounded corners and window-like lighted areas underneath. There seems to be movement within the lighted areas. In the middle of the bottom is a round area that looks like it might be the outline of an entryway. It moves slowly away, making a noise like a quiet vacuum cleaner. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_2971 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8188 (1B029549) Date: 8/1957 Description: Radar technician [Edward Lovick Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182829326/edward-lovick) begins work at Lockheed’s secret Advanced Development Projects facility \(the Skunk Works\) in Burbank, California. His first assignment is to investigate radar-deflecting technology for the U-2 aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 126–127](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/126/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2970 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8189 (8F5C5EFB) Date: 8/1/1957 Description: The North American Air Defense Command is announced by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[North American Aerospace Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FAerospace%5FDefense%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_2972 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8190 (C806A515) Date: 8/1/1957 Description: Large glowing object hovered 20 minutes, sped away. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toronto, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2072 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8191 (3190F0B4) Date: 8/2/1957 Description: Widely separate observers, including more than 150 school children, watched a silent "rocket" make intricate maneuvers in the sky over Reefton, New Zealand in the early afternoon. It rose, then hovered at 900 meters altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1957, p. 13; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_4591 Source: Johnson ### Event 8192 (71E6EB8B) Date: 8/3/1957 Description: Radar detected a target on IFF Mode 2 transponder only (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570803](http://www.nicap.org/570803sanfrancisco%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Francisco, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2073 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8193 (18536DED) Date: 8/3/1957 Description: 7:45 p.m. 1st Lt. Robert J. Springer Jr., T/Sgt. [Herman L. Giles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146765909/herman-low%5France-giles), and 16 other air crewmen, while on routine Airborne Operations Center radar early warning patrol over the Pacific Ocean about 175 miles southwest of San Francisco, California, aboard an RC-121D aircraft, detect a radar target on IFF Mode 2 transponder only. At 7:56 p.m., the IFF target becomes a direct radar “skinpaint.” At 8:02 p.m., the IFF equipment APX-6/APX-7 is turned off, but the target is still tracked on airborne radar. At 8:15 p.m., the target is at a 2 o’clock position 10 miles away when the aircraft starts a right turn to reverse course, putting the target dead ahead. It suddenly takes off to the northwest at very high speed, disappearing 58 miles away. Radar contact is regained at 8:18 p.m. as the target is tracked moving right to left, crossing in front of the aircraft again, and closing distance to 8 miles at 11 o’clock. At 8:20 p.m., the target turns to head on a parallel path. The crew loses contact at 8:24 p.m., 15 miles behind the plane. No visual confirmation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[RC-121D Has IFF Radar Targets](http://www.nicap.org/570803sanfrancisco%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 246 Source ID: Eberhart_2973 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8194 (5F298346) Date: 8/4/1957 Description: An Italian Air Force noncommissioned officer on duty in the control tower at Naples International Airport, Italy, and about 30 other witnesses see a number of luminous, disc-shaped objects passing above them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 80 Source ID: Eberhart_2974 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8195 (0C10DD5B) Date: 8/5/1957 Description: 10:00 p.m. Policeman Ernst W. Akerberg and his wife Karin are at their summer cottage on the island of Gotland, Sweden, in the Baltic Sea when they see a disc-shaped object heading toward them from the sea. When it reaches the shore about 600 feet away, the object changes course and executes a sharp turn at less than 90° of arc and turns on its edge, swaying briefly. The disc moves toward the southeast and makes another sharp turn just over a half-mile away, again turning on its edge and fluttering before passing out of view. A second, smaller object approaches and goes through the same maneuvers. Air currents from both objects make the water surface ripple and the treetops swing. Estimated to be about 80 feet in diameter, the objects seem to be made of shining metal, and the upper part rotates slowly over the lower part. Both objects have a kind of tube with two red lights. They are silent except for a hollow clicking sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [pp. 152–153](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/152/mode/2up); Clas Svahn, “[1957 Diskusarna svängde](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/svenska-rapporter/1294-diskusarna-svangde-framfor-polismannen) [framför polismannen,](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/svenska-rapporter/1294-diskusarna-svangde-framfor-polismannen)” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige Source ID: Eberhart_2975 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8196 (4B7AEBF6) Date: 8/7/1957 Description: Sightings Over Wide Area / Radar Track In Ohio (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [570807](http://www.nicap.org/570807ohio%5Findiana%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Piqua (area), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2074 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8197 (E8FA6C33) Date: 8/14/1957 Description: AT 8:55 p.m. a red domed disc-shaped object with a green dome buzzed a Varig Airlines C-47 flying near Joinville, Santa Catarina province, Brazil. It caused temporary disruption of the performance of the engines and the electrical system. The reception of the airplane's radio was suddenly interrupted when the red disc approached the plane, while the cabin lights also dimmed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1959, p. 5; UNICAT, case # 553; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 153, citing Olavo T. Fontes; MUFON UFO Journal, August 1992 Source ID: Johnson_5002 Source: Johnson ### Event 8198 (F08DD8C9) Date: 8/14/1957 Description: In Preston, Waterloo county, Ontario at 10:30 p.m. a bright fiery, circular object followed two teenage girls. During the next five minutes it first moved away and then came back again. The women were reported to be suffering from conjunctivitis of the eyes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Galt (ON) Evening Reporter, August 15, 1957; John Magor, Canadian UFO Report, July 1969; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_5003 Source: Johnson ### Event 8199 (6CDCF1B6) Date: 8/14/1957 Description: 8:55 p.m. Varig Airlines pilot Capt. Jorgé Campos Araujo and First Officer Edgar Onofre Soares observe a domed disc pacing their C-47 cargo plane at 6,300 feet over Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The UFO speeds up and crosses just in front of them, hovers briefly, then dives into the undercast at 5,700 feet. When the object hovers, it affects the engines, which cough and wheeze, and dims the cabin lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 120](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=133&skin=2021); Olavo T. Fontes, “[Top Secret Report Unveiled,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, pp. 1, 5; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 123–127; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 August–September, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Aug-Sept-SN.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Aug-Sept-SN.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 11–13; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 153–155](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n159/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2976 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8200 (94AD25AB) Date: 8/14/1957 Description: Airliner cabin lights dimmed and engine sputtered during UFO sighting (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Joinville (near), Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2075 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8201 (1ACEBE07) Date: 8/15/1957 Description: In Atchison, Kansas around 9:00 p.m. three women watched four small discs, estimated to be only five centimeters thick, dart and maneuver around the sky for 30 minutes, then hide from an airplane that passed overhead. They were described as glowing, and flew off to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Atkinson (KS) Globe, August 16, 1957; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_5031 Source: Johnson ### Event 8202 (D67F4C92) Date: 8/15/1957 Description: Retired Navy pilot watched disc wobble, climb away. \[UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Woodland Hills, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2076 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8203 (6AB76F3C) Date: 8/18/1957 Description: In Shelbyville, Indiana at 9:00 p.m. a three-meter long ovoid rose up 30 meters over a cornfield. It had lights on its periphery, and made a clanking noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gray Barker, Flying Saucers magazine, February 1958, p. 46; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_5122 Source: Johnson ### Event 8204 (E3F4A66C) Date: 8/20/1957 Alternate date: 8/22/1957 Description: A member of the Argentine Air Force guarding a downed aircraft is in a tent near Quilinos, Córdoba, Argentina, when he hears a high-pitched hum. Dashing out, he sees a disc slowly descending, making the grass and plants flutter wildly. Reaching for his revolver, he feels that something is preventing him from drawing his weapon, which seems glued in his holster. A voice from the disc tells him in Spanish that spacecraft have a base in the Salta region and that they are here to warn about nuclear energy. The craft rises vertically and speeds off to the north. Probable hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Bases in South America?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CJul-Aug%2CV%2011%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1965\): 30– 31; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-08-20-argentina-quilino.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-08-20-argentina-quilino.htm) December 8, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_2978 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8205 (15425D8A) Date: 8/20/1957 Description: 11:28 a.m. Shinichi Takeda takes a photo of a silvery disc near Enoshima Beach, Kanagawa, Japan. The object is also seen by his sister, who calls his attention to it. It gives off a brilliant glow at an estimated altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet, traveling north to south. The object makes a 90° left turn, speeds up, and disappears in the clouds. The photo shows capsule-shaped image near bank of cumulus clouds. A few minutes later, 15 people on the beach report a similar object that passes over at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Capsule-Shaped Object in Clouds /](http://www.nicap.org/570820japan%5Fdir.htm) [Takeda Photo](http://www.nicap.org/570820japan%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_2977 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8206 (B635F9E1) Date: 8/20/1957 Description: In the evening in Quilino, Cordoba, Argentina an Air Force man inside a tent heard a loud, shrill sound and then saw a disc that descended while grass and plants fluttered wildly underneath it. He found himself unable to draw his gun, which "seemed to be glued in its holster." A voice came from inside the craft, telling him in Spanish that UFOs had a base in the Salta area and would soon show themselves to warn all people about the dangers of a nuclear catastrophe. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR Special Edition #1: The Humanoids, p. 36; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 197; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 398 Source ID: Johnson_5173 Source: Johnson ### Event 8207 (6F578D30) Date: 8/20/1957 Description: August 20, 1957; Fujisawa City, Japan, Takeda photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fujisawa City, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2077 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8208 (AFD1E290) Date: 8/20/1957 Description: In Venezuela at 10:30 a.m. ten small discs orbited one huge disc southwest of Carora, Lara province, and one landed. The rest engaged in zig-zag maneuvers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_5172 Source: Johnson ### Event 8209 (E196DBB4) Date: 8/20/1957 Description: An Air Force man inside a tent heard a loud, shrill sound and saw a disk that came down as grass and plants fluttered wildly under it. He found himself unable to draw his gun, which "seemed to be glued in its holster." A voice came from the craft, telling him in Spanish that UFO's had a base in the Salta area and would soon show themselves to warn all people about the dangers of a nuclear catastrophe. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 36 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Quilino, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_398 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8210 (CEE884F9) Date: 8/22/1957 Description: 3:40 p.m. A couple named Sheetz in a car at Naval Air Station Cecil \[now Cecil Airport\] in Jacksonville, Florida, chase a 50-foot, black, rotating, bell-shaped object bearing two bright white lights at the top. Their engine stalls when object hovers 10 feet away. Its underside resembles a disc with fins. When a jet takes off from the airfield, the object goes out of sight almost instantly. The car battery is completely dead. Noise from the object is compared to a helicopter, although there are no helicopters in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Car Chases Bell-Shaped Object,](http://www.nicap.org/570827cecil%5Fdir.htm) [Engine Stalls](http://www.nicap.org/570827cecil%5Fdir.htm)”; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) CUFOS, 1981, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_2979 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8211 (3129E025) Date: 8/22/1957 Description: Cecil Naval Air Station, Florida. At 3:40 p.m. a black, bell-shaped object bearing two bright, white lights at the top and maeasuring 15 meters in diameter was chased by a civilian named Sheetz in his car until the car engine stalled. The object then started hovering just three meters away. The underside of the machine resembled a disc with fins. When a jet aircraft took off from the nearby U.S. Navy airfield, the object went out of sight almost instantaneously. The car battery was found to be completely dead.There was no helicopter in the area, although the two witnesses compared the noise made by the object to that of a helicopter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings, p. 257, case 399, citing Project Blue Book; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 239; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_5221 Source: Johnson ### Event 8212 (8A911207) Date: 8/22/1957 End date: 8/23/1957 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Radar/Visual; F2H Fighter & FPS-6 Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570822-23](http://www.nicap.org/570822cambriaAFS%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cambria AFS, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2079 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8213 (13685AFB) Date: 8/22/1957 Time: 1540 Description: A black, bellshaped object bearing two bright, white lights at the top and maeasuring 15 m in diameter was chased by a civilian in a car until the engine stalled. The object was then hovering 3 m away. The underside of the machine resembled a disk with fins. When a jet aircraft took off from the airfield, the object went out of sight almost instantaneously. The car battery was found completely dead. There was no helicopter in the area, although the two witnesses compared the noise made by the object to that of a helicopter. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cecil Naval Air Station, Florida Source ID: Magnonia_399 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8214 (6A4EF845) Date: 8/22/1957 Description: Car chased a 50 ft black, bell shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cecil NAS, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2078 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8215 (720C4ADB) Date: 8/26/1957 Description: At 10:00 p.m. an ovoid object was seen flying in the southwestern sky in Monroe County, Pennsylvania over the Poconos Mountains. It was emitting green beams of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_5360 Source: Johnson ### Event 8216 (64AA76F4) Date: 8/27/1957 Description: Russia makes the first successful long flight of an ICBM, the R-7 Semyorka, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The dummy warhead lands in the Pacific Ocean. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[R-7 Semyorka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-7%5FSemyorka)” Source ID: Eberhart_2980 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8217 (DEC5BC79) Date: 8/27/1957 Description: Crew of aircraft saw object/ bright red to reddish-yellow pulsating light (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [570827](http://www.nicap.org/570827drytortugas%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dry Tortugas, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2080 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8218 (C1BC0A06) Date: 8/27/1957 Description: An unidentified flying object with a bright red to reddish-yellow pulsating light flew over the Dry Tortugas near Florida. The UFO was tracked on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Source ID: Johnson_5395 Source: Johnson ### Event 8219 (E44D56F5) Date: 8/28/1957 Description: A teenage couple on the beach in Nazare, Portugal saw an ellipsoidal UFO low over the shore, just five meters from the ground, and 100 meters away. Its circular main body had a curved window and was surmounted by a small tower. The craft shot a greenish-yellow beam at the ground. Plants and stones vanished from a four-meter square area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 23 Source ID: Johnson_5411 Source: Johnson ### Event 8220 (7242F85E) Date: 8/28/1957 Description: A silent crescent-shaped object followed three people driving in a car in Glenelg, South Australia at 8:15 p.m. When the car stopped, the object hovered for 20 seconds, then shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research South Australia, Australian Centre for UFO Studies (ACUFOS) case files, case SA57001 Source ID: Johnson_5412 Source: Johnson ### Event 8221 (D2E9AF3C) Date: 8/29/1957 Description: Silver circular object flying N to W. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paso Robles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2082 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8222 (BDE97284) Date: 8/30/1957 Description: At 12:30 in the afternoon two engineers in a boat on the Atlantic Ocean near Sea Isle City, Cape May County, New Jersey watched a metallic cylinder hovering for three minutes with binoculars. It moved off to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_5488 Source: Johnson ### Event 8223 (3D77097C) Date: 8/30/1957 Description: At 10:10 p.m. the crew of two separate airliners flying over Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk, Virginia, a Capital Airlines flight and a Northwest Airlines DC-6, sighted a bright object that flew at great speed, then stopped abruptly. The UFO was confirmed on their airborne radars and ground radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon D. Thayer in Edward U. Condon (editor), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 128; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_5489 Source: Johnson ### Event 8224 (D9B686A6) Date: 8/30/1957 Description: At noon in San Rafael, Honduras a large cigar-shaped object was seen over the mountains, emitting flashes from one end. Earth tremors were felt at the time. The object spiraled out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 56 Source ID: Johnson_5487 Source: Johnson ### Event 8225 (21DFEA25) Date: 8/30/1957 Description: Night. A Capital Airlines pilot is flying a Viscount at 12,000 feet approaching Norfolk, Virginia, with a Northeast Airlines DC-6 directly above on the same heading at 20,000 feet. The Viscount pilot sees a brilliant object that “flew fast and then abruptly halted 20 miles in front of us at 60,000 feet altitude.” The Northeast pilot tries to acquire the object on radar. With the antenna at 0° elevation, nothing is detected, but with the antenna elevated to 15° he acquires “an excellent blip right where I told him to look for the object.” According to the Viscount pilot, the object “dissolved right in front of my eyes, and the crew above lost it from the scope at the same time. They said it just faded away.” The entire incident lasts several minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Aircraft](http://www.nicap.org/570830chesapeake%5Fdir.htm) [Observe Object / Excellent Blip on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/570830chesapeake%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 128–129](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/128/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2981 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8226 (14E1BB5D) Date: 8/30/1957 Description: Two Aircraft Observe Object / Excellent Blip On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [570830](http://www.nicap.org/570830chesapeake%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chesapeake Bay, nr. Norfolk, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2083 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8227 (BCD4C252) Date: 8/31/1957 Description: After nuclear test Plumbbob Smokey, Army troops conduct an airlift assault. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Desert Rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%5FRock%5Fexercises) [exercises](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%5FRock%5Fexercises)” Source ID: Eberhart_2982 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8228 (1C9071CD) Date: 8/31/1957 Description: Sen. [Barry Goldwater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%5FGoldwater) \(R-Ariz.\) sends a letter to a constituent about UFOs, saying, “I, frankly, feel that there is a great deal to this.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 173](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=185&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_2983 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8229 (61AA7D29) Date: 8/31/1957 Description: In a letter about UFOs to a constituent, Senator Barry Goldwater said, “I, frankly, feel there is a great deal to this.” Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Source ID: Maj2_573 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8230 (AB58454C) Date: 9/1957 Description: 3:00 p.m. Hélio Penteado and his foreman Zaca Sabiá are repairing a fence on Penteado’s farm in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, when Sabiá’s dog begins growling at something in the mint field. They hear a loud, irritating sound and see a disc about 50 feet wide landing in the field and supported by three legs with spheres on the end that pierce the ground. Penteado goes closer to investigate and sees two beings about 4 feet tall leave the UFO wearing green coveralls. They seem to float along the ground and take a vessel from under the craft. One of them is carrying something like a gun or flamethrower. They pass through a fence on the way to a river. After 10 minutes the beings return with the vessel apparently full of river water. The entity with the flamethrower shoots it at a jacaranda tree and a eucalyptus tree, damaging their trunks. They reenter the object via the dome, which takes off toward the city. Back at his barn, Penteado notices that all his metallic tools are stacked in a cone, the birds are dead, his monkey is agitated, and his watch has stopped working. The same day, people observe a UFO over a hospital on the Avenida Julio Mesqita, where the object dumps two drops of liquid metal that falls in the street. The UFO goes so low that it hits the corner of a parked truck. An analysis of the metal by an unnamed organization \(possibly the Brazilian Air Force\) shows that the metal is high in magnesium. Penteado later goes to the landing site and takes plaster casts of the footprints, which he sends to the Agronomy Institute of Campinas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Caso do disco proximo de Campinas,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20014%20-%201960.pdf)” Boletim SBEDV, no. 14 \(March 1, 1960\): 1–3; Brazil 35–37 Source ID: Eberhart_2986 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8231 (34C86696) Date: 9/1957 Description: Soviet defector [Nikolai Khokhlov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%5FKhokhlov) suffers a sudden and severe illness while attending an anti-Communist meeting in Frankfurt, Germany. He is treated for thallium poisoning and survives. This case is often claimed to be the first radiological attack by the KGB, especially when compared to the poisoning of [Alexander Litvinenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%5FLitvinenko) in 2006, although it remains unclear what isotope was used, if any. Former KGB officer Stanislav Lekarev claims, however, that Khokhlov is poisoned by radioactive polonium \(not thallium\), exactly as Litvinenko is later. Litvinenko’s poisoning is also initially mistaken for thallium. A unique mechanism for administering poison is described by a knowledgeable source at the time as a pneumatically operated poison ice “atomizer” that leaves no wound or other evidence of the cause of death. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Nikolai Khokhlov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%5FKhokhlov\#Poisoning%5Fby%5Fthallium)”; Andy Wright, “[The Russian Spy](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nikolai-khokhlov-kgb-paranormal) [Who Convinced America to Take ESP Seriously,](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nikolai-khokhlov-kgb-paranormal)” Atlas Obscura, January 13, 2017; Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, [The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB](https://archive.org/details/swordshieldmitro0000andr%5Fq5i4/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/swordshieldmitro0000andr%5Fq5i4/page/n5/mode/2up) Basic Books, 1999; David Kurlander, “[Ending in a Fall: America’s Response to the Poisoning of Soviet Defector](https://cafe.com/article/ending-in-a-fall-americas-response-to-the-poisoning-of-soviet-defector-nikolai-khokhlov/) [Nikolai Khokhlov,](https://cafe.com/article/ending-in-a-fall-americas-response-to-the-poisoning-of-soviet-defector-nikolai-khokhlov/)” Café, September 3, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_2984 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8232 (36162AC4) Date: 9/1957 Description: A man suddenly fell, as if paralyzed, and his two companions then observed an object shaped like a disk with a dome on top and another dome under it, 50 m away. A door opened and three men, 1.70 m tall, wearing close-fitting, iridescent clothing, and who walked as if on skis, appeared to make a check of the craft and the surroundings. They gathered samples in a large box. The witnesses saw small portholes and a tripod landing gear. The craft took off after 20 min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Nachrichten Jul., 60 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Campinas, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_400 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8233 (08C314C6) Date: 9/2/1957 Description: After the Plumbbob Galileo nuclear shot at the Nevada Test Site, Army troops are tested to determine their psychological reactions to witnessing the nuclear detonation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Desert Rock exercises](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%5FRock%5Fexercises)” Source ID: Eberhart_2987 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8234 (771EBA79) Date: Early 9/1957 Description: Several people fishing near Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil, watch a disc dive down from the sky and explode, showering the area with flaming fragments. One of the witnesses writes an anonymous letter and sends three pieces to O Globo, but no witnesses to the event have ever come forward. APRO representative [Olavo T.](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf) [Fontes](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf) examines the fragments, which are dull gray, irregular, and strongly oxidized. One sample is shot through with microscopic cracks and shows a fissure running through two-thirds of its length. All three have whitish smears of a powdery substance like cinders. Fontes takes one sample to the Mineral Production Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture for analysis, which shows it to be “magnesium of a high degree of purity.” Chemist Luisa Maria A. Barbosa, who conducts a spectrographic analysis, says that not even trace elements are apparent. Fontes also has it analyzed by chemist Elson Teixeira and the Brazilian Army. The Laboratory of Crystallography conducts some X-ray diffraction work. All conclude that the material is pure magnesium, while one gives it a density of 1.866 \(normal magnesium is 1.741\). APRO sends a second fragment to the US Air Force, which accidentally destroys it. The third sample is sent to the Colorado Project in February 1968. [Roy Craig](https://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/ufo-investigator-isu-alumnus-dead/article%5Fd3e1f4e4-28e6-5600-bff7-846c287c3b6b.html) runs tests on it at the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the IRS in Washington and Dow Chemical’s Metallurgical Laboratory. Both determine that the level of purity is not as high as was determined in 1957 \(although this is now seen as a major misrepresentation of the actual results\). APRO does two further tests with University of Arizona metallurgical engineer Walter A. Walker and Robert W. Johnson of the Materials Research Corporation at Orangeburg, New Jersey. Walker and Johnson both find that the sample “had undergone a directional crystal growth type of manufacture.” Walker concludes that the material was likely exposed to the earth’s atmosphere at elevated temperatures. Researchers [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) and [Michael Swords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FD.%5FSwords) examine Roy Craig’s [archived original](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) [notes](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) from the Colorado Project and find that the team had covered up the fact that an abnormal concentration of magnesium isotope Mg-26 had indeed been found and knowingly misrepresented the sample to APRO as “essentially the same as terrestrial magnesium,” blaming them for cherry-picking the Brazilian lab results. [Peter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock) [A. Sturrock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock) acquires the remnant of the samples from APRO and performs further analysis on two of them in 1997. In 2018, Michael Swords and [Robert Powell](https://ufocongress.com/robert-powell-2/) borrow one Ubatuba sample from Sturrock and arrange for further tests at an accredited lab, finding variations well outside the normal range for magnesium, strontium, copper, and barium. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Ubatuba Incident](http://www.nicap.org/5709XXubatuba%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Physical Evidence,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201960%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1960, pp. 1, 3; Olavo T. Fontes, “[A Report on the Investigation of Magnesium Samples from a UFO Explosion over the Sea in](http://www.nicap.org/reports/ubatubatd.htm) [the Ubatuba Region of Brazil,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/ubatubatd.htm)” 1962; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [pp. 104–145](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n101/mode/2up); Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 212–216; Condon, [pp. 94–97](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/94/mode/2up), [257–260](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/256/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Analysis of Alleged Fragments from an Exploding UFO near Ubatuba, Brazil: An Introduction,” JUFOS 4 \(1992\): 1–5; Walter W. Walker and Robert W. Johnson, “Further Studies on the Ubatuba UFO Magnesium Samples,” JUFOS 4 \(1992\): 6–25; Walter W. Walker, “Scientific Studies of the Ubatuba Magnesium Fragments: A 1992 Perspective,” JUFOS 4 \(1992\): 26–37; Peter A. Sturrock, “Letter: Ubatuba,” IUR 18, no. 2 \(March/April 1993\): 19; Paul R. Hill, Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis, Hampton Roads, 1995, pp. 226–234; Peter A. Sturrock, “[Composition](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/15/jse%5F15%5F1%5Fsturrock.pdf) [Analysis of the Brazil Magnesium,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/15/jse%5F15%5F1%5Fsturrock.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 15, no. 1 \(2001\): 69–95; Pierre Kaufmann and Peter A. Sturrock, “[On Events Possibly Related to the ‘Brazil Magnesium,’](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/18/jse%5F18%5F2%5Fkaufmann.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 18, no. 2 \(2004\): 283–291; Clark III 1143–1155; Brazil 510–517; Robert M. Powell, Michael D. Swords, Mark Rodeghier, and Phyllis Budinger, “[Isotope Ratios and Chemical Analysis of the 1957 Brazilian Ubatuba](https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/2415) [Fragment,](https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/2415)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 36, no. 1 \(Spring 2022\): 39–48 Source ID: Eberhart_2985 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8235 (FA2A54EC) Date: 9/4/1957 Description: Four Portuguese jet fighter-bombers under the command of Capt. [José Lemos Ferreira](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5FLemos%5FFerreira) are flying at night at 24,600 feet between Ota, Portugal, and Granada, Spain. Near Granada they turn to head to Portalegre, Portugal. At this point, Ferreira notices a UFO like a bright star with a scintillating, colored nucleus that changes from deep green to blue. The object suddenly grows to 5 or 6 times its original size, then shrinks to a barely visible yellow point. These changes repeat several times, possibly due to changes in position. The UFO maintains its position 90° to the left of the squadron. Suddenly a small circle of yellow light emerges from the object and three smaller yellow objects appear, maneuver, then disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Portuguese Air Force Jets Have 40-Min. Encounter /](http://www.nicap.org/570904portugal%5Fdir.htm) [E-M](http://www.nicap.org/570904portugal%5Fdir.htm)”; Marciano Alves, “[Air Force Pilots Spend 40 Minutes with Saucers,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CMay-Jun%2CV%204%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 3 \(May/June 1958\): 2–3; Good Above, [pp. 147–148](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/146/mode/2up); Kean, [p. 50](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/50/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_2988 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8236 (D48404E7) Date: 9/4/1957 Description: Portuguese Air Force Jets Have 40-Minute Encounter (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [570904](http://www.nicap.org/570904portugal%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Portugal Source ID: NICAP_DB_2084 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8237 (3A3F671A) Date: 9/4/1957 Description: At 8:06 p.m. four Portuguese F-84 fighter jets from Ota AFB on a night training flight at 25,000 feet altitude between Cordoba and Coruche, Portugal sighted a large disc-shaped object. It was changing color from green to yellow to blue. It also appeared to change size. Four small circles of light detached from a larger light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, July 1958; Brinsley LePoer Trench, Flying Saucer Story, p. 37; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 29; Flying Saucers magazine, September 1962, p. 30; UNICAT, case # 791 Source ID: Johnson_5626 Source: Johnson ### Event 8238 (D777007A) Date: 9/10/1957 Description: Approximate date. Anonymous witnesses saw a disk dive down and explode, showering the area with flaming fragments. Some samples were gathered, sent to a Brazilian newsman, analyzed by friends of Dr. Fontes, of Rio, and were found to consist of surprisingly pure magnesium. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor.l 90; 110 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ubatuba, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_401 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8239 (C3D01614) Date: 9/12/1957 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) APS-64 Tracks Object At 24,000 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570912](http://www.nicap.org/570912tulsa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tulsa, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2085 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8240 (ADF04E7A) Date: 9/12/1957 Description: NORAD’s command headquarters is established at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Canada and the United States agree that the NORAD commander will always be a US officer, with a Canadian vice commander, and Canada “agreed the command’s primary purpose would be…early warning and defense for SAC’s retaliatory forces.” Every continental US military radar UFO case in the Blue Book files from now on is a NORAD case because the subordinate USAF Air Defense Command belongs to NORAD. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 801; Wikipedia, “[North American Aerospace Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FAerospace%5FDefense%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_2989 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8241 (BA31C108) Date: 9/14/1957 Description: UFO explodes and leaves fragments (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [570914](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ubatubadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ubatuba, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2086 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8242 (033BAA5E) Date: 9/16/1957 Description: ATIC briefs [Howard P. Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FP.%5FRobertson) now chairman of the Defense Science Board, on Project Blue Book, presumably because he wants to find out how the Air Force is implementing the recommendations of the 1953 Robertson Panel. The briefing book \(including Special Report no. 14 as well as reports on [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and the UFO movie\) is delivered by the Pentagon’s Maj. James F. Byrne. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 265–266 Source ID: Eberhart_2990 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8243 (F26B805F) Date: 9/16/1957 Description: At 7:30 p.m. in Smithfield, Queensland, Australia Les McDonald, age 17, and Gladys Smith, age 14, saw a red light changing to green, spreading around them like a mist and covering an area about 100 meters in diameter. They became nearly paralyzed and "felt a warm glow." They had no fear, but were "merely cognizant of things as they were without [the ability] to react." This sensation lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 258 (case 402), citing UFO Bulletin, December 1957 Source ID: Johnson_6009 Source: Johnson ### Event 8244 (6D6B3940) Date: 9/16/1957 Time: 930 Description: Les McDonald, 17, and Gladys Smith, 14, saw a red light changing to green, spreading around them like a mist and covering an area about 100 m diameter. They became nearly paralyzed and "felt a warm glow." They had no fear, but were "merely cognizant of things as they were without being able to react." This sensation lasted two min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: UFO Bulletin Dec., 57 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Smithfield, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_402 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8245 (FEEEBA8F) Date: 9/17/1957 Description: Army report on eight round, orange UFOs which flew over base, one oscillating up and down. \[UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Devens, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2087 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8246 (875016C6) Date: 9/19/1957 Description: The Plumbbob Rainier nuclear shot at the Nevada Test Site is the first fully contained underground nuclear test, meaning that no fission products are vented into the atmosphere. This test of 1.7 kilotons can be detected around the world by seismologists using ordinary seismic instruments. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPlumbbob) [Plumbbob](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FPlumbbob)” Source ID: Eberhart_2991 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8247 (55993069) Date: 9/19/1957 Time: 1840 Description: A boomerang-shaped object bigger than a house was reported to have landed. Grass flattened. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Point Pleasant, New Jersey Source ID: Magnonia_403 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8248 (181C4207) Date: 9/19/1957 Description: Boomerang-shaped object bigger than a house land. Grass flattened (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Point Pleasant, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2088 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8249 (8F8680E9) Date: 9/19/1957 Description: A boomerang-shaped object bigger than a house was reported to have landed in Point Pleasant, New Jersey at 6:40 p.m. According to eyewitness accounts the grass had been flattened at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 258 Source ID: Johnson_6082 Source: Johnson ### Event 8250 (73DB1D1E) Date: 9/20/1957 Time: 8 PM Description: Witnesses: S/Sgt. H.T. O'Connor, S/Sgt. H.D. Bridgeman. One object, shaped like a coke bottle without the neck, translucent and fluorescent. Made four 5-10 second passes from north to south, with 4-5 minutes between passes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kadena AFB, Okinawa Source ID: BerlinerBBU_415 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8251 (2D011889) Date: 9/20/1957 Description: Object like a coke bottle w/o the neck, translucent and fluorescent (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 4959) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kadena AFB, Okinawa Source ID: NICAP_DB_2089 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8252 (A07E3DA4) Date: 9/20/1957 Description: 3:05 p.m. A national defense alert is called when the first of two or three supersonic objects, varying in speed for the next 30 minutes from 800 to 12,000 mph and varying in altitude from 50,000 to 135,000 feet, is picked up over the Atlantic by NORAD radar at Montauk, New York. A second \(or same\) UFO heads straight toward SAC headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, in what is perceived as a threat trajectory potentially aiming for a nuclear knockout kill of the entire US nuclear force. At 3:10 p.m., interception is attempted by two F-102 jets from Kinross AFB \[now Chippewa County International Airport\] south of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and later from Truax AFB \[now Truax Field Air National Guard Base\] northeast of Madison, Wisconsin. At 3:24 p.m., another UFO joins the first on a similar trajectory 150 miles behind. It passes over Ontario, Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa. The UFO sends radio replies to IFF interrogation signals, on different frequencies, confirming its location on the radar plots and making it impossible to explain as a malfunction or interference. Interception is impossible at these speeds and altitudes. SAC goes on high alert and apparently launches nuclear bombers toward Russia, but the alert is called off when the UFOs disappear. NORAD triggers a White House alert. High-level meetings of CIA and USAF intelligence, and the Intelligence Advisory Committee meet in executive session. The CIA Director of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, [Herbert Scoville Jr.](http://scoville.org/herbert-scoville-jr/biography/)[,](http://scoville.org/herbert-scoville-jr/biography/) suggests that the object might be a maneuverable Soviet cruise missile, but that is not yet in the Soviet inventory. President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) is briefed multiple times. One year later, NORAD still cannot identify any malfunction that could possibly make the radar targets agree with the IFF signals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Multiple Radars Track 4,500 MPH Target](http://www.nicap.org/570920montauk%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 802–804, 814– 824; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 249–250; Swords 266–267 Source ID: Eberhart_2992 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8253 (DDB2FF30) Date: 9/20/1957 Description: At 8:05 in the evening Sergeants H. T. O'Connor and H. D. Bridgeman at Kadena AFB on Okinawa observed an object shaped like a coke bottle without the neck. It was described as translucent and fluorescent. It made four 5-10 second passes over the airbase from north to south, with 4-5 minutes between passes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 4959; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6124 Source: Johnson ### Event 8254 (219C6538) Date: 9/20/1957 Description: High speed 2,300 mph radar target at 50,000 ft altitude tracked/ multiple radars (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [570920](http://www.nicap.org/570920montauk%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montauk, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2090 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8255 (5B75114D) Date: 9/25/1957 Description: Shortly after 11:00 p.m. a white luminous sphere landed in a field 700 yards away from the house of Mr. & Mrs. Aellig in Alliance, Ohio. Eleven or twelve men, all seven feet tall, walked through the cornfield, wearing gray diver suits. One walked between the house and their garage. The encounter lasted 18 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0426 Source ID: Johnson_6311 Source: Johnson ### Event 8256 (B71CDFCF) Date: 9/26/1957 Description: Confidential report, from U.S. Embassy officer and wife, of bright elliptical UFO. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paris, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_2091 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8257 (705E9523) Date: 9/26/1957 Time: sunset Description: Three hundred people were said to have seen three elongated objects with a series of portholes, maneuvering at ground level in an area with many empty oil wells. One of these objects, said to be 150 m long and 20 m high, pearl-colored, glistening under the setting sun and showing a series of circles painted on its surface, landed for 20 min. An occupant emerged, observed the abandoned derricks and took off again. Observed through binoculars, he appeared as a "monster," 1 m tall, moving with strange jumps. He picked up something from the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Perego ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Yellow Falls, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_404 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8258 (166E0965) Date: 9/29/1957 Time: 0500 Description: Undocumented report of a landing observed by missile men. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Keyhoe S ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Deerwood Nike Base, Maryland Source ID: Magnonia_405 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8259 (2FEC2AC1) Date: 9/29/1957 Description: 4:20 p.m. A nuclear waste storage tank explodes spontaneously at the Mayak plutonium production site \(Chelyabinsk-40\) for nuclear weapons and fuel reprocessing at Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It launches a kilometer-tall pillar of dust and smoke into the sky. Gray radioactive ash and debris settles over the industrial zone. There are no immediate fatalities, though up to 200+ additional cancer deaths perhaps ensue from the radioactive contamination of some 20,000 square miles; 270,000 people are exposed to dangerous radiation levels. Over 30 small communities are removed from Soviet maps between 1958 and 1991. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Kyshtym disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym%5Fdisaster)” Source ID: Eberhart_2993 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8260 (BCD54CDE) Date: 9/29/1957 Description: Deerwood Nike Base, Maryland. 5:00 a.m. Undocumented report of a landing observed by missile men. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 258 Source ID: Johnson_6418 Source: Johnson ### Event 8261 (AFA9C48B) Date: 10/1957 Description: At the Gabiroba farm, owners A. Santinoni and S. de Oliveira were blinded by beam from a round object at ground level. The light was green and yellow. When they came near, all went dark and the object vanished. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Round-up 205 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Niquelandia, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_406 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8262 (82049F70) Date: 10/1957 Description: 10:00 p.m. Mrs. James Masterson and her sister Bernice Childers while driving see a reddish-orange disc, 30 feet in diameter, just above the treetops in Allen Park, Michigan. They chase it for a block or two before it streaks off. One of the women sees two figures wearing white Navy uniforms in a window on the lower section. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1957](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1957.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1957.pdf) p. 17; Clark III 268 Source ID: Eberhart_2995 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8263 (C07ECFC1) Date: 10/1957 Description: [Leonard H. Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) privately publishes Inside Saucer Post…3-0 Blue that summarizes his early years as a UFO investigator and as director of Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, [Inside Saucer Post…3-0 Blue](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/InsidesaucerPost3-0Blue.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/InsidesaucerPost3-0Blue.htm) The Author, 1957 Source ID: Eberhart_2994 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8264 (F083230A) Date: 10/1/1957 Description: UFO circled atomic plant (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [571001](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-shippingport.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shippingport, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2092 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8265 (E5783954) Date: 10/4/1957 Description: Sputnik 1 launched, transmits for 3 weeks, deorbits on 1/4/58 Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1) See also: 11/12/1957 Source ID: Maj2_574 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8266 (66E27DCD) Date: 10/4/1957 Description: Angel hair residue fell on Ichinoseki, Japan at 11:45 a.m. on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 101, citing Flying Saucer Review, January 1958 Source ID: Johnson_6555 Source: Johnson ### Event 8267 (A48701A0) Date: 10/4/1957 Description: 10:00 a.m. A tadpole-like UFO is seen at Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Afterwards, material like spider web falls in great profusion around Saguramachi Middle School for about 2 hours. Chemical analysis reveals that it is organic, dissolvable in hydrochloric acid, and burns. The crystal structure is different from spider web. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Angel Hair,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJan-Feb%2CV%204%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1958\): 21; Robert N. Webster, “Things That Fall from UFO’s,” Fate 11, no. 10 \(October 1958\): 26; George M. Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 21; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 103; Clark III 124–125 Source ID: Eberhart_2997 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8268 (27D003F6) Date: 10/4/1957 Description: The USSR launches the first artificial earth satellite, [Sputnik 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F1), which transmits radio pulses for 21 days. Some 4% of Americans claim to have seen Sputnik in orbit. However, what most are actually seeing is the 100- foot-long R-7 rocket core stage, outfitted with reflective panels that make it a first magnitude object, trailing 600 miles behind the 22-inch satellite until October 26 when the batteries run out. The satellite is barely visible at sixth magnitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Sputnik 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F1)”; Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_2996 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8269 (EBAFDF36) Date: 10/5/1957 Time: 2300 Description: Antonio Villas-Boas who could not sleep because of the heat, opened the shutters of his house and saw a silvery glow in the yard, but no flying object. The light moved and was seen going over the house. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_407 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8270 (40647A4D) Date: 10/5/1957 Description: Sao Francisco de Sales, Brazil. Antonio Villas-Boas could not sleep because of the heat, so he opened the shudders on his house and saw a silvery glow in the yard. The light began to move and left going over his house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 259 Source ID: Johnson_6573 Source: Johnson ### Event 8271 (9587BA11) Date: 10/5/1957 Description: 11:00 p.m. [Antonio Villas-Boas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio%5FVillas%5FBoas) gets up from bed on his family’s farm near São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil, to open a window and notices a silvery reflection over the corral. After a short time, it moves towards the window. He and his brother watch as an object approaches and lights up the room. It disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1226 Source ID: Eberhart_2998 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8272 (B4E58101) Date: 10/6/1957 Description: 4:15 p.m. Amateur astronomer [Earl Sydow](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67773739/earl-charles-sydow) spots a bright object with the magnitude of the planet Venus through his telescope over Tucson, Arizona. Six other observers also watch the object, which measures approximately 3 minutes in diameter along its major axis and 1 minute along its minor axis. Smaller flat-white or silver-white objects, as many as 6–10, seem to emerge from the primary object as observations continue. The smaller objects are apparently short traces of light at some times and semi-wedge-shaped at other times. The smaller objects disappear from the field of the telescope until only the original object is visible, and it disappears as if moving directly away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 80 Source ID: Eberhart_2999 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8273 (4E593D37) Date: 10/7/1957 Description: White oval object seen near Cape for second consecutive night. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Canaveral, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2093 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8274 (310B8481) Date: 10/8/1957 Description: At 9:17 a.m. two U.S. Army sergeants outside of Seattle, Washington observed two flat, round, white objects that flew in trail formation along an irregular path, frequently banking during the 25-30 seconds of their sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5003; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6648 Source: Johnson ### Event 8275 (742EBD92) Date: 10/8/1957 Description: At 7:05 a.m. a bright silver object flew at great speed over the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. The witness, Mr. J. Flynn, was flying in a Pan Am DC-7C airliner over Norfolk County at the time of his sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 967, citing New York World Telegram & Sun, October 8, 1957; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 42 Source ID: Johnson_6647 Source: Johnson ### Event 8276 (9DB5DF65) Date: 10/8/1957 Time: 1500 Description: Two couples going from Nabouwalu to Nawaca in a motor boat saw a white object come down from the sky, thought it was a plane in trouble and went closer. They found the object hovering 7 m above the water, and a figure on board the craft aimed at them a beam so bright they "felt weak." The figure disappeared suddenly, and the object took off vertically at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Round-up 202; Challenge 18 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Nabouwalu, Fiji Islands Source ID: Magnonia_408 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8277 (9A4D3D01) Date: 10/8/1957 Description: 2 flat, round, white objects fly in trail formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5003) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Seattle, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2096 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8278 (8C2109C1) Date: 10/8/1957 Description: Natives in small boat saw UFO descend vertically, hover about 20 feet above sea. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bua Province, Fiji Islands Source ID: NICAP_DB_2095 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8279 (738976E2) Date: 10/8/1957 Description: Day. Four Fijians in a punt with an outboard motor off Nabouwalu, Viti Levu, Fiji, see a white, circular object, which is hovering about 20 feet above the ocean. They approach it. It appears to be revolving, and they can see the figure of a man standing on the outside. The figure shines a blinding light at their boat, which makes them feel dazed and weak. As they draw closer, the figure disappears and the object rises rapidly upward, disappearing straight up. R. O. Aveling, an official of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, sees a similar object at the same time but at a different location. It is hovering at about 5,000 feet and swinging in a balloon-like fashion. Its color varies from bright white to deep, flashing red. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Fiji Reports Sighting Object Like Texas Saucer,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100135693/)” Honolulu \(Hawaii\) Advertiser, November 5, 1957, p. 1; “[Strange Object Seen in South Pacific Skies,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95889466/)” Long Beach \(Calif.\) Press- Telegram, November 5, 1957, p. 3; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 81; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Oct-1-Nov-2.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History, 1957, October 1st–November 2nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Oct-1-Nov-2.pdf), The Author, 1997, p. 19; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-10-08-fiji-nabouwalu.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-10-08-fiji-nabouwalu.htm) February 16, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_3000 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8280 (79C09BD8) Date: 10/8/1957 Time: 9:17 AM Description: Witnesses: two U.S. Army sergeants. Two flat, round, white objects flew in trail formation along an irregular path, frequently banking during 25-30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Seattle, Washington Source ID: BerlinerBBU_416 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8281 (014DD778) Date: 10/8/1957 Description: Pan American Airways pilot saw a brilliant object flying at high speed in daylight. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boston (near), MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2094 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8282 (AD25ECC4) Date: 10/8/1957 Description: At three o'clock in the afternoon two couples going from Nabouwalu to Nawaca in the Fiji Islands by motor boat saw a white colored object descend from the sky. They thought it was a plane in trouble so they went closer. Instead of plane wreakage they found the object hovering seven meters above the water, and a figure onboard the craft then aimed a beam of energy at them that was very bright and made them feel weak. The figure disappeared suddenly, and the object took off vertically at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 18; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 408 Source ID: Johnson_6646 Source: Johnson ### Event 8283 (34FE0431) Date: 10/9/1957 Description: 7:24 p.m. The tower operator at Naval Air Station South Weymouth \[now the Shea Field Naval Aviation Historical Museum\], Massachusetts, sights a constant, conical, greenish-blue object with a phosphorescent glow through binoculars. In sight approximately 90 seconds, the observer sees no navigation lights. It is traveling faster than a jet plane on a track from northeast to south-southwest. The object comes out of the horizon and toward the end of its path makes three “crazy” gyrations then vanishes, possibly behind cloud cover. The object has no trail like a meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_3003 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8284 (97814F3E) Date: 10/9/1957 Description: Evening. Fire ignites Windscale Pile Number One, an air-cooled, graphite-moderated, uranium-fueled reactor used for plutonium and isotope production at the Windscale facility \[now Sellafield\] in Cumbria, England. It burns for three days, and there is a release of radioactive iodine that spreads across the UK, contaminating surrounding dairy farms, as well as the rest of Europe. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Windscale fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale%5Ffire)” Source ID: Eberhart_3001 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8285 (67BCB233) Date: 10/9/1957 Description: Night. Radio station CKOV in Kelowna, British Columbia, after reports on Sputnik, rebroadcasts [Orson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson%5FWelles) [Welles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson%5FWelles)’s 1938 War of the Worlds radio drama. Some 60 phone calls come in from listeners who think that Russians have landed in North America. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Welles, ‘Moon,’ Terrify Town,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94391410/)” Windsor \(Ont.\) Star, October 10, 1957, p. 28 Source ID: Eberhart_3002 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8286 (C8C10DD6) Date: 10/10/1957 Description: 4:00 a.m. A huge fireball plunges from the sky near Myton, Utah, just missing a US Navy DC-6 transport plane out of NAS Alameda \[now closed\], California, with 36 persons aboard. Pilot Lt. Cmdr. W. F. Norris reports the incident to Salt Lake City Airport. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Big Fireball Perils Plane,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94391673/)” Oakland \(Calif.\) Tribune, October 10, 1957, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_3004 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8287 (B48A23E8) Date: 10/10/1957 Description: Mrs. Edward Yeager who lived in a trailer on the Duanesburg-Church Road near Mariaville, saw a circular object go down behind the hill. Two min later it flew up again, very bright. The next day she was feeding animals that ran away as the same or a similar object came within 2 m of the ground. Two dark, little men came out of the craft and went into the woods. The object remained there two min, then left. A search for the occupants proved futile. A bus driver was said to have seen two craft land in a nearby field at the same hour. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 58, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Schenectady, New York Source ID: Magnonia_409 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8288 (D66BF2F9) Date: 10/10/1957 Time: night Description: Naval officer Miguel Espanhol and another man, traveling to Ceres, saw a bright object that illuminated the countryside and came down to ground level as the truck stalled. It was oval or saucer-shaped, over 150 m in diameter and 40 m deep, with a dome supporting a long "aerial" with a red light on top. The bright light went off and the witnesses saw seven childlike beings, with long hair and luminous suits, who looked down at them for about 3 min. The craft flew south and released a smaller disk, which flew north. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 36 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Quebracoco, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_410 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8289 (BF46F979) Date: 10/10/1957 Description: At 2:30 in the afternoon Mrs. Edward Yeager, who lived in a trailer on the Duanesburg Church Road in Schenectady, New York near Mariaville, saw a circular UFO go down behind a hill. Two minutes later it flew up again and was very bright. The next day she was feeding her animals and the animals ran away when the same or a similar object came down within two meters of the ground. Two dark little men came out of the craft and went into the woods. The object remained there for two minutes, then left. A search for the occupants proved futile. A bus driver was reported to have seen two craft land in a nearby field at the same hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 259, case 409; Flying Saucer Review, May 1958 & FSR, July-August 1970, p. 35; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0432 Source ID: Johnson_6709 Source: Johnson ### Event 8290 (F90B6303) Date: 10/10/1957 Description: Quebracoco, Brazil. On this night a naval officer, Miguel Espanhol and another man, were driving to Ceres, Goias State, Brazil when they saw a bright object that illuminated the countryside and flew down to ground level as their truck stalled. It was oval or saucer-shaped, over 150 meters in diameter and 40 meters deep, with a dome supporting a long "aerial" with a red light on top. The bright light went off and the witnesses saw seven childlike beings, with long hair and luminous suits, who looked down at them for about three minutes. The craft flew south and released a smaller disc, which flew north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 259; O Cruzeiro, May 17, 1958; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 110 Source ID: Johnson_6710 Source: Johnson ### Event 8291 (62D0F8DE) Date: 10/10/1957 Description: The coffee truck driven by Miguel Espanhol Navarrete and his driver stalls northwest of Ceres near Quebra Coco, Goiás, Brazil, as a UFO lands nearby. They see an intense light as they begin a steep ascent, and then realize that the flying object appears to be more than 600 feet long. It lights up the entire area, even though it is gliding at a great height. The driver panics and tries to speed away, but the truck’s engine stalls as the object approaches and flies over the vehicle about 130 feet away. The object is about 3 feet in diameter by 40 inches high and is unevenly oval, with the upper section greater than the lower section. It looks like two superimposed plates separated by a strip 65 feet thick. When it is at an altitude of 20 feet, the UFO stops in the air and its light goes out. It lands, a door opens, and seven apparently human people come out dressed in luminous suits. Then the crew reenters the UFO and takes off, stopping at about 1,650 feet altitude. At that moment a smaller object detaches itself from the larger one and flies north. The larger object follows in a southeasterly direction. Navarrete is interviewed by Judge Gabriel Barbosa de Andrade, then-Secretary of the Interior and justice of the State of Goiás; Joaquim Neves Pereira; and Antenor Gomes, then-Secretary of Public Security for Goiás. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967, [pp. 192–193](https://archive.org/details/flyingsauceroccu00lore/page/196/mode/2up); Clark III 230; “[Caso Ceres,](https://www.fenomenum.com.br/ufo/casuistica/1950/ceres)” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-10-10-brazil-quebracoco.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-10-10-brazil-quebracoco.htm) October 17, 2006; Brazil 40–41 Source ID: Eberhart_3005 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8292 (C0442F67) Date: 10/11/1957 Time: 2000 Description: Two witnesses in a car saw something they described as "a dark, transparent ball" about 50 cm in diameter rising from the side of the road. It had appendages trailing behind. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 111 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Roulon, France Source ID: Magnonia_411 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8293 (88C0DF80) Date: 10/11/1957 Description: At 10:20 p.m. in Derby, England nocturnal lights were seen maneuvering in front of the new Sputnik satellite. A silent disc-shaped object was seen at Alvaston which went away, but soon returned. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_6761 Source: Johnson ### Event 8294 (8FD37770) Date: 10/11/1957 Description: At around 8:00 p.m. two witnesses in a car being driven in Roulon, France saw something they described as "a dark, transparent ball" about 50 cm in diameter rising from the side of the road. It had appendages trailing behind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings, p. 260, case # 411 Source ID: Johnson_6760 Source: Johnson ### Event 8295 (5BD65A01) Date: 10/12/1957 Description: 3:20 p.m., a strange round object bearing southeast-appeared to be a sphere with sensing elements or spikes protruding from it (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [571012](http://www.nicap.org/mvineyard571012dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Martha's Vineyard, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2097 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8296 (5AC945D5) Date: 10/12/1957 Description: 9:15 p.m. Many witnesses see a luminous oval object pass over Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, at great speed. The same or a similar object is seen at Coro at 9:25 p.m. and at Trujillo at 12:00 midnight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 82 Source ID: Eberhart_3006 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8297 (231E6588) Date: 10/13/1957 Description: On this night Antonio Villas Boas witnessed a UFO making complex maneuvers in the sky above his family's farmhouse in Sao Francisco de Sales, Brazil. This is three nights prior to his famous abduction experience, which occurred in the early morning hours of October 16. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, July 1966, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_6809 Source: Johnson ### Event 8298 (0A1FF21A) Date: 10/14/1957 Description: Around 9:30 p.m. [Antonio Villas-Boas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio%5FVillas%5FBoas) and another brother are plowing and see a bright object hovering 300 feet in the air. He approaches it, but it evades him and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1226–1227 Source ID: Eberhart_3008 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8299 (85A87716) Date: 10/14/1957 Description: 7:00 p.m. The Naval Air Station North Island tower in San Diego, California, directs a Navy S2F-1Tracker anti-submarine aircraft toward a bright light over Point Loma. The aircraft, piloted by Lt. [Allen L. Ries](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199036061/allen-louis-ries), tracks the UFO on airborne radar at some points suddenly moving at 1,700 mph average speed \(3,500 mph at peak\) and 1,100 mph average relative to the aircraft’s \(peak 2,200 mph\). Radar indicates the object is about 12 miles ahead. After 3 minutes the aircraft loses the object visually and on radar. Blue Book explains this as the star Arcturus, which is in the wrong direction in the sky, then changes the explanation to a balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, \[[Blue Book](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/571014-North%20Island%20NAS%20Navy.pdf) [documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/571014-North%20Island%20NAS%20Navy.pdf)\]; Clark III 389–390 Source ID: Eberhart_3007 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8300 (D24CF8FA) Date: 10/14/1957 Time: 2145 Description: Second observation by A. Villas-Boas. He was plowing a field with his brother when they saw a red light at the edge of the field. He went toward it, but it shifted its position every time he went close. It vanished on the spot. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_412 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8301 (B41FD6A1) Date: 10/14/1957 Description: Antonio Villas Boas, age 23, had his second UFO sighting prior to his famous UFO abduction, when at 9:45 p.m. he watched a blazing object, possibly disc shaped, play tag with him over a field on his family farm in Sao Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He was plowing the field with his brother on a tractor when they saw a red light at the edge of the field. He went toward it, but it shifted its position every time he got close. The object nearly touched down, and came down to a height of 100 meters. It vanished on the spot. The sighting lasted from ten to twenty minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Olavo T. Fontes, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966, p. 23; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 62; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 412 Source ID: Johnson_6834 Source: Johnson ### Event 8302 (C453B930) Date: 10/15/1957 Description: Villas Boas abduction. Has intercourse with an human-looking female. Type: abduction Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1) Location: Brazil Source ID: Maj2_575 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8303 (0ACD952D) Date: 10/15/1957 Description: Combine engine failed as hovering UFO began to rise (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Covington, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2099 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8304 (D4AFD0CA) Date: 10/15/1957 Description: Villas Boas abduction, sexual encounter case (UFOE, section XIII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minas Gerais State, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2098 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8305 (7A15AFDD) Date: 10/15/1957 Description: Villas Boas abduction, sexual encounter case Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Minas Gerais State, Brazil Source ID: HallUFOE2_4 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 8306 (0C1A05C1) Date: 10/15/1957 Description: Afternoon. Robert Moudy sees a glowing object hovering above his combine in Franklin County, Indiana, at about 1,500 feet. It appears to be silver and platter-shaped, perhaps 12 feet in diameter, with a pink flame coming from its base. It makes a loud whirring noise as it hovers. When it starts ascending at a 22° angle, its color changes from pink to light blue and the combine stops working. He notices two stalled cars on a nearby road. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Indiana Farmer Says ‘Whatsit’ Was Overhead,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99758833/)” Indianapolis News, November 5, 1957, p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_3009 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8307 (C23E8CF1) Date: 10/15/1957 Description: On this day while working outside, Mr. Moudy, a farmer, observed a silvery disc that hovered above his tractor in Covington, Indiana. The tractor engine failed when the object took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 260, case # 413 Source ID: Johnson_6860 Source: Johnson ### Event 8308 (4EEB2A10) Date: 10/15/1957 Time: daylight Description: Mr. Moudy, a farmer, observed a silvery disk which hovered above his tractor; the engine failed when the object rose. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Covington, Indiana Source ID: Magnonia_413 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8309 (59A2CCBA) Date: 10/16/1957 Description: Round UFO sighted by former Commander-in-Chief of Royal Australian Air Force. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2100 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8310 (DADEF0CC) Date: 10/16/1957 Description: 1:00 a.m. [Antonio Villas-Boas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio%5FVillas%5FBoas) is plowing alone near São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when a red, egg-shaped object appears above him. His tractor motor and lights fail. It lands nearby and something grabs him as he tries to run away. Three small figures bring him into the object, where he is subjected to tests and made to have sex twice with an odd-looking woman. Afterwards, she points to her belly then points to the sky. Then he is given a tour of the craft and taken outside again around 5:30 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The A.V.B. Contact Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20026-27%20-%201962.pdf)” Boletim SBEDV, no. 26/27 \(Apr./July 1962\): 7–9; Gordon Creighton, “[The Most Amazing Case of All, Part 1: A Brazilian](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CJan-Feb%2CV%2011%2CN%201.pdf) [Farmer’s Story,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CJan-Feb%2CV%2011%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1965\): 13–17; Gordon Creighton, “[The Most](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CMar-Apr%2CV%2011%2CN%202.pdf) [Amazing Case of All, Part 2: Analysis of the Brazilian Farmer’s Story,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CMar-Apr%2CV%2011%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1965\): 5–8; Gordon Creighton, “[Postscript to the Most Amazing Case of All,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CJul-Aug%2CV%2011%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1965\): 24–26; Gordon Creighton, “[Even More Amazing…: Further Light on the A.V.B.](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%204.pdf) [Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1966\): 23–27; Gordon Creighton, “[Even More Amazing…Part](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%205.pdf) [2: The A.V.B. Case Continued,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1966\): 22–25; Gordon Creighton, “[Even More Amazing…Part III,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1966\): 14–16; Gordon Creighton, “[Even More Amazing…Part IV,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1967\): 25–27; Olavo T. Fontes, “[Even More Amazing…Part V,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 3 \(May/June 1967\): 22–25; Gordon Creighton, “[Even More Amazing…Part VI: The Medical Report,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1968\): 18–20; Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967, [pp. 42–72](https://archive.org/details/flyingsauceroccu00lore/page/42/mode/2up); “Brazil: New Light on a Sexual Abduction,” IUR/Probe, Sept. 1980, p. 79; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 56–59; Brazil 41–47; Clark III 1227–1229; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_3010 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8311 (43ACE511) Date: 10/16/1957 Description: Evening. Former Australian Air Marshal [George Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FJones%5F%28RAAF%5Fofficer%29) and his wife see a round object like a “flying balloon” moving silently at the speed of a jet over their home in Mentone, Victoria, Australia. It moves from south to north at an altitude of 1,000–1,500 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Jones, “[Former Air Chief Sees Saucers,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CMay-Jun%2CV%204%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 3 \(May/June 1958\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_3012 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8312 (EDC70F2F) Date: 10/16/1957 Description: Day. Nurse Ella Louise Fortune is driving north of Tularosa, New Mexico, when she sees a brilliant-white, elliptical object hovering in a deep-blue sky. It seems to have a faint exhaust trail at one edge. She stops her car and snaps a 35mm Kodachrome photo. Analysts generally agree this is a bright lenticular cloud with a trail of ice crystals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Walter N. Webb, “The Fortune Photo Revisited,” IUR 18, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1993\): 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_3011 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8313 (FEA30368) Date: 10/16/1957 Description: Sao Francisco de Sales, Brazil. A famous alien abduction and sexual encounter case occurred in the early morning hours of this day. Alone in the fields on a clear night, Antonio Villas-Boas saw a big, red star which soon took on the appearance of a luminous, egg-shaped object that stopped and hovered 50 meters above his tractor. Its light was brighter than that of the tractor headlights as it landed 15 meters away. The top part of the UFO was spinning, and it became green as it slowed down. It then appeared as a flattened dome. Three legs emerged from the machine as it settled down. Sr. Villas-Boas's tractor engine stalled and he tried to run through the furrows in the freshly plowed field, but he was quickly seized by unknown individuals who dragged him aboard the craft, where he was medically examined. After being stripped and sponged down with what he took to be a disinfectant liquid he was then left alone with a woman of short stature with whom he had sexual intercourse. Villas-Boas reported that the woman had high cheekbones and a sharp chin. He was allowed to redress himself and spent a short time subsequently with the other crew members. He reported they wore tight-fitting, white uniforms with a light on the belt, heelless white shoes, big gloves, and opaque helmets with a slit at the level of the eyes. Their language was shrill, and he could establish no verbal communication with them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 260 Source ID: Johnson_6893 Source: Johnson ### Event 8314 (1620BC85) Date: 10/16/1957 Time: 0100 Description: Third observation by A. Villas-Boas. Alone in the fields on a clear night, he saw a big, red star which took the appearance of a luminous, egg-shaped object and stopped 50 m above his tractor. Its light was brighter than that of the headlights as it landed 15 m away. The top part was spinning. It became green as it slowed down, was then seen as a flattened dome. Three legs emerged from the machine as it settled down. The tractor engine stalled, and the witness was seized by unknown individuals and carried aboard the craft, where he was medically examined, then left with a woman of short stature with whom he had sexual intercourse. Villas-Boas reported that crew members wore tight, white clothes with a light on the belt, heelless white shoes, big gloves, and opaque helmets with a slit at the level of the eyes. Their language was shrill, and he could establish no verbal communication with them. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 4 et seq. ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_414 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8315 (D847A47E) Date: 10/19/1957 Description: (McDonald list) Targets on Lakenheath Radar (BBU) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571019](http://www.nicap.org/571019mildenhall%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mildenhall, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2101 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8316 (AB6309C8) Date: 10/21/1957 Description: Meteor Jet Almost Collides With Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [571021](http://www.nicap.org/571021rafgaydon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: RAF Gaydon (Warwickshire), UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2102 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8317 (A90AC35F) Date: 10/21/1957 Description: 9:18 p.m. Flying Officer D. W. Sweeney is flying a Meteor jet at 28,000 feet on a training exercise from RAF North Luffenham \[now St. George’s Barracks\] when he nearly collides with an unidentified object over RAF Gaydon \[now closed\], North Warwickshire, England. After taking evasive action, Sweeney tries to approach the object, whereupon its six lights go out and it disappears. The UFO is tracked on radar at RAF Langtoft \[now closed\] in South Kesteven. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO over British A-Bomber Base: Air Ministry Baffled,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJan-Feb%2CV%204%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1958\): 6; Good Above, [pp. 50–51](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/50/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3013 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8318 (89D875DC) Date: 10/22/1957 Description: The US Continental Army Command sends a memo to the Army Chief of Research and Development indicating its interest in the flying saucer concept and requesting initiation of a feasibility study of a “manned flying saucer.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard P. Weinert, History of Army Aviation, 1950–1962, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, November 1976, [pp. 220–221](https://archive.org/details/DTIC%5FADA236573/page/n225/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3014 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8319 (6E71E54A) Date: 10/22/1957 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) AN/TPS-1D Tracks Object Three Times (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571022](http://www.nicap.org/571022wiesbaden%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wiesbaden, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_2106 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8320 (EFD7A5D1) Date: 10/22/1957 Description: UFO was seen on the ground near the beach in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina state, Brazil. It Illuminated the area with beams of light, it took off toward the east, then ascended vertically into the sky very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: October-November 2, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_7018 Source: Johnson ### Event 8321 (32D734E6) Date: 10/22/1957 Description: Family saw six UFOs in two separate groups, changing position in formation. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pittsburgh, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2105 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8322 (D869353B) Date: 10/23/1957 Description: Disc traveling on edge. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: London, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2107 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8323 (CD5926DB) Date: 10/23/1957 Description: Strands of "angel hair" as long as fifty feet fell over a 110 mile-long area from Portales to Hobbs, New Mexico. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Civilian Saucer Intelligence-New York Source ID: Johnson_7042 Source: Johnson ### Event 8324 (CCE23292) Date: 10/25/1957 Description: On a farm near Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a housekeeper \(pseudonym = Anazia Maria\) is taking care of a family member who is dying of stomach cancer. She claims that two diminutive, long-haired beings emerge from a landed UFO, come inside the house, examine the girl for an hour with a device that looks like a flashlight, communicate telepathically to the family, cure the girl, and leave behind some medication to give her. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Olavo T. Fontes, “[Dying Girl Saved by Humanoid Surgeons,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1967\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_3015 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8325 (39577C95) Date: Late 10/1957 Description: Late one afternoon, a British RAF team is planning to return home from the Maralinga, South Australia, nuclear test site where the Operation Antler series of blasts have occurred \(September 14, 25, October 9\). They go outside and see a silvery-blue, metallic UFO with a flat base and a dome on top. Several squarish portholes are visible around the center. The object tilts at 45° and hovers. After 15 minutes, the UFO shoots up out of sight without a sound. One of the witnesses is Derek Murray, later a Home Office photographer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[The](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201986%20V%2031%20N%205.pdf) [UFO Connection: Startling Implications for Australia’s North West Cape, and for Australia’s Security,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201986%20V%2031%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 31, no. 5 \(July 1986\): 18–19; Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, [pp. 94–95](https://archive.org/details/ufoconspiracyfir00rand/page/94/mode/2up); Good Above, [p. 163](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/162/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3020 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8326 (9E5D9688) Date: 10/25/1957 Description: A girl suffering from cancer appeared about to die when the house was suddenly illuminated by a strong light, as if a searchlight had been aimed at the room. It came from an object whose top part was reddish yellow. Two figures emerged from it and entered the house. They were about 1.20 m tall, had long yellow-red hair, small green, slanted eyes, and wore white gloves and glowing white clothes. Before the astounded witnesses (the author of the report and the family of the girl), they used a device producing a bluish-white light and another instument, in what appeared to be radiation treatment of the patient. After 30 min they went away, leaving her completely cured. The report was anonymous. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 67, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Petropolis, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_415 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8327 (B5CA36D8) Date: 10/25/1957 Description: In Petropolis, Brazil a girl suffering from cancer appeared near death when the house was suddenly illuminated by a strong light, as if a searchlight had been aimed at her room. It came from an object whose top part was reddish yellow. Two figures emerged from it and entered the house. They were about 1.20 meters (4 feet) tall, had long reddish-yellow hair, slanted small green eyes, and wore white gloves and glowing white uniforms. Before the astounded family and another witness astounded witnesses they used a device producing a bluish-white light and another instrument, in what appeared to be radiation treatment of the patient. After 30 minutes they left, leaving her completely cured. The report was filed by an anonymous source. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 260-261, case 415 Source ID: Johnson_7121 Source: Johnson ### Event 8328 (CE1C747B) Date: 10/30/1957 Description: 9:00 p.m. Hugh Pulju and Shirley Moyer are driving 10 miles north of Casper, Wyoming, when a round, shiny object appears in the road about 250 feet ahead. Pulju tries to turn around, but the engine keeps stalling. It works well once he reaches a main highway. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Mystery Object’ Is Reported Here,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100197994/)” Casper \(Wyo.\) Tribune- Herald, November 5, 1957, p. 1; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 237–238; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 24 Source ID: Eberhart_3016 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8329 (6A78C61A) Date: 10/30/1957 Description: A 19-year-old couple, Moyer and Pulju, were driving ten miles north of Casper, Wyoming at 9:00 p.m. when they encountered 50-foot wide, silvery sphere or disc just over the road that caused electromagnetic effects on their car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Casper (WY) Tribune-Herald, November 5, 1957; Alexander D. Mebane, "1957 Saucer Wave in the US," in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 237; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_7301 Source: Johnson ### Event 8330 (F5DECF50) Date: 10/30/1957 Description: Car motor kept stalling as motorist tried to turn around to avoid UFO sitting on road (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Casper, WY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2108 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8331 (F9BA2CFF) Date: 10/31/1957 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) meets with Rep. [James C. Healey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FC.%5FHealey) again, who tells him the Air Force has “made a strong attempt to disprove your claims.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 113 Source ID: Eberhart_3017 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8332 (518F44D1) Date: 10/31/1957 Description: A businessman and his wife at Longchaumois, Jura, France, see a large lighted object with openings. It hovers close to the ground and takes off with a great increase in brightness, silently, at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, October 1st–November 2nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Oct-1-Nov-2.pdf), The Author, 1997, p. 83 Source ID: Eberhart_3018 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8333 (A079CDCF) Date: 10/31/1957 Description: 8:00 p.m. Barbara Jean Stokes, her husband Paul, and another couple are driving in Lumberton, North Carolina, when they spot an object about 200 feet long in the sky. Suddenly the object rises straight up and flames. As this happens, the car stalls until the object disappears a few seconds later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Woman Says She Saw](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99760268/) [Ball of Fire on Road,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99760268/)” Charlotte \(N.C.\) Observer, November 5, 1957, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_3019 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8334 (FDF85B99) Date: 10/31/1957 Time: 0000 Description: A businessman and his wife saw a large, lighted object with openings, which hovered, came to ground level, and took off with a great increase in brightness at very high speed, but without noise. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Longchaumois, France Source ID: Magnonia_416 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8335 (0811C74F) Date: 10/31/1957 Description: At midnight in Longchaumois, France a businessman and his wife saw a large, lighted object with openings, which hovered, came to ground level, and took off with a great increase in brightness as it flew away at very high speed, but without noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 261, case 416, citing Aime Michel Source ID: Johnson_7330 Source: Johnson ### Event 8336 (2E1FE83F) Date: 10/31/1957 Description: That evening in Lumberton, North Carolina a car engine failed as a UFO was observed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charlotte Observer, November 4, 1957; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 74; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_7331 Source: Johnson ### Event 8337 (60120B19) Date: 10/31/1957 Description: Car motor failed as UFO observed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lumberton, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2109 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8338 (487D2116) Date: 11/1957 Time: 2300 Description: Haskell Raper, Jr., was driving home on a rainy night when he saw a large, lighted object on the road ahead, which he thought was a truck. Suddenly the object flashed a beam of light directly at the car, apparently exerting a strong pressure and slowing it to a stop 5 m away. The object was then described as oval, 5 m long, 3 m high, army green in color. It bore lettering beginning with the letters UN, followed by some numbers. A sort of heat wave filled the car, and the witness ran out in panic as the vehicle caught fire. The object rose with the sound of a diesel engine. Raper ran to the town, less than 2 km away; and reported the incident. The car, a 1956 Ford, was completely destroyed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Oct., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Provencal, Louisiana Source ID: Magnonia_417 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8339 (5232DAF9) Date: 11/1957 Description: Lt. Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford) succeeds Maj. Gen. [Ralph Canine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%5FCanine) as director of the National Security Agency. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3021 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8340 (AEA74742) Date: 11/1957 Description: [Gene Duplantier](http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2020/03/Duplantier-obit.html) launches the quarterly magazine Saucers, Space, and Science in Willowdale, Ontario. It continues through 1972. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Saucers, Space & Science](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Saucers%2C%20Space%20%26%20Science%20%20%28Duplantier%29/Saucers%2C%20Space%20%26%20Science%20-%20No%2001.pdf), no. 1 \(November 1957\) Source ID: Eberhart_3022 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8341 (14BFB23C) Date: 11/1957 Description: When the "flap" of UFO reports began about November 1, "fact sheets" were issued on the letterhead of the Department of Defense, Office of Public Affairs. These emphasized the percentages of explained cases, and again the lack of evidence of "a threat to the security of the country." Type: USAF fact sheets Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_884 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8342 (61EB0D58) Date: 11/1/1957 Description: Four men working as an oil rig crew watched a red egg-shaped object hover over an oil field near Ballinger, Texas at around 2 a.m. then sail away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: October-November, p. 86 Source ID: Johnson_7372 Source: Johnson ### Event 8343 (A964ABA0) Date: 11/1/1957 Description: On this morning in 1957 a South African Air Force Sabre jet pilot pursued a high altitude, hovreing craft over Johannesburg, South Africa. It was seen from the ground by several hundred witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 4; UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 410 Source ID: Johnson_7371 Source: Johnson ### Event 8344 (0EA7EE82) Date: 11/1/1957 Description: A glowing egg-shaped object, one meter in diameter, maneuvered through a cemetery in Youngstown, Ohio at 3:00 a.m. at a low altitude, follows a road, and then turned before flying away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: October-November, p. 86 Source ID: Johnson_7373 Source: Johnson ### Event 8345 (BD884DA7) Date: 11/1/1957 Description: 9:15 a.m. More than 50 workers at the Luipaardsvlei mine near Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa, watch two UFOs hanging motionless in the air at a great height until the afternoon. A Sabre jet from the South African Air Force is sent up to investigate. It climbs to 45,000 feet, but the objects are still above it. One of the witnesses is Maj. G. Ogilvie-Watson, from an ACF squadron at Pretoria. They move off at great speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Jet](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJan-Feb%2CV%204%2CN%201.pdf) [Unable to Reach UFO,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJan-Feb%2CV%204%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1958\): 2; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Oct-1-Nov-2.pdf) [of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, October 1st–November 2nd](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Oct-1-Nov-2.pdf), The Author, 1997, p. 85 Source ID: Eberhart_3023 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8346 (33A38E16) Date: 11/2/1957 Description: Multiple landings on roadways, E-M (electro-magnetic) effects, etc. Sheriff Weir Clem was sent out to search the roads as a result of earlier UFO reports and saw a reddish oval crossing the road and illuminating the pavement. Ronald Martin saw an UFO land in front of his truck and turn from red to bluish-green at which time the truck’s electrical system failed. It then turned reddish again and took off. Within the next few hours an Army Jeep Patrol at White Sands, N.M., reported an egg-shaped UFO that descended to about 50 yards above a bunker used during the first A-bomb explosion. This wave of sightings continued for 2–3 weeks. After retirement in 1975, Sheriff W. Clem gave a more graphic description of the UFO he saw: “The object was shaped like a huge football and had bright white lights. No living human could believe how fast it traveled. The thing was as bright as day. It lit up the whole area.” In an interview in 1977, Sheriff Clem said, “After the publicity of UFOs over the next few days, the number of witnesses to them rose to about a hundred people.” Type: ce2 event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Loveland, TX See also: 11/5/1957 Source ID: Maj2_576 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8347 (CF45A48B) Date: 11/2/1957 Description: About midnight. Jim Wheeler sees a 200-foot-long, egg-shaped, brightly lit object on Route 114 four miles east of Levelland, Texas. As he gets close to it, his engine and lights cease functioning. He gets out of his car as the light ascends; its lights blink out, and his engine and lights resume functioning. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 27; Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 17–18 Source ID: Eberhart_3029 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8348 (7BFFA51D) Date: 11/2/1957 Description: About midnight. José Alvarez is driving along Route 51 in Whitharral, Texas, when he comes across a 200-foot-long object sitting in the road. His car engine stops as he approaches, and the headlights go out. At that point, the object rises quickly into the air. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 27–28; Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 19 Source ID: Eberhart_3028 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8349 (07D56885) Date: 11/2/1957 Description: 11:55 p.m. Two married couples driving near Shallowater, Texas, see a flash of orange light in the southwestern sky. The headlights and radio of their car fail for three seconds as they see the light. The car motor is not affected. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 9; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 16, 220–221 Source ID: Eberhart_3027 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8350 (1C8375DF) Date: 11/2/1957 Description: 10:50 p.m. Farmhand and veteran [Pedro Saucedo](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195253400/pedro-hernandez-saucedo) and Joe Salaz are driving four miles west of Levelland, Texas, on Route 116 \[now 114\] south of Pettit \(near its intersection with Five Mile Road\). They see a flash of light to the right of the road. Then a 200-foot-long, 6-foot-wide blue rocket-shaped object, with yellow flame and white smoke coming from the rear, rises up out of the field, heads straight toward their truck, passes directly overhead at about 200 feet with a loud thundering roar, a rush of wind, and great heat. Their truck engine dies and the headlights to go out. The UFO disappears in the east towards Levelland. The lights come back on spontaneously and the engine restarts. A frightened Saucedo calls the occurrence in to Patrolman A. J. Fowler of the Levelland sheriff’s office. At Pettit, Texas, the same night, two grain combines, each with two engines, fail as a UFO passes overhead. The Air Force calls the Levelland sightings ball lightning or St. Elmo’s fire, even though there are no electrical storms in the area. [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) calls it a mirage. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Levelland UFO case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelland%5FUFO%5Fcase)”; NICAP, “[The Levelland Sightings / Saucedo](http://www.nicap.org/571102levelland%5Fsaucedo%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Whatnik Sidelines Sputnik,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99448190/) [Woofnik,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99448293/)” Fort Worth \(Tex.\) Star- Telegram, November 4, 1957, pp. 1–2; “[The Levelland Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2011%2000%20-%20Nov.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, November 1957, p. 1; “[Did the Air](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/003%20JANUARY%201958.pdf) [Force Deceive the Public about the November Sightings?](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/003%20JANUARY%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 3 \(January 1958\): 1, 3; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 26–27, 32; Clark III 683–684; UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 141–142](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/140/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/140/mode/2up) [146–147](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/146/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 253; Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 8; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 67–70](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/66/mode/2up); “[Levelland 1957,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=237)” Texas UFO Museum & Research Library, March 15, 2002; Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Antonio F. Rullán, “The Southwestern UFO Wave of 1957,” IUR 31, no. 3 \(October 2007\): 8–15, 22; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 12–16, 43–55, 128–136, 150–152, 215–217, 234 Source ID: Eberhart_3026 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8351 (6767C724) Date: 11/2/1957 Time: 0330 Description: 5 km west of this town, military and civilian witnesses reported a submarine-shaped object, red and white, two or three times as long as a car and about 3 m high, at ground level. A figure was seen near this object, also something compared to a white flag. When a car stopped in the vicinity, a flash of light from the object coincided with the sudden failure of the headlights. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Canadian, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_418 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8352 (021A0837) Date: 11/2/1957 Time: 2250 Description: A large number of reports from the Levelland area described a low-flying object, over 60 m long, equipped with a bright light, and which interfered with car ignition. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Anatomy 136; map ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Levelland, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_419 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8353 (C5623761) Date: 11/2/1957 Description: 8:30 p.m. A witness is driving between Seminole and Seagraves, Texas, on US Highway 62 when he sees lights on the road ahead. As he approaches them, his headlights go out and his engine dies. A few seconds later, the lights rise into the air and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobbs \(N.Mex.\) News-Sun, November 5, 1957; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 25 Source ID: Eberhart_3025 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8354 (E91F5233) Date: 11/2/1957 Description: Car motor and headlights failed, UFO seen on road (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Seminole (near), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2111 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8355 (EA7DF09F) Date: 11/2/1957 Description: 3:30 a.m. Three miles west of Canadian, Texas, S/Sgt. [Alfred A. Calvin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19806662/alfred-a%5F-calvin) and a civilian witness see a submarine-shaped object, red and white, about 40–60 feet long and about 10 feet high, at ground level. A figure is near the object holding a white flag. When he stops the car, a flash of light from the object coincides with the sudden failure of the headlights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Submarine-Shaped UFO, Entity, E-M Case](http://www.nicap.org/571102canadian%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 253; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_3024 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8356 (5BB532E3) Date: 11/2/1957 Description: Beginning at 10:50 p.m. in Levellend, Texas "...a number of motorists and police officers in different localities encountered at close range a luminous egg-shaped object estimated at about 200 feet in length. Several reports confirmed that when the object passed at close range car engines and lights failed. One report described how two men driving a truck watched as the object came near. The lights and engine failed, then the object passed directly over the vehicle with a sound like thunder and a rush of wind. The truck rocked from the blast and a lot of heat was felt. Later there were reports of apparently the same luminous object on the ground and taking off in other areas near Levelland. Reports of vehicle interference followed a similar pattern, with engines and lights returning to normal on the departure of the object." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 419 Source ID: Johnson_7415 Source: Johnson ### Event 8357 (3C410F3A) Date: 11/2/1957 Description: Five kilometers west of Canadian, Texas military and civilian witnesses reported seeing a submarine-shaped object at 3:30 a.m. It was red and white, two or three times as long as a car, and at ground level. It was about three meters in height. A figure was seen standing near this object, and there was something else that witnessed to a white signal flag. When a car stopped in the vicinity, a flash of light from the object coincided with the sudden failure of the car's headlights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 418 Source ID: Johnson_7414 Source: Johnson ### Event 8358 (8F84849F) Date: 11/2/1957 Description: Submarine-shaped object, red and white, 2-3x car length & 10ft high (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canadian (3 miles W of ), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2112 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8359 (EE73A8B7) Date: 11/2/1957 End date: 11/3/1957 Description: Levelland, TX: many sightings, with numerous cars stalled Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Levelland, TX Source ID: Maj2_154 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8360 (344F1FC8) Date: 11/2/1957 Description: Many witnesses, series of sightings, watched egg-shaped UFOs on or near ground, nine instances of car interference (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571102](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/571102level%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Levelland, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2110 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8361 (AE02DA78) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: A large number of reports around Levelland, Texas which began the night before continued in the early morning hours. They described a low-flying ovoid or cigar-shaped object, over 60 meters long, equipped with a bright light, and which interfered with car and truck ignition and electrical systems. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 136 Source ID: Johnson_7428 Source: Johnson ### Event 8362 (B156C931) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: At 3:00 a.m. at the Stallion Missile Test Site on the White Sands, New Mexico proving grounds an Army patrol in a jeep saw an orange, "apparently controlled," luminous object on the ground near the site of the first A-bomb explosion. It was first seen as a sun-like source 50 meters above ground, and it then descended to ground level after three minutes, landing several kilometers away at the northern end of the testing grounds. Two U.S. Army witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 420 Source ID: Johnson_7429 Source: Johnson ### Event 8363 (37B87321) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: 7:00 p.m. Edna Ireland is driving with two friends near Sibbald, Alberta, when a blinking light appears in the sky and passes nearly above the car toward the northwest. Their engine coughs and the headlights flicker. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Winnipeg \(Man.\) Tribune, November 7, 1957; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 239; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 42–43 Source ID: Eberhart_3037 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8364 (AAD8D477) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: Car motor missed, headlights flickered as UFO arced overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Calgary, Alta. (near ), CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2118 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8365 (41248129) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: Ltaipu Fort electrical system failed, sentries received burns as UFO approached and hovered (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sao Vicente, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2117 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8366 (3F9A1343) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: Airliner direction finder and transmitter - receiver burnt during UFO sighting (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ararangua, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2115 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8367 (4DC35E37) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: MP incident, taped radio report (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [571103](http://www.nicap.org/571103wsdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Sands, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2114 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8368 (D6314D8E) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: White or aluminum-colored oval-shaped object flat on the bottom (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Levelland (9 miles E of ), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2113 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8369 (CAF6D0FF) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: 12:15 a.m. Frank Williams, a farmer, is near Whitharral, Texas, when he encounters an object described as an egg sitting on the crossroads. The UFO pulsates steadily; each time it glows bright, the car’s power goes on and off. The object leaves with a thunderous sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 29–30; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 143–144](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/140/mode/2up); Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_3031 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8370 (1AA60A6E) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: 12:05 a.m. Texas Tech college student Newell H. Wright is driving west one mile west of Smyer, Texas, when the ammeter gauge on his car dashboard starts fluctuating widely. The car motor gradually goes out then the headlights and radio die. He gets out to check and sees a white or aluminum-colored, oval-shaped object flat on the bottom like a loaf of bread, with a bluish-green tint, about 75–125 feet long. After a few minutes, the object suddenly rises up from the road ahead and ascends almost vertically at great speed slightly to the north, disappearing in seconds. Afterward the car can start again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Oval-Shaped Object & EME on Ammeter](http://www.nicap.org/571103levelland%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 28–29; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 143](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/142/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 254; Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Swords 253–256; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 16–17, 212–214 Source ID: Eberhart_3030 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8371 (D4AF1572) Date: 11/3/1957 Time: 0300 Description: At Stallion Site, an army patrol in a jeep saw an orange, "apparently controlled," luminous object on the ground near the site of the first A-bomb explosion. It was first seen as a sunlike source 50 m above ground, descending to ground level after 3 min, and landing several km away at the northern end of the testing grounds. Two witnesses. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 238 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: White Sands, New Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_420 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8372 (F9A8BD0D) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: The USSR launches [Sputnik 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F2) carrying Laika the dog. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Sputnik 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F2)” Source ID: Eberhart_3039 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8373 (77FAEC2E) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: 8:00 p.m. Army Specialist 3rd Class [Henry R. Barlow](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/325380/henry-r-barlow) and Specialist 3rd Class Forest R. Oakes, Army Garrison Detachment 5, are in a jeep patrol driving west near the site of the first A-bomb explosion, Trinity Site, in White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. They see a pulsating red light thar turns to white, possibly 200– 300 feet in size and 4–5 miles away. It brightens and dims then sometimes goes out, rising in the sky from the ground or from about 50 feet over the bunker up to about 45° elevation until it looks like a star or point source. They watch it for 25 minutes before it disappears. Possibly Venus in the southwest, which sets at about 8:30 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 254; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 38; Randle, Levelland, 2021,pp. 27–31 Source ID: Eberhart_3038 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8374 (F720BB66) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: About 3:00 a.m. Two MPs at White Sands Missile Test Range, New Mexico, Cpl. Glenn H. Toy and Pfc. James E. Wilbanks are making rounds in their jeep when they notice a bright object high in the sky. It drops down to about 150 feet and the light goes out. A few minutes later the light goes on again and it drops to the ground in a bunker area 3 miles away and goes out. The UFO is egg-shaped and about 225–300 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Three MPs Report Object over White Sands Base](http://www.nicap.org/571103whitesands%5Fdir.htm)”; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 37–38; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf) [the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November 3rd–5th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf), The Author, 1997, p. 6; UFOEv, [p. 169](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=181&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 254; Swords 259; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 23–27 Source ID: Eberhart_3036 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8375 (11129EA2) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: 1:30 a.m. Near the same spot as James Long, Hockley County \(Texas\) Sheriff [Weir Clem](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21861246/weir-sam-clem) and Pat McCullough see a flash of light “like a brilliant red sunset” 300–400 yards to the south of them, lighting up the pavement. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 31–32; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/144/mode/2up) [145–146](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/144/mode/2up); Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 19–21, 170–181, 218–219 Source ID: Eberhart_3035 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8376 (5ADFDDBB) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: 1:15 a.m. James Long is 5 miles northwest of Levelland, Texas, on a farm-to-market road. He reports a bright object that is egg or oval-shaped, about 200 feet long, 200 feet away, sitting in the road. He hears a “thunderclap.” The car’s lights and motor quit. The object rises quickly and speeds away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 31; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 144–145](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/144/mode/2up); Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 19 Source ID: Eberhart_3034 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8377 (A611A980) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Levelland \(Texas\) Fire Marshall Ray Jones, while out driving around and looking for some explanation of the many UFO reports, sees a “streak of light” north of the Oklahoma Flat. His headlights dim and engine sputters as he sees the light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 32; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 145–146](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/144/mode/2up); Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 21 Source ID: Eberhart_3033 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8378 (3D30154B) Date: 11/3/1957 Description: 12:45 a.m. Ronald Martin is on Highway 116 near Smyer, Texas, when he sees a glowing red UFO land ahead of his truck, then turn to bluish-green. The truck’s electrical system fails. When the UFO takes off, it turns reddish again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 168](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 30–31; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 144](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/144/mode/2up); Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 18–19 Source ID: Eberhart_3032 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8379 (B1765776) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: 1:30 a.m. Chief Pilot Captain Jean Vincent de Beyssac and his copilot are flying a Varig Airlines C-46 cargo plane from Porto Alegre to São Paulo, Brazil. They are near Araranguá, Santa Catarina, when de Beyssac notices a red light on his left. It seems to be getting bigger, so he banks towards it out of curiosity. The light gets much bigger then begins to glow more brilliantly. The pilot and copilot smell smoke and, as they are looking for the source, the light disappears. De Beyssac returns to Porto Alegre. It turns out that the right engine’s magneto \(or generator\), automatic direction finder, and the radio \(both receiver and transmitter\) have burnt out, allegedly simultaneously. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Aircraft Encounters UFO / ADF, etc. Affected](http://www.nicap.org/571104brazil%5Fdir.htm)”; Olavo T. Fontes, “[Top Secret Report](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf) [Unveiled,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, pp. 5–6; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, [p. 155](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n159/mode/2up); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 126–127; Patrick Gross, “[UFO / Aircraft Close Encounter in Brazil, 1957](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/varig57.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3042 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8380 (854EC7C5) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: A "steady dit-dit-dit" interference on police radio during UFO sighting (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kodiak, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2121 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8381 (315436FF) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: Stokes Case (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [571104](http://www.nicap.org/571104orogrande%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orogrande, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2122 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8382 (606933AE) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: Egg shaped object w/bluish glow approaching from the SW (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Paso (3 miles SE of airport), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2125 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8383 (41549879) Date: 11/4/1957 Time: 0315 Description: Two policemen, Joseph Lukasek and Clifford Schau, and a third man named Daniel De Giovanni, while looking for the cause of a headlight failure, observed a fluorescent object 50 to 100 m away from them, coming down. The car hadlights functioned properly again and they drove toward the object but had to stop at a cemetery wall. They turned off all lights and watched the object for two min. It played "hide and seek" with them as they tried to reach its location. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 240; 113 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Elmwood Park, Illinois Source ID: Magnonia_421 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8384 (39C8D740) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: 10:45 p.m. CAA air traffic controllers R. M. Kaser and E. G. Brink see a highly maneuverable 15–20-foot egg-shaped object with a white light at its base circle over one end of Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 150–200 mph. It comes down in a steep 30° dive as if landing on Runway 26 to the north of the tower at about 1,500 feet. Radar tracks part of this maneuver. The object then crosses the flight line, runways, and taxiways heading towards the tower at about 50 mph and 20–30 feet above ground, observed through 7x binoculars until it reaches about 3,000 feet near the northeast corner of the flood-lit restricted Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Area and a B-58 bomber service site. It hovers for 20–60 seconds, then heads east again at about 200–300 feet altitude. Suddenly it shoots up in a steep climb. Controllers contact Radar Approach Control, which tracks the object on CPN-18 radar traveling east, then turning south, circling the Albuquerque Low Frequency Range Station. It then heads north, disappearing at 10 miles and reappearing 20 minutes later to follow 1/2 mile behind a USAF C-46 that has just taken off to the south. It continues for 14 miles until both go off the scope. A hovering radar target then appears to the north over an outer marker for 90 seconds before fading. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Kirtland AFB UFO sighting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtland%5FAFB%5FUFO%5Fsighting)”; NICAP, “[Kirtland UFO Incident / Radar Case](http://www.nicap.org/571104kirtland%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 256; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 87–90](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/86/mode/2up); Condon, [pp. 141–143](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/140/mode/2up); James E. McDonald, “[The Kirtland Airfield UFO](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%205.pdf),” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1970\): 6–8; Swords 259–260 Source ID: Eberhart_3048 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8385 (672B8C4D) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: Highly maneuverable 15-20 ft egg-shaped object w/white light at its base (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque (Kirtland AFB), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2126 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8386 (D3646198) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: Police and witness saw red-orange cigar-shaped object - they chased it (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elmwood Park, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2124 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8387 (4855AF65) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: After 12:00 midnight. A young couple are returning to Amarillo, Texas, from Palo Duro Canyon when they see a glowing object in the middle of the road, surrounded by fog. As they drive closer and enter the fog, the car engine and battery die. Another car has to push them into town to get the battery recharged. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Amarillo \(Tex.\) Daily News, November 4, 1957; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 43–44 Source ID: Eberhart_3041 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8388 (DB3D50CA) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: 10:00 p.m. Jan Boucher, a policeman in Kodiak, Alaska, sees a red ball of fire with a greenish-yellow trail as he is patrolling on Mission Road. It apparently moves 50 feet above a nearby school. He tries to radio in a report but his radio gets interference for 2 minutes after the sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Anchorage \(Alaska\) Daily News, November 7, 1957; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 89–90 Source ID: Eberhart_3047 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8389 (312B2C7C) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: TV interference (audio); viewers called out by neighbors to see UFO (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toronto, Ont., CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2123 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8390 (C516EF79) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: Egg-shaped UFO hovers over base (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [571104](http://www.nicap.org/571104kirtland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2120 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8391 (428CF22A) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: 7:30 p.m. A Texas state border inspector is driving 3 miles southeast of El Paso Airport in Texas when his car engine stalls and the headlights go dim then out. He gets out and notices an object approaching that is making a whirring sound like an artillery shell. It passes above his car at about 150 feet, heading west and changing altitude occasionally. When it gets to the Franklin Mountains, it lifts into the air vertically. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Egg-Shaped](http://www.nicap.org/571104elpaso%5Fdir.htm) [Object Stalls Car](http://www.nicap.org/571104elpaso%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 181](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/180/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3046 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8392 (957C018F) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: 1:10 p.m. James W. Stokes, electronics technician at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, is driving on US 54 about 8 miles south of Orogrande, New Mexico. The car radio fades, and the car slows as if the battery is failing. Stokes notices 6–12 cars ahead of him have also stopped and drivers are out looking at the sky \(looking behind him to the northeast\), including a Mr. Duncan and Allan D. Baker. Stokes stops and gets out, sees a pearl-white oval or egg-shaped object about 500 feet wide with a slight purplish tinge heading south at an estimated speed of 1,500–2,000 mph. It is below the elevation angle of the Sacramento Mountains ridgeline, descending from about 5,000 feet above ground level in a shallow dive to about 1,500–2,500 feet altitude as it swerves to pass to the south of Stokes and the other stopped cars. At its closest it is about 2–5 miles away. It then circles around headed west and disappears. The same or another object appears in the northeast \(as if the object has completely circled\) and performs the same rounded course but passing farther to the south of the parked cars and disappears in the west. Duncan takes a 35mm film of the object. Stokes notices a wave of heat from the object at closest approach. Later that evening he is sunburned, but it clears up the next day. The Air Force calls it a hoax based on the Levelland sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Stokes Incident](http://www.nicap.org/571104orogrande%5Fdir.htm)”; “[The New Mexico Story,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2011%2000%20-%20Nov.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, November 1957, pp. 1–2; L. J. Lorenzen, “[The Stokes Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201958%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1958, pp. 2, 6; UFOEv, [p. 169](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=181&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 39–42; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 255; Swords 256–259; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 32–42, 228 Source ID: Eberhart_3045 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8393 (EB6711C6) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: 3:12 a.m. At Elmwood Park, Illinois, three policemen \(Clifford Shaw, [Joseph Lukasek](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138496096/joseph-f%5F-lukasek), and Dan Diglovanni\) see a bright cigar-shaped object in the sky. The headlights and spotlight on the squad car dim. The car chases the UFO for a mile and a half, which dips and rises before speeding off. Fireman Bob Volz also sees a reddish-orange UFO about the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Bright Cylinder Chased by Police, E-M Effects](http://www.nicap.org/571104elmwoodpark%5Fdir.htm)”; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 239; Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 117; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 90–91; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf) [of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November 3rd–5th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf) The Author, 1997, pp. 22–27; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 255 Source ID: Eberhart_3044 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8394 (75FC7169) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: Squad car lights and spotlight dimmed as police pursued low-flying UFO (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elmwood Park, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2119 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8395 (B2F55B25) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: 2:00 a.m. Two sentries at the Fortaleza de Itaipu in Praia Grande, São Paulo, Brazil, watch an orange object approaching the fort. It holds its course until it is directly above them. Its diameter is at least as large as the wingspan of a DC-3 and scarcely 300 feet away. Suddenly there is a strange buzzing noise and the men feel a wave of glowing heat. One of them collapses on the spot, but the other succeeds in reaching safety in the shadow of the gun emplacements. His shouts of alarm rouse his comrades inside the fort, where the lights suddenly go out. In the meantime, the emergency power is switched on but immediately gives out. Only a few minutes after the alarm, two other men are out of the fort and at their sides. They too see the UFO, which is now heading out to sea. It leaves a luminous trail as it shoots away across the Atlantic. The two sentries are taken to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro. They suffer second and third-degree burns on large areas of their body, chiefly in areas covered by clothing. Afterwards, Brazilian Army and USAF personnel, along with investigators of the Brazilian Air Force, fly to the fort to interview them. There is some reason to think that [Olavo T. Fontes](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf) made this case up, as no first- hand witnesses to the event have come forward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Fort Itaipu Incident](http://www.nicap.org/571103itaipu%5Fdir.htm)”; Wikipedia, “[Caso do Forte de](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso%5Fdo%5FForte%5Fde%5FItaipu) [Itaipu](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso%5Fdo%5FForte%5Fde%5FItaipu)”; Olavo T. Fontes, “[Top Secret Report Unveiled,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, pp. 6–7; Jules Lemaître, “[A Strange Story from Brazil,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1960%2CJan-Feb%2CV%206%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1960\): 9–11; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 135–140; Kevin D. Randle, “[Fort Itaipu and Footnotes,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/10/fort-itaipu-and-footnotes.html)” A Different Perspective, October 12, 2014; Kevin D. Randle, “[Fort Itaipu and Olavo Fontes Revisited,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/06/fort-itaipu-and-olavo-fontes-revisited.html)” A Different Perspective, June 15, 2016; Clark 537 Source ID: Eberhart_3043 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8396 (8E801990) Date: 11/4/1957 Description: Portuguese Air Force Capt. Lenos Ferreira is conducting a training mission at the head of three jet fighters over Grenada, Spain, when he observes a luminous object changing color from an intense green to bright red. The object maintains a constant altitude while oscillating. Ferreira orders a change of course toward Córdoba, but the object follows his group for 40 minutes, dropping four smaller objects that also accompany the jets. Suddenly the objects go into a dive and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[UFO Chasing Jet Fighter Squadron, Lisbon, 1957](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/lisboa57.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3040 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8397 (44AA9B4A) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: Three Alton & Southern Railroad employees saw two silvery, egg-shaped UFOs.(UFOE) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: East St. Louis, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2139 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8398 (1BC5FB90) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: Car and cab stalled as UFO observed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2138 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8399 (D4823D5B) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: Car radio quit, headlights dimmed, engine stopped; UFO seen hovering low over field (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Antonio (near), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2137 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8400 (3CC5B9E3) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: UFO followed car returning to town. TV sets in town dimmed, finally lost both picture and sound during same period of time (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ringwood, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2136 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8401 (91DED16A) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: Speeding car, motor failed, lights went out as UFO swooped over car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hobbs, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2134 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8402 (E1801E93) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: Farmer saw UFO; neighbor reported TV off at same time (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hedley, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2133 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8403 (96FA2500) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: The Coast Guard Cutter Sebago Case (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [571105](http://www.nicap.org/571105sebago%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf of Mexico, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2132 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8404 (E2948436) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: Brilliant round orange object hovered, revolving; television blacked out (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Oglethorpe, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2131 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8405 (02B74891) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: Balloon-like, elongated object coming to ground level, w/o touching down (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Scotia, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_2130 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8406 (E4DB1622) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: 3 USAF pilots at Selma saw a bright object flash from S to N; The CG Cutter Sebago Case (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571105](http://www.nicap.org/571105sebago%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Selma, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2129 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8407 (005A6419) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: (McDonald list) AN/FPS-16 Tracks at High Altitude (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571105](http://www.nicap.org/571105eglin%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eglin AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2128 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8408 (9A60EA49) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: An object looking like "a big meat platter" was seen at close range by Mrs. Jasper Barlow and her two children, who were inside their car. It had a flickering light on the bottom. There was no ignition interference noted. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 245 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: New Castle, Indiana Source ID: Magnonia_422 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8409 (6A1729AB) Date: 11/5/1957 Time: 0430 Description: In Van Cortland Park, Frank C. was talking with a bus driver when they saw in the park, about 400 m away, a metallic object shaped like a disk, spinning with a soft whirring. On top was a fixed dome with portholes. The object was hovering at tree-height. A yellow light from the craft suddenly illuminated the area, and it flew off "like a shooting star." Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 241 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: New York City, New York Source ID: Magnonia_423 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8410 (68AFB411) Date: 11/5/1957 Time: 1730 Description: A man heard a noise similar to that of a helicopter and perceived a "burning" odor. He saw a balloon-like, elongated object that came to ground level, did not touch the ground, but rose again and disappeared. The witness was "paralyzed" during the observation. The object appeared to have generated thick smoke. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Scotia, Nebraska Source ID: Magnonia_424 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8411 (0B69CE48) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: A brilliant white ovoid object moving at a high rate of speed was sighted by the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sebago, 200 nautical miles south of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico. Three radar contacts were made with the UFO between 5:10 and 5:20 a.m. It was clocked moving at 1,020 mph. It was seen by four crew members as it moved horizontally through the sky from south to north and disappeared behind some clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: New Orleans Times-Picayune, November 6, 1957; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 86; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 253 Source ID: Johnson_7469 Source: Johnson ### Event 8412 (10B6EA62) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: Apartment lights dead, electric clock stopped; bright light awakened couple. Milkman reported flaming disc (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Philadelphia, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2135 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8413 (D7343D23) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: New Castle, Indiana. An object looking like "a big meat platter" was seen at close range by Mrs. Jasper Barlow and her two children, who were inside their car. It had a flickering light on the bottom. There was no ignition interference noted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 422, citing Alexander Mebane Source ID: Johnson_7470 Source: Johnson ### Event 8414 (5C79EC8A) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: New York, New York. In Van Cortland Park in New York City at 4:30 a.m., Frank C. was talking with a bus driver when they both saw a metallic disc-shaped UFO in the park, about 400 m away. It was spinning and making a soft whirring sound. On top was a fixed dome with portholes. The object was hovering at tree height. A yellow light from the craft suddenly illuminated the area, and it flew off "like a shooting star. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 262-263 Source ID: Johnson_7471 Source: Johnson ### Event 8415 (FEF07182) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: Three railroad men watched two silvery ovoid UFOs pass overhead at high speed in East St. Louis, Illinois at 11:45 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 165 Source ID: Johnson_7472 Source: Johnson ### Event 8416 (7B1FA1DE) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: At 5:30 p.m. a man in Scotia, Nebraska heard a noise similar to that of a helicopter and perceived a "burning" odor. He saw a balloon-like, elongated object that came to ground level, did not touch the ground, but rose again and disappeared. The witness was "paralyzed" during the observation. The object appeared to have generated thick smoke. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 263 Source ID: Johnson_7473 Source: Johnson ### Event 8417 (C5C14582) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: At 6:20 p.m. an object variously described as silver or orange, and saucer or ovoid shaped, was seen over a wide area for a ten minute period around Dauphin, Manitoba. At 6:40 p.m. a shiny silver UFO hovered over Winnipeg, Manitoba and was seen shifting from left to right and back again in the sky. It shot off toward the southwest when RCAF planes approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 165 Source ID: Johnson_7474 Source: Johnson ### Event 8418 (19FCD308) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: Zibello (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Beach (Airport), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2127 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8419 (F62FF60D) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: 11:00 p.m. Two young men see a red light north of US Highway 62 at a point 38 miles west of Hobbs, New Mexico. They watch for 9–10 minutes, thinking it is an oil flare, but the light suddenly rises straight up. After pacing their car for a few minutes, the light turns toward the car, passes over it, and hovers over the Permian Basin Pipeline plant. As it passes overhead, the car engine sputters, then dies, and the lights go out. After the men coast the car down the road, the motor restarts and they drive away. The battery is found to be dead the following morning and the dashboard clock is stopped. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 45–47; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) [Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 12 Source ID: Eberhart_3055 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8420 (A50D9A92) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: 9:30 p.m. Civil service employee Lon Yarborough is driving along US Highway 81 about 1.5 miles southwest of San Antonio, Texas, when he sees an extremely bright object settle down in a ravine about 600 feet from him. The egg-shaped object is approximately 60 foot long and causes the lights and engine of his car to fail. The object rests a few minutes and finally takes off to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: San Antonio \(Tex.\) Light, November 6, 1957; NICAP, “[60ʹ Egg-Shaped Object Disables Auto](http://www.nicap.org/571105sanantonio%5Fdir.htm)”; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 44–45 Source ID: Eberhart_3054 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8421 (6267BEE9) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: 8:43 p.m. A witness in Woodstock, Illinois, sees a large, red, triangular object with a green light in the front and a yellow light in the rear. It makes a low droning sound and moves west to east. Woodstock police officers and another individual in Genoa City see the same object. At 10:15 p.m., an amber or orange UFO 200 feet long is seen for 5 minutes at Delavan, Wisconsin. Project Blue Book claims it is an aurora or jet aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 131–132 Source ID: Eberhart_3053 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8422 (1EF80817) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: 6:30 p.m. Larry and Marilynn Beaman are driving near Antioch, Illinois, when they notice a ball of fire fluctuating from white to yellow pacing their car on the right side, about 1,000 feet up. It goes out for a time then switches back on. At its largest, it seems 30 feet in diameter. It follows them all the way to Ringwood and then lands in some trees behind a school building two blocks from where they live. It glitters like a welder’s arc and makes a sound like water swishing. Beaman rounds up some other witnesses and goes back to the landing site, but the object takes off, changes to purple, and moves away to the southwest. TV sets in town dim, finally losing both picture and sound during the same time period. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 104–109 Source ID: Eberhart_3052 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8423 (98E300B1) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: The Department of Defense Office of Public Affairs issues a new UFO fact sheet, emphasizing the high percentage of explained cases and the lack of a threat to national security. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 107](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=119&skin=2021); Swords 262 Source ID: Eberhart_3051 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8424 (1ADA8D0F) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: Late afternoon. Grain buyer [Reinhold O. Schmidt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold%5FO.%5FSchmidt) is driving through the countryside near Kearney, Nebraska, when he notices a large, cigar-shaped object resting in a field. He is soon escorted inside the spaceship, which turns out to be crewed by completely human-looking space aliens, four males and two females, who apparently speak perfect German and claim to be from the planet Saturn. They also claim to be interested in the recently launched Russian sputniks and the satellite-launching plans of the US. Later Schmidt brings local police to view the landing site, where they find deep imprints and some “mysterious green residue.” Schmidt also claims subsequent visits to the spaceship and many friendly conversations with its learned crew. Schmidt notices they drink MJB brand coffee, and also carry in their cigar-shaped craft an ordinary terrestrial MG sports car, which they use for running errands and buying groceries. \(A schematic drawing of the ship’s interior in Schmidt’s later booklet depicts a Volkswagen Beetle.\) Unlike most spaceships, the Saturnian ship has large propellers at both ends. Eventually Schmidt gets a ride up to earth orbit and a tour of the mother ship. On October 26, 1961, Schmidt is convicted in Oakland, California, for grand theft after bilking a widow out of $5,000 for a worthless mining venture in Tulare County, where he claims to have seen huge quartz crystals from a spaceship. Judge [Donald K. Quayle](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40784320/obituary-donald-k-quayle-1991/) sentences him to 1–10 years in prison. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1038–1039; Swords 262; Curt Collins, “[The](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-trial-of-ufo-gold-digger.html) [Trial of a UFO Gold Digger,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-trial-of-ufo-gold-digger.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 27, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_3050 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8425 (09BD34F4) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: 5:10 a.m. The US Coast Guard Cutter [Sebago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC%5FSebago%5F%28WHEC-42%29) \(WHEC-42\), Commander [Clarence H. Waring Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49333776/clarence-henry-waring), cruising in the Gulf of Mexico about 200 miles south of Mobile, Alabama, tracks a radar target at a range of 22 miles moving at 650 mph. It disappears at 55 miles range. Three other unusual radar contacts are made in the next 10 minutes. A visual object like a brilliant planet is seen at 5:21 a.m. speeding north to south for five seconds by Ensign Wayne Schotley, Lt. Donald E. Shaffer, 1stClass Quartermaster Kenneth Smith, and radio operator Thomas Kirk. The Air Force ascribes it to confused radar operators who mistake ordinary plane blips for a UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Coast Guard Cutter](http://www.nicap.org/571105sebago%5Fdir.htm) [Sebago](http://www.nicap.org/571105sebago%5Fdir.htm) [Case](http://www.nicap.org/571105sebago%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf) [a History: 1957 November 3rd–5th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-3-5.pdf) The Author, 1997, pp. 50–51; Condon, [pp. 165–167](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/164/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 256; Swords 260–262 Source ID: Eberhart_3049 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8426 (84685049) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: Reinhold Schmidt, Kearney, Nebr., goes aboard saucer, talks to spacepeople Type: ce4 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Kearney, NE Source ID: Maj2_155 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8427 (42F2A907) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: A single investigator from Project Blue Book headquarters arrived at Loveland, TX. He interviewed only two persons who had stalled cars and reported that all the UFO activity in Texas between Nov. 2–4 was the result of a “rather heavy electrical storm…All witnesses saw the same streak of lightning…which stimulated the populace into a high level of excitement….and resulted in an inflation of stories by some witnesses.” Type: investigation Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Loveland, TX Source ID: Maj2_577 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8428 (4541FDD7) Date: 11/5/1957 Description: Ground Observer Corps reported a circular or spherical glowing object which appeared to vibrate up and down and from side to side while hovering. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Haverhill, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2140 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8429 (57D575F1) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Gilham Case. Ironworker stood under UFO for ten minutes, treated at hospital for burns (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [571106](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/meromdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Merom, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2149 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8430 (2EEDB612) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: In Everittstown, New Jersey that same evening John Trasco saw a brilliant, egg-shaped object hovering in front of a barn. He was next confronted by a one-meter tall being with a putty-colored face and froglike eyes. He thought the dwarf said in broken English: "We are peaceful people, we only want your dog. " The little man, who was dressed in a green uniform with shiny buttons, and wore what looked like a green tam-o-shanter cap with gloves that had shiny objects at the tips of each finger, fled when Mr. Trasco turned down his request. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 427 Source ID: Johnson_7496 Source: Johnson ### Event 8431 (4C56037E) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Early evening. [Varine “Rene” Gilham](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143536580/varine-n%5Frene%5F-gilham) sees a brilliant object radiating a strong red light as he is using an outhouse on his farm near Merom, Indiana. The whole farm and surrounding area are bathed in the light for 10 minutes. A small object joins the larger one and the light grows more intense. The two objects fly away. The next day, Gilham has “sunburn” in many places. Two days later he is admitted to a hospital for treatment. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Merom/Gilham Incident](http://www.nicap.org/reports/meromrep.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6.pdf) [November 6th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6.pdf) The Author, 1997, pp. 67, 72–73. Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6-SN.pdf) [a History: 1957 November 6th, Supplemental Notes](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6-SN.pdf), The Author, 2003, pp. 6–7; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 30 Source ID: Eberhart_3062 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8432 (C06EBB74) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: At 6:00 p.m. in Boerne, Texas a civilian source reported to the U.S. Air Force that an oval object, about 5 meters long was seen hovering four meters above the ground. It was bright orange in color, similar to glowing coals. The witness went to call his family, but the object had vanished when he returned. The case was listed as a Project Blue Book unidentified report. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 426 Source ID: Johnson_7495 Source: Johnson ### Event 8433 (76ABF318) Date: 11/6/1957 Time: 10:50 PM Description: Witnesses: one Las Cruces policeman, one Dona Ana County Deputy Sheriff. One round object--changing from red to green to blue to white--rose vertically from a mountain top. Sighting lasted 10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Radium Springs, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_417 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8434 (101C6BA2) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: A man in Lake County, Ohio reported to the U.S. Air Force that at 6:30 a.m. he saw a UFO so bright that his eyes could not stand to look directly at it. It appeared to land on a nearby ridge, and then took off again silently . It was round and much larger than a plane, had an "odd color," and left no trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 429 Source ID: Johnson_7493 Source: Johnson ### Event 8435 (64F69C3F) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Three truckers independently reported seeing reddish elliptical objects on the road.(UFOE) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlanta (near), GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2141 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8436 (6341FFD2) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: At 5:40 a.m. Richard Kehoe was driving near the beach in Playa del Rey, California when his car engine stopped, and so did three other cars. He and the other witnesses got out of their cars and observed an egg-shaped object wrapped in "a blue haze" on the beach. The object seemed to be resting on two metal rings. Two men of below average height got out of the craft and asked them questions about their identity, what time it was, etc. They looked to be normal human beings, although their skin was an olive complexion. They wore black leather pants, white belts, and light-coloured jerseys. They went back inside the craft, which left rapidly, and the cars could then be started. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 178; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 431 Source ID: Johnson_7492 Source: Johnson ### Event 8437 (FBBBD7BD) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Oval object, about 15 ft long, bright orange (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5205) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boerne, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2142 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8438 (0CE2A877) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: 17 Targets of Slow-Moving Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [571106](http://www.nicap.org/571106cannon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cannon AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2143 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8439 (FCF9E899) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: At 4:50 a.m. in Springfield, Ohio two cars stalled at the same time. A blue light was seen in the sky for 10 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Marietta Times, November 6, 1957 Source ID: Johnson_7491 Source: Johnson ### Event 8440 (CFCB38EE) Date: 11/6/1957 Time: 0010 Description: J. Martinez and A. Gallegos saw an egg-shaped object coming toward them at low altitude. It moved slowly, illuminating their car and producing a humming sound. The car engine, the clock and a wristwatch stopped. The object shot away toward the southwest. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 246 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_425 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8441 (976283C4) Date: 11/6/1957 Time: morning Description: North of Seoul a barrel-shaped object, bluish-white and luminous, was seen close to the ground, reflected in a pool of water. It rose and vanished "like a light switched off." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Seoul, Korea Source ID: Magnonia_426 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8442 (79705EF2) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Police chased UFO, unable to notify headquarters "because their radio went mysteriously dead." (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Danville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2144 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8443 (01FC8017) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Car motor stalled, radio blanked with static, during UFO sighting (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2145 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8444 (DEFD5E90) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kagoshima, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2146 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8445 (7B8E7799) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Unbearably bright round object, landed on a ridge, then took off (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake County, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2147 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8446 (4117BFA9) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: (McDonald list) GCA Picks Up More Than Seven Targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571106](http://www.nicap.org/571106laredo%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Laredo AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2148 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8447 (E57FAAD7) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: In Knoxville, Tennessee at 6:30 a.m.12-year-old Everett Clark saw a strange object on the ground and four human-looking occupants, two men and two women who spoke in a language he thought sounded similar to German. They went back inside the craft in a manner the witness was not able to comprehend, because he saw no door. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 428 Source ID: Johnson_7494 Source: Johnson ### Event 8448 (062F930B) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Gilham Case (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: NICAP: [571106](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/meromdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Merom, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2150 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8449 (A4DE87A2) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Olden Moore Case / Close Encounter / (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases, Code: T, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571106](http://www.nicap.org/571106montville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montville, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2151 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8450 (1876DA0A) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Battery radio and portable short wave radio failed, tone signal heard on one short wave frequency. UFO hovering (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ottawa (north of ), CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2152 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8451 (F61E0E90) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: North of Seoul, South Korea a barrel-shaped object, bluish-white and luminous, was seen close to the ground in the morning. Its reflection could be seen in a pool of water. It rose and vanished "like a light switched off." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 433 Source ID: Johnson_7489 Source: Johnson ### Event 8452 (C78BD166) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Car motor stalled, as driver attempted to approach UFO hovering low over ground (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pell City, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2153 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8453 (E80D4E6A) Date: 11/6/1957 Time: 0540 Description: Richard Kehoe was driving near the beach when his engine stopped, and so did three other cars. The man got out and observed an egg-shaped object wrapped in "a blue haze" on the beach. Two men, below average height got out of the craft and asked them questions about their identity, what time it was, etc. They looked normal wore black leather pants, white belts, light-colored jerseys, and seemed to have yellowish-green skin. They went back inside the craft, which left rapidly, and the cars could then be started. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 57 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Playa del Rey, California Source ID: Magnonia_427 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8454 (5C78DAF6) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Round object changing from red to green to blue to white (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5227, NC) Reference: NICAP: [571106](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/571106b.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Radium Springs, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2154 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8455 (60EFB7E1) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Car motor failed, car clock and wristwatch stopped as UFO passed low over car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Fe, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2155 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8456 (01093781) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Luminous bluish-white barrel-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Soeul, S. Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2156 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8457 (1B2DE90A) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: At a few minutes after midnight two men, Martinez and Gallegos, were driving near Santa Fe, New Mexico when an ovoid object came down and hovered over their car, making a humming sound. After a minute the UFO shot away. Both the car's clock and a wristwatch stopped. , 12:10 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Mebane, 1957 Saucer Wave in the US , in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 246; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 12; Santa Fe New Mexican, November 6, 1957; APRO Bulletin, November 1957, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_7490 Source: Johnson ### Event 8458 (82B096EA) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Whiteman AFB, Missouri, G , (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571106](http://www.nicap.org/571106whiteman%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Whiteman AFB, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2157 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8459 (8969B7D1) Date: 11/6/1957 Time: 0630 Description: A civilian source reported an object so bright that his eyes could not sustain it. It appeared to land on a ridge, then took off again. It was round and much larger than a plane, had an "odd color," left no trail and made no noise. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lake County, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_428 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8460 (4FD11E23) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: 9:43 p.m. [Kenneth J. Delano](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179862761/kenneth-j%5F-delano), who is participating in aurora and meteor watches for the International Geophysical Year, is observing the sky at St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, when he sees a brilliant white light in the northwest. He watches it approach until it is nearly overhead. Then a faint, silvery-gray, elliptical disc is visible for a few seconds above the light. It is silent, except for a faint whirring sound. He watches it for a total of 4 minutes until it passes behind some buildings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth J. Delano, “UFO over Baltimore,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 17–18, 24 Source ID: Eberhart_3066 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8461 (ACED8F58) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: At 8:30 p.m. two domed discs were sighted by two people driving on US highway 40 in New Castle, Delaware. The UFOs beamed down a light beam onto the highway, and the witnesses felt a vibration. One of the object came back three times, then went away quickly toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_7497 Source: Johnson ### Event 8462 (8687D4D8) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: At 9:00 p.m. near Baskatong Lake, Quebec 180 km north of Ottawa Jacques Jacobson and three of his friends saw a bright, yellowish-white sphere that was hovering over a hilltop about four kilometers away. From the top and bottom of the object came cones of light that illuminated the countryside and the clouds. Radio reception was blocked throughout the observation, except for a very powerful signal at one shortwave wavelength, modulated, but not in Morse code. The object rose slowly toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Mebane, 1957 Saucer Wave in the US, in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 248; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 425 Source ID: Johnson_7498 Source: Johnson ### Event 8463 (5FC7106B) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Twenty-eight year old Olden Moore, a plasterer, was driving home in Montville, Ohio at 11:30 p.m. when he suddenly noticed an object looking like a bright meteor split into two pieces, one of which went straight up. The other got larger while its color changed from bright white to blue-green. It hovered 60 meters above a field and came down to the ground making a soft whirring sound, landing 150 meters away. After watching it for 15 minutes Moore walked up to the object, which he found to be shaped like a "covered dish" 15 meters in diameter and five meters high, with a cone on top about 3 meters tall. It was surrounded by haze or fog and pulsated slowly. Holes, footprints and radioactivity were later found at the site by Civil Defense Director Kenneth Locke. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 430 Source ID: Johnson_7499 Source: Johnson ### Event 8464 (DFEB2220) Date: 11/6/1957 Time: 0630 Description: 12-year-old Everett Clark saw a strange object on the ground and four occupants, two men and two women who spoke a language he thought was similar to German. They went back to the craft in a manner the witness could not understand, for he saw no door. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 271;114; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Source ID: Magnonia_429 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8465 (8D328B2C) Date: 11/6/1957 Time: evening Description: John Trasco saw a brilliant, egg-shaped object hovering in front of a barn and was confronted with a being 1 m tall with a putty-colored face and frog-like eyes. He thought the dwarf said in broken English: "We are peaceful people; we only want your dog." The little man, who was dressed in a green suit with shiny buttons, a green tam-o-shanter-like cap, and gloves with a shiny object at the tip of each finger, fled when the witness denied his request. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 56; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Everittstown, New Jersey Source ID: Magnonia_430 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8466 (DCD9D33F) Date: 11/6/1957 Time: 1800 Description: A civilian source reported an oval object, about 5 m long, bright orange, similar to glowing coals, hovering 4 m above ground. The witness went to call his family; the object had vanished when he returned. Unidentified. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Boerne, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_431 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8467 (F87045DB) Date: 11/6/1957 Time: 2100 Description: 180 km north of Ottawa Jacques Jacobson and three of his friends saw a bright, yellowish-white sphere hovering over a hilltop about 4 km away. From top and bottom issued light cones that illuminated the countryside and the clouds. Radio reception was blocked throughout the observation, except for a very powerful signal at one wavelength, modulated, but not in Morse code. The object rose slowly toward the south. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 249 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Baskatong Lake, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_432 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8468 (D47E7F6B) Date: 11/6/1957 Time: 2330 Description: Olden Moore, 28, a plasterer was driving home when he suddenly saw an object looking like a bright meteor split into two pieces, one of which went straight up. The other got larger while its color changed from bright white to blue-green. It hovered 60 m above a field and came to the ground with a soft whirring sound, 150 m away. After observing it for 15 min, Moore then walked to the object, which he found to be shaped like "a covered dish" 15 m in diameter, 5 m high, with a cone on top about 3 m high, surrounded by haze or fog, pulsating slowly. Holes, footprints and radioactivity were found at the site by Civil Defense Director Kenneth Locke. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 252 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Montville, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_433 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8469 (9800A603) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Richard Kehoe & others see landed saucer, stalled cars, talk to spacepeople Type: ce4 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_156 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8470 (05FE87D7) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Just after 12:00 midnight. A taxicab company owner, Joe Martinez, and one of his drivers, Alberto Gallegos, sees a UFO approach them in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They hear a humming sound as it comes close. The object is egg-shaped and multicolored. As it passes over their car, the engine stalls and the dashboard clock stops. The UFO then pulls up and moves rapidly into the southeast. One witness later discovers that his wristwatch has also stopped at the time of sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight Line, pp. 246–247; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 47– 48; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 12 Source ID: Eberhart_3056 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8471 (56A7C14C) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: 4:30 a.m. William Rush II is driving on Long Point Road in Houston, Texas. A brilliant red, egg-shaped UFO kills his car engine and causes static on his radio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Houston \(Tex.\) Chronicle, November 6, 1957; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 48 Source ID: Eberhart_3057 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8472 (D1CD2A48) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: 9:00 p.m. Jacques Jacobsen and three others are in a hunting lodge on the Baskatong Reservoir, Quebec, listening to a battery-powered radio. Outside, they see a glowing, yellow-white sphere 2–3 miles away to the southwest. It remains in place for 15 minutes. During this time the radio goes off, and one of the men’s shortwave radios is working on only one frequency that emits a strong, rapidly modulated tone that sounds like, but is not, Morse code. The UFO rises into the clouds and the radios function normally again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 248–249; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 79–80; Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 114 Source ID: Eberhart_3065 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8473 (0EC678E2) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: 5:40 a.m. Richard Kehoe is driving along Vista Del Mar in Playa Del Rey, California, when his engine fails. Two other cars on the highway are also affected, and the drivers \(Ronald Burke and Joe Thomas\) all get out. They see an egg-shaped object that seems to be wrapped in a blue haze. It is tan or cream-colored and has two metallic rings around it. Two smallish men, about 5 feet 5 inches tall and wearing black leather pants, a white belt, and a light-colored jersey, exit the object. They ask Kehoe and the others where they are and what time it is in something approaching English. They walk back to the object, which takes off. After it leaves, Kehoe’s car starts with no problem. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, Signet, 1967, [pp. 126–127](https://archive.org/details/flyingsauceroccu00lore/page/130/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3058 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8474 (01A08FB9) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: 6:30 a.m. [Everett Orain Clark](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186597176/everette-orain-clark), 12 , of Dante, Knoxville, Tennessee, lets his dog Frisky outside and sees an object like an elongated egg in a field 300 feet away from his house. 20 minutes later, he calls to bring the dog back and sees Frisky with other dogs on the other side of the road close to the object. Clark walks toward the UFO and sees two men and women, apparently dressed in a normal manner. One of the men tries to catch Frisky who grunts and moves away. They are speaking in a foreign language that sounds like German to him. The four people go into the craft by seemingly walking right through the wall. Journalist [Carson Brewer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson%5FBrewer) goes back to the site with Clark and finds an “oblong ring of pressed grass” 24 feet by 4.5 feet. In the afternoon, two men from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory \(engineer [Wallace Russell Gambill](https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/23749101/wallace-russell-gambill-obituary) and physicist N. D. Greene\) collect soil samples and check for radiation \(they find none\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Scientists Check](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95281666/) [‘Space Ship’ Field,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95282194/)” Knoxville \(Tenn.\) News-Sentinel, November 7, 1957, pp. 1, 12; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6.pdf) [November 6th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-6.pdf) The Author, 1997, pp. 17–19; Clark III 672–673; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-11-06-usa-dante.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-11-06-usa-dante.htm) August 17, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_3059 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8475 (61E2F002) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: US scientists are “pretty shook up” about the recent UFO sightings, according to astronomer [Charles F.](http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/jbeish/ChickCapen.html) [“Chick” Capen](http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/jbeish/ChickCapen.html) in the November 7 El Paso Times. However, Capen talks more about missile launches and lunar photography than UFO sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sighting ‘Shakes’ Scientists,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99804264/)” El Paso \(Tex.\) Times, November 7, 1957, p. 21; “[El Pasoans Take Look](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99803781/) [at Sputnik,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99803893/)” El Paso \(Tex.\) Times, November 7, 1957, pp. 1, 3; Swords 264 Source ID: Eberhart_3060 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8476 (D79475FE) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: Night. Two state policemen in Danville, Illinois, observe a brilliant white light that changes color successively to amber and orange. They chase it for 15 miles because the light appears to be low in the sky. During the chase, their communications radio does not function. The light eventually flies out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[2 State](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99808224/) [Troopers See ‘Object,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99808224/)” Hammond \(Ind.\) Times, November 7, 1957, p. 12; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 91–92 Source ID: Eberhart_3064 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8477 (79C48180) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: 8:02 p.m. Six people in Toronto, Ontario, watch a yellow-white light travel silently from south to north across the eastern sky. One experiences static on his TV set as the object passes, slower than a meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 248–249; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 80–81 Source ID: Eberhart_3063 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8478 (6633BA8F) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: 5:00 p.m. Two Malay fisherman are in a waterway near Bagansiapiapi, Sumatra, Indonesia, when they see a black and red object swiftly approaching their boat and trailing black and greenish smoke. The top and bottom of the object are curved like discs. When it is 60 feet away it stops in mid-air about 35 feet above the water, and the bottom part continues to rotate as the water foams below it. The object is a triangular shape and white smoke is coming out from each point. The object speeds up and disappears, leaving behind black and greenish smoke lines. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 133 Source ID: Eberhart_3061 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8479 (DFED3694) Date: 11/6/1957 Description: 11:30 p.m. Olden J. Moore is driving home in Montville, Ohio, when he sees an object like a bright meteor split into two pieces, one of which heads straight up. The other becomes larger while its color changes from bright white to blue green. It hovers about 200 feet above a field and lands with a soft whirring sound, perhaps 500 feet away. Moore watches cautiously for 15 minutes, then approaches it. The UFO is shaped like a “covered dish,” and is about 50 feet in diameter, 15 feet high, with a cone on top about 10 feet high. It is pulsating slowly, and a haze surrounds it. Moore goes home to get another witness \(his wife\) but when they return the UFO is gone. Mrs. Moore reports the sighting to County Sheriff [Louis Robusky](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107231232/louis-arthur-robusky) the next morning, and a civil defense director, Kenneth Locke, visits the site. Locke finds high levels of radioactivity \(a maximum of 150 microroentgens/hour, suggestive of an approximately one-hour radionuclide half-life or less\) two perfectly formed holes six inches in diameter, and unusual footprints that come from nowhere and go nowhere. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Olden](http://www.nicap.org/571106montville%5Fdir.htm) [Moore Case / Close Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/571106montville%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [pp. 169–170](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=181&skin=2021); Center for UFO Studies, \[[case files](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/63C.pdf)\]; Clark III 772–773, 950; Sparks, p. 257 Source ID: Eberhart_3067 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8480 (5D1FC6C3) Date: 11/7/1957 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harlingen AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2158 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8481 (D3802F3B) Date: 11/7/1957 Description: Car traveling about 60 mph. Speedometer waved wildly between 60 and 110. UFO then sighted (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orogrande (near ), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2159 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8482 (898D3F2D) Date: 11/7/1957 Description: Silvery disc hovered, car motor failed.(UFOE) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Charles, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2160 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8483 (F86C9FFB) Date: 11/7/1957 Description: Night. Paul Rutledge, a packinghouse worker at Waterloo, Iowa, sees an object hovering above his garage. He can see two figures walking around inside. The object is about 30 feet long and has a shiny bottom and a glass top. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 84; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-11-08-usa-waterloo.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-11-08-usa-waterloo.htm) January 24, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_3073 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8484 (CB610217) Date: 11/7/1957 Description: 7:46 p.m. Bright, flashing objects hover for 30 minutes over the Atomic Energy Commission’s Pantex Plant 15 miles east of Amarillo, Texas. The UFOs are reported to the State Highway Patrol office by plant guards, and a patrolman dispatched to the plant arrives at 8:15 p.m. and sees a strange light. Guards at the plant are “all shook up” from watching three objects floating 50 feet above the ground. One of the objects apparently lands on Farin Road 2373, three miles north of Highway 60. Guards tell the patrolman they tried to approach the objects by turning off their lights, “but the things would just slip away from them when they got near.” They are unable to estimate the size of the objects but seem positive “they saw more than just lights.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Lights Shake Up](http://www.nicap.org/571107amarillo%5Fdir.htm) [Guards at Nuclear Plant](http://www.nicap.org/571107amarillo%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 258 Source ID: Eberhart_3072 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8485 (82900966) Date: 11/7/1957 Description: 9:38 a.m. Mysterious radio signals on the 108 megacycle radio band are recorded by RCA Communications at Riverhead, Long Island, New York. The signal is a continuous, tone-modulated hum at a low pitch of 200 cycles per second. The FCC admits it is baffled, but suspects that it comes from a radio amateur or equipment testing in the New York City area. Another report claims that Vanguard and Federal Communications Commission watchers at 18 monitoring stations throughout the Western Hemisphere are picking up signals at 14.286 megacycles, possibly connected with Sputnik 2. The signal is a long note of low pitch followed after a few seconds by two short notes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mystery Signals Are](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100140952/) [Unconnected with Satellites,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100141149/)” Fort Myers \(Fla.\) News-Press, November 8, 1957, pp. 1–2; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 83 Source ID: Eberhart_3071 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8486 (AB7F73D2) Date: 11/7/1957 Description: 9:20 a.m. Trent Lindsey and his wife and son Byron are driving on US Highway 54 near Orogrande, New Mexico, when Byron notices that the speedometer is jumping wildly back and forth from the top to the bottom of its range. It then stops just as suddenly. The three witnesses later see a metallic-appearing UFO high in the sky to the southwest. It continues moving away for three minutes until it was lost from view over the Organ Mountains. The speedometer functions normally after the UFO is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Family Reports Seeing Large Object over NM,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99616431/)” Albuquerque Tribune, November 8, 1957, p. 1; Lorenzen, FSHoax, [pp. 99–100](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n95/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3070 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8487 (12810439) Date: 11/7/1957 Description: 7:25 a.m. Truck driver Melvin Stevens stops one mile east of House, Mississippi, because a silvery “blimp” about 5 feet high and 2 feet long is blocking the road. He walks toward it, a sliding door opens, and three small, pasty-faced men about 4.5 feet tall emerge. Stevens feels paralyzed. After a short time, the beings make a military about-face and reenter the UFO, which takes off vertically. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1957.pdf) [1957](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1957.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1957.pdf) p. 32; Clark III 269 Source ID: Eberhart_3069 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8488 (02BEFF16) Date: 11/7/1957 Description: 1:45–1:55 a.m. Seven airmen at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico—Bradford Rickets, James Cole, Dennis Murphy, Wayne Hurlburt, and Harry Uhlrich—see a UFO while on duty at a salvage yard on the north side of the base. The object makes a whistling noise and turns from white to orange to red. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, FSHoax, [pp. 100–101](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n97/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3068 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8489 (69F4D426) Date: 11/7/1957 Time: 0725 Description: Truck driver Malvin Stevens, 48, was driving to Memphis when, about 23 km northwest of Meridian, he saw an object which appeared to have two propellers at either end and a third one on top. Getting out of his truck, he saw three little men about 1.30 m tall, in gray clothes, with "pasty white faces" that seemed friendly and willing to talk, but he was unable to understand their "chattering." "I stood there for what seemed like an eternity." They got back into the machine and it took off straight up. There was no ignition interference. An 8-year-old girl from Honse independently reported a round object crossing the sky toward the south. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 273; 115 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Meridian, Mississippi Source ID: Magnonia_434 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8490 (1A3B5E1F) Date: 11/7/1957 Description: Truck driver Malvin Stevens, age 48, was driving to Memphis when, about 23 km northwest of Meridian, Mississippi he saw an object that appeared to have two propellers at either end and a third one on top. Getting out of his truck, he saw three little men about 1.30 meters tall, wearing gray uniforms. They had "pasty white faces." They seemed friendly and willing to talk, but he was unable to understand their "chattering." "I stood there for what seemed like an eternity." They got back into the machine and it took off straight up. There was no vehicle ignition interference. An eight-year-old girl from Honse, Mississippi independently reported a round object crossing the sky toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 434 Source ID: Johnson_7523 Source: Johnson ### Event 8491 (369FCBF9) Date: 11/8/1957 Time: l0:10 AM Description: Witness: Mrs. L. Dinner. One bar-shaped object, 3.5' long, giving off blue flashes, made a swishing sound. No further data. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Merrick, Long Island, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_418 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8492 (0498D8EB) Date: 11/8/1957 Description: A bar-shaped object, 3.5 ft long, giving off blue flashes (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5254) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Merrick, Long Island, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2161 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8493 (947258CB) Date: 11/8/1957 Description: Night. 12 female and 4 male farmworkers are in a truck on the Newhailes Road returning to Edinburgh from picking Brussels sprouts in a nursey at Musselburgh, Scotland. One of them spots a gray, round object seemingly following the truck at a distance of 60 feet. Mary Horne says it is domed on the top and bottom. It follows them for 5–10 minutes then moves off towards Portobello leaving a double vapor trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November 7th–12th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) The Author, 1998, pp. 54– 55 Source ID: Eberhart_3078 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8494 (CD8D15F3) Date: 11/8/1957 Description: 6:00 p.m. Pan Am Flight 7, a Boeing Stratocruiser flying across the Pacific mysteriously crashes midway between San Francisco and Honolulu. One of the crew is UFO witness Capt. [William H. Fortenberry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%5FAm%5FFlight%5F7). The cause of the crash is never determined. Fortenberry’s journalist son, [Ken H. Fortenberry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%5FFortenberry), suspects that the bereaved and mentally unstable purser Oliver Eugene Crosthwaite, has deliberately caused the crash, killing himself and murdering 43 innocent people in the process. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Pan Am Flight 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%5FAm%5FFlight%5F7)”; Ken H. Fortenberry, Flight 7 Is Missing: The Search for My Father’s Killer, Fayetteville Mafia, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_3077 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8495 (1D8EBBBE) Date: 11/8/1957 Description: 6:22 a.m. Connie Foster watches a lighted triangular object flying from southeast to northwest over Camarillo, California. It is moving with the base facing forward and has bright lights on the tips of the triangle. She watches it for nearly 30 minutes before it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November 7th–12th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) The Author, 1998, p. 37 Source ID: Eberhart_3075 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8496 (417BB0B4) Date: 11/8/1957 Time: 1430 Description: Hank Mollohan and eight other persons saw an elongated object, 12 m long, with several portholes from which fire and smoke appeared to be coming. It swung at low altitude and dropped to the ground. People seemed to be moving around it, but the witnesses were driven away by a hard rain. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 265 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Holly, West Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_437 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8497 (144E905B) Date: 11/8/1957 Description: 3:03 a.m. Polish-Australian astronomer [Antoni Przybylski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni%5FPrzybylski) and Dutch-American astronomer [Bart Bok](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%5FBok) see a vivid pink object moving slowly across the sky at Mount Stromlo Observatory near Canberra, Australia. It is visible to the naked eye for two minutes. Przybylski has just finished observing Sputnik 1 and 2, so it wasn’t a satellite or a meteor. Assistant Director [Arthur Robert Hogg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FRobert%5FHogg) thinks it might be circling the earth like a satellite. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November 7th–12th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf), The Author, 1998, p. 36; Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 10–11; Center for UFO Studies, “[Moonwatch Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962](http://www.cufos.org/Moonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites/1958-1962%5FMoonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites.pdf)” Source ID: Eberhart_3074 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8498 (60A23420) Date: 11/8/1957 Description: Spencer Whedon, chief of Air Intelligence at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, tells the press that of 5,700 UFO reports received by his office since 1940, 97% have been identified satisfactorily and the other 8% remain unidentified due to insufficient information. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Seeing Things? No, Sky Really Red,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100142456/the-cincinnati-post/)” Cincinnati \(Ohio\) Post, November 7, 1957, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_3076 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8499 (758FA46C) Date: 11/8/1957 Time: night Description: Paul Rutledge saw an object 16 m long flying over his garage. The top part was bright, and there were two figures visible inside. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 266 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Waterloo, Iowa Source ID: Magnonia_438 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8500 (9133A941) Date: 11/8/1957 Description: Fourteen people, including Mrs. Maty Home, reported to police that a diskshaped object followed their truck, dived toward it, came within 20 m of them, then left toward the sea, leaving a double vapor trail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Round-up 217; 116 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Source ID: Magnonia_435 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8501 (F80CC440) Date: 11/8/1957 Time: 0200 Description: A cigar-shaped object 70 m long was observed less than 7 m above ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 264; 117 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sloanville, New York Source ID: Magnonia_436 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8502 (43A99CC8) Date: 11/8/1957 Description: In Edinburgh, Scotland fourteen people, including Mrs. Maty Home, reported to the police that a disc-shaped object followed their truck, dived toward it, came within 20 meters of them, and then left toward the sea, leaving a double vapor trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 435 Source ID: Johnson_7531 Source: Johnson ### Event 8503 (F86F5D38) Date: 11/8/1957 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a cigar-shaped object, 70 meters long, was observed less than seven meters above the ground in Sloanville, New York. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 437 Source ID: Johnson_7532 Source: Johnson ### Event 8504 (F7D39408) Date: 11/8/1957 Description: At 2:30 p.m. Hank Mollohan and eight other persons saw an elongated object land in Holly, West Virginia. It was 12 meters long and had several portholes from which fire and smoke appeared to be coming. It swung at low altitude and then dropped to the ground. People seemed to be moving around outside the landed UFO, but the witnesses were driven away by a hard rain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Mebane, "1957 Saucer Wave in the US," in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 265; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 436 Source ID: Johnson_7533 Source: Johnson ### Event 8505 (AD3AE139) Date: 11/8/1957 Description: On the same night Paul Rutledge saw an object 16 meters long flying over his garage in Waterloo, Iowa. The top part was bright and there were two figures visible inside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Mebane, "1957 Saucer Wave in the US," in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 265; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 438 Source ID: Johnson_7534 Source: Johnson ### Event 8506 (33322E9A) Date: 11/9/1957 Description: 9:15 a.m. Eastern Airline pilot Capt. [Truman Gile Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119188315/truman-gile) is preparing to take off from Lafayette \(Louisiana\) Airport when he sees a big silvery object about 20,000 feet in the air. Gile watches it for 3 minutes and it doesn’t move. He alerts copilot James E. Hall, the stewardess, and the ground agents, and they all watch it another 5 minutes before it fades away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) [November 7th–12th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf), The Author, 1998, pp. 61–62 Source ID: Eberhart_3080 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8507 (B51DAD8F) Date: 11/9/1957 Description: Car lights failed as UFO observed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Oaks (near), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2163 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8508 (27BDC562) Date: 11/9/1957 Description: 12:15 a.m. A man is driving in Sacramento, California, when his car engine and headlights fail. He looks up and sees an elongated egg-shaped object with delta-shaped wings, 150–200 feet long and 40–50 feet wide. The wings come back to about 30 feet from the rear of the fuselage. It has a bright bluish hue and leaves a bluish fluorescent trail. The sighting lasts 2–3 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(September 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_3079 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8509 (E865D1C1) Date: 11/9/1957 Time: 0100 Description: A civilian driving his car home from work observed a hovering object 16 m long. His car engine died as he neared the object's position, and it started again only after the object's departure. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lake City, Missouri Source ID: Magnonia_439 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8510 (7342304B) Date: 11/9/1957 Description: Man saw object 50 ft long. Car engine died as he approached (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake City, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2162 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8511 (93EE25D5) Date: 11/9/1957 Description: 7:20 p.m. Several witnesses are driving 12 miles northeast of Carrizozo, New Mexico, on US Highway 54 in the vicinity of White Oaks when a large, rapidly moving light approaches their car from the south and apparently causes the vehicle’s lighting system to fail. The light changes course and speeds off to the southwest. [Jim and Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) are driving east on US Highway 380 about 10 miles east of Carrizozo when they spot an anomalous light that might be the same object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, FSHoax, [pp, 101–102](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n97/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3081 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8512 (EB9956A3) Date: 11/9/1957 Description: At 1:00 a.m. a civilian driving his car home from work in Lake City, Missouri observed a hovering object 16 meters long. It had an elongated shape, and hovered 50 feet above the ground. His car engine died as he neared the object's position. When the object left the performance of the engine returned to normal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 439 Source ID: Johnson_7564 Source: Johnson ### Event 8513 (74C5B6D0) Date: 11/9/1957 Description: In Bedford, Indiana a UFO was seen by a Mr. Merry at 9:10 p.m. His car stalled, and his head was covered with burns following the close encounter. On the same night just south of the same town a woman named Baxter also had her car stopped by a domed saucer, which rose from the ground, hovered, and then flew off over the hills. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Edwards, Fate magazine, March 1958, pp. 27 & 32; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: November 7-12, p. 66 Source ID: Johnson_7565 Source: Johnson ### Event 8514 (8C9F0B2F) Date: 11/10/1957 Description: Loud beeping caused radio interference as police chased UFO. TV blackout in city, motorist reported radio failure (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hammond, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2164 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8515 (A3FB1500) Date: 11/10/1957 Description: Close encounter with domed-top 40' UFO (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: NICAP: [571110](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/571110dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Madison, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2165 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8516 (65A06834) Date: 11/10/1957 Description: 5:55 p.m. [Wilfred S. Hardy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209207265/wilfred-ivan%5Fsamuel-hardy), an assistant safety engineer at the Tokyo, Japan, Engineer Supply Center, sees \(along with his wife and a Japanese boat boy\) a huge cigar-shaped object with lighted portholes above Lake Imba-numa 10 miles away. He estimates it is about 200–500 feet long. The object lights up the entire lake, then disappears to the south 10 seconds later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 86 Source ID: Eberhart_3085 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8517 (E8AA4249) Date: 11/10/1957 Description: Night. French astronomer Jacques Chapuis at Toulouse Observatory in France observes a maneuvering, yellow, star-like object for 5 minutes. It ascends straight up out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 50](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=62&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3087 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8518 (4D4B51BF) Date: 11/10/1957 Description: 7:00 p.m. Many people see a UFO at Hammond, Indiana. Two policemen \(Sgt. [Charles J. Mauder](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48437421/charles-j%5F-mauder), Office Steve Betuslak\) see a red and white light hovering 500–1,000 feet overhead. They hear a beeping sound and there is interference on the police radio while the object is in view. Another witness sees a green light on a basket-shaped object; his car radio fails. The lights fly away when anyone tries to approach. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 268; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 92–95; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) [History: 1957, November 7th–12th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) The Author, 1998, pp. 73, 75 Source ID: Eberhart_3086 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8519 (3DB3128F) Date: 11/10/1957 Description: Evening. UFO witness Olden Moore of Montville, Ohio, is visited by Sheriff [Robusky](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107231232/louis-arthur-robusky), a deputy, and a USAF officer who asks him to go with them to Youngstown to be interviewed by military officers. They drive him to the field where the encounter took place and put him aboard a military helicopter. He is interviewed in Youngstown, then he is returned to the field at 11:00 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 773 Source ID: Eberhart_3084 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8520 (98847DCB) Date: 11/10/1957 Description: Residents of Skaryszew, Poland, watch a huge, radiant, cigar-shaped object slowly moving west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 20 Source ID: Eberhart_3083 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8521 (65D07692) Date: 11/10/1957 Description: At 1:25 a.m. Mrs. Leita Kuhn observed a very large, lighted object 20 meters above the ground in Madison, Ohio. It was so brilliant that she had to close her eyes. It was over 10 meters wide, three to four meters thick, with a dome on top. The witness had to consult a physician several days later because of serious eye and skin irritation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 440 Source ID: Johnson_7591 Source: Johnson ### Event 8522 (9FFEA9AC) Date: 11/10/1957 Description: 1:25 a.m. [Leita Mae Kuhn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90719676/leita-mae-kuhn) is checking the stove in her Doberman dog kennel at Madison, Ohio, when she notices a glowing, domed disc hovering 60 feet above the rear of the kennel. It is about 40 feet in diameter and emitting puffy clouds of smoke. Her eyes begin to burn after watching it for 20–30 minutes, and she runs back into the house and locks the door. She has rashes and her eyes hurt so badly she visits a doctor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 11–12; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November 7th–12th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-7-12.pdf), The Author, 1998, pp. 69–71; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 30–31; Michael D. Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological Effects? Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_3082 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8523 (C3833729) Date: 11/10/1957 Time: 0125 Description: Mrs. Leita Kuhn observed a very large, lighted object 20 m above ground. It was so brilliant that she had to close her eyes. It was over 10 m wide, 3 to 4 m thick, with a dome on top. The witness had to consult a physician several days later because of serious eye and skin irritation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: M 267; 118 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Madison, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_440 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8524 (A202528B) Date: 11/11/1957 Description: Four engineers observed three UFOs flying in formation in bright daylight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [571111](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/canogapark571111dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canoga Park, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2168 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8525 (CDEB39AF) Date: 11/11/1957 Description: Airline passenger saw elliptical UFO flying low over ground below plane. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2169 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8526 (D13697DB) Date: 11/11/1957 Description: Rocketdyne engineers observed three UFOs climbing at high speed. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [571111](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/canogapark571111dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Fernando Valley, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2170 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8527 (F8A0E406) Date: 11/11/1957 Description: A silvery elliptical UFO is seen flying below Western Airlines Flight 61 over the desert east of Los Angeles, California. Robert D. Hahn, a jewelry designer, is a passenger and describes it as a large, elliptical, metallic object with dark patches zigzagging about 200 feet above the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 67](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=79&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3088 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8528 (C920E048) Date: 11/12/1957 Description: Car motor and lights failed. Ground Observer Corps reported UFO at same time (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rumney, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2172 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8529 (08B91341) Date: 11/12/1957 Description: TV disrupted as UFO seen (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hazelton, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2171 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8530 (34310350) Date: 11/12/1957 Description: FBI STATUS REPORT: “Ever since the Russians release ‘Sputnik’ there has been a great increase in the number of flying saucers and other UFOs reportedly seen by people all over the U.S.” [Angle: Artificial satellite spurs Alien interest in mankind. Other Angle: Artificial satellite causes populace to go sky crazy.] Type: status report Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: Maj2_578 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8531 (ED15C092) Date: 11/13/1957 Description: In 1957 a UFO exploded over the State Hospital in Crownsville, Maryland at 9:10 in the morning. Fragments were recovered and sent to the US Air Force for analysis. On this same date a UFO was seen high in the sky east of Port Broughton, South Australia. It drifted slowly toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 5; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 160 Source ID: Johnson_7629 Source: Johnson ### Event 8532 (E5153BEE) Date: 11/13/1957 Description: An object explodes over the State Hospital at Crownsville, Maryland, and two or three burned pieces of metal fall on the hospital grounds. It is recovered by employees William A. Zick and J. Caswell. The pieces are checked for radiation and confiscated by army intelligence officers at Fort George G. Meade. They are apparently sent to the Air Research and Development Center in Baltimore. An ARD colonel tells NICAP member and WFBR news director [Lou Corbin](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/index.html) that he has no idea what the metal is. Some of the material is perhaps sent to ATIC. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Metal Object from Skies Rushed to ATIC for Analysis,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/003%20JANUARY%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 3 \(January 1958\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_3089 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8533 (C46F4B70) Date: 11/14/1957 Description: Numerous Targets Tracked (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571114](http://www.nicap.org/571114rothwesten%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rothwesten, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_2173 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8534 (5E565E22) Date: 11/14/1957 Description: Power failed for 10 minutes in a four mile area, just after hovering UFO flashed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tamaroa, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2174 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8535 (D5A2D297) Date: 11/14/1957 Description: Afternoon. [Evalyn Riead](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22308264/evalyn-riead) hears a sputtering noise like someone is pulling into her driveway in Tamaroa, Illinois. She looks outside and sees a bright, moon-shaped object with a tail moving above the trees bordering US Highway 51. It disappears after 5–6 booms and 3 flashes of light. As soon as this happens, the lights in her home go out. Electrical power in a 4-mile area between Tamaroa and Du Bois is interrupted for 10 minutes. Power is restored when the company closes an open circuit breaker, but they could find no cause. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Current Cut Off As](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99860979/) [Flying ‘Thing’ Appears in Illinois,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99860979/)” Lima \(Ohio\) Citizen, November 15, 1957, p. 10; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 140–141 Source ID: Eberhart_3090 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8536 (819A7EE8) Date: 11/14/1957 Description: Two years later, at Tamaroa, in southern Illinois, there was another occurrence of an electro-magnetic interference case. Mrs. John Riead, wife of Tamaroa's justice of the peace, said she heard "a sputtering noise" and observed a bright, moon-shaped object appear over the trees bordering US Highway 1, which had "a sort of a tail or ray extending down from it as it moved along." The UFO was accompanied by five or six loud booms and three brilliant flashes. Then the lights in her home went out. Electric power in a four-mile wide area was interrupted for about ten minutes. Service was restored when workmen closed an open circuit breaker, although investigation could find no apparent cause. In Oporto, Portugal at 7:30 p.m., several witnesses watched a big UFO send down a beam of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alex Mebane, in Aime Michel's Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 269; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, investigation files Source ID: Johnson_7666 Source: Johnson ### Event 8537 (8056EDF0) Date: 11/15/1957 Description: Several car motors failed as drivers attempted to approach UFO hovering low above ground (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cachoeira, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2175 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8538 (EFE2BC62) Date: 11/15/1957 Description: Highway patrolman, sheriff, others saw many flashing revolving red lights which moved around slowly, hovered. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carthage, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2176 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8539 (978DC228) Date: Mid 11/1957 Description: The US Senate Committee on Government Operations, chaired by Sen. [John L. McClellan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FL.%5FMcClellan) \(D-Ark.\), begins an inquiry into UFOs. [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) is called to give testimony. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ruppelt, 1960 ed., p. 253 Source ID: Eberhart_3091 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8540 (AC34BE64) Date: 11/15/1957 Description: In 1957, at 2:00 in the afternoon, cars stalled when their drivers attempted to approach a 200' diameter metallic UFO hovering 300' over an aerodrome in Cachoeira, Brazil. East of Viking, Minnesota, at 11:45 that night, a parked car was buffeted by a flying disc, 100 yards away. The occupants of the car heard and felt tapping underneath the car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1957 (Volume 9), p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_7686 Source: Johnson ### Event 8541 (08B22828) Date: 11/16/1957 Description: A blinding object, red and yellow, twice landed first near the Jockey Club, then near the Rural Exhibition in Bage City, Brazil at 10:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 441 Source ID: Johnson_7715 Source: Johnson ### Event 8542 (D5EB2071) Date: 11/16/1957 Time: 2230 Description: A blinding object, red and yellow, twice landed-first near the Jockey Club, then near the Rural Exhibition. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bage City, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_441 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8543 (FA31D112) Date: 11/16/1957 Description: Afternoon. [Cynthia Appleton](https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The%2Briddle%2Bof%2BBrum%27s%2Balien%2Bbaby%3B%2B44%2BYEARS%2BON%3A%2BWHERE%2BIS%2B%27BOY%2BFROM...-a096940811) blacks out unexpectedly at her home in 87 Fentham Road in Aston, a suburb of Birmingham, England. On November 19, she feels faint again as the light outside dims, and a man with blond hair and wearing coveralls materializes in the center of the room. She hears him speaking to her telepathically. He tells her not to be afraid and that he is from a world he calls Gharnasvarn \(which we know as Venus\) and he shows her what seems to be a holographic image of two spaceships. She has other visitations by entities on January 7 and February 7, 1958. In September 1958, the spaceman informs her that she is pregnant, which is apparently true, as she gives birth on June 2, 1958, to a boy with blond hair that she and her husband Ron name Matthew. Appleton says the Venusians visited her a few more times, but the trail grows cold in July 1960. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Birmingham Woman Meets Spacemen,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CMar-Apr%2CV%204%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 2 \(March/April 1958\): 5–6; Jenny Randles, “A Visitor from Gharnasvarn,” IUR 13, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1988\): 4–8; Birmingham Sunday Mercury, January 26, 2003; Andy Roberts, “The Space Baby,” Fortean Times 191 \(December 2004\): 32–38; Bill Chalker, “[Flying Saucery, Cosmic Bethlehem, and Midwich Cuckoos: The Cynthia Appleton Contacts \(1957–1959\),](https://www.auforn.com/Bill%5FChalker%5F34.htm)” Australian UFO Researcher Bill Chalker, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_3092 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8544 (EDBF1BA1) Date: 11/17/1957 Description: An Air Force car with two officers comes to UFO witness Olden Moore’s house in Montville, Ohio. He is told they are taking him to Washington, D.C., for extended questioning. They drive him to a waiting airplane, which stops briefly at Wright-Patterson AFB to pick up one officer and drop another off. In Washington, Moore is housed in a building said to be a federal courthouse \[US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces?\]. He is kept there and interrogated for several days. Officers watch him constantly, even when he is sleeping. Toward the end of his stay, Moore is shown slides of UFO photos and a UFO film taken from inside a military plane. Moore is asked to sign a document that swears him to secrecy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 114](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=126&skin=2021); Clark III 773 Source ID: Eberhart_3093 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8545 (F34860C2) Date: 11/18/1957 Description: In Maracaja, Brazil Farmers Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli heard a strange humming sound at 10:30 a.m., then saw two aluminum-colored discs 200 meters away. Near them were six men of average height and slim build, dressed in "dark gray suits glued to their bodies." The discs were only about 3.5 meters wide, and hovered one meter above the ground. They rose with a sharp whistling sound, while coconut trees below them bent over double. Three more discs rose from behind the trees, and then all five flew away toward the Atlantic Ocean. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 443 Source ID: Johnson_7727 Source: Johnson ### Event 8546 (AAFA667F) Date: 11/18/1957 Time: 1030 Description: Farmers Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli heard a strange humming sound, then saw two aluminum-colored disks 200 m away. Near them were six mm of average height, slim build, dressed in "dark gray suits glued to their bodies." The disks were about 3.5 m wide, hovering 1 m above ground. They rose with a sharp whistling sound, while coconut trees below them bent double. Three more disks rose from behind the trees, and all five flew toward the Atlantic. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 36 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Maracaja, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_442 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8547 (A42E898C) Date: 11/18/1957 Time: 1500 Description: Mrs. Cynthia Appleton, 27, mother of two, saw the figure of a man appear near her fireplace while a whistling sound was audible. He was tall and fair, wore a tight-fitting plastic garment, and seemed to communicate with her through telepathy, indicating he was looking for titanium and was coming from a world of peace and harmony. Suddenly he disappeared. Mrs. Appleton had subsequent contacts with similar entities. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Aston, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_443 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8548 (49A7D7F7) Date: 11/18/1957 Description: An hour and a half later Mrs. Cynthia Appleton, age 27 and mother of two, saw the figure of a man appear near her fireplace in Aston, England at three o'clock in the afternoon at the same time that a whistling sound became audible. He was tall and fair, wore a tight-fitting plastic garment, and seemed to communicate with her through telepathy, indicating he was looking for titanium and was coming from a world of peace and harmony. He suddenly disappeared. Mrs. Appleton had subsequent contacts with similar entities. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 442 Source ID: Johnson_7728 Source: Johnson ### Event 8549 (302282F6) Date: 11/21/1957 Description: (McDonald list) Huge Target Picked Up On Three Radars (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571121](http://www.nicap.org/571121houma%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houma, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2177 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8550 (5D0B0CA1) Date: 11/21/1957 Description: The Army Chief of Research and Development responds to CONARC’s October 22 request on the feasibility of building a manned “flying saucer,” stating that he had reviewed the Avrocar disc concept and that it looked promising. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard P. Weinert, History of Army Aviation, 1950–1962, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, November 1976, [pp. 220–221](https://archive.org/details/DTIC%5FADA236573/page/n225/mode/2up); Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” Source ID: Eberhart_3094 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8551 (38F21F14) Date: 11/21/1957 Description: Merchant [Hans Haugaard Hansen](https://www.geni.com/people/Hans-Haugaard-Hansen/6000000021669778682) is driving out of Gesten, Denmark, on the road to Egholt when he sees a triangular UFO moving low over a field some 300–600 feet away. It is emitting a red or orange light and makes no sound. The bottom of the object is solid, but the upper part is transparent, and he can see two figures inside. He stops the car to watch as it moves about 40 mph. Similar objects are seen at Jordrup and Vorbasse. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf) [Saucer Reports Pour in from Denmark,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 2; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-13-30.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November 13th–30th](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-13-30.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Nov-13-30.pdf) The Author, 1998, p. 56; Willy Wegner, “[UFO bogen, Kapitel 19: Rumfolkene viser sig,](https://www.skeptica.dk/?p=8019)” Skeptica, September 1, 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_3095 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8552 (4585A1BF) Date: 11/21/1957 Description: Night. Frank Dickenson and two friends are driving up Reasty Hill near the village of Silpho, North Yorkshire, England, when their car stalls and they see a glowing object in the sky that appears to fall to the ground on a ridge above Broxa Forest. Dickenson leaves the car with a flashlight, climbs up a bank, and finds in a patch of bracken a metallic saucer shaped like a “large flattish spinning top,” 18 inches in diameter and weighing 33 pounds. As he returns to tell his friends, he passes a young couple walking toward the scene. When the tree men return to search for it, the disc is gone. Dickenson places an advertisement in a Scarborough newspaper about the disc, and he is able to recover it for £10 from a man who claims he was the mystery man on the moor. Photos taken by UFO researcher John Dale show that the copper base of the object is inscribed with a mystery script. The top of the disc is made from layers of laminated metal that has been painted with a white substance. The two halves are stuck together with a grayish substance resembling cellulose, and a pencil-thick iron rod runs through a “white metal bearing” in the top. When the bearing is drilled out, they find a heap of ash inside the cavity, as well as pieces of fused glass and a tightly rolled cylinder of copper. Also inside is a tiny booklet of 17 sheets of thin copper foil fastened at one edge. The booklet is engraved with script similar to that found on the outside. The coded script is translated by a café proprietor from Scarborough named Philip Longbottom, who claims the 2,000- word inscription is from an alien named Ulo, with later text added by an apparently female companion named Tarngee. A metallurgist at the University of Manchester analyzes the disc and finds the outer casing is made primarily from lead, and the copper foil is triple laminated an unusually free from impurities. In 2017, [David](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29) [Clarke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29) discovers that five specimens from the Silpho disc have been preserved in a tin cigarette box housed in London’s Science Museum. The specimens were sent to aviation historian [Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FHarvard%5FGibbs-Smith) in 1963 by Essex ufologist C. C. Stevens for analysis. Gibbs-Smith judged the items to be of terrestrial origin, and they were donated to the Science Museum with his papers after his death in 1981. Veteran Scarborough Evening News editor Mick Jefferson said in 2003 the newspaper had long ago exposed the object as a hoax made from a “domestic hot-water cylinder.” However, the hoaxers have never surfaced. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Silpho Moor Mystery,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CMar-Apr%2CV%204%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 2 \(March/April 1958\): 4; “[Silpho Moor Controversy,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 19; Philip Longbottom, “[The Silpho Moor Mystery,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CNov-Dec%2CV%204%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1958\): 15–17; Jenny Randles, UFO Retrievals, Blandford, 1995, [pp. 77–82](https://archive.org/details/uforetrievalsrec0000rand/page/76/mode/2up); David Clarke, “The Return of the Silpho Moor Saucer,” Fortean Times 364 \(March 2018\): 42–46 Source ID: Eberhart_3096 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8553 (C6A186C2) Date: 11/22/1957 Description: Turkish Air Force pilot saw a 10 ft regular-hexagon-shaped object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tarakly (10 miles SE of), Turkey Source ID: NICAP_DB_2178 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8554 (4F4D7EF5) Date: 11/22/1957 Description: Silvery UFO sped back and forth, ascended. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canutillo, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2179 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8555 (81D9D74F) Date: 11/22/1957 Description: At 4:00 p.m. a shop owner in Gesten, Denmark saw a pyramid-shaped, luminous, transparent object fly fast across the road. It was over 250 meters away, but he could clearly see two figures who looked like human beings, sitting one behind the other aboard the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 444 Source ID: Johnson_7794 Source: Johnson ### Event 8556 (F0D391EF) Date: 11/22/1957 Description: A shop owner saw a pyramidshaped, luminous, transparent object fly fast across the road. As it was above 250 m away, he clearly saw two figures who looked like human beings, sitting one behind the other aboard the craft. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Gesten, Denmark Source ID: Magnonia_444 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8557 (9DF4AE34) Date: 11/23/1957 Time: 0630 Description: Four disk-shaped objects on the ground were observed for 20 min from a distance of 15 m. When the witness tried to come closer, they took off with an unbearable humming sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Tonopah, Nevada Source ID: Magnonia_445 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8558 (ED6CE4B5) Date: 11/23/1957 Description: 6:10 p.m. Fighter pilot 1st Lt. Joseph F. Long’s car engine stalls 30 miles west of Tonopah, Nevada. He hears a high-pitched whining noise and sees four 50-foot, domed, saucer-shaped UFOs landed on the right side of the road about 900–1,200 feet away. They are glowing brightly and equipped with three landing gears. Long estimates they are about 10–15 feet tall. When he approaches to within 50 feet of the closest object, the hum increases in intensity and Long’s ears begin to hurt. The objects take off abruptly, retracting the landing gears. The rise about 50 feet into the air and proceed across the highway to the north at about 10 mph. The total time of the sighting is 20 minutes. Shallow, bowl-shaped ground impressions in the shape of a triangle are found at the landing site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Four Huge Saucers Land near Car, Engine Stalls](http://www.nicap.org/571123tonopah%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 182–186](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/182/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 222–223](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/222/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/222/mode/2up) [228](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/228/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 259; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 101–106 Source ID: Eberhart_3097 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8559 (58301833) Date: 11/23/1957 Description: In the desert 30 miles west of Tonopah, Nevada Joseph Long's car engine died at 6:10 a.m. He then heard a high-pitched whining sound and saw to his right four large, metallic Saturn-shaped craft resting on the ground 400 meters away. The objects were 50 feet in diameter, with a dome in the center and a rotating ring on the edge. He walked up to within 50 feet of the objects during the next 20 minutes, when the four objects slowly rose up and left the area, at which time he returned to his vehicle and the car engine could be restarted. The humming sound increased in pitch when the objects took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 182; UNICAT database, case # 286, citing Hynek; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 445; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 13; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_7838 Source: Johnson ### Event 8560 (EA848CC5) Date: 11/23/1957 Description: Air Force officer's car failed, he saw disc-shaped objects on ground Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Tonopah, NV Source ID: HallUFOE2_5 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 8561 (D4F92A6C) Date: 11/23/1957 Description: 7:30 p.m. Six truck drivers watch a strange object with three lights in a triangular pattern hovering above a field off State Highway 8 just north of the Butler Valley Turnpike exit in Richland Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It has a green light at the bottom, a red light at the right corner, and a yellow light at the left corner. They get out of their car and approach the object, but when they are 75 feet away, it moves to the east, then south. They go back to the car and shine their lights on the object, which is about 20 feet above some trees. The lights go out and the object disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[3-Lighted ‘Whatsit’ Floats over Field,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99081594/)” Pittsburgh \(Pa.\) Sun- Telegraph, November 27, 1957, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_3098 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8562 (77D89CD9) Date: 11/23/1957 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Radar Contact On Visuals By Five Pilots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571123](http://www.nicap.org/571123joliet%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Joliet, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2180 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8563 (A89F175F) Date: 11/23/1957 Description: Car engine stalled, saw 4 landed 50-foot saucer-shaped UFO's (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tonopah (30 miles W of), NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2181 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8564 (F7EDD937) Date: 11/24/1957 Description: Army Captain Kohrtz in Kortedala, Goteborg, Sweden at 3:30 p.m. watched with binoculars as an ovoid flying object spiraled upwards towards the Moon, glowing on one side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, Volume 1, Number 3; Karl Gosta Rehn Source ID: Johnson_7868 Source: Johnson ### Event 8565 (A19CB4CE) Date: 11/25/1957 Time: 1430 Description: Two engineers were driving about 200 m from the railroad crossing in Faverges when they saw a nearly spherical object at ground level, performing zig-zags on the road. They stopped and were amazed as the object simply vanished, leaving no trace. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ugines, France Source ID: Magnonia_446 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8566 (46902956) Date: 11/25/1957 Description: In 1957, at 4:15 p.m., an odd round cloud observed in Indianapolis, Indiana became a rectangular object with sharp edges, and then faded away. In Mogi Mirim, Brazil all lights failed in the city at around 10 p.m. as a UFO flew overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1957 (Volume 9), p. 45); Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 75 Source ID: Johnson_7904 Source: Johnson ### Event 8567 (008FCEE5) Date: 11/25/1957 Description: 10:00 p.m. All the lights in the town of Mogi Mirim, São Paulo, Brazil, suddenly dim and fail. Numerous people see a circular light traveling directly overhead. Two similar lights follow a short time later. The blackout only lasts 5 minutes, but the power station has no explanation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 141–142 Source ID: Eberhart_3099 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8568 (9DB52FC3) Date: 11/25/1957 Description: All city lights failed as three UFOs passed overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mogi Mirim, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2184 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8569 (B768FBD9) Date: 11/25/1957 Description: USAF B-66 crew saw 3 objects, tracked by ground radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [571125](http://www.nicap.org/571125eglin%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eglin AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2182 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8570 (DA64FB01) Date: 11/26/1957 Description: Crew of RB-50, saw a brilliant red object with bluish-green tail (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sea of Okhotsk, W of Kamchatka, USSR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2186 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8571 (75A75E0F) Date: 11/26/1957 Time: 10:07 AM Description: Witnesses: three control tower operators, one weather observer and four others. One silver, cigar-shaped object suddenly vanished after 8 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Robins AFB, Georgia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_419 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8572 (185BE945) Date: 11/26/1957 Description: Many saw silver, cigar-shaped object, which suddenly vanished (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5419) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Robins AFB, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2188 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8573 (E69068F5) Date: 11/26/1957 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [571126](http://www.nicap.org/571126westmesa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: West Mesa AFS, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2185 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8574 (A525715F) Date: 11/26/1957 Description: Pilot saw a stationary yellowish object disappear (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Joliet, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2187 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8575 (D8EC42A8) Date: 11/27/1957 Description: A huge, brilliant, white domed disc-shaped object with a halo hovered low over Herefordshire, England at 9:30 p.m. It then flew off to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: November 13-30, p. 89, citing Flying Saucer Review Source ID: Johnson_7955 Source: Johnson ### Event 8576 (752F994F) Date: 11/27/1957 Description: Control tower operator on the ground saw a bright red glow (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yakima, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2189 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8577 (34E6A993) Date: 11/27/1957 Description: The director of an engineering firm and four of his staff members see five black, disc-shaped objects hovering in the French Alps for 8 minutes. The group performs a series of maneuvers, after which a parachute- shaped object emerges from one of them. Suddenly they all shoot away at supersonic speed toward the Swiss border. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 87 Source ID: Eberhart_3100 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8578 (08991FC9) Date: 11/27/1957 Description: Northwest pilots saw an object flying straight at about 4,800 knots (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2190 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8579 (B25B868C) Date: 11/28/1957 Description: 8:30 p.m. Regino Lacuesta is driving on the Hawaii Belt Road near Ninole, Hawaii, when his car engine begins missing. Suddenly he sees a bright flash of light 20 feet above the highway in front of him. The engine dies, the headlights go out, and the car rolls to a stop at the point where the light had been. Lacuesta feels numb and cannot move. Soon the headlights come on and the car starts up again, although it is in high gear and he has not touched the starter. He drives straight home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 49–51 Source ID: Eberhart_3101 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8580 (65FAC4D8) Date: 11/29/1957 Description: Two German expatriates, G. R. Miczaika and Eberhart W. Wahl, form Project Space Track in Building 1535 of the Geophysics Research Directorate at the Air Force Cambridge Research Center at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts. Its mission is to track and compute orbits for all artificial earth satellites and space probes, including US and Soviet payloads, booster rockets, and debris. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project Space Track](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FSpace%5FTrack)” Source ID: Eberhart_3103 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8581 (E9ACF01F) Date: 11/29/1957 Description: At 5:10 p.m. a small, 18 cm in diameter luminous ball circled very low over a road two miles north of Glencoe, Ontario. It then flew over a fence. It was seen by a single witness, a Mrs. Alderman, for approximately one minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: C. W. Fitch, APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_8029 Source: Johnson ### Event 8582 (D5146777) Date: 11/29/1957 Description: 2:30 a.m. Capt. Fred Sutton, skipper of the fishing trawler Ella Hewett, is 4 miles off Port Jack, Douglas, Isle of Man, when an orange ball of fire crosses the sky. As it passes over the hull of the small boat, the vessel grows luminous, with firefly-like sparks of luminescence everywhere. The fireball bursts like fireworks, seen by others on the island as well as Scotland. The crew notices that the white paint on the metal railings at the edge of the boat has disappeared, leaving only the red undercoating. At daybreak, however, the paintwork is perfectly normal again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Mysterious Island: The UFO Legacy of the Isle of Man,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_3102 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8583 (5D89ED2E) Date: 11/30/1957 Time: 2:11 PM Description: Witnesses: three U.S. Coast Guardsmen. One round object turned white, then gold, then separated into three parts and turned red. Sighting lasted 20 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_420 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8584 (971FC051) Date: 11/30/1957 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) FPS-6 Blip Travels 100 Miles in 20 Seconds (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571130](http://www.nicap.org/571130minot%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_2191 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8585 (878ECBC9) Date: 11/30/1957 Description: At 2:11 p.m. three U.S. Coast Guardsmen in New Orleans, Louisiana saw a round object turn white, then gold. It then separated into three parts and turned red. The sighting lasted 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5445; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_8068 Source: Johnson ### Event 8586 (C9676866) Date: 11/30/1957 Description: Round object turn white, then gold, then separate into 3 parts (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5445) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Orleans, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2192 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8587 (87EA2070) Date: 12/1957 Description: Several UFO sightings take place along the Finland-Russia border. A cigar-shaped object is seen by two Finnish farmers moving horizontally at a high altitude from west to east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 307–308](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/306/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3106 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8588 (BFAD9B39) Date: 12/1957 Description: Walter K. Buhler launches the Sociedade Brasiliera de Estudos sobre Discos Voadores in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It publishes the Boletim SBEDV through 1988. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Boletim SBEDV](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20001%20-%201957.pdf), no. 1 \(December 1957\) Source ID: Eberhart_3107 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8589 (235C0E84) Date: 12/1957 Time: night Description: Edmund Rucker was awakened by a roaring noise and saw a strange object land near his house. "Its windows were lighted, and I saw strange-looking heads there." An opening became visible and four creatures emerged. They had large heads, dome-like foreheads, and bulging eyeballs. They delivered a message to the witness in English, stating that they had philanthropic and scientific purposes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Jul., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: El Cajon, California Source ID: Magnonia_447 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8590 (88BEEBB4) Date: 12/1957 Description: Night. Edmund Rucker is awakened by a roaring noise in El Cajon, California, and watches a strange object land near his house. Its windows are lighted and he can see some strange-looking heads inside. An opening becomes visible, and four creatures emerge. They have large heads, dome-like foreheads, and bulging eyeballs. They deliver a message to Rucker in English, saying they have philanthropic and scientific purposes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-12-usa-elcajon.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-12-usa-elcajon.htm) July 28, 2007; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_3108 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8591 (C311FEC3) Date: 12/1957 Description: Photograph of alleged disc-shaped UFO. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Ocean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2193 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8592 (DED15E98) Date: 12/1957 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) is invited to appear on the CBS Armstrong Circle Theater anthology drama TV program hosted by [Douglas Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FEdwards) to talk about UFOs with [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) and [Clarence S. Chiles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22086850/clarence-shipe-chiles)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22086850/clarence-shipe-chiles) Others invited are [Edward J.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) and an Air Force representative. But Keyhoe finds out that it will not be a panel discussion but a scripted conversation, and he will only have 7 minutes. He is promised he will have final say over his part of the script, and he agrees. However, writer [Irve Tunick](https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/10/obituaries/irve-tunick-dies-at-75-led-tv-writers-group.html) cuts out critical portions of Keyhoe’s material \(including references to the Estimate of the Situation and the Robertson Panel\), saying it is too long. Ruppelt, Chiles, and Arnold soon withdraw from the program, expanding Keyhoe’s segment to 11 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 167–168 Source ID: Eberhart_3109 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8593 (A44AA842) Date: 12/1957 Description: National Intelligence Estimate \(NIE\) 11-10-57 predicts that the Soviets will “probably have a first operational capability with up to 10 prototype ICBMs” at “sometime during the period from mid-1958 to mid- 1959.” The numbers of the missile gap start to inflate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Missile gap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile%5Fgap)” Source ID: Eberhart_3104 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8594 (A17B3470) Date: 12/1957 Description: A classified Canadian Department of National Defence memorandum states that the “RCAF has no official policy concerning the subject” of UFOs and “there has never been a serious investigation of any report on file” at RCAF headquarters. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gregory M. Kanon, “[UFOs and the Canadian Government, Part One,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%203%20no%206%20-%201975.pdf)” no. 22 \(1975\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_3105 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8595 (17406043) Date: 12/1/1957 Description: Formation of oval UFOs photographed. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2194 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8596 (38009F41) Date: 12/1/1957 Description: 1:30 a.m. Swissair pilot [Walter Borner](http://www.pionnair-ge.com/spip1/spip.php?article127) is flying a DC-6B at 18,000 feet over Ras El-Kanayis, Egypt, when he sees a “giant, red, burning cylinder falling down vertically, leaving a yellowish trail.” It is possible that this is the reentry of the final stage of the rocket that launched Sputnik I. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Luis Schoenherr, “Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_3110 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8597 (6F372D9D) Date: 12/1/1957 Description: In 1957 at 6:00 a.m. a huge cigar-shaped object with 8 shimmering lights on its side moved slowly through the morning sky in Yokohama, Japan. Later that same day a US Air Force plane circled at a low altitude as a 1 meter in diameter disc hovered above it. The disc vanished in plain sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1957 (Volume 10), pp. 1,4 Source ID: Johnson_8102 Source: Johnson ### Event 8598 (CDD907E9) Date: 12/3/1957 Description: 2:30 p.m. [Z. Thad Fogl](https://rr0.org/people/f/FoglThad/), radio officer of the SS Ramsey, claims to have taken a photo of a saucer off the coast of San Pedro, California. The photo appears in Flying Saucer Review in 1959 and Life in 1966. However, in 1967 Fogl admits that he had faked the photo using parts of plastic airplane models. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Disc with Landing](http://www.nicap.org/5712XXcalifornia%5Fdir.htm) [Gear Photo / Fogl Case](http://www.nicap.org/5712XXcalifornia%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Radio Officer’s Amazing Story: UFO Snapped from Ship,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CJan-Feb%2CV%205%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1959\): 6–7; “[A Hoax Exposed,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1966\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_3111 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8599 (8FD64299) Date: 12/3/1957 Description: Truck motor "almost stopped, "caught again, as UFO sighted. Sighting confirmed by police (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ellensburg (near), WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2196 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8600 (64A9CDE2) Date: 12/3/1957 Description: Radio static as several UFOs seen over area (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cobalt, Ont, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2195 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8601 (DD18D1FB) Date: 12/3/1957 Description: In 1957 at 7 p.m. in Ellensburg, Washington a truck engine reportedly missed but did not stall in the presence of a UFO. Many residents of the Menastash Ridge area of Ellensburg saw a "strange ball of fire" for 20 minutes. A truck driver reported that the light hovered over his truck, causing the motor to cough and sputter. His engine did not stop completely, however, so he drove away. The night was misty, but the object was so bright that it lit up the sky as if it were daytime. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP investigation files, Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 85, citing Schopick Source ID: Johnson_8159 Source: Johnson ### Event 8602 (350E92C5) Date: 12/3/1957 Description: 7:00 p.m. Many residents of the Menastash Ridge area of Ellensburg, Washington, watch a “strange ball of fire” for 20 minutes. A truck driver sees the light hovering above his truck, causing the motor to cough and sputter. His engine does not stop completely, however, so he drives away. The night is misty, but the object is so bright that it lights up the sky as if it were daytime. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 51–52 Source ID: Eberhart_3112 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8603 (9EDBA6E4) Date: 12/4/1957 Description: Blue Book Capt. [George T. Gregory](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory) complains that as a result of pressure from the press and public, “Assistant Secretary of Defense requested that ATIC immediately submit a preliminary analysis to the press” of the Levelland, Texas, cases, even though he has “limited data.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 147](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/146/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3113 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8604 (910596D4) Date: 12/5/1957 Description: Morning. An unidentified beeping sound is picked up for three minutes on KBR Rural Public Power Radio in Ainsworth, Nebraska, operating at 72.3 AM. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unidentified Beeping Heard on KBR Power Radio on](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100167452/) [Thursday,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100167452/)” Ainsworth \(Neb.\) Star-Journal, December 12, 1957, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_3119 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8605 (48ED05F7) Date: 12/5/1957 Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk titled “Satellites and Saucers” Type: status report Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: Maj2_579 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8606 (32E3B32E) Date: 12/5/1957 Description: At 12:10 p.m. a spinning disc-shaped object was sighted flying south by two railroad men in Jackson, Mississippi. After five minutes there was a big flash on the horizon, and a fireball appeared there, then shrank. In Tulsa, Oklahoma a doctor and a second witness watched a circular object hover at 10:30 p.m. for five minutes, then shoot off to the northwest. It had a glowing front edge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, pp. 21-22 Source ID: Johnson_8196 Source: Johnson ### Event 8607 (D49A31CD) Date: 12/6/1957 Description: At around one o'clock in the afternoon a metallic looking object hovered low over the horizon in Salvador, Bahia state, Brazil. It split in half. One half descended while heading to the south, while the other half hovered in place. That same day in the Tumacacori National Monument in Arizona, a disc-shaped object with a dome maneuvered over the mountains for five minutes at 5:15 p.m. It had a red glowing bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, pp. 22 & 23 Source ID: Johnson_8230 Source: Johnson ### Event 8608 (FFD3377C) Date: 12/6/1957 Description: A letter written to contactee [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) on State Department stationery from R. E. Straith, Cultural Exchange Committee, is a hoax concocted by ufologists [Gray Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%5FBarker) and [James W. Moseley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FW.%5FMoseley). The letter informs Adamski that the State Department knows his claims are true and they encourage his activities. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James D. Villard, “[The ‘R. E. Straith’ Case,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20%28Max%20B%20Miller%29/Saucers%20vol%206%20no%204.pdf)” Saucers 6, no. 4 \(Winter 1958/1959\): 2–6; Clark III 44–45; Saucer Smear, January 10, 1985; Lou Zinsstag and Timothy Good, George Adamski: The Untold Story, Ceti, 1983, pp. 148–153; James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 124–127, 381–402; Marc Hallet, [A Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) [Spoke to the Space Brothers](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) The Author, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_3114 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8609 (6FF2FDAC) Date: 12/7/1957 Description: Two disc-shaped objects maneuvered and circled in the sky over Brisbane, California at 7:10 p.m. One flew off to the west, one flew south toward Moffett Field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_8256 Source: Johnson ### Event 8610 (071D2C81) Date: 12/7/1957 Description: 10:00 p.m. In western Victoria and eastern South Australia, witnesses see a moon-like object explode with a vivid flash. Unexpected blackouts are reported in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 87 Source ID: Eberhart_3115 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8611 (9467ADF6) Date: 12/8/1957 Description: Later that day in Svea, Minnesota at four o’clock in the afternoon, a ten-meter diameter red disc roared through the sky, flying at only six meters above the ground. It was seen by many witnesses at it lit up the ground, moved through some woods, and then climbed into the sky, shooting away toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clippings, December 12, 1957 Source ID: Johnson_8263 Source: Johnson ### Event 8612 (B37F2FAE) Date: 12/8/1957 Description: At the same time in Bonanza, Oregon two people claimed to have seen a luminous disc hovering over some hills at six kilometers altitude. It suddenly shot away toward the southwest at 800 kilometers per hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History: December 1957, p.26 Source ID: Johnson_8264 Source: Johnson ### Event 8613 (76AE6496) Date: 12/8/1957 Description: At 5:30 p.m. near Woodward, Oklahoma Mr. and Mrs. Martin were driving through some woods with their child and were nearing a hill when a domed, disc-shaped UFO flew nearby and temporarily took control of their car. The UFO was described as about 16 meters in diameter with portholes around the rim. The electrical system of their 1954 Dodge Coronet failed when the UFO approached. They felt a hot blast of air and heard a high pitched sound at the same time. The car restarted by itself when the UFO flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek investigation files; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 86 Source ID: Johnson_8265 Source: Johnson ### Event 8614 (77DFF4A5) Date: 12/8/1957 Description: At nine o’clock in the evening the engine and headlights of two cars traveling between Coulee City and Soap Lake, Washington died when a huge, fiery UFO flew overhead from north to south. Strangely, the dome lights came on inside both cars during the engine and headlight failures, even though they weren't turned on. The cars remained stalled until the object had passed out of sight. There were eight witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 75; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 87, citing Schopick Source ID: Johnson_8266 Source: Johnson ### Event 8615 (FCA7AEB7) Date: 12/8/1957 Description: 9:00 p.m. Eight people traveling together in two cars on Highway 17 between Coulee City and Soap Lake, Washington, see a huge, fiery object pass overhead from north to south. Both cars stall out and their headlights also fail as the UFO passes overhead. In addition, the inside dome lights come on, even though they aren’t turned on. The cars remain stalled until the object passes out of sight. Police say the object stalled as many as six cars along that sparsely traveled road. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 52–53 Source ID: Eberhart_3117 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8616 (505FC797) Date: 12/8/1957 Time: 1750 Description: Between Woodward and Seiling, 12 km from the latter, an unknown flying object allegedly took complete control of a car with three passengers. The driver, an employee of an aircraft company, had turned the heater, windshield wiper, and radio on. He was nearing a hill in this wooded area when a bright light appeared ahead. It reminded the witness of the light from a mercury lamp. As a crash seemed imminent, the car slowed down by itself and stopped, as if the entire electrical circuit had failed. Over the vehicle was a disk 16 m in diameter with portholes around the periphery, emitting a current of hot air and a high-pitched sound. It had a dome on top and bottom. It rose as the car started by itself. The car was a 1954 Dodge Coronet without automatic transmission. The witness spent four hours with two Kirtland AFB officers who told him of similar observations. The case was never reported to Blue Book. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Woodward, Oklahoma Source ID: Magnonia_448 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8617 (83DF0C89) Date: 12/8/1957 Description: Automobiles stalled, headlights flickered and went out, as large fiery object passed overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coulee City (near), WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2197 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8618 (971984E9) Date: 12/8/1957 Description: At 5:15 p.m. three U.S. military witnesses in Morocco, driving in the desert between Tiflet and Monor, sighted an elongated aerial object. It ascended into the sky, descended, then made a second ascent. Large and distant, the object shot off toward the south. This case is listed in the Project Blue Book files as case number 61 for the month of December, but is considered "explained" by the US Air Force as contrails. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics Source ID: Johnson_8262 Source: Johnson ### Event 8619 (6A070E30) Date: 12/8/1957 Description: 5:30 p.m. A disc-shaped UFO with a dome and three pads on the underside suddenly comes toward a car with three passengers at Woodward, Oklahoma. The car heater, wipers, and radio fail and finally the car stalls out as the UFO hovers overhead at 200 feet. It emits a high-pitched whining sound. It is over 50 feet in diameter and has portholes. The whine increases in pitch after about two minutes, and the UFO rises vertically out of sight. The headlights come on and the engine of the car starts by itself. The driver spends 4 hours with two officers from Kirtland AFB in New Mexico who tell him of similar observations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 267–268](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/266/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3116 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8620 (C08FE2E8) Date: 12/10/1957 Description: In 1957, a pilot reported seeing three luminous objects cross the sky at 20,000 feet altitude in Bogotá, Colombia. At 1:00 p.m. in Jabuticabal, Brazil a four-meter long "watermelon" landed in a field, only 20 meters from a farmer. The grass was crushed at the landing site. In Barra do Pirai, Brazil at 10 p.m., a 10-meter wide luminous disc descended low over a roadway. When a truck turned on its headlights it shot away extremely fast. At 8:45 p.m. three crewmembers of a Mexicana Airline flight reported witnessing a round UFO emitting rays of light near Lagos, Mexico in the state of Queretaro. It departed by shooting straight up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30; Loren Gross, UFOs A History. 1957 (Volume 10), pp. 34-36 Source ID: Johnson_8298 Source: Johnson ### Event 8621 (ED16BD51) Date: 12/10/1957 Description: At 6:00 p.m. a glowing white cigar-shaped object with a red trail, estimated to be 100 meters long, was sighted from the Boso Peninsula in Japan. It shot off to the south at 1,100 km/h. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January 1958 Source ID: Johnson_8297 Source: Johnson ### Event 8622 (6AD19797) Date: 12/11/1957 Description: Mary Louise Tobin, a schoolteacher, was driving on State Highway 1 when she saw an object that she compared to the rising sun, in the vicinity of a smoking car. The driver, an elderly lady, came out with a child who seemed to have suffered burns. The unknown object went away: The disabled car did not catch on fire. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Jul., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chestnut, Louisiana Source ID: Magnonia_449 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8623 (F64070E2) Date: 12/11/1957 Description: (McDonald list) FPS-10 Picks Up Target Large As Three B-47's (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571211](http://www.nicap.org/571211lakecity%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake City AFS, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2200 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8624 (E81F4698) Date: 12/11/1957 Description: An orange circular or crescent-shaped object moved erratically through the sky over Lockbourne AFB, Ohio. It was sighted by the crew of a U.S. Air Force F-86 from the 87th FIS and tracked by ground radar moving at a speed of Mach 1.5. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_8338 Source: Johnson ### Event 8625 (48828FCC) Date: 12/11/1957 Time: 1600 Description: Many cars stopped to observe a silent, reddish, glowing disk, about 15 m in diameter, which flew 6 m above the ground at about 80 km/h. A small, windowless cabin was visible on the underside of the object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Jul., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ellsworth, Wisconsin Source ID: Magnonia_450 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8626 (D7797EFA) Date: 12/11/1957 Description: USAF pilots saw orange circular or crescent-shaped object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [571211](http://www.nicap.org/571211guthriedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Guthrie, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2198 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8627 (BC655E2A) Date: 12/11/1957 Description: Night. Mexican pilot Gilberto Castillo del Valle is flying at 10,000 feet near Mexico City when a brilliant light illuminates his cockpit. He turns off the aircraft lights and sees a large luminous object darting from left to right and back again ahead of him. Passengers and crew also see the light, as do personnel at the Mexico City control tower. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs; The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 88 Source ID: Eberhart_3118 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8628 (C932FD4B) Date: 12/12/1957 Description: Trans-Canada Airlines pilot, many police, saw orange oval UFO curving rapidly at low altitude. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chatham, Windsor area, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2203 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8629 (2E4D2FE6) Date: 12/12/1957 Description: 5:45 p.m. At least 13 witnesses see a bright light over the Sea of Japan. The object is tracked on radar and seen through binoculars. At 7:22 p.m., a scramble is ordered and two F-86D’s take off from Misawa Air Base, Japan. Multiple radar and visual sightings take place over the next three days. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Jets Scrambled](http://www.nicap.org/571212misawa%5Fdir.htm) [after Radar/Visual UFO](http://www.nicap.org/571212misawa%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 261 Source ID: Eberhart_3121 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8630 (313D7FA0) Date: 12/12/1957 Description: A USAF pilot attains 1,208 mph in a McDonnell F-101A Voodoo at Edwards AFB, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[McDonnell F-101 Voodoo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell%5FF-101%5FVoodoo)” Source ID: Eberhart_3120 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8631 (0819BF5C) Date: 12/12/1957 End date: 12/15/1957 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Jets Scrambled After Radar/Visual UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571212-15](http://www.nicap.org/571212misawa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Misawa Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2201 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8632 (96C48F3B) Date: 12/12/1957 Description: Tokyo, Japan, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tokyo, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2202 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8633 (8CDD4809) Date: 12/13/1957 Time: 9:35 AM Description: Witness: R.C. Cano. Fourteen-fifteen circular, tapered discs, very bright, flew in a formation like a stack of coins, then changed to an inverted-V formation. Sighting lasted 20 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Col Anahuac, Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_421 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8634 (31A8B23E) Date: 12/13/1957 Description: 14-15 \[or 30\] circular, tapered discs, very bright, fly in a formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5545) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Col Anahuac, Mexico Source ID: NICAP_DB_2204 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8635 (ED3B3B21) Date: 12/14/1957 Description: Night. Ed Waslashi sees a lighted green object fall into a haystack on his farm at Langdon, North Dakota. He picks out a strange metallic substance from the ashes of the burned hay. The material finds its way to geologist [Nicholas N. Kohanowski](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21539755/nicholas-n-kohanowski) at the University of North Dakota, who finds that it is light, porous, and mostly magnesium dioxide. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[What Is It?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100146678/)” Winona \(Minn.\) Daily News, December 17, 1957, p 1; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 87 Source ID: Eberhart_3122 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8636 (BE0F84B9) Date: 12/15/1957 Description: A UFO photograph was taken in Misawa, Japan and sent to the US Air Force Project Blue Book. Project Blue Book did not provide an evaluation of the photo. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, December 1957, case 89 Source ID: Johnson_8407 Source: Johnson ### Event 8637 (820CED66) Date: 12/15/1957 Description: 1:00–2:00 a.m. Three young men see a huge light in the sky at Almind, Denmark. It is oval-shaped, emits red or orange rays, and appears to be descending. They watch it for 18–19 minutes as it hovers at a 10° angle and quivers. Suddenly it becomes still and from its center emerge two small objects that drift away in a northerly direction and soon disappear. The large object lies on its side and quivers some more. Later it ascends and a fan-shaped tail of light spreads after it. The UFO is seen later along the coast and photographed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf) [Saucer Reports Pour in from Denmark,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 2; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 25 Source ID: Eberhart_3123 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8638 (AE24F3A0) Date: 12/16/1957 Description: Elliptical UFO with "portholes." \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Old Saybrook, CN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2205 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8639 (886FDCE1) Date: 12/16/1957 Description: Mrs. Mary M. Starr, a long-term resident of Old Saybrook, Connecticut and a graduate of Yale University with two degrees, was in the habit of spending all but two or three winter months in a two story beach house situated only a few hundred feet from Long Island Sound. At the beginning and end of the tourist season her home is the only building occupied in the vicinity, and marshy ground surrounds her property on three sides. On this night Mrs. Starr was awakened from a sound sleep sometime between two three a.m. by bright lights passing her bedroom window, which faces north. She looked out her east window and saw a fuselage-shaped craft coming to a stop just 10 feet from the hourse. It was 20 to 30 feet long, dark gray or black, with brightly lit square windows. The object hovered motionless, just five feet above the ground. It had no wings, fins, or other external structure.

Behind the lighted windows were two humanoid forms that passed each other, walking in opposite directions. They appeared to be wearing yellow jackets, and each had his right hand raised. She thought at first they might be stewards, carrying trays, except that their heads were unusual. They were square or rectangular and a reddish orange in color. Their feet were out of view below the portholes. Then a third man entered from the left, and Mrs. Starr leaned forward to try to see his face more clearly. As she did so the portholes faded and the entire object began to glow with scintillating brilliance. Immediately, there rose from the nearer end a kind of antenna, about six inches long. It oscillated and sparkled. For almost five minutes the glow and the sparking continued, then the antenna lowered and the object began to move to the right, back in the direction from which it had come. It made a very sharp right-angle turn. Mrs. Starr thought it would hit her blue spruce but it did not. It had by now turned a dull bluish gray again, and instead of portholes small circular lights outlined the entire rim. It's shape now appeared to be oval, and as it dipped or "undulated" to follow the contour of a shallow depression just beyond the garden, she saw that it was very shallow in depth. Over the marsh it tilted steeply and shot up into the sky at the speed of a jet taking off, but in complete silence.

Except for the figures, she had seen nothing inside the object. The men could not have been more than four feet tall at the most, given the size of the object as determined by occlusion of nearby objects. The U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book recorded the case as "little men in cigar." Project Blue Book filed a newspaper article on the case, but did not investigate. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Civilian Saucer Intelligence Newsletter, July 15, 1959; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 451; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 77 Source ID: Johnson_8441 Source: Johnson ### Event 8640 (F16CEF52) Date: 12/16/1957 Description: Later that same night at around 8:45 p.m. an aluminum colored, disc-shaped UFO followed a train near Chrockatt de Sa in Minas Gerais State, Brazil for ten minutes, maneuvering back and forth from side to side of the train. It had a bright orange light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_8442 Source: Johnson ### Event 8641 (E1C7BC2F) Date: 12/16/1957 Description: Between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. Mary M. Starr, a resident of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, and a former teacher with a master’s degree from Yale, is awakened by a bright light in her room. A cigar-shaped object, brightly lit and with square portholes, hovers just above her clothesline. She can see men inside. The object is approximately 20–30 feet long and dark gray or black in color, hovering motionless about 5 feet above the ground. Through its lighted windows Starr sees two figures that pass each other, walking in opposite directions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore, eds, UFOs: A New Look, NICAP, 1969, [pp. 27–28](http://www.nicap.org/newlook/section%5FVII.htm); Clark III 269 Source ID: Eberhart_3124 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8642 (8B075ED6) Date: 12/17/1957 Time: 7:20 PM Description: Witness: F.G. Hickman, 17. One round object changed from yellow to white to green to red; red tail was twice as long as the body. It stopped, started, backed up for 45 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: near Grand Junction, Colorado Source ID: BerlinerBBU_422 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8643 (8A90D573) Date: 12/17/1957 Description: The US conducts its first successful launch of an SM-65A Atlas missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[SM-65A Atlas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-65A%5FAtlas)” Source ID: Eberhart_3126 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8644 (CC931162) Date: 12/17/1957 Description: Skandinavisk UFO Information is founded in Denmark by [Hans-Christian Petersen](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/p/1237-petersen-hans-christian-1923) under the name Sydjysk UFO Information. It publishes the journal UFO-Nyt from 1958 to 2010. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Skandinavisk UFO](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandinavisk%5FUFO%5FInformation) [Information](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandinavisk%5FUFO%5FInformation)” Source ID: Eberhart_3125 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8645 (B424A4FA) Date: 12/17/1957 Description: Round object change from yellow to white to green to red (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5559) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fruita-Grand Junction, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2206 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8646 (CC683FDA) Date: 12/18/1957 Time: night Description: Mary Stan was awakened by a brilliant light and saw through her east window the fuselage of a craft that hovered in midair. Aboard were two men, each with his right hand raised, wearing yellowish jackets. A third man joined the first two, then all lights went off inside the craft while it glowed like brass. A spinning antennalike device was noted. A few minutes later it flew off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 60,3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Old Saybrook, Connecticut Source ID: Magnonia_451 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8647 (C2B94DA7) Date: 12/18/1957 Description: Luis E. Corrales of Caracas, Venezuela, finds an odd luminous streak on a photographic plate recording the passage of [Sputnik 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F2)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F2) It is a luminous trail running parallel to the satellite’s trail, then veering away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1998, p. 57 Source ID: Eberhart_3127 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8648 (CA79A886) Date: 12/18/1957 Description: A huge flying saucer flew over Oacoma, South Dakota at 5:40 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Max Miller, Saucers, March 1958; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5385 Source ID: Johnson_8487 Source: Johnson ### Event 8649 (DCE8A219) Date: 12/18/1957 Description: A white light source glided overhead in Sarasota, Florida. There were many witnesses and TV interference was noted at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, pp. 75, 147; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1967, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_8488 Source: Johnson ### Event 8650 (C4DEADD7) Date: 12/18/1957 Description: White light source glided overhead, TV interference noted (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sarasota, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2207 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8651 (27905182) Date: 12/19/1957 Description: Red Egg-Shaped Object Also Tracked On Radar / 5 Photos Taken (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [571219](http://www.nicap.org/571219pepperrellafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2208 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8652 (8E10113A) Date: 12/21/1957 Description: 6:30 p.m. Yvonne Torres de Mendonça, her three small children, and a servant are traveling in a jeep driven by her mechanic, Marcio Gonçalves, towards Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, along the Paraguayan border. They see a large ball of light about the size of the full moon that starts moving toward them, and they realize that it is two lights flying silently side by side. The lights straddle the road, oscillating from one side to the other in a strange wobbling motion and spinning on their axes. One of them stops in mid-air and dives toward the ground in a falling-leaf motion 60 feet ahead of them, while the other maneuvers in circles around the jeep. The lights are spherical and encircled by a Saturn-like ring at the center. The upper hemisphere and rim are fiery red, while the lower hemisphere is silvery white. The two objects follow the jeep for 2 hours, all the way to town, maneuvering intelligently around them, especially when the jeep stops twice to evaluate the objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Olavo T. Fontes, [“Shadow of the Unknown, Part II: UAOs Chase Cars,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, pp. 3–6; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 148–150; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Dec.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1957-Dec.pdf), The Author, 1998, pp. 60–63; Clark III 245–246 Source ID: Eberhart_3128 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8653 (7DB32575) Date: 12/21/1957 Description: Before this sighting was over, the object, which ultimately chased a jeep load of people for approximately 30 minutes, had made a couple of landings. On the last of these landings, before leaving the area, the object left an odd, luminous haze floating in the air where the object had hovered. The observers stayed and watched the material slowly dissolve in the faint, warm wind blowing from the North. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Trace Cases](https://www.thenightskyii.org/trace.html) Location: Ponta Poran, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_3 Source: Trace ### Event 8654 (0CCD933B) Date: 12/21/1957 Description: In 1957 in Bryson City, North Carolina a 20-meter-long cigar-shaped object flew slowly to the east, then circled the valley at around nine o’clock in the evening. It had a very distinct outline. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History, 1957: December, p. 63 Source ID: Johnson_8546 Source: Johnson ### Event 8655 (D8891A9F) Date: 12/21/1957 Description: At 6:30 p.m. Mrs. Mendonca and five other persons in Ponta Poran, Brazil saw a light in the southern sky, which later appeared as two spherical objects coming closer to them on an oscillating course. One of the UFOs hovered close to their car while the other circled. They were shaped like a sphere surrounded by a flat ring, and chased the car for two hours over the deserted road. The estimated diameter of each was five meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 452 Source ID: Johnson_8547 Source: Johnson ### Event 8656 (906C8285) Date: 12/21/1957 Time: 1830 Description: Mrs. Mendonca and five other persons saw a light in the south, which later appeared as two spherical objects coming closer to the witnesses on an oscillating course. One of them hovered close to the car while the other circled. They were shaped like a sphere surrounded by a flat ring, and chased the car for two hours over the deserted road. Estimated diameter: 5 m. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Mar., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ponte Poran, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_452 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8657 (F234AEFB) Date: 12/23/1957 Description: Projectile Sighted From RB-47/ Tracked By Air & Ground Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [571223](http://www.nicap.org/571223seaofjapan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sea of Japan, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2209 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8658 (9DCA14C9) Date: 12/26/1957 Description: At 8:40 p.m. an amateur astronomer sighted a neon-colored, glowing ovoid object over Sheffield, Alabama. The object was first seen flying to the northwest. It turned to the west, W, circled overhead, then shot off toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, p. 69 Source ID: Johnson_8612 Source: Johnson ### Event 8659 (24717201) Date: 12/28/1957 Description: Japanese science fiction movie “The Mysterians” is released Type: movie Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterians) Location: Japan Source ID: Maj2_580 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8660 (1FE17AB5) Date: 12/30/1957 Description: Night. George Chowanski is cutting wood at his home in Schooley’s Mountain, New Jersey, when his two dogs begin to bark and howl. He hears a whirring noise like an electric shaver that persists for one minute. Then he sees a saucer-shaped object, 5 feet high and 15 feet wide, hovering about 2 feet above the ground in a grove of trees 100 feet from the back porch. Three individuals come out of the craft and walk about in the clearing. One of them bends over to pick something up and carries something heavy back to the object. After 2–3 minutes, it slowly rises, spiraling through the tall trees, and flies off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 88–89 Source ID: Eberhart_3129 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8661 (6487E52B) Date: 12/30/1957 Time: night Description: George Chowanski, an auto mechanic was alerted by the barking of his dog and heard a whirring sound similar to that of an electric shaver. A lighted object was observed by Chowanski and his wife as it came within 60 cm of the ground. Two figures came out of the bottom of the object, walked around a clearing, and one picked up something before returning to the craft, which then took off. Total duration: 2 min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Oct., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Drakestown, New Jersey Source ID: Magnonia_453 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8662 (605EBA0B) Date: 12/30/1957 Description: On this night George Chowanski, an auto mechanic living in Drakestown, New Jersey was alerted by the barking of his dog and heard a whirring sound similar to that of an electric shaver. A lighted object was observed by Mr. Chowanski and his wife as it came to within 60 cm of the ground. Two figures got out of the bottom of the object, walked around a clearing, and one of them picked up something before returning to the craft, which then took off. The encounter lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 453; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_8652 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1958 (Back to Top) ### Event 8663 (5D4EA4F4) Date: 1958 Description: Dewline radar, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Location unknown, unknown Source ID: NICAP_DB_2211 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8664 (3E8C2443) Date: 1958 Description: Night. A sergeant in charge of a fire truck crash crew at an air base in South Korea is positioned near the runway awaiting an emergency landing by an American jet fighter low on fuel. The men see a bright light approaching from across the Yellow Sea. It grows bigger and, within several hundred yards of the shore, stops and hovers. The control tower operators, watching the object through binoculars, do not know what it is. Suddenly the object shines a beam of light straight down on the water. It soon goes out, but the water remains luminescent for a while before fading out. The object again shines a light on the water and turns it off a minute or so later. By this time, the jet that is low on fuel is landing. A second jet is asked to check out the object, which instantly shoots back toward China and disappears in seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil—Where Next?, Horus House, 1996, online ed., [p. 164](https://archive.org/details/UFODangerZoneBobPrattHowTheyStealOurBloodAndMayKillPeoplePreIceAgeUfoOccupantsAn/page/n163/mode/2up); Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_3134 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8665 (2282FFBD) Date: 1958 End date: 1959 Description: USAF issues "Fact Sheets" - issued approximately semiannually. Type: historical event Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_885 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8666 (36FAF325) Date: 1958 Description: [Trevor James Constable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%5FJames%5FConstable) writes They Live in the Sky, which explains UFOs as etheric \(good\) and astral \(bad\) entities that are engaged in a battle for control of earthly minds. He bases this on his analysis of occult texts and channeled communications from cosmic informant Ashtar. The astral entities are based inside the earth, but they can leave it through an opening in the South Pole and fly 125,000 miles into space. Only the atomic bomb can penetrate the astral realm, which is why astrals disguised as benevolent Space Brothers argue fervently for nuclear disarmament. The men in black are reincarnated versions of [Richard Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver)‘s deros. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Trevor James \[Constable\]. They Live in the Sky, New Age, 1958; Trevor James \[Constable\], “[Scientists, Contactees, and Equilibrium,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1960%2CJan-Feb%2CV%206%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1960\): 19–21; Clark III 1102 Source ID: Eberhart_3133 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8667 (FFF2DA05) Date: 1958 Description: Project Orion, an effort to build a nuclear-powered spacecraft, begins at a maximum-security facility in Area 25 of the Nevada Test Site. Led by [Ted Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FTaylor%5F%28physicist%29) of General Atomics and physicist [Freeman Dyson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman%5FDyson), its initial focus is to send astronauts to Mars and back. The spaceship would be 16 stories tall and piloted by 150 men. Soon ARPA and the Air Force take over the project and redesign it for a space-based battleship that could launch nuclear missiles from space. But no one builds Orion and it is effectively disbanded by the 1963 nuclear test ban. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project Orion \(nuclear propulsion\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FOrion%5F%28nuclear%5Fpropulsion%29)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 304–305](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/304/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3131 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8668 (BDF1710C) Date: 1958 Description: Huge Cigar Observed With "Entities" (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [58XXXX](http://www.nicap.org/58XXXXacc%5Ffdr%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carribean near Cuba, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2213 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8669 (940D6968) Date: 1958 Description: AF Base, SW United States, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unnamed AF Base, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_2212 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8670 (8C1C2833) Date: 1958 Description: The Atomic Energy Commission puts a barbed wire fence around Area 13 at the Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada, where the Project 57 “dirty bomb” had been detonated in April 1957, with signs indicating “do not enter / nuclear material.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 297](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/296/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3130 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8671 (791E415B) Date: 1958 Description: French ufologist [Aimé Michel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9%5FMichel) publishes Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, an examination of the UFO wave of September–October 1954 in France. The book’s preface is written by Gen. [Lionel-Max Chassin](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel-Max%5FChassin)[,](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel-Max%5FChassin) in which he expresses his opinion that UFOs are genuinely mysterious \(“That strange things have been seen is now beyond question, and the ‘psychological’ explanations seem to have misfired”\). Michel contends that each day’s sightings, when plotted on a map, occur along straight-line paths, even though different objects seem to figure in each sighting. The alignments, which he calls “orthotenic lines,” do not necessarily correspond to a trajectory. However, [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) later concludes that the alignments can be explained by chance alone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, Criterion, 1958; “[An Evaluation of Aimé Michel’s Study of the](http://www.nicap.org/books/coufo/partII/chIX.htm) [Straight Line Mystery,](http://www.nicap.org/books/coufo/partII/chIX.htm)” in C. A. Maney and Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, NICAP, 1961, pp. 90–98; Jacques Vallee and Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Regnery, 1966, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/challengetoscien00vall/page/57/mode/2up) [57–82](https://archive.org/details/challengetoscien00vall/page/57/mode/2up); Don Johnson, “New Lines in UFO Research: Orthoteny Revisited,” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 18–19, 32; Claude Maugé, “Orthoteny: Lost Cause, or a Redeemed One?” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 24–28; Clark III 747, 858–860 Source ID: Eberhart_3132 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8672 (652553AB) Date: Late 1950's Description: The Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) was disestablished and all records were transferred to the Air Force. Type: historical event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p55) See also: 5/16/84 Source ID: Maj2_427 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8673 (A59A9E10) Date: 1958 Description: DoD kills “Project Horizon”, a military colony on the moon program Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Horizon) Reference: Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso's Manuscript Location: Washington, DC Source ID: Maj2_581 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8674 (5B562D16) Date: 1/1958 Description: Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas, asks for [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s permission to use The Flying Saucer Conspiracy to develop a script for closed-circuit broadcast at the base. Keyhoe agrees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 218 Source ID: Eberhart_3136 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8675 (FF218535) Date: 1/1958 Description: The US Senate Committee on Government Operations asks to meet with representatives from the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Legislative Action to discuss the possibility of holding open hearings on the Air Force UFO program. USAF fears “uncontrolled publicity,” but agrees to go along with it. Soon, however, [Richard E.](http://www.astronautix.com/h/horner.html) [Horner](http://www.astronautix.com/h/horner.html), USAF assistant secretary for research and development, persuades the committee’s chief counsel, Donald O’Donnell, that hearings are “not in the best interest of the air force,” nor necessary for national security. Horner says Project Blue Book has things well in hand, and he tells Sen. [Barry Goldwater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%5FGoldwater) \(R-Ariz.\) that allegations about the Air Force withholding information are “entirely in error.” People who report UFOs simply want confidentiality, and the Air Force respects that. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 140–](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/140/mode/2up) [141](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/140/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/140/mode/2up) [144](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/144/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3135 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8676 (697965DF) Date: 1/1958 Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman is driving along the New York State Thruway near Niagara Falls, New York, when she sees an illuminated 50-foot pole in the center parkway ahead. It seems to be retracting and getting shorter. As she closes in on it, her engine stops and the headlights go out. The pole is attached to a saucer-shaped object, and she sees shadowy figures floating around it. The UFO rises and moves away, and she starts the car again. An area of snow a foot in diameter has melted dry where the pole has been. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(Mar. 2008\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_3137 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8677 (50F6513A) Date: 1/1958 Time: 0130 Description: A lady who was driving on the New York State Thruway during a snow storm saw a large shape with a tall, luminous pole on the side of the road. Her car stalled, and the lights went off. Two figures, looking like animals or huge insects were observed near the pole. They soon disappared, and the object took off spinning. The witness was then able to start her car. She noted that the snow at the site had been melted and the grass was warm. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Binder; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Depew, New York Source ID: Magnonia_454 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8678 (948B10E4) Date: 1/1/1958 Description: A photograph of a brilliant light making a ninety-degree turn and then shooting away was taken at Trindade Island in the Atlantic Ocean at 7:70 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 172 Source ID: Johnson_4 Source: Johnson ### Event 8679 (019B8A76) Date: 1/3/1958 Description: Cliff DeLacey, a 23-year-old college student from Vallejo, California, shoots 90 seconds of film of UFOs at Diamond Head, Hawaii. DeLacey sees nine UFOs flashing across the sky and immediately grabs his camera. He is careful enough to shoot the tops of nearby trees, allowing a reference to the height and relative speed of the unknown objects. The objects appear to be about 3–4 miles away from the camera, flying at an altitude of 7,000– 8,000 feet, and moving at a speed slightly greater than that of a jet. The silvery globules appear to be no more than 20 feet in diameter. They are spherical, and no tail fins or protrusions of any kind are visible. The film, in color, is said to be clear and to show at least two of the nine UFOs in considerable detail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[‘Genuine Flying](http://www.nicap.org/580103diamond-head%5Fdir.htm) [Saucer…Caught on Movie Film’](http://www.nicap.org/580103diamond-head%5Fdir.htm)”; Max B. Miller and Norman S. Kossuth, “[How to Film Unidentified Flying](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20%28Max%20B%20Miller%29/Saucers%20vol%206%20no%203.pdf) [Objects,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20%28Max%20B%20Miller%29/Saucers%20vol%206%20no%203.pdf)” Saucers 6, no. 3 \(Autumn 1958\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_3138 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8680 (49DADE2A) Date: 1/3/1958 Description: Group of round UFOs reportedly photographed. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2214 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8681 (FD260DB8) Date: 1/3/1958 Description: At 4 o'clock in the afternoon a nuclear physics college student, Mr. Delacy, shot 90 seconds of 8 mm movie film of nine silver globes over Diamond Head on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_51 Source: Johnson ### Event 8682 (4AF419D0) Date: 1/3/1958 Description: Fensterstock. (Hynek UFO Rpt p.43; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Old Westbury, Long Island, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2215 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8683 (2814895E) Date: 1/4/1958 Description: A woodcutter in Stavanger, Norway saw a UFO land in a forest at 2:30 in the afternoon. A very tall man with a tan face got out. The being wore a helmet as part of his uniform. After a few minutes he got back in the craft, and it took off without making any noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 455 Source ID: Johnson_83 Source: Johnson ### Event 8684 (558B06C0) Date: 1/4/1958 Description: Sputnik deorbits Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: Maj2_582 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8685 (28B0471A) Date: 1/4/1958 Description: Military aircraft pilot saw a bright orange light streaking across the sky (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [580104](http://www.nicap.org/580104libyadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: SW Libya, Libya Source ID: NICAP_DB_2216 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8686 (0F45910A) Date: 1/4/1958 Description: A woodcutter reported that he saw an object land, and a very tall man with a tanned face, wearing a helmet, stepped from the machine. He went back in after a few minutes; the craft took off "with a noise like a flock of birds." Air Force officers and policemen searched the snowcovered hill for traces. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 58, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Stavanger, Norway Source ID: Magnonia_455 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8687 (C63193A2) Date: 1/5/1958 Description: At around 4 p.m. a silver gray disc followed two witnesses in their car along the side of road in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa at low altitude. It then abruptly shot off into the sky. Later that same evening in Beachwood, Ohio three nocturnal lights traced a perfect triangular path in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Cynthia Hind, UFO AfriNews, July 1992; (2) Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 15; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 38; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 90 Source ID: Johnson_114 Source: Johnson ### Event 8688 (BE3E5F05) Date: 1/7/1958 Description: At 2:15 p.m. two human looking figures again appeared to Mrs. Appleton in Aston, Warwickshire, England and spoke to her in a mechanical form of English. Their message stated that "our images are projections." Her first encounter occurred the previous November 18th, when a man appeared next to her fireplace while a whistling sound was audible. He was tall and fair, wore a tight fitting plastic garment, and seemed to communicate with her through telepathy. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 456, citing Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 4; Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 87 Source ID: Johnson_180 Source: Johnson ### Event 8689 (1AF0CF58) Date: 1/7/1958 Description: Two figures again appeared to Mrs. Appleton and spoke to her in English (see Case 443). Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Aston, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_456 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8690 (C8F34F28) Date: 1/9/1958 Description: Oval UFO photographed. \[UFOE,VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [580109](http://www.nicap.org/fotocat/580209stump%5Folmos.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Troy, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2220 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8691 (316037DA) Date: 1/9/1958 Description: Three reports of seven red lighted objects in straight line formation. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marion, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2219 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8692 (83A0B609) Date: 1/9/1958 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Uncorrelated Targets on Gnd radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580109](http://www.nicap.org/580109biggs%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Paso (Biggs AFB), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2218 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8693 (9BAC41A0) Date: 1/10/1958 Description: Day. Capt. Chrysólogo Rocha is sitting with his wife on the porch of a house in Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil, overlooking the South Atlantic. He is trying to focus with his binoculars on what appears to be a small island. When he does get focused, he realizes the island is getting bigger and is in two parts, both a clear, gray color. One part is in the sea, while the other seems suspended above it. Without warning, both parts suddenly sink out of sight. Shortly afterwards, a steamer comes into view, on a course that will take it very close to the object. About 15 minutes later, when the ship is out of sight, the object again rises slowly out of the sea. He now sees clearly that the two parts are joined by several narrow upright shafts or tubes that are bright and visible to the naked eye. These shafts, “like beads on a necklace” pass in a “disorderly and simultaneous movement.” Shortly afterwards the two parts of the object close up again, and it disappears below the waves. Probably an inferior mirage of an island in combination with a towering effect. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles Bowen, “[A South American Trio,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CJan-Feb%2CV%2011%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1965\): 20–21; Wim van Utrecht, “[A UFO Dives in and Out of the Ocean,](https://www.caelestia.be/curitiba.html)” Caelestia Source ID: Eberhart_3139 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8694 (29C61D55) Date: 1/11/1958 Description: P2V-5F Encounters 3 Lights Tracked at 1,000 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580111](http://www.nicap.org/580111beringseadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atka Island, Aleutian Islands, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2221 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8695 (DCE16B40) Date: 1/11/1958 Description: At 7:30 a.m. a U.S. Navy P2V-5F with a crew of four flying north of Adak Island, Alaska sighted a formation of three lights flying at 900 knots and picked them up on radar. The radar targets then merged into a single blip.The sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: January-February, p. 19; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_250 Source: Johnson ### Event 8696 (1E54F24A) Date: 1/12/1958 Description: Pilot saw a greenish-blue object emitting a bright flash (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wake Island (W of), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2228 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8697 (045289C0) Date: 1/13/1958 Description: 11:45 p.m. Brian Crittenden sees a dome-shaped light with a long narrow light underneath coming directly towards him as he is leaving a friend’s house southwest of Casino, New South Wales, Australia. He jumps into his car and heads home. The UFO chases his car along Benns Road, practically touching the telephone poles. His car radio develops interference when the UFO approaches him. It follows him all the way to town, 7 miles away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 81; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf) [February](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf) The Author, 1998, p. 21 Source ID: Eberhart_3140 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8698 (FC80812A) Date: 1/13/1958 Time: 2345 Description: Brian Crittendon, 21, was chased by a dome-shaped object that emitted a narrow light beam toward the ground. He was so frightened that he drove home on a half-flat tire, followed for 5 km by the object, which was about 50 m away and 10 m above ground. It overtook his car at a speed exceeding 100 km/h. Radio interference was noted, but no noise. Type: ufo sighting Reference: UFO Bulletin Mar., 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Farm Hill, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_457 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8699 (2270800D) Date: 1/13/1958 Description: Interference on car radio as UFO followed car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Casino, N.S.W, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2222 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8700 (6CA8123C) Date: 1/13/1958 Description: At 6:30 p.m. in Casino, New South Wales, Australia Brian Crittendon, age 21, was chased by a dome-shaped object that emitted a narrow light beam toward the ground. He was so frightened that he drove home on a flat tire, followed for five kilometers by the object, which was about 50 meters away from him and 10 meters above ground. It overtook his car at a speed in excess of 100 km/h. Radio interference was noted but the UFO made no noise. There was an independent witness to the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs in the Southern Hemisphere, p. 49; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 457; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 89 Source ID: Johnson_293 Source: Johnson ### Event 8701 (D1B53877) Date: 1/14/1958 Description: Military Aircraft Crew Encounters 3 Lights Tracked at 400 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [580114](http://www.nicap.org/580114beringseadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bering Sea, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2223 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8702 (3D0876B3) Date: 1/16/1958 Description: Trindade Island Photo (E-M, Radar, AR) Case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580116](http://www.nicap.org/580116trindade%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Trindade Island (NE of), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2225 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8703 (DD9D3B98) Date: 1/16/1958 Description: At 2:30 a.m. a doctor in Villa Velha in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo and three others witnessed a large silent metallic Saturn-shaped UFO hovering offshore. It directed a beam of light downward into the ocean. Later than same day a famous set of photographs of a Saturn-shaped UFO was taken at 12:15 p.m. from a Brazilian Navy ship participating in the International Geophysical Year explorations, and anchored at Trindade Island in the Atlantic Ocean. Sr. Barauna, the ship’s photographer took the photographs, but over 100 witnesses aboard ship witnessed the maneuvering UFO. The four photos are somewhat over exposed, but show the object reversing direction and flying back over a craggy mountaintop. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History -1958: January-February, p. 23; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 164 Source ID: Johnson_347 Source: Johnson ### Event 8704 (0F8045BF) Date: 1/16/1958 Description: Around 12:00 noon. As the International Geophysical Year research ship [Almirante Saldanha](https://www.naval.com.br/ngb/A/A044/A044.htm) is anchored on the south side of Ilha da Trindade, Brazil, 730 miles off the coast in the Atlantic Ocean, the commander and many crew members, including photographer Almiro Baraúna, see a Saturn-shaped object maneuvering over the island. It reportedly comes toward the island from the east, flies towards the Pico Desejado, makes a steep turn, and goes away very quickly to the northwest. Baraúna takes four photos with a Rolleiflex 2.8 model E. Commander [Paulo Moreira da Silva](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo%5FMoreira%5Fda%5FSilva) of the Brazilian Navy Hydrography and Navigation Department \(who technically outranks the ship’s captain, [José Santos de Saldanha da Gama](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5FSantos%5Fde%5FSaldanha%5Fda%5FGama)\), is apparently an eyewitness and states, “the object was encircled by a greenish glow, our \[meteorological\] balloon was of a red color.” Baraúna is officially there to take photos of the island, underwater photos, photos of the IGY activities, and the ship’s operations. The radar detection of an unexplained supersonic target reportedly occurs the day before, at about 12:05 p.m. There is a power failure on the ship when the object is seen; the power returns upon the object’s departure. Instruments like radio transmitters and apparatus with magnetic needles cease operating while the flying object remains in the island’s proximity. [Willy Smith](https://www.oocities.org/ufomiami.geo/Obituary.html)’s April 20, 1983, interview of Baraúna takes on more significance: “I asked if the object had been detected by ship’s radar. He \[Baraúna\] replied that it hadn’t because all the electrical power aboard ship was out at the time. He was sure of the reality of the power outage because just before the object appeared a launch was being hauled up from the water by electric pulley, and it stopped midway just as the UFO appeared!” The ship’s log is provably incomplete since it does not even mention the UFO photo incident. A 1999 analysis by [Martin J. Powell](http://www.aenigmatis.com/) seems to indicate that the object photographed is an airplane, distorted by Baraúna through a double-exposure process. In August 2010, a major TV show in Brazil airs information stating that the original photographer had made hoax photographs in the past. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Trindade Island UFO hoax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trindade%5FIsland%5FUFO%5Fhoax)”; Wikipedia, “[Caso da Ilha da Trindade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trindade%5FIsland%5FUFO%5Fhoax)”; NICAP, “[Trindade Island Photo \(E-M,](http://www.nicap.org/580116trindade%5Fdir.htm) [Radar, AR\) Case](http://www.nicap.org/580116trindade%5Fdir.htm)”; Olavo T. Fontes, “[The UAO Sightings at the Island of Trindade, Part 1,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201960%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1960, pp. 5–9; Olavo T. Fontes, “[UAO Sightings over Trindade, Part II,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201960%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1960, pp. 5–8; Olavo T. Fontes, “[UAO Sightings at the Island of Trindade, Part III,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201960%2005%2000%20-%20May.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May 1960, pp. 4– 9; John T. Hopf, “[Exclusive IGY Photo Analysis,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201960%2005%2000%20-%20May.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May 1960, pp. 1, 4; “[New Evidence on IGY](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf) [Photos,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1965, pp. 1, 3–8; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 205– 210; Willy Smith, “[Trindade Revisited,](http://www.nicap.org/trindade/cufos%5Fpages/baraunaIUR.htm)” IUR 8, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1983\): 3–5, 14; Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 109–111; Martin J. Powell, “[The Trindade Island UFO:](https://aenigmatis.com/trindade-island-ufo-1958/trindade.htm) [A Detailed Study of Photos 1 and 2,](https://aenigmatis.com/trindade-island-ufo-1958/trindade.htm)” Aenigmatis, Summer 1999; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 71–77](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/70/mode/2up); Martin Shough, “[The Trindade Island Photographs, 16 Jan 1958,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/trindade/index.htm)” Aerial Phenomena Studies Index, 2004; Equipe UFO, “[Documento raro sobre o caso Trindade ressurge no exterior,](https://ufo.com.br/noticias/documento-raro-sobre-o-caso-trindade-ressurge-no-exterior/)” Portal UFO, August 31, 2010; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 262; Story, [pp. 366–369](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/366/mode/2up); Swords 463–465; Brazil 49–57; Clark III 1132–1136; Patrick Gross, “[The Trindade Island](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/trindade58.htm) [Photographic Case of 1958](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/trindade58.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3141 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8705 (CCC23859) Date: 1/21/1958 Description: Two white, silent, hat-shaped saucers flew over the Tumacacori Mountains in Arizona at 4:00 p.m., heading toward the southwest. They flipped over, then flew in a sawtooth trajectory and entered a cloud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: January-February, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_401 Source: Johnson ### Event 8706 (BD100BDA) Date: 1/22/1958 Description: Major D. Keyhoe cut off TV show dealing with UFO discussion Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_157 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8707 (8FC85BF6) Date: 1/22/1958 Description: Two luminous objects skipped about and played tag in the sky over Wimberley, Texas at one o'clock in the afternoon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: San Marcos (TX) Record, January 23, 1958; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: January-February, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_410 Source: Johnson ### Event 8708 (CED635E2) Date: 1/22/1958 Description: The “UFO: The Enigma of the Skies” segment of Armstrong Circle Theater airs on CBS. USAF Reserve Lt. Col. Spencer Whedon from ATIC says all UFOs are explainable. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) comes on and starts reading his script for a few minutes, then shocks everyone by deviating from it, saying “And now, Mr. [Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FEdwards), I would like to make a disclosure, something which has never been revealed to the public. For the last six months our committee has been working with a Senate committee which is investigating official secrecy on UFOs. If the hearings are held, open hearings, I feel it would prove beyond doubt that flying saucers are real—”. Then his microphone is cut off, although the filming continues. [Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) then appears, then USAF spokesman [Richard E.](http://www.astronautix.com/h/horner.html) [Horner](http://www.astronautix.com/h/horner.html) comes on afterward and says that the Air Force is not hiding anything about UFOs. Keyhoe later claims this is not censorship by the show, although he thinks it is the Air Force silence group at work. In April, CBS director of editing Herbert A. Carlborg tells NICAP that Keyhoe’s deviation “might lead to statements that neither this network nor the individuals on the program were authorized to release. As a consequence, public interest was served.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 167–168; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 22–23, 155–165; “[UFO Archives: Project Blue Book—Col.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQOGN6h9RC0) [Spenser Whedon, Dr. Donald Menzel, Major Donald Keyhoe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQOGN6h9RC0)” \[audio only\], UFO Archives YouTube channel, May 22, 2014; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf) [February](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf) The Author, 1998, pp. 23, 28–30, 35–39; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) The Author, 1998, pp. 10–17; Swords 272; Good Above, [pp. 286–287](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/286/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3142 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8709 (73DF8D6F) Date: 1/23/1958 Description: Capt. G. H. Oldenburgh, public information officer at Langley AFB, Virginia, writes to a NICAP member who has been denied a request to place an ad in the base newspaper asking for UFO reports: “I felt it would encourage Air Force personnel to violate present Air Force policy and specifically AF Regulation 200-2.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [p. 51](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/50/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3143 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8710 (DE2E9492) Date: 1/24/1958 Description: An unidentified object followed behind Sputnik II while orbiting over Brooklyn Park, South Australia on this evening. It travelled fast to the east, and then swung to the north before disappearing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 163 Source ID: Johnson_477 Source: Johnson ### Event 8711 (D512336A) Date: 1/26/1958 Time: 1600 Description: A very bright object landed before numerous chemical workers; they reported beings falling from the sky without parachutes. They wore strange suits and spoke an unknown language. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 58, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Shimada City, Japan Source ID: Magnonia_458 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8712 (6A5518BF) Date: 1/26/1958 Description: 4:00 p.m. Some chemical workers at Shimada, Japan, see a bright object land and claim that beings fell from the sky without parachutes. They wear strange suits and speak an unknown language. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[They Are Landing in](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CMay-Jun%2CV%204%2CN%203.pdf) [Japan, Too,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CMay-Jun%2CV%204%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 3 \(May/June 1958\): 33 Source ID: Eberhart_3144 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8713 (9F26F2C8) Date: 1/26/1958 Description: A very bright object landed before numerous chemical workers in Shimada City, Japan at 4 p.m. They reported beings falling from the sky without parachutes. They wore strange suits and spoke an unknown language. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1958; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 458; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0458 Source ID: Johnson_517 Source: Johnson ### Event 8714 (FEC15C51) Date: 1/28/1958 Description: [Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) announces that “two committees on Capitol Hill” are investigating the UFO controversy. Rep. [William Hanes Ayres](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FHanes%5FAyres) \(R-Ohio\) writes a letter to constituent Melvin V. Knapp, saying that “Congressional investigations have been held and are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects \(UFO’s\). Since most of the material presented to the committees is classified, the hearings are never printed. When conclusions are reached, they will be released if possible.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Saucer Proof Clouded by Air Force, Private Probers Say,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94512727/)” Rochester \(N.Y.\) Democrat and Chronicle, August 3, 1958, p. 8; UFOEv, [p. 173](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=185&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3145 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8715 (6C025A8E) Date: 1/30/1958 Description: 11:45 p.m. Attorney José Valencia Dongo, his wife, and their nephew feel an electric shock as they are driving between Arequipa and Lima, Peru, at a point \(roughly around the Yauca District\) along the Pan American Highway 220 miles northwest of Arequipa. Several seconds later the headlights and engine of their car fails. They then see an inverted mushroom-shaped object, about 15 feet in diameter, descending from the sky. It hovers for about 8 minutes at a 150-foot altitude, glowing red. A truck and bus are also affected. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Civilian Saucer Intelligence, “[Shapes in the Sky,](https://archive.org/details/FantasticUniverseV10n04195810/page/n111/mode/2up)” Fantastic Universe, 10, no. 4 \(October 1958\): 111; Charles A. Maney and Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, NICAP, 1961, [p. 82](https://archive.org/details/challengeofunide00mane/page/82/mode/2up); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 58–59; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) CUFOS, 1981, p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_3146 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8716 (6ACC9C00) Date: 1/30/1958 Description: Truck, bus, and car passengers felt shock; motors of all three vehicles failed, as UFO descended and hovered (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lima (near), Ohio Source ID: NICAP_DB_2226 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8717 (4843FFC1) Date: 1/30/1958 Description: At 11:45 p.m. a lawyer, his wife, and their nephew felt an electric shock at a point 220 miles north of Arequipa, Peru heading towards Lima. Several seconds later the headlights and engine of their car failed. An inverted mushroom-shaped object was then observed, about 15 feet in diameter, descending from the sky. It hovered for about eight minutes at a 150-foot altitude, glowing red. A truck and a bus were also affected by the presence of the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 90, citing Charles Maney & Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects Source ID: Johnson_599 Source: Johnson ### Event 8718 (DF9D631F) Date: 1/31/1958 Description: USAF pilots saw 12 yellow-orange lights fly S in 3 groups (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tokyo (25 miles SW of), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2227 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8719 (3AAC24F0) Date: 1/31/1958 Description: 10:48 p.m. The US launches its first satellite, Explorer 1, from Cape Canaveral Missile Annex, Florida. It is the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Explorer 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer%5F1)” Source ID: Eberhart_3148 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8720 (5E16269B) Date: 1/31/1958 Description: A meeting is held in the office of Assistant Secretary of the Air Force [Richard E. Horner](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=richard-e-horner&pid=88822680) under the auspices of the Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, even though Sen. [John L. McClellan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FL.%5FMcClellan) \(D-Ark.\) and other senators are absent. The Air Force is represented by Maj. James F. Byrne, Maj. [Joseph E. Boland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8792087/joseph-edward-boland), and Maj. [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) who meet with the subcommittee’s FBI liaisons. Tacker declares that USAF does not want a congressional investigation, and the McClellan effort dies immediately. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 275 Source ID: Eberhart_3147 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8721 (AA885D2D) Date: 2/1958 Description: Brazilian Navy releases authentic picture of UFO Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Source ID: Maj2_158 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8722 (EAD434E5) Date: 2/1958 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) meets again with Rep. [James C. Healey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FC.%5FHealey) and tells him that the Armstrong Circle Theater incident was Air Force censorship. A few days later, Healey tells Keyhoe that the Air Force is claiming that the program proves “there are no such things as flying saucers.” Keyhoe gives Healey the facts about the 1956 [Ryan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62514778/raymond-e-ryan) case pointing to USAF ordering a commercial flight to pursue UFOs, citing the Meet the Millers tape from April 16, 1956, which he has obtained. He offers to get the committee a transcript. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 166–167, 182–184 Source ID: Eberhart_3149 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8723 (2D45E4D9) Date: 2/1958 Description: Ufologist Raymond Veillith launches the UFO journal Lumières dans la Nuit in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, Haute-Loire, France. It continues on under various editors until at least 2018. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Lumières dans la Nuit](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20001.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20001.pdf) no. 1 \(February 1958\); Wikipedia, “[Lumières dans la Nuit](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumi%C3%A8res%5Fdans%5Fla%5Fnuit)”; Story, p. 218 Source ID: Eberhart_3150 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8724 (FF21E450) Date: 2/1/1958 Description: First US Satellite Explorer 1 launched into a geocentric medium earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26 Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1) Location: Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26 Source ID: Maj2_583 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8725 (5C67448C) Date: 2/1/1958 Description: A huge luminous disc hovered for more than 30 minutes over farm country in Ladapeyre, France beginning at 11:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131 Source ID: Johnson_652 Source: Johnson ### Event 8726 (D59FCFCC) Date: 2/2/1958 Description: At 8:15 p.m. a UFO with a cone-shaped orange flame at its tail moved southwest to northeast over Seacombe Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia. It made a droning noise like a motor, and flew at an estimated altitude of 20,000 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 163 Source ID: Johnson_664 Source: Johnson ### Event 8727 (6F632348) Date: 2/2/1958 Description: Elliptical UFO with two "porthole" like markings. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New South Wales, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2229 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8728 (FBF34DC2) Date: 2/2/1958 Description: At 3:30 p.m. farmer Yasukichi Nakaguchi and his son, and Kametaro Takuma, saw an egg-shaped object that landed silently in Hokkaido, Japan. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 459 Source ID: Johnson_663 Source: Johnson ### Event 8729 (CAFE5B58) Date: 2/2/1958 Time: 1530 Description: Farmer Yasukichi Nakaguchi and his son, and Kametaro Takuma, saw an egg-shaped object that landed silently. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 58, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hokkaido, Japan Source ID: Magnonia_459 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8730 (9577EF74) Date: 2/2/1958 Description: An elliptical UFO with two porthole-like markings is seen somewhere in New South Wales, Australia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 137](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=149&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3151 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8731 (AA1DBDA3) Date: 2/3/1958 Description: OTC Enterprises runs a two-page ad in a Baltimore, Maryland, newspaper and distributes a well-printed brochure announcing that [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) has approached the US government and offered to build it a working spacecraft called the OTC-X1—circular, 45 feet in diameter and 15 feet high—for $20 million. He sets a date of December 7, 1959, to take a three-man crew on the spacecraft on a round trip to the Moon. Some press accounts treat Carr as if he is a real scientist. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 860 Source ID: Eberhart_3152 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8732 (A3E522B0) Date: 2/5/1958 Description: Reinhold Schmidt's 2nd contact with saucers & spacepeople, takes ride. Type: ce4 event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Kearney, NE Source ID: Maj2_159 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8733 (2CA15473) Date: 2/5/1958 Description: The Air Force revises AFR 200-2 and recreates the system of air base commanders conducting initial investigations of sightings in their areas. It also continues ATIC’s responsibility to “reduce the percentage of unidentifieds to the minimum.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Department of the Air Force, “[Intelligence: Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFO\),](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFR%5F200-2%5F020558.pdf)” Air Force Regulation 200-2, February 5, 1958; Department of the Air Force, “[Intelligence: Unidentified Flying](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFR%5F200-2A%5F070358%5Fchange.pdf) [Objects \(UFO\),](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFR%5F200-2A%5F070358%5Fchange.pdf)” Air Force Regulation 200-2A, July 3, 1958 Source ID: Eberhart_3153 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8734 (86486579) Date: 2/7/1958 Description: In response to the launching of Sputnik, President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency and houses it in the Pentagon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[DARPA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA)” Source ID: Eberhart_3154 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8735 (467C48CB) Date: 2/9/1958 Description: Oval UFO photographed. \[UFOE,VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [580209](http://www.nicap.org/fotocat/580209stump%5Folmos.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Troy, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2230 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8736 (C3FF31DD) Date: 2/13/1958 Description: Radar Contacts & Flare-Like Explosion (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [580213](http://www.nicap.org/580213wake%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wake Island (west of), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2231 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8737 (20A274EA) Date: 2/17/1958 Description: Evening. [Flora Evans](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64039683/flora-janette-evans) and Bernice McIntosh twice encounter an intensely brilliant orange light about 15 feet in diameter that sends out peculiar grid-like or diamond-shaped patterns and lights up a canyon northeast of Alcalde, New Mexico, along State Highway 68. The two women are temporarily blinded. Their trip home to Albuquerque inexplicably takes 4 hours instead of the normal 2 hours. Both witnesses are exhausted and have burned or reddened areas on their skin, some on their kneecaps and the back of their lower legs, even though they have not left the car. Evans has a reddened area shaped like a triangle on her back. An acquaintance, Paul Boyett, has a Geiger counter, with which he gets a high radiation count from both women on February 19. The next day Evans, who is working in some capacity in civil defense, goes to her doctor at the Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque, to see about possible radiation burns and exposure. She overhears a comment about “178 roentgens” exposure, but the doctor says there is nothing to worry about. McIntosh’s symptoms \(nausea, vomiting, rash\) are initially more irritating but subside substantially, although both women have swellings in their lower legs, and both gain serious weight \(some 50 pounds\) over the next few months. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 January–February](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Jan-Feb.pdf), The Author, 1998, pp. 60–64 ; Michael D, Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological Effects? Part 2” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 4–5; Swords 280–281; Clark III 1–2, 950 Source ID: Eberhart_3155 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8738 (D02194EA) Date: 2/19/1958 Description: Giant Radar Return Reported to Air Force PBB (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BB) Reference: NICAP: [580219](http://www.nicap.org/580219hokkaido%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hokkaido, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2232 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8739 (2F7FCF88) Date: 2/19/1958 Description: 10:30 p.m. Cicero Claudino da Silva, Mustafa Esgaib, Alegario Campos, and João Manuel Vasquez are investigating the Ponta Porã case from December. They are at Porteiro Ortiz, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, along Highway 463 and shining their lights in the direction of the Paraguayan frontier when a reddish light appears and becomes larger, as if approaching them. The ground around their car is illuminated for a few seconds, and they realize that another red light is nearing them on the other side of the car. They head for Ponta Porã at breakneck speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Olavo T. Fontes, “[The Shadow of the Unknown,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_3156 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8740 (AC50BF14) Date: 2/20/1958 Description: 12 military officers saw a round or cigar-shaped stationary object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winslow (NW of), AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2233 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8741 (550119F5) Date: 2/24/1958 Time: 0305 Description: Three witnesses, among them Dr. C. da Costa, decided to sleep in their car when the engine stalled and could not be started again. Then a very large, blue silvery object appeared and came to ground level with a swinging motion. was shaped like a sphere surrounded by a flat ring. When they tried to approach it, the object maneuvered in a strange "aerial dance." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. I 143 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Conceicao Almeida, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_460 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8742 (58AA2324) Date: 2/24/1958 Description: 3:05 a.m. Attorney Carlos José de Costa Pereira, Manoel Mendes, and Antônio de Araujo are driving near Santo Antônio de Jesus, Bahia, Brazil. The car engine sputters and fails. All attempts to detect the trouble fail. The next inhabited place is far away, so the travelers decide that the best thing to do is to sleep at that spot, beside the road. Next morning they will try to do something about their situation, getting help from some nearby village or farm. It was then that they notice a large luminous Saturn-shaped object silently approaching to about 240 feet from them and only 90 feet from the ground. It then descends in a falling-leaf pattern to about 12 feet. They can see it is about 60–75 feet in diameter with a rotating center section. Suddenly it climbs vertically to 600 feet, makes a tight circle, then tilts to 45° and makes a number of high-speed maneuvers, then descends again in a falling-leaf motion before shooting up vertically at tremendous speed. After this, the car starts easily and they proceed to Salvador. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Olavo T. Fontes, “[The Shadow of the Unknown,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2005%2000%20-%20May.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May 1959, p. 7; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 59–61 Source ID: Eberhart_3157 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8743 (42A4CB40) Date: 2/24/1958 Description: In the early morning predawn hours Dr. C. da Costa and two others were traveling by car in Conceicao Almeida, Brazil when their engine stalled near Santo Antonio de Jesus. It could not be re-started, and although they got out of the car to check the engine they could find nothing wrong, so they decided to sleep in the car. A short while later, at 3:05 a.m., a very large blue silvery disc-shaped object appeared with a flat ring spinning at high speed around the middle of the craft. It descended towards the ground a pendulum motion. Two of the men walked toward it, at which point it rose up to about 600 feet in altitude. The UFO then began a series of high-speed maneuvers, finally disappearing at 4:35 a.m. The car still would not start. At 6:30 a.m. the UFO appeared once more, looking silvery in color and hovering at a low altitude. It then shot away, vanishing almost instantly, and the witnesses' car could be started easily. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 460; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 91 (p. 15), citing Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space Source ID: Johnson_1077 Source: Johnson ### Event 8744 (10108CD8) Date: 2/24/1958 Description: Car motor failed; passengers then noticed a Saturn-shaped disc hovering overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Antonio de Jesus (near), Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2234 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8745 (85082FB4) Date: 2/25/1958 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glenwood, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2235 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8746 (84FE7B49) Date: 2/25/1958 Description: Radar Tracks Zigzagging Object (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580225](http://www.nicap.org/580225gander%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gander AFB, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2236 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8747 (CEC5B71C) Date: 2/28/1958 Description: Police detective [Faustin Gallegos](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/678921/faustin-gallegos) and his wife Dorothy see something like a “large medicine ball” descend and land in their back yard in Miami, Florida. Outside, he sees a football-shaped object 20 inches long and 8 inches high, lined with “thousands of minute cells resembling those of a honeycomb. It is clear and pulsating. He touches it and his fingers leave marks. They put it in a jar, but it evaporates on the way to the police station. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Faustin Gallegos, “The Pulsing Honeycomb from Space,” Fate 11, no. 9 \(September 1958\): 40–43; Clark III 1102 Source ID: Eberhart_3160 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8748 (8E37CDC4) Date: 2/28/1958 Description: USAF Director of Information Gen. [Arno H. Luehman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno%5FH.%5FLuehman) naively inquires of the McClellan Senate subcommittee whether, based on its “preliminary informal investigation,” it would state that the Air Force is investigating UFOs and not withholding information. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 275 Source ID: Eberhart_3158 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8749 (E6AEEAB2) Date: 2/28/1958 Description: Brig. Gen. [João Adil Oliveira](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o%5FAdil%5FOliveira)[,](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o%5FAdil%5FOliveira) chief of the Brazilian Air Force’s General Staff information service, tells O Globo that the UFO phenomenon is a “fact confirmed by material evidence. There are thousands of documents, photos, and sighting evidence demonstrating its existence.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 233](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/232/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3159 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8750 (13FC0D83) Date: 3/1958 Description: A French Foreign Legionnaire on sentry duty at Bouamama, near Sidi Chami, Algeria, hears a whistling noise and sees an enormous, elliptical-shaped object descend and hover 115–131 feet above the ground 165 feet away. The object is surrounded by pale green light, and a relaxing emerald-green beam of light is coming from its base to the ground. Seemingly paralyzed, he stares at the object for 45–50 minutes. The noise returns, the object rises gently, and flies off at tremendous speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joël Mesnard, “[Tranquillizing Visitation at Bouahmama: An Algerian](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201973%20V%2019%20N%203.pdf) [Report of 1958,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201973%20V%2019%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 3 \(May/June 1973\): 17–18 Source ID: Eberhart_3162 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8751 (E1256616) Date: 3/1958 Description: The Air Force releases parts of the 1953 Robertson Panel report, a mere three paragraphs recommending that “the national security agencies take immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[CIA Evades, Then Denies](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/004%20JUNE%201958.pdf) [Charge of Attempted UFO Censorship,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/004%20JUNE%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 4 \(June 1958\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_3161 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8752 (0345DEA7) Date: 3/1958 Description: Big "flap" in Arizona. Much activity. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: Arizona Source ID: Maj2_160 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8753 (53961491) Date: 3/1/1958 Description: At 8:30 p.m. two ten minute sightings of the same UFO occurred 10 minutes apart in the Kunashir Islands, Japan and the Soviet Union. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5367 Source ID: Johnson_1200 Source: Johnson ### Event 8754 (B561C3E6) Date: 3/2/1958 Time: 1945 Description: A civilian source was said to have observed a balloon-shaped object land on the airfield then take off slowly and hover at 250 m altitude before disappearing. It showed a bright light source. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Tampa, Florida Source ID: Magnonia_461 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8755 (1BA118B1) Date: 3/2/1958 Description: Balloon-shaped object with bright light land on the airfield (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tampa, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2237 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8756 (45E5D868) Date: 3/2/1958 Description: At 7:45 p.m. a man observed a balloon-shaped object land on the airfield in Tampa, Florida and then take off slowly and hover at 250 meters altitude before disappearing. It had a bright light source on it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 461 Source ID: Johnson_1241 Source: Johnson ### Event 8757 (AFFCEDEB) Date: 3/2/1958 Description: The Brazilian Navy, after an analysis of the January 16 Ilha da Trindade sighting and photos, offers an ambiguous conclusion: “the existence of personal testimonies and of a photographer, of some value given the circumstances involved permit the admission that there are indications of the existence of the UFO.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil Department of the Navy, “[Clarification of the Observation of Unidentified Flying Objects Sighted on the Island of](http://www.nicap.org/reports/barauna%5Fdocs.htm) [Trinidad, in the Period of 12/5/57 to 1/16/58,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/barauna%5Fdocs.htm)” March 2, 1958 Source ID: Eberhart_3163 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8758 (B47CDC24) Date: 3/3/1958 Description: Family saw two bright, planet-like objects with 6 or 7 smaller lights moving around them. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marshall (near), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2238 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8759 (167BE0D8) Date: 3/3/1958 Description: Gen. [Joe W. Kelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FW.%5FKelly) responds to [Luehman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno%5FH.%5FLuehman), falsely stating that the Air Force has done “considerable work” with the McClellan subcommittee. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 275–276 Source ID: Eberhart_3164 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8760 (90D7785C) Date: 3/8/1958 Description: Korea, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Korea, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2239 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8761 (4FC9A3BE) Date: 3/8/1958 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) appears on ABC’s The Mike Wallace Interview and mentions the Estimate of the Situation, [Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm)’s motion study, and the CIA Robertson Panel. [Wallace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FWallace) surprises him by saying Assistant Secretary of the Air Force [Richard E. Horner](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=richard-e-horner&pid=88822680) told his producers that the Senate Committee “show no interest in any hearings.” This is news to Keyhoe. Wallace also quotes from the Robertson Panel summary that was just released. A few days later, Keyhoe receives two letters from the Senate Committee confirming that it “does not intend to investigate the United States Air Force.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Major Donald Keyhoe Interviewed by Mike Wallace \(1958\),](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei9tgxqYCaI)” pfreal1 YouTube channel, August 25, 2012; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) [March–April](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) The Author, 1998, p. 9; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 189–190; Swords 272–273; “[Mike Wallace Interview](http://www.nicap.org/jufoh/JournalUFOHistoryVol2No1.pdf) [of Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe: A Sequel to the Arnstrong Circle Theater,](http://www.nicap.org/jufoh/JournalUFOHistoryVol2No1.pdf)” Journal of UFO History 2, no. 1 \(March/April 2005\): 8–11 Source ID: Eberhart_3166 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8762 (DA22FB60) Date: 3/8/1958 Description: A USAF radar site in Korea tracks a UFO slowly descending from 77,000 to 25,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 80](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=92&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3165 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8763 (A412E20F) Date: 3/9/1958 Description: Radar Lock Broken By UO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [580309](http://www.nicap.org/580309panamacanalzone%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Panama Canal Zone, Panama Source ID: NICAP_DB_2240 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8764 (D38A9AB0) Date: 3/14/1958 Time: 0845 Description: Two persons, in their backyard, saw a round object 1 m in diameter come from the west and land 15 m away. It took off toward the east, turned south, and was lost to sight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Healdsburg, California Source ID: Magnonia_462 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8765 (618634B3) Date: 3/14/1958 Time: 8:45 AM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Cummings and one other. A 3' round, black object touched the ground and then took off. Watched for 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Healdsburg, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_423 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8766 (0B1A031F) Date: 3/14/1958 Description: At 8:45 a.m. two residents of Healdsburg, California saw a round object one meter in diameter come from the west and land in their backyard, only 15 meters away. It took off toward the east, turned south, and was lost to sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 5716; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 270, case 462; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_1478 Source: Johnson ### Event 8767 (0D27D6E0) Date: 3/14/1958 Description: 3ft round, black object come from the W (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5716) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Healdsburg, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2241 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8768 (D89AD910) Date: 3/19/1958 Description: A large, disc-shaped object was seen on the ground near Moscow, Russia. It rose in a spiral motion, then took off and was lost from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 463 Source ID: Johnson_1563 Source: Johnson ### Event 8769 (50860BA8) Date: 3/19/1958 Description: Near Moscow, a large, disk-shaped object was seen on the ground. It rose in a spiral motion, then took off and was lost to sight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Moscow, USSR Source ID: Magnonia_463 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8770 (BDE893E5) Date: 3/20/1958 Description: Saturn-like disc descended hovered, moved away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Henrietta, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2242 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8771 (7FB43B0C) Date: Late 3/1958 Description: NICAP begins a new campaign to open another government UFO investigation. This time it approaches the Department of Justice, the National Security Council, the CIA, and the US Army. It receives rebuffs and denials. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 191 Source ID: Eberhart_3167 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8772 (99485295) Date: 3/25/1958 Description: Two disc-shaped objects made fast maneuvers over the Woomera Missile Test Range at 10 p.m. in the desert of South Australia. They shimmered and changed colors as they flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 50; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_1649 Source: Johnson ### Event 8773 (864BB115) Date: 3/31/1958 Description: Uncorrelated Target Doing 1300 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [580331](http://www.nicap.org/580331walnutridge%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Walnut Ridge, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2243 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8774 (9607C7A2) Date: 4/1958 Description: All UN members queried as to status of UFO activity in respective countries Type: ufological event Reference: [Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf) Location: New York City, New York Source ID: Maj2_161 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8775 (48FE307D) Date: 4/1958 Description: Edgar Sievers begins publishing a pro-Adamski newsletter titled Approach in Pretoria, South Africa. It folds in March 1960. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Approach](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/South%20Africa/Approach%20%28Edgar%20Sievers%29/Approach%20-%20Vol%201%20No%2001%20-%201958%2004.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(April 1958\) Source ID: Eberhart_3168 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8776 (BC0C9132) Date: 4/1958 Description: 6:00 a.m. At some place along the Brazilian coast between Maceió and Paripueira, Alagoas, Brazil, Wilson Lustosa stops to ask some fishermen what they are looking at. He hears a humming sound and sees a disc-shaped object hovering about 50 feet above the ocean and 120 feet away. It has a small lighted dome on top and a band of square portholes around its midsection through which a red light is shining. Under the UFO the water seems disturbed. The object is visible for an hour. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon W. Creighton, “[A Brazilian Sighting,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CNov-Dec%2CV%2010%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1964\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_3169 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8777 (BE8EE8DE) Date: 4/1958 Time: 0600 Description: Near Paripueira, jeweler Wilson Lustosa and numerous fishermen saw an object hovering 15 m above the sea, 40 m away. It was lens-shaped, about 12 m thick, and showed portholes with a glowing red light. Below the object the water seemed to be "boiling" or attracted upward, while a soft, whirring sound was heard. For one hour the object kept going up and down. Type: ufo sighting Reference: SBEDV ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Maceio, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_464 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8778 (1269DACE) Date: 4/2/1958 Description: Cigar-shaped UFO with long row of "portholes or windows." \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2244 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8779 (C0037365) Date: Early 4/1958 Description: Night. A 2-foot red blinking light frightens children over the Walnut housing area in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. Police officers Joseph Scala and Emanuel Mavero investigate and watch the bright disc for 10 minutes. Their police radio malfunctions. They try to get closer, but it disappears when they get to the top of a hill. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: C. W. Fitch, “[Monitoring and Scanning Discs,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 1964, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_3170 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8780 (7344E903) Date: 4/2/1958 Description: On the evening of this day in 1958 a cigar-shaped UFO maneuvered along the course of the Ohio River. It had a long row of portholes along its side, and flew downriver. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 137 Source ID: Johnson_1798 Source: Johnson ### Event 8781 (309B1B96) Date: 4/4/1958 Description: Cigar-shaped UFO with "windows" observed in rapid vertical climb. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Monica, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2245 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8782 (38ED0FEA) Date: 4/7/1958 Description: Police watched two UFOs with flashing body lights, maneuver near coastline. \[UFOE, VII\] Similar sightings for two nights in El Toro and Santa Ana. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newport Beach, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2246 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8783 (0A111F11) Date: 4/7/1958 Description: Pilot saw a very dark blue 6-8 ft cloud-shaped object on a SW heading (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dayton (airport), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2247 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8784 (2F88BDA4) Date: 4/9/1958 Description: A family in Cleveland, Ohio, sees a flight of nine UFOs that suddenly separates into two groups of four and five objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 15](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=27&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3171 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8785 (DAAA0EBE) Date: 4/9/1958 Description: 7:15 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. B. Mills are driving on St. Vincent Street in Nelson, New Zealand, when they see a bright-red triangular object with white lights around its perimeter. It is descending from the northeast at a 45° angle and moving across Tasman Bay. They see the object again, somewhat dimmer, around 8:00 p.m. from a friend’s house on Matipo Terrace. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Triangular Object over New Zealand,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_3172 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8786 (FA59909F) Date: 4/9/1958 Description: Nine yellow UFOs in V-formation; split into two groups (5 and 4). \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cleveland, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2248 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8787 (2CEBCDBA) Date: 4/9/1958 Description: On this date in 1958 the CIA Robertson Panel report was released. At 3:30 a.m. a UFO was seen over Keta, Ghana swinging in a falling leaf motion. That same night a row of nine yellow discs flew over Cleveland, Ohio and split up into two groups of four and five. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald H. Menzel, The World of Flying Saucers, p. 143; FSR, September-October 1970, p. 28; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 137 Source ID: Johnson_1922 Source: Johnson ### Event 8788 (BD280E2C) Date: 4/10/1958 Description: A Danish fighter pilot reports seeing a formation of UFOs. They are also tracked on radar at Skrydstrup Airport in Vojens, Denmark. The pilot attempts to overtake them, but they accelerate and disappear. The commander of Fighter Wing Skrydstrup appeals to the public to report any UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf), The Author, 1998, p. 69 Source ID: Eberhart_3173 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8789 (FF025BB9) Date: 4/11/1958 Description: Airport instrument inspector, others watched reddish-white UFO arc back and forth. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Johannesburg, S. Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_2249 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8790 (A5E77874) Date: 4/12/1958 Description: On this night university professor Dr. Garron and his wife were in Tabladitas, Jujuy Province, Argentina when they watched a 30 meter luminous object descend to ground level. It had a halo; it turned and flew off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 17; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_1968 Source: Johnson ### Event 8791 (90E8596F) Date: 4/13/1958 Description: 9:40 p.m. Lester Billheimer and Carl Kern watch an object shaped like a “solid right angle” glowing like a white neon light over Allentown, Pennsylvania. It travels northwest at first, then turns west and disappears after three seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_3174 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8792 (10E1BB55) Date: 4/14/1958 Description: Grey Black Rectangle Encountered By C-47 (CIRVIS) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2, BB: 5763) Reference: NICAP: [580414](http://www.nicap.org/580414lynchburg%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lynchberg, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2251 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8793 (3CB24300) Date: 4/14/1958 Description: Air Force Staff Sergeant saw large formation of unidentified lights. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2250 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8794 (79E2BE7D) Date: 4/14/1958 Time: 1 PM Description: Witness: USAF Maj. D.G. Tilley, flying C-47 transport. One grey-black rectangular object rotated very slowly on its horizontal axis for 4 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lynchburg, Virginia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_424 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8795 (9A0C48D2) Date: 4/15/1958 Description: On or about this date in the mountains near Tabladitas, Argentina about 14 kilometers from Abra Pampa, a luminous object 30 meters in diameter came down to ground level. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 465 Source ID: Johnson_2020 Source: Johnson ### Event 8796 (682F5B21) Date: 4/15/1958 Description: A cigar shaped object with smaller satellite objects was sighted at 12:30 a.m. over Broager, Denmark. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Nachtrichten, June 1958; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 78 Source ID: Johnson_2021 Source: Johnson ### Event 8797 (6C99ED47) Date: 4/15/1958 Description: Day. A witness in Broager, Denmark, sees a large, black, low-flying, triangular object. As it flies over town, a number of horseshoe-shaped objects emerge, emitting a strong light. Twenty other witnesses see a triangular “spaceship” at the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) [March–April](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf) The Author, 1998, p. 77 Source ID: Eberhart_3175 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8798 (E621BD16) Date: 4/15/1958 Description: Approximate date. In the mountains, about 14 km from Abra Pampa, a luminous object 30 m in diameter came to ground level. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Tabladitas, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_465 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8799 (70FEF7DE) Date: 4/17/1958 Time: 1925 Description: All night long, three hovering disks were seen by several witnesses in this area. A railroad employee, Mr. Cavalheiro, and the station chief, J. Machado, wired the Tupancireta police, and all saw the objects coming to ground level about 1 km away. At times they appeared to exchange signals. One of the disks flew over the station itself, leaving a luminous trail and considerable heat. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Abaatu, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_466 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8800 (B21D3554) Date: 4/17/1958 Description: Three hovering discs were observed all night long in Boa del Tigre, Argentina by several witnesses in the area. Mr. Cavalheiro, a railroad employee, and his station chief, J. Machado, wired the Tupancireta police and all saw the UFOs come to ground level about one kilometer away. At times the discs appeared to exchange signals. One of the them flew over the station itself, leaving a luminous trail and considerable heat. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 466 Source ID: Johnson_2079 Source: Johnson ### Event 8801 (9F57F9B3) Date: 4/25/1958 Description: The officer for UFO investigation in Denmark, Lt. Col. [Hans-Christian Petersen](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/p/1237-petersen-hans-christian-1923), tells the magazine B-T that multiple-witness sightings are commonplace and that the current Danish wave is comparable to that of the US 1952 wave. “Nothing is gained by rejecting all the accounts as fantasy,” he tells reporters. Petersen has founded the Skandinavisk UFO Information group in December with five other Danish military jet pilots. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Mar-Apr.pdf), The Author, 1998, pp. 97–99 Source ID: Eberhart_3176 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8802 (83FF00A1) Date: 4/26/1958 Description: At 9:05 p.m. a red hot coal-like object streaked across the sky over Adelaide, South Australia. It made a hissing noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 164 Source ID: Johnson_2332 Source: Johnson ### Event 8803 (26819F80) Date: 4/30/1958 Description: A craft 10 meters in diameter came to rest on a hillside in El Padul, Spain at dusk. It was sighted by two witnesses named Leyva and Sanchez. A short time later the UFO flew away towards Baza, leaving a yellow trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR, July 1971, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_2421 Source: Johnson ### Event 8804 (3F64B9D6) Date: 5/1958 Description: Engine of car began running roughly, driver then noticed UFO following car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richmond (near), VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2252 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8805 (9F1D0524) Date: 5/1958 Description: Maelstrom AFB, Montana: Just after midnight an UFO approached the alert hanger where one guard was standing on duty. At about 1000 ft. altitude. The UFO appeared as a round metallic looking object (called a “Flying Saucer” by the guard). The base radar and FAA radar picked up the UFO as it was apparently hovering over the alert hanger and the atomic bomb storage nearby. The saucer then moved slowly down the length of runway and then proceeded across town to the Muni Airport at Great Falls and hovered over the National Guard parking ramp for the F-89’s and then flew off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Maelstrom AFB, Montana Source ID: Maj2_585 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8806 (84682E33) Date: 5/2/1958 Description: Eight people working in a wood saw a green creature with scaly skin and very long arms. The pointed nails of its long fingers nearly touched the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Dischi Volanti, by L. Bulgarini ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bogota, Colombia Source ID: Magnonia_467 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8807 (459A5A7C) Date: 5/2/1958 Description: Eight people working in a forest near Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia saw a green creature with scaly skin and very long arms. The pointed nails of its long fingers nearly touched the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 467, citing L. Bulgarini; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0460 Source ID: Johnson_2453 Source: Johnson ### Event 8808 (E6E4F67F) Date: 5/3/1958 Description: Elongated Object Seen & Tracked By F3D Aircraft (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580503](http://www.nicap.org/580503flagstaff%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Flagstaff, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2253 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8809 (92631668) Date: 5/4/1958 Description: [Dewey Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm) confirms, in a statement to NICAP, the existence of the Estimate of the Situation and his own motion study from 1952. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 110](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=122&skin=2021); Swords 509 Source ID: Eberhart_3177 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8810 (AE715106) Date: 5/5/1958 Description: Aerial encounter, heat, between Piper Cub and "top-shaped" object (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [580505](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/580505dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pan De Azucar, Uruguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_2254 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8811 (41C2AC73) Date: 5/5/1958 Description: Top-Like Object Heats Up Piper Cub (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [580505](http://www.nicap.org/580505uruguay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pan De Azucar, Uruguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_2255 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8812 (DB7B807F) Date: 5/5/1958 Description: On this day at 3:40 p.m. a brilliant top-shaped UFO (that was symmetrical above and below the middle), suddenly approached an aircraft being flown by 40-year-old Carlos Alejo Rodriguez near the airfield in Pan de Azucar near the city of San Carlos, Maldonado province, Uruguay. The object, estimated to be three times the size of the Piper aircraft, or 15-20 meters in diameter, passed within 500 meters, and the pilot felt a wave of heat. The UFO stopped and hovered for three seconds, rocked twice in a balancing motion, then shot away toward the sea leaving a vapor trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 246; UNICAT, case #477, citing Thomas M Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 3-57 Source ID: Johnson_2538 Source: Johnson ### Event 8813 (CB62BF22) Date: 5/5/1958 Description: 3:40 p.m. Experienced pilot [Carlos Alejo Rodriguez](https://desdevergaraylaregion.blogspot.com/2016/11/alejo-rodriguez-y-su-perrito-piper.html) is flying his Piper Cub in the vicinity of Capitán de Corbeta Naval Air Base \[now part of Capitán de Corbeta Carlos A. Curbelo International Airport\] near San Carlos, Uruguay, when a brilliant top-like object \(symmetrical above and below\) suddenly approaches his plane head-on. The UFO is about 45–60 feet in diameter, stops about 6,500 feet away and “rocked twice, in a balancing motion.” Rodriguez feels strong heat, so he removes his jacket and opens the aircraft windows. The UFO takes off abruptly toward the sea “at a fantastic speed,” leaving a thin vapor trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Top-Like Object Heats Up Piper Cub](http://www.nicap.org/580505uruguay%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 120](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=132&skin=2021); Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, p. 16 Source ID: Eberhart_3178 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8814 (4D29A81F) Date: 5/6/1958 Description: In a letter to NICAP member George Stocking of St. Petersburg, Florida, [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) says he is “now convinced that the reports of UFO’s are nothing more than reports of balloons, aircraft, astronomical phenomena, etc. I don’t believe they are anything from outer space.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) [History: 1958 May–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) The Author, 1999, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_3179 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8815 (BE21E83B) Date: 5/7/1958 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s friend [Lou Corbin](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/index.html) has received from a military friend of Gen. [Nathan Twining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%5FFarragut%5FTwining) news that Twining is still concerned about UFOs. Keyhoe writes to him and receives a note from Twining’s executive officer, Col. [James C. Sherrill](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105639/lieutenant-general-james-c-sherrill/): “No effective means have been developed for the establishment of communication by radio or otherwise with unknown aerial objects. The technical obstacles involved in such an endeavor, I am sure, are quite obvious to you.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 198–199 Source ID: Eberhart_3180 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8816 (311A6F01) Date: 5/8/1958 Description: US Rep. [John E. Henderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FHenderson) \(R-Ohio\) writes to Secretary of Defense [Neil H. McElroy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%5FH.%5FMcElroy) asking about the status of UFO reports and the USAF investigation. ATIC decides to give Henderson a formal briefing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 May–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 5–8, 42; Swords 276 Source ID: Eberhart_3181 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8817 (F725542B) Date: 5/9/1958 Time: 11:05 AM Description: Witness: Phillipine Airlines pilot. One object with a shiny, metallic surface was falling and spinning for 1.5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Bohol Island, Phillipine Islands Source ID: BerlinerBBU_425 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8818 (6FB7A9DF) Date: 5/9/1958 Description: At 1:05 p.m. an airline pilot for Philippines Airline saw a bright, shiny metallic object fall and spin through the sky for 90 seconds while flying over Bohol Island, The Philippines. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5800; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_2679 Source: Johnson ### Event 8819 (2C55F43B) Date: 5/9/1958 Description: Pilot saw object w/shiny metallic surface, falling and spinning (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 5800) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bohol Island, Philippines Source ID: NICAP_DB_2256 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8820 (2AA73302) Date: 5/13/1958 Description: 12:15 p.m. A Royal Canadian Air Force Dakota DC-3 is flying to RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta, from Victoria, British Columbia. When it changes its heading about 25 miles southwest of Calgary, Alberta, a large, thick, black cloud suddenly appears directly across their flight path at the same altitude. Their VHF communications with Cold Lake and Calgary suddenly cease working. The cloud has indistinct, hazy edges, and it increases in size as they approach at about 155 mph. The pilot unsuccessfully tries to radio Calgary to request a flight path change to avoid the cloud, which is now about 10 miles away. Suddenly he sees a brilliant white pinpoint of light materialize in the dark mass. It grows in size, forming a brilliant ball that quickly approaches the aircraft on a collision course. He braces himself, but the light disappears, and the black cloud vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Ledger, “Two Spherical UAP Cases Witnessed by Pilots in Canadian Airspace,” IUR 33, no. 2 \(July 2010\): 7–9 Source ID: Eberhart_3182 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8821 (7792AE4D) Date: 5/15/1958 Description: Lackland AFB’s chief of education planning for the officer candidate school, Maj. Warren Akin, suggests, at a meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in San Antonio, Texas, that UFOs are spacecraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Visitors from](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94523637/) [Outer Space Already May Have Visited Us, Major Says](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94523637/),” San Antonio \(Tex.\) Express, May 16, 1958, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_3184 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8822 (40B2A130) Date: 5/15/1958 Description: Airline pilots saw an orange round object heading N at high speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Bragg, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2259 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8823 (B78BDD85) Date: 5/15/1958 Description: Object Flies Low Over Base, Tracked On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [580515](http://www.nicap.org/580515malmstrom%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2258 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8824 (CF039F62) Date: 5/15/1958 Description: The Soviets launch Sputnik 3 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Sputnik 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik%5F3)” Source ID: Eberhart_3183 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8825 (BAF808E7) Date: 5/15/1958 Description: Formation of Circular Saucers (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580515](http://www.nicap.org/580515caracus%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caracas, Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_2257 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8826 (64F72075) Date: 5/16/1958 Description: USAF Capt. [Walter W. Irwin](https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/walter-w-irwin/) reaches 1,404 mph in a Lockheed YF-104A Starfighter at Edwards AFB, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed F-104 Starfighter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FF-104%5FStarfighter)” Source ID: Eberhart_3185 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8827 (3769FC3B) Date: 5/17/1958 Description: At 11:45 p.m. two men in a boat in Fort Lauderdale, Florida watched as an orange fireball flared up and sped away when a spotlight was shone at it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 12, 121; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: May-July, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_2922 Source: Johnson ### Event 8828 (9FB8430F) Date: 5/17/1958 Description: UFO sped away when light was shone at it. \[UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2260 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8829 (8FB55D18) Date: 5/23/1958 Description: Explorer 1 loses contact Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1) Location: medium earth orbit Source ID: Maj2_584 Source: Maj2 ### Event 8830 (F74E7988) Date: 5/25/1958 Description: Circular silvery UFO observed moving through clouds. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirchberg, Hunsruck, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_2261 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8831 (5F1C85A6) Date: 5/27/1958 Description: Varig Airlines pilot watched a brightly luminous circular object maneuver under his plane. \[UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bahia State Coast, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2262 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8832 (BA0FC1B3) Date: 5/27/1958 Time: late Description: Remo dell'Armellina was driving a truck toward Santa Fe when he saw a figure, 3 m tall, blocking the road. He went toward it with an iron bar but could not approach because of the stench and the blinding phosphorescent light emanating from it. It had very long arms, a scaly body, and wore a flight coverall. The witness fainted; nothing was left to be seen when he regained consciousness. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Perego; Bulgarini ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Boa del Tigre, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_468 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8833 (CDED5C5F) Date: 5/27/1958 Description: Remo dell'Armellina was driving a truck toward Santa Fe, Argentina when he saw a giant figure, three meters tall, blocking the road near the town of Boa del Tigre. He went towards it with an iron bar but could not get close because of the stench and a blinding phosphorescent light that emanated from the creature. It had very long arms, a scaly body, and wore a flightsuit coverall. The witness fainted; when he regained consciousness the being was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 468; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1959 Source ID: Johnson_3114 Source: Johnson ### Event 8834 (B813D69F) Date: 5/28/1958 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Templehof, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_2263 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8835 (9FCF5298) Date: 5/30/1958 Description: At 9:20 p.m. a science writer in Ural'sk, Kazakstan, USSR watched as a red light made the start of a pattern to land at the south edge of an airfield, but then stopped, stood motionless for a few moments, made a 90 degree turn, stopped again, and after several minutes got smaller. A second red light joined the first, then they separated and silently flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 28, citing the US Air Force; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: May-July, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_3165 Source: Johnson ### Event 8836 (E5685BB4) Date: 5/31/1958 End date: 6/1/1958 Description: The fifth Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention takes place at Giant Rock, near Landers, California. [Dana Howard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%5FHoward%5F%28contactee%29), [Truman Bethurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%5FBethurum) John McCoy, [Wayne Aho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%5FSulo%5FAho)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%5FSulo%5FAho) [Daniel Fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry), and [Reinhold O. Schmidt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold%5FO.%5FSchmidt) join host [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel) for two days of contactee conviviality. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dana Howard, “[Dana Howard Reporting the Giant](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf) [Rock Convention, 1958,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 20–21, 25 Source ID: Eberhart_3186 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8837 (AB6EDAAF) Date: 6/1958 Description: 9:00 p.m. B. Muratov and his father are returning home to Chimbay, Uzbekistan, after a fishing expedition to the Aral Sea. They notice a disc-shaped object approaching them directly at low altitude from the northeast. It flies over them and see that its diameter is about 82 feet and it is traveling at 150–180 mph. Its hull is shiny and one side shines with a red color. A pipe is attached to one side, and it gives off a steady “zing zing zing” sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 123 Source ID: Eberhart_3193 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8838 (AD7D4F37) Date: 6/1958 Description: 4:00 a.m. A woman doctor at a resort at Sinaia, Romania, sees a silvery domed disc traveling slowly and silently toward the southeast at 1,500 feet. On its underside it has a bluish triangular section with rounded points. It passes within 900 feet of her hotel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 159–160 Source ID: Eberhart_3192 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8839 (37319342) Date: 6/1958 Description: Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas, has prepared a 17-page TV script based on a straightforward interpretation of [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, even including the 1953 [Moncla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FMoncla) case. The script states that “the most logical explanation is that the saucers are interplanetary.” It also says that USAF has “concealed information which was thought to be of danger because of the impending possibility of hysteria and panic.” Keyhoe approves the script, but Lackland withdraws it from consideration by December. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 219–227 Source ID: Eberhart_3191 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8840 (050695A4) Date: 6/1958 Description: [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) joins NICAP as executive secretary and associate editor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 30, 208 Source ID: Eberhart_3190 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8841 (1F2BE9B1) Date: 6/1958 Description: A USAF officer secretly meets with [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and gives him three UFO reports and warns him that the Air Force will ask him for “certain UFO information. Think it over carefully before you decide.” NICAP could be in trouble, he says. Two days later, NICAP receives a request from the Air Force requesting any cases that indicate intelligent maneuvers by UFOs. Keyhoe refuses the request, sensing a setup. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 199, 232–233 Source ID: Eberhart_3189 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8842 (4EF3AEB0) Date: 6/1/1958 Description: 11:15 a.m. Bjørn Taraldsen, Nils M. Turi, Kate Julsen, and Rasmus Hykkerud watch a silent “unknown aircraft” like a twin-engine, delta-wing jet with no identifying marks plunge into the Altafjord, Troms og Finnmark, Norway. A column of water rises up, and dead fish float to the surface. The frigate [KNM Arendal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%5FBadsworth) and the submarine KNM Sarpen, along with divers, search fruitlessly for more than a week, although the Arendal does get a sonar reading of a mobile object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_3194 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8843 (50469DE7) Date: 6/1/1958 Description: At 11:15 a.m. on Sunday, June 1st, a silent "unknown aircraft" with no identifying markers crashed into the Alta fjord, Norway. At the impact site, 70 meters deep, a column of water rose up. The aircraft resembled a twin-engine delta-winged jet. The witnesses were Bjorn Taraldsen, Nils M. Turi, Kate Julsen, and Rasmus Hykkerud. When others arrived half an hour later all they found were a number of dead fish. The frigate KNM Arendal and the submarine KNM Sarpen, along with divers, searched for the aircraft fruitlessly for over a week. The Arendal, however, did get a sonar reading of a mobile object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ole Jonny Braenne, International UFO Reporter, January-February 1995, pp. 12-13 & 17 Source ID: Johnson_3199 Source: Johnson ### Event 8844 (E4757FBC) Date: 6/3/1958 Description: Physicist [Freeman Dyson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman%5FDyson) in Princeton, New Jersey, writes a speculative paper on “The Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation” in which he discusses how an advanced civilization might be visible from Earth. He suggests that the logical endpoint of the drive to capture as much energy from a sun would be for engineers to completely enclose it in a hollow sphere. Once the builders have completed it, the only light visible from their star would be the muted infrared glow of radiation heat. Such a structure, which becomes known as a “Dyson sphere,” would be a sure sign of an advanced race. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Freeman J. Dyson, “[Search for Artificial Stellar](http://www.islandone.org/LEOBiblio/SETI1.HTM) [Sources of Infrared Radiation,](http://www.islandone.org/LEOBiblio/SETI1.HTM)” Science 131 \(1960\): 1667–1668; Wikipedia, “[Dyson sphere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson%5Fsphere)” Source ID: Eberhart_3195 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8845 (B74ECA0D) Date: 6/4/1958 Description: White oval-shaped object zigzagged overhead. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sarasota, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2264 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8846 (DAA29802) Date: 6/6/1958 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) writes to NICAP member George Stocking saying that [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) has a job at an aircraft company that contracts with the Air Force and thus might be playing it safe about UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1023 Source ID: Eberhart_3196 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8847 (2F1149D4) Date: 6/7/1958 Description: A red glow appeared over the mountains in Mount Egmont, New Zealand at 9:30 p.m. A white ovoid object shot up, stopped, then shot off horizontally to the northwest passing over the heads of the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren Gross, The fifth horseman of the apocalypse: UFOs: A history. 1958: May-July, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_3349 Source: Johnson ### Event 8848 (23B95280) Date: 6/9/1958 Description: Cylinder Maneuvers Around F-102 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580609](http://www.nicap.org/580609pugetsound%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Central Puget Sound, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2265 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8849 (1556FA6C) Date: 6/9/1958 Description: At 10:17 a.m. a pilot named Scharf flying an F-102 fighter aircraft over Puget Sound, Washington State and many others sighted a white cylinder-shaped UFO with a slight orange tint, which oscillated and maneuvered for four minutes. The Air Force attempted to explain this sighting as a weather balloon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, report form dated June 11, 1958; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_3385 Source: Johnson ### Event 8850 (C9ECF98E) Date: 6/10/1958 Description: MP [George Chetwynd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FChetwynd) in the UK House of Commons asks the Air Ministry how many instances of UFOs were reported in the past 12 months and what steps were taken to look into them. Under-Secretary of State for Air [Ian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%5FOrr-Ewing%2C%5FBaron%5FOrr-Ewing) [Orr-Ewing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%5FOrr-Ewing%2C%5FBaron%5FOrr-Ewing) replies that 54 reports were received and that most were meteors, balloons, aircraft, and satellites. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unsatisfactory Answer to M.P.’s Question on UFOs by Undersecretary for Air,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CJul-Aug%2CV%204%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1958\): 5; Good Above, [p. 51](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/50/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3197 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8851 (1A42B6C5) Date: 6/12/1958 Description: B-52 Crew Member Observes Object / Spuynik III Rocket? (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580612](http://www.nicap.org/580612huntsville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huntsville (10 miles W of), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2266 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8852 (830C8D0D) Date: 6/12/1958 Description: near Le Brusc, France - Three fishermen had gone to sea on the Mediterranean Sea at night to set their nets. It was a very clear, starry night, and the sea was calm. A big orange-colored ball of light descended very quickly towards the sea, and soon it became a great big globe lying on the surface of the water. "Just lightly touching the waves it remained there for several minutes, but we had the impression that it was revolving, like a wheel turning round and round on the same place." It caused a strong air disturbance for they could see the water being whipped up around it. The ball came rolling toward the fishermen's boat, and they were terrified that it would collide with them. It didn't in fact go over them but passed very close by, making such big waves that they nearly capsized. They felt a powerful blast of heat and a strong blast of air. As it went by it made a faint humming noise. Comparing it to their boat, it seemed to be about 4 meters in diameter. Moving along by leaps, half-disappearing among the waves, it made a right-hand turn and disappeared on the horizon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR Case Histories, April 1973, pp. 13-14; Lumieres dans la Nuit (Contact Lecteurs), Series 3, No. 5, January 1971 Source ID: Johnson_3437 Source: Johnson ### Event 8853 (46F1A37A) Date: 6/14/1958 Description: A theodolite sighted an object shaped like Saturn (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5852) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pueblo, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2267 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8854 (7FD2091B) Date: 6/14/1958 Description: At 10:46 a.m. airport weather observer O. R. Foster in Pueblo, Colorado using a theodolite, sighted a domed disc-shaped object. It was silver in color but gave off no metallic luster. It flew overhead for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5852; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3473 Source: Johnson ### Event 8855 (6991037C) Date: 6/14/1958 Time: 10:46 AM Description: Witness: airport weather observer O.R. Foster, using a theodolite. An object shaped like Saturn, less the bottom part; silver with no metallic luster, flew overhead for 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pueblo, Colorado Source ID: BerlinerBBU_426 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8856 (5AB59AA8) Date: 6/20/1958 Description: Silver, circular object, its lower portion seen through green haze (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5857) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Bragg, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2268 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8857 (595C4C80) Date: 6/20/1958 Description: USAF Maj. [Joseph E. Boland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8792087/joseph-edward-boland) and Maj. [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) brief Rep. [John E. Henderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FHenderson) \(R-Ohio\) for one hour on the status of Air Force UFO investigations in the Capitol building in Columbus, Ohio. Also in attendance are Rep. [William C. Cramer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FC.%5FCramer) \(R-Fla.\), and Rep. [Donald H. Magnuson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FH.%5FMagnuson) \(D-Wash.\). Afterward, the legislators express confidence in the investigation and agree that publicity is unwise, “particularly in an open or closed formal congressional hearing.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) [May–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 48–50; Swords 276–277 Source ID: Eberhart_3198 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8858 (30714427) Date: 6/20/1958 Description: At 11:05 p.m. Fort Bragg, North Carolina Battalion Communication Chief SFC A. Parsley observed a silver, circular object, its lower portion seen through a green haze, hover, then oscillate slightly, and then move away at great speed. He watched it for 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5857; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3552 Source: Johnson ### Event 8859 (E89BB71B) Date: 6/20/1958 Description: Pilot saw a white disc the size of a basketball in straight line flight (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crystal Lake, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2270 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8860 (C57D5C06) Date: 6/20/1958 Description: An object hit water of a private lake making a circle 10 ft across w/foam (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glennie (4 miles N of), MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2269 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8861 (7FCF5AE2) Date: 6/20/1958 Time: 11:05 PM Description: Witness: Battalion Communication Chief SFC A. Parsley. One silver, circular object, its lower portion seen through a green haze, hovered, then oscillated slightly, then moved at great speed. Watched for 10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ft. Bragg, North Carolina Source ID: BerlinerBBU_427 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8862 (BC87183E) Date: Summer 1958 Description: Evening. A mechanic at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, allegedly sees a disc-like craft hovering silently above the tarmac. As the object retracts its landing gear, he manages to alert another mechanic in time for them both to see it take off at high speed. The Air Force officers who interrogate them tell them the object was also seen by control tower operators. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 223](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/222/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3188 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8863 (0FD3DF09) Date: Summer 1958 Description: At an unidentified Air Force base in the Southwest US, two jets are vectored in on two UFOs flying together as seen on radar. As the jets close in, one UFO disappears from the radarscope and quickly reappears behind the first jet. The first pilot reverses his course and again tries to close in. The UFO climbs out of range. The second pilot has the same difficulty with the other UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Chase by AF Jets Revealed to NICAP,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/008%20JUNE%201959.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 8 \(June 1959\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_3187 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8864 (A7E9B1E9) Date: 6/21/1958 Description: A two meter in diameter orange ball of fire was sighted by many at 7:15 a.m. over Chenxi County, Hunan Province, China. It was spinning out a cloud of smoke. It made a 120 degree turn near a school, and left behind a smell of ozone in the air. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_3571 Source: Johnson ### Event 8865 (AA69A468) Date: Summer 1958 Description: Radar Confirms Incident (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [58Summer](http://www.nicap.org/58SUMRswUS%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Air Force Base, Southwest US, In Airspace Source ID: NICAP_DB_2272 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8866 (9F4EFBC2) Date: 6/23/1958 Description: State policeman photographed two round UFOs. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: England AFB (near), LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2271 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8867 (219C5F47) Date: 6/25/1958 Description: 8:05 p.m. Rádio Renascença in Lisbon, Portugal, broadcasts a Portuguese-language version of The War of the Worlds with only the names of characters and places changed. The Martians are supposedly landing in Caracavelos, Portugal. A certain amount of confusion results. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds, McFarland, 2009, pp. 120–129 Source ID: Eberhart_3199 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8868 (640B1EFA) Date: 6/26/1958 Description: The New York sector becomes the first operational component of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, a system of large computers that coordinates data from many radar sites and processes it to produce a single unified image of airspace over a wide area. SAGE directs and controls the NORAD response to a Soviet air attack, operating in this role from the late 1950s into the 1980s. Its enormous computers and huge displays remain a part of Cold War lore. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Semi-Automatic Ground Environment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic%5FGround%5FEnvironment)” Source ID: Eberhart_3200 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8869 (F1E808E9) Date: 6/28/1958 Description: [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) and Norman Evans Colton appear on the [Long John Nebel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%5FJohn%5FNebel) show on WOR-AM in New York City. After Carr praises his mentor, [Nikola Tesla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%5FTesla), another guest asks Carr to enumerate one or two of his discoveries. Carr feigns a memory lapse, then later is unable to recite even one of [Newton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%5FNewton)’s three laws of motion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 860 Source ID: Eberhart_3201 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8870 (1928C2FB) Date: 6/28/1958 End date: 6/29/1958 Description: [Lee Childers Jr.](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-04-usa-detroit.htm), a baker from Detroit, Michigan, speaks at a flying saucer convention near Mountain View, Missouri, in the Ozarks hosted by contactee [Buck Nelson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck%5FNelson)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck%5FNelson) He claims that since April 1955 he has made 21 trips to other planets \(and even to “Wolf Star 359 in the Titanian system” that has 2 planets revolving around it\) on a saucer piloted by a spaceman named Commander Marcosan. He also went to a space station 2,000 miles in diameter called Trijanon. Other people tell their personal fantastic stories, among them [Wayne Aho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%5FSulo%5FAho) and Buck Nelson himself. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Out-of-This-World Ozark Convention,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94527629/)” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 6, 1958, p. 71; Clark III 915 Source ID: Eberhart_3202 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8871 (278F12C3) Date: 6/29/1958 Description: Day. Former RAF Flight Engineer Peter Spencer is flying in an Auster aircraft piloted by Dennis Jackson at 800 feet near the docks at Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. A large black dumbbell appears below them, flying against the wind. Suddenly it rises up to their height and flies along with them for a while at their speed. Then it accelerates in a terrific burst of speed to a position above them. They try to follow it, but it speeds out over the docks at 1,000 feet and 800 mph. Spencer manages to take three photos of it, but the images show a speed blur. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958, May–July](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf), The Author, 1999, p. 59 Source ID: Eberhart_3203 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8872 (353B0355) Date: 7/1958 Description: Night. A 509th Refueling Mission is returning to an Air Force Base in New Hampshire \[Pease AFB in Portsmouth?\] from Goose Bay \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador. The crew is flying a KC-97 at about 17,000– 18,000 feet. A light like a “moving star” appears. It approaches below the cloud cover and seems to be spherical and as bright as Venus. It soon becomes the apparent size of the Moon, lighting up the clouds above it. The light is a brilliant blue-white with two dark spots, possibly indicating a structure. The object angles upwards and speeds out of sight in 5 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 24–25 Source ID: Eberhart_3206 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8873 (899F7641) Date: 7/1958 Description: Dusk. [Michael D. Swords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FD.%5FSwords) and his brother Tom are at home in St. Albans, West Virginia, and listening to WCHS- AM radio where someone is calling in a UFO report. They rush to a window and see a domed disc with a revolving top cruise quietly across the landscape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 12; Michael D. Swords Source ID: Eberhart_3205 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8874 (1D405080) Date: 7/1958 Description: President [Dwight Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) requests permission from Pakistan to establish a secret US intelligence facility at Badaber \(Peshawar Air Station\) to fly U-2 reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1960 U-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%5FU-2%5Fincident) [incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%5FU-2%5Fincident)” Source ID: Eberhart_3204 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8875 (D7F9D838) Date: 7/1958 End date: 9/1958 Description: A civilian in Washington, D.C., manages to repeatedly photograph “geometrically shaped flying objects as they passed between his telescope and the moon.” The photos are “remarkably clear and certainly indicated a phenomenon for which he had no ready explanation.” The writer of an October 1 memo, a CIA employee, requests advice on “how we might get our hands on these materials to examine them firsthand and to make a more complete analysis of them.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 136–137](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/136/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3207 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8876 (D5B16DAA) Date: 7/17/1958 Description: Radar-visual sighting of circling reddish light. \[UFOE, III\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chitose AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2273 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8877 (8F9FD66E) Date: 7/17/1958 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) writes to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) to say he is puzzled about his current stance on UFOs, but understands that he might be under pressure from the Air Force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “[The Forgotten Correspondence of](http://www.nicap.org/papers/ruppelt%5Fforgotten.pdf) [Edward J. Ruppelt: The Story behind](http://www.nicap.org/papers/ruppelt%5Fforgotten.pdf) [Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,](http://www.nicap.org/papers/ruppelt%5Fforgotten.pdf)” pp. 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_3208 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8878 (13A5F964) Date: 7/18/1958 Description: 8:30 p.m. High-school student Chris Kauffman is gazing at the night sky in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he sees an object shaped like an equilateral triangle pass directly overhead in a north to south direction at 70–100 mph and 1,000 feet altitude for 10 seconds. It is flying with one point of the triangle as a forward edge and has 12 small orange lights along its edges. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) [1958, May–July,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-May-July.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 76–77 Source ID: Eberhart_3209 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8879 (535DC786) Date: 7/20/1958 Description: Two Bright Rocket-Shaped Objects Nr Navy Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2) Reference: NICAP: [580720](http://www.nicap.org/580720hamar%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamar, Norway Source ID: NICAP_DB_2274 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8880 (A16D4187) Date: 7/20/1958 Description: A pilot flying over Crystal Lake in Chicago, Illinois at 5:07 p.m. sighted a white disc-shaped object. The disc appeared to be the size of a basketball, and flew in a straight line. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_4231 Source: Johnson ### Event 8881 (C89C0421) Date: 7/26/1958 Description: Ground Observer Corps Supervisor spotted a round silvery object moving "at tremendous speed." \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Durango, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2275 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8882 (41E5A40D) Date: 7/29/1958 Description: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration succeeds the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. The new agency is to have a distinctly civilian orientation, encouraging peaceful applications in space science. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[NASA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA)” Source ID: Eberhart_3210 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8883 (0F4C2504) Date: 7/29/1958 Description: An Associated Press writer in Alamogordo, New Mexico, sees an abridged version of [Carl Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FJung)’s 1954 letters on UFOs in the APRO Bulletin and jumps to the conclusion that the psychologist believes them to be extraterrestrial in origin. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Carl Jung, “[On Unconventional Aerial Objects,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201958%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1958, pp. 1, 5; “[Dr. Jung Says ‘Saucers’ Exist: Bars Psychological Explanations,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/07/30/81921973.pdf)” New York Times, July 30, 1958, p. 13; Clark III 637 Source ID: Eberhart_3211 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8884 (CAC6C068) Date: 7/30/1958 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) writes [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) back, saying he has “always been convinced that UFO’s were nothing more than reports of airplanes, balloons, astronomical phenomena, etc.” He says he is not being intimidated, he is just not interested in UFOs anymore and too busy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “[The Forgotten Correspondence of](http://www.nicap.org/papers/ruppelt%5Fforgotten.pdf) [Edward J. Ruppelt: The Story behind](http://www.nicap.org/papers/ruppelt%5Fforgotten.pdf) [Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,](http://www.nicap.org/papers/ruppelt%5Fforgotten.pdf)” p. 16 Source ID: Eberhart_3212 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8885 (C11F63A1) Date: 7/30/1958 Description: MP [George Chetwynd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FChetwynd) presses further questions in the UK House of Commons by asking the Secretary of State for Air [George Ward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FWard%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FWard%5Fof%5FWitley) what action is taken to identify unexplained UFOs. Ward replies that the unidentified reports are “not sufficiently precise.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[More Questions in House of Commons,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1958%2CSep-Oct%2CV%204%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1958\): iv; Good Above, [pp. 51–52](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/50/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3213 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8886 (624B8BB8) Date: 8/1958 Description: Polish Air Force pilot Apoloniusz Czernów of the 3rd Fighter Regiment in Warsaw, is returning from an attempted balloon interception in the area around Świdnica, Poland. Flying at 26,000 feet, he sees another possible balloon 9 miles away at a height of 3,200 feet and turns his MiG-17 toward it. But when he approaches it, he sees it is a cigar-shaped object tilted at a 45° angle, silvery-orange in color, and pulsating with a weird light. He gets closer and the object ascends at high speed, heads north, changes to orange-red, and disappears. Base radar has detected nothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 63–64 Source ID: Eberhart_3214 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8887 (6581AA29) Date: 8/1/1958 Description: The Teak thermonuclear test, part of Operation Hardtack I, is launched from Johnston Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean and carries a payload of 3.8 megatons. The warhead is carried on a Redstone missile, which has a “program failure,” causing it to go straight up and detonate directly above the island. In a sanitized film record of the event, men in flip-flops and shorts can be seen ducking for cover as a phenomenal fireball consumes the sky overhead. During the Teak test, all crew on and around Johnston Atoll are given protective eyewear to prevent flash blindness from the explosion. Besides the hazard of blindness, thermal radiation is another concern—even at an altitude of 50 miles. A crew member on Johnston at the time is said to have received a slight sunburn from the amount of thermal radiation that had reached the island. While only slight to the crew member, it creates issues for the local fauna. Many birds are seen in distress. Unsure if this is caused by blindness or thermal radiation, the project members decide to take precautions to protect local wildlife during the next test. The explosion can be seen from Hawaii 806 miles away and is said to be visible for almost half an hour. After the explosion, high- frequency, long-distance communication is interrupted across the Pacific. Due to this failure, Johnston Atoll personnel are unable to contact their superiors to advise of the test results until about 8 hours after the detonation. The detonation disturbs [Wernher Von Braun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun) so greatly that he leaves the island shortly after comms are restored. The explosion causes the blue sky to turn red, white, and gray, and it creates an aurora 2,100 miles long along the geomagnetic meridian. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Hardtack I](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FHardtack%5FI\#Teak)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 170–171](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/170/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3215 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8888 (A0BD9BBA) Date: 8/3/1958 Description: 2:25 a.m. A sudden violet-orange brightness illuminates the sky over Rome, Italy, for about 3 seconds. Lights in the city dim, failing completely in some areas. Physician Angelo Corsi witnesses it 37 miles southeast of Rome in Sgurgola. After his car radio fails, and the house and streetlights go out, he sees a long whitish trail like a fan in the sky. At 2:22 a.m., in Rieti a sergeant and some guards see a yellow-green cigar-shaped object moving rapidly toward the southeast. It leaves a luminous trail that lights up roads, mountains, and houses for several seconds. A similar sight is seen in Naples. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 142–143; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf), The Author, 1999, pp. 1, 3 Source ID: Eberhart_3216 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8889 (E77D9A67) Date: 8/3/1958 Description: Luminous UFO observed passing overhead as city lights failed; one report of car radio failure (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rome, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_2276 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8890 (FD61C8AE) Date: 8/4/1958 Description: (McDonald list) Delta Craft Observed & Tracked On Radar At Key Base (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580804](http://www.nicap.org/580804malmstrom%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2277 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8891 (EBF778E2) Date: 8/8/1958 Description: An informal two-hour hearing on UFOs is held by the House Subcommittee on Atmospheric Phenomena, chaired by Rep. [William Natcher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FNatcher) \(D-Ky.\), which is part of the Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, chaired by Rep. [John W. McCormack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FW.%5FMcCormack) \(D-Mass.\). Although McCormack wants an extended hearing in closed secret session, unrecorded, ATIC Capt. [George T. Gregory](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory) persuades him to allow the Air Force to give a briefing, while allowing people like [Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel), [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt), and [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) to offer their opinions later. NICAP as a whole should be excluded, he emphasizes. The main witnesses turn out to be Gregory and Maj. [Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker). The subcommittee, which also includes [Kenneth Keating](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FKeating) \(R-N.Y.\) and [Lee Metcalf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FMetcalf) \(D-Mont.\), commends Gregory for his presentation on Project Blue Book’s “improved” methods. The hearings were to have been extended to the following week, but they decide to call no more witnesses at the suggestion of scientific consultant Dr. [Charles S.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/09/12/charles-sheldon-ii-dies/904f7180-198d-4a93-82ac-ff28c700b9e0/) [Sheldon II](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/09/12/charles-sheldon-ii-dies/904f7180-198d-4a93-82ac-ff28c700b9e0/)[,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/09/12/charles-sheldon-ii-dies/904f7180-198d-4a93-82ac-ff28c700b9e0/) who thus maneuvers Keyhoe out of appearing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 5–27; Swords 277–279 Source ID: Eberhart_3217 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8892 (E9D47307) Date: 8/8/1958 Description: At 1:27 a.m. an official of the Argentine National Senate experienced a complete car failure, including his dashboard clock, when he saw a domed disc-shaped object 300 meters away while driving on the highway between Unsue and Bolivar, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. The object made a soft whistling sound. It approached the car, then climbed away rapidly, after which the car could be restarted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_4770 Source: Johnson ### Event 8893 (D46670B8) Date: 8/9/1958 Description: [Carl Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FJung) issues a denial to the Associated Press about his “extraterrestrial” statement, saying that witnesses are “in need of fantasy.” He thinks “something is being seen,” but his interest is more in what they think they are seeing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Dr. Jung Says Flying Saucers Are a New ‘Savior Myth,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94531153/)” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 9, 1958, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_3218 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8894 (C996C4BF) Date: 8/11/1958 Description: Betty Jane Williamson dies in Lima, Peru, when her husband [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) is on a lecture tour in Europe. Her death is caused by malnutrition generated by an alternative diet regimen. [James W. Moseley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FW.%5FMoseley) later circulates an outrageously false accusation that Williamson killed Betty by pushing her off a cliff, but the charge is a complete fabrication. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1286; James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 137–138; Jerome Clark, “The Trivialist,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 15–19, 29–30; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 117, 123–124 Source ID: Eberhart_3220 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8895 (C92046FD) Date: 8/11/1958 Description: At 3:45 p.m. a gray "amoeba" shape flew by Orlean, New York in 15 seconds; there were silver dots inside dark "eyes" according to the separate witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: August, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_4864 Source: Johnson ### Event 8896 (68E66C3C) Date: 8/11/1958 Description: A procession of four or five flying objects passed over Chautauqua Lake, New York beginning at around nine o'clock in the evening and continuing until 10:30 p.m. An engineering professor reported seeing a circle of nocturnal lights that seemed to be attached, plus other NLs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1958, p. 2; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 58; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5460 Source ID: Johnson_4865 Source: Johnson ### Event 8897 (EA0B40A8) Date: 8/11/1958 Description: Engineering professor observed unidentified lights arranged as if on oval object. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chautauqua Lake, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2279 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8898 (D586535E) Date: 8/11/1958 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Osel Island and Gulf of Finland, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2278 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8899 (DC3420C6) Date: 8/11/1958 Description: The Orange thermonuclear test is launched by Redstone missile from Johnston Atoll with a yield of 3.8 megatons. Although Orange is visible from Hawaii, it is not the great spectacle Teak had been. The light from the 28-mile-high blast is visible for about 5 minutes, but does not cause a large communication interruption; however, some commercial flights to Hawaii are said to have lost contact with air traffic controllers for a short period of time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Hardtack I](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FHardtack%5FI\#Orange)” Source ID: Eberhart_3219 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8900 (C33CF006) Date: 8/12/1958 Description: A small ovoid object was sighted by an electrical engineer and his family as it flew to the south at a low altitude at 9:30 p.m. over Alamagordo, New Mexico. A sound of rushing air was heard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1958 Source ID: Johnson_4937 Source: Johnson ### Event 8901 (48516BE7) Date: 8/12/1958 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas (12 miles NW of), NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2280 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8902 (D0BF3F06) Date: 8/16/1958 Description: Around 5:00 p.m. Several persons on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, watch a bright light descending. It comes to hover about 45 feet above their boat. It is saucer-shaped, about 39 feet in diameter, and has a cabin on top with several windows. It causes a noticeable current in the water. After several leaps in the air, it flies off at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 272](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/272/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3221 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8903 (ECDD4966) Date: 8/16/1958 Description: A dozen people were out on Leman Lake in Switzerland in perfect weather at five o'clock in the afternoon when they saw a bright light coming down toward the lake. They stopped their boat as it came to hover about 15 meters above them. It was saucer-shaped, 10 meters in diameter, and had a cabin with several windows showing on top. The outer disc below the cabin was spinning. As it came down toward the water, a noticeable current was created on the surface. No noise or occupants were noticed. After several leaps in mid-air, the craft flew off at "unbelievable" speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 469, citing Aime Michel Source ID: Johnson_5073 Source: Johnson ### Event 8904 (EDBD0EDC) Date: 8/16/1958 Time: 1700 Description: A dozen people out on the lake in perfect weather saw a bright light coming down. They stopped their boat as it came to hover about 15 m above them. It was saucer-shaped, 10 m in diameter, with a cabin showing several windows on top. The outer disk below the cabin was spinning. As it came down toward the water, a noticeable current was created. No noise or occupants were noticed. After several leaps in mid-air, the craft flew off at "unbelievable" speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Leman Lake, Switzerland Source ID: Magnonia_469 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8905 (AA721BFE) Date: 8/17/1958 Time: 7:05 PM Description: Witness: A.D. Chisholm. One extremely bright object shaped first like a bell, then like a saucer, hovered for 5 minutes, flipped over and sped away to the west-south-west. Sighting lasted 6-10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Warren, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_428 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8906 (1E0745B4) Date: 8/17/1958 Description: Dome-shaped disc with "portholes" followed jets, hovered. \[NICAP, XII\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kansas City, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2281 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8907 (55014077) Date: 8/17/1958 Description: At 7:05 p.m. in Warren, Michigan Mr. A. D. Chisholm observed an extremely bright UFO shaped first like a bell and then like a saucer. When maneuvering it seemed shaped like a fried egg. It gave the impression of a huge size at extreme range. It was much brighter than Venus, at 70 degrees elevation. It hovered for five minutes, then flipped over and sped away to the west-southwest. The sighting lasted 6-10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 5999; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 32; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 71; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 100 Source ID: Johnson_5110 Source: Johnson ### Event 8908 (C1AFE9DD) Date: 8/17/1958 Description: Extremely bright object shaped first like a bell, then a saucer (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 5999) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warren, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2282 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8909 (3F0935BD) Date: 8/18/1958 Description: 7:05 or 7:10 p.m. Typewriter repairman Alex Donald Chisholm is at home at 21950 Cunningham Avenue in Warren, Michigan, with Walter Moilanion and his wife and possibly a young daughter, when he sees a light much brighter than Venus in the vicinity of a flight of four military aircraft. He watches the object through 8x30 mm Japanese artillery-observer field glasses. It looks to be a Saturn-shaped grayish object like a “fried egg in pan.” Later it flips over, and another more elongated ring can be seen surrounding it. The object is about 60 feet long and is stationary for 5-8 minutes. However, the object is probably a Skyhook balloon launched from the University of Minnesota on August 17. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 392; NICAP, \[[case file](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/1958%5F08%5F18%5FUS%5FMI%5FWarren%5FChisholm.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_3222 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8910 (D2E77068) Date: 8/24/1958 Description: Police reported a circular, orange UFO which hovered, sped away. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westwood, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2283 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8911 (8EC81F23) Date: 8/27/1958 End date: 9/6/1958 Description: In Operation Argus, three nuclear warheads are launched from X-17 rockets from the deck of the [USS Norton Sound](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FNorton%5FSound%5F%28AVM-1%29) in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Africa. They explode approximately 300 miles into space. The tests are proposed by [Nicholas Christofilos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%5FChristofilos) in an unpublished paper of the Livermore branch \[now the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\] of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, as a means to verify the Christofilos effect, which argues that high-altitude nuclear detonations will create a radiation belt in the extreme upper regions of the Earth’s atmosphere \(they do create artificial electron belts that persist several weeks\), or an electronic pulse that could hypothetically damage the arming devices on Soviet ICBM warheads \(they do not\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Argus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FArgus)” Source ID: Eberhart_3223 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8912 (F5EDF010) Date: 8/30/1958 Description: (McDonald list) Uncorrelated Target At 3,300 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580830](http://www.nicap.org/580830gray%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Killeen (Gray AFB), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2284 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8913 (99596F9F) Date: 8/31/1958 Description: Over La Verde, Buenos Aires province, Argentina an airplane's engine increased revolutions when a UFO was sighted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 75; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 21, citing Leonard Cramp, Piece for a Jigsaw, p. 214 Source ID: Johnson_5522 Source: Johnson ### Event 8914 (DA4C162A) Date: 8/31/1958 Description: Light aircraft (Piper) engine increased its revolutions abnormally during UFO sighting. Engine normal after UFO left (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Verde, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_2285 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8915 (30246A20) Date: 9/1958 Description: Around 9:00 p.m. The [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FFranklin%5FD.%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CV-42%29) is on a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea out of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, when at least 25 of the 3,000 crew members notice a light following the aircraft carrier. Fireman’s apprentice [Chester C. Grusinski](https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0677-039) watches it as it comes close and sees a cigar-shaped object with portholes and figures inside looking out. Grusinki can feel heat coming from the object, and some of the ship’s power apparently goes out. After a few minutes, the object turns red-orange and takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chester C. Grusinski, “[UFOs Seen by Crew of an American Aircraft Carrier \(1952–1958\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201995%20V%2040%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 40, no. 3 \(Autumn 1995\): 1–4; Gordon Creighton, “[Confirmation of an Important U.S. Naval Sighting,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%202001%20V%2046%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 46, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 17–20; Good Need, [pp. 234–236](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/234/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3225 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8916 (5F1D3A1D) Date: 9/1958 Description: NICAP fires its office manager, treasurer, and typist Rose Hackett Campbell after she gives membership cards to [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and other contactees. [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) begins work at NICAP as associate editor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Resignations,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/005%20AUG-SEPT%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 5 \(Aug./Sept. 1958\): 2; “[Richard Hall Becomes Assoc. Editor,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/005%20AUG-SEPT%201958.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 5 \(Aug./Sept. 1958\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_3224 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8917 (3F9537D6) Date: 9/1/1958 Time: 2130 Description: About 11 km before Laval, a businessman coming from Paris suddenly saw a motionless object, 10 m above ground, to the left of the road, 150 m away. It was shaped like two cones with a common base and showed two rows of about ten openings in the middle section. It seemed about 20 m wide, metallic, with a light similar to that of a red traffic light shining through the windows. The witness had time to stop and maneuvered to get the object in his headlight beams. Throughout the observation a whistling sound such as that of a jet aircraft was heard. The object rose very slowly, flew off faster climbing out of sight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 119 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Laval, France Source ID: Magnonia_470 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8918 (DC8C980D) Date: 9/1/1958 Time: 12:15 AM Description: Witness: Philco technical representative A.M. Slaton. One round, blue-white object flew at varying speeds. First sighting lasted 2 minutes, second lasted 1.5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Wheelus AFB, Libya Source ID: BerlinerBBU_429 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8919 (9E370C27) Date: 9/1/1958 Description: At 12:15 a.m. A. M. Slaton, a Philco technical representative working as a government contractor, sighted a round, bluish-white object at Wheelus AFB, Libya. It was flying at varying speeds. His first sighting lasted two minutes and the second lasted 1.5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5552 Source: Johnson ### Event 8920 (3A82E15E) Date: 9/1/1958 Description: At 9:30 p.m., about 11 km before reaching Laval, France a businessman driving from Paris suddenly saw a motionless object, 10 meters above ground to the left of the road. It was about 150 meters away. It was shaped like two cones with a common base and had two rows of about ten openings in the middle section. It seemed about 20 meters wide, metallic, with a light similar to a red traffic light shining through the windows. The witness had time to stop and maneuver his car to get the object in his headlight beams. Throughout the observation a whistling sound such as that of a jet aircraft was heard. The object rose very slowly, and then flew off faster climbing out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 470 Source ID: Johnson_5553 Source: Johnson ### Event 8921 (9455B0DC) Date: 9/1/1958 Description: A round, blue-white object fly at varying speeds (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6027) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wheelus AFB, Tripoli, N. Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_2286 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8922 (CB50CB88) Date: 9/2/1958 Description: At nine o'clock several violent bluish-white flashes were seen at ground level in Docelles, France. The next day four deep rectangular imprints were found in the ground at the site. The imprints were five meters apart, and arranged in a square. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1976 Source ID: Johnson_5567 Source: Johnson ### Event 8923 (61B6FDE4) Date: 9/5/1958 Description: Pan Am Pilot Observes Object / Tracked By Airborne Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580905](http://www.nicap.org/580905atlantic%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlantic (at 29° 3' N, 68°56' W)., At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2287 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8924 (618FC30C) Date: 9/7/1958 Description: Uncorrelated Targets Vanish When A/C Approached (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580907](http://www.nicap.org/580907milescity%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot (Miles City AFS, Ellsworth AFB), ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_2288 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8925 (613BF9A1) Date: 9/7/1958 Description: Publisher saw white disc speed overhead. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mission, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2289 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8926 (934B6DB3) Date: 9/8/1958 Description: Offutt air traffic control tower personnel, saw an brilliantly white elongated cylindrical object hovering in the W (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: SAC HQ, Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_2290 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8927 (088FB856) Date: 9/8/1958 Description: 6:40 p.m. At Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska, SAC Operations Officer Maj. [Paul A. Duich](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43844001/paul-a-duich)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43844001/paul-a-duich) plus several officers from USAF Ballistic Missiles Division, Los Angeles AFB in El Segundo, California; many other air base officers and airmen; and Offutt air traffic control tower personnel see a brilliant-white, elongated, cylindrical object hovering in the west just after sunset. The object is oriented vertically with the blunter end highest. After several minutes, the object turns dull orange-red and becomes sharper in outline. A swarm of about 10 “black specks” appears to “cavort” around the lower end of the object for about one minute before disappearing. Then the cylindrical object begins to rotate counterclockwise and starts drifting slowly to the south from due west and drops in elevation angle over about 5 minutes. During the final 5-minute observation, the object continues angular descent and gradually decreases in angular size, but it begins rotating clockwise until it disappears by fading into the slight atmospheric haze. A USAF colonel takes several color photos with a 35mm camera on a tripod but later claims nothing came out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) [August–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 59–63; UFOEv, [pp. 25](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=37&skin=2021), [27](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=39&skin=2021); Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 5–6; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 265; Swords 280 Source ID: Eberhart_3226 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8928 (F80C84EF) Date: 9/8/1958 Description: Air Force Major Duich and several others at Offutt AFB, Nebraska saw a rocket-like UFO with a group of satellite objects for 20 minutes at 6:40 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1961, p. 4; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 127, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_5755 Source: Johnson ### Event 8929 (B325E59B) Date: 9/12/1958 Description: The Operation Hardtack II series of 37 nuclear tests takes place at the Nevada Test Site through October 30, all within 18 miles of Area 51. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Hardtack II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FHardtack%5FII)” Source ID: Eberhart_3227 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8930 (63FA6D41) Date: 9/14/1958 Description: Unidentified Returns on GCI Scope (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580914](http://www.nicap.org/580914tripoli%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wheelus AFB, Tripoli, Libya Source ID: NICAP_DB_2291 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8931 (4A26ACBC) Date: 9/21/1958 Time: 0300 Description: A circular, flat object, 7 m in diameter, 2 m thick, hovering 1.5 m above ground, and making a jetlike sound was seen from a house by a civilian woman. Its color was that of aluminum; it had a wobbling motion and emitted gray smoke before rising again and taking off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sheffield Lake, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_471 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8932 (6FAA4C82) Date: 9/21/1958 Description: Woman inside her house saw a circular, aluminum color flat object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sheffield Lake, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2292 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8933 (51AF210A) Date: 9/21/1958 Description: A circular, flat object, seven meters in diameter and two meters thick, was seen by a woman from her home at three o'clock in the morning, hovering 1.5 meters above the ground in Sheffield Lake, Ohio. It made a sound like a jet and was aluminum in color. It wobbled and emitted gray smoke before rising up again and taking off into the night sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1958, p. 2, December 1958, p. 5; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 471; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 113 Source ID: Johnson_6179 Source: Johnson ### Event 8934 (D4EDE06F) Date: 9/21/1958 Description: 3:00 a.m. Mrs. William H. Fitzgerald of Sheffield Lake, Ohio, sees through her east-facing bedroom window a metallic domed disc, 12–22 feet in diameter and 6 feet thick. It sweeps in over the front lawn heading north and descending in a falling-leaf oscillating motion to about 6 feet altitude, then crosses over her driveway, and stops for several seconds about 40 feet away. It then reverses course heading south and hovers 5 feet above the lawn about 25 feet away, making a jetlike sound. The object wobbles and emits gray smoke, makes two tight clockwise turns, then rises and takes off straight up over the house towards the east. Her 10-year-old son also observes the event from another room. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[12ʹ Diameter 6ʹ Thick Disc within 40ʹ](http://www.nicap.org/580921sheffield%5Fdir.htm)”; UFO Ev, [p. 113](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=125&skin=2021); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 68–72 Source ID: Eberhart_3228 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8935 (1F21DED7) Date: 9/23/1958 Description: (McDonald list) Red Object Tracked At Mach 1 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [580923](http://www.nicap.org/580923bermuda%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kindley AFB, Bermuda Source ID: NICAP_DB_2293 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8936 (E3827C9E) Date: 9/25/1958 Description: The Project Moonwatch team in Portland, Oregon, is looking at the Moon when they see objects crossing the lunar disc. Occasionally they recognize the transit as a bird, but there are “tiny dark objects” that behave differently. All the object pass in the same direction and in the same location for about one second. Supervisor Alex Geddes, who was not present, sends a supportive letter to the observers, thanking them for the data. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_3229 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8937 (2AAF2D99) Date: 9/29/1958 Description: 5:30 a.m. Pvt. Jerome A. Scanlon, stationed at Nike missile base W-93 in Derwood, Maryland, is walking from his sentry post to the barracks to sound reveille when he hears a humming sound above him. He looks up and sees a teardrop-shaped object 300 feet up and coming in for a landing at 30 mph. It moves over trees, breaking branches, and lands about 1.5 miles away. Exhaust flames issue from its rear, and its luminous green skin illuminates the terrain. It rises again and disappears. Scanlon runs to inform Riney Farris, the sergeant of the guard, who has also seen the object. They go to the landing site and find broken branches and a scorched strip of earth and vegetation about half a mile long. After the story appears in newspapers, the Air Force explains it as repair trucks doing welding jobs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Brass to Hear GI’s Account of Fiery ‘Saucer,’” New York Journal- American, October 7, 1958; “‘Saucer’ Landed, Say Two Soldiers,” Goldsboro \(N.C.\) Record, October 9, 1958; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 90–91; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Aug-Sept.pdf) The Author, 1999, p. 79 Source ID: Eberhart_3230 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8938 (9BBB9E84) Date: 10/1958 Description: Maj. [Robert J. Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) takes over as head of Project Blue Book, relieving Capt. [George T. Gregory](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158570232/george-thurston-gregory) About this time, a new USAF fact sheet states that investigative improvements have reduced unsolved sightings to 1.8%. The “refinement” comes from lumping “probable” and “possible” identifications into “identified.” At the same time, a secret staff study by USAF intelligence officers addresses the public relations problems caused by [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe), who is characterized as a “political adventurer” allied with [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) both of whom are in the UFO “business” strictly for the money. Yet together “they represent a formidable team from which plenty of trouble can be expected.” The study recommends that 18–20 personnel be assigned to temporary UFO investigation duty. They would solve reports that have not been sent directly to Blue Book. Though ATIC urges implementation of the plan, Air Force Headquarters kills it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 146–151](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/146/mode/2up); Clark III 920; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 25–27](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/24/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_3231 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8939 (7F195EDA) Date: 10/1/1958 Description: NASA begins operations. It includes three major labs: Langley Aeronautical Laboratory \[now Langley Research Center\] in Hampton, Virginia; Ames Aeronautical Laboratory \[now Ames Research Center\] in Mountain View, California; and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory \[now Glenn Research Center\] in Brook Park, Ohio. It incorporates elements of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and the US Naval Research Laboratory. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[NASA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA)” Source ID: Eberhart_3232 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8940 (22D5A5AD) Date: 10/2/1958 Time: 2:30 PM Description: Witness: naturalist Ivan Sanderson. One dull-grey object, shaped like a pickle with a flat bottom, flew erratically and made loops for 15 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_430 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8941 (8DCE26EF) Date: 10/2/1958 Description: An enormous object that first looked like a puff of smoke, then "like pickle with a flat bottom" was sighted in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania at 5:29 p.m. At was a dull gray color. It went from appearing diaphanous to solid in appearance, then went black momentarily. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6089 Source ID: Johnson_6493 Source: Johnson ### Event 8942 (24F270FD) Date: 10/2/1958 Description: Zoologist watched disc circling and maneuvering. \[UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Blairstown (near), NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2295 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8943 (88297A65) Date: 10/2/1958 Description: Naturalist Ivan Sanderson saw a dull-grey object w/flat bottom (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6089) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stroudsburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2294 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8944 (2A92C219) Date: 10/2/1958 Description: Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Naturalist [Ivan T. Sanderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%5FT.%5FSanderson) sees a dull-gray object, shaped like a pickle with a flat bottom, fly erratically in loops over the Delaware Water Gap near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Nickel-](http://www.nicap.org/581002blairstown%5Fdir.htm) [Shaped Object Flies Loops \(Sanderson Case\)](http://www.nicap.org/581002blairstown%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [p. 52](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=64&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 266 Source ID: Eberhart_3233 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8945 (49A2AD34) Date: 10/3/1958 Description: 3:10 a.m. A Monon Railroad freight train is traveling between Owasco and Kirklin, Indiana, when a formation of four odd white lights crosses ahead of the train. The entire crew watch the UFOs turn and traverse the full length of the train, front to back \(about a half mile\). After passing the rear of the train, the objects swing east, turn back, and follow the train. The bright glow conceals their exact shape, but they appear flattened and sometimes fly on edge. The objects follow the train until the conductor shines a bright light on them. Immediately the objects speed away, but return quickly and continue to pace the train. Total time of observation is about 1 hour 10 minutes. Finally the UFOs move away to the northeast and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Monon RR UFO](http://www.nicap.org/581003wasco%5Fdir.htm) [Incident](http://www.nicap.org/581003wasco%5Fdir.htm)”; “[They’re Back Again—in Indiana,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201958%2011%2000%20-%20November.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, November 1958, 1, 3; Frank Edwards, “UFO Buzzes Train,” Fate 12, no. 2 \(February 1959\): 25–30 Source ID: Eberhart_3234 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8946 (548808F8) Date: 10/3/1958 Description: At 3:20 a.m. in Owasco, Indiana four big, soft white elliptical lights, about 40 meters in diameter, maneuvered back and forth just above tree top level while changing color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1959, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_6525 Source: Johnson ### Event 8947 (1E738B12) Date: 10/3/1958 Description: Portable radio emitted strange buzz as green fireball passed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fukushima-Ken, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2296 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8948 (2EB8757D) Date: 10/3/1958 Description: The Monon RR UFO Incident (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [581003](http://www.nicap.org/581003wasco%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wasco, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2297 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8949 (8303EB6A) Date: 10/7/1958 Description: 2:55 p.m. Joseph Gwooz, master of the [SS Nantucket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%5FNantucket%5F%281957%29), sees a gray, oval object in the sky at an altitude of 8,000–10,000 feet at the entrance to the Nantucket Channel, Massachusetts. It remains stationary for more than one minute, then shoots up and away to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 71](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=83&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3235 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8950 (5ADAC720) Date: 10/7/1958 Description: 6:02 p.m. Chemist John R. Townsend, special assistant for research and engineering to the Assistant Secretary of Defense, sees a large, stationary, sharply outlined Saturn-shaped silvery object \(with a “gossamer” surface appearance and a rim or girdle around its equator\) in a clear sky in Alexandria, Virginia. It rapidly rises at an estimated speed of 1,000 mph and disappears to the south after 40 seconds. At one point a passing Capitol Airlines Flight 407 flies directly between his line of sight and the UFO at 2 miles distance, allowing him to estimate the UFO’s size as about 500 feet. Townsend reenacts the timing by walking the half block down Lee Street to get a better feeling for its distance and size. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Saturn-Shaped Object Observed, Object](http://www.nicap.org/581007alexandria%5Fdir.htm) [Confirmed by Pilot](http://www.nicap.org/581007alexandria%5Fdir.htm)”; Swords 282; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 267 Source ID: Eberhart_3236 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8951 (2E94365C) Date: 10/7/1958 Description: Ship's Master, others watched a grayish oval object hover for several minutes, then climb away at high speed. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nantucket, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2298 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8952 (6DBE3EC8) Date: 10/7/1958 Description: Saturn shaped “silvery” or “aluminum clad” oblate spherical object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alexandria, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2299 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8953 (5FBFF16D) Date: 10/11/1958 Description: (McDonald list) Unidentified Target During Radar Mission 164 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [581011](http://www.nicap.org/581011laredo%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Laredo, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2300 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8954 (D542036B) Date: 10/12/1958 Description: Police reported several yellowish UFOs moving in all directions. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aurora, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2301 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8955 (2A89B2AB) Date: 10/17/1958 Description: (Hynek UFO Rpt p. 44) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grand Rapids, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2302 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8956 (ADC81439) Date: 10/26/1958 Description: Egg-Shaped Object & E-M Effects Over Bridge (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: 6148, NC) Reference: NICAP: [581026](http://www.nicap.org/581026lochravendam%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lock Raven Dam, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2306 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8957 (4DCF4C6A) Date: 10/26/1958 Description: Two men, Small and Cohen, had a close encounter with a 100-foot-long ovoid object with an irridescent moon glow as they drove near Loch Raven Dam in Baltimore County, Maryland. The object flew at 150 feet altitude, and when it approached their car at the bridge over the reservoir the car engine, dashboard lights, and headlights all died at a distance of 200 to 300 feet. The witnesses felt heat coming from the object and later discovered that they had sunburns on their exposed skin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6148; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 1; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, pp. 74-75; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 115; UNICAT, case # 392 Source ID: Johnson_7145 Source: Johnson ### Event 8958 (1B030449) Date: 10/26/1958 Description: Research chemist saw 2-3 bright objects pass through field of telescope. \[VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lafayette, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2304 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8959 (218AFE07) Date: 10/26/1958 Description: 10:30 p.m. Alvin Cohen and Phillip Small are rounding a curve on Maryland Route 146 some 600–900 feet south of the bridge at Loch Raven Reservoir, Maryland. They see a large \(100 feet long\) egg-shaped object hanging 100–150 feet above the bridge. When they drive to within 75 feet of it their car stalls and the dash lights turn off. They get out of the car and watch the UFO from behind it for 30–45 seconds. The UFO flashes a beam of white light and they feel heat on their faces. They also hear a dull explosion. The UFO rises vertically and disappears in 5–10 seconds. They are able to start the car and drive into Towson, Maryland, to make a phone call to the Ground Observer Corps and the police. Police Cpl. Kenneth Hartmann and Patrolman Richard Fink drive up and they tell them the story, then they go to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Baltimore and are given a cursory examination for burns. Other people in the neighborhood either see an object at the time or hear the boom. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Baltimore’s Flying Saucer,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99777236/)” Baltimore \(Md.\) Evening Sun, December 15, 1958, p. 21; NICAP, “[Egg-Shaped](http://www.nicap.org/581026lochravendam%5Fdir.htm) [Object & E-M Effects over Bridge](http://www.nicap.org/581026lochravendam%5Fdir.htm)”; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 62–63; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Oct.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 October](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Oct.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Oct.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp, 73–86; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 132](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/132/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/132/mode/2up) [139–140](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/138/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 268; Clark III 686 Source ID: Eberhart_3237 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8960 (CBA56FB1) Date: 10/26/1958 Description: UFO observed hovering over bridge ahead of car; motor and headlights failed, two passengers felt heat (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baltimore, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2303 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8961 (D94E8F69) Date: 10/27/1958 Description: An object resembling a large gray cigar with an assembly tail flew at treetop height, making a strong "swishing" sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Union Dale, Pennsylvania Source ID: Magnonia_472 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8962 (88CFCAD5) Date: 10/27/1958 Time: 10:30 PM Description: Witnesses: Phillip Small, Alvin Cohen. One large, flat egg-shaped object affected a car's electrical system and caused a burning sensation on one of its occupants. Sighting lasted 1 minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lock Raven Dam, Maryland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_431 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8963 (8CD0CC1E) Date: 10/27/1958 Description: Large gray cigar-like object with an assembly tail flew at treetop height (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Union Dale, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2305 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8964 (90F0B028) Date: 10/27/1958 Description: An object resembling a large gray cigar with an assembly tail flew at treetop level over Union Dale, Pennsylvania making a strong "swishing" sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 472 Source ID: Johnson_7190 Source: Johnson ### Event 8965 (08B2A812) Date: 10/28/1958 Description: Two members of the Ohio Highway Patrol drove east of Georgetown, Ohio on SR125 at 4:20 p.m. when the witness saw a "huge silver disc" over the power lines and he asked the driver to stop. They went back to the police station, and the dispatcher also saw it. The three of them watched until the UFO departed off in the distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Delbert E. Anderson, MUFON field investigation database, case 951112dC Source ID: Johnson_7223 Source: Johnson ### Event 8966 (5EC80ABB) Date: 10/31/1958 Time: 1550 Description: A civilian reported an eliptical, aluminum-colored object at 2 km altitude, coming down to 4 m, flying up and down by sudden jumps, stopping at ground level less than 200 m away for five min. A red light appeared at one end of the object, which gradually took a fiery color, then exploded. The witness ran away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Caledon East, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_473 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8967 (C8E3CC09) Date: 10/31/1958 Description: Civilian saw an elliptical, aluminum-colored (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caledon East, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2307 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8968 (BD3293B0) Date: 10/31/1958 Description: At 3:50 p.m. an elliptical, aluminum object was first spotted flying at two kilometers altitude in Caledon East, Ontario but it quickly descended to just four meters above the ground. It flew up-and-down by sudden jumps at the ground level, less than 200 meters away, for five minutes. It had a red light at one end that changed to a fiery color, then the object exploded. The witness ran. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 473, citing US Air Force ATIC Source ID: Johnson_7332 Source: Johnson ### Event 8969 (6CDFF27A) Date: 11/1958 Time: 0500 Description: Two soldiers of the Territorial Army on an exercise near Ballater heard a "gurgling noise" and saw two figures, over 2 m tall, dressed in peculiar suits. As they fled, they heard a "swishing" noise and saw a large disk flying at ground level, which then swooped over their heads and away, pulsating and leaving a sparkling trail. Witnesses were in a state of shock. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Braemar, Scotland Source ID: Magnonia_474 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8970 (42D4E027) Date: 11/1958 Description: Skandinavisk UFO Information in Denmark begins publishing UFO-Nyt. \([UFO-Nyt](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Denmark/UFO%20Nyt%20%28SUFOI%29/1958/UFO%20Nyt%20-%20November%201958.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Denmark/UFO%20Nyt%20%28SUFOI%29/1958/UFO%20Nyt%20-%20November%201958.pdf) November 1958\) November 3 — 2:01 p.m. At Minot, North Dakota, M/Sgt. William R. Butler, a medic, sees one bright-green object, shaped like a 10-cent piece, and one smaller, silver round object. The first object explodes, then the second object moves toward the location of the first at high speed. Sighting lasts 1 minute. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 268 Source ID: Eberhart_3238 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8971 (08343F6B) Date: 11/1958 Description: Radar tracked UFO which descended, moved horizontally, climbed out of radar beam. \[UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: DEW Line, DEW Line Source ID: NICAP_DB_2308 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8972 (B328E895) Date: 11/3/1958 Time: 2:01 PM Description: Witness: M/Sgt. William R. Butler, medic. One bright green object, shaped like a 10 cent piece, and one smaller, silver round object. First object exploded, then second object moved toward the location of the first at high speed. Sighting lasted 1 minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Minot, North Dakota Source ID: BerlinerBBU_432 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 8973 (4CF50242) Date: 11/3/1958 Description: Bright green object and one smaller, silver round object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6153) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_2309 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8974 (3A7247AF) Date: 11/4/1958 Description: 9:03 p.m. The pilot of a KB-50 USAF tanker is in the downwind leg of the traffic pattern during a ground- controlled approach to Pope AFB \[now Pope Field\] in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when he notices an object on a collision course. He and his flight crew also notice that “strange lights were observed in his cockpit while he was on the final approach...” He executes a go-around maneuver and climbs in altitude to await the disappearance of the object. Air Force tower personnel also see the UFO hovering above the airport, watching it through their binoculars for 20 minutes. They are convinced it is not an atmospheric phenomenon. They say that “the UFO presented a hazard to aircraft operating in the area.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object on Collision Course with KB-50 Tanker,](http://www.nicap.org/581103pope%5Fdir.htm) [Circles](http://www.nicap.org/581103pope%5Fdir.htm)”; Richard F. Haines, “[Aviation Safety in America: A Previously Neglected Factor,](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d02ea1772637c00014776c5/1560472092579/narcap.TR1.AvSafety.pdf)” NARCAP, October 15, 2000, pp. 53–54; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 268 Source ID: Eberhart_3239 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8975 (E5B887E8) Date: 11/4/1958 Description: Object On Collision Course With KB-50 Tanker, Circles (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [581104](http://www.nicap.org/581103pope%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pope AFB, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2310 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8976 (2B477CFE) Date: 11/5/1958 Description: MP [Roy Mason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%5FMason) asks the Air Minister in the UK House of Commons to what extent official records are kept of UFO sightings and what departments are involved. Air Minister [George Ward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FWard%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FWard%5Fof%5FWitley) replies in writing that reports involving national security are investigated but “nothing suggests that they are other than mundane.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Come Off It, Mr. Ward! ‘Nothing Suggests That They Are Other Than Mundane,’](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CJan-Feb%2CV%205%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1959\): 2; Good Above, [p. 52](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/52/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3240 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8977 (FDE2FC4E) Date: 11/5/1958 Description: Hovering light suddenly sped away. \[UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Conway, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2311 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8978 (01B187C7) Date: 11/6/1958 Description: At 3:00 p.m. in Shawbridge, Quebec several silver points of light flew in pairs and large groups. Jet aircraft pursued them but could not catch up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 42 Source ID: Johnson_7500 Source: Johnson ### Event 8979 (FB664F93) Date: 11/8/1958 Description: Air Force pilot and 500 observers saw a moving saucer at 40,000 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brazilia, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2312 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8980 (6B08C115) Date: 11/9/1958 Description: 10:00 p.m. Two carpenters, Stig Ekberg and Harry Sjöberg, are returning from Stockholm, Sweden, to their cabin on Väddö island, about 20 miles to the northeast. About 6 miles north of Älmstä their car engine begins to sputter and fail, and the headlights go out. They see a huge, shining object descending toward them and making a turn above Väddö Bay to the left of the road. It lands in the middle of the road about 300 feet in front of their car, its neon glow illuminating the landscape. They estimate it is 53 feet long and 20 feet high, with a bright glow underneath the object and a dazzling mist surrounding it. They watch the object for about 10 minutes, then it rises from the road and shoots into the sky to their right. Afterward, the air is stifling and hot, but the engine starts up right away. A few minutes later they return to the landing site and find flattened grass and a still-hot, smooth, triangular piece of metal the size of a matchbox, which they retrieve. They submit the metal to several labs over the next few years, apparently without ambiguous results, but in the process it is split into three pieces. Finally, an engineer in Linköping named Schalin finds the metal has the hardness of sapphire and a specific weight of 15.2. It can take several thousand degrees C. heat without getting red hot. One of the pieces is submitted to the US Air Force and not returned. In the early 1970s, another piece is examined by [James Harder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder) at the University of California, Berkeley, who establishes it is composed of tungsten carbide, cobalt, and traces of titanium, and that it has been manufactured. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Christer Nordin, “[The Väddö Case,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20%28English%20language%29/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%201981%20No%201.pdf)” Nordic UFO Newsletter, no. 1 \(1981\): 2–6 Source ID: Eberhart_3242 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8981 (773B80A7) Date: 11/9/1958 Description: Residents of Trinidad, Rio Dell, and other towns in northern California report showers of cobweblike material, some in strands 5–6 feet long. Two fishermen at sea, [George Korkan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210091895/george-washington-korkan) and Jack Curry, say the substance settles on their boat in such quantity that it makes the boat appear “a million years old.” A sample obtained at McKinleyville is examined by biologist Erwin Bielfuss at Humboldt State College. He rules out mold or an animal product and suggests it is plant material or plastic. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Cobweb Like Substance in Area Mystifies](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94537253/) [Zoologist,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94537253/)” Eureka \(Calif.\) Humboldt Standard, November 10, 1958, p. 5; UFOEv, [p. 99](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=111&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3241 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8982 (CB037B09) Date: 11/11/1958 Description: 1:35 a.m. A Mrs. Kinney, who is a Lt. Col. in the Civil Air Patrol in Topeka, Kansas, wakes up when her bedroom floods with an amber-colored light and her three dogs begin barking. The source is a 25-foot diameter sphere that is sitting on the walkway in the yard about 30 feet away. Kinney opens a door to go out on a porch, but the light zooms straight up and out of sight. She goes back to bed and the phone rings; it is a neighbor who has seen the light going toward her house. At 7:30 a.m., the phone rings again; this time it is the controllers at the Philip Billard Municipal Airport, who know her well and tell her about the light they saw. In the evening, she finds there is an electrical failure on the east side of the house. Lights, radios, and refrigerators are not working. Kinney replaces some fuses, but not everything turns on again. An electrician comes and replaces some wiring on November 12, but Kinney’s eyes develop subconjunctival hemorrhages and sensitivity to bright light. She begins to wear sunglasses regularly. Both of her male dogs develop cataracts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 287–288 Source ID: Eberhart_3243 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8983 (D96636E2) Date: 11/12/1958 Description: A brilliant blue glowing disc with two domes flew low over a main highway in Caracas, Venezuela at five o'clock in the morning. It made a sound like a jet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May 1959 Source ID: Johnson_7608 Source: Johnson ### Event 8984 (FFDE652A) Date: 11/13/1958 Description: (McDonald list) Three Radars Track Slow Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [581113](http://www.nicap.org/581113troypeak%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Troy Peak (and Tonopah Airport), NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2313 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8985 (457B0287) Date: 11/17/1958 Time: 2203 Description: A luminous object, with an apparent diameter greater than that of the full moon, was seen coming down from a high altitude, hovering at tree height, then landing. It was observed for two min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Soviet Union, exact location not revealed Source ID: Magnonia_475 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8986 (899BAB4B) Date: 11/17/1958 Description: 10:03 p.m. Somewhere in Russia a luminous object hovers and lands. It is seen for 2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 273](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/272/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3244 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8987 (CEA42BCD) Date: 11/19/1958 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montauk AFB, Long Island, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2314 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8988 (7A40A5B0) Date: 11/20/1958 Description: Man in C-118 Reports Silver Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [581120](http://www.nicap.org/581120califcoast%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: W of Calif. coast, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2315 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 8989 (FA3D44B3) Date: 11/23/1958 Time: 2335 Description: An engineer, Julio M. Ladaleto, stopped when his car hit a can rolling on the road, then observed an object about 35 m away. It was shaped like a lamp shade with an upper transparent sphere emitting a bluish, pulsating light, 12 m diameter, 7 m high, resting on three half-spheres. An occupant 2.5 m tall was photographed by the witness as he crossed the road and appeared to inspect the craft. He wore a blue coverall and luminescent heelless boots, and had a bald head. The observation lasted 10 min, after which the object took off with a whining sound, sparks and smoke. The following day, before he had revaled anything about the case, Ladeleto was contacted by strange "newsmen" who appeared to know all the details of it. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Settimana Incom. Sep. 16, 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cojutepeque, San Salvador Source ID: Magnonia_476 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 8990 (F55FAAB1) Date: 11/23/1958 Description: At 11:35 p.m. Julio M. Ladaleto, an engineer, stopped when his car hit a can rolling on the road in Cojutepeque, El Salvador. He then observed an object about 35 meters away. It was shaped like a lamp shade with an upper transparent sphere emitting a bluish, pulsating light, 12 meters diameter, seven meters high, and resting on three half-spheres. An very tall occupant, 2.5 meters in height, was photographed by the witness as the crossed the road and appeared to inspect the craft. The UFOnaut wore a blue coverall and luminescent heelless boots, and had a bald head. The observation lasted 10 minutes, after which the object took off with a whining sound, sparks and smoke. The following day, before he had revealed anything about the case, Ladeleto was contacted by strange "newsmen" who appeared to know all the details of it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 476; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 151 Source ID: Johnson_7839 Source: Johnson ### Event 8991 (0F7AC6EA) Date: 11/30/1958 Description: Tom Gerber of the Boston Herald features interviews with unnamed Air Force officers who proclaim an “undeclared war on phony organizations that capitalize on the ‘mystery’ of flying saucers.” Supposedly, the Air Force has evidence that “perhaps as many as 100,000 persons belong to these UFO organizations” and are “making a wad of money.” As many as 16% of the UFO sightings investigated by USAF are “hoaxes originated by members or officials of these organizations”—an obvious swipe at NICAP. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 282–283 Source ID: Eberhart_3245 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8992 (E9DFA04F) Date: 11/30/1958 Description: A retired Navy man reported seeing 6 to 8 classic disc-shaped objects fly over Cleveland, Ohio at 7:40 p.m. in a crescent formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1959; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: November-December, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_8069 Source: Johnson ### Event 8993 (D8D81390) Date: 12/1958 Description: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is transferred to NASA from the Army, becoming the agency’s primary planetary spacecraft center. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Jet Propulsion Laboratory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%5FPropulsion%5FLaboratory)” Source ID: Eberhart_3246 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8994 (461627C1) Date: 12/1958 Description: Some 450 airline pilots have signed a petition protesting the official policy of debunking UFO sightings. One pilot describes the policy as a “lesson in lying, intrigue, and the ‘Big Brother’ attitude carried to the ultimate extreme.” Of the signatories, more than 50 personally have reported UFO sightings but are told by the Air Force that they are mistaken. USAF warns them that they face up to 10 years in prison under JANAP 146 if they reveal details of their sighting to the media. Because of situations like this, Maj. [Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) unsuccessfully requests that Blue Book be transferred from ATIC to Air Research and Development Command on the grounds that UFOs are a scientific, not a military problem. His staff complains that the work is time-consuming and unproductive, and ARDC could speak to the public with authority and persuasiveness. ARDC briefly considers, then declines, the offer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 284](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/284/mode/2up); Clark III 922 Source ID: Eberhart_3247 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8995 (CB9C6637) Date: 12/1/1958 Description: One year later, a wingless fuselage circled slowly at a high altitude east of Grants, New Mexico at 2:30 in the afternoon. Earlier that day, at 2:07 a.m., a round, white glowing object moved back and forth for 90 minutes new Lake Elsinore, California. The observers signaled the UFO with a flashlight, and it approached to within 10 feet, pacing their truck and emitting a high-pitched hum. They then saw a "well built" man run across the road in front of them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 90 Source ID: Johnson_8103 Source: Johnson ### Event 8996 (8F66F6F6) Date: Early 12/1958 Description: Contactee [Lee Childers](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1955-04-usa-detroit.htm) visits a New York City group called the Bureau of UFO Research and Analysis to present a lecture. By now he is calling himself Prince Neosom of Tythan, which is 8.5 light years from Earth. He also answers to the name Dana. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 915 Source ID: Eberhart_3248 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8997 (4B6299AB) Date: 12/6/1958 Description: Between 6:38 and 6:40 p.m. Along the border of Russia and India, an observer sees a bright UFO cross his field of vision through his telescope from north to south as he is observing Mars. He thinks it might be Sputnik 3, but the location and direction of the object do not bear that out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 137–138](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/136/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3249 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8998 (122C4EFC) Date: 12/6/1958 Description: 5:44 a.m. The first launch of a Juno II, carrying Pioneer 3, at LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, suffers a premature first-stage cutoff, preventing the upper stages from achieving sufficient velocity. Pioneer 3 cannot escape Earth orbit but transmits data for some 40 hours before reentering the atmosphere. A malfunction in a propellant depletion circuit is found to be the cause of the failure, although the exact nature of it cannot be determined. The circuit is redesigned afterwards. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Juno II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno%5FII)” Source ID: Eberhart_3250 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 8999 (E82F31B9) Date: 12/6/1958 Description: A disc-shaped object passed very low over the city of Bari, Apulia, Italy at about 11:00 p.m. A power blackout occurred over the entire city. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Charles Garreau, Soucopes Volantes Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes (Third Edition), p. 78 Source ID: Johnson_8231 Source: Johnson ### Event 9000 (96D65536) Date: 12/11/1958 Description: On this day a fuselage-shaped object had landed on the sea ice on McMurdo Sound near Mount Erebus, Antarctica. It was supported by girder-like structures. A thirty-year-old U.S. Navy man named R. Benson saw two thin Grey beings, who were walking in slow circles near the craft, their long arms dangling to the ice. They had very long faces. His radio quit working. He did not file an official Navy report of his encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1543, citing Yvonne Durfield, Ideal UFO Magazine, March 1978, p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_8339 Source: Johnson ### Event 9001 (5C65A681) Date: 12/16/1958 Description: Diesel Generator Disrupted On Fishing Boat (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [581216](http://nicap.org/581216hawkinlet%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawk Inlet, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2316 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9002 (D48ADA36) Date: 12/17/1958 Description: Fornells de Minorca, Baleares Islands, Spain. Mr. Galvez, a 55-year-old retired artillery sergeant was motorcycling on this Mediterranean Island when he observed a missile-shaped UFO 2.5 meters long flying only ten meter above some pine trees. It made a buzzing sound. There were some other witnesses nearby, according to Mr. Galvez. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 27, citing Eduardo Buelta as the field investigator Source ID: Johnson_8462 Source: Johnson ### Event 9003 (8E9CE15A) Date: 12/19/1958 Description: John Lester, a writer for the Newark \(N.J.\) Star-Ledger, has polled 1,000 US government radar operators over the past month and found that 80% have observed UFOs traveling at fantastic speeds, executing perfect 90° turns, steep vertical climbs, and hovering stops. They fly in formation and manage to stay just ahead of USAF jets scrambled to intercept them. [Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) responds immediately that the UFOs are natural phenomena \(“lightning, meteors, and meteorites”\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Newark \(N.J.\) Star-Ledger, December 19, 21, 1958 Source ID: Eberhart_3251 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9004 (7D95FF8D) Date: 12/20/1958 Description: At 12:55 a.m. two policemen, Officers Arboreen and Talada of the Dunellen Township police department in Middlesex County, New Jersey, watched in amazement as a glowing red, football-shaped UFO came directly at their police cruiser. The UFO came to an abrupt stop a short distance away, pulsated while hovering, and then shot straight up into the sky and was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files Source ID: Johnson_8527 Source: Johnson ### Event 9005 (F991AF7E) Date: 12/20/1958 Description: Police witnesses, vehicle encounter (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [581220](http://www.nicap.org/581220dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dunellen, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2318 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9006 (46B09D9A) Date: 12/20/1958 Time: 1600 Description: Approximate date. A disk of 20 m diameter was observed and caused damage on the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Quincy ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Clermont-Ferrand, France Source ID: Magnonia_478 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9007 (E5203721) Date: 12/20/1958 Time: 0255 Description: Near Domsten, Hans Gustavsson, 35, and Stig Rydberg, 30, saw something in the woods and stopped their car to observe it. They found a disk about 5 m wide set on a tripod. All of a sudden they were attacked by four gray-colored creatures described as "fluid," but one witness reached the car and blew the horn for help. The beings fled and the craft took off, emitting "paralyzing vibrations." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. II 56 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hoganas, Sweden Source ID: Magnonia_477 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9008 (CF176BE1) Date: 12/20/1958 Description: Police witnesses, vehicle encounter, vertical ascent (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [581220](http://www.nicap.org/581220dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dunellen, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2317 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9009 (099BC57E) Date: 12/20/1958 Description: Patrolmen Le Roy A. Arboreen and B. Talada while on patrol suddenly spotted a glowing red object which came directly toward them at a phenomenal rate of speed from the West, Increasing rapidly in size, then coming to an abrupt stop, it was ellipsoid in shape and solid bright red while giving off a pulsating glow. After hovering a few seconds it went straight up like a shot and faded beyond the stars. Visibility: unlimited. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Dunellen, NJ Source ID: Maj2_586 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9010 (C8F6A180) Date: 12/20/1958 Description: On that same day at four o’clock in the afternoon in France, or nine hours later, a disc-shaped UFO was seen near the ground in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome department. The 20-meter diameter object caused some damage on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Computerized catalogue, case # 2802, citing Quincy; Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 477 Source ID: Johnson_8529 Source: Johnson ### Event 9011 (51254EC1) Date: 12/20/1958 Description: Not far from Domsten, Sweden Hans Gustavsson, age 35, and Stig Rydberg, 30, saw something strange in the woods near the village of Haganas and stopped their car to observe it. They discovered that it was a disc about five meters wide, set on tripod landing gear. Next they were suddenly attacked by four gray-colored creatures described as "fluid" in appearance, but one of the men reached the car and blew the horn for help. The beings then fled and the craft took off, emitting "paralyzing vibrations." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 478 Source ID: Johnson_8528 Source: Johnson ### Event 9012 (E22A669B) Date: 12/20/1958 Description: 2:55 a.m. Hans Gustafsson, a 24-year-old truck driver, and Stig Rydberg, a 30-year-old student, claim that while driving home to Helsingborg, Sweden, from a dance they see a strange light in a glade on their right near Domsten. They leave the car and walk up to the object, which turns out to be a disc-shaped vehicle 16 feet in diameter resting on 3 legs. The two are suddenly attacked by four gray creatures about 4 feet tall who try to drag them to the UFO. In January 1959, a medical doctor, Lars-Erik Essén, hypnotizes the men in what is perhaps the first use of hypnosis of a UFO witness, but the two manage to fool Essén. In the late 1980s, Gustafsson’s brother Artur reveals to ufologist [Clas Svahn](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clas%5FSvahn) that before he died his brother had told him the story was a hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 413–414; Rob Morphy, “[Terrible Flying Jelly Bags aka Domsten Blobs \(Sweden\),](https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/05/terrible-flying-jelly-bags-sweden/)” Cryptopia, May 6, 2018; Swords 366–367; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, Domstensfallet: En svensk närkontakt 1958, AFU, 1989 Source ID: Eberhart_3252 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9013 (DDAC3583) Date: 12/21/1958 Description: A group of more than 50 commercial airline pilots, all of whom have had at least one UFO sighting, tell reporter John Lester with the Newark \(N.J.\) Star-Ledger that the Air Force policy of censorship and denial regarding reports is the “Big Brother attitude carried to the ultimate extreme.” Most express disgust with the USAF methods of interrogating civilian pilots and complain about the gag order about publicly talking about their sightings under penalty of 10 years in prison or $10,000 in fines \(JANAP 146\). “Nuts to that. Who needs it?” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Newark \(N.J.\) Star-Ledger, December 22, 1958; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Nov-Dec.pdf) [a History: 1958 November–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Nov-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1958-Nov-Dec.pdf) The Author, 1999, p. 55 Source ID: Eberhart_3253 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9014 (5FE385BA) Date: 12/22/1958 Description: 3:00 p.m. Stanislaw Kowalczewski, a physician, takes a photograph of a dark, disc-shaped object over Muszyna, Poland. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 67–68; Wiki Meteoritica, “[Muszyna 1958](http://wiki.meteoritica.pl/index.php5/Muszyna%5F1958)”; Poland 21–23 Source ID: Eberhart_3254 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9015 (02C837A5) Date: 12/28/1958 Time: afternoon Description: A black flying object, 2 m wide, cut a tree in two, 3 m above ground, and did not stop. The tree in question is 70 cm wide and 13 m tall. This event was observed by a farmer named Bennett. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 59, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Portglenone, Ireland Source ID: Magnonia_479 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9016 (354C64BF) Date: 12/28/1958 Description: On this afternoon in Portglenone, Ireland a two-meter wide black flying object cut an oak tree in two, three meters above the ground and did not stop. The tree in question was 70 cm wide and 13 meters tall. The event was observed by a farmer named Bennett. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, May 1959, p. 7; APRO Bulletin, March 1959; Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 479 Source ID: Johnson_8629 Source: Johnson ### Event 9017 (094FA444) Date: 12/30/1958 Description: 3:30 p.m. Joseph Bennett, a farmer in Portglenone, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, is out walking and hears a noise like a rush of wind. A black object 7 feet across comes hurtling through the air about 20 feet above the ground. Moving from south to northwest, it crashes into an oak tree, splitting it in two at a height of 10 feet, then ascends and disappears in seconds. The tree has no burn or scorch marks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UAOs Collide with Tree, Roof,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 2; “[We’re Not Roswell, We’re Portglenone,](http://forteanireland.blogspot.com/2019/03/were-not-roswell-were-portglenone.html)” Fortean Ireland, March 17, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3255 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9018 (10127F9A) Date: 12/31/1958 Description: Two men in their late 40s, Srs. Salas and Acosta, watched a cylindrical object with a pointed end shoot straight up in the sky at 11:55 p.m. in Umbrete, Sevilla province, Spain. A moment later, when one of them opened the door of the truck in which they had been driving, a second object-two meters long-shot up from the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR, July-August 1971, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_8667 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1959 (Back to Top) ### Event 9019 (3BC1F37E) Date: 1959 Description: Contactee [Howard Menger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FMenger) publishes From Outer Space to You, an account of his meetings with space people. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Howard Menger, [From Outer Space to You](https://archive.org/details/fromouterspaceto00meng/page/n3/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/fromouterspaceto00meng/page/n3/mode/2up) Saucerian, 1959; Clark III 739 Source ID: Eberhart_3262 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9020 (7D064AAE) Date: 1959 Description: [George Van Tassel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FVan%5FTassel) claims the space people have taught him a method of rejuvenating the human body. Using his new-found knowledge and funds provided by [Howard Hughes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FHughes)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FHughes) he completes the outer structure of the Integraton at Giant Rock, California, a four-story domed structure, 55 feet in diameter, built mostly of wood without nails, screws, iron, or steel. Van Tassel claims it will harness the EMF energy required for recharging the cells in our bodies. In the course of its construction, Van Tassel discovers that the Integraton functions as a time machine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Integraton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integratron)”; Clark III 1219; Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, [pp. 79–81](https://archive.org/details/inadvanceoflandi00doug/page/78/mode/2up); David Clarke and Tom Clark, “Going ‘Out There’ in SoCal,” Fortean Times 388 \(January 2020\): 75–76 Source ID: Eberhart_3263 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9021 (E7399546) Date: 1959 Description: Psychologist [Carl Jung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FJung) publishes Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies in the UK, a translation of Ein moderner Mythus von Dingen, die am Himmel gesehen werden, published in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1958, in which he compares the discs to archetypes, dreams, visions, paintings, and the metaphysical symbol of a mandala: “the rounded wholeness of the mandala becomes a space ship controlled by an intelligent being.” However, he remains puzzled by the physical evidence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Carl Jung, [Flying Saucers: A Modern](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersmod0000cgju) [Myth of Things Seen in the Skies](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersmod0000cgju)[,](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersmod0000cgju) Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959; Clark III 637–638 Source ID: Eberhart_3259 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9022 (DFA4A3E1) Date: 1959 Description: The US Army and CIA at Edgewood Arsenal at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, show significant interest in deploying a new drug, 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate \(BZ\), as a chemical warfare agent. The drug’s effects last for three days, perhaps as long as six. Between 1959 and 1975, some 2,800 soldiers are given BZ at Edgewood. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Reid Kirby, “[Paradise Lost: The Psycho Agents,](http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/spru/hsp/documents/CBWCB71.pdf)” The CBW Conventions Bulletin, no. 71 \(May 2006\): 1–5 Source ID: Eberhart_3258 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9023 (AB6CFA37) Date: 1959 Description: Project SIGMA meets with success and establishes contact with Aliens. Type: majestic document Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Attributes: Majestic See also: 4/15/64 Source ID: Maj2_591 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9024 (865F8C84) Date: 1959 Description: Author [Hugo Correa](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Chile/UFO%20Chile/) founds UFO Chile in Santiago, Chile. Its newsletter appears from August 1967 to May 1969. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hugo Correa, “[¿Que es ‘UFO Chile’?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Chile/UFO%20Chile/UFO%20Chile%20-%20Issue%2001.pdf)” UFO Chile, no. 1 \(August 1967\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_3260 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9025 (39D8961B) Date: 1959 Description: The Soviet KGB has created its own disinformation Department D \(Dezinformatsiya\) in the First Chief Directorate, which under [Yuri Andropov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%5FAndropov) is later renamed Department A \(for “active measures”\). It specializes in the fabrication and dissemination of forged documents, tapes, letters, manuscripts, photos, rumors, and false intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Active measures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%5Fmeasures)”; John Barron, [KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents](https://archive.org/details/kgbsecretworkofs00barr), Bantam, 1974; Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson, [Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy](https://archive.org/details/dezinformatsiaac0000shul/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/dezinformatsiaac0000shul/page/n5/mode/2up) Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1984 Source ID: Eberhart_3261 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9026 (3ED4644E) Date: 1959? Description: According to weapons specialist David Middleton, sometime in the late 1950s a few hours prior to a nuclear weapons test at the Nevada Test Site, he and several other technicians watch two silver discs race across then swoop down and maneuver near the detonation tower where the atomic weapon is mounted. The two objects fly a tight circle around the tower before zooming off at high velocity. The test is immediately postponed by senior AEC personnel. Middleton is debriefed and sworn to secrecy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 58–59 Source ID: Eberhart_3256 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9027 (A8D7AB4E) Date: 1959 Description: The original US Navy Space Surveillance System goes into operation. From 1960 until the early 1990s the system is used in conjunction with a network of Baker-Nunn cameras that can see an object the size of a basketball at 25,000 miles. The system is operated by the US Navy for NORAD from 1961 to October 2004. Initially independent, it is run by Naval Space Command from 1993 to 2002, and then by Naval Network and Space Operations Command from 2002 to 2004, when it is taken over by the Air Force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FSpace%5FSurveillance%5FSystem) [Space Surveillance System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FSpace%5FSurveillance%5FSystem)” Source ID: Eberhart_3257 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9028 (DD5C5498) Date: 1/1959 Time: 1715 Description: Leonard Hewins, of Tredington, saw a fiery, round object come down from the east and land 100 m away. While a blue haze formed, three figures emerged from the object and seemed to sit down with clumsy movements. The witness was unable to move until the craft and its occupants took off swiftly, leaving a trail of stars. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 67, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Stratford-on-Avon, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_480 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9029 (DC70AA9E) Date: 1/1959 Description: Leonard Hewins sees a fiery, round object come down near Stratford-on-Avon, England, from the east and land 300 feet away. A blue haze forms and three figures emerge and sit down with clumsy movements. Hewins is unable to move until the UFO takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John D. Llewellyn, “[Stratford-on-Avon Landing with Occupants:](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%205.pdf) [January 1959,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1967\): 15; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1959-01-uk-stratfordonavon.htm), March 9, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_3264 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9030 (EE6C5C94) Date: 1/1/1959 Description: Rocket scientist [Wernher von Braun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher%5Fvon%5FBraun) on holiday in Germany, makes a cryptic statement about the failed launch of [Pioneer 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer%5F3) by a Juno II rocket on December 6, 1958: “We find ourselves faced by powers which are far stronger than we had hitherto assumed, and whose base is at present unknown to us. More I cannot say at present. We are now engaged in entering into closer contact with those powers, and in six or nine months’ time it may be possible to speak with more precision on the matter.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 370](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/370/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3265 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9031 (17F7714C) Date: 1/1/1959 Description: 4:55 p.m. Deputy Fred Gunzelman of the Harbor Department in Corona del Mar, California, spots a bright object outside department headquarters. He summons Deputy Elmer Sandling and Sgt. Bruce Young and the three watch the object through binoculars, where it appears to be a disc-shaped object with a rotating tail. They notify the lifeguard headquarters at Newport Beach, where Lt. Mike Henry, Guard Jack Bell, and Lt. Jim Richards also see the UFO. The planet Venus is clearly visible in the same section of sky. During the 15 minutes it is visible, it starts moving to the southeast and then splits into four parts. Two rise vertically at high speed, another heads southeast, and the last remains stationary. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 137](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=149&skin=2021); Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 95 Source ID: Eberhart_3266 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9032 (2014CEAB) Date: 1/1/1959 Description: County Harbor Department guards watched UFO split in four parts; two rose vertically at high speed, one headed SE, one remained stationary. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newport Beach, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2319 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9033 (5C4BC5E5) Date: 1/2/1959 Description: In Calhoun County, Alabama at 7 p.m. a silent silver globe hovered and maneuvered over the Anniston Army Ordnance Depot. The UFO made several quick circles in the sky then flew off toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics Source ID: Johnson_27 Source: Johnson ### Event 9034 (E4F898F8) Date: 1/3/1959 Description: At 1:30 p.m. a six-foot long shining cigar-shaped object flew over Adelaide, South Australia. It gave off a red glow. It was followed shortly by a six-foot square object, spinning and shining brightly in the daytime sky. At 8:00 p.m. another cigar-shaped UFO hovered over Dover, Ohio at 40 meters altitude. It was large, silent, and had red, green and white lights on its surface. At about the same time or shortly after eight p.m. a round orange object flew south of Rochester, New York. It made a crackling noise as it flew. A nocturnal light exited from the larger craft, and flew off quickly to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 164; Loren Gross, The fifth horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History, 1959: January-March, p. 4; NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1959, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_52 Source: Johnson ### Event 9035 (B0552587) Date: 1/4/1959 Description: At 1:30 a.m. five people saw a luminous globe make sharp maneuvers in the sky about ten miles south of Clines Corner, New Mexico. It then hovered over a highway intersection for fifteen minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics Source ID: Johnson_84 Source: Johnson ### Event 9036 (D652BF7F) Date: 1/4/1959 End date: 1/5/1959 Description: Three Airliners See Silver Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [590104-05](http://www.nicap.org/590104taft%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Taft, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2320 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9037 (777A6DB8) Date: 1/8/1959 Description: Shortly after nine a.m. on a clear day two MEc employee in Hobart, Tasmania saw a 2.7-meter long object disappear between buildings. Three more were seen in the sky and a fifth object shaped like an inverted skittle with a ball handle dove in the River Derwent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated January 21, 1959 citing USAF Source ID: Johnson_192 Source: Johnson ### Event 9038 (77ACAF45) Date: 1/8/1959 Description: Former control tower operator and flight controller saw UFO descend slowly, then speed away like meteor. \[NICAP UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Walworth (near), WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2321 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9039 (680FBA9F) Date: 1/11/1959 Description: [Wilbert Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) speaks on UFOs at the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Canadian Regional Conference in Ottawa, Ontario. He claims that “Various items of ‘hardware’ are known to exist, but are usually clapped into security and are not available to the general public.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [p.](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/48/mode/2up) [48](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/48/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3267 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9040 (3F4C9169) Date: 1/13/1959 Description: 7:00 a.m. Robert Collins is driving a pickup truck south on Hartstown Road across Pymatuning Lake, Pennsylvania, when he sees a bright light approaching from the east and illuminating the ground. It stops above his truck, hovering 200 feet above it for several minutes. The truck’s electrical system fails, the engine dies, and the headlights and radio go out. The object’s light illuminates an area about 300 feet in front of him. It takes off and disappears in seconds, and the truck begins working again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Area Man’s Encounter with Unidentified Flying](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99784357/) [Object](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99784357/) [Called Weirdest Experience,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99784380/)” Greenville \(Pa.\) Record-Argus, January 31, 1959, pp. 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_3268 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9041 (8546C7F1) Date: 1/13/1959 Description: A witness driving alone in Bygholm, Denmark saw a stationary object ahead in the sky. After about five seconds the object moved toward the car and passed over it at a height of 100 meters. The car's engine stopped at this point but the headlights were not affected. The object, which now changed color from yellow-green to yellow-white, moved quickly away into the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 75; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 97, FSR, Vol. 5, No. 5 Source ID: Johnson_294 Source: Johnson ### Event 9042 (E53791A4) Date: 1/13/1959 Description: At 7:00 a.m. Robert Collins, while driving a pick-up truck near Greenville, Pennsylvania, noticed lights in the sky he thought were a plane making an emergency landing. The lights eventually coalesced into a single bright light. This light then hovered over his truck for several minutes. His truck's engine, lights, and radio failed at this point. The light, which was too bright for Mr. ColIins to discern any structure, departed quickly to the west and out of sight in 30 seconds. The truck then could be restarted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Greenville (PA) Record-Argus, January 31, 1959; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 98, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 75 Source ID: Johnson_295 Source: Johnson ### Event 9043 (8B7D0A0D) Date: 1/13/1959 Description: Truck motor, lights and radio failed as UFO hovered over truck (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pymatuning Lake, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2323 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9044 (361CF914) Date: 1/13/1959 Description: Car motor failed as UFO passed overhead; headlights and spotlight functioned normally (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bygholm, Den Source ID: NICAP_DB_2322 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9045 (25FCB1E0) Date: 1/17/1959 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) arrives in Auckland, New Zealand, on the first stop on his world lecture tour where he is received by North Island Adamski Correspondence Group leaders [Henk](http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/1998/may/m27-004.shtml) and Brenda Hinfelaar for a 6-week engagement starting with a talk in Kaikohe on January 20. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[World Lecture Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; Marc Hallet, [A Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke to the Space Brothers](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up), The Author, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_3269 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9046 (2B375DA9) Date: 1/18/1959? Description: Eight people see a UFO over Stigsjö, Sweden. The round object, 18–24 feet in diameter, approaches slowly from the south over Lake Länsjön at a height of 900 feet. It is surrounded by a luminous ring 6 feet wide. It is visible for 3 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) [January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf), The Author, 1999, p. 25 Source ID: Eberhart_3270 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9047 (7F835CC8) Date: 1/21/1959 Description: A luminous object was seen falling into the harbor of Gdynia, Poland on this night. Divers were sent to retrieve it and brought back a piece of un-rusted metal whose composition was not publicly disclosed. Several days later, a strange male figure wearing "a sort of uniform" was encountered dragging himself along the beach. Part of his face appeared to be burnt and his hair singed. After being taken to hospital it was discovered that the uniform he wore was made of metal, and the being's organs were quite different from those of a human being. It had six digits on its hands and feet. The creature died after an armband was removed, and the body was sent to the Soviet Union. An autopsy allegedly revealed a different structure of internal organs and a spiral system of blood circulation. It had six fingered extremities and was about 1.60 meters in height. The body was placed in a freezer and stored in an underground bunker, supposedly in the Moscow area. The divers apparently also found another half of the object that crashed, embedded in the underwater mud.

According to additional details revealed later, a second alien body was recovered on shore a short time after the first recovery. The alien that had still been alive was treated at the Gdynia-Redlow hospital, but soon fell into a coma-like state after an arm bracelet was removed. Both aliens had six digits on their hands and feet. An autopsy was conducted on one of the dead aliens; the one in a coma was put in a special chamber aimed at supporting its vital functions. The six-fingered being taken to the U.S.S.R. is allegedly being stored in an isolated top-secret underground bunker, located under a building on a biomedical research center facility east of Solnechnogorsk. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-02, citing Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh; Anton Anfalov, Lenura Azizova, Larissa Chora, and Bronislaw Rzepecki Source ID: Johnson_402 Source: Johnson ### Event 9048 (BD90A2E9) Date: 1/21/1959 Description: MP [Roy Mason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%5FMason) asks the Air Minister another question in the UK House of Commons: What instructions have been sent to RAF stations about collecting military UFO reports, and what collaboration is there with Canada and the US? Air Minister [George Ward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FWard%2C%5F1st%5FViscount%5FWard%5Fof%5FWitley) replies that RAF units have standing instructions for handling reports, and there is no special collaboration with those countries. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Roy Mason Asks Another,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CMar-Apr%2CV%205%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 2 \(March/April 1959\): 2; Good Above, [p. 52](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/52/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3272 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9049 (39B9B649) Date: 1/21/1959 Description: 6:00 a.m. A flying object is seen crashing into the waters of the harbor at Gdynia, Poland. Rumors later claim that a rust-free fragment is retrieved by divers and, after being examined by the Polish navy, sent to Gdynia Polytechnic University \[possibly the Polish Naval Academy\]. A few days later, an injured occupant of the craft is allegedly found wandering in the area. He speaks no known language, wears an odd uniform, and apparently has burns on the face. He is taken to a hospital, but he dies when doctors attempt to remove an armband. His remains are said to have been shipped to the Soviet Union. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 1–2; Poland 25–28, 115 Source ID: Eberhart_3271 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9050 (F39E4205) Date: 1/23/1959 Description: A bright silver object was sighted as it arced across the sky in the Panama Canal Zone. It was tracked by US radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 119, citing New York Times, January 23, 1959 Source ID: Johnson_438 Source: Johnson ### Event 9051 (CEEF9678) Date: 1/23/1959 Description: Panama Canal, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Panama Canal, Panama Source ID: NICAP_DB_2324 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9052 (4AA09E12) Date: 1/24/1959 Description: Mr. Armstrong and a second person in Centennial, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia heard skyquakes at 11:30 a.m. They then observed a metallic, cigar-shaped object hovering for 5 minutes. It made 90 degree turns, then shot away extremely fast. It was absolutely silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 53; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_478 Source: Johnson ### Event 9053 (86EC214D) Date: 1/26/1959 Description: On the island of Hokkaido, Japan at 4 p.m. many witnesses watched two glowing lens-shaped discs that flew slowly to the west. One made a 180 degree turn to the east. Both were completely silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_518 Source: Johnson ### Event 9054 (0B9C353A) Date: 1/26/1959 Description: Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar is born in Coral Gables, FL. Type: whistleblower Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar) Location: Coral Gables, FL Source ID: Maj2_588 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9055 (77C4AE12) Date: 1/28/1959 Description: At a Symposium on Aerospace Technology by the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences at the Astor Hotel in New York City, USAF Maj. Gen. [Donald J. Keirn](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106554/major-general-donald-j-keirn/), assistant deputy chief of staff on development for nuclear systems, talks about nuclear aircraft propulsion. He mentions that if intelligent extraterrestrials do exist, “it is entirely possible that some of them may have passed through our stage of evolution, and may have already achieved a higher level of social and technological culture than our own.” He suggests using electromagnetic emissions to detect them, as they may be doing with us. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Congress, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Hearings, Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program, July 23, 1959, [p. 153](https://archive.org/details/aircraftnuclearp00unit/page/152/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3273 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9056 (4690A6D6) Date: 1/30/1959 Description: A truck driver driving this night on U.S. Route 52 near New Richmond, Ohio saw a bizarre gray "ugly" creature with tentacles crossing the road ahead of the truck. Two hours later, just across the border in Covington, Kentucky a woman reported seeing a strange grayish creature with a lopsided chest, ugly tentacles, and rolls of fat running in a bent over fashion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing Bigfoot: Tales of Unexplained Creatures, UFOs, and Psychic Connections Source ID: Johnson_600 Source: Johnson ### Event 9057 (A236C130) Date: 1/31/1959 Description: The US Ground Observer Corps is deactivated with the advent of automated Army \(Missile Master\) and Air Force \(SAGE\) radar systems. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Ground Observer Corps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%5FObserver%5FCorps)” Source ID: Eberhart_3274 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9058 (A817FD08) Date: 2/1959 Description: 9:30 p.m. The people of Digeliotika, Greece, hear a humming noise coming from the direction of the sea. Running out of their homes, many people see a luminous disc circling the village for about 10 minutes. Radios fail to operate and the electrical current in one house fails completely. When the disc flies low over the house of the priest, Papa Costas, there is a loud noise and the whole house shakes. The object moves off to the west. Inspection of the house the next day reveals that many of the roof tiles have been displaced, and others are on the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UAOs Collide with Tree, Roof,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_3275 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9059 (DC19B7A6) Date: 2/1959 Description: 350 km east of Umiat, trappers saw a red, disk-shaped object less than 4 km away, going up and down, sometimes nearly touching the ground. It circled and went away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 59, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Umiat, Alaska Source ID: Magnonia_481 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9060 (94C6EB2B) Date: 2/1/1959 Description: JANAP 146\(D\) integrates Canada into the CIRVIS reporting instructions. The Canadian Department of National Defence launches a series of Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings in line with the JANAP procedures. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gregory M. Kanon, “[UFOs and the Canadian Government,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%203%20no%207%20-%201976.pdf)” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 7 \(Spring 1976\): 17–18; Antonio F. Rullán, “[Blue Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships,](http://www.waterufo.net/bluebook/bbpdf.pdf)” December 10, 2002 Source ID: Eberhart_3276 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9061 (AFC98603) Date: 2/2/1959 Description: UofM professor saw a yellow half-sphere in the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sandusky (near), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2325 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9062 (F8B87CBA) Date: 2/4/1959 Description: Reddish Light Performs Maneuvers Near Airplane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [590204](http://nicap.org/590204swanisland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Swan Island, Gulf of Mexico, at Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2326 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9063 (F103E6C7) Date: 2/9/1959 Description: Bright UFO with halo filmed. \[NICAP UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Imperial Beach, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2327 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9064 (12134A00) Date: 2/12/1959 Description: At 6:10 p.m. a white cylindrical object, shaped like a cigarette in appearance, jerked back and forth over a cloud in Miami, Florida. It then vanished suddenly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_862 Source: Johnson ### Event 9065 (ABD3A5D5) Date: 2/16/1959 Description: Silvery blue to reddish to dark round object with dome, sharply outlined (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Benghazi, Libya Source ID: NICAP_DB_2328 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9066 (1B1A32AE) Date: 2/17/1959 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) wants to start bringing together ATIC and Blue Book personnel for monthly meetings where scientific and PR problems are reviewed. To get it going, he meets with Air Force Intelligence, Secretary of the Air Force officials, and Blue Book staffers in the Pentagon. This meeting includes, besides Hynek, Maj. [Robert J.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) [Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) Col. Leonard T. Glaser, [Alex Francis Arcier](http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/127948-alex-francis-arcier-waco-cargo-gliders-general-designer/)[,](http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/127948-alex-francis-arcier-waco-cargo-gliders-general-designer/) Maj. James F. Byrne, Maj. [Joseph E. Boland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8792087/joseph-edward-boland), Maj. [Lawrence](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) [J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) and [Burgoyne Lee Griffing](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107124036/burgoyne-lee-griffing)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107124036/burgoyne-lee-griffing) The group agrees that eventually the term “UFOs” should be jettisoned and older unsolved cases reexamined in the light of “greater scientific knowledge” that will move them from unknowns to knowns. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 148–149](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/148/mode/2up); Clark III 919; Swords 286; “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3277 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9067 (CF388767) Date: 2/20/1959 Description: Just as the first working models of the Army’s VZ-9 Avrocar are being manufactured, the Canadian government cancels the Avro CF-105 Arrow program. Almost all Avro Canada employees are laid off, including those with the Special Projects Group. However, three days later, many of the Special Projects employees are rehired, but it isn’t quite business as usual. The USAF Project Office devoted to the Avro projects recommends that the WS-606A and all related work \(including the Avrocar\) be cancelled. However, in May the USAF authorizes Avro to continue its “flying saucer” programs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” Source ID: Eberhart_3279 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9068 (837C3A54) Date: 2/20/1959 Description: Wave of fireballs were seen flying over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma starting at 7:30 p.m. One made a 180 degree turn. A compass was reported to have begun spinning during the sightings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hayden Hewes, The Oklahoman, April 18, 1965 Source ID: Johnson_1021 Source: Johnson ### Event 9069 (3665CE06) Date: 2/20/1959 Description: Pfc. Bernard G. “Gerry” Irwin, on leave from Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, is driving near Cedar City, Utah, when he stops to investigate what seems to be a crashing plane. He is later found unconscious in the snow and treated at the Cedar City hospital. He suffers from amnesia, continues to have fainting spells, and returns more than once to the site in some kind of fugue. He soon deserts and perhaps disappears, but not forever, as he is living in Idaho in 2013, where [David Booher](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/booher-david/88852) interviews him about his PTSD-like symptoms. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Coral Lorenzen, “[Soldier Sees Flash; Unconscious 24 Hours,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, pp. 1, 10; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 97–99; Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, pp. 347+; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1961 July–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 56–60; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1962 July–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf) [December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf), The Author, 2005, pp. 68–70; Kevin D. Randle, The UFO Dossier, Visible Ink, 2015, [pp. 134–141](https://archive.org/details/ufodossier100yea0000rand/page/134/mode/2up); David Booher, No Return: The Gerry Irwin Story, UFO Abduction or Covert Operation?, Anomalist, 2017; Clark III 2 Source ID: Eberhart_3278 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9070 (10341903) Date: 2/22/1959 Description: Two witnesses saw three white discs pass into a cloud over the city of Warsop, England from which they never reappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, Awareness, October 1977, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_1044 Source: Johnson ### Event 9071 (760808E1) Date: 2/24/1959 Description: At 8:45 p.m. American Airlines pilot Capt. Killian on Flight 937 sighted three bright yellow-orange maneuvering lights, changing colors, above the cloud layer while flying over Philipsburg and Bradford, Pennsylvania. His co-pilot also sighted the lights, and up to 37 other witnesses from Pan American and United Airlines flights also reported seeing the unusual lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1959, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_1078 Source: Johnson ### Event 9072 (8F0ABD82) Date: 2/24/1959 Description: 8:20 p.m. Capt. [Peter W. Killian](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48370897/peter-w%5F-killian) is flying an American Airlines flight from Newark to Detroit when he encounters three bright lights flying in a precise line. The initial detection takes place when the aircraft is flying at 8,500 feet and 50 mph about 13 miles west of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. At first Killian thinks he is seeing Orion’s sword, but he can see those stars elsewhere. One of the objects abruptly leaves formation and approaches the plane, slows down before Killian takes evasive action, then rejoins the other two. Killian alerts copilot James John Dee and then announces on the intercom for the passengers to take a look. He also puts out a call to nearby aircraft, and five other commercial airline pilots indicate that they can see the objects. The lights remain at about the 9 o’clock position for 40 minutes, providing an opportunity for many of the 35 passengers to observe them. They are also seen by the crews of two other planes flying much farther to the south, as well as by the tower operators in Pittsburgh. The Air Force quickly identifies the objects as the three Orion stars, changes that to an aerial refueling operation, then accuses Killian of being drunk. But an independent sighting of the UFOs by an Air Force transport plane 150 miles further south confirms Killian’s observation, and no refueling routes exist in central Pennsylvania. [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) uncovers new evidence in 2016 that supports the witnesses’ story. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Killian Case](http://www.nicap.org/590224williamsport%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [pp. 116–117](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=128&skin=2021); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) [History: 1959 January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 58–60; Clark III 385–387; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 270; Willy Smith, “Over Pennsylvania,” IUR 23, no. 1 \(Spring 1998\): 13–14, 29–30; Swords 285; Patrick Gross, “[The Killian–](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/killian59.htm) [Orion Belt Sightings, 1958](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/killian59.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3280 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9073 (196008E4) Date: 2/24/1959 Description: 10:00 p.m. A 17-year-old male is home babysitting the family pets and his younger brother in Victorville, California, when he sees a bright light shining in his bedroom window. The dogs begin to howl and run around. He goes outside and sees a luminous object like an “elongated egg,” dull red with purple waves inside it, flying in a descending path toward his house. It passes over the front yard at a height of only 8–10 feet. As the object returns, he goes inside to get a gun, but as he goes outside the object is making a third pass and he goes back inside. When the parents return home, they find the dogs in a terrified state. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 167–170](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/166/mode/2up); Swords 286–287 Source ID: Eberhart_3281 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9074 (7560B6D6) Date: 2/24/1959 Description: Killian case (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [590224](http://www.nicap.org/590224williamsport%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williamsport (13 miles SW of), PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2329 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9075 (1B3E43E9) Date: 2/24/1959 Description: Witness sighted a biconvex dull red object about 25 ft wide (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [590224](http://www.nicap.org/ar-590224dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Victorville, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2330 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9076 (519C1145) Date: 2/24/1959 Description: At 9:10 p.m. in Victorville, California two young men reported that a red egg shaped object made five passes over their house, which is located eight miles from George AFB. Their pet dogs began howling and ran to get inside the house. They also reported that the UFO caused radio interference. and made a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 61; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 167; UNICAT database, case 280 Source ID: Johnson_1079 Source: Johnson ### Event 9077 (2845C83E) Date: 2/25/1959 Description: On the same morning at 8:30 a.m. in Hobbs, New Mexico an ovoid UFO was seen by a Mr. Dobbs. The car radio repeated a "dot-dot-dash" for 35 seconds during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 75; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 99, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story Source ID: Johnson_1098 Source: Johnson ### Event 9078 (42F0A581) Date: 2/25/1959 Description: At 6:45 a.m., sixty miles north of Barberton, Ohio on State Route 21 in Summit County a dark disc-shaped UFO with a red light on top flew around for five minutes at 150 meters altitude. No blimp was flying in the area at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1959, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 67 Source ID: Johnson_1097 Source: Johnson ### Event 9079 (237A1CDA) Date: Late 2/1959 End date: 4/15/1959 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) continues his world lecture tour in Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Brisbane, Australia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[World Lecture Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3282 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9080 (13882C6A) Date: 2/25/1959 Description: 8:30 a.m. Jim Dobbs Jr. is driving south on State Highway 18 south of Hobbs, New Mexico, when he sees an egg-shaped object glowing like radium on a watch dial. He estimates it is 10° above the southern horizon and traveling fast. His radio fades out and produces only a steady succession of two dots and a dash. The object disappears in the east after 30 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Hobbs Man Sees Glowing UFO, Hears Signals,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_3283 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9081 (6F271E87) Date: 2/25/1959 Description: Signals on car radio (steady succession of two dots and a dash) as UFO passed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hobbs, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2331 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9082 (07662709) Date: 2/25/1959 Description: Lt. Col. [Lee B. James](http://www.astronautix.com/j/jameslee.html), chief of the Liaison Branch of the Army Ballistic Agency in Huntsville, Alabama, gives a talk at the Detroit Chapter of the Michigan Society of Professional Engineers on space flight. Because of the recent Killian incident, he is asked about UFOs. Referring to the witness on that aircraft, he says: “If they \(35 passengers and several crew members\) saw what they really saw, it would have to come from outer space—a civilization decades before ours.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) [1959 January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1999, p. 68 Source ID: Eberhart_3284 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9083 (C1C718C8) Date: 2/25/1959 Description: 7:25 p.m. A pale-yellow light is seen by officials above one of the runways at London Airport \[now Heathrow\], England. Airport and air defense radars do not pick up any target. RAF Fighter Command Headquarters says the light fluctuates in intensity and is about 200 feet from the ground. It stays in one position for 20 minutes then climbs away at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles H. Gibbs-Smith, “[Venus and the Nose-Cone Light: A](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CMay-Jun%2CV%205%2CN%203.pdf) [Study in the Lunacy of Explainistics,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CMay-Jun%2CV%205%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 3 \(May/June 1959\): 10–11, 31; Good Above, [p. 52](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/52/mode/2up); UFOEv, [p. 122](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=134&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3285 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9084 (B2B75524) Date: 2/26/1959 Description: Air Traffic Controllers, others saw a bright yellow disc which hovered for 20 minutes above airport, then climbed away at high speed. \[NICAP UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: London, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2332 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9085 (E37CFCAC) Date: 2/28/1959 Description: The US Air Force launches Discoverer 1, the first of a series of satellites that are part of the Corona spy program. The mission is a failure due to problems with the Agena upper stage. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Discoverer 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoverer%5F1)” Source ID: Eberhart_3286 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9086 (5201E53D) Date: 2/28/1959 Description: Private Gerry Irwin stopped his car to investigate what he thought was a crashing plane. He was later found unconscious. Sequels of the incident (fainting, amnesia and his return to the site in a trancelike state) are sometimes quoted as evidence of psychologial experience correlated with the observation of the luminous object. Irwin deserted, and his subsequent whereabouts are unknown. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 121; Lorenzen; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cedar City, Iowa Source ID: Magnonia_482 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9087 (79FA1371) Date: 2/28/1959 Description: At 8:40 p.m. a round silver disc-shaped object hovered in the sky over the city of Cordoba, Argentina for 15 minutes. It gave off several brilliant flashes before vanishing. At 11:40 p.m. a rotorless silent helicopter-shaped object directed a beam of light at some linemen workers in San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina. Red lights were seen exiting from the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May 1959 Source ID: Johnson_1175 Source: Johnson ### Event 9088 (DDD093CB) Date: 2/28/1959 Description: Private Gerry Irwin, a Nike missile technician, was driving from Nampa, Idaho to his barracks at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. He had reached Cedar City, Utah at about 1 p.m. when he observed a glowing object cross the sky. Irwin decided it could have been an airliner on fire attempting a crash landing, so he went to investigate. Using shoe polish, he wrote "Stop" on the side of his car, and left a note on the steering wheel that read: "Have gone to investigate possible plane crash. Please call law enforcement officers." A short time later a fish and game inspector did stop and took the note to the Cedar County sheriff, Otto Pfief, who returned to the site with a group of volunteers. No trace of an airplane crash was found, but Irwin was soon found unconscious and taken to a hospital. When Irwin finally woke up form a deep sleep, he was puzzled by the absence of his jacket. He was flown back to Fort Bliss and placed under observation for four days, after which he returned to duty.

Irwin behaved strangely: he was plagued by fainting, didn't seem to be aware of the correct date, and kept asking, "were there any survivors?" He was placed in a hospital for psychiatric examination. On April 18th, the day after being discharged, Irwin felt a powerful urge to return to the site of his strange encounter. Once there he walked straight to a bush and found his missing jacket. There was a pencil in a buttonhole with a piece of paper wound tightly around it. Irwin curiously took the paper and burned it. He then went to sheriff Pfief, who provided him with the details of the initial incident. Shortly afterwards Irwin's case came to the attention of the inspector general, who ordered a new investigation. On July 10, Irwin re-entered the hospital. On August 1, he failed to report for duty. One month later, he was listed as A.W.O.L. and was not seen again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing The Ignored and Unexplained; Jacques Vallee, Passport To Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 481 Source ID: Johnson_1174 Source: Johnson ### Event 9089 (9074CBA0) Date: 3/1959 Description: On the Baltic Sea coast near Kołobrzeg, Poland, soldiers watch the sea become turbulent as a triangular object, 12 feet in diameter, emerges, circles the barracks, and flies away at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 275](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/274/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3287 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9090 (148B1E5D) Date: 3/1959 Description: On the Polish coast, not far from Kolobreg, soldiers saw the sea become turbulent as a triangular object, 4 m in size, emerged, circled the barracks, and flew away at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 122 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Kolobreg, Poland Source ID: Magnonia_483 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9091 (54AA519F) Date: 3/2/1959 Description: A six-meter in diameter disc hovered 60 meters over a quarry in Mount Airy, North Carolina at 7:30 p.m. It had body lights and was witnessed by two children. The sighting lasted about two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 72 Source ID: Johnson_1242 Source: Johnson ### Event 9092 (EACB9EAD) Date: 3/7/1959 Description: At 9:30 a.m. Rev. Pearl Kerwin of Silver Spring, Maryland saw a man wearing a white "helmet" behind a hedge, so she went around the hedge to meet him. She encountered a being wearing a white, one-piece coverall suit that covered even his feet, with bright blue trunks. The "helmet" was part of the suit, like a hood. She yelled and the man ran off very rapidly, apparently "skimming" over the ground. John Gill, who saw the creature's face at a distance of 15 feet, said there were two black holes where the eyes should be. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-03, citing Eli Berzweig, Don Neill, & Richard Hall, NICAP Source ID: Johnson_1363 Source: Johnson ### Event 9093 (77203A83) Date: 3/10/1959 Description: (McDonald list) UFO Maneuvers ON FPS-8, Converges On Missile (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [590310](http://www.nicap.org/590310grandbahama%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grand Bahama Island, West Indies Source ID: NICAP_DB_2333 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9094 (5157ABDF) Date: 3/11/1959 Description: Rear Admiral [George J. Dufek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FJ.%5FDufek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FJ.%5FDufek) on his way back from commanding Operation Deepfreeze in Antarctica, tells reporters in Wellington, New Zealand, that he does not think the existence of UFOs can be discounted: “I think it is very stupid for human beings to think no one else in the universe is as intelligent as we are.” Asked years later why he said this, he explains that it was because of sightings related to him by people who worked with him at the South Pole. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 290 Source ID: Eberhart_3288 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9095 (A4711221) Date: 3/12/1959 Description: On this night 6-year-old Kim Marks of Purnong Landing, South Australia was preparing for bed when he saw a five foot tall man with a crimson face, wearing a red jacket and trousers with white trimmings. He was visible for a minute and a half. Kim's dog did not react. A few hours later, a multi-colored luminous UFO was seen close to the Marks property. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-04, citing Keith Basterfield; Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, case 7 Source ID: Johnson_1433 Source: Johnson ### Event 9096 (CF67109F) Date: 3/12/1959 Description: Several witnesses at Bergen, Norway, see a bright object passing north to south, taking two minutes to move from horizon to horizon. Several minutes later another appears, following the same course. This is soon followed by three more in succession. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 138](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/138/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3289 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9097 (861F0257) Date: 3/13/1959 Time: 1410 Description: Near Claypans, 150 km northeast of Adelaide, Carl Towill, postmaster, and Percy Briggs, mail carrier, saw a dome-shaped object take off from a field 400 m away. It resembled a huge, brilliant circus tent, studded with lights that kept changing from red to blue. They approached within 200 m, then saw it rise, hover, and shoot off at immense speed toward the south. They had observed it for 10 min. Mr. Briggs was questioned by investigators from Woomera Rocket range. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 59,5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pumong, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_484 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9098 (B7A28315) Date: 3/13/1959 Description: 2:00 a.m. Percy Briggs is driving from Purnong to Mannum, South Australia, with a load of vegetables and Claypans Postmaster C. Towill as passenger. They have just climbed Cournamont Hill near the Purnong Ferry over the Murray River. They see to the left of the road a huge dome-shaped object with 8–9 red and blue lights about 20 feet apart. The UFO soon rises from the ground at a 15° angle and moves away to the southwest. The separate lights merge into one big light. They watch it recede for about 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf), The Author, 1999, pp. 79–80 Source ID: Eberhart_3290 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9099 (4A8DE334) Date: 3/13/1959 Description: A/C Crew Saw Lights / Radar Targets Confirmed (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [590313](http://www.nicap.org/590313duluth%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Duluth, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2334 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9100 (FC39E34D) Date: 3/13/1959 Description: Driving over a hill in Purnong Landing, South Australia at 2:10 a.m., 1.6 kilometers from the ferry, two men names Briggs and Towill came upon a multi-colored domed disc on the ground. It was about 10 meters in diameter and 100 meters away from them. The UFO went through a regular sequence of color changes. It had red and blue lights, and when on the ground they were half blue and half red, which would switch colors. When they decided to get closer it rose and flew off. They watched it for 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 157; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia Newsletter, March 1982, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_1450 Source: Johnson ### Event 9101 (2497F355) Date: 3/14/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ellsworth AFB, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2335 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9102 (B0EB2E9B) Date: 3/14/1959 Description: A disc-shaped object with a sphere on top paced a teenage driving in a car in Kyger, Gallia County, Ohio at 11:45 p.m. It beeamed a light down, and descended to a low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 81 Source ID: Johnson_1479 Source: Johnson ### Event 9103 (AA435432) Date: 3/15/1959 Description: A reddish yellow sphere stopped 100 meters over the Torino, Italy airfield at 11:00 p.m. It was pulsating and very bright, and hovered 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Nachtrichten, September 1959; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #5696, citing Flying Saucer Review, July 1959 Source ID: Johnson_1523 Source: Johnson ### Event 9104 (4539AE23) Date: 3/18/1959 Description: 8:50 p.m. Jesse Wilson of Denville, New Jersey, is taking photos of the Moon through a telescope and captures an image of two groups of multiple objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1959%5F03%5F18%5FUS%5FNJ%5FDenville%5FNICAP%5FWilson-Moon-Photo.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_3291 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9105 (4B1A5ECC) Date: 3/19/1959 Description: Buzzing static-like sound on car radio. Lights dimmed; unidentified light source seen ahead of car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kyger, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2336 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9106 (F32DD30F) Date: 3/19/1959 Description: Fifteen minutes later, at 9:00 p.m., two seminary roommates were outdoors on the grounds of the Lady of Grace Monastery in Colebrook, New Hampshire when they saw a silvery colored, Saturn-shaped, ovoid UFO descend over them. The craft had lighted windows around its lower portion and blinking red, yellow, and green lights around its outer rim. It also emitted a loud humming sound. The craft flew towards and then retreated from the witnesses several times. They apparently suffered a period of amnesia. Years later under hypnosis one of the witnesses recalled that the craft landed nearby on three legs and all normal noises ceased. They both were paralyzed and were both then floated up a ramp and taken onboard the craft, where they communicated by telepathy with four humanoids of differing heights, including a taller six-foot tall being that appeared to be the leader. Both were given physical exams and several experiments were conducted on them. They were able to see a "mother ship" and other craft through a window in the UFO on which they flew, and were taken onboard the larger craft where they saw other human abductees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Morton Schaffer, MUFON field investigations database, case # 930402E; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 715, citing Morton Schafer, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 302 Source ID: Johnson_1565 Source: Johnson ### Event 9107 (B4A078A5) Date: 3/19/1959 Description: At 8:45 p.m. on this day in 1959 a metallic disc, six meters in diameter, paced a car on highway 124 southeast of Kyger, Ohio. Electromagnetic effects noted at the time of this close encounter were a buzzing on the car radio and the dimming of the headlights and dashboard lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gallipolis (Ohio) Daily Tribune, March 20, 1959; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 100, citing Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I) Source ID: Johnson_1564 Source: Johnson ### Event 9108 (02F6DFD1) Date: 3/19/1959 Description: USAF spokesman Maj. [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) retracts the dubious Orion explanation for the [Killian](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48370897/peter-w%5F-killian) case and says instead that the pilots saw B-47 bombers refueling in flight from a KC-97 tanker. Killian tells the papers, “I don’t care what the air force says,” he knows what refueling looks like and the UFOs were “at least three times the size of any tanker or bomber we have. They could travel at 2,000 mph. And they were not conventional aircraft.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf), The Author, 1999, pp. 82–84 Source ID: Eberhart_3292 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9109 (1B116FC3) Date: Spring 1959 Description: ex-CIA Whistleblower Kewper Stein (likely Oscar Wayne Wolff 1935-2015), part of the CIA's secret UFO investigation project, claims in the spring of 1959, he returned to Washington D.C. and met with President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, and a CIA official at FBI headquarters. A few FBI officials took part in the meeting but not Director J. Edgar Hoover. Stein gave these leaders a thorough briefing on his fact-finding mission. The evidence he shared included a variety of reports and photographic images of flying saucers and unknown aerial crafts taken by various sources worldwide. Eisenhower looked them over with substantial interest and made informed remarks. He seemed to know a good deal more than Nixon, who was seemingly “stunned” and somewhat “out of the loop” on the otherworldly topic. Decades later starting in the 1990's, Kewper claimed that Project Blue Book was just window dressing and for public relations, and the most interesting reports were secretly forwarded to the CIA for investigation. Type: secret meeting Reference: ["Deanonymizing “Anonymous” (“Agent Kewper”)" by Richard Geldreich, Jr.](https://medium.com/@richgel99/deanonymizing-anonymous-agent-kewper-a1284fdab3fe) Reference: ["Anonymous: A Former CIA Agent comes out of the Shadows to Brief the White House about UFOs", by C. Ronald Garner](https://www.amazon.com/Former-Agent-comes-Shadows-Brief/dp/1936517841) Reference: "The Nixon-Gleason Alien Encounter" by Paul Blake Smith, page 10 Reference: ["Ex-CIA Agent Deathbed Confession On UFOs: Visited Area-51 & Saw Living Aliens"](https://www.howandwhys.com/ex-cia-agent-deathbed-confession-on-ufos-visited-area-51-saw-living-aliens/) Reference: [Part 1: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases](https://www.lowelegacy.com/flying-saucers/part-1-army-cia-unit) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_900 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9110 (F19A4EDD) Date: Spring 1959 Description: Early evening. A weather officer with the US Fifth Air Force in Tokyo, Japan, is in the operations center when the staff tracks a UFO near Misawa Air Base on the north end of Honshu. One of the officers says this happens frequently, that the objects travel at 2,000 mph, and they often stop in one position and hover for 30 minutes to several hours before taking off westward along the Tsugaru Strait and disappearing in a burst of speed. The center commander orders the pilots of two specially equipped F-106s based at Misawa to intercept the target. One of the planes is having instrumentation problems, but the other goes up. After 10 minutes he is being guided toward the target through Misawa. The pilot says the object is circular and metallic with a cockpit on top. The commander calls the Pentagon for authorization for the pilot to fire on the UFO, and he gets permission for the pilot to make a firing pass. The pilot fires two missiles, but they detonate just at the edge of the object, as if it is protected. The UFO then turns toward the terrified pilot, and the command center watches as the two blips merge into one. The blip disappears. Crews search for wreckage for 4 days but find none. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bruce Maccabee, “Hiding the Hardware,” IUR 16, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1991\): 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_3299 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9111 (D39D12C0) Date: Spring 1959 Description: Soviet radar and Air Defense personnel observe UFOs circling and hovering for more than 24 hours above the headquarters of the Tactical Missile Command at Sverdlovsk, Russia. Fighter aircraft sent to intercept them report that the UFOs easily outmaneuver them and zigzag to avoid machine gun fire. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Flying Saucers, no. 47, May 1966, pp. 6–10; Good Above, [p. 227](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/226/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3298 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9112 (8AF53DD8) Date: 3/20/1959 Alternate date: 6/8/1959 Description: A group at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) produced for the Army a classified study report titled Project Horizon, A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Military Outpost by 1965. Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Horizon) Location: Redstone Arsenal Source ID: Maj2_587 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9113 (2CFEA04A) Date: 3/20/1959 Description: 5:30 p.m. Witold Sambrowski, an electronics engineer, sees two noiseless cigar-shaped, reddish-pink objects flying over Ostroleka, Poland. They are traveling horizontally at a speed greater than a jet. When the two vanish, a third appears and follows the path the others have taken. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 211–212 Source ID: Eberhart_3293 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9114 (00B883E7) Date: Spring 1959 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) meets with [Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) at the New York Yacht Club to discuss NICAP strategy. USAF Public Information Officer [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) has sent the organization a letter asking it to stop writing to Air Force personnel about UFOs. Keyhoe tells Hillenkoetter that three scientists have contacted a certain congressman to report UFO sightings. Hillenkoetter advises, “we’ll have to do something to speed things up.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 15, 247–248 Source ID: Eberhart_3297 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9115 (B13A8C25) Date: 3/22/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ann Arbor, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2337 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9116 (BFBC353F) Date: 3/22/1959 Description: 1:30 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Bond are driving near Ann Arbor, Michigan, when they see an intensely lighted object hovering about 2 miles to the southeast. It is about 200 feet in the air and just south of a main road. Intense shafts of light are shining from two oval ports at the bottom. As they drive closer, they can hear no sound and find it is about 50–75 feet from the road. The UFO parallels their car at first, then the light shafts go out, and a circle of 8–10 red lights appear on the bottom. Then it rises rapidly and disappears in seconds. A local radio astronomer, Allen Barrot, claims the couple saw the lights of his telescope. But the Air Force finds that the couple were never looking in the direction of Barrot’s observatory. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 288–289; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf) The Author, 1999, pp. 87–90 Source ID: Eberhart_3294 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9117 (6C5D70DD) Date: 3/23/1959 Description: Two men, Briggs and Elio, saw a strange, domed disc-shaped object apparently on or near to the ground, then later in the sky over Adelaide, South Australia. It was in view for 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 164 Source ID: Johnson_1624 Source: Johnson ### Event 9118 (1EE08625) Date: 3/25/1959 Description: (McDonald list) B-52 & Gnd Radar / Radar Visual / Radar Freqs From UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [590325](http://www.nicap.org/590325nmontana%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: N Montana, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2338 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9119 (DC7BBAEB) Date: 3/25/1959 Description: Two silver spheres joined by a cylinder changed shape to a disc over Warsaw, Poland at around 11:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 212 Source ID: Johnson_1650 Source: Johnson ### Event 9120 (953B918B) Date: 3/26/1959 End date: 3/27/1959 Description: Dark red, barrel-shaped object, 20 ft long, 6-7 ft high (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6317) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corsica, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2339 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9121 (5FBA8ED4) Date: 3/26/1959 Time: 12:45 PM Description: Or March 27, 1959. Witness: T.E. Clark. One dark red, barrel-shaped object, 20' long, 6-7' high, descended below some trees during the 3 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Corsica, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_433 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9122 (60818E06) Date: 3/27/1959 Description: [Lou Corbin](http://www.project1947.com/corbin/index.html) has told [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) that Rep. [Samuel Friedel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FFriedel) \(D-Md.\) is “all set to hop on this [Killian](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48370897/peter-w%5F-killian) business” and begins to plan for Killian to meet with him. But Killian’s [wife](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48370921/catharine-m%5F-killian) now tells Keyhoe that he is under strict orders from the Air Force not to talk to anyone about the sighting or risk losing his job. Soon afterwards, the Air Force releases a statement from Killian that says, “Having never seen night refueling of jets by a tanker, I suppose that could be what we saw.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 27–36; UFOEv, [pp. 116–117](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=128&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3295 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9123 (C0FFFBC7) Date: 3/27/1959 Description: A blue, barrel-shaped UFO landed remotely a half mile away in a wooded area west of Corsica, Pennsylvania at 12:45 p.m. It was seen by a man and a woman. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 35; Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics, case 6317 Source ID: Johnson_1692 Source: Johnson ### Event 9124 (567FBB50) Date: 3/28/1959 Description: On this night three witnesses encountered a seven foot tall luminous humanoid in a swampy area of Charles Mill Lake, Ohio. It appeared to be armless and had large, bright greenish eyes. It left tracks behind resembling those of the footgear worn by skin divers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 314, citing Loren Coleman, Curious Encounters Source ID: Johnson_1708 Source: Johnson ### Event 9125 (DAE2D2B8) Date: 3/29/1959 Description: At eight o'clock in the evening 26-year-old Horst Raps of Lampertheim, Germany had gone out for a walk as recommended by his doctor after being diagnosed with lung disease. As he walked along he sighted a light coming down from the sky. The light approached and he saw an object hovering just one meter above the ground. The craft was saucer-shaped and surrounded by a blue-violet light. It had a cupola on top that emitted bright beams of light. Fascinated, he watched as a stairway descended to the ground and a tall, heavy-set man emerged. The figure wore a tight-fitting, multicolored uniform. He approached Raps and spoke to him in perfect German.. He warned the witness of approaching future dangers and asked him to return to the same place three days later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing UFO Geheimnisse, Berlin, January 1998 Source ID: Johnson_1717 Source: Johnson ### Event 9126 (E65D2F17) Date: 3/31/1959 Description: Later that same evening the Adelaide Weather Bureau received a report of a UFO at about eight p.m. from Goolwa, near Port Elliott, South Australia. And at 11:30 p.m. a young man spotted a reddish-orange oval-shaped object on the ground about 100 meters from the rural road he was driving on. Barry Neale, age 15, was driving home between Goolwa and Port Elliot, South Australia when he saw the glowing, reddish-orange object on the ground. It had a row of 8 or 9 portholes, was about five meters (16 feet) wide, and it illuminated the trees. He drove around the wooded area in time to see it take off. "It climbed at an angle of 45 degrees towards Hindmarsh Island and soon disappeared." No radioactivity was found at the spot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 484; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_1762 Source: Johnson ### Event 9127 (2BEB511C) Date: 3/31/1959 Description: 11:30 p.m. Barry Neale, operator of the Port Elliot movie theater, is driving home to Goolwa, South Australia, and sees a dome-shaped, reddish-orange object with a row of evenly spaced portholes around it. He estimates it to be about 15 feet wide, and it is on the ground about 900 feet from the road. He sees it disappear to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Jan-Mar.pdf), The Author, 1999, pp. 99–100 Source ID: Eberhart_3296 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9128 (3BF67368) Date: 3/31/1959 Description: Three Adelaide, South Australia children reported having seen strange objects moving about in the sky. Neil Abercrombie, his mother, brother, and some other friends, all saw a strange object at 6:05 p.m. He described it as an "elongated circle with indistinct edges" and said it had been flying quite high. Two other nearby residents saw a round object with red flashing lights at about 7:50 p.m. They said the object circled and disappeared in the west, appearing to be smaller than a plane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, London: Robert Hale, 1975, p. 165 Source ID: Johnson_1761 Source: Johnson ### Event 9129 (62CCBC61) Date: 3/31/1959 Time: 1330 Description: Barry Neale was driving home to Goolwa when he saw on the ground a glowing, reddish-orange object with a row of portholes. It illuminated the trees, was about 5 m wide. He got within 300 m of it, and drove around the wooded area in time to see it take off. No radioactivity was found at the spot. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 59,5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Port Elliot, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_485 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9130 (65E58AB6) Date: 4/1/1959 Description: Horst Raps returned to the previously appointed site in Lampertheim, Germany where he had encountered a UFOnaut on March 29th and found the hovering blue-violet disc-shaped craft and the tall humanoid waiting for him. This time he was invited onboard the UFO, and supposedly taken on an otherworldly ride to another planet in the Alpha Centauri system. There he encountered various races of people, who allegedly lived in dwellings shaped like cupolas and cultivated multicolored flowers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 2440, citing Ulrich Magin Source ID: Johnson_1781 Source: Johnson ### Event 9131 (7CD536E9) Date: 4/1/1959 Description: An Air Force C-118 transport plane with four passengers suddenly radioed in ”MAYDAY, we’ve been hit!” Col. R.E. Booth told reporters that a mid-air collision had taken place at 8:19 p.m. APRG (Aerial Phenomena Research Group) investigators determined that from 7:00 p.m. on through the early evening several mysterious aerial explosions had shaken the Seattle, WA, area. Several residents had reported seeing mysterious UFOs from 20 miles north of the crash scene to about 8 miles southeast of it. These sightings were confirmed by the Orting Chief of Police and by Public Information Officer at McChord AFB. Several persons told APRG investigator, R. Gribble, that as the C-118 passed over their area it was followed by 2 parachute-shaped objects and that the C-118 was missing its tail assembly. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jones reported 3 or 4 parachute-shaped UFOs following the C-118 as it passed over their home. Chief of Police, Fred Emard, told R. Gribble that he would be glad to furnish information on the UFOs to APRG, but changed his mind the next day after an interview with an Air Force Colonel. “The Chief and other officials of Orting had been silenced,” Gribble reported. Type: mid-air collision Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Orting, WA See also: 9/29/59 See also: 5/61 Source ID: Maj2_589 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9132 (BFDFAC85) Date: 4/1/1959 Description: An Air Force C-118 plane with four on board crashes between Sumner and Orting, Washington, about an hour after taking off from McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lewis-McChord\] in Tacoma. Their last radio message indicates that they hit something or that something hit them. [Bob Gribble](http://avalonlibrary.net/Wendy%5FConnors%5FFaded%5FDisc%5Farchive/NuforcDirectory.pdf) and other UFO investigators find witnesses who claim to have seen two orange or yellow objects closing in on the plane. Best guess is that the plane hit a tree and the UFO observations are unrelated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1959 April–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1999, pp. 2–4 Source ID: Eberhart_3300 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9133 (CDD4895E) Date: 4/3/1959 Description: Treasury enforcement officer saw UFO ascending and descending. \[NICAP UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ocoee, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2340 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9134 (297E0636) Date: 4/7/1959 Description: 8:00 p.m. Control tower operators at CFB St. Hubert \[now Montreal/Saint-Hubert Airport\], Quebec, spot a red, glowing light hanging in the sky for a few minutes at 3,000–7,000 feet altitude. It suddenly darts to the north at supersonic speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 100 Source ID: Eberhart_3301 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9135 (CE6D0126) Date: 4/9/1959 Description: At 6:50 p.m. a UFO was seen against the mountains by the Sideia Mission Brothers in Boianai, Papua New Guinea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_1923 Source: Johnson ### Event 9136 (72B6C91D) Date: 4/11/1959 Description: Two businessmen at Woodlands, New Zealand, watch a glowing 40-foot-long object with a balloon-like attachment on the underside hovering just above the trees. As they approach it in their car, it speeds off to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 100 Source ID: Eberhart_3302 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9137 (228B0640) Date: 4/12/1959 Description: 8:00 p.m. Control tower personnel and airport officials at St. Hubert Air Defence Command Base \[now CFB St. Hubert\], Quebec, as well as local residents watch a red ball of light hovering above the airfield at 3,000–7,000 feet. Descriptions vary from a black ball with a red light to a long red cigar. Radar does not pick it up. Suddenly it takes off toward Montreal to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 94–96 Source ID: Eberhart_3303 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9138 (BC09AD5F) Date: 4/12/1959 Description: St. Hubert Air Base Control Tower Operators, others saw red light which hovered over base, then darted away. \[NICAP UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montreal, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2341 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9139 (697B6F6A) Date: 4/13/1959 Description: (McDonald list) Highly Maneuverable Lights Tracked / Fighter Scrambled (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [590413](http://www.nicap.org/590413antigo%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Antigo & Madison, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2342 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9140 (E161B38B) Date: 4/15/1959 Time: evening Description: Between Svendborg and Nyborg, Ove Christensen, coming home after work on his bicycle, was stopped on the road by a disk-shaped object spinning at ground level. After five minutes it began chasing him, flying 6 m above him for 5 m. The object was luminous and seemed made of glass. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 59, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Svendborg, Denmark Source ID: Magnonia_486 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9141 (A1862E98) Date: 4/15/1959 Description: On this evening Ove Christensen was coming home after work on his bicycle along the road between Svendborg and Nyborg, Denmark when he was stopped by a disc-shaped object spinning at ground level. After five minutes it began chasing him, flying six meters above him for five minutes. The UFO was luminous and seemed to be made of a glasslike material. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 486; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1959 Source ID: Johnson_2022 Source: Johnson ### Event 9142 (6F547C4D) Date: 4/17/1959 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) meets with [Sisir Kumar Maitra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisir%5FKumar%5FMaitra)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisir%5FKumar%5FMaitra) head of the Department of Philosophy and dean of the Faculty of Arts of Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi during a stopover in Kolkata, India. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[World Lecture](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/) [Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3304 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9143 (5AAB6B9E) Date: 4/18/1959 End date: 5/14/1959 Description: [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) arrives in London, England, and appears on the TV show In Town Tonight on April 18 and on the BBC program Panorama on April 20 where he debates with astronomer [Patrick Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FMoore), a show that is seen by 9 million viewers. Both Gen. [Frederick Browning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FBrowning) and RAF Commander [Peter Horsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FHorsley) meet with Adamski and [Desmond Leslie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%5FLeslie) during their visit to a private address in London. Adamski gives further lectures in Tunbridge Wells, Weston-super-Mare, Bournemouth, at Caxton Hall in London \(on April 28\), Birmingham University \(April 29\), Manchester \(May 1\), and several more around the British Isles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[World Lecture Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; David Clarke, “The Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_3305 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9144 (9479D1B6) Date: 4/19/1959 Description: 3:00 p.m. [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) and Norman Colton, who have been in Oklahoma since February, pretend to attempt the launch of their OTC-X1 spacecraft in a gravel pit 6 miles east of the Frontier City amusement park northeast of Oklahoma City. Frontier City obligingly erects a model of the spacecraft as a ride. However, Carr comes down with a mysterious throat ailment and goes to Mercy Hospital on April 17. He invites [Long John Nebel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%5FJohn%5FNebel) to have a brief glimpse of the model, but Nebel thinks it looks like a jumble of unconnected parts. As it turns out, the OTC- X1 develops a “mercury leak” and the launch is delayed then canceled. Those who have come for the April 19 launch hear contactee [Dana Howard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%5FHoward%5F%28contactee%29) talk about her trip to Venus, and [Margaret Storm](https://hello-earth.com/margaretstorm/margaretstorm.html) \(Carr’s “publications editor” in Baltimore\) declares that Carr is inspired by the “Divine Master St. Germain.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Difficulties Put Off](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94562531/) [Flying Saucer](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94562581/) [Test,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94562635/)” Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, April 20, 1959, pp. 1–2, 13; Clark III 860–861 Source ID: Eberhart_3306 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9145 (83DA7C2B) Date: 4/20/1959 Description: Ufologist [Morris K. Jessup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%5FK.%5FJessup) commits suicide in a Dade County park, Florida, from carbon monoxide poisoning. Some theorists connect his involvement with the Allende letters and the [Philadelphia experiment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%5FExperiment) to his death, but friends say Jessup has been discussing suicide with them for several months. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 635; “[Jessup](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Pursuit%20-%20SITU%20%28Sanderson%29/Pursuit%20-%20No%2004%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%204%20-%201968.pdf) [and the Allende Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Pursuit%20-%20SITU%20%28Sanderson%29/Pursuit%20-%20No%2004%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%204%20-%201968.pdf)” Pursuit 1, no. 4 \(September 30, 1968\): 8–10 Source ID: Eberhart_3307 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9146 (1C220AFA) Date: 4/23/1959 Description: At 12:10 a.m. a luminous disc flew over a pasture in Bradenton, Florida and stopped two kilometers away from the witnesses. It emitted a beam of light that searched the ground for a couple of minutes, then it flew away toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: April-June, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_2252 Source: Johnson ### Event 9147 (40DF7274) Date: 4/25/1959 Description: Luis Da Silva saw a "red hot" colored disc in the sky on the evening of April 23rd in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Around midnight of April 23-24 he awoke and felt the need to go outside to the garden. There he found a noted that told him to return the following night at 1:30 a.m. When he did so, a circular UFO appeared in the air 300 feet above the ground, and he felt himself paralyzed. A man descended from the UFO in a slow spiral, but when he reached the ground he stopped above it and his feet did not quite touch the ground. He wore a helmet and some form of plastic clothing, and gloves looking like they were made of a transparent, glass material. He told Da Silva to return on Thursday at 2:05 a.m., and then re-ascended in a spiral into the craft. On Thursday the same sequence of events occurred, but the next time three entities descended in sequence. The last one of these men asked Da Silva for a piece of paper, and inscribed upon it a message of some kind, written in indescipherable markings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-07, citing Dr. Walter Buhler; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1967, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_2293 Source: Johnson ### Event 9148 (77718DB7) Date: 4/26/1959 Description: Luis Da Silva had seen a red colored disc in the sky before he went to bed in Sao Paulo, Brazil and when he awoke at midnight he felt a compulsion to go out into his garden, where he found a note telling him to return the next night at 1:30 a.m. He did so, and a circular UFO appeared at a low altitude, perhaps 100 meters. He felt paralyzed and unable to move. In a spiral a man descended from the UFO but did not quite touch the ground. He wore a helmet and was clad in plastic looking clothing, with gloves that looked transparent like glass. He told Da Silva to return again on Thursday at 2:05 a.m. and then re-ascended in a spiral to his craft. On Thursday the same sequence of events occurred, but this time three entities descended, one at a time. The last of these beings asked Da Silva for a sheet of paper, and he inscribed upon it a message consisting of undecipherable markings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1967, p. 7; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-07, citing Dr. Walter Buhler, SBEDV Source ID: Johnson_2333 Source: Johnson ### Event 9149 (A1D7C833) Date: 4/29/1959 Description: At 7:30 p.m. Rod Lightfoot and another man in Blackwood Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia took a photograph of a saucer-shaped object. The main body of the UFO appeared to be rotating on its vertical axis, but the row of lights remained steady. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Adelaide Advertiser, April 30, 1959; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 165; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register (Volume 7), p. 49; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case # SA59001 Source ID: Johnson_2406 Source: Johnson ### Event 9150 (D752090B) Date: 4/29/1959 Time: 2230 Description: Alex Gillis and Jerry Monkman saw from a hilltop an egg-shaped object in the middle of the road. It was about 5 m long, the top part emitting a bright light. The object went away silently. Fearing ridicule, the witnesses reported the incident one month later. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 59, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Grassy Plains, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_487 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9151 (75B1B2F8) Date: 5/1959 Description: The first Avrocar, \#58-7055, rolls out of the Avro Malton factory in Mississauga, Ontario. From June 9 to October 7 it is tested in a static hover rig. A second Avrocar is completed in August. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar) [VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” Source ID: Eberhart_3308 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9152 (5D0EDBC7) Date: 5/2/1959 Description: (McDonald list) Three Radars Have 18 Tracks, 10+ Aircraft Scrambled (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [590502](http://www.nicap.org/590502pease%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pease AFB, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2343 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9153 (7B8F9EB7) Date: 5/4/1959 Description: [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) and his attorney are summoned to the county courthouse in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to answer questions about stock sales by OTC Enterprises, including a block of 21,000 shares to Frontier City promoter [Jimmy Burge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier%5FCity%23Burge/Williams%5Fera%5F%281958-1981%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier%5FCity%23Burge/Williams%5Fera%5F%281958-1981%29) oilman [Frank Buttram](https://oklahomahof.com/member-archives/b/buttram-frank-1940)[,](https://oklahomahof.com/member-archives/b/buttram-frank-1940) and publisher [Edward K. Gaylord](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FK.%5FGaylord)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FK.%5FGaylord) Carr pleads the Fifth Amendment. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 861 Source ID: Eberhart_3309 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9154 (6074D60F) Date: 5/5/1959 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s newly formed UFO Advisory Panel holds its first meeting at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. The panel consists of Hynek, Lt. Col. [Richard M. Graham](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49191941/richard-marshall-graham) \(chaplain\), Lt. Col. Theodore J. Hieatt \(PR\), Maj. Leroy D. Pigg \(psychologist\), V. J. Handmacher \(physicist\), and L. V. Robinson \(astronomer\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucer Reading](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html) [Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019; Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 148–](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/148/mode/2up) [149](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/148/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3310 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9155 (BA62C8DB) Date: 5/13/1959 Description: Military witnesses at Offutt AFB, Nebraska, a civilian ATC, and all onboard a Braniff airliner witnessed a fireball fly across the sky toward the SW for 15 seconds. It was sighted on a clear night at 9:21 p.m. and was estimated to be traveling at the same speed as the plane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July 1959 Source ID: Johnson_2795 Source: Johnson ### Event 9156 (F04D553C) Date: 5/13/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Omaha (Offutt AFB), NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_2344 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9157 (D47BD21A) Date: 5/13/1959 Description: At 7:00 p.m. a domed disc was seen over the city of Colon, Uruguay. The circular bottom of the object rotated clockwise. The object itself was self-luminous, and the dome of the craft flashed. The UFO flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roberto Enrique Banchs; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: April-June, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_2794 Source: Johnson ### Event 9158 (E2F8FAD2) Date: 5/14/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Philadelphia, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2346 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9159 (40900C59) Date: 5/14/1959 Description: UFO hovered, sped away. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Des Moines, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2345 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9160 (45EAC90B) Date: 5/17/1959 Description: Three crocodile hunters saw a huge football-shaped object 100 meters away from them while hunting in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia at 4:30 a.m. The object spewed forth a 50 meter wide band of vapor. Two of the hunters stood up to get a better look. One of the two later died, and the other suffered some severe physiological aftereffects from the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 101; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_2923 Source: Johnson ### Event 9161 (F83712F5) Date: 5/18/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenbush, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2347 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9162 (91E7E923) Date: 5/18/1959 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) has an audience with Queen [Juliana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana%5Fof%5Fthe%5FNetherlands) and Prince [Bernhard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FBernhard%5Fof%5FLippe-Biesterfeld) of the Netherlands at Soestdijk Palace in Baarn on his world lecture tour, amid fiercely critical media coverage. The royal audience, scheduled to last 45 minutes, goes on for two hours, making Adamski 20 minutes late for his lecture in The Hague. The royal couple claim that the British royal family, especially [Prince Philip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%5FPhilip%2C%5FDuke%5Fof%5FEdinburgh), are also keen to meet Adamski. After the audience, Dutch Aeronautical Association president [Cornelis Kolff](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis%5FKolff) says “The Queen showed an extraordinary interest in the whole subject.” Royal Netherlands Air Force Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Haye Schaper says, “The man’s a pathological case.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[World Lecture Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; David Clarke, “The Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_3311 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9163 (65122610) Date: 5/18/1959 Description: A truck driver in Girard, Kansas reported that at 2:00 a.m. an orange disc-shaped object landed on the highway and covered both lanes. It rose up vertically after a short while and flew away. A separate witness was not identified. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross: The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: April-June, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_2951 Source: Johnson ### Event 9164 (C72B6297) Date: 5/20/1959 Description: At 5:30 p.m. two hunters named Sanchez and Fogliani observed a landed silvery metallic disc in Tres Lomas, La Pampa, Argentina. Grass at the landing site was flattened. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: La Razon, May 24, 1959; Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_3005 Source: Johnson ### Event 9165 (13FD1E14) Date: 5/20/1959 Description: 5:30 p.m. Antonio Sanchez and Ernesto Fogliani are hunting rabbits about 7 miles from Pehuelches station, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They see a saucer-shaped, silvery machine resting on the ground about 980 feet away. They approach to about 490 feet when the object rises into the sky and disappears. At the spot where it was, they find the grass flattened in the shape of a large oval. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf) [UFOs, a History: 1959 April–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1999, p. 32 Source ID: Eberhart_3312 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9166 (948EAC06) Date: 5/20/1959 Time: 1730 Description: Two hunters saw a diskshaped object resting on the ground 150 m away. It looked like an aluminum craft about 2.5 m high, with a dome on top. Grass flattened. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Challenge 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Tres Lomas, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_488 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9167 (D579B614) Date: 5/21/1959 Description: On this afternoon around 1:00 p.m. a huge yellow glowing cigar flew toward the northwest and circled the town of Brindisi, Italy before continuing on toward the northeast and out to sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: April-June, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_3017 Source: Johnson ### Event 9168 (65E02A4C) Date: 5/21/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rapid City (8 miles E of), SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2348 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9169 (E2975654) Date: 5/22/1959 Description: The UFO Advisory Panel meets to “determine the type of information which should be used for correlation in bringing Special Report \#14 up to date.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3313 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9170 (5A3EAB5A) Date: Late 5/1959 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) tells [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) he is revising his book to bring it more up to date and requests NICAP’s most recent information. He says the Air Force is giving its full cooperation and he is “middle of the road” on the UFO question. \(Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 258–260\) May 26, 29 — [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) gives two lectures in Zürich, Switzerland. At the second talk, he meets with organized resistance by a group of 300 students \(in an audience of 700\) who have been led to believe he will discredit Swiss astronomer [Fritz Zwicky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%5FZwicky)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%5FZwicky) When a reporter afterwards asks if he will accept an apology, Adamski replies that it should not be given to him, but to the Swiss public. Due to recurring heart problems, Adamski cancels his remaining lectures in Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Denmark. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[World Lecture Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3314 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9171 (F899F61D) Date: 5/28/1959 Description: [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) and two OTC Enterprises employees \(Lari Kendrick and Charles O. Rhoades\) are barred by a federal court order from selling any further stock in the company. The SEC contends that they have been selling unregistered securities fraudulently since November 18, 1955, using the US mail to do so. Contactee associate [Wayne Aho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%5FSulo%5FAho) escapes arraignment, while Norman Colton has fled the state and cannot be located. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 861 Source ID: Eberhart_3315 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9172 (1E053501) Date: 5/28/1959 Description: Night. Two observers on a Project Moonwatch team in San Antonio, Texas, see two silvery objects through their telescopes that shoot across the sky in less than one second, one curving away in a parabolic path, the other executing a more gradual hyperbolic curve. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 13–14; Center for UFO Studies, “[Moonwatch Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962](http://www.cufos.org/Moonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites/1958-1962%5FMoonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites.pdf)” Source ID: Eberhart_3316 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9173 (1D3B4857) Date: 5/31/1959 Description: A man named Priest sighted a reddish orange object with a tapering tail fly over Port Elliot, South Australia at 6:13 a.m. It moved from west to east at 25 degrees elevation in southern sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 166 Source ID: Johnson_3180 Source: Johnson ### Event 9174 (812E3468) Date: 6/1959 Description: The Argentine Navy bottles up a fast, submarine-like object in the Buenos Aires harbor, Argentina. It is shaped like a huge fish, is silver in color, and sports a tail like the stabilizer on a B-17. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 52–53 Source ID: Eberhart_3317 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9175 (F0301DE2) Date: 6/1959 Description: The radiation effects reactor at Lockheed’s Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory \[now closed\] in the Dawson Forest outside Dawsonville, Georgia, is brought up to full power and unsheathed for the first time. It is a water- cooled 10-megawatt nuclear reactor in a shielded underground shaft with the purpose of irradiating military aircraft as well as the forest itself to determine the effects of nuclear war on wildlife. The experiment exposes everything within a 1,000-foot radius to a lethal dose of radiation. Bugs fall from the air, and small animals and the bacteria living in and on them are exterminated, in a phenomenon the technicians call “instant taxidermy.” Oak trees turn brown, yet crabgrass is seemingly unaffected. Pine trees are the hardest hit of all. Clear Coca-Cola bottles turn brown, hydraulic fluid coagulates into chewing gum, transistorized equipment stops working, and rubber tires become rock hard. Documents about the reactor remain highly classified, and the entrance to the underground portion of the facility has been buried. The area is closed in 1971, and only objects left above ground were the concrete foundations on which the buildings and reactors were placed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Georgia Nuclear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%5FNuclear%5FAircraft%5FLaboratory) [Aircraft Laboratory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%5FNuclear%5FAircraft%5FLaboratory)”; Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, p. 30 Source ID: Eberhart_3318 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9176 (BEF47562) Date: 6/2/1959 Description: Mrs. Henry X. Buller reported that she and her husband saw two cigar-shaped objects fly northeast of Windom, Minnesota while driving between Windom and Mountain Lake at 9:15 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fate magazine, October 1959; Jay Rath, The M-Files, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_3224 Source: Johnson ### Event 9177 (4725CD7A) Date: 6/3/1959 Description: On this day in Bloomington, Indiana a torpedo-shaped object first hovered, then dove out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 137 Source ID: Johnson_3242 Source: Johnson ### Event 9178 (9E1D25EC) Date: 6/3/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Genoa, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_2349 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9179 (28970D94) Date: 6/3/1959 Description: Torpedo-shaped UFO hovered, dove out of sight. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bloomington (near), IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2350 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9180 (102448FA) Date: 6/6/1959 Description: Several members of a safari in the Australian outback near Nourlange, Northern Territory watched a red disc descend fast, then stop and hover for 30 seconds. It shot straight up into the clouds and illuminated the clouds a reddish color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History, 1959: April-June, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_3320 Source: Johnson ### Event 9181 (04A84CBB) Date: 6/9/1959 Description: (McDonald list) Two Sites Track At 62,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [590609](http://www.nicap.org/590609manassa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manassas-Roanoke, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2351 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9182 (E9383A5A) Date: 6/11/1959 Description: Security officers observed a formation of four disc-like objects. \[NICAP UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Henderson, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2352 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9183 (142A881E) Date: 6/12/1959 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) writes an open letter to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) that lists his past statements on UFOs and urges him not to let the Air Force intimidate him into retracting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, “[Capt. Ruppelt Revising His UFO Book: Air Force](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/008%20JUNE%201959.pdf) [Rumored to Be Pressuring Former Project Chief,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/008%20JUNE%201959.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 8 \(June 1959\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_3319 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9184 (85D8F3DA) Date: 6/13/1959 Description: [Charles S. Sheldon II](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49313174/charles-stuart-sheldon)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49313174/charles-stuart-sheldon) technical director of the House Science and Astronautics Committee, writes to [Richard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) [H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) at NICAP to say that while he thinks UFOs are “extremely interesting,” they do not pose a national security threat.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 290 Source ID: Eberhart_3320 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9185 (6B104C7E) Date: 6/13/1959 Description: [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) along with follower Lou Zinsstag, meets with diplomat [Alberto Perego](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/alberto-perego/) and Mario Maioli at Ristorante La Cisterna in the Trastevere area of Rome, Italy, then go on an all-night taxi ride around the city. He returns to the United States via Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 17. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[World Lecture Tour,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/global-reach/world-tour/)” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; 1Pinotti 106 Source ID: Eberhart_3321 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9186 (DCB1DD9D) Date: 6/16/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Meridian (SE of), MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2353 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9187 (06E24280) Date: 6/18/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific bet. Hawaii and Calif, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2354 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9188 (EEC72D9A) Date: 6/18/1959 Time: 9:30 PM Description: Witnesses: A. Cavelli and R. Blessin, using 7x binoculars. One brown, cigar-shaped object came from below the horizon (close to the witnesses) ascending to 40-50^ above the horizon in 4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_434 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9189 (E258A340) Date: 6/18/1959 Description: Brown, cigar-shaped object come from below the horizon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6400) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edmonton, Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2359 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9190 (9EC1393F) Date: 6/21/1959 Time: 2000 Description: A civilian woman observed a saucer-shaped object hovering 5 m above ground. It was bathed in an orange glow, similar to that of a dying fire. It flew away horizontally and was lost to sight behind a hill. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 59, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: The Willows, South Africa Source ID: Magnonia_489 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9191 (89394A3B) Date: 6/22/1959 Description: 8:00 p.m. A large, luminous UFO passes over Salta, Argentina, and blacks out all electrical power for several minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bernardo Passíon, “[Report from Argentina,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2011%2000%20-%20November.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, November 1959, p. 9; Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 April–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1999, p. 56 Source ID: Eberhart_3322 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9192 (1A3450C3) Date: 6/22/1959 Description: Gunner of RB-66 saw 4 groups of 8 dark round objects heading SW (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Macao (South China Sea S of), China Source ID: NICAP_DB_2360 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9193 (458EB98D) Date: 6/22/1959 Description: Luminous sphere observed passing in sky, city lights failed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salta, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_2361 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9194 (A1B99217) Date: 6/25/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Taegu (S) of, Korea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2362 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9195 (34CEEA70) Date: 6/26/1959 Time: 1845 Description: Many witnesses, among them Fr. W. B. Gill, head of a local mission, saw an orange object that hovered in mid-air. Four engines were visible on its "deck" and a beam of blue light was emitted upward from it. The object did not come to ground level, but its position above the ocean was almost on a level with the observers standing on the hill. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 123; Anatomy 145 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Boianai, New Guinea Source ID: Magnonia_490 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9196 (C74FEE46) Date: 6/26/1959 End date: 6/28/1959 Description: 6:45 p.m. At Boianai Mission, Papua New Guinea, Rev. [William Booth Gill](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2007/08/reverend-william-bill-booth-gill-1929.html) and 38 others watch a platform-shaped object with legs that appears in the sky above Venus. It has an electric blue spotlight and is hovering about 500 feet away at a height of 300–400 feet. On top of the object, four humanlike figures, their bodies surrounded by illumination, are busy with some unknown task. The men and spotlight disappear at 7:20 p.m. and the object vanishes into the clouds. It reappears at 8:28 without the men or spotlight but now joined by second, third and fourth objects at 8:29, 8:35, and 8:35–8:50 p.m., coming and going through the clouds. The main UFO, “large, clear, stationary,” gives off a red light and disappears overhead into clouds at 9:10 p.m., reappears at 9:20, moves across the sea to Giwa appearing white-red-blue, then disappears at 9:30. An overhead object reappears at 9:46, hovering, disappears behind a cloud at 10:10, reappears in a gap between clouds at 10:30, then is gone at 10:50. The next day, the object returns at 6:00–6:30 p.m. with two others, one to the west and one overhead. “Two of the figures seemed to be doing something near the center of the deck. They were occasionally bending over and raising their arms as though adjusting or setting up something \(not visible\). One figure seemed to be standing, looking down at us.” Father Gill and another teacher wave their arms, and two of the figures on the main object wave back. Gill waves a flashlight and the object moves back and forth laterally. Gill goes in for dinner and a church service; when he returns at 7:45 p.m., the UFO is gone. The next evening at 6:45 p.m., some eight objects align themselves across a section of the sky. No occupants are visible. [Martin Kottmeyer](https://www.dios.com.ar/notas1/biografias/escribas/kottmeyer%5Fmartin/kottmeyer%5Fmartin.htm) suggests that Gill was watching a lighted squid-fishing boat close to shore, but Gill has confirmed the object was over his head. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucer Men Seen in Flight: Amazing Sighting from Papua,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CNov-Dic%2CV%205%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1959\): 7–8; Norman E. G. Cruttwell, “[Flying Saucers over Papua: A Report on Papuan Unidentified Flying](https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/frgill1959.pdf) [Objects,](https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/frgill1959.pdf)” March 1960; Norman E. G. Cruttwell, “[What Happened in Papua in 1959?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1960%2CNov-Dec%2CV%206%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1960\): 3–7; “[Father Gill and the Rev. Lionel Browning,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1961%2CSep-Oct%2CV%207%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 7, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1961\): 23–25; Norman E. G. Cruttwell, “[Flying Saucers over Papua,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201971%20N%204%2CUFOs%20in%20Two%20Worlds.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFOs in Two Worlds, special issue of FSR, August 1971, pp. 3–38; Gordon Creighton, “[The New Guinea Sightings; A Note on Some](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201971%20N%204%2CUFOs%20in%20Two%20Worlds.pdf) [Anthropological Aspects,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201971%20N%204%2CUFOs%20in%20Two%20Worlds.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFOs in Two Worlds, special issue of FSR, August 1971, p. 39; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 167– 172](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/166/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/166/mode/2up) [271–273](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/270/mode/2up); Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 216–223](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/216/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 April–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Apr-Jun.pdf), The Author, 1999, pp. 59–68, 69–71; “Papua/Father Gill Revisited,” IUR 2, no. 11 \(November 1977\): 4–7; “Papua/Father Gill Revisited, Part Two,” IUR 2, no. 12 \(December 1977\): 4–8; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 59–62; Martin Kottmeyer, “[Gill Again: The Father Gill Case Reconsidered,](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2013/12/gill-again-father-gill-case-reconsidered.html)” Magonia, no. 54 \(November 1995\): 11–14; Bill Chalker, “[The Boianai Visitants of 1959,](http://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/father-gill-1959-papua-new-guinea-ufo-sighting/)” The Black Vault, May 16, 2016; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 \(Mar. 2012\): 31–32; Swords 383–385; Clark III 533–536 Source ID: Eberhart_3323 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9197 (BCCDA1FD) Date: 6/26/1959 Description: At 6:45 p.m. at Boianai Mission on Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea an Anglican missionary named Father Gill and 37 others watched four luminous figures on top of a low, hovering, disc-shaped UFO. It was circular with a wide base and a narrower upper deck, and had four tapering legs, two at each end, on the bottom. A shaft of blue light that shone upwards at a 45 degree angle was witnessed part of the time. The four figures on top of the craft were surrounded at a little distance by an aura of luminescence. "If wearing clothes, they were very tight-fitting," reported Father Gill. One of the beings waved back in an apparent response to hand waves from the witnesses. The UFO also wobbled in response to flashlight signals. Thirty minutes later an oval-shaped craft with portholes was seen maneuvering over Giwa, Papua New Guinea. The UFO made a series of moves and stops, and made a "whoomp whoomp" noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, UFOs in the Two Worlds, FSR Special Edition No. 4, pp. 35 & 21 Source ID: Johnson_3668 Source: Johnson ### Event 9198 (799984DA) Date: 6/26/1959 Description: Earlier that same day Mr. Taylor, a 22-year-old man living in Whitefield, Greater Manchester, England observed two tall men walking down Alexander Avenue. They were dressed like motorcyclists, stood over six-feet tall, wore tight fitting trousers and heavy boots, and had long blond hair. They turned a corner and when Taylor quickly followed, the men had already vanished into thin air. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type-I Reports, case 892, published in the Merseyside UFO Bulletin (MUFOB), which later was re-named Magonia magazine; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 345, citing Janet & Colin Bord, Modern Mysteries of Britain Source ID: Johnson_3669 Source: Johnson ### Event 9199 (B6E6915F) Date: 6/26/1959 Description: Father Gill Case -saw Platform shaped object with "men" on top (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [590626](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/en-590626dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Papua (Boianai Mission), New Guinea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2363 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9200 (F7D3594F) Date: 6/27/1959 Description: Object returned from previous night with 2 others (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [590627](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/en-590626dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Papua (Boianai Mission), New Guinea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2365 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9201 (0BB05A9C) Date: 6/27/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dunville, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2364 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9202 (A3AC16B5) Date: 6/27/1959 Description: Twenty-four hours after their previous sighting, a UFO re-appeared in the same position in the sky over the Boianai Mission on Milne Bay, New Guinea, only a little further off. Four men were again seen occupied with some activity on top of it. Father William Gill waved, and one of the men on the UFO did the same; then all the observers waved, and all four UFO occupants appeared to wave back. Flashlight signals were answered by movements of the object, which oscillated and then came somewhat closer. After this there was no further response. After about 90 minutes of visibility some low clouds obscured the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Rev. Norman E. G. Crutwell, UFOs in the Two Worlds, FSR Special Edition No. 4., p. 35; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-10, citing FSR Special Issue #4 Source ID: Johnson_3694 Source: Johnson ### Event 9203 (D178ECAD) Date: 6/28/1959 Description: Father Gill saw up to 8 lights at varying heights (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [590628](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/en-590626dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Papua (Boianai Mission), New Guinea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2366 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9204 (BC8DE7DC) Date: 6/30/1959 Description: Metallic gold, oblate-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6409) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Patuxent River, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2367 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9205 (937D8AAA) Date: 6/30/1959 Time: 8:23 PM Description: Witness: USN Cdr. D. Connolly. One gold, oblate-shaped object, nine times as wide as it was thick, metallic and with sharp edges, flew straight and level for 20-30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Patuxent River NAS, Maryland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_435 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9206 (6A7CC1EA) Date: 6/30/1959 Description: A U.S. Navy Commander and a female companion at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Lexington Park, Maryland sighted a metallic gold, oblate object at 8:23 p.m. EDT. He spotted it to the north; the UFO traveled in a straight and level flight path.A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 179; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 77 Source ID: Johnson_3745 Source: Johnson ### Event 9207 (2245CDFF) Date: 7/1959 Description: The Air Force reassigns UFO investigative duties to the 1127th Field Activities Group stationed at Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia, replacing the 1006th AISS. The unit will also be responsible for Project Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [p. 134](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/134/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Secret Projects and Open Eyes: A Response,” IUR 19, no. 3 \(May/June 1994\): 16–17 Source ID: Eberhart_3324 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9208 (D893993B) Date: 7/1959 Description: Contactee [Gabriel Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%5FGreen) rebrands his group as the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America and publishes the AFSCA World Report from 1959 to 1961, UFO International from 1962 to 1965, and Flying Saucers International from 1966 to 1969. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [AFSCA Information Sheet](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/AFSCA%20World%20Report%20%28Gabriel%20Green%29/AFSCA%20Information%20Sheet%20-%20No%201.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/AFSCA%20World%20Report%20%28Gabriel%20Green%29/AFSCA%20Information%20Sheet%20-%20No%201.pdf) no. 1 \(1959\); [AFSCA UFO International](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20International%20%28Gabriel%20Green%29/UFO%20International%20-%20No%2017.pdf), no. 17 \(Sept./Oct. 1962\); [Flying Saucers International](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Flying%20Saucers%20International%20%28Gabriel%20Green%29/Flying%20Saucers%20International%20-%20No%2024.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Flying%20Saucers%20International%20%28Gabriel%20Green%29/Flying%20Saucers%20International%20-%20No%2024.pdf) no. 24 \(July 1966\); Clark III 99 Source ID: Eberhart_3325 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9209 (52B72572) Date: 7/3/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Needles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2368 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9210 (031395A9) Date: 7/4/1959 Description: USAF pilot and gunner of RB-66 saw a group of 18 cream-colored objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Macao (South China Sea S of), China Source ID: NICAP_DB_2369 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9211 (4280AFE1) Date: 7/4/1959 Description: The crew of a USAF RB-66 aircraft sighted a group of 16 cream colored oval-shaped objects flying at 36,000 feet altitude over the China Sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_3817 Source: Johnson ### Event 9212 (895DA707) Date: 7/5/1959 Description: USAF pilot and gunner of RB-66 gunner of RB-66 saw 5 oval objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Macao (South China Sea S of), China Source ID: NICAP_DB_2370 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9213 (94C7662F) Date: 7/5/1959 End date: 7/6/1959 Description: US Navy Cmdr. Julius Larsen, an ONI liaison officer to the CIA’s Photographic Intelligence Center in Washington, D.C., rediscovers the Swan-Knowles-Affa correspondence from 1954 in a file and decides to follow up on it. He goes to Eliot, Maine, to visit Adm. [Knowles](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/03/06/75711948.html?pageNumber=23) and interview Frances Swan. Larsen tries his hand at automatic writing and channels a message from Affa. Back in Washington on July 6, Larsen goes to director of the Photographic Intelligence Office, [Arthur C. Lundahl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FC.%5FLundahl), and tells the story to him and his assistant Lt. [Robert S.](https://rr0.org/people/n/NeashamRobertS/) [Neasham](https://rr0.org/people/n/NeashamRobertS/)[.](https://rr0.org/people/n/NeashamRobertS/) They urge Larsen to try to contact the extraterrestrials. Larsen goes into a trance, asks Affa questions, and writes the answers down. When Neasham challenges Affa to appear in person or let them see his spaceship, Larsen stops writing and tells Neasham to go to the window. Lundahl sees nothing unusual, but Neasham insists a spaceship is hiding behind some fluffy clouds. He also insists that he later contacted Washington National Airport and heard from the radar tower that the sector where the UFO appeared had been “blocked out.” Neasham urges Project Blue Book’s Maj. [Robert Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) to come over for a briefing. He shows up on July 9 and hears Neasham’s version of the story, and Larsen even channels some messages. Friend goes back to Dayton, Ohio, and prepares a memo for his boss. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 153–154](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/152/mode/2up); Clark III 1118–1119; Robert Emenegger, UFOs: Past, Present, and Future, Ballantine, 1974 Source ID: Eberhart_3326 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9214 (3A14792A) Date: 7/6/1959 Description: At 12:50 a.m. a round oval-shaped UFO with a dark band encircling the object and four illuminated domed portholes under the dark band, was sighted by Orwin and Smith in Baniara, Papua New Guinea. That night at 8:40 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO did a loop over Dogura, Papua New Guinea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norman E G Cruttwell, UFOs in the two worlds: FSR Special Edition no. 4, pp. 21, 35 Source ID: Johnson_3874 Source: Johnson ### Event 9215 (DC586829) Date: 7/8/1959 Description: Family in car chased three pulsating object seen moving slowly at low altitude in V-formation. (Two WTTV employees saw similar formation few minutes earlier, 25-30 miles away.) \[NICAP UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2371 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9216 (CF8B7AE2) Date: 7/8/1959 Description: Night. Mrs. Napau Abednego and other indigenous people on Prince of Wales Island in the Torres Strait off Queensland, Australia, see a huge, glowing red object land on top of a hill at Port Lihou. The same night, residents of nearby Thursday Island see a green UFO flying low, and a strange object is also reported at Mapoon Mission on the west coast of Cape York. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) [History: 1959 July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) The Author, 2000, p. 13 Source ID: Eberhart_3327 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9217 (3D0AC516) Date: 7/9/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: unknown location, Bahamas Source ID: NICAP_DB_2372 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9218 (F4D3750F) Date: 7/9/1959 Description: An interesting parapsychological experiment closely tied to the UFO phenomenon was conducted on this day in Washington, DC by the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. Naval Intelligence. It was held at an office in a government building at the corner of 5th and K Streets (quadrant of the city not given). According to Lt. Colonel Robert Friend, the officer in charge of Project Blue Book at the time and who was present at the session, telepathic communication was attempted through a psychic channeler who was also a military officer.

Colonel Friend was invited to attend a meeting with this officer, and was given the following background information. A Canadian woman, Mrs. Swan, had come to their attention through the Canadian government. The Canadians had conducted an extensive investigation into Mrs. Swan's claims of contact with the aliens. With two Naval Intelligence officers present, she went into a trance and they asked her scientific and technical questions to which a woman of her education could not possibly know the answers. Yet as questions were put to her, she was able to answer quickly and easily, apparently with telepathic help from purported extraterrestrials. According to the report, the aliens represented an organization called the "Universal Association of Planets," and this group had a project monitoring Earth. The investigation took an unexpected turn when the woman informed one of the Naval officers that "they" were willing to answer questions directly through him, a Navy commander and intelligence officer--with no prior experience in telepathic communications. He took over, attempting to write down the answers to questions put to him by his associate Naval officer.

The word traveled back quickly to Washington officials and a very skeptical CIA. Nevertheless, there was no strong reason to totally disbelieve the report of this respected Navy commander and his partner.

A meeting was arranged to be held in the security portion of a Washington government building. When trance state contact was achieved, several questions were put to him, and answers came back quickly. "Do you favor any government group or race?" and "Would there be a third world war?" Both were answered "No." The officials present then asked to see a spaceship. The commander, still in a trance, told the group to look out the window and they would have proof. They did promptly and a dark saucer-shaped object was seen hovering in the sky "at approximately 1400 hours."

They hurriedly made calls to the Washington radar center to confirm the presence of the object. They were told by the radar operators that they were experiencing a strange type of technical difficulty with their equipment, and radar was blocked for that quadrant of the sky over Washington. During the question and answer exchange the answer to one question indicated that the UFOs acknowledged difficulty in slipping through our radar net undetected. A number of other questions were put to the psychic, including whether Catholics were the chosen people. They were told that they were not. A follow-up contact session was attempted that same day with only limited success. It was indicated by the few answers that the Commander received that "this was not the right time" [emphasis added]. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Elkins, Secrets of the UFOs, p. 34; Robert Emenegger, UFO's, Past, Present and Future, pp. 55-62 Source ID: Johnson_3952 Source: Johnson ### Event 9219 (7ED932CD) Date: 7/10/1959 Description: At two a.m. two white glowing ovoid objects with sharp outlines were joined by a third over Norma, New Jersey and all three UFOs circled a dock for 10 minutes, then flew away slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: July-September, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_3983 Source: Johnson ### Event 9220 (B5F05CB7) Date: 7/11/1959 Description: Pilots (Wilson & Moffatt) and crew saw a big bright light followed by 3-4 smaller lights (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: N Pacific, 800 n.mi. from, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2373 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9221 (32CF90E4) Date: 7/11/1959 Description: 6:02 a.m. A Pan American Boeing Stratocruiser piloted by Capt. George Wilson flying over the Pacific Ocean about 1,035 miles northeast of Honolulu, Hawaii, encounters a large bright light with 3–4 satellite lights in a line below, behind, and to the left of the main object. It makes a sharp right turn and disappears to the south. Copilot Richard Lorenzen and Flight Engineer Bob Scott also see the UFOs. Another Pan Am flight sees essentially the same phenomenon, as well as an Air Force bomber crew, a Slick Airways plane, and a Canadian Pacific airliner. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 125](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=137&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3328 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9222 (9151C7A1) Date: 7/12/1959 Description: Electronics mechanic at China Lake U. S. Naval Ordnance Test Station saw three disc-like UFOs which alternately hovered and moved at high speeds over desert to the Southwest. \[NICAP UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ridgecrest (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2374 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9223 (B3D83C3C) Date: 7/12/1959 Description: A military electronic technician named Guerrero saw a saucer-shaped object hover and maneuver over the desert in Ridgecrest, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 138 Source ID: Johnson_4001 Source: Johnson ### Event 9224 (DC85E0EF) Date: 7/13/1959 Description: Domed disc descended, hovered. (NICAP UFOE, XIV) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Blenheim, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2375 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9225 (791E439C) Date: 7/13/1959 Description: Walking to her cow shed on her farm in Blenheim, New Zealand at 5:40 a.m. Mrs. Frederick Moreland saw a round object with two intense green lights come down out of the clouds and hover at rooftop level. Around its rim were two counter-rotating rows of jets giving off orange flames and heat. A transparent glass-like cowling covered the top, and through this she could see two men wearing diver's helmets. One of them stood up and leaned forward. Both wore tight-fitting silvery suits. As it departed the UFO made a high-pitched whining noise, and left behind an odor "like pepper." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-11, citing Harold Fulton, APRO Bulletin, September 1959; SATCU, Xenolog, November 1975, p. 13; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 491 Source ID: Johnson_4030 Source: Johnson ### Event 9226 (B6415136) Date: 7/13/1959 Time: 0530 Description: Mrs. Moreland saw a diskshaped object as she was milking cows. It was about 10 m diameter, had two intense, green lights and two rows of jets around the rim, emitting orange flames. Inside a glass dome on top were two men dressed in aluminumlike suits. The craft did not land, but took off at great speed with a high-pitched sound. Heat sensation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 124; Challenge 24 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Blenheim, New Zealand Source ID: Magnonia_491 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9227 (4CFFE0F2) Date: 7/13/1959 Description: Disc with dome illuminated area in green light, two beings visible in dome Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Blenheim, New Zealand Source ID: HallUFOE2_6 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 9228 (D9A94980) Date: 7/13/1959 Description: At midnight in Suchs, Spain a Mr. Domingo watched a 80 cm sphere hover only 15 meters above the ground. It illuminated the countryside "like daylight." The witness panicked and ran when he heard the sound of an explosion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos Source ID: Johnson_4031 Source: Johnson ### Event 9229 (A624058A) Date: 7/13/1959 Description: 5:30 a.m. Eileen Moreland, a farmwoman in Blenheim, New Zealand, goes to the barn to milk her cows and sees a huge object, about 20–30 feet in diameter, with two intense green lights on its underside descend towards her and hover at rooftop height. It bathes her in green light. Two rows of jets around the middle shoot out orange flames. She can see two men inside, dressed in close-fitting suits of shiny material and opaque helmets. The jets turn on again, the object tilts, and it shoots up vertically at great speed, making a high-pitched sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 25–28; Richard H. Hall, “Dyad ‘Scout Craft,’” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 23; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1959-07-13-nzealand-blenheim.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1959-07-13-nzealand-blenheim.htm) November 2, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_3329 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9230 (32735EB2) Date: 7/14/1959 Description: A group of Aboriginal hunters reported the landing of a red glowing object on a hill on Prince of Wales Island, Queensland, Australia. Other hunters saw a similar object near Karumba Lodge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 492, citing Australian Flying Saucer Review, January 1960; Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, citing Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1962, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_4048 Source: Johnson ### Event 9231 (A0DDFDAF) Date: 7/14/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Delhi, India Source ID: NICAP_DB_2376 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9232 (53E71D3E) Date: 7/14/1959 Description: Television sets blacked out, some lights reported off, as circular UFO observed; loud oscillating high frequency noise reported (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salisbury, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2378 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9233 (3DEEA0D1) Date: 7/14/1959 Description: 8:22 p.m. TV sets in Salisbury, North Carolina, mysteriously go dead as residents see a flash of light and hear a loud vibrato noise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 111–113 Source ID: Eberhart_3330 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9234 (6C79DDB0) Date: 7/14/1959 Description: Luminous object followed FAB (Brazilian Air Force) B-26, hovered near airport. \[NICAP UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2377 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9235 (F3DD510C) Date: 7/14/1959 Description: Hunters reported the landing of a red object on the island. Other hunters saw a similar object near Karumba Lodge. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 123 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Prince of Wales Island, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_492 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9236 (4AA05A27) Date: 7/14/1959 Description: A light followed a Brazilian Air Force B-26 bomber plane for one hour as it flew from Pampulha to Belo Horizonte, Brazil. All the time it was changing colors. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 32; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 120; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 256 Source ID: Johnson_4049 Source: Johnson ### Event 9237 (BBB617A6) Date: 7/15/1959 Description: On this evening seven children in Mount Laurel, New Jersey witnessed a low level, glowing ovoid UFO fly south over the New Jersey Turnpike. It was silent in flight, the apparent size of the Moon, and gave off "pulses." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: July-September, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_4069 Source: Johnson ### Event 9238 (10FCF57D) Date: 7/18/1959 Description: At 6:30 p.m. a flashing light streaked to the north over the Norman River in Corindie, Queensland, Australia. Twenty minutes later a red glowing object landed on a hill on Prince of Wales Island, Queensland. Around 8:00 p.m. a UFO was seen moving over the mountains at Didiwa, Papua New Guinea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5771; Norman Crutwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 35; APRO Bulletin, September 1959 Source ID: Johnson_4165 Source: Johnson ### Event 9239 (3596B047) Date: 7/19/1959 Description: A father and daughter were driving south on Highway 77 to Lincoln, Nebraska. When they got two miles south of Ceresco, Nebraska at around 10:30 p.m. they saw a bright white light hovering in the south-southeastern sky. The light went out, revealing a dark, sixty-foot wide domed disc-shaped object with several one foot wide windows around the rim. The object dropped several small red lights, then made a sharp turn and flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, report dated July 24, 1959 Source ID: Johnson_4196 Source: Johnson ### Event 9240 (11A2CA2D) Date: 7/20/1959 Description: A UFO was seen flying over a mountain in Papua New Guinea at around 6 p.m. At 10:15 p.m. a bright white cigar-shaped object flew south over the Woomera missile test range in South Australia. Many at the military base as well as in the town saw it, and the newspapers carried the report widely. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1959 Source ID: Johnson_4232 Source: Johnson ### Event 9241 (3E956B68) Date: 7/20/1959 Description: A shuttlecock-shaped UFO is seen over the RAAF Woomera Range Complex in South Australia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 100 Source ID: Eberhart_3331 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9242 (083939F0) Date: 7/21/1959 Description: At 10:00 p.m. in St. Rose, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana a 0.6 meter in diameter sphere flew over at 30 km/hour heading south at an altitude of 700 meters. It made a slight buzzing sound. It changed colors, and then made a 180 degree turn traveling back to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5775, citing Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: July-September, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_4264 Source: Johnson ### Event 9243 (EDA103EC) Date: 7/22/1959 Description: At 7:45 p.m. in Porayebayebera, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea the son of a paramount chief sighted a domed disc-shaped object with a dark base and an illuminted dome on the top at a low altitude. It flew out to sea. The witness had been known to the author, Norman Cruttwell, for over eight years. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norman E. G. Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_4296 Source: Johnson ### Event 9244 (BDCAC251) Date: 7/23/1959 Description: A silver metallic disc was seen flying in an elliptical orbit in the sky over Bellevue, Washington at noon. There was no wind at the time. It vanished in an instant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5779; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: July-September, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_4321 Source: Johnson ### Event 9245 (A669EE48) Date: 7/25/1959 Description: Thin, crescent moon-shaped object, with a small white dome (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6446) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Irondequoit, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2379 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9246 (982C12A0) Date: 7/25/1959 Description: On this day at about 1:30 p.m. in Irondequoit, New York W.D. Neva, a technical illustrator, saw a thin, crescent-shaped object with a small white dome in the center resembling a gun turret at 1:00 p.m. The object flew at an estimated 800 mph, banked, and disappeared from view behind some trees after 5-10 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 6446; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4379 Source: Johnson ### Event 9247 (BCDD3590) Date: 7/25/1959 Time: 1 PM Description: Witness: technical illustrator W.D. Neva. One thin, crescent moon-shaped object with a small white dome in the center, flew at tremendous speed for 5-10 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Irondequoit, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_436 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9248 (F08014A3) Date: 7/25/1959 Description: In Gaiawanaki, Papua New Guinea a beam of light shone down on men on the beach, lighting up the area like day. A domed disc came down to a low altitude. It had a dark, concave base, and illuminated dome, and traveled on its side in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norman Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_4378 Source: Johnson ### Event 9249 (E9BF5724) Date: 7/27/1959 Description: The UFO Advisory Panel meets at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to discuss trends and statistics and recent sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3332 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9250 (6F4FD415) Date: 7/28/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corpus Christi, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2380 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9251 (F49FE8A7) Date: 7/28/1959 Description: 2:10 p.m. [Ray Stanford](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/tireless-tracker-rewrote-the-book-on-dinosaurs-in-maryland/2012/04/17/gIQARzRcTT%5Fstory.html) and a friend simultaneously take 8mm and 16mm film footage of three cigar-shaped objects maneuvering in the sky above his parents’ home at 2629 Lynch Street, Corpus Christi, Texas. A fourth UFO appears about 5 minutes later. At one point a jet aircraft appears to alter its course to fly closer to one of the objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ray Stanford, “[The July 28 Movies,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucers%20%28Max%20B%20Miller%29/Saucers%20vol%207%20no%203-4.pdf)” Saucers 7, no. 3/4 \(Fall/Winter 1959/1960\): 20–23; “[Out of the](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf) [Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1984\): 5–7; “[Out of the Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1984\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_3333 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9252 (46C45883) Date: 8/1959 Description: Kathleen O’Rourke is asleep with her two children in her bedroom in New Matamoras, Ohio, when her son yells her awake. There are a dozen globes of yellow light circling about a foot above his bed. They are about 3 inches in diameter. Then a second group enters the room, passing through the screen. They split, half joining the first and half sailing over Kathleen. They all then move to her bed and circle above her. Not one of the lights goes to her daughter’s bed. She presses the light switch, and the lights turn into straight-edged streaks of light and disappear. There are no holes in the screens. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_3336 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9253 (95420AE4) Date: 8/1959 Description: Stan Seers, president of the Queensland Flying Saucer Research Bureau \[now UFO Research Queensland\], is contacted by a man who requests a meeting with him in a Brisbane car park and offers him important information on UFOs. At the meeting he finds out that the man is an agent of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, who indicates he knows quite a bit about the group and its officers. By suggesting that ASIO could offer them significant information, the agent subsequently infiltrates the group and causes dissension and confusion. Some QFSRB members are pacifists, apparently, and are seeking to contact Russian scientists about the UFO phenomenon through the Soviet cultural organization VOKS. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 164–166](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/164/mode/2up); Kremlin 137– 144 Source ID: Eberhart_3334 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9254 (AC00BD70) Date: 8/1959 Description: 2:00 p.m. A son and his father are driving near Skiatook, Oklahoma. Upon nearing a bridge, the car engine dies. Another car is stopped on the other side of the bridge with its hood up. They see a metallic, domed disc with a flexible hose hovering less than a foot above the water of a creek. They watch it for 5 minutes, then the hose draws in and the disk rises to 10 feet, disturbing the water’s surface into a foot-deep trench. It flies upward and the cars start again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 59–61; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 16–17 Source ID: Eberhart_3335 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9255 (8BE748B5) Date: 8/2/1959 Description: A petroleum worker measuring levels in storage tanks at 1:00 a.m. in Cullen, Chile had a bright light fly over his head and follow him, which caused him to run away, leaving the tank hatchways open. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type I Reports, case 902, citing Pablo Petrowitsch Source ID: Johnson_4592 Source: Johnson ### Event 9256 (332B50BB) Date: 8/2/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_2382 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9257 (8B9737DE) Date: 8/3/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Silver Springs, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2383 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9258 (15A2144E) Date: 8/4/1959 Description: At 7:00 p.m. a white spherical object was sighted hovering over Wakwapu, Papua New Guinea by Mr. R. Smith. It had coherent light beams. There were green rays of light emanating from the base of the object, one on either side at an angle of 15 degrees from the vertical, and one aimed straight up vertically. All beams receded into the UFO in a coherent fashion like retracting appendages. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norman E. G. Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_4644 Source: Johnson ### Event 9259 (B7812B11) Date: 8/9/1959 Time: 1954 Description: Mr. Uribe, a petroleum engineer, and two other witnesses had to stop when they ran out of fuel; they observed a light swinging like a pendulum, coming close to the ground. It appared as a large, vertical, egg-shaped object which made a "whooshing" sound. Closest approach was 120 m. Estimated height: 2 m; width, 1.5 m. When Uribe aimed a rifle at the object, it went out of sight within seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. IlI 14 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sombrero, Tierra del Fuego Source ID: Magnonia_493 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9260 (F3625FB9) Date: 8/9/1959 Description: Mr. Uribe, a petroleum engineer, and two other witnesses had to stop when they ran out of fuel at Sombrero, Magallanes, Chile. At 7:54 p.m. they observed a light swinging in the sky like a pendulum, and coming closer to the ground. It appeared to be a large, vertical, ovoid object that made a "whooshing" sound. Its closest approach was 120 meters. They estimated its dimensions at two meters in height and 1.5 meters in width. When Uribe aimed his rifle at the object it went out of sight within seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 493; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_4791 Source: Johnson ### Event 9261 (8B1562E7) Date: 8/9/1959 Description: 7:30 p.m. Petroleum engineer Armando Uribe is returning home from Cerro Sombrero, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, with his wife and an 11-year-old housemaid when their pickup runs out of fuel. As they are waiting for another vehicle, the girl spots a bright blue light around 7:54 p.m. that is swinging in the air with a pendulum-like motion. As it approaches, they see it is an object like a metallic egg standing on end with two shafts of white light projecting from the bottom. A rose-colored, rotating device is on top. The object makes a quick movement when Uribe gets out of the truck, but then moves closer. Uribe points a rifle at it, and it quickly recedes and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 14–16; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 53–54 Source ID: Eberhart_3337 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9262 (B52E2EE4) Date: 8/10/1959 Description: Two multi-colored spheres (of many dazzling colors) and a bronze disc flew over the shore of Baniara, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea at 3:50 a.m. local time. About twelve hours later that same night, at 1:28 a.m. Atlantic Daylight Time, a 30-year-old RCAF pilot saw a bright light fly from horizon to overhead at Goose Bay Air Force Base in Labrador, Canada. It crossed 53 degrees of sky in 25 minutes, then mysteriously vanished. Project Blue Book lists this case as an "unknown." At 7:30 p.m. a disc flew over Wayne, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Norman E. G. Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds, FSR Special Issue No. 4, p. 35; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6462; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 34; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), pp. 79, 156; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; (3) Walter N. Webb, case investigation files, case no. 19 Source ID: Johnson_4818 Source: Johnson ### Event 9263 (4651764B) Date: 8/10/1959 Description: Pilot saw large star-like light cross 53° of sky (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 6462) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2384 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9264 (78FCA5A4) Date: 8/10/1959 Time: 1:28 AM Description: Witness: Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Flt. Lt. M.S. Mowat, on ground. One large star-like light crossed 53 degree of sky in 25 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada Source ID: BerlinerBBU_437 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9265 (BE18BF78) Date: 8/12/1959 Description: A 60-year-old farmer in Brion, La Coruna province, Spain saw an egg-shaped object come down at high speed and land in a pasture near a river. It then took off vertically and flew away toward Santiago. It left behind traces on the ground, and it made an engine noise that was not similar to helicopter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 494, citing Aime Michel Source ID: Johnson_4938 Source: Johnson ### Event 9266 (BA2CDD5C) Date: 8/12/1959 Description: A 60-year-old farmer saw an eggshaped object come down at high speed and land in a pasture near a river. Then it took off vertically and flew away toward Santiago. Traces. Engine noise, not similar to helicopter. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Brion, Spain Source ID: Magnonia_494 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9267 (39B6D0DF) Date: 8/13/1959 Description: Around 9:45 p.m. Orville Shanks is driving with three passengers on Highway 332 north of Freeport, Texas, when they see a bright object with two satellite lights approach at low altitude. The car motor stalls and the headlights go out. The two lights appear to land, the main object follows them, continually changing colors and varying the intensity of its light. The motor and lights come back on when the UFOs cross the road, and Shanks drives on. About midnight they return, and the object is still there. Shanks gets out and approaches, but the UFO starts glowing brightly and making a noise, and they drive off again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Object Lands in Texas, U.S.,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201959%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) [July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 55–60 Source ID: Eberhart_3339 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9268 (1CB96B5A) Date: 8/13/1959 Description: At around 4:00 p.m. a pilot flying a Cessna 170 between Hobbs and Albuquerque, New Mexico encountered three round, gray UFOs that circled his aircraft just southeast of Corona, New Mexico and caused his compass to spin. Compass deviation. The pilot reported the incident and was later interrogated by the U.S. Air Force. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1965, p. 5; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_4964 Source: Johnson ### Event 9269 (B2DF43E3) Date: 8/13/1959 Description: Two women at a lake near Ogden Dunes, Indiana saw a glowing domed disc at six o'clock in the morning. The object was 20 meters in diameter, and hovered and maneuvered 15 meters over the lake for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary (IN) Post-Tribune, August 14, 1959; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_4963 Source: Johnson ### Event 9270 (B36DBA7D) Date: 8/13/1959 Description: Fmr Navy PBY pilot enc EME and elliptical object (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [590813](http://www.nicap.org/590813roswell%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corona (Bet. Roswell and), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2386 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9271 (2E998E63) Date: 8/13/1959 Description: 4:00 p.m. Pilot Jack H. Goldsberry, flying a Cessna 170 from Hobbs to Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 8,000 feet, notices halfway between Roswell and Corona, that his Magnesyn electric compass has suddenly moved around a slow 360° rotation in about 4–5 seconds. His other standard magnetic compass is spinning wildly. About this time, he sees three small, gray, and slightly fuzzy elliptical objects in close echelon formation passing in front from left to right and around his plane at a distance about 450–600 feet at a speed of about 200 mph. The Magnesyn compass follows the objects’ position as they circle the plane, and after one full circle they disappear to the rear. Then both compasses settle back to normal. The controller at Albuquerque cancels his flight plan and orders him to land at Kirtland AFB, where he is interrogated by a USAF major, who tells him that he might become ill from the experience. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Former Navy PBY Pilot Encounter / EME](http://www.nicap.org/590813roswell%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 950; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 278; Swords 287; “[AF Secretly Warns Pilot of Danger,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/025%20MAR-APR%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 \(March/April 1965\): 5; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 127–128 Source ID: Eberhart_3338 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9272 (75D2F6E3) Date: 8/13/1959 Description: UFO crossed road ahead of car at low altitude. Motor and headlights failed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Freeport, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2385 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9273 (4B19C20A) Date: 8/13/1959 Description: At 9:30 p.m. six woman travelling by car through a rural area near Freeport, Texas saw a bright UFO pass low in front of their car, causing the car's engine and headlights to die. The UFO landed in a wooded area. Dense underbrush prevented approaching landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1959; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 75; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 277 Source ID: Johnson_4965 Source: Johnson ### Event 9274 (B27DD122) Date: 8/13/1959 Time: 2130 Description: A bright, flying object passed low over a car, whose engine stalled, and landed in a wooded area. Six witnesses in two separate groups observed the object, and the police were called. The dense underbrush prevented investigation of the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Sep., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Freeport, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_495 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9275 (3FA90B85) Date: 8/14/1959 Description: Military pilot saw a very bright white light change color to red as it moved (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: NE of Hawaii, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2388 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9276 (C93BCFAF) Date: 8/16/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Macon and Forsyth, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2389 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9277 (2C8B9416) Date: 8/17/1959 Description: The automatic keys at the power station in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, suddenly disconnect power to all four trunk lines. A technician at a substation 45 miles away reports that all the keys disconnected as a UFO passes overhead, traveling toward the main station along the power lines. The chief engineer resets all the keys but they turn off again. Outside he sees a bright object approaching at high speed. As soon as it passes, the entire system returns to normal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, FSHoax, [pp. 179–180](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n179/mode/2up); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 143–145; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 152–153; McCampbell, Ufology, 1976, pp. 66–67; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) [of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 66–67 Source ID: Eberhart_3340 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9278 (1B1CA7B3) Date: 8/17/1959 Description: Automatic keys at power station turned off as round UFO passed over following trunk line. After UFO left, keys turned back on. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Uberlandia, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2390 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9279 (45FCFEA7) Date: 8/19/1959 Description: Airline pilot saw a string of 3-4 white lights seemingly part of one object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elburn, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2392 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9280 (DB8E6041) Date: 8/19/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: 80 miles E of U.S. \[?\]., Unk Source ID: NICAP_DB_2391 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9281 (5E9C1A66) Date: 8/20/1959 Description: The witness and three young girls were sleeping in a station wagon at Lake Bonita, New Mexico. At around three a.m. they were awake to see a bright fireball descend and land on the side of the nearby mountain. Several figures carrying what looked like bright flashlights emerged from the object and approached their location, shining beams of light inside their car and illuminating the area like daylight. The figures then left the area and the witnesses ran from their vehicle and crawled to the relative safety of a nearby cabin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 3604, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_5174 Source: Johnson ### Event 9282 (9798F4EE) Date: 8/23/1959 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a student watched a bright, pulsating ellipsoid object hover in Midland, Michigan. It made a whirring sound, was sharply outlined, and about the size of a T-33 plane. It changed color from white to bluish-white when it shot off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John M. Windover, UFO Research Center case files, report dated June 22, 1966 Source ID: Johnson_5252 Source: Johnson ### Event 9283 (82E4D24A) Date: 8/24/1959 Description: Planet-like UFO hovered, took off straight up. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Emmitsburg (near), MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2393 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9284 (AE3C9EC5) Date: 8/25/1959 Description: 11:00 a.m. At Eveking, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Lutz Holtman walks towards a bright object in a forest and faints after he gets close to it. When he regains consciousness, he sees the UFO take off silently and vertically. The object is circular, has a tripod landing gear and two rows of bright openings, and is about 90 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 277](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/276/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3341 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9285 (B25CFD0E) Date: 8/25/1959 Description: At around eleven o'clock in the morning near Hagen, Werdehl-Eveking, Germany Lutz Holtmann began walking toward a bright object he had seen in the forest, but he fainted when he got close to it. When he regained consciousness he saw it silently take off in a vertical ascent. He described the UFO as round with tripod landing gear and two rows of bright openings. It was about 30 meters in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 496;Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, both citing UFO Nachrichten, October 1959 Source ID: Johnson_5314 Source: Johnson ### Event 9286 (C97D586A) Date: 8/25/1959 Time: 1100 Description: Near Hagen, Lutz Holtmann went toward a bright object in a forest, and fainted when he got close to it. When he regained consciousness, he saw it take off silently and vertically. It was round, had a tripod landing gear, two rows of bright openings, and was about 30 m in diameter. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Werdehl-Eveking, Germany Source ID: Magnonia_496 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9287 (EA6FCFBD) Date: 8/27/1959 Description: Two ship captains sailing in the Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia saw a pillar of white light shoot up into the sky. A black disc-shaped object was ejected from the bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book Source ID: Johnson_5396 Source: Johnson ### Event 9288 (83ED7017) Date: 8/28/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charlotte Island, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2394 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9289 (87BA5B2B) Date: 8/31/1959 Description: At 9:30 p.m. two police officers on a pistol range in Barstow, California saw four huge brilliant disc-shaped objects following a jet aircraft. One of the UFOs makes a 90 degree turn, then flies away in a separate direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1959 Source ID: Johnson_5523 Source: Johnson ### Event 9290 (0C8BA3CF) Date: 9/1959 Description: Employees of Lockheed’s Skunk Works are the first to return to Area 51 in Nevada to develop an aircraft that will replace the U-2. The Archangel-12 \(A-12\) spy plane will be designed to reduce its radar cross section by 50%. Following tests with wooden models at Burbank, California, proof-of-concept tests are to be carried out at Area 51 with full-scale mockups elevated onto 50-foot pylons. The CIA program to develop the follow-on aircraft to the U-2 is code-named Project Oxcart. EG&G agrees to move its radar test facility here. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [p.](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/130/mode/2up) [131](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/130/mode/2up); Peter W. Merlin, “[Groom Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,](https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_3342 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9291 (75FB71E2) Date: 9/1959 Description: [Waveney Girvan](https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/ian-waveney-girvan-as-a-fortean) takes over the editorship of Flying Saucer Review from [Brinsley Le Poer Trench](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinsley%5FLe%5FPoer%5FTrench%2C%5F8th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FClancarty)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinsley%5FLe%5FPoer%5FTrench%2C%5F8th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FClancarty)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Trench Resigns,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1959%2CSep-Oct%2CV%205%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1959\): 2; Clark III 498 Source ID: Eberhart_3343 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9292 (B95376B2) Date: 9/1959 Description: B-52 On Flight Line Tracks Seven Targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [5909xx](http://www.nicap.org/5909XXwestover%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westover AFB, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2395 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9293 (75CF2365) Date: 9/1959 Description: Harvard University psychologist [Henry Murray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FMurray) begins what are widely considered unethical experiments, in which he uses 22 Harvard undergraduates as research subjects in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Among other purposes, experiments focus on measuring people’s reactions under extreme stress. The unwitting undergraduates are submitted to what Murray calls “vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive” attacks. Specific, tailored assaults on their egos, cherished ideas, and beliefs are used to cause high levels of stress and distress. The subjects then repeatedly view recorded footage of their reactions to this verbal abuse. Among them is 17-year-old [Ted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FKaczynski) [Kaczynski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FKaczynski)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FKaczynski) a mathematician who goes on to become the Unabomber, a domestic terrorist targeting academics and technologists for 18 years. [Alston Chase](http://www.identitytheory.com/alston-chase/)’s book Harvard and the Unabomber connects Kaczynski’s abusive experiences under Murray to his later criminal career. His participation in these experiments and his service in the OSS have led many to believe that Murray was a part of the MK Ultra program. His experiments are not so much for observing stress reactions, but for a study of brainwashing and enhanced interrogation techniques. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Henry Murray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FMurray)”; Alston Chase, [Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist](https://archive.org/details/harvardunabomber00chas), Norton, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_3344 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9294 (6256689C) Date: 9/5/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Naha, Okinawa Source ID: NICAP_DB_2396 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9295 (A2B8F775) Date: 9/7/1959 Description: At 2:30 a.m. while driving along highway 559 in Wallingford, Kentucky a postman saw an elliptical shape hovering just over the ground. It rose vertically emitting a blast of flame, and then sped away horizontally. There was a 30 cm wide stained ring on the ground enclosing a 4-meter diameter circle. At 9:05 p.m. north of Lexington, Kentucky five glowing ovoid objects dived and maneuvered toward the east and west, making extremely fast, sharp turns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1960, p. 5; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 497 Source ID: Johnson_5717 Source: Johnson ### Event 9296 (1B4F918A) Date: 9/7/1959 Description: 2:00 a.m. Rural mail carrier [Walter E. Ogden](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116830199/walter-e-ogden) sees a glowing, pumpkin-shaped object about 40 feet above the trees in his pasture at Wallingford, Kentucky. After a minute, a bluish blaze of fire comes from the bottom and it rises about 500 feet, leaving a circular smoke ring. It then zooms away horizontally. Six days later, a 12-foot depressed ring of scorched earth is discovered on the spot, along with a kerosene smell. Air Force investigators show up and declare it a hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) [July–September](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-July-Sept.pdf) The Author, 2000, pp. 74–75, 77–80 Source ID: Eberhart_3345 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9297 (3D2A9883) Date: 9/7/1959 Description: 15-ft burned mark left by object on takeoff (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wallingford, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2397 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9298 (E32FF107) Date: 9/7/1959 Description: A bluish, disk-shaped object was observed at ground level by a mail carrier. It suddenly went away horizonally, leaving a stained ring on the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Nov., 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Wallingford, Kentucky Source ID: Magnonia_497 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9299 (3B0E13F5) Date: 9/9/1959 Description: The first Atlas-D ICBM is successfully launched at Vandenberg AFB \[now Vandenberg Space Force Base\] near Lompoc, California, and Gen. [Thomas S. Power](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FS.%5FPower)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FS.%5FPower) CINCSAC, declares the first ICBM to be operational. Shortly afterward, the first operational Atlas-D ICBM squadron goes on alert at Francis E. Warren AFB, west of Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is equipped with six SM-65D Atlas missiles based in above-ground launchers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Vandenberg Space Force Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandenberg%5FSpace%5FForce%5FBase\#SM-65%5FAtlas)”; Wikipedia, “[SM-65 Atlas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-65%5FAtlas\#Atlas-D%5Fdeployment)” Source ID: Eberhart_3346 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9300 (3A3578CA) Date: 9/10/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Camp Kinser, Okinawa Source ID: NICAP_DB_2398 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9301 (80D44473) Date: 9/13/1959 Description: At four p.m. at least two control tower operators at Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana plus the pilot of a Mooney private aircraft sighted a pear-shaped object, colored white, cream, and metallic, with a trail under it. The UFO showed little movement during the three hour sighting. An intercept was attempted by a USAF T-33 jet trainer, but it failed to find the UFO in time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6507; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5912 Source: Johnson ### Event 9302 (9A8CFC8F) Date: 9/13/1959 Description: Scott Mitchell was in the hallway of his home near Gills Rock, Wisconsin at around two o'clock in the afternoon when he saw a being with dark gray, wrinkled skin standing at the opposite end. The being communicated in a telepathic voice that went directly to the witness head, "Do not be afraid, we will not harm you." Frightened, he tried to run away but was paralyzed in his tracks, and time seemed to slow down around him. A greenish haze surrounded him and the being glided towards him. The witness then lost consciousness. His next memory was of waking up in the house in a back bedroom. The witness subsequently experienced further close encounters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing UFOs and Aliens Among Us Source ID: Johnson_5911 Source: Johnson ### Event 9303 (00157695) Date: 9/13/1959 Description: At 1:05 a.m. Mr. R. H. Daubner of Gills Rock, Wisconsin observed a yellow ring of lights, with eight blue lights within it, and then five larger brilliant red lights. The object rose very fast vertically from a field three kilometers away, while making a pulsating jet noise. The tremendous pulsating noise hurt the ears of the witness. The encounter lasted ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6506; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5910 Source: Johnson ### Event 9304 (70EA070C) Date: 9/13/1959 Description: Nearly motionless white,cream and metallic pear-shaped obj (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 6507) Reference: NICAP: [590913](http://www.nicap.org/590913bunkerhill%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bunker Hill AFB, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2400 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9305 (FDE45CC0) Date: 9/13/1959 Description: Round yellow light, with 8 blue lights in it, 5 larger red lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6506) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gills Rock, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2399 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9306 (ACB33750) Date: 9/13/1959 Time: 1:05 AM Description: Witness: R.H. Daubner. One round yellow light, with eight blue lights within it, and then five larger red lights, flew very fast vertically while making a pulsating jet noise. Sighting lasted 10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Gills Rock, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_438 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9307 (BCEA0CEB) Date: 9/13/1959 Time: 4 PM Description: Witnesses: at least two control tower operators and the pilot of a Mooney private airplane. One pear-shaped object, colored white, cream, and metallic, with a trail under it. Object showed little movement during 3 hours. Attempted intercept by USAF T-33 jet trainer failed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_439 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9308 (DEC47ADE) Date: 9/13/1959 Description: 9:58 p.m. A radar target is tracked at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, moving at 2,300 mph at an altitude of 60,000 feet and heading northwest. A total of four radar stations track the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 103 Source ID: Eberhart_3347 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9309 (79FB06BB) Date: 9/14/1959 Description: The CIA emphasizes antiradar study, aerodynamic structural tests, and engineering designs, selecting the Lockheed A-12 over rival Convair’s Kingfish. [Edward Lovick](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182829326/edward-lovick)’s suggestion for adding cesium to the A-12’s fuel in order to ionize the exhaust and mask it from radar is also persuasive. Lockheed has also added twin canted fins instead of a single right-angle one. Project Oxcart is officially established. The A-12 design, a combination of their A-7 and A-11 submissions, emphasizes low radar cross section, extremely high altitude, and high-speed performance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed A-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12)” Source ID: Eberhart_3349 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9310 (5351B19F) Date: 9/14/1959 Description: Air Force Regulation 200-2 is revised, with additional emphasis on reducing the number of unknowns. This version devotes five full paragraphs to public release of information, which is now restricted to the Secretary of the Air Force’s Office of Information Services at the Pentagon. Local base commanders can release information only if an object is positively identified. Air Force personnel are not to contact private individuals on UFO cases or discuss their operations unless ordered to. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[USAF UFO Program,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/590928-staff-study.pdf)” September 28, 1959; Clark III 920–921 Source ID: Eberhart_3348 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9311 (81AB2F0A) Date: 9/15/1959 Description: Radar Target Illuminated By Rotating Beacon (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [590915](http://www.nicap.org/590915okinawadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kadena AFB, Okinawa Source ID: NICAP_DB_2401 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9312 (7DBB2EFE) Date: 9/17/1959 Description: The first powered X-15 flight is piloted by [Albert Scott Crossfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FScott%5FCrossfield) out of the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[North American X-15](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FX-15)” Source ID: Eberhart_3350 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9313 (575731CA) Date: 9/21/1959 Description: The Air Technical Intelligence Center is renamed the Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NASIC, “[National Air and Space Intelligence Center Heritage](https://www.nasic.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Article/611728/national-air-and-space-intelligence-center-heritage/)” Source ID: Eberhart_3351 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9314 (8F36C9FC) Date: 9/24/1959 Description: Huge Disc Sparks Scramble (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [590924](http://nicap.org/590924redmond%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Redmond, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2402 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9315 (452B486A) Date: 9/24/1959 Description: About 4:55 a.m. In Redmond, Oregon, police officer Robert Dickerson sees a bright white light rapidly descending north of the airport. It stops abruptly and hovers about 200 feet above ground for several minutes, lighting up the juniper trees below. Dickerson drives toward it on the Prineville Highway, then turns toward the airport. The object turns reddish-orange and moves rapidly to about 10 miles northeast of the airport to hover again. Dickerson arrives at the airport to report his sighting in person to the FAA Air Traffic Communication Station. Flight Service Specialist [Laverne Wertz](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189049553/laverne-john-wertz)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189049553/laverne-john-wertz) Dickerson, and others view the object through binoculars as flat and round with occasional flames extending from its edge. The FAA reports the UFO to Seattle Air Route Control Center in Washington at 5:10 a.m., which in turn reports it to Hamilton AFB \[now closed\], Novato, California, which scrambles six F-102 jets from Portland to intercept the object. FAA station observers see the object hover and emit long tongues of red, yellow, and green light that extend and retract at irregular intervals. As the jets approach the object from the southeast, it turns into a mushroom shape, emits red and yellow flames from the lower side, and ascends rapidly, disappearing above scattered clouds at about 14,000 feet. The object’s departure forces one F-102 to swerve to avoid collision. Another nearly loses control from the UFO’s turbulent wake. The UFO is tracked on one F-102 gunsight radar, but the jets cannot intercept. The UFO reappears about 20 miles south of Redmond at about 25,000 feet. The Seattle Center reports at 6:20 a.m. radar contact with the object about 25 miles south. The USAF Air Defense Center radar site at Klamath Falls, Oregon, tracks a large target abruptly changing course and vectors B-47 and F-89 aircraft to identify it. Redmond FAA controllers lose sight of the object. Seattle FAA reports at 7:11 a.m. that Klamath Falls radar still is tracking it at 25 miles south of Redmond but varies in altitude from 6,000 to 52,000 feet. The Air Force claims the UFOs are caused by false radar returns, with excitable witnesses imagining the glow. But locals notice the FAA is checking for abnormal radioactivity, so the Air Force changes its explanation to weather balloon. And NICAP obtains FAA logs showing all the details. The Air Force again changes its explanation to Venus. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Huge Disc Sparks Scramble](http://www.nicap.org/590924redmond%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv, [pp. 44](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=56&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=56&skin=2021) [48](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=60&skin=2021), [113–114](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=125&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=125&skin=2021) [138](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=150&skin=2021); Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 33–36](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/32/mode/2up); WFAA, Dallas, Texas, “[Archive 1959: Fighter Jets Sent to Intercept Redmond UFO](https://www.wfaa.com/video/news/special-reports/archive-video/redmond-oregon-ufo-fighter-jets/283-2189790),” May 12, 2016; Patrick Gross, “[The Redmond UFO](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/redmond59.htm) [Incident, USA, September 24, 1959](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/redmond59.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3352 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9316 (DC7BD6FD) Date: 9/25/1959 Description: Two brilliant spheres hovered at three kilometers altitude northwest of Tres Arroyos, Argentina at 7:45 p.m. One of the object landed, while the second object darkened until it could no longer be seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1959 Source ID: Johnson_6312 Source: Johnson ### Event 9317 (91AAD614) Date: 9/25/1959 Description: At 11:20 p.m. a gray disc-shaped objects with lights, estimated to be six meters in diamete, hovered while spinning counterclockwise near Akron, Ohio. It appeared to spin in a clockwise direction when rising in altitude. It eventually landed in a field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1959 Source ID: Johnson_6313 Source: Johnson ### Event 9318 (0D9CD416) Date: 9/26/1959 Description: On this night a Russian military aircraft reportedly spotted from the air the crash site of a large disc-shaped craft not far from Moscow, Russia. The object appeared to be smoldering and it was shattered with one large piece broken off. The largest section of the craft was transported by helicopter to a nearby airfield at Aktyubinsk. It was badly damaged by some kind of explosion and fire, and the inside was completely charred. Noticeable radiation was detected at the crash site, where among the remaining wreakage was discovered the fragments of the body of a dwarf humanoid, perhaps 80 cm tall. Fragments of the craft were transported to different secret scientific research locations and the body was allegedly taken to an underground bunker in Moscow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing Anton "Cade" Belousov, Soviet X Files List Source ID: Johnson_6346 Source: Johnson ### Event 9319 (041F0FD2) Date: 9/28/1959 Description: Spherical-shaped white to blue in color object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [590928](http://www.nicap.org/590928detroit%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Detroit, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2404 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9320 (C12EB092) Date: 9/28/1959 Description: ATIC issues a staff study by Col. [Richard R. Shoop](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197896549/richard-raymond-shoop) reassessing its UFO investigating role. It recommends that the UFO program be transferred to the Air Research and Development Command, which has better scientific capabilities, and then implement an effective public relations campaign with the goal of “the eventual elimination of the program as a special project.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[USAF UFO Program,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/590928-staff-study.pdf)” September 28, 1959; “[Saucer](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html) [Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019; Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., [p.](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/150/mode/2up) [151](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/150/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3353 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9321 (7CB9A5A8) Date: 9/29/1959 Description: Maj. R. O. Braswell, flying an Air Force C-47 at 6,500 feet over Texas, sees a “large red fire” that looks like a mushroom cloud. It is 5° above his plane, with its base at 12,000–15,000 feet and its top at 16,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 160–161](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/160/mode/2up?q=Braswell) Source ID: Eberhart_3354 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9322 (2AF42A68) Date: 9/29/1959 Description: The first attempt to hover a tethered Avrocar is made. After the vehicle becomes airborne, an uncontrollable roll and pitch-coupled oscillation starts that forces each of the three wheels into the ground in turn. The pilot, W. D. “Spud” Potocki, immediately shuts down all engines. Changes are made to the stability system to provide more control authority, while new tethers are investigated to improve the ability to control the problem. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” Source ID: Eberhart_3355 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9323 (A39DE046) Date: 9/29/1959 Description: Maj. R.O. Braswell, while flying an C-47 at 6500 ft. alt., spotted an UFO. “It was colored like a large red fire and looked like an atomic cloud”, he stated. At about 5 degrees above my plane it appeared massive and was at about 13000 ft. alt. The UFO appeared to be about 1000 ft. thick (top to bottom). Billie Guyton of Centerville, TX, also observed the UFO and said that he observed a smaller UFO emerge from it. Another ground observer, Jackie J. Cox, schoolteacher, saw a “bright light in the sky that spread to cover the entire sky.” W.S. Webb of Buffalo, N.Y., glanced out his bedroom window and saw a ball of fire shooting through the sky, after which he heard a noise, as if something was falling from the sky. The next day Braniff Airways Flight 542, carrying 28 passengers and 6 crew members, was found shredded in a thousand pieces. Subsequent inquiry found that there had been no fire or explosion aboard the jet before or after the crash and that scorch marks found on the exterior windows, fuselage and parted tail section showed signs of having been exposed to tremendous exterior heat. Also the force causing the plane to come down did not come from within the plane. Radar Operator, E.H. Tindale, later told investigators that he had plotted an UFO twice on the night Flight 542 crashed. Both plots of the UFO were in the area where the wreckage of the airliner was found. The UFO was stationary both times it was tracked. Type: mid-air collision Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Buffalo, Texas See also: 4/1/59 See also: 5/61 Source ID: Maj2_590 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9324 (375CFF0B) Date: 9/29/1959 Description: An electrical power outage occurred In Mariannelund, Sweden at 6:55 p.m. Going outside during the power failure, Mr. Gideon Johansson and his son saw a brilliant white light hovering over a nearby building. The object descended, breaking through the top of a maple tree, until it was 18 inches above the street and only ten feet from Mr. Johansson. It was a domed, oval-shaped machine 12 feet long and 8 feet high, and light blue in color. In the front of the object was a large window surrounded by rivets. Inside, brilliantly illuminated by a white light, he could see two small, seated individuals. They had very high crowned heads, big eyes, small mouths, and pointed chins. Each had what looked like an earphone on one ear. They wore white uniforms with broad black belts crossed over their shoulders and chests. One of them loosened his belt to work on something below the window level. After two minutes the craft floated along the street for 25 meters then disappeared in a flash, with a gust of air. A glassy deposit was found on the power line a kilometer away. Mr. Johansson suffered ill effects to his health and the maple tree eventually died. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-12, citing K. Gosta Rehn, APRO, and Anders Liljegren, UFO Sweden Source ID: Johnson_6419 Source: Johnson ### Event 9325 (664C5EBC) Date: 9/30/1959 Description: Night. During a training flight with a student over Poznań, Poland, a pilot named Leszczyński sees two large circles of light with another pair some 12 miles away. He makes a close approach, but one of the objects shoots off while the other grows dimmer. After a short while, the dark object moves away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 63 Source ID: Eberhart_3356 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9326 (88ADBCB9) Date: 10/1959 Description: NICAP continues collecting statements in preparation for potential congressional hearings. It gets statements from USAF pilot and UFO witness Lt. Col. [Richard T. Headrick](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21731388/richard-throop-headrick)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21731388/richard-throop-headrick) Sgt. James H. Sawyer, and Sgt. Oliver Dean. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 252–254; UFOEv, [p. 25](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=37&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3357 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9327 (11FEF804) Date: 10/1959 Description: 10:00 a.m. Fr. Raimundo Nascimento Teixeira, a professor at Don Bosco College, is walking in the Núcleo Bandeirante region in Brasília, Federal District, Brazil, when he sees a crowd watching a strange object moving and stopping in the blue sky. He sees a student of his with a box camera, and he takes six photos of what he calls a flying saucer. A few days later, Teixeira meets with another witness, Israel Pinheiro, president of the New Building Company, who takes the negatives of his three best photos to forward to the Brazilian Navy for analysis. A few months later, the Navy returns different photos and offers no technical report. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 197; Roberto Affonso Beck, “[Um Fenômeno Desafiador,](https://doczz.com.br/doc/754518/um-fen%C3%B4meno-desafiador)” September 2005, pp. 35–36 Source ID: Eberhart_3358 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9328 (75F6D67C) Date: 10/1/1959 Description: Bright light approach hover about 30 mins, then disappear (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6534) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Telephone Ridge, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2405 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9329 (398E3CC7) Date: 10/1/1959 Description: 9:20 a.m. A radar target moving at 719 mph on a northwest course is tracked at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At 10:29 a.m., another radar target is detected moving at 1,000 mph to the northwest. Its altitude is 41,000 feet. Two F-89J Scorpion fighters are scrambled to intercept it but they can see nothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 103–104 Source ID: Eberhart_3359 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9330 (710E57C6) Date: 10/2/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Seattle, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2406 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9331 (14F70F81) Date: 10/2/1959 Description: 12:20 a.m. For three hours, a Hercules radar site \(\#13\) at McChord AFB \[now Joint Base Lewis-McChord\] near Tacoma, Washington, tracks a total of five objects that usually appear in pairs. The radar returns are said to be “weak.” Visually, at least one soundless, round. “quarter sized,” blue-white light is seen in the sky. ARTC reports no air traffic in the area of the radar site during the time of contact. The first object on radar is seen at 10° elevation. The last object seen on radar was at 20° elevation. The visual object is at 10° degrees elevation. When last observed, the visual object is 20° elevation. Flight patterns are erratic. Range changes from 12,000 feet to 24,000 feet, and azimuth from 190° to 170°. Objects seem to fade from the scope and visual contact when finally lost. Visual contact is disrupted by intermittent fog. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Hercules Site Tracks Objects for Three Hours](http://www.nicap.org/591002seattle%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 145–148](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/144/mode/2up); Swords 287 Source ID: Eberhart_3360 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9332 (8663E5A7) Date: 10/2/1959 Description: Approximate date. Miss G. Wilson, 14, was out riding a horse when a luminous object dived toward her, and she rushed home in fear. Her father came out and saw the object, which he described as orange and making a "painful" sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 125 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Glenora, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_498 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9333 (FAB29E5F) Date: 10/4/1959 Description: Large round or oval object, changing from red to red orange (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6538) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Quezon, Philippines Source ID: NICAP_DB_2407 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9334 (E6967E64) Date: 10/4/1959 Time: 9:25 PM Description: Witnesses: USN Lt. C.H. Pogson, CPO K.J. Moore. One large round or oval object, changing from red to red-orange, flew straight and level for 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Quezon, Phillipine Islands Source ID: BerlinerBBU_441 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9335 (A5F56B76) Date: 10/5/1959 Description: Admiral Hyman Rickover's submarine the SSN Sea Dragon detected an unidentified submerged object outside Portsmouth, New Hampshire harbor on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 994 Source ID: Johnson_6574 Source: Johnson ### Event 9336 (C05FBCF4) Date: 10/6/1959 Description: Round, white-yellow light make several abrupt turns at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6543) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lincoln, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_2408 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9337 (A4C46932) Date: 10/6/1959 Description: At 8:15 p.m. U.S. Army Lt. Colonel L. Liggett and two members of his family sighted a round yellowish-white nocturnal light southeast of Lincoln, Nebraska that made several abrupt turns in the sky at very fast speeds for two minutes. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6543; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_6599 Source: Johnson ### Event 9338 (37CE92E8) Date: 10/6/1959 Description: On this night an Air National Guard T-33 aircraft with a pilot and co-pilot aboard chased a glowing UFO over Forrest City, Arkansas. It flew too fast to get any photos. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 256 Source ID: Johnson_6600 Source: Johnson ### Event 9339 (ACCCA8FD) Date: 10/6/1959 Time: 8:15 PM Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. L. Liggett (Selective Service) and wife. One round, white-yellow light made several abrupt turns and flew very fast for 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lincoln, Nebraska Source ID: BerlinerBBU_442 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9340 (266F1EF2) Date: 10/7/1959 Description: Eastern Airlines flight 541, flying over Virginia at 3:10 a.m., was paced by a cigar-shaped object for ten minutes. The craft had illuminated portholes. At approximately the same time (8:00 p.m. New Zealand time) a large white, domed shaped mass flew quickly toward the west over Fairlie, New Zealand, and was gone from sight behind some hills. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases 5835 & 5836 Source ID: Johnson_6629 Source: Johnson ### Event 9341 (DE8DB41E) Date: 10/7/1959 Description: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot chased glowing object. \[NICAP UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Forest City, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2409 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9342 (8B742691) Date: 10/8/1959 Description: Night. Two amateur astronomers in Mobile, Alabama, observe an unknown object traverse the Moon’s disk from west to east directly over the crater Copernicus. They watch the fast-moving shape “every night the weather permitted for a period of 33 days.” They write to Project Moonwatch about the observations, but they reply that no other lunar observers have seen the phenomenon, so it must be closer to the Mobile observers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_3361 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9343 (E288ED40) Date: 10/12/1959 Description: 1:00 p.m. Multiple witnesses at Washington, Sharon, and Crawfordville, Georgia, watch “brown or black footballs” traveling southeast to west, followed by angel hair covering a vast area. The substance consists of “threads from 10ʹ to 50ʹ long connected at ¾ʺ intervals by minute particles resembling snowflakes.” The material falls for about 2 hours. Five samples are collected and sent to the Chemicals and Materials Laboratory at Robins AFB, Georgia. No unusual elements are discovered except for high amounts of silver in one and some silver in three others. The conjecture is that “cloud seeding with a silver salt could have caused the phenomenon.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 103–104 Source ID: Eberhart_3362 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9344 (91D120F5) Date: 10/12/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2410 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9345 (89E1008D) Date: 10/13/1959 Description: In his syndicated column, [Joseph Alsop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FAlsop) goes so far as to describe “classified intelligence” as placing the Soviet missile count as high as 1,500 by 1963, and the US will have only 130 at that time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joseph Alsop, “[True](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94633531/) [Missile Gap Picture Belies Pentagon Response,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94633531/)” Eugene \(Oreg.\) Register-Guard, October 13, 1959, p. 10 Source ID: Eberhart_3363 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9346 (2828AABC) Date: 10/15/1959 Description: Ground/Air Visuals Over City Stir Air Force (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [591015](http://nicap.org/591015terrehaute%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Terre Haute, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2411 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9347 (CCEC5BD8) Date: 10/16/1959 Description: A worker was alone at a local water plant in El Cobre, Algeciras province, Spain at three a.m. when suddenly all electricity and lights at the plant were shut off. He went outside to see what had caused the outage and felt a strange electrical sensation in the air. He then saw a hovering luminous object about 200 meters away that was very close to the ground. It was shaped like a half egg on top of a plate, and it emitted brilliant orange, green and purple lights. Next to the object stood two tall human-like figures wearing shiny silvery-orange outfits. One of the beings bent down under the object and appeared to look inside. All the time the witness was not able to move a muscle, holding a flashlight in his hand. Somehow he was finally able to turn the flashlight on and when he did so both beings re-entered the object, which then ascended slowly, emitting a loud buzzing sound and increasing in luminosity. Ground traces were found at the site. The witness nearly suffered a nervous breakdown afterwards. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 94, citing Vicenter-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia De Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis Source ID: Johnson_6894 Source: Johnson ### Event 9348 (D3D548A1) Date: 10/19/1959 Time: 9:15 PM Description: Witness: department store manager C.A. Cissman. One bright light approached, hovered about 30 minutes, and then was up and gone in 2 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 3rd or 4th week. Telephone Ridge, Oregon Source ID: BerlinerBBU_440 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9349 (22AE6560) Date: 10/19/1959 Description: At 9:25 p.m. Captain F. A. Henney, an engineering instructor at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado was flying a T-33 jet trainer over Plainville, Kansas at 9:25 p.m. when a bright yellow light came directly head-on at him. The T-33 pilot avoided it and the light then dimmed. The encounter lasted 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6563; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_6978 Source: Johnson ### Event 9350 (E5CECDE2) Date: 10/19/1959 Time: 9:25 PM Description: Witness: Capt. F.A. Henney, engineering instructor at USAF Academy, flying a T-33 jet trainer. One bright yellowish light came head-on at the T-33, the pilot avoided it and the light dimmed. Sighting lasted 30 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Plainville Kansas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_443 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9351 (62EC1787) Date: 10/19/1959 Description: Two teenagers were in Poquoson, Virginia at 6:15 in the evening when they saw a four foot wide black disc with a silver ring around it, hovering at eighty feet altitude and making a whirring noise. One of them took a shot at it with a rifle, and they heard a clank suggesting that the bullet hit a solid object, then the UFO disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, November 1961, p.27; C. W. Fitch, APRO Bulletin, May 1963, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: October-December, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_6979 Source: Johnson ### Event 9352 (99AB673C) Date: 10/19/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Langley AFB (N of), VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2412 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9353 (6408F8D4) Date: 10/19/1959 Description: Bright yellowish light on collision course with the T-33 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 6563) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Plainville, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2413 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9354 (A5203A0A) Date: 10/20/1959 Description: Navy enlisted men watched two UFOs rendezvous, speed away. \[NICAP UFOE, IV\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Key West, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2414 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9355 (BCC038E0) Date: 10/21/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warsaw, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2415 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9356 (9FFEF4F4) Date: 10/22/1959 Description: Night. Three witnesses are driving through Cumberland, Maryland, when they see a metallic disc emitting a bluish-green light around its edge. The driver abruptly stops, but leaves the car running. Suddenly the object drops down to 50 feet altitude and hovers 100 feet away in front of the car, making a humming vibration. As two of the witnesses open the door to get out, the car engine, lights, and radio fail. Shortly afterward, the disc shoots straight up, then forward, makes a 90° angle, then disappears in clouds. The car begins functioning normally again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Newark \(Md.\) Evening News, November 5, 1959; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 67–68; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 104–105 Source ID: Eberhart_3364 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9357 (07042395) Date: 10/22/1959 Description: Car motor, headlights, and radio failed as UFO hovered low over road ahead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cumberland, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2417 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9358 (AE75970E) Date: 10/22/1959 End date: 10/23/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Loring AFB (near), ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_2416 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9359 (1240AA7E) Date: 10/22/1959 Description: A disc-shaped object paced a car in Cumberland, Maryland at dusk, and stayed 50 feet overhead while the car's engine, lights and radio stopped working. The disc then shot up into the clouds, and the car returned to normal operation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 104 Source ID: Johnson_7019 Source: Johnson ### Event 9360 (D1EA3999) Date: 10/23/1959 Description: A strange buzzing sound was heard when a luminous saucer-shaped object flew over Cordoba, Argentina at 8:00 p.m. It flew off to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1959 Source ID: Johnson_7043 Source: Johnson ### Event 9361 (7A529D4D) Date: 10/25/1959 Description: On the Trans-Canada Highway west of this town, four hunters (Douglas Robinson, Ray Disguiseppe, Victor Arnone and John Defilippo, of Port-Arthur) saw an oval, luminous object follow their car about 13 m above them. The object was spinning, stopped when they did, was white in color and remained with them for nearly 50 km. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 60, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Fort William, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_499 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9362 (DD41FB38) Date: Late 10/1959 Description: 6:55 p.m. Electrician Gideon Johansson is at home in Mariannelund, Småland, Sweden, when there is a power failure. He goes outside to look at the power lines when he bumps into his son Rolf, who points out a brilliant white object hovering above a three-story building. The object descends slowly and appears to be heading toward Johansson’s garden. The machine oscillates three times and smashes into the top of a maple tree, descends through the branches and hovers about 18 inches above the ground. Only about 10 feet away, Johansson can see the object has a large window, through which two entities are visible. Their heads have high crown and they have big, friendly eyes. They have mall mouths and pointed chins and are wearing white uniforms with broad black belts. One seems to be working at an instrument panel. They are only the size of a 14-year-old. Soon the object moves up and shoots away in a flash. Glassy deposits are found on some power lines in addition to the damaged tree, and Johansson gets prickly pains in his lower body. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Anders Liljegren, “[Mariannelund UFO and Occupants,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1970\): 14–17 Source ID: Eberhart_3365 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9363 (04322807) Date: 10/25/1959 Description: On the Trans-Canada Highway west of Fort William, Canada four hunters (Douglas Robinson, Ray Disguiseppe, Victor Arnone and John Defilippo, of Port Arthur) saw an oval, luminous object follow their car about 13 meters above them. The object was spinning, stopped when they did, and was white in color. It paced their car and remained with them for nearly 50 km. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 499, citing Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1960 Source ID: Johnson_7122 Source: Johnson ### Event 9364 (E4A328B6) Date: 10/26/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toccoa, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2418 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9365 (BF8DF9F1) Date: 10/28/1959 Description: An astronomer and several other witnesses saw an orange concave disc-shaped object maneuvering in the sky over Valparaiso, Chile at 9:15 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 120 Source ID: Johnson_7224 Source: Johnson ### Event 9366 (60130F34) Date: 10/28/1959 Description: Astronomer, others, observed maneuvering orange disc. \[NICAP UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Valparaiso, Chili Source ID: NICAP_DB_2419 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9367 (757B2F8E) Date: 10/30/1959 Description: A domed disc hovered over a queue of shoppers in the city of Aubagne, Bouches-Rhone, France at 6 p.m. Twenty human-looking occupants were visible inside the transparent dome, and appeared to be laughing at them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 125 Source ID: Johnson_7302 Source: Johnson ### Event 9368 (33C950E1) Date: 10/31/1959 Description: Two brothers with the last name of Hawkins were followed for 95 kilometers between Marton and Matamata, New Zealand by a luminous object that looked like a large street lamp. The UFO maneuvered around their car when they stopped near Oningaiti, New Zealand and it ascended vertically at daybreak. The incident began at 4:15 a.m. and continued until the break of day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, in the Merseyside UFO Bulletin, citing Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1960, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_7333 Source: Johnson ### Event 9369 (E14BF9C3) Date: 10/31/1959 Description: Soviet Col. [Georgy Mosolov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy%5FMosolov) reaches an airspeed record of 1,484 mph in a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 over the Soviet Union. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Georgy Mosolov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy%5FMosolov)” Source ID: Eberhart_3366 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9370 (F94C7733) Date: 11/1959 Description: A full-scale mockup of the A-12 is shipped to Area 51 in Nevada for radar signature testing by EG&G. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Peter W. Merlin, “[Groom Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,](https://area51specialprojects.com/area51%5Ftimeline.html)” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_3367 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9371 (356167A2) Date: 11/2/1959 Description: 12:00 noon. A substance described as angel hair falls from two UFOs seen in Evora, Portugal, and is collected and analyzed under a microscope by a school director, Dr. Amaral, and later by armed forces technicians and scientists at the University of Lisbon. The scientists conclude that the substance is produced by a small insect or some strange kind of single-celled organism about 4 millimeters in length. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hayley Price, “[Evora Angel Hair,](https://www.ufoweeklynews.com/ufo-sightings/evora-angel-hair)” UFO Weekly News; Nicole Guardiola, “[An Extraterrestrial Living Being, Captured and Studied Eighteen Years](https://caballodetroy.medium.com/an-extraterrestrial-living-being-captured-and-studied-eighteen-years-ago-222dfa7bfe78) [Ago,](https://caballodetroy.medium.com/an-extraterrestrial-living-being-captured-and-studied-eighteen-years-ago-222dfa7bfe78)” translated from El País, October 13, 1978 Source ID: Eberhart_3368 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9372 (16D183C0) Date: 11/3/1959 Description: Stationary round yellow-white obj move away, disappear, then reappear (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Utica, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2420 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9373 (606E5C11) Date: 11/5/1959 Description: Three Radars Track Blip (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [591105](http://www.nicap.org/591105montauk%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montauk AFB, Long Island, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2421 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9374 (66026DD3) Date: 11/8/1959 Description: On this morning a cigar-shaped UFO followed a gasoline tanker truck for miles in Austin, Texas. It dropped down and sprayed the highway with fog. Later, it was realized that the driver had experienced approximately 40 minutes of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch,U computer database, case # 5860, citing Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: October-December, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_7535 Source: Johnson ### Event 9375 (4FC8437B) Date: 11/8/1959 Description: A large, luminous object is seen moving at great speed over Kandahar, Afghanistan, to the northwest. Shortly afterward it explodes with a loud roar in nearby mountains, causing some slight earth tremors. Possible Russian missile test. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 308](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/308/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3369 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9376 (A23BD0D0) Date: 11/10/1959 Description: Requests to transfer responsibility for UFO investigations from ATIC to ARDC are sent to Maj. Gen. [Charles B. Dougher](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107232/major-general-charles-b-dougher/) \(ATIC commander\), Col. Philip G. Evans \(ATIC Deputy for Sciences and Components\), and Maj. Gen. [James H. Walsh](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105288/major-general-james-h-walsh/) \(AF Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3370 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9377 (FA6F4EDE) Date: 11/12/1959 Description: The first completely free flight of an Avrocar takes place. This test proves the nozzle control system unacceptable. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” Source ID: Eberhart_3371 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9378 (0A9CC26C) Date: 11/15/1959 Description: The witness, a young man who was on leave from the Army, had been driving on U.S. highway 99 near Marysville, California with two friends when he suddenly found himself onboard a hovering, bluish-white craft. His two friends had apparently been put to sleep and were not disturbed. The witness was taken by six four-foot tall humanoids with large human like eyes to a room that had many instruments, and was given a medical examination. The beings wore silvery gray outfits with a dark triangle-like insignia on their chest. They glided above the floor instead of walking. The witness was later deposited back in his vehicle unharmed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 196, citing Nick H. Edwards, CUFORN Bulletin, November-December 1988 Source ID: Johnson_7687 Source: Johnson ### Event 9379 (5AD908E9) Date: 11/16/1959 Description: 8:00 p.m. Czech Air Force officer Commander Duchoň is driving with another officer named Bezák to a Czechoslovakian airfield \[now in the Czech Republic\] to supervise night-flying exercises. At about 6 miles from the airfield, the car engine begins to stall. Suddenly they see a light sapphire-colored band moving at high speed at an altitude of 1,600–2,600 feet. It is completely silent. Some minutes later they are able to start the car again. Personnel at the airfield tell them they had seen a flaming ball that rotated, made a 90° turn, and passed over the airfield again. The tower tracks the object on radar at an altitude of 3,000 feet during its second pass. The object is about 500 feet in diameter with a glowing ring around it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucers and the Iron Curtain: A Report from](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1960%2CJul-Aug%2CV%206%2CN%204.pdf) [Czechoslovakia,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1960%2CJul-Aug%2CV%206%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1960\): 31–32 Source ID: Eberhart_3372 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9380 (53BBCF3E) Date: 11/18/1959 Description: At 6:25 a.m. in Crystal Springs, Mississippi Mr. J. M. Porter witnessed a row of red lights that flew slowly through the sky, and then sped up incredibly fast. His sighting lasted from 5-6 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7729 Source: Johnson ### Event 9381 (BC2AC585) Date: 11/18/1959 Time: 6:25 PM Description: Witness: J.M. Porter. A row of red lights flew slow, then speeded up immensely. Sighting lasted 5-6 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Crystal Springs, Mississippi Source ID: BerlinerBBU_444 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9382 (1D55D35C) Date: 11/18/1959 Description: A row of red lights fly slow, then accelerate immensely (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6600) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crystal Springs (South of), MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2422 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9383 (AFDEDE4E) Date: 11/19/1959 Description: [Otis T. Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%5FT.%5FCarr) is convicted in federal court of selling unregistered securities to [Gurney G. Warnberg](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80077817/gurney-g-warnberg)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80077817/gurney-g-warnberg) a pilot and railroad man in Yukon, Oklahoma, and fined $5,000. Unable to pay, Carr works off his fine in jail at a dollar a day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 861 Source ID: Eberhart_3373 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9384 (D0F001F6) Date: 11/20/1959 Description: In 1959, at 4:15 a.m. in Adelaide Hills, South Australia a flat object with a large bubble on top was seen just before sunrise. It reflected light from the Moon, and appeared to skim above the waves on the ocean. It flew to the North, and was seen again over the city. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 169. Source ID: Johnson_7746 Source: Johnson ### Event 9385 (2E46FF82) Date: 11/24/1959 Description: At 1:00 p.m. Mrs. Sperring in New Ferry, Cheshire, England watched a silver domed disc with a yellow illuminated dome. It was spinning, and had flashing lights. It flew off to the north-northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5866; FSR, March 1960 Source ID: Johnson_7869 Source: Johnson ### Event 9386 (4A185080) Date: 12/1959 Description: The London UFO Research Organisation is founded by Paul Teugells, Nigel Stephenson, Susanne Stebbing, and Roy Stemman, and begins publishing a monthly magazine, LUFORO Bulletin. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [LUFORO Newsletter](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201959-1963%20LUFORO%20BULLETIN%20Vols.1%20to%204/LUFORO%20Bulletin%20-%20Vol%201%20No%2001%20-%201st%20Dec%201959.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201959-1963%20LUFORO%20BULLETIN%20Vols.1%20to%204/LUFORO%20Bulletin%20-%20Vol%201%20No%2001%20-%201st%20Dec%201959.pdf) no. 1 \(December 1959\) Source ID: Eberhart_3375 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9387 (E801E3CD) Date: 12/1959 Description: The new edition of [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt)’s The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is published with three new UFO debunking chapters, the last of which is completely different in tone from the rest of the book. He claims there is no Air Force secrecy on UFOs and NICAP is just a bunch of grandstanding nuts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1024; Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Forgotten Letters of Edward J. Ruppelt,” IUR 24, no. 4 \(Winter 1999\): 20–26, 30, 32; Swords 301 Source ID: Eberhart_3374 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9388 (937AFA25) Date: 12/1959 Description: 5:45 a.m. Larry Jensen is driving to work on US Highway 99 near Proberta, California, when his radio begins making “snapping” noises, and his lights dim. He pulls over to the side of the road and gets out to check his headlights, which he finds are shining feebly. He notices a huge, bright, bluish-green, crescent-shaped object hovering about 60 feet above the road a quarter of a mile behind him. It appears to be 80–90 feet across and 15– 20 feet thick. Suddenly and inexplicably, he finds his clothes are soaked and he feels an alarming feeling as if he is getting crushed inside. He also feels as if he is being sucked up into the object. He grabs for a car door, then collides with a side mirror and staggers backward, but manages to get inside. Looking out the right-door window, he sees the UFO a few miles away, heading northeast and climbing at a shallow angle over the Sierra foothills. It vanishes within 10 seconds. Jensen’s car lights come back on. He resumes driving, but 600 feet away is forced to stop because he smells burning rubber. The battery caps are blown out, and the battery is swollen out of shape, the generator is not working, and the armature and field wires have melted together. Later, he finds it odd that he has not encountered another single car during or after the episode. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 866; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Oct-Dec.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 October–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Oct-Dec.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 56–59 Source ID: Eberhart_3377 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9389 (212841C6) Date: 12/1959 Description: Project Space Track moves to a new building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the National Space Surveillance Control Center \(NSSCC\), which is formally dedicated on February 9, 1960. The NSSCC is part of the Air Force Command and Control Development Division, Air Research and Development Command. Harold O. Curtis of Lincoln Laboratory is the director of the NSSCC. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project Space Track](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FSpace%5FTrack)” Source ID: Eberhart_3376 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9390 (110DE11B) Date: 12/1/1959 Description: At a NASA news conference in Washington, D.C., Cal Tech geochemist [Harrison Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison%5FBrown) suggests that boneless animals similar to jellyfish abound in oceans on Venus. The speculation comes in the wake of the discovery that the planet’s atmosphere contains water vapor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Scientist Says Jellyfish May Live on Venus,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100914555/)” Wilmington \(Del.\) News Journal, December 2, 1959, p. 29 Source ID: Eberhart_3378 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9391 (7EE2FB9A) Date: 12/2/1959 Description: A bright, circular object is seen in the sky heading southwest over Ghazni, Afghanistan. It disappears after 2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 308](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/308/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3379 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9392 (24F07412) Date: 12/3/1959 Description: In 1959 on a cloudy night on a farm near Chatton, New Zealand a disc flew in around 9:45 p.m. flying toward the northeast, stopped and then circled for 45 minutes. It gave off a bright glow around its rim. It was finally lost from sight behind the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1959, volume 4 Source ID: Johnson_8160 Source: Johnson ### Event 9393 (E5C06099) Date: 12/5/1959 Description: After five flights, testing of the Avrocar is temporarily halted, by which time it has logged 18.5 hours of test time in total. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” Source ID: Eberhart_3380 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9394 (11B3249C) Date: 12/7/1959 Description: Maj. Gen. [James H. Walsh](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105288/major-general-james-h-walsh/) writes to Lt. Gen. [Bernard A. Schriever](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FSchriever)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FSchriever) commander of ARDC, regarding transfer of UFO duties. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3381 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9395 (085F5512) Date: 12/11/1959 Description: A memo reaches CIA head [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles)’s desk recommending the removal of [Fidel Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro). He sets the wheels in motion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3382 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9396 (D4B713E4) Date: 12/13/1959 Description: Karl Lars Dersson is walking on the deck of the Danish tanker Dorthe Mærsk just north of La Orchila Island, Venezuela. He sees a brilliant cone-shaped object descending from the sky and alerts the crew. It gets brighter as it nears the surface of the Caribbean, and the crew hear a loud concussion as it enters the water. The surface becomes turbulent and brilliant with many colors. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 50–51 Source ID: Eberhart_3383 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9397 (11B450F2) Date: 12/13/1959 Description: A brilliant cone giving off flares descended into the ocean near La Orchila Island in the Dependencias Federales chain of islands belonging to Venezuela. The witnesses were three crewmen aboard the ship SS Dorthemaersk. After the object submerged the sea became brilliant with many bright colors and very turbulent at that spot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_8369 Source: Johnson ### Event 9398 (FD93AB00) Date: 12/13/1959 Description: Early evening. A rocket project officer at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, is out looking at the Moon with binoculars when a lighted object approaches the Moon very slowly in the six o’clock position. Once nearly in line with the lunar edge, it begins a precision journey, skirting the edge until it reaches three o’clock. It then leaves on a straight track directly away. During the observation, the man calls his wife and two neighbors to watch the performance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_3384 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9399 (1D9286B7) Date: 12/15/1959 Description: USAF Maj. [Joseph Rogers](http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jwrogersjr.htm) attains an airspeed of 1,526 mph in a Convair F-106 Delta Dart at Edwards AFB, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Convair F-106 Delta Dart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair%5FF-106%5FDelta%5FDart)” Source ID: Eberhart_3385 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9400 (7853E3A4) Date: 12/17/1959 Description: On this day at eight o’clock in the morning four children on a school bus in Haverhill, Massachusetts saw a flash in the sky, then watched a silver, domed disc land in a field. A door in the craft opened and a humanoid occupant exited. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: October-December Source ID: Johnson_8463 Source: Johnson ### Event 9401 (E77809DE) Date: 12/18/1959 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: S Victoria Island, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2423 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9402 (A2A0D63A) Date: 12/20/1959 Description: At 2:20 a.m. on a clear night with the full Moon high in the sky, eight disc-shaped craft maneuvered and seemed to be playing tag over the shoreline in Redondo Beach, California. They were bright yellow and bronze in color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5875, citing Loren Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. UFOs: A History, 1959 (volume 4), p. 56 Source ID: Johnson_8530 Source: Johnson ### Event 9403 (3BC205D9) Date: 12/22/1959 Description: Kenneth Lindsey was walking along a road near Modesto, California at around 11:50 at night when he saw a bright, orange bowl-shaped object descend to about 20 feet above the road, extending across the entire roadway. "On it I could see shadows which appeared to be moving, but I could not distinguish what they were." After two minutes it rose again into the air. There were others in the neighborhood who also saw the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-14, citing Coral Lorenzen, APRO Bulletin, January 1960 Source ID: Johnson_8561 Source: Johnson ### Event 9404 (E1AEE4B6) Date: 12/22/1959 Time: 2350 Description: Kenneth Lindsley and several other witnesses saw a bright, orange object at ground level. It was bowl-shaped, as wide as the road, and shadows that appeared to be moving could be seen. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 60, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Oakdale, California Source ID: Magnonia_500 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9405 (CBAA7A4C) Date: 12/23/1959 Description: At a few minutes after midnight in Oakdale, California several witnesses sighted a seven-meter wide, bowl-shaped disc. Shadows were seen moving about inside the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1960 Source ID: Johnson_8568 Source: Johnson ### Event 9406 (2DCB100B) Date: 12/23/1959 Description: (McDonald list) Three Objects Tracked By MPS-14 At 70,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [591223](http://www.nicap.org/591223albuquerque%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque (W of), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2424 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9407 (F32977A8) Date: 12/24/1959 Description: Maj. Gen. [Richard E. O’Keefe](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106024/major-general-richard-j-okeefe/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106024/major-general-richard-j-okeefe/) acting inspector general of the Air Force, issues instructions pertaining to “UFO business” to every air base commander in the US. The document is not intended for public distribution, but NICAP obtains a copy. Across the top are the words “UFOs Serious Business.” It says that UFOs “must be rapidly and accurately identified as serious USAF business in the ZI \[Zone of Interior\]” and specifies that UFO investigators “should be equipped with binoculars, camera, Geiger counter, magnifying glass and have a source for containers in which to store samples.” O’Keefe asks that UFO explanations be “reasonable and knowledgeable.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 October–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Oct-Dec.pdf) [December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1959-Oct-Dec.pdf), The Author, 2000, pp. 61, 65–66; Swords 286; Good Need, [pp. 226](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/226/mode/2up), [229](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/228/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3387 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9408 (E06EF9F4) Date: 12/24/1959 Description: Air Force Inspector General brief to Operations and Training Commands: "UFOs Serious Business." Stated that UFO investigators on base level "should be equipped with binoculars, camera, geiger counter, magnifying glass and have a source for containers in which to store samples." Type: briefing Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_886 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9409 (53E3388E) Date: Late 12/1959 Description: 10:00 p.m. Lorentz Johnsen sees a dark, silent object with a row of windows fly slowly by at an altitude of 500 feet, headed in the direction of Namsenfjorden, Trøndelag, Norway. It descends to about 160 feet, grows fiery red, then explodes with a crash and falls into the water. He says that it looks like a cover is torn off in one piece like a “curved sheet of metal.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_3386 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1960 (Back to Top) ### Event 9410 (913A020E) Date: 1960's Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout maps Type: secret location Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar Source ID: Maj2_594 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9411 (DA961AA2) Date: 1960's End date: Mid 1980's Description: ex-Navy worker Riley Hansard Crabb (April 2, 1912 — January 20, 1994) takes over as director of the BSRF. One of the first major things he does is discredit “Gerald Light” Type: research group Reference: [link](https://borderlandsciences.org/cart/riley-hansard-crabb/) Source ID: Maj2_593 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9412 (DA8DAFA8) Date: 1960 Description: The invention of transponders that transmit an electronic identification signal from aircraft to ground control helps to further reduce clutter on air traffic control radars. This means that “aerial phenomena” appear on radar only if they intrude on flight paths and create a near miss of the type investigated by the Civil Aviation Authority. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke, “Gremlins and Black Projects,” Fortean Times 291 \(August 2012\): 26–27; National Air Traffic Controllers Association, [A History of Air Traffic Control](https://www.natca.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/NATCA%5FATC%5FHistory.pdf), 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3393 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9413 (148633B4) Date: 1960 Description: The first planar monolithic integrated circuit (IC) chip was demonstrated Type: scientific advance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor) Source ID: Maj2_592 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9414 (F37F8BDB) Date: 1960 Description: Contactee [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) legally changes his name to Michel d’Obrenovic, said to reflect an ancestral connection to the throne of Serbia. However, John Griffin says the real reason is that Williamson’s sensational claims have rendered his anthropological work \(such as it is\) completely unacceptable. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1287; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 119–124 Source ID: Eberhart_3391 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9415 (316C349E) Date: 1960 Description: [Brinsley Le Poer Trench,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinsley%5FLe%5FPoer%5FTrench%2C%5F8th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FClancarty) 8th Earl of Clancarty, publishes The Sky People, in which he claims that [Adam and](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%5Fand%5FEve) [Eve,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%5Fand%5FEve) [Noah,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah) and many other characters in the Bible originally lived on Mars. Trench believes that Adam and Eve were experimental creations of extraterrestrials. The biblical description of the Garden of Eden is inconsistent with what Earth is like, and because Mars contains canals, the Garden of Eden must have been located on Mars. He further claims that the north polar ice cap melted on Mars, causing the descendants of Adam and Eve to move to Earth. The Book of Genesis is a symbolic version of what actually happened to groups of people on Mars, he writes, with the Great Deluge referring to the flooding of Atlantis and Lemuria, which were populated with Adamic migrants. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brinsley Le Poer Trench, [The Sky People](https://archive.org/details/skypeople00lepo)[,](https://archive.org/details/skypeople00lepo) Spearman, 1960; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 26–27 Source ID: Eberhart_3390 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9416 (E8F4E1A5) Date: 1960 End date: 1961 Description: Through its spokesman in the Pentagon, Lt. Col. Lawrence J. Tacker, the Air Force began answering critics of its UFO program publicly. Late in 1960, Col. Tacker's book ["Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force" by Lawrence J. Tacker](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersusa0000lawr) (Van Nostrand) was published, with a foreword by General Thomas D. White, Air Force Chief of Staff. Col. Tacker went on a public tour to publicize the book, appearing on radio and television, and giving lectures. Type: book release Reference: Archive.org: ["Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force" by Lawrence J. Tacker](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersusa0000lawr) Reference: [Amazon: "Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force" by Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucers-U-S-Air-Force/dp/125818060X) Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_888 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9417 (56708C00) Date: 1960 Description: [Jim Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) is hired as senior technical associate with the Kitt Peak National Observatory, so he and [Coral](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) move to Tucson, Arizona, from Alamogordo, New Mexico. On their third day in Tucson, an “exterminator” visits them, offering to inspect their rented premises for free. He fails to mention the name of his company, nor does he seem interested in his occupation. He talks with Coral about their reason for moving, where Jim is employed, and UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 50; Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, pp. 3, 251 Source ID: Eberhart_3389 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9418 (084328C4) Date: 1960 Description: Night. During a pause in army maneuvers near Brno \[now in the Czech Republic\], soldiers see a peculiarly colored light above the city. After hovering a while, it vanishes but reappears in another part of the sky. Their commanding officer tells them to look at it with binoculars and check the radar. Headquarters sends up interceptors to chase the object, but every time one of them gets near, the light disappears from the radar screen, only to turn up elsewhere. The incident goes on for an hour before the light disappears for good. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 90 Source ID: Eberhart_3392 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9419 (DAC57202) Date: 1960 Description: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot chased round UFO. \[NICAP UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cincinnati, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2425 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9420 (FFA2281B) Date: Early 1960 Description: Night. Vice Chief of Air Staff Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) is conducting an exercise to test his bombers’ capability to penetrate US air space. An F-89J Scorpion jet instructor pilot and his radar observer, 1Lt. Joe Meyer, have just successfully intercepted a B-47 and are descending to land at James Connally AFB \[now TSTC Waco Airport\] near Waco, Texas. They notice a pinpoint of light at their level 12 miles away over Waco and decide to approach and attack it as if they are armed. As they approach on a collision course, they see the object has four bright blue- white lights on it and it is stationary. They estimate it is 25–30 feet in diameter. But the object shoots straight up at incredible speed before they reach it. They look up and see the object is bright blue white on its underside. It disappears at about 90,000 feet altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Pilot Finally Reveals UFO Encounter,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1999/07/July%201999.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 375 \(July 1999\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_3388 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9421 (F435F70F) Date: 1/1960 Description: Tests continue with a slightly modified Avrocar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” Source ID: Eberhart_3395 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9422 (0BC734A8) Date: 1/1960 Description: The first issue of the Australian Flying Saucer Review is published jointly by the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society and UFOIC, edited by Peter E. Norris and [Andrew P. Tomas](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%5FTomas)[.](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%5FTomas) It will continue until December 1972, various issues confusingly sponsored by each group, plus the Queensland Flying Saucer Research Bureau and the renamed Victorian UFO Research Society. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Australian Flying Saucer Review](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201960%2001%20-%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(January 1960\) Source ID: Eberhart_3394 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9423 (86322598) Date: 1/18/1960 Description: Car lights dimmed as UFO descended toward field, apparently about a mile off highway (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lakota (near), ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_2426 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9424 (3D209E30) Date: 1/18/1960 Description: 10:45 p.m. Leo Haley and Bert C. Baker are driving on US Highway 2, some 9 miles west of Lakota, North Dakota, when the headlights dim just as a brilliant green flash lights up the sky. In a field to the north about 1 mile away they can see a 5–6 foot crescent-shaped object with a 9-foot exhaust tail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 69 Source ID: Eberhart_3396 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9425 (13B0BAB6) Date: 1/18/1960 Description: Two men driving in a car, Haley and Baker, at 10:55 p.m. in Lakota, North Dakota had their car's headlights dim as a UFO flew nearby. The object flew off towards a field approximately 1.5 kilometers from the highway. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Grand Forks (ND) Herald, January 21, 1960; USAF Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_367 Source: Johnson ### Event 9426 (959BCC45) Date: 1/18/1960 Description: Two Radars On B-52 Track UFO At 14,000 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [600118](http://www.nicap.org/600118gulfofmexico%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf of Mexico, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2427 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9427 (509DA403) Date: 1/26/1960 Description: [Richard Bissell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) notifies [Kelly Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29) that the CIA is authorizing the delivery of 12 A-12 aircraft that will be five times faster than the U-2 and fly three miles higher. Skunk Works will move into production at Area 51 in Nevada to work on Project Oxcart. \(Wikipedia, “[Lockheed A-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 134–135](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/134/mode/2up)\) Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3397 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9428 (17A1D1D2) Date: 1/31/1960 Description: Six in a boat on the ocean on the coast of Lae, Papua New Guinea saw a 14 meter diameter umbrella-shaped craft swaying back and forth in the sky in overcast skies at around five o'clock in the morning. It had four windows on the underside. It shot up vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucers, May 1962, p. 36; APRO Bulletin, May 1961 Source ID: Johnson_634 Source: Johnson ### Event 9429 (74567AB9) Date: 1/31/1960 Description: Telegram from Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson to President Eisenhower over “inspection of secret aircraft” rumors of a Feb. 1954 meeting at Edwards AFB. Type: telegram Reference: [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-1960-leon-davidson-eisenhower-telegram-8d60b191b9c8) Source ID: Maj2_595 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9430 (8A7793E3) Date: 2/1960 Description: The US Navy reportedly detects a “dark satellite” thought to be a Soviet spy satellite in orbit. However, a follow-up article alleges that the object was “the remains of an Air Force Discoverer VIII satellite that had gone astray.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Trackers Spot Mystery Object Orbiting Earth,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP83-01022R000100230012-6.pdf)” Washington \(D.C.\) Evening Star, February 11, 1960; Wikipedia, “[Corona \(satellite\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA%5F%28satellite%29\#Discoverer)” Source ID: Eberhart_3398 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9431 (B9964EE3) Date: 2/3/1960 Description: Former Air Force PT Boat Commander watched UFOs rendezvous, travel in formation. \[NICAP UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Intervale, New Haven, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2428 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9432 (43C1B5CA) Date: 2/5/1960 Description: 11:15 p.m. Many people see a distinctly round UFO hover and maneuver slowly over or near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in Hollywood, California. Cars are stopped bumper-to- bumper, according to employees of several businesses around the intersection, with people gaping at the object overhead. Persons on hotel and apartment rooftops go out to see a bright “cherry-red, circular light.” Two service- station attendants at the intersection, Jerry Darr and Charles Walker, say that “hundreds of people saw it— everybody was looking” as the light hovers for at least 5 minutes over a busy drive-in. Pen Meyer, another service station attendant a third of a mile to the north, watches it hovering for about 10 minutes. Harold Sherman, his wife, and two others watch it as it resumes motion very slowly eastward. After proceeding east for a distance of a block or two, it veers southeastward and passes out of sight. No sound is heard over street-noise background. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee case files; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#cities)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 54–57 Source ID: Eberhart_3400 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9433 (93B6EA68) Date: 2/5/1960 Description: The office of the AF Chief of Intelligence is informed of ARDC’s rejection \(by Maj. Gen. [James Ferguson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FFerguson%5F%28general%29)\) of the ATIC proposal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3399 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9434 (CD401AB0) Date: 2/5/1960 End date: 2/6/1960 Description: Several witnesses (about 11:15 p.m. each night) saw a distinct round UFO hover and maneuver slowly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [600205-06](http://www.nicap.org/hollywood600205dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hollywood, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2429 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9435 (EDC5B411) Date: 2/6/1960 Description: 11:15 p.m. The red object reappears over Hollywood, California, this time about one block further east, above Sunset Boulevard and Sycamore Avenue. A number of witnesses observe it hovering for about 10 minutes at an altitude of 500–600 feet. Then with a loud explosion it emits a brilliant bluish-white flash that extends downward and to the west, lighting up the ground all around La Brea Avenue. A mushroom-shaped cloud appears and dissipates. As the red light is extinguished, an object described by most witnesses as long, tubular, and about 70 feet long shoots upwards. A few seconds later, the red light appears about 1,000 feet above Sunset and La Brea for about 8 minutes. It then begins drifting slowly eastward, turns sharply toward the north-northeast, accelerates and climbs steeply, not stopping again until it is at a very high altitude well to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee case file; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#cities)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 54–57 Source ID: Eberhart_3401 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9436 (ABBC49FB) Date: 2/14/1960 Description: At 4:40 p.m. a silver cigar-shaped object streaked through the sky over Nome, Alaska on a curved flight trajectory. There were four or more witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1960, p. 8, citing Anchorage Daily News, February 15, 1960; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1960; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 118, citing the Fairbanks Daily, February 16, 1960 Source ID: Johnson_914 Source: Johnson ### Event 9437 (96AD7C6B) Date: 2/14/1960 Description: Airline employee, others, saw a silvery rocket-like object with orange flame trail curving up and away "as if it were manned and controlled." A similar second UFO was sighted at Unalakleet moving rapidly NW leaving contrails. \[NICAP UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nome, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2430 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9438 (B627A226) Date: 2/16/1960 Description: Retired chemical manufacturing company executive observed rendezvous of two oval UFOs. \[NICAP UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Laguna Beach, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2431 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9439 (62DE75B2) Date: 2/17/1960 Description: A grayish black Saturn-shaped disc with exhaust cruised the tops of the hills in New Martinsville, West Virginia. A lighter-colored ring on the object emitted smoke from rear end. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 82 Source ID: Johnson_961 Source: Johnson ### Event 9440 (F30B26E3) Date: 2/17/1960 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) writes to Brig. Gen. [Benjamin G. Holzman](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108142/brigadier-general-benjamin-g-holzman/) at ARDC in the hopes of interesting him in assessing UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3402 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9441 (416756B9) Date: 2/27/1960 Description: A nocturnal light trailed after a white, fan-shaped UFO in the skies over Rome AFB, New York at 6:27 p.m. Five military witnesses including control tower officer Capt. J. Huey and four other tower operators witnessed the two UFOs. They moved slowly in a three to four minute descent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #6663; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1150 Source: Johnson ### Event 9442 (3EE6FE74) Date: 2/27/1960 Time: 6:27 PM Description: Witnesses: control tower officer Capt. J. Huey and four other tower operators. One light trailing a white fan shape, made a mild descent for 3-4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Rome AFB, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_445 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9443 (1A497DB5) Date: 2/27/1960 Description: NICAP sends photocopies of [O’Keefe](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106024/major-general-richard-j-okeefe/)’s 1959 “UFOs Serious Business” memo to the media and to committees in the House and Senate, calling for congressional hearings. NICAP Board member Rear Adm. [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) adds a statement: “Behind the scenes, high-ranking AF officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy \[AFR 200-2\] and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” NICAP board member [Albert Baller](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Baller.htm) writes: “If the UFOs are believed a threat, it would seem incumbent on the armed forces to waste no time in alerting the people. Any sudden, hostile act against a nation left in relative ignorance could have serious consequences.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Warning Issued: Flying](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28102136/lincoln-journal-star/) [Objects ‘Now Serious Business,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28102136/lincoln-journal-star/)” Lincoln \(Neb.\) Journal Star, February 27, 1960, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-Jan-Jun.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1960](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-Jan-Jun.pdf), The Author, 2003, p. 37 Source ID: Eberhart_3403 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9444 (FBDF7300) Date: 2/27/1960 Description: Light trailing a white fan shape make a mild descent (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6663) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rome AFB, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2432 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9445 (AB71FAD4) Date: 3/1960 Description: The Ottawa Flying Saucer Club begins publishing Topside, edited by [Wilbert B. Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm) until 1962. It continues until winter 1971. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Topside](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Topside%20%28Wilbert%20B%20Smith%29/Topside%20-%20Issue%2001%20-%201960%20March.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Topside%20%28Wilbert%20B%20Smith%29/Topside%20-%20Issue%2001%20-%201960%20March.pdf) no. 1 \(March 1960\) Source ID: Eberhart_3404 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9446 (810A6869) Date: 3/1960 Description: “Flying Saucer Review” article by Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson Type: article Reference: [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) Source ID: Maj2_596 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9447 (E61CF605) Date: 3/2/1960 Description: Mr. Schedelbauer, a 36-year-old newsman, was driving his car near Labuttendorf, Austria at 1:30 a.m. when he had a close encounter with a round, glowing aerial object. He was able to take a photograph of the luminous UFO, but he also received burns on his face and hands from the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Waveney Girvan, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1960, p. 16; NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1960, p. 3; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, September 1961, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_1243 Source: Johnson ### Event 9448 (933D310D) Date: 3/4/1960 Description: 3 elliptical-shaped objects make a slight climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6667) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dubuque, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2433 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9449 (7F6EFD55) Date: 3/4/1960 Time: 5:55 PM Description: Witness: Charles Morris. Three elliptical-shaped objects made a slight climb for 4 minutes. Film exposed during sighting showed no images of the objects. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Dubuque, Iowa Source ID: BerlinerBBU_446 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9450 (7601087E) Date: 3/4/1960 Description: Pilot Charles Morris filmed three silver discs with his motion picture camera, flying over Dubuque, Iowa at 5:57 p.m. The Air Force claimed that no unusual objects appear on any of the frames. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 40 Source ID: Johnson_1291 Source: Johnson ### Event 9451 (F41A0687) Date: 3/6/1960 Description: 5:15–5:27 a.m. Photographer Esse Jansson of Norrtälje, Sweden, goes out early in the morning to try to take a photo of an unidentified satellite, termed 1960 Alpha \[however, the designation of 1960 Alpha 1 is reserved for the Pioneer 5 space probe, which isn’t launched until March 11\], “which was expected to pass the Stockholm latitude in a southerly direction about 0525 hours.” He sees two objects that come from the north and move in a southeasterly direction. They are similar to phenomena he has seen before, but these objects reverse direction completely. One of his plates shows a third object. The CIA takes note of this and another mystery satellite viewed by a Swedish airplane and reported in Dagens Nyheter, March 8. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[UFO’s](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000015447.pdf) [Sighted, Photographed in Sweden; Unidentified Satellite Seen,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000015447.pdf)” FDD Note 1107, March 17, 1960 Source ID: Eberhart_3405 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9452 (38CD5546) Date: 3/8/1960 Description: [Holzman](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108142/brigadier-general-benjamin-g-holzman/) forwards [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s letter up the chain of command. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3406 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9453 (B2AD6E78) Date: 3/17/1960 Description: President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) signs off on a CIA paper titled “A Program of Covert Action against the Castro Regime.” The order gives the agency authorization to create an organization of exiled Cubans to manage opposition programs, begin a propaganda offensive to draw support for the movement, create an intelligence gathering network inside Cuba, and develop a paramilitary force to be introduced into Cuba to organize, train, and lead resistance groups against the Castro regime. Its budget is $4.4 million. Under the Cuban Project and under the direction of CIA Directorate for Plans [Richard M. Bissell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr), MKUltra’s [Sidney Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) proposes spraying [Fidel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro) [Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro)’s television studio with LSD and saturating his shoes with thallium to make his beard fall out. Gottlieb also hatches schemes to assassinate Castro, including the use of a poisoned cigar, a poisoned wetsuit, an exploding conch shell, and a poisonous fountain pen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Sidney Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb)”; Kris Hollington, [Wolves, Jackals, and](https://archive.org/details/wolvesjackalsfox00holl/page/n7/mode/2up) [Foxes: The Assassins Who Changed History](https://archive.org/details/wolvesjackalsfox00holl/page/n7/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/wolvesjackalsfox00holl/page/n7/mode/2up) St. Martin’s, 2008; Wikipedia, “[Operation Mongoose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FMongoose)” Source ID: Eberhart_3407 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9454 (D77241C0) Date: Spring 1960 Time: night Description: An electronics engineer was fishing when he heard a shrill, whirring sound and saw a round object, with a rotating light on top, land on the shore. The sound gradually stopped, an opening became visible, and two dwarfs with oversized heads came out with a hose and pumped water from the river. Later they appeared to play like children. Their bodies glowed with lights of changing colors. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Binder ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Syracuse, New York Source ID: Magnonia_501 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9455 (C3692EC2) Date: 3/23/1960 Description: A series of balls, arranged like an “X” with one diagonal line (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6691) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2434 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9456 (1EEF2F0F) Date: 3/23/1960 Time: 3:35 AM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. E.I. Larsen. A series of balls, arranged like an "X" with one diagonal line, seen for 3/4 of a minute. Note: little data on the case in the files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_447 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9457 (528D3BE8) Date: 3/23/1960 Description: At 3:35 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Larsen sighted an object over their residence in Indianapolis, Indiana that looked like a kite made up of little metallic balls. The object or objects moved in an arc through the sky to the west, then made a 180-degree turn, and finally rose and departed vertically. It made no sound. Listed as a U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book unidentified report. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 6681; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 27; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 170 Source ID: Johnson_1625 Source: Johnson ### Event 9458 (4EF3AB8D) Date: 3/24/1960 Description: Two policemen are in the vicinity of Lambert–St. Louis International Airport in Missouri, one on the north side, the other on the south side. A bright light illuminates the entire area. Three objects in a V-formation whisk overhead. They are round, white, and 9 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 293 Source ID: Eberhart_3408 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9459 (80BBC73A) Date: 3/25/1960 Description: Making a noise like a gas turbine, a cylindrical UFO hovered over Vichel at around 3 p.m. in Puy-de-Dome department, France for more than five minutes, then shot away to the southeast, traveling sideways like an arrow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5897, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit Lecteurs Source ID: Johnson_1651 Source: Johnson ### Event 9460 (BB6085F6) Date: 4/5/1960 Description: An orange disk landed with a hissing sound, then exploded, while four dwarfish figures ran away into the brush. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 60, 5; 126 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Beira, Mozambique Source ID: Magnonia_502 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9461 (F31E7C83) Date: 4/5/1960 Description: An orange disk landed in Beira, Mozambique with a hissing sound, then exploded, while four dwarfish figures ran off into the brush. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 501 Source ID: Johnson_1846 Source: Johnson ### Event 9462 (8C42D461) Date: 4/8/1960 Description: Project Ozma, set up only a few days earlier by [Frank Drake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FDrake) at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia, seems to hit paydirt. As he slews his antenna off Tau Ceti and onto Epsilon Eridani, Drake is greeted with a strong, periodic, pulsed signal on 1420 MHz, the hyperfine transition emission line of interstellar hydrogen atoms proposed for SETI by [Giuseppe Cocconi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%5FCocconi) and [Philip Morrison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FMorrison), and still favored as a promising hailing frequency for interstellar communications. Drake is ready with a second, low-gain antenna. The pulses are there as well, sadly disproving their extraterrestrial origin. But they are not exactly terrestrial interference, either. The rate at which the phantom signal traverses the sky suggests that it is emanating from an aircraft cruising at unprecedented altitude—perhaps 80,000 feet. At the time, no known aircraft can reach the stratosphere. Such an aircraft, as it happens, doesn’t “come into existence” until the following month, when [Francis Gary Powers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%5FGary%5FPowers) is shot down over the Soviet Union. \(Drake wisely decides to withhold publication of this positive result, so he never does receive proper credit for “discovering” the U-2.\) The project only lasts through July. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project Ozma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FOzma)”; H. Paul Shuch, “[Project Ozma: The Birth of Observational SETI,](https://archive.org/details/h.-paul-shuch-searching-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence-seti-past-present-and-future/page/13/mode/2up)” in Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Springer, 2011, pp. 13–18; Seth Shostak, “[Project Ozma,](https://www.seti.org/project-ozma)” SETI Institute, July 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_3409 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9463 (B40DD158) Date: 4/9/1960 Description: The U-2 spy plane piloted by [Francis Gary Powers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%5FGary%5FPowers) crosses into the Soviet Union from Pakistan and flies over the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan; the Dolon Air Base in Semey, Kazakhstan; a SAM test site near Saryshagan, Kazakhstan; and the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. The plane is detected by Soviet Air Defense Forces but avoids intercepts by a MiG-19 and a Su-9. Powers lands at an Iranian airstrip at Zahedan. A 1994 CIA monograph by Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” claims that “According to later estimates from CIA officials who worked on the U-2 project and the Oxcart \(SR-71, or Blackbird\) project, over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights \(namely the U-2\) over the United States.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1960 U-2 incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%5FU-2%5Fincident)”; Gerald K. Haines, “[CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,](https://www.cia.gov/static/105bd8290b90de13ee136fecc9fe863f/cia-role-study-UFOs.pdf)” Studies in Intelligence 40, no. 5 \(1997\): 67–84 Source ID: Eberhart_3410 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9464 (7730C771) Date: 4/12/1960 Time: 9 PM Description: Witness: Monroe Arnold. One fiery-red disc exploded four or five times. Analysis of paint samples from explosion proved inconclusive. Sighting lasted 2-3 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: LaCamp, Louisiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_448 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9465 (EF1E00C9) Date: 4/12/1960 Description: LaCamp, Louisiana. At 9:00 p.m. Monroe Arnold, a physical scientist, saw a fiery-red disc that made a rumbling sound and exploded four or five times while flying through the sky for two to three seconds. It plowed through trees, struck the ground, bounced nine times, and resulted in explosions and flames. It left behind nine ground scars. An analysis of paint samples from the explosion proved inconclusive. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6711; NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1960, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_1969 Source: Johnson ### Event 9466 (7927FA53) Date: 4/12/1960 Description: A fiery-red disc from the S touch the ground about 1,000 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6711) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Camp, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2435 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9467 (05C44FDA) Date: 4/13/1960 Description: State Police encounter with highly maneuverable elliptical object, red light beams swept ground Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Red Bluff, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_7 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 9468 (DF60C519) Date: 4/13/1960 Description: State Police encounter with highly ma-neuverable elliptical object, red light beams swept ground (NICAP UFOE, V). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Red Bluff, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2436 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9469 (7970C7CF) Date: 4/16/1960 Description: A brilliant vertical cylinder or pole-shaped object rose slowly over the shore of Napier, New Zealand at 5:50 p.m. It turned horizontal and then darkened. It finally flew to the northeast and out to sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July 1960 Source ID: Johnson_2052 Source: Johnson ### Event 9470 (54E75750) Date: 4/17/1960 Time: 8:29 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF Maj. J.G. Ford and Link representative A. Chapdelaine, using a 48x telescope. One reddish glow made an odd orbit for 2.5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Richards-Gebauer AFB, Missouri Source ID: BerlinerBBU_449 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9471 (494E2490) Date: 4/17/1960 Description: (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6721) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richards-Gebaur AFB, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2437 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9472 (E37D98BE) Date: 4/18/1960 Description: At 9:00 p.m. Mr. Arnold saw a round, fiery red flying object approach at high speed from the south in Lacamp, Louisiana. It touched the ground about 300 meters away with a loud explosion heard by many people, and a flame. It bounced in an easterly direction for about 300 meters, then rose again, turned west and disappeared. The ground was scarred in nine places, and a substance resembling metallic paint was found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 503 Source ID: Johnson_2111 Source: Johnson ### Event 9473 (A89E1F5F) Date: 4/18/1960 Time: 2100 Description: Mr. Arnold saw a round object, fiery red in color, arriving at high speed from the south. It touched the ground about 300 m away with a loud explosion heard by many people, and a flame. It bounced in an easterly direction for about 300 m, then rose again, turned west and disappeared. The ground was scarred in nine places, and a substance resembling metallic paint was found. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Science & Mechanics Dec., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lacamp, Louisiana Source ID: Magnonia_503 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9474 (0FE60A2C) Date: 4/22/1960 Description: A cigar-shaped UFO flew by a train station at 9:00 p.m. in Estremoz, Portugal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos case investigation files Source ID: Johnson_2213 Source: Johnson ### Event 9475 (CF2A6D2F) Date: 4/25/1960 Description: Saw 5 circular objects fly in trail formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6727) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shelby, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2439 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9476 (B73599EE) Date: 4/25/1960 Description: Mrs. M. Clark of Shelby, Montana saw five circular or round objects fly in a trail formation, hover, accelerate, and make sharp turns. A strong white light beam shone down from the balls of light (BOL), which had a red glow. They flew at a low altitude, and made sharp turns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6727; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_2294 Source: Johnson ### Event 9477 (E4D90D2A) Date: 4/25/1960 Description: Former Town Selectman saw bright red cigar-shaped UFO hover, speed away. \[NICAP UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Plymouth, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2438 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9478 (6C1CDDC0) Date: 4/25/1960 Time: 7-10 PM Description: Witness: Mrs. M. Clark. Five circular objects flew in trail formation, hovered and accelerated and made sharp turns. Case file includes other reports from Mrs. Clark for previous 3 years. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Shelby, Montana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_450 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9479 (B321F5A4) Date: 4/27/1960 Description: Mr. N. N., a painter, was driving from Slagelse to Naestved, Denmark at around 3:00 a.m. when his car engine and lights died. His car stopped twenty feet from a green glowing thirty-foot wide domed disc. The object was shaped like two bowls edge-to-edge, had a shining stripe of light around its center, three portholes, three legs for landing gear, and a central column. It also made a humming sound. Four three-foot tall entities in luminous green costumes emerged. Their uniforms had three dark vertical marks on the chest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Willy Wegner, UFO-Landinger I Danmark, p. 36; Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0492 Source ID: Johnson_2366 Source: Johnson ### Event 9480 (B078891C) Date: 4/30/1960 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) appears on [Long John Nebel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%5FJohn%5FNebel)’s late-night TV show on WOR. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Long John Nebel, The Flying](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FjclUlNXAhA) [Saucer Story \(George Adamski interview\),](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FjclUlNXAhA)” ThriftStoreVinyl YouTube channel, September 4, 2018; “[Final](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/final-years/) [Years,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/final-years/)” The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_3411 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9481 (32E9836A) Date: 5/1960 Description: The CIA begins to recruit anti-Castro Cuban exiles in the Miami, Florida, area. Infantry training is carried out at a CIA-run base that is code-named JM Trax near Retalhuleu in the Sierra Madre mountains of Guatemala. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Brigade 2506](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade%5F2506)” Source ID: Eberhart_3412 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9482 (2C92820B) Date: 5/1/1960 Description: 6:26 a.m. A US U-2 spy plane, flown by CIA pilot [Francis Gary Powers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%5FGary%5FPowers)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%5FGary%5FPowers) takes off from Peshawar, Pakistan, and performs photographic aerial reconnaissance over Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and Chelyabinsk, Russia. Powers has orders to continue across Siberia to get a look at the new Plesetsk Cosmodrome, but at 8:53 a.m. local time he is hit by an S-75 Dvina \(SA-2 Guideline\) surface-to-air missile fired by a defense battalion near Kyshtym, Russia. The U-2 crashes near Sverdlovsk \[now Yekaterinburg\]. The Soviet Air Defense Forces have anticipated the flight and give orders to “attack the violator.” Powers parachutes safely and is captured. This is the first time in five years of overflights that the US is caught. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1960 U-2 incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%5FU-2%5Fincident)” Source ID: Eberhart_3413 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9483 (DC1B1A32) Date: 5/4/1960 Description: Cigar-shaped UFO with four window-like markings sighted by architect. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sarasota, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2440 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9484 (D7D030BF) Date: 5/4/1960 Description: In 1960 a giant cigar-shaped object crossed the skies over the town of Botocatu, Brazil during the daytime. It moved at a tremendous speed and was gone from sight in 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs:The Whole Story, p. 221 Source ID: Johnson_2505 Source: Johnson ### Event 9485 (BCDFCA0C) Date: 5/4/1960 Time: 0915 Description: A yellow, elliptical object with four evenly spaced windowlike openings was observed at ground level by an architect. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP May., 60 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sarasota, Florida Source ID: Magnonia_504 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9486 (74A354DC) Date: 5/4/1960 Description: A yellow, cigar-shaped or elliptical object with four evenly spaced windows was observed at ground level by an architect in Sarasota, Florida at 9:15 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 504; NICAP Special Bulletin, May 1960, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 138; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1967, p. 24 & September 1970, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_2504 Source: Johnson ### Event 9487 (91546AC0) Date: 5/5/1960 Description: NASA issues a press release saying a weather research aircraft has “gone missing” north of Turkey and speculates that the pilot has fallen unconscious and the plane has crashed. Under the impression that the pilot has died and that the plane has been destroyed, a U-2 plane is quickly painted in NASA colors and a photo is shown to the media at NASA Flight Research Center \[now the Armstrong Flight Research Center\] at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Premier [Nikita Khrushchev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita%5FKhrushchev) announces the shoot-down to the Soviet parliament but does not reveal yet that the pilot has survived. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NASA, “[U-2,](https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/U-2/U-2%5Fproj%5Fdesc.html)” September 4, 1997 Source ID: Eberhart_3414 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9488 (F880BF08) Date: 5/6/1960 Description: Shortly before 9:00 p.m. a rocket-shaped UFO crossed over the town of Vila Ezio, Sao Paulo State, Brazil moving at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Nachtrichten, August 1961, citing Olavo T. Fontes: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 221 Source ID: Johnson_2581 Source: Johnson ### Event 9489 (35C8812F) Date: 5/7/1960 Description: (McDonald list) Sightings Backed By FPS-20 & FPS-6A (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [600507](http://www.nicap.org/600507canada%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Regina, Saskatchewan, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2441 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9490 (624A8C66) Date: 5/7/1960 Description: [Khrushchev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita%5FKhrushchev) now reveals to the Soviet parliament that [Powers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%5FGary%5FPowers) is alive and much of the U-2 technologies have survived the crash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3415 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9491 (AFF10D36) Date: 5/9/1960 Description: Director of Central Intelligence [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) tells Congress that all U-2 flights are used for aerial espionage and are flown pursuant to “presidential directives.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3416 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9492 (2B62BB82) Date: 5/10/1960 Description: House Appropriations Chair [Clarence Cannon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%5FCannon) \(D-Mo.\) reveals to the press that the U-2 is a CIA plane engaged in aerial espionage over the Soviet Union “under the aegis” of the president. The press begins to suggest that [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) has lost control of the intelligence agencies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1960 U-2 incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%5FU-2%5Fincident)” Source ID: Eberhart_3417 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9493 (E9A53E16) Date: 5/13/1960 Description: At the same time a huge round gray object followed a donkey herd between the towns of Taboleiro and Nazare, Brazil at the location marked as (3). The UFO had a light on its top, and flew low and silently. It rose vertically as it flew off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, between 6-8pm Source ID: Johnson_2799 Source: Johnson ### Event 9494 (13EE3878) Date: 5/13/1960 Description: 7:00 p.m. More than 100 people at Paracuru, Ceará, Brazil, watch a disc-shaped UFO. Flying about 600 feet in the air at low speed, the silent object maneuvers over the downtown area or a long time. About 60 feet in diameter, it hovers at an angle by a church. A strong bluish light is on top of it. The same day, 20 cities and towns in Céara state, four in Rio Grande do Norte, three in Pernambuco, two in Paraíba, two in Bahia, and one each in the states of Piauí and Maranhão report UFO sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 220–221; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1960](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-Jan-Jun.pdf), The Author, 2003, pp. 92–93 Source ID: Eberhart_3418 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9495 (56C1F105) Date: 5/13/1960 Description: There were over 20 UFO sightings including two close encounters in Brazil recorded for this evening in 1960 between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. by Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_2796 Source: Johnson ### Event 9496 (EFF33505) Date: 5/13/1960 Description: At 19:45 p.m. a military jet tried to intercept at the location marked as (5) over Fortaleza, Brazil. The UFO made an evasive maneuver, and was gone in a few seconds at supersonic speeds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, July 1960, pp. 3-5; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing FSR, May 1961; Correio Ceara, May 16, 1960; O Globo, May 25, 1960 Source ID: Johnson_2801 Source: Johnson ### Event 9497 (D5B085AF) Date: 5/13/1960 Description: Brazil: At shortly before 18:30 a huge cigar-shaped object came from the west at high speed and passed over Campos Sales, Brazil. It two ends were opaque and smoky, but it had a bright light at the center. It was seen by many residents. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, between 6-8pm Source ID: Johnson_2797 Source: Johnson ### Event 9498 (5EB784BE) Date: 5/13/1960 Description: At 18:30 off the coast at Paracuru, Brazil at the location marked as (2) on the map, three fisherman were frightened when a luminous disc hovered 300 feet over their fishing boat in a clear sky for three minutes. It emitted a strong blue glow but made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, between 6-8pm Source ID: Johnson_2798 Source: Johnson ### Event 9499 (0302B2F2) Date: 5/13/1960 Description: A 60-foot wide oval-shaped disc, almost circular, with a strong bluish light on top, flew noiseless and then hovered in a tilted position over Paracuru, Ceara State, Brazil (4) at 19:00. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, between 6-8pm Source ID: Johnson_2800 Source: Johnson ### Event 9500 (61AC1752) Date: 5/13/1960 Description: At 4:00 a.m. the next day (May 14, 1960) Raimondo dos Santos saw two craft land on a hill near a farm called Capin Acu, near the ocean in Paracuru, Ceara State, Brazil. He went near them and saw several small beings, pale-looking, making friendly gestures. He ran away. The creatures wore blue uniforms and white helmets. The previous day at 7:00 p.m., over 100 witnesses observed a dark-gray, circular craft, 20 meters in diameter with a powerful light, maneuvering and hovering in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 505, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 58 Source ID: Johnson_2802 Source: Johnson ### Event 9501 (DA0EFAAC) Date: 5/14/1960 Description: 4:00 a.m. Fisherman Raimundo Ursulino dos Santos sees two metallic discs landed on a sandy hill by the beach at Paracuru, Ceará, Brazil. As he approaches, he sees two humanlike beings outside, talking to each other. They are small and pallid. One is dressed in a blue suit with a helmet. Dos Santos turns and runs away. Marks in the sand are found later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-Jan-Jun.pdf) [1960](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 2003, p. 93; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1960-05-14-brazil-paracuru.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1960-05-14-brazil-paracuru.htm) September 29, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_3419 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9502 (F38A38C9) Date: 5/14/1960 Description: A red light 10 feet in diameter paced the Lewis family in their car in Casterton near Mount Gambier, South Australia at 6:50 p.m. It stayed in front of their car for 15 miles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 170 Source ID: Johnson_2826 Source: Johnson ### Event 9503 (1B675524) Date: 5/14/1960 Description: At around four a.m. Raimondo dos Santos saw two craft land on hill near a farm called Capin Acu in Paracuru, Brazil. He went near them and saw several small pallid beings, who were making friendly gestures at him. He ran away. The creatures wore blue uniforms with white helmets. The previous day at 7 p.m., over a hundred witnesses had observed a dark-gray, circular craft, 20 meters in diameter with a powerful light, maneuvering and hovering in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 505; Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, September 1960, p. 5; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 200 Source ID: Johnson_2825 Source: Johnson ### Event 9504 (C0CE99E7) Date: 5/14/1960 Time: 0400 Description: Raimondo dos Santos saw two craft land on hill near a farm called Capin Acu. He went near them and saw several small beings, palelooking, making friendly gestures. He ran away. The creatures wore blue uniforms and white helmets. The previous day at 1900, over 100 witnesses had observed a dark-gray, circular craft, 20 m in diameter with a powerful light, maneuvering and hovering. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 37; LDLN 58 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Paracuru, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_505 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9505 (01C4DAEB) Date: 5/17/1960 Description: At 6:30 p.m. two men herding donkeys in Taboleiro de Nazare, Ceara State, Brazil were chased by a huge round object at low altitude for about 20 minutes. It pursued them for 18 kilometers, keeping same distance. Finally, after it flew away by climbing very quickly out of sight. Ten minutes later a luminous green ball of light was spotted along the coastline in Acarau, Ceara State, Brazil. It stopped offshore, then followed the coastline to the southeast. Another light followed along after it a short time later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, case 939, citing APRO Bulletin, September 1960; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5923, citing Flying Saucer Review Source ID: Johnson_2924 Source: Johnson ### Event 9506 (8BEEEFC3) Date: 5/18/1960 Description: One year later a cigar-shaped object w portholes was seen over Wellington, New Zealand. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1959; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 138 Source ID: Johnson_2952 Source: Johnson ### Event 9507 (A3A23017) Date: 5/18/1960 Description: Cigar-shaped UFO with "portholes." \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wellington, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2442 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9508 (0713B812) Date: 5/19/1960 Description: A silver-colored round object, 20–25 feet wide with hanging appendages, hovers 50–100 feet away from Indigenous observers in the village of Ekuk, Alaska, south of Dillingham. It barely clears electric wires 12 feet above the ground. It sucks up two empty five-gallon trashcans and drags them swirling along the ground. It flies between two houses and crosses to the other side of a ridge for 100 yards, drops the trashcans and sucks up some swirling grass, makes a loud sucking sound, then ascends rapidly. [Thomas M. Conrow](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104848925/thomas-m%5F-conrow)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104848925/thomas-m%5F-conrow) chief of intelligence at a nearby Air Force Base, interviews the witnesses and concludes that “there still appears to be no logical explanation of the sighting.” At Wright Patterson AFB, Blue Book analysts classify it as a “weather balloon with a radar reflector,” even though it is traveling against the wind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 146–149](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/146/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 284; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1960](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-Jan-Jun.pdf), The Author, 2003, pp. 99–101 Source ID: Eberhart_3420 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9509 (651CE660) Date: 5/19/1960 Time: night Description: Salvatore Cianci, jeweler, and his wife, were driving near this Sicilian town when a creature about 1 m tall appeared in the headlights. It wore a shining coverall and a diving helmet and had two short wings. Mrs. Cianci suffered from shock. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 64, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Siracusa, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_506 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9510 (96AB53DB) Date: 5/19/1960 Description: At 3:50 p.m. twelve UFOs were seen over Long Beach, California swinging in the sky in a pendulum motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1961, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_2975 Source: Johnson ### Event 9511 (2FFC4661) Date: 5/19/1960 Description: On this night Salvatore Cianci, a jeweler, and his wife, were driving near the Sicilian town of Siracusa, Italy when a creature about one meter tall suddenly appeared in the headlights. It wore a shiny coverall uniform and a diving helmet, and had two short wings. Mrs. Cianci suffered from shock. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, April 1964; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 506; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0498 Source ID: Johnson_2974 Source: Johnson ### Event 9512 (4025CCD6) Date: 5/19/1960 Description: Silver-colored round object 20-25 ft wide with hanging appendages (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dillingham, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2443 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9513 (421CF66E) Date: 5/22/1960 Description: 9:33 a.m. An observatory on Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, sees a white, triangular object one-quarter the size of the moon spinning on its own axis and maintaining a steady course. It cables a report to NASA in Washington, D.C. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 123](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=135&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3421 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9514 (01AF9EFB) Date: 5/22/1960 Description: Palma Observatory reported morning observation of a white triangular UFO, about one-fourth the size of the moon, spinning on its axis. \[NICAP UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Majorca Isle, Mediterranean Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2444 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9515 (FF983C20) Date: 5/24/1960 Description: Several doctors, a topographer and policemen saw three UFOs, in-line formation, which landed in a heavily wooded area on a hilltop; diamond-shaped scorched marking found at landing site. \[NICAP UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ocumare del Tuy, Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_2445 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9516 (2CCD66D0) Date: 5/25/1960 Description: Vera Bowden, age 35, and a man named Foster saw a gray, elliptical object hovering at tree height over Broadwater Lake in Chinthurst Hill, England for 18 minutes. It then flew off towards the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 507 Source ID: Johnson_3084 Source: Johnson ### Event 9517 (807996FE) Date: 5/25/1960 Description: Vera Bowden, 35, saw a gray, elliptical object hovering at tree height over Broadwater Lake for 18 min. Then it left toward the west. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 60, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chinthurst Hill, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_507 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9518 (24D5405E) Date: 5/28/1960 Description: Engineer [Ronald N. Bracewell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FN.%5FBracewell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FN.%5FBracewell) suggests that extraterrestrials may already be in our neighborhood through an autonomous interstellar space probe \(now called a “Bracewell probe”\) sent for the express purpose of communicating with alien civilizations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ronald N. Bracewell, “[Communications from Superior Galactic](https://www.nature.com/articles/186670a0) [Communities,](https://www.nature.com/articles/186670a0)” Nature 186 \(1960\): 670–671 Source ID: Eberhart_3422 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9519 (F8AAF879) Date: 6/1/1960 Description: [Bulkley Griffin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62471784/bulkley-southworth-griffin)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62471784/bulkley-southworth-griffin) chief of the Worcester \(Mass.\) Evening Gazette’s Washington, D.C., Bureau, writes a well- reasoned story about the Air Force’s unilateral control of UFO information and its national security implications. He quotes Adm. [Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter)’s opinion that UFOs are intelligently controlled and are neither US nor USSR devices, which is why he is pushing for a Congressional investigation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-Jan-Jun.pdf) [the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1960](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-Jan-Jun.pdf), The Author, 2003, pp. 111–112 Source ID: Eberhart_3424 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9520 (715E8224) Date: 6/4/1960 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Ocean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2446 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9521 (F5FD44C4) Date: 6/8/1960 Description: Elliptical UFO sighted by biochemist. \[NICAP UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New York City, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2447 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9522 (F8ADC071) Date: 6/10/1960 Description: Half a dozen "men" could be seen standing around a landed disc-shaped UFO in Algoz, Portugal at 3:30 a.m. The boarded the craft and the UFO took off vertically. When the witness started to run the object lit up the ground with an intense beam of light. His dog ran away in fear. Later that same night the headlights of a car driving fifteen miles east of Globe, Arizona illuminated a small figure standing 300 feet away. The being turned and ran. It was described as having broad shoulders, long arms, a dark body, no ears or nose, and a large pumpkin-shaped head with two orange glowing eyes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 7 (case 30); Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, pp. 128-129 Source ID: Johnson_3407 Source: Johnson ### Event 9523 (B22747C0) Date: 6/12/1960 Description: 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. Following a sonic boom above Quebec, a fiery object falls from the sky from an altitude of 1,000–2,000 feet and splits into two pieces that fall into the St. Lawrence River near Les Écureuils, about 20 miles upriver from Quebec City, Quebec. A beachcomber runs across the pieces, one closer to the shore and visible at low tide, the other one further out and mostly submerged. He retrieves a smaller piece \(800 pounds\) and sells it to a scrap-metal dealer, who fails to recognize it as ferrous and possibly ships it to Japan. The other piece is picked up by the Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment \[now DRDC Valcartier\] near Quebec City. [Wilbert Smith](http://www.noufors.com/Wilbert%5FB%5FSmith.htm)’s Ottawa Flying Saucer Club \[later the Ottawa New Sciences Club\] tells its members that the material is high-strength metal that is 6 feet in diameter and 2 feet thick at the center with an embedded tube, an “electronic potting can,” and a transistor. CARDE’s analysis is said to have revealed an alloy with a high manganese content, although it was identified as the “normal product of a foundry, consisting of slag with semi- molten scrap embedded in it,” likely coming from Sorel Iron Foundries in Sorel, Quebec. Smith rejects those findings and and conducts his own tests \(although he is an electrical engineer and not a metallurgist\) on a chunk the club retrieves from the river around July 1, supposedly engaging in a “tremendous amount of detective work on this metal.” In November 1961, Smith tells Ohio UFO researchers C. W. Fitch and George Popovitch: “We are speculating that what we have is a portion of a very large device which came into this solar system…we don’t know when…but it had been in space a long time before it came to Earth; we can tell by the micrometeorites embedded in the surface. But we don’t know whether it was a few years ago—or a few hundred years ago.” In June 1968, the Colorado project’s [Roy Craig](https://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/ufo-investigator-isu-alumnus-dead/article%5Fd3e1f4e4-28e6-5600-bff7-846c287c3b6b.html) is in Ottawa and offers to examine the club’s chunk of metal because they had offered it to Condon a year earlier. Craig obligingly takes a piece with him but does not analyze it since there is no connection to a UFO and it looks like foundry slag anyway. Later, the Montreal UFO Society’s Ronald Anstee has a piece of it analyzed by an independent metallurgist, who finds that the composition “does not correspond to any known commercial manganese steel.” In September 1967, Eric Smith of the Canada Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources visits the Ottawa club and examines their large artifact, but fails to report back. In 1969, the National Research Council’s [Peter Millman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FMillman) takes a look and is convinced that it is ordinary manganese steel from the Sorel plant. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Mysterious Chunk of Hardware at Ottawa,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Topside%20%28Wilbert%20B%20Smith%29/Topside%20-%20Issue%2020%20-%201966%20Spring.pdf)” Topside, no. 20 \(Spring 1966\): 4–6; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 48–49](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/48/mode/2up); “[The Mystery of UFO](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Topside%20%28Wilbert%20B%20Smith%29/Topside%20-%20Issue%2024-25%20-%201967%20Spring%20and%20Summer.pdf) [Hardware,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Topside%20%28Wilbert%20B%20Smith%29/Topside%20-%20Issue%2024-25%20-%201967%20Spring%20and%20Summer.pdf)” Topside, no. 24/25 \(Spring/Summer 1967\): 10–11; “[Unidentified Hardware Mystery Deepens,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Topside%20%28Wilbert%20B%20Smith%29/Topside%20-%20Issue%2027.pdf)” Topside, no. 27 \(Winter 1968\): 4–9; “[Latest Report on the Mystery Metal,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Topside%20%28Wilbert%20B%20Smith%29/Topside%20-%20Issue%2029.pdf)” Topside, no. 29 \(Summer 1968\): 11– 12; Condon, [pp. 133–135](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/132/mode/2up); “[Canada’s Mysterious Chunk of Metal,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Spacelink%20%28Lionel%20Beer%29/Spacelink%201970%20vol%206%20no%202.pdf)” Spacelink 6, no. 2 \(January 1970\): 6–9; “[More](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Topside%20%28Wilbert%20B%20Smith%29/Topside%20-%20Issue%2033.pdf) [Mystery Added to Ottawa’s Mysterious Chunk of Hardware,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Topside%20%28Wilbert%20B%20Smith%29/Topside%20-%20Issue%2033.pdf)” Topside, no. 33 \(Winter/Spring 1970\): 13–17; “[Latest Report on Ottawa’s Mystery Metal,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Topside%20%28Wilbert%20B%20Smith%29/Topside%20-%20Issue%2034.pdf)” Topside, no. 34 \(Summer/Fall 1970\): 22–23; “[New Deveopments on](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Topside%20%28Wilbert%20B%20Smith%29/Topside%20-%20Issue%2035.pdf) [Ottawa’s Mystery Metal,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Topside%20%28Wilbert%20B%20Smith%29/Topside%20-%20Issue%2035.pdf)” Topside, no. 35 \(Winter 1971\): 29–33; Story, [pp. 208–209](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/208/mode/2up); John Robert Colombo, UFOs over Canada, Hounslow, 1991, pp. 53–56; Roy Craig, UFOs: An Insiders’ View of the Official Quest for Evidence, University of North Texas, 1995, pp. 121–132; Good Above, [pp. 188–189](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/188/mode/2up); Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 166, 229–249 Source ID: Eberhart_3425 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9524 (FAEF8905) Date: 6/21/1960 Description: NICAP sends a confidential report to the US Congress on “Dangers of Secrecy on UFOs \(Unidentified Flying Objects\) and Digest of Documented Evidence” urging legislators to go on the record about the reality of UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, “[Confidential NICAP Report to Congress: Dangers of Secrecy on UFOs \(Unidentified Flying](http://www.nicap.org/reports/report%5Fto%5Fcongress.pdf) [Objects\) and Digest of Documented Evidence,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/report%5Fto%5Fcongress.pdf)” June 21, 1960 Source ID: Eberhart_3426 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9525 (309D4559) Date: Summer 1960 Description: 2:00 a.m. Two brothers are alerted by their journalist brother about an elusive UFO that local police in Walkerton, Ontario, have been pursuing for about an hour. They drive out along country roads until they get within 300 feet of the object, which is hovering around a large tree. The object is circular and apparently about 3 feet in diameter. It is very bright and changes color repeated. It then circles the tree purposefully for several minutes. The brothers climb a fence and approach it, but the UFO suddenly accelerates and disappears to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 54–56](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/54/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3423 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9526 (D94A7D79) Date: 6/22/1960 Description: 6:20 p.m. John Person is setting up camp at Clan Lake, Northwest Territories, on a prospecting expedition and is waiting for his partner. He hears a noise like an aircraft approaching and something bounces and hits the surface of the lake about 1,700 feet behind him. Person sees an object 4–6 feet wide with arms or spokes is rotating rapidly in the water, but gradually slows down and stops spinning. When his partner arrives, they get into a canoe and travel to the impact area. They find an area of burned grass and another area where grass it cut up in small pieces. They use a pole to probe the lake bottom and find a channel that is one foot deeper at one end and three feet deeper at the other, RCMP Cpl. Matheson flies to the lake in a seaplane on July 19 and August 15 and finds the impact area as Person has described but no submerged object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, “[Report of](https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/unusual/ufo/Pages/GeoMaps.aspx\#nwt) [Strange Object Striking Clan Lake, Clan Lake Dist., N.W.T.,](https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/unusual/ufo/Pages/GeoMaps.aspx\#nwt)” July 19, July 25, and August 25, 1960; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 98–102 Source ID: Eberhart_3427 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9527 (820A8366) Date: 6/22/1960 Description: A strange flying object struck Clan Lake, which is located some 30 miles north of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada at around 6 p.m. About 20-25 minutes after a airplane had dropped off witness C. T. Wright, he heard a noise that sounded like a large plane in the distance. The noise got louder but he could not see anything in the sky. He then heard something strike the water behind him and saw an object with arms or spokes rotating in the water. It was rotating very rapidly and throwing water, but gradually it began to spin less and finally stopped. It was about 1700 feet away from him. When his partner arrived they took a canoe and went over to the shallow spot in the lake where the object hit the water. There was grass about 18 inches high were the object hit and it appeared to be burnt and cut up over an area of 20 feet by 60 feet. They felt around in the water with their paddles where the floor of the lake was very much disturbed and muddy, and one to three feet deeper than the surrounding lake proper. The object looked to be about 4-6 feet wide. Mr. Wright did not see any steam when the object hit the water. He and his partner went back to the location on two more occasions but could find nothing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carl Feindt, www.waterufo.net, citing RCMP report courtesy of Chris Styles Source ID: Johnson_3603 Source: Johnson ### Event 9528 (B9308063) Date: 7/1960 Description: Members of the US Senate Preparedness Committee and the House Science and Astronautics Committee, as well as the CIA, ask for hearings on USAF’s handling of UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 922 Source ID: Eberhart_3428 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9529 (61B36B3A) Date: 7/1/1960 Description: 10:30 a.m. Four witnesses at the Leefe Mine in Lincoln County, Wyoming, see a shiny disc move in from the south and hover above a slag heap. It has a diameter of at least 185 feet and is 14 feet thick. Five transparent bubbles are visible on the bottom as it rocks gently before moving off to the south at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 221 Source ID: Eberhart_3429 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9530 (C218369A) Date: 7/1/1960 Description: Hovering disc like "two dinner plates face to face," ascended and sped away. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leefe (near), WY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2448 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9531 (700F919A) Date: 7/2/1960 Description: Early morning. A couple driving in the vicinity of Kankakee, Illinois, see the landscape light up with a bright blue light as a ball of fire approaches out of the south. It passes above their car dragging a trail of bluish light behind it. The inside of the car heats up uncomfortably, waking up their daughter and her husband who are asleep in the back. The light gradually fades and disappears in the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 221–223 Source ID: Eberhart_3430 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9532 (9827A435) Date: 7/2/1960 Description: Pilot and crew of Venezuelan Airlines Super-Constellation arriving from Spain, reported plane was followed by a luminous UFO. \[NICAP UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maiquetia (near), Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_2449 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9533 (B82E28DE) Date: 7/3/1960 Description: An Argentinean Air Force Captain photographed a cone-shaped UFO between Yacanto and Cordoba, Argentina at 4:30 p.m. There was a mystery fall of ice from the sky in Portage, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 17; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 788 Source ID: Johnson_3801 Source: Johnson ### Event 9534 (98DF1938) Date: 7/3/1960 Description: 4:30 p.m. Argentine Air Force Capt. Hugo F. Niotti is driving north near Villa General Belgrano, Córdoba, Argentina, when he notices a dark object hovering to the right of the road. He stops his car, grabs his camera, and takes a photo of the object, which is moving slowly over a field. As he is winding the film to take another shot, the object accelerates and disappears into the clouds. The photo shows a conical object low above the ground, as well as a horse whose attention is attracted to the object. Analysis shows that the object is about 23 feet high, 20 feet in diameter, and 56 feet above the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Guillermo C. Roncoroni and Gustavo J. Alvarez, “[Foto de OVNI](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Argentina/UFO%20PRESS/UFO%20PRESS%20-%20No%2003%20-%20%28Abril%201977%29.pdf) [Avalada por la Fuerza Aerea Argentina,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Argentina/UFO%20PRESS/UFO%20PRESS%20-%20No%2003%20-%20%28Abril%201977%29.pdf)” UFO Press 1, no. 3 \(April 1977\): 32–38; “[Cone-Shaped UFO](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf) [Photographed in Argentina,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 \(December 1980\): 1; Johannes Koch, “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 \(February 1981\): 2; Willy Smith, “[The Yacanto,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/yacantophotograph1960.html) [Cordoba, Argentina, Photograph, 07-03-1960,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/yacantophotograph1960.html)” UFO Casebook; Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 104–106 Source ID: Eberhart_3431 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9535 (450DC1D8) Date: 7/6/1960 Description: Responding to NICAP’s “Dangers of Secrecy on UFOs” report, Sen. [Lyndon B. Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%5FB.%5FJohnson) \(D-Tex.\) states that he has ordered the staff of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee to keep a close watch on UFO developments. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[NICAP UFO Report: Extension of Remarks of Hon. Leonard G. Wolf of Iowa in the House of](https://archive.org/details/sim%5Fcongressional-record-proceedings-and-debates%5Faugust-29-1960-september-1-1960%5F106/page/18954/mode/2up) [Representatives, Wednesday, August 31, 1960,](https://archive.org/details/sim%5Fcongressional-record-proceedings-and-debates%5Faugust-29-1960-september-1-1960%5F106/page/18954/mode/2up)” Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 86th Congress, Second Session, vol. 106, Part 14, pp. 18955–18956 Source ID: Eberhart_3432 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9536 (1E26A8FE) Date: 7/6/1960 Description: A moon-like object was sighted by eight scientists over Teli, Russia at a 45-degree elevation above the horizon. The UFO flew to the north moving at 1.5 degrees of arc per minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, p. 79; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 185 Source ID: Johnson_3875 Source: Johnson ### Event 9537 (B384465A) Date: 7/13/1960 Description: The Air Force gives a preliminary briefing to associate counsel Stuart French, staff member of the Senate Preparedness Committee, who wants to know about USAF explanations for the Washington National Airport and Levelland cases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [p. 156](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/156/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3433 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9538 (63B8B558) Date: 7/14/1960 Description: Pilot Sees Oblong Object At Very High Speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 1, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [600714](http://www.nicap.org/600714miho%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miho AFB (2 miles E of), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2450 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9539 (82154B0D) Date: 7/15/1960 Description: The Air Force gives a major briefing on UFOs for congressional staffers: Chief Counsel Robert Smart \(House Committee on Armed Services\); [Spencer Beresford](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49121050/spencer-moxon-beresford), Richard Hines, and Frank Hammill \(House Science and Astronautics Committee\). [Charles S. Sheldon II](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49313174/charles-stuart-sheldon)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49313174/charles-stuart-sheldon) technical director of the House Science and Astronautics Committee, is also present. The USAF reps are [Robert Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) and Maj. Gen. [Arno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno%5FH.%5FLuehman) [H. Luehman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno%5FH.%5FLuehman)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno%5FH.%5FLuehman) CIA officers Richard Payne and John S. Warner are possibly there as well. The staffers are skeptical; Smart accuses the Air Force of withholding information and wants to be kept informed of sightings and investigations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 156–159](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/156/mode/2up); Marcia S. Smith, [The UFO](https://www.nicap.org/docs/TheUFOEnigma.pdf) [Enigma](https://www.nicap.org/docs/TheUFOEnigma.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/docs/TheUFOEnigma.pdf) Congressional Research Service Report No. 83-205, June 20, 1983, pp. 65–66; Swords 291–292; “[Saucer Reading Fest,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/saucsum13.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3434 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9540 (0DC17966) Date: 7/19/1960 Time: 8:30 PM Description: Witness: T.L. Ochs. One round, bright red light flew overhead, stopped and hovered, and then backed up. Sighting lasted 20 minutes. Note: Ochs reported similar sightings on three following nights. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: St. Louis, Missouri Source ID: BerlinerBBU_451 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9541 (675FA8E3) Date: 7/19/1960 Description: 8:30 p.m. CDT. Witness T. L. Ochs of St. Louis, Missouri reported watching a round, bright red light that flew overhead, stopped and hovered, and then backed up. The sighting lasted 20 minutes. Note: Ochs reported similar sightings on three following nights. An hour later, another witness named Sokol reported seeing a round red ball or wheel-like object with a central nucleus; around it were revolving or orbiting lights or balls. They winked off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6858; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4197 Source: Johnson ### Event 9542 (3CC44083) Date: 7/19/1960 End date: 7/21/1960 Description: Round, bright red light fly overhead, stop, hover, and back up (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6858) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Louis, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2451 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9543 (68DB61C5) Date: 7/21/1960 Description: On this evening a power failure occurred in Miami, Florida after a misty blue cloud with a bright center was seen. A crowd chased a "spaceman" wearing bubble headgear "with gold in it" down Collins Avenue, but lost him. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0501, citing newspaper clipping dated July 22, 1960 Source ID: Johnson_4265 Source: Johnson ### Event 9544 (68B444BD) Date: 7/22/1960 Description: At ten o'clock in the evening a disc-shaped object with a fin or rudder-like proturberance was seen hovering over Martin, Tennessee by a 13-year-old girl. After it left large oily circles were found on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, March 1972, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_4297 Source: Johnson ### Event 9545 (1E969532) Date: 7/24/1960 Description: Frank Porcello and two others saw two UFOs maneuver over Portville, New York at 8:45 p.m. The sighting lasted more than four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 64; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 113 Source ID: Johnson_4351 Source: Johnson ### Event 9546 (4BC1FA3E) Date: 7/24/1960 Description: State policeman reported two dumbbell-like UFOs. \[NICAP UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portville, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2452 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9547 (EA5327F6) Date: 7/26/1960 Description: Lt. Col. [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) writes to [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FStringfield) that “There is absolutely no truth in the charge that the Air Force or any other governmental agency is withholding information on the subject of UFOs from the general public.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 167 Source ID: Eberhart_3435 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9548 (5921838C) Date: 7/31/1960 Description: At 5:00 p.m. in Nashville, Ohio a very bright cigar-shaped object passed by slowly. Its light was so intense it caused eye irritation for the two witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July 1960; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, September 1962, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_4522 Source: Johnson ### Event 9549 (5DF85F86) Date: 8/1960 Time: 0920 Description: Mrs. K. St. Bereits was in her garden when she saw an object coming down at great speed. Arriving at ground level, it came toward her, appearing as a disk standing on edge, 7 m in diameter with a pulsating halo of yellow light. Three beams of light came from a central opening. A sort of haze and "gas stream" was also described. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Nachrichten Jan., 61; FSR 61, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hamburg, Germany Source ID: Magnonia_508 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9550 (18F97285) Date: 8/1960 Description: The US severs diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic. The CIA’s Special Group decides to arm Dominicans in hopes of an assassination of generalissimo [Rafael Trujillo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael%5FTrujillo). The CIA disperses three rifles and three .38 revolvers, but things pause in 1961 as [John F. Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) assumes office. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3436 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9551 (E0DE9057) Date: 8/2/1960 Description: Mr. & Mrs. Hiot and a third witness encountered a purple light while driving between Difques and St. Omer, Pas-de-Calais department, France at 12:05 a.m. As it got closer it revealed itself to be a domed disc-shaped object, four meters wide, with a red luminous bottom that illuminated the road. the UFO paced their car for one kilometer, making no noise and flying just three meters above the ground. Mrs. Hiot saw a human-looking figure inside the saucer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ouest France, August 5, 1960; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1786; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 117 Source ID: Johnson_4593 Source: Johnson ### Event 9552 (8FA0AC06) Date: 8/9/1960 Description: Contactee [Gabriel Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%5FGreen) announces his candidacy for the presidency of the United States at a press conference at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel. He publishes his Space Age Platform at the second meeting of his Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America convention in the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on August 13–14, but soon drops out and lends his support to [John F. Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Gabriel Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%5FGreen)”; “[Space Age Platform of Gabriel Green: Candidate for the Office of President of the United States,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/AFSCA%20World%20Report%20%28Gabriel%20Green%29/AFSCA%20World%20Report%20-%20No%2016.pdf)” AFSCA World Report, no. 16 \(July/Aug. 1960\): 4–7; Clark III 99; S. D. Tucker, False Economies: The Strangest, Least Successful, and Most Audacious Financial Follies, Plans, and Crazes of All Times, Amberly, 2018, chapter 3, excerpted in “Taxing Credulity,” Fortean Times 367 \(June 2018\): 52–55 Source ID: Eberhart_3437 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9553 (A6081C2C) Date: 8/10/1960 Description: The Discoverer 13 Corona KH-1 photoreconnaissance satellite is launched from Vandenberg AFB \[now Vandenberg Space Force Base\], California. The primary goal of this series of satellites is to replace the U-2 spy plane in surveilling the Sino-Soviet Bloc, determining the disposition and speed of production of Soviet missiles and long-range bombers assess. The Corona program is also used to produce maps and charts for the Department of Defense and other US government mapping programs. On August 11, after 17 orbits, the satellite splashes down in the North Pacific and its payload is recovered. It represents the first-ever successful recovery of an object from orbit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Discoverer 13](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoverer%5F13)” Source ID: Eberhart_3438 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9554 (148F3745) Date: 8/11/1960 Description: An important close encounter case involving ignition interference with the engine of a tractor occurred on this day in Left Hand Canyon, Boulder County, Colorado at 3:10 in the afternoon. Mr. Robert Hawks was operating a tractor with a backhoe when his tractor stalled. Looking up he saw a disc-shaped object hovering in the sky above the canyon, making a humming noise, and he watched for the next 15 minutes, unable to re-start his tractor, while some apparent repair activity was performed on the hovering craft. A panel on the craft was rotated inside and replaced. Ater the repair was completed, the craft departed by shooting straight up in the sky. Mr. Hawks could then restart his tractor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: B. V. Wilson, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1960, p. 1; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 182; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 114; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_4866 Source: Johnson ### Event 9555 (5942EC7C) Date: 8/11/1960 Description: 3:10 p.m. Ray Hawks is operating a farm tractor at Left Hand Canyon near Altona, Colorado, when he hears a muffled explosion. Looking up, he watches a disc dropping vertically out of the cloud cover. It stops in midair about 650 feet away from him and 200 feet above the ground, wobbling a bit. When it stabilizes, he sees it looks like two concave discs joined together at the rim and dull aluminum in color. Bluish smoke is issuing from an apparent gap in its surface. An electric hum seems to come from inside the object. The section where the smoke is issuing is withdrawn inside, and a new section appears to replace it, settling in with a click. The hum increases in intensity, and the object appears to be surrounded by a heat haze. It then shoots up into the clouds and vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 223–225 Source ID: Eberhart_3439 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9556 (D654565B) Date: 8/12/1960 Description: NASA’s Echo 1 balloon satellite is launched by a Thor-Delta rocket and becomes the first passive communications satellite. Microwave signals are bounced off the satellite from one point on earth to another. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project Echo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FEcho)” Source ID: Eberhart_3440 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9557 (502931B7) Date: 8/13/1960 Description: At 11:50 p.m. a red colored, cigar-shaped UFO in Tehama county, California twice approached a police car at close range. Police officers Scott and Carson were 18 miles north of Red Bluff and east of Corning, California on Hoag Road when they first encountered the UFO. It had red lights at both ends, and one of the red lights swept the ground like a searchlight. They experienced heavy static on their police radio, and the UFO swerved to avoid their spotlight. There were at least two other independent witnesses to the UFO that night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: San Francisco Chronicle, August 16, 1960; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 162; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 61; APRO Bulletin, September 1960, p. 1; Mark Rodeghier, UFOs Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 18; Hynek J Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 92 Source ID: Johnson_4966 Source: Johnson ### Event 9558 (79DECCE5) Date: 8/13/1960 Description: Red Bluff, California, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [600813](http://www.nicap.org/600813dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Red Bluff, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2455 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9559 (12D75859) Date: 8/13/1960 End date: 8/14/1960 Description: 11:50 p.m.–2:05 a.m. Highway Patrol officers Charles A. Carson and [Stanley E. Scott](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11203984/stanley-edward-scott), plus three others at Red Bluff, California, are on patrol when see what they think at first is an airliner about to crash. It turns out to be a maneuvering, silent red light with five white lights, descending to 100–200 feet altitude. It suddenly reverses course, climbs to 500 feet, hovers, sweeps the ground with a red beam, performs aerial gymnastics, then heads east, chased by the police car. It is joined by a similar object from the south, then it disappears in the east. A local radar operator confirms the UFO at the time but denies it the next day. Tehama County sheriff’s officers also see the UFO and another similar one the same night. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Red Bluff Incident](http://www.nicap.org/600813dir.htm)”; “[False AF Answer in Red Bluff](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/Special%20Bulletins.pdf) [Case,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/Special%20Bulletins.pdf)” NICAP Special Bulletin, October 1960, pp. 1, 4; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 96–100; Lorenzen, FSHoax, [pp. 180–182](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n185/mode/2up); Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 153–156, 225; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 92–94](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/92/mode/2up); Clark III 1002–1006; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 284; UFOEv, [pp. 61–62](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=73&skin=2021), [112](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=124&skin=2021); Swords 295–297; “[Red Bluff: 1960,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/redbluff-1960.html)” Saturday Night Uforia, February 16, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_3441 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9560 (83CC9117) Date: 8/13/1960 Description: Police, vehicle encounter, light beam, E-M, maneuvers, cat-and-mouse pursuit (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [600813](http://www.nicap.org/600813dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Red Bluff, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2454 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9561 (A9F63B11) Date: 8/13/1960 Description: Red Bluff, CA: CHP Officers Charles A. Carson and Stanley Scott were on patrol when they sighted what they thought was an airliner about to crash. When the UFO had descended to about 100 or 200 feet altitude it suddenly reversed direction and climbed to 500 ft. Description: round or oblong surrounded by a glow (color not mentioned) and having definite red lights at each end. They continued to watch the UFO as it performed ”unbelievable” aerial feats. The local RADAR operator confirmed the UFO at this time but denied it the next day. Other Tehema County Sheriffs’ officers also saw this UFO and another similar one that same night. (NICAP, 1964) Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Red Bluff, CA Source ID: Maj2_597 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9562 (53AFC98A) Date: 8/13/1960 End date: 8/18/1960 Description: Concentration of UFO sightings, mostly in north, including -many police witnesses. (NICAP UFOE, XII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Northern Area, US Source ID: NICAP_DB_2453 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9563 (499DE958) Date: 8/15/1960 Description: Air Force Information Policy Letter for Commanders, vol. 14, no. 12, is issued by Office of the Secretary of Air Force. In “AF Keeping Watchful Eye on Aerospace,” it states, “There is a relationship between the Air Force’s interest in space surveillance and its continuous surveillance of the atmosphere near Earth for unidentified flying objects—’UFOs.’” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 108](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=120&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3442 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9564 (18E48856) Date: 8/15/1960 Description: In Lisbon, Portugal at 10:00 p.m. a luminous yellow, cigar-shaped object flew by the city at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT, case # 72, citing the newspaper O Seculo Source ID: Johnson_5032 Source: Johnson ### Event 9565 (31F2AB6E) Date: 8/15/1960 Description: "Air Force Information Policy Letter; For Commanders," Vol. XIV, No. 12, issued by Office of Secretary of Air Force. Under title "AF Keeping Watchful Eye on Aerospace," stated, "There is a relationship between the Air Force's interest in space surveillance and its continuous surveillance of the atmosphere near Earth for unidentified flying objects--'UFOs.'" Type: policy letter Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_887 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9566 (3B0599F9) Date: 8/16/1960 Description: Night. A woman in Charleston, South Carolina, takes a photo of a mystery satellite that is in the same part of the sky as Echo I, which is also in the photo. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_3443 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9567 (6C0354D5) Date: 8/16/1960 Description: Eight geophysicists working in the Kazakstan Mountains near the Barakhudzir River, 18 kilometers north of Koktal, Kazakstan, U.S.S.R. saw a bright orange lens-shaped UFO at 11:00 p.m. The strange luminous body suddenly appeared over the mountainns on the east slope of the valley, moved north to south while keeping a constant speed and altitude. It went behind the mountain top, then re-appeared, flying off to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, p. 61; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 185; Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 284 Source ID: Johnson_5074 Source: Johnson ### Event 9568 (8FE4642A) Date: 8/16/1960 Description: At 10:30 p.m. in Corning, California pilots and many other witnesses observed two long red ovoids, followed by a V-shaped boomerang. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 170; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist!, p. 366 Source ID: Johnson_5075 Source: Johnson ### Event 9569 (B00E365F) Date: 8/16/1960 Description: Former Air Force pilot saw disc-like UFO which hovered, bobbed around. \[NICAP UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Forest, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2456 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9570 (3A798490) Date: 8/17/1960 Description: The trial for downed U-2 pilot [Francis Gary Powers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%5FGary%5FPowers) begins in Moscow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3444 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9571 (5B974527) Date: 8/18/1960 Description: The Discoverer 14 Corona KH-1 spy satellite is launched. It is the first completely successful mission and returns images of the Mys Schmidta airfield in Siberia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Discoverer 14](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoverer%5F14)” Source ID: Eberhart_3445 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9572 (36071F06) Date: 8/23/1960 Time: 3::24 AM Description: Witness: Boeing aeronautical engineer C.A. Komiske. One round object with yellow lights coming from what looked like three triangular windows at bottom. Object was dull orange. Flew in an arc for 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Wichita, Kansas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_452 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9573 (77412040) Date: 8/23/1960 Description: C.A. Komiske, a Boeing aeronautical engineer, sighted a dull orange, round flying object at 3:24 a.m. in Wichita, Kansas. The object had three yellow lights that came from what looked like triangular windows at the bottom. The object flew in an arc for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5253 Source: Johnson ### Event 9574 (122763E2) Date: 8/23/1960 Description: Dull orange round object, with yellow lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6914) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wichita, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2457 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9575 (F304171C) Date: Late 8/1960 Alternate date: Early 9/1960 Description: Evening. [Rhodes McCarroll](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112625739/rhodes-mccarroll) and his grandfather, sitting on the upstairs back porch of their home in Memphis, Tennessee, notice a glowing basketball-sized globe in the soil by the hedge. They watch it for 5 minutes, then see a figure standing behind the ball. It is a glowing nude, generally humanlike figure, about 6 feet tall, holding a light at chest level. The figure is square-shouldered and has disproportionately long legs that are narrow and pointed between the knees and ankles. The witnesses watch another 5 minutes, at which point the globe and the entity begin to fade and are gone from sight in another 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 279–280 Source ID: Eberhart_3451 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9576 (48149EDF) Date: 8/25/1960 Description: The “dark satellite” is seen and photographed five times by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation at Bethpage, Long Island, New York. It is supposed to be three times faster than the Echo 1 satellite and travels east to west in a retrograde orbit, rather than west to east. Its inclination to the equator is about 135°. The color of the object varies from “carrot to straw.” The Grumman observers estimate that the object is in an eccentric orbit with an apogee of as much as 4,200 miles and a perigee of about 300 miles. They immediately produce a proposal to the US Air Force to share data in the hopes of plotting a firm orbit for the mystery satellite. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Grumman](http://nicap.org/600825mystery%5Fsatellite%5Fdir.htm) [Mystery Satellite](http://nicap.org/600825mystery%5Fsatellite%5Fdir.htm)”; Gordon W. Creighton, “[Unidentified Satellites,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1961%2CJan-Feb%2CV%207%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 7, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1961\): 3–6; “[The Unidentified Satellite: Grumman Aircraft Writes to One of Our Readers,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1961%2CMar-Apr%2CV%207%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 7, no. 2 \(March/April 1961\): 29; Blue Book files, “[Grumman Proposal for Optical Surveillance of the Retrograde](http://www.nicap.org/grummanreport.htm) [Satellite,](http://www.nicap.org/grummanreport.htm)” 1961; UFOEv, [p. 138](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=150&skin=2021); Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 13; Center for UFO Studies, “[Moonwatch Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962](http://www.cufos.org/Moonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites/1958-1962%5FMoonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites.pdf)” Source ID: Eberhart_3446 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9577 (23391D29) Date: 8/25/1960 Description: The National Security Council recommends to President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) the establishment of a top secret National Reconnaissance Office to coordinate USAF and CIA reconnaissance satellite activities because of management problems with the USAF satellite program. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[National Reconnaissance Office](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FReconnaissance%5FOffice)” Source ID: Eberhart_3447 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9578 (21C499DB) Date: 8/25/1960 Description: Grumman mystery satellite photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [600825](http://nicap.org/600825mystery%5Fsatellite%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bethpage, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2458 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9579 (E9BFA45D) Date: 8/25/1960 Description: On this afternoon an agriculture student named Nielsen was sucked up into a flying saucer in Halmstad, Sweden. He lost consciousness; when he came to he found himself on a bed in a room with light-emitting walls. A man wearing coveralls apologized to him in Swedish. He was then taken to an underground base. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, April 1963, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0503 Source ID: Johnson_5315 Source: Johnson ### Event 9580 (395D3084) Date: Late 8/1960 Description: Two men in a car near Butte Falls, Oregon, see a pale-white light hovering 300 feet ahead of them. They watch it for 15 minutes, then decide to drive closer. The light then rises to 100 feet and recedes, then changes to orange. No sound is heard. The light performs geometrical maneuvers, creating rectangle paths and other zig- zags. It then accelerates, changes back to white, and zooms off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 294 Source ID: Eberhart_3450 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9581 (080A35E6) Date: 8/26/1960 Description: 9:00 p.m. Director Robert I. Johnson and other staff at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Illinois, observe a faint reddish object in the sky moving from east to west, apparently the same mystery satellite seen and photographed by the Grumman observers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 13; Swords 294; Center for UFO Studies, “[Moonwatch Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962](http://www.cufos.org/Moonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites/1958-1962%5FMoonwatch%5FMystery%5FSatellites.pdf)” Source ID: Eberhart_3448 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9582 (728BBA1A) Date: 8/26/1960 Description: UFO observed by chemistry teacher, pilot. \[NICAP UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mesa, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2459 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9583 (75DB54D6) Date: 8/29/1960 Time: 4:05 PM Description: Witness: farmer Ed Schneeweis. One shiny, round, silver object flew straight up very fast for 18 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Crete, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_453 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9584 (88063404) Date: 8/29/1960 Description: At 4:05 p.m. in Crete, Illinois farmer Ed Schneeweis sighted a shiny, round, silver object that flew straight up very fast. It was in sight for 18 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5460 Source: Johnson ### Event 9585 (3E617276) Date: 8/29/1960 Description: Shiny, round, silver object fly straight up at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6929) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crete, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2460 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9586 (16F05E06) Date: 8/31/1960 Description: Rep. [Leonard G. Wolf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FG.%5FWolf) \(D-Iowa\) makes a statement in the House on NICAP’s “Dangers of Secrecy on UFOs” report, saying that it is “imperative to end the risk of accidental war from defense forces’ confusion over UFOs.” He mentions NICAP board member Adm. [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter)’s request that “Congress inform the public as to the facts.” Based on a there-year NICAP study, Wolf states that all defense personnel “should be told that the UFOs are real and should be trained to distinguish them—by their characteristic speeds and maneuvers— from conventional planes and missiles…. The American people must be convinced, by documented facts, that the UFOs could not be Soviet machines.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[NICAP UFO Report: Extension of Remarks of Hon. Leonard G. Wolf of](https://archive.org/details/sim%5Fcongressional-record-proceedings-and-debates%5Faugust-29-1960-september-1-1960%5F106/page/18954/mode/2up) [Iowa in the House of Representatives, Wednesday, August 31, 1960,](https://archive.org/details/sim%5Fcongressional-record-proceedings-and-debates%5Faugust-29-1960-september-1-1960%5F106/page/18954/mode/2up)” Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 86th Congress, Second Session, vol. 106, Part 14, pp. 18955–18956; Good Need, [p. 261](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/260/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3449 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9587 (5E9ADAF5) Date: 9/1960 Description: The USAF Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence turns down ATIC’s request for one additional staffer for Project Blue Book \(raising it to 3\) and additional funding. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 922 Source ID: Eberhart_3455 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9588 (27B06070) Date: 9/1960 Description: MKUltra chief [Sidney Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) brings a vial of poison concealed in toothpaste to the Democratic Republic of the Congo with plans to place it on Prime Minister [Patrice Lumumba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice%5FLumumba)’s toothbrush. The plot is abandoned, allegedly because CIA station chief [Larry Devlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%5FDevlin) refuses permission. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Patrice Lumumba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice%5FLumumba\#United%5FStates%5Finvolvement)” Source ID: Eberhart_3454 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9589 (643794E4) Date: 9/1960 Description: Groom Lake in Nevada receives the name “Area 51” when A-12 test facility construction begins, including a new 8,500-foot runway \(Runway 14/32\) to replace the existing one built for the U-2. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Area 51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%5F51)” Source ID: Eberhart_3452 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9590 (4B2C9FAB) Date: 9/1960 Description: CIA officer [Richard M. Bissell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) and DCI [Allen W. Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) initiate talks with two leading figures of the Mafia, [Johnny Roselli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FRoselli) and [Sam Giancana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%5FGiancana)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%5FGiancana) Later, other crime bosses such as [Carlos Marcello](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%5FMarcello)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%5FMarcello) [Santo Trafficante](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo%5FTrafficante%5FJr) [Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo%5FTrafficante%5FJr)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo%5FTrafficante%5FJr) and Meyer Lansky become involved in the first plot against [Fidel Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro) The strategy is managed by [Sheffield Edwards](https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKedwardsS.htm). [Robert Maheu](https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmaheu.htm)[,](https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmaheu.htm) a veteran of CIA counterespionage activities, is instructed to hire the Mafia to kill Castro. The advantage of employing the Mafia for this work is that it provides the CIA with a credible cover story. The Mafia are known to be angry with Castro for closing their profitable brothels and casinos in Cuba. On September 14, Maheu meets with Roselli in a New York City hotel and offers him $150,000 for the “removal” of Castro. [James O’Connell](http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=james%5Fo%5F%5Fconnell)[,](http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=james%5Fo%5F%5Fconnell) who identifies himself as Maheu’s associate but is really the chief of the CIA’s operational support division, is present during the meeting. Declassified documents do not reveal if Roselli, Giancana, or Trafficante accept a down payment for the job. According to CIA files, it is Giancana who suggests poison pills to add to Castro’s food or drinks. Such pills, manufactured by the CIA’s Technical Services Division, are given to Giancana’s nominee named [Juan Orta](http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/havana/Orta.htm). Giancana recommends him as being an official in the Cuban government with access to Castro. Allegedly, after several unsuccessful attempts to introduce the poison into Castro’s food, Orta abruptly demands to be let out of the mission, handing over the job to another unnamed participant. Later, a second attempt is mounted through Giancana and Trafficante using [Tony Varona](https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKvarona.htm), the leader of the Cuban Exile Junta, who has, according to Trafficante, become “disaffected with the apparent ineffectual progress of the Junta.” Varona requests $10,000 in expenses and $1,000 worth of communications equipment. However, it is unknown how far the second attempt goes, as it is canceled due to the launching of the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Sam Giancana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%5FGiancana\#CIA%5Fconnections)”; Wikipedia, “[Assassination attempts on Fidel Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination%5Fattempts%5Fon%5FFidel%5FCastro\#Mafia%5Fengagement)” Source ID: Eberhart_3453 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9591 (5ECC5760) Date: 9/2/1960 Description: 11:30 p.m. Richard Ireton and his wife are driving on US Highway 1 in Westbrook, Connecticut, when they notice what seems to be an aircraft about to crash. It veers close to the shore and the Iretons drive to the beach to look for it. They see a triangular-shaped object flying silently at the speed of a Piper Cub airplane, alternately hovering and moving horizontally and vertically. When it reaches the public beach, it takes off at great speed toward Long Island, New York. They see a similar object the next evening around 9:30 p.m. at Chalker Beach in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Flying Triangle’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82980313/hartford-courant/) [Seen in State,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98867328/)” Hartford \(Conn.\) Courant, September 17, 1960, pp. 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_3456 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9592 (B15921E2) Date: 9/2/1960 Description: In the middle of the night Mr. & Mrs. Palmes noticed a large dark gray object, covered with tiles and as large as a three-storey building, in a nearby field while driving down a highway north of Bunnell, Florida. The UFO then came and hovered over road, only 30-50 feet away. The car's lights and engine died. The wife recalls seeing short people in tight-fitting uniforms, and her husband being in a trance. There was an undisclosed period of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0504, citing Norman Bean, Skylook, August 1975, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_5568 Source: Johnson ### Event 9593 (3C5FFD86) Date: 9/4/1960 Description: Former Strategic Air Command radar technician saw a glowing sphere traveling from horizon to horizon. \[NICAP UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lexington, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2461 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9594 (4ABD7337) Date: 9/5/1960 Description: Sheriffs observed six vari-colored UFOs flying in V-formation. \[NICAP UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sonoma County, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2462 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9595 (7F16A36B) Date: 9/8/1960 Description: Night. Witnesses in Consett, South Shields, and Newcastle upon Tyne, England, see a triangular formation of lights with a red light in the center. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: London Evening Chronicle, September 9, 1960; Marler 76 Source ID: Eberhart_3457 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9596 (D0CDE9E6) Date: 9/10/1960 Description: 9:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Evans see 2 light-gray glowing objects, saucer or boomerang-shaped, that swish when accelerating, over Ridgecrest, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 294; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 285 Source ID: Eberhart_3459 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9597 (9EA0E01E) Date: 9/10/1960 Description: In Ridgecrest, California at 9:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Evans sighted two light gray glowing objects, saucer or boomerang-shaped, which made a swishing sound when accelerating. They were seen for a couple of seconds each. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5823 Source: Johnson ### Event 9598 (9724AFC3) Date: 9/10/1960 Description: A married couple in Scituate, Massachusetts, sees a trio of brilliant discs parked in a triangle formation in the sky. About 12° to the objects’ left is a huge cylinder. One witness watches them through binoculars, and the brilliance hurts his eyes for two hours. Two more discs seem to be attached to the top of the cylinder. Small domes sprinkle their surface. The large object disappears too quickly for the eye to follow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 294 Source ID: Eberhart_3458 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9599 (5D650537) Date: 9/10/1960 Time: 9:50 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. M.G. Evans. Two light gray glowing objects, saucer or boomerang-shaped, which swished when accelerating. Seen 1-2 seconds each. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ridgecrest, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_454 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9600 (BC606E4F) Date: 9/10/1960 Description: 2 light gray glowing objects, saucer or boomerang-shaped (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6962) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ridgecrest, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2463 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9601 (6434FAE5) Date: 9/14/1960 Description: 2:50 a.m. A dispatcher in Lorain, Ohio, is taking a coffee break when he sees a light that he thinks is the Echo 1 satellite. As he watches it, knowing it is not the right time for Echo 1, he sees four objects traveling in a perfectly spaced line of flight. It makes a surprising right turn, after which the objects move on their way, apparently at a great height. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “I’ve Seen the Light…But What Was It?” IUR 32, no. 3 \(July 2009\): 3; Swords 294–295 Source ID: Eberhart_3460 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9602 (D54C2FD8) Date: 9/15/1960 Description: [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) dies of a heart attack in Long Beach, California, at age 37. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1024 Source ID: Eberhart_3462 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9603 (341E60D3) Date: 9/15/1960 Description: 7:30 a.m. A witness sees a UFO hovering 300–400 feet above the Douglas Aircraft plant in Santa Monica, California, and calls it into the West Los Angeles police station. Desk Officer Don Anderson goes outside and sees a dark triangular object moving slowly to the northeast at 3,000 feet. It disappears in the vicinity of Santa Monica Boulevard and Beverly Glen Street. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Officer Reports Flying Triangle,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98869738/)” San Pedro \(Calif.\) News-Pilot, September 15, 1960, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_3461 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9604 (15C53827) Date: 9/15/1960 Description: Professor of engineering observed accelerating luminous object. \[NICAP UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carrizales, Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_2464 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9605 (5065AA83) Date: 9/17/1960 Description: Multiple Targets Tracked Several Times (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [600917](http://www.nicap.org/600917kirksville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirksville AFS, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2467 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9606 (CFB93725) Date: 9/17/1960 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirksville AFS, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2465 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9607 (65B0FFAE) Date: 9/19/1960 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Susanville, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2466 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9608 (7DE7DF65) Date: 9/20/1960 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Farmington (SE of), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2468 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9609 (6B84C4A8) Date: 9/23/1960 Description: A Canadian ship reported that a cylindrical object with lighted portholes came down, hit the ocean, and sank off the north coast of Labrador. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 509 Source ID: Johnson_6252 Source: Johnson ### Event 9610 (F420FF48) Date: 9/23/1960 Time: 2135 Description: A Canadian ship reported that a cylindrical object with lighted portholes came down, hit the ocean, and sank off the northcoast of Labrador. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Labrador Source ID: Magnonia_509 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9611 (0A0D1FCA) Date: 9/25/1960 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Midway Isles, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2469 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9612 (577ADD49) Date: 9/28/1960 Description: (McDonald list) Slow Radar Return At 100,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [600928](http://www.nicap.org/600928kirksville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirksville, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2470 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9613 (B48DA886) Date: 9/28/1960 Description: OSI document says crash reported and mention of "Moon Dust", asks ATIC to come to the scene. (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [600928](http://www.nicap.org/moondust/moondust600928doc.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2471 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9614 (96456860) Date: 9/28/1960 Description: Aeronautical engineer observed erratically maneuvering UFO. \[NICAP UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arlington, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2472 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9615 (5A83F95E) Date: 9/29/1960 Description: 9:25 p.m. Five people are out looking for the Echo 1 satellite in New Westminster, British Columbia. After they spot it, they remain for a few minutes talking. One of them sees three objects come up from the southeast, pass overhead, and disappear over the rooftops in 10 seconds. The objects are luminous, round- cornered triangles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_3463 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9616 (54ABF356) Date: 9/30/1960 Description: [Tiffany Thayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany%5FThayer)’s widow [Tanagra Thayer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47550731/tanagra-thayer) formally disbands the Fortean Society. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 516 Source ID: Eberhart_3464 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9617 (F57477E3) Date: 10/1960 Description: New apparitions of a monstrous "cyclops." Type: ufo sighting Reference: 129 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Yariguarenda Jungle, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_510 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9618 (DFD1ED10) Date: 10/1960 Description: Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company begins construction of “Project 51” at the Nellis AFB complex in Nevada with double-shift personal schedules. They mark an Archimedean spiral on Area 51’s dry lake approximately two miles across so that an A-12 pilot approaching the end of the overrun can abort instead of plunging into the sagebrush. Area 51 pilots call it “The Hook.” For crosswind landings, they mark two unpaved airstrips \(runways 9/27 and 03/21\) on the dry lakebed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Area 51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%5F51)” Source ID: Eberhart_3465 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9619 (14BD0F06) Date: 10/3/1960 Description: The sighting of six flying saucers and a 'mother ship' has been reported from the Australian island state of Tasmania. A Church of England minister says he saw the mysterious craft nearly one week ago, but was reluctant to report them. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: City unknown, Tasmania Source ID: NICAP_DB_2473 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9620 (7A607770) Date: 10/4/1960 Description: 6:10 p.m. Rev. Lionel Browning and his wife are looking at a rainbow outside their rectory in Cressy, Tasmania, when they see a gray, cigar-shaped object emerge from a raincloud. It has 4 or 5 vertical, dark bands around its circumference and an aerial array that projects from the top. Browning estimates it to be 100 feet long and about 4 miles distant. It moves north at about 60–70 mph at about 400 feet altitude. After one minute, it stops and is joined by 5–6 smaller objects that emerge from a cloud. After another minute, all the UFOs abruptly reverse back into the rain squall at the same speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mysterious Ships in the Sky,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201961%2002%20-%20vol%201%20no%204.pdf)” Australian Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 4 \(February 1961\): 1–2; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-July-Dec.pdf) [July–December 1960](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 104–107; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf) [UFOs, a History: January–June 1961](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 35–36; Clark III 350–352; Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 19–20; Swords 385–388 Source ID: Eberhart_3466 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9621 (2E0AEEB4) Date: 10/4/1960 Description: Reverend and Mrs. Browning in Cressy, Tasmania observed a cigar-shaped object fly toward the west. Five 30' diameter domed discs joined the larger object, and all flew away rapidly to the east at 6:10 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James E. McDonald case investigation files; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1960, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_6556 Source: Johnson ### Event 9622 (C1637F70) Date: 10/5/1960 Time: 7:37 PM Description: Witness: E.G. Crossland. One bright, star-like light moved across 120^ of sky in 20 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Mt. Kisko, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_455 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9623 (A982FF0E) Date: 10/5/1960 Description: A formation of UFOs is detected by the new Ballistic Missile Early Warning System at Thule Site J in Greenland. The objects appear to be heading directly toward North America from the direction of Russia. Within seconds, Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, scrambles the crews of B-52 bombers armed with nuclear warheads to prepare a retaliatory strike. But at the last moment checks reveal that the objects are spurious radar echoes. Unusual atmospheric conditions create phantoms on the BMEWS that cannot be seen by other radars. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Incident, and the Illusion of Safety, Penguin, 2013, [pp. 253–254](https://archive.org/details/commandcontrol00eric/page/252/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/commandcontrol00eric/page/252/mode/2up) [542](https://archive.org/details/commandcontrol00eric/page/542/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3467 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9624 (62CDE5B8) Date: 10/5/1960 Description: Bright, star-like light move across 120° of sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7057) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Kisco, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2474 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9625 (0777B429) Date: 10/9/1960 Description: Minister and others saw a golden, elliptical UFO hover, move away. \[NICAP UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Longpoint, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2475 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9626 (39002C40) Date: 10/15/1960 Description: Spherical 75 ft object flying at great speed at 36,000 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cressy (30 miles from), Tasmania Source ID: NICAP_DB_2476 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9627 (51E93AFC) Date: 10/20/1960 Description: Australian MP [Gil Duthie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil%5FDuthie) asks [Frederick Osborne,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FOsborne) Australian Minister for Air, whether he has read the account of the UFO seen at Cressy, Tasmania. Osborne responds that he has, and he admits that the Department of Air receives UFO reports and shares them with the RAF and the US Air Force. However, all of them are “explainable on a perfectly normal basis.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 352; Swords 387 Source ID: Eberhart_3468 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9628 (7A8C654F) Date: 10/27/1960 Description: Attorney saw disc hover, move away. \[NICAP UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lexington, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2477 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9629 (C0A91847) Date: 10/31/1960 Description: Most guerrilla infiltrations and supply drops directed by the CIA into Cuba have failed; these are replaced by a plan to mount an initial amphibious assault with a minimum of 1,500 men. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3469 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9630 (B97B58E7) Date: 11/3/1960 Description: 4:30 p.m. Two 8-year-old boys are walking over a small hill in rural Price County, Wisconsin, when they hear an odd high-pitched, humming noise. The air has become unusually warm. They look back and see an aluminum-colored object on the hill behind them. They run back toward it, but it lifts off and shoots away. They find the soil of the hill to be warm to the touch. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Small Boys See Warm, Landed UAO,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201961%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1961, pp. 1, 4 Source ID: Eberhart_3470 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9631 (FA5E87E6) Date: 11/4/1960 Description: House Majority Leader [John W. McCormack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FW.%5FMcCormack) \(D-Mass.\) writes to [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) that “it was pretty well established by some, in our minds, that there were some objects flying around in space that were unexplainable.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Congressmen Confirm AF Secrecy: Pressure for Investigation Increasing,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/011%20DEC-JAN%201960-61.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 11 \(Dec./Jan. 1960/1961\): 1; UFOEv, [p. 175](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=187&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3471 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9632 (409B7317) Date: 11/11/1960 Time: night Description: Four witnesses, among them three military men, saw an object that seemed about to land, then took off again toward the north, leaving a trail of sparks and blinding them. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 130; FSR 61,1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Warminster, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_511 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9633 (B54B2897) Date: 11/11/1960 Description: On this night four witnesses in Warminster, England, including among them three men in the British military, saw an object that seemed about to land, but then took off again. It flew off toward the north, leaving a trail of sparks and blinding them by its brilliance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 511 Source ID: Johnson_7595 Source: Johnson ### Event 9634 (88A092BE) Date: 11/13/1960 Time: 0245 Description: Remi Carbonnier, 45, was awakened by a green light illuminating his room. He went to the window and saw a bright, round object, 6 m in diameter, resting on three legs on the railroad tracks 300 m away. It was emitting orange flashes. A dome on top of the object started spinning, the legs disappeared, and the object rose vertically above the trees, without noise. Less than 20 sec later, it had cleared the hill and was lost to sight in the southwest. The next day the witness went to the site and found no trace, but his dog turned around and ran away, Type: ufo sighting Reference: 131 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: La Londe, France Source ID: Magnonia_512 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9635 (8445DA7D) Date: 11/13/1960 Description: In the year 1960 in La Londe, France a domed disc-shaped UFO was spotted sitting on railroad tracks at 2:45 a.m. It made no sound, and shafts of orange light periodically shot out from the object. It rose vertically, folded its landing gear, and shot off straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 512 Source ID: Johnson_7630 Source: Johnson ### Event 9636 (C73C4884) Date: 11/14/1960 Description: S. Indiana/Dillsboro Nike Missile Station, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [601114](http://www.nicap.org/601114dillsborodir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dillsboro, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2478 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9637 (A9EC3F94) Date: 11/15/1960 Description: 10:40 a.m. A USAF B-57 Canberra reconnaissance aircraft operating out of RAAF Base East Sale, Victoria, Australia, encounters a UFO 15 miles north of Launceston, Tasmania. Capt. [Douglas G. Ludlam](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130004429/douglas-glen-ludlam) and Capt. [Joseph W. Ivins](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25100399/joseph-w-ivins) say it looks like a balloon about 70 feet in diameter and is flying at 35,000 feet, just below the B-57, and traveling at about 920 mph. It is in sight for 5–7 seconds before it disappears under the left wing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[Australian A.F. UFO Report Files,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201982%2011%2000%20-%20Vol%2030%20No%2011.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 11 \(December 1982\):4; Clark III 352; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 285 Source ID: Eberhart_3472 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9638 (8B35F495) Date: 11/17/1960 Description: Three UFOs were seen to follow two jet aircraft. One object closed in on the jets, then stopped, repeating this several times. Witnesses described it as round, rotating, color changing from gray to silver as it turned. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lexington, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2479 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9639 (3866D2BA) Date: 11/18/1960 Description: Director of Central Intelligence [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) and CIA Deputy Director for Plans [Richard Bissell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) brief President-elect [John F. Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) on the Cuban invasion. Dulles is confident that the CIA can overthrow the Cuban government. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3473 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9640 (7B295BB4) Date: 11/20/1960 Description: A gruesome case classified as spontaneous human combustion occurred on this date in 1960 in Grassy Creek, Kentucky. The burned bodies of four men and a youth were found in a car. Molten metal from the car's roof had dropped on the cremated bodies. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral Lorenzen, APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_7747 Source: Johnson ### Event 9641 (67B7E649) Date: 11/24/1960 Description: At 10:00 a.m. in Defiance, Ohio a physics professor driving in a car, and his passenger, watched a silent 30-meter in diameter black disc-shaped object that flew off to the northwest. It had clearly defined edges. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 54 Source ID: Johnson_7870 Source: Johnson ### Event 9642 (0258E121) Date: 11/24/1960 Description: White elliptical UFO observed by scientist. \[NICAP UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2480 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9643 (F1AEB74E) Date: 11/27/1960 Time: 7:30 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Hart. One orange-red point of light made huge circles and stopped during the 20-30 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Chula Vista, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_456 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9644 (745874AD) Date: 11/27/1960 Description: A red UFO maneuvered all over the sky in huge circles over Chula Vista, San Diego County, California at 7:30 p.m. for 20 minutes. It looked like a ball with a long antenna rod attached, and a flashing white light ran back and forth along the rod. The UFO made several dashes at terrific speeds, and was watched through binoculars by seven witnesses. It made no sound. The sighting lasted between 20 and 30 minutes. A Project Blue Book "unknown". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7133; Lloyd Mallan, Science & Mechanics, December 1966, p. 30; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 91 Source ID: Johnson_7956 Source: Johnson ### Event 9645 (3437FE85) Date: 11/27/1960 Description: Orange-red point of light, with white sparkler-like light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7133) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chula Vista, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2481 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9646 (32D3D222) Date: 11/29/1960 Description: Light Paces T-33 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 7134) Reference: NICAP: [601129](http://nicap.org/601129kyushu%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kyushu (South of), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2483 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9647 (4F65D918) Date: 11/29/1960 Description: Observed for 25 minutes, an object with a bright, pulsating light was seen by Francis Ridge, a NICAP subcommittee chairman, and many other witnesses. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vincennes, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2482 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9648 (6613F3C9) Date: 11/29/1960 Description: [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) meets with the chiefs of the CIA, Defense, State, and Treasury departments to discuss the new concept of a Cuban invasion. No one expresses objections, and Eisenhower approves the plans with the intention of persuading [John F. Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) of their merit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3474 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9649 (606EE485) Date: 11/29/1960 Time: 6:38 PM Description: Witnesses: USAF Lt. Col. R.L. Blwlin (sp?) and Maj. F.B. Brown, flying a T-33 jet trainer. One white light 8lowed and paralleled the course of the T-33 for 10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: south of Kyushu, Japan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_457 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9650 (2CFC6609) Date: 11/29/1960 Description: At 6:38 p.m. two crew members of a USAF T-33 trainer sighted a white light flying south of Kyushu, Japan. The object slowed down to pace the Lockheed jet trainer, and followed the plane for 10 minutes without making any sound. The case is listed by Project Blue Book as unexplained. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7134; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 36; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 92; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 32, citing Don Berliner Source ID: Johnson_8030 Source: Johnson ### Event 9651 (9371369E) Date: 12/3/1960 Description: In 1960, a man and his grandson were out duck hunting early in the morning near Atlantic City, New Jersey. They were sitting in a duck blind at around 6 a.m. when they saw a 20-meter wide disc approach to within 100 meters of their position. It glowed red and lit the ground, and moved with a jerky motion “like a bouncing ball.” It changed color from red to purple as it rose vertically into the sky, then flew off toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, September 1961, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_8161 Source: Johnson ### Event 9652 (D1CD7347) Date: 12/5/1960 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) debates Lt. Col. [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) on the Today show, hosted by [Dave Garroway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%5FGarroway). Tacker says he wrote the book Flying Saucers and the US Air Force because “I felt the Air Force was being set upon by Maj. Keyhoe, NICAP, and other hobby groups who believe in spaceships as an act of pure faith.” Keyhoe repeatedly challenges Tacker, whose statements ring hollow, and even Garroway asks Tacker pointed questions and coolly notes Tacker’s apparent ignorance of basic physics. The show generates numerous phone calls and letters to NBC, most of them critical of the Air Force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-July-Dec.pdf) [July–December 1960](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 129–135; “[New Debunking Campaign Backfires,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/011%20DEC-JAN%201960-61.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 11 \(Dec.–Jan. 1960/1961\): 1–2; “[Dave Garroway Show NBC-TV UFO Discussion: Tacker vs. Keyhoe,](http://www.nicap.org/jufoh/JournalUFOHistoryVol1No4.pdf) [December 5, 1960,](http://www.nicap.org/jufoh/JournalUFOHistoryVol1No4.pdf)” Journal of UFO History 1, no. 4 \(Sept./Oct. 2004\): 3–6 Source ID: Eberhart_3476 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9653 (FD763CFB) Date: 12/5/1960 Description: Pentagon UFO spokesman Lt. Col. [Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) publishes Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force, in which he blisteringly attacks critics of Project Blue Book, depicting them all as charlatans and opportunists and gullible believers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lawrence J. Tacker, [Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Tacker%2C%20Lt%20Colonel%20Lawrence%20J%20%20-%20Flying%20Saucers%20And%20The%20U%20S%20Air%20Force.pdf), Van Nostrand, 1960; Clark III 922 Source ID: Eberhart_3475 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9654 (9501AF06) Date: 12/5/1960 Description: Debate with NICAP Director and USAF Col. Tacker on Dave Garroway's network television program. Type: debate Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_889 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9655 (937E105C) Date: 12/8/1960 Description: [Richard Bissell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) presents an outline for the Cuban invasion to the Special Group, while declining to commit details to written records. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3477 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9656 (E601B451) Date: 12/9/1960 Description: 8:30 p.m. Mme. Dhelens in the Château des Mailles \(31 miles south of Carignan-de-Bordeaux\), Gironde, France, sees a luminous oval object twice the size of an automobile hovering just above the ground in the château’s park. It has two round portholes, behind which she sees indistinct shadows moving. It takes off, leaving a 12-foot circle of yellowed grass, which later dies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-July-Dec.pdf) [UFOs, a History: July–December 1960](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1960-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2003, p. 138 Source ID: Eberhart_3478 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9657 (B5E5111B) Date: 12/9/1960 Description: At 8:30 p.m. in Carignan, France a dog was seen barking at a glowing UFO resting in a park. Three witnesses observed it from separate locations. It appeared to be an oval-shaped, self-luminous craft, four meters in diameter. Inside the glowing object vague shadows were seen moving about. It took off toward the north. A circle of yellowed grass was found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magoina: A Century of Landings, case 513; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0506, citing Ouranos, August 1961 Source ID: Johnson_8282 Source: Johnson ### Event 9658 (63CAA82E) Date: 12/9/1960 Time: 2030 Description: A dog barking at a glowing object resting in a park. Three witnesses observed it from separate locations. It appeared as an oval, luminous craft, 4 m in diameter, inside which vague shadows were seen. It took off toward the north. A circle of yellowed grass was found at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Ouranos 27 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Carignan, France Source ID: Magnonia_513 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9659 (D09E7B48) Date: 12/14/1960 Description: The first Single Integrated Operational Plan, titled SIOP-62, is completed. It describes a massive strike with the entire US arsenal of 3,200 warheads, totaling 7847 megatons, against Russia, China, and Soviet-aligned states with urban and other targets being hit simultaneously. Nine weapons are to be “laid down” on four targets in Leningrad \[now St. Petersburg\], 23 weapons on six target complexes in Moscow, and 18 on seven target areas in Kaliningrad. Weapons scientist [George W. Rathjens](http://news.mit.edu/2016/george-rathjens-professor-emeritus-political-science-dies-0610) looks through SAC’s atlas of Soviet cities, searching for the town that most closely resembles Hiroshima in size and industrial concentration. When he finds one that roughly matches, he asks how many bombs the SIOP “laid down” on that city. The reply: one 4.5 megaton bomb and three more 1.1 megaton weapons in case the big bomb is a dud. The execution of SIOP-62 is estimated to result in 285 million dead and 40 million casualties in the Soviet Union and China. Presented with all the facts and figures, USAF Gen. [Thomas D. White](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FD.%5FWhite) finds the plan “splendid.” Disregarding the human aspect, SIOP-62 represents an outstanding technological achievement. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Single Integrated Operational Plan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%5FIntegrated%5FOperational%5FPlan\#The%5Ffirst%5FSIOP)”; Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine, Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 90–103 Source ID: Eberhart_3480 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9660 (04222B28) Date: 12/14/1960 Description: The Brookings Research Institute in Washington, D.C., releases a 186-page report prepared for NASA titled Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs. It is later published as a 272-page Committee Print for the House Committee on Science and Astronautics on March 24, 1961. The report includes a section on “Implications of a Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life.” It is sent to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics for approval by Rep. [Overton Brooks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton%5FBrooks) \(D-La.\) and discusses the effects of meeting extraterrestrial life: “It is possible that if the intelligence of these creatures were sufficiently superior to ours, they would choose to have little if any contact with us.” It also speculates on the possibility of finding alien artifacts on earth and the possibility that contact might result in social disintegration. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Brookings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings%5FReport) [Report](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings%5FReport)”; Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs, committee print prepared for NASA by the Brookings Institution, Report of the US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 87th Congress, First Session, March 24, 1961, [pp. 215–216](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003453936&view=1up&seq=229&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003453936&view=1up&seq=229&skin=2021) [225–226](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003453936&view=1up&seq=239&skin=2021) \(note 34\) Source ID: Eberhart_3479 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9661 (17BD627B) Date: 12/18/1960 Description: Interview with USAF Col. Tacker on Westinghouse network radio program, "Washington Viewpoint." Type: interview Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_890 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9662 (032D4D21) Date: 12/24/1960 Description: A domed disc, estimated to be 20 feet in diameter, was seen near a mountain top in Durango, Colorado at midnight. It had a ring of lights around its rim. It pulsated and was in view for 15 minutes. A dog panicked in an agitated reaction, and later died. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Durango Herald, December 28, 1960; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 117, citing APRO Bulletin, January 1961, p. 1; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 163; Kenneth Larson, Flying Saucers, March 1970, p. 13: Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 160 Source ID: Johnson_8586 Source: Johnson ### Event 9663 (2E9B9E01) Date: 12/25/1960 Description: A disc-shaped flying object and three nocturnal lights exchanged green beams of light in the sky over Cottonwood, Minnesota at 11:45 p.m. The nocturnal lights then entered the saucer-shaped craft through a hatch. The disc flew off toward the north. Pendulum motion was also reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1962, p. 2; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 3-071 Source ID: Johnson_8598 Source: Johnson ### Event 9664 (E9A053CB) Date: 12/27/1960 Description: Blue Book officer Maj. [Robert Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) and his boss at ATIC, Philip G. Evans, write a memo to Air Force Intelligence in the Pentagon. Friend complains about civilian UFO organizations supported by people for “financial gain, religious reasons, pure emotional outlet, ignorance, or possibly to use the organization as a ‘cold war’ tool.” He is upset by their accusations that the Air Force is withholding UFO information. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 292 Source ID: Eberhart_3481 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9665 (78EAFAA2) Date: 12/29/1960 Description: T-33 Crew Observed Bright Light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [601229](http://www.nicap.org/601229miho%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miho, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2484 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1961 (Back to Top) ### Event 9666 (A3E8230B) Date: 1961 Description: [Ray Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) begins publishing The Hidden World, a quarterly magazine in trade-paperback format that runs through 1964. It consists of reprints of [Richard Shaver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FSharpe%5FShaver) stories and readers’ contributions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 873 Source ID: Eberhart_3483 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9667 (DC4F5D06) Date: 1961 Description: The first American to publish on the microwave auditory effect is biophysicist [Allan H. Frey](http://slowdigital.com/2017/12/07/allan-frey-a-pioneer-of-radiation-research/)[.](http://slowdigital.com/2017/12/07/allan-frey-a-pioneer-of-radiation-research/) In his experiments, the subjects are able to hear appropriately pulsed microwave radiation from a distance of 328 feet from the transmitter. This is accompanied by side effects such as dizziness, headaches, and a pins-and-needles sensation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Allen H. Frey, “[Human Auditory System Response to Modulated Electromagnetic Energy,](https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jappl.1962.17.4.689?sid=7c073ad2-6324-4b47-94e1-124dc0a5f154)” Journal of Applied Physiology 17 \(July 1, 1962\): 689–692; Wikipedia, “[Microwave auditory effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave%5Fauditory%5Feffect)” Source ID: Eberhart_3482 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9668 (F8587F41) Date: 1961 Description: Report of Russian tact missiles being fired on UFO (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, NC) Reference: NICAP: [610000](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-nearmoscow.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moscow (near), USSR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2485 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9669 (3D339711) Date: 1961 Description: Russia: Vladimir Azhazha found an elliptical area where he claimed that an alien craft had plummeted to Earth in 1961. A local resident, Zoya Shubenkina, corroborated Azhazha’s story about the 1961 crash, claiming she had witnessed it for herself. She said a big, fiery, red sphere flew over her house and crashed in the valley by the river. Type: ufo crash Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Russia Source ID: Maj2_603 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9670 (D9DD6DD7) Date: 1961 Description: ex-Lt. Col Philip J. Corso said in 1961 he was given a file cabinet from his superior General Trudeau which contained material recovered from ET craft. He was instructed to use these items for “utilization and exploitation,” farming the objects out to various companies such as Bell Labs to reverse engineer and further develop. Among the technologies he said arose from this were: night vision, fiber optics, food irradiation, integrated circuits, and lasers. Type: historical event Reference: "The Day after Roswell", by Philip J. Corso Reference: Philip J. Corso's Manuscript Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_598 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9671 (F5B3FD62) Date: 1961 End date: 1963 Description: Near Nellis AFB, NE: “Mat”, a radio maintenance engineer at Nevada’s AEC between 1961–1963 provided evidence to the MUFON Journal that Project REDLIGHT was secretly being conducted at nearby “Area 51”, a 50-mile-square quadrant of land east of Nellis AFB. This Project “involved flight-testing of an UFO which had been shipped there from Edwards AFB.” The craft flew silently, was about 20 to 30 ft. in diam., and had no wings or tail. Type: ufo testing Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Area 51 Source ID: Maj2_599 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9672 (C6E7C08A) Date: 1961 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) publishes Flying Saucers Farewell, signaling his intention to refocus his efforts on teaching about life and consciousness. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Adamski, Flying Saucers Farewell, Abelard-Schuman, 1961; “[Final](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/final-years/) [Years,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/final-years/)” The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_3484 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9673 (11AC51E4) Date: 1961 Description: An Antonov AN-2P mail biplane takes off from an airfield at or near Sverdlovsk, Russia, bound for Kurgan with seven people on board. About 80–100 miles from Sverdlovsk, the aircraft disappears from the radar screen. Ground control cannot regain contact, so a search is launched with helicopters and troops. The aircraft is found in a small clearing in a dense forest, completely intact. The authorities state that it looks like it was placed there gently from above. All the mail is intact, and there is no sign of anyone on board. No marks or footprints are seen. A 100-foot wide, clearly defined circle of scorched grass and depressed earth is found at a distance of 328 feet from the plane. A report by the Moscow Aviation Institute claims that a UFO was tracked on radar at the control tower and that strange radio signals were hear at the time of the disappearance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 228–229](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/228/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3485 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9674 (BB214B1C) Date: 1961 Description: A UFO appears above the iron-ore mine of Catalina Huanca, owned by the Marcona Mining Company, near Apongo, Peru. It hovers for 5–15 minutes, only about 300 feet away from a young mining engineer. It is round and glowing, with windows on the upper part. The engineer gets a look at it through his theodolite, but it still looks fuzzy. The object reappears throughout the day, allowing all the mine workers \(about 70\) to view it. The following day it follows a supply truck for several hours as it exits the mine heading south over a dirt track. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: S. Parker Gay Jr., “Peru, 1961,” IUR 24, no. 3 \(Fall 1999\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_3486 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9675 (38AD1F41) Date: 1/1961 Description: Day. Government topographer Adolfo Paolini Pisani is driving a jeep along the highway between La Victoria and El Vigía, Mérida, Venezuela, when a truck passes him. A few minutes later, a brilliant metallic disc like polished blue steel swoops down and passes dangerously close above the hood of the truck. The truck rises a few feet into the air and overturns in the direction taken by the object, falling in a sandbank with its wheels in the air. The object ascends and is lost to view in a few seconds. Pisani stops his jeep to assist, but fortunately the lone driver has only a few scratches. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Horacio Gonzales, “[Disc Upsets Truck,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201961%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 1961, pp. 1, 3 Source ID: Eberhart_3487 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9676 (76BE3A8C) Date: 1/1/1961 Description: Mr. Pisani, a government topographer, had just passed a truck on the Andean Highway between La Victoria and El Vigia, Venezuela on a clear day when he witnessed a flying disc of polished blue steel swoop down very close to the hood of the truck and lift it about a meter into the air. The truck overturned onto a sandbank, causing minor injuries to the driver. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 185, citing H. Gonzalez; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 514 Source ID: Johnson_5 Source: Johnson ### Event 9677 (1739E180) Date: 1/1/1961 Description: A government topographer, Adolfo P. Pisani, was passed by a truck as he was driving on the Andean Highway. A brilliant disk with the appearance of blue steel swooped down very close to the hood of the truck and then flew away. The truck was pulled up nearly 1 m above the road and overturned in a sandbank. The driver escaped with minor injuries. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor.I 250 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: La Victoria, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_514 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9678 (C1B95D07) Date: 1/3/1961 Description: 9:01 p.m. An explosion at the US Army’s SL-1 nuclear power reactor in Idaho Falls, Idaho, causes a meltdown, killing three operators. The direct cause is the improper withdrawal of the central control rod, responsible for absorbing neutrons in the reactor core. The event is the only reactor accident in the US that results in immediate fatalities. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[SL-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1)” Source ID: Eberhart_3489 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9679 (A7C36899) Date: 1/3/1961 Description: President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) severs diplomatic relations with Cuba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3488 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9680 (DEEA53EE) Date: 1/4/1961 Description: The CIA Deputy Director of Plans [Richard Bissell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) plans for a “lodgement” by 750 men at an undisclosed site in Cuba, supported by considerable air power. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3490 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9681 (FE5CC507) Date: 1/6/1961 Description: At 3:00 a.m. Luis G. Ferre Casas, age 33, and two other witnesses watched as a domed disc-shaped object, six meters in diameter, landed quietly on a mountain in Torroia del Priorato, Tarragona, Spain. It was the color of moonlight. A dog who was with them refused to approach the landing site. The incident lasted 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR Case Histories, February 1974, p. 10; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIs: El Fenomeno Aterrizaje, p. 49; Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 31; UNICAT database, case 488, citing Ballester Olmos Source ID: Johnson_163 Source: Johnson ### Event 9682 (FFC26A79) Date: 1/8/1961 Description: Pravda asserts that “some regions” \(including Uzbekistan and Tajikistan\) of the USSR are reporting UFOs. It quotes physicist [Lev Artsimovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%5FArtsimovich) saying that “it is about time that these tales be stopped no matter how breathtaking they may be.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf) [June 1961](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_3491 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9683 (587A217B) Date: 1/10/1961 Description: UFO blocks tracking of U.S. missile, G (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: NICAP: [610110](http://www.nicap.org/blocmissdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Canaveral, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2487 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9684 (7DA55D4E) Date: 1/10/1961 Description: (McDonald list) UFO "Alters" Navy Polaris Missile Test (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610110](http://www.nicap.org/610110capecanav%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlantic bet. Cuba and Haiti, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2488 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9685 (A581DEB1) Date: 1/10/1961 Description: A/c Sees Object Maneuver and Land (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases, Code: T, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [610110](http://nicap.org/610110wichitafalls%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wichita Falls, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2489 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9686 (5F8FE178) Date: 1/10/1961 Description: Glowing red, zig-zagging UFO observed from air by pilot (also from ground by others); maneuvered and landed on large overgrown field. \[NICAP UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Benjamin, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2491 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9687 (22096525) Date: 1/10/1961 Description: At 12:14 p.m. a Polaris missile launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida was paced by a UFO. Its radar signal was so strong that the radar tracking locked onto the UFO instead of the missile.The UFO stayed on the radar screen for several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: William R. Corliss & Jerome Clark, UFO Calendar 1999; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 411 Source ID: Johnson_239 Source: Johnson ### Event 9688 (84F74761) Date: 1/10/1961 Description: At 9:12 p.m. a bright red disc-shaped object was sighted near Benjamin, Texas by two men in a light plane. It followed their Beech Debonair airplane, zigzagged, and then landed. The pilot was interviewed by the US Air Force. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 32; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 43; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, Washington DC: NICAP, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_240 Source: Johnson ### Event 9689 (70935369) Date: 1/10/1961 Description: A US Navy A-1 Polaris missile is launched from a ground pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. A disc, whose diameter is close to the length of the Polaris, alters its tracking, but does not block the missile firing, since the tracking system continues to follow the object and later returns to again to track the Polaris downrange. The diameter of the disc is approximately 20–25 feet and it is about 6–8 feet thick at its center. It is visually lost to ground observers and the primary witness \([Clark C. McClelland](https://clarkcmcclelland.wordpress.com/), with 10x50 binoculars\) as it continues downrange. The original investigation is conducted by McClelland and his Florida NICAP subcommittee. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO ‘Alters’ Tracking of Navy Polaris Test](http://www.nicap.org/610110capecanav%5Fdir.htm)”; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf) [UFOs, a History: January–June 1961](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 6–7; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 286 Source ID: Eberhart_3492 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9690 (5F10C197) Date: 1/10/1961 Description: UFO alters launch of U.S. Navy Polaris missile, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [610110](http://www.nicap.org/blocmissdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Canaveral, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2486 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9691 (389B0A21) Date: 1/12/1961 Description: In a press conference in Moscow, Russia, Minister of Merchant Marine [Viktor Bakaev](https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Viktor%2BBakaev) charges that US military aircraft and ships are systematically conducting “provocative actions” against Soviet vessels around Cuba. He is probably referring to close approaches to Cuban airspace by Fort Bliss–based reconnaissance aircraft that are testing the responses of Soviet electronic countermeasures. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 155–157](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/154/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3493 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9692 (C8C939E7) Date: 1/17/1961 Description: DRC Prime Minister [Patrice Lumumba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice%5FLumumba) is executed by firing squad near Élisabethville \[now Lubumbashi\], Democratic Republic of the Congo. CIA Station Chief [Larry Devlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%5FDevlin) has helped direct the search to capture Lumumba for his transfer to his enemies in Katanga, he is involved in arranging Lumumba’s transfer there, and he is in direct touch with the killers the night Lumumba is killed. The Congolese leaders who kill Lumumba, including [Mobutu Sese Seko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobutu%5FSese%5FSeko) and [Joseph Kasa-Vubu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKasa-Vubu), receive money and weapons directly from the CIA. [John](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FStockwell%5F%28CIA%5Fofficer%29) [Stockwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FStockwell%5F%28CIA%5Fofficer%29) writes in 1978 that a CIA agent had the body in the trunk of his car in order to try to get rid of it. Stockwell, who knows Devlin well, feels Devlin knows more than anyone else about the murder. However, documents released in 2017 reveal that the US role in Lumumba’s murder was only under consideration by the CIA and never carried out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Patrice Lumumba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice%5FLumumba\#United%5FStates%5Finvolvement)” Source ID: Eberhart_3494 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9693 (CF18FF7E) Date: 1/17/1961 Description: [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) delivers a farewell address in a TV broadcast. Perhaps best known for advocating that the nation guard against the potential influence of the military–industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the speech also expresses concerns about planning for the future and the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect of the domination of science through federal funding, and, conversely, the domination of science-based public policy by what he calls a “scientific-technological elite.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Eisenhower’s farewell address](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s%5Ffarewell%5Faddress)” Source ID: Eberhart_3495 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9694 (CCB44D42) Date: 1/17/1961 Description: 6:17 p.m. A former weather officer at Holloman AFB is driving with some companions near Cimarron, New Mexico, when they see three different groups of amber UFOs flying in V-formation about 15 miles away at 30,000 feet. There are six lights in the first group and eight in the second and third. They fly away to the southwest and then return to where they first appeared. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 226–227 Source ID: Eberhart_3496 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9695 (3AF0C4F7) Date: 1/19/1961 Description: A USAF press release proclaims that “not even a minute fragment of a so-called ‘flying saucer’ has ever been found.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [p. 48](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/48/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3497 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9696 (C1840C49) Date: 1/20/1961 End date: 11/22/1963 Description: President John F. Kennedy in office Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_600 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9697 (197DC471) Date: 1/22/1961 Time: 1830 Description: An electronics professor at Bordeaux University and three school teachers observed an elongated, glowing, orange object. Interference with car ignition was noted. One witness was said to have felt a slight indisposition and to have heard or somehow perceived the word "ZEMU" repeated twice. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Ouranos 26 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cestas-Gazinet, France Source ID: Magnonia_515 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9698 (E0D3147A) Date: 1/22/1961 Description: A metallic UFO was filmed at 4:45 p.m. as it approached Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, then made a U-turn and sped away. There were at least six witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1961, p. 5; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 95; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, September 1970, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_412 Source: Johnson ### Event 9699 (1DBD1A25) Date: 1/22/1961 Description: An electronics professor at Bordeaux University and three school teachers observed an elongated, glowing, orange object in Cestas-Gazinet, France at 6:30 p.m. Interference with their car's ignition was noted. One witness was said to have felt a slight indisposition and to have heard or somehow perceived the word "ZEMU" repeated twice. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 515; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 111, citing Vallee Source ID: Johnson_411 Source: Johnson ### Event 9700 (4DF005C5) Date: 1/22/1961 Description: 4:45 p.m. An elliptical, metallic-looking UFO approaches Eglin AFB near Valparaiso, Florida, from over the Gulf, makes a U-turn and speeds back over the Gulf. Harry Caslar is filming his son on the beach with 8mm movie film and captures the UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 95](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=107&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3498 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9701 (34264D33) Date: 1/22/1961 Description: An elliptical UFO, metallic looking, approached from over the Gulf, made a U- turn and sped back over the Gulf. Photographed on 8 mm movie film by a businessman. \[NICAP UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eglin AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2492 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9702 (466D3422) Date: 1/28/1961 Description: President [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) is briefed, together with all the major departments, on the latest plan \(code-named Operation Pluto\) that involves 1,000 men landed in a ship-borne invasion at Trinidad, Cuba, about 170 miles southeast of Havana at the foothills of the Escambray Mountains in Sancti Spiritus province. Kennedy authorizes the active departments to report progress. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3499 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9703 (39E4B968) Date: 2/1961 Description: Forester Vasili Brodski finds a mysterious crater 100 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 10 feet deep on the bank of a frozen lake in Karelia, Russia. It had not been there two days earlier. The base is remarkably smooth, and around the edge are lumps of grass and soil but no trace of the excavated dirt. Six investigators from Leningrad \[now St. Petersburg\] arrive and find odd, crumbling black pellets on the edge of the lake. Divers discover a 330- foot strip where the soil has been displaced along the floor of the lake, as if something slid along the ground and submerged, ploughing up the soil. Geologist Vsevolod Charmov examines ice, water, and soil samples but cannot explain a green discoloration on some of the submerged pieces of broken ice. The pellets seem to be an inorganic substance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 61–63 Source ID: Eberhart_3500 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9704 (3552AA29) Date: 2/1961 Description: Disc near nuclear power station (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Western Europe, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_2493 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9705 (45335DFD) Date: 2/5/1961 End date: 2/7/1961 Description: Many people report strange lights flashing around in the sky over Maine. Some blink and move up and down. A Portland Press Herald editorial, February 9, says: “Mysterious objects ‘lit up like a ball of fire and going fast’ zoom over Portland. Unidentified shapes with green, yellow, and red lights hover over Brunswick, then dart away with ‘unbelievable quickness.’ Strange things are happening. . . The military had us just about convinced that no such objects existed. The only trouble was that many people—good, reliable observers— continued to see these things.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 138](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=150&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3501 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9706 (6BF44B4D) Date: 2/5/1961 End date: 2/7/1961 Description: Many reports of strange lights flashing around in sky. Some blinked and moved up and down. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_2494 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9707 (CF998B4A) Date: 2/16/1961 Description: (McDonald list) High Speed Object Tracked on APS-95 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610216](http://www.nicap.org/610216bermuda%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlantic N of Bermuda, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2495 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9708 (2C1D38C0) Date: 2/23/1961 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Misawa AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2496 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9709 (DE77E01D) Date: 2/26/1961 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tyndall AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2497 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9710 (EC27156B) Date: 2/27/1961 Time: 10:15 PM Description: Witness: Mrs. LaPalm. One fiery-red, round object, preceded by light rays, slowed and descended, while her dog howled. Sighting lasted 10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Bark River, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_458 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9711 (AD7854FB) Date: 2/27/1961 Description: A ship's crew watched an oddly shaped flying object twist, turn, and fall into the sea between Lewis and Harris Islands in the Western Isles off Scotland. On that night at 10:15 p.m. a red sphere with light rays projecting out ahead of it was seen by Mrs. Lapham and her daughter for ten minutes in Bark River, Michigan. Her dog howled during the time that the UFO was present. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Janet Gregory, FSR, September-October 1971, p. 29; US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #7284 Source ID: Johnson_1151 Source: Johnson ### Event 9712 (B259AF3D) Date: 2/27/1961 Description: (McDonald list) Uncorrelated Target With Diffused Echoes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610227](http://www.nicap.org/610227yuma%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yuma, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2498 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9713 (951C498B) Date: 2/27/1961 Description: Cluster of 3 Objects Tracked at 900 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [610227](http://www.nicap.org/610227ftmeade%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Meade, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2499 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9714 (66CB8778) Date: 2/27/1961 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Herndon, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2500 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9715 (55CA32F8) Date: 2/27/1961 Description: Fiery-red, round object, preceded by light rays (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7284) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bark River, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2501 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9716 (B63C489B) Date: 2/28/1961 Description: 3:20 a.m. Clarence Blackwood and his wife hear a roaring sound in the sky at their home in Lakewood, Massachusetts. They look out the bedroom window and see a fiery cigar-shaped object moving at low altitude to the northeast. It is bright yellow in the middle with a bright red edge and surrounded by thin clouds of black smoke. The object rolls back and forth rapidly and travels slowly to the southwest. It passes directly above their house, illuminating the bedroom. The lights that they have left on in the kitchen dim three times and go out for 4– 5 minutes. The object returns at 3:40 and the kitchen lights repeat their previous actions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 115–117 Source ID: Eberhart_3502 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9717 (204B4E36) Date: 2/28/1961 Description: US military advisors first accompany South Vietnamese troops during operations in Vietnam Type: war Reference: [link](https://constitutionus.com/war/when-did-vietnam-war-start/) Location: Vietnam Source ID: Maj2_601 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9718 (FA17DA8C) Date: 2/28/1961 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610228](http://www.nicap.org/610228waverlyafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Waverly AFB, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2502 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9719 (ADAB50EA) Date: 2/28/1961 Description: House lights dimmed three times, went out on two occasions as elongated UFO twice passed overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lakeville, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2503 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9720 (3038E69B) Date: 3/1961 Description: Article in Argosy magazine. AF Col. Tacker used the strongest language to date in denouncing critics of the UFO investigation. Their claims were "absolutely erroneous;" "a hoax:" "sensational theories:" the work of "amateur hobby groups." NICAP's evidence was "drivel," its claims "ridiculous" and it was making "senseless accusations." In April 1961, after being associated with the UFO project for over three years, Col. Tacker was shipped to Europe on "routine reassignment." Type: magazine article Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_892 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9721 (E6074BC2) Date: 3/1961 Description: House Majority Leader [John W. McCormack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FW.%5FMcCormack) tells [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) privately that he has urged the Science and Astronautics Committee, headed by Rep. [Overton Brooks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton%5FBrooks) \(D-La.\), to investigate Air Force UFO secrecy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 76](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/76/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3504 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9722 (8BDFD706) Date: 3/1961 Description: In an article in Argosy, Maj. [Lawrence Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) says that critics of the Air Force investigation are “absolutely erroneous,” “a hoax,” “sensational theories,” and the work of “amateur hobby groups.” NICAP’s evidence is “drivel,” its claims “ridiculous,” and it is making “senseless accusations.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lawrence J. Tacker, “‘Flying Saucers Are Fakes!’ ‘—U.S. Air Force,’” Argosy, March 1961, pp. 58, 125–126; UFOEv, [p. 108](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=121&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3503 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9723 (06226925) Date: 3/3/1961 Description: A white spherical UFO with a metallic luster was seen during the day flying over Manly, New South Wales, Australia. At 10:45 p.m. a father and son were camping near a lake at Bowna Hume Weir, New South Wales when they saw a disc-shaped UFO with four windows on the ground not far away. Four humanoid figures could be seen between the object and a nearby fire. Their encounter lasted 45 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 87; Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_1270 Source: Johnson ### Event 9724 (3EC79DDB) Date: 3/3/1961 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610303](http://www.nicap.org/610303ephrata%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ephrata, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2504 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9725 (B12A28B8) Date: 3/6/1961 Description: In South Miami, Dade County, Florida at 10:15 p.m. a man saw a cigar-shaped object with occupants aboard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norbert F. Gariety, Flying Saucers, September 1961, p. 38; Geroge D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, May 1963, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_1330 Source: Johnson ### Event 9726 (1EBF059A) Date: 3/10/1961 Time: 2045 Description: F. Reynolds and his son were camping near the water. They observed an object on the ground with four windows in it. There was a fire nearby, and four figures could be seen between it and the object. At 2130 it had disappeared. Witnesses in Wodonga, West Albury, Wangaratta and Tallangatta independently observed an unknown object in flight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Austr. FSR 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bowna, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_516 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9727 (481D435E) Date: 3/10/1961 Description: (McDonald list) Slow-Moving Object Tracked on Gnd Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610310](http://www.nicap.org/610310upperheyford%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: RAF Upper Heyford, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2505 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9728 (1CB5D7DF) Date: 3/10/1961 Description: F. Reynolds and his son were camping near the water in Bowna, New South Wales, Australia. They observed an object on the ground with four windows in it. There was a fire nearby, and four figures could be seen between it and the object. At 9:30 p.m. it had disappeared. Witnesses in Wodonga, West Albury, Wangaratta and Tallangatta independently observed an unknown object in flight that same evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 516 Source ID: Johnson_1402 Source: Johnson ### Event 9729 (5CB16922) Date: 3/16/1961 Description: 6:15 p.m. Brazilian meteorologist Rubens J. Villela, on the deck of the [USS Glacier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FGlacier%5F%28AGB-4%29), watches a tear-shaped fireball over Admiralty Bay, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, in slow, level flight. It leaves a long orange trail like a tracer bullet, then abruptly divides in two as if exploding. It disappears after 10 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [pp. 53–](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=65&skin=2021) [54](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=65&skin=2021); James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#meteorologists)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 64–65 Source ID: Eberhart_3505 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9730 (829AE595) Date: 3/16/1961 Description: 8:45 p.m. Mr. F. Reynolds and his 15-year-old son Lloyd are camped in their trailer 900 feet from the Murray River, at Bowna, New South Wales, when they see what appears to be a huge trailer with four windows and a red light at the end standing by the water. A fire is visible to the right of the object, and they can see four figures moving quickly between the object and the fire. Reynolds watches through binoculars and sees the entire array moving sideways in a jerking manner. After 45 minutes, it is all gone from sight. In the morning they can find no traces on the soft mud flat. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Landing?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201961%2007%20-%20no%205.pdf)” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 5 \(July 1961\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_3506 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9731 (0C1082EA) Date: 3/16/1961 Description: Meteorologist observed a fireball-like object, multi-colored, below overcast. \[NICAP UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Antarctica Source ID: NICAP_DB_2506 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9732 (FD0F86D6) Date: 3/17/1961 Description: USAF Col. Tacker lectures to the Aero Club of Buffalo, N.Y. Type: lecture Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: Buffalo, NY Source ID: Maj2_891 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9733 (4C402ACC) Date: Spring 1961 Description: Case missing (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7321) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kemah, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2507 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9734 (A1E70FFF) Date: Spring 1961 Time: Time unknown Description: Case missing from official files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kemah, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_459 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9735 (4F1DCCE2) Date: Spring 1961 Description: Late evening. A couple parking in Millville, New Jersey, watch a bright light silently moving northward. It hovers, reverses direction, and maneuvers for 5 minutes. At one point it races directly at a star, abruptly stops, draws a neat, right-angled, half-box around it, and goes racing on. Finally it speeds out of sight in about 5 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 44](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/44/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_3507 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9736 (8181AB80) Date: 3/23/1961 Description: Beechcraft pilot and passenger saw an intense bright light rise (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610323](http://www.nicap.org/610323fortpierce%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Pierce, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2508 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9737 (3C490825) Date: 4/1961 Description: Maj. [Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker) is removed from his job as Pentagon UFO spokesman and reassigned to Europe. He is replaced by Maj. [William T. Coleman](http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1243564/pg1). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Tacker Replaced As Spokesman,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/012%20APR-MAY%201961.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 12 \(April/May 1961\): 1– 2; UFOEv, [p. 108](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=120&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3508 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9738 (0780470F) Date: 4/4/1961 Description: President [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) approves the Bay of Pigs plan \(also known as Operation Zapata\) for the invasion of Cuba because it has an airfield that does not need extending to handle bomber operations, it is farther away from large groups of civilians than the Trinidad plan, and it is less noisy militarily, which would make any future denial of direct US involvement more plausible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Bay of Pigs invasion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%5Fof%5FPigs%5FInvasion)” Source ID: Eberhart_3509 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9739 (7BCB26FB) Date: 4/9/1961 Description: Round red UFO descended, hovered, sped away. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kingsville, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2509 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9740 (F676978D) Date: 4/11/1961 Description: (McDonald list) Object Tracked Prior to Launch of Polaris Missile (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610411](http://www.nicap.org/610411capecanav%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Canaveral, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2510 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9741 (C8F9CB86) Date: 4/12/1961 Description: Soviet cosmonaut [Yuri Gagarin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%5FGagarin) becomes the first human to go into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completes an orbit of the earth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Yuri Gagarin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%5FGagarin)” Source ID: Eberhart_3510 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9742 (216541DD) Date: 4/14/1961 Description: Four Small Objects Tracked 10-15 Minutes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610414](http://www.nicap.org/610414marianaislands%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marianas Islands, Asia Source ID: NICAP_DB_2511 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9743 (7A7E064F) Date: 4/17/1961 Description: The Bay of Pigs invasion takes place in Cuba. A counter-revolutionary military \(made up of Cuban exiles\), trained and funded by the CIA, Brigade 2506 fronts the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front \(DRF\) and intends to overthrow the increasingly communist government of [Fidel Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro). Launched from bases in Guatemala and Nicaragua, the invading force is defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces under the direct command of Castro. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Bay of Pigs invasion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%5Fof%5FPigs%5FInvasion)” Source ID: Eberhart_3511 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9744 (2DA189BB) Date: 4/18/1961 Description: Mr. Paul Simonton, a Chicken farmer in Eagle River, Wisconsin saw a disc-shaped carft land vertically on his farm. A hatch opened, and when he approached he saw three human-looking men inside. They asked him for some water. They appeared to be cooking pancakes on a griddle, and in exchange for the water they gave him four of the pancakes from griddle. The men were described as five feet tall with dark hair. They wore blue knit outfits and helmets. The newspapers had a field day with this report, but private UFO investigators who interviewed Mr. Simonton found him to be sincere and his story uncomplicated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allen Utke case files, case 6; Milwaukee Journal, April 23, 1961; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, May 1963, p. 34; NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1961, p. 8; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_2112 Source: Johnson ### Event 9745 (7E5A7F6B) Date: 4/18/1961 Description: CE-3 case involving ETs giving 'pancakes' for water (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eagle River, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2512 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9746 (8DF76182) Date: 4/18/1961 Time: 1100 Description: J. Simonton heard a whining sound and saw an object, 10 m in diameter, 4 m high, with exhaust pipes around the periphery, land near his house. A door was opened and a man appeared. About 1.50 m tall, he wore a black, turtle-neck pullover with a white band at the belt, and black trousers with a vertical white band along the side. Two figures were visible inside the object. Simonton filled a jug with water, returned it to the man, who gave him three ordinary pancakes, and the craft took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Eagle River, Wisconsin Source ID: Magnonia_517 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9747 (CDFCD190) Date: 4/18/1961 Description: 11:00 a.m. [Joe Simonton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21117456/joseph-g-simonton) hears a whining sound on his farm four miles from Eagle River, Wisconsin, and sees a silvery object, 30 feet in diameter and 12 feet high, with exhaust pipes around the periphery, land nearby. A door opens and a man appears, about 5 feet tall and wearing a black, turtle-neck pullover with a white band at the belt, and black trousers with a vertical white band along the side. Two other figures are visible inside. The creature is holding a metallic jug and making gestures suggesting he wants a drink. Simonton takes the jug into his basement, fills it with water, and returns it to the man. Simonton notices one man frying on a flameless grill and motions for some food. Simonton receives four ordinary pancakes or cookies, 3 inches in diameter, perforated with small holes. The object takes off after 5 minutes. Simonton gives one of the pancakes to Judge [Frank](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21119059/frank-wellington-carter) [Wellington Carter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21119059/frank-wellington-carter)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21119059/frank-wellington-carter) who then passes it on to the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena; another he gives to [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) for Project Blue Book; and the third he keeps for himself. A thorough analysis is performed on one of the pancakes by the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the food is found to be made of terrestrial but tasteless ingredients, including hydrogenated oil and buckwheat flour. The Air Force concludes that Simonton is honest but has mistakenly conflated the reality of his breakfast with a dream. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 287; Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 23–25](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/22/mode/2up); Clark III 421–426; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf) [UFOs, a History: January–June 1961](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 2003, pp. 32–34; Center for UFO Studies, \[[Hynek case](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1961%5F04%5F18%5FUS%5FWI%5FEagle-River%5FHYNEK%5FSimonton-CE-III.pdf) [documents](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1961%5F04%5F18%5FUS%5FWI%5FEagle-River%5FHYNEK%5FSimonton-CE-III.pdf)\]; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case](http://www.cufos.org/images/1961%5F04%5F18%5FUS%5FWI%5FEagle-River%5FHYNEK%5FSimonton-CE-III%5FPhoto1-400dpi.jpg) [photos](http://www.cufos.org/images/1961%5F04%5F18%5FUS%5FWI%5FEagle-River%5FHYNEK%5FSimonton-CE-III%5FPhoto2-400dpi.jpg)\]; Center for UFO Studies, \[[Lex Mebane case files](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1961%5F04%5F18%5FUS%5FWI%5FEagle-River%5FMEBANE%5FSimonton-CE-III.pdf)\]; Center for UFO Studies, \[[NICAP case documents](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1961%5F04%5F18%5FUS%5FWI%5FEagle-River%5FNICAP%5FSimonton-CE-III.pdf)\]; Jerome Clark, “[The Pancakes of Eagle River,](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1961%5F04%5F18%5FUS%5FWI%5FEagle-River%5FClark%5FIUR.pdf)” IUR 21, no. 1 \(Spring 1996\): 3–8, 27; Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332 \(November 2015\): 42–44 Source ID: Eberhart_3512 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9748 (BA52FC9B) Date: 4/19/1961 Description: 7:40 p.m. Commanding Officer C. J. Peterson of the minesweeper HMS Maxton sees a swiftly moving object as the ship is 33 miles off San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily, Italy. It is green and leaves an orange trail as it moves higher and disappears to the northwest. The ship’s crew sees a similar object on April 20 at 4:50 a.m. when it is 25 miles south of Capo Carbonara, Sardinia, Italy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 1Pinotti 112–113 Source ID: Eberhart_3513 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9749 (A7C62921) Date: 4/20/1961 Description: Object at 97,000' Tracked on FPS-6A (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610420](http://www.nicap.org/610420hannacity%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hanna City AFS, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2513 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9750 (7404C68E) Date: 4/24/1961 Description: RC-121 Crew Tracks Object With Sextant (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 7359) Reference: NICAP: [610424](http://www.nicap.org/610424sanfrancisco%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Francisco (200 miles SW of), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2514 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9751 (7F02F96A) Date: 4/24/1961 Time: 3:34 AM Description: Witnesses: aircraft commander Capt. H.J. Savoy and navigator lst Lt. M.W. Rand, on USAF RC-l2lD patrol plane. One reddish-white, round object or light, similar to satellite. Observed for 8 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 200 miles SW of San Francisco, California (35' 50' N, 125' 40 W) Source ID: BerlinerBBU_460 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9752 (FB0BF83C) Date: 4/25/1961 Description: US Air Force Intelligence Collection Guidance Letter no. 4, originally classified Confidential, describes and provides guidance for Project Moon Dust reporting. Several items of interest appear in the document: classification level of Moon Dust Alerts and reports, focus of Moon Dust on “foreign earth satellite vehicles,” and destination agencies for Moon Dust reports among them. Project Moon Dust is a covert project to exploit the discovery of Soviet hardware when it temporarily lands in American hands. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Department of the Air Force, “[MOON DUST Reporting,](http://www.nicap.org/af%5Fdoc/MoonDustICGL4.pdf)” Intelligence Collection Guidance Letter, no. 4, April 25, 1961; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, [pp. 157–169](https://archive.org/details/historyofufocras0000rand/page/156/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3514 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9753 (4616A49E) Date: 4/27/1961 Description: On this morning a bluish green oval object, the size of a jetliner, landed on Lake Onega in Karelia, Russia and broke through the ice. It was heading toward the east when it came down and created a trench 50 feet long and 10 feet deep in the lake bed. There was a great deal of disturbed mud, and odd fragments were also found at the site. The sample residue was analyzed and showed the presence of the elements magnesium, aluminum, calcium, barium, and titanium. There were at least 25 witnesses to the crash landing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 137, citing Felix Zigel; APRO Bulletin, June 1976, p. 5; Xenolog, August 1976, p. 11; Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_2367 Source: Johnson ### Event 9754 (DF5D027B) Date: 4/28/1961 Description: Traces of a crashed UFO were found in this area. Type: ufo crash Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Korb Lake, Leningrad, Russia Source ID: Maj2_602 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9755 (2914C346) Date: 4/29/1961 Description: Mr. Gallagher was at Bailey's Beach, Newport County, Rhode Island at around four o'clock in the afternoon when he noticed a red ball floating about 600 feet offshore. It then ascended to 60 feet altitude, and flew away to the south at 100 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1961, p. 4; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 40, citing Flying Saucer Review Source ID: Johnson_2407 Source: Johnson ### Event 9756 (8A882979) Date: 4/29/1961 Description: Around 4:00 p.m. Contractor John P. Gallagher is working at a home adjacent to Bailey’s Beach, Newport, Rhode Island. He sees a red spherical object bobbing on the ocean waves about 600 feet from the shore. Suddenly the object rises into the air to 60 feet and moves out to sea at about 100 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Head’ Floats—Flies,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201961%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1961, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_3515 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9757 (533B6F3B) Date: 5/1961 Description: Rep. [Overton Brooks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton%5FBrooks) \(D-La.\) appoints Rep. [Joseph Karth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKarth) \(DFL-Minn.\) head of a Subcommittee on Space Problems and Life Sciences. Karth and two other members plan for hearings in early 1962. The plan calls for a statement by [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) NICAP releases a joint statement by 21 American scientists that calls for an open investigation by UFOs without secrecy. It says the Air Force should have a more straightforward information policy that releases all facts on major UFO sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Scientists Urge Check on AF Investigation,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/012%20APR-MAY%201961.pdf)” UFO Investigator 1, no. 12 \(April/May 1961\): 7; “[UFO Inquiry behind Closed Doors: NICAP Asks Right to](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/013%20JUL-AUG%201961.pdf) [Question Air Force,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/013%20JUL-AUG%201961.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 1 \(July/Aug. 1961\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_3516 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9758 (3C8AE649) Date: 5/1961 Description: First Week of May - Hemispherical UFO with "portholes", on road; took off as car approached. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Union Mills, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2515 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9759 (007085AE) Date: 5/1961 Description: In the May issue of “Fate” magazine, Master Sgt. O.D. Hill admits that we are still losing Air Force planes to UFOs. The first case was an F-86 jet fighter that was sent aloft to investigate an UFO that had been plotted on the Radar scope of an Air Base (name and dates classified). The Radar Operator spied the UFO heading straight for the craft. The operator radioed for the F-86 to climb at once, but it was too late. The two blips merged as one and the UFO was tracked moving away. Classified as “mysterious” not a single shred of the F-86 was ever found. (ref. Kinross AFB where an F-89 with crew of two merged with an UFO and disappeared.-Donald Keyhoe) Second Case: A radar operator was tracking a transport plane carrying 26 persons aboard when, suddenly, another blip appeared on the screen closing at 2500 mph on the transport. Before the operator could warn the transport the two blips emerged as one. The remaining blip sped straight up at tremendous speed. A surface search in the vicinity revealed no oil slicks on the water, although a Generals’ briefcase was found floating around. Type: publication Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961 Location: US See also: 4/1/59 See also: 9/29/59 Source ID: Maj2_604 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9760 (DEB22EA2) Date: 5/3/1961 Description: On or about this date a hemispherical craft with portholes was sighted resting on a road in Union Mills, Indiana. The time was ten o'clock in the evening. It took off when a car came close to it. Its estimated diameter was four meters, height 2.5 meters, and it bore "fluorescent lights." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 518; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 147 Source ID: Johnson_2469 Source: Johnson ### Event 9761 (A9BB021D) Date: 5/3/1961 Time: 2200 Description: Approximate date. A hemispherical craft with portholes, resting on a road, took off when a car came near it. Estimated diameter was 4 m, height 2.5 m, bearing "fluorescent lights." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Evidence 139, 147 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Union Mills, Indiana Source ID: Magnonia_518 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9762 (83FE0F3E) Date: 5/5/1961 Description: Astronaut [Alan Shepard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%5FShepard) becomes the first American in space \(for 15 minutes and 22 seconds\) when his [Freedom 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone%5F3) capsule is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the first manned Project Mercury launch. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Mercury-Redstone 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone%5F3)” Source ID: Eberhart_3517 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9763 (EA7F7213) Date: 5/9/1961 Description: At 7:45 a.m. several observers watched a shiny saucer-shaped object hover over Bains Kloof Mountain Pass near Wellington, Western Cape, South Africa. It hovered for a minute of two, then wobbled, and then shot off toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing FSR, volume 7, number 4; newspaper clipping dated May 9, 1961 Source ID: Johnson_2680 Source: Johnson ### Event 9764 (5A08DB58) Date: 5/10/1961 Description: Late evening. Richard Vogt, driving on a rural road south of Osakis, Minnesota, sees a “ball of fog approximately 3 feet in diameter” swiftly descending toward him at a 45° angle from a clear sky. Unable to take evasive action, Vogt can only stare as the object hits the upper part of his hood and windshield. The noisy impact generates a tremendous amount of heat; the windshield becomes extremely hot to the touch. The object leaves pit marks burned in the windshield, circular tracks on the glass, and burned specks in the finish of the hood. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: C. W. Fitch, “[Monitoring and Scanning UFOs,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201963%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 5; Clark III 716 Source ID: Eberhart_3518 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9765 (6788E219) Date: 5/14/1961 Description: At around 11:00 o'clock in the morning a 21-year-old man saw a golden disc-shaped object floating on the surface of the water while crossing the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi. He got out of his car and watched it through binoculars. The water surface was disturbed as the object ascended, making a swishing sound. The sighting lasted about two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James A. Scarborough, MUFON field investigations database, case 900315 Source ID: Johnson_2827 Source: Johnson ### Event 9766 (474A1237) Date: 5/15/1961 Description: An order approved by President [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) results in the dispersal of four machine guns to insurgents in the Dominican Republic. President [Rafael Trujillo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael%5FTrujillo) dies from gunshot wounds on May 30. In the aftermath, [Robert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FF.%5FKennedy) [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FF.%5FKennedy) writes that the CIA has succeeded where it has failed many times in the past, but in the face of that success, it is caught flatfooted, having failed to plan what to do next. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Rafael Trujillo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael%5FTrujillo\#Assassination)” Source ID: Eberhart_3519 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9767 (034D28C9) Date: 5/19/1961 Description: Twelve shiny UFOs maneuvered erratically over the area at 3:50 p.m., with an odd fluttering motion; then two loud "skyquakes" were heard. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Beach, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2517 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9768 (667F4323) Date: 5/19/1961 Description: Silver-like object with tapered edges reflecting sunlight to the NNE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bay Minette (About 7 miles W of), AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2516 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9769 (D7A83AED) Date: 5/20/1961 Description: Gnd Radar Tracks Object Chased By Fighter & Heli Pilots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610520](http://www.nicap.org/610520tyndall%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tyndall AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2519 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9770 (66A98A8F) Date: 5/20/1961 Description: Dime-Shaped Object Observed / Weather Radar Tracked? (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610520](http://www.nicap.org/610520maxwell%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2518 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9771 (57438F5F) Date: 5/22/1961 Time: 4:30 PM Description: Witnesses: Mrs. A.J. Jones and Mrs. R.F. Davis. One big silver dollar disc hovered and revolved, then suddenly disappeared after 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tyndall AFB, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_461 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9772 (EF9E8036) Date: 5/22/1961 Description: Big silver-dollar disc hover and revolve, then disappear (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7417) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tyndall AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2520 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9773 (D15DB2D9) Date: 5/22/1961 Description: That same afternoon in Texas a stationary silver disc hung in the air over Tyndall Air Force Base. It was seen by two married women, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Davis, at 4:30 p.m. The object appeared to be revolving as it hovered. After 15 minutes it finally rose higher and higher into the air and disappeared. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7417; Lloyd Mallan, Science & Mechanics, December 1966, p. 36; Lloyd Mallan, The Official Guide to UFOs, p. 22; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 95 Source ID: Johnson_3033 Source: Johnson ### Event 9774 (FA0BE4B5) Date: 5/22/1961 Description: Over 20 high qualified witnesses including several doctors watched a 30 meter long metallic ovoid object maneuver at low altitude in Ocumare del Tuy, Venezuela and then land at 10:30 a.m. A total of three objects were seen, manuevering silently in and out of the nearby hills and dodging trees and a low speed. Flattened grass was found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1961; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 185; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #5930 Source ID: Johnson_3032 Source: Johnson ### Event 9775 (0F9D72DC) Date: 5/23/1961 Description: A round, silver bowl-shaped object flew slowly to the south over Napier, New Zealand in Hawke's Bay at a few minutes after 3:15 p.m. It was witnessed by a Mrs. Church for two minutes. It reached a position over the local aerodrome and then vanished in place. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1961, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_3045 Source: Johnson ### Event 9776 (27BC50B4) Date: 5/23/1961 Description: Oval Tracked By AN/FPS-6A (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [610523](http://www.nicap.org/610523bronson%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bronson and Cross City, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2521 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9777 (3E71387C) Date: 5/25/1961 Description: Domed UFO with "portholes." \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shepperton, Middlesex, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2522 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9778 (0D08A886) Date: 5/28/1961 Description: A luminous disc was seen by airmen circling below at sea level northeast of Florianopolis, Brazil on this night. It climbed to the altitude of the DC-3 and circled the plane, then paced the aircraft as it flew to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1961 Source ID: Johnson_3132 Source: Johnson ### Event 9779 (5FA0797D) Date: 5/29/1961 Description: Boy filmed unidentified light. \[NICAP UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newark, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2523 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9780 (DBBD4181) Date: 5/31/1961 Description: At noon on this day over Toompang, New South Wales, Australia five men watched a large object hover in the sky while four delta-shaped objects exited and maneuvered around it for over an hour. They finally rejoined it and the large craft flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 151; FSR, March 1979, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_3181 Source: Johnson ### Event 9781 (056CF15A) Date: 6/1961 Description: The outspoken new policy, if that is what it was, apparently backfired. Angered by USAF Col. Tacker's attitude, NICAP members and other citizens deluged Congress with requests for an investigation of the Air Force project. Congressional hearings were contemplated but never came about. Instead, Air Force Congressional Liaison personnel briefed key Congressional committees in private. Type: congressional briefings Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_893 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9782 (213EF06B) Date: 6/2/1961 Description: Blue-white light fly erratic course at varying speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7437) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miyako Jima Air Station, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2525 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9783 (6FB9E6A2) Date: 6/2/1961 Description: On Miyako Jima, Japan at 10:17 p.m. Lt. R. N. Monahan and Hazeltine Electric Co. technical representative D. W. Mattison, sighted a blue-white light that flew an erratic course at varying speeds, in an arc-like path for five minutes. A radar contact with visual confirmation of the UFO occurred on the same day in Tampa, Florida. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7437; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3225 Source: Johnson ### Event 9784 (33413A79) Date: 6/2/1961 Time: 10:17 PM Description: Witnesses: lst Lt. R.N. Monahan and Hazeltine Electric Co. technical representative D.W. Mattison. One blue-white light flew erratic course at varying speed, in an arc-like path for 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Miyako Jima, Japan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_462 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9785 (C5B37BDE) Date: 6/2/1961 Description: (McDonald list) Object Tracked At 34,000' /F-102 Scrambled (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 3, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610602](http://www.nicap.org/610602tampa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tampa, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2524 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9786 (061638AC) Date: 6/3/1961 Description: In the sea off the town of Savona, Italy four people who were taking a ride in a small motorboat were suddenly rocked by growing waves. They stood up and noticed the sea swell up like an enormous bubble a kilometer away, with large waves widening into a circle. A few seconds later an object emerged and hovered at 10 meters altitude above the waves for a brief time. Its lower part was similar to an upside down plate and the upper part was shaped like a cone. As it was emerging from the water the object seemed to push it as if there was an air pillow. After it had emerged completely, the object stopped for a few seconds in the air at about 10 meters above the surface. After a few sways, a mark around the base formed and the object rapidly departed following a trajectory oblique to the sea surface and disappeared towards the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 519; Marco Bianchini, USOCAT: Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU), www.cisu.org; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 122, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1963, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_3243 Source: Johnson ### Event 9787 (5F622439) Date: 6/3/1961 Time: 0635 Description: Off this town, four people in a boat were suddenly shaken by growing waves and saw the sea swelling like an enormous bubble 1 km away. An object emerged, hovering at 10 m altitude for a brief time, its underside glowing, and it left obliquely at high speed toward the northeast. Its shape was similar to a cone resting on a disk. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Settimana Incom. Jan. 6,63 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Savona, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_519 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9788 (CD4306B0) Date: 6/3/1961 Description: A civilian weather observer sees an object through a theodolite at Mercury, Nevada. It remains in sight for 2 hours at an altitude of 80,000–120,000 feet. Project Blue Book evaluators correctly identify the object as a probable U-2 aircraft flying out of Nellis AFB. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “The U-2 Spy Plane and Blue Book: Another Look,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 21 Source ID: Eberhart_3524 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9789 (FF2FB6B3) Date: 6/3/1961 Description: 6:35 a.m. Giacomo Barra, Giuseppe Pordoi, Filippo Marin, and Silvano Guardinfante are in a motorboat off Savona, Italy, when the boat begins to roll badly. More than one-half mile away, they notice the surface of the sea is “bulging like an enormous ball, with long billows going out.” An object emerges from the sea and stops still for a few seconds at a height of 30 feet and rocks slightly. A halo forms around the base and it shoots away quickly across the sea and vanishes towards the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf) [UFOs, a History: January–June 1961](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 2003, p. 50; 1Pinotti 117–118 Source ID: Eberhart_3523 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9790 (1C4C8EC9) Date: 6/4/1961 Description: A cigar-shaped or long elliptical UFO with a cluster of smaller UFOs was observed by a librarian. First motionless, the smaller objects then streaked across the sky to the large UFO and all vanished behind trees. \[NICAP UFOE, VIII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Blue Ridge Summit, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2526 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9791 (54C4BFB8) Date: 6/4/1961 Description: Mrs. James W. Annis, a librarian, sees a large, narrow, elliptical object hovering low in the sky to the north of Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania. Farther to the east, a cluster of smaller objects is hovering. She then watches the smaller objects streak across the sky to the larger one. All then move out of sight behind trees to the north- northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 71](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=83&skin=2021); Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 25 Source ID: Eberhart_3525 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9792 (E41EE44D) Date: 6/5/1961 Description: 2:30 a.m. Patrolman Jaime de Miranda and Astrogildo de Medeiros are called to the scene of a sighting on the Rodovia Anchieta highway 30 miles northwest of Santos, São Paulo, Brazil. When they arrive, they find about 20 cars stopped along the road and people watching a luminous disc-shaped object maneuvering in the area. The patrolmen try to signal the object by shining a spotlight on it, but they get no response. When they focus a red light on it, the object moves toward the cars at high speed. They take cover. Another responder, Marshal José Otavia Leite, is about to shoot at the object but other police prevent him. After 3 hours, the object gets dimmer. At 5:30 a.m., it is still visible through binoculars when it lands on the ground some distance from the highway. By daybreak it is no longer visible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 227–228 Source ID: Eberhart_3526 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9793 (951EDEC2) Date: 6/9/1961 Description: A second USAF/NASA flight evaluation of the Avrocar is conducted on a modified second prototype at the Avro facility in Mississisauga, Ontario. During these tests, the vehicle reaches a maximum speed of 20 knots and shows the ability to traverse a ditch 6 feet across and 18 inches deep. Flight above the critical altitude proves dangerous if not nearly impossible due to inherent instability. The flight test report further identifies a range of control problems. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” Source ID: Eberhart_3527 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9794 (4D5B8F5B) Date: 6/11/1961 Description: Jose Darnaude, age 28, of Villanueva del Rio y Minas, Spain felt a strange prickling sensation all over his body but especially on his head when he next saw a spinning luminous object approach rapidly from the northeast. The disc-shaped UFO dropped down at a 90-degree angle, and stopped to hover at 20-30 meters altitude, 250 meters away. It changed color from white to orange to red to purple to white again. Over a dozen other people witnessed it for several minutes before it rose vertically at great speed and flew towards the southwest. Horses in the area went crazy with fear, sheep broke loose, and dogs cowered in silence. Mr. Darnaude has degrees in law, economics, and business management, and at the time was the manager of his family's agricultural and cattle breeding business, on whose estate the incident occurred. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, pp. 7-8. Source ID: Johnson_3418 Source: Johnson ### Event 9795 (2AAF078B) Date: 6/11/1961 Description: 11:00 p.m. José-Gregorio Darnaude y Rojas Marcos, 28, is lying in a hammock in the front of his house on the Fuenteluega Estate in Sevilla, Spain, when he feels a peculiar pricking sensation throughout his whole body but particularly in his head. His dogs are cowering, the sheep go completely crazy, and the crickets and cicadas become silent. Suddenly, a luminous disc about 15 feet in diameter appears from behind the house, flying from northeast to southwest. It makes an abrupt 90° turn and moves directly toward him, hovering about 400 feet away from him and 80 feet in the air, changing colors from white to orange to red to purple several times. Darnaude runs inside, but the disc turns bright white and shots away at enormous speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Twelfh Night: And a UFO,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 18 \(September 1974\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_3528 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9796 (78459F12) Date: 6/12/1961 Description: A smoke ring was seen in the presence of a UFO at 6:30 p.m. in Waynesville, Ohio. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1961, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_3438 Source: Johnson ### Event 9797 (2B4E1706) Date: 6/13/1961 Description: At 3:35 p.m. a 25 cm wide disc flew just above some telephone lines at a railroad station in Bethunga, New South Wales, Australia. It made a whistling noise. The telephone became entangled by its passage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Luis Schoenherr, computerized catalogue, case #1451 Source ID: Johnson_3456 Source: Johnson ### Event 9798 (7B54B39D) Date: 6/19/1961 Description: A flying object hovers for more than an hour above an airport at Exeter, Devon, England. Officials say: “We do not know what it is. It was seen on the radar screen and we have had it under observation for some time. We think it is pretty big. It appears to be shining brightly and is about 50,000 feet up.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [pp. 80](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=92&skin=2021), [139](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=151&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3529 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9799 (1D1B8072) Date: 6/19/1961 Description: Exeter, England; Edinburgh, Scotland, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Exeter, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2527 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9800 (A5FDBADB) Date: Summer 1961 Description: Capt. [Robert Filler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197031899/robert-eugene-filler) and Lt. Phil Lee, based with the 82d Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Travis AFB in Fairfield, California, are scrambled in their F-102 Delta Dagger jets to intercept a radar target that has been hovering at 50,000 feet for 30 minutes. They get a radar lock-on 20 miles out above the Sacramento Valley. The target is still stationary until they are 5 miles away, then the target moves quickly several times to a higher altitude. Filler estimates it is moving at 36,000 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 245–246](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/244/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3521 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9801 (6F6A3152) Date: Summer 1961 Description: Near Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, crews are setting up new missile batteries as part of Moscow’s defensive network. A huge disc-shaped object allegedly appears at an estimated altitude of 12.5 miles, surrounded by a number of smaller objects. A nervous battery commander panics and gives unauthorized orders to fire a salvo at the disc. All the missiles explode at an estimated distance of 1.2 miles from the target. A third salvo is not fired, because at that point the smaller objects stall the electrical apparatus of the entire missile base. After the smaller disc rejoin the big UFO, the electrical systems return. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 227–228](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/226/mode/2up); Flying Saucers, no. 47, May 1966, pp. 6–10 Source ID: Eberhart_3520 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9802 (82A655AF) Date: Summer 1961 Description: Day. Glenn E. Bradley watches a group of six metallic discs pass over his farm near Beloit, Ohio, at a low altitude. They are traveling in single file at about 30 mph and are spaced 1–2 miles apart. The objects are each about 60 feet in diameter at the bottom with a 30-foot dome on top. Within a transparent section in the center he can see two figures on each side. The objects begin banking to the left about 200–300 feet away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Soup Bowls](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf) [over Ohio,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1985\): 4, 6 Source ID: Eberhart_3522 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9803 (31CF784E) Date: 6/25/1961 Description: (McDonald list) Two Blips At 4800 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610625](http://www.nicap.org/610625pacific%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Ocean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2528 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9804 (BEE0B206) Date: 6/30/1961 Description: 2:00 p.m. Residents of Warsaw, Poland, see a large, luminous, roughly spherical, slowly moving object in the sky. It supposedly remains visible for more than 8 hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 29–31 Source ID: Eberhart_3530 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9805 (B8D964B4) Date: 7/1961 Alternate date: 8/1961 Description: Dusk. Florin Gorănescu is staying at a villa in Lacul Roşu, Romania. He and two colleagues notice on top of a nearby high cliff an intensely red light that remains motionless until it begins moving slowly northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 13 Source ID: Eberhart_3531 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9806 (B9E7A503) Date: 7/1/1961 Description: A new squadron that will become the 1st Aerospace Surveillance and Control Squadron becomes operational under the USAF Air Defense Command at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\], Colorado Springs, Colorado, part of NORAD’s Space Detection and Tracking System. The first squadron commander is Col. Robert Miller. The Space Track organization at Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts, assumes a backup role for squadron operations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1st Space Operations Squadron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%5FSpace%5FOperations%5FSquadron\#Space%5FTrack)” Source ID: Eberhart_3533 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9807 (13CDC881) Date: 7/1/1961 Description: ATIC is removed from USAF Intelligence and added to the new Air Force Systems Command. Its name is changed to the Foreign Technology Division. Project Blue Book is included in the reorganization. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), pp. 12–13; Wikipedia, “[National Air and Space Intelligence Center](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FAir%5Fand%5FSpace%5FIntelligence%5FCenter\#Foreign%5FTechnology%5FDivision)” Source ID: Eberhart_3532 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9808 (412E610F) Date: 7/3/1961 Time: 0015 Description: An object resembling a hovercraft, having five windows through which an orange light was shining, hovered about 20 m above the trees. It left suddenly at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 61, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ryde, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_520 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9809 (E705CA91) Date: 7/3/1961 Description: An object resembling a hovercraft was seen at fifteen minutes after minute in Ryde, England. It had five windows through which a bright orange light was shining, and it hovered about 20 meters above the trees. It left suddenly at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 520 Source ID: Johnson_3802 Source: Johnson ### Event 9810 (B6AD8A75) Date: 7/4/1961 Description: Object Dives At Plane, Climbs Away At Tremendous Speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [610704](http://www.nicap.org/610704akron%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Akron, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2529 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9811 (32728A98) Date: 7/7/1961 Description: A large ball fly slow, split into 4 after 45 mins flying (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7491) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Copemiah, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2530 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9812 (0C553F8E) Date: 7/7/1961 Description: In Copemish, Michigan at 11 p.m. waitress Nannette Hilley saw a large flying ball of light slow down and split into four parts after 45 minutes. The four lights flew in close formation, descended and flew away toward the west. The sighting lasted a total of one hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3903 Source: Johnson ### Event 9813 (6A83B36A) Date: 7/7/1961 Time: 11 PM Description: Witness: waitress Nannette Hilley. One large ball flew slow, split into four after 45 minutes. Four flew close formation, descended and flew away to the west. Total sighting lasted 1 hour. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Copemish, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_463 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9814 (9AAC8D4C) Date: 7/8/1961 Description: In Beulah, Michigan a bluish-white light with a faint rotating beacon inside was sighted at 11:00 p.m. It had three red and three white lights inside. It descended to tree top level, and then went behind the trees. Soon, a red light followed by a white object emerged from behind the trees; they flew low over the ground, and then the two lights merged together. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_3925 Source: Johnson ### Event 9815 (C68EB9E6) Date: 7/10/1961 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Golden, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2531 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9816 (08FE872D) Date: 7/11/1961 Description: 10:35 p.m. Jacques Vallée and others at the Paris Observatory in Meudon, France, see a mystery satellite as part of Project Moonwatch. The following day the director of the project confiscates all their data and destroys it, apparently in fear of being laughed at by the press, scientific colleagues, and the Americans. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, North Atlantic, 1992, [pp. 41–42](https://archive.org/details/forbiddenscience00vall%5F0/page/41/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_3534 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9817 (84A2904C) Date: 7/11/1961 Time: 7:45 PM Description: Witnesses: ex-air navigator G. Scott, Mrs. Scott, and neighbors. One round, bright light like shiny aluminum, passed overhead in 20 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Springfield, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_464 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9818 (242B01B4) Date: 7/11/1961 Description: In Springfield, Ohio at 7:45 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Scott and their neighbors sighted a round, bright light like shiny aluminum pass overhead. Their sighting lasted 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3991 Source: Johnson ### Event 9819 (809B15FF) Date: 7/11/1961 Description: Round bright light like shiny aluminum, pass overhead (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7499) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2532 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9820 (DE5D361A) Date: 7/17/1961 Description: 2:00 a.m. Two people driving about one mile north of Bonnie Springs Ranch \[now the Ranch at Red Rock\] in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada, see in the rear-view mirror a low-flying object that overtakes their car, followed by a rush of cold air. It stops, circles the vehicle, flies off, and is lost to sight behind the mountains, where it might have landed, but an investigation by the military finds no trace. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 282](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/282/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 288 Source ID: Eberhart_3535 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9821 (3B5AF8BB) Date: 7/17/1961 Description: 2 in/car saw in mirror a low-flying object that overtook their car (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas (Bonnie Springs? near), NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2533 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9822 (0C3F815D) Date: 7/17/1961 Time: 0200 Description: One mile north of Bonny Spring Ranch, on U.S. Highway 91, two civilians in a car observed in the rear-view mirror a low-flying object that overtook their car, followed by a rush of cold air. It stopped, circled the vehicle, flew off and was lost to sight behind the mountains, where it may have landed. In the course of an exceptionally complete investigation by military authorities, however, no evidence of a landing was discovered. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Source ID: Magnonia_521 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9823 (BD9A2557) Date: 7/20/1961 Description: While flying in a DC-3 over Houston, Texas at eight o'clock in the morning Trans-Texas Airlines Capt. A.V. Beather sighted two very bright white lights or objects. They flew in trail formation for 30 minutes. There is a vague report from ground radar that the UFOs were picked up on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4233 Source: Johnson ### Event 9824 (6AB2582B) Date: 7/20/1961 Time: 8 AM Description: Witnesses: Trans-Texas Airlines Capt. A.V. Beather, flying DC-3, plus vague report from ground radar. Two very bright white light or objects flew in trail formation for 30 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Houston, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_465 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9825 (82623E76) Date: 7/20/1961 Description: Pilot in DC3 saw 2 bright white lights fly in formation (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 7510) Reference: NICAP: [610720](http://www.nicap.org/610720houston%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2534 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9826 (C12F67BA) Date: 7/21/1961 Description: Mercury program : Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission — Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission). Type: aerospace Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961 Location: US See also: 1/27/67 Source ID: Maj2_605 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9827 (2C93CDC0) Date: 7/24/1961 Description: An intensely luminous UFO maneuvered sharply around a VASP Airlines plane. \[NICAP UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ilha Grande, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2535 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9828 (988EEA63) Date: 8/1961 Description: Construction of essential facilities is completed at Area 51 in Nevada; three surplus Navy hangars are erected on the base’s north side. The original U-2 hangars are converted to maintenance and machine shops. Facilities in the main cantonment area include workshops and buildings for storage and administration, a commissary, control tower, fire station, and housing. The Navy also contributes more than 130 surplus Babbitt duplex housing units for long-term occupancy facilities. Older buildings are repaired, and additional facilities are constructed as necessary. A reservoir pond surrounded by trees serves as a recreational area one mile north of the base. Other recreational facilities included a gymnasium, a movie theater, and a baseball diamond. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Area 51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%5F51)” Source ID: Eberhart_3536 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9829 (7AF0D0A0) Date: 8/4/1961 Description: Rep. [Thomas N. Downing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FN.%5FDowning) \(D-Va.\) advises NICAP that the House Science and Astronautics Committee is considering hearings on UFOs by a three-man subcommittee headed by Rep. [Joseph Karth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKarth). Meanwhile, Rep. [Overton Brooks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton%5FBrooks) meets privately with [Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) and [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe), asking them to prepare the best cases and proof of official censorship for a meeting on August 24. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 139](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=151&skin=2021); Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 77–78](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/76/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3537 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9830 (D74A0494) Date: 8/5/1961 Description: 8:20 a.m. John Lee-Steere sees a “snowy white meshlike substance” float to the ground from 12 white metallic discs traveling in pairs over the Mount Hale shearing station, 50 miles northwest of Meekatharra, Western Australia. Sheep-shearing contractor Edwin C. Payne picks up the material and it fades away in his hands. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Discs Trail White Fibrous Stuff,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201962%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1962, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-July-Dec.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December 1961](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-July-Dec.pdf), The Author, 2003, p. 23; Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 7; Clark III 324 Source ID: Eberhart_3538 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9831 (D4B1ED1B) Date: 8/6/1961 Description: In Meekatharra, Western Australia beginning at 3:30 a.m. 12 white metallic disc-shaped objects flew over the countryside in pairs for six hours. They left an angel hair residue, a snowy-white mesh like material. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, 19620101; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 123; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_4723 Source: Johnson ### Event 9832 (28B4EA1A) Date: 8/7/1961 Description: On this day in Heaton Morr, England near Manchester a cigar-shaped cloud was seen to release 20 or more smaller objects as it passed overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1965, p. 155 Source ID: Johnson_4760 Source: Johnson ### Event 9833 (5139BB05) Date: 8/8/1961 Description: The witness awoke at 3:30 a.m. in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada to see two beings in her bedroom, one at each end of her bed. They were four feet tall and dressed in green tunics and trousers. They wore transparent helmets with the visors open. A neighbor saw a blue globe take off from the lawn with a swishing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Brent Musgrave, FSR, August 1977, p. 26; APRO Bulletin, April 1977, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_4771 Source: Johnson ### Event 9834 (441F1958) Date: 8/12/1961 Description: Oval object with/fin extending from one edge to the center (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7579) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kansas City, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2536 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9835 (ECB64915) Date: 8/12/1961 Time: 9 PM Description: Witnesses: college seniors J.B. Furkenhoff and Tom Phipps. One very large oval object with a fin extending from one edge to the center; like a sled with lighted car running boards. Hovered at 50' altitude for 3-5 minutes, then flew straight up and east. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kansas City, Kansas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_466 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9836 (B85E2001) Date: 8/12/1961 Description: 9:00 p.m. College seniors J. B. Furkenhoff and Tom Phipps see a large oval object with a fin extending from one edge to the center, like a sled with lighted car running boards, near Old Mission High School on 50th Street in Kansas City, Missouri. It hovers at 50 feet altitude for 3–5 minutes, then flies straight up, disappearing in about 5 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Kansas City 1961, a Blue Book ‘Unknown’](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/kansascity61.htm)”; [Sparks](http://nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 289 Source ID: Eberhart_3539 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9837 (6C11C2C8) Date: 8/12/1961 Time: 2100 Description: Two Drake University students saw a large object shaped like an oval with "running boards" bearing a series of lights. It hovered for about 4 min at tree-height, shot straight up, climbed away toward the east, then disappeared from view in five sec or so. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Kansas City, Kansas Source ID: Magnonia_522 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9838 (4D7618B9) Date: 8/12/1961 Description: In Kansas City, Kansas at 9:00 p.m. two 21-year-old witnesses saw a yellowish white oval-shaped UFO with an off-centered dome hovering only 50 feet above a road near Drake University. It stayed there for three to five minutes, then shot straight up, and climbed away sharply towards the east. It was gone from view in five seconds. A U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book "unknown" case. " Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7579; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 18; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 124; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 98; UNICAT case # 640, citing James E. McDonald, A.A.S. 1968 Symposium Proceedings, p. 13; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 522 Source ID: Johnson_4939 Source: Johnson ### Event 9839 (B73C8DA0) Date: Mid 8/1961 Description: House Committee staff consultant Richard P. Hines visits ATIC in Dayton, where Col. [Robert Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29), [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) and other officials give him a tour, tell him that Project Blue Book has the UFO problem at hand, and that Rep. [McCormack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FW.%5FMcCormack) has been pressured by NICAP to hold hearings. Hines leaves ATIC “favorably impressed.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 160–161](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/160/mode/2up); Swords 293 Source ID: Eberhart_3540 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9840 (E7A25D5F) Date: 8/16/1961 Description: [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson), now going by the name of Michel d’Obrenovic, arrives in Japan at the invitation of the Cosmic Brotherhood Association and its contactee leader [Yusuke Matsumara](https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Yusuke%5FMatsumura)[.](https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Yusuke%5FMatsumura)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 129–130 Source ID: Eberhart_3541 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9841 (63CA3CBB) Date: 8/16/1961 Description: In Admiralty Bay, Antarctica four members of the crew of an icebreaker sighted an oval fireball that flew from the northeast to the southwest for 12 seconds at 6:15 p.m. The object split in two. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1968, p.17; UNICAT, case # 142, citing James E. McDonald Source ID: Johnson_5076 Source: Johnson ### Event 9842 (726FC3B0) Date: 8/17/1961 Description: On this night five people on a farm in Stillwater, Minnesota observed a group of UFOs arranged vertically in a V formation. The V formation of nocturnal lights, or a boomerang-shaped object with running lights, passed behind some trees flying at a low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 139; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6096 Source ID: Johnson_5111 Source: Johnson ### Event 9843 (9FB451E1) Date: 8/17/1961 Description: A V-formation of yellowish lights (or V-shaped UFO with body lights) passed behind trees at low altitude. \[NICAP UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stillwater, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2537 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9844 (9AED45A5) Date: 8/22/1961 Description: Adm. [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) signs a NICAP letter to Congress urging “immediate congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about UFOs, including accidental war and the Russians falsely claiming UFOs are Soviet weapons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 85](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/84/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3542 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9845 (0F8E7EBE) Date: 8/25/1961 Description: On or about this date five persons riding in a car near Toulouse, France observed a luminous, yellow sphere, 8 meters in diameter, that was flying about 10 meters above the road. It had horizontal and vertical bands of darker tone that gave the impression of windows. The UFO flew up and away very fast when the car reached town. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 523 Source ID: Johnson_5316 Source: Johnson ### Event 9846 (0053CB07) Date: 8/25/1961 Description: Approximate date. Five persons observed a luminous, yellow sphere, 8 m in diameter, flying about 10 m above the road. Horizontal and vertical bands of darker tone gave the impression of "windows." The object flew up very fast when the car reached town. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Toulouse, France Source ID: Magnonia_523 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9847 (82F16E93) Date: 8/25/1961? Description: Five people at Toulouse, France, see a luminous, yellow object, 24 feet in diameter, flying about 30 feet above a road. The object has horizontal and vertical bands of darker tone that give the appearance of “windows.” The UFO flies upwards very quickly when the car reaches town. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 282](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/282/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3543 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9848 (69A5D1A5) Date: 8/28/1961 Description: Rep. [Karth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKarth) writes a harsh letter to [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and attacks him for trying to defame and ridicule the Air Force. He had thought Keyhoe would be proving the existence of spaceships, but he knows now he cannot do this. Therefore, he is no longer interested in holding hearings. He tells a newspaper reporter that he will not be part of Keyhoe’s “cheap scheme to discredit the Air Force.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/160/mode/2up) [161–162](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/160/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3544 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9849 (6A26F14A) Date: 8/31/1961 Description: On this night two silver UFOs hovered over a railroad crossing in Usovo, Russia near Moscow. Several car engines stopped, and would only start up again when the UFOs took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1981 Source ID: Johnson_5524 Source: Johnson ### Event 9850 (7DF27BD1) Date: 9/1961 Description: A National Intelligence Estimate concludes that the USSR has no more than 25 ICBMs and will not possess more in the near future, effectively discrediting the missile gap myth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Missile gap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile%5Fgap)” Source ID: Eberhart_3545 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9851 (D28951DD) Date: 9/2/1961 Description: 4:40–4:50 p.m. A man named Ziegler is reclining outside his home in the northeast section of Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he sees a shiny round white object moving erratically to the west. At two different times it emits several small silvery objects about one-sixth the size of the main object. It fades out of sight to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “Silver Object and Smaller Ones Emitted”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 289; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 25 Source ID: Eberhart_3546 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9852 (A299E1A2) Date: 9/2/1961 Description: Object stops twice and emits several small silvery objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2538 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9853 (88ABCD95) Date: 9/6/1961 Description: The National Reconnaissance Office is officially launched with headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia. It designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the federal government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence \(SIGINT\) to the National Security Agency, imagery intelligence \(IMINT\) to the National Geospace-Intelligence Agency, and measurement and signature intelligence \(MASINT\) to the Defense Intelligence Agency. Its existence remains top secret until September 18, 1992. The move creates a protocol that requires the CIA deputy director and the undersecretary of the Air Force to co-manage all space reconnaissance and aerial espionage programs. The public face of the NRO is the Office of Space Systems. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[National Reconnaissance Office](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FReconnaissance%5FOffice)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 168–169](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/168/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3547 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9854 (FA0049DE) Date: 9/7/1961 Description: (Hynek UFO Rpt p. 44) Object Moves Vertically During Missile Launch (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610907](http://www.nicap.org/610907capecanav%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Canaveral, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2539 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9855 (D2B0AB7A) Date: 9/8/1961 Description: Disc was seen spinning over the radar hill at Laverton Royal Australian AFB, Victoria, Australia. It make an ascent for 90 seconds, then hovered while spinning again, and finally ascends and leaves. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1961 Source ID: Johnson_5756 Source: Johnson ### Event 9856 (C940D3B2) Date: 9/13/1961 Description: 4:00 a.m. Three people reported a round, orange UFO which moved rapidly east to west, stopped and hovered for 5 minutes, then accelerated rapidly disappearing in the distance. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crawfordsville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2540 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9857 (FEBEF8D9) Date: 9/16/1961 Description: Rep. [Overton Brooks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton%5FBrooks) dies of a heart attack; the August 24 meeting about UFO evidence has not taken place. He is replaced on the House Science and Astronautics Committee by Rep. [George Paul Miller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FP.%5FMiller) \(D-Calif.\) who indicates he will not order UFO hearings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 78](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/78/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3548 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9858 (125985F7) Date: 9/18/1961 Description: Fourth Officer G. Gendall of the cargo ship [Queensland Star,](http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=6675) in the Indian Ocean, sees a white UFO through a cloud formation. It vanishes into the clouds and then reappears, dropping toward the sea. The water in the surrounding area grows intensely bright. Particles of white matter continue to fall into the sea after the object disappears, and the sky and water are illuminated for several minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sanderson, [InvRes](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs)[,](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs) pp. 47–48 Source ID: Eberhart_3549 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9859 (15D46B96) Date: 9/19/1961 Description: Barney and Betty Hill vehicle encounter, abduction case Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: White Mountains, NH Source ID: HallUFOE2_8 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 9860 (F0DBC094) Date: 9/19/1961 Description: Radar Tracks Object Before & After Hill Abduction (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [610919](http://www.nicap.org/610919nconcord%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lincoln (Pease AFB), NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2542 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9861 (5C83C208) Date: 9/19/1961 Description: Betty & Barney Hill Case (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610919](http://nicap.org/610919indianhead%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indian Head, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2541 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9862 (54A9760B) Date: 9/19/1961 Description: In perhaps the most famous UFO abduction story ever reported, Betty and Barney Hill, a biracial married couple active in the Civil Rights movement, were driving home from Montreal to their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire late on this evening. When they reached Colebrook they noticed a bright lighted object in the sky that seemed to be pacing their car, and they continued to observe it as the drove along a desolate section of U.S. Route 3 through the White Mountains. Around Indian Head, New Hamsphire they stopped by the side of the road to take a closer look, and saw through binoculars a lenticular object with a double row of portholes and half a dozen dark figures working at control panels inside. One of the occupants seemed to stare directly at them. They became frightened and drove away. A "beeping sound" enveloped their car, and they felt a prickling sensation before losing consciousness.

When they came to, they were driving near Ashland, New Hampshire. They arrived home in Portsmouth unable to account for about two hours. A series of nightmares and then a series of hypnosis sessions performed by a psychiatrist in Boston brought back memories of their abduction experience by the occupants of the UFO. They encountered six five-foot-tall entities with large eyes and heads. One acted as their guide or interpreter, and he communicated with them by telepathy. They were separated, stripped for a medical exam during which a needle was inserted in Betty Hill's navel and Barney's dentures were removed and examined. There was also a map of the stars seen at one point, and Betty asked to take an artifact as evidence of their experience, but was refused. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Fuller, The Interrupted Journey, New York: Dial, 1966; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 125; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 524; UNICAT, case 328 Source ID: Johnson_6083 Source: Johnson ### Event 9863 (517A66E7) Date: 9/19/1961 End date: 9/20/1961 Description: Betty and Barney Hill abduction incident in Lincoln, New Hampshire. Three miles south of the city of Lancaster, New Hampshire: Barney noticed what appeared to be a bright star, or planet, which seemed to move erratically. Barney pointed this out to Betty… As the object moved to within a hundred feet of him, he could see occupants inside. Frightened, he ran back to his car where Betty waited. They climbed inside and sped away. Soon, two hours of their lives would vanish into oblivion. Type: abduction Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill_incident) Location: Lincoln, New Hampshire Source ID: Maj2_606 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9864 (72265565) Date: 9/19/1961 Time: 2200 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Hill saw a lenticular object with a double row of portholes and half-a-dozen dark figures working at control panels inside, when they stopped to investigate a light following their car. They became afraid and drove away. A "beeping sound" enveloped the car, and they felt a prickling sensation before losing consciousness. When they came to, they were driving near Ashland. A series of nightmares and medically controlled hypnosis brought back what apparently was the memory of their abduction by the occupants of the object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fuller; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Indian Head, New Hampshire Source ID: Magnonia_524 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9865 (81279C6A) Date: 9/19/1961 Description: 5:22 a.m. The North Concord Air Force Station \[now closed\] at East Mountain, Vermont, picks up an unidentified radar target at 62,000 feet for 18 minutes. It moves at a slow speed on an erratic course. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Radar Tracks Object before and after Hill Abduction](http://www.nicap.org/610919nconcord%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3550 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9866 (5AF23B25) Date: 9/19/1961 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) has smoothed things over with Rep. [Karth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKarth)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKarth) who writes: “Now that we better understand each other, I would hope we could properly proceed with a hearing early next year—providing the new chairman \[[Miller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FP.%5FMiller)\] authorizes hearings.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Majority Leader Support Indicates Early Congressional Action: Chairman Karth](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/014%20OCT%201961.pdf) [Backs Open Hearings,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/014%20OCT%201961.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 2 \(October 1961\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_3551 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9867 (FD118243) Date: 9/19/1961 End date: 9/20/1961 Description: 10:30 p.m. [Barney and Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) are driving home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from a vacation in Quebec, going south on US Highway 3. Near Groveton, New Hampshire, Betty sees a bright light moving upward and erratically, growing larger. Later, Barney stops the car at a scenic picnic area south of Twin Mountain. Through binoculars, Betty sees a solid object against the moon that “appeared to be flashing thin pencils of different colored lights.” Barney thinks it’s a plane, though it might be “playing games” with them. Barney drives slowly through Franconia Notch, watching the object. At one point it passes near the Old Man of the Mountain. About one mile south of Indian Head \(north of Lincoln\), the object rapidly descends toward their vehicle, causing Barney to stop in the middle of the highway. The huge, silent craft hovers approximately 80–100 feet above the Hills’ 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air and fills the entire field of view in the windshield. It reminds Barney of a huge pancake. Carrying his pistol in his pocket, he steps away from the vehicle and moves closer to the object. Using the binoculars, Barney claims see about 8–11 humanoid figures who are peering out of the craft’s windows, seeming to look at him. In unison, all but one figure move to what appears to be a panel on the rear wall of the hallway that encircles the front portion of the craft. The one remaining figure continues to look at Barney and communicates a message telling him to “stay where you are and keep looking.” Barney has a recollection of observing the humanoid forms wearing glossy black uniforms and black caps. Red lights on what appears to be bat-wing fins begin to telescope out of the sides of the craft, and a long structure descends from the bottom of the craft. The UFO approaches to within 50–80 feet overhead and 300 feet away from him. Barney tears the binoculars away from his eyes and runs back to his car. In a near hysterical state, he tells Betty, “They’re going to capture us!” He sees the object again shift its location to directly above the vehicle. He drives away at high speed, telling Betty to look for the object. She rolls down the window and looks up. Almost immediately, the Hills hear a rhythmic series of beeping or buzzing sounds which seem to bounce off the trunk of their vehicle. The car vibrates and a tingling sensation passes through them. At this point in time they experience the onset of an altered state of consciousness that leaves their minds dulled. A second series of beeping sounds return them to full consciousness. They find that they have traveled nearly 35 miles south, but have only vague, spotty memories of this section of road. They recall making a sudden, unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing a fiery orb in the road. At 5:00 a.m., they arrive home, about two hours later than expected. Barney feels compelled to examine his genitals, and they both take long showers. Betty notices a pinkish powder and a tear in her dress. There are shiny, concentric circles on their car’s trunk that were not there the previous day. Betty and Barney experiment with a compass, noting that when they move it close to the spots, the needle whirls rapidly. But when they move it a few inches away from the shiny spots, it drops down. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Betty and Barney Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill)”; NICAP, “[The Betty and Barney Hill Case](http://www.nicap.org/610919indianhead%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 577–581; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 289; John G. Fuller, [The Interrupted](https://archive.org/details/interruptedjourn00full) [Journey](https://archive.org/details/interruptedjourn00full)[,](https://archive.org/details/interruptedjourn00full) Dial, 1966; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 178–184](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/178/mode/2up); Mark Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill Abduction Case,” IUR 19, no. 2 \(March/April 1994\): 4–6, 23–24; Robert H. Coddington, “The Hill Experience,” IUR 19, no. 3 \(May/June 1994\): 18–19; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 143; Greg Sandow, “The Hill Case and the Limits of Ufology,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 3–7, 19–28; Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden, Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, Weiser, 2007; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_3552 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9868 (EB6AB4DD) Date: 9/20/1961 Description: 2:14 a.m. Pease AFB \[now Pease Air National Guard Base\] in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, picks up an unidentified radar blip 4 miles away from the base, with no visual contact. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Radar Tracks Object before](http://www.nicap.org/610919nconcord%5Fdir.htm) [and after Hill Abduction](http://www.nicap.org/610919nconcord%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3553 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9869 (76BA7553) Date: 9/21/1961 Description: On this day at around five o'clock in the afternoon the passengers and crew of two Boeing 707 airliners, a BOAC flight and a Pan Am flight, witnessed a bright white UFO with a halo while flying over the Pacific Ocean northeast of Midway Island. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1961, p. 1; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1991, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_6180 Source: Johnson ### Event 9870 (51F32DAA) Date: 9/21/1961 End date: 9/22/1961 Description: [Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) calls Pease AFB and reports her UFO incident \(without mentioning the figures\). Maj. Paul W. Henderson of the 100th Bomb Wing calls back with a few questions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3554 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9871 (632B5169) Date: 9/21/1961 Description: Airline pilots, ship, reported a bright white circular UFO. \[NICAP UFOE, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Ocean near, Wake Island Source ID: NICAP_DB_2543 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9872 (C7D3AB18) Date: Autumn 1961 Description: Evening. Emanoil Manoliu, son of the prominent novelist [Mihail Sadoveanu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail%5FSadoveanu), is at the Neamț Monastery west of Târgu Neamț, Romania, when he sees a blinding, multicolored light. After a few seconds it rises quickly and he can see it looks like a disc with a concave base about 20–23 feet long and 10 feet broad. It vanishes “like a tornado in the air” and he feels the rush of wind. The next day he goes to the site with a priest and finds an area of singed grass and a light imprint in the soil. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 167–168 Source ID: Eberhart_3559 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9873 (23099FD1) Date: 9/26/1961 Description: [Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) writes to [Donald E. Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) \(mentioning the figures Barney remembers seeing\) and asks for more information. She mentions that she and Barney are considering hypnosis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill Abduction Case,” IUR 19, no. 2 \(March/April 1994\): 4–6, 23–24; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_3555 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9874 (73CD7B7F) Date: 9/27/1961 Description: 7:57 a.m. The radar operator on a USAF Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft off the California coast spots five targets on his scope. Four of the objects are on a heading of 90°, and all of them are moving at a high rate of speed. They soon disappear into sea clutter. Three minutes later, two objects appear heading 70° then also disappear into sea clutter. The speed of one of the objects is measured at about 2,070 mph over a distance of 230 miles. While the two objects are on the scope, a single stationary object also appears. After remaining stationary for about two minutes, it moves on a heading of 265° at 70 mph and is lost in the sea clutter. The objects can only be painted with the IFF on. The radar is an APS-95. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Uncorrelated Targets on APS-](http://www.nicap.org/610927pacificcoast%5Fdir.htm) [95](http://www.nicap.org/610927pacificcoast%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 290 Source ID: Eberhart_3557 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9875 (EEBB56DE) Date: 9/27/1961 Description: (McDonald list) Uncorrelated Targets on APS-95 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610927](http://www.nicap.org/610927pacificcoast%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Coast, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2544 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9876 (FFD6FB6C) Date: 9/27/1961 Description: [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) resigns as director of central intelligence; [John A. McCone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FMcCone) replaces him. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3556 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9877 (F6DFFE12) Date: 9/29/1961 End date: 10/3/1961 Description: [Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) has a series of intensely vivid dreams in which she and Barney encounter a strange roadblock and are approached by a group of men. She loses consciousness and awakes on board a craft where they are given a medical examination by “intelligent, humanoid beings.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 581–583 Source ID: Eberhart_3558 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9878 (6224461A) Date: 9/30/1961 Description: (McDonald list) Object Tracked and Observed For 45-Mins (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [610930](http://www.nicap.org/610930vegas%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2545 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9879 (8F2ACF91) Date: 9/30/1961 Time: 2200 Description: Eight km south of La Porte, 16-year-old Dennis Bealor saw a large sphere of orange light rise ahead of him on the road. He was so frightened that he lost control of his bike and left the road. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Hartle 158 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: La Porte, Indiana Source ID: Magnonia_525 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9880 (A3BE70A8) Date: 9/30/1961 Description: At around 9:04 a.m. local time, a weather observer at Indian Springs AFB, Nevada saw several objects on a 20 power theodolite at 133.4 degrees azimuth, 55 degrees elevation. The observer first saw one object that was white or metallic in color, round in shape, and the size of the head of a pin. Four smaller objects, traveling very fast, then came out from the first object. The Las Vegas AFS tracked a UFO on radar 45 miles southeast of Nellis AFB. The object was tracked for approximately 45 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1961-466, James E. McDonald files; www.nicap.org Source ID: Johnson_6441 Source: Johnson ### Event 9881 (8DAD5C91) Date: 9/30/1961 Description: At ten o'clock in the evening 16-year-old Dennis Bealor saw a large sphere of orange light on the road while riding his bicycle four miles south of La Porte, Indiana. It rose up into the sky while still ahead of him. He was so frightened that he lost control of his bike and ran off the road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hartle Orvil R. Hartle, A Carbon Experiment, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 525 Source ID: Johnson_6442 Source: Johnson ### Event 9882 (F0E0FDC1) Date: 10/1/1961 Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency, created at the request of Defense Secretary [Robert S. McNamara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMcNamara) to integrate all military intelligence operations, begins work with a handful of employees in borrowed office space. Its mission is the continuous task of collecting, processing, evaluating, analyzing, integrating, producing, and disseminating military intelligence for the Department of Defense and related national stakeholders. Other objectives include more efficiently allocating scarce intelligence resources, more effectively managing all DoD intelligence activities, and eliminating redundancies in facilities, organizations, and tasks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Defense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense%5FIntelligence%5FAgency) [Intelligence Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense%5FIntelligence%5FAgency)” Source ID: Eberhart_3560 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9883 (BD0DDEE2) Date: 10/2/1961 Description: Around 12:00 noon. [Waldo J. Harris](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6996311/waldo-james-harris)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6996311/waldo-james-harris) private pilot and real-estate broker, is getting ready to take off in a Mooney M20A from Utah Central Airport \[now closed\] in Granger, Utah, when he sees a bright spot in the sky. After he takes off, he notices that the light is still in the same location. He flies toward the object to get a better look, and sees that the UFO has no wings or tail and is hovering with a slight rocking motion. He later estimates the diameter at 35–50 feet, with a thickness of about 4 feet, and the appearance of sand-blasted aluminum. Harris estimates he has approached within 2 miles of the object before it rises abruptly and zooms away for 10 miles before it resumes a rocking hover. He approaches again, but it departs in about 2–3 seconds. Several other people, including airport controller [Jay Galbraith](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125516/jay-webster-galbraith)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125516/jay-webster-galbraith) also see the UFO from the airport. Investigators from Hill AFB near Ogden arrive quickly. Airport attendant Russell M. Woods tells them he thinks the object was at 2,500 feet altitude. On October 9, [Douglas M. Crouch](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171937609/douglas-merle-crouch) forwards the Hill AFB official report, including transcripts of interviews, to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, saying “No unusual meteorological or astronomical conditions were present to account for the sighting.” Nonetheless, Blue Book wanders from Venus to a research balloon to a sundog \(an assessment [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) calls “nonsensical”\) as explanations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1025–1028; UFOEv, [pp. 1–2](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=13&skin=2021) ; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#multiwit)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 49–50 Source ID: Eberhart_3561 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9884 (6B31E71D) Date: 10/2/1961 Description: Disc-shaped UFO maneuvered away from investigating aircraft. \[NICAP UFOE, I\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salt Lake City, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2546 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9885 (F5978395) Date: 10/2/1961 Description: A pilot in flight and seven witnesses on the ground observed a lens-shaped disc of brightly polished aluminum over the Utah Central Airport in Salt Lake City, Utah at noon. It was seen against the mountains as a backdrop, and had an estimated diameter of 50-60 feet. It moved out of sight in seconds, covering a distance of 70 degrees, with a speed "beyond any known jet.." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1991, p. 22; UNICAT, case # 531, citing James E. McDonald, 1968 Proceedings of the Scientific Subcommittee Hearings of the U.S. Congress, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_6494 Source: Johnson ### Event 9886 (E27B1985) Date: 10/3/1961 Description: Soviet “Tsar Bomba” hydrogen bomb test, the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever detonated, 50mt yield, Novaya Zemlya archipelago, 10x the amount of all the explosives used in WW2 combined, heat of explosion was estimated to potentially inflict 3rd degree burns at 100km distance. Type: atomic Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba) Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) Location: Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya Atomic type: aboveground Atomic MT: 50 Source ID: Maj2_607 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9887 (12A4F08E) Date: 10/4/1961 End date: 10/5/1961 Description: Two IBM engineers, C. D. Jackson and [Robert E. Hohmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15851368/robert-e-hohmann), have lunch in Washington, D.C., with [Donald Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) who shows them the letter from [Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_3562 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9888 (99574F8F) Date: 10/8/1961 Description: Privately circulated letter from Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson to members of the UFO community over his concerns that all UFO’s are actually CIA psychological warfare. Type: letter Reference: [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_608 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9889 (85A56C4E) Date: 10/12/1961 Description: Spherical UFO with a row of pulsating lights viewed from many angles by different observers. \[NICAP UFOE, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2547 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9890 (5691763D) Date: 10/14/1961 Description: 5:30 p.m. Mayor Michael Burson and his wife watch two pairs of UFOs move to the east above Sunset, Utah. The first pair looks like puffy cotton joined together by “stringy stuff,” and the second pair are metallic discs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[More Discs in Utah,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201962%2003%2000%20-%20March.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March 1962, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_3564 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9891 (B11F268F) Date: 10/14/1961 Description: 5:00 p.m. Mrs. Erwin Riley, a summer resident in Two Harbors, Minnesota, sees a large object slide into the water of Lake Superior about one mile from shore and bob about on the surface. She summons a neighbor, Jack Ray, and they both watch through binoculars, but they can’t make out what it is. At dusk, the Lake County Sheriff responds to their call, but he can’t see much due to swells on the lake surface. He calls the Air Force and Coast Guard to make sure it’s not part of a training exercise. Shortly afterward, Riley sees the object rise into the air and travel southeast at about the speed of a car. A Coast Guard search the next day turns up only a floating log. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Log?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201961%2011%2000%20-%20November.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, November 1961, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_3563 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9892 (53B718B8) Date: 10/14/1961 Description: At 12:15 p.m. a 200 meter long object descended onto Lake Superior near Two Harbors, Minnesota. It floated on the water for three minutes, then ascended and flew off toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1961, p. 3; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 230; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_6835 Source: Johnson ### Event 9893 (EEE77F55) Date: 10/15/1961 Description: 5:00 p.m. Mrs. John P. Vanicky and Norine Gribble are driving from Marquette, Michigan, to Hurley, Wisconsin, when they see a brown cigar-shaped object spouting fire from its rear and moving southeast. They stop the car and watch for 20 minutes until it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Duluth \(Minn.\) News-Tribune, October 19, 1961; “[Flying Log?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201961%2011%2000%20-%20November.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, November 1961, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_3565 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9894 (F4122E35) Date: 10/19/1961 Description: NICAP secretary [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) writes to [Walter N. Webb](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm) at Hayden Planetarium in Boston, Massachusetts, and asks him to talk to [Betty and Barney Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 578–579 Source ID: Eberhart_3566 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9895 (3C90B7DE) Date: 10/21/1961 Description: 2:00 a.m. A brilliant fireball flashes in front of Richard and Rhonda DuBois’s car on US Highway 60 as they are driving between Datil and Pie Town, New Mexico. It then veers into the sky. Later, as they approach a canyon they see that the light is traveling along in front of them. It breaks into four lights that move along with the car, even as DuBois drives at 100 mph, until they stop at a roadside motel. The lights then zoom straight up and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Woman Says Flying Objects Chase Car,” Garden Grove \(Calif.\) News, October 23, 1961; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 231; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-July-Dec.pdf) [History: July–December 1961](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1961-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2003, p. 97 Source ID: Eberhart_3567 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9896 (EA8E46B6) Date: 10/21/1961 Description: [Webb](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm) initially skeptical, winds up interviewing the [Hills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) for 6 hours. He finds that their amnesia concerning some parts of the episode has unsettled them, and Betty tells him she had vivid nightmares for six straight nights a couple weeks after the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 581 Source ID: Eberhart_3568 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9897 (92147604) Date: 10/21/1961 Description: Four lights paced car, maneuvered, shot away upward. \[NICAP UFOE, II\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Datil (near), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2548 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9898 (84681AA1) Date: 10/26/1961 Description: [Walter Webb](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm)’s report to NICAP concludes that the [Hills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) are telling the truth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Walter N. Webb, “[A](http://www.nicap.org/reports/610919hill%5Freport1.pdf) [Dramatic UFO Encounter in the White Mountains, N.H., September 19–20, 1961,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/610919hill%5Freport1.pdf)” NICAP Massachusetts Subcommittee, October 26, 1961; Clark III 581; Mark Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill Abduction Case,” IUR 19, no. 2 \(March/April 1994\): 4–6 Source ID: Eberhart_3569 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9899 (B1CFAAE6) Date: 10/30/1961 Description: The Soviet RDS-202 hydrogen bomb, the 50-megaton Tsar Bomba, is supposedly the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested. It is detonated at the Sukhoy Nos Cape of Severny Island, Novaya Zemla, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It flattens entire villages in surrounding areas and breaks windows in Finland 1,000 miles away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Tsar Bomba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar%5FBomba)” Source ID: Eberhart_3570 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9900 (1E331E78) Date: 10/30/1961 Description: Engineer observed four luminous blue discs with bands of lights or "portholes" on outer periphery. \[NICAP UFOE, I\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ligonier, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2551 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9901 (96AE4203) Date: 11/1/1961 Description: At a small, informal conference on SETI at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s facility in Green Bank, West Virginia, astronomer [Frank Drake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FDrake) writes this equation on a chalkboard: N = R fp ne fl fi fc L. The equation, the Green Bank Formula, summarizes the main concepts that scientists must contemplate when considering the question of extraterrestrial life capable of communicating by radio across space. It is more properly thought of as an approximation rather than as a serious attempt to determine a precise number. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Drake equation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake%5Fequation)”; Lee Billings, “[The Alien-Life Summit,](https://slate.com/technology/2013/09/green-bank-conference-seti-frank-drakes-equation-for-estimating-the-extraterrestrial-life.html)” Slate, September 27, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_3571 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9902 (C8EFBEE0) Date: 11/3/1961 Description: 4:30 p.m. Mr. E. Adkins observes a brilliant object with an orange center flying south over Eyres Monsell, Leicester, England, at an estimated 600 mph. It is triangular in shape and about 300 feet wide. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Triangular Object](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1962%2CMar-Apr%2CV%208%2CN%202.pdf) [over Eyres Monsell,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1962%2CMar-Apr%2CV%208%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 2 \(March/April 1962\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_3572 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9903 (2C88CBAE) Date: 11/7/1961 Description: (McDonald list) Sharp Radar Returns at 4000 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [611107](http://www.nicap.org/611107arlinghts%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arlington Heights, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2549 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9904 (6244278F) Date: 11/13/1961 Description: The AFCIN-1E-0 Draft Policy letter \(Betz Memo\) is prepared by Lt. Col. [Norman M. Rosner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62960897/norman-morton-rosner) for Col. [Ward Reid Betz.](https://www.deseret.com/1997/3/30/19303700/death-colonel-ward-reid-betz) Among other things, it specifies three peacetime functions of the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron at Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\], Colorado Springs, Colorado: UFO investigations, Project Moon Dust \(an exploitation program to locate, recover, and deliver descended foreign space vehicles\), and Operation Blue Fly \(to facilitate delivery to the Foreign Technological Division of Moon Dust and other items of great technical intelligence interest\). These three functions involve “employment of qualified field intelligence personnel on a quick reaction basis to recover or perform field exploitation of unidentified flying objects, or known Soviet/Bloc aerospace vehicles, weapons systems, and/or residual components of such equipment.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dean, “[The Rejuvenated ‘Betz Memo,’](http://ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-rejuvenated-betz-memo-in-recent.html)” UFOs: Documenting the Evidence, May 8, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_3573 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9905 (25EE9C0E) Date: 11/18/1961 Description: A strange flying object streaked across the skies above the Theodore Goff farm on the afternoon of the 18th and left behind it a mysterious substance that defied explanation. The strange, seemingly metallic substance, came off the UFO in thin fibers and settled to earth, draping itself like a finely-knit shroud over Goff's fields, trees, machinery, and power lines. The farm is located near Chadron, Nebraska.

"It was about three o'clock," Goff related, "and I had been working in my shed. I came outside and happened to look up and see this strange ball flying through the air. It was kind of rough and seemed to be rolling as it sped through the air. It was going faster than any airplane I ever saw and it just disappeared from sight when it got out of the sunlight. It made absolutely no noise."

"Big chunks of it broke off and these fibers began settling down on everything. The ball was about as big around as a tractor tire, four feet in diameter or so and it came out of the southwest going northeast. At first I thought it was an airplane but when I really looked, I just didn't know what to think. It's hard to say how high up it was, maybe a thousand feet or more. The fibers cannot be seen with the naked eye except when they are in direct sunlight. Then, and only then, can you see them glistening ghostlike in the sun. They can be felt on the skin like spider webs, but they are much smaller in diameter than a spider web. A human hair seems like a rope compared to the fibers."

"I didn't really notice the fibers much that day, but the next morning my fields and trees just glowed with the stuff when the sun hit them. You can pick one up, but you can't really tell if you have one unless the sun hits it just right. It's the strangest stuff I ever saw." Attempts to break the weird strings were to no avail. They seemingly could not be broken apart, but, when a hot cigarette was applied to one of the strings, it did break. The string did not, however, burst into flame or seem to burn. "They're so fine you just can't tell when you've got one," Goff said. "You can feel it, but you can't see it." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, Looking Back November 1961, National UFO Reporting Center website Source ID: Johnson_7730 Source: Johnson ### Event 9906 (A84F0E4F) Date: 11/21/1961 Description: Round, red-orange object fly straight up and fade. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7741) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oldtown, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2550 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9907 (D8BE4B65) Date: 11/21/1961 Time: 7:30 PM Description: Witnesses: C. Locklear and Helen Hatch. One round, red-orange object flew straight up and faded after 3-4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Oldtown, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_467 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9908 (78BCD34B) Date: 11/21/1961 Description: That same evening at 7:30 p.m. EST in Oldtown, Florida two witnesses, C. Locklear and Helen Hatch, watched a round, reddish-orange object ascend straight up into the night sky. It faded away after 3-4 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7770 Source: Johnson ### Event 9909 (8932B046) Date: 11/21/1961 Description: On this night in 1961 six to eight crescent-shaped objects were seen entering an isolated cloud over Adelaide Hills, South Australia around 6:15 p.m. They did not re-emerge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 171 Source ID: Johnson_7769 Source: Johnson ### Event 9910 (59CE360B) Date: 11/22/1961 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Vagle were driving in Grafton, Wisconsin with their son at 7:00 p.m. when they saw a red light in the sky and stopped. Lights in the sky then joined together. Next, they sighted a large cigar-shaped object hovering at a sharp angle over a plowed field; it had a bright white light on each tip and the lower one was blinking. It also had square ports or windows along the side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_7795 Source: Johnson ### Event 9911 (8B146B75) Date: 11/22/1961 Description: Metallurgist observed a hovering, grayish cigar-shaped UFO with "portholes". \[NICAP UFOE, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grafton (near), ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_2552 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9912 (8A8902B8) Date: 11/22/1961 Description: US Navy pilot [Robert G. Robinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FG.%5FRobinson) reaches an airspeed of 1,606 mph in a McDonnell-Douglas F4H-1F Phantom II over Edwards AFB, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Robert G. Robinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FG.%5FRobinson)” Source ID: Eberhart_3576 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9913 (A356A911) Date: 11/23/1961 Time: 9:30 PM Description: Witness: F. Braunger. One bright red star flew straight and level for 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Sioux City, Iowa Source ID: BerlinerBBU_468 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9914 (F1B00A44) Date: 11/23/1961 Description: In Sioux City, Iowa at 9:30 p.m. F. Braunger saw a bright red "star" fly straight and level for 15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7742; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7840 Source: Johnson ### Event 9915 (2F027A24) Date: 11/23/1961 Description: Bright red star fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7742) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sioux City, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2553 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9916 (E267F284) Date: Late 11/1961 Description: Evening. A group of four friends are hunting on a Sunday in the area of Harvey, North Dakota. As they are returning in the car, the two men in the front seat notice a descending glowing object in the sky ahead of them. Assuming they are witnessing a plane crash, they rush to the scene of its landing, where they find at 150 yards distance, a “silo-appearing craft which was sticking in the ground with this glow around it.” The men shine a hand spotlight and shine it on the object, whereupon they see four human-looking individuals standing around it. At this point they seem to hear an explosion and “everything went out.” The principal witness wakes up from dozing in the back seat as the car is negotiating soggy ground looking for the craft and crew. They return to the spot where the landing takes place, and they see the figures again, wearing white coveralls and standing 5 feet high. They get out of the car and one figure waves them away. Eventually, the men agree to return to a small town, possibly Martin, North Dakota, 11 miles away, where they find a police officer, who listens to the story and agrees to accompany them back to the site. They see red lights moving in the field and both cars go in pursuit of them. The lights go out, the police officer drives away, and the four men resume driving home. Two miles down the highway, the silo-like object reappears, landing gently 150 yards away with two of the figures watching them. Two of the men get out of the car again and shine the spotlight on the craft. One of the men is carrying a rifle; he drops on the ground and shoots, apparently hitting one of the figures in the right shoulder. The figure spins around, goes down on his knees, gets help from the other figure, then yells, “Now what the hell did you do that for?” Weirdly, as soon as the men return to the car, the two who have remained inside insist the rifle had not been removed and no shot was fired. The primary witness \(who remains in the car\) has no recollection of what happened to the craft and figures. By the time they get home, dawn is breaking, and their wives are waiting for them. They all know it has taken longer than it should have to return. A few hours later, around 12:00 noon, the principal witness is at work when three well-groomed, official-looking men visit him. He presumes they are Air Force intelligence officers who say they have a “report” about the previous night’s event. They ask him what clothes he was wearing and what the object looked like, but they never ask about the shooting. Later, they show up at his house and ask to see his hunting gear and boots. They tell him not to say anything more about the incident. In January 1968, US Border Patrol agent \[later BATF agent\] Donald E. Flickinger manages to interview the primary witness, who works as a supervisor at Minot AFB hospital, and two of the others, one a small-town high school superintendent and the other an active-duty Air Force sergeant. They all are “extremely reliable and responsible,” Flickinger says. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 164–165](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/164/mode/2up); Clark III 825–827 Source ID: Eberhart_3574 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9917 (B6A261D8) Date: 11/25/1961 Description: IBM engineers C. D. Jackson and [Robert E. Hohmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15851368/robert-e-hohmann) interview the [Hills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill). One of them expresses surprise at how long the drive took. They are mysteriously interested in whether nitrates or chemicals containing nitrates are in their car. For the first time, Barney and Betty realize that there are two hours they cannot account for. Also present is a friend of the Hills, retired USAF Maj. James McDonald, a former intelligence officer. He suggests that Betty and Barney consult a hypnotist. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 583; Mark Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill Abduction Case,” IUR 19, no. 2 \(March/April 1994\): 6, 23–24; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_3577 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9918 (9EF7829B) Date: Late 11/1961 Description: 9:30 p.m. Real estate agent Cavalheiro Mendes is walking along the beach in Balneário Pinhal, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, when he sees a huge light 900 feet away. As he walks toward it, he sees it is a huge disc resting on the sand. He feels compelled to approach it and sees two helmeted figures come from behind the object. They seem to be telling him telepathically not to resist. Mendes finds he is completely unable to move. He feels one of them scratching his forearm with an instrument, then he blacks out. When he wakes up, he is nearly back to his beach house and it is 11:30 p.m. After a few weeks he feels anxious and sad for no apparent reason. He refuses to be hypnotized. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, Signet, 1967, [pp. 199–200](https://archive.org/details/flyingsauceroccu00lore/page/202/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3575 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9919 (6B822E35) Date: 11/28/1961 Description: President [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) presides over the dedication of the new CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[George Bush Center for Intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FBush%5FCenter%5Ffor%5FIntelligence\#History)”; CIA History Staff, [50 Years in Langley: Recollections of the](https://www.cia.gov/static/f4b6cf75ca9efcabacc393400eb01dd8/50-Years-in-Langley.pdf) [Construction of CIA’s Original Headquarters Building, 1961–2011](https://www.cia.gov/static/f4b6cf75ca9efcabacc393400eb01dd8/50-Years-in-Langley.pdf)[,](https://www.cia.gov/static/f4b6cf75ca9efcabacc393400eb01dd8/50-Years-in-Langley.pdf) January 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_3578 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9920 (A981E6A6) Date: 11/30/1961 Description: Covert operations against [Fidel Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro) are officially authorized by President [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) after being given the name Operation Mongoose at a White House meeting on November 3. The operation is led by USAF Gen. [Edward Lansdale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FLansdale) and goes into effect after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. A document from the Department of State confirms that the project aims to “help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime,” including Castro, and it aims “for a revolt which can take place in Cuba by October 1962.” One of Lansdale’s ideas is to project a huge image of the Second Coming of Christ above the island, spread the word that Castro is the anti-Christ, shoot starburst shells from a submarine into the air, and hope far an uprising. US policymakers want to see “a new government with which the United States can live in peace.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Mongoose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FMongoose)”; Kremlin 131– 133 Source ID: Eberhart_3579 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9921 (D49F8E1A) Date: 12/1961 Description: Project 1794, a secret program to build a flying saucer-type aircraft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers, was cancelled in December 1961 after tests suggested the flying saucer-like design was aerodynamically unstable and would likely be uncontrollable at high speeds (let alone supersonic speeds). Type: secret project Type: declassified documents Reference: [Mike Colangelo](https://twitter.com/MikeColangelo/status/1620153118540578816) Reference: [livescience.com: Flying saucers to mind control: 24 declassified military & CIA secrets](https://www.livescience.com/declassified-military-secrets) Location: US See also: Late 2012 Source ID: Maj2_817 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9922 (2AE9EF8B) Date: 12/1961 Description: Funding runs out for the Avrocar and it and related WS-606A supersonic VTOL programs are officially cancelled by the US military. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro%5FCanada%5FVZ-9%5FAvrocar)” Source ID: Eberhart_3580 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9923 (2AB0E8F5) Date: 12/13/1961 Description: Dark diamond-shaped object w/bright tip fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7754) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, D.C. Source ID: NICAP_DB_2554 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9924 (B9864926) Date: 12/13/1961 Time: 5:05 PM Description: Witnesses: C.F. Muncy, ex-U.S. Navy pilot W.J. Myers, and G. Weber. One dark diamond-shaped object with a bright tip flew straight and level for 1-3 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: BerlinerBBU_469 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9925 (AD4E04FC) Date: 12/13/1961 Description: At 5:05 p.m. over Washington, D.C. three people witnessed a sharply defined diamond-shaped object that had a brownish-orange glow centered beneath it in a diamond shape, one-third the total size of the object. It pulsated rapidly and made no sound. The sighting lasted three minutes. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7754; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 101; Lloyd Mallan, The Official Guide to UFOs, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_8370 Source: Johnson ### Event 9926 (49F6B2D5) Date: 12/15/1961 Description: A Mr. Torri took a photograph of a UFO in Riccione, Italy at 10:40 a.m. The photograph was published in an Italian newspaper. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roberto Pinotti, Flying Saucers, January-February 1966, p. 55 Source ID: Johnson_8408 Source: Johnson ### Event 9927 (13EADB95) Date: 12/21/1961 Description: At 4:35 p.m. two cloud cigars maneuvered within sight of an airliner and then paced the DC-4 aircraft near Aso-san, Japan. One of the objects emitted a ball of light. The pilot, Mr. Matsumura, took photographs. That night at 9:45 local time in Lafayette, Indiana a 2.5 meter diameter disc dove at a car being driven by a twenty-year-old man named Hislope and then flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Yusuke J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers, October 1965, p. 29; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 213; Indiana Journal, December 28, 1961 Source ID: Johnson_8548 Source: Johnson ### Event 9928 (637A3E87) Date: 12/21/1961 Time: 2145 Description: Jerry Hislope, 20, was driving to Kentland when he saw a glowing white object, 3 m in diameter, 1 m thick, dive at him, flying 3 m above the ground. He stopped to observe it, but the object flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Mar., 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lafayette, Indiana Source ID: Magnonia_526 Source: ValléeMagnonia --- ## Year: 1962 (Back to Top) ### Event 9929 (E8DD7C91) Date: 1962 Description: According to a “former Project Blue Book Chief” \(probably Maj. [Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29)\) gun-camera films obtained during jet interceptor UFO chases are routinely referred to the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center \(established in 1961\) for analysis. [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) writes, “This cannot be documented at present, but I heard him say so to a UFO researcher colleague. None of the photoanalysis data in these cases has been released, nor has the existence of these films ever been acknowledged.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, p. 179 Source ID: Eberhart_3581 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9930 (44BDCECB) Date: 1962 Description: French composer [Paul Misraki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FMisraki) writes Les Extraterrestres using the pseudonym Paul Thomas. He links modern UFO sightings with biblical and mythological tales and claims that angels are aliens, that the Bible and other ancient texts are filled with many UFO flying saucer sightings, and that throughout human history extraterrestrial visitors have intervened in human affairs. Misraki is also one of the first authors to suggest that apparitions may be UFO-related phenomena. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Thomas \[Paul Misraki\], Les Extraterrestres, Plon, 1962; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 28–29 Source ID: Eberhart_3587 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9931 (DB11D870) Date: 1962 Description: [René](https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12606509/rene%5Ffouere/) and [Françine Fouéré](http://www.euroufo.net/tag/rene-fouere/) establish the Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aériens in Paris, France, with an initial group of 60 interested members. The following year GEPA launches a magazine, Phénomènes Spatiaux, which is published through 1978. In 1964, [Lionel-Max Chassin](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel-Max%5FChassin)[,](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel-Max%5FChassin) now retired from the army, takes over as president. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Group d’Étude des Phénomènes Aériens](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe%5Fd%27%C3%A9tude%5Fdes%5Fph%C3%A9nom%C3%A8nes%5Fa%C3%A9riens)” Source ID: Eberhart_3586 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9932 (0EDADF37) Date: 1962 Description: The Air Force tries once again to get rid of the UFO program, but its attempts to get NASA or the National Science Foundation to handle the program prove futile. It finally gives up the entire idea. The program remains at FTD as a special project and without expanded resources. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [p. 164](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/160/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3582 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9933 (407BB065) Date: 1962 Description: 12:00 midnight. Actor [Jamie Farr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%5FFarr) and his wife Joy Ann are driving through the desert near Yuma, Arizona, when they notice a light moving erratically at the top of a mountain. It zig-zags across the sky as it approaches them, moving to within 150 feet, then 60 feet of their vehicle. They can see two lights, red and blue, revolving beneath the silent object. It paces them for a short time then moves away at incredible speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Jamie and Joy Farr Report](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf) [UFO Sighting,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 \(December 1980\): 3, 5 Source ID: Eberhart_3584 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9934 (FA623A36) Date: 1962 Description: The Argentine Navy creates a permanent commission for the study of UFOs, and the Argentine Air Force establishes a division for the same purpose. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “[Argentina: UFO Declassification,](https://www.uapsg.com/2020/07/argentina-ufo-declassification.html)” UAPSG–GEFAI, July 29, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_3585 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9935 (15FDC147) Date: 1962 Description: Day. An Air Force pilot is flying a brand new B-52 with a full crew out of Wichita, Kansas, headed for an air base in the southwest. He notices a bright flash of sunlight in his left side and turns to see a metallic object “like polished chrome.” It is pacing the aircraft near its left wingtip. The object is 4–8 feet in diameter and has no seams or markings. His First Officer is watching an identical object off the right wing, and the crewman in the tail reports that there is a round shiny metal ball following close behind the B-52. The top and bottom gunners also see spheres above and below the plane. The pilot goes into an evasive maneuver, but after 10–15 minutes the objects are maintaining their positions. He returns to his previous assigned altitude and heading. After a few minutes, the five objects leave, one at a time, first the bottom one, then the top, then the tail. The two objects on the wings shoot away at the same time and climb out of sight parallel to each other. After landing, the crew is told not to talk about the sighting at all. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “NARCAP’s Project Sphere: Are Spherical UAP a Threat to Aviation Safety?” IUR 33, no. 2 \(July 2010\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_3583 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9936 (276D706A) Date: 1/1962 Description: The IBM 7950 Harvest computer, designed to be used for cryptanalysis, is delivered to the National Security Agency. It includes Tractor, a large automated tape cartridge library. An NSA-conducted evaluation finds that Harvest is more powerful than the best commercially available machine by a factor of 50–200, depending on the task. It remains in use until 1976. One purpose of the machine is to search text for keywords from a watchlist. From a single foreign cipher system, Harvest is able to scan more than 7 million decrypts for any occurrences of some 7,000 key words in under four hours. The computer is also used for codebreaking, and this is enhanced by a system codenamed Rye, which allows remote access to Harvest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[IBM 7950 Harvest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%5F7950%5FHarvest)”; “[Timeline of](http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/IBM/Stretch/102636400.txt) [the IBM Stretch/Harvest Era \(1956–1961\),](http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/IBM/Stretch/102636400.txt)” computerhistory.org Source ID: Eberhart_3589 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9937 (D782C450) Date: 1/1962 Description: The Federal Aviation Administration expands the restricted airspace in the vicinity of Groom Lake, Nevada, and the lakebed becomes the center of a 600-square-mile addition to restricted area R-4808N. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%5F51) [51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%5F51)” Source ID: Eberhart_3588 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9938 (587E5A91) Date: 1/8/1962 Time: night Description: A truck driver and two other men observed two powerful lights lost sight of thern, but later saw a craft on the ground 150 m to the side of the road. It took off at high speed when illuminated by the headlights. Farther away, two objects maneuvered above the road leading to La Bajada. As the police were driving to the scene, they saw one of the craft on the ground near Loma Brava. Type: ufo sighting Reference: CODOVNI 1962 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Catamarca, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_527 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9939 (52143D4D) Date: 1/12/1962 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winnemucca AFB, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2555 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9940 (B32DC8A3) Date: 1/22/1962 Description: (McDonald list) FPS-6A Height Finder Tracks UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [620122](http://www.nicap.org/620122kirksville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirksville, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2556 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9941 (958E3508) Date: 1/29/1962 Description: A Royal Dutch Air Force pilot flying an F-86 Sabrejet sights a UFO over eastern Netherlands. The jet’s radar also picks up the object and control tower radar \(somewhere\) is also tracking it. He attempts to give the object an urgent warning by radio, but it goes unheeded. He arms a Sidewinder rocket and tries to close in, but the UFO pulls away swiftly before he can fire. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[New Sightings by Navy, FAA, and Airline Observers: Dutch Jet](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/017%20AUG-SEPT%201962.pdf) [Pilot Tries to Down UFO,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/017%20AUG-SEPT%201962.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 5 \(Aug./Sept. 1962\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_3590 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9942 (87F1903A) Date: 1/29/1962 Description: A Royal Dutch Air Force F-86 jet interceptor was chased by a UFO over the eastern Netherlands. The event was witnessed by six members of the military and the UFO was detected by ground and airborne radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1962, p. 1; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 122; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_574 Source: Johnson ### Event 9943 (9F832F12) Date: 1/29/1962 Description: Eastern Holland, G,A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eastern Holland, Holland Source ID: NICAP_DB_2557 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9944 (BE854C8F) Date: 2/1962 Description: Alec Birch, 14, snaps an out-of-focus photo of five domed discs that he and two friends see hovering 500 feet above his backyard in Mosborough, Sheffield, England. Alec and his father show the photo later to the Air Ministry, which pronounces them “temperature inversions” in October. However, in an interview on BBC-2 television on October 6, 1972, Alec confesses that he had superimposed images painted on glass over the backyard scenery, fooling even his father. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Schoolboy Snaps Saucer,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1962%2CSep-Oct%2CV%208%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1962\): 4; Gordon Creighton, “[‘No Kidding This Time. My Flying Saucers Photo](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%202000%20V%2045%20N%202.pdf) [Is](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%202000%20V%2045%20N%202.pdf) [Genuine!’ \(–Alec Birch\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%202000%20V%2045%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 45, no. 2 \(Summer 2000\): 9–11; Clark III 603 Source ID: Eberhart_3594 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9945 (8F9E2692) Date: 2/1962 Description: The [Hills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) begin making numerous trips over several months to try to find their encounter site but are unsuccessful. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 583 Source ID: Eberhart_3593 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9946 (34B633D1) Date: 2/1962 Description: Vice-Admiral [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) resigns from NICAP, stating that NICAP has gone as far as it can and should no longer criticize USAF investigations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 85–86](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/84/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3592 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9947 (B9384039) Date: 2/1962 Description: [Richard M. Bissell Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FBissell%5FJr) leaves the CIA and is replaced as head of the Directorate of Plans by [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms). February — Maj. [William T. Coleman](http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1243564/pg1) is replaced as Pentagon UFO spokesman by Maj. [Carl R. Hart](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63582043/carl-robert-hart). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3591 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9948 (E5FF50BB) Date: 2/6/1962 Description: USAF issues the last of its UFO fact sheets \(no. 179-62\). In the future it will issue press releases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 108](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=120&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3595 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9949 (C69FA827) Date: 2/6/1962 Description: The Air Force issued the last "fact sheet" (No. 179-62) of the old style, then dropped that format. Type: USAF fact sheets Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_894 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9950 (5C553223) Date: 2/7/1962 Description: The president of an advertising agency saw a bright red hemispherical UFO which hovered, then suddenly sped away. \[NICAP UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kennebunkport, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_2558 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9951 (A0CF6E01) Date: 2/9/1962 Time: 0330 Description: Mr. Wildam, of Luton, noticed that his car was gradually losing speed as he approached a bright, oval thing hovering 10 m above the road. The object was surrounded by a glow, and left at high speed very suddenly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 62, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Aston Clinton, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_528 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9952 (36D793B4) Date: 2/9/1962 Description: Car motor lost power, headlights not affected, as UFO passed ahead of car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ashton Clinton, Beds., UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2559 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9953 (BFBC5D85) Date: 2/9/1962 Description: Mr. R. Wildman was driving along a road in Aston Clinton, England taking a new car to Swansea for delivery, when at 3:30 a.m. he encountered a 40-foot wide oval-shaped domed disc with black marks around the rim, 20-30 feet above the ground. The object seemed metallic, was white in color with portholes, and made no sound. The car's engine stopped when he was 20 meters away, but the headlights remained on. The incident lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 75; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 538; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 24; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 19; Leonard Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 214; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 129 Source ID: Johnson_770 Source: Johnson ### Event 9954 (A2B9B3B7) Date: 2/10/1962 Description: CIA pilot [Francis Gary Powers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%5FGary%5FPowers) is exchanged for Soviet spy [Rudolf Abel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%5FAbel) on the Glienicke Bridge that connects Potsdam to West Berlin, Germany. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3596 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9955 (0FDCC304) Date: 2/11/1962 Description: UFOs, described as "a body giving off a brilliant light. . . moving at great altitude as if towards the moon." \[NICAP UFO Evidence, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Parque del Este, Caracas, Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_2560 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9956 (57B6BA24) Date: 2/12/1962 Description: (McDonald list) Object Tracked By AN/FPS-9 at 74,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [620212](http://www.nicap.org/620212winne%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winnemucca AFB, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2561 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9957 (360D46FF) Date: 2/19/1962 Description: Reddish-orange object change shape from round to cigar shape covered with fog (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dauphin Island, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2562 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9958 (E54F5F8B) Date: 2/19/1962 Description: Three commercial fishermen driving south on the Dauphin Island Toll Bridge Causeway in Alabama saw a reddish-orange object to the south at about 10° elevation at 6:00 p.m. It changed shape from a round spherical object to an ellipsoidal, football shape, and then became covered with a (possibly artificially produced) fog.The object was estimated to be about one-third the apparent diameter of the sun. They stopped the car to call Dauphin Island AFS radar site (693rd Radar Squadron), which by coincidence happened to have two airmen driving north on the causeway in the opposite direction, and who also saw the object to the west. It was therefore possible to triangulate the object's location at about 30°16' N, 88° 10' W, and between 2-5 miles away from the civilian observers; the object's actual size was computed to be at least 30 feet in length. No radar contact was reported. Venus had set 30 minutes earlier. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert D. Boyd, A Comparative Unit, p. 89; UNICAT, case # 449; Francis Ridge, www.nicap.com\Chronology\1962 UFO Chronology.htm Source ID: Johnson_995 Source: Johnson ### Event 9959 (5438FEA5) Date: 2/20/1962 Description: Astronaut [John Glenn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FGlenn) pilots the [Friendship 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas%5F6) Project Mercury capsule for three orbits and just short of 5 hours flying time, becoming the first American to orbit the earth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Mercury-Atlas 6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas%5F6)” Source ID: Eberhart_3597 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9960 (70F7686C) Date: 2/24/1962 Description: NORAD Requirement 64-73 states that its radar coverage “would provide warning from all directions, not just northern approaches.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 811 Source ID: Eberhart_3598 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9961 (D78CF29B) Date: 2/25/1962 Description: Red light, trailed 30 secs later by a blue light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7818) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kotzebue, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2563 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9962 (EDEC4DA7) Date: 2/25/1962 Time: 7:20 PM Description: Witnesses: one U.S. Army private, six anonymous civilians. One red light, trailed 30 seconds later by a blue light. Sighting lasted 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kotzbue, Alaska Source ID: BerlinerBBU_470 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9963 (C32921E5) Date: 2/25/1962 Description: An Army private and six civilians in Kotzbue, Alaska sighted a red light in the night sky at 7:20 p.m. It was followed 30 seconds later by a blue light. The entire sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1099 Source: Johnson ### Event 9964 (48E5DA11) Date: 2/28/1962 Description: The first A-12 test aircraft covertly arrives at Groom Lake, Nevada, from Burbank, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Area 51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%5F51)” Source ID: Eberhart_3599 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9965 (B520D519) Date: 3/1962 Description: Chemical engineer [Leon Davidson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%5FDavidson) writes a two-part article in Saucer News explaining how he has become convinced that the CIA, especially under the influence of [Allen Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles), has engineered disinformation about UFOs and even manufactured some seemingly legitimate radar sightings as a tool in the Cold War. Its aim is to cause the Soviet Union to waste time and effort in preparing defenses against fictitious aircraft and weapons that the US might be developing. Furthermore, UFOs can be used to capture headlines, diverting attention from unwelcome news coverage of espionage operations. Davidson writes that Dulles has resorted to using contactees and UFO organizations as a propaganda vehicle. Messages supposedly from spacemen calling for a halt in nuclear testing could influence public opinion in a test ban treaty that, in effect, would benefit the US more than the Russians, since the Soviets were seen as overtaking the American lead in weapons development. Davidson attributes CIA involvement in the claims of [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) and [Daniel Fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry). He also points out that electronic countermeasures \(ECM\) equipment is capable of creating fake radar returns and goes so far as to say that secret working models of saucers, perhaps piloted by “midgets,” are responsible for some sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leon Davidson, “An Open Letter to Saucer Researchers,” Saucer News, March 1962, April 1962; Leon Davidson, “[ECM + CIA =](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1960%2CMar-Apr%2CV%206%2CN%202.pdf) [UFO: Or, How to Cause Radar Sightings,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1960%2CMar-Apr%2CV%206%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 2 \(March/April 1960\): 9–12; Gerald K. Haines, “[CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,](https://www.cia.gov/static/105bd8290b90de13ee136fecc9fe863f/cia-role-study-UFOs.pdf)” Studies in Intelligence 40, no. 5 \(1997\): 67–84 Source ID: Eberhart_3600 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9966 (2906DD71) Date: 3/1962 Description: [Betty and Barney Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) meet with Patrick J. Quirke, a psychiatrist at the Baldpate Sanitarium in Georgetown, Massachusetts, but he is unsympathetic and discourages them from undergoing hypnosis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 583 Source ID: Eberhart_3601 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9967 (82C06DEF) Date: 3/1/1962 Description: Gold-colored box fly straight and level across the horizon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7823) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salem, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2564 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9968 (22E0720A) Date: 3/1/1962 Time: 10:35 PM Description: Witness: Mrs. L. Doxsey, 66. One gold-colored box, 12-14"x3-4", flew straight and level across the horizon for 3-4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Salem, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_471 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9969 (C1289270) Date: 3/1/1962 Description: At 10:40 p.m. EDT a single witness in Salem, New York reported a 40 cm x 10 cm flying gold box that slowly crossed the horizon in 3-4 minutes. Mrs. L. Doxsey, 66, saw a gold-colored box, 12-14 inches x 3-4 feet, fly straight and level across the horizon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7823; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 103; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 6099 Source ID: Johnson_1201 Source: Johnson ### Event 9970 (1584EA4E) Date: Spring 1962 Alternate date: Summer 1962 Description: All base personnel on flying status attend a briefing in the theater at the Clinton-Sherman AFB \[now the Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark\] near Burns Flat, Oklahoma. The airmen are shown a short 20–30-minute Air Force film showing, spliced together without interpretation, five or six gun-camera clips apparently documenting attempts by aircraft to intercept UFOs. Afterward, the commander of the 4213d Strategic Wing reads a statement \(probably JANAP 146\(D\)\) stipulating fines and jail sentences for anyone publicly reporting a UFO sighting and hands out UFO sighting forms in the event of an incident. One technician recalls there is a section on reporting any electronic signature emitted from the UFO picked up by specific ECM devices. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 123–125 Source ID: Eberhart_3605 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9971 (EAC5F9CF) Date: 3/25/1962 Description: The [Hills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) meet with a psychiatrist \(Duncan Stephens of the Exeter Clinic, New Hampshire\) who rules out simultaneous hallucination. Around this time, Barney develops a series of warts in an almost geometrically perfect circular ring in his groin but does not associate his malaise with the UFO incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 583–584 Source ID: Eberhart_3602 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9972 (E399AD96) Date: 3/25/1962 Description: Evening. Mrs. R. H. Chappell and her sister Janie Kidd watch two triangular objects, one larger than the other, hovering 40–50 feet above the water at Saanich Inlet, British Columbia. They have flashing ruby-red lights. After two minutes, the lights change to orange and they move off silently and gracefully. Mrs. L. Austin Wright sees a stationary flashing yellow light around the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dan Lloyd, “[Are They Really Seeing Things over](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%206.pdf) [Canada?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1966\): 27 Source ID: Eberhart_3603 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9973 (8C6442DC) Date: 3/26/1962 Time: 11:40 PM Description: Witnesses: Mrs. D. Wheeler, Claudine Milligan. Six or eight red balls, arranged in a rectangular formation, became two objects with lights by the end of the 15 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Naperville, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_473 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9974 (9772B391) Date: 3/26/1962 Description: Missile-Like Object Observed From Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 7840) Reference: NICAP: [620326](http://www.nicap.org/620326ramstein%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ramstein AFB, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_2565 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9975 (B63AC64E) Date: 3/26/1962 Description: 6-8 red balls, arranged in a rectangular formation become 2 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7841) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Naperville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2566 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9976 (50C870CE) Date: 3/26/1962 Time: 1:35 PM Description: Witness: USAF Capt. J.M. Lowery, from an unspecified aircraft. One thin, cylindrical object--l/3 snout, 2/3 tail fins--flew at an estimated Mach 2.7 (2,000 m.p.h.) for 5-8 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ramstein Air Base, West Germany Source ID: BerlinerBBU_472 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9977 (F9788137) Date: 3/26/1962 Time: 10:45 PM Description: Witnesses: many unidentified young people. One large red ball flew or fell down, then went back up during 3-10 minute sighting. Note: May 26? Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Westfield, Massachusette Source ID: BerlinerBBU_474 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9978 (4EB622A0) Date: 3/27/1962 End date: 3/30/1962 Description: [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) claims to attend a Twelve Counsellors Meeting on Saturn that addresses the threat of nuclear war on Earth. In the report that he publishes in June, Adamski writes that the “present explosions of atomic energy are going in the wrong direction, and if these experiments do not stop, the only results will be a lost civilization… This is even affecting their planets.” Ridiculed by many, some of Adamski’s descriptions in the report about his trip clearly show this was a deeply spiritual experience for him, which may have unbalanced him for some time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Adamski, [George Adamski’s Special Report: My Trip to the Twelve Counsellors Meeting](http://www.biblioteca-ga.info/50/toon/412/28) [That Took Place on Saturn, Mrach 27–30, 1962](http://www.biblioteca-ga.info/50/toon/412/28), Science of Life, 1962; “[Final Years,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/final-years/)” The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_3604 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9979 (426F7468) Date: 4/1962 Description: Flight Commander P.J. (initials), attached to TAC Fighter Wing was deployed at Wright-Patterson AFB and mistakenly entered into an air hanger where he thought the gym was located. Upon entering the hanger he was approached by an air police sentry with a sub-machine gun. Behind the sentry was a saucer approx. 12–15 ft. diam. suspended off the ground by two engine test stands. There were no markings or insignia on the saucer. It had no rivet markings. The saucer was roped-off and 8 guards stood at parade rest around it. P.J. and his friend were encouraged to leave the hanger. P.J. returned to Myrtle Beach AFB, SC Type: witness statement Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY) Location: Wright Patterson AFB Source ID: Maj2_609 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9980 (5343BAF5) Date: 4/2/1962 Description: (McDonald list) Ground & Air Radar Tracks Object At 47,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [620402](http://www.nicap.org/620402goose%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2568 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9981 (753BBCD3) Date: 4/3/1962 Description: In Wurtland, Kentucky on the Ohio River at 9:50 p.m. EDT witnesses G.R. Wells and J. Lewis, using a 117x telescope, watched a small stationary object in the sky change in brightness and give off smoke. It remained in the same position for six minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #7851; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 106. Source ID: Johnson_1814 Source: Johnson ### Event 9982 (0D06C3C9) Date: 4/4/1962 Description: Telescope spotted a small object changing brightness (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7851) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wurtland, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2569 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9983 (EF98B796) Date: 4/4/1962 Time: 0150Z Description: Witnesses: G.R. Wells and J. Lewis, using 117x telescope. One small object changing brightness, gave off smoke but remained stationary like a comet for 6 minutes. Case missing from official files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Wurtland, Kentucky Source ID: BerlinerBBU_475 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 9984 (78DD6DE6) Date: 4/9/1962 Description: At around 11:00 p.m. a 15-meter wide metallic disc came down and landed in a meadow in Rivoli, Italy. Two beings exited the craft and then reboarded. The UFO rose vertically on takeoff. There were traces of burnt grass at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2066 Source ID: Johnson_1924 Source: Johnson ### Event 9985 (6EFE0822) Date: 4/10/1962 Time: evening Description: Mario Zuccula, 27, was walking home when he suddenly felt a current of cold air. He was paralyzed with fear when he saw a white object, 10 m in diameter, metallic in appearance which hovered close to the ground. A metallic cylinder was lowered from the craft, and two little men about 1.30 m tall, came out through a door lighted by a source inside the cylinder. A low voice similar to the sound of an electronic device told him they would return at the end of the fourth moon, one hour before dawn, with a message. The beings had their heads covered with a hood. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 62, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: San Casciano, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_529 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9986 (68B7A0A9) Date: 4/11/1962 Time: evening Description: Between Saronno and Legnano, Benazzi and three other witnesses saw a peculiar craft fly above them and land on the road. It was intensely luminous. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Sep., 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sarouno, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_530 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 9987 (3843F257) Date: 4/11/1962 Description: A disc-shaped object directed a strong beam of light over two cars on a highway between Saronno and Legnano, Italy on this night. It made no noise while it jumped up and up three times and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1962, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_1952 Source: Johnson ### Event 9988 (1AF43329) Date: 4/12/1962 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kunia, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2570 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9989 (EBDA662C) Date: 4/18/1962 Description: High speed brilliant maneuverable object is tracked by radars (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [620418](http://www.nicap.org/620418adc%5Falert%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New York to Eureka, Utah, to Nellis AFB, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_2571 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9990 (FE190F51) Date: 4/18/1962 Description: Evening. A red, glowing object is first seen at a great height over Oneida, New York, heading west silently. There are reports from Kansas and Colorado. NORAD radar picks up the object; ADC alerts several bases, including Nellis AFB near Las Vegas, Nevada. Fighters are scrambled from Luke AFB near Phoenix, Arizona, and the jets are possibly heard over Nephi, Utah, after the object passes overhead. Capt. Herman Gordon Shields, flying a C-119 two miles west of Levan, Utah, sees it as a slender object. A man in Silver City, Utah, claims that the object is a glowing ball of light about the size of a soccer ball. He says it is white with a yellowish tint and a bright yellow jagged flame coming from the rear: “As the object passed over Robinson \[in Ogden, Utah?\], it slowed down in \[the\] air, and after, \[a\] gasping sound was heard, the object spurted ahead again. After this procedure was repeated three or four times, the object arched over and began descending to earth after which the object turned bluish color and then burned out or went dark. After the object began to slow down it began to wobble or fishtail in its path.” Several people see the object over Eureka, Utah, apparently crashing and interrupting electrical service from a power plant close to the landing site. It is described as a “glowing, orange oval which emitted a low, whirring sound.” It takes off a few minutes later, continuing to the west. The object lights up the streets of Reno, Nevada, and then turns to Las Vegas. It blares brightly like a “tremendous, flaming sword” over Nellis AFB and then disappears from their radar scopes at 10,000 feet. Witnesses say the object is traveling almost horizontally northeast of Las Vegas until a final explosion occurs from the direction of Mesquite, Nevada. Sheriff’s deputy Walter Bun, who leads the search and rescue unit, moves the unit into the Spring Mountain area in jeeps to search for wreckage. They search through the night, and when the sun comes up they continue using aircraft. They do not find anything of importance except some ashes that might easily be the remains of a campfire started by a hunter some weeks earlier. When no one reports a downed or missing aircraft, Bun and the other deputies call off the search. The object seems to have changed direction, because at Reno it passes west to east, in Utah it is seem going southeast to northwest, and at Nephi it travels west. The duration of the sighting, from New York to Nevada, is only 32 minutes, giving a speed of 4,500 mph, below the speed of meteors. On May 8, the Air Force sends [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) and Lt. Col. [Robert Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) to Utah with [Douglas M. Crouch](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171937609/douglas-merle-crouch)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171937609/douglas-merle-crouch) chief of criminal investigation at Hill AFB, south of Ogden, Utah. They determine it is a bolide. Blue Book lists it as two sightings: a multiple radar sighting at Nellis on April 18 with no visual \(despite hundreds of observers in Las Vegas\), and a bolide over Utah that it claims occurs on April 19. In reality, the Utah and Nevada sightings are only minutes apart \(8:15 p.m. Mountain Time\). However, there is quite a bit of information from numerous sources concerning this major incident, including Project Blue Book documents, and now possible [confirmation](http://nicap.org/papers/transcript%5Fradarman.htm) by a radar man at ATIC. The case is also not explained in a Blue Book monthly sighting listing for April 1962. It is interesting that every one of these states except Utah has or was in the process of obtaining ICBM bases: New York \(Plattsburg AFB\); Kansas, \(Forbes AFB and McConnell AFB\); Utah \(Minuteman production at Air Force Plant 77 at Hill AFB\); Idaho \(Mountain Home AFB\); Montana \(Malmstrom AFB\); New Mexico \(Walker AFB\); Wyoming \(F. E. Warren AFB\); Arizona \(Davis Monthan AFB\); California \(Beale AFB\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[National](http://www.nicap.org/620418adc%5Falert%5Fdir.htm) [Defense Alert](http://www.nicap.org/620418adc%5Falert%5Fdir.htm)”; Frank Edwards, Strange World, Ace ed., 1964, [pp. 38–41](https://archive.org/details/strangeworld00edwa/page/38/mode/2up); “[Meteor Lands in Utah, Lights](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94770755/) [Western Skies,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94770755/)” Los Angeles Times, April 19, 1962, p. 15; “[Brilliant Fireball](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94770911/) [Flashes in Skies,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94771052/)” Salt Lake City Deseret News, April 19, 1962, pp. 1, 5; Las Vegas Sun, April 19, 1962; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, [pp. 79–94](https://archive.org/details/historyofufocras0000rand/page/78/mode/2up); Clark III 333–335; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 291; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 87–99 Source ID: Eberhart_3606 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9991 (E19EE4EF) Date: 4/18/1962 Description: Object was first spotted over Oneida, New York and was heading in a westerly direction. Object reported over Kansas, Colorado and Eureka, Utah. The object was reported by over a thousand people. The object appeared to land and then take off again from Eureka, CA. The town of Eureka experienced a blackout when it landed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Oneida, NY Location: Kansas Location: Colorado Location: Eureka, Utah Source ID: Maj2_610 Source: Maj2 ### Event 9992 (D2DCAEA6) Date: 4/18/1962 Description: According to Lt. Colonel Herbert Rolph, on this evening at 7:20 p.m. NORAD tracked a UFO across the entire continental United States. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6174 Source ID: Johnson_2113 Source: Johnson ### Event 9993 (99B6CF42) Date: 4/24/1962 Description: 7:45 p.m. [Alice W. Gasslein](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70133470/alice-w-gasslein) and her mother are driving near their home in Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, when they see a large domed object emitting flashes of green light moving over the roofs of nearby homes. A rotating band around the main body consists of a series of square windows from which come shafts of bright white light. They drive back home to alert her husband, [Joseph A. Gasslein](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70133471/joseph-a-gasslein), an aviation worker. By that time, the UFO is about a half-mile distant, giving off colored lights. Around 8:10 p.m., the object returns flying toward the Gassleins’ home \(south of Walsh Park\) only 20 feet above ground level and passes over their backyard before making a sharp left turn and moving away to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Out of the Past: A Very Close CE-1,” IUR 10, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1985\): 9–10, 14; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-Jan-Jun.pdf) [June 1962](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 2005, pp, 56–57 Source ID: Eberhart_3607 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9994 (A0ACB4D3) Date: 4/24/1962 End date: 4/25/1962 Description: Series of UFO sightings over area. Circular UFO with body lights, apparent dome on top, shafts of white light directed downward from base. Center section had rotating row of square "windows." \[NICAP UFO Evidence, XII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Philadelphia, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2572 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9995 (D7FE7762) Date: Late 4/1962 Alternate date: Early 5/1962 Description: Three women and a 10-year-old boy are driving home to Granby, Connecticut, when two bright yellow lights appear in the sky ahead. The lights cross the road and disappear behind some shrubbery. Driving nearer and stopping, the witnesses see the lights hovering above a field, one above the other. The objects realign horizontally and move toward the car. The driver starts the car up and speeds away, but the lights are right behind her, only a few feet from the rear window and matching the car’s speed. The yellow lights are only a few feet in diameter and have a reddish patch that rotates. They follow the car for four minutes then turn away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 299–300 Source ID: Eberhart_3612 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9996 (374F3088) Date: 4/25/1962 Description: The A-12 is taken on its first \(unofficial and unannounced\) flight with Lockheed test pilot [Louis Schalk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FSchalk) at the controls. Intended as only a taxi run, the A-12 unexpectedly takes flight and Schalk lands it 2 miles past the runway. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed A-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 177–178](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/n211/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3608 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9997 (1F9AA770) Date: 4/26/1962 Description: [Schalk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FSchalk) makes another unofficial low-altitude, 40-minute test flight with the A-12. The takeoff is perfect, but after the A-12 gets to about 300 feet it starts shedding all the “pie slice” fillets of titanium on the left side of the aircraft and one fillet on the right. \(On later aircraft, those pieces are paired with triangular inserts made of radar- absorbing composite material.\) Technicians spend four days finding and reattaching the pieces. Nonetheless, the flight pleases [Kelly Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed A-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 178–179](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/178/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3609 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 9998 (9D4BEDD8) Date: 4/28/1962 Description: Egg shaped light crossing the sky brighter than the Echo I satellite (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Worth, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2573 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 9999 (495AE8D5) Date: 4/29/1962 Description: Between Mud Lake, Nevada and Edwards AFB in California two disc-shaped craft are filmed passing a USAF X-15 rocket plane being commanded by test pilot Walker during a record flight to 200,000 feet altitude. Note: most civilian sources list this case as occurring on April 30, but the Air Force lists the flight as occurring on this date. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 121; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 75; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6179 Source ID: Johnson_2408 Source: Johnson ### Event 10000 (659D9E5F) Date: 4/30/1962 Description: [Schalk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FSchalk) takes the A-12 up to 30,000 feet on its first official flight at Area 51 for 59 minutes. His top speed is 400 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 179](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/178/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3610 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10001 (4171EEE7) Date: 4/30/1962 Description: Just before 10:00 a.m. During a free-flight test \(Flight 52\) of the X-15 to a height of 246,700 feet \(46.7 miles\) by NASA pilot [Joseph A. Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FA.%5FWalker) from Edwards AFB, California, to Ely, Nevada, the instruments photograph 5–6 cylindrical objects. No visual confirmation. On May 11, at NASA’s Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space in Seattle, Washington, Walker mentions the objects photographed \(and perhaps shows the slides; it is not mentioned in the proceedings\). NICAP is unable to obtain the photos. NASA claims the objects are ice flaking off the aircraft \(“fireflies”\). They are described by a NASA spokesman as “barbell shaped, bright-orange in color, and passing in groups up to six behind the X-15.” Opinion ranges from “definitely something up there,” to “film spots,” to “sun rays on the lens.” [Jacobsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%5FJacobsen) implies it was the A-12 test the same day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[AF Criticizes](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/017%20AUG-SEPT%201962.pdf) [NASA Release of ‘Mystery Object’ Photo,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/017%20AUG-SEPT%201962.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 5 \(Aug./Sept. 1962\): 8; UFOEv, [p. 139](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=151&skin=2021); Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, May 11, 1962; MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, pp. 6–7; Good Above, [p. 366](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/366/mode/2up); [Proceedings of the Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space, Seattle, Washington, May 8–10,](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19630001263/downloads/19630001263.pdf) [1962](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19630001263/downloads/19630001263.pdf)[,](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19630001263/downloads/19630001263.pdf) NASA Office of Scientific and Technical Information, November 1962; Curtis Peebles, “[Fireflies: The X-](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2014/01/fireflies.html) [15 ‘UFO’ Sighting Controversy,](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2014/01/fireflies.html)” Magonia 78 \(June 2002\); Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 205](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/204/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3611 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10002 (09680F20) Date: 4/30/1962 Description: On this night Eugenio Siragusa, age 43, claimed to have met two men of normal height on Mount Mangre on the island of Sicily in Italy. They were clad in diver's suits, and had belts emitting an intermittent yellowish-green and blue light. They delivered to him a message of peace in Italian. The voice he heard had a metallic tone. A dazzling, 15 meter in diameter saucer-shaped craft was seen on the ground nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roberto Pinotti, Flying Saucers, January-February 1966, p. 57; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0526; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 531, citing Flying Saucer Review, January 1963 Source ID: Johnson_2422 Source: Johnson ### Event 10003 (5D30EB12) Date: 4/30/1962 Description: X-15 flight, piloted by Joe Walker; Photograph (no visual sighting) of 5 or 6 "disc- shaped or. . .cylindrical" objects. Slides later shown in Seattle conference. NICAP unable to obtain prints. \[NICAP UFO Evidence\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edwards AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2574 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10004 (EFE5C85A) Date: 4/30/1962 Time: night Description: Eugenio Siragusa, 43, claimed to have met two men of normal height, clad in diving suits, with belts emitting intermittent yellow-green blue light, who delivered to him a peace message in Italian. The voice had a metallic tone. Also observed was a very dazzling object, 15 m in diameter. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 63, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mount Eba, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_531 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10005 (C5B01BF5) Date: 5/1962 Description: At least twelve UFOs sighted in May. Official reports and newspaper chronology given NICAP by Argentine Embassy include four sightings by Argentine Navy pilots, two reported landing cases. (NICAP UFO Evidence, See Section XII; Argentine Chronology.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_2575 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10006 (46655C61) Date: 5/1962 Time: 0400 Description: Approximate date. Four people whose car had run out of gas, were waiting in a drizzling rain when a bright light, first thought to be from a car, approached them. It turned out to be a lowflying object that landed. It was round with a blinking light, and stayed there about one hour before taking off at high speed Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Jul., 63 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Jujuy, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_532 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10007 (10C48AF2) Date: 5/4/1962 Description: The A-12 achieves supersonic speed of Mach 1.1 at 40,000 feet during a test at Groom Lake, Nevada. May 11 — 7:40 p.m. Argentine Rear Adm. [Eladio M. Vázquez](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eladio%5FV%C3%A1zquez) and Capt. Aldo Molinari watch a UFO from the US Military Mission at the Comandante Espora Air Naval Base in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 170](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=182&skin=2021); “[In](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201963%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf) [Argentina,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201963%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_3613 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10008 (7E389811) Date: 5/9/1962 Description: At 3:30 a.m. several motorists on Highway 35 near Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina had a close encounter with three low level UFOs that pursued them for at least eight minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_2681 Source: Johnson ### Event 10009 (9B4383D6) Date: 5/12/1962 Description: At 4:10 a.m. V. and G. Tomasini and H. Zenobi, while driving on Route 35 at Kilometer 72 near La Pampa, La Pampa province, Argentina saw a rectangular object shaped like an illuminated railroad boxcar. As they came close to it, the object took off, crossed the road at low altitude, rose with a flame, and separated into two sections that flew away in different directions. It made a humming sound and was seen on the ground for one minute. The grass on the ground was burnt in a 60m radius circle at the landing site, insects were carbonized, and the ground was "petrified." Sample analysis was done by the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base. At 4:30 p.m. another close encounter occurred northwest of Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires province, Argentina that involved several witnesses and reportedly had lasting physiological effects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: La Nacion, May 24, 1962 Oscar A. Uriondo; FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 17; NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1962, p. 7; APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 2, 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 533 Source ID: Johnson_2757 Source: Johnson ### Event 10010 (DA418811) Date: 5/12/1962 Description: 4:10 a.m. Three truckers \(Valentino Tomassini, Guro Tomassini, and Humberto Zenobi\) are driving from Bahia Blanca to Jacinto Aráuz, La Pampa, Argentina, when they see a lantern-like light resting in a nearby field. It brightens and dims alternately. As they slow down, a row of 20–30 lights come on. When they approach to within 210 feet of the object, it rises up and crosses the road at a height of 12 feet. Its lights go out, a reddish flame comes from the bottom, and it makes a soft humming noise. The UFO then divides into two parts that fly off in different directions. Navy Capt. Luis Sanchez Moreno, chief of intelligence at the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base, interviews the witnesses. At the landing site, grass is burned over an area 180 feet in diameter, and there are damp, gray-colored patches. These are taken for analysis to either or both the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base and Universidad Nacional del Sur, both in or near Bahia Blanca. It consists of calcium carbonate and potassium carbonate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [pp. 170–171](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=182&skin=2021); “[In Argentina,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201963%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1963, pp. 2–4; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-Jan-Jun.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1962](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-Jan-Jun.pdf), The Author, 2005, pp. 60–61; Oscar A. Uriondo, “[Preliminary Catalogue of Type 1 Cases in Argentina,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201972%20N%2012.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 12 \(December 1972\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_3614 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10011 (3B37E081) Date: 5/12/1962 Time: 0410 Description: V. and G. Tomasini and H. Zenobi saw an object on the ground 100 m away from the road. It looked like a railroad car and was illuminated. As they came close to it, the object took off, crossed the road at low altitude, rose with a flame, and separated into two sections that flew away in different directions. It made a humming noise and was seen on the ground for one min. Within a circle 60 m in radius, grass was burned, insects were carbonized, and the ground was "petrified." Sample analysis was done by the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base. Type: ufo sighting Reference: SBEDV 30; 132; CODOVNI 1962 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pampa Province, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_533 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10012 (FBA2B9D5) Date: 5/12/1962 Description: General Douglas McArthur states, “of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy” Type: speach Reference: [link](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/macarthur-planets-war/) Location: West Point Academy Source ID: Maj2_611 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10013 (2403D2C5) Date: 5/13/1962 Description: 4:00 a.m. Near Oncativo, Córdoba, Argentina, two women driving from Rosario see a long object flying at moderate altitude and emitting a powerful, multicolored light. They enter a fog and see through the trees a sort of “little house” on the ground, with green, red, and yellow lights set in an arrow-shaped arrangement. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1962](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 2005, p. 62; Oscar A. Uriondo, “[Preliminary Catalogue of Type 1 Cases in Argentina,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201972%20N%2012.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 12 \(December 1972\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_3615 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10014 (A2944062) Date: 5/13/1962 Time: 0400 Description: Dozens of witnesses in Uncativo, Cordoba, Carranza, and Los Molinos Dam observed a very luminous, elongated object with a bright trail. Soon thereafter, fog filled a wooded section near Uncativo, and a landed object resembling a small house was observed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 133; CODOVNI 1962 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Uncativo, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_534 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10015 (DB288AF8) Date: 5/13/1962 Description: In Rio Cuarto, Cordoba, Argentina a flight of 20 multi-colored UFOs was sighted by many at 4:45 a.m. One object--a fiery ball of light 30 meters in diameter--came down to within 300 meters of a car full of witnesses. From one side of the object four small red orbs flew out, lined up behind the larger ball, then flew away in formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 10; (2) Gordon W. Creighton, FSR, July 1964, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_2804 Source: Johnson ### Event 10016 (6564A1DD) Date: 5/13/1962 Description: Two years later it was Argentina's turn to be inundated with UFO reports. In the early morning hours between 4:00 a.m. and dawn there were 11 sightings including seven close encounters from six provinces in Argentina: Buenos Aires, La Rioja, Neuquen, La Pampa, Cordoba, and Mendoza. In Mercedes, located in Buenos Aires province, Argentina an Air Force man named Giashischa and his family encountered a mist at 4:15 a.m. while driving in their car. In a field they saw a 20-meter wide luminous mass spinning near the ground. It stood approximately 3 meters tall. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_2803 Source: Johnson ### Event 10017 (6698131B) Date: 5/18/1962 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marksville (and Leesville, Colfax), LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2576 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10018 (D41A4DD5) Date: 5/18/1962 Description: Cigar-shaped UFO, brilliantly lighted below, dark on top. Hovered, sped away. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pompano Beach, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2577 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10019 (F895424B) Date: 5/20/1962 Description: Scientist, others, watched maneuvering light source, brilliant blue changing to yellow. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, VI\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Defiance, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2578 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10020 (531A12D9) Date: 5/21/1962 Description: Miguel Thomé, a reporter for La Nueva Provincia, takes several photos of a luminous object above Bahia Blanca, Argentina, one of which is exactly at a point when the object changes course. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 170](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=182&skin=2021); ClearIntent, [pp. 138–139](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/138/mode/2up); “[Un avistaje de OVNI en Bahía Blanca aparece en los archivos de la CIA de Estados](https://www.lanueva.com/nota/2016-2-3-1-19-0-un-avistaje-de-ovni-en-bahia-blanca-aparece-en-los-archivos-de-la-cia-de-estados-unidos) [Unidos,](https://www.lanueva.com/nota/2016-2-3-1-19-0-un-avistaje-de-ovni-en-bahia-blanca-aparece-en-los-archivos-de-la-cia-de-estados-unidos)” La Nueva \(Bahía Blanca\), February 3, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_3616 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10021 (4CD77FA0) Date: 5/21/1962 Description: Day. Capt. Gordon Pendleton and First Officer J. P. Murphy are flying an Aer Lingus Vickers Viscount airliner above southern England at 17,000 feet when they see a brown globe-shaped object approaching head-on. It speeds 3,000 feet below the aircraft at about 700 mph. The object has a number of antenna-like projections on its surface. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Irish Times, May 22, 1962; UFOEv, [p. 122](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=134&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3617 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10022 (B6595458) Date: 5/21/1962 Description: Irish International Airlines pilot watched spherical UFO pass below aircraft. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, X\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2579 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10023 (4F332CE1) Date: 5/22/1962 Description: A woman was hospitalized after her observation of a strange object that landed, and of the "ugly" giant beings who emerged from it. Approximate date. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 135 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Winifreda, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_535 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10024 (C92ED2CB) Date: 5/22/1962 Description: 7:10–7:45 p.m. A formation of Navy planes, led by flight instructor Lt. Rodolfo César Galdos, near Comandante Espora Air Naval Base in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, observes several UFOs over a 35-minute period. Witnesses at the control tower also see an object. Student pilot Roberto Wilkinson sees a luminous object trailing his plane. It lights up his cockpit and his radio transmission is disrupted as it passes underneath. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [pp. 119](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=131&skin=2021), [171](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=183&skin=2021); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) p. 129; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-Jan-Jun.pdf) [1962](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 2005, pp. 65–67; Scott Corrales, “[Saucers in My Backyard: Argentina’s Trancas Case,](http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2007/05/saucers-in-my-backyard-argentinas.html)” Inexplicata, May 8, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_3618 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10025 (3B7FD40F) Date: 5/22/1962 Alternate date: 5/24/1962 Description: A woman is hospitalized after she and her husband see an object land near Winifreda, Las Pampas, Argentina. Two large “robot-like creatures” emerge. Argentine Air Force investigators find a circle of scorched grass. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, p. 152 Source ID: Eberhart_3619 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10026 (4E813E78) Date: 5/22/1962 Description: Several luminous discs were seen four times in 35 minutes during an Argentine Navy aircraft flight from Espora Naval Air Base in Buenos Aires province, Argentina. The plane's radio failed completely during the close encounters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Enrique Banchs, Las Evidencias del Fenomeno OVNI, citing Antonio Ribera; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_3034 Source: Johnson ### Event 10027 (60DC7346) Date: 5/23/1962 Description: In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a domed disc with portholes flew over the city for an estimated 40 minutes, playing a game of cat and mouse with jets at an estimated altitude of 750 meters. The Air Force explanation lists this case as caused by a reflection. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, May 1962; APRO Bulletin, May 1962 Source ID: Johnson_3046 Source: Johnson ### Event 10028 (E19181BE) Date: 5/24/1962 Description: A robot-like being was sighted on a ranch in La Pampa, Argentina on this day by a rancher and his wife. Later an 18 foot in diameter burnt circle was found in the grass. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 152; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, May 1963, p. 36; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 153 Source ID: Johnson_3062 Source: Johnson ### Event 10029 (3BEFB616) Date: 5/24/1962 Description: White Object Seen / Tracked On Radar For Hours (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 4, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [620524](http://www.nicap.org/620524albuquerque%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2580 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10030 (0AE6C1DD) Date: 5/25/1962 Description: USAF Pentagon spokesman Maj. [Carl R. Hart](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63582043/carl-robert-hart) tells NICAP that Air Force investigations involve hundreds of intelligence officers, as well as “the best scientific brains available in the laboratories of all government agencies,” also scientific investigators in commercial laboratories, wherever needed. He adds that [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) has consulted with the “world’s leading scientists.” Around the same time, Lt. Col. Spencer Whedon from ATIC informs NICAP that the Air Force spends about $10,000 on each major sighting investigation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[AF Admits UFO Probe Still in Full](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/016%20MAR-%20JUL%201962.pdf) [Operation,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/016%20MAR-%20JUL%201962.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 4 \(March/July 1962\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_3620 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10031 (28A1CDFE) Date: 5/25/1962 Description: What looked like a flaming airplane making a loud roaring noise plunged into Lake Meridian in Kent, Washington at 10:30 p.m. An explosion was heard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p 226 Source ID: Johnson_3085 Source: Johnson ### Event 10032 (32EE8276) Date: 5/26/1962 Description: Large red ball fly or fall down, then rise back up (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7930) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westfield, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2567 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10033 (BA8480F6) Date: 5/26/1962 Description: At 11:45 p.m. a group of seven teenagers in Westfield, Massachusetts saw a red diamond-shaped object that gave off sparks like sparklers. The object slowly descended in a gentle S-curve. It landed remotely on a nearby mountain. Shortly after landing it reappeared in the sky, and stayed there until after the observers had left the scene. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7930, Lloyd Mallan, The Official Guide to UFOs, p. 20; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 155 Source ID: Johnson_3098 Source: Johnson ### Event 10034 (9508E984) Date: 5/26/1962 Description: "Round, slightly oval, bright red object, giving off sparks from top and bottom. Center. . . yellowish or white. . .case is listed as unidentified." (Air Force Project Blue Book 1962 Summary.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7930) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westfield, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2581 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10035 (7DD4E378) Date: 5/27/1962 Description: (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7931) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palmer, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2582 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10036 (EA9DFFC1) Date: 5/27/1962 Description: Numerous witnesses in Palmer, Alaska watched two triangular UFOs dive and climb through the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 7931; Richard H. Hall, UFO Evidence, p. 108 Source ID: Johnson_3115 Source: Johnson ### Event 10037 (81A290F5) Date: 6/3/1962 Description: A doctor and his wife, Sr. & Sra. Gazua were driving to Parana, Entre Rios province, Argentina and were near the town of Crespo at 1:15 a.m. when they saw a luminous truncated cone, 3-4 meters high, on the ground 100 meters away. Through a doorway in the object they saw a being of normal height, wearing a diver suit with a hood. Inside was seated a second man. They drove on. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0529, citing Cordoba newspaper, July 20, 1962 Source ID: Johnson_3244 Source: Johnson ### Event 10038 (74DA2C0B) Date: 6/5/1962 Description: Contactee [Gabriel Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%5FGreen) runs for the US Senate in California and claims to have received 171,000 votes in the Democratic primary. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1962 United States Senate election in California](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962%5FUnited%5FStates%5FSenate%5Felection%5Fin%5FCalifornia)”; S. D. Tucker, False Economies: The Strangest, Least Successful, and Most Audacious Financial Follies, Plans, and Crazes of All Times, Amberly, 2018, chapter 3, excerpted in “Taxing Credulity,” Fortean Times 367 \(June 2018\): 52–55 Source ID: Eberhart_3623 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10039 (E7FF8B14) Date: 6/6/1962 Description: 11:20 a.m. Six silent objects are seen at intervals over Caroda, New South Wales. A trail of shiny, web-like filaments falls and gradually disintegrates as they drift through the air. Witnesses say they are up to 5 feet long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 7; Keith Basterfield, “[A Catalogue and Analysis of Australasian ‘Angel Hair’ Cases,](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/kbangel.htm)” March 2001 Source ID: Eberhart_3624 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10040 (8FD0B355) Date: 6/7/1962 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hallett Station, Antarctica Source ID: NICAP_DB_2583 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10041 (A6E6A43F) Date: 6/7/1962 Description: A brilliant white light, approximately 20 times brighter than first magnitude stars, is seen at Hallett Station \[now closed\], Cape Hallett, East Antarctica, at 250° \(true\) azimuth, and 30° elevation. Over 5 minutes it remains stationary and is viewed both with binoculars and the naked eye. It appears circular. It is a dazzling gold color and observed between two mountain peaks. The sun at the time is below the horizon. After 5 minutes it moves in a southerly direction and is lost to view behind a peak. Project Blue Book concludes it is Jupiter, even though that planet’s position is only at 5° elevation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, \[[Blue Book documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/1962-06-07%20Hallett%20Station.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 292; Swords 298 Source ID: Eberhart_3625 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10042 (590BD0C1) Date: 6/16/1962 Description: Four persons from Thursday Island, among them E. Thorpe, were climbing a hill when they observed a silvery object on a nearby hillside, less than 2 km away. It could not be located again when they reached the other side of the hill. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 62,5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Prince of Wales Island, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_536 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10043 (DBC0210B) Date: 6/21/1962 Description: At 4:00 a.m. Lt. Col. H. King and his tail gunner M/Sgt. Roberts, aboard a B-52 heavy jet bomber flying over Indianapolis, Indiana sighted three bright, star-like flying nocturnal lights. The first was seen, and then ten seconds later two more were spotted. The total sighting lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7957; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3572 Source: Johnson ### Event 10044 (7B43397B) Date: 6/21/1962 Description: Many residents of La Plata, Argentina phoned the police and the newspapers on this night to report a red cigar-shaped UFO over the city, flying around in circles at great speed. The object would disappear and reappear, giving off red flashes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1964, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_3573 Source: Johnson ### Event 10045 (19167D60) Date: 6/21/1962 Description: Three Strange Lights Observed By B-52 Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 7957) Reference: NICAP: [620621](http://www.nicap.org/620621indy%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2584 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10046 (D069C35D) Date: Summer 1962 Description: Around 9:00 p.m. Harvey Packard and five other men are fishing near East Peru, Maine, when three orange globes show up across the pond and begin dancing about. The globes move toward the witnesses, who get scared and jump in their car and speed away. The globes follow the car, one in the rear and the others on each side. The objects appear to be transparent, 3-foot spheres that easily pace the speeding vehicle. Occasionally they leave their positions and form into a triangle with squarish bridges between them, then split up and continue the car chase. The car radio is filled with static. Finally, they veer off and fly into the woods. \(NICAP case file; Swords 300\) Summer — Donald MacKenzie, a shepherd, discovers some strange wreckage in a remote moor near Ardgay, Sutherland, Scotland, that he thinks is related to Sputnik. In October, a team from RAF Kinloss \[now Kinloss Barracks\] on the Moray Firth arrives to investigate. They find a strange box-shaped object, large enough to have carried a person and containing spaces for cameras and a brass panel that explains, in pictures, what the finder should do in the event of discovery to claim a reward. Buried nearby are a number of bottles of colorless fluid. The team is mystified and suspects something Russian but can’t confirm it. The debris now seems likely to have come from a secret spy balloon, one of many launched in 1955–1956 by the US Air Force from RAF Evanton \[now closed\], to take reconnaissance photos of Russian military and nuclear facilities. Once clear of Soviet territory, the balloons were designed to drop into the Pacific Ocean where its VHF beacon would guide recovery efforts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke, “[The Scottish Roswell?](https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2012/07/29/the-scottish-roswell/)” Dr. David Clarke: Folklore and Journalism, July 29, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_3622 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10047 (A595B0C8) Date: Summer 1962 Description: Col. [Joseph J. Bryan III](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993)[,](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993) special assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force and advisor to NATO, joins the board of NICAP. In 1959 he had contacted [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and asked to see some of his “really hot cases.” It is later revealed that he was also founder of the CIA’s psychological warfare staff. Bryan never discloses his CIA background to NICAP or Keyhoe. Although Bryan, the father of later UFO author [C. D. B. Bryan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%5FD.%5FB.%5FBryan), makes strong pro-UFO statements, he is later suspected of helping to discredit Keyhoe and undermine NICAP; his son and [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) deny it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[AF Colonel, Noted Astronomer, Join Board,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/017%20AUG-SEPT%201962.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 5 \(Aug./Sept 1962\): 2; “[Col. Joseph Bryan,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/032%20MAY-JUN%201966.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 8 \(May/June 1966\): 5; “[NI-CIA-AP or NICAP?](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20Old%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%20Vol%201%20Issue%2007%20-%20Old%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause 1, no. 7 \(January 1979\): 5–13; “[CE4K Author C. D. B. Bryan Dies,](http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?t=26301&p=306297)” Rigorous Intuition, December 18, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_3621 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10048 (16924D0B) Date: 6/21/1962 Time: 4 AM Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. H. King and tail gunner M/Sgt. Roberts, aboard a B-52 heavy jet bomber. Three bright, star-like lights: one seen; 10 seconds later, two more were seen. Total sighting took 3 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_476 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10049 (176D435E) Date: 6/22/1962 End date: 6/23/1962 Description: From 10:25 p.m. local time, June 22, until 3:00 a.m. local time, June 23, multiple witnesses reported at least seven sightings of flying objects in the Columbus area. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [19620622-19620623](http://www.nicap.org/620622columbus%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2585 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10050 (3DB7A3F2) Date: 6/25/1962 Description: In Kurrajong, New South Wales, Australia a glowing red object of great size and speed was seen as it flew over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 87 Source ID: Johnson_3651 Source: Johnson ### Event 10051 (2DB6FA07) Date: 6/25/1962 End date: 6/26/1962 Description: 9:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. John, 14, and James Westmoreland, 12, are camping out in their backyard at 7466 East 18th Street, Tucson, Arizona, with a friend, Ronald Black, 11. About 9:00 p.m. John notices a bright star in the west that moves occasionally, dips, and hovers. Around 11:45, they notice that the star is brighter and has moved closer, taking the shape of a triangle. At 12:15, the object noiselessly emits three green flares that take on a speedy horizontal flight path. They notice a second, ball-shaped object that races from west to east, flips, and stops at a higher elevation than the first. A “flare-like” light approaches the second and seems to be absorbed by it. The first UFO spits out more green flares, two of which disappear into the second object a few minutes later. The second object shoots out a rocket that disappears in the sky. A third whitish object, larger and disc-shaped, appears above Pontano Wash with a cone-shaped superstructure. Three stiltlike protuberances appear briefly then are drawn back in. The third object also drops something like a rope that extends to the ground for 3–5 minutes. The boys soon get sleepy and retire after a while, telling the mother, [Pansy Westmoreland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3997504/pansy-carrie-westmoreland), about it in the morning. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Saucers, Rockets Inhabit Night Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102465898/tucson-citizen/)” Tucson \(Ariz.\) Daily Citizen, June 26, 1962, p. 17; Coral E. Lorenzen, “[Saucers Shoot Rockets over Tucson, Arizona,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201962%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1962, pp. 1, 3–4; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 114–118 Source ID: Eberhart_3626 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10052 (FB8F2F76) Date: 6/26/1962 Description: Verona, Italy -- After observing a flying disc earlier that night, Luisa Peregozzo awoke to an intense cold feeling and saw out her bedroom window a semi-transparent being with an enormous baldhead, surrounded by a green light. It was extending huge hands in her direction. The air in the room remained cold throughout the entire episode. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucers, January 1966, p. 58 Source ID: Johnson_3670 Source: Johnson ### Event 10053 (E1EA74B2) Date: 6/26/1962 Time: evening Description: For about one hour, 20-year-old Roberto Poregozzo, his mother, Maria, and his 25-year-old sister, Luisa, observed a silvery disk, the apparent diameter of the moon, maneuvering in the sky near Santa Anastasia church. They finally went home. About 0300, one of them was awakened by a feeling of intense cold and perceived a greenish light in the room. In the window a sharply defined human shape, delineating a semi-transparent body, was visible. The apparition had a huge bald head. The witness screamed, awakening the two others, and they saw the apparition shrink and vanish "like a TV image when one turns off the set." Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 63, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Verona, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_537 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10054 (CB691124) Date: 6/30/1962 End date: 7/1/1962 Description: Saw a red, star-like light for unspecified length of time (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7968) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richmond, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2586 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10055 (515B8FE1) Date: 6/30/1962 Time: 9 AM Description: Witness: 13 year old Meadors. One red, star-like light seen for an unspecified length of time. No further details in files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Richmond, Virginia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_477 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10056 (CEDFCC4C) Date: 6/30/1962 Description: At 9:00 a.m. a 13-year-old reported seeing a red, circular object with some white lights in Richmond, Virginia. He observed it for ten minutes as the object climbed and banked. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist!, p. 367 Source ID: Johnson_3746 Source: Johnson ### Event 10057 (B78339F9) Date: 7/1962 Description: APRO refers to NICAP as merely a “lobbying” effort in APRO Bulletin, while APRO is “gradually drawing the endorsements of the scientific community.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Support NICAP?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201962%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1962, pp. 1–2; Clark III 50 Source ID: Eberhart_3627 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10058 (C12CA079) Date: 7/7/1962 Description: Soviet Col. [Georgy Mosolov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy%5FMosolov) reaches 1,665 mph in a Mikoyan Gurevich Ye-166 \(a modified Ye-152\) over Russia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Georgi Mosolov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy%5FMosolov)” Source ID: Eberhart_3628 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10059 (F1108D1B) Date: 7/7/1962 Description: 11:10 p.m. C. B. Taylor, chief scientist at Hallett Station \[now closed\], Cape Hallett, East Antarctica, sees an intense light followed by two smaller lights pass over the facility in a few seconds leaving a clearly visible trail. Its passage is registered by an all-sky camera used for the study of auroras. Probable bolide. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, \[[Blue Book](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/1962-06-07%20Hallett%20Station.pdf) [documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/1962-06-07%20Hallett%20Station.pdf)\]; NICAP, “[Object Filmed by All Camera \(IFO\)](http://www.nicap.org/620707arctic%5Fcoast%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3629 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10060 (341326B0) Date: 7/9/1962 Description: A clear photograph of a gray cloud with three lights was taken at 11:10 p.m. by Dr. Taylor, an atmospheric scientist at the Cape Hallet Station in Antarctica. The cloud and lights moved toward the northeast at a low altitude. Other sightings of UFOs occurred that night at both the Chilean and Argentine Bases on the Palmer Archipelago in Antarctica. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 234; Brad Steiger, Strangers from the Skies, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_3953 Source: Johnson ### Event 10061 (14F47ECC) Date: 7/10/1962 Description: Disc-shaped UFO with rotating dome on top swept low over Naval Auxiliary Air Station, slowed over area of runway and hangar, then climbed out of sight at 20 to 30 degrees angle accelerating rapidly. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, IV\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Iberia, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2587 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10062 (9614DC06) Date: 7/17/1962 Description: X-15 flight, Maj. Bob White pilot. Photographs and visual sighting of unidentified object "like a piece of paper," gray-white. Observed to left of aircraft "going along with the ship" for about 5 seconds, then "darted above and behind the plane." \[NICAP UFO Evidence\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edwards AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2588 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10063 (3386E873) Date: 7/17/1962 Description: On this day X-15 pilot and future astronaut White was flying at 58 miles above the Earth from his desert takeoff point in California when he saw and took movie film of a grayish-white UFO. It paced the X-15 for five seconds, and then darted above and behind the plane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1962, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_4125 Source: Johnson ### Event 10064 (9977BC1B) Date: 7/17/1962 Description: Maj. [Robert Michael White](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMichael%5FWhite) is piloting Flight 62 of the X-15 at Edwards AFB, California. He flies it to 314,750 feet \(59 miles\), qualifying him for USAF astronaut wings. For this, he is featured on the cover of the August 3 issue of Life. At the top of his climb he sees a small grayish object “like a piece of paper” about 30–40 feet away. He exclaims, “There are things out there. There absolutely is!” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Space: Inside the Sky,](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0%2C33009%2C827456%2C00.html)” Time, July 27, 1962; MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, pp. 6–7; Good Above, [p. 366](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/366/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3630 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10065 (1020C142) Date: 7/18/1962 Description: At 8:00 p.m. Ms. F. Cummins in Stanley, Wisconsin saw two silver dumbbell-shaped flying objects, with thick crossbars, fly off toward the southwest. At nearly the same time a doctor saw two huge humanoid beings near a saucer by the side of the road in Crespo, Argentina (11:00 p.m. local time). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1963, p. 4; Charles Bowen, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition no. 1, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_4167 Source: Johnson ### Event 10066 (408E4E3C) Date: 7/18/1962 Description: At 1:00 a.m. Doctor Gauza and his wife were traveling on their way back to Crespo, Entre Rios, Argentina when they noticed a large metallic, cone-shaped object on the ground very close to the road. A very tall human looking figure stood next to an open door in the craft. It was looking around at the terrain. There was also a second figure looking out from a large porthole. The men were described as having long blond hair, and wore white coveralls with visors. When the two beings saw the witnesses, they used hand signals in an apparent attempt to get them to come closer, but the couple panicked and left at high speed. Eight other persons later came forward stating that they had also seen the craft and its occupants. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 37; Charles Bowen (editor), The Humanoids, p. 102; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1962, case # 989, citing Hector P. Anganuzzi, Historia de los Platos Voladores in La Argentina Source ID: Johnson_4166 Source: Johnson ### Event 10067 (06749F3A) Date: 7/19/1962 Description: 3-5 lights from different parts of the sky dart about the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8020) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Metuchen, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2589 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10068 (FFB76A39) Date: 7/19/1962 Time: 9:30 PM Description: Witnesses: C.T. Loftus, H. Wilbert. Four or five lights darted about the sky for 7-10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Bayhead, New Jersey Source ID: BerlinerBBU_478 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10069 (41238D00) Date: 7/19/1962 Description: At the same time in Bayhead, New Jersey (9:30 p.m. EDT) C. T. Loftus and H. Wilbert watched four or five lights dart about in the sky silently for 7-10 minutes. One zigzagged off toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8020; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4198 Source: Johnson ### Event 10070 (02979F9D) Date: 7/26/1962 Description: At 8:30 p.m. near Darana, Argentina a 17-year-old motorcyclist saw a weird creature on the side of the road. His cycle would not steer correctly; instead, it drove right up to the creature and stopped. The creature was six feet tall, with a head like a melon and three eyes. It grabbed the youth's scarf, turned around and walked away like a robot, leaving deep tracks in the dirt. The youth saw a white light low in the sky in the direction the creature was walking. He then drove away quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 116, citing Saucer News, December 1962 Source ID: Johnson_4413 Source: Johnson ### Event 10071 (444F36EB) Date: 7/27/1962 Description: One hundred eighty school students and their teachers in Villa Tunuyuan, Mendoza province, Argentina saw three discs pass over their school at 7:45 a.m. heading from the north to the south. The UFOs gave off a bluish light. The teachers said they also emitted blinding silvery flashes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1964, p. 11, citing Antonio Ribera Source ID: Johnson_4432 Source: Johnson ### Event 10072 (F29FD267) Date: 7/28/1962 Description: A strange looking submarine-like object was seen at dawn off the coast of Avalon, California. It made no noise and left no wake as it passed by a boat on the surface, and was described as having a very strange structure. Five occupants were seen on board. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May 1963, p. 2, citing Los Angeles Times, October 25, 1962 Source ID: Johnson_4452 Source: Johnson ### Event 10073 (37C3E747) Date: 7/28/1962 Description: Before dawn. The skipper of a chartered fishing boat 6 miles southeast of Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California, sees several stationary lights low in the water dead ahead. Through binoculars he sees a squat, lighted structure in which several men are working, apparently the stern of a submarine with no markings and dacks almost awash. He and another crew member see five men, “two in all-white garb, two in dark trousers and white shirts, and one in a sky-blue jumpsuit.” The craft swept in their direction toward the open sea, still on the surface, and the skipper has to turn hard to keep clear. It makes no noise and leaves no wake. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marvin Miles, “[Report](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102355683/the-los-angeles-times/) [Studied on](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102355683/the-los-angeles-times/) [Soviet Sub off Catalina,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102355796/the-los-angeles-times/)” Los Angeles Times, October 25, 1962, pp. 1, 10 Source ID: Eberhart_3631 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10074 (47A3D4FE) Date: 7/29/1962 Time: 11:20 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Barton. One bright cherry-red, diamond-shaped object flew slow, hovered, made fast 1/2 loops for l0 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Ocean Springs, Mississippi Source ID: BerlinerBBU_479 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10075 (51E1134A) Date: 7/29/1962 Description: Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Barton of Ocean Springs, Mississippi saw a bright cherry-red, diamond-shaped object at 11:20 p.m. that flew slowly, hovered, and then made fast half-loops for ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4481 Source: Johnson ### Event 10076 (78C32CF1) Date: 7/30/1962 Description: On this day near Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on the road to Pasnembi two men, Sr. Lombero and Sr. Garoup, were driving down the road to Pasnembi when their car engine stalled. By the side of the road was a 40 meter long (130 foot) oval-shaped object, "resembling a great bottle with two necks, one at each end." Two human-looking men stood at each end of the object, exchanging light signals. After ten minutes they got into the object and it took off at great speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0533, citing Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1962, p. 25; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 538; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_4504 Source: Johnson ### Event 10077 (8F296135) Date: 7/30/1962 Description: Car motor stopped, then oval UFO seen alongside road (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pojucara, Bela Horizonte (near), Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2591 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10078 (C30CA795) Date: 7/30/1962 Description: Bright cherry-red, diamond-shaped object fly slow, hover (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8034) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ocean Springs, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2590 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10079 (8C5EF73D) Date: 7/30/1962 Description: A man driving near Pasnembi stopped when his engine failed and observed a cylindrial object, described as "a bottle with two necks," about 40 m long, 15 m high, which had landed on the road. Two men (one at either end of the craft), appeared to be changing some luminous signals. This lasted 10 min and the craft took off at high speed. In Alta, a number of people reported a bright object moving at high altitude. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 136; FSR 62, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pasnembi, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_538 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10080 (9626FA8F) Date: 7/30/1962 Description: Roberto Mievres, 17, was riding his motorcycle when a tall being, with a head like a watermelon and three eyes, appeared as the engine stalled. The apparition snatched the boy's scarf, but he ran away and came back with a group of people, who found the scarf on the ground, discovered some traces and observed an unknown craft flying away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: CODOVNI 1962 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bajeola Grande, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_539 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10081 (CE4953B8) Date: 8/1962 Description: 7:00 p.m. Three witnesses are driving south toward San José de Métan, Salta, Argentina, when they see a light against the mountains to the west. It approaches, growing as large as the full moon when it is 300 feet ahead of them. It has a bulge at the top and reddish-pink, green, and white blinking lights. It continues to approach and passes above a Fiat truck in the road ahead of them. The truck stops, and the witnesses stop their car as well, two of them walking into some nearby bushes to observe. The object now seems to be the diameter of a DC-3’s wingspan and is 150 feet in the air. The truck’s lights go out, and the object rocks back and forth, taking off to the north at a great rate of speed. Five minutes later, they drive up to the stopped truck, whose driver is scooping up dirt to cool its overheated engine down. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 157–158 Source ID: Eberhart_3632 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10082 (98609F12) Date: 8/1962 Description: Night. Marilyn Chenarides, her younger brother Roger, and their mother Mildred Anderson are vacationing in a cabin on Movil Lake, Minnesota. The two women see a glowing red, domed disc with large windows hovering above the boat dock 50 feet away. Silhouetted in the windows are three entities who seem to be looking at them. The women shut off the cabin lights for a better look, and the UFO switches off its own lights. Anderson runs out of the cabin toward the object, which lifts and disappears rapidly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The 1962 Occupants Case,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201972%2011%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 21, no. 2 \(Sept./Oct. 1972\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_3633 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10083 (27AD6F55) Date: 8/1/1962 Description: A large metallic oval-shaped object surfaced 300 meters away from three fisherman in two boats off of Le Brusc, France in the Mediterranean Sea. They first believed it was a foreign submarine. About a dozen "frogmen" emerged from the water and climbed aboard. The fishermen called out but the figures ignored them, except the last three, who turned to look at the fishermen. The very last one waved. Then the craft rose out of water, and suspended itself effortlessly above the waves, as red and green lights came on and a white light beam like a searchlight played toward the witnesses. The beam was extinguished, the red and green lights went out, and the object, now glowing an orange color and clearly oval in shape, rose a further 20 meters into the air and began to rotate, its light becoming more intensely red. At last, it moved silently in a graceful arc above the fishermen, and disappeared rapidly into the night sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1971; FSR Case Histories, April 1973, p. 14; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1962-5 (A0537), citing LDLN Lecture Series III, number 5 Source ID: Johnson_4563 Source: Johnson ### Event 10084 (0EF3249D) Date: 8/2/1962 Description: Colored Lights Lit Up Runways (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2) Reference: NICAP: [620802](http://www.nicap.org/620802liberal%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Liberal, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2592 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10085 (73F37714) Date: 8/2/1962 Description: Luis Harvey, airport manager, and his staff thought that an unannounced aircraft was about to land, as they saw a luminous object circling at high speed. It came down to hover about 1 m above the runway for some four min. It was spherical, spinning, and emitted flashes of blue, green and orange. When approached, it took off at very high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 64, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Camba Punat Airport, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_540 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10086 (BA78DAD7) Date: 8/2/1962 Description: Camba Punat Airport, Corrientes province, Argentina. Sr. Luis Harvey, airport manager, and his staff thought that an unannounced aircraft was about to land around midnight when they saw a luminous object circling overhead at high speed. It came down to hover about one meter above the runway for some four minutes. It was spherical, spinning, and emitted flashes of blue, green and orange. When approached by ground personnel it took off at very high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: La Razon, August 3, 1962; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 540, citing Flying Saucer Review, April 1964, p. 11; Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_4594 Source: Johnson ### Event 10087 (88A9496B) Date: 8/2/1962 Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Air traffic control operators at Cambá Punta Airport \[now Doctor Fernando Piragine Niveyro International Airport\], near Corrientes, Argentina, see an unidentified light approaching the airport. They call the airport manager, Luís Harvey, who arrives from home in a hurry and sees the light circling at high speed. Harvey orders a landing strip freed up but the light, apparently a spherical object, comes down, hovering and revolving a few feet above the same spot on the runway for 3–4 minutes, emitting strong blue, green, and orange flashes. Then it climbs and vanishes at staggering speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf) [UFOs, a History: July–December 1962](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2005, pp. 18–19; Patrick Gross, “[Camba Punta, Argentina,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/cambapunta1962.htm) [August 2, 1962](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/cambapunta1962.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3634 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10088 (1A946F73) Date: 8/5/1962 Description: On a highway between Las Armas and General Pirana, Argentina in Buenos Aires province at 1:45 a.m., Sr. P. Atilli had his truck's engine fail in the presence of a glowing orange, cigar-shaped UFO. The object was 25 meters long and 300 meters away, and gave off flashes of violet and green light. It shot off toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 10; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_4676 Source: Johnson ### Event 10089 (1D18D6E9) Date: 8/7/1962 Description: UFO over missile silo (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, NC) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: NICAP: [620807](http://www.nicap.org/620807oracle%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oracle, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2593 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10090 (4AE56713) Date: 8/7/1962 Description: Midnight. A contract worker at the not-yet-operational Titan II launch complex of the 570th Strategic Missile Squadron near Oracle, Arizona, sees a brilliant light descending over the site. He is joined by a colleague as the light gets larger. Both men go inside and contact Davis-Monthan AFB outside Tucson, which sends out two jet interceptors. When the aircraft arrive, the light takes off to the north and disappears rapidly. After the jets circle and head back, the light returns, descends toward the silo, and takes off vertically. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 235–236; Nukes 220–221 Source ID: Eberhart_3635 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10091 (955583C4) Date: 8/7/1962 Description: At just before midnight a nocturnal light was sighted over a Titan nuclear missile silo near Oracle, Arizona in Pinal County. Air Force jets were scrambled to chase the object. The light flew away and came back, then rose vertically and was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1962, p. 1; Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 235 Source ID: Johnson_4761 Source: Johnson ### Event 10092 (A0DEBDEE) Date: 8/15/1962 Description: Large UFO hovering over a high line tower, chased by Air Force helicopters.\[This is in the area of the Lowry AFB Titan I ICBM Complex\]. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [620815](http://www.nicap.org/denver620815dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Denver (near), CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2595 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10093 (CD560810) Date: 8/17/1962 Description: On this evening two little men, three feet tall, were seen digging a hole near Sr. Mafra Da Silva's house in Duas Pontes, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. When he approached them they ran into the bushes. A few moments later a hat-shaped UFO surrounded by a red glow took off at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 231 Source ID: Johnson_5112 Source: Johnson ### Event 10094 (4610CFFC) Date: 8/17/1962 Time: evening Description: Rivalino da Silva, a diamond prospector, told his associates that he had seen two strange dwarfs digging a hole near his house. They ran away as he came near them, and moments later an object took off from behind the bushes. It was shaped like a hat and surrounded with a red glow. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Sep.,62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_541 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10095 (CB1A52F5) Date: 8/17/1962 End date: 8/19/1962 Description: Evening. Walking home, diamond prospector Rivalino Mafra da Silva sees two small beings, about three feet tall, digging a hole near Duas Pontes, 17 miles north of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil. On August 19, Mafra da Silva and his sons are in bed when they are awakened by sounds and see a shadowy figure, apparently floating in the room. In the morning, he and his son Raimundo see two humming balls floating outside. They merge into one larger ball that moves toward Rivalino, enveloping him in yellow smoke. Raimundo says: “Then the yellow smoke dissolved. The balls were gone. The ground below was clean as if the dust had been removed by a big broom.” He tells his story to Lt. Wilson Lisbõa, chief of police at Diamantina, who conducts a search for 10 days. Only a few drops of blood are found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Brazilian Abduction: Boy’s Story Unshaken,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1962%2CNov-Dec%2CV%208%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1962\): 10–12; Clark III 418–419; Brazil 123–127; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1962-08-17-20-brazil-duaspontes.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_3636 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10096 (F2269EFA) Date: 8/18/1962 Description: At 5:00 p.m. on the island of Bermuda radio station owner Mr. M. Sheppard, and chief announcer Mr. A. Seymour, sighted three dull-white, egg-shaped objects at 5:00 p.m. The objects wavered as they moved through the sky for 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8364; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 113; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5123 Source: Johnson ### Event 10097 (683F4B2C) Date: 8/18/1962 Time: 5 PM Description: Witnesses: Owner M. Sheppard and chief announcer A. Seymour of radio station. Three dull-white, egg-shaped objects wavered as they moved for 20 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Bermuda Source ID: BerlinerBBU_480 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10098 (6BAADD76) Date: 8/19/1962 Description: 3 dull-white, egg-shaped objects waver as they moved (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8064) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown location in Bermuda, Bermuda Source ID: NICAP_DB_2596 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10099 (25DFC2FB) Date: 8/19/1962 Time: night Description: Raimundo, the son of Rivalino da Silva (see previous case), was awakened by the sound of steps and saw "a weird shadow" in the room. It was small and not human in shape. Voices were heard saying, "This one looks like Rivalino," and later that they would kill him. The family stayed on the alert all night. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Sep., 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_542 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10100 (E34B7554) Date: 8/20/1962 Description: Raimundo da Silva (see previous cases) testified before the police that while working in a field, he saw two spherical objects hovering 2 m above ground, a few meters from the house. One was black with an antenna-like protrusion and a small tail; the other was black and white. Both emitted a humming sound and a flickering fire through an opening. The boy's father warned him to stay away as Rivalino walked toward the objects, praying. When he was 2 m away, the two spheres merged into one, raising dust from the ground and spreading a yellow mist that enveloped the man. The boy ran after his father, noting that the cloud had "an acrid smell." As it dissolved, everything had vanished. Police investigation, headed by Lieutenant Lisboa, failed to reveal any clue. Many terrified people left the area. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Sep., 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_543 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10101 (DBF216A7) Date: 8/20/1962 Description: Raimundo Mafra da Silva testified before the police that while working in a field in Duas Pontes, Minas Gerais State, Brazil he saw two spherical objects hovering just two meters above the ground, only a few meters from his house. One was black with an antenna-like protrusion and a small tail, and the other was black and white. Both emitted a humming sound and a flickering flame through an opening. The boy's father warned him to stay away as his father Rivalino walked toward the objects, praying. When he was two meters away, the two spheres merged into one, raising dust from the ground and spreading a yellow mist that enveloped the man. The boy ran after his father, noting that the cloud had "an acrid smell." As it dissolved, everything had vanished including his father. The police investigation, headed by Lieutenant Lisboa, failed to reveal any clue. Many terrified neighbors left the area at the time because of this incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1962, p. 1; Coral E Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 213; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 303; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 543; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 126 Source ID: Johnson_5175 Source: Johnson ### Event 10102 (8A3F48C5) Date: 8/22/1962 Description: In Kingsford Heights, Indiana at 8:30 p.m. two families watched a hat-shaped domed disc that made a whirring noise. The seven witnesses viewed the UFO for almost an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Orvil R. Hartle, A Carbon Experiment, p. 167; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_5222 Source: Johnson ### Event 10103 (29EB6391) Date: Late 8/1962 Description: 7:00 p.m. Three witnesses are driving in a rural area about 87 miles from Salta, Argentina, when two of them \(the third sleeps through the event\) see a light against the mountains to the west that grows larger and moves about 300 feet above the road ahead of them. It is a domed disc with flashing reddish-pink, green, and white lights around its perimeter. The object illuminates a truck ahead of them. The truck stops, and the two witnesses get out of their car and hide in some bushes to see what happens next. The object appears to be nearly 100 feet wide and 150 feet above the truck. The truck’s lights go out and the object takes off to the north at a high rate of speed, climbing out of sight within seconds. They drive up to the truck, whose drivers are throwing dirt into its smoking engine compartment and are more concerned about an insurance claim than a UFO encounter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_3638 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10104 (20D421F0) Date: Late 8/1962 Description: 2:00 p.m. [Ann Druffel](https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2020/06/ufologist-ann-druffel-dies.html?fbclid=IwAR3N-uW1ZAkq5p21hxc11siol67dwjxfSq2vLaTl8v0pExaBh0OeTDuLTyc) and Aileen Cummings are at Long Beach, California, when they see a small rectangular cloud over the Santa Catalina Channel. Its vapor appears to churn and it doubles in size, then elongates to 20–30 times its original size. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ann Druffel, “[Santa Catalina Island Recurring ‘Cloud Cigars,’](http://www.cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf)” in Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Chicago, 1976, pp. 63–64; Ann Druffel, “Santa Catalina Channel Cloud Cigars,” IUR 31, no. 1 \(January 2007\): 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_3637 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10105 (84A72614) Date: 8/26/1962 Description: 12:05 a.m. Geraldo Bichara, 18, is standing guard at the Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when an electrical blackout occurs in the city. Suddenly he is paralyzed by a light beam from an unseen object, apparently for a few minutes. In 1980, Bichara undergoes hypnosis and discovers that the incident was an abduction in which he is taken aboard a UFO by beings wearing pumpkin-colored jumpsuits and subjected to a medical examination. He attempts to flee at one point and grabs his rifle lying nearby, but he is still paralyzed. After about 2 hours he is returned to the guardhouse. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil 60–66; “[Caso Giraldo Bichara,](https://ufologiagja.blogspot.com/2014/05/caso-geraldo-bichara.html)” Grupo de Amigos que Estudam Mistérios e Ufologia, May 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_3639 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10106 (AD0EE287) Date: 8/26/1962 Description: 12:30 a.m. Walter T. Jones Jr. watches a triangular formation of 6 white lights and one green light pass silently over Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for 3–5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Another ‘Mother’ Ship?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201963%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_3640 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10107 (D538BB49) Date: 8/28/1962 Description: On this night several people watched a luminous blue disc-shaped object hover over Upper Whiston, South Yorkshire, England. It had flat edges and small orbs around the rim. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1963 Source ID: Johnson_5413 Source: Johnson ### Event 10108 (7852721A) Date: 8/28/1962 Description: Three people, including a man named Bellantoni in Dolores, Buenos Aires province, Argentina encountered a bright object on the ground at night, 300 meters from National Highway 2. The object was 30 feet long, 15 feet high, and had "human-like figures moving about inside the machine." Three witnesses in a car and two in a truck encountered a disc-shaped UFO between Metan and Salta, Argentina. The disc was 150 meters in diameter, and flew just 50 meters above the truck. The truck engine caught on fire. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) John Keel, Strange Creatures From Time and Space, p. 153; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 160; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6239; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_5414 Source: Johnson ### Event 10109 (1A61E74D) Date: 8/29/1962 Description: Afternoon. A U-2 spy plane flying over Cuba spots an SA-2 surface-to-air missile site under construction at La Coloma, eight Komar-class guided missile patrol boats, and a cruise missile site at Banes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth Michael Absher, Mind-Sets and Missiles, US Army War College, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_3641 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10110 (DC8D8A06) Date: 8/30/1962 Description: At 11:00 p.m. three men walking down a street in Itapirito, Minas Gerais State, Brazil saw a domed disc-shaped object 150 feet away. It was aluminum colored and ten feet in diameter. A little man or robot was next seen walking toward them. He was one meter tall, had a small head and short arms, and looked like the "Michelin" tire man. His upper body was luminous. After the being had walked to with 30 feet it vanished before their eyes. Two of the witnesses ran, one stayed behind; the UFO took off but came back and the third witness suffered from temporay paralysis. He reportedly suffered from headaches for the next month. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0541, citing Walter Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, 1975, issue no. 21 Source ID: Johnson_5490 Source: Johnson ### Event 10111 (BF3C1017) Date: 8/30/1962 Description: 7:35–7:55 p.m. While having supper at an outdoor restaurant near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, three men, one of whom works for Techint Engineering Company, watch a UFO that approaches and hovers for 20 minutes. The engineer has a portable theodolite with him, and they set it up and track the object. It is a silvery-gray disc, like two rounded hubcaps together, and is spinning on its axis. It has an antenna on the top and exhaust ports all around its mid-line, and it is surrounded by gaseous emissions that run through all the colors of the spectrum. The object flips to a vertical alignment, showing its base, and then tips over so that its original topside is on the bottom. The object silently accelerates and disappears in 5 seconds. Project Blue Book concludes that the men were watching the planet Venus. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf) [December 1962](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2005, p. 33; Swords 298–299 Source ID: Eberhart_3642 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10112 (F41DA91D) Date: 9/1962 Time: 2145 Description: A. T. Gray, a dairy rancher, thought some lights in a field were those of a car. When coming nearer, he realized the object was oblong with blunt edges and hovered about 7 m above the ground, making no noise. When Gray was 50 m away, the object came toward him, rose, and took off toward the southwest. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Jul., 63 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Orland, California Source ID: Magnonia_544 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10113 (5C6DA3ED) Date: 9/1962 Description: California contactee [Gloria Lee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria%5FLee) takes channeled blueprints for a spaceship to Washington, D.C., to show to government officials. She gets nowhere, but while in town she gets messages from her space contact J.W. saying that the space people are upset with human wars and nuclear weapons. J.W. orders her to go on a fast for peace until he sends a “light elevator” to take her to Jupiter. Her fast lasts from September 23 to November 28. No one pays attention. After about 66 days without eating, Lee’s husband, aircraft engineer William H. Byrd, summons an ambulance to take her to George Washington University Hospital. She dies there on December 3. Lee continues to channel post-mortem information through a medium named [Nada-Yolanda](http://www.thenewearth.org/mahtnada.html) \(Pauline Sharpe\) in the Miami-based Mark-Age MetaCenter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 682–683; Tristan, “[The Airline Stewardess Who Starved Herself](https://bizarreandgrotesque.com/2016/12/18/the-airline-stewardess-who-starved-herself-to-death-for-aliens/) [to Death for Aliens,](https://bizarreandgrotesque.com/2016/12/18/the-airline-stewardess-who-starved-herself-to-death-for-aliens/)” Bizarre and Grotesque, December 18, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_3643 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10114 (BF2AA798) Date: 9/1962 Description: Thomas M. Comella, writing under the pseudonym “Peter Kor,” proposes that UFOs originate, not from space \(as he apparently thought when he favored the extraterrestrial hypothesis in the December 1955 issue of Fate\), but from a reality “so strange that it cannot be confined to our three-dimensional world.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 877; Thomas M. Comella, “[Why the Real Saucer Is Interplanetary,](https://archive.org/details/fate-1955-12/page/16/mode/2up)” Fate 8, no. 12 \(December 1955\): 17–23; Peter Kor \[Thomas M. Comella\], “The Solution to the Flying Saucer Mystery,” Flying Saucers, September 1962, pp. 68–74 Source ID: Eberhart_3644 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10115 (ED32B85C) Date: 9/1/1962 Description: The USSR publicly announces an agreement to supply arms and military technicians to Cuba. Construction begins on SS-5 IRBM sites in Guanajay. \(Wikipedia, “[Cuban Missile Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%5FMissile%5FCrisis\#Deployment)”\) September 5 — U-2 photos reveal for the first time the presence of MiG-21 jet fighters in Cuba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3645 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10116 (4892C8FA) Date: 9/1/1962 Description: Mr. R. Leeming, an engineer, stopped by a lake for a picnic while on a business trip around noon. He noticed a metallic UFO with windows hidden behind some trees, sitting on three telescopic legs and shaped like a top. It was 30 feet in diameter. He saw that it had a ladder and an open doorway, so he climbed the ladder and went inside. The interior had a control panel but no occupants, but when he turned around he was surprised to see that two human looking individuals, about 5.7 feet tall, wearing white suits with helmets, had returned. They looked surprised to see him and not sure what to do. He asked them, in French, why if they were obviously spacemen they looked like us. One of them replied, speaking in French, saying that the reason was we had a common ancestor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucers, June 1976, p. 19; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0547, citing Wido Hoville and UFO Quebec Source ID: Johnson_5554 Source: Johnson ### Event 10117 (638EC915) Date: 9/5/1962 Time: night Description: Second observation by Mr. Siragusa (Case 531), who saw two figures over 2.10 m tall. The light from their belts prevented him from seeing them in detail. A large, spinning object, 25 m wide, top-shaped, hovered nearby. "From the under part, a metallic cylinder over 3 m long reached down almost to touch the road, with a small door, a sort of lift." Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 62, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mount Manfre, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_545 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10118 (3D4764F3) Date: 9/5/1962 Description: Responding to a telepathic summons, Mr. Siragusa, age 43, went to a spot in Monte Manfre, Italy on the island of Sicily where he met two seven-foot tall men. The wore helmets of a metallic cloth. They gave him the message that humans should desist with H-bomb testing. They left in a UFO shaped like a spinning top, about 80 feet in diameter. The object hovered with a ten-foot wide cylindrical section that connected with the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hulvio Brant Aleixo, FSR, November-December 1968, p. 11; Gordon Creighton, FSR, January-February 1970, p. 14; Roberto Pinotti, Flying Saucers magazine, January-February 1966, p. 58 Source ID: Johnson_5651 Source: Johnson ### Event 10119 (B7444EA4) Date: 9/8/1962 Description: A lens-shaped UFO with the appearance of burnished metal was sighted by an Argentine Navy pilot in Florista, Bahia State, Argentina. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1962, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_5757 Source: Johnson ### Event 10120 (37864151) Date: 9/8/1962 Description: "Burnished metal" lens-shaped UFO sighted by Argentine Navy pilot. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, X, XII\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Floresta, Argentine Source ID: NICAP_DB_2597 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10121 (D64E5F80) Date: 9/13/1962 Time: 2320 Description: Myra Jones was driving between Overfield and Norris Hill when she saw a luminous, gray object, larger than a car with a dome on top. It was flying at the altitude of the Phone poles, slowly spinning. Dark spots were visible on the underside. It nearly touched the car, then gave a whistling sound and flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 137; FSR 62, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Overfield, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_546 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10122 (BBB268FA) Date: 9/13/1962 Description: Overfield, England. Myra Jones was driving between Overfield and Norris Hill at 11:20 p.m. when she spotted a luminous, gray object, larger than a car, with a dome on top. It was flying just above the ground at the height of the telephone poles, spinning slowly. There were dark spots visible on the underside of the object. It nearly touched the car, then gave a whistling sound and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 546; citing Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1962 Source ID: Johnson_5913 Source: Johnson ### Event 10123 (BE3EAF0D) Date: 9/15/1962 Description: Bright luminous object surrounded with a glow (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oradell, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2598 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10124 (709D2A18) Date: 9/15/1962 Description: 5:00 p.m. Two bright discs are seen over Oradell, New Jersey. At 6:00 p.m., former Navy flying officer J. J. McVickers sees two discs just across the state line near Oradell. At 7:50 p.m., [Victor Cipolla](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/159553724/victor-e%5Fp%5F-cipolla) sees a glowing object descend toward Oradell. Two other witnesses see one round object with a fin on top and another under it at darting back and forth near Oradell Reservoir. At 7:55 p.m., three teens see and hear a bright, oval object land in the reservoir with a loud splash. A moment later, it lifts off and climbs silently at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Disc Landing](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/018%20OCT-NOV%201962.pdf) [Reported in New Jersey,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/018%20OCT-NOV%201962.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 6 \(Oct./Nov. 1962\): 3–4; UFOEv, [p. 140](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=152&skin=2021); Loren E. Gross, [The](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf) [Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December 1962](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2005, pp. 48, 49; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 292 Source ID: Eberhart_3647 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10125 (F46E886C) Date: 9/15/1962 Description: Two bright discs were first seen at 5:00 p.m., then again at 6:00 p.m., at the state line near Oradell, New Jersey. Two witnesses saw one round object with a fin on top, and another under it at 7:50 p.m., and reported that it was going down toward the Oradell Reservoir. Three young men next saw and heard the object as it touched the water. Another witness called the police. The luminous object took off a few minutes later. The official investigation described it as bright, surrounded with a glow, and the apparent size of a small plane one kilometer away. It left flying toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 547, citing Project Blue Book files Source ID: Johnson_5983 Source: Johnson ### Event 10126 (FEE8493B) Date: 9/15/1962 Description: Construction begins on Soviet SS-4 MRBM sites at San Cristobal, Cuba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3646 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10127 (9070650F) Date: 9/15/1962 Time: 1700 Description: Two bright disks were first seen at 1700, then were seen again at 1800, at the state line. Two witnesses saw one round object with a fin on top and another under it at 1950, and reported that it was going down toward the Oradell reservoir. Three young men saw and heard the object as it touched the water. Another witness called police. The luminous object took off a few minutes later. Official investigation described it as bright, surrounded with a glow, the apparent size of a small plane 1 km away. It left toward the south. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Oradell, New Jersey Source ID: Magnonia_547 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10128 (DBEEC551) Date: 9/16/1962 Description: On this night a rubber plantation worker in Vila Conceicao, near Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil saw a round glowing object emitting sparks come down into a clearing in the plantation. Three humanoid beings jumped out, attacked another man, who happened to be a soccer referee, abducted him and took him away. They also stole 17 hens, six pigs, and two cows from the plantation. The UFO shot straight up into the sky when it took off. Neither the man nor the animals were ever returned. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 3; FSR, September 1970, p. 28; Brad Sparks, Computer Catalog of Abduction Cases (N=150), case 74; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case # 262 Source ID: Johnson_6010 Source: Johnson ### Event 10129 (09D635F2) Date: 9/18/1962 Description: Three men working in a rubber plantation saw a large, disk-shaped object hover above the river. It emitted sparks, was of silvery color, and very brilliant. It eventually rose straight up at high speed. Disappearance of cattle was noticed in the area during that period and blamed on the same cause. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Jan., 63 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Barcelos, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_548 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10130 (CC3AA94F) Date: 9/18/1962 Description: 4 a.m.. Two policemen reported a 7-8 second observation of a huge object, round at the top and tapering to a cone. 4:45 a.m.; Two Oradell policemen reported a brilliant light in the sky. \[NICAP UFO Evidence\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westwood, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2599 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10131 (80B6409F) Date: 9/18/1962 Description: 7:55 p.m.; A family in Hawthorne watched a greenish disc descend low over their house. \[NICAP UFO Evidence\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawthorne, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2600 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10132 (B99BA489) Date: 9/18/1962 Description: Six policemen sighted UFOs about the same time. One hovering object, two maneuvering. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Northeast, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2601 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10133 (30666081) Date: 9/18/1962 Description: Three men working on a rubber plantation in Barcelos, Amazonas State, Brazil saw a large, disk-shaped object hover above the river. It emitted sparks, was a silvery color, and very brilliant. It eventually rose straight up at high speed. Disappearance of cattle was noticed in the area during that period and blamed on the same cause. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 548, citing APRO Bulletin, January 1963 Source ID: Johnson_6067 Source: Johnson ### Event 10134 (FD39C946) Date: 9/18/1962 Description: Minerva, Ohio. Six policemen in northeastern Ohio sighted UFOs at about the same time at around five a.m. One object was hovering, while two were maneuvering. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 62 Source ID: Johnson_6068 Source: Johnson ### Event 10135 (D9C1FF59) Date: 9/20/1962 Description: Early in the morning, a watchman, William Stock, of Hawthorne, reported a saucer- shaped object which hovered and moved from side to side as it shone bright enough to illuminate a huge area. \[NICAP UFO Evidence\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawthorne, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2602 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10136 (7F52218D) Date: 9/20/1962 Description: Construction begins on Soviet SAM sites at Los Angeles, Chaparra, and Juguani, Cuba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3648 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10137 (5C31AA3E) Date: 9/21/1962 Description: At 3:40 a.m., William Stock and four invited policemen spent a half hour watching a round object with two apparently revolving body lights. At 4 a.m., two policemen, between Hawthorne and North Haledon, watched a bright light revolving and moving up and down and from side to side for about 35 minutes. \[NICAP UFO Evidence\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Btn Hawthorne & N. Haledon, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2604 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10138 (65631664) Date: 9/21/1962 Description: A fishing boat captain, S. A. Guthrie, and a deck hand sailing west-southwest of Biloxi, Mississippi in the Gulf of Mexico sighted two UFOs at 7:37 p.m. The objects were red and black with orange streaks. One was as big as the Moon and the other somewhat smaller. They arced across the sky for 13 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 8133; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6181 Source: Johnson ### Event 10139 (B72D0D32) Date: 9/21/1962 Time: 7:37 PM Description: Witness: fishing boat captain S.A. Guthrie. Two objects, red and black with orange streaks, one as big as the Moon, and the other smaller. Arced across the sky for 13 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: WSW of Biloxi, Mississippi, in the Gulf of Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_481 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10140 (75B018EA) Date: 9/21/1962 Description: 2 objects, red and black with orange streaks (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8133) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Biloxi (WSW of), MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2603 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10141 (911D1DAF) Date: 9/21/1962 Description: That night, 4 young persons in Hawthorne reported seeing a bright star-like object with light beams coming from it. \[NICAP UFO Evidence\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawthorne, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2605 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10142 (5EB462F5) Date: Fall 1962 Description: Arlene Cook is awakened by her young, terrified son, at their home in Anaheim, California. He says something is in his bedroom, so they go to investigate and see a half-dollar-sized light on his bed. The spot stays visible when she puts her hand on the bed or when she removes the covers, but she can find no source for the light. It then just switches off and does not return. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_3650 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10143 (0ACD39A1) Date: 9/23/1962 Description: In the middle of the day a Hawthorne woman and her son saw an oblong, silvery object, for about 10 seconds. \[NICAP UFO Evidence\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawthorne, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2606 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10144 (9B2F773A) Date: 9/23/1962 Description: An abduction reportedly occurred near Franconia Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. While driving on Route 3 at ten p.m. the male witness saw a large, lighted domed-oval craft, the same as he had seen in 1959. He parked his truck and walked into a blue beam. Inside the craft he met the same four entities as he had encountered three years before. He was shown controls, and watched others being abducted and medically examined. He was taken to a mother ship and returned in two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Morton Schafer, MUFON case file investigations, case 930403E Source ID: Johnson_6253 Source: Johnson ### Event 10145 (FF5F6EE3) Date: Fall 1962 Description: Patricia Ellingson is seeing “glowing, flame-like lights” in her bedroom in Azusa, California, every evening. She thinks they appear only when she is mentally calm. The lights are the size of a quarter, sometimes switch off abruptly, and other times fade out slowly. At times they do not appear for months, and she feels sad when they are not there. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_3651 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10146 (CF6B2DE4) Date: 9/24/1962 Description: Early in the morning, a group consisting of the head of an independent news agency, a photographer and numerous policemen watched, for 10 minutes, an object which changed from red to silver to green and back to red. In the evening, a Hawthorne patrolman watched a light approach, hover for 15 minutes and then move away. \[NICAP UFO Evidence\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawthorne, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2607 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10147 (9E591120) Date: 9/26/1962 Description: On a farm near Capay, Glenn County, California at 9:45 p.m. a man named Gray sighted a silent ovoid object hovering just eight meters above an alfalfa field. It had blunt ends. It ascended to a higher altitude and then flew away toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1963, p. 4; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 156, citing the Orland Union Register Source ID: Johnson_6347 Source: Johnson ### Event 10148 (B002FF0F) Date: 9/28/1962 Description: Police from seven counties reported seeing UFOs between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m. Most reported three objects which changed color. \[NICAP UFO Evidence\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawthorne (7 counties near), NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2608 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10149 (7FCCD0FC) Date: 9/29/1962 Description: A CIA U-2 mission over the Isle of Pines and Bay of Pigs, Cuba, reveals additional Soviet SA-2 and cruise missile sites. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 183](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/182/mode/2up); Kenneth Michael Absher, Mind-Sets and Missiles, US Army War College, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_3649 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10150 (9F6C8FAA) Date: 10/1962 Description: The CIA and USAF instruct Lockheed to study a high-speed, high-altitude drone concept. [Kelly Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29) specifies speeds of Mach 3.3–3.5, an operational altitude of 87,000–95,000 feet, and a range of 3,500 miles. It would make a one-way trip, eject its camera payload at the end of the mission for recovery, then self-destruct. It has a double-delta wing similar to the A-12’s wing design. The Q-12 is to be air-launched from the back of an A- 12 and uses key technology from the A-12 project, including titanium construction and radar cross-section reduction design features. Johnson wants to power the Q-12 with a ramjet engine modified to operate at high temperatures for at least 90 minutes at high altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed D-21](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FD-21)” Source ID: Eberhart_3652 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10151 (30F0519B) Date: 10/1962 Description: UFO Incident During the Cuban Missile Crisis (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [621000](http://www.nicap.org/6210XXcmc%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palermo AFB, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2609 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10152 (ED7CEC3E) Date: 10/2/1962 Description: Night. Airmen on security patrol at Larson AFB \[now Grant County International Airport\] near Moses Lake, Washington, see a white light hovering a few hundred feet in the air near where the ICBM storage bunkers are located. It silently shoots into the air as the guards approach it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Objects Reported in Separated Areas,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94778596/)” Helena \(Mont.\) Independent-Record, October 3, 1962, p. 7; Nukes 145–147 Source ID: Eberhart_3654 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10153 (BA62F92A) Date: 10/2/1962 Description: Night. A Boeing security guard at an unidentified Minuteman missile site near Moore, Montana \[likely the M-01 launch site that is part of Malmstrom AFB complex\], sees a tear-shaped object with a blue top and a red bottom. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Objects Reported in Separated Areas,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94778596/)” Helena \(Mont.\) Independent-Record, October 3, 1962, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_3653 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10154 (B9B9746C) Date: 10/3/1962 Description: City of Chicago official watched circular UFO with dome move across lower half of moon. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2610 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10155 (3A901F74) Date: 10/7/1962 Description: New U-2 flights show there are now 19 Soviet SA-2 missile sites in Cuba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3655 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10156 (B4CCFB30) Date: 10/10/1962 Description: A blue flash in the woods caused a tractor to stop running in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province, Argentina at 8:00 p.m. A nocturnal light lifted off from the ground and headed out to sea, leaving behind ground marks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_6712 Source: Johnson ### Event 10157 (4F945FF4) Date: 10/10/1962 Description: Several one meter wide balls of light maneuvered around houses in Jacksonville, Florida at around eight o'clock in the evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1962, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_6711 Source: Johnson ### Event 10158 (FDA5811A) Date: 10/12/1962 Description: Dawn. An object like an orange or yellow meteor is observed over Forbes AFB \[now Topeka Regional Airport\], Topeka, Kansas. Its flight path is curved upward, with an occasional jerky motion; it moves quickly at first but slows down as it reaches the zenith. It is visible for 5 minutes before fading out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[[Blue Book documents](https://www.fold3.com/image/8726220)\]; Nukes 145 Source ID: Eberhart_3656 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10159 (AA3F60A5) Date: 10/14/1962 Description: A U-2 \(loaned to the Air Force by the CIA because the CIA U-2s have better surveillance capabilities\) piloted by USAF Major [Richard S. Heyser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FS.%5FHeyser) out of Laughlin AFB, Del Rio, Texas, takes 928 pictures on a path selected by DIA analysts, capturing images of what turn out to be an SS-4 MRBM construction site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province \[now in Artemisa Province\], in western Cuba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cuban Missile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%5FMissile%5FCrisis\#Aerial%5Fconfirmation) [Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%5FMissile%5FCrisis\#Aerial%5Fconfirmation)”; “[U-2 Pilot’s Cuba Photos Made History,](https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2005/10/09/u-2-pilots-cuba-photos-made-history/30244756007/)” Wilmington \(N.C.\) Star-News, October 9, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_3657 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10160 (16E6EB82) Date: 10/15/1962 Description: The CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center reviews the U-2 photographs and identifies objects that they interpret as medium-range ballistic missiles. The CIA notifies the Department of State. National Security Advisor [McGeorge Bundy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGeorge%5FBundy) chooses to wait until the next morning to tell the President. Secretary of Defense [Robert McNamara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMcNamara) is briefed at midnight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “Cuban Missile Crisis” Source ID: Eberhart_3658 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10161 (AB948C33) Date: 10/16/1962 Description: 6:30 p.m. [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) gathers a select group of advisors known as the ExComm \(Executive Committee of the National Security Council\) to discuss a strategic response. [McNamara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMcNamara) presents him with three basic options: a political option of approaching [Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro) and [Khrushchev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita%5FKhrushchev); a naval blockade to stop Soviet ships carrying weapons to Cuba; and “military action directed against Cuba, starting with an air attack against the missiles.” The ExComm’s initial discussions focus on a massive US military assault on the nuclear installations and other bases in Cuba, and whether the Soviets would counterattack in Berlin or elsewhere. Kennedy rejects an attack, favoring a quarantine to buy time to negotiate a missile withdrawal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cuban Missile Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%5FMissile%5FCrisis\#Responses%5Fconsidered)” Source ID: Eberhart_3659 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10162 (58035303) Date: 10/17/1962 Description: A U-2 takes the first photo of an IRBM site under construction in Cuba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962:](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba%5Fmis%5Fcri/photos.htm) [The Photographs,](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba%5Fmis%5Fcri/photos.htm)” National Security Archive Source ID: Eberhart_3660 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10163 (359429D4) Date: 10/22/1962 Description: 7:00 p.m. President [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) addresses the American public for 18 minutes and announces his plan to implement a naval blockade of Cuba. US military alert is set at DEFCON 3, and [Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro) mobilizes all of Cuba’s military forces. US ambassador to the Soviet Union [Foy D. Kohler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foy%5FD.%5FKohler) delivers to a letter from JFK to [Khrushchev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita%5FKhrushchev), saying, “the one thing that has most concerned me has been the possibility that your government would not correctly understand the will and determination of the United States in any given situation, since I have not assumed that you or any other sane man would, in this nuclear age, deliberately plunge the world into war which it is crystal clear no country could win and which could only result in catastrophic consequences to the whole world, including the aggressor.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cuban Missile Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%5FMissile%5FCrisis\#Speech%5Fto%5Fthe%5Fnation)”; John F. Kennedy, [Letter to Chairman Nikita](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct22/doc4.html) [Khrushchev,](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct22/doc4.html) October 22, 1962 Source ID: Eberhart_3661 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10164 (B9BAE97F) Date: 10/23/1962 Description: [Khrushchev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita%5FKhrushchev) writes to [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) rebuffing his demand that the Soviets remove the missiles, which the Soviet leader insists “are intended solely for defensive purposes.” Kennedy writes back, bluntly reminding Khrushchev that he started the crisis by secretly sending missiles to Cuba. As US ambassador [Adlai Stevenson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlai%5FStevenson%5FII) explains the matter to the United Nations Security Council, US ships already are moving into position in the waters around Cuba. Soviet submarines menacingly move into the Caribbean as well, positioned as if they might try to break a blockade. But Soviet freighters bearing military supplies headed for Cuba stop in their tracks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nikita Khrushchev, [Letter to President John F. Kennedy](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct23/doc6.html)[,](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct23/doc6.html) October 23, 1962; John F. Kennedy, [Draft letter to](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct23/doc5.html) [Chairman Nikita Khrushchev](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct23/doc5.html)[,](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct23/doc5.html) October 23, 1962 Source ID: Eberhart_3662 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10165 (6C07C6ED) Date: 10/23/1962 Description: Grey and silver ball, trailing what looked like twine (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8182) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Farmington, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2611 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10166 (3AD1E1A8) Date: 10/23/1962 Time: 3 PM Description: Witness: R.O. Christensen. One grey and silver ball, trailing what looked like twine with two knots in it, swerved, and climbed away at a 45' angle, making a sound like a flock of ducks (rushing air). Twenty seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Farmington, Utah Source ID: BerlinerBBU_482 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10167 (6E02D104) Date: 10/24/1962 Description: Undocumented claim that a landing took place. No traces. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Oct., 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Horsetooth Reservoir, Colorado Source ID: Magnonia_549 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10168 (C80FAC8E) Date: 10/24/1962 Description: [Khrushchev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita%5FKhrushchev) sends an indignant letter to [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy), accusing him of threatening the Soviet Union: “You are no longer appealing to reason, but wish to intimidate us.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nikita Khrushchev, [Letter to President John F.](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct24/doc2.html) [Kennedy](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct24/doc2.html)[,](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct24/doc2.html) October 24, 1962 Source ID: Eberhart_3663 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10169 (C26F0D82) Date: 10/25/1962 Description: The US raises the readiness level of SAC forces to DEFCON 2. For the only confirmed time in US history, B-52 bombers go on continuous airborne alert, and B-47 medium bombers are dispersed to various military and civilian airfields and made ready to take off, fully equipped, on 15 minutes notice. The Soviet arms freighters turn back toward Europe, but the oil tanker Bucharest approaches the US quarantine zone, directly headed for Cuba. Two American warships, the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FEssex%5F%28CV-9%29) [Essex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FEssex%5F%28CV-9%29) and the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FGearing) [Gearing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FGearing), prepare to intercept it, which could have led to war. Instead, [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) decides to let the Bucharest through the quarantine because it isn’t carrying any contraband. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cuban Missile Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%5FMissile%5FCrisis\#US%5Falert%5Flevel%5Fraised)”; McGeorge Bundy, “[Record of Action of the Fourth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%5FMissile%5FCrisis\#US%5Falert%5Flevel%5Fraised) [Meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%5FMissile%5FCrisis\#US%5Falert%5Flevel%5Fraised)” October 25, 1962; Wikipedia, “[Cuban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%5FMissile%5FCrisis\#Blockade%5Fchallenged) [Missile Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%5FMissile%5FCrisis\#Blockade%5Fchallenged)” Source ID: Eberhart_3664 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10170 (20D4300F) Date: 10/25/1962 Description: Police dispatcher saw round glowing object from radio room window. State patrolman and Cedaredge Marshal observed two UFOs "like an inverted umbrella with a number of bright, tail-like appendages." \[NICAP UFO Evidence, VII\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Delta, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2612 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10171 (094A8E8C) Date: Late 10/1962 Description: Day. Two Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers are returning to Loring AFB \[now the Loring Commerce Centre\] near Limestone, Maine, following an Operation Chrome Dome mission. They are on final approach to landing when a huge, metallic-gray, cigar-shaped UFO descends over the flight line and hovers for a few minutes. It stretches halfway across the aircraft ramp area, which would make it half a mile wide. Jet engine mechanic Sgt. Christopher Smith is watching the scenario from the ground and notes that the UFO is silent and has no lights or visible openings. After the second B-52 lands, the UFO silently zooms away toward the east and disappears. All the ground witnesses and the flight crews do not talk about the incident afterward and act as if nothing happened. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 132–136, 138–139 Source ID: Eberhart_3668 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10172 (7747357C) Date: 10/26/1962 Description: [Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro) sends a letter to [Khrushchev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita%5FKhrushchev)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita%5FKhrushchev) urging him to launch a nuclear first strike against the US, which the Soviet leader disregards. Instead, Khrushchev sends a letter to [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy), in which he offers to work with him to deescalate the conflict and ensure that they do not “doom the world to the catastrophe of thermonuclear war.” The CIA reports that the construction of Cuban missile sites is continuing and accelerating. [Robert Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FF.%5FKennedy) meets secretly with Soviet Ambassador [Anatoly Dobrynin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%5FDobrynin) and agrees after a phone call to the president that the removal of US missiles from Turkey is negotiable as part of a comprehensive settlement. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Fidel Castro, [Letter to Chairman](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct26/doc2.html) [Nikita Khrushchev](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct26/doc2.html)[,](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct26/doc2.html) October 26, 1962; Nikita Khrushchev, [Department of State Telegram Transmitting Letter to](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct26/doc4.html) [President John F. Kennedy](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct26/doc4.html)[,](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct26/doc4.html) October 26, 1962; Wikipedia, “[Cuban Missile Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%5FMissile%5FCrisis\#Secret%5Fnegotiations)”; Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, Bloomsbury, 2017, chapter 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_3665 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10173 (B2810308) Date: 10/26/1962 Description: 6:15 a.m. Mrs. Alvie Frank sees several flat, glowing objects moving slowly about 11 miles south of Monte Vista, Colorado. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Variety of Objects in Colorado,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201963%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_3666 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10174 (2251FBCB) Date: 10/26/1962 Description: 7:16 a.m. Bessie Rogers of Fort Collins, Colorado, spots a large, black parachute-shaped object weaving back and forth over the mountains somewhere between the south end of Horsetooth Reservoir and Masonville. It flies around for about 10 minutes, disappears, and then returns. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Variety of Objects in Colorado,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201963%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_3667 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10175 (CDA3B6E0) Date: 10/27/1962 Description: A U-2 piloted by Maj. [Rudolf Anderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%5FAnderson) is shot down over Cuba. However, [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) correctly concludes that [Khrushchev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita%5FKhrushchev) has not himself given the order to shoot down Anderson’s plane. The incident prompts both leaders to realize the situation is spiraling dangerously out of control. Khrushchev sends another letter to Kennedy, in which he demands that the United States withdraw missiles from Turkey as part of the deal. JFK responds by offering to promise not to attack Cuba after the Russians withdraw. In the evening, [Robert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FF.%5FKennedy) [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FF.%5FKennedy) tells Soviet ambassador [Dobrynin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%5FDobrynin), “You have drawn first blood.        The president had decided against advice        not to respond militarily to that attack, but he \[Dobrynin\] should know that if another plane was shot at ... we would take out all the SAMs and antiaircraft        And that would almost surely be followed by an invasion.” However, he also says that the US already plans to remove its missiles from Turkey but cannot say so publicly. This is the moment when both nations step back from the brink of war. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cuban Missile Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%5FMissile%5FCrisis\#Crisis%5Fcontinues)”; Nikita Khrushchev, [Letter to President John F. Kennedy](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct27/doc4.html)[,](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct27/doc4.html) October 27, 1962; Anatoly Dobrynin, [Cable to the](https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/116955) [Soviet Foreign Ministry, meeting with Robert Kennedy](https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/116955)[,](https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/116955) October 27, 1962; John F. Kennedy, [Letter to Chairman](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/images/sub/oct27/cmc%5Fk%5Fkh%5Foct27%5F01.jpg) [Nikita Khrushchev,](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/images/sub/oct27/cmc%5Fk%5Fkh%5Foct27%5F01.jpg) October 27, 1962; Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, Bloomsbury, 2017, chapter 12–13; Christopher Klein, “[How the Death of a US Air Force Pilot](https://www.history.com/news/the-cuban-missile-crisis-pilot-whose-death-may-have-saved-millions) [Prevented a Nuclear War,](https://www.history.com/news/the-cuban-missile-crisis-pilot-whose-death-may-have-saved-millions)” History Stores, October 28, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3669 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10176 (7AA32109) Date: 10/28/1962 Description: Mrs. E. D. Sylvester was driving in Norwood, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia with her three children at 7:30 p.m. when an ovoid object with windows surrounded by a luminous rim landed near the road on three legs. A six foot tall man emerged from the object and descended some steps to the ground. He was wearing a uniform, helmet and gas mask. She watched him for 40 minutes, and reported he seemed to be working on the landing gear. He then put some plants into a silver colored box and carried them back onboard. The object made a vertical takeoff when it left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 550, citing Flying Saucer Review July-August 1963; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 104 & 185; Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_7225 Source: Johnson ### Event 10177 (100B648B) Date: 10/28/1962 Time: 1930 Description: Mrs. E. D. Silvester was driving with her three children when an illuminated oval object landed near the road. She watched it for 40 min, and reported seeing a man wearing a helmet and gas mask in the vicinity of the object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 63, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Norwood, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_550 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10178 (0E0B93E3) Date: 10/28/1962 Description: In a speech aired on Radio Moscow, [Nikita Khrushchev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita%5FKhrushchev) announces the dismantling of Soviet missiles in Cuba and does not insist on his demands concerning the removal of US missiles from Turkey. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cuban Missile Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%5FMissile%5FCrisis\#Crisis%5Fends)”; Nikita Khrushchev, [Letter to President John F. Kennedy](https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct28/doc1.html), October 28, 1962 Source ID: Eberhart_3670 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10179 (82686CCE) Date: 10/28/1962 Description: 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Ellen D. Sylvester is driving with her three children in Norwood, South Australia, east of Adelaide, when they see an orange glow on the ground about 2–3 miles away. It has three legs, round windows, and the boy remarks that he can see people in it. One of the “men” gets out and descends to the ground. He appears to be doing something to one of the landing legs. He seems to have some trouble in making it retract, which finally he overcomes. He is about 6 feet tall, as his head reaches the outer fringe of the craft. He wears a helmet like a gas mask. He returns to the UFO, which begins to move slowly away, then very fast, and disappears in a northerly direction. Total time of observation is 40 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “[‘This Is One of the Most](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2014/09/this-is-one-of-most-remarkable-cases-of.html) [Remarkable Cases of a Flying Saucer…,’ Adelaide, 1962,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2014/09/this-is-one-of-most-remarkable-cases-of.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, September 22, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_3671 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10180 (C116CCB5) Date: 10/29/1962 Description: Vera Rogers sees a round, shiny object flying low over Fort Collins, Colorado. The object, heading south, makes a soft, whirring sound followed by a popping noise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Variety of Objects in Colorado,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201963%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_3673 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10181 (141EEB58) Date: 10/29/1962 Description: Defense Department Assistant Secretary [Arthur Sylvester](https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/29/archives/arthur-sylvester-exus-aide-is-dead-longtime-jersey-newsman-served.html) admits that withholding evidence on UFOs from the public is necessary if the means justifies it. He cites USAF “administrative practices” Air Force Regulation 11-30, where withholding information “in the public interest” is allowed, and AFR 11-7, which states that sometimes information requested by Congress may not be furnished “even in confidence.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 86](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/86/mode/2up); UFOEv, [p. 106](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=118&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3672 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10182 (9E26523D) Date: 11/1962 Description: Evening. A French businessman is driving along a minor road in Var department, southeastern France. It is raining heavily. Rounding a bend, he sees a group of figures in the road 260 feet ahead. He slows down to drive around them and sees that they are actually bizarre animals with the heads of birds and covered in plumage. Terrified, he speeds ahead and stops about 500 feet further ahead. Turing around, he sees the entities heading toward a luminous, dark-blue object hanging in the air over a field on the other side of the road. It resembles two plates upside down. The entities are sucked into the bottom of the object. He hears a “clack,” and the UFO takes off at “prodigious speed.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lyonel Trigano, “[Strange Encounter in Var,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1968\): 18; Clark III 280 Source ID: Eberhart_3674 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10183 (D221ADC1) Date: 11/1962 Time: evening Description: A garage owner was driving through a rainstorm when he suddenly saw a group of figures 80 m away. He slowed down as they went away jerkily, and observed that they were bizarre, birdlike creatures. As they rushed toward the car, he drove past them in terror and saw them going back toward a luminous, blue object hovering in a field. They entered it as if "sucked into it," and a dull sound was heard before the object flew off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Var, France Source ID: Magnonia_551 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10184 (825719CD) Date: 11/1/1962 Description: A man on a roof in Woburn, Massachusetts watched an ovoid object flying at an estimated 2000 feet altitude at two o'clock in the afternoon. It had a three meter long tube hanging down, and was making a clicking noise four times a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_7374 Source: Johnson ### Event 10185 (6768CE22) Date: 11/9/1962 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a V-shaped, glowing object split up into six similar objects over Pharr, Texas and quickly dispersed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded April 16, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_7566 Source: Johnson ### Event 10186 (C6CF1F9E) Date: 11/10/1962 Description: Fast Moving Target on Gnd Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [621110](http://www.nicap.org/621110nstarbay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Bay, Greenland Source ID: NICAP_DB_2613 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10187 (75EA8E98) Date: 11/13/1962 Description: Two IBM engineers, C. D. Jackson and [Robert E. Hohmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15851368/robert-e-hohmann)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15851368/robert-e-hohmann) present a paper at the American Rocket Society annual meeting in Los Angeles, California, noting the alleged extraterrestrial signals detected by [Nikola](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%5FTesla) [Tesla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%5FTesla)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%5FTesla) [Guglielmo Marconi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo%5FMarconi)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo%5FMarconi) and [David Todd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FPeck%5FTodd) between 1899 and 1924. They speculate that the signal source was 11 light years away, perhaps the Epsilon Eridani system. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: C. D. Jackson and Robert E. Hohmann, “An Historic Report on Life in Space: Tesla, Marconi, Todd,” paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the American Rocket Society, Los Angeles, November 13–18, 1962; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 10–15 Source ID: Eberhart_3675 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10188 (B3C781D8) Date: 11/15/1962 Description: Stanford astronomer [Carl Sagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSagan) presents a paper at the American Rocket Society annual meeting in Los Angeles, California, that explores models for the distribution of technical civilizations in the galaxy. Using [Frank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FDrake) [D. Drake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FDrake)’s equation to suggest that 0.001% of stars in the sky have a planet on them on which an advanced civilization resides, Sagan suggests the nearest such advanced civilization is several hundred light years away from earth. From there, he explores the feasibility of interstellar spaceflight as a means for traversing such distances. The paper ends in consideration of the possibility of extraterrestrial contact with Earth in the past, including the ancient Mesopotamian myth of [Oannes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apkallu) \(Apkallu\), a mythical being who taught mankind wisdom. [Berossus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berossus) describes Oannes as having the body of a fish but underneath the figure of a man. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Carl Sagan, “[Direct](http://rodscontracts.com/docs/sagan%5Fdirect.pdf) [Contact among Galactic Civilizations by Relativistic Interstellar Spaceflight,](http://rodscontracts.com/docs/sagan%5Fdirect.pdf)” Planetary and Space Science 11 \(May 1963\): 485–498; Wikipedia, “[Adapa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapa%23as%5FUanna/Oannes)” Source ID: Eberhart_3676 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10189 (8F2ABFC8) Date: 11/17/1962 Description: At nine o'clock in the evening Mr. F. L. Swindale, a college graduate and ex-USMC Captain, saw three bright star-like lights approach, hover and bounce in the sky over Tampa, Florida. After 11-15 minutes they faded away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7721 Source: Johnson ### Event 10190 (D7AAE11F) Date: 11/17/1962 Time: 9 PM Description: Witness: F.L. Swindale, college graduate and ex-USMC Capt. Three bright star-like lights approached, hovered and bounced, then faded after 11-15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tampa, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_483 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10191 (6B565001) Date: 11/17/1962 Description: Bright star-like lights approach, hover and bounce and fade (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8215) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tampa, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2614 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10192 (51D7D44B) Date: 11/17/1962 Description: 9:00 p.m. F. L. Swindale, ex-Marine captain, sees three bright, star-like lights approach, hover, and bounce at Tampa, Florida, for about 15 minutes, then fade. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 140](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=152&skin=2021); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 293 Source ID: Eberhart_3677 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10193 (7B2CD570) Date: 11/22/1962 Description: Rodolfo Padin was driving with a male companion on a highway near Monte Leon, Santa Cruz State, Argentina at 2:20 a.m. Beside the road at a distance of 70 meters was a metallic oval-shaped object with a central transparent dome, the size of a car, surrounded by mist. Three small entities, short in stature but of human appearance, were seen moving around inside the craft. They wore metallic suits. The object rose very slowly, then made a slow oblique ascent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 0550, citing El Dia, January 2, 1966; UNICAT, case # 547, citing Roberto Banchs, OVNIS y sus Ocupantes, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_7796 Source: Johnson ### Event 10194 (4A65372F) Date: 11/23/1962 Description: The [Hills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) attend a meeting at the parsonage of their Unitarian church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where the invited guest speaker is USAF Capt. [Ben H. Swett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201838384/ben-h%5F-swett), who has recently published a book of his poetry. After he reads selections of his poetry, the pastor asks him to discuss his personal interest in hypnosis. After the meeting breaks up, the Hills approach Swett privately and tell him what they can remember of their strange encounter. He is particularly interested in the missing time of the Hills’ account. The Hills ask Swett if he will hypnotize them to recover their memories, but Swett says he is not qualified and cautions them against going to an amateur hypnotist, such as himself. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 584 Source ID: Eberhart_3678 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10195 (BB9A1E30) Date: 11/26/1962 Description: In 1962 at 1:00 a.m., just southeast of Abra Grande, Argentina in the province of Santiago del Estero, two men driving a tractor-trailer truck loaded with coal watched a lit-up "railway car" near some railroad tracks that run parallel to the road project a brilliant beam of light on the road. When they got closer they made out that it was some type of unknown craft emitting phosphorescent flashes. Making no sound it rose up into the air to a height of some 50 meters, then landed again beside the road. Throughout their entire journey to Clodomira the object kept jumping ahead of them. When the first lights of the city came into sight the object broke off pursuit and climbed into the sky at a terrific speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar Uriondo, FSR Case Histories (Supplement 12), December 1972, p. 10, citing El Liberal, November 28, 1962 Source ID: Johnson_7935 Source: Johnson ### Event 10196 (BF2A7B32) Date: 11/30/1962 Description: Two teenage boys in Lethbridge, Alberta, see an elliptical object hovering near a school building and decide to throw rocks at it. The object is about 8 feet in diameter and glowing blue. Their stones seem to ricochet off the UFO and forcefully returned, landing on structures behind the teens. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CUFOS case file Source ID: Eberhart_3679 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10197 (E395F9D3) Date: 12/1962 Description: [Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) closes the Cuban Project, the CIA’s Operation Mongoose. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Mongoose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FMongoose)” Source ID: Eberhart_3680 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10198 (FFC0B0D7) Date: 12/1/1962 Description: Evening. A husband and wife in East Point, Georgia, are watching the first-quarter Moon through a 6-inch reflector. In the dark area, well away from the terminator, the man sees a bright-red spot light up. It gets so bright that he points it out to his wife. She notices it starting to move across the illuminated portion of the Moon, then continues passing in a straight line across the blue Georgia sky, faster and faster until it is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_3681 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10199 (5DF96F9B) Date: 12/2/1962 Description: A bright, light-bulb shaped object flew in toward the east, then angled off toward the north before it "arched" its way into a lake. It was seen by residents of twelve cities between Akron, Ohio and Syracuse, New York. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 226, citing the Conneaut News Herald Source ID: Johnson_8123 Source: Johnson ### Event 10200 (FD863A12) Date: 12/5/1962 Description: A woman named Chapman had a close encounter with a UFO in Irlam, Greater Manchester, England at 6:45 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Orbit, April 1962, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_8197 Source: Johnson ### Event 10201 (9A8DD7FB) Date: 12/7/1962 Description: A full-scale mockup of the Q-12 drone is ready at Groom Lake, Nevada, and has already undergone preliminary tests to measure its stealth quality. However, the CIA is not enthusiastic about the Q-12, mostly because the agency is overextended at the time with U-2 missions, getting the A-12 up to speed, and covert operations in Southeast Asia. The USAF, however, is interested in the Q-12 as both a reconnaissance platform and a cruise missile and the CIA finally decides to work with the USAF to develop it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed D-](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FD-21) [21](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FD-21)” Source ID: Eberhart_3682 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10202 (3D285922) Date: 12/9/1962 Time: 2200 Description: Antonio Candau saw a circular object land in Cadivilla, 9 m away from him. It was about 5.5 m m diameter, and two men emerged from it, approaching within 2 m, and spoke incomprehensible words. They wore yellow coveralls and a wide belt. Noting that the witness was afraid, one of them made a reassuring gesture with his hand, and the craft departed with a strange sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Settimana Incom. Dec. 30, 62 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bologna, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_552 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10203 (FC114ED1) Date: 12/9/1962 Description: A young man named Candau in Bologna, Italy saw a circular object 18 feet in diameter land 30 feet away from him. Two men emerged from the object, speaking an unintelligible language, and gestured to him. They wore yellow coveralls with wide belts. They re-entered craft and it departed making a strange sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magoina: A Century of Landings, case 552 Source ID: Johnson_8283 Source: Johnson ### Event 10204 (F158BADE) Date: 12/11/1962 Time: dawn Description: G. L. Colodrero and the director of the Cordoba Historial Museum were driving from Catamarca to Cordoba when, 7 km away from Chumbicha, they saw seven objects on the ground of a mountain slope. They were bright and spherical, rose straight up and flew away with a very bright trail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: CODOVNI 1962 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chumbicha, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_553 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10205 (2F53AC4C) Date: 12/12/1962 Description: 4:30 p.m. Five schoolgirls in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, see a brightly glowing UFO. All five students independently sketch a Saturn-shaped object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 124](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=136&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3683 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10206 (E885313B) Date: 12/12/1962 Description: Five students saw, and independently sketched, Saturn-shaped UFO. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, X\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Amagasaki City, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2615 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10207 (AAAD3183) Date: 12/17/1962 Time: dawn Description: Francesco Rizzi, night watchman, was crossing the factory yard when he heard a whistling sound and observed an object hovering 1 m above ground. It was a silvery disk, about 5 m in diameter, with lighted windows. The noise stopped, a door became visible, and a small being appeared and made a gesture. A second figure was also seen. The craft took off with a puff of white smoke and a whistling sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 138 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Milan, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_554 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10208 (F50FA0BF) Date: 12/17/1962 Description: In Milan, Italy at 2:20 a.m. Mr. Rizzi, a 37-year-old night watchman, heard a whistling sound and saw a silver metallic domed disc hovering just above the ground. The object was four or five meters wide and had a windowed turret on top. A three foot tall little man emerged from a door in the bottom of the craft. It pointed a finger at the witness who felt paralyzed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Corrier Milan, December 19, 1962; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 554; Leonard G. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 124 Source ID: Johnson_8465 Source: Johnson ### Event 10209 (4D2E8775) Date: 12/17/1962 Description: A cylindrical object with two vertical projections was seen from Norfolk Island, New South Wales, Australia travelling from north-northeast to south-southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_8464 Source: Johnson ### Event 10210 (936618C2) Date: 12/18/1962 Description: 2:20 p.m. Night watchman Francesco Rizzi is reporting for work at a mill on Via Santa Valeria in Milan, Italy. In the center of the mill’s courtyard he hears a swishing sound and turns to see a domed metallic disc 12–15 feet in diameter with portholes hovering 3 feet above the ground. A door opens at the bottom and a small man just over 3 feet tall and wearing a luminous overall emerges. The man motions Rizzi to come nearer, but he is frozen with fear. Another small man comes out of the disc, but they both return, the door closes behind them, and the object takes off in a cloud of white smoke. Rizzi reports the sighting to a colleague, the police, and the press, and soon loses his job. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 1Pinotti 130–131 Source ID: Eberhart_3684 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10211 (D55CA222) Date: 12/19/1962 Description: Three sailors on a ship observed two gray, helmet-shaped objects hovering 1 km away at 20 m altitude above Lake Major. Diameter: about 15 m. After 5 min one object started moving rapidly, gaining height with an undulating movement. It was soon joined by the second object, and both disappered together at the horizon. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 139 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Verbania, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_555 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10212 (232B1FE0) Date: 12/19/1962 Description: Verbania, Italy. At 7:15 a.m. three men in a boat saw two classic-shaped discoid objects fly over the lake known as Lago Maggiore at only 20 meters altitude. The UFOs rose vertically and flew off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 555 Source ID: Johnson_8508 Source: Johnson ### Event 10213 (63443738) Date: 12/21/1962 Description: Bright teardrop-shaped light apparently rising from jungle floor filmed from aircraft. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, VIII\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Angel Falls, Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_2616 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10214 (741766BA) Date: 12/21/1962 Time: 0215 Description: A large, fiery disk was observed on the runway by Horado Alora and Mario Pezzuto, the two control tower operators, and by the crews of two aircraft. It rose to 10 m altitude, hovered, and flew away to the northeast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: CODOVNI 1962 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Buenos Aires Airport, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_556 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10215 (2CA9478C) Date: 12/21/1962 Description: Ali R. Diaz is aboard a DC-3 tourist plane on a vacation trip to Angel Falls, Venezuela. He obtains color film of a UFO rising from the base of a mountain. The film shows a yellowish teardrop-shaped object rising across the face of Auyán-tepui plateau. The UFO seems to oscillate from side to side until it is lost in clouds. The falls and mountain provide location points throughout. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Angel Falls UFO Film 1962,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb8k%5F1Ch3Ag)” UFO History Group You Tube channel, August 30, 2014; UFOEv, [p. 96](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=108&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3685 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10216 (E3951081) Date: 12/21/1962 Description: Color motion pictures were taken of a UFO near Angel Falls, Venezuela—the world’s tallest water fall—on a cloudy afternoon at 12:15 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1963, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_8549 Source: Johnson ### Event 10217 (AAF955BF) Date: 12/22/1962 Description: At Ezeiza Airport, pilots and control tower operators saw circular UFO rise from end of runway. \[NICAP UFO Evidence, X\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_2618 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10218 (192F4577) Date: 12/22/1962 Description: At three a.m. a large fiery disc was observed on the runway by two control tower operators and the flight crews of two aircraft at Ezeiza Airport, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The UFO rose to 10 meters altitude, hovered a short while, then flew off toward the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_8562 Source: Johnson ### Event 10219 (9A439974) Date: 12/22/1962 Description: About 3:00 a.m. At Ezeiza International Airport \[now Ministro Pistarini International Airport\] at Ezeiza Partido in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, tower operators Horacio Alora and Mario Pezzutto are watching an Aereolíneas Argentinas plane that is about to take off. It is also seen by an approaching DC-8 jet operated by Panagra, whose captain asks what the object is at the end of the runway. Alora sees a large, round, glowing object that has evidently descended when he is watching the airliner. The UFO immediately rises about 30 feet, hovers, then accelerates on a northeast course. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 119](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=119&skin=2021); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf) [UFOs, a History: July–December 1962](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1962-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2005, pp. 75–76 Source ID: Eberhart_3686 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1963 (Back to Top) ### Event 10220 (ED3DC8CD) Date: 1963 Description: Russian astrophysicist [Nikolai Kardashev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%5FKardashev) examines the radio source CTA-102, the first Soviet effort in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence \(SETI\). He comes up with the idea that some galactic civilizations could be perhaps millions or billions of years ahead of us, and creates the Kardashev scale to rank such civilizations. Kardashev defines three levels of civilizations, based on energy consumption: Type I \(planetary civilization\) with “technological level close to the level presently attained on earth”; Type II \(stellar civilization\), “a civilization capable of harnessing the energy radiated by its own star”; and Type III \(galactic civilization\), “a civilization in possession of energy on the scale of its own galaxy.” Various extensions of the Kardashev scale have since been proposed, including the use of metrics rather than pure power. The idea that the CTA-102 emission is caused by a civilization is later rejected when it is identified as one of the many varieties of quasar \(quasi-stellar radio source\), a term coined by [Hong-Yee Chiu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong-Yee%5FChiu) in May 1964 to describe these objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Kardashev scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev%5Fscale)”; Wikipedia, “[CTA-102](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTA-102)”; Nikolai Kardashev, “[Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations,](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1964SvA.....8..217K)” Soviet Astronomy 8 \(1964\): 217; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 84–85](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/84/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3687 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10221 (891A9CCB) Date: 1963 End date: 1964 Description: In the past two years, packets of information-- including some details of specific cases--have been substituted for the generalized Air Force "fact sheets." The unexplained cases for each year are briefly described. (In the new "fact sheets", the "unknown" category has been rendered meaningless by the inclusion of vague and incomplete cases. Formerly the term "unknown" was applied to the most detailed and inexplicable cases from the best observers. Now the distinction between "unknowns", and cases which lack detail or apparently have natural explanations, has been blurred.) Type: USAF fact sheets Reference: ["The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Reference: ["Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_895 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10222 (D758A507) Date: 1963 Description: Astronomer [Donald H. Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) and science writer Lyle G. Boyd publish The World of Flying Saucers, a skeptical overview of UFO sightings and a contemptuous treatment of UFO groups. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald H. Menzel and Lyle G. Boyd, The World of Flying Saucers, Doubleday, 1963 Source ID: Eberhart_3688 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10223 (C2F50F18) Date: 1/1963 Description: The A-12 fleet at Groom Lake, Nevada, is now operating with J58 engines built by Pratt and Whitney, allowing for speeds up to Mach 3. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3689 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10224 (0EE57A12) Date: 1/1963 Description: Night. Brothers Rosauro Antonio, Ricardo, and Victor Domingo López discover a burned area of grass in a field just over a mile from their house in Cañada de Alzogaray, near Burruyacú, Tucumán, Argentina. The burn is in the shape of two rings \(each a foot wide and 10.8 feet in diameter\) where the grass is burned down to its roots to a depth of 3–4 inches. They find a carbonized residue and whitish powder. Some days previously, a neighbor named Juan Gerónimo Pera, his wife, and children, had seen a luminous oval-shaped object that landed in the field. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, “[Preliminary Catalogue of Type 1 Cases in Argentina,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201972%20N%2012.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 12 \(December 1972\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_3690 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10225 (E82C66E8) Date: 1/3/1963 Description: An airplane being flown over the state of Cordoba, Argentina had a close encounter with a UFO. The UFO projected a beam of light at the aircraft, and one of the plane's four engines quit working. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Nachrichten (Germany), February 1966, citing a newspaper clipping Source ID: Johnson_53 Source: Johnson ### Event 10226 (015D9906) Date: 1/4/1963 Time: 1900 Description: A well-known psychiatrist saw an object on the ground in a deserted city park. Shape: a dome upon a cylinder, bearing a series of round apertures and surrounded by a thick, roundish ring, set on a tripod landing gear supporting the base of the cylinder 1 m above the ground. Diameter: 5 m. Suddenly the ring started spinning rapidly, and a gust of air was felt as the craft rose a few m above ground, then disappeared in a split second. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 142 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Rome, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_557 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10227 (763809D7) Date: 1/4/1963 Description: A domed disc with tripod landing gear landed in a park in Rome, Italy. It was estimated to be five meters in diameter. The man who witnessed the landing said he felt a gust of wind as the UFO took off vertically and vanished into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 557, citing Momento Sera January 9, 1963; Robert Pinotto, Flying Saucers, January 1966, p. 60 Source ID: Johnson_85 Source: Johnson ### Event 10228 (7E12F1C8) Date: 1/5/1963 Description: (Hynek UFO Rpt p. 45-46) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nantucket Point, Long Island, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2619 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10229 (947A0441) Date: 1/9/1963 Description: On this day in Trail, Oregon a large, bright UFO emitted a cone-shaped tail and humming sound. A dog reacted to the UFO's presence by howling. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 68 Source ID: Johnson_218 Source: Johnson ### Event 10230 (95843BE7) Date: 1/11/1963 Description: At 11:00 p.m., at San Pietro Vernotico, Italy, farmer Antonio de Luca is awakened by restless animals and goes out to calm them. Fifteen minutes later he sees a domed disc some 132 feet long land in the village square. Dark figures are moving inside the transparent dome. He tries to approach but is paralyzed at 30 feet away. It ascends in the direction of Brindisi to the north, emitting a vertical beam of green light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 290](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/290/mode/2up); Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1963](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-Jan-Jun.pdf), The Author, 2005, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_3691 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10231 (AD871CB8) Date: 1/11/1963 Description: At 11:00 p.m. Antonio De Luca, a 43-year-old farmer in San Pietro Vernotico, Sardegna, Italy was awakened by restless farm animals and went out to calm them. Fifteen minutes later he saw a domed disc-shaped object land in a small square in the village, went towards it, and became paralyzed and unable to move when he got to within 10 meters of it. The translucent upper dome showed two dark figures moving about inside. Two minutes later the craft, 4.5 meters long and 1.5 meters high, ascended in the direction of Brindisi, and emitted a vertical beam of green light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, September-October 1970, p. 28; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 290, case 558 Source ID: Johnson_251 Source: Johnson ### Event 10232 (96510D28) Date: 1/11/1963 Time: 2300 Description: A 43-year-old farmer was awakened by restless animals and went out to calm them. Fifteen min later he saw an object land in a small square in the village, went toward it, was "paralyzed" when 10 m away. Two min later the craft, 4.5 m long, 1.5 m high, with a translucent upper dome showing two dark, moving figures, ascended in the direction of Brindisi, emitted a vertical beam of green light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 143 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: San Pietro, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_558 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10233 (9BE8EB77) Date: 1/17/1963 Description: A formation of objects passes over Entre Ríos province, Argentina, and discharges angel hair. Vitreous particles are recovered, which consist of an “amalgam of silicon, boron, calcium, and magnesium.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[Argentina, 1963–64,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CNov-Dec%2CV%2011%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1965\): 15; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 104 Source ID: Eberhart_3692 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10234 (C8DB696B) Date: 1/24/1963 Description: Post Office safety engineer saw a round UFO traveling east to west, and a delta- wing aircraft north to south. UFO's line of flight intersected aircraft path at right angles. \[Report via Bluegrass NICAP Affiliate, Lexington, Ky.\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lexington, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2620 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10235 (0FA6DDED) Date: 1/24/1963 Description: On this day a U.S. Post Office safety engineer in Lexington, Kentucky saw a large round UFO traveling east to west, and a delta-wing aircraft traveling from north to south. The line of flight of the disc-shaped UFO intersected the aircraft's path at a right angle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 140; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist!, p. 367 Source ID: Johnson_479 Source: Johnson ### Event 10236 (1ED76CCA) Date: 1/28/1963 Description: Object on the ground with 4 windows, emitting yellow-orange light (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shilton, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2621 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10237 (F5721B38) Date: 1/28/1963 Description: 2 disk-shaped objects followed truck driver (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mamina, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_2622 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10238 (A9B71C1A) Date: 1/28/1963 Time: 1720 Description: Mary Sharp and Mrs. E. L. Sharp saw an object on the ground. It had four windows, emitted a yellow-orange light, and eventually left toward Rugby. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Shilton, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_559 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10239 (2DEAEDE4) Date: 1/28/1963 Time: night Description: A former Chilean Air Force officer, who was driving a truck, observed two disk-shaped objects that followed him for over ten min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mamina, Chile Source ID: Magnonia_560 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10240 (A15383B9) Date: 1/31/1963 Description: An object was reported to have landed in Ganada de Algosaray, Argentina. The Lopez brothers found traces in the grass and evidence of intense heat. There was a police investigation, during which a whitish powder was found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 561, citing Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966 Source ID: Johnson_635 Source: Johnson ### Event 10241 (F02D3AD5) Date: 1/31/1963 Description: An object was reported to have landed. The Lopez brothers found traces in the grass and evidence of intense heat. Police investigation. A whitish powder was also found at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ganada de Algosaray, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_561 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10242 (012C7D90) Date: 2/5/1963 Description: Approximate date. A student, Anastasio Lenven, saw an object land on the school grounds. In a different observation, several residents, including an official of the Ministry of the Interior, saw an object flying at very high speed over Ascension. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ascension, Paraguay Source ID: Magnonia_562 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10243 (9EA56FE4) Date: 2/5/1963 Description: On or about this date a student, Anastasio Lenven, saw an object land on the school grounds in Asuncion, Paraguay. In a separate observation, several residents, including an official of the Ministry of the Interior, saw an object flying at very high speed over the city. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 562 Source ID: Johnson_697 Source: Johnson ### Event 10244 (7D7085B4) Date: 2/5/1963 Description: An object land on the school grounds (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ascension, Paraguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_2623 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10245 (56B1546F) Date: 2/5/1963 Description: Private pilot, newsman passenger, watched a pulsating yellow-white light maneuver around their plane. \[UFOE, V\] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington (near), DC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2624 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10246 (AE46D3B1) Date: 2/5/1963 Description: UFO Hovers Over Missile Battery (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [630205](http://www.nicap.org/630205charlottesville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charlottesville, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2625 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10247 (F5F9C21F) Date: 2/6/1963 Description: A 21-year-old painter name Salmaso, walking through the snowy woods outside of Padua, Italy saw a very large, round luminous UFO. Nearby stood a man wearing a garment that appeared to be made of a cellophane-like material. He took four photos before the man climbed aboard the craft and took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James Moseley, Saucer News, June 1963, p. 21; CUFOS files, newspaper clipping dated February 11, 1963; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0558 Source ID: Johnson_719 Source: Johnson ### Event 10248 (58E206DC) Date: 2/6/1963 Description: Very Bright Light On Horizon Seen By Pilot of C-46 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [630206](http://www.nicap.org/630206montebello%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montibello, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2626 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10249 (FD5C4BAA) Date: 2/7/1963 Description: At 11:45 p.m. three people in two separate airplanes sighted a disc-shaped object over a missile site near Charlottesville, Virginia. It shot off at a speed in excess of 2000 knots. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1963, p. 3; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_733 Source: Johnson ### Event 10250 (A01D33EE) Date: 2/11/1963 Description: The CIA establishes a Domestic Operations Division for its clandestine services, conducted within the US against “foreign targets.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3693 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10251 (9CF74474) Date: 2/15/1963 Description: A metallic domed disc with a transparent dome and aerial and a concave bottom hovered 30 meters above the ground at a farm in Moe, Victoria, Australia. It was about eight meters in diameter, and gave off a bluish glow as it emitted a swishing noise. Horses and cattle on the farm panicked and fled. It climbed into the sky at a 45 degree angle going off toward the west and into the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 117; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia Newsletter, March 1982, p. 24; James Holledge, Flying Saucers over Australia, p. 86 Source ID: Johnson_923 Source: Johnson ### Event 10252 (BE05F5B9) Date: 2/15/1963 Description: 25 ft blue and battleship-gray metallic object, 9-10 ft high (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [630215](http://www.nicap.org/ar-630215dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Willow Grove, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2627 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10253 (5EBD8E20) Date: 2/15/1963 Time: 0710 Description: A civilian observed an object arriving from the east. It stopped at 15 m altitude over his farmhouse. The object made a swishing sound, and measured about 8 m in diameter, 3 m in height. The underside was spinning in a counterclockwise direction, had a blue color and no light. It took off faster than a jet, after hovering about five sec. The witness suffered from a strong headache all day. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Willow Grove, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_563 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10254 (98D75435) Date: 2/15/1963 Description: 7:10 a.m. Farmer Charles Brew and his son Trevor are in a shed, milking a herd of cows near Moe, Victoria, Australia. Charles sees an object descend very steeply out of the east from a low cloud, at about a 45° angle. The UFO is about 25 feet in diameter, and about 9–10 feet high. The lower portion, about 3 feet high, is rotating in an anticlockwise direction and is bluish. The upper portion appears to be stationary, battleship-gray in color, with a transparent dome on top. Protruding out of the dome is something resembling a broom handle. A sound, described as swishing or burbling, is heard by both Charles and Trevor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Rotating Object and](http://www.nicap.org/630215tasmania%5Fdir.htm) [Animal Reaction](http://www.nicap.org/630215tasmania%5Fdir.htm)”; Bill Chalker, “Tully Saucer Nests of 1966, Part Two,” IUR 23, no. 1 \(Spring 1998\): 15–16; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 293; Swords 388–390 Source ID: Eberhart_3694 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10255 (F3949739) Date: 2/18/1963 Description: On this morning in Maiden, North Carolina flat metallic disc-shaped objects hovered, then engaged in maneuvers for a lengthy display. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics Source ID: Johnson_980 Source: Johnson ### Event 10256 (072E5474) Date: 2/20/1963 Time: 1730 Description: A young man saw from a window ,a slowly spinning object, almost stationary, 500 m away. It appeared as a disk having a central upper dome, with a total diameter of 3 m. The object had a brilliant yellow red halo, but its dome was much more brilliant. The witness observed it through binoculars, reported seeing a "particle" leave the object, after which it stopped spinning, gained altitude with a vertical shifting, and left toward the northeast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 144 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lecce, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_564 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10257 (1F0AB70F) Date: 2/21/1963 Time: 0230 Description: A strange globe of fire hit a car driven by a civilian man. Several people called authorities to report that they had been awakened by a peculiar object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Belgrade, Montana Source ID: Magnonia_565 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10258 (BF87C9F0) Date: 2/22/1963 Description: A domed disc-shaped object landed on the frozen surface of Crystal Lake in Fergus County, Montana at 2 a.m. A door on the craft opened for 10 minutes, then shut. Half an hour later a fiery ball flew over Belgrade, Montana causing electrical power failures. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6303, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue #328; (2) Orbit, January 1963, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_1045 Source: Johnson ### Event 10259 (AD72759C) Date: 2/23/1963 Description: 9:45 p.m. An oval object is seen in the sky above Highcliffe, Dorset, England. Emerald-green in color and surrounded by a glow, it hangs in the sky for 10 minutes before witnesses see two smaller objects emerge from it. These fly away and disappear over the English Channel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_3695 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10260 (61091E96) Date: 2/24/1963 Description: A luminous bluish-silver colored ovoid UFO was seen over Invercargill, New Zealand at 1:00 a.m., making a whine and humming sounds. One witness attempted to chase the object in a car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1963, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_1080 Source: Johnson ### Event 10261 (925C779A) Date: 2/27/1963 Description: Two bluish-green oval lights were seen oscillating in tandem over Braybrook, Victoria, Australia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 117 Source ID: Johnson_1152 Source: Johnson ### Event 10262 (1EDA8170) Date: 2/28/1963 Description: Object Tracked on Royal Navy RADAR & SONAR (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [630228](http://www.nicap.org/630228articocean%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arctic Ocean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2628 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10263 (1D3AB405) Date: 3/1963 Description: Austrian ufologist [Luis Schoenherr](https://paschberg.blogspot.com/2010/10/am-7.html) offers a paranormal explanation for UFOs, saying that they either emanate from an unobservable fourth dimension or are time machines. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Luis Schoenherr, “[UFOs and the Fourth](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1963%2CFeb-Mar%2CV%209%2CN%202.pdf) [Dimension,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1963%2CFeb-Mar%2CV%209%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1963\): 10–12; Luis Schoenherr, “[UFOs and the Fourth](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CJan-Feb%2CV%2010%2CN%201.pdf) [Dimension, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CJan-Feb%2CV%2010%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1964\): 16–20, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_3696 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10264 (B745595F) Date: 3/1/1963 Description: On this day a photo of a flying saucer was taken over the Diet Building, Tokyo, Japan by a Mr. Hagiwara. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Yusuke J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers magazine, October 1965, p. 67 Source ID: Johnson_1202 Source: Johnson ### Event 10265 (0D72070E) Date: 3/3/1963 Description: The [Hills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) are invited by their Unitarian church to discuss their UFO experience. They speak about it for the first time publicly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 584 Source ID: Eberhart_3697 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10266 (D008B0BA) Date: 3/6/1963 Description: (McDonald list) Bright Flash & Radar Track in 3 States (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [630306](http://www.nicap.org/630306%5F3states%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_2629 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10267 (B622D08E) Date: 3/9/1963 Description: Amos Biggs observed a silver, saucer-shaped craft, with an oval dome, which landed on the frozen lake for 10 min. A "door" was opened and then shut, and the craft took off with a buzzing sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Jul., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Crystal Lake, Montana Source ID: Magnonia_566 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10268 (C078E6B9) Date: 3/9/1963 Description: A silver, disc-shaped craft with an oval dome landed on a frozen lake in Crystal Lake, Montana for 10 minutes. A door in the object opened and then shut. The craft took off with a buzzing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, June 1964, p. 56 Source ID: Johnson_1392 Source: Johnson ### Event 10269 (1F6F52A7) Date: 3/11/1963 Description: At 8:00 p.m. two military witnesses in the Air National Guard, Parish and Joy, were flying over the Pacific Ocean near Oahu Island, Hawaii when they spotted a very bright, crescent-shaped UFO flying at high altitude. The object flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1964, p. 5; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_1423 Source: Johnson ### Event 10270 (8A67357A) Date: 3/11/1963 Description: Brilliant light headed west and leaving a trail observed by many people just after 8:00 p.m. Two National Guard pilots flying jets about 40 miles west of Honolulu reported UFO was "much higher" than their altitude of 40,000 feet and moving "very fast." (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oahu, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2630 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10271 (1E1A052B) Date: 3/12/1963 Time: 0532 Description: After an intense rainfall Pablo Michalowski and Roberto Jorge Martinez observed and photographed a luminous object that rose from a forest preserve about 2 km from Colonia Yerua. Type: ufo sighting Reference: CODOVNI 1963 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Colonia Yerua, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_567 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10272 (92BA92A1) Date: 3/12/1963 Description: Members of the Santiago NICAP Subcommittee observed a pulsating luminous white sphere about 7:50 p.m. The UFO moved from north to south, disappearing in the distance after about a minute. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paine, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_2631 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10273 (8C52E2CD) Date: 3/13/1963 Description: Fred White was fishing in Richards Bay, South Africa at 10:30 p.m. when he heard a high-pitched whine coming from the east and saw an object come in his direction and land 15 meters away, scattering sand. It was at least 30 meters in diameter, and was shaped like two plates glued together. Through several oval portholes he could see light inside. A man with a fair complexion, wearing a metallic helmet, was looked at him through one of the portholes. He wore a sky-blue, one-piece coverall with no visible buttons or fasteners, and gloves made of shiny mesh. Warm air was felt as the craft took off about six minutes later, and radio interference was noted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 568 Source ID: Johnson_1451 Source: Johnson ### Event 10274 (254680AB) Date: 3/13/1963 Time: 2230 Description: Fred White was fishing when he heard a high-pitched whine coming from the east and saw an object come in his direction and land 15 m away, scattering sand. It was at least 30 m in diameter, and was shaped like two plates glued together. Through several oval portholes he could see light inside. A man with a fair complexion, wearing a metallic helmet, looked at the witness. He wore a sky-blue, one-piece coverall with no visible buttons or fasteners, and gloves made of shiny mesh. Warm air was felt as the craft took off about six min later, and radio interference was noted. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 63, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Richards Bay, South Africa Source ID: Magnonia_568 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10275 (7CD4D7C5) Date: 3/18/1963 Description: In 1963 a UFO was seen from Cape Canaveral, Florida as a Minuteman missile malfunctioned and veered off course. On that same night, at 8:30 p.m., the crew of a Greek ship, the "Hellenic Laurel", watched a bright white fireball shoot to the east for one minute. It was described as the apparent size of the Moon, and it left a bright white contrail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP Investigator, March-April 1963, p. 4; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1963, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_1548 Source: Johnson ### Event 10276 (491DB145) Date: 3/18/1963 Description: Minuteman Veers Off Course (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [630318](http://www.nicap.org/630318canav%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Canaveral, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2632 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10277 (20BAA1EB) Date: 4/1963 Description: An article by [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) appears in the Yale Scientific Magazine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “Flying Saucers I Have Known,” Yale Scientific Magazine 37 \(April 1963\): 6–9; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-Jan-Jun.pdf) [UFOs, a History: January–June 1963](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 2005, pp. 42–62 Source ID: Eberhart_3698 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10278 (11BB5F56) Date: 4/1/1963 Description: At 3:30 p.m. Mr. A. Mostaccieli in Chileno Valley, California reported seeing cattle panic and run when several small beings got out of a disc-shaped UFO. They caught a calf and took it on board the craft, then collected some plants. He also reported a scorched area 10 meters wide. The local sheriff considered the report a practical joke. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Petaluma Argus Courier, April 1, 1966; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 165; John Wallace Spencer, UFO Yearbook, p. 102 Source ID: Johnson_1782 Source: Johnson ### Event 10279 (9604EEBC) Date: 4/30/1963 Description: [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) arrives in Copenhagen for another scheduled lecture tour of Europe at the invitation of Hans C. Petersen, He attends the Skandinavisk UFO Information Congress in Frederica, Denmark. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Final Years,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-life/final-years/)” The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_3699 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10280 (54BE054B) Date: 5/7/1963 Time: evening Description: Margaret McCutcheon and her 13-year-old son reported to the police that, after the house lights blacked out while watching television, they saw an object about 6 m in diameter, with two aerials and a red light flashing, emitting a low buzz, near the house. After one minute, it flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 63, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Kirkby, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_569 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10281 (1F930F76) Date: 5/7/1963 Description: On this evening in Kirkby, Merseyside, England Margaret McCutcheon and her 13-year-old son reported to the police that, after the lights blacked out in their home while watching television, they saw an object about six meters in diameter near the house. It had two aerials and a red flashing light, and it was emitting a low buzzing sound. After a minute, it flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1963; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 569 Source ID: Johnson_2615 Source: Johnson ### Event 10282 (2B418803) Date: 5/15/1963 Description: Mr. and Mrs. D., of Carignan, saw an object on the ground to the left of the road as they were driving between Bergerac and Bordeaux, beyond the Yvrac intersection, 2.5 km from Maille. They stopped to observe it, and the object then followed them for part of their trip. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 71 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Yvrac-Maille, France Source ID: Magnonia_570 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10283 (714FE57D) Date: 5/15/1963 Description: Mr. and Mrs. D. of Carignan, France saw an object on the ground to the left side of the road as they were driving between Bergerac and Bordeaux, beyond the Yvrac intersection, 2.5 km from Maille, Gironde department. They stopped to observe it, and the object then followed them for part of their trip. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 570, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 71 Source ID: Johnson_2851 Source: Johnson ### Event 10284 (636C1B65) Date: 5/15/1963 Description: Sandia National Laboratories conducts the first of four top-secret, dry-surface plutonium-dispersal tests at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, as part of Operation Roller Coaster. The other tests are on May 25, May 31, and June 9. The intent is to investigate exposure of animals \(dogs, sheep, and burros\) to plutonium dispersal in a non- nuclear scenario. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Roller Coaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FRoller%5FCoaster)”; Lt. Col. J. L. Dick, et al., “[Operation Roller Coaster:](https://www.osti.gov/opennet/servlets/purl/16004569.pdf) [Interim Summary Report \(II\),](https://www.osti.gov/opennet/servlets/purl/16004569.pdf)” Department of Defense, September 1963 Source ID: Eberhart_3700 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10285 (28AF2ECC) Date: 5/18/1963 Description: A 15-year-old student was out camping at 10:30 p.m. near New Plymouth, New Zealand when he heard a wild animal on a nearby hill wailing. He next saw a crescent or semi-disc shaped UFO flying in the sky, looking like a stingray. It changed color from red to dark blue as it changed speed and direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8360; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 20, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 118 Source ID: Johnson_2953 Source: Johnson ### Event 10286 (A5DD7F18) Date: 5/18/1963 Description: White, fuzzy, flashing light hover and dart around (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8360) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Plymouth, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2633 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10287 (EF94FE6F) Date: 5/19/1963 Description: A 17-year-old teen named Bushbridge encountered an ovoid object by the side of road as he was driving near Mount Gambier, South Australia. When he got to within six meters of it a bright light dazzled him. The five-meter long object rose vertically, then moved across the road over his car, making a roaring noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 24; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 172 Source ID: Johnson_2976 Source: Johnson ### Event 10288 (7FD6AF18) Date: 5/20/1963 Time: evening Description: A 17-year-old witness, who wishes anonymity for fear of ridicule, saw what he first thought was a bulldozer by the side of the road. He came within 20 m of it, then was blinded by a strong light as his car suddenly stopped. The object crossed the road and flew away. The light was as intense as that of a welder's torch. The witness's father testified that his son came home white and visibly terrified. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Nov., 63 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Glencoe, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_571 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10289 (6CAFA4F5) Date: 5/20/1963 Description: On this evening a 17-year-old witness named Bushbridge, driving his car between Glencoe and Mount Gambier, South Australia saw what he at first thought was a bulldozer by the side of the road. He came within 20 meters of it, and then was blinded by a strong light as his car suddenly stopped. The object crossed the road and flew away. The light was as intense as a welder's torch. The witness's father later testified that his son came home white and visibly terrified. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1963, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 571; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_3006 Source: Johnson ### Event 10290 (82BF76C9) Date: 5/21/1963 Description: Unconfirmed report that a brilliant light followed a car. A youth stated the object was at side of road, rose suddenly as he approached, hovered overhead, then followed car. The Dominion. Adelaide, reported May 22 this was "the second report of such an occurrence in a week." (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Gambler (near), AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2634 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10291 (180BD098) Date: 5/22/1963 Time: 10:45 PM Description: Witness: Myra Jackson. Four pink wheels spun or rolled very fast from east to west in succession, each taking about 1 second. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pequannock, New Jersey Source ID: BerlinerBBU_485 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10292 (53B4FE1B) Date: 5/22/1963 Description: 4 pink wheels spin or roll very fast from E to W in succession (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8363) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pequannock, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2635 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10293 (A417131B) Date: 5/22/1963 Description: Four pink wheels spun in the sky while flying from the east to the west very fast in succession. They were witnessed by a civilian named Jackson in Pequannock, New Jersey at 10:50 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8363; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_3035 Source: Johnson ### Event 10294 (AC337B61) Date: 5/23/1963 Description: Bluish disc observed hovering and circling slowly, apparently at tree-top height; rose vertically and disappeared. \[Report via Bay Area NICAP Subcommittee.\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sunnyvale, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2636 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10295 (ED6BD90A) Date: 5/24/1963 Description: An A-12 piloted by [Kenneth S. Collins](https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=51976355&itype=cmsid) crashes near Wendover, Utah. The CIA thinks it might have been due to pilot error and contracts with a well-known Boston, Massachusetts, psychiatrist with a specialty in hypnosis \(unnamed, but possibly Benjamin Simon, of [Betty and Barney Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) fame later\). After a lengthy investigation it is determined that a tiny, pencil-sized part called a pilot tube, a device that controls the airspeed indicator, froze when the A-12 entered a cloud, causing the aircraft to stall. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed A-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12\#Accidents%5Fand%5Fincidents)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/190/mode/2up) [190–197](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/190/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3701 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10296 (0F26F961) Date: 5/31/1963 Description: [Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) allegedly has a private audience with Pope [John XXIII](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope%5FJohn%5FXXIII) in Rome, Italy. The pontiff is seriously ill and dies three days later. Adamski claims that he has received a “Golden Medal of Honor” from the pope, but skeptics note that the medal is actually a common tourist souvenir made by a company in Milan, and that Adamski displays it to his friends in a cheap plastic box—which is how it is sold in tourist shops in Rome. Adamski says his meeting is at the request of the extraterrestrials he is in contact with in order to ask for a “final agreement” from the pope because of his decision not to communicate directly with them anymore and to offer John XXIII a liquid substance in order to save him from the gastric enteritis that he suffers from. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lou Zinsstag and Timothy Good, George Adamski: The Untold Story, Ceti, 1983; Colin Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001; “[Vatican Visit,](https://www.the-adamski-case.nl/his-mission/vatican-visit/)” The Adamski Case, October 7, 2019; Marc Hallet, [A Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) [Man Who Spoke to the Space Brothers](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) The Author, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_3702 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10297 (6EC697D5) Date: 5/31/1963 Description: 1400 MPH Airborne Radar Tracks (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [630531](http://www.nicap.org/630531atlantic%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlantic Ocean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2637 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10298 (17C4E175) Date: 6/4/1963 Description: A multicolored object, the size of a light truck, was reported to have landed in the vicinity of Lyle. Police searched an area over 3 km wide on both sides of the Iowa-Minnesota border, with no results. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lyle, Minnesota Source ID: Magnonia_572 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10299 (10407F65) Date: 6/4/1963 Description: In 1963 a multicolored UFO, the size of a light truck, was reported to have landed in the vicinity of Lyle, Minnesota at 3:10 a.m. The multicolored object was seen ascending into the sky from a nearby town. Police searched the area for 3 miles on both sides of the Iowa-Minnesota border but found nothing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1964, p.1; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 572 Source ID: Johnson_3270 Source: Johnson ### Event 10300 (F064DA28) Date: 6/13/1963 Description: A North Scituate, Massachusetts woman spotted a yellow-white light that looked to be plunging into the ocean, but suddenly reversed direction, doubling back on its original course. A friend with her also saw it. "It suddenly stopped and moved erratically for a few seconds, reversed direction, and went back from east to west," she reported. She watched the maneuvering light for at least 10-15 minutes. When it stopped moving and hovered in one place for a while she stopped watching it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1963, pg. 4 Source ID: Johnson_3457 Source: Johnson ### Event 10301 (ACCA5216) Date: 6/15/1963 Description: 8:39 p.m. In the Indian Ocean southwest of India, 3rd Mate R. C. Chamberlin of the SS Thetis sees in the northwest a luminous disc travel at 1.5 times the angular speed of a satellite. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 294 Source ID: Eberhart_3704 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10302 (AF9120BA) Date: 6/15/1963 Time: 10:39 AM Description: Witness: 3rd Mate R.C. Chamberlin, of S/S Thetis. One luminous disc travelled at 1.5 times the speed of satellite for 3-4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 200 miles north of Venezuela (14' 27' N, 69' 57' E) Source ID: BerlinerBBU_486 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10303 (0A51E30C) Date: 6/15/1963 Description: Luminous disc travel at 1.5 times the angular speed of a satellite (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8388) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Venezuela (200 miles N of), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2639 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10304 (4063F61F) Date: 6/16/1963 Description: A college student observed two brilliant lights descending in zig-zag fashion. The UFOs hovered stationary for about 5 seconds, then "suddenly shot off at very great speed, at first in level flight across my front, then climbed up into the sky at approximately 45 degrees to disappear." \[Witness interviewed by NICAP Adviser Harold H. Fulton.\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palmerston, North City, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2640 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10305 (03992A51) Date: 6/18/1963 Description: An unidentified object flashing various colors moved around erratically for over two hours. Witnesses in separate locations described the maneuvers similarly. About 10:00 p.m., the UFO moved from west to east, reversed direction and headed back west. Later, it headed southeast rising higher in the sky. Local astronomers and airport officials could not account for the object. \[Report from NICAP member.\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Niagara Falls, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2641 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10306 (3EE4F49B) Date: 6/19/1963 Description: An unidentified white light was observed descending, changing color; finally appeared silvery. The UFO then circled the area, disappearing behind objects on the visible horizon. \[Report via Walter N. Webb, Boston NICAP Adviser.\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burlington, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2642 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10307 (8FC3AAE6) Date: Summer 1963 Description: 8-10 lights move at random, then in an oval formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8371) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Middletown, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2638 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10308 (0644AF8B) Date: 6/21/1963 Description: A student saw a gray, apparently spherical UFO with a central row of yellow lig3hts. Apparently at low altitude, the object made a "sizzling sound" as it moved east, turned sharply and disappeared to the north. \[Witness filed NICAP report form.\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2643 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10309 (69FB1E71) Date: Summer 1963 Time: 9:30 or 10 PM Description: Witness: Grace Dutcher. Eight-ten lights moved at random, then in an oval formation, then singly, during the 1 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Middletown, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_487 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10310 (5F40854A) Date: Summer 1963 Description: [Allen H. Greenfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FH.%5FGreenfield) and [Rick Hilberg](http://www.mufonohio.com/mufono/2015confSUMM.html) start publishing Saucer Album in Cleveland, Ohio. It becomes UFO Magazine in mid-1964 and continues through the summer of 1970. After a few years’ hiatus, it returns as UFO Magazine News Bulletin in early 1974 and continues at least until February 1979. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Saucer Album](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Magazine%20%28Hilberg%29/UFO%20Magazine%20-%20vol%201%20number%201%20-%20Saucer%20Album.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(Summer 1963\) Source ID: Eberhart_3703 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10311 (4DB01521) Date: 6/26/1963 Description: Four glowing greenish objects with halos were observed by a technician, many others. Three objects moving westerly were approached by a similar object from the west. The fourth object stopped and hovered as the three approached, split formation, and continued west. Then the fourth object continued east. \[Report via Bay Area NICAP Subcommittee.\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pine Crest, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2645 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10312 (052AA96C) Date: 6/26/1963 Description: About 1:00 a.m., witnesses attracted by a loud roar observed a Saturn-shaped UFO. The object hovered, then moved away horizontally. The shape was observed in silhouette, partly illuminated by a white light on top and orange light on bottom. \[Witnesses interviewed by NICAP member Raymond Fowler.\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rockland, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2644 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10313 (A9BDEE08) Date: 6/26/1963 Description: Two UFO reports occurred at close to the same time in Massachusetts on this night. At one o'clock in the morning in East Weymouth (Norfolk County) a married couple saw a thirty-foot diameter object shaped like two bowls rim-to-rim hovering over some power lines, approximately 300 feet away from them. The UFO made a buzzing or humming sound as they watched it hover there for three minutes. At about the same time three people in Rockland, Massachusetts in nearby Plymouth County saw and photographed a disc-shaped object zigzagging away toward the northwest, or in the direction of Norfolk County. The time-lapsed photo shows a light making ninety-degree turns, and was published in the local newspaper. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter N. Webb investigation files & Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, p. 329; APRO Bulletin, November 1963, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_3671 Source: Johnson ### Event 10314 (809FFAA4) Date: 6/26/1963 Description: Four glowing greenish objects with halos are seen by a technician and many others at Pinecrest, California. Three objects moving westerly are approached by a similar object from the west. The fourth object stops and hovers as the three approach, split formation, and continue west. Then the fourth object continues east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 140](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=152&skin=2021) Source ID: Eberhart_3706 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10315 (C7999E45) Date: 6/26/1963 Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Enrico A. Gilberti Jr. and his wife Janet are awakened at their home on 344 Commercial Street, Weymouth, Massachusetts, by a loud roar. They look out the window and see a Saturn-shaped object moving slowly above the treetops 100 feet off the ground and 300 feet away. Gilberti describes it as “two hamburger buns one on top of another with a sandwiched piece of meat protruding around.” It is about 30–40 feet across and has two brilliant lights. The UFO follows some power lines across a field and disappears to the northeast. “The roar was deafening.” Neighbors hear the noise but do not see anything. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-Jan-Jun.pdf) [Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1963](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-Jan-Jun.pdf), The Author, 2005, pp. 84–85 Source ID: Eberhart_3705 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10316 (27A20BCD) Date: 6/28/1963 Time: 2130 Description: A fiery red object, 8 m wide 4 m high, with a concave top and flat bottom, was seen on the road by a Willaston resident who stopped his car 4 m away. The object rose, tipped to one side and flew away at fantastic speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 141; FSR 64, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sandy Creek, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_573 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10317 (2C709EC7) Date: 6/28/1963 Description: 9:30 p.m. A man is driving along the Lyndoch-Gawler Road near Sandy Creek, South Australia, when he comes across a blood-red, glowing object, 25 feet across and 12 feet high, in the road ahead. He is within 12 feet of it when he hits the brakes. The object turns a lighter reddish-yellow and rises up into the air several hundred feet. It turns on its side and speeds away. This and other UFO incidents cause Sen. [Jim Cavanagh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%5FCavanagh) to ask the federal government to make its UFO dossier public, but Minister for Air [David Fairbairn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FFairbairn%5F%28politician%29) refuses, saying that the vast majority of reports are explainable. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-Jan-Jun.pdf) [History: January–June 1963](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-Jan-Jun.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-Jan-Jun.pdf) The Author, 2005, pp. 86–87 Source ID: Eberhart_3707 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10318 (7BD2BD72) Date: 6/28/1963 Description: Driving around a corner in the road at 9:30 p.m. a man came to within three meters of red disc-shaped object blocking the road in Sandy Creek near Adelaide, South Australia. The disc was eight meters in diameter and had a concave top. It ascended vertically to 100 meters, tipped to one side, and shot away leaving behind a vapor trail. It also changed to a reddish yellow color as it gathered speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sylvia Sutton, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1964, p. 29; James Holledge, Flying Saucers over Australia, p. 88; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 573 Source ID: Johnson_3712 Source: Johnson ### Event 10319 (20AA58EF) Date: 7/1963 Description: The CIA has synthesized many of the findings from its psychological research into what became known as the “KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation” handbook, which cites the MKUltra studies and other secret research programs as the scientific basis for their interrogation methods. [Donald Ewen Cameron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FEwen%5FCameron) regularly travels around the US teaching military personnel about his techniques \(hooding of prisoners for sensory deprivation, prolonged isolation, humiliation, etc.\), and how they can be used in interrogations. Latin American paramilitary groups working for the CIA and US military personnel receive training in these psychological techniques at places such as the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. \(In the 21st century, many of these torture techniques are used at US military and CIA prisons such as Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Abu Ghraib, Iraq.\) In the aftermath of the 1975 congressional hearings, major news media mainly focus on sensational stories related to LSD, mind-control, and brainwashing, and rarely use the word “torture.” This suggests that the CIA researchers are, as one author put it, “a bunch of bumbling sci-fi buffoons” rather than a rational group of men who have run torture laboratories and medical experiments in major US universities; they have arranged for torture, rape, and psychological abuse of adults and young children, driving many of them permanently insane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/CIA%20Kubark%201-60.pdf),” July 1963; Wikipedia, “[Unethical human](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical%5Fhuman%5Fexperimentation%5Fin%5Fthe%5FUnited%5FStates\#Concerns) [experimentation in the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical%5Fhuman%5Fexperimentation%5Fin%5Fthe%5FUnited%5FStates\#Concerns)” Source ID: Eberhart_3708 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10320 (9975927C) Date: 7/1963 Description: An advertising plane caused several erroneous UFO reports. (Aircraft identified by NICAP Adviser, Walter N. Webb.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boston, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2646 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10321 (44A6019A) Date: 7/1/1963 Time: 8 PM Description: Witness: R.B. Stiles, ll, using a theodolite. One light, the size of a match head at arm's length, flashed and moved around the sky for 1.5 hours. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Glen Ellyn, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_488 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10322 (00DF5AE5) Date: 7/1/1963 Description: Theodolite saw a light, the size of a match head at arm's length (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8434) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glen Ellyn, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2647 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10323 (79DA5147) Date: 7/2/1963 Description: Nineteen-year-old NICAP member [John P. Speights](https://www.northcarolinaresidentdatabase.com/person/14622338/john-speights) of Raleigh, North Carolina, writes a letter questioning the Air Force’s treatment of UFOs to Rep. [Carl Vinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FVinson) \(D-Ga.\), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Vinson forwards it to USAF along with his own request for information on Blue Book. The Air Force treats the request gingerly because of the implication of a congressional hearing and prepares a reply to Vinson on July 18, but there is no evidence that it is sent. USAF Maj. [Maston M. Jacks](https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-19981013-1998-10-13-9810130089-story.html) does reply to Speights on August 5. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December 1963](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2005, pp. 19–20; US Air Force, Foreign Technology Division, “[Congressional Correspondence on the U.S. Air Force UFO](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/USA%20-%20Congress/1962%20-%20Congressional%20correspondence.pdf) [Program, Congressman Carl Vinson](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/USA%20-%20Congress/1962%20-%20Congressional%20correspondence.pdf)” Source ID: Eberhart_3709 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10324 (5AB0E43C) Date: 7/2/1963 Description: Large blimp like object reported. \[In this area is the Davis Monthan AFB Titan II Missile Site, home of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing consisting of 18 Launch Facilities around the Tucson area\]. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [630702](http://www.nicap.org/tucson630702dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tuscon, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2648 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10325 (098E7509) Date: 7/14/1963 Description: A 200-foot-long torpedo-shaped craft flew over Parkstone, Dorset, England at 300 feet. It made a whistling sound and shot off to the west at a tremendous speed. The sighting lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Orbit, 1963, Volume 4, p. 17; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers magazine, August 1964, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_4050 Source: Johnson ### Event 10326 (B2C0A450) Date: 7/15/1963 Description: A farmer discovered strange crater 2.5 m wide and 2.5 m deep. Vegetation around it was burned and there were four holes in the ground around the crater itself. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 63, 5; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Charlton, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_574 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10327 (406C0A5F) Date: 7/16/1963 Description: At 7:45 a.m. a large featureless metallic disc flew to the east near the airport in Ontario, California at 300 meters altitude. It made no sound and was estimated to be over 50 feet in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1964 Source ID: Johnson_4094 Source: Johnson ### Event 10328 (46F20AEC) Date: 7/16/1963 Description: Farmer Roy Blanchard of Charlton, Wiltshire, England, discovers a strange crater on the ground overlapping his potato and barley fields. It is about 8 feet wide and 4 inches deep. A hole in the center is 3 feet deep and less than a foot in diameter. All vegetation inside the circle is burned, leaving only bare earth, and there are four slots in the ground around it, each about 4 feet long and a foot wide. A small piece of metal is found. Astronomer [Patrick Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FMoore) states that a “shrimp-sized meteorite” has caused the crater. But a military investigation shows no burn or scratch marks or any trace of an explosion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf) [UFOs, a History: July–December 1963](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2005, pp. 12–16; UFOFiles2, [p. 116](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n189/mode/2up); Nick Redfern, “[The](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/09/the-curious-caper-of-the-charlton-crater-pt-1/) [Curious Caper of the Charlton Crater, Part 1,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/09/the-curious-caper-of-the-charlton-crater-pt-1/)” Mysterious Universe, September 28, 2015; Nick Redfern, “[The](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/09/the-curious-caper-of-the-charlton-crater-pt-2/) [Curious Caper of the Charlton Crater, Part 2,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/09/the-curious-caper-of-the-charlton-crater-pt-2/)” Mysterious Universe, September 28, 2015; Matthew Richardson, “[The Charlton Crater](http://www.ipcress.org.uk/truth%5Fout/charlton.html)” Source ID: Eberhart_3710 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10329 (24B89E96) Date: 7/17/1963 Description: A passenger of a Convair-880 related to UFO investigator, James Moseley, that the 4 engine jet airliner she had been flying in was pursued by an UFO. The jet, traveling at 600 mph, made a sharp turn to avoid the UFO, now rapidly closing in on the plane. Just as they were about to collide, the UFO swerved away at fantastic speed and disappeared in the night sky. When the (unnamed) woman confronted the pilot about the incident, he said, “I wouldn’t dare risk telling the airline of the incident. If I could tell you of some of the experiences my buddies have had, you’d never fly again!” Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_612 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10330 (523D5F72) Date: 7/18/1963 Description: At two o'clock in the afternoon, four boys in Fern Creek, Kentucky saw a cigar-shaped object that became a disc, then vanished behind some trees. A small being, 3.5 to 4 feet tall, wearing a tight-fitting white suit, goggles and a helmet emerged from the trees. The boys threw dirt clods at the entity, and the dwarf fired back using what looked like a black tube, burning two of them. There were landing imprints and footprints at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb, Skylook, August 1975, p. 9, citing Terry William as field investigator Source ID: Johnson_4168 Source: Johnson ### Event 10331 (00A7BCB9) Date: 7/18/1963 Description: A technical writer for United Technology Center saw a disc-shaped UFO hovering in the sky. He exposed 8 mm color film of the object using a 36 mm tele-photo lens. (A few frames of the film were submitted to NICAP, but the image is too small to show detail.) \[Report via Bay Area NICAP Subcommittee.\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sunnyvale, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2649 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10332 (BA5B33B3) Date: 7/20/1963 Description: An A-1 piloted by [Louis Schalk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FSchalk) briefly achieves a speed of Mach 3 for the first time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [p.](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/200/mode/2up) [201](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/200/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3711 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10333 (1A4A5039) Date: 7/20/1963 Description: A huge top-shaped object hovered, shimmered and rotated in the sky west of Burnley, England for two minutes. It shot off toward the south, but stopped again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Devereax, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 100 Source ID: Johnson_4234 Source: Johnson ### Event 10334 (5E75C974) Date: 7/20/1963 Description: About 7:50 p.m., a shiny silver object was observed hovering at high altitude. The UFO moved up and down, back and forth, but remained in the same area of the sky. About dusk, the object (now resembling a bright star) began moving across the sky, picking up speed, and disappeared in the distance. \[Witness filed NICAP report form.\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2650 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10335 (32916287) Date: 7/22/1963 Description: A 38-year-old man named Gray sighted a 300-foot long flying craft with lighted windows while driving between Northfield and Yatala, South Australia at 6:35 p.m. The UFO was seen below the clouds for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Waveney Girvan, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1964, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_4298 Source: Johnson ### Event 10336 (3E652201) Date: 7/22/1963 Description: At 8:30 p.m. three people watched a low flying bell-shaped object pass into a cloud in Parr, Merseyside, England. It failed to reappear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 141, citing Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1964, p. 24; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 575 Source ID: Johnson_4299 Source: Johnson ### Event 10337 (915DBE1D) Date: 7/22/1963 Time: 2030 Description: William Holland, 12, and two other persons saw a hovering, silvery object with a flashing red light on top, at 20 m altitude. It had three "legs" and a periscope underneath that pointed at the witnesses. The object went up into a cloud of unusual color, which flew against the wind. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 64, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Parr, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_575 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10338 (26668120) Date: 7/24/1963 Description: On this morning two ten year old boys with the last names Lee and Duffy were buzzed by a domed, disc-shaped object that descended from an overcast sky while they were playing outdoors in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England at 8:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Orbit, Tyneside, England, Volume 2 (1963), p. 23); Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 165; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6371, citing Paris Flammonde Source ID: Johnson_4352 Source: Johnson ### Event 10339 (0893A873) Date: 8/1/1963 Description: Evening. A former RAF pilot and flight instructor sees a triangular UFO that lingers for a long time over Garston, Hertfordshire, England, then climbs out of sight. Thousands of other people in the London area, including an air traffic controller four miles away and future UFO researcher [Timothy Good](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%5FGood) in Bcckenham, London, also see the object, which has a tetrahedral shape and glassy appearance when seen through binoculars. A USAF F-100 Super Sabre from RAF Bentwaters \[now Bentwaters Parks\] in Woodbridge, Suffolk, and another plane from the De Havilland Aircraft Company are sent up to investigate but cannot get anywhere near the UFO, which is at an estimated 90,000 feet. An amateur astronomer in Bushey, Hertfordshire, takes a clear photo. The official explanation is a balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv, [p. 141](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=153&skin=2021); Good Above, [p. 149](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/148/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3712 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10340 (77612391) Date: 8/1/1963 Description: A former RAF pilot, and flying instructor, observed a triangular UFO which hovered for a -long period of time, then climbed out of sight. An air traffic controller four miles away also observed the UFO. \[FLIGHT International, 15 August 1963.\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Garston, Herts, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2651 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10341 (D7A45434) Date: 8/4/1963 Description: 11:30 p.m. Ronnie Austin and Phyllis Bruce are driving east on State Highway 15 past the Mount Vernon, Illinois, airport when they notice a bright white round object about 20° above the southwest horizon. It seems to be keeping pace with them for several miles. Suddenly it moves about 600 feet in front of them and to the left. When Austin drops Phyllis off at home in Wayne City, it is hanging in the southeast. They continue watching it about 15 minutes, then Austin leaves for home. As he turns east on a gravel road, it shoots ahead of him, taking on an orange hue. At one point it comes within 100 feet of his car, swerves upward, and passes above him as the car radio makes a whining noise and the car engine almost fails. The object then moves behind him from west to east. When he arrives home, it is hovering about 900 feet to the southeast. Ronnie is so shaken, he is given a sedative. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Austin, and brother and sister also see the light, which finally becomes indistinguishable with a star by 1:10 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Wayne City Car Chase \(EM RA Traces\)](http://www.nicap.org/630804waynecity%5Fdir.htm)”; Jeffrey Liss, “The Light That Followed a Car,” Fate 16, no. 11 \(November 1963\): 26–35; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 81–88 Source ID: Eberhart_3713 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10342 (E87D72DB) Date: 8/4/1963 Description: Ronnie Austin and Phyllis Bruce, age 18, were driving to Phyllis Bruce's home in Wayne City, Illiniois when they had a close encounter with a humming, yellowish orange ball of light on Highway 15 at 11:30 p.m. It paced the car to the woman's house, crossing and recrossing the highway, and then hovered over a nearby barn when they parked the car.While the UFO was hovering it changed its color to a dull orange. They continued to watched the object from her house with her family members for nearly an hour. When Ronnie left the object buzzed his car repeatedly. He felt a cooling effect and heard a loud whining sound on the car radio as the UFO made passes at the car. His engine also missed and the speedometer was effected. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wayne County (IL) Press, August 5, 1963; APRO Bulletin, January 1964, p. 3; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1988, p. 15; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 20; Francis L. Ridge, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 900825 Source ID: Johnson_4645 Source: Johnson ### Event 10343 (2477BC7D) Date: 8/4/1963 Description: The Wayne City Car Chase (EM & NUCAT) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [630804](http://www.nicap.org/630804waynecity%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wayne City, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2652 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10344 (D32797A5) Date: 8/5/1963 Description: The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is signed by the USSR, UK, and US governments in Moscow, Russia, before being opened for signature by other countries. The treaty formally goes into effect on October 10. The treaty prohibits all above-ground tests of nuclear weapons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%5FNuclear%5FTest%5FBan%5FTreaty)” Source ID: Eberhart_3714 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10345 (49C6E8E6) Date: 8/5/1963 Description: Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT). At this point, 499 nuclear tests were conducted Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Nuclear-Test-Ban_Treaty) Source ID: Maj2_613 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10346 (08C7DC4E) Date: 8/5/1963 Description: Shortly after midnight in Wayne County, Illinois a car with several teenagers was followed for 10 miles between Wayne City and Mount Vernon by white light. The UFO made a humming sound as it followed them. The car radio went crazy and the engine stalled as the object passed over, and the witnesses felt a sensation of cold when the UFO passed within 100 feet. Multiple independent witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 179; Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1963, p. 24; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_4677 Source: Johnson ### Event 10347 (D3AF766B) Date: 8/6/1963 Description: Orville Hartle, Chairman of the LaPorte, Indiana NICAP Subcommittee, on a brief visit to Florida, observed a UFO. He obtained a full report with signatures of 13 additional witnesses. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sanford, Fl Source ID: NICAP_DB_2653 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10348 (7DA1A52A) Date: 8/6/1963 Description: In Caracas, Venezuela a huge brilliant disc hovered and maneuvered by a TV station and tower at 10:00 a.m.; it then shot away extremely fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March-April 1964, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4724 Source: Johnson ### Event 10349 (0CDF0A9B) Date: 8/6/1963 Description: On this evening in Sanford, Florida UFO investigator Orville Hartle saw a UFO with 13 other witnesses. The object appeared in the northeastern sky first as a red, then a white moving light. The UFO engaged in gyrations, pulsated, moved up-and-down, back-and-forth, and once emitted a flare of green-white light. The sighting lasted several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 141; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, September-October 1970, pp. 6-7 Source ID: Johnson_4725 Source: Johnson ### Event 10350 (DFFDCAE9) Date: 8/7/1963 Description: Dogs Sense UFO, Object Approaches Witnesses (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, Code: An, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [630807](http://www.nicap.org/630807fairfield%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fairfield (4 miles E of ), IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2654 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10351 (BC09AC13) Date: 8/7/1963 Description: The first flight of the USAF version of the A-12, the Lockheed YF-12 interceptor, takes place at Edwards AFB in California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed YF-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FYF-12)” Source ID: Eberhart_3715 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10352 (D5DA7838) Date: 8/7/1963 Time: night Description: Five persons observed a luminous source flying slowly over the railroad tracks. Direction of travel: west, then north. It appeared ready to land in a wooded area. Its luminosity was variable. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Centralia, Illinois Source ID: Magnonia_576 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10353 (2329FF76) Date: 8/8/1963 Time: 2210 Description: An oval, luminous object coming from the north dived toward Centralia Road, followed a car, flying around it. Then it went away toward the west, disappeared like a bulb turned off, and was seen again in the west flying very fast. It was observed by numerous people. Total duration: 15 min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mount Vernon, Illinois Source ID: Magnonia_577 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10354 (F11645F5) Date: 8/9/1963 Description: Big As A Washtub (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [630809](http://nicap.org/630809mtvernon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Vernon, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2655 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10355 (C5AAB710) Date: 8/9/1963 Description: Harry Bishop, the former major of Mount Vernon, Illinois, watched a large, bright red oval-shaped light making a "whirring sound" follow a car along Centralia road. When the car stopped, the UFO stopped; it hovered for awhile, then moved away at right angles to its original course. There were a number of other witnesses. Duration: 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jeffrey G. Liss, Fate magazine, November 1963, p. 26; APRO Bulletin, January 1964, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_4792 Source: Johnson ### Event 10356 (609914B2) Date: 8/10/1963 Description: 9:32 p.m. Several airmen of the 91st Bombardment Wing at Glasgow Air Force Base \[now closed\] near Glasgow, Montana, are walking in the parking lot when a bright light appears above them, bathing everyone in an orange glow. It is coming from a disc-shaped object with a dome that has some odd characters carved in it. The object moves up, then to the right, then down and left. It makes a square, then an X within the square, stopping at all points before moving again. The underside of the object is a large panel of blue light. They watch it for 3 minutes then it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Out of the Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 2 \(April/May 1985\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_3716 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10357 (A7E94347) Date: 8/11/1963 Time: 10 PM Description: Witness: R.M. Boersma. One light moved around the sky for 20 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Warrenville, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_489 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10358 (92690F2B) Date: 8/11/1963 Description: In Warrenville, Illinois at ten o'clock in the evening R. M. Boersma saw a white light move around the sky for 20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 8506; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 122; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4868 Source: Johnson ### Event 10359 (1CD586D9) Date: 8/11/1963 Description: Beginning at shortly after midnight, three witnesses in Saileralm, Austria watched 50 small glowing orbs fly in and out of caves in a mountain over the next four hours. The glowing balls of light then flew up into a large ovoid UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, April 1975, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_4867 Source: Johnson ### Event 10360 (1D163E50) Date: 8/11/1963 Description: Boersma saw a light move around the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8506) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warrenville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2656 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10361 (A6D91174) Date: 8/12/1963 Description: Nocturnal lights exited and returned to a luminous pear-shaped UFO hovering over the Birchills Power Station in Staffordshire, England at 8:30 p.m. The sighting lasted ten minutes and included numerous witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 160; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 6386, citing Jacques Vallee Source ID: Johnson_4940 Source: Johnson ### Event 10362 (C124F8CE) Date: 8/13/1963 Description: A family and their housekeeper observed an elliptical object, apparently on the ground adjoining Molasses Pond, for more than an hour. Body lights were visible along its length, and rays of light shone upward from each end of the object occasionally. \[Witnesses interviewed by Walter N. Webb, NICAP Adviser.\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ellsworth (near), ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_2658 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10363 (C9A9B940) Date: 8/13/1963 Description: While vacationing in Hawaii, a chemist observed a UFO and reported it to NICAP. Dr. Richard Turse, Princeton, N.J., about 11:30 p.m., saw a round reddish object pass overhead from southwest to northeast. The UFO "traveled across the sky at great speed making two sharp turns at the same speed." (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Honolulu, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2659 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10364 (EB6A5FC3) Date: 8/13/1963 Time: 8:04 PM Description: Witness: A.F. Schelling. One fireball became a dark object after 4 minutes, and then a bigger glow, a minute later, and finally exploded. Note: same witness had another, undescribed, sighting on Aug. 14 Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: St. Gallen, Switzerland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_490 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10365 (5C3841FC) Date: 8/13/1963 Description: A chemist in Honolulu, Hawaii at 11:30 p.m. saw a round red object pass overhead from the southwest to the northeast. The UFO "traveled across the sky at great speed making two sharp turns at the same speed." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141 Source ID: Johnson_4969 Source: Johnson ### Event 10366 (6E7FF077) Date: 8/13/1963 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a family and their housekeeper saw an elliptical object on the ground near Molasses Pond, Ellsworth, Maine for almost an hour. The craft had body lights along its length, and there were rays that shone upward from each end occasionally. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Webb case files, case # 38;Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141 Source ID: Johnson_4968 Source: Johnson ### Event 10367 (F2732144) Date: 8/13/1963 Description: In St. Gallen, Switzerland at 8:04 p.m. A. F. Schelling watched a fireball become a dark object after four minutes of flight, and then a bigger glow a minute later, and finally explode. The same witness had another sighting (not described in the Project Blue Book file) on the next day.. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4967 Source: Johnson ### Event 10368 (7D434349) Date: 8/13/1963 End date: 8/14/1963 Description: Saw a fireball become a dark object after 4 mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8514) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Calen, Switzerland Source ID: NICAP_DB_2657 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10369 (D7B80043) Date: 8/13/1963 Description: An elliptical object with lights on its entire length and occasional flashes at both ends was seen at ground level for over one hour by an entire family. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Evidence 141 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ellsworth, Maine Source ID: Magnonia_578 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10370 (628B36D6) Date: 8/18/1963 Description: A silvery disc-shaped UFO was seen by two young boys, whose parents agreed they must have seen something unusual. The disc passed from north to south, emitting a hum intermittently. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Kent, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_2662 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10371 (0021CD26) Date: 8/18/1963 Description: A silvery disc-shaped UFO was seen by two young boys in Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine at 12:30 p.m. The boys' parents agreed that they must have seen something unusual. The disc passed from north to south, emitting a hum intermittently. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: St. John Valley Times, August 29, 1963; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1964, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_5124 Source: Johnson ### Event 10372 (A7D0A7A5) Date: 8/20/1963 Description: 9:30 p.m. Italian President [Antonio Segni](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%5FSegni)’s personal driver encounters a UFO near the entrance of the Castel Porziano Presidential Estate in Rome, Italy. When he sees a metallic domed disc with portholes moving in front of him in the driveway ahead, the driver stops the Fiat 2300 immediately. The UFO, about 65 feet diameter, passes a few feet above the car, making a hissing noise and causing the body to vibrate and the instruments to go crazy, then reverses course and passes over the car again with the same effect. It then tilts 90° and darts away to the west. It leaves behind a smell of heated metal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 1Pinotti 148–151; “[Quando gli UFO arrivarona anche in](https://www.ogginotizie.it/quando-gli-ufo-arrivarono-anche-in-italia/) [Italia,](https://www.ogginotizie.it/quando-gli-ufo-arrivarono-anche-in-italia/)” Oggi Notizie, November 26, 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_3717 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10373 (FAD88F3A) Date: 8/20/1963 Description: In a wooded area near Rome, Italy a man in a car observed at 9:32 p.m. an object resembling a plate turned upside down, with a central turret, flying low over his vehicle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 579, citing Project Blue Book Source ID: Johnson_5176 Source: Johnson ### Event 10374 (176FEE43) Date: 8/20/1963 Time: 2132 Description: In a wooded area near Rome, a man in a car observed an object resembling a plate turned upside down, with a central turret, flying low over his vehicle. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Rome, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_579 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10375 (DE1F53D4) Date: 8/22/1963 Description: Test pilot [Joseph A. Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FA.%5FWalker) reaches an altitude of 353,200 feet \(66.9 miles\) in an X-15 rocket plane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Joseph A. Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FA.%5FWalker)” Source ID: Eberhart_3718 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10376 (29B1852C) Date: 8/28/1963 Description: 7:00 p.m. José Marcos Gomes Vidal, 7, and his friends Fernando, 12, and Ronaldo Gualberto, 7, are in the Gualbertos’s backyard in Sagrada Familia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to wash a coffee strainer in a cistern. Suddenly, Fernando notices a glow coming from the top of an avocado tree. When he looks up, he sees a UFO hovering above the tree’s branches. The craft, which is spherical and has a pair of antennas on top, is completely transparent. It holds four human-like passengers sitting inside, one of whom sits in front of a machine that appears to be a control panel. The passengers are about 6 feet tall and dressed in spacesuits. They all have only one eye like a cyclops. Three of them are thin and bald, while the other looks like an overweight woman with blonde hair. The UFO shoots out two rays of yellow light. One of the cyclops appears between the lights, slowly floating down onto the ground. Once his boots touched the earth, the creature begins to walk toward José, who is completely unaware of what is happening since he is still collecting water. Fernando panics and tackles José, who falls to the ground, and Fernando gets back up and faces the cyclops. Now all three boys are aware of the visitor. The cyclops moves his head and makes hand signals. It speaks a few sounds in a strange language. The creature then turns around and stares back at the UFO. Fernando, spotting a brick on the ground, picks it up and aims it at the cyclops, who turns around and shoots Fernando’s hand with a yellow light from a triangular crest on his chest. Fernando drops the brick, and all three of the boys become calm and frozen. For a few more minutes, the cyclops speaks to them, then it points one of his fingers at the moon and begins to walk back toward the UFO. José asks if he will ever come back. The cyclops shakes his head affirmatively, plucks a plant from the ground, and then waves his hand at the UFO, which shoots out two rays of yellow light again. The cyclops slowly floats back up into the vehicle, and the UFO takes off eastward and disappears out of their sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil 66–72; Tristan, “[The](https://bizarreandgrotesque.com/2016/03/24/the-alien-cyclops-of-sagrada-familia/) [Alien Cyclops of Sagrada Familia,](https://bizarreandgrotesque.com/2016/03/24/the-alien-cyclops-of-sagrada-familia/)” Bizarre and Grotesque, March 24, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_3720 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10377 (E36B13BA) Date: 8/28/1963 Description: After the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) singles out Rev. [Martin Luther](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FLuther%5FKing%5FJr) [King Jr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FLuther%5FKing%5FJr)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FLuther%5FKing%5FJr) as a major target for COINTELPRO. Soon after, the FBI is systematically bugging King’s home and his hotel rooms, as they are now aware that King is growing in stature daily as the leader among leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO\#History)” Source ID: Eberhart_3719 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10378 (B39D00E4) Date: 8/28/1963 Description: Two KC-135s mysteriously vanished 800 miles northeast of Miami in the Atlantic Ocean. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ivan Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 126, citing Vicent Gaddis, Invisible Horizons, p. 173 Source ID: Johnson_5415 Source: Johnson ### Event 10379 (989F2467) Date: 8/28/1963 Description: A transparent illuminated sphere ten feet in diameter descended into a garden of the Gualberto family in Familia Sagrada, Minas Gerais State, Brazil at 7:15 p.m. There were four seated figures inside, who wore divers suits with transparent fishbowl helmets. One entity, a Cyclops being over eight-feet tall with a single eye, floated down to the ground on two vertical beams of light. He walked with a strange, swinging motion, then sat down. He wore high boots that left a triangular imprint, and carried a box emitting flashes. It spoke in an unintelligible language, and made a threatening gesture at the two boys, aged 9 and 11, and then flew up to the sphere, which left. The chlldren somehow became convinced that the being was "good" and would return. The encounter lasted ten minutes, with ground traces from the footprints left behind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 37; Gordon Creighton, UFO Percipients: FSR Special Edition No. 3, p. 28; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 580; John Wallace Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 106 Source ID: Johnson_5416 Source: Johnson ### Event 10380 (D2B77FA4) Date: 8/28/1963 Time: 1915 Description: Two brothers, F. and R. Eustagio, 11 and 9, saw a luminous sphere at treetop level. Through an opening they observed "several rows of people inside" and a thin, 3 m tall being, whho glided down to the ground along two vertical beams of light. He walked with a strange, swinging motion, then sat down. He wore a transparent helmet, had one eye in the middle of his forehead, wore high boots that left a triangular imprint, and carried a box emitting flashes. He made a threatening gesture and flew up to the sphere, which left. The chlldren somehow became convinced that the being was "good" and would return. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 37; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sagrada Famila, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_580 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10381 (8B39A236) Date: 9/1963 Description: Lt. Col. [Robert J. Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) leaves Project Blue Book and is replaced by Maj. [Hector Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 25–27](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/24/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_3721 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10382 (8BD5E874) Date: 9/7/1963 Description: Capt. [Swett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201838384/ben-h%5F-swett) gives a formal lecture on hypnosis to a meeting at the Unitarian Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After the lecture, the [Hills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) tell him that Barney was going to a psychiatrist, Duncan Stephens, whom he likes and trusts. Swett suggests that Barney ask Stephens about the use of hypnosis in his case. At his next therapy session, Barney mentions his UFO encounter to Stephens, who recommends Dr. Benjamin Simon, a well- known psychiatrist in Boston, Massachusetts, with much experience in hypnosis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3722 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10383 (16031B3E) Date: 9/12/1963 Description: Patrick Loreno and 18 other men aboard Texas Tower 2, a USAF radar station 110 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, spot an object 3 miles from their location. They report the sighting to the Coast Guard and request an investigation, but the object sinks before a boat can get there. The object has a controlled light and smoke or steam appears on its surface. The mn watch it for 20 minutes. There is no record of a ship or a submarine in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 53 Source ID: Eberhart_3723 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10384 (8D9AD5EE) Date: 9/14/1963 Description: Round object intercept a long object &attach to it or disappear (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8548) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Susanville, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2660 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10385 (B91F23CF) Date: 9/14/1963 Description: At 3:15 p.m. in Susanville, California E. A. Grant, a fire lookout with 37 years of experience at forest fire lookouts for the U.S. Forest Service, sighted a round flying object intercept a longer object and either attached itself to the latter or disappear. The sighting lasted ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5951 Source: Johnson ### Event 10386 (D82911FF) Date: 9/14/1963 Time: 3:15 PM Description: Witness: E.A. Grant, veteran of 37 years training forest fire lookouts for the U.S. Forest Service. One round object intercepted a long object and either attached itself to the latter or disappeared. Sighting lasted l0 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Susanville, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_491 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10387 (1E20DE81) Date: 9/14/1963 Description: 3:15 p.m. US Forest Service instructor [Edward A. Grant](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196580330/edward-annand-grant) and his son see a round object over Susanville, California, that at first seems to be a balloon, but is moving erratically. The movements are very fast and the direction changes very definite. They watch it pass overhead for several minutes. Suddenly, a long cylindrical object with fins along its sides appears from the north and passes overhead toward the south. The round object moves very rapidly to intercept the long object, ejecting a yellowish-brown trail, and merges with it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 4; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 295 Source ID: Eberhart_3724 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10388 (1F919C8A) Date: 9/15/1963 Time: 66 PM Description: Witness: Mrs. F.E. Roush. Two very bright gold objects--one shaped like a banana and the other like an ear of corn--one remained stationary, the other moved from west to north during 10 minutes, Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Vandalia, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_492 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10389 (9C1F50EB) Date: 9/15/1963 Description: 2 very bright gold objects one staying stationary, the other moving (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8549) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vandalia, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2661 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10390 (42C19D5E) Date: 9/15/1963 Description: At six o'clock in the evening Mrs. F. E. Roush of Vandalia, Ohio reported seeing two very bright gold objects in the sky, one shaped like a banana and the other like an ear of corn. One UFO remained stationary while the other moved from west to north. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5984 Source: Johnson ### Event 10391 (4C0842F3) Date: 9/19/1963 Description: 8:00 p.m. Four children in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, see a bright, oval object hover in a field and drop something. Approaching the site, they are confronted by a man about 10 feet tall dressed in a white “monk-like” suit who holds out his hands and makes unintelligible sounds. The children flee, and one girl is admitted to the hospital in shock. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 294](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/294/mode/2up); Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_3727 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10392 (765B8741) Date: 9/19/1963 Time: 2000 Description: Four children saw a bright oval object hover in a field and drop something. Approaching the site, they were confronted with a 3 m tall man, dressed in "a white monklike suit," who held out his hands and made unintelligible sounds. The children fled in panic, and one girl was admitted to the hospital in shock. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saskatoon, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_581 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10393 (A8A3A6DE) Date: 9/19/1963 Description: Four children in Saskatoon, Saskachewan, Canada saw a bright oval object hover in a field and drop something. Approaching the site, they were confronted by a three meter tall man dressed in a white monk's suit, who held out his hands and made unintelligible sounds. The giant entity was semi-transparent and had no visible face. The children fled in panic. One girl was admitted to the hospital in shock. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 581; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 145; John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_6084 Source: Johnson ### Event 10394 (8EA78B4C) Date: 9/19/1963 Description: Adm. [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) writes to astronomer [Donald H. Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel), saying that his book The World of Flying Saucers has “effectively put to rest all surmises about flying saucers being from ‘outer space.’” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Christopher D. Allan, “Admiral Hillenkoetter: From Believer to Skeptic,” IUR 20, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1995\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_3725 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10395 (454BDFD5) Date: 9/19/1963 Description: 6:50 p.m. More than 140 residents of Wonthaggi and South Dudley, Victoria, Australia, observe a mystery object like an orange beach ball maneuver in the sky for 25 minutes. At first it hovers, then it begins moving slowly and silently, putting on sudden and intermittent bursts of speed, before disappearing in an easterly direction into the Bass Strait. During the 25 minutes that the object is visible, TV sets malfunction in South Dudley, Wonthaggi, and lnverlock. TV sets variously display white screens, gray screens, double images, or snow and lines. Still other sets go completely blank. After the UFO leaves at 7:15, all TV sets resume normal operation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UAO’s Upset TV Reception,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2005%2000%20-%20May.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May 1964, pp. 1, 6; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 109–111 Source ID: Eberhart_3726 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10396 (ACBB7DA5) Date: 9/20/1963 Description: TV difficulty, viewer called outside to see UFO. Object hovered, darted at h.s. TV I/F noted in area of 3 towns (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wonthaggi, Victoria, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2664 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10397 (985630BF) Date: 9/20/1963 Description: A rancher reported watching an egg-shaped UFO moving eastward about 10 degrees above the southern horizon. Through binoculars, a dark spot was visible near the top of the object. As it proceeded west, the UFO dimmed, turning orange, and faded from view after 10-15 minutes. \[Witness reported sighting to NICAP.\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huntsville, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2663 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10398 (706C9321) Date: 9/20/1963 Description: A metallic cone was seen near the ground on a farm in Fano, Marche, Italy at 11:30 a.m. A tube extended from the object and scraped the ground with fast movements. The object made a whistling sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6407, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, p. 55 Source ID: Johnson_6125 Source: Johnson ### Event 10399 (0239707F) Date: 9/26/1963 Description: Police officer, many others, observed a gray disc with central bright spot, moving on a westerly course at high speed. \[UFOE, VII\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sunnyvale, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2665 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10400 (DC55D310) Date: 9/26/1963 Description: At 4:20 a.m. a police officer and eight others in Sunnyvale, California observed a gray disc-shaped object with a central bright spot, moving on a westerly course at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 63; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 144 Source ID: Johnson_6348 Source: Johnson ### Event 10401 (35C2CBC4) Date: 9/27/1963 Description: Blue Book releases a statement on the [Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) case, claiming insufficient information, although they strongly suspect the UFO is the planet Jupiter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 581 Source ID: Eberhart_3728 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10402 (17388E5E) Date: 10/1963 Description: Maj. [Hector Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) is appointed director of Project Blue Book. He is assisted by Sgt. David Moody, who is particularly hostile to UFOs and tends to label every report as “possible” this or that. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 14; Clark III 922–923 Source ID: Eberhart_3729 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10403 (4ED1B8CF) Date: 10/1963 Description: A Lisunov Li-2 airliner on the Guangdong to Wuhan, China, air route is chased by three luminous UFOs for 115 minutes. The pilots provide a minute-by-minute report by radio to the Chinese Civil Aeronautics Administration. After landing, the crew is debriefed by air traffic control, and the passengers are told not to discuss the incident with anyone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, pp. 44–45 Source ID: Eberhart_3730 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10404 (3E538CC6) Date: 10/1963 Description: 9:30 p.m. Five members of a family in Millersport, Ohio, see what seems to be an airplane on fire, but the house-sized object approaches and hovers about 300 feet away. They see a dark disc with a dome and antenna on top and three ball-shaped protrusions on the bottom. Around the rim are evenly spaced openings that emit fiery beams. In the dome, several large windows are visible in which a figure can be seen, at least by the mother. The dome rotates as the object hovers, and it makes a low humming noise. It finally rises slowly and makes a small circle in the air before speeding away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Swords, “[Close Encounters of the First Kind: Do We Really](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/02/close-encounters-of-first-kind-do-we%5F15.html) [Care? Part Two,](http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/02/close-encounters-of-first-kind-do-we%5F15.html)” The Big Study, February 15, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_3731 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10405 (83417FFD) Date: 10/1963 Time: 0900 Description: A middle-aged woman, who had seen a strange craft hovering near her house the previous Jul., observed a gray-colored object, 3.5 m long, hovering less than 2 m above ground. Through the transparent front part she could see three figures. Suddenly one of the occupants was standing on the grass. He was clothed in "asbestostextured coveralls" and neither the face, nor the hands, nor the feet was visible. When she asked, "What do you want?" the answer, in English, was: "One of our party knows you; we will return." The object then decreased in size, tilted, partially sank into the ground, grew to its previous size, and departed to the east, producing steam, a flash, and a noise. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 64, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Whidbey Island, Washington Source ID: Magnonia_582 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10406 (B1A51EC2) Date: 10/2/1963 Description: At 6:45 p.m. a black oval object was seen to come out of, and then re-enter a lone cloud in the sky over Audenshaw, Greater Manchester, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Orbit, 1963, case # 324; J. Bernard Delair, Awareness, October 1977, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_6495 Source: Johnson ### Event 10407 (834316FA) Date: 10/2/1963 Description: USS Roosevelt Encounter / Radar Track of UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [631002](http://www.nicap.org/631002medit%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mediterranean, Off the coast of Sardinia, At sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2666 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10408 (1B013F7D) Date: 10/4/1963 Description: State Representative L. B. Martin, about 1:00 p.m., saw a silvery triangular object with a row of black dots across the leading edge. The UFO passed overhead, emitting a flame-like tail, at an estimated speed of 2000 mph. \[Report obtained by NICAP-CONN Affiliate.\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: East Hartland, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2667 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10409 (512A3BBF) Date: 10/4/1963 Description: 1:00 p.m. Connecticut State Representative [Luther B. Martin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69002462/luther-b-martin) sees a delta-shaped, silvery object leaving a flare-like trail at Hartland, Connecticut. A row of black markings is visible along the blunt forward edge as the object passes from south to north. He estimates its speed at 2,000 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Sightings Centered in Western](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/022%20DEC-JAN%201963-64.pdf) [U.S.,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/022%20DEC-JAN%201963-64.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 10 \(Dec. 1963/Jan. 1964\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_3732 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10410 (D2EA62BA) Date: 10/4/1963 Description: Intense oblong light with tapered ends (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8581) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bedford, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2669 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10411 (C5AEF2A6) Date: 10/4/1963 Time: 3:32 PM Description: Witness: R.E. Carpenter, 15. One intense oblong light with tapered ends and surrounded by an aqua haze, flashed and flickered while stationary for 15 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Bedford, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_493 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10412 (A839BDBF) Date: 10/6/1963 Description: Freidman. (Mary Castner/CUFOS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Philadelphia, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2670 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10413 (1085DADA) Date: 10/7/1963 Description: Freidman. (Mary Castner/CUFOS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lanham, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2671 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10414 (0856F3A2) Date: 10/12/1963 Description: 3:30 a.m. Driving in a blinding rainstorm on the road between Monte Maíz and Isla Verde, Córdoba, Argentina, Eugenio Douglas feels heat and a prickly sensation all over his body. He sees a brilliant light in front of him. Temporarily blinded, he loses control of his truck and ends up in the ditch. Shaken but not injured, he gets out of the vehicle and looks up at the road, which he finds is blocked by an oval-shaped object at least 30 feet high. A door opens on the side and three huge “robots in human form” emerge. They wear helmets with short antennas and are 12–15 feet tall. Douglas takes a few shots at them with his revolver and runs away. The robots return to the UFO, which chases him down the road and eventually flies away. The next day, police find large footprints near the abandoned truck. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[Argentina, 1963–64,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CNov-Dec%2CV%2011%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1965\): 16–17; Clark III 280; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf) [History: July–December 1963](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2005, pp. 64–65; Roberto Banchs, “Monte Maíz, Cordoba: La Vision Fantasmagorica de E. Douglas \(11 Oct 1963\),” Visión OVNI, November 10, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_3733 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10415 (509C4057) Date: 10/12/1963 Description: At 3:30 a.m. Sr. E. Douglas, while driving a truck through a violent rainstorm, had to stop when he encountered a large, blinding object, 35 meters high, from which three giants, three meters tall emerged. They wore luminous clothes and strange helmets. Douglas took out a gun and fired at them, as a red beam burned him. He ran away and found shelter in Monte Maiz, Argentina. He suffered burns similar to strong ultraviolet exposure. Very large footprints were found at the site. "A truck driver was travelling along a lonely road at night during a violent storm when he was suddenly blinded by a vivid white light which enveloped his vehicle. Simultaneously, he felt a burn on his face. He then braked but the vehicle skidded, left the road and became bogged down in the mud. The driver found himself in the presence of three strange beings with the gait of robots. Nearby he saw an oval-shaped object with portholes emitting a harsh light. Picking up his revolver, he fired four shots at the beings, who fled to the object. It then took off and flew around the truck several times, each time causing the driver to feel burns all over his body. Examination by a doctor revealed that the burns were 'curious lesions' of undetermined cause." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 583; Gregory Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Catalog Source ID: Johnson_6801 Source: Johnson ### Event 10416 (58C73A38) Date: 10/12/1963 Time: 0330 Description: E. Douglas, while driving a truck through,a violent rainstorm, had to stop when he encountered a large, blinding object, 35 m high, from which three giants, 3 m tall, wearing luminous clothes and strange helmets, emerged. Douglas fired at them, as a red beam burned him. He ran away and found shelter in Monte Maiz. He suffered burns similar to ultraviolet exposure. Footprints of large dimension were found at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: CODOVNI 1963; Austr; FSR 8; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Monte Maiz, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_583 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10417 (5E8EFF63) Date: 10/21/1963 Description: 9:30 p.m. Yolié del Valle Moreno and her family at Trancas, Tucumán, Argentina, observe six strange objects for 40 minutes in the back courtyard of their house. One UFO hovers at ground level above some railroad tracks, while another with a dome and portholes is near another house. They can see some 40 humanlike figures \(silhouettes\) moving around within two bright lights linked by a prolongation or tube. When witnesses flash a light at the object, the house is flooded with a strong beam. The temperature rises inside the house and the inhabitants smell a strong sulfurous odor. All six objects are about 24 feet in diameter, have a white and a red beam of light, and leave a cloud of white smoke that does not disperse for 4 hours. Beneath the space where one of the objects has been rocking back and forth, the witnesses find innumerable white balls one-quarter-inch in diameter piled into a cone 3 feet high and within a circle 28–30 feet in diameter. They consist primarily of calcium carbonate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[Argentina 1963–64, Part II,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1966\): 23–24; Oscar A. Galindez, “[Trancas, after Seven Years,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 3 \(May/June 1971\): 14–20, 32; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf) [1963](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2005, pp. 66–74; Carlos Iurchuk, “Los Asombrosos Fenomenos de Trancas por el Dr. Oscar Galindez,” Visión OVNI, January 1, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_3734 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10418 (17D36A3E) Date: 10/21/1963 Description: A family was held under siege by 2 disks giving off light beams which heated up their house. Activity was taking place at the railroad tracks about ½ a mile away, where a lighted object could be seen. At the conclusion of the incident, in the area where the closest disks had hovered, there remained a misty, smoke like deposit for several minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Trace Cases](https://www.thenightskyii.org/trace.html) Location: Tranca, Tucumán Province, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_5 Source: Trace ### Event 10419 (0EF26B41) Date: 10/21/1963 Description: Disc, EM, occupants, numerous traces (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Trancas, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_2668 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10420 (E3BA8A56) Date: 10/21/1963 Time: 2130 Description: Six strange objects were observed for 40 min causing a local panic. One was hovering at ground level above some railroad tracks, while another, showing a dome and portholes, was nea a house. When witneses flashed a light, the house was flooded with a strong beam. Temperature rose and a sulphurous odor was noted. Figures were seen in the vicinity of the first disks. All six objects had a white and a red light beam, measured 8 m in diameter, and left a cloud of white smoke. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 145; LDLN 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Trancas, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_584 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10421 (9E37AC0F) Date: 10/21/1963 Description: At 9:30 p.m. six strange objects were observed for the next 40 minutes, causing a local panic in Trancas, Argentina. One UFO hovered at ground level above some railroad tracks, while another, showing a dome and portholes, was near a house. When witnesses flashed a light at the object the house was flooded with a strong beam. The temperature rose inside the house and they could smell a strong sulphurous odor. Figures were seen in the vicinity of the first disc. All six objects were about eight meters in diameter, had a white and a red light beam, and left a cloud of white smoke. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 584 Source ID: Johnson_7012 Source: Johnson ### Event 10422 (F46DE866) Date: 10/23/1963 Description: 11:00 p.m. Driving south of South River, New Jersey, on State Route 18, a man glimpses something like a flashlight off to his left, and three figures, 3–4 feet tall, cross the road in front of him. They are dressed in “tight- fitting silver-gray one-piece suits” that “seem to glow once they hit the headlights.” Their heads are found, but the witness can see no other features. They begin quickly “fluttering” across the road, faster than the “fastest sprinter.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1963%5F10%5F23%5FUS%5FNJ%5Fnr-South-River%5FMUFON%5FSmith-CE-III.pdf)\]; Clark III 278 Source ID: Eberhart_3735 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10423 (617F2A7F) Date: 10/23/1963 Description: Object shaped like a circle from below and a football from the side (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8603) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Meridian, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_2672 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10424 (8507DF4A) Date: 10/23/1963 Time: 8:35 PM Description: Witnesses: several unnamed students, including Gordon. One object shaped like a circle from below and like a football from the side, hovered low over the observers, making a deep, pulsating, loud, extremely irritating sound, for 6 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Meridian, Idaho Source ID: BerlinerBBU_494 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10425 (DBA8B8B3) Date: 10/24/1963 Description: Cupar, Fife, Scotland. No time given. Brothers A. McLean, age 12, and G. McLean, age 8 saw a moving light in the sky for an unspecified length of time. No further details are found in the Air Force files, but Project Blue Book chief Major Hector Quintanilla wrote a letter to the youngsters that this was "one of the most complete" of the unexplained cases for the year! Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue book files counted in official statistics, case # 8604; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 129; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_7077 Source: Johnson ### Event 10426 (37A3F0A7) Date: 10/24/1963 Time: No time given Description: Witnesses: A. McLean (12) and G. McLean (8). One light moved for an unspecified length of time. No further details in files. Note: Project Blue Book chief Maj. H. Quintanilla told the youngsters, in a letter, that this was "one of the most complete" of the unexplained cases for the year. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Cupar Fife, Scotland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_495 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10427 (7A82FA9C) Date: 10/24/1963 Description: Light move for an unspecified length of time (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8604) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cupar Fife, Scotland Source ID: NICAP_DB_2673 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10428 (01B7CDFA) Date: 10/31/1963 Time: 1400 Description: A farmer, Issuo Oikiti, and two other witnesses saw a luminous object, resembling a huge, aluminum ball, which hit the river, changed direction while spinning, crossed to the other side and plunged into the water, which appeared to boil. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Vuillequez ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Peropava River, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_586 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10429 (06F07FCA) Date: 10/31/1963 Description: A deliveryman on his rounds at 4:15 a.m., was frightened by a UFO which approached his van, turned and followed his course just ahead. The object seemed to be 8-12 feet long, glowing orange and red. It then darted to the side of the road, continuing to pace the van for a while, finally zooming ahead over a hill and apparently descending. It was not seen again. Other witnesses reported seeing a maneuvering light at the time of the sighting. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Daylston, Victoria, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2674 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10430 (AC6DE040) Date: 10/31/1963 Description: Eight-year-old Rute de Souza hears a strange roar and watches a silvery object coming towards her house near Iguape, São Paulo, Brazil. It soars above her, hits a palm tree, gyrates a bit in the air, then falls into the Rio Peropava near the opposite shore. She runs to get her mother and uncle, who also hear the sound. They see the river boiling up in the spot, followed by an eruption of muddy water and mud. Fishermen, including Tetsuo Ioshigawa, also view the event. The UFO is estimated to be 25 feet in diameter. Divers, both equipped and unequipped, fail to find any wreckage in the river, which is only 12 feet deep. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Disc Submerged in Brazilian](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf) [River,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1964, pp. 1–2; Harry E. Rieseberg, “[A Submerged UFO?](http://www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=272)” Exploring the Unknown 6, no. 2 \(December 1965\): 64–67; Brazil 517 Source ID: Eberhart_3736 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10431 (AAE43546) Date: 10/31/1963 Description: At two p.m. a farmer, Sr. Issuo Oikiti, another adult, and a child saw a luminous object resembling a huge aluminium ball near the Peropava River in Iguape, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. It "writhed and struggled" in the air, hit a palm tree, changed direction while spinning, crossed to the other side of the river, and plunged into the water. The water seemed to boil after the object fell into the water. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1964, pp. 1-2; Jim & Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 53; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 74; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 149; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 586 Source ID: Johnson_7335 Source: Johnson ### Event 10432 (927510DB) Date: 10/31/1963 Description: At 4:15 a.m. Jim Davidson saw an object about three meters long in Daylston, Victoria, Australia with orange and red lights. It approached his pickup truck, flew ahead of him, then flew off and seemed to land behind a hill. Two other witnesses independently reported a maneuvering light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sylvia Sutton, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1964, p. 29; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1964, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 585 Source ID: Johnson_7334 Source: Johnson ### Event 10433 (BF305C56) Date: 10/31/1963 Time: 0415 Description: Jim Davidson saw an object about 3 m long, bearing orange and red lights, which came close to his light truck, flew ahead of him, then departed and appeared to land behind a hill. Two witnesses independently reported a maneuvering light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Austr. FSR May., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Daylston, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_585 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10434 (C7A1579E) Date: 11/1963 Description: 5:00 p.m. A man and his daughter are driving just north of Andover, New Jersey, when they see three strange lights in the sky. They are perfect ovals possibly a quarter mile high. The lights take off at a great speed in “perfect unison” toward the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1963%5F11%5F00%5FUS%5FNJ%5FAndover%5FCUFOS%5FHowell-CE-I%5Fredacted.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_3737 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10435 (3E5CDFFE) Date: 11/1/1963 Description: A member of the CIA-trained 35th Black Cat Squadron, Republic of China pilot [Yeh Changti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeh%5FChangti) is flying an American U-2 reconnaissance aircraft to spy on China’s nuclear program when he is shot down by an SA-2 missile over Shangrao, Jiangxi, and held in mainland China until 1982. Yeh is incarcerated for four years and undergoes numerous interrogations. Although some claim he was tortured, Yeh later says he was treated humanely. After the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, he is released and sent to work on a farm, before being transferred to work at Hanyang Arsenal in Wuhan. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Yeh Changti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeh%5FChangti)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 216–218](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/216/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3738 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10436 (D097BA83) Date: 11/3/1963 Description: A Pan American Airways mechanic, about 1:30 a.m., noticed a star-like object maneuvering across the northern sky. The light moved rapidly, slowed and seemed to "shudder," then changed course by about 45 degrees. Finally it made a 90- degree turn, accelerated, turned again and disappeared from view. \[Report obtained by New York NICAP Subcommittee.\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corona, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2675 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10437 (06945052) Date: 11/3/1963 Description: The [Hills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) give a presentation at the Two State UFO Study Group in Quincy Center, Massachusetts. One of the attendees tape-records the session. Another speaker at the session is Capt. [Ben Swett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201838384/ben-h%5F-swett) of Pease AFB, himself a practicing hypnotist, who tells them he thinks hypnotic regression is a good idea. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 584 Source ID: Eberhart_3739 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10438 (2780E82D) Date: 11/7/1963 Description: Fireball observed, shock wave felt, over Bay area. Unidentified signal picked up by local radio station (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Francisco, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2676 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10439 (64A590FB) Date: 11/12/1963 Description: An official Argentine Navy UFO report. Combined visual and E-M incident involved the Navy transport A.R.A. "Punta Medanos." A large airship (never identified) was sighted from the stern of the vessel. The huge UFO was round- shaped, and it was moving at great speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_2677 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10440 (EDE41E0D) Date: 11/12/1963 Description: Deputy Sheriffs chased a low-flying UFO which first appeared as a white flashing light. At times the object seemed to have a "big divided window" on it. When the UFO hovered, the deputies approached and flashed their squad car light. Then a flashing red light became visible on the UFO. The object finally moved away to the northwest making a motor-like sound. Other residents reported a flashing light and "high-pitched" or "whining" noises at the same time. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Huron, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2679 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10441 (482BE7F2) Date: 11/12/1963 Description: The crew of the Argentine Naval auxiliary transport, [ARA Punta Médanos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA%5FPunta%5FM%C3%A9danos%5F%28B-18%29), sees a large UFO off its stern \[in the Atlantic Ocean?\]. It is moving at high speed; when it appears, the needles of the ship’s magnetic compass suddenly and simultaneously swing off course, pointing towards the UFO, which is about 6,000 feet away. The compasses return to normal after the object leaves. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Argentine Navy Discloses Important E-M Case,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/028%20AUG-SEPT%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1965\): 6; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_3740 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10442 (09A29A31) Date: 11/12/1963 Description: On this night off the Argentine Coast of the South Atlantic, a UFO followed the Argentine Navy ship "Punta Medanos." Electronic interference was reported at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1965, p. 6; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 120 Source ID: Johnson_7609 Source: Johnson ### Event 10443 (5B86A9FD) Date: 11/14/1963 Description: Disc with bluish-green glow hovered emitting beam which illuminated hilltop; house radio failed, came back on when UFO left (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carson City, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2680 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10444 (A8071262) Date: 11/15/1963 Description: Peter Valko and Jim Keosian ran toward a strange object that appeared about to land in Bloomingdale, New Jersey, but it "vanished." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 587 Source ID: Johnson_7688 Source: Johnson ### Event 10445 (194BD50C) Date: 11/15/1963 Description: Peter Valko and Jim Keosian ran toward a strange object that appeared about to land, but it "vanished." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Binder ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bloomingdale, New Jersey Source ID: Magnonia_587 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10446 (D7E3BA2B) Date: 11/16/1963 Description: On this evening in Saltwood, England four teenagers, among them painter John Flaxton and another named Hutchinson, saw a moving star turn into a reddish-yellow glow that came toward them while they were walking on a country road. It next disappeared behind some trees. Shortly thereafter they saw a bright, golden light some 15-20 feet wide that was seen 80 meters away, floating three meters above the ground, and a dark man-sized figure with wings like a bat and no head came toward them. They fled in terror. There was flattened bracken, and two-foot long footprints. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 588; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0576, citing Waveney Girvan, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1964, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_7716 Source: Johnson ### Event 10447 (63588F49) Date: 11/16/1963 Description: Evening. Four teenagers—John Flaxton, Mervyn Hutchinson, Jenny Holloway, and another youth—are in Sandling Park near Saltwood, Kent, England, when they see a moving reddish-yellow “star” above the woods. It comes down at an angle of 60°, then vanishes. Moments later, they see a bright, golden light in a field about 240 feet away, floating 10 feet above the ground, and seemingly 15–20 feet across. It seems to move along with the teens for a short while. It disappears behind trees, then a dark figure shambles out of the woods. It is all black, about the size of a human but without a head and has bat wings. The teenagers run away. Other witnesses come forward to report strange lights and giant footprints in the woods. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles A. Strickland, “[Sightings at Saltwood,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201959-1963%20LUFORO%20BULLETIN%20Vols.1%20to%204/LUFORO%20Bulletin%20-%20Vol%204%20No%2005%20-%20Nov-Dec-Jan%201963-64%20FINAL.pdf) [near Hythe, Kent,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201959-1963%20LUFORO%20BULLETIN%20Vols.1%20to%204/LUFORO%20Bulletin%20-%20Vol%204%20No%2005%20-%20Nov-Dec-Jan%201963-64%20FINAL.pdf)” LUFORO Bulletin 4, no. 5 \(Nov./Dec./Jan. 1963–1964\): 2–3; “[The Saltwood Mystery: Strange](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CMar-Apr%2CV%2010%2CN%202.pdf) [Happenings in Kent,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CMar-Apr%2CV%2010%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 2\(Mar./Apr. 1964\): 11–12; A. Cecil Harper, “[A Saltwood](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201964-1981%20BUFORA%20JOURNAL%20Vols.1%20to%2010/BUFORA%20Journal%20-%20Volume%2001%20No%2001%20-%20Summer%201964.pdf) [Sighting,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201964-1981%20BUFORA%20JOURNAL%20Vols.1%20to%2010/BUFORA%20Journal%20-%20Volume%2001%20No%2001%20-%20Summer%201964.pdf)” BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 1 \(Summer 1964\): 12; Nick Redfern, “[An Update on a Sinister](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/06/an-update-on-a-sinister-winged-monster/) [Winged Monster,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/06/an-update-on-a-sinister-winged-monster/)” Mysterious Universe, June 14, 2018; Theo Paijmans, “The Headless Horrors of Sandling Road,” Fortean Times 374 \(Christmas 2018\): 30–31; Clark III 779 Source ID: Eberhart_3741 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10448 (843E2210) Date: 11/16/1963 Time: evening Description: Four teenagers, among them painter John Flaxton, while walking on a country road, saw a moving star turn into a reddish glow coming toward them, then disappearing behind some trees. Shortly thereafter, a bright, golden light was seen 80 m away, floating 3 m above ground, and a dark figure the size of a man, with wings like a bat, came toward them. They fled in terror. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 64, 2; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saltwood, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_588 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10449 (916C1D04) Date: 11/17/1963 Description: [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) meets [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) for the first time at his residence in Evanston, Illinois. He begins actively assisting Hynek in his UFO work and helping him analyze Project Blue Book data. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1213 Source ID: Eberhart_3742 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10450 (01E45B27) Date: 11/20/1963 Description: 6:00 p.m. Capt. J. Murray and three members of the crew of the Aberdeen collier Thrift see a flashing red light as they are traveling south in the North Sea from Aberdeen to Blyth, Northumberland, England. It passes within a mile of their port side, 15–30 feet above sea level and suddenly disappears 3 miles astern, presumably into the water. The collier, which puts about and makes for the object’s vanishing point, has 2 radar contacts on its screens, but they disappear as the ship approaches. They search for 3 hours but find no wreckage. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mystery at](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CMar-Apr%2CV%2010%2CN%202.pdf) [Sea,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CMar-Apr%2CV%2010%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1964\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_3743 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10451 (2D2D564F) Date: 11/20/1963 Description: Two high school girls reported that a bright orange, oval-shaped object circled their car at night while they were en route home. They were on highway 55 east of town when they first saw the UFO. It appeared to be surrounded by a light haze. The glowing object sped across in front of the car and circled around the side before disappearing to the southeast. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Neche, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_2681 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10452 (D6872EAE) Date: 11/22/1963 Description: President John F. Kennedy Assassinated at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, TX. Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy) Source ID: Maj2_614 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10453 (2ABFCD8B) Date: 11/22/1963 End date: 1/20/1969 Description: President Lyndon B. Johnson in office Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson) Source ID: Maj2_615 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10454 (6D7BDA1B) Date: 11/22/1963 Description: President [John F. Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy) is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, by [Lee Harvey Oswald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FHarvey%5FOswald). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Assassination of John F. Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination%5Fof%5FJohn%5FF.%5FKennedy)”; Wikipedia, “[John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FF.%5FKennedy%5Fassassination%5Fconspiracy%5Ftheories)” Source ID: Eberhart_3744 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10455 (505322D9) Date: 11/28/1963 Description: Two men witnessed a UFO landing in Alta Gracia, Cordoba Province, Argentina at 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_7985 Source: Johnson ### Event 10456 (1EE938B1) Date: 12/1963 Description: A Japanese man reported the landing of an object, from which emerged a being who spoke to him in a language he could not understand, climbed aboard again, and flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Japan, exact location unknown Source ID: Magnonia_589 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10457 (7BB7954D) Date: 12/2/1963 Description: A motorist stopped at a traffic light about 9:30 a.m., noticed a strange object "glittering in the sun." Then the object tipped on edge (revealing a disc shape) and quickly sped away to the southeast. The shape was "like a pancake." (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grand Rapids, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2682 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10458 (BD504D24) Date: 12/5/1963 Description: Several hundred witnesses at a seaside resort in Carrasco, Montevideo, Uruguay saw an oval UFO, described as metallic-aluminum in appearance, hovering in the clear morning sky. The object "balanced gently in the air." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 1, p. 141 Source ID: Johnson_8198 Source: Johnson ### Event 10459 (CC7DD356) Date: 12/5/1963 Description: An oval UFO, metallic-looking like aluminum, was observed hovering in the clear morning sky by hundreds at a resort. One description said the object "balanced gently in the air." (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carrasco (near), Uruguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_2683 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10460 (3D098497) Date: 12/6/1963 End date: 12/7/1963 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: APO 253, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_2684 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10461 (B0F00B64) Date: 12/10/1963 Description: 11:30 p.m. A large, bright, dome-shaped UFO lands at RAF Cosford in Shropshire, England, seen by two student cadets returning late from leave. It bathes the area in intense green light from a height of 10 feet, then disappears behind a hangar. Scorch marks are later found where the object had been. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Landing at Cosford?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CMar-Apr%2CV%2010%2CN%202.pdf) [More Confusion at the Air Ministry,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CMar-Apr%2CV%2010%2CN%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1964\): 17, iv; “[The Cosford](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CMay-Jun%2CV%2010%2CN%203.pdf) [UFO: The Mystery Deepens,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CMay-Jun%2CV%2010%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 3 \(May/June 1964\): 31–32; “[The Lesson of](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CJul-Aug%2CV%2010%2CN%204.pdf) [Cosford,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CJul-Aug%2CV%2010%2CN%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 10. No. 4 \(July/Aug. 1964\): 1–2; Loren E. Gross, [The Fifth Horseman of the](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf) [Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December 1963](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf)[,](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1963-July-Dec.pdf) The Author, 2005, pp. 85–86; Good Above, [pp. 56–58](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/56/mode/2up); Nick Redfern, “[UFO Landing or Much Ado about Nothing?](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/10/ufo-landing-or-much-ado-about-nothing/)” Mysterious Universe, October 20, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_3746 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10462 (24800B80) Date: 12/10/1963 Description: Freidman. (Mary Castner/CUFOS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Plains, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2685 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10463 (277483BE) Date: 12/10/1963 Description: At 11:30 p.m. two airmen on the ground at RAF Cosford, England watched a dome-shaped object land behind a hangar, then search the ground and area with a green light beam. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 25, citing Flying Saucer Review, volume 10, number 2 Source ID: Johnson_8299 Source: Johnson ### Event 10464 (521FDA8A) Date: 12/10/1963 Time: 2330 Description: At the RAF camp, two airmen observed a dome-shaped object that landed behind a hangar. It gave out a bright glow, and the witnesses fled when an opening became visible. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 64, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cosford, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_590 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10465 (67ED4226) Date: 12/11/1963 Description: Professor saw a bright star-like light hover, slow, dim and flash (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8647) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McMinnville, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2686 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10466 (A000EDEC) Date: 12/11/1963 Time: 7 AM Description: Witness: W.W. Dolan, professor of mathematics and astronomy, and dean of the faculty of Linfield College. One bright, star-like light hovered, slowed, dimmed and flashed in 1 minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: McMinnville, Oregon Source ID: BerlinerBBU_496 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10467 (BA48A743) Date: 12/11/1963 Description: At 7:00 a.m. in McMinnville, Oregon Dr. W. W. Dolan, a professor of mathematics and astronomy, and dean of the faculty of Linnfield College watched a bright, star-like light slow, hover, dim and flash for one minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_8340 Source: Johnson ### Event 10468 (A9AE2771) Date: 12/14/1963 Description: Two men driving at 1:00 a.m. in France, Messrs. Muller and Immelman, found the countryside suddenly illuminated all about them and saw an object 15 meters in diameter flying toward their car. The UFO had intensely bright orange and blue lights and emitted sparks as it approached. They stopped the car and jumped out as it dove as them five or six times, at one point hovering for two minutes just 15 meters above them, making a humming sound. It then flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 296; Flying Saucer Review, May 1964, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_8391 Source: Johnson ### Event 10469 (F8C28267) Date: 12/14/1963 Time: 0100 Description: Messrs. Muller and Immelman suddenly found the countryside illuminated and saw an object, 15 m in diameter, with intense orange and blue lights, emitting sparks, flying toward their car. They stopped and jumped out as it dived five or six times, at one point hovering for two min 15 m above them, making a humming sound, before flying away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 146; FSR 64, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Vereeniging, South Africa Source ID: Magnonia_591 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10470 (51A7310B) Date: 12/14/1963 Description: The [Hills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) have an initial meeting with Benjamin Simon, a well-known hypnotist in Boston, Massachusetts, recommended to them by Dr. Stephens. It is clear to Simon that the Hills believe they have seen a UFO, but which may have been an experimental aircraft. This has set in motion an anxiety-provoking psychological experience whose sources it might be possible to uncover through hypnosis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 584 Source ID: Eberhart_3747 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10471 (510912B9) Date: 12/16/1963 Time: 5:05 PM Description: Witness: unspecified persons aboard a military aircraft. One white light blinked 2-3 times per second as it moved very fast across the sky for 15 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 800 miles north of Midway Island (40' N, 175' 54' W) Source ID: BerlinerBBU_497 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10472 (29E5D2C0) Date: 12/16/1963 Description: White light blink 2-3 times per second moving very fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8654) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Midway Island (800 miles N of), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2687 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10473 (0EC9ABBF) Date: 12/17/1963 Description: On or about this night in 1963 in Sauce Viejo, Argentina a railroad worker, Mr. C. Tulio Gallardo, saw lights appear outside his railroad coach at the same time that his radio and carbide lamp died. A luminous entity entered the coach, tore up the newspaper the witness had used to shield his eyes, grabbed an oilcan, and then left. Other passengers on an incoming train saw the entity leaving. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966, p. 25, citing La Gaceta, December 17, 1963 Source ID: Johnson_8466 Source: Johnson ### Event 10474 (56A3524A) Date: Winter 1963 Description: A series of at least three incidents at Walker AFB \[now closed\] at Roswell, New Mexico, involve unidentified aerial craft maneuvering silently above an Atlas missile silo designated Site 9, northeast of Sunset, New Mexico. Three former missile personnel at the base—Jerry C. Nelson, Bob Caplan, and Gene Lamb—relay their experiences to Florida Today reporter Billy Cox in June 2001. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 147–152 Source ID: Eberhart_3745 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10475 (DAC7676B) Date: 12/21/1963 Description: MATS A/C Radar Tracks Object Making Passes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [631221](http://www.nicap.org/631221pacific%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Ocean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2688 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10476 (B1C315D8) Date: 12/24/1963 Description: At 7:25 p.m. in Rowarth, Cheshire, England a farmer named Chandler had his car battery die while a UFO flew by. His cows also became ill. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Orbit, April 23, 1963; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_8587 Source: Johnson ### Event 10477 (6AF11914) Date: 12/25/1963 Description: A fisherman in Libreville, Gabon witnessed the landing of a unusual craft on this night, from which a terrifying creature emerged. It was humanoid in shape, spoke sounds he could not understand, left footprints in the sand, and then went back to the machine and flew off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 296 Source ID: Johnson_8599 Source: Johnson ### Event 10478 (563312A1) Date: 12/25/1963 Time: night Description: A fisherman witnessed the landing of a craft, from which a terrifying creature emerged. It was humanoid in shape, spoke sounds he could not understand, left footprints on the sand, and went back to the machine and flew off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 147;LDLN 70 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Libreville, Gabon Source ID: Magnonia_592 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10479 (BC79D20B) Date: 12/27/1963 Description: A shiny white object was seen on the ground at Bank's Stables, Epping, England at four o'clock in the afternoon. It was about 3.5 meters long, a meter in height, and had something like a windshield more brilliant than the rest of the craft. When it took off it flew horizontally for 30 meters and was hidden from view. Grass was flattened over a circular area, and four ground marks were found suggesting imprints from landing gear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 593 Source ID: Johnson_8622 Source: Johnson ### Event 10480 (19908C4B) Date: 12/27/1963 Description: At Bank’s Stables in Epping, Essex, England, trainee riding instructor Pauline Abbott sees a shiny white UFO on the ground. It is about 8 feet long, 3 feet high at the center, and has what looks like a window on one side that is brighter than the rest of the object. It takes off, flies horizontally for 100 feet, and disappears. Grass is found flattened over a circular area. Marks “like three large fingerprints pushed together into mud” are found, forming a square with 8-foot sides within an 11-foot circular depression that contains a 3-foot central circle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: G. G. Doel, “[The Epping Sightings,](http://bufora.org.uk/documents/BUFORAjournalVolume1No.1Summer1964.pdf)” BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 1 \(Summer 1964\): 5–6; J. Cleary-Baker, “[Evaluation by BUFORA Evaluating Officer,](http://bufora.org.uk/documents/BUFORAjournalVolume1No.1Summer1964.pdf)” BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 1 \(Summer 1964\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_3748 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10481 (BB9AAC90) Date: 12/27/1963 Time: 1600 Description: A shiny white object was seen on the ground at Bank's Stables. It was about 3.5 m long, 1 m high, and had something like a windshield more brilliant than the rest of the craft. It took off, flew horizontally for 30 m, and was hidden from view. Grass was flattened over a circular area, and four traces were found. Type: ufo sighting Reference: BUFORA 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Epping, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_593 Source: ValléeMagnonia --- ## Year: 1964 (Back to Top) ### Event 10482 (5244ACFB) Date: 1964 Description: MKSEARCH is the name given to the continuation of the MKUltra program. The MKSEARCH program is divided into two projects dubbed MKOFTEN / CHICKWIT. Funding for MKSEARCH commences in 1965 and ends in 1971. The project is a joint project between the US Army Chemical Corps and the CIA Office of Research and Development to find new offensive-use agents with a focus on incapacitating agents. The purpose of the project is to develop, test, and evaluate capabilities in the covert use of biological, chemical, and radioactive material systems and techniques for producing predictable human behavioral and/or physiological changes in support of highly sensitive operational requirements. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project MKUltra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FMKUltra\#Other%5Frelated%5Fprojects)” Source ID: Eberhart_3749 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10483 (9397D4DE) Date: 1964 Description: [Ray Stanford](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/tireless-tracker-rewrote-the-book-on-dinosaurs-in-maryland/2012/04/17/gIQARzRcTT%5Fstory.html) founds Project Starlight International to document the existence of UFOs. He establishes a Laboratory for Instrumented Research on a 400-acre site northwest of Austin, Texas, that includes two buildings. Equipment eventually includes radar, a laser system, magnetometers, a gravimeter, microcomputer, microphones, video equipment, and still cameras. In the event of UFO activity, the Operation ARGUS \(Automated Ring-up on Geolocated UFO Sightings\) computer kicks in and automatically telephones all volunteers within the computed visibility radius of the UFO. Volunteers attempt to locate and photograph the UFO visually. On June 8, 1977, the FCC licenses its Raytheon Model 1700 radar system with the call sign K12XBJ. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [pp. 259–260](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/259/mode/2up); Ray Stanford, “A Technological Approach to UFOs: A Status Report on Project Starlight International, June 30, 1977,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): 5–7 Source ID: Eberhart_3750 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10484 (8390AB63) Date: 1964 Description: British writer [W. Raymond Drake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%5FRaymond%5FDrake) writes Gods or Spacemen?, the first of a series of books espousing his view that the world’s folklore, mythology, and religion are replete with references to space beings who came to Earth in several waves: the Uranids hundreds of thousands of years ago; the Saturnians centuries later; and the Jupiterians who landed near Crete. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: W. Raymond Drake, Gods or Spacemen? Amherst, 1964; Wikipedia, “[W. Raymond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%5FRaymond%5FDrake) [Drake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%5FRaymond%5FDrake)”; Clark III 108; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 27–28 Source ID: Eberhart_3751 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10485 (2716CC53) Date: 1/1964 Description: Lionel Beer begins publishing Spacelink, a newsletter of the Isle of Wight UFO Investigation Society. It folds in April 1971. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Spacelink](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Spacelink%20%28Lionel%20Beer%29/Spacelink%201964%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1964\) Source ID: Eberhart_3752 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10486 (3488C3F4) Date: 1/1/1964 Description: Many witnesses in Shanghai, China, see a huge cigar-shaped UFO flying toward the southwest. MiG fighters are scrambled in pursuit but fail to intercept it. The official explanation is that it is a US missile. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, p. 45 Source ID: Eberhart_3753 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10487 (521CD69D) Date: 1/1/1964 Description: On this day in 1964 many residents of Shanghai, China saw a large cigar-shaped object flying over the city. Chinese Air Force MIG jet fighter aircraft were scrambled to intercept the unknown object, but were unable to catch up with it. The populace were told by officials that what they had seen was a U.S. missile. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John W. Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 131 Source ID: Johnson_6 Source: Johnson ### Event 10488 (C1686D42) Date: 1/4/1964 Description: [Barney Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) has his first hypnosis session with Benjamin Simon. The sessions will continue until June 6. The Hills undergo sessions separately, and for the most part are instructed not to remember their experiences afterwards. Barney’s sessions are particularly intense. However, by the end of the sessions, although they disagree with Simon on the nature of the experience, both the Hills and Simon agree that the therapy is successful. The stress and anxiety are gone. Simon submits a statement to the Hills’ insurance company, which initially declines to pay, until Simon explains that he was treating them for what will later be called PTSD. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 584–585 Source ID: Eberhart_3754 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10489 (ACFEB44F) Date: 1/9/1964 Description: At 10:30 p.m. several green saucer-shaped UFOs maneuvered offshore over the surface of the sea near Nicastro, Calabria, Italy for ten minutes. As fishermen approached in a boat dove under the sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, case # 6460, citing ITACAT, case # 56 Source ID: Johnson_219 Source: Johnson ### Event 10490 (09F47C9D) Date: 1/23/1964 Description: The landing craft Loellen M. is in the Gulf of Carpentaria between Cape Grey and Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, Australia, when a crew member notices the compass is malfunctioning \(“haywire”\) and the vessel is off course, He notices an odd phosphorescence in the water on the starboard side about 6 feet away from the ship. It is a ghostly, pulsating white light that is rotating in a clockwise direction. It seems to be “miles across.” As the light wheel moves to the ship’s port side, another rotating light approaches the ship’s starboard side. This undoubtedly involves some unusual bioluminescence, but it is significant that it is the first “unknown” in the RAAF’s UFO files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 390 Source ID: Eberhart_3755 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10491 (25C04590) Date: 1/23/1964 Description: An underwater submarine object (USO) was seen at around 9:00 p.m. at the Northeast point at Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory, Australia. Large lights in the water made a compass go haywire. A shadow in the center of the lights rotated clockwise, causing the lights to pulsate. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ivan Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 112; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 204 Source ID: Johnson_439 Source: Johnson ### Event 10492 (33A38C7D) Date: 1/25/1964 Description: The London UFO Research Organisation merges with the British UFO Association \(a consolidation of several UFO groups in the UK\) to form the British UFO Research Association. It begins publishing a new magazine, BUFORA Journal, in the summer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Editorial: The Problems Facing Us,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201964-1981%20BUFORA%20JOURNAL%20Vols.1%20to%2010/BUFORA%20Journal%20-%20Volume%2001%20No%2001%20-%20Summer%201964.pdf)” BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 1 \(Summer 1964\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_3756 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10493 (CC84BE8C) Date: 1/26/1964 Description: 7:30 p.m. Dull red sphere rose up from behind trees, crossed highway at low altitude, turned, appeared to follow car, then fell back and seemed to head toward ground. Driver was physics student at Georgia Institute of Technology. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moultrie, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2689 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10494 (825A8936) Date: 2/3/1964 Description: 2:00 a.m. Doris Player wakes up to see her bedroom illuminated near Gum Creek, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Suddenly a 5-foot 3-inch being wearing blue-green coveralls, a brown balaclava, and an open brown jacket appears. He wears elbow-length, black gloves with a cord going from his helmet to his left shoulder. He has a red face and a big nose and holds a black box that buzzes and clicks as he points it. The witness goes back to sleep. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 19– 20; Thomas Brisson, “[UBO’s \(Unidentified Box-like Objects\), Part 2,](http://vomanomalous.blogspot.com/2014/07/ubos-unidentified-box-like-objects-part.html)” Vomanomalous, July 15, 2014; “[Documentary on UFO’s, Adelaide, Australia, Part 1,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shZaeDg-0SI)” MaS7eRjEd3ye YouTube channel, February 5, 2009, at 6:05 Source ID: Eberhart_3757 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10495 (2573D695) Date: 2/3/1964 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a woman in Gum Creek, South Australia awoke to a bright light in her room. She saw a man approximately five feet four inches tall with a red face and a big nose in her room. He held a black box that buzzed when he pointed it at her. He also wore a helmet, green coveralls, and a brown jacket. She sank back into her bed and fell asleep. She later became a UFO contactee. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0581, citing Keith Basterfield; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 267 Source ID: Johnson_677 Source: Johnson ### Event 10496 (230F19BE) Date: 2/10/1964 Description: “The Bellero Shield” episode of Outer Limits airs on ABC-TV. It features an alien with wraparound eyes. UFO skeptic Martin S. Kottmeyer alleges that this episode influenced [Barney Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill)’s hypnotic recounting of events, although Betty Hill says they had never watched it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 589; Internet Movie Database, “[The Bellero](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667827/) [Shield](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667827/)”; Martin Kottmeyer, “[Entirely Unpredisposed: The Cultural Background of UFO Reports,](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2013/11/entirely-unpredisposed-cultural.html)” Magonia 35 \(January 1990\) Source ID: Eberhart_3758 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10497 (CED2701B) Date: 2/19/1964 Description: On this evening in Gum Creek, South Australia Mrs. Player saw a yellow glowing domed disc-shaped object approach, and then hover making a "tick-a-tick" sound. Inside the transparent dome of the craft a man could be seen standing at "wooden railing". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 14; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0582 Source ID: Johnson_996 Source: Johnson ### Event 10498 (8E207373) Date: 2/25/1964 Description: 8:30 p.m. Two pulsating white lights with reddish tinge paced an aircraft, twice turning and approaching it on apparent collision course. The pilot twice took evasive action. A third light joined the first two and they moved away after 5-10 minutes. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Liberty, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2690 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10499 (93201F45) Date: 2/29/1964 Description: President [Lyndon B. Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%5FB.%5FJohnson) holds a press conference to announce that the US has repeatedly broken the Soviet’s world record for air speed by a secret aircraft called the A-11—a fictitious name for the Air Force’s YF- 12, a twin-seat version of the Lockheed A-12 built as an interceptor. He says the A-11 can fly more than 2,000 mph at an altitude of 70,000 feet. The YF-12A is announced in part to continue hiding the A-12, its still-secret ancestor; any sightings of CIA/Air Force A-12s based at Area 51 in Nevada can be attributed to the well- publicized Air Force YF-12As based at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 232–233](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/232/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3759 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10500 (8E612C8B) Date: 2/29/1964 Description: Two 10-year-old boys named Mathlin and Jensen saw a glowing disc with landing gear land in a nearby paddock in Plympton, South Australia at two o'clock in the afternoon. The craft had windows and a dome. A door on the craft opened and a seven foot tall occupant with copper skin emerged and walked around. The humanoid wore a tight fitting bluish-black tunic, a purple cape, and a leather-like helmet. He also wore a box in the front attached to his belt. A second occupant was seen through the windows inside the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, p. 15; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 190; UFO Research Australia, case files, case SA64002; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0583, citing FSR, July-August 1970, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_1188 Source: Johnson ### Event 10501 (D0C853BD) Date: 3/1964 Description: [Allen H. Greenfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FH.%5FGreenfield)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FH.%5FGreenfield) [Rick Hilberg](http://www.mufonohio.com/mufono/2015confSUMM.html)[,](http://www.mufonohio.com/mufono/2015confSUMM.html) and Dale Rettig begin publishing the American UFO Committee Review in preparation for their first Congress of Scientific Ufologists meeting in Cleveland, Ohio. Greenfield publishes the journal in Atlanta, Georgia, for seven issues, until fall 1966. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [American UFO Committee Review](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/American%20UFO%20Committee%20Review%20%28Allen%20Greenfield%29/American%20UFO%20Committee%20Review%20-%201964%2003%20-%20Vol%201%20No%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(March 1964\) Source ID: Eberhart_3760 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10502 (ADA3C00D) Date: 3/2/1964 Description: An elongated, silver object was seen hovering in the sky for two minutes over Grassmere, South Australia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucers, January-February 1966, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_1244 Source: Johnson ### Event 10503 (46153978) Date: 3/7/1964 Description: [Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) has her first hypnosis session with Benjamin Simon. Betty’s account closely matches her dreams from 2 years earlier, and her account is consistent with Barney’s. Many abduction elements come to light: telepathic commands, semen extraction, a rectal probe, skin scrapings, a pregnancy test with a needle, the Star Map. The aliens are 5 feet tall with gray skin, oddly shaped heads, and broad foreheads. Simon discounts the possibility of an alien abduction and prefers to think that Betty’s dream influenced Barney’s memories. The Hills do not agree. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Barney and Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill)” Source ID: Eberhart_3761 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10504 (0D427380) Date: 3/13/1964 Description: At 6:17 p.m. a UFO paced a vehicle being driven by a man named Grazier along Salt Creek, Tilley, South Australia. The object was estimated to be 200 feet long, silver in color, and made a whining noise as it chased the car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case SA64005; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, January-February 1966, p. 53; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 190 Source ID: Johnson_1452 Source: Johnson ### Event 10505 (5AA72294) Date: 4/1/1964 Description: The UK Air Ministry, Admiralty, and War Office are consolidated into a new Ministry of Defence. The Air Ministry becomes the Air Force Department, within which is a secretariat called S4 \(Air\) that deals with, among other things, UFO reports from the public. Another office, Defense Secretariat 8, is created under the authority of the Secretary of State and also has authority over UFO reporting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Ministry of Defence \(United](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%5Fof%5FDefence%5F%28United%5FKingdom%29) [Kingdom\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%5Fof%5FDefence%5F%28United%5FKingdom%29)”; Good Above, [pp. 58–59](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/58/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3762 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10506 (CD7BF71A) Date: 4/3/1964 Time: 2100 Description: Four people in a car observed a rigid configuration of intense red and white lights, apparently attached to a large object that came to ground level, hovered, and flew off very fast as they were driving about 2 km west of Monticello. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic; Challenge 31 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Monticello, Wisconsin Source ID: Magnonia_594 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10507 (7674073B) Date: 4/3/1964 Time: 9 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. R. Wold (he was a graduate student in anthropology). Four huge red lights in a rectangular formation, with a white light above, were near the ground, tilted and flew away after 3-4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Monticello, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_498 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10508 (6C8CB4EA) Date: 4/3/1964 Description: 9:00 p.m. R. Wold, a graduate student in anthropology, and two others see four huge red lights in a rectangular formation, with a white light above, near the ground about one mile west of Monticello, Wisconsin. It tilts and flies away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 296 Source ID: Eberhart_3763 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10509 (27C67EC9) Date: 4/3/1964 Description: At 9:00 p.m. Mr. R. Wold, a graduate student in anthropology, his wife, and two others in their car saw four huge red lights in a rectangular formation near the ground in Monticello, Wisconsin. There was an intense white light above the four red lights, apparently attached to a large object that came to very near ground level, hovered, tilted, and flew off very fast as they were driving about two kilometers west of Monticello. The sighting lasted from three to four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 51; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 594; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 88; UNICAT database, case 384, citing Thomas Olsen and others Source ID: Johnson_1815 Source: Johnson ### Event 10510 (C8A2EE08) Date: 4/3/1964 Description: 4 huge red lights in a rectangular formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8729) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Monticello, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2691 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10511 (3991B689) Date: 4/7/1964 Description: Three humanoids exited a landed UFO at one o'clock in the afternoon in Pocinhos, Brazil. They collected rock and plant specimens. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 264 Source ID: Johnson_1880 Source: Johnson ### Event 10512 (8474038B) Date: 4/10/1964 Description: 6-12 UFOs / F-106's Scrambled (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [640410](http://www.nicap.org/640410merced%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Merced, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2692 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10513 (04541069) Date: 4/11/1964 Time: 6:30 PM Description: Witnesses: physiotherapist W.B. Ochsner and wife. Two cloud-like objects darkened; one shot away and returned during the 30-45 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Homer, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_499 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10514 (02A8E9FA) Date: 4/11/1964 Description: 6:30 p.m. Physiotherapist William B. Ochsner and his wife and two children are having a picnic on a hill about 10 miles northwest of Homer, New York. They see an unusually wide vapor trail in the sky stretching from northeast to southwest. At the far end of the white trail is a smoky, spiral portion about one mile long. The vapor trail drifts off. After 10 minutes, Ochsner notices that the spiral portion is still visible, having moved a bit to the west. With binoculars, he sees wisps of smoke streaming out of it. It changes from a horizontal to a vertical position with greater smoke activity. It stops and hangs there for 2–3 minutes before sinking into the clouds. After another 3 minutes, they see a horizontal pencil-shaped object moving from left to right on the horizon. A flash of white light erupts from its end and shoots forward a short distance then stops. It becomes thick in the middle, a cloud of smoke emanates from it, and it shoots backward rapidly. Again it hovers and changes to a saucer shape. It then divides into two parts, one above the other. The top object slowly recedes into the distance, while the bottom objects heads downward at a 45° angle, divides in two again, with the top part fading away and the bottom part assuming a vertical pencil shape, which fades away. The whole display takes 45 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 60–61](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/60/mode/2up); Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 7–9; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 297 Source ID: Eberhart_3764 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10515 (1B08FAAC) Date: 4/11/1964 Description: 2 cloud-like objects darken, one shot away and returned (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8739) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Homer, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2694 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10516 (FD6FA537) Date: 4/11/1964 Description: In Homer, New York at 6:30 p.m. physiotherapist W.B. Ochsner and his wife observed two cloud-like objects darken in the sky. One shot away and returned during some 30-45 minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek case files; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1953 Source: Johnson ### Event 10517 (7BB93BF8) Date: 4/15/1964 Alternate date: 4/24/1964 Description: USAF Intelligence officer meets with 2 Aliens at prearranged location in the desert of New Mexico near Holloman AFB. Project SIGMA operates at AFB, New Mexico. Type: alien meeting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) Location: Holloman AFB Source ID: Maj2_618 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10518 (5FC4CA79) Date: 4/17/1964 Description: At 7:22 a.m. local time, Airman Edward Lowe, a radar operator at the Fallon Air Force Station, Nevada picked up on his ground radar unit two blips flying in stacked formation making rapid changes in altitude. They were first detected at 122 degrees, 60,000 feet, and at a range of 145 miles. Their motion was up and down. The length of the observation was 1 hour and 21 minutes, at which point the blips disappeared to the southeast. The official Air Force explanation was a mirage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dan Wilson, www.nicap.org; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; J. Allen Hynek case files Source ID: Johnson_2080 Source: Johnson ### Event 10519 (76E1E467) Date: 4/17/1964 Description: (McDonald list) Two Stacked Blips on AFS Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 3, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [640417](http://www.nicap.org/640417fallonAFS%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fallon AFS, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2695 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10520 (E89EAD48) Date: 4/20/1964 Description: Flying over Ross Island near McMurdo Sound Naval Air Station in Antarctica in the early morning hours, six members of the crew of a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 spotted nine bright white flying objects in a "V" formation. The UFOs came from above and paced along the left side of their transport plane. The aircraft entered a strange haze at 12,000 m altitude, and it experienced a total failure of the radar, radio, and engine. However, during this temporary engine failure the plane did not loose altitude. The entire encounter lasted about 45 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March 1981, p. 1; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 141 Source ID: Johnson_2155 Source: Johnson ### Event 10521 (052BA768) Date: 4/20/1964 Description: Early morning, During Operation Deep Freeze VII, six members of a US Coast Guard aircraft sight a V-formation of 9 glowing-white objects speeding at an estimated 35,000 feet altitude. They are flying a in a C-130 turbo-prop transport from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, with supplies. The right-side observer first sees the objects approaching at about 460 mph from above and to their right side. When they come abreast of the airplane, they slow to its speed. After a short time, they fly above the airplane and take up position above and to its left side. The pilot attempts to radio the ground but the radio is dead, and their radar also stops working. When the pilot tries to switch to auxiliary power, it too is not functioning. At one point the airplane’s engines stop \(the oil begins to congeal in the cold air\). Instead of losing altitude, it maintains “a steady altitude and course.” The airplane allegedly continues flying in complete silence, then it enters a “strange haze” \(like a white-out\) with the air filled with static electricity. There is electrical arcing from one observer’s body to metal inside the fuselage. The haze vanishes after about 20 minutes. The power suddenly returns, and the crew can restart the engines in sequence. The airplane has covered a distance of 305 miles during the 45–50 minutes at indicated airspeed of 184–218 knots. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[C-130 Crew Encounters UFO / EME to Radio and Radar](http://www.nicap.org/640420antartic%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3765 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10522 (9A5579A3) Date: 4/22/1964 Description: 9:00 p.m. Marie Morrow, Ruth Ovelette, and Morrow’s son are driving west about 10–15 miles east of Lordsburg, New Mexico, when a brilliantly luminous object sweeps about 10 feet above their car from behind, illuminating the interior and emitting a whirring, whining sound. The UFO then rises but maintains its course along the highway before veering toward the north and vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Huge Light Buzzed Car in New Mexico,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2005%2000%20-%20May.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May 1964, p. 10; Clark III 1091–1092 Source ID: Eberhart_3766 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10523 (75844896) Date: 4/22/1964 Description: Marie Morrow and two other people were driving west on a highway at 9:00 o'clock in the evening. When they were 20 kilometers east of Lordsburg, New Mexico the entire area became illuminated as bright as day by a bluish light. Then a disc-shaped object buzzed their car, coming to within three meters of their roof. It made a whining sound, then flew north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May 1964, p. 10; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 297 Source ID: Johnson_2214 Source: Johnson ### Event 10524 (0E97D5FF) Date: 4/22/1964 Time: 2100 Description: Marie Morrow and two other persons were driving west, about 2O km east of Lordsbury when the entire area was illuminated by a bluish light "as bright as day," and a round object flew about 3 m above the car, making a whining sound, then went north. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO May., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lordsbury, New Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_595 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10525 (9A5C47E5) Date: 4/23/1964 Description: A nine-foot in diameter lens-shaped UFO with a dome hovered six feet above the ground in Rivesville, West Virginia at 7:30 a.m. making a humming sound. It extended a three-foot wide cylinder to ground, and a black figure, three to four feet tall, with painted ears and a tail emerged, collecting grass and dirt samples. The creature got back in the craft and it took off vertically. The witness was a woman named Ms. Frederick. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 681; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0585, citing Gray Barker; Gray Barker, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 33; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 644 (Vallee mistakenly listed the date as 1965) Source ID: Johnson_2253 Source: Johnson ### Event 10526 (2D189AB0) Date: 4/24/1964 Description: Farmer found shiny elliptical object in field, confronted by two small humanoids who spoke with him (UFOE Section XII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newark Valley, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2697 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10527 (F92EDFB4) Date: 4/24/1964 Description: Dairy farmer Gary T. Wilcox saw a shiny, egg-shaped object, about eight meters long and six meters wide, in his pasture in Tioga City, New York at around ten o'clock in the morning. He spoke in English to two short male occupants, 1.2 meters tall, wearing seamless clothing and hoods, and carrying trays. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195 Source ID: Johnson_2274 Source: Johnson ### Event 10528 (D57BAF9E) Date: 4/24/1964 Description: Police officer Lonnie Zamora was parked watching for speeders on the main highway south of Socorro, New Mexico at 5:45 in the afternoon when he saw an whitish metallic ovoid object land in the desert behind a rise. He drove his police cruiser over the rise and saw an ovoid object with four legs resting in a gully. Two four-foot tall beings in white spacesuits stood next to the landed UFO. They turned in his direction and then went inside the UFO. A loud roar was heard during a vertical takeoff as the object emitted a flame from the bottom. The foliage in the area was scorched black, and there were four holes in the ground surrounding the burned area. The case was personally investigated by Dr. J. Allen Hynek for Project Blue Book. Everyone, except UFO debunker Phillip Klass who visited Socorro four years later, regards the testimony of Mr. Zamora as highly credible. A married couple saw the object north of the city at 5:30 p.m. before it landed, and seven other witnesses saw it flying south of Socorro shortly before 6:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book, case 8766; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, pp. 92-97; Ray Stanford, Socorro Saucer in a Pentagon Pantry, Austin, Texas: Blueapple Books, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_2275 Source: Johnson ### Event 10529 (48BEF8E2) Date: 4/24/1964 Description: Whitish elliptical object with legs seen on ground by police officer, left imprints and scorched foliage when it took off Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Socorro, NM Source ID: HallUFOE2_9 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10530 (A053E34C) Date: 4/24/1964 Description: 10:00 a.m. Dairy farmer Gary Wilcox of Newark Valley, New York, is driving a tractor on his property when he sees a shiny object on the inside edge of a nearby patch of woods. He gets off the tractor and approaches the object, which is egg-shaped, 20 feet long, 16 feet wide, and four feet high. It is hovering two feet above the ground and making a sound like a car idling. He touches it and feels a hard metal. Two figures suddenly appear from under the object. They are 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide, dressed in seamless silvery garments. Each carries a tray filled with alfalfa, roots, soil, leaves, and brush. Wilcox hears a voice say, “Do not be alarmed. We have talked to people before.” They ask him what he is doing, and Wilcox says he is spreading manure. One humanoid asks if he can have some and converses some more about space exploration. They claim they are from Mars. After a while, the UFO takes off in a horizontal direction. Wilcox notices some small depressions where the figures were standing, as well as a thin, red, jellylike substance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Olga M. Hotchkiss, “New York UFO and Its ‘Little People,’” Fate 17, no. 9 \(September 1964\): 38–42; Berthold E. Schwarz, “[Gary Wilcox and the Ufonauts,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201969%20N%203%2CUFO%20Percipients.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Percipients, special issue no. 3 of FSR, September 1969, pp. 20–27; Clark III 795–799; Marcus Lowth, “[The Gary Wilcox Occupant Encounter: The Fertilizer Case,](https://www.ufoinsight.com/aliens/encounters/gary-wilcox-occupant-encounter)” UFO Insight, December 27, 2018; Story, [pp. 246–249](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/246/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3767 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10531 (C27CCACF) Date: 4/24/1964 Description: Farmer found shiny elliptical object in field, confronted by two small humanoids who spoke with him Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Newark Valley, NY Source ID: HallUFOE2_10 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10532 (5F7E256F) Date: 4/24/1964 Time: 5:45 PM Description: Witness: Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora. Watched object with flame underneath descend toward the desert. Two small humanoids observed near vertical oval on ground. Later watched object take off with a roar, go silent and fly away. Burning and charred brush found at landing sight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Socorro, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_500 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10533 (BE54D6A4) Date: 4/24/1964 Time: 1000 Description: Dairy farmer Gary T. Wilcox saw a shiny, egg-shaped object, about 8 m long and 6 m wide, in his field. He spoke in English to two dwarfs, 1.2 m tall, wearing seamless clothing and hoods, and carrying trays. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 59; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Tioga City, New York Source ID: Magnonia_596 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10534 (64F604B7) Date: 4/24/1964 Time: 1745 Description: Policeman Lonnie Zamora observed the landing of a white craft, resting on four legs, in a depression 4 km outside Socorro. Near it were standing two figures, below average height, dressed in white. Within 30 m of the object, he saw a red insignia on its aluminumlike surface. It rose to 4 m with a strong roar, became silent, hovered and flew away. Traces. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic; Challenge 34; Humanoids 47; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Socorro, New Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_597 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10535 (A1635261) Date: 4/24/1964 Description: Around 5:50 p.m. Socorro, New Mexico, police officer [Lonnie Zamora](https://www.abqjournal.com/obits/profiles/0722057profiles11-07-09.htm)[,](https://www.abqjournal.com/obits/profiles/0722057profiles11-07-09.htm) while chasing a speeder, hears a continuous roaring sound and sees a brilliant blue “cone of flame” in the sky to the south-southwest. The bottom of the flame is out of sight behind a hill. Thinking there has been an explosion, he tries to pursue it, turning off to the right on a rough gravel road, but loses sight of it while trying to get the car up a steep hill. By the time he reaches the top, the sound stops and the flame is no longer visible. He then notices a metallic object in a ravine about 450 feet away. At first, he thinks it is an overturned car, but then he sees “two figures in what resembled white coveralls, pretty close to the object on the northwest side, as if inspecting it.” One seems to turn in a startled way as if he hears Zamora’s car approaching. The figures are small, and the object is oval-shaped and positioned so its long axis is horizontal. Zamora loses sight of object as he drives through a dip in the road. He radios headquarters that he is investigating a possible car accident. He stops a second time and gets out, hearing 2–3 loud thumping noises like a door shutting hard. He walks three steps to the front of the car to possibly 50 feet away from the object when he hears a very load roar increasing in volume and sees a smokeless blue-orange flame coming from beneath. He notes a red insignia or lettering on the side of the object. Zamora thinks it is going to explode and runs away, putting the car between him and the object and dropping to the ground. He feels some slight heat from the flame. The roaring noise stops, and Zamora looks up to see the UFO flying away to the southwest at a level height, just clearing an 8-foot dynamite shack. He runs back to the patrol car and radios headquarters, just as the object climbs slowly and goes past Box Canyon or Six Mile Canyon Mountain \(about 6 miles away\). The entire incident takes place in less than 2 minutes. Police Sgt. M. S. Chavez arrives, and they find burning brush \(including a badly damaged creosote bush\) where the UFO has been, as well as four asymmetrically placed, trapezoidal imprints 12–16 inches long, 6–8 inches wide, and 4–6 inches deep. An FBI agent, [D. Arthur Byrnes Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92491365/david-arthur-byrnes)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92491365/david-arthur-byrnes) who has heard about it on the police radio, speaks with Zamora in the evening. He notifies army intelligence at White Sands Missile Range, who sends Capt. Richard T. Holder. Military police arrive and collect samples, working by flashlight. The next morning, Holder gets a call from a colonel at the war room of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asking for a report. T/Sgt. David Moody from ATIC and Maj. William Conner from Kirtland AFB check the area for radioactivity on April 26. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) arrives on April 28 and interviews Zamora and Chavez. [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) and [Ray Stanford](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/tireless-tracker-rewrote-the-book-on-dinosaurs-in-maryland/2012/04/17/gIQARzRcTT%5Fstory.html) arrive for NICAP and obtain some metal traces on a rock in the landing area; they take the sample to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where metallurgist [Henry E. Frankel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135666225/henry-eric-frankel) agrees to analyze the material. His tentative analysis suggests a zinc-iron alloy, perhaps from a zinc pail. In 1966, Blue Book chief Maj. [Hector Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) writes in a classified article in Studies in Intelligence that “This is the best-documented case on record, and still we have been unable, in spite of a thorough investigation, to find the vehicle or other stimulus that scared Zamora to the point of panic.” Some investigators think the case might involve a test of a Lunar Surveyor module from White Sands. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lonnie Zamora incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie%5FZamora%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[Lonnie Zamora / Socorro Landing Case](http://www.nicap.org/640424socorro%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 297; “[UAO Landing in New Mexico,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2005%2000%20-%20May.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May 1964, pp. 1, 3–10; “[Physical Evidence: Landing Reports,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/023%20JUL-AUG%201964.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 \(July/Aug. 1964\): 4–5; Coral Lorenzen, “UFO Lands in New Mexico,” Fate 17, no. 8 \(August 1964\): 27–38; Hector Quintanilla Jr., “[The](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7282832) [Investigation of UFOs,](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7282832)” Studies in Intelligence 10, no. 4 \(February 1966\): 95–110; Clark III 1083–1093; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 165–166](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/164/mode/2up); Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 223–229](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/222/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 343–345](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/342/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/342/mode/2up) [371–373](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/370/mode/2up); Story, [pp. 341–344](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/340/mode/2up); Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, pp. 8–11; Ray Stanford, Socorro ‘Saucer’ in a Pentagon Pantry, Blueapple, 1976; “The Socorro, New Mexico, Landing: Additional Witnesses?” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 15; ClearIntent, [pp. 139–141](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/138/mode/2up); Kenneth Eugene Firestone and Ronald L. Firestone, “[Socorro, New Mexico: Revisited,](http://cufos.org/1965%5F04%5F24%5FSocorro/1964%5F04%5F24%5FUS%5FNM%5FSocorro%5FFirestone%5FZamora%5FPaper.pdf)” Ground Saucer Watch, 1981; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 62–66; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 78–80](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/78/mode/2up); David E. Thomas, “[A Different Angle on the Socorro UFO of 1964,](http://www.nmsr.org/socorro.htm)” New Mexicans for Science and Reason, 2001; Paul Harden, “[The 1964 Socorro UFO Incident,](http://socorro-history.org/HISTORY/PH%5FHistory/200808%5Fsocorro%5Fufo.pdf)” El Defensor Chieftain, August 2, 2008; Kevin D. Randle, “[Socorro UFO Landing Analysis,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2009/11/socorro-ufo-landing-analysis.html)” A Different Perspective, November 22, 2009; Kevin D. Randle, “[The Socorro](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-socorro-symbol-resolved.html) [Symbol: Resolved?](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-socorro-symbol-resolved.html)” A Different Perspective, October 15, 2016; Kevin D. Randle, “[No Socorro Solution by Chief](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/11/no-socorro-solution-by-chief-of-project.html) [of Project Blue Book,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/11/no-socorro-solution-by-chief-of-project.html)” A Different Perspective, November 7, 2017; Kevin D. Randle, “[Zamora vs. People,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2017/11/zamora-vs-people.html)” A Different Perspective, November 9, 2017; Kevin D. Randle, Encounter in the Desert: The Case for Alien Contact at Socorro, New Page, 2017; Justice Fodor, “[Ray Stanford and His NASA-Goddard UFO-Metal Cover-Up](https://alienexpanse.com/index.php?threads/ray-stanford-and-his-nasa-goddard-ufo-metal-cover-up-claim-1964.3284/) [Claim,](https://alienexpanse.com/index.php?threads/ray-stanford-and-his-nasa-goddard-ufo-metal-cover-up-claim-1964.3284/)” Alien Expanse, February 14, 2019; Center for UFO Studies, \[[correspondence](http://cufos.org/1965%5F04%5F24%5FSocorro/1964%5F04%5F24%5FUS%5FNM%5FSocorro%5FCUFOS%5FHynek-Powers-Klass%5FCorresp.pdf)\]; Center for UFO Studies, \[case files: [Files 1 and 4R](http://cufos.org/1965%5F04%5F24%5FSocorro/1964%5F04%5F24%5FUS%5FNM%5FSocorro%5FCUFOS%5FZamora%5FFiles1%264R.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/1965%5F04%5F24%5FSocorro/1964%5F04%5F24%5FUS%5FNM%5FSocorro%5FCUFOS%5FZamora%5FFiles1%264R.pdf) Files 2, [Files 3](http://cufos.org/1965%5F04%5F24%5FSocorro/1964%5F04%5F24%5FUS%5FNM%5FSocorro%5FNICAP%5FZamora%5FFiles3.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/1965%5F04%5F24%5FSocorro/1964%5F04%5F24%5FUS%5FNM%5FSocorro%5FNICAP%5FZamora%5FFiles3.pdf) [MiscR](http://cufos.org/1965%5F04%5F24%5FSocorro/1964%5F04%5F24%5FUS%5FNM%5FSocorro%5FCUFOS%5FMiscR.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/1965%5F04%5F24%5FSocorro/1964%5F04%5F24%5FUS%5FNM%5FSocorro%5FCUFOS%5FMiscR.pdf) [Zamora](http://cufos.org/1965%5F04%5F24%5FSocorro/1964%5F04%5F24%5FUS%5FNM%5FSocorro%5FCUFOS%5FZamora.pdf)\]; Center for UFO Studies, \[[Clippings1](http://cufos.org/1965%5F04%5F24%5FSocorro/1964%5F04%5F24%5FUS%5FNM%5FSocorro%5FCUFOS%5FZamora%5FNClipsR.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/1965%5F04%5F24%5FSocorro/1964%5F04%5F24%5FUS%5FNM%5FSocorro%5FCUFOS%5FZamora%5FNClipsR.pdf) [Clippings2](http://cufos.org/1965%5F04%5F24%5FSocorro/1964%5F04%5F24%5FUS%5FNM%5FSocorro%5FNICAP%5FNClipsR.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_3768 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10536 (FA7E106B) Date: 4/24/1964 Description: Lonnie Zamora case (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, BB: 8766, NC) Reference: NICAP: [640424](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/zamoradir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Socorro, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2696 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10537 (F027DAB9) Date: 4/25/1964 Description: Morning. J. D. Hatch is driving on US Hwy 70 between Mescalero and Tularosa, New Mexico, when a bright oval object descends and seemingly lands on the other side of Round Mountain east of Tularosa. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1092 Source ID: Eberhart_3769 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10538 (5061F516) Date: 4/25/1964? Description: Night. Two Spanish-speaking people 9 miles away from Golden, New Mexico, watch a light come down from the sky and leave three “smelted” circles some 2 feet in diameter and separated from each other by 20 feet. They mention this story to James Scartacinni, 15, and his grandfather visit the site the next day and find the circles, which they estimate must have been subjected to a temperature of 2,300° F. They return to town and call the state police, who notify the military. Almost immediately, men in uniform cordon off the area, dig up the burned areas to a depth of one foot, and carry the material away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Hunting Old and New UFOs in New Mexico,” IUR 7, no. 2 \(March 1982\):12 Source ID: Eberhart_3771 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10539 (C40C3047) Date: 4/25/1964 Description: Evening. Two motorists driving on US Hwy 84 between Abiquiu and Espanola, New Mexico, see a strange object that is definitely not an airplane fly straight toward their car before shooting away. All they can see is a blue-flamed exhaust. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1092 Source ID: Eberhart_3770 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10540 (E57D699C) Date: 4/26/1964 Description: An interesting photograph was taken this day in Burgh le Marsh, Cumbria, England. A Mr. Templeton took a photograph of a little girl holding a nosegay of flowers in the early afternoon. Not seen at the time was what appears to be the image of a man standing behind her, dressed in a white spacesuit. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1964, p. 11; Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1970, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_2334 Source: Johnson ### Event 10541 (F39506A3) Date: 4/26/1964 Description: At 12:30 p.m. Orlando Gallegos observed a bright, metallic, egg-shaped object about 70 meters away, on the ground, north of La Madera, New Mexico. Blue flames appeared to circle the base of the machine, which was silent and about the length of a telephone pole. Scorch marks and four imprints were found, according to Police Capt. Martin Vigil. Also on the same day, a thirty-foot wide silver, inverted bathtup-shaped UFO was sighted near Truth of Consequences, New Mexico by a Mr. Mitropolis. It was seen a quarter of a mile to the east, flew up over a mountain, then down out of sight near the Caballo Reservoir. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 598; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 5; (2) Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_2335 Source: Johnson ### Event 10542 (ACD926A4) Date: 4/26/1964 Time: 1230 Description: Orlando Gallegos observed a bright, metallic, egg-shaped object about 70 m away, on the ground, north of La Madera. Blue flames appeared to circle the base of the machine, which was silent and about the length of a Phone pole. Scorch marks and four imprints were found, according to Police Capt. Martin Vigil. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: La Madera, New Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_598 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10543 (820503E3) Date: 4/26/1964 Description: Around 1:00 a.m. [Orlando Gallegos](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95559650/orlando-gallegos) steps outside his father’s ranch at La Madera, New Mexico, to chase away some horses in the yard. He sees a peculiar structure in the Rio Vallecitos creek bed some 900 feet away. It looks like a butane tank “as long as a telephone pole” about 14 feet in diameter, metallic, and shooting blue flames out of holes in the sides. As he watches over the next minute, the flames subside. It is still there when he goes inside, where no one else believes him. It is gone the next morning, but state police \(including Capt. [Martin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1280575/martin-e-vigil) [E. Vigil](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1280575/martin-e-vigil)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1280575/martin-e-vigil) [David Kingsbury](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106677018/david-clare-kingsbury)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106677018/david-clare-kingsbury) and Albert Vega\) investigate and find the ground still smoldering and scorched with four depressions, one of them 8 by 12 inches in size. The charred area is in the shape of two overlapping circles and about 20 feet across. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) is refused authorization to go visit the site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mystery Object Report Is Told,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95207810/)” Albuquerque Tribune, August 27, 1966, p. 1; Lorenzen, FSHoax, [pp. 222–223](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n227/mode/2up); Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 54–55; “Hunting Old and New UFOs in New Mexico,” IUR 7, no. 2 \(March 1982\):12–13; Clark III 1092; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 298 Source ID: Eberhart_3772 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10544 (B5392824) Date: 4/26/1964 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2698 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10545 (8AD93261) Date: 4/27/1964 Description: A 12-year-old boy and seven friends saw a UFO hovering above their school grounds in El Paso, Texas on this afternoon. "It seemed to be floating in the air, and was covered with something like a sheet. It was 6 foot 5 inches tall and sort of egg-shaped." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 10, citing the El Paso Herald-Post, April 28, 1964 Source ID: Johnson_2368 Source: Johnson ### Event 10546 (CFE7DDEB) Date: 4/28/1964 Description: That night on Interstate highway 10 south of Las Cruces, New Mexico a luminous UFO flew over a car being driven by Mr. P. Arteche. It flew with a jerky motion and frequently changed direction. A private pilot made a report of a similar object at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_2392 Source: Johnson ### Event 10547 (82F342AE) Date: 4/28/1964 Description: Sometime after midnight Mr. Adams was driving on highway 66 near Moriarty, New Mexico when a 25-30 foot wide UFO, luminous light green in color, came down and hovered 100 feet above his pickup truck. The truck stalled when it passed underneath the UFO. Mr. D. Adams then fired a .22 calibre pistol at it and heard a metallic ping as if the bullet bounced off the object. As the UFO moved away he fired six more shots with apparently no effect. His dogs barked incessantly during the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Los Angeles Herald Examiner, April 28, 1964; Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_2391 Source: Johnson ### Event 10548 (A06FF30F) Date: 4/28/1964 Description: (McDonald list) Radar Tracks Object "Orbiting" 5-Mile Circle (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [640428](http://www.nicap.org/640428minotAFBdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot AFB, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_2700 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10549 (6E439D02) Date: 4/28/1964 Time: morning Description: Numerous witnesses, among them policeman Paul Arteche, saw a reddish, round object hover at low level, then take off very rapidly toward the west. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Anthony, New Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_599 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10550 (46847687) Date: 4/28/1964 Description: Early morning. Don Adams is driving in Edgewood, New Mexico, when his car stalls. He sees a glowing, greenish object 100 feet overhead and fires six rounds from a .32 pistol at it with no effect. He can hear the bullets bouncing off. It silently moves away to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Other Recent Sightings,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/023%20JUL-AUG%201964.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 \(July/Aug. 1964\): 7; “[Green Object at Edgewood,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2009%2000%20-%20September.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, September 1964, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_3774 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10551 (C55F5475) Date: 4/28/1964 Description: Early evening. A round, whitish object hovers then darts away over Anthony, New Mexico. State policeman [Raúl Arteche](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94205043/raul-arteche) sees it moving west over the Port of Entry near El Paso, Texas. He says it looks like the object [Lonnie Zamora](https://www.abqjournal.com/obits/profiles/0722057profiles11-07-09.htm) saw. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Other Recent Sightings,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/023%20JUL-AUG%201964.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 \(July/Aug. 1964\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_3773 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10552 (717A6E84) Date: 4/29/1964 Description: Several adults saw an elongated glowing object fly over Canyon Ferry, Montana, and two children saw a lighted craft land and take off. Four rectangular indentations were found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 5; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_2409 Source: Johnson ### Event 10553 (9AEBD4CD) Date: 4/30/1964 Description: An Air Force RB-57 bomber flying over the Stallion Missile Test Site in New Mexico radioed that they saw a white ovoid object land. Photo reconnaisance was ordered. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 224 Source ID: Johnson_2424 Source: Johnson ### Event 10554 (9228137D) Date: 4/30/1964 Description: Gloria Biggs, her husband, and her mother observed a brown, dome-shaped object on a hilltop about 17 kilometers west of Baker, California on U. S. Highway 91. They lost sight of it for a moment, could not see it again, and found only a depression in the ground at the supposed landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, Case 600 Source ID: Johnson_2423 Source: Johnson ### Event 10555 (D7136F28) Date: 4/30/1964 Description: Gloria Biggs, her husband, and her mother observed a brown, dome-shaped object on a hilltop about 17 km west of Baker on U.S. Highway 91. They lost sight of it a moment, could not see it again, and found only a depression in the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 64, 5; Anatomy 75 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Baker, California Source ID: Magnonia_600 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10556 (E3C25B64) Date: 4/30/1964 Time: 2230 Description: Several anonymous adults observed an elongated, glowing object. Two children saw a lighted craft land and take off, leaving four rectangular indentations. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Jul., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Canyon Ferry, Montana Source ID: Magnonia_601 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10557 (19CC9633) Date: 4/30/1964 Description: Glowing oval object landed, indentations and scorch marks found at site Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Canyon Ferry, MT Source ID: HallUFOE2_11 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10558 (BAF08B18) Date: 4/30/1964 Description: Egg-shaped object size of an automobile land about 150 \[125?\] ft away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canyon Ferry Reservoir, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2701 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10559 (431AF137) Date: 4/30/1964 Description: A B-57 pilot at Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, New Mexico, radios to the control tower that he is watching an egg-shaped, white UFO with markings that match the Socorro object. He continues to watch it as it lands at the base. [Coral and Jim Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) insist they heard the story from a reliable source. In addition, a ham radio operator claims to have heard the exchange between the pilot and control tower. Holloman AFB denies the incident occurred. Shortly afterward, an airman walks into a clothing store in Alamogordo and spins an incredible story of a UFO parked in a hangar under heavy guard at Holloman. A couple days later, he returns to the store and denies everything. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Coral Lorenzen, “[UAO Landing at Air Force Base,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1964, pp. 1, 3–4; Coral Lorenzen, “[UFO Lands at Air Force Base,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/640515whitesands%5Fdocs.pdf)” Fate 17, no. 10 \(October 1964\): 45–52; Clark III 332 Source ID: Eberhart_3775 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10560 (8C363383) Date: 4/30/1964 Description: 10:30 p.m. Several children living in Canyon Ferry, Montana, see a lighted, egg-shaped object the size of an automobile land about 150 feet away, then take off. The witnesses are Linda Davis, 11, and children of the Harold Rust family. It leaves four 8 x 10 inch rectangular indentations in the ground, 4–8 inches deep, about 13 feet apart, and a burned area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Kids Called Hoaxers by U.S.A.F,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2007%2000%20-%20July.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July 1964, pp. 1, 5; Lorenzen, FSHoax, [pp. 223–224](https://archive.org/details/1966CoralLorenzenFlyingSaucersTheStartlingEvidenceOfTheInvasionFromOuterSpacenotOCR/page/n227/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 298 Source ID: Eberhart_3776 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10561 (E3ED3CD7) Date: 4/30/1964 Description: B-57 radios white object landed, phto recon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stallion Test Site, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2702 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10562 (A04CF2C6) Date: 4/30/1964 Description: At 10:30 p.m. several adults saw an elongated glowing object in Canyon Ferry, Utah. Two children saw the lighted craft land, then take off. Four rectangular indentations were found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 104 Source ID: Johnson_2425 Source: Johnson ### Event 10563 (A63B49A5) Date: 5/1964 Description: NICAP publishes its special 184-page report, The UFO Evidence, but due to a printing delay, copies are not actually available until late June. Copies are sent to the media and to every member of Congress on July 1. Edited by [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) it consists of a summary of hundreds of unexplained reports studied by NICAP investigators through 1963. Sightings are systematically broken down by witness category and special types of evidence. Individual chapters are devoted to sightings by military personnel, pilots and aviation experts, and scientists and engineers. Another chapter is devoted to evidence of intelligent control and another to physical evidence or interactions, such as electromagnetic effects, radar tracking, photographs, sound, physiological effects. Another section examines observed patterns, such as descriptions of shape, color, maneuvers, flight behavior, and concentrations of sightings. House Majority Leader [John W. McCormack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FW.%5FMcCormack) \(D-Mass.\) requests two copies, one for his Capitol Hill office and another for his state home office. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard H. Hall, ed., [The UFO Evidence](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021), NICAP, 1964; Wikipedia, “[National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FInvestigations%5FCommittee%5FOn%5FAerial%5FPhenomena\#1960s)”; Richard Hall, “NICAP and Lessons from the Past,” IUR 17, no. 3 \(May/June 1992\): 17, 24 Source ID: Eberhart_3777 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10564 (1B55699F) Date: 5/5/1964 Description: At 8:30 in the morning a farmer, Alfred Ernst, saw an object rise from a field in Comstock, Minnesota and fly rapidly into a cloud bank. It was described as oval in shape, and it left a depression and four rectangular imprints in the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 601 Source ID: Johnson_2539 Source: Johnson ### Event 10565 (0E4F2963) Date: 5/5/1964 Description: 8:30 a.m. Alfred Ernst, a farmer near Comstock, Minnesota, sees a luminous UFO like a child’s top from about 1,500 feet away. It rises straight up and disappears into the overcast sky after a few seconds. Ernst and his brother find a crater-like depression, about 3 feet in diameter and 6 inches deep at the center, at the spot where the object was sitting. A series of smaller holes form an X around the larger depression. The earth seems burned on the perimeter of the hole and a whitish substance is found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Physical Evidence: Landing Reports,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/023%20JUL-AUG%201964.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 \(July/Aug. 1964\): 5; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf), NICAP, 1969, pp. 56–58 Source ID: Eberhart_3778 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10566 (837AC7E1) Date: 5/5/1964 Description: Object landed in field, physical traces Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Comstock, MN Source ID: HallUFOE2_12 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10567 (B901D004) Date: 5/5/1964 Description: Object landed in field, physical traces (UFOE Section VII). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Comstock, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2703 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10568 (CA29F45D) Date: 5/5/1964 Time: 0830 Description: A farmer, Alfred Ernst, saw an object rise from a field and fly rapidly into the cloud bank. It was described as oval, and it left a depression and imprints in the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Jun., 65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Comstock, Minnesota Source ID: Magnonia_602 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10569 (4636C0FD) Date: 5/8/1964 Description: On this night a 23-year-old truck driver named Kalbermatter, while driving in Colonia Castelli in Chaco province, Argentina saw a creature more than nine feet tall on road in front of his truck. before him. The creature had long black hair, and gave a powerful and terrifying cry. He nearly ran the creature down. A few days previous to this humanoid encounter a large luminous object had been spotted at the same spot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dr. P. M. H. Edwards, FSR, March 1970, p. 23; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0589, citing Beyond Condon: FSR Special Edition No. 2, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_2652 Source: Johnson ### Event 10570 (7E1FA223) Date: 5/9/1964 Description: 3 light green crescent-shaped objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8788) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2705 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10571 (6659A6D6) Date: 5/9/1964 Description: At eleven o'clock in the morning three children, John Owens, Cheryl Glunt, and Bernie Montello, saw a silvery dome-shaped object arrive from the south and land in a field next to a reservoir, 150 meters away in the farming town of Mogadore, Ohio. The object's estimated diameter was 3 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 603; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_2682 Source: Johnson ### Event 10572 (A8CFF1BA) Date: 5/9/1964 Description: (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8787) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Asheville, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2704 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10573 (005BCCC9) Date: 5/9/1964 Description: At 10:20 p.m. Mr. J. R. Betz, a U.S. District Court reporter, sighted three light green crescent-shaped objects, half the apparent size of the moon, as they flew quickly in tight formation over Chicago, Illiniois from east to west. They were oscillating in size and color. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 8788; Don Berliner, Australasian UFOlogist, April 1999, p. 51; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 89 Source ID: Johnson_2683 Source: Johnson ### Event 10574 (9FEC94BC) Date: 5/9/1964 Time: 10:20 PM Description: Witness: J.R. Betz, U.S. District Court reporter. Three light green crescent-shaped objects, about half the apparent size of the Moon, flew very fast in tight formation from east to west, oscillating in size and color for 3 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Chicago, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_501 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10575 (93C08C63) Date: 5/9/1964 Time: 1100 Description: Three children, John Owens, Cheryl Glunt, and Bernie Montello, saw a silvery, dome-shaped object arrive from the south and land in a field 150 m away. Estimated diameter: 3 m. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Jun., 65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mogadore, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_603 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10576 (F4A9A443) Date: 5/10/1964 Description: Domed disc rose from woods, electromagnetic (E-M) effects on van, 10-meter (30-foot) burnt circle found next day Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: La Rioja, Argentina Source ID: HallUFOE2_13 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10577 (B2AFF8B9) Date: 5/10/1964 Description: Light beam, landed craft, humming noise, physical traces. (E,L) See Section VI. Van (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Rioja, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_2706 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10578 (C4211C5B) Date: 5/13/1964 Description: 10:15 p.m. Mrs. [M. Walter McKarley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144151020/matthew-walter-mckarley) and her children see a large round object that appears in their headlights after they pull into a driveway at Rio Vista, California. It seems to be resting on the ground about a quarter of a mile away. Higher in the sky is a small star-like object \(probably Venus\). As they drive away, the large object seems to pace their car for a short time. It then moves swiftly to the left and disappears behind a water tank. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Physical Evidence: Landing Reports,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/023%20JUL-AUG%201964.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 \(July/Aug. 1964\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_3779 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10579 (17121F28) Date: 5/13/1964 Description: At 10:15 p.m. a woman in Rio Vista, Solano County, California saw two disc-shaped objects glowing in the sky. One of them landed in a field. It was round and luminous. Also, there were other reports of cigar-shaped objects in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, July-August 1964, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 604; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_2805 Source: Johnson ### Event 10580 (B3121A3B) Date: 5/13/1964 Description: A woman saw two objects, one of which landed in a field. It was round and luminous. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Rio Vista, California Source ID: Magnonia_604 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10581 (DC96DA57) Date: 5/15/1964 Description: Two scrambles, radar/vis, UFOs sent proper IFF (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 3, NC) Reference: NICAP: [640515](http://www.nicap.org/640515whitesands%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Sands, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2707 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10582 (38A29AE0) Date: 5/15/1964 Description: Between 11:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Two targets are simultaneously tracked on surveillance and FPS-16 radars at Stallion Site, the most northerly range of the Army-controlled Holloman–White Sands complex a few miles east of San Antonio, New Mexico. The targets are north of the radar site, performing “perfect, precise flight maneuvers” in tandem, involving separations and rejoins and “up-and-down ‘pogo’ maneuvers.” One radar operator obtains a visual sighting of two brown-colored, football-shaped objects that are flying at very low altitude and are lost from view behind buildings at the site. The two targets are displayed as skin paints. However, IFF transponder codes are also received on two different frequencies alternately. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO Auto-Tracked,](http://www.nicap.org/640515whitesands%5Fdir.htm) [Sends Phony IFF](http://www.nicap.org/640515whitesands%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3780 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10583 (70F5E8F4) Date: 5/15/1964 Description: A circular UFO with very bright headlights flew in "an extremely wavy motion--like a float bobbing on the water" north of Lewistown, Montana at 10:28 p.m. It was witnessed by five people from two families. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 7; Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_2854 Source: Johnson ### Event 10584 (655C804C) Date: 5/15/1964 Description: Two UFOs were tracked on radar from the Stallion Missile Site on the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico beginning at 11:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Fate, October 1964, p. 45; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 225 Source ID: Johnson_2853 Source: Johnson ### Event 10585 (5DF23D36) Date: 5/15/1964 Description: At noon two school children in Wheatfield, Indiana saw two small humanoids on the top floor of a church. At 2:30 p.m. a 10-year-old girl saw a little man, three feet tall, reclining under a shrub pine tree. He had white hair, a small goatee, long arms, a reddish-blue complexion, and wore greenish clothing. He looked injured and appeared to be bleeding. He had more fingers on his hands than a normal human. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases A0591 & A0592, citing Orvil R. Hartle Source ID: Johnson_2852 Source: Johnson ### Event 10586 (E9C3637C) Date: 5/17/1964 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a fiery object, maneuvering at low altitude, was seen from Massillon, Ohio. It was sighted from Wooster and Smithville, Ohio at 9:10 p.m., then from Lawrence and Burbank at 9:25 and 9:30 p.m. It flew erratically with a whirring sound and changes of color, apparently interfering with police radio. It went down toward the northwest, appearing ready to land. Abnormal radioactivity was allegedly found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case # 605, citing Akron UFO Research Society Source ID: Johnson_2925 Source: Johnson ### Event 10587 (7CA3264C) Date: 5/17/1964 Description: 10:15 p.m. Citizens and police officers called to the scene, witnessed a UFO. The reddish object appeared round while hovering, then darted across the sky and appeared flattened while in motion. (UFOI-II,7) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tipton, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2709 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10588 (7E8C4301) Date: 5/17/1964 Description: Close encounter II, no details. (UFOI-2,7) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lawrence (near), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2708 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10589 (7E00975F) Date: 5/17/1964 Time: 2100 Description: A fiery object, maneuvering at low altitude, was seen from Wooster and Smithville at 2110. then from Lawrence and Burbank between 2125 and 2130. It flew erratically with a whirring sound and changes of color, apparently interfering with police radio. lt went down toward the northwest, seemingly ready to land. Abnormal radioactivity allegedly was found at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Akron UFO Res. Soc. ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Massillon, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_605 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10590 (A4A81315) Date: 5/18/1964 Description: Glowing white oval split twice after moving (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8811) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Vernon, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2710 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10591 (01E004F3) Date: 5/18/1964 Description: At 7:30 a.m. a ten-year-old boy in Hubbard, Oregon saw a silver colored, square object 1.2 meters high resting on four shiny legs in a wheat field. With a soft beeping noise, it rose slowly to a height of a telephone pole, then "shot up like a rocket." Ground marks were found at the site: three imprints forming a 90 cm equilateral triangle, with the wheat flattened from the center about 1.2 meters in diameter. There was also the odor of gas fumes. At 5:15 p.m. in Mount Vernon, Virginia a man named Meyers watched a small glowing white oval split apart twice after moving from the right side of the Moon to the left. At 10:15 p.m. an Army pilot at the Lawrence, Massachusetts airport sighted a yellowish white light in the sky traveling through the sky. It made a 360 degree turn, then sped off at an estimated 1,000 mph without making a sonic boom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Fred Merritt, A Preliminary Classification of Some Reports of Unidentified Flying Objects Based on Shape and Dimensions of Imprint Patterns, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 187; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8811; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 51; (3) Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 329 Source ID: Johnson_2954 Source: Johnson ### Event 10592 (B872CFF6) Date: 5/18/1964 Description: A bright, silvery object, 3 m long, 1.5 m high, with a cone-shaped front part, resting on four legs, was seen in a wheat field by 10-year-old Mike Bizon. It made a beeping noise, rose first to the altitude of the Phone poles, then took off vertically. Wheat was found flattened in all directions. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hubbard, Oregon Source ID: Magnonia_606 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10593 (F6F7C1C6) Date: 5/18/1964 Time: 5:15 PM Description: Witness: civil engineer F. Meyers. One small, glowing white oval split twice after moving from the right of the Moon around to the left. Sighting lasted 17 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, Virginia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_502 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10594 (8705FECF) Date: 5/19/1964 Description: Cow fearful as square object landed (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [640519](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ar-hubbarddir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hubbard, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2711 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10595 (84B0A89E) Date: 5/19/1964 Description: Rectangular object with legs left flattened wheat and three indentations on the edge of a circle Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Hubbard, OR Source ID: HallUFOE2_14 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10596 (5D675A93) Date: 5/19/1964 Description: 7:00 a.m. Mike Bizon, 10, sees a square or spindle-shaped, bright-silver UFO on the ground in Hubbard, Oregon, while he is leading a cow out to pasture. The cow, normally eager to be let out, acts very reluctant and nervous. The object is resting on four legs in an adjacent wheat field. It rises slowly off the ground to the height of a telephone pole, then zooms straight up emitting a soft beeping sound. Bizon smells an odor like gas fumes. Three imprints in the shape of an equilateral triangle are found in an area of flattened wheat about 4 feet wide. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 53–54 Source ID: Eberhart_3781 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10597 (9EA2DD9E) Date: 5/21/1964 Description: 4:30 a.m. At Altus AFB, Oklahoma, Missile Site 7, southeast of Ranchland, Texas, a large bright light is seen directly over the facility below 10,000 feet. The light is bright enough to light up the silo cap. Its apparent size is as large as a basketball held at arm’s length. The object is first noticed hovering over the south fence of Site 7 for 8–10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Light Hovers over Missile Silo](http://www.nicap.org/640521altus%5Fdir.htm)”; Nukes 159–160 Source ID: Eberhart_3782 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10598 (515EFBBD) Date: 5/22/1964 Description: (1) High School cafeteria employees watched the landing and take-off of a round UFO from the school grounds in Hopkinsville, Kentucky at nine o'clock in the morning. The object emitted four beams of light. The grass had been flattened at the landing site. (2) On that same day a UFO was tracked by radar at the White Sands Stallion Missile Range in New Mexico. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 27 and October 1966, p. 30, citing NICAP; Coral E. Lorenzen, Fate magazine, October 1964, p. 45; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 150 Source ID: Johnson_3036 Source: Johnson ### Event 10599 (63ABC3CB) Date: 5/24/1964 Description: AFB Twice Tracked UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [640524](http://www.nicap.org/640524hollomanafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Sands, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2713 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10600 (49A6D66C) Date: 5/24/1964 Description: [James P. Templeton](https://www.amberley-books.com/community-james-p-templeton)[,](https://www.amberley-books.com/community-james-p-templeton) using a Pentacon camera with Kodacolor X stock, takes a photo of his 5-year-old daughter Elizabeth when his family is picnicking on the marshes at Burgh by Sands, Cumbria, England. When the film is developed, a man, encased in a white spacesuit and helmet, is clearly visible behind Elizabeth’s head. Templeton and his family claim they had seen no one when the photo was taken. He tells the Carlisle police, who are puzzled. Kodak is intrigued enough to conduct an inquiry. They rule out a double exposure. However, one possibility is that the image is an overexposed view of the back of Templeton’s wife. After the photo receives some local publicity, Templeton gets a call from someone describing himself as an investigator. Templeton agrees to meet with him and an associate and visit the marsh. Two men dressed in dark business suits show up and drive him to the site. They refuse to give Templeton their names, referring to themselves only as “9” and “11.” They are mostly interested in finding out if any nearby animals had been agitated. Then they insist that the figure was just a passerby, get angry, and drive away, leaving Templeton stranded and having to walk home 5 miles away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon W. Creighton, “[The Mysterious Templeton Photograph,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CNov-Dec%2CV%2010%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1964\): 11– 12; Jenny Randles, “The Riddle of the Templeton Photograph,” IUR 20, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1995\): 12–15; “[The](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%202001%20V%2046%20N%202.pdf) [Templeton photograph](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%202001%20V%2046%20N%202.pdf)” \[in color\], Flying Saucer Review 46, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): inside cover; Jenny Randles, “Casebook: The Solway Spaceman,” Fortean Times 196 \(May 2005\): 29; Andy Roberts and David Clarke, “Farewell to the Solway Spaceman?” Fortean Times 286 \(April 2012\): 28–29; Jenny Randles, “Moderations, Part One: Lost and Found Files,” Fortean Times 292 \(September 2012\): 29; Clark III 1126–1127; Patrick Gross, “[The](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/solwayfirth64.htm) [Solway Firth Photograph, 1964](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/solwayfirth64.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3783 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10601 (1B3800B4) Date: 5/24/1964 Description: Two witnesses in Millinocket, Maine saw a fiery orange object which followed their car at 9:00 p.m. When this object, which was now seen to be spherical, approached to within 2-3 meters, the engine died and could not be restarted. The sphere was a fuzzy "ball of fire," only 75 centimeters in diameter. After five minutes, it flew away and the car could be started. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 607; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_3063 Source: Johnson ### Event 10602 (C20F4A9F) Date: 5/24/1964 Description: Sphere Near Side of Road / Car Wouldn't Start (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [640524](http://nicap.org/640524millinocket%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Millinocket, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_2712 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10603 (1D5CC069) Date: 5/24/1964 Time: 2100 Description: A man driving on Millinocket Lake Road saw a fiery, spherical object to the side. He stopped and left his car with a friend to observe it better. When they became afraid and walked back to the car, the sphere followed them; the engine could not be started as long as the sphere remained within 2 or 3 m of the car. It flew away after five min. It was described as a ball of fire without structure, about 75 cm in diameter. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Millinocket, Maine Source ID: Magnonia_607 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10604 (8FA1832B) Date: 5/26/1964 Description: At 3:43 p.m. on a cloudy afternoon, a thin, white ellipsoid or cigar-shaped object that was estimated to be three and a half times longer than it was high flew on a straight and level flight path over Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Wankowicz, a civilian witness, reported the sighting to the U.S. Air Force. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8836; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 152; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 51 Source ID: Johnson_3099 Source: Johnson ### Event 10605 (7B364C9F) Date: 5/26/1964 Description: Yellow-orange light, shaped like the bottom of a ball (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8839) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pleasantview, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2715 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10606 (86CEC5DD) Date: 5/26/1964 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a yellow-orange light shaped like the bottom of a ball (hemispherical) was spotted in a field and chased for two miles down a road in Pleasantview, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8839; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 51 Source ID: Johnson_3101 Source: Johnson ### Event 10607 (ABD7B744) Date: 5/26/1964 Description: In Palmerton, Pennsylvania a small disc orbited around a large domed object at ten o'clock in the evening. The two merge into one and fly off quickly to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_3100 Source: Johnson ### Event 10608 (DB72C1D0) Date: 5/26/1964 Description: 10:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. [Terry Balliet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/163835189/terry-balliet), their family, and two neighbors see two UFOs in the northwest sky near Palmerton, Pennsylvania. One is a large, stationary, dome-like object emitting hazy whitish light from the underside. A smaller disc-like object is intermittently visible maneuvering around the larger one. It finally merges with the large object, which moves away to the east. The large object is seen twice more in the evening, moving back and forth from east to west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Other Recent Sightings,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/023%20JUL-AUG%201964.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 \(July/Aug. 1964\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_3785 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10609 (C7AFB0B7) Date: 5/26/1964 Time: 7:43 PM Description: Witness: P. Wankowicz, RAF pilot and ex-Smithsonian satellite tracker. One thin, white ellipsoid (3.5 times as long as wide) flew straight and level for 3-4 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Source ID: BerlinerBBU_503 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10610 (15F3722F) Date: 5/26/1964 Time: 11 PM Description: Witness: Rev. H.C. Shaw. One yellow-orange light, shaped like the bottom of a ball, was spotted in a field and chased down the road for 2 miles. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Pleasantview, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_504 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10611 (345BBA03) Date: 5/26/1964 Description: 7:43 p.m. Paul Wańkowicz, RAF pilot and ex-Smithsonian satellite tracker, sees a thin, white ellipsoid, estimated at 15–20 feet in length at 1,000 feet altitude, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. It flies straight and level from nearly overhead to the east-northeast, where it disappears behind the roof of a Sears Roebuck store as viewed from his car in the parking lot to the south. He briefly loses sight of it as it passes behind cumulus cloud cover. No noise or trail. The tops of cumulus clouds are at least 3,500 feet altitude, thus the UFO’s speed is at least 700 mph and length 50– 70 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, \[[Blue Book documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/1964-05-26%20Cambridge%20Mass.pdf)\]; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 299 Source ID: Eberhart_3784 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10612 (8AC92AE1) Date: 5/26/1964 Description: Thin, white ellipsoid (3.5x length/width ratio) fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8836) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cambridge, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2714 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10613 (ACF01907) Date: 5/26/1964 Description: 11:00 p.m. Rev. H. C. Shaw sees a yellow-orange light shaped like the bottom of a ball in a field at Pleasant View, Pennsylvania, and chases it down the road for two miles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 299 Source ID: Eberhart_3786 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10614 (8D25AC99) Date: 6/1964 Description: 2:00 a.m. A young couple is driving home from a dance at a small place north of Santa Barbara, California, when a circular, glowing object silently appears above their car. They stop to watch. It is about 100 feet high and 40 feet in diameter and seemingly emits some heat. It hovers for 2 minutes then speeds off ahead of them, lighting up the valley as it goes and apparently traveling about 1,800–2,400 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1982\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_3788 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10615 (30A1BAD2) Date: 6/1964 Description: 6:30 p.m. Bert Gammie, his mother, and his daughter Lynn are driving along the northern shore of Green Lake, British Columbia, when they see a light above a mountain across the lake to the south. Soon they notice it is moving and is now almost directly overhead. He stops the car and gets out for a closer look. The object is circular, dull metallic, and has a series of vents in the tail trailing white, blue, red, and orange exhaust. They watch it for 3 minutes moving slowly to the north at about 50 mph and making a whistling noise. It makes a sharp right-angle turn, proceeds west, and disappears from sight. Gammie reports the sighting to the RCAF in Vancouver, and a senior air force officer visits him later and shows him a bulky portfolio of glossy UFO photos, many of them showing detailed features. Gammie tells him that the UFO he had seen did not exactly resemble any of the photos, and the officer tells him that the RCAF would not admit to interviewing him if the case receives any publicity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘That Awful Looking Shooting Star,’](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%203%20no%205%20-%201975.pdf)” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 5 \(1975\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_3789 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10616 (59FE2813) Date: 6/1964 Description: BUFOI magazine \(Belgian UFO Information\) is launched by a George Adamski group in Anvers, Belgium, and edited by May and Patrick Morlet. It runs until 1979. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [BUFOI Magazine](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/BUFOI%20Magazine/01%20-%20BUFOI%20Magazine%20-%20No%2001%20%284e%20annee%29%20-%20juin%201964.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/BUFOI%20Magazine/01%20-%20BUFOI%20Magazine%20-%20No%2001%20%284e%20annee%29%20-%20juin%201964.pdf) no. 1 \(June 1964\) Source ID: Eberhart_3790 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10617 (25097E84) Date: 6/2/1964 Description: 4:00 p.m. Charles Keith Davis is outside his grandmother’s home in Hobbs, New Mexico, when a small, tan, top-shaped object with a soot-like trail appears and hovers above the boy’s head, enveloping him in a cloud. He starts crying and screaming, and the object shoots straight up and disappears. His hair is singed and his face and ears are swollen and burned, although he does not feel any pain. They take him to the hospital, where doctors notice the soot embedded in his flesh. The burns respond well to treatment and he stays 5 nights in the hospital. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 191–192 Source ID: Eberhart_3791 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10618 (75708A6C) Date: 6/2/1964 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object with a very bright rectangular plate hovered over some new housing construction in Sunnyvale, California. It flew off rapidly toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 8; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 153 Source ID: Johnson_3228 Source: Johnson ### Event 10619 (CB1BD881) Date: 6/2/1964 Description: At 5:30 p.m. in Gateshead, England a teenager and nine children saw six dwarfs on Leam Lane. They were about 31 inches tall, were dressed in bright green clothes, and had luminous hands. They seemed to be searching for something. Later, another child reported seeing a silver disc the size of an automobile take off from the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, December 1964, p. 12; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 609; Jerome Clark & Loren Coleman, The Unidentified: Notes Toward Solving the UFO Mystery, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_3226 Source: Johnson ### Event 10620 (2AA3EB89) Date: 6/2/1964 Description: A fiery disc swooped down low over Hobbs, New Mexico at around 4 p.m., leaving behind some sooty trace remnants and burning a child. Surprisingly, the child reported that the burns did not cause any pain despite the fact that his eyes had swollen shut and he had black sooty deposits on his face, neck, and shirt. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 226; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 608; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 191 Source ID: Johnson_3227 Source: Johnson ### Event 10621 (BC149943) Date: 6/2/1964 Time: 1600 Description: A "black object with flames" is blamed for burns suffered by an 8-year-old child, who said he saw the object coming from the sky. His grandmother, Mrs. Frank Smith, who was standing nearby, heard a sound similar to that of a bullet, but saw nothing. The child suffered second-degree burns on his face, and lost part of his hair. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Saucer News Mar., 65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hobbs, New Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_608 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10622 (4B033A82) Date: 6/2/1964 Time: 1730 Description: David Wilson, 14, was going to get some straw for his rabbits when he stopped with other children to observe half-a-dozen dwarfs, about 80 cm tall, dressed in bright green, and having hands lighted "like electric bulbs," who seemed to be searching for something. Another child later reported that she had seen a silvery disk-shaped object, the size of a car, take off from the same location. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Dec.,64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Leam Lane, England Source ID: Magnonia_609 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10623 (4B35612D) Date: 6/3/1964 Description: At 8:45 p.m. three people at the Coppermine trading post, south-southwest of Page, Arizona saw an ovoid object fly in the southern sky for 15 minutes. It had a red misty glow. A second ovoid flew off to the northwest. There were a total of 10 separate observers. At 10:00 a luminous blue blimp-shaped object hovered low over New River, Arizona. It ascended and flew off to the south-southwest when it was illuminated by car headlights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 236, Flying Saucers magazine, June 1965, p. 29; (2) APRO Bulletin, July-August 1965 Source ID: Johnson_3245 Source: Johnson ### Event 10624 (EEF2B933) Date: 6/5/1964 Description: At about the same time, 3:00 a.m. E.D.T. on the morning of June 5th, 1964 a 10-foot diameter glowing ball was seen ascending slowly in the sky from a low altitude in Cleveland, Ohio. The ball of light ascended at a 45-degree angle, and was followed by 10 small lights. It also emitted blue light beams. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1964 Source ID: Johnson_3296 Source: Johnson ### Event 10625 (9B442193) Date: 6/5/1964 Description: While driving near the Pajas Blancas airport in Cordoba province, Argentina a doctor and his wife had the engine of their car fail at four o'clock in the morning. They then found a huge object on the road ahead of them. Its bright light went out, leaving only a violet colored light. After 20 minutes of no activity, a man approached the car and suggested that they try the car again. The engine started up. After telling the couple not to be afraid and that he was on a mission, the humanoid joined two others and all three entered the object. It then rose rapidly into the sky, leaving a violet-colored trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, citing Charles Bowen, The Humanoids; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 610 Source ID: Johnson_3295 Source: Johnson ### Event 10626 (FEA43A4C) Date: 6/5/1964 Description: A 42-year-old doctor and his wife were 30 km away from the airport when an intensely bright object appeared on the road ahead. They drove very close to it and saw three men dressed in gray, one of whom told him in Spanish that "they had a mission on Earth." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 39 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pajasblancas, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_610 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10627 (F82FA65C) Date: 6/6/1964 Description: A reddish orange rectangular object with a lower appendage was seen low over a road in Rio Choromoro, Argentina at 9:30 p.m. It had black stripes and two vanes rotating in a clockwise direction. It was also surrounded by smoke or vapor. It absorbed a smaller object a few meters above the road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_3321 Source: Johnson ### Event 10628 (560CF20D) Date: 6/8/1964 Description: Also on the same night five witnesses, including Sheriff L. C. Brinkerhoff of the Big Horn County, Wyoming sheriff's department had a close encounter with a blue-green UFO that hovered over the badlands near Burlington, Wyoming. It reacted to the sheriff's spotlight by beaming a ray of light into the patrol car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 6; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 30; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 170 Source ID: Johnson_3370 Source: Johnson ### Event 10629 (4CBFF47F) Date: 6/8/1964 Description: In 1964 Mrs. Helen Reed of Lawrenceville, Illinois observed a 15-foot-wide, domed, spinning object around 10:30 p.m. It was moving five meters above the ground and less than 20 meters away. It made sharp, 90 degree turns, and had colored lights emanating from the dome (blue turning to red), and bands of yellow light. The object went out of sight behind some trees to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 8; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 14; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 300 (case 611) Source ID: Johnson_3369 Source: Johnson ### Event 10630 (CA220FC6) Date: 6/8/1964 Time: 2230 Description: Helen Reed observed a spinning object 5 m above ground,less than 20 m away, coming and going with right-angle turns. It had a dome from which colored light emanated (blue turning to red) and bands of yellow light. The object was lost to sight behind trees in the north. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lawrenceville, Illinois Source ID: Magnonia_611 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10631 (DDFB6CF0) Date: 6/12/1964 Description: Police Chief Richard Crawford of Elmore, Ohio spotted a bright, motionless blinking object emitting multi-colored lights near the intersection of Route 51 and Nissen Road at 10:15 p.m. Some kind of halo surrounded it. After about 20 minutes a spotlight was aimed at the object, and it went away. It was again seen at the local school half an hour before midnight, at an altitude of about 1000 feet, flying at a good speed to the northwest, toward the town of Genoa. It made the sound of a bullet flying by one's ear. Crawford radioed another policeman and asked him to meet him at a certain point. The other officer arrived there first, and witnessed the object giving off bursts of light once per second. It took off again when Crawford arrived, changed course at high speed, and was lost to sight in a few seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, pg. 37 Source ID: Johnson_3440 Source: Johnson ### Event 10632 (2E5F27DD) Date: 6/12/1964 Description: A domed disc-shaped UFO hovered near the main power station in Hallam, Victoria, Australia at 5:55 p.m. It then flew away to the northwest toward Melbourne. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 100 Source ID: Johnson_3439 Source: Johnson ### Event 10633 (3390E609) Date: 6/13/1964 Description: 3 glowing white spheres, glowing red on their sides (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8870) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2717 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10634 (20FD1807) Date: 6/13/1964 Time: 2100 Description: Karen Fahle saw a bright object coming to the ground about 200 m away. While approaching its lights blinked and turned to dark red. Five min later it went away slowly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: AMUFO Sep., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Penberville, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_612 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10635 (BC2C5546) Date: 6/13/1964 Time: 9:15 PM Description: Witness: B.L. English, announcer for radio station WTOD. Three glowing white spheres, glowing red on their sides, moved slow, hovered and then moved in circles very fast, all the while making a low, rumbling sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Toledo, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_505 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10636 (209CD2F3) Date: 6/13/1964 Description: At 9:00 p.m. Karen Fahle of Penberville, Ohio saw a bright object coming to the ground about 200 meters away. While approaching, its lights blinked and turned to dark red. Five minutes later it flew away slowly. At 9:15 pm. B. L. English, a radio announcer at WTOD Radio in Toledo, Ohio saw three glowing white spheres, glowing red on their sides, move slowly through the sky, hover, and then move in fast circles. They made a low, rumbling sound as they flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 612; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8870 Source ID: Johnson_3458 Source: Johnson ### Event 10637 (93DC0367) Date: 6/14/1964 Description: Charles Englebrecht, age 18, went outside at 9:30 p.m. in Dale, Indiana when his TV and all house lights suddenly failed. He saw a glowing blue-white object, about 30-cm in diameter, land about 18 meters away in a field. He felt a mild electric shock when he tried to approach it and was unable to move forward toward the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 300 (case 613) Source ID: Johnson_3474 Source: Johnson ### Event 10638 (2E79EA67) Date: 6/14/1964 Description: That same evening at 9:30 p.m. three prominent citizens of Salta, Argentina--a lawyer, an engineer, and a businessman--were driving along highway 9 when a rectangular shaped UFO, reddish-orange in color, dove down several times in front of them. The first time the UFO caused such tremendous condensation on all their windows that they had to stop and wipe the windows. When the thing reappeared they saw that it was about 16 feet high, 20 feet wide, and had what appeared to be two big blades revolving clockwise as it flew along silently above the road. Some distance ahead there was a stationary rectangular dark red light about 50 cm square. To their amazement they saw the larger object scoop up this light and vanish at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, "Argentina 1963/64--Part IV", FSR, May 1966, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_3475 Source: Johnson ### Event 10639 (6E397743) Date: 6/14/1964 Description: 8:35 p.m. Charles Englebrecht, 18, is watching TV at home in Dale, Indiana, when the house lights and TV suddenly go out. He notices that a small, bright orange-colored, basketball-sized object has landed in his back yard. As he goes out the side door and tries to approach it, he feels a tingling sensation and has difficulty moving. After a few seconds the sphere takes off and goes over the nearby barn. Several items in the backyard have been moved \(lawn mower, chicken feeder\). He smells sulfur or burning rubber and find three imprints in a triangle with the dimensions of 2 feet by 4.5 feet by 4.5 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Dale Landing Case](http://www.nicap.org/640624dale%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3792 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10640 (26C8C43D) Date: 6/14/1964 Time: 2100 Description: Charles Englebrecht went outside when his TV set and all house lights suddenly failed and saw a glowing blue-white object, about 30 nn in diameter, land about 18 m away in the field. He felt a mild electric shock when he tried to approach it and was unable to move forward. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Dale, Indiana Source ID: Magnonia_613 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10641 (6A8D9C9E) Date: 6/15/1964 Description: At 11:10 p.m. a 25 foot in diameter domed disc with a red light on the bottom hovered 20 feet away and at only 20 feet above the ground of a 20-year-old man name Angelos in Lynn, Massachusetts. It gave off a vapor and made a whining noise. The man was temporarily paralyzed during the encounter, which lasted over a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 8; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 14; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 329 Source ID: Johnson_3498 Source: Johnson ### Event 10642 (806C754D) Date: 6/15/1964 Description: A miner, R. A. Donoso, driving a car 20 kilometers from Arica, Chile saw a strange machine land. It was 10 feet long and 3.5 feet wide. Two fair-skinned men emerged from the craft. They spoke in a mixture of Spanish and English, and asked for water. Donoso took some water from his car radiator for them and they left. The UFO left by ascending vertically into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 39; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 614 Source ID: Johnson_3497 Source: Johnson ### Event 10643 (E5A4624E) Date: 6/15/1964 Description: A miner, R. A. Donoso, observed a strange machine land. From it emerged two fairskinned men who asked for water in a language which appeared to be a mixture of English and Spanish. Donoso took some water from his car radiator for them and they left. Their craft was about 3 m long and 1 m wide. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 65; 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Aria, Chile Source ID: Magnonia_614 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10644 (9BFE4C48) Date: Summer 1964 Description: Late evening. A couple saw a creature over 6' tall with gold, glowing eyes and wide shoulders. Body hair not obvious; had pointed chin and large ears. Just vanished from short distance. (Stringfield; Skylook-93,9) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Point Isabel, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2716 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10645 (B2BD4C87) Date: Summer 1964 Description: 10:00 p.m. A meteorologist at Westford, Massachusetts, sees a bright lightning flash 5 miles to the south. At the same time, his car headlights and the headlights of an approaching car go out, as well as his radio. No thunderclap is heard. He notes that the sky is clear and there are no thunderstorms in the entire Boston area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Astronomers and UFO’s: A Survey, Part 2, Sightings,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_3787 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10646 (26CA7EAC) Date: 6/23/1964 Description: Fifteen or more flying discs paced a car on Highway 60 in Vero Beach, Florida. The object tipped back and forth as they did so. They first formed a V-formation, then reformed into a circular formation, then split the formation and flew on either side of a grove of trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_3618 Source: Johnson ### Event 10647 (5566852D) Date: 6/23/1964 Description: Author of “Behind the Flying Saucers” and journalist Frank Scully dies in Palm Springs, CA. In 1988 his large archive of 1950’s-early 60's material (personal notes, private correspondences, newspaper clippings, etc.) is contributed by his wife Alice to the American Heritage Center (University of Wyoming) in Laramie, WY. Type: death Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Scully) Location: Palm Springs, CA Source ID: Maj2_619 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10648 (C1BEFF38) Date: 6/24/1964 Description: Fifteen or more disc-shaped objects paced a truck driver and his wife in Vero Beach, Florida in the predawn hours. The discs flew along, tipping back and forth. They formed a V formation, then a circular formation; finally the objects split the formation and passed on either side of a group of trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_3638 Source: Johnson ### Event 10649 (DB3B4597) Date: 6/25/1964 Description: In Spring Valley, Nevada a spinning top-shaped UFO w pyramidal sides and a two-foot long pedestal was seen resting on the ground. It was about the size of a Jeep and was a "shiny plastic" color. It rose ten feet off the ground, then landed again. Took off and flew in a horizontal direction. A UFO very similar in appearance was sighted in South Carolina on June 30, 1964. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping, July 1, 1964; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics Source ID: Johnson_3652 Source: Johnson ### Event 10650 (27FD4A36) Date: Late 6/1964 Description: Mysterious Markings in Field Baffle Perry County Farm Family. A five foot circular burned circle, with three intensely burned circles arranged in a triangular shape as though made by table legs were discovered in the alfalfa field. (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rome, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2722 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10651 (FB29683C) Date: 6/27/1964 Description: Teenage UFO buffs [Allen H. Greenfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FH.%5FGreenfield), [Rick Hilberg](http://www.mufonohio.com/mufono/2015confSUMM.html), and Dale Rettig hold the first Congress of Scientific Ufologists in Cleveland, Ohio. It becomes an annual meeting and changes its name to the National UFO Conference, which runs until 2005. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[National UFO Conference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FUFO%5FConference)”; “[Ufologists to Meet,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94917664/)” Lexington \(Ky.\) Herald, June 22, 1964, p. 20; Story, [p. 91](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/90/mode/2up); David Halperin, “[Cleveland 2015: ‘Congress of Scientific](https://www.davidhalperin.net/cleveland-2015-congress-of-scientific-ufologists-50th-reunion/) [Ufologists’ 50th Reunion,](https://www.davidhalperin.net/cleveland-2015-congress-of-scientific-ufologists-50th-reunion/)” davidhalperin.net, June 25, 2015; National UFO Conference, “[Congress of Scientific](https://nationalufoconference.wordpress.com/tag/congress-of-scientific-ufologists/) [UFOlogists](https://nationalufoconference.wordpress.com/tag/congress-of-scientific-ufologists/)” Source ID: Eberhart_3793 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10652 (C789C7F3) Date: 6/29/1964 Description: Vehicle encounter, top-shaped UFO (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: NICAP: [640629](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/640629dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lavonia (near), GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2721 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10653 (C8B29F79) Date: 6/29/1964 Description: Brilliantly lit top-shaped object made head-on passes at car, paced ahead of it, hovering and darting motions Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Lavonia, GA Source ID: HallUFOE2_15 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10654 (54C190A5) Date: 6/29/1964 Description: Vehicle encounter, top-shaped UFO, strange effects (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [640629](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/640629dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lavonia (near), GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2720 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10655 (33375857) Date: 6/29/1964 Description: Vehicle encounter, top-shaped UFO and strange effects (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: NICAP: [640629](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/640629dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lavonia (near), GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2718 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10656 (53C00F48) Date: 6/29/1964 Description: Lavonia, Georgia - Driving near the Georgia-South Carolina border late in the evening, Beauford Parham experienced a close encounter with a huge, amber colored, spinning top-shaped UFO. It made a hissing sound "like a million snakes". The witness felt a burning sensation in his body while the UFO hovered just in front of car for more than a minute as he travelled along at 65 mph. The UFO went up over the car, leaving a strong odor like "embalming fluid" and a gaseous vapor covered his car. The UFO came straight at his car again and the engine of his car began to miss. He stopped the car, and the object "spun like crazy" and then took off, disappearing in a split second. Parham's hands continued to burn even after he washed them. An oily substance on the car persisted after several washings, and the car's hood was warped with bubbled up paint. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, pg. 248 Source ID: Johnson_3728 Source: Johnson ### Event 10657 (618E2FC8) Date: 6/30/1964 Description: 1:00 a.m. [Beauford E. Parham](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37321359/beauford-e%5F-parham) is driving near Lavonia, Georgia, on his way back from a business trip when he notices a brilliant light in the sky. It is moving towards his car at a 45° angle. In an instant it appears right in front of his headlights, no more than 5 feet away and a foot above the ground. Shaped like a giant top, it emits a “hissing sound like a million snakes.” The amber-colored UFO has a sharp, steeple-like cone rising from its top midsection. It moves above his car leaving a strong odor of embalming fluid and a gaseous vapor that leaves an oily substance over his car, even after repeated washings. After several passes over his car, it starts spinning and takes off vertically. Parham now notices his arms are beginning to burn. He immediately reports his sighting to the mayor of Lavonia, then personnel at the Anderson Regional Airport in South Carolina, where he meets local FAA officials who check his car for radiation. They get readings from the oily stains, as well as both his arms from the shoulder down. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Man Claims Car Buzzed by an Unknown Object,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99797672/)” Greenwood \(S.C.\) Index-Journal, July 3, 1964, p. 5; NICAP, “[Lavonia / Tallulah Case \(Radiation\)](http://www.nicap.org/640629lavonia%5Fdir.htm)”; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 71–72; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf), NICAP, 1969, pp. 5–7; Clark III 678–680 Source ID: Eberhart_3794 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10658 (4CF80CEF) Date: 6/30/1964 Description: In Wellford, South Carolina a disc-shaped object with an antenna followed a car for many miles beginning at one o'clock in the morning. It departed when the car's driver turned the car headlights off. The duration of the close encounter was 50 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 69 Source ID: Johnson_3747 Source: Johnson ### Event 10659 (45698E14) Date: 7/1964 Description: NICAP report, The UFO Evidence, released to Congress and news media. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_16 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10660 (E46B0941) Date: 7/7/1964 Description: Around 9:00 p.m. Three members of the [Henry Ivester](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197161459/henry-edward-ivester) family in Turnerville, Georgia, are watching TV when sudden interference prevents them from further viewing. They go out on the front porch and see an object moving silently above the trees 300 feet away. It stops to hover a few feet above a neighbor’s garden across the highway. Its bottom side is fully visible; on the dark upper side are three lights: red, clear, red. The red lights are blinking. As the object ascends, the lights go out. A brilliant green light then shines from the bottom, illuminating the trees. A foul odor “like embalming fluid or brake fluid” hangs in the air after the object leaves. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unearthly Objects](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94918975/) [Hovering in Sky?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94918975/)” Atlanta \(Ga.\) Constitution, July 17, 1964, p. 23; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 72–73; Clark III 679; “[An](https://theparanormaleffect.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/an-interesting-ufo-story-from-georgia/) [Interesting UFO Story from Georgia,](https://theparanormaleffect.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/an-interesting-ufo-story-from-georgia/)” The Paranormal Effect, October 3, 2010 Source ID: Eberhart_3795 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10661 (94BE83F3) Date: 7/7/1964 Time: 2100 Description: Nine persons from three different houses, including J. Ivester, described an object like "a flying top." TV interference was associated with the object's presence. It flew silently at tree height and hovered over the vard of Mrs. Russell Mickinan's house. The lower part was bright red, with three lights on the upper part. As it left, a green light illuminated the countryside. A powerful odor similar to "embalming fluid" was noticeable when police arrived. The next day, witnesses felt a burning sensation on their faces and arms. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Challenge 39 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Tallulah Falls, Georgia Source ID: Magnonia_615 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10662 (CE43549D) Date: 7/8/1964 Description: At 10:30 a.m. a man named Senac saw a three meter wide by 1.5 meter tall disc-shaped object hovering low over the roadside of the D-21 highway in Maraunats, Pyrenees-Atlantique department, France. Two short humanoids dressed in khaki were also seen walking by a hedge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fernand LaGarde, FSR, November-December 1969, p. 17; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, Volume 7, p. 44; UFO Nachtrichten, March 1970, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit Source ID: Johnson_3926 Source: Johnson ### Event 10663 (860DEF84) Date: 7/10/1964 Description: (McDonald list) Air/Grn Visual & Radar Confirmation (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [640710](http://www.nicap.org/640710cape%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Guardeau, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2723 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10664 (7DBF6368) Date: 7/12/1964 Description: At 5:25 p.m. a huge domed disc-shaped object paced an airliner flying from Leningrad to Moscow while over the city of Bologoye, Russia. It then shot away. One of the witnesses was a Russian scientist named Zaytsev. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, pp. 284-286; NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 6; J. Allen Hynek & Jacques Vallee, The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 292 Source ID: Johnson_4002 Source: Johnson ### Event 10665 (EC40F2C0) Date: 7/12/1964 Description: Assistant Professor Vyacheslav Zaitsev is aboard a Tupolev Tu-104 airliner above Bologoye, Tver Oblast, Russia, when he sees a huge disc with a domed cabin suddenly appear below the aircraft, fly a parallel course for a while, then swerve abruptly and speed away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Felix Ziegel, “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210023618901&view=1up&seq=103&skin=2021)” Soviet Life, no. 137 \(February 1968\): 28; “[Russian Scientist Confirms Important Cases,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/041%20MAR%201968.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 5 \(March 1968\): 6; Good Above, [p. 220](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/220/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3796 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10666 (49D956DA) Date: 7/14/1964 Description: A close encounter occurred on this evening in Tallulah Falls, Georgia. Miss P. Upton came running home nearly hysterical. While riding bicycles, she and a friend saw a low-flying object that terrified them. A strong unpleasant smell also was reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fate magazine, November 1964, p. 66; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 616 Source ID: Johnson_4051 Source: Johnson ### Event 10667 (A01D0357) Date: 7/14/1964 Description: After 11:00 p.m. Atlanta Constitution reporter [Tom Winfield](https://www.facebook.com/tomwinfield77) sees a top-shaped, misty-orange object circling above the southeast section of Gainesville, Georgia, at about 500 feet. It stops and hovers a few moments then shoots up out of sight. He takes a photo, but nothing registers on the film. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unearthly Objects Hovering in Sky?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94918975/)” Atlanta \(Ga.\) Constitution, July 17, 1964, p. 23 Source ID: Eberhart_3797 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10668 (3A1EE138) Date: 7/14/1964 Time: evening Description: Miss P. Upton came running home nearly hysterical. While riding bicycles, she and a friend saw a low-flying object that terrified them. A strong unpleasant smell also was reported. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fate Nov., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Tallulah Falls, Georgia Source ID: Magnonia_616 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10669 (608FC466) Date: 7/15/1964 Description: MP [Arthur Henderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FHenderson%2C%5FBaron%5FRowley) in the UK House of Commons asks the former Secretary of State for Air [Hugh Fraser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FHenderson%2C%5FBaron%5FRowley) about cooperation between the RAF and USAF in UFO investigations. Fraser says he is aware of the US Project Blue Book, and that 10% of the cases are insufficient evidence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 60](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/60/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3798 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10670 (110B95B8) Date: 7/16/1964 Description: At 11:15 p.m. four white lights in an echelon formation were joined by two more such craft. They closed in on an aircraft being flown by a Mr. Jannereth as he was flying 15 miles south of Houghton Lake, Michigan. They slowed rapidly, then paced his airplane for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 155; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 117; Don Berliner, Australasian UFOlogist, April 1999, p. 51, citing Project Blue Book case # 8924; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: Report on Multiple UFO, p. 143, citing Thomas M. Olsen Source ID: Johnson_4096 Source: Johnson ### Event 10671 (B550A835) Date: 7/16/1964 Time: 11:15 PM Description: Witness: Northern Air Service pilot K. Jannereth. Four white lights in a stepped-up echelon formation, were joined by two more. They closed in on the airplane, then rapidly slowed nd flew along with it for a total of 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 15 miles south of Houghton Lake, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_506 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10672 (38A33C61) Date: 7/16/1964 Description: Humanoid with dark suit and helmet, climbed on top of craft. Physical traces found at site Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Conklin, NY Source ID: HallUFOE2_17 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10673 (8CBA2892) Date: 7/16/1964 Description: A dome shaped object, as shiny as chromium, was seen in a field alongside a road by five boys at 12:30 p.m. in Conklin, Broome County, New York. A three-foot tall humanoid was seen in a tree. He was dressed in a black uniform with a black helmet, and wore two antenna wires and a visor. The being floated stiffly in a backwards motion out of the tree. The craft departed making a whistling sound. Three ground marks were found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Binghamton Press, July 17, 1964; Walter N. Webb, case investigation file; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 6; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 183 Source ID: Johnson_4095 Source: Johnson ### Event 10674 (0A75076C) Date: 7/16/1964 Description: Maneuvering Echelon Formation Closes On Airplane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 8924) Reference: NICAP: [640716](http://www.nicap.org/640716houghtonlake%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houghton Lake (15 miles south of), MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2724 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10675 (F72D70DD) Date: 7/16/1964 Description: Humanoid with dark suit and helmet, climbed on top of craft. Physical traces found at site (UFOE Section XII). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Conklin, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2725 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10676 (86EDE943) Date: 7/16/1964 Description: Pilot observed formation of four white lights joined by two others, paced aircraft for five minutes Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Houghton Lake, MI Source ID: HallUFOE2_18 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10677 (B4F88399) Date: 7/16/1964 Time: 1500 Description: Edmund Travis, 9, Randy Travis, 7 Floyd Moore, 10, and two other boys, saw a dwarf dressed in a black suit and a helmet, with a glass section in front of his face, which looked human. He appeared to request some water in a strange tone, which sounded "as if it came from a pipe." He then walked to a shiny machine partially hidden in the brush, as the boys ran home. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 59 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Conklin, New York Source ID: Magnonia_617 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10678 (30DBFC0F) Date: 7/16/1964 Description: Shortly after noon. Five boys \(Edmund Travis, Randy Travis, Floyd Moore, Billy Dunlap, and Gary Dunlap\) are playing around an apple tree at Conklin, New York, when they notice a shiny, dome-shaped object in a field along the roadside. Looking for the source of a whistling sound, the boys spot a 3-foot-tall humanoid figure crouching in a tree about 150 feet away. It is dressed in a shiny black uniform, short-sleeved shirt, and black helmet. The whistling appears to emanate from his stomach. The boys throw stones and apples at it, but the figure is too far away. After about 15 minutes, the figure, moving stiffly, falls backwards out of the tree and floats slowly into the bushes. They can see it crawling through the weeds back to the UFO. A round, flattened area is found in the field where the grass is crushed and bushes are broken. In the middle is dried, yellow moss that apparently has been subjected to great heat. Three depressions are where the UFO legs apparently were. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 296–297; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1964-07-16-usa-conklin.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1964-07-16-usa-conklin.htm) July 10, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_3799 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10679 (22660E91) Date: 7/20/1964 Description: 60 ft diameter round topped, flat-bottomed object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8942) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clinton, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2727 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10680 (1BD994A0) Date: 7/20/1964 Time: 4:45 AM Description: Witness: J.J. Winkle. One 60' diameter round-topped, flat-bottomed object with a long acetylene-colored flame shooting downward, flew straight and level, made a half loop, then rose up. Sighting lasted l minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Littleton, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_507 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10681 (393B5C28) Date: 7/20/1964 Description: Mr. J.J. Winkle in Littleton, Illinois reported to the Air Force that at 4:45 a.m. he observed a 60-foot diameter flying object with a round top and flat bottom. It had a long acetylene-colored flame shooting downward from underneath the object. It flew straight and level, made a half loop, then rose up in the sky. The duration of the sighting was about one minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 8942; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4235 Source: Johnson ### Event 10682 (C749AB8B) Date: 7/24/1964 Description: Mr. Malone and two other men saw a UFO maneuvering in the sky over Binghamton, New York at 9:00 o'clock in the evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1964, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_4353 Source: Johnson ### Event 10683 (EB01C131) Date: 7/24/1964 Description: (McDonald list) Brilliant Objects Tracked on GCA Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [640724](http://www.nicap.org/640724langley%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Langley AFB, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2729 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10684 (8841E28B) Date: Late 7/1964 Description: 4:30 p.m. Richard H. VanPelt and his teenage son are driving on Beeler Road south of Shawnee High School in Lima, Ohio, when they see a Saturn-shaped metallic object hovering above Breese Road 600 feet away. It is about 1,200–1,500 feet in the air and has a revolving ring around its center. It suddenly starts to move to the southwest, then tips on end and with tremendous speed goes straight up and out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard H. VanPelt, “[Letter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 3 \(June/July 1984\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_3800 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10685 (DB15AE9A) Date: 7/27/1964 Description: At 8:50 p.m. an engineer named Daubert saw an aluminum colored sphere with a luminous glowing ring that hovered for 4-5 minutes at 15 meters altitude over a farm in Sherburne, New York. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #8969; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 158; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 2 & 150 Source ID: Johnson_4433 Source: Johnson ### Event 10686 (54E29330) Date: 7/27/1964 Description: At 8:20 p.m. a witness named Borsa in Denver, Colorado sighted a white fireball, estimated to be the size of a car, that climbed slowly in the sky then sped up. The sighting lasted 2-3 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #8973; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 51 Source ID: Johnson_4434 Source: Johnson ### Event 10687 (6ABE2DFD) Date: 7/27/1964 Description: Aluminum-colored sphere with luminous ring hovered for four to five minutes. Air Force unidentified case Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Norwich, NY Source ID: HallUFOE2_19 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10688 (54AF1765) Date: 7/27/1964 Description: White ball of fire, the size of a car, climb slowly, then speed up (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8973) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Denver, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2731 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10689 (3419ABCF) Date: 7/27/1964 Description: Aluminum sphere with a flourescent luminous ring (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 8969) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norwich, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2730 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10690 (3AD9BB84) Date: 7/27/1964 Time: 2100 Description: An engineer stopped his car when he saw an aluminum-looking object, stationary, about 15 m above ground. The edge of the craft seemed fluorescent, and three beams of very bright light were emitted before it flew off at high speed. Total duration: 6 min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sherburne, New York Source ID: Magnonia_618 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10691 (E0D3137D) Date: 7/27/1964 Time: 8:20 PM Description: Witness: A. Borsa. One white ball of fire, the size of a car, climbed slowly, then speeded up. Sighting lasted 2-3 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Denver, Colorado Source ID: BerlinerBBU_509 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10692 (A8345555) Date: 7/27/1964 Time: 7:30 PM Description: Witness: Duabert, engineering supervisor. One aluminum sphere with a luminous ring, remained stationary for 4-5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Norwich, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_508 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10693 (3AE7E32F) Date: 7/28/1964 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a former Navy pilot named Lafferty and another man, both regarded as trustworthy, were at work in a field near Lake Chelan, Washington when they saw an intense light, cone-shaped, emitted from the ground. A similar light was observed in the sky when the one on the ground was turned off, then the reverse took place: the cone-shaped light in the sky emitted a burst which was responded to by one from the ground. A round, aluminium-looking object, about 10 meters in diameter, with one red and one white light, then appeared and descended to ground level with a strong whistling sound similar to a small jet.

High-pitched piercing voices, similar to those of children screaming while playing, were heard. After 40 minutes the craft took off. Before it did so, a jet aircraft flying at low altitude circled its position. On July 31st and August 1st, the densely wooded area where the light was seen was explored from a helicopter and on foot by Sheriff Nickell and a U. S. Air Force officer, but nothing was found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 619, citing U.S. Air Force ATIC Source ID: Johnson_4453 Source: Johnson ### Event 10694 (21D2B464) Date: 7/28/1964 Time: 2230 Description: A former Navy pilot and another man, both regarded as trustworthy, were at work in a field when they saw an intense light, cone-shaped, emitted from the ground. A similar light was observed in the sky when the one on ground was turned off, then the reverse took place. A round, aluminum-looking object, about 10 m in diameter, with one red and one white light, then appeared and descended to ground level with a strong whistling sound similar to a small jet. Piercing and high-pitched voices similar to those of children playing were heard. After 40 min the craft took off. Before it did so, a jet aircraft flying at low altitude circled its position. On Jul. 31 and August 1, the densely wooded area was explored from a helicopter and on foot by Sheriff Nickell and a U.S. Air Force officer, but nothing was found. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lake Chelan, Washington Source ID: Magnonia_619 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10695 (0BA4E0D5) Date: 7/28/1964 Description: Round Object Descends To Ground (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [640728](http://www.nicap.org/640728lakechelan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Chelan, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2732 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10696 (AFA3B672) Date: 7/29/1964 Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_20 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10697 (708A297E) Date: 7/30/1964 Description: A whitish, elliptical object followed a car, then landed in a field. The driver got out to observe it, but when the object started in his direction he became afraid and drove off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Sep., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Flemington, New Jersey Source ID: Magnonia_620 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10698 (0F4A07AB) Date: 8/1964 Description: 7:00 p.m. Raimo Blomqvist is visiting with his parents at their summer cottage at Kallavesi lake, Finland, when he suddenly notices a strange, colorful ball of light coming from the sky. The light approaches and turns out to be an oval glowing object. While it is hovering above the shallow water of an island he sees something fall from the object and hears a sound resembling hot metal touching cold water. The object shoots straight upward. Blomqvist recovers a 2–2.5-inch piece of stone. In 1975, Blomqvist contacts UFO investigators and gives them the stone. The fragment is x-ray analyzed at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, which states that it appears to be volcanic. Analysts at the University of Turku look at it with a mass spectrometer and conclude it is mostly iron, not a piece of ore, not volcanic, not a meteorite, and not machined, although it has been subjected to a temperature of around 650° C. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Fragment Fell from UFO,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201977%2012%2000%20-%20Vol%2026%20No%206.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 6 \(December 1977\): 1, 3; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 3 \(Mar. 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_3801 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10699 (ABB6D3FC) Date: 8/1964 Description: Midnight. Air Policeman Arthur McEnaney and other guards see a round UFO hovering above a four-silo Atlas complex near Francis E. Warren AFB, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 159 Source ID: Eberhart_3802 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10700 (100981BC) Date: 8/2/1964 Description: Gulf of Tonkin incident in Vietnam Type: war Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident) Location: Vietnam Source ID: Maj2_616 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10701 (EFD97852) Date: 8/7/1964 Description: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is passed, airstrikes against Vietnam begin Type: war Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution) Location: Vietnam Source ID: Maj2_617 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10702 (06F33AFD) Date: 8/9/1964 Description: 9:00 p.m. Baltazar Flores, Franciso Perez, Ruben Lozaya, and Elpidio Salas are camping near the Cerro Viejo, Sonora, Mexico, where they plan to explore for minerals. Suddenly a “dark, cloud-like object” approaches at high speed. As it passes by, the trees shake and they hear an explosion. They return the next day and less than 2 miles from their campsite they find a compact, gelatinous mass of green-turquoise color about 8 inches long. When they poke it with a stick, the stick becomes covered with a sticky substance like chewing gun. They report the incident to the authorities, but no one is interested. One of the witnesses returns 3 days later and finds most of the mass gone, with some residue on the rocks and grass. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Strange Gelatinous Fall in Mexico,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2011%2000%20-%20November.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, November 1964, p. 1; Clark III 1102 Source ID: Eberhart_3803 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10703 (E447713D) Date: 8/10/1964 Description: Saw a reddish, blinking light approach the runway (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 9031) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wake Island (on the airstrip), Wake Island Source ID: NICAP_DB_2733 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10704 (55F625B1) Date: 8/10/1964 Time: 5:16 AM Description: Witnesses: aircraft commander Capt. B.C. Jones and navigator lst Lt. H.J. Cavender, in parked USAF C-124 transport plane. One reddish, blinking light approached the runway, stopped and made several reverses during 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Wake Island Source ID: BerlinerBBU_510 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10705 (091AF39A) Date: 8/10/1964 Description: Blinking red light approached air base runway, hovered, reversed direction. Air Force unidentified case Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Wake Island Source ID: HallUFOE2_21 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10706 (035DED28) Date: 8/10/1964 Description: On Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii, an aircraft commander and his navigator (Lt. Cavender and Capt. Jones) were sitting in a parked C-124 transport plane at 5:15 a.m. when they sighted a red, blinking light approach the airfield runway. The light stopped and made several reverses over the next two minutes. Project Blue Book lists this case as an "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9031; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 2; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4819 Source: Johnson ### Event 10707 (B3A36AB0) Date: 8/11/1964 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_22 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10708 (66AD27CB) Date: 8/11/1964 Description: A domed disc-shaped UFO was seen spinning over a water tank at a car-manufacturing factory in Defiance, Ohio at 5:30 p.m. It made a hissing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1965, p. 5; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 103 Source ID: Johnson_4869 Source: Johnson ### Event 10709 (2D229AE2) Date: 8/11/1964 Description: 5:30 p.m. John Dodson, 15, and Frankie Jimenez, 14, are walking near the railroad tracks south of State Highway 281 east of Defiance, Ohio, not too far from the General Motors foundry. They see a slowly rotating whitish disc apparently hovering above a GM water tank. The object has a lighted flange-like base, a dome on top, and is making a whirring or hissing noise. It begins to move horizontally at a moderate speed, then shoots up vertically and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Maney Reports Boys’ Sighting,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201964%2011%2000%20-%20November.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, November 1964, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_3804 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10710 (28CA5752) Date: 8/12/1964 Time: 2200 Description: Witnesses got out of their car to watch an object resembling a "burning haystack," oval or crescent-shaped, which rose from the ground, crossed the sky, and was lost to sight in the south. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Brekkens Corner, Montana Source ID: Magnonia_621 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10711 (B35B3B37) Date: 8/15/1964 Description: 10 ft x 5 ft bullet-shaped object with wavy lines on the front part (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 9048) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New York City, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2734 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10712 (29900B22) Date: 8/15/1964 Time: 8:15 AM Description: Witnesses: E.J. Haug, of the San Francisco Orchestra and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and C.R. Bubb, a high school mathematics teacher. Three bright silver, round objects, in a stack formation, flew very fast, changing positions within the formation. The sound of rushing air was heard during the 3-4 second sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Yosemite National Park, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_512 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10713 (38F2381A) Date: 8/15/1964 Time: 1:20 AM Description: Witness: S.F. D'Alessandro. One 10'x5' bullet-shaped object with wavy lines on the rounded front part and six pipes along the straight rear portion, made a "whishhh" sound. Witness' dog growled during sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: New York, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_511 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10714 (C87B4763) Date: 8/15/1964 Description: 3 bright silver, round objects, in a stack formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 9049) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yosemite Park, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2735 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10715 (22E7C3A4) Date: 8/15/1964 Description: At 8:15 a.m. E. J. Haug of the San Francisco Orchestra and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and C. R. Bubb, a high school mathematics teacher, sighted three UFOs while vacationing at Yosemite National Park, California. The three bright silver, round objects flew in a stack formation at a high speed, changing positions within the formation. The sound of rushing air was heard during the 3-4 seconds that the sighting lasted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5034 Source: Johnson ### Event 10716 (9832CE4B) Date: 8/15/1964 Description: At 1:20 a.m. in New York City, New York Mr. S. F. D'Alessandro watched a 10' x 5' bullet-shaped object with wavy lines on the rounded front part and six pipes along the straight rear portion fly through the sky, making a "whishhh" sound. The witness's dog growled during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5033 Source: Johnson ### Event 10717 (9E2EC8E7) Date: 8/18/1964 Description: Major D.W. Thompson and First Pilot Lt. J. F. Jonke were flying a U.S. Air Force C-124 transport plane 200 miles over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Dover, Delaware. At 12:35 a.m. they sighted a round, blurry, reddish-white object that appeared to be on a collision course with their C-124 from ahead and below. The airplane evaded the object. The sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_5125 Source: Johnson ### Event 10718 (C9C16228) Date: 8/18/1964 Description: Object On Collision Course With C-124 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 9053) Reference: NICAP: [640818](http://www.nicap.org/640818atlantic%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dover (Atlantic, 200 miles E of), DE Source ID: NICAP_DB_2736 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10719 (A9ECE0AA) Date: 8/18/1964 Description: 12:35 a.m. USAF Major D. W. Thompson and First Pilot 1st Lt. J. F. Jonke are flying a C-124 transport with the 31st Air Transport Squadron, 1607th Air Transport Wing, 200 miles east of Dover AFB in Delaware at 9,000 feet over the North Atlantic. A blurred reddish-white glare appears ahead and 500 feet below them on a collision course. Thompson takes evasive action, and the light makes a right turn and disappears. Air traffic control shows nothing on their radar in that location. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object on Collision Course with C-124](http://www.nicap.org/640818atlantic%5Fdir.htm)”; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 50–51](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/50/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 300 Source ID: Eberhart_3805 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10720 (16230A73) Date: 8/18/1964 Time: 12:35 AM Description: Witnesses: Maj. D.W. Thompson and First Pilot lst Lt. J.F. Jonke, on a USAF C-124 transport plane. One round, blurred, reddish-white object was on a collision course with the C-124 from ahead and below. The airplane evaded the object. Sighting las ted 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Atlantic Ocean, 200 miles east of Dover, Delaware Source ID: BerlinerBBU_513 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10721 (40E41E91) Date: 8/22/1964 Description: 9:35 p.m. [Robert D. Briele](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26340920/robert-d-briele)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26340920/robert-d-briele) an engineer for WFBR-AM radio, and a friend watch a lighted triangular object pass directly overhead in Baltimore, Maryland. Through binoculars he can see a steady white light at each corner. A small green light is also on one corner and a red light in the center. The object moves slowly and silently from northeast to southwest, disappearing in 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Sighting Wave Persists,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/024%20SEPT-OCT%201964.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 12 \(Sept./Oct. 1964\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_3806 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10722 (88B3C74F) Date: 8/25/1964 Time: 2230 Description: Richard Pratt, 17, heard a whistling noise and saw a silvery, oval object surrounded with a soft white glow, supporting a dome, which went down to ground level. A similar object had been observed one hour earlier at Littleton, about 50 km west, by four boys. It was described as silvery gray, with three blinking red lights and a white light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Sep., 64 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lynn, Massachusetts Source ID: Magnonia_622 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10723 (199AB03B) Date: 8/25/1964 Description: An hour later in Lynn, Massachusetts another witness, 17-year-old Richard Pratt, heard a whistling sound and sighted a second domed disc. It was described as a silvery oval twenty feet in diameter, with a soft white glow and a lighted rim. It descended to below the treetops, only 300 feet away from the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation file, report dated August 31, 1964; NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1964; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 622).622 Aug. 25, 1964 Lynn (Massachusetts Source ID: Johnson_5318 Source: Johnson ### Event 10724 (9A8F7816) Date: 8/25/1964 Description: A silvery gray object with a dome on top, blinking red lights, a solid white light, and lights on the rim was sighted at close range by four boys in Littleton, Massachusetts at 9:30 p.m. It hovered with a fluttering motion near the ground, then finally shot off at high speed. The witnesses were able to approach to within 500 feet of the craft before it left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation file, report dated August 29, 1964 Source ID: Johnson_5317 Source: Johnson ### Event 10725 (DEBCBDEA) Date: 8/26/1964 Description: At 9:20 p.m. a red ellipsoid pulsated as it flew over Melrose, Massachusetts. It had an orange-red halo, as seen through a telescope. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 330 Source ID: Johnson_5361 Source: Johnson ### Event 10726 (FD9F5535) Date: 8/28/1964 Description: At 10:05 p.m. a ten-foot in diameter yellow ball of light crossed highway in front of a car being driven by Mr. P. Ellis in Littleton, Massachusetts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 330; Raymond Fowler case investigation dated September 11, 1964 Source ID: Johnson_5417 Source: Johnson ### Event 10727 (73818354) Date: 8/30/1964 Description: Night. Clifford Runyon and Connie Thies are driving from Tipton to Bennett, Iowa, when they see a cigar- shaped object with two bright lights hovering 500 feet up in the eastern sky. The UFO climbs as they drive toward it, and their radio goes out and the car engine sputters. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Sighting Wave Persists,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/024%20SEPT-OCT%201964.pdf)” UFO Investigator 2, no. 12 \(Sept./Oct. 1964\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_3807 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10728 (C55B5BD5) Date: 8/30/1964 Description: At around 10 p.m. a man and a woman driving between Tipton and Bennett, Iowa sighted an eighty-foot long cigar-shaped object that hovered at 500 feet altitude. When it climbed, their car radio went blank, and the car's engine lost power. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, p. 22; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_5491 Source: Johnson ### Event 10729 (40AA6BE9) Date: 9/4/1964 Description: Shortly before 8:00 p.m. two teenagers in Glassboro, New Jersey were approached by two tall blond men, who had long hair and were barefoot. They asked the boys if they were interested in seeing a UFO. They walked to an apple orchard where they saw a red light land in the woods, and then take off. A burnt crater was found by the NICAP investigator, with tripod indentations. The US Air Force was called and performed a perfunctory, sloppy investigation of the case, but NICAP did a more thorough job. In addition to the burnt area and ground marks, some white powdery balls were found that were cold to the touch. After touching them the witnesses' hands retained numbness for 24 hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1964, p. 1; Jean Bastide, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1977, p. 11, citing NICAP field investigator Campbell Source ID: Johnson_5627 Source: Johnson ### Event 10730 (8AFED2D6) Date: 9/4/1964 Description: That same evening two men had gone bow hunting in the forest near Cisco Grove, California. One of the men, Mr. D. Shrum, age 28, became lost and climbed a tree. It was then, at around 10:00 p.m., that he noticed a domed object with a blinking light on top descend and land. Two short humanoid beings, wearing silvery white coveralls, and a robot-looking creature got out and approached his location. They attempted to climb the tree after him in an apparent effort to capture him, but were unsuccessful. The robot released a vapor that drifted up to him and made him groggy, but before he lost consciousness he was able to tie himself to the tree trunk with his belt. He shot arrows at the robot, but the arrows just bounced off and caused no damage. The beings remained in the area, as far as he could tell, for most of the night. He stayed in the tree for eleven hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 137; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 248; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 21; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 210; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 221; UNICAT, case 297 Source ID: Johnson_5628 Source: Johnson ### Event 10731 (18292322) Date: 9/4/1964 Description: Hunter in tree saw 3 flying silvery lighted objects 1/4 mile away (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [640904](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/640904dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cisco Grove (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2738 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10732 (29FB0CAF) Date: 9/4/1964 Description: Humanoids and "robots", physiological effects (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [640904](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/640904dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cisco Grove (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2737 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10733 (81AFE5FC) Date: 9/4/1964 Description: A bow-and-arrow hunter separated from his companions was treed by humanoid and robot-like beings after a UFO was observed descending Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Cisco Grove, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_23 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10734 (873E7352) Date: 9/4/1964 Description: Declassified documents show that from 1962 through 1964, the CIA has spent a total of $2.6 million to finance the campaign of [Eduardo Frei Montalva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%5FFrei%5FMontalva) for the presidency of Chile and spent $3 million in anti–[Salvador](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador%5FAllende) [Allende](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador%5FAllende) propaganda “to scare voters away from Allende’s FRAP coalition.” [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) coordinates the action. The CIA considers its role in the victory of Frei a great success. They argue that “the financial and organizational assistance given to Frei, the effort to keep [\[Julio\] Durán](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio%5FDur%C3%A1n) in the race, the propaganda campaign to denigrate Allende—were ‘indispensable ingredients of Frei’s success,’” and they think that his chances of winning and the good progress of his campaign would have been doubtful without the covert support of the US. Thus, in 1964 Allende loses once more as the FRAP candidate for president. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Salvador Allende](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador%5FAllende\#Political%5Finvolvement%5Fup%5Fto%5F1970)” Source ID: Eberhart_3808 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10735 (5E5782F4) Date: 9/5/1964 Time: 2200 Description: A hunter, who had lost his way in the mountains, observed approaching lights that seemed to land. From a vantage point in a tree, he saw a dome-shaped object at ground level, about 500 m away. Several creatures, one of them a robotlike figure with "eyes" about 10 cm in diameter, came near, apparently trying to dislodge the witness from his tree. The creatures appeared to fear the light from flaming objects thrown at them. The witness fell asleep after an exhausting series of attempts to keep the creatures away. At dawn there was nothing to be seen. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cisco Grove, California Source ID: Magnonia_624 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10736 (01817704) Date: 9/5/1964 Time: 2100 Description: Chafredo Dagota observed a circular object that came to the ground briefly. It stood on a sort of pillar and emitted a blinding light. He caught sight of two figures moving near it. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cofico, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_623 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10737 (653CC2E5) Date: 9/5/1964 Description: On a farm in Cofico, near Salta, Argentina a saucer-shaped object touched down briefly at 9:00 p.m. It stood on a kind of cylindrical pillar, giving out a blinding light. Near it the witness, Mr. Dagota, got a blured glimpse of two figures moving about. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0607, citing Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1966, p. 26; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 623 Source ID: Johnson_5652 Source: Johnson ### Event 10738 (9F7C2529) Date: 9/5/1964 Description: 10:00 p.m. Donald Schrum and his friends are bow-and-arrow hunting in an isolated area of Placer County, California, near the Loch Leven Lakes in the vicinity of Cisco Grove. Schrum becomes separated from his companions. At sunset he decides to sleep in a tree for the night. Later he sees a white light zigzagging at low altitude and, thinking it is a helicopter, jumps out of the tree and lights fires to attract its attention. The light turns toward him and stops about 50–60 yards away. The object’s strange appearance frightens Schrum, so he climbs back up in the tree. After a while two humanoid beings and a robot-like creature approach the tree. From then on, Schrum is in a state of siege as the beings try to dislodge him from the tree. At one point a white vapor emanates from the robot’s mouth and Schrum blacks out, but wakes up again, nauseous, and begins lighting matches and throwing them down to frighten the beings away; they back away. Finally, he shoots an arrow at the robot; when it hits, there is an arc flash and the robot is knocked backwards. This is repeated two more times, and the humanoids scatter each time. A second robot appears and a vapor renders Schrum unconscious. When he awakes, he discovers that the two humanoids are climbing up the tree toward him, so he shakes the tree and throws things down at them to ward them off. The same actions are repeated all night. Near dawn, more beings approach and “large volumes of smoke” drift up and he blacks out. He awakes hanging from his belt, and the creatures are gone. Later, when reunited with his companions, Schrum finds that one of the other hunters, who also have gotten lost and separated from their camp, saw the UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Cisco Grove / Alien Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/640904ciscogrove%5Fdir.htm)”; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf), NICAP, 1969, pp. 17–23; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 210–212](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/210/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 301; Clark III 236–240; Ted Bloecher and Paul Cerny, “The Cisco Grove Bow and Arrow Case of 1964,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 16–22, 32 Source ID: Eberhart_3809 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10739 (A56EAB3B) Date: 9/6/1964 Description: On that same evening in Medford, Massachusetts at 11:45 p.m. EDT, a 25' wide royal blue glowing UFO bounced up-and-down as it moved across the sky horizontally. It had a red light revolving around its perimeter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 330 Source ID: Johnson_5681 Source: Johnson ### Event 10740 (DAF02186) Date: 9/6/1964 Description: A saucer-shaped UFO touched down briefly in Cofico, Argentina around nine o'clock in the evening. It stood on a single pedestal that looked like a pillar, and gave off a blinding light. Nearby the UFO the witness, Mr. C. Dagota, got a blurred glimpse of two figures moving about. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_5680 Source: Johnson ### Event 10741 (2C650E2F) Date: 9/7/1964 Description: A silver colored, egg-shaped object with two rows of windows was sighted at night over Daytona Beach, Florida. It was estimated to be over 200 feet long. Inside 12 "large people" could be seen moving about. The witness was familiar with blimps and aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher investigation files, case investigation dated February 11, 1965 Source ID: Johnson_5718 Source: Johnson ### Event 10742 (D099F336) Date: 9/10/1964 Description: Chemist P. H. De Paolo in Cedar Grove, New Jersey sighted four white lights at 7:09 p.m. They were seen in the northern sky, heading west for 45 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5824 Source: Johnson ### Event 10743 (F555ED20) Date: 9/10/1964 Description: 4 white lights, 3-4 \[degrees?\] apart, to the N, going W (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 9104) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cedar Grove, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2739 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10744 (41435E6A) Date: 9/10/1964 Time: 7:09 PM Description: Witness: chemist P.H. DePaolo. Four white lights, 3-4 apart, were seen to the north, going west for 45 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Cedar Grove, New Jersey Source ID: BerlinerBBU_514 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10745 (B6EAA1C5) Date: 9/11/1964 Time: 0600 Description: Karen Campbell was scared by an oval, dull copper object that flew low over her car. It measured about 1.2 m in height, had a dome on top, made a "rushing" noise, and seemed to "float" over the car. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 148 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ulysses, Oklahoma Source ID: Magnonia_625 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10746 (045CC715) Date: 9/14/1964 Description: 10:55 p.m. Astronomers Luis Ferro and Renato Matteassi at the San Miguel Observatory, Buenos Aires, Argentina, watch an object with the apparent size twice that of the Moon passing across the constellation Lyra. The central portion is white and green, while the rear looks like half-rings of blue. Its speed is estimated as three times the speed of sound. They watch it for 3 minutes moving toward Jupiter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[Argentina](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%203.pdf) [1963/1964: Part IV,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 \(May/June 1966\): 28 Source ID: Eberhart_3810 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10747 (F55C3545) Date: 9/15/1964 Description: The Big Sur Filming / UFO Disables Dummy Warhead ? (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [640915](http://nicap.org/6409XXbigsur%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Big Sur, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2740 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10748 (BDE151C3) Date: 9/15/1964 Description: 8:27 a.m. USAF Lt. Robert Jacobs is officer-in-charge of photo-optical instrumentation for the 1369th Photographic Squadron at Vandenberg AFB \[now Vandenberg Space Force Base\] near Lompoc, California. His crew films an SM-65F Atlas missile launch where a UFO allegedly causes the ICBM’s warhead to malfunction over Big Sur, California. At the time of the filming, apparently no one knows anything about a UFO sighting. But the next morning, Jacobs is ordered to report to the office of Maj. [Florenz J. Mansmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123924772/florenz-john-mansmann), First Strategic Aerospace Division, his commanding officer, where he is shown the film and told to forget it ever happened. Kingston George, the project engineer for the experiments and who probably never saw the film, “identified” the object as “nothing to do with UFOs” in an article in the Skeptical Enquirer. Before Mansmann’s death, and 40 years after the actual event, the major confirms the UFO incident in writing. The controversy centers on the opinions of some researchers who suggest that the telescope imaging system is not adequate enough to produce the results described by Jacobs and Mannsman. However, several other researchers have shown that, with the viewing conditions at the height of the equipment used, and the imaging systems operating at that shoot, the incident could have occurred as described. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Big Sur Filming / UFO Disables Dummy Warhead?](http://www.nicap.org/6409XXbigsur%5Fdir.htm)”; Robert Jacobs, “[How a UFO Destroyed an American Rocket,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2029%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 1 \(October 1983\): 23–24; Kingston A. George, “[The Big Sur ‘UFO’: An](https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1993/01/22165151/p77.pdf) [Identified](https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1993/01/22165151/p77.pdf) [Flying Object,](https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1993/01/22165151/p77.pdf)” Skeptical Inquirer 17 \(Winter 1993\): 180–187; Robert Hastings, “A Shot across the Bow: Another Look at the Big Sur Incident,” IUR 31, no. 1 \(January 2007\): 3–11, 20–24; Mark Rodeghier, “Image Resolution of the Optical System at Big Sur,” IUR 31, no. 1 \(January 2007\): 20; Robert Hastings, “Answers on Big Sur,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(Mar. 2008\): 18; Robert L. Hastings, “[UFOs](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/ufos-are-stalking-and-intercepting-dummy-nuclear-warheads-during-test-flights) [Are Stalking and Intercepting Dummy Nuclear Warheads during Test Flights,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/ufos-are-stalking-and-intercepting-dummy-nuclear-warheads-during-test-flights)” UFOs & Nukes, August 23, 2011; Nukes 187–217 Source ID: Eberhart_3811 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10749 (1D01695A) Date: 9/15/1964 Description: James Warren was awakened by a noise, and saw an object bearing blinking red and green lights fly over his house at treetop level. He called the police, who also reported seeing the object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fate Jan., 65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Core Lane, Louisiana Source ID: Magnonia_626 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10750 (EEE223D9) Date: 9/16/1964 Description: 6:55 p.m. Several teenagers at Little Hulton, Greater Manchester, England, watch a noiseless, pearly white triangular object traveling with its base forward toward the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Manchester Disbeliever’s Testimony,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CNov-Dec%2CV%2010%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1964\): 25 Source ID: Eberhart_3812 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10751 (CD08EA58) Date: 9/18/1964 End date: 9/24/1964 Description: Numerous high-speed UFOs are reported and tracked on radar in an area between Surabaya, Malang, and Bangkalan, Java, Indonesia. Antiaircraft batteries and Air Force pilots reportedly open fire on them, even though officials suspect they could be British aircraft from the [HMS Victorious](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%5FVictorious%5F%28R38%29) protecting Malaysia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 429](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/428/mode/2up); Rahadian Rundjan, “[Mencari UFO di Langit Indonesia,](https://historia.id/sains/articles/mencari-ufo-di-langit-indonesia-PzM3G/page/1)” Historia, June 19, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_3813 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10752 (9439FF95) Date: 9/20/1964 Description: At 10:00 p.m. four lens-shaped objects were observed from Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut province, Argentina flying in a curved trajectory out to sea. They gained altitude, but then suddenly dipped and plunged into the sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1968; Wendelle Stevens, Saga UFO Report, March 1977, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_6126 Source: Johnson ### Event 10753 (FBC5ED28) Date: 10/1964 Description: Air Force and Army radar stations tracked an UFO as it hovered over and flew along the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. The UFO was visible for over an hour. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Korea Source ID: Maj2_620 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10754 (F6ABC16D) Date: 10/1964 Description: An engineer and three technicians at the Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, see a triangular- shaped object speed in from the north, make a 90° turn, and disappear in under a minute. They all agree that it moved faster than a jet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 \(July 1965\): 48– 49 Source ID: Eberhart_3815 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10755 (70298E58) Date: 10/1/1964 Description: At 12:50 p.m. a 24-foot diameter dark disc-shaped object passed over an industrial plant in Danvers, Massachusetts. It flew under a cloud at 2,500 altitude, at an estimated speed of 300 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 21, 330 Source ID: Johnson_6470 Source: Johnson ### Event 10756 (6D8609AC) Date: 10/6/1964 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a thirty-foot in diameter silver domed disc hovered 30 feet over nearby trees in a cemetery in Haverhill, Massachusetts only 150 feet from the two male witnesses. It had a glowing bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated October 8, 1964; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 23 & 330 Source ID: Johnson_6601 Source: Johnson ### Event 10757 (7F356ACF) Date: 10/7/1964 Description: 11:10 p.m. R. Shannon and his wife see a blood-red triangle in the sky above Dulwich, London, England. They watch it for 10 minutes before it begins revolving swiftly, almost to a blur, then explodes silently and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: R. Shannon, “[Dulwich De-Materialisation?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CJan-Feb%2CV%2011%2CN%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1965\): 28 Source ID: Eberhart_3816 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10758 (397F8797) Date: 10/7/1964 Description: At 3:30 p.m. a grayish black wingless object w two stubby fins in the rear portion followed a C-119 "flying boxcar" transport plane over Waltham, Massachusetts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_6630 Source: Johnson ### Event 10759 (29178D0A) Date: 10/11/1964 Description: Engineer, others, observed dome-shaped object following jet fighters. UFO shot straight up and out of sight (UFOE Section IV). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brockton, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2741 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10760 (C64354BD) Date: 10/11/1964 Description: Engineer, others, observed dome-shaped object following jet fighters. UFO shot straight up and out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Brockton, MA Source ID: HallUFOE2_24 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10761 (FC4ADA24) Date: 10/11/1964 Description: D. Hanson, an engineer, and two others observed a domed disc-shaped object being followed by jet fighters in Brockton, Massachusetts at four o'clock in the afternoon. The UFO shot straight up and was gone from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ray Folwer, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 331 Source ID: Johnson_6762 Source: Johnson ### Event 10762 (7B07CCCC) Date: Late 1964 Description: Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander 1Lt. Philip E. Moore is on duty in Site 7 \(east of Hagerman, New Mexico\), one of the 579th Strategic Missile Squadron’s underground Atlas missile launch facilities at Walker AFB \[now closed\] in Roswell, New Mexico. He gets a call from an adjacent missile silo around 10–15 miles away, saying that a UFO is hovering and maneuvering over their site. Maj. Dan Gilbert sends three enlisted crew members—T/Sgt. Jack Nevins, Airman1C Bob Garner, and Airman 1C Mike Rundag—above ground to see what is going on. They see a silent light that moves very quickly \(instant stop and instant go\) back and forth between Site 6 and Site 8. Gilbert goes up and sees the same activity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 152–157 Source ID: Eberhart_3814 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10763 (B810B6BB) Date: 10/22/1964 Description: Flying Saucer Review editor [Waveney Girvan](https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/ian-waveney-girvan-as-a-fortean) dies, and [Charles Bowen](http://www.isaackoi.com/ufo-personalities/bowen-charles.html) takes control and oversees the magazine until 1982, its most influential period. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles Bowen, “[Our Friend Waveney Girvan,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1964%2CNov-Dec%2CV%2010%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1964\): 5; Clark III 498 Source ID: Eberhart_3817 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10764 (13E0B01F) Date: 10/25/1964 Description: US Navy radar tracking (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caribbean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2742 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10765 (EB29281B) Date: 10/29/1964 Description: 12:00 midnight–3:00 a.m. Irene Page watches a sparkling ball of light that maneuvers around her yard, illuminating her property in Brimfield, Massachusetts. When she first sees it, the TV set fades, and lights in the room blink on and off several times. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flashing UFO Seen Three Hours,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2007%2000%20-%20July-August.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1965, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_3818 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10766 (E48AD4ED) Date: 10/29/1964 Description: At 6:10 p.m. a 100-foot-long yellow glowing cigar, tilted 15 degrees upward, descended out of some low heavy clouds in Arlington, Massachusetts. It had a dark area at one end, and two vertical black stripes in its midsection. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation files, report dated December 24, 1964; Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 331 Source ID: Johnson_7271 Source: Johnson ### Event 10767 (1F32EB9F) Date: 10/30/1964 Description: 50 cows reacted to low object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [641030](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ar-641030dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Somerset, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2743 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10768 (F9B9E8E1) Date: 11/1964 Time: 2300 Description: Mr. Lehel observed a lighted object at hilltop level, about 700 m away. At the site, a wide circle of crushed vegetation was found, three branches were broken, and a pole was calcined. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 76 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saint-Alexis de Montcalm, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_627 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10769 (354C540D) Date: 11/3/1964 Description: 8:15 p.m. A barking dog alerts the caretaker of the Butano Creek Girl Scout Camp near Pescadero, California. He goes outside and sees a bright light maneuvering erratically in the northeast. He flashes an SOS signal at it with a flashlight, and the light silently moves toward him. He flashes more SOS signals and it moves even closer, hovering above some trees a half mile away and moving back and forth. It lights up the sky like a full moon. The caretaker and another employee run into a cabin to get their wives. The four watch for a while longer, then flash another SOS. The light approaches again, then retreats, dims, and takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 242 Source ID: Eberhart_3819 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10770 (85A4D0C2) Date: 11/5/1964 Description: [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) writes to a citizen interested in the Socorro, New Mexico, case and affirms his opinion that [Lonnie Zamora](https://www.abqjournal.com/obits/profiles/0722057profiles11-07-09.htm)’s story was “told by a man who obviously was frightened badly by what he did see.” He says he cannot dismiss it as a hoax or hallucination. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 \(July 2010\): 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_3820 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10771 (05D9E9E6) Date: 11/9/1964 Description: 8:00 p.m. Trevor Foss responds to his son’s call to watch a light in the northern sky over Kailoa Station, Gisborne, New Zealand. Through night binoculars he sees a ball of light traveling south toward him. It takes 5 minutes to reach the southern horizon and has rotating light beams that project downward and to the rear, as well as 6 jet-like blue flames. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Farmer Observes Sphere,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1965, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_3821 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10772 (F12FC80B) Date: 11/14/1964 Description: Menominee Falls, Wisconsin - At 9:40 p.m. Dr. G.R. Wagner, M.D. and two girls sighted three dim, reddish lights that flew through a 160 degree arc in the sky in 5-6 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7668 Source: Johnson ### Event 10773 (02D5B9BF) Date: 11/14/1964 Description: Midnight. Astronomers at the San Miguel Observatory, Buenos Aires, Argentina, see an elongated, flat, reddish-orange object crossing the sky from east to west and then back again at a speed 4.5 times that of a satellite. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mystery Object over Argentina,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, January 1965, p. 2; Gordon Creighton, “[Argentina](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%203.pdf) [1963/1964: Part IV,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 \(May/June 1966\): 28 Source ID: Eberhart_3822 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10774 (9D82A6E3) Date: 11/14/1964 Description: 3 dim, reddish lights fly through 160° arc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 9170) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Menomonee Falls, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2744 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10775 (A03F754E) Date: 11/14/1964 Time: 9:40 PM Description: Witnesses: Dr. G.R. Wagner, MD; and two girls. Three dim, reddish lights flew through a 160^ arc in 5-6 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Menominee Falls, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_515 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10776 (BD1B147E) Date: 11/14/1964 Description: In 1964, at the Adhara Observatory in San Miguel, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, astronomers watched a nocturnal light move to the east, then back to the west to follow the Echo-II satellite. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, September 1966, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_7667 Source: Johnson ### Event 10777 (2A0089DA) Date: 11/16/1964 Description: Navy radar tracking of unidentified object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caribbean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2745 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10778 (92BCEEBF) Date: 11/17/1964 Description: Navy radar tracking of unidentified object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caribbean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2746 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10779 (80094151) Date: 11/18/1964 Description: Navy radar tracking of unidentified object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caribbean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2747 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10780 (4BBC1E6C) Date: 11/18/1964 End date: 11/19/1964 Description: Radar tracking of low altitude low speed object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: S Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Source ID: NICAP_DB_2748 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10781 (E7AFDD43) Date: 11/19/1964 Description: 9:00 p.m. The [USS Gyatt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FGyatt) destroyer is stationed in the Atlantic Ocean about 220 miles northwest of Puerto Rico when its radar detects a bogey approaching the island from the northeast at speeds exceeding Mach 1. The ship relays a message to Roosevelt Roads Naval Station \[now José Aponte de la Torre Airport\] in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, which then contacts Lt. Cmdr. K. H. Woodsbury, pilot of an F-8C aircraft of Utility Squadron Eight that is already flying in the neighborhood at an altitude of 30,000 feet. The aircraft reports a stranger closing in very fast. The pilot describes the object as delta-shaped and about the size of a fighter. Its color is black or gray and it has no contrail or lights except for a light source emitting from the tail during periods of acceleration. The pilot pursues the object but cannot intercept. The target accelerates out of sight in a wide starboard turn climbing through 50,000 feet at about an 18°–20° angle in excess of Mach 1. Woodsbury says: “Its speed, acceleration, ceiling and ability to decelerate exceed any aircraft I have ever seen or heard of. There is no reasonable explanation for this target.” During the encounter the SPS-49 radar is jammed for a short period of time. Other radar encounters take place in the Caribbean November 16–18 and 24. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[U.S.S. Gyatt Tackles Bogey](http://www.nicap.org/641120ussgyattdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 302 Source ID: Eberhart_3823 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10782 (6DA01688) Date: 11/19/1964 Time: Unknown time Description: Witnesses: unidentified military persons. One bright white flashing light was travelling from horizon to horizon in 20 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 1,400 miles east of Tokyo, Japan (34' 55' N, 164' 05' E) Source ID: BerlinerBBU_516 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10783 (6E107A5D) Date: 11/19/1964 Description: Approximately 1,400 miles east of Tokyo, Japan over the Pacific Ocean (34.92 N, 164.08 E) several military personnel sighted a bright white, unidentified flashing light. The light traveled from horizon to horizon in 20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7737 Source: Johnson ### Event 10784 (C7048A8C) Date: 11/19/1964 Description: U.S.S. Gyatt Tracks Bogey (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [641119](http://www.nicap.org/641120ussgyattdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: 220 miles NW of Puerto Rico, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2750 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10785 (25CF4C44) Date: 11/19/1964 Description: Bright white flashing light traveling from horizon to horizon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 9183) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tokyo (Pacific, 1400 miles E of), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2749 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10786 (735D8458) Date: 11/21/1964 Description: The FBI sends [Martin Luther King Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FLuther%5FKing%5FJr) a “suicide package” note that contains audio recordings of his sexual indiscretions and a letter telling him, “There is only one way out for you.” The FBI’s COINTELPRO program is also targeting [Malcolm X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%5FX)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%5FX)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO\#History)” Source ID: Eberhart_3824 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10787 (EAAA4517) Date: 11/22/1964 Description: 10:45 p.m. Private pilot [George Henry Lissauer](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80166135/george-henry-lissauer) is driving near Georgetown, South Carolina, when he sees two large, silvery, oval-shaped UFOs, each accompanied by 6–8 smaller objects. The formations are moving slowly at about 3,000 feet altitude. After 2–3 minutes, the smaller objects go into the larger objects and disappear. Lissauer goes directly to Myrtle AFB \[now Myrtle Beach International Airport\] and reports them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Increased](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/027%20JUN-JUL%201965.pdf) [Landings Hint New UFO Phase,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/027%20JUN-JUL%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 3 \(June/July 1965\): 2; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_3825 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10788 (EFB4A135) Date: 11/24/1964 Description: Navy radar tracking of unidentified object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caribbean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2751 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10789 (71E85F23) Date: 11/25/1964 Description: On this date in 1964, a famous UFO humanoid case lasting several hours was thoroughly documented by UFO investigator Ted Bloecher. Two women in New Berlin, New York watched the entire operation for four hours, beginning shortly after midnight. A luminous, disc-shaped object landed on a hill at a distance of 3,800 feet away from their house. Their dog became frightened. Ten to twelve 7'-8' tall men exited the craft and appeared to engage in repair activity, working underneath the disc. They appear to be unsuccessful in their repair activities at first, until a second disc landed, presumably to lend assistance. The UFO occupants wore dark close-fitting suits. Ground marks left at the site formed equilateral imprint triangles, 4.6 meters and 6.1 meters on a side. The UFOs made a humming or droning noise when they took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Schwarz Berthold E. Schwarz, UFO Dynamics: Book I, p. 163; Ted Bloecher, Skylook, July 1975, p. 3, Ted Bloecher, FSR, October 1974, p. 21; UNICAT, case # 699; APRO Bulletin, April 1975, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_7905 Source: Johnson ### Event 10790 (44E53C81) Date: 11/25/1964 Description: Two objects landed on hilltop, large group of humanoid beings engaged in apparent repair operation for four hours Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: New Berlin, NY Source ID: HallUFOE2_25 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10791 (E22828F8) Date: 11/25/1964 Description: Dog fearful as bright light hovered (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Berlin, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2752 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10792 (8F1E8207) Date: 11/25/1964 Description: 12:45 a.m. A 29-year-old woman sees two lighted objects land on a hilltop near New Berlin, New York. Through binoculars she can see some 9–11 humanoid beings apparently engaged in repair work on a round object with landing struts for four hours. Some of them are holding boxes filled with unusual gadgets. The next day, she and her husband and father-in-law find two equilateral triangular imprints on the site, as well as a cable with some thin aluminum strips and insulation. Around 4:55 a.m., one UFO shoots straight up and abruptly disappears, while the other rises straight up a minute later and follows the other one. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Berthold E. Schwarz, “[New Berlin UFO](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%203-4.pdf) [Landing and Repair by Crew,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%203-4.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3–4 \(November 1975\): 22–28 Source ID: Eberhart_3826 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10793 (E56B7F3D) Date: 11/26/1964 Description: The witness, an eight-year-old child at the time, reported that he and his family experienced the total electrical failure of their family car in Adams, Wisconsin on this night when they had a close encounter experience with a single bright, stationary light. At the same time, "trees looked like they were transparent." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, UNICAT database, case # 38, citing Frontiers of Science, January 1982, p. 13; Ray Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_7936 Source: Johnson ### Event 10794 (8C1B5D20) Date: 11/26/1964 Description: 11:00 p.m. A family of five in Adams, Wisconsin, is returning home from Thanksgiving dinner when an extremely bright light appears over their car, completely shutting off its headlights and radio. The father jumps out of the car and looks straight up into the light, shading his eyes with his hands, but he is persuaded to come back. Suddenly the light disappears and the electrical systems return. No one talks about the incident for 16 years, when the father says the light was “motionless like a floodlight of gigantic proportion.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Recently Reported,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 10 \(October 1981\): 5; “Out of the Not-Too-Distant Past.” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 \(Jan./Feb. 1982\): 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_3827 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10795 (5C21A577) Date: 11/30/1964 Description: A male witness driving in a car in Terryville, Connecticut saw an extremely bright object land in the nearby woods at 11 p.m. Burnt area, landing marks, and radioactivity found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1965, p. 2; John G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_8070 Source: Johnson ### Event 10796 (A1FD4A1A) Date: 12/1964 End date: 1/1965 Description: sighting concentration around Washington, DC, which led to CIA contact with NICAP to obtain information. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Washington DC Source ID: HallUFOE2_27 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10797 (653F1CD7) Date: 12/4/1964 Description: (McDonald list) Object Observed & Tracked on Radar For Two Hours (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [641204](http://www.nicap.org/641204baker%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baker, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2753 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10798 (306DB684) Date: 12/10/1964 Description: Recovery of Saucer by A.K. (initials). Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Fort Riley, KA See also: 11/65 Source ID: Maj2_621 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10799 (BFEFE447) Date: 12/19/1964 Description: 3:50 p.m. Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland tracks two large targets on radar moving at 6,900 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 \(July 1965\): 46–47; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 87](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/86/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 303 Source ID: Eberhart_3828 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10800 (BC2F9891) Date: 12/19/1964 Description: Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP case #(censured): Subject: UFOs over Patuxent Naval Air Station between 1500 and 1530 hours. Two UFOs approached Air Base at 3800 mph. Another UFO approached at 6000 mph. Radar operator, Chief Pinkerton had visual on Radar. US Coast Guard had “visual” on the UFOs. Official statement to press: the (single) blip was caused by faulty radar equipment! Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Patuxent Naval Air Station See also: 1/25/65 Source ID: Maj2_622 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10801 (F55FA062) Date: 12/19/1964 Description: Radar tracked 2 large target 10 miles apart heading directly toward the radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [641219](http://www.nicap.org/641219patuxent%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Patuxent River NAS, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2754 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10802 (48A8454F) Date: 12/21/1964 Description: Car Engine Fails After Object Lands (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [641221](http://www.nicap.org/641221harrisonburg%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisonburg, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2756 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10803 (B25ABA2C) Date: 12/21/1964 Description: Cone-shaped object crossed highway, car engine failed, object landed. Radioactive area found at landing site Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Staunton, VA Source ID: HallUFOE2_26 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10804 (A984C691) Date: 12/21/1964 Description: A gunsmith had a close encounter with a beehive-shaped UFO in rural Fisherville, Virginia. At five o’clock in the afternoon Mr. Burns was driving east on highway Route 250 east of Staunton when a 125-foot wide, beehive-shaped UFO slowly crossed the roadway ahead of him, causing his car to stall. As the metallic looking UFO descended it narrowly missed hitting some power lines. There was a bluish glow from the bottom. As it left, it rose to about 200 feet in altitude, tilted slightly, then disappeared quickly into the northeast. The car could then be restarted. Geiger counter tests showed abnormally high radioactivity in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 14; Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 171; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 136; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_8550 Source: Johnson ### Event 10805 (B5C91870) Date: 12/21/1964 Time: 1700 Description: Mr. Burns saw a huge object cross the road, hover at ground level in a field for less than one min, then take off vertically. There were other witnesses in the area. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Harrisonburg, Viginia Source ID: Magnonia_628 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10806 (E8BB4FB0) Date: 12/21/1964 Description: 5:00 p.m. Driving east on US Highway 250, Horace Burns is approaching Fishersville, Virginia, when an enormous object appears from the north and descends slowly in a gradual slant. Just before it crosses the highway 200 feet in front of him, the UFO narrowly misses power lines. It is so huge that when it passes nearly in front of him, it fills his entire windshield. The UFO comes down gently and lands in a field to Burns’s right. Meanwhile, Burns’s car engine has shut off. The object appears to be at least 125 feet in diameter and 80–90 feet high. After 60–90 seconds, it rises up several hundred feet, makes a sound like rushing air, and shoots off to the northeast, vanishing from sight. A high level of radioactivity is detected at the site December 30 by investigators German professor [Ernest G. Gehman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75655467/ernest-g-gehman) and engineer Harry M. Cook. They obtain a Geiger counter reading of 16–18 milliR/hr. Two Blue Book investigators—T/Sgt. David N. Moody and S/Sgt. Harold T. Jones—visit the site with Gehman on January 12 and take further readings \(1.5 milliR/hr on Burns’s left rear car door\). They dispute Gehman’s earlier results, but a possible 11x–12x drop in radiation level in 13 days possibly indicates a radionuclide with a 3–4 day half-life. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Saucer’ Reports](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94931172/the-daily-news-leader/) [Are Flying,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94931196/the-daily-news-leader/)” Staunton \(Va.\) Daily News Leader, January 15, 1965, pp. 1–2; NICAP, “[Car Engine Fails after Object Lands](http://www.nicap.org/641221harrisonburg%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Opposition Flap 1965,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CMay-Jun%2CV%2011%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 3 \(May/June 1965\): 3–4; Clark III 491–494, 950; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 303 Source ID: Eberhart_3830 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10807 (35CA902C) Date: 12/21/1964 Description: 4:50 p.m. Kenneth Norton Jr., 14, is looking out his bedroom window in Staunton, Virginia, when he sees a “fast-moving object without wings or tail structure.” He describes it as cigar-shaped and about 125 feet in diameter, in view for 5 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richmond \(Va.\) Times-Dispatch, January 15, 1965; “[‘Saucer’ Reports Are](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94931196/) [Flying,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94931196/)” Staunton \(Va.\) Daily News Leader, January 15, 1965, p. 2; Clark III 493 Source ID: Eberhart_3829 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10808 (AE74D5A9) Date: 12/21/1964 Description: Cone-shaped object crossed road, landed, sound heard. Radioactivity detected. (E) See Section I. Car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Staunton, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2755 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10809 (E398EA6F) Date: 12/22/1964 Description: A D-21 drone \(renamed from Q-12 in its transition to Project Tagboard\) mounted on an M-21 begins captive flight-testing at Area 51 in Nevada. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed D-21](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FD-21)” Source ID: Eberhart_3831 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10810 (1FFB0272) Date: 12/22/1964 Description: The first flight of an SR-71 Blackbird takes place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, piloted by Robert J. Gilliland. The SR-71 reaches a top speed of Mach 3.4 \(~2,588 mph\) during flight testing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FD-21)” Source ID: Eberhart_3832 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10811 (FC24564E) Date: 12/28/1964 Description: A 17 meter in diameter domed disc was spotted on the ground in Auckland, New Zealand at about 9:00 p.m. It had two rows of intense lights on the body of the craft, and a green light on the dome. The two female witnesses, Ms. Bender and Ms. Quinn, saw a door in the object open before they left. The sighting duration was four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 629, citing Spaceview; Bruce Cathie, Harmonic 33, p.105 Source ID: Johnson_8630 Source: Johnson ### Event 10812 (FA1370CE) Date: 12/28/1964 Description: Two young girls, R. Bender and J. Quinn, observed an object flying 17 m above the ground. It was shaped like two plates glued together, with two rows of intense lights, and a turret with a green light on top. When an opening became visible, the witnesses thought the thing was about to land, and they fled. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Spaceview ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Auckland, New Zealand Source ID: Magnonia_629 Source: ValléeMagnonia --- ## Year: 1965 (Back to Top) ### Event 10813 (2AA41E68) Date: 1965 Description: While visiting the Air Force Museum in Fairborn, Ohio, R.M. (initials), a government employee of 23 yrs., went through a double- door marked “Off Limits” and suddenly came face to face with an Alien in a self contained space suite. Description: About 4.5 ft. tall with a translucent dome over its’ large head; wasn’t human; large eyes under a heavy brow; no noticeable nose; a slit for a mouth; bluish skin. When the creature walked it didn’t bend its’ knees. R.M. later found out from a retired Air Force Colonel from Wight-Patterson AFB, that 2 live Aliens were held in captivity in an artificial environment. The Colonel also said that a 2-man sized craft crashed near Whitewater Lake, Indiana, as a result of an electrical disturbance in the atmosphere. (The Alien would have to lock his knees in a high-gravity environment to avoid falling down.) Type: alien sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY) Location: Fairborn, Ohio Source ID: Maj2_623 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10814 (77DA6324) Date: 1965 Description: Jean-Pierre D’Hondt founds Groupement Nordiste d’Études des OVNI in Lestrem, Pas-de-Calais, France. It publishes Recherches Ufologiques from 1977 to 1983. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Recherches Ufologiques](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Recherches%20ufologiques%20%28GNEOVNI%29/Series%201/Recherches%20Ufologiques%20-%20No%2001%20-%201977%20-%20Seray%20scan.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Recherches%20ufologiques%20%28GNEOVNI%29/Series%201/Recherches%20Ufologiques%20-%20No%2001%20-%201977%20-%20Seray%20scan.pdf) no. 1 \(1977\) Source ID: Eberhart_3837 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10815 (48DB127E) Date: 1965 Description: G. J. Kok and S. Sluis found the Werkgroep Nederlands Onderzoek Bureau voor UFOs \(later UFO-Workgroep Nederland\) in Uithuizermeeden, Netherlands. It publishes Tijdschrift voor Ufologie. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 215](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/215/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3839 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10816 (53E01955) Date: 1965 Description: A short color film of a “huge, windowed, hovering craft” with three smaller objects attached to it “as a kind of tail” is taken by a converted RAAF aircraft during a photo-mapping flight over central Australia. A door on the large object opens—two vertical panels and two horizontally aligned panels slide apart—and the three smaller objects fly inside. A US Air Force sergeant with a top-secret clearance is shown this clip at a CIA screening in Texas in 1967. He says the filmed image of the UFO is extraordinarily clear, filling the entire screen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Budd Hopkins, Missing Time, R. Marek, 1981, [p. 253](https://archive.org/details/missingtimedocum00hopk%5F0/page/252/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3843 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10817 (92BE4E98) Date: 1965 Description: A couple is driving on a country road in Buenos Aires province, Argentina, when their car engine begins to fail, so they pull over in front of a tree. They notice an object behind the tree that emits a luminous ray toward them that bends at three places, vertically and horizontally, to avoid the tree. The woman’s cheek feels as if something is probing her. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jean Bastide, La Mémoire des OVNI, Mercure de France, 1978; “[Beam of Light with Three](https://archive.org/details/missionwithlemay00lema/page/540/mode/2up) [Corners,](https://archive.org/details/missionwithlemay00lema/page/540/mode/2up)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 \(Dec, 1983/Jan. 1984\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_3842 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10818 (2DF30CA2) Date: 1965 Description: Ross Liverton reports a ring of bare earth, 8 feet wide, in the ground on Waiheke Island, New Zealand, where a UFO is seen. It remains visible for 4 years. The site contains some unidentified whitish material that resolves into fibers during a soil immersion test. Vallée says the material is “vegetal in nature.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Invisible College, pp. 36–37; Ted Phillips, “[Landing Report from Delphos,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201972%20N%209.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 9 \(February 1972\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_3841 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10819 (4F2BCCF8) Date: 1965 Description: Tomezo Hirata founds the Japan UFO Research Association in Kobe, Japan. It publishes JUFORA from 1967 to 1991. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_3840 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10820 (A0245CDC) Date: 1965 Description: Jacques Bonabot, Jean-Gérard Dohmen, and Roger Lorthioir found Groupement pour l’Étude des Sciences d’Avant-Garde in Bruges, Belgium. It publishes Bulletin du GESAG. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 135](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/135/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3838 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10821 (B88318C7) Date: 1965 Description: John Harney begins publication of the Merseyside UFO Research Group Bulletin in Liverpool, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Merseyside UFO Research Group Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/MUFORG%20Bulletin/MUFORG%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2006%20no%202.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/MUFORG%20Bulletin/MUFORG%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2006%20no%202.pdf) no. 2 \(June 1965\) Source ID: Eberhart_3836 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10822 (85D4ADFD) Date: 1965 Description: Less than 20% of the public believes in UFOs, according to polls and private Air Force and NICAP estimates. This soon rises to 33% by July. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 94](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/94/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3835 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10823 (15C3510C) Date: 1965 Description: USAF Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) writes in his autobiography that some UFOs are not explained very easily: “There is no question about it. These were things which we could not tie in with any natural phenomena known to our investigators.” He expresses his dislike of NICAP’s position that USAF is trying to muzzle the media. “There were some cases we could not explain,” he writes. “Never could.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Curtis E. LeMay, Mission with LeMay, Doubleday, 1965, [pp. 541–543](https://archive.org/details/missionwithlemay00lema/page/540/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3834 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10824 (B3EC6F3F) Date: 1965? Description: A-12 pilot [Ken Collins](http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/collins.html) continues to test A-12s at Groom Lake, Nevada. One night \(in 1964 or 1965 maybe\), he is awakened by base commander Col. [Hugh “Slip” Slater](http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/slater.html) and asked to take an A-12 up to find a Russian reconnaissance balloon that is floating in American airspace in a westerly direction with the prevailing winds. Collins is tasked with finding the balloon visually and using radar. In the air, he realizes it is a wild goose chase because, flying at 2,200 mph, even if he sees the balloon briefly it would be behind him in a second. He identifies an object on radar 350 miles away. He circles it as closely as he can, which is a circle with a radius of 400 miles. He never makes visual contact and returns to Area 51. [Jacobsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%5FJacobsen) says that this Soviet violation of US airspace has “never been declassified.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 195–196](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/194/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3833 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10825 (992F701C) Date: 1/1/1965 Description: Large Light Leading 7-8 Smaller Lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650101](http://www.nicap.org/650101norfolk%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norfolk, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2757 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10826 (D09A4AE2) Date: 1/3/1965 Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_28 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10827 (C89480AF) Date: 1/4/1965 Description: At 5:15 p.m. a procession of three bright, orange to red elliptical objects passed before observers in Bethel, Vermont at high speed and low altitude in rapid succession. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation, report dated January 18, 1965 Source ID: Johnson_86 Source: Johnson ### Event 10828 (BD2FDB1B) Date: 1/5/1965 Description: Aerospace engineer watched round glowing object move rapidly from horizon to nearly overhead Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Wallops Island, VA Source ID: HallUFOE2_29 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10829 (CDADE082) Date: 1/5/1965 Description: At 5:56 p.m. an aerospace engineer named Bruton on Wallops Island, Virginia watched a round glowing object that moved rapidly from horizon to nearly overhead at the NASA station in seconds. Radar tracked it at 6,000 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1965, p. 1; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, August 1965, p. 56; Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 14; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 150, 317; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 412 Source ID: Johnson_115 Source: Johnson ### Event 10830 (D0AA6B7E) Date: 1/5/1965 Description: 5:56 p.m. NASA engineer [Dempsey Bruton](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168449079/dempsey-bailey-bruton), head of the Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, observes a round, bright-yellow light rising from the horizon. The apparent size of the object is that of a nickel held at arm’s length. As the object reaches an overhead position, it disappears. The length of observation is approximately 8–9 seconds. The witness claims that his wife and brother-in-law also see the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Bright Yellow Light Flies Ahead](http://www.nicap.org/650105wallops%5Fisle%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3844 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10831 (424ED1BA) Date: 1/5/1965 Description: Light Stops & Starts (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650105](http://www.nicap.org/650105lynchburg%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lynchburg, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2759 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10832 (5B4DC0FD) Date: 1/5/1965 Description: Bright Yellow Light Flies Overhead (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 1) Reference: NICAP: [650105](http://nicap.org/650105wallops%5Fisle%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wallops Island, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2758 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10833 (2C50A34B) Date: 1/8/1965 Description: Two Lighted Objects Make U-Turn & TVI (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BB) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [650108](http://www.nicap.org/650108georgetown%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Georgetown, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2760 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10834 (EA0AF740) Date: 1/10/1965 Description: White Light In Level Flight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 2) Reference: NICAP: [650110](http://www.nicap.org/650110silversprings%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Silver Springs, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2763 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10835 (CDB27698) Date: 1/10/1965 Description: Hissing Object With Sparks (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 2) Reference: NICAP: [650110](http://www.nicap.org/650110Sboston%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Boston, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2762 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10836 (116D5151) Date: 1/11/1965 Description: At 4:10 p.m. several witnesses in Washington, D. C. reported seeing 12-15 white oval-shaped objects that moved in and up-and-down oscillating path as they flew along. The sighting lasted three minutes. Jet interceptors wereobserved in pursuit. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 14; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 128; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 171; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 76 Source ID: Johnson_252 Source: Johnson ### Event 10837 (30A01764) Date: 1/11/1965 Description: The Seaside (Oregon) Signal on January 12, 1965 noted that Mrs. Paul Zimmerman Gearhart and her two sons saw a triangular UFO which came slowly out of the southeast and then "suddenly plunged into the sea some miles offshore" at Tillamook Head, Oregon. It left two trails of fire behind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 42 Source ID: Johnson_253 Source: Johnson ### Event 10838 (C02EEFAF) Date: 1/11/1965 Description: Over A Dozen Ovals Chased By AF Jets (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650111](http://nicap.org/650111washington%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2764 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10839 (39E68122) Date: 1/11/1965 Description: Army Signal Corps communications system specialists observed 12-15 white ovals maneuvering erratically, with jets seen in pursuit Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: HallUFOE2_30 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10840 (DCD9A903) Date: 1/11/1965 Description: 4:20 p.m. At least 12 persons, including six Army Signal Corps communications system specialists, at the Munitions Building at Nineteenth Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., observe 12–15 white oval objects maneuvering erratically at 12,000–15,000 feet altitude above the US Capitol Building. Two delta- wing jets, apparently from Andrews AFB in Maryland, are seen in pursuit, but the objects easily outmaneuver them. Among the witnesses are Paul M. Dickey Jr., Edward Shad, Sam Webb, Jack McBride, and Sam Marrone. The objects are also tracked on radar. The Defense Department denies the incident, but the witnesses publicly maintain their story. The Pentagon forces a TV crew about to interview the witnesses to shut down that evening. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Over a Dozen Ovals Chased by AF Jets](http://www.nicap.org/650111washington%5Fdir.htm)”; Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 \(July 1965\): 47–48; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 67–68](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/66/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3846 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10841 (D5E67DE6) Date: 1/11/1965 Description: Mrs. Paul Zimmerman Gearhart and her two sons see a triangular UFO that flies slowly out of the southeast and then “suddenly plunged into the sea some miles offshore” at Tillamook Head, Oregon. It leaves behind two trails of fire. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sanderson, [InvRes](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs)[,](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs) p. 50 Source ID: Eberhart_3845 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10842 (9C98D355) Date: 1/12/1965 Description: At one o'clock in the morning Mr. Don Flickinger, a U.S. Border Patrol officer, had his patrol car buzzed by a bright round flying object in Lynden, Washington not far from the Canadian border. The UFO hovered, then acelerated away with the sound of rushing air. The object had been tracked on radar. That same night, a round, glowing 30 foot wide object with a dome on top landed on a nearby farm in Custer, Washington melting the snow in a 12 foot diameter circle. The object illuminated the yard, trees, and the side of the farmhouse. The circle was melted in snow 16 inches deep, and the ground beneath was also scorched. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April-May 1965, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 170; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 630; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 94; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 132; UNICAT, case # 396 Source ID: Johnson_276 Source: Johnson ### Event 10843 (FB0B3606) Date: 1/12/1965 Description: Driver Avoids Collision With 30' Object (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650112](http://www.nicap.org/650112blaine%5Fafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Blaine AFB, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2765 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10844 (A20492EE) Date: 1/12/1965 Description: 1:00 a.m. Department of Justice Inspector Robert E. Kerringer \[or is it Donald E. Flickinger, an agent of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms?\] is driving near Lynden, Washington, when he sees a low-flying object, 30 feet in diameter, that avoids collision with his car at the last moment. He gets out and sees it hovering for one minute, then it flies off at high speed with a sound of rushing air. He learns that nearby Blaine Air Force Station \[now closed\] is tracking the UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Driver Avoids Collision with 30ʹ Object](http://www.nicap.org/650112blaine%5Fafb%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 303; “[New Sightings Put AF on Spot,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/025%20MAR-APR%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 \(March/April 1965\): 4; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [pp. 54–55](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/54/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3847 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10845 (0427BA9E) Date: 1/12/1965 Description: Border Patrol officer saw bright disc illuminating ground, swoop down, hover near car, accelerate up into clouds with rushing air sound Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Lynden, WA Source ID: HallUFOE2_31 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10846 (C9056A4E) Date: 1/12/1965 Time: night Description: A member of a federal agency, who was driving toward the base, saw a low-flying object, 10 m in diameter, which avoided collision at the last moment. He got out of the car and observed it hovering for one min, then it flew off. at high speed. The object was tracked on radar. The same night, a round, glowing object with a dome on top landed on a nearby farm, melting snow in a 10 m diameter urcle. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Mar., 65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Blaine Air Force Base, Washington Source ID: Magnonia_630 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10847 (A6FD4F68) Date: 1/12/1965 Description: 10:58 a.m. The Kiwi Transient Nuclear Test is conducted at Area 25 of the Nevada Test Site as part of Project NERVA. The nuclear rocket engine code-named Kiwi is allowed to overheat until it bursts, sending fuel hurtling skyward. Deadly radioactive fuel chunks as large as 148 pounds shoot up into the sky and last as far away as a quarter mile. A radioactive cloud rises up to 2,600 feet, then drifts out over Los Angeles, California, and out to sea. The AEC calls it a “safety test,” but the USSR says it violates the test ban. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 309–](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/308/mode/2up) [310](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/308/mode/2up); Wikipedia, “[NERVA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA\#Kiwi)” Source ID: Eberhart_3848 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10848 (CA496705) Date: 1/12/1965 Description: 8:20 p.m. A Mrs. Jubert in Custer, Washington, sees through her window what seems to be the landing lights of an airplane apparently coming into her yard. She herds her three teenage girls outside in the opposite direction. The four lights merge into one intense white light, which moves in a straight line toward the house, lifts several hundred feet and clears a clump of evergreens, then dips down on the far side and touches the ground. A border patrol officer also sees the object after he is alerted by radio. He is buzzed by the UFO, which is low enough that he stops his car, gets out, and watches it move out of sight. Where the object lands in 16 inches of snow, they find a large circular imprint about 10–12 feet in diameter. The ground beneath the melted snow ring shows evidence of having been scorched. Oval-shaped tracks 8 inches long and 8 inches apart, in a single file, are found leading from the landing site to the evergreens, where they disappear. One month later, the circular area still shows traces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[New Sightings Put AF on Spot,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/025%20MAR-APR%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 \(March/April 1965\): 4; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 152–153](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/152/mode/2up); Ted Phillips, [Physical Traces Associated with](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf) [UFO Sightings](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf), CUFOS, 1975, p. 34 Source ID: Eberhart_3850 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10849 (8CFFC7BA) Date: 1/12/1965 Description: 6:30 p.m. A NASA public relations employee named Milliner and her husband are walking toward their house when they see a bright yellow object moving swiftly over the Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Virginia. They watch it for 2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 \(July 1965\): 48 Source ID: Eberhart_3849 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10850 (F12F2ECC) Date: 1/14/1965 Description: Cigar Larger Than B-52 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650114](http://www.nicap.org/650114thaxton%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Thaxton, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2766 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10851 (0E2D9B15) Date: 1/14/1965 Description: Many people witnessed brilliant nocturnal lights hovering and maneuvering over Lake Elsinore, California. They moved erratically in patterns; they also would brighten for five minutes and then dim for three minutes in a repeated cycle until after an hour they rose and disappeared to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lake Elsinore Valley Sun, January 21, 1965;

Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 228 Source ID: Johnson_314 Source: Johnson ### Event 10852 (E35944E8) Date: 1/14/1965 Description: At 8:50 p.m. seven UFOs paced a Quantas Airlines Electra flying between Auckland, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia. The sighting was confirmed by multiple radar units tracking the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April-May 1954, p. 4; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, August 1965, p. 57 Source ID: Johnson_311 Source: Johnson ### Event 10853 (CED62218) Date: 1/14/1965 Description: A newspaper boy in Riverside, California at 5:30 a.m. saw a 30 meter long football shaped UFO making a whining noise. It hovered at 135 meters altitude before it made a 180 degree turn and shot off to the southwest very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fate, July 1965; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 304; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1965 Source ID: Johnson_312 Source: Johnson ### Event 10854 (F31134D1) Date: 1/14/1965 Time: 2400 Description: James Myers saw an object rise from the ground, appearing as a bright, circular silvery craft. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fate Jul., 65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Norfolk, Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_631 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10855 (CB1C50C3) Date: 1/14/1965 Description: At midnight James Myers saw an object rise from the ground in Norfolk, Virginia. It appeared as a bright, circular silvery craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 14; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 631, citing Fate, July 1965 Source ID: Johnson_313 Source: Johnson ### Event 10856 (C91CD0C2) Date: 1/14/1965 Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Old Dominion college student James Myers sees a diamond-shaped object rise from the ground to 1,500–2,000 feet near Norfolk, Virginia. He loses sight of it behind a church and when it reappears it looks round, bright, and silvery. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 \(July 1965\): 49 Source ID: Eberhart_3851 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10857 (6E1AC0F3) Date: 1/14/1965 Description: At 10:00 p.m. that same night a newspaper reporter was driving between Enfield and Wilmot, New Hampshire when his car completely faiIed--lights, radio, and engine. He got out to investigate and heard a hum like an electrical whine, then saw a bright light 2,000-5,000 feet high. It was hovering, then moved away quickly on a straight trajectory. The lights and radio then came back on and the engine also started by itself. The whole sighting lasted only 15-20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Manchester Union Leader, January 16, 1965; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 137 Source ID: Johnson_315 Source: Johnson ### Event 10858 (EF0CAE5F) Date: 1/15/1965 Description: E-M Effects on Car and Radio (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650115](http://www.nicap.org/650115wilmot%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wilmot, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2767 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10859 (A2BC699D) Date: 1/15/1965 Description: Soviet subsurface nuclear explosion “Chagan”, crater had a diameter of 408m, 100m deep Type: atomic Reference: [link](https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Sovwpnprog.html#Chagan) Location: Kazakhstan Atomic type: subsurface Atomic KT: 140 Source ID: Maj2_624 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10860 (C123BE86) Date: 1/15/1965 Description: 10:00 p.m. Charles Knee Jr., a former newsman, is driving on State Highway 4A between Wilmot and Enfield, New Hampshire, when the radio suddenly stops, the lights on the car go out, and the engine quits. He loses control of the car and pulls to the side of the road and then hears a loud humming sound like a high- frequency electrical whine. He opens the car door, steps out, and sees a bright light below the cloud cover at around 2,000–5,000 feet altitude. It seems to hover for a moment and then takes off to the south. As the light leaves and the whine dies away, the headlights and radio come on and the motor starts by itself. The whole thing lasts about 15–20 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Manchester \(N.H.\) Sunday News, January 16, 1965; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 148–150 Source ID: Eberhart_3853 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10861 (DE218F42) Date: 1/15/1965 Description: At 10:00 p.m. five miles northwest of Wilmot, New Hampshire Mr. Knee saw a glowing light that made a humming sound. His car radio, lights and engine died while the luminous object hovered nearby; the electrical power returned when the UFO sped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter N. Webb case investigation files, case # 51 Source ID: Johnson_331 Source: Johnson ### Event 10862 (55265032) Date: 1/15/1965 Description: 9:45 p.m. Mathew Rybczyk is watching TV at his home in Manchester, New Hampshire, when the set goes blank. Going outside to see if the antenna is damaged, he sees a flashing light moving across the tree line to the east and making a humming noise. When the light disappears, the TV set comes on again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Manchester \(N.H.\) Sunday News, January 17, 1965; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), p. 148 Source ID: Eberhart_3852 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10863 (B4BBE680) Date: 1/18/1965 Description: Object With Rings Observed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650118](http://nicap.org/650118buchanan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Buchanan, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2768 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10864 (E5257E7E) Date: 1/19/1965 Description: Two Humanoids Approach Witness (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650119](http://www.nicap.org/650119brandsflats%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brand's Flats, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2769 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10865 (5AC2B878) Date: 1/19/1965 Description: Humanoid beings emerged from landed object at archery range, approached witness, who froze, apparently paralyzed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Brand's Flats, VA Source ID: HallUFOE2_32 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10866 (F229E087) Date: 1/19/1965 Time: 1815 Description: A workman cutting wood on the Augusta archery range saw two saucer-shaped objects, 30 m and 6 m in diameter, hovering in the sky. The smaller one landed, a door opened, and three pilots emerged. They looked human, but had a reddish-orange skin and staring eyes. One of them had "a long finger on his left hand." Their clothes were the same color as the craft, whose open door showed a strange light inside. The object was so highly polished that "I would bet on a clear day you could not see it at five thousand feet." The occupants spoke sounds that were not understood and reentered the object. The door outline could not be seen when it was closed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Brands Flat, Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_632 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10867 (8B57DE8F) Date: 1/19/1965 Description: 6:15 p.m. [William Blackburn](https://www.newsadvance.com/obituaries/blackburn-william-bill/article%5Fc6ee9c91-3a84-5e01-90c5-8d7a1ebffa85.html)[,](https://www.newsadvance.com/obituaries/blackburn-william-bill/article%5Fc6ee9c91-3a84-5e01-90c5-8d7a1ebffa85.html) a draftsman at a General Electric plant, is chopping wood at an archery range east of Staunton, Virginia, in an area known locally as Brands Flats. He sees two saucer-like shapes in the sky at 2,000–4,000 feet altitude. The larger one seems to be about 80 feet across. The smaller one, 20 feet across, descends quickly and silently and lands 45–55 feet away from Blackburn. A door opens, making a slight noise and revealing an interior light. Three figures, each 3 feet tall and wearing tight-fitting metallic-looking suits, emerge. They have reddish-orange skin and piercing eyes. One has an extra-long finger on its left hand. They speak in an unintelligible language, then return to the UFO. The door closes so perfectly that an outline cannot be seen, and the object takes off. The entire episode lasts only 5 minutes. Blackburn sees no traces in the snow, but thinks the object and humanoids are hovering. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Humanoids Approach Witness](http://www.nicap.org/650119brandsflats%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 196 Source ID: Eberhart_3856 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10868 (2E357A41) Date: 1/19/1965 Description: [Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) also meets for 90 minutes with retired Navy Capt. [John Lawrence Counihan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73932681/john-l-counihan) who is on the staff of Sen. [Thomas J. Dodd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FJ.%5FDodd) \(D-Conn.\). Counihan says that the Committee on Astronautics and Space Science would be considered “nutty” if it took up hearings, but it might be willing to consider an informal briefing by NICAP. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 306 Source ID: Eberhart_3855 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10869 (8031E6E7) Date: 1/19/1965 Description: NICAP Acting Director [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) meets with a CIA agent and passes on some UFO case information and other materials to OSI for preparation of a paper on UFOs. Hall is given a direct phone number for the agent’s office. He uses the phone line only once to “report some high-quality UFO sightings to the CIA.” He is also given a CIA security clearance without his consent or knowledge. A January 25 CIA memo confirming the meeting shows an inordinate amount of interest in NICAP, given the CIA’s mandate for acquiring foreign intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 231–234](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/230/mode/2up); Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 11, 354–358; Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/348/mode/2up) [349–350](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/348/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3854 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10870 (42B0DFD5) Date: 1/20/1965 Description: Occupants Observed In Glass-Like Object (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650120](http://www.nicap.org/650120longbeach%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Beach, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2770 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10871 (2A218DFF) Date: 1/21/1965 Description: Light Hovers Over Radio Tower (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650121](http://nicap.org/650121richmond%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richmond, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2771 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10872 (B182A401) Date: 1/22/1965 Description: Egg-Shaped Object Goes Up Then Dives (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650122](http://www.nicap.org/650122baltimore%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baltimore, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2772 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10873 (B321399B) Date: 1/23/1965 Description: UFO Hovering Over Field Stalls Cars (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: 9242) Reference: NICAP: [650123](http://www.nicap.org/650123williamsburg%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williamsburg, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2773 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10874 (EC150D73) Date: 1/23/1965 Description: Metallic-appearing, mushroom-shaped object, red-orange glow, at low level. Sound like vacuum cleaner heard, E-M effects on car Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Williamsburg, VA Source ID: HallUFOE2_33 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10875 (C90DCF7C) Date: 1/23/1965 Time: 8:40 AM Description: Witness: Mr. T.F. Mains. One mushroom or lightbulb-shaped object, 75-80' high, 25' diameter on top and l0' bottom diameter; metallic grey with a red-orange glow on the near side and a blue glow on the far side. The object made a sound like a vacuum cleaner. The witness' car electrical system was affected as the object moved away at an altitude of 4'. The sighting lasted 25 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Williamsburg, Virginia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_517 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10876 (385611FC) Date: 1/23/1965 Time: 0840 Description: A 31-year-old man driving a '64 Cadillac was at the intersection of U.S. Highway 60 and State Route 14 when the engine failed, and he had to stop by the side of the road. He then observed an object about 1.2 m above ground. It was shaped like a mushroom or an electric bulb, 25 m high, 8 m in diameter made noise similar to a vacuum cleaner had a metallic gray coIor, a red-orange light on one side, and a blue one on the other. It took off against the wind toward the west, at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Williamsburg, Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_633 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10877 (DD47218C) Date: 1/23/1965 Description: Williamsburg, Virginia - At 8:40 a.m. cars stalled near the intersection of US Highway 60 and State Route 614. A 31-year-old businessman named Mains, whose car had stalled, observed a mushroom-shaped object hovering over a nearby field about four feet off the ground, 500 feet away. It was metallic gray and about 75-80 feet tall. There was a red-orange glow coming from the near side, and a bluish glow from the far side. Soon the object rose slightly and then accelerated horizontally speeding off towards the west, making a noise like a vacuum cleaner. The sighting duration was 25 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, pp. 177-178; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 138, citing Project Bluebook; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 249 & 314; UNICAT, case # 283 Source ID: Johnson_440 Source: Johnson ### Event 10878 (9D731805) Date: 1/23/1965 Description: 8:40 a.m. Two separate cars driving in different direction stall out near the intersection of US Hwy 60 and State Route 614 in Lightfoot, Virginia. One of the drivers, [Thomas F. Mains](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154947421/thomas-f%5F-mains), sees a lightbulb- or mushroom- shaped object 75–80 feet tall and 10–25 feet wide, hovering over nearby field about 4 feet off the ground. It is metallic gray, with red-orange and blue lights and is making a vacuum cleaner noise. It suddenly accelerates horizontally to the west against the wind and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO Hovering over Field Stalls Cars](http://www.nicap.org/650123williamsburg%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 304 Source ID: Eberhart_3857 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10879 (3EB049F3) Date: 1/25/1965 Description: Night. Policeman Woody Darnall, his family, and several neighbors see a glowing object hovering on a mountainside near Marion, Virginia. It seems to explode and take off in a shower of sparks. A group of Marion residents and state forest officials climb to the area and find several treetops bent over and one green tree on fire where the UFO was seen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 \(July 1965\): 52 Source ID: Eberhart_3858 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10880 (4F96351E) Date: 1/25/1965 Description: Night. Nine persons near Fredericksburg, Virginia, see a UFO that resembles a “Christmas sparkler.” One witness says it looks like a spinning top spitting sparks out of the bottom as it moves up the Rappahannock Valley at treetop level. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 \(July 1965\): 52 Source ID: Eberhart_3859 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10881 (EF8F024E) Date: 1/25/1965 Time: night Description: Woody Darnell, policeman, his family, and several neighbors saw a stationary object on the ground. It took off with a shower of sparks. Several trees were found uprooted or calcined at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fate Jul., 65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Marion, Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_634 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10882 (83F30E45) Date: 1/25/1965 Description: Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP Case #(censured). Type: memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) See also: 12/19/64 Source ID: Maj2_625 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10883 (E2FE98CD) Date: 1/25/1965 Description: Square Object Size of Football Field (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650125](http://www.nicap.org/650125bedford%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bedford, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2774 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10884 (51407498) Date: 1/26/1965 Description: A group of teenagers, including Steve Miller, age 16, were driving on Route 250 near Brands Flats, Virginia at 7:30 p.m. when they saw a little man about 3 ½ feet tall sitting by the road watching the cars go by. He was wearing a silvery looking one-piece outfit. They got out of the car and pursued the little man. Two more little men joined the first and ran with him, and they easily outran the teens leaving no footprints in the muddy ground. The group then contacted the Staunton police, and within an hour a group of police were on the scene, as well as a young news photographer, Charles Weaver. Weaver, and another man named Huffer approached a barn, which the photographer entered first. Huffer heard his companion call out to him, and when Huffer entered the barn he found Weaver on the ground. Weaver claimed something struck him and knocked him down. The pair left the barn quickly, but as they fled they thought they saw a little man standing in front of the building. Weaver paused long enough to take a photo before joining up with the other investigators. The disposition of the photograph has never been determined. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-09 (A0619), citing a newspaper clipping, January 27, 1965 Source ID: Johnson_519 Source: Johnson ### Event 10885 (EC472726) Date: 1/26/1965 Description: Evening. Rev. H. Preston Robinson and others in Marion, Virginia, watch an object hovering 600 feet above the city. The object makes a steady buzzing sound and has several lights on its round bottom. Spinning clockwise, it shoots out of sight at fantastic speed. It emits a ball of fire as it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 \(July 1965\): 52 Source ID: Eberhart_3860 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10886 (56C0C941) Date: 1/26/1965 Description: Evening. Steven Houffer, 16, and six friends are driving on US Highway 250 near Brands Flats, Virginia, when they see a small man walking toward the road from a field. He sits down and peers intently at passing cars. Houffer stops the car and he and his friends get out. When they approach, the being runs up a hill. Two other entities appear and run in the same direction. They are all about 3.5 feet tall, wear silvery one-piece garments, and leave no footprints. Police officers conduct a search with local photographer Charles Weaver, but find nothing. Some time later, Houffer and Weaver see a “glowing aluminum barn,” which they go down to investigate. Weaver is walking around inside when something hits him on the head. The two turn to run after Weaver snaps a photo. In the light of the flashbulb, they see a little man standing by the barn. The photo is allegedly confiscated by government agents. A local man, Donald Cash, 6 feet tall, confesses to dressing up in overalls to pose as an alien, although his story does not completely match the details of the account. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Posses](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95052927/) [Hit,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95053002/)” Staunton \(Va.\) Daily News Leader, January 28, 1965, pp. 1–2; Jerome Clark, “[Two New Contact Claims,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CMay-Jun%2CV%2011%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 3 \(May/June 1965\): 20–21; “[Fed Up with Play: Green Man Confesses,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95053933/)” Staunton \(Va.\) Daily News Leader, January 31, 1965, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_3861 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10887 (7DA8CB11) Date: 1/27/1965 Description: 6:00 p.m. NASA research engineer A. G. Crimmins Jr. observes an object at Plum Tree Island Wildlife Refuge, near Poquoson, Virginia, that is approximately 75 feet across and 10–15 feet in height. The object has 3– 7 lights colored red and orange and appears to rotate. It moves approximately a quarter mile west of its original position on a zigzag course and then appears to land on the ocean shore. It remains still for about 5 minutes, then takes off to the north and turns right to depart to the east at a high rate of speed. Crimmins watches it through 20x binoculars. The same object is apparently seen by retired USAF Maj. John R. Nayadley, another NASA research engineer, who observes a V-shaped object with blinking red-orange lights over Hampton, Virginia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Zig-Zagging Object Lands / Takes Off](http://www.nicap.org/650127plum%5Ftree%5Fisle%5Fdir.htm)”; “[New Sightings Put AF on Spot,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/025%20MAR-APR%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 \(March/April 1965\): 4; UFOEv II 156 Source ID: Eberhart_3862 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10888 (BD1CD43C) Date: 1/27/1965 Description: 11:15 p.m. [Donald Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and NICAP board member [Joseph Bryan III](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993) appear on the Les Crane Show and are questioned skeptically by [Crane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%5FCrane). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, “[The Crane Show Fiasco,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/025%20MAR-APR%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 \(March/April 1965\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_3863 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10889 (5CD14BE5) Date: 1/27/1965 Description: Bright Light In Erratic Pattern (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 2) Reference: NICAP: [650127](http://www.nicap.org/650127altavista%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: AltaVista, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2775 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10890 (C1820D0D) Date: 1/27/1965 Description: NASA engineer saw V-shaped object with red-orange lights zigzagging at low level. Object touched down briefly, took off, and rapidly climbed out of sight (UFOE II, Section IV). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hampton, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2776 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10891 (80C5B4CB) Date: 1/27/1965 Description: Zig-Zagging Object Lands / Takes Off (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650127](http://nicap.org/650127plum%5Ftree%5Fisle%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Plum Tree Island, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2777 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10892 (C6DFFD74) Date: 1/27/1965 Description: NASA engineer saw V-shaped object with red-orange lights zigzagging at low level. Object touched down briefly, took off, rapidly climbed out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Hampton, VA Source ID: HallUFOE2_34 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10893 (5FB43898) Date: 1/28/1965 Description: (McDonald list) Tear Drop Shaped Object Tracked on Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650128](http://www.nicap.org/650128alaska%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Various Locations, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2778 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10894 (AF8AA9A3) Date: 1/29/1965 Description: In Monterey, California, Mayor George Clemens and his family see a bright light performing acrobatics in the northern sky. It hovers, then shoots straight up about 500 feet, fades, drops down, and hovers again. Then it drops toward the water and disappears. The Coast Guard finds nothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sanderson, [InvRes](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs)[,](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs) p. 50 Source ID: Eberhart_3864 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10895 (00240472) Date: 1/30/1965 Description: 2:00 a.m. TV repairman [Sid Padrick](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/padrick-sid-fl-1965) is walking along Manresa Beach near his home in Watsonville, California. He hears a jet-like noise and sees a huge UFO moving slowly towards him. He hears a voice saying, “We are not hostile,” and inviting him aboard. He enters the craft and sees a human in a flying suit who calls himself “Xeno” and gives Padrick a tour of the ship and other crew members that culminates in a deeply spiritual experience. Padrick reports his experience to Hamilton AFB \[now closed\] on February 4 and receives a 3-hour visit from Maj. [Damon B. Reeder](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103071757/damon-brewster-reeder) on February 8, and perhaps other officers after that. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jerome Clark, “[Two New](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CMay-Jun%2CV%2011%2CN%203.pdf) [Contact Claims,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CMay-Jun%2CV%2011%2CN%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 3 \(May/June 1965\): 20–21; Clark III 869–871; Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/292/mode/2up) [293–298](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/292/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 247–251](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/246/mode/2up); Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976; “[Contactee Loses Court Case,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/061%20APRIL%201971.pdf)” UFO Investigator, April 1971, p. 1; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-01-30-usa-selvabeach.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-01-30-usa-selvabeach.htm) August 19, 2008; Marcus Lowth, “[Sidney Padrick’s California Beach Encounter with ‘Xeno,’](https://www.ufoinsight.com/aliens/encounters/sidney-padricks-california-beach-encounter-xeno)” UFO Insight, October 12, 2017; Curt Collins, “[1965: UFO Contact in California,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/12/1965-ufo-contact-in-california.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, December 30, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_3865 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10896 (DE86782B) Date: 1/30/1965 Description: A triangular UFO was spotted about 8:30 p.m. by Chad Rayfeld, a 17-year-old high school senior, and several friends in Newport News, Virginia. They estimated it was three times bigger than an automobile, very bright, and moving fast across the James River in the direction of Richmond. At the base of the triangle was an orange light with a white light at the leading apex. The triangle made no noise, and was visible for about 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Newport News (VA) Daily Press, January 31, 1965; Project Blue Book files; J. Allen Hynek personal case files Source ID: Johnson_602 Source: Johnson ### Event 10897 (BD21A2F0) Date: 1/30/1965 Description: Sid Padrick, age 52, was walking on the beach in Manresa Beach, Santa Cruz County, California just before 2.00 a.m. when he heard a sound and saw a large dark disc-shaped object that approached from the Pacific Ocean. He started to run from it, but heard a voice frpm it saying, “Do not be frightened, we are not hostile.” It descended to within two feet of the beach. Mr. Padrick was invited by the voice to come onboard, which he did. The UFO, which bore no lights, was shaped like a 50 foot sphere with top and bottom cut off, and surrounded by a horizontal flange. The witness entered through a brilliantly lit antechamber, and was met by a young man dressed in a tight fitting, bluish white two piece uniform, continuous with the boots. The UFO occupant identified himself as "Zeeno" and said that he came from a planet invisible to us, as it is always behind one of the planets we can see. He further explained that their society had no sickness, vice or crime. Padrick saw on a TV screen another such vessel, identified as their “navigating craft.” He was taken for a ride to a spot in the mountains and brought back to the beach after two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Major Damon B. Reeder, U.S. Air Force for Project Blue Book; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-10 (A0620), citing Paul Cerny; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 228; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, August 1965, p. 58 & October 1966, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_601 Source: Johnson ### Event 10898 (41DCC524) Date: 1/30/1965 Description: Triangular Object With No Sound (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650130](http://www.nicap.org/650130newportnews%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newport News, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2779 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10899 (02D7046B) Date: 1/31/1965 Description: On the same night a group of people in Torrent, Argentina in the province of Corrientes saw a craft land and five tall, "Cyclops" beings (i.e. creatures with only one eye in the middle of their foreheads) emerge. The creatures entered a house and reportedly attempted to abduct a local man, but were driven off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1965, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0621; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 263 Source ID: Johnson_637 Source: Johnson ### Event 10900 (659D9552) Date: 1/31/1965 Description: At 6:15 p.m. three men sighted two discs hovering over some high-tension power lines between Kent and Renton, Washington. The UFOs appeared to be connected to each other. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 248; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 248; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1965 Source ID: Johnson_636 Source: Johnson ### Event 10901 (09D08DF5) Date: 2/1965 Description: [George Langelaan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FLangelaan)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FLangelaan) ex-secret service officer and author of the short story “The Fly,” gives a lecture at Mourenx, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, and declares that the Russian and US secret services have collaborated on the UFO problem and concluded that the objects are extraterrestrial. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 133](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/132/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3866 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10902 (391228A5) Date: 2/1/1965 Description: Saucer With Domed Top / Humming Sound / 32-40 Witnesses (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: BB) Reference: NICAP: [650201](http://www.nicap.org/650201tallah%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tallahassee, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2780 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10903 (5121F9F5) Date: 2/2/1965 Description: Airborne & Ground Sightings, Radar Track (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650202](http://www.nicap.org/650202VA-DC-MD%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: VA, DC, MD, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_2781 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10904 (1E0507ED) Date: 2/3/1965 Description: At 10:45 p.m. several people witnessed a large, seven-meter diameter disc-shaped UFO ascend from the beach in South Brighton, New Zealand. It emitted a whistling noise as it rose up, and dogs in the area behaved in a highly agitated manner. Flattened dune grass was discovered at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 69; Jacque Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 635, citing the Press Evening Post, February 4, 1965; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 262 Source ID: Johnson_678 Source: Johnson ### Event 10905 (41FCA715) Date: 2/3/1965 Time: 2045 Description: A man saw a light on the beach near Penguin Street and got out of his car to observe it. He then heard a modulated whistling sound and saw an object, 7 m wide, rise from the beach to an altitude of about 20 m. He came back to the site with other persons, and a dog that became restless at a spot where grass was found flattened. Another witness, driving near Humphrey Ave., saw the object as it rose over South Brighton. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 149 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: South Brighton, New Zealand Source ID: Magnonia_635 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10906 (4E0A15A5) Date: 2/3/1965 Description: 8:45 p.m. A man sees a light on the beach near Penguin Street, South New Brighton, New Zealand, and gets out of his car to observe it. He hears a modulated whistling sound and sees an object, 22 feet wide, rise from the beach to an altitude of 60 feet. He returns with other witnesses and a dog that gets restless at a spot where grass is flattened. Another witness sees the UFO as it is rising above the suburb. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 305](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/304/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3867 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10907 (2064ABB4) Date: 2/4/1965 Description: Several persons observed five luminous objects in flight. A transparent craft landed, and five creatures, about 2 m high, with one eye on the forehead and flashing helmets, emerged and tried to abduct a villager. Approximate date. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 39 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Torrent, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_636 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10908 (7774125D) Date: 2/4/1965 Description: On or about this date several people in Torrent, Corrientes province, Argentina observed five luminous objects in flight at night. A transparent craft landed, and five creatures about two meters high, with one eye in the forehead and flashing helmets, emerged and tried to abduct one of the villagers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 636; citing Charles Bowen, FSR Special Issue # 1: The Humanoids, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_689 Source: Johnson ### Event 10909 (EE1F4E93) Date: 2/11/1965 Description: On this day three very large red oval objects were visible out of the cabin window of a Flying Tiger Airlines cargo plane flying over the North Pacific between Anchorage, Alaska and Tachikawa AFB, Japan. The UFOs paced the aircraft for 30 minutes. They were estimated to be from 200 feet to 1000 feet in diameter, at a distance of five miles. They were tracked on airborne radar making a high speed vertical ascent at extreme speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1965, p. 1; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 6; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 3, 76, 117, 242, & 249; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 412 Source ID: Johnson_822 Source: Johnson ### Event 10910 (CECAE4E3) Date: 2/11/1965 Description: 3 ovals pace Flying Tiger crew (radar) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Ocean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2783 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10911 (7A790013) Date: 2/11/1965 Description: Radar/Visual Over Pacific Ocean (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650211](http://www.nicap.org/650211pacific%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bt. Anchorage, Alaska & Tachikawa Air Base, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2782 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10912 (E3F7955F) Date: 2/11/1965 Description: The Pentagon sends Blue Book chief Maj. [Hector Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) to Richmond, Virginia, on a debunking tour. Stressing delusions and hoaxes, he tells reporters that not a single UFO report is genuine. His press conference display includes false UFO photos and fake debris. “I am a facts man,” Quintanilla says. “I cannot explain why people want to see UFOs.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[AF Misleads Senator,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/026%20APR-MAY%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 2 \(May/June 1965\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_3869 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10913 (8E302B99) Date: 2/11/1965 Alternate date: 2/15/1965 Description: Night. A Flying Tiger Line cargo aircraft \(Flight F-169\) en route from Anchorage, Alaska, to Tachikawa Airfield, Tokyo, Japan, encounters three gigantic, glowing, red UFOs, at least 200 feet in diameter, about 4 hours out of Anchorage. The aircraft radar also picks them up about 5 miles off the wing. They pace the plane for 30 minutes, then speed away at 1,380 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Radar/Visual over Pacific Ocean](http://www.nicap.org/650211pacific%5Fdir.htm)”; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 249–250; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 128–129](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/128/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3868 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10914 (09D6F4A3) Date: 2/11/1965 Description: Flying Tiger aircrew observed three red oval objects, tracked on airborne radar. Paced aircraft for 30 minutes, departed upward at high speed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Pacific Ocean Source ID: HallUFOE2_35 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10915 (734704DD) Date: 2/11/1965 Description: Personal Interview report by Capt. D.M. (initials): Aerial encounter of three UFOs with radar and visual sightings. Air Force flight F-169 en route from Anchorage, AL, to Japan. Capt. R.W. (initials) and Capt. W.(initial) observed 3 UFOs on radar 5 miles off the wing. The UFOs paced the Flying Tiger freighter aircraft for 30 minutes then climbed away at a steep angle at about 1200 knots ground speed. Estimated size (thumb and finger method) approx. 200 to 1000 ft. diam., glowing red and oval shaped. The pilot remarked, “we often see UFOs on the Alaskan run!” Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Pacific Ocean Source ID: Maj2_626 Source: Maj2 ### Event 10916 (210250AC) Date: 2/12/1965 Description: A strange looking plane was seen to dive into the sea near Minehead on the North Devon, England coast. Four witnesses saw it from two different points along the coast. A lifeboat, two RAF helicopters, and a Shackleton failed to find anything after a 90 minute search, and no planes were reported missing. The "ghost plane" may have been seen inland before it reached the sea, for a strange low-flying plane was reportedly seen over Swainswick, near Bath in Somerset, England. The ash-grey "plane" was flying about 100 feet above the road in a west-southwestly direction. It had a misty appearance, despite the fact that there was no fog or mist at the time. It came from behind some trees, and then literally just disappeared. "The strange part was that it made no sound and did not appear to have an engine, but it was certainly not a glider." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Janet Gregory, FSR, September-October 1971, pp. 29-30; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_863 Source: Johnson ### Event 10917 (2E33B401) Date: 2/14/1965 Description: Walking along the beach near Guarani, Brazil five local residents saw a large flying object land. Two of them approached to within 60 feet and hid behind a sand dune. They saw three eight-foot tall beings, very thin in build, emerge from the craft. They wore dark, tight-fitting one-piece suits. There were later found landing imprints and footprints at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Green Beckley, Saga UFO Special, March 1972, p. 23; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1552, citing Beckley Source ID: Johnson_915 Source: Johnson ### Event 10918 (54D9B262) Date: 2/16/1965 Description: A group of boy scouts lead by a Mr. Smythe sighted a domed disc at 8:10 p.m. in a rural area of Groveland, Massachusetts. The UFO carried a white light on its trailing edge and a blue light on its forward edge. It was estimated to be 150 feet away at its closest approach, and at an altitude of 500 feet. It made a humming noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 62, 331; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1965, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_942 Source: Johnson ### Event 10919 (DC2D1A12) Date: 2/16/1965 End date: 2/18/1965 Description: Astronauts [Neil Armstrong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%5FArmstrong), [Richard F. Gordon Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FF.%5FGordon%5FJr), [Buzz Aldrin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz%5FAldrin)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz%5FAldrin) [David Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FScott), and [Rusty Schweikart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty%5FSchweickart) visit Sedan Crater and Buckboard Mesa at the Nevada Test Site to practice carrying out geological observations in preparation for a moon landing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nevada National Security Site, “[Apollo Astronauts Train at the Nevada Test](https://www.nnss.gov/docs/fact%5Fsheets/DOENV%5F772.pdf) [Site,](https://www.nnss.gov/docs/fact%5Fsheets/DOENV%5F772.pdf)” July 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_3870 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10920 (9CCDB89D) Date: 2/21/1965 Time: 2100 Description: About 50 Toba Indians, including policemen, saw three little men with luminous glows emerge from an object that had made several low passes over the village with other flying craft. A photographer took several pictures and noted that the creatures feared the light from his flash camera. The object increased in luminosity as it took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: CODOVNI; FSR 65, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chalac, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_637 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10921 (13865F47) Date: 2/21/1965 Description: At least 50 members of the Toba Indian tribe in Chalac, Formosa Province, Argentina watched as a group of UFOs were seen flying overhead at around 9 p.m. One of the craft, bathed constantly in light beams emanating from small wing-like projections, landed in a pasture, and three tall beings enveloped in luminous halos emerged, causing the local population to go down on their knees. The beings approached slowly, with gestures that dissuaded one of the Indians from coming any closer to the UFO. A voice was then heard, telling the witnesses to remain calm for there was nothing to fear, and that the space people would return to bring peace on earth. The humanoids then returned to their craft, which then took off with a blinding luminosity. Photographs were said to have been taken by local police officers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 16; Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 39; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-13; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 637 Source ID: Johnson_1032 Source: Johnson ### Event 10922 (CA86BEE9) Date: 2/26/1965 Description: 3:00 p.m. [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) takes his last film of a spaceship at [Madeleine Rodeffer](http://luforu.org/madeleine-rodeffer/)’s house in Silver Spring, Maryland. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 41; Good Above, [pp. 374–377](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/374/mode/2up); Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, [pp. 42–48](https://archive.org/details/inadvanceoflandi00doug/page/42/mode/2up); Rene Erik Olsen, \[[George Adamski photo analysis](http://www.adamskifoundation.com/Rene%20Erik%20Olsen%20-%20Denmark/Rene-Denmark.html)\], Adamski Foundation; Marc Hallet, [A Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke to the Space](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) [Brothers](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ACriticalAppraisalOfGeorgeAdamskiTheManWhoSpokeToTheSpaceBrothersREVISEDANDENLARGEDEDITION2016/page/n1/mode/2up) The Author, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_3871 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10923 (B9CBF64D) Date: 2/27/1965 Description: The first conference of Australian UFO organizations takes place in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. It is arranged by W. Howard Sloane of the Ballarat Astronomical Society to share information and remove some of the stigma of UFO research. The conference is held at the Ballarat Municipal Observatory in Mount Pleasant. Representatives of the Perth UFO Research Group, the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, the UFO Investigation Centre NSW, and the Flying Saucer Research Society of South Australia are in attendance. Witnesses include Rev. [William Gill](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2007/08/reverend-william-bill-booth-gill-1929.html) and Charles Brew. Former Air Marshal [George Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FJones%5F%28RAAF%5Fofficer%29) attends, and the RAAF is represented by B. G. Roberts, senior research scientist at the Operational Research Office, Department of Air. Roberts says that the RAAF has determined that 90% of reports are explainable, but that only those that might be a threat to national security are worth investigating and “there are no documents, files, or dossiers held by the Department which prove the existence of ‘flying saucers.’” The researchers quiz him on the 1953 Drury photographic case, but Roberts is unaware of that one. Jones insists on keeping an open mind about reports like those by Gill and Brew. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 391–392; “[First Australian Convention of UFO Groups,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201965%2006%20-%20no%208%20UFOIC%20-%20INCOMPLETE.pdf)” Australian Flying Saucer Review \(UFOIC\), no. 8 \(June 1965\): 13–15 Source ID: Eberhart_3872 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10924 (766DB8B1) Date: 3/2/1965 Description: Landed Object And Entity Case / Hoax (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650302](http://www.nicap.org/650302brooksville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nr. Brooksville, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2784 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10925 (2BA711F8) Date: 3/2/1965 Description: At 1:55 p.m. John F. Reeves, a retired 65 year old, was hunting for snakes in the woods in Brooksville, Florida when he observed a reddish-purple saucer-shaped object on the ground. It was 30 feet in diameter and 6-7 feet thick, and stood on four legs, with a clear dome on top and a row of vanes like an outer rim around the circumference. It also had a set of stairs. He crept to within 100 feet, and after watching it for 10 minutes he saw a robot-like being, about five feet tall, wearing a silver one-piece uniform with a transparent "fishbowl" helmet. His hands were gloved and he wore metallic looking boots. His eyes were set far apart and he had a pointed chin. The being walked walked to the craft, then returned with a box that emitted two bright flashes when pointed at the witness; Reeves took it to be somekind of camera. The humanoid then re-entered the craft by walking up a small retractable stairway, and the object rose vertically with a whistling noise. Reeves found at the site many dumbbell-shaped footprints, and four roughly equidistant 6 inch holes, left by the landing gear. There were also two folded sheets of thin tissue like paper that bore messages written in an unknown alphabet. Reeves subsequently had further sightings and contacts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March-April 1965, p. 1; William J. Dunn, Saucer News, June 1966, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 638; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 134; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-14 (A0625), citing Marshall S. Cleaver, Robert M. Snyder & R. S. Carr for NICAP Source ID: Johnson_1245 Source: Johnson ### Event 10926 (446BA5CB) Date: 3/2/1965 Description: 1:55 p.m. John F. Reeves, 65, retired, while walking in the woods east of Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, sees a bluish-green and reddish-purple object 20–30 feet in diameter, 6 feet thick, saucer-shaped, and with an outer rim and a stairway, two 2-foot windows on top, landed on the ground on four 4-foot legs about 2,000 feet away. He approaches to 100 feet. After watching the object for 10 minutes, he sees a robot-like being about 200– 300 feet away, about 5 feet tall, wearing a gray-silver uniform, glass dome headgear, wide-spaced eyes, and pointed chin. It walks to 15 feet away from Reeves, stares at him for 1.5 minutes, points a box or 6–7-inch black object at Reeves that emits a flash 3 times, then walks back to the landed vehicle and climbs in. The object has Venetian blind–like blades on the rim that open and close; the rim starts rotating counterclockwise, the landing gear retract, then it takes off with a whooshing-rumbling sound and disappears vertically in less than 10 seconds, dropping two sheets of paper with indecipherable writing, and leaving indentations and footprints in the ground. The case is investigated by MacDill AFB in Tampa. [Richard Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) supervises the investigation for NICAP and concludes it is a hoax. \(NICAP, “[Landed Object and Entity Case / Hoax](http://www.nicap.org/650302brooksville%5Fdir.htm)”; “[The Florida ‘Landing’ Incident,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1965, pp. 1, 3; Joan Whritenour, “[UFO Lands?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Interplanetary%20Intelligence%20Report%20%28Hewes%29/Interplanetary%20Intelligence%20Report%20-%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf)” Interplanetary Intelligence Report 1, no. 1 \(May 1965\): 4; “[Project Blue Book,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Interplanetary%20Intelligence%20Report%20%28Hewes%29/Interplanetary%20Intelligence%20Report%20-%20vol%201%20no%202.pdf)” Interplanetary Intelligence Report 1, no. 2 \(July 1965\): 8; Clark III 209–218; Jerome Clark, “Passport to Moniheya,” IUR 20, no. 3 \(May/June 1995\): 10–19; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 304\) March 5 — Two Air Force radar technicians are repairing the height-finder antenna at Benton Air Force Station \[now Ground Equipment Facility QRC\] in Ricketts Glen State Park near Red Rock, Pennsylvania, when they see a small, saucer-shaped object land nearby. As they approach it, a beam of light comes out and strikes both of them. That is the last thing they remember, and they fail to report to the command post. Their equipment is left behind at the antenna, but air police cannot locate the men. Pennsylvania State Police assist in a search of the area. About 16 hours later, a state trooper locates the two men walking along State Route 487 south of Lopez, about 10 miles away. They seem dazed, so they are taken to a hospital in Williamsport, where they are found to be dehydrated and confused. No alcohol or drugs are found. They are then taken to an Air Force hospital at Stewart AFB \[now Stewart Air National Guard Base\] in Orange County, New York. Trace amounts of alpha radiation are found on their clothing and strange marks are on their necks. AFOSI special agents interview them, but the men cannot remember anything. After 2 weeks in the hospital, they are released back to their unit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Pennsylvania Abduction from Air Force Base,” Filer’s Files, September 9, 1999; Good Need, [pp. 251–252](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/250/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3873 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10927 (45206036) Date: 3/2/1965 Time: 1355 Description: John F. Reeves, 65, retired, was walking in the woods when he observed an object 10 m in diameter, 2m thick, saucer-shaped with an outer rim and a stairway. After watching it for 10 min, he saw a robotlike being, about 1.30m tall, wearing a silver uniform, glass headgear, and then returned with a The being walked walked to the craft, then returned with a box that emitted a flash when pointed at the witness. The object subsequently took off with a whistling sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Brooksville, Florida Source ID: Magnonia_638 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10928 (C97B71C9) Date: 3/3/1965 Description: Ball Of Light Hovers Over Water (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650303](http://www.nicap.org/650303pointauferreef%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Point au Fer Reef, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2785 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10929 (B242801A) Date: 3/4/1965 Description: 3 yellow-orange spheres rise rapidly from the ground (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 9301) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corvallis, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2786 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10930 (5E54586E) Date: 3/4/1965 Description: Rapid Blimp-Like Object Over Hudson River (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650304](http://www.nicap.org/650304newyork%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New York, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2787 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10931 (0EB98537) Date: 3/4/1965 Time: 9:23 PM Description: Witness: W.V. Harrison. Three lights rose from the ground, several seconds apart. The next day, an oily spot was found at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Corvallis, Oregon Source ID: BerlinerBBU_518 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10932 (F0CE3109) Date: 3/4/1965 Time: 1830 Description: A farmer and his employee saw from their car three yellow-orange spheres rapidly rising. Oily spots were found in the field. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Corvallis, Oregon Source ID: Magnonia_639 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10933 (703439EB) Date: 3/4/1965 Description: At 6:30 p.m. a farmer and his hired hand in Corvallis, Oregon saw from their car three yellowish-orange spheres rising fast into the sky from a nearby field. They rose from the ground in sequence, several seconds apart. The next day three oily spots were found at the site. Project Blue Book lists this case as an "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 9301; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 639; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_1292 Source: Johnson ### Event 10934 (B3FA9C0B) Date: 3/5/1965 Description: On this afternoon two radar technicians were repairing the height finder radar antenna located northeast of Benton Air Force Base near Red Rock, Pennsylvania when a small metallic looking saucer-shaped object landed near them. A beam of light came out of the object and struck both technicians, and that was the last they could remember of the incident. They failed to report to their command post, and a search by both military and civilian police ensued. Sixteen hours later a state trooper found the two men walking on Route 487 in a dazed state. They were taken to a local hospital and found to be dehydrated. Later, trace amounts of alpha radiation were found on their clothing, and unexplained marks were discovered on their necks. One of the men had a brief recollection of encountering strange short creatures, who poked instruments into his eyes, ears, and mouth. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1965, case # 3376, citing George Filer, Filer's Files, Volume 9, No. 36 Source ID: Johnson_1311 Source: Johnson ### Event 10935 (03C90B4E) Date: 3/6/1965 Description: At 7:30 p.m. in Mobile, Alabama Mrs. B. Crutchfield saw a sphere encircled in the middle with windows. The UFO came to within 150 feet distance, and an estimated altitude of only 65 feet from the ground. Inside she could see a human-appearing pilot or occupant who wore a silver flight suit. A second figure stood in front of an instrument panel. At the time, the witness believed she saw an experimental aircraft of the U.S. Air Force. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-05 (A0615), citing Ted Bloecher investigation, report dated January 9, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_1332 Source: Johnson ### Event 10936 (670B6329) Date: 3/6/1965 Description: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia a formation of eight silent, yellow lighted objects trailing sparks flew through the sky, at a speed many times faster than the speed of sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_1331 Source: Johnson ### Event 10937 (BBA07672) Date: 3/8/1965 Time: 7:40 PM Description: Witness: J.H. Martin, instrument maker for U.S. Bureau of Standards. Six lights flew overhead slowly for 3 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Mt. Airy, Maryland Source ID: BerlinerBBU_519 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10938 (4811CA93) Date: 3/8/1965 Description: Six Lights Just Miss House (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 9305) Reference: NICAP: [650308](http://www.nicap.org/650308mtairy%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Airy, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2788 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10939 (4FDA79EE) Date: 3/8/1965 Description: At 7:40 p.m. three persons in Mount Airy, Maryland, including an instrument maker for the U.S. Bureau of Standards, saw a cigar-shaped object with six lights--two of them fixed red lights. It flew above them at a low altitude, and avoided hitting their house at the last moment. It was lost from sight in the northeast. The duration of the event was three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9305; NICAP UFO Investigator, May-June 1965, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 640; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 238; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 144; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_1378 Source: Johnson ### Event 10940 (A1117065) Date: 3/8/1965 Description: 7:40 p.m. J. H. Martin, an instrument maker for the National Bureau of Standards, and his two sons observe in Mount Airy, Maryland, six lights he estimates to be 1,000 feet away and moving at a speed of 20 mph with no sound. They appear as three pair of lights, all with the same intensity. They are comparable to a traffic signal. The lights pass between the barn and the house at an estimated altitude of 100–500 feet, flying in a straight line toward the hills two miles away. They are in view for approximately 3 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Six Lights Just Miss House](http://www.nicap.org/650308mtairy%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 304 Source ID: Eberhart_3874 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10941 (09748B5E) Date: 3/8/1965 Time: 1940 Description: Three persons saw a cigarshaped object with two fixed red lights, which flew above them, avoided hitting the house at the last moment, and was lost to sight in the northeast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mount Airy, Maryland Source ID: Magnonia_640 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10942 (3453291F) Date: 3/14/1965 Description: At 1:30 a.m., while fishing in the Florida Everglades in Hendry County, Florida 45-year-old James Flynn noticed a shiny metallic, domed disc, some 75-100 in diameter, on the ground. His hunting dogs howled, and one dog tried desperately to escape from its crate. When he approached the object an unknown force struck him in the forehead and knocked him to the ground, causing him to lose consciousness. The wound to his right eye required medical attention, and physical traces in the form of a circle of scorched sawgrass and other damaged foliage was found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1965, p. 6; Lloyd Mallan, The Official Guide to UFOs, p. 24; T. Scott Crain, Flying Saucers, June 1971, p. 8; UNICAT, case # 685; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 262, 267, 279, 379 Source ID: Johnson_1480 Source: Johnson ### Event 10943 (33E07B6E) Date: 3/15/1965 Description: Around 1:00 a.m. James W. Flynn is deep in the Everglades in his swamp buggy, somewhere east of Immokalee, Florida, with his four hunting dogs. He sees a hovering object like an upside-down cone about 200 feet above some cypress trees slightly over a mile away. It moves back and forth from its original position. Through binoculars it looks 25 feet high and 50 feet in diameter, with square windows emitting a yellowish glow. Around its base an orange-red glow extends downwards and illuminates the ground some 75 feet around the rim. Some 40 minutes into the sighting, Flynn decides to approach it in his buggy. A high-pitched ringing sound bothers one of his dogs. He stops 600 feet away and walks, waving his arms, toward the UFO, which is hovering 4 feet off the ground. A blast of wind from the object nearly knocks him off his feet. He continues, and at 75 feet from the UFO he waves his arms again. The object beams a light like a “welder’s torch” that hits his forehead. He blacks out twice. When he wakes up he is temporarily blinded. In the morning he finds a symmetrical circle of burned ground. The tops of trees are burned. Flynn makes his way to the home of Henry Osceola \(or Henry Billy\) later in the day and arrives at his own home in East Fort Myers on March 17 and spends 5 days in the hospital with damage to his right eye, bruises, burns, deep muscle tissue damage, and loss of hearing. His eye damage is permanent. The landing marks and burned trees are verified by the Lee County sheriff’s office. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Everglades / James Flynn Case](http://www.nicap.org/650315everglades%5Fdir.htm)”; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf), NICAP, 1969, pp. 12–16; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 192–195; Clark III 438–440; Patrick Gross, “[UFO in the Everglades, USA 1965](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/everglades65.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3875 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10944 (CF5FFC8A) Date: 3/15/1965 Description: Mr. James Flynn, a 45-year-old man, was out in a boat with his hunting dogs in the Big Cypress Swamp in Florida when he encountered a metallic cone-shaped UFO at around one o'clock in the morning. The UFO had three rows of square windows and a yellow light. It made a generator-like sound, then emitted a jet-like sound followed by a blast of air. His dogs howled. Then a beam of light shot out from underneath the object, striking the witness in the forehead. He fell unconscious, and awoke with blindness in his right eye. Damaged foliage was found at the site, and Mr. Flynn was admitted to hospital for a five day stay. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 229; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 172; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 641; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 3, 262, 267, 279 Source ID: Johnson_1524 Source: Johnson ### Event 10945 (D8E895D0) Date: 3/15/1965 Time: 0100 Description: In the Everglades, 30 km east of Big Cypress, James Flynn, 45, who was hunting, saw a huge, lighted object 1 m above the swamp surface. He watched it for 40 min, observing that it was conical, twice as wide as it was high, and seemed built from metal sections over one square m each. It showed four rows of square windows, 70 cm wide. Estimated diameter: 25 m. A yellow light shone through the windows, and the object made a sound of a transformer and wind. Flynn got within 2 m of it and made a gesture. A beam of light from the underside of the object struck him between the eyes and he lost consciousness for 24 hours. He had lost vision in the right eye, saw poorly with the left, went to a doctor in Fort Myers, and spent five days in the hospital. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fate Sep.,65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Fort Myers, Florida Source ID: Magnonia_641 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10946 (D12A090F) Date: 3/15/1965 Description: Hovering cone-shaped object, animal reaction. Witness struck on forehead by light beam, unconscious, eye damage. Damaged foliage found at site Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Everglades, FL Source ID: HallUFOE2_36 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10947 (A2B6D968) Date: 3/15/1965 Description: Everglades / James Flynn Case (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents, Code: M, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650315](http://nicap.org/650315everglades%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Everglades, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2789 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10948 (35C0FC4D) Date: 3/17/1965 Description: 10:00 p.m. Walter Jacobs, steward on the freighter Iron Duke, sees a bright orange object with a dent on top and a knot on the bottom off Newcastle, New South Wales. He takes a photograph but it is not published. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UAO](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf) [Photographed Clearly in Australia,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1965, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_3876 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10949 (1FBDB243) Date: 3/18/1965 Description: Object paced plane (E-M) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Himeji, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2790 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10950 (CBF85139) Date: 3/18/1965 Alternate date: 3/21/1965 Description: 7:06 p.m. Capt. Yoshiharu Inaba is flying a TOA Airlines Convair 240 from Osaka to Hiroshima, Japan, at an altitude of 6,500 feet. Just after the aircraft passes Himeji, Hyogo, an elliptical luminous object appears and follows the plane. Inaba makes a 60° turn to avoid a collision, but the object makes a similar maneuver then follows along the plane’s left wing for about 56 miles. Emitting a greenish light, the object affects the automatic direction finder and the radio. As copilot Tetsu Majima radios the Matsuyama control tower, he hears frantic calls from Joji Negishi, the pilot of a Tokyo Airlines Piper Apache, who says he is being chased by a luminous object over Matsuyama. The object shoots away and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Paces Japanese](http://www.nicap.org/650321osaka%5Fdir.htm) [Airliner](http://www.nicap.org/650321osaka%5Fdir.htm)”; “[UFO Encounters over Japan,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/025%20MAR-APR%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 \(March/April 1965\): 6; Timothy Green Beckley, “Saucers Chase Japanese Airliner,” Fate 18, no. 8 \(August 1965\): 32–35; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 150–153; Good Need, [p. 253](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/252/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Aircraft–UFO Encounters, Japan, March 18, 1965](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/ja5131.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3877 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10951 (30FAF4A7) Date: 3/18/1965 Description: At 7:00 p.m. on this day, while flying between Himeji and Matsuyama, Japan the crew of a Japanese airliner Convair 240 sighted three elongated objects and one circular UFO at the same time that the plane's automatic direction finder malfunctioned. The circular UFO was described as 15 meters in diameter. The UFOs were also sighted by a private pilot in a Piper Apache flying over Dishima Island. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Japan Times, March 21, 1965; Brad Steiger, Strangers from the Skies, p. 72; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 117 Source ID: Johnson_1549 Source: Johnson ### Event 10952 (1EE5AC08) Date: 3/20/1965 Description: At 1:00 a.m. three blue discs flew from north to south very fast over the El Toreno oil field in Barinas province, Venezuela. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966 Source ID: Johnson_1585 Source: Johnson ### Event 10953 (AEACF289) Date: 3/20/1965 Description: In Welshpool, Victoria, Australia a yellow zig-zagging light was seen maneuvering in the sky; it stopped for 2-3 minutes intermittently, then rose vertically and vanished. At Margaret Brock Lighthouse in South Australia a disc-shaped, brightly lit object moved slowly about the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, pp. 118, 190 Source ID: Johnson_1584 Source: Johnson ### Event 10954 (7864D753) Date: 3/21/1965 Description: In Malvern, Victoria, Australia a sphere with a red dome on top with three illuminated tails was sighted. It flew off to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 118 Source ID: Johnson_1595 Source: Johnson ### Event 10955 (A3C1A6C2) Date: 3/21/1965 Description: Object Paces Japanese Airliner (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [650321](http://www.nicap.org/650321osaka%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Osaka (near Himeji), Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2793 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10956 (B2FCE7AD) Date: 3/28/1965 Description: A gray ovoid object surrounded by a foggy mist followed a man walking down a road at 11:00 p.m. in Sutton Veny, England. It made a loud noise, and he felt a heavy atmospheric pressure as a result of the object's presence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6679 Source ID: Johnson_1709 Source: Johnson ### Event 10957 (1BB27DC4) Date: 3/31/1965 Description: An aerial explosion, perhaps similar to the Tunguska blast of 1909, affected an area of nearly a million square kilometers, centered over Ashcroft, Canada and was observed some distance away by an airborne airliner pilot, according to John Colombo. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 212 Source ID: Johnson_1763 Source: Johnson ### Event 10958 (E4D05C7A) Date: 4/1965 Description: Felipe Martinez, 37, reported that he was paralyzed during the landing of a silent, large, egg-shaped object, from which emerged a small man, about 1 m tall, wearing a helmet linked to the object by three cables. The being spoke slowly and with difficulty in, Spanish. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 40 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Monte Grande, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_642 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10959 (3E7E2A81) Date: 4/1/1965 Description: Two witnesses in Westford, Massachusetts watched a cigar-shaped object with four slanted windows at 8:50 p.m. It headed to the east in a long, slow S-shaped flight path. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 6684; APRO Bulletin, July-August 1965 Source ID: Johnson_1783 Source: Johnson ### Event 10960 (2498E4FF) Date: 4/3/1965 Description: Two traveling salesmen were driving toward Fortaleza, Ceara State, Brazil at 11:20 p.m. when they saw something in the sky that looked like a bright red infrared lamp. It shined a beam of light down on their car. The object then descended just above the car, and the car then began to vibrate and its lights went out. They then saw another ray of light come down from the UFO onto their vehicle, whereupon the driver lost driving control and the vehicle skidded sideways and came to a stop. The red globe-shaped object then landed in front of the car, and two humanoids that resembled robots came out from the UFO and began to approach. Both men got out; one had a rifle that he fired at the entities. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion and the two men were blinded and could hear nothing. Fifteen minutes later they could see again, but the object and the two entities had already gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next?, p. 219; Richard F Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 222 Source ID: Johnson_1816 Source: Johnson ### Event 10961 (FF9B162D) Date: 4/4/1965 Description: 40' Black Oval Object 500' Away (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: 9345) Reference: NICAP: [650404](http://nicap.org/650404keesler%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Keesler AFB, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2795 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10962 (29FA9FF0) Date: 4/4/1965 Time: 4:05 AM Description: Witnesses: USAF A/2c Corum, a weather observer; confirmation by college student R. Pittman not clear from available data. One 40' black, oval object with four lights along the bottom, flew in and out of the clouds for 15 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Keesler AFB, Mississippi Source ID: BerlinerBBU_520 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10963 (B2ABF25B) Date: 4/4/1965 Description: USAF weather observer saw black oval with body lights flying in and out of clouds Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Keesler AFB, MS Source ID: HallUFOE2_37 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 10964 (9A8AC0B7) Date: 4/4/1965 Description: On the same day at 10:15 a.m. in Valley Falls, New York a white egg-shaped or rectangular object (see sketch below) was observed directly in front of two jet fighters. The UFO ascended rapidly to avoid collision and moved rapidly away in the opposite direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 332 Source ID: Johnson_1833 Source: Johnson ### Event 10965 (71E61524) Date: 4/4/1965 Description: Keesler AFB, Mississippi. At 4:05 a.m. USAF Airman Corum, a weather observer, sighted a 40 foot long back, oval-shaped object with four lights along the bottom (see sketch below). It flew in and out of a cloud bank for 15 seconds. It had four protruding lights evenly spaced on the bottom, and looked dark against the clouds. A college student named R. Pittman also sighted the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9345; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1832 Source: Johnson ### Event 10966 (B4332088) Date: 4/8/1965 Time: 2130 Description: A 60-year-old man saw an object 200 m away, in the northwest at 30 m altitude. It turned east, then left toward the south. First seen as a single, bright light, then two luminous sources were visible through a "door" in the object, which appeared metallic. Radio interference was noted. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Kindrae, Minnesota Source ID: Magnonia_643 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10967 (16D52CBB) Date: 4/9/1965 Description: At 7:20 p.m. an Air France aircrew in France saw a metallic disc-shaped object while flying at 15km altitude near Marignane Airport. It suddenly vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42 Source ID: Johnson_1925 Source: Johnson ### Event 10968 (5A9FEC0F) Date: 4/10/1965 End date: 4/14/1965 Description: (McDonald list) Uncorrelated Targets On GCA Radars (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650410-14](http://www.nicap.org/650410misawa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Misawa AFB, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_2796 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10969 (F8848167) Date: 4/18/1965 Description: Bernacillo, NM (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bernacillo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2797 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10970 (6CE0B216) Date: 4/20/1965 Description: John Carstairs Arnell, scientific advisor to the Canadian Chief of Air Staff, prepares a four-page “Suggested Statement by the Minister of National Defence,” [Paul Hellyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FHellyer). It reiterates the US opinion that UFOs do not constitute a national security threat because most sightings involve natural phenomena seen by unreliable witnesses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 16–23 Source ID: Eberhart_3878 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10971 (F0FC1D82) Date: 4/21/1965 Description: A dark amorphous shaped UFO moved erratically up and down through the sky over Pakenham East, Victoria, Australia on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 118 Source ID: Johnson_2178 Source: Johnson ### Event 10972 (F3E6C5D6) Date: 4/23/1965 Time: 0800 Description: A woman observed an object land near her house while she was working in her kitchen. It was shaped like a disk, showed portholes and a cylinder about 1 m high, with a sliding door from which a small creature, about 1 m tall, emerged and jumped to the ground. Its face was not clearly visible but it had pointed ears, a sort of tail, and was linked to the main object by a cable. It wore white clothing, appeared to pick up something from the ground, and reentered the cylinder, which then slid up into the larger white disk. The outside rim started spinning in a counterclockwise motion with a soft whistling sound and the object rose straight up, out of view. Estimated diameter of the disk: 7m. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Rivesville, West Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_644 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10973 (9CBA6B09) Date: 4/23/1965 Description: Woman saw a 25 ft object land near her house shaped like a disc (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rivesville, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2798 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10974 (57A8CE10) Date: 4/24/1965 Description: 5:30 p.m. [Ernest Arthur Bryant](https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Ernest%5FArthur%5FBryant) is walking toward Scoriton Down near Scoriton \(or Scorriton\), Devon, England, when he sees a saucer-like object approach him. It stops nearby and a door opens. Three beings appear and beckon to him. He approaches the saucer. Two of the three beings appear to be nonhuman, but the third seems to be a youth in his teens. The youth speaks with an accent that Bryant thinks might be Russian and calls himself Yamski. He says that he is from Venus, and then remarks that he wished “Des” was there, as he would understand what is happening. At the close of their conversation, he says that in a month he will return and bring proof of “Mantell.” Ufologists who eventually hear the story immediately associate Yamski with [George Adamski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FAdamski) the controversial contactee who died on April 23. Adamski was of Polish background and had a noticeable accent. If this were Adamski, he has lost any signs of aging. Adamski’s friend [Desmond Leslie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%5FLeslie) was a coauthor of his first book. Captain [Thomas F. Mantell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell) piloting an F-51, had been killed in 1948 when he began chasing what he thought was a UFO. According to Bryant, the saucer returns June 7 and leaves some items, including several pieces of metal, allegedly from an F-51. He reports the story to the British UFO Research Association, which launches an investigation. The various items Bryant turns over to the two investigators \(a turbine fitting, metal parts, a broken bulb and fitting, a phial containing silver sand, and a piece of paper on which the words “Adelphos Adelpho” are written\) prove to be mundane and irrelevant to the F-51, according to aeronautical engineer [Leonard](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?99973) [G. Cramp](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?99973)[.](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?99973) In spite of problems with the story, one of the investigators, Eileen Buckle, rushes into print with a book, The Scoriton Mystery. Shortly afterward, Bryant unexpectedly takes ill and dies from a brain tumor on June 24, 1967. The other investigator, Norman Oliver, visits his widow. She says that she is familiar with the story in the book, as her husband had presented it to her first as the script for a science fiction novel. It is only after the investigation is well along that she realizes her husband was trying to sell the story as a real event. She indicates that the supposed items related to Mantell were purchased at a naval surplus store. Alice Wells, head of the Adamski Foundation, dismisses the Scoriton story from the beginning, as does Desmond Leslie. Between their rejection and Oliver’s uncovering of the hoax, few remain to support Bryant except Buckle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1040–1044; Story, [pp. 324–326](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/324/mode/2up); Eileen Buckle, The Scoriton Mystery, Spearman, 1967; Norman Oliver, Sequel to Scoriton, The Author, 1968; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-24-04-uk-scoriton.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-24-04-uk-scoriton.htm) August 19, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_3879 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10975 (B2E1A35D) Date: 4/26/1965 Description: At 5:00 p.m. Gary W., age 9, in New London, Minnesota saw an object which came down silently and hovered at ground level, 60 meters away. A sort of periscope emerged from the craft, and a strange noise, which was also heard by the boy's father, was noted. After a couple of minutes the "periscope" disappeared, the object rose, and then dashed up into the sky at unbelievable speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Saucer News, Fall 1965, p. 26; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 645; Bob Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1990, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_2336 Source: Johnson ### Event 10976 (ED78F655) Date: 4/26/1965 Time: 1700 Description: Gary X., 9, saw an object which came down silently and hovered at ground level 60 m away. A sort of periscope emerged from it, and a strange noise (also heard by the boy's father) was noted. After 1-2 min the "periscope" disappeared, the object rose, and then dashed up at unbelievable speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: New London, Minnesota Source ID: Magnonia_645 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10977 (39BFFB7B) Date: 4/27/1965 Description: Blue-White Object Too Fast For Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650427](http://www.nicap.org/650427mcclellanafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McClelland AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2799 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10978 (8A9A4433) Date: 5/1965 Description: [Hayden C. Hewes](http://www.cryptozoonews.com/hewes-obit/)’s Interplanetary Intelligence of Unidentified Flying Objects publishes the first issue of the Interplanetary Intelligence Report, which lasts through September/October 1966. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Interplanetary Intelligence](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Interplanetary%20Intelligence%20Report%20%28Hewes%29/Interplanetary%20Intelligence%20Report%20-%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf) [Report](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Interplanetary%20Intelligence%20Report%20%28Hewes%29/Interplanetary%20Intelligence%20Report%20-%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(May 1965\) Source ID: Eberhart_3880 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10979 (235942E7) Date: 5/1/1965 Description: Pilots [Robert L. Stephens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FL.%5FStephens) and fire control officer Daniel Andre reach a speed of 2,070 mph in a Lockheed YF- 12A at Edwards AFB, California. The YF-12A also reaches an altitude record of 80,257 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Robert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FL.%5FStephens) [L. Stephens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FL.%5FStephens)” Source ID: Eberhart_3881 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10980 (BE571AB3) Date: 5/3/1965 Description: On this day in Monte Grande, Entre Rios, Argentina a 37-year-old man named F. Martinez claimed to have had a visitation by and communication with two small alien beings, about three feet tall. The witness was transformed intellectually, with subsequent psychic contact, and two cases of healing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 40; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0628, citing Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 112 Source ID: Johnson_2470 Source: Johnson ### Event 10981 (6CC1C81E) Date: 5/5/1965 Description: A US Naval vessel sailing in the Philippine Sea had a radar-visual encounter with four UFOs at 9:10 a.m. There were 12 military witnesses, and the sighting lasted for eight minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT database, case #81, citing J. Allen Hynek; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p 187 Source ID: Johnson_2540 Source: Johnson ### Event 10982 (834B11F6) Date: 5/6/1965 Description: Radar detected 4 targets at extremely high speed 3,000 knots, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650506](http://www.nicap.org/650506philippines%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Philippine Sea, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2800 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10983 (74F92D7C) Date: 5/6/1965 Description: 9:10 a.m. The crew of a US Navy ship in the Philippine Sea notices an aircraft approaching. At 9:14 a.m., the SPS-6C air search radar detects four targets at ranges up to 22 miles for the next 6 minutes at extremely high speed \(3,500 mph\), making various maneuvers. As seen through binoculars, they appear as three lighted objects, one of 1st stellar magnitude the others 2nd magnitude. The objects hover directly over the ship for 3 minutes. There is no IFF response. One object to starboard appears larger on radar. The objects depart to the southeast at extremely high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Radar/Visual by U.S. Flag Ship in the Philippines](http://www.nicap.org/650506philippines%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 305; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 93–94](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/92/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3882 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 10984 (2E18DE47) Date: 5/6/1965 Description: At 9:10 a.m. local time the crew of a US Navy ship heading west at 265° at 15 knots in the Philippine Sea sighted approaching aircraft at bearing 0°. At 9:14 a.m. the radar detected four targets at ranges up to 22 miles for the next 6 minutes flying at extremely high speed (3,500 mph) and performing various maneuvers. The craft were viewed through binoculars and appeared as 3 lighted objects. Next, the UFOs hovered directly over the ship for 3 minutes as confirmed visually and on radar by the Commanding Officer, bridge crew and others on deck. The objects departed to the SE at extremely high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 81, sighting Blue Book files Source ID: Johnson_2582 Source: Johnson ### Event 10985 (4B8BC9C2) Date: 5/7/1965 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a light seen by a witness named Marshall over Oxford, Michigan split into two parts, one of which was copper colored. Then two more lights joined up with the first two. One of the objects may have been tumbling. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9389; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_2616 Source: Johnson ### Event 10986 (F1122463) Date: 5/7/1965 Description: Object Splits In Two, Then Three (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 9389) Reference: NICAP: [650507](http://www.nicap.org/650507oxford%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oxford, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2801 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10987 (3205840C) Date: 5/7/1965 Time: 7:30 PM Description: Witness: M.E. Marshall. One light, like a satellite, split into two parts, one of which was copperish color, then two more joined up. One object may have been tumbling. Sighting lasted 1 minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Oxford, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_521 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 10988 (B248B8AA) Date: 5/14/1965 Description: Two witnesses sighted a domed UFO over a golf course in Bradford, Massachusetts at 3:30 p.m. It hovered, shot away, then moments later came back on the same path, hovered again, and finally moved away at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 332 Source ID: Johnson_2828 Source: Johnson ### Event 10989 (88C8A742) Date: 5/17/1965 Description: On this evening a luminous UFO zigzagged over Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 154 Source ID: Johnson_2926 Source: Johnson ### Event 10990 (CA9EDBC9) Date: 5/20/1965 Description: Disc With Ports Spooks Dog And Horse (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, Code: An, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650520](http://www.nicap.org/650520leroytwp%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leroy Township, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2803 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10991 (D4D2A9D3) Date: 5/20/1965 Description: At 7:00 p.m., six members of the McDonald family in Leroy Township, Ohio saw a silvery-white disc with a row of portholes that were about one-foot in diameter. The disc skimmed over the rooftop of their house making a low buzzing or purring sound, and was estimated to be the size of a car. At the time of the object’s passage, neighbors noted unusual TV and radio interference, and a horse and dog reacted strongly. The dog ran and hid, while the horse ran back and forth on its tether with its ears back and eyes wild. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, June-July 1965, p. 5; Saucer News, December 1965, p. 17; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 153; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_3007 Source: Johnson ### Event 10992 (39181EAA) Date: 5/22/1965 Description: A silent gray object that looked like a blimp or dirigible hovered low over the New England Power Plant in Salem, Massachusetts at 5:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case file investigation, report dated July 13, 1965; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 332 Source ID: Johnson_3037 Source: Johnson ### Event 10993 (63A0FF18) Date: 5/23/1965 Time: 2100 Description: About 70 km from Mackay, Jim Tilse, Eric Judin, and John Burgess saw a circular object, 10 m in diameter, flying erratically, making a buzzing sound. It had headlights, a tripod landing gear, and supported another disk-shaped device. Police investigation disclosed damaged trees and other landing traces. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 65, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Eton Range, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_646 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10994 (D807996A) Date: 5/23/1965 Description: A school teacher in Kailua, Hawaii watched a small white disc, perhaps one meter in diameter, fly by very fast from northeast to southwest at an estimated altitude of only 100 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966 Source ID: Johnson_3047 Source: Johnson ### Event 10995 (065B31A7) Date: 5/24/1965 Description: Circular UFO with three legs on or near the ground, trees illuminated. Departed rapidly with buzzing sound. Circular ring impression found at site (UFOE II, Section VII). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mackay, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2804 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 10996 (B812FED8) Date: 5/24/1965 Description: At 1:30 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. French of Geraldton, Western Australia observed an object in a field at 4 m altitude. It had blinding white lights, caused radio interference, and made a high-pitched sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 647; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence: A Thirty Year Report, p. 262 Source ID: Johnson_3065 Source: Johnson ### Event 10997 (A429F199) Date: 5/24/1965 Description: At 6:40 p.m. hunters in Paso de las Carretas, Argentina saw through binoculars an object resembling an upside-down plate, very luminous, with a red light on top, flying in circles and landing on a hilltop. The Lujan police sent a patrol, under Comm. Osvaldo Pagella, which found a large, metallic object resting on the hill, but because of the difficult terrain they could not get near the object before it took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 648; Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 11, citing La Tribuna, May 26, 1965 Source ID: Johnson_3066 Source: Johnson ### Event 10998 (2E5CA4E5) Date: 5/24/1965 Time: 0130 Description: Mr. and Mrs. French observed an object in a field at 4 m altitude. It had blinding white lights, caused radio interference, and made a high-pitched sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Spaceview 44; LDLN 80 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Geradton, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_647 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 10999 (813A4BE9) Date: 5/24/1965 Description: At 12:05 a.m. a metallic domed saucer, jet black on top, with three triangular legs and a bank of floodlights around the main body was seen hovering and on the ground in Eton Ridge, Queensland, Australia by three men named Tilse, Burgess, and Juden. The object was 20-30 feet in diameter, 15 feet in height, and was at a minimum distance of 300 meters away. It made a buzzing or hissing sound, and made several maneuvers before it sped away. A circle 20 feet in diameter, consisting of a 3 foot 2 inch wide ring of flattened grass, was found at the landing site the next morning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, citing UFO Research Queensland; Judith Magee, Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1965, p. 13; UNICAT database, citing Judith Magee and FSR Source ID: Johnson_3064 Source: Johnson ### Event 11000 (C380AB3C) Date: 5/24/1965 Description: 12:05 a.m. John Burgess, James Tilse, and Eric Judin are playing cards at the Epsom Retreat Hotel near Epsom, Queensland, when their attention is drawn to something on or near the ground. It appears to be a disc- shaped object with banks of lights underneath it to their southeast. Tilse estimates its diameter to be 30 feet, Judin as 20 feet, and Burgess as 6 feet. In the moonlight, its color seems to be charcoal. At times, it seems to approach them, then recede. Finally, it rapidly rises to about 300 feet, then it accelerates away to the northeast. Burgess and Judin heard a buzzing sound. Total duration is 40 minutes. Two days later, a circular depression is found nearby close to a telephone line. Tilse says that “tops of trees appear to be burned.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The James Tilse Report,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CSep-Oct%2CV%2011%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1965\): 13–14; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) [from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, p. 63; “[UAO Buzzes Hotel in Australia,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201966%2001%2000%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1966, p. 3; Keith Basterfield, “[Cold Case Investigation: Eton Ridge, Queensland, 24 May 1965,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2012/06/cold-case-investigation-eton-ridge.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena— Scientific Research, June 13, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_3883 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11001 (4051D527) Date: 5/24/1965 Time: 1840 Description: Hunters saw through binoculars an object resembling an upside-down plate, very luminous, with a red light on top, flying in circles and landing on a hilltop. The Lujan police sent a patrol, under Comm. Osvaldo Pagella, which found a large, metallic object resting on the hill, but they could not approach the object before it took off, because of the difficult terrain. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Paso de las Carretas, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_648 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11002 (321B7B64) Date: 5/24/1965 Description: Circular UFO with three legs on or near the ground, trees illuminated. Departed rapidly with buzzing sound. Circular ring impression found at site Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Mackay, Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_38 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11003 (3E896E4D) Date: 5/25/1965 Description: On this evening a blue light emanating from a red object, through green, wavered in the sky over the village of Sehulea, Papua New Guinea. Its light illuminated the beach. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 154 Source ID: Johnson_3086 Source: Johnson ### Event 11004 (70CFFA6D) Date: 5/27/1965 Description: A flat, reddish orange, ten foot wide disc, hovered at a low altitude 100 yards away from the witness in Acacia Ridge, Northern Territory, Australia on this evening. It illuminated its surroundings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 154 Source ID: Johnson_3116 Source: Johnson ### Event 11005 (9C0C600F) Date: 5/28/1965 Description: The crew of an Ansett-ANA DC-6B airliner flying over the Bougainville Reef between Brisbane, Queensland, Australia enroute to Port Moresby, New Guinea called Townsville Air Traffic Control at 3:25 a.m., and said they were being paced by a UFO. They took several photographs of the spherical, slightly oblate object, which was flat on the top and bottom. The aerial encounter lasted 10-15 minutes, resulting in several photographs. The film was conficated by the Australian military and never returned. The audio tapes of the conversation with air traffic controllers were also confiscated and the operator on duty, William Orr, was told to "shut his mouth" about the incident or face dismissal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 6; UNICAT, case 693; Australian FSR, December 1972, p. 3; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 251; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 283, citing Detective John Meskell, Criminal Investigation Branch, Townsville Source ID: Johnson_3133 Source: Johnson ### Event 11006 (AB797EE5) Date: 5/28/1965 Description: Elliptical object paced airliner, accelerated and sped away, photographs taken Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Townsville, North Queensland, Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_39 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11007 (2B3A97ED) Date: 5/28/1965 Description: Police statement (interview); Bougainville Reef, Australia: An Ansett-A.N.A. DC-6B airliner (VH-INH) en route to Port Moresby, New Guinea, was buzzed by a UFO at about 3:25 a.m. The pilot radioed the Townsville Ground Control Tower and talked to Mr. O. (initial). Description: slightly spherical and oblate, flattened on top and bottom; appeared to have exhaust gasses coming from it. Photos of the UFO were taken by the pilot but were later confiscated at Canberra as was the taped conversation to Mr. O., the Tower operator. Mr. O. was threatened with dismissal if he talked about the incident. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Bougainville Reef, Australia Source ID: Maj2_627 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11008 (08BB02CC) Date: 5/28/1965 Description: 3:25 a.m. An Ansett-ANA DC-6b airliner piloted by Capt. John Barker is flying over Bougainville Reef off the coast of Queensland, Australia, when it is paced for 10–15 minutes by an oblate UFO with exhaust gases coming from it. The copilot and a stewardess also see the object. Barker takes photos of the UFO, but when he lands in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, he is not allowed to have the film processed until he returns to Australia. When he eventually arrives in Brisbane, he is flown directly to Canberra where both the film and the flight recorder are confiscated. The Directorate of Air Force Intelligence in Canberra later denies that any such incident took place. However, an official statement by Barker to the RAAF surfaces, in which he says: “I had always scoffed at these reports, but I saw it. We all saw it. It was under intelligent control, and it was certainly no known aircraft.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 168–170](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/168/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3884 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11009 (B59312E9) Date: 5/28/1965 Description: Flattened Sphere Buzzes DC-6 / Photos Confiscated (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650528](http://www.nicap.org/650528nqueensland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Townsville, Queensland, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2805 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11010 (626E4A94) Date: 5/30/1965 Description: While sunbathing on the roof of her lake cottage on Lake Mason, Wisconsin at around 2 p.m., Ms. Gorzelle, age 45, witnessed a shiny disc-shaped object approach in a straight line from over the lake. She described it as metallic, about 40 feet wide, and with a row of windows and a dome on top. The domed disc hovered over her cottage property less than 200 feet away, then landed on tripod landing gear that emerged from the underside of the craft. From her roof she was looking down on the landed object. In one of the windows she was able to see an occupant. When the occupant saw her on the roof, he beckoned to another figure that appeared at a second window. Both of them seemed to be rather short--under four feet tall--with large, baldheads, slits for mouths and small noses. They stared at her for what seemed to be a long time. The next thing she recalled was watching the object depart rapidly in the direction of the setting sun. There was a time lapse of at least four hours in her memory. Under self hypnosis, the witness was able to recall walking up to the UFO and being led up a stairway into the vehicle by the two occupants. One of them held a small box that he opened, and inside the box was a dark-colored crystal that gave off a vapor or smoke. He held it in front of her face and the witness jumped back, but when he again passed it close to her face she discovered that the fumes were odorless. The next thing she remembers was being back on her roof watching the object depart. She had headaches following the incident. She would have another UFO encounter three months later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fred Merritt case file investigations; David F. Webb, 1976 CUFOS Conference Proceedings, p. 268; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-19 (A0629), citing Fred Merritt Source ID: Johnson_3166 Source: Johnson ### Event 11011 (DE0528C9) Date: 6/1965 Description: 6:30 p.m. Mrs. J. Whitehead is in the garden at her cottage in Flasby, North Yorkshire, England, when a large disc-shaped object passes over, making a slight swishing noise. On the underside are three “windows” in a triangular formation. She feels a strange calming sensation as the UFO passes by. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Fake Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_3886 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11012 (91DEBFD2) Date: 6/1965 Description: Systems analyst [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) publishes Anatomy of a Phenomenon, which generates particular excitement for its sober, scientific treatment of the UFO phenomenon. Well reviewed, it plays a significant role in the renaissance of interest in UFOs as scientists express a willingness to examine the UFO problem. It is the first book by a working scientist to argue for the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, [Anatomy of a](https://archive.org/details/anatomyofphenome00vall) [Phenomenon](https://archive.org/details/anatomyofphenome00vall), Regnery, 1965; Clark III 1213 Source ID: Eberhart_3885 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11013 (75B4F854) Date: 6/1/1965 Description: Close encounter. Obj. 45' above the ground (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [650601](http://www.nicap.org/knobnoster650601dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Knob Noster, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2806 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11014 (B5FA09EF) Date: 6/2/1965 Description: A silent sphere with flashing lights descended onto a hillside in Kuranda, Queensland, Australia at 8:00 p.m. Mr. D. Armstrong, a former airman, was called outside by his sons and saw the spherical object with flashing lights that appeared to land silently on a hillside situated on a Mr. Watson's property. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 649 Source ID: Johnson_3229 Source: Johnson ### Event 11015 (418FE449) Date: 6/2/1965 Time: 2000 Description: Mr. D. Armstrong, a former airman, was called outside by his sons and saw a spherical object with flashing lights that appeared to land silently on a hillside situated on Mr. Watson's property. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 65, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Kuranda, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_649 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11016 (CF3ADE5B) Date: 6/3/1965 Description: On this night a large luminous object encased in a bright green glow hovered low over a field in Monte Negro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Through an opening two humanoids wearing brown suits and with dark round eyes were seen looking out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1965, citing Antonio Faleiro Source ID: Johnson_3247 Source: Johnson ### Event 11017 (E75FD0A4) Date: 6/3/1965 Description: A vertical cigar-shaped object hovered for 20 minutes over Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England starting at 8:30 p.m. It then turned and vanished. There were many independent witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Arthur Shuttlewood, The Warminister Mystery: Astounding UFO Sightings, p. 41; BUFORA Journal, June 1965, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_3246 Source: Johnson ### Event 11018 (29112DDF) Date: 6/4/1965 Description: The Gemini-4 mission with astronauts McDivitt and White sighted a "weird object" with "arms" while in orbit over the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. Motion picture film was shot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, July-August 1965, p. 3; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 208; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 412 Source ID: Johnson_3271 Source: Johnson ### Event 11019 (0D8E85A7) Date: 6/4/1965 Description: During the [Gemini 4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini%5F4) mission, astronaut [James McDivitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FMcDivitt) spots an object that he describes as a “white cylindrical shape with a white pole sticking out of one corner of it.” He takes two photos of it. His partner, [Ed White](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%5FWhite%5F%28astronaut%29), is asleep at the time. McDivitt maintains that it was some unknown but man-made piece of debris, while [James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FOberg) [Oberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FOberg)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FOberg) flight controller at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, argues that it is most likely the Titan II second stage of the craft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Object’ Astronaut Sighted Still Unidentified,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/027%20JUN-JUL%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 3 \(June/July 1965\): 3; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 212–213](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/212/mode/2up); “[The Gemini IV Photograph,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CSep-Oct%2CV%2011%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1965\): 3; Condon, [pp. 205–207](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/204/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 378–379](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/378/mode/2up); “[Gemini 4 Astronaut](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoQAadYEMwk) [James McDivitt UFO Sighting,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoQAadYEMwk)” SpaceTimeForum YouTube channel, June 9, 2013; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1965%5F06%5F04%5FSP%5FNICAP%5FMcDivitt.pdf)\]; Lee Speigel, “[NASA UFO Files Revealed on Science Channel Special,](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nasa-ufo-science-channel-special%5Fn%5F1380571)” HuffPost, March 27, 2012; Patrick Gross, “[NASA Photographs of Unidentified Objects](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/gemini465.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3887 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11020 (FCEA1530) Date: 6/5/1965 Description: UFOs over GE facility (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lynn/Nahant, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2807 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11021 (2D329A0D) Date: 6/5/1965 Description: A year later in Lynn, Massachusetts there were several reports of a cigar-shaped object being seen over the local GE facility. This was in the same 24-hour period that James McDivitt took a photo of an unknown light source from the Gemini 4 spacecraft, while in orbit in Outer Space over Hawaii. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966; NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1958, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_3297 Source: Johnson ### Event 11022 (E57BB760) Date: 6/6/1965 Description: Private aircraft pilot Mr. C. Adams, and a television cameraman Mr. Les Hendy, reported seeing four or five “mysterious objects” floating in the sea 3 miles east of Fraser Island, 150 miles north of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia at about 11.30 a.m. Mr. Adams first noticed two of the objects from a distance of about 8 miles while flying over Fraser Island. The weather was clear and the objects appeared to resemble two big dark-coloured logs. They were narrow and up to 100 feet long. As he steered toward them two or three similar but smaller objects appeared near the other two. They did not appear to move, but seemed to “sort of submerge" when the plane was about one mile away from them. From the air they appeared to be lying just below the surface and when “submerging” from sight seemed to do so without disturbing the surface. Mr. Adams was certain that the objects were too big to be fish or sharks, and the wrong shape to be whales. Mr. Hendy regretted that they were too far away from him to film them. Several experts got their heads together and decided that the objects sighted were migrating whales. However, their explanation was soon squashed when part-owner of the Seabrae Hotel--Mr. G. Sampson--and Mrs. V. Grady reported that they had sighted a similar object on the very same day, half-a-mile out between Redcliffe Pier and Redcliffe Point. They watched it for 10 minutes. It was long and black and there appeared to be a black balloon suspended over it. A Fisheries Dept. spokesman commented that it was unlikely to be a whale, because they very seldom come into Morton Bay. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: H. J. Hinfelaar, “Submarine Craft in Australian Waters”, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_3322 Source: Johnson ### Event 11023 (769AA840) Date: 6/7/1965 Description: In Scoriton, England on this day in 1965 three glowing beings allegedly appeared to a witness named Bryant one day after the flying saucer contactee George Adamski died. One of the beings calls himself "Yamski." The witness was left with headaches, messages, and a metallic object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: BUFORA Journal, June 1965, p. 10; Eileen Buckle, The Scoriton Mystery Source ID: Johnson_3350 Source: Johnson ### Event 11024 (59038CB9) Date: 6/7/1965 End date: 6/8/1965 Description: 7:50 p.m. Meteorological officer Jorge Stanich is performing a routine observation at the Argentinian Deception Station on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, when he notices a stationary, bright, yellow light at an altitude of 25° above the horizon. He estimates its distance at 1.2 miles. The object is visible for 5 seconds. Six and a half hours later, at 2:20 a.m., he again sees a stationary light in the northwest at an altitude of 40° above the horizon for 4 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Daniel A. Perisse, “[Deception Island UFO Sightings,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/antarctica/6507MufonSympap%5F87%5FAntartica.pdf)” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, pp. 142–146 Source ID: Eberhart_3888 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11025 (A32B4A8C) Date: 6/8/1965 End date: 6/9/1965 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: unknown location, Turkey Source ID: NICAP_DB_2802 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11026 (070B5BA2) Date: 6/8/1965 Description: Radar/Visuals of High Speed Objects (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650608](http://www.nicap.org/650608turkey%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ankara, Turkey Source ID: NICAP_DB_2808 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11027 (F206F755) Date: 6/13/1965 Description: Modbury, South Australia. A dark, disc-shaped object hovered and circled for 15 minutes at an estimated 3,000 feet altitude. A photo of the same or a similar object was taken in Adelaide on the same day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. B. Delaire, UFO Register, Volume 7 (1976), p. 55 Source ID: Johnson_3459 Source: Johnson ### Event 11028 (EDC9E682) Date: 6/14/1965 Description: On this night a domed disc shaped object, yellow-orange in color, was sighted by Bob Young and four others in Dry Fork, Utah. It flew overhead for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case no. 4 Source ID: Johnson_3476 Source: Johnson ### Event 11029 (FFEE54F0) Date: 6/15/1965 Description: On this evening a bluish 40-foot disc-shaped object with illuminated portholes was seen in Smithfield, Queensland, Australia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 154 Source ID: Johnson_3499 Source: Johnson ### Event 11030 (51DB42BD) Date: 6/16/1965 Description: On this night a bright light seen in the sky over Townsville, Queensland, Australia gradually accelerated, next zig-zagged, and then stopped and started moving three times before disappearing out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 154 Source ID: Johnson_3512 Source: Johnson ### Event 11031 (BA8D6CF9) Date: 6/18/1965 Description: The Chilean military base in Antarctica sighted a large, lens-shaped UFO at 4:00 p.m. A photograph was taken and electromagnetic effects were reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, September-October 1965, p. 2; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 235; Brad Steiger, Strangers From the Skies, p. 123; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 283; UNICAT, case # 112 Source ID: Johnson_3532 Source: Johnson ### Event 11032 (F0A9A069) Date: 6/18/1965 Alternate date: 6/20/1965 Description: 4:20 p.m. The Commander of the Chilean Aguirre Cerda Research Station \[destroyed in 1967\] on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, [Mario Jahn Barrera](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%5FJahn%5FBarrera)[,](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%5FJahn%5FBarrera) together with Chilean Air Force pilot Lt. Benavidez, a meteorologist, and seven other witnesses, observe a UFO that maneuvers rapidly on an oscillating course for 25 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 309](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/308/mode/2up); Daniel A. Perisse, “[Deception Island UFO Sightings,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/antarctica/6507MufonSympap%5F87%5FAntartica.pdf)” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, p. 146 Source ID: Eberhart_3889 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11033 (A1904812) Date: 6/19/1965 Description: 4:00 a.m. Two farm boys are stacking hay near Rocky, Oklahoma, when a bright white, circular, wingless craft appears and descends at a 45° angle to the height of nearby telephone wires. The apparent size of the full moon, it moves horizontally across the farmyard. It has numerous lights around the outside and appears to be rotating in a counterclockwise direction. Their dogs start barking at it. They believe it is going to crash, so they run back into the barn after 3 minutes. It is last seen over a small silo. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 104–106](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/104/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3890 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11034 (484E4F0B) Date: 6/21/1965 Description: A disc with a blinking red light was seen for 20 minutes in Chesaning, Michigan starting at 9:30 p.m. It appeared to land remotely. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1968 Source ID: Johnson_3575 Source: Johnson ### Event 11035 (3FBA6DA9) Date: 6/21/1965 Description: An unidentified submarine object (USO) was sighted by a pilot flying east of Fraser Island, off Maryborough, Queensland, Australia at 11:30 a.m. It was long, thin, and metallic looking and just under the surface of the ocean. It submerged out of sight when the plane flew over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_3574 Source: Johnson ### Event 11036 (90D4CC38) Date: 6/24/1965 Description: A saucer-shaped object with a conical top, and rows of lights across the front and along the side flew over Nebo, Queensland, Australia. It glowed bluish-white and had a red tail. At 10:00 p.m. in Mundilla, South Australia a round object with red, green, and white lights flew away over the horizon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 155; (2) APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966 Source ID: Johnson_3639 Source: Johnson ### Event 11037 (976E7C6A) Date: 6/25/1965 Description: The Phoebus 1A nuclear rocket engine is tested at Area 25 of the Nevada Test Site as part of Project Rover. It runs at full power for 10.5 minutes. Unfortunately, the intense radiation environment causes one of the capacitance gauges to produce erroneous readings. When confronted by one gauge that says the hydrogen propellant tank is nearly empty, and another that says it is a quarter full, and unsure which is correct, the technicians in the control room choose to believe the one that says it is a quarter full. But the tank is indeed nearly empty, and the propellant runs dry. Without liquid hydrogen to cool it, the engine, operating at 2,000° C., quickly overheats and explodes. About a fifth of the fuel is ejected and most of the rest melts. The whole decontamination effort takes 400 people two months to complete, and costs $50,000. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project Rover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FRover\#Phoebus)” Source ID: Eberhart_3891 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11038 (88980AF1) Date: 6/25/1965 Description: Frank Stavano and 24 other witnesses hear a loud, inexplicable explosion at his father Joseph’s farm near Carrollton, Ohio. Two days later, Joseph Stavano is cutting hay when he discovers a strange circular formation from which the wheat is completely missing in the center for a diameter of 26 feet; at the edges the stubble is bent or broken outward at an angle of 20–30° from the horizontal. No other path leads into the circle but his own. Soil samples show no evidence of explosives or other foreign matter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Photograph of Carrollton, Ohio, Ground Mark](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf) [Received at CUFOS,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 6 \(October 1980\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_3892 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11039 (C4ECED21) Date: 6/29/1965 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Frankfurt, West Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_2809 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11040 (29D6E03C) Date: 7/1965 Description: 11:30 p.m.–midnight. Talking on the phone in her second-floor bedroom in Lake Forest, Illinois, Pat Harvey sees a flash and hears a commotion or “rustle” outside. When she finishes the conversation, she looks out the window toward her neighbor’s lawn and sees a transparent bubble of light about 100 feet away. Inside the globe are several individuals who look like normal human beings, though slightly shorter \(5 feet tall\) and with skin that looks tanned. They are lying down in a somewhat haphazard arrangement. There are no visible instruments or seats. The object bobs up and down slightly, and the beings’ arms are moving in a way that reminds Harvey of “rowing motions.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 277; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-07-usa-lakeforest.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-07-usa-lakeforest.htm) June 21, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_3894 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11041 (607978E9) Date: 7/1965 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) writes a letter to the Air Force calling for a systematic study of UFOs. He writes that “enough puzzling sightings have been reported by intelligent and often technically competent people to warrant closer attention than Project Blue Book can possibly encompass at the present time.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “[Are Flying Saucers Real?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Saturday%20Evening%20Post/1966%2012%2017%5FSaturday%20Evening%20Post%5FHynek.pdf)” Saturday Evening Post, December 17, 1966, p. 20 Source ID: Eberhart_3893 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11042 (43F0578E) Date: 7/1/1965 Description: 5:45 a.m. Maurice Masse is farming just north of Valensole, Alps-de-Haute-Provence, France, when he is startled by a whistling sound and sees an elliptical object resting on four legs some 200 feet away from him in his lavender field. Squatting on the ground near the object are two figures about the size of 8-year-old boys, apparently looking at a lavender plant. Masse approaches them to about 20 feet and the figures stand up. They are dressed in gray-green overalls and have smooth, pumpkin-like heads. Their eyes are large and slanted, their mouths have no lips and look like little holes. He hears some grunting sounds, and Masse hints that there is a telepathic communication. One of the figures points a pencil-like object at Masse and he is paralyzed. They enter the UFO through a door and the object shoots off at enormous speed with a whistling sound. It takes Masse another 20 minutes to regain control. Tracks left by the landing gear are found later by Masse and confirmed by gendarmes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Rencontre de Valensole](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rencontre%5Fde%5FValensole)”; NICAP, “[Humanoids near Elliptical Object with Legs on](http://www.nicap.org/650701valensole%5Fdir.htm) [Ground](http://www.nicap.org/650701valensole%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark 1205–1207; Good Above, [pp. 133–134](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/132/mode/2up); G.E.P.A. Investigation, “[The Significant Report from](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CNov-Dec%2CV%2011%2CN%206.pdf) [France,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CNov-Dec%2CV%2011%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1965\): 5–6; Aimé Michel, “[The Valensole Affair,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CNov-Dec%2CV%2011%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1965\): 7–9; Luis Schönherr, “[Luis Schönherr’s Questionnaire,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 \(May/June 1966\): 21; G.E.P.A. Representative, “[A Tentative Reply to Luis Schönherr’s](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%203.pdf) [Questionnaire,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 \(May/June 1966\): 22–23; Aimé Michel, “[Valensole—Further](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%203.pdf) [Details,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 \(May/June 1966\): 24–25; Aimé Michel and Charles Bowen, “[A Visit to](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%201.pdf) [Valensole,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1967\): 6–12; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947– 1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 66–69; Patrick Gross, “[Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind: Valensole, France,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/valensole1965.htm) [1965](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/valensole1965.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3895 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11043 (6CD2FC16) Date: 7/1/1965 Description: Humanoids Near Elliptical Object With Legs On Ground (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650701](http://www.nicap.org/650701valensole%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Valensole, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_2810 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11044 (A895DBE8) Date: 7/1/1965 Description: On this night many witnesses in Framingham, Massachusetts saw a silvery white round object, which made side-to-side pendulum swings, then flew away to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966 Source ID: Johnson_3773 Source: Johnson ### Event 11045 (9FAB7B1F) Date: 7/1/1965 Description: One of the most famous landing and humanoid reports occurred on this day in Valensole, Alpes-Haut-Provence department, France. At around five o'clock in the morning farmer Maurice Masse, age 41, heard a strange noise and saw an egg-shaped object 30 meters away in a field of lavender. The craft was set on a central pivot with six legs, was about five meters long, and had a door showing two seats back to back. Nearby it were two dwarfs the size of eight-year-old children, with bald heads, normal human eyes, and fine hands with five fingers. They seemed surprised when the witness approached them, and stopped their examination of a plant to aim a small device at him, causing him to become temporarily paralyzed and unable to move. They spoke among themselves in shrill sounds similar to a gargle. The craft took off and "vanished" into the air. Ground traces were found in the field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 113; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1965, p. 36; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 377; UNICAT, case 481 Source ID: Johnson_3772 Source: Johnson ### Event 11046 (01E986D2) Date: 7/1/1965 Time: 0500 Description: Farmer Maurice Masse, 41, heard a strange noise and saw an egg-shaped object 30 m away in a lavender field. The craft was set on a central pivot with six legs, was about 5 m long, and had a door showing two seats back to back. Near it were two dwarfs the size of 8-year-old children, with heads, normal human eyes, fine hands with five fingers, and no hair. They seemed surprised when the witness came near, and stopped their examination of a plant to aim a small device at him, causing inhibition of movement. They spoke among themselves in shrill sounds similar to a gargle. The craft took off and "vanished." Traces. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 65, 5; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Valensole, France Source ID: Magnonia_650 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11047 (03D50BA1) Date: 7/1/1965 Description: A domed disc-shapec object flew over Beijing, China at 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 218 Source ID: Johnson_3771 Source: Johnson ### Event 11048 (3476B34A) Date: 7/1/1965 Description: Elliptical object with legs observed on ground, two small humanoids pointed pencil-like device at witness, paralyzing him. Strong physical trace evidence at site Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Valensole, France Source ID: HallUFOE2_40 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11049 (AC91FFEC) Date: 7/2/1965 Description: 7:15 p.m. Five garrison members of the British Antarctic Station B \[abandoned in 1969\] on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, have a UFO sighting while conducting routine meteorological observations. The witnesses see a light in the north quadrant, zigzagging, hovering, and accelerating at times, and maintaining altitudes between 20° and 45° above the horizon. The light is green and red, at times yellow, and is observed for perhaps 15–20 minutes. The edges of the light resemble those of a bright star. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 153– 155; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [p. 162](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/n201/mode/2up); Good Above, [p. 309](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/308/mode/2up); Daniel A. Perisse, “[Deception Island UFO Sightings,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/antarctica/6507MufonSympap%5F87%5FAntartica.pdf)” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, p. 146; Richard H. Hall, “[UFO Sightings at Scientific Stations in Antarctica, July 1965](http://www.nicap.org/docs/antarctica/650703rep.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3896 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11050 (1B425078) Date: 7/2/1965 Description: A woman named Brundage driving in Kent, Washington had a close encounter with a top-shaped UFO making a whistling sound at 11:00 p.m. It caused the car lights, radio, and engine to die. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James Moseley, Saucer News, December 1965, p. 27; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 24; Brad Steiger & Joan Whritenour, Flying Saucers are Hostile, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_3787 Source: Johnson ### Event 11051 (F5B23ED3) Date: 7/2/1965 Description: At 7:00 p.m. five scientists and meteorological observers at the English research base on Deception Island in Antarctica watched zig-zagging, maneuvering, color changing UFOs for 8-10 minutes, including a lens-shaped disc. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, pp. 234-235; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 284; UNICAT, case # 110; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 4, 150 Source ID: Johnson_3786 Source: Johnson ### Event 11052 (2D033A7D) Date: 7/2/1965 End date: 7/3/1965 Description: Meteorological observers at scientific research bases watched zigzagging and maneuvering objects, including a lens-shaped disc. E-M effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Antarctica Source ID: HallUFOE2_41 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11053 (16A6EEC4) Date: 7/3/1965 Description: 5:03 p.m. Two meteorologists at the Argentine Orcadas Base on Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica, observe for 15 seconds a round, bluish-white object moving east to west on a parabolic path. Two variometers \(magnetic field measuring instruments\) register sudden and strong disturbances. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 153– 155; Daniel A. Perisse, “[Deception Island UFO Sightings,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/antarctica/6507MufonSympap%5F87%5FAntartica.pdf)” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, pp. 147, 153; Richard H. Hall, “[UFO Sightings at Scientific Stations in](http://www.nicap.org/docs/antarctica/650703rep.htm) [Antarctica, July 1965](http://www.nicap.org/docs/antarctica/650703rep.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3897 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11054 (03EE94D4) Date: 7/3/1965 Description: 7:20 p.m. The meteorologist and eight other witnesses at the Chilean Aguirre Cerda Station \[destroyed in 1967\] on Deception Island, Antarctica, watch for a total of 20 minutes a bright and apparently solid object zigzagging from the east quadrant to the south quadrant. It maintains an altitude above the horizon between 35 and 20 degrees. It is white and star-like with some orange hues. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Daniel A. Perisse, “[Deception Island UFO Sightings,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/antarctica/6507MufonSympap%5F87%5FAntartica.pdf)” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, pp. 147, 153–154; Richard H. Hall, “[UFO Sightings at Scientific Stations in Antarctica, July 1965](http://www.nicap.org/docs/antarctica/650703rep.htm)”; Good Above, [p. 309](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/308/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3898 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11055 (BD8F9714) Date: 7/3/1965 Description: 7:42 p.m. 17 people \(including three visiting Chilean personnel\) observe a lens-shaped disc that maneuvers erratically across the sky for about an hour at the Argentine Deception Station in the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica. The object changes colors \(red, yellow, green, orange, blue, white\) as it zigzags from a position about 30° above the horizon in the north-northwest. The object hovers, accelerates, reverses direction, and changes its luminosity. At times it goes behind some clouds, but it is also seen in front of some cirrus clouds. Finally, it disappears to the northwest, decreasing in size and gaining altitude. Cpl. Uladislao Duran Martinez takes 10 color photos through theodolite and field glasses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Chile, Argentina Confirm UFO Films,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/028%20AUG-SEPT%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1965\): 2; Dan Lloyd, “[Things Are Hotting Up in the Antarctic,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CSep-Oct%2CV%2011%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1965\): 4–5; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 155–159; Daniel A. Perisse, “[Deception Island UFO Sightings,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/antarctica/6507MufonSympap%5F87%5FAntartica.pdf)” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, pp. 147, 154; Richard H. Hall, “[UFO Sightings at Scientific Stations in Antarctica, July 1965](http://www.nicap.org/docs/antarctica/650703rep.htm)”; Good Above [pp. 309–310](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/308/mode/2up); Condon, [pp. 99–100](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/98/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3899 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11056 (F2E3C702) Date: 7/3/1965 Description: UFO interfered with instruments measuring magnetic fields (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Undisclosed city in Argentina, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_2811 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11057 (4E1DAA8F) Date: 7/3/1965 Description: The Antarctica Sightings (E-M Case, Photos) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [650703](http://nicap.org/650703antarctica%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: unknown location, Antarctica Source ID: NICAP_DB_2812 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11058 (97D5232F) Date: 7/3/1965 Description: At their base on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica two Chilean scientists, Barrera and Perisse, witnessed, tracked with a theodolite, and photographed a bluish-green lighted object that zigzagged and caused strong radio frequency interference beginning at 7:14 p.m. Another electromagnetic effect was that the UFO registered on their magnetograph tapes and variometers. Photographs were taken. The blue-green lighted object was seen zig-zagging. There was a government coverup. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: La Razon, July 6, 1965; NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1965, p. 2; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 281; UNICAT, case 11; BUFORA Journal, May-June 1965, p. 18; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 315-316 Source ID: Johnson_3803 Source: Johnson ### Event 11059 (1EBDD4D7) Date: 7/3/1965 Description: Newspaper reports, Antartica: Argentine, British and Chilean military and scientific personnel observed an UFO moving at a frightening speed doing incredible maneuvers. It was something solid, glowing blue-green and causing E/M interference with our equipment. Lenticular shaped “flying saucer”. Tracked by theodolite, binoculars and magnetograph tapes. Also, 10 color photographs were taken of the UFO. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Antartica Source ID: Maj2_628 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11060 (83C5FA7A) Date: 7/4/1965 Description: "Hubcaps" Change Course & Fly Straight Up (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BB) Reference: NICAP: [650704](http://www.nicap.org/650704massillon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Massillon, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2814 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11061 (9C0AC109) Date: 7/5/1965 Description: On this day at 6 o'clock in the morning a photograph was taken of a flying disc-shaped object coming out of the Russian River near Kenai, Alaska. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1965 Source ID: Johnson_3842 Source: Johnson ### Event 11062 (E7BAF6D3) Date: 7/6/1965 Description: The commander and night crew of the Norwegian tanker "Jawesta" observed a lighted object flying out of the sea from Puerto La Cruz, Portugal. First Officer Toronin Lien first saw the large, blue, intense flame behind the ship moving at high speed. He called the captain and tracked the object with binoculars as its altitude reached about 300 meters. Its was cigar shaped, with a row of lighted portholes showing a clear yellow glow, and it left a bluish trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 651 Source ID: Johnson_3876 Source: Johnson ### Event 11063 (B7F596FE) Date: 7/6/1965 Time: night Description: The commander and crew of the Norwegian tanker "Jawesta" observed a lighted object flying out of the sea. First Officer Toronin Lien first saw a large, blue, intense flame behind the ship at high speed. He called the captain and tracked the object with binoculors as its altitude reached about 300m. Its shape was that of a cigar, with a row of lighted portholes showing a clear yellow glow, and it left a bluish trail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 150 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Puerto La Cruz, Portugal Source ID: Magnonia_651 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11064 (45E0012C) Date: 7/6/1965 Description: (McDonald list) Civilians Report Object / Possible Radar Confirmation (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 3, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650706](http://www.nicap.org/650706arlington%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arlington, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2815 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11065 (3896BE5B) Date: 7/6/1965 Description: Flashing light, like a satellite (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 9474) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kiel, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2816 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11066 (EBA9C9FC) Date: 7/6/1965 Description: Mrs. E. R. Hayner saw a flashing light, like a satellite, at 9:30 p.m. in Kiel, Wisconsin. It was seen for less than one minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9474; Don Berliner, Blue Book UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3877 Source: Johnson ### Event 11067 (415ECAC2) Date: 7/6/1965 Description: Three Silver Cigars Moving Side By Side (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BB) Reference: NICAP: [650706](http://www.nicap.org/650706fossil%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fossil, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2818 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11068 (F78D28C6) Date: 7/6/1965 Time: 9:30 PM Description: Witness: Mrs. E.R. Hayner. One flashing light, like a satellite, was seen for less than 1 minute. No further data was in the files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kiel, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_522 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11069 (723DB419) Date: 7/6/1965 Description: Police lieutenant and officer saw hovering white object that undulated, darted here and there, zigzagged, and sped away (UFOE II, Section, V). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sunnyvale, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2817 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11070 (495C1905) Date: 7/6/1965 Description: 6:52 p.m. Chief Mate Torgrim Lien of the Norwegian ship TT Jawesta watches a star-like UFO through binoculars in the North Atlantic Ocean about 900 miles southwest of the Azores. He, the captain, and other officers see an intense blue, fiery tongue of light approaching the ship at tremendous speed. As it gets closer, he sees it is a cigar-shaped UFO with a row of square windows. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Cigar’ Passes a Few Hundred Feet above](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%205.pdf) [Norwegian Ship,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1966\): 32 Source ID: Eberhart_3900 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11071 (6299C6DC) Date: 7/8/1965 Description: A police lieutenant named Haag and fellow police officer in Sunnyvale, California saw a hovering white object that undulated, darted back and forth, zig-zagged, and then climbed away at steep angle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 7, 171, citing Paul Cerny Source ID: Johnson_3927 Source: Johnson ### Event 11072 (87922AD5) Date: 7/8/1965 Description: Police lieutenant and officer saw hovering white object that undulated, darted here and there, zigzagged, and sped away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Sunnyvale, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_42 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11073 (E4D8B625) Date: 7/9/1965 Description: 10:00 p.m. Connie Wolferd and other residents of Bunker Hill, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, watch a clam- shaped object, about 10 feet in diameter, with red lights around its rim hover above some nearby trees. Wolferd is sitting on the porch listening to the radio when it suddenly stops functioning. The living room lights flicker \(although fluorescent lights in the kitchen and bathroom do not\), and a neighbor’s loud TV suddenly stops. She hears something making a “bleep-bleep” sound, looks up, and sees the object. Neighbors find the leaves of nearby trees are singed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Bunker Hill Girl Tells of Seeing Unidentified Flying Objects in July,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30390239/the-daily-news/)” Lebanon \(Pa.\) Daily News, August 10, 1965, p. 20; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 177–178 Source ID: Eberhart_3902 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11074 (07B7743B) Date: 7/9/1965 Description: Miss Zielonka, age 30, witnessed a three-meter long metallic object take off from the ground in Moyeuvre, Moselle, France at 12:30 in the afternoon. The object flew south toward Metz. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 652, citing the Paris Journal, July 12, 1965; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 257 Source ID: Johnson_3954 Source: Johnson ### Event 11075 (86724EE9) Date: 7/9/1965 Description: At 3:00 p.m. at Santa Maria Island Airport on the Azores, airport clocks stopped and compasses spun wildly when a white cylindrical UFO flew over, flying toward the northeast against the wind. Later in the evening at 9:10 p.m. EDT, six witnesses saw a white nocturnal light that maneuvered in the sky over the Beckford Power Plant north of Cincinnati, Ohio. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) BUFORA Journal, September-October 1965, p. 18; (2) APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966 Source ID: Johnson_3955 Source: Johnson ### Event 11076 (40D2574D) Date: 7/9/1965 Description: 4:30 p.m. A white cylindrical object is seen flying over Santa Maria Island in the Azores islands, Portugal. All electric clocks at the Santa Maria Airport stop when the object passes overhead. Weather personnel and other witnesses all agree that the UFO is at an altitude of 24,000–30,000 feet. At no time does it make any sound. According to witnesses, the clocks stop at the same time the UFO reaches the zenith directly over the airport. Attempts to identify it are unsuccessful. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Clocks at Airport Stopped When UFO Passes Over](http://www.nicap.org/650709azores%5Fdir.htm)”; “[The](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf) [Portuguese UAOs,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1965, p. 7; “United Press International Reports on Two UFOs,” Fate 18, no. 11 \(November 1965\): 59–61; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 160–162 Source ID: Eberhart_3901 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11077 (53017F2C) Date: 7/9/1965 Time: 1230 Description: At the Cote-de-Thermont, 30-year-old Mrs. Zielonka saw a metallic object rise at high speed and fly away toward Metz. Estimated diameter: 3 m. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 152 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Moyeuvre, France Source ID: Magnonia_652 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11078 (79A8C589) Date: 7/12/1965 Description: A UFO was sighted off of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea on this night in the same approximate location as the famous CE-III sightings by Father Gill in 1959. A red light changed to blue. It was extremely bright, and was seen swaying from side to side in a broad pendulum swing, at least a mile in each direction. The witnesses were several school children and their teacher. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Debbie Payne, Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 29, citing the RAAF Source ID: Johnson_4003 Source: Johnson ### Event 11079 (0D172679) Date: 7/12/1965 Description: At 4:30 a.m. a group of newspaper boys sighted a silver, football-shaped object near Kolb Road in Tucson, Arizona. It hovered for 30 minutes, then shot off to the southeast at a very fast speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966 Source ID: Johnson_4004 Source: Johnson ### Event 11080 (9A6F9602) Date: 7/12/1965 Description: Humberto Aranjo da Silva, a student driving in Bairio Paraiso dos Barbeiros, Brazil nearly hit a saucer-shaped craft, 6 meters in diameter, which had two V-shaped landing pads and a dome, and which had landed on the road. It made a whirring noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 84; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 653, citing SBEDV, issues 51, 53 Source ID: Johnson_4005 Source: Johnson ### Event 11081 (92095988) Date: 7/12/1965 Description: 4:30 a.m. Laura de Freitas Machado Fernandes gets up to go to the well for some water at her home in Porto, Portugal, near the Porto Airport. She notices a luminous red object shaped like a cardinal’s hat coming from the west at high speed. It stops in mid-air and hovers above some nearby woods, rocking back and forth. She rushes back to warn her husband, Manuel Fernandes. They notice that their radio set has started making a loud noise. They estimate the object is about a quarter-mile away. Its top part is orange, and on its brim is a flickering red light. They watch it for 3 minutes before it takes off to the north at full speed. The radio goes back to normal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Portuguese UAOs,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1965, pp. 3, 7; “United Press International Reports on Two UFOs,” Fate 18, no. 11 \(November 1965\): 59–61; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 162–167 Source ID: Eberhart_3903 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11082 (E22E7F4B) Date: 7/12/1965 Description: Student Humberto Aranjo da Silva nearly hit a saucer-shaped craft, 6 m in diameter, with two V-shaped landing pads and a dome, which had landed on the road. It made a whirring noise. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 84; SBEDV 51, 53 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bairio Paraiso dos Barbeiros, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_653 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11083 (716D2EF3) Date: 7/13/1965 Description: (McDonald list) At Least Three Radars Track Object Over Two States (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650713](http://www.nicap.org/650713ohio%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Penna. and Ohio, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_2819 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11084 (B1D73A50) Date: 7/14/1965 Description: A bright silver disc-shaped object was seen for two minutes over Brisbane, Queensland, Australia at 10:00 p.m. It moved slowly from east to west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 155 Source ID: Johnson_4052 Source: Johnson ### Event 11085 (746ABEF1) Date: 7/15/1965 Description: 11:00 a.m. An object descends near the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex in Tidbinbilla, Australian Capital Territory, interfering with its tracking of Mariner 4. It is also observed by control tower operators at Canberra Airport. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Canberra Incident,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CSep-Oct%2CV%2011%2CN%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1965\): 18–19; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 167–169; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 106](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/92/mode/2up); Randall C. Hecker, “Did UFO Sabotage Mariner IV?” Fate 20, no. 5 \(May 1967\): 32–37 Source ID: Eberhart_3904 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11086 (CC8610B2) Date: 7/15/1965 Description: At 10:50 a.m. eight witnesses including air traffic controllers at Canberra Airport, Australian Capital Territory watched a white sphere hovering for 40 minutes. In Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at 6:20 p.m. a disc-shaped object descended slowly at anangle, then hovered while wobbling over a school. After two minutes it shot off to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_4070 Source: Johnson ### Event 11087 (5C396C61) Date: 7/15/1965 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Bosquets and their family observed a luminous object, its color changing from blue to orange, about 12 m in diameter, and showing several portholes. The object left traces on the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: CODOVNI 1965 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Loretami Valley, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_654 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11088 (31849AA5) Date: 7/15/1965 Description: At eight o'clock in the evening in the Loretani Valley, Cordoba province, Argentina, Mr. and Mrs. Bosquets and their family observed a luminous object, its color changing from blue to orange. It was about twelve meters in diameter, and showed several portholes. It left behind ground traces at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 11; Gordon Creighton, FSR, November 1970, p. 27; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Langings, case # 654, citing CODOVNI 1965 Source ID: Johnson_4071 Source: Johnson ### Event 11089 (8B64124A) Date: 7/16/1965 Description: An airline pilot saw two red UFOs from the ground in rural Sherborn, Massachusetts at 2:00 a.m. He saw yellow, green, and red lights rotating around their circumferences. They also moved with a distinct up-and-down motion and made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 332 Source ID: Johnson_4097 Source: Johnson ### Event 11090 (F0353EB1) Date: 7/17/1965 Description: A blinding object, smaller than an airplane and having metallic legs, was seen on the bank of the Rio de la Plata River by two workers and four young men. White smoke emerged from the craft, which remained on the sand for two min, leaving X-shaped traces. It flew up to about 10 m altitude, then went away. The craft showed a round central section with two oval ends and looked somewhat similar to an egg. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 153 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Colonia, Uruguay Source ID: Magnonia_655 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11091 (91E23C99) Date: 7/17/1965 Description: Colonia, Uruguay. A blindingly bright object, smaller than an airplane and having metallic legs, was seen on the bank of the Rio de la Plata River by two workers and four young men. White smoke emerged from the craft, which remained on the sand for two minutes, leaving X-shaped ground marks. It flew up to about 10 meters altitude, stopped, then went away. The craft showed a round central section with two oval ends and looked somewhat similar to an egg. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Belfast News, July 20, 1965; Brad Steiger, Strangers From the Skies, p. 40; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 655 Source ID: Johnson_4127 Source: Johnson ### Event 11092 (2E2D0FDB) Date: 7/17/1965 Description: On this night in Samarai, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea a red glowing cylinder moved about in the sky, from left to right. During its oscillating behavior it emitted a sound like a diesel engine. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 155 Source ID: Johnson_4126 Source: Johnson ### Event 11093 (0D594193) Date: 7/18/1965 Description: A 70-foot diameter black disc flew by a satellite tracking station in Bedford, England on this day. None of the witnesses outdoors at the time could hear anything. A metallic disc hung stationary high in the sky at an altitude above 100,000 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, p. 112 Source ID: Johnson_4169 Source: Johnson ### Event 11094 (E23B549F) Date: 7/19/1965 Description: Ms. MacPherson, an airline stewardess, saw a slow moving silver colored UFO flying over Watertown, Massachusetts at four o'clock in the morning. She was on the ground at the time of her sighting. The UFO changed colors through the entire light spectrum several times. Also, later that evening five people witnessed a luminous circular object with four arm-like appendages hovering over Hingham, Massachusetts for 45 minutes. Each "arm" had three lights. The object left toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 332; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1965 Source ID: Johnson_4200 Source: Johnson ### Event 11095 (BE73274E) Date: 7/19/1965 Description: There were several sightings for this date. In Samarai, Papua New Guinea a red glowing cylinder moved across the sky from left to right. It flew with an oscillating motion, and made a sound like a diesel engine. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon in Antofagasta, Chile a cone-shaped object flew over the city at high speed, with the pointed end toward the rear, making loud explosive noises. At 5:30 p.m. in Vaucluse Beach, New South Wales, Australia a seven meter domed disc was seen resting on a sandy beach. When Mr. Crowe, the witness, approached to within 16 meters (53 feet) it rose with a rushing air noise like air being released from a balloon. There were ground marks left in the sand, and a check of radioactivity showed it was higher than the normal background level. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 155; Roberto Banchs, Las evidencias del fenomeno OVNI; Keith Basterfield; Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, pp. 33 & 46; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp.150 & 279 Source ID: Johnson_4199 Source: Johnson ### Event 11096 (E95F51F4) Date: 7/19/1965 Description: 5:30 p.m. [Denis Crowe](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/flying-saucer-mr-denis-crowe-of-vaucluse-shown-standing-at-news-photo/1078702858)[,](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/flying-saucer-mr-denis-crowe-of-vaucluse-shown-standing-at-news-photo/1078702858) an aircraft artist, is strolling along a beach at Vaucluse, New South Wales, when he encounters a glowing disc resting on legs. It is about 20 feet in diameter and 9 feet high. The top and bottom are silver gray and the rim in between is glowing greenish-blue. A hollow area at the very top seems to be a glass dome. There are no windows or antennae. Dogs in the neighborhood all bark at it. When Crowe is 50–60 feet from the object, it takes off with a sound like air forced from a balloon. He watches it for about 10 seconds until it disappears into the clouds. After the object takes off, the dogs are strangely silent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Glowing Disc on](http://www.nicap.org/650719vaucluse%5Fdir.htm) [Legs Freaks Dogs](http://www.nicap.org/650719vaucluse%5Fdir.htm)”; Bill Chalker, “Tully Saucer Nests of 1966, Part Two,” IUR 23, no. 1 \(Spring 1998\): 16–17; Good Above, [p. 531](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/530/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3905 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11097 (6A2A6C81) Date: 7/19/1965 Description: Domed disc with legs on beach, dogs barked loudly. Object took off with sound of rushing air, yellow-orange glow from underside Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Vaucluse, N.S.W., Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_43 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11098 (27445225) Date: 7/19/1965 Time: 1930 Description: Maria Andres, teacher, Mr. Gomez, Mrs. Goicoecha, and others saw a small object leave a larger one, land, and burn a spot on the ground before going back to the main object. It emitted a blinding light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Asi Jul. 30, 1965 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Villas Rosas, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_656 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11099 (D948F897) Date: 7/19/1965 Time: night Description: Carlos Videla Zamudio saw a "strange machine" land on an isolated beach. It was shaped like a mushroom or a top, was lighted from inside, rested on the ground silently, flew up to 30 m, and disappeared at fantastic speed. This was the third landing on a beach reported in Jul.. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 155; LDLN 78; APRO Jan., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chanaral, Chile Source ID: Magnonia_658 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11100 (05E035DA) Date: 7/19/1965 Time: 2130 Description: Mr. Crowe was attracted by a strong light on the beach, and walked within 20 m of the craft producing it, which took off with a yelloworange light. Estimated diameter: 7 m, height, 3 m, with blue-green edges. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Spaceview 44 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Vancluse, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_657 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11101 (395D5D61) Date: 7/19/1965 Description: Glowing Disc On Legs Freaks Dogs (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, Code: An, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650719](http://www.nicap.org/650719vaucluse%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vaucluse, N.S.W., AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2820 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11102 (0DDDB463) Date: 7/19/1965 Description: At 7:30 p.m. in Villas Rosas, Buenos Aires province, Argentina Maria Andres, a school teacher, Mr. Gomez, Mrs. Goicoecha, and others saw a small object leave a larger one, then land and burn a spot on the ground before going back to the main object. It emitted a blinding light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 656, citing Asi, Jul. 30, 1965 Source ID: Johnson_4201 Source: Johnson ### Event 11103 (6D54E998) Date: 7/20/1965 Description: At around eight o'clock in the morning R. Pereyra was driving near Monte de los Curas, Quilmes, Buenos Aires province, Argentina when he saw a parachute-like object land. Going near it, he observed a chromium-looking, egg-shaped craft standing on metal legs, with a transparent upper part. A blond pilot, wearing plastic coveralls and small boots, seemed to be studying a piece of paper. Inside the craft was another man seated before an instrument panel. Shortly thereafter the object took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition #1, p. 40; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 659 Source ID: Johnson_4238 Source: Johnson ### Event 11104 (4BD49A69) Date: 7/20/1965 Description: At 3:00 a.m. Carlos Videla Zamudio, a hotel guest in Chanaral, Atacama province, Chile was awakened by a loud noise, looked out the window, and saw an intense red object about 10-12 meters in diameter land on the isolated beach. It was shaped like a mushroom or a top, was lighted from inside, rested on the ground silently, flew up to 30 meters, and disappeared at fantastic speed. After four or five minutes it took off with a "violent noise" and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 658; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 317 Source ID: Johnson_4237 Source: Johnson ### Event 11105 (BC4629C2) Date: 7/20/1965 Description: After 11:00 p.m. a motorist in Chesterville, Ontario, Canada encountered a domed UFO with antennae from the sides, hovering just above road. He treid to speed past it, but the object accelerated to keep up with the car for about a minute at speeds approaching 100 mph; it then climbed away out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chesterville Record, July 22, 1965; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 452 Source ID: Johnson_4240 Source: Johnson ### Event 11106 (BC5EED54) Date: 7/20/1965 Time: 0800 Description: R. Pereyra was driving near Monte de los Curas when he saw a parachutelike object land. Going near, he observed a chromiumlooking, egg-shaped craft standing on metal legs, with a transparent upper part. A blond-haired pilot, wearing plastic coveralls and small boots, seemed to study a piece of paper. Inside the craft was another man seated before an instrument panel. Shortly thereafter the object took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 40 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Quilmes, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_659 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11107 (D09256AC) Date: 7/20/1965 Description: Domed object paced car, climbed out of sight (UFOE II, Section, XII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chesterville, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2821 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11108 (D5A879F8) Date: 7/20/1965 Description: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia a six meter in diameter blue glowing disc landed by a creek, making a swishing sound. It gave off an orange glow on takeoff. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 5; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_4236 Source: Johnson ### Event 11109 (DF5EB513) Date: 7/20/1965 Description: At 9:48 p.m. two high school students, James Murphy and Kevin Fitzgerald, in East Hartford, Connecticut sighted a round, bluish white object that flew silently to the north. At 10:30 p.m. twenty residents of Wayland, Massachusetts observed a round silver-white object that traveled to the north, stopped and hovered for 20 minutes while wobbling, and then headed north again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1965, January-February 1966 Source ID: Johnson_4239 Source: Johnson ### Event 11110 (E8DC4808) Date: 7/20/1965 Description: Domed object paced car, climbed out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Chesterville, Ontario, Canada Source ID: HallUFOE2_44 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11111 (3DAE7086) Date: 7/21/1965 Description: In Macias, Entre Rios province, Argentina at eleven o'clock at night Felipe Martinez reportedly met with humanoid UFOnauts for the third time since they had first contacted him. He was told that the "space people" would soon show themselves to people everywhere on earth. They also told him that on December 3 that year they would return to take Martinez and his family, and then they would then burn up the entire earth as punishment for our disbelief in their existence. Obviously, none of these prophesized events subsequently occurred. Four of the crew he met with were little men less than three feet tall, while the fifth man was over six feet tall and blond. This last crew member wore metallic plates on his arms, which had numerous small lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-22 (A0634), citing FSR; Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 40 Source ID: Johnson_4266 Source: Johnson ### Event 11112 (1C4B10FB) Date: 7/21/1965 Description: The USAF Keweenaw Radar Site in Michigan had multiple radar contacts with seven or more unknown targets. This was tied to an inflight sighting of 7 UFOs over Duluth, Michigan. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucers, March 1966, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_4267 Source: Johnson ### Event 11113 (E783CD2A) Date: 7/22/1965 Description: Flat Silver Object Near Airbase (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650722](http://www.nicap.org/650722forbes%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Forbes AFB, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2822 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11114 (1DC5F259) Date: 7/23/1965 Description: An object was observed to land on ranch 45 km north of this town by a chemical engineer, his wife, and several farmers. It remained on the ground for 45 min, leaving traces. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Saucer News 61 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lima, Peru Source ID: Magnonia_660 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11115 (FA278E2C) Date: 7/25/1965 Description: In Castalia, Ohio 16-year-old M. D. Harris, an amateur astronomer, was viewing the night sky at 9:15 p.m. when he saw what looked like a bright blue star move 90° across of the sky in 10-15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 9550; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4381 Source: Johnson ### Event 11116 (5FE01C3F) Date: 7/25/1965 Description: Two five-foot long cylinders connected by cross-bars landed in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada at 4:30 p.m. A five foot tall being was seen outside. There were three witnesses, and the encounter lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_4380 Source: Johnson ### Event 11117 (4E7EBC4F) Date: 7/25/1965 Description: On this night Mr. Alva was awakened by a strange sound and saw an object on the ground near the Chosica Power Plant, Peru emitting flashes of green light. He woke up other employees, who had time to note that the object was about three meters in diameter, had small windows in its upper part, and a revolving telescopic appendage. The investigating commission found dark, triangular traces on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 661 Source ID: Johnson_4382 Source: Johnson ### Event 11118 (1E69C87B) Date: 7/25/1965 Time: 9:15 PM Description: Witness: amateur astronomer M.D. Harris, 16. One bright blue star crossed 90 of sky in 10-15 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Castalia, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_523 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11119 (DD152781) Date: 7/25/1965 Description: Astronomer saw a bright blue star cross 90° of sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 9550) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Castalia, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2824 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11120 (2E433F15) Date: 7/25/1965 Description: Missile Radar Picks Up Target At 100,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650725](http://www.nicap.org/650725truax%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Truax Field, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2823 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11121 (667EFBB2) Date: 7/25/1965 Time: night Description: Mr. Alva was awakened by a strange sound and saw an object on the ground emitting green light flashes. He woke up other employees, who had time to note that the object was about 3 m in diameter, had small windows in its upper part, and a revolving telescopic appendage. The investigating commission found dark, triangular traces on the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 67, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chosica Power Plant, Peru Source ID: Magnonia_661 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11122 (D4BCDAF4) Date: 7/26/1965 Description: 9:35 p.m. Astronomers Robert Vitolniek, Ian Melderis, and Esmeralda Vitolniek at the Baldone Astrophysical Observatory in Latvia are observing noctilucent clouds when they see a star-like object drifting slowly westwards. Through binoculars the light seems to be sharply defined, and through a telescope it looks like an array of three greenish lights around a larger, central sphere. After 20 minutes, the three smaller lights move away from the central one, and they disappear into the distance at 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Felix Ziegel, “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210023618901&view=1up&seq=103&skin=2021)” Soviet Life, no. 137 \(February 1968\): 27; Hobana and Weverbergh 286–287; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#astronomers) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#astronomers)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 60–61 Source ID: Eberhart_3906 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11123 (B535BA76) Date: 7/26/1965 Description: Night. Adilon Batista de Azevedo, 14, leaves home with two friends to go to a movie theater on the outskirts of Carazinho, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. When they pass a vacant lot on Rua David Canaberra between the Rua 15 de Novembro and the Rua Alexandra de Motta, they see a light beam coming from a cloud illuminating an area about 33 feet in diameter and hear a buzzing noise. The other boys run, but Adilon remains and sees an oval- shaped object landing in the vacant lot and hovering about 3 feet off the ground. Another smaller object descends and hovers next to the first. Two beings about 5 feet tall emerge from the larger object and walk around it. They are wearing dark clothing and light helmets. After 5 minutes, 3 others emerge from the smaller object and converse with the others. The beings reenter the objects, which take off several minute apart. Adilon gets a headache that remains with him for 5 days. Possible helicopters? Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Research in Brazil,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20045-47%20-%201965.pdf)” SBEDV Boletim, no. 45– 47 \(July/Dec. 1965\): 7–9; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-07-26-brazil-carazinho.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-07-26-brazil-carazinho.htm) April 6, 2008; Brazil 73–74 Source ID: Eberhart_3907 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11124 (ACAD08E7) Date: 7/26/1965 Description: A teenager, Adilon Azevedo, and others in Carazinho, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil who fled the scene, saw two UFOs at ground level. They were about three meters in diameter, 1.5 meters high, and contained five occupants who wore luminous helmets and spoke among themselves in an unfamiliar language. One of the beings had a bright object in its hand. The witness experienced headaches for five days following the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 112; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 662 Source ID: Johnson_4415 Source: Johnson ### Event 11125 (32E48D57) Date: 7/26/1965 Description: At 9:35 p.m. three atmospheric astronomers studying noctilucent clouds at the Ogra Observatory, Latvia sighted a bright light in the west. Through a telescope they saw it was a 325 foot in diameter disc-shape with three spheres orbiting it. The UFOs gradually receded, but were seen at an estimated altitude of 60 miles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Felix Zigel, Flying Saucers, June 1968, p. 25; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. 4; NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1968, p. 6; FSR, May-June 1968, p. 28; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 131; Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 111 Source ID: Johnson_4414 Source: Johnson ### Event 11126 (13C35DF6) Date: 7/26/1965 Time: 2000 Description: A teenager, Adilon Azevedo, a others who fled, saw two objects at ground level, about 3 m in diameter, 1.5 m high, with five occupants, wearing luminous helmets, speaking among theselves, in unfamiliar language. One of the beings had a bright object in his hand. The witness experienced headaches for five days. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 41 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Carazinho, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_662 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11127 (FD8C3FDC) Date: 7/27/1965 Description: Squashed Football Hovers Over Road (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, Code: An, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650727](http://www.nicap.org/650727carnarvan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carnarvan, W. Aus Source ID: NICAP_DB_2825 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11128 (C4F3B9DE) Date: 7/28/1965 Description: RAPCON Fails To Identify Low Flying Manta Ray (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650728](http://www.nicap.org/650728carswell%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carswell AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2826 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11129 (DF66584B) Date: 7/28/1965 Description: 9:40 p.m. A USAF Reserve major and his wife observe a manta ray–shaped object fly almost directly overhead at Carswell AFB \[now Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base\], Fort Worth, Texas, below 1,000 feet altitude. The object moves at a constant speed on the same course. The object is approximately 40 feet long and has two brilliant white lights pulsating off and on once every second. It is completely silent and flies directly through the Carswell control zone at low altitude. The sighting is verified by three other persons on duty. The report states: “This sighting was a positive observation, under ideal circumstances, of a definite object of an unconventional nature—possibly of foreign origin, which could be a threat to national security.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[RAPCON Fails to Identify Low Flying Manta Ray](http://www.nicap.org/650728carswell%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3908 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11130 (9AF8AF3F) Date: 7/29/1965 Description: At 4:20 a.m. a washtub-shaped object flew over North Weymouth, Massachusetts performing irregular maneuvers. It was watched through binoculars and glowed orange, red and silver. At one point during the sighting two smaller silver objects criss-crossed over top of it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333 Source ID: Johnson_4482 Source: Johnson ### Event 11131 (4177E5C5) Date: 7/29/1965 Description: Alain Bressol of Grouzies, France observed a large, disc-shaped object in a field near Monsempron-Libos. It flew away at high speed toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 78; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 311 case 663 Source ID: Johnson_4483 Source: Johnson ### Event 11132 (3406FA1D) Date: 7/29/1965 Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_45 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11133 (C2F81288) Date: 7/29/1965 Time: 2300 Description: Alain Bressol observed a large, disk-shaped object in a field near Monsempron-Libos. It flew at high speed toward the south. Official report. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 156;LDLN 78 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Grouzies, France Source ID: Magnonia_663 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11134 (94CE8AB4) Date: 7/30/1965 Description: Hundreds of people from Puerto Monte, Chile in two separate locations observed an unidentified flying object that landed for five minutes. It emitted a blinding purple light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 666 Source ID: Johnson_4506 Source: Johnson ### Event 11135 (2793CC5F) Date: 7/30/1965 Description: At five o'clock in the afternoon the two McClintock children, attracted by the barking of a dog, saw a luminous disc-shaped object resting on tripod landing gear, and observed it for one hour. The landing occurred in Goonumbla, New South Wales, Australia eight kilometers away from the radio telescope located there. The disc had rods protruding from the top and bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 665 Source ID: Johnson_4505 Source: Johnson ### Event 11136 (1F38B7F8) Date: 7/30/1965 Description: Sighting wave mostly in Southwestern U.S. and northward through the central tier of states, later in eastern U.S. (See separate chronology, UFOE II, Section, VIII.) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650730](http://www.nicap.org/650730eastcoast%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: East Coast U.S.A., Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_2827 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11137 (181597A3) Date: 7/30/1965 Time: 0500 Description: Two children attracted by the barking of a dog saw a luminous object resting on a tripod landing gear, and observed it for one hour. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Goonumbla, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_665 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11138 (5780038A) Date: 7/30/1965 Description: Hundreds of people in two separate spots observed an object that landed for five min. It emitted a blinding purple light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 157; LDLN 78 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Puerto Monte, Chile Source ID: Magnonia_664 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11139 (1FA8C566) Date: 7/31/1965 Description: A glowing object was seen in the sky with three leg-like protrusions over Goonumbla, New South Wales, Australia. It scared farm dogs in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_4526 Source: Johnson ### Event 11140 (3F5F0DD3) Date: 7/31/1965 Description: In Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada two five-foot long cylinders connected by cross-bars landed at 4:30 p.m. A five foot tall humanoid being was seen outside the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2070, citing John Brent Musgrave Source ID: Johnson_4525 Source: Johnson ### Event 11141 (F1B7636F) Date: 7/31/1965 Description: A woman driving in a car near Belluco, Chile saw an object on the road. It took off, then landed again in Belluco where it was seen by several people. The object emitted a bright, purple light and a green beam. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 666 Source ID: Johnson_4523 Source: Johnson ### Event 11142 (A114712F) Date: 7/31/1965 Description: In Wynnewood, Oklahoma a UFO was tracked on U.S. Air Force and Weather Bureau radar shortly after 1:00 a.m. There were numerous police sightings of a multicolored object flashing different colors for 45 minutes. It finally moved off to the south. It was picked up on radars at Tinker and Carswell Air Force Bases. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space; p. 237; John G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, p. 41; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence: Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 242 Source ID: Johnson_4524 Source: Johnson ### Event 11143 (A2B3AAE3) Date: 7/31/1965 Description: A woman in a car saw an object on the road. It took off, then landed again in Belluco where it was seen by several people. The object emitted a bright, purple light and a green beam. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Spaceview ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Belluco, Chile Source ID: Magnonia_666 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11144 (D5C778CD) Date: 7/31/1965 Description: 1:05 a.m. Wynnewood, Oklahoma, police officer Lewis Sikes, 29, reports a UFO to the northeast. A little later, simultaneous radar fixes are obtained at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City and Carswell AFB \[now Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base\], Fort Worth, Texas. Both Tinker and Carswell track the object to a point 15 miles southwest of Tinker when it disappears. A few minutes later, it is tracked to a point 29 miles south of Tinker when it is lost again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Gnd/Visual and AF Radar](http://www.nicap.org/650731wynnewood%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3909 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11145 (B7D93E0C) Date: 7/31/1965 End date: 9/3/1965 Description: Summer 1965 sighting wave mostly in Southwestern U.S. and northward through the central tier of states, later in eastern U.S. (See separate chronology, section VIII.) Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_46 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11146 (78089BDE) Date: 7/31/1965 Description: Gnd/Visual and AF Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650731](http://www.nicap.org/650731wynnewood%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wynnewood, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2828 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11147 (5B966339) Date: 8/1/1965 Description: Military Observers Report 3-4 Ovals (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650801](http://www.nicap.org/650801entafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ent AFB, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2829 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11148 (EB31335A) Date: 8/1/1965 Description: 707 Picks Up 12-15 Targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650801](http://www.nicap.org/650801topekadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Topeka, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2831 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11149 (B8AD49CB) Date: 8/1/1965 Description: Four Lights Observed, Radar Contact On One (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650801](http://www.nicap.org/650801tinker%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tinker AFB, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2832 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11150 (3A9509EB) Date: 8/1/1965 Description: 8:08 p.m. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol starts receiving 25–30 visual sightings of UFOs, many by police and highway patrol troopers from Purcell north to Norman to Chandler and back south through Meeker and Shawnee, Oklahoma. The sightings continue through dawn and vary from one to four objects that start and stop, often having a red color and varying to a white and blue luster. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, \[[case documents](http://www.nicap.org/docs/650730wynnewood%5Fdocs.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_3911 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11151 (DE753F2D) Date: 8/1/1965 Description: 1:30–4:30 a.m. Various personnel from Francis E. Warren Air Force Base west of Cheyenne, Wyoming, report more than 70 UFOs near the base’s ICBM Minuteman I launch control facilities \(LCFs\) and launch facilities \(LFs, missile silos\). A Lieut. Anspaugh logs the reports and incoming telephone calls for three hours. The reports begin with a “large circular object emitting several colors but no sound” seen by civilians over Cheyenne itself at 1:30 a.m. This results in an alert at the base for all personnel to be on the watch for anything suspicious. Five objects are spotted over the Sioux Army Depot \[now closed\] in Sydney, Nebraska, at 1:45 a.m. Two UFOs are seen over the Echo LCF southeast of Pine Bluff at 1:48 a.m. Nine more objects are sighted at 2:50 a.m. The Echo LCF reports six UFOs stacked vertically. A Strategic Air Command team at the H-2 LF northeast of Gurley reports a white UFO directly overhead at 3:00 a.m. The Sioux Army Depot reports five objects going east at 3:35 a.m. Reports of white, round- or oval-shaped objects in various formations, continue solidly at the H- 2 LF for the next 40 minutes. At 4:05 a.m., the Warren base commander calls to say that the Quebec LCF southwest of Chugwater has nine UFOs in sight: four to the NW, three to the NE, and two over Cheyenne. Sightings continue to be reported the next two nights at missile sites assigned to Warren AFB, for a total of 148 objects seen by 143 combat defense force airmen, missile maintenance men, and NCOs. The sheer scope and blatant ostentation of the UFOs’ reported aerial displays over a sensitive atomic missile base is remarkable. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 209–211](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/208/mode/2up?q=Saucedo); Robert L. Hastings, “[Remarkable Reports](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/missiles.pdf) [from the Missile Field,](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/missiles.pdf)” IUR 32, no. 1 \(August 2008\): 8–14, 23–27; Robert L. Hastings, “[Yet Another Nuclear](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/yet-another-nuclear-missile-launch-officer-talks-about-ufos-at-f-e-warren-afb) [Missile Launch Officer Talks about UFOs at F. E. Warren AFB,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/yet-another-nuclear-missile-launch-officer-talks-about-ufos-at-f-e-warren-afb)” UFOs & Nukes, February 5, 2012; Nukes 223– 238 Source ID: Eberhart_3910 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11152 (7DACDEE5) Date: 8/1/1965 Description: At around seven p.m. a 15-year-old boy named San Roman Nunez in Lima, Peru watched a saucer-shaped UFO descend and land nearby. A 3.5 foot tall being emerged from the object. It was "greenish" with hair covered with green lights, and "looked like a toad." The boy fled. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 41; John A. Keel, Strange Creatures From Time and Space, p. 150 Source ID: Johnson_4564 Source: Johnson ### Event 11153 (99EF066D) Date: 8/1/1965 Description: Night. Two rookie police officers in Caldwell, Kansas, speed toward the airport to investigate local sightings when they see an egg-shaped machine about 300 feet long hovering above the ground. They try to get closer, but it disappears behind a hedgerow and shuts its lights off. They return the next day, but find no traces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Caldwell](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95149436/) [Officers Are ‘Believers’ Now,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95149436/)” Wichita \(Kan.\) Beacon, August 2, 1965, p. 1; Jerome Clark, “[The Greatest Flap](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%201.pdf) [Yet?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1966\): 27–28 Source ID: Eberhart_3914 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11154 (8C857A0A) Date: 8/1/1965 Description: Night. A TWA Boeing 707 airliner flying west of Topeka, Kansas, picks up 12–15 targets on Air Intercept Radar flying toward them at high speed on a 50-mile scope. They change to a 20-mile scope and observe the objects approaching in formation. The pilot, copilot, and engineer all witness this clearly. The aircraft passes the objects but cannot see them visually. Two films of the scopes are taken. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[707 Picks Up 12–15 Targets](http://www.nicap.org/650801topekadir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3913 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11155 (28B9BE9D) Date: 8/1/1965 Description: 9:08 p.m. Four objects, bluish-white with a red haze, are seen from the control tower at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. T/Sgt [John R. Lang](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17272560/john-robert-lang)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17272560/john-robert-lang) 34, is the watch supervisor. All the objects appear at approximately 22,000 feet altitude. One is moving south, and another is moving north at speeds of 150–200 mph. Two of the objects appear stationary. The 746th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron reports radar contact with one object at 10,000 feet in the vicinity of Norman, Oklahoma, 20 miles south of Tinker AFB. The duration is 90 minutes. An Air Force weather observer, who wishes to remain anonymous, looks at a UFO through his 40x-telescope at Oklahoma City. It is tilted about 45° then straightens out. “It looked like Saturn with a flat top and flat bottom.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Four Lights Observed, Radar Contact on One](http://www.nicap.org/650801tinker%5Fdir.htm)”; “[UFOs Leave Local](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95149492/) [Radar Tracks,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95149510/)” Wichita \(Kan.\) Beacon, August 2, 1965, pp. 1–2; “[Radar Didn’t Detect](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17469788/1965-minnesota-ufo-sightings-part-of-a/) [UFOs Spotted in Area,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17470106/1965-minnesota-ufo-sightings-part-of-a/)” Minneapolis Star, August 3, 1965, pp. 1, 4 Source ID: Eberhart_3912 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11156 (CBA91734) Date: 8/1/1965 End date: 8/2/1965 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Whiteman AFB, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2830 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11157 (CEB8F452) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: G,V. weather radar tracked 4-5 UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wichita, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2836 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11158 (5E6A9EE8) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: The crew of the Russian steamship Raduga in the Red Sea watch a fiery sphere emerge from the water 2 miles away, causing an enormous pillar of water to rise and collapse. It hovers above the surface at an altitude of 490 feet. A motorboat with six Arab fishermen is in the area and also sees the object, which is apparently 200 feet in diameter. The object shoots straight up, and the boat is hit by a strong wave that overturns it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 59–60 Source ID: Eberhart_3919 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11159 (108472F2) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: Five children saw a brilliant, round object without wings, close to the ground, in the 600 block on Northwest 63. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Source ID: Magnonia_668 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11160 (F9A3061B) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: Two deputy sheriffs of Tarrant County saw an object as bright as burning magnesium, which landed as they were on a patrol near Wagle Mountain Lake. Extensive investigation by the police led to negative results. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Justin, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_667 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11161 (2AF5F71B) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: A famous color photograph was taken in Tulsa, Oklahoma by 14-year-old Alan Smith at 1:45 a.m. Unlike most photos of alleged UFOs taken by teenagers, this one had supporting witnesses. The photo shows a mosaic pattern of yellow, blue and white light in the shape of an ovoid with three tiny fingers. The object was described as about size of a basketball, which moved slowly and changed color, and also made a high pitched whining sound. Alan took his shot when the UFO was almost directly overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hayden C. Hewes, Flying Saucers magazine, June 1967, p. 8; October 1967, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_4598 Source: Johnson ### Event 11162 (964F242F) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: 3:00 a.m. KXWI-TV news photographer Robert Campbell hears on his radio a conversation between Oklahoma and Texas highway patrolmen that a UFO has been tracked on radar and is streaking towards the Texas border. Campbell takes his 4-by-5 Speed Graphic camera and drives into Sherman, Texas, where he locates Chief of Police Peter McCollum. Together they search for the object and soon see it hanging stationary one mile east of Bells on US Highway 82. The object has a “Mercury capsule” shape at one end, possibly rounded at the other end. Several distinct bands circle the cylinder, with disc-shaped embossments on the surface. He takes four camera exposures, two minutes each at three-minute intervals. The negatives are carefully examined by USAF scientific advisers and astronomical experts. No acceptable explanation can be found for the object recorded on the negatives. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Sherman, Texas, Photo Case](http://www.nicap.org/650802sherman%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Sherman 1965,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=657)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014; Patrick Gross, “[The Sherman Case, Texas, USA, 1965](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/sherman65.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3918 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11163 (3E5C61FD) Date: 8/2/1965 Alternate date: 8/3/1965 Description: 1:30 a.m. Mr. A. L. Smith, accompanied by his 14-year-old son Alan and three other witnesses, watch an unusual, multicolored UFO over Tulsa, Oklahoma. The UFO is slowly moving toward the witnesses. Still several hundred yards away, it pauses briefly and hovers. At that precise moment, Alan snaps a photograph with his inexpensive camera, using ASA 64 film. Alan decides not to try for a second shot. He takes his camera inside the house and runs back outside just in time to see the object rapidly flying away into the night sky. The photo is a probable fake of a color wheel for an aluminum Christmas tree. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Smith / Tulsa Photo Case](http://www.nicap.org/650802tulsa%5Fdir.htm)”; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p.147; Larry Robinson, “[The Tulsa Photo,](https://midimagic.sgc-hosting.com/howituls.htm)” MidiMagic, October 25, 2016; Patrick Gross, “[Project Blue Book](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/bluebookpics9966.htm) [Case 9966](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/bluebookpics9966.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3915 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11164 (31C81317) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: 2:30 a.m. Unidentified blips show up on the Weather Bureau radar screen at the Wichita Municipal Airport \[now Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport\] in Kansas and continue intermittently until after 6:00 a.m. Most of the sightings are in the vicinity of Wellington, Kansas. The altitude ranges from 5,000–20,000 feet. Wichita meteorologist John Shockley tracks several UFOs on the Weather Bureau radar flying at altitudes of 6,000–9,000 feet. His assistant [Ellis Pike](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28578248/ellis-dean-pike) notes that they look just like airliner blips. They brighten and dim on the screen, moving at 45 mph. At least four citizens see colored glows in the southern sky during the early morning hours. One says: “They were red and exploded in a shower of sparks and at other times fluttered like a leaf in the clear sky.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Weather Radar Blips and Sky Glows](http://www.nicap.org/650802wichita%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 158–160](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/158/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3917 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11165 (EF555677) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: Deputy sheriffs saw an object as bright as burning magnesium (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Justin, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2833 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11166 (E1B46594) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: Brilliant, round object without wings, close to the ground (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oklahoma City, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2834 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11167 (556F7A65) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: The Sherman, Texas, Photo Case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650802](http://www.nicap.org/650802sherman%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sherman, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2835 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11168 (8CE725DD) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: As they patrol near Eagle Mountain Lake, two Tarrant County, Texas, deputy sheriffs see an object as bright as burning magnesium land. An extensive investigation by police finds no traces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 306 Source ID: Eberhart_3920 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11169 (55DEFA78) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: Justin, Texas - Two deputy sheriffs of Tarrant County saw an object as bright as burning magnesium, which landed as they were on a patrol near Wagle Mountain Lake. Extensive investigation by the police led to negative results. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 667 Source ID: Johnson_4597 Source: Johnson ### Event 11170 (1D865E21) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: On this afternoon a medical student walking on the beach known as La Arenilla, and accompanied by a doctor, saw a strange dwarf on the beach in the city of La Punta, Peru located not far from Lima. However, the two refused to give the newspaper any more details about their encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-74 Source ID: Johnson_4596 Source: Johnson ### Event 11171 (59C04380) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: There are 33 separate reports in the UFOCAT database for this date, including many UFO visual sightings with some confirmed by radar trackings at several Air Force Bases in the United States. The U.S. reports centered on the midwestern states, especially Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. There are reports from Latvia, Austria, Argentina, Peru, Mexico and seven reports from Brazil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_4595 Source: Johnson ### Event 11172 (CBD41FE2) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: In Lake Park, Minnesota an orange UFO, emitting a sound like a "dynamo", hovered just above ground. Animals reacted to its presence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 69 Source ID: Johnson_4600 Source: Johnson ### Event 11173 (83C75532) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: Project Blue Book puts out an official USAF press release declaring the majority of the sightings on August 1 are “most likely” due to the planet Jupiter and the stars Rigel, Capella, Betelgeuse, and Aldebaran, “clearly visible in the eastern sky.” But astronomer Robert Risser of the Kirkpatrick Planetarium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, counters that Jupiter and the four stars are “on the opposite side of the earth” at the time of the sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mystery Flying Objects](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95113046/) [‘Seen’ in Eight States,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95113212/)” Los Angeles Times, August 3, 1965, p. 1; Clark III 388 Source ID: Eberhart_3916 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11174 (21E1257B) Date: 8/2/1965 Description: Five children saw a brilliant, round object without wings, close to the ground, in the 600 block of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Northwest Route 63. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 668 Source ID: Johnson_4599 Source: Johnson ### Event 11175 (1EF1837A) Date: 8/3/1965 Description: Two boys, Doug Knopka, age 9, and Tim Dietz, age 8, were vacationing at Doehler’s Beach in northeastern Pennsylvania with their families, and were walking along a wooded road at 10:30 a.m. when they saw a “dirty white” disc-shaped object. It had a transparent dome, was 15 feet in diameter, and was on or near the ground just 50 feet away from them. Next to the craft stood a small four and a half foot tall figure with yellow eyes, and inside the dome was another figure moving about. Frightened, the boys ran from the spot. As they ran they heard a “swishing” sound, and saw the round object rise over the treetops and disappear from sight as it flew out over the lake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-28, citing Louis Spizarny for NICAP Source ID: Johnson_4627 Source: Johnson ### Event 11176 (8B00FF5B) Date: 8/3/1965 Description: Before 12:00 midnight. Three young men watch a triangular object with a light at each of its points move from north to south along the Jura Mountains from Biel/Bienne to Vignelz, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Suddenly it stops, changing color from yellow to dark red, makes a 180° turn, then takes off “like lightning” toward the east where it vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Bright Pointed Triangle Again,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1966\): iii Source ID: Eberhart_3922 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11177 (19EC6237) Date: 8/3/1965 Description: 12:37 p.m. Los Angeles County Highway Accident Investigator [Rex Heflin](http://www.nicap.org/reports/Goodbye%5FRex%5FHeflin.pdf) takes four clear Polaroid photos of a hat-shaped UFO on a lonely stretch of road near Santa Ana, California. The object is silent, and a beam of white light is rotating beneath it. He radios his supervisor, but the radio goes dead. One of Heflin’s coworkers offers to send the photos to Life magazine; he does, but Life declines to use them. Soon, someone from NORAD shows up demanding the prints and Heflin turns them over. They are not seen again. The photos are most likely a prank hoax by Heflin using a hubcap, complicated by flawed photographic analyses and investigations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Santa Ana / Rex Heflin Photos](http://www.nicap.org/650803santaana%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Calif. Man Snaps UAO Photo,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1965, pp. 4, 6; “[Photo ‘Hoax’ Label Questioned,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/029%20NOV-DEC%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 5 \(Nov./Dec. 1965\): 8; “[The Heflin Story,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/030%20JAN-FEB%201966.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 6 \(Jan./Feb. 1966\): 7–8; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 170–174; Ralph Rankow, “[The Heflin Photographs,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1968\): 21–24; UFOEv II 284–286; Condon, [pp. 84–85,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/84/mode/2up) [437–455](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/436/mode/2up); Robert J. Kirkpatrick, “The Heflin Case: Then and Now,” IUR 11, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1986\): 10–13, 23; “[Heflin’s](https://rr0.org/time/2/0/0/6/03/Heflins1965PhotosFinallyValidated/index.html) [1965 Photos Finally Validated,](https://rr0.org/time/2/0/0/6/03/Heflins1965PhotosFinallyValidated/index.html)” RR0; Ann Druffel, Robert M. Wood, and Eric Kelson, “[Reanalysis of the 1965](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/14/jse%5F14%5F4%5Fdruffel.pdf) [Heflin UFO Photos,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/14/jse%5F14%5F4%5Fdruffel.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 14, no. 4 \(2000\): 583–622; Ann Druffel, “[Goodbye, Rex](http://www.nicap.org/reports/Goodbye%5FRex%5FHeflin.pdf) [Heflin,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/Goodbye%5FRex%5FHeflin.pdf)” UFO, August 2006, pp. 52–63; Mary Castner, unpublished document Source ID: Eberhart_3921 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11178 (46F45970) Date: 8/3/1965 Description: A young man saw an object rise from the lake area. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lake Hefner, Oklahoma Source ID: Magnonia_669 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11179 (57740C35) Date: 8/3/1965 Description: Santa Ana / Rex Heflin Photos (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650803](http://www.nicap.org/650803santaana%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Ana, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2837 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11180 (D50B3EAF) Date: 8/3/1965 Description: The Smith / Tulsa Photo Case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 0) Reference: NICAP: [650803](http://www.nicap.org/650802tulsa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tulsa, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2838 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11181 (2C98D882) Date: 8/3/1965 Description: Police Observe Four Objects In Diamond Formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650803](http://www.nicap.org/650803cocoa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cocoa, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2839 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11182 (41EC22B2) Date: 8/3/1965 Description: Young man saw an object rise from the lake area (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Hefner, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2840 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11183 (657CBAA5) Date: 8/3/1965 Description: Denver Post editorial: "Maybe it's time for more people to get serious about the UFO question. . . . If we still choose to be skeptical, we nevertheless are not nearly so ready as we once were to dismiss all reports of variously shaped but elusive flying objects as products of midsummer night dreams." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_47 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11184 (A6804024) Date: 8/3/1965 Description: Highway investigator Rex Heflin, three Polaroid photos of domed-disc UFO (section VII). August 4, 1965. Fort Worth Star Telegram (TX) editorial: "They can stop kidding us now about there being no such thing as 'flying saucers. . . .' Too many people of obviously sound mind saw and reported them independently. . . . Their descriptions of what they saw were too similar to one another, and too unlike any familiar object. . . ." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Santa Ana, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_48 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11185 (E23E5866) Date: 8/3/1965 Time: 2000 Description: Approximate date. Dr. Antonin Kukla and Mrs. Audrey Lawrence saw an object dive toward them. They switched off the car headlights and got out of the vehicle to observe the oval object, which hovered at ground level, its color changing from orange to fluorescent green, before it took off at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Carnarvon, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_670 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11186 (458AF56F) Date: 8/3/1965 Description: There were at least 15 reports recorded for this day from Australia, China, Sweden, Switzerland, Hawaii, and the midwestern and western United States. Among the more interesting reports, a young man saw an object rise from the lake at Lake Hefner, Oklahoma. Also on this day a famous set of UFO photographs was taken by Ray Heflin in Santa Ana, California. At 12:38 p.m. he took four photographs of a metallic hat-shaped UFO, estimated to be about 30 feet in diameter, with a Polaroid camera from his Orange County pickup truck. The U.S. Air Force claimed the object was a hubcap thrown in the air, but most UFO researchers regard the photos as genuine. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 671; (2) John R. Gray, FSR, March-April 1969, p. 24; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_4626 Source: Johnson ### Event 11187 (4772F350) Date: 8/3/1965 Description: On or about this date Dr. Antonin Kukla and Mrs. Audrey Lawrence saw an oval object dive toward them at 8:00 p.m. while driving in Carnarvon, Western Australia. They switched off the car's headlights and got out of the vehicle to observe the object, which hovered at ground level. Its color changed from orange to fluorescent green before it took off at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1965, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 670 Source ID: Johnson_4625 Source: Johnson ### Event 11188 (69FDF28C) Date: 8/4/1965 Time: 0130 Description: A man in a car observed a red and blue light thought it came from a police car, then was passed by a huge, orange object flying at ground level. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Dallas, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_672 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11189 (0D319F1A) Date: 8/4/1965 Time: 0130 Description: Truck driver Don Tenopir had reached a point 35 km from Abilene, going toward Lincoln, when his headlights blinked and failed. An object then dived toward the truck and stopped on the road 30 m ahead causing a car coming in the opposite direction to leave the road in order to avoid it. The object was orange, 5 m in diameter, 1.5 m high, with a dome and a "black spot." It took off toward the west, then turned south. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 82 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Abilene, Kansas Source ID: Magnonia_673 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11190 (0423B2FA) Date: 8/4/1965 Time: 2200 Description: Joao Erondo dos Santos saw a disk 50 m in diameter land with a distinct sound, although no traces were found afterward. The object illuminated a wide area. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 84 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Trapua, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_674 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11191 (B6B0E2E9) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: At 8:30 p.m. Joao Erondo dos Santos saw a disc 50 meters in diameter land near the Trapua River, Brazil with a distinct sound, although no traces were found afterward. The object illuminated a wide area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 674 Source ID: Johnson_4648 Source: Johnson ### Event 11192 (AF7BDCCD) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: Michigan-Minnesota, G,V, USAF & RCAF 7-10 UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Michigan-Minnesota, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_2846 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11193 (CC1B9CD7) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: At 11:35 p.m. in Tinley Park, Illinois two 14-year-olds watched a light maneuver around the sky for 16-17 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_4650 Source: Johnson ### Event 11194 (C2C2C92F) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: U.S. Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force radar tracked formations of 7-10 UFOs over Lake Superior and Duluth, MN, moving at about 9,000 mph, altitudes between 5,200 and 17,000 feet Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Michigan—Minnesota Source ID: HallUFOE2_50 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11195 (EF078D9A) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: E-M effects on truck, domed disc swooped overhead, hovered just above road, blocked highway Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Abilene, KS Source ID: HallUFOE2_49 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11196 (1728361B) Date: 8/4/1965 Time: 11:35 PM Description: Witnesses: two unnamed 14 year olds. One light moved around the sky for 16-17 seconds. No further data in files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Tinley Park, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_525 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11197 (145866B3) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: A bright, silvery object landed on a hill for 45 min. There were numerous witnesses, among them military men. Official investigation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chena, Chile Source ID: Magnonia_671 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11198 (9AC89111) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: At 1:30 a.m. on Highway 15, truck driver Don Tenopir, age 44, had reached a point 25 miles from Abilene, Texas when his headlights blinked and failed, but his truck's diesel engine did not. A metallic, domed disc-shaped UFO swooped low from behind and dove towards his grain truck, then landed on the road 30 meters ahead causing a car coming from the opposite direction to leave the road in order to avoid it. The object had an orange glow and was five meters in diameter, 1.5 meters high, and had a "black spot" on its dome. It took off toward the west, then turned south. The UFO made a sound like wind blowing through trees, and gave off bluish sparks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966, p. 29; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 671; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 454 Source ID: Johnson_4646 Source: Johnson ### Event 11199 (1D5BB39C) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: Domed disc swooped over truck, landed on road, blocked highway. (L) See Section VI (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Abilene, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2845 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11200 (47B14D07) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: Unnamed 14 year-olds saw a light move around the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 9680) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tinley Park, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2844 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11201 (5B075427) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: USAF radar tracking of 10 targets in V-formation traveling from the SW (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Calumet AFS, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2843 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11202 (665B01C1) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: Night. Radar operators at Calumet Air Force Station \[now operated by Keweenaw County\] near Phoenix, Michigan, track 7–10 objects in V-formation traveling from southwest to north-northeast at about 9,000 mph over Lake Superior. The same night, radar targets at Duluth, Minnesota, are chased by USAF jets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 306; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1965%5F08%5F04%5FUS%5FMI%5FDuluth-AFB%5FNICAP%5FMultiWit-Radar.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_3924 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11203 (C0C84DC3) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: At 9:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas 19-year-old J. A. Carter observed an unexplained red and blue light that flew fast, straight and level for 12 seconds. He thought at first it might have come from a police car, but then a huge, orange object flying at ground level passed him. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 673 Source ID: Johnson_4649 Source: Johnson ### Event 11204 (EDB20248) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: A bright, silvery object landed on a hill in Chena, Chile for 45 minutes. There were numerous witnesses, among them military men. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 672 Source ID: Johnson_4647 Source: Johnson ### Event 11205 (BAE77612) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: 1:30 AM - Man in a car was passed by a huge, orange object flying at ground level (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dallas, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2841 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11206 (4C3E8CD6) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: 9:30 PM - light fly fast, straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 9675) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dallas, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2842 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11207 (9663D4F4) Date: 8/4/1965 Time: 9:30 PM Description: Witness: J.A. Carter, 19. One light flew fast, straight and level for 12 seconds. No further data in files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Dallas, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_524 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11208 (FFA8BC76) Date: 8/4/1965 Description: 1:30 a.m. [Don Tenopir](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188147823/donald-tenopir), 44, is driving a truck on State Highway 15 about 25 miles south of Abilene \(near Elmo, Kansas\), when all his lights go out. They come back on intermittently. A UFO passes just above his truck with a wind-like sound and hovers about 100 feet in front of him. Tenopir stops his rig, and the object slowly rises and takes off to the southwest. It seems to be 14–15 feet in diameter, 2 feet thick with a 4-foot hump in the middle, and orange-colored. It is shooting off rays in spurts. He stops in Abilene to report his sighting to Abilene Reflector-Chronicle reporter [Ed Corwin](https://www.hotspotsz.com/former-reporter-recounts-ufo-tale/). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Beatrice Trucker Joins UFO Viewers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95115452/)” Beatrice \(Neb.\) Daily Sun, August 5, 1965, p. 1; Jerome Clark, “[The Greatest Flap Yet?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1966\): 29–30; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 175–177 Source ID: Eberhart_3923 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11209 (7153EC5D) Date: 8/5/1965 Description: Two Objects Picked Up On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650805](http://www.nicap.org/650805chicago%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago (area), IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2847 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11210 (CACE82FC) Date: 8/5/1965 Time: 2030 Description: Several children saw an object shaped like two saucers glued together come to ground level several times on the farm of William Butcher. It was chromelike, measured about 16 m in diameter, took off with green and yellow flames, and illuminated the clouds when it flew into them. Capt. James Dorsey and four technicians from Niagara Falls AFB investigated the case. They found no trace, concluding, however, that the witnesses were not lying. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cherry Creek, New York Source ID: Magnonia_675 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11211 (DFC8FEE9) Date: 8/6/1965 Description: Cascade (ID) News editorial: "An objective observer is about forced to the conclusion that there are objects of some sort appearing in the skies that cannot be explained by any conventional circumstances. There is absolutely no reason to deny the UFOs' existence because we don't understand them." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_51 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11212 (50FFF408) Date: 8/6/1965 Description: (1) Shortly after 11:00 p.m. cows in a pasture in Ambleside, Cumbria, England panicked when a fiery red cigar-shaped object with illuminated windows flew over, making a groaning noise. (2) That same evening at 10 p.m. EDT a maneuvering disc-shaped object caused an animal reaction in West Homestead, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Gordon Creighton, FSR, November 1970, p. 28; (2) Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated August 11, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_4727 Source: Johnson ### Event 11213 (356892F6) Date: 8/6/1965 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a UFO landed in the San Bernardino area of Caracas, Venezuela. It created a "scorched area 10 meters wide" in a cornfield. Three beings emerged from the craft, but when a farmer approached they "whipped back into it" and took off at once. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 41, citing the London Evening News Source ID: Johnson_4726 Source: Johnson ### Event 11214 (B7FE6E2D) Date: 8/7/1965 Description: At four o'clock in the afternoon a medical doctor--a gynecologist--and two other witnesses saw a yellow luminous disc-shaped object, 50 feet in diameter, land in San Pedro de los Altos, Venezuela. A shaft of light came down from the object. Inside the beam descended two 7-8 feet tall men with long blond hair. They wore seamless metallic coveralls. They communicated telepathically with the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Horacio Gonzalez Ganteaume, FSR, March-April 1969, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_4762 Source: Johnson ### Event 11215 (572B24EA) Date: 8/8/1965 Description: 11:30 p.m. A luminous UFO is allegedly photographed in Beaver, Pennsylvania, by James Lucci, 17. According to estimations by witnesses, the diameter of the UFO is around 42 feet. Lucci is photographing the full moon with his brother John, 23. According to them, a shining object appears from behind a hill. James manages to take two shots before the flying object leaves. His friends encourage him to send the photos to the Beaver County Times, where they are analyzed and declared authentic. However, both the Colorado project and UFO researchers determine the photo is a hoax created by holding a plate up next to the moon with a fist \(probably John’s\) and blurring it with motion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Condon, [pp. 83–84](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/82/mode/2up), [455–457](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/454/mode/2up); Mark Cashman, “The End of a Photographic Case,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998\): 21–23 Source ID: Eberhart_3925 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11216 (5A2B1523) Date: 8/8/1965 Description: Lucci Photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650808](http://www.nicap.org/650808beaver%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beaver, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2848 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11217 (0C2D96C9) Date: 8/8/1965 Description: At 11:30 p.m. Sylvia Hoialman, Becky Evanston, and Becky Aanstad, all 21 years old, were driving near the Lincoln Park Golf Course in Grand Forks, North Dakota when they saw a yellow luminous, disc-shaped flying object that they first took to be the moon. But it then “blinked black and white,” and the silhouettes of several little figures could be seen inside the craft. Three men in another nearby car also saw the object; a teenage boy reportedly ran toward it and the object disappeared with a bang. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Grand Forks Herald, August 10, 1965; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-31 (A0642); Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 676; Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_4772 Source: Johnson ### Event 11218 (EBC86F30) Date: 8/9/1965 Description: 6:00 p.m. A professional astronomer and his wife, along with three others, are driving eastward on Long Island, New York, when then see a silvery disc heading slowly south. Its base has a ring of bluish-white lights that make the object appear to rotate. It has a white light on top. After accelerating, the object becomes a white, starlike object far to the east. It moves up and down for another 5 minutes, then rapidly moves south and disappears over the Atlantic Ocean. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 75–76](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/74/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3926 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11219 (016F560D) Date: 8/9/1965 Time: 2330 Description: Three girls driving a car observed what they first thought was the rising moon. It was a circular, pale-yellow object, with a silhouette moving inside the glow. There were five other witnesses one of whom stated that as he approached the object, it appeared to "blow up" with a bang. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Grand Forks, North Dakota Source ID: Magnonia_676 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11220 (FA3BD677) Date: 8/9/1965 Description: An anonymous music teacher, a "high level public employee", was driving on the outskirts of Lima, Peru around 10:00 p.m. when his car's engine started to miss, and then stop. At that moment, a beam of light enveloped the car from above, then levitated it from the road and carried it through the sky for an unknown distance, at such an altitude that the witness could see the coastline and a peninsula, La Punta, west of the city. He was paralyzed and unable to move during this process. The car was brought to the ground near the shore and he could hear waves breaking. Then, a voice spoke to him in perfect Spanish, and asked him to get out of the car. He did so and "could barely make out" little men with big ears. No UFO was seen, but there was a luminous screen nearby, on which was displayed, "We are using calming rays on you to remove your fear." He then asked several questions, in response to which a spokesperson told him that they came from a place more distant than Mars, that they had visited Earth on various occasions in the past, and that they did not appear in public because that would cause panic. Asked if they knew about music, he heard they had "something that might be considered as music, but that it had the power of raising the feelings to the highest exaltation." After that, his car was transported back through the air to the spot from which it had been picked up. He told his story to an uncle, an official in the Peruvian police, who informed reporters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-27 Source ID: Johnson_4794 Source: Johnson ### Event 11221 (3A533D89) Date: 8/9/1965 Description: At around 6:00 p.m. an astronomer and his family were driving in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York when a silvery disc-shaped object with a "ring of bluish white lights" moved overhead slowly to the south. The object then turned and accelerated to the east-northeast. He drove up to 80 mph in pursuit, but it dwindled in size until it resembled a star high in the sky. It moved up and down several times, then finally darted to the south out over the Atlantic Ocean. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 66 Source ID: Johnson_4793 Source: Johnson ### Event 11222 (AFE889C9) Date: 8/9/1965 Description: At around midnight the K. Denver family of three saw a UFO on the ground at South Myton Bench, Duchesne County, Utah that stood up like a rocket. The top was flat, with a row of windows below, and a room inside with bright lights. Rotating flashing lights on top, orange-red flames on bottom. It rose vertically without a sound, hovered, then shot up quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_4795 Source: Johnson ### Event 11223 (B6617612) Date: 8/10/1965 Description: Two Discs Below Clouds (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650810](http://www.nicap.org/650810nashville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nashville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2849 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11224 (84C4E0CA) Date: 8/10/1965 Description: (1) At 3:40 a.m. an orange to crimson colored ball of light maneuvered, and then sped head-on toward a truck windscreen in Warminster, Wiltshire, England. The driver swerved in order to avoid a collision. Later than day a private pilot attorney saw two discs flying below the clouds near Nashville, Tennessee on this day. They accelerated and sped away. At 8 p.m. an aerospace engineer in Seattle, Washington watched as two silver discs hovered, then shot up out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Arthur Shuttlewood, The Warminister Mystery: Astounding UFO sightings, p. 59; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The secret history of Scotland's UFO phenomenon, p. 14; (2) Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 117; (3) Richard H. Hall, ibid., p. 151 Source ID: Johnson_4820 Source: Johnson ### Event 11225 (67CF8B38) Date: 8/10/1965 Description: Boeing aerospace engineer saw two silvery, disc-shaped objects that hovered for several minutes, departed upward at high speed one after the other Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Seattle, WA Source ID: HallUFOE2_52 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11226 (E6D51424) Date: 8/10/1965 Description: GCA Vectors KC-97 To UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650810](http://www.nicap.org/650810suffolkco%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Suffolk County, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2851 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11227 (52B516AD) Date: 8/10/1965 Description: 9:40 P.M. Fireball meteor traveling easterly across northeast sky. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Northwest, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_2850 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11228 (1774513B) Date: 8/10/1965 Description: 9:40 P.M. Fireball meteor traveling easterly across northeast sky. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Pacific Northwest Source ID: HallUFOE2_53 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11229 (8B4D1A93) Date: 8/11/1965 Description: Dog "went crazy" at hovering disc (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beaver, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2853 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11230 (BF781634) Date: 8/11/1965 Description: Radar At Minuteman Site Tracks UFOs (R/V) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650811](http://www.nicap.org/650811whitemandir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Whiteman AFB, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2852 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11231 (554AEC90) Date: 8/11/1965 Description: At 7:25 p.m. a 62-year-old woman named Clarkson reported observing two silver objects shaped like four-leaf clovers hovering over the suburb of Menands, Albany County, New York. She also reported the smell of smoke. At around midnight that same night Mr. & Mrs. De Turca of Brighton Township, Beaver County, Pennsylavania said that their dog "went crazy" barking at a hovering disc-shaped object that made a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albany Knickerbocker News, March 30, 1966; Richard Bonenfant, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 47; John G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, p. 176; Jean Fuller, Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_4870 Source: Johnson ### Event 11232 (18FDF3A5) Date: 8/11/1965? Description: 3:30 p.m. David Gibson is sitting in the front yard of his house in Waverly, Iowa, with his father and sister. They hear a high-pitched whine and see an object descending to the south. The silvery UFO is about 15–20 feet in diameter and looks like two saucers put together. It lands on a tree-lined hill out of view and the whining sound fades away. Gibson walks about a half-mile to take a look and briefly sees a “being,” about 3–3.5 feet tall, watching him from behind a tree at the top of the hill. It quickly vanishes and he hears a rush of air. He reaches the spot but sees no footprints. About 40 feet south of the tree he finds a burned area about 15–20 feet in diameter and three rectangular impressions in the shape of a triangle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jerome Clark, “[Iowa’s Bashful Humanoid,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%203-4.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3/4 \(November 1975\): 52–53 Source ID: Eberhart_3927 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11233 (280626DF) Date: 8/11/1965 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_54 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11234 (BA137D44) Date: 8/12/1965 Description: Object Has 3 Ascents & 3 Descents (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650812](http://www.nicap.org/650812springfield%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2854 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11235 (099413E3) Date: 8/12/1965 Description: 11:15 a.m. Maj. Jack D. Bond is sitting in a passenger seat of a T-29 aircraft on a heading of 300° and descending from 4,000 feet to 3,000 feet near Springfield, Ohio. He sees a UFO ascending and descending that is slightly higher than the T-29. It appears to be 5–7 miles away and moving in a general direction of 90°. The object’s speed is highly erratic during the 3 ascents and descents that the object makes. On its third descent the object appears to level off and accelerate at a speed of 690 mph or more. Project Blue Book evaluates this sighting as a solar mirage, even though the position and time of day rule that out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Has 3 Ascents and 2](http://www.nicap.org/650812springfield%5Fdir.htm) [Descents](http://www.nicap.org/650812springfield%5Fdir.htm)”; Clark III 388–389 Source ID: Eberhart_3928 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11236 (46EE45C6) Date: 8/13/1965 Description: Portsmouth (NH) Herald editorial: "Perhaps we really do have visitors from somewhere beyond our present ken." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Portsmouth, NH Source ID: HallUFOE2_55 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11237 (6FB33BE3) Date: 8/13/1965 Description: 9:30 p.m.? Leonard Chalupiak has just put his car into his garage at Baden, Pennsylvania, when he sees a disc-shaped object about 300 feet in diameter flying in front of the moon toward the north at about 50 mph and 2,300 feet away. It is surrounded with orange lights that weaken as a blue light comes on, which is intense for about 3 seconds. Then all the lights disappear and a sort of “shock wave” that shakes the tree leaves commences. The witness goes into his house and calls the Air Force. About 20 minutes later his vision becomes hazy, his eyes grow painful, and he gradually loses vision in both eyes. He notices his entire body is sunburned. A medical examination indicates exposure to ultraviolet radiation. His vision returns gradually over several days. The Air Force labels it a hoax, perhaps confusing it with the Beaver, Pennsylvania, hoax photo of August 8. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Crosses Moon / Medical Effects on Witness](http://www.nicap.org/650813baden%5Fdir.htm)”; Vallée, Magonia, [p. 313](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/312/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3929 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11238 (3D85FA87) Date: 8/13/1965 Description: As he drove away after dropping off his two daughters Mr. Ryerson noticed two unusual "persons" walking along the side of the road next to a bean field. His two teenagers, Ellen Grace Ryerson, age 16, and Laura Jean Ryerson, 13, in Renton, Washington approached these two very unusual beings, while walking next to the bean field at seven o'clock in the morning. The little men were grey colored "like stone", had no hair, and had large bulging eyes. The first “person” was described as like a gnome and wrinkled. He wore a funny little hat. He was dancing and jumping around in front of the other being as they approached. He was making a cackling sound that the girls thought sounded like laughter. The other being was approximately 5 feet tall. He had a very unusual head. His face was gray but the back of his head had a bulbous extension with veins showing through it. It pulsated. On the rest of his cranium there were large pores and this part of his head was white. His eyes were described as like a frog’s eyes. In his mouth he had a little pipe, and he was blowing on it and making a shrill sound. The taller one wore shiny clothes, like satin. Both beings wore sleveless purple vests over white coveralls. Ellen feared that they were going to grab her, so she yelled at her sister to run. The girls fled, and when they looked back after running 50 feet the beings had completely vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-32 (A0643), citing Jerome Clark; Leneesa Garouttee, Alternate Perceptions (electronic version), February 2005 Source ID: Johnson_4970 Source: Johnson ### Event 11239 (8C01D078) Date: 8/13/1965 Time: 0700 Description: Ellen G. Ryerson, 16, and her sister, Laura, were going to work in a bean field when they observed three creatures about 1.60 m tall, with bulging eyes, expressionless faces, white craniums, large pores, and a protrusion at the back of their heads. They wore purple jerseys and white shirts. They had disappeared when the running girls looked back. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Renton, Washington Source ID: Magnonia_678 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11240 (08DE545C) Date: 8/13/1965 Description: At 12:55 p.m. EDT two bakers saw a slow moving, red tinged white globe glide noiselessly over their bakery in Lynn, Massachusetts. The UFO then descended into an area of some electrical power line pylons, one mile away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333 Source ID: Johnson_4972 Source: Johnson ### Event 11241 (1E11BFFF) Date: 8/13/1965 Description: David G., age 14, and his father and sister were sitting in their yard at four o'clock in the afternoon in Waverly, Iowa when they heard a high-pitched whining sound and saw an aluminum object 15-20 feet in diameter, looking like “two saucers glued together,” descend slowly from the sky. It disappeared behind a hill a third of a mile away, and the young man walked over to the hill to investigate. When about 150 yards from the site, he saw a humanoid being 3.5 feet tall, with a baldhead, peeking out from behind a tree. He did not see the figure leave, but a minute or so later he saw a “blur” and heard a rush of air. At the landing site, in an old quarry, he found a 15-20 foot circle of burnt glass, within which were three indentations of 5” x 12” and an inch deep. The encounter lasted about a minute and occurred during a minor wave of reports from Iowa and elsewhere. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ralph DeGraw, APRO Bulletin, January-February 1975, p. 9; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-33 (A0644), citing Ralph DeGraw Source ID: Johnson_4971 Source: Johnson ### Event 11242 (18FBE507) Date: 8/13/1965 Description: A 37-year-old civilian had just put his car in the garage when he saw an object about 100 m in diameter, shaped like a disk, which flew in front of the moon in a northerly direction at about 80 km/h. It was surrounded with orange lights that weakened as a blue source came on, very intense for about 3 sec then all lights disappeared as the object was about 700 m away. This was followed by a sort of "shock-wave" effect, and tree leaves were shaken. The witness entered his house and called the Air Force. Twenty minutes later his vision became hazy and his eyes were painful. He gradually lost vision in both eyes, and his entire body was "sunburned." Medical examination compared the symptoms to ultraviolet exposure. His vision came back gradually over a period of several days. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Baden, Pennsylvania Source ID: Magnonia_677 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11243 (3713CC37) Date: 8/13/1965 Description: Object Crosses Moon / Medical Effects on Witness (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents, Code: M, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650813](http://www.nicap.org/650813baden%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baden, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2855 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11244 (85548DEC) Date: 8/14/1965 Description: At around 10:00 p.m. two youngsters, Marc & Luc Lafreniere, were in their home in Ville Lemoyne, Quebec, Canada when a strong light attracted them to the window. Looking outside they saw a large oval-shaped craft floating just above the ground. A tall humanoid figure with long dangling arms, and wearing a silvery jumpsuit, stood in front of the craft. The being walked towards the house and touched the front door briefly, and then returned to the craft, while the terrified witnesses hid in their room. They did not dare look to see the craft or the alien depart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1965 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Marc Leduc, CASUFO Source ID: Johnson_5005 Source: Johnson ### Event 11245 (148BF2CD) Date: 8/14/1965 Description: At 11:00 p.m. five people driving in a car in Salto, Uruguay heard a loud hum and saw a UFO land directly in front of their car, causing the engine to stall. Its brilliant white luminescence changed colors from red to yellow and green. The object itself, a leaden metallic color, stood nine feet high and was as wide as the road. Three beings inside the craft, who looked human, were illuminated by an interior green light and could be seen moving around inside the craft. Finally, with a burst of orange flame, the object rose vertically into the sky and vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-35, citing Donald Hanlon, in Charles Bowen (editor), The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_5006 Source: Johnson ### Event 11246 (1990ABEC) Date: 8/14/1965 Description: On this day on the banks of the river in Cruzeiro, Santa Catarina province, Brazil, a little man only 28" tall, introduced himself to a fisherman named Joao do Rio as a UFOnaut. He had large luminous eyes, and spoke perfect Portuguese. He gave Sr. do Rio an "unearthly" metal. The metal was given to the national railroad car factory for analysis. At 8:00 p.m. that same evening a motorist had a close encounter with a black, 90-meter-wide domed disc, which hovered silently over a highway southwest of Itabira, Minas Gerais province, Brazil. The craft hovered just 1.2 meters above the surface of the road, and it followed the contours of the terrain when it departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Baltimore Sun, August 16, 1965; John Keel, Strange Creatures From Time and Space, p. 151; (2) Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_5004 Source: Johnson ### Event 11247 (E59CA06F) Date: 8/14/1965 Time: 0200 Description: Patrick Nash and his family were awaiting a ferry boat when a brilliant, orange-red object shaped like a large soup plate appeared 50 m away, rose from the ground, flew low over the car, landed 20m away on the other side, vanishing suddenly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 65,6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Stranraer, Scotland Source ID: Magnonia_679 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11248 (6281ED2C) Date: 8/15/1965 Time: 0200 Description: A guard saw a boatlike object flying at high speed, with red flames on its sides. It circled and came low over a farm. In fear, the man fired at it with his rifle. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Nablus, Jordan Source ID: Magnonia_680 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11249 (5A00A5CA) Date: 8/15/1965 Description: At 5:00 p.m. two large orange spheres zig-zagged over a pasture in Pitlochry, Tayside, Scotland, causing the livestock to panic. There were several witnesses, and the sighting lasted for an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 6880, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit Source ID: Johnson_5035 Source: Johnson ### Event 11250 (13370864) Date: 8/15/1965 Description: On a highway in Salto, Uruguay at 11:00 p.m. five people in a car heard a loud hum and then saw a UFO land directly in front of their car, stalling the car's engine. Its brilliant white luminescent glow changed to red, then to yellow, and then to green. The object itself, a leaden color, was nine feet in height and as wide as the road. Three human-looking figures could be seen moving inside the UFO, illuminated by a green light. Finally, with a burst of orange flame, the object rose vertically and vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 113; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-35 (A0646), citing Donald Hanlon, in Charles Bowen (editor), The Humanoids, p. 42 Source ID: Johnson_5036 Source: Johnson ### Event 11251 (66226958) Date: 8/15/1965 Description: An hour later, at 11:00 p.m. EDT, a domed disc hovered 100 feet over the lake in Salem, New Hampshire. The dome had a central mast and its rim glowed red and yellow, and it was making a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333 Source ID: Johnson_5037 Source: Johnson ### Event 11252 (B7BE72D6) Date: 8/15/1965 Time: 2300 Description: Five persons in a car heard a humming sound, and an object with changing colored lights landed and blocked the road while the car engine stalled. The object was as wide as the road, and 3 m high. Before it took off, three human beings were seen inside. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 42 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Salto, Uruguay Source ID: Magnonia_681 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11253 (12628E6F) Date: 8/16/1965 Description: 10:45 p.m.–12:20 a.m. A woman leaves her house on the northwest edge of Sedalia, Missouri, to drive to a drug store. As she is returning home, she sees an unusual figure in the ditch to her right. It turns and waves at her, then stumbles as it climbs out of the ditch. Something \(a large bird?\) flies up in the air a few feet from the car. She steps on the gas and goes home, where her husband asks her where she has been because it is now 12:25 a.m. In 1977, she undergoes hypnotic regression with hypnotist Ron Owen and recalls an abduction experience where she undergoes some type of examination. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 278–279; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-08-16-usa-sedalia.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-08-16-usa-sedalia.htm) August 25, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_3930 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11254 (8E392ECA) Date: 8/16/1965 Description: At midnight in Brough, Durham County, England three women reported that their sheep and cattle were agitated and noisy when a dark shape with two orange lights appeared in the sky. The close encounter lasted 75 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_5077 Source: Johnson ### Event 11255 (91656529) Date: 8/16/1965 Description: A woman was driving home at 11:00 p.m. and was within a mile of her house in Sedalia, Missouri when she saw a light in a field with “smoke” around it. In a nearby ditch she noticed two large “birds,” one of which flew at her car. She arrived home at 12:25 a.m. unable to account for the lapse of time. Under hypnotic regression she recalled that the “birds” in the ditch where in fact two entities wearing spacesuits. One carried a sack on its back, into which the other was putting clumps of grass and soil samples. They were “bouncing up & down, their arms flopping at their sides” in a “stiff” manner suggestive of robots. One started to come out of the ditch, slipped back, then emerged and stood in front of her; its helmet beginning to glow brilliantly. She could now see that its head was wrapped up in tape like a mummy, with only the eyes visible. It stood slightly over five feet tall. At this point a football-shaped UFO landed on the road ahead of her car. Two beings with slightly pointed heads & “wrap around” eyes emerged from the object and opened her car door. They conducted her inside the craft, assuring her telepathically that she would not be hurt. The air inside the UFO was “heavy” and difficult to breathe. Once she was inside they flew the ship over a nearby field, which caused its interior lights to change from white to red. One of the entities, who did most of the communicating, appeared to be a scientist or doctor, and he wore an insignia of three rings on his chest. Another had a red lighting flash symbol on his uniform, and she took him to be the pilot. A third entity appeared to be a woman. All three stood 5’10” tall. The “doctor” put an object of some kind over her head, and she felt as if something were going into her brain. A round black object was then taken out of the wall, and with it “pictures” were taken of her; the object glowed blue when the pictures were taken. On a screen on the wall appeared a pattern: seven vertical lines with markings between them, which she thought must be some type of tabular representation of her brain and body. Two more figures, about a foot shorter than the other three, made their appearance. These beings resembled “gnomes,” and they aroused fear in the woman. They appeared old because their foreheads were wrinkled. She was told by the "doctor" that they and the “mummies” came from different planets. Finally she was led back to her car; the UFO ascended, and then vanished while still at low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-78, citing Ron Owen & Jerome Clark Source ID: Johnson_5078 Source: Johnson ### Event 11256 (EC9D71D7) Date: 8/16/1965 Description: Christian Science Monitor editorial: "[UFOs] sighted early this month over Texas may give scientists something to think about for a long time. . . . They give the clearest evidence of all that something strange actually was in the sky. . . . It makes the clearest case yet for a thorough look at the saucer mystery." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_56 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11257 (64145DCF) Date: 8/18/1965 Description: Top-shaped object with dome, body lights, hovered over car. Report in NICAP files (E,R) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Noblesville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2856 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11258 (FC67B5D0) Date: 8/18/1965 Description: In Noblesville, Indiana at 10:50 p.m. the engine and radio of a car with two occupants inside died when a top-shaped object with a dome and body lights hovered over the car. The close encounter lasted for four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 249 Source ID: Johnson_5126 Source: Johnson ### Event 11259 (29B1B28B) Date: 8/18/1965 Description: 9:50 p.m. Michael S. Henry and another college student are driving 3 miles south of Noblesville, Indiana, when a large red lighted object swoops down on their car. The radio and ignition go dead. The UFO looks like a top, with a large, gray cone and a flat or slightly domed top. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_3931 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11260 (D2A14EBC) Date: 8/19/1965 Description: At 8:20 p.m. in Cherry Creek, New York Mrs. William Butcher, her son Harold, age 17, and other children saw a large elliptical object, with reddish vapor underneath, that came close to the ground, then shot straight up into the clouds a few seconds later. Their radio was drowned out by static, and a tractor engine stopped. When the object was on the ground, a steady beeping sound could be heard. Afterwards, a strange odor was noticed, and the next day, a purplish liquid, 2"x2" marks and patches of singed grass were found at the site. A bull bellowed and tried to break its bonds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5156 Source: Johnson ### Event 11261 (D4AFE7F9) Date: 8/19/1965 Time: 8:20 PM Description: Witnesses: Mrs. William Butcher, son Harold, 17, and children. A large elliptical object, with a reddish vapor underneath, came close to the ground, then shot straight up into the clouds a few seconds later. Radio drowned out by static, a tractor engine stopped. When the object was on the ground, a steady beeping sound could be heard. Afterwards, a strange odor was noticed, and the next day, a purplish liquid, 2"x2" marks and patches of singed grass were found at the site. A bull bellowed and tried to break its bonds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Cherry Creek New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_526 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11262 (466F5825) Date: 8/19/1965 Description: Cherry Creek (Butcher) Trace Case (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, Code: An, Rating: 5, BB: 9806) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: NICAP: [650819](http://www.nicap.org/650819cherrycreek2%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cherry Creek, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2857 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11263 (203E8677) Date: 8/19/1965 Description: 3:00 a.m. Thelma B. Schumaker and her mother, Mrs. W. H. Blackburn, are awakened by an explosion in their backyard in Mount Airy, North Carolina. The sound seems to rise and travel west. They see a bright golden cigar hovering in the north. The object moves to the right then to the left, then up and down, left again, then disappears behind some high oak trees. The next morning, the witnesses find a 6-inch-wide circle of depressed sod that is worn down to the soil. The circle is 12 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Phillips, [Physical Traces Associated with](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf) [UFO Sightings](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf), CUFOS, 1975, p. 37 Source ID: Eberhart_3932 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11264 (C63951D8) Date: 8/19/1965 Description: E-M effects in barn, elliptical object landed nearby, animals reacted, beeping sound. Object shot straight up into clouds. Physical traces at site Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Cherry Creek, NY Source ID: HallUFOE2_57 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11265 (427FD7E0) Date: 8/19/1965 Description: 8:20–9:00 p.m. Harold Butcher, 16, is milking the cows in his father’s barn in Cherry Creek, New York, and listening to radio station WKBW. Just outside, a 3-year old bull is tied by its nose to a metal pipe. Harold hears the bull make a noise “like I have never heard come from an animal before.” Looking out the window, he sees the animal is bending the pipe. Simultaneously, he sees a metallic-looking, football-shaped UFO about 50 feet long and approximately 20 feet thick hovering just above the trees an estimated 450 feet from the barn. Slowly, the object descends behind a maple tree, emitting a red vapor from around its edges and a “beep-beep” sound. Meanwhile, the radio is emitting static, even though WKBW usually has a clear signal. Harold calls the house on an intercom, then runs outside. As he approaches the bull, the UFO rises and moves behind some clouds “as fast as a snap of my fingers” emitting red vapor toward the ground, then bounces back to the ship as it hovers about 10 feet in the air. The noise also increases to a level approximating a sonic boom as it goes up. As the UFO disappears, the clouds turn green. Inside, the boy’s mother, Mrs. William Butcher, notes that there is “definite interference” in her radio reception. Harold’s brother, Robert, also goes outside and the two boys see that the UFO has reappeared, this time hovering over a pine grove. It ascends again, emitting the red vapor and turning the clouds green. Others in the house include William Butcher Jr. and Kathleen Brougham, a friend. They do not see the object. It returns twice at 8:45 and 9:00 p.m., finally disappearing to the southwest. Trooper E. J. Haas and a fellow officer arrive on the scene shortly thereafter. As they all walk out to inspect the area of the initial sighting, they notice a pungent odor. Harold and the young daughter suffer from upset stomachs. Mrs. Butcher says the cows produce only one can of milk that evening, as opposed to their usual two and a half cans. Harold discovers a purple, oily-smelling liquid and gives a sample of it to the state police, who turn it over to Capt. James A. Dorsey and five others from Niagara Falls Air Force Base \[now Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station\], who come to investigate the report the following afternoon. When NICAP investigator Jeffrey Gow arrives on the scene, he notices the foot-tall grass in the area “seemed to be bent over in long curved sweeps.” Radar targets are picked up between 8:00–8:30 p.m. by an AN/FPS-6 Long Range Height Finder Radar of the 763rd Radar Squadron at Lockport Air Force Station \[now closed\] near Shawnee, New York. The target is sighted near the upper limit of the radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Close Encounter Has Radar Evidence](http://www.nicap.org/650819cherrycreek%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Cherry Creek \(Butcher\) Trace Case](http://www.nicap.org/650819cherrycreek2%5Fdir.htm)”; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://www.cufos.org/cases/1965%5F08%5F19%5FUS%5FNY%5FCherry-Creek%5FGALGANSKI%5FButcher-CE-II.pdf)\]; “[Landing Probed by NICAP, AF,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/028%20AUG-SEPT%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1965\): 7; “[The Cherry Creek Incident,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2011%2000%20-%20November-December.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, p. 7; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 178–184; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 170–172](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/170/mode/2up); Robert A. Galganski, “Incident at Cherry Creek,” IUR 21, no. 3 \(Fall 1996\): 3– 12, 27–29; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 307; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 118–124 Source ID: Eberhart_3933 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11266 (99965905) Date: 8/20/1965 Description: At 3:00 a.m. EDT Mrs. T. E. Schumaker of Mount Airy, North Carolina was awakened by a loud humming sound and found she could not speak or move for awhile. When she finally was able to reach her window and look out, she saw a vertical, cigar- shaped, luminous object. It moved right and left, then back and forth, etc. Ultimately it disappeared behind some trees. The next morning a circle of crushed grass, four meters in diameter, was found in her yard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 682; Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966 Source ID: Johnson_5177 Source: Johnson ### Event 11267 (BFDFA526) Date: 8/20/1965 Description: CPN-18 Tracks UFO / Visual Sighting (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650820](http://www.nicap.org/650820peaseafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pease AFB, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2863 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11268 (E546C013) Date: 8/20/1965 Time: 1150 Description: Several tourists, including Alberto Ugarte and Elwin Voter, observed a strange craft landing near the Inca ruins that they were visiting. Two creatures described as luminous dwarfs, who seemed to have "vertical mouths," were seen briefly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 43 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cuzco, Peru Source ID: Magnonia_683 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11269 (C3ACA3FD) Date: 8/20/1965 Time: 0300 Description: Mrs. T. E. Schumaker was awakened by a loud humming sound and found she could not speak or move for a while. When she finally reached her window, she saw a vertical, cigarshaped, luminous object. It moved right and left, then back, etc. Ultimately it disappeared behind some trees. The next morning a circle of crushed grass, 4 m in diameter, was found in the yard. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66,2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mount Airy, North Carolina Source ID: Magnonia_682 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11270 (9FDA7E73) Date: 8/20/1965 Description: At 11:00 p.m. local time Eduardo Lujan Yacobi and his wife, Teresa Ernestina Acuna, were returning to their home in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province, Argentina when they heard a loud humming sound and saw a reddish glowing, oval-shaped object pass overhead and land 200 meters away. The object, which was flashing and rotating, brushed the tops of nearby trees in its passage overhead and, after landing, the Yacobis could see luminous red or violet figures moving about and examining the craft, as if in some type of repair activity. After a short while these figures re-entered the machine, which took off and disappeared within a few seconds. Others in the neighborhood had seen the object’s passage overhead, and still others had heard the humming noise. Total duration of incident was 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-39; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 685; FSR Special Issue #1: The Humanoids, p. 42 Source ID: Johnson_5180 Source: Johnson ### Event 11271 (81A9EDB1) Date: 8/20/1965 Description: At 11:50 a.m. several tourists in Cuzco, Peru, including Alberto Ugarte and Elwin Voter, observed a strange craft land near the Inca ruins that they were visiting. The object was a small silvery disc, only five feet in diameter, and it landed on a terrace of the Sacsahuaman Inca site. Two luminous dwarfish beings, “of strange shape and dazzling brightness,” briefly emerged from it. They were also described as having "vertical mouths." They quickly got back inside into their craft, which then flew off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-38; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 683; FSR Special Issue #1: The Humanoids, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_5179 Source: Johnson ### Event 11272 (D1F5AB46) Date: 8/20/1965 Description: At 5:20 a.m. EDT a former Navy aircraft spotter sighted a grayish-silver disc hovering over the city of Haverhill, Massachusetts as he approached in his car from the crest of a high hill. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_5178 Source: Johnson ### Event 11273 (1C33FA3F) Date: 8/20/1965 Time: 2300 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Yacobi heard a loud humming sound and saw a glowing, oval, flashing object land 200 m away. Figures moved around it, as if examining the craft, which took off again. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 42 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mar del Plata, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_685 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11274 (888C7802) Date: 8/20/1965 Time: 1820 Description: Four students working on a farm noted radio interference and a peculiar "beeping sound," then saw an object at low altitude on the farm of William Butcher. It was shaped like two saucers glued together, had a shiny chromelike surface, diameter of 15 m, height of 6 m, and left a trail and smell of burned gasoline. It rose straight up into the clouds, which were illuminated with green light. Five min later it came down again over a woods, rose, and finally flew off to the southwest. Effects were noted on animals: milk production decreased from 2 1/2 barrels to one; a dog barked, and other animals were terrified. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cherry Creek, New York Source ID: Magnonia_684 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11275 (BF27A68C) Date: 8/20/1965 Description: (McDonald list) GCA Radar Tracks Flat Disc (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650820](http://www.nicap.org/650820plattsburgh%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Plattsburgh, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2862 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11276 (90E0DC06) Date: 8/21/1965 Description: Science editor, Christian Science Monitor: "Flying saucers are all but literally knocking on the laboratory door. . . . Something definitely is going on that cannot yet be explained." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_58 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11277 (0F8EDD6D) Date: 8/21/1965 Time: 1530 Description: A man was repairing the broken chain of his motorbike when an object shaped like a top, gray, spinning, 1.8 m high, same diameter, suddenly appeared 5 m away, 1.5 m above the road. It shot off toward the northeast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 65,6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bury's Bridge, Eire Source ID: Magnonia_686 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11278 (CF9AC461) Date: 8/21/1965 Description: On this day at a school outside of Mexico City, Mexico two groups of students had separate but identical meetings with aliens. The students were in two groups of three, and encountered a landed metallic disc 150 feet wide. The occupants were blond, blue-eyed human-looking beings who were seven feet tall and wore metallic coveralls. They were taken on a three hour long space journey and telepathic messages. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases A0653 and A0654, citing Terrance McGarry for UPI Source ID: Johnson_5209 Source: Johnson ### Event 11279 (82FC8A11) Date: 8/23/1965 Time: 0100 Description: Casimiro Zuk was riding his bicycle near a railroad crossing when he saw a luminous object above him that circled, then landed near the tracks. It was round, 5 m in diameter, and 2.5 m high. A door opened, and a man dressed like a pilot emerged, walked around, and reentered the object, which flew off in a spiral. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 158 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Apostoles, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_687 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11280 (BC337C79) Date: 8/23/1965 Description: At one o'clock in the morning Casimiro Zuk was riding his bicycle near a railroad crossing in Apostoles, Argentina when he saw a luminous object above him that circled, then landed near the tracks. It was round, five meters in diameter, and 2.5 meters high. A door opened and a man dressed like a pilot emerged, walked around, and then re-entered the object, which flew off in a spiral. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 687 Source ID: Johnson_5254 Source: Johnson ### Event 11281 (49C4647E) Date: 8/25/1965 Time: 1010 Description: A red object shaped like a plate, emittting fire and smoke through two openings in its lower section, shook a school building as it allegedly landed on the roof. Faculty and students at the Santa Leonor College observed the craft, which had two antennae on top, rise spinning and emitting red light beams It flew off to the northeast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 67, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Callao, Peru Source ID: Magnonia_689 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11282 (297488EE) Date: 8/25/1965 Description: At three o'clock in the morning Zoilo Campos Aguilar, a night watchman, observed an object very close to the ground in Terreon, Mexico for 38 minutes. It was semi-oval shaped with a powerful yellow-orange light and left rapidly toward the south with a double trail. The apparent diameter was that of the full moon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 688, citing Otto Binder Source ID: Johnson_5319 Source: Johnson ### Event 11283 (4C8B0339) Date: 8/25/1965 Time: 0300 Description: Zoilo Campos Aguilar observed an object very close to the ground for 38 min. It was semi-oval, with a powerful yellow-orange light and left rapidly toward the south with a double trail. Apparent diameter was that of the full moon. The witness was a night watchman. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Binder ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Terreon, Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_688 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11284 (C8FE0C11) Date: 8/25/1965 Description: At 10:10 a.m. a red object shaped like a plate with two antennae on top and emittting fire and smoke through two openings in its lower section, shook a school building as it allegedly landed on the roof in Callao, Peru. Faculty and students at the Santa Leonor College observed the craft when it rose from the building, spinning and emitting red light beams as it flew off to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 689 Source ID: Johnson_5320 Source: Johnson ### Event 11285 (5A774B95) Date: 8/26/1965 Description: At 1:30 a.m. Hector Crespo, a highway engineer, his son Urgenio, and Francisco Lopez were approaching Zhulleng, 11 miles from Cuenca, Ecuador when they saw two beams of bright light shining up into the sky. On going to investigate what they believed was a car wreck; they found a circular object 20 feet in diameter, with a transparent dome on top. A bright amber light kept flashing around the edge, and flickering red and blue beams were shining downwards. The three men approached to within 60 feet of the UFO, and could see through an open doorway instruments and lights inside it. Three human-like figures were seen outside the object, one apparently adjusting the light beam projector, and the other two handing him tools. They all moved very slowly, “as if under water.” They were dressed in metallic-looking, silvery white, close-fitting coveralls, with wide white belts, dark epaulets, and shiny helmets. At one point two of the “men” turned and looked directly at the spot where the witnesses were watching from, as though knowing the operation was being observed, but simply returned to the repairs. The object stood on telescopic legs with curved dish-like footpads, although they were uncertain as to whether there were three or four legs. Crespo’s son became so frightened that he became nauseated, so they went back to their car. After awhile they saw the object take off, and the light moving around the edge was now a brilliant red and the vertical white beams had been extinguished. Just before it “took off like lighting,” it became too bright to look at. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-43 (A0657), citing Wendelle C. Stevens, Saga UFO Report, Spring 1975 Source ID: Johnson_5362 Source: Johnson ### Event 11286 (0004CA79) Date: 8/28/1965 Description: At 6:40 p.m. three women in rural East Derry, New Hampshire sighted nine UFOs flying at treetop level over a field. The objects flew in three groups of three, and passed about 400 feet away from them. They appeared to be black domes with straight silver fuselages and an upright fin. They made a buzzing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333; Raymond Fowler case investigation dated September 9, 1965 Source ID: Johnson_5418 Source: Johnson ### Event 11287 (DC60B6E3) Date: 8/28/1965 Description: Round Silver Object Maneuvers Over Base (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650828](http://www.nicap.org/650828glasgowafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glasgow AFB, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2864 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11288 (7B130CA5) Date: 8/30/1965 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) writes to Lt. Col. John Spaulding in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force to suggest that the Pentagon work with the National Academy of Sciences to establish a panel of physical and social scientists to study the UFO phenomenon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[Hynek correspondence](http://cufos.org/cases/1965-69%5F00%5F00%5FUS%5FIL%5FHynek-AF-letters.pdf)\], p. 1; Swords 306 Source ID: Eberhart_3934 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11289 (16579DDD) Date: 8/30/1965 Description: A spinning, top-shaped object with openings through which an orange light was visible was observed taking off with a "foggy" trail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Jan., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: La Blanquilla, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_690 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11290 (24355CDE) Date: 8/30/1965 Description: On this night two people driving on the Pan-American Highway near near Arequipa, Peru saw “a strange being, a Martian, who resembled a shrub,” who was only 31 inches tall, and had one golden colored eye in its head, but also had “other smaller eyes located along its body.” A few seconds later, they saw a flying saucer pass overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 43; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-44 (A0658) citing a newspaper source Source ID: Johnson_5493 Source: Johnson ### Event 11291 (D105A160) Date: 8/30/1965 Description: M. A. Lilly, N. Smith, and T. Nastoff of Urbana, Ohio sighted a low flying, small white ball of white at 10:30 p.m. while driving near the fairgrounds. The sphere was between 5 and 8 feet in diameter and trailed by a three-foot light. It hit the road 100 feet in front of the witnesses' car, bounced and flew away. The sighting lasted 3-4 seconds. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9864; Lloyd Mallan, Science & Mechanics, December 1966, p. 30; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 152; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns).

1967 - Two newspaper delivery cyclists, Jones and Hollander, had come to a bridge in Crewe, Cheshire, England at 8:30 a.m. when they saw a hovering domed disc-shaped UFO. It had a transparent dome with an antenna, an elliptical body, and an undercarriage with three dark circles and many wires or tubes that were evident. A very well documented report.At 8:55 p.m. two witnesses in a residential neighborhood at Shrewbridge Crescent in Nantwich, Cheshire, England viewed in the sky what they described as a yellow elongated rugby ball with a dome through binoculars. It was as bright as the full moon, and estimated to be half a mile away, at 25 degrees elevation. It flew in an arc, hovered, and then went in front of a dark cloud, behind another low cloud. It made a sound like a turbojet. A shiny white cigar-shaped object was seen by five witnesses in Sandbach, Cheshire, England at 9:00 p.m. It was brighter than the moon and had blurry edges, but appeared to be solid. It flew from south to northwest low in the sky, and went in front of a black cloud. It was viewed for 30 seconds and made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roger H. Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 8 & 28 Source ID: Johnson_5494 Source: Johnson ### Event 11292 (CAE898C1) Date: 8/30/1965 Time: 10:30 PM Description: Witnesses: M.A. Lilly, N. Smith, T. Nastoff. One white ball, 5-8' in diameter and trailed by a 2-3' light, hit the road 100' in front of the witness' car, bounced and flew away. Sighting lasted 3-4 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Urbana, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_527 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11293 (E5BF4B3A) Date: 8/30/1965 Description: In La Blanquilla, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela a spinning, top-shaped object with openings through which an orange light was visible was observed taking off with a "foggy" trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 690; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_5492 Source: Johnson ### Event 11294 (C0DDE680) Date: 8/30/1965 Description: White Ball Hits Road Flies Away (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: 9864) Reference: NICAP: [650830](http://www.nicap.org/650830urbana%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Urbana, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2865 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11295 (73C05386) Date: 8/31/1965 Description: (McDonald list) Two Ground Radars Track Object at 15,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650831](http://www.nicap.org/650831nevada%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tonopah & Winnemucca, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_2866 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11296 (26A91451) Date: 9/1/1965 Description: An oval-shaped object landed on an estate near the Huanaco, Peru airport at 5:00 a.m. A being with a big head emerged, gestured, and then re-entered the craft. The UFO shot straight up at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 691; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 472, citing Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 120; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 114 Source ID: Johnson_5555 Source: Johnson ### Event 11297 (03AF95D7) Date: 9/1/1965 Time: 0500 Description: A worker observed the landing of an oval object on an airfield where he had gone "drawn by a strange feeling." Four other persons also saw the object, from which a dwarfish creature, 85 cm tall, emerged. The entity had a head double the size of a normal human head, and made gestures that were not understood. He reentered the machine, which became illuminated and took off, first vertically, then toward the west. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Huanuco, Peru Source ID: Magnonia_691 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11298 (F38AFF77) Date: 9/3/1965 Time: 0200 Description: A young man and two Police officers observed five lights in a rigid configuration moving over a field, sometimes fluttering to low altitude with a falling-leaf motion. The lights illuminated the countryside and flashed in sequence. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Fuller ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Exeter, New Hampshire Source ID: Magnonia_693 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11299 (A5CB982A) Date: 9/3/1965 Time: 0120 Description: J. Fernandez was awakened by a humming sound and saw a luminous, oval object rising from the roof of his house. Its color varied from white to red, and it left marks on the roof. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 41 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: San Justo, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_692 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11300 (FA643F9D) Date: 9/3/1965 Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Exeter, New Hampshire, Police Officer [Eugene F. Bertrand Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44131765/eugene-f%5F-bertrand) comes across a woman parked on State Highway 101. “She was real upset,” he says, “and told me that a red glowing object had chased her.” Around 2:00 a.m., while walking home to Exeter on Route 150 \(Amesbury Road\) near Kensington, New Hampshire, teenager [Norman J. Muscarello](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43739662/norman-j%5F-muscarello) is terrorized by a large object with four or five bright red lights that approaches from nearby woods and hovers over a field. Horses are spooked. Muscarello gets a ride to the Exeter police station, pale and shaken, and reports the incident at 2:24 a.m. Officer Bertrand drives him back to the field along Route 150 to investigate. When he is called to investigate Muscarello’s report, the earlier incident causes him to pay attention. At first Bertrand and Muscarello see nothing, but when Bertrand flashes a light around the field around 3:00 a.m., a huge dark object with red flashing lights rises up over the trees, moving back and forth, tilts, and comes toward them. They both see pulsating red lights that dim from left to right then right to left in a 5- 4-3-2-1 then 1-2-3-4-5 pattern. Each cycle takes about 2 seconds. The object hovers for several minutes, and everything is silent except for the dogs and horses. Then it darts, turns sharply, slows down, and begins to move away. Another patrolman, [David R. Hunt](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135259184/david-r%5F-hunt)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135259184/david-r%5F-hunt) pulls up and sees the pulsating lights and the UFO. Bertrand says the lights are always in a line and at a 60° angle; when the object moves, the lower lights are always forward of the others. In the daytime, the police station calls Pease AFB \[now Pease Air National Guard Base\] in Portsmouth to reconfirm the incident. By 1:00 p.m., 2–4 police officers arrive to interview the three witnesses at length. Journalist [John G. Fuller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FG.%5FFuller) investigates the case during the next month. He finds a huge gap between media coverage and local perceptions. [Raymond Fowler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FE.%5FFowler) finds that the local advertising plane operated by Sky-Lite Aerial Advertising Agency of Boston was not running between August 21 and September 10. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Exeter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter%5Fincident) [incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter%5Fincident)”; “[UFOs Panic Police, Motorists,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/028%20AUG-SEPT%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1965\): 1, 3–4; “[The Exeter,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2011%2000%20-%20November-December.pdf) [N.H. Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2011%2000%20-%20November-December.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, pp. 7–8; John G. Fuller, “[Outer-Space Ghost Story,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Look/1966%2002%2022%5FLook%5FJohn%20G%20Fuller%5FOuter%20Space%20Ghost%20Story%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf)” Look, February 22, 1966, pp. 36–42; Clark III 440–444; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 154–166](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/154/mode/2up); John G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, Putnam’s Sons, 1966; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf), pp. 197–199; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 307; Jean Fuller, “[The Exeter Incidents,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1967\): 25–27; “Tale of an ‘Exeter Terrestrial,’” IUR 8, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1983\): 12– 14, excerpted from Exeter Area High School newspaper, Talon 5, no. 1 \(1981\); Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 69–72; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 143–145; Schuessler, “[The Exeter, N.H. UFO Case,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Schuessler%2C%20John%20F%20-%20The%20Exeter%2C%20N.H.%20UFO%20case.pdf) [September 3, 1965: Briefing Document,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Schuessler%2C%20John%20F%20-%20The%20Exeter%2C%20N.H.%20UFO%20case.pdf)” October 2002; Martin Shough, “[Exeunt Exeter? Should This 1965 New](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/EXETER%20N.H.%20Sep%202-3%201965.pdf) [Hampshire Classic Finally Shuffle Off the Stage?](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/EXETER%20N.H.%20Sep%202-3%201965.pdf)” April 2012; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1965%5F09%5F03%5FUS%5FNH%5FExeter%5FNICAP%5FMultiWit.pdf)\]; Center for UFO Studies, \[John G. Fuller tape-recorded interview transcripts, [part one](http://cufos.org/cases/1965%5F09%5F03%5FUS%5FNH%5FExeter%5FNICAP%5FMultiWit%5FTranscriptsR%5FPartI.pdf), [part two](http://cufos.org/cases/1965%5F09%5F03%5FUS%5FNH%5FExeter%5FNICAP%5FMultiWit%5FTranscriptsR%5FPartII.pdf)\]; Patrick Gross, “[The](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/exeter65.htm) [Exeter Cases, 1965](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/exeter65.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3935 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11301 (1D36CB99) Date: 9/3/1965 Description: 11:00 p.m. Brazoria County Sheriff’s Deputies [Billy E. McCoy](https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/clute-tx/billy-mccoy-6019911) and Robert Goode are patrolling Highway 36 between West Columbia and Damon, Texas. They see a dark-gray triangular object, 150–200 feet long and 40–50 feet thick at the middle, with a long, bright, pulsing, purple light on the right side and a long blue light on the left side. It approaches to within 150 feet from the highway and 100 feet in the air. Purple light illuminates the ground beneath the object and the interior of the police car, and the object casts a shadow in the moonlight. Goode feels heat on his left arm; an alligator bite on his left index finger is suddenly relieved of pain, later healing rapidly but unnaturally. They drive away in fear but return later that night to find the object still there. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Dark Grey Disc Shadows Police Car](http://www.nicap.org/650903damon%5Fdir.htm)”; “[UAO Pursues Police,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1965, pp. 1, 3; Clark III 355–357; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 308; Michael D. Swords, “[Damon, Texas Comments, by Request from Kandinsky,](https://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2011/03/damontexas-comments-by-request-from.html)” The Big Study, March 26, 2011; “[Damon 1965,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=687)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014; Patrick Gross, “[Damon, Texas, September 1965](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/mccoy.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3936 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11302 (9C7BB7BC) Date: 9/3/1965 Description: Two sheriffs saw huge, brightly illuminated object speed toward their patrol car, hover, illuminate them and the terrain in purple light. Heat felt Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Damon, TX Source ID: HallUFOE2_60 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11303 (D21C4C3D) Date: 9/3/1965 Description: At midnight all the lights at Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire went off for 30-40 seconds while an unknown, elongated flying object flew over. It had blinding headlights with other lights perhaps in the rear, and flew at an altitude of only 300-400 feet. It passed directly over the guard shack at the main gate. There were three military guards on duty, including the main witness, Robert Mark. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case # 618, citing Lawrence Fawcett & Barry Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, p. 58 Source ID: Johnson_5592 Source: Johnson ### Event 11304 (118421BB) Date: 9/3/1965 Description: Citizen reports of glowing red, elliptical object at low level, verified by police, row of bright pulsating red lights, animal reactions Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Exeter, NH Source ID: HallUFOE2_59 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11305 (6C742FC7) Date: 9/3/1965 Description: Project Blue Book File #(?): Damon/Angleton, TX. Deputy Sheriffs Billy E. McCoy and Robert W. Goode were investigating an UFO in the back-woods roads when the purplish UFO shot instantly towards them to within 150 feet and hovered at 100 feet off the ground. The bright glow illuminated the interior of the car and the surrounding fields (11:30 p.m.). “Every blade of grass stood out clearly” in the field. Officer Goode, who was driving with his arm out the window, felt heat on his arm and later reported that a cut that was on his arm healed more rapidly than normal [U/V effects]. Type: ufo encounter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Angleton, TX Source ID: Maj2_629 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11306 (DAB7EC99) Date: 9/3/1965 Description: In San Justo, Santa Fe State, Argentina J. Fernandez was awakened at 1:20 a.m. by a humming sound, and saw a two-meter wide, luminous, oval object that had landed on the roof of his house. Its color varied from white to red. It shot up into the sky, and it left marks on the roof. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 692; Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_5591 Source: Johnson ### Event 11307 (B1F5E1F0) Date: 9/3/1965 Description: At 1:30 a.m. Mr. D. Winters, a school teacher, was driving in Ipswich, Massachusetts when he saw a yellow UFO hovering over the golf course. It looked like an inverted saucer with white lights around the rim. The sighting nearly caused him to drive off the road for a moment.The hairs on the back of his neck rose during the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 334 Source ID: Johnson_5593 Source: Johnson ### Event 11308 (4B270553) Date: 9/3/1965 Description: At 2:00 a.m. several independent witnesses as well as two police officers watched a dark object with a row of flashing red lights as it wobbled and descended in a falling leaf motion over Exeter, New Hampshire. Dogs howled and horses reacted by kicking and neighing during its presence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated September 11, 1965; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 334; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 279, 371; UNICAT, case 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 693 Source ID: Johnson_5594 Source: Johnson ### Event 11309 (BE0F1BE6) Date: 9/3/1965 Description: On this night Mrs. M. Gorzelle, age 45, had remembered going to bed, but suddenly found herself awake and driving on a rural asphalt road near Des Plaines, Illinois. Then she came to a spot where a man was standing on the road, waving a lantern. She stopped, believing there had been an accident, and got out. The man was tall, normal in appearance except for a very high forehead, and was dressed in a white coverall with a metal buckle at the waist. She was led across the grass to an area that was suddenly brightly illuminated from a door opening in a craft, which she described as a large round mass sitting on legs, about 100 feet from the road. There were three more cars stopped along the road, and the occupants of these vehicles were also being escorted into the craft. Their abductors were all over 6 feet tall, with very high foreheads, and bald. Inside the vessel were two “normal appearing” men, also in white coveralls, one with white hair. He was the only one who spoke during the experience, and he did so in a language unknown to the witness. The other “human” looked Italian, and was younger. The four tall occupants each appeared to be in charge of the four abductees and were identical in appearance. The room was filled with electronic equipment and control knobs, and telepathically she was told she would not recall the incident. The next thing she remembered was being led outside again by her “host,” and being helped into her car. The other three men were likewise being assisted to their cars. Mrs Gorzelle made a U-turn, and drove straight home, where she went directly to bed. Self-hypnosis indicated that a medical examination had been conducted, and that this was actually her second abduction experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 268; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-46, citing Fred Merritt for CUFOS, report dated February 13, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_5596 Source: Johnson ### Event 11310 (50ECD9BC) Date: 9/3/1965 Description: The Exeter / Muscarello Case (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: 9890) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [650903](http://www.nicap.org/650903exeter%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Exeter, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2868 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11311 (451A5736) Date: 9/3/1965 Description: Dark Grey Disc Shadows Police Car (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: 9915) Reference: NICAP: [650903](http://www.nicap.org/650903damon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Damon, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2867 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11312 (A29B6E9C) Date: 9/3/1965 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a football-field sized purple oval or cigar-shaped object, 40 feet high, approached a stopped sheriff's patrol car in Damon, Texas. The two sheriff officers in the car, McCoy and Goode, saw the huge illuminated object speed toward their patrol car, hover, and illuminate them and the surrounding terrain in a purple light. They reported that there were bright lights on either end of the object: a weak blue light was seen on the extreme right of the object, which came out in two steps, and a purple light on the left, which lit the ground and bathed the car's interior.The UFO hovered within 30 meters of them, casting a huge shadow when it intercepted the moonlight . They felt a sensation of heat, and drove away in fear. Later they returned to investigate and had another close encounter. One of the officers reported that a skin lession he had healed rapidly after their UFO close encounter.Goode had been bitten by an animal before the sighting, and his left index finger swelled and bled freely. After exposure to the light from the object the pain was gone, and the wound cured unnaturally quickly. Later that evening, two men found him at a restaurant and described the object in detail, adding he should keep future encounters to himself. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 245; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - Serious Business, p. 295; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 267, 453; UNICAT, case # 509, citing James E. McDonald; Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 694 Source ID: Johnson_5595 Source: Johnson ### Event 11313 (DB4E1AA4) Date: 9/3/1965 Time: 11 PM Description: Witnesses: Brazoria County Chief Sheriff's Deputy Billy McCoy and Deputy Robert Goode. One triangular object, 150-200' long, 40-50' thick at middle and dark grey, with a long, bright, pulsing, purple light on the right side and a long blue light on the left side. Came from distance to 150' off highway and 100' in the air. Purple light illuminated ground beneath object and interior of police car. Driver felt heat on his left arm. Initial sighting lasted 5-10 minutes. Second sighting.occurred later that night. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Damon, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_529 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11314 (270797FF) Date: 9/3/1965 Time: 2 AM Description: Witnesses: Exeter Patrolmen Eugene Bertrand, Jr. and David Hunt, and Norman Muscarello. One large, dark, elliptical object with a row of red lights around it, moved slowly and erratically around houses and trees, while lights blinked in sequence. Farm animals were very noisy. Sighting lasted about 1 hour. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Exeter, New Hampshire Source ID: BerlinerBBU_528 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11315 (174C8545) Date: 9/3/1965 Time: evening Description: Two Angleton sheriffs, McCoy and Robert Goode saw from their car a huge object 70 m long, 15 m high, with a bright, violet light at one end and a pale-blue light at the other. They stopped to watch it and saw the craft fly within 30 m, casting a huge shadow when it intercepted the moonlight. They felt a heat wave and drove away in fear, but returned to the site a second time, only to turn around when they found the object was still there. Goode had been bitten by an animal before the sighting, and his left index finger swelled and bled freely. After exposure to the light from the object, the pain was gone, and the wound cured unnaturally. Later that evening, two men found him at a restaurant and described the object in detail, adding he should keep future encounters to himself. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Aug.,65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Damon, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_694 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11316 (ABB403D2) Date: 9/4/1965 Description: In an isolated area of the Green River Gorge, Washington State a man named Salsbury encountered a landed white, disc-shaped craft from which a loud voice resembling a “loud speaker” originated. It told him not to be afraid, and to put down his gun. Once he did that, an oval-shaped door opened under the lower part of the object, and a man came out walking slowly towards him. The man was described as six feet tall, appearing to be about 30 years of age. He was dressed in a one-piece tight-fitting suit made of some sort of metallic coating, resembling aluminum or chrome, but dull reflecting. He also wore a helmet that was very tight-fitting on his skull. On his side he carried an odd-looking sidearm with a barrel about the size of a regular flashlight, but instead of a hole in it, it had some sort of oval lens of a purplish-bluish color. He spoke to the witness in a very refined voice, telling him “Don’t be alarmed, I am not here to cause you any injury or harm.” The man told the witness that he was the captain of his craft, and invited him onboard for a brief tour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1965 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2580, citing Andy Page Source ID: Johnson_5629 Source: Johnson ### Event 11317 (56B618E2) Date: 9/5/1965 Description: At five o'clock in the morning Governor Sebastian Macha of Santa Barbara, Peru saw two dwarfish creatures, 80 cm tall, on the snow near Ceulacocha. They entered a craft, which took off and left making a thundering noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 38; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 695 Source ID: Johnson_5653 Source: Johnson ### Event 11318 (ED79F7FF) Date: 9/5/1965 Time: 0500 Description: Governor Sebastian Macha saw two dwarfish creatures, 80 cm tall, on the snow near Ceulacocha. They entered a craft, which left with a thundering noise. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Santa Barbara, Peru Source ID: Magnonia_695 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11319 (C5B469F4) Date: 9/6/1965 Description: In what remains of Lake Texcoco, in Mexico City, Mexico a saucer-shaped UFO landed in one of the several pond-sized pools in the otherwise dried-up lake bed. Many people witnessed the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Los Angeles Times, September 6, 1965; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, pp. 234-235 Source ID: Johnson_5682 Source: Johnson ### Event 11320 (B3D6F6BD) Date: 9/6/1965 Description: 9:30 p.m. Capt. Marcelo Cisternas is piloting a DC-6b at 8,500 feet for LAN Chile Flight 904 in northern Chile when he sees a zigzagging object change course and approach his airliner. The UFO follows the aircraft for 13–14 minutes at a distance of 1.8 miles. It is emitting a light of an intense color that shifts to radiant white. Cisternas checks with control towers in Arica and Iquque, but no other flights are expected in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 311](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/310/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3937 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11321 (4DAFFB65) Date: 9/7/1965 Description: At 9:00 p.m. in San Joaquin, Peru more than 200 witnesses saw two objects come to ground level, leaving behind crater-like depressions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 696 Source ID: Johnson_5720 Source: Johnson ### Event 11322 (C96DB408) Date: 9/7/1965 Description: In Warminster, England a British Army major reported that his headlights flickered and his car engine stopped when a UFO hovered 1500 feet overhead. The object rose vertically when it departed, making a tremendous noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 31, case 2 Source ID: Johnson_5719 Source: Johnson ### Event 11323 (1D1E74E0) Date: 9/7/1965 Time: 2100 Description: More than 200 witnesses saw two objects come to ground level, leaving crater-like depressions. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: San Joaquin, Peru Source ID: Magnonia_696 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11324 (374BA37E) Date: 9/8/1965 Description: Children reported seeing a luminous object from which seven or eight Cyclops creatures, 80 cm tall, with only one eye, emerged. The same day a newsman was said to have seen an object land in the vicinity of Puno, Peru and to have made an unsuccessful attempt at communication. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 698; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0663 Source ID: Johnson_5761 Source: Johnson ### Event 11325 (8B3331D7) Date: 9/8/1965 Description: An erratic moving, blurry object emitting green, red and & white light was seen at 10:00 p.m. in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia. Seen through binoculars there were aerial-like structures on the top. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_5758 Source: Johnson ### Event 11326 (C041D602) Date: 9/8/1965 Time: 2200 Description: A child reported the observation of a luminous object from which seven creatures, 80 cm tall, with only one eye, emerged. The same day a newsman was said to have seen an object land in the vicinity of Puno, and to have made an unsuccesful attempt at communication. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Puno, Peru Source ID: Magnonia_698 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11327 (12A0FF78) Date: 9/8/1965 Description: On this evening after work, rubber latex gatherers in Alto Purus, Brazil witnessed a flying object resembling a near by them. They hid, and observed the craft as it flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 43; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 697, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit Source ID: Johnson_5760 Source: Johnson ### Event 11328 (255BB01B) Date: 9/8/1965 Time: evening Description: After work, latex collectors saw an object resembling a huge wheel, intensely bright, with two flaming openings in front, about to land near them. They went into hiding, and observed the craft as it flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 84 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Alto Purus, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_697 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11329 (7D4A4248) Date: 9/8/1965 Description: At 9:15 p.m. local time a luminous object zigzagged away from the town of Beja, Portugal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT, case 100 Source ID: Johnson_5759 Source: Johnson ### Event 11330 (2451DCDA) Date: 9/9/1965 Description: Ms. Martindale in a residential area near Aldershot, Hampshire, England reported that at 8:40 p.m. her dog won't move but remained transfixed when a UFO with headlamps and rotating lights passed overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, January 1970, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_5787 Source: Johnson ### Event 11331 (F2C9C3CB) Date: 9/10/1965 Description: Four persons saw a creature with glowing catlike eyes, dressed in black, walking in a street. The entity was holding a metallic tube, was pursued, and vanished suddenly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 159; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Jalapa, Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_699 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11332 (F04A8690) Date: 9/10/1965 Description: Antonio Pau Ferro, a farmer, was working in his cornfield in Sao Joao, Pernambuco State, Brazil at 8:30 in the morning when he heard a rushing noise and saw two luminous discs five feet wide and two feet thick, come down nearby. They discharged two small beings, 27-31” tall, and then rose to hover at 15 feet. The entities had reddish brown, wax-like complexions and wore tight fitting one piece-outfits. They spoke an unknown language, smiled at the witness, and picked a tomato; then the two discs came down and picked them up, rising vertically with a whistling sound. The farmer said that they appeared quite human, except for their strange skin color and their size. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-50 (A0665), citing Walter Buhler, SBEVD; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 114; Tribuna Santo, September 12, 1965; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 472 Source ID: Johnson_5825 Source: Johnson ### Event 11333 (546A53C3) Date: 9/10/1965 Description: 8:30 a.m. Farmer Antônio Pau Ferro is working on his farm in São João, near Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil, when he hears a noise and sees two metallic objects descending from the sky about 26 feet away. They touch the ground in a uniform motion, let two humanoids about 2.5 feet tall exit, then rise up again to 16 feet and hover. The beings approach Ferro, then move back to the two UFOs. They pick up a tomato and examine it. The objects descend and envelop them, then take off with a whining and then a low sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 523; Brazil 76; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-09-10-brazil-garahuns.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-09-10-brazil-garahuns.htm) May 17, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_3938 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11334 (C78F9AE3) Date: 9/10/1965 Description: On this night a hovering object was seen from a street in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. It discharged yellow, blue, and orange lights from slits around its circumference. Four people--a local reporter, a bullfighter, and two taxi drivers--saw a creature with glowing catlike eyes dressed in black, walking down the street. The entity was holding a metallic tube. When they pursued the being it vanished suddenly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chicago Tribune, October 14, 1965; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 699 Source ID: Johnson_5826 Source: Johnson ### Event 11335 (BC647DA6) Date: 9/10/1965 Description: On or about this date three women in Mexico City, Mexico were said to have observed a group of giant beings, three meters tall, without noses or mouths but with bright red eyes, wearing gray uniforms and boots. No object was described. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 700 Source ID: Johnson_5827 Source: Johnson ### Event 11336 (E341A54B) Date: 9/10/1965 Description: Three women were said to have observed a group of beings, 3 m tall, without noses or mouths with red, bright eyes, wearing gray clothing and boots. No object was described. Approximate date. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 159 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mexico City, Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_700 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11337 (CF19F26B) Date: 9/11/1965 Time: 0800 Description: Antonio Pau Ferro saw two objects land. Two dwarfish beings emerged, 70 cm tall, dressed like humans, with "ugly" skin. They appeared to examine some tomato plants, reentered their craft, 6 m in diameter, and flew off. They spoke in a language which was not understood. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 84 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Guarulhos, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_701 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11338 (4288ED80) Date: 9/14/1965 Description: At 1:00 a.m. an engineer on a motorbikein Langenhoe, Essex, England heard a high-pitched hum, which changed to a buzz when a domed disc-shaped object approached to a close range, and then his engine coughed, sputtered, and finally died. There was a blue light coming from the translucent dome on the object. The witness also received an electric shock, and suffered temporary paralysis. He could not move or speak, and his body tingled like he had received an electric shock. The buzzing diminished as the object descended and landed in a swampy area near some houses. The witness also experience strong static electricity throughout the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 25; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 249, 267, 454 Source ID: Johnson_5952 Source: Johnson ### Event 11339 (0D9C2858) Date: 9/14/1965 Description: Glowing blue domed disc approached, buzzing sound; paralysis and shock See Section IV (E,L) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Langenhoe, Essex, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2870 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11340 (E295F983) Date: 9/14/1965 Description: Domed disc descended, humming sound, blue light. Motorbike engine failed, witness paralyzed, shock, static electricity Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Langenhoe, Essex, UK Source ID: HallUFOE2_61 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11341 (5C6156D2) Date: 9/14/1965 Description: 1:00 a.m. Engineer Paul Green is riding a motorcycle south of Langenhoe, Essex, UK, near Langenhoe Hall Lane when he hears a high-pitched humming to the east and notices a pinpoint of blue light moving in his direction. The humming becomes a loud buzzing, and his engine sputters and dies and the headlight goes out. The light resolves into an enormous domed disc that tilts and slowly descends. The underside of the disc has numerous round items. Green walks toward the object, but he feels paralyzed as the flashing blue light becomes intense, fluctuating in rhythm with his heartbeat. He feels a tingling like an electric shock. The object seems to land in an area with farmhouses. Green notes that another cyclist has had a similar problem, but with some difficulty he gets his cycle started. The next day he notices that his hair and clothes are imbued with static electricity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bernard E. Finch, “[The Langenhoe Incident,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CNov-Dec%2CV%2011%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1965\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_3939 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11342 (97E239A6) Date: 9/15/1965 Description: Two policemen, John Lockem and Koos de Klerk, were on patrol on the Pretoria-Bronkhorstspruit Road in Silverton, South Africa just before midnight when their headlights illuminated a disc-shaped object resting on the road. It was 10 meters in diameter and copper-colored. Ten seconds later it took off in a pool of flames at high speed. The tar on the road kept burning for some time after the UFO left, leaving behind a large hole in the bitumen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 71; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 702 Source ID: Johnson_5985 Source: Johnson ### Event 11343 (79F6BDCA) Date: 9/15/1965 Time: 2400 Description: Two policemen, John Lockem and Koos de Klerk, were on a patrol of the Pretoria-Bronkhorstspruit Road when their headlights illuminated a disk 10 m in diameter, copper-colored, resting on the road. Ten sec later it took off in a pool of flames, at high speed. The tar on the road kept burning for some time. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Humanoids 71 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Silverton, South Africa Source ID: Magnonia_702 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11344 (6D836CC5) Date: 9/15/1965 Description: At 11:45 p.m. in Sudbury, Massachusetts Mr. R. Schofield's car engine skipped and the lights dimmed, and he stopped to check engine in midst of rainstorm. When the driver got out of the car, he saw a disc-shaped object with a glowing rim that sparked in sequence, 200 feet above him. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated March 18, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_5986 Source: Johnson ### Event 11345 (188B0537) Date: 9/16/1965 Description: Saucer Blasts Off From Highway (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [650916](http://nicap.org/650916pretoria%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pretoria, S. Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_2872 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11346 (BB83EBF4) Date: 9/16/1965 Description: Pretoria, South Africa. Two police officer witnesses in an approaching car, Lockem and De Klerk, watched in astonishment as a copper-colored, domed disc-shaped UFO, 30 feet in diameter, lifted off from the road in front of them at 12:10 a.m., emitting flames from two tubes on the underside. The physical traces included a burned five foot diameter depression on the macadam road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1965, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 171, 262 Source ID: Johnson_6011 Source: Johnson ### Event 11347 (EF42BC3D) Date: 9/16/1965 Description: Constables in police van encountered domed disc on highway, object lifted off emitting flame. Tar and gravel road severely damaged Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Pretoria, South Africa Source ID: HallUFOE2_62 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11348 (07BE0914) Date: 9/16/1965 Description: NICAP Report #(?): Pretoria, S. Africa: Constables John Lockem and Koos de Klerk while on patrol (after midnight) suddenly had a domed, disc shaped object come into their van headlights. It was sitting on the road. The UFO was copper colored and about 30 ft. in diam. Immediately the UFO lifted off, emitting tongues of flame from two tubes or channels on the underside. The flames deflected about three feet off the macadam road surface and were still visible after loosing sight of the craft. Road damage: part of the road was caved-in, and in a 6 foot area the gravel was separated from the tar. Samples of the road surface were taken for analysis, report was never released. Lt. Col. J.B. Brits, District Commandant of Pretoria North said the incident was “highly secret”, and inquiry is being conducted in top circles. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Pretoria, South Africa Source ID: Maj2_630 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11349 (5E38BDFB) Date: 9/16/1965 Description: Just after 12:00 midnight. Constables John Lockem and Koos de Klerk are patrolling on the Pretoria- Bronkhorstspruit highway in South Africa when their police van headlights suddenly illuminate a domed, disc- shaped object sitting on the road. The UFO is copper colored and about 30 feet in diameter. Within seconds, the object lifts off the road, emitting tongues of flame from two tubes or channels on the underside. Flames from the macadam road surface shoot up in the air about 3 feet as the UFO departs, blazing long after it is out of sight. Later investigation shows that part of the road is caved in as if from a heavy weight, and the gravel is separated from the tar in a severely burned area about 6 feet in diameter. Lt. Col. J. B. Brits, district commandant of Pretoria North, tells the media that the incident is considered “as being of a highly secret nature and an inquiry is being conducted in top circles.” Samples of the road surface are taken for analysis by a leading scientific agency; the report is never made public. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philipp Human, “[Two Policemen See Saucer on Main Road,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%2C1965%2CNov-Dec%2CV%2011%2CN%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1965\): 9–11; “[Police See UFO Blast Off from Highway,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/028%20AUG-SEPT%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1965\): 5; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 187–192; UFOEv II 183–184 Source ID: Eberhart_3940 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11350 (C3F260E8) Date: 9/16/1965 Description: Multiple police, landing, traces. (#214) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [650916](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/650916dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Silverton, S. Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_2871 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11351 (64874ADC) Date: 9/17/1965 Description: A UFO is seen hovering above Medina del Campo, Valladolid, Spain, for several hours. Heliodoro Carrión takes off in his light plane and goes to 15,000 feet. An Iberia Airlines jet passes him on the way up at 24,000 feet. Carrión estimates the UFO is at least 4 times larger than the jet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[More Sightings over Spain,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201966%2001%2000%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1966, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_3941 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11352 (3B21E292) Date: 9/20/1965 Description: At 8:30 p.m. an orange oval-shaped object emitting a hum passed low over observers in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England. the witnesses were terrified by the experience, and one observer was hospitalized for shock. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_6128 Source: Johnson ### Event 11353 (5732BF0B) Date: 9/20/1965 Description: At 4:30 p.m. a young farm woman saw an object land in Pichaca, Peru and six dwarves, 80 cm tall, emerged from it. They wore very shiny white suits that emitted flashes of light, and "walked like ducks." She hid during the observation, and noted that they spoke in a language she could not understand. After their departure, a liquid resembling vinegar or oil was found on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: P. M. H. Edwards, FSR, May-June 1970, p. 23; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 114; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 703 Source ID: Johnson_6127 Source: Johnson ### Event 11354 (11BB898E) Date: 9/20/1965 Time: 1630 Description: A farm woman saw an object land, and six dwarfs, 80 cm tall, emerged from it. They wore very shiny white clothes and "walked like ducks." She hid during the observation, and noted that they spoke in a language she could not understand. After their departure, a liquid resembling vinegar was found on the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pichaca, Peru Source ID: Magnonia_703 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11355 (6219B3F6) Date: 9/22/1965 Description: Close Encounter With 4' Sphere (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650922](http://www.nicap.org/650922clover%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clover, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2873 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11356 (EA8642B3) Date: 9/22/1965 Description: Two Orange Discs Fly In Straight Line (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BB) Reference: NICAP: [650922](http://www.nicap.org/650922landis%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Landis, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2874 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11357 (3B1C403F) Date: Fall 1965 Description: 10:30 a.m. A Chesapeake & Ohio train is moving 8 miles south of Fostoria, Ohio, when the fireman and engineer see a large cigar-shaped object in the sky a considerable distance away. It is dark in color and positioned at a 45° angle from the horizon. It appears to be creating its own cloud screen. Suddenly a small object falls out of the tail and descends slowly in a fluttering fashion. Near the ground the small object stabilizes, emits coal-black smoke from its top, and then rises upward faster and faster. Three more objects leave the large one, each taking 10–12 minutes. They go off in different directions. After the last one leaves, a white cloud forms around the large object, which remains in the sky with other normal white clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_3946 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11358 (A1DAD7AF) Date: 9/23/1965 Description: A luminous UFO flew over the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico on this evening and caused three separate power failures. The domed object was seen by thousands, including the mayor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1965, p. 3; Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966, p. 14; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers -Serious Business, p. 259 Source ID: Johnson_6254 Source: Johnson ### Event 11359 (6352671F) Date: 9/23/1965 Description: A major blackout in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, coincides with the appearance of a glowing, disc- shaped UFO hovering low over the city. Witnesses include the governor of Morelos state, Emilio Riva Palacio; [Valentín López González](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valent%C3%ADn%5FL%C3%B3pez%5FGonz%C3%A1lez), the mayor of Cuernavaca; 24th military zone chief Gen. Rafael Enrique Vega; [Joaquín](https://clubdeleonescuernavacaac.club/1965-1966-joaquin-diaz-gonzalez/) [Díaz González](https://clubdeleonescuernavacaac.club/1965-1966-joaquin-diaz-gonzalez/)[,](https://clubdeleonescuernavacaac.club/1965-1966-joaquin-diaz-gonzalez/) president of the Lion’s Club; founder of the Folkloric Ballet of Mexico, [Amalia Hernández](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalia%5FHern%C3%A1ndez); and future Mexican President [Luis Echeverría](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FEcheverr%C3%ADa). The power only fails as long as the UFO is there. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, [p. 145](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa/page/144/mode/2up); [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 192–196; Antonio Huneeus, “[UFO Sighting by](http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-sighting-by-mexican-president-luis-echeverria/12459) [Mexican President Luis Echeverría,](http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-sighting-by-mexican-president-luis-echeverria/12459)” OpenMinds, October 6, 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_3943 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11360 (36961F33) Date: 9/25/1965 Description: 5 orange lights in a row fly fast make an abrupt turn (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 9970) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chisholm, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2875 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11361 (0C351058) Date: 9/25/1965 Description: Two Lights Illuminate Car At 30-50' Altitude (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: 9971, NC) Reference: NICAP: [650925](http://www.nicap.org/650925rodeo%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rodeo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_2876 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11362 (CFA112D6) Date: 9/25/1965 Description: At 9:55 a.m. in Chisholm, Minnesota Bett Diamon saw five orange lights flying in a row at a high speed, and then execute an abrupt turn. The duration of the sighting was one minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9970; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_6314 Source: Johnson ### Event 11363 (04815471) Date: 9/25/1965 Description: At ten o'clock in the evening Dr. George Walton, a physical chemist with a Ph.D., and his wife witnessed two round white objects that flew side-by-side in the sky over Rodeo, New Mexico. The objects flew at 30 to 50 feet above the ground, on a collision course with the witnesses' car, then moved parallel to the road and paced their car at 50-80 mph for six minutes. The object changed to a blue color. Light illuminated the car interior. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian UFOlogist, April 1999, p. 52; Mort Young, UFO Top Secret, p. 106-111; UNICAT, case # 636 Source ID: Johnson_6315 Source: Johnson ### Event 11364 (2345D3E4) Date: 9/25/1965 Time: 9:55 AM Description: Witness: Bett Diamon. Five orange lights in a row flew fast and made an abrupt turn during the 1 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Chisholm, Minnesota Source ID: BerlinerBBU_530 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11365 (CB95E0ED) Date: 9/25/1965 Time: 10 PM Description: Witnesses: Dr. George Walton, physical chemist, and wife. Two round white objects flew side-by-side, at 30-50' altitude, pacing the witnesses' car for 6 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Rodeo, New Mexico Source ID: BerlinerBBU_531 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11366 (E65E59D3) Date: Late 9/1965 Description: 9:15 p.m. Two French submarines, the Junon \(S648\) and the Daphné \(S641\), escorted by the logistic support vessel Rhône, are anchored off Fort-de-France, Martinique, when a large luminous object the color of a fluorescent tube arrives slowly and silently from the west. Michel Figuet on the Junon goes into the coming tower and gets six pairs of binoculars that he distributes to companions. There are 300 witnesses, including four officers on the Junon, three officers on the Daphné, a dozen French sailors, and personnel of the weather observatory. All witnesses aboard the Junon see the object as a large ball of light or a disc on edge arriving from the west. It moves slowly, horizontally, at a distance estimated at 6 miles south of the ships, from west to east. It leaves a whitish trace similar to the glow of a TV screen. When it was directly south of the ships the object drops toward the earth, makes two complete loops, then hovers in the midst of a faint halo. Figuet watches the object vanish in the center of its glow “like a bulb turned off.” The trail and the halo remain visible in the sky for a full minute. At 9:45 p.m. the halo reappears at the same place, and the object switches on again. It rises, makes two more loops, and flies away to the west, where it disappears at 9:50 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, “[Estimates of Power Optical Output in Six](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf) [Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 \(1998\): 348–350 Source ID: Eberhart_3942 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11367 (3039CD11) Date: 9/26/1965 Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale is founded in Milan, Italy, as a test of cooperation among several regional UFO groups. It begins publishing Notiziario UFO, edited by [Roberto Pinotti](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%5FPinotti)[,](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%5FPinotti) in January 1966. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [p.](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/66/mode/2up) [67](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/66/mode/2up); 1Pinotti 143–146; [Notiziario UFO](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201967%20No%201.pdf) 1 \(1967\) Source ID: Eberhart_3944 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11368 (E2121D91) Date: 9/26/1965 Description: (McDonald list) High Speed Object Tracked On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [650926](http://www.nicap.org/650926licking%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Licking County, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2877 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11369 (BDB77F7D) Date: 9/27/1965 Time: 0815 Description: Addie Jones, 61, saw a silvery object, 10 m in diameter, rise from a wooded area and hover silently before leaving toward the west. Under the object was a boxlike device. Distance to witness: 400 m. No light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 160 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Fredonia, New York Source ID: Magnonia_704 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11370 (83E5DCD7) Date: 9/27/1965 Description: Fireball meteor sighting at 7:56 P.M. American Meteor Society No. 2389. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Northeastern United States Source ID: HallUFOE2_64 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11371 (0A79C5D8) Date: 9/27/1965 Description: At 5:15 P.M., scientist saw metallic-appearing, cigar-shaped object that changed course Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Columbus, OH Source ID: HallUFOE2_63 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11372 (A7EB620B) Date: 9/27/1965 Description: A physicist employed by the U.S. Air Force sighted a sharply defined, brillian white ball of light in Andover, Massachusetts at 7:28 p.m. He first thought it could be a meteor, but it did not burn out when he stopped to watch it. It moved faster than any known conventional aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 334 Source ID: Johnson_6379 Source: Johnson ### Event 11373 (F736DFBD) Date: 9/27/1965 Description: At 5:15 P.M., scientist saw metallic-appearing, cigar-shaped object that changed course (UFOE II, Section, IV). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2878 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11374 (47B1F02D) Date: 9/28/1965 Description: Memo from Maj. Gen. E. B. LeBailly, USAF director of information, to USAF Scientific Advisory Board requesting a scientific panel to review the methods and findings of Project Blue Book. LeBailly noted: "Many of the reports that cannot be explained have come from intelligent and technically well-qualified individuals whose integrity cannot be doubted." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_65 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11375 (41094F2E) Date: 9/28/1965 Description: USAF Director of Information Gen. [Eugene B. LeBailly](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106475/lieutenant-general-eugene-b-lebailly/) writes to the military director of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, saying that Gen. [Arthur C. Agan](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107889/lieutenant-general-arthur-c-agan/) has found Project Blue Book to be a worthwhile program and that the Air Force should continue to investigate UFOs “to assure that such objects do not present a threat to our national security.” The project will remain at the Foreign Technology Division \(Wright-Patterson AFB\). He also requests that a “working scientific panel composed of both physical and social scientists be organized to review Project Blue Book—its resources, methods, and findings.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Maj. Gen. E. B. LeBailly, “[Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFOs\),](http://www.nicap.org/docs/650928lebailly%5Fdocs.pdf)” memorandum for military director, Scientific Advisory Board, September 28, 1965 Source ID: Eberhart_3945 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11376 (7BCAAC9E) Date: 9/29/1965 Description: Two men in a car, Julio L. de Romana and Antonio Chavez Bedoya, saw a strange being, 80 cm tall, by the side of the road. The creature had only one eye, and gold and silver stripes over its entire body. Soon afterward a craft flew over their car. Several persons living 20 km away also reported an unidentified object within min of this sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Arequipa, Peru Source ID: Magnonia_705 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11377 (8D3A387F) Date: 9/29/1965 Description: Mr. & Mrs. Carlsson sighted a UFO with at least one occupant aboard at 6:30 p.m. in their yard in Arboga, Vastmanland, Sweden. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Information Sweden, November 1974, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_6420 Source: Johnson ### Event 11378 (3DE3C041) Date: 9/29/1965 Description: Julio Lopez de Ramana and Antonio Chaves Bedoya, while driving in Arequipa, Peru nearly ran down a strange bipedal creature in the road. It was short, only 31 inches tall, and had only one eye. It also had silver and golden stripes running down its body. Soon afterwards, a UFO flew above their car for some time. That night others in the area reported also seeing low flying UFOs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 705; John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, p. 145; Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 45; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-56 (A0672), citing Donald Hanlon Source ID: Johnson_6421 Source: Johnson ### Event 11379 (1DCCFF8D) Date: 9/29/1965 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Swanlake, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2879 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11380 (6AE48F96) Date: 10/1965 Description: Three UFOs over McGuire Nuclear Power Station (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [6510xx](http://www.nicap.org/6510XXlakenorman%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Norman, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2880 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11381 (33EE5E7A) Date: 10/1965 Description: Soviet N-1 super heavy rocket development is begun Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket)) Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Kazakhstan Source ID: Maj2_631 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11382 (DBAD6092) Date: 10/1965 Description: The Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre is formed in Hobart, Tasmania, by Robert Burge. It publishes the TUFOIC Newsletter for many years, but the organization folds in December 2015. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [TUFOIC Newsletter](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/TUFOIC%20Newsletter/TUFOIC%20Newsletter%20-%20No%20007%20-%201971.pdf), no. 7 \(1971\); Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 25 Source ID: Eberhart_3947 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11383 (9200E9A6) Date: 10/1/1965 Description: Three students, Santos Vallejos, Antonia Aparti, and Adela Sanchez, who were walking to General San Martin School, were attacked by small creatures with greenish skin. The children ran away, and arrived at the school in a state of terror. Type: ufo sighting Reference: CODOVNI ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Aguas Blancas, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_706 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11384 (0D46319D) Date: 10/1/1965 Description: Three school students, Santos Vallejos, Antonia Aparti, and Adela Sanchez were walking to General San Martin School, Aguas Blancas, Salta province, Argentina when they were attacked by small creatures with greenish skin. The children ran away, and arrived at the school in a state of terror. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 706, citing CODOVNI Source ID: Johnson_6471 Source: Johnson ### Event 11385 (D2E766BE) Date: 10/1/1965 Description: The Swedish Defense Staff transfers the responsibility for UFO investigation to the Swedish National Defence Research Institute \[now the Swedish Defence Research Agency\] in Sweden, where it remains. Few civilian reports are classified as secret, but sensitive reports by the military are restricted. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 367–368 Source ID: Eberhart_3948 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11386 (1FEB2A04) Date: 10/2/1965 Description: At 8:20 p.m. J. Centorino saw a dark UFO hovering over the power plant in Salem, Massachusetts. It was cigar-shaped with an off-centered hump and had a white light on each end. It swayed back-and-forth, inclined at a 45-degree angle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated October 5, 1965; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 94 & 334 Source ID: Johnson_6496 Source: Johnson ### Event 11387 (EAF52BA4) Date: 10/2/1965 Description: Cigar Hovers Over Smoke Stacks (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [651002](http://www.nicap.org/651002salem%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salem, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2881 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11388 (9B60D932) Date: 10/2/1965 Description: [John G. Fuller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FG.%5FFuller) summarizes the Exeter sighting in his “Trade Winds” column in the Saturday Review. He writes to his editors beforehand that “reliable, but off-the-record information from the Pease AFB indicates frequent radar blips and fighters are constantly scrambled to pursue these objects. This information is not official, but it comes from a reliable source.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John G. Fuller, “[Trade Winds,](https://archive.org/details/sim%5Fsaturday-review%5F1965-10-02%5F48%5F40/page/n9/mode/2up)” Saturday Review 48, no. 40 \(October 2, 1965\): 10, 16 Source ID: Eberhart_3949 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11389 (3D5B07EF) Date: 10/4/1965 Time: Unknown time Description: Witness: Tucker. Case missing from official files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Middletown, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_532 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11390 (D4E42383) Date: 10/4/1965 Time: evening Description: Betty Valine and her 12-yearold son Robbie observed a large, plate-shaped machine with a dome on top, inside which three creatures were clearly visible. The witnesses did not see the object touch down. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Rio Vista, California Source ID: Magnonia_708 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11391 (662FE3CD) Date: 10/4/1965 Description: An object was said to have landed near Southington. No details. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Southington, Connecticut Source ID: Magnonia_707 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11392 (C9981C60) Date: 10/5/1965 Description: Fout saucer-shaped objects, the size of airliners, flew over Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in a diamond formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 118). On this same day sheriff deputies in Coldwater, Michigan saw a yellowish-white UFO hovering and moving around in the sky. It shot straight up at high speed as it departed. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-year Report, p. 171 Source ID: Johnson_6575 Source: Johnson ### Event 11393 (CCCDCE76) Date: 10/7/1965 Description: Radar-visual sighting of 12 UFOs, jet interceptor pursuit Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Edwards AFB, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_66 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11394 (64C523A6) Date: 10/7/1965 Description: Ground radar tracked 12 objects and pilot sighted objects, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [651007](http://www.nicap.org/651007edwards%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edwards AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2883 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11395 (077C5656) Date: 10/7/1965 Description: Major alert. Audio recordings (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, BB: BBU, NC) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [651007](http://www.nicap.org/651007edwards%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edwards AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2884 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11396 (24FDC495) Date: 10/8/1965 Description: A child in Puno, Peru reported seeing a luminous object at ten o'clock in the evening, from which seven 80 cm tall creatures with only one eye emerged. On the same day a newsman was said to have seen another object land in the vicinity of Puno, and to have made an unsuccesful attempt at communication. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings Source ID: Johnson_6651 Source: Johnson ### Event 11397 (C7875FE1) Date: 10/8/1965 Description: In the early evening after work, rubber plantation latex collectors in Alto Purus, Brazil saw evening an object resembling a huge wheel coming down to land near them. They described it as intensely bright with two flaming openings in the front. They quickly went into hiding, and observed the craft as it flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 84 Source ID: Johnson_6650 Source: Johnson ### Event 11398 (71DF12F8) Date: 10/8/1965 Description: In Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England a Ms. Randall's car motor and headlights died at 12:25 a.m. The witness then saw two objects in the sky, one of which was close while the other was hovering in the sky. The second object took off to a higher altitude, and changed color from orange to red while doing so, then emitted red and blue sparks. The witness also thought she saw two beings by the roadside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 26; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0679 Source ID: Johnson_6649 Source: Johnson ### Event 11399 (C4662A19) Date: 10/13/1965 Description: Two adolescent girls, Marg Gudajtes and Judy Norlock, saw a large, metallic, oval object with bluish lights land in a park at the edge of town. It had left by the time they returned with help. An oval area of crushed grass was observed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Minot, North Dakota Source ID: Magnonia_709 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11400 (D50DDA96) Date: 10/14/1965 Description: KC-135 Crew Watches Object Accelerate (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [651014](http://www.nicap.org/651014sawyerafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sawyer AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2886 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11401 (05778DD1) Date: Mid 10/1965 Description: 9:30 a.m. [Bill Hertzke](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134747591/william-hertzke)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134747591/william-hertzke) a ranch hand on the Circle J Ranch near Cochrane, Alberta, is on his horse in a pasture when he sees an object like a small airplane parked on the ground. It is silver-gray with swept-back wings, about 16 feet long, a wingspan of about 12 feet, and its fuselage is about 4-5 feet deep. He rides over and examines it. The exterior is irregular, “like a waffle.” A transparent dome covers the cockpit. Through it he can see complicated instruments \(knobs, dials, and switches\), a TV screen, and two transparent \(like Plexiglas\) bucket seats. There are no visible motors, propellers, jets, insignia, or identifying marks of any kind. It has an exterior door about 2 feet wide and 3 feet high that is open about 2 inches. His horse is extremely skittish, so he ties it to a tree and returns on foot. He spends 10–15 minutes examining it and can see no landing gear \(although it seems to be suspended 18–20 inches off the ground\) or seams of any kind. He realizes he can go inside the door but is a bit too scared to even touch the object, and has to return to chores anyway. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 87–102 Source ID: Eberhart_3950 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11402 (987A73FA) Date: 10/17/1965 Description: A domed, disc-shaped object with red lights around the edge zig-zagged below the clouds in Tully, Queensland, Australia on this day. It had landing gear displayed underneath. At 7:45 p.m. a Mr. Cock witnessed a flight of seven UFOs which passed overhead, then circled the city of Cairns, Queensland. They did not keep in a perfect line, but 1-2 dropped out of place from time to time. They flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 152, 155 Source ID: Johnson_6921 Source: Johnson ### Event 11403 (1F53449A) Date: 10/17/1965 Description: At 7:15 p.m. a couple saw four disc-shaped objects flying in a half wing formation pass over La Jolla, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded April 16, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_6922 Source: Johnson ### Event 11404 (0E2B81EF) Date: 10/18/1965 Description: Thousands of persons saw a circular object that flew over the beach, circling. Later two witnesses saw it land in an isolated spot between Cuaranga and the Santos Air Base. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Ouranos 32; LDLN 84 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ponte Praia, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_710 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11405 (4295D7FE) Date: 10/18/1965 Description: At 10:20 p.m. an oval-shaped object with a flashing red light on top and green, red and white lights around the perimeter was seen in Sharon, Massachusetts. It moved slowly 100 feet above ground, and only 500 yards away from the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ray Fowler case files, report dated March 5, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_6958 Source: Johnson ### Event 11406 (60A726E6) Date: 10/21/1965 Description: 6:10 p.m. Five witnesses are in a car near Saint George, Minnesota, returning to their homes in Gibbon from a bow-hunting trip. [Arthur A. Strauch](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3506478/arthur-alfred-strauch), a Sibley County deputy sheriff, is the first to spot a strange object that seems to be 2,000 feet above the ground and a quarter of a mile distant in the northwest sky. After watching for about 10 minutes from the car, the group drives down the road about a half mile and stops. Strauch observes it both with the naked eye and through 7x35 binoculars. At first they hear no sound, but as the object flies over them, Donald Martin Grewe describes the sound as a “whistling whine.” Strauch snaps a photograph just as the object begins to move. The object then flies into the wind for several hundred feet, then stops for a few seconds, at which time its lights change from bright white to dull orange, alternating several times. It then moves toward the southeast at a high rate of speed and disappears out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The St. George Multiple-Witness](http://www.nicap.org/651021st.george%5Fdir.htm) [Photo Case](http://www.nicap.org/651021st.george%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Deputy Snaps UAO Color Photo,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2011%2000%20-%20November-December.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, pp. 1, 3; Story, [pp. 351–352](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/350/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[The St. George Multiple-Witness Sighting and Photograph, USA, 1965](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/stgeorge65.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3951 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11407 (513B063E) Date: 10/22/1965 Description: Approximate date. Jose Camilo Filho saw two creatures near a landed object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 84 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Canhotinho, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_711 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11408 (FF3DED26) Date: 10/22/1965 Description: Evening. José Camilo Filho is walking through a field near the city cemetery in Canhotinho, Pernambuco, Brazil, when he runs across two little men only 3 feet high with whitish hair sitting next to a tube 4 feet tall and resting on the ground. When they see Camilo, they jump up in a disorganized fashion, colliding with each other. One picks up the tube and the other points a straw at Camilo, who runs ahead. He decides to return and take a closer look, but the men and tube are gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[The Humanoids in Latin America,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201966%20N%201%2CThe%20Humanoids.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 45; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-10-22-brazil-canhotinho.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-10-22-brazil-canhotinho.htm) July 27, 2008; Brazil 75 Source ID: Eberhart_3953 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11409 (F1017B50) Date: 10/22/1965 Description: Afternoon. Geof Gray-Cobb, a Canadian technician working with the Deep Space Instrumentation Facility \[now the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory\] in Gauteng, South Africa, in tracking [Mariner 4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner%5F4)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner%5F4) is present when the spacecraft’s signal strength begins rising at a point when it should not have. The team alerts the Jet Propulsion Lab. The signal strength is now so high that the instruments are clicking as they max out. Gray- Cobb says the “raw radio energy” is coming in indecipherable “blips and dashes.” Nothing can be seen visually. Eight minutes later, everything goes silent. JPL later asks them to point their dish in the direction it was pointing when they picked up the signal. They do, but forget to correct for the earth’s rotation. Nonetheless, they get the signal again, which means it is a local source. Nothing is visible in the sky, but a sound sweep reveals that the source is a perfect circle 2° in diameter. The team directs a packet of radio pulses at the source, but it falls silent. Two months later, Gray-Cobb discovers that the pages for the event are gone from the log; the tape recording of the event is also missing. The manager tells him that two men with “authorization” had come three days after the event to confiscate the tapes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_3952 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11410 (E16DD476) Date: 10/22/1965 Description: On or about this date Jose Camilo Filho saw two creatures near a landed object in Canhotinho, Pernambuco State, Brazil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 711, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 84 Source ID: Johnson_7020 Source: Johnson ### Event 11411 (E4C4150B) Date: 10/23/1965 Time: 1915 Description: James Townsend, 19, was driving on Highway 27 when his engine, lights, and radio stopped operating. He then observed an object 10 m tall, about 3 m in diameter, shaped somewhat like a rocket, sitting on fins on the road. Three creatures with "tripod legs and matchstick arms," brownish-black in color, having no eyes or facial features, stood in a large, lighted circle under it, facing the witness for a few moments before disappearing in the intense light. The object rose straight up for 400 m, with a high-pitched humming sound, stopped and vanished. The car then resumed normal operation by itself. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Long Prairie, Minnesota Source ID: Magnonia_712 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11412 (223F6B91) Date: 10/23/1965 Description: James Townsend, age 19, a radio announcer for KEYL Radio, had a close encounter with a UFO and three creatures at about 7:15 p.m. on a road about four miles east of Long Prairie, Minnesota. As he was driving around a curve in the road he saw an upright, rocket-like object straddling the road. It was about 30 or 40 feet high and about 10 feet in diameter, resting on legs or fins. His car engine stalled, the lights and radio went out, and he slammed on the brakes and stopped twenty feet in front of it. His first thought was to knock it over with the car so he would have some evidence, but the engine had already stalled. Then he got out with the idea of trying to push it over by hand.

"When I got to the front of my car, three creatures that looked like individual tin cans on tripods, and were six inches tall, came from behind the rocket. They didn't have eyes that I could see, but I knew they were looking at me. I stopped. I didn't have any desire to get closer. There was no sound--just dead silence. It seemed like ages as we looked at each other. Then they went up into the rocket, which had a bright colorless light glowing out of the bottom. There was a loud hum. The rocket went up and disappeared. When the light on the bottom went out after it was in the air, my car radio and light came on, and my engine started without having to touch the starter."

Townsend said his car had an automatic transmission and he had placed the selector lever in "park." Townsend said his heart was pounding and his legs were like rubber. He drove at high speed back to Long Prairie to report his close encounter. Townsend said the craft took off, looking "just like a flashlight that is turned on and then lifted up from the table with the light at the bottom." That night several hunters in the Long Prairie area claimed to have seen a strong light above them that lit up the ground. Other hunters reported seeing a lighted object circle around and around in the sky over their farm. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, Looking Back October 1965, National UFO Reporting Center website; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 712, citing Flying Saucer Review Source ID: Johnson_7044 Source: Johnson ### Event 11413 (91980339) Date: 10/23/1965 Description: Road Blocked By "Rocket", Three "Creatures" (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [651023](http://www.nicap.org/651023longprairie%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Prairie (4 miles from), MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2887 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11414 (C1A99FD8) Date: 10/23/1965 Description: Night. KEYL-AM radio announcer James F. Townsend, 19, is driving on State Highway 27 four miles east of Long Prairie, Minnesota, when he slams on his brakes to avoid hitting a rocket-like device resting on three legs or fins. As his car skids to a stop 20 feet from the object, the vehicle’s motor and electrical system die. The object looks like it is made of stainless steel, stands 30–40 feet high, and is 10 feet in diameter. In a circle of light under it, Townsend sees three things that resemble beer cans with “tripod legs and three matchstick arms.” They have no eyes, but Townsend feels as if they are looking at him. He gets out of the car to try to knock one over, but they come over to him and they stand there looking at him. Eventually they turn around and “scoot under the ship,” disappearing into the light beneath it. An ear-splitting humming sound emanates from the UFO, which assumes a bright illumination and shoots off. The Todd County sheriff and UFO investigators assume that Townsend, a deeply religious man, is sincere. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Space Things’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95125276/) [Stop His Car,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95125379/)” Minneapolis Star, October 25, 1965, pp. 1, 4; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 308; “[‘Little, Little Men’ in Minn.,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2011%2000%20-%20November-December.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, p. 8; Clare John Jansen, “Little Tin Men in Minnesota,” Fate 19, no. 2 \(February 1966\): 36–40; Clark III 280; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-10-23-usa-longprairie.htm), January 5, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_3954 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11415 (FB9BAD74) Date: 10/25/1965 Description: The [Betty and Barney Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) story is publicly revealed in an article by reporter [John H. Luttrell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201568868/john-h%5F-luttrell) in the Boston Traveler newspaper. He has obtained a copy of the tape recording at the Quincy Center UFO group, as well as a tape of an interview the Hills gave to UFO investigators after they completed their therapy. UPI picks up the story the same day. The Hills are caught completely by surprise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 585 Source ID: Eberhart_3955 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11416 (3E0BC487) Date: 10/26/1965 Description: A man by the name of Camilho encountered two little men sitting on stump around noon in Canhotinho, Pernambuco state, Brazil. They were one meter tall, with white hair, large heads, slanted eyes, and a brown wrinkled complexion. They wore shiny blue-green clothes with a belt; one wore a cap. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0681, citing The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 124 Source ID: Johnson_7146 Source: Johnson ### Event 11417 (0580F226) Date: 10/27/1965 Description: The Air Force issues a press release that gives two basic explanations for the Exeter, New Hampshire, sightings: Some stem from a high-altitude SAC exercise out of Westover AFB \[now Westover Air Reserve Base\] near Chicopee, Massachusetts; others are explained by temperature inversion that causes the appearance of stars and planets to dance and twinkle. Around the same time, [John Fuller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FG.%5FFuller) hears from an Air Force pilot that pilots have been ordered to shoot down UFOs when possible, but the objects appear to be “invulnerable” and can outmaneuver any aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, Putnam’s Sons, 1966, pp. 201–202, 205–206 Source ID: Eberhart_3956 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11418 (2A7557C8) Date: 10/27/1965 Description: 24 total Radar Sightings (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [651027](http://www.nicap.org/651027guam%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Anderson AFB, Guam Source ID: NICAP_DB_2888 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11419 (7F33EE5C) Date: 10/30/1965 Time: night Description: Witnesses in a Volkswagen encountered a strong light on the road. A truck and another Volkswagen arrived and went near the object, which took off suddenly and flew over them. It was also observed by dozens of witnesses at the Pinhal Junction. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Sep., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pinhal, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_713 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11420 (7FE34222) Date: 11/1965 Description: Fort Riley, KA: “AK” (Aaron Kaback) was on guard duty at 2 a.m. when the duty officer drove up and ordered him to hop into the jeep. He and 3 other officers were driven out to a remote area where a large oval object was resting. An army chopper was hovering above the object and shining a bright light on it. The object was approx. 35–48 ft. in diam., had a fin on the end and an exhaust port or some kind of hole below the fin. It had rows of squares around the rim and remained completely dead for the 2 1/2 hours they guarded it. (Kaback seems to be confused as to the actual date this incident occurred.) Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Fort Riley, KA See also: 12/10/64 Source ID: Maj2_632 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11421 (827E8D48) Date: 11/1965 Time: dusk Description: Eric Williams saw a large object, 30 m in diameter, 15 m high, about 75 m away. He reported seeing clearly a row of portholes illuminated with a greenish light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Broken Hill, Zambia Source ID: Magnonia_714 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11422 (BFF50CD9) Date: 11/1965 Description: 2:00 a.m. Aaron David Kaback is on duty at the motor pool in the Army’s Fort Riley Military Reservation in Kansas when the duty officer takes him to a remote area of the base where they see a landed UFO with an Army helicopter flying above it. He contacts [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) about his story. A subsequent investigation by Citizens Against UFO Secrecy finds many discrepancies in Kaback’s account and very little credibility. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Ft.](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20Old%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%20Vol%201%20Issue%2006%20-%20Old%20Series.pdf) [Riley Landing: Hoax or Delusion?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20Old%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%20Vol%201%20Issue%2006%20-%20Old%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause 1, no. 6 \(September 1978\): 11–14; Clark III 603–604; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, [p. 201](https://archive.org/details/historyofufocras0000rand/page/200/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3958 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11423 (AC11EED4) Date: Early 11/1965 Description: The USAF Scientific Advisory Board meets in Houston, Texas, to discuss the UFO investigation and the possibility of an independent study. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: USAF Scientific Advisory Board, [Special Report of the USAF Scientific](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/obrien.htm) [Advisory Board Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project “Blue Book,”](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/obrien.htm) Brian O’Brien, chairman of the Advisory Board, March 1966 Source ID: Eberhart_3957 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11424 (A3777195) Date: 11/4/1965 Description: Object Lands on River Bank (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 10066) Reference: NICAP: [651104](http://www.nicap.org/651104middletown%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Middletown, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2889 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11425 (78276841) Date: 11/4/1965 Description: Bright, flashing red and white object, w/sparks shooting off (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10066) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Middletown, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2882 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11426 (9E23AAB8) Date: 11/5/1965? Description: Day. Mauritz Löugren and a friend see a triangular-shaped object moving back and forth for 20 minutes over Luleå, Sweden. It disappears silently to the west at great speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[World Round-Up,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1966\): iii Source ID: Eberhart_3959 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11427 (B04A7C79) Date: 11/9/1965 Time: dawn Description: During the great power blackout, actor Stuart Whitman was startled to hear a whistling sound outside his 12th floor window and to observe two hovering objects, one orange and the other blue giving off a luminescent light. He then heard an English message indicating that the blackout was a "demonstration." Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: New York City, New York Source ID: Magnonia_715 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11428 (6673C265) Date: 11/9/1965 Description: 5:16 p.m. The Northeast power blackout, a significant disruption in the supply of electricity, affects parts of Ontario, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. Over 30 million people and 80,000 square miles are left without electricity for up to 13 hours. The cause of the failure is the setting of a protective relay on one of the transmission lines from the Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Power Station No. 2 in Queenston, Ontario, near Niagara Falls. Prior to and coincident with the blackout, there are a number of reports of unusual lights in Syracuse and Niagara Falls, New York, and Holliston, Massachusetts, and there is speculation that the blackout is related to UFO activity in some way. But there is no evidence of a direct connection. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Northeast blackout of 1965](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast%5Fblackout%5Fof%5F1965)”; “[New Clues to UFO Electrical](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/029%20NOV-DEC%201965.pdf) [Interference,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/029%20NOV-DEC%201965.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 5 \(Nov./Dec. 1965\): 3–4; “[The Question of the Power Blackouts,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201965%2011%2000%20-%20November-December.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, pp. 4–6; John G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, Putnam’s Sons, 1966, pp. 230–235; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 201–203; Condon, [pp. 110–115](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/110/mode/2up); Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 130–137; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 145; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 99–102 Source ID: Eberhart_3960 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11429 (03344244) Date: 11/9/1965 Description: NE power grid failure & possibly related sightings (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [651109](http://www.nicap.org/nyne.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: many cities, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2890 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11430 (3F76C664) Date: 11/10/1965 Description: Before dawn. Actor [Stuart Whitman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FWhitman) is staying in a hotel in Manhattan, New York City, during the Northeast power blackout. He hears a “sound, like a whippoorwill whistling outside my twelfth-story window.” He steps to the window and sees 2 luminous UFOs hovering nearby, one orange, the other blue. He hears voices from the UFOs in his head, telling him they are fearful of earth because humans are messing around with “unknown quantities” that might disrupt the balance of the universe. They claim the blackout is a small demonstration of their power and ask Whitman to do what he can to fight malice, prejudice, and hate on earth. The objects disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[El Paso Blackout Recalls New York Experience to Actor,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95137296/)” El Paso \(Tex.\) Herald-Post, December 24, 1965, p. 4; Jerome Clark, “[The Greatest Flap Yet? Part IV,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1966\): 10; Clark III 1280–1281; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-11-09-usa-newyorkcity.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1965-11-09-usa-newyorkcity.htm) July 25, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_3961 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11431 (09F3E186) Date: 11/10/1965 Description: Massive power blackout in northeastern United States at about 5:25 P.M. (EST). Some reports of UFOs coincided, with resulting speculation about a possible relationship Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Northeastern US Source ID: HallUFOE2_67 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11432 (E49F8AC7) Date: 11/11/1965 Description: A UFO was seen on the ground near a farm gate in Mogi Guacu, Sao Paulo state, Brazil at around 9 p.m. by a woman and her grandson. Two dwarfs were beside the object, picking up leaves and twigs, and examining a mare that stood docile by the fence. A green colored beam then made a sound like an explosion, causing the two witnesses to flee in panic inside their farmhouse. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flavio Pereira, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1966, p 8; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 244, citing investigation by Dr. Olavo T. Fontes; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 192 Source ID: Johnson_7596 Source: Johnson ### Event 11433 (37E6B6B0) Date: 11/12/1965 Description: UFO caused compass on ship to swing off course. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Undisclosed city in Argentina, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_2891 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11434 (1324EFDB) Date: 11/13/1965 Description: Two odd looking craft were seen floating or hovering near the surface of the ocean at the southern tip of New Zealand. Two fisherman, Mr. R. D. Hanning, age 41, skipper of the fishing vessel Eleoneai, and Mr. W. J. Johnson made the sighting. They had set out from Bluff, the port of Invercargill, New Zealand, to tend pots in the area of Stewart Island, the southernmost part of New Zealand. At 11:30 a.m. they were about half a mile off Rugged Islands when they saw a strange craft come out of the water. Its tapered structure rose about 15 feet above the water and measured 5 feet high at the top and 12 feet at the water line. Then, about 30 feet away, a second box-shaped object, about 10 feet long and 5 feet high, was seen. There was no sign of any periscope or railing and nothing but the 'tower' and 'box' were visible. The water was smooth and the objects were in clear view 300 yards away. After 10 seconds there was suddenly a great surging of water and both object vanished beneath the surface. Both men were rather startled at this display and in fact were somewhat frightened by it. They hung around for a few minutes, decided not to wait any longer, and steamed off. The water at the spot where they had made the sighting was about 30 fathoms deep to a sandy bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Otago Daily Times, November 18, 1965; Henk J. Hinfelaar, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966, p. 29; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 56; Carl Feindt, www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=330 Source ID: Johnson_7631 Source: Johnson ### Event 11435 (8308D529) Date: 11/13/1965 Description: In the late evening in Mogi-Guacu, Sao Paulo State, Brazil Sr. Dario Filho, his wife, his grandson, and a bank director saw an object land 100 meters away, flashing a beam of light towards the sky. Two policemen on the scene also observed the incident. Near the object were two dwarves. One of them wore coveralls, while the other had on a gray shirt and brown trousers. By what seemed an optical effect, a third being with a flat, squarish head, wearing something like a surgeon's apron, was also seen near them. The object and the creatures were very brightly lit. The incident lasted 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1966, p. 8; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 244, citing Olavo T. Fontes; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 716 Source ID: Johnson_7632 Source: Johnson ### Event 11436 (C5CCD46D) Date: 11/13/1965 Description: Dario Filho, his wife, his grandson, and a bank director saw an object land 100 m away, flashing a beam of light toward the sky. Two policemen on the scene also observed the incident. Near the object were two dwarfs. One of them wore coveralls, the other had a gray shirt and brown trousers. By what seemed an optical effect, a third being with a flat, squarish head, wearing something like a surgeon's apron, was also seen near them. The object and the creatures were very bright. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Sep., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mogi-Guassu, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_716 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11437 (D1874C2C) Date: 11/16/1965 Description: T. Untiedt was driving on Highway 28 about 5 km west of Cyprus when he saw a red flourescent, cylindrical object with a cone on top, 4 km long and 2 m in diameter, surrounded with a white glow. The car slowed down as the observer was 400 km away from the object, which took off toward the northeast. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cyrus, Minnesota Source ID: Magnonia_717 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11438 (5505610F) Date: 11/22/1965 Description: A UFO engaged in falling leaf maneuvers over Wiesbaden, Germany at 10:35 p.m. for 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Nachtrichten, February 1971 Source ID: Johnson_7797 Source: Johnson ### Event 11439 (ADD7E359) Date: 11/23/1965 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a man named Quigley sighted a flourescent, blue cluster of lights tinged orange on the sides, about a mile away in the sky over Adelaide, South Australia. When he signaled with a flashlight a second time it moved closer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 174 Source ID: Johnson_7841 Source: Johnson ### Event 11440 (7C46B116) Date: 11/24/1965 Description: James Allen Aldridge and his family heard a loud blast outside their mobile home trailer in Cooper City, Florida and saw a flash in the western sky at 18:45 p.m. Aldridge went to his barn to check on his stock and there he saw a man about five feet tall, with wide shoulders and a narrow waist. He shouted at the man but got no response. His dog was shaking with fright at the sight of the strange figure. Aldridge then drove off to get the police, but when they returned they could find no one. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-67, citing local police and a newspaper source dated November 25, 1965 Source ID: Johnson_7871 Source: Johnson ### Event 11441 (9DD31C41) Date: 11/26/1965 Description: In 1965 in a wide area from St. Paul, Minnesota to the Wisconsin border, blue lights in the sky, power failures, and electro-magnetic effects on cars were reported. At 8:00 p.m. many residents of Totem Town, St. Paul, Minnesota saw strange objects flying overhead, emitting blue and orange flashes. Some reported that their house lights went out when the objects passed overhead. One person in a car said that his headlights and radio had failed as the objects passed nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1965, p.1; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 156, citing Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 12, No. 6 Source ID: Johnson_7937 Source: Johnson ### Event 11442 (F8513EA5) Date: 11/26/1965 Description: 8:00–9:00 p.m. Numerous power outages around St. Paul, Minnesota, are accompanied by observations of white or blue lights in the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Power Outages Accompanied by Flashes,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201966%2001%2000%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1966, pp. 3–4; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 199–201 Source ID: Eberhart_3962 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11443 (0C2ABE76) Date: 11/29/1965 Time: evening Description: Kevin Davis, 12, and Gary Jardine, 10, saw an object with a blinking red dome fly over the Cooper Creek area and come to ground level. They observed portholes and a long bar with fingerlike devices emerging from an opening. Snow was blown away and bushes were flattened. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Jan., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Springhill, Nova Scotia Source ID: Magnonia_718 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11444 (EEC250CF) Date: 11/29/1965 Description: On this evening Kevin Davis, 12, and Gary Jardine, 10, saw an object with a blinking red dome fly over the Cooper Creek area and come to ground level in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada. They observed portholes and a long bar with fingerlike devices emerging from an opening. Snow was blown away and bushes were flattened during the near landing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January-February 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 718; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 263 Source ID: Johnson_8031 Source: Johnson ### Event 11445 (FD3D0A66) Date: 11/30/1965 Description: Police constable Edward Pinnock on foot patrol in Warminster, England during the middle of the afternoon saw a bright silver ball hurtle through the sky, like a "giant plate of light that lit up the whole horizon with a glare." It appeared to be spinning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_8071 Source: Johnson ### Event 11446 (86601CB5) Date: 11/30/1965 Description: In Cornwallis, Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada at 3:30 a.m. at least one UFO landed, leaving behind left ground traces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1966, p. 4; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 59 Source ID: Johnson_8072 Source: Johnson ### Event 11447 (5DD2F762) Date: 11/30/1965 Description: 3:30 a.m. Seaman Ian Kinsey is on watch at Canadian Forces Base Cornwallis \[now Cornwallis Park\] in Nova Scotia. As he is passing a window, he sees a lighted yellow oval object resting on the beach. Five minutes later a sliding door on the object’s side opens, emitting a white light. Then a smaller, cigarette-shaped UFO enters the larger object through the dear. The bigger object rises, pushing rocks and logs away from the center of the beach. It cruises slowly over a mountain and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) [Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 59–61 Source ID: Eberhart_3963 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11448 (3B546B82) Date: 12/2/1965 Description: A close encounter with electro-magnetic effects happened in El Paso, Texas on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers -Serious Business, p. 266 Source ID: Johnson_8124 Source: Johnson ### Event 11449 (1EACF730) Date: 12/5/1965 Description: During the [Gemini 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini%5F7) mission, the astronauts mention a “bogey.” [James Oberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FOberg)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FOberg) based on his trajectory analysis of the mission, describes the astronauts’ comments as referring to booster-associated debris and not a reference to some sort of UFO. Astronaut [Frank Borman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FBorman) later confirms that what he saw was not a UFO. When he offers to go on the television show Unsolved Mysteries to clarify, the producers tell him, “Well, I’m not sure we want you on the program.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[UFO sightings in outer space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO%5Fsightings%5Fin%5Fouter%5Fspace)”; Condon, [pp. 207–208](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/206/mode/2up); Good Above, [p. 378](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/378/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3964 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11450 (B65BD2E1) Date: 12/8/1965 Description: Luminous Loops Seen (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BB) Reference: NICAP: [651208](http://www.nicap.org/651208tangent%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tangent, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_2892 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11451 (B8CA1816) Date: 12/8/1965 Description: In 1965 in Beckington, Wiltshire, England a phantom automobile, shaped like a Land Rover but without wheels, passed the witness’s car. It made a whining noise, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U database, case #7027 Source ID: Johnson_8267 Source: Johnson ### Event 11452 (2F54515B) Date: 12/9/1965 Description: A UFO crash-landed in the Kecksburgh, PA woods. It had appeared as a fireball flying across several U.S. states and Canada. Dozens of witnesses described military personnel cordoning off the landing area. The object was transported away by military truck. In Feb. 1969, the key witness (John Murphy ) to this incident was struck and killed by a car on a highway near Ventura. Researcher, Stan Gordon kept the research of this incident alive. The Blue Book report changed the name of Kecksburg to “Acme” PA. After 20 yrs. Bill Bulebush came forward with a description of the downed UFO. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Kecksburgh, PA Source ID: Maj2_633 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11453 (ED1C41FE) Date: 12/9/1965 Description: 4:47 p.m. A large, brilliant fireball is seen by thousands in at least six states and Ontario, Canada. It streaks over the Detroit, Michigan–Windsor, Ontario, area, reportedly drops hot metal debris over Michigan and northern Ohio starting some grass fires and causes sonic booms in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area. It is generally assumed and reported by the press to be a meteor after authorities discount other proposed explanations such as a plane crash, errant missile test, or reentering satellite debris. However, eyewitnesses in the small village of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, claim something has crashed in the woods. A boy sees the object land; his mother [Frances Kalp](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134458868/frances-margaret-kalp) sees a wisp of blue smoke rising from the woods and alerts local radio station WHJB. Another observer reports feeling a vibration and “a thump” about the time the object reportedly lands. Others from Kecksburg, including local volunteer fire department members \(Carl Metz and Paul Shipco\), report seeing an object in the shape of an acorn and about as large as a Volkswagen Beetle. Writing resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs is also said to be in a band around the base of the object. A reporter and news director for WHJB, [John J. Murphy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129235426/john-j-murphy)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129235426/john-j-murphy) arrives on the scene of the event before authorities have arrived, in response to several calls to the station from alarmed citizens. He takes several photographs and conducts interviews with witnesses. His former wife Bonnie Millslagle later reports that all but one roll of the film is confiscated by military personnel. WHJB office manager Mabel Mazza describes one of the pictures: “It was very dark and it was with a lot of trees around and everything. And I don’t know how far away from the site he was. But I did see a picture of a sort of a cone-like thing. It’s the only time I ever saw it.” Witnesses further report that an intense military presence, most notably the US Army, is secures the area, orders civilians out, seals the area within 2 hours of the event, and then removes an object on a flatbed truck. The military claims they have searched the woods and can find “absolutely nothing.” The official explanation of the widely seen fireball is that it is a mid-sized meteor, as suggested, for example, by University of Michigan astronomer [William P. Bidelman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FP.%5FBidelman)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FP.%5FBidelman) However, speculation as to the identity of the Kecksburg object \(if there was one—reports vary\) include an alien craft; debris from [Kosmos 96](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%5F96) \([James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FOberg) [Oberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FOberg)\), a Soviet space probe intended for Venus that fails and never leaves the Earth’s atmosphere \(now seen as unlikely\); a General Electric Mark 2 Reentry Vehicle launched from Johnson Atoll in the Pacific Ocean on December 7 by the Air Force as a spy satellite \([John](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3277379/bio) [Ventre](https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-sightings-mufon-2018-john-ventre-alien-extraterrestrial-905060) and [Owen Eichler](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/eichler-owen/75215)\); and a secret Corona spy satellite, [KH-4A 1027](https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1965-102A)[,](https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1965-102A) launched from Vandenberg AFB \[now Vandenberg Space Force Base\] on December 9 \([Bob](https://bobwenzelgross.com/) [Wenzel Gross](https://bobwenzelgross.com/)\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Kecksburg UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kecksburg%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; Stan Gordon, “[The Kecksburg UFO Crash: An Interim](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201992%20V%2037%20N%201.pdf) [Report,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201992%20V%2037%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 37, no. 1 \(Spring 1992\): 2–5; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, [pp. 95–120](https://archive.org/details/historyofufocras0000rand/page/94/mode/2up); Leslie Kean, “Forty Years of Secrecy: NASA, the Military, and the 1965 Kecksburg Crash,” IUR 30, no. 1 \(October 2005\): 3–9, 28–32; Robert R. Young and Leslie Kean, “Kecksburg Controversy,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 25–28; Peter Brookesmith, “Rockets, Reptiles, and a Resurrection,” Fortean Times 360 \(December 2017\): 28; Clark III 340; Good Need, [pp. 255–258](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/254/mode/2up); “[Five Decades Later, the Kecksburg UFO Is](https://www.post-gazette.com/news/science/2015/12/06/50-years-later-the-Kecksburg-Westmoreland-County-UFO-is-identified-probably/stories/201512060146) [Identified \(Probably\),](https://www.post-gazette.com/news/science/2015/12/06/50-years-later-the-Kecksburg-Westmoreland-County-UFO-is-identified-probably/stories/201512060146)” Pittsburgh \(Pa.\) Post-Gazette, December 6, 2015; Matthew Dinkel, “[Acorn from Space:](https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/acorn-space-kecksburg-incident) [The Kecksburg Incident,](https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/acorn-space-kecksburg-incident)” Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Fall 2010; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case](http://cufos.org/cases/1965%5F12%5F09%5FUS%5FPA%5FKecksburg%5FNICAP-CUFOS%5FMultiWit%5FBolide%5FRedacted.pdf) [documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1965%5F12%5F09%5FUS%5FPA%5FKecksburg%5FNICAP-CUFOS%5FMultiWit%5FBolide%5FRedacted.pdf)\]; “[Missile, Reentry Vehicle, Mark 2,](https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/missile-reentry-vehicle-mark-2/nasm%5FA19751430000)” Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Source ID: Eberhart_3965 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11454 (E05B3272) Date: 12/9/1965 Description: A major military operation took place on this night to recover a bronze colored, bullet or acorn-shaped object, 12 feet long and 10 feet in diameter, that came down in the woods near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania at 4:50 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT database, case 787, citing Stan Gordon, MUFON Journal, February 1991, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_8284 Source: Johnson ### Event 11455 (90EDCE67) Date: 12/11/1965 Description: Charles Jones, who claims to be psychic and has frequently reported UFO sightings ever since 1947, was driving home between Sheridan and Lamong, Indiana at 1:05 p.m. when he saw a lighted object come down through the low clouds. It was shaped like a cigar, but with the rear end cut off on a bevel, and it bore a red and white blinking light. The front had a transparent surface and through it Jones could see a very stockily built, six-foot tall occupant. The being appeared to be hiding his face from the witness. He wore a tight-fitting headpiece, continuous with the coveralls, that obscured the hair and ears. Jones did however observe one eye, which he said was larger than normal sized and set more toward the side of the head. The face also had a wide nose and jowls. The complexion of the face was dark bronze, and the entity was wearing a one-piece brown coverall. The object was less than 60 feet off the ground and approximately 150 feef from the left side of the road, traveling north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Janet Bord, FSR, May-June 1972, p. 20; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-68 Source ID: Johnson_8341 Source: Johnson ### Event 11456 (92B1F1C8) Date: 12/13/1965 Description: An amateur astronomer in Fort Worth, Texas, watches a UFO through several different telescopes. It has a recessed ring with small dark objects attached around its edge and a dark cross on its bottom. It moves from directly beneath the Moon and past Arcturus, then suddenly disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_3966 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11457 (B21EA5AD) Date: 12/13/1965 Description: On this night Sr. Jaime, the police commissioner's son in Estacion Palavecino, Entre Rios province, Argentina was blinded for a while and unable to speak as result of the close encounter he had with a spherical UFO that changed colors in front of him. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 18, citing La Razon, December 14, 1965 Source ID: Johnson_8371 Source: Johnson ### Event 11458 (2673324E) Date: 12/15/1965 Description: 8:45 p.m. C. M. W. Martyn of Worcester Park, southwest London, England, watches a “candle-wax white” triangular object, about 130 feet wide and completely silent, pass over his home toward the northwest at about 1,200 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Surrey Deltavolant?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 2 \(March/April 1966\): 35 Source ID: Eberhart_3967 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11459 (3B5ECAA1) Date: 12/15/1965 Description: In 1965 a phantom automobile was seen in the Cotswold Hills in Avon county, England at around midnight. A vehicle shaped like a Land Rover, but without wheels, passed a car, and then vanished in a puff of smoke. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 7030, citing Arthur Shuttlewood Source ID: Johnson_8409 Source: Johnson ### Event 11460 (22B6E09E) Date: 12/16/1965 Description: A railroad worker, Cesar T. Gallardo, was surprised when his carbide lamp and his radio stopped working. He saw strange lights outside the sleeping coach where he was reading, and a luminous being whose legs were clad in shiny dark cloth came in, tore up his newspaper, poured the contents of an oil can into a small bottle and went away, leaving the witness amazed. Other people saw "a luminous man" walking along the tracks. Police report. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sauce Viejo, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_719 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11461 (19D0F45E) Date: 12/16/1965 Description: In Chineham, Basingstoke, England at 7:45 p.m. two police officers, J. Harwood and B. Gibbons, sighted a tadpole-shaped UFO with a large green dome on top and a red flaming tail two to three times its length. It passed overhead at an extreme speed. There were low lying clouds at the time and the UFO passed under the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 5, citing R. Chapman Source ID: Johnson_8443 Source: Johnson ### Event 11462 (7C345968) Date: 12/19/1965 Description: 11:45 p.m. Edward A. Bruns is driving his father’s 1962 Ford pickup truck, heading west just south of Herman, Minnesota. He sees a bright, oval-shaped object hovering several feet above the road. It covers the entire road and is shaped like two saucers with a dome on top. A window-like structure surrounds the dome and emits a green light. Suddenly the truck engine stops, the headlights go out, and the vehicle lifts up, spins violently to the right, ending up in a ditch on the other side of the road. Stunned, Bruns stares at the UFO, which makes a whistling sound, emits sparks, shoots upward, and disappears. He runs home, scared and nervous. His father goes to the site of the crash but cannot get the truck out. A reporter later confirms seeing the truck in the ditch with a complete “absence of skid marks in the snow to account for how it got there.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, p. 50 Source ID: Eberhart_3968 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11463 (81609D2C) Date: 12/20/1965 Description: Domed disc, E-M effects on engine and headlights, truck spun off road into ditch. Object ascended with whistling sound, sparks from underside Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Herman, MN Source ID: HallUFOE2_68 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11464 (7A549259) Date: 12/20/1965 Description: Disc with dome, green light, hovered just above road, whistling sound, truck thrown off road. Report in NICAP files (E,L) truck (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Herman, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2893 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11465 (19D24904) Date: 12/20/1965 Description: A 15-year-old youth named Burns was driving home in his pickup truck in Herman, Minnesota at 11:45 p.m. when a glowing green disc-shaped UFO suddenly appeared, hovering six feet over the road. The object made a whistling sound while the truck’s engine stalled and its headlights died. The object began to glow red and rose straight up into the air, giving off sparks. The witness lost consciousness. When he awoke, he found that his truck had been turned around and was resting in a roadside ditch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, November-December, 1966; Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 50; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 157 Source ID: Johnson_8531 Source: Johnson ### Event 11466 (2CB74AEE) Date: 12/20/1965 Description: Edward Burnd, 15, was driving west in a farm truck when he saw an object 2 m above the road about 30 m away. As the engine died, the object glowed red and the witness lost consciousness. When he awoke, the truck was facing east and rested in a ditch. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Herman, Minnesota Source ID: Magnonia_720 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11467 (78538F00) Date: 12/21/1965 Description: Object Flies In Front Of DC-6, Accelerates (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BB) Reference: NICAP: [651221](http://www.nicap.org/651221putnam%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Putnam, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2894 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11468 (850A3875) Date: 12/24/1965 Description: At 6:36 p.m. a yellow colored flying object with three bright spotlights was sighted by 13 young women working at a factory as it flew from the northwest to the west over Gifu prefecture, Japan. It kept changing its speed and apparent size as it flew. Fourteen minutes later a disc shaped object with a flat bottom and two spotlights flew toward the northeast on a horizontal trajectory. It was seen for four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Y. J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_8588 Source: Johnson ### Event 11469 (C0F758FA) Date: 12/26/1965 Description: At 3:15 p.m. In County Waterford in Cappoquin, Ireland several clear photos were taken by two single women of a luminous disc with a flame coming from the rear of the object. The photos published in London newspapers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_8613 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1966 (Back to Top) ### Event 11470 (DDCAF786) Date: 1966 Description: Envelope found with hand written notes in private BSRA/BSRF archives containing the addresses of the 3 other named witnesses to the 4/1954 Edwards AFB meeting. Type: hand written note Reference: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555315016508776448) Location: San Diego, CA Source ID: Maj2_634 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11471 (1CAC9992) Date: 1966 Description: Cornell University astronomer [Carl Sagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSagan) coauthors a book with Russian astrophysicist [Iosif Shklovsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif%5FShklovsky) on Intelligent Life in the Universe \(an expansion of Shklovsky’s 1962 book\) in which he speculates that Earth might have been visited by aliens many times in the past few billion years, at least once in “historical times.” Discussing the biological as well as astronomical issues of the subject, its unique format—alternating paragraphs written by Shklovsky and Sagan—allows them to express their views without compromise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: I. S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan, [Intelligent Life in the Universe](https://archive.org/details/intelligentlifei00shkl/page/n5/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/intelligentlifei00shkl/page/n5/mode/2up) Holden-Day, 1966; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 \(1994\): 142–145 Source ID: Eberhart_3970 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11472 (D7A663EB) Date: 1966 Description: 9:50 p.m. Russian coal and gas scientists watched a high-flying silent disc-shaped object spiral through the sky east of Elista, Kalmuk. (Source: Larry Hatch, \*U\* Database, case #7772, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #204) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elista, Kalmuk (east of), Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_2895 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11473 (2D9F10A6) Date: 1966 Description: [Jacques](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) and [Janine Vallée](http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Janine-Marcelle-Vallee-87751069) publish Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, a general survey of the present state of the UFO problem. The first section gives an analysis of UFO patterns by examining UFO features, the second part deals with sighting frequencies, and the third part analyzes cases according to type. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques and Janine Vallée, [Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma](https://archive.org/details/challengetoscien00vall)[,](https://archive.org/details/challengetoscien00vall) Regnery, 1966; Clark III 1213 Source ID: Eberhart_3969 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11474 (EE87EA10) Date: 1966 Description: Francis Schaefer founds the Cercle Français de Recherches Ufologiques in Forbach, Moselle, France. From 1975 to 1984 it publishes Ufologia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Ufologia](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ufologia/Ufologia%20-%20No%2001%20-%20Novembre-Decembre%201975.pdf), no. 1 \(Nov./Dec. 1975\) Source ID: Eberhart_3972 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11475 (4B879CA7) Date: 1966 Description: Roger A. MacGowan and [Frederick I. Ordway III](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FI.%5FOrdway%5FIII) publish Intelligence in the Universe, discussing cosmology, biological origins and evolution, SETI within and outside the solar system, and speculations on intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roger A. MacGowan and Frederick I. Ordway, Intelligence in the Universe, Prentice-Hall, 1966; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 \(1994\): 145–146 Source ID: Eberhart_3971 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11476 (E54D5408) Date: 1/1/1966 Description: At 6:23 a.m. thirty sky watchers in Tokyo, Japan sighted a huge bow-shaped, dark brown UFO, its length ten times the apparent diameter of the Moon. It hung over the northern horizon for eight minutes. At 6:40 a.m. a second huge stick-like craft was seen that blew forth a mass of white clouds behind it. A bright flash of light was seen high in the sky that day in Aitape, Papua New Guinea. It was visible for five minutes and left behind a smoke trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Y. J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 39; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 156 Source ID: Johnson_7 Source: Johnson ### Event 11477 (07D2F911) Date: 1/3/1966 Description: On this evening Mr. Staver, a rocket expert, watched a group of nocturnal lights maneuver in the sky over Los Altos, California, then shoot off to the west at an estimated 1,200 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1966, p. 2; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - Here and Now, pp. 58, 97 Source ID: Johnson_54 Source: Johnson ### Event 11478 (70311809) Date: 1/3/1966 Description: Night. Army colonel expert on rockets and missiles sighted a group of bright light sources speeding overhead at an estimated 1,000-1,200 m.p.h., maneuvering back and forth. Soon afterwards he observed several searchlights sweeping the area as if trying to spot the flying objects. (NICAP report; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 6, Jan.-Feb. 1966, p. 2.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Altos, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2896 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11479 (0334A235) Date: 1/4/1966 Description: Three witnesses riding in a truck in Concepcion del Urugruay, Argentina had a close encounter on this night with a luminous green object surrounded by haze. The EM effects on truck caused the engine to slow and flip over. No serious injuries were reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cronica, January 5, 1966; Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 11; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II, p. 273 Source ID: Johnson_87 Source: Johnson ### Event 11480 (0519CEE6) Date: 1/5/1966 Description: Violet Bricker was driving two miles north of La Harpe, Illinois on Rte. 94 at 8:15 a.m. when she observed a light flash that she first believed was an approaching plane. As it neared she saw it was more dirigible-shaped and closed rapidly on a collision course with her. It stopped and hovered over the telephone lines opposite her car. It was ovoid shaped and made no sound, and was about as long as a Piper Club. It had a single bright yellow-white light on the end facing her. There were no doors, ports, or landing gear visible, but a lateral line like a seam encircled the UFO. It began revolving in a clockwise motion on its axis, bringing the other end in view and exposing a two-foot platform on which stood a "man" wearing a bulky, white, one-piece suit. He was about five and one half feet tall, stocky build, and he stood with his left hand against the object and his right hand on his hip, staring directly down on the witness. His face had a ruddy complexion and his eyes were dark, but he looked entirely normal otherwise. The object drifted about on its axis and the man was lost from view. Ms. Bricker was so taken aback by the experience she could not recall if she actually stopped her car or not. She recalled seeing a man and a woman on foot not 20 feet away to whom she signaled frantically to catch their attention, but to no avail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Smulling, Skylook, August 1970, p. 19; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-01 (A0691); Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_116 Source: Johnson ### Event 11481 (1F16B9B4) Date: 1/6/1966 Description: Three gray discs and two multi-colored cigar-shaped UFOs, with the colors pink, blue, and white, were seen hovering over Sapporo, Japan at 1:49 p.m. by Miss S. Fujii. At 1:55 p.m. 16 more UFOs appeared to the left of these, gradually vanishing after 30 seconds. Many more appeared in a display at 2:09 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Y. J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_164 Source: Johnson ### Event 11482 (B8879848) Date: 1/7/1966 Description: 4:10 a.m. Police Constable Colin Perks is checking business property along Alderley Road in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, when he hears a high-pitched whine. He sees a greenish-gray glow in the sky about 300 feet away and 35 feet in the air. It comes from a glowing elliptical object about 30 feet long and 20 feet wide that remains stationary for 5 seconds before moving away quickly to the east-southeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Cleary-Baker, “[Police](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201964-1981%20BUFORA%20JOURNAL%20Vols.1%20to%2010/BUFORA%20Journal%20-%20Volume%2001%20No%2009%20-%20Summer%201966.pdf) [Constable Observes a UFO,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201964-1981%20BUFORA%20JOURNAL%20Vols.1%20to%2010/BUFORA%20Journal%20-%20Volume%2001%20No%2009%20-%20Summer%201966.pdf)” BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 9 \(Summer 1966\): 5; UFOFiles2, [pp. 73–75](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n121/mode/2up); Jenny Randles, “Perks of the Job,” Fortean Times 344 \(October 2016\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_3973 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11483 (F941C6C7) Date: 1/7/1966 Description: E-M Effects On Car and Watch (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [660107](http://www.nicap.org/660107georgetown%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Georgetown (3 miles SW of ), AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2897 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11484 (C6DBE15D) Date: 1/7/1966 Description: An 18-year-old high school student in Georgetown, Alabama was returning home from school when he observed a large silver ball about 15-20 feet in diameter. The ball was only 15 feet from his car at its closest approach. As it hovered near the car the engine died. The object was making a whining sound. It then moved behind the car and left. The car could then be restarted. The witness's watch also stopped working. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 158, citing Schopick Source ID: Johnson_181 Source: Johnson ### Event 11485 (EEB9A7EE) Date: 1/7/1966 Description: 4:10 a.m. LT. Hearing a high-pitched whine, a police constable turned to investigate and saw a domed disc (rounded on top, flat on bottom) hovering low above a field. A greenish glow was visible around the top. After 5 seconds the UFO flew away rapidly. An independent witness later corroborated the sighting. (Flying Saucer Review, 12(2), March-April 1966, p. 3.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winslow, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2900 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11486 (A67AAE68) Date: 1/7/1966 Description: 3:27 p.m. High school student Gary Finch is driving on the Wilmer-Georgetown Road about 3 miles southwest of Georgetown, Alabama. He sees a large silver ball about 15–20 feet in diameter that descends then hovers about 5 feet above the road. On top of it is a cone with a large green light, and it is making a whining sound. As he approaches it, his car engine cuts out and his watch stops. After 1–2 minutes, it disappears in a gradual climb. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mobile Reports Flying Objects,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99801734/)” Selma \(Ala.\) Times-Journal, January 13, 1966, p. 10; NICAP, “[E-M Effects on Car and Watch](http://www.nicap.org/660107georgetown%5Fdir.htm)”; [Schopick](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/A%5FStudy%5Fof%5FSecondary%5FEffects-An%5FUnpublished%5FManuscript%5Fof%5FUFO%5FE-M%5FCases.pdf) pp. 75–76; Hynek UFO Report, [p. 42](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/42/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3974 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11487 (54091670) Date: 1/7/1966 Time: 15l7 Description: A civilian had to stop his car when an object he first thought was a helicopter landed on the road about 5 km southwest of Georgetown. The craft was about 8 m in diameter, supported a cone with a flashing green light, made a loud whirring sound. It appeared to hover, then left at high speed. The witness could then restart his engine, which had died during the close approach. Sulphur or a "rotten egg" smell was noted. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Wilmer, Alabama Source ID: Magnonia_721 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11488 (C0B49C6F) Date: 1/8/1966 Description: Night. A luminous, disc-shaped object cruises low from north to southwest among the buildings of Valencia, Venezuela. At 10:00 p.m., two similar objects are seen flying at a higher altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[More S.A. Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201966%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/Apr. 1966, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_3975 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11489 (1A2420C1) Date: 1/9/1966 Description: On this night the engine and lights of a car with three women passengers suddenly died in Chascomus, Argentina. At the same time they saw an object flying slowly away from their car. It was emitting a blue beam of light. After the object had disappeared from view the car could be restarted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, citing FSR Case Histories, Supplement No. 17 Source ID: Johnson_220 Source: Johnson ### Event 11490 (4AD03CAF) Date: 1/9/1966 Description: Object with blue light beam observed flying away. Flying Saucer Review Histories, Supplement 17 (E.L.) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chascomus, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_2898 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11491 (ABC4CEC8) Date: 1/11/1966 Description: Six people were driving to a scout hall in Myerstown, Pennsylvania at 7:40 p.m. when the headlights of their car repeatedly dimmed out and came back on. The radio also had heavy static. They proceeded to the scout hall without further incident. On the return trip, they saw a silent disc-shaped metallic UFO approach the car, swerve to the right, and parallel the car for several minutes. The glowing object hovered for five minutes over an open field while they watched, then "got a tremendous burst of speed" and left nearly instantaneously towards the northwest. There was no electrical interference when the UFO was actually in view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 89; UNICAT, case # 375; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 160, citing Project Bluebook Source ID: Johnson_255 Source: Johnson ### Event 11492 (B52D66C6) Date: 1/11/1966 Description: Beginning at 6:20 p.m. EST, police and citizens reported first a brilliant light source, then later a bright egg-shaped object that hovered at low altitude over Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey. It flew in circular patterns over the reservoir, occasionally making abrupt changes in altitude and other vertical maneuvers. Sightings by up to a hundred independent witnesses continued for more than an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, Jan.-Feb. 1966, p. 3; New York Journal-American, Jan. 12, 1966 Source ID: Johnson_254 Source: Johnson ### Event 11493 (10843D11) Date: 1/11/1966 Description: 7:40 p.m. A nurse and others together in a car near Myerstown, Pennsylvania, see a luminous disc, like one saucer inverted on top of another, at relatively close range as it hovers above their car. After about 5 minutes, the object suddenly accelerates and speeds away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/102/mode/2up) [102–103](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/102/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3976 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11494 (CC7AE353) Date: 1/11/1966 Description: Large, cigar shaped object passes within 1 mile of ship (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [660111](http://www.nicap.org/660111dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Ocean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_2899 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11495 (5D8898BD) Date: 1/11/1966 Description: 6:20 p.m. EST. Police and citizens reported first a brilliant light source, then later a bright egg-shaped object that hovered at low altitude, flew in circular patterns over a reservoir, occasionally making abrupt changes in altitude (vertical maneuvers). Sightings continued for more than an hour. (NICAP notes; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 6, Jan.-Feb. 1966, p. 3; New York Journal-American, Jan. 12, 1966). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wanaque, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2901 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11496 (2B61D7B0) Date: 1/11/1966 Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers at Palm Beach Towers, FL Type: lecture Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: Maj2_641 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11497 (DDE5C96D) Date: 1/11/1966 Description: 7:40 p.m. EST. About 140 miles west-southwest of Wanaque, N.J., in the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a nurse and others together in a car saw a luminous disc, like one saucer inverted on top of another, at relatively close range as it hovered above the car. After about 5 minutes, the object suddenly accelerated and sped away. (Hynek, 1972, pp. 89-90, 238.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Myerstown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2902 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11498 (759877E7) Date: 1/12/1966 Description: Pilots [Alvin S. White](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin%5FS.%5FWhite) and [Carl Cross](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37954719/carl-s-cross) reach a speed of 2,020 mph in a North American XB-70 Valkyrie at Edwards AFB, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[North American XB-70 Valkyrie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FXB-70%5FValkyrie)” Source ID: Eberhart_3977 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11499 (417CFC9E) Date: 1/14/1966 Description: A black or dark gray cigar-shaped object with two amber lights was sighted hovering over Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey at 1:45 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James Moseley, Saucer News, Summer 1966, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_316 Source: Johnson ### Event 11500 (351989D4) Date: 1/14/1966 Description: 5:55 p.m. After his 11-year-old son runs into the house in Weston, Massachusetts, and says a flying saucer is outside, an associate laboratory director at Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes outside with the rest of the family and sees an erratically moving bright light. They observe it through binoculars for 5–10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 43](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/42/mode/2up), [52–53](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/52/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3978 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11501 (CFEE4D46) Date: 1/16/1966 Description: At four o’clock in the morning, Mr. Coquil, age 23, was driving by a pasture in Kerrodien en Bolazec, France when he saw a luminous, box-shaped UFO rise from the roadside. The object was about five meters in length and had portholes and red lights on the corners. It passed over his car and landed in a field on the other side of the road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1966; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1966; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_348 Source: Johnson ### Event 11502 (0E432B82) Date: 1/16/1966 Description: 10:00 p.m. CST. An American Airlines flight from San Francisco to Houston, Texas, was paced by a bright object just after take-off from El Paso en route to Houston via San Antonio. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Paso, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2903 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11503 (36EBAEA9) Date: 1/16/1966 Time: 0400 Description: On the Morlaix-Callac Road, 23-year-old Eugene Coquil was driving his Renault Dauphine when he saw headlights in a field and observed an object come over his car and land on the other side of the road. It was square with four vertical lights resembling lamps. The witness drove away and did not see the object leave. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal; 161 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bolazec, France Source ID: Magnonia_722 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11504 (AD178508) Date: 1/17/1966 Description: A B-52G Strategic Air Command bomber collides with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refueling at 31,000 feet over the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain. The tanker is completely destroyed and the B-52G breaks apart, killing 3 of its 7 crew members. Of the four Mk28-type hydrogen bombs the B-52G carries, three are found on land near the small fishing village of Palomares, Spain. The non-nuclear explosives in two of the weapons detonate upon impact with the ground, resulting in the contamination of a 0.77-square-mile area by plutonium. The fourth, which falls into the Mediterranean, is recovered intact after a 2 1⁄2-month-long search. Some 800 individuals with no hands-on expertise improvise search and decontamination procedures. More than 1,400 tons of radioactive soil and plant life are excavated and shipped to the Savannah River plant in South Carolina for burial. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1966 Palomares B-52 crash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966%5FPalomares%5FB-52%5Fcrash)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 297–300](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/296/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3979 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11505 (C464E5B0) Date: 1/18/1966 Description: Near Fetebrogh, New Jersey the lights of a Volkswagen car failed as an object with pulsating lights appeared nearby. This object then began to make a pass at the car, so the witness drove away quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 162, citing Allen L. Erskine, Why Are They Watching Us? Source ID: Johnson_368 Source: Johnson ### Event 11506 (1D7DC3B1) Date: 1/18/1966 Description: 4:55 p.m. Two surveyors are taking readings at China Lake Naval Ordnance Test Station \[now Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake\] in the western Mojave Desert, California. The surveyor using a theodolite hears a hum, looks up, and sees a UFO flying nearly straight at him from an angle of 35°–40° and from almost exact north. It passes directly overhead at less than 150 feet, then dives smoothly, turns to the east, then comes to within 10 feet of the sloping ground. The surveyor observes the object through the theodolite until it is lost in front of a lava flow about 2 miles away. Both observers \(the other one is in a truck\) say it is moving at 150 mph and it is a dull black color and very quiet. They attempt to report the sighting, but the radio is garbled. Their truck has difficulty starting, and the theodolite exhibits an odd change in the gravity reference indicator, requiring it to be re-leveled. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Professional Observation,” IUR 7, no. 2 \(March 1982\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_3980 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11507 (EE869E02) Date: 1/18/1966 Description: 6:00 p.m. A round object rotating slowly in a clockwise direction was observed by a senior metallurgist for about 7 to 10 minutes as it passed overhead at his workplace. It had a string of red lights that blinked on and off. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 6, Jan.-Feb 1966, p. 3.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Britain, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2904 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11508 (7D852B64) Date: 1/18/1966 Description: Two surveyors were working near the China Lake Naval Ordnance Depot in Kern County, California at 4:55 p.m. when a black, humming UFO came straight at them. It passed directly overhead at an estimated 150 feet. It trailed a "wake" behind it like a jet dumping fuel. They noticed that the object had some kind of field effect on their theodolite, moving its setting west by 5 level gradations. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, March 1982, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_369 Source: Johnson ### Event 11509 (84D34858) Date: 1/19/1966 Description: January 19, 1966; Tully, Australia. Daylight sighting, single witness, HS (#223). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tully, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2905 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11510 (89886884) Date: 1/19/1966 Time: 0900 Description: George Pedley, 27, was driving his tractor when he heard a high-pitched sound and saw a strange gray-blue craft, 8 m in diameter, 3 m high, rise from the lagoon 25 m away. It was spinning like a top, rose to 20 m, and flew to the southwest on a fast, oblique course. Flattened reeds were found in several places. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66,2; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Horseshoe Lagoon, near Tully, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_723 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11511 (A643436D) Date: 1/19/1966 Description: 7:55 p.m. Two luminous objects pass over Acarigua, Venezuela, one from the north, the other from the east. When the paths of the two objects cross, the lights go out in the entire city. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[More S.A. Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201966%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/Apr. 1966, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_3982 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11512 (5716C723) Date: 1/19/1966 Description: Around 9:00 a.m. A banana grower, George Pedley, is driving a tractor about one half mile from a farmhouse at Tully, Queensland, Australia, owned by Albert Pennisi. Pedley’s attention is drawn by a hissing sound, clearly heard over the noise from the tractor’s engine. He looks about for the source of the noise and sees an unusual object about 75 feet away. It is some 30 feet in the air, rising vertically, and is shaped like “two saucers face to face.” It is light gray in color, dull, and non-reflective. He estimates its size as 25 feet long by 8–9 feet deep. The hissing diminishes as the object rises to a height of 60 feet, then departs, climbing at about an angle of 45°, extremely fast, to the southwest. The duration of his observation is only 5–6 seconds. The object appears to be always rotating. After its departure, Pedley finds a clearly defined, nearly circular depression in swamp grass, in a water-filled lagoon, at the point where he first saw it. The marking is about 32 feet long by 25 feet wide. The grass on the surface of the water is flattened in a clockwise direction. Royal Australian Air Force intelligence officers find a variety of circles in the area, ranging from 8 to 30 feet in diameter. Within each circle the plant roots are pulled completely out of the soil, as if the ground has been subjected to an intense rotary force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Tully ‘Nests’: How Freakish Can Whirlwinds Be?](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201966%2007%20-%20no%205%20VFSRS.pdf)” Australian Flying Saucer Review \(Victorian Edition\), no. 5 \(July 1966\): 3–7; “[UFOs No Strangers to Tully,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201966%2011%20-%20no%209%20UFOIC.pdf)” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 9 \(November 1966\): 15; “[1966: Tully…After Tully,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201966%2011%20-%20no%209%20UFOIC.pdf)” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 9 \(November 1966\): 16–21; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 26–27; Bill Chalker, “[The 1966 Tully Saucer ‘Nest’: A Classic UFO Physical Trace Case,](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bctully.htm)” 1997; Bill Chalker, “Tully Saucer Nests of 1966—Part One,” IUR 22, no. 4 \(Winter 1997–1998\): 14–20; Bill Chalker, “Tully Saucer Nests of 1966, Part Two,” IUR 23, no. 1 \(Spring 1998\): 17, 31; Clark III 1136–1138 Source ID: Eberhart_3981 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11513 (F08437A5) Date: 1/20/1966 Description: 11-12:30 a.m. An object with a row of bright body lights was observed to hover, and to move up and down, while emitting a blinding light and making a sound like bees humming. After a long period of time, the lights brightened and the object suddenly sped away (luminosity/speed correlation). (Flying Saucer Review, May- June 1966, p. 32; Newcastle Morning Herald, Jan. 24, 1966.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Katanning, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2906 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11514 (0CC27C65) Date: 1/20/1966 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a blindingly bright oval-shaped UFO hovered over a car eleven miles west of Katanning, New South Wales, Australia. It made a buzzing sound like swarming bees and caused a temporary paralysis of the four witnesses inside the vehicle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1966, p. 32: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 2): A Thirty Year Report, pp. 198 & 267 Source ID: Johnson_392 Source: Johnson ### Event 11515 (BD599553) Date: 1/21/1966 Description: At around midnight near Shearwater Lake in Crockerton, Wiltshire, England a resident of Frome, riding on a motorcycle, saw three "gray garbed and white faced" figures, looking like frogmen, jump into a hedgerow. They had wide-spaced eyes and no apparent mouths. One figure was seen to have fair hair. They were shorter than normal humans, but with big shoulders, rather large heads, and thin legs. He turned around and came back, and saw a "large saucer of light" rise from the lakeside. The saucer hovered briefly before flying off in the direction of Cley Hill. Ground traces were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #7058, citing Arthur Shuttlewood, The Warminster Mystery, pp. 156-158; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-02 (A0692) Source ID: Johnson_403 Source: Johnson ### Event 11516 (A76073C4) Date: 1/23/1966 Description: Two witnesses who wished to remain anonymous reported to NICAP that they were changing a tire near Essex, California at 11:45 p.m. when they saw a disc-shaped object land 200 yards away from them. Upon closer investigation they found the object to be 75-100 feet in diameter and 25 feet in height. A door slid open and a seven-foot tall being appeared. He called to them by name, and conversed with them via telepathy. He said his race was from another star and that 400 American citizens are actually from his race. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-05 Source ID: Johnson_442 Source: Johnson ### Event 11517 (27A7B6A0) Date: 1/23/1966 Description: More saucer nests were discovered in crushed reeds in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_441 Source: Johnson ### Event 11518 (CB20736D) Date: 1/29/1966 Description: Flat, well-defined object blocking the road, the size of a truck (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rexburg, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_2907 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11519 (CA09581F) Date: 1/29/1966 Time: 0010 Description: Two civilians returning from a sporting event observed what they first thought was the moon. After driving for about 1 km, they saw that it was a flat, well-defined object, which had blocked the road. The object was the size of a truck and cast an intense yellow-orange light on the ground. The witnesses turned around and drove back to Rexburg. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Rexburg, Idaho Source ID: Magnonia_724 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11520 (1DA08887) Date: 2/2/1966 Description: Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Wise of Salisbury, North Carolina saw a silver colored, diamond-shaped object in the sky at 11:15 p.m.. It had several smaller balls of light constantly circling it in very fast motion around it in a dazzling light show. The UFO hovered over some trees for 3-4 minutes while a dog barked, and then zipped out of sight. The sighting lasted for an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 10193; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52; Lloyd Mallan, Science and Mechanics, December 1966, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_665 Source: Johnson ### Event 11521 (73CECEBD) Date: 2/2/1966 Time: 11:15 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Wise. One silver, diamond-shaped object with several balls constantly in very fast motion around it, and much light. Object hovered over the trees for 3-4 minutes, while a dog barked, and then zipped out of sight. Sighting lasted 1 hour. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Salisbury, North Carolina Source ID: BerlinerBBU_533 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11522 (9A2F513D) Date: 2/2/1966 Description: Silver, diamond-shaped object with several balls (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10193) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salisbury, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2908 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11523 (BFEF6F6E) Date: 2/3/1966 Description: USAF Scientific Advisory Board met to review Project Blue Book. Issued report dated "March 1966" recommending contracts to universities to study selected UFO sightings. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_69 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11524 (549BF6FC) Date: 2/3/1966 Description: A six-member Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book, headed by University of Rochester optical physicist [Brian O’Brien](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%5FO%27Brien)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%5FO%27Brien) meets at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. All but one \(astronomer [Carl Sagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSagan)\) are members of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board \(psychologist [Launor F. Carter](https://prabook.com/web/launor%5Ffranklin.carter/362018)[,](https://prabook.com/web/launor%5Ffranklin.carter/362018) industrial psychologist [Jesse Orlansky](https://prabook.com/web/jesse.orlansky/3479778)[,](https://prabook.com/web/jesse.orlansky/3479778) rocket scientist [Richard W. Porter](https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/10/us/richard-w-porter-83-led-early-space-effort.html), computer engineer [Willis Ware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis%5FWare)\), and none have any sympathy with the idea that UFO reports represent anything extraordinary. Also attending is Lt. Col. [Harold A. Steiner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175992768/harold-a-steiner), assistant secretary to the Scientific Advisory Board. They receive a briefing from [Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) review the Robertson Panel report, and examine a few UFO cases. The group recommends that Blue Book “be strengthened to provide opportunity for scientific investigation of selected sightings in more detail and depth than has been possible to date.” Furthermore, USAF should negotiate contracts “with a few selected universities to provide scientific teams to investigate promptly and in depth certain selected sightings of UFOs…. The universities should be chosen to provide good geographical distribution.” They also conclude that “perhaps 100 sightings a year might be subjected to this close study, and that possibly an average of 10 man-days might be required per sighting so studied. The information provided by such a program might bring to light new facts of scientific value.” The group recommends that Blue Book data be given “wide unsolicited circulation among prominent members of the Congress and other public persons.” The Air Force ignores their recommendations. \( Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: USAF Scientific Advisory Board, [Special Report of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board Ad Hoc Committee to Review](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/obrien.htm) [Project “Blue Book,”](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/obrien.htm) Brian O’Brien, chairman of the Advisory Board, March 1966; Clark III 1191 Source ID: Eberhart_3983 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11525 (771B03C2) Date: 2/6/1966 Description: 8:00 p.m. LT. Several civilians and soldiers saw a glowing orange disc with three legs landing and taking off again. Rectangular imprints of the legs (15 cm x 30 cm) and scorch marks were found at the site. Electromagnetic (EM) effects occurred in the area at the time of the sighting. (Ballester-Olmos, 1976, p. 9; Flying Saucer Review, 12:3, 1966:28-31, Flying Saucer Review, 15:5, 1969:3-4.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Madrid, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_2910 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11526 (17C63CA3) Date: 2/6/1966 Description: Brightly lighted disc with legs seen landing and taking off again. Imprints and scorch marks found at site Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Aluche, Madrid, Spain Source ID: HallUFOE2_70 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11527 (C512319E) Date: 2/6/1966 Description: Around 8:00 p.m. Several persons in the barrio of Aluche, Madrid, Spain, allegedly see an unusual flying object. Looking out a window, Maria Ruiz Torres watches an object descending. She sees a “gigantic eye” looking at her through a porthole. Another witness, Juan Jiminez Dias, thinks he sees a door open in the craft. Other observers include soldiers at a nearby ammunition dump. Motorist [José Luis Jordán Peña](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Jos%C3%A9%5FLuis%5FJord%C3%A1n%5FPe%C3%B1a) gets a close, extended view of the object, which he characterizes as “enormous.” Jordán Peña sends Spanish ufologist [Antonio](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Antonio%5FRibera) [Ribera](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Antonio%5FRibera) a sketch of the UFO, which has three legs and a curious symbol on its underside—something like two reverse parentheses with a vertical bar positioned between them. No other witness mentions anything like this. In 1992, Jordán Peña confesses to hoaxing his sighting, including the landing marks and physical traces, in order to prove his theory that paranoia is much more widespread in Spain that psychiatrists are willing to admit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Antonio Ribera, “[The San José de Valderas Photographs,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1969\): 3–10; “Background of ‘Ummo’ and the Sightings,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1977, pp. 2–3; Clark III 1183; Scott Corrales, “[The UMMO Experience: Are You Experienced?](http://www.strangemag.com/ummo.html)” Strange Magazine, January 31, 2001; Alain Moreau, “[UMMO: Une imposture?](https://www.mondenouveau.fr/presence-extraterrestre-ummo-une-imposture-ou-pas/)” Les Cles de l’Inexplique Source ID: Eberhart_3985 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11528 (56EC835E) Date: 2/6/1966 Time: 5:45 AM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. K.R. Gulley. One yellow, lighted object at 500; altitude and a pulsating red glow on the lawn. The house lights went out, and high frequency bothered the witnesses' ears. Sighting lasted 5-10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Nederland, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_534 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11529 (8D3C4102) Date: 2/6/1966 Description: Tadpole-shaped object about 14 ft long 2 ft wide (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: 10196) Reference: NICAP: [660206](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/nederland660206dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nederland, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2909 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11530 (1AA8B5F5) Date: 2/6/1966 Description: 6:05 a.m. Mr. and [Mrs.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176088286/rosetta-l-gulley) [Kenneth R. Gulley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72265511/kenneth-r-gulley) see a tadpole-shaped object about 14 feet long and 2 feet wide with eight yellow-and-red, neon-like lights at 250–500 feet altitude in Nederland, Texas. It casts a pulsating red glow on the lawn. Her house and street lights go out as high-frequency sound assaults the witnesses’ ears. The object blinks out when aircraft pass overhead, then comes on again afterward. It departed to the west about 1.5 miles to the vicinity of the airport, where an aircraft’s landing lights light up the UFO. Then it disappears in a slow climb. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[House Lights Go Out When ‘Tadpole’ Flies Over](http://www.nicap.org/660206nederland%5Fdir.htm)” ; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[.](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 309; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 103–104](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/102/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_3984 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11531 (7EED206A) Date: 2/6/1966 Description: At 5:05 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. K. R. Gulley of Nederland, Texas sighted a yellow lighted disc or tadpole-shaped object at 500 feet altitude. It cast a pulsating red glow that illuminated their lawn. Their house lights went out, and a high frequency sound disturbed the ears of both witnesses.The sighting lasted from 5-10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 17; The Hynek UFO Report, p. 186; UNICAT, case # 287; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 10196; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_720 Source: Johnson ### Event 11532 (98901A0B) Date: 2/6/1966 Description: A domed disc-shaped object maneuvered through the sky over Obispo Trejo, Cordoba Province, Argentina for over a minute at 2:30 p.m. There were five witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roberto Enrique Banchs, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966, p. 9; September-October 1966, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_721 Source: Johnson ### Event 11533 (BFAE16E8) Date: 2/6/1966 Description: At 8:00 p.m. Vicente Ortuno and another man observed a bright luminous orange disc-shaped object, about 11 meters in diameter and with three legs, which came down making a humming sound, landed in a pasture on the "El Relajal" estate in Aluche, Madrid province, Spain and took off again shortly thereafter at high speed. It left behind three rectangular holes 15 cm x 30 cm, 6 meters apart, and a circular area of burned grass at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 725; Anotonio Ribera, FSR, September-October 1969, p. 4; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 9 case 40; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 263 Source ID: Johnson_722 Source: Johnson ### Event 11534 (2537B18D) Date: 2/6/1966 Time: 2000 Description: Vicente Ortuno and another man observed a bright orange disk, about 11 m in diameter, with three legs, which came down, landed, and took off again at high speed on the "El Relajal" estate. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 63, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Aluche, Spain Source ID: Magnonia_725 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11535 (8597B9C6) Date: 2/9/1966 Description: At 8:20 p.m. a glowing ovoid object hovered and made circular maneuvers in the sky for 15 minutes in Heytesbury, near Warminster in Wiltshire, England. It changed colors as well, reported the witness, a man named Baldwin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Arthur Shuttlewood, The Warminister Mystery, p. 157; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 7066; Contact U.K. catalogue of UFO reports Source ID: Johnson_771 Source: Johnson ### Event 11536 (34284443) Date: 2/11/1966 Description: Radar Tracks Maneuvering Object Seen Over City (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [660211](http://nicap.org/660211showhegan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Skowhegan, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_2911 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11537 (FF1658BA) Date: 2/11/1966 Description: Two witnesses named Barnes and La Porte reported that at 11:55 p.m. a glowing orange object with a dome hovered near the Skowhegan, Maine airfield. It maneuvered in the sky for four minutes, and was seen by police as well as civilians. It was also tracked on both Air Force and FAA radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James Moseley, Saucer News, June-July 1966, p. 28; Robert Barnes, NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1966, p. 1; Bangor Daily News, February 14, 1966; Maine Daily News, February 14, 1966; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 6, 242; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_823 Source: Johnson ### Event 11538 (5375E30F) Date: 2/11/1966 Description: Glowing orange object with domed top hovered, maneuvered over area, seen by police and citizens. Tracked on Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) radar Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Skowhegan, ME Source ID: HallUFOE2_71 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11539 (A8C32303) Date: 2/14/1966 Description: 7:40 p.m. LT. A farm woman heard a very loud sound and saw a cigar-shaped object descend and hover, the sound level increasing. The UFO had a very bright light at the front, small portholes along the side, and a bluish glow at the trailing end. The object suddenly shot upwards and disappeared. (Flying Saucer Review, 12(4), July-August 1966, pp. 32-33.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Witbank, S. Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_2912 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11540 (7A2A1237) Date: 2/16/1966 Time: 2030 Description: A luminous object was said to have landed in the woods. It showed flashing red, blue, and green lights. A second object was later seen to join the first one. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine Source ID: Magnonia_726 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11541 (720FC561) Date: 2/16/1966 Description: A luminous object was said to have landed in the woods near Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine at 10:30 p.m. The UFO had flashing red, blue, and green lights. A second object was later seen coming to join the first one. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 726, citing U.S. Air Force ATIC; Data-Net, January 1971, citing Jacques Vallee Source ID: Johnson_943 Source: Johnson ### Event 11542 (594FABD4) Date: 2/16/1966 Description: Luminous object flashing red, blue, and green lights lands in the woods (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brunswick NAS, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_2913 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11543 (F1ED7FDC) Date: 2/17/1966 Description: NICAP contacted by United Nations Secretary General U Thant's office requesting information and documents on UFOs. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_72 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11544 (53020B18) Date: 2/22/1966 Description: Look Magazine reports UFO sightings near Exeter, NH. In one sighting the witness went and got a policeman, who also witnessed the UFO. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) Location: Exeter, NH Source ID: Maj2_642 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11545 (01CAF190) Date: 2/22/1966 Description: Miami News: Engineer, inventor and lecturer Norman S. Bean is interviewed. States that after enough reports are gathered flight paths can be determined, craft can fly at 5000mph, wobble after stopping and can turn on a dime, must use some sort of gravitational propulsion to avoid destruction from high G-forces, occupant description, Wright-Field has had wreckage of 4 crashed discs for years, many sightings are related to water being pumped in or out of crafts. Reports forwarded to the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB. Type: interview Reference: [NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: Maj2_643 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11546 (A808B816) Date: 2/22/1966 Description: At 9:05 p.m. a domed disc-shaped flying object with portholes approached a woman's parked car next to a lake in South Kingston, New Hampshire. It backed away, landed, then rose in a rocking, reverse-falling leaf motion, and finally started to fly away. The witness gave chase, following it in her car. Her car's headlights shone on two objects. One departed, while the other danced around in the sky for 35 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 44; Kathleen Marden, MUFON field investigations database, case 980205SE Source ID: Johnson_1046 Source: Johnson ### Event 11547 (35BD9284) Date: 2/25/1966 Description: In Quipapa, Brazil three young women in their twenties were walking home at 9:15 p.m. near some railroad tracks when they spotted a 9-12-foot diameter disc hovering over their road. The UFO had two headlights. Three little men, who wore large headgear and one-piece coverall suits that had a luminous band across the chest, were seen nearby. There was also a tall being about six feet in height. The women ran and the UFO gave chase. Traces were found at the sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR, March 1971, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_1100 Source: Johnson ### Event 11548 (88C17315) Date: 2/25/1966 Description: 10:15 p.m. LT. Two young female factory workers while walking home saw lights in the road, then saw that it was a large disc with two bright lights (body lights) and three small beings about the size of 9-year-old children standing alongside, along with one being over 6 feet tall. The object rose, then landed in a new location. The girls ran home with the object following. It circled the area near their house, then flew away. No sound was heard. One of the girls suffered unspecified "effects" for a period of time. Grass was found depressed (imprints) at the landing spot. (Phillips, 1975. p. 40; from Flying Saucer Review, March 1971 .) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Quipapa, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_2914 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11549 (CA9DF05A) Date: 2/26/1966 Description: Flying oval object, the size of a car, came within 10 ft of car (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Farmington (5 miles E of), IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2917 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11550 (747E32CE) Date: 2/26/1966 Description: A civilian witness was driving 8 km east of Farmington when a flying oval object, the size of a car, came within 3 m of him, then circled twice and left toward the north. It emitted a bright red glow, supported a sort of dome with a green light on top, produced radio interference, and made a strange "signallike noise." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hanna City, Illinois Source ID: Magnonia_727 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11551 (C1C0644C) Date: 2/26/1966 Description: Hanna City, Illinois - An oval object about 15-20 feet in diameter came within three meters of a car around 8:00 p.m. There was interference on the car radio as it passed nearby. The object was glowing red with a dome on top and it made a strange "signal-like" noise. It eventually moved off to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 165, citing Vallee Source ID: Johnson_1128 Source: Johnson ### Event 11552 (151371C1) Date: 2/27/1966 Description: An eighteen year old was driving near Keith, South Australia when he saw a bluish disc-shaped UFO with lights, about 5 meters in diameter. The object hovered, and then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 175 Source ID: Johnson_1153 Source: Johnson ### Event 11553 (6B45E2F9) Date: 2/27/1966 Description: A nationally broadcast public affairs interview program, The Open Mind, presents a panel discussion titled “Are Flying Saucers Only Science Fiction?” Princeton University history professor [Eric F. Goldman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FF.%5FGoldman) is moderator. Panelists include astronomer [Donald H. Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) plant physiologist [Frank B. Salisbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FB.%5FSalisbury)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FB.%5FSalisbury) journalist [John G. Fuller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FG.%5FFuller), psychologist [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) and astronomer [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) Menzel calls the Exeter police officers “hysterical subjects,” although he cannot remember their names and is unfamiliar with the case. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Notable Broadcasts of the](http://www.nicap.org/jufoh/JournalUFOHistoryVol1No2.pdf) [Past:](http://www.nicap.org/jufoh/JournalUFOHistoryVol1No2.pdf) [The Open Mind](http://www.nicap.org/jufoh/JournalUFOHistoryVol1No2.pdf) [NBC Public Affairs Presentation, February 27, 1966,](http://www.nicap.org/jufoh/JournalUFOHistoryVol1No2.pdf)” Journal of UFO History 1, no. 2 \(May/June 2004\): 3–6 Source ID: Eberhart_3986 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11554 (ABE34496) Date: 3/1966 Description: Midwestern and northeastern U.S. sighting wave (see separate chronology, section VIII). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_73 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11555 (27D0442E) Date: 3/1966 Description: Kathleen Reeves and a friend are walking on a rural road near their homes in Toledo, Oregon, when they think they see a neighbor’s field on fire. The fire seems oddly dome-shaped. They continue walking and see another smaller, duller light. Kathleen thinks it might be a prank, so she throws a rock at it. Suddenly, a group of much larger lights come on all around the small one. Frightened, the girls run home. Over the next few months, through October, the Reeves home experiences such poltergeist phenomena as whirring or sawing noises, rose-colored lights inside, small rings of light that crawl over the bedroom walls, and light beams. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_3987 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11556 (CE8E2E81) Date: 3/1/1966 Description: A man by the name of Quemby had a close encounter with a domed disc in Kelowna, British Columbia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vancouver Sun, March 2, 1966; James Moseley, Saucer News, June 1966, p. 30; Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1966, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_1203 Source: Johnson ### Event 11557 (6D30613A) Date: 3/2/1966 Description: A woman watched a flashing light the sky two miles east of Roosevelt, Utah on this evening at 7 p.m. It stood still for 15 minutes, then shot straight up in the sky at high speed and was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A08 Source ID: Johnson_1247 Source: Johnson ### Event 11558 (7C436812) Date: 3/2/1966 Description: Two years later two silver metallic objects chased an airplane near an aerodrome in Harlin, Queensland, Australia at 10:30 p.m. The UFOs then moved back and forth in the sky, vanished and reappeared, cruised around the sky lazily, and then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 152 Source ID: Johnson_1246 Source: Johnson ### Event 11559 (247143BA) Date: 3/3/1966 Description: Object fly slowly to the S, hover, come within 50 ft, then fly off to the SW (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oswego, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2918 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11560 (59483A0D) Date: 3/3/1966 Time: 1920 Description: Several civilians reported an object that flew slowly toward the south, hovered, came within 15 m of them, and finally flew off toward the southwest. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Oswego, New York Source ID: Magnonia_728 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11561 (374C2294) Date: 3/3/1966 Description: Several civilians in Oswego, New York reported that an object that flew toward the south slowly, hovered, and then came within 15 meters of them. It finally flew off toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 728 Source ID: Johnson_1271 Source: Johnson ### Event 11562 (B7BEEA5F) Date: 3/5/1966 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a 20 meter in diameter bowl-shaped saucer with a hexagonal cabin hovered over a golf course in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia making a humming sound. It shot away extremely fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 7082 Source ID: Johnson_1312 Source: Johnson ### Event 11563 (7A88822A) Date: 3/5/1966 Description: The D-21 is first launched from an M-21 off the coast of California. The drone is released but stays close to the M-21’s back for a few seconds, which seems like “two hours” to the M-21 crew. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed D-](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FD-21) [21](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FD-21)” Source ID: Eberhart_3988 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11564 (693299A7) Date: 3/6/1966 Description: 2:00 a.m. Ivan de Almeida and other medical staff at the Lourenço Jorge Municipal Hospital in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, watch an oval object with a bright red-orange light that shines on the ocean waters below. After 2 hours it climbs up slowly, dims, and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Olavo T. Fontes, “[Report from Brazil: The First](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201966%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf) [UAO Sightings in 1966,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201966%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1966, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_3989 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11565 (309C5EDC) Date: 3/8/1966 Description: A retired Marine Corps aircraft mechanic saw a domed disc-shaped UFO hover over Chesterton, Indiana at 2:30 in the afternoon. The UFO was surrounded by a bright, misty haze, and hovered above a cloud bank for 4-5 minutes. It then tilted at an angle and shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_1379 Source: Johnson ### Event 11566 (F1E8AE57) Date: 3/8/1966 Description: 2:30 p.m. EST. An ex-Marine airplane mechanic and another witness saw an inverted silvery disc with four projections on top, surrounded by bright haze, that hovered above a cloud bank for 4-5 minutes. The object then tilted and sped away. (NICAP report.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chesteron, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2919 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11567 (69FDE36B) Date: 3/11/1966 Description: 2:30 a.m. PST. Three glowing yellowish objects with legs were seen resting on the ground in the California Desert. The brilliant luminosity concealed the exact shape of the objects. "Antennas" (projections) extended and retracted rapidly from the objects, their tips glowed green. One of the objects paced a car for 3 hours between Indio, California, and Salome, Arizona. (NICAP notes; NICAP report.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indio, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2920 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11568 (8C94F8ED) Date: 3/11/1966 Description: Time not reported. A Catholic Mother Superior reported seeing a very bright UFO hovering over the Ringwood iron mines. A distant smaller light flashed as if signaling, and the larger object flew away to the west leaving a red glow in its wake. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ringwood, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2921 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11569 (8F311257) Date: 3/12/1966 Description: 10:40 a.m. A security guard at the Fábrica Nacional de Motores in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, alerts 10 employees to a mysterious light that is approaching the factory. It descends to 1,500–1,800 feet and hovers above the plant. The object is approximately 18 feet in diameter and emits a brilliant white light that makes it difficult to look at directly. It periodically flashes even brighter. Plant director Col. Jorge Alberto Silveira Martins calls the Army and Air Force. After 30 minutes, the object dims and moves away at tremendous speed before the Army trucks arrive. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Olavo T. Fontes, “[Report from Brazil: The First UAO Sightings in 1966,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201966%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1966, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_3990 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11570 (C1CE78C7) Date: 3/13/1966 Description: Time not available. A reporter and his family saw an egg-shaped object about 150 feet over power lines. TV and house lights dimmed (EM effects), and a vibration was felt. (New Hampshire NICAP Subcommittee report.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portsmouth, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2922 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11571 (05701E28) Date: 3/13/1966 Description: 9:30 p.m. CST. Police and citizens saw two bluish-green lighted objects and heard a beeping noise as if signals were being exchanged between the two. Dogs reacted to the objects (animal reactions.) (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: LaCross, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2924 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11572 (EF370A89) Date: 3/13/1966 Description: On this night a news reporter and his family saw an egg-shaped object 150 feet over some power lines in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The felt a vibration and the TV and house lights dimmed. That same night in Black River Falls, Wisconsin a greenish-white object was seen from a house, emitting loud beeps. The witnesses' dogs reacted by barking, and there was static on the TV and stereo radio. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 318; (2) Allen Utke case investigation files; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_1453 Source: Johnson ### Event 11573 (332B96AA) Date: 3/14/1966 Description: At 3:50 a.m. in Dexter, Michigan two police officers, Bushroe and Foster, saw four highly maneuverable disc-shaped UFOs that had red and green flashing lights. They swung back and forth in the sky like pendulums over a swamp. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 6, 171, 318; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 187; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 178 Source ID: Johnson_1481 Source: Johnson ### Event 11574 (9611436B) Date: 3/14/1966 Description: In the pre-dawn hours UFOs were also tracked on radar over Lake Erie from Selfridge AFB in Michigan. The objects displayed extreme speed and maneuverability. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 242; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 413 Source ID: Johnson_1482 Source: Johnson ### Event 11575 (8A680801) Date: 3/14/1966 Description: In Southport, Connecticut a domed disc with a row of red lights paced a car along a country road, then swooped down and landed on the road ahead of the car. It rose just in time to avoid a collision. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Fuller, NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 318 Source ID: Johnson_1483 Source: Johnson ### Event 11576 (33486A6D) Date: 3/14/1966 Description: Landing, structured object, multiple witnesses, animal reaction (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [660314](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/660314dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dexter and Hillsdale, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2927 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11577 (F3D510F8) Date: 3/14/1966 Description: 3:30 –5:30 a.m. Washtenaw County sheriff’s deputies Buford Bushroe and John Foster see highly maneuverable disc-shaped UFOs with flashing red and green lights over Dexter, Michigan. They call in a report that sets off a two-and-a-half hour chase that stretches over three counties and out over Lake Erie. Police from five jurisdictions are involved. Selfridge AFB \[now Selfridge Air National Guard Base\], near Mount Clemens, reports tracking UFOs on radar over Lake Erie. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 184–185; O’Connell 177; Patrick Gross, “[Michigan](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/michi66.htm) [1966: Sheriffs Watch High-Performance Discs, Also Tracked on Radar](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/michi66.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3991 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11578 (56AB26A4) Date: 3/14/1966 Description: Landing, structured object, multiple witnesses (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [660314](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/660314dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dexter and Hillsdale, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2926 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11579 (3DDFA4D9) Date: 3/14/1966 Description: 9:00-9:30 p.m. EST. A motorist saw an unidentified aerial object with a dome on top, and a row of red and white flashing lights, that paced his car. The object then changed color to white and sped away (color change-motion correlation). Later (11:30 p.m.), an unidentified aerial object with domed top, flat bottom, and red and white flashing lights, descended abruptly in front of the witness's car, and hovered inches off the road. The driver slammed on the brakes, and the object took off. The object was so large that it overlapped the road. (NICAP report, investigation by John Fuller). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Southport, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2925 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11580 (B433FF5B) Date: 3/14/1966 Description: G,V, Selfridge AFB & UFOs over L. Erie (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: NICAP: [660314](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/660314dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dexter and Hillsdale, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2928 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11581 (AAFB7976) Date: 3/14/1966 End date: 3/20/1966 Description: Sheriffs reported disc-shaped objects moving at fantastic speeds and making sharp turns, diving and climbing, hovering. Selfridge AFB confirmed tracking UFOs over Lake Erie Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Dexter, Milan, and Ann Arbor, MI Source ID: HallUFOE2_74 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11582 (D244D76B) Date: 3/15/1966 Description: Time not reported. A police officer and other witnesses saw a metallic-appearing circular object with blue lights in apparent portholes along its side. The UFO stopped overhead, trailing two exhaust flames, then shot away to the northwest. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Youngstown, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2929 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11583 (55EDCF62) Date: 3/16/1966 Description: 6:30-6:45 p.m. EST. A family saw a bright red ball of light with halo effect at close range for 10-15 minutes. The UFO emitted a high-pitched "beep" every 1 -2 seconds synchronized with a blinking red light. Dogs barked and howled (animal reactions), and ran toward the object, which gradually | disappeared behind trees to the southeast. (New Hampshire NICAP Subcommittee s report.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eliot, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_2930 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11584 (DA83D6E2) Date: 3/16/1966 Description: 5:45 p.m. Many people see a white, oval object crash into the Atlantic Ocean close to the Ilha Cagarras off Ipanema, Brazil. Some see a few smaller white parachute-shaped objects fall from it. A thorough search turns up nothing in the sea or the island itself. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 54 Source ID: Eberhart_3992 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11585 (4234DEB6) Date: 3/16/1966 Description: A revolving domed disc with lights around its rim circled Great Lake in Portland, Connecticut three times before flying off to the east toward Cobalt. A radio report of another UFO sighting in West Hartford, Connecticut was heard by the five witnesses, two teenage girls and their family members, immediately after their sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald A. Johnson case files, report dated April 3, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_1530 Source: Johnson ### Event 11586 (D0D8E0EA) Date: 3/16/1966 Description: 7:45 p.m. Two large, moon-sized orange discs flying slowly, then accelerating, body lights blinking on and off. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burnham, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_2932 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11587 (7BD031D7) Date: 3/17/1966 Time: 0000 Description: A police officer observed an object in the southwest. He thought it was a plane about to crash, although no sound was audible. He tried to contact the police headquarters, but his radio transmitter did not work properly. The object, which now colored lights spinning at the periphery, and a diameter of 16 m, came within 25 m of the patrol car, following it for 1 km, then flew off toward the northwest. The witness had been a policeman for 10 years, and had never seen anything like that object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Milan, Michigan Source ID: Magnonia_730 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11588 (FDE95D68) Date: 3/17/1966 Description: Object w/colored lights spinning came within 80 ft of the patrol car (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [660317](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/660314dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milan, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2934 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11589 (6F8CB266) Date: 3/17/1966 Description: Sunset, EST. Three young girls saw a large oval with glowing red light, evenly spaced portholes around the rim from which lights flashed alternately. The UFO moved slowly, then accelerated and sped away. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grand Rapids, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2933 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11590 (2775709F) Date: 3/17/1966 Description: A glowing ovoid object descended slowly over Barra de Tijuca, Brazil at 1:50 a.m. It circled Pt. Marisco, and then flew off the the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_1536 Source: Johnson ### Event 11591 (F2728BC4) Date: 3/17/1966 Description: Mr. Ward saw an object 12 meters in diameter and 7 meters high over Harrow, Ontario, Canada. It emitted a pulsating white light, and landed in a field. It had a revolving section on it with portholes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, August 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 729, p. 323; Data-Net, May 1970 Source ID: Johnson_1537 Source: Johnson ### Event 11592 (315BECC1) Date: 3/17/1966 Description: A police officer in Milan, Michigan observed an object in the southwestern sky at midnight. He thought it was a plane about to crash, although no sound was audible. He tried to contact the police headquarters, but his radio transmitter did not work properly. The 16 meter wide object, which now had colored lights spinning around its periphery, came to within 25 meters of the patrol car, followed it for a kilometer, then flew off toward the northwest. The object was described as being like a "very huge pie" lighted with red, blue, and white lights spinning completely around it. The witness had been a policeman for 10 years, and had never seen anything like it before. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 730; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 166; Lloyd Mallan, The Official Guide to UFOs Source ID: Johnson_1538 Source: Johnson ### Event 11593 (8D27DF36) Date: 3/17/1966 Description: Mr. Ward saw an object 12 m in diameter and 7 m high, emitting a pulsating white light, in a field. It had a revolving section with portholes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Aug., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Harrow, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_729 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11594 (5BEB7CEE) Date: 3/17/1966 Description: 4:25 a.m. Police Sgt. Neil Schneider and Deputy David Fitzpatrick see top-shaped objects making sharp maneuvers over Milan, Michigan. They alternatively hover, rise and fall quickly, dart around at jet-like speed, dimming and brightening periodically. Two objects are operating together, while a third UFO hovers at a lower altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 185; O’Connell 177; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 310 Source ID: Eberhart_3993 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11595 (E35CC3C6) Date: 3/18/1966 Description: One year later (1966), at 4:00 p.m., a shiny metallic cigar-shaped UFO, approximately 60 feet long, and completely smooth and featureless, was sighted off the coast, 10 miles north of Puerto Deseado, Argentina. The UFO emitted a gray vapor from its rear. It then vibrated; made a louder rumbling noise, and a black smoke emerged from the rear. The nose of the object tilted up as the object flew erratically to the northeast, then hit the water and disappeared beneath the surface. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1970, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_1550 Source: Johnson ### Event 11596 (62F45829) Date: 3/19/1966 Description: 5:20 a.m. CST. Several witnesses saw an elliptical object with a row of rectangular windows, and with a surrounding blue-white haze. Lights on the bottom (body lights) flicked on and off one at a time. A light beam shone into the house. (Keyhoe & Lore, 1969a, p. 46) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Big Rapids, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2936 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11597 (41F87200) Date: 3/19/1966 Description: 9:05 p.m. EST. Col. Howard Wright, retired Air Force pilot, and family saw a bright white light approach from the south, stop and hover, accelerate, zig-zag, then continue north, joined by a second light. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bethesda, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_2938 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11598 (5E142C1C) Date: 3/19/1966 End date: 3/20/1966 Description: 1:25 a.m. CST. Witnesses saw a bright flash of blue light, then a hovering oval UFO was sighted by crew members of the Coast Guard Cutter "Legare." EM effects were experienced on local electric power systems, house lights blinked off and on rapidly. The UFO was orange and had windows or ports with a hazy appearance in the interior. After a while the object slowly rose about 1,000 feet, emitted a blue glow, then disappeared. Shortly afterwards, two bright lights shot up from the ground and disappeared within seconds. An extensive power failure occurred in Freeport about 2 hours earlier (11:10 p.m.) (NICAP report) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Freeport, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2939 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11599 (70424A85) Date: 3/19/1966 Description: Dawn, EST. Police and others saw a round luminous yellow-white object with projections on top. The UFO paced a car, swerving from side to side, its light reflected from the hood of the car. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: LaPorte, In Source ID: NICAP_DB_2937 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11600 (036A4CA4) Date: 3/19/1966 Description: At 6 p.m. a flat-topped cone-shaped UFO w oval-shaped windows hovered over Niteroi, Brazil. It was viewed through binoculars as it flew slowly to the west, then shot off towards the east as jet aircraft pursued it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 44). That night at 11:10 p.m. three crewman aboard the Coast Guard Cutter "Legare" had a close encounter with an oval-shaped UFO near Freeport, Texas. There was a power failure in the city at the time. (Source: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-year Report, p. 318 Source ID: Johnson_1567 Source: Johnson ### Event 11601 (303B9E69) Date: 3/19/1966 Description: In the pre-dawn hours of 1966, police and others in La Porte, Indiana saw a 40-foot-long luminous football shaped object surrounded by misty white rings. It emitted a brilliant white light as it paced a police car. It was described as having horn-shaped antenna-like projections on the underside that were 13-14 feet long. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fred V. Sacksteder, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 15). At 5:20 a.m. an elliptical UFO with a row of lights along the bottom was seen over Big Rapids, Michigan. The lights flickered on-and-off one at a time. (Source: Gordon Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_1566 Source: Johnson ### Event 11602 (B1DA9BA0) Date: 3/20/1966 Description: Dexter, MI.: Frank Mannor, age 47, and Ronald Mannor, age 19, went out at night through swampy, hummocky terrain to investigate flashing lights in the swamp. They saw a domed, elliptical object with aquilted surface hovering about 8 ft. off the ground in a patch of apparent mist. The object glowed “blood red” and the body lights disappeared. They lost sight of the UFO and didn’t see it again. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555315016508776448) Location: Dexter, MI See also: 3/21/66 See also: 4/1/66 Source ID: Maj2_635 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11603 (C74CD759) Date: 3/20/1966 Time: 2000 Description: Frank Mannor and his son, Ronald, saw a luminous object hovering over a swamp. It was described as brown, with a "scaly" surface, coneshaped, and showing bluish lights that turned red. Then the whole object lighted up with a yellowish glow and flew away at high speed with a whistling sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Dexter, Michigan Source ID: Magnonia_731 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11604 (A06711AA) Date: 3/20/1966 Time: 12:15 AM Description: Witness: USAF Res. Maj. K.C. Smith, employee of NASA at Cape Kennedy. One pulsating light which varied from white to intense blue made a jerky ascent and then rapidly accelerated away to the north after 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Miami, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_535 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11605 (2A5F042F) Date: 3/20/1966 End date: 3/21/1966 Description: 10:00 p.m.- 2:40 a.m. EST. Police and citizens saw an egg-shaped object with flashing body lights across the center (red-white-blue-green-red) that hovered over power lines, bobbed around and rocked in a pendulum motion. Through binoculars, a dome-like area was visible on top. The object finally ascended to the east, moved out over the ocean and disappeared. (Fuller, 1966; Massachusetts NICAP Subcommittee report.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Exeter, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2941 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11606 (CB0B099A) Date: 3/20/1966 Description: 7:30 p.m. After his dogs start making a racket, [Frank Mannor](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49963015/frank-e%5F-mannor) and his 26-year-old son Ronald see strange lights over a swampy area in Dexter Township, Michigan. They walk over to the area for a look, taking about 30 minutes, and see a pyramid-shaped object with a rounded top, corrugated surface, and blue, red, and white lights. Mannor’s son-in-law Bob Wagner, back at the house, sees the object light up and rise to 500 feet, then come down again making some noise. Washtenaw County sheriff’s deputies David Fitzpatrick and [Stanley McFadden](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136211746/stanley-arthur-mcfadden) arrive about 9:00 p.m. drive towards the swamp on Quigley Road. They see a brilliant light that dims and then reappears. By this time a crowd has gathered. One man reports that when two flashlights appear in the distance, the object seems to react by flying away at high speed. At another point the object passes directly over the Mannors with a whistling sound like a rifle bullet ricocheting. It remains in the swampy area for 30 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Swamp Gas Answer Disproved](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/031%20MAR-APR%201966.pdf),” UFO Investigator 3, no. 7 \(March/April 1966\): 5; UFOEv II 185–186; O’Connell 175–177, 184–185; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 310; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1966%5F03%5F20-21%5FUS%5FMI%5FDexter-Hillsdale%5FCUFOS%5FMultiWit%5FNLr.pdf)\]; Patrick Gross, “[Hillsdale, Michigan, 1966: The Infamous ‘Swamp Gas’ Case](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/hillsdale66.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_3994 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11607 (ED1A20F2) Date: 3/20/1966 End date: 3/21/1966 Description: Egg-shaped object with flashing lights across the center (red-white-blue-green-red) hovered over power lines, bobbed around, and rocked in a pendulum motion Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Exeter, NH Source ID: HallUFOE2_75 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11608 (544EC835) Date: 3/20/1966 Description: Pulsating light, varying from white to intense blue (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10247) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2942 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11609 (7E092417) Date: 3/20/1966 Description: Hovering object over swamp about 1,500 ft away car-sized (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [660320](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/660314dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dexter, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2943 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11610 (33DC2024) Date: 3/20/1966 Description: La Porte, IN: Patrolman Michael Spevak was on duty when 2 youths pulled over and pointed out an UFO that they said had been following them from Michigan City to La Porte. According to the young men, the object frequently burst into such a bright glare that it blinded them, forcing them off the highway. It had been following them at an altitude of about 60 ft. Both the young men and the patrolman noticed a cross-shaped appendage protruding from the lower portion of the UFO. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F, p257) Location: La Porte, IN Source ID: Maj2_636 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11611 (635CC596) Date: 3/21/1966 Description: 10:32 p.m. Cynthia “Pinky” Poffenberger and 16 other Hillsdale \(Michigan\) College students see a football- shaped object with red, green, and white pulsating lights descend from the sky and pass close to their dorm. It settles in a hollow in the Slayton Arboretum about 1,500 feet away. Some 87 students collect to watch the UFO, then they notify Civil Defense Director William Van Horn, who arrives with police. From the dormitory, the landed lights appear yellowish-white, dimming and intensifying. Only student [Barbara Kohn](https://www.ncnewsonline.com/archives/barbara-kohn/article%5Fac8bed04-0b06-5a0d-9a0e-05368dbed1f7.html) stays most of the night, watching the lights vanish, reappear, and recede. Around 5:10 a.m., Kohn sees a lighted object move away and disappear from sight. Radiation is later detected at the landing area of about 330–600 microroentgens/hr, roughly 10–20 times the background level. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: O’Connell 177–180, 185–188; Clark III 950; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 311; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1966%5F03%5F20-21%5FUS%5FMI%5FDexter-Hillsdale%5FCUFOS%5FMultiWit%5FNLr.pdf)\]; Jack Butler, “[UFO: In 1966, Hillsdale Had Its Own Close Encounter,](http://hillsdalecollegian.com/2015/03/ufo-in-1966-hillsdale-had-its-own-close-encounter/)” The Collegian \(Hillsdale College\), March 19, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_3995 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11612 (06D523CF) Date: 3/21/1966 Description: Officials, college students saw UFO settle in a hollow, emitting orange, red, and white lights Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Hillsdale, MI Source ID: HallUFOE2_76 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11613 (EA024AA0) Date: 3/21/1966 Description: At 11:30 p.m. William Van Horn, Civil Defense Director, and over 80 Hillsdale College coeds in Hillsdale, Michigan watched a UFO from the college dormitory. They first saw a pattern of lights on the ground. The source of the lights next appeared to hover and do manuevers over a marsh for the next two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Duluth (Minnesota) News-Tribune, March 22, 1966; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 05; Mort Young, UFO Top Secret, p. 46; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 732 Source ID: Johnson_1598 Source: Johnson ### Event 11614 (93A359EB) Date: 3/21/1966 Description: A police officer investigated a vertically descending luminous object in Exeter, New Hampshire. He came upon it moving back and forth over some power lines at 10:00 p.m. Other police soon arrived, and described the object looking like a glowing egg with a dome, having red, white and green lights around the rim. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 335 Source ID: Johnson_1597 Source: Johnson ### Event 11615 (56565885) Date: 3/21/1966 Description: At 8:40 p.m. a ring of lights was seen maneuvering in the sky over Niteroi, Brazil. It was difficult to see the body of the object, but it was assumed to be a disc. Planes appeared and chased the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 7102 Source ID: Johnson_1596 Source: Johnson ### Event 11616 (8674BF40) Date: 3/21/1966 Description: Law enforcement officer F.B. (initials) at Dexter, Michigan, and officer “C” (initial) on patrol sighted a landed saucer in a swamp. Description: Large craft, like a pot; no windows; had a dull glow and steam was coming up from the water. Sounded like a turbine, a low whine or hum. He notified Selfridge AFB which immediately sent out MP’s, well armed. All law officers were ordered back and their film was confiscated. Later his report and other reports disappeared from police headquarters. Then, everyone in the force, including he and “C”, were transferred to other parts of the county. The UFO wasn’t disabled. F.B. saw it take-off and climb straight up. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C) Location: Dexter, MI See also: 3/1/67 Source ID: Maj2_638 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11617 (1F74B47F) Date: 3/21/1966 Description: College students saw a football-shaped object with red-green-white lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [660321](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/660314dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hillsdale, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2944 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11618 (0AECEF43) Date: 3/21/1966 Description: Engineer, inventor, and lecturer Norman S. Bean is quoted in the Miami News: “We have good reason to believe that the Air Force has wreckage from at least four of these small vehicles and has been conducting studies of such wreckage at Wright Field for years”. Also mentions what is now known as the US Gravity Control Research Program. Type: newspaper article Reference: [Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/television-engineer-inventor-and-speaker-norman-s-6bb01740bd05) Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_gravity_control_propulsion_research) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: Maj2_637 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11619 (9D83B21A) Date: 3/21/1966 Description: William Van Horn, Civil Defense Director, and a group of students observed a pattern of lights on the ground. The source of the light appeared to manuever for about two hours. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hillsdale, Michigan Source ID: Magnonia_732 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11620 (CE9F8595) Date: 3/22/1966 Description: On this night near the airfield in Key West, Florida in 1966 several disc-shaped UFOs with flashing lights around the rim were sighted from an outdoor theater. The UFOs hovered, then shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 318 Source ID: Johnson_1614 Source: Johnson ### Event 11621 (E8F6A303) Date: 3/22/1966 Description: 7:15 p.m. CST. At least 10 witnesses watched a large oval object with four blinking body lights fly overhead, hover over some trees, then move away. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Normal, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2945 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11622 (B351EB38) Date: 3/22/1966 End date: 3/23/1966 Description: Night, EST. FL. Several discs with flashing lights around their edges (body lights) were reported from an outdoor theater. The objects hovered for 4-5 seconds, then shot away northward out of sight in about 1 second. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Key West, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2946 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11623 (7F84B190) Date: 3/22/1966 Description: White flashing lights light up witness' apartment (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 10262) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2947 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11624 (E6EDBAA1) Date: 3/22/1966 Description: Morning. Contactee [George Hunt Williamson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FHunt%5FWilliamson) sees three large UFOs with brilliant, flashing, blue-white lights hover above him for one minute in Key West, Florida. He hears a familiar buzzing in his head. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “A Little Walk in the Strange Life of George Hunt Williamson,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 14, 32 Source ID: Eberhart_3996 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11625 (D929A5E7) Date: 3/22/1966 Time: 1:30 AM Description: Witness: S.J. Musachia. White flashing lights, and the air full of smoke. Lit up witness' apartment. Sound of "yen " heard up close during 4 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Houston, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_536 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11626 (C9B04F24) Date: 3/22/1966 Description: 10:00 p.m. Several people standing outside the Waterfront Playhouse in Key West, Florida, during an intermission, see three UFOs ringed with flashing blue-white lights hovering nearby. They zoom off over the Gulf. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Keys Theatre-Goers Report ‘Flying Discs,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92455628/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Herald, March 24, 1966, p. 3-C Source ID: Eberhart_3997 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11627 (219FB4CA) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: Road blocked by a wingless aircraft, perch fish-shaped (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 10270) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Temple, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2950 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11628 (038FDE06) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: Night, CST. An oblong object surrounded by smaller bright lights was observed by a dozen people. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Joppa, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2952 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11629 (7C3C5974) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: Landed ellipse with body lights, within 50 ft., humming sound. Report in NICAP files. (E,L) car. Section II (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [660323](http://www.nicap.org/bangor660323dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bangor, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_2951 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11630 (0E334DD9) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: Two young men were walking through a wooded area when they saw a bright object that they thought was a balloon covered with fluorescent paint but it became so intensely bright that they could not look directly at it. As they walked closer, it exploded, leaving no trace. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Fort Pierce, Florida Source ID: Magnonia_733 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11631 (4BCC95DE) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: 8:40 p.m. EST. An elongated object with rays of light (light beams) from its underside was observed hovering above a neighbor's house. The witness called out another neighbor to see the object, which finally shot upwards out of sight. (NICAP report.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crown Point, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2953 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11632 (CDE19DDB) Date: 3/23/1966 Time: 0505 Description: An electronics instructor, who was driving to work at a local Air Force Base, observed an object blocking the road. It was shaped like an airplane fuselage, 25 m long, with a "bubble" on top resembling the canopy on a B-26, rested on legs, and had very bright aft and forward lights. There was a door and a short stairway to the side of the object, and a man in coveralls appeared to be examining the craft which bore the identification "TL 4768" (see case 417). When the witness approached, the "pilot" went back inside, a sound resembling that of a highspeed drill was heard, and the object rose. No engine was observed. The witness was familiar with all conventional military aircraft. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Temple, Oklahoma Source ID: Magnonia_734 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11633 (65D30834) Date: 3/23/1966 Time: 5:05 AM Description: Witness: W.E. Laxson. One large object, like a wingless C-124 transport plane; 75' long, 8' high and 12' wide; with a bubble canopy on top. Sat on highway, a man dressed in military work clothes entered, and it rose after about 40 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Temple, Oklahoma Source ID: BerlinerBBU_537 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11634 (C82F2969) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: Two young men, one name Hallonquist, were walking through a wooded area in Fort Pierce, Florida when they saw a bright object that they thought at first was a balloon covered with fluorescent paint. However, it became so intensely bright that they could not look at it directly. As they walked closer to it, it exploded, leaving no trace. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 733; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, September 1970, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_1626 Source: Johnson ### Event 11635 (0863307B) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: 5:00 p.m. MST. At least a dozen witnesses saw two light-reflective disc-shaped objects with domes flying in-line, traveling with a bobbing motion over the terrain. (McDonald, 1968a, Case 14, pp. 51-52; NICAP notes). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Trinidad, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_2948 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11636 (5C94620F) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: At shortly before 5 p.m. two domed discs were seen by five witnesses over a forest in Trinidad, Colorado. They tilted, and bobbed up and down in flight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 270; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 8, citing James E. McDonald Source ID: Johnson_1628 Source: Johnson ### Event 11637 (FED3BB78) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: 5:05 a.m. As Sheppard AFB \(near Wichita Falls, Texas\) civilian instructor William E. “Eddie” Laxson is driving west on US Highway 70 eight miles south of Temple, Oklahoma, he finds the road blocked by a wingless aircraft, shaped like a fish, in the road. It is about 75 feet long, nearly 8 feet high, 12 feet wide, with a Plexiglas bubble on top, and bright lights forward and aft. Laxson stops his car about 300 feet away and walks to within 50 feet, noticing a designation on its side like “TLA138” or “TLA738” or “TL 4768.” He sees a “man” wearing a baseball cap or mechanic’s hat climbing up steps or a ladder on the object. Soon after it lifts off with a hissing or high-speed drilling sound and heads off southeast at about 700 mph. There are no landing traces. Laxson finds another witness, truck driver C. W. Anderson, parked a mile down the road. Laxson thinks it is some kind of military vehicle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Wingless Craft Blocks Road / ‘Man’ Observed](http://www.nicap.org/660323temple%5Fdir.htm)”; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 208–210](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/208/mode/2up); Clark III 681–682; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 312 Source ID: Eberhart_3998 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11638 (DE4E7276) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: An electronics instructor who was driving to work at a local Air Force Base at 5:05 a.m. observed an object blocking the road in Temple, Oklahoma. It was shaped like an airplane fuselage, 25 meters long, with a "bubble" on top resembling the canopy on a B-26. It rested on legs, and had very bright aft and forward lights. There was a door and a short stairway to the side of the object, and a man in coveralls appeared to be examining the craft which bore the identification "TL 4768." When the witness approached, the "pilot" went back inside, and a sound resembling that of a high-speed drill was heard and the object rose. No engine was observed. The witness was familiar with all conventional military aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 734 Source ID: Johnson_1627 Source: Johnson ### Event 11639 (DD23C50E) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: Huge, elongated craft blocking high-way, flashing body lights, port, door, antenna on top, spindly legs. Human-like figure entered, craft took off, hovered, sped away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Temple, OK Source ID: HallUFOE2_77 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11640 (B71F48C4) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: 5:00 p.m. At least a dozen adults and children in Trinidad, Colorado, see two disc-shaped objects with domes flying in-line, traveling with a bobbing motion over the terrain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Discs at Trinidad, Colorado,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201966%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1966, p. 1; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#multiwit)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 51–52 Source ID: Eberhart_3999 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11641 (542249CE) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: 11:50 p.m. John T. King sees a yellowish, elliptical object with a dome-like projection on top just off the ground near Bangor, Maine. It has a yellow-orange light in the center, a bluish light on the right, and a white light on the left. When the object moves toward his car, the car lights dim and his radio stops playing. King says he can hear the elderberry bushes scraping as it approaches and hovers 50 feet away. Frightened, he takes his .22 magnum pistol and fires it four times at the UFO, which glows brightly and takes off at high speed, making a “zinging” sound like the recoil of a spring. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Close-Range Sightings Increase,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/031%20MAR-APR%201966.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 7 \(March/April 1966\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_4000 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11642 (6A3BE55C) Date: 3/23/1966 End date: 3/25/1966 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) spends three days in Michigan, interviewing witnesses in Dexter and Hillsdale, finding the reports contradictory and vague, and encountering a media frenzy. He participates in a police UFO chase that turns out to be the star Arcturus. A photograph taken by Deputy David Fitzpatrick on March 17 is obviously a time lapse of the Moon and Venus. He interviews two Hillsdale students, Sara Robechek and Jo Wilson. William Van Horn tells him that he at first thought the lights were marsh gas until they rose into the air 150 feet and he seemed to perceive a “convex-shaped” solid mass between two lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: O’Connell 183–190 Source ID: Eberhart_4001 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11643 (51AC1E65) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: At 11:45 p.m. John King, 22 years old, was driving his in Bangor, Maine when he saw some lights nearby. When they came closer he saw they were part of an elliptical UFO with a dome on top that was glowing yellow, blue, and white. It had a bluish light at one end and a white light at the other. The UFO then landed. As it moved closer through the underbrush, the witness leaned out of his car, which he had stopped for a better look, and fired his pistol at it when it was less than 100 feet away. King fired four shots at the 60-foot long ellipsoid object. He believes that one bullet hit the craft. His car lights immediately dimmed and the radio stopped playing at this point. The UFO stopped at a distance of 50 feet, and emitted a slight humming noise. After a few more moments, it glowed brighter and took off quickly, shooting straight upward. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1966; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 139; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, case 34; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 30; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 116; Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space…The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 119 Source ID: Johnson_1629 Source: Johnson ### Event 11644 (E701D258) Date: 3/23/1966 Description: Bright object like a balloon covered with fluorescent paint in woods (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Pierce, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2949 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11645 (231E2BC3) Date: 3/24/1966 Description: At 10:15 p.m. two women driving in Sheboygan, Wisconsin saw a glowing object on the road. As they came near to it they found that it was hovering and displayed two intense white lights, as well as one green and one red light. The object was bowl-shaped, and they lost sight of it when they drove away. They saw it again later, flying low on a south-north trajectory. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 735 Source ID: Johnson_1637 Source: Johnson ### Event 11646 (417CF57B) Date: 3/24/1966 Description: In the afternoon a trapper and a guide saw an oval object with a dome approach them in the forest near Cook, Minnesota. It had flashing lights around its center, and made a loud noise like a generator humming. It angled downward and landed in the distance. When they got to the place where it had landed it had already left, but it left a large melted oval in the snow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1966, p. 8; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 30; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - Here and Now! p. 54; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 263 & 319; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_1636 Source: Johnson ### Event 11647 (BDDE7D66) Date: 3/24/1966 Time: 2215 Description: Two women saw a glowing object on the road. As they came near it, they found that it hovered and showed two intense white lights, as well as a green and red light. The object was bowlshaped, and they lost sight of it when they drove away. They saw it again later, flying low on a southnorth trajectory. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sheboygan, Wisconsin Source ID: Magnonia_735 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11648 (F5F01653) Date: 3/24/1966 Description: A glowing bowl-shaped object on the road hovering (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sheboygan, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2959 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11649 (20561A88) Date: 3/24/1966 Description: 8:30 p.m. EST. A round silver object with multi-colored body lights was seen about 200 feet above a house. Witnesses were attracted to it by a "weird" humming sound. Several other North Carolina sightings were reported on the same date. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: China Grove, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_2958 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11650 (168DFEBC) Date: 3/24/1966 Description: 7:10 p.m. CST. A retired Air Force colonel and a General Electric computer programmer watched a glowing oval object speed across the sky. Two smaller lights also hovered, and maneuvered around. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Orleans, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2957 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11651 (E0AA5810) Date: 3/24/1966 Description: 6:50 p.m. CST. A trapper and guide saw an oval object with glass dome on the front approach angling downward, flashing lights visible around its center, and emitting a loud generator-like humming sound. The object was rotating clockwise around a horizontal axis. It appeared to land in the distance. Next day a large melted oval area about 35 feet by 100 feet and apparent landing gear or skid marks (physical traces) were found in the snow at the landing site. (NICAP report.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cook, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2956 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11652 (D9B97DC5) Date: 3/24/1966 Description: Time not reported. A car was buzzed by a glowing circular object with red and white body lights at an estimated 150-200 feet altitude. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holland, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2955 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11653 (101E2F45) Date: 3/24/1966 Description: Time not reported. A train crew watched a UFO pace their train, pull ahead, hover, and climb (maneuver). The Civil Defense director was notified, and also saw the object. Together with other witnesses he watched a "docking" operation as a second UFO linked with the first. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ypsilanti-Hillsdale, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2954 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11654 (16232795) Date: 3/24/1966 Description: That same night a police reservist in Monroe Township, New Jersey saw a saucer-shaped object flying low enough that he could distinguish two figures moving about inside it. He chased the UFO to police headquarters before it disappeared from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-10 (A0699), citing a newspaper report dated March 29, 1966 Source ID: Johnson_1638 Source: Johnson ### Event 11655 (44CA2BBE) Date: 3/25/1966 Description: [Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) needs quick answers, so he schedules a press conference at Selfridge AFB \[now Selfridge Air National Guard Base\] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, for [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) to make a statement. Hynek, disappointed with the quality of the sightings and suspecting a mundane explanation, announces: “It would seem to me that the association of the sightings with swamps, in these particular cases, is more than coincidence. No group of witnesses observed any craft coming to or going away from the swamps. The glow was localized there…. It appears to me that all the major conditions for the appearance of swamp lights were satisfied.” The swamp gas theory doesn’t go over very well with the witnesses, the media, or the public. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Termed Marsh Gases by Air Force](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95258199/) [Expert,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95258199/)” Lansing \(Mich.\) State Journal, March 25, 1966, p. 11; “[Gas Theory Belittled by Viewers of UFOs,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57781176/lansing-state-journal/)” Lansing \(Mich.\) State Journal, March 26, 1966, p. 1; “[Swamp Gas Answer Disproved](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/031%20MAR-APR%201966.pdf),” UFO Investigator 3, no. 7 \(March/April 1966\): 5; O’Connell 190–198; Swords 307; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_4002 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11656 (92B0C507) Date: 3/25/1966 Description: Evening. Mrs. Robert Gorisek of LaSalle, Illinois, sees a triangular object hover above her car for more than an hour as she is driving home from work. The object keeps up with them as they drive through several towns. It has red, orange, and white lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Sightings Widespread over Country,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98871710/)” Great Bend \(Kan.\) Daily Tribune, March 25, 1966, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_4005 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11657 (C933F601) Date: 3/25/1966 Description: Mrs. R. H. Chappell and her sister Janie Kidd see two triangular UFOs hovering 40–50 feet above Saanich Inlet, British Columbia. Ruby-red lights flash back and forth between them, as if they are signaling. The objects remain motionless for a couple of minutes before moving off slowly and gracefully. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 79 Source ID: Eberhart_4004 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11658 (3BE33719) Date: 3/25/1966 Description: Yellow Object Tracked By Telescope & Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [660325](http://www.nicap.org/660325truax%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Truax Field, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2961 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11659 (ACB72146) Date: 3/25/1966 Description: At 11:45 p.m. John King, age 22, working with the Bangor, Maine Police Department, suddenly saw above him a very bright object with a dark underside. He fired at it four times with his pistol, hearing the bullets hit a metal surface as the object flew off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 736 Source ID: Johnson_1652 Source: Johnson ### Event 11660 (F3177320) Date: 3/25/1966 Description: 1:00 a.m. EST. A top-shaped object with bright body lights visible on its outer edge was seen hovering about 25 feet over woods, point downward, by a farm couple for about an hour. (Associated Press story, few details.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Upper Sandusky, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2960 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11661 (0533A9F2) Date: 3/25/1966 Description: John King, 22, working with the Bangor Police Department, suddenly saw above him a very bright object with a dark underside. He fired at it four times, hearing the bullets hit a metal surface as the object flew off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 84 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bangor, Maine Source ID: Magnonia_736 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11662 (9BCCD5A1) Date: 3/25/1966 Description: House Minority Leader [Gerald Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%5FFord) \(R-Mich.\) issues a press release proposing that Congress investigate the rash of UFO reports in southern Michigan and the rest of the country: “I think the American people would feel better if there was a full-blown investigation of these incidents, which some persons allege have taken place.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, \[[Ford UFO news releases and other documents](https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0054/4525586.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_4003 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11663 (207DD874) Date: 3/26/1966 Description: Two women were driving back from Amarillo, Texas at just before midnight when they saw a UFO approaching them from the north. Their car engine died and the headlights failed. The object flew over the car and hovered 400 meters away. After 10 minutes the witnesses were able to start their car and leave. They reported the object had a waffle-like surface and glowed with an intense red light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182 case 738 Source ID: Johnson_1675 Source: Johnson ### Event 11664 (90A45EE7) Date: 3/26/1966 Description: Time not reported. Engineers and technicians watched a glowing red disc maneuver, descend to about 10 feet, and fly parallel with the road for several moments. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 7, Mar.-Apr. 1966, p. 4.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ann Arbor, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2963 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11665 (11162AB0) Date: 3/26/1966 Description: Object with waffle like surface glowing intense red light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10291) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Texahoma, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2962 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11666 (13106322) Date: 3/26/1966 Description: Engineers and technicians in Ann Arbor, Michigan watched a glowing red disc-shaped object maneuver around the sky, descend, and then fly parallel with the road for several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 4; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 319 Source ID: Johnson_1673 Source: Johnson ### Event 11667 (DF8946C7) Date: 3/26/1966 Time: Midnight Description: Witnesses: Mrs. P.N. Beer and Mrs. E. Smith. One flashing light buzzed their car from the front then hovered. Sighting lasted l0 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Texhoma, Oklahoma Source ID: BerlinerBBU_538 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11668 (DB93D986) Date: 3/26/1966 Description: Jean Voilquin, age 54, saw a strange looking "wheel" roll 15 meters away from him in Attigneville, France. It moved at a speed of about 30 kilometers per hour. It was about 80 centimeters in diameter, 25 cm thick; it rolled away at 1:30 p.m. and then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182 case 737 Source ID: Johnson_1672 Source: Johnson ### Event 11669 (D31441D4) Date: 3/26/1966 Description: On the same night a 13-year-old boy named C. Cozens saw two white oval UFOs land in a field behind the police station in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He walked up to them and touched one. When he touched the antenna he received a strong electric shock, and burns on the hand. Investigators rated his story as reliable. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hamilton Spectator, April 4, 1966; Erich A. Aggen, Jr., Flying Saucers, October 1969, p. 5; T. Scott Crain, Flying Saucers, June 1971, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_1674 Source: Johnson ### Event 11670 (8407A019) Date: 3/26/1966 Description: Jean Voilquin, 54, saw a strange "wheel" roll 15 m away at a speed of about 30 km/h. It was about 80 cm in diameter, 25 cm thick; it rolled away and vanished. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN; GEPA 8 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Attigneville, France Source ID: Magnonia_737 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11671 (C3D85B6C) Date: 3/26/1966 Time: 2400 Description: Two civilian women were driving back from Amarillo when they saw an object aproaching from the north. The engine died and the headlights failed. The object flew over the car and hovered 400 m away. After 10 min, the witnesses were able to start their car and leave. They reported the object had a wafflelike surface and glowed with an intense red light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Texahoma, Oklahoma Source ID: Magnonia_738 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11672 (E8990840) Date: 3/27/1966 Description: 5:30 a.m. Both Federal Aviation Administration operators at Muscogee County Airport \[now Columbus Metropolitan Airport\] and military operators at Fort Benning report a radar-visual sighting of a maneuvering, oblong, green-white object over Columbus, Georgia. The object appears to change shape from cigar to wedge to triangle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Glowing Object in Sky Is Sighted in Georgia,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98873193/)” Casper \(Wyo.\) Star-Tribune, March 28, 1966, p. 14; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1966%5F03%5F27%5FUS%5FGA%5FColumbus%5FNICAP%5FMultiWit-RV.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_4006 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11673 (28624693) Date: 3/27/1966 Description: 7:10 p.m. EST. A family saw what appeared to , be a double-decked craft with brightly lit windows on the upper surface. The object hovered, dimmed, shot eastward, returned, got brighter again, then sped away to the west. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Loraine, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2967 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11674 (70BD7450) Date: 3/27/1966 Description: 5:30 a.m. Both Federal Aviation Administration and military control tower operators reported a radar-visual sighting of a maneuvering, oblong, green-white object. (NICAP notes; Columbus Ledger, Ohio, Mar. 28, 1966.) A Georgia investigator reports that on this date at 5:30 am in Muscogee County, a radar- visual sighting was made of an object that appeared to change shape from cigar to wedge to triangle; apparently the same sighting. (Hitt, 1999) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Muscogee County, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2966 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11675 (7D82DBE0) Date: 3/27/1966 Description: G,V, CTO RV of maneuv. UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2965 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11676 (867C21F2) Date: 3/27/1966 Description: Time not reported. About 100 people watched a revolving disc-shaped object that hovered for an hour, flashing red, blue, green, and white lights (body lights). The object then slowly ascended and disappeared. (Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 12, No. 6, 1966, p. 32; from Vancouver Sun). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2964 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11677 (FD045859) Date: 3/27/1966 Description: Control tower personnel, police. Radar-visual sighting of maneuvering object Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Columbus, GA Source ID: HallUFOE2_78 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11678 (9EE3D4CB) Date: 3/27/1966 Description: Two women, Smith and Beer, driving from Amarillo, Texas saw a UFO approach their car from the north near Texhoma, Oklahoma. Their car engine died and the headlights failed. The UFO flew over the car, and then hovered at an altitude of approximately 400 meters. The object had a waffle shaped surface on the bottom, and glowed with an intense red light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics, case 10291; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 325 (case 738); Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 28, citing Vallee Source ID: Johnson_1693 Source: Johnson ### Event 11679 (3A72C8D6) Date: 3/28/1966 Description: At eight o'clock in the evening in Fayetteville, Tennessee a man driving at a speed of about 60 mph suddenly encountered a large lighted object only one meter above the road on a hilltop. As it flew off his car engine and headlights died. The light bulbs in the headlights had to be replaced. The object was oval shaped, seven meters long, dark gray in color, and showed about 30 lights along its periphery. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 739 Source ID: Johnson_1711 Source: Johnson ### Event 11680 (86695CE5) Date: 3/28/1966 Description: 11:30 p.m. EST. Two witnesses in separate locations independently reported watching a hovering object that was flashing brilliant lights. The object, which made a humming sound, gyrated around erratically. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wilmington, DE Source ID: NICAP_DB_2969 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11681 (6407A691) Date: 3/28/1966 Description: Large lighted object 3 ft above the road on a hilltop (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fayetteville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2970 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11682 (8407BAFB) Date: 3/28/1966 Time: 2000 Description: A man driving at a speed of about 100 km/h suddenly encountered a large lighted object 1 m above the road on a hilltop. It flew off, as the car engine and headlights died. The light bulbs had to be replaced. The object was oval, 7 m long, dark gray, and showed about 30 lights along its periphery. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee Source ID: Magnonia_739 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11683 (8D54B551) Date: 3/28/1966 Description: University of Arizona atmospheric physicist [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) writes a 2-page letter to [Thomas F.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FF.%5FMalone) [Malone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FF.%5FMalone)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FF.%5FMalone) chairman of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Atmospheric Sciences, urging that a panel be set up by a scientific body to study Blue Book’s UFO files. He also writes to his legislator Rep. [Morris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%5FUdall) [K. Udall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%5FUdall) \(D-Ariz.\) about the idea, asking him to pass the letter on in confidence to [Gerald Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%5FFord) \(R-Mich.\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 \(July 2010\): 11, 13; Clark III 696 Source ID: Eberhart_4008 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11684 (871E2FFF) Date: 3/28/1966 Description: 8:00 p.m. A man driving about 60 mph in Fayetteville, Tennessee, encounters a large, lighted object only 3 feet above the road on a hilltop. The object is oval-shaped, 23 feet long, dark gray, and has about 30 lights around its perimeter. As it flies off, his car engine and headlights die. The driver has to replace the light bulbs in his headlights after the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(September 2011\): 19; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 312 Source ID: Eberhart_4009 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11685 (9FDE0C3F) Date: 3/28/1966 Description: [Gerald Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%5FFord) writes to [George P. Miller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FP.%5FMiller) \(D-Calif.\), chairman of the House Science and Astronautics Committee, and [L. Mendel Rivers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%5FMendel%5FRivers) \(D-S.C.\), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, saying he is dissatisfied with [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s explanation of the Michigan sightings. He “strongly recommends” a House committee investigation into the “UFO phenomena.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, \[[Ford UFO news releases and other](https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0054/4525586.pdf) [documents](https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0054/4525586.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_4007 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11686 (8603DDE7) Date: 3/28/1966 Description: Rep. Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) issued call for UFO hearings. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_79 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11687 (0AEA0251) Date: 3/28/1966 Description: Early a.m. EST. A truck driver reported that an unidentified aerial object with red, green, and white body lights had paced his truck. When he blinked his headlights, the UFO blinked in apparent response (light reaction), veered away and disappeared. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Niles, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2968 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11688 (3A2DCBCE) Date: 3/28/1966 Description: NICAP press conference at National Press Club. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_80 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11689 (42371BC2) Date: 3/28/1966 Description: The chief of police in Linden, Michigan saw red, blue, and white lights hover over his town, then speed away to the north. A truck driver In Niles, Michigan had a UFO with red, green and white lights pace his truck at two o'clock in the morning. When he blinked his headlights it veered away sharply and disappeared. Around 3 a.m. in Warren, Michigan police received over thirty phone calls from residents reporting lights in the sky zigzagging and diving into a swamp. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mort Young, UFO Top Secret, pp. 64-65; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_1710 Source: Johnson ### Event 11690 (3E62582A) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: NICAP board member [Charles A. Maney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129667039/charles-a%5F-maney) writes to [Gerald Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%5FFord), imploring him to contact NICAP for proof that the Air Force is withholding evidence about UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 \(July 2010\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_4010 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11691 (15D23AFB) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: 4:15 p.m. A 10-year-old boy and his Dalmatian are walking familiar paths in a wood lot behind their home near Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He notices something silver on a ridge and walks toward it. He sees an “L” shaped box, long side parallel to the ground, sitting on tripod legs. His dog runs ahead and sniffs the boxy structure, and then, appearing uninterested, the dog goes off into the woods. The boy stops about 24 feet away, not sure what he is seeing. The object makes intermittent sounds and movements in the following minutes. Then a blast of air from the object sends debris flying. A short high-pitched, then low-pitched, sound is heard as the object lifts off the ground about one foot, stops, swings in a clockwise motion, and settles back on the ground. Intermittent electric-like humming sounds are heard until the object again, with a blast of air stirring up debris and the same sounds as earlier, ascends vertically, this time to about 10 feet, where it pauses, moves horizontally, pauses and rotates clockwise again, then accelerates straight up. On the final ascent, the sound increases in pitch and loudness. The witness’s mother and sister who were at some distance from him also hear the sound. When the object moved horizontally, saplings directly under it swayed. Three elongated imprints are found in the form of a triangle. Reportedly plants do not grow in the area for the next 2 years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Hampton Area, New](http://www.nicap.org/ar-660329dir.htm) [Hampshire: March 29, 1966](http://www.nicap.org/ar-660329dir.htm)”; Raymond Fowler, “The Flying Box, and Other Cases,” IUR 28, no. 2 \(Summer 2003\): 15–20, 26 Source ID: Eberhart_4011 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11692 (DE4EAA45) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: 9:15 p.m. Charles Cozens, 13, is strolling in a field behind the Hamilton Mountain Police Station in Hamilton, Ontario. He sees two luminous oval objects about 8 feet in diameter descend and land, making a buzzing sound. The objects have a row of multicolored lights around their rims “flickering like a computer.” He approaches for a closer look and touches the nearest object, which feels hard and smooth like metal, but neither hot nor cold. He then touches an antenna-like projection at the end of one of the objects and receives a shock. Frightened, he runs home. His parents confirm a 3-inch burn mark on his hand and question him thoroughly before reporting the incident to authorities. His first-degree burn is treated at a hospital and heals normally. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 4–5; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 45–46 Source ID: Eberhart_4012 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11693 (C75C3C4D) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: There are sixteen unexplained UFO reports recorded for this day in UFOCAT. All occurred in either the late afternoon or evening, between 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. local time. One occurred in Australia and one in Brazil. The rest were in the Northeastern United States and Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_1718 Source: Johnson ### Event 11694 (5A5D81A1) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: At 4:15 p.m. in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire a witness saw a brown, box-shaped object with silvery tripod legs on the ground, from a distance of only 24 feet. It maneuvered out from under trees before accelerating straight up and out of sight. It made a humming sound and then a higher-pitched whining sound when it accelerated. The witness felt a blast of air from the object, which left landing imprints in the soil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_1719 Source: Johnson ### Event 11695 (8ACF22AE) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: At 4:20 p.m. a L-shaped box was seen sitting on the ground on four legs in Henniker, New Hampshire. It too maneuvered through trees and then ascended. Landing traces were also found at this site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_1720 Source: Johnson ### Event 11696 (EB564C5E) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: Box like object landed in woods (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [660329](http://www.nicap.org/ar-660329dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hampton (area), NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2976 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11697 (3F11AB46) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: 11:15 p.m. EST. A bright saucer-shaped (disc) object with central dome and two protuberances (projections) on one side was seen hovering above Westminster Hospital for about 5 minutes. The object then flipped on edge, blue flame was emitted from the protuberances, and it rose into the clouds leaving a comet-like trail. An independent witness confirmed the sighting. (Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 12, No. 4, July-August 1966, P. 31.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: London, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2978 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11698 (637404C7) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: Dog does not react to landed box (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [660329](http://www.nicap.org/ar-660329dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: undisclosed rural area, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2977 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11699 (9A5D31F1) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: 9:15 p.m. EST. A teenage boy saw two luminous oval objects about 8 feet in diameter descend and land, making a buzzing sound. The objects had a row of multicolored lights around the rims (body lights) "flickering like a computer." He approached for a closer look, and touched the nearest object, which felt hard and smooth like metal. No heat or cold was felt. The boy then touched an antenna-like projection at the end of one of the objects and received a shock. Frightened, he ran home. His parents confirmed a 3-inch burn mark on his hand and questioned him thoroughly before reporting the incident to authorities. His first-degree burn was treated at a hospital and healed normally. (Keyhoe & Lore, 1969b, pp. 4-5; Bondarchuk, pp. 45-46, from the Hamilton Spectator, Apr. 2, 1966.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamilton, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2974 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11700 (ECC4EA52) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: 9:15 p.m. EST. About 15-20 miles southwest of Hampton, New Hampshire, several professional people including a deputy sheriff and a teacher saw a pulsating luminous white object moving back and forth. Its color changing from white to red to green to blue, and back to white. The object, circled, hovered, and then sped away leaving a short bluish tail, disappearing in an estimated 3 seconds. (Fowler, 1974, p. 336.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Haverhill-Merrimac, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2973 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11701 (A1CC7869) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: 7:50 p.m. EST. While driving, a nurse's aide saw a large, bright red elliptical object with dome, five or six portholes emitting bright white light. The object was surrounded by a halo, and hovering near electric power transmission lines. Its body was dull silver and "like crumpled aluminum foil." Dogs were barking (animal reactions) and a pinging sound attracted other witnesses to the UFO. The object descended before finally moving out of sight. (Fowler, 1974, pp. 116, 335, 337; NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eliot, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_2972 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11702 (6C26B2E9) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: 2:30 a.m. EST. A red oval object was observed moving with an oscillating motion, swinging like a pendulum. The object suddenly brightened and made a rapid departure (luminosity/speed correlation). (Hitt, 1999.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2971 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11703 (B468945F) Date: 3/29/1966 Description: Five hours later, at 9:15 p.m. in Hamilton, Ontario Mr. Cozens saw two white oval-shaped UFOs land in a field. When the witness walked up and touched the four-foot long antenna on one of the objects his hand was burned. There was a flash and a buzzing sound when the injury occurred. The objects had red, blue and green flashing lights in a circle around their centers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, p. 336; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; James E. McDonald case investigation files Source ID: Johnson_1721 Source: Johnson ### Event 11704 (B18823CA) Date: 3/30/1966 Description: Family saw an oval object crossing the road as they were driving (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lexisburg (10 miles N of), IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2983 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11705 (68D0DEBE) Date: 3/30/1966 Description: 8:35 p.m. A woman and her four children watch an oval object crossing the road as they are driving south about 9 miles north of Lewisburg, Indiana. It comes close to the car and she hears a pulsating sound, but it seems to come through the car radio, not directly from the object. She drives away, but the UFO pursues her for 8 miles. It changes from reddish-orange to blue-white before it accelerates away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 313 Source ID: Eberhart_4013 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11706 (8F37A758) Date: 3/30/1966 Time: 2035 Description: A civilian woman and her four children observed an oval object crossing the road as they were driving south about 15 km north of Lexisburg. It came close to the car, and a pulsating sound was heard, increasing in frequency as the object came nearer, but it seemed to come through the car radio rather than directly from the object. The witness drove away in fear, but was followed for 13 km by the object, whose color suddenly changed from reddishorange to bluish-white before accelerating out of sight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lexisburg, Indiana Source ID: Magnonia_741 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11707 (535DCBBB) Date: 3/30/1966 Description: An elongated object about 30 m long and 9 m high was reported to have landed near a highway for 5 min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Mar., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pecos, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_740 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11708 (442922BB) Date: 3/30/1966 Description: The Christian Science Monitor editorialized that the Michigan sightings had "deepened the mystery" and "it is time for the scientific community to conduct a thorough and objective study of the 'unexplainable.'" Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_81 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11709 (FD516D73) Date: 3/30/1966 Time: 2200 Description: An anonymous witness saw a round object with two lights land near the Ohio State University campus. A door opened and a very thin, child-sized figure was seen. The object then began to move torward the witness's car and rose rapidly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Gribble Jun., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mansfield, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_742 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11710 (0D3C74F4) Date: 3/30/1966 Description: Mrs. Gillem and her four children were driving through farm country nine miles north of Lewisburg, Indiana at 10:35 p.m. when they observed a reddish-white oval-shaped UFO approach the car. A pulsating sound came over the car radio and increased in frequency when the UFO got close. The UFO changed color to blue, and then pursued their car for several miles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics, Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, case 740 Source ID: Johnson_1736 Source: Johnson ### Event 11711 (D0C9F5F9) Date: 3/30/1966 Description: There are 19 unexplained UFO reports recorded for this date in the UFOCAT database, coming off the peak that occurred on March 28. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_1732 Source: Johnson ### Event 11712 (922C893B) Date: 3/30/1966 Description: A dark oval-shaped object carrying two bright red flashing lights was seen by three independent groups in the same area of Rehoboth, Massachusetts at different times, beginning at 8:15 p.m. One group saw it hover over a road, then descend slowly into a wooded area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case file, report dated April 2, 1966 Source ID: Johnson_1733 Source: Johnson ### Event 11713 (9565865C) Date: 3/30/1966 Description: A 90-foot long oblong object landed near a highway in Pecos, Texas. It stayed on the ground for five minutes. On the same night in Suffolk County, New York in communities such as East Hampton and Napeague, there were numerous reports of oblong-shaped craft hovering, maneuvering, and then flying out to sea. These reports were accompanied by electromagnetic effects that interfered with automobile ignitions, lights, and radio and TV reception. At ten o'clock in the evening in Montauk, New York Mr. Field's 1965 Ford pickup truck experienced total engine failure when the driver came up to the top of a rise in the road and encountered a cigar-shaped object low over the sand dunes. After losing power Mr. Field allowed his car to roll backward away from the UFO. The engine restarted. The UFO took off, circled, and flew out over the ocean. At about the same time the police station in Oswego, New York received many calls over a two-hour period reporting UFOs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 8; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - Here and Now! p. 55; East Hampton (NY) Star, April 17, 1966; Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 8; Mort Young, UFO Top Secret, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_1734 Source: Johnson ### Event 11714 (268EBA6D) Date: 3/30/1966 Description: (NARA) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10329) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ottawa, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_2982 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11715 (D2D92DE4) Date: 3/30/1966 Description: At the same time as the New York reports a man waiting in a parked car on the Ohio University campus in Mansfield, Ohio saw a round UFO with two lights land nearby. A door in the craft opened and he could see a "very thin" child-sized standing in the doorway. The object rose, moved toward him, rose again, then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mansfield (OH) News Journal, April 8, 1966; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 15; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, case 742 Source ID: Johnson_1735 Source: Johnson ### Event 11716 (E55EBFC9) Date: 3/30/1966 Description: Time not reported. An oblong object estimated to be 85-100 feet long, with lights at top and bottom (body lights), landed near a highway, then took off about 5 minutes later. (NICAP notes; United Press International story.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pecos, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_2981 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11717 (D3516C70) Date: 3/30/1966 Description: 9:00 p.m. EST. A tree surgeon and his family saw a bright white object maneuvering around power lines and a radio tower, making a "swooshing" sound. Static was heard on the radio (EM effect) at the time. A "light beam was emitted downward from the object onto a utility pole. Domestic animals in the area were excited and agitated (animal reactions) while the UFO hovered, circled, and moved quickly from point to point. At 11:30 p.m... a Ford truck experienced total electrical failure as a cigar-shaped or elliptical object was seen low over sand dunes. The object circled the area and flew overhead. (Keyhoe & Lore, 1969a, p. 8; New York NICAP Subcommittee report; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 7, Mar.-Apr. 1966). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: East Hampton, Montauk, LI, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2980 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11718 (FD6E62F2) Date: 3/30/1966 Description: 8:00 p.m. EST. Three separate groups of witnesses had a series of sightings over a period of nearly two hours, including an object with amber body lights that passed over a car and hovered just off the road; an oval object with bright red and orange body lights that hovered over the road ahead of a car, taking off at high speed just as another car approached: and an object with flashing red body lights emitting a whistling or humming sound. (BB files, Fowler, 1974, pp. 125-27.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [660330](http://www.nicap.org/rehoboth660330dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rehoboth, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2979 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11719 (BD1CD633) Date: 3/31/1966 Time: 0200 Description: A man driving home saw lights on the road and discovered a gray,lens-shaped object hovering at 1 m altitude. It had one intense white light and three colored flashing lights. Driving within 2 m of it, he became afraid and backed up, but the object suddenly flew over and behind him. A noise similar to that of a swarm of bees was audible. It left at high speed toward the east. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Vicksburg, Michigan Source ID: Magnonia_743 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11720 (49A8B04F) Date: 3/31/1966 Time: 0600 Description: Two women observed a large object with a pulsating bluish light on top, an orange light below, windows, and antennae, resting in a construction area. Silhouettes could be seen moving inside, one of them gesturing as the craft took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Gribble Jun., 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: San Francisco, California Source ID: Magnonia_744 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11721 (DBB69CE1) Date: 3/31/1966 Time: 2115 Description: Charles Kozens, 13, saw two objects, 2.5 m long, 1.2 m high, with flashing lights, land near Hamilton. When he tried to touch an antenna on one of the objects, he received an electric shock. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hamilton, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_745 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11722 (57192D3A) Date: 3/31/1966 Description: 2:00 a.m. CST. A motorist encountered a brightly lighted disc-like object, grayish with various body lights, hovering just off the road surface, blocking the roadway. The car was violently buffeted as the object darted around from point to point, emitting a hum like a swarm of bees. The object finally rose and sped away at a steep angle. (NICAP investigation report; Keyhoe & Lore, 1969a, p. 23; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 7, Mar.-Apr. 1966, p. 3) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vicksburg, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2984 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11723 (9E05463F) Date: 3/31/1966 Description: Luminous object hovered, blocked roadway, bobbed up and down, moved quickly. Car buffeted, humming sound. Object rose, sped off at steep angle Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Vicksburg, MI Source ID: HallUFOE2_82 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11724 (FFBC4684) Date: 3/31/1966 Description: JANAP 146\(E\), a joint Canadian–US instruction, adds that photos should be sent to the US Director of Naval Intelligence and adds special CIRVIS reporting instructions for unidentifiable objects. The Canadian Air Defence Command ends its investigation of UFOs and transfers the responsibility to the Directorate of Operations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joint Chiefs of Staff, “[JANAP 146\(E\) Canadian–United States Communications Instructions for](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/janp1462.htm) [Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/janp1462.htm)” March 31, 1966; Antonio F. Rullán, “[Blue Book UFO Reports at Sea by](http://www.waterufo.net/bluebook/bbpdf.pdf) [Ships,](http://www.waterufo.net/bluebook/bbpdf.pdf)” December 10, 2002; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Canada, Signet, 1981, pp. 171–172 Source ID: Eberhart_4015 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11725 (4D44E20D) Date: 3/31/1966 Description: 2:00 a.m. Jeno Udvardy is driving home from a late work shift near Vicksburg, Michigan. He sees a cluster of lights on the highway ahead and slows down. When he is within 10 feet, he realizes the lights are on a disc hovering a few feet above the road. It has a brilliant white light, and red, green, and purple blinking lights. Udvardy backs up and his car is buffeted by gusts of wind as the object lifts up. The car motor stalls. He rolls down the window and hears a humming sound. Moments later, the UFO speeds off at a steep angle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Close-](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/031%20MAR-APR%201966.pdf) [Range Sightings Increase,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/031%20MAR-APR%201966.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 7 \(March/April 1966\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_4014 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11726 (E3CBF90F) Date: 3/31/1966 Description: Editorial, Indianapolis (IN) News: "What is needed, obviously, is more public inquiry conducted under scrupulously objective auspices. . . . Too many people have seen too many things for the subject to be dismissed with mere off-hand explanations." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: HallUFOE2_83 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11727 (F442FEE3) Date: 3/31/1966 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a cluster of lights ahead over the road in Vicksburg, Michigan resolved itself into a lighted disc-shaped object when the witnesses' car got closer. Mr. Udvardy, age 32, heard a low hum like a swarm of bees, and his car engine stalled. The UFO also had a brilliant white searchlight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files; Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 70, Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 29; Geoffrey Falla, Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_1764 Source: Johnson ### Event 11728 (347D3DCC) Date: 3/31/1966 Description: Charles Kozens, age 13, saw two objects land near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada at 9:15 p.m. They were each 2.5 meters long, 1.2 meters high, and had flashing lights. When he approached and tried to touch an antenna on one of the objects, he received an electric shock. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 743 Source ID: Johnson_1766 Source: Johnson ### Event 11729 (42464C3B) Date: 3/31/1966 Description: In San Francisco, California two women observed a large object with a pulsating bluish light on top, an orange light below, windows, and antennae, resting in a construction area at 6:00 a.m. Silhouettes could be seen moving about inside, one of them gesturing as the craft took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 744 Source ID: Johnson_1765 Source: Johnson ### Event 11730 (60F81C14) Date: 4/1966 Description: UFOs, alarms, 10 missiles inoperative (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_2985 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11731 (7F1D2C95) Date: 4/1/1966? Description: Night. Students at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, see a star-like object that looks football-shaped through binoculars. It moves in geometric angles around two bright stars until it shoots straight up and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no.2 \(January 2006\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_4017 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11732 (5C08A1EF) Date: 4/1/1966 Description: From LIFE magazine: In a hastily called press conference, the USAF spokesman J. Allen Hynek suggested that the Dextor, MI, UFO and others seen in the swamps near Hillsdale may have been marsh (or swamp) gas that had spontaneously ignited. Type: magazine article Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Dextor, MI See also: 3/20/66 See also: 3/21/66 Source ID: Maj2_639 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11733 (655015C4) Date: 4/1/1966 Description: 12:30 a.m. EST. An elliptical object with domes on top and bottom, and blinking red and green body lights, maneuvered near a car. Static (EM effect) was experienced on the car radio. (NICAP report.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dearborn, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_2986 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11734 (6A4AAAD5) Date: 4/1/1966 Description: Night. A luminous green object surrounded by haze approached a truck, which experienced EM effects as the object neared. The truck slowed and overturned. (Rodeghier, 1981, p. 29) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Conception Del Uruguay, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_2987 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11735 (920F6DF8) Date: 4/1/1966 Description: Green object wider than the road flying N at very high speed (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tangier (5 miles S of), OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_2988 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11736 (976C98DC) Date: 4/1/1966 Description: At 4:45 a.m. five witnesses in Warminster, England saw a huge silver cigar-shaped object fly across the sky from west to east. Six red balls of light exited from the object and flew away toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Contact UK; Arthur Shuttlewood, The Warminister Mystery: Astounding UFO Sightings, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_1785 Source: Johnson ### Event 11737 (A84CC090) Date: 4/1/1966 Description: 10:40 p.m. A man driving 5 miles south of Tangier, Oklahoma, reaches a hilltop and sees a green object wider than the road flying north at very high speed, emitting a shrieking noise and a “heat wave.” The car engine dies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 313 Source ID: Eberhart_4016 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11738 (1E12485C) Date: 4/1/1966 Description: At midnight, Darlene Underwood and her mother of Liberty, Missouri saw two luminous objects land on a hill nearby their house. They watched them them through binoculars, and described them as egg-shaped and about the size of a large car. They then saw the shadows of one or two human-looking figures, and heard the beings shouting at each other loudly in a foreign, unintelligible language. After this they heard the sound of a pig squealing. Next, a point of green light issued from one of the objects, and they both took off and flew away rapidly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-15, citing Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, April 1968; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966 Source ID: Johnson_1784 Source: Johnson ### Event 11739 (415B229B) Date: 4/1/1966 Time: 2400 Description: Darlene Underwood and her mother saw two starlike objects land in a field. One of them rose rapidly when a train came into view. It went behind a hill, while the second one hovered at tree height with its lights off. When the train had passed, both objects landed again and two manlike shadows were seen. Voices shouting in a foreign language and what sounded like a pig being butchered were heard. Light signals. Type: ufo sighting Reference: IIR May., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Liberty, Missouri Source ID: Magnonia_747 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11740 (A2F9EA60) Date: 4/1/1966 Time: 2240 Description: A civilian man, 34, was driving about 10 km south of Tangier when he reached a hilltop and saw a green object flying north at very high speed, emitting a shrieking noise and a "heat wave." The car engine died. The witness noted that the object was wider than the road. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Tangier, Oklahoma Source ID: Magnonia_746 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11741 (10D0B973) Date: 4/2/1966 Description: 2:02 p.m. James Kibel, a Melbourne businessman who is a member of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, sees a shiny, hemispherical object above his garden in Balwyn, Victoria. It looks to be 20–25 feet in diameter and 120 feet in the air. “It seemed to float down towards me,” he says. “It resembled a big mushroom with a stalk pointing towards the earth.” He snaps a Polaroid photo, after which the object takes off and disappears to the north. However, when [B. Roy Frieden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%5FRoy%5FFrieden)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%5FRoy%5FFrieden) professor of optical sciences at the University of Arizona, examines the photo, he finds a jagged line of discontinuity running across the center of the image suggesting there are separate photos joined together and rephotographed. In 2017, Canadian researcher François Beaulieu reexamines the original and notices the reflection of the house below in the shiny object, and he finds that the discontinuity is actually caused by the Polaroid developing chemicals spreading unevenly across the photo. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[V.F.S.R.S. Member Snaps a UFO,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201966%2007%20-%20no%205%20VFSRS.pdf)” Australian Flying Saucer Review \(Victorian Edition\), no. 5 \(July 1966\): 2; “[Report on UFO Photographed at Balwyn,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201966%2012%20-%20no%206%20VFSRS.pdf)” Australian Flying Saucer Review \(Victorian Edition\), no. 6 \(December 1966\): 11–12; Story, [p. 40](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/40/mode/2up); Keith Basterfield and Paul Dean, “[Stage One Report on the 2nd April](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/Balwyn%5FUFO%5Fstage%5Fone%5Freport%5Ffinal%5Fversion.pdf) [1966, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, UFO Observation and Photgograph by James Johnson Kibel,](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/Balwyn%5FUFO%5Fstage%5Fone%5Freport%5Ffinal%5Fversion.pdf)” 2016; Keith Basterfield and Paul Dean, “[Stage Two Report on the 2nd April 1966, Balwyn, Melbourne, Victoria, Visual and](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/Balwyn%5FUFO%5Fstage%5Ftwo%5Ffinal%5Fversion.pdf) [Photographic UFO Sighting by James Johnson Kibel,](http://www.project1947.com/kbcat/Balwyn%5FUFO%5Fstage%5Ftwo%5Ffinal%5Fversion.pdf)” 2016; François Beaulieu, “[A Re-evaluation of the Balwyn](https://www.project1947.com/kbcat/Balwyn%5FFrancois%5FBeaulieu%5F2017.pdf) [UFO Photograph,](https://www.project1947.com/kbcat/Balwyn%5FFrancois%5FBeaulieu%5F2017.pdf)” February 23, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_4018 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11742 (E4E5E68F) Date: 4/2/1966 Description: Brown photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Melbourne (near), AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2989 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11743 (98B66FEB) Date: 4/3/1966 Description: Time not reported. A disc-shaped object with three portholes hovered near a radio transmitter tower, seen by the station owner and his wife after hearing a deep rumbling noise. The object appeared to be "twice the size of a jet fighter plane." (Brief United Press International story.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Franklin, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_2990 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11744 (A0B780CE) Date: 4/3/1966 Description: 6:50 p.m. PST. Along the coast of the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles International Airport, a Coast Guard helicopter pilot and another witness reported seeing four pairs of flashing red lights in changing geometric formations, estimated to be one mile offshore. The pilot reported seeing an oblong object with body lights. (NICAP report forms.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Playa Del Ray, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_2991 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11745 (F7C88BB4) Date: 4/3/1966 Description: 10:15 p.m. EST. A domed UFO emitting a yellow glow hovered about 75 feet above Bronte Gorge, followed a car, then sped up and disappeared to the northeast. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burlington, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2992 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11746 (D920D5BE) Date: 4/4/1966 Description: 7:50 p.m. Businessman Ron Sullivan is driving about 60 mph near Burkes Flat, Victoria, Australia. In the distance he sees a light near the road. Suddenly, the headlights of his vehicle bend to the right and light up a nearby fence. He brakes his car. In the middle of an adjacent field, he sees a column of light some 25 feet high and shaped like an inverted ice cream cone, 3 feet wide at the bottom and 10 feet wide at the top. It then rises to a height of 20 feet, after which the whole light complex disappears. There is no associated noise. Sullivan drives on to Wycheproof, where he checks his lights but finds nothing wrong. On the night of April 7, 19-year-old Gary Taylor is killed at the same spot when the car he is driving leaves the road and hits a tree. Police find a circular impression about 2–5 inches deep and 5 feet in diameter in the freshly plowed field. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Bent Headlights](http://www.nicap.org/660404australia-dir.htm) [Case](http://www.nicap.org/660404australia-dir.htm)”; Bill Chalker, “[The Bent Headlight Beam Case Revisited,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20Newsletter/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20newsletter%20vol%205%20no%203.pdf)” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 5, no. 3 \(May/June 1984\): 17–29 Source ID: Eberhart_4019 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11747 (A6522505) Date: 4/4/1966 Time: 0605 Description: A civilian man, 40, saw an object resting on the ground as he was going to work, less than 2 km southeast of Hague. It was an elongated craft, 2 m long, 70 cm high. When he tried to touch it, the craft left at great speed toward the west. It had six openings, 10 cm in diameter, and made a "turbine" noise so loud that the witness had to put his hands over his ears. After going away for a few meters, it vanished suddenly. Rain was falling throughout the observation, which lasted four min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hague, Florida Source ID: Magnonia_748 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11748 (62123D90) Date: 4/4/1966 Description: A famous UFO close encounter case involving the bending of a car's headlights occurred on this night in Bourke's Flat, Victoria, Australia on the road between Bendigo and Saint Arnaud. Mr. R. Sullivan, age 38, was driving home when he encountered a heavy mist and a shining white, oval-shaped UFO that appeared above him with a cone of light descending from beneath it. Rainbow colored rays of light ran down the sides of the cone. His car's headlight beams were bent toward the object "as if they were pieces of pipe." Mr. Sullivan overcompensated in his driving and nearly crashed, but was able to stop the car. He then saw brilliant lights flashing in a field, followed by the abrupt departure of the UFO. The car headlights were OK after the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Victorian UFO Research Society, Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1966, p. 3; Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1966; Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 160; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing evidence for time warps, space rifts, and time travel, p. 29; Bill Chalker, The OZ Files, p. 114; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_1834 Source: Johnson ### Event 11749 (ACA71B60) Date: 4/4/1966 Description: Two UFOs were seen over the Trenton, Ontario airport on this night, and one landed on runway 113. It was about 20 feet in diameter. Two small men were seen near it. When the service police approached, the beings got back in the craft and it took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0706, citing NICAP; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966 Source ID: Johnson_1835 Source: Johnson ### Event 11750 (CF3928A3) Date: 4/4/1966 Description: Elongated object on the ground, 6 ft long, 2 ft high, with 6 openings (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hague (<1 mile SE of), FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_2995 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11751 (8EE7D604) Date: 4/4/1966 Description: Time not reported. A blue-green sphere hovered at low altitude, ascended and departed to the southwest. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Liberal, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_2994 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11752 (AAF859BF) Date: 4/4/1966 Description: 8:00 p.m. LT. As a strange light phenomenon (including an oval with a cone containing multi-colored shafts or tubes of light moving up and down) hovered near ground level off the road, an approaching motorist reported his headlights were bent (gravitational effect) toward the object. The object seemed to close in on itself and then disappeared. (Chalker, 1996, pp. 114-15.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burkes Flat, Victoria, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_2993 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11753 (B3B94F8D) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: Radar Sighting, #6 of 24 Incidents (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [660405](http://www.nicap.org/660405guam%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Anderson AFB, Guam Source ID: NICAP_DB_2996 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11754 (C1D3FB87) Date: 4/5/1966 Time: 2400 Description: Two civilian men stopped to watch an object hovering above a swamp, tried to follow it, but it flew awav. They observed that animals (cows, dogs, horses) were restless in all the areas that the object crossed. A photographic reconstitution by the U.S. Air Force showed an oval object, 30 m long, flying at 5 m altitude, between a high-tension line and a row of trees. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Alto, Tennessee Source ID: Magnonia_753 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11755 (D9BB8891) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: Midnight. W. Smith and another man in Alto, Tennessee, stop to watch a 100-foot long UFO hovering 15 feet above a swamp. They try to follow it, but it flies away, flying between a high-tension power line and a row of trees. Cows, dogs, and horses are restless in all the areas where the object passes over. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 313 Source ID: Eberhart_4023 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11756 (B5FF7658) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: The House Armed Services Committee conducts the first public hearing by the US Congress on the topic of UFOs. Air Force Secretary [Harold Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FBrown%5F%28Secretary%5Fof%5FDefense%29) testifies that while USAF has done an excellent job on UFOs, perhaps there is room for “even stronger emphasis on the scientific aspects.” [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) recommends that a “civilian panel of physical and social scientists … examine the UFO problem critically for the express purpose of determining whether a major problem exits.” [Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) is the only other witness. After Committee Chairman [L. Mendel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%5FMendel%5FRivers) [Rivers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%5FMendel%5FRivers) expresses some enthusiasm for the idea, Brown suddenly realizes that maybe he has found a way to get the Air Force out of UFO investigations. Shortly after the hearing, Brown tells the USAF Office of Scientific Research to accept the February 3 [O’Brien](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%5FO%27Brien) recommendation to seek a university that will accept a contract to study the 600 officially unidentified UFO sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US House Committee on Armed Services, Hearing, [Unidentified Flying Objects](https://ia600402.us.archive.org/1/items/UfoHearing19662/ufo%5Fhearing1966%201.pdf)[,](https://ia600402.us.archive.org/1/items/UfoHearing19662/ufo%5Fhearing1966%201.pdf) 89th Congress, 2nd Session, April 5, 1966; Clark III 1192 Source ID: Eberhart_4022 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11757 (4957FA15) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: 3:00 a.m. [Lillian Louis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/163475830/lillian-e%5F-louis), in Lycoming, New York, sees a spinning object from her kitchen window. It seems to be 10 feet in diameter and is shooting exhaust 20 feet above the ground near her house. It departs suddenly, leaving a trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 313 Source ID: Eberhart_4021 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11758 (638FE2B4) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman in Durhamville, New York, is awakened by a flash. She thinks her trailer heater has exploded, but everything is in order. The next day, three witnesses tell her a pulsating, luminous object had flown directly above her trailer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 327](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/326/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4020 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11759 (C7E6F7E3) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: Congressman, Gerald Ford announces to Congress the need to extensively examine UFOs. Brief Hearing, C. Sagan. Type: announcement Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-G p64) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_640 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11760 (EB531A97) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: Spinning vapor-like sphere, 10 ft in diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10385) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lycoming, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_2997 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11761 (3064B7E1) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: 4 people saw a landed object through binoculars (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kittery, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_2998 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11762 (00F52FC0) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: Object 100 ft long oval with a dark top appeared cone-shaped (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 10384) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alto, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_2999 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11763 (94FF2E96) Date: 4/5/1966 Time: 3 AM Description: Witness: Lillian Louis. One vapor-like sphere hovered and spun at low altitude, shooting its exhaust onto the ground below. Sighting of 1 minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lycoming, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_540 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11764 (FFACB94D) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: In Alto, Tennessee at 11:55 p.m. witness W. Smith sighted an oval object with a dark top. The object appeared cone-shaped when moving. It made a high-frequency noise. The sighting lasted 2.5 hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1848 Source: Johnson ### Event 11765 (279FA250) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: House Armed Services Committee hearing on UFOs in U.S. Congress. Only Air Force witnesses called to testify. Hearings used as forum to announce that new independent scientific study would be undertaken. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_84 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11766 (F2ACF9DC) Date: 4/5/1966 Time: 11:55 PM Description: Witness: W. Smith. One oval object with a dark top, appeared cone-shaped when moving. It made a high-frequency noise during the 2.5 hour sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Alto, Tennessee Source ID: BerlinerBBU_539 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11767 (3F1A3B18) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: At 3:00 a.m. Lillian Louis sighted a vapor-like sphere hovering at a low altitude in Lycoming, New York. The object hovered low over the ground and was spinning, shooting its exhaust onto the ground below. The entire episode lasted about a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_1847 Source: Johnson ### Event 11768 (74648893) Date: 4/5/1966 Time: 0300 Description: A civilian woman, 42, went to get a glass of water in her kitchen and saw a spinning object, 3 m in diameter, 6 m above ground near her house. It departed very suddenly, leaving a trail. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lycoming, New York Source ID: Magnonia_751 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11769 (FA5653F7) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: 4:00 p.m. CST. An obiect emitting a humming sound was observed, and reportedly caused "anti-gravitational effects," finally disappearing in clouds. (Letter, NICAP report form, clipping.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Heflin, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3000 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11770 (8954CB4D) Date: 4/5/1966 Description: R. Sullivan was driving toward Maryborough when his headlight beams appeared to "bend" to the right. He then observed a vertical, conical beam of light in a nearby field, very white at ground level and rainbowlike up to an altitude of 7 m. Top and bottom diameters: 3 and 1 m respectively. The object producing the light flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO May., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Wycheproof, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_749 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11771 (7276C3A0) Date: 4/5/1966 Time: 0130 Description: A woman was awakened by a flash, thought her heater had exploded, but found everything in order. The next day she was told that a pulsating, luminous object had flown at very low altitude over her trailer, circled and left. Three witnoises. Low buzzing sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Binder ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Durhamville, New York Source ID: Magnonia_750 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11772 (23F0CE5A) Date: 4/5/1966 Time: 1900 Description: A landed object was observed through binoculars by four persons. It took off, hovered for a while, and left. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Kittery, Maine Source ID: Magnonia_752 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11773 (F58031D9) Date: 4/6/1966 Description: NICAP Assistant Director [Richard Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) writes to [Gerald Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%5FFord)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%5FFord) congratulating him on his call for a congressional investigation, saying, “History will record the important role you have played in helping to bring about a rational study of UFOs and public enlightenment on the subject.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 \(July 2010\): 10, 13 Source ID: Eberhart_4025 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11774 (6C2B7806) Date: 4/6/1966 Description: Around 11:00 a.m. A class of students and a teacher from Westall High School \[now Westall Secondary College\] in Clayton South, Victoria, Australia, are just completing a sport activity on the main oval when they see an object, described as a gray saucer-shaped craft with a slight purple hue and about twice the size of a family car. Witness descriptions are mixed: Andrew Greenwood, a science teacher, tells The Dandenong Journal at the time that he saw a silvery-green disc. According to witnesses, the object is descending and then crosses and flies over the high school’s southwest corner, going in a southeasterly direction before disappearing from sight as it descends behind a stand of trees and into a paddock at The Grange in front of the Westall State School \(primary students\). After about 20 minutes, the object—with witnesses now numbering over 200—then climbs at speed and departs towards the northwest. As the object gains altitude, some accounts describe it as being pursued from the scene by five unidentified aircraft that circle it. Some describe one disc, others claim to see three. The Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society arrives on the site on April 8, speaks to students, and views the ground marking, originally described as a large patch of yellow, flattened grass with a swirly pattern. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Audio Reveals Creepy](https://archive.ph/5TnZj) [Details of Australian UFO Mystery,](https://archive.ph/5TnZj)” Melbourne Herald Sun, August 7, 2018; Wikipedia, “[Westall UFO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westall%5FUFO)” Source ID: Eberhart_4024 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11775 (79FFD7E1) Date: 4/6/1966 Description: At eleven o'clock in the morning in Clayton, Victoria, Australia numerous independent witnesses including dozens of schoolchildren and teachers from Westall High School watched a metallic disc-shaped UFO land in a nearby field, then take off again, while several Cessna-type aircraft and other silvery "plane-like" objects circled the area. Some of the witnesses found a perfect circle of flattened grass on the ground, while others encountered military or government personnel in the area who warned them to stay away. Some witnesses said they saw a cow in the paddock where the object came down. The animal was reportedly to have been in such a distressed state that it eventually had to be put down. One student who arrived before the others was found in a dazed, trance-like state. Other schoolchildren saw the UFO on the ground and a normal looking man in white coveralls walking around it, telling everyone to stay back. Another man appeared, this one wearing a dark uniform with an emblem on it. One of the men was seen entering the object, while the other vanished. The object emitted a loud humming sound and then took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The OZ Files; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966, case # 3125 Source ID: Johnson_1859 Source: Johnson ### Event 11776 (4580827F) Date: 4/6/1966 Description: Time not reported. A huge grayish-white egg-shaped object with body lights and portholes hovered above trees, rocking back and forth. Finally it accelerated and sped away leaving a trail. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Selkirk, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3001 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11777 (5DAC89C0) Date: 4/7/1966 Description: At 2:30 a.m. in Warminster, England two Army officers witnessed a top-shaped UFO fly from the east to the west at a high rate of speed. The UFO turned and rose, leaving a trail in the sky. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6166; Arthur Shuttlewood,The Warminister Mystery: Astounding UFO Sightings, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_1881 Source: Johnson ### Event 11778 (8C0B537B) Date: 4/7/1966 Time: 2130 Description: Six teenagers reported strange lights following their car as they left the site of a picnic in a state of extreme fear. An unknown man, 2.20 m tall, wearing black clothes, had been seen passing in front of the shelter entrance and walking on the roof. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Daniels Park, Colorado Source ID: Magnonia_754 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11779 (8994693E) Date: 4/7/1966 Description: 7:00-8:00 p.m. CST. A group of doctors, lawyers, and pilots saw a constellation of lights, including a large white "beacon" with 4-5 bright red lights, hovering at low altitude (estimated to be about 400 feet) for about 7 minutes during heavy rain. The object(s) suddenly sped away at "fantastic speed." (NICAP report.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lincoln, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_3007 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11780 (7E5D2761) Date: 4/7/1966 Description: Time not reported. A group of people on a picnic saw white, blue, and red lights in a wooded area, and heard a weird buzzing sound. EM effects occurred on their car when a white object followed them as they left the area. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Littleton, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3006 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11781 (28E6372A) Date: 4/7/1966 Description: At 9:30 p.m. in Daniels Park near Denver, Colorado six 17-year-old young men and women were in a shelter in the park when they heard footsteps on the roof. Two boys went out to investigate and heard a buzzing noise that seemed to surround them. In the field they saw two red lights each about a foot in diameter. Meanwhile those left behind in the shelter witnessed a very tall man dressed in black standing outside. They left and started back to their car. When the buzzing started again they saw two blue lights low in the sky, which were joined by a very bright white light. Watching from the car, they continued to hear the sound, and saw "four things like footballs with domes on them." They drove away---with difficulty, for the engine kept stalling---and were followed by a "huge light" which did not reflect in the rearview mirror. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, case investigation files; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0707, citing Herb Roth for NICAP; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 754; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966 Source ID: Johnson_1882 Source: Johnson ### Event 11782 (38544823) Date: 4/7/1966 Description: Time not reported. Two sheriffs deputies while on patrol chased a bright round object at high speed, seeing it or a similar object five times. The UFO alternately hovered and sped up, the last time departing vertically upward. (NICAP notes.) \[Compare to April 17, 1966, Ravenna, Ohio, sheriffs deputies case.\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mansfield, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3008 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11783 (27519F9E) Date: 4/7/1966 Description: That same evening several luminous objects with bright red lights were seen hovering at a low altitude in Lincoln, Nebraska. They sped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 320 Source ID: Johnson_1883 Source: Johnson ### Event 11784 (98D32176) Date: 4/7/1966 Description: Time not reported. A large object described as an "overgrown washtub" moved southeast over the airport, dog barked (animal reactions). (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3003 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11785 (7FB25BC7) Date: 4/7/1966 Description: Night. Motorists saw lights rise from the ground, then an unidentified object passed over their car causing E-M effects, noise (unspecified), physical and psychological effects. Independent observation: Same day at Ligonier, 105 miles to the southeast in Pennsylvania, silver cigar-shaped objects were observed flying into a storm. (NICAP notes) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grove City, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3004 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11786 (69B89105) Date: 4/7/1966 Description: Time not reported. A cigar-shaped object with red and green body lights flew ahead of a car, circled back emitting sound (unspecified), and settled down behind a ridge. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beulah, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3002 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11787 (ABB1A433) Date: 4/8/1966 Description: 8:05 a.m. Mike Dorsey and Gary Hunt, both 12, are walking along Redcoat Road in Norwalk, Connecticut, when they see sunlight reflecting off a distant object to the west and behind them. It zooms toward them in a flash, passes overhead from west to east, turns, makes a second pass from east to west, turns again, and makes a third pass. It makes a low humming sound when it passes about 15 feet above them. The boys run to the Holy Ghost Seminary nearby and hide under a nearby bridge abutment as the object continues to maneuver. When it hovers, it does so edge down and makes a fluttering motion. The disc looks metallic, 8 feet in diameter, has a black spot on top near its rim, and a red light on top of an antenna-like protrusion. Red and white lights appear to rotate counterclockwise. Nearly 2 hours later, the object takes off in a burst of speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Boys Chased by UAO,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201966%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1966, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4026 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11788 (57334843) Date: 4/8/1966 Time: 0805 Description: Mike Dorsey and Gary Hunt, 12 were walking to school when they saw a circling object making the sound of humming bees. They ran for cover, trying to stop a car. The craft resembled an upside-down plate, very smooth, apparently metallic, with a black spot near the rim, a red light and an antennalike projection, and red and white lights spinning counterclockwise. Diameter2.5 m, height, 1.5 m. Minimum altitude was 2 m, held for 5 min, with a slight rocking motion. The object then took off at great speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 108 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Norwalk, Connecticut Source ID: Magnonia_755 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11789 (C39CD786) Date: 4/8/1966 Description: At 11:40 p.m. at Daniels Park near Denver, Colorado six teenagers heard footsteps on the roof of a park shelter where they were sitting and talking. They next saw a big humanoid figure pass in front of a landed light in a nearby field. Four domed football shaped objects maneuvered around in the sky, making a pulsating sound. When they tried to flee the area in their car the car's engine wouldn't start. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Green Beckley, Flying Saucers, March 1967, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_1900 Source: Johnson ### Event 11790 (57D6523E) Date: 4/9/1966 Description: Time not reported. An unidentified object approached a car from behind, hovered over it, moved ahead, and ascended vertically out of sight. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westport, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3009 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11791 (AB110DA0) Date: 4/10/1966 Description: Night. An engineering draftsman and his wife saw a cone of nine white lights, with a line of 10-12 small blue lights below it. The lights abruptly blinked off. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lebanon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3010 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11792 (1D15B6BE) Date: 4/11/1966 Description: A police officer in New Hampshire stopped his patrol car to check on a building at 2:30 a.m. He glanced up and saw a glowing, white elliptical object hovering overhead. He took a Polaroid photograph of the UFO and when pulling the film through the camera the UFO moved off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated April 16, 1966 Source ID: Johnson_1954 Source: Johnson ### Event 11793 (F360748B) Date: 4/11/1966 Time: 0000 Description: A civilian man, 43, saw a well-defined object 5 m above ground, 100 m away. It showed a flashing red light, rose, was lost in the fog, then came back at treetop level with a strong whistling sound. Its shape was that of a cigar, 15 m long. It had no wings, tail assembly, or wheels. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Greensburg, Pennsylvania Source ID: Magnonia_756 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11794 (9B4C18B8) Date: 4/11/1966 Description: Well-defined cigar shaped object 50 ft long with no wings or tail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greensburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3011 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11795 (AB4D8670) Date: 4/12/1966 Time: 1945 Description: During a power failure many residents, including Robert Moses and Robert McCambly, saw an oval object with a dome on top and lights (red to white to green) around the bottom, which appeared to land on the roof of the Oliver Wendelle Holmes grammar school after a series of maneuvers. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 66, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Dorchester, Massachusetts Source ID: Magnonia_757 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11796 (5467F10F) Date: 4/12/1966 Description: 10:00 p.m. EST. An elongated elliptical (or cigar-like) object with a bright red- orange light at each end was seen hovering off Route 24. (Fowler, 1974, p. 337.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brockton, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3013 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11797 (70665687) Date: 4/12/1966 Description: 7:45 p.m. EST. Witnesses reported a low-flying oval object with dome on top and colored lights around its perimeter, circling over a schoolhouse and bobbing up and down. Coincident power failure (EM effects) in nearby Roxbury. (Fowler 1974, p. 337; Boston Record American, Apr. 13, 1966, quoted in Flying Saucer Review, 12(4), pp. iii-iv.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dorchester, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3012 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11798 (3928CCF9) Date: 4/12/1966 Description: At 7:45 p.m. EST witnesses in Dorchester, Massachusetts reported a low-flying oval object with a dome on top and colored lights around its perimeter, circling over a schoolhouse and bobbing up and down. There was a coincident power failure (EM effects) in nearby Roxbury. At 10:00 p.m. EST an elongated elliptical (or cigar-like) object with a bright red-orange light at each end was seen hovering off Route 24 in Brockton, Massachusetts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 337; Boston Record American, April 13, 1966, quoted in Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966 (volume 12, #4), pp. iii-iv Source ID: Johnson_1970 Source: Johnson ### Event 11799 (EAE925F6) Date: 4/13/1966 Description: Time not reported. A police officer and other witnesses saw an elliptical object with flashing white lights, alternating red and green lights. (NICAP report; police department form.)' (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kalamazoo, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3014 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11800 (04610C5C) Date: 4/15/1966 Description: UFO over missile silo (NUFORC) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [660415](http://www.nicap.org/fewarren660415dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: F. E. Warren AFB, WY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3015 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11801 (50CECFC9) Date: 4/15/1966 Description: While flying near Santa Catalina Island, California a professional Hollywood movie cameraman named Hansen shot a motion picture film of a disc-shaped object while shooting an action film from a helicopter. The television show NOVA claimed the film shows what probably was a light aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, December 1974, p. 1; Xenolog, September 1978, p. 11; CUFOS case files Source ID: Johnson_2023 Source: Johnson ### Event 11802 (49F8C5C3) Date: 4/15/1966 Description: Catalina Island, CA (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [660415](http://www.nicap.org/cat66.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Catalina Island, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3018 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11803 (18D9737F) Date: 4/15/1966 Description: UFO tracked on USAF radar over Minuteman ICBM complex.. Two tracking radar systems that were looking for a Low level B-52 at the time got a lockon to a UFO that was later confirmed to be hovering over a missle silo. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: NICAP: [660415](http://www.nicap.org/interior660415dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Interior, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3016 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11804 (2DB2AE6F) Date: 4/16/1966 Description: At 7:55 p.m. an elongated elliptical object hovered over Highway 16 in Sherborn, Massachusetts. It had bright red lights affixed to each end, and blue lights along its length. At 10:44 p.m. in Weston, Massachusetts police were called to investigate two reports of an object resembling a dirigible or blimp-shaped UFO carrying bright lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 337 Source ID: Johnson_2053 Source: Johnson ### Event 11805 (9970256E) Date: 4/16/1966 Description: Various officers chased 30-45 ft metallic object from Ohio to PA (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [660416](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/portagedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portage County, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3019 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11806 (23374477) Date: 4/16/1966 Description: 7:55 p.m. EST. An elongated elliptical object with bright red light on each end and blue lights along its perimeter was seen hovering off Route 16. \[Compare to April 12, Brockton, Mass., sighting.\] (Fowler, 1974, p. 337.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sherborn, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3020 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11807 (812EFE08) Date: 4/17/1966 Description: Man in car saw an sun-reflecting oval, car-sized object follow him (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Millersville, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3024 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11808 (0AAC8835) Date: 4/17/1966 Description: 8:30 p.m. EST. About 9 miles southwest of Peabody, witnesses reported an oval object making a humming sound. It bobbed up and down rapidly and emitted white, red, and blue light beams as it descended to low level above Lake Quannapowitt. (Fowler 1974, p. 338.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wakefield, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3023 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11809 (360CF2C2) Date: 4/17/1966 Description: 7:30-7:45 p.m. EST. Fifteen minutes later 5 miles south of Danvers, a series of sightings was reported by independent witnesses. An oval object with dome on top, and red, green, blue, and white flashing body lights, was seen flying in circular and zig-zag patterns. The object suddenly darted away at high speed and disappeared. One UFO hovered over a school, then moved away rapidly with up and down oscillatory motion. (Fowler 1974, p. 338.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Peabody, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3022 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11810 (C6CAC895) Date: 4/17/1966 Description: Sheriffs confronted by glowing object, light beam illuminated road, humming sound. Chased UFO across state line, other police witnesses en route. Object shot straight up out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Ravenna, OH Source ID: HallUFOE2_85 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11811 (E6831FC8) Date: 4/17/1966 Description: Beginning at around 5:00 a.m., Portage County Deputy Sheriffs Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff and two other officers chased a 40-foot diameter glowing disc or football shaped object from Ravenna, Ohio to Atwater, Pennsylvania in the pre-dawn hours of this morning. It rose up out of the woods and stopped overhead. The UFO played cat-and-mouse with them in the pursuit: approaching, waiting for them to catch up, then moving away. It beamed an intense light onto the road. They chased it for 90 minutes. It was last seen shooting straight up into the sky and out of sight. At about the same time and in roughly the same vicinity, a man named George Buchert took a photograph of a double-saucer shaped object in Mantua, Ohio. Dale Spaur's psychological condition and professional career deteriorated in the months following his close encounter. This famous case was the basis for the dramatic UFO chase in Steven Spielberg's movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, UNICAT, case # 383; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 100; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 44, 172 & 320; NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1966, p. 1; Columbus Dispatch, April 19, 1966; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Here and Now, p. 56 Source ID: Johnson_2081 Source: Johnson ### Event 11812 (24E2DD65) Date: 4/17/1966 Description: At 7:15 p.m. in Danvers, Massachusetts three witnesses watched an elongated oval-shaped object with rotating white lights. It was estimated to be the same size as a passenger train car. It circled slowly in the sky before entering a localized cloud. At 7:30 p.m. in nearby Peabody, Massachusetts four witnesses reported seeing a bright red glowing object flying in circular and zigzag patterns. It suddenly darted away at an incredible speed, faster than any aircraft. In Wakefield, Massachusetts at 8:30 p.m. a multicolored disc-shaped object shot off beams of white, then blue, and finally red light. It moved rapidly up-and-down and made a humming sound. It descended to just 50 feet above Lake Quanapowitt. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 337-338 Source ID: Johnson_2082 Source: Johnson ### Event 11813 (B7F5ED8E) Date: 4/17/1966 Description: 5:00 a.m. Portage County Deputy Sheriff [Dale F. Spaur](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165680198/dale-floyd-spaur) and Deputy Wilbur Neff are 4 miles east of Randolph, Ohio, when they see a moving light through some trees at the top of a small hill along the road. The light is headed in their direction. They have heard of a UFO reported over police radio that night and figure this must be what was seen. The object hovers 50–100 feet in the air, bathing the two officers in a bright light. Spaur’s eyes water up. They rush to the cruiser and radio the station; the dispatcher says to wait there until a car with a camera arrives. The object makes some sharp maneuvers, and Spaur drives toward it cautiously. The UFO is 18–24 feet thick and about 35–45 feet in diameter. The object is so bright he hardly needs his headlights to drive. It speeds up whenever Spaur accelerates, and soon he is driving at 80 mph. As the UFO reaches Mahoning County, the pursuit is being broadcast over police radios in three counties. As they reach East Palestine, Ohio, Patrolman [H. Wayne](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133276534/howard-wayne-huston) [Huston](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133276534/howard-wayne-huston) sees the UFO and follows Spaur and Neff, at times reaching 100 mph. Just before 5:30 a.m., two police officers in Salem, Ohio, see the UFO as a “bright ball” much larger than a jet. They also see three jets following it, apparently Air Force Reserve planes from Youngstown, Ohio. Police officer Frank Panzarella in Conway, Pennsylvania, sees the UFO, very bright and in the “shape of a half of a football.” He hears on his radio that a jet interception is in progress. Now in Pennsylvania, Spaur and Neff are given orders to abandon the chase. For most of the event, the object has remained at 1,000 feet, but now it rises to 3,500 feet and hovers. Then it shoots even higher and disappears. In 30 minutes, many police and civilians have seen the UFO. Panzarella alerts the Rochester, Pennsylvania, police operator, John Beighey, and asks him to contact the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. Beighey calls Panzarella and says the Air Force wants to talk to the police witnesses. Spaur, Neff, and Huston go to the Rochester, Pennsylvania, police station and Spaur phones the USAF station at Pittsburgh. Spaur speaks to some colonel who tries to convince him he has seen something conventional. NICAP’s William B. Weitzel, a philosophy professor, begins his own investigation, tracking down witnesses. Within a few weeks, he or his NICAP associates have interviewed all the police officers, as well as several others who have figured in the UFO chase, either as dispatchers or as those who overheard the radio communications. NICAP members also interview some civilians who claim to have seen a UFO at the same time of the chase and/or had monitored police scanners. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Portage County UFO Chase](http://www.nicap.org/660417ravenna%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 314; “[Saucer Chase](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30825497/the-akron-beacon-journal/) [Sets Probers Humming,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27079563/revenna-saucer-story-continued-p-a2/)” Akron \(Ohio\) Beacon-Journal, April 18, pp. 1–2; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 113–124](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/112/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[1966 Portage County UFO Chase by Policemen](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/portage66.htm)”; William B. Weitzel, “[The P-13 UFO: Summary Report on April 17, 1966, UFO ‘Chase’ from Portage County, Ohio, into](http://www.cufos.org/Portage-County/1966%5F04%5F17%5FUS%5FOH%5FPortage-County%5FNICAP%5FWeitzel%5FP-13%5FUFO%5FReportr.pdf) [Conway, Pennsylvania,](http://www.cufos.org/Portage-County/1966%5F04%5F17%5FUS%5FOH%5FPortage-County%5FNICAP%5FWeitzel%5FP-13%5FUFO%5FReportr.pdf)” June 28, 1966; William B. Weitzel, “[The Portage County Sighting,](http://www.cufos.org/Portage-County/1966%5F04%5F17%5FUS%5FOH%5FPortage-County%5FNICAPr.pdf)” April 8, 1967; NICAP, \[[case photos and drawings](http://www.cufos.org/Portage-County/1966%5F04%5F17%5FUS%5FOH%5FPortage-County%5FNICAP%5FPhotos%26Drawings.pdf)\]; Michael D. Swords, \[[case files and clippings](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/146C.pdf)\]; Center for UFO Studies, \[[Gerald Buchert photo case file](http://www.cufos.org/Portage-County/1966%5F04%5F17%5FUS%5FOH%5FPortage%5FCounty%5FBB%5FSpaur%26Neff.pdf)\]; Center for UFO Studies, \[clippings, [part one](http://www.cufos.org/Portage-County/1966%5F04%5F17%5FUS%5FOH%5FPortage%5FCounty%5FClips%5FPart1R.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/Portage-County/1966%5F04%5F17%5FUS%5FOH%5FPortage%5FCounty%5FClips%5FPart1R.pdf) [part two](http://www.cufos.org/Portage-County/1966%5F04%5F17%5FUS%5FOH%5FPortage%5FCounty%5FClips%5FPart2R.pdf)\]; Clark III 906–914 Source ID: Eberhart_4027 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11814 (074B41C8) Date: 4/17/1966 Description: 7:15 p.m. EST. Several groups of witnesses reported an elliptical object with rotating white lights around its perimeter. The object circled slowly, then disappeared into clouds. (Fowler 1974, p. 337.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Danvers, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3021 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11815 (0FC1AC7B) Date: 4/17/1966 Description: Ravenna, OH, to Conway, Penn.: Deputy Sheriffs Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff of Portage Countywere on patrol when an UFO stopped above them, illuminating them and the surroundings (it was just about dawn). As the UFO moved away from them at about 300–500 ft. above the road, it would alternately start and stop ahead of them playing cat and mouse. At E. Palestine, OH, officer Wayne Huston joined in the pursuit. At speeds of 100 mph in unfamiliar territory, they were soon low on gas and had to give up the game with the UFO. Through local police dispatch the officers alerted the Air Force, who sent out fighter planes to investigate the UFO. As the officers saw the AF planes approaching the UFO shot straight up and out of sight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p259) Location: Ravenna, OH See also: 6/24/66 Source ID: Maj2_644 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11816 (EA7B5097) Date: 4/17/1966 Description: A person in a car saw an oval object the size of a car follow his vehicle, then cross the road behind it at 5 m altitude. The object reflected sunlight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Millersville, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_758 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11817 (13FB39AC) Date: 4/18/1966 Description: 11:55 p.m. A motorist almost struck a> blindingly bright object which had landed on the highway. It had brilliant white lights and intense red body lights. When he turned back to investigate, the UFO flew off through a corn field, at one point illuminating the terrain. Then the lights blinked off and the obiect disappeared. Next day his eyes were sore and bloodshot (physiological effects). (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 8, May-June 1966, p. 7.) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lancaster, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3028 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11818 (6E3E351B) Date: 4/18/1966 Description: Egg-shaped object, 75 ft long, 15 ft high, gray-colored (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Battle Creek, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3027 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11819 (47FBEC41) Date: 4/18/1966 Description: 9:45 p.m. EST. About 25 miles southeast of I Peabody, witnesses reported an oval object with flashing red lights around its-circumference, and two smaller white body lights. The object reacted to searchlights (light reaction) shone on it by zig- zagging, accelerating straight up and disappearing. (Fowler 1974, p. 339.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cohasset, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3026 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11820 (87D050E1) Date: 4/18/1966 Description: An egg-shaped object, 80 feet in diameter and 15 feet high, is observed from a distance of 80 feet by a 42- year-old witness driving a car near Battle Creek, Michigan. The object supports a cockpit with windows and three rows of lights, emits red flames, and makes the same noise as a heavy truck on wet pavement. The object follows the car for some time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 329](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/328/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 314 Source ID: Eberhart_4029 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11821 (715B878A) Date: 4/18/1966 Description: The Air Force begins a cursory investigation into the Portage County, Ohio, police chase case. Initially they telephone local news outlets, seeking information. However, local newspapers and radio have only vague outlines of the case. Air Force investigators also interviewed meteorologists and weather agency personnel, hoping to learn that a weather balloon was launched in the area during the UFO chase. They learn that there were no weather balloons launched that morning, and also that the wind had been so mild that the police would have had no difficulty catching up with any wind-borne object. [Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) calls [Spaur](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165680198/dale-floyd-spaur) to ask him about “this mirage you saw.” Spaur insists he has seen a clearly defined metallic object maneuvering at very low altitudes. When Quintanilla asks if they watched the object for more than a few minutes, Spaur asserts that he and Neff chased it for over half an hour, and that [Huston](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133276534/howard-wayne-huston) saw the object for much of that period, and that Panzanella too had seen it. Quintanilla then, as Spaur said, “kind of lost interest.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 910 Source ID: Eberhart_4028 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11822 (E98E39B3) Date: 4/18/1966 Description: On this evening there were four good UFO reports made in the northeastern United States in Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio. At 7:15 p.m. an elongated oval-shaped UFO with reddish green flashing lights on each end hovered over Peabody, Massachusetts, zipped around, and maneuvered to the horizon and back three times. The perimeter of the object glowed blue. A dense light was seen hovering only three feet above a roadway in Albany, New York. A blinding bright object with intense red lights landed on a road in Lancaster, Ohio and then flew off through a corn field. The witness, Mr. P. Friend, had sore and bloodshot eyes after his sighting from looking at the object. At 9:45 p.m. a UFO responded to a searchlight directed at it in Cohasset, Massachusetts by zigzagging, turning off its lights, and shooting straight up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 338; Richard Bonenfant, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 48, citing the Albany Knickerbocker; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1966, p. 7; Walter N. Webb case investigation files, case 60 Source ID: Johnson_2114 Source: Johnson ### Event 11823 (1CEC4268) Date: 4/18/1966 Time: 2210 Description: An egg-shaped object, 25 m long, 5 m high, gray-colored, was observed from a distance of 25 m by a 42-year-old witness driving a car. The object supported a cockpit with windows and three rows of lights, emitted red flames, and made the same noise as a heavy truck on wet pavement. The object followed the car for some time. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Battle Creek, Michigan Source ID: Magnonia_759 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11824 (5BB82000) Date: 4/18/1966 Description: 7:15 p.m.EST. Several witnesses reported an oval object with blue glow, reddish- green flashing lights on each end. The object hovered, and sped back and forth several times. (Fowler 1974, p. 338.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Peabody, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3025 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11825 (49645017) Date: 4/19/1966 Description: 12:00 p.m. EST. On the north-northeast side of the Boston metroplex, witnesses reported an oval object with red, green, f and white body lights, oscillating up and down when in motion. The object appeared to land in a field. Later two witnesses approached the field and saw unidentified lights rise and fly away. (Fowler, 1974, p. 339.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Peabody, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3030 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11826 (3977A74D) Date: 4/19/1966 Description: 10:00 p.m. EST. Two hours later about 80 miles east-northeast of Hartford, an elongated elliptical object with bright red lights on each end flew low, hovered, and made a hissing sound when moving. A separate report was received of a "piercing, humming object" two hours earlier at Stoughton. (Massachusetts NICAP Subcommittee report; Fowler 1974, p. 339) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bellingham, Ct Source ID: NICAP_DB_3032 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11827 (3F23D1E1) Date: 4/19/1966 Description: There were five UFO reports this day from Massachusetts and one from neighboring Connecticut. At 12:15 a.m. in Sharon, Massachusetts an oval-shaped UFO has a glowing rim that looked like they might be lighted windows. It had a steady red light on each end and was the size of a car. At 8:00 p.m. an object described as a high-flying, bright purple light flew over Stoughton, Massachusetts giving off a loud, piercing humming sound. At 8:11 p.m. two oval-shaped UFOs with red and green lights hovered directly over the veterans' home and hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. At 10:00 p.m. an elongated oval-shaped craft with bright red lights on each end was seen descending into a wooded area in Bellingham, Massachusetts. Five aircraft and a helicopter flew over the area after the UFO landed remotely, and two aircraft seemed to be circling the area. At 11:45 p.m. a large disc flew over Quincy, Massachusetts accompanied by two smaller discs. They flashed red and white lights, hovered, and swung in the sky in a pendulum motion. At midnight a UFO about the size of a car was seen by two witnesses in a field in Peabody, Massachusetts. It had red, green and white lights, moved with an up-and-down motion, and appeared to land. When the witnesses approached they saw the lights rise from the ground and fly away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler investigation files, reports dated April 20-May 14, 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 761 Source ID: Johnson_2134 Source: Johnson ### Event 11828 (45CCEE42) Date: 4/19/1966 Time: 2200 Description: Two women saw a cigar-shaped object, with bright, red lights at both ends, flying erratically. It made a whistling sound when moving, was silent when hovering. Minimum distance: 100 m, length, 20 m. The lights began flashing and the object went down behind some trees when five planes and a helicopter came over the area. Two of the aircraft circled the location, then flew on. The whistling sound was again heard, but the object was not seen after the departure of the planes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bellingham, Massachusetts Source ID: Magnonia_760 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11829 (DC63630D) Date: 4/19/1966 Description: 8:00 p.m. EST. Two oval objects with red and green body lights hovered directly over the Rock Hill Veterans Home and Hospital. (Fowler 1974, p. 339.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hartford, Ct Source ID: NICAP_DB_3031 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11830 (9D5816B3) Date: 4/19/1966 Description: 11:45 p.m. EST. Several persons saw a large disc-shaped object accompanied by two smaller discs that flashed red and white lights, hovered and swung back and forth like a pendulum. (Fowler 1974, < p. 339.) \[Note: Bellingham, Cohasset, Quincy, Sharon, and Stoughton, Mass., all are within about a 30-mile radius of Boston, in an arc from the southeast to the southwest.\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Quincy, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3033 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11831 (E9D6B603) Date: 4/19/1966 Time: 2245 Description: A man saw what he thought was a crashing plane, then observed it was oval, had white, red, and green lights, flew low over him, circled, came down with pendulum motion, and appeared to land on Route 114. At midnight, two men driving along that route saw a beam sweep the road, stopped, and saw the object in a field. It was a disk with a white, a green, and three red lights. The two reports were independent. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Peabody, Massachusetts Source ID: Magnonia_761 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11832 (D19C2E20) Date: 4/19/1966 Description: 12:15 a.m. EST. Citizens and police called to the scene to investigate saw an oval or egg-shaped obiect with a glowing rim that looked like lighted windows, and a steady red light on each end. The object hovered, then disappeared when an aircraft approached (aircraft avoidance), reappearing after it left. (Fowler 1974, pp. 128-130, 340; NICAP report.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sharon, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3029 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11833 (A763C5F9) Date: 4/19/1966 Description: 10:45 p.m. In Peabody, Massachusetts, witnesses report an oval object with red, green, and white body lights, oscillating up and down when in motion. The object appears to land in a field off State Highway 114. At 12:00 midnight, two men driving along that route see the lighted disc rise and fly away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vallée, Magonia, [p. 329](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/328/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4030 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11834 (7797D0B0) Date: 4/20/1966 Description: Time not reported. A couple reported watching six gray objects make a sharp turn in unison, separate slightly, climb and take off at high speed. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charlevoix, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3035 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11835 (96F746FF) Date: 4/20/1966 Description: Early morning. An airline pilot observed an unidentified bright orange object. (Project 1947 reports, Aldrich fit Greenwood; cited in Weinstein, 1999, p. 34) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Over, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3034 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11836 (11E4CFCD) Date: 4/21/1966 Description: [William Dean Howe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FDean%5FHowe)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FDean%5FHowe) MP for Ottawa, Ontario, urges a serious investigation of UFOs in the Canadian House of Commons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Canadian Projects,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/046%20FEB-MAR%201969.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 10 \(Feb./March 1969\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_4031 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11837 (B037A1F5) Date: 4/21/1966 Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_86 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11838 (20634FF2) Date: 4/21/1966 Description: Rep. Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) issued news release announcing that USAF was arranging for a "study of UFOs by topflight scientists not connected in any way with the Air Force." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_87 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11839 (1F704BE4) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: Time not reported. A Department of Defense engineering technician saw a disc with a row of windows like mercury vapor lamps. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Island, Douglastown, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3040 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11840 (1A4C7CE4) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: At 2:00 a.m. Dr. Eula Page, a psychologist, was driving home from Texas with her two children and a friend when she noticed a luminous object as big as the moon darting back-and-forth across the highway. She had just crossed the Red River bridge into Oklahoma near Thackerville when she noticed she had driven directly underneath it so she stopped the car. It descended and hovered close to the car. The UFO was luminous and lens-shaped, more than twice the length of her station wagon. It was surrounded by a spherical framework that was revolving around it. On one side of the disc was a long window through which four human-looking occupants could clearly be seen. They had slanted, "Oriental" shaped eyes and were wearing tight fitting, silverly gray uniforms. Her daughter said that one was a woman. Standing outside the car, Dr. Page watched the UFO for about 20 minutes. A "force field" around the craft made it difficult for her to breathe, and a hot wind blew from the sphere that smelt "electrical." Finally another car approached, and the UFO quickly moved away toward the river.They felt a hot wind from the UFO as well. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0708, citing Dr. R. Cedric Leonard and Walt Andrus for MUFON, Hayden Hewes; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966).

Thirty minutes later near Randlett, Oklahoma two teenagers saw a large disc-shaped craft swinging back and forth over I-35. Four human-looking occupants are clearly observed inside through a transparent opening. The area around the witnesses was brightly illuminated and there was a smell of ozone in the air. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966 Source ID: Johnson_2216 Source: Johnson ### Event 11841 (7A53BF76) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: 12:15 a.m. A disc emitting bright white light from a dome on top and with rotating red lights around the rim approached a car within about 40 feet, and hovered. The frightened witnesses fled at high speed, and the UFO apparently followed. The object was finally seen speeding away to the northeast. (Keyhoe & Lore, 1969a, p. 8; report by Walter N. Webb.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alliance, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3039 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11842 (16B12110) Date: 4/22/1966 Time: 1530 Description: Several people were said to have observed an object fly at low altitude and land outside Bagley. Four dwarfs seemed to make repairs, then the craft flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Mar., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bagley, Minnesota Source ID: Magnonia_762 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11843 (799AD2A1) Date: 4/22/1966 Time: 2100 Description: A child saw a blinding, multicolored source of light making a buzzing sound as it flew over the road 15 m away from the house. It seemed to land in a field near the school. Three adults came out to calm the child and also saw the object circling and hovering. They called the police. Two officers arrived and saw the object appearing to "dance" with two other craft. All witnesses then observed the arrival of one helicopter and two aircraft, as the remaining object flew away to the southwest. Police described the object as plate-shaped when stationary above the school building. TV reception was blurred throughout the observation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Beverly, Massachusetts Source ID: Magnonia_763 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11844 (D79443BE) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: 3:30 p.m. CST. Several witnesses reported seeing an object flying at low altitude and apparently landing. Four small occupants (described as "dwarfs") apparently made repairs and the craft flew away. (Vallee, 1969, pp. 329-30). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bagley, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3041 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11845 (E7071D88) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: A platter shaped object the size of a large car with 3 red-green-white lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beverly, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3036 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11846 (4060EA4C) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: Thirty minutes later, at 9:30 p.m. Gordon College students and a maintenance man in Wenham, Massachusetts saw an orange, circular object approach to within 600 feet at an altitude of only 100. It made a 90 degree turn, and went behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation files, report dated June 29, 1966; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 136 & 340 Source ID: Johnson_2220 Source: Johnson ### Event 11847 (7496EA98) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: 9:30 p.m. EST. Several witnesses at a college saw an orange circular object approach to within 600 feet at about 100 feet altitude. The object made a right angle turn and moved out of sight behind trees. (Fowler 1974, p. 340.) \[Note: There are two towns named Wenham, one north and one south of Boston.\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wenham, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3042 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11848 (616A8EE0) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: Edward Vojtko, a music teacher, and his wife saw a red light in the sky at 12:15 a.m. while driving home from a late night teachers meeting in Alliance, Ohio. They were near the golf course traveling north, about five miles west of the town, when the object silently moved towards them, revealing itself to be a large disc with a dome on top. It was dark with a white light on top, 45 feet in diameter, and with a row of rotating red lights. It came closer and hovered only 40 feet away. Frightened, they drove off at high speed and it pursued them. After two minutes it broke off and went behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 8; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, pp. 22-23 Source ID: Johnson_2215 Source: Johnson ### Event 11849 (F0EDF397) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: Time not reported. About 60 miles south of Beverly, three women saw a round object with colored blinking body lights pace above and ahead of heir car. A low humming sound was heard. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Halifax, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3037 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11850 (4FD7268C) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: Time not reported. About 110 miles west-southwest of Beverly, a teacher and a boy saw a dome-shaped object with three lights on its underside hover, then accelerate away. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3038 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11851 (57BAF595) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: At 9:00 p.m. EDT a plate-shaped UFO flashing multi-colored lights was observed low over a school in Beverly, Massachusetts for 30 minutes by ten youths. The UFO made a humming sound and created television interference. It hovered just thirty feet over the Beverly High School building. There were intense, flashing blue, green, and red lights racing around the perimeter of the object, as well as a soft white light. Estimated to be about the size of a car, it tilted and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation files, report dated April 24, 1966; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 340; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 93; UNICAT database, case 377, citing Raymond Fowler Source ID: Johnson_2219 Source: Johnson ### Event 11852 (72938FBA) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: 9:00–9:45 p.m. Witnesses in Beverly, Massachusetts, including two police officers, see a platter-shaped object the size of a large automobile with 3 red-green-white lights hover silently over Beverly High School then depart to the southwest. At one point, witnesses see the object only 20–30 feet above the head of another witness. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Condon, [pp. 266–270](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/266/mode/2up); J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 106–108](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/106/mode/2up); Roy Craig, UFOs: An Insiders’ View of the Official Quest for Evidence, University of North Texas, 1995; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 314; Patrick Gross, “[The Case in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA, on April 22, 1966](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/beverly66.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4034 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11853 (FEEFFC2A) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: Lt. Col. [Robert R. Hippler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65715202/robert-r-hippler) of the USAF Directorate of Science and Technology is tasked with recruiting a university for the UFO project suggested by the O’Brien committee in February. He assembles a panel of experts that suggests he bring in [H. Guyford Stever](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyford%5FStever), head of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. Stever queries MIT, Harvard, the University of California, Northwestern University, and the University of North Carolina, but all refuse to deal with UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 307–308 Source ID: Eberhart_4033 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11854 (91A6850D) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: [Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) announces in a press release that the Portage County, Ohio, UFO is an Echo satellite, with later observations \(in Pennsylvania\) of Venus. Quintanilla calls [Spaur](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165680198/dale-floyd-spaur)’s superior, Portage County Sheriff [Ross](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181108098/ross-dustman) [Dustman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181108098/ross-dustman)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181108098/ross-dustman) to give him this explanation, and Dustman laughs out loud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 910 Source ID: Eberhart_4032 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11855 (63D90526) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: An orange sphere was seen flying over the coast at Figueira da Foz, Portugal at nine p.m. local time. At 3:30 p.m. CDT--within an hour of the sighting in Portugal--a flying saucer flew down the main street of Bagley, Minnesota at a low altitude, jumped over a school bus and landed on the outskirts of town. Four beings of small stature got out of the UFO, seemed to do some work on it, got back in and then took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos case investigation files; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-18; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, March 1967, p. 24; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 762 Source ID: Johnson_2218 Source: Johnson ### Event 11856 (1F4072AD) Date: 4/22/1966 Description: At 9:30 p.m. two witnesses reported a 10-meter long, cigar-shaped object hovering vertically over Chauvigny, Vienne, France. They saw two solid, coherent light beams retract inside the object. Finally, it shot away fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 241; NICAP files Source ID: Johnson_2217 Source: Johnson ### Event 11857 (F5DCBEAD) Date: 4/23/1966 Description: Time not reported. A round white object approached and followed a car. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warren, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3044 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11858 (EF988025) Date: 4/23/1966 Description: 2:10 a.m. CDT. A farm family saw a cigar-shaped object with lights at each end illuminating the ground with red light. The object had two blue lights extending above the left end, a red light at the right end, and an amber glow emanating from its underside. A loud roaring sound was heard as it settled onto the ground. Then they heard loud crackling sounds like gunshots, and their cattle bolted. An odor of ozone was in the air. Later they found imprints in the field where the object had landed, apparently caused by the undercarriage. (Keyhoe & Lore, 1969a, p. 22.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yorktown, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3043 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11859 (27A5F78B) Date: 4/23/1966 Description: Shaped" (elliptical) object with white lights around its perimeter, colored flashing lights on its underside. (Fowler 1974, p. 340.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Randolph, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3045 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11860 (C99639EE) Date: 4/23/1966 Description: At 2:15 in the afternoon in Bingham, Maine Miss Kim Baker, a 6-year-old girl, saw a shiny metallic, lens-shaped object, 18 feet wide, descend and land a few yards from her in a field. It had red lights on each side, a flashing green light on top, and a rectangular window through which she saw a man's face. He winked and smiled at her, and said something she could not hear. He had a "bubble" on his head that he took off before speaking. He then stood up, and she could see that he was wearing "shiny white" clothing with numerous black buttons on his chest. Then the object took off again. At the site her parents found a circular area of crushed pussy willow bushes, about 15 feet in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-20, citing Richard Bonenfant; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966 Source ID: Johnson_2255 Source: Johnson ### Event 11861 (A0C2CDE7) Date: 4/23/1966 Description: At around 2:00 a.m. a 60-foot long cigar-shaped object with multiple legs for landing gear and a light beam, making a roaring noise, landed on the Johnson farm in Clarinda, Iowa. It illuminated the area surrounding it with a red color, and cattle on the farm bolted and ran in response to the object's presence. It left behind a smell like ozone and deep impressions in the ground, with 20 imprints. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, pp. 22 & 70; NICAP case investigation files; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 198, 263, 279 & 320; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 41; Gordon Creighton, FSR, January-February 1971, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_2254 Source: Johnson ### Event 11862 (1F47BB35) Date: 4/23/1966 Description: 10:45 p.m. On hearing a listener call in a live UFO sighting on WMEX radio, Jeanne Kalnicki of Dorchester, Massachusetts, goes to the window with her two daughters and sees an oval, domed UFO with a ring of blinking red lights bobbing up and down above a building across the street. A yellow light is on top of the dome and alternately flashes on when the red lights blink off. It moves across the street and appears to be moving directly toward them at eye level. Humming, the object moves between their apartment building and the one next door, where it hovers for a few minutes. When the yellow light goes off, Kalnicki can see a glow within the dome. The object then moves erratically away to the east. The family goes to bed, but at 5:00 a.m., 11-year-old Judy Kalnicki is too upset to sleep, She wakes up when she sees a light coming in her window and realizes that the UFO is right outside, bobbing up and down, looking about the size of their 1955 Lincoln automobile, and flashing its lights as before. Thinking it is going to come inside her bedroom, Judy screams. Seemingly in response, the object speeds up its bobbing motion, and she hears a heavy thudding sound. The windows rattle, Judy’s bed rocks, and all the lights in the house go off. Downstairs, their German shepherd is whining and scratching at the door. The entire family rushes to the back porch, where they watch the object for about 12 minutes moving to the north toward Boston. The lights come back on. NICAP’s investigation shows that the power failure affected 2,500 homes in the area and was caused by two cables burning out a block away from the Kalnicki apartment. One particle on the window sill registered a strong radiation reading of .025 millimentgens per hour from a Geiger counter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 46–47 Source ID: Eberhart_4035 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11863 (A189D0A7) Date: 4/23/1966 End date: 4/24/1966 Description: 10:30 p.m. EST. Members of a family about 13 miles north of Randolph, Mass., saw a disc with dome on top and blinking red lights around the edge, and a brilliant yellow light on top of the dome, bobbing up and down as it moved. The yellow light blinked or flashed alternately with the red lights. The object stopped, hovering over a building. After a while it approached the family's apartment building and maneuvered between it and the adjacent building, emitting a humming sound. It hovered again briefly at the end of the alley, then moved away erratically to the east and disappeared. The same or an identical object was seen again several hours (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dorchester, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3047 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11864 (F952D383) Date: 4/24/1966 Description: Silent object with a bright blue light on top dive within 100 ft of a car (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ashby, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3046 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11865 (4BC4E4F3) Date: 4/24/1966 Description: 5:00 a.m. EDT. The same family as in the previous entry saw an identical oval or discoidal object with dome and yellow light on top and red lights around the edge. flashing in the same pattern as the night before. The object emitted a humming sound and "weird, whirring, mechanical noises" as it bobbed around apparently close to the building. An explosive sound was heard, the windows rattled and furniture shook, and the lights went out. The family German shepherd doa whined and scratched at the door (animal reaction). The start of a power failure, which affected about 2,500 homes in the area, was officially timed at 4:57 a.m. It was later attributed to a breakdown in the insulation of the wiring at a point very near the apartment building. Later that evening investigators detected some abnormal radiation on the window sill where the object had been seen. (Keyhoe & Lore, 1969b, pp. 45-47; Walter N. Webb investigation report; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 8, May-June 1966, pp. 7-8; Fowler 1974, p. 340.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dorchester, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3048 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11866 (9ABCDFDA) Date: 4/24/1966 Description: 3:30 a.m. CDT. An architect and Naval reserve officer camping out with his daughter heard a fluttering sound, then they saw a disc-like object (estimated 20 feet diameter) with a double row of lights or ports around the rim hovering 150- 200 feet away at treetop height. It appeared to be rotating, and a blue light pulsated around its rim. The UFO gradually accelerated and moved away to the southwest. (NICAP report form; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 8, May-June 1966, p. 8 ). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Johnson City, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3050 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11867 (EB28D267) Date: 4/24/1966 Time: 0330 Description: Tom M. Lasseter, architect, was camping near the river when he was awakened by a fluttering sound and observed a glowing white disk, 7 m in diameter, at treetop level 60 m away. It had a row of lights. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP May., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pedernales River, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_764 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11868 (8FF92CF0) Date: 4/24/1966 Description: Thirty minutes later, at 5:00 a.m. Eastern time, Mrs. Kalnicki saw a multicolored domed disc with blinking red lights on its rim move between two apartment buildings in Dorchester, Massachusetts. It had a yellow light on top, and emitted a humming noise.There were a total of five witnesses, and the sighting lasted 12 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Webb, case files report #63; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 46; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 320; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 173 Source ID: Johnson_2277 Source: Johnson ### Event 11869 (6E91A4F4) Date: 4/24/1966 Description: At 3:30 a.m. Mr. Tom M. Lasseter, an architect, was camping near the Pedernales River in Texas when he was awakened by a fluttering sound and observed a glowing white disc that was at treetop level 60 meters away. It was seven meters in diameter and had a row of lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 764 Source ID: Johnson_2276 Source: Johnson ### Event 11870 (770BB83F) Date: 4/24/1966 Description: At 6:10 p.m. two men in Ashby, Massachusetts saw an object dive within 30 meters of their car. It was silent, had a bright blue light on top, suddenly accelerated, and was lost to sight toward Mt. Watatic. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 763 Source ID: Johnson_2278 Source: Johnson ### Event 11871 (2506E0B1) Date: 4/24/1966 Description: Night. [Marvin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187212747/marvin-g%5F-swartwood) and [Viola Swartwood](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133656225/viola-r-swartwood) are driving in a rainstorm on State Highway 34B near Fleming, New York, when a “brilliant, flashing ball of fire” appears three feet above the front and slightly to the right of their car. The fire ball lights up the surrounding area, falls onto the car with a loud snap, and vanishes. As the ball lightning hits, Viola feels a shock in her neck and an impulse in her right arm. They drive to the sheriff’s office and then to a local hospital because the right side of Viola’s body is partially paralyzed. She is in satisfactory condition 5 days later. There is no damage to the car or any reports of normal lightning in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Ball of Fire’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92312228/) [Hits Car; Woman Passenger Hurt,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92312228/)” Syracuse \(N.Y.\) Post-Standard, April 28, 1966, p. 38; “[Ball-of-Fire Victim’s](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92312540/) [Condition Improving,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92312540/)” Binghamton \(N.Y.\) Press and Sun-Bulletin, April 29, 1966, p. 3C; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_4036 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11872 (DC497527) Date: 4/24/1966 Time: 1810 Description: Two men saw an object dive within 30 m of their car. It was silent, had a bright blue light on top, suddenly accelerated, and was lost to sight toward Mt. Watatic. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ashby, Massachusetts Source ID: Magnonia_765 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11873 (4D52ACC9) Date: 4/25/1966 Description: At 8:52 p.m. EDT the governor of Florida's plane was paced by two UFOs over Ocala, Florida. The crew and passengers of the Convair aircraft carrying Florida Governor Haydon Burns sighted two apparently connected bright yellow or yellow-orange globe-shaped objects that paced the plane for about 40 miles. Witnesses included newsmen and state officials. When Burns ordered his pilot to turn toward the UFOs, they climbed steeply and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Palm Beach Post, April 28, 1966; NICAP UFO Investigator, May-June 1966. p. 3; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers Here and Now, p. 59; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 117 Source ID: Johnson_2296 Source: Johnson ### Event 11874 (754CA863) Date: 4/25/1966 Description: Night. As their car engine and headlights failed and they felt heat, motorists saw a UFO with four portholes hovering about 350 feet away, flames shooting off of it. (Rodeghier, 1981, p. 29) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Towanda, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3051 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11875 (A9E5F5A4) Date: 4/25/1966 Description: Governor's plane paced by globes (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [660425](http://www.nicap.org/660425ocala%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ocala, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3052 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11876 (BB80EA93) Date: 4/25/1966 Description: On this night at around 8:15 p.m. two motorists in Towanda, Pennsylvania felt heat and had their car engine and headlights fail when they encountered a UFO with four portholes hovering about 350 feet away, with flames shooting off of it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Green Beckley, Flying Saucers, December 1969, p. 21; Berthold E. Schwarz, Beyond Condon: FSR Special Edition No. 2, p. 46; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_2295 Source: Johnson ### Event 11877 (861F1A28) Date: Late 4/1966 Description: When he learns that Rep. [J. William Stanton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FWilliam%5FStanton) \(R-Ohio\) has expressed an interest in the UFO chase, NICAP investigator William B. Weitzel writes him a detailed letter, outlining the inconsistencies and shortcomings of [Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla)’s explanations. Portage County \(Ohio\) Judge [Robert Eugene Cook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FE.%5FCook) \(an acquaintance of [Spaur](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165680198/dale-floyd-spaur) and Neff\) also writes to Stanton, defending the police officers’ judgment and characterizing the Air Force investigation as “grossly unfair” to Spaur and Neff. Stanton fails to get an answer from the Air Force, so he contacts USAF Chief of Community Relations Division Lt. Col. [John Spalding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121029499/john-robert-spalding)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121029499/john-robert-spalding) who promises to send an investigator. Stanton later writes to Defense Secretary [Robert McNamara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FMcNamara) about Blue Book’s treatment of his constituents. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 911 Source ID: Eberhart_4038 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11878 (8C661549) Date: 4/25/1966 Description: 8:52 p.m. Florida Gov. [W. Haydon Burns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%5FHaydon%5FBurns)’s campaign airplane is paced by a UFO. Copilot Herb Bates first notices the UFO when the Convair takes off from Orlando, Florida, headed for Tallahassee. It appears as two bright yellow globes side by side. In the vicinity of Ocala, at about 6,000 feet, everyone on board is alerted and watches the object pacing the plane on the right side. The lights fluctuate in brightness but are very distinct. Burns orders the pilot to turn toward the UFO, and the lights quickly begin a steep climb then disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Mansfield, “[I Was with Burns and Saw ‘Flying Saucer,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95313657/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Herald, April 27, 1966, p. 1; “[Florida Governor](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/032%20MAY-JUN%201966.pdf) [Sights UFO,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/032%20MAY-JUN%201966.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 8 \(May/June 1966\): 3; “[Governor Haydon Burns Sees a UFO,](http://www.educatinghumanity.com/2016/04/governor-sees-ufos.html)” Educating Humanity, April 26, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_4037 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11879 (C6C4B5BC) Date: 4/26/1966 Description: A young man was driving his car in Follansbee, West Virginia at 11:30 p.m. when he saw a silent UFO shaped like two bowls glued together. It flew at 30 meters altitude, ahead of his car. He estimated the diameter of the object at 10 meters. He drove away as quickly as he could without looking back. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 766, citing US Air Force ATIC; http://www.nicap.org/waves/1966fullrep.htm Source ID: Johnson_2337 Source: Johnson ### Event 11880 (BBF8104D) Date: 4/26/1966 Description: Silent 30 ft object shaped like 2 bowls, at 100 ft altitude ahead of a car (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Follansbee, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_3053 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11881 (228442D4) Date: 4/26/1966 Time: 2330 Description: A young man saw a silent object shaped like two bowls glued together, 30 m altitude, ahead of his car. Estimated diameter: 10 m. He drove away without looking behind. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Follansbee, West Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_766 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11882 (FF21A8BC) Date: 4/27/1966 Description: Radar Sighting, #7 of 24 Incidents (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [660427](http://www.nicap.org/660427guam%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Anderson AFB, Guam Source ID: NICAP_DB_3054 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11883 (0007012C) Date: 4/28/1966 Description: 5:00 a.m. LT. Two men suddenly awoke in their van, with an acidic taste in their mouths and difficulty breathing (physiological effects), birds were shrieking. They looked out and saw two large spherical objects moving away. (Flying Saucer Review, May/June 1967. cited in Schuessler, 1996, p. 42). (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3055 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11884 (F563427A) Date: 4/29/1966 Description: At 3:55 p.m. a disc-shaped object with portholes and exhaust pipes circled a Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft flown by a single private pilot at 10,000 feet altitude. According to the witness, who was flying between Asuncion, Paraguay to Posadas, Argentina, the UFO moved extremely fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_2410 Source: Johnson ### Event 11885 (7DBBEB7E) Date: 4/29/1966 Description: 3:55 p.m. LT. The pilot of a Beechcraft Bonanza en route to Posadas, Argentina, saw a gray object like one plate inverted on top of the other (disc) with portholes, and emitting an apparent exhaust. (Weinstein, 1999, p. 34, from Lumieres Dan La Nuit, No. 125) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paraguay, Ascuncion, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3056 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11886 (70572F58) Date: 4/30/1966 Description: Three objects near airplane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [660430](http://www.nicap.org/660430pasadena%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pasadena, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3058 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11887 (AB812994) Date: 4/30/1966 Description: Woman saw a light move around the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sacramento, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3057 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11888 (335B5AC0) Date: 4/30/1966 Time: 3:15 AM Description: Witness: Anita Miller. One light moved around the sky for 2.5 hours. No further detail in files. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Sacramento, California Source ID: BerlinerBBU_541 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11889 (DC9C5D9B) Date: 4/30/1966 Description: At 3:15 a.m. Anita Miller saw a light moving around in the sky for 2.5 hours over Sacramento, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_2426 Source: Johnson ### Event 11890 (829CDDC3) Date: 5/1966 Description: Multi witness, daylight landing, (#234) occupants (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Whiteman AFB, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3059 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11891 (406224E5) Date: 5/1/1966 Description: A low-flying oval-shaped object with bright rotating red, green and white lights flew over the Watertown Arsenal in Middlesex County, Massachusetts at 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation, report dated May 6, 1966; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341 Source ID: Johnson_2439 Source: Johnson ### Event 11892 (AFC679C1) Date: 5/1/1966 Description: 10:00 p.m. EDT. Four witnesses saw an oval object with bright rotating red, green, and white lights pass over the Watertown Arsenal. (Fowler 1974, p. 341) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Watertown, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3060 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11893 (970AD61B) Date: 5/4/1966 Description: Air traffic controller & pilot saw white-blue object, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [660504](http://www.nicap.org/660504charlestondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charleston, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_3061 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11894 (88B74A38) Date: 5/4/1966 Description: Braniff Airlines Flt. 42 (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [660504](http://www.nicap.org/660504charlestondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charleston, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_3062 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11895 (46F7FE46) Date: 5/4/1966 Description: Time not reported. About 10 people watched a saucer-shaped glowing object hover above the trees for 30 minutes. Smaller lights, occasionally flashing, darted to and from it. The object departed when an aircraft approached the area (aircraft avoidance). (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cardington, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3063 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11896 (908E7A6D) Date: 5/4/1966 Description: At 3:40 a.m. an FAA air traffic controller in Charleston, West Virginia tracked an unidentified, non-transponding target about five miles to the 11 o'clock position from Braniff Airline Flight 42 headed east at 33,000 feet, which the crew saw high above them as a bluish-white object giving off a brilliant flaming light of alternating white-green-red colors. Radar showed the object veering away to 8-10 miles away at the 10 o'clock position, then come at the Braniff airliner to within three miles distance, then made a 180° left turn to the NW again within a diameter of 5 miles at 1,000 mph [5 G's]. The Braniff crew confirmed the object descending from 20° elevation above horizon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 73; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 34; UNICAT, case # 319; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 163 Source ID: Johnson_2506 Source: Johnson ### Event 11897 (4D928333) Date: 5/4/1966 Description: 4:30 a.m. An FAA air traffic controller tracks an unidentified non-transponding target for about 5 miles at Charleston, West Virginia. The crew of Braniff Airline Flight 42, headed east at 33,000 feet, sees a white-blue object giving off brilliant, flaming light of alternating white-green-red colors. The radar shows the object veering 8–10 miles away at the 10 o’clock position, then approaching the Braniff airliner to a distance of 3 miles. It then makes a 180° left turn to the northwest within a diameter of 5 miles at 1,000 mph, which the Braniff crew confirms as the object descends from 20° above the horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Charleston R/V Case](http://www.nicap.org/660504charlestondir.htm)”; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 83–86](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/82/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4039 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11898 (F4A61A7B) Date: 5/4/1966 Description: Later that evening at 10 p.m. a white disc flew up to a farm in Cardington, Ohio and hovered low over a farmyard for 30 minutes. It took off fast when an airplane came into view. Two more sighting reports were made that day to Project Blue Book from nearby Columbus, Ohio. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #7237; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1966; Project Blue Book files Source ID: Johnson_2507 Source: Johnson ### Event 11899 (FBF9DC77) Date: 5/5/1966 Description: One year later, at 5:45 p.m. four UFOs were sighted at 20 degrees elevation by the navigating officer and several other crewmen aboard the HMAS ANZAC while sailing south of the Santa Cruz Islands. They were closely grouped, and the lead object glowed red. The trailing three objects were green, and formed an equilateral triangle. They left trails of color six times the size of the objects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Debbie Payne, Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_2541 Source: Johnson ### Event 11900 (36BE82B4) Date: 5/6/1966 Description: 2:05 a.m. EDT. In Collier County, southwest Florida, vicinity of Naples, a shaken motorist made a statement to Naples police about his car being approached from behind by a "large white light" that came within about 100-150 feet of his car, changing color to blue-green. He tried to flee, but the UFO zoomed past him making a "whooshing" noise, and circled around to the left and disappeared. (NICAP notes, police statement in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carnestown, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3064 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11901 (BB2FCBCC) Date: 5/6/1966 Description: At 2:05 a.m. EDT. in Collier County, southwest Florida, near Carnestown in the vicinity of Naples, a shaken motorist made a statement to Naples police about his car being approached from behind by a "large white light" that came within about 100-150 feet of his car, changing color to blue-green. He tried to flee, but the UFO zoomed past him making a "whooshing" noise, and circled around to the left and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Miami Herald, May 7, 1966; NICAP notes, police statement in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers: Here and Now, p. 59 Source ID: Johnson_2583 Source: Johnson ### Event 11902 (C8E44B2D) Date: 5/7/1966 Time: 9:55 PM Description: Witness: A/3c W.L. Whitehead. One short, cylindrical object with pointed ends and a yellow light at one end and blue light at the other, flew straight and level for 35 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Goodfellow AFB, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_542 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11903 (68691EF1) Date: 5/7/1966 Description: A short, cylindrical object with pointed ends was sighted over Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas at 9:55 p.m. by Airman 3rd class W. L. Whitehead. It had a yellow light at one end, a blue light at the other, and flew straight and level for 35 seconds. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 10535; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_2617 Source: Johnson ### Event 11904 (32BBF8E9) Date: 5/7/1966 Description: Short, cylindrical object with pointed ends (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10535) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goodfellow AFB, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3065 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11905 (DB80E523) Date: 5/8/1966 Description: On this afternoon a 75-foot long diamond-shaped object was photographed north of Ipamari, Goias State, Brazil as it flew to the south over the rainforest on the other side of the river. It made a 90 degree turn making a low-pitched whining sound, and sped off inland to the west. The color photograph appeared in LIFE magazine. The photographer's name was Pfeiffer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July 1977, p. 4; James Moseley, Saucer News, March 1967, p. 35; Inforespace, June 1976 Source ID: Johnson_2654 Source: Johnson ### Event 11906 (255824C8) Date: 5/8/1966 Description: Gallup Poll reported 96 percent public awareness of UFOs, and that nearly half of the adult population believed UFOs were real. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_88 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11907 (09AC0EBA) Date: 5/8/1966 Description: [Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) calls [Spaur](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165680198/dale-floyd-spaur) again and tells him to be ready for an interview the next day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_4041 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11908 (2EF04C06) Date: 5/8/1966 Description: John Beers and a female friend were driving south on County Road G in Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin when they noticed some blinking white and green lights pacing their car. The lights were first seen above the roadside telephone poles, and they followed his car to Highway 151, and then to Columbus, Wisconsin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 62 Source ID: Johnson_2655 Source: Johnson ### Event 11909 (D08AE952) Date: 5/8/1966 Description: A Gallup Poll taken April 14–19 reveals that 46% of Americans who have heard about UFOs think they are real, although only 7% think they are from outer space. 5% of US adults have seen a UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Five Million Say](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/032%20MAY-JUN%201966.pdf) [They’ve Seen Saucers,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/032%20MAY-JUN%201966.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 8 \(May/June 1966\): 7; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 11–12; Lydia Saad, “[Eyewitnesses to Flying Saucers,](https://news.gallup.com/vault/190592/gallup-vault-eyewitnesses-flying-saucers.aspx)” Gallup Vault, April 12, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_4040 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11910 (F47DA66F) Date: 5/8/1966 Description: A 16-year-old named Bruce Pollock took three photographs of three hexagonal flying objects at 5:30 a.m. in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966, p. 32; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 7 (1976), page 60 Source ID: Johnson_2653 Source: Johnson ### Event 11911 (F69BFEBB) Date: 5/9/1966 Description: Weitzel is at Portage County police headquarters in Ravenna, Ohio, to record [Spaur](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165680198/dale-floyd-spaur)’s interview and has brought two reporters and UFO researcher David Webb. [Dustman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181108098/ross-dustman) is there too. [Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) asks Weitzel and Webb to leave, and the reporters leave as well. The interview becomes heated at times. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Interview with Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur, 1966,” SpaceTimeForum YouTube channel, March 28, 2013; Clark III 911–912 Source ID: Eberhart_4042 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11912 (ADC3805B) Date: 5/10/1966 Time: 2200 Description: Approximate date. The crowd at a movie projection panicked, thinking it was an earthquake, as an unknown object exploded. According to police, a sulphurous odor and a trace 25 cm deep, 35 cm wide, were noted at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 84 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Atafona Campos, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_768 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11913 (CEAA7AD8) Date: 5/10/1966 Time: 1652 Description: A man observed the landing of an oval object and two beings, who ame out of the object through a system of light beams. They used strange instruments to examine a number of objects, especially plants. They were 2 m tall, had oversized heads, appeared bright and "transparent." Their eyes were slanted, their shoulders very broad. They wore no apparent weapon, but their belts were very wide and emitted light rays. They did not touch anything without first illuminating it with these beams. They went back aboard their craft "as if carried by the light." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Marisela Caracas, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_767 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11914 (80CC5A28) Date: 5/10/1966 Description: CBS Reports "Flying Saucers: Friend, Foe or Fantasy?" presented extremely negative Air Force and "scientific" views, primarily those of Dr. Donald Menzel and Dr. Carl Sagan, both skeptics. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_89 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11915 (64FE3B06) Date: 5/10/1966 Description: In Marisela, an area of Caracas, Venezuela a man observed the landing of an oval-shaped object and two beings at 4:52 p.m. The beings emerged from the object through a system of light beams. The creings used strange instruments to examine a number of objects, especially some plants. They were two meters tall, had oversized heads, and appeared bright and "transparent." Their eyes were slanted and they had very broad shoulders. They wore no apparent weapons, but their belts were very wide and emitted light rays. They did not touch anything without first illuminating it with these beams. They went back aboard their craft "as if carried by the light." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 768 Source ID: Johnson_2716 Source: Johnson ### Event 11916 (A075D14D) Date: 5/10/1966 Description: At 10:00 p.m. on or about this date, a crowd of people in Atafona Campos, Brazil were watching an outdoor movie when an unknown aerial object crashed and exploded. They panicked, thinking at the time it was perhaps related to an earthquake. According to the police, a sulphurous odor and a hole in the ground 25 cm deep and 35 cm wide were noted at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 767 Source ID: Johnson_2717 Source: Johnson ### Event 11917 (12C2CE48) Date: 5/10/1966 Description: The documentary “UFOs: Friend, Foe, or Fantasy?” appears on CBS Reports, hosted by [Walter Cronkite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FCronkite) and narrator [Bill Stout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FStout)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FStout) Guests include [Carl Sagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSagan), [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel), [Harold Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FBrown%5F%28Secretary%5Fof%5FDefense%29), [Lawrence Tacker](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30450384/lawrence-j-tacker), [Donald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) The tenor of the show is to debunk UFOs, although Cronkite says the CIA has been secretly tracking UFO sightings around the world, even as it denies doing so. Air Force Capt. Gary Reese claims that NORAD’s satellite-tracking radar covers altitudes from 100,000 feet to 2,000 miles up but never finds any UFOs. He neglects to mention that UFOs are found in the atmosphere below 100,000 feet. \(Even so, NORAD has been detecting occasional Unidentified Satellites, USATs, for years.\) Reese makes a broad statement that the Air Force has never substantiated a “flying saucer” despite NORAD’s covering “nearly every square foot of the US” on its radar. USAF Maj. Albert Morse of NORAD spacetrack network supports Reese. A handwritten letter by Robertson Panel member [Thornton Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton%5FLeigh%5FPage), discovered in the Smithsonian’s archives by [Michael Swords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FD.%5FSwords), confirms the CIA’s long-suspected role in the CBS program. In the September 10, 1966, letter, Page relates to [Frederick C.](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) [Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) that he “helped organize the CBS TV show around the Robertson Panel’s conclusions.” [Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) has spent 3 days editing and censoring the TV program’s script to make sure it conforms to USAF public relations policy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs: Friend, Foe or Fantasy? 1966](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpNqFz-h2c)” nutsandbolts ufo YouTube channel, February 15, 2013; “[Columnists Hit NBC Documentary,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/032%20MAY-JUN%201966.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 8 \(May/June 1966\): 8; Clark III 808; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 206–207](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/206/mode/2up); Terry Hanson, “[Close Encounters of the Nuclear Kind,](https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia%5Fflyingobjects108.htm)” Online Journal, March 31, 2009; Swords 195–196, 308 Source ID: Eberhart_4043 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11918 (CD46170A) Date: 5/11/1966 Description: During a night test firing of the NASA Saturn-V-B second stage rocket at the Stennis NASA Test Facility in Pearl River, Hancock County, Mississippi, a 200 foot diameter disc-shaped UFO approached at high speed, then hovered directly over the exhaust blast coming from the rocket for 90 seconds. According to the principal reporting witness, a retired Boeing engineer named Allen, there where 30 witnesses, including a group of 19 who were on the roof of a nearby building and a 35-mm motion picture film crew who filmed the entire episode. The following day the NASA facility employees were debriefed and informed that what they had witnessed was an unmanned Air Force weather balloon. The film from the test firing has never been released by the government. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald A. Johnson and Don Olson case investigation files, MUFON files Source ID: Johnson_2736 Source: Johnson ### Event 11919 (DE49A734) Date: 5/15/1966 Description: A dark donut or tyre-shaped object with a hole in the center hovered and wobbled over Itaguai, Rio Janeiro State, Brazil at 5:30 p.m. It appeared to be about the size of an airliner. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_2855 Source: Johnson ### Event 11920 (29A98B74) Date: 5/16/1966 Description: At 3:30 p.m. a driver in a car in Cheshire, Connecticut had a close encounter with a 20-foot cylindrical UFO just four feet over the ground. It was hovering with no supports touching the ground. It had a metallic coral surface, and moved slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue 302 Source ID: Johnson_2890 Source: Johnson ### Event 11921 (8BA9174F) Date: 5/16/1966 Description: Manuel Hernandez was coming back from the fields near Cordoba when he saw a disk-shaped object land 100 m away. Small beings resembling "green birds" came out for a few instants, then took off again. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 162 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cordoba, Spain Source ID: Magnonia_769 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11922 (444DA85B) Date: 5/16/1966 Description: About 1:10 p.m. at a school in the area, the principal noticed the children on the playground staring at something in the sky. He looked and saw a dark disc-shaped object with dome on top moving from high overhead toward the east. Several other witnesses made similar reports between 1:00 and 1:30 pm. (Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee report.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Temple City, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3067 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11923 (485A6712) Date: 5/16/1966 Description: 12:30 p.m. PDT. A newspaper editor and office manager were called outdoors to see a grayish-green object high in the northern sky changing shape from rectangular, or roughly diamond-shaped, to domed disc. The object, apparently metallic, was reflecting sunlight. Haze-like heat waves surrounded it. For 15 minutes the object moved around lazily, then suddenly sped off to the northeast and disappeared. The editor compared the departure speed to that of a jet aircraft. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Temple City, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3066 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11924 (1BB8BC97) Date: 5/16/1966 Description: Manuel Hernandez was coming back from the fields near Cordoba, Spain when he saw a disc-shaped object land 100 meters away. Small beings resembling "green birds" came out for a few instants, then took off again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 769; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 42, citing the Paris Journal, May 18, 1966 Source ID: Johnson_2887 Source: Johnson ### Event 11925 (6A91B72B) Date: 5/16/1966 Description: Manuel Hernandez was coming back from the fields during this afternoon near Cordoba, Spain when he saw a disc-shaped object land 100 m away. Small beings resembling "green birds" came out for a few instants, before the object took off again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 769, citing Paris Jour, May 18, 1966; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR, May 1973, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_2889 Source: Johnson ### Event 11926 (6E8B9333) Date: 5/16/1966 Description: At 12:30 p.m. a newspaper editor and officer manager in Temple City, California were called out to the parking lot to see an unusual object in the sky. A grayish-green object, changing shape from rectangular to roughly diamond-shaped, to a domed disc, was reflecting sunlight and apparently metallic. It was visible high in the northern sky. Hazy heat waves surrounded it. For 15 minutes the object moved around lazily, then it suddenly sped off to the northeast and disappeared. The editor compared the speed to that of a jet. At 1:10 p.m. a school principal saw children on the school's playground staring at a dark, disc-shaped object with a dome on top moving high overhead toward the east. At about the same time Charles Hardman was walking on Alessandra Street in Temple City when he noticed something that he first thought was a kite or balloon in the north-northwest sky moving slowly northeast. Through binoculars he saw that the object's surface was glossy, gray or black, yet light reflective. At times the top was obscured by hazelike smoke. Without the binoculars Hardman could see that this was due to different angles of vision as the object tumbled over in its path. It was shaped like a diamond with concave sides.

About 1:30 p.m. Mrs. Beverly Harding of Temple City, California was driving about a mile south of the center of town when she saw an aerial object paralleling the path of her car, but traveling a little faster than she was. It looked like "a big bowl of jelly, plastic-like and shiny..." The object was roundish, but irregularly shaped. Finally, at 3:25 p.m. Mrs. Janice Oyler of San Gabriel, California was driving through Temple City when she saw a "black and silver cone-shaped object" in the sky. She stopped her car to watch, and saw the object bobbing around and circling slowly in one small area of the sky for about three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Los Angeles NICAP subcommittee; Ann Druffel, Skynet, May 1966, p. 27; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 321 Source ID: Johnson_2888 Source: Johnson ### Event 11927 (2C06C499) Date: 5/17/1966 Description: Day. A Boeing engineer was among the witnesses who saw two discs flying off each wingtip of an airliner. The outer discs lagged briefly during a turn by the airliner. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Orleans, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3068 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11928 (FD2F1295) Date: 5/17/1966 Description: At 3:10 a.m. an aircraft design engineer in Mentor, Ohio saw a bluish-white object pickup 10 smaller objects in groups, brightening each time a pick-up was made, then dimming. The parent object then turned to the west and accelerated away. At 4:00 a.m. on US Highway 26 near Warm Springs, Ohio seven small nocturnal lights circled a large UFO; 4 entered, 3 left, returned and then entered again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1991, p.16 Source ID: Johnson_2927 Source: Johnson ### Event 11929 (230D1F80) Date: 5/17/1966 Description: At 6:40 p.m. a Boeing engineer in Arabi, near New Orleans, Louisiana was among the witnesses who saw two discs flying off each wingtip of an airliner. The outer discs lagged briefly during a turn by the airliner. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP report form; Colorado UFO Study files Source ID: Johnson_2928 Source: Johnson ### Event 11930 (6FDC0B2A) Date: 5/17/1966 Description: Weitzel writes to [Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) with another critique of the Blue Book explanation. Even [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) urges FTD to change the designation to “unknown.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_4044 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11931 (74DFF1AB) Date: 5/17/1966 Description: Time not reported. An aircraft design engineer saw a bluish-white object pickup 10 smaller objects in groups, brightening each time a pick-up was made, then dimming (luminosity/motion correlation). The parent object then turned to the west and accelerated away. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mentor, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3069 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11932 (6E48D792) Date: 5/21/1966 Description: Experienced pilot in light plane encountered disc with dome that made sharp turn, passed beneath his wing Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Willow Grove, PA Source ID: HallUFOE2_90 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11933 (FC456DC8) Date: 5/21/1966 Description: Domed Disc Observed By Pilot & Passenger (Powell Case) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [660521](http://www.nicap.org/660521willowgrove%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Willow Grove, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3070 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11934 (96F6D4E3) Date: 5/21/1966 Description: At 3:15 p.m. an experienced pilot flying in a light plane on a clear day encountered a domed disc that made sharp turns and passed beneath the wing of his aircraft while flying near Willow Grove Naval Air Station, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1967, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_3018 Source: Johnson ### Event 11935 (79CB420A) Date: 5/21/1966 Description: 3: 15 p.m. William C. Powell is flying a light Luscombe aircraft over Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, with one passenger, Muriel McCrave. He spots a bright-red circular disc with a dome on top as it is apparently following an outbound flight of Navy jets from NAS Willow Grove \[now NAS Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove\] at 4,500 feet. The object makes a sharp turn without banking and approaches his plane on a near-collision course, passing below the starboard wing about 300 feet away and disappearing to the rear. They both get a good look at the object, which has no wings or visible means of propulsion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Domed Disc Observed by Pilot and](http://www.nicap.org/660521willowgrove%5Fdir.htm) [Passenger \(Powell Case\)](http://www.nicap.org/660521willowgrove%5Fdir.htm)”; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#pilots)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 45–46 Source ID: Eberhart_4045 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11936 (24C61186) Date: 5/22/1966 Description: A witness driving between Blue River, British Columbia, and Jasper, Alberta, sees a gray object the size of a car and shaped like a bowl land on the road and make a whining noise. After it silently takes off, the object leaves three impressions of landing pads about 4 feet square. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Nihgt, 2022, p. 184 Source ID: Eberhart_4046 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11937 (866C785D) Date: 5/23/1966 Description: University campus police saw a round glowing object with outer ring of red lights, and a white flashing light in the center, hover above the athletic field, then fly away. (NICAP notes from newspaper story.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gainesville, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3071 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11938 (5EAF5EE1) Date: 5/24/1966 Description: 4:15 p.m. PDT. A woman driving in Temple City saw a strange object approach from the southwest, hover and bob around. She stopped and observed the object at relatively close range, at treetop level across a wide highway. "It was the shape of two geranium pots put together with the bands in the center," she said. Although the object was clearly outlined, there was a slight haze surrounding it. The color was bright green. Flashes of sunlight reflected off the surface, giving it a metallic sheen. On the body were what appeared to be a row of louvers and an antenna-like projection. After several minutes the object climbed to the northeast, observed as it moved away by employees of a nearby restaurant who were alerted by the witness. (Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee report.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Temple City, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3072 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11939 (C8E40457) Date: 6/1966 Description: Broadcaster [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29) publishes Flying Saucers—Serious Business, and it becomes one of the best-selling UFO books of all time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank Edwards, [Flying Saucers—Serious Business](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersser00edwa), Bantam, 1966; Clark III 435; Nick Redfern, “[Spying on the Saucer Writers,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/02/spying-on-the-saucer-writers/)” Mysterious Universe, February 20, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_4047 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11940 (CF7E3AF9) Date: 6/1966 Description: 3:15 a.m. Edward Argerake is asleep at his home in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, when his bedroom explodes in light. He hears a pinging noise a light source begins pulsing with diffraction rings outside his window shades. He begins to feel numb and weak, but the sounds grows louder and he lapses into unconsciousness. He wakes up at 6:15 a.m. and the light and noise are gone. Because of this event he becomes interested in UFOs and joins NICAP’s Massachusetts subcommittee. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_4048 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11941 (FAE8CA7B) Date: 6/1/1966 Description: 10:30 p.m. On Lake Ontario, off Clarkson, Ontario, former RCAF pilot Richard H. Plewman and Jack Grant are cruising on the lake when they see lights on the water ahead. They can see a disc with a dome on top casting an oval reflection on the lake surface. Around the dome is a row of bright yellow lights; blue-green lights are visible around the lower perimeter. After hovering briefly, the UFO takes off at high speed and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[New](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/033%20AUG-SEPT%201966.pdf) [Reports by Space Experts Add to UFO Proof,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/033%20AUG-SEPT%201966.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 9 \(Aug./Sept. 1966\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4049 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11942 (9D1B7B5D) Date: 6/1/1966 Description: 10:30 p.m. LT. A former RCAF pilot and a friend were cruising on the lake when they saw lights on the water ahead. As they approached within a mile, the lights rose with an audible "swish" and a pulsating humming sound. The two men now could see that it was a disc with dome on top, and it cast an oval reflection on the lake surface. Around the dome was a row of bright yellow lights, and blue-green lights were visible around the lower perimeter (body lights). After hovering briefly, the UFO took off at high speed and quickly disappeared. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 9, Aug.-Sept. 1966, p. 5) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3073 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11943 (054AF2E0) Date: 6/1/1966 Description: On or around this day two Ontario residents had a chance encounter with a disc-like UFO hovering close to the dark waters of Lake Ontario. The object, which had rows of lights flashing around its perimeter, took off rapidly as the witnesses approached it in a motor boat. The incident was reported to NICAP by Richard Plewman. Plewman, a former RCAF Flight Lieutenant and pilot instructor, was cruising with a friend, Jack Grant about 2-1/2 miles offshore of Clarkson at about 10:30 p.m. While proceeding in a NE direction, the men noticed some lights like headlights on the water ahead. They continued talking, and approaching the lights at a moderate speed, not suspecting anything unusual. When they got to an estimated distance of 3/4 to 1 mile, the lights slowly rose with a "swish," emitting a low "pulsating hum." Plewman and Grant could now see a disc with a bubble-type dome on top and a flat bottom, casting an oval reflection on the lake surface. A row of bright yellow lights encircled the dome, blue-green lights around the lower perimeter. After hovering briefly, the UFO took off at high speed disappearing "Like a light bulb turned out." Plewman said the perimeter lights clearly outlined the dark object, the colors changing from dull white to fluorescent tones as the UFO started to rise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August-September 1966, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_3200 Source: Johnson ### Event 11944 (D9CB809E) Date: 6/2/1966 Description: 7:30 p.m. Harold Harper is talking with neighbors in his front yard in Massillon, Ohio, when they see a large lighted object coming from the southwest. It is about 50–60 feet in diameter, smoky in color, and cigar-shaped with a ball on one end. It stops and hovers at about 1,000 feet altitude. Then three smaller objects appear to come from it; they gain altitude, separate, and disappear at terrific speed in different directions. The large object goes straight up at terrific speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Massillon \(Ohio\) Evening Independent, June 3, 1966; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 25–26 Source ID: Eberhart_4050 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11945 (6B99BABE) Date: 6/2/1966 Description: A luminous cigar-shaped object stopped in mid-air, then discharged three smaller objects that flew off in different directions over Massillon, Ohio. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 414 Source ID: Johnson_3230 Source: Johnson ### Event 11946 (AE13517D) Date: 6/2/1966 Description: Day. A moving luminous cigar-shaped object stopped, then discharged three smaller objects which rose, separated, and flew off in different directions. The parent object then went straight up at terrific speed. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Massillon, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3074 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11947 (1F67D9CE) Date: 6/3/1966 Description: Two witnesses in West Point City, Pennsylvania observed a stationary object three meters above the ground at 9:45 p.m. It had a diameter of seven meters, with lights on top and bottom and smaller lights on the rim. It flew away very fast to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 770 Source ID: Johnson_3249 Source: Johnson ### Event 11948 (09AC4A46) Date: 6/3/1966 Description: Cape Canaveral, Florida - Three boys were playing behind their apartment about 7:30 p.m. when they saw a "rocket or jet" zip across the sky and disappear behind the building, apparently dropping into the water. They ran to the beach and saw, about 30 yards ahead, two men, talking, with their backs to them. The boys said the two men wore "glass helmets and gray suits with something that looked like scuba tanks on their backs." One of the youngsters was so surprised that he made a sound, startling the men. They scrambled quickly aboard a "round white thing" which sped to a strange floating device about 300 feet offshore. There were windows in the floating object, they said, and they could see people moving inside. On one side, there was a gray star with some type of identifying letters. The boys ran back at the same time the men raced for the object, and when they paused to look back, they were expecting the craft to take to the air. Instead, it submerged and vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lucius Farish & Dale Titler, Official UFO magazine, May 1977, p. 54; Tom Longhurst, Orlando Sentinel, June 5, 1966; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0717 Source ID: Johnson_3248 Source: Johnson ### Event 11949 (4F60901D) Date: 6/3/1966 Time: 2145 Description: Two witnesses observed a stationary object 3 m above ground. It had a diameter of 7 m, lights on top and bottom and smaller lights at the rim. It flew away very fast to the east. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: West Point City, Pennsylvania Source ID: Magnonia_770 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11950 (0D3A7D77) Date: 6/6/1966 Description: 2 domed discs with sparkling upper surfaces (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10626) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Spooner, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3075 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11951 (0C3A390F) Date: 6/6/1966 Description: [James McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) has obtained a small amount of money from the Office of Naval Research to travel to Wright- Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, and examine the Blue Book files. On his first visit, he is steered to an unedited copy of the Robertson Panel report. As it has not been released, McDonald is disturbed, seeing it as evidence that the CIA is directing a cover-up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1017 Source ID: Eberhart_4051 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11952 (A892B2A0) Date: 6/6/1966 Description: At 9:30 p.m. in Spooner, Wisconsin Ms. Dorothy Gray sighted two domed discs with sparkling upper surfaces and square windows on their tops hovered revolved above a lake, causing a strange turbulence on the surface of the lake. The sighting lasted 25 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 10626; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3323 Source: Johnson ### Event 11953 (D201992F) Date: 6/6/1966 End date: 6/10/1966 Description: The US Army releases Bacillus globigii into the tunnels of the New York City Subway system during peak travel hours as part of a field experiment on the vulnerability of subway passengers in New York City to covert attack with biological agents. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[How the U.S. Government Exposed Thousands of Americans to Lethal Bacteria](https://www.democracynow.org/2005/7/13/how%5Fthe%5Fu%5Fs%5Fgovernment%5Fexposed) [to Test Biological Warfare,](https://www.democracynow.org/2005/7/13/how%5Fthe%5Fu%5Fs%5Fgovernment%5Fexposed)” Democracy Now!, July 13, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_4052 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11954 (B57DC7C6) Date: 6/6/1966 Time: 9:30 PM Description: Witness: Dorothy Gray. Two domed discs with sparkling upper surfaces and square windows in their tops, revolved above a lake, apparently causing strange behavior of the lake water during the 25 second sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Spooner, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_543 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11955 (B75D9792) Date: 6/8/1966 Description: Max Baker, age 43, was driving west on Sandusky Road between Kansas, Ohio and Toledo at 6:45 a.m. when a bright silver, metallic cigar-shaped object appeared out of nowhere and buzzed his car. The UFO was completely silent, and passed within 30 meters of his car, flying low to the northeast. The close encounter lasted one minute. His report to the Air Force remains a Project Blue Book unexplained case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 10629; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 15; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 331; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 185 Source ID: Johnson_3372 Source: Johnson ### Event 11956 (3954B5D3) Date: 6/8/1966 Description: Two ice cream truck drivers, Armstrong and Polomka, watched a domed craft maneuvering in the sky for 20 minutes between Kingston and Naracoorte, South Australia. A white light made up the body of the craft, while a red light looked like a dome on top; the white light was interlaced with smaller colored lights. It moved at fantastic speeds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 176; Keith Basterfield, Keith Basterfield investigation files, case S017 Source ID: Johnson_3371 Source: Johnson ### Event 11957 (F2F4A666) Date: 6/8/1966 Description: 11:00 p.m. LT. Three persons reported that their car was followed by an oval object about 6 feet in diameter moving about 10 feet above the power lines on a parallel path. The object was emitting a bluish glow, and two light beams extended from it, one pointing upward and the other downward. No sound was heard. (Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 12, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1966, p. iii; from the Castlegar News.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Castlegar, British Columbia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3077 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11958 (A05F7356) Date: 6/8/1966 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) visits [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) at the Lindheimer Astrophysical Research Center in Evanston, Illinois, saying heatedly that he should have spoken up about the CIA cover-up and all the absurd explanations that he made up: “Allen, how could you have sat on this data for 18 years and not let us know about it?” Hynek’s then-associate [Jacques](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) [Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) has to intervene. Hynek replies that if he did, the Air Force would just replace him and he would lose access to all the files. McDonald says Hynek should have spoken up in 1953 and cannot get Hynek to agree that he is even a little bit timid. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: O’Connell 201; Clark III 696 Source ID: Eberhart_4053 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11959 (BA179A35) Date: 6/8/1966 Description: X-15 pilot [Joseph A. Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FA.%5FWalker) is killed when his F-104 Starfighter chase aircraft collides with a North American XB-70 Valkyrie. At an altitude of about 25,000 feet, Walker’s Starfighter is one of five aircraft in a tight group formation for a General Electric publicity photo when his F-104 drifts into contact with the XB-70’s right wingtip. The F-104 flips over, and, rolling inverted, passes over the top of the XB-70, striking both its vertical stabilizers and its left wing in the process, and explodes, killing Walker. The Valkyrie enters an uncontrollable spin and crashes into the ground north of Barstow, California, killing copilot [Carl S. Cross](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37954719/carl-s-cross). Its pilot, [Alvin S.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin%5FS.%5FWhite) [White](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin%5FS.%5FWhite)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin%5FS.%5FWhite) ejects and is the sole survivor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Joseph A. Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FA.%5FWalker\#Death)” Source ID: Eberhart_4054 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11960 (178838BD) Date: 6/8/1966 Description: Bright silver, cigar-shaped object, as long as an airliner (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10629) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo (Between Kansas and), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3076 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11961 (97C7B286) Date: 6/8/1966 Time: 0645 Description: A civilian man, 43, driving west between Kansas and Toledo, saw an object appear out of nowhere. It was cigar-shaped, bright metallic, and flew low to the northeast. Minimum distance: 30 m. The object was completely silent, and the size of an airliner. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sandusky Road, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_771 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11962 (CEABD36A) Date: 6/8/1966 Description: Also on that same evening, three young Canadians were driving south of Castlegar Airport in British Columbia when they were chased by an oval shaped object, about six feet in diameter. It gave off a bluish glow and stayed parallel with the car as they drove along the highway at about 45 m.p.h. It had beams of light pointing upward and downward coming from it, as it flew about 10 feet above the power lines. It made no noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, World Round-up, FSR, November 1966, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_3373 Source: Johnson ### Event 11963 (33F20A3E) Date: 6/8/1966 Time: 6:45 AM Description: Witness: Max Baker. One bright silver, cigar-shaped object, as long as an airliner, buzzed the witness' car. Sighting lasted 1 minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Kansas, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_544 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11964 (18BC2FA7) Date: 6/11/1966 Description: Early morning. Several witnesses driving from Dabajuro to Coro, Falcón State, Venezuela, stop to watch a triangular object that stops and hovers in midair for short intervals. The object gives off a beam of light in various directions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The South American Scene,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201966%2007%2000%20-%20July-August.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1966, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_4055 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11965 (B939D50C) Date: 6/11/1966 Time: 0345 Description: A civilian who was going fishing saw an object dive toward his car and hover at treetop level, stopped and observed it for two min. It was shaped like two plates glued together, and had a smaller, oval object on top. It took a 45 (degree) inclination, rose, made a right-angle turn, and changed color (white to yellow to blue to green) as it accelerated. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Westport, Connecticut Source ID: Magnonia_772 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11966 (7A60B488) Date: 6/11/1966 Description: 3:45 a.m. EDT. A disc shaped like two plates one on top of the other, with a dome on top, white, yellow, blue, and green flashing lights around the circumference (body lights), buzzed over a car and hovered ahead over the road. (Fowler, 1974, p. 341; Boston Traveler, June 13, 1966, quoted in Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 12, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 1966, p. 30.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westport, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3078 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11967 (E06257D2) Date: 6/11/1966 Description: A man in Westport, Massachusetts who was going fishing early in the morning (3:45 a.m.) saw an object dive toward his car and hover at treetop level. He stopped his car and observed it for two minutes. It was shaped like two plates glued together, and had a smaller oval dome on top. It took a 45-degree inclination, rose, made a right-angle turn, and changed color from white to yellow to blue to green as it accelerated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pg. 331 Source ID: Johnson_3419 Source: Johnson ### Event 11968 (5491A047) Date: 6/13/1966 Description: Cops saw object on 3/17 and another on the ground on 6/13 (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milan, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3079 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11969 (0B07CD31) Date: 6/13/1966 Description: A policeman who had observed an UFO over Milan, Michigan on March 17 of this year saw an unidentified machine on the ground at a street intersection on this day. As he drove towards it, with his headlights illuminating the object, it took off like an airplane and flew away toward the southeast in the direction of Selfridge AFB. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 332, case 773 Source ID: Johnson_3460 Source: Johnson ### Event 11970 (66640B96) Date: 6/13/1966 Description: The policeman who had observed an object over Milan on Mar. 17 saw an unidentified machine on the ground at a street intersection. He drove toward it with his headlights illuminating the object, which took off like an airplane, flying away to the southeast. Investigation by Selfridge AFB. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Milan, Michigan Source ID: Magnonia_773 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11971 (5A4B0B9B) Date: Mid 6/1966 Description: 1:30 a.m. Student pilot [Joseph Gambucci](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87246102/joseph-gambucci) is flying near Hibbing, Minnesota, when he sees a bright, elliptical light making three 360° turns to the left at approximately 3,000 mph. The light is white, mixed with green and red. It climbs to 40° above the horizon then disappears at a height of 31,000 feet. Gambucci checks with Duluth Air National Guard Base, which reports having a UFO on radar at the same position as his aircraft. Other radar units in northern Minnesota and southern Canada are said to track the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_4056 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11972 (4ECCF650) Date: 6/15/1966 Description: Military sighting of saucer like object in Missouri (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: NICAP: [660615](http://www.nicap.org/whiteman660615dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Whiteman AFB, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3080 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11973 (EF011A3D) Date: 6/16/1966 Description: Russian oil and gas scientists watched a high flying silent disc-shaped object spiral through the sky east of Elista, Kalmuk, Russia at 9:50 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #7772, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #204 Source ID: Johnson_3513 Source: Johnson ### Event 11974 (32106661) Date: 6/16/1966 Description: Dusk. Several witnesses in Uniopolis, Ohio, watch a domed black disc with lights and a powerful light beam shining from its bottom. One of the observers is alerted by his dog barking persistently and looking to the south. The object flies directly over the house, heading north, and is also seen by his wife, a neighbor, and the neighbor’s children. The light beam shines into a nearby wood, lighting up the trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_4057 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11975 (628A1202) Date: 6/16/1966 Description: Time not reported. A woman saw a large glowing obiect hovering near telephone lines. An articulated glowing pink to red-colored rod extended to the wires, withdrew, and then the object sped away over the mountains. (New Hampshire NICAP Subcommittee report.) The time probably is included in the NICAP file report.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Sunapee, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3084 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11976 (E0986EE3) Date: 6/16/1966 Description: Scientist report UFO maneuv nr missile test (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elista, Kalmuk, USSR Source ID: NICAP_DB_3083 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11977 (BADA879D) Date: 6/17/1966 Description: 8:50 p.m. LT. Two nuclear scientists reported seeing a very bright yellow object above a cloud bank on the western horizon, moving slowly. The object then accelerated northward and disappeared behind a tall bank of clouds. About 10 minutes later the same or a similar object appeared traveling from north to south, stopped and hovered in the northwest sky for about 30 minutes. The object then diminished in apparent size and was hidden by clouds near the horizon. When viewed through 10 x 60 binoculars, the object had a conical shape and was reflecting sunlight. Its length was computed to be about 60 feet. (Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 12, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 1966, pp. 27-28.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Abington, Berkshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3085 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11978 (0D85A825) Date: 6/18/1966 Description: Red bell shaped object with 3 flashing red lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10663) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burnsville, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3086 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11979 (BC42D0EE) Date: 6/18/1966 Time: 0345 Description: The Mayor of Bar-sur-Loup, Leon Barbier, saw a large, round object with yellow and green lights on a hilltop. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 89 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bar-sur-Loup, France Source ID: Magnonia_774 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11980 (2B4B7671) Date: 6/18/1966 Time: 0400 Description: A truck driver, Mr. Dugelay, saw a disk-shaped object over Le Rouret. It remained motionless for five min, then disappeared. Its lights were alternately red and bluish-green. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 84; 163 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Le Rouret, France Source ID: Magnonia_775 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11981 (903F130A) Date: 6/18/1966 Time: 2400 Description: Four campers saw an object with three flashing red lights land on the ground 200 m away. It remained there all night, rose at dawn, was then observed through binoculars as a red-colored, bell-shaped craft. Broken trees and other traces were found. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mount Mitchell, North Carolina Source ID: Magnonia_776 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11982 (E2EBE326) Date: 6/18/1966 Time: 12:30 AM Description: Witnesses: members of a Boy Scout group, including Sterrett. One bell-shaped object with three flashing red lights hovered for 5 hours and was then joined by six others. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Burnsville, North Carolina Source ID: BerlinerBBU_545 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 11983 (6E3F96D4) Date: 6/18/1966 Description: Just before midnight four campers at Mount Mitchell, North Carolina saw an object with three flashing red lights land on the ground 200 meters away. It remained there all night, rose at dawn, was then was observed through binoculars as a red-colored, bell-shaped craft. Broken trees and other traces were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 776 Source ID: Johnson_3534 Source: Johnson ### Event 11984 (109A52BA) Date: 6/18/1966 Description: Leon Barbier, the mayor of Bar-sur-Loup, France saw a large, round object with yellow and green lights on a hilltop at 3:45 a.m. At 4:00 a.m. a truck driver, Mr. Dugelay, saw a disc-shaped object over Le Rouret, France. It remained motionless for five minutes, then disappeared. Its lights were alternately red and bluish-green. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 774 & 775 Source ID: Johnson_3533 Source: Johnson ### Event 11985 (29D6C07F) Date: 6/19/1966 Description: Brilliantly lighted object illuminated terrain at Army base, widespread E-M effects on vehicles and machinery. Object shot straight up out of sight within seconds Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Nha Trang, Vietnam Source ID: HallUFOE2_91 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 11986 (691E218C) Date: 6/19/1966 Description: 12:05 a.m. A group of Boy Scouts camping out at Mount Mitchell State Park, North Carolina, sees three red pulsating lights in a triangular pattern approach, then hover until about 5:00 a.m. The lights blink at different speeds, with the center one turning white every fifth pulsation. At sunrise, the object lifts up, appearing red and bell-shaped through binoculars. Six smaller objects are hovering nearby on either side of the larger object, changing formation. The group then disappears behind a mountain. When the Scouts start to explore in the direction of the objects, about 60 feet from their camp they discover trees with broken branches and some crushed undergrowth, plus three holes in the ground forming an equilateral triangle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Fred Merritt, “A Preliminary Classification of Some Reports of UFOs,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 10; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 315 Source ID: Eberhart_4058 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11987 (A65F2781) Date: 6/19/1966 Description: 12:05 a.m. EDT. A group of Boy Scouts while camping out, saw three red pulsating lights in a triangular pattern approaching (body lights), then hovering from about midnight to 5:00 am. At sunrise the object lifted up, appearing red and bell-shaped through binoculars, Six smaller objects were hovering nearby on either side of the larger object, changing formations, and then the group disappeared behind a mountain. When the Scouts started to explore in the direction of the objects, about 60 feet from their camp they discovered trees with broken branches and some crushed undergrowth, plus three holes in the ground forming an equilateral triangle (physical traces). (Report to Center for UFO Studies.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Mitchell, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3088 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11988 (841AC60D) Date: 6/19/1966 Description: Major E-M Case Over Missile Site (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [660619](http://nicap.org/660619nhatrang%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nha Trang, Vietnam Source ID: NICAP_DB_3087 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11989 (8A45840A) Date: Summer 1966 Description: Nha Trang, Vietnam: At this active Army Base at about 9:45 p.m., what was thought to be a flare lit up the north sky. The bright UFO approached the base alternately moving at low to high speeds. Upon descending toward the soldiers it hovered at an altitude of 300–500 ft. All of a sudden the 6 generators failed along with the engines of the idling Skyraiders, bulldozers and trucks. The entire valley and surrounding mountains were illuminated by the hovering UFO for about 4 min. after which it went straight up and disappeared in about 3 sec. After the incident a plane load of officials from Washington arrived to investigate. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Nha Trang, Vietnam See also: 3/4/1969 Source ID: Maj2_646 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11990 (98E8C5F2) Date: Summer 1966 Description: Results of an Iowa Poll, Iowa: 45% Iowans queried believe UFOs to be real objects. Of the 45%, 21% were of the opinion that the UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin. Type: poll Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Iowa Source ID: Maj2_645 Source: Maj2 ### Event 11991 (B53826A5) Date: 6/23/1966 Description: Four adults in Menindee, New South Wales, Australia heard a splash at noon from a nearby lake. No object was visible on the lake surface, but a UFO was seen climbing from the lake diagonally, then "disappeared in seconds." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 228, citing Broken Hill, (N.S.W.) Barrier Truth, June 23, 1966 Source ID: Johnson_3619 Source: Johnson ### Event 11992 (B70DA06E) Date: 6/23/1966 Time: 2130 Description: A 61-year-old civilian woman was reading when an intense red light illuminated the ground near her house. She went outside and saw a lighted object 20 m away 1 m in diameter, which backed up and flew away "like a bullet." Three other persons saw it from the next house. (Atic) <*> Type: ufo sighting Reference: ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hamburg, New York Source ID: Magnonia_777 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 11993 (ED15B3F3) Date: 6/23/1966 Description: 3:42 a.m. MDT. Julian Sandoval, a NASA contract flight engineer, also an experienced pilot and navigator, and two independent witnesses saw a glowing elongated object with ablunt end. lt had a series of four body lights varying from brilliant green to a bluish tinge, and was hovering at an estimated 12,000 feet. When the object moved, its glow brightened and it appeared to be a powered craft (luminosity/motion correlation). The witness watched the object for an hour and a half, after which it climbed vertically, accelerated to a high velocity and disappeared to the northeast in about 12 seconds. In a report to NICAP, Sandoval estimated the departure speed at "Mach 6 or better." (Christian Science Monitor, July 11, 1966; I/. P.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 9, Aug.-Sept. 1966, p. 3.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Placitas, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_3090 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11994 (B6ABF649) Date: 6/23/1966 Description: 3:42 a.m. NASA contract flight engineer Julian Sandoval and two independent witnesses see a glowing elongated object with a blunt end. It has a series of four body lights varying from brilliant green to a bluish tinge, and is hovering at an estimated 12,000 feet near Placitas, New Mexico. When the object moves its glow brightens, and it appears to be a powered craft. The witnesses watch the object for an hour and a half, after which it climbs vertically, accelerates to a high velocity, and disappears to the northeast in about 12 seconds. In a report to NICAP, Sandoval estimates the departure speed at “Mach 6 or better.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[New Reports by Space Experts Add to](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/033%20AUG-SEPT%201966.pdf) [UFO Proof,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/033%20AUG-SEPT%201966.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 9 \(Aug./Sept. 1966\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_4059 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 11995 (D6DDF710) Date: 6/23/1966 Description: An intense red light lit the ground near a house (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamburg, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3089 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 11996 (9250BD9B) Date: 6/23/1966 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a 61-year-old woman was at home reading in Hamburg, New York when an intense red light illuminated the ground near her house. She went outside and saw a lighted object 20 meters away, just one meter in diameter, which backed up and flew away "like a bullet." Three other people saw it from the next house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 777 Source ID: Johnson_3622 Source: Johnson ### Event 11997 (26F5420C) Date: 6/23/1966 Description: At 3:42 a.m. an Apollo Space Project engineer, Julian Sandoval, saw a fast moving 300 foot long tetrahedron shaped UFO with four blue-green tail lights maneuvering in the sky while driving on Highway 85 in Corrales, New Mexico. His sighting was confirmed by Police Patrolman Gallegos and Dorothy Lovato of Bernalillo. The sighting lasted a total of 51 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christian Science Monitor, July 11, 1966; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 3, 1966; UNICAT database, case 690, citing James E. McDonald, Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers Here and Now, p. 179 Source ID: Johnson_3621 Source: Johnson ### Event 11998 (2EEDCF6F) Date: 6/23/1966 Description: One of the earliest reported cases of "missing time" began on this day in a bedroom in West Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The incident took place in the pre-dawn hours, beginning at around 3:15 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David Webb, Analysis of Humanoid/Abduction Reports, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, pg. 267 Source ID: Johnson_3620 Source: Johnson ### Event 11999 (BC32BD24) Date: 6/24/1966 Description: Elliptical object with body lights, surrounded by mist or vapor, observed by police officer, led him on cat-and-mouse chase. Object accelerated and sped away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Richmond, VA Source ID: HallUFOE2_92 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12000 (53D1216D) Date: 6/24/1966 Description: Police officer William L. Stevens had a close encounter with a dirigible-shaped object 100 feet long and 30 feet thick at 3:30 a.m. He was driving on the Henrico Turnpike in Richmond, Virginia when the UFO approached. It had alternating white and greenish-yellow lights around its perimeter, and it was surrounded by a mist. It began to play a game of cat and mouse with his police cruiser. "It seemed to be playing with me," he said. It moved away when the officer turned on its flashing lights, maintaining a distance of a few hundred feet. After several minutes it departed, accelerating suddenly and making a high speed vertical climb. (Sources: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 261; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 9; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 164; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1991, p. 12; UNICAT database, case 654, citing James E. McDonald). 1967, Trenton, Maine - Two people sighted a silver-gray, hat-shaped object hovering about 500 feet from the shoreline in Trenton, Maine at around 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. It emitted a vapor at its base. The object ascended into a fog bank and descended again at a greater distance before moving away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, pg. 349 Source ID: Johnson_3640 Source: Johnson ### Event 12001 (804AFFC0) Date: 6/24/1966 Description: 3:30 a.m. EDT. A police officer on patrol saw a hovering elliptical object with body lights, surrounded by mist or vapor. The lights were alternately yellow and green. As he approached to investigate, the UFO began moving away, leading him on a cat-and-mouse chase. Finally the object accelerated and sped away. Separate police witnesses observed a UFO in the same general area about 40 minutes later. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. III, No. 9, Aug.-Sept. 1966, p. 3; Keyhoe & Lore, 1969a, p. 9.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richmond, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3091 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12002 (B8A6CC77) Date: 6/24/1966 Description: Night. A school teacher, ex-member of Army intelligence saw a flattened ellipse with fuzzy edges, two or three port-like black spots along the body, flying overhead. The object was visible for about 2 minutes in hazy conditions. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charlotte, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3092 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12003 (2B0808E6) Date: 6/24/1966 Description: Officer William L. Stevens, Jr., observed a dirigible-shaped UFO at 3:30 in the morning near the fairgrounds. It was about 100 ft. long and 30 ft. thick with greenish-yellow lights on its perimeter. Stevens attempted to chase the UFO but it maintained an even distance from him even though he sped up and slowed down. “The object seemed to be playing cat & mouse with me,” he later said. After 10–15 min. the UFO accelerated and sped away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Richmond, VA See also: 4/17/66 Source ID: Maj2_647 Source: Maj2 ### Event 12004 (785CFE64) Date: 6/25/1966 Description: 9:30 p.m. Several objects violate the air space over the Ellsworth AFB H-01 missile launch facility southwest of Union Center, South Dakota, setting off the vibration sensors. Helicopters attempt to chase the objects, but they fly away quickly to the north-northeast. Other sightings take place over the next week. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: National UFO Reporting Center, \[[case report](http://cufos.org/cases/1966%5F06%5F25%5FUS%5FSD%5FEllsworth-AFB%5FNUFORC%5FCE-II.pdf)\]; Nukes 241–245 Source ID: Eberhart_4060 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12005 (255402FB) Date: 6/27/1966 Description: Cistella, Spain - Three Spanish witnesses named Masso, Crous, and Arajil watched two clearly defined, hexagonal cylinders rise into the air, approximately 1,800 feet apart from each other. A disc-shaped UFO flew into view and positioned itself between the cylinders as if to link them. Dense smoke arose, drying the mouths and noses of the witnesses the whole day, and one witness felt a wave of heat. The strange, three-part structure was visible for several minutes before departing at blinding speed. Over an area some ten meters across in a potato field all the leaves were brittle and yellowish. A branch of a nearby pear tree was newly broken off, thrown some distance, and twisted around. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Antonio Ribera, FSR, November 1966, pp. 3-4 Source ID: Johnson_3695 Source: Johnson ### Event 12006 (B5A2BF27) Date: 6/27/1966 Description: Radio Officer saw a "cloud" expand with a light inside (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10693) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wake Island (Pacific, 400 miles E of), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_3095 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12007 (75D4434F) Date: 6/27/1966 Description: 4:00 a.m. LT. A farm woman and farm hands saw a large disc-shaped object with bright green, red, yellow and blue body lights descend behind some woods about 500 meters away. A few minutes later two cylindrical objects also with body lights appeared, and the disc reappeared, taking up position between the two cylinders, which closed in on the disc, turned, and all three as a unit shot up at terrific speed and disappeared in less than a second. (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cistella, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_3093 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12008 (6C298719) Date: 6/27/1966 Time: 4 AM Description: Witness: Radio Officer Steffen Soresen, of the S/ Mt. Vernon Victory. One "cloud" expanded with a light inside, and then accelerated away after several minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: 400 miles east of Wake Island (19' N, 172' E) Source ID: BerlinerBBU_546 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12009 (4DFB5F30) Date: 6/28/1966 Description: Air Intercept & Radar Tracks (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [660628](http://www.nicap.org/660628anderson%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Anderson AFB, Guam Source ID: NICAP_DB_3096 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12010 (85B1D84E) Date: 6/30/1966 Description: On [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)’s second visit to Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, his request for a photocopy of the Robertson Panel report is denied. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 696 Source ID: Eberhart_4061 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12011 (6BF832BC) Date: 6/30/1966 Description: [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) becomes director of central intelligence. He is the first DCI since [Dulles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDulles) to push hard for results in the mind-control field. Operation MKSearch goes into overdrive. Old projects are resurrected, abandoned projects reactivated. The safe houses are told to expect a steady supply of Viet Cong expendables to experiment on. One of the projects to be revived is the less than successful Operation Mindbender. Renamed Operation Spellbinder, the assignment is to create a sleeper killer, a real-life Manchurian Candidate. A hypnotist is recruited from the American Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. He becomes known to the CIA staff as “Dr. Fingers” and is selected because his file states that he has no qualms about conducting potentially terminal experiments. The intended victim of the experiment is [Fidel Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro) After attempts to program several would-be assassins, the operation is discontinued and written off as a complete failure. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sid Taylor, “[A History of](http://all.net/journal/deception/MKULTRA/www.profreedom.free4all.co.uk/skeletons%5F1.html) [Secret CIA Mind Control Research,](http://all.net/journal/deception/MKULTRA/www.profreedom.free4all.co.uk/skeletons%5F1.html)” Nexus, April/May 1992; “[Project Spellbinder,](https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Project%2BSpellbinder)” in Brad Steiger and Sherry Steiger, Conspiracies and Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier, 2nd ed., Visible Ink, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_4062 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12012 (586F6B04) Date: 7/1966 Description: 11:00 a.m. An Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain is flying 25 miles southwest of Provo, Utah, when the pilot snaps two color-slide photos of a reddish disc-shaped object that briefly comes into view before speeding away. The Condon commission declines to examine the photos in detail, noting some discrepancies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Condon, [pp. 270–273](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/270/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[UFOs Photographed](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/usafprovo66.htm\#condon)” Source ID: Eberhart_4063 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12013 (9F243EAD) Date: 7/1966 Description: Saucer Enters & Exits Water Tracked by Sonar & Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0) Reference: NICAP: [6607XX](http://www.nicap.org/6607XXpacific%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific bt. Pearl Harbor & Seattle, Washington, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_3097 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12014 (C6E5A4E8) Date: 7/4/1966 Description: The Freedom of Information Act, requiring the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the US government, is signed into law by President [Lyndon B. Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%5FB.%5FJohnson). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Freedom of Information Act \(United States\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%5Fof%5FInformation%5FAct%5F%28United%5FStates%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_4064 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12015 (A57A0477) Date: 7/5/1966 Description: Several persons reported seeing a very small creature leaving a luminous trail, quietly walking along the streets, while children and adults panicked. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 164 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chaclacayo, Peru Source ID: Magnonia_778 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12016 (C4EEBB95) Date: 7/7/1966 Description: In a Blue Book briefing, Brig. Gen. [William C. Garland](http://www.project1947.com/fig/garland.htm)[,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/garland.htm) deputy chief of USAF Public Information at the Pentagon, again denies that NORAD radars have picked up any “spaceships,” interplanetary “interlopers,” or “extraterrestrial vehicles.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 808 Source ID: Eberhart_4065 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12017 (06605BF6) Date: 7/9/1966 Description: 2:00 p.m. [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) takes a 16mm film of a UFO over Idaho Falls, Idaho. The object looks like a weather balloon, but it is flying at a speed of 45–75 mph into a north-northwest wind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 53 Source ID: Eberhart_4066 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12018 (26B277CF) Date: 7/11/1966 Time: 7:45 PM Description: Witnesses: Carl Wood and Charles Hawthorne. One large (100' wide, 20' high) bright red object with small windows and yellow lights. The object emitted a humming noise, seemingly from the outside, and a qrinding noise which seemed to come from inside. Observed for 1 hour. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Union, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_547 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12019 (9993F105) Date: 7/11/1966 Description: At 7:45 p.m. Carl Wood and Charles Hawthorne of Union, Pennsylvania observed a large, 100-foot wide bright red object with small windows and yellow lights. The UFO emitted a humming sound, seemingly from the outside, and a grinding noise that seemed to come from inside the craft. They watched it for an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_3992 Source: Johnson ### Event 12020 (00775B6A) Date: 7/11/1966 Description: Two civilian women saw a red, luminous object 30 m away in a field. It had small openings and made a whirring sound. Length, 30 m; height, 6 m; duration, 90 min. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Union-Kirkwood, Pennsylvania Source ID: Magnonia_779 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12021 (10FE0F8E) Date: 7/11/1966 Description: Large (100 ft wide, 20 ft high) bright red luminous object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10739) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Union-Kirkwood, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3099 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12022 (D1E49921) Date: 7/13/1966 Description: Camillo Faieta, age 35, a lineman for the local utility company, was on duty at 2:20 a.m. when a brilliant light dazzled him. He determined that the light came from an object on a small island in the Emissario Canal near Pontedera, Italy. Two little men were seen briefly on the ground before the object took off. There were four other witnesses to the sighting in addition to Sr. Faieta. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 86; Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 333 Source ID: Johnson_4032 Source: Johnson ### Event 12023 (CB2D6A10) Date: 7/13/1966 Description: 2:00 a.m. Railway linesman Camillo Faieta is on duty at the crossing in Fornacette, Pisa, Italy, when he is dazzled by a powerful light coming from the Emissario Canal. The light goes out and he sees an object hovering above a small islet in the canal. Two little men emerge, but the bright light comes on again and the object takes off. Police turn up other witnesses, but Italian and US air force officers from the nearby Camp Darby military complex tell Faieta not to speak about the incident any further. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 1Pinotti 147–148 Source ID: Eberhart_4067 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12024 (C07832CE) Date: 7/13/1966 Description: Camillo Faieta, 35, a lineman, was on duty when a light dazzled him, and he observed that it came from an object on a small island on the Emissario Canal. Two little men were seen briefly on the ground before the departure of the object. There are four other witnesses. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 86; FSR 67, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Pontedera, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_780 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12025 (5AD3A286) Date: 7/17/1966 Time: 0345 Description: Rene Pebre and two others were driving back from Draguignan when they saw a gray oval, metallic object, about 5 m long, hovering at low altitude, about 300 m from them. They noticed several window-like openings on the craft, which emitted a light beam. All the dogs in the vicinity were barking. Type: ufo sighting Reference: GEPA Sep., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Rebouillon, France Source ID: Magnonia_781 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12026 (16DE0B1B) Date: 7/17/1966 Description: Rebouillon, France. Rene Pebre and two others were driving back from Draguignan at 3:45 a.m. when they saw a gray oval-shaped metallic object, about five meters long, hovering at a low altitude about 300 meters away from them. It emitted a beam of light. They also noticed that there were several window-like openings on the craft. All the dogs in the vicinity were barking. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 781, citing GEPA, September 1966 Source ID: Johnson_4128 Source: Johnson ### Event 12027 (821849BC) Date: 7/18/1966 Description: 9:00 a.m. Service station personnel in Baytown, Texas, see a white object shaped like two saucers face-to-face with a row of square windows in between. The object is hovering above a store about 300 feet away, then it begins moving, rapidly accelerates, and speeds away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#cities) [Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#cities)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 57–58 Source ID: Eberhart_4068 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12028 (688BAF24) Date: 7/18/1966 Description: 9:00 a.m. CDT. Service station personnel saw a white object shaped like two saucers face to face (disc) with a row of square windows in between. The object was hovering above a store about 100 yards distant, then it began moving, rapidly accelerated and sped away. (McDonald, 1968a, pp. 57-58; Houston Post, Oct. 8, 1966.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baytown, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3100 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12029 (CFFD7447) Date: 7/19/1966 Description: MP [John Langford-Holt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FLangford-Holt) asks UK Prime Minister [Harold Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FWilson) in the House of Commons whether, since the Defence Secretary is responsible only for air defense implications of UFOs, he would allocate the assessment of their wider implications to another department. Wilson says he will not, but that reports are taken seriously when there is adequate information. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 60](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/60/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4069 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12030 (37E1097F) Date: 7/20/1966 Description: An elongated object carrying parallel points of horizontal lights passed over the Mount Monadnock Bible Conference Grounds in Jaffrey, New Hampshire at 10:30 p.m. EDT. The lights on the object changed from white to red to orange to yellow to green and back to white. It made no sound as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341 Source ID: Johnson_4241 Source: Johnson ### Event 12031 (1FECB9BE) Date: 7/20/1966 Description: 10:30 p.m. EDT. An elliptical object with two rows of body lights passed over a religious center. As it progressed, the lights changed color from white to red to orange to yellow to green and back to white. (Fowler 1974, p. 341.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jaffrey, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3101 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12032 (76901D2D) Date: 7/20/1966 Description: [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)’s third visit to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. He is again denied a copy of the Robertson Panel report because it has been “reclassified.” He is convinced that USAF has done a lousy job of investigating UFOs and that UFOs are actually good evidence for the ETH. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 696 Source ID: Eberhart_4070 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12033 (1F429153) Date: 7/21/1966 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a man saw a UFO land in the desert near his home in Van Horn, Texas. Approaching its reddish glow, he ran into three small creatures standing near a scrub tree. They spun around toward him, and one of them yelled something in a high-pitched, child like voice. The little beings then all ran back to the saucer-shaped UFO, which flashed away seconds later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-28, citing Kevin Randle & Ted Bloecher Source ID: Johnson_4268 Source: Johnson ### Event 12034 (FE473DF9) Date: 7/22/1966 Description: 9:00 p.m. W. J. Norton, curator of the Ludlow Museum, and his family see a UFO shaped like a silver isosceles triangle to the east of Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales. It hovers for 30–40 seconds and emits a low hum. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Llandrindod Triangle,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201966%20V%2012%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1966\): 32 Source ID: Eberhart_4071 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12035 (6F6AC61B) Date: 7/22/1966 Description: 11:25 p.m.. While driving his son home from the railway station, a realtor (retired WWII Navy officer) and his son saw an illuminated, 25-foot diameter disc with portholes on its lower convex surface. The object descended low over the car and hovered above it. When two other cars approached, the object extinguished its lights, then shot straight up into the sky leaving a trail of bluish light. (Hynek, 1972, pp. 95-96, 238; Ridge, 1994, pp. 12-13; NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fremont, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3102 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12036 (2E75C782) Date: 7/22/1966 Description: 11:25 p.m. While driving his son home from the railway station in Fremont, Indiana, a realtor and retired WWII Navy officer see an illuminated, 25-foot diameter disc with portholes on its lower convex surface. The object descends low over the car and hovers above it. They have it in view about 5–8 minutes. When two other cars approach, the object extinguishes its lights, then shoots straight up into the sky, leaving a trail of bluish light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 108–109](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/108/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4072 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12037 (296F579B) Date: 7/23/1966 Description: At 2:30 a.m. four UFOs where seen near the Shilo Royal Canadian AF airbase in Manitoba. One was at so low an altitude that it seemed about to land. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour, Flying Saucers are Hostile, p. 69 Source ID: Johnson_4322 Source: Johnson ### Event 12038 (C7451779) Date: Late 7/1966 Description: Col. [J. Thomas Ratchford](https://www.aaas.org/archives/j-thomas-ratchford-files), an AFOSR scientist, approaches the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, about contracting with the Air Force for a UFO study. Its director, [Walter Orr Roberts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FOrr%5FRoberts) is interested, but [William W. Kellogg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FWelch%5FKellogg)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FWelch%5FKellogg) associate director of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, is not. Roberts suggests the University of Colorado. Ratchford talks to prominent University of Colorado physicist [Edward U.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) who hesitates but finds the $300,000 offered by the Air Force \(plus $13,000 in operating expenses\) attractive. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1192 Source ID: Eberhart_4073 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12039 (D64FF398) Date: 7/25/1966 Description: 3:50 a.m. Federal Aviation Administration officials observed multi-colored oval objects that alternately hovered and moved around, confirmed on radar. One sped away. At 4:25 am another oblong object was observed hovering. Similar sightings occurred early the following morning, but this time not seen on radar. (Hitt, 1999.) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [660725](http://www.nicap.org/660725fultoncountydir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fulton County Airport, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3103 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12040 (933B7FFA) Date: 7/25/1966 Description: Pulsating object change color (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10781) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vanceboro, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3104 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12041 (5BEF1DB1) Date: Late 7/1966 Description: 7:00 p.m. Raquel Jodorowsky is in a traffic jam in Mexico City, Mexico, as people are getting out of their cars and looking to the sky. A large glowing object is hanging at 45° above the horizon to the east. The object ejects smaller bright objects that fly away. After 30 minutes the large object dims, becomes smaller, and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 11 Source ID: Eberhart_4074 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12042 (81E31634) Date: 7/25/1966 Time: 1 AM Description: Witness: college student James Clark. One object which changed color from orange to red to blue to green and back to orange. Followed witness' car at high speed, then stopped and hovered over the car. Rose and flew up and out of sight in less than 5 seconds. Entire sighting involved about 1 hour. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Vanceboro, North Carolina Source ID: BerlinerBBU_548 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12043 (9B4A2A4A) Date: 7/25/1966 Description: College student James Clark was driving home after 1:00 a.m. between Greenville and Vanceboro, North Carolina when he saw a flying object that followed him even though he drove at high speeds attempting to elude it. He finally stopped to watch it, but became afraid when it flew within 100 meters of the car, only 15 meters above the ground. The lights on the object pulsated, and the color changed in sequence, orange to red to blue to green and then back to orange, and it also wobbled on its axis. It came within 30 meters, then suddenly left straight up. It flew up and out of sight in less than five seconds. The entire incident lasted an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 10781; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 782 Source ID: Johnson_4383 Source: Johnson ### Event 12044 (F1B9B763) Date: 7/25/1966 Time: 0200 Description: A man driving between Greenville and Vancehars saw a glow in the woods and was followed by the light even at speeds of 170 km/hr. He finally stopped to observe it, but became afraid when he saw that it came from a pulsating object that flew within 100 m of the car, 15 m above ground. The color changed in sequence, orange to red to blue to green, and the object wobbled on its axis. It came within 30 m, then suddenly left straight up. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Vancehars, North Carolina Source ID: Magnonia_782 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12045 (C34E30E3) Date: 7/26/1966 Description: Six FAA personnel observed oval UFOs, radar-visual sighting. One object accelerated rapidly Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Atlanta, GA Source ID: HallUFOE2_93 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12046 (C614384D) Date: 7/26/1966 Description: G,V, FAA & oval UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlanta, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3098 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12047 (EE33211F) Date: 7/28/1966 Description: A photographer, Mr. Lacoste, and his wife, saw a red lighted object cross the sky in Montsoreau, France and appear to touch the ground. It then rose, hovered, and disappeared. The next day a wheat field was found flattened over a three meter wide area and covered with an oily substance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 783 Source ID: Johnson_4454 Source: Johnson ### Event 12048 (C573BA45) Date: 7/28/1966 Time: evening Description: A photographer, Mr. Lacoste, and his wife, saw a red, lighted object cross the sky and appear to touch the ground. It then rose, hovered, and disappeared. The next day a wheat field was found flattened over an area 3 m in diameter, and covered with an oily substance. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 166; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Montsoreau, France Source ID: Magnonia_783 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12049 (56899CD4) Date: 7/29/1966 Description: [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) writes to a citizen interested in UFOs and says that he thinks the Portage County, Ohio, case should be labeled unidentified and has told the Air Force as much. Its evaluation as a satellite or Venus has not originated with him as a mere consultant. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 \(July 2010\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_4075 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12050 (6A25E12E) Date: 7/30/1966 Description: The fourth and final launch of a D-21 drone from an M-21 ends in disaster 150 miles off the coast of California. Unlike the three previous launches, this one is performed straight and level, not in an outside loop to assist in the separation of the drone from the aircraft. The D-21 suffers engine problems and strikes the M-21’s tail after separation, leading to the destruction of both aircraft. The two crew members eject and land at sea. The pilot, [Bill Park](http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/park.html)[,](http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/park.html) survives, but the launch control officer, Ray Torrick, drowns. [Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%5FJohnson%5F%28engineer%29) decides to refit the D-21 to launch from a B-52 bomber in order to not endanger any more M-21s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed D-21](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FD-21)” Source ID: Eberhart_4076 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12051 (23ECDB2A) Date: 7/31/1966 Description: At Presque Isle State Park near Erie, Pennsylvania at around 8:25 p.m. EDT Douglas Tibbetts, age 16, Betty Klem, 16, Anita Haifley, 22, and Gerald Labelle, 29 were enjoying the evening at the swimming beach on Lake Erie when they saw a square or hexagonal object with lit edges come tumbling down out of the sky from right to left. It stopped 5-10 feet above the beach, and then came down heavily onto the sand. It had a circle of spotlights at the top that were visible when it was on the ground. A strange being, 1.80 meters tall, was briefly seen. The sighting lasted five minutes. Ground marks were found in the sand. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 784 Source ID: Johnson_4527 Source: Johnson ### Event 12052 (04F719DA) Date: 7/31/1966 Description: 9:30 p.m. EDT. An engineer with the Federal Communications Commission saw a maneuvering light that descended with a falling leaf motion (oscillating from side to side). Then he discerned it as three lights in V formation. (New York NICAP Subcommittee report.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Canandaigua, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3106 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12053 (2213DE5C) Date: 7/31/1966 Time: 7:25 PM Description: Witnesses: Douglas Tibbetts, 16; Betty Klem, 16; Anita Haifley, 22; and Gerald Labelle, 29. Square or hexagonal object with edges lit or reflecting light, came tumbling down from right to left. Stopped 5-10' above the beach and settled heavily down; circle of spotlights at top were visible when it was on the ground. Sighting lasted 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Presque Isle State Park, Pennsylvania Source ID: BerlinerBBU_549 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12054 (0F6D0FC6) Date: 7/31/1966 Description: Square or hexagonal object with edges lit or reflecting light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10798) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Erie (Presque Isle State Park), PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3105 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12055 (CE57CF78) Date: 7/31/1966 Time: 2025 Description: Young witnesses reported an object flying erratically and landing 300 m away. It had the shape of a mushroom and swept the area with a light beam. A strange being, 1.80 m tall, was seen. Police report. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 167; FSR 66, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Erie, Preque-Ile Park, Pennsylvania Source ID: Magnonia_784 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12056 (7729EF05) Date: 8/1966 Alternate date: 9/1966 Description: Mid-afternoon. Two men are returning home from bowling in Norwood, Massachusetts. The Moon is visible in about three-quarter phase in the sky. Both glance up and see a group of 6–7 disc-shaped objects moving horizontally toward the Moon. When they reach a position just below the Moon, they loop around it in an upward, back, and onward motion, then continue on their way. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 9–10 Source ID: Eberhart_4091 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12057 (4601447A) Date: 8/1/1966 Description: 7:45 p.m. Several children are playing outside in Rushville, Indiana, when they see an object hovering above a tree near them. Its altitude is about 75 feet. They describe it as round, brighter than the moon, silver, and about 4 times larger than the full moon. It has a fuzzy edge and rocks slightly as it hovers. One girl, Donna Glosser, calls it to the attention of others who are about a half-block away. When she does, the object changes to reddish- orange, seems to revolve, and moves across a road so fast it seems to jump. It stops abruptly over some trees on a hill about one block away. At least one adult watches the object for 5 minutes. The same object is apparently seen by a group of teens at the Dairy Delight Drive-In about a mile and a half away. It becomes brighter after 45 seconds and speeds away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Children Watch Object in Central Indiana,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201966%2007%2000%20-%20July-August.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1966, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_4078 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12058 (643FA94B) Date: 8/1/1966 Description: [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) meets, through his friend [Aimé Michel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9%5FMichel)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9%5FMichel) with physicist [Yves Rocard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves%5FRocard) and gives him a copy of outstanding Blue Book UFO reports, but the contact goes no further. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, North Atlantic, 1992, [pp. 55](https://archive.org/details/forbiddenscience00vall%5F0/page/55/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/forbiddenscience00vall%5F0/page/55/mode/2up) [198](https://archive.org/details/forbiddenscience00vall%5F0/page/197/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/forbiddenscience00vall%5F0/page/197/mode/2up) [201–202](https://archive.org/details/forbiddenscience00vall%5F0/page/201/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4077 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12059 (B3ACD67A) Date: 8/1/1966 Description: At 12:30 a.m. EDT citizens and police in College Park, Lanham, Bowie, Seat Pleasant, and elsewhere around Prince Georges County, Maryland saw maneuvering, fast-moving lighted objects. When a police officer approached a hovering object that had pulsating red, green, and white lights, it began a series of maneuvers, descended almost to the ground, then sped away "like a shot." Before it sped away, the object emitted a strange multi-colored light beam that moved rapidly to the ground, which was also observed by another police officer. Andrews AFB denied to a County police dispatcher that they had any unknown objects on radar, but the dispatcher said a control tower operator had acknowledged seeing a fast-moving lighted object, and he later learned that Andrews did indeed have a UFO on its radar but would not admit it officially. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August-September 1966, p. 4. Source ID: Johnson_4565 Source: Johnson ### Event 12060 (6C3F34EB) Date: 8/1/1966 Description: At 12:30 a.m. CDT Kathy Palmer, age 14, looked out the window of her home in Springfield, Missouri before going to bed and saw a luminous object bearing red and blue lights on the lawn. It was about six feet long, ovoid shaped, and four feet wide by four feet high, and it made a "rattling" sound. From a square hatch two 5-foot tall slender occupants emerged, who either had "large heads" or wore helmets. They walked about for three minutes, apparently communicating with each other, and examined some bicycles. Then they returned to the craft and it took off. The total duration of the encounter was about 30 minutes in all. At the landing site the grass was matted down, and there was a white substance which proved to be calcium phosphate. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1966-31, citing Patricia Rudig for NICAP; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 43, case # 685 Source ID: Johnson_4566 Source: Johnson ### Event 12061 (0675FC19) Date: 8/1/1966 Description: 12:30 a.m. EDT. Citizens and police in College Park, Lanham, Bowie, Seat Pleasant, and elsewhere around the region saw maneuvering, fast-moving lighted objects. When a police officer approached a hovering object that had pulsating red, green, and white lights, it began a series of maneuvers, descended almost to the ground, then sped away "like a shot." Before it sped away, the object emitted a strange multi-colored light beam that moved rapidly to the ground, also observed by another officer. Andrews AFB denied to a County police dispatcher that they had any unknown objects on radar, but the dispatcher said a control tower operator had acknowledged seeing a fast-moving lighted object, and he later learned that Andrews did have a UFO on its radar but would not admit it officially. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 9, Aug. -Sept. 1966, p. 4.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Prince George's County, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3107 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12062 (66DE6D15) Date: 8/1/1966 Time: 1945 Description: Several young witnesses reported seeing an unidentified object at low altitude. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 109 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Rushville, Indiana Source ID: Magnonia_785 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12063 (0D61F274) Date: 8/1/1966 Description: At 7:45 p.m. several young witnesses in Rushville, Indiana reported seeing an unidentified object at low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 785 Source ID: Johnson_4567 Source: Johnson ### Event 12064 (FCF00449) Date: 8/2/1966 Description: 10:30 p.m. LT. A man saw a disc-shaped object behind his house hovering about 400-500 feet off the ground. The object made no sound . It was a darker gray than the overcast sky. After about 45 seconds it accelerated, displaying twinkling lights, and disappeared. (Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 12, No. 6, Nov. -Dec. 1966, p. iii.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vancouver, B.C., CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3109 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12065 (D168F0D5) Date: 8/5/1966 Description: 9:30 p.m. EDT. A woman and four children saw an aluminum-colored oblong object with five evenly spaced yellow windows for about 30 seconds. (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Erie, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3110 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12066 (3575DE9E) Date: 8/6/1966 Time: 1400 Description: A civilian man and his family observed a dark object hovering near their isolated house. It had a square "door" emitting a yellow light. Three children saw a dwarf through the opening. He was dressed in shiny black coveralls. The object left slowly with a soft humming sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Texas Source ID: Magnonia_786 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12067 (056D43E6) Date: 8/6/1966 Description: Dark obj hover over house and a dwarf in shiny overalls appears (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harlingen, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3111 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12068 (347AEF7C) Date: 8/6/1966 Description: At 2:20 a.m. in rural Bellingham, Massachusetts a couple heard a hissing sound for several minutes. One got out of bed, looked out, and saw a multicolored disc-shaped object hovering at 500 feet, then depart at high speed. The 35-year-old female witness reportedly heard a "hum", then the object "came from behind the barn", hovered over a tree near their home, and finally shot off to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Morton Schafer, MUFON field investigation files, case # 881202 Source ID: Johnson_4728 Source: Johnson ### Event 12069 (D29A49C0) Date: 8/6/1966 Description: At 2:00 p.m. a man and his family near Kelly Air Force Base in Cameron County, Texas observed a dark object hovering near their isolated house. It had a square "door" emitting a yellow light. Three children saw a dwarf through the opening. He was dressed in shiny black coveralls. The object left slowly with a soft humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 786; Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, p. 66 Source ID: Johnson_4729 Source: Johnson ### Event 12070 (2AD6BA30) Date: 8/7/1966 Description: The Washington Star runs an article on UFOs by retired USAF Lt. Col. [Charles Cooke](https://obits.mlive.com/obituaries/jackson/obituary.aspx?n=charles-t-cooke-chuck&pid=139169141) saying that he has analyzed first-hand UFO encounters by Air Force pilots that show strong support for the ETH. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_4079 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12071 (B34BDA3C) Date: 8/9/1966 Description: Robert J. Low, later coordinator of the Colorado UFO project, sent a memo to University of Colorado officials suggesting how they could deal with scientific disdain of UFO sightings. "The trick would be" to make it "appear a totally objective study" Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_94 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12072 (1DB8340E) Date: 8/9/1966 Description: [Robert J. Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf)[,](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) assistant dean in the University of Colorado Graduate School, is also interested in the UFO project. He consults with several scientists and reports on what they tell him in a memo to E. James Archer, dean of the graduate school, and [Thurston E. Manning](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/thurston-manning-obituary?pid=171867180), university vice president. The memo, which is not sent to [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) and is intended to show university officials that the project will not embarrass them, says: “Our study would be conducted almost exclusively by nonbelievers who, although they couldn’t possibly prove a negative result, could and probably would add an impressive body of evidence that there is no reality to the observations. The trick would be, I think, to describe the project so that, to the public, it would appear a totally objective study but to the scientific community, would present the image of a group of nonbelievers trying their best to be objective but having an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer.” He recommends stressing the psychology and sociology of the witnesses rather than physical evidence. The memo stays under wraps for a year and a half. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert J. Low, “[Some Thoughts on the UFO Project,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/660809lowmemo.htm)” memo to E. James Archer and Thurston E. Manning, August 9, 1966; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 239](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/238/mode/2up); Clark III 1192 Source ID: Eberhart_4080 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12073 (34F4EFEF) Date: 8/10/1966 Description: At 12:30 a.m. in Moultonborough, New Hampshire a three foot in diameter red-orange globe with a central black design skirted about the walls and ceiling inside a cabin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Folwer, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341 Source ID: Johnson_4821 Source: Johnson ### Event 12074 (C2EACCBA) Date: 8/11/1966 Description: An abduction and forced sexual encounter allegedly occurred near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on this evening. Marlene Travers, age 24, was visiting friends in the country and had taken a walk alone after dinner. She heard a sound like an airplane and saw a 50-foot diameter disc land in a field. A tall man dressed in a loose-fitting green tunic got out of the craft. She tried to run away but couldn't move. When he touched her she felt compelled to obey, and followed him aboard the craft past an instrumental panel into a "wildly furnished" room. She understood through telepathy that he intended to impregnate her.

After sexual intercourse he escorted her out of the ship, but when she tripped over some kind of a switch the resultant flash burned her ankles and she fainted. When she woke up she found herself lying in the field where the UFO had landed. Her friends had been searching for her for several hours. A doctor who examined her found burns on her legs and ankles. She brought her friends back to the spot where she claimed to have been inside the UFO, and a large indentation was found in the earth. She later was examined again by a medical doctor and found to be pregnant. There is no account of how the pregnancy turned out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, pp. 247-248; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Here and Now, p. 147; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case # 125 Source ID: Johnson_4871 Source: Johnson ### Event 12075 (DD3F78CA) Date: 8/13/1966 Description: Time not reported. A policeman and others saw a large object accompanied by about 10 smaller objects. When an airplane approached, the smaller objects rushed to the large object, (aircraft avoidance). The sighting lasted 4 hours. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McDonald, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3112 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12076 (8147B9B0) Date: 8/15/1966 Description: 5:40 p.m. CST. A Navy technician watched a flat, round object (disc) with red and yellow segments on the underside. The object had a dark center section, and colors around the rim. It flew slowly overhead for 5 minutes as a storm gathered. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Forest Park, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3115 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12077 (093AC646) Date: 8/15/1966 Description: Office of Scientific Intelligence Deputy Director Karl H. Weber writes to Col. Gerald E. Jorgensen, chief of the USAF Community Relations Division, that “We are most anxious that further publicity not be given to the information that the \[Robertson\] panel was sponsored by the CIA.” Weber notes that there is already a sanitized version available to the public. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gerald K. Haines, “[CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,](https://www.cia.gov/static/105bd8290b90de13ee136fecc9fe863f/cia-role-study-UFOs.pdf)” Studies in Intelligence 40, no. 5 \(1997\): 67–84 Source ID: Eberhart_4081 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12078 (31E3A6F0) Date: 8/15/1966 Description: 2:30 p.m. EST. An art instructor saw a thin disc with flat dome, and vertical ribbing visible on the dome, for 1 -2 minutes. The object was beneath a cloud or fog layer. (Walter N. Webb report.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boston, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3114 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12079 (46F68C27) Date: 8/15/1966 Description: Elongated Sphere Encountered By C-130 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [660815](http://www.nicap.org/660815canada%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Regina, Saskatchewan, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3116 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12080 (576269FD) Date: 8/15/1966 Description: 2:00 a.m. LT. A couple saw an intensely bright glowing disc approach and hover about 1 50 yards from their house above an old tree. Some apparent damage to foliage, circular holes in the ground, and a large depression with flattened grass were found beneath the area where the object had hovered. (Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 12, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1966, pp. 4-5.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wood Green, London, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3113 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12081 (483B9165) Date: Mid 8/1966 Description: Rep. [J. Edward Hutchinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdward%5FHutchinson) \(R-Mich.\) introduces HR 866 for an investigation into Project Blue Book’s methods. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_4082 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12082 (84FC540A) Date: 8/15/1966 Description: At around 2:00 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Palmer in Wood Green, outside of London, England had a ten minute close encounter with a disc-shaped object that caused lasting physiological effects and left ground traces on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Antonio Ribera, Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1966, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_5038 Source: Johnson ### Event 12083 (09AFEB53) Date: 8/16/1966 Description: Football-shaped object that was white with an orange tint appear in front of their car (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [660816](http://www.nicap.org/minot660816dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot (15 miles south of), ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3119 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12084 (BFB9F330) Date: 8/16/1966 Description: MN, N. Dakota, Wisconsin, scope photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Various in MN, ND, WI, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_3118 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12085 (8E286280) Date: 8/16/1966 Description: 10:45 p.m. CST. Three persons in a car saw a very large, spinning greenish-blue object that had revolving red body lights. The object at one point emitted an extremely bright light beam that blinded the driver. (NICAP report form, newspaper clippings.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Duluth, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3117 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12086 (3D4F9518) Date: 8/16/1966 Description: The chief of the Australian Directorate of Public Relations writes to the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence requesting reconsideration of its decision to stop making summaries of UFO sightings reported to the Department of Air available to the public. DPR hopes the summaries will be useful in responding to public inquiries and thinks that restricting them will reinforce the theory that the government has something to hide. The summaries continue to be published erratically through the end of the 1970s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 393–394 Source ID: Eberhart_4084 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12087 (E9537026) Date: 8/16/1966 Description: Iraqi Air Force Col. [Munir Redfa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munir%5FRedfa) defects by flying a MiG-21 to Israel. In what is considered one of Mossad’s most successful operations, Redfa’s entire extended family is smuggled safely out of Iraq to Israel. The MiG-21 fighter is evaluated by the Israeli Air Force and later loaned to the US for testing and intelligence analysis at Area 51. Knowledge obtained from analysis of the aircraft is instrumental to the successes achieved by the Israeli Air Force in the Six-Day War. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Munir Redfa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munir%5FRedfa)” Source ID: Eberhart_4083 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12088 (8AD7F449) Date: 8/17/1966 Description: Family saw a silvery disc-shaped object hovering and emitting a humming sound. The object then dove down and disappeared from view. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ashtabula, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3120 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12089 (9C05ADFE) Date: 8/17/1966 Description: Late in the afternoon of this day two men named Pereira and Viana, alleged UFO contactees, were found dead with welders masks and strange papers on them in Niteroi Morro do Vintem, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Plants in their vicinity were burnt. A disc shaped UFO had been seen earlier. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_5113 Source: Johnson ### Event 12090 (01F0D2CE) Date: 8/18/1966 Description: Time not reported. A train crew saw a thin elongated (cigar-shaped) object whose glow cast a green light over the area (environmental illumination). The glow lasted for about 7 seconds, and then the object shot away and disappeared. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oil City, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3121 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12091 (B99F556D) Date: 8/18/1966 Description: Three hunters, E. Beucomo, J. Zapata and J. Ramos, observed a strange glow in the forest and discovered a very large, egg-shaped object, stationary 2 m above ground. It had large, circular openings emitting a multicolored light, and it made a whistling sound. The hunters ran away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Sep., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Barinas, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_787 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12092 (8BCE6546) Date: 8/18/1966 Description: Three hunters, E. Beucomo, J. Zapata and J. Ramos, observed a strange glow in the forest near Barinas, Venezuela and discovered a very large, egg-shaped object, hovering stationary two meters above ground. It had large, circular openings emitting a multicolored light, and it made a whistling sound. The hunters ran away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 786 Source ID: Johnson_5127 Source: Johnson ### Event 12093 (183552AA) Date: 8/19/1966 Description: Bright, shiny, round disc, 30 ft in diameter and 15 ft high (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10872) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Donnybrook, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3123 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12094 (4F1C4F5E) Date: 8/19/1966 Description: Time not reported. A disc like an inverted dinner plate, with red and green body lights on top and bottom and flashing lights on the circumference, hovered over the Algoma steel plant. The object abruptly took off to the north at high speed, seen over a wide area. (NICAP notes; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 9, Aug. -Sept. 1966, p. 4.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sault Ste. Marie, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3122 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12095 (A4D9E2A3) Date: 8/19/1966 Description: 4:50 p.m. US Border Patrolman Donald E. Flickinger, in the process of taking two prisoners back to Canada, sees a silvery domed disc floating down the side of a hill near Donnybrook, North Dakota, about 10 feet off the ground. It moves across a valley and climbs to 100 feet, hovers over a reservoir, then appears to land in a field 250 feet away. It tilts on edge and rises into the clouds at high speed. Flickinger finds three odd indentations in the field in the form of a triangle with sides of 10–12 feet. Some stones alo seem to have been moved recently. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hynek UFO Report, [photo](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/n159/mode/2up) betw. pp. 152–153; Condon, [pp. 273–274](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/272/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 317 Source ID: Eberhart_4085 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12096 (3CA67F96) Date: 8/19/1966 Time: 4:50 PM Description: Witness: U.S. Border Patrolman Don Flickenger. Round disc with domed top, 30' in diameter and 15' high, colored white, silvery or aluminum. Moved across a valley from the southeast, hovered over a reservoir, appeared to land in a small field, then rose up into clouds very rapidly. Sighting lasted 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Donnybrook, North Dakota Source ID: BerlinerBBU_550 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12097 (667AD895) Date: 8/19/1966 Time: 1650 Description: A border patrolman saw a bright, shiny disk on its edge, 10 m in diameter, 5 m high, floating down the side of a hill, wobbling from side to side 3 m above ground. It reached the valley floor, climbed to about 30 m, and moved across to a small reservoir where it assumed a horizontal position. A dome then became visible on top of the disk. It hovered for one min and seemed about to land less than 80 m away, but tilted back on edge and flew into the clouds at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Donnybrook, North Dakota Source ID: Magnonia_788 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12098 (833C8C11) Date: 8/19/1966 Description: At 4:50 p.m. in Donnybrook, North Dakota U.S. Border Patrolman Don Flickenger sighted a bright white, shiny thirty-foot diameter round disc made of a silvery or aluminum material. It was ten meters meters in diameter, five meters high, and floated down the side of a hill, wobbling from side to side about three meters above the ground. The object moved across the valley from the southeast, climbed to about 30 meters altitude, and hovered for one minute over a small reservoir where it assumed a horizontal position. A dome then became visible on top of the disc. It next appeared to almost land in a small field less than 80 meters away, but titled back on edge, then rose up vertically into the clouds at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5157 Source: Johnson ### Event 12099 (64666E3C) Date: 8/20/1966 Description: A woman called police to report a luminous object rising and descending on top of a high hill. When policemen climbed to the site they found the bodies of two men, electronics technicians Pereira da Cruz and Viana. The bodies had lead masks on the upper part of the face. An autopsy failed to disclose the cause of death. Investigation disclosed several earlier incidents and an organization to which these men belonged. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Niteroi, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_790 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12100 (BAAA5F54) Date: 8/20/1966 Description: Early in the morning Otto Becker, his son, and daughter-in-law woke up to find their entire house in Heraldsburg, California bathed in bright light. They next observed a "six-story" tall object at treetop level sixty meters away. It gave off rainbow colors that appeared to pour off its edges "like water" in a fantastic display. A distinct engine noise was heard before it took off vertically. Domestic animals had been greatly disturbed, and the witness had inflamed eyes for several days. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 789, citing Bob Gribble, January 1967 Source ID: Johnson_5181 Source: Johnson ### Event 12101 (073B39CF) Date: 8/20/1966 Description: Dusk, MDT. About a dozen witnesses saw a glowing orange disc that hovered, emitting a red light beam from the underside. When children ran toward it, the object took off and disappeared. (Salisbury 1974, Appendix B, Table 1.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unitah Basin, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3124 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12102 (C041E290) Date: 8/20/1966 Description: In Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a woman called the police to report a luminous object rising and descending on top of a high hill. When policemen climbed to the site they found the bodies of two men, electronic technicians Pereira da Cruz and Viana. The bodies were wearing lead masks on the upper part of the face. An autopsy failed to disclose the cause of death, but the investigation disclosed several earlier incidents and a mysterious organization to which these men belonged. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 790, citing a personal investigation Source ID: Johnson_5183 Source: Johnson ### Event 12103 (582AD498) Date: 8/20/1966 Description: In Randlett, Utah at sunset a 12-year-old girl named Cuch spotted a glowing yellow-orange domed disc hovering in the sky. It glowed orange, approached, and then a red beam came out of the bottom. When children ran toward it, it flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix A, case 10; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 380 Source ID: Johnson_5184 Source: Johnson ### Event 12104 (73BA77E1) Date: 8/20/1966 Time: early Description: Otto Becker, his son, and daughter-in-law woke up to find the whole house bathed in bright light, and they observed a "six-story" object at treetop level 60 m away. It gave off rainbow colors which appeared to pour off its edges "like water" in a fantastic display. Distinct engine noise was heard before it took off vertically. Domestic animals had been greatly disturbed, and the witness had inflamed eyes for several days. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Gribble Jan., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Heraldsburg, California Source ID: Magnonia_789 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12105 (13555AF1) Date: 8/20/1966 Description: Afternoon. Some boys looking for a lost kite on the Morro do Vintém in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, discover the bodies of two dead males and report them to the authorities. The Morro do Vintém is a hill with difficult terrain, and the police are unable to reach the bodies until August 21. When a small team of police and firefighters arrive, they encounter an odd scene: the bodies are resting next to each other, partly covered by grass. Each one is wearing a formal suit, a lead eye mask, and a waterproof coat. There are no signs of trauma or struggle. Next to the corpses, police find an empty water bottle and a packet containing two wet towels. A small notebook is also identified, on which were written the cryptic instructions, “16:30 be at the specified location. 18:30 ingest capsules, after the effect protect metals await signal mask.” The two men are identified as Manoel Pereira da Cruz and Miguel José Viana, two electronic technicians from Campos dos Goytacazes. Following an investigation, police reconstruct a plausible narrative of the men’s last days. On August 17, Cruz and Viana leave Campos dos Goytacazes saying that they needed to purchase some materials for work \(although they tell others they are on a secret mission\). The two men then board a bus to Niterói and arrive at 2:30 p.m. Evidence shows that the waterproof coats were purchased at a shop there, and one bottle of water from a local bar. Upon being interviewed, the waitress from the bar described Miguel as “very nervous,” and noticed he frequently checked his watch. That is the last time they are known to have been seen alive; it is presumed they go directly from the bar to the spot where they were discovered. One theory revolves around the testimony of a friend of the two men, who claims that they are members of a group of “scientific spiritualists” who are apparently attempting to contact extraterrestrials or spirits using psychedelic drugs. Believing that such an encounter would be accompanied by blinding light, the men cut metal masks to shield their eyes and may have died of drug overdoses. This account is corroborated by the esoteric diary entry found at the scene and by mask-making materials and literature concerning spirits found at the men’s homes. In April 1980, [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) locates the exact spot where the bodies were found and notes that no vegetation is growing there. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lead Masks Case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%5FMasks%5FCase)”; Charles Bowen, “[The Mystery of the Morro do Vintem,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1967\): 11–14; Clark III 774–775; Jacques Vallée, Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact, Ballantine, 1990, [pp. 3–15](https://archive.org/details/confrontationssc00vall%5F0/page/3/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4086 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12106 (6AEB0604) Date: 8/20/1966 Description: Later that day outside of Bozeman, Montana Dan Duggleby was up in the hills with a .22 caliber rifle when he heard a "whooshing" noise and looked up to see a large rocket-shaped object about 60 feet in diameter and 300 feet tall, which landed close by. An opening appeared in the side of the cylinder and a ramp slid out, and five robotic metal "boxes" with small wheels on the bottoms and four "arms" on the sides came down the ramp. One took ground samples, while three of the others took air, grass, and flower samples and the last one "just stood there." When finished they rolled back up the ramp, the ramp slid in, and the ship took off straight up and vanished in the fog. The witness had seen disc-like UFOs on many previous occasions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1966-33, citing Duggleby's letter to the FBI Source ID: Johnson_5182 Source: Johnson ### Event 12107 (5BABB7A5) Date: 8/22/1966 Description: "Plasma Theory May Explain Many UFOs," by Philip J. Klass, Aviation Week. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_95 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12108 (EFA84DAD) Date: 8/22/1966 Description: [Phil Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) asserts in Aviation Week that the Exeter UFO was a plasma discharge from high-voltage power lines. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philip J. Klass, “Plasma Theory May Explain Many UFOs,” Aviation Week and Space Technology 85 \(August 22, 1966\): 48–61 Source ID: Eberhart_4087 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12109 (8F07A220) Date: 8/22/1966 Description: On this night the crew of a USAF F-102 witnessed a silver, dragon-shaped UFO that hovered over Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James Moseley, Saucer News, December 1966, p. 32, citing London Daily Telegraph, August 23, 1966 Source ID: Johnson_5223 Source: Johnson ### Event 12110 (B44921EA) Date: 8/22/1966 Description: On this night in Malvern, Arkansas local residents reported seeing an eight-foot tall creature. The "thing" was humanoid in shaped, and changed color from red to orange to yellow. A witness named Mr. Niles reportedly snapped a picture of the "thing" from his window as it passed by his house. This humanoid encounter occurred six days after several UFOs had been seen in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Malvern (AR) Daily Record, August 23, 1966; John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, p. 145; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966, case # 2583, citing John Keel Source ID: Johnson_5225 Source: Johnson ### Event 12111 (F81500DA) Date: 8/22/1966 Description: A landing with ground marks occurred shortly after 6:00 p.m. in Leiters Ford, Fulton County, Indiana and was witnessed by two families, including the Brockleys. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucers, September 1972, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_5224 Source: Johnson ### Event 12112 (E0EB3C01) Date: 8/22/1966 Description: 10:15 p.m. EDT. An orange-red mass of light undergoing apparent shape changes was reported. The object fluttered down, moved away, changed to cone shape, then to a thin line, and finally sped away disappearing in seconds. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Easton, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3125 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12113 (815F3D9B) Date: 8/23/1966 Description: Columbus, Ohio. - At seven o'clock in the evening two witnesses, Broomall and Gilpin, reported seeing a circular, luminous white object split into five objects. All five objects streaked away toward the west. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5255 Source: Johnson ### Event 12114 (72C44A68) Date: 8/23/1966 Time: 77 PM Description: Witnesses: Broomall and Gilpin. One circular, luminous white object split into five objects and all streaked away toward the west. Sighting lasted 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Columbus, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_551 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12115 (5F87D2D2) Date: 8/23/1966 Description: 8:45 p.m. EDT. A businessman saw an oblong obiect with a row of lights or windows around the middle, antennas (projections) on top, and lights at each end (body lights). The object moved silently at variable speed. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New York City, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3128 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12116 (872354ED) Date: 8/23/1966 Description: Circular, luminous white object split into 5 objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10888) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3127 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12117 (C945CD87) Date: 8/23/1966 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Da Nang, Vietnam Source ID: NICAP_DB_3126 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12118 (56FF3611) Date: 8/24/1966 Description: 10:00 p.m. Airman 3d Class Michael D. Mueller reports by base radio seeing a multicolored light high in the sky above the Minot AFB M-6 Minuteman launch site southeast of Norma, North Dakota. A team goes to his location and confirms the object and sees a second white object passing in front of clouds. The base radar detects the object, which is tracked at about 100,000 feet \(20 miles\). The object rises and descends a number of times, and each time Maj. Chester A. Shaw Jr., in charge of the M-6 missile crew, finds his radio transmission interrupted by static, even though he is 60 feet underground. The UFO gradually descends to ground level 10–15 miles south of the base. The Air Force sends a strike team to check on it. When they are within 10 miles of the site, static disrupts their radio contact. Five to eight minutes later, the glow diminishes and the UFO takes off. Another UFO is sighted and tracked on radar; the first object flies underneath this second one. The two objects disappear separately. The entire episode lasts about 4 hours and is confirmed by two other missile launch sites, M- 4 and N-7 \(near Mohall\). Another report from the same time period mentions that some missiles went off alert for 24 hours after a UFO sighting at the N-1 missile alert facility. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Minuteman Site Jammed by UFO](http://www.nicap.org/660824minot%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 274–277](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/274/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 317; Robert L. Salas and James Klotz, Faded Giant, BookSurge, 2005, p. 5–6; Nukes 238–240, 248–251 Source ID: Eberhart_4088 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12119 (CDA0D151) Date: 8/24/1966 Description: At ten o'clock in the evening an airman at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota observed and reported by radio a multi-colored light high in the sky. A strike team was sent to his location and confirmed the presence of the unknown object. A second object, white in color, was seen to pass in front of the clouds. At the radar base an object was detected and tracked. The observations lasted nearly four hours and were confirmed by three different missile sites. Radio interference was noted by teams sent to locations where the object was sometimes described as hovering at ground level. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 791 Source ID: Johnson_5289 Source: Johnson ### Event 12120 (EF8944CD) Date: 8/24/1966 Time: 2200 Description: An airman observed and reported by radio a multi-colored light high in the sky. A strike team was sent to his location and confirmed the unknown. A second object, white, was seen to pass in front of clouds. At the radar base, an object was detected and tracked. The observations lasted nearly 4 hours and were confirmed by three different missile sites. Radio interference was noted by teams sent to locations where the object was sometimes described as hovering at ground level. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota Source ID: Magnonia_791 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12121 (C6744496) Date: 8/24/1966 Description: Missile site personnel sight a multi-colored light high in the sky (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [660824](http://www.nicap.org/660824minot%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot AFB, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3130 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12122 (E8D037EE) Date: 8/24/1966 Description: 8:20 a.m. EDT. A disc inclined at an angle was observed by a railroad conductor and his family for 5 minutes, using 7x50 binoculars. Super 8mm movie film reportedly was taken of the object, but the film was not made available for study. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Battle Creek, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3129 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12123 (1888C7B2) Date: 8/25/1966 Description: On this day a domed, disc-shaped craft made complex, high speed maneuvers over Malibu, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 152 Source ID: Johnson_5321 Source: Johnson ### Event 12124 (4B309F29) Date: 8/25/1966 Description: Sunrise, PDT. A diesel mechanic and former Navy aircraft crewman saw a lens- shaped disc with dome on top, apparent windows or portholes rotating slowly around it. The object performed complex, high-speed maneuvers. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Malibu, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3131 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12125 (D98AEE4F) Date: 8/25/1966 Description: 11:30 p.m. CDT. A radio station staff and dozens of others saw a dark disc-shaped object with flashing red light, surrounded by white or pale green haze, hover, swoop down, and reverse direction. The object was visible for 15 minutes. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Omaha, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_3132 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12126 (56162373) Date: 8/26/1966 Description: In Gaylesville, Alabama at 8:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Funk and their three children witnessed a cluster of four small, glowing, orange-yellow lights in a triangular formation, moved from east to west for 4.5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5363 Source: Johnson ### Event 12127 (34E008D5) Date: 8/26/1966 Time: 8:50 PM Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Funk and their three children. A cluster of four small, glowing, orange-yellow lights in a triangular formation, moved from east to west for 4.5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Gaylesville, Alabama Source ID: BerlinerBBU_552 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12128 (F91194AE) Date: 8/26/1966 Description: Cluster of 4 small, glowing, orange yellow lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10899) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gaylesville, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3133 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12129 (807074DA) Date: 8/27/1966 Description: Dr. J. A. Hynek released to the press a letter rejected by Science magazine reporting a "pattern" to UFO sightings that "suggests that something is going on" and disputing seven misconceptions about UFOs. Science had a belated change of heart and published the letter on October 21, with the headline, "UFOs Merit Scientific Study." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_96 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12130 (DE4703A3) Date: 8/27/1966 Description: There were multiple radar trackings and visual sightings of a silvery UFO over Stuttgart, Germany this night. The UFO changed shape as it flew. Two F-102 jets gave chase, but it ascended into outer space. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July 1966, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_5397 Source: Johnson ### Event 12131 (5C01174B) Date: 8/27/1966 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) releases to the press a letter rejected by Science magazine in which he reports a pattern to UFO sightings that “suggests that something is going on” and disputing seven misconceptions about UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Expert](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95331604/) [Criticizes Scientists for Dismissing UFOs,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95331604/)” Miami \(Fla.\) Herald, August 28, 1966, p. 5-C Source ID: Eberhart_4089 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12132 (9FFA0CC8) Date: 8/27/1966 Description: 9:30 p.m. CDT. A production engineer saw a lens-shaped disc with domes on top and bottom, surrounded by a soft bluish glow. The object was visible for 3 minutes. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Civero, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3134 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12133 (F4031076) Date: 8/31/1966 Description: Col. [Ivan C. Atkinson](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=ivan-c-atkinson&pid=153400531)[,](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=ivan-c-atkinson&pid=153400531) deputy executive director of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, formally approaches the University of Colorado with a request to conduct a comprehensive and independent examination of the UFO problem. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_4090 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12134 (61BBD0CA) Date: 8/31/1966 Description: 8:20 p.m. LT. A woman was called by her two daughters to observe from a balcony an object shaped like two plates, one inverted on top of the other (disc), flying at an altitude of about 200 meters. (Flying Saucer Review, 12(6), November-December 1966; from the He/s/ng/a Sanomet, Sept. 1, 1966.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Makklya, Finland Source ID: NICAP_DB_3135 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12135 (E141DA84) Date: 9/1966 Description: Early morning. A UFO is seen hovering at low altitude by all personnel at Heathrow Airport Air Traffic Control in London, England, at a time when no aircraft are in motion. The UFO is tracked on radar and its speed at departure is clocked at 3,000 mph. The Ministry of Defence is notified, and investigators arrive on the scene and tell the witnesses that they have seen nothing, threatening to charge them under the Official Secrets Act if they reveal the sighting publicly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 71–72](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/70/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4093 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12136 (2BA67007) Date: 9/1966 Description: 1:30 a.m. Airman 1C Patrick McDonough is working on an astro-azimuth observation at one of the Malmstrom AFB missile launch facilities near Conrad, Montana, when a UFO comes in from the north and stops directly overhead at 300 feet. It is about 30–50 feet in diameter and disc-shaped, with dim lights outlining it and a white light emanating from the center. It remains about 20–30 seconds, then shoots away noiselessly to the east at tremendous speed. Montana Highway Patrol dispatchers in Pondera County receive more than 20 UFO reports that morning. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 247–248 Source ID: Eberhart_4094 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12137 (76190C06) Date: 9/1966 Description: 4:00 a.m. Deputy Sheriff Ed Korenek is driving north of El Campo, Texas, on State Highway 71 when he sees something like a car on fire ahead of him. Suddenly he notices that another object is pacing him, He hits his brakes and reaches for the radio, but it is dead. He sees another flaming object above Wharton Regional Airport to the east. He accelerates toward the object ahead of him, which slides off the highway to the right, sucking its flame up behind it as it moves away. The object above the airfield disappears, and when Korenek turns his car around, his radio begins working again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Texas Flap,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2001%2000%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1967, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_4095 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12138 (3DE942FC) Date: 9/1966 Time: 0330 Description: A police officer was driving at nearly 200 km/h toward the north on Route 71 when he suddenly saw an object on the road ahead and another one following his car. The first one looked like a flaming car and was the size of a 3-story house. It flew away as the policeman was about to hit it. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 168 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: El Campo, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_792 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12139 (83631278) Date: 9/1966 End date: 12/1966 Description: Local concentration peaking in late 1966 and 1967 Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Uintah Basin, UT Source ID: HallUFOE2_97 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12140 (BE1D5A53) Date: 9/1/1966 Description: In Willsboro, New York at 2:45 p.m. T. H. Ridman sighted an oval object with lights that flashed red and white and occasionally blue, traveled west, and then disappeared downward. It returned several minutes later, at which time a loud noise was heard. The entire sighting lasted 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5556 Source: Johnson ### Event 12141 (75AF94E1) Date: 9/1/1966 Description: Oval object with lights flashing red and white, and blue (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10917) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Willsboro, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3136 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12142 (9060EC53) Date: 9/1/1966 Time: 2:45 PM Description: Witness: T.H. Ridman. One oval object with lights that flashed red and white and occasionally blue, travelled west, then disappeared downward. It returned, several minutes later, at which time a loud noise was heard. The entire sighting lasted 30 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Willsboro, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_553 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12143 (2D9609EA) Date: 9/1/1966 Description: At 10:30 p.m. six men, including Mr. C. Murdock, sighted an orange-reddish domed disc with multicolored lights around the rim moving around the sky in Fort Duchesne, Utah. There were several occasions when it went slowly up in the sky and then came back down again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_5557 Source: Johnson ### Event 12144 (177C4597) Date: Early 9/1966 Description: Night. Bank official Gerardo Bagnulo is on a pleasure outing with members of his family when he sees two objects moving across the sky on the coast of the Gargano promontory in southern Italy. He manages to take one color photo before the objects disappear near the northwest horizon. The photo shows both a round object and a cylindrical object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roberto Pinotti, “The Gargano Peninsula Cigar,” IUR 9, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1984\): 6; “[As is often the case,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 6 \(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985\): 8; Roberto Pinotti, “[Evidence for UFOs in the Italian Past,](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FSpectrum%5Fof%5FUFO%5FResearch.pdf)” The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988, pp. 115–116; 1Pinotti 154–156 Source ID: Eberhart_4092 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12145 (345A1F7D) Date: 9/3/1966 Description: "The Disputed CIA Documents on UFOs," by John Lear in Saturday Review discusses oddities about the January 1953 Robertson Panel report before it was declassified. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_98 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12146 (C3B7BBDF) Date: 9/3/1966 Description: Fantastic spinning object same as aug 6th sighting (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harlingen, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3137 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12147 (235B6495) Date: 9/3/1966 Description: Two young teenage witnesses went outside when their TV set became blurred near Kelly AFB, Texas. They observed a fantastic spinning light illuminating the house. It came from an object hovering at the same location as a sighting earlier that month. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 791 Source ID: Johnson_5597 Source: Johnson ### Event 12148 (1F9BB0F0) Date: 9/3/1966 Description: Science columnist John Lear receives a declassified \(sanitized\) copy of the Robertson Panel report and publishes a version of it in the Saturday Review. He calls for the release of the full document. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Lear, “[The](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Saturday%20Review/1966%2009%2003%5FSaturday%20Review%5FJohn%20Lear.pdf) [Disputed CIA Document on UFOs,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Saturday%20Review/1966%2009%2003%5FSaturday%20Review%5FJohn%20Lear.pdf)” Saturday Review, September 3, 1966, pp. 45–50; Clark III 1017 Source ID: Eberhart_4096 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12149 (556E79AB) Date: 9/3/1966 Time: 1400 Description: Two young witnesses went outside when the TV set became blurred. They observed a fantastic spinning light illuminating the house. It came from an object hovering at the same location as an earlier sighting (see Case 786). Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Texas Source ID: Magnonia_793 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12150 (9100B85A) Date: 9/5/1966 Description: Peculiar light phenomenon and a small figure that entered a bedroom (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: unknown location, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3139 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12151 (7BE37C01) Date: 9/5/1966 Description: Egg-Shaped Object Tracked By Air & Gnd Radar (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [660905](http://www.nicap.org/660905finland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Finland AFS, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3138 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12152 (C5DC4BAE) Date: 9/5/1966 Description: 2:00 p.m. Franz Trautsamwieser takes a photo of the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy, from the other side of the canal. He does not see anything, but the developed photo shows a UFO-shaped whitish object next to the tower. \(“[UFO over Venice?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 4 Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: July/Aug. 1967, cover, 17 Source ID: Eberhart_4097 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12153 (4DA5766F) Date: 9/5/1966 Description: On this night in Harlingen, Texas, near Kelly Air Force Base, Mr. Morrison, a father of four, was propped up in bed when he saw a small person, 3.5 to four feet tall, dressed in white tight-fitting clothing, enter his son's bedroom. About ten minutes later he saw something like "a bar of light, which appeared to crumble." The boys and their mother had not seen anyone enter the bedroom, but they had seen the bar of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-40 (A0607), citing USAF Project Blue Book Files; Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, p. 67 Source ID: Johnson_5654 Source: Johnson ### Event 12154 (3B95D865) Date: 9/5/1966 Time: evening Description: A civilian man observed a peculiar light phenomenon and a small figure that appeared to enter a bedroom. The figure was not seen again. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Texas Source ID: Magnonia_794 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12155 (21AC36DF) Date: 9/6/1966 Description: White cylinder of light come from the E at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10933) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Suffolk County AFB, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3140 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12156 (E5422BEE) Date: 9/6/1966 Time: 6:50 PM Description: Witnesses: Stahl and Ladesic. One white cylinder of light came from the east at high speed, stopped and hovered for 3 minutes, and then turned and slowly disappeared. Sighting lasted 8 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Suffolk County AFB, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_554 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12157 (11027261) Date: 9/6/1966 Description: At the Suffolk County Air Field, New York Witnesses Stahl and Ladesic sighted a white cylinder of light that came from the east at high speed at 6:50 p.m. It stopped and hovered in place for three minutes, and then turned and slowly disappeared. The sighting lasted a total of eight minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #10933; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5683 Source: Johnson ### Event 12158 (C94FDCCE) Date: 9/7/1966 Time: 2000 Description: About 15 km east of Durand, Mrs. E. Bruns and her two children observed an elongated object, about 10 m long, with revolving lights, hovering 1 m above ground and making a deafening noise. After 30 sec, it tilted and took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Sep., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Durand, Wisconsin Source ID: Magnonia_795 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12159 (12458DC2) Date: 9/7/1966 Description: A bright light zigzagged over the city of Beja, Portugal at midnight. At 8:00 p.m. Mrs. E. Bruns and her two children observed an elongated object about 15 km east of Durand, Wisconsin. It was about 10 meters long with revolving lights and hovered one meter above theground, making a deafening noise. After 30 seconds it tilted at an angle and took off. At 9:25 p.m. a UFO with red, blue and white lights bobbed, hovered, darted, and went away and came back several times over a 45 minute period in the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It was observed by police and a newspaper reporter. At 11:25 a UFO the size of a house landed 1.5 miles away from the witness northwest of Vernal, Utah. It had a bluish-white light in the dome and pulsating red and yellow lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos; Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT computer catalogue of Portuguese UFO reports citing Diario Noticio, September 9, 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 795, (3) Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers-Here and Now! p. 112; (4) Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_5721 Source: Johnson ### Event 12160 (B91429CE) Date: 9/7/1966 Description: At 11:25 p.m Mr. V. Massey watched as a disc-shaped UFO landed remotely 1.5 miles away, northwest of Vernal, Utah. It was estimated to be the size of a house, with a bluish-white light in the dome. It landed on the ground and was pulsating reddish orange and yellow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A13 Source ID: Johnson_5722 Source: Johnson ### Event 12161 (C5E4529F) Date: 9/8/1966 Description: 11:50 p.m. EDT. A legal secretary saw a yellow-white disc shaped like a soup plate that made a soft swishing sound as it flew across the highway, climbed, leveled off, and flew away. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marquette, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3141 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12162 (17B2DB07) Date: 9/9/1966 Time: 2100 Description: A man saw an object descend from a cloud bank, slow down, and land with a soft whirring sound. It showed three horizontal bands of light-blue, red and green. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Franklin Springs, New York Source ID: Magnonia_796 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12163 (3E8C1228) Date: 9/9/1966 Time: 9 PM Description: Witness: Jacobson. One solid object, larger than an army tank, with lights all around it, made a low humming sound and disappeared into woods at the end of the 30 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Franklin Springs, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_555 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12164 (35CC65E3) Date: 9/9/1966 Description: Object larger than an army tank, w/3 horizontal bands of light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10942) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Franklin Springs, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3142 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12165 (E61EC2D9) Date: 9/9/1966 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a man in Franklin Springs, New York saw a solid object, larger than an Army tank, descend from a cloud bank, slow down, and land with a soft whirring sound. It had lights all around it, with three horizontal bands of light-blue, red, and green. It disappeared into some woods. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 53; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 796 Source ID: Johnson_5788 Source: Johnson ### Event 12166 (73FFBA62) Date: 9/12/1966 Description: The Air Force turns down a proposal [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) has made for them to create a computer program to put Blue Book’s UFO reports into a machine-readable format, ostensibly because it is too preoccupied with the Vietnam War. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[Hynek correspondence](http://cufos.org/cases/1965-69%5F00%5F00%5FUS%5FIL%5FHynek-AF-letters.pdf)\], p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_4098 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12167 (EE237306) Date: 9/13/1966 Time: 0730 Description: A child of 11 years saw a disk-shaped object land near a farm. It had a tripod landing gear, two red lights, two white and one green light, and a transparent dome. A businessman from Gwinner and an Air Force Lt. Col. went to the site and discovered three traces, apparently left by spherical objects, 18 cm deep, very compact. Radiation measured at 0.1 milliroentgen (normal). The child reported that the object "went away so fast that it vanished." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Stirum, North Dakota Source ID: Magnonia_797 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12168 (659D3176) Date: 9/13/1966 Time: 7:30 AM Description: Witness: Rotenberger. One silvery-grey ellipse with a clear bubble protruding from its top, hovered about a mile away, then landed within 300 yards and took off very fast. It made a low-pitched whine during the 5 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Gwinner, North Dakota Source ID: BerlinerBBU_556 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12169 (EC8265F5) Date: 9/13/1966 Description: At 7:30 a.m. a 12-year-old boy, Randy Rotenberger, saw a silvery-gray ellipsoid object with a clear bubble dome protruding from its top; it hovered about a mile away, then landed with a falling leaf motion near a farm between Gwinner and Stirum, North Dakota within 300 yards of him. It made a low-pitched whine during the five-minute sighting. It had tripod landing gear, two red lights, two white and one green light, and the transparent dome. A businessman from Gwinner and an Air Force Lt. Colonel went to the site and discovered three ground traces, apparently left by spherical objects, 18 centimeters deep, which were very compact. The ground imprint marks were in the arrangement of an isoceles triangle 7.9 m x 6.5 m x 6.5 m. Radiation measured at 0.1 milliroentgen (normal). The boy reported that the object "went away so fast that it vanished." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1966, p. 4; APRO Bulletin, July 1966, p. 1; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 797; Project Blue files counted in official statistics, case 10944; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case 369 Source ID: Johnson_5914 Source: Johnson ### Event 12170 (D89581D5) Date: 9/13/1966 Description: 7:30 a.m. 11-year-old [Randy Rotenberger](https://www.armstrongfuneralhomes.com/obituary/Randy-Rotenberger), near Stirum, North Dakota, sees a silvery domed disc hover about one mile away, approach, then land within 900 feet, making a low-pitched whine. It takes off so fast it just vanishes.” An Air Force investigator finds landing indentations 7 inches deep and \[possibly\] radiation level of 100 microroentgens/hour. Electrical power is off in the area for about 4 hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Domed Object Leaves](http://www.nicap.org/660913stirum%5Fdir.htm) [Traces](http://www.nicap.org/660913stirum%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 319; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 58–59; Clark III 950 Source ID: Eberhart_4099 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12171 (8FDC18AE) Date: 9/13/1966 Description: Silvery-grey elliptical object w/a clear bubble dome on top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10944) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stirum, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3143 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12172 (269D347F) Date: 9/13/1966 Description: The two astrononauts on Gemini XI, Dick Gordon and Pete Conrad, during their 18th orbit of the Earth, took a photograph of a unknown object in outer space while over the Greenwich Time Zone at 18.25 hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1977, p. 1; Margaret Sachs, Celestial Passengers, p. 183 Source ID: Johnson_5915 Source: Johnson ### Event 12173 (483B225E) Date: 9/15/1966 Description: At two o'clock in the afternoon J. Koch sighted a 35-foot in diameter revolving gray disc w dark windows around the rim in White Rocks, Uintah County, Utah. It had a flashing red light on the top, and a glowing green flashing light on the bottom. It also had what looked like exhaust pipes (see sketch below). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case # A15 Source ID: Johnson_5987 Source: Johnson ### Event 12174 (9E43AA57) Date: 9/17/1966 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacGilvary of Cranes Beach, Massachusetts saw a golden-white, luminous cigar-shaped object resting on the beach at 4:45 a.m. It had two or three bright lights that flew in and out of the craft. They moved around with an up-and-down skipping motion. It left after an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 798; NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1966, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 414 Source ID: Johnson_6043 Source: Johnson ### Event 12175 (9FC4554A) Date: 9/17/1966 Description: 4:45 a.m. EDT. A glowing cigar-shaped object oriented vertically, tilted at times, was observed for about an hour near the edge of the water. (Massachusetts NICAP Subcommittee report; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 10, Oct.-Nov. 1966, p. 4; Fowler 1974, p. 341.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cranes Beach, Ipswich Bay, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3144 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12176 (D0E3F7D8) Date: 9/17/1966 Description: 4:45 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacGilvary see a glowing cigar-shaped object oriented vertically, tilted at times, for about an hour near the edge of the water at Crane Beach, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Two smaller glowing objects approach the larger object, moving around erratically, with an up-and-down skipping motion. The two rendezvous with the larger object, then a third smaller object is seen. The smaller objects periodically leave the larger object and flies around the area. One flies low over Ipswich Bay toward the witnesses’ home. At closer range it shows an elliptical shape illuminated by a faint glow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Satellite’ UFO Landing Case in Massachusetts,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/034%20OCT-NOV%201966.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 10 \(Oct./Nov. 1966\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4100 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12177 (258EDB77) Date: 9/17/1966 Time: 0445 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacGilvary saw a golden-white, luminous object resting on the beach, with two bright lights flying in and out of the craft. It went away after one hour. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 88; NICAP Oct., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cranes Beach, Massachusetts Source ID: Magnonia_798 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12178 (2107B1F1) Date: 9/18/1966 Description: Police constable Dack and two others witnessed a UFO that hovered motionless over the city of Southampton, England. It had flashing red, white and blue lights, and was dropping flares. It made no engine sounds, nor was it shaped like any known aircraft. It shot off at high speed towards Eastleigh. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1966, p. 31; Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_6069 Source: Johnson ### Event 12179 (46C71A57) Date: 9/19/1966 Description: Air Force Regulation 200-2 is replaced by AFR 80-17, which orders members of the military who investigate UFO reports to release information if there is an explanation, but if there is none to withhold the information, even from the Colorado project \(explicitly modified November 9\). Radarscope photos are automatically classified. However, it does require that every Air Force base have an official with scientific background responsible for investigating UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Department of the Air Force, “[Research and Development:](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFR%5F80-17.pdf) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/AFR%5F80-17.pdf)” Air Force Regulation 80-17, September 19, 1966 Source ID: Eberhart_4101 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12180 (73C7748D) Date: 9/19/1966 Description: Air Force Regulation (AFR) 80-17 promulgated to replace AFR 200-2, placing UFOs under the Research and Development command and reflecting the University of Colorado Project study in progress. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_99 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12181 (871B3409) Date: 9/20/1966 Description: A yellow-orange domed disc with pulsating white lights around the rim, and a red searchlight directed at the ground, was seen in a close encounter in Randlett, Uintah County, Utah at 8:30 p.m. by P. Sireech. The witness experienced a levitation effect. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A16 Source ID: Johnson_6130 Source: Johnson ### Event 12182 (1C79A30E) Date: 9/20/1966 Description: A huge cone-shaped UFO paced a private aircraft being flown by J. O'Connor over Sebring, Florida at 10:00 a.m. The object made a "singing" noise. At first the object descended, then followed the aircraft, and finally accelerated up and away at high speed. The encounter lasted 17 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1966, p. 4; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1991, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_6129 Source: Johnson ### Event 12183 (9C6F0CBF) Date: 9/20/1966 Description: Giant Cone Shadows Private Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [660920](http://www.nicap.org/660920sebring%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sebring, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3145 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12184 (867D302D) Date: 9/20/1966 Description: Private pilot encountered coneshaped object, "singing" noise. Object descended, followed aircraft, accelerated up and away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Sebring, FL Source ID: HallUFOE2_100 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12185 (419C9ECE) Date: 9/21/1966 Description: 6:30 a.m. Eight RCAF airmen are refueling an aircraft in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, when they see an object in the east moving at great speed. It comes to a complete stop, descends, and hovers for 20 minutes. It then shoots up and disappears quickly. At about the same time, fishermen Ivan Collicut and Patrick O’Halloran are out for an early morning catch at Burton, Prince Edward Island, when they see a rapidly moving light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Near-Landing Observed by RCAF,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/034%20OCT-NOV%201966.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 10 \(Oct./Nov. 1966\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4102 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12186 (9783DE18) Date: 9/21/1966 Description: Eight members of the Royal Canadian Air Force saw a bright object that flew down at high speed in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It stopped abruptly, remained at ground level for 20 minutes, then flew away straight up. There was radar-visual confirmation of the UFO over a missile site. NORAD was alerted and jet interceptors were scrambled. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1966, p. 4; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Here and Now, p. 111; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 799; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973, p. 413 Source ID: Johnson_6182 Source: Johnson ### Event 12187 (E64B430B) Date: 9/21/1966 Time: 0630 Description: Eight members of the Royal Canadian Air Force saw a bright object that flew down at high speed, stopped abruptly, remained at ground level for 20 min, and flew away straight up. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Oct., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Summerside, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_799 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12188 (4F17BBC6) Date: 9/21/1966 Description: 6:30 a.m. LT. Eight RCAF pilots and crew members observed a bright circular object flying at high speed and maneuvering. The object stopped abruptly, descended and hovered near the ground for about 20 minutes. It then shot straight up and disappeared. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Summerside, Prince Edward Island, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3146 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12189 (FE2CCCA6) Date: 9/21/1966 Description: Early on that same morning two fisherman at Burton, 45 miles northwest of Summerside, saw a rapidly-moving light like a "particularly bright star" traveling from west to east in the general direction of Summerside. Both coastal towns face the Northumberland Strait. (Weinstein, 1999, p. 34; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. III, No. 10, Oct.-Nov. 1966, p. 4.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burton, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3147 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12190 (3E547143) Date: 9/21/1966 Description: At a meeting of the University of Colorado psychology department, [Stuart W. Cook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FW.%5FCook) announces that the university is considering taking on the UFO project, with [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) directing. Cook says it will need the help of psychologists. [William A. Scott](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) and [David R. Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) are interested. Around this time, Condon agrees to an informal question-and-answer session about the project. [George Gamow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FGamow) and Richard Sigismond are in attendance. Gamow is surprised that Condon has never heard of the Trindade Island UFO photos. Sigismond applies for an opening on the committee and is accepted, but he declines the offer after a 20-minute interview with Condon, whose negative bias on the subject is unyielding. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard Sigismond, “A Confrontation with Dr. Condon: Prelude and Aftermath,” IUR 8, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1983\): 3–5, 16; “Condon Confrontation Continues,” IUR 9, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1984\): 9; Clark III 1192 Source ID: Eberhart_4103 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12191 (9F8F15AE) Date: 9/22/1966 Description: 3:00 a.m. Police from several vantage points in Deadwood, South Dakota, see a large white hovering object, changing color to green to red then back to white. It hangs motionless for 15 minutes. When a spotlight is shone on it, the object blacks out. Two smaller white objects operating independently approach and hover nearby. The large object bobs around and emits blue light beams toward the ground, and finally speeds away in 3 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Satellite Objects, Sept. 22, 1966, Deadwood, SD](http://www.nicap.org/660922deadwood%5FFI-4.pdf)”; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 49–50](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/48/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4104 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12192 (021C39A8) Date: 9/22/1966 Description: Hovering object with smaller satellite objects operating independently, emitted light beams, finally sped away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Deadwood, SD Source ID: HallUFOE2_101 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12193 (7FF926D9) Date: 9/22/1966 Description: 3:00 a.m. CDT. Police from several vantage points saw a large white hovering object, changing color to green, red, and back to white. When a spotlight was shone on it, the object would black out (light reaction). Two smaller white objects operating independently approached and hovered nearby. The large object bobbed around and emitted light beams toward the ground, and finally sped away. (Sagan & Page, 1972, pp. xxii-xxiii.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [660922](http://www.nicap.org/deadwood660922dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Deadwood, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3148 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12194 (FF181659) Date: 9/22/1966 Description: Psychologist Michael Wertheimer tells [Cook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FW.%5FCook) he will participate in the Colorado project. \(Clark III 1193\) September 22 — [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) appeals to Secretary of the Air Force [Harold Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FBrown%5F%28Secretary%5Fof%5FDefense%29) to create a program to put UFO reports into a machine-readable database. He also recommends a more scientific approach to data acquisition that will make the Air Force look better to the public and the scientific community. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[Hynek](http://cufos.org/cases/1965-69%5F00%5F00%5FUS%5FIL%5FHynek-AF-letters.pdf) [correspondence](http://cufos.org/cases/1965-69%5F00%5F00%5FUS%5FIL%5FHynek-AF-letters.pdf)\], pp. 3–5 Source ID: Eberhart_4105 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12195 (AA591E87) Date: Autumn 1966 Description: Night. A young couple parking in a rural area near Rockford, Illinois, see a bright light that appears over some nearby trees. It is so intense that it hurts their eyes, so they start the car up and drive down a gravel road. The light is gone, but near where it had been they can now see two gray figures with large slanted eyes and wearing clothing with a square insignia on the torso. As they leave the area, they smell a pungent, metallic odor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Letter,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 6, 9; “Out of the Past,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_4107 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12196 (744B3456) Date: 9/23/1966 Description: 7:30 p.m. CDT. A former army aerial photo specialist and others saw two large objects (shape not specified in notes), one making a high-frequency whistling noise. The two objects performed complex flight patterns for about an hour. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Decatur, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3149 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12197 (50ED2BB2) Date: 9/24/1966 Description: 3:30 a.m. A man named Gaines is driving his girlfriend home in Peoria, Illinois, when they see a large, luminous, blue sphere hovering low in the sky. It shoots off, so he drops the girlfriend off. On the way home the blue ball returns; his car begins to pick up speed, the brakes won’t work, and the doors won’t open. He races on this way for a few blocks, then the UFO takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(Mar. 2008\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_4106 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12198 (148049D3) Date: 9/24/1966 Description: At 9:20 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Burwood were driving between Tilshead and Shrewton on Highway A360 in Wiltshire County, England when their car headlights and engine died. A red misty light descended and landed behind their car. It was 15 feet in diameter and only 30 feet away. When another car came around the corner it vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: T. Burwood, Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1966, p. 18; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_6285 Source: Johnson ### Event 12199 (6A404498) Date: 9/26/1966 Description: 3:30 p.m. EDT. A group of people saw a metallic-appearing oblong object (shaped like a cold capsule), emitting a brilliant glow even when in clouds. The object tilted upward, spun, and turned on its side. (NICAP notes from newspaper story.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bridgeport, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3150 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12200 (85D70580) Date: 9/28/1966 Time: 3:38 PM Description: Witness: Clarke. Three round, oval-shaped, aluminum-colored objects with rotating rings around them. Two remained stationary, while the third varied its altitude during the 90 second sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Wilmington, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_557 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12201 (6EE960E4) Date: 9/28/1966 Description: 3 round, oval-shaped, aluminum-colored objects w/rotating rings (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10973) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wilmington, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3151 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12202 (E23A4BE1) Date: 9/28/1966 Description: A witness with the last name of Clarke reported to the U.S. Air Force that three round, oval-shaped, aluminum-colored objects with rotating rings around them appeared over Wilmington, Ohio at 3:38 p.m. Two of the objects remained stationary while the third one varied its altitude, and rose vertically. The sighting lasted 90 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6392 Source: Johnson ### Event 12203 (698B2809) Date: 9/30/1966 Description: Disc hovered near Cessna (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [660930](http://www.nicap.org/660930nkingston%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Kingston, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3152 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12204 (ED386DD6) Date: 9/30/1966 Description: A 60-foot wide Saturn-shaped UFO was seen northeast of Roosevelt Airport in Utah at 4:30 p.m. by three men. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. 36 case # A22 Source ID: Johnson_6443 Source: Johnson ### Event 12205 (E4EC46D6) Date: 9/30/1966 Description: 2:00 a.m. EDT. Police sighted a white ball of light surrounded by a bluish-white pulsating glow (halo effect), sometimes flashing red. The object maneuvered, made a sharp turn and flew southwest beneath an overcast, hovered over trees, rose and descended. (Indiana NICAP Subcommittee report; NICAP report form; police department report). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Anderson, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3153 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12206 (9B819295) Date: 10/1966 Description: The Canadian Directorate of Operations issues Canadian Forces Administrative Order 71-6, “Reporting of Unidentified Flying Objects,” to make it easier to obtain UFO reports from military bases and police forces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Canada, Signet, 1981, p. 173 Source ID: Eberhart_4109 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12207 (A4992F97) Date: 10/1966 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s lengthy letter about UFOs and Project Blue Book is published in Science magazine. It addresses seven misconceptions about UFOs. “I cannot dismiss the UFO phenomenon with a shrug,” he concludes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: O’Connell 201–204 Source ID: Eberhart_4108 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12208 (E4A61DF5) Date: 10/1/1966 Description: [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) writes to [Thomas Ratchford](https://www.aaas.org/archives/j-thomas-ratchford-files) of the USAF Office of Scientific Research to tell him that he will soon speak out for radical changes in the handling of UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 697 Source ID: Eberhart_4110 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12209 (7BAD99A1) Date: 10/2/1966 Description: 8:20 p.m. Mrs. Everett Steward is talking on the telephone at her home in Cincinnati, Ohio, when she smells a foul odor in the room. She goes to her bedroom, but she has a feeling of being watched. Looking out the window, she sees an oval-shaped object with portholes and red, green, and white lights revolving around it. It is 75 feet in diameter and hovering at 100 feet. She wakes up her husband, who also sees it, and calls her married daughter, Mrs. Janet Emery, a mile away; the Emerys also see it, and a neighbor with binoculars can see that it has square windows glowing yellow. Janet goes outdoors and sees the UFO eject a red ball, which maneuvers while the first UFO takes off southward. The red ball flies 75–100 feet over Janet’s head; its underside is shiny like aluminum foil. Mrs. Steward goes to bed, but the odor is still in the house. After some time, the room is filled for an instant with brilliant white light; then this vanishes and a globe of light about 21 inches in diameter appears at the foot of her bed. Inside are 5 “non-human, hairless heads” with oval, sunken eyes. Instead of noses, there are slits, and they have no mouths. Telepathically, they repeat several times: “We have made contact.” Mrs. Steward screams and the globe disappears. She is so disquieted by the experience that she goes under psychiatric care for the next 2 years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stringfield, Situation Red, Doubleday, 1977, pp. 33–36 Source ID: Eberhart_4111 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12210 (D794A3A4) Date: 10/2/1966 Description: Mrs. Everett Steward, a flight attendant, was talking on the telephone from her home in Cincinnati, Ohio at 10:20 p.m. when she smelled a foul odor in the room. She went to her bedroom, where she had a feeling of being watched. Looking out the window, she saw an oval-shaped object with portholes and red, green, and white lights revolving around it. It was 75 feet in diameter and 100 feet above the ground. She woke her husband, who also saw it, and called her married daughter, Mrs. Janet Emery, a mile away. The Emerys also saw it, and a neighbor with binoculars could see that it had illuminated yellow square windows. Next, her daughter Janet went outdoors and saw the UFO eject a red ball, which maneuvered about while the first UFO took off southward. The red ball flew 100 feet over Jane's head. It too was oval shaped, and its underside was shiny like aluminum foil. It was "bigger than my cottage and yard combined." She also smelled the garbage like odor. Mrs. Steward went to bed, but the odor still persisted in the house. Sometime later that night the room was filled with a brilliant white light, which then vanished, and a globe of light about 21 inches in diameter appeared at the foot of her bed. Inside the globe were the images of five "non-human, hairless heads" with oval, sunken eyes. "Instead of noses, there were slits, and they had no mouths." Telepathically, they repeated several times that "we have made contact." Mrs Steward screamed, and the globe disappeared. She was so upset by the experience that she began psychiatric counseling and continued it for the next two years. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, pp. 35-36 & 51-52; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1966-41, citing Leonard H. Stringfield Source ID: Johnson_6497 Source: Johnson ### Event 12211 (D38CF3D8) Date: 10/3/1966 Description: [Phil Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) has another article in Aviation Week on plasmas as an explanation for UFOs. \(Philip J. Klass, “Many UFOs Are Identified as Plasmas,” Aviation Week and Space Technology 85 \(October 3, 1966\): 54–73\) October 4, 18 — Excerpts of [John G. Fuller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FG.%5FFuller)’s book about the [Betty and Barney Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) abduction case, Interrupted Journey, appear in a two-part article of Look magazine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Barney and Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill\#Interrupted%5FJourney)”; John G. Fuller, “[Aboard a](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Look/1966%2010%2004%5FLook%5FJohn%20Fuller%5FAboard%20A%20Flying%20Saucer%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf) [Flying Saucer, Part I,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Look/1966%2010%2004%5FLook%5FJohn%20Fuller%5FAboard%20A%20Flying%20Saucer%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf)” Look 30, no. 20 \(October 4, 1966\): 44–48, 53–56; John G. Fuller, “[Aboard a Flying](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Look/1966%2010%2018%5FLook%5FJohn%20Fuller%5FAboard%20UFO%202%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf) [Saucer, Part II,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Look/1966%2010%2018%5FLook%5FJohn%20Fuller%5FAboard%20UFO%202%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf)” Look 30, no. 21 \(October 18, 1966\): 111–121; Clark III 585 Source ID: Eberhart_4112 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12212 (806117D3) Date: 10/3/1966 Description: "Many UFOs Are Identified as Plasmas," by Philip J. Klass in Aviation Week. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_102 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12213 (51F8DB23) Date: 10/4/1966 End date: 10/5/1966 Description: 5:00 a.m. Jack Jones is delivering newspapers on John Street in Connersville, Indiana. He notices a group of lights in a field to the west past the dead end. He thinks it might be a new light installation and moves on. The next day, Jones is with another paper carrier, Don Doe, and he suggests they go see the new lights. Jack sees the lights, but they are in a different position somewhat to the north. Both boys sit on their bicycles and watch a dark disc-shaped object with flashing red, green, and white lights on it that is apparently on the ground some 840 feet into the field. They estimate it is 27 feet in diameter and 10 feet high. They hear a high-pitched whirring sound and smell a faint odor of sulfur and tannic acid. After watching it a few minutes, they hear a new sound as if someone is walking slowly toward them through some thick weeds. They take off on their bicycles and don’t look back. Some days later, investigators find three holes, 8 feet apart in an equilateral triangle, where the object was seen. The holes measure 7 inches at the top and 1 inch at the bottom. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UAO Landing in Indiana,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201966%2011%2000%20-%20November-December.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1966, pp. 1, 3 Source ID: Eberhart_4113 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12214 (2FE6A8D8) Date: 10/5/1966 Description: At a University of Arizona Department of Meteorology colloquium, [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) gives his views on the reality of UFOs and the Air Force’s concealment of information. His colleagues respond negatively, and McDonald acknowledges to [Gerard Kuiper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%5FKuiper) that what he is doing is professionally risky. Nevertheless, the university’s Space Sciences Committee gives him a $1,300 grant toward his research expenses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs Are](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95391798/) [‘Real,’ Physicist Asserts,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95391798/)” Arizona Daily Star, October 6, 1966, p. B-1; Clark III 697 Source ID: Eberhart_4114 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12215 (02FFD21C) Date: 10/5/1966 Description: A boy in Potomac, Maryland saw a disc-shaped object with a transparent dome and a row of lights, at ground level. It rose at high speed, emitting a "heat wave," and was lost in the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 800 Source ID: Johnson_6576 Source: Johnson ### Event 12216 (E8D7A88C) Date: 10/5/1966 Time: Time unknown Description: Witnesses: several members of one family. One small, bright orange, moon-shaped object remained stationary in the northeast for about 20 minutes, then suddenly took off very fast to the WNW. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Osceola, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_558 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12217 (EF9BD3E5) Date: 10/5/1966 Description: Small, bright orange, moon-shaped object stationary in the NE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 10996) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Osceola, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3154 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12218 (78A1D287) Date: 10/5/1966 Description: A boy saw a disk-shaped object with a transparent dome and a row of lights, at ground level. It rose at high speed, emitting a "heat wave," and was lost in the clouds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Oct., 66 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Potomac, Maryland Source ID: Magnonia_800 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12219 (FA291A5A) Date: 10/6/1966 Description: [Thurston Manning](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/thurston-manning-obituary?pid=171867180) signs the University of Colorado contract with the Air Force. The project is to run from November 15, 1966, to January 1968. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1193 Source ID: Eberhart_4115 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12220 (2FCDF687) Date: 10/7/1966 Description: USAF public announcement of grant to University of Colorado for a UFO study to be headed by Dr. E. U. Condon. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_103 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12221 (26A20534) Date: 10/7/1966 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) speaks to the media about the secret Robertson Panel report. The CIA has ordered the Air Force to debunk UFOs, he says. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Hush](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95392849/) [Blamed on CIA Men,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95393279/)” Phoenix Arizona Republic, October 7, 1966, pp. 21–22 Source ID: Eberhart_4117 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12222 (1E91DA96) Date: 10/7/1966 Description: The Air Force publicly announces the creation of the University of Colorado UFO project. [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) is made project coordinator. The primary team will be [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)[,](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) ESSA astronomer [Franklin Roach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FE.%5FRoach), Wertheimer, chemist [Roy Craig](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html)[,](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) University of Arizona electrical engineer Norman Levine, administrative assistant Mary Lou Armstrong, University of Arizona astronomer [William K. Hartmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FKenneth%5FHartmann), physicist [Frederick Ayer](https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19981022&slug=2779034), and psychologists [Dan Culberson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-culberson-3427b218) and James Wadsworth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense \(Public Affairs\), “Air Force Selects University of Colorado to Investigate Unidentified Flying Object Reports,” October 7, 1966, release no. 847-66, in Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 222–224; “[UFO Probe Given to Colorado U.,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95391145/)” San Francisco Examiner, October 7, 1966, p. 42; Clark III 697, 1193 Source ID: Eberhart_4116 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12223 (B3A0EECA) Date: 10/8/1966 Description: At 7:00 p.m. in Tenby, England a blue luminous cloud cigar circled, hovered, and emitted a dark object that flew off to the southwest. The larger object sped off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: F. W. Holiday, FSR, July-August 1972, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_6652 Source: Johnson ### Event 12224 (299C2F3D) Date: 10/8/1966 Description: A red and white object was observed at treetop level from Highway 44 in Rushville, Indiana making a "screaming sound." TV interference was reported, and German shepard dogs howled during the six minute close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Worley, APRO Bulletin, November-December 1966, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_6653 Source: Johnson ### Event 12225 (D13898AC) Date: 10/8/1966 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) is widely quoted in the media as saying it is “highly improbable” that UFOs exist. “The view that UFOs are hallucinatory will be a subject of our investigation, to discover what it is that makes people imagine they see things.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chesly Manly, “[UFOs Prober](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95388374/) [Keeps Open Mind and Door,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95388589/)” Chicago Tribune, October 16, 1966, pp. 1, 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4118 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12226 (4F162275) Date: 10/8/1966 Description: 7:00 p.m. Loch Ness monster researcher [Frederick William “Ted” Holiday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrick%5FWilliam%5FHoliday) is fishing on the lifeboat slipway at Tenby harbor, Pembrokeshire, Wales, when he and other fishermen notice a small, bluish, luminous cloud moving in a circle about three times its own diameter above them. After a short time, he resumes his fishing, but 10 minutes later a dark object emerges from the cloud and beams down a brilliant ruby light on them. The cloud moves west and the object moves southwest. By the time he retrieves binoculars from his car, both objects are gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: F. W. Holiday, “[Was God at Aberfan?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201972%20V%2018%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1972\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_4119 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12227 (C405D965) Date: 10/10/1966 Description: At 9:30 p.m. an Air Force pilot and his wife driving on Interstate 93 in Medford, Massachusetts sighted a wheel and spoke like object in the sky. It had slow moving lights, like mirrors on a carousel with dark gaps in between. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341, investigation report dated November 23, 1966 Source ID: Johnson_6716 Source: Johnson ### Event 12228 (3D874947) Date: 10/10/1966 Description: At 9:15 p.m. police officers Pastro and Thompson at Wanaque Reservoir in Wanaque, New Jersey observed a spherical object with a protrusion on one side emitting an extremely bright, blinding light that lit up the surrounding terrain. The UFO first hovered, and then moved around erratically at high speeds, making sharp turns and leaving a misty trail in its wake when it moved. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, Oct.-Nov. 1966, p. 6; NICAP case files, report by John Pagano; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Here and Now, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_6715 Source: Johnson ### Event 12229 (FD5BFCB2) Date: 10/10/1966 Description: 9:15 p.m. EDT. Police officers observed a spherical object with a protrusion on one side emitting an extremely bright, blinding light that lit up the terrain (environmental illumination). The UFO hovered, and moved around erratically at high speeds, making sharp turns and leaving a misty trail in its wake when it moved. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 10, Oct.-Nov. 1966, p. 6; NICAP report, investigation by John Pagano.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wanaque, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3155 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12230 (754A9842) Date: 10/10/1966 Description: A person contacted the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle to report that at around 9:00 p.m. in Live Oak, Florida a saucer-shaped object zapped energy from some powerlines while at the same time his pregnant mother received a mental message from the UFO not to pass on any information about the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded May 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_6714 Source: Johnson ### Event 12231 (C5F66339) Date: 10/10/1966 Description: 9:15 p.m. Police Sgt. Benjamin Thompson of the Wanaque \(New Jersey\) Reservoir Police watches a bright light performing fantastic maneuvers over the reservoir. He notices a slight mist in the wake of its movements. It descends to 150 feet above the water, then shoots up. Thompson has also seen UFOs at the reservoir in January and March. Some teenagers see a UFO in the area 2 nights later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs Return to Wanaque Reservoir,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/034%20OCT-NOV%201966.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 10 \(Oct./Nov. 1966\): 6; Sanderson, [InvRes](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs)[,](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs) pp. 58–62; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case files](http://cufos.org/cases/1966%5F10%5F10-26%5FUS%5FNJ%5FWanaque-Reservoir%5FNICAP%5FMultipleWit.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_4121 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12232 (8595A28B) Date: 10/10/1966 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) discusses UFOs in Newsweek. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO’s for Real?” Newsweek, October 10, 1966, p. 70 Source ID: Eberhart_4120 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12233 (81ED6CD3) Date: 10/10/1966 Description: At 5:20 p.m. six witnesses in Newton, Illinois saw a metallic oval-shaped object or football with a tail appendage come down over some power lines. It made a whirling sound, and shot away at terrific speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 238; UNICAT, case 252; George Kocher, UFO's: What to Do? (Rand Corporation document), p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_6713 Source: Johnson ### Event 12234 (E086B469) Date: 10/11/1966 Description: A glowing round object with a dome like up the waters of Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey at 9:15 p.m. It hovered 250 feet over the water at a distance of 250 feet, giving off a blinding white light. It made a square turn maneuver. The sighting by Police Sgt. Thompson lasted for three minutes. The witnesses noted a suction effect upon the water, and heavy mist as the object departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dwight Connelly, Skylook, May 1976, p. 14; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 177; UNICAT, case 698, citing Berthold E. Schwarz Source ID: Johnson_6763 Source: Johnson ### Event 12235 (0A879C00) Date: 10/11/1966 Description: 7:10 p.m. EDT. Several people sighted a cigar-shaped object which, after about 2 minutes, lit up brightly and moved quickly to the north. A short while later two round objects appeared. Each had a "bulge" (dome?) on top and bright light shining from the bottom. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jonesboro, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3157 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12236 (32C829E8) Date: 10/11/1966 Description: 9:45 p.m. Two boys in Elizabeth, New Jersey—Martin Munov and James Yanchitis—are walking home on 4th Street near East Jersey Street, adjacent to the elevated New Jersey Turnpike. Yanchitis tells his friend that there is someone following them. They turn and see a man standing behind a high wire fence separating them from the turnpike 30 feet above them. The fence is 8 feet high and the embankment running up to it is steep. John Keel interviews the two boys three days after the incident. They tell him that the man is 7 feet tall, has a dark complexion, and is wearing a green work suit. He has a bald head, large eyes, and a huge grinning mouth full of white teeth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Keel, Strange Creatures from Time and Space, Fawcett, 1970, p. 176 Source ID: Eberhart_4122 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12237 (9FA572BC) Date: 10/11/1966 Description: 6:15 p.m. CDT. Several persons saw two brightly luminous objects in daylight, one sped below a jet aircraft's contrail moving like a sailed plate (oscillating motion), once stopping abruptly. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Davenport, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3156 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12238 (E1BB9B26) Date: 10/11/1966 Description: Project Sign ("Saucer") report of February 1949 declassified from its formerly SECRET status. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_104 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12239 (AFEAB7AC) Date: 10/12/1966 Description: Noon. Prolonged sighting (more than 5 hours) by many witnesses of numerous discs, fall of so-called "angel's hair," which was sticky and reportedly caused physiological effects on some who touched it (burning sensation, itching, nausea). According to reports, dogs and cows in the neighborhood "acted odd." (Tennessee NICAP Subcommittee report; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 10, Oct.-Nov. 1966, pp. 5-6.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jonesboro, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3158 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12240 (EE783DBA) Date: 10/14/1966 Description: 6:45 p.m. CDT. A yellow-orange disc-shaped object with a blue rim and a row of red lights just under the rim was observed at low level, its glow illuminating the ground. Static interfered with the telephone, and TV interference also was experienced (EM effects) during the sighting. (Keyhoe & Lore, 1969a, p. 45.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newton, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3160 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12241 (5A466DF0) Date: 10/14/1966 Time: 2230 Description: James Roberts saw two round pinkish-red objects on a hillside near his home. He fled when they took off with a hissing sound emitting streams of fire. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Gribble Jan., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Fork, West Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_802 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12242 (C81151C7) Date: 10/14/1966 Time: 1845 Description: A adolescent first saw a bright light, then a plate-shaped object hovering near the house. It took off at high speed, causing static on the phone as the boy was calling his mother to describe it. When she came home, she found her son in a state of shock and the dog hiding in a corner. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Newton, Illinois Source ID: Magnonia_801 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12243 (26CA0D6D) Date: Mid 10/1966 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) is stressed by [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)’s statements, so he calls both Condon and [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf)[.](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) Both assure him they were misquoted and ask for NICAP’s support. He expresses his doubts to [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)[,](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) who with [Richard Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) convinces him to lend his support to the project, for now. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 117 Source ID: Eberhart_4124 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12244 (1E20474A) Date: 10/15/1966 Description: Jerry H. Simons had a close encounter with an orange domed disc-shaped object while driving at Split Rock Pond, New Jersey at 4:30 a.m. The UFO emitted a brilliant light beam. The engine and lights of his car died, and although the engine restarted spontaneously there was permanent damage to the mechanics. His physiological effects included chronic illness, fatigue, anorexia, weight loss, weakness, and chills. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_6861 Source: Johnson ### Event 12245 (6938AE2A) Date: 10/15/1966 Description: Red-orange disc-shaped object followed car, ground brightly illuminated, engine, headlights failed. Physiological effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Split Rock Pond, NJ Source ID: HallUFOE2_105 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12246 (6CF903A6) Date: 10/15/1966 Description: 4:45 a.m. Forester Jerry H. Simons is driving home from a camping expedition, notices a reddish glow behind him, and stops his car near Split Rock Pond, south of Newfoundland, New Jersey, to investigate. A flat- bottom, red-orange disc with a dome on top is hovering above and behind his car. Near panic, he flees the area with the object following him. When the light from the object illuminates the ground around him, his car engine, dashlights, and headlights all fail. When the object recedes, his lights and engine function normally. This sequence is repeated three times, strongly demonstrating a direct correlation between the light from the UFO and the failure of his car’s electrical system. Shortly after the sighting, Simons begins experiencing a recurring illness \(the reason for his story appearing in a medical journal\); it is characterized by fatigue, anorexia, soreness, muscle weakness, chills, and significant weight loss. After about 6 months he has fully recovered. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Berthold Eric Schwarz, “[UFOs: Delusion or Dilemma,](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/UFOs%3A-delusion-or-dilemma.-Schwarz/0258161f6ed733279963cfcfe4df78aa4f361458)” Medical Times 96 \(October 1968\): 967–981; UFOEv II 37; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 2,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_4123 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12247 (DEBFEBE7) Date: 10/15/1966 Description: Disc-shaped object near car, effects associated with light; extreme physiological effects. See Section I, (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Split Rock Pond, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3162 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12248 (3F822B88) Date: 10/17/1966 Description: Two bright red lights with dim bluish white lights in between, which moved as if attached to one object, passed directly overhead in Chelmsford, Massachusetts at 9:05 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Folwer, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 342 Source ID: Johnson_6923 Source: Johnson ### Event 12249 (77833111) Date: 10/19/1966 Description: [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) speaks to the Washington, D.C., Chapter of the American Meteorological Society on the inadequacy of military UFO investigations and the need to take seriously the “possibility that these aerial objects may be some type of extraterrestrial probes.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “[The Problem of the Unidentified](http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald%5F102166.pdf) [Flying Objects,](http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald%5F102166.pdf)” October 19, 1966; Clark III 697 Source ID: Eberhart_4125 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12250 (8D7103F2) Date: 10/20/1966 Description: 11:50 p.m. A telecommunications technician in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, sees a strangely behaving nocturnal light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 45](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/44/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4127 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12251 (C5D09422) Date: 10/20/1966 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) visits [Franklin Roach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FE.%5FRoach) in Boulder, Colorado, to meet [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) and other Colorado project members. He notes that Condon has a “basically negative attitude.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1193 Source ID: Eberhart_4126 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12252 (2DC769EE) Date: 10/21/1966 Description: Night. Three junior high school students are standing at one end of their street in Amsterdam, New York, when they notice a star-like light to the right of the Moon. The star proceeds to draw aright-angle step around the Moon and continues northward, where it joins two other objects. The three objects then form 90° angles, equilateral triangles, and other geometrical figures. Two of the students go home for binoculars, and while they are away the sky show stops. They remain in the sky, but stationary. The objects look spherical through binoculars with some sort of lighted, colored areas that rotate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_4129 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12253 (81623AB8) Date: 10/21/1966 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s letter on misconceptions about UFOs is belatedly published in Science. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “[UFO’s](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1719233?refreqid=excelsior%3A2a1122ffa895b7dc3c96c05f040cc7ef) [Merit Scientific Study,](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1719233?refreqid=excelsior%3A2a1122ffa895b7dc3c96c05f040cc7ef)” Science 154 \(1966\): 329 Source ID: Eberhart_4128 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12254 (E4D66C02) Date: 10/21/1966 Description: 4:25 p.m. PDT. Two Sandia Corporation ; engineers saw a sphere which at first appeared translucent, then reflecting light. The object hovered, then ascended very rapidly until out of sight. (NICAP \* report form, newspaper clippings.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Livermore, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3163 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12255 (9D849634) Date: 10/23/1966 Time: 6 PM Description: Witness: Mr Acquino. One object with arms in front of it which sparkled like an arc-light. Traveled south along some power lines, then turned southwest. Made a slight humming sound during the 4 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Southhampton, Long Island, New York Source ID: BerlinerBBU_559 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12256 (981D2456) Date: 10/23/1966 Description: In Adelaide, South Australia at 2:30 a.m. a bright oval-shaped object with a cone shape beneath it hung stationary in the sky at 20-degrees elevation above the horizon. It glowed a bright orange-yellow color. A "sodium-light" yellow colored object flew toward the northeast over Burnside, South Australia at 8:25 p.m. After four minutes of flight it slowed down and turned toward the north. It descended, gained speed and was gone by 8:35 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 177 Source ID: Johnson_7045 Source: Johnson ### Event 12257 (7A952ABD) Date: 10/23/1966 Description: 8:45 p.m. EDT. A policeman watched as a bright yellow oval UFO approached slowly at low altitude, then sped away when he shone a spotlight on it (light reaction.). (NICAP notes, from newspaper story-) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Randolph Twp, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3164 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12258 (965E3A67) Date: 10/23/1966 Description: Object with arms in front of it which sparkled like an arc-light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Southhampton, Long Island, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3165 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12259 (9786D45E) Date: 10/26/1966 Description: 11:50 p.m. A man is driving in a rural, wooded area near Takoma Park, Maryland, when he sees a disc that seems about to land in a clearing. It puts on a red-and-green light show as it hovers. A large central beam of light shines onto the field below. The car radio bursts with static, and he hears a whirring sound coming from the object. He tries to accelerate the car, but it won’t move. Radio and drive functions resume when the UFO moves away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no, 4 \(March 2008\): 17, 29 Source ID: Eberhart_4130 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12260 (B818F5FC) Date: 10/26/1966 Description: 11:45 p.m. EDT. A drug store owner reported that he was paralyzed with fear as he observed a large round "craft" with flashing red and green lights on the underside, and a central light beam that illuminated a field. During the sighting he heard a whirring sound and experienced heavy static (EM effects) on his car radio. (Washington, D.C, NICAP Subcommittee, report.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Plata, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3167 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12261 (0676BBCE) Date: 10/26/1966 Description: Cold Bay Air Force Station, Alaska. No time given. Sometime after dark a civilian control tower operator spotted a white object approach the runway at 50 feet altitude. The runway lights were then turned on, and object accelerated and climbed away so fast that the witness was unable to use his binoculars. Sighting lasted 3 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_7147 Source: Johnson ### Event 12262 (D22F240F) Date: 10/26/1966 Description: Tower operator saw a white object approach runway (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 11092) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cold Bay AFS, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3166 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12263 (C17EF2B0) Date: 10/26/1966 Time: No time given Description: Witness: civilian control tower operator Ralston. One white object approached runway at 50' altitude. Runway lights were then turned on, and object accelerated and climbed away so fast that witness was unable to use binoculars. Sighting lasted 3 seconds. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Cold Bay Air Force Station, Alaska Source ID: BerlinerBBU_560 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12264 (6A63CFE3) Date: 10/28/1966 Description: The Space Defense Center’s satellite-tracking Delta I computer system at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, becomes operational. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Space Defense Center](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%5FDefense%5FCenter)” Source ID: Eberhart_4131 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12265 (19163D08) Date: 10/28/1966 Description: A white cigar-shaped UFO hovered silently at a 45 degree tilt over some water towers in Lawrence, Massachusetts at 1:00 a.m. for 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 342 Source ID: Johnson_7226 Source: Johnson ### Event 12266 (97606BCD) Date: 10/28/1966 Description: 1:00 a.m. EDT. A newspaper editor responding to phone calls saw a glowing white, cigar-shaped object hovering at a 45-degree angle over water towers. A closer witness saw bright white lights along its side. (Fowler 1974, p. 342.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lawrence, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3168 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12267 (CC90D036) Date: 10/29/1966 Description: A cigar-shaped object with satellite objects was seen in Rushville, Indiana for over an hour by a group of women, beginning at 6:35 p.m. There were other UFO sightings by other witnesses at 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1966, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_7272 Source: Johnson ### Event 12268 (8576AD32) Date: 10/30/1966 Description: Two couples driving on Route 38 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey at 2:30 a.m. saw a carrot-shaped object 400 feet long, hovering 50 feet over the roof of the RCA industrial plant, 400 feet away from the highway. It was in a horizontal position, and had huge running lights and windows. A ramp came down from the craft to the plant roof, and they could see figures moving about on the roof. They watched them for 10 minutes before leaving. A truck driver who also saw the object drove his truck into a telephone pole he was so excited. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 11; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1966-47 (A0741), citing Michael Campione, Richard Heiden, and John Keel Source ID: Johnson_7303 Source: Johnson ### Event 12269 (6FE2E355) Date: 10/30/1966 Description: Same as 10/23 case\[Same as Oct. 23 case?\] (FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Southhampton, Long Island, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3169 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12270 (B28A5805) Date: 10/31/1966 Description: Night. An observer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, notices a particularly bright star in the southwestern sky that is moving in a wide arc. When it reaches Ursa Major, it paces along the Big Dipper, then turns and takes an approximately parallel course to the front of the constellation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_4132 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12271 (5679942B) Date: 11/1/1966 Description: The University of Colorado UFO project officially launches. [Michael D. Swords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FD.%5FSwords) writes: “It was one of the most peculiar scientific grants of all time. Normally a governmental grant goes to a scientist who has initiated it or is at least vitally interested and experienced in the field, and essentially knows exactly what he is going to do. This grant was to a scientist who was pushed into it, had little interest and apparently no experience, and, despite his brilliance, ‘didn’t have a clue.’ Because the reports of the UFO phenomenon are so complex and multidimensional, this short-term ‘backwards grant’ was doomed to fail before it was even signed.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 309– 312 Source ID: Eberhart_4133 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12272 (78E9696C) Date: 11/1/1966 Description: Official contract starting date of Colorado UFO Project. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_106 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12273 (6B2F59F0) Date: 11/1/1966 Description: A disc-shaped object was sighted by a Mr. Clerico at 6:45 a.m. in LaPoint, Utah in Unitah County. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A31 Source ID: Johnson_7375 Source: Johnson ### Event 12274 (A310FA4E) Date: 11/1/1966 Description: In Point Pleasant, West Virginia a national guardsman saw a large brownish man-shaped figure on the limb of a tree. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-50, citing John Keel Source ID: Johnson_7376 Source: Johnson ### Event 12275 (BAC359C1) Date: 11/1/1966 Description: A huge, circular object with two tiers of four windows that were emitting a bright yellowish-green light, was watched over Newfields, New Hampshire at 8:00 p.m. by a family of three. A very intense beam of light from the UFO knocked the mother down. She reported having an eye inflamation and pain as a result, which caused her to make a visit to her doctor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_7377 Source: Johnson ### Event 12276 (33D7D820) Date: 11/1/1966 Description: 8:00 p.m. Mrs. Ray Tibbetts is talking on the phone in her home at Newfields, New Hampshire, when her son, Dale, yells that there is a strange light outside. Her foster daughter, Anita Purrington, joins Dale and they both get excited. Mrs. Tibbetts runs to a window when the house lights begin blinking on and off. She goes to her son’s room and sees a huge object with two tiers of four windows from which a strange, yellow-green light is shining. The size of one of the windows is as big as her living room wall. An apparent ceiling line is visible in the bottom tier. Suddenly an intense white light shoots out from the object at Mrs. Tibbetts, who is knocked backward and gets spots before her eyes. When her vision clears, the UFO is gone. She has pains in her eyes the next two days and they are extremely sensitive to light. She drives to a clinic in Exeter, New Hampshire, which finds a spasm in the eyelid and tearing, but it attributes this to the cobalt therapy she has been getting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_4134 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12277 (5CB31BB9) Date: Early 11/1966 Description: [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) and [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) make the Colorado project’s first field trip, to Minot and Donnybrook, North Dakota. November 2 — 7:25 p.m. [Woodrow Derenberger](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53218997/woodrow-wilson-derenberger) is driving his panel truck home to Parkersburg, West Virginia, on Interstate 77 when a low-flying dark object about 35 feet wide cuts in front of him and forces him to stop. It hovers a foot above the ground, only 20 feet ahead. The object has a profile similar to a kerosene lamp chimney flattened on the bottom side. A door opens and a smiling man of dark complexion descends, wearing a topcoat \(“blue and quite shiny, having a glistening effect”\) over shiny blue trousers. Without opening his mouth, which bears a fixed grin, he addresses Derenberger telepathically, asking him to open his window. For the next 10 minutes he conducts a telepathic conversation, first asking Derenberger’s name and saying that his own is “Indrid Cold” from a planet called Lanulos in the “Ganymede galaxy.” He tells Derenberger not to think of him as an alien and concludes by saying, “We will see you again.” After admitting Mr. Cold, the UFO rises vertically and disappears. A truck driver named [Walter Vanscoy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116946916/walter-glenn-vanscoy) is going north on I-77 and sees, in apparent confirmation of the encounter, a truck parked on the berm of the southbound I-77 lanes with a man wearing a knee-length coat standing by the passenger side. Derenberger’s space adventures are only beginning. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Woodrow Derenberger](https://themothman.fandom.com/wiki/The%5FWoodrow%5FDerenberger%5FInterview) [Interview, November 3, 1966,](https://themothman.fandom.com/wiki/The%5FWoodrow%5FDerenberger%5FInterview)” The MothMan Wikia; “[Parkersburg Salesman](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95400976/) [Speaks with Spaceman,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8137890/parkersburg-salesman-speaks-with/)” Beckley \(W.Va.\) Raleigh Register, November 4, 1966, pp. 1–2; John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, Tor ed., 1991, [pp. 50–52](https://archive.org/details/mothmanprophecie00keelrich/page/50/mode/2up); Woodrow W. Derenberger and Harold W. Hubbard, Visitors from Lanulos, Vantage, 1971; Clark III 402–403; Jerome Clark, “The Adventures of Woody Derenberger,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 7–8; Taunia Derenberger-Bowman, Beyond Lanulos: Our Fifty Years with Indrid Cold, The Author, 2016; Theo Paijmans, “The Terrible Grinning Men,” Fortean Times 397 \(October 2020\): 32–34 Source ID: Eberhart_4135 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12278 (D77407B5) Date: 11/2/1966 Time: evening Description: Mrs. Mark deFriend, 32, saw an object at ground level in front of her car on a rainy night. It would leave the road and fly over the fields from time to time. The greenish-blue object flew back in front of the car, then was lost to sight behind some trees. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 168 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: El Campo, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_803 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12279 (8BE8C17E) Date: 11/2/1966 Time: 1925 Description: W. Derenberger, salesman, saw a dark object ahead of him on the road. It was flat on the bottom and rounded on top. As he stopped, the object came within 20 cm of the road surface, and a man of dark complexion, dressed with a shirt and ordinary trousers, both a shiny blue color, came out, smiled at the witness who then thought that he received a message, although no word was spoken. The message described a hypothetical "other world" and suggested that the observation be reported to authorities. The man also promised to return. Several people who drove by the witness did report seeing a man speaking to him, as well as a strange vehicle nearby. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 169; FSR 67, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Parkersburg, West Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_804 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12280 (6E8310F9) Date: 11/2/1966 Description: In Parkersburg, West Virginia Mr. Woodrow Derenberger, a travelling salesman, saw a dark object ahead of him on the road. It was flat on the bottom and rounded on top. As he stopped the object came to within 20 cm of the road surface, and a man of dark complexion, dressed in a shirt and ordinary trousers that were both shiny blue in color, came out. He smiled at the witness who then thought that he received a telepathic message. The message described a hypothetical "other world" and suggested that the observation be reported to authorities. The man also promised to return. Several people who drove by the witness reported seeing a man speaking to him, as well as a strange vehicle nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 804 Source ID: Johnson_7416 Source: Johnson ### Event 12281 (5BFABFA4) Date: 11/2/1966 Description: During the evening Mrs. Mark deFriend, age 32, saw an object at ground level in front of her car in El Campo, Texas on this rainy night. It would leave the road and fly over the fields from time to time. The greenish-blue object flew back in front of her car, and then was lost to sight behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 803 Source ID: Johnson_7417 Source: Johnson ### Event 12282 (7B45C5F6) Date: 11/4/1966 Description: [Derenberger](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53218997/woodrow-wilson-derenberger) has another encounter when he lapses into a trance while driving a truck with a colleague along US Highway 50 near Parkersburg, West Virginia. He starts speaking, sometimes mumbling, other times conveying messages about “ships.” Derenberger later says that Cold was sending him a telepathic message that his ship was directly above the truck. A sighting of a UFO “like two glass chimneys from a kerosene lamp welded together at their widest or bulging ends” at 6:45 p.m. by [Irma Hudgins](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186221336/irma-hudgins) and her daughter [Pamela Sue](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205012268/pamela-sue-chase) near the intersection of I-77 and State Highway 47 seems to confirm some UFO activity. Derenberger has further meetings with Indrid Cold and his companion Carl Ardo, who often pass undetected among earthlings, through the early 1970s and in 1984. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, Tor ed., 1991, [pp. 54–55](https://archive.org/details/mothmanprophecie00keelrich/page/54/mode/2up); Clark III 404–410; Jerome Clark, “The Adventures of Woody Derenberger,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 8–11, 20–23 Source ID: Eberhart_4136 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12283 (8A69B093) Date: 11/4/1966 Description: 10:30 p.m. EST. While watching television, a woman saw her set experience severe interference, then black out completely (EM effects). She glanced out the window and saw a huge red light that appeared to be rotating behind a glassy surface of some kind. Above the light was a very large object surrounded by a halo of white light. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. HI, No. 11, Jan.-Feb. 1967, p. 3) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alton, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3170 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12284 (D4ADD2D4) Date: 11/5/1966 Description: On this night Mrs. Kathleen glanced out the kitchen door of her house in Arlington, Indiana and saw a lighted object, which moved toward her and hovered 50 feet away, some 20-30 feet up in the air. It was as big as a house and Saturn-shaped. In the middle of the object were brightly lit windows. Mrs. Kathleen could see in these windows a man and two women, who appeared to be on different floors. The man, muscular in build, was manipulating something like a steering wheel and was staring directly at her, which frightened her. One of the women who was on the lower level handed him a small object "like a cup of coffee." After about three minutes the object began to move westward, then rose steeply emitting a multicolored exhaust. It moved off at a speed greater then a jet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-52 (A0746), citing Don Worley Source ID: Johnson_7475 Source: Johnson ### Event 12285 (DD65785E) Date: 11/5/1966 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) tells the press that he knows “some people \[[McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)\] who believe the air force is misleading us, but I don’t think so. Maybe they are. I don’t care much.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p.](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/112/mode/2up) [113](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/112/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4137 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12286 (0D7E11C8) Date: 11/6/1966 Alternate date: 11/12/1966 Description: Rectangular object emitting steady bluish light moving slowly to the N (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Plains (3 miles W of), NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3171 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12287 (1264738A) Date: 11/6/1966 Description: 6:30 p.m. A driver on State Highway 47 near Parkersburg, West Virginia, sees a UFO and gets out to watch it. At first it looks like two lights near the American Viscose plant across the Little Kanawha River. The object crosses the river and the highway then turns off its lights at about 100–150 feet altitude. The lights come back on and it starts moving toward the witness, stopping right over his car and focusing a bright beam of light on him for 10 seconds. It shuts off and the object moves leisurely away to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 405 Source ID: Eberhart_4138 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12288 (05904944) Date: 11/8/1966 Time: At night Description: Witness: college graduate Annis. A group of lights that flashed and changed color hung stationary, almost touching the road, and would abruptly vanish during the 5 minute sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Saginaw, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_561 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12289 (BB43E72C) Date: 11/8/1966 Description: Group of lights flash and change color while hovering (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 11135) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saginaw, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3172 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12290 (513FF971) Date: 11/10/1966 Description: At 3:30 a.m. a disc-shaped object landed at the local military airport in Fubara, Italy. It carried flashing police type lights on its top and bottom. From the object emerged four men or pilots (not described) who walked around the ground briefly then returned to the object. The object then circled the area and left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO catalogue Source ID: Johnson_7592 Source: Johnson ### Event 12291 (5053077D) Date: 11/10/1966 Description: 9:20 p.m. EST. A young boy saw a very bright red, self-luminous, cigar-shaped object emerging from clouds. Then 10 smaller objects like dishes approached and entered the larger object. The parent object had what looked like portholes near its upper edge. (NICAP report in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pinellas Park, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3173 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12292 (66126BD8) Date: 11/11/1966 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) and [Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) give an extended briefing to [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) and his staff. Hynek urges the project to adopt a rating system, by which if a sighting emerges as both strange and credible, it will be deemed worthy of further investigation. Vallée recommends standardized report forms that ask all the right questions. They both sense that [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf)[,](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) not Condon, is “clearly the decision-maker.” Hynek tells [Craig](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) that the project must recommend that scientific investigation of UFOs be continued. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1193; UFOs Yes, 50–61; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4139 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12293 (F768E9A5) Date: 11/11/1966 Description: On this night a married woman named Kathleen saw a Saturn-shaped UFO with many brightly lit windows from her kitchen window in Arlington, Indiana. The UFO was only 50 feet away. A muscular looking man and two women were seen inside the craft. The man stared directly at the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0746, citing APRO investigation by Donald Worley Source ID: Johnson_7597 Source: Johnson ### Event 12294 (022CB456) Date: 11/12/1966 Description: Local astronomer took twelve slides of the sun and a saucerlike object was visible in the foreground. (See Dec. 19, Dept. of State AIRGRAM) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montevideo, Buenos Aires, S.America Source ID: NICAP_DB_3174 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12295 (D85703F2) Date: 11/12/1966 Description: On this night a domed disc-shaped object with portholes hovered over Fort Ontario, New York and was witnessed by a radar operator. It shot straight up until it was gone from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 152 Source ID: Johnson_7610 Source: Johnson ### Event 12296 (43D01798) Date: 11/12/1966 Description: During the day five men digging a grave in a cemetery in Clendenin, West Virginia saw something that looked like "a brown human being" that flew from some nearby trees and maneuvered low over their heads. It was in sight for about a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-53 (A0747), citing John Keel Source ID: Johnson_7611 Source: Johnson ### Event 12297 (8D1788E3) Date: 11/12/1966 Description: 9:35 p.m. EST. A number of witnesses including a former Navy radarman reported a dark domed disc with a row of orange portholes along the lower portion. The object, illuminated by a faint glow, first hovered and then shot upwards out of sight. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Ontario, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3175 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12298 (E8EBB9E4) Date: 11/13/1966 Description: Barber and amateur astronomer [Ralph Ditter Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189417696/ralph-william-ditter) of Roseville, Ohio, takes several “spectacular” photos of a daylight disc. Later, Raytheon deals with the photographic analysis of the photos. The report states that the object in the photos is 3–4 inches in diameter, not 30 feet as claimed by Ditter; the object is not at a considerable distance, but a mere 3–4 feet from the camera lens; and the photos are not taken in rapid succession, but approximately 70 minutes has elapsed between photos. Also, the numbers on the backs of the photographs are out of sequence with Ditter’s story. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Ditter Photo Hoax](http://www.nicap.org/661113zanesville%5Fdir.htm)”; Center for UFO Studies, \[[Ditter photos](http://cufos.org/cases/ZanesvilleDocs/1966%5F11%5F13%5FZanesille%5FPhotos.pdf)\]; Center for UFO Studies, \[case documents, [part one](http://cufos.org/cases/ZanesvilleDocs/Zanesville%5FDocuments.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/cases/ZanesvilleDocs/Zanesville%5FDocuments.pdf) [part two](http://cufos.org/cases/ZanesvilleDocs/Zanesville%5FDocuments%5F2.pdf)\]; E. L. Merritt, “[Photogrammetric Analysis of a](http://cufos.org/cases/ZanesvilleDocs/Zanesville%5FPhotogrammetric.pdf) [Non-Synchronous Pair of U.F.O. Exposures,](http://cufos.org/cases/ZanesvilleDocs/Zanesville%5FPhotogrammetric.pdf)” June 1967 Source ID: Eberhart_4140 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12299 (7A6AEA3C) Date: 11/13/1966 Description: 5:35 p.m. EST. Several witnesses including a private pilot saw a very bright, round, pulsating orange light that hovered over a school emitting a humming sound. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fords, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3176 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12300 (18B92AAF) Date: 11/14/1966 Description: [Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) Lt. [William Marley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103904684/william-h-marley), and Col. [Robert Hippler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65715202/robert-r-hippler) of AFOSR brief the Colorado project staff. Quintanilla contradicts [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s account of the swamp gas explanation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 61 Source ID: Eberhart_4141 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12301 (A9C06A5B) Date: 11/14/1966 Description: At 10:30 p.m. Mr. Newell Partridge was sitting at home in Salem, West Virginia when suddenly the TV blacked out. A fine herringbone pattern appeared on the tube, and simultaneously the TV began making a loud whining noise, winding up to a high pitch as if on a musical scale. He said it sounded like a generator winding up. Outside on his front porch his dog Bandit began wailing. Partridge picked up a flashlight and went outside to investigate. The dog was sitting on the end of the porch, howling down toward the hay barn in the bottom. Partridge shined his light in that direction and it picked up two red circles, or eyes, which looked like bicycle reflectors. There was something about the eyes that was difficult to explain. The eyes were huge and plainly visible at a distance of 150 yards. As soon as the flashlight picked out the "eyes" Bandit snarled and ran toward them. A "cold chill" swept over the man and he felt a wave of fear, which kept him from following the dog. That night he slept with a loaded gun beside his bed. The next day he went looking for his dog with some neighbors. They found tracks. At the approximate position of the "eyes" he found a large number of dog tracks. The tracks were going in a circle, as if the dog had been chasing his tail. Then the tracks vanished, the dog was never seen again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies Source ID: Johnson_7669 Source: Johnson ### Event 12302 (7D3A81CF) Date: 11/15/1966 Description: 11:30 p.m. Two young couples from Point Pleasant, West Virginia—Roger and [Linda Scarberry](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92851560/linda-sue-scarberry) and Steve and Mary Mallette—are joyriding in an area outside of town known as the “TNT area” \[the site of a former World War II munitions plant and now part of the McClintic Wildlife Management Area\] when they encounter a large gray creature whose eyes glow red when the car’s headlights pick it up. Scarberry describes it as shaped like a man but nearly 7 feet tall. They describe it as a “large flying man with 10-foot wings” that are folded against its back. Terrified, they drive away but pass a similar creature on a hill by the road. As they pass it, it spreads its wings, rises into the air, and pursues their car, keeping pace at even 100 mph. The entity does not pursue them into town, but they drive directly to the Mason County Courthouse, where they tell their story to Deputy [Millard Halstead](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63046926/millard-w%5F-halstead)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63046926/millard-w%5F-halstead) who accompanies the witnesses back to the site. He hears strange static disturbances coming from his radio, but they find no evidence of the encounter. On November 16, Sheriff [George E. Johnson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61853560/george-e-johnson) holds a press conference to discuss the sighting, the press begins calling the creature “Mothman” based on a comic book character. The Scarberrys and Mallettes go back to the site in the daylight and find odd-looking tracks like “two horseshoes put together.” After this sighting, more people begin reporting encounters, and hundreds of cars swarm out to the TNT area at night in search of a Mothman sighting. In May 1976, representatives of the Ohio UFO Investigators League reinterview several witnesses, all of whom stick to their stories and sometimes add interesting details. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, Tor ed., 1991, [pp. 59–61](https://archive.org/details/mothmanprophecie00keelrich/page/58/mode/2up); Clark III 779–781; “[Scarberry and Mallette’s Mothman Sighting,](https://themothman.fandom.com/wiki/Scarberry%5Fand%5FMallette%27s%5FMothman%5FSighting)” The MothMan Wikia Source ID: Eberhart_4142 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12303 (381CF89C) Date: 11/15/1966 Description: 7:15 a.m. EST. Two hunters in a boat off the coast saw two cigar-shaped objects hovering in a horizontal position over the Beverly Farms area. (Fowler 1974, p. 342.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gaffney, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3177 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12304 (E8DE992C) Date: 11/15/1966 Description: Two duck hunters in a boat offshore of Beverly, Massachusetts saw a cigar-shaped object hovering over the Beverly Farms area around 7:15 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ray Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 342. Source ID: Johnson_7689 Source: Johnson ### Event 12305 (8AFEDBAD) Date: 11/15/1966 Description: Newell Partridge was sitting at home at 10:30 p.m. in Salem, West Virginia when suddenly the TV blanked out. A very fine herringbone pattern appeared on the tube, and at the same time the set started making a loud whining noise, increasing to a high pitch, peaking and then breaking off, as if on a musical scale, sounding like a generator winding up. Outside on his porch, his dog Bandit began wailing. Partridge picked up a flashlight and went out in the yard to investigate. The dog was sitting at the end of the porch, howling down toward the hay barn in the bottom. Partridge shined the light in that direction, and it picked up two red circles or eyes, which looked like bicycle reflectors. There was something about the eyes that was difficult to explain. They were huge and plainly visible at a distance of 150 yards. As soon as the flashlight picked out the eyes his dog Bandit snarled and ran toward them. A "cold chill" swept over the man and he felt a wave of fear, which kept him from following the dog. That night he slept with a loaded gun beside his bed. The next day he went looking for his dog with a friend. They found tracks, and at the approximate position of the "eyes" he found a large number of dog tracks. The tracks were going in a circle, as if the dog had been chasing its tail. Then the tracks vanished, the dog was never seen again. At around 11:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Mallette and Mr. and Mrs. Roger Scarberry reported that their car was followed in Point Pleasant, West Virginia around 11:30 p.m. by a gray "bird-like creature" six to seven feet tall and with a ten foot wingspan. When the car headlights struck the creature its eyes, about two inches in diameter, glowed red. It finally scurried into a field and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UPI press dispatch in the Cleveland Press, November 16, 1966; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1966, p. 10; John A Keel, FSR, July 1968, p. 7; John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, p. 59 Source ID: Johnson_7690 Source: Johnson ### Event 12306 (057DFB3F) Date: 11/16/1966 Description: At 9:00 p.m. in Point Pleasant, West Virginia Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wamsley and Mrs Marcella Bennett were driving to the house of Ralph Thomas, when they saw a big red light maneuvering over the "TNT" dump area. When they arrived and got out, a "big gray thing bigger than a man, with glowing red eyes" rose up from the ground. They ran into the house, but the creature shuffled onto the porch and peered into windows. It was gone by the time police arrived. Mr. & Mrs. Steve Mallette and Mr. & Mrs Roger Scarberry reported that their car was followed about midnight by a gray "bird like creature" 6-7 feet tall with a 10 foot wingspan. When the car headlights struck its eyes, which were two inches in diameter, they glowed red. It finally scurried into a field and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases 1966-54 and 55, citing John A. Keel Source ID: Johnson_7717 Source: Johnson ### Event 12307 (215D67B3) Date: 11/17/1966 Description: 4:00 a.m. EST. Two police officers saw a round, glowing object with a wide, flat rim around the center resting on the ground. They estimated the diameter to be about 20 feet. As they watched from less than 50 feet away, a door opened and a small humanoid being descended. The observation lasted several minutes. Footprints later were found at the site. (Phillips 1975, p. 44.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gaffney, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3178 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12308 (5B510A29) Date: 11/17/1966 Description: In Gaffney, South Carolina police patrolmen A. G. Huskey and C. Hutchins rounded a corner and saw a dark, spherical machine with a flat rim land in front of their patrol car at four o'clock in the morning. They estimated it was seven meters in diameter and about twenty feet above the ground. Hutchins described it as being spherical, like a ball, with a wide, flat rim around it. There were no lights or portholes visible on it. It was completely dark, reflecting a dull gold color in the headlights of the police car. A small doorway opened noiselessly on the underside of the sphere and a short ladder dropped down. A small man dressed in a shiny gold suit emerged. White light poured out of the opening, but neither man could see anything in the interior. The small being descended the ladder and walked slowly and deliberately toward the two police officers. When the figure reached a point about fifteen to twenty feet from the two men, it stopped.

"He didn't move stiffly," officer Hutchins said. "He moved just like anybody else, but kind of slow...like he was taking his time. He wasn't scared of us or anything like that." In appearance, the humanoid was about the size of a twelve-year-old boy, maybe four feet tall. He wore no helmet or headgear and was dressed in a gold suit with no buttons or zippers. His costume was shiny, like metal, in the reflection of the headlights, but it was not self-luminous. The humanoid asked numerous questions and ignored the witnesses when they asked any questions. Hutchins could not remember seeing the feet of the creature. It was standing on high grass and the feet must have been hidden. Both men could not really remember the full context of the "conversation". Hutchins claimed the alien spoke perfect English. "Didn't have any accent or anything. He acted like he knew exactly what he was saying and doing...didn't make any quick moves or false moves. He just stood there and talked to the witnesses." He wanted to know why both men were dressed alike. His speech was very precise. He pronounced each work very carefully. When asked where he was from, he just laughed. The meeting was brief, perhaps only two or three minutes. Then, Hutchins say, the creature announced, "I...will...return...in...two...days." He turned, walked slowly back to the ladder and climbed into the object. The door closed quietly and the craft began to make a soft whirring sound like an engine with a muffler on it. The object rose slowly and vanished into the sky. A local councilman found numerous footprints at the site where the little man had stood. There was no return visit by the alien. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-57, citing John A Keel; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 805 Source ID: Johnson_7723 Source: Johnson ### Event 12309 (918AC1E3) Date: 11/17/1966 Description: At 1:30 a.m. Margaret Marchute saw on the ground in Collegeville, Pennsylvania a luminous object that seemed to be made of polished metal. After about half an hour a red flame shot upward from the object, then two very bright lights approached it from the distance. When these were near it something like a luminous balloon sprang up from it and hovered in the air. At this point she could see 3 or 4 figures moving about the large object on the ground, which was pulsating from dim to bright. They were dressed in a "gold shiny material." She watched them for about two hours before going to bed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-56, citing NICAP Source ID: Johnson_7722 Source: Johnson ### Event 12310 (2321FED1) Date: 11/17/1966 Description: 4:00 a.m. Two police officers see a round, glowing object with a wide, flat rim around the center resting on the ground near Gaffney, South Carolina. They estimate the diameter to be about 20 feet. As they watch from less than 50 feet away, a door opens and a small humanoid being descends. The observation lasts several minutes. Footprints are found at the site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John A. Keel, “[The Little Man of Gaffney,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 2 \(March/April 1968\): 17–19 Source ID: Eberhart_4143 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12311 (7CAA1FA0) Date: 11/17/1966 Time: 0400 Description: Patrolmen A. G. Huskey and C. Hutchins saw a dark, spherical machine with a flat rim land near them. Estimated diameter: 7 m. An opening and a short ladder became visible, and a small man, dressed in a shiny gold suit, emerged, came within 6 m of them, and spoke in perfect English before taking off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Gaffney, South Carolina Source ID: Magnonia_805 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12312 (E3386E92) Date: 11/18/1966 Description: 9:30 p.m. EST. Several witnesses including the chief of police saw a dark gray or black disc, with red, blue, green, and white body lights around its perimeter, hovering silently. It had a length to width ratio of 4:1. After a while the object started to move away, and receded into the distance where six more objects were visible (rendezvous). After 5-10 minutes, the objects suddenly disappeared. (Hitt, 1999.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawkinsville, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3180 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12313 (5F7DC6BD) Date: 11/18/1966 Description: 12:25 a.m. PST. Several witnesses in a car reported an elongated greenish-white oval that hovered or moved slowly at low altitude. The driver felt and heard a deep vibration. (NICAP report.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McMinnville, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_3179 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12314 (6DB000AF) Date: 11/18/1966 Description: On this night in Point Pleasant, West Virginia police captain Paul Yoder and B. Enochs saw a huge bird-like creature, with big red eyes, in the "TNT" dump area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-59, citing John A. Keel Source ID: Johnson_7731 Source: Johnson ### Event 12315 (C1535D68) Date: 11/19/1966 Time: 0750 Description: Two local businessmen observed a dark, gray, metallic sphere, from the top of which projected a dozen "tentacles" over 2 m long, flying at about 40 m altitude and then coming down behind a house. It was assumed that it plunged into the bay, but a search by patrol boats was unsuccessful. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bavonne, New Jersey Source ID: Magnonia_806 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12316 (B71DCF8C) Date: 11/20/1966 Description: In Campbells Creek, West Virginia on this day in 1966, six teenagers saw a gray man-sized creature with red eyes flying over the area. On this evening in Union City, New Jersey two women saw a UFO described as looking like a silver pumpkin. It had an antenna. Roof lights of their apartment building reflected off the bottom of the object. Across the Ohio River from West Virginia in Gallipolis, Ohio William Watson's German shepherd dog disappeared. It was found dead a week later in the center of an isolated field. The knee-high grass around the dog's body was pressed flat in a perfect circle 20 feet in diameter. Every bone in the dog's body was crushed, and no blood was in evidence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) John Keel, FSR, July 1968, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-60, citing John Keel; (2) James Moseley, Saucer News, March 1967, p. 31; (3) John Keel, FSR, July 1968, p.14 Source ID: Johnson_7748 Source: Johnson ### Event 12317 (B83CC05D) Date: 11/21/1966 Description: At 10:15 p.m. Richard West called police to report that a "batman" was sitting on the roof of the house next to his home at an undisclosed location in West Virginia. The being was six feet tall and had a wingspan of six to eight feet, with great big red eyes. It flew straight up, like a helicopter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, p. 167; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-61, citing John Keel Source ID: Johnson_7771 Source: Johnson ### Event 12318 (F136936B) Date: 11/22/1966 Description: At 4:20 p.m. eight witnesses on the 17th floor of the office building at 750 Third Avenue in New York City, New York watched a rectangular, cushion-shaped object fly south over the United Nations and the East River. It hovered for several minutes, bobbing like a ship, and reflected sunlight with a golden glint. It shot up vertically, stopped, and sped off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January-February 1967, p. 4; UNICAT, case # 710, citing James E. McDonald, 1968 Congressional Hearings, p. 54; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 104 Source ID: Johnson_7799 Source: Johnson ### Event 12319 (F3D26BD1) Date: 11/22/1966 Description: At 6:25 p.m. two U.S. Coast Guard pilots on a training flight 10 miles off the coast of New Hampshire saw a white rocket appear one mile away. It disappeared, then rose vertically in front of them only 100 feet away. There was radar confirmation of the object from Pease AFB. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 342 Source ID: Johnson_7800 Source: Johnson ### Event 12320 (3D499307) Date: 11/22/1966 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) informally visits several Colorado project members. He explains radar complexities and mirage effects and tells them that they will soon be “confronting astonishing evidence of mishandling of the UFO problems by your sponsoring agency.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 64 Source ID: Eberhart_4144 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12321 (0CD96B03) Date: 11/22/1966 Description: 9:00–10:00 a.m. A biochemist and consultant to a logging company and his wife are traveling on State Highway 58 through the Willamette Pass, Oregon, when he decides to stop and take photos of some scenery. He stops at the Diamond Peak overlook, takes 2 photos, then pauses to take a third. Suddenly, he claims, a disc- shaped object with a domed top ascends into his field of view. After stopping for 3 seconds, it shoots off toward the right and disappears into a cloud bank. When he develops the roll of film, the photos show a blurred disc- shaped object with two black bands beneath and sitting atop a seeming column of vapor. NICAP is given the photo but is not impressed. In 1989, physicist [Irwin Wieder](https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/photos/wieder-irwin-b1) performs a detailed analysis of the photo and determines that it is a blurred photo of the “Diamond Peak” sign taken from a passing car. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1281–1283; Irwin Wieder, “[The Willamette Pass Oregon UFO Photo Revisited: An Explanation,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/7/jse%5F07%5F2%5Fweider.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 7, no. 2 \(1993\): 173–198; Irwin Wieder, “The Willamette Pass Photo Explained,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 18–19 Source ID: Eberhart_4145 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12322 (51AD694B) Date: 11/22/1966 Description: 10:00 a.m. A deer hunter searching for game near Roaring River State Park, Missouri, returns to his group’s camp and becomes alarmed when he sees smoke rising from it. He finds their tent and other camping equipment destroyed. The tent is still smoldering, one of the aluminum tent poles is singed, and the aluminum cots are melted. The tent is set up under two trees, but their leaves show no traces of damage at all. About 15 feet away is a dead tree with its top still burning. The witness then heasr a low humming sound and sees an object rising from the valley about 300 feet away. He is able to take a photograph of it as it ascends and manages a second photo a few seconds later. It is an aluminum-colored disc, about 25 feet in diameter and 8 feet thick, with a band around its center and some kind of projection at its rear. The humming sound intensifies as the object picks up speed and disappears in 20 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CUFOS case file; Ted Phillips, [Physical Traces Associated with UFO](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf) [Sightings](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf) Center for UFO Studies, 1978, p. 44; B. J. Booth, “[UFO Encountered, Photographed, Roaring River,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/roaringriver.html) [Missouri, 1966,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/roaringriver.html)” UFO Casebook Source ID: Eberhart_4146 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12323 (AEB053C4) Date: 11/22/1966 Description: 4:20 p.m. At least eight employees of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York City watch a UFO from their offices on the 17th floor at 750 Third Avenue. The UFO is a rectangular, “cushion- shaped” object whose bright, reflective surface first catches the eye of Assistant General Manager Donald R. McVay. They go outside onto the terrace and watch the object move southward over the East River, then hover above the United Nations building. It flutters and bobs “like a ship on agitated water.” It rises slowly and moves south then west. One of the other witnesses is the manager of the Publications Department, William H. Leick. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Major Sighting Wave,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/035%20JAN-FEB%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 11 \(Jan,/Feb. 1967\): 4; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#cities) [Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#cities)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 54 Source ID: Eberhart_4147 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12324 (61AD81A4) Date: 11/22/1966 Description: At ten a.m. a deer hunter named Bresee in Roaring River State Park, Missouri saw a disc-shaped object rise from a valley about 300 feet away, emitting a humming sound. Physical traces included some burn damage to a tent as well as to a treetop. Photographic evidence was submitted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 44 (case 92) Source ID: Johnson_7798 Source: Johnson ### Event 12325 (AA3F5A37) Date: 11/22/1966 Description: Multiple witness, daylight, (#253) photos (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roaring River, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3181 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12326 (CCA7031C) Date: 11/24/1966 Description: At 7:15 a.m. Mr. Thomas Ury was driving home when the "Mothman", a bird-like creature six feet tall and with a ten foot wingspan, circled over his car. He sped up to 70-75 miles per hour but the creature kept up with his car. He had been close to the area of the TNT dumpsite in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. That same night Mary Myer, a newspaper reporter, saw the red eyes of "Mothman" when she visited the abandoned power plant in Point Pleasant, West Virginia where it had been seen before. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UPI, November 25, 1966; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases 1966-63 and 1966-62 (A0756); John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophesies, p. 68 Source ID: Johnson_7872 Source: Johnson ### Event 12327 (CA9DEBCB) Date: 11/25/1966 Description: In 1966, while driving home in the morning daylight at 7:15 a.m. on Highway 62 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia Mr. Ury, 25-years-old, became yet another "Mothman" witness. The bird-like creature, six feet tall with a ten-foot wingspan, circled his car as he drove down the highway. He increased his speed to between 70-75 miles per hour but the creature easily kept up with his car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Keel, FSR, July 1968, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_7906 Source: Johnson ### Event 12328 (986E051C) Date: 11/26/1966 Description: In St. Albans, West Virginia a woman saw "Mothman" standing on her front lawn. She described the creature as about six feet tall with a "funny little face" with "big red eyes that popped out." She screamed and ran inside her house. In Lowell, Ohio during the afternoon Marvin Shock and three others reported seeing four "giant birds" that stood 4-5 feet tall and had 10-foot wing spreads and bills 5-6 inches long. They kept them in sight for two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, July 1968, p. 13, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases 1966-62 and 64, citing John Keel Source ID: Johnson_7938 Source: Johnson ### Event 12329 (50968852) Date: 11/27/1966 Description: Later that same night in St. Albans, West Virginia, 13-year-old Sheila Cain and her sister were walking home when they saw the Mothman creature standing by the road. It was seven feet tall, and was gray and white in color with big red eyes. They screamed and ran home, and it flew low over their heads as they ran. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophesies, p. 71; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-67, citing John A. Keel Source ID: Johnson_7958 Source: Johnson ### Event 12330 (F0261B4F) Date: 11/27/1966 Description: At 10:30 a.m. Miss Connie Carpenter saw the "Mothman" in New Haven, West Virginia. Mothman, a tall winged figure in gray, was standing on the golf course on this morning. It unfolded its ten foot wide wings and flew directly at her windshield. She saw its red eyes. It then veered off and disappeared from sight. After the encounter her eyes were red, swollen, and itchy for two full weeks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 8; John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophesies, p. 16; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-66, citing John A. Keel Source ID: Johnson_7957 Source: Johnson ### Event 12331 (2ECDBB3D) Date: 11/28/1966 Description: Two witnesses observed a dark, red object land by the side of the road, later following their car. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 168 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: El Campo, Texas Source ID: Magnonia_807 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12332 (ECBFCBF4) Date: 11/28/1966 Description: At 5:15 a.m. a man named Nipper driving between Lennox and Valdosta, Georgia near the town of Sparks saw a luminous object land on the road; his car engine stalls, and his radio goes dead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mona Darden, Fate magazine, June 1967, p. 66; Michael A. Persinger, Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events, p. 59 Source ID: Johnson_7986 Source: Johnson ### Event 12333 (6EAEED67) Date: 11/28/1966 Description: On this night two 17-year-old teenagers, a man and a woman, were driving on Highway 1300 in El Campo, Wharton County, Texas when they were pursued by a UFO. They first observed a dark, red object land by the side of the road, and later it took off and started following their car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Houston Tribune, January 19, 1967; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1967, p. 3; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 24; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case # 807; Flying Saucers, February 1968, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_7987 Source: Johnson ### Event 12334 (9B84EDEF) Date: 11/28/1966 Description: At [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)’s invitation, [Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) and [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) brief the Colorado project members. They meet with [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) and show him some strong NICAP reports like the 1959 Redmond, Oregon, case. Low dismisses it as too old because the witnesses “wouldn’t remember the details.” Keyhoe focuses on the cover-up, while Hall argues that the best way to assess UFO evidence is to look at the aggregated evidence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1193; UFO Yes, 62–63; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 108–110](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/108/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4148 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12335 (8940B220) Date: 11/28/1966 Description: 12:10 a.m. Spanish contactee [Enrique Villagrasa](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Enrique%5FVillagrasa) receives by telephone his first message from inhabitants of the planet Ummo. The caller speaks in a slow monotone and with a foreign accent, answering questions about history and science. Villagrasa has the impression he is talking to an “electronic brain.” Other messages follow, and Villagrasa passes them on to [Fernando Sesma](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Fernando%5FSesma), an employee of the Spanish telegraph service and head of Amigos de los Visitantes del Espacio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1184 Source ID: Eberhart_4149 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12336 (8836F856) Date: 11/28/1966 Description: Night. Janis Bodungen, 17, is on her way home on Farm Road 1300 northwest of El Campo, Texas, when she sees teo bright lights coming toward her. As they approach, the two lights turn into one large golden light as tall as the trees. She turns the car around and speeds away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Texas Flap,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2001%2000%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1967, pp. 3, 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4150 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12337 (610F29E9) Date: 11/30/1966 Description: A young woman was changing a tire on a lonely road near Brooksville, Florida on this night when she was approached by a huge hairy biped creature with large green eyes and encased in an eerie greenish glow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1966 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1578, citing John Keel, Fortean Times, issue # 51 Source ID: Johnson_8075 Source: Johnson ### Event 12338 (EAC71FE6) Date: 11/30/1966 Description: Taylorsville, Indiana - At 5:55 p.m. an egg-shaped object zoomed towards the driver of a car "like a meteorite," then slowed to an approach speed of 60 mph. The engine and headlights of the witness's car slowly faded and died as the UFO came near. The object was metallic and had three red and three green flashing lights. It gave off a buzzing sound like an electric transformer. The object passed by the stalled car and increased in altitude to between 500-1000 feet, then flew away towards the northeast. The car could then be restated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 180, citing CUFOS; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 250 Source ID: Johnson_8074 Source: Johnson ### Event 12339 (85AD5E0B) Date: 11/30/1966 Description: At 4:35 P.M. a disc-shaped object with a blinking red light hovered for 30 seconds near a Cessna 150 light airplane being flown by a Mr. Hockenberry over New Kingston, Pennsylvania. It then shot straight up until it was gone from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Pittsburgh NICAP Subcommittee report, Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 35; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 118 Source ID: Johnson_8073 Source: Johnson ### Event 12340 (D53454E5) Date: 11/30/1966 Description: Ellipse approached car, slowed, buzzing sound heard. CUFOS report; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 31, (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Taylorsville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3182 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12341 (06B30A00) Date: 11/30/1966 Description: Time not reported. A private pilot watched a disc with a blinking red light hover alongside his Cessna 150, then : shoot straight up and out of sight. (Pittsburgh NICAP Subcommittee report.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Kingston, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3183 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12342 (49A4D770) Date: 11/30/1966 Description: 4:35 p.m. J. G. Hockenberry is flying a Cessna 150 near New Kingstown, Pennsylvania, when he sees a saucer-shaped object, about 30 feet in diameter, approach and hover beside the aircraft. It has a dull, gray-white finish and one blinking red light. When the pilot flies into a cloud layer, the object rises straight up and out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_4151 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12343 (15EAE5CB) Date: 12/1966 Description: [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) visits NICAP headquarters in Washington, D.C. He admits that [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) thinks the early reports are worthless. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) tells Low that before he wastes any time supplying them with reports, he wants to know what Condon thinks of the 1965 cases they already provided. Otherwise, NICAP might pull out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 112](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/112/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4152 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12344 (0BA9B466) Date: 12/1966 Description: Colorado project member and psychologist [William A. Scott](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) devises a witness questionnaire. One page is devoted to the UFO, the other 20 are about the psychological profile of the witness. When he discovers that the witness is not the project’s main focus, he goes home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 67–69 Source ID: Eberhart_4153 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12345 (D5848BC7) Date: 12/1/1966 Description: At 6:35 p.m. in Middleboro, Massachusetts an apparently oval-shaped object dove in front of the witness's car on Highway 25. It carried two large bright red pulsating lights. It stopped to hover silently over some woods just off the road. A curved shaped could be seen behind the lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 342 Source ID: Johnson_8104 Source: Johnson ### Event 12346 (F371DBE3) Date: 12/1/1966 Description: 6:35 p.m. EST. An obiect with a curved surface, apparently oval, with two large bright red pulsating lights, dived in front of a car and hovered over woods just off the road. (Fowler 1974, p. 342.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Middleboro, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3184 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12347 (1EFBD501) Date: 12/2/1966 Description: 2:00 a.m. CST. A farmer saw a disc-shaped object an estimated 40 feet in diameter hovering over a corn field, making a noise like whirling wind. The object moved away, returned and hovered again, then lifted straight up and moved away to the east emitting a red glow. (NICAP notes based on newspaper story.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Sarah, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3185 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12348 (63208FA8) Date: 12/2/1966 Description: Wertheimer goes to Washington, D.C., to interview witnesses of the National Airport radar-visual sightings of 1952. Virtually every witness disputes Gen. [John A. Samford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FA.%5FSamford)’s explanation of temperature inversions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 72–74 Source ID: Eberhart_4154 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12349 (BE7B553A) Date: 12/4/1966 Description: At the Gallipolis, Ohio airport in the middle of the afternoon five pilots saw what at first appeared to be an airplane. Instead it was a flying humanoid. It was a winged figure about 300 feet up in the sky, and flying at 70 mph without flapping its wide wings. The creature had a long neck and was turning its head from side to side as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-70, citing John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophesies, p. 77 Source ID: Johnson_8175 Source: Johnson ### Event 12350 (451570BB) Date: 12/5/1966 Description: Several witnesses had a close encounter with a UFO in Lakewood, New Jersey on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ocean County (NJ) Citizen, December 6, 1966; John A. Keel, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1967, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_8200 Source: Johnson ### Event 12351 (D9DB93CA) Date: 12/5/1966 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a dark disc-shaped object with lights around the rim passed over a car in a snowstorm in the mountains of Col d'Uzes, Gard, France. It flew at an estimated altitude of 150 meters, a speed of 300 kilometers per hour, and made no discernable sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8199 Source: Johnson ### Event 12352 (D85A1DA2) Date: 12/6/1966 Description: Two adults, one a high school teacher, were driving near the local TNT dump site on this night when they saw a giant gray man-like figure with glowing red eyes in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-71 (A0765) Source ID: Johnson_8232 Source: Johnson ### Event 12353 (C1BE1E26) Date: 12/7/1966 Description: On this night four women driving on Route 33 near Gallipolis, Ohio--the town just across the Ohio River from Point Pleasant, West Virginia--saw a brownish silver humanoid flying creature with glowing red eyes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-72, citing John Keel Source ID: Johnson_8257 Source: Johnson ### Event 12354 (0102D2AF) Date: 12/7/1966 Description: A TAP Air Portugal airliner piloted by Capt. Henrique Maia is paced by two luminous objects near Luanda, Angola. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 24 Source ID: Eberhart_4155 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12355 (FDD58B47) Date: 12/8/1966 Description: At 6:30 a.m. Charles Hern and his wife were walking their dog in Cheshire, Ohio when they noticed a red light on the opposite bank of Kyger Creek. Several short men could be seen moving about. Two other witnesses joined them, and then red and orange lights began flashing on and off. A beam of light seemed to be constantly directed at the water. Finally the lights went out and a bright greenish light came on. Then the craft shot up into the air and disappeared into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1966, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0767; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966, case # 1398, citing John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, p. 83 Source ID: Johnson_8268 Source: Johnson ### Event 12356 (75E00359) Date: 12/13/1966 Description: At 3:53 p.m. Mrs. Elsie Vargo and her daughter were out driving the delivery of newspapers in rural Strongsville, Ohio when they saw a low flying "batwing" shaped object cross the road at 100 feet altitude and about 100 feet away. It then turned toward them, terrifying the girl. It was about the size of an automobile and bright silver in color, with a bubble cupola or dome on top. It carried an antenna bearing a flashing red light. Inside the dome was a small human form dressed in black and wearing a helmet. Mrs Vargo did not see where the object went. It made no sound and there was no interference with the car's radio. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-74, citing Richard Straka & E. J. Neff, Cleveland Ufology Project Source ID: Johnson_8373 Source: Johnson ### Event 12357 (9821E52B) Date: 12/13/1966 Description: At around one o'clock at night In a rural area of Rowley, Massachusetts an orange-red glowing oval object with a halo of light around its perimeter descended and approached two witnesses before silently going behind a road embankment. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 343 Source ID: Johnson_8372 Source: Johnson ### Event 12358 (D8C4C381) Date: 12/13/1966 Description: 1:00 a.m. EST. A glowing red-orange oval object with a halo of light around it descended and approached the witnesses, t then disappeared behind an embankment. (Fowler 1974, p. 343.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rowley, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3186 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12359 (706EB908) Date: 12/14/1966 Description: Early a.m. An elliptical object with visible undercarriage (legs), and a red body light was observed. At one point the object emitted a red ball of light. (NICAP notes.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cedarville, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3187 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12360 (5D40C959) Date: 12/15/1966 Description: 5:30 p.m. Four witnesses driving northwest toward Woodstown, New Jersey, see a triangular object with rounded corners and three blinking lights. It is moving slowly in the opposite direction. When they leave Woodstown to the southeast at 6:15 p.m., it reappears and passes over the car. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 134 Source ID: Eberhart_4156 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12361 (1A3A4F9A) Date: 12/17/1966 Description: "Are Flying Saucers Real?" by Dr. J. A. Hynek in Saturday Evening Post, stating that hundreds of puzzling UFO cases exist and urging a serious inquiry Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_107 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12362 (2A9194C4) Date: 12/17/1966 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s article, in which he states that hundreds of puzzling UFO cases exit and urges a serious inquiry, appears in the Saturday Evening Post. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “[Are Flying Saucers Real?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Saturday%20Evening%20Post/1966%2012%2017%5FSaturday%20Evening%20Post%5FHynek.pdf)” Saturday Evening Post, December 17, 1966, pp. 17–21, [transcribed](http://www.nicap.org/articles/SatEvePost-661217.htm) by NICAP Source ID: Eberhart_4157 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12363 (C1BDE97C) Date: 12/18/1966 Description: Silver-brown domed-disc, wobbling, noiseless (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: E Lake Tiorati (Bear Mtn. State Park), NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3189 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12364 (BF83BE2C) Date: 12/18/1966 Description: At 4:40 p.m. a 23-year-old man at the eastern shore of Lake Tiorati in Bear Mountain State Park, Orange County, New York looked up and saw a silver-brown domed disc-shaped object in the western sky at 45° elevation, heading northeast. It was wobbling and noiseless. He was able to take a photograph of the object before it disappeared over and behind a fire tower on a 1,320 foot hill about half a mile away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, pp. 239-245 Source ID: Johnson_8489 Source: Johnson ### Event 12365 (A370552B) Date: 12/21/1966 Description: Lockheed test pilot [William C. Park](http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/park.html) flies an A-12 for 10,198 statute miles in only 6 hours, at an average speed of 1,660 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[William C. Park Jr.,](https://roadrunnersinternationale.com/park.html)” Roadrunners Internationale Source ID: Eberhart_4158 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12366 (8858AAC1) Date: 12/22/1966 Description: At 12:45 a.m. EST a frosty white UFO with a central bright spot, shaped like an ellipse and making a humming sound, swung in a pendulum motion over Cuttingsville, Vermont. The street lights went off and on three times during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case files, report dated December 27, 1966; Raymond E Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 343 Source ID: Johnson_8563 Source: Johnson ### Event 12367 (687B3995) Date: 12/24/1966 Description: 7:40 p.m. EST. Two Air Force pilots in a T-33 at 27,000 feet above a solid undercast saw a bright object in clear sky above them, at an estimated 1,000 feet. The object hovered for about 2 minutes, then suddenly rushed away. (NICAP report form, confidential report.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charleston, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_3188 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12368 (45B786A5) Date: 12/25/1966 Description: Three objects rose from a field with a screaming hi-pitched noise, maneuvered, then paced a car at three a.m. near a farm two miles south of Monroe, Oregon. A blast of wind from the UFOs knocked one of the five witnesses against a car. Flattened grass was found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Project Report, case 036-06, citing NICAP; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 11239; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1966, p. 6; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 71 Source ID: Johnson_8600 Source: Johnson ### Event 12369 (6263AE6D) Date: 12/25/1966 Description: 3 round objects, as large as cars, give off vapor (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 11239) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Monroe, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_3190 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12370 (E4ACBFC9) Date: 12/25/1966 Time: 3 AM Description: Witnesses: civilians and military persons. Three round objects, as large as cars, gave off vapor, then became three bright reddish-orange lights. Blast at beginning of 90 minute sighting pushed one witness against a car. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Monroe, Oregon Source ID: BerlinerBBU_562 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12371 (9DBD9CCB) Date: 12/28/1966 Description: The Defense Department makes a recommendation to President [Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%5FB.%5FJohnson) to terminate the A-12 program due to budget concerns and because of the development of the SR-71 Blackbird. It is to be phased out by June 1968. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed A-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12)” Source ID: Eberhart_4159 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12372 (5E04DBFB) Date: 12/30/1966 Time: 2015 Description: A physics professor driving through a wooded area saw a bright, pulsating glow, changing from orange to white, in the woods about 1.7 km away. Coming back the next day, he located traces of burns, and called the Air Force and the University of Colorado. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Haynesville, Louisiana Source ID: Magnonia_808 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12373 (04569C3B) Date: 12/30/1966 Description: 8:15 p.m. A physics professor named Galloway \[possibly [Louie A. Galloway III](https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/houston-tx/louie-galloway-7703617)\] is driving through a wooded area near Haynesville, Louisiana, and sees a bright, pulsating glow, changing from orange to white, in the woods about one mile away. He estimates its visible light power output at about one megawatt. Coming back the next day, he locates traces of burns and calls the USAF and University of Colorado UFO project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Condon, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/60/mode/2up) [61,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/60/mode/2up) [277–280](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/60/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 320; Jacques Vallée, “[Estimates of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of Unexplained](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf) [Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 \(1998\): 350– 352 Source ID: Eberhart_4160 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12374 (F1BE0DD3) Date: 12/30/1966 Description: Two luminous objects paced Canadian Pacific Airlines plane at 35,000 feet for seven minutes, emitted light beams up, then down, accelerated away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Peru Source ID: HallUFOE2_108 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12375 (80C48963) Date: 12/30/1966 Description: At 3:03 a.m. two luminous objects paced a Canadian Pacific Airlines plane at 35,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean for seven minutes while flying from Lima, Peru to Mexico City, Mexico. It emitted light beams up, then down, and then climbed and shot away. There were five witnesses on board the aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Edwards, UFOs--Here and Now!, p. 128; John Magor, Canadian UFO Report, March 1969; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 9, 118 & 322 Source ID: Johnson_8653 Source: Johnson ### Event 12376 (0F6930DF) Date: 12/30/1966 Description: Bright, pulsating glow, changing from orange to white, in the woods (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Haynesville, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3191 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12377 (2CB4D070) Date: 12/30/1966 Description: Pair Of Luminous Objects Hover Near DC-8 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [661230](http://www.nicap.org/661230peru%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Peruvian Coast (near), At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_3192 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12378 (2B745367) Date: 12/30/1966 Description: Driving through Emerson, Arkansas on a foggy night, Dr. Galloway and his wife saw a UFO at 8:15 p.m. ahead of their car and to the left. It was seen through trees, and was pulsating regularly from dull red to bright orange every two seconds. It gave off no flame and made no discernable sound. At a distance of one mile the UFO brightened to blinding white and woke up their two children. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, January 1971, p. 29; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 808; UNICAT case # 668, citing Edward Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 277 Source ID: Johnson_8654 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1967 (Back to Top) ### Event 12379 (34670C3B) Date: 1967 Description: In 1967 a drought reduced water levels in Lake Karachay where nuclear waste was being dumped, exposing radioactive dust. The dust was spread by gale-force winds in the area, spread over 25,000 square kilometers and exposing another 500,000 residents to nuclear fallout. The lake would eventually accumulate over 120 million curies of radionuclides. To put that in perspective, the Chernobyl incident released 1 million. Type: radiological event Reference: [link](https://sometimes-interesting.com/the-most-contaminated-place-on-earth-chelyabinsk-40/) Location: Lake Karachay, Russia Source ID: Maj2_211 Source: Maj2 ### Event 12380 (CE5820BA) Date: 1967 Description: Night. Miss E. R. East, of Gibsons, British Columbia, is awakened by a banging noise and sees a brilliant orange-red light soaring above hills behind the town. As she watches, its color changes to glowing white and the object moves toward the Strait of Georgia. Suddenly, a 10-foot-wide beam of light shoots down to the water. As it strikes the surface, it bends and lies flat on the surface, lighting up the wharf on Keats Island. As she stares at it, her eyes begin to sting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, Hancock House, 1977, pp. 37–38 Source ID: Eberhart_4162 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12381 (85C0CC30) Date: 1967 Description: The US nuclear stockpile reaches its peak at 31,255 bombs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ryan Crierie, “[U.S. Nuclear Stockpile, 1945–2009](https://web.archive.org/web/20190123105349/https://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/ABC%5FWeapons/US%5FNuclear%5FStockpile.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4161 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12382 (8E7C08A7) Date: 1967 Description: [Robert M. Wood](https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert%5FM.%5FWood), physicist and aerospace manager for McDonnell Douglas Corporation, is assigned the task of exploring breakthroughs in gravity propulsion. The project includes laboratory evaluation of hypotheses, field observations, and examination of UFO literature. At one point there are 4 full-time and 3 part-time employees involved in the effort, code-named BITBR \(“Boys in the Back Room”\). Wood networks with [James E.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [Carl Sagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSagan)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSagan) and the Colorado project. The initiative is terminated in 1969 at Wood’s recommendation due to its inability to project a technological payoff. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert M. Wood, “A Little Physics…A Little Friction: A Close Encounter with the Condon Committee,” IUR 18, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1993\): 6–10 Source ID: Eberhart_4164 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12383 (C3144018) Date: 1967 Description: A French government UFO project, to be led by former inspector general at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique [Jean-Luc Bruneau](https://rr0.org/people/b/BruneauJeanLuc/)[,](https://rr0.org/people/b/BruneauJeanLuc/) is approved. Bruneau recommends that the study first become a project of the Centre Nationale d’Études Spatiales, and later a European initiative. But the project is postponed because of the political crisis in France in May 1968. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_4163 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12384 (1F5B5DD9) Date: 1/1967 Description: One Knoxville farmer and several motorists reported that the UFO "was round, big as a house, had no flying lights, but let off a greenish-blue light." Vibrations from the craft could be felt in the farmer's truck as it followed him along the Victoria blacktop about 7:00 PM. ( Skylook 41, p. 13) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Galesburg, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3193 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12385 (E59C8489) Date: 1/1967 End date: 5/1967 Description: Intensive U.S. and international UFO sighting wave (see separate chronology, section VIII). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_109 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12386 (B8FCD1AA) Date: 1/1967 Description: Night. French rocket scientist [Jean-Pierre Morin](https://rr0.org/people/m/MorinJeanPierre/) is driving three members of a launch team to the tower at Interarmy Special Vehicles Test Center at Hammaguir, Algeria. When they arrive at a row of buildings, they notice a light in the sky silently coming toward them. Their car engine sputters and fails. It stops and hovers at an elevation of 45° about 1,600 feet away. Morin thinks it is attached to a black, cylindrical object 980–1,300 feet in length and 100 feet in diameter with “flames” of different colors along its side. The light begins moving slowly again, and a car with astrophysicists stops and watches it for another 20–30 minutes before it ascends and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 296–297](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/296/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4165 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12387 (A28E3F71) Date: Early 1/1967 Description: 7:30 p.m. Robert Blaine is driving with five other witnesses on State Highway 55 two miles southeast of Farwell, Minnesota, when his headlights and engine suddenly go out. He sees an orange flash to his left at the level of his hood and tiny beads of light cross in front of the windshield. A passenger sees an orange-and-red flash go by on the driver’s side at window level. The car coasts to a stop, then the engine and headlights go back on again by themselves. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Car Buzzing Incidents on Increase,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4166 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12388 (3CA1D47D) Date: 1/3/1967 Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_111 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12389 (D58C8552) Date: 1/3/1967 Description: Dome-shaped object hovered over car, roadway brightly illuminated. Forward motion slowed, unable to accelerate, loss of steering control (Section VI). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Richmond, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3194 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12390 (F5A99859) Date: 1/3/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. A dome-shaped object hovers for several miles and 10–15 minutes above a car in New Richmond, Michigan. It illuminates the road, and the car draws to a stop with loss of steering control and the radio failing. Examination of the car by Fred Hooven and David Moyer, engineers at the Ford Motor Company, two months later shows no faults unexplainable by ordinary causes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Condon, [pp. 102–106](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/102/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/102/mode/2up) [282–285](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/282/mode/2up); Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 65–66 Source ID: Eberhart_4167 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12391 (657D69C3) Date: 1/3/1967 Description: On this day in 1967 a strange little man entered the county courthouse in Athens, Ohio and asked for directions. He was fascinated with a ballpoint pen, as if he had never seen one before. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 288 Source ID: Johnson_56 Source: Johnson ### Event 12392 (0569A081) Date: 1/3/1967 Description: At two o'clock in the morning a woman professional secretary driving down a road in New Richmond, Indiana had a close encounter with a bright, domed disc-shaped UFO. She described the object as looking like an inverted mushroom; it hovered over her car as she drove for 10-15 minutes. Her forward motion slowed, and she could not make her car accelerate to get out from under the UFO. The object finally made an odd maneuver in the sky and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 199, 454 Source ID: Johnson_55 Source: Johnson ### Event 12393 (887DCA94) Date: 1/3/1967 Description: Dome-shaped object hovered over car, roadway brightly illuminated. Forward motion slowed, unable to accelerate, loss of steering control Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: New Richmond, IN Source ID: HallUFOE2_110 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12394 (F0C16EB7) Date: 1/5/1967 Description: 75 ft object landed on road, man dressed in blue overalls exited craft (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winsted, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3196 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12395 (5DF40476) Date: 1/5/1967 Description: On or about this date six witnesses from three families driving on Highway 55 two miles east of Farwell, Minnesota had their car engine falter when several tiny lights passed their windshield. The car functions alright after the lights had departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 5; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_119 Source: Johnson ### Event 12396 (4C7FAC35) Date: 1/5/1967 Description: At 5:40 p.m. four observers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania watched a disc-shaped object for 45 minutes as it buzzed, circled, and flipped over several times, then shot off to the south. A box-shaped object was then seen flying north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 7424; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1967, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_118 Source: Johnson ### Event 12397 (7D564059) Date: 1/5/1967 Description: At 4:00 a.m. a 32-year-old man was driving to work in Winsted, Minnesota in his 1964 Chevy truck when he had to get out and inspect his vehicle when the engine stalled. Only then did he observe an intense light to his right, coming closer. He saw it land on the road and locked himself inside the cab of his truck. The craft settled on a tripod landing gear; it measured 25 meters in diameter and was 10 meters high. Something similar to an elevator came down from it, and a man dressed in blue coveralls "with something like a glass fish bowl on his head," of medium height, seemed to check something and then left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 809 Source ID: Johnson_117 Source: Johnson ### Event 12398 (5DC4614B) Date: 1/5/1967 Description: 5:40 p.m. EST. A bank employee and three others watched a disc-shaped object with alternate red and green lights around it. The object circled over the area and emitted a buzzing sound. Shortly afterwards, many aircraft were active in the sky. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. III, No. 11, Jan.-Feb., 1967, p. 4.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Philadelphia, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3195 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12399 (2AE25F39) Date: 1/5/1967 Time: 0430 Description: A civilian man, 32, driving to work in his 1964 Chevy truck, had to stop and inspect the vehicle when its engine stalled. Only then did he observe an intense light to his right, coming closer. He saw it land on the road, and locked himself inside the cabin. The craft settled on a tripod landing gear; it measured 25 m in diameter and was 10 m high. Something similar to an elevator came down from it, and a man dressed in blue coveralls "with something like a glass fishbowl on his head," of medium height, seemed to check something and left. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Winsted, Minnesota Source ID: Magnonia_812 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12400 (734A2FCC) Date: 1/5/1967 Description: An A-12 flown by pilot [Walter Ray](http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/ray.html) is lost during a training flight near Leith Canyon, Nevada. Due to a faulty fuel gauge, the aircraft runs out of fuel 70 miles from Groom Dry Lake. Ray glides to a lower altitude to perform a controlled bailout but cannot separate his parachute from his ejection seat. He is the first pilot to be killed in an A-12 accident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed A-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12)” Source ID: Eberhart_4169 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12401 (D45AEBF1) Date: 1/5/1967 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) writes to [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) telling him that he, [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e), and William T. Powers are devoting more personal time to the UFO problem and are setting up a file area in the Lindheimer Observatory at Northwestern University in Evansto, Illinois. He mentions that there is enough underground interest in UFOs among his scientific colleagues that he is thinking of creating an informal “invisible college” to discuss the subject quietly. He mentions that he sat in on a hypnosis session a few weeks previously with Benjamin Simon and was allowed to question [Betty and Barney Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) He also suggests that the Colorado project recommend that police squad cars carry cameras that can document ongoing UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[Hynek correspondence](http://cufos.org/cases/1965-69%5F00%5F00%5FUS%5FIL%5FHynek-AF-letters.pdf)\], pp. 6– 7 Source ID: Eberhart_4168 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12402 (612C27E2) Date: 1/6/1967 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) speaks to an overflow crowd at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He says he has had to revise his thinking on UFOs, urges scientists to take an active role in investigations, and confirms reports that NORAD and SAC radar has tracked UFOs, citing a case in which SAC radar tracked a UFO at 4,000 mph on an erratic flight path. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [p. 413](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/412/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4170 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12403 (1D77EA09) Date: 1/6/1967 Description: 11:45 p.m. EST. A man and his daughter saw a thick, double-convex (lens-) shaped disc with a dark upper surface, trapezoidal sections of fluorescent light on the lower portion, and pulsating colored lights (body lights). The obiect responded to house spotlights by blinking in the same sequence (light reaction). (Air Force report form in Colorado Project files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harwich, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3198 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12404 (101DA099) Date: 1/6/1967 Description: Six luminous spheres were seen flying over Aveyron, France at eleven o'clock at night. A luminous shaft of light descended towards the ground near the witness. A humanoid figure was seen standing inside the luminous shaft. The being communicated via telepathy with the witness and told him that someday "He will write a book." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 31, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 109; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 2427, citing Jacques Vallee Source ID: Johnson_165 Source: Johnson ### Event 12405 (FB3FB6C0) Date: 1/7/1967 Description: 5:45 p.m. CST. A man first saw 4-5 square lights in a tilted row (body lights). The object, a domed disc shaped like a straw hat with flickering lights on the dome, then turned bright red. It appeared to be metallic. It hovered, tilted, leveled off, and sped away. (Letter dated 1/21/67 in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Louis, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3199 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12406 (B248583F) Date: 1/7/1967 Description: Pilot and ground radar operators tracked object at 2,100 knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [670107](http://www.nicap.org/670107goosebay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3200 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12407 (052225F6) Date: 1/7/1967 Description: At 5:45 p.m. a domed disc with lights on the dome appeared over St. Louis, Missouri. It hovered silently, then sped away. The entire sighting lasted ten minutes, according to the witness Mr. Siebel, who wrote and account of his sighting to the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, letter dated January 21, 1967; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 325 Source ID: Johnson_182 Source: Johnson ### Event 12408 (3F025154) Date: 1/9/1967 Description: 2:30 p.m. Photos by Grant and Dan Jaroslaw, Mt. Clemens, Michigan, four Polaroids depicting a flying saucer. The boys claimed that they observed the saucer pass over low and silently not far from their home. The object remained in view for ten minutes, after which they reported seeing an Air Force helicopter give chase. Dr. Hynek examined the photos and stated in a Detroit News article that there appeared to be no indication of a hoax. Unfortunately, it was. In 1976 the Jaroslaw brothers admitted to perpetrating the prank. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [670109](http://www.nicap.org/images/jaroslaw670109.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake St. Clair, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3202 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12409 (F36968BB) Date: 1/9/1967 Description: At 5:30 p.m. there was a knock at Edward Christiansen's home in Wildwood, New Jersey. Seventeen-year-old Connie Christiansen went to the door. Stunned, she reported back to her mother, "It's the strangest looking man I've ever seen." Mrs. Christiansen then went to the door and unlatched it and looked outside. It was growing dark and was bitter cold out. There was no car in view and this seemed unusual because the Christiansen home was in an isolated area and guests were unlikely to be arriving on foot. A tall man stood at the door and asked if Edward Christiansen lived there. He then said he was from "the Missing Heirs Bureau" and asked to be let in. They invited the stranger inside. The visitor must have been at least two meters (six and a half feet) tall, and was enormously broad shouldered. He wore a Russian fur hat with a black visor on it and a very long black coat that seemed to be made out of thin material--too thin for the cold weather. He told the family "this will only take forty minutes." As he removed his hat he revealed an unusually shaped head that was large and round, while his face seemed angular and pointed. He had black hair, which was closely cropped. There was a perfectly round spot on the back of his head as if that area had been shaved recently. His nose and mouth seemed relatively normal, but his eyes were large, protruding, like "thyroid eyes," and set wide apart. One eye appeared to have a cast, like a glass eye, and did not move in unison with its companion.

During the course of the conversation Mr. Christiansen noticed a badge on the stranger's shirt pocket, which he quickly covered with his hand and removed, placing it in his coat pocket. It resembled a gold or brass badge and it seemed to have a big K on it with a small x alongside and letters and numbers around the edge, according to Connie Christiansen. Underneath his thin outer coat he was wearing a short-sleeved shirt made of a Dacron like material. His trousers were of a dark gray or black material, and were a little too short. He wore dark shoes with unusually thick rubber soles. A strange feature on his leg fascinated Connie and Mrs. Christiansen. When he sat down they could see a long thick green wire attached to the inside of his leg. It came out or his socks and disappeared under his trousers. At one point it seemed to be indented into his leg and was covered with a large brown spot. The Christiansen's noted that the visitor had an unnatural pallor. His speech was also strange, with a high "tinny" voice that seemed especially peculiar coming from such a large man. He also spoke in a strange, hard to understand, sing-song manner. At one point when his face reddened he asked for a glass of water, and swallowed a large yellow capsule which he gulped down. He then returned to normal. After about 40 minutes he donned his hat and coat and told Mr. Christiansen that he would be in touch. When he reached the road, he made a gesture and a black 1963 Cadillac drove through the trees and pulled up. He climbed into the car and it drove away with its headlights off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 22, citing John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies Source ID: Johnson_221 Source: Johnson ### Event 12410 (7BC0D8BA) Date: 1/9/1967 Description: On the same night Jules Derome, age 60, of Acton Vale, Quebec, Canada reported that he encountered and photographed several 90-centimeter tall luminous humanoid forms in his garage. The strange forms disappeared by moving through the wall of the garage and presumably outside. The photos only show a vague luminous area. The witness apparently has had additional subsequent encounters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 23, citing CASUFO and Denys Breysse, Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_222 Source: Johnson ### Event 12411 (9A886A70) Date: 1/9/1967 Description: Two teenage brothers of Mount Clemens, Michigan, Daniel A. and [Grant P. Jaroslaw](http://temrowski.tributes.com/obituary/show/Grant-Paul-Jaroslaw-94892245), take some Polaroid photos from the backyard of their home of a domed object moving slowly above Lake St. Clair. After they release the images to a wire service, the Air Force requests the originals for analysis. They refuse to relinquish them but give an officer at Selfridge AFB \[now Selfridge Air National Guard Base\] some copies. Maj. [Raymond Nyls](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200131916/raymond-woodrow-nyls) attempts to recreate the photos at the original site using a block of wood hanging from a string on a children’s swing set. USAF turns the copies and Nyls’s recreations over to the National Photographic Interpretation Center, which takes a serious look and suspects a hoax but cannot prove it conclusively. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Two Brothers Photograph](http://www.noufors.com/two%5Fbrothers%5Fphotograph%5Fcircular%5Fobject%5Fin%5FMichigan.html) [Circular Object in Michigan,](http://www.noufors.com/two%5Fbrothers%5Fphotograph%5Fcircular%5Fobject%5Fin%5FMichigan.html)” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Joey Del Ponte, “[Formerly Secret](https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/feb/14/ufo-photo-analysis/) [Memo Shows How the Air Force Investigated UFO Sightings,](https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/feb/14/ufo-photo-analysis/)” Muckrock, February 14, 2018; Curt Collins, “[Dr.](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/10/dr-hynek-and-ufo-photo-investigation-of.html) [Hynek and the UFO Photo Investigation of 1967,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/10/dr-hynek-and-ufo-photo-investigation-of.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, October 21, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_4171 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12412 (9FCBE02A) Date: 1/9/1967 Description: Dog barks as rectangular object flies by (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [670109](http://www.nicap.org/ar-670109dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Malta, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3201 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12413 (B24A46EE) Date: 1/9/1967 Time: Morning Description: Another such nest was found by Ronald E. Januzzi, a mineralogist of Danbury, near his museum on the Danbury-Brewster highway. It was found on the morning of the 9th of January 1967 and was considered to be too large to have been caused by an animal, however, no UFO was seen in the vicinity which could be linked to the spot. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Trace Cases](https://www.thenightskyii.org/trace.html) Location: Danbury, CT Source ID: Magnonia_8 Source: Trace ### Event 12414 (9BBB5177) Date: 1/10/1967 Description: A gray 30-foot long ovoid UFO with a blue halo flew only 25 feet above a car on a road in Bruceville, Indiana at 8:30 p.m. It had lights on its rim and made no sound as it flew. It show away toward the southeast. The sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_241 Source: Johnson ### Event 12415 (FA8BEAC1) Date: 1/10/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. EST. A woman and her son, 16, were driving home when they saw an elliptical dull gray object glowing a bluish color around the rim. It was estimated to be 25 feet over the car, 30 feet in diameter and 8 feet thick. The object hovered, moved slowly, then accelerated away. It displayed a disc shape when it banked slightly, and it had several dim lights (body lights) on its rim. (Ridge, 1994, p. 19. from APRO Bulletin No. 15.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bruceville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3203 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12416 (C68BD95F) Date: 1/10/1967 Description: 10:50 p.m. EST. An electronics technician heard an intermittent sound that changed in pitch, then saw over the treetops two brilliant lights. Each light was dome-shaped and had a ring at the outer circumference. (Narrative from witness in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bangor, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_3204 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12417 (6EF3E15C) Date: 1/11/1967 Description: White ball, oval near ground, whistling sound; heat, paralysis, car vibrating road sign, Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 17, No.1; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 31, (E,L) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aveyon, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_3205 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12418 (9029D3C7) Date: 1/11/1967 Description: That same night in Aveyron, Basses Pyrenees, France a farmer sighted a "shell" shaped object taking off from his farm. The man then proceeded to chase a ball of light in his car. The nocturnal light stayed 150 yards ahead of him until his engine died and his lights went out, when he then noticed a "saucer shaped" object descend. The saucer was slightly bigger than a Peugeot car, 9-12 feet above the ground, and came down about 60 feet away. The top of the object had two transparent cupolas in each of which he could see a helmeted figure, human like and dressed in green and white coveralls. He felt a wave of heat and a temporary sensation of paralysis. He watched a nearby road sign vibrating near the oval object. With a whistling sound the UFO rose to 50 meters altitude then dropped back again to near ground level. Becoming brilliantly yellow-white, it finally took off at tremendous speed. As it did so his lights came back on and he was able to start the car normally. Several days later the witness experienced trouble sleeping, followed by some weeks of excessive sleepiness. The area had been the site of repeated UFO incidents for a year. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-6, citing G. Canouges, J. Chasseign, Fernand Legarde, & F. Dupin de la Gueriviere; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 25; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 182, citing FSR, volume 17, no. 1 Source ID: Johnson_257 Source: Johnson ### Event 12419 (BBFBB0BD) Date: 1/11/1967 Description: Mrs. Park McDaniel was outside her home during the day in Point Pleasant, West Virginia when she saw what she first took to be a small plane approaching. As it drew closer she saw that it was man-shaped and had wings. The creature swooped low over her house and circled above a nearby building before going out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-5, citing John A. Keel; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 24 Source ID: Johnson_256 Source: Johnson ### Event 12420 (06F0F309) Date: 1/12/1967 Description: 7:30 p.m. A luminous object crosses the sky off Agadir, Morocco. It leaves a white trail that turns into a rainbow and falls into the sea with a deafening sound. The US Defense attaché in Rabat, Naval Capt. C. G. Strum, says the sighting “could be valuable in pursuit of Project Moon Dust.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Department of Defense, “[UFO](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Majestic-12%20Documents%20-%20New%20Batch/Project%20Moondust/moondust%5Fmorocco%5F18jan67.pdf) [Sighting over Agadir, Morocco,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Majestic-12%20Documents%20-%20New%20Batch/Project%20Moondust/moondust%5Fmorocco%5F18jan67.pdf)” January 18, 1967 Source ID: Eberhart_4173 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12421 (78A118C9) Date: 1/12/1967 Description: The USAF advisory committee holds a special briefing in Boulder, Colorado. [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) discusses project plans and asks the Air Force where the project should place its emphasis. Lt. Col. [Hippler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65715202/robert-r-hippler), along with Col. [Raymond Sleeper](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149575947/raymond-starrett-sleeper)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149575947/raymond-starrett-sleeper) Blue Book’s boss as Foreign Technology Division Commander, says the project is not required to prove or disprove anything, but that “we don’t want any recommendation from you unless you feel strongly about it.” He rejects Wertheimer’s suggestion that the project should concentrate on witnesses, not sightings. Hippler and [Ratchford](https://www.aaas.org/archives/j-thomas-ratchford-files) do not adequately respond to [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf)’s question about what USAF wants from the project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Air Force Advisory Panel Briefing,](http://www.cufos.org/1967%5F01%5F12%5FAF%5FPanelBriefing.pdf)” January 12, 1967; Roy Craig, UFOs: An Insiders’ View of the Official Quest for Evidence, University of North Texas, 1995, p. 235; Michael D. Swords, “[The USAF-Sponsored](http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/swordscc.html) [Colorado Project for the Scientific Study of UFOs,](http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/swordscc.html)” 1995 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1995; Clark III 1194; Swords 314–315 Source ID: Eberhart_4172 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12422 (87BBF33D) Date: 1/13/1967 Description: 10:00 p.m. The crew of a Lear Jet flying at 41,000 feet over southwestern New Mexico sees a flashing red luminous object in their 10 o’clock position. The object splits into four smaller red objects vertically several times, each separated by about 2,000 feet and each emitting a “red ray.” It then retracts the lowest objects into the top object. Albuquerque radar tracks a target 39 miles ahead of the Lear Jet moving on the same heading, with no transponder signal. At that moment the object blinks off visually for 30 seconds then blinks back on. The UFO floods the jet with an intense red light so bright that the pilot has difficulty seeing his instrument panel. It maintains its position in front for a few minutes then blinks out, comes on again, and falls back behind the left wing. It then pulls forward again. Albuquerque radar reports that it looks like the target had merged with the jet. Both the UFO and the jet make left turns over Winslow, Arizona, after which Los Angeles Center radar picks up both targets. Past Flagstaff, the object climbs at a 30° angle and disappears to the west in less than 10 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[R/V](http://www.nicap.org/670113winslowdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 321; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 82–83](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/82/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4176 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12423 (22E370BE) Date: 1/13/1967 Description: Arizona, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [670113](http://www.nicap.org/670113winslowdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winslow (near), AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3206 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12424 (66CC6344) Date: 1/13/1967 Description: Lear/Nat'l Airlines (P, AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [670113](http://www.nicap.org/670113winslowdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winslow (near), AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3207 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12425 (C6D44C1C) Date: 1/13/1967 Description: 1:30 a.m. CST. A 9-year-old saw a circular object with lighted dome, numerous body lights, short wings, three wheels hanging down, a door, and windows. A strange-looking man wearing a crinkley green suit stood in the door, sometimes illuminated by a rotating red light. The object hovered over a field, circled the house, and flew away. (Report from a dairy farm owner, Iola , KS, in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Iola, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3208 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12426 (11072912) Date: 1/13/1967 Description: At 10:00 p.m. Pilot Carl M., a flight officer, and passenger Jimmie Moran on a Lear Jet 23 en route from Houston, Texas to Las Vegas, Nevada flying at 41,000 feet and 300 knots saw a red oval luminous object in the 10 o'clock position. The object split into four similar red oval objects vertically a number of times, each separated by about 2,000 ft and each emitting a "red ray". They then retracted up into the top object. Albuquerque radar tracked the object 39 miles ahead of the Lear jet moving on the same heading, with no transponder signal. The object blinked off visually for 30 seconds then blinked back on. Albuquerque control contacted a National Airlines DC-8 over Casa Grande, Arizona, whose pilot confirmed the Lear Jet pilot's reports. Albuquerque control warned the Lear that the object suddenly darted towards the Lear at high speed, and within seconds the radar blips merged. The object flooded the Lear Jet with intense red light so bright the pilot had difficulty seeing his instrument panel, and it maintained a position in front of the Lear for a few minutes. Then, it blinked off-on again and started to fall back behind the left wing, but then pulled forward again. When the object blinked off the Albuquerque radar controllers would lose contact with the object, then regain it when it blinked on again. Both the UFO and Lear jet made left turns over Winslow, Arizona, when Los Angeles ARTC Center radar picked up both targets. Past Flagstaff the object climbed at a 30° angle disappearing to the west in less than 10 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, Hynek UFO Experience, p. 72; Charles Bowen, FSR, May-June 1972, p. 13, Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 35; UNICAT, case # 318 Source ID: Johnson_297 Source: Johnson ### Event 12427 (15229CC6) Date: 1/13/1967 Description: Nine-year old Freddie Amos woke up at 1:30 a.m. in his farmhouse in Iola, Kansas to see a round object hovering motionless low over an adjoining field. It was 25 feet in diameter, had a dome on top, short wing-like protrusions, and three wheels on its underside. There were red lights on the ends of the "wings," and a blue light on top of the dome. A man stood inside the dome looking out, and another man was visible sitting behind a console behind him. The man standind wore a "crinkly" green uniform that covered him entirely; his face was in shadow and his facial features could not be seen. This "terrible" man frightened the boy although he could not say why. He got back into bed but continued to watch the object, which circled his house and hovered again for five minutes back in its original position before flying off. In the morning some of their cows were found to have broken through the fence around their pasture. One had broken her leg. A pond in the pasture near the site continued to remain unfrozen although the temperatures were well below freezing. This encounter occurred during a minor concentration of UFO sightings at nearby locales. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-7, citing Mary Conger for NICAP; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 26 Source ID: Johnson_296 Source: Johnson ### Event 12428 (E7AE833B) Date: 1/13/1967 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) and [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) visit Cheyenne Mountain, NORAD’s underground Space Defense Center complex in Colorado, for a “classified briefing” by orbital analysts 1Lt. [Henry B. Eckert Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196875867/henry-baldwin-eckert) and Capt. Dick A. Cable of the 9th Aerospace Defense Division’s 1st Aerospace Control Squadron about NORAD’s radar network, hours after another classified briefing for Condon and staff at Boulder concludes. The Cheyenne Mountain briefing is the first in a series of tactical moves designed to discourage Condon’s project staff, [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) and [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) from using NORAD as a source of UFO data or resource for future investigations or instrumentation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 804–805; UFOs Yes, 66 Source ID: Eberhart_4174 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12429 (B4CD33C5) Date: 1/13/1967 Description: Early morning. Sgt. Norman Finley of the Joplin, Missouri, police alerts fellow officers about an unexplained object overhead. Pittsburg, Kansas, police dispatcher James Cunningham notifies the Joplin police that a UFO has been seen over Pittsburg. He describes it as an object with bright colors of “vivid blue-green with flashing lights.” Cunningham alerts the Joplin station because the object seems to be leaving Kansas and heading for Missouri. After receiving that call, Joplin’s Lt. [Charles Hickman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62696468/charles-r%5F-hickman) drives to Stone’s Corner near the Joplin airport. He waits for nearly an hour before spotting a UFO in the sky, which he watches for more than an hour. It is about 1,000 feet high and seems about as big as two houses. It makes turns and maneuvers “as if it were being controlled.” For the next three days, there are more sightings in the early morning hours at Coffeyville, Kansas; Joplin, Springfield, and Newton County, Missouri; and northeast Oklahoma. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 109–110; Condon, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/286/mode/2up) [286–290](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/286/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4175 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12430 (865DB9EE) Date: 1/15/1967 Description: Unspecified time. Six miles to the southeast of Granville, MA in North Granby, Conn., two women saw a disc-shaped object with a flange around it and white beams of light from portholes. The object passed between witnesses and a mountain. (Springfield Union, Mass., 2/22/67, copy in Keyhoe Archives) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Granby, CN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3211 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12431 (73B442E9) Date: 1/15/1967 Description: 5:45 p.m. EST. A woman and her two nieces saw a domed disc with white light emanating from portholes in its base. The object was seen three times within 20 minutes before disappearing. (Hartford Courant, Conn., 1/16/67; Gillmor, 1969, case 13; Keyhoe and Lore, 1969a, p. 45; U.F.O Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 11, Jan. - Feb., 1967, p. 4.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Granville, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3210 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12432 (0820E5FD) Date: 1/15/1967? Description: 3:00 a.m. EST. A witness saw a bright red object that looked like an upside down saucer (disc) with a white glowing rim. The object approached and circled the witness's home before moving away and disappearing. (Fowler, 1974, p. 343.). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boxford, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3209 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12433 (0174B56E) Date: 1/15/1967 Description: 6:00 p.m. MST. Two couples saw a yellow glow coming from inside a dome- shaped object estimated to be two miles away. The object hovered and moved around slowly. (Salisbury, 1974, Case 40, Table 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roosevelt, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3212 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12434 (1A9BA52A) Date: 1/15/1967 Description: At 6:30 a.m. local time a 69-year old woman in Ikuri, Finland suddenly awoke to see through her bedroom window that a 1.2-1.4 meter tall creature was in her yard, walking through the deep snow using stiff mechanical steps. The being wore a blue-green tunic and baglike trousers, and had some kind of helmet with four antennas. It also wore some kind of mittens on its hands. The face could not be seen. It walked past the swing in the yard and disappeared into thin air. It left round footprints on the snow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Mervi Virtanen Source ID: Johnson_332 Source: Johnson ### Event 12435 (1DB74EF4) Date: 1/15/1967 Description: At 3:00 a.m. EST, or about three and one-half hours later, a red oval-shaped UFO that looked like an upside-down saucer with a white glowing rim, approached and circled the witness's home in Boxford, Massachusetts before flying away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 343 Source ID: Johnson_333 Source: Johnson ### Event 12436 (1E65AF0C) Date: 1/15/1967 Description: After another three and one-half hours, at 7:30 p.m. local time, attorney Ong Huck Hong and his son observed a domed disc in Selat Utara, Malaysia. The object moved up and down, slowed its pace, and appeared to be changing its shape. There were whirling bars of light on the dome that resembled windows. The UFO flew off toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and related events in Malaysia, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_334 Source: Johnson ### Event 12437 (CAB772E3) Date: 1/15/1967 Description: 5:45 p.m. Helen Godard and her two nieces see a domed disc with white light emanating from portholes in its base in Granville, Massachusetts. They hear a humming sound, and the sky and ground are illuminated by white light. Red flame jets appear at one end when the object moves. Speed is variable. At one point, all the lights go out, and when they come back on the portholes are showing red light. The object is seen three times within 20 minutes before it disappears over a mountain to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Major Sighting Wave,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/035%20JAN-FEB%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 11 \(Jan./Feb. 1967\): 4; Condon, [pp. 285–286](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/284/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4177 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12438 (2E18E4E3) Date: 1/15/1967 Description: Wildwood, New Jersey. Two nights after the Christiansen family heard strange metallic sounds over their house, Mr. & Mrs. Christiansen returned home to find their children in a very distraught state. They had heard the strange metallic sound again, and then heard heavy footsteps crunching through the thick woods outside. A 19-year old neighbor present at the time looked out the window to see a tall humanoid figure hurrying away from the house. He was wearing a long white cape. When the man reached a five-foot high fence he leaped over it effortlessly disappeared into the woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 27, citing John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies Source ID: Johnson_335 Source: Johnson ### Event 12439 (90E5D9FF) Date: 1/16/1967 Description: At 6:10 p.m. a man in Charleston, South Carolina saw two round objects in the sky. They were described as silver and blue with a red ring. A beam of light projected from the end. Radar contact with the object was initially confirmed but later discounted by later analysis of the weather conditions at the time. Six people traveling in a car between Mount Sunapee and Warner, New Hampshire at around 7 p.m. encountered a dark, battleship-gray Manta Ray shaped UFO with two lights. It paced their car for three minutes and later swooped low over a home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward Condon (ed.) Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 129; NICAP case investigation files; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1967, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_349 Source: Johnson ### Event 12440 (651E5100) Date: 1/16/1967 Description: Approximately 4:30-6:30 A.M. Sodium vapor clouds from rocket launched at Eglin AFB, FL, blue-green color, visible over wide area. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Southeastern United States Source ID: HallUFOE2_112 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12441 (D078A27A) Date: 1/16/1967 Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charleston, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3215 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12442 (978AF159) Date: 1/16/1967 Description: 5:15 p.m. A couple in the same area reported seeing a slow-moving gray object with body lights. At 5:30 pm a woman and her daughter saw an object that looked like a box kite without paper (presumably rectangular) with two bright headlights on the front. The object was moving slowly, and hovering soundlessly, but there was a purring sound when it started to move away rapidly. All witnesses reported the object to be huge. (U.F.O Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 12, Mar.-Apr., 1967, p. 5.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warner, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3214 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12443 (4F4B7121) Date: 1/16/1967 Description: 5:00 p.m. EST. A motorist noticed a bright light seemingly pacing him. A long cigar-shaped object with amber windows eventually came toward him on a slow and steady course, and he heard a soft purring sound. (New Hampshire NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warner, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3213 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12444 (332EB23E) Date: 1/16/1967 Description: [Hippler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65715202/robert-r-hippler) writes to [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon), saying that “No one knows of a visitation. It should therefore follow there has been no \[extraterrestrial\] visitation to date.” Moreover, Condon should “consider the cost of the Air Force program on UFOs, and determine if the taxpayer should support this for the next decade.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lt. Col. Robert H. Hippler, [Letter to Edward U. Condon](http://www.nicap.org/docs/HipplerLetters.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/HipplerLetters.pdf) January 16, 1967; Kevin D. Randle, “[The Hippler Letter,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/03/hippler-letter.html)” A Different Perspective, March 21, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_4178 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12445 (43D8DA3F) Date: 1/17/1967 Description: Mr. F. Bedel, age 23, was driving on Route 135 about 8 kilometers north of Freetown, Indiana on this night when he saw a plate-shaped object with red, yellow, blue and white blinking lights. He lost control of his car and ran off the road. Less than two kilometers away and at about the same time, Phil Patton saw an identical object that came within 30 meters of his car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 810 Source ID: Johnson_358 Source: Johnson ### Event 12446 (EE34E1C7) Date: 1/17/1967 Description: A woman walking home in Romieres, France at 6:45 p.m. saw a beam of light, about one meter in width, sweep across the ground in her direction. It came from a circular, white object that turned off its main light. She then saw reddish spots before it vanished entirely. Another witness saw the phenomenon from a separate location, two kilometers away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 811 Source ID: Johnson_359 Source: Johnson ### Event 12447 (77F6C9F5) Date: 1/17/1967 Description: On the same stretch of highway on the same night, Mr. & Mrs. Phil Patton of Freetown, reported to State Police that a brightly lighted disc-shaped craft, about 30 feet in diameter, came down alongside their car. (NICAP files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Freetown, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3217 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12448 (54A249D2) Date: 1/17/1967 Description: Francis Bedel, Jr., (23) of Portland, Indiana, was driving on State Highway 135, a two-lane blacktop road, north of Freetown, he later reported to State Police, when a brilliant glowing white light darted into his field of vision. (NICAP files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Freetown, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3216 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12449 (CD70DC33) Date: 1/17/1967 Time: night Description: F. Bedel, 23, driving on Route 135 about 8 km north of Freetown saw a plate-shaped object with red, yellow, blue, and white blinking lights, lost control of his car, and ran off the road. Less than 2 km away, Phil Patton saw an identical object that came within 30 m of his car. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 22 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Freetown, Indiana Source ID: Magnonia_810 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12450 (CC9C1273) Date: 1/17/1967 Time: 1845 Description: A woman walking home saw a beam of light about 1 m in section sweep the ground in her direction. It came from a circular, white object that turned off its main light. She then saw reddish spots before it vanished entirely. Another witness saw the phenomenon from a separate location, 2 km away (LDLN). Type: ufo sighting Reference: ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Romieres, France Source ID: Magnonia_809 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12451 (E59EF27E) Date: 1/17/1967 Description: Night. Francis Bedel Jr. is driving on State Highway 135 five miles north of Freetown, Indiana, when a glowing white light darts into his field of vision. It hovers above the road for a few seconds, then slowly reverses its course. Bedel is so busy staring at the spectacle that he loses control of his car, which goes off the road and is badly damaged. Phil Patton and his wife apparently see the same object, about 30 feet in diameter, that comes within 100 feet of their car on the same road. It has a brilliant red light and flashing ywllow and white lights on its perimeter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The 1967 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1967fullrep.htm)”; “[UFO Caused Car Wreck?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2001%2000%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1967, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_4179 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12452 (ACF6F976) Date: 1/18/1967 Description: At midnight a flash in the sky was noted shortly before a power outage in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Fifteen minutes later a lighted reddish orange domed disc was sighted on the opposite bank of the Green River from four witnesses. When they drove in get help a red glowing object buzzed their car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p.173 Source ID: Johnson_370 Source: Johnson ### Event 12453 (5AB7003D) Date: 1/18/1967 Description: In Shamokin, Pennsylvania a disc-shaped UFO approached at a low altitude, emitted two beams of light downward, turned, then rose suddenly into the sky and joined a second UFO. Both sped away horizontally. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mount Carmel (PA) Item, January 19, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_371 Source: Johnson ### Event 12454 (E252272C) Date: 1/18/1967 Description: 6:30-6:45 a.m. EST. A man saw a cloud-like object with flat bottom, a dome on top, and a blue stripe. It hovered over an airport, then accelerated and sped away, disappearing in 3 seconds. (Robinson letter, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norton, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3219 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12455 (15172946) Date: 1/18/1967 Description: 12:15 a.m.EST. Four witnesses saw a flash in the sky just before a power failure occurred. Then they saw a domed disc with body lights. It was near the ground on the opposite bank of the Green River. A red glowing object buzzed their car as they drove away. (Air Force report, Project Blue Book files, National Archives; Fowler, 1974, p. 343.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williamstown, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3218 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12456 (8BADEA29) Date: 1/18/1967 Description: 6:00 p.m. EST. A family watched a disc with a red light on a projection at the rear approach at low altitude (estimated 400-500 feet), viewed through binoculars. As it neared, the object emitted two pinkish-white light beams downward at about a 45- degree angle from its forward edge. It then turned, rose suddenly, joined a second object and both sped away. (Keyhoe and Lore,1969a, p.43.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shamokin, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3220 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12457 (B9DB4ECE) Date: 1/18/1967 Description: 6:00 p.m. A family in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, watches through binoculars a disc with a red light on a projection at the rear approach them at about 400–500 feet altitude. As it nears, the object emits two pinkish-white light beams downward at about a 45° angle from its forward edge. It then turns, rises suddenly, joins a second object, and both speed away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., UFOs: A New Look, NICAP, 1969, [Appendix D](http://www.nicap.org/newlook/appendD.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_4180 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12458 (1723FA09) Date: 1/19/1967 Description: 3:00 p.m. A photograph was reportedly taken of a UFO by Reed Thompson, a 15- year-old boy from Milan. The town constable stated that the boy was reliable and said that he had seen the photo himself. (Ridge, APRO & NICAP files) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milan, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3222 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12459 (CD7004A0) Date: 1/19/1967 Description: Around 6:00 p.m. Another family reported two objects, one with light beams with red/green blinking lights across the front, a halo of bright light, and two "antennae" on the top. About 45 minutes later, a pastor reported following an object in his car that had two antennae on the top near the rear of the object. (U.F.O. Investigator, Jan.-Feb., 1967, p. 8.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shamokin (area), PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3223 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12460 (89EC3ABD) Date: 1/19/1967 Time: 0905 Description: Two min later it flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 67, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Charleston (West Virginia) Tad Jones, 38, was driving near Charleston when he saw a large, metal sphere, about 6 m in diameter, having four legs equipped with wheels and a very small propeller underneath Source ID: Magnonia_811 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12461 (1D123909) Date: 1/19/1967 Description: 9:05 a.m. Tad Jones is driving a truck in Dunbar, West Virginia, when he sees a dull, aluminum sphere about 20–25 feet in diameter hovering about 4 feet above the road some 500 feet ahead of him. It has two antennae protruding from the top and two legs beneath it, with a propellor between them that rotates slowly when hovering \(but faster when flying\). There is a window at the top and a flange in the middle. When he gets to about 10 feet of it, the object ascends swiftly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Major Sighting Wave,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/035%20JAN-FEB%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 11 \(Jan./Feb. 1967\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4181 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12462 (AF413D3B) Date: 1/19/1967 Description: 9:05 a.m. EST. The owner of an appliance store saw a dull aluminum-colored sphere with a flange around the middle and a window at the top hovering about 4 feet over the road ahead of him. He estimated it to be 25 feet in diameter. When he was 10 feet from it, the object took off and swiftly rose out of sight. (NICAP report; Charleston Gazette, 1/20/67; Huntington Herald 1/20/67; Keyhoe and Lore, 1969a, sketch p. 46; Flying Saucer Review, 13 (3), May-June 1967, p. 4; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 11, Jan.-Feb., 1967, p. 4, dated as Jan. 17.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dunbar, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_3221 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12463 (CF805A15) Date: 1/19/1967 Description: A 15-year old boy was in his room at four o'clock in the afternoon, in an undisclosed town in Indiana when he heard a sound like a rumbling train. He went to his window to check and was startled to see a shiny flying object moving slowly 25 feet above the ground. The UFO was described as jar shaped with a silver quilted surface and had an opening on the top. The object seemed to follow the contour of the land and made several sharp-angle turns around trees. The teen grabbed a small plastic camera and snapped several photos. One of the photos seems to show the head of a humanoid like figure protruding from the opening on top of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 1841, citing Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters: The Filter Center Files Source ID: Johnson_386 Source: Johnson ### Event 12464 (7334B799) Date: 1/20/1967 Description: Inverted-bowl shaped object moving slowly, accelerated. Fowler, 1974, pp. 138- (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Methuen, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3224 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12465 (C1DFC486) Date: 1/20/1967 Description: 10:15 p.m. EST A pilot and his three passengers saw a round, glowing white object the size of a large apartment building, with a ring of red lights around it that blinked off and on. The object was above the plane at about 2,000 feet. (Letter to APRO dated April 2, 1967, posted on NICAP web site.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Over Lake Ontario, in air space Source ID: NICAP_DB_3225 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12466 (E79698FC) Date: 1/20/1967 Description: In 1967 in Methuen, Massachusetts three teenaged girls saw a string of red lights moving low to the ground about 500 feet away. As they drove nearer, the object connected with the lights swung around to reveal a trapezoid shape with two red and two white lights and a metallic body. The object was now hovering at 100-300 feet altitude and as it moved to the side of the road, the engine, radio and headlights of the girls' car suddenly failed. The generator light continued to pulse, however. The object abruptly shot away to the southwest at 6:45 p.m. and everything in the car worked normally again. Later that evening another group of three witness observed the same object 15 minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, Jericho, NY, 1975, p. 343; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 183, citing Fowler Source ID: Johnson_393 Source: Johnson ### Event 12467 (BB2893D3) Date: 1/20/1967 Description: 6:30 p.m. Three girls \(Kimberly Lodge, Ellen Kenney, and Janice Shafer\), 16–17 years old, are driving near Methuen, Massachusetts, when they see a string of 9–10 bright red lights on a dark object that is moving over a field. The object hovers and swings around, revealing lights of a different color and configuration. When the girls stop to watch, their car stalls and the radio and lights go off. It has four glowing lights in the shape of a trapezoid, with red lights on top and white lights forming the base. The lights appear to be reflecting off a metal surface. The object starts moving slowly and then shoots away at high speed. A second car about 3 miles away also sees 7–8 bright lights flying low. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Car Stalls after Girls See UFO over Field](http://www.nicap.org/670120methuen%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Major Sighting Wave,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/035%20JAN-FEB%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 11 \(Jan./Feb. 1967\): 3–4; Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, Prentice-Hall, 1974, pp. 138–143 Source ID: Eberhart_4182 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12468 (7F6361FC) Date: 1/21/1967 Description: 4:15 a.m. MST. Two men saw a white or silver object with red, white, and blue pulsating body lights. It hovered for about 2 minutes and then seemed to follow their car. (Hall letter, Scottsbluff, NE., in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gering, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_3226 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12469 (D44229C6) Date: 1/22/1967 Description: 8:35 p.m. EST. A man saw a bright light that changed to a series of lights which maneuvered, hovered, and bobbed like a cork on water. The object seemed to ascend with less effort than when it descended . (Compare to Sept. 20, 1966, Sebring, Fla., case.) A wind-like sound was heard. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Providence, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3227 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12470 (DAD3F15A) Date: 1/22/1967 Description: There were eight separate reports of saucers and a boomerang-shaped object from Wharton and El Campo, Texas on this evening, starting at around 8 p.m. The UFOs were engaged in erratic darting maneuvers. It made big news at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - Here and Now, p. 143 Source ID: Johnson_413 Source: Johnson ### Event 12471 (2B41DB91) Date: 1/23/1967 Description: Another abduction by aliens occurred to Betty Andreassen and four other members of her family in South Ashburnham, Massachusetts. The abduction involved a medical exam with instruments used during the exam, communication, and psychological aftereffects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 529 Source ID: Johnson_443 Source: Johnson ### Event 12472 (F6C30097) Date: 1/24/1967 Description: 5:25 p.m. A 14-year-old boy in Yorba Linda, California, sees an object shaped like a top hat apparently hovering above houses across the street. It seems large and cylindrical, dull metallic, and has four legs. He grabs a camera and snaps a photo of the object, which has started moving away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ann Druffel, “[The Yorba Linda](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201973%20N%205%2CUFO%20Encounters.pdf) [Photograph,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201973%20N%205%2CUFO%20Encounters.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Encounters, special issue no. 5 of FSR, November 1973, pp. 26–35; UFOEv II 286–287; Patrick Gross, “[Yorba Linda, California, January 24, 1967](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/yorba.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4184 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12473 (85C11C7E) Date: 1/24/1967 Description: A 14-year-old youth with the last name of Kirsch took a photograph of a disc-shaped structured object over Yorba Linda, California at 5:25 p.m. The photo was reported in the Santa Ana Register newspaper, and subsequently evaluated by NICAP as that of a genuine (not hoaxed) flying object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Santa Ana Register, June 7, 1967; Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1976, p. 10; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 286 Source ID: Johnson_480 Source: Johnson ### Event 12474 (2002ABAF) Date: 1/24/1967 Description: At 8:10 p.m. Nicholas Rinaldi, a 37-year-old commercial artist, as well as 19 other people driving along Interstate 91 in Cromwell, Connecticut spotted a 300 foot long dark cigar-shaped object flying low over some highway construction on the new Route 9 interstate highway extension. Rinaldi drew a sketch of the object, which had three bright red lights, one at each end and one in the center. The UFO made a whirring sound. The total duration of the sighting, based upon the times reported by the independent witnesses, was 15 minutes. The Air Force attempted to explain the craft as a mis-identified helicopter, based on the notion that a helicopter would have had three red running lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald A. Johnson, on-site investigation; Middletown Press, January 26, 1967; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_481 Source: Johnson ### Event 12475 (181CB8FD) Date: 1/24/1967 Description: 1:00 a.m. EST. A witness saw a large solid object with two bright red vertical blinking body lights descend, emitting a sound like an electric shaver (buzzing). (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Astoria, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3228 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12476 (CA29DE73) Date: 1/24/1967 Description: 6:00 a.m. EST. A driver for a news service saw an elliptical object with many colored lights or ports on the underside, some red, some green. The object hovered over a house for 15 minutes, then flew away. (Westport News, 1/26/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westport, CN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3229 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12477 (F4224B05) Date: 1/24/1967 Description: 5:25 p.m. PST. A 14-year-old boy saw and photographed a metallic-appearing object shaped like a top hat with four legs projecting from the bottom. (Hall, 2001, pp. 286-87, from "The Yorba Linda Photograph" in Flying Saucer Review, Special Issue, Nov. 1967, pp. 26-35.) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yorba Linda, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3230 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12478 (77C377BB) Date: 1/25/1967 Description: Betty Andreassen abduction case. Craft described as oval with a rim around its circumference, and resting on three legs. (Hall, 2001, pp. 529-30, from Fowler, 1979, 1982, 1990, 1995, section XIII). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Ashburnham, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3231 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12479 (EEFFC2FA) Date: 1/25/1967 Description: Harold Lenz was driving to work in Winsted, Minnesota at 4:30 a.m. when the engine of his pickup truck stalled near Howard Lake. He got out to check under the hood and saw a bright luminous object, 75 feet long by 30 feet wide, approach and land on three legs on the highway. It made a loud whirring noise. Something like an elevator descended from the bottom and a man walked out. He was dressed in a silver-blue, tight-fitting coverall uniform with a "fish-bowl" helmet over his head. He was about average height and appeared to be human. The UFO occupant seemed to examine something on the object. He then got back into the UFO and it took off. The total event lasted between 3-4 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-08, citing USAF Project Blue Book files; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case , citing 184, citing Vallee Source ID: Johnson_506 Source: Johnson ### Event 12480 (A6D57948) Date: 1/25/1967 Description: At around two a.m. three teenage girls--Susan, Tanya and Marianne--were enjoying a typical teenage pajama party in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania and were doing anything but sleeping when all three simultaneously spotted a peculiar light shimmering through the closed curtains of Susan's bedroom. Without warning the drapes parted of their own accord and a midget-sized triangular object was revealed, hovering a few feet from the house. It began beaming a pinkish light of a painfully brilliant intensity into the bedroom. When the triangle moved to the second window, the curtains repeated their opening act, and the light intensity increased several fold. At this point the girls became quite frightened and tried to flee, but all three girls quickly became weak and paralyzed, unable to cry out or do more than whimper helplessly. After a few more torturous moments the light effect dissipated and their mobility was restored, although a dizzy sensation continued to haunt the girls for nearly an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Robert A. Goerman Source ID: Johnson_507 Source: Johnson ### Event 12481 (1F31EFD8) Date: 1/25/1967 Description: Shortly after sunset, Betty Andreasson, her parents and her seven children were frightened by a pulsating reddish-orange light outside their backyard in South Ashburnham, Massachusetts. This was accompanied by a "silent vacuum" and failure of all the lights in the house. Four entities appeared before Betty in the kitchen after passing through a closed door. The beings were nearly identical in appearance, with large baldheads, gray skin, large wrap-around eyes with hazy, light gray interiors. They had "scar like" mouths and holes for noses and ears. They wore sparkly, dark blue uniforms with a lighter blue "Sam Browne" strap. They had bulky hands, possibly gloved, and wore boots.

Their leader, named Quazgaa, was slightly taller and his suit was darker that the others. The reported height of the entities was between 3 1/2 and five feet. Quazgaa began telepathic communication with Betty in the kitchen. He asked her for some food and was offered some left over meat. The beings declined, asking that it be cooked again and she cooked it on the stove. They followed her into the living room where she handed the leader a Bible. He created several copies and handed them to the crew. He in turn handed her a thin, blue book containing their form of knowledge, which remained in her possession for nine days. During these proceedings the other family members were sitting in the living room in a trance state. However, Betty's daughter remembered and confirmed part of the above testimony. Betty was then "talked into" going onboard the entities' craft. She was on board for an estimated two hours. During this time she was led through several rooms, was given a physical exam, and had a needle inserted in her nostril and another in her navel, and had a body scan by a device that looked like a giant eye. She was then placed in an enclosed seat that was filled with a soothing liquid, in which she was "prepared" for an unusual journey.

Accompanied by two guides she visited an alien realm where she saw cities, strange bug-eyed creatures, and a vast ocean. She had a traumatic religious experience, which led her to believe that the beings were some form of "angels." Returning from the journey she was led back to her home by two of the entities, one named Joohop. Her family was still in a state of suspended animation. Her daughter later recalled being "baby sat" by the one remaining entity. The beings, holding spheres of light in their hands, proceeded to put the family to bed, Betty the abductee being the last. The incident included automatic writing, speaking in strange tongues, visions, message transfer and telephone "contact," some of these occurring under hypnosis and others during the investigation. Betty was found to have several previous contacts and numerous post-1967 abduction experiences as well. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-127, citing Ray Fowler, Joe Santangelo, Jules Vaillancourt, David Webb, Fred Youngren & Dr. Herbert Edelstein Source ID: Johnson_508 Source: Johnson ### Event 12482 (FAC9D17B) Date: 1/25/1967 Description: Dr. E. U. Condon, scientific director of the Colorado UFO Project, spoke to the Corning, NY, section of the American Chemical Society, stating that the government should get out of the UFO business, since there was apparently nothing to it. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_113 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12483 (9D4A7ED1) Date: 1/25/1967 Description: 6:35 p.m. [Betty Andreasson](https://www.ufocasebook.com/andreassonluca.html) has her first abduction experience in South Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Placed under hypnosis on several occasions in 1977, Andreasson relates that following the appearance of the creatures every member of the family except her enters a state of paralysis “as if time had stopped for them.” A Christian evangelical, Andreasson thinks they must be angels. The culminating event is when Andreasson witnesses a giant phoenix-like bird burn up and reappear from the ashes as a giant worm. Further hypnotic probing brings forth apparent memories of lifelong interactions with extraterrestrials. [Raymond E. Fowler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FE.%5FFowler)’s 1979 book about the case contains the first reference to an implant in abduction literature, a motif that later becomes much more common. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 114–122; Raymond E. Fowler, The Andreasson Affair, Prentice-Hall, 1979; Raymond E. Fowler, [The Andreasson Affair: Phase Two](https://archive.org/details/andreassonaffair00fowl/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/andreassonaffair00fowl/mode/2up) Prentice-Hall, 1982; Raymond E. Fowler, [The](https://archive.org/details/watcherssecretde00fowl/mode/2up) [Watchers](https://archive.org/details/watcherssecretde00fowl/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/watcherssecretde00fowl/mode/2up) Bantam, 1990; Raymond E. Fowler, [The Watchers II](https://archive.org/details/raymond-e.-fowler-the-watchers-2-exploring-ufos-the-near-death-experience-abridg%5F202012/page/n1/mode/2up), Wild Flower, 1995; Raymond E. Fowler, The Andreasson Legacy, Marlowe, 1997; Betty Andreasson Luca and Bob Luca, A Lifting of the Veil, The Authors, 2017; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 19; Marcus Lowth, “[The Extraordinary Claims of Betty Andreasson,](https://www.ufoinsight.com/aliens/abductions/claims-betty-andreasson)” UFO Insight, March 24, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_4186 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12484 (C4DCF68B) Date: 1/25/1967 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) gives a talk in Corning, New York, and says: “It is my inclination right now to recommend that the government get out of this business. My attitude right now is that there’s nothing to it … but I’m not supposed to reach a conclusion for another year.” [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) is astonished by Condon’s remarks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Most UFOs Explainable, Says](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95440493/) [Scientist,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95440493/)” Elmira \(N.Y.\) Star-Gazette, January 26, 1967, p. 19; UFOs Yes, 117–119 Source ID: Eberhart_4185 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12485 (F4154A53) Date: Late 1/1967 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) is lobbying [Frederick Seitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FSeitz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FSeitz) president of the National Academy of Sciences, with some mild criticisms of the Colorado project and the establishment of a UFO research panel. Seitz is not convinced. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 698 Source ID: Eberhart_4183 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12486 (EE0108DB) Date: 1/25/1967 Description: Betty Andreasson abduction Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: South Ashburnham, MA Source ID: HallUFOE2_114 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12487 (5CFB5F45) Date: 1/26/1967 Time: 2100 Description: A Methodist minister was driving on Route 185 near Coffeen when he saw an object, flat on the bottom, rounded on top, cross the road silently 100 m away, at low speed. Length, 20 m; height, 3 m. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Coffeen, Illinois Source ID: Magnonia_813 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12488 (D5003AE4) Date: 1/26/1967 Description: On this morning, about a week after seeing a large metallic sphere hovering above a highway near Charleston, West Virginia, Tad Jones was driving along the same highway at the same time when he came upon a man standing on the roadside in the same spot where the sphere had hovered. Thinking that it was a hitchhiker Tad slowed down and called to him. The man did not reply but merely waved him on. He described the man as very tanned, wearing a blue coat, and a blue cap with a visor. He was holding a box in his hand. It appeared to be some kind of instrument with a dial on it, like a clock, and a wire ran from it to his other hand. A later check with the local gas company proved negative as far as it being one of their men. Furthermore, no such instrument described by Jones was in use anywhere by any of their employees. He saw the same man again the next day, but drove on. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Keel, FSR, May-June 1967, p. 4; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 3096, citing John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies Source ID: Johnson_522 Source: Johnson ### Event 12489 (D90B076F) Date: 1/26/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. The teenage daughter of a lieutenant colonel residing on a US Army base in Heidelberg, Germany, hears a strange pulsating sound. She tells her father, and they look out the window to see a dirigible- shaped object about 50–60 feet long hovering about 150 feet off the ground above a motor vehicle shed. Before long, a crowd of 50–60 people gather around their apartment building to watch the object, which is only 100 feet away. Some observers with binoculars say it is metallic and has lights that alternate in red, blue, and green colors. After about 20 minutes, US Air Force jets approach in response to a call from the base, and the UFO’s lights increase in intensity and it speeds away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Around the Globe,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4187 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12490 (A50632E6) Date: 1/26/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. LT. Witnesses first heard a -pulsating sound, then saw a shiny, metallic dirigible-shaped (elliptical) object; hovering over a building. As jets approached the object, it took off (aircraft avoidance) with its lights flashing in a regular cycle. (APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 4.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Heidelberg, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_3236 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12491 (EF89C56F) Date: 1/26/1967 Description: 8:15 p.m. MST. A man saw a solid ball (sphere) with blinking yellow body light(s) which descended, circled a mountain, and flew off. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Havre, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3235 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12492 (EA272F29) Date: 1/26/1967 Description: 5:40 a.m. CST. A woman saw a disc-shaped object that was flat on the bottom and had a rounded top (dome). A group of closely spaced red lights was visible on the bottom. The object flew straight for 5-6 seconds before disappearing. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirkwood, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3234 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12493 (56B8D1E6) Date: 1/26/1967 Description: 1:30 a.m. EST. Three witnesses saw an oblong or oval object, gray or silver, with a red top. On top were several protrusions, along which moved green flashes of light. The object moved in erratic flight with a swirling motion and made a "weird" noise. A dog was reported to be upset by the phenomenon (animal reaction) during the sighting. (New York NICAP Subcommittee report and letter with a copy of Air Force report form, in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jamaica, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3233 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12494 (9DF95E7A) Date: 1/26/1967 Description: 60 ft object, flat on the bottom, rounded on top 10 ft thick (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coffeen (near), IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3232 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12495 (475ACC4F) Date: 1/26/1967 Description: A Methodist minister was driving on Route 185 near Coffeen, Illinois at 9:00 p.m. when he saw an object that was flat on the bottom and rounded on top cross the road 100 meters in front of him. It made no noise and moved slowly. He estimated that it was 20 meters in length and three meters in height. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 812, citing USAF Air Technical Intelligence Center Source ID: Johnson_523 Source: Johnson ### Event 12496 (6B192DA4) Date: 1/26/1967 Description: Three women saw an oblong, gray and red object, with prongs of various colors was seen over Jamaica, Queens borough, New York at 1:30 a.m. Parts of the UFO seemed to move independently. The sighting lasted more than two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP New York case investigation; Condon Committee UFO Study Source ID: Johnson_521 Source: Johnson ### Event 12497 (EAB6612F) Date: 1/26/1967 Description: Sixty military witnesses at a U.S. base in Heidelberg, Germany heard a pulsating sound at 8:30 p.m., and then saw a shiny metallic dirigible-shaped object hovering over a building 100 feet away. As jets approached to investigate the object, it took off with lights flashing in a regular cycle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 4; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 326 Source ID: Johnson_520 Source: Johnson ### Event 12498 (16A01D6A) Date: 1/28/1967 Description: 1:45 p.m. Alex Butler, 10, and five young friends are playing on Studham Common as they are making their way to Studham Lower School, Bedfordshire, England. Suddenly a flash of lightning strikes nearby, and Alex sees a little blue man about 3 feet tall with a high bowler hat and beard standing motionless on the opposite bank. It is clothed in a one-piece garment with a broad black belt and black box in front. A dim glow envelops him, giving him a blue color. The other boys see it too. They begin to run toward the creature, but it disappears in a puff of smoke. The little man appears in a different spot, and the boys start running there, but again he disappears. As the vanishing act repeats again, the boys hear a deep-toned sound emanating from two spots nearby. At that point the school bell sounds, and the boys rush off to class. Miss Newcomb, the school headmistress, interviews the boys and collects their written reports in a scrapbook \(now lost\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: R. H. B. Winder, “[The Little Blue Man on Studham Common,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1967\): 3–4; Theo Paijmans, “In Search of the Little Blue Man,” Fortean Times 339 \(May 2016\): 56–57 Source ID: Eberhart_4188 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12499 (91B22CF8) Date: 1/28/1967 Description: At 1:45 p.m. a group of school boys encountered a "little blue man" about three feet tall, wearing a helmet, on Studham Common in England. The humanoid said something unintelligible, and disappeared and re-appeared four times, leaving behind a cloud of smoke. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, July 1967, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_552 Source: Johnson ### Event 12500 (A35ED605) Date: 1/28/1967 Time: 1345 Description: Children observed "a little blue man with a tall hat and a beard" that disappeared in a puff of smoke; they later saw him again, and heard "foreign-sounding" voices. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 67, 4; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Studham, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_814 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12501 (9807D501) Date: 1/28/1967 Description: 6:00 p.m. Members of three families saw two objects, one saucer shaped (disc) with projections and a dome on top, blinking red and green lights across the front and a silver object protruding from the top. The objects variously maneuvered and hovered, together and independently. Many other area sightings also were reported. (Shamokin News Dispatch, Pa., 1/29/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Irish Valley, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3237 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12502 (83591E46) Date: 1/28/1967 Description: By this date things were more or less back to normal at the Kushner household in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania following a frightening close encounter experience with a brilliant pink triangular UFO three nights earlier (on January 25th). However, shortly after dinner two strange men arrived at the door. They identified themselves as military investigators and flashed what appeared to be USAF identification. Mrs. Kushner described the ID card as having black printing on a durable white stock. Both men wore tan trench coats which they kept buttoned from knee to collar. The taller of the two, who did all the talking, was described as thin and deeply tanned, and having blond hair and green eyes. The other gentleman was heavy set with dark hair, piercing blue eyes and was also deeply tanned. The men were polite but very insistent about one thing: they wanted every shred of information about the girl's experience. Neither parent could explain why they allowed their children to be so intensely grilled by these "government agents." The men moved about the house with apparently total knowledge of the contents of the rooms, the placement of furniture and other objects. Their clothing looked as if it had been newly purchased and the bottoms of their shoes were unscuffed. When the mystery men left they backed their vehicle out onto the roadway, turned off their headlights, and powered away down the road. At one point one man was seen writing strange symbols in vertical columns, starting from the left, going down one column, up the next, and down the third. This was in a small booklet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Robert A. Goerman Source ID: Johnson_553 Source: Johnson ### Event 12503 (8A4375EB) Date: 1/29/1967 Description: At around 10:00 p.m. Mrs. Enid Campbell saw from her window in her home near Knox City, Missouri what at first looked like the full moon, but as it got closer she could see that it was a Saturn-shaped object, with the main body white in color like a frosted light bulb and a shiny gold horizontal ring around the center which had numerous round holes. The object came up to within several feet of her window before stopping, and through its semi-transparent material she could see a control panel with a lever on top, and two occupants, one seated at the panel, the other standing. They wore "shiny, silvery wetsuits." She called her sons Gene, age 18, and George, age 14, who came to the window in time to see the object as it rose and moved away. While it hovered nearby two smaller white luminous spheres approached and entered the craft through an opening, after which the holes in the central ring jetted out red fire. Then the object ascended vertically and disappeared. The snow on the ground under the spot where it had been hovering was melted, and the ground over which the object first approached the house failed to grow plants, while plants elsewhere grew normally. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, April 1971, p. 12 and November 1972, p. 8; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 27; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-10, citing Ted Phillips for MUFON Source ID: Johnson_575 Source: Johnson ### Event 12504 (33976FFF) Date: 1/30/1967 Description: At 7:30 p.m. CST nine people in Granite City, Illinois reported sighting a cup-shaped object with a dome on top. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gilbert L. Bernier, UFO-INFO, April 1967, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_604 Source: Johnson ### Event 12505 (B7DB041D) Date: 1/30/1967 Description: 8:04 a.m. Commercial pilot [Delton Schwanz](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29931189/delton-delbert-schwanz) is with his wife [Della](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29931188/della-gertrude-schwanz) and three children 5 miles southwest of Crosby, North Dakota, when they see a bright-white, sharply outlined, lozenge-shaped object to the west. It momentarily hovers, then moves in level flight to the left, with a smooth climb in the southwest. It drops white “strips” of light that descend vertically and disappears to the south by ascending to about 30°–45° elevation. At around the same time, George Larsen \(Larson?\) and Larry Pateof \(Pace?\) are driving by car 20 miles west of Crosby near the intersection of Highways 5 and 85 and see a large white light moving rapidly from west to south dropping something and disappearing suddenly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 321; Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 73–74](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/72/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4189 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12506 (ED3ADFAA) Date: 1/30/1967 Description: At 8:04 p.m. CST Delton Schwanz, a commercial pilot with 29 years experience and a past U.S. Air Force serviceman, was driving with his wife Della and children Robert, Roger and Diane five miles southwest and 20 miles west of Crosby, North Dakota when they saw a bright white, sharply outlined lozenge-shaped object in the western sky. It had a length to width ratio of 4:1 and an elevation of 15°-20°. It momentarily stopped, then moved in level flight to the left, making a smooth climb in the southwest and dropping white "strips" of light that descended vertically. It disappeared to the south at azimuth 170° by ascending to about 30°-45° elevation. Two other men were independent witnesses, driving by car west of Crosby near the intersection of Highways 5 and 85, where they reported seeing a large white light moving rapidly from west to south and dropping a "piece" of the object, then vanishing suddenly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, pp. 64-65; Willy Smith, UNICAT, case # 315 Source ID: Johnson_605 Source: Johnson ### Event 12507 (89F8D383) Date: 1/30/1967 Description: At 7:05 a.m. in Lander, Wyoming Mr. J. Kenney, an ex-Air Force man, sighted a long, thin cigar-shaped object that flew to the northeast for 15 seconds. There was an intense blue light the entire length of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1967, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_603 Source: Johnson ### Event 12508 (04F7BF00) Date: 1/30/1967 Description: Bright white sharply outlined lozenge-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crosby (5 miles SW and 20 miles W of), ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3238 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12509 (997B03AF) Date: 1/30/1967 Description: 6:45 p.m. [Reinhardt N. Ausmus](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112023883/reinhardt-norbert-ausmus) and his wife [Ruth](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134346224/ruth-m-swint) are driving north on State Highway 99 in Sandusky, Ohio, when they spot a bright light in the sky. Stopping their car, they watch it hover for several minutes before it is suddenly extinguished. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO over NASA Station,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/036%20MAR-APR%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 12 \(March/April 1967\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_4190 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12510 (55DC4F68) Date: 1/31/1967 Description: 12:01 a.m. CST. A McDonnell aviation company engineer saw a brilliant bluish- white light going fast in a zig-zag path. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirkwood, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3239 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12511 (F696EF2C) Date: 1/31/1967 Description: [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) stops in at NICAP in Washington, D.C., to pick up some case material. [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and [Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) show him a clipping about [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)’s statements in Corning, New York. Saunders suggests that Condon is misquoted. But several NICAP members had been in the audience and one has already resigned to protest NICAP’s support of a sham investigation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1194 Source ID: Eberhart_4191 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12512 (A9E82533) Date: 2/1967 Description: Ralph Ditter, a Zanesville, Ohio barber took two photographs of this unknown object. Ditter was an amateur astronomer, and avid sky watcher. He made the two photos available to the press. Later found to be a hoax. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [670200](http://www.ufocasebook.com/zanesvilleohio1967large.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Zanesville, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3240 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12513 (08FA60EB) Date: 2/1967 Description: Night. FAA Flight Service Specialists plus control tower personnel saw a large round red object that moved slowly under the cloud layer. Smaller objects emerged from the larger and flew away rapidly toward the southwest. (Letter dated 2/22/67, in NICAP files (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Antonio, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3242 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12514 (61EC5C3F) Date: 2/1967 Description: 5:30 a.m. EST. A woman saw a shiny round object with a flat bottom hover over her house and then fly away. The object made a loud whistling sound. (Brown Co. Democrat, Nashville, Ind., 2/9/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brown County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3241 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12515 (30DC7D33) Date: 2/1967 Description: Soviet cosmologist [Felix Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel) writes an article revealing that “UFOs have been seen all over the USSR; the craft of every possible shape, small, large, flattened, spherical. They are able to remain stationary in the atmosphere or shoot along at 100,000 kilometers per hour. They move without producing the slightest sound, by creating around themselves a pneumatic vacuum that protects them from burning up in our stratosphere. Their craft have the mysterious capacity to vanish and reappear at will. Besides, they are able to affect our power resources, putting to a halt our electricity-generating plants, our radio stations, and our engines, without, however, leaving any permanent damage. So refined a technology can only be the fruit of an intelligence that is indeed far superior to ours.” The article is regarded in the West as the first-ever evidence that the Soviets are aware of UFO phenomena too. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CIA translation of Felix Ziegel, “[UFOs: What Are They?](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300090001-6.pdf)” Smena, no. 7 \(February 1967\): 27– 29 Source ID: Eberhart_4194 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12516 (E04B78DB) Date: 2/1967 Description: [John A. Keel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FKeel) speaks with USAF Col. [George P. Freeman](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130745860/george-parrish-freeman)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130745860/george-parrish-freeman) who tells him that “Mysterious men dressed in Air Force uniforms or bearing impressive credentials from government agencies have been silencing UFO witnesses.” The Air Force is unable to find out anything about them because this is a federal offense. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, Tor ed., 1991, [p. 25](https://archive.org/details/mothmanprophecie00keelrich/page/24/mode/2up); Nick Redfern, “[MIB Are Not from the Government,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/06/mib-are-not-from-the-government/)” Mysterious Universe, June 23, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_4193 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12517 (F7F9B0FF) Date: 2/1967 Description: Although a UFO wave is in progress, practically no one at the Colorado project has the knowledge or resources to perform a serious investigation. Other than [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) and the junior staff, nearly everyone lacks basic equipment, questionnaires, cameras, or tape measures. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 110 Source ID: Eberhart_4192 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12518 (79242358) Date: 2/1/1967 Description: At 9:00 p.m. three witnesses in Boadilladel Monte, Spain independently saw a craft emitting light signals land a few meters away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 813 Source ID: Johnson_653 Source: Johnson ### Event 12519 (9161378A) Date: 2/1/1967 Time: 2100 Description: Three witnesses independently saw a craft emitting light signals land a few meters away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 93 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Boadilla del Monte, Spain Source ID: Magnonia_815 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12520 (5948E37F) Date: 2/1/1967 Description: In Boulder, Colorado, [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) confronts [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) who confirms the Corning quote and wonders why Saunders is making a fuss. After 30 minutes, Saunders persuades him that he is having a negative effect. Finally, Condon writes [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) saying that his words were taken out of context and that he will look at the NICAP case files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1194 Source ID: Eberhart_4195 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12521 (55EC1F9C) Date: 2/2/1967 Description: A well-known craftsman, who requested anonymity, reported to the Lawrenceville- Vincennes Airport that he observed an object for one and a half hours that was doing some pretty good stunts. (Ridge, NICAP files). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sumner, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3245 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12522 (718B3AF3) Date: 2/2/1967 Description: Cone paced airliner (E-M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lima, Peru Source ID: NICAP_DB_3244 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12523 (D601413F) Date: 2/2/1967 Description: This is the only surviving photo of the funnel-shaped flying object that paced the Fawcett Airlines DC-4 passenger liner in flight from Piura to Lima on February 2, 1967, at 06:30 P.M. One passenger, who insisted on remaining anonymous, succeeded in saving his film from which this single photograph was made. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [670202](http://www.ufocasebook.com/limaperularge.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lima, Peru Source ID: NICAP_DB_3243 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12524 (9FB0E2C8) Date: 2/2/1967 Description: Airliner buzzed by maneuvering coneshaped object, took position above tail. Lights in plane dimmed, radio interference, radio compass oscillated Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Lima, Peru Source ID: HallUFOE2_115 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12525 (9E0B1510) Date: 2/2/1967 Description: 6:30 p.m. Capt. Oswaldo Sanvitti is flying a Faucett Perú DC-4 airliner from Chiclayo to Lima, Peru, when the crew and passengers notice a bright light coming toward them from the west. Sanvitti estimates it is about 9 miles away, but it soon reaches the aircraft and hovers above it. The cabin lights dim, the plane’s compass fluctuates, and the radio gives off static. The UFO speeds away to the east, increasing its luminosity by 50%, but reappears 5 minutes later with another object. Both UFOs trail the aircraft until 5 minutes before it lands at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Callao. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 24–25; Good Above, [p. 533](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/532/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Aircraft Encounters with UFOs](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/peru2feb1967.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4196 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12526 (77D7A73F) Date: 2/2/1967 Description: At 12:30 a.m. pilot Sanvitti and co-pilot Calderon were onboard a Fawcett Airlines DC-4 airliner flying between Chiclayo and Lima, Peru when their plane was paced by a cone-shaped object. The aircraft's magnetic compass oscillated 15 degrees left, then 20 degrees right, the cabin lights dimmed, and their radio went out. The bright luminous UFO first came toward them, then stopped above them giving off a blue beam of light; it went away, then came at then again joined by a second object flying behind. Finally, both UFOs sped away. The close encounter lasted for more than six minutes, and was witnessed by a total of 58 passengers and crew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 9, 118 & 326, UNICAT case #551, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1982, p. 16; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 187 Source ID: Johnson_666 Source: Johnson ### Event 12527 (22BA43E2) Date: 2/3/1967 Description: Numerous witnesses saw UFOs with flashing lights and domes maneuvering in the sky over Piggott, Arkansas. Small satellite objects and merging objects were seen during the event. Dogs reacted by barking. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 71 Source ID: Johnson_679 Source: Johnson ### Event 12528 (FEDB2A74) Date: 2/3/1967 Description: Time not reported. Numerous witnesses saw maneuvering objects with domes and flashing lights. Separate (satellite) and merging objects also were reported. Dogs reacted (animal reactions). (Keyhoe and Lore, 1969b, p. 71.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Piggott, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_3246 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12529 (593ED514) Date: 2/3/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. EST. A man saw an object estimated to be 30 feet in diameter and 15 feet thick with a row of white lights and a tangerine-colored light on the bottom (body lights). The object zipped back and forth at terrific speed. Observations were made from various points coordinated by two-way radios. (Hamilton Spectator, 2/4/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamilton, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3248 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12530 (45C86D14) Date: 2/3/1967 Description: 7:40 p.m. CST (8:40 p.m. EST). Five people watched a disc or ellipse that first flew like an airplane, but then moved with irregular, jerky, up and down motions, and sometimes with hesitating forward motion. The object hovered over the highway for 15-20 seconds, then sped from sight in 15 seconds. Witnesses could see military bombing practice in the distance at the same time. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lindsborg, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3247 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12531 (BB7B569D) Date: 2/4/1967 Description: 9:15 p.m. EST. A sales engineer and a county assessor saw an egg-shaped object for 10 minutes, apparently on or near a hill at a reservoir. The object rose slowly to around 50 feet, hovered, then moved away after performing several radical maneuvers. (Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, Pa., 3/11/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Homer City, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3250 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12532 (78385757) Date: 2/4/1967 Description: 7:00 p.m. CST. A woman saw two large, square amber lights with a green light between them from her home. The lights approached silently and hovered an estimated 30 feet above the ground about 100 feet away from her. (Letter from witness, 2/5/67, Donald E. Keyhoe Archives files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gary, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3249 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12533 (F2E027AC) Date: 2/5/1967 Description: On this evening Timothy Johnson, a 14-year-old teenager in Hilliards, Ohio heard his dog barking and a strange noise, and then saw an 75-foot long ovoid object descend with tripod legs extended. The UFO had a rotating pattern of lights and came down to 30 feet over some railroad tracks, then landed near a school. It made a steady humming sound. From an elevator-like shaft came five or six tall, human-looking figures wearing black robes, who placed small spheres around the craft. A man walked up to them and appeared to speak with the entities. The teen was then noticed and the man ran after him, catching him by the back of the neck and causing burn marks. The man next dragged Timothy almost to the craft when his captors suddenly became panic-stricken, dropped him, hurriedly gathered up the spheres, and reboarded the craft, which took off rapidly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May-June 1967, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 816; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 326, 472; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 181; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-13 (A0782) Source ID: Johnson_699 Source: Johnson ### Event 12534 (B3BFE53A) Date: 2/5/1967 Description: 6:00 a.m. The woman reporting requested anonymity. The report she gave to the DAILEY HERALD-TELEPHONE provided the most vivid description of an unidentified flying object observed as far southwest as Oakland City and as far east as Crothersville.        35 miles away. At this time she arose because of noises on the roof roof. (Ridge, Clipping in NICAP files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bedford, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3253 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12535 (F4A5EF62) Date: 2/5/1967 Description: 2:30 a.m. Richard D. Barker of the Seymour State Police post reported he followed a huge ball of greenish-blue and white lights for some 10 miles about 2:30 AM before the light moved west towards Bedford. (Ridge, NICAP files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crothersville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3252 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12536 (72A9BE58) Date: 2/5/1967 Description: 1:45 a.m. EST. Seven members of a band saw an object that first looked like a boomerang, then appeared like a teardrop. It was a pale greenish-blue color with a cluster of white lights (body lights). The object also was seen by people in another car as it moved northwest. (Ridge, 1994, p. 20.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oakland City, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3251 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12537 (37DEDE9A) Date: 2/5/1967 Description: Evening. A young man in Hilliard, Ohio, hears a strange noise and a barking dog. He looks up and sees an object approaching at a low altitude over a road shoulder. It lands on three legs in a field. The object is egg- shaped and about 75 feet long and 45 feet high. An “elevator-like” shaft opens and beings emerge carrying small, circular balls that they place on the ground around the UFO. The human-like creatures appear to be waiting for something. Then a man approaches from across the field and talks to them, apparently by telepathy. The witness accidentally steps on a twig, and the beings hear it. One runs toward him and catches him by the back of the neck, leaving a burned wound. Another being comes and both drag him toward the object. As they get close, the beings look at each other, seemingly panic-stricken. They drop the witness, collect the balls, and run inside the UFO, which takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Startling Cases Investigated,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/037%20MAY-JUN%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 1 \(May/June 1967\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_4197 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12538 (CB713181) Date: 2/5/1967 Time: evening Description: A young man heard a strange noise and a barking dog, and saw an egg-shaped object land. From an elevatorlike shaft came human figures that placed small spheres around the craft. A man walked to them and appeared to speak with the entities. The witness was seen, the creatures tried to abduct him, and then took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP May., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hilliards, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_816 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12539 (0E80805F) Date: 2/5/1967 Description: At 1:45 a.m. a boomerang-shaped object was seen for six minutes by seven musicians and five other observers in Oakland City, Indiana. The UFO flew off to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_698 Source: Johnson ### Event 12540 (6842340C) Date: 2/5/1967 Description: Same evening. Humanoid sighting. An object that was described as an ellipse, landed, humanoid beings emerged and placed small spheres on the ground around the craft. Witnesses observed them interacting with humans. Further, up-to-date research, would show many more HR cases for the year, but at least 14 were found without much effort. (UFOE II, p. 326) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hilliard, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3254 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12541 (82331581) Date: 2/5/1967 Description: At 9:45 p.m. M. Louis Monin, age 49, was outside his house in Sauvigny-les-Bois, L'Yonne, France when he saw an intensely yellow luminous ovoid object coming at very low altitude over a nearby cemetery. He called his 17-year-old granddaughter Marie Solange to watch it. The fat cigar-shaped object approached, then oscillated and turned red-orange, and finally landed in Monin's garden, 110 feet away from them. It was about 60 feet long and 20 feet high. At each end of the cigar was a jet of "flames," directed obliquely downward, and a crackling noise could be heard. Next, a stout little man, 3.5-4.0 feet tall, appeared standing beside the object. Monin and his granddaughter immediately went back into the house to call his wife, but when the three of them came out again the little man was gone and the UFO now appeared as a red-luminous ball about 25 feet in diameter. This ball took off and was soon lost from view. The observation lasted five minutes, and no landing traces were found in the garden. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-14 (A0783), citing M. Copin & Fernand Legarde for LDLN; UNICAT, case # 608, citing Joel Mesnard, GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1969 Source ID: Johnson_700 Source: Johnson ### Event 12542 (8DBBA6AD) Date: 2/5/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. EST. Two couples in a car at the Barkhamsted Reservoir saw a dark sphere with randomly blinking red, green and white lights (body lights) around the edge. The object approached the witnesses, then hovered over the reservoir. (NICAP report form and report from Ted Thorben, NICAP investigator, 10/20/67.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barkhamsted, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3255 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12543 (ED5CA0ED) Date: 2/6/1967 Time: 8:45 PM Description: Witnesses: Donald and Marie Guseman. One large, Saturn-shaped object--5O' in diameter and 20' high--with two bright lights, a green light on one side and a red light on the other. Hovered motionless over the trees, then slowly moved north and suddenly disappeared after 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Odessa, Delaware Source ID: BerlinerBBU_563 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12544 (F1533A18) Date: 2/6/1967 Description: Noon MST. A woman saw two green cigar-shaped objects with a row of windows. Two small "propellers" were on top of each end. One object hovered over the highway, then paced the car and was joined by the second object that rose up from the ground. (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Texas, 8/10/67; NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Deming, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_3256 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12545 (E9AF233E) Date: 2/6/1967 Description: The mission of the Space Defense Center’s satellite-tracking radar \(useless for UFOs\) moves from Ent AFB \[now the US Olympic Training Center\] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to “adjacent to the NORAD command center” \(air defense UFO trackers\) in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. However, they are separated from each other by partitions and use separate computers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Space Defense Center](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%5FDefense%5FCenter)”; Clark III 808 Source ID: Eberhart_4198 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12546 (372587FB) Date: 2/6/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. EST. Four policemen and a rescue worker saw an object with red flashing lights and blue lights (body lights) that flew very low making a roaring sound. (Hazard Herald 2/13/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hazard, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3257 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12547 (95EE0679) Date: 2/6/1967 End date: 2/7/1967 Description: Midnight CST (1:00 a.m. EST). A couple was approached by an oval object that hovered just above the ground displaying red, blue, green, and white flashing lights. The object then flew away. (St. Louis Post Dispatch, 2/7/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Louis, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3258 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12548 (AEA3736A) Date: 2/6/1967 Description: Mr. Donald Guseman and Mrs. Marie Guseman spotted a large, Saturn-shaped object at 8:45 p.m. in Odessa, Delaware. The UFO was 50 feet in diameter and 20 feet in height and had two bright lights, a green light on one side and a red light on the other. It hovered motionless over some trees, then slowly moved north and suddenly vanished after two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_723 Source: Johnson ### Event 12549 (DCB739F2) Date: 2/6/1967 Description: Miss R. Ford was driving between Deming and Las Cruces, New Mexico at about noon when a cigar-shaped object started pacing her car. It was green with a long row of shiny windows, and had two small propellers atop each end. It hovered over the highway, while a second object rose from ground and joined up with the first, and then both sped out of sight in seconds. Note: Deming contains copper mines. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files, citing the Lubbock Aval. Journal, August 10, 1967; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 327 & 375 Source ID: Johnson_724 Source: Johnson ### Event 12550 (076DBFF3) Date: 2/7/1967 Description: 11:55 p.m.PST. A couple saw a solid round object and a silver cigar-shaped object oriented vertically. The round object emitted many "contrails" and apparently disintegrated, then the cigar-shaped object flew rapidly away. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oakhurst, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3262 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12551 (F84C89CE) Date: 2/7/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. An egg-shaped object was reported by Paul Poorman on a farm near some strip mines. Poorman was a 33-year-old specialized police officer and qualified pilot. The object was white and well-defined, turned to a blood-red color, then a pale blue. (Don Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Owen County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3261 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12552 (B1411D3F) Date: 2/7/1967 Description: 1:00 a.m. A woman saw an elliptical object with two flashing white lights and two steady white light beams. It flew at low altitude, slowly and silently. (Westport News 2/9/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westport, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3260 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12553 (A336D102) Date: 2/7/1967 Description: At 11:55 p.m. two married women in Oakhurst, California watched as a solid round object sprayed out many contrails and disintegrated in the sky. Next, a silver cigar-shaped object hovered vertically, then flew away rapidly to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files Source ID: Johnson_734 Source: Johnson ### Event 12554 (E9661FB7) Date: 2/7/1967 Description: 12:20 a.m. EST. A former Navy pilot and airline navigator saw a brilliant white light, sometimes with a strong red light. The object oscillated as it flew along over the Merritt Parkway and returned. (Westport News, 2/9/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westport, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3259 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12555 (EFBC90A8) Date: 2/8/1967 Description: 10:00 p.m. EST. A newspaper reporter watched a bright orange ball or cylinder hovering over pine trees for several minutes. (Hartford Courant, Conn., 2/14/67, copy in NICAP files and in Donald E. I Key hoe Archives files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pleasant Valley, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3266 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12556 (F2619AB0) Date: 2/8/1967 Description: Night. Three teenaged boys saw what looked like two car lights that came down to within 20 feet of the ground. The object shone a light beam on the witnesses after they had pointed a spotlight at it (light reaction). (Topeka State Journal, Kans., 2/18/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rossville, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3265 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12557 (E7E07A2A) Date: 2/8/1967 Description: 6:43 p.m. EST. Several witnesses saw a circular object with a core of dazzling, pulsating central yellow lights. From this core, red lights appeared to be pulsating outward toward the rim. The object was an estimated quarter of a mile away and remained visible for 40 minutes, during which the witnesses' TV would not work (EM effect). (Bondarchuk, 1979, pp. 124-126.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Deep River, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3264 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12558 (DEC20B67) Date: 2/8/1967 Description: 2:00 p.m. EST. A commercial photographer and his son saw two silvery cigar- shaped objects that flew in a straight line, then separately zoomed up and away. A photo was taken but shows little. (A. Collis, USNR retired, letter in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newbury, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3263 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12559 (8ACEEBA2) Date: 2/8/1967 Description: 6:43 p.m. Mary McCarthy and five of her young nieces and nephews see a glowing object as they are eating dinner at their farm 3 miles south of Deep River, Ontario. The television immediately stops working properly. About a quarter of a mile away on a hill is a circular “craft” with a large core of dazzling, pulsating yellow lights in its center. From this core, red lights pulsate outward toward the rim, somewhat like neon lights. They have it in view for 40 minutes. After the object leaves, the TV starts working again. A Canadian Forces spokesperson says the lights were airplanes shooting flares in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 124–126 Source ID: Eberhart_4199 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12560 (07D757D6) Date: 2/8/1967 Description: In Newbury, Massachusetts at two o'clock in the afternoon two silvery cigar shaped objects moved in a straight line, then separately shot straight up vertically and were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP investigation files, report dated February 14, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_753 Source: Johnson ### Event 12561 (AB88EBAC) Date: 2/9/1967 Description: 6:30 a.m. PST. A railroad foreman saw a saucer (disc) with a bright body light hovering over the railroad depot. The depot was engulfed in light (environmental illumination). The object departed straight up. (Spokane Spokesman-Review, Wash. State, 2/12/67, copy in NICAP (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chester, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3268 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12562 (B4FD24A3) Date: 2/9/1967 Description: 7:50 p.m. EST. A state policeman saw a huge object, moving slowly, changing colors from white to red to orange, the color change associated with changes of speed (color/speed correlation). Venus was visible separately at the same time. (Ridge, 1994, p. 21.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Seymour, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3269 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12563 (04C6D241) Date: 2/9/1967 Description: 6:30 p.m. George Kawalski, a section foreman for the Great Northern railroad, sees an object hovering above the depot in Chester, Montana, from his home two blocks away. The object disappears straight up after bathing the depot in light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Third Report of UFOs Heard from Chester Area,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95537842/)” Great Falls \(Mont.\) Tribune, February 11, 1967, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4201 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12564 (6B13440A) Date: 2/9/1967 Description: Police officer D. E. Swider was driving on Interstate 65 eight miles south of Seymour, Indiana at 7:50 p.m. when he encountered a huge, round object that moved slowly, changing colors from white to red to orange as it slowed, then accelerated. Venus was visible at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_772 Source: Johnson ### Event 12565 (614F1607) Date: 2/9/1967 Description: At 8:45 p.m. Donald and Marie Guseman were driving on U.S. Highway 13 in Odessa, Delaware when they encountered a 50 foot wide disc-shaped object with a cupola and ports underneath, and forwardly placed light beams. It also had a green light on one side and a red light on the other. It hovered motionless over some trees, then emitted light beams that swung upwards at a 45-degree angle into the sky. The object began moving away, and then suddenly disappeared. Their close encounter lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 11350; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 12; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 327 Source ID: Johnson_773 Source: Johnson ### Event 12566 (A1265893) Date: 2/9/1967 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) recommends NICAP’s UFO Evidence to geophysicist [Merle Tuve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle%5FTuve). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 319 Source ID: Eberhart_4200 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12567 (75E55466) Date: 2/9/1967 Description: Saturn shaped object, 50 ft in diameter and 20 ft high (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 11350) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Odessa, DE Source ID: NICAP_DB_3267 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12568 (2CD3D5B9) Date: 2/10/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. CST. A high school teacher saw an unidentified light that changed from red to white to green. The object hovered, then left with a tremendous burst of speed (rapid acceleration). (NICAP report form.). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McCune, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3273 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12569 (DB7F7636) Date: 2/10/1967 Description: Saucer hovers over AEC facility with blue beam (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sandusky, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3274 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12570 (4AEF1B2C) Date: 2/10/1967 Description: 3:42 a.m. Erie County Constable Gary Butler is patrolling in the area of NASA’s Plum Brook Station \[now the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility\] in Sandusky, Ohio, when he sees a bright, bluish disc moving toward the southwest some 2 miles away. As it was disappearing behind some trees, he tries to radio in a report, but experiences some interference. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO over NASA Station,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/036%20MAR-APR%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 12 \(March/April 1967\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_4202 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12571 (A2DC371F) Date: 2/10/1967 End date: 2/11/1967 Description: 11:45 p.m. EST. A number of independent sightings were reported of a reddish, glowing cigar- or football-shaped object either hovering or moving slowly overhead. At about 1:45 a.m. the following morning, in Milford (eastern suburb of Cincinnati), a railroad employee and companion were driving when they noticed a white glowing light in the woods. (McDonald, 1967, Case 8, reprinted in Vaughan, 1995, p. 206; Keyhoe and Lore, 1969a, p. 21, and 1969b, p. 54; Ridge, 1994, p. 21.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cincinnati, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3275 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12572 (467C5EBB) Date: 2/10/1967 Description: 2:20 a.m. EST. A couple saw a metallic-appearing, saucer-shaped object with bright red and white lights (body lights). The object hovered for about 15 minutes and then flew away. A whirring sound was heard. (Hamilton Spectator, Ontario, 2/11/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caledonia, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3270 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12573 (CE2C1452) Date: 2/10/1967 Description: 5:45 p.m. EST. Two separate groups of four and three people, respectively, reported seeing a triangular object with a white light at each apex. The object was silent when hovering but made a rumbling or roaring sound when it moved. EM effects were reported on TV. (Fowler, 1974, p. 344.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Woodstock, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3271 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12574 (FA2A3902) Date: 2/10/1967 Description: 7:30 p.m. CST. A couple saw a round, rotating, 25-foot diameter luminous object which changed color from red to white with occasional flashes of green. The object also had white lights in a triangle on the bottom (body lights). It flew, hovered, and passed over the witnesses. While hovering, a humming or droning sound was heard. (St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Missouri, 2/11/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alton, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3272 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12575 (B6F972E1) Date: 2/10/1967 Description: Several people in Haliburton, Ontario witnessed a large yellow, glowing object fly over at treetop level at 2:30 a.m. It made a loud roaring noise. At 3:42 a.m. an eight-meter wide blue disc was seen hovering very low over the NASA/AEC nuclear facility at the Plum Brook Naval Air Station in Erie County, Ohio. It was seen by a male witness as it was about 1.5 miles away from his car. The disc moved toward the ground and heavy static came over the car radio as he tried to contact his headquarters at the Air Station. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP, citing the Lindsay Post, February 18, 1967; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 185, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1967 Source ID: Johnson_796 Source: Johnson ### Event 12576 (E652CFAC) Date: 2/10/1967 Description: 7:30 p.m. A couple in Alton, Illinois, sees a round, rotating, 25-foot diameter luminous object that changes color from red to white with occasional flashes of green. The object also has white lights in a triangle on the bottom. It flies, hovers, and passes over the witnesses. While hovering, a humming or droning sound is heard. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: St. Louis Globe-Democrat, February 11, 1967 Source ID: Eberhart_4204 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12577 (B0E57305) Date: 2/10/1967 Description: 5:30 p.m. Two separate groups of four and three people in Woodstock, Connecticut, see a triangular object with a white light at each apex. It is moving with its blunt end forward from northeast to southwest at 1,000 feet altitude. The object is silent when hovering but makes a rumbling or roaring sound when it moves. The family TV set reception is disrupted when it passes by. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 135–136 Source ID: Eberhart_4203 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12578 (2FB918E6) Date: 2/10/1967 Description: At 5:30 that same evening a dark, triangular shaped UFO flew blunt-end forward over North Woodstock, Connecticut and hovered over a farm. The object had a white light in each corner, and was quiet when hovering, but made a roaring sound when it moved off. Television interference was also reported during the sighting. At the same time in nearby Worcester, Massachusetts a UFO with three bright lights hovered over a house. The refrigerator contents reportedly froze, and the color TV set in the house had the color fade out of the picture during the encounter. After five minutes the UFO flew south, stopped briefly, and then sped away. Ninety minutes later two UFOs were seen circling low over a house in Mahopec, Putnam County, New York. Six human-appearing occupants were seen on board the craft, and one of them appeared to wave at the two witnesses, who drove their car following the UFO. Reportedly one of the witnesses received a telepathic message from the occupants. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: The Hartford Courant, February 11, 1967; Worcester Gazette, February 20, 1967; Fred Dennis, on-site investigation, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1556 Source ID: Johnson_797 Source: Johnson ### Event 12579 (DAE6FDB0) Date: 2/11/1967 Description: At 1:45 a.m. Miss Hildebrand, age 19, and Michael McKee fled when they saw a large shiny object off to the side of the road in Milford, Ohio. Returning a short while later to the scene with a policeman they found broken branches at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 817 Source ID: Johnson_824 Source: Johnson ### Event 12580 (CF49EFCE) Date: 2/11/1967 Time: 0145 Description: Miss Hildebrand, 19, and Michael McKee fled when they saw a large shiny object off the road. Returning to the scene with a policeman, the found broken branches at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Jan., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Milford, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_817 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12581 (48A1BF07) Date: 2/11/1967 Description: Night. An engineer and his wife saw a cylinder with a string of red and white lights (body lights). A steady light beam was emitted from the bottom. The object descended rapidly, then rose again. (Westport News, Conn., 2/16/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenwich, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3276 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12582 (3E637EED) Date: 2/12/1967 Description: 6:10 p.m. A man saw a bright white object that looked like a welding arc hovering over power lines. It was blindingly bright and brought tears to his eyes. (The Hartford Courant, Conn., 2/14/67, copy in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives files.). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Willington, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3281 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12583 (61D66FEC) Date: 2/12/1967 Description: 6:00 p.m. EST. Two known witnesses (plus other curious motorists) stopped to observe a bright white glowing object that had a red light on each side (body lights) hovering just off the road. (Fowler, 1974, p. 344.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kensington, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3280 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12584 (DF3B6A81) Date: 2/12/1967 Description: At 6:00 p.m. a silent, white glowing object hovered just over Highway 15 in Kensington, Connecticut. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 344 Source ID: Johnson_865 Source: Johnson ### Event 12585 (F9AB5268) Date: 2/12/1967 Description: The witness, a civilian named Atkinson, first heard a "chirping"noise at between 3:30-3:40 a.m., then saw four glowing oval-shaped objects in the sky over Grand Rapids, Michigan. Three were in a line formation while the fourth was off to one side. The UFOs went behind some buildings. The case is listed as a Project Blue "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 11355; Condon Colorado UFO Study, case N1030, citing NICAP; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54 Source ID: Johnson_864 Source: Johnson ### Event 12586 (8D2CA286) Date: 2/12/1967 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a domed disc with rotating colored lights was sighted from an apartment building in Wharton, Texas. The disc skimmed over the treetops and performed other maneuvers. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files; Condon Colorado UFO Study, case N1022, citing NICAP; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 9, 152 Source ID: Johnson_866 Source: Johnson ### Event 12587 (3E8326A7) Date: 2/12/1967 Description: Domed disc with revolving lights at bottom edge flew over car just above phone lines. Later at treetop level, stopped, banked, and took off Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Wharton, TX Source ID: HallUFOE2_116 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12588 (F0CC39A7) Date: 2/12/1967 Description: 4 fluorescent, football-shaped objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 11355) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grand Rapids, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3277 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12589 (0BAE23F7) Date: 2/12/1967 Description: Evening. Many people, including an airport manager, saw a bell-shaped object with bright light in the dome and revolving red, green, blue, and amber lights at the bottom edge (body lights). The object flew over the witness's car just above phone wires along the road, appearing big enough to cover the highway. It was later seen at tree-top level, where it hovered, banked, and took off. (Hall, 2001, p. 160; Houston Chronicle, Texas, 2/15/67.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wharton, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3278 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12590 (5BE411A3) Date: 2/12/1967 Description: Night. A man saw a basically red object that also emitted some bright green light. The object maneuvered and reportedly landed on ice for up to 20 minutes. It also hovered over a theater. A power failure occurred about the same time. (Fairbanks News-Miner, Alaska, 2/14/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barrow, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3279 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12591 (C1FBD7DC) Date: 2/12/1967 Time: 3:40 AM Description: Witness: Mr. Lou Atkinson. Four fluorescent, football-shaped objects, a dull, almost grey luminous color; flew northeast in a very rigid formation for 4-10 seconds. Made a chirping noise. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_564 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12592 (34DB90A3) Date: 2/13/1967 Description: At 7:15 p.m. an object with three lights in a triangle buzzed a car in Davis, California. It tipped up, revealing a disc-like base with a central red light, and 5-6 dimmer white lights. The object turned and sped away to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 327; James E. McDonald talk to American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 22, 1967, case 7 Source ID: Johnson_896 Source: Johnson ### Event 12593 (7D347D0D) Date: 2/13/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. PST. An ex-Air Force man with pilot training saw a bright light for 25 minutes which maneuvered and seemed to pace his car. (NICAP report form, Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Woodland, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3285 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12594 (8DDB521E) Date: 2/13/1967 Description: 7:15 p.m. PST. Two women driving home saw an object that came within 100 yards of their car. The initial light resolved itself into three huge lights in a triangular formation. (NICAP report form; McDonald, 1967, case 7; reprinted in Vaughan, 1995, pp. 205-6.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Davis, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3284 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12595 (7EFCEC30) Date: 2/13/1967 Description: The engine and headlights of a pickup truck failed simultaneously in Big Fork, Montana at around ten o'clock in the evening. The witnesses stepped out of the vehicle and saw a blue-green light overhead, which changed to a reddish-orange color. They felt a great deal of heat. As the light moved away to the right side of the road, the engine of the truck re-started by itself. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 187, citing Brad Steiger & Joan Whritenour, The New UFO Breakthrough Source ID: Johnson_895 Source: Johnson ### Event 12596 (17615E44) Date: 2/13/1967 Description: A witness driving alone at 10:55 p.m. between Ashington and Peg's Wood, Northumberland, England felt a prickly feeling as he sighted a UFO nearby. There was heavy static on the car radio simultaneous with the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 186, citing CONTACT (UK) Source ID: Johnson_894 Source: Johnson ### Event 12597 (2461AB9C) Date: 2/13/1967 Description: Early Evening. A man saw a large round red object with a searchlight (light beam) directed downwards that was sweeping the ground. The object moved slowly at first, then accelerated. (Letter dated 2/22/67 in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tabor, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3283 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12598 (608F2098) Date: 2/13/1967 Description: 10:00 p.m. Mrs. James Thompson is driving through Bigfork, Montana, with her two children when her pickup’s engine fails and the lights go out. Getting out, she sees overhead an intense greenish-blue light. She feels heat coming from the object. It changes direction abruptly, veering to the right as it changes to reddish-orange. As it moves away, the truck starts up on its own. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour, New UFO Breakthrough, Universal, 1968, [p. 40](https://archive.org/details/newufobreakthrou0000stei/page/40/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4206 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12599 (D585A5FB) Date: 2/13/1967 Description: 5:58 p.m. Sachio Sakuma is taking photographs of the Moon with a Petri V6 camera in Tokyo, Japan. On developing one image, he finds a luminous, oval-shaped object with a slight trail a short distance above the lunar crescent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Report from Japan,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_4205 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12600 (6A8592EF) Date: 2/13/1967 Description: 12:30 p.m. PST. A witness watching aircraft first saw a white disc passing overhead at high speed. Three other discs then appeared from different directions and fell in behind the first (rendezvous). The last one was black. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Novato, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3282 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12601 (20A6A365) Date: 2/14/1967 Description: In Tuscumbia, Missouri at seven o'clock in the morning a Mr. Edwards saw a disc hovering just off ground. It was apparently resting on a shaft in a muddy field, and was rocking back and forth. Several small humanoid beings, grayish green in color, moved around rapidly beneath it. The creatures had very wide set eyes and no visible legs, but they did have quick moving arms. After about five minutes they disappeared behind the shaft, the object rocked, took off, then sped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 5; Ted R. Phillips, Skylook, August 1975, p. 15; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0785, citing Skylook; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 118; Coral E. Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 191; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 9, 327 Source ID: Johnson_916 Source: Johnson ### Event 12602 (651CE900) Date: 2/14/1967 Description: 8:20 p.m. CST. A woman saw an object shaped like a derby hat (domed disc) with a metallic sheen. The object hovered, then flew low over trees, remaining visible for 3-4 minutes. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: West Frankfort, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3291 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12603 (071CF250) Date: 2/14/1967 Description: 7:50-8:30 p.m. CST. Two women saw a house-sized oval object with red, green, and blue blinking lights (body lights). The object hovered at about 40-50 feet altitude. Later it maneuvered around a U.S. Air Force plane that was searching for it, directed by one of the women via telephone. According to the newspaper report, the pilot was unable to see the object. (Kansas City Star, 2/16/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lee's Summit, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3290 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12604 (639F489E) Date: 2/14/1967 Description: 7:00 a.m. CE-III. A disc-shaped object was seen resting on a shaft in a field. Small beings were reportedly moving around rapidly beneath it. They disappeared behind the shaft, the object rocked back and forth, took off, and sped away. (UFOE II, p. 327) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jefferson City, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3287 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12605 (FF931CA7) Date: 2/14/1967 Description: Time not reported. A saucer-shaped object (disc) with blinking red lights (body lights) forced a car off the road. It returned and hovered in view of many witnesses, landing in a nearby field. Marks were found in the snow (physical traces) at the landing spot next day. (Letter dated 2/23/67 in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hannon, Ontario, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3286 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12606 (26A40D0E) Date: 2/14/1967 Description: Disc-shaped object in field, small beings moved around beneath it. Beings disappeared behind shaft, object sped away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Jefferson City, MO Source ID: HallUFOE2_117 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12607 (BF2F0DFC) Date: 2/14/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. EST (8:00 p.m. CST). A woman saw a triangular object with green lights at two points and a red light at the third (body lights). It moved across the sky and then returned to its original position (maneuvered). (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Abington, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3292 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12608 (E7A8C3A9) Date: 2/14/1967 Description: 7:00 a.m. A farmer in Miller County, Missouri, notices that his cows are all staring in one direction. He goes to investigate and sees a landed object about 360 feet away. He sees several entities moving around it, so he picks up some stones and approaches it. From about 30 feet away, the object looks like a hovering parachute or a grayish-green shell. The creatures, apparently wearing overalls, scurry behind the craft and go inside. The farmer throws one stone, but it stops in midair about 15 feet away and drops to the ground. He throws the other stone to try to strike the top of the object, but it bounces off something. When he gets to 15 feet away, he walks into an invisible wall and can’t see the object at all. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CUFOS case file Source ID: Eberhart_4207 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12609 (AC607EC4) Date: 2/14/1967 Description: 6:45 p.m. EST. Two women and other family members saw a silvery disc, with porthole-like openings visible around the perimeter. Rays of light (light beams) occasionally were emitted from these openings in a variety of colors. The object hovered, then moved off making a sound like a strong wind. (Morgantown Dominion News, West Virginia, 2/15/67, copy in NICAP files; undated Kalapaca investigation report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Suncrest, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_3289 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12610 (F318DAC4) Date: 2/14/1967 Description: 6:30 p.m. PST (8:30 p.m.). A woman saw a cigar-shaped object with rotating red, green, orange, and white lights (body lights). The object both hovered and darted around in various directions. The witness could see its reflection in the lake. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bellingham, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3288 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12611 (FFEE50C0) Date: 2/15/1967 Description: Night. A Guatemalan Aviateca airliner piloted by Col. Alfredo Castaneda and Col. Carlos Samyoa encounters an object like a flying top as they are flying over Mexico at 10,000 feet. They put the aircraft into a sharp turn in order to avoid a collision, just before the object zooms out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 25 Source ID: Eberhart_4208 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12612 (514ECB44) Date: 2/15/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. Widespread reports from Arizona, Tennessee, and Texas of a prominent fiery object shedding sparks and leaving a trail. A loud sound, flames, falling debris reported. Estimated duration 1-2 minutes. \[Note: Positively identified as a satellite re-entry.\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arizona, Tennessee and Texas, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_3294 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12613 (6F78F63A) Date: 2/15/1967 Description: 8:10-8:40 p.m.. CST. A teacher's car was followed by a flashing red light at various distances (car pacing). Two of the witness's students confirmed the report. (Letter dated 2/17/67 in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Denton, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3293 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12614 (131F1AEA) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: 10:15 p.m. EST. Three independent reports from five witnesses (including two policemen) of a glowing bright white, light-bulb-shaped object that hovered in the sky, ejected a small red object, moved back and forth, then suddenly accelerated away. A swishing sound was reported. (Fowler, 1974, p. 344.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Amherst, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3298 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12615 (A61C97DB) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: 11:00 p.m. EST. A very bright luminous orange obiect rose out of the woods, its glow illuminating the terrain (environmental illumination). The object followed two women in a car on U.S. 1 south of the city, disappearing after about 5 minutes. (Hitt, 1999.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Augusta, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3300 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12616 (73B7A79E) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: 10:40 p.m. CST (11:40 p.m. EST). Three witnesses, one identified as a colonel, saw a bright object which appeared to drip white phosphorus-like fire. The object was stationary for 4 minutes and then faded out. (Topeka Daily Capital 2/18/67, copy in NICAP files.) \[Note: Very likely a flare- or candle-carrying hot-air balloon hoax.\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Topeka, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3299 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12617 (D7EDD89E) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: At 10:15 p.m. EST two policemen witnessed a glowing object like a bright light bulb hovering in the sky over a rural part of Amherst, Massachusetts. It ejected a small red object that moved back and forth before suddenly accelerating out of sight over the horizon. The UFO made a swishing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 344; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 164 Source ID: Johnson_946 Source: Johnson ### Event 12618 (F2D4CB84) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: 11:43 p.m. S/Sgt Max Recod and his wife are driving along Route 66 south of Kingman, Arizona, when they see a formation of four lights, three red and one green, approaching their car at low altitude. The lights are attached to an object that emits a light beam from its bottom center that moves around and illuminates the desert. The lights disappear, but a few minutes later the UFO reappears from behind a hill a mile away, followed by two white lights flying in step formation, one of which lands or nearly lands. The remaining light merges with the large object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sighting Evidence Grows,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/039%20NOV-DEC%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 3 \(Nov./Dec. 1967\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_4209 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12619 (CE5B0511) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: An oval-shaped flying object with three red lights, one green one, and multiple rows of windows flew over US Route 66 in the desert south of Kingman, Arizona at 11:43 p.m. at under 300 feet altitude. As the UFO passed over the highway the car being driven by the witnesses, Mr. & Mrs. Max Recod, was illuminated by a beam of light that also lit up the surrounding terrain. Two other white lights joined the first UFO; they merged with the oval-shaped UFO, then shot up into the sky and away at an extremely fast speed. Mr. Recod is listed as a military witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, November-December 1967, pp. 1,3; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. UFOs: A New Look, p. 44; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328 Source ID: Johnson_948 Source: Johnson ### Event 12620 (CBA64FDC) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: 7:15 p.m. A woman saw a round, white shiny object with a ring of orange stars around it at treetop level. The object stopped, hovered, and bobbed around. (Letter in NICAP files.) (Ogdensburg Journal, N.Y., 2/17/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bombay, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3297 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12621 (C3076AA7) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: Raymond Wettling said that in the early morning hours a 180 foot long, cigar-shaped UFO landed in a field beside Interstate 70 near St. Louis, Missouri. Three silver-suited occupants emerged from the craft and invited him aboard for breakfast. He said he spent a pleasant hour and 45 minutes chatting with them inside their craft, over coffee. His hosts showed him through the craft's two rooms. One was lit up with bright red lights, the other looked like a modern office. After he left the ship, it took off straight up at a high rate of speed. No one else reported seeing it, but there was another UFO landing that evening near Weston, Missouri (see below). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chicago American, February 17, 1967; Dennis Stamey, Flying Saucers, June 1970, p. 36; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-18 (A0786), citing the Chicago American Source ID: Johnson_945 Source: Johnson ### Event 12622 (67CA14BB) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: A UFO was tracked by radar and witnessed visually flying over Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean at 1:05 a.m. local Time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_944 Source: Johnson ### Event 12623 (EC5CB38B) Date: 2/16/1967 Time: 9:11 PM Description: Witness: Miss Lynn Marsh. One light with faded edges seemed to follow observer in her car for 5-6 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Stoughton, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_565 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12624 (C947C331) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: 6:00 p.m. EST. A woman saw a big round light that moved and hovered, then shot out of sight. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Towanda, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3295 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12625 (C9652885) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: 7:00 p.m. EST. A woman saw a large round white light with a ring of stars. The color changed and the shape changed to oval. The object was low near a barn and slowly disappeared over the horizon to west. Dogs barked wildly (animal reaction). (Letter from witness, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Helena, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3296 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12626 (F44B9E7C) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: A male witness reported that a UFO landed east of Weston, Missouri in Platte County near Hwy. P at 8:30 p.m. not far from the Missouri River. This report is potentially an important sighting, because it is at the intersection of two orthotenic lines of three UFO reports each, from as far west as Yorba Linda, California and as far east as Ascension Island, occurring on this date. To see a map, [Map unavailable]. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Skylook, August 1970, p. 3 for Weston, Missouri; Ann Druffel, Skynet case files, report dated July 11, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_947 Source: Johnson ### Event 12627 (5457B449) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: A light with faded edges follow car (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 11383) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stoughton, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3302 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12628 (56E587F7) Date: 2/16/1967 Description: 11:45 p.m. MST. A soldier and his wife saw an pval object with red and green body lights approach their car at low altitude late on a cloudy night. The ground was illuminated (environmental illumination) by a moving light beam emitted from its bottom center. (Letter from witness, 9/14/67, NICAP files; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 3, Nov.- Dec.. 1967, p. 3; Keyhoe and Lore, 1969a, p.44). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kingman, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3301 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12629 (74F9DF7C) Date: 2/17/1967 Alternate date: 2/18/1967 Description: Around 10:00 p.m. Contactee [Stella V. Lansing](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gazettenet/obituary.aspx?n=stella-v-lansing-murphy&pid=160113746&fhid=15490) takes motion picture footage on a borrowed Keystone 8mm Capri camera of some yellow-orange lights on Ware Road near the junctions of Old Warren Road and Flynt Street in Palmer, Massachusetts. Suddenly a white light shoots upward in a zigzag motion and she is able to film some of its maneuvers. Subsequent frames seem to show low-contrast images of four human-like beings apparently conversing. Lansing is later studied by New Jersey psychiatrist [Berthold E. Schwarz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold%5FE.%5FSchwarz), who finds her repeat UFO sightings, further UFO films, and photographs showing superimposed clock-like patterns a subject of some interest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [pp. 202–204](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/202/mode/2up); Berthold Eric Schwarz, “[Stella Lansing’s UFO Motion Pictures,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201972%20V%2018%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1972\): 3–12, 20; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “[Stella Lansing’s Movies:](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201973%20N%205%2CUFO%20Encounters.pdf) [Four Entities and a Possible UFO,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201973%20N%205%2CUFO%20Encounters.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Encounters, special issue no. 5 of FSR, November 1973, pp. 3–9; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “[Stella Lansing’s Clocklike UFO Patterns,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 4 \(January 1975\): 3–9; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “[Stella Lansing’s Clocklike UFO Patterns—Part](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%205.pdf) [2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 5 \(March 1975\): 20–27; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “[Stella Lansing’s Clocklike](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%206.pdf) [UFO Patterns—Part 3,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 6 \(April 1975\): 18–22; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “[Stella](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%201.pdf) [Lansing’s Clocklike UFO Patterns—Part 4,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 1 \(June 1975\): 14–17; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “UFO Contactee Stella Lansing: Possible Medical Implications of Her Motion Picture Experiments,” Journal of the American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry and Medicine 23, no. 2 \(1976\): 60–68 Source ID: Eberhart_4210 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12630 (A564D5EE) Date: 2/17/1967 Description: At 1:05 a.m. in Dorchester, Massachusetts a metallic domed disc-shaped object with 4-5 purple lights around its perimeter hovered at treetop level over a rest home for the elderly before moving away. At 6:55 p.m. in Lawrence, Massachusetts a dazzlingly bright V-shaped object, with a variety of body lights, hovered low over the interstate highway for three minutes. The witness drove under it. There were a series of other, similar reports close by at Methuen and Andover at about the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 344; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328 Source ID: Johnson_962 Source: Johnson ### Event 12631 (53E77E93) Date: 2/17/1967 Description: 8:15 p.m. EST. Three yellow-reddish-orange globes of light moving with a smooth gliding motion were seen within 50 feet of a power line. The objects sometimes bounced up and down, and they moved away as a car approached. (Haines, 1994, p. 114; from Story, 1980, p. 202.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palmer, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3306 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12632 (7FAB2FCA) Date: 2/17/1967 Description: 7:45 p.m. An electrical engineer and his wife going south on Route 93 saw a loose cluster of 8-9 red, green, and white lights apparently on an object at low altitude and moving very slowly. A bright white light was at the bottom of the cluster (body lights). The object, going NE, passed over the road. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 12, March-April 1967, p. 6). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lawrence, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3305 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12633 (52FF2436) Date: 2/17/1967 Description: About 6:55 p.m. An airline salesman driving on route 93 slowed his car as he saw an object hovering silently just over the road. Uncomfortably, he drove underneath it and saw other people in cars looking at it. (Massachusetts NICAP Subcommittee Report, NICAP files; Project Blue Book files, National Archives; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol.. Ill, No. 12, March-April 1967, p. 6; Fowler, 1974, p. 344.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Andover, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3304 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12634 (58571A4A) Date: 2/17/1967 Description: 6:55 p.m. EST. A witness saw a cymbal-shaped object (disc) with a dome on top and 4-5 purplish lights around its perimeter (body lights). The object hovered at treetop height over a housing project for the elderly, then moved away. It made a whirring/beeping sound, which two other people also heard. (Fowler, 1974, p. 344.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dorchester, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3303 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12635 (C0DCCB6E) Date: 2/18/1967 Description: At 4:30 p.m. a cigar-shaped object was seen accompanied by two smaller satellite objects in Chatsworth, Georgia. At 5:45 p.m. west of Syracuse, New York Jerome and Cohen sighted a UFO that left a vapor trail. The object fell downwards, curved until it straightened up its descent, and then vanished. Jerome took two color slides that show a dark smoke or vapor trail. At 9:00 p.m. a coin shaped object surmounted by an orange glow that flickered floated in the sky above West Sacramento, California at a 45 degree angle. It then appeared to approach the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP investigation files, Syracuse report dated February 24, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_981 Source: Johnson ### Event 12636 (0EDB7878) Date: 2/18/1967 Description: 5:30 p.m. EST. A man saw two glowing ovals that hovered, accelerated, and vanished into a funnel-shaped cloud. The objects were viewed through binoculars. (NICAP report form.). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carmel, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3308 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12637 (6B40A899) Date: 2/18/1967 Description: 4:30 p.m. EST. Three people saw a shiny cigar-shaped object along with two round objects for several minutes. The objects hovered, then accelerated away. "Low roaring sound" heard. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chatsworth, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3307 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12638 (04BE206D) Date: 2/19/1967 Description: At 4:30 p.m. Mrs. Lambert and Mrs. Rigel watched a gun-metal gray blunt oval shaped disc, about 25 feet in diameter with a rough bottom, hovering at 20 feet altitude over a plaza in Hollywood, Florida. It had a row of revolving green lights, a row of yellow windows, and an antenna. The heads of people could be seen looking out from inside the windows of the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0789; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328 Source ID: Johnson_997 Source: Johnson ### Event 12639 (43520A43) Date: 2/19/1967 Description: On this night some prominent local citizens had a close encounter with a 50-60 foot wide domed disc-shaped object with a large window on top and a band of colored lights on the bottom. It crossed the highway in Lane City, Texas just 54 meters ahead of the car at treetop level. It then stopped and hovered, and finally sped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Houston Tribune, 19670223; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328 & 452 Source ID: Johnson_998 Source: Johnson ### Event 12640 (50A0137E) Date: 2/19/1967 Description: Dog alerts owner to near-ground object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [670219](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-670219.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ozarks, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3312 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12641 (DBD3990C) Date: 2/19/1967 Description: Night. A series of independent sightings was reported overnight southwest of Houston near the Gulf coast in Wharton, Bay City, and Lane City. Witnesses included businessmen and prominent citizens. Exact times generally were not specified. (Houston Tribune, Texas, 2/23/67, copy in NICAP files and in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wharton, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3311 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12642 (EAF79AC5) Date: 2/19/1967 Description: 4:30 p.m. EST. Two people saw a gun-metal gray oval object hovering 20 feet high. The object had a rough bottom, a row of revolving green lights (body lights), a row of shield-shaped yellow-lit windows, and "antenna." Heads of people (occupants) were seen in the windows. (Hollywood Sun-Tattler 3/11/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hollywood, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3310 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12643 (0E45C6AA) Date: 2/19/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. EST. Two police officers saw and pursued a large orange glowing object that moved with a fluttering side-to-side (oscillatory) motion. The object moved fast, hovered, moved slowly, and changed color to pink. (Worcester Evening Gazette, Mass. 2/20/67, and Hartford Courant, 2/21/67, copies in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Putnam, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3309 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12644 (914E8F3B) Date: 2/20/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. A woman saw a bright lighted object speed in and hover under a power line, then retrace its approach path (reverse direction) as it left. House lights dimmed (EM effects) while the light hovered. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Limerick, Saskatchewan, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3317 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12645 (9837EAC1) Date: 2/20/1967 Description: 9:10 p.m. EST. A Salvation Army Director while driving saw an object with airplane-like lights (body lights), but it then acquired a brilliant glow and flame was emitted from one end. The object hovered over the car, then sped away. (Binghampton Sun Bulletin, 2/21/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Binghampton, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3316 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12646 (C1E9F3CA) Date: 2/20/1967 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)[,](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf)[,](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) William Price of AFRSTA\(?\), and [Thomas Ratchford](https://www.aaas.org/archives/j-thomas-ratchford-files), USAF senior scientist, visit the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center in Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia, to meet with its founder [Arthur C. Lundahl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FC.%5FLundahl) and acquaint themselves with the CIA’s analysis capabilities. NPIC personnel will be available to perform work of a “photogrammatic nature, such as attempting to measure objects imaged on photographs,” but it will be strictly technical and no written comments or documentation is to be made public. After lunch, the group meets in the Pentagon with Brig. Gen. [Edward B. Giller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FB.%5FGiller), director of the AF Special Weapons Center at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Arthur C. Lundahl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FC.%5FLundahl\#Unidentified%5FFlying%5FObjects)”; ClearIntent, [pp. 141–142](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/140/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4211 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12647 (3480186A) Date: 2/20/1967 Description: Evening. Three bank employees in the Wharton area watched a moving red light that when viewed through binoculars appeared to be a saucer-shaped object, like two incandescent platters inverted one on top of the other and glued together at the rims. The object was flashing red, blue, yellow, and white lights (body lights). It hovered over smoke-stacks, shot up at a 90 degree angle, then dove and retraced its pattern several times. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wharton, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3315 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12648 (5BB1D8C6) Date: 2/20/1967 Description: 5:45 p.m. EST. A man saw a bright light with smaller associated lights above it (satellite objects). The larger object swung like a pendulum (oscillation), then suddenly accelerated away. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Laconia, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3314 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12649 (166ADA8B) Date: 2/20/1967 Description: An orange red object fly parallel to a truck (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 11394) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oxford, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3313 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12650 (AA4CB43B) Date: 2/20/1967 Description: At 3:10 a.m. an orange-red dome-shaped object descended from the sky in Oxford, Wisconsin and flew parallel to a truck for two minutes, finally going behind some trees. The truck was driven by a US Air Force veteran. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 11394; J. Allen Hynek case files; Don Berliner, Australasian UFOlogist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328 Source ID: Johnson_1022 Source: Johnson ### Event 12651 (F3D1F954) Date: 2/20/1967 Time: 3:10 AM Description: Witness: USAF veteran/truck driver Stanton Summer. One orange-red object flew parallel to truck for 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Oxford, Wisconsin Source ID: BerlinerBBU_566 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12652 (0B6BE161) Date: 2/21/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. Sherry Kohler is driving east on Western Avenue in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, when she sees a greenish spherical object with a wispy white trail flying at airplane speed on her right side for about 10 seconds. A second witness, [Richard R. Dern Sr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/160081043/richard-roland-dern), sees a similar object about 10 minutes later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1967%5F02%5F21%5FUS%5FWI%5FSheboygan-Falls%5FNICAP%5FKohler-Dern.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_4212 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12653 (92A3AA5D) Date: 2/21/1967 Description: Two hours after the Toledo close encounter, another close encounter involving electromagnetic effects and physical traces occurred in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. At 8:40 p.m. CST dogs began yelping when a UFO flew by fast and low. The object's light went out, and the object dropped to the ground. A high-pitched whine with an undertone of humming occurred later for 30 seconds. A 15 foot in diameter ice area was found at the landing site, which caused a compass to spin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files, report by W. Martiny Source ID: Johnson_1034 Source: Johnson ### Event 12654 (13A2E198) Date: 2/21/1967 Description: Mrs. Wolf, a nurse, was driving down a road in Toledo, Ohio at 7:40 p.m. EST when she had a close encounter with an orange-yellowish flattened sphere. It hovered over the road at treetop height, pulsating, and then emitted a wide beam of light downward. It started pacing her car. Her speedometer was affected and her wristwatch stopped. She also reported that as a result of the close encounter her skin condition cleared up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files, letter dated March 8, 1967; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 199, 267 & 328-329 Source ID: Johnson_1033 Source: Johnson ### Event 12655 (BA2F8925) Date: 2/21/1967 Description: 9:55 a.m. CST. A rancher saw a glowing disc at low altitude. The object was viewed for 10 minutes, until it shot straight up making an impossible L-shaped maneuver. (Houston Tribune, 2/23/67, copy in NICAP files and in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hungerford, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3318 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12656 (ACAE3DD3) Date: 2/21/1967 Description: 12:45 p.m. EST (11:45 a.m. CST). A man along with his mother saw a metallic- appearing object that hovered, circled (maneuvered), then accelerated and flew away rapidly. (Letter dated 3/25/67 in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Parkville, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3319 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12657 (99CF1F3E) Date: 2/21/1967 Description: 7:40 p.m. EST. A registered nurse encountered a large pulsating orange-yellow ball of light that flattened out and changed color to pink-red, and hovered over the highway at treetop height emitting a ray of light (light beam) toward the ground. EM effects were noted on the speedometer and on her new wristwatch, which stopped for several days. (Letter dated 3/8/67 in NICAP) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3320 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12658 (2111737D) Date: 2/21/1967 Description: 8:35-9:00 p.m. CST. Two people saw a brilliant white cylinder that moved up and down, and back and forth, with a "quivering" motion. The object flew off, returned, hovered again, changed color to glowing red and departed. It then returned, hovered again for 3 minutes, and finally sped away. (Winfield Daily Courier 2/23/67, copy in NICAP files.) \[Note: There is a Titan II ICBM Missile site located near Winfield.\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winfield, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3321 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12659 (A6F67092) Date: 2/22/1967 Description: Dogs excited/fearful of oval with lights (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [670222](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-670222.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milton, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3323 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12660 (EBA29FD1) Date: 2/22/1967 Time: night Description: G. Grammond saw an object with flashing red and green lights glide, circle, and land in a field. He saw it again spinning in the northeast when he came out with two other witnesses 5 min later. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 67, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chippenham, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_818 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12661 (0ADEAFA6) Date: 2/22/1967 Description: 6:30 a.m. As Mrs. James A. Clevenger stands by her kitchen sink in Milton, Indiana, her collie dog jumps against the window and races around, barking and jumping. She notices an oval object with a row of bright lights. She lets the frightened dog inside and it promptly hides. She goes out to the end of her front walk and sees the UFO moving slowly at 100–200 feet altitude, following the course of a creek. She runs inside and calls her neighbor Mrs. Judd Alford, who can see a ring of white lights at 200 feet. Her fox terrier runs inside at full speed and hides under a chair. The object disappears behind trees a few minutes later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, p. 34 Source ID: Eberhart_4213 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12662 (36AFD507) Date: 2/22/1967 Description: On this night Mr. G. Grammond of Chippenham, England saw an object with flashing red and green lights glide, circle, and then land in a field. He saw it again spinning in the northeast when he came out with two other witnesses five minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 818 Source ID: Johnson_1048 Source: Johnson ### Event 12663 (1BC245A2) Date: 2/22/1967 Description: On this morning at 6:30 a.m. a flying disc was seen at low level over a farm in Milton, Ohio by Mrs. Clevenger. Her dogs reacted strongly to the presence of the UFO. The encounter lasted several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 34; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 279 Source ID: Johnson_1047 Source: Johnson ### Event 12664 (FAC9D4A6) Date: 2/22/1967 Description: Evening. A minister and his wife saw two airborne lights like headlights along with other colored lights. (Richmond Palldium-ltem, Ind., 3/3/67, copy in NICAP files; Keyhoe and Lore, 1969b, p. 34.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hagerstown, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3322 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12665 (811A6D12) Date: 2/23/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. MST (9:00 p.m. CST). A milk truck driver saw a luminous orange object that paced his truck. When he stopped his truck and turned the lights off, the object shot straight up and out of sight. (Salisbury, 1974, Table 1, Case 41F.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boneta, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3325 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12666 (0F40392F) Date: 2/23/1967 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) MG-13 Radar Confirms Two Separate Visuals (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [670223](http://www.nicap.org/670223glaskow%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glasgow AFB, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3324 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12667 (540E0E5D) Date: 2/23/1967 Description: Lt. Col. [Robert Hippler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65715202/robert-r-hippler) says that Secretary of the Air Force [Harold Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FBrown%5F%28Secretary%5Fof%5FDefense%29) has established the policy that all USAF information on UFOs classified up to and including Secret is to be provided to the University of Colorado project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Declassification of UFO Reports](http://www.nicap.org/waves/670223declassreps.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4214 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12668 (30BB4BFA) Date: 2/23/1967 Time: 1030 Description: Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Weston were talking on the phone when they were surprised to hear a very strong sound and saw an object flying low over their area. A third person saw the object, and many heard it. The snow was swirling under it. The object was mushroom-shaped, supported a dome with a fin, was greenish, and left toward the Severn River. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 170 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Linstead, Maryland Source ID: Magnonia_819 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12669 (02E67764) Date: 2/23/1967 Description: At 9:30 p.m. CST a red oval object hovered first over a truck, then over the witness's car in Marion, Illinois. A glowing halo surrounded the object. It sped away after a few minutes. The city has industries that manufacture explosives and batteries, and has several coal mines. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 329, citing NICAP Source ID: Johnson_1064 Source: Johnson ### Event 12670 (15F01073) Date: 2/23/1967 Description: At 10:30 a.m. Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Weston were talking on the phone in Linstead, Maryland when they were surprised to hear a very loud noise and saw a low flying object pass over their area. A third person also saw the object and many others heard it. The falling snow was swirling underneath it. The object was mushroom-shaped and it supported a dome on top and also a fin. It was green in color, and left in the direction of the Severn River. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 819, citing Baltimore News, February 25, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_1062 Source: Johnson ### Event 12671 (B9EC6E90) Date: 2/23/1967 Description: At 8:00 p.m. MST a luminous orange object paced a car in Boneta, Utah for ten minutes, and then shot straight up on departure. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. 39 and Appendix case 41F; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 329 Source ID: Johnson_1063 Source: Johnson ### Event 12672 (C55F8C66) Date: 2/23/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. CST. A woman saw a red oval object surrounded by a pink glow (halo effect). The object hovered over a truck, then over the witness's car after the truck moved away. (Report in NICAP files; Marion Weekly Leader 2/23/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marion, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3327 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12673 (38CDB6D8) Date: 2/23/1967 Description: 8:10 p.m. CST. Two women saw a light so bright it hurt their eyes to look directly at it (brilliant luminosity). The object hovered, accelerated, and appeared to land in a clump of trees. It emitted a constant humming sound. The object disappeared after about 25 minutes. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carterville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3326 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12674 (4576769D) Date: 2/24/1967 Description: Approximate date. An engineer from Osorno, well-known locally, saw an object touch down and a strange being, 1.50 m tall, emerge, wearing a transparent suit. He had a very white face and white hands, a pronounced jawbone, and no apparent nose. Seeing the witness, he got back inside the machine, which took off at great speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 59; Vuillequez ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Riachuelo, Chile Source ID: Magnonia_820 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12675 (92B7EFA9) Date: 2/24/1967 Description: [Paul Santorinis](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B1%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82%5F%CE%A3%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82)[,](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B1%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82%5F%CE%A3%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82) civil engineer of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, gives a lecture to the Greek Astronautical Society, stating that a “world blanket of secrecy” surrounds UFO reports and describes his experience with ghost rockets over Greece in 1946. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 23](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/22/mode/2up); Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 117](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/116/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4215 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12676 (9121D7D8) Date: 2/24/1967 Description: A well-known engineer in Osorno, Chile, sees a disc-shaped object land near him. Seconds after touching down, a strange being, about 4.5 feet tall and wearing a transparent outfit, emerges. It has a white face and hands, a pronounced jawbone, and no neck. When it sees the man looking, it gets back into the object and takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 59 Source ID: Eberhart_4216 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12677 (AE0A367C) Date: 2/24/1967 Description: G,V, FAA tracked 2-mins (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlantic City, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3329 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12678 (ECFF9D7A) Date: 2/24/1967 Description: 10:00 p.m. EST. Two members of a family saw a glowing orange object, also seen separately by an Ontario provincial policeman. The policeman described it as a "flashing orangey-colored object." (London Free Press, Ontario, 2/27/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lucan, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3328 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12679 (57C440A2) Date: 2/25/1967 Description: 7:02 p.m. CST. Seven witnesses saw three "brushed aluminum" discs with a row of lights or ports around the edges. At one point the lead disc glowed red like molten iron, then the glow diminished. The three objects banked into a turn in unison. (Air Force Intelligence Report in Colorado Project and in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minneapolis, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3330 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12680 (687F5C29) Date: 2/25/1967 Description: At 7:02 p.m. in Minneapolis, Minnesota seven people sighted three "brushed aluminum" disc-shaped objects with a row of lights or ports around the center of each. The objects banked into a turn, whereupon the lead disc glowed red one time, appearing like molten iron, then the glow diminished. The three objects banked into the turn in unison. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 329 Source ID: Johnson_1103 Source: Johnson ### Event 12681 (FE56ACE3) Date: 2/25/1967 Description: In Sioux City, Iowa at 5:25 p.m., Fargo, North Dakota at 7:50 p.m., and Syracuse, New York at 6:05 p.m. UFO photographs were taken of nocturnal lights. In Fargo two teenagers took two Polaroid photos of a round, possibly disc-shaped UFOs, entirely lit with a plain bright light. The UFOs flew up from a low altitude at a 30-degree angle, sped up, and then flew off quickly toward the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, J. Allen Hynek case files; Fargo Forum, February 25, 1967; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 236; Terence M. Wright, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Flying Saucers, p. 189 Source ID: Johnson_1104 Source: Johnson ### Event 12682 (1BA06EC4) Date: 2/25/1967 Description: In Ann Arbor, Michigan at 7:00 p.m. a married couple sighted three brilliant red lights, each with a blinking green light on top with a hazy blue light preceding it. No structural form was seen between the lights, flew relatively slow, made sweeping turn Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: E.U. Condon University of Colorado UFO study case files, through NICAP Source ID: Johnson_1102 Source: Johnson ### Event 12683 (52BA0827) Date: 2/25/1967 Description: 7:50 p.m. CST. Two teenaged boys saw around or disc-shaped brightly illuminated object. It moved higher gaining speed (accelerated) and flew away to the northeast. (Fargo Forum, 2/25/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fargo, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3331 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12684 (2E00E8CE) Date: 2/25/1967 Description: At 5:40 p.m. in Urbana, Illinois a chemical engineering teaching assistant from the University of Illinois saw a bright unexplained light in the sky that changed color from white to red, dimmed and then went out. The light was first seen in the northern sky and flew toward the west; it rose slightly as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files, report dated February 27, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_1101 Source: Johnson ### Event 12685 (73E27317) Date: 2/25/1967 Description: 7:50 p.m. Two teenage boys in Fargo, North Dakota, see a round or disc-shaped brightly illuminated object only a few feet in diameter. It moves higher, accelerates, and flies away to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Fargo \(N.Dak.\) Forum, February 25, 1967; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 56](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/56/mode/2up); Center for UFO Studies, \[[Hynek correspondence](http://cufos.org/cases/1965-69%5F00%5F00%5FUS%5FIL%5FHynek-AF-letters.pdf)\], pp. 27–29 Source ID: Eberhart_4217 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12686 (F6A50517) Date: 2/26/1967 Description: At 7:30 p.m. nine witnesses including four policemen in Wiarton, southeastern Ontario, Canada saw a bright shining object with body lights changing color from white to green. The UFO appeared to have streamers of light around it. It flitted about, hovered, and then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: London (ON) Free Press, February 27, 1967; NICAP files; Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Summer 1967, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_1132 Source: Johnson ### Event 12687 (408FDCC2) Date: 2/26/1967 Description: 7:45 p.m. EST. Two policemen saw two light-colored saucers of different sizes with associated red flames. The larger object was stationary and the smaller object hovered about it (satellite object). (Dover Daily Reporter, Ohio, 2/28/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coshocton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3336 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12688 (C4B0B7D1) Date: 2/26/1967 Description: At 3:45 p.m. EST a married couple named Young in Abbotsford, Pennsylvania saw a small gray object approach just above the treetops and hover for about two minutes, glowing like white-hot metal and wobbling while stationary. The object moved slowly across the highway, stopped, then finally moved away to the west-southwest and disappeared after five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP report form dated March 28, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_1131 Source: Johnson ### Event 12689 (AEC08B5F) Date: 2/26/1967 Description: At 6:00 p.m. local time a low flying, bullet-shaped object flew over Dublin Airport, Ireland. It gave off blue and yellow flashes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, press clipping dated February 27, 1967; Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_1129 Source: Johnson ### Event 12690 (36139DEE) Date: 2/26/1967 Description: and some other countries. 6:30-9:30 P.M. Objects with streams of lights, erratic motions. No USAF unknowns or Colorado Project cases for this date. Suspected extraordinary phenomenon (meteor train?) or military maneuvers. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Across U.S Source ID: HallUFOE2_118 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12691 (D9BDAB8C) Date: 2/26/1967 Description: At 7:45 p.m. two policemen, Edie and Border, in Coshocton, Ohio saw two light-colored saucers of different sizes with associated red flames. The larger object was stationary and the smaller satellite object moved about it. The two objects moved in and out of sight together. Other residents reportedly also had sightings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dover (OH) Daily Reporter, February 28, 1967; NICAP files Source ID: Johnson_1133 Source: Johnson ### Event 12692 (242515D3) Date: 2/26/1967 Description: One hour later, a sound like a car without a muffler woke up a school teacher and her husband in Marlboro, Massachusetts at two o'clock in the morning EST. They looked outside and saw a white glowing egg-shaped object with a red light on each side in the sky, swinging back-and-forth in a pendulum motion making a purring sound. At 6:30 p.m. five people in Oxford, Massachusetts, including a newspaper reporter, saw a bright amber oval-shaped object which at times turned red. The UFO alternately hovered and moved at high speed. The reporter took a photograph of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 345; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 164; (2) Worcester (MA) Evening Gazette, February 27, 1967; NICAP files Source ID: Johnson_1130 Source: Johnson ### Event 12693 (CDFA06C5) Date: 2/26/1967 Description: 2:00-2:20 a.m. EST. A former teacher and her husband were awakened by an intermittent roaring sound. They sighted a white T glowing egg-shaped object with a red light on each side (body lights). Fowler, 1974, p. 345; Massachusetts NICAP Subcommittee report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marlboro, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3332 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12694 (45D15F39) Date: 2/26/1967 Description: 3:45 p.m. EST. A couple saw a small gray object approach just above the treetops and hover for about 2 minutes, glowing like white-hot metal and wobbling while stationary. (NICAP report form, 3/28/67.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Abbotstown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3333 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12695 (E4508877) Date: 2/26/1967 Description: 6:30 p.m. EST. Five people, including a newspaper reporter, saw a bright amber oval which at times turned red. The object alternately hovered and moved at high speed. According to the story, the reporter took a photograph of the object. (Worcester Evening Gazette, 2/27/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oxford, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3334 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12696 (9F4A7FDA) Date: 2/26/1967 Description: 7:30 p.m. EST. Nine people in southeastern Ontario, including four provincial policemen, saw a bright shining object with lights changing color from white to green (body lights). (London Free Press (Ontario) 2/27/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wiarton, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3335 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12697 (E321F6F5) Date: 2/27/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. MST (8:00 p.m.). A woman saw a cigar-shaped object with a red light on bottom and a white light on top (body lights) that was hovering over a hospital and spinning. The object emitted a siren-like sound. Other sightings reported about the same time were identified as RCAF aircraft. (Edmonton Journal, 2/28/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edmonton, Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3342 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12698 (7BE690FE) Date: 2/27/1967 Description: 7:30-8:30 p.m. PST. Four people saw a large bright oval with a tail, white on top, blue on bottom and later bright red. The object at times traveled in a straight line, made turns (maneuvered), disappeared, and reappeared. I was also viewed through a 45x telescope. (Letter in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port McNeil, British.Columbia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3339 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12699 (5A041A67) Date: 2/27/1967 Description: 7:20 p.m. MST (8:20 p.m. CST). A registered nurse while driving encountered a luminous orange dome-shaped object (ball with bottom third cut off), clearly outlined, with blue-green, occasionally red, flame-like streaks coming from the underside. The object paced her car and dipped low before disappearing after 30 minutes. (Salisbury, 1974, p. 39-46.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vernal, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3338 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12700 (B5177871) Date: 2/27/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. CST. A couple saw a round bright light, pulsating and changing color. Red lights were either blinking or moving around the main white light (body lights). (Omaha World Herald, 2/28/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Omaha, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_3340 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12701 (B645BB15) Date: 2/27/1967 Description: Large white light, with smaller red and green lights to the sides (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 11419) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grand Haven, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3341 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12702 (BA878F74) Date: 2/27/1967 Time: 8:19 PM Description: Witnesses: Sheriff Grysen, wife and others. Large white light, with smaller red and green lights seen to the sides. Made almost instantaneous 90^ turn to left, shot out over road and stopped, moving too fast to follow. Sighting lasted 1 hour, 11 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Grand Haven, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_567 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12703 (2F9B6D41) Date: 2/27/1967 Description: There were seven good UFO reports made in North America on this day. Two 12-year-old boys in Bunkie, Louisiana saw two points of light with tails moving in spurts through the sky for about ten minutes at 1:30 a.m. At eleven o'clock in the morning, an engineer named Scott sighted a round, luminescent object the size of a dime at arm's length flying in a "lazy, lackadaisical manner" for 40 seconds in Newburgh, New York. A resident of Topeka, Kansas noticed a wide top-shaped UFO with red and blue body lights at 7:05 p.m. local time. The sighting lasted three minutes, and he noted that there was electrical interference on his television at the time. Less than 15 minutes later, at 8:19 EST, a multicolored oval object with red and green lights and a bright white light in the middle, made a ninety degree turn in the sky and then shot out over a road in Grand Haven, Michigan. It stopped in place, then shot away at a speed that was too fast to follow with the eye. At 7:30 p.m. MST in Vernal, Utah a luminous orange dome-shaped object, blue-green and with occasional red flamelike lights on the underside, dipped low and then disappeared over a hill after more than 30 minutes. In Port McNeill, British Columbia at 7:30 p.m. PST four witnesses named Flick, Harrison, and Siemens watched a large, bright, oval-shaped UFO that was white on top and blue on the bottom. They viewed it through a 45x telescope for several minutes. It later changed color to a bright red as it went straight, left, right, and disappeared and reappeared several times. Finally, at nine p.m. MST a cigar-shaped object briefly hovered over a hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. It was white on top and red on the bottom, and made a sound like a siren. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files; US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #11419; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 329-330 Source ID: Johnson_1154 Source: Johnson ### Event 12704 (68D371B0) Date: 2/27/1967 Description: 7:05 p.m. CST. A woman saw a top-shaped object with red and blue body lights hovering over trees, remaining in view for 3 minutes. A neighbor reported TV interference (EM effects) at that time. (Topeka State Journal, 2/28/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Topeka, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3337 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12705 (35230CF4) Date: 2/28/1967 Description: Night. Several independent reports overnight. A 21-year-old man reported that an unidentified object glided parallel to his car about 300 yards away. The object then abruptly headed for the car (vehicle encounter), swerved away, and left at terrific speed. (Memphis Press-Scimitar, 3/4/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Piggott, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_3345 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12706 (216E9D3F) Date: 2/28/1967 Description: Night. Twelve people, including six deputy sheriffs, observed an unexplained object for several minutes. They provided two descriptions: (1) a reddish-orange object, and (2) a cluster of lights with bright center, reddish edges, and oval shape. (Ann Arbor News, Michigan, 3/1/67, copy in NICAP files.) . (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grand Haven, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3344 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12707 (A6829D83) Date: 2/28/1967 Description: 6:30 p.m. EST. A couple saw a round object hovering overhead for about a minute. It had red and green body lights. The object then accelerated and sped away. It made a sound like a "low roar." (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Madisonville, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3343 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12708 (523D30F3) Date: 3/1967 Description: Night. A teacher saw a dome-shaped object with orange body lights on the ground (landed), which then rose, hovered, and departed. The witness claimed to be silenced by the U.S. Air Force. (Los Angeles NICAP Affiliate report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Cuyama, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3351 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12709 (C00BEFC9) Date: 3/1967 Description: Night. Multiple witnesses reported a two-tiered, green-red disc with a halo, and a white light on top. The object was visible for 3 hours. It hovered and maneuvered over the city. A radio station reportedly blacked out when it passed over. Other EM effects also were reported. Jets appeared to chase the object. (Trenton/an, 9/12/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Trenton, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3352 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12710 (D2EF0E78) Date: 3/1967 Description: [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) calls [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and reveals that none of the Blue Book cases have been spot-checked for inaccuracies because “[Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) hasn’t found any AF explanations he considers untrue.” Low later visits NICAP in Washington and Keyhoe asks him how many NICAP cases he has examined. Low says, “Probably four or five.” Low says he ultimately hopes to review 85–90 cases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 120](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/120/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4219 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12711 (0C4AF81C) Date: 3/1967 Description: Members of the Colorado project visit APRO headquarters; the [Lorenzens](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) give them some case leads that are never followed up because they are old. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 196 Source ID: Eberhart_4220 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12712 (DC983B40) Date: 3/1967 Description: Michel M. Jaffe, a ham radio operator in Mountain View, California, begins publishing Data-Net Report, a UFO newsletter for radio enthusiasts that continues to 1973. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Data-Net Report](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Awareness%20%28Contact%20UK%29/Awareness%20-%201967%20-%20International%20News%20Letter%20No%201.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Awareness%20%28Contact%20UK%29/Awareness%20-%201967%20-%20International%20News%20Letter%20No%201.pdf) no. 1 \(March 1967\) Source ID: Eberhart_4221 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12713 (C3A645F8) Date: 3/1967 Description: Day. Augusto Arranda is taking photographs of the scenery in the Huascarán mountains near Yungay, Peru. He takes three photos of a disc-shaped object and one photo showing two objects. A Kodak employee sends one to ufologist Richard Greenwell, and APRO obtains the other three in 1969 from Eastman Kodak’s International Division. The circumstances of the sighting remain unknown. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The Yungay Photographs, Peru,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/yungay.htm) [1967](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/yungay.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4222 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12714 (45840ACA) Date: 3/1967 Description: 11:00 a.m. A group of students at the Ramón Martín Middle School in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, watch a triangle-shaped object above a nearby mountain. It has a cupola on top and flies around silently before vanishing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jorge Martín, “[Triangular UFOs over Puerto Rico,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201999%20V%2044%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 \(Autumn 1999\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_4224 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12715 (A9A91995) Date: 3/1967 Description: 11:00 p.m. A luminous hemispherical object is seen over Dry Creek Basin, San Miguel County, Colorado, moving slowly, then accelerating. The witness’s car engine, radio, and lights experience interference. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Condon, [pp. 295–297](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/294/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4225 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12716 (0FD2ECD7) Date: 3/1967 Description: On some unspecified date in the spring, some 525 miles southeast of Minatare, Nebraska, a man saw a large craft on the ground and small humanoids who disembarked and circled around the craft. Footprints of the humanoids reportedly were photographed. (Miller letter, Kirksville, MO, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Medicine Lodge, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3457 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12717 (FA7D113E) Date: 3/1967 Description: Cuban air defense radar controllers report a UFO approaching Cuba from the northwest, moving at 660 mph at an altitude of 33,000 feet. Two MiG-21s are scrambled and are guided to within 3 miles of the object. The flight leader radios in that the UFO is a bright metallic sphere with no visible markings. He is unable to establish radio contact with it and Cuban air defense orders him to shoot it down. The flight leader reports that his radar is locked and missiles ready. Seconds later, a wingman screams into the radio that the flight leader’s MiG has disintegrated. The UFO then accelerates and climbs above 90,000 feet, heading towards South America. The US 6947th Security Squadron headquartered at Homestead AFB \[now Homestead Air Reserve Base\] in Miami–Dade County, Florida, is monitoring the incident and sends a report to the NSA at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland. NSA orders the squadron to ship all tapes and data to them and list the airplane loss as “equipment malfunction.” The details sound like it might be the CIA’s Oxcart A-12, the Air Force version of which is the SR-71, which are known to overfly Cuba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The 1967 Cuban Jet Incident](http://www.nicap.org/6703XXcuba%5Fdir.htm)”; ClearIntent, [pp. 195–201](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/194/mode/2up); “1967: Two Cuban Jets Pursue a UFO, the UFO Destroys One Jet,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 11–13; Good Above, [pp. 421–](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/420/mode/2up) [422](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/420/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4223 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12718 (C3FD8F7C) Date: 3/1967 Description: Evening. Three people saw a flash of light, then an object that appeared flat , and like an upside down saucer. ; The object turned red and approached the car, which began to rock violently \* (physical effect). As the object neared the engine quit (EM effect). (Salina Journal, Kansas, 4/2/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hillsboro, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3346 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12719 (392C6468) Date: 3/1967 Description: Luminous inverted bowl-shaped object approached within 100 ft., heat felt. Gillmor, 1969, pp. 295-297 (E,R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dry Creek Basin, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3347 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12720 (2EB90886) Date: 3/1967 Description: The 1967 Cuban Jet Incident (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [670300](http://nicap.org/6703XXcuba%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: NE of Cuba, Cuba Source ID: NICAP_DB_3348 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12721 (3AB52BFD) Date: 3/1967 Description: March 1967; Yungay, Peru (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [670300](http://www.nicap.org/peru67.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yungay, Peru Source ID: NICAP_DB_3350 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12722 (28211F04) Date: 3/1/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. EST. Five people in a car saw a red object, fuzzy around the edges, estimated 50 feet long and 9 feet high (narrow oval or cigar-shaped). The object stopped, hovered, moved back and forth 500 feet away, then accelerated and departed at high speed. (Ridge, 1994, p. 21.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gosport, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3356 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12723 (851A1A67) Date: 3/1/1967 Description: Lt. Gen. [Hewitt T. Wheless](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewitt%5FT.%5FWheless)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewitt%5FT.%5FWheless) USAF assistant vice chief of staff, circulates a memo on “Impersonations of Air Force Officers,” which outlines [Rex Heflin](http://www.nicap.org/reports/Goodbye%5FRex%5FHeflin.pdf)’s accounts of the NORAD impostor and another case in which it reports that “a person in an Air Force uniform approached local police and other citizens who had sighted a UFO, assembled them in a school room and told them that they did not see what they thought they saw and that they should not talk to anyone about the sighting.” All USAF personnel hearing about such incidents should report them to AFOSI. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 237](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/236/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4226 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12724 (4165B615) Date: 3/1/1967 Description: Lt. Gen. Hewitt T. Wheless, USAF, sends notice to all branches of the military warning of persons imitating military officers and harassing private citizens and confiscating UFO photos. Type: notice Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Dayton, OH See also: 3/21/66 Source ID: Maj2_648 Source: Maj2 ### Event 12725 (2F009757) Date: 3/1/1967 Description: Many residents of Valparaiso, Chile, watch four bright domed objects, flashing blue and red lights, move south to north above the city. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 59 Source ID: Eberhart_4227 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12726 (784DD757) Date: 3/1/1967 Description: 7:00 p.m. EST. Two witnesses watched an object the shape of a lamp shade (truncated cone) with a bright center stripe. The object hovered level, tilted, then accelerated and flew away very fast after 5 minutes. (Air Force UFO report form, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Blairsville, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3353 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12727 (13F15088) Date: 3/1/1967 Description: 7:25 p.m. EST. Two separate witnesses saw a white glowing oval object which moved about in the area of their homes. The object was silent and left a white flowing fuzzy trail in its wake. (Fowler, 1974, p. 345.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sharon, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3354 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12728 (996FEC72) Date: 3/1/1967 Description: 7:30 p.m. EST. Two couples saw a saucer-shaped object with flashing red and green lights. The object hovered briefly, then suddenly accelerated and zoomed out of sight. It was observed several times over a period of 20 minutes. (Toledo Record, 3/4 or 3/5/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3355 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12729 (668A71C5) Date: 3/1/1967 Description: DeWitt Baldwin was raccoon hunting at night in the woods near Eden, New York when he heard a noise like buzzing bees around 1:30 a.m. He flashed his flashlight on a gold colored, unlighted saucer-shaped object that had landed on the ground. A sliding door opened and a man emerged, dressed in a black, tight-fitting suit and wearing a helmet with goggles. He asked the witness some questions, such as what he was doing there at that hour and where he had been born. He then took Baldwin's gun, looked at it and then handed it back. Baldwin claimed the humanoid broke the muzzle of the gun while examining it. Baldwin said, "He wasn't white and he wasn't black. He talked very plainly and with no accent. He had black curly hair." He told me he would be back, walked up to the saucer, got in and seconds later zipped off out of sight. No footprints or landing imprints were found in the snow where the object had rested. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James Sipprell & James M. Reed, NICAP case investigation files; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-22, citing NICAP Source ID: Johnson_1204 Source: Johnson ### Event 12730 (DD2D8076) Date: 3/1/1967 Description: 10:05 p.m. About 20 miles northwest of Gosport, four people in a car saw a luminous red disc with a dome. It followed the car for miles (vehicle encounter), then hovered. (Ridge, 1994, p. 21.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Poland, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3357 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12731 (F428403B) Date: 3/1/1967 Description: 10:06 p.m. A dark-colored disc with a dome, performing slow and low flights in Owen County, was reported to have followed persons in an auto for miles until they reached their home at Poland, in Clay County. The flight was reported as as low as 40' and two automobiles had their hoods up, indicating possible E-M effects. (Don Worley files) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portland, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3358 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12732 (FC47846E) Date: 3/1/1967 Description: Four bright domed discs flew from north to south over Valparaiso, Chile on this day. They had flashing red and blue lights. There were many witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 59; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 7597 Source ID: Johnson_1205 Source: Johnson ### Event 12733 (D3A415C6) Date: 3/1/1967 Description: At 7:25 p.m. a white glowing ovoid maneuvered silently near some homes in Sharon, Massachusetts, leaving a white luminous trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 345; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of the UFO Investigator, p. 164).

1967 At 7:30 p.m. in Toledo, Ohio a disc-shaped object with flashing red & green lights was seen by two married couples, Mr. & Mrs. Keitl and Mr. & Mrs. Hiner. The UFO hovered briefly, and then suddenly zoomed out of sight; it did this several times over the course of 20 minutes. (Sources: Toledo Record, March 5, 1967; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_1206 Source: Johnson ### Event 12734 (5E0D2AA8) Date: 3/1/1967 Description: In Poland, Indiana at 10:10 p.m. four people in a car were chased to their home for several miles by a dark domed disc. The UFO then hovered outside their house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 21, citing Don Worley Source ID: Johnson_1207 Source: Johnson ### Event 12735 (B5463E73) Date: 3/2/1967 Description: That night in Patterson, Arkansas at 9:30 p.m. a man witnessed a UFO with red lights hovering over some homes, and then move away. Dogs were barking at the time. Two hours later in Piggot, Arkansas, which is five miles to the northwest of Patterson, two high school teachers witnessed four lights in the sky. The first hovered at treetop level, then was joined by the second light, followed by two more. The four objects maneuvered about in different directions, hovered, and then flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, citing Memphis Press, March 4, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_1249 Source: Johnson ### Event 12736 (A8BC6FEC) Date: 3/2/1967 Description: Objects sighted and tracked on radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [670302](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/alamo670302dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_3362 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12737 (F0689241) Date: 3/2/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. CST. A man saw an unexplained object with red lights (body lights) which hovered over homes and then moved on. Dogs barked during the sighting (animal reaction). (Memphis Press-Scimitar, Tenn., 3/4/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Patterson, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_3359 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12738 (32A43F5E) Date: 3/2/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. A slender ellipse or cigar-shaped object with body lights along its length was reported. The lights were pulsating in a rhythmic pattern opposite to the direction of motion. (Air Force report, Project Blue Book files, National Archives.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Memphis, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3360 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12739 (D997EE19) Date: 3/2/1967 Description: Two Radars Plotted 20 silver objects, radar blips at 7 mile alt (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [670302](http://www.nicap.org/670302alamo%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Sands, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_3363 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12740 (04C7D817) Date: 3/2/1967 Description: 10:25 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Two radars at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, plot 20 silver objects, radar blips at an altitude of 7 miles. A news blackout is invoked by the military. Twenty-nine people report seeing one or more objects in groups, ranging in appearance from silvery objects flying overhead to a saucer-shaped object. Intermittent unexplained radar targets are seen during this time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Two Radars Plot 20 Objects](http://www.nicap.org/670302alamo%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 150–151,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/150/mode/2up) [291–295](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/290/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 322 Source ID: Eberhart_4228 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12741 (5398BBA5) Date: 3/2/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. CST. About 130 miles north-northwest of Memphis, Tenn., a junior high school science teacher and coach saw four lights that hovered at treetop level, then joined by more lights (rendezvous). (Memphis Press-Scimitar, 3/4/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Piggott, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_3361 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12742 (15D48874) Date: 3/2/1967 Description: Radar-visual sightings of three to four silvery discs traveling about 2,000 mph. News blackout invoked by military Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: White Sands Missile Range, NM Source ID: HallUFOE2_119 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12743 (939C02AA) Date: Early 3/1967 Description: [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) writes a position paper that expects the Colorado project will fail to support the ETH. Before sharing his paper with project members, he shares his views in talks with the Rand Corporation, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Boeing. Despite his attempts to “build the record,” the project’s failure to move quickly has forced it to prepare a proposal to extend its contract. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 130–133 Source ID: Eberhart_4218 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12744 (B63141A6) Date: 3/2/1967 Description: Two to four silver lights or disc-shaped objects flew over White Sands, New Mexico at 10:25 a.m. and were detected on radar at an altitude of seven kilometers. They circled the White Sands missile base and flew away toward the east. They flew at an estimated speed of 2,000 mph. Several silver discs with green glowing bottoms were sighted by a separate observer in Las Cruces, New Mexico at 11:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, Volume 15, No. 5; El Paso Times, March 5, 1967; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 330; Patrick Huyghe, Special Report on 1968 Cases Source ID: Johnson_1248 Source: Johnson ### Event 12745 (D1325A12) Date: 3/3/1967 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fellows were driving toward Centre Sandwich, New Hampshire around midnight when they saw an illuminated clam-shaped object going up and down in the sky "like a yo-yo" near Red Hill. It was turning from white to greenish blue, and followed their car for 20 minutes until they reached Route 113. It left to the northeast. They reported feeling several "pinging" electric discharges as it left, and their dog was very nervous during the observation. It made an electric motor sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1967, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 821 Source ID: Johnson_1274 Source: Johnson ### Event 12746 (6668134D) Date: 3/3/1967 Description: A group of high school students came upon two glowing pyramid shaped objects sitting in the middle of the road in Plantation, Florida at 9:00 p.m. The UFOs gave off an orange flash, shot straight up into the sky, and were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Pompano Sun Sentinel, March 7, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_1273 Source: Johnson ### Event 12747 (0A0EB21E) Date: 3/3/1967 Description: 7:25 p.m. EST. Two people watched a glowing yellow disc with a small red body light moving slowly to the west. The object stopped and hovered for a long time, then flew away to the east. A sound like a swarm of bees (buzzing) could be heard. (Letter 3/8/67, in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dorchester, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3369 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12748 (2C5B8DE4) Date: 3/3/1967 Description: 10:20 p.m. CST. A couple saw a large oblong object with 4-6 large square luminous windows in a row along the side. (Lewistown newspaper, copy in NiCAP files; Air Force report, Project Blue Book files, National Archives.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lewiston, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3368 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12749 (657BDC10) Date: 3/3/1967 Description: 7:25 p.m. EST. Two people watched a glowing yellow disc with a small red body light moving slowly to the west. The object stopped and hovered for a long time, then flew away to the east. A sound like a swarm of bees (buzzing) could be heard. (Letter 3/8/67, in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wheaton, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3366 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12750 (F218BF27) Date: 3/3/1967 Description: Seven white lights flew in formation from north to south over Chicago Heights, Illinois at around 8 p.m. They changed color to orange and then to red just before fading from sight. They also appeared to be giving off sparks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chicago American, March 4, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_1272 Source: Johnson ### Event 12751 (694E3CBB) Date: 3/3/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. EST. Seven high school students saw two glowing pyramids (truncated cones?), followed by an orange flash. The objects landed in the middle of a road, then rose and disappeared. Other sightings were reported in the area. (Pompano Beach Sun-Sentinel, Florida, 3/7/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Plantation, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3367 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12752 (FF44EAD0) Date: 3/3/1967 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fellows were driving toward Sandwich when they saw a lighted object going up and down, turning from white to greenish blue, and following their car for 20 min until they reached Route 113. It left to the northeast. They reported feeling an "electric discharge" as it left, and their dog was very nervous during the observation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Mar., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Red Hill, New Hampshire Source ID: Magnonia_821 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12753 (CEA5BC11) Date: 3/3/1967 Description: Object paced car at 100 feet, dog reacted (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [670303](http://www.nicap.org/ar-redhilldir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Red Hill, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3365 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12754 (C90FC8F0) Date: 3/3/1967 Description: 7:00 p.m. CST (8:00 p.m. EST). Two people had several sightings of a bright fuzzy ball of light (spherical) one-fourth of a degree in diameter. It moved rapidly and made direction changes (maneuvered). (Letter dated 3/3/67 in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wheaton, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3364 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12755 (ADFD6565) Date: 3/4/1967 Description: 2:30 a.m. EST. Two witnesses saw a half-egg-shell (dome-) shaped object; its color varied from brown-red to dull orange to bright white. The object hovered and maneuvered at low level, as smaller objects emerged from its underside. The sighting lasted more than 35 minutes. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vicco, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3370 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12756 (69E74D0C) Date: 3/4/1967 Time: 2400 Description: The Sodestrom family obsered two plate-shaped objects, one 30 m in diameter, the other smaller and gray in color. They hovered at 20 111 altitude for 15 min. The object left with a hushed whistling sound, illuminating the forest with intense light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 171 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Vilhelmina, Swedish Laponia Source ID: Magnonia_822 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12757 (9CFDEAC2) Date: 3/4/1967 Description: Just before midnight the Sodestrom family observed two plate-shaped objects, one 30 meters in diameter, the other smaller and gray in color, in Vilhelmina, Sweden. They hovered at close range for 15 minutes. The objects left with a hushed whistling sound, illuminating the forest with intense light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 822 Source ID: Johnson_1293 Source: Johnson ### Event 12758 (2B278CE9) Date: 3/4/1967 Description: After midnight in Centre Sandwich, New Hampshire a clam-shaped UFO followed a car at a low level for several minutes. A dog in the car at the time was highly agitated, and its hair bristled in reaction to the close approach of the UFO. Approximately two hours later in Vicco, Kentucky another UFO shaped like half an eggshell cut lengthwise, hovered and maneuvered at a low level. A smaller object emerged from the underside of the object and flew away. The UFO varied in color from brown to red to orange to white. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 279; NICAP case files Source ID: Johnson_1294 Source: Johnson ### Event 12759 (6D176A65) Date: 3/5/1967 Description: ADC radar at Minot AFB, North Dakota, tracks an unidentified target descending over the Minuteman ICBM missile silos of the 91st Strategic Missile Wing. Base security teams see a metallic, disc-shaped object ringed with bright flashing lights moving slowly, maneuvering, then stopping and hovering about 500 feet above the ground. The object circles directly over the launch control facility. F-106 fighters are scrambled, but at that moment the object climbs straight up and disappears at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Disc Hovers 500ʹ over Missile Silos / ADC](http://www.nicap.org/670305minot%5Fdir.htm) [Radar Confirms](http://www.nicap.org/670305minot%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 322; Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet, 1974, pp. 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_4231 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12760 (396B992D) Date: 3/5/1967 Description: 5:30 p.m. John and Miriam Coyle take a series of six photos of a silvery UFO at Hallam, Victoria, Australia. The object circles them slowly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[U.F.O. Photographed over Hallam,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201967%2009%20-%20no%207%20VFSRS.pdf)” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 7 \(September 1967\): 15; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 25–26 Source ID: Eberhart_4230 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12761 (38B370EA) Date: 3/5/1967 Description: Night. A family's car was paced at telephone-wire heiaht by a V-shaped object emittina a bright light that illuminated the ground for oerhaps 5 minutes. (Rapid City Journal, S. Dak., 3/7/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pierre/Hayes, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3371 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12762 (DFD1652D) Date: 3/5/1967 Description: At 1:25 a.m. in Lovasen, Vilhelmina, Sweden two discs, one 30 meters in diameter and the other 15 meters in diameter, hovered at 20 meters altitude near an electric plant. They flew to the north, slowly at first and then extremely fast, lighting up the surrounding forest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Axe Jonsson, FSR, March-April 1968, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_1313 Source: Johnson ### Event 12763 (8AD3232E) Date: 3/5/1967 Description: Night. The Russell Carter Jr. family is traveling about 10 miles east of Hayes, South Dakota, on US Highway 14 when a bright light follows their car. The V-shaped object approaches from far away and is lower than the telephone wires, bathing the road and an area around the car in a brilliant light. They hear a humming sound and experience a feeling of numbness at its closest approach. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Pierre Family Sees UFO in Hayes Area,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99634015/)” Rapid City \(S.Dak.\) Journal, March 7, 1967, p. 1; “[Car Followed by Flying Object,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRG%20Reporter%20%28Gribble%29/APRG%20Reporter%20-%20Vol%205%20No%2008%20-%20No%2056%20-%2005%201967.pdf)” APRG Reporter, no. 56 \(May 1967\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4232 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12764 (FE8860A5) Date: 3/5/1967 Description: Disc Hoveres 500' Over Missile Silos / ADC Radar Confirms (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: NICAP: [670305](http://www.nicap.org/670305minot%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot AFB, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3372 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12765 (0B03F363) Date: 3/5/1967 Description: At 11:00 p.m. U.S. Air Force security personnel watched as a disc-shaped object descended and hovered over a missile site near Minot AFB, North Dakota. Reported by the guards, other airmen in trucks chased it. It shot up vertically when jets were scrambled. There was radar confirmation of the presence of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space...The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 10; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence: Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 80, 331, 372 Source ID: Johnson_1315 Source: Johnson ### Event 12766 (E26B9455) Date: 3/5/1967 Description: Four members of the Carter family were driving together between Pierre and Midland, South Dakota on this night when they were approached at telephone pole height by a V-shaped object with a bright light. It made a humming sound as it passed low over the car and it illuminated the ground with a bright light, and the occupants felt a numbness. It thensped away erratically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Rapid City Journal, March 7, 1967; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 11; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence: Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 267 & 331 Source ID: Johnson_1314 Source: Johnson ### Event 12767 (E784140B) Date: 3/5/1967 Description: Radar tracked object descending over missile sites, security teams saw disc with flashing lights hover about 500 feet off ground. Object departed straight up Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Minot AFB, ND Source ID: HallUFOE2_120 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12768 (B6930153) Date: 3/5/1967 Description: 1:25 a.m. Lenny and Tommy Söderström are returning home to their farm in Lövåsen, Vilhelmina, Sweden, when they notice a “spaceship” behind a barn. They rush inside and wake their parents and a sibling. Looking through the kitchen window, they see a dark, cigar-shaped object, 82–130 feet wide, silhouetted against the sky. Wobbling slightly on its axis, it hovers 24 feet in the air. After someone turns on the kitchen light, the UFO shoots off toward the north, emitting a whistling sound, as a smaller object appears from behind it. This UFO is a silvery globe about 20–40 feet in diameter; it turns and approaches the farmhouse. When it passes above a power line, it stops and hovers for 4 minutes. It takes off toward the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Two from Sweden,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1967, p. 9; Clas Svahn, “[Skräcknatten i Vilhelmina,](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/fakta/arti/verkligheten-bakom-ufopodden-i-p3/1790-vilhelmina)” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige; Clark III 246–247 Source ID: Eberhart_4229 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12769 (3DA6A8CD) Date: 3/6/1967 Time: 12:01 AM Description: Witnesses: Jerome Wolanin, assistant news director of radio station and former policeman, and wife. One round saucer or oval-shaped object with red, green and yellow lights around bottom rim which pulsated red. Flew level, east to west, and was joined by second object from west. First object opened top, second came over and hovered for 30 seconds and disappeared. Sighting lasted more than 40 minutes. Objects made hissing sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Benton Harbor, Michigan Source ID: BerlinerBBU_568 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12770 (208CD398) Date: 3/6/1967 Time: 4:25 AM Description: Witness: Deputy Sheriff Frank Courson. One object shaped like a rubber cup which is placed under furniture leg, with a dome set in the cup. Bottom of object spun rapidly, rim pulsated red. Approached witness and passed overhead at low altitude, making a hieeing sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Galesburg-Moline, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_569 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12771 (8619958B) Date: 3/6/1967 Description: At 8:15 p.m. in Olpe, Kansas nine witnesses spotted a cone-shaped, blue-green light that was estimated to be 15 feet in height. The UFO emitted a reddish-orange light as it went over the house. They decided to follow the low flying UFO in a car. The UFO was observed to hover for awhile. It then shot up vertically, and descended slowly. It was described as a lighted interior. The sighting lasted ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP investigation files, citing Topeka Journal, March 7, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_1335 Source: Johnson ### Event 12772 (96B70F7E) Date: 3/6/1967 Description: Oval-shaped object with red, green and yellow lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 11454) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bentor Harbor, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3374 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12773 (80060B12) Date: 3/6/1967 Description: Object shaped like a rubber cup placed under a furniture (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 11460) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Galesburg-Moline, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3375 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12774 (CD8B8D74) Date: 3/6/1967 Description: G,V, civil & mil radar, airline crew obs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3376 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12775 (2B5E05DA) Date: 3/6/1967 Description: Police officer Courson of Galesburg, Illinois witnessed a domed disc while driving in farm country between Galesburg and Moline at 4:25 a.m. The UFO had a pulsating red rim and a bottom that rotated rapidly. The UFO approached the witness, then passed overhead at a low altitude. Like the Benton Harbor, Michigan UFO of the same night, this object also made a hissing sound. This is also a Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 11460; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 331 Source ID: Johnson_1334 Source: Johnson ### Event 12776 (C909F603) Date: 3/6/1967 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Wolanin of Benton Harbor, Michigan reported sighting an oval-shaped or disc-shaped UFO with red, green, and yellow lights around its bottom rim, and with a pulsating red light, at one minute past midnight. The UFO flew on a level flight path from east to west over Benton Harbor. After several minutes a second UFO joined it. Both objects hovered for 30 seconds and then vanished. A hissing sound was reported. This is a Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. The entire duration of the sighting was estimated to be more than 40 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 11454; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 331 Source ID: Johnson_1333 Source: Johnson ### Event 12777 (6A7DF83F) Date: 3/7/1967 Description: Dog in car alarmed as disc directs light beam into vehicle (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [670307](http://www.nicap.org/ar-keeneyvilledir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Keeneyville & Bartlett, between, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3377 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12778 (3682B513) Date: 3/7/1967 Description: 12:30 a.m. Lucille Drzonek and her daughters, ages 24 and 17, are driving northwest on US Highway 20 just past Keeneyville, Illinois. Their beagle is with them. They see a solid object, estimated at 15 feet in diameter, outlined in bright white lights and with two big beams in front. As it nears the ground it takes on a disc shape and begins flashing red and green lights. The beagle is so frightened that its hair stands up straight on its back. As they turn off the highway toward Bartlett, Illinois, the object descends into a woods, lighting the trees with a red glare. It projects two white light beams into the rear window of their car. As they pull into their home, the UFO is hovering about 10 feet above a tree in their yard. A strange, localized gray mist appears and when it dissipates the UFO is gone. The beagle is visibly upset for the next two days. A veterinarian suggests he might have heard a noise inaudible to humans. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 34–35 Source ID: Eberhart_4233 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12779 (B57809B9) Date: 3/7/1967 Description: A UFO pursued a car near Elgin, Illinois and then landed in some woods at 12:30 a.m. Something zoomed out of the UFO directly at the car, and then two white beams of light shone through the car's back window. A dog in the car was badly frightened. The UFO, which was reportedly surrounded by a fog or mist, followed the car home. Ten minutes later in St. Joseph, Michigan a multi-colored UFO was reported hovering over Lake Michigan. It was observed through binoculars, and was described as about the size of a tangerine at arm's length. It changed colors from red to green to white, and had what were described as police cruiser lights on its bottom. It made a sound like "a hot-rod" initially, which later changed to a swishing-crunching sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_1364 Source: Johnson ### Event 12780 (517CDDCD) Date: 3/7/1967 Description: Later that evening UFO investigator Raymond Fowler received a UFO report from Amherst, Massachusetts of a light in the sky, twice the brightness of Venus, that changed color from white to orange as it moved away. It was also seen through binoculars, but no structure could be discerned. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP investigation files, reports dated March 7 and 9, 1967; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, p. 345 Source ID: Johnson_1365 Source: Johnson ### Event 12781 (2BD33530) Date: 3/8/1967 Time: 0105 Description: Two persons observed deep fog in the vicinity of a cemetery and saw a light in the center, coming from an object hovering 100 m above ground. Thinking it was a fire, the witnesses stopped. Paralysis and ignition interference were then noted while the object, about 13 m in diameter, oscillated and then departed with a whirring sound. It took about 20 min for the witnesses to recover muscular coordination. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Mar., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Leominster, Massachusetts Source ID: Magnonia_823 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12782 (5D2D6002) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: Many people in Comas, Peru, watch 15 discs circle noiselessly low above town for 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 59 Source ID: Eberhart_4235 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12783 (4605D237) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: Luminous oval hovering, rocking; witness felt shock, paralysis. See Section VI (E,R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leominster, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3378 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12784 (F011FD82) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: 10:10 a.m. LT. Two women saw a grayish disc come out of clouds, disappear behind a railroad station, reappear and go back into the clouds, disappearing after 15 minutes. The object made a weird humming sound. (Sydney Sun-Herald, 3/12/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sidney, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_3380 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12785 (985AB1A1) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: 12:00 Noon CST. A couple saw a brilliant red and blue circular object that emitted a beam of light. The object hovered, approached, then rose up and disappeared into or behind a small cloud after 3-4 minutes. (Aurora Beacon-News, 3/9/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aurora, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3381 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12786 (0F6B6C1C) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: 6:55 p.m. CST (7:55 p.m. EST). About 300 miles to the West of Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. (see previous entry), several witnesses saw red and green lights that approached slowly at treetop level, then shot upwards, leveled off and moved quickly across the sky, disappearing behind trees and radio towers near the horizon. (Report by local resident received 10/25/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westmont, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3382 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12787 (115592FE) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: 7:15 p.m. ST (8:15 p.m. EST). A couple saw a shiny metallic watermelon- (elliptical-) shaped object with many body lights around the perimeter (green and red, plus white, blue, and yellow-orange). The object hovered overhead, then moved away rapidly. (Bardstown Standard, Kentucky, 3/16/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caledonia, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3383 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12788 (98F61733) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: 8:10 p.m. EST (7:10 p.m. CST). A woman and her young daughter saw an oval with three red ports. The object emitted green" flashes as it passed overhead in straight level flight at moderate speed. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oswego, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3385 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12789 (0344966D) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: 8:35 p.m. CST (9:35 p.m. EST). A woman and four children saw an object described as "tower" shaped, with large "wings" and red, green, and white body lights. The object hovered over some trees for several minutes, then took off straight up and disappeared. (Houston Post, 3/9/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3386 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12790 (9B7D5574) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. MST (10:00 p.m. CST). A greenish disc with dome was observed moving on a level course, then curving downward. (Air Force report No. 00534B in Colorado UFO Project files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Denver, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3387 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12791 (DA915736) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. EST (8:30 p.m. CST). Two women saw a greenish-blue oval hovering over a field, moving up and down. The object changed color to yellow, then to bright white. When the object began moving toward their car, the car refused to start (EM effects). The object was visible for about 7 minutes. (Letter 3/11/67 in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newpoint, VT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3388 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12792 (26672F87) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: Night. A woman and three children saw a diamond-shaped object, green on top, white in the middle, red on the bottom. The object hung motionless (hovered) for an hour and then faded out of sight. A power failure occurred during the sighting (EM effect). (Marquette Mining Journal, Midi., 3/10/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manistique, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3389 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12793 (E64A503E) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: Luminous oval, hovering, rocking, witness felt shock, paralysis. (See Section VI) (E.R.L.) car. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leominster, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3390 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12794 (9B432F86) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: 7:45-8:10 p.m. EST. Five witnesses saw a fiery glowing object shaped like a camp lantern or cone. Pictures were taken but reportedly show little. There were also reports of both civilian and military radar contact. (Frey report in NICAP files, NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grosse Pointe Woods, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3384 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12795 (FD481A33) Date: 3/8/1967 End date: 3/9/1967 Description: Domed circular object with red body lights approached witnesses, gave off burst of brilliant white light, hissing sound, accelerated away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Henderson and Galesburg, IL Source ID: HallUFOE2_121 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12796 (7A5B6104) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. MST. A newspaper editor and two policemen saw a torpedo-shaped object with multi-colored flashing body lights that flew irregularly at high speed. The object had bright light beams at each end, and a made a sound like a huge vacuum cleaner. (Wichita Eagle, Kansas, 3/9/67, copy in NICAP files; McDonald, 1967, Case 6, reprinted in Vaughan, 1995, p. 205.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goodland, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3379 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12797 (4B2F6C57) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: 1:05 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. William L. Wallace are returning home to Leominster, Massachusetts, when they pass through a dense fog near St. Leo’s Cemetery and notice a bright light on the left. Wallace turns the car around and heads back for a closer look. The glow is from a light that is hovering 400–500 feet above the cemetery. Intrigued, Wallace places the car in neutral, pulls the emergency brake, and steps outside. As he points toward the light, something pulls his arm back and drops it on the roof of the car, which then stalls and the electrical system goes out. He remains immobile for more than 30 seconds even as his wife is trying to pull him back. As the lights and radio come back on, the UFO rocks back and forth, rises with a humming sound, and disappears. Wallace goes back into the car, which now starts normally. Wallace still feels “slow and sluggish” on the drive back, and he collides with the garage door as he pulls into his driveway. They return to the cemetery 10 minutes later, but the fog is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Driver Shocked, Paralyzed,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/036%20MAR-APR%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 3, no. 12 \(March/April 1967\): 7; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 7–8; Michael D. Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological Effects? Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 10; Clark III 251; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 139–142 Source ID: Eberhart_4234 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12798 (069FA4A6) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: There were at least 27 UFO reports made on this day from Australia, Spain, North America, and Peru. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_1380 Source: Johnson ### Event 12799 (12548F2A) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Wallace were driving in Leominster, Massachusetts at 1:05 in the morning when they noticed an unusual light flying over a nearby cemetery. They drove closer to investigate and saw the UFO surrounded by a heavy fog or mist. They described the object as a bright bluish-white, glowing dome-shaped object that was hovering low to the ground with a rocking, pendulum motion. The rim of the object glowed as bright as an acetylene torch. The car's engine, lights, and radio failed. Mr. Wallace got out of the car and felt his arm tugged by some force against the body of the car. He felt tingling electric shocks and felt paralyzed in close presence to the object. The UFO wobbled, hummed, and then shot up vertically into sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 345; NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1967, p. 7; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 199, 250, 267 & 331 Source ID: Johnson_1381 Source: Johnson ### Event 12800 (50D5ADA6) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: That night in Galesburg, Illinois a domed disc-shaped object with a spinning rim and a pulsating red light passed overhead, making a hissing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 24; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_1382 Source: Johnson ### Event 12801 (539DB486) Date: 3/8/1967 Description: Also that same night an elongated flying object with flashing body lights and light beams at each end was reported by multiple independent witnesses in Goodland, Kansas. The UFO reportedly made a sound "like a vacuum cleaner." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norton (Kansas) Daily Telegram, March 1967; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 24; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 173 & 332, citing James McDonald Source ID: Johnson_1383 Source: Johnson ### Event 12802 (97937F66) Date: 3/9/1967 Description: Policeman spotted two UFOs in the afternoon. Police officer William Fisher said he was riding his motorcycle on patrol when he spotted a boxcar-sized object hovering at about 3,000 feet. Fisher took color motion pictures of the objects, one frame of which is displayed at the top of this page. (NICAP & MUFON files) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moline, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3395 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12803 (C41E5DFF) Date: 3/9/1967 Description: Time not reported. A bank treasurer and his wife saw an enormous row of lights that eventually took on a round shape as an object neared and hovered over a mountain tree line. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. Ill, No. 12, Mar.-Apr. 1967, p. 8.) . (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shamokin, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3394 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12804 (5115706A) Date: 3/9/1967 Description: 8:35 p.m. CST (9:35 p.m. EST). Police and others saw a glowing disc with flashing red, green, and yellow body lights. The object hovered at first, then moved at high speed. Many other sightings were reported in the area. (Clinton Herald, Iowa, 3/10/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Savanna, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3397 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12805 (B1F1CC8E) Date: 3/9/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. MST (10:30 p.m. CST). Two administrative staff members of the White Sands Test Facility northeast of Las Cruces saw a fuzzy, fluorescent orange light moving in front of the Organ Mountains to the southeast. (Tillett report in NICAP files). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Cruces, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_3399 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12806 (8CD6DD97) Date: 3/9/1967 Time: 2100 Description: Three witnesses observed an object as they were driving on Route 2. It was round, hovered at rooftop level, left suddenly at high speed. Its size was that of a car, and the underside showed several lights. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Follansbee, Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_824 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12807 (781692D8) Date: 3/9/1967 Description: Bright white, saucer-shaped object fly straight and fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 11480) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Onawa, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3393 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12808 (3B418DB7) Date: 3/9/1967 Description: At 9:05 p.m. CST a huge white disc was seen flying fast towards the east in Onawa, Iowa. It was also seen by independent witness in Eldora, Iowa at 8:30 p.m. The case was listed as an "unknown" by the Air Force. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 11,480; J. Allen Hynek case files; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 332 Source ID: Johnson_1396 Source: Johnson ### Event 12809 (F9EB1D8C) Date: 3/9/1967 Description: At 9:00 p.m. EST three witnesses in Follansbee, Virginia observed an object as they were driving on Route 2. It was round, hovered at rooftop level, and left suddenly at high speed. Its was the size of a car, and the underside showed several lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 824, citing U.S. Air Force ATIC Source ID: Johnson_1395 Source: Johnson ### Event 12810 (CD82F460) Date: 3/9/1967 Description: Car-sized obj, lights on underside, hovering, left at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Follansbee, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_3392 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12811 (5B12D502) Date: 3/9/1967 Description: At 8:25 p.m. a triangular cluster of two red and one white lights hovered at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet at the Andover, Massachusetts country club. The lights were steady and bright. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated March 9, 1967; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 331, 345 Source ID: Johnson_1394 Source: Johnson ### Event 12812 (614E9C55) Date: 3/9/1967 Description: 9:15 p.m. EST. A man (minister, ex-prison guard) saw a group of lights in an X formation that hovered, blinked on and off in sequence, turned like a top (rotated), and shot away. (Federspiel letter in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Wayne, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3398 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12813 (9AB3F45A) Date: 3/9/1967 Alternate date: 3/11/1967 Description: Object shaped like a pancake with a rounded top,red lights on rim (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Galesburg, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3391 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12814 (9FA83D47) Date: 3/9/1967 Description: At 1:30 p.m. Moline, Illinois police officer Mr. Fisher, age 32, filmed 8mm motion pictures of a luminous oval or disc shaped daylight UFO flying near the Mississippi River. There are 25 feet of film, and the photographer is considered highly reliable, but the UFO has no details that are evident in the film. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: New York Post, March 10, 1967; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 7; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #7631 Source ID: Johnson_1393 Source: Johnson ### Event 12815 (10F67489) Date: 3/9/1967 Time: 9:05 PM Description: Witness: Jack Lindley. One bright white, saucer-shaped object, as big as a jet airliner, flew straight and fast to the east for 2 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Onawa, Iowa Source ID: BerlinerBBU_571 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12816 (C381C96E) Date: 3/9/1967 Time: 7:10 PM Description: Witnesses: two housewives. One object shaped like a pancake with a rounded top; object was pulsating red, with red lights around its rim. Approached witnesses and seemed to explode with a brilliant white light that lasted 10 seconds and almost blinded them. Then it accelerated to the north and disappeared. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Galesburg, Illinois Source ID: BerlinerBBU_570 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12817 (61B3DFDB) Date: 3/9/1967 Description: 9:05 p.m. Jack Lindley sees a bright white saucer-shaped light, as big as an airliner, fly straight and fast to the east over Onawa, Iowa. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 323 Source ID: Eberhart_4236 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12818 (0808D452) Date: 3/9/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. EST. Two men saw a cigar-shaped object with flashing red, blue, and green body lights. Something was attached to its underside. The object moved slowly, then accelerated and sped away and disappeared to the southeast after 30 minutes. The report said that a Polaroid photo was taken. (Columbus Dispatch, Ohio, 3/10/67, copy NICAP files.) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Plain City, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3396 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12819 (5E52CEFE) Date: 3/10/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. EST. A man saw a large dark oval object that appeared solid and metallic, with a small light in front. It moved on an erratic path, tipping from side to side at 5-10 mph. After being in view for; about 30 seconds, it disappeared behind the gas station. (Massachusetts NICAP , Subcommittee report.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pawtucket, RI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3402 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12820 (1952C464) Date: 3/10/1967 Description: 9:45 p.m. CST. Two women and three youngsters in northwest Minnesota saw a bright orange oval which pulsated. The object hovered for 3-4 minutes, then went up and out of sight with a roar. (Roseau County Times-Region, Minn., 3/16/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salol, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3403 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12821 (1AC6E419) Date: 3/10/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. CST. Three teenagers saw a house-sized object that had three huge lights. The object hovered over trees as if to land for about 5 minutes, then disappeared. (Ft. Smith SW Times Record, Arkansas, 3/12/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Chaffee, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_3404 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12822 (9FEAA739) Date: 3/10/1967 Description: At 12:20 a.m. a glowing orange-red hemisphere with the flat side down was seen in a rural area of Phillipston, Massachusetts by a single witness. It was ten times the apparent diameter of the moon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 346 Source ID: Johnson_1403 Source: Johnson ### Event 12823 (60B30419) Date: 3/10/1967 Description: Two men were driving in a remote part of Piggott, Arkansas when their truck's engine failed. Before they could get out of the vehicle to investigate they saw a 50-foot wide saucer shaped object descend to the ground in front of them. Two bizarre looking "aliens" emerged from the object and walked over to their truck. The humanoids were described as of average human height, but with large heads that were flat in the back, and gray in color. They had normal eyes, noses, and mouths. They also wore tight-fitting gray diver's suits. The men felt like they were being bombarded with vibrations and had the uncanny feeling that the aliens knew what they were thinking. Rolling down the truck windows, the men spoke to one of the aliens, who reportedly told them that they meant them no harm and they could continue on their journey if they promised to keep this meeting a secret. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 2583, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 172 Source ID: Johnson_1404 Source: Johnson ### Event 12824 (F9DB76FE) Date: 3/10/1967 Description: 12:20 a.m. EST. A witness saw an object shaped like a half ball with its flat side down (dome-shaped). The object glowed a bright orange-red all over and was about 10 times the apparent diameter of the moon, which was visible. (Fowler, 1974, p. 346.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Phillipston, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3400 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12825 (48151A15) Date: 3/10/1967 Description: 6:30 p.m. An oval object with a tall dome, surrounded by haze, hovered above the road ahead of a car, and then accelerated away. (Flying Saucer Review, July-Aug. 1967, p. 30; APRO Bulletin, Mar.-Apr. 1967, p. 11.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dareton, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_3401 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12826 (D66F9DA0) Date: 3/11/1967 End date: 3/13/1967 Description: Night. Red, green, and white lights are observed in the air by several witnesses at Tillamook, Oregon, including police and sheriff’s deputies. Radar contact is made in the same area as the visual sightings by the radar station at Mount Hebo Air Force Station \[now closed\]. On March 11, objects are observed for one hour. On March 12, they are again observed for one hour. On March 13, the objects are seen for four hours and 35 minutes. The radar returns show hovering and rapid movement of the targets. The visual sightings also show rapid movement of the objects at times. One radar sighting shows a rapid distance change from 39–48 miles within one minute. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Colored Lights and Radar Returns](http://www.nicap.org/670311tillamook%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 122–123](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/122/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4237 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12827 (AD0950A5) Date: 3/11/1967 End date: 3/13/1967 Description: Colored Lights & Radar Returns (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [670311-13](http://www.nicap.org/670311tillamook%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tillamook, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_3407 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12828 (65C34D17) Date: 3/11/1967 Description: 10:20 p.m. LT. A pilot, copilot, and hostess of an airliner flying at 17,000 feet saw a cluster of 10-12 soft-glowing, amber-colored lights approach their aircraft at a lower altitude, passing below and out of sight. (Witness reports in NICAP files; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 3, Nov.-Dec. 1967, p. 1; Weinstein, 1999, p. 35.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Taranaki (off coast of), NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3406 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12829 (CED3F950) Date: 3/11/1967 Description: Time not reported. An electrical engineer and four other witnesses saw three glowing, golden-colored objects approach from the northeast. The objects circled (maneuvered), and departed to the northeast very fast. (Columbus Dispatch 3/12/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ashtabula, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3405 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12830 (F67C98AC) Date: 3/12/1967 Description: Clyde L. Dwyer observed a large disc-shaped object from a window in his South Glenn Falls, New York home at 10:30 p.m. It was approximately 100 feet in diameter and hovered motionless 175-200 yards southeast of his home. Three large square windows were spaced around the midline of the object and just below these, jets of what appeared to be steam were emitted continually from a number of equidistant points around the object. Its dark mass was illuminated by a nearby street lamp. A white light shone from the windows, and two men and a woman could be seen in the central window, with two more men standing behind the window to the right. Although no distinguishing characteristics could be seen, "these figures were definitely of human appearance." After hovering for about five minutes, the object gradually departed toward the southwest. No sound was heard at any time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-24, citing Richard Bonenfant, CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_1437 Source: Johnson ### Event 12831 (89BF11EF) Date: 3/12/1967 Description: Car-sized inverted mushroom-shaped object hovering 30 ft above ground (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rochester, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3410 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12832 (29E9AB13) Date: 3/12/1967 Description: 7:15 p.m. Larry Burke sees an object with red, green, and white flashing lights southwest of McIntosh, South Dakota. He picks up three friends—Dick Makens, Junior Edinger, and Charles Warren—to go investigate. On a country road one mile west of town they see four blinding, fluorescent-green lights low above the road ahead. As they are driving up a hill, the car engine stops. Frightened, they let the car coast back down the hill, and the engine starts again. The witnesses disagree on the size, shape, and altitude of the lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Car Buzzing Incidents](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf) [on Increase,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4238 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12833 (8D88EE3E) Date: 3/12/1967 Description: A woman and her daughter driving home from church at 11:30 p.m. in Letart Falls, Ohio rounded a corner in a wooded area and saw a huge white figure appear suddenly in front of their car. The creature appeared to have very long hair and was in sight for several seconds before it shot upward into the sky and disappeared. The witnesses assumed they had seen an "angel." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; John A Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, p. 119 Source ID: Johnson_1438 Source: Johnson ### Event 12834 (972CCE8B) Date: 3/12/1967 Description: Time not reported. In St. Louis County, northeast Minnesota, about 250 miles from Rochester, four bovs 9-12 vears old reportedly encountered a landed craft and one or more humanoid beings. (Boyer letter dated 5/5/67 in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Virginia, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3409 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12835 (62D3F70D) Date: 3/12/1967 Description: A boy who had gone outside to buy a newspaper saw an object resembling an inverted mushroom hovering 10 m above ground. It was not larger than a car, took a 45 (degree) orientation, oscillated, and left to the northwest. Three photographs were reportedly taken. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Rochester, Minnesota Source ID: Magnonia_825 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12836 (69407B2B) Date: 3/12/1967 Description: At 7:15 p.m. in McIntosh, South Dakota a single witness saw an object with red, green, and white lights. After he reported the incident, four young men went to the area to investigate. They saw four green lights hovering low over the road, but the engine of their car stalled as they approached. Because their car had stalled on a hill, they turned the car around and coasted downhill. The car re-started then, so they drove away without investigating further. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 191, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas Source ID: Johnson_1436 Source: Johnson ### Event 12837 (F1356D4E) Date: 3/12/1967 Description: Early morning CST. Four witnesses saw a disc with bright white light beams that swept the ground. Red lights like roman candles shot out from all sides. The object floated low, and hovered. Witnesses felt vibrations and heard a sound like an alternating frequency beep. (Arkansas Gazette, 3/14/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paragould, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_3408 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12838 (4F43E36D) Date: 3/12/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. EST. A man saw a gun-metal-gray object shaped like a child's musical top, with lights around the circumference. Vapor trails emerged from points along the outer edge of the object. It hovered silently near the ground, then rose silently. Signs of life reportedly were seen inside. (Glens Falls Times, 3/14/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glens Falls, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3412 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12839 (DF1FE125) Date: 3/12/1967 Description: A boy who had gone outside in Rochester, Minnesota to buy a newspaper saw an object resembling an inverted mushroom hovering 10 meters above the ground. It was not larger than a car, tilted to a 45 degree orientation, oscillated, and left towards the northwest. He took three photographs of the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 825 Source ID: Johnson_1434 Source: Johnson ### Event 12840 (549FD21B) Date: 3/12/1967 Description: Four boys, Bob & John Kangas, Mike Kauppi, and Scott Mackay, ages 9-12, were riding on a snowmobile in Palo, Minnesota at 2:15 p.m. when they saw a very bright light coming from an old abandoned hayshed, and a second beam of light about 100 yards away in an open field. Near the latter were 5 moving black "objects" about three to four feet high, arranged in a diamond formation with a fifth at the center. These "objects" or beings seemed to glide over the deep snow, then moved toward the beam of light and when they reached it, both the light and the "objects" faded out of sight. The boys headed for the nearest house, "visibly shaken, almost to the point of hysteria." Two footprints of an unidentifiable shape were found later at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-23 (A0794), citing Annette J. Boyer, NICAP field investigator Source ID: Johnson_1435 Source: Johnson ### Event 12841 (6CBAAF45) Date: 3/12/1967 Description: 8:15 p.m.MST. A couple saw the ground illuminated in front of their car. Looking for the source of the light, they saw a large object an estimated 150 feet above the ground shoot by. The object was shaped like a tapered boxcar and flame was coming out the rear. (Salisbury, 1974, pp. 46-48.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vernal and Roosevelt bt., UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3411 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12842 (4A16EDC3) Date: 3/13/1967 Description: 8:15 p.m. PST. Two men watched a pulsating yellow-orange light for a half hour as it paced their car at close range. The following car had an electrical system failure (EM effects). (Washington State NICAP Subcommittee report, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San De Fuca, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3413 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12843 (F17CDD64) Date: 3/14/1967 Description: 12:45 p.m. EST. Two woman saw a disc with a flat bottom and peaked top moving very slowly. The object was described as a very bright white, brighter than a conventional aircraft. It moved south parallel to U.S. Route A1A, then turned to the right and disappeared to the southwest after 3-5 minutes. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Daytona Beach, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3415 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12844 (0AE8CAC8) Date: 3/14/1967 Description: Daytime. A U.S. Air Force flight surgeon aboard and the pilot and crew of a KC- 135 flving at 15,000 feet observed a vertically inclined, huge, black metallic cylinder an estimated 2 miles from the plane. (Jacksonville Daily News, Arkansas, 3/27/69, copy in NICAP files; phone conversation with surgeon's wife 5/12/69, notes in : NICAP files.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Southeast Asia, Asia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3414 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12845 (8F8A9934) Date: 3/15/1967 Description: 4:30 a.m. PST. A woman saw a triangular object surrounded by red glow (halo effect). The object had two blinking red lights and four steady white body lights. It hovered over a highway intersection, then moved away after 10-15 minutes. (Marysville Appeal-Democrat, Calif., 3/15/67, report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Linda, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3416 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12846 (0C16AB59) Date: Mid 3/1967 Description: Night. Future UFO researcher [Robert Hastings](https://www.ufohastings.com/bio) has a part-time job as a janitor in Malmstrom AFB near Great Falls, Montana. One night as he is cleaning out the Radar Approach Control center, one of the FAA controllers calls him over to look at 5 unidentified targets that two jet fighters have gone up to intercept. Soon he is asked to leave and clean the room later. Later on, he hears that the targets ascended vertically, leaving the jets far behind, and that the incident takes place in the Judith Basin area many miles to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 6–7, 279, 282–286 Source ID: Eberhart_4239 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12847 (7D9F9963) Date: 3/15/1967 Description: 9:15 p.m. EST. A woman saw a teardrop-shaped object, long axis horizontal, with two lighted portholes. Its body was blue-brown and dull. The witness's dog reacted to the presence of the object. (Witness letter in NICAP files, NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nebo, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3417 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12848 (C70DBBDB) Date: 3/16/1967 Description: 12:30 a.m. EST. A woman saw a glowing egg-shaped object with lights around it as if they were on wires. The object was 6-8 feet above the ground. It dropped rapidly, then went straight up and repeated the maneuver. The object made a loud humming sound. (Manistee News-Advocate, Manistee County, Mien., 3/17/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Free Soil, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3418 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12849 (C67D6C5F) Date: 3/16/1967 Description: Daytime. Personnel of Antares astronomical observatory saw an oval object with dark colored dome and an open hatch in the middle. Numerous color and black- and-white photographs were reported to have been taken and offered for sale. (El Universal, Caracas, Venezuela, 3/18/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montevideo, Uraguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_3419 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12850 (19555AFF) Date: 3/16/1967 Description: Deactivation of 6-8 missiles during red saucer-shaped object (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roy (near), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3420 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12851 (A9558A2C) Date: 3/16/1967 Description: Deactivation of 10 missiles for 1 day after UFOs hovered near silos (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lewistown (15 miles N of), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3421 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12852 (1450E8BD) Date: 3/16/1967 Description: "Echo Flight" Missile Incident (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [670316](http://www.nicap.org/670316malmstrom%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3422 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12853 (7B7CD209) Date: 3/16/1967 Description: 11:10 p.m. EST. An associate editor of a local newspaper saw a glowing cigar that drifted back and forth about 30 feet above a snowy field in front of trees for 8 minutes. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Keene, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3423 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12854 (978E2D1F) Date: 3/16/1967 Description: 8:30 a.m. At the Malmstrom AFB Echo-Flight missile launch facility between Winfred and Hilger, Montana, 1Lt Walter Figel, deputy crew commander of the Missile Combat Crew, sees one of his Minuteman missiles go into “no-go” status. He calls the missile site to see if there is scheduled maintenance and is told no. The guard tells him of a large, round object over the site. Within seconds, the nine other missiles shut down. Strike teams are dispatched to the two Launch Control Centers, where maintenance and security personnel tell them about the UFOs. The missiles are offline for the greater part of the day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert Salas and James Klotz, Faded Giant, BookSurge, 2005; Robert L. Hastings, “[The Echo and Oscar Flight Incidents,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/the-echo-and-oscar-flight-incidents)” UFOs & Nukes, November 12, 2012; Nukes 254–258, 265–268 Source ID: Eberhart_4240 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12855 (6A4FBD1A) Date: 3/16/1967 Description: 7:00 p.m. [Beryl Dux](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21035478/beryl-e%5F-dux) sees two white cloud-like objects over Belvedere, New Jersey. She calls her sister Olive to watch, and suddenly a dull orange object comes out of the cloud on the right. It is spinning rapidly and descending quickly, but it goes into the white cloud on the right. The two clouds merge and vanish gradually. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_4241 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12856 (130B2C08) Date: 3/16/1967 Description: Security guards saw glowing red disc hover near missile site, weapons shut down Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT Source ID: HallUFOE2_122 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12857 (B0716E4B) Date: 3/17/1967 Description: Night. A woman reported an object so bright she could look at it only brieflv (brilliant illumination). The object hovered over her home, and made a loud sound (unspecified). Her dog was greatly upset (animal reaction). Possible EM effect on car headlights. (Unidentified clipping in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lebanon, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3424 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12858 (B422CC05) Date: 3/17/1967 Description: 7:00 p.m.EST. A couple and their three children saw a fat boomerang-shaped object with three red lights in the center (body lights). It flew overhead, changing color, and seemed to follow their car. (Letter dated 3/29/67 in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Central area, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3425 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12859 (F12D0286) Date: 3/17/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. EST. About 345 miles southeast of Ann Arbor, Mich., a couple in southwest Pennsylvania saw a fiery orange object that paced their car for more than a mile, then hovered over their home. (Uniontown Morning Herald, Pa., 3/18/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ohio Pyle, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3427 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12860 (FBA1A15C) Date: 3/17/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. EST. A couple saw an oval with a body light changing color from red to blue. The object seemed to follow their car before flying away over the horizon after 15 minutes. (White letter, 4/8/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Evansville, VT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3428 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12861 (7F5427DC) Date: 3/17/1967 Description: 7:45 p.m. A man saw a red light that changed to blue as it moved slowly across the sky and disappeared. Then what he thought was the same light reappeared but as two white lights that slowly passed overhead (body lights). (Letter from witness dated 1 /9/68 in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ann Arbor, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3426 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12862 (5B9EE36F) Date: 3/18/1967 Description: 7:30 p.m. CST (8:30 p.m. EST). Three people saw an oval or bowl-like object with a dome on too and a series of red lights around the circumference (body lights) that flashed in a pattern. There was a bright white spotlight on the bottom near the front. The object hovered over a field before disappearing, possibly landing. (Munday report, Urbana, 9/6/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Champaign, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3433 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12863 (BAAB2DD6) Date: 3/18/1967 Description: That same night in Lebanon, Ohio a 50-foot diameter, round object hovered over the treetops near a highway. It was glowing white, sometimes red, with a "halo effect" and appeared to be rotating. The headlights of a car passing nearby went out. The object emitted a high-pitched sound, and after its departure, the car's headlights functioned normally. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March-April 1971; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 193 Source ID: Johnson_1552 Source: Johnson ### Event 12864 (C4529A90) Date: 3/18/1967 Description: In 1967 at 7:50 p.m. a domed oval or domed disc was seen surrounded by a ring of vapor in Stow, Massachusetts. The UFO glowed violet when it was stationary, but changed to a reddish orange color when it danced around in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 346 Source ID: Johnson_1551 Source: Johnson ### Event 12865 (DC648D27) Date: 3/18/1967 Description: 7:50 p.m. EST. Three witnesses saw a domed oval object surrounded with a ring of vapor. When the object was stationary (hovering), it glowed violet but when moving, it turned to reddish orange (color change/motion correlation). It moved with a dancing motion. (Fowler, 1974, p. 346.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stow, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3429 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12866 (6C9CC74D) Date: Spring 1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. EST,. An airport owner, alerted by a whirring sound, saw an object like two silver saucers placed rim-to-rim (disc) with a transparent dome. Inside the dome were two moving figures. Portholes glowed on the perimeter of the object. An odor was reported, and a yard light was affected (EM effects). (Fowler, 1974, p. 348.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Haverhille, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3467 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12867 (CBEC1B5F) Date: Spring 1967 Description: Night. Centenary College Instructor John O. Williams has taken his astronomy class to an open field on the Shreveport, Louisiana, campus to observe the sky. The see a bright orange light precisely due west of them at an elevation of about 30° approaching at a modest angular rate of 1° per second. It remains silent even as it passes above them. A second light, much fainter and blue in color, is following it. The second light turns away and moves south into the distance. The orange light continues eastward, then performs a tight 180° turn and returns to their zenith. It accelerates west and disappears from view. After about 20 minutes it disappears, followed by a thread of rippling blue light. The thread breaks into 7–8 individual blue lights, which exit in several directions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John O. Williams, “Louisiana Lights in 1967,” IUR 22, no. 4 \(Winter 1997–1998\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_4258 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12868 (CBE0D703) Date: 3/20/1967 Time: 2245 Description: A man and his daughter saw two lights that they thought were landing lights on aircraft, but they came to ground level, flew straight toward the car, and suddenly vanished. At the same time, five figures appeared about 3 m away. They had narrow, pointed noses, mouths and eyes like slits, blond hair, rough skin, and were dressed in loose "hunterlike" clothes. Witnesses drove away as fast as they could. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Butler, Pennsylvania Source ID: Magnonia_826 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12869 (F7012E74) Date: Spring 1967 Description: The United Aerial Phenomena Agency begins publishing Flying Saucer Digest, edited by Allan J. Manak in Cleveland, Ohio. [Rick Hilberg](http://www.mufonohio.com/mufono/2015confSUMM.html) takes over as chief editor in 2003. It continues until at least fall 2017. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Flying](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Flying%20Saucer%20Digest%20%28UAPA%2C%20Hilberg%29/Flying%20Saucer%20Digest%20-%20No%20001%20-%201967.pdf) [Saucer Digest](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Flying%20Saucer%20Digest%20%28UAPA%2C%20Hilberg%29/Flying%20Saucer%20Digest%20-%20No%20001%20-%201967.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(Spring 1967\) Source ID: Eberhart_4257 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12870 (0C161BD6) Date: Spring 1967 Description: Psychologist [David R. Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)[,](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) a principal investigator for the Colorado project, launches UFOCAT, a computerized database of UFO cases, after researcher [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) gives the project 3,000 cases from his own collection. Saunders codes the cases with such parameters as source, date, time, location, state and county, country, witness names, age, gender, special features, duration, and other elements. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, “[UFOCAT-2009](http://www.cufos.org/UFOCAT.html)” Source ID: Eberhart_4256 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12871 (5CE814F7) Date: 3/20/1967 Description: 11:00 p.m. A man and his daughter living in Butler, Pennsylvania, take the car out to go looking for lights his wife had seen in the sky earlier. After stopping with the car lights off for a while, he sees two yellowish-white globes of light at 200 feet altitude, which start moving toward the car in a parallel course. The objects descend a quarter mile away, then shoot toward the witnesses at 70–80 mph. The daughter hears a “chorus of voices” in her head saying “don’t move” repeatedly. The man switches on the headlights, the lights disappear, and the voices stop. Moments later, 10 feet from the car, they see five figures standing in an irregular semicircle. The man gets into the car but the daughter continues staring at the figures, which have slits for eyes and mouths. All have long blond hair and are wearing something like baseball caps. They wear loose-fitting clothing. The witnesses drive away quickly and go to their minister’s home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert A. Schmidt, “[Humanoids Seen at Butler,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1968\): 5–6; Clark III 277–278 Source ID: Eberhart_4242 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12872 (E55C98D5) Date: 3/20/1967 Description: At 10:45 p.m. a man and his daughter in Butler, Pennsylvania saw two lights that they thought were landing lights on an aircraft, but they came to ground level and flew straight toward the car, then suddenly vanished. At the same time, five figures appeared about three meters away. They had narrow, pointed noses, mouths and eyes like slits, blond hair, rough skin, and were dressed in loose "hunterlike" clothes. Witnesses drove away as fast as they could. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 826 Source ID: Johnson_1586 Source: Johnson ### Event 12873 (68BE731F) Date: 3/20/1967 Description: Daylight landing, (#1014), occupants, close approach (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tuscumbia, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3430 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12874 (92BC7A76) Date: 3/21/1967 Description: A Brazilian military aircraft with 14 passengers encounters a glowing-red, oblong object over the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, while on its way to Salgado Filho Airport near Gravataí. The control tower operator there alerts pilots of a Cruzeiro do Sul aircraft coming in from the southwest. Minutes later these pilots see apparently the same object, which follows them for 25 minutes before zipping up into the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 58–59 Source ID: Eberhart_4243 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12875 (D7AC2791) Date: 3/21/1967 Description: 7:45 p.m. CST. A couple saw a bright red oval that approached, stopped and hovered, four times emitting light or lighted objects toward the ground. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minneapolis, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3434 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12876 (BDA2C38C) Date: 3/21/1967 Description: 7:30 p.m. AKST (10:30 p.m. CST). Two families saw an object that had a long row of square windows of different colors. Cows reacted violently (animal reactions). The object hovered, then disappeared beyond the trees. (Report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Homer, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3435 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12877 (F31C72F2) Date: 3/21/1967 Description: Night. Mary Beth Neufeld and three other teenagers are driving on US Highway 56 one mile west of Hillsboro, Kansas, when they see a bright object “like an upside-down cup on a saucer.” They start driving toward it, but it approaches them and hovers above the car for a few seconds. The car starts rocking and the engine quits. When the UFO leaves, they are able to start it up again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Car Buzzing Incidents on Increase,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4244 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12878 (3A94AC01) Date: 3/21/1967 Description: "Upside-down cup on a saucer" hovered over car, which rocked violently. APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, (E) p. 5, car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hillsboro, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3431 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12879 (3234B19D) Date: 3/21/1967 Description: Multiple witnesses, landing, (#268). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Baden, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3432 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12880 (59338892) Date: 3/21/1967 Description: On this night several teenage girls were driving in a car in Hillsboro, Kansas when they saw a bright light ahead on the road. The light then approached the car and hovered directly over the roof. It was shaped like an upside-down cup on a saucer. The car's engine failed as the object hovered overhead, and although the car was stopped, it rocked back and forth quite violently. The UFO eventually left and the car could be restarted without any trouble. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 194; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 5; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_1599 Source: Johnson ### Event 12881 (AD2F3C2A) Date: 3/22/1967 Description: 11:00 p.m. Ann-Lis Danielsson is driving home to Tjuvkil, Västra Götaland, Sweden, when she notices a greenish illumination outside her car. Slowing down, she sees a disc about 15 feet in diameter hovering 500 feet away at an altitude of 1,500 feet. It begins to circle the area slowly, rising and sinking and giving off a whining noise. After pacing her for 15 minutes, it climbs vertically with an oscillating motion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Girl Reconnoitred by](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf) [Disc,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1967, p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_4245 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12882 (D10A1938) Date: 3/22/1967 Time: 10:20 PM Description: Witness: Douglas Eutsler, 15. Fluorescent, solid, multicolored lights stood still, then flew away at high speed after 1 minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Wapello, Iowa Source ID: BerlinerBBU_572 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12883 (D4110F92) Date: 3/22/1967 Description: A 14-year-old teenager named from Wapello, Iowa reported seeing a domed, disc-shaped flying object with legs near his home. The UFO had a central row of portholes and multicolored lights. The UFO hovered for a short while, then flew away at high speed. This is a Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1976, p. 10; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 333; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54 Source ID: Johnson_1615 Source: Johnson ### Event 12884 (4B9FBFC9) Date: 3/22/1967 Description: 8:50 p.m. PST (10:50 p.m. CST). A barking dog alerted five witnesses (animal reactions), who saw 5 or 6 lights in a cluster. The lights moved across the sky, and suddenly climbed straight up and disappeared after being visible for several minutes. (Camarillo News, 3/23/67, copy in NICAP (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Camarillo, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3439 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12885 (84EA1B4B) Date: 3/22/1967 Description: Fluorescent, solid, multicolored lights stand still, then fly away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 11541) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wapello, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3438 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12886 (7CCD84B8) Date: 3/22/1967 Description: Night. The crew of an airliner flying above the French-Spanish border saw two unexplained blinking lights that changed color and were tracked by ground radar. (Weinstein, 1999, p. 35, from Good, 1996.) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Biscay Bay, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_3437 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12887 (B2D70548) Date: 3/22/1967 Description: 5:30 p.m. Hundreds of Yungainos and tourists, were reportedly visited by two UFOs. They flew over the snow covered Huascaran mountains and the city of Yungay-Peru. Photo by: Augusto Arrando. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [670322](http://www.ufocasebook.com/Peruyungay1967large.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yungay, Peru Source ID: NICAP_DB_3436 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12888 (D9BD0C59) Date: 3/23/1967 Description: 11:30 a.m. Man requesting his name be kept confidential reported that he observed an object, near the airport, in the west that appeared to be an aircraft fuselage (DC- 3) without wings. It was white in color, and after a minute of observation, took off fast towards the northwest into a cloud. (Ridge, NICAP files) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lawrenceville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3443 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12889 (79971193) Date: 3/23/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. MST. Sheriff's deputies and other witnesses saw a yellow object with a red glow coming from the top and the bottom. The object hovered, then flew away. Many sightings reported all over the state. (Great Falls Leader, 3/24/67, copy in NICAP files.) \[Malmstrom AFB, MT, Minuteman ICBM Complex\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Great Falls, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3442 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12890 (80B5E861) Date: 3/23/1967 Description: During the same time period, a woman in another area of Omaha saw two large (moon-size) lights making turns (maneuvering) in the sky. (Omaha World Herald, 3/23/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Omaha, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_3441 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12891 (BEC6CCC9) Date: 3/23/1967 Description: 3:00-3:30 a.m. CST. A nurse, a nursing supervisor, and an aide saw a slowing white light that at times had a surrounding red glow (halo effect). The shape was said to be " like a bowl atop a plate" (domed disc). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Omaha, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_3440 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12892 (38C325DB) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: Numerous reports came from this area, including one of a landing observation. At dawn, police and a Malmstrom AFB helicopter made a search, with negative results. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Belt, Montana Source ID: Magnonia_827 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12893 (50F3F50C) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: 7:18 p.m. EST. Many people saw an object hovering in the sky to the northwest. It was changing colors in a cycle from red to blue-green to white, and back to red. After about 25 minutes, the object made a swift departure. (Unidentified newspaper clipping, 3/25/67, copy in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kent, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3446 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12894 (1526D6EB) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: 2134Z (4:34 p.m. EST). An Irish Airlines flight crew saw an object that was as bright as Venus, but that also was being tracked on ground radar. (Weinstein, 1999, p. 35.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlantic Ocean, in air space Source ID: NICAP_DB_3445 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12895 (3A05D6DF) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: Disc hovers for 10 minutes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_3444 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12896 (B673E0D0) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: Late evening. An airman with the Malmstrom AFB Oscar-Flight Launch Control Center for the SAC USAF 341st Strategic Missile Wing south of Roy, Montana, sees a star-like object zigzagging high above him. Soon, a larger and closer light appears and behaves similarly. He calls his NCO and the two men watch as the lights streak through the sky, maneuvering in impossible ways. The NCO phones his commander, 1Lt. [Robert Salas](https://ufology.fandom.com/wiki/Robert%5FSalas), who is below ground in the LCC. Salas is dubious and tells them to let him know if they get any closer. A few minutes later the NCO calls him again and shouts that a red, glowing UFO is hovering outside the front gate. Salas tells him to make sure the site is secure while he phones the command post. Meanwhile, one of the guards is injured when he approaches the UFO and has to be evacuated by helicopter. As Salas briefs Lt. [Fred Meiwald](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103653003/frederick-charles-meiwald), an alarm rings through the small LCC and both men see a “no-go” light turn on for one of the missiles. Within seconds, 4– 7 more Minutemen nuclear ICBMs go offline in succession. The USAF investigation includes full-scale tests on- site, as well as lab tests at Boeing’s Seattle plant. No cause for the shutdown can be found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Echo Flight’ Missile](http://www.nicap.org/670316malmstrom%5Fdir.htm) [Incident](http://www.nicap.org/670316malmstrom%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 4, 323; Jim Klotz and Robert Salas, “[The Malmstrom AFB UFO/Missile Incident,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm)” November 27, 1996; Robert L. Hastings, “Remarkable Reports from the Missile Field,” IUR 32, no. 1 \(August 2008\): 9–10; Robert Salas and James Klotz, Faded Giant, BookSurge, 2005; Nukes 259–263, 268–277; Kevin D. Randle, “[Robert Salas and Me,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2013/05/robert-salas-and-me.html)” A Different Perspective, May 19, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_4249 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12897 (EFEF8415) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: Numerous reports came from Belt, Montana including one of an unknown object landing. A truck driver named Williams spotted a very large dome-shaped object emitting an intense light that had landed in a ravine. As he approached, it took off and settled back further away, hidden from the highway. At dawn, police and a Malmstrom Air Force Base helicopter made a search of the area, with negative results. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 158; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 827; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 333 Source ID: Johnson_1639 Source: Johnson ### Event 12898 (BD521718) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: 8:45 a.m. An airline pilot watches a small silvery-white disc hovering for 10 minutes above Los Alamos, New Mexico. Then it moves across the sky and disappears into clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 64](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/64/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4247 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12899 (6887B786) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: Oscar Flight / Malmstrom AFB Missile Incident (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: NICAP: [670324](http://nicap.org/670324malmstrom%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Malmstrom AFB (Nr. Roy), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3450 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12900 (E722CFC9) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: 5:30 a.m. USAF S/Sgt Johnny Ferguson is traveling with his wife and three children near Loco, Texas, where they are terrified by a mysterious bright blue-neon light that chases them at high speed along the road. It finally splits into two, changes to a reddish color, and disappears behind a hill. Ferguson reports the incident to Deputy Sheriff [George Hooten](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171184243/george-samuel-hooten), then drives into nearby Wellington. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Curt Collins, “[Contact in Texas: The Lost](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2021/11/contact-in-texas-lost-ufo-photos.html) [UFO Photos,](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2021/11/contact-in-texas-lost-ufo-photos.html)” Blue Blurry Lines, November 18, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_4246 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12901 (0B1A266C) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. EST. Three witnesses described an object as being shaped like a turtle shell with flashing red and white lights. The object hovered over Rock Pond before moving off faster than a jet aircraft. (Fowler, UFOS: INTERPLANETARY VISITORS, December 1979, Bantam Edition, page 331) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Georgetown, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3447 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12902 (6B6E5FB0) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: 10:45 a.m. An astronomer at the Catalina Station observatory on Mount Bigelow 18 miles northeast of Tucson, Arizona, sees a white oval disc the apparent size of the moon moving silently in a straight line from northwest to northeast. It slowly changes from an elongated shape to a more circular one. He estimates its speed as 600 mph, size as 230 feet, and distance as 6–12 miles. It disappears after 50 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Astronomers and UFO’s: A Survey, Part 2, Sightings,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4248 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12903 (A76F2ABD) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. Truck driver Ken Williams driving northwest on US Highway 87/89 sees a dome-shaped object emitting a bright light land in a ravine near Belt, Montana. As he approaches, it takes off and settles back, hidden from the highway. Numerous other reports come in from this area. At dawn, police and a helicopter from Malmstrom AFB conduct a search without success. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Dome-Shaped Object Lands in Ravine](http://www.nicap.org/670324belt%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 323; Robert L. Hastings, “Remarkable Reports from the Missile Field,” IUR 32, no. 1 \(August 2008\): 9–10 Source ID: Eberhart_4250 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12904 (5643C4E0) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: Dome-Shaped Object Lands In Ravine (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: 11551) Reference: NICAP: [670324](http://www.nicap.org/670324belt%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belt, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3448 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12905 (42A32212) Date: 3/24/1967 Description: Disc hovers for 10 minutes (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_3449 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12906 (2621D128) Date: 3/24/1967 Time: 99 PM Description: Witness: truck driver Ken Williams. One dome-shaped object, emitting a bright light, landed in a ravine. As the witness approached, it took off and settled back, hidden from the highway. Sighting lasted several minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Belt, Montana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_573 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12907 (96AC7410) Date: 3/25/1967 Description: Three red discs hovered over Highway 10C in Joplin, Missouri in the predawn hours. They had windows with white light coming from them. The rose and flew toward the west, where they were joined by a fourth flying disc. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_1653 Source: Johnson ### Event 12908 (CCBF764D) Date: 3/25/1967 Description: An intensely luminous object woke up several residents in Iguala, Mexico at dawn. People in trains going to Acapulco and people travelling by car saw the same phenomenon. The UFO came down to ground level giving off a blinding light, then took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 828 Source ID: Johnson_1654 Source: Johnson ### Event 12909 (DAAC9B04) Date: 3/25/1967 Description: 6:25 p.m.CST. A man and his 11-year-old son saw a hovering, dark egg-shaped object that began to glow red when it moved low overhead (luminosity/motion correlation). It made a sound like a quiet washing machine (swishing). The sound varied and pulsated as did the light. (NICAP report form and letter in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canton, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3452 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12910 (BC4E8E19) Date: 3/25/1967 Description: 7:00 p.m. CST. About 480 miles south of Canton, >> Illinois (see previous entry), two witnesses saw a solid, self-luminous, bright ^ reddish-orange circular object that at one point passed in front of a house and in front of power lines. The object disappeared but was then seen again, & and finally departed at tremendous speed. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Memphis, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3453 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12911 (D394809B) Date: 3/25/1967 Description: Early a.m. CST. Two reoorters saw three discs with domes and flat bottoms (domed discs) that were later joined by a fourth. White light was coming from windows positioned around the circumference of the domes. The discs hovered over a highway, then slowly moved away. (Joplin Globe, Missouri, 3/26/67, copy in NICAP files; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 1.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Joplin, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3451 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12912 (7CF15469) Date: 3/25/1967 Time: dawn Description: An intensely luminous object woke up several residents. People in trains going toward Acapulco and people traveling by car saw the same phenomenon. It came to ground level with a blinding light, then took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 177 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Iguala, Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_828 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12913 (B241CE2C) Date: 3/26/1967 Description: 4:00 p.m. Five witnesses in New Winchester, Ohio, see an oval object, like copper or brass with the sun shining on it, fly from southeast to northwest with a tumbling motion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 323; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 74](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/74/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4251 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12914 (7E28AC4A) Date: 3/26/1967 Description: 7:30 p.m. MST. Two separate groups of 1 witnesses reported a variety of UFO activity. In one case a man saw two "solid :-lights" that hovered near the ground. A 5-1/2-foot tall humanoid being in what 3 looked like white coveralls was seen, and the man's dog was disturbed at this time (animal reaction). The other witnesses described strange footprints found at the site and apparently also saw the humanoid being but do not describe it. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minatare, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_3455 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12915 (D3C17B2D) Date: 3/26/1967 Description: At 9:45 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. John Dick and Mrs. W. Buhr were driving toward Gretna, Manitoba, Canada. They saw a very bright object at ground level near three radio towers situated 3.5 kilometers south of Altona, Manitoba, illuminating the countryside with a pink glow. The object itself was dark with a luminous band around it, was motionless, and pulsated. It disappeared very suddenly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 829, citing the Altona Echo, April 19, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_1677 Source: Johnson ### Event 12916 (7B3D42EC) Date: 3/26/1967 Description: Oval object, like copper or brass fly with tumbling motion (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 11559) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Winchester, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3454 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12917 (E6AB205B) Date: 3/26/1967 Time: 4 PM Description: Witnesses: man, woman, three boys. One oval object, which looked like copper or brass with the sun shining on it, flew from southeast to northwest with tumbling motion for 30 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: New Winchester, Ohio Source ID: BerlinerBBU_574 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 12918 (0C685EDC) Date: 3/26/1967 Time: 2045 Description: Mr. and Mrs. John Dick and Mrs. W. Buhr were driving toward Gretna. Near three radio towers situated 3.5 km south of Altona, they saw a very bright object at ground level, illuminating the countryside with a pink glow. The object itself was dark, with a luminous band around it, was motionless and pulsated, then suddenly disappeared. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 173 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Altona, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_829 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12919 (BAB87839) Date: 3/26/1967 Description: The Bailey and Lore families had observed UFOs in the area of their homes in Minitare, Nebraska on several occasions. On the evening of March 26 at around 7:30 p.m., Robert Lore and Cecil Bailey drove north of their farms to look for lights that looked like they had landed on an isolated section of farmland. The two men drove past a man in white coveralls standing alone by the side of the road. Their dog was riding in the car, and it "really kicked up a fuss" and appeared to be terrified. When the men got home the lights were once more visible in the sky. One particular bright light was strong enough to light up the hill behind it. When they returned to the site where they had seen the stranger the next day, they found numerous nearly rectangular footprints, some of them 9.75 inches long and others 8.5 incheslong. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-26, citing Richard Hall; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 334 Source ID: Johnson_1676 Source: Johnson ### Event 12920 (2B3A5A5B) Date: 3/27/1967 Description: Day. The crew of a Brazilian Air Force C-47 and the crew of a Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do Sul photo- mapping aircraft see a UFO in the vicinity of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The BAF crew describes it as a “reddish-colored full moon” that is flying in circles. They report the sighting to the tower at Salgado Filho International Airport, which asks the mapping aircraft to identify the object. The Cruzeiro plane follows the UFO for 15 minutes before it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 311](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/310/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4252 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12921 (34C0B61D) Date: 3/27/1967 Description: Photograph. No other information available at this time. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [670327](http://www.ufocasebook.com/picacoparknm031267.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Picaco Park, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_3458 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12922 (935B0BD1) Date: 3/28/1967 Description: 2:30 a.m. EST. A 20-year-old electric company worker saw a glowing red-orange, cone-shaped object just off the ground. The object was estimated to be 12 feet wide at the base and 25 feet high to the point, where there was a ball-shaped object. Large-headed humanoids were seen moving rapidly back and forth. The report said that one being was hit by the car, leaving visible damage on the vehicle. (Ravenna Record-Courier, Ohio, 3/31/67; Keyhoe and Lore, 1969a, p. 30; Keyhoe and Lore,1969b, pp.28-29; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 1.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Munroe Falls, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3459 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12923 (E6A11C50) Date: 3/28/1967 Description: About the same time as the Colorado event (2:25 a.m. Eastern Time) a cone was seen hovering several feet over a field between Kent and Munroe Falls, Ohio. Four or five beings, each under four-feet tall, stocky and with large heads emerged. They wore helmets and glowed an orange-red color. The witness's car hit one of them, and they saw an arm fly up w a "mitten" on the hand. The car had dents and scratches as a result of the collision. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_1713 Source: Johnson ### Event 12924 (BA6E6B9E) Date: 3/28/1967 Description: 2:25 a.m. Electrical worker [David Morris](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12057986/david-wallace-morris)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12057986/david-wallace-morris) 20, is driving home to Munroe Falls, Ohio, from nearby Kent when he sees a glowing red-orange object shaped like an inverted cone hovering just above the ground. The object is about 12 feet wide at the base and 25 feet high, with a ball-shaped object at its top. Looking at the road ahead, Morris sees four or five large-headed humanoids moving rapidly back and forth about 50 feet ahead. He slams on his brakes, but it is too late. He feels a thump against the right front corner of his car and sees an arm with a thumbless mitten fly up, then down. The car stops 10 feet later; Morris thinks about providing assistance, but the otherworldliness of the situation causes him to get away quickly. In his rearview mirror he sees a group of the entities position themselves around something lying on the ground. In the morning, Morris finds three dents in the front bumper and right headlight ring of his car. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Youth’s Car Strikes UAO Occupant,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1967, pp. 1–4; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf), NICAP, 1969, pp. 28–29; Clark III 782–783 Source ID: Eberhart_4253 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12925 (BF8F08EC) Date: 3/28/1967 Description: In Conifer, Colorado at 12:30 a.m., D. Davis saw a shining light on a hill on the adjoining ranch. As witnesses drove over towards it to check it out the light went out. Two sisters who had stayed back at the ranch saw a man running down the hill. He vanished near the corral. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher case files Source ID: Johnson_1712 Source: Johnson ### Event 12926 (0F305421) Date: 3/28/1967 Description: A second briefing for [Robert Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) by NORAD analysts effectively diverts researcher attention away from NORAD’s 500 defense radars and onto its useless handful of space defense satellite-tracking radars and cameras \(referred to as “spacetrack” and are the least likely to detect UFOs\). Low tries to find out if NORAD can help with identifying satellites that might be misreported as UFOs and whether NORAD can’t track a UFO entering the atmosphere from outer space \(or just aren’t\), but the analysts are evasive. NORAD says its satellite-tracking radars \(with non-ballistic maneuvering and erratic flight paths\) actually can “see” UFOs, but no one will ever know because the data that does not fit satellite or ballistic trajectories are thrown out automatically by system computers. No mention is made of NORAD’s high priority for not ignoring unpredictable, UFO-like maneuverable cruise missiles or hypersonic space planes. This discussion is distributed as a briefing paper to all Colorado project members on June 6, including [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 804–810 Source ID: Eberhart_4254 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12927 (0903C645) Date: 3/29/1967 Description: 7:35 p.m. EST. A woman sighted a glowing disc. She drove home and returned with two more witnesses. The object moved slowly, and disappeared when aircraft approached (aircraft avoidance). (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Granby, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3460 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12928 (7351B59E) Date: 3/29/1967 Description: 7:45 p.m. CST (8:45 p.m. EST). A disc with windows hovered, then accelerated away. (Air Force report in Project Blue Book files, National Archives.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newulm, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3461 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12929 (60C12262) Date: 3/30/1967 Description: 7:30 p.m. GMT. Five people saw a carrot-shaped (cone-shaped) object about twice the size of an airliner. It moved sideways at first, then climbed and accelerated away. (Reading Evening Post, England, 3/31/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burghfield, Berkshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3462 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12930 (453A9070) Date: 3/30/1967 Description: On this night near Peterborough, South Australia a car's engine failed and the two male witnesses then saw a disc-shaped object rise from a field by the road. The object gave off a blue and violet glow. It rapidly disappeared into the sky. A few minutes later another disc shot up from another field, emitting sparks the color of a blue mercury-vapor lamp. After the second UFO had gone the car could then be restarted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 178; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_1737 Source: Johnson ### Event 12931 (2AAF98DD) Date: 3/30/1967 Description: 8:25 p.m. CST. Three people saw a disc with a dome and two red body lights hovering near the horizon. They observed it through binoculars, and it appeared to oscillate erratically. Report from local resident, received 10/25/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westmont, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3465 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12932 (628DBDA9) Date: 3/30/1967 Description: 7:20-7:40 p.m. EST. A NASA launch that created a sodium vapor cloud in the atmosphere caused several false UFO reports. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eastern Seaboard, in air space Source ID: NICAP_DB_3464 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12933 (3BF15761) Date: 3/30/1967 Description: Radar/visual, UFO 10 missiles shut down (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3463 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12934 (B1A9308A) Date: 3/31/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. Farmer Carroll Wayne Watts reportedly sees a cylindrical object about 100 feet long that is hovering just off the ground near Loco, Texas, and emitting a motor-like sound. A voice addresses him from within the object requesting that he undergo a physical examination so that he can go on a flight. When Watts refuses to do so, the craft takes off. Watts has another encounter, an apparent abduction, on April 11. In a series of other experiences and sightings, on June 7, 11, and 13, he manages to take Polaroid photographs. In all, he haw 10 photographs of the cylindrical UFO in flight, and another shot of a little man from the ship. Most of Watts’s pictures are black and white, but at least three of them are shot in color. He later admits the observation is a hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Another UFO Visit Reported from Loco,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13949449/the-wellington-leader/)” Wellington \(Tex.\) Leader, April 6, 1967, p. 1; Curt Collins, “[UFO](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2017/03/ufo-contact-april-1-1967-from-loco-tx.html) [Contact: April 1, 1967, from Loco, TX,](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2017/03/ufo-contact-april-1-1967-from-loco-tx.html)” Blue Blurry Lines, March 31, 2017; Kevin D. Randle, “[Carroll Wayne](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2020/04/carroll-wayne-watts-contactabduction.html) [Watts Contact/Abduction,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2020/04/carroll-wayne-watts-contactabduction.html)” A Different Perspective, April 25, 2020; Curt Collins, “[Contact in Texas: The Lost](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/11/contact-in-texas-lost-ufo-photos.html) [UFO Photos,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/11/contact-in-texas-lost-ufo-photos.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, November 18, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_4255 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12935 (1D12AAA4) Date: 3/31/1967 Description: Three strange objects--a bright, orange light emitting a shower of green sparks, and two smaller sources--were seen in a field in Hanley, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 830 Source ID: Johnson_1767 Source: Johnson ### Event 12936 (2BDE413C) Date: 3/31/1967 Description: Three strange objects, a bright, orange light emitting a shower of green sparks, and two smaller sources, were seen in a field. No details. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 67, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hanley, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_830 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12937 (F3613E8D) Date: 3/31/1967 Description: Carol Watts had the first of a number of alleged contacts with aliens at 10:30 p.m. in Wellington, Texas. He saw a 100 foot long cigar-shaped UFO on the ground. A door opened and Watts was invited to come inside by the occupants and he agreed to go. They gave him a physical exam and took him on a flight into space. He recalled seeing an unidentified map on the wall inside the craft. The encounter with journey lasted no more than 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files, report dated April 2, 1967; Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 154; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case 117A; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 2, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_1768 Source: Johnson ### Event 12938 (5E1F17E1) Date: 3/31/1967 Description: Carroll Watts contactee case. Cylindrical craft hovering just above ground, voice communicated with witness Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Wellington, TX Source ID: HallUFOE2_123 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12939 (E9EA1449) Date: 3/31/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. CST. A witness reported seeing a cylindrical object about 100 feet long that was hovering just off the ground and emitting a motor-like sound. Other sounds also were heard, including a voice requesting that he undergo a physical examination. When the witness refused to do so, the craft took off. (Washington Star, D.C. (United Press International), 4/2/67; Flying Saucer Review, July-Aug. 1967, p. 31; Air Force report in Project Blue Book files, National Archives.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wellington, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3466 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12940 (9A3EF067) Date: 4/1967 Description: Huge Cone-Shaped UFO Tracked on Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [670400](http://www.nicap.org/6704XXdevondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brixham, Devon, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3468 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12941 (DB6B7347) Date: 4/1967 Description: Evening. A couple saw an object with a short cylindrical body, dome-shaped top, and flat bottom (turret shape). Eventually it sped up and crossed the road in front of the car. (MoberLy Monitor-Indexand Evening Democrat, 7/14/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moberly, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3469 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12942 (80D39EC9) Date: 4/1967 Description: [Brinsley Le Poer Trench](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinsley%5FLe%5FPoer%5FTrench%2C%5F8th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FClancarty) founds Contact \(UK\) in London, England, to promote contact between ufologists internationally. It launches a newsletter first called International Sky Scouts Newsletter, then retitled Awareness, which continues through 2012. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [International Sky Scouts Newsletter](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Awareness%20%28Contact%20UK%29/Awareness%20-%201967%20-%20International%20News%20Letter%20No%201.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Awareness%20%28Contact%20UK%29/Awareness%20-%201967%20-%20International%20News%20Letter%20No%201.pdf) no. 1 \(April 1967\); Story, [p. 89](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/88/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4259 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12943 (57E41D25) Date: 4/1967 Description: 11:15 a.m. A flight instructor and student in a U.S. Navy Cessna aircraft saw a flat oval object, which appeared to be a metallic dull white in color, that followed the aircraft. (Weinstein, 1999, p. 35.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tortuguero, Islagrande, PR Source ID: NICAP_DB_3470 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12944 (59762124) Date: 4/1/1967 Description: Two dogs barked at object 150' away (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [670401](http://www.nicap.org/ar-670401dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fishing Creek Valley, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3474 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12945 (D109D46F) Date: 4/1/1967 Description: 7:15 p.m. PST (10:15 p.m. EST). A family saw an unusual reddish light that approached their car after they flashed their headlights at it (light reaction). The object hovered in front of the car, glowing red with a dome visible on top. It had a hazv indefinite lower part at least as large as the upper part. (NICAP report form; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 2, Oct. 1967, p. 3; NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hessel, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3472 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12946 (7FA3B0F9) Date: 4/1/1967 Time: 2000 Description: Two boys saw an orange disk, less than 1 m in diameter, flying at high speed, stop and hover for three min, 20 m above ground. Chief of Police Peter Mehan confirmed that the sighting was under investigation. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 174 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: New Westminster, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_831 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12947 (A0AD7687) Date: 4/1/1967 Description: At 6:30 p.m. EST in Fishing Creek Valley, Pennsylvania a 12-meter diameter disc descended near two 12-year-old children and directed beams of light to the ground. An adult saw the UFO leave. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files, NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_1787 Source: Johnson ### Event 12948 (A695DAA6) Date: 4/1/1967 Description: 5:45 a.m. A farm wife was putting milkers on cows in a barn when she observed a round, red-yellow object the size of the full moon for about a minute. It hovered about 200 yards away, then climbed and disappeared in about three seconds. (Don Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wayne County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3471 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12949 (33C4AEDA) Date: 4/1/1967 Description: At 7:15 that same evening a glowing red domed disc approached a car with five occupants in Hessel, California. The UFO hovered in front of the car and emitted a brilliant light; it then moved off at treetop level and sped away. A high-pitched whine was heard coming from the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files, report dated July 29, 1967; NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1967, p. 3; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 334 Source ID: Johnson_1788 Source: Johnson ### Event 12950 (CAC02DED) Date: 4/1/1967 Description: 9:15 p.m. EST. A woman reported an illuminated bell-shaped object, estimated to be 35 feet long and 20 feet high (length to height ratio 1.75:1), with white lights and a pulsating red light (body lights). (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3473 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12951 (69EAC4A5) Date: 4/1/1967 Description: At eight o'clock in the city of New Westminster, British Columbia a fast moving, one-meter wide disc stopped and hovered at only 20 meters altitude near two young men for three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Summer 1967, p. 9; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 831 Source ID: Johnson_1789 Source: Johnson ### Event 12952 (2BD9B8D0) Date: 4/1/1967 Description: In a series of night-time incidents that began on March 28th, in Conifer, Colorado at 1:30 a.m. a light like a flashlight came halfway down a hill on the Davies ranch. Rancher D. F. Davies fired ten .38-caliber bullets at it and it disappeared. At 2:30 a.m. Randy Davies, who was still awake, saw a man with a light walk past the ranch house, so he ran outside calling to him. The light went out and the man ran away. At 3:30 a.m. Louise Davies looked out the window and saw a man in the yard, who wore dark clothes and a mask that covered his face down to his shoulders. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-31 (A0802), citing Oleta Havelock & David Saunders Source ID: Johnson_1786 Source: Johnson ### Event 12953 (089D3D15) Date: 4/2/1967 Description: Late on this night in Medina, New York Miss Shane Kurz, who had been observing UFOs maneuvering in the skies for the past several nights, had gone to bed after seeing another one. She suddenly felt paralyzed, and then lost track of time. She remembers a bright light outside her window and a loud humming sound. Her next memory is waking up with her foot covered with mud, her eyes swollen shut, and a triangular shaped burn mark on her abdomen. Later under hypnosis, she remembered being somehow taken into an ovoid metallic gray craft with lights around a revolving rim. She found herself inside an octagon-shaped room with lights that seemed to emanate from all around her. She was then placed on a black slab like table and was unable to move. Later she saw a being with an oval-shaped face, very light skin, and large black almond shaped eyes. The being communicated with her, apparently by using telepathy, and told her she would not be harmed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 1937, citing personal communication from the witness, Shane (Kurz) Sia Source ID: Johnson_1799 Source: Johnson ### Event 12954 (304AC2B9) Date: 4/4/1967 Description: Carlo Cammarata watches a metallic object about 100 feet in diameter hovering some 20 feet above the terrace of his house in San Cataldo, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy. He also sees three humanoids wearing silvery suits and green belts with lights on them. They seem interested in the birds Cammarata is keeping caged on the terrace, touching them occasionally. They ascend into the object on a luminous beam and speed away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 1Pinotti 157 Source ID: Eberhart_4261 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12955 (17A892F5) Date: 4/4/1967 Description: The Federal Aviation Agency issues N 7230.29, requiring air traffic controllers to forward UFO reports to the Colorado project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Federal Aviation Agency, “[Reporting of Unidentified Flying Objects,](http://files.ncas.org/condon/text/appndx-f.htm)” FAA Notice N 7230.29, April 4, 1967 Source ID: Eberhart_4260 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12956 (3C344A09) Date: 4/4/1967 Description: FAA Notice N7230.29 published, establishing procedures for "Reporting of Unidentified Flying Objects" to the Colorado UFO Project. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_124 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12957 (FB84B30A) Date: 4/5/1967 Time: 1945 Description: Justice of the Peace John H. Demler was driving north on Route 72 when his car stalled and the lights went out. He then saw an object, 10 m in diameter, which gave off a smell of sulphur and camphorated oil, hovering low over the car, which was pulled and rocked when the object took off. Physiological effects (perspiration and peeling skin) were reported after 12 hours. The object gave off a sound resembling an electric motor, and emitted sparks. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP May., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Jonestown, Pennsylvania Source ID: Magnonia_832 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12958 (495572EB) Date: 4/5/1967 Description: At 5:15 p.m. on Highway 50 west of Sedalia, Missouri a truck driver reported that a silver disc hovered over the cab of his truck for more than a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Skylook, February 1968, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_1849 Source: Johnson ### Event 12959 (9DCD20C4) Date: 4/5/1967 Description: Ninety minutes later, at 7:45 p.m. EDT between Jonestown and South Lickdale, Pennsylvania on Highway 72 Justice of the Peace John H. Demler saw a ten-meter diameter blue disc making a humming sound like an electric motor. The object flew over his car emitting a chemical odor and sparks. The car's headlights and engine died, and the car was buffeted about as the object took off. The witness was very nervous and agitated after the close encounter, and the top layer of his skin peeled off the next few days. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1967, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 832 Source ID: Johnson_1850 Source: Johnson ### Event 12960 (A4B54259) Date: 4/5/1967 Description: 7:45 p.m. EST. About 450 miles north-northwest of Jonestown, a woman and her two children saw a small glowing sphere with a metallic band aooroach their car. (Peterborough Examiner 4/14/67.) About 45 minutes later in Welland, Ontario, about 165 miles northeast of Peterborough, a man saw an obiect with bright blue light that moved slowly and hovered, emitting a strange humming sound. (Letter 4/9/67 in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Peterborough, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3478 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12961 (D6355347) Date: 4/5/1967 Description: At the same time as the Pennsylvania close encounter, the Dauncey family saw a small glowing sphere with a metallic band around the middle in Peterborough, Ontario. The object emitted two vapor trails and, making a humming noise, approached and paced the witnesses' car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, citing newspaper clipping dated April 14, 1967; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 335 Source ID: Johnson_1851 Source: Johnson ### Event 12962 (B2D8BF83) Date: 4/5/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. CST (9:30 p.m. EST). A manager of the Chamber of Commerce, his wife and grandson saw a disc with a peaked top surmounted by a green light. Its body was yellowish (like house lights) with red sections. The object flew over their car at an estimated 3,000 feet altitude. (Belleville Telescope, 4/6/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belleville, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3479 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12963 (35A4D716) Date: 4/5/1967 Description: Jonestown/Lickdale, PA. Disc passed over car, gave off sparks, car rocked, engine failed, humming sound heard. Sulphur-like smell. Physiological effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_125 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 12964 (66168A0B) Date: 4/5/1967 Description: 7:45 p.m. Justice of the Peace John H. Demler is driving north on State Highway 72 just south of Lickdale, Pennsylvania, when his car’s engine sputters and stops and the lights go out. He sees an object approaching about 20 feet above the road. It is about 30 feet across and looks like “it had lights in back of a painted black glass.” It flies over the car as Demler lowers his window and he notices a smell of sulfur and oil. It emit a sound like an electric motor, which grows louder as it leaves the area. The UFO shoots off sparks similar to that of “grinding on an emory wheel.” The UFO comes to a stop alongside the car, tilts, starts off slowly, then puts on such a terrific burst of speed that Demler and his automobile seem to be pulled to it. The car settles down so fast that he is moved all the way across the front seat. When he looks up again, the object has “turned to a bluish tinge” and is far in the distance. The next day, the skin on his hands and feet begin to peel and Demler is a nervous wreck. His coworkers confirm he is in a state of physical or psychological shock for many hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Startling Cases](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/037%20MAY-JUN%201967.pdf) [Investigated,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/037%20MAY-JUN%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 1 \(May/June 1967\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_4262 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12965 (BD4DEAB9) Date: 4/5/1967 Description: Round object, flashing blue light, moved over car, tilted, sped away; car lifted off ground as UFO departed. See Section VI, (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jonestown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3475 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12966 (095E59F3) Date: 4/5/1967 Description: 1:50 a.m. PST (4:40 p.m. EST).-A woman saw a basket-shaped (truncated cone) object with flashing lights for 10 minutes. The object was described as tumbling end over end. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Davis, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3476 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12967 (6C37C76F) Date: 4/5/1967 Description: 4:00 a.m. EST. Two University of Wisconsin students saw three large orange oval objects in formation that appeared behind their car, then moved in front of it, north of town. When they stopped the car, the objects hovered over the trees, their color changing from orange to purple. They then emitted a blinding light that lit up the area, and vanished suddenly. (Escanaba Daily Press, Mich., 4/6/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Menominee, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3477 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12968 (30AE230C) Date: 4/6/1967 Description: 12:45 p.m. Robert Apfal, a teacher at Crestview Elementary School in Opa-locka, Florida, is in the schoolyard with six students, facing northeast. They spot a metallic, slightly reflective, disc-shaped object hovering about 60 feet above the ground over a telephone pole about one mile away. The object disappears as they watch. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 112 Source ID: Eberhart_4264 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12969 (D7E11E8D) Date: 4/6/1967 Description: 9:45 p.m. A Pacific Western Airlines pilot and crew see a dull orange-red object that flies erratically as it paces the aircraft, then speeds away. Confirmed by radar at Edmonton, Alberta, International Airport. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Condon, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/130/mode/2up) [130–131](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/130/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4265 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12970 (BFFEC3E0) Date: 4/6/1967 Time: 1245 Description: An entire class at an elementary school observed an object 20 m above ground, 2 km away. It vanished suddenly as the children and their teacher, 33-year-old Robert Apfel, were watching it. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 176 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Crestview, Florida Source ID: Magnonia_833 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12971 (B694D71F) Date: 4/6/1967 Description: 10:05 p.m. PST (11:05 p.m. MST). Two peoplen saw a fat, solid-gray cigar (ellipse) with a blinking red light for about 4 minutes. ^ The object flew tilted, and two smaller objects came from the path of the first (satellite objects). The objects were viewed through binoculars. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3481 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12972 (84D59644) Date: 4/6/1967 Description: 8:45 p.m. PST; 9:45 p.m. MST). A couple watched a fly-by of a red disc with windows at low altitude. ((NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Salinas, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3480 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12973 (EEA195FD) Date: 4/6/1967 Description: Object paced airliner (radar) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edmonton, Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3482 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12974 (D5E2CB57) Date: 4/6/1967 Description: In a series of nightly encounters that began March 28th, in Conifer, Colorado on this night at 12:30 a.m. two lights appeared that looked like flashlights on a hill over the Davis ranch. The sister, K. Davies, saw a man in dark clothes and wearing a hood on top of the big hill, and later saw a lighted object hovering at the level of the horizon for a long time, that later ascended. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0805, citing Oleta Havelock and David Saunders Source ID: Johnson_1860 Source: Johnson ### Event 12975 (0F55B720) Date: 4/6/1967 Description: In the same state in Redvale, Colorado later that evening, a single witness saw an orange-colored UFO about 100 feet in diameter upon driving over a hill. The car's lights went out and the engine backfired but it did continue running. The witness felt increased heat, so turned the car around. However, the object started following the car. Eventually it left the car and hovered over a store by the road. A second witness saw this portion of this event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 196, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_1861 Source: Johnson ### Event 12976 (BD42298B) Date: 4/6/1967 Description: At shortly after 9:00 p.m. a reddish-orange light paced a Canadian Pacific Western airliner flying near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and then sped away. The UFO was tracked on radar for 20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 11; Gene Duplantier, Flying Saucers, December 1967, p. 11; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 118, 243, 335 Source ID: Johnson_1862 Source: Johnson ### Event 12977 (24B209EA) Date: 4/6/1967 Description: The Arizona Daily Wildcat publishes an interview with [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald), who says he has found “almost no correlation between so-called ‘evaluations or explanations’ that are made by Blue Book and the facts of the case.” He adds that the good cases have been “swept under the rug in a most disturbing way by Project Blue Book investigators and their consultants” and that “nobody there with any strong scientific competence is looking into the problem.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The UFO Phenomenon: A New Frontier Awaiting Serious Scientific Exploration,” Arizona Daily Wildcat 58, no. 110 \(April 6, 1967\): 4–8 Source ID: Eberhart_4263 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12978 (4637CB36) Date: 4/7/1967 Description: At 11:00 p.m. three men in Balmoral, Victoria, Australia witnessed a small, silent ovoid-shaped UFO and shone a spotlight on it. The UFO buzzed the witnessed in response. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_1884 Source: Johnson ### Event 12979 (946F2991) Date: 4/7/1967 Description: 10:00 a.m. Some 200 children at morning recess at Crestview Elementary School in Opa-locka, Florida, see an oval-shaped object hovering above some trees to the north of the school. It seems to move toward the school and then drop below a pine tree. Some of the kids notice an antenna-like structure, while others think there are two objects. The UFO is also seen by teachers Virginia Martin, Marian Waters, and Robert Apfal, who has his students sketch what they had seen. The drawings depict a turreted structure in the treetops. The Air Force claims a helicopter is in the area practicing takeoffs and landings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[10 Chaotic Minutes, and the Kids Screamed,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/70858819/the-miami-herald/)” Miami Herald, April 8, 1967, p. 1-B; “[AF Says ‘It’ Was Copter; People Who Saw It Say No,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102461589/the-miami-herald/)” Miami Herald, April 11, 1967, p. 1-B; NICAP, “[Teachers, 200 Children See UFO in Broad Daylight](http://www.nicap.org/670407opalocka%5Fdir.htm)”; “[The North Dade Affair,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1967, p. 10; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 112 Source ID: Eberhart_4266 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12980 (C053167D) Date: 4/7/1967 Time: 0945 Description: More than two hundred children and three teachers saw an oval object, with a light at each end, come to ground level. Several other objects also were seen, moving up and down with a pendulum motion. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 67, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Crestview, Florida Source ID: Magnonia_834 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 12981 (41C7FDD3) Date: 4/8/1967 Description: Four college students on a double date in Banner Elk, North Carolina, notice a greenish fluorescent glow on the ground 180 feet away. Their car engine fails and the radio is flooded with static. An object passes near the car and disappears into the distance. The witnesses panic then push the car to a main road where they are able to restart it. They find three round imprints, about 6 inches in diameter and 2 inches deep, in the shape of an equilateral triangle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Fred Merritt, “A Preliminary Classification of Some Reports of UFOs,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_4267 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12982 (FEDE2BCF) Date: 4/8/1967 Description: Four college students saw a greenish fluorescent glow on the ground 180 feet away from their car while driving in the morning eight miles outside of Banner Elk, North Carolina. Their radio experienced interference and their car's engine quit. The glow came from an object, apparently on the ground, which flew up and passed nearby and then flew away. Three imprints in the shape of an equilateral triangle were found in the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 269; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 33; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, March 1972, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_1901 Source: Johnson ### Event 12983 (B63DEE4D) Date: 4/8/1967 Description: Afternoon. Three women and three children saw an elongated object, split in the middle, possibly saucer-shaped, that was hovering near a telephone tower on a mountain. It then shot straight up and disappeared. (Harrisburg Patriot-News, Pa., 4/9/67, copy in NICAP files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Millersburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3484 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12984 (74739B64) Date: 4/9/1967 Description: Five witnesses at the intersection of Highway 30 and Highway 281 saw a UFO near the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant in Grand Island, Nebraska at dusk. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norma Short, Skylook, August 1972, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_1927 Source: Johnson ### Event 12985 (ECB8C9E9) Date: 4/9/1967 Description: A conical-shaped UFO was photographed over Sofiya, the capital city of Bulgaria. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 193 Source ID: Johnson_1926 Source: Johnson ### Event 12986 (B55E84FE) Date: 4/10/1967 Description: 9:45 p.m. A glowing orange-yellow ball that swung in a large arc was observed by two witnesses for 20 minutes. It moved closer and became a huge dark object which reminded the witnesses of a passenger coach of a train with seven tall windows emitting light. (Don Worley) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fayette County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3485 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12987 (C08BCC74) Date: 4/10/1967 End date: 4/11/1967 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Radar Visuals / MPS-14 & FPS-10 Radars (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [670410-11](http://www.nicap.org/670410houma%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houma, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3486 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12988 (C49F0704) Date: 4/10/1967 End date: 4/15/1967 Description: 3:30-4:00 a.m. EST. A woman saw a shiny inverted bowl with flashing red lights hovering above trees. It emitted five light beams from the underside, took off in "three steps" and quickly disappeared. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Danville, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3487 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12989 (A4B723CC) Date: 4/10/1967 End date: 4/11/1967 Description: A bright white object circles one Minuteman launch site near Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls, Montana, for prolonged periods. It eventually ascends to an altitude higher than the capabilities of Air Force interceptors. The local radio station is told to keep quiet about it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Raymond Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, Prentice- Hall, 1981, [p. 187](https://archive.org/details/casebookofufoinv00fowl/page/186/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4268 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 12990 (7DC09C84) Date: 4/11/1967 Description: 6:45 p.m. EST. Three people saw a flattened disc or ellipse with a rotating red light on the underside. The object hovered 100 feet over a pond, moved slowly, then sped away. (Massachusetts NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP files; Fowler, 1974, p. 346.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orange, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3488 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12991 (CB592DC1) Date: 4/11/1967 Description: 6:50 p.m. EST. (11 miles northeast of Orange). Two witnesses saw a mass of very bright lights, brighter than the moon which was visible. They descended and hovered, before moving slowly out of sight on an upward course. (Fowler, 1974, p. 346.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Royalston, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3489 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12992 (4CDC938A) Date: 4/11/1967 Description: On this day a cigar-shaped object with bright red and white lights was sighted at Chemong Lake, Ontario. It made a humming noise. At 6:45 p.m. in Orange, Massachusetts three witnesses saw a bright glowing object shaped like a "squashed egg." It hovered 100 feet over a pond, and then shot off. It had a rotating red light on the bottom. Five minutes later, at 6:50 p.m. a mass of very bright lights descended and hovered in Royalston, Massachusetts before moving out of sight on an upward course. The lights were brighter than the Moon, which was visible during the sighting. At 9:33 p.m. Carol Watts had his second close encounter with UFO entities. An egg-shaped object stalled his truck as he was driving in Loco, Texas. Four beings, under five feet tall and with wrap around eyes, slit mouths, and white coveralls emerged and invited him aboard. He was given some kind of exam onboard the craft by a machine. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Autumn 1967, p. 15; (2) Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated April 30, 1967; (3) Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated May 26, 1967; (4) Hartford Courant, February 25, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_1955 Source: Johnson ### Event 12993 (6B132358) Date: 4/11/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. PST. While driving, a woman saw an amber-colored object shaped like a disc with a tall dome. She estimated that it was at a height of two telephone poles and as large as a car. (Ricks letter, NICAP files; The l/.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 1, May-June 1967, p. 1.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Woodville, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_3490 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12994 (D35FBBFC) Date: 4/12/1967 Description: Also at 8:30 p.m. six members of a team doing underwater film work for ABC News saw five bright white lights in formation while near the Coastal Keys Highway off of Key Largo, Florida. The lights pulsated bright-and-dim on a half-second cycle, and maneuvered around each other as they passed overhead at about 200 feet altitude. The witnesses, in two 16-foot boats in windy weather with choppy waves, included a former aircraft carrier pilot, two former submarine sailors, and a boat captain guide. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Letter to Herb Roth, May 5, 1967, NICAP files Source ID: Johnson_1973 Source: Johnson ### Event 12995 (088BE8D2) Date: 4/12/1967 Description: At 8:59 p.m. in Phoenix, Arizona a close encounter occurred when a bell-shaped object buzzed a car with three witnesses; it banked, turned, and then flew away. The engine of the car was affected. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files; Mark Rodeghier, UFOs Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_1974 Source: Johnson ### Event 12996 (783D44DA) Date: 4/12/1967 Description: At 9:00 p.m. in Vienna, West Virginia two blobs of light maneuvered over the TV towers of WTAP-TV; a truncated cone of light searched the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_1975 Source: Johnson ### Event 12997 (11650A1B) Date: 4/12/1967 Description: At 10:10 p.m. in Hackettstown, New Jersey near a fish hatchery, five witnesses including a police officer had a UFO encounter lasting over an hour that involved an animal reaction. They watched a revolving object with a red light in the middle, green lights on both ends, and white lights on the bottom. The object left a white trail, and it started and stopped many times, becoming all white when not moving. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Berthold E. Schwarz, FSR, March 1971, p. 5 & January 1972, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_1976 Source: Johnson ### Event 12998 (ADBBA23E) Date: 4/12/1967 Description: 8:15 p.m. EST. An adult leader and :! 18 Girl Guides saw four lens-shaped discs with flashing lights on the rims (body lights). The objects circled the witnesses, and two shot away when an airplane Jet approached (aircraft avoidance). (Henry McKay report, 4/17/67, in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toronto, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3492 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 12999 (7DD55EE0) Date: 4/12/1967 Description: 8:59 p.m MST. A bell-shaped object buzzed a car, which experienced EM effects on its engine. The object then banked, s turned, and flew away. (Project Blue Book files, National Archives.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Phoenix, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3495 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13000 (8B1611E5) Date: 4/12/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. EST. A woman and her two "< children, ages 11 and 8, saw a glowing, red-orange bowl-shaped object that was emitting very bright light ("painful to stare at"). The object made rapid motions and hovered. A rod extended from it for about 5 minutes. Finally it shot ;-away to the northwest. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Granby, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3493 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13001 (B40E568D) Date: 4/12/1967 Description: Bell-shaped object buzzed car, banked, turned and flew away. Project Blue Book files, (E) National Archives, car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Phoenix, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3496 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13002 (042FF1D5) Date: 4/12/1967 Description: 8:30 p,m. EST. Six members of a team while doing underwater film work for ABC News saw five bright white lights in formation, “pulsating bright-dim on a 1/2- second cycle and maneuvering around each other as they passed at about 200 feet altitude. (Letter to Herb Roth, 5/5/67, in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coastal Keys Highway, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3494 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13003 (04CB3529) Date: 4/12/1967 Description: 8:59 p.m. In Phoenix, Arizona, a bell-shaped object approaches a car from the left side, glowing red-orange with yellow-orange pulsations. It hovers over a streetlight, then makes a pass at the car. At that point, the car engine stops. The UFO banks eastward, then westward, and flies away. The three witnesses continue their trip and see the same object eight more times, plus another whitish object. The car engine continues to operate normally throughout the remaining sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 34; Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 142 Source ID: Eberhart_4269 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13004 (5135FA37) Date: 4/12/1967 Description: Night. Five people, including a policeman, watched a revolving object with a red middle, green lights on both ends, and white lights on the bottom (body lights) for 1.25 hours. The object left a white trail, and it started and stopped many times, becoming all white when not moving (color/motion correlation). (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hackettstown, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3491 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13005 (5572DCEF) Date: 4/12/1967 Description: In Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 8:15 p.m. four lens-shaped discs with flashing lights on their rims circled a group of about 20 witnesses. Two of the object shot away on approach of an airplane. There were also sightings in Rice Lake, and Scarborough, Ontario and a close encounter in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, report dated April 17, 1967; Gene Duplantier, Flying Saucers, December 1967, p. 11; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 335, 372 Source ID: Johnson_1971 Source: Johnson ### Event 13006 (FEA65682) Date: 4/12/1967 Description: In North Granby, Connecticut at 8:30 p.m. three witnesses saw a glowing, red-orange, bowl-shaped object emitting a "painfully" bright light. It made rapid motions for five minutes, and a rod extended from object. It shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 335 Source ID: Johnson_1972 Source: Johnson ### Event 13007 (E761EEFD) Date: 4/13/1967 Description: Two young boys saw a dark gray object overhead at sunset in Sjaellands, Denmark. One ran home while the other hid in a ditch. The UFO descended and put out three legs as if to land, but then retraced them and moved out over the Kattegat. As it passed over the shore it threw out some "boxes." Hovering low over the water, the object lowered a box on an arm-thick cable, and eight small humanoid figures emerged from the large object and descended on the cable. They were the same size as the boy and all but one wore striped suits and had scuba like packs on their backs. The eighth UFOnaut wore a blue uniform and had no pack. They all had on striped caps and lights on their shoulders, and carried objects that looked like binoculars or cameras. They waved to the boy before the object disappeared. A lump of strange material was later found on the shore. When it was analyzed it was found to be an unprecedented mixture of substances. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-35 Source ID: Johnson_2004 Source: Johnson ### Event 13008 (50D64E55) Date: 4/14/1967 Description: Circular object landed, small figure seen in doorway; radio (off) made strange noises. CUFOS report; See Rodeghier, 1981, p. 34, (E,R) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Melville, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3497 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13009 (235BBFC9) Date: 4/14/1967 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a motorist driving near Melville, New York saw a glowing object overhead. Suddenly his car engine stalled and a smaller circular metallic object landed besides the road. His car radio, which had been turned off, began broadcasting in a strange language. A tiny metallic robot-like figure appeared in the doorway of the object. It came out and dug up some dirt and then placed it inside the craft. The doorway then closed and the object turned a bright red color as it rose into the sky, emitting a whirring sound. It appeared to join the large glowing craft overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference Source ID: Johnson_2009 Source: Johnson ### Event 13010 (B99EA0F2) Date: 4/15/1967 Description: Two young boys sawa dark gray UFO hovering over the eastern coast of Denmark in the early afternoon. An elevator descended from the bottom, with eight occupants sliding down a thick cable. They wore masks and breathing apparatus boxes on their backs, and one of them wore a blue colored uniform. They waved at the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dennis Stamey, Flying Saucers, June 1970, p. 36; Charles Bowen, FSR, September-October 1967, p. 32, citing UFONYT Source ID: Johnson_2024 Source: Johnson ### Event 13011 (A4C9FBF0) Date: Mid 4/1967 Description: Dusk. Gary Statenberg is working with a tractor on [Jamie Ediger](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118403105/jamie-walter-ediger)’s farm in Dayton, Oregon, when he sees an object moving toward him down the river basin at about 500 feet altitude. It stops, descends to 100 feet, and hovers about 600–700 feet away. He shuts off the tractor but can hear no sound coming from the object, which has red flashing lights around its base. There is a small dome with portholes on the top. Suddenly it takes off to the north, the lights changing to green as it does so. Statenberg returns home badly shaken. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert Low papers, American Philosophical Society, June 14, 1967 Source ID: Eberhart_4270 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13012 (DC1DEB0C) Date: 4/16/1967 Description: A fast moving, glowing ovoid UFO stopped and landed in Boraure, Venezuela on this day. It took off and flew away when approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim and Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 60; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 835 Source ID: Johnson_2054 Source: Johnson ### Event 13013 (0F0696AA) Date: 4/16/1967 Description: Guillermo Roldan, his daughter, and other persons saw a glowing, egg-shaped object fly across the sky at high speed, stop suddenly and descend to ground level. As the witnesses rushed toward the area, the object took off at very high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 60 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Boraure, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_835 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13014 (D746ABF5) Date: 4/16/1967 Description: Disc shaped object with two levels -Hovering just above water (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ramey AFB(Shoreline at NE corner of), Puerto Rico Source ID: NICAP_DB_3498 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13015 (27284E7A) Date: 4/16/1967 Description: 1:15 a.m. EST. Two rotating red, glowing dome-shaped objects separated by a bar (dumbbell shape) hovered overhead, then accelerated away. (Letter dated 4/16/67 in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Downsville, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3499 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13016 (3A634404) Date: 4/16/1967 Description: Businessman Guillermo Roldan and his daughter Chichita see a glowing, egg-shaped object fly across the sky above Boraure, Venezuela, at great speed. It stops abruptly then descends and lands. Roldan rushes toward the spot, but the object takes off at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 60 Source ID: Eberhart_4271 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13017 (D44C3D0A) Date: 4/17/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. School principal John L. Metz and three teachers in separate cars are driving home in Jefferson City, Missouri, and see a 350–400 foot, bluish-white, WWI-helmet–shaped object come over the Missouri River bluff and move directly above their cars, bathing them in intense light. Metz observes it through 8x binoculars. The object hovers above power lines for about 10 minutes then heads toward the airport. Two smaller objects emerge from its base; they are disc- or helmet-shaped and the size of a DC-3. Metz drives to the airport on Highway 94 and finds two more witnesses. Jefferson City Memorial Airport employees watch a flat, circular, star- like orange light flashing an intermittent red-blue through a 30x 40mm telescope around 9:40–10:08 p.m. The Ozark Airliner Flight 319 crew sees two large round objects moving in various directions below their airplane during its final landing approach. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 324; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/110/mode/2up) [110–111](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/110/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4273 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13018 (F52E6A51) Date: 4/17/1967 Description: At 2:20 a.m. military witness Robert Harkinson in Vo Tanh, near Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam saw five lluminated white ovals that passed behind small scattered clouds. The formation fluctuated slightly, and then moved at five times the speed of a jet. Five minutes later, several jets at high altitude were seen pursuing the same course as the UFOs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 252; UNICAT, case # 371; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_2083 Source: Johnson ### Event 13019 (1D2181FA) Date: 4/17/1967 Description: At 2:15 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Moseley of Worthing, West Sussex, England heard a loud humming noise, then saw a glowing oval like an "upturned saucer" (domed disc) that flew across the sky and behind a hill. Later, the sound was heard again and the UFO was again seen, moving sideways. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1967, p. 30; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 336 Source ID: Johnson_2084 Source: Johnson ### Event 13020 (29E42D09) Date: 4/17/1967 Description: A huge elliptical object with portholes was seen at 8:45 p.m. in New Haven, West Virginia. It had two light beams that were directed downward. Dogs howled and barked and a pony reacted to the beams of light, and there was also severe TV interference. There were five independent reports of the close encounter, which lasted several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May-June 1967, p. 6; MUFON UFO Journal, April 1992, p. 18; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 33; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 199, 280, 336 Source ID: Johnson_2085 Source: Johnson ### Event 13021 (FDF9D517) Date: 4/17/1967 Description: At 9:00 p.m. over Jefferson City, Missouri an Ozark Airlines airliner coming in for a landing had a dramatic encounter with a domed disc that was shaped like a World War I helmet, and was over 300 feet in diameter. Captain Metz exclaimed, "below me, it's huge!" It gave off an intense, bluish-white, cold light from the underside of the object. It was accompanied by two small objects the size of a DC-3 aircraft, that dropped down and made very fast maneuvers in various directions. The objects shot off to the north and also to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 96; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 175; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1992, p. 18; UNICAT, case # 380; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 35; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 118 Source ID: Johnson_2086 Source: Johnson ### Event 13022 (7ADAD0F9) Date: 4/17/1967 Description: Dog and pony reacted to beam of light (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [670417](http://www.nicap.org/ar-670417dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Haven, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_3504 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13023 (A3C432F5) Date: 4/17/1967 Description: 2:20 a.m. SP4 Robert M. Harkinson of the US Army’s 524th Military Intelligence Detachment is stationed in Saigon \[now Ho Chi Minh City\], Vietnam, when he sees five bright-white, oval-shaped objects traveling in close formation at high speed across the sky. They flash by in about 5 seconds and disappear behind a cloud. He estimates their speed to be about five times that of any jet aircraft. About 5 minutes later, he sees several jets flying on the same course as the objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John J. Stahl Jr., “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](http://www.nicap.org/docs2/670417Saigon%5Fdocs.pdf)” case report, April 17, 1967 Source ID: Eberhart_4272 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13024 (EE23E78C) Date: 4/17/1967 Description: 300 ft WWI helmet shaped object come over a car bathing it in intense light (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jefferson City, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3503 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13025 (07E330AB) Date: 4/17/1967 Description: 2:15 a.m. (9:15 p.m. EST, April 16). A loud humming sound was heard as a glowing object shaped like an upturned saucer flew across the sky. The sound was heard again later and the object was seen moving sideways. (Flying Saucer Review, July-Aug. 1967, p. 30.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Worthing, Sussex, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3501 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13026 (951F83FC) Date: 4/17/1967 Description: Time not given. Five white oval objects, oriented vertically, moved across the sky in 5 seconds, periodically passing behind small scattered clouds. Five minutes later jet aircraft at high altitude flew in the same direction as the objects. (Haines, 1994, pp. 88-89; Smith 1997, UNICAT #371). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saigon, Vo Than, Viet Nam Source ID: NICAP_DB_3500 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13027 (A0628CD1) Date: 4/17/1967 Description: 9:30-10:00 p.m. PST. A woman and her daughter, age 16, saw a large amber- colored light approaching their car at an altitude of 60-80 feet. As it moved closer, the object was seen to be round with windows on top, and light coming from a bottom bulge. (Ricks letter in NICAP files; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 1, May-June 1967, p. 1.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shelley, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_3502 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13028 (A7F4EF20) Date: 4/18/1967 Description: At 8:05 p.m. About 40 miles north of Point Pleasant, a Ph.D. professor at Ohio University, who is also a private pilot, and four others saw an unidentified light source that alternated between yellow and pink as it moved over a wide arc of sky at moderate speed. It was observed for 10 minutes. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Athens, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3506 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13029 (BB7BA386) Date: 4/18/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. EST. A pilot and ground observers reported an anomalous "light-bearing object." The pilot attempted to close in on the object and flashed his landing lights, but there was no response and the object disappeared. (West Virginia Register, 4/1/67,(??) copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Point Pleasant, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_3505 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13030 (C4B54ED3) Date: 4/18/1967 Description: At 8:05 p.m. in Athens, Ohio a college professor and four others watched an unidentified light source that alternated between yellow and pink as it moved over a wide arc of sky at moderate speed. Their sighting lasted 10 minutes. At 8:30 p.m. the wife of the Ohio University director of the center for social science education saw a dull white oval for ten seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP report forms, www.nicap.org Source ID: Johnson_2115 Source: Johnson ### Event 13031 (319A622D) Date: 4/18/1967 Description: At 8:00 p.m. in Point Pleasant, West Virginia a pilot and ground observers saw an anomalous "light bearing object" in the sky. The pilot attempted to close with the object and flashed his landing lights to get its attention, but there was no response and the object disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: West Virginia Register, April 1967; NICAP files Source ID: Johnson_2116 Source: Johnson ### Event 13032 (2B7CA094) Date: 4/19/1967 Description: 7:30 p.m. EST. Four witnesses saw a cream-colored domed object with flashing lights, bright white at first and then turning to red. The object hovered, made sharp turns, and moved off slowly. (Fowler, 1974, p. 347.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tully, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3507 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13033 (24377D75) Date: 4/19/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. EST. Six neighbors saw a bright light that moved straight up, then crossed the sky, stopped, brightened, and emitted two smaller lights. The observation lasted 3 hours. (Port Clinton Daily News 4/20/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Clinton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3509 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13034 (4C84009F) Date: 4/19/1967 Description: 8:45 p.m. EST. A witness reported to the newspaper having seen a round object with red and white colors which followed their car and appeared to move with a gliding motion. (Point Pleasant Register, W.Va., 4/22/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huntinton, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_3508 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13035 (59D79801) Date: 4/19/1967 Description: A cream colored UFO with a dome, a little larger than a large car, hovered over Tully, Massachusetts at 7:30 p.m. It flashed bright white lights, then red lights. It made some sharp turns, then moved off slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler investigation files, report dated April 29, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_2135 Source: Johnson ### Event 13036 (34275096) Date: 4/20/1967 Description: At 8:30 p.m. two dark objects with two bright flashing red lights and two dimmer white lights flew over a lake in Georgetown, Massachusetts. They made no noise. At 9:40 p.m. a mushroom shaped object with a frosted white light on top and a red light on bottom hovered over Bolton, Massachusetts. It had turquioise colored lights fore and aft, and eight yellow lights on its perimeter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 347 Source ID: Johnson_2157 Source: Johnson ### Event 13037 (4E608F34) Date: 4/20/1967 Description: 7:15 p.m. EST. Four witnesses saw an object with eight red blinking lights and two white lights (body lights). The object hovered, then moved away slowly. (Fowler, 1974, p. 347.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orange, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3510 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13038 (FF50C499) Date: 4/20/1967 Description: 9:40 p.m. EST. Three people saw a domed disc with eight glowing yellow ports around the perimeter, white light on top, and red light on the bottom, turauoise lights front and rear (body lights). (Massachusetts NICAP Subcommittee report in NICAP files; Fowler, 1974, p. 347.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bolten, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3513 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13039 (B5C136BF) Date: 4/20/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. EST. Six witnesses saw two dark objects with two bright flashing red lights and two dimmer white lights (body lights). The objects moved in a pattern, stopping and reversing direction (maneuvering) at times. (Fowler, 1974, p. 347.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Georgetown, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3512 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13040 (604B6416) Date: 4/20/1967 Description: 8:15 p.m. EST. A man saw a large cigar-shaped object with many body lights arranged in groupings. It flew low and slow from east to west. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coldwater, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3511 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13041 (89198D7F) Date: 4/20/1967 Description: At 3:30 a.m., near Estacion Casalegno in Santa Fe, Argentina the conductor of a train, Enrique R. Galimberti and another crew member saw what appeared to be bright multi-colored lights about 120 meters away from the tracks. Thinking it was a fire, Galimberti stopped the train and both men attempted to approach the scene, armed with fire extinguishers. When they got close to the area they saw the multicolored lights moving around in a circular motion, and then both observed a square metallic object over three meters in width behind the lights. It had several lighted windows around its edge. At the front the UFO had what appeared to be a "rotating wheel" that emitted multicolored light flashes. Several short humanoid beings were seen walking around the object. They wore silvery gray shiny uniforms, appeared to be bareheaded, and carried what resembled "rifles" or weapons on their shoulders. The witnesses used the train horn to check for a reaction from the creatures but there was none. Another railway employee, Salvador Pomidoro, reported seeing the same square metallic object on the ground about 15 minutes earlier. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing S. von Wurmb, Hoy newspaper, Asuncion, Paraguay Source ID: Johnson_2156 Source: Johnson ### Event 13042 (975CAE0B) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: 4:00 p.m. EST. A woman saw a shiny disc with a dome and hazy underside. The object hovered, and tilted as a small aircraft passed beneath it. The plane reversed course possibly to look at the UFO. (Florida NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP report form, in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cocoa Beach, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3515 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13043 (E485FF73) Date: 4/21/1967 Time: 2100 Description: Mr. Crowder was driving home when he saw an object on the road 70 m away. Supported by four legs, it was a vertical cylinder, 5 m in diameter, with a half-sphere on top. It was gray and its base was 1 m above the pavement. When the witness turned his high beams on, the craft gave off a vertical light and vanished. The road burned for 15 min. Mr. Martin, who lived nearby, also observed the light. Holes, traces of burns, and calcined matches were noted at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: South Hill, Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_836 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13044 (3FA0F58D) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: 8:55 p.m. [Clifton N. Crowder](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53375387/clifton-neal-crowder)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53375387/clifton-neal-crowder) manager of the Mobil Chemical Company warehouse in South Hill, Virginia, leaves the warehouse and starts home. About 50–75 yards down a narrow asphalt highway his headlights fall on an object 400 feet away on the road ahead. It is pewter-colored, shaped like a storage tank, about 12 feet in diameter, and 15–16 feet high. It is standing on legs about 3–3.5 feet long. He switches to his bright lights and the object belches a white burst of flame from the bottom and ascends rapidly. Meanwhile, the road is on fire. After it dies out, Crowder drives to South Hill and contacts police. They return and find a kidney-shaped black spot on the road, about 3 feet wide at the widest point. William T. Powers, assistant to [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) of Northwestern University, arrives on the scene to examine the spot. Using kerosene, gasoline, and a blowtorch, he attempts to simulate the black spot, but has no luck. Where each leg of the machine rested he finds two spike holes, similar to those made by football cleats. They are about 6 inches apart, 7/8 inch in diameter, and about one inch deep. The four feet are about 11.5–12 feet apart and the diagonals are 16 feet 1 inch and 16 feet 6 inches, respectively. Powers concludes that the center of gravity is above the firepoint and notes that the intersections of the diagonals deviate 2 degrees from 90°. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[South Hill, Va. Landing,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 11; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 324; Fred Merritt, “A Preliminary Classification of Some Reports of UFOs,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 10; Gordon Lore, Flying Saucers from beyond the Earth: A UFO Researcher’s Odyssey, BearManor, 2018, pp. 60–64 Source ID: Eberhart_4277 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13045 (2B92ED9A) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_126 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13046 (7F2182A0) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: 9:55 p.m. MST. A yellow, dome-shaoed object with a flat bottom (hemisphere) and with a shaft of light (light beam) pointed upward, descended , tipping and swaying. (APRO Bulletin, May- June 1967, p. 7.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3518 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13047 (AD5AB31A) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: Road blocked by storage tank-shaped obj w/dome top (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 11677) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Hill, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3520 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13048 (94186434) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. EST. Three witnesses plus another separate individual reported a dark object with 2-3 bright red body lights that hovered and descended behind trees. Aircraft seemed to have been chasing it. (Fowler, 1974, p. 348.) . (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Phillipston, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3517 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13049 (1451F003) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: Driving near a dam 10 miles south of Ephrata, Washington two couples had a close encounter with a UFO on the road at 1:30 a.m. They braked to avoid collision with the object and stopped 10 feet away. When the UFO took off, it went behind their car, and paced them for five minutes. The engine of the car missed when it was passed on left by the oncoming white and yellow-orange blinking lights of the craft. The witnesses were badly shaken by the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 115; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers: Here and Now, p. 239; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 455 Source ID: Johnson_2179 Source: Johnson ### Event 13050 (6C3BADDA) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: At six o'clock in the morning a sun-like orange disc or globe was seen flying toward the town of Milolii, Hawaii. It made a "swishing" sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_2180 Source: Johnson ### Event 13051 (CE0E5A29) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: At 4:00 p.m. EDT a domed, disc-shaped UFO was seen hovering to the west of Cocoa Beach, Florida. It tilted as a small plane passed beneath it. The airplane then reversed course in an apparent effort to take a closer look at the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 336 Source ID: Johnson_2181 Source: Johnson ### Event 13052 (3A20571F) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: At 7:45 p.m. EDT a UFO was sighted in Georgetown, Massachusetts. The object was viewed through binoculars and appeared to have four rectangular windows. A white light flashed in sequence from the windows. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler case investigation files, report dated April 23, 1967; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 332, 347 Source ID: Johnson_2182 Source: Johnson ### Event 13053 (161F4A8A) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: A pewter colored object shaped like a storage tank landed in South Hill, Virginia at 9:00 p.m. It stood 4.9 meters high including the legs, which were an estimated 1.1 meters long. A white burst of flame came from the object, which shot up into the sky. There were four imprints on the asphalt road forming a rectangle with sides from 3.35 to 3.66 meters in length. There was also a burnt spot in the center measuring 0.9 meters in diameter. There were two male witnesses named Crowder and Martin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP investigation files; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1967, p. 1; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers: Here and Now, p. 237; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 263; UNICAT case # 715 Source ID: Johnson_2183 Source: Johnson ### Event 13054 (B07CAA16) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: While driving home from work in Rapid City, Michigan at 9:00 p.m. Charles D. Scott saw a large round, bluish white lighted object descend to land in a wooded area. When he got home he notified the sheriff's office, then drove back to the site with his wife and children and accompanied by a deputy sheriff. While Mrs. Scott and the children waited in the car, Mr. Scott and the officer searched the wooded area and became separated. The deputy found nothing, but the witness came upon the craft resting on small legs in a marshy area. Standing next to it was a medium sized man. He called out "hello" but got no response; he then repeated the greeting and this time received a mental warning, "Get away from here!" He turned and fled to his car, badly frightened and in an agitated state. When he returned home he told his wife about his encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-36, citing Richard Hall, NICAP Source ID: Johnson_2184 Source: Johnson ### Event 13055 (B95FF08C) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: At 9:55 p.m. a yellow dome-shaped object, flat on bottom, was seen by two women in Tucson, Arizona. A light beam was directed upward from the object, as it descended tipping and swaying in a falling leaf motion, apparently attempting to land. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 7; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 336 Source ID: Johnson_2185 Source: Johnson ### Event 13056 (1B1E9C1B) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: 1:30 a.m. Two couples see an unexplained light near Ephrata, Washington, and chase it in their car. They came upon a UFO sitting on the road and have to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting it. The object takes off, moves behind the car, and follows it for 5 minutes, then disappears as traffic became heavier. The witnesses are badly shaken by the experience. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The 1967 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1967fullrep.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4274 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13057 (ADB680B3) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: Coup d’état in Greece. Although there are persistent rumors about an active support of the coup by the US government, there is no evidence to support such claims. The timing of the coup apparently catches the CIA by surprise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Greek military junta of 1967](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%5Fjunta\#American%5Finfluence%5Fin%5FGreece)” Source ID: Eberhart_4276 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13058 (923B9F85) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: [Robert J. Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) issues a position paper that outlines, after months of discussions and briefings, a framework for the Colorado project’s goals and procedures. It includes acquiring data on new cases, contracted reviews on such special topics as radar and mirages, a special section on photo cases, and a statistical treatment of bulk data. He divides the research question into three tiers: “Are there really sightings that are unexplained?” “Are any of these external stimuli solid objects?” and “Are any of these objects extraterrestrial spaceships?” He asks the group to discuss criteria for answering those questions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 317–318 Source ID: Eberhart_4275 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13059 (12558D25) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: 7:45 p.m. EST. Three witnesses saw two groups of lights, each composed of three red and one white lights flashing in sequence. A large white light viewed through binoculars showed the appearance of rectangular windows. The object moved into the overcast when aircraft converged on the area (aircraft avoidance). (Fowler, 1974, p. 347.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Georgetown, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3516 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13060 (6E48400C) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. MST A retired Air Force man saw nine silver, lens-shaped objects (discs) making violent maneuvers at an estimated 20,000 feet altitude. Viewed through binoculars, the objects had no visible rudders or tails and no vapor trails. (Salisbury, 1974, Table 1, case 46.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maeser -Vernal, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3519 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13061 (F3AC2C9B) Date: 4/21/1967 Description: 1:30 a.m. PST. Two couples saw an unexplained light ahead and chased it in their car. Then they came upon an unidentified object sitting on the road and had to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting it . (June Larson report, 8/1/67, in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ephrata, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3514 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13062 (FBA2C8B9) Date: 4/22/1967 Description: Evening. A witness drove into a driveway and saw a 50-foot diameter red ellipse resting on the ground. The object rose,-,. And departed rapidly when the car lights were turned off. Dogs were barking animal reaction). (Salisbury, 1974, Table 1, Case 47.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: LaPoint, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3521 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13063 (BDC4F7F5) Date: 4/22/1967 Description: 9:50 p.m. EST. An airline mechanic and his wife w observed a bright disc that climbed slowly, sped up, slowed, changed direction (maneuvered), with erratic motions. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maryville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3522 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13064 (E800398E) Date: 4/22/1967 Description: American Society of Newspaper Editors sponsors panel discussion on UFOs at its annual meeting in Washington, DC. Panelists included Dr. James E. McDonald, Dr. Donald Menzel, and Maj. Hector Quintanilla. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_127 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13065 (6164D23F) Date: 4/22/1967 Description: An elongated UFO with a red light on one end and a green light on the other; with a large pulsating red light in the middle, hovered 20-30 feet above a pasture in Elizabeth, Illinois before dawn. Cattle in the area were extremely agitated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files, file dated April 26, 1967; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 280, 336 Source ID: Johnson_2221 Source: Johnson ### Event 13066 (FC226E79) Date: 4/22/1967 Description: A fifty-foot diameter red ellipse-shaped object was seen on the ground in the evening in Lapoint, Utah. Dogs were barking at the time. When the driver turned off his car's headlights the UFO rose and flew away quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 47 Source ID: Johnson_2222 Source: Johnson ### Event 13067 (27887117) Date: 4/22/1967 Description: At the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, D.C., [James E.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) says of [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel), “when he comes to analyzing UFO reports, he seems to calmly cast aside well-known scientific principles almost with abandon, in an all-out effort to be sure that no UFO report survives his attack.” He also says, “I have learned from a number of unquotable sources that the Air Force has long wished to get rid of the burden of the troublesome UFO problem and has twice tried to ‘peddle’ it to NASA—without success.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “[UFOs: Greatest Scientific Problem of Our Times?](http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald%5Fasne%5F67.pdf)” April 22, 1967; Clark III 699; “[Our Speaker\(s\) Tonight: James E. McDonald, Donald H. Menzel, Hector Quintanilla,](https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/ost-macdonald.html)” Saturday Night Uforia Source ID: Eberhart_4278 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13068 (8DF0C929) Date: 4/23/1967 Description: 8:45 p.m. EDT,. A witness saw a circle of nine white lights that enclosed two red lights, hovering near a church. (Fowler, 1974, & p. 348.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orange, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3524 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13069 (FAD384E2) Date: 4/23/1967 Description: 12:15 a.m. CST. A man saw a very large^ elongated object (estimated 50 feet long and 20 feet in width; 2.5:1 length to 4 width ratio) with a red light at one end and a green light at the other end. It roared louder than a jet, and cattle and dogs r reacted (animal reaction).(NICAP report form; Elizabeth Weekly News, 4/26/67, a copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elizabeth, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3523 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13070 (6867773B) Date: 4/24/1967 Description: After reading a March 7 column by [Drew Pearson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew%5FPearson%5F%28journalist%29) that alleges the US attempted to assassinate [Fidel Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro) President [Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%5FB.%5FJohnson) directs CIA Director [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) to conduct an investigation. The result is a 133-page report by CIA Inspector General [John S. Earman](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/John%5FEarman)[,](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/John%5FEarman) transmitted on April 24 to Helms, that clearly shows the CIA was in contact with and cooperated with Maj. [Rolando Cubela Secades](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolando%5FCubela%5FSecades) of the Cuban military in plans to assassinate Castro. The operation is known as Project AMLASH. After receiving the report, Helms orally briefs the President about its contents. According to his testimony before the Select Committee, when asked if he has told the President “that efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro had continued into Johnsonʼs presidency, Helms replied, ‘I just can’t answer that, I just don’t know. I can’t recall having done so.’” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Department of State, Office of the Historian, “Document 315,” in Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXXII, Dominican Republic; Cuba; Haiti; Guyana Source ID: Eberhart_4279 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13071 (EF43EB1D) Date: 4/26/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. EDT. A witness saw a small cylinder, estimated 3 feet in diameter and 5 feet tall, with flashing lights. The object landed, deploying six legs when it was about 4 feet from the ground. A whirring sound during landing stopped once the object was at rest. Ground impressions (physical traces) were found at the landing site. (NICAP report form and unidentified newspaper clipping dated 9/8/67 in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kitchener, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3526 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13072 (981314E6) Date: 4/26/1967 Description: Dog sitting very quietly as engulfed in UFO beam (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [670426](http://www.nicap.org/ar-670426dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Catherines, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3528 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13073 (AAD6FFBB) Date: 4/26/1967 Time: 2100 Description: Brian Dorscht saw a dark object, measuring 1 m in diameter and 1.5 m in height, with flashing green and white lights. When 1 m above ground, six legs came out, and it landed on a lawn near the National Grocers Company. The whirring sound the object was making stopped, and the witness became afraid and ran away. Police found six prints at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 177; SS&S; Summer, 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Kitchener, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_837 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13074 (DFBBB32C) Date: 4/26/1967 Description: On this night in Mount St. Helens, Washington two teenagers saw a saucer-shaped object with a dome. It had a swept back wing, and red body lights. As it pursued the witnesses' car and illuminated it with a light beam, a whistling sound could be heard. The object then turned away and started to follow a truck that passed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files; http://www.nicap.org/waves/1967fullrep.htm Source ID: Johnson_2339 Source: Johnson ### Event 13075 (3039EAFE) Date: 4/26/1967 Description: Night. Two teenagers saw a saucer-shaped object with a dome, swept back wings, and red body lights. As it pursued the witnesses' car and illuminated it with a light beam, a whistling sound could be heard. (Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. St. Helens, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3527 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13076 (BDA2BF0A) Date: 4/26/1967 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a Miss Roberts of St. Catherines, Ontario saw a blindingly red object ascend into the sky, then turn a green color. It next shot beams of light at a dog on the ground, and made an exit with erratic maneuvers. In nearby Waterloo, Ontario at 9:00 p.m. a Mr. Dorscht saw an oil-drum shaped cylinder descend from the sky, extend six legs, and then land on his farm. The 1.5 meter tall object left behind six landing imprints in the ground after it departed. At 9:30 p.m. EDT a witness in Kitchener, Ontario saw a small cylinder, estimated to be 3 feet in diameter and 5 feet tall, with flashing lights. The object landed, deploying six legs when it was about four feet from the ground. A whirring sound during landing stopped once the object was at rest. Ground impressions (physical traces) were found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 337; (2) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 837, Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 272; (3) NICAP report form and unidentified newspaper clipping dated September 8, 1967 in NICAP files Source ID: Johnson_2338 Source: Johnson ### Event 13077 (B76D6BD8) Date: 4/26/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. EDT. Two siblings, 13 and 16 yearsb old, saw a silver oval object that had central flashing green lights and a bright light underneath (body lights). The object was hovering near the ground. (NICAP report form and letter.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richmond, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3525 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13078 (79673A41) Date: 4/27/1967 Description: 4:34 p.m. MDT. Two men, one a Federal Aviation Administration electronic technician, saw a huge, polished, metallic-appearing ball that hovered, started to descend, and then disappeared when an aircraft approached (aircraft avoidance). (Letter received 11 /28/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bloomfield, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_3529 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13079 (76E29A15) Date: 4/27/1967 Description: At 10:00 p.m. CDT four boys with binoculars in Green Lake, Wisconsin observed an object come lower with oscillating motions, illuminating the woods one kilometer away. It was cone-shaped, with a blue underside, and a top that changed from red to orange to white. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 838 Source ID: Johnson_2372 Source: Johnson ### Event 13080 (4BA296DA) Date: 4/27/1967 Description: In Kingston, New Hampshire at 10:10 p.m. EDT an elliptical object with a dome on top and two visible legs skimmed over the trees and paced a car being driven by witnesses Keiran, Tobin and Lowe for two minutes. It had red lights in a circular pattern, 2-3 more flashing lights, and made a shrill beeping sound. The object tilted before moving away and flying off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files, John J. Reynolds field investigator; NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1967, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 337 & 452 Source ID: Johnson_2371 Source: Johnson ### Event 13081 (7B334BDE) Date: 4/27/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. Three witnesses saw an object that flashed light beams onto a car and paced the car at J an estimated altitude of 200 feet, remaining visible for several minutes. (Arkansas ' Gazette, 4/29/67, copy in NICAP files.) . (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: SW part of State, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3530 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13082 (A84A39BE) Date: 4/27/1967 Description: 10:10 p.m. EDT (9:30 p.m. CDT). Three adults independently saw a dirigible- shaped (elliptical) object with "bubble" dome on top and two protrusions on its underside. (NICAP report form; Reynolds report received 7/26/67, NICAP files; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 2, Oct. 1967, p. 3; Fowler, 1974, p. 348.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kingston, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3531 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13083 (88C62B76) Date: 4/27/1967 Description: Cone-shaped object w/blue underside come lower with oscillating motions (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Green Lake, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3532 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13084 (5AF77F26) Date: 4/27/1967 Description: At 4:34 p.m. MDT two men in Bloomfield, New Mexico, one a Federal Aviation Administration electronic technician, saw a huge, polished, metallic-appearing ball that hovered, started to descend, and then disappeared when an aircraft approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Letter received 11 /28/67, NICAP files; http://www.nicap.org/waves/1967fullrep.htm Source ID: Johnson_2369 Source: Johnson ### Event 13085 (110A949E) Date: 4/27/1967 Description: A dark object chased a car down a highway through rangeland in Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma at 8:30 p.m. The UFO directed beams of light toward the ground. It was absolutely silent, and there were several independent witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Condon Committee Colorado UFO Study, case N1250, citing NICAP; NICAP files, citing newspaper clipping dated April 29, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_2370 Source: Johnson ### Event 13086 (BFC22980) Date: 4/27/1967 Time: 2200 Description: Four boys with binoculars observed an object come lower with oscillating motions, illuminating the woods 1 km away. It was concshaped, with a blue underside, and a top that changed from red to orange to white. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Atic ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Green Lake, Wisconsin Source ID: Magnonia_838 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13087 (19E16DD2) Date: 4/28/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. EDT. A real estate agent and occupants of three other cars saw a shiny, metallic-appearing flattened sphere ^ an estimated 20 feet in diameter and 15 feet tall, with a band of alternate non- ; blinking red and green body lights around the middle. (NICAP report 1 form; U.F.O. Investigator, May-June 1967, p. 3.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toronto, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3534 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13088 (0E021253) Date: 4/28/1967 Description: 11:30 a.m. Brian F. Jenkins and seven other coast guards at Brixham, Devon, England, watch a huge, cone- shaped object through 25x binoculars mounted on a tripod. The object is hovering at 15,000 feet and seems to be revolving. Jenkins says the cone is pointing down, and the object seems made of glass or highly polished metal: “Near the bottom there was a triangular-shaped opening or door with a white rim on the top that reflected a lot of sunlight. The bottom was crinkled, very white, and seemed to consist of strips of metal hanging down.” It drifts to the northwest, rising to 22,000 feet and 8 miles away. At 12:40 p.m., a jet aircraft approaches it, flies above it, passes it, turns, and approaches it from below before it disappears from sight. Possible balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[British](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/037%20MAY-JUN%201967.pdf) [Radar/Visual Case,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/037%20MAY-JUN%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 1 \(May/June 1967\): 8; Good Above, [pp. 60–62](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/60/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4281 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13089 (89C3E0C3) Date: 4/28/1967 Description: G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brixham, Devon, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3533 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13090 (322A27F0) Date: 4/28/1967 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) recommends [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) and [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) to Encyclopedia Britannica as excellent persons to write UFO entries. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 319 Source ID: Eberhart_4280 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13091 (CFD1D72F) Date: 4/28/1967 Description: A metallic elliptical object with a belt of alternate red and green lights was seen flying over Toronto, Ontario at 9 p.m. It hovered and then descended. The witness became frightened and fled the scene when the UFO got too close for comfort. On the same night a silent disc-shaped UFO followed a car closely in Monroe, North Carolina. It responded to signals made by the driver using the car headlights. There were independent witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1967, p. 6; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence,Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 337; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_2393 Source: Johnson ### Event 13092 (6529E8DC) Date: 4/28/1967 Description: 9:35 p.m. MDT (11:35 p.m. EDT). A private pilot and his family saw a flattened ellipse with a superstructure and a large orange light. (Ricks-Carter report dated 5/24/67, NICAP files; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 1, May-June 1967, p. 3) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shelley, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_3535 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13093 (1D50B6CC) Date: 4/29/1967 Description: 7:40 p.m. Ian McGregor and two other oil drillers drive out to an airstrip near Mount Whaleback, Western Australia, to look for a UFO that has been appearing in the area for several nights. Toward the southeast a bright haze appears that turns into an inverted cone of light that is followed by an orange disc that rises vertically, turns on its edge, and approaches them. They flash their headlights and the object stops moving. It then returns in the direction it came from and lands in the same spot. Their compasses are not working accurately. They wait iuntil 11:30 p.m., but do not see it again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: L. J. Locke, “[UFOs in Western Australia: From Mayanup to Mt, Newman,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201968%2000%20-%20no%208%20VUFORS.pdf)” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 8 \(1968\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_4282 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13094 (370EE37A) Date: 4/30/1967 Description: Evening. Many witnesses reported five objects with three green lights in a row and two red lights (body lights) underneath. (The Worcester Evening Gazette, Mass., - 5/2/67, copy in NICAP files.) \[See previous case re: dropped "fire ball."\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orange, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3536 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13095 (1B7F2CCA) Date: 5/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. EDT. A couple saw a cigar-shaped object that resembled a plane about to land. It appeared to have lights inside and a red light on top (body lights), an estimated 4-5 feet from the body of the craft. (NICAP report form, copy in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Samoset, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3537 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13096 (ABC256AA) Date: 5/1967 Description: Evening. A woman in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, sees a light shining through her basement window. Across the street she notices a large object beaming with three colored lights and rotating. She goes outside with another woman and watch the slight slowly spin for 20 minutes above a neighbor’s house. When she tries to call the neighbors, all she gets is a busy signal, and when she looks outside again, the object is gone. The next day, the neighbor tells her that there was nothing wrong with the phone and that all evening she had been playing cards with friends and talking about UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmermania: A Step Too Far into the Timmerman Files?” IUR 27, no. 4 \(Winter 2002–2003\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_4286 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13097 (2C0BDC24) Date: 5/1967 Description: 12:30–3:15 p.m. During a reconnaissance exercise in Madagascar, a detachment of 23 officers and men serving with the French Foreign Legion watch a bright object landing in a “falling leaf” motion. When it touches down on tripod legs, the glow dissipates. The egg-shaped craft is 23–26 feet high and has no visible markings except for openings at the base through which flames are visible. The witnesses seem paralyzed or at least extremely distracted while the UFO is on the ground. When they recover their senses, they find that 2.75 hours have elapsed. For 2 days afterward, they all have violent headaches, a buzzing in their ears, and a throbbing in their temples. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: H. Julien, “[A 1967 Landing in Madagascar,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 1 \(June 1977\): pp. 29–30; Good Need, [pp. 297–298](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/296/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4285 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13098 (FB6813FB) Date: 5/1967 Description: Evening. A farmer near Holbæk, Denmark, is working outside when he sees a strange lilac-colored light. Approaching, he sees a domed object with windows. Something is moving behind it. He goes home but returns to the spot the next day and finds an odd substance. It looks like “cotton wool,” but is finer than cotton. He leaves it in the same spot, but it dissipates over the next three days. There is also a depressed area where the object had been, and some wire is pulled away from some pylons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Denmark: Flying Saucer Landed in a Field outside](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucer%20Scoop/Saucer%20Scoop%20-%20vol%202%20no%2004.pdf) [‘Holbak’?????](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Saucer%20Scoop/Saucer%20Scoop%20-%20vol%202%20no%2004.pdf)” Saucer Scoop 2, no. 4 \(July 1967\): 4; Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, no. 1 \(August 2008\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_4287 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13099 (B114E919) Date: 5/1967 Description: The CIA launches the Phoenix Program in Vietnam to gather information on the Viet Cong, whose members would then be neutralized \(captured, converted, or killed\). Emphasis for the enforcement of the operation is placed on local government militia and police forces, rather than the military. Heavy-handed operations—such as random cordons and searches, large-scale and lengthy detentions of innocent civilians, excessive use of firepower, torture, and targeted killings—have a negative effect on the civilian population. Between 1968 and 1972, Phoenix “neutralizes” 81,740 people \(26,369 are killed\) suspected of belonging to the National Liberation Front. The reported torture is carried out by South Vietnamese forces with the CIA and special forces playing a supervisory role. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms\#Vietnam%3A%5FPhoenix)” Source ID: Eberhart_4283 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13100 (DD5F047F) Date: 5/1967 Alternate date: 6/1967 Description: A couple captures on an 8mm film camera 10 frames \(2.5 seconds\) of footage of an unusual object at Alberton, South Australia. The UFO is enveloped in a striking blue light that gives the appearance of a searchlight moving around its circumference. The developed film appears to show a craft with portholes and a sweeping searchlight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Reneke, “[The Australian UFO Photo File,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20Newsletter/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20newsletter%20vol%202%20no%204.pdf)” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 2, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1981\): 10–15; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 26; Patrick Gross, “[The Alberton UFO Footage, Australia, 1967](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/alberton67.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4288 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13101 (5CDFA420) Date: 5/1967 Description: A man identifying himself as Maj. Richard French visits a woman in Owatonna, Minnesota, who has had a UFO encounter the previous November. He is 5 feet 9 inches with an olive complexion and hair too long for an Air Force officer. He is wearing a fashionable gray suit, white shirt, and black tie. At one point, French complains of stomach problems, and the woman recommends Jell-O. He says he will return if the symptoms persist, so he shows up the following morning. The woman sits him down with a bowl of Jell-O, which he tries to drink. “I had to show him how to eat it with a spoon,” the woman tells [John A. Keel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FKeel)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FKeel)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, Manor Books ed., 1976, [pp. 171–173](https://archive.org/details/whyufosoperation00keel/page/170/mode/2up); Clark III 734 Source ID: Eberhart_4284 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13102 (D334BE8B) Date: 5/1/1967 Description: Night. A man’s car engine fails while he is driving near Peeltree, West Virginia. He sees a 40-foot-long elliptical object emerge from behind a shed and hover 15 feet from his car. It tilts toward the car at a 30° angle. He hears static on the radio, and the dashboard temperature gauge goes off the dial. He feels an intense wave of heat when he puts his head out the window, and his hands burn when he touches the horn rim and dashboard. He also reports headaches and a partial loss of vision. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_4290 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13103 (2768CA6D) Date: 5/1/1967 Description: At 10 p.m. nine witnesses in Simoca, Tucuman province, Argentina, returning from a hunting expedition, were riding on a trailer being pulled by a tractor when they observed a very bright object in the sky that they first thought was the moon. The object emitted an intense orange-reddish light and approached rapidly at high speed. It briefly moved away, but returned when one of the men signaled at it with a flashlight. It then hovered over the tractor, swinging back and forth like a pendulum. It was a domed disc, shaped like to plates put together with a crystal-like dome on top. Around its edge they could see several square window-like openings, from which a bluish light emanated. They also saw the figure of a man come out of one of the windows, who then moved up to the dome and then climbed back down to the window and entered. Finally the UFO moved away, gaining altitude and disappearing at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Proyecto CATENT, Argentina Source ID: Johnson_2440 Source: Johnson ### Event 13104 (2E3B5DEC) Date: 5/1/1967 Description: Elliptical object hovered close to car, intense heat felt; later headaches and vision problems. Report in NICAP files, (E,R) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Peel Tree, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_3538 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13105 (BEDCD6BD) Date: 5/1/1967 Description: The Colorado project issues a press release calling for photos of UFOs taken by private citizens and provides recommendations to the photographers and the information it should include. The release is basically a rewrite of a document prepared by NPIC staff and approved by [Lundahl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FC.%5FLundahl) on March 24. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Peter A. Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, Warner, 1999, [p. 48](https://archive.org/details/ufoenigma00pete/page/48/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4289 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13106 (7B0163D6) Date: 5/2/1967 Description: A scientist and his wife sighted a white cigar-shaped object flying east of Tranmere, South Australia. It had a globe-shaped light at the front and it left a luminescent trail. They watched it for five minutes as it went over the horizon. There were two more sightings that evening over Mount Whaleback in Western Australia, one at 8:30 p.m. and another at 11:50 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 179; L. J. Locke, Flying Saucers, October 1969, p. 11, citing Australian Flying Saucer Review Source ID: Johnson_2454 Source: Johnson ### Event 13107 (56184BDB) Date: 5/2/1967 Description: 8:25 p.m. CDT. A gray misty oval object was reported with red blinking lights and a steady white light on top (body lights). It hovered, then rose straight up. (APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 8.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montezuma, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3539 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13108 (CA5CFE0A) Date: 5/2/1967 Description: A misty gray oval with four blinking red lights and a steady white light on top was seen in Montezuma, Iowa by a nineteen-year-old named Latcham at 8:25 p.m. It hovered, rose straight up, and then angled off to the west, climbing rapidly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 8; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 338 Source ID: Johnson_2455 Source: Johnson ### Event 13109 (CADD893D) Date: 5/3/1967 Description: At 6:30 a.m. EDT in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a gray metallic-appearing disc paced ahead of a car being driven by a Mrs. Smyth on the Schuylkill Expressway near Roxborough. The top section of the craft was revolving and a row of windows was visible around the center. A vapor stream was produced, which changed to red sparks. The object shot up into the overcast, and when it did so the witness experienced jaw pain at that moment. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 12; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 268, 338 Source ID: Johnson_2471 Source: Johnson ### Event 13110 (4969F17F) Date: 5/3/1967 Description: 6:30 a.m. EDT. A metallic-appearing gray disc paced ahead of a car, top section revolving and a row of window-like markings visible around the center. A vapor stream was produced, which changed to red sparks. (APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 12.) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Philadelphia, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3540 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13111 (BBD51267) Date: 5/4/1967 Description: Eta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_128 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13112 (87DD72CD) Date: 5/5/1967 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon), [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf)[,](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) [Hartmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FKenneth%5FHartmann)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FKenneth%5FHartmann) [Ratchford](https://www.aaas.org/archives/j-thomas-ratchford-files), and Charles Reed of the National Research Council are briefed by an unnamed specialist \[probably Everitt L. Merritt of the Autometrics Division of the Raytheon Company of Alexandria, Virginia\] at the NPIC on a photogrammetric analysis he had carried out on the November 1966 UFO photo case from Roseville, Ohio. The analysis debunks the photo. The committee is again impressed with the technical work performed, and Condon remarks that for the first time a scientific analysis of a UFO will stand up to investigation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Arthur Lundahl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FC.%5FLundahl\#Unidentified%5FFlying%5FObjects)”; E. L. Merritt, “[Photogrammatric Analysis of a Non-Synchronous](http://cufos.org/cases/ZanesvilleDocs/Zanesville%5FPhotogrammetric.pdf) [Pair of U.F.O. Exposures,](http://cufos.org/cases/ZanesvilleDocs/Zanesville%5FPhotogrammetric.pdf)” June 1967; Peter A. Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, Warner, 1999, [pp. 48–49](https://archive.org/details/ufoenigma00pete/page/48/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4291 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13113 (024844EE) Date: 5/5/1967 Description: Indonesian Air Marshal [Roesmin Noerjadin](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roesmin%5FNoerjadin) admits that sometimes UFOs pose a problem for the country’s air defense, and sometimes the military is forced to fire on them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 254](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/254/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4292 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13114 (411E7009) Date: 5/5/1967 Description: North Dakota, G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3541 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13115 (1DBCB5BE) Date: 5/6/1967 Description: 1:43 a.m. MDT. A motorist on U.S. 91 heard a loud hum, stoooed the car, and saw a 40-foot diameter, amber-colored, circular object with domed top hovering 20-30 feet overhead. (Salt Lake City Tribune, 5/7/67, copy in NiCAP files; L/.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 1, May-June 1967, p. 6; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 6 (case misdated as May 13.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. George, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3542 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13116 (8E4A7CFF) Date: 5/6/1967 Description: On this morning a man in Black River Falls, Wisconsin had a 10 minute sighting of a disc flying in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sherman Larsen case files, report dated October 13, 1969 Source ID: Johnson_2585 Source: Johnson ### Event 13117 (48647D47) Date: 5/6/1967 Description: A mechanical engineer and his daughter were driving between Durango and Mazatlan, Mexico around 11:00 a.m. when they sighted a disc-shaped object on the ground off to the side of the highway. The engineer took three photographs while the UFO took off. Two parts of the landing gear are shown in first photo, while the second showed no legs and presumably had been retracted. The third photo missed the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim and Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 65; Scott Corrales, Fate, May 2002, p. 19; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 839 Source ID: Johnson_2586 Source: Johnson ### Event 13118 (61706BC1) Date: 5/6/1967 Description: Raymond Schirrmann, his wife, and two children of Schirmeck, Bas-Rhine department, France first sighted seven or eight black, lenticular objects at 7:00 p.m. over a grove of trees at an estimated distance of two kilometers. They were aligned in a straight, diagonal line in the sky, and each was surrounded by a halo of smoke. At 9:00 p.m. a large lens-shaped object, 15-20 meters in diameter, was seen close to the ground near their chalet only 25 meters away. A coherent beam of light snaked away from the object, ending in midair. It detached, then retracted into the object. Following this some landing legs appeared. The event lasted three hours, and the UFOs were tracked by radar at a nearby military base. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 271; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 91, citing UNICAT; UNICAT database, case 403, citing Figuet & Ruchon; Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1967 Source ID: Johnson_2587 Source: Johnson ### Event 13119 (13C5A19F) Date: 5/6/1967 Description: 7:00 p.m. LT. Seven lenticular (disc-shaped) black objects, aligned diagonally, each with a diameter estimated as 50 feet or more, were seen above a grove of trees about 2 km away. Each had a "smoky halo" around it. The objects suddenly vanished, then reappeared and vanished again, leaving traces in the forest. Truncated light beams ("solid light") were emitted from three of the objects, one white and two greenish. (Haines, 1994, pp. 91-92, from UNICAT catalogue #403.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Schirmeck, Bas-Rhein, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_3543 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13120 (7B85BC99) Date: 5/6/1967 Time: 1100 Description: A mechanical engineer and his daughter saw a disk-shaped object on the ground off a highway. They stopped the car and took three photos of the object as it was taking off. The first one showed the object at treetop level, the second showed it in flight, and the third photo missed the object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Durango, Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_839 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13121 (6460D5E7) Date: 5/6/1967 Description: A 24-year-old man named Campeadore was driving on the main highway 17 miles west of St. George, Utah at 12:43 a.m. when he heard a loud humming sound and stopped his car to investigate. He got out of his vehicle and saw a 40-foot wide, amber colored domed disc hovering only 20-30 feet over his head. He took out his pistol and fired a complete clip of bullets at the object. He reported that he heard the bullets ricochet off. He also suffered some physiological after effects as the result of his close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 338; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 120; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_2584 Source: Johnson ### Event 13122 (FCC5D98F) Date: 5/6/1967 Description: 11:00 a.m. A mechanical engineer and his daughter are driving on the Durango–Mazatlán Highway in Mexico. They spot a disc-shaped object landed on the ground off the highway. They stop the car and he takes three photos as the object takes off. The first photo shows the object at treetop level, partially hidden by a tree, with a portion of its landing gear visible. The second object shows the object in flight against a clear sky. The third photo shows nothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 65 Source ID: Eberhart_4293 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13123 (5DECC708) Date: 5/7/1967 Description: A domed disc-shaped object hovered at 200 feet altitude over a cemetery in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada at around 2:00 a.m. It was seen by five teenagers, including a 14-year-old named Ricky Banyard and another named Glenn Coates. A muffled whistling sound was heard coming from the object, and the object directed a vertical light beam to the ground. They looked at it through binoculars. A series of bangs and a "screaming" noise like a jet were heard when the object took off. Charring of stones and other physical traces were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edmonton Journal, May 8, 1967; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 7; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 840; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 338 Source ID: Johnson_2619 Source: Johnson ### Event 13124 (85430147) Date: 5/7/1967 Description: At around one o'clock in the morning in Necochea, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina a close encounter involving four UFOs happened that lasted three hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 187; UNICAT, case # 554 Source ID: Johnson_2618 Source: Johnson ### Event 13125 (BC9B2AAD) Date: 5/7/1967 Time: 0200 Description: Ricky Banyard, 14, saw a strange object in the sky and followed it with a friend, Glenn Coates, through binoculars. It hovered near a cemetery, making a hushed whistling sound and illuminating the ground with a vertical beam of light. The object left suddenly with a roar similar to that of a jet, and a series of "bangs." Stones were found calcined at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 178 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Edmonton, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_840 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13126 (A6EE030A) Date: 5/7/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. MST. A 14-year-old boy and four others saw a spherical object with spinning top and bottom and with red and green lights (body lights) which they followed and observed for 4 hours. Black streaks were found on the charred road surface (physical traces). (Edmonton Journal, 5/8/67, copy in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives files; L/.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 1, May-June 1967, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 7; Phillips, 1975, p. 48.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edmonton, Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3544 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13127 (B788C1F2) Date: 5/7/1967? Description: A couple are driving through the state of Tabasco, Mexico, when they see a bright point of light in the sky. It descends to a spot about 500 feet away and gives off an intense white-orange light from its cone-shaped body. The couple stops and shuts off their headlights. When the object approaches closer, the man turns the headlights on again. The UFO stops in midair and blinks its light off and on twice. The couple become frightened and drive to the nearest town. Several people return with them to the spot and the object is still there. When they turn their headlights off and on, it approaches them. Some of the men run to the object with weapons raised, and it takes off into the sky within seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 60 Source ID: Eberhart_4295 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13128 (119E7B17) Date: 5/7/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. Ricky Banyard, 17, and four others watch and follow a spherical object with a spinning top and bottom and with red and green lights for 4 hours in Edmonton, Alberta, in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery. As it hovers at about 200 feet, a light beam comes from the bottom of the object, illuminating the ground. They hear a muffled whistling noise as the object hovers, then a screaming noise like a jet engine starting up. All its lights go out, and the object takes off in a flurry of explosive sounds. Black streaks are later found on the charred road surface. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A UFO in Detail,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100419025/)” Edmonton \(Alberta\) Journal, May 8, 1967, p. 33; “[Eerie Object in Graveyard,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_4294 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13129 (072A5DFE) Date: 5/7/1967 Description: Later that evening a nocturnal light followed a car with the Luck family of three through the rural countryside of Arnett, Oklahoma back home. It then shot off to the west at high speed. It looked solid in appearance, according to the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 6; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 47 Source ID: Johnson_2620 Source: Johnson ### Event 13130 (F0A7FCD5) Date: 5/8/1967 Description: At 11:00 p.m. Ms. L. Geisler in Chester Heights, Pennsylvania saw a round object with four red lights in a curving row, and a very bright white center light that flashed on and off. The object hovered, moved up and down, and from side to side. It darted away, reappeared, and hovered again before moving away for good. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, citing Ritter report July 28, 1967; Gilbert Bernier, UFO-INFO, July 1, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_2656 Source: Johnson ### Event 13131 (3B9A8838) Date: 5/8/1967 Description: 11:00 p.m. EDT. A woman saw a round object with four red lights (body lights) in a curving row and a very bright center light that flashed on and off. (Ritter report received 7/28/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chester Heights, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3545 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13132 (213E6A5D) Date: 5/9/1967 Description: In a field which belonged to the Mayor, Mr. Maillotte, a depression was discovered, and blue powder was found in small trenches radiating from that area. A formidable weight seemed to have rested at the spot. No radioactivity. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 179 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Marliens, France Source ID: Magnonia_841 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13133 (772386F3) Date: 5/9/1967 Description: On this evening two witnesses in Champaign, Illinois saw a white-lit object that changed color to red as it flew rapidly from north to south. The object circled the airport, turned on a bright light, made turns, and hovered. It then moved south, passing over the witnesses, who followed it at speeds over 90 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, letter from witness Source ID: Johnson_2685 Source: Johnson ### Event 13134 (AA415148) Date: 5/9/1967 Description: In Beloit, Wisconsin at 9:05 p.m., which is about 200 miles north-northeast of Champaign, a woman named Vance heard a hissing sound, then saw an object with flashing blue, red, green, and yellow lights. The object "swayed, jumped" and shot out of sight Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, citing The Daily News, May 10, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_2686 Source: Johnson ### Event 13135 (60060B88) Date: 5/9/1967 Description: In a field that belonged to Mr. Maillotte, the mayor of Marliens, France, a depression was discovered and blue powder was found in small trenches radiating from the area. A formidable weight seemed to have rested at the spot. No radioactivity was found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 841, citing France Soir, May 12, 1967; M. Roger Perrinjaquet, Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_2684 Source: Johnson ### Event 13136 (B55C6455) Date: 5/9/1967 Description: 9:05 p.m. CDT. On the same evening, about 200 miles 11 north-northeast of Champaign, Illinois, a woman heard a hissing sound, then saw an object with flashing blue, red, green, and yellow lights. The object "swayed, jumped," and shot out of sight. (The Daily News, 5/10/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beloit, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3547 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13137 (C133F236) Date: 5/9/1967 Description: Evening. Two people saw a white-lighted object that changed color to red as it flew rapidly from north to south. The object circled the airport, turned on a bright light, made turns, and hovered, then moved south above the witnesses, who followed it in a car at speeds over 90 m.p.h. (Witness letter, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Champaign, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3546 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13138 (B3D9281D) Date: 5/10/1967 Description: [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) goes to the White House to give President [Lyndon Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%5FB.%5FJohnson) the answers to the questions he’d been asked seven weeks earlier. The only account of that meeting is Helms’s own. He says he described the \[inspector general’s\] conclusions and that Johnson said: “Then you were not responsible for [Trujillo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael%5FTrujillo)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael%5FTrujillo) ‘No.’ Correct answer. ‘[Diem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo%5FDinh%5FDiem)?’ ‘No.’ Correct answer. ‘[Castro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel%5FCastro) he’s still alive, okay.’” At the same meeting Helms also tells Johnson about the mail interception program “and some other things that were going on.” Johnson’s response to that was equally laconic; he just nodded and said something along the line of, ‘But be careful, don’t get caught.’” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Thomas Powers, The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA, Random House, 1979, [pp. 156–157](https://archive.org/details/manwhokeptsecret0000powe/page/156/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4296 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13139 (5167ECD8) Date: 5/10/1967 Description: 3:00 a.m.EDT. Fishermen saw a missile-shaped (elongated) object that had a glowing red ball at each end. A white glowing object seemed to land and grew increasingly bright causing the witnesses to fear an explosion. Witnesses left to get the sheriff. No physical traces found. (Ridge, 1994, -? P-22.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wayne County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3548 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13140 (9BC03CE2) Date: 5/10/1967 Description: At 8:30 p.m. southeast of the town of Combs-la-Ville, France a 1.5 meter pyramid shaped UFO landed on a road by the railroad tracks, and then illuminated the surrounding area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1967 Source ID: Johnson_2718 Source: Johnson ### Event 13141 (29D071EF) Date: 5/11/1967 Description: In Holbaek, Denmark in Vestsjaellan province a domed disc was sighted on this night hovering over a field at a farm. A silhouette of a humanoid figure was seen moving behind a window in the craft. Angel hair residue was found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 7763, citing Brad Steiger & Joan Whritenour, The Allende Letters, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_2739 Source: Johnson ### Event 13142 (100507DC) Date: 5/11/1967 Time: 0200 Description: Michael Campeadore, 25, a hospital employee, was driving to Salt Lake City when he heard a noise similar to that of a truck, but saw nothing. Then a yellow light became visible to the left, and thinking that it was a jet plane about to crash, he got out and saw it stop 30 m away at 30 m altitude. It was shaped like an inverted bowl with a dome on top and looked metallic. The witness became afraid and emptied his .25 Beretta in the direction of the craft. He heard the bullets hit metal and the object took off at great speed. When he told his story at a nearby service station, the attendant replied that about 20 reports had been made in the Saint George area recently. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 180 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Saint George, Utah Source ID: Magnonia_842 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13143 (3B363F51) Date: 5/11/1967 Description: This picture, although a fairly clear shot, does not have a lot of details. Taken on a Saturday night, a group of pals, Allen, Bobby, Rick, and Danny were hanging out when they saw this object that "glowed reddish-white." One of the boys had a camera, and allegedly took this photo. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [670511](http://www.ufocasebook.com/torrancecalifornia1967large.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Torrance, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3550 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13144 (70A2BEE6) Date: 5/11/1967 Description: 2:05 a.m. EDT. Four witnesses saw two inverted- -I dish (saucer-) shaped objects with rotating lights. The objects hovered, descended behind trees into a bog, bobbed up and down like a yo-yo, and sped away when police shone a light at them (light reaction). (Fowler, 1974, p. 348.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wareham, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3549 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13145 (884C67F3) Date: 5/11/1967 Description: At 2:05 a.m. four police officers in Wareham, Massachusetts in Plymouth County sighted two inverted dish-shaped objects with revolving red and white lights around the rim. One descended behind some trees into a cranberry bog. It moved up-and-down like a yo-yo, and sped away when the police tried to shine a spotlight on it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 333 & 348; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 339 Source ID: Johnson_2737 Source: Johnson ### Event 13146 (25ED7164) Date: 5/11/1967 Description: At 2:00 a.m. Michael Campeadore, age 25, a hospital employee in St. George, Utah in route to Salt Lake City when he heard a noise similar to that of a truck. However, he saw nothing. Then a yellow light became visible to his left, and thinking that it was a jet plane about to crash, he stopped the truck and got out. He saw it stop 30 meters away at an altitude of 30 meters. It was shaped like an inverted bowl with a dome on top and looked metallic. He became frightened and emptied his .25 calibre Beretta in the direction of the craft. He heard the bullets hit metal and the object took off at a great speed. When he told his story at a nearby service station, the attendant replied that about 20 reports had been made of UFOs in the Saint George area recently. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 5; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 842; National Enquirer, August 27, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_2738 Source: Johnson ### Event 13147 (651EF14F) Date: 5/12/1967 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a silver ellipse-shaped UFO rapidly approached two people driving in a vehicle, five miles south of Neola, Utah. It slowed its speed and descended level with the road. It then tilted and flew over the crest of a nearby hill and was gone from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. 69 and appendix case A48; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 339 Source ID: Johnson_2760 Source: Johnson ### Event 13148 (1B3D840D) Date: 5/12/1967 Description: 11:10 p.m. GMT. A glowing yellow elliptical object with three round spots on the underside passed below clouds and was observed through binoculars. (Flying Saucer Review, Sept.-Oct. 1967, p. 31.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Putney, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3551 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13149 (D3138DBA) Date: 5/12/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. MDT (2:00 a.m. GMT, May 13). Two men saw a silver ellipse or disc, 45 feet long and 15 feet thick (3:1 length to width ratio), ; with a distinct outline, that approached, slowed, descended level with a road, tilted and went over a hill. (Salisbury, 1974, Appendix B, Table 1, Case 48.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Neola, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3552 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13150 (826043C6) Date: 5/12/1967 Description: At 11:10 p.m. a glowing yellow elliptical object with three round spots on the underside passed below the clouds and was observed through binoculars in Putney, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_2758 Source: Johnson ### Event 13151 (1D9FE557) Date: 5/12/1967 Description: Miss N. Parshall, a sixteen-year-old girl in California, reported sighting a cigar-shaped object with a dull aluminum finish"shoot around in sky" at around four o'clock in the afternoon. It came to within 60 feet of the aircraft and then veered away. It seemed ready to ram the plane from behind, but instead shot away very fast. The sighting lasted an estimated 90 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files, report dated July 26, 1967; Condon University of Colorado UFO Study, case N1378 Source ID: Johnson_2759 Source: Johnson ### Event 13152 (90C93FE0) Date: 5/12/1967 Description: That same night a disc-shaped object swooped down to just 25 feet above the ground in Galion, Ohio. It projected a circle of light down around a paperboy with the last name Prim, who found himself unable to move and with a gap in his memory of what happened next. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, The UFO Handbook, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_2761 Source: Johnson ### Event 13153 (49696E39) Date: 5/13/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. CDT. A University of South Dakota faculty member and five others saw a lens-shaped object (disc) that passed under clouds, turned over, and changed direction (maneuvered). (Witness report, 7/18/67, in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vermillion, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3553 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13154 (CBAD190B) Date: 5/13/1967 Description: At 8:00 p.m. CDT a University of South Dakota faculty member in Vermillion, South Dakota and five others saw a lens-shaped object (disc) that passed under the clouds, turned over, and changed directions. It first moved north to south, then northeast to southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, witness report dated July 18, 1967; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 339 Source ID: Johnson_2808 Source: Johnson ### Event 13155 (1EC16405) Date: 5/13/1967 Description: At the Colorado Springs, Colorado airport an unidentified flying object was picked up on radar at 4:40 a.m. MDT. During this time a Braniff flight was coming in for a landing, and the track of the object behaved like a ghost echo, perhaps a ground return being reflected off the Braniff aircraft. The radar blip appeared at about twice the range of the Braniff blip. When Braniff touched down, however, the situation changed radically. The UFO pulled to the east (right) and passed over the airport at an indicated height of 200 feet. The object passed within 1.5 miles of the control tower, but was not visible even through binoculars by personnel in the control tower. This case was written up in the Condon report, and it was stated there: This must remain as one of the most puzzling radar cases on record, and no conclusion is possible at this time. It seems inconceivable that an anomalous propagation echo would behave in the manner described, particularly with respect to the reported altitude changes, even if AP had been likely at the time. In view of the meteorological situation, it would seem that AP was rather unlikely. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Thayer, in Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, pp. 170, 310 Source ID: Johnson_2807 Source: Johnson ### Event 13156 (219F68D6) Date: 5/13/1967 Description: 1:43 a.m. Michael Campeadore is driving in Arizona about 17 miles southwest of St. George, Utah, when he hears a loud humming sound. After stopping the car and getting out, he notices a huge object, 45–50 feet in diameter, hovering 25–30 feet above him. He reaches into the car and gets a .25 caliber pistol, loads it, and fires point blank at the object. He hears the bullets hit and ricochet as they strike. Before he has finished the clip, the object begins moving off and disappears in seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Car Buzzing Incidents on Increase,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_4297 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13157 (13941CFB) Date: 5/13/1967 Description: 4:40 p.m. An object is picked up on radar at the Colorado Springs, Colorado, airport. A Braniff flight is coming in for a landing on runway 35. The track of the object behaves like a ghost echo, perhaps a ground return being reflected from the Braniff aircraft. The blip appears at about twice the range of the Braniff blip. When the Braniff airliner touches down, however, the situation changes radically. The UFO blip pulls to the right \(east\) and passes over the airport at an estimated height of about 200 feet. The object track passes within 1.5 miles of the control tower. The object is not visible even through binoculars by personnel in the control tower. The Colorado project finds this to be one of the most puzzling radar cases on record. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Invisible UFO Tracked on](http://www.nicap.org/670513coloradospringsdir.htm) [Radar](http://www.nicap.org/670513coloradospringsdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 170–171,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/170/mode/2up) [310–316](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/310/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4298 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13158 (BD421FA1) Date: 5/13/1967 Description: At 5:45 a.m. a close encounter occurred in Lavister, near Wrexham, Wales. A 15-meter diameter metallic disc glowed blue. It shot up, stopped, and then darkened. It glowed again on exit. The witness, Mr. Williams, viewed the object for 5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March-April 1969, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_2806 Source: Johnson ### Event 13159 (F518D517) Date: 5/13/1967 Description: At 1640 MDT, at the Colorado Springs airport an object was picked up on radar. During this time a Braniff flight was coming in for a landing on runway 35. The track of the object behaved like a ghost echo, perhaps a ground return being reflected from the Braniff aircraft. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [670513](http://www.nicap.org/670513coloradospringsdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colorado Springs, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3554 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13160 (5902AFAA) Date: 5/14/1967 Description: While driving near Alamosa, Colorado at 11:15 p.m. an Adams State College student named Hardwick stopped his car and tried to approach a cigar-shaped UFO that was in a pasture pulsating with a red glow 100 meters away. It changed color from blue to red to orange to blue. Both rear tires of his car went flat for no apparent reason, and the object shot away making no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, citing Alamosa Valley Courier, May 17, 1967; Jim and Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 163; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 40; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 339 Source ID: Johnson_2829 Source: Johnson ### Event 13161 (B6E4C836) Date: 5/15/1967 Description: After attending an amateur astronomy club meeting, Benito Hamburgo Valenzuela returned to his home in La Paz, Baja California, Mexico at around 11:00 p.m. where he encountered a giant, nine foot tall man. The man had large blue eyes, red hair, and very large ears. He wore a tight fitting red coverall like garment with short sleeves, boots, and bracelets on both arms. On his chest he wore an insignia of white dots, and he wore a white cap on his head that looked nickel-plated. He also wore a wide belt, from which hung a small box with a small antenna. The collosus pulled up a large piece of wood and sat down on it. He greeted Hamburgo in slightly accented Spanish, and introduced himself as "Wirkle, Chief of the Guard." He answered Benito's questions, anticipating them before the witness actually spoke them. He said he was from a very distant "region" and that they were an advanced race, concerned about the misuse of atomic energy. When he left he refused to shake hands, explaining that contact with him would aggravate Benito's cardiac condition. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-39 (A0812), citing Mike Culbert & Paul Cerny; Daily Gazette, July 24, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_2856 Source: Johnson ### Event 13162 (0C14267F) Date: Mid 5/1967 Description: 11:00 p.m. Patricio Hanessian and Alfredo Padilla are driving in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, and see a flat-bottomed, domed object in the sky. The central part is bright white and the edge is bright pink or red. It holds its position for 2–3 minutes then moves away, reappearing about 500 feet in front of their car, where it hovers for 2 minutes before speeding off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 60–61 Source ID: Eberhart_4299 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13163 (F19D4DEE) Date: 5/15/1967 Description: A pilot and police along with several other witnesses in northeast Indianapolis, Indiana sighted a fat, multi-colored cigar-shaped UFO with a brilliant light in front at 11:15 p.m. There were no blimps flying at the time. It shot straight up (or at a very steep angle) very rapidly. The object was confirmed on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - Here and Now! p. 246 Source ID: Johnson_2857 Source: Johnson ### Event 13164 (1F3317FA) Date: 5/15/1967 Description: 7:30 p.m. EDT. A pilot and a sheriffs deputy saw a 50-foot cigar-shaped object with a brilliant white light in front, a rapidly blinking red light on the rear, and red lights pulsating from front to back underneath (body lights). Indianapolis airport radar reportedly tracked the object. (Telephone call report from Frank Edwards, 5/18/67, NICAP files; Ridge, 1994, pp. 22-23 from Edwards, 1968, p. 152.) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis (NE of), IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3556 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13165 (24E540B6) Date: 5/15/1967 Description: 10:00 p.m. EDT. Three witnesses 500 miles to the northeast, in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, saw an elongated object with one red and one white light. (Air Force report form, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Scarborough, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3557 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13166 (D0336494) Date: 5/16/1967 Description: 1:30 a.m. PDT. A family saw a triangular object with a row of red lights and a white light on one end (body lights). The object hovered over the ground near a pond, made a roaring sound, then took off soaring over the house. (Redwood City Times, Calif., 5/16/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Half Moon Bay, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3559 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13167 (172341E8) Date: 5/16/1967 Description: 10:10 p.m. Ship Master Donald W. Dee and 3rd Mate Homer Hawthorne, seamen Earle Bradley and Eric Koster, all crew of the Pacific Coast Transport ship SS Point Sur, see six red point-source lights that seem to be pacing the ship over the Gulf of Mexico. One object is confirmed by sporadic radar returns as at 12,000 feet, 11 miles away. Through 7 x 50 binoculars, the objects appear brilliant yellow with red lights across upper two-thirds, but to the naked eye, the colors blend to reddish-orange point sources. They pulsate with a 4.5-second period and an approximate 1:3 brightness ratio. The lower objects rise and fall near the horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[SS](http://www.nicap.org/670516gulf%5Fdir.htm) [Point Sur](http://www.nicap.org/670516gulf%5Fdir.htm) [Case](http://www.nicap.org/670516gulf%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 325 Source ID: Eberhart_4301 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13168 (73A48CAA) Date: 5/16/1967 Description: CIA Director [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) makes one last pitch for the A-12 Oxcart program to President [Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%5FB.%5FJohnson), saying the aircraft are essential for finding the SAM missile launch sites responsible for shooting down pilots in North Vietnam. They can’t want for the Air Force’s SR-71 to become operational. Johnson authorizes A-12’s to deploy to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, before the monsoons start. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 265–266](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/264/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4300 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13169 (80AB76D7) Date: 5/16/1967 Description: Roman and Jose Arribas observed an object land in a pine forest north of Nieva-Segovia, Cordoba, Spain. They saw "people" enter the ash-colored craft, which took off straight up, at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 843, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit; issue 89 Source ID: Johnson_2891 Source: Johnson ### Event 13170 (BB2B3837) Date: 5/16/1967 Description: Roman and Jose Arribas observed an object land in a pine forest north of Nieva-Segovia. They saw "people" enter the ashcolored craft, which took off straight up, at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 89 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Nieva-Segovia, Spain Source ID: Magnonia_843 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13171 (DC41ED36) Date: 5/16/1967 Description: Four members of the crew of the SS Point Sur in the Gulf of Mexico at 10:10 p.m. had radar-visual confirmation with a UFO that was observed for 50 minutes, shape undetermined. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 237 Source ID: Johnson_2893 Source: Johnson ### Event 13172 (7E3E91CF) Date: 5/16/1967 Description: Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California. At 1:30 a.m. PDT a family saw a triangular object with a row of red lights and a white light on one end. The object hovered over the ground near a pond, made a roaring sound, then took off, soaring over their house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Redwood City Times, Calif., May 16, 1967, copy in NICAP files. Source ID: Johnson_2892 Source: Johnson ### Event 13173 (1DE2FD73) Date: 5/16/1967 Description: U.S.S Point Sur (Hynek UFO Exp ch. 7, case RV-9) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf of Mexico, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_3558 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13174 (C2C27795) Date: 5/17/1967 Description: The first official Soviet UFO Study Group is launched in a preliminary meeting at the Moscow Aviation and Cosmonautics Center with Maj. Gen. Porfiri Stolyarov at the helm and cosmologist [Felix Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel) as his deputy. Also in attendance are Heinrich Ludwig, [Nikolai Zhirov](http://atlantipedia.ie/samples/zhirov-nicolai-feodosyevich/)[,](http://atlantipedia.ie/samples/zhirov-nicolai-feodosyevich/) [Igor Bestuzhev-Lada](https://prabook.com/web/igor.bestuzhev-lada/1031743), [Valentin Akkuratov](https://clever-geek.github.io/articles/2237020/index.html), Leonid Reino, Georgi Uger, Georgi Zevalkin, [Grigory Sivkov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory%5FSivkov)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory%5FSivkov) [Yekaterina Ryabova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterina%5FRyabova), and [Natalia Kravtsova](https://www.meisterdrucke.us/fine-art-prints/Russian-Photographer/497411/Soviet-Female-Pilots%3B-Natalia-Kravtsova-%28Meklin%29-and-Irina-Srebrova%2C-1943.html)[.](https://www.meisterdrucke.us/fine-art-prints/Russian-Photographer/497411/Soviet-Female-Pilots%3B-Natalia-Kravtsova-%28Meklin%29-and-Irina-Srebrova%2C-1943.html)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Felix Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel)”; Good Above, [p. 570](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/570/mode/2up); Felix Ziegel, “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210023618901&view=1up&seq=103&skin=2021)” Soviet Life, no. 137 \(February 1968\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_4302 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13175 (E47BE255) Date: 5/17/1967 Description: Round, orange-colored obj. zigzag back and forth over jet (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 11744) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rural Hall, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3563 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13176 (EF85D593) Date: 5/17/1967 Description: 10:05 p.m. LT. By a warm, quiet evening several witnesses including S.V. Ostrovskiy saw a bright point descending in the western sky. It flew down to an altitude estimated as about one mile, when it changed to a horizontal course. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bakhrushev, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3562 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13177 (FFEE05A4) Date: 5/17/1967 Description: 2:30 a.m. LT. An engineer named T.N. Kanshov saw a bright body twice as large as the moon moving across the sky from south to north for over two minutes. It expanded to three times its original size before disappearing. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ust'kamenogorsk, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3560 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13178 (B1EFC74F) Date: 5/17/1967 Description: 10:00 p.m. LT. Major Y.B. Popov, of Novosibirsk, together with Junior Lieutenant A.S. Nikitenko and several local residents saw a cascade of lights rushing across the night sky from the northeast in even rows. It was observed for two or three minutes. It passed almost over-head and took off into space. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kamyshin, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3561 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13179 (1C7C825F) Date: 5/17/1967 Time: 8:30 PM Description: Witness: Red Ledford. One round, orange-colored object, similar in size to a small aircraft, zigzagged back and forth over a jet that was heading northeast for 5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Rural Hall, North Carolina Source ID: BerlinerBBU_575 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 13180 (E4B019CB) Date: 5/17/1967 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a stream of lights seen in the sky in Kamyshin, Volgograd, Russia were actually windows on a huge cigar-shaped UFO that flew from the northeast to southwest, and was lost from view as it ascended up into space. Major Y. B. Popov, of Novosibirsk, together with Junior Lieutenant A. S. Nikitenko and several local residents saw a cascade of lights rushing across the night sky from the northeast in even rows. The lights were located on the surface of a very large cigar-shaped object; the impression was that of an ocean-going vessel. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 189 Source ID: Johnson_2929 Source: Johnson ### Event 13181 (4C7D54CF) Date: 5/17/1967 Description: At 8:30 p.m. in Rural Hall, North Carolina witness Red Ledford observed a round, orange-colored object, similar in size to a small aircraft, which zigzagged back-and-forth for five minutes over a jet that was heading northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 339, UNICAT, case # 716 Source ID: Johnson_2930 Source: Johnson ### Event 13182 (0D05ECD7) Date: 5/19/1967 Description: In Grove City, Ohio between 4:00 and 4:30 a.m. EDT four men, including the main witness named Schmidhammer, saw a cigar-shaped object for 20 minutes that maneuvered in the sky and descended to within 150 feet of the ground. It then made a 90-degree turn and flew off to the west. The object made an odd noise "that made your ears ring." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Grove City Record, May 25, 1967; NICAP files Source ID: Johnson_2977 Source: Johnson ### Event 13183 (C586E11F) Date: 5/19/1967 Description: 4:00-4:30 a.m. EDT. Four men saw a cigar-shaped object for 20 minutes that made various movements (maneuvered). One witness said it descended to within 150 feet of the ground, then made a 90-degree turn and flew off to the west. (Grove City Record, 5/25/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grove City, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3564 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13184 (A317FFE8) Date: 5/20/1967 Description: Polish-born Steve Michalac, age 52, an industrial mechanic and prospector, saw two red-glowing objects flying at high speed while prospecting at Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Canada. One of them landed nearby, and blew up vegetation as it landed. It was surrounded by a glow, and he watched it for 30 minutes before a door opened, revealing a purple glow inside. A high-pitched humming sound and an odor resembling a burning electrical circuit were noted. Seeing no further activity Mr. Michalac approached the landed craft, but he then heard voices, and when he touched the craft he burned his rubber-coated glove, and he was blown backwards by a hot blast of air. The object then started spinning. The witness felt dizzy, suffered minor face burns, and second and third degree burns on his chest. He vomited frequently for the next four days, and was hospitalized, losing over 10 kilograms. The landed craft was estimated to be 11 meters in diameter and three meters tall, with a one meter high superstructure. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 1; Edward U. Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, New York: Bantam (1969), p. 316; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 844 Source ID: Johnson_3008 Source: Johnson ### Event 13185 (212056B0) Date: 5/20/1967 Description: 12:15 p.m. [Stefan Michalak](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204651773/stefan-michalak) is quartz prospecting near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, when he sees two red, glowing, cigar-shaped objects in the sky. One object begins to hover then move away, while the other lands on a large, flat rock 160 feet away. The landed object is more than 35 feet wide and 10 feet thick with a 3-foot high cupola. It goes through several color changes then appears like hot stainless steel with blinding purple-colored lights coming through slits in the cupola. It is making a whirring sound and warm air seems to be coming from it. Michalak sits and sketches the object for 30 minutes, then a small door opens on the side, revealing a lighted interior. Michalak walks to 60 feet away and hears voices inside. Thinking it is a US aircraft, he steps forward and shouts. “Okay, Yankee boys, having trouble? Come on out and we’ll see what we can do about it.” He says the same thing in five other languages. There is no response, so he puts green lenses over his glasses and looks inside, where he sees a series of flashing lights. He pulls his head back, noting that the wall is 18 inches thick. Almost immediately the opening closes. When his glove accidentally touches the surface, it burns and melts. The UFO angles upwards and he sees a 9-by-6 inch gridlike vent with a uniform pattern of small holes. A blast of hot gas erupts from the grid, searing his chest, sending him reeling backwards, and burning his shirt and undershirt. He rips the flaming clothing off just as the UFO ascends in a rush of air. It heads off to the west, the same direction the other UFO has gone. Michalak now has a headache and severe nausea, so he starts driving back to his motel. He eventually gets to Misericordia Hospital in Winnipeg and receives a sedative. His chest burn heals, but the gridlike burn lesions on his abdomen persist. The symptoms continue well into 1968, when Michalak visits the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, staying there 2 weeks and undergoing outpatient treatment. He relocates the landing site on June 30, 1967, and the RCAF visits it in July, noting a 15-foot circle of cleared vegetation on the flat rock. Michalak obtains metal samples of unknown provenance from the site in 1968. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Falcon Lake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon%5FLake%5FIncident) [Incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon%5FLake%5FIncident)”; NICAP, “[Falcon Lake / Michalak Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/670520falconlake%5Fdir.htm)”; Stephen Michalak, My Encounter with the UFO, Osnova, 1967; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 195–198; Condon, [pp. 316–324](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/316/mode/2up); Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 37–45; Chris Rutkowski, “[The](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2027%20N%201.pdf) [Falcon Lake Incident, Part 1: Prologue 1967,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2027%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 1 \(June 1981\): 14–16; Chris Rutkowski, “[The Falcon Lake Incident, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2027%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 2 \(August 1981\): 15–18; Chris Rutkowski, “[The Falcon Lake Incident, Part 3,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2027%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 3 \(November 1981\): 21–25; Chris Rutkowski, “Burned by a UFO? The Story of a Bungled Investigation,” IUR 12, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1987\): 21–24; Edward M. Barker, “Letter,” IUR 13, no. 2 \(March/April 1988\): 21–22; Good Above, [pp. 195–200](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/194/mode/2up); Chris Rutkowski, “The Falcon Lake Case: Too Close an Encounter,” JUFOS 5 \(1994\): 1–34; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 81–86](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/80/mode/2up); Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 72–93; Chris Rutkowski, “The Cold, Hard Facts about UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(September 2011\): 10, 22; Clark III 475–481; Chris Rutkowski and Stan Michalak, When They Appeared: Falcon Lake 1967, August Night, 2019; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 107–118, 154–157 Source ID: Eberhart_4303 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13186 (DF66F452) Date: 5/20/1967 Description: A bizarre announcement is published in the Spanish newspaper Informaciones declaring that soon a spacecraft will land in Madrid, Spain, and fly earthbound terrestrials back to their home planet Ummo. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1184 Source ID: Eberhart_4304 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13187 (4C23BE00) Date: 5/20/1967 Time: 1213 Description: Polish-born Steve Michalac, 52, industrial mechanic and prospector, saw two redglowing objects flying at high speed. One of them blew vegetation as it landed, surrounded by a glow, and it was observed for 30 min before a door opened, showing a purple light. A high-pitched sound and an odor resembling a burning electrical circuit were noted. Approaching, the witness heard voices, and upon touching the craft, he burned his rubber-coated glove, and was "blown out" by hot air when the subject started spinning. The witness felt dizzy, suffered minor face burns, second and third degree burns on his chest, vomited frequently for 4 days, and lost over 10 kg. Diameter of craft, 11 m; height, 3 m, with a 1-m-high superstructure. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 60; Condon 316 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Falcon Lake, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_844 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13188 (BCE1DF9B) Date: 5/20/1967 Description: Witness approached landed object, violet light, rushing air sound, voices heard. Experienced severe burns on chest, weight loss, and vomiting Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Canada Source ID: HallUFOE2_129 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13189 (5C0CC190) Date: 5/20/1967 Description: Falcon Lake/Michalak Encounter (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents, Code: M, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [670520](http://www.nicap.org/670520falconlake%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falcon Lake, Manitoba, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3565 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13190 (D5A31072) Date: 5/20/1967 Description: 10:45 p.m. EDT. A couple saw an intensely glowing object with shimmering white lights. The object alternated between hovering and moving at an estimated altitude of 1,500-2,000 feet. (Witness letter, 5/25/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lexington, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3566 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13191 (EBBCDCD5) Date: 5/21/1967 Description: 3:00 a.m. A dark object with a circle of red pulsating lights which lit up the area was observed for two minutes by two witnesses. The object moved slowly along a highway below tree-top level. (Don Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Union County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3567 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13192 (9CDB6829) Date: 5/21/1967 Description: 8:00 a.m. A farmer out hunting looked up when he heard a brief swishing sound. Six or eight light gray watermelon shaped objects in semicircle formation at undetermined height were moving rapidly to the east. (Don Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Union County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3568 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13193 (07EEF91F) Date: 5/22/1967 Time: evening Description: A teacher, 45-year-old Mr. Tyrode, saw a glow, then an object shaped like an inverted plate emitting a greenish-blue light. It flew less than 20 m above his car, at 40 km/h. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 94 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Evillers, France Source ID: Magnonia_845 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13194 (B04B02C8) Date: 5/22/1967 Description: On this evening Mr. Tyrode, a 45-year-old school teacher, saw a glow and then an object shaped like an inverted plate emitting a greenish-blue light in Evillers, France. It flew less than 20 meters above his car at at estimated speed of 40 km/hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 845 Source ID: Johnson_3038 Source: Johnson ### Event 13195 (3E7CAE9A) Date: 5/24/1967 Time: 2300 Description: Remy Deneuville and his family saw a white light to the side of the road, but it was turned off when they drove within 150 m of its location. Minutes later, they saw a luminous spherical object fly away for several minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: GEPA Dec., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Arbonne, France Source ID: Magnonia_846 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13196 (E21BE224) Date: 5/24/1967 Description: Remy Deneuville and his family saw a white light to the side of the road in Arbonne, France at eleven p.m., but it was turned off when they drove to within 150 meters of its location. Minutes later, they saw a luminous spherical object fly away for several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 841 Source ID: Johnson_3067 Source: Johnson ### Event 13197 (74842537) Date: 5/24/1967 Description: At 3:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. De Carvalho were putting a new tile roof on a shed in Parque en Grande, Brazil when they noticed a 15 foot long ovoid object with four legs. It was light grey in color. A short occupant wearing a helmet leaned out of the craft to observe them; it then took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March-April 1971, p 30, citing Ultima Hora, May 30, 1967; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0816, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_3068 Source: Johnson ### Event 13198 (E4FCB4F8) Date: 5/25/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. A witness saw a flat-bottomed , object, with a domed top (domed disc) that had rainbow-like light. When his car headlights shone on the object, its light flared up and within seconds it took off , straight up (light reaction). The witness felt his hair stand on end and a tingling like static electricity (physiological effects). (Letter from Chuck Thaxton, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fostoria, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3569 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13199 (F71B5575) Date: 5/25/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. PDT. A couple saw a metallic-appearing disc that descended to about 5,000 feet above the ground, emitting a bright red flame which shot from a 3-4 foot round aperture in the underside. (NICAP report form; U.F.O Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 3, Nov.-Dec. 1967, p. 3.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Castro Valley, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3571 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13200 (2BE663D5) Date: 5/25/1967 Description: 8:55 p.m. CDT (9:55 p.m. EDT). Two people saw a cigar-shaped object with a string of white lights down the center and a red light at front, and a green light at the rear (body lights). (Witness letter, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shreveport, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3570 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13201 (FB7C5158) Date: 5/25/1967 Description: At 10:00 p.m. in Castro Valley, California Mr. & Mrs. Ofinowicz saw a metallic domed disc descend and hover at an estimated 5000 feet altitude. It emitted a bright red flame from an aperture underneath as it hovered. The flame withdrew and the object zig-zagged away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files; NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1967, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 339 Source ID: Johnson_3087 Source: Johnson ### Event 13202 (4B680214) Date: 5/26/1967 Description: Luminous object chased car, hovered above it; able to restart engine after UFO sped away. APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_3572 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13203 (EE40A18B) Date: 5/26/1967 Description: 10:15 p.m. Three teenagers \(Bobby Grant, Joseph Romero, and Johnny Sanchez\) are driving along Atrisco Drive NW, north of Central Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A white light seems to follow them, weaving back and forth over the road. Finally it catches up with the car and hovers silently above it. The engine quits and the headlights fail. The teens leap from the car and the object suddenly flies off to the southwest. They can start the car again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Car Buzzing Incidents on Increase,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_4305 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13204 (17112C53) Date: 5/26/1967 Description: At 10:15 p.m. a strange white light chased a car with three teenagers in Albuquerque, New Mexico then hovered directly overhead while the car was still moving. After a few moments, the engine and headlights of the car ceased operating. When the car had come to a complete stop the light sped away and the car couId then be restarted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June, 1967, p. 6; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 204 Source ID: Johnson_3102 Source: Johnson ### Event 13205 (9DCA57BF) Date: 5/27/1967 Description: Two luminous trails were found over the ground in Sermerieu, France. Four dead cows were found together with an area of 400 meter wide area of burned crops. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 93 Source ID: Johnson_3118 Source: Johnson ### Event 13206 (94B21CED) Date: 5/27/1967 Description: At one o'clock in the morning a disc landed in a field in St.-Andre-Treize-Voies, Vendee department, France. When it took off it made a noise like a vacuum cleaner. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 276 Source ID: Johnson_3117 Source: Johnson ### Event 13207 (EEF861DF) Date: 5/28/1967 Description: At 12:01 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with windows and protrusions flew over Wallingford, Connecticut. With clouds as a reference in the background, it was estimated to be about 3000 feet distant, and moved at an estimated speed of 500 mph as in went behind some clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, report dated June 5, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_3136 Source: Johnson ### Event 13208 (229859C2) Date: 5/28/1967 Description: 12:01 p.m. EDT. An engineer and his son (age 12) saw a bright silver, wingless object, apparently longer than a Boeing 707 jetliner. Two large transparent domes were visible on top of the object and three oblong windows along the side. (Letter dated 6/5/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wallingford, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3574 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13209 (16F02CEC) Date: 5/28/1967 Description: A bright reddish orange domed ovoid objecty swooped over the town of Mankato, Minnesota at 12:30 a.m. It made a roaring "swoosh" sound as it did. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, report dated May 30, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_3135 Source: Johnson ### Event 13210 (0E758B37) Date: 5/28/1967 Description: A glowing object flew over Murray Bridge, South Australia at two o'clock in the morning. It flew to the west at a speed under 100 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research South Australia, report # SA67005 Source ID: Johnson_3134 Source: Johnson ### Event 13211 (CEE4AA8C) Date: 5/28/1967 Description: 1:25 a.m. EDT. A couple saw three light green glowing discs that flew low above treetops and then went straight up and out of sight. (Letter dated 5/28/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corinth, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3573 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13212 (F15F0735) Date: 5/29/1967 Description: 2:40 a.m. EDT. One witness saw a glowing red scallop-shaped object (disc) that had white flashing lights along its surface. The object moved slowly with a rocking motion, then departed upward at high speed. (Fowler, 1974, p. 348.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saugus, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3575 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13213 (A67BE69A) Date: 5/29/1967 Description: At one o'clock in the afternoon a small UFO, three feet in diameter, traveled across Trout Brook Lake in New Brunswick, Canada. It moved in a "spinning fashion, spraying water seven to eight feet high, noisy, zipped into bushes. It came back and submerged." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: report form in NICAP files from a military witness named Nason Source ID: Johnson_3149 Source: Johnson ### Event 13214 (71E1BE38) Date: 5/29/1967 Description: A "glowing red scallop" shaped object rocked slowly in the sky over Saugus, Massachusetts ay 2:45 a.m., and then shot straight up out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333 Source ID: Johnson_3148 Source: Johnson ### Event 13215 (BAC8849A) Date: 5/29/1967 Description: Night. Two teenagers saw a large, shiny circular object with whirling lights. The object hovered, moved, descended near a grove of trees, then later rose straight up, hovered, and flew away. (Bay City Times, 6/14/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bay City, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3576 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13216 (5A2D06E5) Date: 5/30/1967 Description: At around 3:00 a.m. a five meter long cigar-shaped object was seen at very low altitude over a farm in Ribeirao Pires, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. It had 4 legs for landing gear. A short humanoid was seen leaning against a small window in the craft, which shot away at an extremely fast speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 7790, citing FSR, March-April 1971 Source ID: Johnson_3168 Source: Johnson ### Event 13217 (662643D6) Date: 5/30/1967 Description: A-12 spy planes begin Operation Black Shield in North Vietnam out of Kadena Air Base on Okinawa, Japan, locating and photographing surface-to-air missile sites that are shooting down US pilots. The A-12s fly at 80,000 feet and at about Mach 3.1, carrying out 22 sorties in 1967. However, the Russians monitor the flights and the Vietnamese move their SAM sites immediately after flyovers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed A-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12)” Source ID: Eberhart_4306 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13218 (A7A77923) Date: 5/30/1967 Description: Shortly before 8:00 p.m. an orange glowing mushroom-shaped UFO zig-zagged over Highway 57, southwest of Palmerston North, New Zealand. It was humming and making a swishing sound. There were two witnesses to the close encounter, and the entire event lasted 12 minutes. The same or a similar object was seen at Ohakea Air Force Base by two more witnesses a short time later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_3167 Source: Johnson ### Event 13219 (B3D0C58A) Date: 5/31/1967 Description: [Fernando Sesma](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Fernando%5FSesma)[,](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Fernando%5FSesma) president of the Amigos de los Visitantes del Espacio, speaks to an audience of 40 persons gathered at a café in Madrid, Spain. He says that the Ummites \(who have been supplying him with messages since 1965 describing in excruciating detail life on the planet Ummo, which revolves around a star 14.6 light years away\) have given him a startling printed message predicting that a spacecraft will appear on the evening of June 1. The space people have supplied the exact geographical coordinates: the area of San José de Valderas, Madrid. All the Ummite messages, passed on to Sesma by his associates [Enrique Villagrasa](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Enrique%5FVillagrasa) and [Alicia Araujo](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Alicia%5FAraujo), are usually postmarked in Madrid, but as time goes by, other postmarks indicate mailings from London, Germany, Austria, New Zealand, Yugoslavia, and Canada. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1184–1185; Fernando Sesma, UMMO, otro planeta habitado, Gráficas Espejo, 1967 Source ID: Eberhart_4307 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13220 (C672600F) Date: 5/31/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. CDT. A woman reported a luminous red, saucer-shaped object with blue light that approached from the south and hovered about 125 yards away. The object landed and left physical traces, including a burned area and radioactive soil. (Winnipeg Free Press, Manitoba, 7/21/67, copy in NICAP files; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 2.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beausejour, Manitoba, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3578 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13221 (2CC34A41) Date: 5/31/1967 Description: Evening. A woman and three children saw an object with red and green rotating lights. It took off down river, and turned after a short distance. The colored lights were not visible after the turn, but there was a large light like a locomotive headlight visible. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Danville, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3577 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13222 (92601DC7) Date: 5/31/1967 Time: 11:30pm Description: Another landing took place near a farm outside Beausejour, Manitoba, about 45 miles from Winnipeg. A farm woman, who requests anonymity, was sitting on her front porch at 11:30 p.m. waiting for her husband to come home. She said she saw a brilliant red light with a smaller blue light beside it come toward her from the South. It illuminated the ground and appeared to land, whereupon she became frightened and went into the house. The next morning, she and her husband investigated the area where the object had apparently landed and found a semi circular area 90' x 150' in flames. The strange aspect of this case is that on the 15th of June, the area was still smouldering despite the fact that there had been considerable rain in the interim. Soil samples taken at the site yielded nothing. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Trace Cases](https://www.thenightskyii.org/trace.html) Location: Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_6 Source: Trace ### Event 13223 (B5C83199) Date: 5/31/1967 Description: On the 31st of May in 1967 a farm woman living outside of Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada (about 45 miles from Winnipeg) was sitting on her front porch at 11:30 p.m. waiting for her husband to return home. She saw a brilliant red light with a smaller blue light beside it come towards her from the south. The light lit up the ground and appeared to land. She became frightened and ran inside her house. The next morning she and her husband went out to investigate where the object had landed. They found a 30 by 50 yard semi-circular area that was still in flames. The strange fact about this case is that on June 15th the area was still smoldering, despite considerable rain having fallen in the area. Radioactive soil was found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James Thompson, "Second Landing in Canada", APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 2; Winnipeg Free Press, June 21, 1967; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 263, 340; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_3182 Source: Johnson ### Event 13224 (31F4A0EA) Date: 5/31/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. A woman at a farmhouse near Beausejour, Manitoba, sees an intensely bright red light with a smaller blue light on the bottom that approaches from the south and hovers about 375 feet away. A white light on the bottom becomes brighter as the object hovers, its glow illuminating the ground. The object lands and leaves a burning area 90 feet by 150 feet in size with radioactive soil. The area is still smoldering on June 15, despite several rains. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Second Landing in Canada,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_4308 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13225 (4DE8383E) Date: 6/1967 Description: Evening. A pilot and his wife saw an object with amber to red body lights moving an estimated 100 mph at about 2,000 feet altitude. (Stroud letter, 7/21/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fremont, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3581 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13226 (5E1C1D4B) Date: 6/1967 Description: Night. Giuseppe Aldini, 17, is with his family in Montalcino, Siena, Italy, when he sees a round, luminous object from his window. Later he notices a glowing red light on a nearby hill. The next day he goes to the spot and finds a circular burned area 100 feet in diameter with four imprints in its center. Inside are many black minerals that are analyzed by the University of Florence’s Mineralogical Institute and found to be quartz crystals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 1Pinotti 157 Source ID: Eberhart_4311 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13227 (78BCB28A) Date: 6/1967 Description: [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) says he wants the Colorado project to compile a case book of its best UFO reports. [Richard Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) is invited for 2 days of consulting and narrows the case list to 100. A small team agrees to go over the list and decide which ones deserve more intensive analysis. By August, [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) becomes the lone staffer selecting cases and he only has 12. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 81–83 Source ID: Eberhart_4309 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13228 (EC341F8E) Date: 6/1967 Description: The newly formed Surrey Investigation Group on Aerial Phenomena publishes the SIGAP Newsletter in Camberley, Surrey, England, until June 1969. It revitalizes the newsletter as the New SIGAP Bulletin from 1977 to 1979. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [SIGAP Newsletter](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/SIGAP%20Newsletter/SIGAP%20Newsletter%20No%2001%201967-06.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/SIGAP%20Newsletter/SIGAP%20Newsletter%20No%2001%201967-06.pdf) no. 1 \(June 1, 1967\); [SIGAP Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/SIGAP%20Bulletin/SIGAP%20Bulletin%20-%20No%2015%201968%2008.pdf), no. 15 \(August 1, 1968\); [The New SIGAP](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/New%20SIGAP%20Bulletin%2C%20The/The%20New%20SIGAP%20Bulletin%20No%201%201977-07.pdf) [Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/New%20SIGAP%20Bulletin%2C%20The/The%20New%20SIGAP%20Bulletin%20No%201%201977-07.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/New%20SIGAP%20Bulletin%2C%20The/The%20New%20SIGAP%20Bulletin%20No%201%201977-07.pdf) no. 1 \(July 1977\) Source ID: Eberhart_4310 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13229 (5598B74A) Date: 6/1/1967 Description: Time not reported. A yellow-orange disc with windows and three less (tripod landing gear) landed , leaving three holes and burned grass (physical traces) at the landing site. (BallesterOlmos, 1976, p. 11.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Monico, Madrid, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_3582 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13230 (AF8D6322) Date: 6/1/1967 Time: 2330 Description: John Norton, 7, had to be taken to a hospital after observing a disk-shaped, buzzing object, the size of a Volkswagen, with green and red lights, which landed in a clearing and took off "like lightning." Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP May., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Richmond, Virginia Source ID: Magnonia_847 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13231 (DD6F797C) Date: 6/1/1967 Description: John Norton, age 7, of Richmond, Virginia had to be taken to a hospital after observing a disc-shaped, buzzing object, the size of a Volkswagen, with green and red lights, which landed in a clearing at 11:30 p.m. and took off "like lightning." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, pp. 2, 7; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case #847 Source ID: Johnson_3202 Source: Johnson ### Event 13232 (F6B7DC72) Date: 6/1/1967 Description: A yellow-orange disc-shaped object with three legs and windows allegedly landed in Santa Monica near Madrid, Spain at 11 p.m. Ground traces included three holes in the ground and burnt grass at the landing site. The holes were rectangular in shape and 15 cm x 30 cm in size. An aluminum colored powder and some mysterious tubes were also discovered. An object, said to be lens-shaped, was photographed 30 minutes earlier in San Jose de Valderas, Spain. The photo shows an "H" insignia on the bottom of the craft. The photograph, however, is regarded by many UFO investigators as a hoax. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Antonio Ribera, FSR, September-October 1969, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 263 Source ID: Johnson_3201 Source: Johnson ### Event 13233 (BEAAB057) Date: 6/1/1967 Description: The UFO seen by [José Luis Jordán Peña](https://rr0.org/people/p/PenaJoseLuisJordan/) in Aluche, Madrid, Spain, allegedly reappears in the neighborhood of San José de Valderas. This time, Jordán Peña plays UFO investigator, taking statements from witnesses who describe a low-flying disc-shaped object with the same strange symbol on the underside. An anonymous man takes several photographs that he drops off at a photo lab on June 2. He then calls newspaper photographer Antonio San Antonio, telling him where to pick them up. All but one show an edge-on view of what appears to be a large, squat disc with a rim through its midsection. One photo shows the bottom of the UFO with the Aluche symbol, this time with a horizontal bar crossing the verticals and linking the two arms. In August, another photographer calling himself Antonio Pardo produces two more photos of the edge-on disc taken the same day, as well as some hard green-colored plastic strips bearing the distinctive Aluche symbol supposedly found in a capsule that leaflets by a “Henri Dagousset” predicted in June would be found. Jordán Peña later confesses to hoaxing the plastic strips, which are made of Tedlar \(polyvinyl fluoride\) produced by DuPont for the US space program. Independent analyses by French space scientist [Claude Poher](https://minotb52ufo.com/poher/cpb.php) and the US group Ground Saucer Watch determine that the San José de Valderas photo with the Ummo symbol is a small model—an 8-inch plate suspended by a string or fishing line— held close to the camera. The symbol apparently is drawn in ink. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Ummo](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ummo\#Detractores)”; Antonio Ribera, “[The San José de Valderas Photographs,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1969\): 3–10; Oscar Rey Brea, “[Algo sobre las fotografias del sepuesto OVNI de San José de](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Stendek%20%28CEI%2C%20eISSN%202604-1383%29/Stendek%20-%20Vol%2003%20No%2009%20-%20August%201972.pdf) [Valderas,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Stendek%20%28CEI%2C%20eISSN%202604-1383%29/Stendek%20-%20Vol%2003%20No%2009%20-%20August%201972.pdf)” Stendek 3, no. 9 \(August 1972\): 5–11; Antonio Ribera and Rafael Farriols, Un caso perfecto, Plaza y Janés, 1976; Fred Adrian, “Ground Saucer Watch Computer Photographic Analysis \(Critique\), San José de Valderas, Spain, 1967,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1977, pp. 11–13; Claude Poher, “Remarks on Aluche, San José de Valderas, and the ‘Ummo’ Affair: A Monstrous Hoax!” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1977, pp. 3–10; Scott Corrales, “[The UMMO Experience: Are You Experienced?](http://www.strangemag.com/ummo.html)” Strange Magazine, January 31, 2001; Clark III 1183 Source ID: Eberhart_4312 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13234 (F9941C0A) Date: 6/1/1967 Description: 5:00 p.m. MDT. A school-bus driver saw a circular, dull aluminum object that had a superstructure with eight circular marks or portholes around its midsection. Above that was a glass-like dome. The object paced the bus for 2 miles. (Clausen report, NICAP files; U.F.O Investigator, school bus Vol. IV, No. 1, May-June, p. 3.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shaunavon, Saskatchenwan, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3586 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13235 (4FF2588A) Date: 6/1/1967 Description: Witnesses in their car on the way home from College classes at Central Mo. State University in Warrensburg on Hwy. 13. They reported two lights cross in front of their windshield very, very rapidly. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [670601](http://www.nicap.org/warrensburg670601dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warrensburg, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3585 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13236 (952AADCB) Date: 6/1/1967 Description: 11:30 a.m. EDT. A pre-teen boy and a 16-year-old S girl saw a hubcap-shaped (disc) object with red and green lights (body lights) 4 around the perimeter, white and golden at the bottom. The Volkswagen-sized J object landed in a clearing in the woods. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 1, May-June f 1967, p. 7; unidentified newspaper clipping, 6/2/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richmond, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3584 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13237 (F68D10FA) Date: 6/1/1967 Description: 8:12 a.m. EDT. A woman saw a revolving disc with peaked top for 2-3 minutes. It passed in front of a cloud and made a sound like a jet aircraft. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Augustine, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3583 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13238 (75E6815E) Date: Early 6/1967 Description: 11:00 p.m. LT. While walking along the banks of the river M. Gavrilyuk and his wife saw a luminous object shaped like a half moon. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Khoper River, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3580 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13239 (BFE712AC) Date: 6/2/1967 Description: Conflicting data on whether to ID this as meteor. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McKeesport, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3587 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13240 (DDF0FFD9) Date: 6/2/1967 Description: 10:20 p.m. EDT. A man saw a glowing orange disc for 8-10 minutes. The object moved slowly, then suddenly accelerated away. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Philadelphia, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3588 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13241 (70A22B5D) Date: 6/3/1967 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a secretary in Moorestown, New Jersey saw two disc-shaped UFOs, one with a bright white light, the second with white, red and green lights. The UFOs hovered over a huge radar antenna. The second disc "pulsed" first. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case file, investigation report dated July 5, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_3250 Source: Johnson ### Event 13242 (6188F2F3) Date: 6/3/1967 Description: Shortly after 10 p.m., on Lake Nipissing, Ontario a buoy tender named Arcand observed green and white lights between two small islands. Thinking another boatman might be in trouble, the buoy tender headed toward the lights. He was about 100 feet away when the lights rose from the water "with a whoosh" and sped off into the night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 5; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 228 Source ID: Johnson_3251 Source: Johnson ### Event 13243 (93D0F5B5) Date: 6/3/1967 Description: Two Spanish Air Force fighter pilots chased UFO, radios failed. Cat and mouse pursuit. Object shot straight up and disappeared Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Extremadura, Spain Source ID: HallUFOE2_130 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13244 (ED75CBDA) Date: 6/3/1967 Description: The town of St. Paul, Alberta, officially dedicates a UFO landing pad as a public park and as a safe place for aliens to land. Minister of National Defence [Paul Hellyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FHellyer) flies in by helicopter to launch the pad. It consists of a raised platform with a map of Canada embossed on the back stop, consisting of stones provided by each province of Canada. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[St. Paul, Alberta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%5FPaul%2C%5FAlberta\#Attractions)”; “[World’s First UFO Landing Pad,](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/world-s-first-ufo-landing-pad)” Atlas Obscura, April 19, 2010; George M. Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 20; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 240–243 Source ID: Eberhart_4313 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13245 (06376E9E) Date: 6/3/1967 Description: Two Spanish Air Force fighter pilots chased UFO, radios failed. Cat and mouse pursuit. Object shot straight up and disappeared (section II). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Extremadura, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_3589 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13246 (77FC634C) Date: 6/5/1967 Description: Evening. A school principal, teachers, and many elementary school students saw three objects for 1 ½ hours. Two were high, and one was low near transmission lines. The sighting occurred during an area electric power blackout (EM effects). The local newspaper reported damaged generators at Shamokin Dam Plant. (Cook report, NICAP files; The Shamokin Dam News.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shamokin, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3591 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13247 (641959BB) Date: 6/5/1967 Description: 9:20 p.m. EDT. A man saw three lights in triangular formation that hovered over a power station, emitted a brilliant blue flash, and moved away. Two of the lights were red and pulsating, and the third was a steady white. They were viewed through binoculars. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Uncasville, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3592 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13248 (4373911A) Date: 6/5/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. PDT. Five neighbors saw a large saucer-shaped, orange-yellow object with distinct"\* edges. The object flew into view, hovered for 2 minutes, tilted on edge, and took off at high speed. (Letter dated 6/9/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vancouver Island, BC, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3593 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13249 (A415FB0C) Date: 6/5/1967 Description: 1:00 p.m. CDT. A Mounted Policeman and a Royal Canadian Air Force squadron leader saw a silvery circular or slightly oblong object flying rapidly to the north with a wobbling motion. The object was “visible for about 15 seconds. (Winnipeg Free Press, Manitoba, 6/29/67, copy in NICAP files; Winnipeg Free Press 6/7/67 with date of sighting indicated as June 6, copy in NICAP files; case reported to the University of Colorado Project). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Selkirk, Manitoba, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3590 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13250 (C6B4EAD6) Date: 6/5/1967 Description: In 1967 a school principal, several teachers, and students saw three UFOs, one of them low near some power lines during a daytime power outage at Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania. When the UFOs left the electricity in the school came back on. Damage was reported on two generators at the dam power plant. There were power failures reported at 10:16 a.m. in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware according to the Federal Power Commission. Later that evening at 8 p.m. on State Route 2 outside of Point Pleasant, West Virginia an unidentified flying object extended some kind of robotic tentacles and attempted to abduct a bloodmobile. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP investigation files dated August 7, 1967; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 93 Source ID: Johnson_3298 Source: Johnson ### Event 13251 (54509531) Date: 6/6/1967 Description: Time not reported. A Spanish Air Force jet trainer flying at 1,200 meters altitude encountered an unidentified object that played "cat and mouse" with the plane. The object speeded up and slowed down, and moved above and below the T-33. The aircraft's radio emitted static and ceased to function (EM effects) when the object was close to the plane. (Good, 1987, p. 149; from Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1968, p. 26.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Extremadura, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_3597 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13252 (D10591C4) Date: 6/6/1967 Description: 11:55 p.m. EDT. A woman and her son saw a silvery disc-shaped object that flew two to three times the speed of a jet. (Witness letter to Cook, 7/12/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pine Grove, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3596 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13253 (0A0F6EEE) Date: 6/6/1967 Description: Mushroom-shaped buzzed car, humanoid faces seen through window. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 14, No. 6; Rodeghier, 1981, p. 35 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Itajuba, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_3595 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13254 (5E01F186) Date: 6/6/1967 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a strange object buzzed a car near Itajuba, Brazil and the car's motor and headlights then failed. The object was mushroom-shaped. The witness also saw the faces of humanoids through the transparent front of the UFO. It flew away and the car could be restarted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 205, citing FSR, Vol. 14, No. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 251 Source ID: Johnson_3324 Source: Johnson ### Event 13255 (9DC25CBE) Date: 6/6/1967 Description: At 11:55 p.m. a silver disc flew twice as fast as the fastest jet over Pine Grove, Pennsylvania. It was in sight for three seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, case dated July 12, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_3325 Source: Johnson ### Event 13256 (47591FC8) Date: 6/6/1967 Description: 8:40 p.m. CDT. A former World War II paratrooper and others saw an object with shiny, bright, white oval lights (body lights). It approached within 400 feet, stopped, glided from side-to-side, then sped away. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colonsay, Saskatchewan, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3594 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13257 (04785ED1) Date: 6/7/1967 Time: 0130 Description: A vehicle stalled in the vicinity of a brilliant, transparent, mushroom-shaped object, aboard which occupants with catlike faces were seen. Under the object was a quadrangular protuberance. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Itajuba, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_848 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13258 (E2C782AC) Date: 6/7/1967 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a disc-shaped object with a rectangular protuberance on its underside flew close to an ambulance being driven by Geraldo Baqueiro in Itajuba, Minas Gerais state, Brazil and caused the complete failure of its electrical system. Through a brightly illuminated transparent surface of the object the faces of strange beings, resembling bipedal cat-like creatures with cat-like eyes, stared intently at the stunned witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-47, citing H. B. Aleixo, FSR, Vol. 14 # 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 848 Source ID: Johnson_3351 Source: Johnson ### Event 13259 (0086DA8F) Date: 6/7/1967 Description: Dr. James E. McDonald, University of Arizona atmospheric physicist, gave a presentation on UFOs to the Outer Space Affairs Group of the United Nations. Secretary General U Thant expressed deep concern over UFO situation. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_131 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13260 (63A0D7CE) Date: 6/7/1967 Description: [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) speaks before the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs meeting in New York City on the “International scientific aspects of the problem of the unidentified flying objects.” UN Secretary-General [U](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%5FThant) [Thant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%5FThant) has arranged for the lecture, based on conversations he has had with [John G. Fuller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FG.%5FFuller) and [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) in early 1966. McDonald urges the UN to undertake a systematic global study of the UFO problem, but it does not act on the recommendation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, [Letter to UN Secretary-General U Thant,](http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald%5Fun%5F060767.pdf) June 5, 1967, p. 1; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on International Scientific Aspects of the Problem of the Unidentified Flying](http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald%5Fun%5F060767.pdf) [Objects,](http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald%5Fun%5F060767.pdf)” presented to the UN Outer Space Affairs group, June 7, 1967, pp. 2–3; Clark III 698, 1189; Patrick Gross, “[Scientists Taking Position](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/mcdonaldun.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4314 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13261 (5B98BCB5) Date: 6/9/1967 Description: Six-year-old Leland Wlazlak was in the bathroom in Seattle, Washington at 9 p.m. when a red ball came in through the window and struck him in the forehead. It then "went up through the ceiling." He looked outside and saw bright blue, red, and black lights, and a strange being who had short horns, slanting eyes, and a lipless mouth. The stranger asked the boy what the garden soil was, and told him to "watch the rocket ship--he'd be back." Then he flew up on the roof with the aide of two tanks on his back shooting out white smoke. The boy said, "He didn't have a body." Two more strange beings were visible in the ship. Then the first being came back, asked Leland what a tree in the backyard was, and pointed a device that looked like a gun at him. The boy screamed and ran out of the bathroom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-48, citing Richard Hall for NICAP; letter to NICAP June 17, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_3387 Source: Johnson ### Event 13262 (E6DD2BF8) Date: 6/9/1967 Description: Four Spanish Air Force pilots, in a T-33 and an F-86, were chasing a UFO over Extremadura, Jaen, Spain when their communication radios failed. The UFO played cat-and-mouse with the T-33 aircraft when the pilot attempted pursuit. After several minutes the object shot straight up and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos files; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 40; FSR, May-June 1968, p. 26; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_3386 Source: Johnson ### Event 13263 (86D02498) Date: 6/9/1967 Description: Day. Two Spanish Air Force pilots flying Lockheed T-33s at 4,000 feet encounter a UFO over the Extremadura region, Spain. Attempts at radio contact fail, and when they fly above or below the object, their radios cease to function and emit interference noises. The UFO soon moves off, easily outstripping the jets, stopping and waiting for them to approach, then moving on again, The two pilots notify the Talavera la Real Air Base in Badajoz and Torrejón Air Base in Madrid, from which two faster fighters are scrambled. The new fighters experience the same radio interference and maneuvers until the object shoots straight up at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Antonio Ribera, “[Spanish Jets](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%203.pdf) [Chase UFO,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 3 \(May/June 1968\): 26–27 Source ID: Eberhart_4315 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13264 (DADF2A4B) Date: 6/9/1967 Description: 9:35 p.m. EDT. Three adults and three children ! saw a fast-flying object with a large white light on top (body lights). The object ; also had lights around the edge like windows, which appeared to revolve. (Letter dated 6/20/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pittsburgh, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3599 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13265 (490337F1) Date: 6/10/1967 Description: 6:30 a.m. CDT. A man saw four light sources for about an hour that moved fast, stopped, zigzagged, straightened, made right-angle turns and other maneuvers. One object emitted a red flash. (Texas NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Freeport, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3600 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13266 (6B0811F0) Date: 6/10/1967 Description: A daytime photograph of a disc-shaped object was taken in East Woonsocket, Rhode Island by UFO contactee Harold Trudel. The photograph shows a slightly asymmetric hubcap shaped object with a small dome and aerial extending from the bottom. To even the untrained eye it looks like a fake, more than likely produced by suspending a model from a string. Trudel believed he was in mental contact with space people, who sent him telepathic messages as to where and when they would appear. Oddly enough, two more cases of photographs being taken of UFOs occurred on this day in Austria. Two people, one named Tutter, took a photograph of a UFO in Vienna (Wien), Austria at 9:55 p.m., and two more people, one named Brettschneider, took a photo in Ganserndorf, Austria at 11:35 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Green Beckley, Flying Saucers, December 1970, pg. 26; UFO Nachtrichten, August 1967 Source ID: Johnson_3408 Source: Johnson ### Event 13267 (00A21E66) Date: 6/11/1967 Description: In the middle of the afternoon Carroll Watts saw a large cigar-shaped object land on a farm near Loco, Texas. A short being exited the craft and began walking around it. The being was wearing a white, tight-fitting uniform, had a baldhead, slit-like ears and somewhat larger eyes than humans. Watts attempted to take a picture of the being, who quickly ran back into the object which took off and flew to the north out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 3348, citing Timothy Good, Alien Base Source ID: Johnson_3421 Source: Johnson ### Event 13268 (ACE19DCD) Date: 6/11/1967 Description: Silvery cylinder seen for several minutes, chased by two F-102 interceptors Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Da Nang, Vietnam Source ID: HallUFOE2_132 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13269 (BD67957A) Date: 6/11/1967 Description: At 8:00 p.m. two children in Price Hill, Ohio saw a disc-shaped object one meter in diameter and 25 cm thick, making a metallic noise as it hovered 10 meters above them. They took a series of photos but they showed only a blurry light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pg. 346 (case 849), citing the Cincinnati Enquirer, June 12, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_3422 Source: Johnson ### Event 13270 (40F4632F) Date: 6/11/1967 Description: 11:15 p.m. EDT. A woman saw a bright cigar-shaped object with a red light. The object hovered, accelerated straight up and disappeared. The red light turned green when the object ascended (color/motion correlation). (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3601 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13271 (8CFD5E32) Date: 6/11/1967 Description: Two F-102's chased silver cylinder (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Da Nang, Vietnam Source ID: NICAP_DB_3602 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13272 (D3356E9A) Date: 6/11/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. EDT. Two witnesses, including a graduate student in psychology at Harvard, saw an oval, dull gray object with three colored lights (body lights) and a glowing pink band around the middle. The object moved slowly at tree-top level from lake to shore, hovered, then moved behind trees, finally disappearing. It was estimated to have passed 100-150 feet away from the witnesses at eye level. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dorval, Montreal, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3603 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13273 (C12E129F) Date: 6/11/1967 Description: Da Nang, Vietnam - In the early evening two silver cylindrical UFOs were seen by several U.S. military personnel on the ground near the military base for several minutes. The UFOs were chased off by two F-102 U.S. Air Force interceptors. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1969, p. 1; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 10, 77, 118; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 35 Source ID: Johnson_3420 Source: Johnson ### Event 13274 (87186344) Date: 6/11/1967 Time: 2000 Description: Two children saw a disk-shaped object 1 m in diameter and 25 cm thick, making a metallic noise as it hovered 10 m above them. They took a series of photos that show only a blur. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 181 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Price Hill, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_849 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13275 (BD639563) Date: 6/12/1967 End date: 6/13/1967 Description: The Colorado project plays host to 34 Air Force officers having UFO responsibility at various bases. [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) and [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) try to get them excited about reporting UFOs to the project, but aren’t very successful. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO Investigators Meeting 12 and 13 June 1967](http://www.nicap.org/waves/670612ufoi%5Fmeet.htm)”; UFOs Yes, 125–126 Source ID: Eberhart_4316 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13276 (73C8C9A2) Date: 6/13/1967 Description: 2:30 a.m. Three 3 to 4' tall beings, light colored clothing, helmets, moved around beneath cigar-shaped craft with windows. Physical traces found at site. (Hall, 1964-1967, pages 474-482, Vol. II, The UFO Evidence) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caledonia, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3604 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13277 (BB6F19C7) Date: 6/13/1967 Description: An object hovering 4 m above ground, and three dwarfs, were observed. Traces and an oily substance were found at the site. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Nov., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Caledonia, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_850 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13278 (F67A7707) Date: 6/13/1967 Description: 2:30 a.m. Carmen Cuneo, a mine worker in Caledonia, Ontario, steps out of the mine headquarters building and sees two strange objects near a pond in the vicinity of the mine dump. One is cigar-shaped and about 36 feet long with four windows along the side; a boom-like aerial protrudes from one side. The other is disc-shaped and about 15 feet across. Both are hovering 12 feet above the ground. Three small men wearing what look like miners’ hats with four amber lights are underneath the boom. After watching for 10 minutes, Cuneo goes back to find another witness, but when he returns the men are gone. The two objects, however, remain until 3:05 a.m. when they take off to the southwest, flashing multicolored lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[June Sighting of Occupants in Canada,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2011%2000%20-%20November-December.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1967, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4317 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13279 (038A5725) Date: 6/13/1967 Description: At 2:30 a.m. Carmen Cuneo, a night shift worker at a factory in Caledonia, Ontario saw two objects near the factory's scrap heap and dump area: a large cigar-shaped object on the ground, 35 feet long by 15 feet thick, and a hovering disc-shaped object about 15 feet in diameter. The smaller object, tilted up at a 45-degree angle, had a row of orange-lighted windows around its periphery. In the larger object were four square windows emitting a pulsating orange light, and from one end of it projected upward at a 45 degree angle a rod 15 feet long, bearing a large red light at the end. Beneath this light moved three small humanoid figures about three feet tall, wearing miner's hats with small lights on them. They were picking up and examining small objects on the ground with quick, jerky movements. After watching for 10 minutes, Cuneo called co-worker Marvin Hannigan to see it, but by the time Hannigan arrived the humanoids were gone. The two craft started very slowly to rise straight up into the air. After they reached a height of 50 feet they departed at about 40-45 mph without making a sound. At the landing site branches were broken and the brush charred, and an oily liquid was found on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-49, citing field investigators James J. Ferrito & Jeffrey J. Gow for NICAP; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, pg. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 849 Source ID: Johnson_3461 Source: Johnson ### Event 13280 (506757FB) Date: 6/14/1967 Description: A man sitting in his yard in Eastern Henrico County, Virginia saw a bright UFO overhead that dropped a substance that struck his arm. He received burns on his arm and the left side of his face. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucers, April 1968, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_3477 Source: Johnson ### Event 13281 (7F20100C) Date: Mid 1967 Description: Daytime. The co-pilot of a BEA Vanguard Airliner saw a fast-moving, disc-shaped object estimated to be nearly 100 feet in diameter flying to the right of the aircraft. (Weinstein, 1999, p. 35, from Good, 1996.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manchester, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3579 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13282 (F96F1865) Date: 6/15/1967 Description: On this evening a couple in Lexington, Michigan who reported seeing strange lights on Lake Huron told the Sheriff Department that they spotted an object resembling a "submarine with what appeared to be a Russian insignia" as well as what seemed to be figures of men dressed in frogman's suits. The woman shone a light towards in the direction of the craft and it submerged. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Shadow Research Inc. Source ID: Johnson_3500 Source: Johnson ### Event 13283 (2E1174FF) Date: 6/15/1967 Description: 2:35 a.m. EDT. Two people saw two stationary objects, one disc-shaped and the other cigar-shaped, on or near the ground in the vicinity of a factory for about 20 minutes. Three occupants less than 4 feet tall, in light colored uniforms, and wearing "helmets" with four lights, were observed scurrying around outside the cigar. Physical traces found at the site included a burned area, disturbed grass, and an oily substance. (Cuneo letter, 6/19/67, NICAP files; APRO Bulletin, Nov. - Dec. 1967, p. 4.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caledonia, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3606 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13284 (739009DD) Date: 6/16/1967 Description: On this night Mrs. Wallace and her family watched a cone-shaped UFO with rotating green and red flashing lights for one hour over Port McNeill, British Columbia, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Autumn 1967, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_3514 Source: Johnson ### Event 13285 (22460430) Date: 6/18/1967 Description: Evening. A family crossing the lake by boat saw a shiny, metallic-appearing oval object with a slight rise on top. The object was an estimated 30 feet in diameter and 15 feet thick. When the object approached the witnesses' boat, it took on an orange tinge. (Bondarchuk, 1979, p. 31-34.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falcon Lake, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3609 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13286 (7D666158) Date: 6/18/1967 Description: The photo actually appears to be from a much earlier time period as it has a strange resemblence to an Adamski ship of the 1950s. Probable hoax. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [670618](http://www.ufocasebook.com/rhodeIsland1967.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Woodsocket, RI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3608 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13287 (F70C643E) Date: 6/18/1967 Description: Evening. A family crossing the lake by boat saw a shiny, metallic-appearing oval object with a slight rise on top. No sound was heard. Others on shore were alerted during the 15-minute sighting, and one person reported static on the radio (EM effects). Trees with wilted leaves on top were later noted (physical effects). (Bondarchuk, 1979, p. 31-34.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falcon Lake, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3610 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13288 (816118D1) Date: 6/18/1967 Description: Several people in Mulluri, \[perhaps near Viña del Mar\], Chile, see three discs flying in a V formation above the town. They flash orange and blue lights alternately and make no sound. They maneuver for 10 minutes before disappearing at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 61 Source ID: Eberhart_4318 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13289 (8EFE983C) Date: 6/18/1967 Description: Late evening. A family is returning home by boat near Clearwater Bay on Shoal Lake, Ontario, when they notice a bright oval object hovering 50 feet above the treetops about a half-mile away. As they approach, the object turns an orange tinge and suddenly sweeps toward their boat at great speed. They beat a hasty retreat to the other shore, while the UFO returns to its original position. The same thing happens when they approach the object again. After about 15 minutes, the object takes off at an incredible speed to the northwest. One resident, who is not aware of the UFO, reports later that the static on his radio was so bad that he had to turn it off. Wilted leaves on the top of birch, hazel, and chokecherry trees are discovered in the sighting area. Leaf samples are analyzed by the Canadian Department of Forestry, which cannot find an explanation for their condition other than heat. The University of Manitoba finds evidence of fungus on one sample but not on others. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 150–152](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/150/mode/2up); Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 31–34; Christ Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 55–56 Source ID: Eberhart_4319 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13290 (1A70BF23) Date: 6/18/1967 Description: Evening. A family crossing the lake by boat saw a shiny, metallic-appearing oval object with a slight rise on top. Trees with wilted leaves on top were later noted (physical effects). (Bondarchuk, 1979, p. 31-34.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falcon Lake, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3611 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13291 (E0BB7657) Date: 6/20/1967 Time: 1200 Description: Farmer Arvi Juntunen heard a loud humming sound and saw a round, shiny gray object 50 cm above ground, 6 m away. It had a domed top with a fin and measured 75 cm in diameter. As he was about to seize it, the object rose with a blast, circled and flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Suomussalmi, Finland Source ID: Magnonia_851 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13292 (522DCCC4) Date: 6/20/1967 Description: Farmer Arvi Juntunen in Suomussalmi, Finland heard a loud humming sound at noon and saw a round, shiny gray object 50 cm above ground, 6 meters away. It had a domed top with a fin and measured 75 cm in diameter. As he was about to seize it, the object rose with a blast, circled and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1968, p. 25; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 851 Source ID: Johnson_3553 Source: Johnson ### Event 13293 (D6CBB885) Date: Summer 1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. LT. A glowing, round, pale yellow object that sometimes pulsated, moved slowly and precisely in a pattern over a military facility was seen by many witnesses. Radar contact with an unidentified object was reported. (Campbell letter, 8/31/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wurzburg, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_3688 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13294 (9507BCE3) Date: 6/21/1967 Description: 3:00 a.m. EDT. A woman saw a large lighted object with a rounded bottom and domed top that rose straight up from the woods into the sky with a roar like a jet. Trees in the woods reportedly were bent and broken (physical traces), all at the same height. (Heath letter 6/26/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mechanicsville, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3612 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13295 (FF5EEBC8) Date: 6/21/1967 Description: 2:30 a.m. PDT (5:30 a.m. EDT). Two witnesses in a very barren area outside of the city observed two bright, cone-shaped objects, one after the other, that undulated, appeared to change to disc shape, and rose abruptly, the second joining the first in the sky. After hovering briefly, the objects vanished. (Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3613 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13296 (EB105F25) Date: 6/21/1967 Description: 10:45 p.m. CDT. Three boys and a policeman saw a hovering oblong object that had a row of lighted windows or ports. They viewed it through binoculars for about one minute. (North Dakota NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kenmare, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3614 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13297 (36886A90) Date: 6/21/1967 Description: Cordoba, Argentina - Four days prior of a massive wave of UFO sightings in the region, a man dressed in black showed up at the newsroom of Cordoba's Los Principios daily newspaper, where he dropped off a letter addressed to the editor stating that before the week was out the Southern Cone would experience a massive flyover involving hundreds of extraterrestrial craft. The day before the sightings began, the newspaper received a phone call stating, "Attention, it will begin at any moment..." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 3186, citing Dr. Rafael Lara Source ID: Johnson_3576 Source: Johnson ### Event 13298 (BD1BFCE3) Date: 6/21/1967 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Larsen recalled being abducted on this night by aliens while driving on a New Mexico highway. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: R. Leo Sprinkle, investigator, in David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2081 Source ID: Johnson_3577 Source: Johnson ### Event 13299 (B6278FFA) Date: 6/22/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. EDT. A couple saw a central white light surrounded by alternating rows of revolving yellow lights or ports on a dark object. The object tipped 45 degrees, righted, hovered, and reversed direction before disappearing. (Letter dated 6/23/67, NICAP files.). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Danville, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3615 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13300 (0EADE360) Date: 6/22/1967 End date: 6/25/1967 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) attends, at the invitation of [James W. Moseley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FW.%5FMoseley) and against the better judgment of the rest of the Colorado project staff, the Congress of Scientific Ufologists at the Hotel Commodore in New York City for the 20th anniversary of the [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) sighting. Speakers include [Gray Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%5FBarker), [John A. Keel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FKeel), Moseley, Art Ford, Gordon Evans, actor [Roy Thinnes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%5FThinnes)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%5FThinnes) and [Ivan T Sanderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%5FT.%5FSanderson). Kenneth Arnold and [Raymond A. Palmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FA.%5FPalmer) are originally scheduled but cancel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 316, 320; James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 209–218; Karl Machtanz, “[Saucer News](https://www.jimmoseley.com/2014/02/saucer-news-nyc-convention-memories/) [NYC Convention Memories,](https://www.jimmoseley.com/2014/02/saucer-news-nyc-convention-memories/)” In Honor of Jim Moseley, February 3, 2014; Rick Hilberg, “[Jim Moseley’s Giant](https://www.jimmoseley.com/jims-greatest-hits/) [UFO Show,](https://www.jimmoseley.com/jims-greatest-hits/)” In Honor of Jim Moseley; Curt Collins, “[The National UFO Conference,](https://www.jimmoseley.com/2014/03/the-national-ufo-conference/)” In Honor of Jim Moseley, March 11, 2014; Curt Collins, “[The UFO Anniversary and the Giant New York Convention of 1967,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-ufo-anniversary-and-giant-new-york.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, June 22, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_4320 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13301 (A0913119) Date: 6/23/1967 Description: Broadcaster [Frank Edwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FEdwards%5F%28writer%5Fand%5Fbroadcaster%29) dies of a heart attack. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Death of Frank Edwards,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/038%20OCT%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no 2 \(October 1967\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_4321 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13302 (07934510) Date: 6/24/1967 Description: Solid, blue-white, elliptical object fly in response to flashlight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 11815) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Austin, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3617 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13303 (B75B07D1) Date: 6/24/1967 End date: 6/25/1967 Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale holds the first UFO conference in Italy at Riccione, Rimini. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 1Pinotti 143–146 Source ID: Eberhart_4324 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13304 (0D093E5C) Date: 6/24/1967 Description: 11:00 p.m. EDT. Two people saw three small objects and a large object that was white, blue, green, and red colored (multicolored lights). Finally the three smaller objects merged with the larger one and disappeared after about an hour. (Pickrell report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warrenton, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3618 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13305 (E6447657) Date: 6/24/1967 Description: At 10:00 pm in Paso de los Libres, policemen saw 8-10 bright lights that flew in formation over a military post at an estimated 15,000 feet altitude. (La Voz Del Interior 6/26/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paso de los Libres, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3619 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13306 (10E91DBA) Date: 6/24/1967 Description: In Paraguay, Asuncion, many residents saw six objects in formation maneuvering over the city. Communications interference (EM effects) was reported by the airport control tower director. (Baltimore Sun 6/26/67,.copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Asuncion, Paraguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_3620 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13307 (F46ADDBB) Date: 6/24/1967 Description: A group of International Sky Scouts in England saw a cigar-shaped object while engaging in a skywatch near London. In Manchester, five unidentified objects were observed making "gyrations and extraordinary maneuvers." (Baltimore Sun 6/26/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manchester, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3621 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13308 (593AD410) Date: 6/24/1967 Description: A man walking alone at night along a bridal path in Bovington, England came upon a strange figure bent down by the side of the path. The figure was short and was wearing what looked like a black, one-piece leather suit. He had a trowel in his hand and appeared to be digging in the earth. When he noticed the witness approaching the figure made a strange, high-pitched sound and was lost from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-51 (A1559), citing Jenny Randles, Awareness, Winter 1977 Source ID: Johnson_3641 Source: Johnson ### Event 13309 (A5668FF1) Date: 6/24/1967 Time: 3:12 AM Description: Witness: artist Ray Stanford. One solid, blue-white, elliptical object flew from northwest to northeast and stopped, seemingly in response to flashlight signal, for 1.5 minutes. The object then proceeded along its original path at high speed and disappeared behind clouds. Sighting lasted 9 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Austin, Texas Source ID: BerlinerBBU_576 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 13310 (0DFADB03) Date: 6/24/1967 Description: 10:00 a.m. EDT. Two people saw a silver-gray, hat-shaped object hovering over the ocean about 500 feet from the shore. The object emitted vapor at its base. Finally it ascended into a fog bank, descended again farther away (maneuvered), then moved out of sight. (Fowler, 1974, p. 349.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Trenton, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_3616 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13311 (DD76869D) Date: 6/24/1967 Description: 10:00 p.m. At Paso de los Libres, Corrientes, Argentina, policemen see 8–10 bright lights that fly in formation over a military post at an estimated 15,000 feet altitude. Other groups of UFOs are seen the same night at Yapeyú and Santo Tomé in Corrientes; Oberá in Misiones; and Resistencia and Barranqueras in Chaco, Argentina. All are observed for at least 1–2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 61–62 Source ID: Eberhart_4322 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13312 (5D7B55ED) Date: 6/24/1967 Description: In Asunción, Paraguay, many residents see six objects in formation maneuvering over the city. Communications interference is reported by the airport control tower director. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The 1967 UFO](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1967fullrep.htm) [Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1967fullrep.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4323 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13313 (078237B3) Date: 6/25/1967 Description: 2:05 a.m. EDT. A couple saw a bright sparkling white light for 10-15 minutes about 10-20 feet above the ground, emitting a "low-pitched, constant droning sound." Dogs were barking and howling (animal reactions). (Cook report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3622 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13314 (2A2F78DD) Date: 6/25/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. A man saw a lens-shaped, metallic-appearing object (disc) with a "deck" and a "pole" (protrusion) at the rear. The object passed over the house, turned about a half mile away, and came back over the house again before disappearing. (Phone call from witness, 7/20/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wilmington, DE Source ID: NICAP_DB_3623 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13315 (C91844E0) Date: 6/25/1967 Description: At 10:30 p.m. Robert Luca was driving from Durham, Connecticut to Hamnonassett Beach when he saw two large, cigar-shaped objects in the sky. From one of them came two smaller objects; one flew to the east, the other to the west. One of the discs came towards him, descending in falling leaf motion behind some trees about 1/4 mile away. It was dull metallic in color. The next thing he remembered was arriving at the beach shortly before two a.m., with no memory of the intervening three hours. Under hypnosis in 1977, Luca remembered being nude in a room with a white floor, lighted by indirect blue white light. In a later session, he remembered being on a table in this room, with two "persons" at his head and feet. The entities had large baldheads, no noses and "tapered" faces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-52; David Webb & Richard Nycz case investigation files Source ID: Johnson_3655 Source: Johnson ### Event 13316 (9D27C348) Date: 6/25/1967 Description: On this night in Bethel, Connecticut six teenagers were sleeping out in the backyard of a home when they saw a bright light. They drove to Sunset Hill to get a better view and saw it was a domed disc with red and green flashing lights around the dome. Their car radio experienced interference when the object was in view. Several weeks later, some members of the group found an area of grass matted down where the object had hovered close to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 206, citing Ted R. Phillips, PhysicaI Traces Associated with UFO Sightings Source ID: Johnson_3654 Source: Johnson ### Event 13317 (4F2F26D2) Date: 6/25/1967 Description: Dogs howled when a UFO flew ten to twenty feet off the ground, making a low-pitched, droning noise, three miles north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. As police approached the object the light went out and the dogs stopped barking. The two principal witnesses could hear voices coming from the UFO, talking in a high-pitched, incomprehensible "gibberish" at 2:05 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-50; George Cook, NICAP investigation files Source ID: Johnson_3653 Source: Johnson ### Event 13318 (9F9BDFF1) Date: 6/26/1967 Description: 8:40 a.m. HDT. A woman and her son saw a double disc (like one plate inverted on top of the other) that hovered and was observed through a 20x telescope. (Witness interviewed by Richard Hall who was visiting in Maui at the time; report in NICAP files.) : (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wailuku, Maui, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3624 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13319 (C875504F) Date: 6/27/1967 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) is in Australia, financed by a small grant from the Office of Naval Research, to do cloud-physics research. Earlier in June, in a memo to [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf), he said he planned to do some UFO investigating and lecturing. Low forwards the letter to [Philip Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) in December. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 700 Source ID: Eberhart_4325 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13320 (D4E3729D) Date: 6/27/1967 Description: 1:00 pm. CDT. A couple saw a glowing yellow object shaped like a large soup bowl (dome shaped). The object hovered about 300 feet over a service station, moved slowly, hovered again over a river, then disappeared below the tree line. (McPhillips report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3625 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13321 (AB09BCC6) Date: 6/27/1967 Description: Wichita, KS (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wichita, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3626 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13322 (C62A19C5) Date: 6/28/1967 Description: A NASA management instruction issued by [Kurt H. Debus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%5FH.%5FDebus), director of Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, on “Processing Reports of Sightings of Space Vehicle Fragments” notes that “Under no circumstances will the origin of the object be discussed with the observer or person making the call,” including “reports of sightings of objects not related to space vehicles.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John F. Kennedy Space Center, “[Processing](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/kmi8610.htm) [Reports of Sightings of Space Vehicle Fragments,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/kmi8610.htm)” NASA Management Instruction KMI 8610.4, June 28, 1967 Source ID: Eberhart_4326 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13323 (5419D471) Date: 6/28/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. LT. Reportedly 10,000 people saw a bright round, glowing object three times larger than the full moon. It hovered, sped away, landed, and took off. (Tehran Yomiori, 7/1/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tehran, Iran Source ID: NICAP_DB_3627 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13324 (56D93742) Date: 6/29/1967 Description: 10:50 p.m. EDT. The 18-year-old daughter of an engineering instructor saw a luminous disc for 1 minute as it darted among clouds with abrupt motions. (Letter from witness' father dated 7/6/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newington, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3628 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13325 (146CAC0E) Date: 6/29/1967 Time: 1:30 AM Description: Witness: truck driver Damon Brown. One oyster-shaped object--2OO' wide, and 25-30' thick--with a huge red light at each end and one on the bottom, and a row of blue lights along the bottom. Circled m.n aircraft, hovering then moving rapidly, and then followed the witness' car for about 500', veered south and departed at great speed after 8-10 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Scotch Plains, New Jersey Source ID: BerlinerBBU_577 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 13326 (8800D745) Date: 6/29/1967 Description: A man and a woman driving at 1:30 a.m. sighted an oyster-shaped UFO near Scotch Plains, New Jersey. It was very large, perhaps 200 feet wide, and 25-30 feet thick. It had three red lights and a row of blue lights. The UFO followed their car for 500 feet, then veered off to the south and took off. A Project Blue Book "unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 11831; J. Allen Hynek case files; Don Berliner, Australasian UFOlogist, April 1999, p. 55 Source ID: Johnson_3729 Source: Johnson ### Event 13327 (E4CA89DD) Date: 6/29/1967 Description: Oyster-shaped object 200 ft wide 25-30 ft thick (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 11831) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Scotch Plain, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3630 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13328 (EEA11B8C) Date: 6/30/1967 Description: Mrs. Lemarquandsa was walking through her house around six o'clock in the evening in Thompson, Manitoba when she heard an odd beeping sound. It was repeated at regular intervals about once a second, and she wondered what was causing it. She looked out her kitchen window, and saw dirt and loose pieces of paper flying in a large circle around her house. Outside, she found her husband, who had just come home, and five children staring up into the sky. A young boy was holding her eight-year-old daughter down on the ground. Up in the sky a box-shaped or rectangular object hung in the air, slowly rotating counter-clockwise and showing alternating silver metallic and black sides. It was black on its lower surface, and made no noise. The object began moving off at an angle, stopped and hovered, and then continued towards the southeast. Until this time the circle of dirt and dust had persisted, but it now died down. The whirlwind was confined to the area immediately around their house and did not affect any other houses on the street. When the object moved away, the dirt fell to the ground. Going to the children, the woman found they were calming down except her daughter, who seemed dazed. The boy explained that the five of them had been playing in the yard when the object first appeared overhead. As they watched, her daughter had been levitated into the air, and this levitation was apparently caused by the UFO in the sky. By the time the other children had come to her aid, she was about one meter off the ground and her clothes had edged up her body. Her daughter said she did not remember anything from the time she felt the wind until the time she recovered after being dragged back to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, September 1967, p. 15; Joseph M. Brill, Skylook, January 1976, p. 15; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Chris Rutkowski, Unnatural History, True Manitoba Mysteries Source ID: Johnson_3749 Source: Johnson ### Event 13329 (425E58CC) Date: 6/30/1967 Description: At two o'clock in the morning in Rapid City, South Dakota three police officers named Eisnach, Ferguson, and Sinner had a close encounter with a huge multi-colored object with three windows and red, green, and white flashing lights. They witnessed it as it took off from the ground, hovered just above some nearby trees, made some jerky movements, and then landed again. It took off once again and went over hill. As it did so the white light on the object intensified. The entire incident lasted two and a half hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, citing Rapid City Journal, July 2, 1967; Brad Steiger, Strangers from the Skies, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_3748 Source: Johnson ### Event 13330 (7552AF4F) Date: 6/30/1967 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) [David Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)[,](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) Norm Levine, [Franklin Roach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FE.%5FRoach), Mary Lou Armstrong, and visiting journalism grad student Herbert Strentz hold a meeting about a “case book” of significant cases. Condon tries to dissuade Saunders and Levine from pursuing this, but they prevail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 320 Source ID: Eberhart_4327 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13331 (FD06D64E) Date: 6/30/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. MDT. Three patrolmen saw a large object with red, green, and white flashing lights (body lights) and windows that emitted light illuminating the ground. The object took off and hovered just above trees, exhibited jerky movements, landed again, the white light growing brighter as it neared the ground (luminosity/motion correlation). (Rapid City Journal, 7/2/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rapid City, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3629 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13332 (C6A32126) Date: 7/1967 Description: Even though the Colorado project is requesting UFO reports from NICAP, [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) is withholding them. [Roy](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) [Craig](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) discovers the [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) memorandum while searching for unrelated information in the files. He shares it with Norm Levine and [David Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)[,](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) who realize that it clearly implies that the project is a “whitewash noninvestigation.” The memo makes the rounds of project personnel, then gets refiled. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [p. 121](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/120/mode/2up); UFOs Yes, 135 Source ID: Eberhart_4328 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13333 (4735D868) Date: 7/1967 Description: 10:00 p.m. A witness sees an intense orange light through the window of her home in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia. She calls her mother and they go outside to watch a cigar-shaped light hovering, moving up and down slightly, and turning over on its side. It has portholes around its lower edge. After 20 minutes, it moves off to the western horizon at a high rate of speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 \(June 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_4329 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13334 (1699FFD1) Date: 7/1967 End date: 12/1967 Description: Intensive U.S. and international sighting wave. (See separate chronology, Section VIII.) Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_133 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13335 (65A09839) Date: 7/1967 Description: Time not reported. Personnel at Yuanshan Observatory saw a red, cigar-shaped object that flew low and fast to the southwest. (Pacific Stars & Stripes, 7/6/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Taipei, Taiwan Source ID: NICAP_DB_3631 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13336 (25887C5B) Date: 7/1/1967 Description: The Denver Post reveals that the Colorado project has requested an additional $280,000 to extend it into September. [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) is upset. USAF ultimately approves an additional $183,155, plus $29,750 for expenses, bringing the total to $525,905. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 182 Source ID: Eberhart_4330 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13337 (D96206D5) Date: 7/3/1967 Description: R. T. (initials), with ALPHA RED TOP SECRET CRYPTO Clearance, rank PFC, assigned to Canine Corps at Camp Pendleton, San Diego, CA., states that he and his dogs were air transported 2.5 hrs. to a sight in a desert (unknown location) UFO crash-sight. Saucer: Metallic, 30 ft. diameter, domed top, no windows. He also observed: Large walk-in refrigerator, empty body bags, men at work with technical instruments. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Camp Pendleton, San Diego, CA Source ID: Maj2_649 Source: Maj2 ### Event 13338 (AE2FCDAE) Date: 7/3/1967 Description: An 8-mm home movie was made at 1:00 a.m. in Buckhorn, Ontario when a family saw 15 lights darting about in the sky. Mr. Denniss shot a few feet of film in the direction of flight. On the film is a red, round luminous object, flattened slightly on the top. They next saw three lights traveling in a triangle formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, January 1968, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_3804 Source: Johnson ### Event 13339 (26C06E5A) Date: 7/3/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. CDT. At least seven adults saw a highly reflective disc with three bright orange lights on the rim (body lights) approach from the northeast going on a southerly course. (Report submitted to University of Colorado UFO Study, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richards-Gebauer AFB (near), MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3634 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13340 (0A2EFEA7) Date: 7/3/1967 Description: Dr. J. Allen Hynek stated: "best daylight disc photograph I have personally investigated. That says it all! Warren Smith and two of his friends were returning from a weekend prospecting trip when they spotted the object. Smith grabbed the camera, and took two photos of the object. Definitely one of the best of the early days. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [670703](http://www.ufoevidence.org/photographs/section/1960s/Photo344.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Calgary, Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3633 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13341 (04EC53E8) Date: 7/3/1967 Description: 12:05 a.m. EDT. Two people saw a large bright object that emitted four smaller objects, each with an attached ray of light (light beam). At a certain point, these rays of light disappeared, and the four objects sped off in different directions and disappeared after about 3 minutes. (NICAP , report form, 7/18/67.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saginaw, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3632 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13342 (34B52A2E) Date: 7/3/1967 Description: 5:30 p.m. Warren Smith and two friends hiking in the mountains near Highwood Ranger Station, 50 miles southwest of Calgary, Alberta, take two color photos of a daylight disc that appears to be about 25 feet in diameter. The disc appears from less than 2 miles away and at an altitude of approximately 2,000 feet. It travels toward the hikers, gradually losing altitude, then at a distance of about one-half mile it hovers for a moment and an object appears to fall from it. It disappears from sight at treetop level at great speed. The photos are examined by both Canadian and American authorities; [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) describes them as some of the best photos on record at the time. An analysis by Canadian National Defence finds the object is an oblate ellipsoid with a diameter of 40–50 feet and a thickness of 11–14 feet. The witnesses sign statutory declarations to the effect that the photos are not a hoax; if proven false, they would be subject to prosecution under the Canada Evidence Act. Nevertheless, the Colorado Committee thinks the object could be a hoaxed hand-thrown model. Ground Saucer Watch declares it genuine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Canada, National Research Council, \[[case documents](https://www.lac-bac.gc.ca/databases/ufo/001057-119.02-e.php?isn%5Fid%5Fnbr=4726&page%5Fid%5Fnbr=3614&record%5Fid=4726-3617-10407)\], 1967, pp. 13–33; Condon, [pp. 469–475](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/468/mode/2up); J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 67–68](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/66/mode/2up); Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 9–13; Wendelle C. Stevens, “[Hikers near Calgary Photograph a UFO in 1967,](http://www.openminds.tv/hikers-calgary-ufo-1967/6781)” OpenMinds, November 24, 2010; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 119– 125, 158–159 Source ID: Eberhart_4331 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13343 (42FA0477) Date: 7/3/1967 Description: 7:15 p.m. Joe Ferriere sees a large, cigar-shaped object about 75–100 feet long hanging low in the sky above Woonsocket, Rhode Island. A peculiar piston-like apparatus appears to be pumping in and out of its left end. It is moving right to left in the manner of a pendulum. Before it moves off to the east, it releases a glowing disc- shaped object, about 12–15 feet in diameter. He takes a total of 6 photos of the objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Long Rectangular](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf) [UFOs: Five Different Cases of Similarly Shaped Objects,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 9 \(September 1981\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_4332 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13344 (EEC91646) Date: 7/3/1967 Description: 9:15 p.m. [Thomas H. Nicholl](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195156860/thomas-h-nicholl), his family, and another couple, Mr. and Mrs. John Dowd, are sitting on the Nicholls’s porch in Leawood, Kansas, when they see an unusual orange-red light approach from the north- northeast. It is bright metallic in color, about 50 feet in diameter, and traveling 100 mph at an altitude of 2,000– 3,000 feet. The red-orange color emanates from three lights on the rear side. After 5 minutes, the object blows up, leaving in its wake a “nearly pure white” cloud that dissipates. The witnesses see fragments falling to earth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Exploding Disc,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/047%20MAY%201969.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 11 \(May 1969\): 7–8; Clark III 340–341 Source ID: Eberhart_4333 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13345 (0BADB857) Date: 7/3/1967 Description: Evening. Four people, including a retired U.S. Air Force major with missile tracking experience, saw an egg-shaped, bright orange, glowing light that hovered, moved erratically, and flashed. (Cape Argus 7/5/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Durban, S. Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_3635 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13346 (CCB8FD53) Date: 7/4/1967 Description: 5:15 a.m. At least five witnesses from two independent locations about 5 miles west of Corning, California, see an oblong, metallic-appearing object with a brilliant light on top and a smaller light on the bottom near the front. Jay Munger, proprietor of an all-night bowling alley, and two police officers, Frank Rakes and James Overton, describe it as a dark-gray flattened sphere with a brilliant light beam on top directed upward, and a smaller and dimmer light on the bottom directed downward. A dark band circles the midsection. Two men north of Corning independently see the object. The witnesses estimate a diameter of 50–100 feet. At first the object appears to be hovering, then it moves slowly a few hundred feet above the ground, finally picking up speed and disappearing from view to the south after being visible for about 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#photo) [Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#photo)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 74 Source ID: Eberhart_4334 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13347 (1F587713) Date: 7/4/1967 Description: 5:15 a.m. PDT. At least five witnesses from two independent locations saw an odd oblong, metallic-appearing object with a brilliant light on top and a smaller light on the bottom near the front (body lights). (Corning Daily Observer, 7/6/67, UFO NICAP files; McDonald, 1968b, p. 74, reprinted in Vaughan, 1995, pp. 129-30.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corning, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3636 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13348 (BCA03D95) Date: 7/4/1967 Description: 9:15 p.m. Docent Y. Krasuntsev and his son were resting near the Don River when they saw a half moon shaped object. They first noticed two luminous points that looked like artificial satellites. (Ref.3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shakhty, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3637 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13349 (93005123) Date: 7/4/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. EDT. A woman saw a torpedo-shaped object with two bright white lights and three vertical lines of light toward the rear (body lights). The object was directly over the trees about 300 feet away, and as it approached two smaller red lights were seen. (Cook report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3638 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13350 (9D3FE640) Date: 7/5/1967 Description: On Route 31 near the Depot Road area in Coventry, a motorist sighted an orange ball of light which appeared to be hanging from a tree. The driver immediately drove into Coventry and notified the police, but by the time officers arrived on the scene, the area was deserted. After receiving the full report from the police, a field investigator examined the area and found a grassy spot which had been swirled flat as if compressed be some rotating force just a few yards off the road from the point where the ball of light had been seen. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Trace Cases](https://www.thenightskyii.org/trace.html) Location: Coventry, CT Source ID: Magnonia_7 Source: Trace ### Event 13351 (7EFB78F1) Date: 7/5/1967 Description: Night. A witness is driving five miles north-northeast of Murray Bridge, South Australia, on the Karoonda Highway when he notices interference on the car radio, which becomes a high-pitched whine. He turns the radio off. Within 300–450 feet, his car engine stops by itself. The ignition is on but the warning lights on the dash come on. Looking up, he sees a distinct break in the fog with stars visible and a “large dark shadow” at a height of 20 feet. The shadow seems 120 feet thick. Above it is a grayish-blue glow. The top of the shadow appears convex. He stops the vehicle and gets out to look, but the shadow and light are gone. There is no sound, and the object has vanished. The witness returns to the vehicle, tries the ignition, and the motor works. There is no longer radio interference. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(September 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_4336 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13352 (EFE22A6E) Date: 7/5/1967 Description: One hundred people in Clifton, England claimed to have seen a silvery disc-shaped object, about ten meters meters long, land in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 852 Source ID: Johnson_3843 Source: Johnson ### Event 13353 (9F16000D) Date: 7/5/1967 Description: One hundred persons claimed to have seen a silvery disk-shaped object, about 10 m long, land in the area. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 67, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Clifton, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_852 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13354 (3A4F2BCC) Date: 7/5/1967 Description: 4:20 a.m. A motorist on State Highway 31, near the Depot Road area of Coventry, Connecticut, sees an orange ball of light that appears to be hanging from a tree. He drives into Coventry and reports the matter to the police but the object is gone when they arrive on the scene. Investigators from the University of Colorado and APRO find an area of grass some yards from the location that appears to have been swirled flat as if subject to a rotating force. A photograph taken of the scene turns out black. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 63; Condon, [pp. 329–331](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/328/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4335 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13355 (86081E2C) Date: 7/6/1967 Description: The Colorado project staff meet again to nominate the first set of UFO reports for its “case book.” [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) refuses to nominate a case, but [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) proposes the Red Bluff police report of August 1960, which is far outside Condon’s concept of limiting cases to no more than a year old. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 120 Source ID: Eberhart_4337 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13356 (19FAB0BA) Date: 7/6/1967 Description: 6:00 p.m. An Air Canada DC-9 Vanguard has just taken off from its stop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and is heading east. Air traffic controllers notice an unexpected radar return, also heading east, near the aircraft. In the space of 70 seconds, they watch the target accelerate from 800 to more than 4,000 mph before it zips off the scope near the town of Vivian. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 126 Source ID: Eberhart_4338 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13357 (2002EEB2) Date: 7/6/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. EDT. A 13-year-old girl saw an oval object with pointed ends (ellipse), a dome on top, a red light at each end, and two rapidly blinking white lights in the center (body lights). (Telephone call 7/7/67, notes in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palmer Park, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3640 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13358 (60D860B8) Date: 7/6/1967 Description: A very bright, white, star-like object rose slowly over Stoney Cross in the New Forest, England at 2:15 a.m. It stopped, flew "half-way back", then made numerous high-speed loops and dives at fantastic speeds. It then disappeared in a cloudy mist. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP investigation files Source ID: Johnson_3878 Source: Johnson ### Event 13359 (BBCA0933) Date: 7/6/1967 Description: 9:24 p.m. A radar operator in the airport at Kenora, Ontario, notes an unidentified target heading northeast. It approaches to about 40 miles, then turns and retreats to 50 miles away. At 9:35 p.m. another target appears, following an Air Canada flight; it turns northeast and disappears from the scope. At 9:53 p.m., an additional blip follows another Air Canada airliner before veering away to the northeast. None of the pilots see anything unusual. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 127–128 Source ID: Eberhart_4339 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13360 (43056DFF) Date: 7/6/1967 Description: Radar Shows Acceleration of 720 to 3600 Knots in 70 Secs. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [670706](http://www.nicap.org/670706winnipeg%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winnipeg, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3639 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13361 (6A1C2150) Date: 7/7/1967 Description: Evening. Air traffic controllers, while monitoring an eastbound Air Canada flight on radar, noticed an unidentified object moving at high speed toward Kenora.For three hours the object executed various maneuvers, including 180-degree turns, and twice followed Air Canada flights before resuming its northeast course and disappearing off the radar scope. (Good, 1987, p. 200.) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kenora, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3642 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13362 (CB887A00) Date: 7/7/1967 Description: Nr. midnight. A relative of NICAP member George Earley saw a bright cigar- shaped object with revolving lights of red, white, and blue, that hovered for 12 minutes (timed by watch). He looked away for a moment, and when he looked back the object was gone. (Letter to George Earley, 1/4/69.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canyon Ferry, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3641 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13363 (47F3AF63) Date: 7/7/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. Antonio Brambilla and another man watch a UFO land on some grass in a deserted part of the Rondò-Torretta quarter in Milan, Italy. A glow comes from the object, which is about 21 feet in diameter and 8 feet high. It has a dome on top and four telescopic legs with spheres on their tips. They feel a strange vibration that makes them weak, but the feeling dissipates as the legs of the UFO retract and it takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 1Pinotti 157 Source ID: Eberhart_4341 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13364 (E7F1ECDD) Date: 7/7/1967 Description: 7:00 p.m. Air traffic controllers at Winnipeg International Airport in Manitoba, while monitoring an eastbound Air Canada flight on radar, notice a target moving at high speed toward Kenora, Ontario. At 9:24 p.m., the same or a similar object is detected on the Kenora Airport radar headed northeast. For three hours the object executes various maneuvers, including 180° turns and twice follows Air Canada flights before resuming its northeast course and disappearing off the scope. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gregory M. Kanon, “[UFOs and the Canadian Government,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%203%20no%206%20-%201975.pdf)” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 6 \(1975\): 21; Good Above, [p. 200](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/200/mode/2up); Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 57 Source ID: Eberhart_4340 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13365 (1EC73EAA) Date: 7/7/1967 Time: 2330 Description: Antonio Brambila and another man saw a glow coming from a disk, 6.5 m in diameter and 2.5 m high, with a dome on top and four telescopic legs, which emitted a strange vibration. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 91 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Milan, Italy Source ID: Magnonia_853 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13366 (D67FC4D2) Date: 7/7/1967 Description: At 3:00 a.m. an intense light coming from their patio had awakened the daughter of the Count de Ribas on the Mediterranean island of Palma de Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. From her window she saw two small figures apparently speaking to each other. They had very large heads, possibly due to the presence of helmets, and huge eyes. The witness tried turning on the lights but they did not work. She then went to get candles and when she returned both beings and the light had vanished. Two small marks on the outside of the wall were found that could only be removed by scraping the wall; after it had been painted, the marks reappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Humanoid Sighting Reports, case 1967-56, citing Antonio Ribera Source ID: Johnson_3904 Source: Johnson ### Event 13367 (47103A1C) Date: 7/7/1967 Description: At 11:30 p.m. Antonio Brambila and another man in Milan, Italy saw a glow coming from a domed disc-shaped UFO, 6.5 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high. The UFO had four telescopic legs, which emitted a strange vibration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 853, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 91 Source ID: Johnson_3905 Source: Johnson ### Event 13368 (A6EFD136) Date: 7/8/1967 Description: Time not reported. A ship captain and his crew saw a saturn-shaped object hovering over the sea. It then moved off until out of sight. (Letter from captain, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Sea off English Coast, At sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_3643 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13369 (D711BFAA) Date: 7/9/1967 Description: 10:25 p.m. EDT. Two boys, 12 and 14, saw a round1 object with red lights on top and bottom and two bright white lights on the front , (body lights). The object approached about 60 feet off the ground with a fluttering motion and making a humming sound. (The Evening News, Harrisburg, 7/12/67, copy in , NICAP files; Cook report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3644 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13370 (BD03B3E2) Date: 7/9/1967 Description: At 10:25 p.m. two boys shone a spotlight on a red and white UFO "fluttering across" the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It approached them with a sideways motion and beamed a white light at them. Making a humming sound, it backed up and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files, report dated July 12, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_3956 Source: Johnson ### Event 13371 (EBF58AA2) Date: 7/10/1967 Description: About ten minutes later, at 8:00 p.m. local time, two people driving on a highway in Santa Clara del Mar, Brazil saw a huge cigar-shaped object on the ground, 400 meters away from the roadway. It had lit portholes. They watched it for two minutes as it took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1973, p. 14; Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1974 Source ID: Johnson_3985 Source: Johnson ### Event 13372 (9040F71F) Date: 7/10/1967 Time: 5:50 PM Description: Witness: golf pro Harold Washington (Capt, USMC, ret.). One object with a dome, the top colored gunmetal blue, the bottom the color of old lead. Moved east, crossed the highway tilted upward, moved to the right, accelerated and disappeared into the clouds after 3-5 seconds. Object made a swishing sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lizelia, Mississippi Source ID: BerlinerBBU_578 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 13373 (BC5625A5) Date: 7/10/1967 Description: In Lizelia, Mississippi at 5:50 p.m. CDT golf pro Harold Washington (retired Captain, USMC) sighted a domed disc when his car engine and radio died. The top was colored gunmetal blue and the bottom was the color of lead. It moved east, crossed a highway, tilted upward, moved to the right, accelerated and disappeared into the clouds after 3-5 seconds. The disc made a swishing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 11869; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 35 Source ID: Johnson_3984 Source: Johnson ### Event 13374 (2C17A0C3) Date: 7/10/1967 Description: 5:50 p.m. CDT. A golf pro, also Marine Corps retired, saw a domed object, the top gunmetal blue and the bottom the color of old lead. The object moved across the highway, tilted up, accelerated and disappeared into the clouds with a swishing sound. (Air Force unexplained case, Project Blue Book files, National Archives.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 11869) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lizelia, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3645 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13375 (FE29D014) Date: 7/11/1967 Description: Evening. Witnesses saw 13 objects in units of three, with red and green blinking lights (body lights). One was seen to be saucer shaped. Dogs, cattle and horses reacted. (Vancouver Sun, British Columbia, 7/27/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lone Butte, BC, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3646 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13376 (95636312) Date: 7/11/1967 Time: evening Description: Two persons saw a cigar-shaped object on the ground, 400 m away from the road, which took off, rising rapidly. It had windowlike openings emitting a bright light. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 183 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Santa Clara del Mar, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_854 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13377 (0A2DFB96) Date: 7/11/1967 Description: On this evening in Santa Clara del Mar, Argentina two persons saw a cigar-shaped object on the ground, 400 meters away from the road. It took off, rising rapidly. It had window-like openings emitting a bright light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 854 Source ID: Johnson_3993 Source: Johnson ### Event 13378 (69F3BCCF) Date: 7/12/1967 Description: 9:47 p.m. EDT. Three witnesses saw a solid disc with a thick rim and windows. Light was coming out of the windows. The object revolved and disappeared behind trees after 2-3 minutes. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Irving, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3647 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13379 (18A50D62) Date: 7/12/1967 Description: Nr. midnight. A family saw two large orange; spheres that hovered over their driveway. One ball disappeared inside the other t (objects merged), which then ascended and disappeared. (Pontiac Press, Mich., 7/14/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orion, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3649 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13380 (79075F7D) Date: 7/12/1967 Description: Bt. 10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT. Several witnesses saw a bright object with two sets of lights, some of them green (body lights). The object landed in a pasture about 500 feet from the witnesses. (Burlington Free Press, Vt., 7/14/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bristol, VT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3648 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13381 (14650CC7) Date: 7/13/1967 Description: 11:26 p.m. Robert Richardson and Jerry Quay are driving near Whitehouse, Ohio. When rounding a bend, they encounter a brilliant blue-white light blocking the road. It appears to be a triangle 8 feet tall and 21 feet wide. Richardson brakes and close their eyes. They feel a bump but can see nothing. The local police do not take the incident seriously. However, the accident is investigated by the state police and highway patrol, who find only skid marks at the scene. The next day Richardson returns to the site and finds a piece of metal in the road. Marks on his car hood and bumper suggest a collision with an object taking off. On July 18 and 23, Richardson is visited by mysterious men, those on the second occasion being foreign-looking, who make a threat against his wife. [Roy](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) [Craig](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) of the Colorado project conducts a test on the metal and finds it consists of iron and chromium, with traces of nickel and manganese. Fibrous material from the front bumper is 92% magnesium, 5% aluminum, 2% zinc, and 1% manganese. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UAO Struck by Automobile in Ohio,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2007%2000%20-%20July-August.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1967, pp. 1, 3; Condon, [p.](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/92/mode/2up) [93](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/92/mode/2up); Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 25–26 Source ID: Eberhart_4342 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13382 (AD8FBD3B) Date: 7/14/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. EDT. Two couples, including an ex-military pilot, saw an orange ball (sphere) hovering at low altitude, clearly visible beneath a heavy overcast. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3651 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13383 (70E465F9) Date: 7/14/1967 Description: 1:30 a.m. LT. A youth saw a "ring of lights" (also described as a huge white oval light the length of a football field). The object(s) stopped (hovered) two or three times. (Evening Standard 7/15/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palmerston North, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3650 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13384 (DD7A5AC7) Date: 7/15/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. PDT. Two people saw two bright lights that flew in parallel emitting a sound. (California NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Jose, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3652 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13385 (30D4DFD5) Date: 7/15/1967 Description: At 7:00 p.m. near Sedalia, Missouri a domed disc-shaped object was seen emerging from an isolated cloud. It re-entered the cloud, and then re-emerged again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norma Short, Skylook, December 1970, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_4072 Source: Johnson ### Event 13386 (7D926EEF) Date: 7/15/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. EDT. About 50 witnesses reported seeing an orange-red ball (see July 12, Orion, Mich., and July 14, Harrisburg, Pa.) that hung over the WHP radio towers, moved toward a mountain, hovered again, then dropped out of sight behind the mountain. (Cook report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Enola, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3654 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13387 (C131A0D0) Date: 7/15/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. EDT. A couple saw an object with a red light on one end and green light on the other, with a row of revolving flashing white lights on the top (body lights). The object moved slowly at low altitude until lost behind trees. (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, 9/15/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3653 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13388 (00E66AD8) Date: 7/15/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. EDT. An MIT graduate and retired Army engineer saw a small cylinder (estimated 4 feet long and 1 foot diameter) made of material like clear plastic with lighted grillwork and an open top. Initially, the object approached in the sky as a red light. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Silver Spring, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3655 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13389 (E7086F10) Date: 7/15/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. CDT (11:30 p.m. EDT). A chemist and other witnesses saw a luminous orange sphere (see above reports) at tree-top level. The object slowly ascended, then broke in half. Each half broke into two pieces and their light went out (multiple lights/objects). (Epstein letter, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirkwood, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3656 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13390 (CC7EEB24) Date: 7/16/1967 Description: Time not reported. Three miners reported a honeycomb-shaped object with windows and with glowing lights inside. First seen on the ground (landed), the object then ascended vertically. No marks were found on the ground. (Reno Evening Gazette, Nev., 7/20/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lovelock, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_3657 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13391 (C664123C) Date: 7/16/1967 Description: V.N. Chernyavski and his wife, with N. Ognevoy and S. Voronov, were close to the shore when they saw a yellow-rose disk-shaped object moving from west to east in the sky from the direction of the sea. (Ref. 30) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kudepst, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3658 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13392 (58DED827) Date: 7/17/1967 Time: evening Description: E. Browne, walking in a wood, saw a disklike, dull, blue-gray object with a rough surface, hovering about 2 m above ground. An opening became visible in the middle section and two men dressed in silvery clothes emerged, walked in the woods, then reentered the craft, which rose and vanished from sight. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 67, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland Source ID: Magnonia_856 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13393 (FDDACACC) Date: 7/17/1967 Description: 11:25 p.m. Emma Funk is driving on State Highway 22 north of Millerton, New York, when a black, shiny object the size of a baseball flies into her headlight beams. It heads toward the windshield, brushes against it, then veers off to the left. As it brushes, her car lights up “like a great electric light bulb,” her engine quits, and the headlights go out. Funk is stunned, and when she regains her senses, the car is facing the opposite direction, toward the south. The engine starts up normally, but there is a cracked area in the windshield the size of a fist. She can’t account for about 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Object Hit Car in Millerton; Engine Stalled, Lights Went Out,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52302728/poughkeepsie-journal/)” Poughkeepsie \(N.Y.\) Journal, July 19, 1967, p. 6; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 24–25 Source ID: Eberhart_4343 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13394 (02189E2E) Date: 7/17/1967 Description: Mr. E. Browne of Belfast, Northern Ireland was walking in the woods near his home on this evening when he came upon a "dish-like" object hovering eight feet above the ground. It was a dull blue-gray color with a rough and pitted outer surface, and about the size of a car. An opening appeared in the center of the underside and two silver suited, human-like figures dropped slowly to the ground and then walked away into the woods. Several minutes later they came back and drifted back into the craft, which rose silently into the air and vanished from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-60, citing Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 856; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 473 Source ID: Johnson_4131 Source: Johnson ### Event 13395 (363ED88B) Date: 7/17/1967 Description: At 11:25 p.m. Mrs. Emma Funk was driving down Route 22 north of Millertown, New York when a shiny black object about the size of a baseball flew into the car's headlights. It came right up to her car, seemed to brush against the windscreen, then veered off to the left. When it made contact the car lit up "like a giant electric light bulb." The engine and headlights failed and she lost consciousness. When she recovered the car was pointing in the opposite direction and there was a cracked area the size of a man's fist in the windshield. In September she underwent hypnotic regression in which she spoke of the radio being filled with static and unspecified beings, which turned the car around and struck her across the chest with a rod. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Fawcett, APRO; Peter Rogerson, Worldwide Catalogue of Type I Reports, citing William Donovan, A.I.R. Source ID: Johnson_4132 Source: Johnson ### Event 13396 (457AFFDA) Date: 7/17/1967 Description: At 3:15 in the afternoon in Arc-sous-Cicon, Doubs department, France four children saw three dark humanoids with protruding stomachs who spoke an unintelligible language that sounded like musical tones. They were dressed in black suits. Broken vegetation, a circle of burnt grass four meters in diameter, and three small footprints were found at the site. Several hours later there were widespread reports of fireballs seen by hundreds of people throughout Europe. Some believed these sightings were the result of a satellite re-entry or possibly a spectacular meteor. According to investigator Eric Zurcher, "We now know that the beings in question were already in the area three days earlier, since they were seen on the 14th and 15th by an agricultural worker." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: France Soir, July 20, 1967; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 95; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 285 citing Spacelink magazine; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases 1967-59 & 1967-61, citing Eric Zurcher and Joel Mesnard for GEPA; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 855 Source ID: Johnson_4130 Source: Johnson ### Event 13397 (CC34074D) Date: 7/17/1967 Time: 1600 Description: Children were terrified by four dwarfish creatures dressed in black clothing, about 1 m tall, who moved very rapidly among the bushes. They were dark-skinned, had bulging eyes, and spoke among themselves in a strange, musical dialect. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 182 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Arc-sous-Cicon, France Source ID: Magnonia_855 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13398 (59CE1F17) Date: 7/17/1967 Description: 1:00 a.m. EDT. Three people saw a round object (10-15 feet diameter) with a bright orange hue. (See above reports.) The interior appeared to be partly visible, and a creature or being of some kind was seen within it. (NICAP report form and letter from Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee, 8/29,67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newville, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3659 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13399 (854DCA81) Date: 7/17/1967 Description: While driving home at 1:00 a.m. in Newville, Pennsylvania Mr. Stanley L. noticed a light that he first thought was the moon, but it moved towards him and dropped into a position directly in front of his car. It paced him, keeping a distance of 15 to 20 yards, while he drove along at 55 mph. It was a rounded object, 10-15 in diameter, and was glowing brightly with an orange light. Stanley thought he could see the shadowy silhouette of a man inside the object working controls. When he slowed down the UFO rose above the telephone wires but continued to pace him the rest of the way home. At home he called out his sister Joanne, and her boyfriend Carl, and all three of them saw the object hovering over a field. When he drove away it followed his car again, and returned with him to the house where they could now make out the form of the occupant inside the object. The object made no sound. While they went inside the house the UFO disappeared. This encounter occurred during a continuing wave of UFO sighting reports in south central Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-58 (A0830), citing Ivan Kerns, NICAP Source ID: Johnson_4129 Source: Johnson ### Event 13400 (B23CC00C) Date: 7/17/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. EDT. A witness saw a "blob" described as yellow and "rosy gold" (i.e., red-orange) that contracted and expanded in one spot until it disappeared after 10 minutes. (Phone call to NICAP) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3660 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13401 (9AD07BB7) Date: 7/17/1967 Description: Evening. Two silver-suited humanoids emerged from a craft and entered the woods. They returned and drifted back into the craft. (Flying Saucer Review, Nov.- Dec. 1967, p. 31. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belfast, Ireland Source ID: NICAP_DB_3661 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13402 (9A581247) Date: 7/17/1967 Description: 11:00 p.m. L.V. Antonova, an editor with the publishing house "Thought", and T.I. Dantseva, fellow of the Kurchatov scientific institute, observed a strange object along with four other people. The weather was clear at the time. The object looked like a flat disk with shining edge, flying at an altitude of some 350 feet at the speed of a propeller aircraft. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sukhumi (Agudzeri), Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3662 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13403 (3C816D74) Date: 7/18/1967 Description: 10:00 a.m. Drew Wright took this picture. "I had a terrible hangover from all the cheap red wine I had imbibed the night before, my first night in Italy. As I saw the "thing," some local boys were saying "il disco," and pointing skyward. I snapped this quick shot before it vanished. I never made it to the Sixtine Chapel." (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [670718](http://www.ufocasebook.com/rome1967large.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rome, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_3663 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13404 (1248D12D) Date: 7/18/1967 Description: At 1:20 a.m. Rev. Anthony De Polo, an Assembly of God minister, was lying in bed in Boardman, Ohio when he heard a very loud whining sound that rose and fell in pitch. Then he received a distinct mental message telling him to go to the window. He did so, and saw a five foot tall figure wearing a luminous tight-fitting "spacesuit." There was also a source of light coming from above the figure. At first he thought someone was playing a prank, but the apparition was well-defined and looked real. He stepped out onto his porch and mentally heard the words,"You have nothing to fear."

He began to walk toward the being when the whining noise began again and he heard, "Danger; I must go." Then the figure dissolved into a blurred glow of light. Before it completely disappeared De Polo received another message of a personal nature. On the same night and not far from De Polo's home, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dixon heard a loud noise outside, looked out, and saw an object hovering over their house. It moved off toward the south after about five minutes. De Polo has had a number of subsequent UFo sightings and "contacts." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, January-February 1968, p. 26; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 857; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-62, citing John Keel, Virgil Tarleton, & Prof. Theodore Spickler for MUFON Source ID: Johnson_4170 Source: Johnson ### Event 13405 (E40D2551) Date: 7/18/1967 Time: 0130 Description: A minister was awakened by a strange sound and had the "impulse" to go downstairs and look outside. Between his house and the next one, he saw a silhouette wearing a luminous suit. He thought someone was playing a prank, but the apparition was well-defined and looked real. It turned into a shapeless glow and vanished. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Keel; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Boardman, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_857 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13406 (2BC096BD) Date: 7/18/1967 Description: 10:20 p.m. EDT. Seven witnesses saw an orange, yellow, and red (red-orange) glowing oval, apparently translucent, pass by at an estimated altitude of less than 500 feet. One of the witnesses was a World War II flier. (NICAP report form, Stokesberry report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3665 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13407 (D2D14BE1) Date: 7/18/1967 Description: 2:47 p.m. Student Y. Divak and a friend were fishing when they saw the reflection of a strange flying object in the water. Looking up, they saw a lusterless craft in the sky. It seemed to affect the sounds from the trains and from the nearby town. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Amvrosiyevka, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3664 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13408 (301FAAA8) Date: 7/19/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. CDT. Two brothers saw a circular object with a large white light in the middle, two red lights and two green, lights along the outer edge (body lights). The object approached at low altitude, passed overhead, made a tight U-turn (maneuvered) and returned, hovered, and moved away slowly. (Letter : received 12/26/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Webster City, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3666 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13409 (084F3EE2) Date: 7/19/1967 Description: While flying at 14,000 feet over Enderby, British Columbia at 10 p.m., Mr. H. Schindler, an airline pilot, saw a pink object zigzag through the clouds, hover, and then disappear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files, report dated July 25, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_4203 Source: Johnson ### Event 13410 (D17B7005) Date: 7/19/1967 Description: A young girl saw a saucer-shaped object hovering above a cornfield in Sao Benedito Do Sul, Pernambuco, Brazil. Inside the object she could see a humanoid entity of small stature, and a second similar entity was observed outside. The second entity made gestures at the girl, who interpreted them to be an inquiry about the edibility of the corn. At some point a dog nearby began barking, and the second entity quickly boarded the vehicle, which ascended rapidly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-64, citing Enock Burgos, SBDEV Source ID: Johnson_4202 Source: Johnson ### Event 13411 (E6684BFD) Date: 7/19/1967 Description: Object zigzagged near aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Enderby, B.C., CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3669 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13412 (4D43DA0B) Date: 7/20/1967 Description: At midnight a sparkling cloud seen over Pyle, England revealed itself to be a metallic saucer-shaped object on closer approach. It was spinning and made a noise like a jet plane. It vanished while still in sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_4242 Source: Johnson ### Event 13413 (85A72410) Date: 7/20/1967 Description: Pedro Petrelli of Guernica, Argentina heard a loud noise like a burst of wind from a hurricane and saw a bright object pass over his house at night. It seemed to be about seven-meter in diameter, circular or disc shaped, and was observed to be spinning. Some twenty people in the vicinity saw it. It stopped and hovered over some nearby trees and threw off some metallic fragments. The next morning two trees showed cuts at a height of five meters, and a third tree at three meters. On the ground were found fragments of what seemed to be burnt wood, but the inside looked like fused glass. Chemical analysis of the fragments established the presence of sulphur, copper and silicon that had been subjected to a heat of more than 1600º Celsius. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 11, citing letter from Rev. P. Reyna of Buenos Aires dated May 5, 1969 to Phenomenes Spatiaux, issue no. 20, June 1969 Source ID: Johnson_4243 Source: Johnson ### Event 13414 (4D05656A) Date: 7/20/1967 Description: 9:15 p.m. EDT. A woman and her daughter saw a bell-shaped object with a dull metal finish and five square windows. An intense white light came from the inside. A humanoid with slim torso, an egg-shaped head, and long rubbery-looking arms was visible at one of the windows, and "shadowy movements" were seen in other windows. (NICAP report form; Florida NICAP Subcommittee report, 8/11/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Titusville, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3667 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13415 (2FEC2076) Date: 7/20/1967 Description: 10:45 p.m. EDT. Three people saw a round green light hovering over the WHP radio towers. The light turned red and descended to 200 feet above the ground. (Cook report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Summerdale, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3670 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13416 (4BF68730) Date: 7/20/1967 End date: 7/21/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. Barbara Fawcett is driving alone on North Key Largo, Florida, near Jewfish Creek. She sees a large light in her rear-view mirror apparently following the car. The burning yellow light seems to be floating 6–8 feet off the ground, and it stays over the road. She accelerates to 100 mph as the light overtakes her car and seems to be about to land on top of it. As a car approaches in the opposite direction, the object emits a bright yellow glow that lights up the road and then disappears. She decides to return home to Pompano Beach with her sister the same morning, and at 2:30 a.m. they are on US Highway 1 near the same spot when she sees the light again, rising from a swamp and moving toward them 15 feet above the ground. Her sister’s toy poodle is terrified. The light veers away from the road and appears to land on a sand dune. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Landing in Florida,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2007%2000%20-%20July-August.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1967, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_4344 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13417 (64F56E79) Date: 7/20/1967 Description: At 9:15 p.m. EDT Mrs. Elizabeth Douglas had tripped and fallen on her lawn in Titusville, Florida and was just getting up when she saw a UFO about 200 feet away about 60-70 feet above the ground. It was a sixty foot in diameter, gray bell-shaped object, with an intense light coming from five square windows. In the fourth window was a thin humanoid figure with an egg-shaped head and a featureless face. It had long arms that were raised. She viewed the entity for about two minutes. Mrs. Douglas's daughter Ingrid joined her, and also saw the UFO as it moved away, but did not see the occupant. Ninety minutes later at 10:45 p.m. EDT a round green light was seen hovering over the radio transmission tower of WHP Radio in Summerdale, Pennsylvania. The object turned red, descended to around 200 feet above the ground, and an intense white light came on. It flew away behind the treeline toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files, reports dated July 30, 1967 and August 9, 1967; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-63, citing Clark McClelland for NICAP Source ID: Johnson_4244 Source: Johnson ### Event 13418 (2E537304) Date: 7/21/1967 Time: 0230 Description: Barbara Fawcett, 18, and her sister saw a yellow "jagged" object rise above a swamp and land on a hill. Air Force investigators found a very large scorched area at the spot. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Jul., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Jewish Creek, Florida Source ID: Magnonia_858 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13419 (6373F643) Date: 7/21/1967 Description: At 2:30 a.m. Barbara Fawcett, age 18, and her sister saw a yellow "jagged" object rise above a swamp near Jewfish Creek, Florida. A dog riding in their car became fearful of the low flying yellow light, which flew just 15 feet above the roadway in Pompano Beach. The UFO then veered off to the right and landed on a sand dune to the east of the road. Air Force investigators found a very large scorched area at the spot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1967, p. 7; NICAP UFO Investigator, October1967, p. 4; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 14; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 858, citing APRO Source ID: Johnson_4270 Source: Johnson ### Event 13420 (59062F6B) Date: 7/21/1967 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a 40-year-old witness was out in his garden in Wissons, France when he noticed a greenish glow on the ground. The glow was in a nearby field next to a cemetery. Within the glow he could see two shiny silvery figures moving about, apparently floating just above the ground. The figures soon disappeared from sight. Later, two V-shaped depressions were found on the ground in the same area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 195, Denys Breysse, Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_4269 Source: Johnson ### Event 13421 (76A5B390) Date: 7/21/1967 Description: On this afternoon in Pamlico County, North Carolina 14-year-old Ronnie Hill was playing in the garden when he noticed a strange odor in the air, and his eyes began to tear. He then saw a spherical object about three meters in diameter descend from the sky and land in a nearby field. Thinking that nobody would believe him, he ran inside his home and obtained a small Kodak camera. Once back outside he saw a small figure emerge from behind the object. The figure was about 1.25 meters in height, wore a tight-fitting silvery suit and carried in its hand a black object that it inserted into the ground, The entity then returned to the object, which took off into the sky at high speed. The odor was described as resembling propane gas. Ronnie Hill also noticed a total lack of sound during the encounter. A controversial photograph of the humanoid and UFO was taken and subsequently publicized. The photograph is widely regarded as a hoax by UFO investigators, with an eggshell used to model the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, January-February 1969, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_4271 Source: Johnson ### Event 13422 (9BF2B08A) Date: 7/21/1967 Description: Dog in car fearful at low flying light (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [670721](http://www.nicap.org/ar-670721dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pompano Beach, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3674 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13423 (08814673) Date: 7/21/1967 Description: Yellow "jagged" object rise above a swamp and land on a hill (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jewish Creek \[Homestead?\],, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3675 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13424 (F6DA3B1E) Date: 7/21/1967 Description: Ronnie Hill, 14, of Pamlico County, North Carolina, sends a color photo of what looks like a little man in a spacesuit standing in front of a spherical UFO to a New York magazine editor. It winds up in the hands of [John A.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FKeel) [Keel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FKeel)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FKeel) Hill tells him the UFO landed in his backyard. Keel gathers affidavits from Ronnie’s teachers, parents, and the local 4-H club, and submits the photo to “several professional photographers” in New York, who cannot find evidence of a hoax. Soon, however, Keel has doubts and the photo is revealed to be that of a small model positioned in front of an egg. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John A. Keel, “[The ‘Little Man’ of North Carolina,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1969\): 15–16; Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 230](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/229/mode/2up); Clark III 603; Aaron Sakulich, “[The Strange Tale of Ronnie Hill,](http://www.theironskeptic.com/articles/ronniehill/ronniehill.htm)” The Iron Skeptic, January 13, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_4345 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13425 (8F4A23C1) Date: 7/21/1967 Description: At 10:15 p.m. a security guard, Sidney Zipkin, age 50, was driving through a large parking lot in Churchville, New York when he observed a 16-meter-long cigar-shaped object with green lights under it land on the parking lot pavement. He stopped his truck within 30 meters of the object with the truck headlights aimed on it, and was surprised to see two dwarfs dressed in shiny black uniforms rush by his vehicle and enter the craft, which took off straight up in a vertical ascent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 860 Source ID: Johnson_4272 Source: Johnson ### Event 13426 (746AC095) Date: 7/23/1967 Description: (Hynek-CUFOS-Willy Smith files; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Popponessett Beach, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3676 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13427 (B5617E8C) Date: 7/24/1967 Description: At ten p.m. Daniel Bonifait and his family were driving between Mareuil and Ste-Hermine, France when they saw a red disc the size of a building, fall behind a hill 300 meters away from them. Dark forms were observed on the disc's surface, and the forest seemed to be ablaze as the witnesses drove away in fear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 859 Source ID: Johnson_4354 Source: Johnson ### Event 13428 (62A3F257) Date: 7/24/1967 Time: 2200 Description: Between Mareuil and Ste-Hermine, Daniel Bonifait and his family saw a red disk, the size of a building, fall 300 m away behind a hill. Dark forms were observed on the disks surface, and the forest seemed to be ablaze as the witnesses drove away in fear. Type: ufo sighting Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mareuil, France Source ID: Magnonia_859 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13429 (F91FB4BA) Date: 7/25/1967 Description: Cattle nervous and dog looks toward round glowing object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [670725](http://www.nicap.org/ar-670725dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Garrison, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3677 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13430 (20C5E1C8) Date: 7/25/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. EDT (10:30 p.m. CDT). A woman and several teenagers about 1,200 miles to the southeast reported a very similar phenomenon. They saw 5-6 objects radiating bright white lights "wobbling" over a field. When a plane flew into the area, the objects (lights) rapidly disappeared after turning bright red (color change/speed correlation). As the color changed, dogs in the area howled (animal reactions). (Stinson letter, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Southern part of State, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3671 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13431 (25753AF3) Date: 7/25/1967 Description: Round, blue-white object hovered near missile site, animals reacted. Object started, stopped, moved up and down. changed color to red when accelerating Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Garrison, ND Source ID: HallUFOE2_134 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13432 (663CD4B4) Date: 7/26/1967 Description: 11:20 p.m. EDT. A woman saw a red light hovering near her house and illuminating the interior of her house. The color changed to white and then to rose, and the light seemed to rotate as the color changed. (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, 10/4/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dauphin, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3678 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13433 (CD42D71E) Date: 7/26/1967 Description: 11:20 p.m. EDT. A woman saw a red light hovering near her house and illuminating the interior of her house. TV interference was reported (EM effects). (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, 10/4/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dauphin, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3679 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13434 (7C92B896) Date: 7/26/1967 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a multi-colored elliptical object flew over Seacliff, South Australia making a humming noise. Eighteen hours later, at 11:15 p.m. in Rowley, Massachusetts, R. Ricker witnessed an orange UFO that made a whining sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_4416 Source: Johnson ### Event 13435 (F1A07FFF) Date: 7/26/1967 Description: 8:38 p.m. Capt. Shindler is piloting Pacific Western Airlines Flight 748 westbound near the Westfall River in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia. He notices a small pink light moving erratically at about 16,000 feet. It zips away after 18 minutes. Radar operators in Kamloops also observe the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 128 Source ID: Eberhart_4346 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13436 (9CCFF077) Date: 7/26/1967 Description: 11:15 p.m. EDT. A woman looked out her bedroom window when she heard a loud whining, whirring sound and saw a glowing orange object in the sky. (Fowler, 1974, pp. 151-52, 349.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rowley, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3673 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13437 (16EAFE45) Date: 7/27/1967 Description: At around 1:00 a.m. a distress call came from a private pilot flying between Alexandria and Leesville, Louisiana that a UFO had approached the side and then the tail of his airplane, forcing the plane to crash. The pilot, badly injured, kept transmitting until he faded out. A Civil Aviation Board report was logged of a crash at Oak Grove, Louisiana earlier (2000 hrs). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, citing newspaper report in the Shreveport Times, July 28, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_4436 Source: Johnson ### Event 13438 (42E6E12F) Date: 7/27/1967 Description: An elongated oval-shaped UFO, carrying bright white lights fore and aft and a central red light, with a string of smaller white lights flashing in sequence along the side, was sighted by three amateur astronomers at 1:00 a.m. over Newton, New Hampshire. The UFO flashed in exact response to flashlight signals, and evaded a jet that flew over the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 349 Source ID: Johnson_4435 Source: Johnson ### Event 13439 (55D94341) Date: 7/27/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. EDT. Throughout several states, distress calls were heard on Citizen's Band radio from a pilot whose plane reportedly crashed. The pilot said that a red glowing object with a bright glow toward the tail approached the side of the aircraft and then the tail, forcing the aircraft down. (Shreveport Times, LA., 7/28/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alexandria-Leesville, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3682 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13440 (7846E011) Date: 7/27/1967 Description: 1:00 a.m. EDT. Three people, including an electronics technician and former Air Force radar operator, and a laboratory technician and former Navy radar operator, saw an orange-red starlike light that began to move. (Fowler report, 8/14/67, NICAP files; NICAP report forms; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 2, Oct. 1967, p. 3; Fowler, 1974, pp. 152-55, 349.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newton, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3681 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13441 (2261C3FF) Date: 7/27/1967 Description: 12:30 a.m. EDT. Two witnesses saw an orange-yellow, "tri-level" object with lights coming from the upper area, apparently from within. The object appeared to be spinning. (Greenville Reflector, N.C., 7/28/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Farmville, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3680 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13442 (D0BE717E) Date: 7/28/1967 Description: Oval object approached fire lookout tower, hovered, illuminated ground Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Gilroy, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_135 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13443 (75646123) Date: 7/28/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. PDT. A state forestry employee at a fire lookout tower saw an oval blue- white light coming toward him at low altitude, a dark band visible around the middle (see July 4, Corning, Calif.). A bright white light also was visible on the top (body lights). The object alternately hovered and moved around, circling the fire tower. At one point it emitted a blue-white light beam which illuminated the ground. As the object circled the tower, the citizen's band radio emitted a variable pitch whining noise (EM effects), interfering with any effort to communicate. (NICAP report form; U.F.O, Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 2, October1967, p. 3; Gillmor, 1969, case 28.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gilroy, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3683 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13444 (D83D6482) Date: 7/29/1967 Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_136 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13445 (06218B15) Date: 7/29/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. PDT. A woman saw an oval light, sometimes silver and sometimes red and blue, that descended suddenly, hovered moved laterally, then descended until lost behind the horizon. (Civil Defense report form, 8/28/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Olympia, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3685 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13446 (4F88378D) Date: 7/29/1967 Description: 1:00 a.m. PDT. Two witnesses saw an orange light "like a ball of fire" that approached from the horizon. It stopped (hovered), changed color to white, ascended slowly, changed direction (maneuvered), and continued ascending. After the color change, it moved in a "pulsating fashion as though leaping through space." (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arnold, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3684 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13447 (052A4B8B) Date: 7/30/1967 Description: 6:15 p.m. The Naviero, a ship of the Argentine Shipping Lines Company, is 120 miles off the coast of Garopaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil, when Office Jorge Montoya notices a strange object in the ocean about 50 feet away on the starboard side. Capt. Julián Lucas Ardanza comes to the deck and sees a cigar-shaped UFO about 110 feet long, glowing blue and white. It paces the ship for 15 minutes, then suddenly dives and passes underneath the ship, vanishing in the depths. Chief Officer Carlos Lasca describes the object as a “submergible UFO with its own illumination.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Oscar A. Galíndez, “[Crew of Argentine Ship See Submarine UFO,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 2 \(March/April 1968\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_4347 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13448 (73484AE1) Date: 7/30/1967 Description: 10:17 p.m. [George](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113854680/george-m-petyak) and [Brownie Petyak](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113854679/brownie-h-petyak) see a bright yellow star-like light at about 65° elevation to the east of Kernville, California. It is later joined by a second similar object appearing to try to “steer” the first onto a “definite course.” Through binoculars the first object appears bright blue. A second independent observation from Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in the Mojave Desert locates an object visually and/or on radar to the west over Walker Pass \(about 20 miles\) and is reported to Edwards AFB. Thus the visual sighting lines intersect from opposite directions. A controller at Edwards uses RAPCON \(Radar Approach Control\) radar \(or Boron AFS FPS-35 search radar\) and confirms the visual report at China Lake but tries to dismiss the 115 mph target as merely civil aircraft that “frequently” fly over the area. The Kernville witnesses report by phone during their sighting to the Boron AFS ADC radar site. Blue Book claims the date of the sighting is in question because the questionnaire sent to the Petyaks uses the military time \(Greenwich Meridian Time or Zulu time\) instead of local time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Radar/Visual and Sighting Lines Intersect](http://www.nicap.org/670730kernville%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 326; Condon, [p. 122](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/122/mode/2up); Clark III 392 Source ID: Eberhart_4348 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13449 (CD9623F8) Date: 7/30/1967 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kernville, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3689 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13450 (CDD1796C) Date: 7/31/1967 Description: At 10:15 p.m. a guard, Sidney Zipkin, age 50, was driving through a large parking lot in Churchville, New York when his truck headlights fell upon a cigar-shaped object, 16 meters long, with green lights under it, landed on the pavement. He stopped his truck within 30 meters of the object with the truck's headlights aimed at it. The craft had a spherical central body with side extensions tipped with green lights, and he was surprised to see two 3-foot-tall dwarf beings dressed in shiny black uniforms rush by his vehicle and enter the craft, which took off straight up with a hissing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files, report dated August 3, 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 860; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 473 Source ID: Johnson_4528 Source: Johnson ### Event 13451 (90959C14) Date: 7/31/1967 Description: Two small beings, shiny black garb. Saturn-shaped craft seen near ground in truck headlights. Beings boarded, took off straight up. (Hall, 1964-1967, pages 474-482, Vol. II, The UFO Evidence) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Churchville, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3687 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13452 (E8BE9ECD) Date: 7/31/1967 Description: 9:15 p.m. I. Kosov, his wife and farmer P.I. Marchenko saw a dark red disk flying from the southwest to the northeast. The witness had time to count to forty-two before the object disappeared. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kavkazkiy, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3686 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13453 (2650EBE0) Date: 7/31/1967 Time: 2215 Description: A guard, Sidney Zipkin, 50, was driving through a large parking lot when he observed a cigar-shaped object, 16 m long, with green lights under it, land on the pavement. He stopped his truck within 30 m of the object, with the headlights aimed on it, and was surprised to see two dwarfs dressed in shiny black uniforms rush by the vehicle and enter the craft, which took off straight up. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 184 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Churchville, New York Source ID: Magnonia_860 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13454 (8AF01952) Date: 7/31/1967 Description: 10:15 p.m. Sidney Zipkin is driving a truck on Main Street in Churchville, New York, when he sees a cigar- shaped object about 50 feet long in a parking lot. It has greenish blinking lights underneath it, on or near the ground. He shines the truck headlights on the object and sees two small men in shiny black uniforms board the object, which takes off straight up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4175662/article-two-page-one/) [Churchville?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4175676/article-two-page-two/)” Rochester \(N.Y.\) Democrat and Chronicle, August 3, 1967, pp. 1B–2B Source ID: Eberhart_4349 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13455 (6E183FE9) Date: 8/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. A man is returning to his mother’s home in Wapakoneta, Ohio, when he sees a strangely bright star to the left of Polaris. As he watches, it grows a bit brighter and begins to move directly beneath Polaris and then continues to the right. It repeats this in reverse and then goes under Polaris and stops. The star then migrates north and south, tracing out the elements of a large cross. It does this several times rapidly. Then it comes back below Polaris and just sits there. After nearly 3 hours, the witness decides to stop watching. At that, the star goes up to Polaris and shoots away to the left. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_4351 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13456 (7386A87D) Date: 8/1967 Description: At the request of President [Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%5FB.%5FJohnson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%5FB.%5FJohnson) the CIA sets up Operation CHAOS to gather intelligence about foreign influence on American dissent. Its mission is to gather and evaluate all information about foreign links to racial, antiwar, and other protest activity. The operation is launched under DCI [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) and counter-intelligence chief [James Jesus Angleton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FJesus%5FAngleton)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FJesus%5FAngleton) and headed by [Richard Ober](https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKober.htm)[.](https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKober.htm) The program runs through 1973, amassing 10,000 files on more than 300,000 individuals and 100 domestic groups. The operation also infiltrates foreign intelligence targets and domestic radical organizations. The NSA assists in the surveillance with its own Project MINARET. Operating between 1967 and 1973, over 5,925 foreigners and 1,690 organizations and US citizens are included on the Project MINARET watch lists. NSA Director [Lew Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew%5FAllen) testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1975 that the NSA has issued over 3,900 reports on the watch-listed Americans. At some point, the NSA is tasked with monitoring the overseas telephone calls and cable traffic of two prominent members of Congress, Sen. [Frank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FChurch) [Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FChurch) \(D-Idaho\) and Sen. [Howard Baker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FBaker) \(R-Tenn.\). The FBI begins COINTELPRO–BLACK HATE, which focuses on [Martin Luther King Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FLuther%5FKing%5FJr) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as well as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Revolutionary Action Movement, the Deacons for Defense and Justice, Congress of Racial Equality, and the Nation of Islam. BLACK HATE establishes the Ghetto Informant Program and instructs 23 FBI offices to “disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist hate type organizations.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation CHAOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FCHAOS)”; Wikipedia, “[Project MINARET](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FMINARET)”; Wikipedia, “[COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO)”; Matthew M. Ald and William Burr, “[Secret Cold War Documents Reveal NSA](https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/09/25/secret-cold-war-documents-reveal-nsa-spied-on-senators/) [Spied on Senators,](https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/09/25/secret-cold-war-documents-reveal-nsa-spied-on-senators/)” Foreign Policy, September 25, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_4350 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13457 (620B495D) Date: 8/1967 End date: 11/1967 Description: Hundreds of sightings in wave that peaked in October. House of Commons took interest in November. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: UK Source ID: HallUFOE2_142 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13458 (2A649B7D) Date: 8/1967 Description: Daytime, PDT. A summer school class and teacher saw a disc-shaped object that was making a loud roaring noise. The object moved directly overhead, now making a sound like an "electronic police car siren." (Amos letter, 9/26/68, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Venice, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3690 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13459 (2CE47783) Date: 8/1/1967 Description: The wife and daughter of a pastor in Chester, Pennsylvania saw three red, metallic, saucer-shaped objects with domes and portholes at 9:00 p.m. Two were in the northern sky, and a third approached from the north, brightened and changed color to white as it neared. It then flew at tree-top level and hovered at low altitude close to the witnesses. Finally, it climbed fast and disappeared. The object was estimated to be about the size of a two-engine plane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: WXUR News report, copy in NICAP files. Source ID: Johnson_4568 Source: Johnson ### Event 13460 (00B1DB51) Date: 8/1/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. EDT. The wife and daughter of a pastor saw three red, metallic- appearing, saucer-shaped objects with domes and portholes. The object was estimated to be about the size of a two-engine plane. (WXUR News report, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chester, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3691 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13461 (446577A7) Date: 8/2/1967 Description: At 11:30 p.m. in the Norweigan Sea four Russian crewman aboard the S. S. Izhevsk saw a white sphere in the dark sky as it sailed slowly south. A bright football-shaped light appeared several minutes later and rushed from west to east. It threw off sparks, increased in size, stopped, became an egg in appearance, and gave off a thick white mist that emerged as the object grew dim. The entire incident lasted for more than 25 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norma Short, Skylook, February 1968, p. 7; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 139; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 191 Source ID: Johnson_4602 Source: Johnson ### Event 13462 (E5D248F9) Date: 8/2/1967 Description: On this day in Arbroath, Tayside, Scotland a domed oval-shaped craft, 20-30 feet in length, moved slowly at 100 feet above a teenager riding on a bicycle. There was a red glow coming from the dome, which started to flash. The object was completely quiet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1967, p. 29; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 124 Source ID: Johnson_4601 Source: Johnson ### Event 13463 (A42C2AAD) Date: 8/3/1967 Time: 2000 Description: J. Vieira, a lawyer, and his driver, Amauri, at km 15 on the Miguel Peraira Highway saw two yellowish lights, then many others, about 500 m away to the left. They blinked and faded. Similar lights were seen again at Conrado. When the driver blinked the car's headlights, the objects seemed to respond. An object which illuminated the whole area was seen resting in a woods. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 17 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Conrado, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_861 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13464 (5202A9CE) Date: 8/3/1967 Time: 2330 Description: Two persons saw a luminous, whitish object, 10 m in diameter, resembling two plates glued together. The whole yard was illuminated and a humming sound was heard. A door opened in the base of the craft, and something similar to a light bulb lowered itself to ground level. This, too, had an opening, from which stepped a small man in silvery, luminous clothes, his head surrounded with vapor. He was about 5 m away from the witnesses, and was observed to pick up stones, examine them, look up and seem to communicate with the main object. He then dropped the stones and stepped into the "bulb" that reentered the craft, which took off. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 44 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Caracas, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_862 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13465 (4095BEBC) Date: 8/3/1967 Description: At 8:00 p.m. J. Vieira, a lawyer, and his driver Amauri, were at kilometer 15 on the Miguel Peraira Highway when they saw two yellowish lights, then many others, about 500 meters away to the left. The lights would blink and fade. Similar lights were seen again at Conrado, Brazil. When the driver blinked the car's headlights the objects seemed to respond. A domed disc-shaped object that illuminated the whole area was next seen resting in some woods. Physiological after-effects included headaches, dizziness, and jaundiced facial skin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 11; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 861 Source ID: Johnson_4629 Source: Johnson ### Event 13466 (9C6DB49A) Date: 8/3/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. Amauri Barbosa da Silva and Jonil Faydit Vieira are driving on the road to Japeri from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when they see several yellowish lights that eventually extinguish themselves, one at a time. Later, they see similar lights positioned directly in front of them. Da Silva blinks his headlights, and the lights respond similarly. The lights maintain their position in front of them, moving from one side of the road to the other. When they are approaching Miguel Pereira on a mud road between Arcádia and La Chaumiere, they see two bright beams of light, one yellow and one blue, about 1,000 feet away from them on the right, apparently attached to the dome of a disc. The object follows them for at least 40 minutes and is seen by Nelson Gonçalves Ferreira at their destination in Miguel Pereira. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 16–21 Source ID: Eberhart_4352 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13467 (CD03F343) Date: 8/3/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. CDT. Two men saw a small white glowing object like a "light bulb" that flew from west to east, disappearing behind hills. The object reappeared at about 100 feet altitude, hovered over a wheat field and , slowly landed. (North Dakota NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sawyer, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3693 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13468 (D368717B) Date: 8/3/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. A married couple and their teenage son are sleeping in their car outside their home in Caracas, Venezuela. They wake up and see a white, disc-shaped object hovering 100 feet above a nearby palm tree. Within a few minutes, an opening appears in the UFO, and a smaller lightbulb-shaped object emerges and drifts downward, stopping just inches from the ground near their front porch. A door slides open and a small, glowing figure steps out, who bends over, picks up some stones, examines them, and looks up at the larger object, apparently communicating with someone. He looks toward their car frequently. After a few minutes, the figure reenters the small object, which returns to the large disc and enters it. The disc speeds away and disappears in seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Occupants Seen at Caracas,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 12 Source ID: Eberhart_4353 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13469 (4CE9C503) Date: 8/3/1967 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a married couple named DeSoto in Caracas, Venezuela saw a luminous, disc-shaped whitish object, 10 meters in diameter. The entire yard was illuminated and a humming sound was heard. A door opened in the base of the craft and something like a light bulb lowered itself to the ground. This, too, had an opening from which stepped a small man about three feet tall, dressed in silvery luminous clothes. His head was surrounded by vapor. He was only about five meters away from the witnesses, and they watched him pick up stones, examine them, look up, and appear to communicate with the disc-shaped craft. He then dropped the stones and stepped into the "bulb" that reentered the craft, which took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 43; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 862 Source ID: Johnson_4630 Source: Johnson ### Event 13470 (B934FD5C) Date: 8/3/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. LT. A 3-foot-tall being (humanoid) emerged from a hovering, luminous disc and took gravel samples. (APRO Bulletin, Sept.-Oct. 1967, p. 12.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caracus, Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_3692 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13471 (E23CC8BB) Date: 8/3/1967 Description: At 11:35 a.m. in the town of Perigueux, Dordogne, France a silent disc-shaped object made five falling leaf maneuvers in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1974, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_4628 Source: Johnson ### Event 13472 (40F485BC) Date: 8/4/1967 Description: 11:00 p.m. LT (7:00 p.m. EDT). Four witnesses saw a bright metallic-appearing disc with bright red dome moving from northeast to the south. Visible around the perimeter of the underside were 15-20 bright red rotating lights. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stoke-On-Trent, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3695 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13473 (F7491AA9) Date: 8/4/1967 Time: early Description: Engineer Hugo S. Yepes was on a beach 25 km north of Recife when he saw a disk, 6 m in diameter, come out of the water. It was gray, looked metallic, hovered for a few sec at 1 m altitude, then rose slowly to the east and disappeared. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Mar., 68 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Recife, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_863 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13474 (6D343C30) Date: 8/4/1967 Description: Saturn-shaped object with rotating ring emerged from sea, hovered, ascended slowly, accelerated into sky and out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: La Guaira, Federal District, Venezuela Source ID: HallUFOE2_137 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13475 (4A4A21E7) Date: 8/4/1967 Description: Engineer Hugo S. Yepez was on a beach 25 km north of Arrecife in Venezuela when he saw the water violently disturbed near a fishing boat. A Saturn-shaped UFO, six meters in diameter, came out of the water. It was gray, looked metallic, and hovered for a few seconds just a meter above the surface. It then rose slowly to the east and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 5; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 44; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 864, citing NICAP: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 11 & 200 Source ID: Johnson_4652 Source: Johnson ### Event 13476 (297900E5) Date: 8/4/1967 Description: A red domed disc-shaped object was sighted flying to the north over Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent, England at 11:10 p.m. It was the size of two bungalows, and had 10 to 12 bright red lights arranged around its circumference on the lower part. It changed direction to approach the witnesses, and hovered a few seconds above the bungalows at the top of the road. The witnesses were two married couples, Mr. & Mrs. Brogan and Mr. & Mrs. Turner. The incident lasted about one minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roger H. Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs: Unidentified, Undeniable, p. 6; UNICAT, case # 536 Source ID: Johnson_4651 Source: Johnson ### Event 13477 (B42BB2F7) Date: 8/4/1967 Description: Early morning. An engineer, Hugo Sierra Yepez \[or Yepes\], is fishing from his boat in the sea about 15 miles north of Arrecife \[or La Guaira\], Vargas, Venezuela, when he feels a vibration and the water begins to boil “in big bubbles, in a circle about six meters in diameter.” A gray-blue, flat globe emerges. As it hovers close to the surface, dripping water, he notices a revolving rim with triangular windows of blue and red. It ascends in a curve then shoots upward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Question of Submerging UFO’s,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/041%20MAR%201968.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 5 \(March 1968\): 5; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 54 Source ID: Eberhart_4354 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13478 (F6D55EB1) Date: 8/4/1967 Description: Night. A bright object appears in the sky in the area of Morro do Policia in Porto Alegre, Brazil, for 30 minutes and is photographed by Brazilian Air Force technician Otacilio Freitas Dias. It flies in an erratic zigzag path, sometimes slowly, at other times at high speed, and sometimes hovering. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 67–68 Source ID: Eberhart_4355 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13479 (B2AC3A3F) Date: 8/4/1967 Description: 9:20 p.m. EDT. Four people saw a bell-shaped object with a horizontal row of red lights around the top, a series of white lights near the middle, and white-green light coming from the bottom (body lights). (Lorczak letter, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Syracuse, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3696 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13480 (09BB96AC) Date: 8/4/1967 Description: Morning. A lawyer who was fishing from a boat saw a gray-blue, double-saucer (Saturn-shaped) object with a rotating ring around the circumference and triangular windows. The ring was red and blue. (El Universal, Caracas, 8/20/67, 8/28/67 copies in NICAP files; U.F.O. Investigator, March 1968, p. 5.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Guaira, Federal District, Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_3694 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13481 (4ECE27AC) Date: 8/4/1967 Description: Nr. midnight. A man saw an object the size and shape of a large can (cylinder). Following a "squealing sound" and a slight explosion, it went straight up with flame coming from the bottom (exhaust). The object leveled off about 50-100 feet off the ground and flew away to the southeast. A scorched area 20 feet in diameter was found in the bean field where the object was seen (physical traces), and a sample was sent to NICAP. Investigation found no evidence of a hoax. (Christol letter, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Philpot, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3697 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13482 (A35206F2) Date: 8/5/1967 Time: 2330 Description: Ronald Sherven and Robert Bodine saw a glowing, white object on a west-east trajectory north of Sawyer. The object was hidden by a hill at first but all of a sudden it appeared again over a cemetery, came to ground level, and sped away to the north. Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Oct., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sawyer, North Dakota Source ID: Magnonia_864 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13483 (BC8D54E3) Date: 8/5/1967 Description: In Duhamel, Alberta, Canada four rings created by pressure from a heavy force or object were found in a pasture and were believed to have been caused by a landed UFO. The smallest measured 31.75 feet in diameter and the largest 36.25 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Spring 1968, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_4679 Source: Johnson ### Event 13484 (7FE365C7) Date: 8/5/1967 Description: Morning. After a night of heavy rain, Edgar Schielke finds a circular mark more than 30 feet in diameter in his cow pasture near Duhamel, Alberta. A UFO group from Edmonton visits the field and finds three additional rings. An RCAF team from CFB Namao \[now CFB Edmonton\], along with [Gareth H. S. Jones](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2000BAAS...32.1672A) of the Defense Research Establishment Suffield \[now DRDC Suffield\], visits the farm on August 11 after much of the evidence has been trampled. Jones finds two more rings. The marks vary from 5 to 7 inches wide and from 31 feet 9 inches to 36 feet 3 inches, and each is incomplete on its western side. He is puzzled as to what made the marks, can find no evidence of a hoax, and seriously considers whether an aerial object could have made them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 162–165, 197–205 Source ID: Eberhart_4356 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13485 (FD1185C1) Date: 8/5/1967 Description: At two o'clock in the afternoon three teenagers in Porthmadog near Mount Snowdon, Wales witnessed a metallic, 10-foot long, beer keg-shaped object flying low and hugging the rough terrain in a silent flight up and down the mountains. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, February 1978, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_4678 Source: Johnson ### Event 13486 (BF8DA896) Date: 8/5/1967 Description: 8:50 p.m.Y.G. Solovyev, his wife and his son observed a ring-shaped object flying across the sky. An airliner flying at an altitude of 1,200 feet would have fit inside this ring. It was observed for over ten minutes in the western part of the sky. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Perm, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3699 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13487 (46D8CA3C) Date: 8/5/1967 Description: 6:40 p.m. CDT. A man saw three whitish oval objects approach Eglin at high speed in a V-formation. They stopped abruptly, hovered over the base at the radar station, then accelerated out over the Gulf of Mexico. The departure course appeared to follow the path of a radio navigation beam. (Hunkins letter, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eglin AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3698 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13488 (7CB83E78) Date: 8/5/1967 Description: At 11:30 p.m. two men, Ronald Sherven and Robert Bodine, saw a glowing, white flying object head from the west towards the east, north of Sawyer, North Dakota. The UFO was hidden from view by a hill, but suddenly appeared again over the cemetery, came down to ground level, and then sped away to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1967, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 864, citing NICAP Source ID: Johnson_4680 Source: Johnson ### Event 13489 (AAC8C913) Date: 8/6/1967 Description: Antonio Neri Perez and several other people saw three glowing, red disks take off from a field near the house. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 65 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hidalgo, Mexico Source ID: Magnonia_865 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13490 (F17CA74E) Date: 8/6/1967 Description: Again in Mexico at 8:10 p.m. control tower operators at Mexico City's international airport, and thousands of other ground witnesses, watched 10 yellow-red-orange objects change formation, then pass over the airport. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall Source ID: Johnson_4733 Source: Johnson ### Event 13491 (BEEBC9C0) Date: 8/6/1967 Description: On this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. in Wyoming Flats, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania six men reporting witnessing a shiny, metallic disc only three feet in diameter. It made a buzzing sound and descended from above some power lines, and landed giving off a red glow. It shot back up into the sky after a short while, flying east. A five-foot wide circular burned area was found, but a local farmer said he had burned some brush there. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files, citing a newspaper clipping dated August 9, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_4732 Source: Johnson ### Event 13492 (B4B60A7E) Date: 8/6/1967 Description: Approx. 2:00 a.m. LT. Two sleeping witnesses were awakened by a small being with a large head (humanoid) wearing a "rubber suit." The being jumped out a window toward an object outside that had blinding, multicolored lights. Investigators found scrape marks and footprints (physical traces) at the site. (El Universal, 8/8/67, and El Mundo, 8/9/67, copies in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Bernadino, Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_3700 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13493 (A74108E0) Date: 8/6/1967 Description: 3:30 p.m. EDT. Six witnesses saw a shiny metal-like, saucer-shaped object about 3 feet in diameter descend from above high tension lines with a buzzing sound. The object gave off a red glow as it descended, landed, then shot back up and away to the east. (Unidentified clipping and Bufalino report, 8/9/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wyoming Flats, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3702 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13494 (50C8949A) Date: 8/6/1967 Description: Again in the San Bernardino area of Caracas, Venezuela (see report above from 1965), at 2:00 a.m. Pedro Riera was awakened by someone shaking his bed. When he focused his eyes he saw in front of him a small humanoid being with a disproportionately large head, wearing a "rubber suit." He jumped out of bed and grabbed the little man, but the dwarf wriggled free and went out the second floor window. Riera looked out and saw a round, multicolored, luminous object so brilliant that he had to close his eyes. In the morning he found deposits of a rust-like substance, and small footprints in this "rust" on the pavement below his balcony. Several neighbors had also observed the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1967-72, citing Jose Schael Guillermo; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_4730 Source: Johnson ### Event 13495 (5EA2A8A9) Date: 8/6/1967 Description: Office worker Antonio Neri Perez and several others watch three glowing red discs take off in V formation from a field near their house in Tetepango, Hidalgo, Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 65 Source ID: Eberhart_4357 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13496 (440EA682) Date: 8/6/1967 Description: 7:55–8:20 p.m. Formations of lights in groups of 3–5 are seen in many states of Mexico, including Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, Veracruz, and Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán. Most are generally moving west to east. Many people at the Mexico City International Airport watch a group between 8:10 and 8:20 p.m. Technicians in the control tower can make out 9–10 objects through binoculars. Capt. Angel Fojo Ceballos and Capt. José Luis Espejo are flying an Aeronaves de México \[now Aeroméxico\] DC-9 at 23,000 feet over Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. They see three bright points flying in formation from northwest to southeast an estimated 30–40 miles away. They cross the horizon at 55,000–60,000 feet in 40–45 seconds. One of the objects appears to break formation and approach the aircraft, showing a round shape and metallic composition, but then it veers away and out of sight. The events are thought to be the reentry of the Pioneer 7 rocket body that had launched from Cape Canaveral on August 15, 1966. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 65– 67 Source ID: Eberhart_4358 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13497 (48573526) Date: 8/6/1967 Description: 8:17 p.m. LT. Airport control tower personnel and others saw 10 yellow-orange- red objects moving in close formation going south to north. The objects changed formation (maneuvered) as they passed over the airport. (Ramos letter, 8/8/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mexico City, Mexico Source ID: NICAP_DB_3703 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13498 (71DF87E9) Date: 8/6/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. A Peruvian airliner piloted by Capt. Samuel Sanguaza, copilot César Jordan, and subofficers Oscar Guevara and Jorge Sarguaza encounters a globe of light while flying between Lima, and Pisco, Peru. The light changes color from red to orange and blue as it paces the aircraft for 15 minutes, bobbing up and down, moving closer and receding, before it zooms away as the airplane nears Pisco. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 21–22 Source ID: Eberhart_4359 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13499 (84ED23ED) Date: 8/6/1967 Description: Antonio Neri Perez and several other people in Hidalgo, Mexico saw three glowing, red discs take off from a field near his house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 65; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 865 Source ID: Johnson_4731 Source: Johnson ### Event 13500 (F2A9B617) Date: 8/7/1967 Time: 0200 Description: In the San Bernardino section, Pedro Riera, of Avila Ave., was awakened by the shaking of his bed and saw a creature in his room, which "flew" out through the open window. Lights on the ground blinded the witness when he rushed to the balcony. Other people had seen a strange vehicle parked in the street. That afternoon, a strange dwarf entered the office of Dr. S. Vegas, who examined him. The being spoke perfect Spanish, had peculiar heart sounds, and did not understand the notion of "age." Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 74 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Caracas, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_866 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13501 (0C52A4D1) Date: 8/7/1967 Description: That evening at 9:00 p.m. a motorcyclist named Alcazar in Igries, Huesca province, Spain saw a disc-shaped UFO object fly 150 meters above him and land. It was white in color and blinked three times as it landed. The witness panicked and fled, but others saw it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 49 Source ID: Johnson_4765 Source: Johnson ### Event 13502 (63D58231) Date: 8/7/1967 Description: That afternoon in Caracas, Venezuela a physician, Dr. Sanchez Vegas, had a most unusual visit from a four foot tall alien in his office at the Caracas Hospital. The man wore a silver suit, spoke perfect Spanish, and moved strangely. The creature talked to the doctor and told him he wanted a physical exam. The being had no ear orifices, round shaped eyes, ten teeth, a higher than normal temperature, and a faster than normal heartbeat. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 12; Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 75; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 866; newspaper clipping dated August 17, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_4764 Source: Johnson ### Event 13503 (77DFF4BB) Date: 8/7/1967 Description: At 2:00 a.m. Pedro Riera of San Bernardino, Caracas, Venezuela was awakened when his bed was suddenly shaken, and he saw in front of him a small being with an unusally large head wearing a "rubber suit." Sr. Riera jumped out of bed and grabbed the little man, but he wriggled free and went out the second floor window of his bedroom. Riera looked out and saw a round, multicolored luminous object so brilliant that he had to close his eyes. In the morning he found deposits of a rust-like substance, and small footprints in this "rust" on the pavement below his balcony. Several neighbors had observed the UFO. Two teenagers and a child saw a saucer-shaped object on the ground on the same street as Riera lived. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jose Schael Guillermo, El Universal, August 8, 1967; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1973, p. 4; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, pp. 74-77; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-72, citing Jose Schael Guillermo and APRO Bulletin Source ID: Johnson_4763 Source: Johnson ### Event 13504 (9B0B8F7A) Date: 8/8/1967 Description: Evangelical pastor Estanislao Lugo Contreras is on the shore at Catia La Mar, Vargas, Venezuela, when he sees the water stirring up in a vast round area. The water begins to turn light blue, then whitish, yellowish, then brilliant orange. An orange disc rises out of the sea about 1,650 feet from shore, hovers, then rises obliquely and disappears. It makes an intense buzzing sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 54–55 Source ID: Eberhart_4360 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13505 (FAD794DA) Date: 8/8/1967 Time: evening Description: Evangelic Pastor Estanislao Lugo Contreras was at the shore when he saw a diskshaped object with a very bright orange glow emitting a buzzing sound, rise out of the sea, hover a few seconds then rise obliquely. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 55 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Salina, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_867 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13506 (4C6593EE) Date: 8/8/1967 Description: 8:40 p.m. An object shaped like a sharply outlined asymmetrical crescent flies over the Kislovodsk Mountain Astronomical Station near Kislovodsk, North Caucasus, Russia. The object is slightly smaller than the moon with a color described as reddish by some observers, yellow by others. It flies from west to east about 20° above the horizon, moving from the Big Dipper to Cassiopeia in about 30 seconds at a uniform speed. The witnesses are Anatoli Sazanov, a specialist in the ionosphere; V. A. Tsion of the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute; and seven members of a biological expedition. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Felix Ziegel, “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210023618901&view=1up&seq=103&skin=2021)” Soviet Life, no. 137 \(February 1968\): 28; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#astronomers)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 61; Hobana and Weverbergh 288–289; Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, [p. 192](https://archive.org/details/ufochroniclesofs00vall/page/192/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4361 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13507 (9BBD6FFE) Date: 8/8/1967 Description: Evangelical Pastor Estanislao Lugo Contreras was at the shore in Salina, Venezuela on this evening when he saw a disc-shaped object with a very bright orange glow and emitting a buzzing sound, rise out of the sea. It hovered a few seconds and then rose obliquely into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, pp. 54-55; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 867 Source ID: Johnson_4773 Source: Johnson ### Event 13508 (060D2EA8) Date: 8/8/1967 Description: 8:40 p.m. An object shaped like a sharply outlined asymmetrical crescent flew over the mountain astronomical station of the Academy of Sciences. The object was slightly smaller than the moon, about twenty minutes of arc, with a color described as reddish by some observers, yellow for others. (Ref.3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kislovodsk, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3704 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13509 (509BCC9E) Date: 8/9/1967 Description: 3:00 p.m.Mr. Lytkiny and his wife were on vacation resting by the shore of a lake, when they saw a fast-moving oval object. It was milky white, with some small black rods arranged randomly on its surface. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belye Krinitsy, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3705 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13510 (4674A965) Date: 8/9/1967 Description: 2:30 AM. A disc-shaped object about the size of a rugby ball was sighted by a married couple in Grey Friars. It flashed blue lights all around its rim, and seemed to be spinning in time with sound coming from it. It caused their dog to begin barking. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grey Friars, Stattordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3706 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13511 (40272CE5) Date: 8/9/1967 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a bright, cage-like UFO shaped like an inverted bowl, with a row of yellow lights on its surface, flew over Grand Rapids, Michigan very fast at an estimated altitude of 5,000 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Grand Rapids Press, August 11, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_4797 Source: Johnson ### Event 13512 (4AA7F5F6) Date: 8/9/1967 Description: A disc-shaped object about the size of a rugby ball was sighted by a married couple in Grey Friars, Stattordshire, England at 2:30 a.m. It flashed blue lights all around its rim, and seemed to be spinning in time with sound coming from it. It caused their dog to begin barking. The witnesses reported that they were too frightened to sleep after their encounter. Later that evening another close encounter occurred in Weston-on-Trent, England. The witness reported a "dull penetrating sound," then sighting a red light that moved up, down, and "all over the place." This witness's dog also whimpered, barked, and scratched at the door in response to the UFO. The noise persisted throughout the night, even after the UFO had gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roger H. Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_4796 Source: Johnson ### Event 13513 (7FDCEB79) Date: 8/10/1967 Description: 9:40 p.m. EDT. A top official with a telephone company saw a huge object, estimated 75 feet long, that was hovering about 125 feet over a field. It was an elongated, diamond-shaped object with white lights at each end, a red light on one side, a blue-green light on the other side (body lights), and a girder-type structure in the middle. (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP files; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 3, Nov.-Dec. 1967, p. 3.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3708 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13514 (6A554A0A) Date: 8/10/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. Harry E. King and Michael Swartz see a bright round ball, about 50–60 feet in diameter, in the air about 1,300 feet away near Winter Haven, Florida. It hovers for 3–4 minutes, then moves slowly for a quarter mile, rises, shoots away, and disappears in one second. At 10:00 p.m., they watch a bright light descend for 5 minutes, move back and forth for one minute, then suddenly disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_4362 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13515 (0A992AD8) Date: 8/11/1967 Description: Time not reported. Two men saw a glowing object, with a light beam, that moved slowly in a rectangular pattern at low altitude, then accelerated upward and out of sight. At one point the witnesses drove to within one-half block of the object. (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, 9/7/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Enola, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3711 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13516 (0499680A) Date: 8/11/1967 Description: 11:00 p.m. EDT. Two people saw a cigar-shaped object with a row of lights along its length that flashed in sequence (body lights). The object seemed to be as big as an aircraft and maneuvered erratically. (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, 9/7/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Churchtown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3710 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13517 (E1B281A3) Date: 8/11/1967 Description: Orange hovering object chased by Air Force jets. (NUFORC) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [670811](http://www.nicap.org/littlerock670811dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Little Rock, AS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3709 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13518 (C43DB840) Date: 8/11/1967 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_138 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13519 (935B8904) Date: 8/12/1967 Time: 0230 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Miedtke, awakened by the barking of their dog, saw a large hemispherical object with a fluorescent glow and a short flash of light. Too terrified to go outside, they heard heavy footsteps around their trailer. At dawn there was a sound like that of a generator, and seconds later the object was gone. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 27 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ogema, Wisconsin Source ID: Magnonia_868 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13520 (A8F93B18) Date: 8/12/1967 Description: In Ogema, Wisconsin Mr. And Mrs. Miedtke, awakened by the barking of their dog at 2:30 a.m., soon observed a large hemispherical object with a fluorescent glow and a short flash of light. Too terrified to go outside, they heard heavy footsteps around their trailer for the next two and a half hours. At dawn there was a sound like that of a generator, and seconds later the object was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allen Utke, case investigation files; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 27; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 868 Source ID: Johnson_4941 Source: Johnson ### Event 13521 (C3162888) Date: 8/12/1967 Description: 2:30 a.m. [Robert P. Miedtke](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225108697/robert-p-miedtke) and his wife are sleeping in a camper on property belonging to some relatives on County Highway I some 11 miles west of Ogema, Wisconsin. They are awakened by their dog barking outside. They look out the window and see a large, fluorescent, half-moon-shaped object in a neighboring pasture about 450 feet away. It is shining a beam of light at a milk house only 25 feet from their camper. The dog has stopped barking and they can hear none of the usual night sounds. After about one hour, they hear the sound of someone walking in the gravel and sand outside. Three times the footsteps are heard going from north to south. The Miedtkes remain in bed, hoping no one would know they are in the camper. After another hour, just before dawn, they hear the dog whimpering and barking, followed by the muffled noise like a huge generator that fades away after 6–8 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Possible Landing in Wisconsin,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 11 Source ID: Eberhart_4363 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13522 (E2B1208C) Date: 8/12/1967 Description: 9:15 a.m. EDT. A man saw two dark-colored, elongated objects that hovered, started moving, banked, and accelerated, out of sight leaving a red trail. An aircraft passed beneath the objects during the sighting. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barrie, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3713 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13523 (82554F17) Date: 8/12/1967 Description: 2:30 a.m. CDT. A couple saw a glowing object with a light beam for 2-1/2 hours. Barking dogs (animal reaction) alerted the witnesses. The object was hovering and the beam of light was directed toward a farm building near the witnesses. (Unidentified newspaper clipping, 10/27/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Omega, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3712 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13524 (30546B88) Date: 8/12/1967 Description: On this night in St Louis de Kent, New Brunswick, Canada a dozen teenagers reported that they saw a "huge, black monster" that descended from a lighted craft in a wooded area. They were returning home from a dance when they caught sight of the figure dressed in black, with a black face or face mask and goggles. They didn't approach "the monster," who quickly disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-74, citing Moncton (NB) Times, August 17, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_4942 Source: Johnson ### Event 13525 (DCA1C5A2) Date: 8/13/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. Between Pilar de Goiás and Crixás, Goiás, Brazil, a plantation worker at the Estancia de Santa Maria, Ignácio da Souza, is returning home from work when he and his wife see an object in the form of an upside-down basin 115 feet in diameter sitting on the landing strip of the ranch. They initially think it is some flying machine tested by the ranch owner, Ibiracy de Moraes, a wealthy man and former president of the Bank of Brazil. Between the object and the couple, there are three humanoid, child-size beings that they initially think are naked children before realizing that they are hairless creatures wearing a tight suit of yellow. The beings seem to be playing around silently, but then move quickly towards them. Da Souza tells his wife to lock herself up in their house. He is armed with a rifle and frightened, so da Souza shoots the closest of the beings. At the same time, the UFO emits a ray of green light that hits him, throwing him to the ground unconscious. Seeing her husband fall from the kitchen window, his wife runs onto the scene shouting, interposes herself between the beings and the body of her husband, and picks up his rifle. But during this time the beings have retrieved the one that had fallen to ground and quickly flee to enter the craft. After a short time, it slowly rises vertically while emitting a buzz similar to that of a swarm of bees. Taken to the hospital of Goiânia, the state capital, de Souza suffers from nausea and a general numbness. Burns are noted, initially attributed to a toxic plant, but when de Souza and de Moraes hear the erroneous diagnosis and are told what had happened, doctors perform a blood analysis that returns with a diagnosis of advanced leukemia with life expectancy of two months. Da Souza quickly deteriorates, suffers, develops yellowish spots, and dies on October 11. In accordance with his instructions, his wife burns the bed, the mattress, and the clothing that he has used. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 353–354; Brazil 85–88; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1967-13-08-brazil-crixas.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1967-13-08-brazil-crixas.htm) August 15, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_4364 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13526 (E42B7606) Date: 8/13/1967 Description: At about four o'clock in the afternoon Inacio De Souza, age 41, and his wife Maria were approaching their home at Santa Maria, Brazil near the town of Crixas Pilar de Goias, when they saw three figures "playing about" on the landing strip of the owner of the Fazenda. The beings were as tall as young children, had no hair and were wearing skin-tight clothing of a pale yellow color. At the end of the landing strip was a landed UFO having the shape of an inverted washbasin. De Souza, carrying a .44 caliber carbine, fired a shot at the nearest being. Just then a beam of green light came from the UFO and struck De Souza on the head and shoulders, knocking him unconscious. The three entities entered the object, which then took off vertically at a high speed with a sound like buzzing bees. De Souza incurred a circular burned patch six inches in diameter, and he was also diagnosed with leukemia by a physician, from which he died less than two months later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March-April 1969, p. 1; Coral E. Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 169; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-75, citing Dr. Olavo T. Fontes, Jader Pereira & F. Carrion; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 223 Source ID: Johnson_4973 Source: Johnson ### Event 13527 (AD053046) Date: 8/14/1967 Description: Two days after the St. Louis de Kent humanoid encounter in New Brunswick, Canada an unidentified woman from St. Charles, New Brunswick reported sighting a similar figure in the woods near the same road. The Richibucto RCMP searched the area. Although they located a man dressed in black, he had was no apparent connection with the encounters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-76, citing Royal Canadian Mounted Police Source ID: Johnson_5007 Source: Johnson ### Event 13528 (7D762EF1) Date: 8/14/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. PDT. Four people saw a boomerang-shaped object with a white light on the front and a green light on the rear (body lights). The object was dull gray and apparently solid. It glided slowly along a low-altitude, horizontal path. (NICAP report forms.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Walnut Creek, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3714 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13529 (D7354AC9) Date: 8/15/1967 Description: A young boy on a farm near Port Perry, Durham county, Ontario, Canada heard a loud oscillating noise at 7:30 a.m., and went over a hill in the direction of the sound to investigate. On the other side he saw what appeared to be a landed disc-shaped craft with four metallic legs, but instead of resting on the landing gear it was actually hovering just above the ground. On a platform around its perimeter were seated eight to ten little men about three feet tall, who wore tight fitting brown uniforms. A circular depression 12 feet in diameter was later found on the ground at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1562, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters Source ID: Johnson_5039 Source: Johnson ### Event 13530 (AA29F787) Date: Mid 8/1967 Description: About 12:00 noon. Electrical engineer Albert Fulton and superintendent Sherman Anderson are making rounds at the Nova Scotia Light and Power substation in Caledonia, Nova Scotia. They notice steam rising from one of three large transformers, then Fulton spots two silvery disc-shaped objects maneuvering around the sky some distance away. The pair watches them a they zip back and forth in different directions from horizon to horizon in 3–4 seconds. Each time they leave a silvery line about 10 times their length behind them, which disappears when the objects stop. They watch this spectacle for about one minute, then both discs come to a common point in front of a suddenly visible gray, cigar-shaped object. After stopping briefly the two smaller objects merge into the cigar, taking 12–15 seconds. The large object disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_4365 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13531 (D96488E1) Date: 8/16/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. PDT. Two witnesses saw two saucer-shaped objects with flashing red and white body lights. The objects hovered in separate parts of the sky, suddenly accelerated out of sight leaving a "trail of light" on departure. (Sacramento Bee, Calif., 8/18/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Dorado Hills, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3715 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13532 (97973C3C) Date: 8/16/1967 Description: Pedro Jose Ramirez in Caracas, Venezuela reported seeing a four-foot-tall being with an oversized head and large eyes, abnormal teeth and mouth, and five fingers on his hands. The being was agile, lightweight, hoarse-voiced, and wore a shiny suit. He spoke Spanish. The entity told Ramirez that the Earth "was cracking and they wished to save it." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1967-77 (A0851), citing Scheffer Vladimir Scheffer, letter to NICAP dated August 22, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_5079 Source: Johnson ### Event 13533 (06A3E039) Date: 8/16/1967 Description: On the same day, in Antimano, Federal District, Venezuela 10-year-old Jose Gregorio Bouaci was in his bedroom in the early afternoon when he encountered a "little man" who tried to talk to him. The being was short, white skinned, and had an over-sized head, with no arms. The boy left his room screaming, saying that he had seen a Martian. He was so frightened he threw up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1967-78 (A0852), citing Richard Heiden Source ID: Johnson_5080 Source: Johnson ### Event 13534 (A3D0DC3F) Date: 8/18/1967 Description: 10:20 p.m. EDT. A woman saw a horizontal row of blinking red and white lights. They appeared to hover, and then moved off and disappeared behind a mountain. A high-pitched hum was heard that diminished as the object moved away. (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, 9/7/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mechanicsburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3716 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13535 (DCF18600) Date: 8/18/1967 Description: A CIA report summarizes interviews with unnamed Russian astronomers that may possibly have been conducted by members of the Condon commission. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[Report on Conversations with](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005515701.pdf) [Soviet Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSR,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005515701.pdf)” August 18, 1967; Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/230/mode/2up) [230–231](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/230/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4366 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13536 (A3B3A784) Date: 8/19/1967 Description: 9:45 pm.m EDT. Two men saw a white light hovering over a field and maneuvered their car to illuminate the area. In their headlights they saw a small creature (humanoid) with unusual hands and dressed in shiny clothing. (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, 10/4/67, NICAP files) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chambersburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3718 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13537 (DEAABD0E) Date: 8/19/1967 Description: 5:30 a.m. EDT. A man saw a sphere with triangular fin-like projections . The object moved erratically and appeared to "bounce," approaching the witness. At one point it made a U-turn in the space of its own diameter, before eventually moving off. (Witness letter, 8/23/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greensboro, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3717 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13538 (CB60C6D9) Date: 8/22/1967 End date: 8/31/1967 Description: [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf)[,](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) [Roach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FE.%5FRoach)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FE.%5FRoach) and [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) attend the XIIIth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Prague, Czechoslovakia \[now Czech Republic\]. Low wastes an opportunity to meet with [Charles Bowen](http://www.isaackoi.com/ufo-personalities/bowen-charles.html) in London, England, and instead goes to Loch Ness, Scotland, “because neither the Loch Ness monster nor UFOs exist.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “[The USAF-Sponsored Colorado Project for the Scientific Study of UFOs,](http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/swordscc.html)” 1995 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1995; Swords 321; Good Above, [p. 230](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/230/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4367 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13539 (5EB7AFC4) Date: 8/23/1967 Description: Lights Observed / Tracked On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [670823](http://www.nicap.org/670823halifax%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3723 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13540 (AEA020EE) Date: 8/23/1967 Description: 11:00 p.m. LT (7:00 p.m. EDT). A bright yellow-white elongated oval object was observed hovering in the northeast sky, sharply outlined and solid appearing. The yellowish glow pulsated or flickered in brightness. (Stanway and Pace, 1968, p. 6.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Porthill, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3722 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13541 (2B8F440C) Date: 8/23/1967 Description: 4:00 a.m. EDT. A man drove down a side road to investigate a green light he saw in a field. His headlights illuminated a large, metallic-appearing disc on or near the ground. It was shaped like an inverted bowl and had three legs. The witness saw three beings about 3-4 feet tall and wearing helmets (humanoids). They appeared to be gathering specimens. (Hall, 2001, p. 480; MUFON UFO Journal, August 1987, p. 19.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Joyceville, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3720 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13542 (1475BDB5) Date: 8/23/1967 Description: 4:00 a.m. EDT. A man drove down a side road to investigate a green light he saw in a field. His headlights illuminated a large, metallic-appearing disc on or near the ground. It was shaped like an inverted bowl and had three legs. Burn marks and impressions (physical traces) were found at the site. (Hall, 2001, p. 480; MUFON UFO Journal, August 1987, p. 19.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Joyceville, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3719 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13543 (58A41758) Date: 8/23/1967 Time: 2000 Description: A boy and a girl, both 15, noticed a red glow coming down in the woods. Later they saw a large source of light in mid-air and heard piercing whistling sounds, then footsteps, and saw a jumping creature, 10 m away. It was about 1.30 m tall, had an oversized head, made jerky motions, raised a tube in its arms, and had a "shimmering" appearance. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Sep., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Kolmarden, Sweden Source ID: Magnonia_870 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13544 (6492E5AC) Date: 8/23/1967 Time: early Description: Stanley Moxon, of Toronto, driving to Montreal, was between Joyceville and the Glen Grove Rd. when he encountered a large, diskshaped craft and two creatures, 1.20 m tall, dressed in white suits and helmets. They "flew back" into the object at once and it left silently at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 32 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Joycevi]le, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_869 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13545 (8BEF5CD5) Date: 8/23/1967 Description: At 10:15 p.m. a 19-year-old teenager riding on a motocycle two miles north of Lacombe, Alberta, Canada was chased by a red UFO with a vertical stripe down the middle. It followed him two miles down a twisting country road. The motorcycle engine "coughed", but did not stall. He felt heat, and heard a loud whistle sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lacombe Globe, August 23, 1967; Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Autumn 1967, p. 10; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_5259 Source: Johnson ### Event 13546 (F8CF3290) Date: 8/23/1967 Description: In Kolmarden, Sodermanland, Sweden a 15-year-old boy and girl, Erik and Inga, were walking together in the evening when they saw a reddish glow descend into the woods at 8:00 p.m. When they reached an abandoned cabin they saw a conical light beam cast onto its wall, and the red light re-appeared. Alarmed by this, they walked to the home of the boy's sisters, where they found a round, brightly luminous object hovering about 13 feet in the air. Then they heard a whistling sound and footsteps, and finally a little being jumped out from behind some bushes, 35 feet away. The being was 4 feet 4 inches tall, and its face was at first completely in shadow. Then it jerkily raised its head and arms, holding a box from which a short tube protruded. Its head was very large, covered by hair or a helmet. It had large dark eyes, and a nose and mouth that together formed an "X." It was bowlegged, and around each ankle was a brilliant, white glowing wire. The witnesses ran for home. The next day at the site the boy found some apples that had been broken apart, some of them with the marks of five fingernails or claws on the broken surface. Other apples were coated with a foul smelling slime. Also found outside the house were deep, odd footprints, 6 inches long and with three-toe marks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-82, citing K. Gosta Rehn, APRO and Sven Schalin; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 712; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 870, citing APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967 Source ID: Johnson_5258 Source: Johnson ### Event 13547 (DF1EAC0F) Date: 8/23/1967 Description: Two young men, Ricardo Hurtado and Antonio Piedra, in Caracas, Santa Monica district, Venezuela heard a noise like "horses galloping" in their kitchen. They encountered two small beings who when discovered left hurriedly. There were no lights on in the room and their details could not be discerned very well, but they did not believe the visitors could have been children. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_5257 Source: Johnson ### Event 13548 (953A2CCC) Date: 8/23/1967 Description: Joyceville, Ontario - While driving from his home in Toronto to Montreal at four o'clock in the morning Stanley Moxon, age 20, saw a green light in a field ahead of him, not far from the road. He turned off his headlights and swung onto a side road to get closer. Turning his lights on again, he saw a huge greenish colored lens-shaped craft, and two somewhat bulky human-like entities about four feet tall, wearing white uniforms and helmets. They "seemed to be at work around the machine." When they were discovered, they quickly jumped into the craft, which took off silently at tremendous speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Toronto Telegram, August 23, 1967; Kingston Whig Standard, August 24, 1967; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 14; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-81, citing APRO and police reports; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 869; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 264, 473 Source ID: Johnson_5256 Source: Johnson ### Event 13549 (5F69FB3E) Date: 8/23/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. Two 15-year-olds are strolling around the Kolmården ridge area in Östergötland, Sweden, when they see a reddish glow moving back and forth in the nearby woods. Continuing home, they run across a locked, deserted shack that seems to have some yellowish lights moving around in one room and noises like muted thuds. The red glow reappears moving close to the ground from the west. Suddenly it turns brilliant white and appears to land on the other side of a brook. They run home and see a huge light like a flashlight hovering 13 feet above the ground near the house. They hear a whistling sound coming from the brook and what seem to be footsteps coming toward them. They run to a ravine where they see, about 35 feet away, a small being with a disproportionately large head and wearing dark clothing. It lifts its arms and seems to be holding a box-like apparatus with a tube. Two thin, wire-like bands appear around the creature’s ankles and give off an intense white light. They run home again. The next day they return to where the being was and find some odd three-toed footprints about 6 inches long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Monster’ Report from Sweden,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, pp. 1, 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4369 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13550 (9819B6DA) Date: 8/23/1967 Description: 4:00 a.m. Stanley Moxon is driving on Ontario Highway 15 between Joyceville, Ontario, and Pine Grove Road when he sees a green light in a field to the south. He turns off his lights and drives down a side road to get closer. Minutes later, he turns on his lights again and they shine on a huge metallic disc hovering just above the ground. Two entities, 4 feet tall and dressed in white suits and helmets, appear to be startled and hurry back into the craft, which takes off at tremendous speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Occupant in Ontario,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_4368 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13551 (999D2D3A) Date: 8/23/1967 Description: Landing report. Source and details unknown. (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamilton County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3721 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13552 (9C9ECBD7) Date: 8/23/1967 Description: Huge disc on or just above ground in field, three small humanoid beings emerged, apparently gathered specimens. Physical traces Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Joyceville, Ontario, Canada Source ID: HallUFOE2_139 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13553 (631FB7E3) Date: 8/24/1967 Description: 9:25 p.m. EDT. A woman saw three bright white ovals or elongated objects, each the size of the moon, that moved over Lake Ontario in a V-formation. The objects suddenly ascended and accelerated out of sight. A "beeping" sound was heard during the sighting. (Hall letter, 8/28/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pultneyville, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3726 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13554 (427AA655) Date: 8/24/1967 Description: 5:00 p.m. Ron Hydes is riding his motorcycle near Wodonga, Victoria, Australia, when he is surrounded by a blinding blue-white light that illuminates the road. As he stops, a bright lens-shaped domed disc, estimated to be 25–30 feet in diameter, descends within a few feet of the ground about 100 feet away. Two humanoids about 5– 5.5 feet tall with round helmets and silver coveralls emerge. One steps nearer to the witness, who flees. The object, surrounded by a pinkish glow, follows the motorcycle at about 100 feet off the ground. Hydes can hear a humming sound above the motorcycle’s engine. He stops again and the object hovers, the hum subsiding. After 30 seconds, the color around the object changes from pink to brilliant red, and it tilts up at a 45° angle, then shoots away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Occupants Attempt to Lure Motorcyclist,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, pp. 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_4370 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13555 (A74407E3) Date: 8/24/1967 Description: Two humanoid beings in silvery suits, round helmets, emerged from disc with dome Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Wodonga, Victoria, Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_140 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13556 (D7B698B7) Date: 8/24/1967 Description: At 5:00 p.m. a motorcyclist named Ron Hyde was riding on the Sydney to Melbourne highway between New South Wales and Victoria, Australia when he was suddenly engulfed in a bluish-white light that so dazzling he had to stop, near Wodonga, Victoria. He then saw a metallic object on or near the ground 30 meters away. Its shape was like that of two lens-shaped saucers on top of each other, with a dome on top. It was silvery on top but the lower half was dark gray, and it was about 10 meters in diameter. It also bore a black mark or insignia. Next to it appeared two human figures about 1.5 meters tall, wearing silvery coveralls and opaque helmets. A gesture from them scared the witness, who drove away but was subsequently followed by the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 871, citing FSR, March-April 1968; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 11, 473, 480 Source ID: Johnson_5290 Source: Johnson ### Event 13557 (E27EC5A5) Date: 8/24/1967 Description: Time not reported. (Beauford Sea) - Officials at Cape Perry Distant Early Warning radar site saw a large, translucent spherical object moving so slowly it was in the vicinity for 10 hours. It did not register on radar. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Perry, Northwest Territories, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3725 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13558 (E9E4EB02) Date: 8/24/1967 Description: Two humanoid beings in silvery suits, round helmets, emerged from disc with dome (sections IX, XII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wodonga, Victoria, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_3724 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13559 (F21357CA) Date: 8/24/1967 Time: 1700 Description: A motorcyclist was suddenly engulfed in a bluish-white light so dazzling that he had to stop. He then saw a metallic object, 30 m away, its shape that of two saucers one on top of the other, with a dome on top, silvery, the lower half dark gray, about 10 m in diameter, and bearing a black mark or insignia. Near it appeared two figures about 1.5 m tall, wearing silvery coveralls and opaque helmets. A gesture from them scared the witness, who drove away but was followed by the object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sydney-Melbourne Road, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_871 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13560 (95B90E1A) Date: 8/25/1967 Description: At 4:00 p.m. in Eldon, Missouri an ovoid object flew slowly and silently to the southwest at 800 feet altitude. Two witnesses in a car attempted to follow it, but it tilted and vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, FSR Case Histories, December 1971, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_5322 Source: Johnson ### Event 13561 (985B5AE5) Date: 8/25/1967 Description: Early the following morning, witnesses in Paragould, Ark., saw three oval objects, two red and one white, that hovered, then moved in straight-line formation "in circular manner." Other witnesses reportedly heard a buzzing or humming sound. (Arkansas Democrat, 8/25/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paragould, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_3727 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13562 (1A5E24EF) Date: 8/25/1967 Description: 5:00 p.m. LT. A man on the beach saw precipitous movement of water out of which three huge plate-shaped discs emerged and streaked out of sight. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 5, March 1968, p. 5.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Catia La Mar, Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_3728 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13563 (11DAC68E) Date: 8/25/1967 Description: 5:25 a.m. MDT. A man with training in aircraft identification and his wife saw a bright white light and a blue glow with three vertical bands of lights (body lights) between them. The object approached at an estimated altitude of 500 feet, disappeared into a cloud bank and reappeared at closer range, hovered, and at one point approached the witnesses. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roswell, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_3729 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13564 (E191F166) Date: 8/25/1967 Description: 5:00 p.m. Ruben Norato sees a “precipitous movement of the water” from the beach at Catia La Mar, Vargas, Venezuela, from which arise “three huge plate-shaped discs” that streak out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Question of](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/041%20MAR%201968.pdf) [Submerging UFO’s,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/041%20MAR%201968.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 5 \(March 1968\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4371 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13565 (02797BA4) Date: 8/25/1967 Description: In Catia la Mar, Venezuela three large-sized disc-shaped objects were seen to emerge from the sea at five o'clock in the afternoon by Ruben Norato, after he observed a "precipitous movement of the water." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 872, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968 Source ID: Johnson_5323 Source: Johnson ### Event 13566 (83D07D7C) Date: 8/25/1967 Description: Shortly after 11:00 p.m. a round, hazy mass of orange-red light, about a quarter of a mile away, was sighted by two witnesses in Rising Brook, Staffordshire, England. It was estimated to be about 60 feet in diameter, and at a maximum height of 300-400 feet from the ground. It hovered, then moved slowly to the south, stopped, and then moved back again. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roger H. Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_5324 Source: Johnson ### Event 13567 (CCB003FE) Date: 8/25/1967 Time: 1700 Description: Three disks of large dimension were seen to emerge from the sea by Ruben Norato, after he observed a "precipitous movement of the water." Type: ufo sighting Reference: NICAP Mar., 68 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Catia la Mar, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_872 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13568 (5077301F) Date: 8/26/1967 Description: Saki Macharechi spotted an object in flight, which he thought was a heron, land near a bridge. He then saw that it was a dwarf, about 1 m tall, with huge eyes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 78 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Maturin, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_874 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13569 (9740ABEB) Date: 8/26/1967 Description: Campers saw glowing oval that beamed light down, engulfed canoe. Memory loss and abduction. (See section XIII bibliography, Fowler, 1990a.) Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Eagle Lake, Allagash Waterway, ME Source ID: HallUFOE2_141 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13570 (BC9AC3CA) Date: 8/26/1967 Description: Driving on the highway to Maturin, Venezuela on this morning Mr. Saki Macharechi saw what appeared to be a large bird flying overhead. When it landed near a bridge he took it to be a heron, but when he got closer he saw that it was a small human-like figure. He passed within ten feet of the creature. Frightened, he stepped on the gas and drove away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-84, citing APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 873, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 78 Source ID: Johnson_5365 Source: Johnson ### Event 13571 (C2F28851) Date: 8/26/1967 Description: At 2:00 a.m. Marine Private Esteban D. Cova was just leaving the hangar at Maquetia Airport, Venezuela when he was accosted by a little man about three feet tall who was covered with wiry hair. The little man had a very large head, bulging eyes, and made a deep whistling sound that gave the witness a prickling sensation throughout his body. The little man then spoke in Spanish, asking Cova, "Won't you come with us? We need one more." Cova passed out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-85, citing APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 873, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 79 Source ID: Johnson_5364 Source: Johnson ### Event 13572 (F39FF603) Date: 8/26/1967 Description: Campers saw glowing oval that beamed light down, engulfed canoe. Memory loss and abduction. (See section XIII bibliography, Fowler, 1990a.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eagle Lake, Allagash Waterway, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_3730 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13573 (477B12B3) Date: 8/26/1967 Time: 0200 Description: Esteban D. Cova, a private in the Marines, was relieved of duty at the airport and returned to his quarters. Then he met an ugly dwarf, 1 m tall, with a huge head, bulgy eyes, and a body covered with "hairy stuff or wiry metal." It made a deep whistling sound, and Cova felt a prickling sensation in his body. In perfect Spanish the creature said: "Won't you come with me? We need one human being." Cova fainted. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 79 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Maiquetia Airport, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_873 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13574 (9744CCE7) Date: 8/27/1967 Description: Oval on ground beside road; one driver walked toward it, flash of light knocked him out, APRO Bulletin, Mar.-Apr. 1969 (E,L) 3 cars (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Texas Creek, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3731 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13575 (B18A583C) Date: 8/27/1967 Description: [David Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) proposes to the Colorado project team that they issue technical reports on whatever phase or case they have concentrated on. These will be circulated among the staff for review but not for veto. They would stand as the author’s own work without censure. Appropriate disclaimers would be attached before they are issued to the public. A final report might be cobbled together from these technical reports. [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) and [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) apparently disapprove of this immediately. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 323 Source ID: Eberhart_4372 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13576 (0C22146B) Date: 8/27/1967 Description: 11:20 p.m. Kenneth Flack is passing a car near Texas Creek, Colorado, when his engine and car lights fail. He pulls to the side of the road, along with the car he is passing and a camper-trailer. He sees a large object in a field some 900–1,200 feet away. It is football-shaped and silvery. He approaches it on foot and is hit by a bright light coming from the object that knocks him out. Bystanders from other cars carry him back to the roadside and tell him that he had been frozen in a standing position for 5 minutes. Flack is intensely cold and sleepy, so another unidentified driver gives him a ride back to Pueblo in a camper Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[1967 Landing in Colorado,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201969%2003%2000%20-%20March-April%201969.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1969, pp. 3–4; Lorenzen, The Shadow of the Unknown, New American Library, 1970, pp. 138–139; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(September 2011\): 21; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 143–144; CUFOS case file Source ID: Eberhart_4373 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13577 (F8CC9F7B) Date: 8/28/1967 Description: 7:15 p.m. EST. Three witnesses saw a row of 8-10 revolving white lights and a parallel upper row of yellowish lights (body lights) apparently attached to a curved surface of an object concealed behind the lights. (Fowler, 1974, p. 350.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rockport, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3733 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13578 (EA7CDD9D) Date: 8/28/1967 Description: Time not reported. A couple reported that an object hovered over their car, followed them, then hovered to the rear of the car. The car was illuminated by light beams and was reported to heat up. (Brandon Sun, Manitoba, 10/4/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rivers, Manitoba, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3732 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13579 (64FCDC03) Date: 8/28/1967 End date: 8/29/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m.–1:10 a.m. Leslie and Jacqueline Dowdell see a 3–4 dancing lights zigzagging to the northeast over Rivers, Manitoba. The lights resolve into one object the color of a mandarin orange that hovers for 2–3 minutes, changing colors, before zooming away to the north. At 12:30 a.m., Cpl. A. Fedun of CFB Rivers \[now closed\] sees a round ball of orange light moving northwest. At 12:45 a.m., Commissionaire G. Stefanson hears a loud noise, and LAC J. Hebert and Judy Ross, driving one mile east of Rivers, watch a white flashing light that remains stationary for 30–50 seconds. They later find some odd dust on their car and some bubbling of the paint on the top. At 1:00 a.m., Cpl. K. McArthur hears another loud blast that rattles windows on the base. At 1:10 a.m., LAC K. Taylor, 8 miles east of Rivers, sees a red ball of flame trailed by a blue light at 3,000–4,000 feet. An investigating team from RCAF Trainiong Command Headquarters in Winnipeg immediately comes out to investigate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 251–260 Source ID: Eberhart_4374 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13580 (B916CEA3) Date: 8/28/1967 Description: An important close encounter with physiological effects happened at Rivers Canadian RAF Base in Manitoba on this date. There were two 20 year old military witnesses involved. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Summer 1968; Gene Duplantier, Flying Saucers, June 1968, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_5420 Source: Johnson ### Event 13581 (DD2834ED) Date: 8/28/1967 Description: Joseph Purcell, age 19, sighted a cigar-shaped object over Dublin, Ireland. It was very bright at one end, and gave off an orange hue at the other. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Butler Dermot, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_5419 Source: Johnson ### Event 13582 (FF0A212C) Date: 8/29/1967 Description: Evening, EDT. A pilot was requested by Toledo airport control tower to check out an unidentified light. He saw a large, bright orange light at 6,000 feet and estimated its diameter as 50-60 feet. The pilot chased the light but it eluded him over Lake Erie. (Phone call to NICAP from Walter Stroud, Toledo, 8/30/67, NICAP files.) , (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3736 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13583 (C4C9B30C) Date: 8/29/1967 Description: 10:30 a.m. François Delpeuch, 13, and his sister Anne-Marie, 9, are herding cows at Cussac, Cantal, France. They see four small black beings about 47 inches tall with large heads and pointed chins around a landed sphere 15 feet in diameter. As the UFO begins to take off, the beings are sucked into it head-first, and it leaves very quickly in a blinding light. The police note “sulfur odor and the dried grass” at the landing spot. The case is reopened and studied in depth by [Claude Poher](https://minotb52ufo.com/poher/cpb.php). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Close encounter of Cussac](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rencontre%5Fde%5FCussac)”; Jöel Mesnard and Claude Pavy, “[Encounter with Devils,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1968\): 7–9; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story. Signet, 1969, pp. 280–282; \[Claude Poher\], “[Enquête sur l’Observation du 29.08.67 de Cussac](https://web.archive.org/web/20081115220146/www.cielinsolite.fr/IMG/pdf/Ovnilandcom%5FGepan%5FCussac%5F1978.pdf) [\(Cantal\),](https://web.archive.org/web/20081115220146/www.cielinsolite.fr/IMG/pdf/Ovnilandcom%5FGepan%5FCussac%5F1978.pdf)” Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés, Centre Nationale d’Étude Spatiales, 1978; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_4375 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13584 (C0ED4DEE) Date: 8/29/1967 Description: In Warminster at Cradle Hill, England a cone-shaped UFO was seen by 25 witnesses watching for UFOs on this night. It landed 100 meters from a copse of trees on Cradle Hill. Arthur Shuttlewood went toward the landing sight, and at 300 meters distance he spoke to a being (there are no details describing the being). The UFO went dark, and as he walked back a creature of some sort flew overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-87 (A0861), citing Arthur Shuttlewood Source ID: Johnson_5462 Source: Johnson ### Event 13585 (D72A0F23) Date: 8/29/1967 Description: 11:10 p.m.EDT. A man saw a round object with pulsating, multicolored lights around the circumference and a white light on top (body lights). The object moved slowly at tree-top level, retraced its path, hovered, and suddenly ascended. The witness had physiological effects (not specified) afterwards. (Montreal Le Petit Journal, 10/1/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oka, Quebec, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3737 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13586 (B2DA5221) Date: 8/29/1967 Description: Twilight. Five people, two of them adults, saw a round object with a dome. Soft red light was seen in the dome, and a string of white lights was visible around the bottom of the object (body lights). (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, 9/19/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North York, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3735 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13587 (5D15F75B) Date: 8/29/1967 Time: 1030 Description: Two children saw a sphere, 2 m in diameter, and "four little devils." One of them was bending over, apparently busy with something on the ground, and another held a mirrorlike object. They hovered and flew around the sphere, then dived into it as it rose with a soft whistling sound. A smell of sulphur began to spread, and the object flew away. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 5; LDLN 90 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cussac, France Source ID: Magnonia_875 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13588 (1FF7C31E) Date: 8/29/1967 Description: 8:30 am .LT (4:30 a.m. EDT). Two witnesses saw an oval object with tall transparent dome approach from the west, slow and hover at an estimated 100-200 feet above them for about 30 seconds. (Stanway and Pace, 1968, p. 8.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crewe, Cheshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3734 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13589 (112955A8) Date: 8/29/1967 Description: In Cussac, Cantal department, France at 10:30 a.m. 13-year-old Francois Delpeuch and his younger sister, Anne Marie, age 9, were tending their family cows when they saw four dwarfish figures, 3.5 to four feet tall, on the other side of the road, dressed in black. Nearby was a six foot spherical object of dazzling brilliance that rested on the ground. On closer examination they saw that the beings were completely black---either naked, or wearing skin tight black coveralls. They had pointed heads or helmets, which were also black. One was picking something up from the ground, and another had a bright object, like a mirror. When the entities became aware of the children they rose up into the air vertically, one after the other, and plunged head first into the top of the sphere, which then rose in a spiral pattern with a whistling noise. It left behind a smell of sulphur. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-88 (A0862), citing Joel Mesnard & Claude Pavy for GEPA; UNICAT database, case 423; citing Michel Figuet; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 285; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 875, citing FSR, November-December 1968; Spacelink, September 1968; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 280 Source ID: Johnson_5461 Source: Johnson ### Event 13590 (CDC01F22) Date: 8/30/1967 Description: 10:00-10:30 p.m. LT (6:00-6:30 p.m. EDT). Multiple independent witnesses had a complex series of UFO sightings. One witness gave a detailed description of an object first seen with unaided eye, then through a telescope. Other sightings in the area featured "bright" or "brilliant," often red-orange objects that alternately hovered and moved around. (Stanway and Pace, 1968, pp. 29-34.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3739 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13591 (F2490B8C) Date: 8/30/1967 Description: 8:50 p.m. A round, bright, uniformly illuminated light yellow disk was seen describing a wide arc in the sky. It disappeared to the north-northeast. There was no sound. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dneprodzerzhinsk, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3738 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13592 (997C369B) Date: 8/31/1967 Description: Time not reported. Two small humanoids in black garb were seen. They entered a disc-shaped craft and took off. Cows were agitated (animal reactions) during the sighting. (APRO Bulletin, Sept.-Oct. 1967, p. 8) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cussac, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_3740 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13593 (B43D04A3) Date: 8/31/1967 Description: 8:35 p.m. EDT. A woman, her sister, and her children saw a dark gray, disc-shaped object with a row of white lights on the bottom (body lights). Harrisburg airport control tower had reported an odd cloud the same day. (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, 10/4/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lewisberry, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3742 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13594 (43A113F3) Date: 8/31/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. LT (5:30 p.m. EDT). Two young women reported watching a large, silvery-white object shaped like an inverted soup bowl (dome-shaped) that approached and hovered over a high school for about 5 minutes. (Stanway and Pace, 1968, pp. 10, 34-35.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bentilee, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3741 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13595 (9DFA6A23) Date: 9/1967 Description: Time not reported. A couple saw an object like two saucers rim to rim (disc) that swooped down toward their car so that the witnesses expected a collision. Then it moved up into the sky and flew away. (Ca/gary Albertan, 10/18/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Drumheller, Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3743 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13596 (A3403A51) Date: 9/1967 Description: The CIA staff’s frank opinions on Vietnam are sometimes modified before reaching President [Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%5FB.%5FJohnson). At one point the CIA analysts estimate enemy strength at 500,000, while the military insists it is only 270,000. No amount of discussion resolves the difference. In September 1967, the CIA under DCI [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) goes along with the military’s lower number for the combat strength of the Vietnamese Communist forces. This leads a CIA analyst directly involved in this work to file a formal complaint against Helms, which is accorded due process within the agency. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms\#Viet%5FCong%5Fnumbers)” Source ID: Eberhart_4380 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13597 (2B51BFAF) Date: 9/1967 Description: Dog unaffected by hovering disc (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [670900](http://www.nicap.org/ar-6709xxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: White Pine, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3744 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13598 (E566A5C3) Date: 9/1967? Description: [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) and Levine visit Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to look at the Project Blue Book files. They find cases stored adjacent to the official files, and some in a classified safe. Saunders also finds problems when he examines the statistics in Blue Book Special Report no. 14. Plus all of Battelle’s original IBM cards have been thrown away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 115–116 Source ID: Eberhart_4376 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13599 (7675E2C5) Date: 9/1967 Alternate date: 10/1967 Description: 4:45 p.m. Some 40 soldiers and officers at an antiaircraft artillery unit stationed at Floreşti, Romania, watch an aluminum-colored object hovering about 2,400 feet in the sky. The unit commander reports it to the General Command in Bucharest, who order him to shoot it down if it makes any hostile maneuvers. The object stays in position for more than two hours, but disappears after a white cloud passes in front of it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 16–17 Source ID: Eberhart_4377 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13600 (BDF4FDB0) Date: 9/1967 Description: 1:30 a.m. Capt. Grigory Demyanovich Oleynikov of the Russian fishing boat Kama is in Vyborg Bay in western Russia when he notices a luminescent, milky-white disc descending through the cloud layer. It stops and hovers at an altitude of 1,300 feet and seems to have a diameter of about 50 feet. The bottom portion contains nozzles that emit flames. Athen in complete silence it takes off straight up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 153 Source ID: Eberhart_4378 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13601 (83C0FE78) Date: 9/1967 Description: The Midwest UFO Network publishes its first issue of Skylook. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_4379 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13602 (1CCA16C0) Date: 9/1967 Description: Afternoon. [Paul Stehlin](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FStehlin), military aviator and vice-president of Bugatti, is flying his own plane near Vélizy- Villacoublay, Yvelines, France, when he sees a silver, cigar-shaped object beside him. The object accompanies the aircraft for a few minutes, then it accelerates and leaves the plane behind at terrific speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_4381 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13603 (4024D3A2) Date: 9/1967 Description: Evening. A truck driver saw a green oval object with double decks (like two flattened bells, one above the other) hovering near the ground. Beeps were heard over the truck radio during the sighting and the engine died (EM effects). (Calgary Herald, 9/5/67, copies in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Taber, Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3745 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13604 (5E388B91) Date: 9/1967 Description: 12:30 a.m. CDT. Two couples saw five round objects with flashing, multi-colored lights. The objects circled and maneuvered rapidly in the sky. Barking dogs (animal reactions) first attracted the witnesses' attention to the objects. (DeSoto Press Times, 9/25/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: DeSoto, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3746 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13605 (E0594F87) Date: 9/1/1967? Description: The Colorado project obtains a third-hand report of a UFO sighting at Edwards AFB, California, on or around this date. A civilian employee at the base has seen the report, mentions it to a relative, who then discusses it with a scientist cooperating with the project. According to the story, 6 UFOs follow an X-15 as it lands. When project members call Edwards, they get a runaround. After 2 weeks of phone calls, they find that no X-15 flew on September 1. \(There are flights on August 21, 25, and October 3 and 4, however.\) But no one denies that a UFO sighting took place. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 124–125; Condon, [pp. 341–342](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/340/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4383 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13606 (B083129F) Date: 9/2/1967 Description: 9:15 p.m. LT (5:15 p.m. EDT). Several witnesses watched an orange disc with bright red glowing dome as it flew low overhead and apparently landed in a field about 400 yards away. No sound was heard, but one witness felt "wind" as it passed overhead. A complex case with many facets. (Stanway and Pace, 1968, pp. 11,13, 40-43; witness interview transcripts 46i-46xii.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bentilee, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3747 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13607 (F62FB40E) Date: 9/2/1967 Description: At 1:30 a.m. Ms. Barbara Ward, awakened by her baby, glanced out her window on the Bentilee Estate, Stoke-on-Trent, England and saw, a very bright yellow object with an orange light on top in the adjacent field. It was shaped like an inverted saucer. It appeared to be on the ground or just above it, and its light fluctuated in intensity. She could hear no sound, though she was behind a glass window. She reported to investigators Roger Stanway and Anthony Pace that she "half imagined" she could see shadowy figures moving back and forth in front of the bright light generated by the object. She could not be certain because the bright light caused her eyes to strain when looking at the object. After watching for half an hour she became tired and went back to bed. The UFO had not moved during her observation. Subsequent examination of the field failed to reveal any traces. This sighting occurred during a spate of several UFO incidents in the same area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roger Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 11; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-87 (A0863), citing Roger Stanway & Anthony Pace; UNICAT, case # 567 Source ID: Johnson_5569 Source: Johnson ### Event 13608 (700C4824) Date: 9/2/1967 Time: night Description: Nelson Gutierrez, a salesman, saw an object on the Plains Highway, and a creature, of which he took several photographs. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 78 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hato Viejo Farm, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_876 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13609 (7DC3D29F) Date: 9/2/1967 Description: On this night Nelson Gutierrez, a salesman, encountered a landed UFO on the Plains Highway, near the Hato Viejo farm outside of Caracas, Venezuela. A being emerged from the object, and according to press acounts the witness claimed to have taken a photograph of the being. A copy of this photograph was not made available, and the photographer's intent was to sell it when he had it developed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 78; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-89, citing Jim & Carol Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 78; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 877 Source ID: Johnson_5570 Source: Johnson ### Event 13610 (521BF5A7) Date: Early 9/1967 Description: Evan Evanson, 18, is returning home in a pickup truck on Highway 36 south of Taber, Alberta, when his engine heats up and he pulls to the side of the road to let it cool off. Through the driver’s window he sees a soundless, green, glowing object like two plates put together. It seems near enough to touch. The music on the truck radio is replaced with a beeping sound. Suddenly the object disappears, and Evanson notices that the truck engine has stopped. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[First Sighting of UFO Reported at Taber,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95043013/calgary-herald/)” Calgary \(Alberta\) Herald, September 5, 1967, p. 49 Source ID: Eberhart_4382 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13611 (48178120) Date: 9/3/1967 Description: 5:07 p.m. CDT. A man saw a silver sphere that approached an incoming aircraft on an apparent collision course. The object passed above the aircraft at close range and disappeared in the distance. It appeared to be about one-fourth the size of the plane and traveling twice as fast. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edina, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3749 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13612 (A8F1CAC9) Date: 9/3/1967 Description: At 11:05 p.m. in Avon, Connecticut a motorist saw a "robot-like" being walking at the side of the road. The being wore a one-piece silvery garment that covered its hands and feet, and was wearing an opaque helmet. It moved its arms stiffly, as if trying to stop cars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hartford Courant, September 5, 1967; Source ID: Johnson_5599 Source: Johnson ### Event 13613 (EF4D5D64) Date: 9/3/1967 Description: On this evening in Caracas, Venezuela Miss Paula Valdez, a young actress, came home from work with a headache. Lying down on bed, she soon became aware that someone else was nearby and she heard a whistling sound. A small being with a large head and prominent eyes (a Grey humanoid) was leaning over her bed. He said to her, "I want you to come with us, so that you'll know other worlds…". She screamed and the being ran from room. Her family came into the room to find out why she had screamed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 224; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 80; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 877; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0865, citing Ganteaume Horacio Gonzalez Source ID: Johnson_5598 Source: Johnson ### Event 13614 (D39D1BC5) Date: 9/3/1967 Description: 1:00 a.m. EDT. Many witnesses saw two yellow-orange lights that were stationary in the sky and blinking off and on randomly. Police radar reportedly suffered interference (EM effects) at the time of the sighting. (Massachusetts NICAP Subcommittee report, 9/12/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rockport, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3748 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13615 (E407D661) Date: 9/3/1967 Description: Paula Valdez, suffering from a headache, was suddenly aroused by a whistling sound and saw a small man, with a large head and prominent eyes, who said: "I want you to come with us, so that you'll know other worlds, and you'll realize how small your world is." The witness screamed wildly, and the apparition ran. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 80 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Caracas, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_877 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13616 (83B15602) Date: 9/4/1967 Description: Dawn. A paperboy in Clevedon, England, discovers a 5-foot-wide, saucer-shaped, metallic object in a field. He calls the police, who send it to the guided weapons division of British Aerospace, whose chief design engineer declares it an expensive hoax. Soon five identical objects are found in fields and golf courses in the southern part of England. The sites lie on a straight path 220 miles long that spans 1° of latitude, running west to east from Clevedon to the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. A USAF intelligence officer takes photos of one in Welford, Berkshire, and chemists with Britain’s Home Office analyze samples of a foul liquid that is seeping from one of the objects. But the objects are a prank involving 15 engineering apprentices, primarily [Christopher Southall](https://my.greenparty.org.uk/candidates/105896) and [Roger Palmer](http://www.airphotoservices.co.uk/about%5Fus.htm)[,](http://www.airphotoservices.co.uk/about%5Fus.htm) at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough. The objects are made of fiberglass, and the smelly liquid is a fermented mixture of flour and water. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1967 British](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967%5FBritish%5Fflying%5Fsaucer%5Fhoax) [flying saucer hoax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967%5FBritish%5Fflying%5Fsaucer%5Fhoax)”; Clark III 604–605; Jenny Randles, UFO Retrievals, Blandford, 1995, [pp. 108–111](https://archive.org/details/uforetrievalsrec0000rand/page/108/mode/2up); John Keeling, “Invasion 1967,” Fortean Times 228 \(November 2007\): 32–41; “[The Great Saucer Invasion: The Day](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41110193) [Six ‘Spaceships’ Landed in England,](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41110193)” BBC News, September 3, 2017; Curt Collins, “[The UK Saucer Invasion of](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-uk-saucer-invasion-of-1967.html) [1967,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-uk-saucer-invasion-of-1967.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 30, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_4385 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13617 (166F07B1) Date: 9/4/1967 Time: 0510 Description: Police Officer P. A. Andrade was on duty at City Hall when he heard a humming noise and footsteps in a garage. He met a dwarf, 1 m tall, with a big head and bulging, reddish glowing eyes, wearing a silver-colored, metallic-looking coverall. Andrade pointed his machine gun at the creature, but a voice from a hovering disk said in Spanish that he should not harm the creature. The dwarf then tried to convince Andrade to come to "their world," adding it was "very distant and much larger than the Earth, and with many advantages for Earthlings." When Andrade declined, the creature flew back into the object, which left. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 82 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Valencia, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_878 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13618 (CEA6F866) Date: 9/4/1967 Description: The Industrial Psychologists’ section of the American Psychological Association sponsors a program on “Problems and Methods of Gathering Data on UFOs.” Participants include [Harold Greenwald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FGreenwald), [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall), [Gustave J. Rath](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-03-27-0403270135-story.html)[,](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-03-27-0403270135-story.html) [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html), and [David Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)[.](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [p. 413](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/412/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4386 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13619 (5270050C) Date: 9/4/1967 Description: At 5:10 a.m. police officer P. A. Andrade was on duty at City Hall in Valencia, Venezuela when he heard a humming noise and footsteps in the garage. He entered the garage and encountered a one-meter tall dwarf humanoid, with a big head and bulging, reddish glowing eyes. The being wore a silver colored, metallic-looking coverall. Andrade pointed his machine gun at the creature, but a voice from a hovering disc-shaped object said in Spanish that he should not harm the creature. The dwarf then tried to convince Andrade to come to "their world," adding it was "very distant and much larger than the Earth, and with many advantages for earthlings." When Andrade declined, the creature flew back into the object, which left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 82; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-92 (A0868), citing Jim & Coral Lorenzen; Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 878 Source ID: Johnson_5630 Source: Johnson ### Event 13620 (F5665FE8) Date: 9/4/1967 Description: 5:10 a.m. Police officer P. A. Andrade is on duty at city hall in Valencia, Venezuela, when he hears a humming noise and footsteps in a nearby garage. He meets a dwarf, 3 feet tall, with a big head and bulging, reddish, glowing eyes, wearing a silver-colored, metallic-looking coverall. Andrade points his automatic weapon at the creature, but a voice from a hovering disc says in Spanish that he should not harm the creature. The dwarf then tries to convince Andrade to “come to their world,” adding it is “very distant and much larger than the Earth, and with many advantages for Earthlings.” When Andrade declines, the creature flies back into the object, which takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 82; Vallée, Magonia, [pp. 351–352](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/350/mode/2up); Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_4384 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13621 (7573F295) Date: 9/4/1967 Description: 9:17 p.m. N.N. Pronin, senior editor with the "Mysl" publishing house in Moscow, accompanied by his wife, saw a white, crescent-shaped object fly over from the northeast to the southwest along a straight line at an altitude of about 2,500 feet. The object moved with the convex part facing forward. The weather was clear. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yevpatoriya, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3750 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13622 (7DAFDA39) Date: 9/5/1967 Description: 8:55 p.m. LT (4:55 p.m. EDT). Two witnesses saw a brilliant white oval, its light flickering, hovering in the northeast sky. After about 2 minutes, the object began moving, accelerated rapidly and disappeared in the west. No sound was heard. (Stanway and Pace, 1968, p. 14.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nantwich, Cheshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3752 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13623 (CB3699D4) Date: 9/5/1967 Description: 9:40 p.m. EDT. A man saw a dark, metallic-appearing, cigar-shaped object with a red glow at one end and a white light at the other (body lights). As the object crossed the sky, a bright white light flashed three times amid the red glow. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Waterford, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3753 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13624 (51851F4A) Date: 9/5/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. PDT. Four witnesses saw a white, dome-shaped object come from behind a hill and appear to land on a golf course. A burned ring (physical traces) was found on the golf course next day. (Port Townsend Leader, 9/7/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Townsend, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3751 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13625 (48473671) Date: 9/5/1967 Description: [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) suggests to [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) that his academic commitments might require a reorganization of project duties, namely that Low, [Roach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FE.%5FRoach)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FE.%5FRoach) and himself report directly to [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon), with others reporting to them. Low blows up. Low ultimately agrees but replaces Roach with Norm Levine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 139–140 Source ID: Eberhart_4387 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13626 (60A8E4B3) Date: 9/6/1967 Description: 9:50 p.m. LT. Several witnesses saw a vertically oriented "sausage-shaped cloud" in the eastern sky, behind which a light flashed for about 20 seconds at irregular intervals. (Stanway and Pace, 1968, pp. 14-15.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Meier, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3754 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13627 (C9B6EB0E) Date: 9/6/1967 Description: At 9:50 p.m. in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, England an oval object emerged from a vertical, sausage-shaped cloud. The light flashed at irregular intervals. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roger Stanway and Pace, UFOs: Unidentified, undeniable, p. 14, case 50 Source ID: Johnson_5684 Source: Johnson ### Event 13628 (5A2BCC61) Date: 9/6/1967 Description: 9:50 p.m. Several witnesses at Meir, Stoke-in-Trent, England, see a vertically oriented “sausage-shaped cloud” in the eastern sky, behind which a light flashes for about 20 seconds at irregular intervals. A bright, glowing orange oval then emerges from the cloud and heads southeast at “fantastic speed.” A light again flashes in the cloud for about 10 seconds, then stops. The mode of disappearance of the cloud is not reported. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roger Stanway and Anthony R. Pace, Flying Saucer Report, UFOs: Unidentified, Undeniable, Newchapel Observatory, 1968, pp. 14–15; Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_4388 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13629 (B3FE42B3) Date: 9/7/1967 Description: At 7:30 in the morning in Huanta, Chile a 50-meter wide silver disc hovered, maneuvered, and then shot away at high speed. It was observed by several soldiers. In Toronto, Ontario a woman reported meeting a man wearing an "astronaut suit." He gave her a stone with a high nickel content. At 10:45 p.m. a taxi cab driver four kilometers outside of Arriondas, Spain saw a phosphorescent tube-like object land nearly 30 meters away. It had a rectangular tube structure approximately 4.5 meters in width, and made a sound like a refrigerator. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Roberto Banchs, Las evidencias del fenomeno OVNI; (2) Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 1968-150; (3) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I Events in Spain and Portugal, case 76 Source ID: Johnson_5723 Source: Johnson ### Event 13630 (374F99F3) Date: 9/8/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. EDT. Four people saw a Saturn-shaped object with two white lights on its leading edge. Pinkish lights were visible along its rim, and a red light on top (body lights). (Massachusetts NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP files; Fowler, 1974, p. 349.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newton, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3755 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13631 (B7ACDEE7) Date: 9/8/1967 Time: 0230 Description: A. Aguilar, 23, saw a creature outside her bedroom window and screamed. Her parents ran into the room in time to see it soaring over rooftops, surrounded by a bluish-yellow glow. It moved as if suspended from a balloon. A strong smell of "melted iron" was detected by all. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 81 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Caracas, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_879 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13632 (85108362) Date: 9/8/1967 Description: In Newton, New Hampshire four witnesses saw a disc-shaped object with white flashing lights on the rim and a red light on top at 10:30 p.m. It passed back and forth in front of the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 349; Richard.Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 360, 373 Source ID: Johnson_5763 Source: Johnson ### Event 13633 (25C8D720) Date: 9/8/1967 Description: Caracas, Venezuela - Miss Alicia Rivas Aguilar, age 23, was getting ready for bed at 2:30 a.m. when she noticed a strange looking being just outside her bedroom window. It seemed to be gesticulating but she did not get a good look because she began screaming and the creature flew off. Her brother in law and her parents saw the creature flying off over the neighborhood rooftops. It was surrounded by a yellow glow. Gumersindo Neiro, her brother in law, got the best view from his own room. When he heard her screaming he looked out his window and saw a little being shove off from the window sill. It "soared as if he were lighter than air, with its hands and feet pointed backwards." The creature flew eastward and out of sight among the tall buildings in that part of the city. They all said he was wearing a kind of metallic suit, and the odor of "melted iron" lingered in the air. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 81; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-93 (A0870), citing Horacio Gonzalez Ganteaume for APRO; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 879 Source ID: Johnson_5762 Source: Johnson ### Event 13634 (BF847531) Date: 9/9/1967 Description: At 7:45 p.m. Mrs. Ritchie and three children saw 18 red lights in a trapezoid pattern, only 1.5 feet above a rural road in Winchester, Connecticut. The object behind the light pattern was at least as tall as a telephone pole and as wide as the road (15 feet). It was close to a nearby microwave tower; it moved off the road, and vanished behind some trees. Ground marks were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Johnson, APRO-Connecticut; Bill Ayer, NICAP; Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 342; UNICAT, case # 680 Source ID: Johnson_5789 Source: Johnson ### Event 13635 (3975FA1E) Date: 9/9/1967 Description: A 3-year-old saddle horse named Lady \[not Snippy\] belonging to [Nellie Lewis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69052497/nellie%5Fe%5F-lewis) of the [Harry King](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69052216/harry-edward-king) Ranch in the San Luis Valley, Colorado, just south of Great Sand Dunes National Monument, is found dead a couple days after it has gone missing. The animal appears to have been skinned from the neck to the shoulders, which are nothing but bleached bones. The cut in the neck looks smooth and surgical. The soil beneath the horse is damp, and there is a medicine-like smell. A nearby bush is flattened oddly. Alamosa County Sheriff Ben Phillips blames Lady’s death on lightning. A few days later, rangers at Great Sand Dunes arrest [John Henry Altshuler](https://rr0.org/people/a/AltshulerJohnHenry/), a pathologist at Ross Medical Center in Denver, for trespassing after dark; he has actually gone to the area to look for UFOs. When they find out he is a specialist in blood coagulation, they say they will drop the arrest record if he takes a look at the dead horse. He finds that Lady’s lungs, heart, and thyroid are completely missing and finds the complete absence of blood distressing. Altshuler begins to think the dead horse has something to do with the UFOs he had seen when he was in the Great Sand Dunes. Nellie Lewis also admits she has been watching something in the sky every night. [Duane Martin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69050807/duane-edwin-martin), a US Forest Service ranger, records a pulse of unusually high radioactivity near Lady’s carcass, although others think it is only background radiation. The Pueblo Chieftain reports on the case in its October 5 edition and it gets picked up by the AP. Pathologist Robert O. Adams, chief of surgery at Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, investigates Lady for the Colorado project and concludes that bacteria, birds, and coyotes are responsible for the lack of blood and organs. He finds an infection in the horse’s right flank that could have killed it; the cut at the neck might have been someone’s mercy killing. “Exhaust marks” found are probably fungal infestations, and indentations are probably weathered hoofprints. Alamosa veterinarian Wallace Leary later finds evidence of two bullet holes in Lady’s rump. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf) [Snippy Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, pp. 1, 6; “[Colorado Horse Death Ruled No UFO Case,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/038%20OCT%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 2 \(October 1967\): 4; Donald Merker, “The Appaloosa from Alamosa,” Fate 21, no. 3 \(March 1968\): 35, 45–52; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 148–158; Condon, [pp. 344–347](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/344/mode/2up); UFOs Yes, 155–169; “[Town Gets Snippy about Skeleton of Mutilated Horse,](https://www.denverpost.com/2006/12/08/town-gets-snippy-about-skeleton-of-mutilated-horse/)” Denver Post, December 8, 2006; Greg Newkirk, “[Death on the Great Sand Dunes: The Strange Case of Snippy the Horse, the First Cattle Mutilation,](http://weekinweird.com/2013/01/08/death-dunes-ufos-start-cattle-mutilation-san-luis-valley/)” Week in Weird, January 8, 2013; Sylvia Lobato, “[After 50 Years, Snippy Still a Mystery,](https://alamosanews.com/article/after-50-years-snippy-still-a-mystery)” Alamosa \(Colo.\) Valley Courier, September 29, 2017; Clark III 130–132 Source ID: Eberhart_4389 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13636 (856652EB) Date: 9/10/1967 Description: Aircraft Encounter Near Barcelona (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 3) Reference: NICAP: [670910](http://www.nicap.org/670910barcelona%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barcelona, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_3756 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13637 (BECCFDB4) Date: 9/10/1967 Description: 10:35 p.m. EDT. Two men in separate cars stopped and discussed their sighting of a bullet-shaped object with a flashing red light on each end (body lights) and a white glow on the bottom that moved slowly across the sky at low altitude. (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, 10/4/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shepherdstown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3757 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13638 (2E01BC61) Date: 9/10/1967 Description: At 6:03 p.m. flying over the Pyrenees Mountains in a DC-6 at 16,000 feet altitude, 65 miles north of Reus, Tarragona, Spain three men, Underhill, Hope and Dunlop, sighted an inverted flying cone, silver on top, with a curved base, that looked metallic and solid. Its minimum distance was estimated to be 1/2 mile, and it was moving opposite to the plane. It was initially higher, then half a mile below. The sighting lasted more than two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 6; Alastair Prevost, Flying Saucer Review, September 1967, p. 2; UNICAT, case 638; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1987, p. 19; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_5828 Source: Johnson ### Event 13639 (E1F3B95A) Date: 9/10/1967 Description: Cone-shaped object, haze or mist around lower portion, approached airliner from west, passed under starboard wing, turning and maneuvering Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Barcelona, Spain Source ID: HallUFOE2_143 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13640 (8A8A47AB) Date: 9/10/1967 Description: Several residents of Bruzual, Apure, Venezuela, watch a white, luminous disc following the course of the Apure River from west to east at low altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 69 Source ID: Eberhart_4390 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13641 (332CD4B3) Date: 9/11/1967 Description: 12:35 p.m. EDT. A witness in the vicinity of Washington National Airport saw a silver disc with a dome (sombrero shape) hovering, then it banked and moved out of sight behind trees. (Phone call from witness, 9/12/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arlington, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3762 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13642 (ABABFD0B) Date: 9/11/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. During a raging storm near Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, a family watches a huge, glowing orange object hovering in a field about 1,000 feet away from the farmhouse. The object emits brilliant beams of light. After 4 hours it ascends and is lost to sight in seconds. The next day, the witnesses find a sootlike material on the ground and tracks about 2 inches wide in the flattened grass. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 69 Source ID: Eberhart_4393 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13643 (DA988FCF) Date: 9/11/1967 Description: 10:42 p.m. According to radar operators at Kincheloe AFB \[now Chippewa County International Airport\] south of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, more than 20 radar targets appear and disappear over the middle of Lake Superior over an 80-minute period, tracked at speeds of up to 2,000 mph, sometimes turning at sharp right angles and involving separation and merging of distinct targets. Radar at Duluth, Minnesota, has also picked up the targets. The Colorado project sends [John Ahrens](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ahrens-a8633835) and Norm Levine to investigate. They check out rumors of visual sightings at Sault Ste. Marie, but these do not conform to the radar trackings. At Duluth, they draw a complete blank with denials all around. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[17 Unknowns in 80 Minute Period](http://www.nicap.org/670911kincheloe%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOs Yes, 123–124; Condon, [pp. 164–165](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/164/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 326 Source ID: Eberhart_4394 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13644 (58EC3FCE) Date: 9/11/1967 Time: 2130 Description: During a raging storm, an entire family watched a large, glowing object in a field 300 m away, giving off brilliant beams of light for 4 hours, after which it took off in seconds. Sootlike material with an unpleasant smell and tracks on flattened grass were noted. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Villa Constitucion, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_880 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13645 (FDF8A560) Date: 9/11/1967 Description: [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) resigns as assistant director of NICAP for personal reasons and is replaced by [Gordon I.](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/lore-gordon/95941) [R. Lore](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/lore-gordon/95941)[.](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/lore-gordon/95941)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Assistant Director Hall Resigns, Is Replaced by Gordon Lore,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/038%20OCT%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 2 \(October 1967\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_4391 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13646 (20320694) Date: 9/11/1967 Description: 3:30 p.m. About a dozen employees of the Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station near Kincardine, Ontario, watch a UFO pass over the plant in an easterly direction. At one point it hovers above Lake Huron about a mile and a half offshore and drops something into the water. Other plant workers see similar objects over the lake or above the plant on five succeeding nights. The plant isn’t operational for another year. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 122–123 Source ID: Eberhart_4392 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13647 (0FF3775D) Date: 9/11/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. EDT. A couple and their five children saw a flash of bright orange light, then resolved into a bright light seemingly mounted on an object about the size of an automobile. The object appeared to make a search of a park area, moving back and forth and in figure 8's, at about 200-300 feet altitude. (Letter and visit to NICAP Office 11/8/68, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Silver Spring, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3761 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13648 (11F61B43) Date: 9/11/1967 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) 17 Unknowns In 80 Minute Period (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [670911](http://www.nicap.org/670911kincheloe%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kincheloe AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3758 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13649 (D6F36A26) Date: 9/11/1967 Description: 3:30 p.m. EDT. Six or more employees of a nuclear power plant saw a saucer- shaped object passing over the plant going east. The object hovered about 1.5 miles out over the lake and dropped something into the water. (Bondarchuk, 1979, pp. 122-24.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Elgin, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3760 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13650 (9B0E6FDF) Date: 9/13/1967 Description: 10:53 p.m. EDT. A man saw a row of orange-yellow lights (body lights) with a vague form behind them. The object hovered, changed to one light, then returned to its original appearance. (Letter from witness, 9/15/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: East Bridgewater, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3763 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13651 (E1FF7443) Date: 9/13/1967 Description: A very bright strobe light was seen, and then six red lights in a row appeared at the same spot and hovered over the Haddam Neck, Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant at 8:45 p.m. It was seen by Mrs. Rarey and her two children from their home across the Connecticut River in Haddam, Connecticut. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald A. Johnson field investigation case files Source ID: Johnson_5916 Source: Johnson ### Event 13652 (A8B1E03E) Date: 9/13/1967 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) gives a dinner speech at a spectroscopy symposium at the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and talks primarily about contactees and crackpots. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 247–248 Source ID: Eberhart_4395 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13653 (860ADA74) Date: 9/13/1967 Description: Evening, time not specified. Multiple witnesses, including a pilot, saw a cigar- shaped object with a row of white lights (body lights) on the side. The object hovered and maneuvered around, and once appeared to approach an airport as if to land. (Southbridge Evening News, 9/14/67 and 9/15/67, copies in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Southbridge, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3764 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13654 (EDA2ABC1) Date: 9/14/1967 Time: 1100 Description: Fabio J. Diniz, 16, was walking near a hospital when he saw a mushroom-shaped craft on a playing field. It had a cupola on top, and a guillotinelike door that slid up. The boy fled, but a voice told him in Portuguese: "Don't run away." He saw two men, 2 m tall, dressed in green tight-fitting clothes. They told him not to be afraid and to return the next day, "otherwise we will take your family." They had greenish skin, and round eyes set wide apart. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: La Baleia, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_881 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13655 (5D265096) Date: 9/14/1967 Description: 7:50 p.m. PDT (10:50 p.m. EDT). A man saw n a green light in the sky that sometimes appeared white. It circled, zig-zagged, moved up and down (maneuvered), and appeared to circle an aircraft. (NICAP report form and letter, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barstow, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3769 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13656 (675213B2) Date: 9/14/1967 Description: At eleven o'clock in the morning Fabio J. Diniz, age 16, was walking near a hospital in La Baleia, Minas Gerais State, Brazil when he saw a mushroom-shaped craft on a playing field. It had a cupola on top, and a guillotine-like door that slid up. The boy started to flee, but a voice in Portuguese told him, "Don't run away." He next saw two tall men, two meters in height, dressed in green tight-fitting uniforms. They told him not to be afraid and to return the next day, or "otherwise we will take your family." They had a greenish skin tone, and round eyes that were set wide apart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 881, citing FSR, November-December 1968, p. 8; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0872 Source ID: Johnson_5953 Source: Johnson ### Event 13657 (71EC597D) Date: 9/14/1967 Alternate date: 9/17/1967 Description: 10:50 a.m. “Fábio Jose Diniz,” 16, is walking along an asphalt path near the deserted grounds of an isolation unit at Hospital da Baleia on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He notices an object in an adjacent football field. It is shaped like a mushroom with a domed top and surrounded by a row of portholes and a thick central “stalk” in contact with the soil. A hazy screen like a force field drops around the object, and a door appears out of nowhere and slides upward along the column. Two humanlike figures, 6 feet tall, emerge, dressed in one-piece diving suits of greenish material and helmets. One of them carries a tube-like implement, and the other has a probe sticking up from his helmet and talks to Diniz in Portuguese, telling him not to run away. He starts running anyway, but the figure tells him to come back the next day or they will take his family. The figure reenters the UFO, which takes off vertically. He sees psychologist and UFO researcher [Hulvio Aleixo](http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/MUFON/Pratt/BrazilianUFOlogists.pdf), who says he is in severe shock. At the landing site, police find some foul-smelling black material that crumbles easily. This is examined by geophysicist Roberto Murto, who finds it is made of iron, magnesium, and silica. An impression like a large footprint is also found. Aleixo subjects the boy to psychological testing and he finds no disorder. The UFO fails to return the next day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flying Saucer Is Reported,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102403919/the-baltimore-sun/)” Baltimore \(Md.\) Sun, September 25, 1967, p. 3; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 85; Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, [pp. 97–](https://archive.org/details/ufoconspiracyfir00rand/page/n107/mode/2up) [99](https://archive.org/details/ufoconspiracyfir00rand/page/n107/mode/2up); Clark III 177–178; Brazil 88–91; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 18–19 Source ID: Eberhart_4396 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13658 (4E00D7A8) Date: 9/14/1967 Description: Night. A man saw an object shaped like an inverted bowl (dome-shaped) flashing red and white for 10 minutes. The object hovered, moved to another position, and hovered again. The man's car radio would not work (EM effect) during the sighting. (Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kanagulk, Victoria, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_3765 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13659 (24A53727) Date: 9/14/1967 Description: Unspecified time. A boy saw a bright sphere hovering near the moon. The sphere divided into three parts, two of which accelerated out of sight, and the third lingered, then sped away in a different direction from the first two. (Phone call from witness's father, 9/15/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rockville, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3767 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13660 (9437597B) Date: 9/14/1967 Description: 2:20 a.m. EDT. A woman saw a bright, orange-yellow sphere that hovered and then sped away. The object was many times brighter than the moon and was seen for 10 minutes. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washington, DC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3766 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13661 (B811B24A) Date: 9/14/1967 Description: 4:00 p.m. EDT. A man onboard a plane enroute from Atlanta to Pittsburgh saw a flat object that appeared orange at long range and white when closer. The object moved past the plane in the same direction of travel, but at much greater speed. (Report from Colorado NICAP Subcommittee, 9/26/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Western part of State, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3768 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13662 (D1592B8A) Date: 9/15/1967 Description: 7:50 p.m. EDT. Two witnesses saw a red-orange, clam-shell-shaped (disc), fuzzy object move across the sky. The object stopped and hovered, then moved away. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winsted, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3770 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13663 (F540B189) Date: 9/15/1967 Description: The carcass of a horse named Snippy was discovered. Unusual radioactivity and strange traces were claimed to have been found at the spot. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Condon 344; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Alamosa, Colorado Source ID: Magnonia_882 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13664 (3F527F6F) Date: 9/15/1967 Description: 8:50 p.m. Separate witnesses in Winsted, Connecticut, see a large glowing, pulsating object hovering nearby and several small beings with large heads moving around it. The object’s light dims when cars approach. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flap Continues in the States,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 9; Condon, [pp. 347–351](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/346/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4398 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13665 (68F72558) Date: 9/15/1967 Description: Astronomer [William Markowitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FMarkowitz) publishes an article in Science magazine that declares extraterrestrial UFOs to be a priori impossible because they do not follow the laws of physics. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: William Markowitz, “[The](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.157.3794.1274) [Physics and Metaphysics of Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.157.3794.1274)” Science 157 \(1967\): 1274–1279 Source ID: Eberhart_4397 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13666 (2B33A097) Date: 9/15/1967 Time: 2045 Description: Two teenage girls observed a large, glowing object, and three small figures, about 1.25 m tall, witll oversized heads, running near a barn. From the object came a noise similar to that of "a power mower when it fires but fails to start." The object blacked out, and the figures hid while a car passed, after which the object pulsated between very bright white and dull red, and moved diagonally several times. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 166; Condon 347 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Winsted, Connecticut Source ID: Magnonia_883 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13667 (899B9CF9) Date: 9/15/1967 Description: In Winsted, Connecticut at 8:45 p.m. two teenage girls observed a large, glowing object, and three small figures, about 1.25 meters tall, with oversized heads, running across a road near a barn. From the object came a noise similar to that of "a power mower when it fires but fails to start." The object blacked out, and the figures hid while a car passed, afterwards the object pulsated between very bright white and dull red, and moved diagonally several times. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 166; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 883, citing Lorenzens and Edward U. Condon (editor), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 347 Source ID: Johnson_5989 Source: Johnson ### Event 13668 (99068CDD) Date: 9/15/1967 Description: The carcass of a horse named "Lady", but misnamed in press reports as "Snippy", was discovered mutilated on a ranch outside of Alamosa, Colorado. Unusual radioactivity and strange traces were claimed to have been found at the spot. This was the first highly publicized case of many more such animal and cattle mutilations to occur in the San Luis Valley. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 883, Edward U. Condon (editor), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 344 Source ID: Johnson_5988 Source: Johnson ### Event 13669 (AF6D3932) Date: 9/15/1967 Description: 8:50 p.m. EDT. Separate witnesses in Winsted reported seeing a large glowing, pulsating object hovering nearby and several small beings with large heads (humanoids) moving around it. The object's light dimmed when cars approached. (Report in NICAP files; Gillmor, 1969, p. 347.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winsted, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3771 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13670 (4A93112C) Date: 9/17/1967 Description: At around 2:00 a.m. An anonymous witness observed an eight-foot tall humanoid in a wooded area near Langley, British Columbia, Canada. It was reported to be pink colored and covered with scaly skin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2085, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters Source ID: Johnson_6044 Source: Johnson ### Event 13671 (69EB16F8) Date: 9/17/1967 Description: [Roach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FE.%5FRoach) resigns from the Colorado project in order to pursue academic interests. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 140 Source ID: Eberhart_4399 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13672 (4171D43C) Date: 9/17/1967 Description: Time not given. Two witnesses reported that a saucer with portholes landed on a soccer field. Physical traces were left by the object. (Baltimore Morning Sun, Maryland, 9/25/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_3772 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13673 (E572553D) Date: 9/17/1967 Description: Time not given. Two witnesses reported that a saucer with portholes landed on a soccer field. (Beings seen in association with the object were over 6 feet tall, hefty, used breathing apparatus, and had bulging eyes. (Baltimore Morning Sun, Maryland, 9/25/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_3773 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13674 (C2C9243E) Date: 9/18/1967 Description: [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)[,](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf)[,](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) and [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) meet for 3 hours to discuss Saunders’s suggestions for improving the public image. Saunders argues that the public can tell the project is headed toward a negative conclusion. Condon says that if they find extraterrestrial evidence, he would not disclose it to the public. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 140–141; Swords 324 Source ID: Eberhart_4400 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13675 (6BC64480) Date: 9/18/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. LT (5:00 p.m. EDT). A family had several sightings of red lights like glowing coals beginning about 8:30 pm. At 9:00 pm, two red lights glided in front of a full moon, disappearing behind nearby rooftops. (Stanway and Pace, 1968, p. 15.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cannock, Staffordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3774 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13676 (0FCB6F8D) Date: 9/18/1967 Description: 6:00 p.m. CDT (7:00 p.m. EDT). A woman saw a flat, round (disc-shaped), dark- colored object with a band of light around its circumference. The object landed in a field, ascended, then moved out of sight. No traces of the landing were found in the field. (Evening News, Sault. Ste. Marie, 9/20/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sault Ste. Marie, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3775 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13677 (7554C015) Date: 9/18/1967 Time: 0100 Description: Forestry employee Russell Hill heard a strange pulsating sound and saw an object giving off a green glow hover near his cabin. Radio interference. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 34 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Nanton, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_884 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13678 (513002EF) Date: 9/18/1967 Description: Forestry employee Russell Hill heard a strange pulsating sound at one o'clock in the morning in Nanton, Alberta, Canada and then saw an object giving off a green glow hovering near his cabin. He also experienced radio interference during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 34; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 884 Source ID: Johnson_6070 Source: Johnson ### Event 13679 (7B4843C1) Date: 9/18/1967 Description: 1:00 a.m. Russell Hill is stationed as a forestry lookout at the Raspberry Ridge station near Mount Burke, Alberta. He hears a strange pulsating sound as a green light sweeps the walls of the lookout cabin. He sees an object hovering to the southwest and giving off a greenish glow. He attempts to radio the nearby Highwood Ranger Station, but the radio ane lights do not work. The object turns white and shoots up straight into the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Object Photographed in Canada,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 11 Source ID: Eberhart_4401 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13680 (FC14FAA5) Date: 9/19/1967 Description: 7:40 p.m. A witness named A. Serdyukov, who was traveling with a group of communications technicians, observed a luminous half-moon rising high in the sky directly in front of them. It descended rapidly, leaving a cone-shaped tail. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belgogradskaya, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3776 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13681 (8440B041) Date: 9/19/1967 Description: At 7:30 p.m. Aeroflot IL-14 airliner flying over Volgograd, Russia was buzzed by a UFO. The aircraft engines quit temporarily, but then restarted as the object shot off toward the east. Ten minutes later, a luminous crescent-shaped object was seen high in the sky by a group of scientists in Belgogradskaya District, Russia at 7:40 p.m. The object then began making a rapid descent. It had a cone-shaped tail. For 40 seconds it engaged in a falling leaf motion, turned red, then assumed a drop shape, and finally dissolved away and vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, pp. 32-36; L. M. Gindilis, Observations of Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena in the USSR, p. 37; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 193 Source ID: Johnson_6085 Source: Johnson ### Event 13682 (F582868C) Date: 9/20/1967 Description: 8: 30 p.m. LT. At twilight, with a clear sky and bright moon, seven witnesses watched a large, bright silvery oval move slowly overhead, stop, and hover. Two (possibly three) smaller bright round silvery objects emerged and sped off in different directions. (Stanway and Pace, 1968, p. 16.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bucknall, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3777 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13683 (8AFF3963) Date: 9/20/1967 Description: Around 8:30 p.m. Three witnesses saw a very bright round, slightly oval object "bright as a car headlight" hover overhead in the clear sky for about 30 seconds. (Stanway and Pace, 1968, p. 16.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leek, Staffordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3778 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13684 (DD0A49C0) Date: 9/20/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. Mrs. Charles Pasko notices a peach-pink glow in the woods outside her home near Winsted, Connecticut. Thinking it is a fire, she wakes up her son Jack and they watch it for a while. Three days later her husband and a forest ranger try to find the burned spot. They locate a burned and depressed teardrop-shaped area about 35 feet in diameter. They also find three triangular imprints forming an equilateral triangle with sides 10 feet long, and a fourth depression in the center. Other witnesses had seen a UFO coming in at a slant, breaking and burning tree leaves. Several tall trees in the area are broken off at the top. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[September Landing in Conn.,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2011%2000%20-%20November-December.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1967, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4404 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13685 (149F97A7) Date: 9/20/1967 Description: NICAP provisionally withdraws its support from the Colorado project. [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) tells [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) about it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 141–142 Source ID: Eberhart_4402 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13686 (B37116ED) Date: 9/20/1967 Description: 8:30–9:30 p.m. Seven people in Stoke-on-Trent, England, see a large, bright, silver-colored, oval-shaped object almost overhead and moving slowly to the northeast. It stops and hovers, then 2–3 smaller silvery objects emerge from the larger one and move rapidly away in different directions. The large UFO moves off to the northeast and slowly disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roger H. Stanway and Anthony R. Pace, Flying Saucer Report, UFOs: Unidentified, Undeniable, Newchapel Observatory, 1968, p. 16; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_4403 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13687 (588D8B76) Date: 9/21/1967 Description: 12:30 a.m. Small beings (humanoids) with large heads and white garb were seen moving toward a brilliant round object on the ground. Their car was lifted (mass displacement) and witnesses were in shock. (Ballester Olmos, 1976, p. 12.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barcelona, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_3779 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13688 (349FC73B) Date: 9/21/1967 Description: At 12:30 a.m. Jose M. Edrosa was driving home to Granoliers, Spain when between the towns of Santa Coloma and La Roca in Barcelona province he saw a very bright "casserole" shaped object on the ground. Near it were several small beings with large heads, who were approaching the UFO. At that point his car "reared" and Sr. Edrosa became panic stricken, fleeing on foot. Unnerved by the experience, he was hospitalized for an extended period of time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Balester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 50; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-97, citing Alberto Adell Source ID: Johnson_6183 Source: Johnson ### Event 13689 (8B463495) Date: 9/21/1967 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a fiery light thought to be a UFO was seen at ground level in some woods in Winsted, Connecticut by two witnesses, Pasko and Ellis. Circular ground marks were found later at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_6184 Source: Johnson ### Event 13690 (9F1F15AB) Date: 9/22/1967 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a priest named O'Sullivan saw a luminous ball of light in the sky while driving three miles outside of Gravois Mills, Missouri with two other men. The UFO swung around to the northwest, then to the north, and flew off toward the northeast. It was flat with a dome shape on top. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Skylook, January 1968, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_6223 Source: Johnson ### Event 13691 (3F24AE2F) Date: 9/22/1967 Time: night Description: Near Caracas, a race track employee was attacked by a very strong creature that choked him, but ran away when a horse was heard neighing frantically in the stable. Thirty min later, a horse was attacked, and an employee saw a dwarf, 1 m tall, "zoom" out of the building. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 84 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Caracas, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_885 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13692 (865AE7E9) Date: 9/22/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. Simon Williams and his son Eugene, 14, are starting a pickup truck with jumper cables in Allen \[or Fittstown\], Oklahoma, when they see a disc with a brilliant silvery light and smaller flashing lights around the rim heading west. It seems to come closer and hover above a highway. Eugene thinks he can see the headlights of passing cars reflected on its bottom surface. It then proceeds slowly west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flap Continues in the](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf) [States,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 9; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 168 Source ID: Eberhart_4405 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13693 (C872BEF6) Date: 9/22/1967 Description: In Caracas, Venezuela a horse trainer was awakened on this night by the presence of an intruder who first tugged at the trainer's pillow, then grasped his arm tightly. As the man tried to sit up, the attacker encircled his neck with its arm trying to choke him. A horse in the nearby stables began neighing and the attacker let go and fled. The man screamed for help and was found to have several cuts and abrasions where he had been scratched by claws or sharp fingernails. A short while later another stable worker heard a horse acting up again, and as he approached the stall a small figure about the size of a boy, 3.5 feet tall, "zoomed" out of the stall and was gone in seconds. The figure was described as a hairy dwarf, and looking like a chimpanzee or monkey. The horse was skitish for several days following the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 83; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-98, citing Jim & Coral Lorenzen Source ID: Johnson_6222 Source: Johnson ### Event 13694 (5A32C0DD) Date: 9/23/1967 Description: Geology professor watched flight of two silvery cigar-shaped objects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Amherst, MA Source ID: HallUFOE2_144 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13695 (9E2332E6) Date: 9/23/1967 Description: Four photographs were taken on this evening of an orange, flare-like light that flew in from the south over the Stafford, England railway station. It stopped above the station, shot up, vanished, reappeared, moved around in an odd manner, and then faded away. There was no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roger H. Stanway & Pace, UFOs: Unidentified, Undeniable, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_6255 Source: Johnson ### Event 13696 (FFBB523C) Date: 9/23/1967 Description: 1:37 p.m. EST. A geology professor saw an elongated, silver object and then a second similar object about 5 degrees from the first. (Hall, 2001, p. 161; letter to Raymond E. Fowler, Massachusetts NICAP Subcommittee Chairman, copy in NICAP files; Fowler, 1974, p. 349.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Amherst, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3780 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13697 (A065B92B) Date: 9/23/1967 Description: 9:35 p.m. EDT. A policeman saw two lights, one was stationary. The second light moved toward the first, and the two merged. The resultant single light hovered, then divided, with one light moving away and the other remaining motionless. (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Holly Springs, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3781 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13698 (0E0B5B36) Date: 9/23/1967 Description: At 1:37 p.m. Dr. B. Hand, a geology professor and a NICAP UFO investigator, sighted two silver cylinders moving against the wind in a bright blue sky over Amherst, Massachusetts. They made no sound as they went behind some low lying cumulus clouds and did not emerge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 349 Source ID: Johnson_6256 Source: Johnson ### Event 13699 (1AD1B65B) Date: 9/24/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. CDT. A podiatrist and his wife saw two disc-shaped objects with domes on top. They first appeared as a string of lights flying at high altitude. (North Dakota NICAP Subcommittee report, received 11 /7/68, NICAP files.) \[Minot AFB Minuteman ICBM Complex\] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3782 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13700 (D41B72AB) Date: 9/25/1967 Description: Daytime. Two hemispherical objects with flat bottoms were seen by a woman to emerge from some mist. One of the objects flew around a house and the other seemed about to land, then both rose and flew off. (Haines, 1994, p. 84, from UNICAT #629.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tavigny, Buret, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_3783 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13701 (5A5293AC) Date: 9/25/1967 Description: In Buret, Belgium at 7:00 a.m. two witnesses watched as two chrome colored saucers exited a fog bank 100 meters away. They were 20 meters in diameter. They emitted red satellites balls of light, then flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Luc Vertongen, Inforespace, May 1972, p. 19; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 84; UNICAT, case # 629 Source ID: Johnson_6316 Source: Johnson ### Event 13702 (29A0266F) Date: 9/25/1967 Description: Night. Five policemen saw a white light that moved at low altitude over the highway ahead of a pursuing police car. The object suddenly stopped, then veered and accelerated away. (Toronto Telesram, 9/25/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toronto, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3784 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13703 (8FE14A58) Date: 9/25/1967 Description: [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)[,](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf)[,](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) and [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) have another meeting at Condon’s home. Saunders tells Condon that the problems with NICAP would not have arisen if Condon had been more circumspect with his negative remarks. Condon says he understands but offers no change. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 142 Source ID: Eberhart_4406 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13704 (20CA5678) Date: 9/26/1967 Description: In the middle of the afternoon a woman was alone in her house in Seaford, Long Island, New York when she heard a loud humming sound coming from outside. Looking out the window, she saw a hovering silvery disc-shaped object, perfectly smooth without any visible openings. While she was watching her doorbell rang. When she answered the door she was confronted by a tall dark woman wearing a shimmering long gray gown. The woman asked her some questions, apparently confusing her for somebody else. She then asked for a glass of water and salt, claiming that she had to take a pill. When she left she walked away into the bushes, and moments later the humming sound got louder then the disc rose up and shot up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 1404, citing John A Keel, The Mothman Prophecies Source ID: Johnson_6349 Source: Johnson ### Event 13705 (ABD6D4AD) Date: 9/26/1967 Description: That night at the Da Baleia Hospital, Minas Gerais, Brazil a sixteen-year-old boy named Diniz had a humanoid encounter with a being from a disc-shaped UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 13; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 158 Source ID: Johnson_6350 Source: Johnson ### Event 13706 (536C0593) Date: 9/27/1967 Description: BUFORA researchers Anthony R. Pace and Roger H. Stanway visit the S4 UFO desk at the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall, London, England. They talk to a Mr. Cassells, who assures them that all UFO reports are treated seriously but the Ministry’s interest is solely in national defense. He adds that no person from the Ministry ever makes on-the-spot inquiries or field investigations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roger H. Stanway and Antony R. Pace, Flying Saucer Report: UFOs Unidentified, Unidentifiable, 1972; Good Above, [pp. 67–68](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/66/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4407 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13707 (47A5A054) Date: 9/27/1967 End date: 9/29/1967 Description: The Rocky Mountain News publishes a commentary by [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) wherein he debunks UFOs and disparages NICAP’s contributions. It quotes [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) in a similar vein. Condon talks to the project staff and retracts nothing, only saying that he was misquoted about being disenchanted about the project. Project members hold a meeting without Low and Condon to decide what to do. Levine pushes for mass resignation. [Craig](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) is the sole dissenter. [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) sides with Levine but wants to explore other strategies. Ultimately, they decide to prepare their own report, one “so compelling that Condon would be forced to accept it on its merits.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 142– 146; Swords 325 Source ID: Eberhart_4408 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13708 (BD479E27) Date: 9/28/1967 Description: 3:24 p.m. PDT. Two witnesses saw six silver discs that moved rapidly across the sky, entered clouds, emerged with a 7th disc, then moved off until lost in clouds. (Letter from witness, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Mateo, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3785 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13709 (C8533BAC) Date: 9/28/1967 Description: 1:30 a.m. Omar Amaya T., chief dispatcher at the Maiquetia International Airport \[now the Simón Bolívar International Airport\], Venezuela, watches three luminous disc pass across the sky from north to south. Suddenly one lags behind and dives toward the sea but veers up just before contact. Resuming its position in the formation, it joins the other objects as they disappear to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 70 Source ID: Eberhart_4409 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13710 (795A5E62) Date: 9/28/1967 Description: 4:00 p.m. Many people in Caracas, Venezuela, watch a luminous metallic disc cross the sky with an oscillating motion and appear to land on Cerro El Ávila. A Similar object is seen taking off from the same spot about 2 hours later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 70 Source ID: Eberhart_4410 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13711 (20263064) Date: 9/29/1967 Description: Time not reported. An airliner encountered an unidentified object flying above the plane. The aircraft's engines stopped (EM effects) and then started again when the object disappeared. (Weinstein, 1999, pp. 36, 50.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Zaporoje and Volgograd Bt., Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3786 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13712 (EDC5A441) Date: 9/29/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. Four workers in a restaurant at Wernersville, Pennsylvania, are alerted by a neighbor to go outside and watch nine red, pulsating, cigar-shaped objects flying northeastward. A large triangle-shaped object, also pulsating red, flies into view. The triangle stops and changes colors to white, green, then back to red. It takes off in a zigzag motion to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: R. G. Shunk, “[Letter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1985\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4411 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13713 (78DB02BC) Date: 9/30/1967 Description: 9:45 p.m. MST. A couple and their children saw a hat-shaped object (disc with dome), an "antenna" extending from the top that moved steadily in level flight across the sky, hovered, and dropped three fireballs. (Colorado UFO Project report form, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lakewood, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3787 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13714 (B6FAFA37) Date: 10/1967 Description: Night. Three adults and their children saw a cluster of unidentified red and white lights that seemed to be spinning as they apparently paced the witnesses' car. (London Free Press, Ontario, 10/12/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glencoe, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3789 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13715 (159F6E69) Date: 10/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. David R. Smith watches a diffuse object with a series of 5–6 lighted square and oval windows about 450–600 feet away at treetop level near Homer, Louisiana. It rises and heads south. After 50 seconds, the lights blink out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_4413 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13716 (4B30C193) Date: 10/1967 Description: Noon. Engineer V.N. Chechyanov and his coworkers saw a strange object in the clear blue sky for half an hour. It hovered for a while, then moved along the shore, rose and disappeared. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sukhumi, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3788 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13717 (8D563122) Date: 10/1967 Description: The DOSAAF Cosmonautics Committee invites the Soviet UFO Study Group to function under its auspices. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Felix Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel)” Source ID: Eberhart_4412 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13718 (43403F55) Date: 10/1/1967 Description: Valeriano Ruiz Fontes, a 28-year-old radio technician, observed an illuminated object at 10:30 p.m. in Tibidabo, Barcelona, Spain which he first took to be a large Jeep. However, It was hovering just above the ground about 700-800 yards away. It was about 14 feet long, with half a dozen oval illuminated windows, and had on top a square turret. Near the UFO were four people of normal stature wearing dark uniforms and bright helmets. Two of the beings climbed up the turret, manipulating or fixing some fittings there, while the other two were examined the underside of the object. After watching for about half an hour, the external lights were extinguished, showing only the illuminated portholes. The object then rose vertically with no noise to about 500 feet, showing yellow, red orange, and a triangle of blue-green lights, and took off at extremely high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Antonio Ribera, FSR, May 1968, p. 26; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1967-101 (A0879) Source ID: Johnson_6472 Source: Johnson ### Event 13719 (A190398C) Date: 10/2/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. EDT. Four witnesses who were together plus two other single, independent witnesses saw red, greenish blue, and white lights (body lights) apparently on an oval object that save off a yellowish glow. Dogs were barking (animal reaction) during the sighting. (Massachusetts NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP files; Fowler, 1974, p. 350.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ipswich, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3792 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13720 (5877001E) Date: 10/2/1967 Description: At 8:20 p.m. in Ipswich, Massachusetts several witnesses spotted a domed disc or domed oval-shaped object that glowed yellow around it perimeter. It carried a red, a greenish blue, and a bright white light. At times it glowed red all over. It hovered, spun, and moved up-and-down. Dogs barked during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 350 Source ID: Johnson_6499 Source: Johnson ### Event 13721 (DB9D88BE) Date: 10/2/1967 Description: 7:30 p.m. EDT. An aircraft company engineer and his children saw a white disc with rectangular windows, and a white light on top (body lights). A white light beam from the bottom illuminated the ground. (light reaction). (Hall, 2001, p. 161.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Melville, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3791 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13722 (A65A8528) Date: 10/2/1967 Description: Aircraft engineer sighted disc-shaped object with windows, blinking lights, light beam illuminating ground Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Melville, NY Source ID: HallUFOE2_145 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13723 (8A19B544) Date: 10/2/1967 Description: Time not reported. A policeman, an FAA specialist, and another man saw an unidentified silver-white, egg-shaped object. (Omaha World Herald, Nebraska, 10/3/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rockford, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3790 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13724 (D0A40D16) Date: 10/2/1967 Description: At 7:30 p.m. in Melville, New York P. E. Burkhardt, an aerospace computer systems engineer, and several teenagers witnessed a silver disc-shaped object with a set of rectangular-shaped lights that blinked on-and-off, revolving across the lower portion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files, report dated October 3, 1967; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 11, 153 Source ID: Johnson_6498 Source: Johnson ### Event 13725 (7110697E) Date: 10/3/1967 Description: Pilot [William “Pete” Knight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FKnight) reaches a speed of 4,519 mph \(Mach 6.72\) in a North American X-15 rocket plane, a record that stands today. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[William J. Knight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FKnight)” Source ID: Eberhart_4414 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13726 (4E119EC1) Date: 10/3/1967 Description: At 7:45 p.m. Kathy Skolem of Portland, Connecticut, age 13, saw an orange cloud bigger than the moon, which changed colors from pink to blue to green. This turned out to be a barium cloud experiment launched by NASA at 7:18 EDT from Wallops Island, Virginia. However, she then saw a white domed disc surrounded by a haze. It had lights around its rim, and it flew off toward the southeast. At 8:40 p.m. a glowing Saturn-shaped object with a fuzzy amber center flew over Cambridge, Massachusetts. It had white lights sparkling around its circumference. This too was not the barium cloud experiment, which they had seen earlier in the evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald A. Johnson, case investigation files; NICAP case investigation files Source ID: Johnson_6526 Source: Johnson ### Event 13727 (C72489DD) Date: 10/4/1967 Description: At 11:20 p.m. Atlantic Daylight Time at least one and most likely two separate UFOs dove or crashed into the ocean near Bon Portage Island, in the area of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada. There were at least a dozen independent witnesses to the event. Canadian Navy divers searched the area for three days but found nothing. This followed a series of six UFO sightings across Quebec and Nova Scotia beginning at 7:19 p.m., when Air Canada Captain Pierre Guy Charbonneau, flying between Sherbrooke and St. Jean, sighted an orange rectangular object followed by a series of smaller lights, followed by a sizeable explosion near the large object that turned into a big white ball-shaped cloud. The cloud turned red, then violet, and then blue. Two minutes later there was another explosion that turned into a second sphere which was orange in color. Like the first one it too eventually faded to blue. The smaller lights on the "kite tail" broke formation with the rectangular object and began to dance around the spheres like fireflies. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Yarmouth Light Herald, October 12, 1967; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, pp. 44-45; Don Ledger & Chris Styles, Dark Object: The world's only government documented UFO crash, pp. 9-13; 28-50, 151-162 Source ID: Johnson_6557 Source: Johnson ### Event 13728 (5781A863) Date: 10/4/1967 Description: From early evening until 11:30 p.m., numerous independent witnesses observe unexplained aerial activity in Nova Scotia. Near Sambro at 9:00 pm, Capt. Leo Howard Mersey and 20 crewmembers of the MV Nickerson see four brilliant red lights in a rectangular formation that appear to be on or just above the water. Occasionally one flares up so brightly that it causes an afterimage in their eves. The objects are also tracked on ship’s radar. They file a report with the Lunenburg CMP office. Between 11:00 and 11:30 pm, northwest of Brier Island, the captain and crew of a fishing vessel see a brilliant white light the size of the moon. As they watch, three brilliant yellow lights emerge and form a triangle around the larger light. The satellite objects then move across the sky and back at high speed. Observations are also made by other vessels. Five miles southwest of Weymouth, a policeman and three game wardens see an orange-colored light just above the tree line moving silently and slowly with spark-like objects emanating. At about 11:20 p.m., just west of Shag Harbour, [Laurie Wickens](http://www.superstitioustimes.com/shag-harbour-witness-cleans-up-interpretative-centre-after-breakin/) and four other teenagers driving in a car along Highway 3 see an object flying low, flashing four lights one after the other, in a straight line. It appears to be slowly descending at a 45° angle. Multiple witnesses hear a whistling sound “like a bomb,” then a “whoosh,” and finally a loud bang. When next seen by the teens, the object has hit the water’s surface 820– 980 feet offshore. It drifts on the surface, showing a pale-yellow light. Wickens contacts the RCMP detachment in Barrington Passage and reports he has seen a large airplane or small airliner crash into the waters off Shag Harbour. Within about 15 minutes, 10 RCMP officers arrive at the scene. Concerned for survivors, the RCMP detachment contacts the Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax to advise them of the situation and ask if any aircraft were missing. Before any attempt at rescue can be made, the object starts to sink and disappears from view. A rescue mission is quickly assembled. Within half an hour of the crash, local fishing boats go out to the crash site in the waters of the Gulf of Maine off Shag Harbour to look for survivors. No survivors, bodies, or debris are found, either by the fishermen or by a Canadian Coast Guard search and rescue cutter, which arrives about an hour later from nearby Clark’s Harbour. By the next morning, RCC Halifax has determined that no aircraft are missing. The same morning, RCC Halifax also sends a priority telex to the Air Desk at Royal Canadian Air Force headquarters in Ottawa, which handles all civilian and military UFO sightings, informing them of the crash and that all conventional explanations such as aircraft or flares have been dismissed. The head of the Air Desk, Squadron Leader William Bain sends another priority telex to the Royal Canadian Navy headquarters concerning the “UFO report” and recommends an underwater search be mounted. The RCN in turn sends another priority telex tasking Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic with carrying out the search. A detachment of RCN divers from Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic is assembled on the [HMCS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%5FVictoriaville%5F%28K684%29) [Granby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%5FVictoriaville%5F%28K684%29) on October 6 and for the next three days they comb the seafloor looking for an object. The final report says no trace of an object is found. In the 1990s, researcher [Chris Styles](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/styles-chris/73410) finds evidence that there is a second crash the same night. Witnesses see American naval exercises in Shelburne Harbour 30 miles to the northeast. Speculation is that the original object may have traveled underwater from Shag Harbour to Shelburne. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Shag Harbour UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shag%5FHarbour%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; Sanderson, [InvRes](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs)[,](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs) pp. 38–39; Condon, [pp. 351–353](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/350/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 279–282](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/278/mode/2up); Don Ledger, “UFO Crash at Shag Harbour,” IUR 22, no. 4 \(Winter 1997–1998\): 8–9, 20; Don Ledger and Chris Styles, Dark Object, Dell, 2001; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 94–98; Chris Rutkowski, “The Cold, Hard Facts about UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(September 2011\): 9–10; “[The 1967 Shag Harbour](http://www.roswellproof.com/Shag%5FHarbour/Shag%5FHarbour%5FDocuments.html) [UFO Crash: Documents Related to Crash,](http://www.roswellproof.com/Shag%5FHarbour/Shag%5FHarbour%5FDocuments.html)” Roswell Proof; “[Shag Harbour News Articles,](http://www.roswellproof.com/Shag%5FHarbour/Shag%5FHarbour%5Farticles.html)” Roswell Proof; Clark 284–285; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 129–137 Source ID: Eberhart_4415 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13729 (7DAA4D54) Date: 10/4/1967 Description: Evening, ADT. From early evening until 11:30 pm, numerous independent witnesses observed unexplained aerial activity. Near Sambro at 9:00 pm, the captain and crew of a fishing boat saw four brilliant red lights in a box formation that appeared to be on or just above the water. (Ledger and Styles, 2001, pp. 14- 17, 21-44.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [671004](http://www.nicap.org/shagdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3793 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13730 (4DD1A51D) Date: 10/5/1967 Description: 10:15 p.m. EDT (11:15 p.m. ADT). Multiple witnesses reported an object with blinking multicolored lights, three portholes, and a prism-like component on the bottom that emitted light rays. The object hovered, moved slowly, sometimes rising and falling, and ascended. (Johnson City newspapers of 10/5/67 and 10/17/67, copies in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Johnson City, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3794 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13731 (10801672) Date: 10/5/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. Colorado Superior Court Judge [Charles E. Bennett](https://www.morethanaheadstone.org/all-stories/lending-a-helping-hand-1?rq=charles%2Bbennet) and his wife [Christina](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/233076010/christina-bennett) spot three circular, red- orange objects traveling from the east to the southeast in a triangular formation over Denver, Colorado. They can hear a distinct humming or whirring sound. They move out of sight in 6 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flap Continues in the States,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 10 Source ID: Eberhart_4416 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13732 (3751903C) Date: 10/6/1967 Description: At seven o'clock in the evening numerous strong radar targets were detected at the same time that elliptical, fuzzy objects with red and green lights were seen overhead at Vandenburg AFB, California. At least two objects were picked up on five separate radars. Scrambled jet fighters did not find them. They moved at speeds of 80 knots, and changed altitude. Most targets were over the ocean. The various Air Force explanations of mirages, birds, and anomalous propagation have been judged to be lacking in credibility. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1968, p. 6; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward U. Condon (ed.) Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 171; UNICAT, case # 679 Source ID: Johnson_6602 Source: Johnson ### Event 13733 (ACC38000) Date: 10/6/1967 Description: Condon Case 35 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 3) Reference: NICAP: [671006](http://www.nicap.org/671006vandenberg%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vandenburg AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3795 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13734 (29CEE085) Date: 10/6/1967 Description: An abduction and sexual encounter occurred in Belfast, Northern Ireland at 10:45 p.m. Eugene Browne was walking home from a jazz club when he saw a craft in the sky. A yellow light came from it, which danced around him and made him feel dizzy and soon lose consciousness. He awoke on an exam table in a windowless, oblong room that was lit by a blue light from the floor. He was strapped by metal bands attached to an apparatus on the side of the table. Four men and a woman surrounded him; although they were human in appearance they had a bluish aura. The tallest was dressed in a dark one-piece uniform and said, "at last, someone who will do," and released him. The woman had long blond hair, high cheekbones and was very fair with a freckled complexion. He had sex with her and she told him they were "from another galaxy" and were experimenting to obtain human seed. Afterwards he was tied up and told it would not be long before he was returned. He blacked out again and recovered in a field about a mile from his original location. He had been abducted for about 40 minutes. He saw the object leave, which took off with a whistling sound as it retracted its tripod landing gear and flew off. He reportedly suffered somephysiological effects after the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, FSR, January-February 1970, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_6603 Source: Johnson ### Event 13735 (3E68A15C) Date: 10/6/1967 Description: 7:00 p.m. Radar at Vandenberg AFB, near Lompoc, California, detects a very large stationary object some miles over the Pacific Ocean off the Northern California coast. Later, radar detects numerous small but strong targets traveling eastward in irregular flight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Condon Case 35](http://www.nicap.org/671006vandenberg%5Fdir.htm)”; Condon, [pp. 171–172,](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/170/mode/2up) [353–365](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/352/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4417 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13736 (C1FF5687) Date: 10/7/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. Russell Hill is sitting down to dinner at the Raspberry Ridge Lookout Station in Alberta when the cabin lights begin to flicker. He goes out to check the generator and sees an odd green light moving slowly up the valley from south to north. It approaches to within 500 feet of the cabin. The object is about 75 feet in diameter and looks like two bowls clamped together. Around the rim is a pulsating green light that seems to come from a neon tube. Another green light is rotating slowly inside the top portion, and there are porthole-shaped indentations in the side. Suddenly the light on the rim is extinguished, the upper gfreen light turns white, and the object ascends at a terrific speed, trailing jets of flame. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Object Photographed in Canada,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 11 Source ID: Eberhart_4418 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13737 (01AD881F) Date: 10/7/1967 End date: 10/9/1967 Description: Capture and death of [Che Guevara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che%5FGuevara) in Bolivia. [Félix Rodríguez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix%5FRodr%C3%ADguez%5F%28soldier%29), a Cuban exile turned CIA Special Activities Division operative, advised Bolivian troops during the hunt for Guevara in Bolivia. In addition, the 2007 documentary My Enemy’s Enemy alleges that Nazi war criminal [Klaus Barbie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%5FBarbie) advised and possibly helped the CIA orchestrate Guevara’s capture. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Che Guevara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che%5FGuevara\#Capture%5Fand%5Fdeath)” Source ID: Eberhart_4419 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13738 (C57C9B62) Date: 10/8/1967 Description: Dr. John Altshuler came to Alamosa County, Colorado to examine the carcass of the horse "Lady" thought to have been killed and mutilated by UFOs, and was abducted this night while camping at the Sand Dunes National Monument. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, case files, citing Valley Courier, October 9, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_6655 Source: Johnson ### Event 13739 (2121A464) Date: 10/8/1967 Description: At 9:00 p.m. in Elk Garden, West Virginia a turtle-shaped disc flew over a cemetery shortly after a funeral at only six feet above the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 191 Source ID: Johnson_6654 Source: Johnson ### Event 13740 (0E492472) Date: 10/9/1967 Description: 5:40 p.m. The 13-year-old son of a prominent businessman is riding a bicycle along a wash in the back of his home in the area of the Tucson Speedway in Arizona. He comes across a cylindrical metallic object standing on end and sitting on two legs about 44 feet away from him. The legs end in circular pads and are joined by a curved bar. The object, which is making a low-pitched hum, is about 8 feet tall and more than 2 feet wide. The boy approaches it for a better view, but it takes off vertically and disappears in 12 seconds. He finds two impressions in the hard surface of the wash, 13.4 inches across and about 42 inches apart \(measuring from the outer edges\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Landing at Tucson,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, pp. 1, 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4420 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13741 (5E3CF4F5) Date: 10/9/1967 Time: 1740 Description: A boy riding his bicycle saw an aluminum cylinder standing on end, 3 m high, 80 cm wide, supported by two legs ending in round pads joined by a bar. He got within 12 m of the object before it rose vertically with a deep, low-pitched hum, but no smoke, flame, or haze. It left two impressions. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 119 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: East Tucson, Arizona Source ID: Magnonia_886 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13742 (AC0166A7) Date: 10/10/1967 Description: At 7:00 p.m. three witnesses in Leek, Staffordshire, England using 7 x 50 binoculars saw a yellowish oval with a small dome on top, with a yellow light rotating around the dome. The object also had one red and two green body lights that pulsated on and off. As the lights pulsated, the color of the object changed from yellow to white. At 7:30 p.m. a similar object shot across the sky, stopped and joined the first object (rendezvous). Both objects were gradually obscured by clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roger Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_6719 Source: Johnson ### Event 13743 (49314839) Date: 10/10/1967 Description: A cigar-shaped object was seen in the northwestern sky over Dublin, Ireland by several witnesses in the evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_6720 Source: Johnson ### Event 13744 (D07AB794) Date: 10/10/1967 Description: The [Lorenzens](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) visit the Colorado project and find its investigatory procedures “sadly lacking,” with no standard report form or methodology. They also meet with Boulder Daily Camera journalist R. Roger Harkins, who has been covering the Colorado project. They give him a 7-point rationale on why the CIA might be interested in UFOs, just to see if it gets published. Harkins dictates the story to the Associated Press, but it is never published. The Lorenzens suspect the project has a CIA mole. \(Low did work for the CIA in 1949 when it was aiding Albanian resistance fighters.\) Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 129, 175–176; Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, p. 5; Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939–1961, Morrow, [pp. 396–397](https://archive.org/details/cloakgownscholar00wink/page/396/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4421 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13745 (3129B47E) Date: 10/10/1967 Description: 7:00 p.m. LT (3:00 p.m. EDT). Three witnesses using 7 x 50 binoculars saw a yellowish oval with a small dome on top, a yellow light rotating around the dome. The object also had one red and two green body lights that pulsated off and on. (Stanway and Pace, p. 16.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leek, Staffordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3797 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13746 (18E7CBDE) Date: 10/10/1967 Description: Time not reported. A forest fire lookout saw an oval object with a rim around the circumference and a green light on top. The light rotated, and when the object moved it turned white (color/motion correlation). (London Evening Free Press,Ontario, 10/16/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bow River Forest, Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3796 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13747 (8F416B3B) Date: 10/10/1967 Description: At 12:45 a.m. Norman Cory was driving home in Lakewood, Colorado when he was flagged down by a tall man with a forked goatee. The man was well over six feet tall, and was wearing a jacket with four gold bars on each shoulder. The man talked to the witness without moving his lips, presumably by telepathy. He asked where the North Star was, and what the date was; in response to the answer, he replied, "In your primitive time." He then asked what the witness had in his mouth, and on being told it was a cigarette, he replied, "Oh, one of your primitive vices." He next asked about the car and said, "Oh, your primitive mode of transportation." When the witness asked him who he was and where he was from, the man replied, "I cannot tell you now, but my colleagues and I will return." Then the man walked about four feet away from the roadside and vanished. Norman then heard a noise and looked up and saw hovering overhead a red object the size of a football field. With a whining noise it went straight up, and then was joined by two more objects, and all three shot away at a tremendous speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-102 (A0880), citing R. Leo Sprinkle; Lt. Col. A. P. Webb, Project Blue Book Source ID: Johnson_6717 Source: Johnson ### Event 13748 (60279A37) Date: 10/10/1967 Description: A forest fire lookout in Bow River Provincial Forest, Alberta, Canada saw an oval object with a rim around the circumference and a green light on top. The light rotated, and when the object moved it turned white. The object hovered, then moved off and disappeared emitting four blue flames as it departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: London (ON) Evening Free Press, October 16, 1967, copy in NICAP files Source ID: Johnson_6718 Source: Johnson ### Event 13749 (A43942BD) Date: 10/11/1967 Description: [Rex Heflin](http://www.nicap.org/reports/Goodbye%5FRex%5FHeflin.pdf) is visited by a strange group of men in air force uniforms. He obtains their names. They ask him about his 1965 photos and topics like the Bermuda Triangle. He notices a figure in the back seat of their car and a violet glow. Heflin thinks he is being photographed or recorded. The FM radio acts strangely. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_4422 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13750 (B93391F4) Date: 10/11/1967 Description: An object with a row of six red lights, 55-60 feet long and at an altitude of 500-600 feet was watched for ten minutes at around 10:00 p.m. in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada. The lights disappeared, but reappeared as 4 lights in a linear formation at a 45 degree angle in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Autumn 1967, p. 11, citing the Toronto Star Source ID: Johnson_6766 Source: Johnson ### Event 13751 (889E912A) Date: 10/11/1967 Description: At 7:50 p.m. in Aldersyde, Alberta, Canada an oval-shaped UFO with a dome circled a car. The driver, Mrs. N. Tibbs, felt a sensation of cold, and the car engine and lights died. The engine restarted by itself when the object departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files; Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Winter 1968, p. 7; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 11; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 33; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 37; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 251 Source ID: Johnson_6764 Source: Johnson ### Event 13752 (5A1C4344) Date: 10/11/1967 Description: There were several UFO sightings in Uintah County, Utah on this night. In one close encounter, Mr. Hackford was driving up a road in Farm Creek, Utah when a UFO hovered over his vehicle for 15 seconds. He suffered physiological effects as a result. At the phosphate plant north of Vernal, Utah Mr. Rasmussen saw a light that hoveredin the sky, then shot straight up vertically and was gone. His daughter also saw it on her way home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. A53 Source ID: Johnson_6765 Source: Johnson ### Event 13753 (B0D5E2D5) Date: 10/11/1967 Time: 0010 Description: Othmar Willi, 37, observed three cylinders, 10 m high, 5 m in diameter, with two rows of square windows and a small cone on top, hovering 50 m away and 5 m above a maize field, making a noise resembling a swarm of bees. A small object was dropped briefly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Oberhrendingen, Switzerland Source ID: Magnonia_887 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13754 (5006CE76) Date: 10/11/1967 Description: Oval with dome circled car, driver felt cold; engine restarted by itself as object departed. CUFOS report; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 37 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aldersyde, Alta., CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3759 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13755 (E0102B9A) Date: 10/11/1967 Description: 8:30-9:00 p.m. MDT. Many people, singly and in groups, independently reported seeing a brilliant reddish-orange object moving south to north. It was described as a large, flat-bottomed dome (hemisphere) with pulsating red, green and yellow lights (body lights). Its light illuminated the ground as bright as day. (Salisbury, 1974, p. 55-61.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unitah Basin, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3798 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13756 (CC6B2BA9) Date: 10/11/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. Nora Tibbs is driving on Highway 2 near Aldersyde, Alberta, when the headlights, radio, and car engine stop. She notices an oval-shaped object with a turret on top that begins to circle her car. It has two white lights and a lighted-up underside. It circles the car four or five times at a height of 1,000 feet, then flies away. The witness feels cold during the sighting. The car engine starts by itself as the object leaves. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Object Photographed](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf) [in Canada,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 11; Ted Phillips, [Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf), Center for UFO Studies, 1978, p. 37 Source ID: Eberhart_4423 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13757 (980E010B) Date: 10/12/1967 Description: 6:37 p.m. EDT. A man saw a bright, blue-white sphere hovering over a mountain. The object moved laterally when an aircraft approached it (aircraft avoidance), then accelerated and sped away. Witness had seen similar objects before. (NICAP report form.) . (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roanoke, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3799 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13758 (7CB22976) Date: 10/12/1967 Description: 6:30 p.m.CDT. Seven children saw a silver, egg-shaped object with legs that appeared to be preparing to land in the yard where the children were. Reportedly a similar object was seen several hours later over a nearby town. (Stars 6t Stripes, 10/15/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dubuque, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3800 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13759 (9A48CC34) Date: 10/12/1967 Description: Night. Comedian [Dick Gregory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%5FGregory) is at a party with friends at Big Sur, California, when three lights appear in the sky. One is fiery red, while the other two are bright green. The objects dart about sideways, backwards, in circles, in jagged lines, and in formation. When Gregory’s writer, Jim Saunders, signals with a flashlight, the objects seem to respond by moving in the same direction as the beam. The partygoers watch the lights for about 40 minutes. Gregory takes two Polaroid photographs that show a red object at the top and two green ones at the bottom. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 131](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/131/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4424 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13760 (DE645747) Date: 10/13/1967 Description: On this day in Le Mas, France (Lozere department) at 12:45 p.m., a young woman saw three small beings dressed in copper-red suits. Other observers saw only a compass needle deviate and a brief apparition of a line of six luminous discs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of humanoid reports, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1968, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_6810 Source: Johnson ### Event 13761 (D4587F58) Date: 10/13/1967 Description: 1:50 a.m. A locomotive engineer reported that his freight train was paced by an unidentified object for 30 miles. The object once came within 100 yards. was seen to be flat on the bottom with a dark dome-like structure on top (domed disc). It was estimated to be 40-50 feet wide and 15-18 feet tall. Possible EM effect noted on radio. (Keyhoe and Lore, 1969a, pp. 10-11.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elnora and Mirror, Alberta bt., CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3801 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13762 (4DEDB645) Date: 10/13/1967 Description: McDonnell Douglas aerospace engineer [Robert M. Wood](https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert%5FM.%5FWood) briefs the Colorado project on UFOs. Subsequently, Wood writes [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) a critical but polite letter listing his concerns about the project’s shortcomings. He later learns that Condon has contacted CEO [James Smith McDonnell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FSmith%5FMcDonnell) and tried to get him fired. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert M. Wood, “A Little Physics…A Little Friction: A Close Encounter with the Condon Committee,” IUR 18, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1993\): 6–10 Source ID: Eberhart_4425 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13763 (F21F82D2) Date: 10/14/1967 Description: 7:45 p.m. MDT. Two men in a car saw a sharp-edged, bright orange object shaped like a "haystack on fire" (hemisphere), flat on the bottom, that rose from on or near the ground emitting blinding light as their car approached. (Salisbury, 1974, pp. 53- 55.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ouray, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3802 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13764 (086AA031) Date: 10/14/1967 Description: 2:30 a.m. Physicist [Lewis E. Hollander Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%5FE.%5FHollander%5FJr) and his wife and son are driving near Mendota, California, when they see a reddish-orange light source hovering close to the road. They then notice a triangular shape beneath the light. Thirty seconds later it moves upward to the west, increasing its speed. The triangular shape fades, and Hollander notices a white glow \(“definitely an ionization color”\) behind it. It disappears at an extreme altitude after 3 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_4426 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13765 (08499C85) Date: 10/14/1967 Description: 7:45 p.m. A father and son are returning from a fishing trip when they notice an odd orange object like a “haystack on fire” landed in the desert near Ouray, Utah. They stop, get out of the car, and watch. The object lifts off immediately, looking like a half-moon in shape and size. It then goes over to the Moon and flies a loop around it, keeping its flat side down. Then it flies across the Moon’s face and leaves to the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Devin-Adair, 1974, pp. 53–55; Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_4427 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13766 (FA2C1529) Date: Late 1967 Description: The Institute for Aerospace Studies at the University of Toronto, Ontario, begins a UFO study. By October 1968, it is on the verge of collapse for “lack of something to investigate.” The study terminates in 1970, but no report on its findings is ever released. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Arthur Bray, “[Government Cover-Up Exposed,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%203%20no%202%20-%201974.pdf)” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 2 \(1975\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_4461 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13767 (E7FC4366) Date: 10/17/1967 Description: 10:00 p.m. MDT. A couple saw a large orange, ball of light that hovered over a corral. It was joined by a second orange ball (rendezvous), and they flew away together to the east. (Salisbury, 1974, Appendix B, Table 1, case 54.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roosevelt, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3805 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13768 (F011D3D0) Date: 10/17/1967 Description: 9:20 p.m. EDT. A policeman and another man saw red and green lights in a square pattern that glided, hovered, ascended, then divided into two groups which moved off. A popping sound, like fireworks, was heard during the sighting. (Plainfield Courier-News, N.J., 10/18/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Somerset County, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3804 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13769 (34D892D9) Date: 10/17/1967 Description: Rep. [Louis C. Wyman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FC.%5FWyman) \(R-N.H.\) submits House Resolution 946 for a full UFO investigation by the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1967-pt21/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1967-pt21-8-2.pdf)” Congressional Record, House, 90th Cong., 1st Sess., October 17, 1967, vol. 113, part 21, p. 28949 Source ID: Eberhart_4428 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13770 (691794C5) Date: 10/17/1967 Description: 10:04 p.m. PDT (11:04 p.m. MDT). A woman saw an egg-shaped object which swooped down, skimmed over rooftops, stopped, retreated, then fell to the ground. (Letter from witness, 10/23/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Berkeley, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3806 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13771 (009AAFEF) Date: 10/17/1967 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a large orange ball hovered over a corral in Roosevelt, Utah. In a few minutes it was joined by a second one. They left together flying to the east and out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 54 Source ID: Johnson_6925 Source: Johnson ### Event 13772 (8619AD1C) Date: 10/17/1967 Description: On this day in Shillong, India an object at 500 feet altitude swooped down to ground level and damaged vegetation, then "sucked and churned the water" over a pond. It finally sped off. There were many witnesses to the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 228 Source ID: Johnson_6924 Source: Johnson ### Event 13773 (31DCB004) Date: 10/17/1967 Description: 6:00 p.m. LT (2:00 p.m.EDT). A truck driver on the M6 Motorway watched a dark circular craft moving parallel to his path for 5-1/2 miles as he drove at 35-40 m.p.h. He stopped and got out to better observe the object, which was disc-shaped with a rim around the center and had illuminated portholes. (Stanway and Pace, 1968, pp. 17, 44-46.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holmeschapel, Cheshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3803 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13774 (E1606FE2) Date: 10/18/1967 Description: At nine o’clock in the evening in Lake Charles, Louisiana John Herbert witnessed a bright, fiery ball that flashed four times while moving east, just above the treetops. The sighting lasted one minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_6959 Source: Johnson ### Event 13775 (1457903A) Date: 10/18/1967 Time: 9 PM Description: Witness: John Herbert. One bright, fiery ball flashed four times while moving east, just above the tree tops. Sighting lasted 1 minute. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana Source ID: BerlinerBBU_579 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 13776 (F4C6B70D) Date: 10/18/1967 Description: 400 individuals attend the first meeting of the UFO Study Group of the All-Union Committee on Cosmonautics of the Russian DOSAAF. Retired Soviet Air Force Maj. Gen. Porfiri Stolyarov is elected chairman and [Felix Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel) agrees to be deputy chairman. Members include author [Alexander Kazantsev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%5FKazantsev), engineer Arkady Tikhonov, a cosmonaut, 18 scientists, and 200 qualified observers stationed throughout the country. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Late News:](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%206.pdf) [Official Russian Move on UFOs,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1967\): 2; Hobana and Weverbergh 35; Good Above, [p. 232](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/232/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4429 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13777 (A9AC74AA) Date: 10/18/1967 Description: 6:00 p.m. Astronomer Z. Kadikov, from Kazan Engelgardt observatory, saw a bright object in the northwest. It was a crescent with sharp edges and pointed horns, yellow in color with a pale bluish tail, moving at about 1.5 degrees per second. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pyatigorsk, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3807 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13778 (320232FD) Date: 10/18/1967 Description: Bright, fiery ball flash 4 times while moving E, just above tree tops (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Charles, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3808 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13779 (0A1ABE4A) Date: 10/19/1967 Description: 9:45 p.m. MDT. Five teenagers saw a disc with two white lights at one end and a red light at the other (body lights). The object appeared to be spinning. It swooped down from high altitude, leveled off, and moved away at high speed. (Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Medicine Hat, Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3809 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13780 (24839E1A) Date: 10/20/1967 Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_146 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13781 (A129530C) Date: 10/20/1967 Description: 4:36 a.m. EDT. Two police officers reported that a bright red ellipse followed and illuminated the interior of their patrol car. Later police sightings that morning very possibly or probably were astronomical. (Hitt, 1999.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milledgeville, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3810 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13782 (931B20C7) Date: 10/21/1967 Description: 10:00 p.m. Ivan Ritter, Jerry Bennet, and two other teens are driving east out of Duncan, Oklahoma, on the new State Highway 7. They see something in the road ahead, far out of the range of their headlights. When the driver turns on his high-beam lights, they see three men who seem to fly off the road and disappear. They are about 4 feet tall and wearing tight-fitting blue-green clothing. Their faces appear human, but with large ears. The next morning, Ritter and Bennet look around for evidence at the landing site, but all they find is a small, four-toes footprint in the muddy bottom of a creek bed about 300 feet from the road. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 84–85 Source ID: Eberhart_4431 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13783 (EF388AEB) Date: 10/21/1967 Description: 6:16 a.m. Two control tower operators and an observer at the south end of the runway at Blytheville Air Force Base \[now Arkansas International Airport\] in Blytheville, Arkansas, see two dark oblong objects flying east to west at about 1,200–1,500 feet. They are tracked by RAPCON radar for 2 miles. They make a turn to the southwest and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[RAPCON Tracks Object, Two Objects Observed from the Ground](http://www.nicap.org/671021blytheville%5Fdir.htm)”; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 60](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/60/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/60/mode/2up) [75](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/74/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4430 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13784 (5BA9B369) Date: 10/21/1967 Time: 2200 Description: Four boys were driving east on State Route 7 when they saw three men on the road, who "almost flew off and disappeared." They were about 1.20 m tall and wore shiny blue-green clothing. Their faces looked human, but they had very large ears. The next day a small footprint showing four toes was found in the mud. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III 84 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Duncan, Oklahoma Source ID: Magnonia_888 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13785 (269D9B5A) Date: 10/21/1967 Description: RAPCON Tracks Object Two Objects Observed From Ground (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [671021](http://www.nicap.org/671021blytheville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Blytheville AFB, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_3811 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13786 (7573AACA) Date: 10/22/1967 End date: 10/28/1967 Description: 4:00 a.m. LT (12:00 midnight EDT). Interference on VHF radio (EM effects) caused a witness to go outside where he saw a cigar-shaped metallic object with an incandescent glow and portholes, and heard a whirring sound. (Unidentified newspaper article, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lancashire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3817 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13787 (92081A78) Date: 10/22/1967 Description: Evening, CDT. Two real ! estate salesmen saw three brilliant, 2-3 foot diameter, pulsating red lights floating over a field, apparently body lights on a larger craft. A car stopped with six people who also saw the lights. (Bondarchuk, 1979, p. 47-50.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3814 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13788 (931DA032) Date: 10/22/1967 Description: 7:45-8:00 p.m. CDT. Two witnesses saw three lights that were about 4 feet in diameter. The two outer lights were orange/amber and blinked or flickered. The center light was a bright red inverted teardrop shape that moved up and down at regular 2-3 second intervals. (Clausen report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Humboldt, Saskatchewan, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3815 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13789 (CB7389AC) Date: 10/22/1967 Description: Night. Two groups of policemen about a half-mile apart, while in radio communication, saw a glowing orange-yellow, cylindrical object rise from near the ground about one-quarter of a mile away from one of the groups. (McDonald letter, 12/1/68, Donald E. Keyhoe Archives files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milledgeville, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3816 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13790 (9E641E5C) Date: 10/22/1967 Description: Night. Edward Fortney and another real-estate agent are locking up for the night in Charleswood, a suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba, when they notice a formation of brilliant red, pulsating lights above an adjacent field. They are joined by six other people who have stopped their car to look at the lights. Two similar lights appear and take up a position near the formation. The objects then rise and move away noiselessly in formation. Floating above Canada Highway 100, they appear to change positions, forming a perfect triangle. Fortney looks at them through binoculars and sees dark rectangular objects that the lights are attached to. The formation dips and bobs toward a line of high-voltage towers half a mile away. The three lights in triangular formation break up and form a single file, the wires and towers lighting up with a red glow as they speed over them. They are last seen traveling northwest. On his way home, Fortney experiences a “skullbuster” headache that lasts until midnight. The next day, he visits the site in the field and finds child-like footprints in the moist soil, 7 inches long and under 3 inches wide, leading to and from a peculiar circular pile of fist-sized stones. The heel marks seem deeply impressed in the soil. Fortney also experiences leg and back pain, sunburn on his face and hands, and a yellow- green coating on his tongue. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 47–50 Source ID: Eberhart_4432 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13791 (891D10B3) Date: 10/22/1967 Description: 3:38 p.m. LT. Two witnesses saw a metallic-appearing sphere with a dark central band. The object crossed the sky quickly in a zig-zag pattern. (Report from local investigator, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maritimes, Nice, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_3813 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13792 (7E360D3D) Date: 10/22/1967 Description: Tracks of tiny creatures were discovered in a field in Charleswood, British Columbia, Canada clustered around a small pile of stones laid in a circular heap, after 17 witnesses reported seeing mysterious lights in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dennis Stamey, Flying Saucers magazine, June 1970, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_7021 Source: Johnson ### Event 13793 (76E4FD18) Date: 10/22/1967 Description: 4:30 a.m. EDT. Two police officers saw a ball of white light flying at treetop level. They stopped to get a fix on it, then tried to approach it, but it apparently outdistanced them so they turned back. (Hitt, 1999.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newnan, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3812 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13794 (2460430B) Date: 10/23/1967 Description: 1:30 a.m. EDT. A man saw a silver egg-shaped object with a light blue ring around the center. The object hovered and then flew away, the blue ring changing color to bright pink (color change/motion correlation). (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report and NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carlisle, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3819 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13795 (D58F18CD) Date: 10/23/1967 Description: 4:50 a.m. LT. A woman saw a cigar-shaped object, slightly narrower at one end, with a blinding blue light. Hovering near it were three separate, smaller orange and yellowish lights or objects. (Hennessey report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bristol, Avon, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3818 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13796 (EF90254F) Date: 10/24/1967 Description: 6:45 p.m. EDT. A man saw three oval orange lights in step formation which ascended by constantly repositioning the bottom light to the top, the bottom light fading out and then appearing in the top position. This cycle repeated and the formation ascended. (Letter, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Castine, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_3821 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13797 (1CDD02D2) Date: 10/24/1967 Description: 4:00 a.m. LT. Two policemen saw a bright cross-shaped light that moved at treetop level with witnesses it in pursuit. (Unidentified newspaper clippings and letter from local investigator, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hatherleigh, Devon, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3820 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13798 (F4CCF3AC) Date: 10/24/1967 Description: 4:00 a.m. Two police constables, Roger Willey and Clifford Waycott, chase a bright cross-shaped light in their patrol car at 90 mph between Holsworthy and Hatherleigh on the A307 road, Devon, England. The object appears to land behind some trees, but takes off before they can reach the site, though they approach to within 120 feet of the object. The UFO is later observed to rendezvous in the sky with a similar object. Other policemen report a UFO on this day and the following day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bernard Wignall, “[The Okehampton Incident,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201967%20V%2013%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1967\): 5; UFOFiles2, [pp. 75–76](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n125/mode/2up); Geoff Falla, “[The Flying Cross Episode,](https://bufora.org.uk/The-Flying-Cross-Episode--1967--2012.php)” BUFORA, 2012; Ian Ridpath, “[Devon ‘Flying Cross’ of 1967 Revisited,](http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/flyingcross.html)” Ian Ridpath’s UFO Skeptic, March 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_4433 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13799 (5798F319) Date: 10/24/1967 Description: At 4:10 a.m. two police officers chased a pulsating bright flying cross-shaped UFO across farmland between Okehampton and Holsworthy in Devon, England. It maneuvered at low altitude over the treetops, and a second cross appeared after the first had gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1967, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_7078 Source: Johnson ### Event 13800 (1EB21178) Date: 10/24/1967 Description: At 10:15 p.m. a 30 foot in diameter round or disc-shaped object was seen in Buston, Derby, England. There was a yellow glow from the rear of the object that "caused treetops to bend." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1968, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_7079 Source: Johnson ### Event 13801 (7291B857) Date: 10/24/1967 Time: 2130 Description: Donald Chiszar, 13, and Pat Crozier, 10, saw a bright object hovcrillg in mid-air. It tilted toward them, and they could see two big, square windows separated by a bar, and strange lettering under them. Two aliens, and control panels with lights and knobs, could be seen inside. It vanished on the spot. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Lor. III, 180 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Newfield, New York Source ID: Magnonia_889 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13802 (B863A608) Date: 10/24/1967 Description: UFO with windows approached, tilted down. Two humanoid figures and control panels visible. Object tilted back up, shot out of sight in seconds Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Newfield, NY Source ID: HallUFOE2_147 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13803 (735A6226) Date: 10/24/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. [Donald Chiszar,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96734685/donald-g-chiszar) 13, and Pat Crosier, 10, are sitting on the Crosier front porch in Newfield, New York, when they see a bright disc-like object approach them with its leading edge tilted toward them. On top is a knob-like protuberance with an antenna and hanging beneath the object is a “square box” full of red, green, and white lights. Two humanoid figures and control panels are visible through windows. The object then tilts back and shoots out of sight. Their hand-held radios produce loud static during the sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flap Continues in the](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf) [States,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 10; Richard H. Hall, “Dyad ‘Scout Craft,’” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 23–24; Condon, [pp. 375–379](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/374/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4434 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13804 (D7D9CBA0) Date: 10/24/1967 Description: A huge disc-shaped object was seen by four teenagers southeast of Lumsden, Saskatchewan, Canada at 9:10 p.m. It hovered and then landed remotely. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1968, p. 1; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 174 Source ID: Johnson_7080 Source: Johnson ### Event 13805 (6157AE96) Date: 10/24/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. EDT. A disc-like object with a knob and antenna (protrusions) on top approached in a tilted down position. (EM effects). (Hall, 2001, p. 458, from: APRO Bulletin, Sept.-Oct. 1967, p.10; Gillmor, 1969, pp. 376-78, case 38.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newfield, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3822 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13806 (07DA9D73) Date: 10/24/1967 Description: At 9:30 p.m. Donald Chiszar, age 13, and Pat Crosier, age 10, reported seeing a large light that came closer and hovered over a house in Newfield, New York only 50 yards away. It was a round object with a cupola and antenna on top, and it had an oblong box on the bottom with red, green, and white lights. It was of a dull silver color, about 30 feet in diameter and 6-8 feet high. Around the rim were square shaped red and white lights. It tilted toward them, and they could see two big, square windows separated by a bar in the dome. Through these windows two humanoid beings were visible, each less than 5'7" tall, with "rocky or bumpy" skin of a chocolate brown color. They stood motionless, peering out, while several additional shadows shadows were seen moving behind them. Knobs and electronic equipment were visible inside the lighted section. The domed disc hovered in the same spot for about two minutes, tilted upward in the rear. Then the rim lights became very bright, it assumed a horizontal attitude, and shot away at great speed "like a puff of wind." The following night, Chiszar told investigators he saw two more of the same flying objects. The boys claimed their walkie-talkies malfunctioned during the observation, and a nearby dog was barking. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 10; Lloyd Mallan, Science & Mechanics, August 1968, p. 51; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, pp. 179-180; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 889; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-105 (A0883), citing William Donovan for NICAP, Dr. Roy Craig & Dr. Fred Ahrens for the Colorado UFO Study; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 11, 458, 474 Source ID: Johnson_7081 Source: Johnson ### Event 13807 (536E3653) Date: 10/24/1967 Description: On this evening George W. Ritter and three other soldiers were on guard duty at the Hunter Liggett Military Reservation in California when they all observed an orange fluorescent oval-shaped craft slowly approach, leaving a trail behind it. A hatch opened in the bottom of the craft and five small drones dropped out of it. These formed into a V formation and began hovering above the witnesses. As the men looked up they became mesmerized, and Ritter began hearing a "blip-blip" sound like sonar. All four felt paralyzed at this point. Ritter's next recollection was of being abruptly lifted up into one of the objects. He then found himself lying on the floor of the craft with a Grey humanoid looking down on him. The other three soldiers were nowhere in sight. The being had large black oval-shaped eyes, grayish skin, and did not appear to be wearing any clothing. He saw three other similar smaller creatures that appeared to be assistants. He next heard a voice in his head telling him that he was not going to be hurt. Inside the object there was a misty weird light, resembling a black light. He was then given a shot in his thigh near the groin, and then one of the beings came up to his left side and somehow put his whole hand inside the upper left side of his chest. After some time he was taken into another room where he saw a bright ball of light; it communicated telepathically with Ritter and emanated a sensation of energy and love. Ritter was told that "something wonderful was going to happen" in the near future His next recollection was of standing back on the ground, looking up, but the objects had gone. He and the other men reported the incident to the military authorities, and as a result Ritter spent two months in a military mental hospital. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 3337, citing Linda Moulton Howe Source ID: Johnson_7082 Source: Johnson ### Event 13808 (D1B5661E) Date: 10/25/1967 Description: Clive Robinson and Richard Corben, both age 14, and a third boy, reported that they had witnessed the landing of a dome-shaped object with a smaller hump on top in Malvern, England at 8:45 p.m. The object came down 200 meters away from them, and it took off diagonally, leaving behind some traces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 890, citing FSR, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_7123 Source: Johnson ### Event 13809 (C2015AA5) Date: 10/25/1967 Time: 2045 Description: Clive Robinson and Richard Corben, 14, and a third boy, reported the landing of a dome-shaped object with a smaller hump on top, 200 m away. It took off diagonally, leaving some traces. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Malvern, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_890 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13810 (C8702CA2) Date: 10/25/1967 Description: 3:15 p.m. R. G. Putnam, a brakeman on a train running from Truro, Nova Scotia, to Moncton, New Brunswick, when he sees a disc with green vapor billowing from it pacing the train at treetop level near Wentworth Station, Nova Scotia. Putnam feels an intense blast of radiation, forcing him to cover his face with his hands to look at it. The object soon drifts away from the train, tips to a 45° angle, then turns to a vertical poistion. A jet arrives, seemingly in pursuit, and the object levels out, taking on the appearance of a cigar-shaped cloud. Both fly out of sight to the west after 35 minutes of observation. One week later, the hair on the back of Putnam’s hands disappears, his hands shrivel up, and his eyes are sore and swollen. Two weeks later, his chest and throat get sore. He reports the sighting to the RCMP and the Canadian Forces, but apparently gets no response. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 104–105 Source ID: Eberhart_4435 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13811 (889F8C0D) Date: 10/25/1967 Description: Domed disc hovered ahead, driver felt pressure on eardrums. Flying Saucer Review, Nov.-Dec. 1967, p. 6 (E,R,L) truck (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hooks, Hampstead, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3823 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13812 (BE08CCF5) Date: 10/25/1967 Description: 4:05 p.m. Witness N. Savrasov, an advanced geography student, and his mother-in- law were able to observe two spherical objects flying from the northwest to the southeast. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Otradnoy Stanista, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3824 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13813 (39A9F956) Date: 10/26/1967 Description: 7:00 a.m. LT. Two men saw two cross-shaped objects hovering in the sky for 20 minutes. (From Hennessey, NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wales, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3827 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13814 (AA2C1E0C) Date: 10/26/1967 Description: Cylinder w/ 4 arms over nuc plant, A-R (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portland, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3826 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13815 (49083D03) Date: 10/26/1967 Description: Dog worried by hovering odd shaped object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [671026](http://www.nicap.org/ar-671026dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Dorset, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3825 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13816 (646C17C3) Date: 10/26/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. EDT. Four witnesses saw a dark object with two horizontal rows of red lights, a green light, and a white light (body lights). The object circled, hovered, reversed direction (maneuvered) and emitted a humming sound. Dogs in the area barked and whined (animal reactions) during the sighting. (Fowler, 1974, p. 350.) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newton, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3830 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13817 (69C9FE94) Date: 10/26/1967 Time: 0430 Description: A businessman driving north between Hook and Reading was puzzled when the electrical system of his car broke down. He then observed a dull object, 20 m in diameter, 100 m away, at about 15 m altitude. He made the rest of his journey in a trancelike state. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 67, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Reading, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_891 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13818 (D16D917A) Date: 10/26/1967 Description: Dusk, EDT. Two women saw a silver bell-shaped object with red revolving lights at the top (body lights) and an apparent row of windows around the upper portion. (Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rock Hill, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3829 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13819 (952632B5) Date: 10/26/1967 Description: 7:10 a.m. LT. Two copoles saw a soft glowing orange ball (sphere) that changed to long star shape (cross shape) which disappeared leaving a black ball with pinpoints of light on each side. (Hennessey report received 12/11/67.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Middlesex, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3828 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13820 (111CAA0B) Date: 10/26/1967 Description: A businessman driving in the pre-dawn hours north between Hook and Reading, England was momentarily puzzled when the electrical system of his car broke down at 4:30 a.m. He then observed a low hovering, dull-colored object about 100 meters away from him. It was 20 meters in diameter and at an altitude of about 15 meters. He was able to restart the car, but made the rest of his journey in a trancelike state. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 891, citing Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1967 Source ID: Johnson_7148 Source: Johnson ### Event 13821 (E4983B20) Date: 10/26/1967 Description: 11:25 a.m. J. B. W. “Angus” Brooks, a former BOAC pilot and photo interpreter, is walking his Dalmatian and German shepherd at Moigne Downs near Ringstead Bay, Dorset, England. An odd-looking craft descends and hovers at an altitude of 200–300 feet at a distance of about a quarter mile from them for 22 minutes. The German shepherd has been foraging for game; when she returns she seems “distraught” as she stands beside Brooks. Her ears are pricked, indicating she is worried about the sounds she is hearing, although Brooks can detect no sound from the object. The odd-shaped craft has a central round chamber estimated to be 25 feet in diameter and 12 feet thick. Four long slender fuselages \(estimated 75 feet long and 8 feet wide\) extend from the central chamber. In flight, one of the 4 fuselages leads, while the other three are together in the rear. As the object slows to hover, the fuselages move to form a cross. The object rotates 90°, then remains motionless for 22 minutes despite strong winds. Upon departure, the leading fuselage is not the one that led on approach. The remaining 3 fuselages come together in the rear as on the approach, and the object climbs away with increasing speed. The craft appears translucent, taking on the color of the sky above it. There are dark shadows along the bases of the fuselages and the center chamber. On future visits to this area, the German shepherd appears nervous. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Angus Brooks, “[Remarkable Sighting near Dorset,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1968\): 3–4; R. H. B. Winder, “[Comment on the Angus Brooks Sighting,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1968\): 4–5; “[‘Flying Cross’](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/039%20NOV-DEC%201967.pdf) [UFOs over Britain,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/039%20NOV-DEC%201967.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 3 \(Nov./Dec. 1967\): 3; “[Important New Details on Flying Cross,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/040%20JAN-FEB%201968.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 4 \(Jan./Feb. 1968\): 4–5; Good Above, [pp. 63–64](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/62/mode/2up), [455](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/454/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 77–79](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n129/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4436 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13822 (ABEF59E5) Date: 10/26/1967 Description: Four witnesses in Newton, Massachusetts saw a dark object at 9:30 p.m. that had two rows of horizontal red lights, a green light and a white light (see sketch below). The object circled in the sky, hovered for awhile, and then reversed direction, making a humming sound. Dogs barked and whined during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated November 21, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_7149 Source: Johnson ### Event 13823 (99DC4FF3) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: A spinning object, 7.5 m in diameter, emitting red and green lights, came down to a river, causing thunderous agitation of the water, and took off over a forest, with a heat wave. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 92 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Dympep, India Source ID: Magnonia_892 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13824 (625C6DFB) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: Sphere rose, paced car, which began steering hard. Object hovered near missile base, shot straight up out of sight in seconds Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Parshall, ND Source ID: HallUFOE2_148 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13825 (15683166) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: 2:20 p.m. Timothy Robinson, 13, and his family are startled by the roar of a jet aircraft overhead at Winchester, Hampshire, England. He dashes out into the garden and sees two English Electric Lightning fighters fly low overhead. Ahead of the aircraft is a black, mushroom-shaped object streaking away to the west. It changes direction abruptly to the northwest and disappears into a cloud, climbing steeply and outmaneuvering the Lightnings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 62](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/62/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4440 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13826 (D5A63FB8) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: A near head-on collision between an airliner and a grayish, open triangle or V-shaped craft with six very bright white lights along one side occurred at three o'clock in the morning north of Jacksonville, Florida. The object was so close it caused a green glow to illuminate the cockpit. The UFO made an unbanked, 180 degree turn. It did not appear on radar. There were four witnesses on board the aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Willy Smith, International UFO Reporter, September-October 1984, p. 4; UNICAT database case # 242 Source ID: Johnson_7194 Source: Johnson ### Event 13827 (B532B364) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: 3:00 a.m. EDT. The pilot of a Piper-Twin Comanche, plus two pilots and a passenger on board, saw a " bright light, then visible as six huge, round, bright- white lights in a horizontal row on a darker object (body lights). (Haines, 2000, pp. 58-59.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jacksonville (Over Atlantic Ocean NE of), FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3831 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13828 (587841CF) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: 3:30 a.m. CDT. A milk truck driver reported a round, spinning red object that followed his truck for about an hour. At one point it hovered silently over his truck. (Hall, 2001, p. 188; MUFON UFO Journal, Oct. 1987, p. 19; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 5, March 1968, p. 3; McDonald letter, 12/19/68, Donald E. Reyhoe Archives files; Keyhoe and Lore, 1969a, p. 6.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Max, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3833 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13829 (4E43223B) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: 3:00 a.m. CDT (4:00 a.m. EDT). A waitress driving home saw a large, round, revolving object with alternating triangular areas of coloration. The object was low and moving horizontally an estimated two blocks away. As it paced her car, she saw 2-3 white streaks of light (light beams) coming down vertically from the object. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Parshall, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3832 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13830 (D1808F31) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: In Dympep, India a spinning multicolored object emitting red and green lights, 7.5 meters in diameter, came down to the surface of a river, causing thunderous agitation of the water, and then took off over a forest with a wave of heat. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 892, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 92 Source ID: Johnson_7191 Source: Johnson ### Event 13831 (74990D9F) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: At four a.m. a crackling sound was heard over the Bacup, Lancashire, England police station's short wave radio, so police officer B. Earnshaw went outside to investigate. He saw a 50 foot long cigar-shaped object flying at a low altitude, estimated to be only 250 feet. It had portholes on the side and no visible means of propulsion. It was metallic looking yet glowed, and made a whirring noise. At 4:15 a.m. six on-duty police officers in Glossop, Derbyshire, England saw the same UFO from different locations. The object was "swinging from side to side" in a pendulum motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 7; (2) Flying Saucer Review, citing newspaper source Source ID: Johnson_7192 Source: Johnson ### Event 13832 (97C415F2) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: 3:00 a.m. Charlie Little, the pilot of a Piper-Twin Comanche, with two other pilots and a passenger on board, is flying over the Atlantic northeast of Jacksonville, Florida. They see a bright light, which becomes visible as six huge, round, bright-white lights in a horizontal row on a darker object. It approaches on a collision course and is seen to be a gray equilateral triangle with a triangular opening at its center. The object makes an unbanked 180° turn, then takes off and disappears in a flash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Willy Smith, “A Huge ‘Open’ Triangular UFO,” IUR 9, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1984\): 4–6; Philip J. Klass, “Letter,” IUR 10, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1985\): 13; “Charles Little Responds,” IUR 10, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1095\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_4437 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13833 (1F6BCBEA) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: 3:00 a.m. A waitress driving home in Parshall, North Dakota, sees a large, round, revolving object with alternating triangular areas of coloration. The object is low and moving horizontally an estimated two blocks away. As it paces her car, she sees 2–3 white light beams coming down vertically from the object. Her car drives like it has flat tires or rocks that are hitting the bottom of the chassis. A second witness, police Lt. Glen G. Brunsell, sees a low-altitude, bright round light like a welding-torch that illuminates the ground. The object moves slowly with vertical oscillations and changes color from blue to green-white. It departs vertically, disappearing in 5 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[AF Log Reveals Wave,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/043%20JUL-AUG%201968.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 7 \(July/Aug. 1968\): 6–7; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 101–102](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/100/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4438 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13834 (63376C87) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: 2:20 p.m. LT (10:20 a.m. EDT) A man saw a black, mushroom-shaped object being chased by two aircraft. (Unidentified newspaper clipping and NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hampshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3834 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13835 (EF84103B) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: 3:30 a.m. Truck driver [Chris R. Helgesen](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179799746/chris-r.-helgesen) observes a spinning, reddish, round object, about 100 feet in diameter, pace his truck for about half a mile on US Highway 83 north of Max, North Dakota. The object then hovers above a field, paces the truck again, hovers, paces the truck again \(stopping when it stops\), turns blue, picks up speed, turns green, then shoots away to the southeast, turns yellow, and vanishes. Helgesen has it in view for about one hour. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[New Close-Ups, Pacings,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/041%20MAR%201968.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 5 \(March 1968\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_4439 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13836 (2409F0DE) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: A brightly luminous object bobbed up-and-down, and then hovered near a nuclear missile base in Parshall, North Dakota at 3:00 a.m. It was witnessed by a police lieutenant and a civilian. It shot straight up and out of sight in seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1968, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Experience, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 173; UNICAT, case # 246, citing J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 89 Source ID: Johnson_7193 Source: Johnson ### Event 13837 (454FFDE6) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: Sphere rose, paced car, which began steering hard. Object hovered near missile base, shot straight up out of sight in seconds (section V). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Parshall, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3836 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13838 (A944B137) Date: 10/27/1967 Description: 7:15 p.m. LT (3:15 p.m. EDT). A witness saw an object dropping vertically from the sky. The object stopped about 100 feet above the ground and hovered. Its shape was like "squared off" spinning top with a dark band around the center. (Stanway and f, Pace, 1968, p. 18.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Weston Coyney, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3835 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13839 (592C595F) Date: 10/28/1967 Description: At 6:45 p.m. a driver in Tunbridge Wells, England had a close encounter with an object with six bright lights that looked like a church steeple. The car engine and lights of the car died. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dan Lloyd, FSR, May-June 1968, p. 31; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 37; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 43, citing the Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, November 1, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_7227 Source: Johnson ### Event 13840 (56898D3B) Date: 10/28/1967 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a group of five hunters driving on Lone Cone Mountain southeast of Naturita, Colorado in Montrose County sighted a domed disc-shaped object with an antenna on top and square windows. The object turned and followed their car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 177 Source ID: Johnson_7228 Source: Johnson ### Event 13841 (2FF24AB3) Date: 10/28/1967 Description: Triangular object with bright white lights ahead. Slowly rose and moved away; car could then be restarted. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 14, No. 3; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 37 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3837 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13842 (7C608E5E) Date: 10/29/1967 Description: In Santa Adelita, Sao Paolo State, Brazil Mr. P, age 51, was driving home at around 11:00 p.m. when he came to the top of a ridge he saw an aluminum colored object hovering 200 feet away, just four feet above the ground. It was plate shaped with a convex bottom side, and about 30 feet in diameter. When he got to within 50 feet of it his car motor stopped. He described the object as "full of lights", red and other colors, which alternately blinked on and off. Standing near the saucer was a robustly built man about 5-1/2 feet tall, dressed in a light colored garment (the witness could not specify the color because he was color blind). This being walked in front of the witness and turned on a very bright white beam of light from a flashlight like object. The witness thought he would be assaulted, so he half opened the car door, steadied his .22 revolver on it, and fired 6 shots at the UFO occupant. He reported that he was a good shot with this revolver, and after shooting he could no longer see him. Then the saucer-shaped craft began to oscillate, and he heard a sound like a cowbell. At last, the UFO flew away on an oblique course. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-109 (A1791), citing Walter Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, May 1976, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_7273 Source: Johnson ### Event 13843 (8436F498) Date: 10/30/1967 Time: 2100 Description: A businessman was driving toward Boyup Brook when his car failed completely and stopped, although he did not recall feeling deceleration. He found a strong light beam aimed at him from a mushroom-shaped craft, 10 m in diameter. He had no recollection of starting the car again after the departure of the object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Boyup Brook, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_893 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13844 (65FC2D0C) Date: 10/30/1967 Description: At around nine o'clock in the evening a businessman was driving toward Boyup Brook, Australia when his car failed completely and stopped, although he did not recall feeling any deceleration. He found a strong light beam aimed at him from a mushroom-shaped craft, ten meters in diameter. He had no recollection of starting the car again after the departure of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 892, citing FSR, July-August 1968 Source ID: Johnson_7304 Source: Johnson ### Event 13845 (194E8B88) Date: 10/30/1967 Description: 7:10 p.m. EST. A woman and her son saw two luminous globe-shaped objects with red, green, and white body lights, at first moving slowly, then maneuvering rapidly as if in a "dogfight." (NICAP report forms and letter.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: S. Allentown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3840 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13846 (82691A41) Date: 10/30/1967 Description: Approaching his home in Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada at 9:00 p.m. Donald Marshall saw a light beyond it. When he got closer he saw that it was an object with a large rectangular lighted panel that hovered 12 feet off the ground, 200 feet away. The rectangular lighted panel was about 4 feet high and 16 feet long. It appeared to be a large window in the object whose shape was not clearly seen, but was perhaps 50 feet long. A bright spotlight came on, and he saw then three small humanoid figures, the size of ten-year-old children, coming from the machine. They moved very fast, wore green uniforms, and some type of headgear. They disappeared into the darkness, and the craft took off slowly at about 5 mph. It moved at first into a gully, breaking some trees, where it remained for another 3 or 4 minutes. The total time during which Marshall observed the object was 18-19 minutes. Broken trees were found near the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Winter 1968, p. 4; Saucer News, December 1968, p. 25; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1967-106 (A0884), citing R. Meizeka, Saskatchewan UFO Bulletin Source ID: Johnson_7305 Source: Johnson ### Event 13847 (6746C3DE) Date: 10/30/1967 Description: Luminous, pulsating ellipse, forward motion stopped abruptly. Flying Saucer Review, July-Aug. 1968, pp. 15-16; Journal of UFO Studies, New Series, v.2, 1990, pp. 27-28 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kulikup, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_3838 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13848 (20489EB0) Date: 10/30/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. [Alexander Spargo](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213541498/alexander-roy-spargo) is traveling alone in his car on the Mayanup–Kojonup road about 10 miles east of Mayanup in Western Australia at a speed of about 60–65 miles per hour. He is approached by a lighted object from the sky. A beam of light comes from a “tube” on the object and immerses the car. Almost immediately, the car stops dead. However, there is no feeling of deceleration. The vehicle’s motor, lights, and radio go off. Spargo hears no noise. The tube seems 2–3 feet in diameter. It is not uncomfortable to the eyes. After about 5 minutes, the tube closes off and the object disappears. His vehicle is suddenly going at 60–65 miles per hour again, with no feeling of acceleration. The object is only seen from underneath, but he estimates its diameter as 30 feet and about 100 feet up in the air. It glows an iridescent blue. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 27–28; Keith Basterfield, “[Cold Case Investigation: Boyup](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2012/09/cold-case-investigation-boyup-brook-wa.html) [Brook WA, 30 Oct 1967,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2012/09/cold-case-investigation-boyup-brook-wa.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Investigation, September 23, 2012; Keith Basterfield, “[Police Report on the Boyup Brook Encounter, Uncovered,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2017/08/police-report-on-boyup-brook-encounter.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena— Scientific Investigation, August 29, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_4441 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13849 (580F33A3) Date: 10/30/1967 Description: 4:00 a.m. EST. A policeman saw a bright orange half-moon (hemisphere) shaped object that was three times the size of the moon. The object hovered, but moved off when the witness approached, disappearing behind trees. It reappeared briefly and then moved out of sight. (Holland Sentinel, 10/30/67, copy in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holland, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3839 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13850 (DF7E9720) Date: 10/31/1967 Description: On a clear night over Arkhara, Amur, Russia an airliner crew saw a luminous round object hovering at 11:25 p.m. It was also seen by a second airliner. It did not show up on ground radar, although the sighting lasted ten minutes in total duration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript of Soviet UFO reports, case 119; Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1981 Source ID: Johnson_7337 Source: Johnson ### Event 13851 (FFD0A466) Date: 10/31/1967 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a blue bell-shaped UFO directed an energy beam of some kind at a car being driven by a man named Spargo in Boyup Brook, Western Australia and halted its movement. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hugill Joanna, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 15; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_7336 Source: Johnson ### Event 13852 (27BB6A7C) Date: 10/31/1967 Description: 9:20 p.m. LT. A man was driving when he saw a tube of light close to his windshield. He then saw a football-shaped object about 30 feet in diameter that was pulsating and was an iridescent blue. The car engine failed (EM effects). (Unidentified newspaper clipping and police report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Finucane, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_3841 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13853 (C684AE66) Date: 10/31/1967 Description: 10:35 p.m. LT. A witness saw through a window a glowing orange-red, cigar- shaped object hovering low in the sky, a bluish-green area visible on its underside. It was a clear, starry night. (Stanway and Pace, 1968, p. 18.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stoke-On-Trent, Werrington, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3843 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13854 (6FC79901) Date: 10/31/1967 Description: 8:50 p.m. LT. A man and his family saw two dull red metallic objects shaped like a spinning top or discus. (NICAP report form, received from Hennessey 11/30/67.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bournemouth, Southampton, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3842 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13855 (28321FF2) Date: 11/1967 Description: Ufologist [Ted Bloecher](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-IS/bloecher.htm) privately publishes a massive Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, detailing 853 reports gleaned from his years of research into newspaper archives in June–July 1947. The preface is written by [James E. Mcdonald.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Bloecher, [Report on the UFO Wave of 1947](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportOnWaveOf1947.pdf)[,](http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportOnWaveOf1947.pdf) The Author, 1967 Source ID: Eberhart_4442 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13856 (BC33D5B3) Date: 11/2/1967 Description: At 9:30 p.m. two 23-year-old Navajo Indians, Guy Tossie and Willy Begay, were driving south of Ririe, Idaho when they were blinded by a flash of white light. Their car engine stalled and came to a stop and immediately ahead of them, hovering just five feet off the ground, they saw a domed disc-shaped UFO 6-8 feet in diameter and perhaps three feet thick. On top was a transparent bubble dome, occupied by two small entities. The dome flipped open and one of the occupants floated out and to the ground, then approached the car. Through the UFO's flashing lights the men were able to see that the being was no more than three feet tall, and bald with ears set up high on his head. His facial skin looked scarred and wrinkled, "like a cantaloupe." His eyes were round and showed no pupils, and his mouth had lips so thin as to be barely visible. They saw no nose. He was wearing tight fitting coveralls and carried a pack on his back.

To their horror, the being opened the car door and seated himself behind the wheel. Both of the men slid over to the right as far as they could as the car was towed, or driven, off the highway and out into a field of wheat stubble. As soon as the car's motion stopped a terrified Tossie jumped out of the right side of the car, and began running to the farmhouse of William Hammon a quarter of a mile away. As he ran, he found his shadow preceding him, as though a bright light were shining on him from behind. In the car, Begay cowered in the right side of the front seat as the little being attempted to communicate with him, twice saying something incomprehensible in a high, chirruping voice. Getting no response, the being got out of the car and joined the second being, and then the two floated into the UFO which took off and zig-zagged into the sky as it departed.

At the Hammon farmhouse Tossie banged on the door screaming for help. The farmer and Bob his son admitted him, and it took a period of time to calm him sufficiently to get his story. By the time they accompanied him back to the field the object had departed and Begay was found in a state of near shock in the front seat. The farmer had to escort the youths by car their fear was so great. There were attendant sightings in the area, and cattle had been reportedly "spooked" on several farms that night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-112, citing Cpl. Thomas Harper & C. Reed Ricks, NICAP Source ID: Johnson_7419 Source: Johnson ### Event 13857 (2E6C3A82) Date: 11/2/1967 Description: A woman working in her kitchen late on this night in Point Pleasant, West Virginia heard a loud squeaking sound coming from outside. She looked out and saw a huge shadow spread across the grass, and then a figure described as tall, man-shaped, and gray in color appeared. It glided quickly across a field and disappeared into the woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 1405, citing John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies Source ID: Johnson_7418 Source: Johnson ### Event 13858 (C096988F) Date: 11/2/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. Navajo ranch hands Willie Begay and Guy Tossie, both 23, are driving south of Ririe, Idaho, on US Highway 26 when they are blinded by a flash of light. Their car comes to a stop, and immediately in front of them they see an object 6–8 feet in diameter and 3 feet thick, hovering 5 feet off the ground and shaped like two saucers joined together. Around the rim is a row of alternately flashing orange and green lights. On top is a transparent dome, where two small entities are visible. The dome flips open, and one occupant floats out and approaches the car. It is 3 feet tall, bald, with ears set high on its head, round eyes, and a mouth like a slit. It is wearing tight-fitting coveralls and carries a pack on its back. It opens the car door and sits behind the wheel as Begay and Tossie move in horror to the right. The car begins to move as if fastened to the craft into a field of wheat stubble where Tossie gets out and runs toward the farmhouse of [Willard Hammon](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8575628/willard-joseph-hammon) for help, followed by another entity apparently holding a light. Begay stays in the front seat of the car with the first entity, who tries to communicate with him, twice saying something in a high, chirruping voice. The second entity returns, and the two float back to the craft, which rises and departs, a yellow flame-like light coming from the bottom. Hammon lets Tossie inside his farmhouse, where he eventually calms down and tells his story. They go back to the site, where they find Begay in a state of shock in the car. At 11:30 p.m., an anonymous witness driving between Ririe and Rigby, Idaho, sees a landed UFO with a small occupant who stops the car and taps on the side window. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[NICAP](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/049%20SEPT-OCT%201969.pdf) [Panel Studies Occupant Reports,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/049%20SEPT-OCT%201969.pdf)” UFO Investigator 5, no. 1 \(Sept./Oct. 1969\): 5–6; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf), NICAP, 1969, pp. 23–27; Clark III 1009–1010; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 145–147 Source ID: Eberhart_4443 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13859 (A29DAA2A) Date: 11/2/1967 Time: night Description: Will Begay and Clyde Soccie, in their early 20's, said that an object landed on top of their car, forcing them to stop. Two dwarfs spoke to them, but were not understood. The object left. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ririe, Idaho Source ID: Magnonia_894 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13860 (53D1EB98) Date: 11/2/1967 Description: Disc with dome above car, two small beings descended, entered car. See Section XII (E) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ririe, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_3844 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13861 (357FCE77) Date: 11/2/1967 Description: Domed disc, lights along rim, two beings visible in clear dome, hovered above car. Car drawn into adjacent field, witnesses confronted by beings Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Ririe, ID Source ID: HallUFOE2_149 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13862 (44F60463) Date: 11/3/1967 Description: 10:45 p.m. EST. While driving, a couple and their children saw an oval light that moved alongside the highway, crossed over it, crossed back and went out of sight. (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Verner, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3845 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13863 (92AAA5B0) Date: 11/3/1967 Description: Carlos Spini and another man saw a luminous, blue, circular object land nearby, as they were examining some cows. It took off when they came near. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Personal ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: San Jeronimo, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_895 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13864 (346A4C2C) Date: 11/3/1967 Description: Carlos Spini and another man in San Jeronimo, Argentina saw a luminous, blue, circular object land nearby as they were examining some cows in a pasture. It took off when they approached it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1971, p. 29; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 895 Source ID: Johnson_7430 Source: Johnson ### Event 13865 (725669D4) Date: 11/4/1967 Description: 5:00 a.m. CST. Multiple witnesses saw four bright lights that hovered, moved off, changed direction (maneuvered), and went out of sight. An Army unit was dispatched to investigate at the request of local police. (Topeka Capital-Journal, Kans., 11/5/67, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Riley, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3847 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13866 (5355EC02) Date: 11/4/1967 Description: 12:35 a.m. PST (2:35 a.m. CST). Two women saw a bright circular object about 100 feet in diameter hovering 100-150 feet above a house at an angle. (California NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP report form; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 5, March 1968, p. 3.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenfield, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3846 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13867 (E432CB68) Date: 11/5/1967 Description: 5:35 p.m. PST. A witness saw a bright orange oblong object that passed overhead, maneuvered, hovered, and descended. It produced a humming sound. (Washington State NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alderwood Manor, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3848 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13868 (E6F3B674) Date: 11/5/1967 Description: Just before midnight. A diesel lorry (truck) driver experienced engine and radio failure (EM effects) and saw a glowing green, egg-shaped object, with a whitish dome or projection underneath, hovering 10 feet over the road. (Flying Saucer Review, Nov. -Dec. 1967, p. 4; London Daily Express, 11/7/67, copy in NICAP files; Hennessey report, NICAP files; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 5, March 1968, p. 3.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fordingbridge, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3849 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13869 (0D49E7BD) Date: 11/5/1967 Description: Luminous green ellipse hovered just above road, whining sound; batteries dead after sighting. See Section VI. (E,R,L) truck & car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fordingbridge, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3850 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13870 (3FB13817) Date: 11/5/1967 Description: Truck driver Karl Farlow told police that at 11:30 p.m. his lights and radio blacked out, although his diesel engine continued to work, when he saw a three-meter long egg-shaped object 15 meters away at Fordingbridge, England. Moments later, a white Jaguar sports car came from the opposite direction and its engine stalled and headlights failed. The UFO, emitting a green light and showing a whitish dome under its lower surface, hovered between the two vehicles for two minutes and left at a high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 896 Source ID: Johnson_7476 Source: Johnson ### Event 13871 (DEE1038C) Date: 11/5/1967 Time: 2330 Description: Lorry driver Karl Farlow told police that as his lights and radio blacked out, although his diesel engine continued to work, he saw an egg-shaped object, 3 m long, 15 m away. Moments later, a white Jaguar coming in the opposite direction also stopped. The object, emitting a green light and showing a whitish dome under its lower surface, hovered between the two vehicles for 2 min and left at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 67, 6; 68, 3 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Fordingbridge, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_896 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13872 (0AA3B347) Date: 11/6/1967 Description: 3:30-5:45 a.m. LT. Five UFOs were reported hovering over Hartdurg area. Two of the UFOs were approximately 15 to 20 feet in diameter and three were approximately eight to ten feet in diameter. All of the UFOs were of a red and white color with a green fringe. Witness photographed the UFOs on color film and submitted the unprocessed film to the Military Police. (NARA-PBB92-607) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [671106](http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=NARA-PBB92-607) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Treysa, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_3852 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13873 (81DB0C6B) Date: 11/6/1967 Description: Disables Engine Continues To Run (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [671106](http://nicap.org/671106england%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: River Avon, Hampshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3851 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13874 (E5E1EBB6) Date: 11/6/1967 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a couple in Kazan', Russia saw a red, Saturn-shaped object that hovered for many minutes, spinning on its axis. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 323 Source ID: Johnson_7502 Source: Johnson ### Event 13875 (45F68663) Date: 11/6/1967 Description: At 6:15 a.m. in Burnley, England a car's electrical system was damaged by a close encounter with a pulsating yellow disc-shaped UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March-April 1968, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_7501 Source: Johnson ### Event 13876 (C6CD8253) Date: 11/6/1967 Description: 1:30 a.m. On a section of the A338 road \[now B3347\] south of Sopley, Hampshire, England, truck driver Karl Farlow \(or Barlow\) finds that the lights on his diesel truck have failed. As he pulls over, he sees a glowing, 15-foot-wide, egg-shaped UFO that moves slowly across the road from the right, passes slowly to the left, then speeds up and disappears. The object makes a sound like a refrigerator and gives off a smell like a drill boring through wood. Before it goes away, a Jaguar sports car comes from the opposite direction, and its engine stalls and lights fail. The UFO glows a vivid green color. The diesel engine is not affected. The driver of the Jaguar is a veterinary surgeon, and he and Farlow call the police from a nearby call box. The witnesses note that there are marks on the ground and the road surface seems to have melted. The veterinarian’s girl passenger is taken to a hospital suffering from shock. A week later, Farlow notices that a 200-foot stretch of the road at the encounter site has been completely resurfaced and the call box has been repainted. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Disabled Engine Continues to](http://www.nicap.org/671106england%5Fdir.htm) [Run](http://www.nicap.org/671106england%5Fdir.htm)”; Roy Winstanley, “[Now the UFOs Are Stopping the Traffic,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Spacelink%20%28Lionel%20Beer%29/Spacelink%201967%20vol%205%20no%201.pdf)” Spacelink 5, no. 1 \(December 1967\): wrap; “[Landings on Increase,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201967%2011%2000%20-%20November-December.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1967, pp. 1, 3; Good Above, [pp. 64–65](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/64/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4444 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13877 (8AA66B04) Date: 11/6/1967 Description: Night. A luminous red Saturn-shaped object hovered for 7-10 minutes spinning on its axis, then accelerated and sped away. (Vallee, 1992, p. 194.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kazan, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3854 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13878 (9806EA7C) Date: 11/8/1967 Description: On this night a humanoid creature described by police as a "mini-skirted" vampire reportedly terrorized locals on the beach along the Amazon River in Manaus, Brazil. Several people who were attacked described the creature as looking like a blond haired woman with sharp pointed teeth, wearing a mini-skirt and black stockings. Two small round marks were said to have been found near the jugular vein of a child that was bitten. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 3031, citing Jacques Bergier for INFO Source ID: Johnson_7536 Source: Johnson ### Event 13879 (5745FCEA) Date: 11/8/1967 Description: Red-orange disc, witness felt pressure on head and shoulders. Gillmor, Case 39, 1969, p. 380 (E,R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elsinore, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3857 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13880 (AADD8D12) Date: 11/8/1967 Description: 3:30–4:00 a.m. A business executive is driving near Lake Elsinore, California, when his lights go out, the car stops, and the radio goes out. He feels a strong pressure on his head and shoulders. He then notices a red- orange object 30 feet in diameter hovering in the road ahead at about 160 feet in altitude. The object hovers about 90 seconds before it takes off into the fog. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Condon, [pp. 380–385](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/380/mode/2up); Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 66–67 Source ID: Eberhart_4445 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13881 (2BF57714) Date: 11/8/1967 Description: MP [Peter Mills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FMills%5F%28British%5Fpolitician%29) asks about UFO sightings in Devon, England, in the UK House of Commons and receives assurances from Under-Secretary of State for Defence [Merlyn Rees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlyn%5FRees), who says that the October 24 police chase involved either aircraft or the planet Venus. Mills asks if the ministry consulted scientists about the sightings, and Rees replies that both scientists and psychologists have been consulted. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 65–66](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/64/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4446 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13882 (31E6674E) Date: 11/8/1967 Description: Through unrelenting pressure by British ufologist [Julian J. A. Hennessey](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2014/01/hennessey.html)[,](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/2014/01/hennessey.html) the Ministry of Defence and RAF UFO files are no longer discarded every five years as of transitory interest. The MoD confirms that it will retain its remaining UFO documents. Further pressure to retain files comes in 1970 from MP [John Langford-Holt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FLangford-Holt)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FLangford-Holt)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 114–115](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n187/mode/2up); David Clarke, “[Briefing Document: Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFOs\),](https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/ufo-research-guide-2013.pdf)” August 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_4447 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13883 (C9AD044E) Date: 11/8/1967 Description: 4:00 a.m. EST. A policeman saw a bright oval light with a red light on one end. It hovered at low altitude, moved back and forth (maneuvered), then disappeared. (Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charleston, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3855 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13884 (0331DD65) Date: 11/8/1967 Description: 5:05 p.m. GMT. A large unidentified object was seen on radar. It was stationary (hovering) at first, then accelerated to 5 miles/second flying in a semicircle near the harbor, then shot off the scope. (Hennessey report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ramsgate Harbor, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3856 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13885 (E7D5E65F) Date: 11/9/1967 Description: Miss Dianne Marable and Mrs. Pearl Robins, nurses, were driving home to Tennessee Ridge and had reached Erin, Tennessee at 11:40 p.m. when they noticed a luminous object in the sky, which they first mistook for the moon. It approached and landed 50 feet in front of them, covering the entire highway. It was dome shaped, in part a fiery orange- yellow color, and in part ash black. Inside the object they could see five dark greenish creatures, four feet tall, "milling about some type of machinery." After five minutes of watching it, they began to approach more closely but the object then swiftly rose up. It traveled a short distance beside their car, then it landed again in a field. The two women again tried to approach it by driving up a gravel road when its lights when out. They could no longer see it, though they could see a bright red light in the sky. The young women then drove home, where they discovered they had experienced 30 minutes of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Budd Hopkins, field investigation case report filed with CUFOS, April 23, 1979; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-110, citing Budd Hopkins; Thomas E. Bullard, MUFON 1981 Conference Proceedings, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_7567 Source: Johnson ### Event 13886 (2E23FE09) Date: 11/9/1967 Description: 11:45 p.m. CST. Two nurses driving home from a Waverly, Tennessee hospital stopped for a traffic light in Erin, Tennessee. While stopped they saw a large UFO approach and land on the highway in front of them. (MUFON Sympap81, p. 23) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Erin (near), TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3859 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13887 (3874FF0F) Date: 11/9/1967 Description: A white cigar-shaped object with some black dashes at one end was seen moving through the sky by I.S. Lunyanov. It was flying toward Zlatoust. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miass (near Chelyabin), Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3858 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13888 (B14993DE) Date: 11/9/1967 Description: 11:45 p.m. CST. Two nurses driving home from a Waverly, Tennessee hospital stopped for a traffic light in Erin, Tennessee. While stopped they saw a large UFO approach and land on the highway in front of them. The lights on their car went out. The next recollection was of the object high in the sky leaving them, but they perceived no time lapse nor did they ever check the time. (MUFON Sympap81, p. 23) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Erin (near), TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3860 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13889 (FA4361AD) Date: 11/10/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. EST. A woman heard a sound like a sonic boom and went to the window to investigate. She saw a glimmering, white-green-yellow egg-shaped object hovering in the northwest. (Witness notes and NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wabash, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3861 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13890 (609D7E46) Date: 11/10/1967 Description: Stolyarov and [Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel) speaking on Russian Central TV, encourage viewers to send their first-hand accounts in to the newly formed Soviet UFO Study Group. The response is overwhelming and embarrassing to the DOSAAF All-Union Committee of Cosmonautics. Army Gen. A. L. Getman dissolves the UFO Study Group by the end of November. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Felix Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel)”; Good Above, [p. 233](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/232/mode/2up); Joe Brill, “[UFOs behind the Iron](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1975-1-january-skylook) [Curtain,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1975-1-january-skylook)” Skylook, no. 86, January 1975, p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_4448 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13891 (2B55A826) Date: 11/11/1967 Description: Primary Target Tracked 90 Minutes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [671111](http://www.nicap.org/671111nolmsted%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Olmsted, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3862 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13892 (19972BD8) Date: 11/12/1967 Description: At nine o'clock in the morning an ovoid object came down slowly into a field of maize in Centeno, Santa Fe province, Argentina, its major axis vertical. It gave out orange bursts of flame, and disappeared behind some trees. No landing traces were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_7612 Source: Johnson ### Event 13893 (AFB79608) Date: 11/13/1967 Description: A man and woman were driving down a road in Winterfold Forest in Cranleigh, England at half an hour past midnight when they encountered a heavy fog and were required to stop. A face suddenly appeared in the car window, and an arm reached up to the roof of their car. As they hurriedly drove off they could see the face and arm attached to a dark, conical body, but they saw no legs. They also reported the odor of burnt food at the time of their encounter with the entity. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, January 1968, p. 15). Later that evening an EM effects UFO close encounter was reported in Arnheim, The Netherlands. (Source: Flying Saucer Review, January 1968, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_7633 Source: Johnson ### Event 13894 (86997CFC) Date: 11/13/1967 Description: 4:00 a.m. LT. Described as a 30' diameter orange object. When witness shown spotlight on it it changed to a pinkish object and came towards him. (NARAPBB90-354) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [671113](http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?pagecode=NARA-PBB90-354) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3863 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13895 (E09BBEEA) Date: 11/13/1967 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf)[,](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) and editor Harriet Hunter meet to discuss the final University of Colorado report. Condon deliberately excludes the other senior staff because he is now insisting on no old cases and no “case book.” He insists on including everything in which the Colorado project participated in, even phone calls. He wants to write a section on the harm done by irresponsible UFO authors. The meeting ends with a roughed-out list of subject sections and authors. Condon reserves writing the summary and methodology sections himself. He assigns to Hunter the job of selecting which cases are included and how they are written up \(perhaps he no longer trusts Low to do this\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 326–328 Source ID: Eberhart_4449 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13896 (9D441F17) Date: 11/14/1967 Description: In 1967, at 6:00 a.m., a luminous dome hovered low above the ground, then shot away quickly in the city of Liepaya, Latvia. The light from the UFO was so brilliant that it was painful to look at. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, p. 110 Source ID: Johnson_7670 Source: Johnson ### Event 13897 (9FD77263) Date: 11/14/1967 Description: A large, luminous object shaped like a hemisphere hovered low over the ground. It moved away quickly with a fiery light that was painful to the eye. There were several witnesses. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Liepaya, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3864 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13898 (42160774) Date: 11/14/1967 Description: Orlando Gonzales and two other persons saw an oval object, 1.5 m high, resting in the middle of a highway 80 m away. It left straight up. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Nov., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Barinas, Venezuela Source ID: Magnonia_897 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13899 (4D6D5C31) Date: 11/14/1967 Description: Orlando Gonzales and two other people in Barinas, Venezuela saw an oval-shaped object, 1.5 meters high, resting in the middle of a highway, 80 meters away from them. It took off by shooting straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 897 Source ID: Johnson_7671 Source: Johnson ### Event 13900 (CC08415C) Date: 11/14/1967 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) writes separate letters to [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) and [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf), asking if they will agree to examine NICAP’s cases. November 15 — Canadian Forces Wing Commander [Douglas F. Robertson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/222950246/douglas-f-robertson) prepares a 28-page briefing document, CDS Briefing on Unidentified Flying Objects, on the status of UFO sightings in Canada to Gen. [Jean Victor Allard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%5FVictor%5FAllard), Chief of the Defence Staff. It reviews facts and procedures and describes cases that have been handled within the ministry, including the Falcon Lake and Shag Harbour cases, as well as the Warren Smith photo. Robertson advises that UFO sightings are taking up too much of the military’s time, but that the scientific community, specifically the University of Toronto Institute of Aerospace Studies, might find them interesting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 24–59 Source ID: Eberhart_4450 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13901 (B8E7AC04) Date: 11/15/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. EST. Two women saw an oblong object which had white glowing lights in front and back (body lights). (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report and NICAP report form, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carlisle, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3870 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13902 (AD2DF0A8) Date: 11/15/1967 Description: Time not reported. A farm manager saw a dome-shaped object with two square portholes bracketed by two round ports and emitting a loud humming sound. Possible EM effects on TV. (The West Australian, 11/17/67; Flying Saucer Review, Jan.-Feb. 1968, p. 32.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yerecoin, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_3865 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13903 (AAF74D30) Date: 11/15/1967 Description: Bt. 10:50 and 11:15 pm. Multiple witnesses saw a white ball of light, possibly with red blinking lights on the side, bounce around over WTPA TV towers for 2-10 minutes. (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report and NICAP report forms, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Summerdale, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3872 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13904 (CE8F47BA) Date: 11/15/1967 Description: 4:30 a.m. V. Treychis observed a round object in the sky for thirty-five minutes, twenty degrees above the northeast horizon. It seemed to measure 300 feet in diameter. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sasnava, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3867 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13905 (1CF6673B) Date: 11/15/1967 Description: At 3:30 p.m. a slender delta-shaped object, shiny and metallic in appearance, was sighted by a BEA pilot at high altitude in flight over Florence, Italy. It had a notch in its shortest edge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1968, p. 3; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_7691 Source: Johnson ### Event 13906 (3ABE3B6E) Date: 11/15/1967 Description: 10:00 p.m. EST. Several witnesses saw a shiny metallic-appearing ball with small discs positioned to each side. (Pennsylvania NICAP Subcommittee report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3871 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13907 (CEB850C5) Date: 11/15/1967 Description: 2:30 p.m. LT. The pilot and crew of a British European Airways plane flying at 27,000 feet had a 10-minute encounter with an object that passed over them at about 50,000 feet. (Roth Volunteer Flight Officers Network report, NICAP files; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 4, Jan.-Feb. 1968, p. 3.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Florence, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_3868 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13908 (A2F31DCC) Date: 11/15/1967 Description: 7:11 a.m. PST. A weather observer at a local airport saw a spherical object glowing blue-green that moved across the sky, made a 90-degree turn, slowed down, turned around, and resumed its original flight path. (Letter from witness, NICAP files; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 4, Jan.-Feb. 1968, p. 3.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Simpson, NWT, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3869 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13909 (3659C130) Date: 11/15/1967 Description: The crew of Quebecair Flight 650 sees a bright object at the end of the runway at Sept-Îles Airport, Quebec. It is as large as a star and stationary. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 200](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/200/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4451 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13910 (6B5501EA) Date: 11/16/1967 Time: 1830 Description: Farm manager Alan Pool, 43, saw an object, 6 m in diameter and 1.5 m high, with round and square windows, land in a field with a whining noise. It took off and vanished, leaving no trace. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Yerecoin, Australia Source ID: Magnonia_899 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13911 (B1CE4FCB) Date: 11/16/1967 Time: 1700 Description: Mrs. Quick and another woman saw a flickering light and a deep-red, glowing object at ground level, with a dark figure, slightly larger than a normal human, approaching it. The object disappeared suddenly. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 2 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Storrington, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_898 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13912 (D23E4533) Date: 11/16/1967 Description: At 5:00 p.m. Mrs. Quick and another woman in Storrington, England saw a flickering light and a deep-red, glowing object at ground level. A dark figure, seven to ten feet tall, was seen approaching it. The tall being appeared to glide rather than walk. It vanished suddenly, and the UFO also disappeared suddenly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 898 Source ID: Johnson_7718 Source: Johnson ### Event 13913 (E12EA01D) Date: 11/16/1967 Description: Farm manager Alan Pool, age 43, saw an object, six meters in diameter and 1.5 meters high, with round and square windows, land in a field in Yerecoin, Western Australia with a whining noise at 6:30 p.m. It took off and vanished, leaving no trace. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 899 Source ID: Johnson_7719 Source: Johnson ### Event 13914 (E722F2D9) Date: 11/17/1967 Description: 5:20 p.m. CST. A man saw a metallic-appearing saucer that had a large canopy (dome) on top and a smaller one underneath. Once it seemed to hover. (Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winona, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3873 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13915 (AE2A0903) Date: 11/17/1967 Description: 6:00 p.m. David Seewaldt, 13, is crossing a vacant lot in Calgary, Alberta. He hears a high-pitched sound and sees a slivery gray UFO the size of a house about to land. A beam of light shoots from it, putting him in a “trance” and pulling him into the craft, where he meets two hideous-looking entities with brown crocodile skin, slits for mouths, and holes for noses and ears. They wear no clothes and have hands with only four fingers. They take Seewaldt’s clothes off and lead him into another room where one studies his hair, eyes, and nose. An orange ceiling light is directed on him and he is given a shot with a small needle. The entities dress him again and beam him back to the field. He runs home in a state of terror and hides under the bed. All conscious memory of the event vanishes until 5 months later, when it returns in a dream. In 1968 he is hypnotically regressed by a Dr. Masson of the University of Alberta. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: W. K. Allan, “[Crocodile-Skinned Entities at Calgary,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 6 \(April 1975\): 25–26; Clark III 280; “David Seewaldt,” etcetrasetcetras, June 13, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_4452 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13916 (6848D043) Date: 11/18/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. LT. Four people saw two red lights (body lights) on an object with a row of windows below. The object circled, approached the witnesses, tilted, circled, and sped off. (Letter, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kingston, Jamaica Source ID: NICAP_DB_3874 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13917 (ECC38ECE) Date: 11/19/1967 Description: 5:45 p.m. MST. While walking home, a 14-year-old boy saw a silver-grayish object with flashing , multi-colored lights (body lights) around the center. The object was making a high-pitched sound. He ran home, discovered that 45 minutes of time was missing, and an abduction was revealed under hypnosis. (Bondarchuk, 1979, pp. 83-88.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Calgary, Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3875 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13918 (6AB4F161) Date: 11/19/1967 End date: 11/20/1967 Description: Bt. 3:30-4:00 a.m. EST. A police officer, who is also a private pilot who has tracked aircraft with NORAD, saw a bright circular object about 50 feet in diameter that traveled under the cloud deck at an estimated 1,000 mph. (Letter, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burlington County, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_3876 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13919 (95D04E05) Date: 11/19/1967 Description: In 1967, a brightly lit object hovered over a field, and then landed at Gull Lake, near Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada. A large circular burned area was found at the landing site. At the same time John Keel saw a nocturnal light hovering over the "TNT" area north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space and Science, March 1968, p. 6; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 301; (2) John Keel, FSR, July 1968, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_7738 Source: Johnson ### Event 13920 (374A5625) Date: 11/20/1967 Description: At 10:00 p.m. east of Roosevelt, Utah a UFO was sighted with pulsating, rotating green, red, and amber lights. The object had a shadowy round shape below the lighted area. It moved slowly at first, then very fast, and made several maneuvers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case no. 58 Source ID: Johnson_7749 Source: Johnson ### Event 13921 (FED599C9) Date: 11/20/1967 Description: 10:00 p.m. MST. A man saw pulsating, rotating , red, green, and amber lights about 100 yards away. A shadowy round area could be seen below the lights. (Salisbury, 1974, Appendix B, Table 1, case 58.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roosevelt, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3877 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13922 (661CD5FB) Date: 11/21/1967 Description: 5:10 p.m. LT. An unknown number of witnesses saw a slowly moving, high altitude object emitting a pale blue light over the city. First it looked like a large ball, then it stopped directly over Sofia and had a trapezoid shape. (U.F.O. Investigator, 5 Vol. IV, No. 4, Jan.-Feb. 1968, p. 3.) \[Possible high-altitude plastic research balloon\] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sofia, Bulgaria Source ID: NICAP_DB_3878 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13923 (473E5951) Date: 11/21/1967 Description: An Aer Lingus airliner, flying at 10,000 feet to Dublin, Ireland above Falkirk, Scotland, saw a brightly illuminated white object with a contrail. There was no radar contact of the UFO by Scottish Air Traffic Control. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_7772 Source: Johnson ### Event 13924 (288EFF95) Date: 11/21/1967 Description: 4:30 p.m. David V. Marin sees an object that looks like an upside-down candle from his backyard at the edge of Poienarii Burchii, Romania. He watches it for 10 minutes as it hovers at about 90 feet. It starts moving slowly northwest and its tail elongates. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_4454 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13925 (CC732FAC) Date: 11/22/1967 Description: [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) pays [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) a surprise visit in Washington, D.C., and allows him to photocopy the [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) memorandum, saying it should be shared with the NICAP board. Roger Harkins hears about the memo about the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 179, 193–194 Source ID: Eberhart_4455 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13926 (CEA7C1A5) Date: 11/22/1967 Description: MP [Patrick Wall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FWall) asks the UK Secretary of State for Defence [Merlyn Rees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlyn%5FRees) what exchange of UFO information between the UK, US, and Russian governments is taking place. Rees replies that the ministry is in touch with the Americans but not the Russians. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 66](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/66/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4456 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13927 (808F1CA6) Date: 11/22/1967 Description: 12:30 p.m. Ladislau Schmidt is sitting in his kitchen in Petrila, Romania, with the outside door open. Suddenly his chickens run inside the house, terrified. Looking up, he sees a silvery disc-shaped object with a dome and antennas hovering at 15,000 feet. It rotates and moves away at high speed to the northwest until it is out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 166–167 Source ID: Eberhart_4457 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13928 (4328F001) Date: 11/22/1967 Description: 4:25 p.m. US Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. [John Rich Butler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58413963/john-rich-butler) and copilot Lt. John H. Gould are flying 10 miles off the New Hampshire coastline when they see an object like a white rocket flying with a lateral motion. It first moves upward for 2 seconds at the rear of the aircraft. It reappears and disappears twice, then another object that looks like a light aircraft with an unusual white, flashing light passes above them at a distance of 100–200 feet. Gould has the impression it has swept wings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file; Jan L. Aldrich, “[Updated Draft Catalogue of](http://www.project1947.com/47cats/usnavydraft2.htm) [UFOs/USOs Reported by Seagoing Services, NavCat 2,0, 1964–2007,](http://www.project1947.com/47cats/usnavydraft2.htm)” 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_4458 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13929 (7AAE9230) Date: 11/23/1967 Description: Two UFOs with lights blinded a man while he was driving his truck at dusk in Ivangrad, Yugoslavia. One object hung close to ground for 15 minutes, then took off vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_7842 Source: Johnson ### Event 13930 (7EEC029D) Date: 11/23/1967 Description: Picture taken by Farcich Zoran, near Zagreb. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [671123](http://www.ufocasebook.com/zagrebyugoslavia1967large.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Zagreb, Yugoslavia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3879 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13931 (971866AA) Date: 11/24/1967 Description: At 2:30 p.m. Sr. Ugo Battaglia, a radio technician, and his 14-year-old assistant Carlos Alberto do Nascimento, were in an eighth floor apartment building repairing a phonograph in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil when they heard a high-pitched sound. They looked out a window facing the coastal hills and saw a brilliant metallic disc-shaped object. It landed on a hill opposite the apartment building. The UFO struck and shattered a tree as it came down. Underneath at either end was a red light, and on top was a spinning cupola with slat windows. Three men clad in white coveralls came out of the UFO, which hovered just above the ground. They walked around it side by side with their arms hanging by their sides. After about five minutes they returned to the disc and disappeared underneath it. The two witnesses continued their work and left the building at 2:55 p.m., noticing that the disc was still in the same spot, but by the time they reached a nearby corner the UFO was no longer in view. They had not seen it depart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-117, citing Irene Granchi, APRO; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 139; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 474 Source ID: Johnson_7873 Source: Johnson ### Event 13932 (3C6BA937) Date: 11/24/1967 Description: At 9:30 a.m. EST a witness named King in Tuscumbia, Missouri observed a silver banded, cone-shaped UFO that flew silently toward the east, then circled 360 degrees three times before heading back to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, FSR Case Histories, December 1971, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_7874 Source: Johnson ### Event 13933 (6F2EC9D7) Date: 11/24/1967 Time: 1430 Description: Technician Ugo Battaglia, 39, and a boy, heard a high-pitched sound and saw a bright, metallic, disk-shaped object come down, hit a tree and hover, while three tall men in white coveralls walked around. The boy later suffered severe headaches. Traces. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Nov., 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_900 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13934 (AE56CAED) Date: 11/24/1967 Description: 2:30 p.m. Three small white-clad figures (humanoids) were seen around a disc that had a dome and red body lights. Physical traces were found at the site. (APRO Bulletin, Nov.-Dec. 1967, p. 3.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_3880 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13935 (0D025504) Date: 11/24/1967 Description: Canadian Wing Commander D. F. Robertson, after advocating that the RCAF transfer its UFO files to the National Research Council, writes a memo urging the NRC to work with the University of Toronto and the Department of National Defence in investigating Canadian UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 192](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/192/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4459 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13936 (44403BA3) Date: Late 11/1967 Description: Night. A large, illuminated hemispherical object appears low over the shore of the Baltic Sea near Liepāja, Latvia. Its light is difficult to look at with the naked eye. Later it begins to move and quickly vanishes over the horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 171 Source ID: Eberhart_4453 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13937 (FE5ECD1C) Date: 11/25/1967 Description: Midnight. V. Rogov was listening to the radio inside his home when a bright green light called his attention outside. He saw an object flying at great speed across the sky. (Ref. 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mikhaylovka, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3881 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13938 (2F2C3E37) Date: 11/27/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. The object was observed by four witnesses at a rural home. The object dropped down near three other witnesses in a car on a rural road northwest of the Philco-Ford Manufacturing Plant. (Don Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fayette County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3882 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13939 (6D4B8E32) Date: 11/28/1967 Description: At 2:18 a.m. farmer Wilson Gusmao, who had been involved in previous humanoid encounters, was awakened in Alexania, Goias State, Brazil by a telepathic voice that called his name. He got out of bed and upon raising the curtain he noticed a huge bright light resting on the ground about 100 meters from his house. He attempted to wake up his wife but to no avail. He also attempted to get his brother in law to wake up, but with the same negative results. Walking to the living room he could now clearly see a landed object encased in a bright blue glow that was about five meters in diameter. He left a written note to his wife, telling her that he was going to check a landed "spacecraft," grabbed a flashlight, and walked outside. It was raining very heavily at the time that Wilson approached the UFO, getting to within three meters. A bright beam of light then struck Wilson around the waist, causing him to levitate closer to the object and completely paralyzing him. A door now opened and Wilson could see the inside of the craft clearly. He saw four humanoids, all dressed in tight-fitting coveralls. They wore a belts with large buckles that had what looke like "piano keys" on them. The beings stared at Wilson intently. Wilson somehow felt inferior when the humanoids watched him. He described them as human looking with long blond hair. Their skin appeared porcelain-white, as if they had never been exposed to any sunlight. The leader of the group conversed with Wilson and gave him several messages dealing with nuclear armaments on Earth. Wilson was to have later contacts along with members of the Brazilian defense establishment including General Uchoa. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 895, citing Methodios Kalkaslief; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Revista Brasileira de OVNIS Source ID: Johnson_7988 Source: Johnson ### Event 13940 (B12A9C32) Date: 11/28/1967 Description: At 2:30 a.m. a Brazilian highway patrolman saw an immense object near Americana, Sau Paulo State, Brazil "as high as a 15-story building, apparently made of aluminum and with enormous rivets on it." It descended and hovered 50 yards from the ground. It carried searchlights too bright to look at, and made a loud humming sound that made the patrolman's head ache. His police car would not start and its lights went out, as well as the lights in the police booth, but they came back on as soon as the object departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1968, p. 5; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-118, citing Methodios Kalkaslief & Dr. Max Berezavsky Source ID: Johnson_7989 Source: Johnson ### Event 13941 (48C4415A) Date: 11/28/1967 Description: At 10:20 p.m. near High River, Alberta, Canada a car radio began fading in and out and the headlights and dashboard lights dimmed. The witness then saw a bluish-green, elongated object to his left. It was quite fuzzy and no details could be made out. He stopped the car and heard a noise like a "jet motor," only very loud. The object continued traveling on a straight line towards the east and disappeared, whereupon the lights and radio then started operating properly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1968, p. 5; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 226, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_7991 Source: Johnson ### Event 13942 (FB1078D2) Date: 11/28/1967 Description: Elongated blue-green object, sound like "jet motor," flew by, after which lights, radio worked normally. CUFOS report; see Rodeghier, 1981, p.39 (R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: High River, Alta., CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3883 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13943 (2E92DCDD) Date: 11/28/1967 Description: At 7:15 p.m. three witnesses in Rockport, Maine had a close encounter with a row of 8-10 blinking white lights, and a parallel upper row of yellow lights, that seemed to be attached to a curved surface of a flying object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. Source ID: Johnson_7990 Source: Johnson ### Event 13944 (C631D397) Date: 11/29/1967 Time: 0200 Description: Percy McBride saw a flashing object, the size of a station wagon, with two aerials, arrive from the east and land in a woods for 15 min. It made a clicking sound and a noise similar to six radio receivers tuned on different stations. It had a square, boxlike protuberance supported by a pole underneath. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRO Jan., 68 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Yarmouth, Canada Source ID: Magnonia_901 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13945 (1235C6E7) Date: 11/29/1967 Description: At around 2:00 a.m. Percy McBride saw a flashing flying object, the size of a station wagon with two aerials, arrive from the east and land in the woods near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada for 15 minutes. It made a clicking sound and a noise similar to six radio receivers tuned to different stations. It had a square, boxlike protuberance supported by a pole underneath. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1968; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 901 Source ID: Johnson_8032 Source: Johnson ### Event 13946 (0459C092) Date: 11/29/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. AST. A man saw an object the size of a car with a rounded back, a pointed end, and two or three lights (body lights). It descended and landed in a clearing in woods for about 5 minutes. (The Vanguard, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 12/6/67, copy in NICAP files; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 4, Jan.-Feb. 1968, p. 6.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Quinan, Nova Scotia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3884 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13947 (F84D4982) Date: 11/30/1967 Description: Allen R. Utke, Wisconsin State University–Oshkosh assistant professor of chemistry, writes [Gerald Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%5FFord) in support of House Resolution 946 sponsored by Rep. [Louis C. Wyman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%5FC.%5FWyman), remarking that the UFO “phenomenon could be of great importance and concern to this country.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 \(July 2010\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_4460 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13948 (13F951DD) Date: 12/1967 Description: The Soviet Academy of Sciences’ Physics Department, led by [Lev Artsimovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%5FArtsimovich)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%5FArtsimovich) passes a resolution denouncing studying of UFOs as such. The Soviet UFO Study Group is effectively neutered. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Felix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel) [Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel)”; Hobana and Weverbergh 36–37 Source ID: Eberhart_4462 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13949 (C2B78F52) Date: 12/1/1967 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) and [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) write [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) back separately and do not commit to looking at his reports, although they praise NICAP’s assistance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Colorado Project Report,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/040%20JAN-FEB%201968.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 4 \(Jan./Feb. 1968\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4463 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13950 (7FD8BE6F) Date: 12/1/1967 Description: Time not reported. A man saw 12 objects displaying green, blue-green, yellow, red, and white lights (body lights). (Phone call, NICAP file memo.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coarsegold, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3885 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13951 (856B4E88) Date: 12/2/1967 Description: 9:30 p.m. A lieutenant-major in the Romanian army is on duty in the radar station at Băneasa Airfield \[now Aurel Vlaicu International Airport\] near Bucharest, Romania, when he goes outside to observe an airplane. But the supposed aircraft is a strong, stationary light 30–40° in the north that descends rapidly, ascends again, moves left to right, then descends again. Through binoculars it looks conical or bullet shaped. Dozens of other personnel watch it until it disappears around 11:30 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 176–177 Source ID: Eberhart_4464 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13952 (D97825D3) Date: 12/2/1967 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a bullet or cone-shaped UFO hovered for two hours over the Baneasa airfield in the Bucuresti province of Romania. It then flew off to the north. There were many high quality military observers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana and Julien Weberbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 176 Source ID: Johnson_8125 Source: Johnson ### Event 13953 (C4CB3207) Date: 12/3/1967 Description: Abduction of Herbert Schirmer, a Nebraska patrolmen. Was told there were alien bases off the Florida coast, the polar region, and off the coast of Argentina. Motherships were cigar shaped, 6ft diameters discs for recon surveillance. Type: abduction Reference: Matrix 1, Valerian Location: Nebraska Source ID: Maj2_650 Source: Maj2 ### Event 13954 (1DC4CBA0) Date: 12/3/1967 Description: On this day in 1967 three important UFO cases occurred. In the middle of the afternoon, airline crews and others near Cape Kamennyy, Russia watched a luminous sphere in the sky drop a red fireball and emit beams of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_8162 Source: Johnson ### Event 13955 (15A6D881) Date: 12/3/1967 Description: About one-and-a-half hours earlier, at around 2:30 a.m. Central Standard Time, a famous UFO abduction case occurred in Ashland, Nebraska. Mr. Herbert L. Schirmer, a 22-year-old police officer and military veteran, noticed a glow in a nearby paddock while driving his patrol car along a highway. He pulled in to investigate, then his patrol car engine and lights died. He noticed a silver disc about 30 feet in diameter, surrounded by a brilliant orange glow. He remembered that he tried to send a two-way radio message, but an orange and red beam directed at him made it impossible for him to move. He remembered being taken aboard the craft by four aliens about 4.5 to 5 feet tall with slanted eyes. They used language and telepathy to communicate with him. He experienced temporary amnesia for about 30 minutes, followed by headaches and other physiological effects. The case was thoroughly investigated by the Air Force sponsored University of Colorado UFO study, headed by Edward Condon, with mixed conclusions. Hypnosis was used to enhance memory recall, and the two psychological experts called in to evaluate the case developed opposite opinions. One believed the case was a hoax and Mr. Schirmer was a pathological liar, the other felt that Schirmer was totally sincere and found his account convincing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP Investigator, March 1968, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. 3; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 39; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 173 Source ID: Johnson_8163 Source: Johnson ### Event 13956 (7CCC6BEF) Date: 12/3/1967 Description: That same night in Barcelona, Spain a “cactus-like” entity with four appendages—presumably two arms and two legs—was sighted. It left deep footprints in the soil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos investigation files Source ID: Johnson_8164 Source: Johnson ### Event 13957 (C2F645BE) Date: 12/3/1967 Description: Early a.m. Police Sgt. [Herbert Schirmer](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%5FSchirmer) checks on restless cattle twice at a barn near Ashland, Nebraska. At 2:30 a.m. he is driving on US Highway 6 when he notices some red lights along State Route 63 that might be a stalled truck. He drives a short distance up that road and stops with his headlights shining on the object. The red lights are blinking through the windows of a disc hovering at a tilt 150 feet away and 6–8 feet above the road. It looks made of shiny, polished aluminum. It ascends slowly with a sort of siren sound and emits a flamelike substance from the bottom. His head sticking out the window, Schirmer watches it pass overhead then shoot up out of sight. He drives back to the police station and writes in the log book, “Saw a flying saucer at the junction of highways 6 and 63. Believe it or not!” He is puzzled to see it is 3:00 a.m. He gets a headache and a buzzing noise in his head. He also has a red welt below one of his ears. In the morning, Chief Bill Wlaskin goes to the site and finds a piece of metal that he shows to Colorado project investigators. It turns out to be composed of iron and silicon. On February 13, 1968, Schirmer is hypnotized in Boulder, Colorado, by [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html). During the session he remembers that his car engine and radio failed, and a blurry white object came out of the UFO and communicated with him telepathically. He is taken on board by aliens \(who first ask him, “Are you the watchman over this place?”\). They are humanoids, 4–5 feet tall with long heads, gray-white skin, and cat-like eyes. They wear silver-gray helmets with small antennas on the left side of the ear area. Their uniforms and gloves are the same color. An unusual feature of this case is the emblem of a winged serpent on the left breast of each entity’s uniform. The Colorado project comes to a predictable conclusion: “Evaluation of psychological assessment tests, the lack of any evidence, and interviews with the patrolmen left project staff with no confidence that the trooper’s reported UFO experience was physically real.” Schirmer undergoes hypnosis again on June 8, 1968, and more details emerge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1034–1038; Condon, [pp. 389–391](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/388/mode/2up); Michael D. Swords, “Too Close for Condon: Close Encounters of the 4th Kind,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 3–4; Story, [pp. 318–319](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/318/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “[The](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2008/10/schirmer-abduction.html) [Schirmer Abduction,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2008/10/schirmer-abduction.html)” A Different Perspective, October 13, 2008; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 147–149 Source ID: Eberhart_4465 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13958 (25B3D2C4) Date: 12/3/1967 Time: 0230 Description: Police Officer Schirmer observed a bright, aluminum-colored object just above the road and approached within 14 m, when the object rose, emitting a shrill beeping noise and a red-orange beam. Under hypnosis at the University of Colorado, the witness reported that a small human form, about 1.30 m tall, came from under the craft and approached him to communicate a message stating that "they" came from space and would meet him again. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 4 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ashland, Nebraska Source ID: Magnonia_902 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13959 (CFA30ADA) Date: 12/3/1967 Description: 7:45-10:00 p.m. CST. Numerous witnesses in several small towns saw four white or orange objects that appeared and disappeared over a 2-hour period. (Saskatoon UFO Club report, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wakaw, Saskatchewan, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3888 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13960 (FEAD8438) Date: 12/3/1967 Description: Officer Herbert Schirmer vehicle encounter and abduction case Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Ashland, NE Source ID: HallUFOE2_150 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13961 (EF23E986) Date: 12/3/1967 Description: 2:30 a.m.CST. A police patrolman (Herbert Schirmer) saw a hovering, bright aluminum, elliptical object estimated to be 15 feet tall and 20 feet wide with flashing red lights inside. (Hall, 2001, p. 530-32, from: Blum and Blum, 1974, pp. 109-121; Gillmor, 1969, pp. 389-91; Story, 1980, pp. 318-19.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ashland, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_3886 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13962 (FB87FAF1) Date: 12/3/1967 Description: 2:30 a.m.CST. A police patrolman (Herbert Schirmer) saw a hovering, bright aluminum, elliptical object estimated to be 15 feet tall and 20 feet wide with flashing red lights inside. Under hypnosis, the officer recalled EM effects on his vehicle, meeting with beings, and being on the craft. (Hall, 2001, p. 530-32, from: Blum and Blum, 1974, pp. 109-121; Gillmor, 1969, pp. 389-91; Story, 1980, pp. 318-19.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ashland, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_3887 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13963 (4F25629A) Date: 12/4/1967 Description: 1:30 p.m. EST. A couple saw two round convex (disc-like) silver objects with windows around the rim. Their size was estimated as 15-20 feet in diameter and 5 feet thick in the center. The objects hovered at about 100 feet, separated, came back together and disappeared. (Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newfield, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3889 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13964 (3083D0CA) Date: 12/5/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. Six teenagers returning from a basketball game in Concordia, Kansas, detour to drive by a cemetery. They see a light blinking in the sky ahead, moving in an up-and-down motion to the north. It appears to be flashing different colors or rotating. They follow it for about two miles, hoping for a better look. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Condon, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/390/mode/2up) [391–394](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/390/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4466 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13965 (42022597) Date: 12/6/1967 Description: 9:25 p.m. EST. A woman saw an object with a hump (dome) on top and a "window effect" on the underside showing soft white light, and pulsating blue lights on each end (body lights). (NICAP report form.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3890 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13966 (B47B2F2B) Date: 12/7/1967 Description: 8:00 p.m. CST. An 11- and a 4-year old saw a large red object that emitted a small fiery object about 8 inches in diameter with manv swirling colors, especially green, pink, and white. (Report from Saskatchewan UFO club, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3892 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13967 (1DA81E52) Date: 12/7/1967 Description: Early evening. An attorney saw a shiny gray cylindrical object with legs and body lights on the underside. The object hovered at 200 feet, then moved away across the mountains. (Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP file; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 5, March 1968, p. 3.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Paso, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3891 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13968 (CB0279FC) Date: 12/7/1967 Description: On this evening near El Paso, Texas William C. Collins observed an unidentified object hovering about 200 feet in the air. There appeared to be a humanoid figure onboard the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-121, citing a newspaper source Source ID: Johnson_8258 Source: Johnson ### Event 13969 (62C5E739) Date: 12/8/1967 Description: Bright illumination from domed disc, object tipped forward, two humanoid figures visible inside. Object rotated, moved away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Idaho Falls, ID Source ID: HallUFOE2_151 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13970 (0784D485) Date: 12/8/1967 Description: 7:40 p.m. Marilyn Wilding, 15, goes out on her front step in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to look for a friend. A light reflecting on the snow on the ground causes her to look up, and she sees a brightly lit circular object “about as big as a car” hovering above the house. The object then tips and rotates so she can see it has a transparent dome on top. Inside the dome are two indistinct figures. The object rotates clockwise, maintaining its inclination. It begins moving away; as it recedes into the distance, its light dims and turns orange. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 459; Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “[Circular Object with Dome and Two ‘Figures’ Inside](http://www.noufors.com/circular%5Fobject%5Fwith%5Fdome%5Fand%5Ftwo%5F%27figures%27%5Finside.html)”; Patrick Gross, “[Falls,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/falls1967.htm) [Idaho, December 8, 1967](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/falls1967.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4467 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13971 (5E885B13) Date: 12/8/1967 Description: 7:40 p.m. MST. A 15-year-old girl saw a very bright white illuminated circular object (disc) the size of a car hovering over her house. (Hall, 2001, p. 459, from: Keyhoe and Lore, 1969a, pp. 29-30.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Idaho. Falls, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_3895 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13972 (FD2072E7) Date: 12/8/1967 Description: 12:30 a.m. EST. A woman reported a large bowl-shaped orange object that levitated her, and she suffered unspecified physiological effects. She had a time confusion and later reported visits by small beings and physical marks left on her body (suggested abduction). (Ridge, 1994, p. 24.) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Deputy, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3893 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13973 (0A2526C7) Date: 12/10/1967 Description: 7:30 a.m. Psychologist Adina Păun is walking past the Republic Factories in Bucharest, Romania, when she sees a bluish-green object above the plant at about 45°. It has projecting, tapered spines that are as long as half its diameter. It is higher than rain clouds that sometimes obscure it, but lower than high-altitude, fast-moving white clouds. She continues watching it for 15 minutes as she walks along, but it drifts out of sight when she gets home on Magnet Strada. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 180 Source ID: Eberhart_4468 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13974 (732FD235) Date: 12/10/1967 Description: Many independent witnesses at 7:30 a.m. in the city of Bucharest, Romania observed a sphere with many antennae hovering over a factory for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 180; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 115; NICAP UFO Investigator, volume 4, number 12; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8028 Source ID: Johnson_8300 Source: Johnson ### Event 13975 (D363EF50) Date: 12/11/1967 Description: Night. Two women saw a hat-shaped object with a rounded top (domed disc), a glowing light in the center of the underside, and a series of blinking white and green lights along the rim (body lights). (Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chico, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3896 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13976 (6876F728) Date: 12/12/1967 Description: 7:00 p.m. Rita Malley is driving home from work on Route 34 in Newfield, New York, with her young son. She notices a red light behind her. As it draws closer, she sees it is a disc-shaped object as large as a boxcar moving at about 90 feet above the road. Then it passes overhead and causes the car to go off the road into a ditch, and Malley became terrified. Her son in the back seat looks immobilized with his eyes “bugged out.” A white beam emanates from the humming object above her and she hears voices in her head saying that her son would not remember this and that a friend of hers has been killed in a car accident. \(This turns out to be true.\) The car then moves out of the ditch and back onto the road facing the wrong way. She finds that she can control the car again and speeds home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lloyd Mallan, “Ithaca’s Terrifying Flying Saucer Epidemic,” Science and Mechanics 39 \(July 1968\): 30–33, 96–97; T. M. Wright, “UFO’s over Ithaca,” Fate 22, no. 2 \(February 1969\): 44–52 Source ID: Eberhart_4471 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13977 (2E963FAF) Date: 12/12/1967 Description: Exact time not given. A woman and four others saw three silvery-white, oblong objects that were flat on the bottom, hat-shaped on top (domed disc). (Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grand Rapids, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3897 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13978 (EE121E67) Date: 12/12/1967 Description: The British Embassy in Moscow, Russia, is directed by London to look into British-Russian cooperation in the investigation of UFO reports with Stolyarov’s Soviet UFO Study Group. The embassy does not hear back and does not pursue the subject. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 234–235](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/234/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4470 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13979 (0113A3F1) Date: 12/12/1967 Description: Levine, [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)[,](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) and Mary Lou Armstrong bring [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) together with [James McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) to discuss forming a new group after the project ends, no matter what its conclusion is. The meeting goes fairly well. After Hynek leaves, McDonald brings up the [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) memorandum. He has apparently heard about it from [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe). Saunders gives him an official copy. Levine approaches [Craig](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) about a separate report, but Craig considers it mutiny. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 179–180 Source ID: Eberhart_4469 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13980 (023AF1C1) Date: 12/12/1967 Description: A woman, Mrs. Rita Malley, was driving down a rural road in North Lansing, New York with her infant daughter when she noticed that she was being followed by a multi-colored, domed disc-shaped object. The saucer hovered directly over her car, a Ford Mustang, and the engine stalled. At the same time she heard a weird chorus of voices informing her of the approaching death of a friend. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Syracuse Herald-Journal, December 21, 1967; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 69; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_8353 Source: Johnson ### Event 13981 (11313D6B) Date: 12/12/1967 Description: 6:45 p.m. EST. A woman driving with a child in the car reported that a disc with dome, red and green square windows, and white light from underneath passed near the car illuminating its interior and forcing the car off the road. (Syracuse Herald- Journal, N.Y., 12/21/67, copy in NICAP files. Case investigated by Ted Bloecher and J. E. McDonald, report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ithaca & Auburn bt., NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3898 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13982 (8326F869) Date: 12/13/1967 Description: Geminid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_152 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 13983 (0C5BC33C) Date: 12/13/1967 Description: Dome-shaped object hovering, rocking, heat felt. CUFOS report; see Rodeghier.1981, p. 39 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edmonton, Alberta, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3900 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13984 (80C5623B) Date: 12/13/1967 Description: At 2:00 a.m. near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the lights of a car dimmed and the motor sputtered. The driver pulled to the side of the road and opened the hood. He then noticed a dome-shaped object hovering 150 yards away. It was metallic, had lights around the edge, and was about 50 feet high. He felt the battery of the car — it was warm. He got back in and watched the object, which rocked back and forth 10-15 feet but stayed over the road. During the next hour the car body began to heat up and even his hair got hot. His flashlight also wouldn't work. Finally the object shot straight up and disappeared from view in two to three seconds. The headlights came back on, but the motor could only be started with difficulty. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 39, citing CUFOS; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 251 Source ID: Johnson_8374 Source: Johnson ### Event 13985 (871DFFAC) Date: 12/13/1967 Description: 5:10 p.m. EST. Three members of a family saw multiple cloud-like rings with dark centers that appeared from behind a storm cloud. Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Granby, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3899 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13986 (F8681D68) Date: 12/13/1967 Description: 2:00 a.m. As a man is driving near Edmonton, Alberta, his car lights dim and engine sputters. He pulls to the side of the road and opens the hood, when he notices a dome-shaped object hovering 450 feet away. It is metallic, has lights around the edge, and is about 50 feet high. The object rocks back and forth within a range of 10–15 feet but remains above the road. Over the next hour, the car body heats up and the witness’s hair gets hot. His flashlight fails to work. Finally, the object shoots straight up and vanishes in 2–3 seconds. His headlights come back on, but he starts the motor only with difficulty. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) [Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) CUFOS, 1981, p. 39 Source ID: Eberhart_4472 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13987 (A5718B5A) Date: 12/14/1967 Description: 11:30 p.m. EST. Two aircraft pilots in a car saw a triangular object with a red light at each tip (body lights). (Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files; U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 4, Jan.-Feb. 1968, p. 6.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clinton, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3901 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13988 (E700EC66) Date: 12/15/1967 Description: 1:00 a.m. CST. Three men driving to Saxon saw a rapidly spinning sphere with a white light on top and on the bottom, and red and green lights around the equator (body lights). The object approached at low altitude, hovered over a nearby field. (U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 4, Jan.-Feb. 1968, p. 6.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Rating: 0) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saxon, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3902 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13989 (4A9313F8) Date: 12/15/1967 Description: At 1:00 a.m. three men driving to Saxon, Wisconsin on Highway 2 saw a rapidly spinning sphere with a white light on the top and bottom, and red and green lights around the middle. The object approached at low altitude, and then hovered over a nearby field. While hovering a smaller sphere discharged from the bottom, and it in turn discharged a smaller sphere, which then discharged a yet smaller sphere. These small spheres hovered momentarily one beneath the other, then returned to their original positions within each other and into the original object, which then sped out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, Jan.-Feb. 1968, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_8410 Source: Johnson ### Event 13990 (17C4A0A7) Date: 12/15/1967 Description: The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River between Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio, collapses under the weight of rush-hour traffic, resulting in the deaths of 46 people. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Silver Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%5FBridge)” Source ID: Eberhart_4473 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13991 (CFC1F9BB) Date: 12/16/1967 Description: [Philip Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) who has heard of [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)’s UFO activity in Australia from [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf), starts a letter-writing campaign directed at the Office of Naval Research, wanting to know who approved his funding and whether they are funding his forthcoming trip to Europe and Russia. His campaign continues for the next 18 months, bluntly attacking McDonald’s integrity and calling him a habitual liar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 700 Source ID: Eberhart_4474 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13992 (389BC935) Date: 12/16/1967 Description: A man driving with his girlfriend late at night in Winterfold, Surrey, England had stopped his vehicle outside a deserted mansion in order to clean the windshield. His girlfriend meanwhile remained in the car. He noticed an acrid smell. He got back into the car and then noticed a strange figure looking at them from nearby. The humanoid was about four foot six inches tall and had a luminous, oblong-shaped head. Furthermore, the odor seemed to be coming from his direction. The figure approached and put an arm on the roof of the car. At this point the man and woman drove away at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 1640, citing Fortean Times, issue # 10 Source ID: Johnson_8444 Source: Johnson ### Event 13993 (3DF6DA6E) Date: 12/19/1967 Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness is driving westbound on the east edge of Belleville, Illinois, when he sees a triangular object with a row of square lights on one side. He tries following it and manages to stay roughly beneath it until he loses track of it near Southwestern Illinois College. Because it appears to be heading toward nearby Scott AFB and the witness is familiar with the base, he goes to the control tower there to see if they have tracked anything unusual but they have not. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 204–208, 270 Source ID: Eberhart_4475 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13994 (E8BC68D6) Date: 12/21/1967 Description: A ship enroute from Auckland, New Zealand to Guam was sailing past the Loyalty Islands at 11:33 a.m. when crewmembers sighted a beam of light like a powerful searchlight extending vertically upward from some clouds on the horizon. The beam extension was 35 degrees of arc in length. The beam seemed to emanate from a small cloud a few degrees above the horizon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: William R. Corliss: Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 283 Source ID: Johnson_8551 Source: Johnson ### Event 13995 (51E5781E) Date: 12/22/1967 Description: Six teenagers observed a silver, saucer-shaped object with a pointed top hovering over Holmes County, Ohio. The UFO was about ten meters in diameter. A wave of heat was felt when it passed overhead. The duration of the encounter was two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, June 1968, p. 19; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 903 Source ID: Johnson_8564 Source: Johnson ### Event 13996 (488E075E) Date: 12/22/1967 Description: Six teenagers observed a silvery, disk-shaped object with a pointed projection on top and multicolored lights, 100 m away, and felt a heat wave when it hovered above them. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FS Jun., 68 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Holmes County, Ohio Source ID: Magnonia_903 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 13997 (97DCCA23) Date: 12/22/1967 Description: Time not reported. A silvery disc with multicolored body lights revolving around its perimeter buzzed a car. (UFO Fact & Comment, Goodyear UFO Society, Akron, OH, Jan. 9, 1968.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Millersburg, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3903 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 13998 (DB352D74) Date: 12/24/1967 Description: 8:30 p.m. A faculty member of the Harvard Medical School and several members of his family in Belmont, Massachusetts, see a silently moving, bright orange light. It is joined by a second light one minute later, and a third about 30 seconds after that. He retrieves some binoculars and watches all three. The first two stop about 15°–25° above the horizon and remain still; the third is still moving. Three or four more lights arrive, some hovering, others moving. Two or three of the hovering lights appear to drop smaller lights that flash as they fall. All are orange in color. After about 20 minutes, they have all disappeared. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 45–48](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/44/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4477 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 13999 (A0EC5C31) Date: 12/24/1967 Description: On this evening a couple driving near Tucson, Arizona saw a blob of red light. The engine and headlights of their car then quit. The light came near the car, passed overhead, and moved away to the south. The engine and lights both came back on as it departed. Two minutes before this sighting, both witnesses had seen a star-like object fall to earth. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 230, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_8589 Source: Johnson ### Event 14000 (4C467172) Date: 12/24/1967 Description: Evening. A couple driving near Tucson, Arizona, see a star-like object fall to earth. Two minutes later, they spot a blob of red light. Their engine and headlights fail. The object approaches the car, passes overhead, then moves away to the south. The engine and lights come back on as it departs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) [Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 39 Source ID: Eberhart_4476 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14001 (19124FE6) Date: 12/24/1967 Description: Night. Eight witnesses saw 6-7 lights move across the sky one after the other (procession), spaced 30 seconds apart and each following the same path. (Haines, 1994, p. 44, from UNICAT #302.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belmont, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3904 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14002 (0C289FDF) Date: 12/25/1967 Description: Gary Lambert, a college student from Omaha, Nebraska was driving home at Christmas during the night when he saw a dimly outlined object with a row of lights hovering over an underpass on the highway between Ashland and Lincoln. His sighting precipitated a number of vivid dreams that night, in which he believes he had been "contacted" by the beings aboard the UFO. He also believes that he may have experienced an actual abduction, the memory of which was erased from his mind. There were no details or other evidence of an abduction that the witness was able to provide. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-125, citing NICAP & Condon Committee Source ID: Johnson_8601 Source: Johnson ### Event 14003 (6D5F6282) Date: 12/26/1967 Description: A newlywed couple, Mr. & Mrs. Clerici spotted an unknown light in the sky at four o'clock in the morning while driving near Catamarca, Argentina that would change color from purple to green from time to time. The object followed them as they drove in their car for a few minutes, frightening the witnesses, and then ascended into the air. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_8614 Source: Johnson ### Event 14004 (E543FD28) Date: 12/27/1967 Description: 9:00 p.m. Two people are traveling along a back road in Wells Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, when they see three lights on the horizon. They stop the car as the lights approach. They are attached to a domed disc that is following the road at a height of 300–400 feet. As it approaches to within about 3,000 feet, it makes a banking movement that reveals square, fluorescent panels on the bottom. The dome light in their car turns on spontaneously as the whole bottom of the UFO flashes. The two witnesses get back in their truck and drive on, but the object follows them for a while, then moves off toward Elmira, New York. About 20 minutes later, the parents of one witness experience a power failure in their home on Elmira’s south side. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 23 Source ID: Eberhart_4478 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14005 (4C67B22B) Date: 12/28/1967 Description: At four o'clock in the morning on the Andalgala highway in Catamarca Province, Argentina Mr. & Mrs. Clerici watched a flying object that changed color from purple to green from time to time. The couple became frightened when the object followed them for a few minutes, then it ascended into the air. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 10, citing La Razon newspaper, December 29, 1967 Source ID: Johnson_8631 Source: Johnson ### Event 14006 (1CFDA746) Date: 12/29/1967 Description: 10:35 p.m. C. J. McCready, his wife, and daughter see a round, glowing, sparkling, red object above their home on Briarcliff Road, Atlanta, Georgia. It hovers and drops several trails of a white substance that appear to fall like a liquid as the object moves slowly northwest. It is visible for 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP case file Source ID: Eberhart_4479 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14007 (6714D560) Date: 12/29/1967 Description: Coming home from a basketball game in Breese, Illinois at 9:30 p.m., four teenagers watched a motionless bright light in the sky and got out of their car. They felt an intense heat, and heard a humming sound. The sensation of heat became very strong, even in the car. The UFO left after 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, April 1969, p. 11; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_8642 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1968 (Back to Top) ### Event 14008 (9051A61E) Date: 1968 Description: NORAD has control of continental-scale Over the Horizon radars that cover virtually the entire Eurasian continent looking for Russian and Chinese missile launches. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 807 Source ID: Eberhart_4480 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14009 (6C13F6C7) Date: 1968 Description: Vladimir Godic and Crystal Walsh found UFO Research South Australia, a group committed to use scientific methodology in investigation and research. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 25 Source ID: Eberhart_4485 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14010 (DA3A42C9) Date: 1968 Description: UFO skeptic and electrical engineer [Philip J. Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) publishes his first UFO book, UFOs—Identified, in which he theorizes that sightings are caused by ball lightning and anomalous free-floating plasmas. Klass’s plasma hypothesis is not well received by anyone on either side of the UFO debate, who note that Klass is using one unverified phenomenon \(his hypothetical plasmas\) to explain another unverified phenomenon \(UFOs\). Klass and physicist [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) engage in a bitter, 18-month-long debate, leveling a variety of charges and accusations at one another. In September 1968, Klass writes to McDonald’s superiors at the US Navy \(McDonald is formally retired from the Navy, but often works with the Office of Naval Research\), questioning how McDonald could spend so much time on UFO research and still fulfill the requirements for his atmospheric research grant. This does not result in McDonald losing ONR funding, but it does draw some criticism of Klass from members of the UFO community. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philip J. Klass, UFOs—Identified, Random House, 1968; Clark III 659 Source ID: Eberhart_4484 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14011 (E2A351EC) Date: 1968 Description: An Australian nuclear physicist attached to the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence \(part of the Joint Intelligence Bureau\) cooperates with other defense intelligence scientists to form a “rapid intervention team” to investigate UFO incidents involving physical evidence. The effort lasts until a wave of UFO reports takes place in Western Australia and he is denied further access to RAAF files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[The UFO Connection:](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201986%20V%2031%20N%205.pdf) [Addendum,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201986%20V%2031%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 31, no. 5 \(July 1986\): 20; Good Above, [p. 166](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/166/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4486 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14012 (59AAF83F) Date: 1968 Description: Italian author [Renato Vesco](https://www.skeptica.dk/?p=8267) writes Intercettatelli Senza Sparare, making a case that the Germans had developed anti-gravity devices at the end of World War II, testing disc-shaped and tubular craft that were responsible for foo fighters. After the war, these concepts were acquired by the US and Russia, leading directly to functional flying saucers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Renato Vesco, Intercept—But Don’t Shoot, Zebra/Grove, 1971; Marcello Pupilli and Giuseppe Stilo, “[Solitudine di un uomo: Le teorie ufologiche e la vita di Renato Vesco \(1924–1999\),](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/UFO%20Forum%20%28CISU%29/UFO%20Forum%20-%20No%2018%20-%20agosto%202001.pdf)” UFO Forum, no. 18 \(August 2001\): 33–39 Source ID: Eberhart_4483 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14013 (30F4CE93) Date: 1968 Alternate date: 1969 Description: 9:00 p.m. A Polish Air Force pilot takes off from Warsaw Modlin Airport, Poland, in a MiG-21 for a short, routine mission. Soon he sees two identical white discs, about 6–10 feet in diameter, moving at the same altitude and speed as his MiG. His wingman also sees them. He approaches to within 50 feet of them. During the 5-minute encounter, radio contact with the controller is lost and contact between the two pilots deteriorates. Four UFOs follow the two MiGs for another 3–6 miles, then they accelerate and overtake them, disappearing ahead. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 65 Source ID: Eberhart_4489 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14014 (86D5EC15) Date: 1968 Description: 1:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. On one particular night glowing objects were spotted beyond the fence line of the base and in the distant perimeter. The staff at the Air Force Base pretty much ignored these lights on the first night, wondering if it was just someone playing around, or not thinking a whole lot about it. (Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [680000](http://www.nicap.org/cannon68xxxxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canon AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_3906 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14015 (4690B58D) Date: 1968 Description: Late Summer, 1968; Lake Norman, NC. Domed UFO near AEC plant (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, NC) Reference: NICAP: [680000](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-lakenorman68.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Norman, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_3905 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14016 (300E261A) Date: 1968 Description: The Canadian National Research Council, from its base at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Ottawa, Ontario, takes over the collection of UFO reports from the Department of National Defence. It partners with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to do the actual investigations. The NRC’s primary interest is in tracking meteors and meteorite falls. Non-meteoric sightings are kept in a separate file but transferred to the Public Archives of Canada \[now Library and Archives of Canada\] at the end of every year. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Canada, Signet, 1981, p. 175; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 9–10 Source ID: Eberhart_4487 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14017 (FF51A0D9) Date: 1968 Description: [Fabio Zerpa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio%5FZerpa) founds the Organizacion Nacional Investigadora de Fénomenos Espaciales in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It publishes a monthly magazine, Cuarta Dimension. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 233](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/233/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4488 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14018 (798D5FED) Date: 1968 Description: Project xxxxxxxx (name censured) established to evaluate all UFO information pertinent to space technology. Type: majestic document Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) Attributes: Majestic See also: 1953 See also: 12/1969 See also: 1976 Source ID: Maj2_651 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14019 (1E07306F) Date: 1968 Description: Science-fiction author [Otto Binder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%5FBinder) publishes Flying Saucers Are Watching Us, which borrows liberally from the theories of engineer [Max W. Flindt](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?n=max-flindt&pid=2782519&fhid=2128) \(cofounder of the Ancient Astronaut Society\), who contends that extraterrestrials had conducted genetic engineering on our apelike ancestors to create modern mankind. Binder writes that space people return every few centuries to interbreed with humans to improve the stock. He follows this up with Mankind—Child of the Stars in 1974, coauthored with Flindt. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Otto O. Binder, Flying Saucers Are Watching Us, 1968; Clark III 109; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_4482 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14020 (E3364011) Date: 1968 Description: Presbyterian religious scholar [Barry Downing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%5FDowning) publishes The Bible and Flying Saucers, in which he equates Jesus and angels with space visitors and burning bushes, clouds, and [Ezekiel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel)’s chariot with spacecraft. Downing also believes that Jesus left earth in a flying saucer to another planet, or perhaps another spatial dimension, and that a flying vehicle operated by intelligent alien beings was responsible for the parting of the Red Sea. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Barry Downing. The Bible and Flying Saucers, Lippincott, 1968; Clark III 109; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_4481 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14021 (5FE698ED) Date: Early 1968 Description: Four artillerymen stationed at the naval garrison at Lüda \[now Dalian\], Liaoning, China, see a luminous, gold, oval-shaped object that leaves a thin trail in the air. It climbs steeply at high speed and disappears. When it begins to climb, all communications and radar systems fail, nearly causing an accident in the fleet. The naval patrol goes on alert, and the fleet commander orders his men to prepare for combat. After 30 minutes, comms and radar return to normal. A two-man coast guard patrol allegedly sees the UFO land on the south coast and fires at it with automatic weapons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archive, 1983, pp. 48–49 Source ID: Eberhart_4490 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14022 (3B3A141F) Date: 1/1968 Description: John Harney and Alan W. Sharp launch a new publication, Merseyside UFO Bulletin \(MUFOB\), in Liverpool, England, as an independent publication from the openly skeptical newsletter begun by the Merseyside UFO Research Group. John Rimmer assumes the post of associate editor with the third issue. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Merseyside UFO](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/%20Merseyside%20UFO%20Bulletin/Merseyside%20UFO%20Bulletin%20-%20Vol%201%20No%201%20-%201968.pdf) [Bulletin](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/%20Merseyside%20UFO%20Bulletin/Merseyside%20UFO%20Bulletin%20-%20Vol%201%20No%201%20-%201968.pdf) 1, No. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1968\); Clark III 706; “[History of](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/p/future-publications.html) [Magonia,](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/p/future-publications.html)” Magonia Archive Source ID: Eberhart_4491 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14023 (6CE55CB5) Date: 1/1/1968 Description: Mr. Kakizawa of Yokohama, Japan took a photograph of a UFO at 4:45 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1968, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_8 Source: Johnson ### Event 14024 (640075A6) Date: 1/2/1968 Description: Bright pulsating yellow-orange object nearby, heat felt. U.F.O. Investigator, MayJune 1968, p. 3; Star, Jan. 4, 1968 (E) snowmobile (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Whitehorse, Yukon, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3908 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14025 (A67E001B) Date: 1/2/1968 Description: Two snowmobile drivers in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada observed a pulsating, orange-yellow object nearby at 4:00 p.m.. This object was extremely bright. One of the snowmobile's engines stalled during the sighting and its driver felt a sensation of increased heat. The object moved out of sight shortly thereafter and the snowmobile could be restarted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 232, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, Vol. 4, No. 6 Source ID: Johnson_29 Source: Johnson ### Event 14026 (C5FDC985) Date: 1/2/1968 Description: In Castle Rock, Colorado 12 people saw a transparent bubble with 12 lights. It hovered fifty feet above the ground, and then shot straight up into the sky, shooting out two balls of flame while doing so. The lights were the color of car headlights covered over with mud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics Source ID: Johnson_28 Source: Johnson ### Event 14027 (938EFA92) Date: 1/3/1968 Description: At five o'clock in the morning Ms. Emma Grimble, an early riser, was sweeping the upper hallway of her guest house home in Ashtabula, Ohio when she heard a commotion downstairs near the tenant's mailboxes. Yelling "Get away from those mailboxes!" she rushed downstairs but was dumbfounded to see two little men, greenish yellow in color, clambering around the boxes and attaching themselves to the wall by "suction cups on their hands and feet." They glistened like metal, possibly wearing flexible, tight fitting metallic clothing. At her appearance the two little creatures rushed out the front door. She heard quite a loud scrambling around, as if there may have been five or six of them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-11, citing D. L. McCulty, Saucer News; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 24 Source ID: Johnson_57 Source: Johnson ### Event 14028 (23AD6415) Date: 1/5/1968 Description: On this night six observers with binoculars in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada watched four saucers hover over a radio tower. They had flames coming from the top and flat bottoms. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Brad Steiger & Joan Whritenour, Flying Saucer Invasion, p. 95 Source ID: Johnson_120 Source: Johnson ### Event 14029 (11868FE8) Date: 1/5/1968 Description: An very bright, yellowish orange, disc-shaped UFO landed at a remote distance from two men, Sr. Massague and Sr. Aguade, in the Torrellas de las Foix mountains, Barcelona, Spain at 8:15 a.m. It was ten meters in diameter, and estimated to be about 3500 meters away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 54, citing CEI Source ID: Johnson_121 Source: Johnson ### Event 14030 (DDB4E075) Date: 1/6/1968 Description: A night security officer was conducting his rounds in Milano, Italy when he came upon a flat, pancake-shaped object resting in a courtyard. He approached and could see that it had a transparent dome on top and a circular railing around it. Next to the UFO were two human-like figures wearing blue coveralls and black helmets and gloves. Inside the dome a third figure was moving about. The two outside seemed to be performing some repairs on the object. The witness walked up to offer his help and shone a flashlight at the object. The two figures suddenly scrambled into the object, which emitted a bright flash and took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 25 Source ID: Johnson_166 Source: Johnson ### Event 14031 (628D802C) Date: 1/12/1968 Description: On this night while driving on a highway in Carlisle, Pennsylvania two female witnesses, Ms. Lehman and Ms. Little, saw a large round white object, at times reddish, that emitted smaller objects that maneuvered around independently. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_277 Source: Johnson ### Event 14032 (D121DDB0) Date: 1/13/1968 Description: At 6:20 a.m. in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania a large round white object, at times reddish, emitted smaller satellite objects that maneuvered independently. The larger UFO was 40 to 50 feet in diameter UFO and about 350 feet in the air. It rose slowly, and gave off a white haze. The white light then changed color from red to reddish-orange then back to white. It emitted four small red balls of light from a hatch, then five white ones. There were at least 20 witnesses. That night in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania the Rev. R. Mossir reported sighting four pulsating objects leaving a white UFO, which seemed to explode in the sky after the red objects left it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1968, p. 1; Skylook, February 1968, p. 1 & 5; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 414 Source ID: Johnson_298 Source: Johnson ### Event 14033 (A31A94F2) Date: 1/15/1968 Description: 9:00 p.m. Janice, Denise, and Lori Achzehner are playing records in Villa Park, Illinois, when their father’s “Saucer Seeker” UFO detector goes off. They run outside and see a large orange light hovering near the house. For 45 minutes they watch as a series of 6 objects fly in and out of the area. Through binoculars they can see that the objects are triangular or cone-shaped, no more than a mile away, and 500–1,500 feet high. As they watch, one of the objects approaches a commercial airliner, makes a 180° turn without slowing, then follows the aircraft until they are out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Use of Detectors in Spotting UFO,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1968, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_4494 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14034 (A322CD7D) Date: 1/15/1968 Description: 7:25 a.m. Two farmers driving a truck near Three Hills, Alberta, see an object that looks “like a stunted dill pickle,” greenish-blue in color and silent. Another truck stops and they point out the object to the others, who say it looks like a flying saucer. They contact the Calgary Airport, but officials there have had no reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 60–62](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/60/mode/2up), [63–64](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/62/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4493 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14035 (0487A7B1) Date: 1/15/1968 Description: The USAF Air Defense Command is renamed the Aerospace Defense Command. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Aerospace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace%5FDefense%5FCommand) [Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace%5FDefense%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_4492 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14036 (1CCAD20F) Date: 1/17/1968 Description: Linda, a young woman, was on her way to Junior Achievement class in Ipswich, Massachusetts at around 6:30 p.m. when suddenly some bright lights in the sky attracted her attention. She looked up and saw a cigar-shaped object hovering overhead with bright flashing lights. She watched as it came down several hundred feet from her and stopped about 150 feet from the ground. The UFO made no noise and had a solid row of red and green lights going on and off in sequence along its midsection. It also had five steady bright white lights spaced evenly along the top section. Linda walked closer just before the UFO rose upm to a higher altitude, levelled off, and then moved away into the distance. She saw a tall man in a dark coat and a dark brimmed hat, who had been standing closer to the object. When she called out to him he turned and ran down the darkened street. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFO Testament; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968 Source ID: Johnson_360 Source: Johnson ### Event 14037 (D65905F5) Date: 1/18/1968 Description: At 7:30 p.m. in Umbrete, Spain a brilliant, turtle-shaped domed disc flew over an olive grove. It was estimated to be 1.2 meters in length, and was at an altitude of only 200 meters above the trees. It was lost from sight behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Data-Net Report, March 1971 Source ID: Johnson_372 Source: Johnson ### Event 14038 (C7305B11) Date: 1/19/1968 Description: DIA Intelligence Report from Liaison in Moscow, Russia mentioning an attempt by the British Government in 1967 to collaborate with the Soviets in UFO research. Type: intelligence report (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p543) Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Moscow, Russia See also: 2/22/68 Source ID: Maj2_652 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14039 (FCD8B1D2) Date: 1/19/1968 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) calls [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) on the phone and expresses his concerns about the project. The two reach an impasse. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 185; Swords 328 Source ID: Eberhart_4495 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14040 (8D2B4282) Date: 1/20/1968 Description: 6:00 p.m. Police deputies Bias Fortes and Pinheiro Chagas are driving 9 miles outside of Brasília, Brazil, when they see a triangular UFO. They stop and get out to observe it better and watch it hover for 5 minutes. It accelerates suddenly and speeds to the southwest, Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[First Sightings of 1968 in Brazil,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2001%2000%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1968, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_4496 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14041 (33865D05) Date: 1/20/1968 Description: Round orange-red object hovered near ground, moved abruptly to position behind car, road illuminated; made repeated passes at car (Section XII, Vol. II, The UFO Evidence). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vermillion, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_3909 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14042 (925CEF7B) Date: 1/20/1968 Description: Round orange-red object hovered near ground, moved abruptly to position behind car, road illuminated. Made repeated passes at car Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Vermillion, SD Source ID: HallUFOE2_153 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14043 (A5012203) Date: 1/20/1968 Description: 11:00 p.m. Robert Ballard and his wife Lynn are visiting his parents near Vermillion, South Dakota. Robert goes outside to warm up his car for the trip home. He sees a large object and calls to his father to come outside. They watch a big ball of red and orange fire to the east. At first they think it is the moon and go inside, but as Robert and Lynn are leaving, the object gives off a flash, and one of the dogs begins barking vigorously. They drive toward the object, which seems to be flickering in a field. It seems to be spinning and is 20 feet above the ground, sometimes less. When Ballard turns onto State Highway 50, the UFO, about 30 feet in diameter, starts following them. He accelerates to 60 mph and the object jumps to just behind their car. At one point it is hovering only 3 feet above an intersection. It keeps following them at telephone height, even though Ballard speeds up to 110 mph. After another car goes by them, the object speeds up and heads straight toward them from behind. Soon it rises and disappears to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 37–38 Source ID: Eberhart_4497 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14044 (FEF59A86) Date: 1/21/1968 Description: A fire breaks out in the navigator’s compartment of a USAF B-52 near Thule Air Base, Greenland. The bomber crashes 7 miles from the air base, causing the non-nuclear explosives aboard to detonate and rupturing and dispersing its nuclear payload of four hydrogen bombs carried on an ongoing \(since 1960\) Operation Chrome Dome alert mission to deter a Soviet nuclear first strike. The recovery and decontamination effort is complicated by Greenland’s harsh weather. Contaminated ice and debris are buried at the Savannah River plant in South Carolina. Bomb fragments are recycled by Pantex, in Amarillo, Texas. The incident causes outrage and protests in Denmark. USAF Strategic Air Command Chrome Dome operations are discontinued immediately after the accident, which highlights the safety and political risks of the missions. Safety procedures are reviewed and more stable explosives are developed for use in nuclear weapons. A BBC News report in 2008 seems to confirm through declassified documents and interviews with those involved that one nuclear bomb was lost. However, the Danish Institute for International Studies concludes in August 2009 that there is no missing bomb and that the US underwater operation was a search for the uranium-235 of the fissile core of a secondary, a small object one half meter long. For the first time, the report is able to present an estimate of the amount of plutonium contained in the pits of the primaries. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%5FThule%5FAir%5FBase%5FB-52%5Fcrash)”; Wikipedia, “[Operation Chrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FChrome%5FDome) [Dome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FChrome%5FDome)” Source ID: Eberhart_4498 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14045 (80CD2F1E) Date: 1/22/1968 Description: In response to a question by MP [Teddy Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy%5FTaylor), UKSecretary of State for Defence [Merlyn Rees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlyn%5FRees) writes that the total number of reports for 1967 “reflects a wave of public interest in UFOs, reaching a peak toward the end of the year,” and that unexplained sightings \(only 46 out of 362\) are due to lack of sufficient information. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 66](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/66/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4499 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14046 (B1A1D732) Date: 1/23/1968 Description: At 10:00 p.m., five miles from White Rocks, Utah, a woman named Chapman spotted a blue half dome-shaped object that moved slowly, then changed color to red and moved away very fast! It then maneuvered over the Uintah Mountains. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. A-59 Source ID: Johnson_446 Source: Johnson ### Event 14047 (38A30A80) Date: 1/23/1968 Description: A college yearbook photo editor from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario took 12 photos with a 35mm camera using tri-X film with five other witnesses at 7:15 p.m. The images showed a slightly off-centered, luminous domed disc-shaped object. Another photograph of a luminous UFO was taken by a married couple, Mr. & Mrs. Wood, in Old Haversham, Northamptonshire, England at 5:25 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Spring 1968, p. 7, citing Sudbury Star, January 24, 1968; (2) David Abbott, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_445 Source: Johnson ### Event 14048 (29360C3E) Date: 1/23/1968 Description: At 12:45 a.m. a luminous object landed in Copahue, Neuquen province, Argentina and stayed on the ground for four hours. It was watched by several witnesses who were too afraid to approach. It finally rose vertically, and left behind a large burnt area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1973, p. 14; APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 7; Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1968 Source ID: Johnson_444 Source: Johnson ### Event 14049 (27003576) Date: 1/24/1968 Description: John Everhart was driving home in Indiana, Pennsylvania at 3:30 p.m. when he saw a round, saucer-shaped object with a dull aluminum finish hovering over a pond some 100-200 feet away. Its top section was transparent, and he could see two men, normal in every appearance, wearing light gray coveralls inside. He could also see levers and little lights as might appear on a computer. Under hypnosis he remembered "hearing" them talk, perhaps telepathically. They were engaged in fixing something and hurried when they saw him watching them. In a subsequent hypnotic session he recalled being led into the UFO by a slender man in black. Inside were four seats on pedestals, and the light inside the craft was so bright that it hurt his eyes. He was sent by elevator into the room where the repairs were going on. The men spoke to each other in English. He was instructed to sit in a chair that rendered him immobile. There was a time lapse in his memory of several hours between his leaving work and his returning home. This case is apparently an early abduction report describing apparently normal human-looking abductors. No further hypnotic regression sessions were attempted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-12 (A0912), citing William Weitzel; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, April 1969, p. 22; Brad Steiger, Saga UFO Report, October 1976, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_483 Source: Johnson ### Event 14050 (6DAC5EA8) Date: 1/24/1968 Description: At around 3:00 a.m. two men watched from the shore at Henley Beach, South Australia as a yellow shaft of light shot down from a UFO in the dark night sky. The shaft of light was about four inches wide and lighter in color than its yellow source. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 180 Source ID: Johnson_482 Source: Johnson ### Event 14051 (DEEADEFF) Date: 1/24/1968 Description: 10:15 p.m. Two orange, glowing saturn-shaped UFO. Motor sound. Twenty minutes. Approaching from distance, objects hovered over woods across road, then one seemed to land while other moved over house. Three women terrified and got bibles and prayed. No landing indications in frozen ground. (Browning) (Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fayette County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3910 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14052 (51982F37) Date: 1/24/1968 Description: At 10:20 p.m. two Saturn-shaped objects were sighted over some woods in Fayette County, Indiana. One of the objects landed, while the other passed over a house, making a motor sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_484 Source: Johnson ### Event 14053 (992FDA1E) Date: 1/24/1968 Description: Numerous witnesses reported seeing a huge glow in the sky that flew over Concepcion del Uruguay, Entre Rios, Argentina to the southeast. This was followed by a huge power blackout at 11:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_485 Source: Johnson ### Event 14054 (3E880C2D) Date: 1/25/1968 Description: At eleven o'clock at night, Dr. Axel Aberg Cobo, a Professor of Human Relations and Journalism, was walking along the beach in the town of Torres, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil when a silver colored, luminous object emerged from the ocean only 25 yards away from him. He felt as though he was paralyzed. Shortly, two men over six feet tall, "who looked as though they were made of crystal," walked up to him stiffly, without bending their knees. He felt as if they were communicating with him telepathically. They greeted him by touching shoulders, and one of the beings, which had introduced himself as "Rubinako," said to him, "Krebs, Navis, Karsicujo and Krero." Only partially paralyzed, Cobo noted these words, writing them down with a ballpoint pen on his bare arms. They next told him they would meet him again in Mar Del Plata, Argentina. He had a vague recollection that the craft took off vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1968; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 29 Source ID: Johnson_509 Source: Johnson ### Event 14055 (EA44CD5B) Date: 1/26/1968 Description: Two men in River Bann, Derryvore, Ireland saw a disc land in a field. Several entities emerged and placed probes into the hides of several paralyzed cows in the field. The UFO then took off and showered a fog-like substance that caused a tingling sensation, and the UFO then disappeared into a cloud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs Source ID: Johnson_524 Source: Johnson ### Event 14056 (814F9326) Date: 1/26/1968 Description: A-12 pilot [Jack Weeks](http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/weeks.html) is dispatched from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, on a sortie to locate the [USS Pueblo,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FPueblo%5F%28AGER-2%29) which has been captured by North Korean forces on January 23. His photographs pinpoint the Pueblo’s exact location in the harbor of Changjahwan Bay near Wonsan, North Korea. Instead of war plans, the US proceeds with negotiations for the return of the crew. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 271–274](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/270/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4500 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14057 (0422F51A) Date: 1/28/1968 Description: On this evening over Keats Island, British Columbia in 1968, a dark UFO with red and yellow lights at both ends was seen weaving from side to side. It stopped in place two or three times, and when it did the lights dimmed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_554 Source: Johnson ### Event 14058 (5071ADE9) Date: 1/29/1968 Description: A woman living alone in an isolated cabin on Keats Island, British Columbia had for several days witnessed mysterious lights and unknown objects maneuvering over some nearby hills and a nearby lake. On this afternoon two men dressed in neatly pressed, apparently new dark coveralls, and claiming to be from the public water company, visited her. The men acted nervous and seemed surprised that she lived there alone. They finally left disappearing down a nearby footpath. They seemed to have no obvious means for getting on or off the island, and she completely disbelieved their story that they were from the public utility. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Guttilla, Saga UFO Report, Summer 1974; John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, p. 44; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #1079, citing Peter Guttilla, Saga UFO Report, July 1974 Source ID: Johnson_576 Source: Johnson ### Event 14059 (8252160C) Date: 1/30/1968 Description: At two o'clock in the morning a security guard in Cinco Picos, The Azores experienced radio interference, then had a close encounter with a saucer-shaped object and two humanoids. The guard shined his flashlight at the disc; he was gassed and fainted; this was followed by 10 minutes of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8073; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 93 Source ID: Johnson_606 Source: Johnson ### Event 14060 (2133F896) Date: 1/30/1968 Description: At 11:30 p.m. in Torres, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil a luminous object rose from the sea and descended onto the beach. Next, three stiff-walking figures appeared. There was also telepathy reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8182, citing Charles Garreau, Soucoupes Volantes, Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes, p. 141; GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1968 Source ID: Johnson_607 Source: Johnson ### Event 14061 (A3C8F3CE) Date: 1/31/1968 Description: Morning. At Lajes Air Base on Terceira in the Azores, a Portuguese military watchman, Serafim Vieira Sebastião, notices a strange interference on his transistor radio. Looking around, he sees an oval metallic object surmounted by a transparent tower on top of which is a small balustrade on which two beings are leaning. The silhouettes of two more beings are visible in the tower. The object is hovering above a munitions dump. Serafim phones one of the other sentries then shines his flashlight on the machine. As he does so, the men on the tower see him. The object emits a cloud of gaseous dust that overpowers him. When his colleague finds him a few minutes later, the object has vanished. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[OVNI com quatro seres ataca guarda açoriano,](https://www.angelfire.com/space2/insolito/terceira.htm)” Insólito, no. 13 \(June 1976\); Nuno Alves, “[O Caso Ilha Terceira \(31 de Janeiro de 1968\) Serafim Vieira Sebastião,](https://ufoportugal.blogspot.com/2017/10/o-caso-ilha-terceira-31-de-janeiro-de.html)” UFO Portugal, October 28, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_4502 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14062 (C1C16DB0) Date: 1/31/1968 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) sends [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) a 7-page, single-spaced letter, citing [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)’s negative statements, his preoccupation with crackpot elements, Condon’s failure to conduct any investigations himself, the lack of communication between Low and Condon and the active investigators, and the failure of the project to take seriously any assertions of cover-up. He mentions Low’s memorandum, saying “I am rather puzzled by the viewpoints expressed there.” He concludes: “I am not opposed to negative findings—on UFOs or other scientific questions; what bothers me is that it appears that these negative findings were being adumbrated as early as January 1966, and perhaps even earlier.” He sends a copy to the project’s open files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 185–187 Source ID: Eberhart_4501 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14063 (F3AB21CA) Date: 2/1968 Description: [Felix Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel) Soviet cosmologist and assistant professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia, writes an article on UFOs for Soviet Life with reports supplied by Novosti. He mentions four UFO reports and concludes that they could be extraterrestrial in origin. He thinks the 1908 Tunguska event is a remarkable UFO case and reveals that the USSR established a “UFO Section of the All-Union Cosmonautics Committee” in October 1967. Ziegel soon afterwards receives a letter from [Edward Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon), the director of the University of Colorado UFO Project, suggesting that the Soviet and the American groups should cooperate, starting with an information exchange. Ziegel and 12 other members of his group sign a letter requesting the Soviet government to create a state-sponsored organization that would coordinate all the UFO research in the country. Next month he receives an official negative response. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Felix Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel)”; Felix Ziegel, “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210023618901&view=1up&seq=103&skin=2021)” Soviet Life, no. 137 \(February 1968\): 27–29; Central Intelligence Agency, “[Nothing But the Facts on UFOs, or Which](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000015452.pdf) [Novosti](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000015452.pdf) [Writer Do You Read?](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000015452.pdf)” April 9, 1968 Source ID: Eberhart_4504 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14064 (73513F4A) Date: 2/1968 Description: Canada’s National Research Council agrees to become the official government archive for existing and future UFO reports. The files are kept in an office of the Council’s Upper Atmosphere Section \(Astrophysics Branch\) in Ottawa, Ontario. But the NRC does not investigate reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 192](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/192/mode/2up); Gregory M. Kanon, “[UFOs and](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%203%20no%207%20-%201976.pdf) [the Canadian Government,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%203%20no%207%20-%201976.pdf)” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 7 \(Spring 1976\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_4503 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14065 (B6D2305C) Date: 2/1/1968 Description: Serafim Vieira Sebastiao, a watchman at the Azores Air Station, saw "an oval object with a metallic gleam, topped by a glass tower with a small balustrade on which two beings were standing." (Magonia #904; FSR 68, 5) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Criacao do Cabrito, Azores Source ID: NICAP_DB_3911 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14066 (8AD6EDD3) Date: 2/1/1968 Description: At 8:15 p.m. two men six miles west of Vernal, Utah named Allred and Barton saw a reddish orange ball of light that was much larger than the biggest star. It moved rapidly, blinked on-off, and disappeared in the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 60 Source ID: Johnson_655 Source: Johnson ### Event 14067 (D587B10A) Date: 2/1/1968 Description: On this night a sentry at Cinco Picos AFB on the Azores Islands, Sr. Serafin Viera Sebastiao, age 36, noticed interference on his transistor radio then saw a UFO so close to the ground that he could see four occupants. The metallic oval object was topped by a transparent "tower" with a small balustrade against which two of the beings were leaning. The other two could be seen as silhouettes inside the transparent tower. After telephoning another sentry he approached and shone his flashlight on the craft. He was enveloped in smoke emitted by the UFO and fell to the ground in a faint, where the other sentry found him a few minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, July-August 1968, p. 34; FSR, September-October 1968, p. 36; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 904; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-14, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_654 Source: Johnson ### Event 14068 (4A3AF90F) Date: 2/1/1968 Description: Serafim Vieira Sebastiao, a watchman at the Azores Air Station, saw "an oval object with a metallic gleam, topped by a glass tower with a small balustrade on which two beings were standing." There were two other figures inside the tower. When he shone a light toward it, a cloud of dust surrounded the witness, the craft vanished, and he fainted. Investigation by American military authorities. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Criacao do Cabrito, Azores Source ID: Magnonia_904 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14069 (FB5208D9) Date: 2/2/1968 Description: On this night Serafin Vieria Sebastiao, a military sentry at Criaco do Cabrito on the Azores Islands noticed interference on his transistor radio and then saw a UFO so close to the ground that he could see four of its occupants. The UFO was oval shaped and metallic, and was topped by a transparent "tower" with a small balustrade. Two beings were leaning against the railing, the other two could be seen as silhouettes inside the transparent tower. After phoning another sentry he approached the craft and shone his flashlight on it. Immediately he was enveloped in a fog or smoke emitted by the UFO, and he fell to the ground in a faint. The second sentry found him a few minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-14, citing FSR, July-August 1968; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 37 Source ID: Johnson_667 Source: Johnson ### Event 14070 (605425AF) Date: 2/4/1968 Description: Barking dogs, unusual sound, attracted attention to round object with ports, flames from underside. Object moved jerkily, rising and falling, hovered briefly, sped away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Redlands, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_154 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14071 (BF030B93) Date: 2/4/1968 Description: 7:20 p.m. About 200 residents of Redlands, California, see or hear a huge, low-flying, disc-shaped object as it passes overhead. The UFO is about 50 feet in diameter, with seven lights on its base emitting bright orange flame. Some 8–10 other lights on its rim alternate red and green, giving the impression that the object is rotating. A minister recording his sermon captures a high-pitched, modulated, whining sound from the UFO on tape. The UFO apparently descends just west of Columbia Street and north of Colton Avenue, then proceeds to the northwest for about a mile at an altitude of 300 feet. Coming to a stop, it hovers briefly, jerks forward, hovers again, then shoots straight up in a burst of speed. The object is not detected on radar at Norton AFB \[now closed\] near San Bernardino or March AFB \[now March Air Reserve Base\] in Riverside County. An investigation is conducted for APRO by four University of Redlands faculty: [Philip Seff](http://rickright.com/dr-philip-seff-october-5-1923-february-18-2016/) \(geology\), Judson Sanderson \(math\), Reinhold Krantz \(math\), and [John Brownfield](https://www.redlandscommunitynews.com/obituaries/update-longtime-u-of-r-art-professor-dies-at-79/article%5F735624c4-a68d-11ea-942e-bb4010124e0a.html) \(art\). They conclude that the object is not attributable to any known phenomenon or aircraft, but that the recorded sound comes from an emergency vehicle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 327; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#multiwit)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 52–53; Story, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/298/mode/2up) [299–300](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/298/mode/2up); William F. Krupke, “[Sonic Analysis of the Redlands UFO Tape Recording,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/30/jse%5F30%5F2%5FKrupke.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 30, no. 2 \(2016\): 175–198 Source ID: Eberhart_4505 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14072 (2D555059) Date: 2/4/1968 Description: Barking dog alerts to slow moving round object at 300 feet (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [680204](http://www.nicap.org/ar-680204dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Redlands, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3913 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14073 (54B78F75) Date: 2/4/1968 Description: 200 witnesses see low-flying disc - 50-60 ft circular obj with 7 lights on the bottom, 8-10 lights on top (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [680204](http://www.nicap.org/ar-680204dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Redlands, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3912 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14074 (9945A221) Date: 2/5/1968 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)’s letter arrives in Boulder, Colorado. [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) is out of town and the staff read it first. Low does not see it until 4:00 p.m. the following day when Mary Lou Armstrong shows it to him. He explodes, saying whoever gave the memo to McDonald should be fired. [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) is also furious. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 188 Source ID: Eberhart_4506 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14075 (C055DA05) Date: 2/5/1968 Description: Nicholas Rinaldi, age 38, a commercial artist, observed a large cigar-shaped object at low level in rural Cromwell, Connecticut at 8:25 p.m. He tried to approach it in his car but it flew away. This was his third low-level sighting of a dark cigar-shaped UFO since his first spectacular close encounter on January 24, 1967 with 19 other separate witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald A. Johnson, on-site investigation Source ID: Johnson_701 Source: Johnson ### Event 14076 (0C7C38DE) Date: 2/7/1968 Description: [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) summons [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) to [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)’s office, asking him if he knew [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) had a copy of the memo. Saunders said yes, and didn’t think he needed to alert anyone, since McDonald is a friend of the project. Condon says, “For an act like that, you deserve to be ruined professionally!” Saunders avoids admitting he was responsible \(indirectly\) for McDonald’s having the memo. When Norm Levine arrives, Saunders is ordered to leave. Levine tells him the memo’s release is a group effort. Condon tells Levine not to discuss this meeting or communicate further with McDonald. Levine says he can’t do that, Condon tells him he is no longer useful, and Levine walks out. Condon and Low meet with other staff members the rest of the day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 188–192 Source ID: Eberhart_4507 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14077 (BA12BDCD) Date: 2/8/1968 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) and [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) meet with [Thurston Manning](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/thurston-manning-obituary?pid=171867180) and Stuart W. Cook from the University of Colorado’s Psychology Department. Condon tells Mary Lou Armstrong that [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) and Norm Levine will be fired. Low types the letters himself and Condon signs them. Condon also writes a letter to [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) asking him to provide 10– 15 of the best cases from his files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 192–193; Center for UFO Studies, \[[Hynek correspondence](http://cufos.org/cases/1965-69%5F00%5F00%5FUS%5FIL%5FHynek-AF-letters.pdf)\], p. 10 Source ID: Eberhart_4508 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14078 (0FFF5EEE) Date: 2/9/1968 Time: 4:20 AM Description: Witness: Mr. R.W. Bland. One object, 100' in diameter, with concave sides having "portholes" in the center of each gave off yellow-green light. Hovered 25' above ground, then moved rapidly toward the southwest. Gave off pulsating sound, like a length of wire whirled at high speed above the head. Sighting lasted 1-5 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Groveton, Missouri Source ID: BerlinerBBU_580 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 14079 (F3623311) Date: 2/9/1968 Description: 100 ft circular obj hover 20-25 ft above ground sends cattle running toward barns (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, BB: 12235) Reference: NICAP: [680209](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-680209.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Groveton, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_3914 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14080 (D6AF1A7E) Date: 2/9/1968 Description: Dr. David Saunders and Dr. Norman Levine, members of Air Force-sponsored Colorado UFO project, fired by Dr. E. U. Condon for alleged "incompetence" in controversy over project management Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_155 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14081 (521F4951) Date: 2/9/1968 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) and [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) meet with [Craig](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html), who admits knowing about the memo and says he was concerned about it. He leaves the meeting “deeply concerned” about the project’s viability. Roger Harkins writes up the events at the project for the Boulder Daily Camera; when he interviews Condon, he realizes that Condon “honestly didn’t know anything about that memo until a couple of days ago.” Condon admits, in contrast to his statements earlier, that [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) and Levine were fired for insubordination, not incompetence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 194–195 Source ID: Eberhart_4509 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14082 (2CDFC7F1) Date: 2/11/1968 Description: An oval, domed object passed low over a car at the edge of a pond in Johnston, Rhode Island at 7:00 p.m. It had pulsating white and pinkish-red lights around the rim, making it look like a flashing theater marquee. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 351 Source ID: Johnson_825 Source: Johnson ### Event 14083 (6BEE9738) Date: 2/12/1968 Description: On this night a large round object was seen close to the ground in Farm Creek, Utah in Uintah County by a woman named Christiansen. It changed color from green to red, performed a number of maneuvers, and left rapidly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 61 Source ID: Johnson_867 Source: Johnson ### Event 14084 (21D13C4F) Date: 2/13/1968 Description: Luminous elliptical object followed car for 30 minutes, moved back and forth across road, made sharp turns and unusual maneuvers, suddenly disappeared Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Missoula, MT Source ID: HallUFOE2_156 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14085 (7CDA119B) Date: 2/13/1968 Description: Luminous elliptical object followed car for 30 minutes, moved back and forth across road, made sharp turns and unusual maneuvers, suddenly disappeared (Section IV, Vol. II, The UFO Evidence). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Missoula, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3915 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14086 (2A0E4027) Date: 2/13/1968 Description: At 4:00 a.m. Robert Union, a former FAA air traffic controller, and his wife sighted a glowing white elliptical object that paced their car for 30 minutes. It crossed back and forth across the road at an altitude of 2,000 to 5,000 feet near Missoula, Montana, maneuvering and making sharp turns before it finally vanished abruptly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case files, report dated February 13, 1968; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 153 & 161 Source ID: Johnson_897 Source: Johnson ### Event 14087 (7D331F26) Date: 2/14/1968 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) replies to [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) saying that he will send him some of his best cases over the next few weeks, but requests that in return they be given a “thorough investigation.” He even offers to go to Wright-Patterson AFB and send him copies of good Blue Book cases, since [Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) has scrupulously been sending him copies of only those he asks for. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[Hynek correspondence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla)\], pp. 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_4510 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14088 (F864B84F) Date: 2/14/1968 Description: [F. Robert Naka](https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher%5Feducation/engineering-building-west-renamed-after-renowned-scientist/article%5F5fcca5c6-7c3a-11e6-90a7-1fb315e71c50.html)[,](https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher%5Feducation/engineering-building-west-renamed-after-renowned-scientist/article%5F5fcca5c6-7c3a-11e6-90a7-1fb315e71c50.html) USAF chief reconnaissance scientist at MITRE Corporation, tells [Robert Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) that, contrary to what NORAD had briefed him on in 1967, NORAD radars can and do track UFOs “coming in from outer space.” He does not deny that NORAD has already tracked such objects on occasion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 804 Source ID: Eberhart_4511 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14089 (FC3F49BB) Date: 2/16/1968 Description: Novosti Science Commentator Villen Lyustiberg writes “Flying Saucers? They’re a Myth” in the newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets. Novosti releases an English translation on March 12. It explains US reports as either misobservations or misreporting by the media. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[Nothing But the Facts on](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000015452.pdf) [UFOs, or Which](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000015452.pdf) [Novosti](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000015452.pdf) [Writer Do You Read?](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000015452.pdf)” April 9, 1968 Source ID: Eberhart_4512 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14090 (7134C7E8) Date: 2/18/1968 Description: 12:00 midnight. Teenagers Richard Frombach, Boone Powers, and Chris Beachner are parked next to a pond in a gravel pit near Vashon, Washington, when they notice a glowing oval object resting on a hill to the east. They drive into town to pick up an additional witness, Joseph Frabush, and return to the area, park on the main road, and walk into the pond area. The object has moved to the east. Frabush thinks it is metallic and about 30 feet long. They drive back into town for more witnesses, but when they return the light is gone and the 100-foot pond is completely frozen over. Temperatures in the area have been above freezing for several days. Small puddles and mud patches surrounding the pond are not frozen at all. The pond ice is dry, even though it has been raining all night. Investigators find that the ice is 3 inches thick in some spots, composed of 2–5 layers, and riddled with bubbles filled with air and dirt. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Strange Case of the Frozen Pond,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1968, pp. 1–3 Source ID: Eberhart_4513 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14091 (99EDF8E8) Date: 2/19/1968 Description: Mrs. Martha Heggs of Bengough, Saskatchewan, Canada had a close encounter with a metallic disc-shaped object with large windows around the domed top. It circled around her farm making a high-pitched sound. Her dog cowered in the snow, and the cattle bolted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 12. 280, & 375 Source ID: Johnson_999 Source: Johnson ### Event 14092 (982FA14F) Date: 2/19/1968 Description: 11:55 a.m. Martha Heggs is in her farmhouse kitchen about 10 miles west of Bengough, Saskatchewan. She hears a high-pitched whine that has such a penetrating intensity it is similar to a mild electric shock, causing a tingling sensation throughout her body. Looking out, she sees an object 300 feet away circling around a pole with an electric transformer on it. The object is shaped like two saucers edge-to-edge, surmounted by a dome with 6–7 ports, rounded at the top and extending straight down to the base of the dome. These ports are indented and white in color, resembling frosted glass. The saucers are about 8 feet wide and the dome about 4 feet wide. The body of the object looks like dull aluminum. There is a smaller, vented structure on top of the dome and an antenna on top of that. When the object first appears, a dog is seen cowering and lying in the snow, trying to cover its ears with its paws. Sixteen head of cattle, loose in the farmyard, bolt when the object moves into the area. They enter the cattle sheds and do not emerge until at least 30 minutes after the object disappears. The object moves about the farmyard, sometimes hovering, its altitude ranging from 3 feet to 20 feet. After 20 minutes, still 9–12 feet above the ground, the object leaves the farm through a windbreak and moves north until lost to view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., UFOs: A New Look, NICAP, 1969, Section IV, [pp. 11–12](http://www.nicap.org/newlook/section%5FIV.htm) Source ID: Eberhart_4514 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14093 (EFF51C68) Date: 2/19/1968 Description: Witness felt "tingling sensations", domed disc with ports maneuvered around farm, emitting high-pitched whine. Dog cowered in snow, tattle bolted Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Bengough, Saskatchewan, Canada Source ID: HallUFOE2_157 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14094 (BCB17B21) Date: 2/19/1968 Description: Dog and cattle fearful of slow moving domed disc (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [680219](http://www.nicap.org/bengoughdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Behgough, Saskatchewan, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3916 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14095 (0A03CA0A) Date: 2/20/1968 Description: The US Embassy in Moscow sends an unclassified airgram to the US Department of State drawing attention to [Felix Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel)’s article in the February 1968 issue of Soviet Life, which refers to the Soviet UFO Study Group and concludes that international cooperation in studying UFOs is vital. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Felix Ziegel, “[Unidentified Flying](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210023618901&view=1up&seq=103&skin=2021) [Objects,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210023618901&view=1up&seq=103&skin=2021)” Soviet Life, no. 137 \(February 1968\): 27–29; Good Above, [pp. 235](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/234/mode/2up), [473–474](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/472/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4515 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14096 (90B13F41) Date: 2/21/1968 Description: 12:12 a.m. Ms. Cecilia Brewer and five companions were driving home from work between Barkhamsted and Winsted and heading west when their car's engine started to miss and they encountered a silvery domed disc-shaped UFO on the left side of the highway in a forest clearing. (Source: Donald A. Johnson, Flying Saucer Observer, citing Lawrence Fawcett, APRO field investigator). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [680221](http://www.nicap.org/winstead680221dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winsted, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3917 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14097 (4155CBD5) Date: 2/21/1968 Description: At dusk a woman living in a cabin near the coast on Keats Island, British Columbia saw a single object maneuvering 60 feet above the ocean. It had frosted yellow side lights with a bright red light in the middle, and it slid back and forth across sky as if on rail. Then a "big boat" lit up on the water's surface, and shot six amber 4-foot-wide balls of light up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, p. 45 Source ID: Johnson_1037 Source: Johnson ### Event 14098 (16B129D0) Date: 2/21/1968 Description: At eleven o'clock that night Miss Amato, a 12-year-old girl, heard a "bloop-bloop" noise outside her bedroom window and looked out her window at the abandoned Winsted, Connecticut railroad station behind her family's house. She saw a white egg-shaped UFO, a little larger than a station wagon, hovering close to the ground beside the building and railroad tracks. A short beam of light came out of the craft, pointed downward at an angle like a ramp, and 15-20 little men about three feet tall walked down the light beam in single file and jumped from the end of the beam to the ground. They were dressed in dull silver coveralls and wore fishbowl-type helmets. They proceeded to climb up the side of the station, one after another, with a hand over hand movement as if they were swimming or had suction cups on their hands. When they reached the roof, they spread out in different directions and appeared to be interested in looking down inside the building through a skylight. The girl became frightened at this point and went to bed, covering her head with the bedcovers. The building was being used as a storage site for ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald A. Johnson, Flying Saucer Observer, May 1968, citing Larry Fawcett, APRO field investigator; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-17; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 38, citing Larry Fawcett Source ID: Johnson_1036 Source: Johnson ### Event 14099 (82CF18C6) Date: 2/21/1968 Description: On this night at 12:12 a.m. Ms. Cecilia Brewer and five companions were driving home from work between Barkhamsted and Winsted, Connecticut and heading west when their car's engine started to miss and they encountered a silvery domed disc-shaped UFO on the left side of the highway in a forest clearing. The object was at a distance of about 150 feet, and had a cone of white light coming from the bottom of the object. It also had a green lit, rectangular window in the dome. They stopped to watch the UFO before it flew away, the total duration of their close encounter being around 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald A. Johnson, Flying Saucer Observer, citing Lawrence Fawcett, APRO field investigator Source ID: Johnson_1035 Source: Johnson ### Event 14100 (1FC29E3F) Date: 2/22/1968 Description: Mary Lou Armstrong tells [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) that the staff has no confidence in [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) as project coordinator, that Low has no interest in UFO sightings or reports, and that the staff has come to a radically different conclusion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 199 Source ID: Eberhart_4516 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14101 (3C2FAEA5) Date: 2/22/1968 Description: UNCLASSIFIED AIR GRAM, U.S. Dept. of the State regarding UFOs in the Soviet Union: Feb. 1968, Soviet Life published three pages pertinent to UFOs, by Felix Zigel. He also published a UFO article in 1966. Until recently no study of UFOs had been made in the Soviet Union. Type: unclassified air gram Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p473) Location: Soviet Union See also: 1/19/68 Source ID: Maj2_654 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14102 (6327D47D) Date: 2/23/1968 Description: Several independent witnesses, including two named Hendrickson and Sinclair, watched a nocturnal UFO engage in zigzag maneuvers over the suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia at 8:30 p.m. There was also a high pitched sound associated with the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 181 Source ID: Johnson_1065 Source: Johnson ### Event 14103 (EC0C7A1B) Date: 2/23/1968 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) writes another letter to [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon), saying that he has reconsidered his decision to send him his best cases, as he thinks the Colorado project will be unable to investigate them adequately before its contractual period is up. He does send him a catalog of recent Blue Book cases and offers to help him obtain from Wright-Patterson any of the unidentified or insufficient evidence cases that he wants to see. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[Hynek](http://cufos.org/cases/1965-69%5F00%5F00%5FUS%5FIL%5FHynek-AF-letters.pdf) [correspondence](http://cufos.org/cases/1965-69%5F00%5F00%5FUS%5FIL%5FHynek-AF-letters.pdf)\], pp. 14–17 Source ID: Eberhart_4517 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14104 (3CE6232E) Date: 2/24/1968 Description: Armstrong resigns from the Colorado project, citing an “almost unanimous lack of confidence” among senior staffers in [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf)’s competence. She also complains that Low has been less than honest about the radical difference between staff views of UFOs and the views Low and [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) are expressing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \(J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 239–241](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/238/mode/2up), [274–282](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/274/mode/2up); Clark III 698, 1197\). Source ID: Eberhart_4518 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14105 (E7AE03AF) Date: 2/24/1968 Description: Two men in Westhill, Pennsylvania reported sighting an oval shaped UFO with a finlike rear projection on this night. It had red body lights that dimmed when an airplane flew past. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May-June 1968, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 153 Source ID: Johnson_1081 Source: Johnson ### Event 14106 (B10F796C) Date: 2/26/1968 Description: A huge, hairy creature was seen drinking from a pond in Curbarsi, Barcelona province, Spain during the daytime. Upon discovery by the owners of the property the creature fled. It matched the description by a passing motorist of a large hairy biped seen crossing the road several days earlier in Hostalrich. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing FSR, July-August 1968; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 40 Source ID: Johnson_1135 Source: Johnson ### Event 14107 (49E2187A) Date: 2/26/1968 Description: An unidentified man in Phoenix, Arizona was awakened at one a.m. by a sharp knock on his door. "I saw a man standing in my room at some distance...wearing dark clothing...I couldn't see his face...he was slender and not tall, perhaps five feet nine. He changed position a few times...and then he was gone." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing John A. Keel, Strange Creatures from Time and Space; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 39 Source ID: Johnson_1134 Source: Johnson ### Event 14108 (15BBF004) Date: 2/27/1968 Description: 4:30 a.m. A brilliant flood of light from her window abruptly awakens a woman named Bernor in Templeton, Massachusetts. She becomes paralyzed, her face is immobile, and her hands and feet ache. The light goes on and off about 7–8 times, ending around 5:00 a.m. She slowly recovers over the next few days. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_4519 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14109 (54BA9C69) Date: 2/27/1968 Description: 6:55 p.m. Truck driver Andrew Perry is driving from Bideford to Cullompton, Devon, England, when he sees a bright light appear at the crest of a hill. As he gets closer, he sees the light is coming from a mushroom- shaped object. As he reaches about 900 feet away from the object, he stops the truck and climbs to the top of the cab to get a better view. He sees about 4–5 figures about 4 feet tall spread out around the object. Suddenly they scramble toward the UFO and disappear inside. The object emits a high-pitched whirring sound that causes his truck to vibrate. Perry gets upset and climbs back into the truck, driving it fast down the road. Meanwhile, the UFO has risen about 200 feet into the air and is passing above his truck, making a noise so loud he can’t hear the engine running. Suddenly the truck engine cuts out. A few seconds later, the noise stops and Perry sees the UFO moving away in the distance. He drives to the nearest police station to report the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 126–](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n205/mode/2up) [127](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n205/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4520 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14110 (B37D4026) Date: 2/28/1968 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) has a slight heart attack. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[Hynek correspondence](http://cufos.org/cases/1965-69%5F00%5F00%5FUS%5FIL%5FHynek-AF-letters.pdf)\], p. 19 Source ID: Eberhart_4521 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14111 (C02B3461) Date: 2/29/1968 Description: There was a daylight disc sighting in Malvern, Arkansas by six witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 378, citing Skylook, February 1968, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_1189 Source: Johnson ### Event 14112 (819AA686) Date: 2/29/1968 Description: Chairman of the Soviet Astronomical Services [Evald Rudolfovich Mustel](https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Evald%2BRudolfovich%2BMustel)[,](https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Evald%2BRudolfovich%2BMustel) president of the All-Union Astronomical and Geodetic Society D. Marynov, and Secretary of the National Committee of Soviet Physicists V. A. Leshkovtsev write an article in Pravda claiming that there have been no unexplainable sightings of UFOs on Russian soil. UFOs are “anti-Soviet products of decadent capitalistic warmongering.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 235–236](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/234/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4522 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14113 (DC1BF01A) Date: 2/29/1968 Description: On this night in Pulham Market, Norfolk County, England a tall luminous shape or figure glided from an entrance in a nearby hedge; it traveled slowly along the road and then disappeared. There was a single witness, named Webb. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 186 Source ID: Johnson_1190 Source: Johnson ### Event 14114 (245BA3FE) Date: 3/1968 Description: Alleged crash/retrieval on the web, and earlier shown on the History Channel. Shows footage of the alleged crashed UFO near Berezovsky (Sverdlovsk region) in 1968 and related alleged KGB documents. (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [680300](http://www.aliensthetruth.com/UFO.php?ID=5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Berezovsky (near), Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_3918 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14115 (5217D878) Date: 3/1968 Description: Swiss author [Erich von Däniken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich%5Fvon%5FD%C3%A4niken) writes Erinnerungen an die Zukunft, translated into English as Chariots of the Gods?, the first of several books setting out the “ancient astronaut” hypothesis in which ancient gods are space visitors, Homo sapiens was created by cross-breeding or genetic engineering, nuclear wars were fought in the ancient world, and monuments were built by levitation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Erich von Däniken, [Chariots of the Gods?](https://archive.org/details/chariotsofgodsun00dnrich) Bantam, 1973; Wikipedia, “[Chariots of the Gods?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGods%3F)”; Clark III 110; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 29–30 Source ID: Eberhart_4524 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14116 (2834485F) Date: 3/1968 Description: EG&G technician [Thornton D. Barnes](http://area51specialprojects.com/barnes/area51.html) arrives in Area 51 in Nevada to reverse-engineer the Soviet MiG-21 acquired through defecting Iraqi fighter pilot [Munir Redfa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munir%5FRedfa). Soviet-built radar systems acquired in the Middle East are installed around Groom Lake \(to aid stealth testing of the SR-71\), and Barnes is also assigned to evaluate them as well as the ECM capabilities of the MiG. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 290–293](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/290/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4523 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14117 (A6EDF17F) Date: 3/1/1968 Description: An Over the Horizon Forward Scatter Radar System 440L/Program 673A is turned over to NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain facility in Colorado by Air Force Intelligence. It has been previously used to collect intelligence on Soviet missile launches since it was built in 1960–1962. It soon picks up unidentified radar returns. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 811 Source ID: Eberhart_4526 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14118 (CD51048A) Date: 3/1/1968 Description: Boulder, Colorado, police arrest Colorado project officer Jim Wadsworth for possession of marijuana. He pleads no contest and resigns. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 200 Source ID: Eberhart_4525 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14119 (864C9000) Date: 3/2/1968 Description: At noon two people took a photograph of a UFO in Neenah, Wisconsin. That same day three women in Randlett, Utah watched a round, shiny silver objects maneuvering in the sky through binoculars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allen Utke investigation files, case 47; Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A63 Source ID: Johnson_1251 Source: Johnson ### Event 14120 (82AB73D5) Date: 3/2/1968 Description: A huge saucer moved up and down in the sky over Kampung Kermat, Malaysia at three o'clock in the afternoon, flashing a bright light. It left a slight smoke trail visible and made a humming sound. It was visible for four minutes before it climbed into the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, July-August 1968, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_1250 Source: Johnson ### Event 14121 (22C081D7) Date: 3/2/1968 Description: A magnetic monitoring device with a film camera set up by the Queensland Flying Saucer Research Bureau at Horseshoe Lagoon, Tully, Queensland, is triggered around the time that an airliner flying at 6,000 feet from Cairns to Iron Range is paced by a UFO. About 50 feet of film is exposed. On March 4, another 16 feet is exposed during a local UFO sighting. The film is apparently intercepted by the RAAF after Victor Mele, the owner of the film, sends it to a Kodak processing facility in Melbourne, Victoria. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 170–172](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/170/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4527 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14122 (6D57754C) Date: 3/3/1968 Description: About 9:50 P.M. (CST). Hundreds of people reported fiery objects streaking across the sky, some showering sparks, leaving bright trails. Zond IV Soviet satellite reentry and decay (Sagan and Page, 1972, 155-161). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Northeastern and Central United States Source ID: HallUFOE2_158 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14123 (2D6553EC) Date: 3/3/1968 Description: 8:30 p.m. Several witnesses are traveling east on Knud Drive in Columbia, Tennessee, when they notice a large rectangular object approaching them silently from behind. When they stop the car, the object is directly overhead and moving east. It has hundreds of small, dimly lit points of light in 5–6 rows on its base. Witness Norman E. Bryant thinks it is 1,000 feet long, 250 feet wide, and flying at an altitude of 2,000 feet. It passes them in a matter of seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Out of the Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1983\): 4–6 Source ID: Eberhart_4528 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14124 (6191334A) Date: 3/3/1968 Description: About 9:50 P.M. (CST). Hundreds of people reported fiery objects streaking across the sky, some showering sparks, leaving bright trails. Zond IV Soviet satellite reentry and decay (Sagan and Page, 1972, 155-161). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Northeastern and Central United States, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_3920 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14125 (1DDF8FA9) Date: 3/3/1968 Description: A lawyer's home in Castelar, Argentina was flooded by a bright blue light at 12:45 a.m., and their TV set went blank. A thunderous roar like a jet aircraft flying close by was heard next, and a ball of light was seen shooting off at a dizzying speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_1275 Source: Johnson ### Event 14126 (89FC2421) Date: 3/3/1968 Time: 0615 Description: Nick Sgouris, while driving to work, observed a luminous, cigar-shaped object, about 20 m long, showing numerous multi-colored lights. The car almost stopped as the object flew low overhead, and the witness was briefly paralyzed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: APRG Bulletin 67 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Syracuse, New York Source ID: Magnonia_905 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14127 (D5D24DD3) Date: 3/4/1968 Description: Several close encounter reports were recorded for this date. A photograph of a UFO was taken in Tully, Queensland, Australia. At 2:00 a.m. a series of large luminous globes circled and swayed over the Ohio River for two hours near Ravenswood, West Virginia. At 6:00 p.m. a magnetic UFO detector went off when a UFO passed over in Carol Stream, Illinois. At 6:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object approached a car in West Seneca, New York from the left, then went over the road in front of the car. The object was 50-60 feet long with blinking lights.The witness tried to drive away but the car wouldn't respond to the accelerator. As the UFO came quite near, the witness could only see a bright yellow light. The driver of the car felt sluggish and immobilized until the UFO went away. The object disappeared instantly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) FSR, May 1969, p. 3; (2) John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 158; (3) NICAP investigation files; (4) APRO Bulletin, March-April 1968, p. 7; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 234, citing CUFOS files Source ID: Johnson_1295 Source: Johnson ### Event 14128 (FBEDCC44) Date: 3/4/1968 Description: In Lapoint, Utah a 20-foot in diameter round UFO was spotted on the ground at 7:30 p.m. The witness watched if for half an hour, when its light suddenly went out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case A65 Source ID: Johnson_1297 Source: Johnson ### Event 14129 (B85649E6) Date: 3/4/1968 Description: 6:15 p.m. A cigar-shaped object approaches a car in West Seneca, New York, and passes in front of it. The object is 50–60 feet long with blinking yellow lights. The witness tries to speed up, but the accelerator does not respond. The object disappears instantly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) CUFOS, 1981, p. 40 Source ID: Eberhart_4529 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14130 (8C489976) Date: 3/4/1968 Description: Cigar Flies Low Over Car / E-M (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [680304](http://www.nicap.org/680304syracuse%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Syracuse, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3921 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14131 (9F1BAA0A) Date: 3/4/1968 Description: 9:00 p.m. A man is driving his new Triumph Spitfire up a country lane near Glossop, Derbyshire, England, when two golden objects shoot over the top of his car, killing his headlights, radio, and engine. Moments after the objects pass to the north, the headlights come back on, but the radio still fails. He is able to restart his car engine after the lights come on. A BUFORA investigator takes the radio to his workplace at British Aerospace and finds that two key transistors have burned out, seemingly due to a power surge. Once the transistors are replaced, the radio works again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley, Part 4,” Fortean Times 328 \(July 2015\): 30 Source ID: Eberhart_4530 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14132 (17203365) Date: 3/4/1968 Description: At 8:15 p.m. two young men saw a UFO hover over a car ahead of them near Cochrane, Wisconsin. Its headlights suddenly went out. The object appeared metallic and glowed orange while standing still, but glowed redder and brighter when it was moving. The object then approached their car and their car's engine conked out. It hovered overhead for a moment, during which time the witnesses felt increased heat and "weightless." The object left over a nearby field, emitting a cloudy haze all around its periphery. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 235, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_1296 Source: Johnson ### Event 14133 (C3C26F11) Date: 3/4/1968 Description: Ricardo Castillo Trujillo, a janitor, saw a long, very bright UFO at 1:45 a.m. making a noise like an electric motor. It landed in an isolated section of Valparaiso, Chile and two crew members emerged. They were dressed in aluminum colored uniforms. Although he could tell they were light-skinned, he could not make out any facial details. Speaking in strange echo-like voices, they asked him about his nearsightedness, promising him that the condition would be cured. "I didn't understand them too good," he said, "but the fact is that I can see real good now, and without glasses." The humanoids promised to return for the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT, Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-19; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 45 Source ID: Johnson_1298 Source: Johnson ### Event 14134 (A2FD20FF) Date: 3/6/1968 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Amarillo, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3922 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14135 (2B620268) Date: 3/7/1968 Description: Time not given. CE, one witness (Robbin) No details. (SL-12) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Madison, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3923 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14136 (72638353) Date: 3/8/1968 Description: The first SR-71s arrive at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, to replace the Oxcart A-12s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FSR-71%5FBlackbird)” Source ID: Eberhart_4531 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14137 (F73F574F) Date: 3/10/1968 Description: At nine o'clock in the evening a dark oval shaped object with a searchlight in the front, wobbled and moved with motion of a boat moving over waves in the ocean. It passed over the local electric power substation in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and flew off following the power lines. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter N. Webb, case investigation files; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 351 Source ID: Johnson_1405 Source: Johnson ### Event 14138 (49F9DBC4) Date: 3/10/1968 Description: 6:00 p.m. Valentina Flores is bringing in her llamas on her farm between Opoco and Uyuni, Bolivia, when she discovers that her sheep pen is covered with a net made of some plastic-like material, and that inside the pen is a helmeted being, 3.5 ft tall, who is engaged in killing her sheep using a tubular instrument with a hook on the end. Flores throws stones at the being, whereupon he walks over to an instrument resembling a radio and, moving a wheel on it, quickly absorbs all the netting. The woman approaches the pen with a cudgel, upon which the being throws its instrument at her several times; it returns to him like a boomerang, after it inflicts superficial cuts on her arms. The entity picks up the machine, which has absorbed the net as well as a bag containing sheep entrails, and puts them into a rucksack on his back. Two legs emerge from the rucksack and extend down to the ground, at which time the entity rises straight up into the air with an extraordinary sound and vanishes. 34 sheep are found dead; from every one, “certain small portions of the digestive organs were missing.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Oscar A. Galíndez, “[Violent](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf) [Humanoid Encountered in Bolivia,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 15–16; Clark III 138–139; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1968-03-10-bolivia-otocopotosi.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1968-03-10-bolivia-otocopotosi.htm) November 9, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_4532 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14139 (35FB3D8E) Date: 3/12/1968 Description: [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) presents a paper, “UFOs: An International Scientific Problem,” at an astronautics symposium of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, analyzing in depth [Philip Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass)’s plasma theory of UFOs and rejecting it as “superficial.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “[UFOs: An International Scientific Problem,](http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald%5F031268.pdf)” March 12, 1968; Story, [p. 414](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/414/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4533 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14140 (81CAE13A) Date: 3/19/1968 Description: Time not given. CE-2, one witness (Wells). No details. (APROB-16) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beallsville, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3924 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14141 (F2924775) Date: 3/19/1968 Description: 8:30 p.m. 12-year-old Gregory L. Wells is walking toward the trailer home of his parents in Beallsville, Ohio, when he sees an oval-shaped, bright red object hovering above some nearby trees and illuminating the road. It has a band of dimmer red lights around its midsection. Suddenly a big tube emerges from the object and moves around until it is pointed at him. A light beam shoots out and hits the upper part of his arm, knocking him down. His jacket catches fire and he rolls around, screaming with fright. His mother and grandmother come out to help, and they both see the red UFO, which just fades away after 10 minutes. The boy is taken to a hospital and treated for second-degree burns. His scars are still visible three months later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Boy Burned by UAO in Ohio,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1968, pp. 1, 3; James E. McDonald, “[Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/mcdonald.html\#physical)” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 79 Source ID: Eberhart_4534 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14142 (70EF23AD) Date: 3/19/1968 Description: At 8:30 p.m. ten-year-old Gregory L. Wells was returning from his grandmother's house to his own home next door, when he saw a red oval-shaped UFO hovering just over some trees. The large red object was so bright that it illuminated the road. It had a band of dimmer red lights flashing around its center. "I stopped," Gregory recalled. "I wanted to run or scream but suddenly a big tube came out of the bottom, which moved from side to side until it came to me, and a beam of light shot out." Gregory turned away as the light beam hit the upper part of his arm, knocking him to the ground. His jacket caught fire and the boy rolled around on the ground screaming with fright. Both his mother and grandmother responded. Mrs. James Wells, the boy's mother, also reported seeing the UFO, which "just faded away." During the sighting a large street light on a nearby pole went out and the dog barked uncontrollably. The burning jacket resulted in second-degree burns that required medical attention. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 198; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red - The UFO Siege Source ID: Johnson_1568 Source: Johnson ### Event 14143 (4750045C) Date: Spring 1968 Description: Evening. An oval shaped light, red at the front ( the direction of travel at the time ), yellow in the middle and blue at the back was observed for a few passes, then moved off, silently and quickly to the north without gaining altitude, getting smaller until it was out of sight. (Brian Vike, Director, HBCC UFO Research) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [68Spring](http://www.nicap.org/aurora68sprgdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aurora, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3926 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14144 (26D5A7FA) Date: Spring 1968 Description: Two prospectors, Ed Sampson and Bill Johnson, are sleeping in the Anza Borrego Desert, California, when they wake up at the sound of an explosion. The sky above is filled with a fading red light, and they see flashes on the western horizon. The two climb to the crest of a hill and look down. Sampson sees a “red, circular flying saucer” hovering over the valley, while entities with glowing red eyes march in single file close to the ridge of an adjacent canyon. Something like a church bell rings out at intervals, and mechanical clanking is also audible. After noticing two glowing-eyed creatures standing behind them, they take off running. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 557 Source ID: Eberhart_4541 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14145 (27D0AD85) Date: 3/26/1968 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) addresses the question, “Are UFOs Extraterrestrial Surveillance Craft?” in a talk at the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “[Are UFOs](http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald%5Fnicap%5F061069.pdf) [Extraterrestrial Surveillance Craft?](http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald%5Fnicap%5F061069.pdf)” March 26, 1968; Story, [p. 414](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/414/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4535 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14146 (3155A452) Date: 3/29/1968 Description: 4:00 p.m. Meteorologist Ştefan Bălaşa and a group of skiers watch a shiny object 75°–80° in the sky near the weather station on Semenic Mountain, Romania. Through binoculars it appears cone-shaped. Bălaşa continues to watch it until 6:40 p.m. when it begins to dim and move slowly to the east-northeast. The same or similar object appears in the same area on the evening of March 30. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 17–18 Source ID: Eberhart_4536 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14147 (CD624E75) Date: 3/29/1968 Description: 6:50 p.m. Spectators at a football match in Tismana, Romania, see a stationary, bright-blue-green conical object that changes its color to red and disappears by 7:30 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 237–238; Romania 18 Source ID: Eberhart_4537 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14148 (6E82EC82) Date: 3/29/1968 Description: 7:30 p.m. Two students and two teachers in Târgu-Jiu, Romania, see a whitish-blue isosceles triangle in the southeast sky. It changes color to orange then red and departs to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 134– 135; Romania 18 Source ID: Eberhart_4538 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14149 (C36E2E79) Date: 3/29/1968 Description: At 1:15 a.m. a 22-year-old mechanic riding a motorbike between Fos-sur-Mer and Port Saint Louis in Arles, France observed a UFO descend and land near a power transformer. An opening appeared in the base of the object and a bright white light shone out from it. Then a human-looking entity emerged and descended to the ground on a kind of ramp. He wore something resembling a security guard's uniform with a "rolled collar." The suit was light colored and brilliant, and appeared woven with heavy stitches. The man's hair was in a crew-cut and was very light blond or white in color. The UFOnaut examined the ground around him and then noticed the witness, whom he watched for a moment before re-entering the object. The UFO took off gently with a gust of cool air. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-21, citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 47 Source ID: Johnson_1722 Source: Johnson ### Event 14150 (A5A96584) Date: 3/30/1968 Description: 8:00 a.m. Meteorologist Vasile Coţoi and Ingeborg Vityi observe a white conical object maneuvering slowly against the wind at the weather station on Ţarcu Peak, Romania. They watch it for 2.5 hours before it disappears. At 1:00 p.m. it is logged by the weather station near Berzasca about 1 mile inland from the Danube River. At 4:00 p.m. it reappears at the Semenic Mountain weather station and is also seen at Caransebeş, Romania, and other places. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 131–138; Romania 19–20 Source ID: Eberhart_4540 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14151 (E463AF7F) Date: 3/30/1968 Description: 2:30 a.m. Teofil Iorga and 120 other construction workers at the Banat Mine in Oraviţa, Romania, see a luminous globe in the sky. At 6:10 a.m., a stationary yellowish-white object appears in the northeast. Iorga takes a photo of it at 8:00 a.m. and looks at it through a theodolite at 8:15 a.m. It is shaped like a truncated cone with one side exposed to the sun. At 9:00 a.m., the object ascends and moves to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 129– 130; Romania 18 Source ID: Eberhart_4539 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14152 (D1DD3272) Date: 4/2/1968 Description: Science fiction movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” is released Type: movie Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_653 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14153 (6E91D10E) Date: 4/3/1968 Description: Late that same night in Itabara, Brazil several teenage girls were walking home when they encountered a tall man dressed totally in black, who lept out of nowhere and flashed a beam of light at them. The figure then disappeared. Several days later two of the girls accosted by the stranger began to go into trances and speak in strange foreign tongues. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #1059, citing Brad Steiger, Saga UFO Report, August 1976 Source ID: Johnson_1819 Source: Johnson ### Event 14154 (739A3951) Date: 4/3/1968 Description: On this afternoon at around 1:45 p.m. Mrs. Mabel Walch and her nephew, John were driving toward Newport by the shore of one of the Narrabeen Lakes in New South Wales, Australia. They saw a strange creature standing near the road in shallow water. The being was just over four feet tall and had a tough leathery dark gray skin, like an elephant. Its legs were round and thick. Its arms, or forelegs, were small, and as they watched it ambled out of the water with "a strange shuffling walk, but quite fast." They only saw it briefly before it ran into the scrub. Mrs. Walch said "it's head reminded me of an anteater's trunk." The chin or probiscus was rigid and squared off at the end, and "stuck down and out at an angle." It had no ears nor a tail, but it had small eyes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-23, citing Keith Basterfield Source ID: Johnson_1817 Source: Johnson ### Event 14155 (BA0B8F29) Date: 4/3/1968 Description: A schoolteacher named Mrs. Lietha was driving down the highway with her son in Cochrane, Wisconsin when a red-orange object flew over and hovered above her car, causing the engine and lights to fail as well as that of a second vehicle. The witnesses felt a sensation of weightlessness as well as heat from the object. Twenty minutes later a second vehicle interference case occurred in Waukesha, Wisconsin to a married couple named Blake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Brad Sparks, Computer Catalog of Type 9 Cases, case 120; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 239; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1968, p. 8; UNICAT database, case 385, citing J. Allen Hynek; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 47; (2) Glenn McWane, The New UFO Sightings, p. 55 Source ID: Johnson_1818 Source: Johnson ### Event 14156 (58C37AB8) Date: 4/4/1968 Description: 8:15 p.m. Two young men in Cochrane, Wisconsin, see a UFO hover above a car ahead of them; its headlights suddenly go out. The object appears metallic and glows orange when standing still, but gets redder and brighter when moving. The object then comes toward their car and the engine conks out. It hovers overhead for a moment, during which time the witnesses feel increased heat and weightlessness. The object departs over a nearby field, emitting a cloudy haze all around its periphery. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) CUFOS, 1981, p. 40 Source ID: Eberhart_4543 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14157 (4C50AA49) Date: 4/4/1968 Description: Object glowing orange while standing still, bright red while moving, hovered over car; heat, "weightlessness felt". CUFOS report; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 40 (E,L) 2 cars (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cochrane, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_3925 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14158 (C241F72D) Date: 4/8/1968 Description: At a hospital in Magill, South Australia the hospital staff saw a circular craft in the sky that was flashing red, white, and green lights. The hospital's ship-to-shore radio was effected during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 181 Source ID: Johnson_1902 Source: Johnson ### Event 14159 (A1D7C21E) Date: 4/10/1968 Description: At 9:00 p.m. two groups of three bright lights flew in a triangular formation over Ipswich, Massachusetts. They swung in a pendulum motion and changed colors from red to blue to green to white. They made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler Raymond, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 351, case 68-15 Source ID: Johnson_1938 Source: Johnson ### Event 14160 (1F34AB5A) Date: 4/12/1968 Description: A cluster of multicolored lights hovered, blinking red to orange to blue, in Hamilton, Massachusetts at 10:15 p.m. They shot upward out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 352 Source ID: Johnson_1977 Source: Johnson ### Event 14161 (E3C97AD6) Date: Mid 4/1968 Description: Evening. Engineer Gu Ying is sent to a military construction regiment in the north Gobi Desert, China, when the entire battalion notices a huge, luminous, red-orange disc with a flashing light landing in the sand. It is about 9 feet in diameter. The commander dispatches a team of motorcycle troops to approach it. As they get closer, the object shoots up into the sky and disappears. The UFO leaves ground traces like a “seared cross.” The soldiers assume it is a Russian device. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archive, 1983, pp. 49–50 Source ID: Eberhart_4542 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14162 (E96D09A0) Date: 4/15/1968 Description: A three-foot in diameter reddish orange disc was seen on the ground by several soldiers near a canal north of the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang province, China on this evening. It shot straight up as the soldiers approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendelle C. Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_2025 Source: Johnson ### Event 14163 (F1DA0AEB) Date: 4/16/1968 Description: At 12:10 p.m. Henry Ford II sighted a very large UFO while flying onboard the Ford Motor Company Jet Star near Austin, Texas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 1; Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space…The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 177 Source ID: Johnson_2055 Source: Johnson ### Event 14164 (0225D76F) Date: 4/17/1968 Description: At 7:45 p.m. EDT a dull silver-gray, domed disc-shaped object hovered just over the road near the US Air Force radio telescope installation at Sagamore Hill, Highway 1A, Hamilton, Massachusetts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 352; Raymond Fowler investigator files, case dated April 26, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_2087 Source: Johnson ### Event 14165 (F97C6A84) Date: 4/19/1968 Description: A woman in Malden, Massachusetts awoke at 2:30 a.m. to a sound "like two steel knives being struck together" and glanced outside. She saw a red glowing object with a point on top that was hovering with a fluttering motion. It flew off over a nearby cemetery. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler investigation files, report dated April 24, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_2136 Source: Johnson ### Event 14166 (2EA088EE) Date: 4/25/1968 Description: A "saucer nest" crop circle was found in sugar cane near West Cairns, Queensland, Australia. It was oval in shape, 70 feet by 36 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Seers, FSR, May-June 1969, p. 4; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 321 Source ID: Johnson_2297 Source: Johnson ### Event 14167 (559A5CA6) Date: 4/27/1968 Description: The May 14 issue of Look magazine contains an article by [John G. Fuller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FG.%5FFuller) on the [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) memorandum and the near-mutiny at the Colorado project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John G. Fuller, “[Flying Saucer Fiasco,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Look/1968%2005%2014%5FLook%5FJohn%20Fuller%5FFlying%20Saucer%20Fiasco%5FLagrange%20scan.pdf)” Look 32, no. 10 \(May 14, 1968\): 58–63 Source ID: Eberhart_4544 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14168 (B765AEE2) Date: 4/29/1968 Description: [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) tells the press [Fuller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FG.%5FFuller) has quoted him out of context. [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) and Low spend the morning talking to legal counsel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_4545 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14169 (13EB37DB) Date: 4/30/1968 Description: In Ipswich, Massachusetts a round gray object reflecting a flashing red light on its underside hovered low over some trees. It dropped behind the trees, then shot straight up, hovered, and streaked away at great speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 353; Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated May 1, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_2427 Source: Johnson ### Event 14170 (0FCF2B4A) Date: 4/30/1968 Description: Rep. [J. Edward Roush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdward%5FRoush) \(D-Ind.\) denounces the Colorado project in Congress based on the Look article and raises doubts about its scientific integrity. He writes to Air Force Secretary [Robert Seamans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FSeamans) to ask for his comments on “this deplorable situation” and he writes to the Comptroller General [Elmer B. Staats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer%5FB.%5FStaats) to investigate the use of public funds for the project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 201–202; “Congressional UFOing,” Wall Street Journal, May 3, 1968 Source ID: Eberhart_4546 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14171 (02F09537) Date: 4/30/1968 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) and the NICAP Board of Directors write to President [Lyndon Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%5FB.%5FJohnson), enclosing the [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) memo and other evidence and urging that he create an entirely new commission. Col. Bernhard M. Ettenson, from the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, writes back to say that “we expect that Dr. [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) will fulfill the terms of the agreement.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Inside Story of the Colorado Project,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/042%20MAY-JUN%201968.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 6 \(May/June 1968\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4547 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14172 (53FB03F8) Date: 5/1968 Time: 2400 Description: Gerardo Vidal and his wife were driving along Route 2 when they were caught in "a dense fog" and lost consciousness for 48 hours. When they came to, it was daytime, and the car, whose paint was badly scorched, was parked in an unknown road. They spoke to local people and found that they were in Mexico. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 5; Magonia ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Chascomus, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_906 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14173 (BA3DDC49) Date: 5/1968 Description: Eveing. Several minutes. Several strange occurrences. Strange glow moved (1:00 a.m.) E-M effects (stopped clock), burned trees, brood son vanished (animal effects). (SL, Sept 72) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Centralia, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3927 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14174 (C6EE5786) Date: Early 5/1968 Description: Night. Gerardo Vidal and his wife are driving home from Chascomús to Maipú, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They are just outside Chascomús when their car is enveloped in a thick green fog. The next thing they know they are driving on a road near Mexico City in broad daylight, 4,400 miles to the northwest. Their watches have stopped, and they discover that two days have passed. They visit the Argentine embassy in Mexico City, where Vidal calls a relative in Maipú to report that they are well. However, a June 4, 1968, Reuters dispatch from Mexico City contains a denial of the incident by the Argentine embassy, and subsequent inquiries can find no one in Maipú that could be the Vidals. Finally, in October 1998 Argentine film director [Aníbal Uset](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%ADbal%5FUset) admits to researcher Roberto E. Banchs that he had invented the Chascomús teleportation as a publicity stunt to spread a fantastic story based on the plot of his upcoming film Ché OVNI. The movie’s poster even shows a UFO carrying off an automobile. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: La Razon \(Buenos Aires\), June 3, 1968; Oscar A. Galíndez, “[Teleportation from Chascomús](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%205.pdf) [to Mexico,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1968\): 3–4; “[Further News on South America,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1968, pp. 7–8; Internet Movie Database, “[Ché OVNI](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204202/)”; Jacques Vallée, Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Intelligence, Ballantine, 1990, [p. 96](https://archive.org/details/confrontationssc00vall%5F0/page/95/mode/2up); Roberto E. Banchs, “The Chascomús Teleportation Hoax,” Fortean Times 351 \(April 2017\): 56–57 Source ID: Eberhart_4549 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14175 (63A972FE) Date: Early 5/1968 Description: Five UFOs are seen diving into the ocean off Arrecife, Vargas, Venezuela. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Current South American](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf) [Flap,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1968, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_4548 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14176 (32F19A10) Date: 5/2/1968 Description: On this morning the witness was out collecting bark for firewood in a spot near her lake on Keats Island, British Columbia when the same two strange men she had met on January 29 approached her. Both wore dark "neat" coveralls, as if they were brand new. One of the men was about 20 years old, and he seemed to hide behind the other man as the witness approached them. The younger man stared intently at the woman during the conversation she had with the older man, and only spoke once. She continued to be mystified about how they were coming and going from her remote island location. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Guttilla, Saga UFO Report, Summer 1974, citing John Magor, Our UFO Visitors Source ID: Johnson_2456 Source: Johnson ### Event 14177 (1715D04D) Date: 5/3/1968 Description: During the evening hours of the night of May 2nd-3rd Miss Shane Kurz, a 19-year-old woman, had watched a luminous cigar-shaped object in the sky for two hours from her home in Westmoreland, New York. It moved in her direction, stopped, then shot straight upward into the sky, turning red in color as it did so. At four o'clock in the morning her mother came into her room and found her lying on top of her bedsheets with her robe and slippers on; both were covered with dried mud, as were her legs. Earlier in the night her mother had found her missing from her bedroom and the door open.

Ms. Kurz stayed out of school for the next two days because of depression and recurrent nightmares. Her eyes were causing her pain, and two reddish ring-shaped marks appeared on her lower abdomen. Her menstrual cycle stopped after this incident and did not return again for a year. Later under hypnosis she remembered that she went outdoors in response to hearing her name called, and saw a saucer with windows and a revolving rim hovering close to the ground. It approached her and lifted her inside with a beam of light, after which she found herself in a bare white room. A man shorter than her, with no nose, wearing what looked like a dark "motorcycle jacket" and another being, a "doctor" in a long coat, forced her onto an exam table. He inserted a long needle into her navel. A third being, the "leader," next entered the room. The UFOnauts all had very "penetrating" eyes with no pupils. They said to her, "We've watched you. You're the one. We want you as a mate." He also said that they came "from very, very far." The others went out and the leader proceeded to undress her and then rape her. He told her she would not remember. She was floated down to the ground again by a light beam. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-26, citing Hans Holzer, The Ufonauts Source ID: Johnson_2472 Source: Johnson ### Event 14178 (AD3BC8DF) Date: 5/5/1968 Description: At 8:35 p.m. a cylindrical UFO was seen flying north to south on this night and the next over the river in Tirgu Ocna, Romania by several witnesses including the principal witness, a Mr. Dumila. It had a pointed read end, and antennae on the sides. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 162 Source ID: Johnson_2543 Source: Johnson ### Event 14179 (FF3BDAFA) Date: 5/5/1968 Description: Jerome Clark and three other young men had driven to visit a rural site on a highway between Fargo and Kindred, North Dakota where a "ghost light" had been recently reported. They spotted a nocturnal light and had been chasing it, more or less fruitlessly, in their car. When it re-appeared at 1:45 a.m. it loomed up in front of them, and against its reddish orange light they could see the silhouette of a huge figure gliding toward them. They took off in fear in their automobile, but when they looked again from a side road the silhouetted figure was still visible and still moving towards them. This time they drove several miles before stopping. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-25, citing Jerome Clark, FSR, November-December 1969 Source ID: Johnson_2542 Source: Johnson ### Event 14180 (5EA0F04A) Date: 5/7/1968 Description: On this evening town marshal Felix Gallegos and others saw three balls of light take off from a neighbors field near Sanford, Colorado. No evidence was found on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_2621 Source: Johnson ### Event 14181 (B7E546D3) Date: 5/9/1968 Description: At 10:30 p.m. there was a radar-visual confirmation case from Ste. Assise, Seine-Marne, France. A nocturnal light curved all over the sky near a military radio center. Radar trace records were kept. The object left to the southwest after 45 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1968 Source ID: Johnson_2687 Source: Johnson ### Event 14182 (B774158C) Date: 5/10/1968 Description: On this night in Galesburg, Illinois Grant Callison and his wife noticed three winged beings flying at an estimated altitude of 500 feet. The beings appeared to be covered with feathers or metallic scales which acquired an odd fluorescence as they reflected light from the local street lamps. The strange trio lacked necks of any sort and had short, conical tails. There were other sightings of the same creatures in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, # 2106, citing Scott Corrales, Unsolved UFO Sightings, Fall 1995 Source ID: Johnson_2719 Source: Johnson ### Event 14183 (A5D8F13F) Date: 5/10/1968 Description: 10:00 p.m. Grant Callison of Galesburg, Illinois, looks out his kitchen window and sees a giant bird illuminated by a streetlight. He and his wife Wilma rush outside for a better look and see three of them flying in a V-formation at an altitude of 500 feet. They look like they have metallic feathers or scales. They are flying with a graceful, fluttering motion. They then see two objects to the south with pulsating red lights moving in the same direction at the same speed \(about 25–35 mph\). On May 20, around 9:00 p.m., the Callisons have another odd sighting of a single bird-like creature. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Grant Callison, “[Winged Creatures over Illinois,](http://ufoexperiences.blogspot.com/2006/02/winged-creatures-over-illinois.html)” UFOexperiences, February 6, 2006; Clark III 655 Source ID: Eberhart_4550 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14184 (4E76A7EE) Date: 5/11/1968 Description: A farmer in Brinkley, South Australia, notices strands of material about 65 feet long falling on his property. He says it is like asbestos rope and as wide as a pencil. On the same day, web-like “fine woven cotton” is seen on a lawn and draped over wires and a fence in Cheltenham, Adelaide, South Australia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_4551 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14185 (04C8F8E8) Date: 5/13/1968 Description: [George H. Estabrooks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FEstabrooks)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FEstabrooks) a Canadian-American psychologist and former consultant for the FBI and CIA, tells the Providence Evening Bulletin that the key to developing an effective spy or assassin is by creating a multiple personality with the aid of hypnosis, a procedure he describes as “child’s play.” Estabrooks suggests that [Lee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FHarvey%5FOswald) [Harvey Oswald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FHarvey%5FOswald) and [Jack Ruby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%5FRuby) could have been controlled in this manner. “This has and is being done. I have done it. It is child’s play now to develop a multiple personality through hypnotism.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Providence \(R.I.\) Evening Bulletin, May 13, 1968; Colin A. Ross, Bluebird: Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personality by Psychiatrists, Manitou, 2000, p. 162; Phil Kirby, “[Event / TV Times:](https://theculturevulture.co.uk/all/event/event-free-for-all/) [The Prisoner](https://theculturevulture.co.uk/all/event/event-free-for-all/)[: Free for All,](https://theculturevulture.co.uk/all/event/event-free-for-all/)” The Culture Vulture, May 10, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_4552 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14186 (45021EF7) Date: 5/14/1968 Description: LOOK article, "Flying Saucer Fiasco" by John Fuller, reporting internal controversy in the Colorado UFO Project and the Low "trick" memo. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_159 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14187 (9603E541) Date: 5/14/1968 Description: At six o'clock in the evening the witness, Mrs. Valentina Flores, heard noises coming from her sheep pen located between the towns of Uyini and Otoco, Bolivia and went to investigate. She found the sheep pen covered with some form of plastic net, and inside was a short being 3.5 feet tall, who was killing the sheep with a tube with a hook on the end. The witness threw stones at the creature, and she was injured when she was thrown to the ground. The tube like instrument absorbed the net, and the entity rose straight up into the air with a strange noise. Thirty four of the sheep had been killed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Galindez, FSR, July-August 1970, p. 15; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0906, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_2830 Source: Johnson ### Event 14188 (EDC93DB5) Date: 5/15/1968 Description: [Low](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CO%2067%20NEWS.pdf) is relieved of 90% of his duties with the Colorado project, effective May 24 and will go back to his job as assistant to [Thurston Manning](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/thurston-manning-obituary?pid=171867180)[.](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/thurston-manning-obituary?pid=171867180)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOs Yes, 204 Source ID: Eberhart_4553 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14189 (36FA043F) Date: 5/17/1968 Description: At 7:00 p.m. many onboard a ferryboat in Canal de Chacao, Chile watched a luminous object slow, stop, and make curves in its flight to the north until gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 117 Source ID: Johnson_2932 Source: Johnson ### Event 14190 (DA77B7EE) Date: 5/17/1968 Description: 5:00 a.m. Caetano Sergio dos Santos is returning home from his job as a night watchman at Caconde, São Paulo, Brazil. In the courtyard of his house he sees a cylinder-shaped object, about the size of a powdered-milk can, stuck in the ground. At each end are dials, one with a black band, the other with a red one. They are encased under a glass or plastic lens with embossed figures arranged in a semicircle. Above each figure is something like an Arabic numeral. Dos Santos takes the object into the house and studies it for 90 minutes, then puts it on a windowsill in the bathroom before going to bed. He goes back to work, then at about 1:00 a.m., he returns home and notices that the object is lighting up the house, with his wife and son, very agitated, standing outside with neighbors. She tells him that a loud buzzing and intense heat had wakened her, both emanating from the object. Dos Santos goes inside and finds a hole in the roof, tile scattered over the floor, and the object gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Brazilian](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2007%2000%20-%20July-August.pdf) [Object Real Puzzler,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2007%2000%20-%20July-August.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1968, pp. 1, 3; Walter Buehler, “[The Mysterious Caconde Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1969\): 18–19; Clark III 339 Source ID: Eberhart_4554 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14191 (22282710) Date: 5/17/1968 Description: Three photographs of luminous UFOs were taken by Dr. Gabriel Alvial at the University of Chile's El Inferniello Observatory, in the Andes Mountains, Chile. The scientific research facility involved with this photographic case has been set up in the high Andes primarily as a Cosmic Ray measuring installation. The operators of the observatory apparently began observing a "series of luminous phenomena" months before. The objects were mobile but also stopped and hovered. One of the images can be viewed at http://www.nicap.org/images/680517andes.pdf Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Prof. Gabriel Alvial. "Unusual Photograph from 14,000 Feet Andean Observatory", Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1969; "From a Laboratory in the Cordilleras Comes Documented Cases", INFO Journal, 1 (4), Spring 1969; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1968, p. 8; J. Antonio Huneeus. " A Historical Survey of UFO cases in Chile", MUFON 1978 Symposium Source ID: Johnson_2933 Source: Johnson ### Event 14192 (EB6CF554) Date: 5/17/1968 Description: At 8:45 p.m. Jose Da Silva, the driver of a VW minibus, and three passengers were listening to the radio under a light rain while driving between Florianopolis and Lagune, Santa Catalina State, Brazil when they suddenly heard a whirring sound and noticed a diffused light over the road. Suddenly the van rose up in the air about 50 centimeters and stayed there for a moment before coming down and again rising up in the air before it was set down on the road again, this time more slowly. The four men then noticed an intensely luminous circular object hovering overhead at about 100 meters altitude. Frightened, they watched from the van while the UFO hovered above them. They described the object as only about two meters in diameter with several porthole-like windows on its lower part. Through the portholes shadows or sillouhetted figures were visible moving about inside. A reddish light emanated from the top of the object. The UFO remained motionless for a few minutes, and then tilted at an angle and disappeared towards the ocean. After the incident all four men suffered from nausea and vomiting. One of the men also lost all the hair from his eyebrows. Da Silva, who before the incident had had an abundant head of hair, became bald in less than a year. A circular burnt area was found on the roof of the minibus. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Inforespace, February 1976; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Cuarta Dimension # 20 Source ID: Johnson_2931 Source: Johnson ### Event 14193 (A28D53BB) Date: 5/21/1968 Description: At 8:50 a.m. at Union High School in Roosevelt, Utah a silver oval or disc-shaped object, quite large, changed speed, hovered, maneuvered, and dropped nearly to the ground. Twenty-two students and teachers watched the display for 6-7 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, pp. 95 and Appendix case 67 Source ID: Johnson_3019 Source: Johnson ### Event 14194 (DC5A7C8E) Date: 5/21/1968 Description: [Philip J. Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) attempts to refute [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)’s criticisms of his plasma theory of UFOs in a privately circulated paper. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Phillip J. Klass, “[Dr. James E. McDonald’s ‘Mathematical Proof,’](https://www.debunker.com/historical/KlassContraMcDonald%5F1968.pdf)” The Author, May 21, 1968, pp. 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_4555 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14195 (178C07BD) Date: 5/22/1968 Description: Sr. T. Banescu of La Florida, Argentina was walking home early in the morning around 3:00 a.m. when he observed a luminous sphere coming down rapidly from the sky. It landed about 300 meters away. Shortly after that he heard footsteps behind him but noticed nothing strange about then. When he got to the house he encountered a creature no more than 39" tall, with big ears and luminous green in color. He had his arms crossed and was rocking his body slightly back and forth. Mr. Banescu became frightened and attempted desperately to unlock the door of his house to get away, and when he looked back again the little man had disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-27, citing Carlos Banchs Source ID: Johnson_3039 Source: Johnson ### Event 14196 (255879E9) Date: Late 5/1968 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) hires science writer [Daniel S. Gillmor](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/21/archives/daniel-s-gillmor-writer-dies-at-58-opposed-loyalty-inquiries-author.html) to edit the final project report. Gillmor receives editorial help from [Joseph H. Rush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FH.%5FRush)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FH.%5FRush) a physicist from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Also assisting is associate editor Harriet Hunter and several specialists from the local lab of the Environmental Science Services Administration \(including [Gordon David Thayer](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/)\). [Franklin Roach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FE.%5FRoach) returns to work on astronaut sightings. By June 1, the date on which the investigative phase ends, there is a substantially new crew. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_4556 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14197 (57070278) Date: 5/27/1968 Description: Mr. Pan Chen Hsiang, who was inside his house at 6:00 a.m. in the city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, heard his son shouting for him to come out onto the patio. He ran outside and following his son's instructions could see a strange, dark disc-shaped object in horizontal flight. It flew directly over them in complete silence. Its size was large and estimated to be 10 meters in diameter. Its color was flat gray and it appeared to have a dull metallic finish. It displayed regular flashes from its dome. Mr. Hsiang took six photographs of the object, which show an object with a darkened dome in a clear sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, September-October 1968, p. 36; Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, pp. 309-311 Source ID: Johnson_3119 Source: Johnson ### Event 14198 (00BCA3F4) Date: 5/27/1968 Description: Domed disc, green-blue glow, below treetop height, landed. CUFOS report; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 41 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Punta Gorda, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3929 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14199 (77E69FD6) Date: 5/27/1968 Description: Both the headlights and the engine of a car failed near Punt Gorda, Florida at 9:45 p.m. The motorist got out to investigate, then saw a light at tree-top height, slowly settling to the ground. As the light came nearer, the witness saw that it was attached to a metallic body, shaped like a pilgrim's hat , with a green glow and bluish outline around the edges. A few minutes after landing, the object reappeared, then moved off at high speed to the northwest. The headlights of the car came on immediately, and the motor could be started with difficulty. The driver's watch was found to have stopped working. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 41, citing CUFOS files Source ID: Johnson_3120 Source: Johnson ### Event 14200 (67F59E3D) Date: 5/27/1968 Description: 9:45 p.m. A man is driving near Punta Gorda, Florida, when his headlights and engine fail. As he gets out to check, he sees a light slowly descending at treetop level. The object is shaped like a Pilgrim’s hat with a green glow and bluish color surrounding it. A few minutes after landing, it takes off at high speed, disappearing in the northwest. The car starts once it is gone. The witness notices that his watch has stopped. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, [UFO](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) [Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 41 Source ID: Eberhart_4557 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14201 (8EAF4304) Date: 5/28/1968 Description: At 10:15 three objects were spotted suddenly descending over Roxbury, Massachusetts making an intermittent roaring sound. The closest object was oval shaped with a blue glowing square on its underside. A buzzing sound vibrated the witness's eardrums and was felt in the stomach. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated June 14, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_3137 Source: Johnson ### Event 14202 (00CA473C) Date: 5/29/1968 Description: A blindingly bright circular UFO hovered at a low altitude over Mosinee, Wisconsin at 10:00 p.m. while dogs in the town barked furiously. There were electromagnetic effects during this close encounter, and one of the six witnesses felt pressure on his eardrums. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 239 Source ID: Johnson_3150 Source: Johnson ### Event 14203 (BFBAF444) Date: 5/31/1968 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) speaks to the Chicago Chapter of the American Meteorological Society on UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “UFOs: Atmospheric or Extraterrestrial?” May 31, 1968; Story, [p. 414](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/414/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4558 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14204 (581ACF44) Date: 6/1968 Time: 0050 Description: Pedro Pretzel, 39, motel owner, observed an object 50 m away on road 20, showing two powerful red headlights. Arriving at his room, the witness found his daughter unconscious. When she came to, she said that a blond man, 2 m tall, wearing a blue, bright suit, and holding a paleblue sphere in his hand, had appeared and spoken to her. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 95 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Carlos Paz, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_907 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14205 (70844DE0) Date: 6/3/1968 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) addresses the Burro Club \(Democratic Congressional Administrative Assistants and Aides\) in the Rayburn Building in Washington, D.C., on the question “Does Congress Have a Responsibility to Investigate the UFO Problem?” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [p. 414](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/414/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4560 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14206 (E5626A90) Date: 6/4/1968 Description: A-12 pilot [Jack W. Weeks](http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/weeks.html) is lost over the South China Sea near the Philippines during a functional checkout flight after the replacement of one of its engines. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed A-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12)” Source ID: Eberhart_4561 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14207 (9F73674F) Date: 6/4/1968 Description: Cylinder above airliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Punta Arenas, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_3930 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14208 (913BEDD5) Date: 6/4/1968 Description: Artist Benjamin Solari Parravicini was walking home after midnight in Buenos Aires province, Argentina when he was confronted by a fair skinned man with eyes "so light in color that he looked as if blind." The man addressed him in an unintelligible guttural language. Looking upward, the witness saw only 50 meters away a hovering aerial craft with no lights. He became dizzy, and when he recovered, he found himself inside the machine, with three other people. One of these, a very handsome man, was questioning Parravicini in an alien language, which he was able to understand telepathically. The being told him that they would take him once around Earth, and he observed Japan, France, and Chile before being returned to the same street corner. Since this experience the alien beings have allegedly contacted Parravicini several times. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-31, citing Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1968 Source ID: Johnson_3272 Source: Johnson ### Event 14209 (773E0F8B) Date: 6/5/1968 Description: An orange balloon-shaped object with antennas made complex maneuvers over the city of Niteroi, Brazil at 10:10 p.m. The object also reportedly ejected some strips of foil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8308 Source ID: Johnson_3299 Source: Johnson ### Event 14210 (90168D14) Date: 6/6/1968 Description: Capt. U. Tiviroli, commander of an Argentine Airlines Avro, sees a UFO, along with his copilot and 18 passengers, for 5 minutes during a night landing at Punta Arenas airport, Chile. An unusually bright object, long and spindle-shaped, appears above the plane. It moves in a course parallel to the plane and stops suddenly in midair. Then it swerves in a right angle back to the plane. It is also seen by airport observers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Argentinian Pilot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12) [Reports UAO,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1968, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_4562 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14211 (ABE8D79A) Date: 6/8/1968 Description: Between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. a university professor named Richalda and a woman accompanying him witnessed a 0.5 meter, hat-shaped UFO that flew to the southwest while driving near a hydro-electric dam in Capataneni, Bacau, Romania. The sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 172 Source ID: Johnson_3374 Source: Johnson ### Event 14212 (A48FF872) Date: 6/10/1968 Description: In Los Cigarrales, Argentina Jorge Yaru, a member of the Argentine Navy, was on his way to bed at 3:15 a.m. when he heard a very loud engine noise and stepped out of his home to investigate. He saw nothing and returned inside. He heard the noise again and went back outside. Looking towards a nearby empty field he saw a hovering disc-shaped UFO, with a dome on top and bottom. Around the bottom part of the object were yellow, red, and orange lights. He estimated the craft to be about 1.5 meters in thickness and six meters in diameter, and the craft was rotating in a counter-clockwise direction. He watched the object for 40 minutes while it remained motionless, then the craft shot away at a ninety-degree angle towards some nearby wooded hills. It remained stationary there for 40 minutes and then made an abrupt jump, hovered again, and shot off at a high rate of speed. Sr. Yaru then felt a strange urge to bathe in a nearby brook, which he did despite the very low outdoor temperatures at the time. He felt a strange need to "cleanse" himself. At the same time a neighbor, Adela Garcia, heard the same noise and noticed in the same empty field a strange triangular shaped cloud. A giant man-like figure, over two meters tall, with long blond hair, descended to the ground from the cloud. The strange being, which Garcia likened to Jesus Christ, approached her and she knelt before him. Averting her eyes from the being briefly, she looked up and both the being and the cloud were gone. A large are of scorched grass was found in the field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, Preliminary Catalogue of Type I cases in Argentina, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 10; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing Revista Enigmas, Argentina Source ID: Johnson_3409 Source: Johnson ### Event 14213 (63CBD835) Date: 6/11/1968 Description: On this evening in Lavras de Mangabeira, Brazil a UFO shaped like a flattened oval was seen in a field by a witness. Next to the object stood a short, baldheaded humanoid who sported a black beard and had dark round eyes. He wore a red, tight-fitting coverall and green boots. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing GEPUC Brazil & Antonio Faleiro Source ID: Johnson_3423 Source: Johnson ### Event 14214 (66BCA5F8) Date: 6/11/1968 Description: MP [John Langford-Holt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FLangford-Holt) asks UK Prime Minister [Harold Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FWilson) whether he is aware that some UFO reports are made to the Ministry of Defence, while police reports are made to the Board of Trade. Wilson replies that reports going to the Board of Trade are passed on to the Ministry of Defence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 67](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/66/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4564 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14215 (697912B5) Date: 6/11/1968 Description: [Philip J. Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) attempts to refute [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)’s criticisms of his plasma theory of UFOs in another unpublished paper. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philip J. Klass, “[Does Dr. James E. McDonald Really Speak with Authority?](https://www.debunker.com/historical/KlassContraMcDonald%5F1968.pdf)” The Author, June 11, 1968, pp. 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_4563 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14216 (2AC5EC7C) Date: 6/14/1968 Description: 3:00 a.m. Jorge Yaru, 35, saw a strange light outside and a bright object, the size of a bus, 30 m away. It had yellow, green and red lights at the bottom. (Magonia #908; LDLN 95) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mendiozaca, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3931 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14217 (A2F8BB66) Date: 6/14/1968 Description: After midnight. Several bursts of machine gun fire were heard coming from a location in the vicinity where militia member Isidro Puentes Ventura was on guard duty. At dawn, Puentes was found unconscious by an Army patrol and taken to a hospital in Pinar Del Rio, where he remained in shock and unable to speak for six days. (Timothy Good, "Beyond Top Secret" quoting Jacques Vallee) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [680614](http://www.nicap.org/cabanas680614dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cabañas, Pinar Del Rio (near), Cuba Source ID: NICAP_DB_3932 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14218 (82890BAA) Date: 6/14/1968 Description: At 6 p.m., or about the same time that the widely publicized asteroid "Icarus" passed close to Earth, strange events were reported in the northern Italian province of Abruzzi. A semi-hysterical woman phoned the Celano, Italy police station reporting that three huge, disc-shaped UFOs were hovering outside of town. The objects glowed a pale red. Lt. Germonde took the call. Minutes later other witnesses reported seeing "spinning discs" the size of houses slowly descend to the ground in a wooded area near the town. But soon it got much weirder. Lt. Germonde received a call from a bar-restaurant owner reporting "huge birds with tiny wings and with faces like humans." According to the witness there were four or five huge birds or flying humanoids flying towards Celano. The strange creatures were described as three-feet in height and flying upright, as if they were men being propelled above the ground by some unknown force. No wings were visible, only a blur above their shoulders like the fast-moving wings of a hummingbird. Whatever kept them flying was small and moving very fast. The creatures reportedly flew at a height of only a few feet above the ground. They appeared to have trouble moving in heavily wooded areas. Their faces were reported to have been human like, but contained blank looks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing Richardo Salvador, The Ohio Sky Watcher & Roger Veillith Source ID: Johnson_3480 Source: Johnson ### Event 14219 (AE3C7699) Date: 6/14/1968 Description: Late on this same night in La Armonia, Argentina a man was in his bed resting when two very tall human looking figures appeared in his room. They were thin and wore tight-fitting green shiny coveralls. The men sat on the edge of the witness's bed and one of them raised his hand making the witness feel dizzy, he then lowered it and the witness felt better, they then left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #1324, citing Hector P. Anganuzzi, Historia De Los Platos Voladores en Argentina Source ID: Johnson_3481 Source: Johnson ### Event 14220 (94DDD81A) Date: 6/14/1968 Description: Shortly after 12:00 midnight. Isidro Puentes Ventura is on guard duty in Cabañas, Artemisa, Cuba, when he sees on the ground a brilliant domed UFO with several antennas on top. He approaches to within 165 feet and fires about 40 machine gun rounds into it, convinced it is American. The object turns orange and emits a whistling sound as Puentes loses consciousness. At dawn, an Army patrol finds him still unconscious and takes him to a hospital in Pinar del Rio, where he remains in shock for 6 days, unable to speak. He is then taken to a Naval hospital in Havana, where he remains in shock another week. At the site, Cuban and Soviet intelligence specialists find 48 spent cartridges and 14 bullets flattened by impact with something solid, as well as equally spaced indentations on the ground. Tests reveal that the soil has been exposed to a high temperature. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, [pp. 82–85](https://archive.org/details/ufochroniclesofs00vall/page/82/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4565 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14221 (5843B7B8) Date: 6/14/1968 Description: At 45 minutes after midnight Mr. Pedro Pretzel, a 36-year-old hotel proprietor in the resort town of Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba, Argentina sighted a UFO with two very intense beams of red light while walking home. A short while later his 19-year-old daughter Maria, who had been working as the hotel receptionist, encountered a six and a half foot tall blond man dressed in a sky blue diver suit, holding a sky blue sphere in his left hand. On his right hand was a huge ring, like a gauntlet covering half his hand. The ends of his fingers and toes emitted light, and whenever he pointed his hand at her she felt faint and began to lose consciousness. He smiled and spoke to her in an unintelligible language for some minutes before leaving. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, FSR, September-October 1968, p. 11; Jane Thomas, FSR, November-December 1972, p. 24; Oscar A Galindez, FSR, January 1981, p. 8; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-32, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_3478 Source: Johnson ### Event 14222 (97EAAA46) Date: 6/14/1968 Description: A few hours later in Cabanas, Cuba a soldier fired 48 rounds from his machine gun at a landed UFO. Shortly after midnight several bursts of machine gun fire were heard coming from a location in the vicinity where militia member Isidro Puentes Ventura was on guard duty. At dawn, Puentes was found unconscious by an Army patrol and taken to a hospital in Pinar Del Rio, where he remained in shock and unable to speak for six days. Removed to the neurological ward at the Naval Hospital in Havana, Puentes was diagnosed to be suffering from emotional trauma, remaining in shock for another week. At the site where Puentes had been posted, Cuban and Soviet intelligence investigators found forty-eight spent cartridges and fourteen bullets apparently flattened by impact, as well as equally spaced indentations in the ground, indicating that a heavy device had landed. At the landing site three indentations were found suggesting tripod landing gear, inscribing a circle about four meters in diameter. Tests revealed that the soil had been exposed to a high degree of heat.

When Puentes recovered consciousness he reported that he had come to within 150 feet of a brilliant disc-shaped object on the ground, with a dome and several antennas on top. Convinced that the device was an American helicopter, Puentes fired at it. The craft turned orange and emitted a loud whistling sound, Puentes last recollection before losing consciousness. Soviet intelligence specialists subjected Puentes to a fifty-hour interrogation after which he was examined by a team of psychiatrists and put through fifteen hypnosis sessions. No contradictions were found in his story. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 82; Timothy Good, Beyond Top Secret, citing Jacques Vallee Source ID: Johnson_3479 Source: Johnson ### Event 14223 (011CAF81) Date: 6/14/1968 Time: 0300 Description: Jorge Yaru, 35, saw a strange light outside and a bright object, the size of a bus, 30 m away. It had yellow, green and red lights at the bottom. As he approached, the object rose suddenly, hovered for 40 min, and left at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 95 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mendiozaca, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_908 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14224 (A5845C54) Date: 6/15/1968 End date: 6/17/1968 Description: Night. Allied forward spotters along the eastern part of the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam see about 30 strange slow-moving lights. At the time they are interpreted as North Vietnamese Russian-built M-14 Hound helicopters ferrying men and materiel over the border. The lights appear the following evening, and several US 7th Air Force Phantom fighter-bombers soon arrive on the scene and fire on the intruders, supported by anti- aircraft ground fire. During the Allied attack the presumed helicopters move down the east coast and out to sea. The destroyers [HMAS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS%5FHobart%5F%28D%5F39%29) [Hobart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS%5FHobart%5F%28D%5F39%29), [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FEdson) [Edson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FEdson), and [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTheodore%5FE.%5FChandler) [Theodore E. Chandler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTheodore%5FE.%5FChandler) are ordered to undertake surveillance missions around Cồn Cỏ \(Tiger Island\) along the north central coast. Around 3:14 a.m. on June 17, the ships are involved in a friendly fire incident in which the Hobart is hit by 3 missiles from one of the Phantoms, causing major damage and killing two of the crew. \(Jon Wyatt, “[HMAS Hobart Hit during Vietnam UFO Enciunter?](http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case60.htm)” AUFORN Special Report, no. 34 \(April 2003\), reprinted in UFO Evidence\) June 16 and 19 — Night. Chief of Provincial Police German Rocha and Police Maj. Niceforo Léon observe a round object with a vivid blue light near El Choro, Poopó, Bolivia. It lands, leaves a strange, powerful odor, and burns grass and shrubs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[A New South American ‘Wave,’](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1968\): 23–24; Oscar A. Galíndez, “[South America Revisited,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201969%2012%20-%20no%2010%20UFOIC%20AUFOR.pdf)” Australian UFO Review, no. 10 \(December 1969\): 41 Source ID: Eberhart_4567 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14225 (DAF5A74B) Date: 6/15/1968 Description: 1:05 a.m. María Elodia Pretzel, daughter of the owner of the Motel La Cuesta on National Highway 20 east of Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba, Argentina, is locking up for the night when she encounters a strange-looking man in the dining area. He is 6 feet tall and dressed in a blue helmet and a suit that glows with an eerie light and seems made up of scales. In his left hand he is holding a glassy sphere that is radiating a coherent light that lights up the room. She feels somewhat paralyzed and is getting a mental message not to be afraid. The entity raises its other arm, which is emitting beams of light, and she feels helpless, falling backward. The entity walks slowly toward the outside door, putting one foot directly in front of the other, arm extended and holding the now extinguished sphere, and passes outside. Still shaken, María goes to the laundry room and drops on the floor, head and arms on a divan. A few minutes later, her father, Pedro Jacobo Pretzel, arrives and discovers her. Minutes earlier, he had seen two odd, stationary red lights about 5–6 feet from the ground off Highway 20. Maria is conscious but very disturbed, a condition that lasts for several days. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Oscar A. Galíndez, “[The Anthropomorphic Entity at Villa](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%205.pdf) [Carlos Paz—Part 1,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 \(January 1981\): 8–17, 29–31; Oscar A. Galíndez, “[The](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%206.pdf) [Anthropomorphic Entity at Villa Carlos Paz—Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 6 \(March 1981\): 15–18 Source ID: Eberhart_4566 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14226 (9692401C) Date: 6/16/1968 Description: Night. Chief of Provincial Police German Rocha and Police Major Niceforo Leon observed a round object with a vivid blue light. It landed, left a strange, powerful odor, and burned grass and shrubs. (Magonia #909, FSR 68, 5) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Choro, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3933 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14227 (DFB85C5A) Date: 6/16/1968 Time: night Description: Chief of Provincial Police German Rocha and Police Major Niceforo Leon observed a round object with a vivid blue light. It landed, left a strange, powerful odor, and burned grass and shrubs. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: El Choro, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_909 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14228 (C93A280D) Date: 6/18/1968 Description: Jorge Raul Scassa Sutter and Ruben Andrawos are flying a Cessna 182 from Villa Dolores, Córdoba, Argentina, to La Guardia, Catamarca, Argentina. They see an object looking like an overturned soup plate with a cupola on top. The object is grayish-blue with no windows, and its diameter is about 90 feet. The object is at the same altitude as the aircraft, 7,500 feet, and at a distance of 330 feet. It disappears by flying to the north at a fantastic speed. There is a possible VHF interference \(“frequency fading”\) when the object approaches the aircraft in front. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: La Gaceta de Tucumán, June 19, 1968; NICAP, “[Cessna 182 Encounters UFO / VHF I/FF](http://www.nicap.org/680618venezuela%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4568 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14229 (6958C3C1) Date: 6/18/1968 Description: On this night near Catamarca, Argentina four people in a car saw a bright, stationary object only five meters above the ground. At this point, their engine failed. The object rose, flashing a light, then quickly moved away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, citing FSR Case Histories, Supplement 16 Source ID: Johnson_3535 Source: Johnson ### Event 14230 (8570558C) Date: 6/19/1968 Description: On this night Romulo Velazquez, age 25, a miner, saw a UFO land in Poopo, Oruro, Bolivia. From the landed craft emerged a tall thin being, to whom the witness felt drawn "as if by a magnet." When the witness got closer the humanoid took hold of his right wrist and he then felt paralyzed and lost consciousness. Neighbors, including police officers, saw the UFO maneuvering for some minutes over Poopo at a low altitude, illuminating the village like daylight. Emitting blue rays, it rose and disappeared. Velazquez was found paralyzed on one side by a stroke, caused by a cerebral hemorrhage. At the landing site there was a wide area of burnt grass. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-33, citing FSR, September-October 1968; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968 Source ID: Johnson_3549 Source: Johnson ### Event 14231 (34BD1CD0) Date: 6/19/1968 Description: Night. A settler, Romulo Velasco, 25, saw a bright object land. From it emerged a strange "tall, slim being" who came toward the witness, who fainted. (Magonia #910, FSR 68, 5) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cabreria, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3934 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14232 (DA2340B0) Date: 6/19/1968 Time: night Description: A settler, Romulo Velasco, 25, saw a bright object land. From it emerged a strange "tall, slim being" who came toward the witness, who fainted. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cabreria, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_910 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14233 (5CF2948A) Date: 6/20/1968 Description: Eustaqui Zogorwski, age 63, a Polish immigrant, claimed that on this date he was drugged by a man who drove up to his house in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina in a black car. When he recovered consciousness he found himself in an otherworldly environment, where giant beings were dwelling in an aerial city.Two of these beings, over two meters tall, conducted Mr. Zogorwski to a tower in the center of the city, seemingly suspended in space. He was seated at a table around which sat 12 similar giants. They took his arms and he began to "trace signs automatically." He believed that they had "brainwashed" him. He was finally released between the towns of Brinkmann and Cotagaita, in Cordoba province, where the mysterious man in the black car picked him up and drove him to his home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-35 (A0936), citing La Nacion, August 7, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_3554 Source: Johnson ### Event 14234 (244E6B15) Date: 6/20/1968 Description: A husband and wife encounter an array of lights that hover above their car near Roswell, New Mexico. Both have a feeling of great peace. When the UFO vanishes, the wife finds that the arthritis in her neck has been healed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological Effects? Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 23 Source ID: Eberhart_4571 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14235 (8D534E9C) Date: 6/20/1968 Description: Following the publication of their book Flying Saucer Report: UFOs Unidentified, Unidentifiable, British researchers Anthony R. Pace and Roger H. Stanway visit the UK S4 \(Air\) UFO desk in Whitehall, London, again and meet with Leslie Akhurst, John Dickison, and Alec Cassie. Their request to record the interview is denied, but they are impressed with Cassie’s ability to recall UFO cases mentioned in their book. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 68](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/68/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4570 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14236 (E4E72B09) Date: 6/20/1968 Description: The US Seventh Air Force holds a “joint service conference on the UFO problem” in Hawaii after a series of tragic incidents on June 15–17, including a missile attack on “unidentified helicopters” that hit the Australian Navy destroyer [HMAS Hobart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS%5FHobart%5F%28D%5F39%29), killing two sailors. An investigation reveals that the Air Force is in the midst of a wave of sightings of things that are not enemy helicopters in central Vietnam, just south of and within the DMZ. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1051; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 327–328 Source ID: Eberhart_4569 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14237 (17FB1FD9) Date: 6/20/1968 Description: Peasants in Bulnes Nuble, Chile saw a five-foot tall being with a white head and torso, from whose arms wings extended. It was sighted several times in the vicinity of the village. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1094, citing El Comercio, June 25, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_3555 Source: Johnson ### Event 14238 (1F4D64A0) Date: 6/21/1968 Description: At 9:00 p.m. in Revere, Massachusetts the witness's cat ran off and the dog howled. An orange ball of fire slowly descended toward a maple tree. It wobbled, gave off white trail of vapor, accelerated away, then broke into many sparks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 353 Source ID: Johnson_3580 Source: Johnson ### Event 14239 (0961BF47) Date: 6/21/1968 Description: A man riding his bicycle encountered a large object, 50 cm above the ground. The top part was spinning, and it cast a vertical beam of red light toward the ground. Calcination traces were found by police. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 95 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Miramar, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_911 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14240 (DA5E4BD3) Date: 6/21/1968 Description: A man riding his bicycle encountered a large object, 50 cm above the ground. The top part was spinning, and it cast a vertical beam of red light toward the ground. Calcinations traces were found by police. (Magonia #911, LDLN 95) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miramar, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3935 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14241 (17FB4406) Date: Summer 1968 Description: Three teenagers notice an irregular triangular object flying to the west over housing in Stazic street in Rzeszów, Poland. It is dark with some brighter bulges on the bottom and emits a buzzing sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 32 Source ID: Eberhart_4559 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14242 (A01D54FB) Date: Summer 1968 Description: In 1968, when I was an Intelligence Officer, I briefed General George S. Brown, at 7th Air Force Headquarters in Saigon, Vietnam about UFOs near the DMZ. General Brown states in a Department of Defense transcript of press conference in Illinois, October 16, 1973. "I don't know whether this story has ever been told or not. They weren't called UFOs." (George Filer) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Viet Nam Source ID: NICAP_DB_3928 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14243 (FBE78AEB) Date: 6/21/1968 Description: At 11:30 a.m. a 12 meter long ovoid object was seen taking off from a farm in Brazey en Morvan, France. Dead sheep and slugs were found in a 25 meter wide indentation area left by the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Luis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 292; UNICAT database, case 498, citing Figuet & Ruchon Source ID: Johnson_3579 Source: Johnson ### Event 14244 (B533CAD6) Date: 6/21/1968 Description: A man riding his bicycle in Miramar, Argentina encountered a large object moving only 50 centimeters above the ground. At 1:30 a.m. the domed, disc-shaped object flew extremely low, nearly hugging the ground, and traveled from north to south while illuminating the ground with a vertical beam of red light. The top of the object appeared to be spinning. It suddenly increased in speed and left. Calcination traces were found by police. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 911, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 95; Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_3578 Source: Johnson ### Event 14245 (3CDF9885) Date: 6/23/1968 Description: At five minutes past midnight in Monte Banderas de Bilbao, in the Basque region of Spain, a four-meter wide circular-shaped flying object landed on a hilltop, 300 meters away from the three witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I Events in Spain and Portugal, case 59 Source ID: Johnson_3623 Source: Johnson ### Event 14246 (8C78C1C2) Date: 6/23/1968 Description: The witness was driving from Las Vegas, Nevada at around 8 p.m. when he saw a round, saucer-shaped object land on a dirt road not to far away from the road. The witness drove up the dirt road to the craft, which had landed on three leg-like protrusions. Soon three bearded men, very human in appearance, disembarked from the craft. They approached the witness who had by now left his vehicle. They expressed curiosity as to his long hair. He explained that he just wanted to wear it that way and was not into drugs or anything. They seemed to appreciate that. They then told him that they came from a world with no cities where its inhabitants were born in the wilderness. They told him that cities were a danger to society. They called themselves "Dodonians." The witness shook hands with the men and they boarded the craft, which quickly left the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_3624 Source: Johnson ### Event 14247 (94C453F0) Date: 6/24/1968 Description: A young woman named Torres was awakened at 1:10 a.m. in Laguna Raiva, Santa Fe, Argentina by an intense humming sound. She then noticed an oval-shaped light in the corner of her bedroom and inside the light stood two strangely dressed beings. They both wore metallic diving suits and helmets with visors. One was taller than the other and luminous white beams of light emanated from the tips of the fingers of both entities and from their visors and lower abdomens. Both beings vanished suddenly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #822, citing Dr. Oscar A. Galindez, FSR, Vol. 27 # 1 Source ID: Johnson_3642 Source: Johnson ### Event 14248 (6E474983) Date: 6/25/1968 Time: 105 Description: Jorge Ribles, electrician at the Carmal Chemical Plant, noticed that the engines were at a standstill, while the countryside was lit up with intensive reddish light. Another man, 52-yearold Jose J. Rociski, fell unconscious as a vivid light enveloped him. He was unable to move his left arm for three days, and suffered from pain and extreme nervousness. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Bouchard, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_912 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14249 (F7EA0ABC) Date: 6/25/1968 Description: 1:05 a.m. Jorge Ribles, electrician at the Carmal Chemical Plant, noticed that the engines were at a standstill, while the countryside was lit up with intensive reddish light. Another man, 52-year-old Jose J. Rociski, fell unconscious as a vivid light enveloped him. (Magonia #912, FSR 68, 5) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bouchard, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3936 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14250 (9398EF52) Date: 6/26/1968 Description: Multiple reports of close encounters involving three strangely dressed humanoids came from towns located on the Atacama Salt Beds in Antofagasta Province in northern Chile. Residents of the towns of Reine, Socaine, Toconas and Chiloporo saw the same UFO manned by these three beings. The UFO was reported to have landed and on at least three occasions the humanoids entered the same house, taking small items with them. This behavior spread fear and panic among the local inhabitants. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-36/A0937, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1972, p. 5, citing UFO Chile Source ID: Johnson_3672 Source: Johnson ### Event 14251 (CC7C5E79) Date: 6/26/1968 Description: An Argentine Trotskyist using the pseudonym [J. Posadas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FPosadas), who formed a movement in 1962 based on the inevitability of nuclear war, has proclaimed an interest in UFOs as entities with the ability to master sophisticated technologies that are compatible with socialism. If UFOs exist, they might be helpful in addressing some of the major problems in the earth. In his pamphlet, Les Soucoupes Volantes: Le processus de la matière et de l’energie, la science et le socialisme, Posadas pleads that “We must call upon beings from other planets when they come to intervene, to collaborate with the inhabitants of the Earth to overcome misery. We must launch a call on them to use their resources to help us.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Posadas, [Flying Saucers: The Process of Matter and Energy, Science, the](https://www.marxists.org/archive/posadas/1968/06/flyingsaucers.html) [Revolutionary and Working-Class Struggle, and Socialism](https://www.marxists.org/archive/posadas/1968/06/flyingsaucers.html)[,](https://www.marxists.org/archive/posadas/1968/06/flyingsaucers.html) June 26, 1968; A. M. Gittlitz, I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalyptic Communism, Pluto, 2020; Ian Parker, “[Believe It or Not!](https://socialistresistance.org/believe-it-or-not/19857)” Socialist Resistance, May 1, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_4572 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14252 (BE0DFCEC) Date: 6/27/1968 Description: Three children, Hugo Cesar Messina, Oscar Crespo, and a third boy were bicycling in Cerro de las Rosas, Cordoba, Argentina at 5:30 p.m. when they were surprised by the appearance of a silvery colored object. The UFO had on its lower part a kind of helix, where lights of white and sky-blue were revolving. It hovered about 20 meters up and 50 meters away from the boys. On the upper part of the object appeared a couple, a man and a woman, who floated in the air. They were of enormous stature with long white hair, and they wore luminous close fitting garments. Holding hands, they began to descend slowly, disappearing into the object without any door opening. The luminous helix began to rotate at greater speed, and the UFO went away at great speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-37, citing Carlos Banchs Source ID: Johnson_3696 Source: Johnson ### Event 14253 (EBD672FD) Date: 6/28/1968 Description: A UFO flew over Bucharest, Romania at around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, stopped and hovered for several seconds, and then continued on its way. In Cluj, Romania a disc hung motionless in the sky for 45 minutes that same afternoon, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from behind the Iron Curtain, p. 240 Source ID: Johnson_3713 Source: Johnson ### Event 14254 (7D802031) Date: 6/29/1968 Description: On this evening in San Luis de Palmar, Corrientes, Argentina on Highway 5 a circular flattened disc-shaped object was sighted by three men in their thirties, Senors Sanchez, Pastor, and Vega. It emitted a vivid orange light. When it passed close to their car it shook the car violently and the car's gears went into reverse, causing the car to drive backwards. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1974, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_3730 Source: Johnson ### Event 14255 (5024FF15) Date: 6/30/1968 Description: At 1:15 a.m. Jose Paulino Nunez, a distillery worker, encountered two people on the beach in Lujan, Mendoza, Argentina that he first mistook to be guards. Their dress and actions were like normal people, but they showed him a spherical device some 30 cm in which he could see images of people walking about. Speaking in a strange, metallic voice, one of them asked him, "Do you know these people? They were like you. Many more will be like them. Many people in the world will see the same thing you have seen. We will talk about this again. If you speak of this, be sure it is with responsible people." At that point the witness experienced a lapse of memory, for the next thing he recalls was being back in the laboratory, where it took him an hour to compose himself. The people he saw in the images were all tall and human like, with pale complexions, and long, light colored hair, who appeared to be walking about in a trance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-38, citing Richard Heiden, & Jader Pereira; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 110 Source ID: Johnson_3750 Source: Johnson ### Event 14256 (1D1C9024) Date: 7/1968 Description: British physicist [Reginald Victor Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%5FVictor%5FJones) publishes a skeptical view of UFOs in Physics Bulletin, but supports genuine scientific inquiry. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: R. V. Jones, “[The Natural Philosophy of Flying Saucers,](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9112/19/7/010)” Physics Bulletin, July 1968, pp. 225–230 Source ID: Eberhart_4573 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14257 (49D6C2F7) Date: 7/1968 Description: 1:00 a.m. Walter Rizzi is taking a nap in his car by the road just south of the Gardena Pass, South Tyrol, Italy, when he wakes to the smell of something burning. He sees a light about 1,600 feet further downhill shining through the mist. The mist parts, and he sees an enormous object that suddenly reminds him of an encounter he had with a strange hermit on the island of Rhodes in Greece when he was in the Italian army in World War II. The hermit had predicted he would someday meet with advanced beings from the cosmos who would provide him with the assurance of life throughout the universe. Rizzi makes his way downhill toward the object, which is silvery, some 260 feet in diameter, standing on three legs, bathed in fleecy white light, and emitting a burning odor. He gets within 10 feet and cannot go further. He sees two beings inside a transparent cupola on the top who are looking down at him. To the right of the object is a robot about 8 feet tall with three legs and four arms. A beam of light comes from the center of the object, and Rizzi sees another being dressed in a tight-fitting suit and glass helmet descending. They communicate telepathically about other planets and the universe. Eventually the entities reenter the object and take off. Rizzi claims there are landing marks, effects on the grass, and his watch starts losing time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[Introductory Comments on the Rizzi Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 3 \(September 1980\): 21–22; Walter Rizzi, “[Close Encounter in the Dolomites,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 3 \(September 1980\): 22–27; 1Pinotti 158–169 Source ID: Eberhart_4576 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14258 (173FB534) Date: 7/1968 Description: A man is driving on Blacketts Lake Road southwest of Sydney, Nova Scotia, when he sees a saucer-shaped object descending below the tree line near the lake. He parks his car and runs along a trail to get closer. He is about 75 feet from the object, which is only 6 feet above the ground in a clearing. The UFO suddenly rises and flies away. The RCMP blocks access to the site during its investigation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Former RCMP Officer Photographs UFO near](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Journal%20UFO/1981%5FVol%202%20No%204.pdf) [Sydney, N.S.,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Journal%20UFO/1981%5FVol%202%20No%204.pdf)” Journal UFO 2, no. 4 \(March 1981\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_4575 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14259 (A7856E7D) Date: 7/1968 Description: Crash/retrieval report by one witness. (Source: RUEGG, unknown) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Southlands, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3937 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14260 (6A8D09F2) Date: 7/1968 Description: A CIA team flies into Saigon \[now Ho Chi Minh City\] to experiment on three Viet Cong prisoners at Biên Hòa Hospital. Working in an enclosed compound, the team’s neurosurgeon and neurologist insert tiny electrodes into their brains. Behaviorists then experiment on the men, arming them with knives and trying to induce violent behavior in them using direct electrical stimulation. After a week of experimentation that fails to incite the men to attack each other, they are shot dead and their bodies burned. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sid Taylor, “[A History of Secret CIA Mind Control](http://all.net/journal/deception/MKULTRA/www.profreedom.free4all.co.uk/skeletons%5F1.html) [Research,](http://all.net/journal/deception/MKULTRA/www.profreedom.free4all.co.uk/skeletons%5F1.html)” Nexus, April/May 1992 Source ID: Eberhart_4574 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14261 (4E4BED6C) Date: 7/1/1968 Description: 4:00 a.m. Raul Calcedo met two giants, almost 3 m tall, in Ricardone. He fled in terror, in spite of a strange power that tended to make him stay. (Magonia #913, FSR 68, 5) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ricardone, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3939 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14262 (FA54A6EF) Date: 7/1/1968 Time: 1230 Description: Three boys saw an object, about 8 m wide, 350 m away. It had a large tripod under carriage and a ladder reaching down to the ground. These devices were retracted, and the object rose a few meters, then flew off at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 6 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Botucatu, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_914 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14263 (0D4A048C) Date: 7/1/1968 Description: 12:30 a.m. Three boys saw an object, about 8 m wide, 350 m away. It had a large tripod under carriage and a ladder reaching down to the ground. These devices were retracted, and the object rose a few meters, then flew off at high speed. (Magonia #914, FSR 68, 6) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Botucatu, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_3940 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14264 (C9F250BC) Date: 7/1/1968 Time: 0400 Description: Raul Calcedo met two giants, almost 3 m tall, in Ricardone. He fled in terror, in spite of a strange power that tended to make him stay. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Ricardone, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_913 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14265 (8C510FD7) Date: 7/1/1968 Description: 12:30 a.m. Three boys are sitting on the main gate of the UNESP Hospital das Clinicas of the Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil. Suddenly they see a large object “as big as a house” sitting about 1,150 feet to the west of them. It has a large tripod undercarriage and a ladder reaching down to the ground. The boys can hear a weird “tinging sound on a high note.” They start to yell as the UFO retracts its tripod and ladder and rise into the air and speed off to the east, reaching a great altitude. Alerted by their shouts, other witnesses see the object moving away. A student named Antônio Alegre examines the landing site shortly afterward and finds marks forming an isosceles triangle, two sides measuring 20 feet and one side 23 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nigel Rimes, “[Landing at](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%206.pdf) [Botucatu,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1968\): 21–24 Source ID: Eberhart_4578 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14266 (7A95F2DA) Date: 7/1/1968 Description: NASA publishes a Chronological Catalog of Reported Lunar Events, by [Barbara M. Middlehurst,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%5FM.%5FMiddlehurst) [Jaylee M.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaylee%5FBurley%5FMead) [Burley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaylee%5FBurley%5FMead)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaylee%5FBurley%5FMead) [Patrick Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FMoore)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FMoore) and [Barbara L. Welther](https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-l-welther-33317063)[.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-l-welther-33317063) Moore invents the term “transient lunar phenomena” to describe short-lived changes in brightness, color, or appearance on the surface of the moon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Transient lunar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%5Flunar%5Fphenomenon) [phenomenon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%5Flunar%5Fphenomenon)”; Barbara M. Middlehurst, Jaylee M. Burley, Patrick Moore, and Barbara L. Welther, [Chronological](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19680018720/downloads/19680018720.pdf) [Catalog of Reported Lunar Events](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19680018720/downloads/19680018720.pdf)[,](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19680018720/downloads/19680018720.pdf) NASA Technical Report R-277, July 1, 1968 Source ID: Eberhart_4577 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14267 (B2DD81F6) Date: 7/1/1968 Description: A man, who lived in a third floor apartment along with his wife and young son, was watching television around midnight with his wife. It was a hot and humid summer night in Norwich, Connecticut. Suddenly the TV reception began to snow, and then they heard crying coming from the child's room. The man then caught a glimpse of someone in the room and ran to see who it was. When he got to the bedroom window he saw the figure fly away to a point about 200 feet up and several hundred feet south of the apartment building. It was headed towards a UFO that was ruby red in color. In seconds the figure was like a silver dot that had merged with the object along with 3 or 4 other dots. The object then rose to about 1000 feet and went southwest at high speed. The creature was described as about four-foot tall with large eyes and fang-like teeth. Its arms were disproportionately long, like an ape's arms. It wore a silvery colored suit and its feet did not appear to touch the ground. It seemed to float across the room and went out the open window. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #3198, citing the National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3776 Source: Johnson ### Event 14268 (B4FD9810) Date: 7/1/1968 Description: Returning home at four o'clock in the morning after a dance, 17-year-old Raul Salcedo encountered two very tall strange beings in Ricardone, Entre Rios, Argentina. They were nearly 10 feet tall. He "felt himself drawn towards them by the powerful magnetism radiated by them," which temporarily immobilized him, but he was able to break free and fled home in terror. There was simultaneously a spate of UFO sightings locally and in nearby San Lorenzo. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 913; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-39, citing FSR, September-October 1968, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_3774 Source: Johnson ### Event 14269 (A780440C) Date: 7/1/1968 Description: At 12:30 p.m. three boys in Botucatu, Sao Paulo State, Brazil saw a disc-shaped object on the ground about eight meters wide and 350 meters away. It had a large tripod undercarriage and a ladder reaching down to the ground. These landing devices were retracted inside the object, and the object rose a few meters into the air, then flew off at high speed. Physical traces included the ground marks left behind by the tripod landing gear: imprints 7m x 6.8m x 5.45m apart, and marks left by the ladder. There was also a residual "gunpowder" smell, and the boys thought they heard a "tingling" sound during the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 914, citing Nigel Rimes, FSR, November-December 1968, p. 21; Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, December 1970, p. 11; Fred I. Merritt, Leg-Mark Catalog (N = 68), case 30 Source ID: Johnson_3775 Source: Johnson ### Event 14270 (B24C365F) Date: 7/2/1968 Description: At 11:25 a.m. 15-year old Oscar Iriart was riding his horse in Sierra Chica, Buenos Aires, Argentina and encountered two strange men who beckoned to him. They were five and a half feet tall, with thin white hair and wore red clothing. The witness noticed that their legs were semi transparent. They told him, in Spanish, "You are going to know the world. We will take you. But not now, as we have a big load." They directed his attention to an elliptical object six feet in diameter, standing on 20" tripod legs in a drainage ditch. Then one of them handed the boy an envelope, telling him to dip it into a nearby puddle. He did so, and found that neither the envelope nor his hand were wetted. In the envelope, written in a crude hand like a small child's, was the message, "You are going to know the world, F. Saucer." The two men then got into their machine through the top, and it took off vertically at great speed. Oscar found both his horse and dog paralyzed, and unable to move for some minutes. At the spot were found 3 holes 5" deep, arranged in an isosceles triangle. 5 local skeptics visited the site at 2315 that night and were amazed to observed a luminous object zigzag above them at low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-41, citing Raul Coronel, FSR, September-October 1968 Source ID: Johnson_3788 Source: Johnson ### Event 14271 (D42F3662) Date: 7/2/1968 Description: 11:25 a.m. Oscar H. Iriart, 15, saw two men of normal height, with short, white hair and red clothes, semi-transparent legs, motioning to him. Near them was an elliptical, silvery machine, 2 m long, 60 cm high, with three 50 cm legs. (Magonia #916, FSR 68, 5) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sierra Chica, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3943 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14272 (6F1930AA) Date: 7/2/1968 Description: 11:25 a.m. Oscar H. Iriart, 15, saw two men of normal height, with short, white hair and red clothes, semi-transparent legs, motioning to him. The witness's horse and dog were paralyzed for several minutes. (Magonia #916, FSR 68, 5) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sierra Chica, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3942 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14273 (155F5568) Date: 7/2/1968 Description: 8:15 a.m. A boy, Sola, saw, a few meters away, a strange being, about 2.10 m tall, hovering in the air, his body emitting a peculiar glow, near a bright, unknown object. (Magonia #915, FSR 68, 5) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cofico, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3941 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14274 (F73EC66D) Date: 7/2/1968 Description: At 8:15 p.m. a boy named Sola saw a bright object hovering over a nearby mountain in Cofico, Salta province, Argentina. At the same time the boy beheld at only a few meters distance from him, a "strange being about 2.10 meters in height, hanging suspended in air, his body emitting a strange luminosity." This being suddenly spun around like a top, then rose into the air and vanished above the mountain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-40, citing FSR, Vol. 14, No. 5 Source ID: Johnson_3789 Source: Johnson ### Event 14275 (AF7F7E1F) Date: 7/2/1968 Description: A woman in St. Alexis de Montcalm, Quebec, Canada saw a green object shaped like a hat or mushroom at 9:14 p.m. which flew by at the height of her apartment window. She believed she saw up to 20 small men inside, all of green color with rather pointed noses, resembling sculptures in the African Pavilion at the Montreal Expo. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-85, citing Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science Source ID: Johnson_3790 Source: Johnson ### Event 14276 (B5FA5D49) Date: 7/2/1968 Description: Constable M. Michaud and another police officer in St. Thomas, Quebec, Canada reported that at 9:30 p.m. they saw two naked little men run through a drainage ditch and flee. Their report stated that they thought they had cornered the "little men" but they disappeared as they were about to be apprehended. They were estimated to be only two feet tall with shoulders the size of adults and disproportionately large heads. The appearance of a large meteor at the time was also noted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-42, citing Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Fall 1968 Source ID: Johnson_3791 Source: Johnson ### Event 14277 (F1078BD6) Date: 7/2/1968 Description: Several witnesses in Wooler, Ontario, Canada saw a bright object land on some nearby brush at 10:00 p.m.. Later several shadowy beings were seen entering nearby homes and reportedly they took several items. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #2409, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_3792 Source: Johnson ### Event 14278 (6539A55A) Date: 7/2/1968 Description: 10:00–10:30 p.m. Fred Coulthard Jr. and his brother Wayne are at a family get-together in the backyard of their father’s home in Wooler, Ontario, when they see an object with rotating red lights that agitates the family’s horses and cats. Around 11:30 p.m., poltergeist-like disturbances \(a shattered window, objects thrown around, a strong odor of roses\) begin in the house and continue for several days. “Fairy rings” are discovered on the ground in a wooded valley north of town. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mrs. W. Greystone, “[Canada’s UFO Poltergeist,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201969%20N%202%2CBeyond%20Condon.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., Beyond Condon, special issue no. 2 of FSR, June 1969, pp. 66–68, 70 Source ID: Eberhart_4580 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14279 (27AABDE8) Date: 7/2/1968 Time: 0815 Description: A boy, Sola, saw, a few meters away, a strange being, about 2.10 m tall, hovering in the air, his body emitting a peculiar glow, near a bright, unknown object. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Cofico, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_915 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14280 (3BED8F2F) Date: 7/2/1968 Time: 1125 Description: Oscar H. Iriart, 15, saw two men of normal height, with short, white hair and red clothes, semi-transparent legs, motioning to him. Near them was an elliptical, silvery machine, 2 m long, 60 cm high, with three 50 cm legs. The men gave him an envelope with a childish message and flew off. The witness's horse and dog were paralyzed for several minutes. The boy arrived home "like a madman." Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 68, 5 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Sierra Chica, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_916 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14281 (5D0403EC) Date: 7/2/1968 Description: 11:25 a.m. Oscar Heriberto Iriart, 15, sees two men of normal height motioning to him at Sierra Chica, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They have short, white hair and red clothes. They also have semi-transparent legs because he can see through them to the grass behind. Near the men is an elliptical, silvery machine, 6.5 feet long, 2 feet high, with three legs 19 inches high. The men give him an envelope they telepathically say contains an important message, telling him to dip it in water before reading, then they fly off. Iriart dips the envelope in a puddle and finds that both the envelope and his hands are dry. The message is written in Spanish in a crude handwriting: “You are going to know the world. F. Saucer.” The witness’s horse and dog are paralyzed for several minutes. The boy arrives home terrified. The family goes to the landing site and finds three holes, each about 5 inches deep and forming an isosceles triangle, the base side measuring 6.5 feet and the other 2 sides 5.2 feet wide. At 11:15 p.m., five skeptical men \(including Police Sgt. Raúl Coronel\) from the Sierra Chica Social Club visit the landing site and declare the holes to be fake. However, they see a zigzagging light a few feet from the ground and heading their way. They drop to the ground, it passes over them, and then shoots away straight up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[A](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%205.pdf) [New South American ‘Wave,’](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1968\): 26–27 Source ID: Eberhart_4579 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14282 (21F1F73D) Date: 7/3/1968 Description: Around midnight a man driving in a car in Colle Orlando, Italy had a tall humanoid jump onto the roadway from an embankment in front of him. The being wore blue overalls, had long hair, and a bright light shone from his chest. The being easily jumped over the car, laughed, then jumped to a hill where a small red disc was hovering. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, 1968, case 99, citing ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_3805 Source: Johnson ### Event 14283 (0E306C3F) Date: 7/5/1968 Description: North Adams, Massachusetts - A green light larger than a star was seen moving slowly through the sky. Through binoculars it looked like a green ball with a reddish trail. When an airplane approached it, the object "blinked out" and then reappeared after the plane was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, pg. 353 Source ID: Johnson_3844 Source: Johnson ### Event 14284 (6A0E04A3) Date: 7/6/1968 Description: At 1:17 a.m. a married couple in La Habra, California noticed a hovering cigar-shaped object with two circular objects beneath it. These two lights rose and merged into the larger object, which then took off. The couple noted that their dog was agitated during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_3879 Source: Johnson ### Event 14285 (7F83ABC1) Date: 7/7/1968 Description: Eight ovals near Cherokee-6 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Seattle, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3944 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14286 (14851D77) Date: 7/8/1968 Description: Sr. Aldo Juan Santiago, with Miss Espinoza and her son and a young friend of the latter, were driving near Canota, Mendoza province, Argentina on a cold, moonlight night at around 3:00 a.m. when they saw a luminous object pass over and land near Villavicencio, about three kilometers away. The object was fluctuating in color between blue-green and yellow. They stopped and had a mid-night cookout, and toward the end of their stopover they witnessed a man approach, walking on the road to Villavicencio. He walked by making "giant strides," and came up and then passed by them without speaking. He was wearing "a sort of one piece Montgomery, fastened at the wrists & ankles." It was blue in color, with a hood over the head, and he seemed to be wearing spectacles. The area was far from any town and they had seen no one else, and no other car, on the road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-87, citing Dr. Carlos Wittenstein, Cuarta Dimension, March 1976, p. 20; Oscar A. Uriondo Source ID: Johnson_3928 Source: Johnson ### Event 14287 (3A6286AA) Date: 7/8/1968 Description: Object darted back & forth near Cessna 172 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warren, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3945 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14288 (40A0318F) Date: 7/8/1968 Description: A 20 foot long vertical metallic cylinder with yellow-orange body lights followed a Cessna 172 light airplane flying over Warren, Ohio at 10:20 p.m. It darted back-and-forth, then sped away to the east. The sighting lasted ten minutes and there were four witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1968, p. 6; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 119; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_3929 Source: Johnson ### Event 14289 (094A0157) Date: 7/9/1968 Description: 9:35 p.m. Witnesses at Long Beach, California, see a huge, glowing, cloud-like mass over the Santa Catalina Channel for 90 minutes. Five smaller objects are seen maneuvering around it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ann Druffel, “[Santa Catalina](http://www.cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf) [Island Recurring ‘Cloud Cigars,’](http://www.cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf)” in Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Chicago, 1976, pp. 62–74; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 9–10; Ann Druffel, “Santa Catalina Channel Cloud Cigars,” IUR 31, no. 1 \(January 2007\): 13–14; Wim van Utrecht, “[‘Mother Ship’ over](https://www.caelestia.be/catalina.html) [California,](https://www.caelestia.be/catalina.html)” Caelestia, August 5, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_4581 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14290 (DC03F081) Date: 7/9/1968 Description: At 11:30 p.m. two girls met a "man from another world" who tried to talk to them in La Plata, Argentina. He was six feet tall, had red hair and blue eyes, and wore a one-piece coverall uniform and a green visor that emitted flashes of light. The girls fled inside their house. Marks of four fingers were found on the door to their house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, January-February 1970, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0948 Source ID: Johnson_3957 Source: Johnson ### Event 14291 (C5E17977) Date: 7/9/1968 Description: Three hours after the Argentine humanoid contact, at 9:35 p.m. PDT in Long Beach, California a diamond-shaped, grayish-white hazy mass was seen hovering under the full moon in the southeastern sky. At 10:05 p.m. it moved 55 degrees in a horizontal line due west. Ten minutes later it moved back to the first spot it had occupied. Five oval-shaped objects with clear edges maneuvered around it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ann Druffel, Proceedings of the Center for UFO Studies Conference: 1976, p. 65 Source ID: Johnson_3958 Source: Johnson ### Event 14292 (F3FECCDB) Date: 7/11/1968 Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) Fairbanks RAPCON Has Returns (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [680711](http://www.nicap.org/680711eielson%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eielson AFB, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3946 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14293 (3EF0D077) Date: 7/13/1968 Description: 10:00 p.m. [Irena Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena%5FScott) and her sister Sue Postle are traveling west of Boston, Massachusetts, on State Highway 9 when they see an unusual object to the south. They watch it intermittently after turning south on State Highway 128 and I-95. It is moving in an erratic pattern and blinking. Then they see a basketball-sized object 20–50 feet away, near the ground, and constantly changing colors. Scott pulls over to the side of the road, loads her camera, and takes five photos, only one of which shows the light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Irena Scott, “Fear and Ambiguity in Massachusetts,” IUR 13, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1988\): 14–17; Irena Scott, “UFO Studies in the Scientific Literature,” IUR 15, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1990\): 18; Irena Scott, “A Photograph and Its Aftermath,” IUR 15, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1990\): 12–14, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_4582 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14294 (69157E7E) Date: 7/15/1968 Description: 3:00 a.m. UFO emitted beam-like searchlight to ground. Also narrower red beam or ray in center. (See drawing. UFOs: A New Look, pg. 44) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3947 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14295 (0B0EB807) Date: 7/15/1968 Description: At 7:30 p.m. Juan Gilabert and his wife Anastasia were at their home in Mar del Plata, Argentina when Anastasia suddenly heard a loud whistling sound and felt extreme heat. Juan was in another room. At the same time a bright light seemed to descend from the ceiling. The light began to dim and she felt partially paralyzed. In a corner of the room she saw a short humanoid figure wearing a silvery suit. Frightened, she managed to grab hold of her young daughter and ran outside screaming. Several neighbors, among them Rogelio Gianomini, came to her aid and found a strange white substance on the floor and a strong sulphur-like odor in the area. Small footprints were also found. Mrs. Gilabert suffered from nervous shock after the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, p. 31, citing a newspaper source; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing Carlos Daniel Ferguson, Gaceta OVNI Source ID: Johnson_4074 Source: Johnson ### Event 14296 (5778DFB7) Date: 7/15/1968 Description: At three o'clock in the morning a domed disc-shaped object was seen low to the ground in Columbus, Indiana. It directed a searchlight toward the ground, and it also emitted a narrower red beam or ray. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_4073 Source: Johnson ### Event 14297 (C163C1C4) Date: 7/16/1968 Description: At 12:15 a.m. five police, members of the National Gendarmerie, were driving in a jeep in the mountains in Andacollo, Neuquen Province, Argentina when a disc-shaped UFO flew close to ground, emitting a pale blue light. The object was described as flat and about two meters in diameter. Their jeep's engine lost power during the five minute duration of their encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1974, p. 16; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_4098 Source: Johnson ### Event 14298 (301D8256) Date: 7/16/1968 Description: National Police officers saw disc with blue light nearby, moving slowly. Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, Supplement 18; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 41 (E) jeep (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Andacollo, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_3949 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14299 (E92E1F3B) Date: 7/16/1968 Description: 11:00 p.m. 15 minutes. Two men in a car stopped to rest in a field after long drive. While driving into the field, with headlights on only long enough to avoid obstructions, they encountered a light. Shortly after, a large crimson red object hovered over trees. (MUJ, issue and page unknown) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [680716](http://www.nicap.org/indy680716dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis (near), IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3948 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14300 (58BADF4D) Date: 7/17/1968 Description: Near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at around eleven p.m. a civil servant named Pedro Dema Filho heard a loud humming noise and was blinded by a powerful beam of light accompanied by two green lamps. These vanished, and from a door in a UFO emerged four short greenish entities not much over 20 inches tall, wearing something like headphones. They quickly approached and paralyzed him, and he was unable to run away. They next seized him and dragged him into their craft, the interior of which “looked like a laboratory”. There they questioned him, apparently using telepathy, at length about human customs. They didn't seem to have mouths. After that, they undressed him and conducted a detailed physical examination. They put a luminous wire device into his mouth that made his body appear transparent. During this procedure his limbs felt cold, his head felt like it was spinning, and his tongue felt like it had “turned to stone.” They finally released him, and he watched the craft fly off leaving a luminous trail. He felt no subsequent ill effects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1969, p. 32, citing Gazeta Noticia, July 21, 1968; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-46, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_4133 Source: Johnson ### Event 14301 (E71A54EC) Date: 7/17/1968 Description: Late evening. A civil servant is allegedly snatched off the São Paulo Highway in Brazil and taken into a UFO by four green entities wearing devices that look like headphones. While he is in a state of paralysis, they question him via telepathy about human customs, physiology, and reproduction. The creatures depart abruptly as if in response to instructions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[Physical Examination by ‘Miniature Martians,’](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1969\): 32, 34; Clark III 279 Source ID: Eberhart_4583 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14302 (5BE86939) Date: 7/18/1968 Description: At 7:30 a.m. three schoolteachers encountered a reddish-orange, oval-shaped object a few meters above the ground while driving to work in Lavalle, Argentina. It was about 20 meters in diameter and gave off the smell of wet paper. One witness felt drowsy from the smell. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1974, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_4171 Source: Johnson ### Event 14303 (069D09CA) Date: 7/18/1968 Description: 1:05 a.m. RCMP Constable W. J. Whyte and his wife spot a yellow circular object at high altitude moving west to east near Truro, Nova Scotia. It looks like a satellite, but turns reddish before disappearing in the distance. At 1:10 p.m., a couple near Onslow Mountain a few miles to the north see a rosy red light in the southwest hovering just above the trees. They watch it for 15 minutes before it moves and accelerates out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 70–71 Source ID: Eberhart_4584 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14304 (892B0E03) Date: 7/20/1968 Description: A man on a hiking trip near Cluj-Napoca, Romania was scanning the field with his binoculars at eleven o'clock in the morning when he noticed four bizarre looking humanoids standing on a field. The humanoids were standing around apparently inspecting the area except for one that appeared to be lying prone on the ground. These human like figures appeared to be naked or topless as if sunning themselves in a beach. As he watched, five minutes later a large gray balloon shaped object appeared above some trees. It was flying in a west-east direction and appeared to be about 25 meters in diameter. At one point the object ejected a small sphere that descended in a vertical parabolic trajectory disappearing behind the trees. Soon 4 bell-parachute shaped objects appeared and descend over each of the humanoids covering them completely, each of the humanoids raised their arms as if waiting to be covered by the objects. The parachute like objects then disappeared along with the humanoids. The witness described the humanoids as about 1.40 meters in height, of a robust build with short muscular legs and over-developed calves. Their skin was dark reddish in color and their hair was dark and swarthy. Their heads and faces were peculiar since they had dog or canine-like characteristics. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing Calin Turcu, Romania Source ID: Johnson_4246 Source: Johnson ### Event 14305 (65C2A0FE) Date: 7/20/1968 Description: After 12:00 midnight. Three 14-year-old girls at a summer camp at Kaarnajärv, near Otepää, Valga County, Estonia, see a swiftly moving star and a cigar-shaped object in the distance that quickly disappears. Somewhat disturbed, they decide to retire to bed. Through a window they see a bright object about 165 feet away. It is surrounded by reddish-orange and yellow beams of light. Soon it goes out, leaving only a dark greenish nebula with a blue-green ring around it that illuminates the surrounding woods. They watch it for about 5 minutes until it blinks out. One of the girls goes outside and sees a female figure, less than 5 feet tall and wearing a silver ribbon, standing where the object had been. It vanishes. The next morning, they find a circular burnt area about 6 feet in diameter and four wedge-shaped prints in the soil. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Juri Lina, “[UFO Landings in Estonia,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20vol%2024%20no1.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 1 \(June 1978\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_4585 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14306 (FEDBF797) Date: 7/20/1968 Description: At 12:30 a.m. three 14-year-old girls at a summer camp on Lake Kaarna, Estonia were sitting outside eating when they saw a bright light descend overhead and join up with a cigar-shaped craft that had just appeared. The objects soon disappeared. Moments later, after the witnesses had gone inside their cabin, they saw a bright orange bus-shaped object on the ground about 50 meters away. It was surrounded by dazzling beams of orange yellow light, which suddenly dimmed and the object began emitting a green blue light. It had a blue green stripe around it and seemed to shrink in size, and after a few minutes the witnesses heard a buzzing sound and the object disappeared behind some bushes. One of the witnesses ran to where the object had been and saw a small human-like figure that had feminine features; the figure was standing where the object had been, and she seemed to be wearing a shiny silvery ribbon across her chest. The being suddenly rose up into the air and vanished. The next day strange ground markings were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Juri Lina, FSR, June 1978, p. 3; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_4245 Source: Johnson ### Event 14307 (AB04D32B) Date: 7/22/1968 Description: 1:20 a.m. Entities observed. Ms. Adela Casalvieri, night nurse at the Neuropsychiatry Hospital, heard a loud penetrating humming noise outside in the hospital courtyard. Going out to see what it was, she observed a saucer-shaped landed object only 20 meters away. It was brightly luminous and sitting in the middle of the courtyard. A luminous red beam came from the object and struck her, and she found that her legs were paralyzed. (David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-89, citing G. J. Gianza Paz & A. M. Baragiola). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [680722](http://www.nicap.org/mendoza680722dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mendoza, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3950 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14308 (CAE3DFC9) Date: 7/22/1968 Description: In the evening six young girls, ages 7 to 13, reported they saw a figure they described as "The Virgin Mary" in St. Bruno, Quebec. The apparition appeared before them hovering in the air. Four of the girls just saw the figure, but two also heard a voice they described as "soft and slow." It advised them to pray and promised to return on October 7. That same evening in St. Basile, Quebec a boy reported seeing a man like figure that was apparently airborne and "seemed to be walking in the sky, without any visible means of propulsion." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse Source ID: Johnson_4301 Source: Johnson ### Event 14309 (293C75D6) Date: 7/22/1968 Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Off-duty police constable Martyn Johnson is walking with his girlfriend in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, when they see two lights approaching them from above a nearby park. They are giving off many colored lights. As they hover above a nearby house, the couple’s poodle becomes agitated and runs off. The two lights then become four and arrange themselves in an oblong formation. All at once they vanish at terrific speed, following a railway to the northeast. A few hours later, Johnson is awakened and told to report to police headquarters, where there are two “government men” waiting to quiz him about the sighting. They desperately try to convince him that he has seen an aircraft or helicopter. They tell him he is sworn to secrecy for the next 25 years. When he asks what he has seen, they tell him, “What you have seen is an unidentified flying object or UFO. Some people call them spaceships, and if the people of the world knew how many genuine sightings there were like yours, there would be total panic.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 82–83](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n135/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4586 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14310 (64AA9A95) Date: 7/22/1968 Description: 1:20 a.m. Adela Casalvieri de Panassiti, 45, night nurse at the Dr. Carlos Pereyra Neuropsychiatric Hospital at Ituzaingó 2837, Mendoza, Argentina, hears a loud, penetrating, humming noise outside in the hospital courtyard. Going out to see what it is, she observes a mushroom-shaped landed object only 65 feet away. It is luminous and sitting in the middle of the courtyard. A bright red beam comes from the object and strikes her, and she finds that her legs are paralyzed. Putting her hands up to her face for protection, she discovers she is completely unable to move. She remains immobilized for a number of minutes until the red beam is extinguished. At this time, the object ascends vertically then flies off rapidly to the south, barely clearing the wall that surrounds the courtyard. Before it disappears, she is able to observe several human-looking figures through square portholes that encircle the craft. These beings move back and forth, passing each other, and are visible from the waist up only. A lead- gray stain, 31 x 12 inches, that smells of sulfur is found at the landing site. It persists for two days. Several small potted trees are burned. Casalvieri de Panassiti has first-degree burns on her face and hands \(an allergic reaction?\), and parts of her nurse’s cap and clothing are singed. In addition, her watch, which has stopped at 1:30 a.m., is found to be radioactive, as is her ring. The daughters of a garrison commander witness a luminous, egg- shaped object at the same time from the garrison casino. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Argentina: Hospital Landing at El Sauce,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1968\): 32; Roberto Banchs, “Mendoza: Agitacion por Apariciones de OVNIs \(22 Julio y 09 Ago 1968\),” Visión OVNI, November 11, 2008; Scott Corrales, “[1968: A Nurse Burned by an](http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2011/07/1968-nurse-burned-by-alleged-ufo-ce-2.html) [Alleged UFO \(CE-2\),](http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2011/07/1968-nurse-burned-by-alleged-ufo-ce-2.html)” Inexplicata, July 25, 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_4587 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14311 (41041546) Date: 7/22/1968 Description: At 1:20 a.m. in Mendoza, Argentina Ms. Adela Casalvieri, night nurse at the Neuropsychiatry Hospital, heard a loud penetrating humming noise outside in the hospital courtyard. Going out to see what it was, she observed a saucer-shaped landed object only 20 meters away. It was brightly luminous and sitting in the middle of the courtyard. A luminous red beam came from the object and struck her, and she found that her legs were paralyzed. Putting her hands up to her face for protection she now found she was completely unable to move. She remained immobilized for a number of minutes until the red beam was extinguished. At this time the object ascended vertically, then flew off rapidly to the south barely clearing the wall that surrounded the courtyard. Before it disappeared she was able to observe several human-looking figures through square portholes that encircled the craft. These beings moved back and forth, passing each other, and were visible from the waist up only. Landing gear imprints were found at the landing site and several small potted trees had been burned. Mrs Casalvieri had first-degree burns on her face and hands, and parts of her nurse's cap and clothing were singed. In addition, her watch, which had stopped at 1:30 a.m., was found to be radioactive, as was her ring. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-89, citing G. J. Gianza Paz & A. M. Baragiola Source ID: Johnson_4300 Source: Johnson ### Event 14312 (7B767C41) Date: 7/23/1968 Description: In Bauru, Sao Paulo state, Brazil a night watchman named Oliveira was on duty at the Central Electric Power Station at 1:00 a.m. when he saw a helmeted figure. Suspecting it was a criminal intruder, he tried to strike him with a metal crowbar but the figure dodged the blows and was soon joined by two other accomplices. They quickly overpowered the guard. One of the men, who, unlike the others, was dressed in yellow coveralls, uttered some unintelligible words. The security guard called out for help, at which point the three men boarded a gray colored, unlighted vehicle the size of a Volkswagen station wagon, and flew off into the air. The men were about the same size as the witness, about five foot five inches in height. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1968, p. 1; Jader U. Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, p. 208, citing SBEDV; Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, December 1970, p. 11; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-49 (A0953), citing APRO Bulletin Source ID: Johnson_4323 Source: Johnson ### Event 14313 (21CC0FD2) Date: 7/23/1968 Description: 1:00 a.m. Daíldo de Oliveira, a night watchman for the CESP electrical substation near Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil, confronts three intruders who overpower him outside a control center building. A large UFO 50 feet tall is resting nearby on the ground; it takes off in a zigzag pattern towards the city of Lins. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 183–185; Brazil 93–98 Source ID: Eberhart_4588 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14314 (272857AD) Date: 7/23/1968 Description: At 5:40 p.m. a metallic object dove into the sea at Playa Penuelas, Chile. It trailed flames and smoke as it plunged downward. At 7:30 p.m. a brilliant blue object zigzagged through the sky over Palquebudis, Chile emitting orange sparks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roberto Enrique Banchs, Las Evidencias del Fenomeno OVNI; Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_4324 Source: Johnson ### Event 14315 (C7613FF1) Date: 7/24/1968 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a cigar shaped object with a bright light flew behind some trees in the community of Oldeboorn, The Netherlands. A smaller object flew between the houses close to the ground. Dogs barked, and the witness was terrified. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Nachtrichten, November 1968; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_4355 Source: Johnson ### Event 14316 (4B80A38B) Date: 7/25/1968 Description: A family of three in Pastora, Argentina saw a silvery object about 25 feet in diameter. The engine of their car began to slow down, then die completely as the object came near. The object, which looked like a spinning top, hovered for five minutes only 10 meters from the road. Then it rose quickly and vanished — the engine came back on by itself. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 243, citing FSR Case Histories, Supplement No. 16 Source ID: Johnson_4386 Source: Johnson ### Event 14317 (A8D3E697) Date: 7/25/1968 Description: Silvery, spinning top hovered near road, rose quickly and sped away; engine restarted by itself. Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, Supplement 16; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 41 (E) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: LaPastora, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_3951 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14318 (43CEF987) Date: 7/25/1968 Description: 2:00 a.m. Juan Sivori, his wife, and a daughter see a silver object shaped like a spinning top a they are driving along Highway 226 near La Pastora, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is only 115 feet from them and the size of a truck. The engine of their car stops running as the UFO hovers for about 5 minutes at a height of 33 feet. When it rises into the air and vanishes, the car engine starts up again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, “[Preliminary Catalogue of Type](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2016.pdf) [I Cases in Argentina, Part 4,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2016.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 16 \(August 1973\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_4589 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14319 (C288A10C) Date: 7/25/1968 Description: At 2:05 a.m. in Olavarria, Buenos Aires, Argentina a corporal and several other soldiers went to a spot where a UFO, emitting multicolored flashes and making a droning sound, appeared about to land. It settled to the ground and three beings more than six feet tall, wearing silvery uniforms, emerged and advanced with slow, unsteady steps toward the soldiers. The corporal fired a burst of submachine gun fire at them, upon which the beings lifted up their hands to show a small luminous ball, whereupon all the witnesses were overcome by a strange lassitude and were incapable of using their guns. Only after the beings re-entered the UFO and it had taken off with a zigzag motion did the soldiers recover their faculties. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-50, citing newspaper source Source ID: Johnson_4384 Source: Johnson ### Event 14320 (BA44E73F) Date: 7/25/1968 Description: At 5:30 a.m. Oscar Augustin D'Onofrio was traveling on Route 3 in General Alvear, Buenos Aires, Argentina when he observed at the 37 km mark, 100 meters away from the road, a luminous spot that gradually increased in size. The engine of his car stopped working, and the witness remained paralyzed without being able to move. Moments later there emerged a "spaceship," which shot out sparks. He saw two figures, but at that distance he could not make out their characteristics. The UFO rose up and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-90, citing Carlos Banchs Source ID: Johnson_4385 Source: Johnson ### Event 14321 (31CB4AF0) Date: 7/26/1968 Description: On this afternoon around 3:00 p.m. two young boys riding their bicycles near the airport in Riviere Du Loup, Quebec stopped by the hangar and sighted a short three-foot tall, gray-skinned humanoid. The humanoid ran away and was joined by a second similar being. Both moved with stiff-legged motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case # 24, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters Source ID: Johnson_4417 Source: Johnson ### Event 14322 (079E6F4D) Date: 7/26/1968 Description: "UFO Project: Trouble on the Ground" by Philip M. Boffey in Science magazine, reporting on the internal problems of the Colorado UFO Project. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_160 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14323 (16F7E66A) Date: 7/28/1968 Description: 12:00 midnight. A farmer, his wife, and two children near Upton, Quebec, are awakened by the barking of their dog. When he gets up to investigate, he sees a sparkling, rotating “cloud” in the yard. It flies just over him and goes into a nearby field. About 12 feet in diameter, it is dark on the bottom but luminous on top. The cows in the field are being chased by 4 or 5 small entities, perhaps 3 feet tall with heads shaped like bottles. As the UFO flies above them, they disappear. The cattle seem ill for weeks afterwards. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, Global Communications, 1979; Clark III 280 Source ID: Eberhart_4590 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14324 (22AC91B3) Date: 7/28/1968 Description: At 9:00 p.m. five young people, including Paul Sauve, age 20, and his sisters, Nicole, and Joanne, and Regent Leger and his brother Dennis Leger, saw two circular objects with brilliant red halos over St.-Stanislas-de-Kostka, Quebec, Canada. One of the objects was seen to land about 1,000 feet away. When they went out with a flashlight to investigate they encountered a being about four feet tall, 50 feet away from them, that terrified them so much that they ran back to the house. It had a big head 'imbedded in the shoulders" without a neck, large round eyes, a flat nose, and a dark brown skin that was "wrinkled, scabby, and with bumps." When caught in the flashlight beam, it lifted a hand, which was very large, black, and rough, "like the skin of a toad." It opened and closed its mouth, then it backed off toward the barn. After they were back in the house, it came up to a window and knocked on the pane, making a mooing sound "like a cow." Later they saw the object take off vertically. A 15-foot circle of crushed grain was found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-51, citing Wido Hoville; Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1969, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_4455 Source: Johnson ### Event 14325 (A5106536) Date: 7/28/1968 Description: Near midnight a family of four in Upton, Quebec, Canada was awakened by their dog's barking. The father went out to investigate and encountered a sparkling, rotating cloud-like object in the yard that flew over him and went toward a nearby field. The object was dark on the bottom and luminous on top. He then saw cows in the field being chased by four or five, three-foot tall entities with elongated heads. When the object flew over, the humanoids disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case # 23, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters Source ID: Johnson_4456 Source: Johnson ### Event 14326 (40C500DB) Date: 7/29/1968 Description: House Science and Astronautics Committee symposium on UFOs chaired by Rep. Edward Roush (D-Ind.). Witnesses included Robert M. Baker, Robert L. Hall, James A. Harder, J. Allen Hynek, James E. McDonald, and Carl Sagan. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_162 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14327 (1EEECF54) Date: 7/29/1968 Description: Object like upside-down bowl, glowing underside, flew low over road, landed. Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, Supplement 13, February 1973, p. 14 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Atalaya, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_3952 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14328 (8A592930) Date: 7/29/1968 Description: Four people driving in La Atalaya, Argentina at 3:15 at night saw an object that looked like an upside down washbasin. It was 30-40 feet wide and glowing on the underside. As it flew low over the road, the headlights and engine of the witnesses' car failed. After the object had landed about 250 meters from the car, the headlights came back on. The object remained on the ground for 45 minutes while the motorists watched. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 244, citing FSR Case Histories, Supplement No. 13 Source ID: Johnson_4484 Source: Johnson ### Event 14329 (8F818F6B) Date: 7/29/1968 Description: The hearings that Rep. [J. Edward Roush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdward%5FRoush) and NICAP have been calling for are held as a “Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects” before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. Rep. [George P. Miller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FP.%5FMiller) \(D-Calif.\) is chairman of the committee, but Roush directs most of the proceedings. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek), [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald), [Sagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSagan), [Robert L. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FL.%5FHall) \(University of Illinois at Chicago\), [James A. Harder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder) \(UC-Berkeley\), and [Robert M. L. Baker Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FM.%5FL.%5FBaker%5FJr) \(UCLA\) give testimony. Hynek is introduced by Rep. [Donald Rumsfeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FRumsfeld) \(R-Ill.\). [Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel), [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html), [Garry](http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/henderson.html) [C. Henderson](http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/henderson.html)[,](http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/henderson.html) [Stanton T. Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) [Roger N. Shepard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%5FShepard)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%5FShepard) and [Frank B. Salisbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FB.%5FSalisbury) offer prepared papers. NICAP representatives are not permitted to testify. Many witnesses parrot the NORAD party line that its radars only look in certain directions \(when indeed it looks for many types of potential attacks in all directions\). Harder states: “On the basis of the data and ordinary rules of evidence, as would be applied in civil or criminal courts, the physical reality of UFOs has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.” McDonald makes the biggest impression, presenting 30 pages of UFO reports. He states: “my own present opinion, based on two years of careful study, is that UFOs are probably extraterrestrial devices engaged in something that might very tentatively be termed ‘surveillance.’” Menzel concludes that UFOs merit no more scientific study than “the concept of ghosts, spirits, witches, fairies, elves, hobgoblins, or the devil.” The symposium has no lasting impact, as Congress does nothing about the problem. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.%24b654608&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021)[,](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.%24b654608&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021) Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968; “[Congressional Hearings on UFO Problems: Scientists Urge](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/043%20JUL-AUG%201968.pdf) [Unbiased National Investigations,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/043%20JUL-AUG%201968.pdf)” UFO Investigator 4, no. 7 \(July/Aug. 1968\): 1–5; Clark III 811 Source ID: Eberhart_4591 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14330 (A6B1160F) Date: 7/29/1968 Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_161 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14331 (2FCB5D75) Date: 7/29/1968 Description: Two witnesses at 1:30 a.m. saw a snow-white glowing object apparently land near a deserted grass airport in Barnstable, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. When they drove past the area, a sound like a large swarm of locusts was heard emanating from the field. The airfield had closed at sunset. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 354 Source ID: Johnson_4485 Source: Johnson ### Event 14332 (71B7BFBD) Date: 7/30/1968 Description: Dome-shaped object hovered low over ground, grayish light beam cast sharp shadows. Humming sound, dogs reacted strongly Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Claremont, NH Source ID: HallUFOE2_163 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14333 (654C8E89) Date: 7/30/1968 Description: 2:00 a.m. A land surveyor and his wife in Claremont, New Hampshire, are preparing to retire when they see a dome-shaped object in a field about 230 feet behind their house. It is about 20 feet wide and moving slowly 10 feet above the ground, creating shadows on the freshly cut hay. The UFO shines a 20-foot wide gray-colored beam of light onto the ground. Their children moan and cry out in while they are sleeping and their dogs are whining loudly. They hear a high-pitched humming sound like a utility pole transformer. A few minutes later the object moves 25 feet to the east, the humming growing louder. At one point, a projection from the object descends to the ground. Around 4:30 a.m., the object goes brighter and slowly moves off toward the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 38–40 Source ID: Eberhart_4592 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14334 (67499A5C) Date: 7/30/1968 Description: Dogs in house disturbed as domed-shaped object hovered low (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [680730](http://www.nicap.org/ar-680730dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Claremont, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3953 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14335 (BCE439C1) Date: 7/31/1968 Description: Mr. Luce Fontaine, age 31, a farmer on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, was picking some grass for his rabbits at around 9:00 a.m. when he saw an object 5 meters in diameter like two metallic saucers put face to face, standing on a "glass foot" like a goblet. It was only 25 meters away. On its top it bore another such "foot." It was dark blue but had a large central window, through which could be seen two small individuals, only 3 feet tall, dressed from head to foot in bulky coveralls, something like the Michelin "tire man." Both wore helmets that partially masked their faces. They turned their backs and there was a brilliant flash of light, and a sensation of heat with a blast of wind. A few seconds later nothing was to be seen. There was a local police investigation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-52, citing FSR; Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1969, p. 8; Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1969, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 917 Source ID: Johnson_4529 Source: Johnson ### Event 14336 (66EFE482) Date: 7/31/1968 Description: 9:00 a.m. Farmer Luce Fontaine is collecting grass for his rabbits at La Plaine des Cafres on the island of Réunion \(in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar\), when he sees an oval-shaped object about 75 feet away. It is sitting about 15 feet from the ground on a flange of metal; a similar structure protrudes from its top. The cylinder has two blue ends and a transparent center through which he can see two humanoids less than 3 feet tall in metallic helmets and dressed in puffy suits like the Michelin Man \(the tire company mascot\). Seemingly sensing Fontaine looking at them, they turn their backs and the object disappears in a sudden flash of light and a burst of hot air. The incident is investigated by Capt. Maljean of the local Gendarmerie and Capt. Léopold Legros of the Civil Protection Service, who detect an abnormal amount of radioactivity at the site and on Fontaine’s clothing 10 days afterward, as well as six apparent landing marks in the ground. A country club called “La Soucoupe Volante” \(Flying Saucer\) is later built on the site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Contact Casualty on Réunion,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1969\): 8, 11; Jean-Claude Bourret, Le Nouveau Défi des O.V.N.I., France-Empire, 1976; Antonio Huneeus, “[The ‘Michelin Man’ Encounters on Réunion Island,](http://www.openminds.tv/michelin-men-073010/4561)” Open Minds, July 30, 2010; Patrick Gross, “[Plaine des Caffres, La Réunion, July 31, 1968](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/plainedescafres1968.htm)”; La Soucoupe Volante Country Club, [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Soucoupe-Volante/195155220534987) Source ID: Eberhart_4593 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14337 (AEDBAD9E) Date: 7/31/1968 Time: 0900 Description: Luce Fontaine, 31, a farmer, was in a clearing when he suddenly saw an oval object, 25 m away, less than 5 m above ground. It had a clear center, dark-blue ends, two protrusions on top and bottom, and measured 5 m in diameter, 2.5 m in height. In the object stood two beings, 90 cm tall, wearing coveralls. A violent flash and a blast of hot air were noted as the object vanished. Type: ufo sighting Reference: LDLN 96 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Plaine-des-Cafres, La Reunion Island Source ID: Magnonia_917 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14338 (13A21D3B) Date: 7/31/1968 Description: In Grafton, West Virginia at 10:15 p.m. a man and a woman saw a silver disc-shaped UFO that hovered for 60 minutes or more, making a beeping sound. It had dark spots on the side that looked like portholes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, April 1969, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_4530 Source: Johnson ### Event 14339 (5496E9C6) Date: 7/31/1968 Description: 9:00 a.m. Luce Fontaine, 31, a farmer, was in a clearing when he suddenly saw an oval object, 25 m away, less than 5 m above ground. In the object stood two beings, 90 cm tall, wearing coveralls. (Magonia #917, LDLN 96) 68LateSummer Lake Norman 2 NC Domed UFO near nuclear plant. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Plaine-des-Cafres, La Reunion Island, Indian Ocean Source ID: NICAP_DB_3954 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14340 (3BF9DFE7) Date: 8/1968 Description: 11:00 p.m. Object, humming sound, 5 mins. Dark football shaped object hovered 200 ft. over barn and projected bright bluish beam into cornfield. Moved off south still projecting fan shaped beam over countryside Witnesses 1? (Selby) (Don Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fayette County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3907 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14341 (645C0472) Date: 8/1968 Description: The US Air Force Weapons Laboratory begins to set up a field instrumentation lab at Con Thien combat base near the Demilitarized Zone, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, specifically for the purpose of investigating and tracking unidentified aircraft. The first project name is HAVE FEAR. At least 500 UFO sensor trackings via radar-visual, laser range-finder, video camera, infrared, nightscope, and telescope are investigated through April 1969. The UFOs, often seen as red lights, usually travel at speeds of 30–80 mph at altitudes of 1,200–1,600 feet. After several days of tracking, the red blinking lights extinguish when under radar surveillance. They are only seen at night and only in certain places. In mid-August, Project LETHAL CHASER is added, using portable manpack radars. The findings involve 99% UFOs and only 1% IFOs, primarily because the system does not include human anecdotal accounts. Pacific Air Forces’ unit history clearly states the investigation is about UFOs, not enemy helicopters. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1050–1054; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 328 Source ID: Eberhart_4594 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14342 (3BF9DFE7) Date: 8/1968 Description: 11:00 p.m. Object, humming sound, 5 mins. Dark football shaped object hovered 200 ft. over barn and projected bright bluish beam into cornfield. Moved off south still projecting fan shaped beam over countryside Witnesses 1? (Selby) (Don Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fayette County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3955 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14343 (CD0C9629) Date: 8/1/1968 Description: At 1:57 a.m. a cigar-shaped UFO flew by Fribourg, Switzerland and a disc exited from a square doorway in the craft. It flew around and then re-entered the larger craft. Both a camera and a tape recorder experienced EM interference effects during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gillieron, UFODOC, case E004 Source ID: Johnson_4569 Source: Johnson ### Event 14344 (98256A65) Date: 8/2/1968 Description: In Los Rasos de Valdemanco, Ciudad Real, Spain two young girls saw a rectangular UFO on the ground at 6:00 p.m. It dimensions were 9 meters by 3 meters by 4 meters, with two windows, and it had two wheels in front for landing gear. The object rose up and was lost from sight in 30 seconds. At 11:44 p.m. a very bright red object was observed by several witnesses at treetop level over a mountain, Monte Gallicant, in Tarragona province, Spain swinging like a pendulum. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, cases 61 & 62 Source ID: Johnson_4603 Source: Johnson ### Event 14345 (0FFCDD66) Date: 8/4/1968 Description: Three young men walking along a street in Montreal, Quebec at 5:00 a.m. noticed a three-foot tall, hairy, heavyset figure lurking in some nearby shadows. It had long curving arms and was hunched over; it suddenly made a tremendous leap and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters Source ID: Johnson_4653 Source: Johnson ### Event 14346 (A55BE806) Date: 8/4/1968 Description: 4:15 a.m. Three witnesses in Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan, watch a luminous object, about 25 feet in diameter, as it hovers for several minutes. Later it circles above the house 300 feet away. A 4-foot circle of barren grass is found, although an 18-inch circle in the center is undamaged. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Phillips, [Physical Traces Associated with UFO](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf) [Sightings](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf) Center for UFO Studies, 1978, p. 57 Source ID: Eberhart_4595 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14347 (626822D6) Date: 8/4/1968 Description: On this evening in Cordoba, Argentina 11-year-old Graciela Lourdes Gimenez was playing outside her home when she experienced a bizarre event. "I wanted to go back indoors and watch TV," she told reporters from the newspaper Cordoba, "and then just as I was about to turn around...a white cloud, like mist, appeared on the front path. It gradually came towards where I was, and then I could no longer see the other houses, and I couldn't move or call out to Mummy...and after that...I don't know anything more...until I found myself on a square where there were lots of people and lots of little boys..." She knocked at a nearby house, and the residents turned her over to the police. She had somehow traveled from her Cordoba suburb to the Plaza Espana in the heart of the city. After the incident, the child suffered fits of weeping and cold chills. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John A Keel, Our Haunted Planet Source ID: Johnson_4654 Source: Johnson ### Event 14348 (3A7A12F4) Date: 8/6/1968 Description: At 9:30 p.m. four young men were outside near St. Gertrude, Quebec, Canada when they heard their dog barking furiously. They heard a creaking sound and saw a four foot tall luminous figure jump out of a hedge nearby. The figure had large shoulders and long arms that hung down. It vanished quickly in plain sight in front of the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2094, citing Wido Hoville; John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants & Critters Source ID: Johnson_4734 Source: Johnson ### Event 14349 (D5028211) Date: 8/7/1968 Description: On this date a very important and well investigated abduction case occurred on the shores of Lake Champlain near Milton, Vermont. In the late afternoon at a private camp called Buff Ledge two teenage camp counselors, a man and a woman, had stayed behind from a campwide swimming meet and were relaxing by the dock on their day off. They saw a large, glowing cigar-shaped object swoop low over the lake in the distance. Three small round objects left the large "mothership," which then departed. Two of the small objects also left, but the third, a domed disc-shaped craft, descended close to the witnesses. It had a transparent dome and a revolving rim. The craft approached the dock and hovered very close to the witnesses. Two beings could be seen inside the dome. They had large elongated heads, huge eyes, two nasal openings, and small mouths. The beings apparently communicated telepathically with the witnesses. They had no conscious recollection of what happened next, and the next thing they remembered it is getting dark and they heard the campers returning from their swim meet. They had lost track of at least an hour of time.

They never talked about the incident because the camp ended the next day and they went their separate ways. Years later the man contacted UFO investigator Walter Webb about his missing time experience. He remembered that the girl was planning to attend a college in the southeastern U.S. By knowing the name of the woman's college, Webb was able to track the second witness down by contacting her college's alumni department. He called her and asked her if she would like to come back to New England and talk about the incident. She agreed, and through hypnosis both witnesses independently recalled nearly identical accounts of their abduction experience.

They gave separate but nearly identical accounts of what happened to them. When the UFO moved over the dock they were bathed in light from the object, and both witnesses went into a trance state. They were taken onboard the craft, although they had no recollection of how they had gotten there. They were both given medical examinations on a table. They both gave independent accounts of recalling seeing nearly identical instrument panels and other instruments. There sketches of the aliens and the UFO craft were quite similar. When they awoke on the dock it was evening. An independent witness, a camper who had run down to the lake ahead of all the others, saw the lighted UFO as it departed the scene. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter N. Webb, Encounter at Buff Ledge, Chicago: Center for UFO Studies, 1994, 306 pages; Walter N. Webb, CUFOS case investigation files, report dated July 22, 1979; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 13; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 188; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1002, citing Walter Webb; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case # 349, citing Walter Webb, MUFON UFO Journal, issue #241 Source ID: Johnson_4766 Source: Johnson ### Event 14350 (32115F64) Date: 8/7/1968 Description: 8:10 p.m. As a young man and woman watch from the end of a dock at Buff Ledge Camp \[now closed\] along the shore of Lake Champlain north of Burlington, Vermont, a bright light appears in the southwest sky and swoops down in a long arc until it stops and assumes a horizontal position. It now resembles a white, glowing, cigar-shaped object, possibly as far away as the Adirondack Mountains more than 10 miles from the witnesses. According to the young man, three tiny white lights emerge one at a time from the right-end bottom of the UFO. As soon as the third is expelled, the object retreats along its original path and vanishes seconds later. The three smaller objects perform a series of spectacular maneuvers, all the while moving closer. After 5 minutes the objects assume a horizontal triangle formation, and two head off in opposite directions, one to the north, the other to the south, making a sound like “thousands of different tuning forks.” The remaining object \(40–50 feet across\) moves toward the witnesses. It ascends and vanishes in three seconds, only to reappear moments later as it descends along the same trajectory and plunges broadside into the water. A sudden wind blows waves across the heretofore placid surface. Animals up and down the shore howl and shriek. A few minutes later the UFO surfaces and moves toward the witnesses. It stops 60 feet from them, hovering about 15 feet above the water. The young man can see two figures with large heads, oversized oval eyes, and small mouths. Visible to the waist, they are short and clothed in skintight gray or silver uniforms. Thus begins an abduction experience that was only uncovered through separate hypnotic sessions with each of the witnesses by [Walter N. Webb](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm) years later. Webb’s background checks, buttressed by psychological analyses, convinces him that there is no question of a hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Walter N. Webb, Encounter at Buff Ledge: A UFO Case History CUFOS, 1994; Richard F. Haines, \[Review\], JUFOS 6 \(1995/96\): 248–251; Clark III 220–222; B. J. Booth, “[The Buff Ledge Abduction,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/Buffledge.html)” UFO Casebook Source ID: Eberhart_4597 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14351 (CE99A8B8) Date: 8/7/1968 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) addresses the Boeing Management Association in Renton, Washington, on “UFO Investigations: Past, Present, and Future.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [p. 414](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/414/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4596 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14352 (B9C3A615) Date: 8/7/1968 Description: Dual abduction of male and female summer camp staff members. Independent recall of event years later (Section XIII, Vol. II, The UFO Evidence). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Buff Ledge, VT Source ID: NICAP_DB_3956 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14353 (EB0DAA55) Date: 8/7/1968 Description: Dual abduction of male and female summer camp staff members. Independent recall of event years later Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Buff Ledge, VT Source ID: HallUFOE2_164 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14354 (E06521C6) Date: 8/8/1968 Description: At around two a.m. Miguel Bitschko of Canuelas, Argentina was woke up by a bright light coming from outside his home. Going outside he was astonished to see a huge disc-shaped object on the ground in a nearby field. The object had a dome with a revolving red light on top. As he stared at the object in disbelief a door opened on the craft, then a ladder descended to the ground. Soon a very tall man, over two meters tall, emerged from the craft. The figure wore a shiny metallic, tight fitting uniform. At the same time the object was emitting a loud humming sound. The giant started to walk towards the witness, who stood paralyzed with fear. The figure then suddenly stopped, walked back to the object, and got back in. The craft then climbed vertically up into the sky at high speed and disappeared from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing Fabio Picasso Source ID: Johnson_4774 Source: Johnson ### Event 14355 (6FE044CA) Date: 8/9/1968 Description: A beam of energy from a disc-shaped object caused the death of someone on a farm in Jaboticatubas, Minas Gerais State, Brazil at 8:10 p.m. On the same night a round flying object emitting blue and red lights was sighted in the suburbs of Cerro de la Gloria, Mendoza province, Argentina. Two dwarves wearing helmets with bright glowing antennae on their heads exited the landed craft. When a police office named A. Romero pointed his gun at them, a luminous ray immobilized him. He was later hospitalized. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 193; (2) David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1565, citing Roberto Enrique Banchs and Cronica, August 14, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_4798 Source: Johnson ### Event 14356 (D0C80D62) Date: 8/12/1968 Description: At 8:15 p.m. EDT a golden-white globe surrounded by a dark ring that looked like the planet Saturn flew over Gloucester, Massachusetts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation report dated August 15, 1968; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 354 Source ID: Johnson_4944 Source: Johnson ### Event 14357 (2D24D574) Date: 8/12/1968 Description: 8:00 p.m. A woman staying by herself at a house on the outskirts of Mercedes heard a buzzing sound and her dogs began barking. The witness then saw a second object on the ground from which the figure of a man wearing a brilliant silvery outfit was seen to emerge. (Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #6, citing Richard Heiden, quoting R. Banchs). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [680812](http://www.nicap.org/mercedes680812dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mercedes, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3959 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14358 (CA9A1BDB) Date: 8/12/1968 Description: At 1:00 a.m. there was a reappearance of a bright white UFO, sometimes vivid orange in color, at the same nuclear missile sites in Pennington County, South Dakota as occurred two nights earlier on August 10, 1968. The UFO illuminated the ground behind a small hill. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1969, p. 5; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Shadow of the Unknown, p. 166 Source ID: Johnson_4943 Source: Johnson ### Event 14359 (396CE6B3) Date: 8/12/1968 Description: 8:15 p.m. EDT. A golden-white globe surrounded by a dark ring that looked like the planet Saturn flew over Gloucester. (Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation report dated August 15, 1968; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 354). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gloucester, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3960 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14360 (8BD325D6) Date: 8/12/1968 Description: 8:00 p.m. A woman staying by herself at a house on the outskirts of Mercedes heard a buzzing sound and her dogs began barking. The next day several ground traces were found in the same area where the objects were seen. (Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #6, citing Richard Heiden, quoting R. Banchs). (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [680812](http://www.nicap.org/mercedes680812dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mercedes, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_3957 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14361 (8486282E) Date: 8/12/1968 Description: A woman staying by herself at a house on the outskirts of Mercedes, Argentina heard a buzzing sound and her dogs began barking at eight o'clock in the evening. Looking out she saw a brightly lit object that gave off bright flashes of light, sitting on the ground. Smaller lighted objects emerged from the object and hovered above the treetops. At one point one of the lighted objects silently approached the house. The witness then saw a second object on the ground from which the figure of a man wearing a brilliant silvery outfit was seen to emerge. Suddenly there was a brilliant reddish blue flash and the whole scene disappeared. The next day several ground traces were found in the same area where the objects were seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #6, citing Richard Heiden, quoting R. Banchs Source ID: Johnson_4945 Source: Johnson ### Event 14362 (E751C66D) Date: 8/15/1968 Description: A married couple with a 5-year-old son were driving between Villaverde and Brenes, Sevilla province, Spain at 12:30 a.m. when they saw a landed UFO by the side of the road. They said it resembled a small bus with windows and luminous portholes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case # 63, citing ABC Andalusia, September 1, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_5040 Source: Johnson ### Event 14363 (F2E55838) Date: 8/15/1968 Description: 12:00 midnight. Dick Skewes is driving west with his wife Anne and babysitter Gail Yemm about 20 minutes east of Springhill, Nova Scotia, on the Trans-Canada Highway. After driving up a hill, he sees a group of 5–6 lights hovering 50 feet above some trees on his left. Another light is approaching at high speed to join the others. One of the objects breaks away and descends silently over the highway in front of them, its yellow lights flashing brilliantly, on an apparent collision course. When it is 40–50 feet away it veers upward and disappears to the east. Skewes continues down the highway and loses sight of the objects when he rounds a bend. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 79–81 Source ID: Eberhart_4598 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14364 (F5D43205) Date: 8/15/1968 Description: In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a six meter in diameter hat-shaped disc hovered five meters over a field at 4:00 a.m., 100 meters away. It had three rods or antennae that were pointing up, as well as portholes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 64 Source ID: Johnson_5041 Source: Johnson ### Event 14365 (B64D2E95) Date: 8/15/1968 Description: A silent, dazzling blood-red globe of light was seen hovering and pulsating at treetop level in Cambridge, Massachusetts at just after ten o'clock in the morning. It was described as the apparent size of a full moon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, on-site investigation by Walter N. Webb Source ID: Johnson_5042 Source: Johnson ### Event 14366 (BDCB99C5) Date: 8/16/1968 Description: At six o'clock in the morning a chicken farmer named Mateu saw a light hovering three feet above the ground in Sierra De Almos Tivissa, Terragona, Spain and he walked towards it. It was a very luminous hemispherical object. On the far side of it he saw about 100 yards away and hurrying toward it, two creatures resembling octopus, about 3 feet high, with "4 or 5 legs," very light in color with a "thoroughly disgusting" appearance. The UFO left a large area of burnt grass, and "watches stopped 3 times at the site." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 64; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-57, citing Julio Roca Muntanola, FSR Special Bulletin # 4 Source ID: Johnson_5081 Source: Johnson ### Event 14367 (912CE4B1) Date: 8/16/1968 Description: 6:00 a.m. A farmer doing barnyard chores at La Serra d’Almos, Catalonia, Spain, glimpses a light more than half a mile away. He thinks someone’s car has stalled, so he walks over with his dog intending to help. But he finds a globe-shaped, glowing object hovering 3 feet above the ground. On the other side of it, he sees two creatures of an octopus-like appearance. Light-colored, 3 feet tall, they are running on “four or five legs” toward the UFO, which abruptly takes off. Reporters and UFO investigators find a considerable area of burned grass at the site. Those who visit the site shortly afterwards find their watches stop mysteriously. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, [A Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf) CUFOS, 1976, pp. 14–15; Clark III 280– 281 Source ID: Eberhart_4600 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14368 (E305268C) Date: 8/16/1968 Description: 2:51 a.m. The crew of a Canadian Forces Hercules C-150E are flying above Regina, Saskatchewan, when they see a cigar-shaped object cross their flight path. It has 6 rectangular patches on its side. It is visible with the naked eye for about 90 seconds, then it rapidly shrinks and disappears to the southwest very rapidly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, p. 112 Source ID: Eberhart_4599 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14369 (03567032) Date: 8/16/1968 Description: 11:00 p.m. Large group of people saw a UFO approach, beam lights down which reflected off Greenbriar Lake. (See drawing. UFO's: A New Look, g. 43) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamilton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3961 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14370 (24466770) Date: 8/16/1968 Description: For a three hour period beginning at around 11:00 p.m., numerous witnesses in Hamilton, Ohio watched as a domed disc-shaped object moved over a dam, stopped, flipped over, then emitted five light beams downward, focusing into a single beam that swept the area and reflected over Greenbriar Lake. The object reversed course, and finally flew away toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1968, p. 3, Gordon Lore, UFOs: A New Look, p. 43; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 380; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 35 Source ID: Johnson_5082 Source: Johnson ### Event 14371 (098456CB) Date: 8/16/1968 Description: 10:30 p.m. Slowly moving round white ball projecting white beam of light onto fields and woods as it moved south. One witness (W. Stanton) No sound. 9.5 mins (Don Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fayette County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3962 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14372 (2A792098) Date: 8/17/1968 Description: 8:21 p.m. Capt. Benjamin Gabrian is flying an Ilyushin Il-18 airliner at 22,800 feet in the vicinity of Oradea, Romania, when he sees an oval object on his right about a half-mile away and 900 feet higher. It is moving at high speed and emitting a bright green light. They watch it for 10–15 seconds before it accelerates and disappears to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 180–182; Romania 21 Source ID: Eberhart_4601 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14373 (72270174) Date: 8/18/1968 Description: At 13:23 p.m. in a forest 47 kilometers west-southwest of Cluj, Romania, three photographs were taken of a silvery hat-shaped object, 42-50 meters in diameter, with a structure similar to the Rex Heflin photographs from Santa Ana, California in 1965. The photographer was a 45-year-old man, along with his girlfriend, and there were two other witnesses. It flew overhead at an estimated height of 600 meters, moving from northeast to southwest, and then reversed direction. The object finally accelerated and shot upward out of sight. The sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Florin Gheorghita, FSR, November 1969, p. 12; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 287 Source ID: Johnson_5128 Source: Johnson ### Event 14374 (2E18F27E) Date: 8/18/1968 Description: Round silver object flew overhead, reversed direction, three photos taken. Object finally shot upward out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Cluj, Romania Source ID: HallUFOE2_165 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14375 (67BF4D49) Date: 8/18/1968 Description: 1:20 p.m. Technician Emil Barnea, his girlfriend Zamfira Matea, and two other friends are picnicking in the Hoia Baciu forest near Baciu, not far from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, when they see a round, metallic, luminous object moving slowly through the sky. Its brilliance increases and decreases as it maneuvers around for 2 minutes. Barnea succeeds in taking four photos of the object before it suddenly accelerates and shoots upwards. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 99–107; UFOEv II 287; Adrian Pătruţ, “[Phenomena in the Hoia Baciu Wood near Cluj-Napoca,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%202008%20V%2053%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 53, no. 1 \(Spring 2008\): 10; Chris Hill, “Hoia Baciu: Romania’s Haunted Forest,” Fortean Times 382, August 2019, pp. 32–36; Patrick Gross, “[Emil Barnea’s Photographs, Cluj, Romania, 1968](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/picamaro01.htm)”; Romania 21–27 Source ID: Eberhart_4602 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14376 (D21638CF) Date: 8/18/1968 Description: Round silver object flew overhead, reversed direction, three photos taken. Object finally shot upward out of sight (Section VII, Vol. II, The UFO Evidence). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cluj, Romania Source ID: NICAP_DB_3963 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14377 (2B4C82A8) Date: 8/20/1968 Description: In Schitul Bunea, Romania two men saw a 30 meter cone-shaped object that hovered for 90 minutes, beginning at around 11:00 p.m. It emitted a beam of light upwards. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobanna & Julien Weberbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 243 Source ID: Johnson_5185 Source: Johnson ### Event 14378 (62BC18E8) Date: 8/21/1968 Description: 6:58 a.m. The Canadian destroyer [HMCS Mackenzie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%5FMackenzie) is on a mission in the Pacific Ocean about 930 miles off the coast of California. Four of the ship’s crew, including Maj. W. J. Draper, see a group of starlike lights approaching from the northeast, initially only 10° above the horizon. They are flying in a row, and one in the middle of the line seems larger and has a white glow around it. Within 5 minutes, the procession of 20 objects passes nearly overhead, heading west. They maintain a steady course until they are lost to view 13 minutes later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 73–74 Source ID: Eberhart_4603 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14379 (2153F379) Date: 8/22/1968 Description: Luminous white UFO emitted six smaller "satellite objects" Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Kalgoorlie, Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_166 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14380 (79ACB476) Date: 8/22/1968 Description: Object emitted 6 "cigars" near Piper Navajo (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kalgoorlie, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_3964 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14381 (FD6FA313) Date: 8/22/1968 Description: At 5:40 p.m. two men, Smith and Gardin, were flying in a Piper Navajo for Murchison Air 130 miles east of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia when they spotted a luminous white UFO. It emitted six smaller cigar-shaped "satellite objects." When the pilot Capt. Gordon Smith reported their sighting to the Kalgourlie communication centre their radio stopped working, but it came back after the UFOs gathered together, and shot off at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March 1979, p. 9; NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1969, p. 1; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 144; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 13,119 Source ID: Johnson_5226 Source: Johnson ### Event 14382 (48BDFA04) Date: 8/22/1968 Description: 5:40 p.m. Capt. Walter Gardin and Capt. Gordon W. Smith are flying over Zanthus, Western Australia, at 8,000 feet in a Piper Navajo single-engine airplane when they see a large cigar-shaped object surrounded by five smaller ones. The formation maintains a constant angle from their own flight path for more than 10 minutes, while they are flying at 224 mph. The large object then opens up its center and the smaller objects fly to and from the larger object. Ground air control reports no known air traffic in the area. At this point the radio fails at all frequencies until the objects fly away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Pilots See Formation over Australia,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201969%2001%2000%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1969, pp. 1, 4; Paul B. Norman, “[‘Motherships’ over Australia,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2024%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 \(March 1979\): 9–10; Paul B. Norman, “[Countdown to Reality](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201986%20V%2031%20N%202.pdf),” Flying Saucer Review 31, no. 2 \(January 1986\): 19–20; Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/172/mode/2up) [172–173](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/172/mode/2up); Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “[The BOAC Labrador Sighting of June 29, 1954: Similar](https://www.caelestia.be/darkblob14.html) [Reports,](https://www.caelestia.be/darkblob14.html)” Caelestia, October 31, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_4604 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14383 (0DD776BE) Date: 8/25/1968 Description: 5:00 a.m. Hospital assistant Maria José Cintra of the Serafim Ferrreira sanitarium in Lins, São Paulo, Brazil, hears a noise like the braking of a car. Cintra readies herself to meet people needing medical assistance. She opens a glass door and asks the visitor if she is a patient. The visitor, just over 6 feet tall, answers in an unknown language. The visitor is wearing a blue satiny cape, matching shoes, and a dress with a high collar and long sleeves. She shows Cintra a vessel with engraved ornaments, and Cintra fills it with water from a fountain and offers her a doughnut. The visitor walks to the door of the sanitorium and through some flowerbeds. At this point Cintra notices a semicircular “pebble-like” light on the ground and a UFO floating 1–2 feet above the grass. She feels the force of an invisible rotating movement and notices that the visitor is no longer there. The UFO rises into the air, making soft sounds like those she heard when the visitor arrived. Later, she and the sanitorium manager and his wife find high-heeled footprints on the freshly waxed floor near the door. On the lawn they discover a spot of scorched grass that persists for 4 months. Subsequent investigation reveals a depression in the ground 5–7 inches deep, apparently made by a vehicle with a diameter of about 6.5 feet. From his bed, another patient has seen the UFO land some 260 feet from the fence of the sanitorium and remain there for 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mulher](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20066-68%20-%201969.pdf) [Extraterrestre Pede Água, em Lins, Est. de São Saulo,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20066-68%20-%201969.pdf)” SBEDV Boletim, no. 66/68 \(Jan./June 1969\): 72–74; Nigel Rimes, “[Another Hospital Visited,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1969\): 4–6; Gordon Creighton, “[Confrontation at Lins,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1969\): 22–23; Clark III 684–685; “[O](https://www.fenomenum.com.br/ufo/casuistica/1960/lins) [Fantástico Caso Lins,](https://www.fenomenum.com.br/ufo/casuistica/1960/lins)” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; “[O Fantástico Caso Lins,](https://www.oarquivo.com.br/variedades/e-books/download/7-esoterismo/1149-ao%5Fe%5Freao.html)” Oarquiva; Brazil 99–104 Source ID: Eberhart_4605 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14384 (F6CFAE76) Date: 8/25/1968 Description: In Aldaya, Valencia, Spain Juan Gazcon del Toro, age 44, was riding his bicycle home from work at 8:00 p.m., and was crossing a cultivated field when, as he turned a bend, saw a silvery gray object on the ground resting on four legs. Next to the object stood two short beings; the witness bicycled closer to the object, stopped 40 meters away from it, and then looked at it more closely. The craft had a small dome with an antennae on top, and an open door from which a silvery ladder extended to the ground. Both beings wore helmets with visors from which a rubber hose like protrusion was apparently connected to their chest area. They also wore wide belts and small boots, and their outfits were white in color. The beings stood by the object ignoring the witness, so he pedalled his bicycle away from the site and did not watch the object depart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia De los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis, p. 83; Albert S. Rosales, 1968 Humanoid Contact Database, case # 95, citing Ballester Olmos Olmos & Fernandez Peri; UNICAT, case # 493 Source ID: Johnson_5325 Source: Johnson ### Event 14385 (D04C0CFE) Date: 8/26/1968 Description: 7:50 p.m. Pearl Christiansen is unchaining the driveway to her ranch near Gleeson, Colorado, when she notices a round, silver disc. She watches it for 5 minutes, then a second object appears, “very shiny and gold.” Both are hovering above 7,200-foot high Brown’s Peak. They remain for several hours, then just after midnight they back away behind the mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Mayfield also see the objects. Daily Citizen reporter Cecil James and photographer Dan Tortorell visit the apparent site and find erratic burned patches of Dasylirion plants \(charred at the base but not at the top\) and grass. Rocks show evidence of high heat and are still hot to the touch two days later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Cecil James, “[Gleeson UFO](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56443746/ufo-at-gleeson-a/) [Leaves Traces,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56444026/ufo-gleeson-tuc-citizen-1968-oct-19/)” Tucson \(Ariz.\) Daily Citizen, October 19, 1968, Olé magazine, pp. 10, 22 Source ID: Eberhart_4606 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14386 (5EB09CC9) Date: 8/26/1968 Description: Awakened by a flapping noise outside, hospital receptionist Maria Cintra in Lins, Sao Paulo State, Brazil opened the door to find a “foreign looking woman” wearing white light colored, shiny clothes, and a tight fitting hood, and holding an engraved glass bottle and a mug. Mrs. Cintra filled these for her from the drinking fountain. While she did so, the woman placed her hand on the witness shoulder and repeated several times the word “Rempaua.” Then the woman went out and entered a luminous, pear-shaped UFO craft, shaped with a flat bottom that was hovering 3 feet above the hospital’s lawn. Another person also saw the craft. It took off and climbed slowly in a spiral, with a repetition of the flapping sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 6; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 291; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-60, citing Dr. Max Berezowski for APRO Source ID: Johnson_5367 Source: Johnson ### Event 14387 (8069B721) Date: 8/26/1968 Description: Needham, Alabama. A bright ovoid object with three luminous bands was encountered on the road at 12:30 a.m. A scraped, burned area was found later at the landing point. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 264, citing NICAP files Source ID: Johnson_5366 Source: Johnson ### Event 14388 (E3EEB3FC) Date: 8/26/1968 Description: Two discs were spotted atop each other on a mountain peak in Gleeson, Arizona at 7:50 p.m. There were scorched plants and burned grass found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 55; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 264, citing NICAP files Source ID: Johnson_5368 Source: Johnson ### Event 14389 (1F73914F) Date: 8/27/1968 Description: Maria Josa Cintra, who worked at the Clemente Ferreira Sanatorium in Lins, Brazil was awakened by a noise early in the morning. At the front door was a "foreign-looking" woman of normal height, wearing light-colored clothes, and a headdress exposing only her face. She spoke in an unknown language, and handed Marie a mug and a glass bottle covered with beautiful engravings. Maria filled them. The woman said something like as "Rempaua," and went out to a bright, pearl-like sphere, that took off with the sound of wings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Max Berezowski, APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: a Century of Landings, case 918 Source ID: Johnson_5398 Source: Johnson ### Event 14390 (E05667CC) Date: 8/27/1968 Time: early Description: Maria Josa Cintra, who worked at the Clemente Ferreira Sanatorium, was awakened by a noise. At the front door was a "foreign-looking" woman of normal height, wearing light-colored clothes, and a headdress exposing only her face. She spoke in an unknown language, and handed Marie a mug and a glass bottle covered with beautiful engravings. Maria filled them. The woman said something such as "Rempaua," and went out to a pearlshaped, bright object that took off with the sound of wings. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 69, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lins, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_918 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14391 (8853B557) Date: 8/27/1968 Description: Early. Maria Josa Cintra, who worked at the Clemente Ferreira Sanatorium, was awakened by a noise. At the front door was a "foreign-looking" woman of normal height, wearing light-colored clothes, and a headdress exposing only her face. (Magonia #918, FSR 69, 1) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lins, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_3965 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14392 (8046C572) Date: 8/28/1968 Description: At 7:30 p.m. Pedro Aylagas Galvez saw a lighted object in his field in Ucero, Soria, Spain that descended 500 meters away and emitted a beam of light directed upward. It then made a strange, abrupt maneuver, and then shone its light at him, hitting him in the face and blinding him and also making his hair stand on end. The object descended in a spinning motion, stabilized, and displayed four large windows on top with four smaller ones underneath. As he watched, he saw four “small dark objects” ejected from its central part, which landed on the ground. After about a minute these arose and re-entered the hovering UFO, which then ascended and disappeared in seconds. The entire incident lasted about seven minutes. Others independently reported seeing the object depart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 66; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-61 (A0966), citing Felix Ares De Blas, Bernani Labro Begule & David S. Lopez; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 360 & 380 Source ID: Johnson_5421 Source: Johnson ### Event 14393 (D005C9F5) Date: 8/29/1968 Description: Larry Sorenson was driving from Ely to Delta, Utah on this night when he saw a stationary bright, white light close to the horizon. It turned a red color and became much brighter. Sorenson's truck engine suddenly failed as he continued to drive towards the light. He got out and watched the light travel overhead and disappear behind him. It was changing colors from red to green to white and back to red. After the light was gone, the truck could be restarted. Sorenson noticed another car had also been stopped on the road. When he got home, the trip had taken almost two hours longer to complete than expected, and he had to account for two hours of missing time with a possible UFO abduction experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 42; Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display Source ID: Johnson_5465 Source: Johnson ### Event 14394 (0E0EB6F9) Date: 8/29/1968 Description: At 9:30 p.m. six witnesses in San Sadurni de Osomort, Barcelona, Spain saw a UFO 200 meters away, hovering just two meters above the ground. It was a metallic sphere, which gave off a yellow light. At 9:40 p.m. several people in Castrejana, Vizcaya, Spain saw an object over the Mount Kobetas mountain peak for one minute. It was square, with a dome on top, and extremely bright. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, pp. 15-16, cases 67 & 68, citing Correo Espano, August 30, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_5463 Source: Johnson ### Event 14395 (13BE921C) Date: 8/29/1968 Description: Starting on this evening at 6:30 p.m., a group of children in Coleraine, Quebec, Canada on four consecutive evenings saw a strange being hanging onto a boulder overlooking a cemetery. He was a dwarfish humanoid about 4 feet tall, with a shaven or bald head, naked chest, heavy black beard, and with red and bumpy skin, “like that of a lizard.” This being would disappear into thin air unexpectedly. A roaring noise was also heard coming from an excavation at the foot of the boulder, and a kind of “flying saucer” was seen, about 30 feet wide and colored blue, white and red. It left a long trail of smoke, and each time it “looked as if it were trying to land behind the boulder.” The children were Denis Bogus, age 7, who first saw the object; his brothers Michael and Andre, and their uncle, George Bogus; other adults who subsequently observed the phenomena were Normand Daigle and Luc Cadorette. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-62, citing Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Fall 1968 Source ID: Johnson_5464 Source: Johnson ### Event 14396 (DC5F6CCC) Date: 8/31/1968 Time: early Description: Three witnesses, among them two Casino employees, stated that they observed five dwarfs, with oversized heads, who emerged from a landed craft and traced undecipherable signs on the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: Le Figaro Sep. 2, 1968 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Mendoza, Argentina Source ID: Magnonia_919 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14397 (AB3B734C) Date: 8/31/1968 Description: Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Mrs. Emilia Larrude de Salazar was alone with her children at home this night when she heard very loud knocking at the front door at around eight p.m. Without opening the door, she pulled back a curtain and saw a very tall man-like figure over two meters (6.6 feet) in height, that appeared to have no hair or ears, and with a large mouth and teeth. The being wore a tight fitting dull black outfit and had very long dangling arms. The being's eyes also shone with a brilliant light. The stunned witness could not move and watched the strange figure move away backwards without taking his gaze off her. Emilia thought she could hear a muffled laugh coming from the figure. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case # 3449, citing Eduardo A. Tucci & Alberto Giordano Source ID: Johnson_5527 Source: Johnson ### Event 14398 (55D44F67) Date: 8/31/1968 Description: In Santiponce, Sevilla province, Spain at around eight p.m. four little girls, ages 4 to 8, saw a round object with green and white lights that "arrived from the sky and landed between two trees." It came down about 50 meters away. It was round with two black wheels and two small windows. Then the girls saw a tall man in black trousers and a black and brown shirt appear near the object; there was nothing unusual about his appearance. Later at the landing site was found a circle of pressed down grass. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR, May 1973, p. 19; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 70, ; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-63 (A0971), citing Manuel Llorente Osuna Source ID: Johnson_5526 Source: Johnson ### Event 14399 (514C38CE) Date: 8/31/1968 Description: In the early morning hours (3:42 a.m.) three witnesses in Mendoza, Argentina--among them two casino employees getting off work--stated that they observed five dwarfs with oversized heads, who emerged from a landed craft and traced undecipherable signs on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 919, citing Le Figaro, September 2, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_5525 Source: Johnson ### Event 14400 (EC05CDB4) Date: 9/1/1968 Description: 3:42 a.m. Juan Carlos Peccinetti and Fernando José Villegas are driving home after getting off work at a casino in Mendoza, Argentina. On the Calle Neuquén, their car stops and the lights go out. They find themselves unable to move and several humanoid beings standing near an enormous landed UFO. They receive telepathic messages from the aliens who make marks on the windshield and one side of their car and see a screen full of dystopian images. The beings prick their fingers and take blood samples before gong back to the UFO. However, the two later admit to making up the story. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles Bowen, “[One Day in Mendoza,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201968%20V%2014%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1968\): 2–5; Clark III 601 Source ID: Eberhart_4607 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14401 (C584665D) Date: 9/1/1968 Description: In Mendoza, Argentina two casino workers, Juan Carlos Peccinetti and Fernando Jose Villegas, were driving home after work at 3:30 a.m. when the engine of their car quit and the lights went out. Peccinetti had just started getting out of the car when both men found themselves paralyzed. They were soon face to face with three strange, five-foot tall beings with unusually large bald heads, wearing coveralls. Behind them was a circular or oval UFO 12 feet across and five feet high that was hovering four feet above the ground and directing a bright beam of light downward. When the entities came closer the witnesses heard a foreign-sounding voice repeat, "Do not fear." Then they were told, "we have just made three journeys around the sun, studying customs and languages of the inhabitants of the system...mathematics is the universal language." Meanwhile, another one of the entities, using a tool that looked like a soldering iron, was making inscriptions on the doors, windshield, and running boards of their car. The witnesses next saw a circular TV-like screen, on which there appeared first a waterfall, then a mushroom cloud, and then the waterfall again, this time with no water. Finally the beings took hold of the witnesses' left hands and pricked their fingers three times, taking blood samples, after which they ascended to their machine along the light beam. There was an "explosive effect" and the object rose and disappeared. The men ran to a nearby military college to report their experience. They later retracted their story, but there are indications that they were coerced into doing so. In fact, authorities in Mendoza quickly made the "spreading of UFO rumors" a criminal offense to discourage widespread rumors on this and other cases that occurred about the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-64 Source ID: Johnson_5558 Source: Johnson ### Event 14402 (E6B54505) Date: 9/1/1968 Description: Huge circular object hovering nearby, three small humanoids. Flying Saucer Review, November 1968; see Rodeghier,1981, p. 43 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mendoza, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_3967 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14403 (88B96658) Date: 9/2/1968 Description: A brilliant royal blue ball of light with a whitish-yellow outer ring hovered in the northwestern sky over Lockleys, South Australia for awhile, then dropped like a stone, veering to the left. It made no sound and left no smoke trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 182 Source ID: Johnson_5571 Source: Johnson ### Event 14404 (F0AFB6F7) Date: 9/4/1968 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) receives a letter from Col. [Raymond S. Sleeper](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149575947/raymond-starrett-sleeper), commander of the Air Force Foreign Technology Division. Sleeper notes that Hynek has publicly accused Project Blue Book of shoddy science, and further asks Hynek to offer advice on how Blue Book could improve its scientific methods. Hynek later declares that Sleeper’s letter is “the first time in my 20 year association with the air force as scientific consultant that I had been officially asked for criticism and advice \[regarding\] ... the UFO problem.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., [pp. 189–190](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/188/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4608 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14405 (DB8CB994) Date: 9/4/1968 Description: 10:30 p.m. A scoutmaster and 12 River Scouts are having a camp-out by bonfire in the mountains near Caracas, Venezuela, when they see two intensely glowing red discs, each about the size of the full moon, as they rise one at a time from some low hills, hover momentarily, and descend again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 299 Source ID: Eberhart_4610 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14406 (FC0E4327) Date: 9/4/1968 Description: Two US Air Force pilots flying in the vicinity of Goose Bay AFB \[now CFB Goose Bay\], Labrador, spot a spherical metallic object flying in a southerly direction at 33,000–41,000 feet. It crosses behind them, stops, performs two 360° turns and disappears after 5 minutes at 30° above the horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, p. 115 Source ID: Eberhart_4609 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14407 (D957D3EC) Date: 9/5/1968 Description: Night. Thousands of people in Madrid, Spain, see a bright object in the sky, causing a monumental traffic jam. The Spanish Air Force scrambles an F-104 jet to intercept it. The pilot climbs to 50,000 feet but the object is still above him, and he has to return for fuel. Air Force radar tracks the UFO moving slowly at 90,000 feet. A photo taken through a telescope at the Royal Observatory of Madrid shows a triangular object, apparently solid on one side and translucent in some sections. The object disappears at great speed. The Madrid Weather Bureau says it has no meteorological balloons aloft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Triangle-Shaped Object over Madrid,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201968%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1968, p. 4; Good Above, [pp. 149–151](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/148/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4611 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14408 (7F93E3F6) Date: 9/6/1968 Description: 9:30 p.m. John Dow and Paul Franklin are driving on Springfield Road in Taradale, New Zealand, when they notice 20–30 red and green lights flying aimlessly above the city dump. They pull off the road to watch, and a “thunderous explosion” rips through the air, shaking the car. Immediately, the lights begin to group, take off vertically, and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, p. 48 Source ID: Eberhart_4612 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14409 (17D1B95E) Date: 9/7/1968 Description: A woman in Toronto, Ontario reported meeting a being wearing an "astronaut suit" who gave her a stone of a very high nickel content and a unique alloy composition. It was hinted that the extraterrestrial also had sex with the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing Jean Ferguson, Enigmas of Time Present Source ID: Johnson_5724 Source: Johnson ### Event 14410 (07CD03BA) Date: 9/8/1968 Description: 3:00 p.m. Single witness (confidential). Lady and her son were driving and talking. It didn't look to be very far away (1/4 mile or more) and the witness said it didn't look big enough to hold an upright man. (See drawing, Regional Encounters: The FC Files, pg. 27) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Evansville, In Source ID: NICAP_DB_3969 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14411 (86233843) Date: 9/8/1968 Description: Just outside Beaminster, England seven witnesses in three separate cars heard a strange noise at 9:00 p.m. and the electrical systems of the cars completely failed and stayed inoperable for thirty minutes. The temperature gauge dropped precipitously in one car, and the hood of another car could not be opened. A compass spun wildly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dorset Evening Echo, September 11, 1968; Spacelink, January 1969; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_5764 Source: Johnson ### Event 14412 (289FF83A) Date: 9/8/1968 Description: A 48-year-old woman and her adult son were driving near the city of Evansville, Indiana when she saw an object hovering over some railroad tracks. It was described as being an ugly brown metallic object resembling a harmonica, flat with smudges, which had top and bottom rows of waffle-like squares indented into the metal. It was the length of an airplane, and not tall enough to stand up inside. Itr hovered near the municipal airport. When they turned a corner some trees blocked their view, so they continued on. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_5765 Source: Johnson ### Event 14413 (4E91F652) Date: 9/9/1968 Description: On this evening several US helicopter pilots and troops in Dong Ha, Vietnam had a close encounter with a fast moving object over the US Marine Corps Base. It had green and white lights and engaged in maneuvers for 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, April 1969, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_5790 Source: Johnson ### Event 14414 (A1DFD17A) Date: 9/9/1968 Description: On this night a number of independent witnesses reported and described a close encounter with a UFO at Itaipu Beach near Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. It was a disc-shaped craft emitting orange light, and it made several low-level passes over the beach before briefly landing. One witness, Professor Sohail Saud, said he saw occupants inside the object, who were wearing helmets. Others said the object hovered 10 meters above the water, emitting a soft hum and spinning on its axis. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, February 1971, p. 11; Roberto Enrique Banchs, FSR, March 1971, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-65 (A0977) Source ID: Johnson_5791 Source: Johnson ### Event 14415 (5CE688EB) Date: 9/10/1968 Description: On this night in Pergamino, Buenos Aires, Argentina J. Bautista Perazzo allegedly had contact with extraterrestrial beings. He said he was going along National Highway # 8 when he caught sight of “the only UFO which has molested the earth in these past years.” The alien crew contacted him and communicated with him orally in perfect Castilian Spanish about his technical resources and their purpose on our planet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-96 (A1570), citing Carlos Banchs Source ID: Johnson_5829 Source: Johnson ### Event 14416 (931E232E) Date: 9/10/1968 Description: Evening. John Dow and Paul Franklin are on the Omarunui Road southwest of Taradale, New Zealand. They see a circular object with a red and green light that is only a few feet in diameter and glowing white. Heading toward the source, they watch as the UFO disappears behind a cloud. After crossing a bridge, they see the object again, hovering on the opposite side of the river. The object glows intensely and speeds toward the automobile from the rear. Panicking, they try to jump out of the car, which is traveling at 35 mph, but get tangled up and the car veers out of control. Both of them fall out the left door as the bright UFO hovers 2 feet above the car roof. The car crashes into the store of a fruit dealer on Gloucester Street. A crowd gathers around the two young men, still dazed and shocked. Nearly 24 hours later the witnesses are treated for “bruises and abrasions” at the Napier Hospital outpatient clinic because “their clothes were sticking to them.” Dow is charged with reckless driving, but the circumstances convince the court to drop the charge and the insurance company pays for the damages. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 48–50 Source ID: Eberhart_4613 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14417 (70C8FD47) Date: 9/11/1968 Description: A 25-meter long oval object emitted a reddish light, then descended, almost touching the roofs of houses in Ceres, Argentina. It departed to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_5857 Source: Johnson ### Event 14418 (961419C8) Date: 9/13/1968 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) calls together [Craig](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html)[,](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) [Gillmor](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/21/archives/daniel-s-gillmor-writer-dies-at-58-opposed-loyalty-inquiries-author.html)[,](https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/21/archives/daniel-s-gillmor-writer-dies-at-58-opposed-loyalty-inquiries-author.html) [Roach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FE.%5FRoach)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%5FE.%5FRoach) and [Rush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FH.%5FRush) to discuss what the project’s recommendations should be. He writes the recommendation section shortly afterwards. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roy Craig, UFOs: An Insiders’ View of the Official Quest for Evidence, University of North Texas, 1995, p. 213 Source ID: Eberhart_4614 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14419 (0B2CE90C) Date: 9/14/1968 Description: Eight young people in Drummondville, Quebec saw a "man" who walked like a robot. The next day they saw a little man, 4 feet tall, who was surrounded by a luminous glow. He disappeared, and in his place was the robot. The ground traces showed tracks of a creature with six toes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sherbrooke Tribune, October 9, 1968; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0979 Source ID: Johnson_5954 Source: Johnson ### Event 14420 (52F002C0) Date: 9/15/1968 Time: 9:30 PM Description: Witness: missionary pilot Jay Cole, flying a Beech C-45 twin-engined utility plane. One light performed aerobatics for 15 minutes and then vanished. A second light appeared, heading toward them on a collision course, made a 90 degree turn and disappeared. Later, ground radar told them a target was following them. Sightings lasted 15 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: near Ocala, Florida Source ID: BerlinerBBU_581 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 14421 (101D2243) Date: 9/15/1968 Description: 10:00 p.m. Farmers in the area around Carora, Lara, Venezuela, have a difficult time controlling their cattle and horses when a saucer-shaped object with flickering yellow lights flies over the area at high speed and low altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 299 Source ID: Eberhart_4615 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14422 (91EAF742) Date: 9/15/1968 Description: Near Ocala, Florida. 9:30 p.m. Missionary pilot Jay Cole, flying a Beech C-45 twin-engine utility plane, observed an unidentified light performing aerobatics in the night sky. He watched it for 15 minutes before it vanished. A second light appeared, heading toward Cole's plane on a collision course. It made a 90-degree turn and disappeared. Later, ground radar told them a target had been following them. The two sightings lasted a total of 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns Source ID: Johnson_5990 Source: Johnson ### Event 14423 (B75D6D42) Date: 9/15/1968 Description: 10:00 p.m. Mathematician Miron Oprea is driving with his wife and two nephews northwest of Ploieşti, Romania, when they see a cylindrical object emitting a bluish light and descending slowly to the west near the Vega oil refinery. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Wverbergh 183–184 Source ID: Eberhart_4616 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14424 (56BE8FD8) Date: 9/15/1968 Description: Twin Beach C45H Encounters UFO / Gnd Radars Pickup (BBU 12498) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 4, BB: 12498) Reference: NICAP: [680915](http://www.nicap.org/680915ocala%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ocala, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3970 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14425 (30FD6915) Date: 9/16/1968 Description: A car-racing contest at Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela, is disrupted when a low-flying disc flies above the grandstands. A photographer gets a snapshot that shows a sausage-shaped object about 12–15 feet above the heads of the crowd on the uppermost tier of bleachers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 299 Source ID: Eberhart_4617 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14426 (D07E1216) Date: 9/17/1968 Description: 1:00 a.m. Two air control tower operators at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, watch a bright light moving in a way they cannot explain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek. The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [p. 44](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/44/mode/2up); [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 329 Source ID: Eberhart_4618 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14427 (664D89EF) Date: 9/17/1968 Description: Two military ATCs including supervisor saw nocturnal light and report violent maneuvers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nellis AFB, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_3971 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14428 (501A9670) Date: 9/18/1968 Description: Farmer [Marius Magnan](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203187636/marius-joseph%5Fzephirin-magnan) sees three dull metallic, gray, football-shaped UFOs at an altitude of 2,500 feet and 2 miles away at Ste. Anne, Manitoba. They are traveling northwest to southeast in a vertical orientation at tremendous speed. The UFOs are discharging white substance from the upper surface just like popcorn. The white substance streams upward from two of the objects and downward from the third. After they disappear, a white, fibrous substance falls and settles on foliage, buildings, and power lines. The University of Manitoba analyzes a sample and finds it to be “cellulose-like and unstable,” with a uniform fiber diameter of 5 microns, and probably rayon coated with a gummy substance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 104–105 Source ID: Eberhart_4619 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14429 (0E1335E1) Date: 9/18/1968 Description: 4:15 a.m. Patrolman Arthur H. Byrd sees an object flashing red, blue, and yellow lights on Hunter Road in San Marcos, Texas, approaching at great speed. He follows it along Interstate 35 toward Luling and San Antonio, and at Redwood Road it comes to a stop. It slowly fades away by 7:15 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Said Followed for](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100535521/) [Hours,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100535521/)” Austin \(Tex.\) American, September 19, 1968, p. 68 Source ID: Eberhart_4620 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14430 (5B5F86DD) Date: 9/19/1968 Description: At 6:10 p.m. in the city of Bistrita, Romania a group of observers including a man named Rusu watched a disc-shaped object with three small lights hovering for five minutes. The object stayed in one place during heavy winds, and caused electromagnetic interference effects at a nearby radio station and also blocked TV reception. It flew off rapidly to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 144 Source ID: Johnson_6086 Source: Johnson ### Event 14431 (10A72174) Date: 9/19/1968 Description: At 8:00 p.m. Mr. Tsekhanovich, a high trained observer, watched as a bright pulsating orange ball descended over the ocean as it was being circled by four smaller balls of light near Gagra, Georgia. The large UFO became elongated and then vanished. One minute later there was a flash of light and all the remaining objects were gone as well. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Xenolog, August 1976, p. 13; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 138 Source ID: Johnson_6087 Source: Johnson ### Event 14432 (B0DC9D8A) Date: 9/19/1968 Description: 3:15 p.m.–7:15 p.m. A lighted white object is seen by many witnesses over Cluj-Napoca and other towns in northwestern Romania. Some of the sightings are attributable to a balloon, but others seem to be moving against the wind and internally lit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 139–149; Romania 27–29 Source ID: Eberhart_4621 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14433 (4E414E56) Date: 9/20/1968 Description: A disc-shaped object was seen low over a courtyard in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil at around 1:00 a.m. Three beams of light came down from the object, and human-looking beings appeared inside each beam. All ascended back up to the craft through the same method after a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 70; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0973, citing Irene Granchi Source ID: Johnson_6131 Source: Johnson ### Event 14434 (091F8EB5) Date: 9/20/1968 Description: Police officer saw a huge ball of fire falling directly downward. Other officers said the ball appeared to be 20' in diameter. NARA document mentions UFO "crash" and references "Moon Dust". (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [680920](http://www.nicap.org/moondust/wichfalls2%5F600920doc.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wichita Falls, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_3972 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14435 (922ED7A7) Date: 9/21/1968 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object with a series of square windows, rotating clockwise, moved slowly and silently through the skies over Linton, Indiana. It was half the size of a pea at arm's length, and its lights were large, three-quarters the height of the object itself. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, NICAP investigation files, October 21, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_6188 Source: Johnson ### Event 14436 (2F248C90) Date: 9/21/1968 Description: At around two a.m. a truck driver on the Barcelona-Puigcerda road near La Llagosta, Barcelona, Spain saw a landed egg-shaped object standing vertically on end. It was brightly lit, and near it he saw a small being. He did not stop, but reported the incident at the next service station near the village. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-68, citing FSR Special Bulletin # 4 Source ID: Johnson_6185 Source: Johnson ### Event 14437 (95827C22) Date: 9/21/1968 Description: In Coaticook, Quebec, Canada two young girls reported they saw a "Martian" on the roof of the local high school. By 9:30 p.m. a crowd of some 50 people had assembled to see what was going on. Shirley Green said that she saw a "green face with no nose, mouth or hair," and that the strange man emitted intermittent sparks. In a nearby field the grass had been burned in a circle 42 feet in diameter, and some tracks were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-98 (A0983), citing Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, issue # 54 Source ID: Johnson_6187 Source: Johnson ### Event 14438 (E236117A) Date: 9/21/1968 Description: At three a.m. in La Escala, Gerona, Spain Sr. Ballesta, age 52, saw two beings with frightful yellowish faces, wearing tight black clothes, that came out of an object that resembled a buoy. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Balester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 78, citing Stendek, August 1972, p. 30; Vicente-Juan Balester Olmos, FSR, May 1973, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_6186 Source: Johnson ### Event 14439 (733312E9) Date: Fall 1968 Description: No time given. One witness (Abbott), humanoid report. (SRUFOS) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Point Isabel, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3966 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14440 (A51B1EFE) Date: 9/23/1968 Description: Later that same evening at ten p.m. Mr. Battease looked out his bedroom window, six miles east of Roosevelt, Utah in Duchesne County, and saw a double convex disc that was slightly flatter on the bottom. It had red lights on top and was making a humming sound. The lights were steady and the disc moved at the speed of an airplane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 68 Source ID: Johnson_6258 Source: Johnson ### Event 14441 (5BD4C761) Date: 9/23/1968 Description: A minister in Whitefield, Maine awoke at 2:30 a.m. EDT to see two pencil-shaped beams of light coming through his window from a reddish-orange saucer-shaped object hovering in the sky. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 354 Source ID: Johnson_6257 Source: Johnson ### Event 14442 (9F033AD0) Date: 9/24/1968 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a 56-year-old woman in Cedeira, La Coruna, Spain saw a bright light coming from Ponteiro, and she later observed two tall men walking on the road toward her. There were “lights of changing color visible on their faces.” Frightened, she ran to her nearest neighbor's home. A sailor went out to investigate but found nothing. However, an investigator later found “a burned area, irregular but about two meters in diameter" at the supposed landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR, May-June 1973, p. 19; Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 80; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-69 (A0984), citing FSR Special Bulletin # 4, p. 54 Source ID: Johnson_6286 Source: Johnson ### Event 14443 (D17E4986) Date: Late 9/1968 Alternate date: Late 9/1969 Description: Night. A teenager is putting hay in a rabbit pen at his home in the East Linden neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. He hears a clapping noise and sees an entity dressed in a black uniform with a silver belt walking in the woods nearby. Its head has an eerie yellow glow. Scared, he runs into the house to get his parents, but the entity is gone when they go out to look for it. The next morning a neighbor stops by to ask if they had seen any lights in a field the night before. The families go to the field and find a large oval place where the grass, weeds, and bushes have been pressed down. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Irena Scott, “Observation of an Alien Figure,” IUR 12, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1987\): 20, 25 Source ID: Eberhart_4622 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14444 (EEB0E48D) Date: 9/26/1968 End date: 9/27/1968 Description: 6:00 a.m. Industrial chemist Henrique Schneider Jr. gets up and checks the fire in the kiln next to his house in Vila Baumer in the northern part of Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil. He comes across a strange object in the pottery yard about 16 feet away. It is a cone-shaped device about 13 feet high sitting on a tripod under which a bluish light illuminates the ground, and it has a rectangular opening through which comes a treadmill. On the treadmill are two squared cylinders standing on end, both motionless. Schneider feels paralyzed and begins to converse telepathically with the nearest cylinder, which answers his questions clearly and briefly about where they come from, which is another star system, and they are investigating global warming on earth. Soon the treadmill goes back up into the object, the entrance closes, and it takes off with a hissing sound. The next day, Schneider finds a burned circle of grass just over 2 feet in diameter at the landing site. Inside this is a smaller circle of compressed grass and three holes where the tripod stood. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Carlos Varassin, “[O Estranho Caso da Vila](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20094-98%20-%201973-1974.pdf) [Baumer,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20094-98%20-%201973-1974.pdf)” SBEDV Boletim, no. 94/98 \(September 1973/June 1974\): 41–44; “[Contato Imediato em Joinville,](https://www.fenomenum.com.br/ufo/casuistica/1970/joinville)” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Brazil 141–145 Source ID: Eberhart_4623 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14445 (357290F8) Date: 9/29/1968 Description: At 8:11 p.m. an engineer familiar with astronomy and artificial satellites sighted a bright blue light source moving across the sky in Needham, Massachusetts at one-degree per second. It was about magnitude-2 in brightness and pulsated twice a second. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated September 29, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_6422 Source: Johnson ### Event 14446 (670114B1) Date: 9/29/1968 Description: Night. Amateur astronomer [Hermanus Voorsluys](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/236758091/hermanus-voorsluys) and ex-police officer [Reginald Neal](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/219918363/reginald-neal) take several photographs of a UFO that they have seen for several nights above Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. One photo shows a large object surrounded by four smaller luminous objects that have emerged from it, as well as a fifth object that has just appeared. After a zig-zagging descent, the smaller objects return to the level of the parent object and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mystery over Naval Base,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%201%20no%205%20-%201969.pdf)” Canadian UFO Report 1, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1969\): 4–7 Source ID: Eberhart_4624 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14447 (DB1DF397) Date: 9/30/1968 Description: At around three a.m. Guy Lemargue, age 16, was walking with a friend on a small country road in Roncenay, Aude, France when they both saw, about 150 yards away, a disc-shaped red-orange luminous UFO, about 50 feet in diameter and feet in height, resting on legs. It had a row of portholes all around the edge. Beside it, several luminous entities of small stature were “maneuvering” with very strong lights sources in their hands, which they shone on the ground. They walked or floated two feet above the ground, and sometimes made sudden gliding leaps of a hundred yards. One creature approached to within 15 feet of the teens, and they reported that they could see that its hands were shaped like pincers or crab-like claws. Realizing that their presence had been detected, the boys ran away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Luc Billion & Raoul Foin, Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1973, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-99 Source ID: Johnson_6444 Source: Johnson ### Event 14448 (AE54BB30) Date: 9/30/1968 Description: Starting at 8:15 p.m. two men in Bucharest, Romania watched a spherical object that changed shape to a dumbbell, then back to a sphere. It also changed colors. It maneuvered in the sky for 35-40 minutes, then shrank and vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p.

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248 Source ID: Johnson_6445 Source: Johnson ### Event 14449 (07345954) Date: 9/30/1968 Description: [Philip J. Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) writes a letter to [Robert A. Frosch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FFrosch)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FFrosch) wanting to know who has financed [James E.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)’s visits to Australia to investigate UFOs and who would fund his upcoming trip to Europe and the USSR. In late 1967, McDonald had secured a modest grant from the Office of Naval Research in order to study cloud formations in Australia. While there, McDonald conducts some UFO research on his own time. Klass mounts an extended, concerted campaign against McDonald, arguing that he has squandered government funds. The ONR responds by announcing that they had known of McDonald’s UFO interests and have no objections to his personal hobbies. The University of Arizona comes to McDonald’s defense, announcing that his UFO research was done on his own time, and has no adverse impact on his regular teaching and research duties at the university. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 700 Source ID: Eberhart_4625 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14450 (065474EB) Date: 9/30/1968 Description: 1:00 a.m. Commercial pilot, Dogie Stockmar, and four passengers observed a light source with 2-3 beams toward ground. One beam was longer than the others. Lights pulsated. (Phone call to NICAP) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Louisville, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3973 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14451 (2B767660) Date: 10/1968? Description: A 7-page National Security Agency thought piece on UFOs is written by an unnamed NSA analyst around this time. It is declassified in 1984 with a disclaimer saying that it does not represent NSA policy. It discusses various hypotheses for UFOs \(hoaxes, hallucinations, natural phenomena, secret earth projects, and extraterrestrial intelligence\) and speculates what each answer would mean for the human species, placing credence in the ETH. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \[US National Security Agency\], “[U.F.O. Hypothesis and Survival Questions,](https://www.nicap.org/docs/nsa/survival%5Fquestions.pdf)” \[October 1968\]; Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/422/mode/2up) [423–424](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/422/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4626 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14452 (D1AFA033) Date: 10/1968 Description: Brazil’s System of Investigation of Unidentified Aircraft, created by the Fourth Air Zone Command of the Brazilian Air Force and sponsored by Brig. Gen. José Vaz da Silva and coordinated by Maj. Gilberto Zani de Mello, goes into operation to investigate UFO sightings, especially physical trace cases. The operation lasts until the end of 1972. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[SIOANI](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIOANI)”; Clark III 1072–1073 Source ID: Eberhart_4627 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14453 (5995DEB7) Date: 10/1968 Description: 3:00 a.m.The first sighting took place in the Fraser Canyon between Boston Bar and Yale in an area where the Canyon is quite deep. What they saw was very strange as there seemed to be a fog or mist in the canyon and inside the fog they could make out a luminous, sort of translucent oval light source that was probably several hundred feet long and hovering above the Fraser River. (Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [681000](http://www.nicap.org/boston%5Fbar6810xxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bt. Boston Bar and Yale, B.C, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3974 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14454 (654E026E) Date: 10/2/1968 Description: 6:20 a.m. While oiling his tractor’s engine at the end of Avenida da Saudade in Lins, São Paulo, Brazil, Turíbio Pereira sees only a few feet away a golden cigar-shaped object hovering one foot above the ground. It is about 16 feet long and 10 feet wide. There is a platform around it and on the top a transparent dome is open. Inside there are four stools and an instrument panel. Pereira sees four beings around it wearing blue tunics and red skirts. One is on the platform with a weapon in its hand, another is picking up earth samples, the third is looking at his tractor’s engine, and the fourth is inside the object at the instrument panel. The being with the weapon fires it and a luminous ball hits Pereira in the stomach, paralyzing him. The entities go inside, and a transparent dome encloses them. The object ascends and shoots off at high speed. With difficulty, Pereira climbs off the tractor and stumbles to the road where a friend takes him home. Later he is given a medical examination by Antônio Geris and summoned to a Brazilian Air Force facility where he is questioned and held for three days. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[Confrontation at Lins,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1969\): 22–23; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1968-10-02-brazil-lins.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1968-10-02-brazil-lins.htm) December 22, 2006; Brazil 105–107 Source ID: Eberhart_4628 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14455 (FC070C21) Date: 10/2/1968 Description: In Lins, Sao Paolo State, Brazil at 6:20 a.m., while oiling his bulldozer’s engine, Sr. Doribio Pereira saw a golden colored cigar-shaped craft hovering a foot or so above the ground, only a few feet away, Next he saw a man standing on a platform that extended from the base of the object, who drew a weapon resembling an electric drill from his sleeve. The being pointed it at the witness, and when it emitted a bright flash Pereira found himself paralyzed. He could see that inside the cigar, which had a “glass roof,” there was a man using some sort of keyboard with both hands, and outside the craft on an extended platform stood three more men. One of them was taking soil samples with a “conch shaped object.” Then the craft flashed a very vivid light three times, the platform retracted, and underneath the craft appeared “something like an electric polisher, rotating at high speed.” After that it took off with a slight sound. The men were described as thin, about 5’5” tall, and dressed in blue knee-length robes, hoods, and brown sandals with cross garters to the knees. Pereira, in a state of near shock, was given a lift to his home, and from there he reported to the Town Council. Because of his nervous state he was sent for a medical examination, during which Dr. Antonio Geris found him entirely normal. Officials of the Brazilian Air Force later subjected him to an intense interrogation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, January-February 1969, p. 22; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-70, citing Gordon Creighton Source ID: Johnson_6500 Source: Johnson ### Event 14456 (23AC8901) Date: 10/5/1968 Description: 7:52 p.m. John D. Hickey and his family are driving near West Morehead Street in Charlotte, North Carolina. While stopped at a traffic light, he sees a black object like a short cigar moving on his left, but it stops and hovers above a low building about 500 feet away. Suddenly three large gray-white lights shaped like television picture tubes turn on, each about 22 inches in diameter. A small black arm-like device moves slowly out of one end, extends a few feet, then stops. A blue light is at one end. The three large lights begin to blink slowly, then rapidly for 25 seconds. The blue light goes out, the arm retracts, the large lights blink more slowly until they stop. The lights go out and the object moves to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Nocturnal Light Becomes CE-I in Charlotte,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf) [NC,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1984\): 1, 8 Source ID: Eberhart_4629 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14457 (F6F93545) Date: 10/7/1968 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) responds to Col. [Sleeper](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149575947/raymond-starrett-sleeper)’s request with an extended commentary prefaced by a succinct, eight-point critique of everything Project Blue Book has done wrong: the project suffers from \(1\) inadequate execution, \(2\) inadequate staff, \(3\) lack of open consultation with scientists outside the Air Force, \(4\) laughable statistical methods, \(5\) too much time spent on routine cases and not exceptional cases, \(6\) inadequate data provided by local Air Force base investigators, \(7\) biased evaluations, and \(8\) inadequate use of the project’s own scientific consultant. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 202–206](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/202/mode/2up), [283–305](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/282/mode/2up); Clark III 925 Source ID: Eberhart_4630 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14458 (D900080E) Date: 10/7/1968 Description: A cigar-shaped object flew rapidly to the south over Lagoa Rodrigo, Brazil at 9:20 a.m. A jet aircraft attempted to follow it, but the UFO was much faster. On this same day a 42-foot diameter circle was found in Ngatea, New Zealand. The circle was somewhat radioactive and the plants inside the circle were bone-dry as if completely dehydrated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 74; Data-Net Report, January 1970, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_6631 Source: Johnson ### Event 14459 (5CEF5992) Date: 10/8/1968 Description: On this night in Asbestos, Quebec, Canada Mr. Bellerose, his wife, his brother in law, and his sister in law saw a rectangular green shape in the sky. After some minutes “a real saucer” came out of a cloud, with a yellow-orange light around it and three circular lights beneath it. The two men got into a car and followed the UFO toward St. Claude; watching from the home, the women distinctly saw humanoids walk from the object and seemingly float into space. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-101, citing Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, issue # 54 Source ID: Johnson_6656 Source: Johnson ### Event 14460 (739516B5) Date: 10/8/1968 Description: In Medulla, Florida a terrified dog crashed through a screen porch to hide from a domed disc-shaped UFO dropping sparks at treetop level and see-sawing in a rocking motion in the sky, only 150 feet away from the house. Two occupants wearing tight rubbery suits and headgear were visible inside the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lakeland Ledger, November 11, 1968; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, June 1969, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_6657 Source: Johnson ### Event 14461 (E018C56F) Date: 10/9/1968 Description: 6:20 a.m. Doribio Pereira, 41, municipal employee, suddenly observed a golden, cigar-shaped object, and a figure armed with a flashing weapon that immobilized him. Three beings were standing on a platform under the craft. (Magonia #920, FSR 69, 1) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lins, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_3975 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14462 (67493545) Date: 10/9/1968 Time: 0620 Description: Doribio Pereira, 41, municipal employee, suddenly observed a golden, cigar-shaped object, and a figure armed with a flashing weapon that immobilized him. Three beings were standing on a platform under the craft, and another figure appeared to be using a keyboard inside the transparent top part. The object took off rapidly, leaving the witness in a state of shock. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 69, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Lins, Brazil Source ID: Magnonia_920 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14463 (4C6F3E8D) Date: 10/15/1968 Description: Driving across the desert near Kingman, Arizona with a hitchhiker at around 3:00 a.m., Michael Watts saw a "falling star" that stopped in midair, and then shot back up into the sky. The two men then stopped the car and got out to investigate a distant light source on the ground. When they walked up to it the light on the ground proved to be four lights, one of which took off into the air. Nearby they could dimly see two four-foot-tall beings with large heads and abnormally long arms, and heard a sound like digging. The hitchhiker then suggested they go back to the car for a gun, and the figures vanished. Other maneuvering lights were then observed. Then something sounding like a train passed by at a distance: it had a string of lighted windows in which silhouettes of passengers sitting up inside were visible. After this, a dark lens-shaped object having a flat dome on top and a row of pulsating multi-colored lights around the edge approached them quite closely. As the dawn approached and it became possible to see better, the remaining lights on the ground could be seen to be connected to a palely lit cigar-shaped object. Watts believes he may have experienced a memory lapse at this point. Cloven footprints were found at the site where the beings had been seen. The hitchhiker could not be identified and was therefore unavailable for an interview by the investigators. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Schutz & Loren Reichert, Skylook, August 1975, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-73, citing Michael Schutz & Loren Reichert Source ID: Johnson_6862 Source: Johnson ### Event 14464 (93DA12A8) Date: 10/18/1968 Description: 5:00 p.m. Hundreds of witnesses view a conical object that appears above Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, traveling from northwest to southeast. The UFO at first appears bright blue then changes first to a whitish-blue then to red. When it reaches a point just south of Sarajevo and northeast of the city of Mostar, the object turns to the east. It remains in view from 90 minutes to two hours. Members of the Akademski Astronomsko-Astronautiki Klub take photos of the object and, six months later, issue a report on their investigation of the incident. It estimates that the UFO was flying at an altitude of 16 miles and a speed of 20 mph, probably guided by air currents and not self-propelled, and most likely was a military reconnaissance balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 84–90 Source ID: Eberhart_4631 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14465 (91CD1401) Date: 10/19/1968 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a glowing white object seen in sky in West Quincy, Massachusetts. It changed shape from an oval to a cigar standing on end. At times a small blue light appeared underneath it. It blinked out when an airplane approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated November 22, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_6980 Source: Johnson ### Event 14466 (69FE7F8B) Date: 10/24/1968 Description: 2:15–5:18 a.m. Sixteen military personnel stationed throughout the Minuteman ICBM missile complex at Minot AFB, North Dakota, report a very large, brightly illuminated aerial object, alternating colors from brilliant white to orange-red and green, with the ability to hover, accelerate rapidly, and abruptly change direction. Ground radar tracks an unidentified target correlated with a visual orange glow and radios it \(saying, “Someone is seeing flying saucers again”\) to the attention of the USAF crew of a B-52H Stratofortress bomber at 2,000 feet as a UFO target 24 miles to the northwest. It shifts to 15 miles at 3:35 a.m. RAPCON alerts the pilots \(instructor pilot Maj. [Bradford Runyon](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/runyon-bradford.php) and copilot Maj. [James Partin](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/partin-james.php)\) to the location of the UFO near Bowbells, North Dakota, which the B-52 navigator Capt. [Patrick D. McCaslin](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/mccaslin-patrick.php) observes on the radarscope maintaining a three-mile distance throughout a standard 180° turnaround. Radar navigator Maj. Charles Richey captures the tracking on film. As the B-52 starts its descent back to Minot AFB, the UFO appears to close distance to one mile at a high rate of speed, pacing the aircraft for nearly 20 miles before disappearing off the radarscope. Both B-52 UHF radios cannot transmit during the close radar encounter with the UFO and when the radarscope film is recorded. Shortly afterwards, RAPCON provides vectors for the B-52 to overfly a stationary UFO on or near the ground. After turning onto the downwind leg of the traffic pattern, the pilots observe a large, illuminated UFO ahead of the aircraft for several minutes, before turning onto the base leg over the UFO while observing it at close range. After the B-52 lands, both outer and inner-zone intrusion alarms are activated at the remote missile Launch Facility Oscar-7. The duration of the reported observations is over three hours. Other witnesses include Capt. [Thomas](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/goduto-thomas.php) [Goduto](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/goduto-thomas.php)[,](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/goduto-thomas.php) S/Sgt [James F. Bond](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/bond-james-f.php)[,](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/bond-james-f.php) S/Sgt [William E. Smith](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/smith-william.php)[,](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/smith-william.php) A1C [Robert O’Connor](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/oconnor-robert.php)[,](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/oconnor-robert.php) A1C [Joseph P. Jablonski](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/jablonski-joseph.php)[,](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/jablonski-joseph.php) and A1C Gregory Adams. The chief of the 862nd Combat Support Group, Lt. Col. [Arthur J. Werlich](https://minotb52ufo.com/bio/werlich.html?height=550&width=950), is designated as Blue Book liaison and he calls the report in at 4:30 p.m. after SAC investigations, an analysis of the radarscope film, and the B-52 crew debriefing. Werlich provides Blue Book with selected data through October 31. On November 13, Blue Book chief Lt. Col. [Hector Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) completes his evaluation and forwards the final report to SAC headquarters. It is a single-page letter providing several possible explanations for the various reports, along with 11 pages of attachments cobbled together in support. He attributes the B-52 radar contact and loss of UHF transmission to “a plasma similar to ball lightning.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Minot Tracks Object, B-52 Sees and Tracks](http://www.nicap.org/681024minot%5Fdir.htm) [UFO](http://www.nicap.org/681024minot%5Fdir.htm)”; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 330; Clark III 748–763; Thomas Tulien, “[A Narrative of Events at Minot Air Force Base,](https://minotb52ufo.com/)” Sign Oral History Project; Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 137–139](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/136/mode/2up); Martin Shough, “[Minot Air Force Base, Oct 24 1968,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/minot.htm)” 2006; Nukes 319–323; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 \(Mar. 2012\): 32–33; “The Minot AFB B-52 UFO Incident,” Above Top Secret forum, February 24, 2010; “[New Witness to UFO Incursion at Nuke](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2017/10/new-witness-to-ufo-incursion-at-nuke-missile-complex.html) [Missile Complex,](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2017/10/new-witness-to-ufo-incursion-at-nuke-missile-complex.html)” The UFO Chronicles, October 17, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_4632 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14467 (FCC60FA6) Date: 10/24/1968 Description: Minot Tracks Object, B-52 Sees & Tracks UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) Reference: NICAP: [681024](http://www.nicap.org/681024minot%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot AFB (About 30 miles NW of), ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3976 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14468 (71D328D3) Date: 10/24/1968 Description: 6:47 p.m. The Romanian oil tanker Argeş is steaming through the Mozambique Channel when Third Officer Ştefan Anton and Commander Nicolae Ştefanescu see a bright orange-yellow disc half the diameter of the Moon moving swiftly and emitting blue-green rays from its center. At one point it stops abruptly for a moment andchanges course to the east. By sextant they estimate it is 15.5 miles away and 56 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 250–251 Source ID: Eberhart_4633 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14469 (1ECBE14E) Date: 10/26/1968 Description: 10:00 p.m. Witnesses: Mr. & Mrs. R. E. Foster. While driving near Greenfield, they saw UFO come to rest on road about two miles ahead of them. It rose up and landed two or three times, and when the car reached the landing site on the road, car lights went out for half a minute or more in each place. (Letter to NICAP) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenfield, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3977 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14470 (260A9B46) Date: 10/27/1968 Description: At 10:30 p.m. three men in their twenties sighted a semi-circular or crescent-shaped object with red and green flashing lights and a white light hovering for 30 minutes over Wallingford, Connecticut. At one point it was joined by two more similar objects that remained for a few minutes, then shot off in opposite directions. They were gone in less than 15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Meriden Morning Record, October 28, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_7195 Source: Johnson ### Event 14471 (2BADE410) Date: 10/28/1968 Description: Four people driving in a car eight miles northeast of Murray Bridge, South Australia sighted five bright orange oval shaped lights that were self luminous and the apparent size of ten cent coins held at arm's length. The lights circled some scrub bush and landed remotely. Two more lights were seen 50 minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 182 Source ID: Johnson_7229 Source: Johnson ### Event 14472 (22C2E11A) Date: 10/28/1968 Description: At 11:20 p.m. bright white lights were seen hovering over the desert outside of Las Vegas, Nevada just 10 to 15 feet above the ground. They were replaced by a group of multi-colored lights that blinked in a pattern indicating a square shape. A nebulous figure was seen behind the lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1968, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_7230 Source: Johnson ### Event 14473 (FB66548D) Date: 10/28/1968 Description: Missile base, RV, Photo, EM (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [681028](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/minot681028dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3980 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14474 (A1FD2EC7) Date: 10/28/1968 Description: Photo from missile crew, RV (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [681028](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/minot681028dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3979 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14475 (E9A97A6F) Date: 10/28/1968 Description: Photos by missile crew, radar (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [681028](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/minot681028dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3978 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14476 (9A1949C3) Date: 10/31/1968 Description: The Colorado project delivers its report, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, to the Air Force. The first two sections, conclusions and recommendations, are written by [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) himself. He concludes that “further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.” It is a clear signal to shut down Project Blue Book. Yet 30% of its cases are unexplained. Condon says a UFO cover-up is unthinkable because no one could keep such a secret for so long. He refutes the claim that the CIA has installed an agent within the project. He disapproves of UFO “amateurists,” especially NICAP. The project ignored old cases because they only offered witness testimony, are probably misidentifications, and it makes little sense to reinterview witnesses. But this means ignoring the most compelling cases of the past 20+ years. Condon rejects the ETH because it is so unlikely that aliens can get here from there. This attitude suggests that Condon’s approach is fundamentally antiempirical. The report also includes summaries of field studies, photographic evidence, direct and indirect physical evidence, optical and radar cases, and astronaut sightings. In the field studies section, [Roy Craig](https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00151/tamu-00151.html) concedes that some of the older cases suggest something extraordinary \(Great Falls, RB-47\). [William K. Hartmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FKenneth%5FHartmann) divides photo cases into fabrications, misidentifications, poor image quality, and clear images that lack sufficient data. Great Falls and McMinnville are the only two that he considers unusual. [Gordon Thayer](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/) discusses the predominance of anomalous propagation in radar cases. In finding natural explanations, Thayer often disregards witness testimony. The rest of the report is mostly padding. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Condon Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condon%5FCommittee\#Committee%5FReport)”; Michael D. Swords, “The University of Colorado UFO Project: The ‘Scientific Study of UFOs,’” JUFOS 6 \(1995/96\): 149–184; Swords 329–332 Source ID: Eberhart_4634 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14477 (948BA6EF) Date: 10/31/1968 Description: Colorado UFO Project final report submitted to secretary of the Air Force for review by the National Academy of Sciences. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_167 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14478 (1E85AD4C) Date: 11/1968 Description: Two children are playing in the garden of their father’s hotel in Southampton, England, when they notice a “speck” come out of the clouds. It grows in size and comes closer, moving above the hotel roof. The shape is a large flattened disc with black square windows on the side. It moves to a point about 10 feet directly above them and hovers for 30 seconds, then it speeds up and disappears behind some trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 \(June 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_4635 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14479 (D009A31D) Date: 11/1968 Description: Abduction report. First investigated by Bay Area (CA) Subcommittee, then turned over to Indiana NICAP Subcommittee. (Ridge files) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kent, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_3981 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14480 (684520A9) Date: 11/1/1968 Description: In the early morning, pre-dawn hours a French physician living in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department of southern France, "Doctor X", was awakened by the sound of his 14-month-old son crying. His son was standing in his crib pointing at the window. Behind the shutter a very bright light could be seen moving. After the child had gone back to sleep, the doctor went out onto the balcony of his house, located on a hillside, and he saw two glowing discs in the sky, silvery white on top and bright red underneath. Each had a tall antenna on top and one on either side, and they were directing a narrow beam of white light towards the ground below.

The two objects slowly drew closer and merged into a single object, about 200 feet in diameter and 50 feet thick. The single object then approached the doctor, and tilted 90 degrees so that the beam of light struck him. He then heard a loud bang, and the object evaporated into a whitish cloud that dissipated with the wind. A thin thread of light rose high into the sky before vanishing as a white dot, and exploding like a firework.

A few days earlier the doctor had accidentally cut a vein in his leg while chopping wood, and a decade earlier he had stepped on a landmine in Algeria, leaving his right side partially paralyzed. After this close encounter incident he found that the swelling and pain from his leg injury had vanished, and the chronic after effects of the injuries he had sustained in the Algerian war improved dramatically in the days that followed.

Also a few days after the encounter, the doctor and his son each developed a strange, reddish, triangular mark on the abdomen, and this mark recurred in successive years. Strange paranormal phenomena began to take place around the doctor and his family, including poltergeist activity and unexplained disturbances in electrical circuits. The doctor began to have mysterious meetings with a strange, nameless man he called "Mr. Bied." He would hear a whistling noise inside his head and would feel guided to walk or drive to a certain location where he would meet the man, who would discuss his UFO experience and paranormal matters. Mr. Bied caused him to experience apparent teleportation and time travel, including a distressing episode with alternative landscapes on a road that he knows does not exist. The stranger also once visited the doctor at his home accompanied by a three foot tall humanoid with mummified skin, which remained motionless while its eyes darted quickly around the room. The doctor experienced uncontrolled levitation on at least one occasion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 207 Source ID: Johnson_7382 Source: Johnson ### Event 14481 (91C4660C) Date: 11/1/1968 Description: A large orange, domed disc-shaped object approached a car with five soldiers in Los Monegros, Zaragoza, Spain at 4:30 a.m. and then landed nearby. The car engine and radio stopped running and all watches stopped. After the UFO took off and car and watches operated normally again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Antonio Ribera, FSR, January 1969, p. 34; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 43; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 252 Source ID: Johnson_7381 Source: Johnson ### Event 14482 (394553B1) Date: 11/1/1968 Description: A third close encounter of the third kind in the Philippines was made that same day by another farmer, bicycling near the site of the first reported incident at 11:00 a.m. He saw the same "strange car" downhill from his location. As he coasted down toward the object on his bicycle he saw two men; one was outside the object "looking around" and was "very tall" and looked to be a normal Caucasian, the other man was inside the object. Both wore white coveralls and what appeared to be earphones. He stopped 20 yards past the object, looked back, and saw that the man outside the object was watching him. He couldn't decide whether he should go back to speak to him, but while he was thinking this the man got into his vehicle. With a roar, the craft moved up the hill and then ascended silently into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Colonel Aderito De Leon, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 4; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 207, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-79 (A1001), citing APRO; BUFORA Journal, September 1969, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_7380 Source: Johnson ### Event 14483 (15228CC5) Date: 11/1/1968 Description: At 4:00 a.m. a Filipino farmer north of Baras in Rizal province, the Philippines saw a red light come down and land 100 yards away from him, making a hissing sound like an arc welder. He approached with a flashlight and encountered a white object, the size of a VW Beetle, on small wheels. It had six big exhaust tubes in the rear and a transparent canopy. There were two "ordinary Caucasian" looking pilots in the craft wearing white coveralls or flightsuits, with earphones on their heads.. The craft took off vertically without making as much noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Colonel Aderito De Leon, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 4; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 206, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-77 (A0999), citing APRO Source ID: Johnson_7378 Source: Johnson ### Event 14484 (B650967C) Date: 11/1/1968 Description: A second encounter in the Philippines occurred two hours later when another farmer walking to Baras felt something land behind him. He apparently witnessed the same craft, with the wheels, because his description of the object and its occupants was identical. He ran to the mayor of the town and reported his close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Colonel Aderito De Leon, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 4; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 207, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-78 (A1000), citing APRO Source ID: Johnson_7379 Source: Johnson ### Event 14485 (85F9CC5B) Date: 11/1/1968 Description: Orange disc approached car, landed; after UFO took off, car and watches operated normally. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 15, UFO No.1; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 43. (E,L) car effects, watches stopped (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Monegros, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_3982 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14486 (93BFB2A4) Date: 11/2/1968 Description: 3:55 a.m. A partially paralyzed Algerian veteran, Dr. X, has suffered an injury to his leg while chopping at a stump on his property in a village in the south of France on October 29. He is lying in bed when he is awakened by his crying 14-month-old son. He sees two luminous objects outside his house. They are coming close together and merging about 590 feet away. A vertical beam of light is aimed at him for a second as the object tilts, and then the display vanishes with a sort of explosion, leaving behind a slowly dissolving cloud. Shortly afterwards, the man’s leg heals and his war wound is better. He also experiences nightmares, stomach pains, and a red pigmentation appears around his navel, forming a triangle. He goes to a dermatologist but does not mention the UFO; the doctor is stumped. The man’s son also develops a red triangle. In November 1984, a French radio reporter records the gradual reappearance of the triangle on X’s abdomen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aimé Michel, “[The](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201969%20N%203%2CUFO%20Percipients.pdf) [Strange Case of Dr. X,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201969%20N%203%2CUFO%20Percipients.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Percipients, special issue no. 3 of FSR, September 1969, pp. 3–16; Aimé Michel, “[The Strange Case of Dr. ‘X,’ Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1971\): 3– 9; Clark III 410–413 Source ID: Eberhart_4636 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14487 (6140BE32) Date: 11/2/1968 Description: During a thunderstorm, a medical doctor in southern France was awakened at 3:55 a.m. by his crying 14-month-old son. He saw two luminous objects outside his house, and observed them coming close together and merging into one, about 180 meters away from his window. A vertical beam of light was aimed at him for a second as the object tilted, and then the display vanished with a flash, leaving a slowly dissolving cloud. Persistent nightmares and various physiological phenomena, including identical triangular shaped red marks appearing on both the father's and son's lower abdomens, were later recorded. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, citing Aime Michel Source ID: Johnson_7420 Source: Johnson ### Event 14488 (B5DE446D) Date: 11/2/1968 Time: 0355 Description: During a thunderstorm, a medical doctor was awakened by his crying 14-month-old son. He saw two luminous objects outside his house, and observed them coming close together and merging about 180 m away. A vertical beam of light was aimed at him for a second as the object tilted, and then the display vanished with a flash, leaving a slowly dissolving cloud. Persistent nightmares and various physiological phenomena were later recorded. Type: ufo sighting Reference: 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: France Source ID: Magnonia_921 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14489 (1BAFA06D) Date: 11/2/1968 Description: 3:55 a.m. During a thunderstorm, a medical doctor was awakened by his crying 14- month-old son. He saw two luminous objects outside his house, and observed them coming close together and merging about 180 m away. Persistent nightmares and various physiological phenomena were later recorded. (Magonia #921, 1) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_3983 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14490 (481C35ED) Date: 11/3/1968 Description: Two 15-year-old boys in Houston, Texas sighted a domed disc-shaped object with black dots, possibly windows, at 4:15 p.m. "Angel hair" residue was found in the aftermatch of the sighting, the "…substance is fibrous, elastic, relatively strong, somewhat sticky, and white in color." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, sighting a newspaper clipping December 19, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_7431 Source: Johnson ### Event 14491 (F2A0C415) Date: 11/5/1968 Description: There was a report of a UFO that scorched the earth in Clare, South Australia on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 182 Source ID: Johnson_7477 Source: Johnson ### Event 14492 (A4892D5B) Date: 11/6/1968 Description: Two teenage boys see a disc-shaped UFO about 200 feet in diameter discharging angel hair over the Spring Branch West area of Houston, Texas. [C. E. “Gene” Senter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144969517/conrad-eugene-senter) investigates and recovers a twig with angel hair that he puts in a plastic bag and freezes. A chemist analyzes the substance in a petroleum-industry lab but finds out little other than it is sticky and fibrous. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 105 Source ID: Eberhart_4637 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14493 (8D326F65) Date: 11/8/1968 Description: At 8:05 p.m. a metallic looking lenticular disc "like two round basins placed face to face" Swooped down over the town of Taguatinga, Brazil near Brasilia. It had lights and portholes around the rim and the lower portion was spinning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, April 1971, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_7537 Source: Johnson ### Event 14494 (CEC4D9E2) Date: 11/9/1968 Description: A couple in Lorain, Ohio was awakened at 5:45 a.m. by a loud thump on the roof of their trailer. The bump was followed by the sound of something moving near their bedroom window. When they looked out the window, they saw a huge face staring down at them. The creature’s two front paws or hands were resting on the windowsill. The husband lept out of bed and frantically searched for his gun, but by the time he located it the creature was gone from the window. Running on two legs, it dashed around the east side of the house, weaving from side to side, and crossed two streets before disappearing into the woods. The creature stood about six-feet tall. Its front side was grayish brown, and the rest of the body was a darker shade of the same color. According to the couple, it resembled “a large bipedal lion of around 600 pounds.” Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1968 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2900, citing Jerome Clark & Loren Coleman, Creatures of The Goblin World Source ID: Johnson_7569 Source: Johnson ### Event 14495 (E064D147) Date: 11/9/1968 Description: A homemaker saw a large disc-shaped object hovering over the house in Lakeland, Florida. Several human-like figures could be seen through some lighted portholes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1968 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2408, citing Brad Steiger & Joan Whritenour, The Flying Saucer Invasion Source ID: Johnson_7568 Source: Johnson ### Event 14496 (329E58DC) Date: 11/9/1968 Description: At 11:30 p.m. in El Salto, Santiago, Chile two young sisters, Afrodit and Eugenia Lovazzano El-Far, 12 and 9 years of age respectively, were playing on a Sunday night in front of their home when they saw a large ball of fire approaching from the nearby mountains. It came suddenly to a stop in front of the girls. Afrodit saw it first as she was on her bicycle, and noticed the red light suddenly appear from behind the mountain, resembling a brilliant star. The red light seemed “gelatinous” in nature and soon changed to a sphere with a greenish tint. Both girls could now clearly see what appeared to be a small “woman” inside the luminous sphere. The strange entity had a large mouth, which seemed to be moving constantly, apparently calling the girls; it also had a pair of large pointed ears. Moments later, the small woman exited the sphere and approached Afrodit, who tried to run but was unable to move due to a strong “pulling” force. It pulled her by her blouse and suspended her in midair. When Eugenia reached the kitchen door the force seemed to release Afrodit, who suffered from earaches, hoarseness, and what appeared to have been scratches on her waist area. It was later determined that a third girl, 12-year-old Monica Patricia Lagos also saw the bizarre incident, which she described as a ball of fire that floated around over the ground and then disappeared in a flash. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1968 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing http://www.toc.cl/articulo_013.htm Source ID: Johnson_7570 Source: Johnson ### Event 14497 (233C88D9) Date: 11/14/1968 Description: Around 4:30 in the afternoon at Pelican Lake, Utah two hunters saw a silver sphere hovering in the sky with a hanging tube about 3-4 feet in diameter. The sphere had a yellowish-white light on top and bottom, and the tube seemed to be spinning. The UFO sucked up the tube rapidly, then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 71 Source ID: Johnson_7673 Source: Johnson ### Event 14498 (8489A832) Date: 11/14/1968 Description: Three miles outside Zafra, Spain a man driving his car on the highway at 11:45 p.m. saw a motionless human-shaped being, over 6 feet tall, only 30 meters away. Its arms were longer than normal, it wore a glowing green suit, and its face was hidden by a helmet with a black visor. The car engine died and the driver's watch stopped. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-1 UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 92 Source ID: Johnson_7672 Source: Johnson ### Event 14499 (63FE6AB6) Date: 11/15/1968 Description: The Air Force sends the Colorado report to the National Academy of Sciences for review by an 11- member panel, chaired by Yale University astronomer [Gerald Maurice Clemence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%5FMaurice%5FClemence) and charged with an independent assessment of its scope, methodology, and findings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1197–1198 Source ID: Eberhart_4638 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14500 (824709A5) Date: 11/19/1968 Description: In 1968, shortly after five p.m., a disc, red and bluish in color, hovered in the sky southwest of Meriden, Connecticut. The five witnesses viewed the object thru a telescope, and it moved slowly from side to side as it hovered. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Meriden (CT) Morning Record, November 20, 1968). Later that evening a UFO was detected on radar at the Cumbica AFB in Brazil at 8:45 p.m. At 11:00 p.m. four college students in Pirassununga, Brazil saw a blue disc approach within 30 meters of the car, at which point their car engine failed. After ten minutes the UFO moved off down the road in front of the car and they were able to restart it and continue. However, their car nearly ran down three tall figures standing in the road who were dressed in pale-blue spacesuits. (Sources: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, April 1971, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1005 Source ID: Johnson_7739 Source: Johnson ### Event 14501 (C1ACEEB3) Date: 11/20/1968 Description: 5:45 p.m. Milan and Doris Milakovic and their son are driving southwest out of Hanbury, Staffordshire, England, when several rabbits run across the road from their left. Suddenly they see a brilliant object. They stop the car and watch as it rises from a field on their left, silently pass over the car, and move toward a solitary house about 300 feet away on the right where it stops and hovers, “quivering like jelly.” The air temperature seems to drop. For approximately 5 minutes, they see what appear to be several humanoid figures walking across the bright top of the UFO, which is as wide as the house. Intermittently, some of the figures bend down as though looking at something in the part of the object below the rim. Then the UFO begins moving up in a pulsating or jerky movement. The intensity of its light increases and Milakovic feels like his eyes are burning. Thoroughly frightened, Milakovic pushes his wife and son back into the car and speeds away from the scene. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: W. Daniels and N. M. H. Turner, “[The Milakovic Report,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201969%20V%2015%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1969\): 2–3, 24; Patrick Gross, “[UFO with Humanoid Occupants, Hanbury, England, November 20, 1968](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/hanbury69.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4639 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14502 (4DDD4F88) Date: 11/20/1968 Time: 1730 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Milakovic were driving to Hednesford when they suddenly saw a brilliant object rising from a held to the left and hovering above a house. It appeared to "quiver like a jelly." Several figures were seen on the deck of the craft for about five min, then it left with a jerky motion. Type: ufo sighting Reference: FSR 69, 1 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Hanbury, Great Britain Source ID: Magnonia_922 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14503 (C643C219) Date: 11/20/1968 Description: Entities within domed craft. AR Case (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [681120](http://www.nicap.org/en-681120dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hanbury, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3985 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14504 (9B477842) Date: 11/20/1968 Description: Rabbits moved away from hovering object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [681120](http://www.nicap.org/ar-681120dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hanbury, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_3984 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14505 (2F90FE69) Date: 11/20/1968 Description: The Milakovic family was driving down their farm road in Hanbury, England at 5:30 p.m. when they noticed rabbits fleeing. They then noticed a landed domed disc with white, amber, and green lights and a transparent dome in a field to the left. The brilliant object rose from the field and hovered above a house. It appeared to "quiver like a jelly." Several human-looking figures were seen walking around on the deck of the craft, bent down. The UFO left with jerky movements, and the bright lights from the craft hurt their eyes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wilfred Daniels, FSR, January 1969, p. 2; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 922; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_7750 Source: Johnson ### Event 14506 (F6248AB2) Date: 11/21/1968 Description: A woman was on a bus that stopped for a while in Macedo, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. At 9:30 p.m. she saw at the bus station there, about 40 yards away, a domed metallic UFO the size of a small car, which was hovering only a few feet above the ground. Around the rim of the craft were a row of changing lights that gave the impression of it rotating, and beneath it a patch of violet light was cast onto the ground. A door in the object was open, with three steps below it, and standing in front of the UFO were three six-foot tall figures of human appearance, wearing skin-tight, shiny black coveralls and shiny black boots. The suits were one-piece, with hoods covering the heads, so that only the face was left exposed. One of the men was carrying a cylinder 2 feet long and 3 inches thick, with a thinner tube of aluminum like material coiled around it in a spiral. Facing the beings was a crowd of about 20 people, including three police officers, who had their guns drawn, and two police cars were parked nearby. After a short while a beam of silver light shot forth from the cylinder and the people closest to the beings were paralyzed, while the others felt dazed as if in a faint. The UFOnauts calmly walked back to their craft, which they then boarded, and the craft took off and rapidly climbed out of sight. The duration of the entire incident was about 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Nigel Rimes, FSR, March 1969, p. 6; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-82, citing Walter Buhler Source ID: Johnson_7773 Source: Johnson ### Event 14507 (7BC0C6C4) Date: 11/22/1968 Time: 2100 Description: A dozen witnesses saw a lens-shaped object surrounded with a blue glow, making a noise similar to that of a jet and emitting flashes, which landed in a field briefly. It suddenly took off and was lost to sight at the horizon. Type: ufo sighting Reference: France-Soir Nov. 24, 1968 ([Vallee](https://web.archive.org/web/20120415100852/http://www.ufoinfo.com/magonia/magonia.shtml)) Location: Fleury-d'Aude, France Source ID: Magnonia_923 Source: ValléeMagnonia ### Event 14508 (E2C2BA78) Date: 11/22/1968 Description: 9:00 p.m. A dozen witnesses saw a lens-shaped object surrounded with a blue glow, making a noise similar to that of a jet and emitting flashes, which landed in a field briefly. It suddenly took off and was lost to sight at the horizon. (Magonia #923, France-Soir Nov. 24, 1968) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fleury-d'Aude, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_3995 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14509 (0574C145) Date: 11/22/1968 Description: Domed disc descended, flew over shrimp boat, hovered briefly, shone light down on boat, then took off straight up out of sight (Section IX, Vol. II, The UFO Evidence). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Biloxi, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_3988 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14510 (261D5C11) Date: 11/22/1968 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a dozen witnesses in Fleury-d'Aude, France saw a lens-shaped object surrounded with a blue glow land briefly in a field. It suddenly took off and was lost to sight at the horizon. It made a noise similar to that of a jet and emitted flashes as it descended and took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 923, citing France Soir, November 24, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_7801 Source: Johnson ### Event 14511 (5A29FCBF) Date: 11/22/1968 Description: Domed disc descended, flew over shrimp boat. Hovered briefly, shone light down on boat, then took off straight up out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Biloxi, MS Source ID: HallUFOE2_169 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14512 (158C594E) Date: 11/22/1968 Description: Oval object beamed light down on car, electrical system failed. After it departed rapidly straight up, electrical system resumed functioning Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Albany, GA Source ID: HallUFOE2_170 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14513 (2DBB25E2) Date: 11/22/1968 Description: Mr. C. Jones was driving down Highway 91 between Newton and Albany, Georgia at 8:10 p.m. when he encountered an orange oblong light 120-150 feet wide that hovered at 75 feet altitude. His car engine and headlights died. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1968, p. 5; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1969, p. 8; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 44; UNICAT, case # 288 Source ID: Johnson_7803 Source: Johnson ### Event 14514 (B3D8778A) Date: 11/22/1968 Description: At 6 p.m. off the coast of Biloxi, Mississippi a domed disc-shaped object descended, hovered briefly over a shrimp boat, shone a beam of light down on the boat, then shot straight up out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 13, 381 Source ID: Johnson_7802 Source: Johnson ### Event 14515 (68795062) Date: 11/22/1968 Description: Glowing yellow-white oval ahead of car, light beam struck car; color changed to orange-red as object flew away. Project Blue Book files, National Archives, same as Nov. 23, Newton, Ga.; U.F.O Investigator, IV-9, p. 8. (E,R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albany, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3986 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14516 (1C544B07) Date: 11/22/1968 End date: 11/27/1968 Description: Flurry of sightings primarily in the southeastern and northwestern United States. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_168 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14517 (B965C4A1) Date: 11/22/1968 End date: 11/27/1968 Description: Flurry of sightings primarily in the southeastern and northwestern United States. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: SE and NW U.S, various Source ID: NICAP_DB_3987 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14518 (0FD534C8) Date: 11/23/1968 Description: Oval-shaped yellowish-white about 100 ft wide-stopped car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB: 12567) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newton, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3989 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14519 (FA916FB5) Date: 11/23/1968 Time: 8:05 PM Description: Witness: Mr. Jones, accountant. One oblong light, 120-150' wide. Hovering 75' above the ground, it emitted a beam that lit the ground. Radio gave off static, then car engine stopped. Light flew away vertically and car engine restarted itself. Sighting lasted 3-4 minutes. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Newton, Georgia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_582 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 14520 (8E0168D9) Date: 11/23/1968 Description: 8:05 p.m. An accountant named Jones is driving his 1967 Ford Custom along the road between Newton and Albany, Georgia. When he rounds a bend he sees a brilliant yellowish-white light about 200 feet ahead of him and 50–75 feet above the road. As he approaches, the car radio fades into static. Then the object emits a beam of well-defined light about 5–6 feet across that illuminates the trees and causes his engine and radio to cut out as it passes over his car. The object changes color to orange-red and ascends at a high rate of speed, disappearing in less than 15 seconds. The car engine starts spontaneously afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hynek UFO Report, [pp. 189–191](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/188/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4640 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14521 (4A929902) Date: 11/24/1968 Description: On this evening five teenagers in Southall Ridge, near Ripley, West Virginia saw a 150 foot in diameter domed disc over a house. It landed in a nearby field, and was shot at. It dodged bullets from a .22 caliber rifle. The first bullet made a "whomp" sound, like it had hit a solid object, but the later bullets had no reported effect. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 87; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 123 Source ID: Johnson_7875 Source: Johnson ### Event 14522 (4D34121D) Date: 11/25/1968 Description: Also in 1968, at 10:30 that night in Curico, Chile a two-meter wide disc landed on four legs. Three dwarf humanoids emerged, while a fourth was seen inside the craft. One of the beings scratched dirt from the ground, but no traces were found at the sight. The UFO made a pendulum movement during its departure. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jader Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, p. 222 Source ID: Johnson_7909 Source: Johnson ### Event 14523 (B1234F7D) Date: 11/25/1968 Description: At perhaps the same time (10:30 p.m. EDT) a yellowish-white, glowing vertical cigar hovered silently 1/4 mile offshore from Dennis, Massachusetts. It hung in the sky about 200 feet above the water. An investigating policeman confirmed the sighting by the three intial witnesses. There was a total of seven independent witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 355 Source ID: Johnson_7910 Source: Johnson ### Event 14524 (C4156F86) Date: 11/25/1968 Description: At 8 p.m, a light approached a residential area in Rossville, Georgia and was witnessed by three men. The object, triangular in shape with bulging sides, appeared to descend as it approached to an altitude of 200 feet, and then flew directly overhead. It had amber lights around edge, and was completely silent. It was estimated to be about the size of two cars in length. It flew off to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP case investigation files, field investigator K. Dammer Source ID: Johnson_7908 Source: Johnson ### Event 14525 (5D4E6BAF) Date: 11/25/1968 Description: On this date in 1968, at just after 6 p.m. on Highway 174 outside of the town of Marcellus in upstate New York, a mother and her small son saw a domed-disc UFO with a red blinking light on top. As it approached to within 100 feet of their car the engine lost power and the radio filled with static. Their dog cried, clawed to get under the seat, and covered its eyes and ears with its paws. The UFO moved away then, but continued to pace them down the road. Once more it made a pass at the car, and again the engine lost power and the radio wouldn't work. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 40; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_7907 Source: Johnson ### Event 14526 (29B705B6) Date: 11/25/1968 Description: Object with red blinking light on top within 100 ft. of car; made 2nd car pass; E-M effects again. Keyhoe & Lore, 1969b, pp. 40-41. (E,R) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marcellus, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3990 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14527 (DDD39F37) Date: 11/25/1968 Description: Dog in car distressed as domed object was seen (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [681125](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-681125.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marcellus, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_3991 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14528 (826E98E6) Date: 11/25/1968 Description: 6:00 p.m. Elaine Pelchy is driving with her 2-year-old son and dog on Highway 174 south of Marcellus, New York, when they see an object with five red, blinking lights about 100 feet in front of her car and heading southeast. The radio gets a lot of static and the English setter begins to get nervous, clawing at the window and putting its head over its eyes and ears. The boy starts crying, then the car engine begins to sputter. The object executes a U-turn and moves to the northwest as the lights change to blinking blue and white. Suddenly, the UFO stops and changes to a white, dome-shaped object with a “fluorescent star” next to it. The larger object merges into the star and disappears. Pelchy drops her son off at her mother-in-law’s, then returns on the same route. The dog starts to whine again as a light the size of a basketball fluctuates in intensity and zigzags across the sky. She goes home but returns to the scene with a neighbor and the light is still visible and maneuvering. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, pp. 40–41 Source ID: Eberhart_4641 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14529 (4774C1F9) Date: 11/26/1968 Description: Pilots, FAA, Radar Confirm UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [681126](http://www.nicap.org/681126bismarck%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bismarck, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3992 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14530 (BF779A72) Date: 11/26/1968 Description: Pilots saw two luminous objects join up, hover about 10 seconds, then speed out of sight in seconds. Confirmed by Air Force radar Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Bismarck, ND Source ID: HallUFOE2_171 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14531 (B6080BE0) Date: 11/26/1968 Description: Four bright, oval objects paced aircraft. Pilot turned plane toward them, objects formed vertical stack, shot up and out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Lake Cyprus, FL Source ID: HallUFOE2_172 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14532 (C4E0ABFB) Date: 11/26/1968 Description: Pilots, FAA, radar confirm UFOs (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [681126](http://www.nicap.org/681126bismarck%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bismarck, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3993 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14533 (E3741C07) Date: 11/26/1968 Description: Two pilots report four ovals in echelon (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Cyprus, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_3994 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14534 (38711BAD) Date: 11/26/1968 Description: 5:40 p.m. Three control tower operators \(Jack Wilhelm, Jack Reeves, and John Fischer\) at Bismarck \(North Dakota\) Airport observe two swiftly moving round objects traveling in opposite directions. They reverse course and approach each other, hover together, then instantly zoom off to the northeast. Air Force radar at Great Falls, Montana, picks up “foreign objects” at the same time 85 miles northeast of Bismarck. The objects are also seen by Robert Watts, who is flying a Cessna 150. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Air Force Radar Tracks Objects](http://www.nicap.org/681126bismarck%5Fdir.htm)”; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 43–44](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/42/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/42/mode/2up) [51–52](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/50/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4642 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14535 (DB0228D8) Date: 11/26/1968 Description: Two Air Traffic Controllers at Bismark, North Dakota airport, Watts and Wilhelm, watched two bright lights in the sky engage in sudden maneuvers. The first one was northbound at 45 degrees elevation above the horizon, the second one was southbound at 30 degrees elevation. The Great Falls radar confirmed erratic targets. The second object made a 180 degree turn to join the first object, then hovered in the sky, finally departing toward the northeast. The entire incident lasted more than five minutes. Their were other independent witnesses, including the crew of a Capital Aviation flight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 38; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1968, p. 5; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 13, 119, & 243 Source ID: Johnson_7939 Source: Johnson ### Event 14536 (7BB005B5) Date: 11/27/1968 Description: A luminous round object with body lights hovered over Belcourt, North Dakota at 7:00 p.m. It shone a red light beam to the ground. When a police officer shined a spotlight at it, it immediately blinked out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1969, p. 8; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 13, 173 & 381 Source ID: Johnson_7959 Source: Johnson ### Event 14537 (5B9750DD) Date: 11/27/1968 Description: Round object with body lights hovered, shone red light beam to ground. When officer shone flashlight at object, it immediately blacked out Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Belcourt, ND Source ID: HallUFOE2_173 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14538 (A138385E) Date: 11/27/1968 Description: Round object with body lights hovered, shone red light beam to ground. When officer shone flashlight at object, it immediately blacked out (Section V, Vol. II, The UFO Evidence). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belcourt, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_3996 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14539 (E7966AFD) Date: 11/27/1968 Description: A 41-page paper by George Kocher of the RAND Corporation, “UFOs: What to Do?” is produced as an internal document. It notes the likelihood of intelligent life in the universe, speculates UFOs may well have been around for a long time, looks at some compelling reports, and assesses the difficulty of estimating the number of sightings worldwide “because of the lack of suitable data collection means.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Kocher, “[UFOs: What to](http://www.nicap.org/papers/randdoc.htm) [Do?](http://www.nicap.org/papers/randdoc.htm)” RAND Corporation, November 27, 1968 Source ID: Eberhart_4643 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14540 (68EC5120) Date: 11/28/1968 Description: At 9:56 a.m. local time Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB) in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand Ground Control Approach (GCA) reported two low flying and slow moving objects approximately 13 nautical miles (NM) south of the base. Contact with the UFOs was lost when the objects were 9 NM west of the base. Sightings were confirmed by radar. The Nakhon Phanom Command Post was informed that the sightings "definitely were not ghosts." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: www.nicap.org, citing Dan Wilson Source ID: Johnson_7992 Source: Johnson ### Event 14541 (E8056285) Date: 11/28/1968 Description: GCA Has Two Uncorrelated Targets (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [681128](http://www.nicap.org/681128nakhon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nakhon Phanom, Thailand Source ID: NICAP_DB_3997 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14542 (1FD5AC98) Date: 11/28/1968 Description: On this night students from the local Recoleta de Montevideo School in Lima, Peru reported encountering a strange short humanoid with an egg-shaped head and a blinking light on its chest area, and what appeared to be a long antenna like protrusion on its back. It appeared to have duck-like feet, and it was shorter than a 7-year-old boy. A priest and a teacher also reported seeing the creature. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1968 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Fabio Picasso Source ID: Johnson_7993 Source: Johnson ### Event 14543 (AA31359C) Date: 11/29/1968 Description: At dusk two women driving in Halfway Hollow in Duchesne County, Utah sighted three silver discs that were joined by three more. One moved, flashed red, and then disappeared. Two more came and joined the formation, and two flashed red lights. Another UFO flashed red and then disappeared. They made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case A72 Source ID: Johnson_8034 Source: Johnson ### Event 14544 (FE7F2B15) Date: 11/29/1968 Description: At 4:10 a.m. two pilots flying over Mangamahu, New Zealand, Harding and Peddie, sighted three large red lights at each corner of a triangular formation of lights traveling together. No solid form was seen. They split up, one flew behind a ridge, the second hovered at ground level, and the third moved above the second light. Then the first light came back and the three formed a triangle again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1969, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1969, p. 1; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 83; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_8033 Source: Johnson ### Event 14545 (01039C72) Date: 11/30/1968 Description: At 6:20 p.m. two teenagers, Sylte and Walker, in Renton, Washington took seven photographs of a 55-foot wide UFO that was 40 feet thick with portholes. All dogs in the area were barking at the time. They sent their photos to Dr. G. Allen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_8077 Source: Johnson ### Event 14546 (54F7F212) Date: 11/30/1968 Description: On this day an industrialist driving in Palencia, Spain saw a landed UFO on the roadside; the observer wants to remain anonymous. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case # 94, citing ABC, December 8, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_8076 Source: Johnson ### Event 14547 (53FA4C86) Date: 12/1968 Description: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics announces that it has formed a UFO Subcommittee to study the UFO phenomenon objectively. [Joachim P. Kuettner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim%5FKuettner) of ESSA Research Laboratories is the chairman; other members include [Jerald M. Bidwell](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/jerald-m-bidwell-martin-co-research-scientist-who-spoke-at-news-photo/162074063) of Martin Marietta, Glenn A. Cato of TRW Systems Group, Bernard N. Charles of Aerospace Corporation, Murray Dryer of ESSA Research Laboratories, Howard D. Edwards of Georgia Institute of Technology, [Paul MacCready](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FMacCready) of Meteorology Research, Andrew J. Masley of Douglas Missile and Space Systems Division, Robert Rados of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and Donald M. Swingle of the US Army Electronic Command. It announces in Astronautics and Aeronautics that the UFO issue “cannot be resolved without further study in a quantitative scientific manner and that it deserves the attention of the engineering and scientific community.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[AIAA Committee Looks at UFO Problem,](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc593.htm)” Astronautics and Aeronautics, December 1968, p. 12 Source ID: Eberhart_4645 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14548 (657EF03E) Date: 12/1968 Description: [David R. Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) \(along with journalist R. Roger Harkins\) explains his version of the Colorado project in UFOs? Yes! Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David R. Saunders and R. Roger Harkins, UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong, Signet, 1968 Source ID: Eberhart_4644 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14549 (6DBF7F04) Date: 12/5/1968 Description: A cluster of flashing lights appeared just at dusk over Watts Bar Lake south of Kingston, Tennessee, and then moved skyward. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Knoxville (TN) News-Sentinel, December 10, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_8201 Source: Johnson ### Event 14550 (A679300A) Date: 12/8/1968 Description: Top-shaped object paced car, sped away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Grey, South Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_174 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14551 (84DDAEDC) Date: 12/8/1968 Description: Top-shaped object paced car, sped away (Section XII). 69Unknown Paris TN 1 Witness was driving back to college with roommate. It was a clear, dark, starry night. They suddenly saw a long streak of light coming down from the top of the windshield. The sparks of light looked similar to holding a piece of metal to a grinding wheel. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grey, S. AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_3998 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14552 (6D9F46B3) Date: 12/10/1968 Description: On this day in Olleros de Pisuerga,Spain a deltoid object was observed along the roadside, emitting a strong yellow and green light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type-I Events from Spain and Portugal, p. 22, case 96; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8554 Source ID: Johnson_8301 Source: Johnson ### Event 14553 (AF944DD7) Date: 12/10/1968 Description: This event took place about one-quarter mile from the hydroelectric dam on Lake Secession, near Abbeville, South Carolina at 12:30 a.m. A man was alone in his lake front cottage when he heard a whirring, dynamo sound coming from outside. He also saw an amber-colored flashing light reflecting off the trees outside, so he walked outdoors and saw a disc-shaped UFO directly overhead, not more than ten feet up. The craft was silvery metallic looking, saucer shaped with a smaller dome on top, 35 feet in diameter, about 10 feet high, and it had four sets of lights which bathed the surrounding area in amber light. The witness was terrified and unable to move. After hovering overhead, the craft backed away some 20 feet and descended to where it was almost at eye level with the witness, who was standing on a deck on stilts above the lake, 8 feet off the ground. The dome had a round porthole, but he could not see if there was anyone or anything inside. Nevertheless, he "knew" that someone was there and was looking at him. The craft next rose up, coming directly forward and hovering overhead again. The experience lasted an estimated five minutes, although there were gaps in his memory as to what exactly happened next. The craft finally sped off effortlessly about 200 yards, and hovered momentarily over the lake. It then sped off at a 45 degree angle into the sky towards the southwest at a tremendous speed, quickly vanishing from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1968 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_8302 Source: Johnson ### Event 14554 (1B84EDA2) Date: 12/12/1968 Description: On this evening at 18:04 p.m. in Franois, France nine witnesses saw strange figures moving around in front of a light on the ground alongside the highway as they drove by. The light source wasn’t there when they checked back later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Tyrode, FSR Case Histories, December 1970, p. 7, citing LDLN Source ID: Johnson_8354 Source: Johnson ### Event 14555 (6F8A6EE3) Date: 12/15/1968 Description: In Macon, Georgia a teenage couple, Mr. Thornton and Miss Churchill, saw a dark cigar-shaped UFO with a bright dome on top at around eight o’clock in the evening. The dome had rotating red, green, and white lights. The UFO appeared to fall from the sky, stopped, tilted, righted itself, then dimmed and brightened. It shot out beams of light. Bright green flashes went out from it several times. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. Frank Abbott, NICAP case investigation files, report dated February 17, 1969 Source ID: Johnson_8412 Source: Johnson ### Event 14556 (3FE07438) Date: 12/15/1968 Description: Shortly after midnight one of several UFOs in the sky swooped down and paced a car with five teenage hunters inside near Coorong, South Australia for over two minutes. It came close to the car several times before speeding away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 183 Source ID: Johnson_8411 Source: Johnson ### Event 14557 (6615D3EA) Date: 12/18/1968 Description: A man and woman in their late twenties were driving together in a car five miles north of Wairakei, New Zealand at around 11:45 p.m. when they drove by a tall being around six feet tall. The man wore a shiny dark blue or black loose fitting one-piece suit that was tucked in at the boots. The being also wore gloves, a belt, and a cylindrical helmet with a clear visor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Anthony J. Brunt, FSR, July-August 1969, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_8490 Source: Johnson ### Event 14558 (18C5CAAD) Date: 12/20/1968 Description: Seven people saw a domed disc with an antenna move back and forth over a school in Havelock, New Zealand at 11:20 in the morning. The UFO was in sight for ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP files, citing a newspaper clipping dated December 20, 1968 Source ID: Johnson_8532 Source: Johnson ### Event 14559 (3767A6AC) Date: Late 12/1968 Description: 11:30 a.m. Traumatologist Sebastian José Tarda is on vacation in Patagonia and leading a group of secondary school students on a motorboat field trip on Nahuel Huapi Lake, Argentina. Tarda is taking photos of the lake shore near Puerto Blest, but does not notice anything unusual. When one slide is developed, it shows a blurry white object against a mountainous background. An analysis by the Argentine UFO group Circulo de Investigación Cientifico Espacial states that the image is not caused by a lens flare, damaged emulsion, or a known object. Another analysis suggests that the object moved while the shutter was depressed. Ground Saucer Watch considers it a lens flare. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Appears in Photo over Nahuel Huapi Lake, Argentina,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 1 \(February 1982\): 1–2; “[Dr. Tarda 1968 Photograph Judged Lens Flare by GSW,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 2 \(April 1982\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_4647 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14560 (59B58332) Date: 12/26/1968 Description: The Spanish Air Ministry’s press office issues a release inviting citizens to report UFO cases to the air force. A few days later, Second Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. [Mariano Cuadra Medina](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano%5FCuadra%5FMedina) issues the first regulations in Spain on how to handle UFO reports. The information is rated confidential. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 423 Source ID: Eberhart_4646 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14561 (88F36D2C) Date: 12/28/1968 Description: The witness had been in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia the area back in 1950 and at that time had experienced a peculiar incident, which left him with a scar. He returned to the site in December 1968 and saw a disc-shaped craft 40 feet in diameter and 10 feet high, and met its human looking occupant, who walked around the side of the object. The man had long hair, stood about 5' 6" tall, and wore silver colored shoes. The witness spoke with him in English for about three minutes, learning that the UFO occupant claimed to be from Saturn. The man seemed to be in a hurry to get away. He boarded, after which the craft rose off the ground and hovered momentarily at 15 feet before moving off and disappearing in the distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, May-June 1969, p. 33; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-83, citing Dr. N. Lindtner, UFO Investigation Center, Sydney Source ID: Johnson_8632 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1969 (Back to Top) ### Event 14562 (D66133DC) Date: 1969 Description: Contactee [Ted Owens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FOwens%5F%28contactee%29) writes How to Contact Space People. Owens, who calls himself the “PK Man,” attributes his psychic and precognitive abilities to UFO occupants who operated on his brain when he was a child, a modification that made him half-human, half-alien. He claims to be in two-way contact with saucer intelligences. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Owens, How to Contact the Space People, Saucerian, 1969; Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [pp. 235–236](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/235/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4651 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14563 (48BD1E69) Date: 1969 Description: In Passport to Magonia, [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) proposes a radically revisionist argument that UFOs are better understood when related to folk traditions about supernatural creatures \(elementals, fairies, angels, demons\) than to astronomers’ speculations about life in outer space. He says science cannot adequately deal with such matters, although he does not specifically disavow the scientific method. It is the first book to question the ETH and the first to lay the groundwork for the psychosocial hypothesis, which sees UFOs as largely the product of unusual mental states and perpetuated by social acceptance. He argues that ostensible otherworldly manifestations are fantastic images propelled via psychic technology from humanity’s future to generate myths and religions that will change fate. In time the book leads to a new school of ufology whose advocates hold that UFOs and other anomalous experiences are internally generated and shaped entirely by cultural processes as opposed to nonhuman intelligences. [Jerry Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark) writes that the “genius of Passport, a genuinely brilliant work, is its success in placing UFOs into not only cultural but experiential context.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, [Passport to Magonia](https://archive.org/details/passporttomagoni0000vall/page/n1/mode/2up), Regnery, 1969; Clark III 939–940, 1214 Source ID: Eberhart_4650 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14564 (986DE83E) Date: 1969 Description: Gérard Lebat founds Groupe d’Études des Objets Spatiaux, which publishes GEOS International from July 1969 to July 1970, then Les Extraterrestres from November 1970 to October 1979, then Hypothèses Extraterrestres from January 1980 to July 1981, in Rebais, Seine-et-Marne, France. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [GEOS International](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/GEOS%20International%20%28GEOS%29/GEOS%20International%20-%20No%201%20-%20juil%201969.pdf), no. 1 \(July 1969\); [Les](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Extraterrestres%2C%20Les%20%28GEOS%29/Extraterrestres%2C%20Les%20-%20Series%201%20-%20No%2009%20-%20nov-dec%201970.pdf) [Extraterrestres](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Extraterrestres%2C%20Les%20%28GEOS%29/Extraterrestres%2C%20Les%20-%20Series%201%20-%20No%2009%20-%20nov-dec%201970.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Extraterrestres%2C%20Les%20%28GEOS%29/Extraterrestres%2C%20Les%20-%20Series%201%20-%20No%2009%20-%20nov-dec%201970.pdf) no. 9 \(Nov./Dec. 1970\); [Hypothèses Extraterrestres](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Hypotheses%20Extraterrestres%20%28GEOS%29/Hypotheses%20Extraterrestres%20-%20No%2013.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Hypotheses%20Extraterrestres%20%28GEOS%29/Hypotheses%20Extraterrestres%20-%20No%2013.pdf) no. 13 \(January 1980\) Source ID: Eberhart_4649 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14565 (E3B10C1D) Date: 1969 Description: The CIA’s Operation Often is initiated by the chief of the CIA’s Technical Services Branch, [Sidney Gottlieb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%5FGottlieb) to “explore the world of black magic” and “harness the forces of darkness and challenge the concept that the inner reaches of the mind are beyond reach.” As part of the operation, Gottlieb and other CIA employees visit with and recruit fortune-tellers, palm-readers, clairvoyants, astrologers, mediums, psychics, specialists in demonology, witches and warlocks, Satanists, and other occult practitioners. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project MKOFTEN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FMKOFTEN)” Source ID: Eberhart_4648 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14566 (15D01E3C) Date: 1969 Description: Night. During its extended deployment to Vietnam with the 7th Fleet, the destroyer [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FLeary%5F%28DD-879%29) [Leary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FLeary%5F%28DD-879%29) is navigating fishing waters in the Gulf of Tonkin. Ensign [Will Miller](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cdr-will-miller-usn-retired-vietnam-vet-8a18288) is alerted by the lookout about a possible light from a fishing boat in the water ahead. But the light suddenly moves from above the water to below the surface and heads rapidly toward the ship at 45° to the bow, passing below the vessel. The sailors run to the starboard side to see whether it will emerge, but it does not. Nothing is tracked on radar or sonar or by the ECM system. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 284–285](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/284/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4653 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14567 (40555090) Date: 1969? Description: A retired Colonel from Wright-Patterson AFB with Top Secret Clearance states that a 2-man saucer crashed near Whitewater Lake, Indiana as a result of an electrical disturbance in the atmosphere. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY) Location: Whitewater Lake, Indiana See also: 1968 Source ID: Maj2_655 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14568 (8927A4C8) Date: 1969 Description: Spanish ufologist [Antonio Ribera](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Antonio%5FRibera) receives his first Ummo communication, a letter postmarked from Paris, Franca. An Ummo cult has begun to form, and books—both journalistic accounts and anthologies of Ummo writings—find an avid readership. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1185 Source ID: Eberhart_4652 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14569 (3C334D8A) Date: 1/1969 Description: John Magor begins publishing the quarterly Canadian UFO Report in Duncan, British Columbia. It persists through the summer issue of 1979. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Canadian UFO Report](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%201%20no%201%20-%201969.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(January 1969\) Source ID: Eberhart_4654 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14570 (AB41F056) Date: 1/5/1969 Description: At four o'clock in the morning a glowing object rose to the surface and floated on the ocean off the coast of Vina del Mar, Valparaiso, Chile. The surface of the sea boiled and there was an odor of sulphur in the air. At 9:00 p.m. in Port Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil soldiers at the Vila Floresta watched a hovering fireball that shot a fiery beam when it began moving. At 11:45 p.m. on the highway between Campos and Itaparuna, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil a single witness stopped his car to watch a metallic domed ovoid-shaped object hovering over a nearby hilltop. The dome on the object glowed a purple color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 118; (2) Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, June 1971, p. 9; (3) UFO Nachtrichten, February 1973, citing a newspaper source Source ID: Johnson_122 Source: Johnson ### Event 14571 (DB1824AC) Date: 1/6/1969 Description: Maren Merino was working in the kitchen of her family's small café in Pontejos, Santander, Spain at 9:15 p.m. when she looked out the kitchen window and saw an intensely bright light. Her daughter, 25-year old Felicidad Fernandez Merino then entered the kitchen and also observed the light. Felicidad asks her mother about it, but she continued to ignore the light. Thinking this was abnormal, Felicidad yelled to two other women, including a woman called Paquita. All three women then opened the window and saw an incredible scene: on a field only 30 meters away, and hovering about three meters from the ground, was a luminous square 4-5 meters wide. It was an intense orange-white color. Inside the luminous square they saw the silhouette of a man walking about. From the right another figure appeared and both walked toward the left side of the illuminated square. Next, from the opposite end of the square three more figures appear, making a total of five figures. By now the witnesses are totally fascinated and shout out to the beings. At this time they are joined by another witness, 35-year-old Antonio. When Antonio looked out the window the craft vanished from sight.

According to the witnesses the movements of the humanoids was mechanical in nature, with arms straight down their sides with no apparent joint movement. The beings were tall and well built, with normal features, chestnut-color hair, and light skin. They wore something similar to black, tight-fitting coveralls with sleeves and turtlenecks. The incident lasted for five minutes. As the witnesses continued to look for the UFO a small shiny sphere descended from the middle of the sky, falling to the ground in a curved trajectory. The body of the UFO again became visible, clearly displaying the shiny square section and the portion of the object hat had been invisible to the witnesses thus far. It was a dull silver color, lightly fluorescent, and shaped like a domed cupola. The object then rose slowly and disappeared quickly, leaving behind a brilliant greenish track that persisted for about 15 minutes after the object left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 100; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIs: El Fenomeno Aterrizaje, p. 86; UNICAT database, case 435; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-03 (A1017), citing Manuel Pedrajo and Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos Source ID: Johnson_167 Source: Johnson ### Event 14572 (54ADA16F) Date: 1/6/1969 Description: 7:15 p.m. Future president [Jimmy Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FCarter) is preparing to give a speech at a Lions Club meeting at Leary, Georgia. One of the guests calls his attention to a strange object visible about 30° above the horizon to the west of where he is standing. Carter describes the object as being bright white and about as bright as the moon. It appears to have closed in on where he is standing but stops beyond a stand of pine trees some distance from him. The object changes color, first to blue, then to red, then back to white, before appearing to recede into the distance. Carter feels that the object is self-illuminated and not solid in nature. Carter’s report indicates that it is witnessed by about 10–12 other people and is in view for 10–12 minutes before it passes out of sight. Skeptic [Robert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FSheaffer) [Sheaffer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FSheaffer) concludes that the object is a misidentification of Venus. Ufologist [Allan Hendry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%5FHendry) does calculations and agrees with the assessment of the object as Venus. A member of the Carter family thinks it might have been a barium cloud produced by rockets launched from Eglin AFB near Valparaiso, Florida. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Jimmy Carter](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%201%20no%201%20-%201969.pdf) [UFO incident](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%201%20no%201%20-%201969.pdf)”; Clark III 225; Good Above, [pp. 368](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/368/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/368/mode/2up) [516–517](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/516/mode/2up); Robert Sheaffer, “[President Jimmy Carter’s](https://www.debunker.com/texts/carter%5Fufo.html) [Sighting of a UFO](https://www.debunker.com/texts/carter%5Fufo.html)” Source ID: Eberhart_4655 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14573 (08DDE49B) Date: 1/8/1969 Description: Science reporter [Walter Sullivan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FSullivan%5F%28journalist%29) writes that the soon-to-be-released Colorado project report will debunk the extraterrestrial hypothesis and dismiss “demands of some scientists and laymen for a large-scale effort to determine the nature of such ‘flying saucers.’ Such a project, the report says in effect, would be a waste of time and money.” Sullivan dismisses the project’s critics as “UFO enthusiasts.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Walter Sullivan, “[U.F.O. Finding: No](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/01/08/77316465.pdf) [Visits from Afar,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/01/08/77316465.pdf)” New York Times, January 8, 1969, pp. 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_4657 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14574 (9BF1FCD2) Date: 1/8/1969 Description: A humanoid was spotted making repairs on a hovering disc-shaped craft for twenty minutes at ten p.m. in Edina, Missouri. He looked surprised when he saw the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8705 citing APRO Bulletin January-February 1971 Source ID: Johnson_193 Source: Johnson ### Event 14575 (2BB1E14E) Date: 1/8/1969 Description: The National Academy of Sciences releases its review of the Colorado project report, giving its enthusiastic approval. In a letter to Assistant Secretary of the Air Force [Alexander H. Flax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%5FH.%5FFlax)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%5FH.%5FFlax) [Frederick Seitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FSeitz) expresses the hope that the review would “be helpful to you and other responsible officials in determining the nature and scope of any research effort in this area.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: National Academy of Sciences, “[Review of the University of Colorado Report](http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/nascu.html) [on Unidentified Flying Objects by a Panel of the National Academy of Sciences,](http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/nascu.html)” January 8, 1969; Story, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/244/mode/2up) [244–245](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/244/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4656 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14576 (79566846) Date: 1/8/1969 Description: National Academy of Sciences letter by Dr. Frederick Seitz, president, to secretary of the Air Force, stating that the NAS review panel "unanimously approved" the Colorado University (Condon Committee) report. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_175 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14577 (55A1ABBF) Date: 1/9/1969 Description: University of Colorado "Condon Report" publicly released. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_176 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14578 (25E8321A) Date: 1/9/1969 Description: The Colorado project report is released to the public in a 965-page Bantam Books edition. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Edward U. Condon, scientific director, [Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/n5/mode/2up), Bantam, 1969; \[[HTML version](https://files.ncas.org/condon/text/contents.htm)\] Source ID: Eberhart_4658 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14579 (F11A027D) Date: 1/11/1969 Description: Press conference at National Press Club. Donald Keyhoe, NICAP director, Richard Hall, N1CAP assistant director, Dr. James E. McDonald, and Dr. David R. Saunders disputing conclusions of the Condon Report. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Washington US Source ID: HallUFOE2_177 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14580 (B4C013FB) Date: 1/11/1969 Description: [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) [Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)[,](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) and [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) hold a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to criticize the Condon report. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, [pp. 216–217](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/216/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4659 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14581 (C33E1D9D) Date: 1/11/1969 Description: At 8:20 a.m. a weatherman at the Sibiu Meteorological Station in Romania tracked a disc-shaped object with a theodolite for 40 seconds. It flew toward the northeast against the wind in a clear sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 175 Source ID: Johnson_258 Source: Johnson ### Event 14582 (2DCD9768) Date: 1/12/1969 Description: At eight o'clock in the morning two local UFO investigators had driven to an isolated area of Mount Misery on Long Island, New York in order to photograph the landscape. Walking on foot near a wooded hill, they caught sight of a tall human like figure that appeared to have a disfigured face and long wild black hair. He also wore a long black garment. Upon seeing the UFO investigators the being retreated silently into the woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 1897, citing John A. Keel, Strange Mutants Source ID: Johnson_278 Source: Johnson ### Event 14583 (08D9D52B) Date: 1/13/1969 Description: In Vado Ligure, Italy at around 6 p.m. an eight meter in diameter circular object was seen taking off from a construction site, crushed grass was found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8708; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case 63 Source ID: Johnson_299 Source: Johnson ### Event 14584 (44D1CBD1) Date: 1/14/1969 Description: A one-foot in diameter sphere with 5 spikes was seen hovering in the woods in La Barbee, Sarthe department, France for 45 minutes. It then flew to the southwest, turned and flew off to the west. A small disc-shaped object was again seen in the area the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8711, citing FSR, July-August 1969 Source ID: Johnson_318 Source: Johnson ### Event 14585 (E0DEAEFB) Date: 1/14/1969 Description: George Vas and his wife and two daughters were asleep in their trailer near Childers, Queensland, Australia when they were awakened at 4:30 a.m. by the barking of their dog. They also heard a loud buzzing noise like a swarm of wasps. It came from a UFO shaped like a sombrero, about 25-30 yards in diameter, which gave off a brilliant violet luminosity. From the craft three beings descended. They were huge, "about 3 times as large as humans," and had "blocky arms and legs and shapeless bodies." They emitted a purple and yellow glow. For about ten minutes they gathered sugar cane and other plant specimens, without concern for the observers. Mrs. Olga Vas said that the beings descended from the larger craft in a small object similar in shape. At one point one of the entities came close enough to the group for Mr. Vas to call out in alarm. The "spaceman" showed no concern and moved away only after picking up several rocks. The giant creatures re-entered their craft and the UFO took off vertically. When it took off the hair on the witnesses' bodies stood on end, as if affected by a form of static electricity. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker case files, case # 2014; Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, p. 22; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-04, citing Keith Basterfield Source ID: Johnson_317 Source: Johnson ### Event 14586 (E16074FB) Date: 1/15/1969 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a man driving from Extremadura stopped his car in Las Pajanosas, Sevilla province, Spain and got out to investigate a light he saw nearby. When he got to within 200 meters of it he could see an illuminated rectangle in which several figures were seen walking in front of. A dog that had been watching the light with him had its hair raised and was growling softly. Alarmed, the witness left the scene. When he returned a few days later with a friend they found three apparent landing marks at the site, six feet apart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-05, citing Felipe Laffitte; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case 33 Source ID: Johnson_337 Source: Johnson ### Event 14587 (14F80342) Date: 1/15/1969 Description: During the afternoon of this day Ludwig Pallmann felt a burning sensation from a ring given to him by someone he presumed was an extraterrestrial. The sensation was a signal for an upcoming contact, so Mr. Pallmann took his motorboat to a local sandy beach on Isla del Altar, El Salvador. There he noticed that several huge concentric circles ruffled the normally placid waters of the lake. Shortly after that he encountered a human looking being named Satu Ra, who he had met on previous occasions. Satu Ra was sitting motionless on a nearby rock. He wore dark green coveralls and had on a broad instrument belt on which was a large device. Ra was inexpressively sad. He told Pallmann that another extraterrestrial that they both knew, named Xiti, had been killed. Supposedly a disaster had befallen the expedition on another planet. Shortly after this close encounter locals reported observing a silvery disc-shaped UFO hovering over the capital city San Salvador. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case 32, citing Timothy Good, Alien Base Source ID: Johnson_336 Source: Johnson ### Event 14588 (2B043445) Date: 1/16/1969 Description: While driving down a highway in Las Pajanosas, Spain in Sevilla province a man and his dog encountered an illuminated rectangle on or near the ground at 10:30 p.m. His dog began howling. The silhouettes of beings could be seen moving around in front of the lighted source for the ten minutes the UFO was on the ground. Later investigation found three apparent landing imprints, arranged in a triangle six feet apart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 101, citing investigation by Felipe Laffitte Source ID: Johnson_350 Source: Johnson ### Event 14589 (6D640A19) Date: 1/17/1969 Description: Amber lights, one blinking, in elliptical formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 12607) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crittendon, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_3999 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14590 (5841FE65) Date: 1/17/1969 Time: 3:24 AM Description: Witness: Mr. Roman Lupton, test facility mechanic. Several amber lights--one of them blinking--in an elliptical formation, flew forward slowly while moving up and down, then turned and disappeared after 2 minutes. Made a humming sound. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [BlueBook Unknowns PDF](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/bluebook_uncensored_unknowns_don_berliner.pdf) Location: Crittenden, Virginia Source ID: BerlinerBBU_583 Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns ### Event 14591 (D5E5F1A8) Date: 1/20/1969 End date: 8/9/1974 Description: President Richard Nixon in office Type: historical event Reference: (Wikipedia)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon) Source ID: Maj2_657 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14592 (B01BED70) Date: 1/20/1969 Description: In 1969, at Weymouth, Massachusetts near an abandoned ammunition depot, an object was sighted which looked like a white dish inverted upon a dish with a dark ring around its perimeter. It had a dome on top and one red and two amber lights on its leading edge. It moved up and down a few times before moving out of sight around 10:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, Jericho, NY, 1975, p. 355 Source ID: Johnson_394 Source: Johnson ### Event 14593 (313923F5) Date: 1/21/1969 Description: The Lucens reactor in Vaud, Switzerland, suffers a loss-of-control accident that leads to a partial core meltdown and massive radioactive contamination of its cavern, which is sealed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lucens reactor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucens%5Freactor\#Nuclear%5Faccident)” Source ID: Eberhart_4660 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14594 (1010C64F) Date: 1/22/1969 Description: A dark oval object with a central light on the top and bottom and four white lights around the edge moved in a side-to-side swaying motion over Lexington, Massachusetts at 9:50 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case report dated January 25, 1969; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors Source ID: Johnson_414 Source: Johnson ### Event 14595 (2C0A0236) Date: 1/22/1969 Description: Elements of the Ninth Marine Division go more than a mile into Laos to protect the flanks of a major combat operation. The New York Times reveals the operation on February 12. Though American combat involvement in Laos is not officially acknowledged until 1969, the US is known to have organized, trained, and equipped a clandestine army of Laotian irregulars since the early 1950s, under the direction of the CIA. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Seymour M. Hersh, “[Secret 1969 Foray into Laos Reported,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/08/12/90463689.pdf)” New York Times, August 12, 1973, p. 1, 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4661 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14596 (ECA58869) Date: 1/25/1969 Description: 12:30 a.m. A young couple is driving near Plattville, Illinois. The woman sees a bright object like an ice- cream cone low in the sky ahead, traveling big end first. They get within a quarter mile and the object turns point up and only 30 feet off the ground. Security lights on a nearby farmhouse go off. The object spins and flashes, and the car engine and lights go off. The front end of the car lifts 3 feet off the ground. The UFO moves away and the car drops and regains its power. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_4662 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14597 (AACDB69F) Date: 1/25/1969 Description: Cone-shaped object approached, outside farm lights went out. CUFOS report; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 44. (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Plattevillie, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4000 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14598 (A6EE0DD4) Date: 1/26/1969 Description: On a farm southeast of Fernley, Nevada while milking cows at five o'clock in the morning, a young man named Schade saw a red glowing sphere moving slowly, ten meters above the ground, a quarter of a mile away. The object hovered, the emitted white mist. Each time it stopped moving the light went out. Finally, the UFO ascended with a jerky motion toward the west and Reno. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Massingill, NICAP case file, report dated February 24, 1969; Data-Net Report, October 1971, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_525 Source: Johnson ### Event 14599 (6B03CD0D) Date: 1/28/1969 Description: In 1969 at 10 p.m., a guard in San Lucar de Barrame, Spain watched a "pot" fly silently over trees at a low altitude, from north to south. The UFO illuminated the area like daytime. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Computerized Catalogue; Larry Hatch "U" database Source ID: Johnson_555 Source: Johnson ### Event 14600 (97DE9558) Date: 1/29/1969 Description: At ten o'clock in the morning an 80-year-old woman in Matadepera, Barcelona, Spain witnessed a pear-shaped UFO with a horizontal axis that landed very close (within 11 m), making a "revving" noise. It was estimated to be three meters long and had a 2.5 meter diameter, and was wider in the front. It gave off bright colors, green and yellow mostly, and was described as "very pretty." After landing it made an abrupt turn to pass under some high tension (5 Kv) power lines. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jose Maria Casas-Huguet, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 1; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 102; UNICAT, case # 426, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIs: El Fenomeno Aterrizaje, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_577 Source: Johnson ### Event 14601 (80BDA421) Date: 1/31/1969 Description: After a series of UFO sightings and radar trackings beginning in October 1968, the US Air Force and Army set up another UFO observation network in the West Central Highlands near Pleiku, Vietnam, using pulse acquisition radar, continual wave acquisition radar, and illumination radar. The system picks up 365 unidentified tracks through April. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1052–1054 Source ID: Eberhart_4663 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14602 (1C888936) Date: 1/31/1969 Description: At around 8:00 p.m. a small “space ship” approached General Moacyr Uchoa and his investigating team on Wilson P. Gusmao’s Alexania Fazenda, Goias State, Brazil where UFO sightings had been occurring frequently for more than a year. It performed some maneuvers before landing 100 meters away. Senor Gusmao left the group of investigators and walked up to within a meter of the vessel, which he found to be only two meters long and a meter wide, hovering 18 inches above the ground. A door in the top of the craft opened, and a crew member stood up in the hatch. He looked at Gusmao while manipulating something on his belt, which Gusmao thought was a camera. Then he turned around, and as if obeying an order a big light arose from the nearby ridge. The occupant then turned to face Gusmao, and he put his hand on his belt again, causing a luminous halo to surround his body. After this, the onlookers could see him only as a ball of light. Then, with a slight gesture, he slipped down again into the craft, which took off rapidly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Moacyr Alfredo Uchoa, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 15; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-07 (A1022), citing SBEDV and General Moacyr Alfredo Uchoa Source ID: Johnson_638 Source: Johnson ### Event 14603 (D46AEAAF) Date: 2/1969 Description: 2d Lt. Carmon L. Morano replaces Lt. Col. [Hector Quintanilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%5FQuintanilla) as head of the moribund Project Blue Book. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_4664 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14604 (43165900) Date: 2/1/1969 Description: Roscoe Drummond, syndicated columnist, in Christian Science Monitor (response to University of Colorado report): "I find it hard to escape the conclusion that there are too many unexplained and presently unexplainable unidentified flying objects from too many credible and responsible witnesses to banish the subject from public concern." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_178 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14605 (ACCCED5D) Date: 2/2/1969 Description: On this night near near Nuble, Chile--close to the "Los Francos" thermal springs--a strange sphere was seen passing overhead. Two car engines started by themselves even though their batteries were disconnected. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 259, citing CONTACT (UK) Source ID: Johnson_668 Source: Johnson ### Event 14606 (3979C621) Date: 2/6/1969 Description: At 7:30 a.m. people in Pirassununga, Sao Paolo, Brazil were excited about a mysterious disc-shaped object on a hillside. Tiago Machado, age 19, got out his binoculars and went up the hill, approaching to within 30 feet. It had a narrow dome on top, was aluminum colored, about 12 feet in diameter and 5 feet high. A hinged door was open in the top of the dome, and from this two humanoid figures emerged and seemed to float to the ground. Two others were visible inside the craft, through windows. The beings, 4.5 feet tall, were dressed in tight, silvery garments without buttons, covering them from head to foot. Their facial features were seen through transparent helmets. Their skin was yellow, and they had slanting eyes, and mouths with thin, slit-like lips. They came to within 3-4 meters of the witness. When they laughed at the witness, who was smoking a cigarette, he could see that they had black teeth. He tossed the cigarette pack close to one, who put his hand above it, and the pack floated up into his hand. The thumb of his hand was set further back than on a human hand. The beings spoke in “hoarse, guttural” sounds. When a friend called out to the witness the entities walked backward and re-entered through the door. The second one, when halfway through, pointed a tube at Machado, which emitted a bluish flame that “floated” toward him. When it hit him, he felt pain and was paralyzed; as the UFO took off, almost horizontally, the witness fainted. A red welt remained where the flame had struck him. On the ground were found three landing gear leg marks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, June 1971, p. 9; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1023, citing SBEDV Bulletin, September 1973 Source ID: Johnson_725 Source: Johnson ### Event 14607 (317858E2) Date: 2/6/1969 Description: Barbara Mina Da Silva was weeding a rice field later that same morning at a place called Chacara Do Benedito, Pirassununga, Sao Paulo State, Brazil when two boys, Joao Batista Da Silva, age 9, and Benedito Paulino Ramos, age 13, called to her attention a “shining little tent” 500 meters away. She described it as white, looking like one of the triangular tents used by exterminators of the sauva ant. Nearby were three men with helmets, whom she took to be the workers fighting the ants. The boys told her that the men’s clothing was shining, but she described it as gray. She continued her work, when suddenly the boys cried out, “Look, the little tent has disappeared.” She saw that both tent and men had indeed gone. Shortly afterward the boys pointed out a “luminous ball the size of the sun” stationary just above the woods. It disappeared after 30 minutes, and soon after a Brazilian Air Force helicopter appeared and descended about two kilometers away. The helicopter was seen on several occasions during the next few days. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1023, citing Nigel Rimes, FSR Special Bulletin #3, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_726 Source: Johnson ### Event 14608 (41CEE32F) Date: 2/7/1969 Description: 7:30 a.m. Tiago Machado, 19, wakes up at his home in Pirassununga, São Paulo, Brazil, and hears a neighbor shouting about a silvery-blue object landed on a hill on the grounds of the Zootecníca. He watches it for a time, then goes in to get binoculars. He goes off to the hill and approaches the object until he is about 33 feet away. It is a disc made of silvery metal with a dome on top. It is about 13 feet in diameter and stands on three legs. A door opens and two men come floating down to the ground. Machado can see two other beings inside. The men walk toward him, making signs. They are wearing silver diver’s suits, have black teeth and thin-lipped mouths, and one eye is lower than the other. Each has a kind of burn or cicatrice on each cheek. Machado is nervous, so he lights a cigarette. The beings apparently think this is funny, so he tosses the cigarette pack toward them. One of them leans sideways and stretches out his hand. The pack floats 8 inches up to his hand and disappears. Suddenly one of Machado’s friends calls out to him, and the beings walk back to the UFO, still facing him, and jump up to the door. The last one in pauses and pulls out a kind of weapon, points it at Machado, and a flame like a welding arc comes out of the barrel and floats toward him, hitting him in the thigh. He feels faint and paralyzed as the UFO takes off. His friends carry him to a neighbor’s house and find a red swelling on his leg. Later, investigators find three imprints in an equilateral triangle at the site, each about 5 inches in diameter. Soil samples taken show no radioactivity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nigel Rimes, “[The Pirassununga Landing,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-SI%201969%20N%203%2CUFO%20Percipients.pdf)” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Percipients, special issue no. 3 of FSR, September 1969, pp. 39–45; Brazil 109–114; “[Caso Tiago Machado,](https://www.fenomenum.com.br/ufo/casuistica/1960/tiagomachado)” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_4665 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14609 (5D1548AF) Date: 2/7/1969 Description: Shortly after 7:00 a.m. in Pirassununga, Sao Paulo State, Brazil the shouts of people exclaiming about a mysterious bluish-white object that had landed on a hillside awakened Tiago Machado, age 19. He grabbed his binoculars and went to look at it, approaching to within 30 feet. It was a domed disc, aluminum colored, about 12 feet in diameter and five feet high. A hinged door was open on the top of the dome and from it two humanoid figures emerged and floated to the ground. Two more beings were visible through windows inside the craft. The beings were 4.5 feet tall and dressed in tight-fitting silvery coveralls without buttons. Their facial features were visible through transparent helmets. Their skin was yellow, their eyes slanting, and their mouths were thin and slit-like. They came to within 3-4 meters of Tiago. When they laughed at him while he puffed a cigarette, he could see that they had black teeth. He tossed the cigarette pack close to one, who put his hand over it and the pack floated up into his hand. The thumb of his hand was set further back than it would be on a human's hand. The beings spoke in “hoarse, guttural” sounds. When a friend shouted out to Tiago the entities walked backward and re-entered the craft through the door. The second one pointed a tube at Machado when halfway through, and it emitted a bluish flame that “floated” at him. When it hit him he felt pain and was paralyzed. The UFO took off in a horizontal direction just as the witness fainted. A red welt remained where the flame had struck him. On the ground were found three landing-leg marks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, March-April 1969, p. 5; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1023, citing Nigel Rimes, Ned S. Martins & Reginaldo Da Silva; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 160; Nigel Rimes, UFO Percipients: FSR Special Edition No. 3, p. 40 Source ID: Johnson_735 Source: Johnson ### Event 14610 (C36CFBDB) Date: 2/8/1969 Description: Waking from sleep at 1:30 a.m. witness Douglas Fay looked out his window in Glen Rock, New Jersey and saw a bright red, star-like object flying toward the north in jerky, stop and start movements. Before it disappeared from view three smaller red dots were released from the larger object and flew off in various directions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP investigation files, report dated February 8, 1969 Source ID: Johnson_754 Source: Johnson ### Event 14611 (C6F9A5EF) Date: 2/9/1969 Description: At 1:00 a.m. in St. Martin de Londres, Herault department, France a 40-year-old farmer and his assistant saw a large stationary disc that hovered low over his goats in a pasture. The billy-goat became impotent as a result, and his dogs started barking every morning at 2 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, July 1969; FSR, January-February 1970, p. 13 & January-February 1972, p. 26; UNICAT, case # 491 citing Fernand Lagarde, Mysterieuses Soucoupes Volantes, p. 57 Source ID: Johnson_774 Source: Johnson ### Event 14612 (6F176828) Date: 2/10/1969 Description: Later that same night in Dartmouth, Massachusetts at 10:30 p.m. a truck driver saw a fiery ball hovering over some snow covered trees. When he approached to within 200 feet with a flashlight it accelerated away at a 45-degree angle, causing the snow on the treetops to swirl through the air. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ray Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 355 Source ID: Johnson_799 Source: Johnson ### Event 14613 (1AE180F2) Date: 2/10/1969 Description: An abduction occurred in the early morning hours of this day in Green Cove Springs, Florida. At around three a.m. two single adults, a man and a woman, "Francis" and "Wells", were driving by automobile along a highway when they had three unaccounted hours of missing time. Under hypnosis in 1977 they recalled being in a curved hallway, and seeing four short, Grey aliens who had large eyes and ears, no hair, small slit mouths, and wore tight coveralls. The aftereffects of their encounter included headaches, depression, and skin rashes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Krutz, Fate, and HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1666 Source ID: Johnson_798 Source: Johnson ### Event 14614 (F743877A) Date: 2/12/1969 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) presents “A Dissenting View of the Condon Report” to the DuPont Chapter of the Scientific Research Society of America in Wilmington, Delaware. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “A Dissenting View of the Condon Report,” February 12, 1969; Patrick Gross, “[Scientists Take Position](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/mcdonaldco.htm)”; Story, [p. 415](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/414/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4666 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14615 (D80F7F31) Date: 2/12/1969 Description: At 5:40 a.m. in Pirassununga, Sao Paolo state, Brazil Luis Flozinho De Oliveira, a farm worker, was on his way to work when he was approached and attacked by two strange looking aggressive tan skinned beings. The men were 1.5 meters (4.95 feet) tall and had beards, long hair, and asymmetrical eyes. Both humanoids wore white unbuttoned shirts and long beige colored pants with what appeared to be colorful inscriptions and drawings on them. They also wore dark shiny medallions around their necks. At first stunned, Luis fought back effectively, knocking them both to the ground, one on top of the other. The two humanoids got up and exchanged some words between themselves in a strange language. They then told Luis in perfect Portuguese that they were leaving since he was much stronger than they, and they both fled into the thick underbrush. Luis's dog “rolled up into a ball on the ground for protection” during the attack upon its master. The dog refused to eat anything after the encounter, and died a month later, its body found bloated up. The dog had never been willing to return to the place of the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, June 1971, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-09 (A1026), citing Walter Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, 1975, issue 51; Jader U. Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, case 225; FSR, January 1972, p. 26, citing SBEDV Bulletin, January 1970 Source ID: Johnson_868 Source: Johnson ### Event 14616 (25DBA67F) Date: 2/12/1969 Description: The crew of a fishing boat off the coast of Quinteros, Chile watched an odd looking object enter the water at around 5:00 p.m and then vanish. Another unidentified aircraft was seen overhead at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roberto Enrique Banchs, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 118; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8746 Source ID: Johnson_869 Source: Johnson ### Event 14617 (A89BD59E) Date: 2/13/1969 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) speaks on “UFOs: A Challenge to Observation” at the American Meteorological Society in Washington, D.C. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “[UFOs: A Challenge to Observation,](http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald%5Fsmoi%5F021369.pdf)” February 13, 1969; Story, [p. 415](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/414/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4667 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14618 (6EEE6851) Date: 2/13/1969 Description: A huge luminous globe nearly hit the smokestacks of a factory in Telemark Dalen, Norway shortly before 8 p.m. Then a cigar-shaped object flew by at low altitude flying to the southwest at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March-April 1969, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_898 Source: Johnson ### Event 14619 (5EDB450D) Date: 2/15/1969 Description: William Black observed a yellow-orange light moving from south to north while walking his dog at 10:40 p.m. in Brooklyn, New York. He saw a small protuberance on the edge of the "disc" as it passed overhead. After he crossed the street he saw two light sources going north, which veered slightly and headed off to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: William Black, NICAP case files, letter dated February 18, 1969 Source ID: Johnson_924 Source: Johnson ### Event 14620 (8E684C76) Date: 2/16/1969 Description: On this night in Chateau Des Martins, Vienne, France five horses in the paddock of M. Meingault were panicked by "something shining" with intensely bright eyes "of a very pale, brilliant green." Mr. Meingault saw the eyes approximately 3.75 feet above the ground. He re-entered his chateau to get his gun and when he returned saw a "flying shadow" pursuing the horses. There was a great deal of damage to the paddock and fences caused by the frightened animals. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-10, citing Jean-Claude Baillon, FSR, Vol. 16 # 4 Source ID: Johnson_949 Source: Johnson ### Event 14621 (97D8560A) Date: 2/17/1969 Description: A woman in Flinders Park, South Australia heard a whirring sound coming from outside that woke her at 2:50 a.m. She looked out the window and saw an unusual object in a nearby field. A man emerged from the shadows and walked around the object. The figure was very tall and lean with light colored hair. He wore white coveralls. He walked several times around the object. The witness then ran to get other witnesses but when she got back the UFO and tall figure were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case #1309, citing Keith Basterfield Source ID: Johnson_963 Source: Johnson ### Event 14622 (4D6EAF79) Date: 2/18/1969 Description: Morning. Barbara Smyth, a teacher in a small town in Alberta, is driving to school when she sees on her right a “gigantic, bright pinky-red coloured” object “about seven times the size of a steel granary of 14ft. diameter.” It looks like two rounded layers divided by a thin blue line. There are two flashing white lights on the top and a tent-like structure that pulsates and changes color from silver to fiery yellow. The UFO starts spinning counterclockwise and jumps over to the next hill. Suddenly, her car is no longer under her control as it floats down a very bumpy road. After three minutes the UFO disappears, and the car returns to normal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: W. K. Allan, “[A UFO and the Car Which ‘Floated Along,’](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201971%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 6 \(August 1971\): 8, iii; Clark III 250 Source ID: Eberhart_4668 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14623 (224154FB) Date: 2/19/1969 Description: 12:30 p.m. Two telephone linemen are working atop a pole near Lebel-sur-Quévillon, Quebec, when the see a gray, metallic cylinder with four fins at its end moving slowly west to east over the trees and about 150 feet above the ground. The object is 100 feet long and only 15 feet in diameter. The men watch it for a few minutes as it glides slowly out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 72 Source ID: Eberhart_4669 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14624 (A0BFE3A1) Date: 2/20/1969 Description: On this night in Pirassununga, Sao Paulo, Brazil the manager of the Bela Alianca Fazenda or ranch heard his pigs grunting and went outside to investigate. He saw a UFO land about 60 feet away. The object was 12 feet wide and 15 feet high, and it rested on tripod landing gear. Three crew members emerged onto a small catwalk around the machine. Each carried a different kind of tool with which they busied themselves, apparently repairing the craft, for a period of two to three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-11, citing Dr. Walter Buhler Source ID: Johnson_1024 Source: Johnson ### Event 14625 (A4450BE4) Date: 2/20/1969 Description: Luminous cigar followed car; object rose quickly raising dust and leaves. Perth West Australian, Norseman, Feb. 21, 1969. (E) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Undisclosed city in Australia, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4001 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14626 (42C1DF35) Date: 2/20/1969 Description: Near Norseman, Western Australia a luminous cigar-shaped object was seen following a car at 7:30 p.m. When the UFO first appeared, the car's engine began to stop but then ran normally. The object paced the car for some distance quite low to the ground. It then rose quickly into the sky, raising a cloud of dust and dead leafs from the ground under the point where it began its departure. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Perth West Australian, February 21, 1969; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 260, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1969, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_1023 Source: Johnson ### Event 14627 (175AE8EA) Date: 2/21/1969 Description: Soviet super-heavy N-1 rocket fails its first attempt Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket)) Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome Source ID: Maj2_658 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14628 (D15859B5) Date: 2/22/1969 Description: Nathan Brown, a 46-year-old Maori, was walking home in Awanui, New Zealand at one a.m. when he saw a light. He came upon two men sitting with their backs to the road and their feet in a ditch, while a pale young woman with white, shoulder length hair lay across the ditch. She wore a long white gown that covered her feet. The men sat in a relaxed attitude looking down at the woman. They were about 5.5 feet in height, had dark brown skin and closely cropped hair, and wore brown pants and jackets. He questioned the men but got no response. When he stepped closer to see what was wrong with the woman he ran into an invisible barrier that he likened to a bar across the stomach. He tried to grab one of the men but was again prevented by a force that repelled him. This frightened him and he ran off, "shaking like a leaf." The light he first saw was a luminous haze that had no visible source. Mr. Brown found some marks on the ground at the site the following day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-12, citing Don Jackson and the Auckland University UFO Group Source ID: Johnson_1049 Source: Johnson ### Event 14629 (80AB6EC6) Date: 2/23/1969 Description: On this day two boys claimed they saw an emormous flying object while bathing in a waterfall in the mountains near Edmundo Soares in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. From a vertical door two small men emerged. They had human features and their faces had a greenish tint. Their chests were luminous, and from the waists down they wore ashen-gray trousers. The boys fled down the mountain. They returned later that day with two guards, but there was no longer anything to be found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, June 1971, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-19 (A1030), citing Walter Buhler Source ID: Johnson_1066 Source: Johnson ### Event 14630 (EB78D1B9) Date: 2/25/1969 Description: That same night four people in a car in Chabut, Argentina saw a disc-shaped object. The engine of their car quit running when the disc was in view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 262, citing Phenomenes Spatiaux, Vol. 20, 1969 Source ID: Johnson_1106 Source: Johnson ### Event 14631 (0E4388E4) Date: 2/25/1969 Description: Near Pau-Uzein Airport, France at 8:00 p.m. four witnesses, including two in Alouette II helicopters, visually tracked a green luminous UFO that flew rapidly from west to east over the airport. The UFO did not appear on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, page 36, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit Source ID: Johnson_1105 Source: Johnson ### Event 14632 (4763E1A9) Date: 2/28/1969 Description: In Miajadas, Caceres, Spain at 2:45 a.m., during the same time that an earthquake hit the area, a truck driver and his assistant observed a strange craft and five humanoid beings, described as tall and luminous. Seized with an irrational fear, they drove away as quickly as possible. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-13 (A1030), citing Manuel Osuna Source ID: Johnson_1176 Source: Johnson ### Event 14633 (CC06DA03) Date: 3/1969 Description: Secretary of the Air Force Office of Information representative Maj. [David J. Shea](https://www.ncas.org/2018/08/september-8-ufos-air-force-and-colorado.html) attends a meeting in the Pentagon in which “there was no doubt that Project Blue Book was finished.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 926 Source ID: Eberhart_4670 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14634 (FAE17D7C) Date: 3/1/1969 Description: A white nocturnal light maneuvered in front of a drive-in movie screen in Hectorville, South Australia on this evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 183 Source ID: Johnson_1208 Source: Johnson ### Event 14635 (8525C0DB) Date: 3/3/1969 Description: The US Navy establishes its Fighter Weapons School \(Top Gun\) to teach fighter and strike tactics to selected aviators and officers at Naval Air Station Miramar \[now Marine Corps Air Station Miramar\] in San Diego, California. Its focus is on combat training against MiG fighters, now that MiG testing at Groom Lake, Nevada, has been successful. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FNavy%5FStrike%5FFighter%5FTactics%5FInstructor%5Fprogram)” Source ID: Eberhart_4671 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14636 (19A18C96) Date: 3/3/1969 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) submits a UFO research proposal to Col. [George R. Weinbrenner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72741517/george-ryan-weinbrenner)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72741517/george-ryan-weinbrenner) FTD Commander, in which he reveals that out of the approximately 10,000 reports in the Project Blue Book files, he estimates that 1,000–3,000 \(10%–30%\) are “interesting” unexplained cases \(“unknowns”\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “[Preliminary Proposal for](http://www.project1947.com/hynek/jah%5Faf%5Fprop69.htm) [Subject Investigation,](http://www.project1947.com/hynek/jah%5Faf%5Fprop69.htm)” March 3 and 19, 1969 Source ID: Eberhart_4672 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14637 (640E4546) Date: 3/3/1969 Description: On or before this date a 100-foot long noiseless metallic craft was observed in the sky over Glens Falls, New York. According to the newspaper account, the UFO's crew of four men and one woman were also seen onboard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Bonenfant, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 48, citing Albany Knickerbocker Source ID: Johnson_1276 Source: Johnson ### Event 14638 (639FDE50) Date: 3/4/1969 Description: Near Atlanta, Missouri: The City Marshall and Mail Carrier in Elmer, Missouri, William R. Overstreet observed an UFO at early dawn over the road ahead of him. It was about 100 ft. in diam. apparently rotating clockwise and emitting a strong white beam of light down to the road which seemed to magnify the size of theroad it was shining on. He felt intense heat from the direction of the UFO and his CB radio was dead. As heneared the light beam from the UFO his truck motor and radio quit. As the beam moved away from his truck he was able to start the engine again. He followed the UFO for about 4 mi. staying away from the beam. The UFO followed the contour of the land it was flying over. After 7–8 min. the UFO veered away and went out of sight. “I had never believed in them too much until I saw this,” he said. “Now I know that there is something to these UFOs!” Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p265) See also: 8/13/75 See also: 6/66 Source ID: Maj2_659 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14639 (F6BAF3EF) Date: 3/4/1969 Description: 10:00 p.m. RCMP Constable R. J. Shannahan is on foot patrol near 24 Sussex Drive, the Prime Minister’s residence in Ottawa, Ontario. He looks up and sees two bright flashing red lights above and slightly inside the gates to Rideau Hall. One light moves east and is lost to view in one minute, while the other moves west and is visible for 5–6 minutes. No jets are scrambled, and there is no indication that radar installations are asked about unidentified targets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 75–77 Source ID: Eberhart_4674 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14640 (90D19FAE) Date: 3/4/1969 Description: 6:40 a.m. [William Overstreet](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46259434/william-roy-overstreet), 50, is driving his truck on Missouri J between Elmer and Atlanta, Missouri, when he sees a bright reddish-orange light about 100 feet in diameter and floating along at 40 mph. It begins to follow the road and beams a strong, cone-shaped white light on to the road from a height of 50 feet. Overstreet can feel the heat. The object changes from red to a blue sphere surrounded by a red ring. He attempts to drive through the beam, but his motor and radio die when he gets to within 6 feet. The beam moves away a bit, he tries again, and the same thing happens. The UFO moves about a mile away, turns back to red, switches off the beam, and cruises away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[100ʹ Object Affects Radio and Truck Engine](http://www.nicap.org/690304atlanta%5Fdir.htm)”; “[E-M Effect on Truck in Missouri,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201969%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1969, p.4; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_4673 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14641 (AF3D1D38) Date: 3/4/1969 Description: Object emitting blinding light beam paced ahead of vehicle, heat felt. Light beam associated with E-M effects. Object rose and fell, veered off, flew out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Atlanta, MO Source ID: HallUFOE2_179 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14642 (714CF167) Date: 3/4/1969 Description: Luminous red object paced ahead of car, effects associated with beam of light from object. See Section I. (R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlanta, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4002 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14643 (9DE5FC46) Date: 3/4/1969 Description: In 1969 on this date the Canadian Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Ontario were buzzed by a mysterious red light or craft, and reported by a number of RCMP officers at 7:45 p.m. Earlier that day at 6:40 a.m., on a highway 4 miles west of Atlanta, Missouri a truck's engine stalled and the CB radio failed to work when a 100' wide UFO hovered 50 feet above the highway and directed a strong beam of light onto the road. The driver felt a strong heat sensation coming from the object and described the light as brilliant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) John Colombo, UFOs over Canada, p. 213; (2) APRO Bulletin, May-June 1969, p. 4; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 263, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_1299 Source: Johnson ### Event 14644 (146C00A4) Date: 3/6/1969 Description: Light beam shone on road ahead of car, dog reacted. Witness drove beneath domed disc, car motion slowed. Eye irritation Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Lancaster, MO Source ID: HallUFOE2_180 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14645 (B3A82881) Date: 3/6/1969 Description: On the same day a married couple in Buscot, Alicante, Spain saw three UFOs illuminating a mountainside for three minutes. Their car engine failed when the three objects landed on the mountain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 264, citing Ballester Olmos Source ID: Johnson_1337 Source: Johnson ### Event 14646 (926706DF) Date: 3/6/1969 Description: Sr. Dominguez was driving his truck down a road in Campamento Manantres in the State of Magallanes, Chile at 9:45 p.m. when his headlights dimmed. He noticed a four-meter wide disc hovering six meters away. A door on the craft opened and some beings floated out. The beings were presumably humanoid but were not described sufficiently to classify into any group. There were ground traces left at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, Physical Effects Associated with UFOs, case 376 Source ID: Johnson_1338 Source: Johnson ### Event 14647 (C979C397) Date: 3/6/1969 Description: 10:30 a.m. A woman is driving with her St. Bernard dog between Glenwood and Lancaster, Missouri. The dog becomes agitated and she sees a bright blue-white beam of light illuminating the road and a domed disc 1,000 feet in the air. The dog jumps into the front seat and become quite panicked. She tries to drive through the beam, but the car slows from 50 mph to 8 mph but manages to get to the other side when the car picks up speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, p. 32; Ted Phillips, “[UFO Events](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201971%20N%208.pdf) [in Missouri, 1857–1971,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201971%20N%208.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 8 \(December 1971\): 11; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_4675 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14648 (5DEF32F3) Date: 3/6/1969 Description: Dog disturbed as domed disc sends light beam to road (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [690306](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-690306.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lancaster, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4003 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14649 (3400246B) Date: 3/6/1969 Description: At 11:00 a.m. a woman in Glenwood, Missouri noticed her dog acting strangely and attempting to hide under the seat in her car. Next, the hair stood up on her arms. She then saw a bluish-white beam of light ahead on the road. Her car slowed from a speed of 50-60 mph down to 10 mph when it entered the beam. Looking up, she saw a disc-shaped object hovering 1000 feet overhead. The car didn't respond to the accelerator until after it had left the beam. The woman's eyes bothered her for three days following the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 264, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_1336 Source: Johnson ### Event 14650 (06EA04BD) Date: 3/7/1969 Description: Three luminous UFOs were seen sitting in the evening on the ground on the roadside by many passengers on a bus traveling north of Bocaiuva, Brazil. One of the UFOs later followed the bus, and returned light signals from the bus driver. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1969, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_1366 Source: Johnson ### Event 14651 (E145A819) Date: 3/9/1969 Description: In Monreal del Campo, Spain at 10:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Vira watched two UFOs, an ovoid object and a sphere, that flew parallel to the road on which they were driving. The ovoid object landed in a vertical position. The encounter lasted ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 24, case 106 Source ID: Johnson_1397 Source: Johnson ### Event 14652 (951AAB82) Date: 3/10/1969 Description: A silver domed disc-shaped object with a beam of light was seen on the road ahead as a married woman drove between Glenwood and Lancaster, Missouri at 10:30 a.m. Her car slowed down from 50 miles per hour to just 8 mph when the beam touched it. Her dog reacted with fear, and her eyes hurt for three days after the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Smulling, APRO Bulletin, May-June 1969, p. 7; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_1406 Source: Johnson ### Event 14653 (8D5AF2A6) Date: 3/10/1969 Description: That same night a domed disc passed over a police car five miles west of Westhope, North Dakota at 10:10 p.m. It then hovered over the road, wobbling as it hovered, and shot a beam of light downward onto the road. The object eventually slid sideways, then lifted off vertically into the sky. The police officer, Mr. Janzen, reportedly felt strange "psychological forces" and suffered physiological effects as a result of his encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1969, p. 3; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 266, citing CUFOS; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 14 & 174 Source ID: Johnson_1407 Source: Johnson ### Event 14654 (4D04DA5D) Date: 3/10/1969 Description: Disc with dome passed overhead, stopped, emitted light beam onto road, illuminating police chief's car. Finally ascended, flew away to south Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Westhope, ND Source ID: HallUFOE2_181 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14655 (923FBB8D) Date: 3/10/1969 Description: Disc with dome passed overhead, stopped, emitted light beam onto road, illuminating police chief's car. Finally ascended, flew away to south (Ref. 1, Section V). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westhope, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_4004 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14656 (BFEC8EDE) Date: 3/11/1969 Description: At 12:15 a.m. a man named Allot drove through a luminous dome in the road in the Loudeac Forest between La Croix-Jartel and St. Julien, France and was temporarily paralyzed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, computerized catalog; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8782, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #102 Source ID: Johnson_1424 Source: Johnson ### Event 14657 (D9BB0822) Date: 3/11/1969 Description: Erratically moving, color-changing object hovered in front of car, witness felt paralysis. Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, Supplement 6; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 45 (E) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4005 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14658 (F248F082) Date: 3/11/1969 Description: On the same day a motorist in Campinas, Sao Paulo state, Brazil saw a light moving erratically in the sky, changing color from yellow to green, then blue, then purple, then back to green. The color changing UFO came to a halt right in front of his car at 4:45 p.m. The car's engine slowed down and the witness, a man named Randi, temporarily felt paralyzed. After the light flew away, both the car and motorist were back to normal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 11; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 45 (case 267) Source ID: Johnson_1425 Source: Johnson ### Event 14659 (92516085) Date: 3/12/1969 Description: Mr. K. Maslund, a radio and TV station technician, was at work at his TV station at 6:30 p.m. in Trejorningsjo, Angermanland, Sweden when he heard the station’s transmission alarm system go off. Opening the door, he saw outside about 50 feet away a UFO 150 meters wide and 5-6 meters tall, hovering in the air. A “tunnel of light” extended from the object through which the witness saw 7 or 8 entities, about 1.30 meters tall by 30-40 cm wide, floating towards him. They passed Maslund within inches and he found that he could not move; after 5-10 minutes, they left the station and re-entered the object through the tunnel, which then closed. The object then took off toward the north and the witness was again able to move. The entities were non-humanoid in shape, looking more like boxes than anything; he had the feeling the entities were inside the boxes and did not want to be recognized in their “true form.” Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-22, citing Richard Heiden and the Swedish UFO Group Source ID: Johnson_1439 Source: Johnson ### Event 14660 (C50991D1) Date: 3/12/1969 Description: That same evening a family in Merida, Badajoz, Spain saw a disc-shaped object with a dome which glowed "brighter than the sun." It buzzed their car and their car headlights failed. The object then paced the car closely for 20 minutes at a low altitude. A woman also saw the object when she went outside her home after her television reception had heavy interference and static. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 268, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR Special Issue #3, UFOs in Two Worlds Source ID: Johnson_1440 Source: Johnson ### Event 14661 (D6D270FA) Date: 3/14/1969 Description: Flight surgeon, crew of KC-135, observed huge black cylinder hovering, inclined in vertical position. Fighter aircraft sent to investigate, object disappeared Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Thailand Source ID: HallUFOE2_182 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14662 (321E40A9) Date: 3/14/1969 Description: At 7:50 p.m. a white barrel-shaped object with antennas hovered over a gravel pit in Malataverne, Drome, France and was witnessed by several. When a 37-year-old policeman named Manselon approached the object he was struck by some type of force field and temporarily paralyzed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, November-December 1969, p. 32, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit; Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1971, p. 27; William Hauck Dennis, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1976, p. 8; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 325-326 Source ID: Johnson_1485 Source: Johnson ### Event 14663 (A8BEA2E0) Date: 3/14/1969 Description: The flight surgeon and two other crew members of an Air Force KC-135 flying over Thailand saw a huge black cylinder hovering in the vertical position during a daytime flight. When a fighter aircraft was sent to investigate the object disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1969, p. 1; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 14, 77, 119; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_1484 Source: Johnson ### Event 14664 (97295FC4) Date: 3/14/1969 Description: At 7:40 p.m. and again at 8:15 p.m. several separate witnesses observed a red saucer-shaped object with antennas land on stadium grounds twice in Lins, Sao Paolo, Brazil. It was seen again over the next three days. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_1486 Source: Johnson ### Event 14665 (29A3576E) Date: 3/14/1969 Description: Crew of KC-135 tanker saw a cylindrical object larger than the plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: in air space, Thailand Source ID: NICAP_DB_4007 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14666 (3D0BB288) Date: 3/14/1969 Description: KC-135 crew reported hovering cylinder, scramble (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Thailand, Thailand Source ID: NICAP_DB_4006 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14667 (142AB54D) Date: 3/15/1969 Description: A double saucer with two antennae was sighted hovering over an athletic club in Lins, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_1525 Source: Johnson ### Event 14668 (CC8CA628) Date: 3/17/1969 Description: Two pilots are flying a Cessna 150 between Phoenix and Lake Havasu, Arizona, when the pilot in the right seat rises up and sees maybe 2 dozen oval, white discs on the left side of the plane, flying very low and in a rough formation. Each has the hint of a blister near the front. The speed is 200–300 mph, and the only maneuver they make is pitch and roll, all done simultaneously, in unison. For 20 seconds, both pilots watch the objects pass below their aircraft and beyond. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 \(January 2006\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_4676 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14669 (C5093994) Date: 3/17/1969 Description: Mr. Herbert Lancaster told police that a saucer-shaped UFO landed in front of his car at a crossroads in Lincoln, Nebraska on this night and "turned off" his car's engine. A human-appearing occupant, "an ordinary average guy," was seen peering out from a window inside the craft. After a short while UFO "took off at high rate of speed." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lincoln Star, March 18, 1966; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-27, citing the Lincoln Star Source ID: Johnson_1540 Source: Johnson ### Event 14670 (6184FB59) Date: 3/17/1969 Description: At 2:45 a.m. a retired army general had become stranded along a dirt road near Barra da Tijuca, Brazil after his car engine had quit. Moments later he saw a light rising above a nearby hill and felt a strong compulsion to walk towards it. After a short walk he came upon an object with translucent walls that gave off a dazzling light. Despite the translucent appearance the object seemed to be made of some metallic substance. Part of the surface of the object flung itself back, and three human-like figures stood in the opening, one a woman. The witness was invited inside by one of the men, who informed him that the other two were also humans. After a short ride in the craft he was told that time, as we conceive of it, doesn't exist. He was eventually released back to his vehicle, which could quickly be started again without any difficulty. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 1483, citing Irene Granchi, International UFO Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3 Source ID: Johnson_1539 Source: Johnson ### Event 14671 (F047FAAE) Date: 3/17/1969 Description: Cessna 150 encountered 15-20 ovals 6904or05 Gulf of Mexico At sea 3 The event occurred while the "British Grenadier" was sailing through the Gulf of Mexico. The UFO (like an arrowhead) appeared directly above the ship at exactly noon on the first day. E-M effects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Havasu, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4008 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14672 (C406A4BB) Date: 3/18/1969 Description: In 1969 a luminous, football-shaped flying object landed 3 meters from a stranded truck that was stuck in some mud, on a road between Ollague and San Martin, Chile. The driver and two passengers watched the UFO for ten minutes until it took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CICA Botetin Informative, December 1969 Source ID: Johnson_1553 Source: Johnson ### Event 14673 (20F0E97C) Date: 3/18/1969 Description: The US begins a covert SAC bombing campaign, Operation Menu, in eastern Cambodia that lasts until May 26, 1970. An official USAF record of US bombing activity over Indochina from 1964 to 1973 is declassified by President [Bill Clinton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FClinton) in 2000. The report gives details of the extent of the bombing of Cambodia, as well as of Laos and Vietnam. The Menu bombings are an escalation of what has previously been tactical air attacks. Operation Freedom Deal immediately follows Operation Menu. Under Freedom Deal, B-52 bombing is expanded to a much larger area of Cambodia and continued until August 1973. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Menu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FMenu)” Source ID: Eberhart_4677 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14674 (6AE1CB3F) Date: 3/19/1969 Description: Near Gladstone, Queensland, Australia a saucer-shaped object approached two cars, hovered near one car, and began pulsating. As it got brighter, the cars' headlights spread wider than usual; as it dimmed, the headlights went back to normal. The two cars kept driving together, but the craft again came to hover over one of the cars. The drivers stopped again, but this time nothing happened to the headlights. The object rocked gently while keeping its position. After a few minutes of hovering it flew quickly into the distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 269, citing Data-Net, April, 1970 Source ID: Johnson_1569 Source: Johnson ### Event 14675 (4E5FD12D) Date: 3/19/1969 Description: In 1969 Renato Bifarella of Caltanissetta, Italy on the island of Sicily was looking at the sky with binoculars on a night of a full moon, when at 1:35 a.m. he saw what resembled a “tortoise” hovering in the sky. It was green in color with pale brown spots, and had “legs” underneath. It was 5-6 meters wide and four meters high, with a brilliantly lit turret in which he could see at least two figures moving about. It approached him, and emitted a beam of pink light that struck him and caused him to faint. When he regained consciousness, he could see that the UFO had led down two thick “ropes” that were one meter in thickness. Through binoculars he was able to see that two humanoid figures—one in red overalls and the other in white, with blue helmets---were climbing toward the object. The witness fainted again, and when he came to, the object was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case #1969-26 (A1037), citing Francesco Izzo, Italian CE-III Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_1570 Source: Johnson ### Event 14676 (519BDEF5) Date: 3/22/1969 Description: Two unidentified teenage girls were returning home in the Colegio Batista district of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil at around 8 p.m. when they saw a luminous object with a blue light hovering in the west. It had a ring of white lights around it and appeared to be spinning. At home later one of the girls went to the window and saw a little man near a gate ten meters away. He was standing erect and facing her window. He wore a kind of diving suit with a soft green luminosity, and a helmet through which she could see a pair of glowing reflective eyes, like those of a cat. She told her earlier companion and a third girl. The second girl also saw the entity, who by then was standing facing sideways. The third girl ran to the aid of the first witness who was so frightened by the figure's appearance she went into a state of shock. That same evening the boyfriend of one of these girls was walking on the other side of the city when the streetlights went out and he saw the faintly illuminated silhouettes of two small figures standing on a precipice above the street only a few meters away from him. Frightened, he hurried on, but walking through the area later the streetlights were on again and the figures were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-23, citing the CICOANI group Source ID: Johnson_1616 Source: Johnson ### Event 14677 (342B0E57) Date: 3/28/1969 Description: Dwight D. Eisenhower dies Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower) Source ID: Maj2_660 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14678 (F9B8E0D5) Date: 3/31/1969 Description: As many as two hundred residents of of the Coenze neighborhood in Nova Iguaca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil witnessed the descent of a "mystery airplane" on Maxambona Hill in the middle of the afternoon. It fell from the sky, falling in an unusually slow manner, in an apparent controlled descent. Among the many witnesses was an elderly man and his children. He told the children to go immediately to the landing site to assist any possible survivors. As he watched hundreds of townspeople converging on the hill, he saw two beings come out of the craft. The craft itself seemed to be slowly "moving like a wing" that was shifting slightly in the wind. When the first people neared the site the object and its occupants vanished abruptly, and nothing was to be found at the "crash" site. No one heard any engine noise as the craft descended, and investigations at the site by the military police found no wreckage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-24, citing Fernande Cleto Nunes Pereira & Dr. Walter Buhler, SPEDV Bulletin, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_1769 Source: Johnson ### Event 14679 (7E42EA52) Date: 4/1969 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) writes a review of the [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) report for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, calling it a “strange sort of scientific paper \[that\] does not fulfill the promise of its title…. \[It\] leaves the same strange, inexplicable residue of unknowns which has plagued the U.S. Air Force investigation for 20 years.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “[The Condon](http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/bas1.html) [Report and UFOs,](http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/bas1.html)” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 25 \(April 1969\): 39–42 Source ID: Eberhart_4678 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14680 (4EA4BFD1) Date: 4/1969 Description: "The Condon Report and UFOs" by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, called the report: "a strange sort of scientific paper [that] does not fulfill the promise of its title. . . [It] leaves the same strange, inexplicable residue Of unknowns which has plagued the U.S. Air Force investigation for 20 years." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_183 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14681 (1ED3A0B9) Date: 4/3/1969 Description: 7:38 P.M. Bright fireball meteor traveling south-southeast to north-northwest, leaving long trail, sparks. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Southern UK Source ID: HallUFOE2_184 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14682 (B9F98EF1) Date: 4/3/1969 Description: 7:38 P.M. Bright fireball meteor traveling south-southeast to north-northwest, leaving long trail, sparks. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Southern part, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4009 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14683 (8EB91815) Date: 4/5/1969 Description: The two witnesses were parked in a remote area of West Nyack, New York at 7:00 p.m. when they saw a light approach. They got out of the car and saw a large oval-shaped craft with lights around its edge and a beam of light shining from its center. A memory lapse occurred, with one witness vaguely recalling the object landing and shining a beam of light towards them. Later one of the witnesses remembered being inside a circular room lying on a white Formica table. He was surrounded by several humanoids described as being five-foot tall with pale gray skin, large round heads, and large black eyes. These beings were well built and wore tight fitting grayish green coveralls. One being appeared to be the examiner, and he wore a turtleneck garment and peered intently into the witness's face. At one point one of the witnesses remembered struggling and thought it felt that he had been ripped to pieces and then reassembled again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 489, citing Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions The Measure of A Mystery Source ID: Johnson_1852 Source: Johnson ### Event 14684 (AF073901) Date: 4/10/1969 Description: At ten o’clock in the evening, in the midst of a flurry of UFO sightings in various regions of Brazil, student Marco Antonio von Kruger in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais state, Brazil noticed interference on his TV. He looked out his window and saw a “vague shape in movement” and also heard garbage cans being overturned. The next day he found that someone or some creature had been rummaging through the garbage cans. At about the same time that Marco reported his observation, a worker returning home not far from Marco’s home observed an enormous round UFO hovering near the ground from which came “strange measured, muffled sounds.” Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-30, citing FSR Case Histories # 6 Source ID: Johnson_1939 Source: Johnson ### Event 14685 (A43BA7AE) Date: 4/12/1969 Description: During a Fouga Magister aircraft training mission at Pori Airport, Finland, a Finnish Defence Forces flight controller tells pilot-in-training [Tarmo Tukeva](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199874290/tarmo-tukeva) to investigate seven air balloons that are floating at approximately 5,000–9,800 feet above the airport. Tukeva reports that the objects are ball or disc-shaped but cannot determine how far away they are. Tukeva sees the objects accelerate away from him “at great speed.” Indeterminate radar images are also later reported 125 miles away in Vaasa. A second pilot-in-training, Jouko Kuronen, overhears the radio communications between the flight controller and Tukeva and sees the UFOs as well. According to the Finnish Armed Forces magazine Ruotuväki, the reports are similar to other cases occurring over bodies of water during ongoing military exercises and may have been due to “transnational spy planes or aircraft.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Finnish Air Force UFO sighting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%5FAir%5FForce%5FUFO%5Fsighting)”; “[1969: Pilots Report 7 Yellow Spheres at Pori Airport, Finland,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/2013/finland1969.html)” UFO Casebook, August 13, 2013; “[Ruotuväki: Ilmavoimien lentäjät tekivät merkittävän ufo-havainnon 60-luvulla,](https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000000502183.html)” Ilta-Sanomat, May 8, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_4679 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14686 (9C986277) Date: 4/12/1969 Description: A former-schoolmistress was exercising her dog in some fields between Bridgeworth and Shrewsbury, England at about 6:30 p.m. when she observed a top-shaped object on the far side of a hedge, It stood about three meters high and was resting on gray colored legs. Around the object she saw three beings about the size of 11-year-old children. They had pear shaped heads and appeared to be lacking hands. They wore black outfits with white belts. Despite their apparent lack of hands they were collecting samples from the ground that they placed on the side of the object. The specimens seemed to disappear into the solid craft. The woman's dog fled the scene at the outset of her encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-25, citing Roger Stanway & Anthony Pace Source ID: Johnson_1979 Source: Johnson ### Event 14687 (1D14BAD1) Date: 4/12/1969 Description: At noon several Swedish Air Force personnel sighted seven balloon or disc-shaped UFOs; the objects hovered over Rissala AFB, Sweden and there was reported to be radar confirmation of the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 37; UFO Information Sweden, February 1971; MUFON UFO Journal, issue no. 152 Source ID: Johnson_1978 Source: Johnson ### Event 14688 (826BCA36) Date: 4/14/1969 Description: Multi-colored object came within 100 ft., hovered. Ulysses, Kans., News, Apr. 24, 1969; CUFOS report, dated as Apr 19.(E) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hill City, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4010 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14689 (A32E516A) Date: 4/15/1969 Description: At 11:00 p.m. two people driving on the highway near Pichidangui, Chile in Coquimbo province were paralyzed and their truck engine died when they encountered a disc-shaped object ahead on the road. The object lit up the road and flew away, but came back two minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #118 Source ID: Johnson_2026 Source: Johnson ### Event 14690 (884E5108) Date: 4/17/1969 Description: Morning. T. J. Hefferman of Bungawalban, New South Wales, wakes up and notices that his dogs are “strangely subdued.” Outside, he finds a flattened area in a sacaline \(Reynoutria sachalinensis\) forage crop on his property. A roughly circular area is flattened in four distinct patches, the largest 60 by 15 feet. All the stalks lie in one direction, north to south. The previous night, two men working night shift on a flood mitigation dredge a quarter mile north of the farm had seen a glow in the sky, and a neighboring farmer had seen two “toplike objects” moving about for a number of nights. G. Testa, an independent investigator from Lismore, visits the site on April 20 and takes 25 feet of 8mm color film to document the damage. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[1969: The Great UFO](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2020/09/1969-great-ufo-daze-of-oz.html) [Daze of Oz,](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2020/09/1969-great-ufo-daze-of-oz.html)” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020; Clark III 1138–1139 Source ID: Eberhart_4680 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14691 (F3066216) Date: 4/19/1969 Description: Evening. Two witnesses 5 miles east of Hill City, Kansas, watch a multi-colored object approach to within 100 feet of their car. The car engine fails. The object hovers at 75 feet above the ground for 3 minutes, then slowly moves away. The car then restarts without trouble. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle](http://cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) [Interference](http://cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) CUFOS, 1982, p. 46 Source ID: Eberhart_4681 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14692 (F67AA501) Date: 4/20/1969 Description: At 11:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Phillips were driving on Highway 11 one mile west of Browntown, Wisconsin when a UFO came directly over their car, then hovered just 100 feet away off to the right. Its color changed from orange to yellow-orange to red as it moved. It was kettle-drum shaped, and had lights streaming from the bottom in a cone shape. The UFO followed their car home, for a total of five minutes. The UFO made a "tweeting" sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1969, p. 8; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 64 Source ID: Johnson_2160 Source: Johnson ### Event 14693 (851580CD) Date: 4/20/1969 Description: On this evening in Itaucu, Goias state, Brazil, 25-year-old Adelino Roque was on his way to the local Serradinho ranch on his horse when a bright beam of light struck him from above. He soon found himself inside some kind of dark, drum-like object that was totally silent. The object was moving through the sky at a very high speed. He blanked out and could not remember anything after that. He awoke lying on top of a rock next to the Paranaiba River, miles from his original location. Meanwhile, his horse had been found tied up at another ranch, apparently unharmed. Sr. Roque also appeared to be unharmed except for a strange bruise on his side. He did not remember seeing any entities or hearing anyone talk to him during the time he was missing. Soon after his experience he began neglecting his work and drinking heavily. He also reportedly fell in love with his 17-year-old niece. A month later Roque again was reported missing, this time along with his niece. On June 12, both Roque and his niece were found dead under unusual circumstances. Some said they had been poisoned. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1970, p. 13; Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 12; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case 66, citing Willy Silva, Revista Brasileira OVNI Source ID: Johnson_2159 Source: Johnson ### Event 14694 (DAED2DE0) Date: 4/20/1969 Description: 7:30 p.m. A woman out walking at Harwood Island, New South Wales, sees and hears a large patch of 2-year- old cane rustling and waving on a still night. A powerful beam of light switches on across the top of the cane path, and it slowly turns in a half circle before going out and being replaced by a “low beam” and “cabin lights.” A UFO is above the cane and she feels a powerful force lifting her up and pulling her toward the object when the “high beam” is on. The helmet-shaped object is 20–28 feet long and 22 feet wide. At its closest the UFO is 40–50 feet away. It disappears suddenly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[1969: The Great UFO Daze of Oz,](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2020/09/1969-great-ufo-daze-of-oz.html)” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020; Clark III 1139 Source ID: Eberhart_4682 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14695 (3A299B6E) Date: 4/20/1969 Description: At 7:30 p.m. at a farm on Harwood Island, New South Wales, Australia a 25-foot diameter hat-shaped disc flew low over the sugar cane crop. It emitted a strong beam of light that swept the ground for 360 degrees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 125 Source ID: Johnson_2158 Source: Johnson ### Event 14696 (F0578A8B) Date: 4/21/1969 Description: Three extremely bright discs were seen spinning over a major intersection at a low altitude in Guanabara, a city in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. There were many witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_2187 Source: Johnson ### Event 14697 (4278AA66) Date: 4/21/1969 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Sanchez were driving through the countryside between Penaranda and Macotera in Salamanca, Spain when they noticed some lights ahead, perhaps a kilometer away. As they got closer they noticed a UFO low over the roadway. It had a red rotating central light that was flashing and intense, and two smaller green lights separated by 20 meters. They approached to within 70 meters, when the UFO suddenly took off. It was raining hard at time, and their close encounter lasted less than a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 24 (case 109); Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIs: El Fenomeno Aterrizaje, p. 95; UNICAT case # 464 Source ID: Johnson_2186 Source: Johnson ### Event 14698 (5C258E70) Date: 4/22/1969 Description: 8:00 p.m. Three witnesses are driving in heavy rain near Hammond, Ontario, when they see an object like a huge “drinking cup turned upside down.” It has two bright lights directed horizontally and appears to have a row of portholes with pink light coming from within. They estimate it is 5 feet off the ground, 20 feet long, and 200 feet away. They can hear a whining noise like a generator. After 15 minutes, the object turns and zooms over some nearby power lines, over the trees, and out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 77 Source ID: Eberhart_4683 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14699 (EC4E6D8B) Date: 4/22/1969 Description: A man, his wife, and their teenage son in Hammond, Ontario observed a 30-foot wide saucer standing in a field while driving at 10:30 p.m. The object had two spotlights, portholes, and made a humming sound. Their dog was frightened. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1969, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_2223 Source: Johnson ### Event 14700 (9CBE93DD) Date: 4/23/1969 Description: Dogs, cats, and horses reacted to object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [690423](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-690423.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Silver Spring, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4011 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14701 (5526BFCB) Date: 4/23/1969 Description: 2:00 a.m. Virginia A. Guinn and a boarder are awakened by loud howlings and yowlings from the dogs and cats at her farm in Silver Spring, Maryland. Going outside, the witnesses see a round UFO “as large as two rooms” that is a bluish-white color like the glow around a welder’s arc. The object is moving beyond the barn to the north-northeast. They heard a humming noise and the object blinks out and the animals quiet down. Guinn discovers later that morning that the horses in the barn had broken free of their stalls and knocked harnesses off the walls. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, p. 32 Source ID: Eberhart_4684 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14702 (E7F16759) Date: 4/24/1969 Description: On this night there were several reports of an 18-foot-tall phantom either walking or floating along at 20 mph in Nova Scotia. The tall shadowy figure consisted of a very dark humanoid form. A large numbers of cars had assembled at Berwick, Nova Scotia to observe the monster. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-31, citing an unnamed newspaper source Source ID: Johnson_2279 Source: Johnson ### Event 14703 (89AADC3D) Date: 4/25/1969 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a ten-meter diameter disc-shaped object was seen hovering over a park in Greenacre, New South Wales, Australia by three witnesses. A Greenacre woman, Mrs. Froml, and her 13-year old daughter were going home by taxi. When they passed Roberts Park they saw the object hovering over a playing field lit by floodlights, where some youths were playing football. The floodlights formed a kind of ceiling over the field and it was unlikely that had any of the players looked up, they would have seen anything. The object was football shaped, the top was transparent, and the bottom was a greenish metallic color, like gun metal. It had an interior light that was "the brightest blue imaginable," and the bottom portion had three large transparent holes. The object was tilted downward, and inside the object could be seen three tall humanoid figures, over six feet tall. in the transparent upper half of the UFO. One pointed down at the witnesses and then turned toward a rectangular, lighted area, apparently working some controls. Mrs Froml asked the cabbie, a Greek immigrant, to stop the taxi, but instead he accelerated away from the park and drove straight to her home. After he dropped her and her daughter off, he left in a frightened state, without collecting his fare. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 126; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1112, citing Keith Basterfield and investigator David Reneke Source ID: Johnson_2298 Source: Johnson ### Event 14704 (25105407) Date: 4/25/1969 Description: 7:30 p.m. A woman and her 11-year-old daughter are travelling by taxi past Roberts Park in Greenacre, New South Wales, when they spot a “Japanese lantern” above some trees. One minute later, as the taxi turns a corner, they see it again, 100–130 feet away, apparently in the same spot. The driver stops the taxi, and they can see what looks like a metallic craft, approximately 33 feet in diameter, with the appearance of “two soup bowls joined rim- to-rim.” There is a steady red light on top. The object seems to be noiselessly rocking backwards and forwards, at a frequency of 1–2 rocks per second. A “depressing blue glow” can be seen through a window that takes up most of the upper part. A humanoid figure is apparently operating controls near the window. Another figure is pointing at the witnesses. A third seems to be walking toward a back door. All three are apparently human-sized and are either wearing tight black clothing, are black skinned, or seen in silhouette. After 15 seconds or less, the driver speeds off down the road, drops the couple off, and drives off quickly without taking their fare. At 8:00 p.m., the woman and her daughter return to the park. The UFO is not to be seen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[1969: The Great UFO](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2020/09/1969-great-ufo-daze-of-oz.html) [Daze of Oz,](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2020/09/1969-great-ufo-daze-of-oz.html)” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_4685 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14705 (C7A0CA8D) Date: 4/26/1969 Description: Sr. Robler's watch stopped when he drove his car under a luminous red, cone-shaped UFO on a highway between Ibiuna and Sao Paulo, Brazil in Sao Paulo State at 4:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hans Bemelmens, FSR, January-February 1970, p. 17; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_2342 Source: Johnson ### Event 14706 (9928DD66) Date: 4/26/1969 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) speaks publicly for the first time after the end of the Colorado project in an address to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on “UFOs I Have Loved and Lost.” He concludes by saying, “Let me say that where corruption of children’s minds is at stake, I do not believe in freedom of the press or freedom of speech. In my view, publishers who publish or teachers who teach any of the pseudosciences as established truth should, on being found guilty, be publicly horsewhipped, and forever banned from further activity in these usually honorable professions.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Henry W. Pierce, “[Professors Threaten Own Free Speech,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96328366/)” Pittsburgh \(Pa.\) Post-Gazette, May 10, 1969, p. 21; Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet eds., 1976, [p.](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/224/mode/2up) [224](https://archive.org/details/ufocontroversyin00jaco/page/224/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4686 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14707 (38C4625E) Date: 4/26/1969 Description: On this evening David Arychuk was out walking his dog in Calgary, Alberta when he saw a circular object with three pulsating red lights around the top, 200 yards away from him. The UFO was about 30 feet in diameter and 20 feet high, and cream-colored with a pitted surface. He smelled a rather nauseating odor of "sweet bitterness" that was in the air. One hundred yards away stood two humanoid beings, "taller than normal," wearing dark clothing. David yelled out "Hey you!" and they walked around behind the UFO. His dog refused to go on and was shivering from fright. By the time David came back to the site with his stepfather the UFO was gone, but the odor was still present the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-44, citing investigator William K. Allan; John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_2341 Source: Johnson ### Event 14708 (ABADA52A) Date: 4/26/1969 Description: At 5:26 p.m. in the suburbs outsie of Melnik, Sofia, Bulgaria a shiny delta-shaped object remained in place in the sky for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 197 Source ID: Johnson_2340 Source: Johnson ### Event 14709 (BF15C856) Date: 4/27/1969 Description: At shortly after 1 p.m. Mr. Garfinkel, an airline passenger on an Eastern Airlines flight flying over Connecticut saw a shiny, disc-shaped object that was joined by two more daylight discs. They slowly matched speed, moving along w a rapid, rocking motion before accelerating upwards at angle at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors Source ID: Johnson_2373 Source: Johnson ### Event 14710 (592FC24E) Date: 4/28/1969 Description: On this evening in Farnworth, England a teenage couple, Hodgkinson and Rushton, reported hearing a buzzing sound while their dogs barked in a terrified manner. They saw a gray UFO fly close by. It had three red lights and a green flashing light on top. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, January-February 1972, p. 27, citing Bolton Evening News, April 29, 1969 Source ID: Johnson_2394 Source: Johnson ### Event 14711 (85FC6306) Date: 5/1969 Description: [John A. Keel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FKeel) begins publishing an unscheduled, free newsletter titled Anomaly in New York City. It continues until April 1974. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Anomaly](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Anomaly/Anomaly%5F01%5F1969%5FMay.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Anomaly/Anomaly%5F01%5F1969%5FMay.pdf) no. 1 \(May 1969\) Source ID: Eberhart_4688 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14712 (C9F3A800) Date: 5/1969 Description: Rod B. Dyke launches the monthly UFO Newsclipping Service in Seattle, Washington, which soon becomes a primary source for media reports on UFOs and related phenomena. The service is largely run by [Lucius Farish](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2012/02/lucius-farish-1937-2012.html) as co-editor in Plumerville, Arkansas, beginning in July 1977. Farish publishes it on his own from January 1991 until November 2007, when Dyke reacquires it and keeps it going again with co-editor Chuck Flood until December 2008. The final editor is [David Marler](https://davidmarlerufo.com/bio)[,](https://davidmarlerufo.com/bio) who runs the service from January 2009 to August 2011, when it ceases publication. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO Newsclipping Service](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201969%2005%20-%20no%201.pdf), no. 1 \(May 1969\) Source ID: Eberhart_4687 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14713 (99CC4879) Date: 5/1/1969 Description: 5:30 p.m. An illuminated triangular object moves soundlessly from south to north over Negru Vodă, Romania. After 20 minutes of hanging motionless it disappears swiftly to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 161–162 Source ID: Eberhart_4689 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14714 (E5D1058A) Date: 5/3/1969 Description: On this day in the city of Osasco, Sao Paulo, Brazil a man photographed a saucer-shaped object. It made rapid maneuvers in all directions; a door on the craft opened and a strong beam of light came out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8834, citing FSR Case Histories, issue # 7 Source ID: Johnson_2473 Source: Johnson ### Event 14715 (0A5C6A70) Date: 5/4/1969 Description: An abduction occurred in 1969 to a soldier while fishing on the banks of the Rio das Velhas near the city of Bebedouro in the state of Espirito Santo, Brazil. Jose Antonio da Silva had left his home in Belo Horizonte and taken a bus to Bebedouro to go fishing the evening before. At about midnight he reached the banks of a small lagoon and set up his tent and fished for a while without success. The next day, at about 3 p.m. he became aware of figures moving around behind him. He heard a deep sound like a groan, then was struck in the legs by a "burst of fire" coming from a form partly hidden in the bushes. Seized with a cramp and feeling a numbness in his legs, he knelt down. A beam of light, greenish in the middle and reddish on the edges, had hit him. In a matter of seconds he was seized under the armpits by masked two four-foot-tall humanoid beings, who wore shining light-colored garments and aluminum colored helmets with facemasks. Tubes ran from the masks to small containers on their backs.

They blindfolded him and brought him before a little man with long red hair and a big nose. They dragged him to a craft that was shaped like a vertical cylinder terminated by wider saucer shaped top and bottom; rods from the base of the cylinder supported the upper disc. It was only bout six feet high and nine feet wide. Inside was a cubical room, brilliantly lit but from no visible source. Here they fitted on him a helmet like their own, then tied him down to a seat.

He felt a sensation of taking off. During the flight, which he felt lasted for hours, they talked among themselves in an incomprehensible language with many "R" sounds. At one point in the journey the craft seemed to turn on its side for awhile. When they landed he was blindfolded and dragged into a large room, where a little man without a spacesuit confronted him; he had long reddish hair and a beard that flowed to his waist. He was strongly built, and his skin was pallid in color. He had large round, green eyes and a big nose, and his mouth appeared toothless, "like a fish." To the side of the witness were laid 4 human cadavers, one a Negro's. A dozen more little men, all much resembling the leader, were in the room. They examined his fishing tackle and other possessions. Several carried weapons. The leader then addressed him in his incomprehensible language, simultaneously making sketches on a whiteboard beside him.

He was given a stone cup and drank a bitter green liquid that restored his energy and made him better able to comprehend what the alien was trying to say. The leader conveyed to Da Silva the idea that he was expected to help them land on Earth, a proposition that the soldier rejected, fingering his rosary. The leader became irritated, snatched the rosary away, and showed it to the others. At this point a kind of vision appeared to Da Silva of a Christ-like man with long fair hair and beard, dressed like a monk, who spoke to him in Portuguese, giving him a message, which he was sworn to keep secret. After this vision had vanished, Da Silva was again blindfolded, dragged back to the spacecraft, and returned to Earth in the same manner as he had been taken away. He was released during the night. When morning came he found that he was near Vitoria, more than 200 miles from Bebedouro, and that four and a half days had passed since his abduction. He suffered various physical ailments later. Jose Antonio has repeatedly refused to reveal the content of this message. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hulvio Brant Aleixo and Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR, November-December 1973, p. 6; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-32 Source ID: Johnson_2508 Source: Johnson ### Event 14716 (7ED6C542) Date: 5/4/1969 End date: 5/9/1969 Description: 3:00 p.m. A 24-year-old Brazilian soldier named José Antônio da Silva is fishing by himself at Bebedouro \(apparently a small lagoon in the Área de Proteção Ambiental do Carste de Lagoa Santa\) near Matozinhos, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when he begins dozing off. He perceives figures moving around him, and he feels himself shot with something that paralyzes his legs. Two small humanoid beings, joined by a third, drag him off into a strange machine shaped like two saucers joined together by a thick, vertical cylinder. The machine lifts off, and after a long interval it lands. Da Silva is carried by his armpits into a large quadrangular room, where he finds himself with his original three captors and a fourth being—also humanoid, with red hair and a beard that comes down to his waist—who seems to be their leader. He remembers afterward that all four have mouths that look like fishes’ mouths. The room is made of stone. Inside, on a low shelf seemingly fashioned out of stone, da Silva sees the bodies of four human men lying stretched out side by side. Naked, rigid, and positioned on their backs, the bodies bear no visible wounds, but it is obvious that they are dead. One is a well-built black man and another has light brown skin. Two others, more slightly built, are Caucasian, one of them very blond “like a foreigner.” The beings do not speak any Portuguese but, using pictures, the leader manages to convey to da Silva that they want him to be their guide and weapons provider for what he supposes is a subsequent invasion of Earth. He refuses, fingering his crucifix, which the angry leader rips from his hand. Out of nowhere, da Silva sees appear in front of him a human figure who stands motionless, gazing at him in a friendly fashion. The figure, about five and a half feet tall, is Caucasian, slender, bearded with long fair hair, and dressed in a friar’s cassock. Amazingly, the little men seem oblivious to his presence. Speaking in Portuguese, the figure gives da Silva certain “revelations” that he afterward insists on keeping secret. He apparently knows who the figure is but he does not reveal that either, saying only that he wasn’t Jesus. The figure vanishes, and the beings who have abducted him start quarreling among themselves. They carry da Silva back to their machine; there follows another flight, another landing. Da Silva awakens in the dawn of what turns out to be May 9, four and a half days after his abduction, some 300 miles to the east of the place where he had been abducted. He supposedly bears the physical marks of his ordeal— wounds on his neck, lameness in one leg—for days afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Húlvio Brant Aleixo, “[O Caso ‘Bebedouro,’](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20094-98%20-%201973-1974.pdf)” SBEDV Boletim, no. 94/98 \(Sept. 1973/June 1974\): 7–22; Húlvio Brant Aleixo, “[Abduction at Bebedouro,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201973%20V%2019%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1973\): 6–14; Húlvio Brant Aleixo, “[Bebedouro II: The Little Men](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%203-4.pdf) [Return for the Soldier,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%203-4.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3/4 \(November 1975\): 32–35; Walter Buhler, “[Thoughts on](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%203-4.pdf) [the Bebedouro Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%203-4.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3/4 \(November 1975\): 36–38; “[O Caso de Bebedouro,](https://www.fenomenum.com.br/ufo/casuistica/1960/bebedouro)” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; David Halperin, “[Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman: ‘Descent into Hell’ and](https://www.davidhalperin.net/jerome-clark-and-loren-coleman-descent-into-hell-and-the-bebedouro-abduction/) [the Bebedouro Abduction,](https://www.davidhalperin.net/jerome-clark-and-loren-coleman-descent-into-hell-and-the-bebedouro-abduction/)” davidhalperin.net, July 27, 2018; Clark III 185–189; Brazil 116–121 Source ID: Eberhart_4690 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14717 (49FE7307) Date: 5/5/1969 Description: A deaf mute named Antonio Rodrigues, age 60, of the Fazenda Constantino was fishing during the day on the Rio Das Velhas near Jaboticatubas, Minas Gerais, Brazil when he was confronted by the same type of beings that Jose Antonio Da Silva encountered the day before in Bebedouro, 20 kilometers to the east. When they made signs for him to approach he fled in terror, and they pursued him and knocked him to the ground by the force from an energy weapon one of the short humanoids drew from his belt. They gathered around Rodrigues, felt his arm, and conversed amongst themselves in an unintelligible language. Finally, they shook their heads and departed in a UFO parked nearby that ascended vertically. The witness identified the beings from various drawings, including Da Silva's that were shown to him by the investigators. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-33, citing Hulvio Aleixo & Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR, November-December 1973 Source ID: Johnson_2544 Source: Johnson ### Event 14718 (67F34C0E) Date: 5/8/1969 Description: A married coupled reported seeing a silver dome shaped object over Brentwood, South Australia at around 10:00 a.m. It had a dark protrusion on the leading edge, and flew overhead west to east in the morning sky before vanishing in mid-air. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 183 Source ID: Johnson_2657 Source: Johnson ### Event 14719 (C1461BDD) Date: 5/11/1969 Description: At two o'clock in the morning a UFO was spotted near the ground in the yard of a home in Demers Center, Quebec, Canada. A barking dog woke the witnesses, Mr. & Mrs. Chaput, and a bright light was shining from the craft into their bedroom. The UFO made a purring sound. The incident lasted about five minutes. Ring ground marks were found in the yard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1969, p. 2; UNICAT database, case 323; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, p. 133 Source ID: Johnson_2741 Source: Johnson ### Event 14720 (C9BEB6FF) Date: 5/11/1969 Description: At 1:45 a.m. Mike Luczkowich, age 20, a student at Manakin, Virginia was returning home after a date with his girlfriend. He had just driven past the Rockville General Store when he noticed something about 50 yards ahead of his car. At first he thought it might be a couple of deer, but he soon realized that he was looking at two humanoid figures about three and a half to four feet tall. The creatures were wearing spherical helmets that looked as large as basketballs. Circling each helmet was a pale green band that reflected the headlights of the vehicle. The beings stood motionless at first, but they soon scurried off by running up an embankment to the left. The first two had barely disappeared when a third small being appeared from the right side of the road and quickly joined the others by climbing over the embankment. Luczkowich reported that the little men were dressed in light-brown coveralls that were somewhat baggy in the legs but tight-fitting at the ankles. He did not see any arms, and he could not detect features behind the oversized helmets.

The student was shaken by his experience, and he did not tell anyone of the encounter until Sunday. On Monday Luczkowich and three other men returned to the site. They were able to locate a fresh trail through the poison ivy and honeysuckle growing on the embankment the three beings had scaled. Beyond the embankment they found a barley field with a path through it, such as the three humanoids might have made. After walking in a few feet they noticed two flattened areas, where small entities might have thrown themselves down in the field. According to Luczkowich, the crushed barley at one flattened area showed the imprint of two small bodies, while the other impression outlined one other small body. About a half mile west of the area and two hours earlier 18-year-old Debbie Payne had reported seeing an oval-shaped luminous object over her house when she arrived home from a date. The UFO appeared rather bright, then dimmed and became bright two times before she and her date reached the door to her house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing Ted Bloecher, "Occupant Case Detailed," Skylook, November 1974 Source ID: Johnson_2742 Source: Johnson ### Event 14721 (C01998EF) Date: 5/11/1969 Description: Three witnesses sighted a red ball of light at 3:00 a.m. at Santa Catalina de Somoza, Leon, Spain. The luminous red spherical UFO had a horn-like extention on one side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 111, citing D. Lopez Source ID: Johnson_2740 Source: Johnson ### Event 14722 (ED708B71) Date: 5/11/1969 Description: Dog raised alarm to a landed object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [690511](http://www.nicap.org/ar-690511dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pembroke, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4012 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14723 (500145A9) Date: 5/11/1969 Description: 2:00 a.m. Near the village of Chapeau, Quebec, on L’Isle-aux-Allumettes in the Ottawa River, farmer Leo Paul Chaput is awakened by his dog barking. He looks out the window and sees a brilliant light close to the ground. The light source seems to be a domed craft with a flat bottom \(like a World War I helmet\) about 500 feet away. He looks away briefly, and the object is gone, although he can hear the diminishing sound of a motor. When Chaput gets up in the morning, he finds a large circular indentation in the ground, 600 feet from his house. The impression is 32 feet in diameter and is surrounded by a ring of scorched grass 2.5 feet wide. Inside, the vegetation is not damaged, but there are three holes that form a perfect equilateral triangle, 15 feet on a side. The holes are 8 inches in diameter and 3 inches deep. He finds a second, slightly smaller circle to the southwest, again with scorched grass and 3 indentations. A third ground marking, a semicircle, is near the second. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., [Strange Effects from UFOs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore%2C%20Gordon%20-%20Strange%20Effects%20from%20UFOs.pdf) NICAP, 1969, p. 45; Brian C. Cannon, “[UFO](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%201%20no%206%20-%201969.pdf) [Alert in Ontario,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%201%20no%206%20-%201969.pdf)” Canadian UFO Report 1, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1969\): 19–21; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 153–154](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/152/mode/2up); Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 103–104 Source ID: Eberhart_4691 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14724 (2F555A1D) Date: 5/12/1969 Description: The DARPA Pandora Project committee discusses plans to move forward with eight human subjects who will be exposed to microwaves similar to the Moscow Signal and then given a full battery of medical and psychological tests. The committee recommends “gonadal protection be provided” to the male test subjects; however, human testing is not pursued. The program is shut down later in 1969, with an effect of the signal on behavior and/or biological functions deemed “too subtle or insignificant to be evident.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Moscow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%5FSignal\#United%5FStates%5Fhuman%5Ftesting) [Signal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%5FSignal\#United%5FStates%5Fhuman%5Ftesting)” Source ID: Eberhart_4692 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14725 (8191D3C8) Date: 5/12/1969 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a brilliant circular object hovered at a low altitude near some railroad tracks in Casino, New South Wales, Australia. A married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Hinitt, watched beams of light pulse upwards from the ground toward the UFO. Burnt patches of vegetation were found at the sight in a heavy rainstorm. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 64; ACOS Bulletin, March 1977, p. 12 and June 1977, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_2762 Source: Johnson ### Event 14726 (78D13EC9) Date: 5/12/1969 Description: At 9:30 p.m. CDT a helmet-shaped disc estimated to be 15 meters in diameter was seen widely over the Lake Zurich suburbs in Illinois. It was reportedly seen over a two hour period. It made a buzzing sound, and dogs reacted to its presence by barking. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chicago Tribune, May 25, 1969; FSR, September-October 1971, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_2763 Source: Johnson ### Event 14727 (430F4D27) Date: 5/14/1969 Description: Three law students were on the campus of their Law School in Piedade, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil at 10:50 p.m. when they sighted a one-meter in diamter ring-shaped object with yellow-green lights in the sky maneuvering over and behind the faculty building. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 84 Source ID: Johnson_2831 Source: Johnson ### Event 14728 (8A8D77D3) Date: 5/17/1969 Description: On this night a married couple in Graz, Austria viewed a white disc-shaped object through binoculars. It hovered and zoomed up and around for three hours. Dogs barked. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ernst Berger, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1976, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_2934 Source: Johnson ### Event 14729 (4DAB7A83) Date: 5/18/1969 End date: 5/20/1969 Description: Evening. A localized power blackout cuts off electricity at the Lester Kaiser farm near Rising Sun, Indiana, for 2 hours. The next night, George Kaiser watches a hairy, muscular, bipedal creature that flees upon being seen. It leaves tracks showing three toes and a big toe. On May 20, a neighbor sees a glowing, greenish-white UFO as it hovers for several minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Keel, Strange Creatures from Time and Space, 1970, pp. 94–95; Clark III 556; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1969-05-18-usa-risingsun.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1969-05-18-usa-risingsun.htm) May 29, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_4693 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14730 (1751F488) Date: 5/18/1969 Description: At around 10:00 p.m. an extremely bright white disc-shaped UFO stopped over a tractor on a farm east of Denilquin, New South Wales, Australia. It then shot up vertically into the clouds at high speed. There were nine witnesses, and the encounter lasted six minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated May 20, 1969; FSR, November-December 1969, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_2955 Source: Johnson ### Event 14731 (2BDACA2D) Date: 5/19/1969 Description: Two hours later, at 7:30 p.m. CDT in Rising Sun, Indiana George Kaiser noticed a strange figure 25 feet away. The being was the size of a man and covered with black fur. The head sat directly on its shoulders and the face was black, with close-set eyes and a very low forehead. When Kaiser made a move to get into his car, the creature grunted, jumped over a ditch, and ran down the road at high speed. Footprints were found that showed only four toes. On the following night a UFO was observed over the same area by neighbors. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-37, citing Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman Source ID: Johnson_2980 Source: Johnson ### Event 14732 (0047A553) Date: 5/19/1969 Description: At 3:10 a.m. a bright glowing ovoid object chased a car down a road southeast of St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. The car's radio and lights were effected by the UFO during the pursuit. The UFO flew off to the south over some woods, according to the report filed with the RCMP. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_2978 Source: Johnson ### Event 14733 (20033174) Date: 5/19/1969 Description: On this evening at 7:30 p.m. two women, Dona Aurora and Clair Mefessoli, were walking to a neighbor's house in Fernandes, Santa Catarina, Brazil to borrow some milk when they saw an elongated yellowish luminous object descend behind them, not quite touching the ground. Two little three-foot tall beings, with features like humans, got out of the UFO. The terrified women fled the scene. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-36, citing FSR, July-August 1969 Source ID: Johnson_2979 Source: Johnson ### Event 14734 (7750DF65) Date: 5/20/1969 Description: Jose Pereira Sacramento was awakened by a noise outside his home in Vila Operaria, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Going outside through his back door at 1:00 a.m., he saw "the white face of an animal" and a light in the sky which came down toward him. He was paralyzed and could not move to re-enter the house or call out. An "enormous object" landed beside him, and he was "pulled through an opening" into the ship, finding himself inside a small elevator, which went up into a brightly lit circular compartment with a curved ceiling, about 45 feet in diameter. In this room were six small humanoid beings only 31 inches tall. They had big heads and they wore tight-fitting, plastic like outfits, entirely covering their bodies and heads, light cream in color, having openings only for their eyes and ears. Their eyes were slanted. Each entity stood inside a cylinder three feet in diameter and 15" high, and above its head was a curved plate with a lever. They spoke among themselves in a language of short shrilly sounds, "like pigs grunting." After four or five minutes one of the beings moved a control and the illumination increased in brightness to such a point that Pereira lost consciousness. At 6:00 a.m. he woke up in his bed, not knowing how he got there. He had an inflammation of the eyes lasted a month, and a year after the event he still felt light-headed and had difficulty concentrating. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-35, citing CICOANI Source ID: Johnson_3009 Source: Johnson ### Event 14735 (2370DC6E) Date: 5/21/1969 Description: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil - At midnight Jose Antonio Da Silva had a sudden impulse to get out of bed and go into his garden. He stepped out his door and saw three of the same short entities he had a frightening encounter with earlier that month at Bebedouro, Minas Gerais, Brazil dressed in the same flightsuits. They stood motionless, looking at him. He quickly stepped back inside and bolted the door, without saying a word or hearing a sound from them. He then explained to investigators that they wanted him to "work against my own people" and expressed his great fear that our world was in great danger, without knowing from where the danger would come. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-38, citing Hulvio Brant Aleixo, FSR, November-December 1973, & Dr. Walter Buhler Source ID: Johnson_3020 Source: Johnson ### Event 14736 (B3C91469) Date: 5/22/1969 Description: 11:00 p.m. Graham Longey sees a large, brilliant, circular white object hovering a few feet off the ground at Glenorchy, Tasmania. Windows encircle its midsection. It begins to move rapidly upward, and by the time he dashes out of his house it is gone. On the site, Longey finds an elliptical area of burned grass 18 feet by 12 feet. A small tree nearby is scorched and has limbs broken. He notices an oily smell. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1139 Source ID: Eberhart_4694 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14737 (BD95CF01) Date: 5/23/1969 Description: At midnight in Kalamunda, Western Australia nocturnal lights zigzagged through the sky and were picked up as blips on radar as they maneuvered to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 67 Source ID: Johnson_3048 Source: Johnson ### Event 14738 (7F25C01A) Date: 5/23/1969 Description: 6:35 p.m. A 13-year-old boy in Cloverdale, Western Australia, notices a moving light to the south and about 10° above the horizon. He calls his mother, who sees a steady red light on top of a more diffuse blue-white light darting haphazardly in a zigzag pattern but in general moving to the north until it disappears behind their house. The witnesses shift their position and can still see the light hovering in the northwest. The light is now seen as circular with hazy edges and about half the diameter of the full moon. At about 7:00 p.m. it moves at high speed to the north. The mother calls the radar station at Kalamunda, which simultaneously gets a request from Perth Airport to check out an unidentified echo on their meteorological radar. The Kalamunda operator sees a large echo some 9 miles away, which reappears for short durations on 5 further occasions and is last seen at 7:42 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 397–398; Bill Chalker, “[1969: The Great UFO Daze of Oz,](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2020/09/1969-great-ufo-daze-of-oz.html)” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_4695 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14739 (A1ADB511) Date: 5/28/1969 Description: At two a.m. farmers in Caltowie, South Australia watched as a bluish white object followed two young men home. It started to revolve making a whining noise, then a high-pitched beeping. Four legs protruded from the bottom of the object. A second orange UFO appeared. Ground traces of a landing were found in a nearby field, and some soil appeared to have been taken. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 184 Source ID: Johnson_3138 Source: Johnson ### Event 14740 (AEF89871) Date: 5/28/1969 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) presents a talk that is critical of the Colorado project at the Sacramento, California, section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “A Very Creditable Effort?” May 28, 1969; Story, [p. 415](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/414/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4696 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14741 (F6091A04) Date: 5/30/1969 Description: The witnesses were staying in a "caravan" camper on Cradle Hill in Warminster, Wiltshire, England and were out looking for any mysterious lights that might appear in the night sky. At 11:30 p.m. they spotted a crimson red, oval-shaped light flying over the area. It was completely silent. A short time later one of the witnesses noticed a luminous, cloud-like humanoid figure standing by a nearby gate. It appeared to be covered entirely by tiny pinpricks of white light. No facial features could be seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case 901, citing Arthur Shuttlewood, UFOs: Visions of a New Age Source ID: Johnson_3169 Source: Johnson ### Event 14742 (29839F49) Date: 5/31/1969 Description: On this night a large sphere flew erratically in the sky over Sao Paulo, Brazil. It released a smaller sphere which flew away. Several witnesses reported that their cars failed during the sighting, including both the lights and motor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 273, citing Contact (UK) Source ID: Johnson_3183 Source: Johnson ### Event 14743 (C22AC401) Date: 5/31/1969 Description: C1 reported by Baird. No details available. (MUFON Skylook 8, 6) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Memphis, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4013 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14744 (737697A9) Date: 5/31/1969 Description: The Midwest UFO Network \(later Mutual UFO Network\) is founded in Quincy, Illinois, by [Walter H. Andrus](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152550777/walter-harrison-andrus) [Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152550777/walter-harrison-andrus)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152550777/walter-harrison-andrus) who leaves APRO and takes many of its members with him. It is conceived as a grassroots organization with state and local leaders overseeing activities and investigations. Allen R. Utke, associate professor of chemistry at Wisconsin State University, is selected as the first MUFON Director Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 784 Source ID: Eberhart_4697 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14745 (CBEAADCA) Date: 6/1969 Description: Although President [Richard Nixon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FNixon) does not trust [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) he accepts the FBI’s help through an “intelligence letter” program, codenamed INLET. This program is not only intended to provide the president with domestic and international security issues, but also, “items with an unusual twist or concerning prominent personalities which may be of special interest to the President.” Nixon orders seven wiretaps on his staffers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Greenewald, “[INLET \(Intelligence Letters\) Reports, 1960s and 1970s,](http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/inlet-intelligence-letters-reports-1960s-and-1970s/)” The Black Vault, May 7, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_4698 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14746 (250667BC) Date: 6/2/1969 Description: Near Segovia, Spain a witness travelling in a car experienced a strange effect, like a curtain coming down, at 9:30 p.m. He then heard a message to "be calm" while he watched a cube descend. He then lost track of what happened during the next 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #8875 Source ID: Johnson_3232 Source: Johnson ### Event 14747 (1155FB12) Date: 6/2/1969 Description: In Tusnad Baile, Romania at 2:30 a.m. a silent, cone-shaped UFO grew larger in the sky, as if approaching. It then flew off toward the west-northwest toward Odorheiu, trailing a tail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 254 Source ID: Johnson_3231 Source: Johnson ### Event 14748 (0179F8ED) Date: 6/3/1969 Description: Starting at around 6:00 p.m. many townspeople watched three disc-shaped UFOs maneuver over the town of Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil for hours. Two of the objects flew off very fast to the south toward the sea, while one stayed behind and continued to play around in sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, October 1971, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_3253 Source: Johnson ### Event 14749 (BCDDA7FA) Date: 6/3/1969 Description: Four observers driving in a truck in Vicuna, Chile at 5:05 a.m. saw an orange oval-shaped object that flew fast, stopped, reversed its direction of flight, did some general maneuvering, and then made an abrupt change in elevation. They saw two luminous figures hide from view. A beam of energy paralyzed the exposed arms of two of the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CICA Boletin, December 1969; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 118 Source ID: Johnson_3252 Source: Johnson ### Event 14750 (3996B74D) Date: 6/4/1969 Description: In 1969 numerous red lights were seen hovering in the sky over Penwortham, South Australia at 6:30 p.m. In Eden Valley five minutes later a UFO with two rows of red lights, connected by a white beam, buzzed a motorist. Afterwards three circular burn marks were found on the hood of his car. At 7:30 p.m. a man driving between Brinkworth and Clare saw red lights flying parallel to his car, heading to the east. At 8 p.m. at Porter's Lagoon, 15 miles east of Clare, South Australia a red light pulsated is it hung stationary over the lagoon. At about the same time a red light came down the valley from Camel Hump Ridge in Gum Creek, while a blue UFO hovered over the range and later went behind a mountain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 184-5 Source ID: Johnson_3273 Source: Johnson ### Event 14751 (2100F13C) Date: 6/4/1969 Description: On that same night in 1969 a fifteen-foot in diameter silver ovoid object flew 500 meters over the town of Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil. It emitted blue and orange beams of light. At 8 p.m. a doctor took a photograph of a 50-meter wide red-orange UFO while it hovered just off the ground and 150 meters away in Lavras, Brazil. Earlier that morning at dawn in Brasilia, a silent, dish-shaped UFO maneuvered up and down, to-and-fro, and shot up multi-colored beams of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: O Dia, June 6, 1969; FSR Case Histories, October 1971, p. 15; Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases #8878 and #8879 Source ID: Johnson_3274 Source: Johnson ### Event 14752 (8BFA9055) Date: 6/5/1969 Description: In 1969 at 6:00 a.m. in Uba, Brazil an orange UFO paced and circled a car. The engine and car radio died. Later that day the Canadian Parliament Building was buzzed by a mysterious red light in Ottawa, Ontario during the evening hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing the Brazilian O Dia newspaper; John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 213 Source ID: Johnson_3300 Source: Johnson ### Event 14753 (6C554140) Date: 6/5/1969 Description: Four Dart-Shaped Objects / Tracked On Gnd Radar ??? (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [690605](http://www.nicap.org/690605stlouis%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Louis, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4014 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14754 (14D77940) Date: 6/6/1969 Description: A bluish white oval shaped object hovered over Eden, South Australia then rose upward and passed overhead heading toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 185 Source ID: Johnson_3326 Source: Johnson ### Event 14755 (5D9C393F) Date: 6/10/1969 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) gives a public talk sponsored by NICAP in Washington, D.C., on “UFOs Unsolved: A Scientific Challenge.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “[UFOs: Unsolved: A Scientific Challenge,](http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald%5Fnicap%5F061069.pdf)” June 10, 1969; Story, [p. 415](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/414/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4699 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14756 (B4D85D5F) Date: 6/10/1969 Description: Two people were sleeping outside in their backyard on this summer night in Portland, Oregon when they saw an object approaching them at 1:00 a.m. When first spotted the UFO was at about 500 feet altitude and a ¼ mile away. Soon they could see that it was a single file formation of disc-shaped objects, which dropped down to about 30 feet and turned north. The UFOs were about 30 feet in diameter. As they flew over a nearby field the witnesses could see a bluish green light under each object. They could also see small-lighted windows in the objects and in each window a figure was seen looking out. The last object shot up at a 30-degree angle and vanished within seconds, leaving a luminous short trail of light behind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3410 Source: Johnson ### Event 14757 (B13B3D58) Date: 6/11/1969 Description: A doctor X was returning home from a funeral late this night near Segovia, Spain when he found his vehicle suddenly blocked by a dense curtain formed by hundreds of small luminous white cylinders hovering in a vertical position in front of his vehicle. Next Dr. X suddenly heard a voice in his head that told him to relax that everything would be alright. At the same time he noticed on the front passenger seat an opaque cube-shaped form that appeared out of nowhere. His next recollection was of again driving his vehicle around a curve and then arriving home, feeling very tired and haggard having no recollection of what occurred during approximately one-hour period of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing Fabio Zerpa, Los Hombres de Negro Y los OVNIS Source ID: Johnson_3424 Source: Johnson ### Event 14758 (D1FEFC06) Date: 6/11/1969 Description: [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) meets privately with representatives on the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in Arlington, Virginia, urging a new look at the UFO problem. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [p. 415](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/414/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4700 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14759 (00C51C7D) Date: 6/14/1969 Description: At 2:30 a.m. in Tucson, Arizona four people saw a glowing red light in the northwest sky. It flew from 30 degrees elevation and passed near zenith overhead. One witness viewed the object through binoculars, and he described a point source coming out of the light, orbiting, and then re-entering. Someone shot some motion picture film of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_3482 Source: Johnson ### Event 14760 (42F9A018) Date: 6/17/1969 Description: 2:00 a.m. Kaneto and Kioko Nobutoshi witness a “brilliantly illuminated window” hovering in the air in Ibiúna, São Paulo, Brazil. It appears to be 30 feet in diameter, 10 feet high, and illuminates a small part of the ground. The sighting lasts 45 minutes, with the object stationary all the time. It then vanishes. Later examination of the ground underneath reveals a circle of flattened grass, 25 feet in diameter, swirled counterclockwise, with some small secondary swirls. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hans Bemelmans, “[Reports from Ibiuna,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1970\): 15–19; Terry Wilson, “[1969: Ibiuna,](https://oldcropcircles.weebly.com/brazil-1969-ibiuna.html)” Old Crop Circles Source ID: Eberhart_4701 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14761 (205D25D8) Date: 6/17/1969 Description: Turkish Air Force pilot Süleyman Tekyildirim is ordered to intercept a UFO above his base in Turkey in a US- built F-5A Freedom Fighter. He flies above it, thinking it is a meteorological balloon because it looks gray and like an upside-down light bulb. However, it moves to his left and takes off at fantastic speed. He tries to reach it, but it eludes him and speeds away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 299](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/298/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4702 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14762 (2B410C8D) Date: 6/18/1969 Description: Object apparently not the S4B. Buzz Aldrin recounts encounter. Brad Sparks is convinced this is debris, a piece of mylar covering for the LM, that came off when attitude control rockets blew it off when the controls kept misfiring. Its trajectory and timing and size and shape all fit. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Apollo 11 Sighting, in space Source ID: NICAP_DB_4017 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14763 (F1090441) Date: 6/19/1969 Description: 12:25 a.m. Radio/TV engineer Robin Peck is driving a van just north of Bircham Newton, Norfolk, England, when his headlights and motor fail. He looks under the hood, feels some “static electricity,” and his hair stands on end. He looks up and sees a bluish, upside-down-mushroom-shaped object hovering 100–150 feet over the trees on a nearby farm. It has an orange glow around it. Peck feels that the air is electrified. His luminous wristwatch glows intensely and unnaturally. After about one minute the object takes off and disappears rapidly. The van’s electrical system returns to normal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Peter Johnson, “[Auto-Stop near Docking,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201971%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 5 \(June 1971\): 1–2; UFOFiles2, [p. 81](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n133/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4703 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14764 (57F84157) Date: 6/19/1969 Description: E-M effects on car, static electricity. Bluish object shaped like inverted mushroom hovered overhead. Took off at high speed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Docking/Bircham Newton, UK Source ID: HallUFOE2_185 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14765 (4AE36B79) Date: 6/19/1969 Description: Glowing blue mushroom-shaped object hovered about a mile away. See Section IV (E.L.) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Docking, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4015 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14766 (B096CB43) Date: 6/19/1969 Description: 11:50 p.m. Arthur Hendry, 17, is getting ready to cycle home near Docking, Norfolk, England, when he hears a strange whistling noise above him that intensifies and becomes a powerful throbbing. His muscles feel frozen or paralyzed as if he is receiving a severe electric shock. After a few seconds the noise stops, and he feels normal again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 81](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n133/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4704 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14767 (B6D11ED8) Date: 6/20/1969 Description: At 10:25 members of the Michigan City Police Department and Port Authority began seeing the UFOs. Robert G. Howington, harbor policeman, said the objects he saw disappeared to the "northwest with terrific speed." Officer Ted Stantz saw lights that erratically "went back and forth across the sky." Policeman James R. Coughlin and others saw the objects at the same time. "We saw about 9 or 10 such objects over a span of about two hours," Police Sgt. Lance M. Hilberg stated in his report to NICAP. "One seemed to approach very close. The others were quite high and very distant. All objects appeared very bright and solid. The closest one was extremely bright [and] faded away at tremendous speed--much faster than any aircraft..."

Officer Tony C. Ragle said he was cruising in his squad car when he got a call to assist personnel at the Port Authority. Looking through his windshield, he saw the large bright object that "hovered over Lake Michigan for approximately 90 seconds, then went up and darted toward Chicago.” Bill Allen, a photographer-reporter for The Michigan City News-Dispatch, saw an object over the lakefront at 11:30 p.m. It looked like an upside down saucer with a pulsating red light around the bottom. The top was an orange-yellow color. The objects were also viewed over Gary, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Laas, NICAP UFO Investigator, September-October 1969, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_3557 Source: Johnson ### Event 14768 (9CFC12A3) Date: 6/20/1969 Description: On this evening numerous witnesses in and around the Michigan City, Indiana area, bordering Lake Michigan, saw a series of multi-colored, maneuvering lights for a period of at least two hours. Among the witnesses were policemen, Coast Guardsmen, a harbor patrolman, a local newspaper photographer, and an electronics engineer. The first report was at 9:35 p.m. "The objects appeared solid and yet were a source of their own light," US Coast Guardsman Vernon Kleman stated. "They appeared as if from nowhere and could brighten up to a size much larger than when originally seen. They moved at a variety of speeds, some fast, some slow and at times they were stationary for a minute or more...The objects were colored white, green or orange and they changed colors at will." A roughly oval-shaped UFO appeared to have a rotating rim with red, green and yellow lights around its center. Increasing in intensity, the object was in view for about a minute before it "quickly diminished in size and brilliance" and disappeared. "Once a smaller object seemed to enter the water," Kleman continued. "It was submerged for 4-6 seconds. Then it traveled straight upward at an excessive speed." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_3556 Source: Johnson ### Event 14769 (8AF3A1EF) Date: 6/22/1969 Description: Ms. Terry Ennshyman reportedly encountered a "robot" type humanoid in Dunedin, New Zealand who conducted her onboard a landed disc-shaped UFO. He or it then had sex with her several times. The robot had cold extremities and a cold penis, but does not lack "warmth" and sweetness despite his constant guttural sounds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing Annuaire CIGU 1988, quoting Dunedin Telegraph, in Denys Breysse Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_3604 Source: Johnson ### Event 14770 (1CF4DEFD) Date: 6/23/1969 Description: At 1:36 a.m. a couple named Werth and one of their children had a close encounter with a cone shaped object that maneuvered only 60 meters from the porch of their farmhouse, located 15 miles south of Hays, Kansas. The object was over 100 feet in length, made no sound, and flew about at a low altitude, then flew away to the northeast. Their sighting lasted 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1969, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_3625 Source: Johnson ### Event 14771 (B8D671BD) Date: 6/26/1969 Description: 2:30 p.m. Sr. Benedito, a justice of the peace, is walking along a trail about 4 miles northwest of Ibiúna, São Paulo, Brazil, when he hears a humming noise like a swarm of bees. He sees an odd object rocking from side to side that suddenly drops into the brush out of sight. Thinking it is an accident, he approaches to within 20 feet and sees the landed object, which then ascends, hovers a moment, and takes off in a gentle climb. He hears the humming sound again and feels a blast of air as it moves away. The Brazilian Air Force investigates the landing, and UFO investigator Hans Bemelmans finds some scorched grass in the thickly tangled brush. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hans Bemelmans, “[Reports from Ibiuna,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1970\): 15–19 Source ID: Eberhart_4705 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14772 (9C2CB9DB) Date: 7/1969 Alternate date: 8/1969 Description: 1:00 a.m. A US Marine private named [Earl Morrison](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35225416/earl-morrison-1970/) is on guard duty with other soldiers in a bunker near Da Nang, Vietnam, when they see a black, naked woman with bat-like, glowing wings moving through the air toward them. It flies about 6–7 above their heads. She soon starts flapping her wings and flies away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Don Worley, “[The Winged Lady in Black,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201972%20N%2010.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 10 \(June 1972\): 14–16; Clark III 779 Source ID: Eberhart_4707 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14773 (3AB2355B) Date: 7/1969 Description: After a series of UFO sightings and landing traces are reported in the area around Ibiúna, São Paulo, Brazil, the Brazilian Air Force informs local officials who are investigating the reports that they must not “under any circumstances give any information on UFO activity to any press, radio, or television reporter or representative. This is a matter of national security, and all press releases will be made by the Brazilian Air Force Public Relations Department.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hans Bemelmans, “[Reports from Ibiuna,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1970\): 15; “[Brazil: Censorship of UFO Reports,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201973%20V%2019%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1973\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_4706 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14774 (6F1FF8F2) Date: 7/1/1969 Description: At 6:15 a.m. Mr. Fred Yoos, age 62, heard a clattering sound that shook the building in Olds, Alberta, Canada. Looking out a window, he saw a 20 foot green oval-shaped object descend from a dense cloud in the northwest. It hovered just above the ground 50 feet away. By the light of the rising sun he could see the movement of two figures through a window-like opening. The object ascended vertically, leaving an imprint. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-47, citing Ted Phillips, CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_3777 Source: Johnson ### Event 14775 (0E7FAE30) Date: 7/2/1969 Description: An small flying object was reported to have landed next to the local primary school in Johore Baru, Johore province, Malaysia at 10:35 a.m. Several school children reported seeing five tiny men like figures wearing red colored outfits emerge from the object. The children rushed at the little men in an attempt to capture one but they jumped into a hole in the ground and hid. The UFO was described as silvery colored, and it also vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaluddin, A Summary of UFO and Related events in Malaysia 1950-1980 Source ID: Johnson_3793 Source: Johnson ### Event 14776 (021ED572) Date: 7/3/1969 Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its second test attempt Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket)) Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome Source ID: Maj2_661 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14777 (DBCDDB4A) Date: 7/4/1969 Description: At eight o'clock in the evening Mauricio Gnecco saw a yellowish red light moving in the sky over Anolaima, Colombia. When he signaled to it with a flashlight it approached to within 150 feet of his house. It was a Saturn-shaped UFO, yellow-orange in color, and had two bent, blue and green legs. It appeared to land on a nearby hill. Arcesio Bermudez, an adult, went to the landing site and approached to within 20 feet of the craft. He saw a being inside the object whose upper body looked normal, but whose lower half--from the waist down--resembled a luminous letter "A". The object then "blinked on," rose and disappeared. Two days later Sr. Bermudez became very ill, and within a few days he died of gastroenteritis. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-41, citing John Simhon for APRO Source ID: Johnson_3819 Source: Johnson ### Event 14778 (BD5E2DAD) Date: 7/4/1969 Description: The witness and her father had gone to a local racetrack in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and at around 10:30 p.m. she was sitting by herself on the top bleachers when she had a feeling she was being watched. She looked to her right and saw a UFO hovering about 1,000 feet away. She described it as an oval-shaped craft, with a transparent rectangular section in the center. She saw inside this transparent part the silhouettes of several men staring at her. At one point she briefly looked away, and when she looked back the object had disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 3174, citing Minnesota MUFON Source ID: Johnson_3820 Source: Johnson ### Event 14779 (8C8F8C38) Date: 7/4/1969 Description: Ossipee, New Hampshire - The principal witness was fishing in a boat at about 7:00 in the morning when he heard a big splash behind him. He swung around and looked up to see a silver oval shaped object about 30 feet in diameter, 300 feet above him. The UFO made a humming sound as it rose to about 3000 feet and hovered. There was a second witness to the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, pg. 356 Source ID: Johnson_3818 Source: Johnson ### Event 14780 (AE6E7FC6) Date: 7/4/1969 Description: 8:00 p.m. Two children, Mauricio Gnecco and Enrique Osorio, in Anolaima, Colombia, see a glowing object about 900 feet away. It approaches to within 180 feet and the children run over the hill to tell other children and adults. Thirteen people, including their father, return to see the object. Arcesio Bermúdez takes a flashlight with him and returns in terror after seeing a small person and a craft that lights up and flies away. Within 2 days, Bermúdez loses all appetite, his skin temperature drops, blue spots appear on his skin, and his stools become bloody. Within a week, two Bogotá physicians, unaware of his UFO experience, concludes he has gastroenteritis. Within hours of his exam, Bermúdez dies. His doctor claims he has previously been in good health. His injuries suggest a fatal whole-body ionizing radiation dose of 300–500 rems. Likely only X-rays, gamma rays, or neutrons could travel a distance of 45 feet through the air. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Observed at Farmhouse in Colombia,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201969%2007%2000%20-%20July%5FAugust.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1969, pp. 1, 4–5; Story, [pp. 23–25](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/22/mode/2up); Clark III 253, 950; “[Colombia: Arcesio Bermúdez, the Man Killed](http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2015/12/colombia-arcesio-bermudez-man-killed-by.html) [by a UFO](http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2015/12/colombia-arcesio-bermudez-man-killed-by.html),” Inexplicata, December 14, 2015; Cristian Ávila Jimenez, “[La misteriosa muerte de columbiano 3 días](https://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/otras-ciudades/ovni-avistamiento-y-desaparicion-de-hombre-en-anolaima-cundinamarca-363292) [después de ver supuesto OVNI,](https://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/otras-ciudades/ovni-avistamiento-y-desaparicion-de-hombre-en-anolaima-cundinamarca-363292)” El Tiempo \(Bogotá\), August 20, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_4708 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14781 (AE730162) Date: 7/6/1969 Description: An extremely bright blue-green, metallic disc was observed over the local radio transmitter in Goiania, Brazil at 5 o'clock in the morning. It flew away toward the south, flying in zigzags and moving up and down in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dr. Walter Buhler, Brazilian cases in 1968 and 1969-part 6, FSR Case Histories no. 7, October 1971, p. 16, citing Cinco de Marco, July 16, 1969 Source ID: Johnson_3880 Source: Johnson ### Event 14782 (486E70E1) Date: 7/11/1969 Alternate date: 7/18/1969 Description: 8:30 p.m. Economics student Tim Oliver is near a golf course on the outskirts of Beaufort, Victoria, Australia, when he sees a red “star” over a hill about a mile away. On closer inspection, it proves to be a hovering UFO. He quickly goes home, and by the time he returns with his mother in the family car, the UFO has been joined by another identical object. They are moving about 20 mph to the southeast, 50 feet in the air, 200 feet apart, and nearly parallel to some high-powered electrical lines. As they drive to right outside the golf course, both UFOs apparently respond to their presence by turning toward them but soon resumed their parallel course when Oliver turns the car engine off. Oliver walks to within 50 feet of the leading object. Each is about 30 feet in diameter, saucer-shaped, with an upper flat-topped cupola and about 24 square windows through which comes the bright red light. They are completely silent. Both he and his mother \(who has watched from the golf course fence\) see the UFOs disappear to the southeast, still flying parallel to the power lines. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[1969: The Great](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2020/09/1969-great-ufo-daze-of-oz.html) [UFO Daze of Oz,](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2020/09/1969-great-ufo-daze-of-oz.html)” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_4709 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14783 (39770BE8) Date: 7/12/1969 Description: Contactee [Paul Solem](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88132621/paul-renshaw-solem)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88132621/paul-renshaw-solem) who has been speaking to Shoshone-Bannock Indians at Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho about a migration of Indian peoples and the coming of a True White Brother, publicly calls for the appearance of the flying saucer beings. Many people, including Idaho State Reporter Barbara Boren, see two “star-like moving lights” high in the air. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Barbara Boren, “[Blast Rocking North America to Start Indian](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96384818/) [Migration,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96384818/) [Says Self-Styled Seer,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96384864/)” Pocatello Idaho State Journal, July 16, 1969, pp. 1, 8; Clark III 1094 Source ID: Eberhart_4710 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14784 (AB284FA5) Date: 7/12/1969 Description: 11:00 p.m. Patti Barr and Kathy Mahr, two teenage cousins, hear a loud roaring noise at Van Horne, Iowa, while upstairs in their house. They look out the window to see a reddish-orange ball of light rotating and spinning counterclockwise above the adjacent soybean field. The next morning, they tell Pat’s father, farmer Warren Barr, who then discovers a 24-foot-diameter, nearly bare oval in the soybean field. The plants’ leaves are severely dehydrated, dry, and brittle. This case was investigated by several groups at the time; localized intense heat or radiation is listed as most likely cause. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sight UFO over Benton County Farm,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96385504/)” Cedar Rapids \(Iowa\) Gazette, August 6, 1969, p. 4C; NICAP, “[The 1969 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1969fullrep.htm)” and \[[photos](http://www.nicap.org/images/690713vanhorn.pdf)\]; “[UFO over Iowa Bean Field,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201969%2007%2000%20-%20July%5FAugust.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1969, pp. 1, 4; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 149–150](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/148/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “[The Iowa UFO Landings,](http://etcetrasetcetras.blogspot.com/2008/06/iowa-ufo-landings.html)” Official UFO, July 1976 Source ID: Eberhart_4711 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14785 (1732DBB5) Date: 7/12/1969 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a dark gray, metallic inverted bowl-shaped disc flew over a farm in Van Horne, Iowa during a rainstorm, spinning counter-clockwise. It had a reddish-orange band two-thirds of the way from its bottom to the top, and made a noise like a jet. The witnesses were three teenage girls. A 40-foot circle of wilted soybean plants was found, but the plants were not bent over or crushed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 129; UNICAT database, case 394, citing J. Allen Hynek Source ID: Johnson_4006 Source: Johnson ### Event 14786 (ACB78E22) Date: 7/13/1969 Description: Multiple witnesses, HS traces. (#390) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Van Horne, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4016 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14787 (D9D9DC64) Date: 7/13/1969 Description: Early morning. Edgar Paquette and Mrs. Leo Edwards are driving near Petawawa, Ontario, when they see a bright star that lights up the Ottawa River next to them. Convinced the light is following them, Paquette turns off the headlights, which makes the object appear to hesitate. But he gets out of the car, causing the interior light to go on, and the object descends to within 60 feet of the ground. When he starts signaling it with a flashlight, it comes even closer, and Paquette sees that it is 8 feet in diameter with two legs beneath it. Both of them panic and drive home, dragging their teenage children out of bed to look at the light. Ontario police officers Jack McKay and Grant Chaplin follow the light for 38 minutes as it travels at a high altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 83–84 Source ID: Eberhart_4712 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14788 (1C891DEC) Date: 7/13/1969 Description: A disc was sighted over a farm south of Garrison, Iowa shortly after 10 p.m. A 40-foot wide circle of burnt soybean plants was found in a field on the farm. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1969, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_4033 Source: Johnson ### Event 14789 (AA080159) Date: Mid 7/1969 Description: Bernard O’Brien is cutting grass in a field with his tractor near Manotick, Ontario, when a small cloud of smoke rises from the ground as he passes over a particular spot. He notifies the field’s owner, John Fox, who comes out for a look. Fox finds three near-perfect circles in the field, two together and the third nearly 150 feet away. Each of them are rings of affected grass 15–20 feet in diameter and about a foot wide. Grass is flattened inside the circle, but the rings themselves are dark and contain a crystalline substance. [Peter Millman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FMillman) of the National Research Council claims that the circles are caused by the fairy ring mushroom \(Marasmius oreades\) because an analysis of the crystalline substance shows no evidence of mineral content or radioactivity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 187–190 Source ID: Eberhart_4713 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14790 (EE72A1AD) Date: 7/16/1969 Description: 3:30 p.m. Sylvia Annola, 10, sees a large gray object with blinding lights descending above a well on her family’s farm near Abee, Alberta. She looks directly at the object, which is only about 10 feet away, and experiences a temporary loss of vision. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 50–53 Source ID: Eberhart_4714 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14791 (5650B190) Date: 7/17/1969 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a man and a woman suffered physiological effects from a close encounter with a triangular UFO at a farm in Hartford, Vermont. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 6; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_4136 Source: Johnson ### Event 14792 (4D92B827) Date: 7/17/1969 Description: At 8:25 p.m. near the airport in West Beach, Adelaide, South Australia a pinkish object flying at high altitude first stopped in mid-air, then rocked to-and-fro, and next moved off a short distance to the northeast. It subsequently doubled back, and finally shot straight up and was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 185; Joseph Erhardt, UFO Chronolog, June 1970, case # 424 Source ID: Johnson_4135 Source: Johnson ### Event 14793 (C807EF76) Date: 7/17/1969 Description: At 10:50 a.m. in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia a poor quality photograph of a gray domed disc was taken. The object was estimated to be 20 feet in diameter. It moved through the sky from the southwest to the northeast at moderate speed, flying at an estimated 2000 feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Erhardt, UFO Chronolog, June 1970, case # 422 Source ID: Johnson_4134 Source: Johnson ### Event 14794 (BFC8AA5F) Date: 7/18/1969 Description: 7:00 p.m. Walter Rogers was ten years old at the time, a very bright metallic silver disc, reflecting sunlight, descended as if going down a flight of steps, then went straight over the nearby farm field very fast. Viewed about 10 seconds. (Page 31, Regional Encounters: The FC Files, Ridge) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Strongsville, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_3938 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14795 (BB937E21) Date: 7/18/1969 Description: At nine o'clock in the morning a photograph of a UFO was taken at Flippin Airport in Arkansas. That afternoon in Sobral, Ceara State, Brazil Mr. Neusa Rodgriques saw a shiny flying disc stop and remain stationary for 30 seconds near a cement plant. An occupant could be seen inside the object through a window. It looked like "a little bluish colored man with eyes that gave off flashes." The UFO performed various maneuvers over the cement plant and drew the attention of many of its employees, who stopped work briefly to watch it. Lt. Pedro Edvaldo De Souza took statements from the eyewitnesses, on instructions from the Brazilian Air Force base at Fortaleza, Brazil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, November 1971, p. 16; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-18, citing Lt. Pedro Edvaldo De Souza, Brazilian Air Force Source ID: Johnson_4172 Source: Johnson ### Event 14796 (62D56E18) Date: 7/18/1969 Description: On this day a shining flying saucer stopped and remained stationary for half a minute near the cement plant in the town of Sobral, Ceara State, Brazil, opposite the house of Neusa Rodrigues. Through the window of the craft was seen “a little bluish colored man with eyes that gave off flashes.” The UFO performed various maneuvers over the cement plant, and drew the attention of many employees, who stopped work briefly to watch it. Lt. Pedro Edvaldo De Souza took statements from the eyewitnesses, on instructions from the Brazilian Air Force base at Fortaleza. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1969-18, citing Lt. Pedro Edvaldo De Souza, Brazilian Air Force Source ID: Johnson_4173 Source: Johnson ### Event 14797 (5F8177B8) Date: 7/20/1969 Description: On this night John Fairfax, a trans-Atlantic sailor sailing alone, saw two star-like objects, ten times brighter than Venus. Both rose in the sky, then separated, one flying off at a low altitude, the other climbing higher in the sky; both vanished suddenly. On the same night a discovery was made of five unmanned ships west of the Azores. Two of the ships had capsized but the other three were totally undamaged despite the disappearance of all passengers and crew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1969, p. 7; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 126, citing Reuters Source ID: Johnson_4247 Source: Johnson ### Event 14798 (06624741) Date: 7/21/1969 Description: The Apollo 11 Lunar Module lands the first astronauts on the moon, Neil Armstrong and [Buzz Aldrin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz%5FAldrin). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Apollo 11](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%5F11)” Source ID: Eberhart_4715 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14799 (507568BD) Date: 7/21/1969 Description: Waldo, Maine - Randolph Whitcomb had just pulled off Route 137 onto Birches Road at 1:45 a.m. when his car radio "went haywire", fading into static. Then he noticed that his car hood was reflecting a red glare. Looking up, he saw a large, glowing red object hovering low over his vehicle. Startled, Whitcomb raced the three miles home. The UFO paced him the entire distance and "moved off fast" as he turned into his driveway. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, September-October 1969, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4274 Source: Johnson ### Event 14800 (0D3810E9) Date: 7/21/1969 Description: At 1:00 a.m. a bang was heard at the door and the dog began barking in Cannes, Alpes-Maritime Department, France. Looking out, two boys saw a small white sphere that was hovering over a rose bush outside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8911, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 152 Source ID: Johnson_4273 Source: Johnson ### Event 14801 (7CD30784) Date: 7/23/1969 Description: On this night a UFO stopped a truck and levitated a car with four occupants in Paulo Lopes, Santa Catarina state, Brazil. The car was set down a considerable distance far ahead in what seemed like an instant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1969; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_4325 Source: Johnson ### Event 14802 (A5C5C959) Date: 7/24/1969 Description: On this day in Tepic, Nayarit state, Mexico a five meter in diameter disc maneuvered silently at tree top level. It was tilted at an angle as it flew, and possibly landed nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1969, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4356 Source: Johnson ### Event 14803 (9FFD1F39) Date: 7/25/1969 Description: At around 8 p.m. a huge delta-shaped object stopped over a witness's car in North Augusta, Ontario and subsequently a one-hour episode of missing time occurred. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8919 Source ID: Johnson_4388 Source: Johnson ### Event 14804 (B5735F66) Date: 7/25/1969 Description: A two-meter diameter orange sphere flew to the southwest at only 12 meters over a path in Estival, France. It returned a short time later flying to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, case 2785 Source ID: Johnson_4387 Source: Johnson ### Event 14805 (08B9B77E) Date: 7/31/1969 Description: In Usovo, near Moscow, Russia all cars in the area stalled when two silver discs flew over them at around 8:00 p.m. It took two minutes before they could be restarted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 47; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1978, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_4531 Source: Johnson ### Event 14806 (F21ECB83) Date: 8/1969 Description: 1:45 p.m. James D. Appleman is driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when he notices a dome-shaped, metallic object hovering in the clouds ahead. He stops the car and gets his camera out of the trunk, but by that time the object is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Did a Twin Photograph a Twin UFO?](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 1 \(January 1981\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_4716 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14807 (EACF53EC) Date: 8/5/1969 Description: Shiny object approached, hovered over road ahead of car. Letter from B.C.M., dated Aug. 7, 1969, in NICAP files (R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Raleigh, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4018 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14808 (1D661590) Date: 8/5/1969 Description: On this day two cops among several civilians witness a UFO over Camarthen, Wales, U.K. It was spherical and silvery in color. The second officer saw it later than the first. It was confirmed not to be RAF aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Hezeltine, Police Reports of UFOs, p. 35, from a newspaper clipping dated August 6, 1969 Source ID: Johnson_4681 Source: Johnson ### Event 14809 (28EF0FA6) Date: 8/5/1969 Description: (1) At 3:30 a.m. a U.S. Marine Corp Colonel named Brandmeyer driving on Route 161 had a close encounter with a small intense light over a wooded area near New Baden, Illiniois. The light made a sharp turn, approached, drew alongside, and then paced his car for a few minutes. (2) That night, at 10:15 p.m., a metallic UFO approached a car 15 miles northwest of Raleigh, North Carolina on Highway 50, being driven by a Mrs. McWhite with one passenger. The car headlights dimmed, and their was interference on the car radio. Both were okay and the lights and radio functioned properly againafter the UFO left, about 30 seconds later. (3) Two and a half hours later, at 10:45 p.m. Mountain Time, five woman driving fourteen miles west of Ponoka, Alberta, Canada had a similar UFO close encounter with electromagnetic effects; the driver was a 38-year-old woman named Scott, and the incident lasted much long, about an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 48, Skylook, August 1970, p. 4; (2) NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1969, p. 3; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. ; (2) John Brent Musgrave, field investigation case files, report dated September 19, 1969 Source ID: Johnson_4682 Source: Johnson ### Event 14810 (909F879A) Date: 8/8/1969 Description: Dollie Hansen of West Akron, Ohio was a UFO contactee who claimed to have been in touch with UFO occupants. She had been promised a trip in a spaceship on Thursday, August 7 that didn't happen. At 2:00 a.m. on Friday a knock came at her door, and outside was a superbly built young woman with deep chestnut hair but no features on her face. Nevertheless, Mrs. Hansen had no fear, and went with her to a black car containing two men, which was wrapped in a gray mist, and conveyed them to the spaceship. She was given the promised ride, but she gave no details beyond this, except to say that the spaceship was softly lit and contained no visible seams or welds. Around the same time a local handicapped boy also reported being taken onboard a UFO and given a ride; his encountered occurred at 2:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Daivd F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-43 (A1061); Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Mysterious Visitors, p. 114 Source ID: Johnson_4775 Source: Johnson ### Event 14811 (0C71DC6B) Date: 8/11/1969 Description: Jean Migueres was driving an ambulance at around 6:00 a.m. from Perpignan to Rouen, France when he heard a voice in his head say: “Do not be afraid, nothing bad will happen to you, you will feel nothing.” Twenty minutes later he observed a nearly spherical cloud moving toward him. It then took the form of a cloudy nucleus surrounded by an incandescent white ring having at its base a dull black metallic platform, shaped like a domed disc, about 65 feet in diameter. At the same time, a “DS” car appeared, moving directly toward the ambulance. Migueres was unable to avoid it, and a head on collision took place 30 kilometers from Rouen. He estimated that the ambulance was speeding at 100 kph at the time. After the crash, a being “materialized” on the seat beside Migueres, and addressed him telepathically in French. “Be assured, you are only apparently injured…you will feel no physical pain…I am going to “regenerate” you by a procedure that is not yet known on your planet.” He then took from a pouch on his belt a disc about 1 inch in diameter, of an incandescent white luminosity, and applied it to the nape of Miguere’s neck. Migueres felt a prickling sensation all along his spinal column. The being said:”This accident was necessary for you; we will come back to see you.” Then he disappeared. Migueres had multiple injuries and broken bones but reported feeling no pain, then or later. He underwent several lengthy operations and was twice pronounced “clinically dead.” After an internal hemorrhage with bursting of the gall bladder, he received a telepathic message to “leave the hospital immediately,” which he obeyed, being transported to a hospital at Montpellier, near his home, where he was again pronounced “dead.” Nevertheless he survived. After three weeks in the Montpellier hospital he received a message: “You have succeeded in your mission thanks to our help…you can now go home, we will continue to protect you.”

He went home, but for three years his broken bones remained unhealed. “Then one day, all the bones re-knitted in record time,” and he was able to walk again, without even a limp. Migueres says that since his accident he has had the gift of healing. He remains in contact with the “extraterrestrials,” who have given him a “code which permits him to free the corresponding wavelength of his brain” to establish contact with them. The “extraterrestrial” seen at the time of the accident was of medium height, or less, with a very swarthy skin and a big head with a very high and wide forehead, eyes far apart, eyebrows “like scars,” and brown hair cut short. He was wearing a coverall or a pants and shirt combination resembling a military uniform, with no hat or helmet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-59 (A1579), citing Guy Tarade & Jean Luc Rivera Source ID: Johnson_4873 Source: Johnson ### Event 14812 (326F6EC5) Date: 8/11/1969 Description: At around 1:00 a.m. an ovoid UFO with lights around its periphery flew low over Groomsport, North Down, Northern Ireland. It hit a house with light beams, causing reported physiological effects for the female witness. It followed the contours of the land as it flew to the northeast. The close encounter lasted for about an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James P. Tinney, FSR Case Histories, June 1971, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_4872 Source: Johnson ### Event 14813 (3806D848) Date: 8/11/1969 Description: At 11:30 p.m. 20 teenagers watched a domed disc-shaped object descend slowly for 20 minutes west of Bargemon, Var department, France. It came down low over the source of Doux River, then turned, and finally flew off to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8928, citing LDLN Lecteur Series Source ID: Johnson_4874 Source: Johnson ### Event 14814 (C388AB06) Date: 8/12/1969 Description: At 10:50 p.m. two people witnessed three luminous triangular craft flying toward >E in a V formation over the mountains north of Espalion, France. They stopped, rotated in place, turned >SSE, and then flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U Computer Database, case 8929, citing LDLN Lecteurs Source ID: Johnson_4946 Source: Johnson ### Event 14815 (67108E8A) Date: 8/19/1969 Description: Luis Renato Matos, a schoolteacher, was driving his sister in law and her two children from Ararauma to Campos, Brazil. At 2:50 a.m. near Macae, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil he saw a blue light which, when seen again some 200 meters ahead, now appeared as a bright blue inverted plate about 20 meters in diameter. It floated at an inclined angle 3 to 4 meters above the ground. His passengers were all sleeping at the time. As he came around a bend in the road, Sr. Renato saw five or six small human like figures less than a meter tall, all scurrying rapidly about. Each one carried an illuminated pear-shaped implement, held by a small rod; these glowed like red-hot irons. Renato sped up the car and just after he passed through Macae his headlights failed and the motor quit. He sat there for a long while not knowing what to do until, finally, he was again able to start the car and proceed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-40, citing Richard Heiden Source ID: Johnson_5158 Source: Johnson ### Event 14816 (43979817) Date: 8/22/1969 Description: The National Amateur Astronomers Association hosts an open forum in Denver, Colorado, “Science and the UFO,” with presentations by [James A. Harder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder) [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [David Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001), [James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) and [Frank Salisbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FB.%5FSalisbury)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FB.%5FSalisbury) When asked how many of the 500 people assembled have had a UFO sighting, about 75 hands go up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Scientists Urge New UFO Studies,” Fate 23, no. 4 \(April 1970\): 38–48; George W. Earley, “Astronomers Raise Their Hands,” IUR 24, no. 4 \(Winter 1999\): 29–30 Source ID: Eberhart_4717 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14817 (772B391E) Date: 8/22/1969 Description: After Mrs. Joyce Vellacca and her husband reported seeing a multicolored UFO maneuvering over South Akron, Ohio she decided to lie down on the sofa for a short nap. She had scarcely stretched out when a big gust of wind swept through a window and blew the curtains out. Mrs. Vellacca got up to close the window and became frozen in place, literally unable to move. Furthermore, standing on the other side of the window was a woman staring back at her. The woman was well proportioned with beautiful long dark chestnut hair. But the woman had no discernible features where her face would be. Oddly, when Mrs. Vellacca recovered from her frozen immobility, the visitor had vanished. She rushed outside and turned on all the floodlights to illuminate the area, but could see nothing unusual. Then there came a high-pitched whine similar to that of a motorcycle, except that when a motorcycle reaches its highest velocity there is a loud roar, and none was heard. Instead, the noise gained in shrill frequency until it was no longer heard. The dogs in the neighborhood were raising a great rumpus. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing Brinsley LePoer Trench, Mysterious Visitors: The UFO Story Source ID: Johnson_5227 Source: Johnson ### Event 14818 (5957C74D) Date: 8/27/1969 Description: At 10:10 p.m. eleven people were watching for UFOs on Cradle Hill in Warminster, England when they saw something like a "burning bush" on the ground about 600 yards away, in a place called "Kidnappers Hole." Christopher Trubridge and Robert Coates ran towards it. The light went out, but when they got near the spot Christopher saw a figure about seven feet tall in the moonlight, about 100 feet away. It was dressed in a tight-fitting shiny black suit, with a gold sash or "bandoleer" over one shoulder. It also had long, dark golden hair that fell to its shoulders and had bright eyes. The eye color was impossible to determine in the moonlight, but it had a “rather feminine” set of features and a not unattractive face. She was motionless, with one arm upraised. The witnesses could not approach any closer than about 30 yards, overcome by fear. Fear mixed with another impossible to describe emotional response caused both men be beat a hasty retreat. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-48, citing Arthur Shuttlewood and Ken Rogers The Warminster Triangle; Cosmos, December 1969 Source ID: Johnson_5399 Source: Johnson ### Event 14819 (1BCA58CE) Date: 8/28/1969 Description: In a rural area of Burscough, Lancashire, England a motocycle's engine suddenly stopped at 8:30 p.m. The driver then saw an yellowish-orange, fuzzy, strawberry-shaped thing hovering over a nearby field for 15 minutes.His motorcycle functioned normally after the UFO left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_5422 Source: Johnson ### Event 14820 (21A4E9ED) Date: 8/28/1969 Description: At 6:20 a.m. a photograph of a disc-shaped object was taken near Fort Morgan, Colorado 70 miles east of Denver on Interstate 76 by a man named Vedaa. The photographic negative was submitted to quantitative, photometric analysis and judged to be genuine. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: William H. Spaulding, FSR, May 1976, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_5423 Source: Johnson ### Event 14821 (1A3104D8) Date: 8/29/1969 Description: 6:20 a.m. Norman Vedaa and a passenger are driving along Interstate 80S \[now Interstate 76\] about 70 miles east of Denver \[putting them roughly near Fort Morgan, Colorado\]. They notice a brilliant, yellow-gold object hovering high in the air. They manage to take two photographs before it speeds away. Ground Saucer Watch concludes from its density profile in the photos that it is a solid object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: William H. Spaulding, “[Observational Data of an Anomalistic Aerial Phenomenon,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 1 \(May 1976\): 12–17 Source ID: Eberhart_4718 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14822 (A1B48EA0) Date: 8/30/1969 Description: Afternoon. Future ufologist [Bill Chalker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FChalker)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FChalker) 17, is relaxing on a surfboard in the middle of the Clarence River in Grafton, New South Wales. He notices streams of fine filament coming down out of the sky over the river. He collects some samples, seeing no spiders, but the material dissipates into nothing. He later learns that other people, including his parents, watched an elongated white UFO moving at right angles to the filament fall. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 7; Clark III 124–126; Bill Chalker, “[1969: The Great UFO Daze of Oz,](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2020/09/1969-great-ufo-daze-of-oz.html)” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_4719 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14823 (615DAA7E) Date: 8/30/1969 Description: 7:30 p.m. Ion Hobana is at the North Railway Station in Bucharest, Romania, when he sees a triangular object rise from behind the station building. It is a dull orange color and moves with one of its sides facing forward. Three smaller globes trail it in a straight line. The object travels to the right and disappears after a few seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 179–180 Source ID: Eberhart_4720 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14824 (B079CC94) Date: 8/30/1969 Description: Between 7:00 and 7:30 p.m. a delta-shaped UFO rose from behind the North Railway Station In Bucharest, Romania and flew off behind some city buildings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weberbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 179 Source ID: Johnson_5495 Source: Johnson ### Event 14825 (C889A83E) Date: 8/31/1969 Description: Day. An RAAF Canberra bomber chases but fails to catch a UFO over northern New South Wales. The plane is dispatched from RAAF Base Amberley near Ipswich, Queensland, after hundreds of people in Kygole and along the Darling Downs report the object, which is shaped like an aluminum Zeppelin. Some witnesses observe the object for 3 hours as it hovers above towns and farms. The UFO speeds away when the Canberra tries to close in on it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[RAAF Chase UFO over Darling Downs,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/UFOIC%20Newsletter/UFOIC%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2026%20December%201969.pdf)” UFOIC Newsletter, no. 26 \(December 1969\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4721 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14826 (0EAA88AF) Date: 8/31/1969 Description: Flock of turkeys react to orange-red hemisphere or domed disc (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [690831](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-690831.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stover, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4019 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14827 (83A09E8C) Date: 9/4/1969 Description: In Ngatea, New Zealand a UFO took off and flew away to the south at 7:00 p.m. A 17 meter circle of burnt brush was found at the landing site, with deep tripod indentations at the center. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969 Source ID: Johnson_5631 Source: Johnson ### Event 14828 (A3D323BE) Date: 9/4/1969 Description: A farmer, [Bert O’Neil](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187660764/bertram-george-o%5Fneil), discovers a circular patch of dead and silvery-white manuka plants \(Leptospermum scoparium, tea tree\) in the midst of otherwise green and lush growth on a remote section of his farm near Ngatea, New Zealand. Near the center of the circle, he finds three ground indentations, positioned so as to form the inside points of a triangle. Off to one side is the taller stand of tea tree, also bleached and dead. He remembers seeing this from afar three weeks earlier, arousing his curiosity. The dead scrubweed within the circle is still standing and undisturbed. It looks as if some large object has come down from the sky and landed on three long stilts. At first, O’Neil only discusses his find within the family, but the news quickly leaks to the local radio and press. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harold H. Fulton, “[The Ngatea Mystery Circle, 1,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1970\): 27–28; Harold H. Fulton, “[The Ngatea Mystery Circle, 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 3 \(May/June 1970\): 32– 33; Harold H. Fulton, “The Ngatea Mystery Circle: Terrestrial or Extraterrestrial?” UFOcus NZ, 2010 Source ID: Eberhart_4722 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14829 (D2B0D4CA) Date: 9/6/1969 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a strange man stared into the bedroom window of Mrs. Barbara Robinson in Springdale, Arkansas. She called the police and Officer Ken Speedlin “discovered that anyone who looked through the bedroom window would have to have been at least seven feet tall…there was nothing in the area of the window on which a prowler could have stood.” Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 184; Northwest Arkansas Times, July 8, 1969 Source ID: Johnson_5685 Source: Johnson ### Event 14830 (79155119) Date: 9/11/1969 Description: Shortly after midnight a man named Rodilana saw a ten meter in diameter landed noisy disc in a field in Viana de Cega, Valladolid province, Spain, which took off when he got to within 400 meters distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 26, case 117 Source ID: Johnson_5858 Source: Johnson ### Event 14831 (05C9EB69) Date: 9/11/1969 Description: Flying from Chicago, Illinois to Cleveland, Ohio a passenger on a plane sighted a silver disc-shaped object accompanied by 12 smaller spheres. The disc was large, while the spheres were 12" in diameter. The UFO got close to the plane, within 300 yards, for several minutes, and according to the witness the airplance experienced radio interference, he felt a sensation of heat from the object, and the UFO actually pulled the airplane towards it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Erhardt, UFO Chronolog, case # 7006-451 Source ID: Johnson_5859 Source: Johnson ### Event 14832 (0C644C76) Date: 9/14/1969 Description: At 5:00 p.m. a young boy saw a small silver object land close to him outside the town of Beauharnois, Quebec. Through a small hatch two small, green colored humanoids emerged, these moved like robots and appeared to gather rocks and plants before returning to the object. The object then took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 19, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 49; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2097, citing Wido Hoville Source ID: Johnson_5955 Source: Johnson ### Event 14833 (24198812) Date: 9/22/1969 Description: On this evening a woman was walking with her son along a footpath in a wooded area in Montreal, Quebec when they noticed a bright circular object on the ground at the edge of the woods. There were three men standing outside of the object and two men inside. The men were described as very tall, over seven-foot tall, thin, and wearing tight-fitting one-piece garments. The witness left to get other witnesses but upon returning the object and the humanoids were already gone. A circular flattened area of grass was found at the site. That same evening in Saratoga, New York at 7 p.m. a large circle of white light was seen by three witnesses. It was flashing red, green and orange lights. It made no sound as it moved very slowly off at a low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Jean Claude Bourret, The Crack of The Universe, p. 111, citing field investigator Cazeau; (2) Richard Bonenfant, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976 , p. 49, citing The Albany Knickerbocker, September 23, 1969 Source ID: Johnson_6224 Source: Johnson ### Event 14834 (C339B9AB) Date: 9/24/1969 Description: An architect named Breeus in Zellik, Belgium watched two silent, glowing delta-shaped objects stop in mid-flight at 8:10 p.m. A dog barked furiously during the five minute encounter. The flourescent UFOs hadedges lit by bluish-white light, red underparts, and created fiery exhaust trails. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, January-February 1972, p. 27; Jacques Bonabot, Catalog of Belgian Cases, case 271 Source ID: Johnson_6287 Source: Johnson ### Event 14835 (9CABFC60) Date: 9/28/1969 Description: On this night in Izmir, Turkey eleven people watched a black, segmented rectangular object fly toward the northeast over the bay. The flight path of the UFO curved upwards, and it made no sound as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, case 2784, citing LDLN Lecteurs Source ID: Johnson_6393 Source: Johnson ### Event 14836 (DDE49BB9) Date: 10/1969 Description: NICAP obtains a copy of a chapter of a textbook in use at the US Air Force Academy, Introductory Space Science, for the academy’s Physics 370 course. The last chapter is on “Unidentified Flying Objects” and concludes that the “UFO phenomenon appears to have been global in nature for almost 50,000 years” and considers the “unpleasant possibility of alien visitors to our planet, or at least of alien controlled UFO’s.” It recommends keeping an “open and skeptical mind.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[AF Academy Teaches Students UFOs Real,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Research%20Newsletter%20%28Lore%29/UFO%20Research%20Newsletter%20-%201971%2004%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2001.pdf)” UFO Research Newsletter 1, no. 1 \(April 1971\): 1; ClearIntent, [pp. 13–14](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/12/mode/2up); Good Need, [p. 230](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/230/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4723 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14837 (8BE4B9F5) Date: 10/1969 Description: 7:15 p.m. Jimmie Carter sighting reported in 1973. Document is hard to read but the sighting was was investigated by the International UFO Bureau, Hayden Hewes. Exact date not known. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [691000](http://www.nicap.org/waves/CarterSightingRptOct1969.pdf) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leary, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4020 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14838 (490E2EF4) Date: 10/1969 Description: Jimmy Carter sees and reports a UFO. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p516) Location: Leary, Georgia Source ID: Maj2_662 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14839 (6AD727C5) Date: 10/3/1969 Description: After 8:00 p.m. RCMP Constable S. B. Barrie and his wife Vivian are driving 5 miles west of Rennie, Manitoba, on a poor highway in bad weather. He stops to clean mud off the headlights and noticees a light to the east hanging just off Highway 44 and over the trees. He continues driving and he sees the light as a light-pink inverted saucer moving with a jerky motion. Now only 500 feet away, it seems to be 20 feet in diameter with an odd white tail that snakes toward the ground. Suddenly the car’s windshield wipers stop working, the headlights go out, and the engine stalls. Barrie gets out of the car and the object zooms silently to the southwest and is lost to sight. He senses the air has a strange, heavy odor, but he is able to get the car started again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 81–82 Source ID: Eberhart_4724 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14840 (C4FAB46C) Date: 10/8/1969 Description: A large area of St. Louis, Missouri, is blanketed by a pure-white, sticky substance ranging from dime-size to 10-foot-long streamers. The majority of it sublimates on ground contact. The Smithsonian concludes it is caused by ballooning spiders, even though only one spider specimen is found. When a sample is tested by Wayne E. Black of the St. Louis County Health Department, he finds the samples test negative for protein, the basic composition of spider web. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Washington Post, March 28, 1970; “[A Classic Case of ‘Angel-Hair,’](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Pursuit%20-%20SITU%20%28Sanderson%29/Pursuit%20-%20No%2012%20-%20Vol%2003%20No%204%20-%201970.pdf)” Pursuit 3, no. 4 \(October 1970\): 72–73 Source ID: Eberhart_4725 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14841 (AB05BD69) Date: 10/8/1969 Description: A large Saturn-shaped object was viewed through a telescope in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France at 4:10 a.m. It had small satellite lights orbiting it in both clockwise and counter-clockwise directions. It shot to the north, then flew away to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 104 Source ID: Johnson_6658 Source: Johnson ### Event 14842 (7E34625A) Date: 10/10/1969 Description: Dog in car agitated by domed disc (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glenwood, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4021 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14843 (74AD0540) Date: 10/11/1969 Description: At 4:30 a.m. a luminous ball of light paced a car driving between Saintes and Royan, Charente-Maritime, France by flying in front of the vehicle and swaying to the left and right four times. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 106 Source ID: Johnson_6767 Source: Johnson ### Event 14844 (3FC055E9) Date: 10/11/1969 Description: Two objects hovered just twelve feet above the ground in the pre-dawn sky in Baralaba, Queensland, Australia, each flashing red and yellow lights. Both objects then rose and were joined by a third larger UFO. This new object was turtle shaped, and had "surface craters" on it, and reflected light. It made a high frequency buzzing sound like mosquitos. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_6769 Source: Johnson ### Event 14845 (3A3A3CE3) Date: 10/11/1969 Description: At 6:15 a.m. a dark 12 meter long ovoid object with a lit edge did a loop in the sky and then landed in a pasture in Beauvais, Oise, France, but the cows did not seem to react to its presence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean-Louis Becquereau, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1970, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_6768 Source: Johnson ### Event 14846 (A3365B01) Date: 10/13/1969 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a round object flew over Vancouver, British Columbia. The witness reported seeing several men inside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_6811 Source: Johnson ### Event 14847 (241DBC56) Date: 10/14/1969 Description: A half circle of bright "sparks" flashed at random on the leading edge of a dark object, that passed overhead at 3,000 feet altitude in Shirley, Massachusetts at 8:50 p.m. It left behind a vapor trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated October 20, 1969; Ray Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 356 Source ID: Johnson_6836 Source: Johnson ### Event 14848 (8C10F872) Date: 10/16/1969 Description: On October 8, 1969, or eight days earlier, ten-year-old Steven with another youngster had sighted a UFO at the base of a cloud in Waterville, Iowa and took a snap shot. The UFO apparently landed at the time, leaving traces. On the 16th at around 5 p.m., Steve watched a spherical UFO, ten feet wide and 6-7 feet high, land not 60 feet away from him. His attention was caught by the humming sound it emitted as a ramp came smoothly out of the craft. A little man, 3 to 4 feet tall, with long arms and hands with only two digits, emerged with a bow-legged gait. He wore a disproportionately large yellow-brown helmet, which he took off to wipe his brow. The boy could see that he was bald and had a pale green complexion. He had large eyes set close together, a slit like mouth and a double slit where the nose would be. He was dressed in a white spacesuit. The being looked directly at Steven, then put his helmet back on and re-entered the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-53, citing Brad Steiger, Kevin Randle, Ralph DeGraw, Ed Olsen and Bob Griffadel Source ID: Johnson_6895 Source: Johnson ### Event 14849 (D7AF08C7) Date: 10/20/1969 Description: Brig. Gen. [Carroll H. Bolender](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49125065/carroll-h-bolender)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49125065/carroll-h-bolender) USAF Deputy Director of Development, writes a draft document saying that the “continuation of Project Blue Book cannot be justified either on the ground of national security or in the interest of science.” Bolender adds that “reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-1 and are not part of the Blue Book system.” This is a clear indication that Blue Book is only a front for a classified UFO project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brig. Gen. C. H. Bolender, “[Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFO\),](http://www.nicap.org/docs/Bolender%5Fdraft.pdf)” October 20, 1969; Swords 336 Source ID: Eberhart_4726 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14850 (77E81012) Date: 10/23/1969 Description: A dark or invisible object with lights fore and aft hovered over the beach at Highcliffe, England at night. It turned and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March 1970, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_7046 Source: Johnson ### Event 14851 (8EECAED9) Date: 10/24/1969 Description: 12:43 a.m. A Chilean Navy destroyer is moving north at 20 knots in the South Pacific Ocean about 350 miles south of Valparaiso, Chile. The radar officer reports a target rapidly approaching the ship, apparently moving 213 miles in one minute, which would indicate a speed of 12,780 mph. At 12:47 a.m., the target is only 12 miles away, and it suddenly breaks into six targets. The officer in charge and five other personnel can now see one massive and five smaller lighted objects approaching the ship. The large UFO looks like a big box with semicircles on the side, and it is bigger than the ship, which is 360 feet long. The five smaller objects are egg- shaped, bluish, and no more than 8 feet long and 5–6 feet wide. At about 6,000 feet from the ship, the smaller objects move away from the larger one, three to portside and two to starboard, and begin flying in ellipses between the ship and the large object. At 900 feet away, the officers can hear the object make a humming noise. The ship’s power and instruments go dead as the large object passes overhead. Bright red lights under the UFO seem to be moving back and forth inside the craft, visible through a half-circle on the bottom. “Corn cobs” with green or turquoise pulsating lights are on the side. When the UFO is 600 feet away, the power comes back on. The smaller objects, never coming closer than 1,500–3,000 feet, fly around the ship and join up with the large object on the other side. All 6 objects vanish about 2 miles away. At least 8 minutes have passed, with three radar technicians tracking the UFOs. The ship’s commander orders everyone to keep silent about what they have seen. The sighting is deleted from the ship’s log. The six witnesses are debriefed for two days in Valparaiso by two Chilean Navy officers and four Americans who are allegedly naval attachés with the US Embassy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Six](http://www.nicap.org/691024chile%5Fdir.htm) [Objects Observed and Tracked by Destroyer](http://www.nicap.org/691024chile%5Fdir.htm)”; Bill Chalker, “[EM UFO Incident off Chile in 1969,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201986%2001%2000%20-%20Vol%2033%20No%203.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 33, no. 3 \(January 1986\): 7–8; Bill Chalker, “An Extraordinary Incident off Chile,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 4–6; Bill Chalker, “[EM UFO Incident off Chile in 1969 \(Conclusion\),](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201987%2004%2000%20-%20Vol%2033%20No%205.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 33, no. 5 \(April 1987\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_4727 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14852 (F6EBFDAC) Date: 10/24/1969 Description: Six Objects Observed & Tracked By Destroyer (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [691024](http://www.nicap.org/691024chile%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chilean Navy, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_4022 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14853 (5EC558DD) Date: 10/24/1969 End date: 10/27/1969 Description: The Turkish Air Force is inundated with reports of UFOs over Ankara, Turkey. Jet fighters are scrambled from Mürted Air Base \[now closed\] northwest of the city and close to within 7.5 miles, but the objects always pull away and climb higher. Even the base commander, Ercüment Gökaydin, flies with the interceptors to 35,000 feet, but the UFO is at a height of 50,000 feet. It is a silvery, oval disc. The jets take gun-camera film, which has never been released. One pilot says the object has three round portholes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 299](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/298/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4728 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14854 (5A68D2FF) Date: 10/27/1969 Description: NICAP Assistant Director [Gordon I. R. Lore Jr.](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/lore-gordon/95941) writes board member [Joseph B.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68816370/joseph-beckwith-hartranft) [Hartranft Jr.](https://realtvufos.blogspot.com/2018/10/ufo-audio-file-press-conference-march.html) an 11-page letter outlining the organization’s difficulties. He alerts the board of directors to the growing financial crisis brought on by [Donald E. Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s failure to keep adequate books and records. He urges the hiring of a business director. In the summer he had gotten permission from Keyhoe to fire five of NICAP’s eight employees as a cost- saving measure. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 794 Source ID: Eberhart_4729 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14855 (2F8E435A) Date: 10/28/1969 Description: Two 18-year-old teenagers, Sutherland and Talbart, had a close encounter with a circular UFO while driving near Mobile College in Wildwood, Alabama at 10:15 p.m. At first they noticed white lights, next red lights, and then two rings of red flashing lights on the object. It hovered at a low altitude, flattening the high grass and bending over small trees. It was less than 75 feet from them. The craft was estimated to be between 30 to 50 feet in diameter with luminous white panels around the circumference and lights on the top and bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 1; Robert D. Boyd, A Comparative Unit, p. 157; UNICAT, case # 478 Source ID: Johnson_7233 Source: Johnson ### Event 14856 (9B3A0EA4) Date: 10/28/1969 Description: That same evening at 9:30 p.m. a two-meter long bullet-shaped object flew very slowly just half a meter above the ground over a vineyard in Portiragnes, France. The vines later died. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8976 Source ID: Johnson_7232 Source: Johnson ### Event 14857 (E112D3B2) Date: 10/28/1969 Description: Fishermen in two boats off Paddy Island, Tasmania sighted a domed disc-shaped object at 100 meters altitude at 3:50 a.m. the object turned a violet color as it shot up into the sky and away toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research Australia Newsletter, January 1983 Source ID: Johnson_7231 Source: Johnson ### Event 14858 (BD775CBE) Date: 10/30/1969 Description: Circular object with lights hovering over airport sped away making high, whining sound when security guard shone spotlight on it (Ref. 1, Section VI). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Waipukurau, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4023 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14859 (DFBE9002) Date: 10/30/1969 Description: At around 10 a.m. a man and a woman, Clinton and Chapin, saw an egg-shaped flying object with a flat bottom, the size of VW Beetle, in a mountainous area of Redding, California. It was seen as it landed in a steep, wooded canyon. The minimum distance to the object was only 60 feet. It took off fast, causing the trees to sway, and zoomed up into the sky. Ground marks were found at the landing site: there was an 10 foot oval-shaped depression, 1-2 inches deep. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, October 1977, p. 5; Paul C. Cerny, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1978, p. 6; International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 36; UNICAT, case # 181 Source ID: Johnson_7306 Source: Johnson ### Event 14860 (91C71332) Date: 10/30/1969 Description: 10:00 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Chapin are driving at their mine site near Redding, California, when they see a rattlesnake in the road. As they get out to go to the mine and kill the snake, they find the area oddly hot. They notice a disturbance in the brush some 60 feet away in a flattened area of mine tailings. An egg-shaped object rises noiselessly a few feet off the ground and takes off down the canyon, swaying but not striking small trees. Soon it zooms upward at a sharp angle and is out of sight in seconds. They find a shallow, oval, depressed spot less than 2 inches deep and 10 feet across in the mine tailings. A conical pile of unusual-looking sand is also discovered, and two days later they find a metallic glob about the size of a fist nearby. They have the material analyzed in 1977. Scattered about in the unusual sand pile are irregular bits of pale-green glass-like material made of nearly pure silicon. The metal glob is completely black on the outside and 77% copper in the interior, combined with tin and traces of silver, chromium, and other metals. Both are considered foreign to the geology of the mine site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Redding, California CE II Case,” IUR 3, no. 3 \(March 1978\): insert Source ID: Eberhart_4730 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14861 (19DFDBFC) Date: 10/30/1969 Description: Circular object with lights hovering over airport sped away making high, whining sound when security guard shone spotlight on it Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Waipukurau, New Zealand Source ID: HallUFOE2_186 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14862 (60280E77) Date: 11/1/1969 Description: Luminous rectangular windows appear in the sky at 10:30 p.m. over Riom, Puy-de-Dome, France and vanish as if going through a tunnel. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 106 Source ID: Johnson_7383 Source: Johnson ### Event 14863 (5BDA2950) Date: 11/5/1969 Description: There were two cases of UFO reports involving animal reactions and burnt landing traces from New Zealand on this day. In the first a horse was reported to be panicked on a farm in Kaharoa, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Later three circles of burnt grass were found, and the third circle straddled a paddock fence. In Puketutu, Waikato, New Zealand some cattle and a dog were reported to be agitated, while later a burnt circle was found on a small island in a pond. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Data-Net Report, January 1970, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_7478 Source: Johnson ### Event 14864 (1692E508) Date: 11/8/1969 Description: Australian physicist O. H. “Harry” Turner has been working with other scientists to set up a “rapid intervention team” for the RAAF to investigate UFO physical evidence. In a memo to the director of the Joint Intelligence Bureau, he indicates he is working with John Morton of Australian National University, John Symonds from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, and [Michael Duggin](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-australian-scientist-who-was-potent.html) of the National Standards Laboratory. The plan is soon dropped by the JIB. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 21; Swords 396–397 Source ID: Eberhart_4731 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14865 (73A39164) Date: 11/9/1969 Description: The D-21 drone makes its first reconnaissance mission over China, launched from a B-52. It flies over the Lop Nur Nuclear Test Base in Xinjiang but strays off course into Siberia and crashes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed D-](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FD-21) [21](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FD-21)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 223](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/224/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4732 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14866 (613BA159) Date: 11/9/1969 Description: In one of a series of incidents involving Stella Lansing, she produced the following account by a 9-year-old of an encounter on this night from Palmer, Massachusetts. “We went riding in the car and I saw lights. We flashed to it and it flashed back. We clapped the light on it and it began to come closer. We saw a black man about eight feet tall and I saw something like a wolf, but it was not a wolf. It had a strange body, two and a half feet long. It had three fingers and a face.” Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Berthold Schwarz, FSR, 19720105; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-55 (A1069) Source ID: Johnson_7571 Source: Johnson ### Event 14867 (D099F549) Date: 11/15/1969 Description: The witness was at his window in Nancy, France at 5 p.m. awaiting the arrival of some pigeons that he customarily fed. He spotted a transparent cupola with two heads visible inside that was behind a nearby chimney. He initially had no reaction, but when he turned back to look out the window a short time later he saw the UFO fly slowly from behind the chimney. It was a gray metallic disc with a transparent dome on top. It had many lights resembling car headlights visible around its circumference. He exclaimed, “But it’s a saucer!” and heard a voice whisper outside his ear: “Yes, it is a saucer, do not be afraid, it was necessary that you see it.”

The two beings inside the dome then looked at themselves, and then turned their heads towards the witness while smiling at him. Their heads then disappeared from inside the objec, and at that same moment two other UFOs, identical to the first, also with visible figures inside transparent domes fly over the roofs about 70 meters above him. The first object joined the other two and all three flew towards the north. The witness tried to notify his neighbors but found himself in a kind of stupor with his face and hands swollen and a red bump on his forehead. A red scar on his forehead was still visible when last examined by investigators in 1978. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 2418, citing M. Figeut and Ruchon, OVNI Dossier Source ID: Johnson_7693 Source: Johnson ### Event 14868 (4504A3A7) Date: 11/15/1969 Description: Three people in Corral de Bustos, Argentina observed a luminous object approach their car at great speed around 2:30 a.m.. As it passed over the road close to the car the car tachometer needle fell to zero rpms. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_7692 Source: Johnson ### Event 14869 (121A80F1) Date: 11/20/1969 Description: On Molokai Island in the Hawaiian Islands at 6:26 a.m. a US Marine Corps flight crew heard a strange sound on 255.4 MHz UHF radio frequency at the same time that a bright light flew by, changing color from green to red to white. It then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50-10 Source ID: Johnson_7751 Source: Johnson ### Event 14870 (67749069) Date: 11/21/1969 Description: On this night a security guard at a local power station in Urubupunga, Brazil reported encountering two tall robot-like humanoids that communicated in a shrill-like electronic voice. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing GEPUC Brazil Source ID: Johnson_7774 Source: Johnson ### Event 14871 (FC6A8522) Date: 11/23/1969 Description: For 15 minutes beginning at 12:30 a.m. four witnesses watched and viewed through a telescope a glowing ovoid object over Kauri Mountain, New Zealand that moved up-and-down, side-to-side, and hovered. It departed by shooting straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March 1970, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_7843 Source: Johnson ### Event 14872 (B289C6F6) Date: 11/26/1969 Description: An 18-year-old man named Oram sighted a cigar-shaped UFO hovering over the gasworks in East Ham, Essex, England in clear skies at 8:35 a.m. He experienced visions and received a telepathic message to "keep quiet" about his close encounter experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, FSR, March 1970, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_7940 Source: Johnson ### Event 14873 (09413F3C) Date: 11/29/1969 Description: Two men in their twenties were driving between Gines and Sevilla, Spain when at 7:10 p.m they spotted a domed disc-shaped object that flew toward the southeast at treetop level. It had a blue glow that turned on and off, and it flew at a moderate speed. The sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 120, citing investigator Manuel Osuna Llorente Source ID: Johnson_8035 Source: Johnson ### Event 14874 (47C45E30) Date: 11/30/1969 Description: Thirteen miles southeast of Quincy, Illinois on State Highway 96, three people saw an object shaped like a rounded triangle. It came very low and close to their car and suddenly lifted the car 10 feet off the road. The motor and lights continued running, but the steering was out until the UFO left the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 287, citing UFOLOG, No. 68, 1970; Walt Andrus, Skylook, January 1970, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_8078 Source: Johnson ### Event 14875 (618370CF) Date: 12/1969 Description: Project xxxxxx (name censured) continues after Project BLUEBOOK is closed. Type: majestic document Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A) Attributes: Majestic Source ID: Maj2_656 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14876 (77BFD54B) Date: 12/3/1969 Description: The NICAP board of governors demands [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s resignation. He retires, under protest, at age 72. Leading the effort is board chairman Col. [Joseph Bryan III](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993)[,](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993) who takes over as acting president. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Major Keyhoe](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/050%20MAY%201970.pdf) [Retires,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/050%20MAY%201970.pdf)” UFO Investigator, May 1970, pp. 1, 3; “[NICAP Redeploys,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/050%20MAY%201970.pdf)” UFO Investigator, May 1970, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_4733 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14877 (A8B0F457) Date: 12/5/1969 Description: While flying from Toronto Island Airport south over Lake Ontario a light was seen by two witnesses oscillating up and down, and was visible for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 37; Data-Net Report, March 1970, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_8202 Source: Johnson ### Event 14878 (D73A884E) Date: 12/5/1969 Description: [Bryan](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993) dismisses NICAP Assistant Director [Gordon I. R. Lore Jr.](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/lore-gordon/95941), replacing him with G. Stuart Nixon as secretary-treasurer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Major Keyhoe Retires,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/050%20MAY%201970.pdf)” UFO Investigator, May 1970, pp. 1, 3; Clark III 794 Source ID: Eberhart_4734 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14879 (BA06005C) Date: 12/17/1969 Description: Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans, Jr., announced termination of Project Blue Book UFO study. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_187 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14880 (8E1AE697) Date: 12/17/1969 Description: Air Force Secretary [Robert Seamans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FSeamans) announces the termination of Project Blue Book, based on the Condon report, the NAS endorsement, and “past UFO studies.” He repeats the [Bolender](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49125065/carroll-h-bolender) wording that Blue Book “cannot be justified either on the ground of national security or in the interest of science.” Technically, Blue Book does not terminate until January 30, 1970. Blue Book records are moved to Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, in a building that requires security clearance to enter. Eventually, the files, minus the witness names, are consigned to the Modern Military Branch, Military Archives Division, National Archives, Washington, D.C. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense, “[Air Force to Terminate Project ‘Blue Book,’](http://www.nicap.org/waves/1969BB%5FTermination.htm)” December 17, 1969; “[Air Forces Closes Study of U.F.O.s,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/12/18/78549297.pdf)” New York Times, December 18, 1969, pp. 1, 41; “[The Book Is Closed,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/050%20MAY%201970.pdf)” UFO Investigator, May 1970, p. 3; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_4735 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14881 (F56045A5) Date: 12/18/1969 Description: [Condon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FCondon) is quoted in the New York Times that his investigation “was a bunch of damn nonsense,” and he is sorry he “got involved in such foolishness.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Air Forces Closes Study of U.F.O.s,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/12/18/78549297.pdf)” New York Times, December 18, 1969, pp. 1, 41 Source ID: Eberhart_4736 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14882 (171B35FA) Date: 12/19/1969 Description: In Saddle River, New Jersey police officers watched several pairs of UFOs fly over slowly from the west to the east at 11 o’clock at night. They viewed the lighted objects through binoculars. They described the UFOs as having an X-shaped arrangement of lights on the bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Data-Net Report, March 1970, p. 11, citing Ringwood Herald Source ID: Johnson_8510 Source: Johnson ### Event 14883 (905C0625) Date: 12/19/1969 Description: In 1969 a car with its male driver was lifted up off the highway for a short distance in Quincy, Illinois Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, May 7, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_8509 Source: Johnson ### Event 14884 (6284A9F5) Date: 12/26/1969 End date: 12/30/1969 Description: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, in Boston, MA, included panel discussion on UFOs. Scientists joined in statement asking for preservation of Air Force UFO files for future study. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Boston, MA Source ID: HallUFOE2_188 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14885 (28A6650C) Date: 12/26/1969 End date: 12/27/1969 Description: The American Academy for the Advancement of Science holds a special two-day segment on “Unidentified Flying Objects” at its annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton Hotel. The program is arranged by [Thornton Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton%5FLeigh%5FPage) \(NASA Manned Spacecraft Center\), [Philip Morrison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FMorrison) \(MIT\), [Walter Orr Roberts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FOrr%5FRoberts) \(University Corporation for Atmospheric Research\), and [Carl Sagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSagan) \(Cornell\). Rising to the occasion, [James E.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) presents an excellent critique of the Air Force and Colorado project investigations as well as an in- depth examination of the RB-47 and Lakenheath-Bentwaters cases. [Donald Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) attempts to show that all UFO sightings can be explained, even though some of his “explanations” are complex. Morrison discusses the nature of hard evidence and concludes that reliable UFO reports would stand up both in a court of law and in the rigors of science. Cornell University Press publishes the proceedings, UFOs—A Scientific Debate, in 1972. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “[Science in Default: Twenty-Two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations,](http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald%5Faaas%5F69.pdf)” December 27, 1969; Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 9–10; Clark III 100–101 Source ID: Eberhart_4737 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14886 (2EE2D57A) Date: 12/27/1969 Description: In the early hours after midnight Miss Mary Smith and her mother were in their parked car near Atlanta, Georgia talking. They were parked along the side of the road in the suburbs, and it was about two a.m. when her mother first noticed a black, saucer-shaped flying object with a flat bottom hovering some distance away. The bottom opened slowly and from it descended a “plastic bubble” with a glowing light inside. It drifted downward, and then separated into three glowing, arrow-shaped objects that came to rest in a parking lot across the street. Shortly afterwards they saw three dark humanoid forms at the spot. They looked like men with wide shoulders and narrow hips, but with arms shorter than normal. One was much larger than the others. All three were “sweeping furiously” with tools like lawn rakes over a spot about nine feet in diameter. What they swept up was put into a basket-shaped container in the center. At one point the larger figure chased after something to the edge of the street and caught it in his hand, picking it up and running back to put it in the basket. When two teenaged boys drove up in a car and saw the beings they drove into the parking lot. The figures then abruptly vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-57, citing Ted Phillips for MUFON Source ID: Johnson_8623 Source: Johnson ### Event 14887 (061FB885) Date: 12/28/1969 Description: A man named Patric is driving from Midland to Windsor, Ontario, on heavily snowed roads after an accident has blocked the main highway. Suddenly, his car engine, headlights, and radio fails, and he crawls to a halt in front of a star-like glow with a prismatic, multi-colored aura 100 feet ahead. Inside the glow is a domed object. A loud humming noise commences and the object shoots into the sky. The car comes back to life, but Patric inexplicably reaches Windsor one hour late. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 \(Christmas 2018\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_4738 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1970 (Back to Top) ### Event 14888 (01C69244) Date: 1970's Description: Private letter sent to BSRF from an active duty USAF pilot asking for information. Type: letter Reference: BSRA archive Location: San Diego, CA Source ID: Maj2_663 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14889 (CECB68F7) Date: 1970 Description: Early 1970's; Kingsley, OR; Keno Mountain LRR case, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [700000](http://www.nicap.org/70XXXXkeno%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kingsley, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_4024 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14890 (F0E1F455) Date: 1970 Description: The crew of a US Air Force C-5A Galaxy transport, flying at 500 mph at 37,000 feet, encounters a UFO over Moula Idris, Saudi Arabia \[=Moulay Idriss Zerhoun, Morocco?\]. An RAF officer on detachment is flying the aircraft, and he describes the object as like two saucers joined together, surrounded by red, green, and yellow and flying at 75,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 298–299](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/298/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4743 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14891 (A37664C2) Date: 1970 Description: UFO-Sverige is formed as the first nationwide UFO organization in Sweden; it is essentially an association of 20 UFO groups in different parts of the country. The secretary’s office is located in Skånninge. It publishes the magazine UFO-Information from 1969 to 1980, then UFO-Aktuellt beginning in 1980. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[UFO-](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO-Sverige) [Sverige](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO-Sverige)”; [UFO-Information](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/UFO%5FInformation/1969/1969-1.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/UFO%5FInformation/1969/1969-1.pdf) no. 1 \(October 26, 1969\); C. Göran Norlén and Johan Gustavsson, “[Tidskriften](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/om-ufo-sverige/tidskrifter/tidskriften-ufo-aktuellt) [UFO-Aktuellt](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/om-ufo-sverige/tidskrifter/tidskriften-ufo-aktuellt)[,](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/om-ufo-sverige/tidskrifter/tidskriften-ufo-aktuellt)” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige Source ID: Eberhart_4742 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14892 (C5B098E6) Date: 1970 Description: [Ivan T. Sanderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%5FT.%5FSanderson) publishes his last UFO book, Invisible Residents, which compiles reports of unusual objects seen in or around bodies of water. He speculates that such cases need not involve the presence of extraterrestrials, but possibly an indigenous intelligence that evolved independently in the oceans. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ivan T. Sanderson, [Invisible](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs) [Residents](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs)[,](https://www.scribd.com/document/429706119/Invisible-Residents-The-Reality-of-Underwater-UFOs) World, 1970; Clark III 1028 Source ID: Eberhart_4739 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14893 (5F27174F) Date: 1970 Description: The CIA is testing a small drone aircraft in the shape of a bird at Groom Lake, Nevada. Called Project Aquiline, the agency wants to fly a reconnaissance UAV over key intelligence targets, such as ICBM sites and nuclear test grounds in the Soviet Union and China, without detection. At least one of the prototypes is flown from Area 51 more than 20 times. The project is cancelled in 1971 before deployment and has never been declassified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project AQUILINE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FAQUILINE)”; David Hambling, “[Area 51’s Robotic Spy Bird,](https://www.wired.com/2007/11/its-a-bird-it/)” Wired, November 6, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_4741 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14894 (6C36957C) Date: 1970 Description: [John A. Keel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FKeel) publishes UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, in which he presents a theory that UFOs are produced by ultraterrestrials—beings who are able to manipulate matter and our senses and who in the past manifested themselves as fairies or demons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John A. Keel, [UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse](https://archive.org/details/whyufosoperation00keel/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/whyufosoperation00keel/mode/2up) Manor Books ed., 1976; Wikipedia, “[Operation Trojan Horse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FTrojan%5FHorse%5F%28book%29) [\(book\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FTrojan%5FHorse%5F%28book%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_4740 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14895 (71285E16) Date: Early 1970 Description: 10:00 p.m. A peasant in the Taijiang\(?\) District of Fujian province, China, sees a metallic, pan-shaped object land behind a hill. It radiates a brilliant green light, and a strange musical tone emanates from it. After he reports it, the local army commander mobilizes hundreds of soldiers who attempt to surround the object. After about one hour, the object emits a bright white light and takes off vertically. \(Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archive, 1983, p. 56\) Early 1970s — 2:30–3:00 a.m. Two young men in Furnace Creek, California, are followed by a red ball of light the size of a beach ball. They get scared and run ahead to their house, slamming and locking the door behind them. The ball stops at the edge of their yard, hovering and oscillating in size. After 4–5 minutes, the ball moves away and creates a vortex, causing stones to rise and circle in the air. They can hear the sound of the stones hitting together. Then the light blinks out, and the rocks crash down onto the road. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmermania: A Step Too Far into the Timmerman Files?” IUR 27, no. 4 \(Winter 2002–2003\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_4744 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14896 (59084A1F) Date: 1/1/1970 Description: Hospital nurse saw craftlike object hovering near building, two humanoid figures visible in upper portion Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Duncan, B.C., Canada Source ID: HallUFOE2_189 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14897 (5A94AEA4) Date: 1/1/1970 Description: From the second floor of the Cowichan District Hospital on Vancouver Island, British Columbia five nurses saw a silver metallic Saturn-shaped UFO. It was about 50 feet in diameter and hovered close by with a "necklace of lights" around the rim. At 5:00 a.m. they could clearly see two tall male figures inside the craft wearing tight-fitting dark coveralls. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1970, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_9 Source: Johnson ### Event 14898 (BB61939D) Date: 1/1/1970 Description: 5:00 a.m. Registered nurse Doreen Kendall is looking out a window at the Cowichan District Hospital in Duncan, British Columbia, and sees a bright, Saturn-shaped object about 50 feet in diameter hovering one story above her, about 60 feet off the ground and 40 feet away. It has a row of lights around its middle. She can see two humanoid figures in dark, tight-fitting clothing and wearing headgear in the upper portion. One stands at an instrument panel, with the other behind it. The second being looks directly at Kendall, then touches the first being, who moves a lever, apparently causing the craft to tilt down and provide a view of its interior. Kendall calls for other witnesses, who arrive in time to see the UFO leave. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Human-Like Pair](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96422142/) [in Saucer,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96422267/)” Victoria \(B.C.\) Daily Times, January 5, 1970, pp. 1–2; “[UFO Occupants Seen near Hospital,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%201%20no%207%20-%201970.pdf)” Canadian UFO Report 1, no. 7 \(Summer 1970\): 3–12; UFOEv II 459–460; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 139– 146 Source ID: Eberhart_4745 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14899 (509A20FF) Date: 1/1/1970 Description: Hospital nurse saw craftlike object hovering near building, two humanoid figures visible in upper portion (UFOE II, Section XII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Duncan, B.C., CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4025 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14900 (AE16386F) Date: 1/3/1970 Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_190 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14901 (461C48A7) Date: 1/5/1970 Description: Between 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 the sky and the village of Montigne, Charente, France were lit by and odd luminesence. At 9:00 p.m. a red disc-shaped object was seen flying at a very low altitude. The witnesses were 19-year-old Mr. Aubineau, 21-year-old Mr. Mijon, his son and two other children. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 336 Source ID: Johnson_123 Source: Johnson ### Event 14902 (61E95698) Date: 1/7/1970 Description: Two skiers saw disc-shaped object approach, hover, humanoid appeared in light beam from object. Memory loss, extensive physiological effects (Humcat 1970-4 ; UFOE II, Section XII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [700107](http://www.nicap.org/imjarvi700107dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Imjarvi, Finland Source ID: NICAP_DB_4027 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14903 (C85B7258) Date: 1/7/1970 Description: 4:45 p.m. Two skiers, lumberjack Aarno Heinonen and farmer Esko Viljo, at Imjärvi, Finland, watch a disc- shaped, buzzing UFO approach them and hover. It is so close to Heinonen that he could touch it with his ski pole. From an opening in the center of the object’s bottom, a bright light beam is emitted, creating an illuminated area of 3 feet in diameter on the snow beneath it, edged with black. A red gray mist descends again; when it clears, both men can see, only 10 feet away, a 3-foot tall humanoid creature standing in the illuminated area, carrying in its hands a black box with a pulsating yellow light. Its arms and legs are very thin, its face pale like wax, and its nose hooked; it wears a light green coverall with darker green knee boots, white gauntlets, and a conical metallic helmet. Then the mist again descends, and long red, green, and purple sparks float out from the lighted area. A sort of flame rises from this spot and enters the UFO; then the mist and the UFO vanish. After this experience, Heinonen finds his right leg numb, and he vomits and passes black urine; Viljo also suffers severe physiological effects. Heinonen claims, two years later, a series of contacts with a female spacewoman. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sven-Olof Fredrickson, “[Finnish Encounter in the Snow,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 31–32; “[Finns Observe UFO](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201970%2007%2000%20-%20July-August.pdf) [Occupant,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201970%2007%2000%20-%20July-August.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1970, pp. 6–7; Sven-Olof Fredrickson, “[A Humanoid Was Seen at](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%205.pdf) [Imjärvi,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1970\): 14–18; Sven-Olof Fredrickson, “[More on the Imjärvi](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf) [Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1970\): 22; Anders Liljegren, “[The Continuing Story of the](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%203.pdf) [Imjärvi Skiers, Part 1,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 3 \(September 1980\): 15–17; Anders Liljegren, “[The](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%205.pdf) [Continuing Story of the Imjärvi Skiers, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 \(January 1981\): 18–20; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 75–79 Source ID: Eberhart_4746 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14904 (6A7830FA) Date: 1/7/1970 Description: At 3:45 in the afternoon two cross-country skiers, Aarno Heinonen and Esko Viljo, heard a buzzing sound and saw a round, ten foot wide metallic object with a flat bottom and a dome in the sky outside of Imjarvi, Finland. It was wrapped by a reddish-gray mist. The UFO descended to within ten feet of the snow-covered ground in a forest clearing and the buzzing sound ceased. It was described as being so close to Heinonen that he could have touched it with his ski pole.

The two men next saw a beam of light come from an opening in the bottom of the craft. It created an illuminated area three feet in diameter on the snow beneath it, edged with black. A red gray mist descended again, and when it cleared both men could see, only 10 feet away, a three foot tall little man on the ground standing in the illuminated area. He had thin arms and legs, a pale waxy complexion with a hook nose, and wore a light green coverall uniform with darker green knee boots, white gauntlets, and a conical metallic helmet.

He held a small black box at his chest level with a pulsating yellow light from which a beam was emitted. Then the mist descended again, and long red, green and purple "sparks" floated out from the lighted area. A flame of sorts rose from this spot and the being entered the UFO. Then the mist vanished along with the UFO. After this experience, Heinonen found that his right leg was numb. He vomited and he passed urine that was black in color. Viljo also suffered severe physiological effects. Aarno Heinonen would go on to experience other close encounters, two years later, in a series of contacts with a fair skinned female being. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sven-Olof Frederickson, FSR, May 1970, p. 23; K. Gosta Rehn, APRO Bulletin, July-August 1970, p. 6 & September-October 1970, p. 4; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-04 (A1075) Source ID: Johnson_183 Source: Johnson ### Event 14905 (3BD55342) Date: 1/7/1970 Description: Two skiers saw disc-shaped object approach, hover, humanoid appeared in light beam from object. Memory loss, extensive physiological effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Imjarvi, Finland Source ID: HallUFOE2_191 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14906 (327B6578) Date: 1/9/1970 Description: On this night a disc-shaped object was seen in the sky over a farm in Rouillac, Charente district, France followed by a flash. The next day a big hole in the ground was found in a field on the farm, and some soil was missing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 64; Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1970 Source ID: Johnson_223 Source: Johnson ### Event 14907 (C447FAD2) Date: 1/13/1970 Description: A witness riding on a motorcycle on highway D123 north of Cramoisy in Oise department, France encountered a low flying, slow moving, 10 meter long sausage-shaped object with a row of portholes in front at 6:45 a.m. The witness felt sick later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9556, citing LDLN Lecteurs Source ID: Johnson_300 Source: Johnson ### Event 14908 (E26A2FD1) Date: 1/21/1970 Description: The UFO Subcommittee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics sponsors a panel that meets in New York City to discuss differing viewpoints on UFOs. Among the panel members are [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) [Thornton Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton%5FLeigh%5FPage)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton%5FLeigh%5FPage) [Gordon D. Thayer](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/)[,](https://rr0.org/people/t/ThayerGordonD/) and [Philip Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) The subcommittee, led by [Joachim P. Kuettner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim%5FKuettner), consists of scientists with no previous position on UFOs and reaches several middle-of-the-road conclusions. It criticizes the NAS position that the ETH is the least likely explanation and rejects McDonald’s position that it is the “least unsatisfactory.” It criticizes the Condon report, in which the conclusions do not match the data, and recommends a moderate-level, ongoing study of UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs, an Appraisal of the Problem: A Statement by the](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc594.htm) [UFO Subcommittee of the AIAA,](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc594.htm)” Aeronautics and Astronautics 8, no. 11 \(November 1970\): 49–51; Clark III 101–102 Source ID: Eberhart_4747 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14909 (904AFE74) Date: 1/24/1970 Description: A witness named Herbosch reported a blindingly bright saucer-shaped object that was seen at ground level at 7:45 p.m. in Rhode-St. Genese, Brabant, Belgium. It was absolutely silent, but despite its closeness gave off no detectable odor nor heat. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Bonabot, Catalog of Belgian Cases, case 287; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9559, citing Charles Garreau, Soucopes Volantes Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes, p. 198 Source ID: Johnson_486 Source: Johnson ### Event 14910 (6CEAF34F) Date: 1/26/1970 Description: A close encounter occurred west of Nykopping, Sweden at around 6:00 p.m. when a small saucer-shaped object dove at a car with two teenage girls inside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden News, issue 25 Source ID: Johnson_526 Source: Johnson ### Event 14911 (44477585) Date: 1/29/1970 Description: A Uruguayan professor of socioeconomics takes a photo of a cigar-shaped object in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Analysis shows that it was probably a streetlamp. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Street Lamp, or Sign, Or,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 3 \(June/July 1983\): 1; “[Rio de Janeiro 1970 Photograph Termed Streetlamp,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 \(Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984\): 3, 7 Source ID: Eberhart_4748 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14912 (EC86BB2D) Date: 1/29/1970 Description: A man and woman in their mid-twenties had a close encounter with a disc-shaped object while driving on U.S. Highway 44 in Cassia, Lake County, Florida. The object made a whirring sound, and emitted a variety of flashing multicolored lights. There was an independent witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, September 1970, p. 5; Data-Net Report, March 1970, p. 14, citing Sun News Source ID: Johnson_578 Source: Johnson ### Event 14913 (F15B01B2) Date: 1/30/1970 Description: 3:30 p.m. Project Blue Book’s doors close as its office is staffed for the last time. The files have been packed in boxes and are on their way to the Air Force Archives at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/050%20MAY%201970.pdf) [Book Is Closed,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/050%20MAY%201970.pdf)” UFO Investigator, May 1970, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_4749 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14914 (B5710632) Date: 1/30/1970 Description: Two policemen in Mrewa, Zimbabwe saw three shiny metallic oval objects hovering near their cruiser at 9:30 p.m. The headlights went out during the sighting, which ended when the objects moved away at high speed. The headlights did not come back on until 10 minutes after the objects had gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Eileen Buckle, FSR, September-October 1970, p. 33; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 288, citing FSR, Vol . 16, No. 5 Source ID: Johnson_608 Source: Johnson ### Event 14915 (EFDC0365) Date: 1/30/1970 Description: Three shiny ovals hovering nearby; headlights remained off until 10 minutes after UFOs departed. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 16, No. 5; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 48 (L) police car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mrewa, Zimbabwe, Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_4028 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14916 (D01FBF22) Date: 2/5/1970 Description: On this day a spinning domed disc-shaped object, glowing orange and blue, approached three observers at Chesterfield Inlet, Northwest Territory, Canada to within 50-60 feet. The motors of their three snowmobiles quit working. The disc shot straight up vertically and was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case # 133, citing L. Couvrette Source ID: Johnson_702 Source: Johnson ### Event 14917 (7D122584) Date: 2/7/1970 Description: In New Martinsville, West Virginia an oval-shaped silver disc with lights around the rim turned, hovered silently over a house, then vanished as USAF jets drew near. The lights on the object rotated counterclockwise. Their were six witnesses from the Moore family. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 90 Source ID: Johnson_736 Source: Johnson ### Event 14918 (ADE3584A) Date: 2/12/1970 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a shiny ellipsoid UFO hovered over a residential neighborhood in Canning Town, London, England. Three teenage girls who witnessed the object feel into a trance for one minute. The UFO vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, May-June 1970, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_870 Source: Johnson ### Event 14919 (D2CC9AF2) Date: 2/15/1970 Description: A shiny ball about four feet in diameter, looking like the mirrored ball in a ballroom or disco, zoomed by a residence in Birmingham, England at 6:30 a.m. making a buzzing noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9043, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_925 Source: Johnson ### Event 14920 (5D2FDB73) Date: 2/27/1970 Description: A boy saw a UFO that landed on four legs in Terrace, British Columbia around noon. He encountered a humanoid with a greenish tint who jabbered at him in an unintelligible language. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_1155 Source: Johnson ### Event 14921 (F944263F) Date: 3/2/1970 Description: On this night a domed disc UFO looking like the "scoutship" described by UFO contactee George Adamski (and widely believed to be a hoaxed photograph by him) descended in a back-and-forth motion in Falkenberg, Sweden and was seen by several witnesses. The object had two antennae, and TV interference was noted in the area at the time. The sighting lasted 25 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sven-Olof Fredrickson, FSR, July-August 1970, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_1252 Source: Johnson ### Event 14922 (476D2B11) Date: 3/21/1970 Description: 8:00 p.m. 15-20 minutes While using night vison scopes, Marines witnessed three saucer craft hovering near Camp Pendleton rifle range during night firing exercises. (NUFORC) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [700321](http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/044/S44702.html) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Camp Pendleton, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4029 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14923 (694FC1B7) Date: 3/27/1970 Description: A red cylindrical UFO hung over a tree in El Garrobo, Spain for nine hours beginning at seven o'clock in the morning. It departed by shooting off to the southwest with approached by witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester-Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 124 Source ID: Johnson_1694 Source: Johnson ### Event 14924 (A2C13E91) Date: 3/28/1970 Description: 11:00 p.m. About 30 UFO spotters gathered on Cradle Hill, just outside Warminster, Wiltshire, England, see a flashing purple light. One of their sensors buzzes, indicating a strong magnetic field, and one observer \(Norman Foxwell\) takes photos that appear in the July/August 1970 Flying Saucer Review. But the UFO is actually a light beam from a high-intensity purple spot-lamp operated by a group of UFO debunkers, among them physicist David I. Simpson. Foxwell himself is part of the skeptical group \(having pre-exposed a spurious UFO image\), as is the individual who operated the bogus magnetic-field sensor. The hoax is revealed six years later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John C. Ben, “[Photographs from Cradle Hill,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 4–5; Percy Hennell, “[The](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf) [Warminster Photographs Examined,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 6–7; Charles Bowen, “[What the Eye Sees,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1970\): 7; Pierre Guérin, “[Warminster](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf) [Photographs: A Tentative Interpretation,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201970%20V%2016%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1970\): 7–8; Charles Bowen, “[Progress at Cradle Hill,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 \(March/April 1971\): 11–12; S. E. Scammell, “[A](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%202.pdf) [Surveyor’s Criticism,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 \(March/April 1971\): 13; John E. Ben, “[Continued](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%202.pdf) [Investigations at Warminster,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 \(March/April 1971\): 14–16; Terence Collins, “[A](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%202.pdf) [Further Examination of the Warminster Photographs,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 \(March/April 1971\): 16– 18; Michael Samuels, “[Unexpected Photographic Effects at Warminster,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 \(March/April 1971\): 18–21; David I. Simpson, “[Experimental UFO Hoaxing,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/MUFOB%20%28New%20Series%29/MUFOB%20-%20New%20series%20-%20No%2002.pdf)” MUFOB, new series 2 \(March 1976\): 3–6, 11–12; David I. Simpson, “[Controlled UFO Hoax: Some Lessons,](https://skepticalinquirer.org/1980/04/controlled-ufo-hoax-some-lessons/)” Skeptical Inquirer 4, no 3 \(Spring 1980\): 32–39; David Clarke, “The Warminster Syndrome,” Fortean Times 331 \(October 2015\): 40–47; David Clarke, How UFOs Conquered the World, Aurum, 2015; Steve Dewey and Kevin Goodman, History of a Mystery: Fifty Years of the Warminster Thing, Swallowtail, 2015; Clark III 602–603 Source ID: Eberhart_4750 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14925 (0C97EF83) Date: 3/31/1970 Description: Explorer 1, the first US satellite, decays Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1) See also: 2/1/58 Source ID: Maj2_664 Source: Maj2 ### Event 14926 (01D6B2E4) Date: 4/1/1970 Description: At 8:50 p.m.motorist on the A3 highway near Surrey, England saw a triangular UFO at the same moment there was heavy static on his car radio. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_1791 Source: Johnson ### Event 14927 (B0BA7308) Date: 4/1/1970 Description: A hat-shaped UFO seen near a highway in Mar del Plata, Argentina by the driver after the engine of his car stalled. He took a photograph of the object. It rose into sky after a few minutes. No further car trouble was experienced after the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_1790 Source: Johnson ### Event 14928 (08D2B0DC) Date: 4/9/1970 Description: A small sphere 40 cm in diameter, with spokes inside, was seen rotating close to the ground in Aufhofen, Germany. The UFO drew water from a pool on the roadway, and then shot away vertically into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, July-August 1972, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_1928 Source: Johnson ### Event 14929 (5EE484FB) Date: 4/11/1970 Description: At 12:15 a.m. a large glowing disc hovered over West Howe, England. A smaller saucer-shaped object flew in and joined it, touching the larger object. The UFOs then shot off to the northwest in sequence, first one, then the other. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping, May 11, 1970 Source ID: Johnson_1956 Source: Johnson ### Event 14930 (FEAA8216) Date: 4/15/1970 Description: Daylight disc photo similar to August 3, 1965, Santa Ana, CA, photos (UFOE II, Section VII). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mar del Plata, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_4030 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14931 (F126C83F) Date: 4/15/1970 Description: Daylight disc photo similar to August 3, 1965, Santa Ana, CA, photos Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Mar,del Plata, Argentina Source ID: HallUFOE2_192 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14932 (C2203082) Date: 4/15/1970 Description: At 1:38 p.m. local time in Mar del Plata, Argentina a luminous disc-shaped object glowed as bright as the sun, yet vanished while still in view. A man by the name of Galan took a photograph of it before it disappeared. Richard Hall gives the photographer a high rating for reliability and the photograph a strong rating for genuineness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS files; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 15 & 287; Dwight Connelly, Skylook, November 1975, p. 10; Spacelink, April 1970 Source ID: Johnson_2028 Source: Johnson ### Event 14933 (84A9469D) Date: 4/15/1970 Description: Kalle Tiihonen, age 39, a locally well known and respected retired athlete, had just come from the sauna and was drinking coffee in his kitchen in Kursu, Salla, Finland at around 5 p.m. when he and his family heard a sound resembling a swarm of bees. He then had the feeling that someone was staring at him from the doorway behind him. He turned around and saw a small creature about 1.2 meters in height, clad in a tight fitting shiny green suit and helmet. The creature had very dark, large eyes, with a human look. Tiihonen believed that the creature had not come in through the door since he would have heard some noise. For several moments they stared at each other, and then Tiihonen asked the creature where he was from. "From the space," was the answer. Tiihonen was unsure if he in fact heard the answer or if it was a mental message. In an effort to make conversation Tiihonen asked the alien if the Apollo 13 astronauts, then stranded in space, would get back home safely. "Yes they will", was the answer. Tiihonen spoke with the being of other subjects for some time, but could not recall later what they spoke about, other than the creature promised to return. It took a step backwards and disappeared in an instant. Tiihonen again heard the noise resembling a swarm of bees. Tiihonen's eight-year-old son was sitting in another room during the encounter and heard his father talking to someone, but the dividing wall kept him from seeing the humanoid. However, he did see a bright object land on the grass outside, and also saw it lift off. Tiihonen ran to the sauna where his wife was and told her about his encounter. After the incident, Tiihonen was unable to sleep for three nights in a row, and experienced a sort of malaise for over a week. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: K. Gosta Rehn, UFOs Here and Now, p. 136; UFO Information Sweden, March 1971; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9601; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Mervi Virtanen, Finland Source ID: Johnson_2027 Source: Johnson ### Event 14934 (D435D9A5) Date: 4/20/1970 Description: 4:10 p.m. 10 minutes. Saucer shaped object above cornfield. (NUFORC) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [700420](http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/035/S35351.html) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Evansville (near), IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4031 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14935 (B31706F7) Date: 4/24/1970 Description: A Soviet supersonic bomber allegedly disappeared without a trace in the area of Olekminsk, Russia on April 24, provoking a widescale search involving 150 aircraft. Many of the pilots reported seeing large unidentified craft hanging high in the sky, far out of missile range. Soviet reconnaissance planes were sent up, scouring and photographing every square kilometer of the terrain in a fruitless search for the bomber's wreckage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Branton's War in Heaven File Source ID: Johnson_2280 Source: Johnson ### Event 14936 (AD5A377A) Date: 4/29/1970 End date: 4/30/1970 Description: Around midnight. Several independent groups of witnesses to the west of Lake Anten, Västra Götaland, Sweden, watch a red, glowing sphere fly around the lake and neighboring areas. It occasionally sends out a beam of light to the ground. Some of the observers get the impression that the beams originate on the ground rather than from the object. The next morning a few of the observers get into boats and sail to the spot where the sphere was seen hovering. In one corner of the garden of an isolated farmhouse named Enebacken, they find three round marks, one foot in diameter and 1.5 inches deep, burned into the ground in the shape of an equilateral triangle. A UFO group in Gothenburg, Sweden, takes soil samples to a laboratory for gamma-ray testing and finds significant non-background radiation at a peak that seems to derive from cesium-137, a radioactive isotope. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sven-Olof Fredrickson, “[A Landing near Lake Anten?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1971\): 13–17 Source ID: Eberhart_4751 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14937 (5B8BA2D3) Date: 5/5/1970 Description: Although the Air Force is no longer involved with UFOs, the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio continues to contract [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s services as a “special consultant” on atmospheric phenomena. He reports to Col. [George R. Weinbrenner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72741517/george-ryan-weinbrenner)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72741517/george-ryan-weinbrenner) whom he visits every once in a while in Dayton. He continues with the contract through 1974. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 12, 23; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, Inside the Real Area 51, Tantor Media, 2013, pp. 203–213 Source ID: Eberhart_4752 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14938 (3EEAA762) Date: 5/7/1970 Description: Over 400 people including school students in Maraenui, New Zealand watched a metallic looking, oval-shaped object hover in the sky near the sun for ten minutes starting at 2:03 p.m. The center of the object had a "transparent-like sheen" and it was the apparent size of a basketball held at arm's length. It moved away to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1970, p. 1; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_2622 Source: Johnson ### Event 14939 (30556981) Date: 5/14/1970 Description: 9:45 p.m. A graduate engineering student in Bangor, Maine, notices two nocturnal lights in the Ursa Major constellation moving in a counterclockwise circle around a common center at a constant velocity. They abruptly stop moving, leaving them in a north-south position. After a short time, they move away from each other, then the light moving south suddenly halts. The other light is moving slower than a meteor but faster than a jet aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 48–49](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/48/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4753 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14940 (8976489A) Date: 5/26/1970 Description: Multiple radars picked up a UFO a MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, March 1971, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_3103 Source: Johnson ### Event 14941 (6900613F) Date: 5/29/1970 Description: John L. Acuff, an experienced manager but not a UFO researcher, becomes the new president of NICAP. He is the former executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers \[now the Society for Imaging Science and Technology\], which has cooperated with NICAP on photoanalysis but also has military and CIA connections. Acuff and G. Stuart Nixon dismantle the NICAP system of affiliates and state subcommittee system that have promoted the organization for years. Regional members are told to operate independently from one another; cooperation is discouraged. Criticism of the government’s UFO policy is no longer permitted and NICAP turns into a mere “sighting collection center.” Nixon is appointed executive director. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[NI-CIA-AP or NICAP?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20Old%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%20Vol%201%20Issue%2007%20-%20Old%20Series.pdf)” Just CAUSE 1, no. 7 \(January 1979\): 5–13; Richard H. Hall, “[The Quest for the Truth](http://www.nicap.org/papers/hall-IUR1994.htm) [about UFOs: A Personal Perspective on the Role of NICAP,](http://www.nicap.org/papers/hall-IUR1994.htm)” in 1994 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1994, pp. 185–201; Clark III 794 Source ID: Eberhart_4754 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14942 (285CCE2B) Date: 6/1970 Description: Contact \(UK\) begins publishing The UFO Register, a journal edited by [J. B. Delair](https://www.innertraditions.com/author/j-b-delair) that focuses on sightings and data. It continues sporadically until 1995. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [The UFO Register](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/UFO%20Register%20%28UK%20Contact%29/UFO%20Register%20-%20Vol%2001%20part%201%201970.pdf) 1, part 1 \(June 1970\) Source ID: Eberhart_4755 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14943 (EA96EFD1) Date: 6/1970 Description: 12:45 a.m. A truck driver is approaching Emerald Beach, New South Wales, when he sees a bright light on he ocean side of the highway. A circular object rises from behind some woods 1,600 feet from the road. It hovers for 30 seconds at an altitude of 66 feet. Relative to the trees, the object appears to be about 33 feet in diameter, and flames seem to shoot from its base. It slowly returns to the ground, where it is partially obscured by trees, but it continues to emit beams of light from its top and sides. Fearful, the driver leaves the area. Ufologist [Bill Chalker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FChalker) accompanies the witness to the landing site, where they discover six circles of dead grass of varying sizes and burned trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “Physical Traces,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 190 Source ID: Eberhart_4756 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14944 (8905C8D0) Date: 6/1/1970 Description: A teacher on the beach on Padre Island, Texas sighted a cloud cigar, that is, a cigar-shaped flying object surrounded by an artificial cloud, low overhead at about 1:00 p.m. It had a pulsing glow, and made a sudden hissing sound. It shot off in a vertical ascent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1970, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_3203 Source: Johnson ### Event 14945 (9D83E505) Date: 6/2/1970 Description: Lulu Luebben reported that the horses on her ranch in Apache Junction, Arizona reacted as if to the presence of a predator at around two a.m. A low flying hovering object, with its top an intense blue, and the bottom a neon yellow was near the paddock. It had three bar appendages on the bottom. It was also seen by three security guards at nearby Falcon Field across the highway. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1970, p. 7; Apache (AZ) Sentinel, June 10, 1970; Skylook, August 1970; Joan Woodward, www.nicap.org, Catgory 04 - Animal Effects Cases Source ID: Johnson_3233 Source: Johnson ### Event 14946 (6FA617E8) Date: 6/2/1970 Description: Horses react as if to predator (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [700602](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-700602.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Apache Junction, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4032 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14947 (59115D39) Date: 6/4/1970 Description: In Evillers, Doubs department, France in 1970, six children reported seeing four three-and-a-half-foot tall humanoid beings. The bulky humanoids wore red tops with black straps, and carried large sacks on their belts. They also saw a strange gray "dog" creature that jumped a distance of 40 feet. At around 2:45 p.m. Marie, age 10, was standing on the road opposite a house that was being used as a storehouse and stable, when she saw a figure at a windowpane-less second floor window. The being was the size of a child, but had a big protruding stomach. She told other children and several of them, led by Noel, age 12, entered the building. Noel saw a small person about 3.5 feet tall in a red sweater with a black shoulder strap across it, which he chased down the stairs and outdoors to the pasture.

That evening at 6:30 p.m. Bertrand, age 10, was near the building when he noticed a "boy" about 3.5 feet tall standing beside it. He had a big belly and was wearing a red sweater crossed by a wide black strap. This "boy" ran around behind the building. A short time later Noel, Simon, and Barthelemy all saw a long gray animal, which they called a "dog", make a giant leap from the second floor window (about 12 feet high), and landed on the ground some 40 feet from the house. It left footprints "like a calf's." Then a small person like those seen earlier came out of the barn and called the "dog" to him with a snap of his fingers. He then passed a thick leash around its neck. Then three more such beings appeared, all alike except that one lacked a large stomach. They wore black hats with a peak behind. All four, with the "dog", then began to run very rapidly down the road away from the village. Two trucks passed and as they did the little men and their "dog" nimbly jumped off the road and hid. They ran out of sight. The next day the "dog's" paw prints were found. Six days later, the building mysteriously caught fire and burned to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-21 (A1082); Fernand LaGarde, Mysterieuses Soucoupes Volantes, p. 185 Source ID: Johnson_3275 Source: Johnson ### Event 14948 (9D3A4F3E) Date: 6/7/1970 Description: Shortly after 12:30 a.m., three kilometers northwest of Curico, Chile a Mr. Valenzuela observed an oval-shaped object land and was shocked by the appearance of the two entities who were inside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-09, citing Mark Rodeghier & Bernard Delair Source ID: Johnson_3352 Source: Johnson ### Event 14949 (345D27C9) Date: 6/7/1970 Description: Driving around a sharp curve on the road next to the Towarie Reservoir south of Ouray, Utah, E. Manning saw a triangular UFO with rounded corners coming across the lake that nearly collided with the car. It veered sharply away. It had many colors, mostly green. It moved with the apex of the triangle in front, with two exhaust jets in back. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 74 Source ID: Johnson_3353 Source: Johnson ### Event 14950 (435F11E1) Date: 6/10/1970 Description: A single witness saw a domed disc-shaped craft land in San Vicente de Toqua, Chile at 11:00 o'clock at night. Two humanoids were reported to have been seen inside the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chilean UFO Bulletin, Vol. 8, 1970; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-10, citing Mark Rodeghier and Bernard Delair Source ID: Johnson_3411 Source: Johnson ### Event 14951 (0A691CBE) Date: 6/11/1970 Description: Atlantic Ocean -- Thor Heyerdahl and navigator Norman Baker, aboard their boat the Ra II, radioed in that they had watched a UFO move across the horizon for several minutes during the early morning hours. It disappeared in a "bright orange flash." The sighting was not connected with any space launches, but may have been related to a U.S. Navy Polaris missile launch. Heyerdahl and his crew were attempting to prove that ancient Egyptians could have crossed the Atlantic in papyrus boats centuries before Columbus. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1970, pg. 9 Source ID: Johnson_3425 Source: Johnson ### Event 14952 (C2E0C5E9) Date: 6/13/1970 Description: MUFON holds its first annual conference in Peoria, Illinois. Shortly afterwards, [Walt Andrus](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152550777/walter-harrison-andrus) succeeds Utke as MUFON director. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John F. Schuessler, “A Brief History of MUFON,” November 28, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_4757 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14953 (A159F75F) Date: 6/21/1970 Description: Paul Foster, in the St. Helliers section of Auckland, New Zealand, saw a figure about 20 yards away from him while working on a car. It was facing in the opposite direction. Viewed from the rear, the humanoid was about 5'9" tall and wore a one-piece blue coverall, the legs of which were tucked into mud covered boots. The man carried a leather case on his left hip attached to a strap over his right shoulder, and was holding a box-like object to his face with a periscope like extender sticking out and up to the right side. This periscope device was pointed away from the observer to the north, toward the sun. The figure was blond with short-cropped hair. He walked dragging his feet, as if fatigued. Foster glanced away thinking it was perhaps a mailman, but when he realized it was Sunday, he knew this could not be. When he again looked up the figure had gone. Foster rushed out in search of him but could find no trace. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-1, citing Vic Harris for the New Zealand Scientific Space Research Group, Auckland Source ID: Johnson_3581 Source: Johnson ### Event 14954 (77941FD0) Date: 6/26/1970 Description: At 1:00 a.m. in Sharon, Massachusetts a UFO landed remotely. A brilliant yellow aura surrounded the object as it descended slowly behind some trees during a rainstorm. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case files report dated September 15, 1970 Source ID: Johnson_3673 Source: Johnson ### Event 14955 (5A67370C) Date: 6/27/1970 Description: Domed disc on ocean surface, two humanoid figures visible, took off in an arc, headed out to sea (UFOE II, Section V). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4033 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14956 (7CD118FD) Date: 6/27/1970 Description: 11:40 a.m. Aristeu Machado, his wife and children, and João Aguiar of the Brazilian Federal police, see a metallic, domed disc resting on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean about a half-mile off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two humanoid figures are standing on the rim. After a while the object skims the surface of the water and takes off, lights flashing from the underside. Once airborne, the wife can clearly see the two occupants sitting inside. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 460; Brazil 128–130 Source ID: Eberhart_4758 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14957 (AEF8C727) Date: 6/27/1970 Description: At 11:40 a.m. Mr. And Mrs. Aristeu Machado, their five daughters, and Mr. Joao Aguiar of Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil watched a grayish metallic object 12-18 feet wide land on the ocean 700-1000 yards away, throwing spray up on all sides. It floated 100 yards closer to shore and they could see that it had a transparent cupola, outside of which were two short, thickset figures wearing dark gray metallic coveralls and helmets. After 30-40 minutes the object took off nearly horizontally. Underneath it showed red, green, and yellow lights. It left behind it a white, floating hoop shaped object and a yellow ball, both of which were lost from view as they floated toward the shore. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, "UFO on the sea near Rio", FSR, May-June 1971, pp. 3-7; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-11, citing Irene Granchi and Dr. Walter Buhler; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 482 Source ID: Johnson_3698 Source: Johnson ### Event 14958 (B6D558C7) Date: 6/27/1970 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a bright orange disc-shaped object dropped down from the sky near some power lines in Galston, Strathclyde, Scotland. It emitted a bright beam of light, then flew off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon McKinnon, FSR Case Histories, December 1970, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_3697 Source: Johnson ### Event 14959 (B765C401) Date: 6/27/1970 Description: Domed disc on ocean surface, two humanoid figures visible, took off in an arc, headed out to sea Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Source ID: HallUFOE2_193 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14960 (392A77D8) Date: 6/29/1970 Description: Dog in car did not respond; dog outside of car did respond (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [700629](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-700629.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Apopka, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4034 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14961 (41E463A8) Date: 6/29/1970 Description: At 9:32 p.m. a 20 foot in diameter glowing green, oval-shaped object with a small blue inner ring descended at a 45-degree angle toward four people in a car in Apopka, Florida. It came down 1000 feet away and to the right of the car and pursued the car closely. It had a hazy edge and a convex bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hollifield, APRO Bulletin, July-August 1970, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_3731 Source: Johnson ### Event 14962 (7D61B51E) Date: 7/1970 Description: Afternoon. [John](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147088221/john-w-pilichis) and [Mary Pilichis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147088222/mary-pilichis) see a huge cigar-shaped object over their home at Rome, Ohio. At the same time, their daughter Bonnie and a friend are at a swimming pool about one-half mile away when they see 3 silvery discs flying end-to-end in the direction of their home. The parents then see the discs as well. The cigar and the discs form a line and move into a large, peculiar cloud. After 3–4 minutes, the cloud begins to break apart, with no UFOs showing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ohio UFO Reporter, Sept./Nov. 1971; Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_4759 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14963 (09E1CCEC) Date: 7/4/1970 Description: Sequoyah Trueblood was sitting by his pool at his townhouse in Laurel, Maryland, watching his children swimming with his wife sitting next to him. Without knowing why, he felt compelled to leave. He got up, went into the house, changed his clothes, packed a small bag, drove to the airport and took a plane to Oklahoma City. A friend then drove him to Norman, Oklahoma. He felt strange and wanted to lie down, so went to lie down in his friend's bedroom. He was lying down relaxing when he saw a vortex of swirling lights "like a rainbow" into which he was sucked. Mr. Trueblood then found himself standing in a beautiful garden surrounded by hedges. He felt wide awake. In front of him he saw a silvery saucer-shaped craft and a shimmering small silver being standing on steps that came down from the bottom of the craft. The being had a grayish complexion and had a large baldhead with large eyes. The witness sensed that the being was "androgynous," neither male nor female. The being communicated telepathically and told him that he had been sent to take him because "they" wanted to talk to him. He agreed to go and walked up the steps. Once inside the craft he heard no sound, but through a small window he could see the moon, the sun, and "millions of stars" go by in an instant. Soon the craft was hovering over a beautiful white city in what he believed was another planet or universe. He next found himself down on the ground. The people in the city appeared to be both male and female, wore white robes, and were fair skinned with "hair that was glowing like the color of sunlight." The small being then took him down a street lined with beautiful white buildings three stories tall to a clearing in the woods that seemed like a park. There were a number of people there, and a male said to him that if he would "pay attention." The people told him that they did not need food, for the air they breathed was converted into what was needed to sustain life. A leader figure told him that he had been brought here to show him the potential of the human race. Soon he asked to be returned, and was taken back into the craft, through the vortex, and found himself back in bed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing John E Mack, M.D, Passport to the Cosmos Source ID: Johnson_3821 Source: Johnson ### Event 14964 (4B26999E) Date: 7/4/1970 Description: 3:00 a.m. A 33-year-old Port Monmouth, New Jersey, housewife wakes up and sees a “big round ball” with an “eerie white glow” hovering over the meadows across the street. She watches it bouncing back and forth for 15 minutes as a series of red lights flash in sequence across it. The size is about 25–30 feet wide. The streetlight has gone out and comes back on when the object leaves. Her son and brother-in-law later find three imprints 30–40 feet apart in the shape of a triangle in the meadow. They also find circles impressed in the grass, the largest 15–20 feet in diameter. Then they find tracks “going to the creek like they had dragged some small round thing into the ditch” as well as “two sets of a dozen imprints which were about two feet apart. They were curved like raindrops. It was very visible, the grass was all crushed down, there was mud on the banks of the creek, and there were signs of the tracks in the mud.” One week later, the light returns and crosses the field across the street. The family television, the car ignition, and the telephone behave strangely for days afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Berthold E. Schwarz, “[The](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%203.pdf) [Port Monmouth Landing,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 3 \(May/June 1971\): 21–27; Clark III 251–252 Source ID: Eberhart_4760 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14965 (B658420E) Date: 7/9/1970 Description: At 11:10 p.m. in Evillers, France a sphere, the apparent size of the full Moon, was observed hovering below a black cloud. It had a crescent-shaped object above it. The presence of the UFOs was accompanied by a power outage in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1972 Source ID: Johnson_3959 Source: Johnson ### Event 14966 (81C4F2A0) Date: 7/11/1970 Description: Three women were driving near the airport in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada at around 9 p.m. when they sighted a white smokey cloud above the roadway. Inside of it a thin, human-like figure could be seen. As the car drove through the cloud it vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters Source ID: Johnson_3994 Source: Johnson ### Event 14967 (914AB7DC) Date: 7/16/1970 Description: Five people driving in a car in Brindisi, Italy stopped when a domed, luminous UFO descended below some nearby treetops. An intense silence seemed to fall over the area, as if all sounds had been masked. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing CISU Source ID: Johnson_4099 Source: Johnson ### Event 14968 (99CE027A) Date: 7/21/1970 Description: In 1970 an unidentified flying object described as looking like a silver bowl inverted upon another silver bowl was sighted hovering in the sky over Lynn, Massachusetts at 7:45 a.m. It was tipped slightly at an angle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, p. 356 Source ID: Johnson_4275 Source: Johnson ### Event 14969 (3B2D2C94) Date: 7/23/1970 Description: President [Nixon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FNixon) makes it clear that he wants a major effort against domestic dissidents. At an Oval Office meeting in June with the Inter Agency Committee on Intelligence \([H. R. Haldeman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FR.%5FHaldeman), [John Ehrlichman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FEhrlichman), [Tom](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/05/24/99146508.pdf) [Charles Huston](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/05/24/99146508.pdf)[,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/05/24/99146508.pdf) [J. Edgar Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover), [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) Adm. Noel Gaynor, and Lt. Gen. [Donald W. Bennett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FV.%5FBennett)\), Nixon hears suggestions for expanded mail openings, resumption of illegal break-ins, electronic surveillance, and expanded counterintelligence. He approves the plan in July but will not sign it; neither will Haldeman or Ehrlichman. The plan was originally put together by Huston. Hoover torpedoes it when he announces that he will go along with it as soon as he gets written authorization from Nixon for all those break-ins and wiretaps. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Huston Plan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huston%5FPlan)” Source ID: Eberhart_4761 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14970 (6BCA31E1) Date: 7/24/1970 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a mushroom-shaped UFO maneuvered at treetop level three kilometers outside the town of Villalba del Alcores, Spain. It left behind burnt plants and leaves. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 128; Stendek, June 1971, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_4357 Source: Johnson ### Event 14971 (C937819A) Date: 7/25/1970 Description: 5:30 p.m. A witness comes across a landed domed disc, about 20 feet in diameter and 10 feet high with windows in the dome and portholes in its side, sitting on 4 legs near Jabreilles-les-Bordes, Haute-Vienne, France. He is blinded by a yellow-orange light beam and paralyzed by fright. As the object ascends with a whistling sound, he feels a wave of heat. At 330 feet altitude, the object jumps vertically and disappears behind a mountain. Four imprints are found forming an irregular figure on the hillside. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MM. Gaille, J. Gorce, and J. F. Gorce, “[Atterrissage près de Jabreilles-les-Bordes \(Haute Vienne\), part 1,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20113.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 113 \(August 1971\): 11–14; MM. Gaille, J. Gorce, and J. F. Gorce, “[Atterrissage près de Jabreilles-les-Bordes \(Haute Vienne\),](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20114.pdf) [part 2,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20114.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 114 \(October 1971\): 9–14; Ted Phillips, [Physical Traces Associated with UFO](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf) [Sightings](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf) CUFOS, 1976, p. 71 Source ID: Eberhart_4762 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14972 (EAF10EDD) Date: 7/25/1970 Description: In Jabreilles des Bordes, France at 5:30 p.m. in 1970 a disc landed on four legs. It had two antennas, one 45 cm long and one 1.5 meters long. There were physiological effects experienced by the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: 1972 MUFON Conference Proceedings, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_4389 Source: Johnson ### Event 14973 (D5C92AA4) Date: 7/29/1970 Description: At 3:00 a.m. an unknown craft emerged from the ocean along the coast of Alcocebre, Spain and loses itself in the sky. A cylinder that had been discovered on the ocean bottom the previous day had gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_4486 Source: Johnson ### Event 14974 (5A313BAB) Date: 7/29/1970 Description: In Old Forge, New York several people noticed an ovoid, metallic, and fairly large object which began following their car at 10:25 p.m. While it followed, the car radio was inoperative due to heavy static. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 292, citing UFOLOG, No. 83, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_4487 Source: Johnson ### Event 14975 (9BD71F90) Date: 8/1970 Description: Day. A group of Russian hydrologists are conducting research on a motorboat on Kronotsky Lake, Kamchatka Krai, Russia. Suddenly, about a half-mile away a dome of water rises up and a gray-colored oval object rises up. It is roughly 165 feet in diameter, rises to about 500 feet, and hovers nearly overhead. The engine of the motorboat stalls. The team watches for another 90 seconds before they row away, but the object moves away at reat speed and disappears. The boat’s motor starts working again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp .82–83 Source ID: Eberhart_4763 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14976 (B64AD8FF) Date: 8/5/1970 Description: Around 4:30 a.m. between Plasencia and Bejar, Caceres, Spain a man was driving through a forest when he sighted a brightly lit, yard-wide sphere in the sky that stopped, descended vertically into a clearing in the forest, and then darkened. At 10:45 p.m. a UFO in Cazalla de la Sierra, Seville, Spain caused the furious barking of two dogs. What appeared before the four witnesses was a two-dimensional illuminated 2 m by 1 m rectangle, hovering in the sky only ten meters away, perpendicular to the ground, which blocked the view of the vegetation behind it. It vanished when a gun was pointed in its direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 131, citing Manuel Osuna Llorente, and (2) case 132; UNICAT, case # 472, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIs: El Fenomeno Aterrizaje, p. 105; Stendek, December 1970, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_4683 Source: Johnson ### Event 14977 (8502DC98) Date: 8/5/1970 Description: A 17-year-old teenager named Sivaraman left home at 7 p.m. to attend an evening class in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He experienced missing time, and when he woke up 12 hours later, he was 140 miles away from his home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_4684 Source: Johnson ### Event 14978 (083A4891) Date: 8/7/1970 End date: 8/12/1970 Description: Evening. Contactee [Paul Solem](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88132621/paul-renshaw-solem)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88132621/paul-renshaw-solem) who has managed to convince a number of Hopi Indian elders, among them Chief [Dan Katchongva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%5FKatchongva)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%5FKatchongva) that he is a true prophet heralding the coming of a True White Brother, publicly summons his space brother friends telepathically for 15 minutes in Prescott, Arizona, where UFOs have been reported over the previous few days. After Solem announces that “they’re here,” a “star” appears that had not been there before and Solem receives a message from space brother Paul 2, who tells him that the saucers are appearing because of a Hopi prophecy. Others see zigzagging lights in the sky over the next few nights, and Prescott Courier photographer [Chuck Roberts](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71511000/charles-roberts) takes a time-lapse photo of one. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jerome Clark, “[Indian Prophecy](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/revelacion%5Fextraterrestre/Solem%2CPaul%2CContact%20E.T.%201948%2CJerome%20Clark.pdf) [and the Prescott UFOs,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/revelacion%5Fextraterrestre/Solem%2CPaul%2CContact%20E.T.%201948%2CJerome%20Clark.pdf)” Fate 24, no. 4 \(April 1971\): 54–61; John A. Keel, “America’s First UFO Experts: The Hopi,” UFO Report, Summer 1974; Armin W. Geertz, The Invention of Prophecy, University of California, 1994; Clark III 1094–1095 Source ID: Eberhart_4764 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14979 (9E5DBEDB) Date: 8/7/1970 Description: At 11:30 a.m. in Saladare, Ethiopia a red glowing ball of fire swept through the village, destroying houses, uprooting trees, and melting asphalt. It seemed to hover in place and then back-tracked. It caused eight serious injuries and the death of a little girl. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek & Jacque Vallee, The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 160 Source ID: Johnson_4767 Source: Johnson ### Event 14980 (6BFEBE79) Date: 8/10/1970 Description: On this evening Titus Lamson saw a rainbow colored UFO moving over the village of Hotaville, New Mexico. It had "a dome, a round thing, and an aerial" on top. It was lit up and became translucent, so that he could see a man inside the dome wearing a gray uniform. The UFO then disappeared over a ridge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-13, citing George Fawcett Source ID: Johnson_4822 Source: Johnson ### Event 14981 (568A5452) Date: 8/11/1970 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_194 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14982 (01E0EA9B) Date: 8/13/1970 Description: 10:50 p.m. Police officer Evald Hansen Maarup is driving 5 miles south of Haderslev, Denmark, when he is surrounded by a bluish-white light. His engine stops and the car lights and radio go out. Heat inside the car increases. He sees a conical light coming from the bottom of a large, silent, gray object. After a few seconds, the light is drawn into the UFO, a process that takes about 5 minutes. It speeds away vertically. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO’et ved](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Denmark/UFO%20Nyt%20%28SUFOI%29/1970/UFO%20Nyt%20-%20No%205%20sept-okt%201970.pdf) [Haderslev,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Denmark/UFO%20Nyt%20%28SUFOI%29/1970/UFO%20Nyt%20-%20No%205%20sept-okt%201970.pdf)” UFO-Nyt, 1970 no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1970\): 211–213; “[Et mærkeligt ‘Tysk Militærfly,’](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Denmark/UFO%20Nyt%20%28SUFOI%29/1974/UFO%20Nyt%20-%20No%206%20nov-dec%201974.pdf)” UFO-Nyt, 1974 no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1974\): 205–206; “[The Haderslev UFO,](http://bufora.org.uk/documents/BUFORAJournalVolume8No.4Sep1979.pdf)” BUFORA Journal 8, no. 4 \(September 1979\): 26–27; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 72–75; “[Dansk Politibetjent stoppet](http://www.ufo-sandheden.dk/ufo/dk14.htm) [af UFO,](http://www.ufo-sandheden.dk/ufo/dk14.htm)” UFO-Sandheden, February 1, 2007; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(September 2011\): 15–16; Lon Strickler, “[The Maarup Encounters,](https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2012/09/the-maarup-encounters.html)” Phantoms and Monsters, September 5, 2012; Patrick Gross, “[Close Encounter in Denmark, August 13, 1970](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/maarup.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4765 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14983 (E151C938) Date: 8/13/1970 Description: Ellipse approached at low altitude, heat felt. See Section V (E,R,L) police car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Haderslav, Den Source ID: NICAP_DB_4035 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 14984 (9E8B5032) Date: 8/13/1970 Description: Egg-shaped object approached police car, engine, lights, and radio failed. Object took off at high speed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Haderslev, Denmark Source ID: HallUFOE2_195 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 14985 (19E15357) Date: 8/13/1970 Description: At 11:50 p.m. a car being driven by a man named Maarup in Haderslev, Denmark was engulfed by a bluish-white cone of light from a metallic gray disc. His car's engine, lights, and two-way radio died. The light was so brilliant it hurt his eyes and felt heat coming from the UFO. He took three photographs before the object made a rapid upward departure. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 281; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976 Source ID: Johnson_4974 Source: Johnson ### Event 14986 (4F230124) Date: 8/14/1970 Description: 8:45 p.m. Residents of Little Heart’s Ease and St. Jones Within on the Southwest Arm in Newfoundland watch a blood-red fireball 8–10 feet long with a trail of lighter color for about 5 minutes as it passes overhead to the northeast. It makes a rushing noise before it crashes into the water near the mouth of the harbor at Little Heart’s Ease. When the RCMP arrive to investigate, they go out in a boat but can find no submerged object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August North, 2022, p. 102 Source ID: Eberhart_4766 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14987 (C2376AD2) Date: 8/15/1970 Description: The witness, who was staying at his parents home that night, felt a strange compulsion to go out and drive to nearby Lake Michigan in order to watch the sky. He had arrived at the shore near Good Hart, Michigan at around 10:30 p.m. when a very bright light caught his eye. It seemed to have a descending trajectory, and he discounted any mundane explanation for what he saw. Watching through a telescope, he realized that the craft had orange, yellow, green and blue indigo lights. He could now see a large disc-shaped outline that glided lower towards his position. He saw a very brightly lit, large cartouche-shaped window. Inside he caught a glimpse of some figures who seemed to be peering over a console or instrument panel. The craft descended silently behind a rise about 100 yards from the witness. It hovered for a moment, then settled down on the beach.

For 15-20 minutes he saw no movement around the object, and so, curious, he walked towards it. The air around the UFO felt warm. He stopped about 50 feet from the huge object and heard a metallic sound. By the faint light available he saw a ramp come snaking out of the side of the ship toward him. The ramp sloped up to the blank hull. There was no opening visible, just a long ramp like a tongue sticking out from the side and burying itself in the sand just ahead of the witness. Without giving it much thought he walked up the ramp, and as he approached the hull seemed to dissolve ahead of him. He walked through an opening that appeared in his path. The interior of the ship resembled terra-cotta stone, and there was a soft illumination that emanated from the walls. It was comfortably cool inside and the air smelled of sage and cinnamon. He was in a corridor that stretched ahead of him in both directions until it disappeared beyond inside walls. Various small openings with little handles and knobs were situated at what appeared to be random locations along the corridor. He walked to his left down the corridor, the aroma of sage and cinnamon pervasive and persisting. He soon found a door and realized that the passage behind him was closing itself off into a door as well.

He walked into what appeared to be a central core of the object. Moments later he came upon an improbably placed viewing plate in which he could see the south end of Lake Michigan and lights from the nearby Big Rock Nuclear Power Plant. As he spoke to himself, his voice echoed strangely through the confines of the ship. He noticed to his right a view plate. He caught a glance through the darkened glass of several creatures that seemed to be at the controls. He looked inside the control room and saw five figures all with their backs to him. The figures were humanoid in form with large heads. They seemed to be occupied with a series of procedures. The five were all dressed in a similar style. The outfits were form-fitted, and tended to give off a bluish glow. The middle figure turned slowly to face him. The eyes of the humanoid were much larger than a human's and spread farther around the sides of the head. No nose was visible, with flat cheekbones, lending a somewhat rotund appearance to the face .

At one point the witness saw himself in his own mind, apparently the way the creatures perceived him. The beings communicated via telepathy and he was escorted into another room where he was sat in a chair with knobs and controls in front of it. There he saw 3-D images flash through his mind at very high speed. At one point the aliens brought him a small cube-shaped container that contained a dark blue liquid, which he was told to drink. The aliens spoke among each other in a strange singsong language. He was told that, among other things, that the speed of light was "imaginary." He received the impression that the craft was impossibly larger inside than what it looked like from the outside. The aliens told him that their main interest in coming to earth was water. He was eventually deposited back at the same spot on the beach where he was initially picked up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Michigan Ufology Central Source ID: Johnson_5044 Source: Johnson ### Event 14988 (30D7ADF4) Date: 8/15/1970 Description: A man named Rodrigues had a 15 minute close encounter with a Saturn-shaped object at 9:00 p.m. in Marilia, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The object followed his car for several miles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jose Arnaldo, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1971, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_5043 Source: Johnson ### Event 14989 (5F921CD8) Date: 8/16/1970 Description: Thirty minutes later, a 22-year-old woman in Puente De Herrera, Valladolid province, Spain heard a loud whistling sound accompanied by TV interference at one o'clock in the morning. Opening the door to her house she saw a silvery Saturn-shaped object standing on legs. On top was a transparent cupola bearing a bluish-white rotating light; and around its perimeter were other multi-colored lights. A few feet away stood a tall man dressed in a dark blue or black tight-fitting uniform. It had a close fitting hood of the same color with shining white wrist bands, anklets, and a buckle. The man was examining a nearby field of alfalfa. He then turned and took long strides toward the UFO, which was approximately 30 meters from the witness. She closed her door, frightened about being discovered, but heard the intense whistling sound again as the object took off. Footprints were found in the area, and for several nights the site where the UFO had landed glowed at night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Macias, FSR Case Histories, February 1974, p. 1; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing Enrique Bueno, Santiango Mella, & J. Macias of The Charles Fort Group; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type-1 Events in Spain and Portugal, case #134; UNICAT, case # 506, citing Stendek, 1972, vol. 3 Source ID: Johnson_5084 Source: Johnson ### Event 14990 (71AAD23D) Date: 8/16/1970 Description: At 12:30 a.m. the Hidalgo family of four, driving in a car between Aznalcazar and Pila, Sevilla province, Spain encountered a white foggy object hovering two meters over a field by the side of the road. The object flew away as they approached, and their car headlights became dim as it did so. The object repeated this retreat a few more times as the car kept approaching, then it rose into the sky and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 133; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_5083 Source: Johnson ### Event 14991 (90772AC0) Date: 8/16/1970 Description: At 4:45 p.m. a hemispherical metallic object landed near a car in Puits-d'Edme, Yonne, France. The car engine and lights both failed. The car operated normally again after the object flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_5085 Source: Johnson ### Event 14992 (3720339F) Date: 8/19/1970 Description: On this same night Mr. And Mrs. Olaf Mohlinder were riding in a car near Narken, Sweden in a rainstorm with their friend, Assar Sandberg, who was driving. They saw in the headlights a little man on the roadway, no more than three feet tall, who raised both arms to cover his face as the car approached. There was a blinding flash and a sound like a gunshot. Sandberg slammed on the brakes. The little man was still there. They drove on by and had a brief glimpse of his apparel: he wore a grayish rain cape and a helmet like a western hat. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-15, citing Axel Franzen, FSR Case Histories # 14 Source ID: Johnson_5160 Source: Johnson ### Event 14993 (20FCF506) Date: 8/19/1970 Description: A ten year old student in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia reported seeing about 25 landed small objects among the bushes just outside school grounds. From each of the objects emerged a three inch tall humanoid. As he approached the UFOs the school bell rang and he returned to class and did not see the objects depart. After school six school boys in the same village reported seeing a very small disc-shaped object, blue in color, land in some bushes near their school. Five little men described as merely three inches tall emerged from the object. One was dressed in a yellow suit and the other four wore blue uniforms. They were seen installing some type of aerial on a tree branch that apparently sent out signals. The boys became frightened and ran away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case # 812, citing Ahmad Jamaluddin, FSR, Vol. 28, # 5 Source ID: Johnson_5159 Source: Johnson ### Event 14994 (99104C30) Date: 8/20/1970 Description: At 6:30 a.m. several young boys in Bukit Mertajam, Penang province, Malaysia encountered a round blue object on the ground, and several three inch tall ugly humanoids stood around the object. One of the humanoids took out an object resembling a gun and shot one of the boys on his hand when the boy attempted to grab him. The boys ran to get their teachers but upon returning to the site the object and the creatures were gone. Later that same day the same young witness from the previous day encountered a small UFO on the ground near the school compound. Five three-inch tall humanoids emerged from the object. One of them, who appeared to be the leader, wore a yellow uniform and had two horn-like protrusions on his head. The other four wore blue uniforms. The leader pointed a weapon at the witness and shot at him. The witness blacked out and was found later lying in the bushes. He regained consciousness later, and a small red dot appeared on his leg where he had been shot by the creature. Two other boys in the same village went out looking for the reported small UFO and spotted two tiny men among some bushes. One was on a rock and the other on a tree branch. Both figures were dressed in yellow suits, and one had only one arm and appeared to be holding a small gun. The boys attempted to capture the entities but they got away. That evening the young son of a local high-ranking police official was returning from school when he saw two tiny figures hiding in the bushes near the school compound. As he tried to capture them he was shot in the hand and received a small cut. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case # 815, citing Ahmad Jamaluddin, FSR, Vol. 28 # 5 Source ID: Johnson_5186 Source: Johnson ### Event 14995 (568AC1FB) Date: 8/24/1970 Description: At 10:00 a.m. a small object the size of a car tire landed in front of the school in Rawang Selangor, Malaysia. It was shaped like a turtle shell and had five small windows. Five three-inch- tall humanoids with two horn-like protrusions on their heads emerged from the craft. The humanoids rushed back into the object as a large crowd gathered to watch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case # 817, citing Ahmad Jamaluddin, FSR, Vol. 28 # 5 Source ID: Johnson_5291 Source: Johnson ### Event 14996 (88DAAC30) Date: 8/24/1970 Description: At 6:35 a.m. three people had just arrived at a bus stop at Lindberg Boulevard and West Road in Olmstead Falls, Ohio when two strange figures approached. The two men were dressed in glowing orange suits from head to foot with only their faces uncovered. Their skin was yellowish. Their headgear was conical and they were carrying a disc-like object over their heads. They stood about five feet tall.

The beings got to within 50 feet of a house and then turned and walked away, side-by-side, to a nearby railroad crossing. They stood there for a few minutes, then walked a short distance towards the witnesses. As the witnesses boarded a bus, one of the beings extended his arm upward. At this point they were able to see that the figure was wearing a cape. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_5292 Source: Johnson ### Event 14997 (95061F21) Date: 8/24/1970 Description: At 9:00 a.m. a nine-year-old girl saw an UFO shaped like a huge bubble come down from the sky and land near her house. Two figures appeared to have been waiting there. When the object landed they entered it. It then rose and quickly disappeared. One of the witnesses at the bus stop went back to the site that evening and found a spot where the high grass was matted and twisted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case # 2629, citing Rick Hilberg Source ID: Johnson_5293 Source: Johnson ### Event 14998 (2707CD25) Date: 8/29/1970 Description: 11:15 p.m. Several witnesses in Enebacken, Sweden, see a bright, round, red light maneuvering around the ground, emitting beams of yellow-white light. Three round landing marks in a triangular formation are found in the garden of Richard Johansson’s small farm near Lake Anten. Soil samples are taken and analyzed, with the results showing an increased level of gamma radiation in the test samples from one of the landing marks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sven- Olof Fredrickson, “[A Landing near Lake Anten?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1971\): 13–17 Source ID: Eberhart_4767 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 14999 (FD1C391C) Date: 8/29/1970 Description: At 11:30 p.m. 18 witnesses from six families watched an oblong or oval shaped object with a cupola during a close encounter near a lake in Enebacken, Sweden. The UFO changed color from red to orange to red as it moved about. The trees were illuminated by the close approach of the object, and it made a humming noise. The sighting lasted for two hours. Three round depressions were found in the grass were the object apparently landed. The depressions were 40 cm in diameter, 5-7 cm deep, and arranged in an equilateral triangle 3 meters apart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sven-Olof Fredrickson, FSR, October 1971, p. 13; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 27; Fred Merritt, Leg-Mark Catalog, case # 46; citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_5466 Source: Johnson ### Event 15000 (93436DEA) Date: 8/30/1970 Description: 2145, close approach, human effects, traces. (#441) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Itatiaia, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4037 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15001 (718A5B81) Date: 8/30/1970 Description: 11:30 a.m. A 7-year-old girl in Vincennes, Indiana, sees a metallic disc in the east-northeast hovering over Wheatland Road. She tells her parents, and her father goes outside and sees it too. He re-enters the house to get his 7x50 binoculars. The object is about a quarter of a mile away and looks like a squared-off conning tower about 30 feet in diameter. They watch it for 90 seconds, after which it leaves in a swooping dive to the north-northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Domed Disc Observed in Broad Daylight / MADAR Connection](https://www.nicap.org/700830vincennes%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4768 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15002 (C014EDF4) Date: 8/30/1970 Description: On this date at 9:30 p.m. a shooting incident occurred in Itatainia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil involving a patrol guard and a rectangular UFO, resulting in lasting physiological effects. The guard, 31-year-old Almiro de Freitas, was on guard duty at the Do Funil hydroelectric dam when he encountereda one meter long rectangular object with elliptical portholes at close range. Panicked, he shot several times at the UFO. He was blinded and paralyzed when struck by a beam of energy from the object. He was overcome by heat and a prickling sensation, and went blind. He did make a slow recovery. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: O Globo, September 16, 1970; FSR, September-October 1970, p. 23; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1970; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case # 441; Irene Granchi, Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1970, p. 23; UNICAT, case # 487, citing Ted Phillips, MUFON UFO Conference Proceedings 1985, p. 119 Source ID: Johnson_5497 Source: Johnson ### Event 15003 (672E5A06) Date: 8/30/1970 Description: At 11:30 a.m. a seven-year-old girl in Vincennes, Indiana saw a metallic disc in the east-northeastern sky hovering over Wheatland Road and reported it to her parents. Her father went outside and also saw the object. He re-entered the house to get his 7x50 binoculars, and when he emerged the object had moved closer. He described it as about a quarter of a mile away, looking like "a garbage can lid with a piece of watermelon on top" (more like a squared-off "coning tower") and about 30 feet in diameter. The man believes that others should have seen it, too, because it was so low. He, his wife, and daughter observed it for a minute and a half before it left in a swooping dive to the north-northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_5496 Source: Johnson ### Event 15004 (1EAAA58E) Date: 8/30/1970 Description: 11:30 a.m. Girl (7), saw a metallic disc in the ENE hovering over Wheatland Road and reported it to her parents. Her father went outside and saw the object, too. (See MADAR event Sept. 9) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vincennes, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4036 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15005 (EEFC2F57) Date: 9/1970 Description: 9:00 p.m. While walking home from a high school football game, Frank Scassellati (16) observed a glowing white, apparently metallic silvery disc in the southeast sky moving from left to right. Around the dome on top was a row of rectangular windows and three spheres and a flat circle were visible on the underside. (Case documented by Thomas M. Olsen, filed report with several major UFO groups). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jessup, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4038 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15006 (97979C89) Date: 9/1970 Description: 9:00 p.m. While walking home from a high school football game in Jessup, Pennsylvania, Frank Scassellati, 16, observes a glowing white, apparently metallic, silvery disc in the southeast sky moving from left to right. Around the dome on top is a row of rectangular windows; three spheres and a flat circle are visible on the underside. The object moves out of sight behind local terrain. Though he does not report the sighting to any authorities, Scassellati says that a few nights later he notices a limousine parked outside of his house with four men in black suits and hats sitting in it. They reappear for several nights but he has no interaction with them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1970%5F09%5F00%5FUS%5FPA%5FJessup%5FCUFOS%5FScassellati-CE-I.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_4769 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15007 (0F2C26C2) Date: 9/7/1970 Description: After an argument with her mother in Sao Joa da Boa Vista, Sao Paulo, Brazil 17-year-old Valeria was upset and drove away from her house with her brother. They parked the car in an isolated area at 7:30 p.m. to smoke cigarettes and relax. They soon heard a loud buzzing sound similar to those emitted by crickets. The sound rose in intensity until it became unbearable. At that moment Valeria's mind seemed to go blank and she did not come to until 10:15 p.m. After the incident Valeria suffered from strange dreams of lights.

During a hypnotic regression session she remembered being in the car and hearing the loud humming sound. Moments later she found herself inside a room illuminated by an orange light. The room was very cold and she felt a tingling sensation on her hands. She was lying on top of a "bed" and she could not move her head. At first she could only see what appeared to be luminous spheres floating around her. Suddenly she felt someone holding down her hands. A figure then stood in front of her. She described the figure as short, with a large hairless head and dark eyes. Soon a sort of cable with what appeared to be a needle on its tip was introduced into her nose. The needle emitted a greenish liquid. A small implant was also apparently inserted between her eyes. Moments later a small cut was made on one of her big toes, but she did not bleed or felt any pain. A voice in her head told her that she was being implanted in order to facilitate future contacts. Soon one of the short humanoids approached her and took her on an "astral" journey. Both traveled through the solar system, around Saturn and the Sun and even inside the earth's interior. Soon awoke back in the car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Pablo Villarrubia & Mario Rangel Source ID: Johnson_5725 Source: Johnson ### Event 15008 (D969CC40) Date: 9/8/1970 Description: Dusk. A farmer near Zillah, Washington, is dismounting from his tractor when he sees a triangular object hovering in the air. Steel gray in color, it has a red light at each of its bottom corners and white lights in its center. It eventually moves upward and out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sighting Advisory,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/058%20JANUARY%201971.pdf)” UFO Investigator, January 1971, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_4770 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15009 (683EB87C) Date: 9/9/1970 Description: At 2:30 a.m. a hydroelectric dam security guard in Guanabara, Brazil was paralyzed after firing on a UFO with multicolored lights. He drew his revolver and fired at the object, and between the second and third shots he was struck by a violent flash that temporarily blinded him. His hearing was also impaired by a loud noise, and he needed to be hospitalized for treatment. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Jouurnal, August 1971, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_5792 Source: Johnson ### Event 15010 (40ED5355) Date: 9/9/1970 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a 12 meter diameter disc-shaped object landed on rectangular legs in a pasture in Ruelle-sur-Touvre, Charente, France. When it took off, it zig-zagged toward the north. Ground traces were found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1975 Source ID: Johnson_5793 Source: Johnson ### Event 15011 (04BAEF18) Date: 9/19/1970 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a two-meter in diameter halo of light hovered over a 22-year-old woman on a farm near Villalba del Alcores, Valladolid, Spain making a buzzing sound. Dogs on the farm acted stunned and disoriented. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 136; Stendek, June 1971, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_6088 Source: Johnson ### Event 15012 (D55D6FD7) Date: 9/20/1970 Description: A disc-shaped object, two meters in diameter, buzzed a car driving on a road in Alijo, Portugal at 10:30 a.m. Two 5-foot-tall beings wearing backpacks with aerials were seen near a landed object on the road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT: Portugal UFO database Source ID: Johnson_6132 Source: Johnson ### Event 15013 (BC595F66) Date: 9/20/1970 Description: At 6:30 p.m. a bright red-orange ball of light descended slowly behind some trees in Beverly, Massachusetts and landed remotely near a golf course. It appeared to have spikes or rays sticking out that also glowed a red-orange color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated September 25, 1970 Source ID: Johnson_6133 Source: Johnson ### Event 15014 (2A41AFE5) Date: 9/21/1970 Description: A round object with a halo hovered over St. Jean, Switzerland at 9:15 p.m., and then vanished. It left behind a faint contrail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tova Bratt, FSR Case Histories, February 1972, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_6189 Source: Johnson ### Event 15015 (18946A93) Date: 9/25/1970 Description: At 8:20 p.m. Mr. Don McTrow reportedly saw a green, domed object "half the size of a cabin" near Banff, Alberta, Canada. It had four windows through which two human looking beings could be seen. The object emitted a high-pitched sound and was in view from five to six minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-16, citing William K. Allan, Calgary Source ID: Johnson_6317 Source: Johnson ### Event 15016 (A89A3F60) Date: 9/25/1970 Description: In Jessup, Pennsylvania a 16-year-old boy was returning home from a high school football game at ten o’clock at night when, three blocks from his home, he sighted a disc-shaped UFO. It was silver-aluminum in color and approximately 1,000 feet in length. It had a turret on top surrounded by a row of windows. The underside had three large spheres, with a central flat disk. It was glowing white. The sky was clear and the object moved silently across the night sky in an easterly direction. While deciding whether to report this incident or not, the witness was peering out his kitchen window and sighted a large black limousine. He could see it quite clearly because there was a street lamp directly across the street from his house. Four occupants were in the vehicle. Two were seated in the front, and two in the back. Each had on dark suits and hats similar to those worn in the 1940's. They sat in their vehicle, motionless. They returned for the next several evenings. There was no verbal or physical contact with the strangers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Wisconsin UFO Source ID: Johnson_6318 Source: Johnson ### Event 15017 (2FC72A3A) Date: 9/25/1970 Description: Thirteen-year-old David McTrow of Banff, Alberta, Canada saw a green, domed disc "half the size of a cabin" at 8:20 p.m. Inside the craft could be seen two human-like beings. The UFO emitted a high-pitched sound. It was visible for 5-6 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, November 1971, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_6319 Source: Johnson ### Event 15018 (1F011A0E) Date: 9/28/1970 Description: Two hours later in Warminster, Wiltshire, England a man sighted an eleven-foot long beetle-shaped object that had landed on tripod landing gear by an old Roman road. Ground marks and metal fragments were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Eileen Buckle, FSR Case Histories, February 1971, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_6395 Source: Johnson ### Event 15019 (4C0B1AF9) Date: 9/28/1970 Description: Nocturnal lights and ovoid objects circled and zigzagged in the sky over the town of Reze, France in Loire-Atlantique department at 8:30 p.m. A triangular object flew to the west, then turned back and shot away toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #9173, citing LDLN Lecteurs Source ID: Johnson_6394 Source: Johnson ### Event 15020 (4F9DF9CD) Date: 10/5/1970 Description: At 4:00 a.m. at the Sturgeon Bay Hospital in Wisconsin, a nurse was called by an upset patient. He said he saw "monkeys" outside his window, swinging from the trees and sitting on the window ledge. She opened the drapes and saw a hovering yellowish-green, balloon-shaped object emitting a white light beam. At 4:15 a.m. a red object with beams of bright light was sighted in Walsh, Illinois. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1970, p. 4; November-December, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_6577 Source: Johnson ### Event 15021 (EF114EB2) Date: 10/5/1970 Description: Cows’ behavior supports IFO theory (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [701005](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-701005.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Walsh, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4039 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15022 (7D17E8F3) Date: 10/5/1970 Description: At 6:10 a.m. in Sheerwater, Nova Scotia radar picked up an unidentified flying object, and an orange, yellow, and green object trailing white smoke and emitting a high-pitched whine. Horses were frightened by the presence of the UFO. At 9:00 a.m. a 59-year-old woman in saw a luminous orange object descend very low over some houses in Montreal, Quebec. She described the object as a very luminous orange circle surrounded by a sparkling white halo. Inside the circle she saw a small black object pivoting upon itself. During this time she realized that she was paralyzed and couldn't move. After a minute the object ascended rapidly into the sky, leaving a long trail behind it. She wanted to get some air and stepped out onto her balcony. She confronted a very heavy mist and a strong odor, which had a choking effect upon her. She went back inside, fainted, came to 10-15 minutes later with her eyes burning, her head feeling hot and heavy, and quite stunned. She felt electrical jolts in her body, and her hair had turned yellow in color. Her diabetes also manifested itself in an alarming fashion. UFO report involving physiological effects occurred in Quebec City, Quebec. At 9:00 p.m. that night in Saint-Romuald, Quebec two witnesses saw a elongated, luminous flying object. Their car radio had heavy static during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, November-December 1970, p. 29; Montreal Le Petit Journal, November 10, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_6578 Source: Johnson ### Event 15023 (C657F3E0) Date: 10/6/1970 Description: At 4:30 a.m. two married couples, the Morrises and the Willies, traveling together on US Highway 63 twelve miles north of Rolla, Missouri had a close encounter with a luminous crescent-shaped object that descended very rapidly. The UFO appeared to have a saw-toothed bottom edge, and seemed to be dripping a liquid. It approached to within 50 feet of the ground, and then took off at a 70 degree angle at high speed, leaving behind a glowing trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kansas City Times, October 6, 1973; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_6604 Source: Johnson ### Event 15024 (D8E3E20D) Date: 10/10/1970 Description: Two brightly lit, 25 foot in diameter disc-shaped objects buzzed a car in Bay City, Michigan at 2:15 a.m. The car radio developed interference as they flew over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1970, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_6721 Source: Johnson ### Event 15025 (38CD9D02) Date: 10/17/1970 Description: A very large, shiny ovoid object like a giant mirror in the sky was observed for a few seconds over Castel, South Guernsey Island, The Channel Islands, Great Britain. It rapidly shrank down to a small ball and vanished. The sky then turned pink. There were three witnesses in their twenties, named Gavey and Page. The sighting lasted several seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Guernsey Evening Post, October 19, 1970; FSR, January-February 1971, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_6926 Source: Johnson ### Event 15026 (2170A47D) Date: 10/24/1970 Description: 1:00 a.m. Gerald Adams and Donna Martin are parked on a dirt road 3–4 miles north and a half-mile west of MacGregor, Manitoba. They notice a bright light approaching from about a half-mile away. When it lands 150 feet from them, they notice it is an oblong object 8 feet in diameter with 9 “rods” and a red light on top. Adams takes Martin home but returns to the site. The object has moved farther away and is hovering above the ground. As he drives closer, he sees a humanoid entity about 4 feet tall dressed in a helmet and a silver metallic uniform crossing the road about 50 feet in front of him. He brakes, but the entity has gone. The UFO slowly lifts vertically from the ground and speeds away to the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 146–150, 160 Source ID: Eberhart_4771 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15027 (EC233ACB) Date: 10/24/1970 Description: Two people were driving between farms on this evening outside MacGregor, Manitoba when they sighted a glowing yellowish-white football-shaped object resting on a nearby field. One of the witnesses approached the object on foot but became frightened and ran back to the car. As they drove away they noticed a silver-suited figure walking towards them. They accelerated the vehicle and sped away. Later one of them returned and saw the object hovering over the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case # 994, citing Chris A. Rutkowski, Visitations? Manitoba UFO Experiences Source ID: Johnson_7083 Source: Johnson ### Event 15028 (90FB760F) Date: 10/28/1970 Description: Several people driving west of town, including witness Judith Dingler, saw "a gigantic winged creature" soaring towards Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. It was dark colored and its wingspan was almost the same as that of an airplane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman, Unexplained! Source ID: Johnson_7234 Source: Johnson ### Event 15029 (051363D2) Date: 10/29/1970 Description: 5:40 p.m. Reidar Salvesen is driving about 2 miles east of Helleland, Rogaland, Norway, when a dazzling light forces him to stop the car. He looks up and sees a globe about 60 feet in diameter approaching noiselessly. It stops about 18 feet in front of the car and hovers for 50 seconds about 30 feet up. Suddenly the object shoots straight up into the air, causing Salvesen to fall on the pavement. He hears a sharp crack caused by his front windshield shattering. About 3,200 feet in the air the globe changes to a fireball, which quickly disappears. After sweeping up the shards of windowpane glass, he drives on, but feels a numbness in his tongue a few minutes later. He also has an abrasion on his hand from falling down, but the skin sloughs off as if burned, and he has a redness around his eyes when he returns home. His travel clock starts keeping time badly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[I Met a ‘Flying Saucer,’](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/Scandinavian%20Newsletter%20%28Anders%20Liljegren%29/Scandinavian%20Newsletter%20-%20No%201-2%20-%201971.pdf)” Scandinavian Newsletter, no. 1/2 \(April 1971\): 4–7 Source ID: Eberhart_4772 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15030 (FC7B9022) Date: 10/29/1970 Description: Disc with dome descended, hovered over car, driver blinded by strong blue-white light, physiological effects. Object departed rapidly straight up Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Helleland, Norway Source ID: HallUFOE2_196 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15031 (93635535) Date: 10/29/1970 Description: Disc with dome descended, hovered over car, driver blinded by strong blue-white light, physiological effects. Object departed rapidly straight up (UFOE II, Section VI). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Helleland, Norway Source ID: NICAP_DB_4040 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15032 (E69935E9) Date: 10/29/1970 Description: At 4:40 p.m. while driving three kilometers east of Helleland, Norway Mr. Salvesen had just come to a transformer station on his right when he was temporarily blinded by a blue-white light that hurt his eyes. A ball of light 20 feet in diameter came down on a slope. Inside was a shiny, domed disc-shaped object. Its rim was a steel blue color. He had some lasting eye injury as the result of his encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Andre Liljegren, FSR Case Histories, April 1971, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_7274 Source: Johnson ### Event 15033 (A4649804) Date: 11/1970 Description: The UFO Subcommittee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics publishes a formal statement in its journal Aeronautics and Astronautics. It recommends “a continuing, moderate-level effort with emphasis on improved data collection by objective means and on high-quality scientific analysis” as the “only promising approach” to solving the UFO problem, and sharply criticizes the Colorado project’s conclusion that studying the subject will not add to scientific knowledge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs, an Appraisal of the Problem: A Statement by](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc594.htm) [the UFO Subcommittee of the AIAA,](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc594.htm)” Aeronautics and Astronautics 8, no. 11 \(November 1970\): 49–51; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, [pp. 249–251](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/248/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4773 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15034 (F7429B60) Date: 11/1970 Description: The UFO Subcommittee of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) published its report, UFO, An Appraisal of the Problem, recommending continued investigation of UFO sightings. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_197 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15035 (89D3F1B3) Date: 11/1/1970 Description: 10:30 p.m. Stewart Wilkinson and his wife are driving on the Trans-Canada Highway just west of Pense, Saskatchewan, when they see an disc-shaped object with a beam of light extending down to the road. It follows his car about 20 feet to the right at an altitude of 10–15 feet. At one point it moves ahead and hovers above a truck parked a half-mile away. When he comes alongside the truck, the object moves to the left side of his car about 30 feet away and almost on the ground. Wilkinson slows down and comes to a stop, and the object follows suit, hovering for another 10–15 seconds before disappearing into the lights of Moose Jaw to the west. It has followed his car for 12 minutes and 10 miles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 85–86 Source ID: Eberhart_4775 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15036 (7C4F5BFC) Date: 11/5/1970 Description: 9:00 p.m. Albert Formiller is fishing for bass in Cholla Bay, Sonora, Mexico, when he sees a light in the sky coming from a saucer-shaped object, which stops and hovers about 200–300 feet above the surface. A light from a tube on the bottom illuminates a broad stretch of water about one half-mile wide. It changes from a broad floodlight to a sharp spot on the surface, apparently as it is raised or lowered. After a few minutes, a cloud forms around the object. After 5 minutes, the searchlight is turned off and a similar light appears on top of the UFO, illuminating the upper part of the cloud. The object then moves west and is visible for 20 minutes in all. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 23 Source ID: Eberhart_4774 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15037 (7F7371E7) Date: 11/16/1970 Description: Evening. One adult and four teenagers are leaving a basketball game at Beckemeyer \(Illinois\) Elementary School when they notice a triangular object with orange and white lights moving in an erratic manner to the south. They watch it for 10 minutes, and a smaller object emerges from the triangle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Sighted,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201970%2012%20-%20no%2020.pdf)” Breese \(Ill.\) Journal, November 19, 1970, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 20 \(December 1970\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_4776 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15038 (AA1F7341) Date: 11/17/1970 End date: 11/20/1970 Description: At a Radar Meteorology Conference in Tucson, Arizona, [McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) presents a paper on “Meteorological Factors in Unidentified Radar Returns.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James E. McDonald, “[Meteorological Factors in](http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/metfac70.html) [Unidentified Radar Returns,](http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/metfac70.html)” November 1970; Story, [p. 416](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/416/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4777 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15039 (747B20CF) Date: 11/20/1970 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a classic saucer-shaped UFO was seen spinning in the sky over Matlock, England. It had eight red lights on the bottom, and moved behind a cloud. During that same day, in Scunthorpe, England a silver dome-shaped UFO was seen circling in the sky over the town, and then flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U database, case no. 9199; FSR, January 1971, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_7752 Source: Johnson ### Event 15040 (21B80B6D) Date: 11/21/1970 Description: A domed disc-shaped object was sighted spinning over Matlock, England at 8 p.m. It had red lights on the bottom and two white lights. It went behind a cloud. At 9:00 p.m. in Bull Bridge, England a police headquarters office worker and her boyfriend, Burnham and Pidcock, saw a round domed disc with a white light one-hour after three teenagers also saw it. It flew off in the direction of Ambergate. At 11:32 p.m. a red glowing bowl-shaped disc flew from south to north, then to the south, then back to the north again over Hackney, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Matlock Mercury, November 28, 1970; FSR Case Histories, February 1971, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_7775 Source: Johnson ### Event 15041 (5028E2B4) Date: 11/24/1970 Description: At seven o'clock in the evening a compact "cloud" UFO emitting rays from the top was seen by hundreds in Belo Horizonte, Brazil during a time when part of the city experienced a power outage. At the same time Moyses Santos, a resident of the city, found himself surrounded by half a dozen three-foot tall beings in his room "who went around touching and upsetting everything." They floated about in the air, and had a translucent quality. They "looked like ice." When they got near a table lamp, they "lit up in many lights." One of them handed Santos a piece of paper on which he drew a flying saucer, without knowing why. The being then took the paper back. Finally they disappeared by passing through the walls. He went outside in time to see the UFO above the city, flooding the area with brilliant light. Other sightings occurred about the same time in several Brazilian cities. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, November-December 1970, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-19, citing Irene Granchi, APRO Source ID: Johnson_7876 Source: Johnson ### Event 15042 (6943C007) Date: 11/24/1970 Description: That same evening two men in Centralia, Illinois had nearly identical experiences with a UFO while driving home. At 5:45 p.m. Sam Alli saw a glowing white-and-yellow globe hovering in the sky. It was fuzzy at first but then became perfectly clear. It began to move in circles, then rapid spurts. It slowed to a complete stop when he turned into his driveway. The second witness, Larry Peterson, next reported a similar experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, January 1971, p. 1; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 21; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 56 Source ID: Johnson_7877 Source: Johnson ### Event 15043 (EE44CC70) Date: 11/25/1970 Description: The RCMP report states that while on patrol at 9:50 PM on the night of November 25 Constable Ralph Keeping was contacted by Lawrence Smith of Lower Shag Harbour. (This Close Encounter incident was investigated separately by Don Ledger and Chris Styles and is supported by documents from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Styles interviewed Lawrence Smith while Ledger interviewed both Smith and Ralph Keeping a year or so later. Both Ledger and Styles interviewed Colonel Rushton who Ledger tracked down). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [701125](http://www.nicap.org/novascotia701125dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nova Scotia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4041 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15044 (1202D8A4) Date: 11/25/1970 Description: Four men near a railway line saw a brightly lit disc come down through the clouds in Tunstead, England at 6:53 a.m. The principal witness hid behind a tree as the UFO hung motionless in the sky for seven minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_7911 Source: Johnson ### Event 15045 (8BBA73B5) Date: 11/29/1970 Description: 6:30 p.m. A 17-year-old student at Oizumi High School is riding his bicycle home at Tatebayasi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, when he sees 5–6 objects flying in formation on a straight path from northeast to southwest. Seconds later, a solitary object appears to the north and approaches swiftly. The student parks his bicycle and runs up some steps to a raised enclosure for a better view. The single UFO changes course and circles several times, descending slowly. It then hovers, climbs, and disappears. The student gets back on his bike and sees a bright flash of white light to the southeast, which startles him and he pedals home quickly. The student returns the next day to the enclosure, which is actually a raised tombstone. He finds four circular patches of flattened grass. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Takao Ikeda, “[A Close Encounter in Tatebayasi,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201972%20N%2010.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 10 \(June 1972\): 10– 11, 13 Source ID: Eberhart_4778 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15046 (36EC4959) Date: 11/29/1970 Description: A 17-year-old named Arai sight five or six discs flying in formation over Tatebayasi City, Japan and one of the objects was seen to land in a cemetery. It left burns on the ground and imprints arranged in a triangle, with sides measuring 4.7 meters x 3.9 meters x 4.2 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Takao Ikeda, FSR Case Histories, June 1972, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_8036 Source: Johnson ### Event 15047 (BB78885E) Date: 12/4/1970 Description: In the middle of the afternoon a lens-shaped cloud quickly encircled a private plane flying from the islands of Bimini to Andros in the Bahamas. Inside the cloud was a glowing circular tunnel that extended vertically upward. Both of the passengers experienced a sensation of weightlessness during the experience. A green mist surrounded the plane when it finally broke free, and the plane had been moved much closer to Palm Beach, Florida. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Center for UFO Studies files, letter from B. Gernon; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_8176 Source: Johnson ### Event 15048 (3096BCA7) Date: 12/5/1970 Description: An older couple in their sixties were driving over a bridge on Highway 2 at 6:45 p.m. just outside Everett, Washington when they saw a deep red light near the surface of the river. The light passed over them and their car motor sputtered as it did so, the speed dropping from 40 mph to 5-10 mph. The light continued in a straight line to the north, then rose vertically at a high rate of speed. The car functioned normally afterwards. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dr. Donald A. Johnson case investigation files; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, citing APRO Source ID: Johnson_8203 Source: Johnson ### Event 15049 (72A788FF) Date: 12/7/1970 Description: After finding huge mysterious footprints on their property in Vader, Washington three days before, a family watched a very bright object approach their house at 7:15 a.m. It seemed to have a central dome with a revolving ring around it and was deep orange in the center. The craft tilted slightly to one side, hovered briefly over some nearby power lines, then brightened while making a low sweep over the area. Two of the witnesses saw what appeared to be a gray colored "shape" drop from the object and scurry away into the woods before the UFO departed. Later that week a mysterious dark "prowler" was seen peering through windows. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case #1480, citing Loren Coleman, Mysterious America Source ID: Johnson_8259 Source: Johnson ### Event 15050 (1695AA32) Date: 12/14/1970 Description: 1:30 a.m. Belgian writer Julian Weverbergh and his wife are awakened in Bucharest, Romania, by a bright red glow, which changes to white. A spherical light is hovering above a bus before disappearing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 271 Source ID: Eberhart_4779 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15051 (DC36F3F1) Date: 12/14/1970 Description: Waking up in his house at 1:30 a.m., a man in Bucharest, Romania saw a vivid red light in the sky and heard a pulsating, humming sound. He ran to his window and saw a policeman running toward his car, which suddenly started. A whitish-blue sphere of pulsating light was hovering over the car, then it suddenly disappeared. The whole event lasted less than one minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from behind the Iron Curtain, p. 271; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 303, citing Hobana and Weverbergh Source ID: Johnson_8392 Source: Johnson ### Event 15052 (51D8607F) Date: 12/17/1970 Description: At 5:10 a.m. in the town of St-Vit in Doubs, France several motorists saw a red disc descend low over some railroad tracks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 126 Source ID: Johnson_8467 Source: Johnson ### Event 15053 (125451BB) Date: 12/20/1970 Description: A humanoid figure about 90 centimeters (three feet) in height was seen floating up into a transparent round object on this night in Itaperuna, Brazil. Two other beings of the same stature were seen inside the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Revista Brasileira OVNIs Source ID: Johnson_8533 Source: Johnson ### Event 15054 (23247618) Date: 12/24/1970 Description: Two independent sets of photographs showing luminous balls of light in motion were taken on this night in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Three teenagers--Larsh, Neal, and Sellars--took a photograph of two lights in parallel motion at 10:00 p.m. They had had sightings of similar phenomena earlier in the week and were prepared to take a time exposure on this night. They made their photograph using a Pentax camera on a tripod. The two lights were also seen by another resident, Hjalmar Bowlby, earlier that same evening. Remarkably, they weren't the only ones who were able to catch an image of a UFO using a camera that night. At 10:35 p.m. Jerry Mozer, also of Alamogordo, New Mexico took a photo of a luminous point in motion, making an abrupt change of course resulting in a "buttonhook" effect on the image. Both photographs are reproduced below. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alamogordo Daily News, December 31, 1970 and January 3, 1971; Data-Net Report, February 1971, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_8590 Source: Johnson ### Event 15055 (0A24E614) Date: 12/25/1970 Description: A V-shaped formation of 10 silver-gray circular objects was seen in the sky over Braintree, Massachusetts at four o'clock in the morning. They were silent, and appeared twice over the area within a five minute period. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 357 Source ID: Johnson_8602 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1971 (Back to Top) ### Event 15056 (955422EE) Date: 1971 Description: A secret computer database of the NORAD Unknown Track Reporting System \(NUTR\) that logs air defense unknowns is launched and maintained for assessment of “airspace sovereignty.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 801 Source ID: Eberhart_4781 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15057 (290CF34C) Date: 1971 Description: Unhappy with NICAP leadership, [Raymond E. Fowler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FE.%5FFowler) \(and most of his Massachusetts Subcommittee\) transfers his allegiance to MUFON. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 517 Source ID: Eberhart_4780 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15058 (CD1B4CD3) Date: 1971 Description: Fleet of "Spaceships" Tracked on Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [710000](http://www.nicap.org/71XXXXsalisburydir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salisbury Plain, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4043 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15059 (7C7FA81E) Date: 1971 Description: Sometime in 1971; U.S.S. John F. Kennedy stopped by UFO (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [710000](http://www.nicap.org/jfk.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: in the Bermuda Triangle, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_4042 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15060 (A454B713) Date: 1/1/1971 Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Kosice, Slovakia a woman reported being taken aboard a UFO together with her friend and her cat. They were all brought from her apartment through a window in a trance-like state and delivered into an otherworldly environment where everything appeared to be made out of ice. There she met three beautiful female humanoids who wore silvery spacesuits. The beings paralyzed them and loaded them onto a wagon-like sledge. The woman awoke the next day with pain all over her body and with no further recollection of the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Dr. Milos Jesensky Source ID: Johnson_12 Source: Johnson ### Event 15061 (DBE7BEF8) Date: 1/1/1971 Description: At 6:30 a.m. a mini-bus driver near Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales saw an object in the sky above the road. The cigar-shaped object turned at an easy angle and traveled toward Newport. One of her passengers also saw it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_10 Source: Johnson ### Event 15062 (F70496BE) Date: 1/1/1971 Description: A one hundred foot diameter spherical UFO, bright as the Moon, wobbled as it hung in the sky south of Alamogordo, New Mexico after 3 a.m. It sent out bright orange objects that then landed on the side of the Sacramento Mountains. "It kicked the objects out...fast...and they flew right to the ground." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alamogordo Daily News, January 3, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_11 Source: Johnson ### Event 15063 (E5ED9929) Date: 1/2/1971 Description: In Valencia, Spain at 2:30 p.m. three silver discs flew silently in a linear formation at a low altitude. They then tilted and separated, flying toward the south. Less than three hours later, at 4:15 GMT, two independent witnesses in Corfton, England saw a reddish-orange light about the size of a car flutter from side to side as it descended, leaving behind a black trail of smoke. It continued to descend vertically, and stopped burning just before it hit the ground. No traces were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 124; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 20, citing The Bridgenorth Journal, January 8, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_30 Source: Johnson ### Event 15064 (4865BD44) Date: 1/3/1971 Description: On this night three small, fuzzy, round objects moved near a bridge and hovered over it as a car approached in Aberdeen, Washington. The engine of the car stopped, the radio had heavy interference, but the headlights remained on. The three objects, which were only about two feet in diameter, then rose slightly and drifted down the river quite slowly. The car could then be restarted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June, 1971; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 304, citing APRO Source ID: Johnson_58 Source: Johnson ### Event 15065 (F235A66F) Date: 1/3/1971 Description: 6:15 a.m. Maun and Matta Talana are drinking coffee when they see a brilliant light approaching from the lake outside their home at Saapunki, Kuusano, Finland. It is about 33 feet in diameter and moving against the wind. Their electricity goes off briefly. Looking out the window, the Talalas see their whole yard bathed in light caused by a huge fireball about 60 feet away, which rises up and disappears after a few seconds. Around 8:30 a.m., their son Timo asks them what the marks are in the snow outside. He has noticed a spot of hard green ice that is not covered with snow. Mauno takes some green ice and melts it into dark green water. The melted area is about 20 feet long by 10 feet wide, in the middle of which are ice needles as big as fingers with a ball of ice on top and some soot. The following day, he tells the newspaper, which sends a photographer to the site. UFO researchers from Oulu arrive on January 6 and take samples from the melted area and measure radiation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Elis W. Grahn, “[Saapunki UFO and Green Ice,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 \(March/April 1971\): 2–3, 27; “[Green](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%204.pdf) [Water from Saapunki: Result of Water Sample Analysis,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1971\): 26– 27; Ahti Karavieri, “[The Saapunki UFO: Results of Investigations,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1971\): 23–26 Source ID: Eberhart_4782 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15066 (39CF1069) Date: 1/4/1971 Description: A policeman woke up in his home and saw a 30-meter diameter disc in the yard outside his home, located between the towns of Crawford and Pine Bush in Ulster County, New York. The UFO hovered and pulsated close to his house for 40 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9224, citing Ellen Crystal, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_88 Source: Johnson ### Event 15067 (1E6D05E3) Date: 1/5/1971 Description: A car driving between Penrith and Windsor, New South Wales, Australia was paced by a one-meter ball of light for 13 minutes. It flew away when the car stopped. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, FSR, September-October 1973, p. 21; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1991, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_124 Source: Johnson ### Event 15068 (74DAEE7D) Date: 1/5/1971 Description: An engineer in Suceava, Romania saw a star-like light zigzagging in the sky. It vanished at 8:45 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 271 Source ID: Johnson_125 Source: Johnson ### Event 15069 (E0B8F720) Date: 1/7/1971 Description: In Dennis, Massachusetts a metallic cylindrical object was seen descending over a frozen lake at 7:10 a.m. The leading edge of the object tipped forward, and a trail of flames issued from the rear. The investigating witnesses, two teenage boys, found an elongated hole in the ice and steam rising from the agitated water. The UFO made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter N. Webb case investigation files; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1971, p. 1; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 357 Source ID: Johnson_184 Source: Johnson ### Event 15070 (E7E6D144) Date: 1/7/1971 Description: A strange metallic object that shone with an orange glow as it moved through the sky may now be resting at the bottom of a lake. The object was observed independently by two school boys on the morning of the 7th on Cape Cod. (The UFO Investigator, Feb.1971, p.1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dennis, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4044 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15071 (B34433CE) Date: 1/7/1971 Description: Two boys independently observe a metallic object with an orange glow flying over Dennis, Massachusetts. It descends and disappears over some trees and looks as if it is about to fall into Scargo Lake. One boy sees a hole in the ice on the lake; steam is rising from it, and the water in the hole looks agitated. NICAP investigator [Walter N.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm) [Webb](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm) visits the lake on January 10 and reports that the hole “was formed by a rather sudden melting process.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[NICAP Probes Crashed Object Report,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/059%20FEBRUARY%201971.pdf)” UFO Investigator, February 1971, p. 1; “[NICAP Probes Crashed](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/060%20MARCH%201971.pdf) [Object Report: Search Still Hampered by Bad Weather,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/060%20MARCH%201971.pdf)” UFO Investigator, March 1971, p. 3; Clark III 339 Source ID: Eberhart_4783 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15072 (E8EB409A) Date: 1/8/1971 Description: At noon at Tafi Viejo, Argentina in the State of Tucuman two men in their thirties sighted a 3-meter in diameter Saturn-shaped saucer with two antennae. The UFO landed 30 meters away from them in a field of maize. It made a whistling sound as it took off and sped away. A tree in the vicinity subsequently died. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1971, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_195 Source: Johnson ### Event 15073 (65EF9851) Date: 1/8/1971 Description: At 3:00 a.m. in Dumfries, Scotland a Mrs. Bunn sighted a white, bowl-shaped saucer hovering in the sky. The object was absolutely silent and moved back and forth in a small area of the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated January 9, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_194 Source: Johnson ### Event 15074 (EB6055CC) Date: 1/11/1971 Description: At 2:50 a.m. a government official and three members of his family witnessed 16 ball-shaped objects as they flew over Kuusamo, Oulu province, Finland in an eschelon formation. They made no sound at all. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Information Sweden, February 1971; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_259 Source: Johnson ### Event 15075 (F9651554) Date: 1/15/1971 Description: A 69-year-old woman awoke abruptly in Ikuri, Tampere, Finland at 6:30 a.m., and watched out her window to see a 1.2 to 1.4 meter (four-foot) tall being appear in the yard and walk in the deep snow using stiff and mechanical steps. The creature wore a blue-green tunic and baglike trousers, and had some sort of helmet with four antennae. It also wore something like mittens on its hands. Its face could not be seen. The creature walked past the swing in the yard and disappeared into thin air. It left round footprints in the snow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Mervi Virtanen, Finland Source ID: Johnson_338 Source: Johnson ### Event 15076 (B91B49B1) Date: 1/18/1971 Description: At ten o'clock in the morning in Campo Quijano, Argentina a metallic ovoid-shaped UFO landed on the slopes of Cerro Negro. It was seen by many witnesses and viewed through binoculars. A domed UFO with a beam of light was sighted in Quincy, Illinois at seven p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9230; Data-Net Report, July 1971 Source ID: Johnson_373 Source: Johnson ### Event 15077 (DFB6DD95) Date: 1/22/1971 Description: At 9:05 p.m. Richard Williams, his wife, and son were driving toward Willard, Ohio from the north when they saw a low flying object that "looked like a bat" coming toward their car. "On the middle of each wing there seemed to be a rocket or a jet engine, and it had red and white lights on each wing and on the tails." They thought at first it was a plane crashing. It was 25-30 feet in diameter and came to within 100 feet off their car and then took off toward the east. There was a transparent "cockpit" in the front of the object, through which could be seen the movements of some kind of humanoid creature, silhouetted by a flashing light behind it. Multiple reports of UFO sightings this night came from Tiro, Sandusky, and other sections of Huron County, Ohio around the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norwalk (OH) Reflector, January 23, 1971; Mansfield (OH) News Journal, January 23, 1971; Skylook, April 1971, p. 5; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1971, p. 7; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-04, citing a newspaper sources Source ID: Johnson_417 Source: Johnson ### Event 15078 (8DD18EF4) Date: 1/22/1971 Description: Two boys, Stewart and Lyle Leppke of Peabody, Kansas were doing their early morning farm chores at around dawn when they observed a lighted object in the cattle lot. When they flashed their light on it, they saw a diminutive figure less than two feet tall moving about near a UFO with small windows that was hovering just above the ground. They immediately went to the house to tell their mother who called the sheriff; but the UFO had departed by the time the sheriff got there. The boys said the object hovered a few feet off the ground, and when it departed it tipped to one side and then sped rapidly up and away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peabody (KS) Gazette Herald, January 28, 1971; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-03, citing a newspaper source; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 110 Source ID: Johnson_416 Source: Johnson ### Event 15079 (44C6C58E) Date: 1/22/1971 Description: Three bus company employees were towing a bus from East Budleigh to Exmouth, England when they saw three orange balls of light in a straight line move across the sky. They had "a lot of smoke around them and they disappeared after a few seconds." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 25, citing the West Morning News Source ID: Johnson_415 Source: Johnson ### Event 15080 (EB385735) Date: 1/22/1971 Description: Pre-dawn. Stewart and Lyle Leppke, doing their early morning farm chores, observed a lighted object in a cattle lot. When they flashed their light on it, they saw a diminutive figure, less than 2-feet tall, moving about near the object, which had small windows on it. (Humcat 1971-3; Source: Humcat, quoting newspaper source). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Peabody, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4045 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15081 (F4C546A7) Date: 1/23/1971 Description: A brilliant ovoid object flew from east to west over Lerida, Spain for five minutes at 8 p.m. It left a zig-zag contrail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 124, citing Courrier Catalan Source ID: Johnson_447 Source: Johnson ### Event 15082 (F33ECE87) Date: 1/23/1971 Description: The Porto Alegre, Brazil, newspaper Correiro do Povo notes UFO sightings are recurring in a rural location close to the federal capital of Brasília. An unnamed local peasant is quoted as saying that the “state governor” shows up regularly and looks for “little stones” in the nearby woods. Always dressed in black, he arrives via an airplane “made of two dishes, like, one atop the other, and when it goes up in the air it changes color and then disappears quicker than a flash.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[South American Roundup, 1971, Part 1,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201972%20N%2010.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 10 \(June 1972\); 8 Source ID: Eberhart_4784 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15083 (8A1C30DB) Date: 1/25/1971 Description: 9:30 a.m. Gunar Gruenzner is taking photos of the scenery near Praia da Armação beach in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, when he claims to see an intense light beginning to descend. He snaps a photo but can no longer see the light. The photo shows a circular light with a dark aura. Probably a film defect. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Observations](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20120.pdf) [diverses à l’étranger: Photographie au Brésil,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20120.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 120 \(October 1972\): 13–14; Wim van Utrecht, “[Shiny Cigar Photographed over Brazilian Beach,](https://www.caelestia.be/praia.html)” Caelestia Source ID: Eberhart_4785 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15084 (70E2148A) Date: 1/26/1971 Description: A young couple out driving in the early hours of the morning in Jackson, Ohio had a close encounter with a spherical object that rose from the ground, and then hovered directly in front of their car. The driver stopped his car and backed away. The ball of light changed color from orange to purple. When the drove off it followed them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Columbus Dispatch, January 27, 1971; NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1971, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_527 Source: Johnson ### Event 15085 (F9948D67) Date: 1/30/1971 Description: At 8:00 p.m. in Canelinha, Santa Catalina, Brazil a dog began behaving frantically, and then the witness's lantern went out. Next, a beam of light levitated the observer and that was his last conscious memory. He woke up the next morning at 8:00 a.m. after 12 hours of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9771; citing FSR, January 1973 Source ID: Johnson_610 Source: Johnson ### Event 15086 (5C38AE33) Date: 1/30/1971 Description: On this night a witness named Nicolae watched a nocturnal light that maneuvered for ten minutes around a central point in the sky over the city of Predeal, Romania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 271 Source ID: Johnson_609 Source: Johnson ### Event 15087 (D91A64BC) Date: 2/1971 Description: The Borderline Science Investigation Group is founded in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, by Ivan A. W. Bunn. It publishes Lantern, a newsletter that continues for 40 issues through late 1982. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Lantern](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Lantern%20%28Ivan%20Bunn%29/Lantern%20-%20No%2003.pdf), no. 3 \(Autumn 1973\) Source ID: Eberhart_4786 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15088 (9458F87C) Date: 2/2/1971 Description: Two women, Mrs. Sinikka Kuittinen and Mrs. Manninen were driving from Kuusamo, Finland towards Oulu at 8 p.m. when in the town of Kiiminki they observed a light behind the car on the right hand side of the road. After some time the light passed over to the left side of the road, during which the ears of Mrs. Kuittinen plugged up. When they came to a field the light disappeared. Suddenly Mrs. Kuittinen, who was driving, saw a one meter tall creature with a helmet on its head. It was clad in a brown-green coverall suit and crossed the road using small jumps, disappearing on the other side of the road. There were no houses or other buildings in the area. The women were very scared and did not stop to investigate if it had left tracks, but drove straight to Oulu. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1972; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-05, citing Mervi Virtanen Source ID: Johnson_669 Source: Johnson ### Event 15089 (185F6972) Date: 2/5/1971 Description: 3:00 p.m. Two young men, P. Aliranta and E J Sneck, were working in the woods when Aliranta noticed a 15 foot metallic object, shaped like two saucers put together, and with four thin legs, descending in a clearing 50 feet away. As it landed, a little entity just under 3-foot tall glided to the ground from an opening in the underside; dressed in green one-piece "diver's suit," it wore a helmet with a circular faceplate. (Humcat 1971-6, Tapani Kuningas, FSR Vol. 17 # 5) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kangaskyla Kinnula, Finland Source ID: NICAP_DB_4046 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15090 (DFA3CA14) Date: 2/5/1971 Description: 3:00 p.m. Petter Aliranta and Esko Juhani Sneck are working in the woods around Kangaskylä, near Kinnula, Finland, when they see a 15-foot object descend to a clearing 50 feet away. As it lands, a small entity just under 3 feet tall glides to the ground from an opening on the underside. Through 3 windows on the UFO, three more entities can be seen. The entity approaches Aliranta, who turns on his chain saw. Suddenly, the being turns around and heads back to the UFO. As the humanoid is rising back up into the air, Aliranta grabs it by the heel of its boot with his bare hand. It burns him like a hot iron, and he has to let go. The burns are clearly visible 2 months later. The humanoid gets back inside, and the UFO takes off with a hum. Before the two men go back, they look at markings in the snow. At the end of each landing foot there had ben a round plate. These plates have penetrated the full depth of the snow \(1.3 feet\), leaving four round prints forming an even square 6.5 feet on each side. Circular footprints left by the entity are clearly visible, about 6 inches wide. Possible hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tapani Kuningas, “[The Humanoid at Kinnula,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1971\): 18–19; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1971-02-05-finland-kangaskyla.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1971-02-05-finland-kangaskyla.htm) April 5, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_4787 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15091 (3338FAFE) Date: 2/5/1971 Description: On this afternoon two young men, P. Aliranta and E. J. Sneck, were working in the woods in Kangaskyla, Kinnula, Finland when Mr. Aliranta noticed a 15 foot wide metallic saucer-shaped object descend and land on four thin legs in a clearing 50 feet away. After it landed a short entity just under 3 feet tall glided to the ground from an opening in the underside. It was dressed in a green one-piece "diver's suit" and wore a helmet with a circular faceplate. It approached the young men, walking on top of the deep snow, and Aliranta moved toward it with his power chain saw in hand. Through three windows in the upper part of the object three more entities could be seen. The humanoid retreated from Aliranta and was levitating into the object from underneath when the young man grabbed it by the heel of its boot with his bare hand. He found that touching it burned like a hot iron and he had to let go at once. As soon as the being was back inside the object it ascended with a slight buzzing or humming sound. Both men felt stiff all over and had difficulty moving. Four landing leg marks and small footprints were left behind in the snow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tapani Kuningas, FSR Vol. 17 # 5; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1102, citing Tapani Kuningas Source ID: Johnson_703 Source: Johnson ### Event 15092 (6C8ED0A0) Date: 2/12/1971 Description: The good photographs were taken by a family of a domed disc-shaped object in front of some white clouds on the island of Corsica, France. The photos were taken along the cloudy shoreline in the town of Bastia at around 7:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 289 Source ID: Johnson_871 Source: Johnson ### Event 15093 (668EC790) Date: 2/16/1971 Description: At 6 p.m. while waiting for a bus in Straken, Sweden Ake Westerberg saw a little man standing motionless in the middle of the road about 50 feet away. "I couldn't see his face; there was just a gray spot there." Westerberg stepped closer out of curiosity, and he heard the little figure growl. Then there suddenly appeared a flash of white light so intense that the had to shut his eyes. When he re-opened them a few seconds later the little figure had disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-08, citing FSR Case Histories # 4 Source ID: Johnson_950 Source: Johnson ### Event 15094 (B513F826) Date: 2/18/1971 Description: At 9:50 a.m. Dr. J. Mueller, D. C. Martin Thoele and Theodore Thoele of St. Charles, Missouri observed a cone-shaped, "cage like" object, 10 feet wide by 10 feet high, tipped at an angle, approximately 400 feet above the street. The object was noiseless, and a string of lights extended down on what would correspond to three wires of the "cage" to a point mid-way between the tip of the cone and its base. The object was occupied by a single figure. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-09, citing Skylook #45; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, March 1972, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_983 Source: Johnson ### Event 15095 (37550CD4) Date: 2/18/1971 Description: An object maneuvered over the town of Umbrete, Sevilla, Spain at 8:35 p.m. The witness, a 15-year-old named Rubio, found rake marks at a flattened, 3-meter wide circular landing spot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 139, citing investigator Manuel Osuna Llorente Source ID: Johnson_982 Source: Johnson ### Event 15096 (88286230) Date: 2/22/1971 Description: On this evening five residents of Turun Sanomat, Finland saw a UFO, while another saw an entity dressed "like a vagabond." The being told him to follow him, and then experienced one hour of missing time. He found himself standing in same spot in intense cold, one hour later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1106, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1972, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_1050 Source: Johnson ### Event 15097 (E847A0C5) Date: 2/23/1971 Description: 7:00 p.m. Thousands of people in Turin and other places in Piedmont, Italy, observe a conspicuous red cloud in the western sky, just above the crest of the Alps, moving majestically and changing shape slowly. Someone takes a photograph of it from Caluso. The following day, the French Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales announces that the cloud was caused by a Tibere, an experimental three-stage rocket for atmospheric reentry tests. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sofia Lincos and Giuseppe Stilo, “[La lunga notte della nube rossa,](https://gruppi.cicap.org/piemonte/2020/11/05/la-lunga-notte-della-nube-rossa/)” CICAP, November 5, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_4788 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15098 (77A6E44A) Date: 2/24/1971 Description: A bell-shaped disc maneuvered around the mountains in Petropolis, Brazil on this evening at around 9:00 p.m. The glow from the object came on and went off at 30 second intervals. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 118 Source ID: Johnson_1082 Source: Johnson ### Event 15099 (F634DC0E) Date: 2/26/1971 Description: At 10:30 p.m. Mr. Robert Milcher, age 18, and a 10-year-old boy in Brooksville, Florida saw a hovering UFO at least 50 feet in diameter. It had red lights and a searchlight like beam, which responded to their flashlight signals. Inside a lighted dome were 6-10 occupants dressed in green coveralls standing around a control panel. They waved at the witnesses. The two boys felt a numbness and stinging sensation in their arms and wrists. When the UFO departed, it emitted a sound like a swarm of bees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-11, citing William H. Lefevre, Florida UFO Study Group Source ID: Johnson_1136 Source: Johnson ### Event 15100 (ECBEA589) Date: 2/27/1971 Description: Matt Dickson of Lawton, Oklahoma heard something out the front of his house early this evening. He looked out and in the dark caught a glimpse of a vaguely human-like figure kneeling on the front lawn near a nearby empty fishpond. Curious, Dickson decided to find out who the stranger was. He stepped out on his front porch for a better look and was terrified to see a wolf-like man attempting to scoop up puddles of water from the bottom of the fish pond, crouched on its hands and knees. The sight was so shocking that Dickson suffered a heart attack and had to be rushed to Comanche County Memorial Hospital. In a report to the police Dickson described the creature as tall, with a lot of hair all over its face and body. It was dressed in an indescribable manner. Others saw the same or similar creature that same night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 3004, citing Sharon Jarvis, Dark Zones Source ID: Johnson_1156 Source: Johnson ### Event 15101 (6DD4DDDE) Date: 3/2/1971 Description: At 7:45 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO, illuminated green from the inside, flew low and fast over the town of Vannes, France shooting off toward the north. One hour later a large bluish-green top-shaped UFO, surrounded by a glowing aura, was seen in Dorking, England. Inside the object was a red ball, which twisted and turned, shooting off sparks. It flew in a straight path to the west, but at one point completely vanished. There were five witnesses total, including independent witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean-F Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 65; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 25, citing the Dorking Investigator Source ID: Johnson_1253 Source: Johnson ### Event 15102 (C527C03E) Date: 3/2/1971 Description: [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) testifies as an expert in atmospheric physics at the House Committee on Appropriations hearings on the Concorde supersonic transport and its potentially harmful effects. His opponents question his credentials and ridicule him as someone who believes in “little men flying around in the sky.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 701 Source ID: Eberhart_4789 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15103 (398848DC) Date: 3/2/1971 Description: In Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont, Belgium at 7:40 p.m. several people witnessed a silent, delta-shaped object fly low over Route E41 toward the southwest. Five minutes later in Nivelles, Belgium a long cigar-shaped UFO with two tail fins and red lights front and aft, with white lights on top of each of the two fins, was seen for 30 minutes. In La Louviere, Belgium at 7:50 p.m. a dark rectangular UFO with a triangle of lights moved slowly and silently through the sky. It turned in flew toward the north-northwest. In Nivelles, Belgium again at 8:05 p.m. a nocturnal light swung in a pendulum motion over a major highway intersection. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Bougard, Inforespace, February 1975, pp. 22-24 Source ID: Johnson_1254 Source: Johnson ### Event 15104 (11E66103) Date: 3/5/1971 Description: Gilbert Camus, a radio technician, was driving to his shop in Savigny, Jura department, France at 1:10 a.m. He was between Trenal and Condamine when he noticed lights ahead on the right side of the road. As he approached, he saw that these were on a line of eight bluish luminescent rectangles on the ground in a marshy meadow beside the road. Above them he could distinguish, in the moonlight, a flattened hemispherical dome, apparently of dark metal, about 25 feet high and 50 feet wide.

When he got closer to the object he saw three "animals" on all fours climbing up the road bank. Their heads were level with his windshield so they "must have been of great stature." Their heads were shaped like an ant's with "a rounded lobe flanked by two other lobes swelling out like cheeks." He saw no faces. In the meadow he could see about 20 more of these beings, some upright and others on all fours. His car had just passed them when it filled with a bluish white light from behind, as if a "ray" had been projected at him. He lost control of the car, which spontaneously slowed down to about 12 mph, then recovered its initial speed when he reached the outskirts of Condamine. Later, when he took off his clothes he found on his shirt, below the belt line, several golden yellow rectangles about 1" by 2". These disappeared after a few minutes. Three days later similar chocolate brown rectangular marks appeared on his undershirt, and these persisted through 3 or 4 washings.

The paint began to come off his car when he washed it. Most surprisingly, he found himself cured of a liver ailment, which until then had been giving him excruciating headaches. A semi-elliptical imprint was found in the meadow the next day about an inch deep, with a long axis of about 36 feet. Inside the circle dandelions, abundant elsewhere in the meadow were absent, and where it crossed a drainage ditch the ice in the ditch had melted, and the water still seemed warm. At the edge of the woods beside the ground marks a large tree branch was freshly broken off. In the snow were footprints like those of "shoes without heels", some as big as 16" long. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-39, citing M. Tyrode and Fernand Legarde Source ID: Johnson_1316 Source: Johnson ### Event 15105 (3EFE7595) Date: 3/8/1971 Description: The Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI burgles an FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania, takes several dossiers, and exposes the FBI COINTELPRO program by passing this material to news agencies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27%5FCommission%5Fto%5FInvestigate%5Fthe%5FFBI)” Source ID: Eberhart_4790 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15106 (AEDF36EB) Date: 3/14/1971 Description: 4:00 p.m. Five silver objects, four of them in a box formation with a fifth leading, are seen over Christies Beach, Adelaide, South Australia. Filaments fall. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_4791 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15107 (3D1A62A5) Date: 3/14/1971 Description: Two young men, Brian Scott and Nick Corbin, were in the Superstition Mountains, near Apache Junction, Arizona to gather snakes. During that night, at 9:06 p.m., they saw a light coming towards them over the mountains. As it approached they had a missing time memory loss, and their next recollection was that they were hastily leaving the campsite two hours later.

During a hypnosis session five years later Scott described how the object approached and hovered over them. It was emitting a purplish light from underneath, and he felt a "pulsating, pulling feeling" as the two men were lifted up into the craft. They were separated once they were inside, and Scott was led by a 7 foot tall entity down a corridor to a door which "shattered" when they entered through it. On the other side was a small room filled with mist, where he encountered 4 or 5 similar beings, 7 foot tall and with grayish skin similar to that of a crocodile, and with 3 fingered hands. The room was cold and the mist emanated from vents in the floor.

Scott was stripped and placed against a very brightly lit wall panel. A machine directly in front of him appeared to "scan" him, and a new 9-foot-tall entity communicated with him telepathically and asked why he was afraid. His mind was briefly transported to some other worldly environment, presumably the being's home planet. The beings that examined him had huge ears, no hair, and slit-like mouths. Their feet were elephant like, with three broad toes. When the examination was completed, Scott was reunited with his friend and they were both returned to the ground with no conscious memory of what had taken place. However, they both felt an unspecified terror to such a degree that they immediately packed their gear and returned to town. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alvin H. Lawson and William McCall, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 141-143; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-12 (A1109); CUFOS files, newspaper clipping dated February 13, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_1487 Source: Johnson ### Event 15108 (A34A3F3F) Date: 3/15/1971 Description: 3:10 p.m. Several silvery-white balls are seen in the air over Maslin Beach, Adelaide, South Australia. White “fairy floss” is found on the ground that tends to melt and disappear when picked up. It is extremely light and tenuous. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_4792 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15109 (32B36955) Date: 3/25/1971 Description: At 12:30 a.m. six soldiers stationed at a radar base at Monte Pani, Cabo De Creus, Spain were alerted by another soldier to a fiery red, disc-shaped craft moving slowly over the area. The guard dogs began howling, and the men all watched as the UFO suddenly shot away at high speed. Moments later one of the soldiers screamed in pain from a sudden bright flash that seemed to come from the ocean nearby. Meanwhile one of the soldiers released one of the guard dogs, a wolfhound with a fierce disposition, that was going crazy inside his cage. The dog ran immediately towards some nearby buildings and was followed closely by two of the men. The dog slowed down and began to grow menacingly, and one of the men felt heavy static in the air and his tongue began to itch. Both men then heard a loud noise coming from some nearby bushes. They saw a huge bulky figure that seemed to move clumsily among the brush. The men yelled at the figure to stop but it changed directions and began moving away quickly. Seconds later the men heard another noise and felt something heavy moving towards them. They fired their weapons in the direction of the noise and everything became silent. A search of the area the next day proved fruitless. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 1417, citing Antonio Ribera, Los Doce Triangulos De La Muerte Source ID: Johnson_1655 Source: Johnson ### Event 15110 (2DDD9580) Date: 3/25/1971 Description: At 8:10 p.m. two girls riding ponies in Denton, England saw a bright orange cross in the sky emitting sparks. It followed them to the end of a road, then vanished with a bang. One of the ponies was spooked by the explosion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March 1972, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_1656 Source: Johnson ### Event 15111 (95D9E9FF) Date: 3/27/1971 Description: Over Highway 21 in Waltham, Massachusetts at 8:20 p.m. a mushroom or jellyfish-shaped UFO, glowing white, hovered and dimmed leaving behind blinking white lights. It streaked away and was gone in a few seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 357 Source ID: Johnson_1695 Source: Johnson ### Event 15112 (52B94C30) Date: 4/1971 Description: Industrial Research magazine publishes the results of a survey in which 80% of its members reject the Condon report, 76% believe that the government is concealing UFO facts, and 32% accept the ETH. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, [pp. 234–235](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh/page/234/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4793 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15113 (88CC31D5) Date: 4/1971 Description: UFO Research Associates in Washington, D.C., begins publication of the UFO Research Newsletter, edited by [Gordon I. R. Lore Jr](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/lore-gordon/95941)[.](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/lore-gordon/95941) It runs until September 1980. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO Research Newsletter](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Research%20Newsletter%20%28Lore%29/UFO%20Research%20Newsletter%20-%201971%2004%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2001.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(April 1971\) Source ID: Eberhart_4794 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15114 (63D6FB6E) Date: 4/1971 Description: [James McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) shoots himself in the head, leaving him blind, and is committed to the psychiatric ward of the V.A. Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. He has been depressed about his disintegrating marriage. He signs himself out in June. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 701 Source ID: Eberhart_4796 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15115 (CB68572E) Date: 4/1971 Description: [Hoover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FEdgar%5FHoover) terminates the COINTELPRO program, but the FBI continues to use similar tactics from time to time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO\#Later%5Fsimilar%5Foperations)” Source ID: Eberhart_4795 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15116 (A47EAE4F) Date: 4/2/1971 Description: In 1971, a middle-aged man in Greenhill, New South Wales, Australia was standing in his kitchen at around 10 p.m. when he noticed a small entity standing outside. The man, an Australian aborigine, next felt a sucking force that pulled him outside, smashing him through a glass window that had an iron bar across it with a clearance of less than a foot. His wife, hearing the pane of glass breaking, entered the kitchen in time to see her 5' 2" husband disappearing horizontally through the lower pane, which was 4.5 feet from the floor. To jump through it would have been impossible, as it was only 32 inches wide and only 10 inches in height, and fronted upon the kitchen sink. The distance to the ground outside was seven feet. The man was terrified, yet he could not run from the strange being out of fear. Instead, he went towards it. He was discovered on the ground by a relative, cut and bruised, seven feet away from the smashed glass. This strange occurrence took place only hours after a number of people in nearby Kempsey had observed a strange bright light in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1971, p. 3; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-13, citing Miss Patricia Riggs Source ID: Johnson_1800 Source: Johnson ### Event 15117 (8E71CCCD) Date: 4/2/1971 Description: After 10:00 p.m. Following several sightings of a bright light in the sky at West Kempsey, New South Wales, an aboriginal man at Greenhill sees a hairless face pressed up against his kitchen window. Immediately he is “sucked out” through the window and falls 7 feet to the steps below. Frightened but largely unhurt, he runs away and his wife pursues him. She takes him to the hospital where a cut on his hand is treated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Eileen Buckle, “[Defenestration at Kempsey,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201971%20V%2017%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1971\): 20–21 Source ID: Eberhart_4797 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15118 (D13592AA) Date: 4/9/1971 Description: A well known UFO photograph was taken on this day by a geographical survey plane in Costa Rica. The survey plane was taking a series of aerial photographs at 10,000 feet when at 8:25 a.m. it captured an image of a conical, disc-shaped UFO emerging from a lake called Lago de Cote. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_1929 Source: Johnson ### Event 15119 (73AB16C0) Date: 4/13/1971 Description: 9:30 p.m. Witness reported an incredible UFO sighting in Mexico while on vacation in Sonora. One night a brillant electric blue UFO flew right by the window of the motel where they were staying. (ufoevidence.org,Unevaluated) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [710413](http://www.ufoevidence.org/sightings/report.asp?ID=9435) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hermissio Sonora (near), Mexico Source ID: NICAP_DB_4047 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15120 (204A8283) Date: 4/14/1971 Description: CIA Director [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) gives a rare public address in which he insists that the CIA does not surveil domestic mail. However, the HTLINGUAL program, which is still in effect until 1973, does so. The New York City component of the program alone examines more than 2 million mailed items every year, photographs 30,000 envelopes, and opens 8,000–9,000 letters. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[HTLINGUAL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTLINGUAL)” Source ID: Eberhart_4798 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15121 (94074688) Date: 4/14/1971 Description: At around 8:00 p.m. Marion L. and Dennis D., an engaged couple, were driving near Evans City, Pennsylvania when they saw a yellow white light drop behind a nearby hill. They drove to the location on a dirt road and found a luminous object hovering just above the ground over a ploughed field, 80 yards away. It was 25-30 feet in diameter and shaped like a large bowl inverted over a smaller one. It had a series of rectangular, vertical windows in the upper half and round portholes below the rim. There was a red flickering glow from one of the upper windows, and Miss L. perceived two human like figures silhouetted in them. The figures appeared to be very tall, perhaps about 10 feet in height. Frightened, they drove away quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-14, citing Robert A Schmidt & D. Hillman for UFORI Source ID: Johnson_2010 Source: Johnson ### Event 15122 (416E5F01) Date: 4/14/1971 Description: Close-range sighting of disc with windows, two humanoid figures visible inside, light beam upward from top (UFOE II, Section VI). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gallery, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4048 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15123 (926EB46A) Date: 4/14/1971 Description: Close-range sighting of disc with windows, two humanoid figures visible inside, light beam upward from top Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Callery, PA Source ID: HallUFOE2_198 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15124 (BCF73999) Date: 4/15/1971 Description: Two forestry workers, Morel and Hay, were driving through the forest west of Taupo, New Zealand on a cloudy evening around 9 p.m. when they encountered a large cone-shaped object with rotating lights on its rim. It followed their car for over three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1971, p. 6; Data-Net Report, September 1971 Source ID: Johnson_2029 Source: Johnson ### Event 15125 (DB3AEB9B) Date: 4/18/1971 Description: Dusk. A man and a woman while driving on a rural road north of Pittsburgh, observed a football-shaped object resting on the ground or deployed just a few feet above the ground. The observation was made at a distance of approximately 80 yards. (UFO Investigator / May 1971, page 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pittsburgh, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4049 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15126 (D9963A4D) Date: 4/23/1971 Description: At 8:30 a.m. Mrs. French, a school teacher in the mountains of Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia sighted a fiery orangish-red ball of light that showed white and trailed behind it a very long cigar-shaped object, flying from the east to the southwest. As the same time, to the northwest of Kempsey in Collambatti Rail, New South Wales three 13-year-old boys with the last names of Fuller and Donnelly saw a silvery ovoid UFO with four legs or landing gear fly overhead. The legs had what looked like landing pads at the ends of them, and the object gave off flames and exhaust. It may have landed remotely. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1971, p. 4; Eileen Buckle, FSR Case Histories, December 1971, pp. 1-2, citing the Macleay Argus, April 24, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_2256 Source: Johnson ### Event 15127 (4DD8E871) Date: 4/24/1971 Description: Mrs. F, a woman from Greenacre, New South Wales, Australia and her 13-year-old daughter were going home by taxi at 7:30 p.m. On passing Roberts Park they saw an object hovering over the lighted field where youths were playing football. The field lights formed a king of "ceiling" over the field and is unlikely that had they looked up, the players could have seen anything. The object was "football shaped," the interior light being "the brightest blue imaginable." The top portion of the UFO was transparent and the bottom was a greenish metallic "like gun metal" color with three large transparent portholes. The object was tilted downward at an angle revealing three tall humanoid figures, over six feet tall, in the transparent upper half of the UFO. One of the occupants pointed down at the witness and then turned toward a rectangular, lighted area. Mrs F. asked the cabbie, a Greek immigrant, to stop the taxi, but he accelerated away and drove them straight to her home without stopping. He left in a frightened state without collecting his fare. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-15, citing Keith Basterfield Source ID: Johnson_2281 Source: Johnson ### Event 15128 (47A777E7) Date: 4/25/1971 Description: About 9:00 p.m. a woman near Pottstown, Pennsylvania spotted a luminous object over a farmer's field while driving on a rural road. It was a very bright, pulsating light. It would move and stop, move and stop, in a jerking manner. She first thought the object was something conventional like an aircraft light, but its strange motion seemed to belie that explanation. The woman stopped the car next to the field and just studied the object. The object was about as high as the light on a radio tower. She rolled down her window see if there was any engine noise, but there was none. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1971, page 3 Source ID: Johnson_2299 Source: Johnson ### Event 15129 (C3E0542C) Date: 4/25/1971 Description: About 9:00 p.m. A woman spotted a luminous object over a farmer's field while driving on a rural road. It was a very bright, pulsating light. It would move and stop, move and stop, in a jerking manner. ( UFO Investigator, May 1971, page 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pottstown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4050 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15130 (51C1DB36) Date: 4/30/1971 Description: At 7:45 p.m. Mr. Abrahamsson and his family saw a 10 meter wide domed disc with a transparent dome fly slowly toward the northwest at 60 kph in Asenhoga, Sweden. It had small portholes along the side, and a green light. In Huskvarna, Sweden two married couples also saw a large cigar-shaped object at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) GICOFF Sweden, May 1971, p. 16; Sven-Olof Fredrickson, FSR, September-October 1971, p. 9; (2) GICOFF Sweden, September 1971, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_2428 Source: Johnson ### Event 15131 (23303753) Date: 4/30/1971 Description: 11:50 p.m. Herb Williams was filling a truck with diesel fuel at the Ready-Mix Plant at 2090 Washington, on the west side of Carlyle, when he saw the object approximately 100 feet above the ground. (MUFON) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [710430](http://www.nicap.org/carlyle710430dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carlyle, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4051 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15132 (A3AAC0BE) Date: 5/1971 Description: [Oswald G. Villard Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald%5FGarrison%5FVillard%5FJr)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald%5FGarrison%5FVillard%5FJr) [Antony C. Fraser-Smith](https://nova.stanford.edu/people/frasersmith.html)[,](https://nova.stanford.edu/people/frasersmith.html) and R. P. Cassam write an article at the request of the Office of Naval Research and the Advanced Research Projects Agency that explores whether long-delayed radio echoes could be attributable to an extraterrestrial probe. They consider it possible but inefficient. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Oswald G. Villard, et al., “Long-Delayed Echoes: Radio’s ‘Flying Saucer’ Effect,” QST 53 \(May 1969\): 38; Oswald G. Villard, Antony C. Fraser-Smith, and R. P. Cassam, “LDEs, Hoaxes, and the Cosmic Repeater Hypothesis,” QST 55 \(May 1971\): 54–58; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_4799 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15133 (F205D999) Date: 5/1971 Description: The Société Belge d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux is established in Brussels, Belgium, by [Lucien Clarebaut](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/Inforespace/)[.](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/Inforespace/) It publishes the journal Inforespace from 1972 to 2007. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Comité Belge d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux, “[Qui](http://www.cobeps.org/fr/historique.html) [sommes-nous?](http://www.cobeps.org/fr/historique.html)”; [Inforespace](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/Inforespace/Inforespace%20-%20No%2001%20-%201972.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/Inforespace/Inforespace%20-%20No%2001%20-%201972.pdf) no. 1 \(1972\) Source ID: Eberhart_4800 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15134 (8854F5D0) Date: 5/1971 Description: 6:00 a.m. A 16-mm film is allegedly taken of retrieved UFOs at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico. It supposedly shows “three disc-shaped craft,” one of which lands and the other two fly away. A door opens on the landed vehicle and three human-sized beings emerge with an odd, gray complexion and pronounced noses. They wear tight-fitting jump suits and thin headdresses that appear to be communication devices. In their hands they hold a “translator.” A Holloman base commander and other Air Force officials go out to meet them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms, Howe Productions, 1989; Clark III 357 Source ID: Eberhart_4801 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15135 (05D4131F) Date: 5/1971 Description: 7:30 p.m. Alojz Krz comes across a UFO sitting on three legs in a shallow hollow in a field near Stara Cerkev, Slovenia. He approaches within 65 feet of it, and it frightens him considerably. Around 8:00 p.m., 17-year-old Angela Rajhs is bicycling in the same area and watches the landed object for 4–5 minutes. As she is cycling away, the object takes off, turning in a wide spiral. Rajhs returns to the scene with her parents the next day and finds several pointed holes in the ground about 6–8 inches in diameter. The nearby grass seems burned. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Milos Kremelj, “[Close View of Landed Craft,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%204%20no%204%20-%201977.pdf)” Canadian UFO Report 4, no. 4 \(Summer 1977\): 9–10 Source ID: Eberhart_4802 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15136 (8698E833) Date: 5/1/1971 Description: Motion picture film was shot of a blazing saucer-shaped object over Mar del Plata, Argentina between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. Many witnesses of this seaside city watched as the object hovered for several minutes, maneuvered in the sky, and then arched away to the west. The photographer's name was Lenzi. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1971; FSR, July 1973, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_2441 Source: Johnson ### Event 15137 (4F93DBA4) Date: 5/2/1971 Description: Bobby Ford was outside his home in Jonesville, Arkansas on this night when he was grabbed by a huge hairy creature with claws, and pulled to the ground. After a brief struggle he escaped from his assailant. He was treated at a Texarkana hospital for scratches and shock. Footprints were discovered on Ford's property. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case #2960, citing Ron Schaffner Source ID: Johnson_2457 Source: Johnson ### Event 15138 (F1072B7A) Date: 5/3/1971 Description: At 10:10 p.m. in Stara Cervka, Slovenia an eight-meter long egg-shaped object landed on three legs for five minutes. It spiraled upward on takeoff. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9805, citing FSR, volume 30, number 3 and FSR, v24, #3 Source ID: Johnson_2474 Source: Johnson ### Event 15139 (42FF4DCD) Date: 5/8/1971 Description: The witness, a resident of Houston, Texas who lives not far from the NASA Space Flight Center, and a lady member of the UFO investigators group APRO, went to her window at 3:30 a.m. and saw three short figures about five feet tall walking by in single file. All wore tight fitting, light blue sports shirts and dark trousers, and had "pale complexions and mousy hair." They appeared to be "intently engrossed." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1971, p. 4; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-16, citing APRO Bulletin Source ID: Johnson_2658 Source: Johnson ### Event 15140 (5BAC5B5F) Date: 5/9/1971 Description: A black cone-shaped object was photographed over the Vermillion River Observatory in Illinois at 11:15 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sherman Larsen case investigation files, report dated January 17, 1972; Skylook, March 1972, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_2688 Source: Johnson ### Event 15141 (F9CA5F9F) Date: 5/12/1971 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a 25 foot long ovoid UFO was seen near a house in Elizabeth, New Jersey for two minutes. It made no sound. It made a weaving motion through the sky as it flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9276 Source ID: Johnson_2764 Source: Johnson ### Event 15142 (9857E3BA) Date: 5/15/1971 Description: Fifteen-year-old Michael D. of Passapatanzy, West Virginia was on his way home with his dog after camping out the previous day with two other boys. He was crossing a grassy field at 10:00 p.m. when he saw a bright object slowly approach at a low altitude, passing over some high-tension wires that crossed the field. He crouched down in some tall grass as the object landed with a bounce, about 100 feet away. The silvery UFO was higher than it was wide and had a "walkway" that ran around its circumference. It had red and white revolving lights on top and made a humming noise. A door "came down" out of which emerged a "huge" figure who was hunched over and walked in a "stiff legged, bouncing" fashion. The humanoid being had long arms and wore shiny, light reflecting clothing. In one hand it held a glowing box. The humanoid giant appeared to be approaching the tall grassy area where Michael was hiding, so the teenage ordered his dog to attack the figure. The being then turned and re-boarded the craft, and within a couple of minutes it took off. His companions from the camping expedition came and found Michael a short time later still in the grass, moaning and very frightened. The next day seven holes where found in the ground at the site. They were 2.5 inches wide at the top and a foot deep into the soil. Two days later, Michael and several other family members saw a bright disc-shaped object, which had been pursuing his sisters as they drove in a car up the long driveway to their house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Carlson, NICAP UFO Investigor, May 1972 p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-17, citing John Carlson and Bruce Maccabee for NICAP Source ID: Johnson_2858 Source: Johnson ### Event 15143 (1546B6B3) Date: 5/15/1971 Description: 10:00 p.m. Michael D, 15, was on his way home after camping out with two other boys; while crossing a grassy field, alone, he saw a bright object slowly approaching at low altitude, passing over some high-tension wires that crossed the field. A door 'came down" out of which emerged a "huge" figure, who was hunched over, had long arms, and wore shiny, light reflecting clothing. (Humcat 1971-17; John Carlson, Bruce Maccabee for NICAP) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Passapatanzy, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_4052 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15144 (3E09D144) Date: 5/16/1971 Description: 9:30 p.m. Four witnesses observed an object after power failed in their house. Saturn type UFO, high frequency sound, 20 Mins. House size silver ball illuminated brilliant red, green, blue,and white lights around it on rim. Moved at tractor speed, hovered over hog farmyard setting off pandamonium in dogs, chickens, pigs, and parrott. (Ted Phillips) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chesterton, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4053 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15145 (34A59DD5) Date: 5/16/1971 Description: At 9:30 p.m. four witnesses of the Whitlock family in Anderson, Indiana observed an unidentified aerial object after the power failed in their house. It was a Saturn-shaped UFO, making a high frequency sound. The object was the size of a house. The body of the object was a silver ball illuminated by brilliant red, green, blue and white lights around its rim. It moved at tractor speed, and then hovered over the hog farmyard, setting off pandemonium of howling, squacking, and squealing by the dogs, chickens, pigs, and a parrot. The witnesses suffered vibration, numbness, and fear. They fled back into their house which had been rendered powerless. The entire incident lasted 20 minutes. A tree died at the site of the UFO's closest approach. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case # 473 Source ID: Johnson_2894 Source: Johnson ### Event 15146 (206C8711) Date: 5/19/1971 Description: On this morning in Mangere, New Zealand Mr. R. Gray sighted an elongated metallic object, quite bright like metal reflecting sun, that appeared in the sky over Penrose; it moved away and down slowly for 5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Auckland (New Zealand) Truth, June 15, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_2981 Source: Johnson ### Event 15147 (FA5DE14C) Date: 5/21/1971 Description: A man was driving home near West Leisenring, Pennsylvania at 1:10 a.m. and he had just rounded a bend in the rural road when he noticed an unusual object hovering 20 feet above the ground. The craft was disc shaped with a dome on top and an antenna like protrusion. It had a door like opening to the left of its center; the opening emitted an reddish orange glow from inside. It also emitted a faint humming sound. He stopped his car to watch, and after two minutes he saw a figure walk back and forth within the doorway of the object. The humanoid being was dressed in a grayish white metallic suit with a hood and stood about six feet tall. The craft itself was dull gray in color and appeared to have burnt areas along the bottom. The witness, sitting behind the wheel of his vehicle, turned his head to his left and saw a similarly garbed figure only three feet way from the driver's door. He then heard a click and two seconds later a blast threw him against the vehicle's console. A loud explosion moved the car forward and the witness drove away as fast as he could. He then drove to the emergency room of a local hospital where he was treated with what looked like pellet wounds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 247, citing Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Journal, issue #189 Source ID: Johnson_3021 Source: Johnson ### Event 15148 (389E05B5) Date: 5/21/1971 Description: 1:10 a.m. A man was returning home when as he was rounding a bend in a rural road he noticed an unusual object hovering about 20 feet above the ground. The craft was saucer shaped with a dome on top and an antenna like protrusion. After two minutes the witness saw a figure walk back and forth in the opening of the object. The figure was dressed in a gray white metallic suit with a hood and was about six-foot tall. (Stan Gordon, Mufon Journal # 189). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: West Leisenring (near), PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4054 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15149 (97DC719A) Date: 5/23/1971 Description: 12:30 p.m. Rudi Nagora and his wife are driving near Sankt Lorenzen ob Eibiswald, Styria, Austria, for a Sunday outing. Nagora gets out of the car and hears a whizzing sound and sees a silver, metallic object overhead moving in a zigzag pattern. He takes 11 consecutive color photographs of it over a 10-minute period. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “An Analysis of Multiple UAP Photographic Images \(May 23, 1971, Austrian Alps\),” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 31–70 Source ID: Eberhart_4803 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15150 (7A1E939C) Date: 5/23/1971 Description: Twelve photographs were taken of a silverly metallic disc in St. Lorenzen, Austria at 12:30 p.m. The disc was estimated to be 12 to 15 meters in diameter and was seen moving in and out of clouds. It jumped from location to location, and appeared to be spinning when hovering. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Nachrichten (Germany), September 1971 Source ID: Johnson_3049 Source: Johnson ### Event 15151 (6D4DC0F2) Date: 5/24/1971 Description: In Mendoza, Argentina an incandescent orange Saturn-shaped object descended, discharged a dense cloud, then darted sideways at 12:10 p.m. It rocked back-forth in the sky while hovering, and then shot upward at an angle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1971, p. 1; Antonio Baragiola, FSR, March 1972, p. 7; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_3069 Source: Johnson ### Event 15152 (25399FFD) Date: 5/24/1971 Description: 12:10 p.m. Retired artist [Julio Suárez Marzal](https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/suarez.php) is in the first-floor dental office of Walter Griehl on the Avenida Pedro Molina in Mendoza, Argentina, when they see a flattened, Saturn-shaped object about a half-mile away to the south. Griehl goes to retrieve some binoculars and misses most of the sighting. It is an incandescent dark orange in color and moving from east to west. It begins floating down with a rocking movement and approaches to within 230 feet. Suárez Marzal sees that it is revolving because of a small circular mark on its rim. A dense cloud issues from the object and surrounds it, turning it pearly gray with a faintly bluish sheen. As it gets closer, the circular mark seems to extend like a bronze-colored cylinder and has a handle-like protuberance on top. At one point it moves away to the northeast and disappears for 4 seconds but reappears even closer, only 130 feet away. It remains stationary for 10 seconds, and the cylinder seems deliberately pointed toward the short-wave antenna on the nearby central post office. He estimates it is 18–20 feet in diameter. It continues rocking and changes shape from a globe to a hat to an oval. Then after being visible for 90 seconds it takes off suddenly to the south, leaving a trail of vapor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Antonio Baragiola, “[A Remarkable Case from Mendoza, Argentina,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201972%20V%2018%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 2 \(March/April 1972\): 7–11; François Lagarde, “[Note on the Mendoza Report,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201972%20V%2018%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 2 \(March/April 1972\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_4804 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15153 (8EF73A3F) Date: 5/24/1971 Description: Saturn-shaped object darted around, rocked back and forth while hovering, rapid acceleration upward at angle (UFOE II, Section VI). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mendoza, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_4055 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15154 (66029FED) Date: 5/24/1971 Description: Saturn-shaped object darted around, rocked back and forth while hovering, rapid acceleration upward at angle Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Mendoza, Argentina Source ID: HallUFOE2_199 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15155 (3EC18562) Date: 5/25/1971 Description: 2:00 a.m. Mr. C. Archer is woken up in his home at Lynchford, Tasmania, by his dogs barking and a strange humming noise like a generator. He can’t see anything outside and after 30 minutes the humming stops. The next day, a flattened area of grass and blackberries is found about 600 feet from the house. It is about 30 by 15 feet with a spiral pattern in the middle and 6 regularly placed indentations. Later, another set of similar indentations is found, roughly in the shape of a triangle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: W. K. Roberts, “[Burst of UFO Activity in Tasmania,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201971%20N%207.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 9 \(October 1971\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_4805 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15156 (5575BBDE) Date: 5/25/1971 Description: Luminous white disc passed over car, bright illumination; lights dimmed, engine lost power. Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, Suppl. 11, August 1972, pp. 9- 11 (E,R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ibstock, Leicestershire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4056 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15157 (C4065FC3) Date: 5/25/1971 Description: At 10:50 p.m. Mrs. Rose was driving down a road in Belchar's Bar, England when her car headlights dimmed, the engine lost power, and a transistor radio died. An amber colored, disc-shaped object was close to the highway only 30 meters away, and it approached slowly and bathed her car in light as it passed over. When 110 meters away from the object her car's power came back fully. No other vehicles were in the area at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoffrey Coxon, FSR Case Histories, August 1972, p. 9; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 253 Source ID: Johnson_3088 Source: Johnson ### Event 15158 (7554C4C5) Date: 5/27/1971 Description: A greenish domed disc was seen at dusk in Itaperuna, Brazil. When the witness approached the object to investigate he ran into an invisible barrier ten meters away from it, that knocked him down and caused him to lose consciousness. The landing site had burnt grass. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, March-April 1972, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_3121 Source: Johnson ### Event 15159 (43010F5D) Date: 5/29/1971 Description: 4:00 a.m. EDT. A shiny black "discus" that hovered, gyrated, and flipped over on its side was reported to have been observed at a recreational area near Oxford. (UFO Investigator / July 1971, page 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oxford (near), MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4057 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15160 (18605192) Date: 5/29/1971 Description: At 4:00 a.m. four men out fishing on Buffumville Reservoir in Oxford, Massachusetts were approached twice by a dark, domed disc-shaped object that had a lighted rectangular window. It flipped on edge to reveal a row of glowing ports around its peimeter. The object moved up-and-down and back and forth in a pendulum motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Spencer (Massachusetts) Leader, June 3, 1971; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 357 Source ID: Johnson_3151 Source: Johnson ### Event 15161 (6CAC6154) Date: 5/30/1971 Description: A woman was cutting grass for her rabbits in Dannes, Pas-de-Calais, France at 2:05 p.m. when she sighted a dark UFO in a large chalk quarry about half a mile away. The object was shaped like an overturned basin and was hovering near the ground. Beside it a small being with a large head was moving about, and it looked like he might have been collecting chalk samples. After approximately ten minutes he was "sucked up" into the object, which took off at once. No ground traces were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-41 (A1115), citing Rene Bazin, Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1972; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 359 Source ID: Johnson_3170 Source: Johnson ### Event 15162 (47DF69F4) Date: 5/31/1971 Description: Two witnesses sighted a grayish white upright egg-shaped object with dark ports around its perimeter. It hovered a few feet above the ground in plain view in front of trees before ascending straight up and out of sight. (Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pages 175-180, 340.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newmarket, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4058 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15163 (B5845D2A) Date: 5/31/1971 Description: In 1971 at 1:10 in the afternoon, two witnesses In Newmarket, New Hampshire sighted a grayish white ovoid object, hovering in an upright orientation a few feet above the ground. It had dark portholes around its perimeter, and was in plain view in front of some trees for a few minutes before shooting straight up and out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors. Jericho, New York: Exposition Press, 1974, p. 357 Source ID: Johnson_3184 Source: Johnson ### Event 15164 (A94C698A) Date: 6/1971 Alternate date: 7/1971 Description: 8:30 p.m. The aircraft carrier [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FJohn%5FF.%5FKennedy%5F%28CV-67%29) [John F. Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FJohn%5FF.%5FKennedy%5F%28CV-67%29) is completing an Operational Readiness Exercise in the Caribbean Sea when an incident occurs following an 18-hour period simulating General Quarters. Yeoman Third Class James M. Kopf is in the Communications Center monitoring messages on various teletypes. Suddenly all the messages begin coming in garbled and he hears that all ship communications are out, including the radar, compasses, and electrical systems. A signalman from the deck tells them over the intercom that something is hovering above the ship. Kopf and others rush topside and see a huge, pulsating, orangish sphere stationed silently above the ship at a 60°–70° angle. The object remains about 20 minutes, but Kopf sees it only one minute before General Quarters sounds and he needs to return to his battle stations. The two F-4 Phantom jets on high readiness alert cannot take off. Soon the messaging returns to normal and the crew stands down after 2 hours. Kopf thinks only about 18 men witnessed the object out of the 5,000 on the carrier, because everyone is exhausted from the exercise. He hears that commanding officer Capt. [Ferdinand B. Koch](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48771910/ferdinand-brailler-koch) is frustrated by the event, but two days later Koch reminds the crew that certain events are to be considered classified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 285–288](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/284/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4806 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15165 (37499F1B) Date: 6/1971 Description: Humanoid report. No details except witness' name, which was King. (EGBA, 680) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sharpsville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4059 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15166 (90B302CF) Date: 6/5/1971 Description: In 1971 an airliner crew reported sighting four metallic cigar-shaped objects, each about 6 meters in length, flying rapidly toward the west. The objects passed only 90 meters away from the aircraft, and left no contrails. Ground radar confirmed their presence. At 10:30 p.m. a man saw three lights-red, white and blue-land among some trees two miles from Norwood, Tasmania. They then took off in a flash the color of a skyrocket. Landing traces were found at the sight, including a 10-foot wide irregularly shaped flattened area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8308; Launceston Tasmania Examiner, June 5, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_3301 Source: Johnson ### Event 15167 (C4AA7060) Date: 6/9/1971 Description: Evening. Esther Clappison sees a light through her windows in Rosedale, Alberta, and goes out onto her porch and sees a rectangular object on the ground. One end of it is open, revealing a diffused, white light. Two human- like forms are moving about inside. A third figure is outside in a crouched position, picking up rocks. They all appear to be wearing drab-green coveralls. She goes inside briefly, but the object is gone when she returns. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 67–69 Source ID: Eberhart_4807 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15168 (C105F964) Date: 6/9/1971 Description: Mr. & Mrs. Alvarez reported that a seven meter in diameter dome-shaped object illuminated an area 250 meters wide as it flew silently and very close to the ground in Aznalcazar, Sevilla, Spain while they were driving in the area at 9:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 142, citing Manuel Osuna Llorente Source ID: Johnson_3389 Source: Johnson ### Event 15169 (393FC881) Date: 6/9/1971 Description: At 8:50 p.m. Miss Esther Clappison or Rosedale, Alberta noticed a light outside her home and went to the window. She saw what looked like a rectangular window that she judged was about 200 feet away, illuminated from within by a white light. It was on a darkened object whose shaped she could not make out, but she believed was resting on the ground. In the window was a man less that five feet tall dressed in olive green coveralls. The outfit completely covered him, even his face. He seemed to be aware of the witness and he used his body and arm to conceal some sort of instrument panel. He seemed to be trying to attract the attention of another humanoid figure outside the object, visible in the light from the window, who was stooped over and picking up rocks from the ground. She wanted to get closer to get a better look, but her dog would not let her. Trembling and cowering, the dog forced his mistress back inside the house. After the object left the grass at the landing site was charred black over an area 20 feet in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Major, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 6; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-18, citing investigator William K. Allan for APRO Source ID: Johnson_3390 Source: Johnson ### Event 15170 (9F7B53AC) Date: 6/9/1971 Description: Shortly before midnight a man his driving car at the highest point on the highway north of Dunedin, New Zealand had his car's interior illuminated by a big, low flying, circular UFO. It was green in color, and was trailing a long sparkly tail of red and green particles. It came from the direction of the sea off Waikouaiti, and flew off to the southwest toward Taieri. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mataoru Ensign, June 11, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_3388 Source: Johnson ### Event 15171 (FF0B7BD9) Date: 6/9/1971 Description: An oblong shaped UFO was seen in the sky over the shore at Morgans' Point, Texas at 11:30 p.m. by a man named Churchill. It "glowed brilliantly pink and then faded" 4 or 5 times as it flew. It was visible for 90 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Austin American-Statesman, June 12, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_3391 Source: Johnson ### Event 15172 (19A4640F) Date: 6/11/1971 Description: At 10 a.m. a five-meter in diameter, silver lenticular disc-shaped object landed beside the highway in Cuesta de las Vacas, San Juan, Argentina. It was seen on the ground by a policeman and two others for about a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1973, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_3426 Source: Johnson ### Event 15173 (64BECD8B) Date: 6/13/1971 Description: The New York Times begins publishing excerpts of the Pentagon papers, leaked by former military analyst [Daniel Ellsberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FEllsberg)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FEllsberg) which detail the secret history of the US political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Pentagon Papers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon%5FPapers\#Leak)” Source ID: Eberhart_4809 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15174 (62C8C1A9) Date: 6/13/1971 Description: 11:40 a.m. [James E. McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FE.%5FMcDonald) is found dead along a shallow creek in Tucson, Arizona, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A suicide note nearby notes his domestic problems. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ann Druffel, “Remembering James McDonald,” IUR 18, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1993\): 4–6, 23–24; Clark III 701 Source ID: Eberhart_4808 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15175 (149F6060) Date: 6/13/1971 Description: On this day in 1971, Dr. James E. McDonald, noted atmospheric physicist and UFO researcher, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head, an apparent suicide. Later that evening a disc with a circular opening in the bottom hovered over Courbevoie, France at 8:50 p.m. It tilted as it hovered, revealing beams of light directed upward into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tucson Arizona Daily Star, June 15, 1971; Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1971 Source ID: Johnson_3462 Source: Johnson ### Event 15176 (02CC5AFF) Date: 6/15/1971 Description: Tony Wilkens, a young military Vietnam veteran, told Alton, Illinois police that at 8:55 this evening a 50-foot "velvet silver" UFO with radiating green lights hovered outside his second story back porch. Two humanoid occupants of the craft "made contact" with him by mental telepathy, and they reportedly gave him a formula that would provide "the universe at his fingerprints," which he wrote out for the police. The UFOnauts also invited him to take a ride in the UFO, but he refused. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-19, citing Neal C. Butler for APRO Source ID: Johnson_3501 Source: Johnson ### Event 15177 (D9ACC510) Date: 6/18/1971 Description: At 12:55 a.m. four witnesses in a rural area of Ben Lomond, California observed the house lights flicker, then static electricity and sparking everywhere before the electrical power failed. They next observed a huge ball of light during a widespread California power blackout that lasted one hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Josephine Clark, FSR, November-December 1971, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_3536 Source: Johnson ### Event 15178 (9D99E4D4) Date: 6/21/1971 Description: A 50-foot diameter disc was seen hovering overhead on this night in Pinehurst, Idaho. It directed a beam of light down upon two witnesses, who experienced over two hours of missing time and subsequently recalled an abduction experience. They also had unexplained body marks on their limbs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9308 citing Paranet Source ID: Johnson_3582 Source: Johnson ### Event 15179 (1430B78E) Date: Summer 1971 Description: Night shift. UFO encounter over open pit uranium mine, near Conoco Oil Co. (rense.com, Unevaluated) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [71Summer](http://www.rense.com/ufo3/ufomine.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Karnes City, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_4060 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15180 (B1D35A4D) Date: 6/24/1971 Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhine, France a disc-shaped object was seen tilting in the sky at 15 meters altitude above a residential neighborhood. It leveled off, then lights were seen upon the ground. At the site a depressed circle and ground marks were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 481, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 117 Source ID: Johnson_3643 Source: Johnson ### Event 15181 (9A63D020) Date: 6/25/1971 Description: A brilliant flash of light followed by a gust of wind were seen and felt in Stewart, Minnesota at 12:30 a.m. Ducks in the area were frantic. Two 8-meter wide crop circles were discovered in a cornfield. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_3656 Source: Johnson ### Event 15182 (C445C2C5) Date: 6/26/1971 Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its third test attempt Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_rocket) Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome Source ID: Maj2_665 Source: Maj2 ### Event 15183 (D15A2C03) Date: 6/26/1971 Description: That same day a married couple from Birmingham, on holiday in Guernsey in the Channel Isles, England watched four spinning, silver daylight discs over the coastline. The discs hovered for more than a minute, climbed higher in the sky, changed formation, then shot off toward the north at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Glasgow (Scotland) Herald, June 28, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_3675 Source: Johnson ### Event 15184 (B21C6BCE) Date: 6/26/1971 Description: At 3:00 a.m. Mrs. D. Hancock heard a loud whirring sound and looked out the window of her house in Tauranga, New Zealand on the Bay of Plenty. She saw a large bright white ball of light above her neighbor's house that lit up the entire area. She watched it for a while, but eventually went back to bed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Waikato (New Zealand) Times, June 28, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_3674 Source: Johnson ### Event 15185 (9C8246A6) Date: 6/26/1971 Description: That night at 11:00 p.m. in Chauchina, Spain a man and a woman watched a large luminous reddish-yellow light hover for fifteen just 2 meters over the ground in a nearby pasture. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I Events in Spain and Portugal, case 143 Source ID: Johnson_3676 Source: Johnson ### Event 15186 (83BC3C55) Date: 6/28/1971 Description: At 9 p.m. a 23-year-old man stood on his porch in Bellingham, Massachusetts and watched a bright yellow-orange light approach from the distance, leaving a gray contrail. The object then zig-zagged, descended, slowed, and passed by silently at an estimated altitude of 200 feet before flying out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Morton Schafer, MUFON Field Investigator Case Files, case # 890204 Source ID: Johnson_3714 Source: Johnson ### Event 15187 (7EC8CD8B) Date: 6/28/1971 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a bright light floated slowly along to a point over the sea in Brunswick, Maine. Its lights went out, leaving a glow, then the UFO veered to the SW and shot off at a great speed. It made no discernable sound. The UFO was also reported by a resident of nearby Cook's Corner near the Brunswick Naval Air Station. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Brunswick (Maine) Times Record, June 30, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_3715 Source: Johnson ### Event 15188 (1ABEDCED) Date: 6/29/1971 Description: 3:00 a.m. A man is hiking in Delamere Forest east of Chester, England, when an “electric blue light” appears ahead and moves toward him, dancing erratically in and out of the trees. He walks toward it but before taking 20 steps he finds himself walking calmly back. The object then moves along a mud track and disappears into a small “garage” in the bushes. After wandering around in a disoriented state for some time, he searches for the “garage” but cannot find it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Much More Than Marsh Gas,” Fortean Times 311 \(March 2014\): 27 Source ID: Eberhart_4810 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15189 (100D9A8A) Date: 7/6/1971 Description: Two witnesses with binoculars in Ouhans, France heard a dull roaring sound at 2:30 a.m., and then saw a bell-shaped object jumping about in the sky like a moth. It shot away toward the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Nachrichten, October 1971 Source ID: Johnson_3881 Source: Johnson ### Event 15190 (E314249A) Date: 7/7/1971 Description: 6:00 p.m. Spanish physician Guillermo Arguello de la Motta is a guest of his friend Antonio Arocha at San Juan de los Morros, Guárico, Venezuela. They suddenly see two men dressed in black, both wearing red ties and black berets. They emerge from a brand-new red Ford Mustang, at a distance of 1,600 feet from the house. They stand there waiting for 5 minutes, then begin to put on orange belts, talking together animatedly. Suddenly a shining object appears in the sky, descends, and stops at a height of 2 feet from the ground. It is circular, bell-shaped underneath, and has a “turret” on the top. The object changes rapidly in color from orange to blue and to white. Suddenly a small staircase is dropped from the object, enabling the two men from the Mustang to enter the UFO. The staircase is drawn in, then the object takes off at an impressive speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[South American](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201972%20N%2010.pdf) [Round-Up, Part 1,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201972%20N%2010.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 10 \(June 1972\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_4811 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15191 (C1D099A2) Date: 7/7/1971 Description: At 6 p.m. in San Juan De Los Morros, Venezuela Dr. G. A. De La Motta and Dr. A. Arocha watched as two men clad in black suits with red ties and black berets got out of a car 500 yards from their house. The men proceeded to put on orange belts. A circular, bell-shaped shining object descended from the sky to within two feet of the ground. It was about 90 feet in diameter, and it changed rapidly in color from orange to blue to white. It put down a small staircase and the two men entered the object. It then took off and vanished into the sky "at an impressive speed." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-20, case 1971-20; citing FSR Case Histories # 10 Source ID: Johnson_3906 Source: Johnson ### Event 15192 (0AB69BBD) Date: 7/8/1971 Description: 1:15 p.m. Miner Claude Girard is parked on the road near the bridge over the Hurricana River in Joutel, Quebec, when he sees a circle 15–20 feet in diameter on the surface of the water with a jet of water in the center reaching a height of 20 feet. When the water jet settles down, Girard can see a cylindrical object, 6–8 feet in length and rusty black in color, beneath the surface. It slowly begins to lean to one side and sinks in less than a minute. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 103 Source ID: Eberhart_4812 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15193 (C98ED2E2) Date: 7/8/1971 Description: Evening. Saturn type UFO with high frequency whine. (Missing time, abduction) Same type UFO returns to farm (See May 16).Witness loses conciousness while watching it from upstairs bedroom. (Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chesterfield, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4061 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15194 (555B8A6E) Date: 7/8/1971 Description: Alain G. was tent camping with three adolescent boys in a grotto about ten kilometers from Rocamadour, Lot department, France when he heard the sound of breaking branches outside his tent at around one o'clock in the morning. They were all concerned about possible prowlers, so he looked out from his tent window and saw a human-like figure, foggy white in color like a phantom, walking down a path toward the boy's tent. The farther away the figure went, the less distinct it became. Stunned, he got up and ran out of his tent and down the path toward the other tent, but the figure had disappeared. He got the boys up and they explored the surrounding area, but they found no one. They then got into his car and they drove for several kilometers in both directions but found nothing more unusual. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-43, citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne Source ID: Johnson_3931 Source: Johnson ### Event 15195 (A603475E) Date: 7/8/1971 Description: A 12 meter long ovoid UFO with portholes around the edge was seen near the ground in Kervinio-en-Ploemeur, Morbihan department, France at 6:30 a.m. It turned, then shot away fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1975 Source ID: Johnson_3930 Source: Johnson ### Event 15196 (E95B6E1C) Date: 7/9/1971 Description: At 7:30 p.m. several people on the Williams farm in Marrawah, Tasmania, Australia viewed a 16-foot wide, white glowing object low over some pastures for ten minutes. It changed colors. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR Case Histories, October 1971, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_3960 Source: Johnson ### Event 15197 (692FD060) Date: 7/12/1971 Description: At 11:00 p.m. Gaetan Paquin, a young man in his twenties, was just arriving home in Notre-Dame-Du-Nord, Quebec when a white object flew over the road. He next saw "a completely white being of human form, with a pointed nose, slanted eyes, and a little puckered mouth" standing near him. He saw the being in profile. "His height did not exceed 4 feet. He had no hair, and nothing that resembled clothing. He was very, very visible in the darkness--there was no light, for the sky was overcast and the electricity was out that night." The being appeared to be transparent, and Gaetan had the impression that a stone thrown at him would have passed right through him. Although the apparition completely ignored the presence of the witness, Paquin became frightened and fled. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-44, citing Jean Ferguson, UFO Quebec, issue # 9; John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_4007 Source: Johnson ### Event 15198 (E9CFFD1E) Date: 7/14/1971 Description: At 8:30 p.m. an ovoid UFO flew overhead in Gulf Breeze, Florida heading west. A nocturnal light exited and returned. It briefly stopped over a "ship" that was offshore in the Gulf of Mexico that subsequently submerged. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1971, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_4053 Source: Johnson ### Event 15199 (7B687170) Date: 7/16/1971 Description: In the early evening three people were driving down a road in Grossweier, Germany when a large, bright red disc flew overhead and followed them down the road for a brief while. It then turned and followed a railroad track. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Eberhard Schneider, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_4100 Source: Johnson ### Event 15200 (CA8B28AE) Date: 7/17/1971 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a saucer-shaped UFO was seen over a road northwest of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. A car stalled in the presence of the disc, and the witnesses felt a sensation of heat. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Isabelle de Joux, Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1972, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_4137 Source: Johnson ### Event 15201 (058A78BF) Date: 7/17/1971 Description: 10:45 p.m. Tea planter Parl Abeywickrema, his two assistants Oswin de Alwis and Nimal Dunuwille, and the driver Sirisena Wijesinghe are driving between the Hope Estate in Rikillagaskada, Sri Lanka, and the Rockwood Estate in Hewaheta when they see a bright object larger than the full moon above the hilly horizon. Soon it approaches the, and Abeywickrema orders the driver to stop. They watch the object, now hovering about one- quarter mile away at an altitude of 1,000 feet. After 10 minutes it silently swoops toward them at high speed and stops 300 feet away at a height of 100 feet. The object is about 25 feet in diameter with two “tapering wings” on either side and casts a fluorescent yellow glow. After a few more minutes, the UFO moves toward the southwest at a 45° angle after drawing its two wings inside the main body. Some 50 witnesses report the same or similar objects in the same area that night, and both Abeywickrema and Wijesinghe report seeing UFOs around 2:00– 3:00 a.m. after returning home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [pp. 169–170](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/168/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4813 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15202 (46C3CFD4) Date: 7/23/1971 Description: In Manicouagan, Quebec an electrical power outage was connected to UFO sightings that evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Claude MacDuff, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_4326 Source: Johnson ### Event 15203 (FD1DC5E3) Date: 7/25/1971 Description: A silent domed disc flew west to east, then stopped near Perth, Ontario. When the witness raised a camera to take a photo it vanished in place! Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9332 Source ID: Johnson_4390 Source: Johnson ### Event 15204 (F333C9D4) Date: 7/27/1971 Description: 8:30 p.m. The witness was at home watching television when he was distracted by the sounds of his cows bellowing on a nearby field. They also saw a dark spherical object hovering above the field, a reddish light shone out of what appeared to be an open door on the object. Three small men who glowed a pale green color were moving around the object. They seem to glide just above the ground in rapid darting movements. (HC addition # 1011, Source: Francois Bourbeau, Spectra, Quebec Canada, Type: B) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Valcourt, Quebec, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4062 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15205 (E692290C) Date: 7/27/1971 Description: The witness was at home in Valcourt, Quebec watching television at 8:30 p.m. when his attention was drawn to the sound of his cows bellowing in a nearby field. The witness and his wife went outside and saw the cows running from the field. They also saw a dark spherical object hovering above the field, with a reddish light shining out of what appeared to be an open door in the object. Three small men who glowed a pale green color were moving around the object. They seem to glide just above the ground in rapid, darting movements. At times the beings seemed to pick something up from the ground. The little men went back inside the object, closing the door behind them. The UFO then rose slowly and disappeared over some nearby trees. The next day a circular spiral was found on the ground, plus a silvery lump of unknown material that was later tested at Laval University. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 1011, citing Francois Bourbeau, Spectra, Quebec Source ID: Johnson_4437 Source: Johnson ### Event 15206 (ADD0A50D) Date: 7/28/1971 Description: Two men photographing the stars observed a triangular object with colored lights moving rapidly at high altitude. Turning their telescope on it, the men said it suddenly reversed direction and changed both the pattern and color of its lights. (UFO Investigator / Aug. 1971, page 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sackville; New Brunswick, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4063 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15207 (334C9968) Date: 7/28/1971 Description: On this night in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada two amateur astronomers reported that a triangle shaped UFO with multicolored lights flew by fast at a high altitude. It then made a 180 degree turn. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1971, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4457 Source: Johnson ### Event 15208 (EB892521) Date: 7/29/1971 Description: Night. A woman living on a farm outside Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec, watches as two dark circular objects with red rotating lights hovering above her potato field. It quickly disappears. The next morning, her husband finds two 11-foot-wide circular patches of crushed and burned potatos where the UFO had hovered. Investigators estimated the object had burnes or irradiated the field from a height of 15 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, p. 143 Source ID: Eberhart_4815 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15209 (9CA26460) Date: 7/29/1971 Description: A CIA internal memo reports that a citizen named Vartorella has expressed the opinion that the CIA used the Colorado project as “whitewash to cover a CIA-initiated program begun prior to January 1953.” The writer runs through a brief history of the Robertson Panel and suggests the following response: “We’re sorry, but we have had no interest in the UFO matter for many years, have no files or persons knowledgeable on the subject, and hence are unable to respond to his charges and questions.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 142](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/142/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4814 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15210 (2BEB21DB) Date: 7/29/1971 Description: A green metallic object, self-luminous but also apparently reflecting sunlight, was seen in the sky over Nedlands near Perth, Western Australia at 9:50 a.m.. It left behind a trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Data-Net Report, January 1972 Source ID: Johnson_4488 Source: Johnson ### Event 15211 (CD322616) Date: 8/1/1971 Description: At ten p.m. local time a domed oval-shaped UFO, illuminated by lightning flashes during a nighttime thunderstorm west of Westminster, Maryland, was seen by a family of seven people maneuvering over the countryside for 20 minutes. It had a bubble-shaped, transparent dome on top. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1971, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_4571 Source: Johnson ### Event 15212 (8F00E7E8) Date: 8/1/1971 Description: At 11:35 p.m. a married couple driving in a car between Gladstone and Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia witnessed a circle of lights near a river. What should normally have been a two hour trip took them only 40 minutes. They have amnesia about what happened after sighting the lights in the sky, and an unusual oily residue and marks were found on their car. A possible UFO abduction involving time loss, a probable translocation, and levitation are suspected. Hypnotic regression failed due to the main witness having a violent, shaking, fearful reaction to re-envisioning the event in memory. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case 241; MUFON UFO Journal, August 1980, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4570 Source: Johnson ### Event 15213 (9F425E82) Date: 8/1/1971 Description: 10:30 p.m. Report of an egg-shaped UFO with two rows of colored lights on its underside was received by state police. Charles P. Kenyon, 39, of New Windsor, Md., had driven his wife and their four children to a location outside Westminster to observe a violent Thunder and lighting storm then in progress. (Investigated by NICAP's Capital Area Subcommittee, chaired by astronomer John Carlson). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westminster, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4064 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15214 (688311FC) Date: 8/2/1971 Description: In Ohrid, nine miles from the town of Rasanec, in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia a group of four had a close encounter with a silver-colored UFO. There were physiological effects when a beam of energy knocked the driver of their vehicle down, and the car radio ceased to work. The silver disc, 10-15 meters in diameter, first landed and then began glowing. Two "wings" came out of the sides as it landed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph M. Brill, Skylook, September 1972, p. 17; Milos Krmelj, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_4604 Source: Johnson ### Event 15215 (FB1A0B95) Date: 8/6/1971 Description: U.S. KH-9 "Big Bird" spy satellite incinerated on reentry into atmosphere. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_200 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15216 (3BCA66DE) Date: 8/8/1971 Description: Mr. Boyce, age 51, was driving near a horse race track about five kilometers outside of Kadina, South Australia when his car engine stopped and lights died at the same time the car was illuminated by an orange glow that lit up the side of the road. Leaving his car, the witness saw an orange oval or disc-shaped object with two red and one green lights. The object was about 30 feet in diameter, and had 3-4 windows. It hovered at 50 meters altitude directly above his car for two to three minutes, and made a buzzing or purring sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, case investigation files, case S035; UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 25; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 51; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 253 Source ID: Johnson_4776 Source: Johnson ### Event 15217 (69E3A5B2) Date: 8/8/1971 Description: Glowing orange disc illuminated area, buzzing sound. See Section VI (E) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kadina, S. AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4065 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15218 (2ED9F687) Date: 8/9/1971 Description: Glowing disc startles veteran Brazilian (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [710809](http://www.nicap.org/710809dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Uberaba (near), Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4066 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15219 (870FBF4C) Date: 8/9/1971 Description: Starting at around 9:00 a.m. a glowing orange disc-shaped UFO, shaped like two basins placed edge to edge, paced a plane flying from Belo Horizonte to Uberaba, Minas Gerais State, Brazil for 20 minutes, and then suddenly sped away. The private pilot was a 24-year-old man named Vicente Buono. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1972, p. 2; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1971, p. 1; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 15, 120 Source ID: Johnson_4799 Source: Johnson ### Event 15220 (FCBC045F) Date: 8/9/1971 Description: Airline flight paced for 20 minutes by glowing orange disc ("like two round basins, one on top of the other") Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Minas Gerais region, Brazil Source ID: HallUFOE2_201 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15221 (CD2F183D) Date: 8/11/1971 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_202 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15222 (2EFC7AF8) Date: 8/11/1971 Description: At around midnight a 30-year-old woman in the Gavea district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was sitting by an open window while her husband slept. It was cloudy, and she noticed an orange glow coming from behind a cloud, which she first thought was the moon. She watched a large, elliptical metallic object come out from behind the cloud that was larger than a Boeing jet plane. It hovered, trembling and shaking like a dry leaf, then it stopped entirely and hovered directly above the science building on the University campus. Two smaller objects, perfect replicas of the first, next came out from beneath it and started oscillating in their flight around the larger one. The larger UFO was silvery metallic in color but had a wide orange, phosphorescent band crossing it from side to side. Within this band the witness believed she saw oval-shaped portholes of a light hue, and three or four shapes moving behind them.

The larger UFO emitted a broad, bluish beam of light that fell directly into the room in which the witness was sitting, so it appeared to have been aimed at her. She compared the type of light to that of an oxyacetylene lamp. Every time it hit her it nearly blinded her. The light turned off briefly and then turned on again, at first gradually, then more brightly. She now felt irresistibly drawn to it and had to hold on to the back of the settee so as not to fly out the window. She felt that the light was having a hypnotizing effect on her, and she tried to call out to her husband but could not say a word. The beam of light turned off and on five times over a ten minute period until she finally managed to wake her husband who came over to see the larger metallic object fly away. It flew at an incredible speed in a northeasterly direction until it was lost to sight beyond the Sugar Loaf in the direction of Niteroi. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Irene Granchi, UFOs and Abductions in Brazil Source ID: Johnson_4875 Source: Johnson ### Event 15223 (4565F533) Date: 8/12/1971 Description: Three women at a camp in Himbleton, near Droitwich, England heard a roaring sound and thought that it was a plane that was going to crash. Instead, they saw a cigar-shaped object with red and green lights, thirty to forty feet long, that came and hovered silently for an hour, then rose with a noise and disappeared over the trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping, August 24, 1971; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 14; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1971, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_4947 Source: Johnson ### Event 15224 (B5AAB6EA) Date: 8/14/1971 Description: Rota, Cadiz province, Spain. At around eight o'clock in the evening six witnesses, including a 46-year-old woman, watched as a two-meter long cigar-shaped object descended to only 11 meters altitude near the shoreline, then divided into two parts. One part rose into the sky, while the other dropped down into the sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente Juan Ballester-Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case # 144, citing field investigator Jose Ruesga Source ID: Johnson_5008 Source: Johnson ### Event 15225 (37DEE876) Date: 8/15/1971 Description: On a clear night beginning at 11:20 p.m. two men, a mathematics teacher and an engineer, watched a UFO maneuver over Tynemouth, Tyne & Wear, England for three hours through a telescope. Mr. Von Metz and Mr. O'Brady-Jones reported that the object was yellow at the center with red tips, and surrounded by a blue haze. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: M. W. Von Metz, FSR Case Histories, December 1971, p. 12; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 15, citing the Sunday Express, August 22, 1971 Source ID: Johnson_5045 Source: Johnson ### Event 15226 (041E4E0C) Date: 8/16/1971 Description: 2:30 a.m. The constabulary (police) station received a phone call at 2:30 a.m. that an unidentified object was hovering over a garage. Constable Leslie G. Leek and Constable Ian Barnes responded, arriving in time to see the object. They took 12 photographs of the object (bright luminous, shape undefined) as it slowly ascended. (Staffordshire County and Stoke-on-Trent Constabulary Report, Aug. 19, 1971, filed by Constable Leslie G. Leek.) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aldrich, Staffordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4067 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15227 (22CB4F45) Date: 8/16/1971 Description: Jan-Ove Sundberg was in the woods above Foyers Bay on Loch Ness, Scotland at around nine a.m. when he saw a grayish-black cigar-shaped object in a clearing in the woods. It was about 30 feet long with a curved standing portion at one end, so that it had the profile of a huge smoothing iron. Three grayish entities of normal human size then appeared out of some nearby bushes and stood together. They were dressed in what looked like diver's suits and helmets. They approached the object and entered it by a door in the upper part of the curved portion, the UFO then rose vertically to a height of 50 feet and then took off rapidly in a near-horizontal trajectory. Sundberg took a photograph as the last of the occupants was boarding. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, 1971-21, citing F. W. Holiday, FSR, Vol. 19 # 5 Source ID: Johnson_5086 Source: Johnson ### Event 15228 (3F26DBBC) Date: 8/16/1971 Description: At 6:45 p.m. John R. Renz had just been relieved from guard duty at Francis E. Warren Air Force base near Cheyenne, Wyoming and had stopped at the mess hall for a beer. On his way back to the barracks he came upon an unlit area of the base at the concrete reinforced bridge, which crossed over Cow Creek. For some reason everything was unnaturally quiet around him. As he began to cross the bridge and just before he got to the middle of it, a paralyzing sound resembling loud heart beats became evident. Simultaneously the area around the bridge lit up like midday. There was also a heavy breathing sound present, and the bridge began to sway in a wave-like motion and then settled down. Frightened, he began to run toward the other end of the bridge, but before he reached it he realized that he had dropped his tobacco pipe and went back to retrieve it. The bridge was still lit up and the loud sounds persisted. He found his pipe and stooped down to get it. When he looked up he was stunned to see a six to seven foot tall being standing there, only three feet away from him. The being had a medium build as far as the torso, but its head was much larger than normal and it had long arms. It appeared to be wearing a wet suit. The hood and body suit were one unit. The eyes were covered with a one-piece face mask that went across both eyes, as if it was some kind of blast shield, but the nasal area joined in with it. From the nose there was a silver gray tube that stretched at least a half a foot long and went straight into the chest area. The silver gray tube was ribbed and looked like a tracheal tube. The hands consisted of three long fingers that ended in claws. The feet were three toed and did not appear to have any heels. When Renz looked up to the being's face, he was almost in a full standing position. The being raised its right, three-fingered hand and motioned for him to come closer. Instead, Renz turned and ran. His next recollection was of coming up on a military jeep and being picked up by two soldiers, still on the base. There was a seven-hour period of missing time.

Years later, under hypnosis, Renz remembered being inside some kind of object in a cockpit along with the being. The being spoke to him telepathically. He remembered descending through clouds of vapor that had a reddish brown tinge. The craft then flew in between two huge mountains: there was no vegetation anywhere and it looked like a rocky desert. He next remembered following the being through a huge door into the side of a mountain tunnel and entering a small room. In this room there was a table that floated in mid-air. The walls and floor of the room were a silver-gray color. On the floating table there was the carcass of a creature. The creature on the table had a larger than normal head and a face resembling that of a wasp. The eyes were large, like wasp eyes, and had slits inside that looked like pupils. It had what looked like multi-lens eye coverings, and it had a small jaw and a slit-like nose. The creature was about four to five feet in length and looked to have an exoskeleton. Its color was tan to brown with a bluish gray tinge. The humanoid creature gave off an unbearably foul odor, resembling a rotten egg sulphur smell. It had three fingers on its hands and at the elbows there was a sharp concave shaped spike at least six inches long. The mouth was gaped open and the teeth were like small shark teeth. A clear liquid with a reddish substance was dripped on the table.

The tall being then told the witness to leave the room. Outside the room he saw a saucer-shaped craft with a wide front end and a round tapered tail. The whole craft sat on two pillars, rectangular in shape with at least 50 feet between them. The being told him to go inside and sit in the left seat. On what appeared to be a control panel Renz saw numerous strange symbols. There was a sound like a powerful electric motor and the craft took off. Later he recalled the craft attacking a large mountainous area resembling a beehive. He could see numerous creatures inside. They appeared to be scrambling back and forth. There were a couple of hundred of them and they appeared to be the same as the insectoid humanoid that was on the floating table. The craft landed in the destroyed complex where he remembered seeing a live creature with the face of a wasp that was wearing a dark cape or cloak. Within its cloak it was carrying three small insect creatures at least a foot long. Their heads were triangular in shape with large eyes. The tall humanoid shot and killed the creature and the little ones. Renz was then taken back to the Air Force base. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Aliens-UFOs.com Source ID: Johnson_5088 Source: Johnson ### Event 15229 (F5524736) Date: 8/16/1971 Description: [Jan-Ove Sundberg](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Ove%5FSundberg) sees a landed UFO in a cleared area above Foyers, Inverness, Scotland, on Loch Ness. Three human-shaped figures in gray coveralls emerge from some bushes and enter the craft, which then takes off. Sundberg snaps a photo, then contacts writer and monster researcher [Frederick William “Ted” Holiday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrick%5FWilliam%5FHoliday), who is looking for a UFO connection with the loch. However, Sundberg eventually confesses that he made up the story. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: F. W. Holiday, “[Exorcism and UFO Landing at Loch Ness,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201973%20V%2019%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1973\): 3–7, 13; Roland Watson, “[Ted Holiday’s Final Days,](http://lochnessmystery.blogspot.com/2018/05/ted-holidays-final-days.html)” Loch Ness Monster, May 31, 2008; Clark III 600–601 Source ID: Eberhart_4816 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15230 (B6FD7B03) Date: 8/16/1971 Description: At nearly the same time as the Loch Ness CE-3 encounter, three adults and four children were in an isolated area on a Mediterranean beach in Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain when they suddenly noticed a very tall figure that seemed to be trying to enter the water in a very clumsy manner. It was a very tall, well-built, and human like, but with very pale skin that seemed to lack any pores. It had a large hairless head with a high forehead and large gray colored eyes. It wore a pair of green shorts and it walked towards the shore very stiffly, almost like a robot. It walked past the witnesses maintaining a straight steady gaze on them. The witnesses turned their heads for a second and when they looked back the being had completely vanished. There was nowhere he could have gone and he was nowhere in sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 643, citing J. J. Benitez, La Quinta Columna Source ID: Johnson_5087 Source: Johnson ### Event 15231 (AEC83F2F) Date: 8/17/1971 Description: John Hodges and Peter Rodriguez, both in their late twenties, had just gotten into John's car at two a.m. when they saw in the headlights things that looked like "brains" on the road about six feet away. Of a bluish color, a localized mist surrounded them. One was the size of a human torso, and had something red on it; the other was "the size of an overgrown softball." Frightened, the young men took off for home. Under hypnosis five years later, John Hodges recalled that the larger brain had spoken to them telepathically, saying, "Take the time to understand yourselves, the times draws near when you shall need to. You shall not remember this incident until we meet again."

He also recalled that when he had arrived home and was still sitting in his car, he had a "dream" or vision of being in a large room with the brain. There were control consoles all along the wall, and there were several 7-foot-tall Grey skinned, bald humanoids with 6 webbed fingers and toes and thin lipped mouths. On a TV-like screen were pinpoint of lights, which the brain told him were places on Earth where there was "too much power." He was also shown 3-D pictures of atomic explosions, and of a planet destroyed by "too much power." After feeling a "buzzing" sensation he found himself back in his car. He thinks the experience was a "holographic projection," because he noticed that behind him all was black. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-45, citing Ann Druffel, MUFON; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 138 Source ID: Johnson_5114 Source: Johnson ### Event 15232 (55D0FC3E) Date: 8/18/1971 Description: At 6:40 a.m. a glowing white cigar, the size of a railroad car and tapered at one end, flew over in Sutherlands, South Australia. It had no wings or protuberances, and flew to the east on an even course at an estimated speed of 200 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: A. Jenke, Australian FSR, February 1972, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_5129 Source: Johnson ### Event 15233 (7769CCB2) Date: 8/19/1971 Description: Security guard Pietro Bongiorni was standing guard at the local thermal baths in Bobbio, Italy at 7 p.m. when he saw an "object" descend from the sky. As the object approached he noticed that it was a man-shaped figure that rapidly changed direction and headed towards him. Concerned he called for other witnesses and noticed that the being flew in a crouched position resembling that of someone riding on an "invisible" motorcycle. He described the figure as human with rosy skin, long black hair, and a beard and was very tall. It hovered near the witness, staring at him with penetrating black eyes. As other witnesses approached the figure disappeared in the direction of a nearby river at a low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Archivio SUF Source ID: Johnson_5161 Source: Johnson ### Event 15234 (5EC5EB5D) Date: 8/20/1971 Description: A teenage couple in Cirencester, Gloucester, England were frozen with fear over the close approach of two orange lights, which hovered only 100 yards away from them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. K. Smith, The BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_5187 Source: Johnson ### Event 15235 (D81366B4) Date: 8/23/1971 Description: At around 4 p.m. on highway D1 southeast of Verteillac, Dordogne, France a huge metallic disc-shaped UFO was spotted as it rose from behind some trees. It stopped in midair and dropped back down again. Nothing was found on the ground when the area was searched. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 123 Source ID: Johnson_5261 Source: Johnson ### Event 15236 (03A5BA9F) Date: 8/23/1971 Description: A yellow light approached a car being driven by a Sr. Rodriguez, age 34, in Nuez, Zamora province, Spain at 12:30 a.m. It was disc shaped and also had red and white lights, and was four meters in diameter. His car's electrical system failed when the object approached.The light vanished, then reappeared 15 meters away, then moved off behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 145, citing Jose-Tomas Ramirez y Barbero, Stendek, December 1971, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_5260 Source: Johnson ### Event 15237 (ECBB9A7B) Date: 8/25/1971 Description: Feeling a compulsion to go to a certain place, Paul de Brescia walked to an isolated wooded area near Grasse, France. In a clearing he encountered two very tall humanoids, about 1.85 meters in height with well-proportioned bodies and long blond hair. They wore tight-fitting bluish metallic coveralls with wide white belts and white gloves. The witness felt a sense of compassion and understanding emanating from the humanoids. The humanoids approached him and communicated in French, telling him that they had come from the star system of Vega. They were here on a mission to attempt to persuade humanity to change its ways. After more conversation one of the humanoids gave Paul something resembling a piece of chocolate, which he ate, he became drowsy and later woke up in his apartment, suffering a complete amnesia of the event. He was only able to recall the incident on a later date. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_5326 Source: Johnson ### Event 15238 (BC80219C) Date: 8/30/1971 Description: In Southampton, England at 6:10 a.m. a man named R. Seaman sighted an object that first appeared as a halo, then narrowed into an ellipse. It tilted to the right, at which point the witness saw two bright points of light on its lower right edge. It sped away and was lost to view went it passed the morning Sun. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_5498 Source: Johnson ### Event 15239 (8BEE3F64) Date: 9/2/1971 Description: On this night a 17-year-old woman named James witnessed a UFO hanging motionless in the sky for more than 30 minutes over Great Barr, England. It changed shape and color, and disappeared at high speed. It had green L-shapes with red light at each end. It became oblong, then cigar shaped. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, January 17, 1972, citing Birmingham Evening Mail, September 3, 1971; Flying Saucers, March 1972, p. 13; FSR, January-February 1972, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_5572 Source: Johnson ### Event 15240 (4E7CA5D0) Date: 9/3/1971 Description: [G. Gordon Liddy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%5FGordon%5FLiddy) and [E. Howard Hunt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%5FHoward%5FHunt) break into the office of Lewis J. Fielding, [Daniel Ellsberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FEllsberg)’s psychiatrist. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Daniel Ellsberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FEllsberg\#Fielding%5Fbreak-in)” Source ID: Eberhart_4817 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15241 (156D7682) Date: 9/4/1971 Description: Lake Lago de Cote, Costa Rica (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [710904](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/costarica1dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Lago de Cote, Costa Rica Source ID: NICAP_DB_4068 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15242 (522A8BB7) Date: 9/4/1971 Description: Aerial survey plane photo showing disc on edge Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Lago de Cote, Costa Rica Source ID: HallUFOE2_203 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15243 (86C82718) Date: 9/4/1971 Description: 8:25 a.m. Pilot Omar Arias is flying a twin-engine Canadian Aero-Commander F680 at a height of 10,000 feet above Lago de Cote, Costa Rica, taking aerial photos as part of a preliminary study for future hydroelectric projects. On board are photographer Sergio Loaiza, a specialist in aerial photography, plus geographer Juan Bravo and topographer Francisco Reyes. Loaiza was using a R-M-K 15/23 camera, specially made for cartography and using high-resolution black-and-white film, strapped on the bottom of the aircraft and taking automatic photos with an intervalometer. No one sees a thing while they are up in the air, but when Loiaza reviews his images, he discovers in frame 300 what seems to be a huge metallic disc against the dark background of the lake. The object does not appear in the previous or following frames. [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) obtains a copy of the negative and examines it with [Richard Haines](http://www.nicap.org/bio-haines.htm) and concludes that the photo shows “an unidentified, opaque, aerial object was captured on film at a maximum distance of 10,000 feet. There are no visible means of lift or propulsion and no surface markings other than darker regions that appear to be nonrandom.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines and Jacques Vallée, “[Photo](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/3/jse%5F03%5F2%5Fhaines.pdf) [Analysis of an Aerial Disc over Costa Rica,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/3/jse%5F03%5F2%5Fhaines.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 3, no. 2 \(1989\): 113–131; Richard F. Haines and Jacques Vallée, “[Photo Analysis of an Aerial Disc over Costa Rica: New Evidence,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/4/jse%5F04%5F1%5Fhaines.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1 \(1990\): 71–74; Mick West, “[1971 Lake Cote / Lago de Cote UFO Aerial Photo,](https://www.metabunk.org/threads/1971-lake-cote-lago-de-cote-ufo-aerial-photo.11729/)” Metabunk,org, May 10, 2021; Bryce Zabel, “[The Best UFO Photo Ever Taken?](https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/costa-rica-ufo-photo-c0b1eb07c5e7)” Medium: The Trail of the Saucers, May 10, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_4818 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15244 (03B56EBA) Date: 9/4/1971 Description: An exceptional photograph of a disc-shaped object emerging from a lake was recorded by an official mapping aircraft of the Costa Rican government at 08:25 am (EDT) while flying at 10,000 feet altitude over Lago de Cote, three miles north of the town of Arenal, Costa Rica at 10.583 degrees North and 84.916 degrees West. None of the flight crew or photographers saw the object at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 15, 289; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 58; www.nicap.org/1971 UFO Chronology.htm Source ID: Johnson_5633 Source: Johnson ### Event 15245 (4CD1D85D) Date: 9/4/1971 Description: In Wingles, France a domed disc flew behind a hill of mine tailings at 7:40 p.m. There were independent witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1972 Source ID: Johnson_5632 Source: Johnson ### Event 15246 (3B84C274) Date: 9/7/1971 Description: On this night at Colwyn Bay, Wales, United Kingdom an oval-shaped light, partially obscured by haze, was seen moving toward the northwest over the Irish Sea. Two witnesses watched it for 20-30 minutes. Several schoolboys also saw it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_5726 Source: Johnson ### Event 15247 (7555D9F0) Date: 9/8/1971 Description: At 4:50 p.m. a white disc-shaped object zigzagged slowly into the wind over Vendhuile, Aisne, France. It made a 90 degree turn and flew away. It was completely silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9362, citing LDLN Lecteurs Source ID: Johnson_5766 Source: Johnson ### Event 15248 (264E6684) Date: 9/8/1971 Description: At 11:40 p.m. a well-defined cone-shaped object with a flat top, metallic silver in color, flew low over Clee Village, Shropshire, England, causing the two witnesses to feel fearful. It had three portholes of light and a convex row of small round lights. A red light shone from the top, and it emitted a light beam for five seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. K Smith, BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_5767 Source: Johnson ### Event 15249 (67F62372) Date: 9/11/1971 Description: On this night Juan De La Palmareno, an 81-year-old peasant, was guarding a melon field in Aznacollar, Spain from poachers when he saw a vessel "as big as a bus" land near an old well. Many, perhaps over 50, blue uniformed men without headgear disembarked. Most of them went down into a depression in the field, but 5 or 6 stayed behind, and one of these shone a light into the witness eyes. He went into the village to report this, followed for much of the way by two men with a light. Ground marks were said by the witness to have been left at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos, FSR, May 1974, p. 19; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-22 (A1122), citing Manuel Osuna, Felipe Laffitte, and Ignacio Darnaude; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 147 Source ID: Johnson_5860 Source: Johnson ### Event 15250 (FA211BCB) Date: 9/12/1971 Description: On this night Juan De La Palmareno, an 81-year-old peasant, was guarding a melon field in Aznacollar, Spain from poachers when he saw a vessel "as big as a bus" land near an old well. Many, perhaps over 50, blue uniformed men without headgear disembarked. Most of them went down into a depression in the field, but 5 or 6 stayed behind, and one of these shone a light into the witness eyes. He went into the village to report this, followed for much of the way by two men with a light. Ground marks were said by the witness to have been left at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-22, citing Manuel Osuna, Felipe Laffitte, and Ignacio Darnaude Source ID: Johnson_5902 Source: Johnson ### Event 15251 (DE6B28B6) Date: 9/12/1971? Description: 7:00 p.m. Juan Rodríguez Domínguez, 82, who goes by the nickname of Juan el de la Palmareña, is in his hut on the Los Lunarejos farm just over a mile from Aznalcóllar, Seville, Spain, when he sees a bus-sized object landing near an abandoned well 1,000 feet away. More than 50 “soldiers” in blue “uniforms” emerge. They march in formation into a hollow in the field and are lost to view. Juan can now see only five or six “chiefs” standing on a slope and staring in his direction. When they shine a light at him, he ducks behind the hut. A bit later he looks out again and they shine the light once more. Frightened, he flees to Aznalcóllar to inform his employers, who do not take him seriously. He later insists that the object and the “soldiers” have left marks in the ground, but police do not bother to follow up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ignacio Darnaude, “[An ‘Army of Humanoids’ Stated to Have](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%203.pdf) [Landed in Spain,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 \(December 1974\): 19–21; Ignacio Darnaude, \[[case clippings](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Humanoides%201971%2CAznalcollar%2CSevilla%20%282%29.pdf)\]; Clark III 282 Source ID: Eberhart_4819 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15252 (58227BDD) Date: 9/16/1971 Description: Radar/visual confirmation. At 8:45 p.m. astronomers and many other witnesses in St. Michel, east of Manosque, Alpes-Haut-Provence, France saw a 12 meter diameter disc-shaped object make maneuvers and turns; it shot off to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Aime Michel, FSR Case Histories, February 1972, p. 2; GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1971, p. 28, citing LDLN Source ID: Johnson_6012 Source: Johnson ### Event 15253 (3DF0F1E3) Date: 9/18/1971 Description: At 11:45 p.m. in Chauchina, Granada, Spain a 1.5 meter diameter disc was seen hovering just six meters above the ground. Two figures were visible inside, would could be seen apparently signaling to the witness. The object was in view for 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 35, case # 149, citing Llorente Manuel Osuna, Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1972, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_6071 Source: Johnson ### Event 15254 (91CC8324) Date: 9/19/1971 Description: 3:30 a.m. Arthur Honke, Alec Honke, and Gordon Campbell are driving north just outside Winnipeg, Manitoba, to do some hunting. They see a bright flash as something passes overhead and in front of the car. It now appears ahead of them on the right side of the road. Honke pulls alongside it and steps out of the car. They can hear a low-pitched humming from the object only about 150–225 feet away. It is shaped like two saucers, one on top of the aother, and has flashing green and red lights and one white statonary light. The object hovers for 30 seconds, then starts moving slowly to the southeast. But as the men drive north again, the object begins following them at a distance for about 45 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 86–87, 152 Source ID: Eberhart_4820 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15255 (D120F6E9) Date: 9/19/1971 Description: On this evening in Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires province, Argentina 19-year-old Osvaldo D'Annunzio had a close encounter of the second kind with a UFO that involved landing traces and physiological effects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Nachtrichten, March 1972, citing an unnamed newspaper source; Data-Net Report, June 1972, p. 15. Source ID: Johnson_6089 Source: Johnson ### Event 15256 (1AD79366) Date: 9/20/1971 Description: At 1:45 a.m. Osvaldo Nestor D'Annunzio, age 19, was returning by truck along an isolated road from a local ranch in Estacion Gil, near Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina when he noticed a bright white object quickly approaching him at high speed. The object rapidly approached the ground in an unnatural manner by making a very wide curve. As the object got closer it looked more like a reddish, triangular light. When it came even closer it changed into a top-shaped craft that emitted a cloud of red and white flame. The craft swung from right to left in a descending pendulum trajectory, finally slipping behind the tops of some nearby trees near the edge of the road. Once the object went behind the trees, a powerful reddish glow transformed the night into day, and he felt heat emanating from the object. At that moment he blacked out.

When he recovered consciousness he saw the UFO ascending, and it disappeared behind a nearby eucalyptus forest. He did not know how long he had been unconscious. Upon arriving home, D'Annunzio felt a paralysis in both his arms. He could walk, but his arms became so completely paralyzed that he could not use them to open the door, and he had to kick the door to attract attention. He was immediately rushed to a local military hospital for treatment. His paralysis continued until four p.m. the next afternoon.For the next seven months he suffered from paralysis in his arms, starting at midnight and lasting until early in the morning. He also suffered facial and scalp burns. Later he had further memories of the incident, recalling that he saw numerous cows and sheep standing strangely still at the edge of the road as the UFO descended, and the craft seemed to have split in two as it disappeared behind the trees. He further described the UFO as shaped like a child's top, metallic blue in color, and encased in a red glow with a flame shooting from the bottom. It was about three meters in length.

Other witnesses in the area reported seeing the same or a similar UFO flying low over the area, including a man who reported vehicle interference as a result of the passage of the object. Later, local UFO investigators discovered dozens of cows and sheep dead and scorched alongside the road. Using a Geiger counter they measured a high level of radioactivity in certain areas. In the place where the object had descended they also found a burned circular area of grass about 10 meters in diameter. In addition, several metal telephone lines in the area were found severed along what appeared to be the object's trajectory. A last unusual detail is that D'Annunzio apparently managed to drive the last eight kilometers in only two minutes, so some levitation and translocation may have been involved. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Roberto Enrique Banchs, Las Evidencias Del Fenomeno Ovni; OVNI Web, Fenomeno Ovni en Bahia Blanca (erroneously lists the year as 1970); Data-Net Report, June 1972, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_6134 Source: Johnson ### Event 15257 (FB868615) Date: 9/20/1971 Description: At 8:13 a.m. a metallic triangular-shaped object was sighted at 33,000 feet altitude from a DC-9 airliner flying 40 miles southwest of Lanejevo, Yugoslavia. The sighting lasted eight minutes, and the main witness was named Lupancic. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1971, p. 1; Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 207 Source ID: Johnson_6135 Source: Johnson ### Event 15258 (9D60452E) Date: 9/20/1971 Description: 10:45 p.m. Engineer Sten Ceder was driving home when his car was suddenly brightly illuminated by multiple beams of light and he saw a square black object race past. He was then surrounded by a perceived dense black cloud that seemed to extinguish all light. (Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, Supp. No. 10, June 1972.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Northern, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_4069 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15259 (04F830AB) Date: 9/20/1971 Description: At 10:45 p.m. a car driving northeast of Ojebyn, Sweden was engulfed in a cloud of blackness and then surrounded by intense vertical beams of light. The car was levitated and transported beyond its destination, and the driver felt a sensation of high atmospheric pressure. When the beams vanished, the driver saw a black object 1000 meters away rise from a field and fly off toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 51; GICOFF Sweden, FSR Case Histories, June 1972, p. 1; Jenny Randle, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_6136 Source: Johnson ### Event 15260 (1E8E3FC0) Date: 9/20/1971 Description: A large domed disc-shaped object with multi-colored lights around the bottom edge was seen at 9:00 p.m. in Fort Duchesne, Utah. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A79 Source ID: Johnson_6137 Source: Johnson ### Event 15261 (2A459CFA) Date: 9/22/1971 Description: That same night in Twin Falls, Idaho two young boys reported that their farm animals were frantic when an orange UFO flashed and circled overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1971, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_6228 Source: Johnson ### Event 15262 (ADD9D08A) Date: 9/22/1971 Description: An 18-year-old apprentice was riding his motorcycle near the beach in Semaphore Park Beach, South Australia at 8:40 p.m. when he saw a dull form in the sky with lighted sections. It descended to fifty feet over the sea, as close as 150 feet away. When he shone his motorcycle's high beam headlight on the object the light dimmed. When he did it a second time it did not respond again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, Australian Flying Saucer Review, February 1972, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_6225 Source: Johnson ### Event 15263 (78DA5B19) Date: 9/22/1971 Description: Sr. Paulo Caetano Silveira, age 27, a typewriter technician, found his car being followed by a red luminous disc while driving to his home in Itaperuna, Brazil. At Tombos he reported the matter to the local police, but they did not take him seriously. After he calmed down he started off again. This time, at about 7 p.m. and at a small village named Serraria, he encountered a black object on the road that turned a luminous red and then blinding white in color, and his car engine died. The object, slightly larger than a Volkswagen, had small windows and an open door. Next to it were standing three short, chubby beings approximately 20 inchestall, with fair complexions and slanted eyes. They wore one-piece, sky-blue coveralls with high collars, and "Roman helmets" with spikes. They carried vivid red and blue lights and moved in a stiff, mechanical way.

Two bright beams of light were focused on the witness's car and its doors popped open. These beams pulled the witness from the car and into the machine, whose interior was brilliantly illuminated by white light. There was little in the way of furnishings inside, but inside were five more similar dwarfs. "An infernal din" commenced and believes the object flew some distance with him, but he shortly lost consciousness. The next thing he was remembered was being carried out and laid on the road beside his car. The UFO then rose vertically, hovered a moment, then shot off laterally at a staggering speed. The witness was left in a state of shock and nearly blind. For five days he still could not see well and was extremely nervous. His watch had lost 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing Dr. Munir Russade and Dr. Walter Buhler Source ID: Johnson_6227 Source: Johnson ### Event 15264 (E9A8BEF2) Date: 9/22/1971 Description: At 11:45 p.m. a silent ovoid-shaped UFO flew at 500 to 1000 meters altitude over the city of Marseille, France illuminating the area below it yellow in color. It made a sudden 70 degree turn and shot off toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 127 Source ID: Johnson_6226 Source: Johnson ### Event 15265 (87ED893D) Date: 9/23/1971 Description: Three people saw a twelve foot by twelve foot by ten foot box-shaped object in an oilfield in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada at 4:30 p.m. It was not there a short time later. When they investigated, they found footprints that descended a steep ledge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, p. 183; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 491 Source ID: Johnson_6259 Source: Johnson ### Event 15266 (C3F22163) Date: Autumn 1971 Description: Gene and Geneva Steinberg begin publishing Caveat Emptor, a newsletter on UFOs and other anomalies, in Charleston, South Carolina. It runs until October 1974, then goes on hiatus until late 1988 when it is again edited by the Steenberg’s, this time in New Jersey. It persists until fall 1990. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Caveat Emptor](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Caveat%20Emptor/Caveat%20Emptor%20-%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(Fall 1971\) Source ID: Eberhart_4822 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15267 (30A62108) Date: 9/24/1971 Description: In Caleta Buena, Chile a police car engine and its two-way radio failed when a luminous domed oval-shaped object approached the car. It came from over the ocean close to the beach. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Pablo Petrowitsch, APRO Bulletin, March-April 1972, p. 9; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 57; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 56; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 253 Source ID: Johnson_6288 Source: Johnson ### Event 15268 (8859A902) Date: 9/24/1971 Description: Luminous oval with dome approached car. APRO Bulletin, Mar.-Apr. 1972 (E,R) police car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caleta, Buena, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_4070 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15269 (7D87B6E4) Date: Late 9/1971 Description: 7:30 p.m. Chen Chu, a member of a People’s Liberation Army unit stationed in Dingzhou, Hebei, China, is on assignment in a small valley north of the city when he and other soldiers notice a ball-like object rising slowly to the north of their quarters. It is emitting mist, and after a few seconds it spurts out a large jet of smoke and rises in the air. It hovers a few more seconds then rises to a higher level. Soon it drops down toward the ground and disappears. The unit dispatches a motor vehicle to find the object, but due to the ruggedness of the mountain roads, it turns back after more than 3 miles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, p. 72 Source ID: Eberhart_4821 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15270 (79EBBACE) Date: 9/25/1971 Description: There were a number of sightings from across China on this day. In Xuchang a luminous object spiralled in a counterclockwise spin in the northwestern sky. It descended to a lower altitude, rose again, then shot away to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 74 Source ID: Johnson_6322 Source: Johnson ### Event 15271 (C89E50BC) Date: 9/25/1971 Description: At two a.m. Benito Miranda, a 24-year-old truck driver, was driving on Highway 40 west of Itaperuna, Minas Gerais, Brazil when he perceived a strong beam of reddish light, coming from something that blocked the road ahead of him. He lost control of his car, and it slowed down and stopped despite his best efforts. He got out of his car and saw an object about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle on the road. A door opened in the object and three diminutive beings, less than two feet tall, jumped down from it. They wore coveralls with "Roman type" helmets, and carried dazzling lights. With a yellow beam of light they levitated him 150 feet from the ground, where he was floated for about 15 minutes. When the headlights of an approaching car came into view he was gently lowered back down to the ground, and the object and its occupants vanished. He drove back to Itaperuna and reported his close encounter to the police, who sent him to SAMDU Hospital to be examined. An independent witness, the driver of the approaching car, reported witnessing the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, September 1971, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-24, citing Dr. Walter Buhler Source ID: Johnson_6320 Source: Johnson ### Event 15272 (85A81BDB) Date: 9/25/1971 Description: The first sighting of a tall, hairy creature to occur on this day in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England happened at 5:30 a.m., but no details are available. Later that same day Miss Linda Milne saw a tall, hairy creature enter some woods near the old Wantage canal. Two 14-year-old boys said they were chased by it, that when they threw stones at it it ran towards them. They scaled a fence to get away, but the creature did as well. Later, they observed a disc-shaped object take off from a field in the same field. At the time there were many reports of UFOs in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-25, citing J. D. Llewellyn, FSR, Vol. 18 # 1 Source ID: Johnson_6321 Source: Johnson ### Event 15273 (959D4248) Date: 9/27/1971 Description: On this night Len Delman, a lorry driver, saw what he took to be a man in a white suit in the road directly ahead of his truck while driving near Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. He slammed on the brakes and came to a halt, believing he may have hit the man. He jumped out and went behind his truck, but found no one. Coming back around to the front of his vehicle he saw in the headlights a "spaceman," 7-8 feet tall, with big, staring eyes 8-12 inches apart and extending around the sides of its head. It had a pack on its back from which two tubes led to the head. When Delman honked his horn repeatedly the "thing" jumped three feet in the air and ran across the road, then leapt over a hedge. Two other lorry drivers came upon the scene, and together they watched a disc-shaped object take off from the field where the figure had disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-26, citing J. D. Llewellyn, FSR, Vol. 18 # 1 Source ID: Johnson_6380 Source: Johnson ### Event 15274 (BB1C3AB1) Date: 9/30/1971 Description: At two a.m. Mr. Ron Foreman heard a loud noise outside followed by a "whoosh" come from outside his home in West Malling, Kent, England. His television cut out and the room lights went dim. He opened the back door and saw a seven foot tall "creature" standing there, clad in a silver suit and wearing a transparent helmet. It "glided" away over a fence, but later returned with a second entity, surrounded by a haze of light. Foreman went for the police. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-27, citing BUFORA Journal, Vol. 3 # 6 Source ID: Johnson_6446 Source: Johnson ### Event 15275 (567F84D6) Date: 10/1971 Description: 6:00 p.m. Traingular Shape - black colored lights on the bottom- no other lights observed approximately 300 ft across completely silent moved slowly app. 30- 40 mph. No. of Witnesses: 1; Duration: 10 min. (ufoevidence.org., Unevaluated). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [711000](http://www.ufoevidence.org/sightings/report.asp?ID=9480) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Florence, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4071 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15276 (C5371C87) Date: 10/2/1971 Description: Mr. Wazny, age 29, a retired U.S. Air Force airman sighted a huge, silent triangular craft with many lights southwest of Caro, Michigan at 6:20 p.m. It made sharp turns at a fantastic speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1971, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_6501 Source: Johnson ### Event 15277 (39626F03) Date: 10/2/1971 Description: 6:30 a.m. An ex-Air Force man is driving from Caro to Watrousville, Michigan, and spots a triangular UFO with a large white light at the bottom and many smaller red lights around it. It makes sharp turns at fantastic speed and moves quickly out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sighting Advisory,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/069%20DECEMBER%201971.pdf)” UFO Investigator, December 1971, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_4823 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15278 (47C7C741) Date: 10/2/1971 Description: 7:50 p.m. Two students, Vània, 9, and Vera, 21, are sitting down outside their residence on a busy street in the populous neighborhood of São Cristóvão in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when they see a luminous, yellow, silent object above a building across the street some 260–300 feet away. They run out into the street to alert others, and the object follows them above the roofs of houses. Another student, Nelson Calmon Schubsky, 23, and his fiancée rush into the street along with many others to see the object. Chbosky has a Leica camera and takes two photos without having time to adjust the settings. The UFO has three luminous appendages \(white, yellow, and red\) and is rose-colored in the center with a red outline. It pulsates rapidly, changes color, and disappears behind a nearby tower. Chbosky’s photos are blurry. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO é Fotografado no Rio de Janeiro \(RJ\),](https://www.fenomenum.com.br/ufo/casuistica/1970/saocristovao)” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Clark III 1007–1009; Brazil 146–149 Source ID: Eberhart_4824 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15279 (5E847143) Date: 10/3/1971 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Cury where driving in Anapolis, Brazil at 1:40 a.m. when their car's engine made an odd sound and suddenly accelerated to 160 kph despite the driver's effort to slow it down. A large glowing sombrero-shaped object appeared in front of the car. It passed back and forth across the road, oscillated up and down, then sped away. On the same day two disc-shaped objects descended low over Rainbow Lake in Derry, New Hampshire. There were independent witnesses to the event, and other UFO sightings in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1971, p. 3; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 52; Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 168 Source ID: Johnson_6527 Source: Johnson ### Event 15280 (DC2CE127) Date: 10/5/1971 Description: Evening. Seven reports from Illinois State Troopers over 2 hour period. (UFOI, 71) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4072 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15281 (769C1C57) Date: 10/5/1971 Description: Early morning. While on the downwind leg of the pattern to runway 20L at the Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, four pilots on board a single-engine Cessna airplane watch as a “huge star” approaches them on their starboard side. The object descends to their altitude and slows rapidly to their air speed, smoothly changing its direction to fly parallel with them at an estimated distance of 98 feet. It looks like an “inverted dish” with a small rounded protrusion centered on its upper surface that seems to contain oval windows. What appears to be the head of a person is seen in one window looking at them. The UFO is seen for about 85 seconds. The object descends at high velocity toward the water’s surface, turns sharply left without any hesitation and disappears from sight in several seconds. The reporting witness is Chief Flight Instructor José Américo C. Medeiros, 23, pilot of the Cessna. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “Airplane Pacing in Rio,” IUR 34, no. 2 \(Mar. 2012\): 3–6, 26–29 Source ID: Eberhart_4825 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15282 (3762B7CE) Date: 10/11/1971 Description: Soviet Salyut 1 space station burned up during atmospheric reentry. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_204 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15283 (6BDD4A6A) Date: 10/11/1971 Description: At 4:30 a.m. two police in Walthamstow, England--Parker and Giles--saw a long cigar-shaped object flashing as it flew through the sky. It gave off a blinding white light, and went out of sight over some rooftops in six seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_6771 Source: Johnson ### Event 15284 (39EF02E7) Date: 10/11/1971 Description: Itaperuna, Brazil - At three o'clock in the morning Paula Caetano Silveira awoke from sleep abruptly, as if by "a mental shock." From his bed he saw a light in the garden, so he went to his kitchen where he could get a better view. Through the window grating he saw the same object that had stopped him on September 22nd. It was hovering a half meter from the ground only three meters from his house. Paulo Caetano saw several small figures beside the craft, who pointed a small box-like implement in his direction. The witness and the small figures remained eyeing each other, with no movement, for 10 minutes. At some point Paulo Caetano's head began to ache. The craft and its occupants left, but the witness was so upset he was unable to return to sleep. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, UFO Encounters: FSR Special Edition No. 5, p. 19; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-28, citing Walter Buhler Source ID: Johnson_6770 Source: Johnson ### Event 15285 (0ACC05B9) Date: 10/12/1971 Description: A teenager, four friends, and at least one adult reported observing "a bright white cloud flying in circles but traveling in a west to easterly direction" over Mattawan. Witnesses estimated the object was several hundred feet wide. (UFO Investigator/ Nov. 1971, page 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mattawan, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4073 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15286 (DF557386) Date: 10/13/1971 Description: In the afternoon in Kladar, Bosnia (then part of Yugoslavia) a cloud of dense "flying smoke" one kilometer long and 1 meter wide moved in an undulating wave across the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Awareness, October 1977, p. 10, citing J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 3, 1972, case no. 121 Source ID: Johnson_6812 Source: Johnson ### Event 15287 (9023AD29) Date: 10/14/1971 Description: At 9 p.m. three men camping on the banks of the Trinity River near Hawkins Bar, California heard a deafening roar come from the opposite side of the river. They then saw several large, dark humanoid figures moving about. The campers stayed up the remainder of the night watching the black shapes moving around a campfire, making high-pitched whining noises and sounds of rapid-fire chatter. There had been numerous reports of UFOs and strange lights in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 1057, citing Peter Guttilla, Saga UFO Report, September 1977 Source ID: Johnson_6837 Source: Johnson ### Event 15288 (B15D1545) Date: 10/16/1971 Description: Six members of a rock band were returning from a performance and were driving in a van near St. Catharines, Ontario when they saw a large disc-shaped object with brightly lit portholes and blue beams of light shining on the roadway. The group tried to turn back but the van came under the control of the object and it drove directly towards it. They got to within 20 feet of the craft and the van stopped. They all felt heat at this point. They then saw a face with large black eyes staring at them through the window. The back door of the van was opened and four humanoids stood there. They had large hairless heads and large black eyes. The beings communicated telepathically with the witnesses telling them they would not be hurt. Three of the witnesses were taken inside the object and tested with numerous instruments. At one point the aliens told one of the witnesses that there was not a "correct religion on earth." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 298, citing Lawrence J Fenwick, SBI Report # 40 Source ID: Johnson_6896 Source: Johnson ### Event 15289 (65046E20) Date: 10/17/1971 Description: Two boys in Leicester, England reported that they witnessed an object in the sky that bobbed up-and-down starting at 6:30 p.m. It turned red in color when it ascended, then turned white when it descended. When white it was so bright it hurt their eyes. They watched for 10 minutes before it went behind a tree. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, July 1972, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_6927 Source: Johnson ### Event 15290 (37484C59) Date: 10/28/1971 Description: Two "flying woks" were seen in sharp relief in a clear blue sky over Fengrun, China. They shot off toward the west, one at high altitude, the other at a low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 76 Source ID: Johnson_7235 Source: Johnson ### Event 15291 (05480DE8) Date: 10/28/1971 Description: On this night Sally Pike was on a UFO watch on Cradle Hill, Warminster, England when she suddenly and inexplicably became apprehensive. Upon turning around, she saw, very clearly, the outline of a tall male figure striding up the road in the bright moonlight. The figure was about seven-foot tall, with extremely long arms, which hung limply at his sides. He seemed to have no neck, and his head appeared to rise directly from his shoulders. The body itself was almost transparent, with only the outline being solid. Later that same night, Neil Pike also was on watch near some white metal gates, and looked over to the road leading up to a military vedette post. He became aware of three giant figures standing in a line near the opposite hedgerow. His description was similar to his wife's, except that the bodies ended at the mid-section and he could not discern any legs. Startled, he shone the beam of his flashlight at one of the tall figures. Immediately it vanished, only to reappear at another spot nearer to him. He flashed the flashlight on the other two and the same thing happened. They were now much closer to him. Alone on the hill, he panicked and ran to his car, got in, and quickly sped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1971 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Ken Rogers, The Warminster Triangle Source ID: Johnson_7237 Source: Johnson ### Event 15292 (F92A028E) Date: 10/28/1971 Description: At 5:45 p.m. several people on a bus in North Montreal, Quebec saw an ovoid UFO that followed their bus, going north. It stopped near a power station, and a power outage resulted. At 8:30 p.m. another luminous UFO, this one disc-shaped, descended slowly and silently down near a power station in Mont Laurier, Quebec. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1972 Source ID: Johnson_7236 Source: Johnson ### Event 15293 (B553A45C) Date: 10/31/1971 Description: At 5:30 p.m. a silent, 25 meter diameter metallic saucer stopped 50 meters over a tractor northeast of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The bottom of the object was revolving. The UFO tilted, then shot off toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1973, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_7338 Source: Johnson ### Event 15294 (23A95F3A) Date: 10/31/1971 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a witness out for a walk in Tinley Park, Illinois saw three lights in the sky that got closer together, very low in sky. A lot of dogs started barking wildly at the time. The UFO leaned toward the witness, 200 feet away, revealing a disk silhouette. The witness got scared, then it backed away, and floated out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, pp. 86-87, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_7339 Source: Johnson ### Event 15295 (F70DA028) Date: 11/1/1971 Description: At 5:30 p.m. two young men driving near Karlskoga Airport, Orebro, Sweden experienced physiological effects when a disc-shaped object hovered and maneuvered near them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GICOFF Sweden, November 1971, p. 9; UFO Nachtrichten, August 1972 Source ID: Johnson_7384 Source: Johnson ### Event 15296 (1E64A1D4) Date: 11/2/1971 Description: 7:00 p.m. Ronald Johnson, 16, is tending sheep on his family’s farm at Delphos, Kansas, when he hears a rumbling sound and sees \(75 feet away in a small grove of trees\) an object become suddenly illuminated with a mass of blue, red, and orange colors. Nine feet in diameter and 10 feet high, the UFO is slightly domed at the top and is hovering 2 feet above the ground. He and his dog stare at the object while the sheep are bellowing. After several minutes, the glow at the base becomes more intense and the object takes off at an angle, clearing by no more than 4 feet a shed attached to the sheep pen. The rumbling is replaced by a high-pitched wail. Johnson is temporarily blinded but recovers his sight a few minutes later and sees the object still there. He runs into the house to tell his parents, and they also see the light in the southern sky moving off into the distance. At the site where the UFO has been is a glowing, gray-white circle where the soil seems to be crystallized. After the parents touch the soil, it turns their fingers numb, persisting for several weeks. Johnson takes a photo of the circle. Seven separate soil analyses are conducted. Soil samples taken from the ring so not absorb water, have a higher acid content, and contain more soluble salts and calcium. They also produce less seed growth than control samples and are coated with a hydrocarbon of low molecular weight that is difficult to remove. A second substance is also found that is composed of white, crystalline fibers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Delphos, Kansas, November 2, 1971](http://www.nicap.org/ar-711102dir.htm)”; “[Landing](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201971%2011%2000%20-%20November-December.pdf) [Case in Kansas,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201971%2011%2000%20-%20November-December.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1971, pp. 1, 3; Ted Phillips, “[Landing Report from Delphos,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201972%20N%209.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 9 \(February 1972\): 4–10; Vallée, The Invisible College, Dutton, 1975, p. 35; Clark III 400–402; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 79–82; Erol A. Faruk, “The Delphos Landing: New Evidence from the Laboratory,” IUR 12, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1987\): 21–25; Erol A. Faruk, “The Delphos Landing: New Evidence from the Laboratory, Part Two,” IUR 12, no. 3 \(May/June 1987\): 19–21; Erol A. Faruk, “The Delphos Case: Soil Analysis and Appraisal of a CE-2 Report,” JUFOS 1 \(1989\): 41–65; Michael D. Swords, “Research Note: Delphos, Kansas, Soil Analysis,” JUFOS 3 \(1991\): 115; Michael D. Swords, comp., “Soil Analysis Results,” JUFOS 3 \(1991\): 116–133; Erol A. Faruk, “Further Comment on the Delphos Data,” JUFOS 3 \(1991\): 134–137; 8 \(2003\): 1–25; Ted Phillips and Jennie Zeidman, Delphos: A Close Encounter of the Second Kind, UFO Research Coalition, 2002; Phyllis A. Budinger, “New Analysis of Soil Samples from the Delphos UFO Case,” JUFOS 8 \(2003\): 1–25; Erol Faruk, “[The Delphos CE2](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B7PNmNITmERJn7pbMfjkAcutW%5F8yPwxz/view) [Case: A New Appraisal of the Data,](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B7PNmNITmERJn7pbMfjkAcutW%5F8yPwxz/view)” Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, November 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_4826 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15297 (A4A5E86A) Date: 11/2/1971 Description: (#494) confirming witnesses (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [711102](http://www.nicap.org/ar-711102dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Delphos, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4075 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15298 (96E6FC42) Date: 11/2/1971 Description: Sheep become agitated during landing event (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [711102](http://www.nicap.org/ar-711102dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Delphos, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4074 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15299 (C27E555B) Date: 11/2/1971 Description: A famous UFO close encounter leaving physical evidence occurred on this day at a farm one mile northeast of Delphos, Kansas. Sixteen-year-old Ron Johnson was tending the family sheep with his dog at around seven p.m. when he saw a mushroom-shaped UFO appear in the night sky. The object was covered with multicolored lights on its metallic surface. It hovered only a few feet above the ground only 75 feet away from him in a sheep paddock. Ron estimated the craft's diameter at 6-8 feet. The teenager tried to get a closer look but under the brilliant luminance he was not able to make out any additional details. He described the craft as making a loud sound, "like an old washing machine which vibrates." The glow from the bottom of the UFO increased as it began to shoot up into the sky. Ron was temporarily blinded by the brightness of the craft as it ascended. After he regained his sight and composure, he ran back to the family house to alert the others. The bright glow was now high in the sky, as it began to vanish from sight altogether.

Three family members came running around the side of the house to get a glimpse of the unusual object. They were shocked to see a glowing ring on the ground, right under where the craft had hovered. Ron’s mother touched the surface of the ground around the glow, and said it "felt strange, like a slick crust, as if the soil was crystallized." Her fingers went numb, like she had been given a local anesthetic. Seeing nothing else of the craft, the family finally went to bed for the night.

(Continued.) At dawn the family returned to the sight of the glowing ring and to their surprise, it was still there. The inside and outside of the ring were damp from a rain shower, but the ring itself was completely dry. The ring had a crusty appearance, as though the rain had simply run off. Slightly over a month later, after a snow fall, the white ice had melted both inside and outside of the ring, but the ring itself maintained the snow drift. Investigators experimented with the ring by removing snow from a section of it and pouring water on the exposed part. The soil would not allow water to pass through.

Further experimentation showed the ground under the ring to be dry to a depth of one foot. The ring itself was composed of a whitish substance, which was sent for laboratory analysis. The lab findings found that there were fibers in the soil of an organism called Actinomycetales actiniomycete nocardia, which is an intermediate organism between bacteria and fungus, and is “often found together with a fungus of the order Basidomycetes, which may fluoresce under certain conditions...” One possible interpretation is that high-energy stimulation triggered the spectacular growth of the Nocardia and of an existing fungus, and caused the latter to fluoresce. Phosphorous may also have been baked out of the soil and may have been the substance that numbed Mrs. Johnson’s fingers when she touched the ground. The experience of Ron Johnson is still considered one of the best documented "ground trace" UFO cases on record. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, FSR Case Histories, February 1972, p. 4; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 494; Clancy D. Tull, APRO Bulletin, March-April 1972, p. 8; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, p. 264 Source ID: Johnson_7421 Source: Johnson ### Event 15300 (95685E39) Date: 11/2/1971 Description: Brilliantly lighted, mushroomshaped object hovered just off ground, sheep reacted, light beam, landing traces, physiological effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Delphos, KS Source ID: HallUFOE2_205 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15301 (CE60D1A4) Date: 11/3/1971 Description: The Ugandan representative to the United Nations, [Grace Ibingira](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace%5FIbingira), asks the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to encourage astronauts who encounter UFOs to treat them respectfully. He wants to insert a clause to that effect into a UN statement on space exploration, but his colleagues are unmoved. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1189 Source ID: Eberhart_4827 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15302 (32DEBA2F) Date: 11/3/1971 Description: Trudy Van Riper was awakened at around four o'clock in the morning by her cats "growling and carrying on" on her ranch near Austin, Texas. When she opened the door they ran inside and hid under the living room couch. When she looked out the window, she saw an "elliptical moon" object lighting up her backyard and part of the pasture beyond. Going to the front door, she discovered a strange little vehicle that had landed on her lawn, which resembled a Volkswagen without fenders or doors. From the top emerged three small men dressed in dark garments, one of whom communicated with her telepathically, saying, "Are there any pigs in that field? They are hungry." Then she saw, near the men, two peculiar looking creatures covered with fuzzy hair, but standing erect. She retreated back inside her house, and when she looked out again the object was airborne, and the "moon" was gone. Later she learned that several pigs had been lost at a nearby farm. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1971-31; Fate magazine, December 1972, p. 100 Source ID: Johnson_7432 Source: Johnson ### Event 15303 (ECFB0C90) Date: 11/4/1971 Description: In Austin, Texas Trudy Van Riper was awakened by her cats growling at four o'clock in the morning. Outside a pasture was illuminated by a UFO that looked like an "elliptical moon." In her front yard a vehicle had landed on the lawn, looking like a VW Beetle without fenders. Three small men emerged, and communicated with her telepathically, "Any pigs in that field? We are hungry." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1131, citing Trudy Van Riper, Fate, December 1972 Source ID: Johnson_7461 Source: Johnson ### Event 15304 (6544459B) Date: 11/5/1971 Description: About midnight a rancher and his wife observed a brilliant orange triangular- shaped object with a blinking red light on top. Two more identical objects then appeared alongside the first. (Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee report filed by Mrs. Idabel Epperson, who interviewed the witnesses by telephone.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coarsegold, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4076 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15305 (59AB1DA8) Date: 11/5/1971 Description: Two railroad men were dazed and incoherent in South Johnstone, Queensland, Australia after their close encounter at ten p.m. with a ball of fire, which burnt a sugar cane field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 495, citing Evening Advocate; ACOS Bulletin, June 1977, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_7479 Source: Johnson ### Event 15306 (A2D9782E) Date: 11/6/1971 Description: A UFO resembling a plate turned upside down on another plate that glowed with a white light, reportedly followed the president of a local school board and his wife as they were driving on a rural road just south of Lockbourne AIr Force Base. The object flying at an altitude of approximately 500 - 1000 feet, was observed for more than one hour, and appeared to to follow the couple to their farm and orbited the area for about 45 minutes. (UFO Investigator/ Dec. 1971, page 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pickaway County, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4077 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15307 (C96488E2) Date: 11/6/1971 Description: On this day three 30-meter wide pyramids hovered over some old abandoned mines in Coarsegold, California. They had red lights blinking on top and a beam of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1971, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_7504 Source: Johnson ### Event 15308 (AC1A561D) Date: 11/6/1971 Description: A glowing saucer-shaped object followed a couple driving home in Pickaway County, Ohio at 1:00 p.m., and them circled their farm for 45 minutes. It finally left by spiralling up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1971, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_7503 Source: Johnson ### Event 15309 (3CD0F2C1) Date: 11/7/1971 Description: Evening. Former Navy weather observer and wife observed for 9 minutes a bright, slowly-moving "white-orange" light approaching from the East. Object appeared to be about 1500-2000', changed course and disappeared.(UFOI, 71, page 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norris City, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4078 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15310 (521FA8A5) Date: 11/13/1971 Description: In the desert of Lucerne Valley, California three men were out on a hunting trip. At 5:15 p.m. they saw a large, yellowish-white light land in the distance, and a smaller light approach their campsite. In the ensuing minutes they heard twigs snap, and were startled by a loud unintelligible cry. They left their campsite in haste. Returning to the site during the daytime with UFO investigator Anne Druffel, they found three 12"-14" circular imprints arranged in a triangle 12 feet apart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ann Druffel, NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1972, p. 2; Data-Net Report, February 1972, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_7635 Source: Johnson ### Event 15311 (547472DE) Date: 11/13/1971 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a lemon-colored sphere was seen by a railway signalman 50 feet above the ground in Saxilby, Lincolnshire, England. A second identical object appeared, and the two hovered together, making no sound. The lights were estimated to be half a mile away. They vanished like a light switch being turned off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. K Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_7634 Source: Johnson ### Event 15312 (70C8CDAF) Date: 11/14/1971 Description: Another close encounter with a farm tractor occurred in La Chapelle, France at 1:30 in the early morning. A flying disc made a sharp 90 degree turn to follow the tractor. It shot down beams of light, then made a 180 degree turn and flew off to the NE. A brighly lit object stopped in mid-flight in Biloxi, Mississippi near a military base at 5:30 p.m. local time. The UFO hovered about 200 feet above the ocean and about 700 yards away from the two military witnesses. The base Ops received more than 50 phone calls about the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, May 1972, p. 4; Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 115 Source ID: Johnson_7674 Source: Johnson ### Event 15313 (5E69DE8C) Date: 11/28/1971 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a 52-year-old man had a close encounter with a red light in Sedalia, Missouri, which was seen through falling snow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Skylook, January 1972 Source ID: Johnson_7995 Source: Johnson ### Event 15314 (8F5DBDC5) Date: 11/28/1971 Description: On this day in Canoga Park, California a nocturnal light was seen skimming the ground. Later investigation revealed three 38" diameter imprints in an 18 foot triangle, and a burnt bush at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 79, case # 497 Source ID: Johnson_7994 Source: Johnson ### Event 15315 (5F6932BE) Date: 12/1971 Description: At Tooligie Hill, South Australia, farmer Robert Habner finds a single-ring crop circle 10 feet in diameter in a wheat paddock. Another family had seen a red ball of light in the area the previous night. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Allen Tiller, “[Tooligie Hill UFO Crop Circle,](http://eidolonparanormal.blogspot.com/2014/04/tooligie-hill.html)” Eidolon Paranormal, 2010 Source ID: Eberhart_4828 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15316 (6695C228) Date: 12/1/1971 Description: In 1971 on this night in Minnesota more than 15 police and sheriff deputies in five towns, centered on Excelsior, Minnesota sighted a glowing sphere. The object changed color from red to green. It was sometimes silent and sometimes reported to be humming. One photograph was taken as it hovered over Chanhassen, Minnesota a few minutes before midnight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 40 Source ID: Johnson_8105 Source: Johnson ### Event 15317 (EFF6081F) Date: 12/4/1971 Description: At 10:30 p.m. an extremely bright, luminous disc hovered and spun over the city of Campinas, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. It was seen by hundreds as it passed over the town at low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR Case Histories, August 1972, p. 13, citing a newspaper clipping Source ID: Johnson_8177 Source: Johnson ### Event 15318 (F9D8BE20) Date: 12/5/1971 Description: Paulo Caetano Silveira's fourth "contact" experience occurred near the bridge over the Rio Carangula outside Itaperuna, Brazil at 7:00 p.m. He was invited inside the UFO and heard its occupants "jabbering" with each other unintelligibly, although he never observed their lips move. He did understand their message that they were on a mission of peace, preparing people for eventual contact. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, UFO Encounters: FSR Special Edition No. 5, p. 21; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-34, citing Dr. Walter Buhler Source ID: Johnson_8205 Source: Johnson ### Event 15319 (ECCEAA30) Date: 12/5/1971 Description: At 3:00 a.m. a funnel-shaped object followed a car through a forest south of Michery, Yonne, France. It eetours around a copse of woods, then made some sharp turns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1973 Source ID: Johnson_8204 Source: Johnson ### Event 15320 (7B49E1A8) Date: 12/6/1971 Description: Following a pre-arranged date with some mysterious entities, the well known stage psychic Uri Geller and physicist Andrijah Puharich drove to the appointed place near Tel Aviv, Israel around 10:00 p.m. There they saw a bluish light pulsating over a small square of open field. Geller felt an irresistible attraction towards the light. They left the car and heard a cicada-like electronic noise. Geller remembered asking Puharich and another witness, named Iris, to wait there and he set off towards the pulsating light. As he approached it he felt like he was entering some sort of trance. Everything became completely silent around him and he felt like he had entered some type of "vacuum." The very air had changed quality. He then remembered seeing a strange "building" or UFO having no discernible shape whatsoever. Soon a shapeless dark figure parted from the strange building and approached him, then put something in his hand. Geller felt a sudden feeling of fear and ran back to Andrijah and Iris. Before he reached them he realized what was in his hand: it was the very same pen that had mysteriously vanished from their experiment box. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Andrijah Puharich, Uri Geller; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 270; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1135 Source ID: Johnson_8233 Source: Johnson ### Event 15321 (B77832FD) Date: 12/13/1971 Description: A young man, T. McClintock, was walking home from a late evening piano lesson when he saw three red pulsating lights over the shore in Muchalls, Scotland. One of the lights seem to follow him. The light swooped very low, almost at ground level, and he then saw a figure dressed in a long robe in the middle of the road. It seemed to be glowing and blocking the road. When he stepped one yard towards the figure it suddenly vanished. He then ran the rest of the way home, frightened and totally confused. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 116; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 338, citing SPI, May-June 1989 Source ID: Johnson_8375 Source: Johnson ### Event 15322 (AD8639B2) Date: 12/14/1971 Description: 11:45 p.m. Several residents (near Hagerstown), including a Maryland State Trooper and a college professor, reported seeing a bright light circling over Holiday Acres, a local subdivision. The object has been reported by local residents on several occasions, and is usually seen around 11 p.m. (UFO Investigator / Jan 1972, page 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cavetown, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4079 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15323 (5F335AF2) Date: 12/14/1971 Description: Yates and Schiller in Waikerie, South Australia saw a six-foot tall humanoid with a "lumpy" body and surrounded by an aura of light float through some trees, 20 meters away. The creature had large pointed ears, a nose like a dog, and no eyes or mouth that were visible. This happened at 11 o'clock at night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, case investigation files #S037 Source ID: Johnson_8393 Source: Johnson ### Event 15324 (6A550982) Date: 12/15/1971 Description: A round, silver disc-shaped object was sighted by a Mrs. H. Parker in Bridgewater, Tasmania at 6:20 a.m. It had a brightly reflective surface that flashed like a mirror over a river. After two minutes the object turned slowly to reveal an oval, disc-shaped appearance. It rose up, hovered for a minute, and was gone over a hill. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australian Flying Saucer Review, December 1972, p. 12, citing the Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre Source ID: Johnson_8413 Source: Johnson ### Event 15325 (D107525D) Date: 12/17/1971 Description: At eight o’clock in the evening in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England a motorist’s car engine stopped but his car’s headlights stayed on. The driver then saw a huge gray sphere in the nearby field. He then saw a light move across the road and saw that the sphere had gone. The car could the be restarted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_8468 Source: Johnson ### Event 15326 (62C67E0C) Date: 12/20/1971 Description: Mr. da Silva e Souza, 60, saw an intense blue-lighted object on the ground near the airport in Itaperuna, Brazil. The UFO was about eight feet long, transparent, ovoid shaped, and was illuminated from within by a blue light. A short humanoid, less than a meter tall, walked around the craft once, and then seemed to float up into the air and enter the craft from above, feet first. There were two other short beings seated inside. The craft then flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe: What you have not been told about flying saucers, p. 118, citing a report from the Brazilian Air Force Source ID: Johnson_8534 Source: Johnson ### Event 15327 (924E2E52) Date: 12/20/1971 Description: Prior to the launch of a Black Arrow rocket, an unidentified aircraft is seen by a trained meteorological observer over prohibited airspace at the RAAF Woomera Range Complex in South Australia. The RAAF explains it as reentering space debris, although it is impossible to confirm. \(Swords 401\) Last week of December — After sunset. Norman W. Kasting is flying on a commercial airliner between Dallas, Texas, and Denver, Colorado. He notices something approaching the plane from behind on the west side. It passes within a few hundred yards of the aircraft and 10–20 feet below its level, flying faster than the plane. The object is metallic and shaped like an upside-down bowl about 30–40 feet in diameter and 15 feet tall. It has orange or amber lights around the edge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Out of the Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1984\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4829 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15328 (91C4B51B) Date: 12/21/1971 Description: At around 11 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO along the roadside of Highway 116 in Mossoro, Brazil in the state of Rio Grande do Norte shot sparks from a tube for ten minutes. It then ascended into the sky and flew off toward the ocean. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR Case Histories, August 1972, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_8552 Source: Johnson ### Event 15329 (2769547D) Date: 12/22/1971 Description: A married couple name Castillo had a bright light pace their car in Osuna, Sevilla province, Spain. There was heavy radio interference on the car radio, and their dog in the car became quite excited. They then saw a strange object hovering by the side of road, rocking back and forth and making a shrill whistling sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 52; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 151 Source ID: Johnson_8565 Source: Johnson ### Event 15330 (6A8F6806) Date: 12/25/1971 Description: In Tooligie Hill, South Australia a red ball of light was sighted by neighbors on this night. The next day Mr. Habner found a 2.2 meter diameter ring, 45 cm wide and 10 cm deep in his wheat field. The wheat was swirled in a counter-clockwise direction around the ground mark. Soil samples revealed nothing abnormal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Data-Net Report, June 1972, p. 16; Ted Philips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, citing Adelaide News, May 5, 1972 Source ID: Johnson_8603 Source: Johnson ### Event 15331 (8F3CEE2E) Date: 12/28/1971 Description: Three witnesses in a Boeing 727 airliner and Air Traffic Controllers reported several groups of red balls of light that jumped and maneuvered all over the mountainous area of San Martin de los Andes, Neuquen Province, Argentina beginning at 11:45 p.m. for the next 35 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May 1972; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9455; Phenomenes Spatiaux, issue # 37 Source ID: Johnson_8633 Source: Johnson ### Event 15332 (838E6BA8) Date: 12/29/1971 Description: B-727 crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Martin de Los Andes, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_4080 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15333 (B2996E63) Date: 12/31/1971 Description: On this evening in 1971 in Tulancingo, Mexico in the State of Hidalgo, Sra. Ochones saw a domed disc land 50 meters away, making a “sizzling” sound. A door opened in the craft and several beings emerged from a red illuminated interior. They wore white coveralls with tight-fitting hoods, and spent a short period of time collecting soil samples. The ground marks at the landing site included 3 leg marks and 2 skids. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Saga 1973 UFO Special, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_8668 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1972 (Back to Top) ### Event 15334 (05B74FB4) Date: 1972 Description: July or August, 1972; Lake Norman, NC. Saucer near nuclear facility (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, NC) Reference: NICAP: [720000](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-lakenorman72.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Norman, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4081 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15335 (342A3708) Date: 1972 Description: Oscar A. Uriondo and Roberto E. Banchs found the Centro de Estudios de Fénomenos Aéreos Inusuales in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 55](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/55/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4831 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15336 (508AEC51) Date: 1972 Description: Project SNOWBIRD established to test fly a captured flying saucer. This was an alleged ongoing 1972 Top Secret project that researched, developed and implemented alien spacecraft technology and test flown recovered UFOs. It is possible that the UFO involved in the CASH/LANDRUM CASE was built by the Americans as part of this project, however another “Project Snowbird” has been found described as a “Joint Army/Air Force peacetime military exercise in the sub-arctic region in 1955” in the 1963 Gale Research’s Code Names Dictionary. Project SNOWBIRD is another project that was revealed in the Project AQUARIUS Briefing Document. Type: majestic document Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, SNOWBIRD) Reference: [archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20010224011519/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/AndyPage/SNOWBIRD.htm) Source ID: Maj2_666 Source: Maj2 ### Event 15337 (8BE10283) Date: 1972 Description: Kilbjørn Stenødegård founds the Norsk UFO Center in Trondheim, Norway. It publishes UFO Forum from 1973 to 1978. The Norsk UFO Center in Bergen publishes Rapportnytt from 1974 to 1981. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO Forum](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/UFO%20Forum/UFO%20Forum%20-%201973%20-%20No%201.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/UFO%20Forum/UFO%20Forum%20-%201973%20-%20No%201.pdf) no. 1 \(1973\); Rapportnytt, no. 1 \(1974\) Source ID: Eberhart_4835 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15338 (70749860) Date: 1972 Description: Luis do Rosário Real founds the Sociedade Pelotense de Investigacão e Pesquiso de Discos Voadores in Pelotas, Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil. It publishes a Boletim SPIPDV. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 296](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/295/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4834 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15339 (D6EA829F) Date: 1972 Description: Alberto Romero founds Grupo de Pesquisas Aérospaciais Zenith in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It begins publishing Boletim G-PAZ annually. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [pp. 136–137](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/135/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4833 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15340 (93432F98) Date: 1972 Description: The Centro de Estudos Astronomicos e de Fenómenos Insolitos is founded in Porto, Portugal. It begins publishing a monthly journal, Insolito, in 1975. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 56](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/55/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4832 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15341 (FB6603C7) Date: 1972 Description: [Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) begins making numerous trips to a rural area near Kingston, New Hampshire, where she claims to see 6–7 UFOs every night, often at close range. Saucer-seeking pilgrims join her on these vigils. CUFOS field investigator [John Paul Oswald](https://rr0.org/people/o/OswaldJohn/) joins her occasionally and is convinced she is only seeing airplanes and, on one occasion, a streetlight. She claims no further abductions or CE3s, but many ufologists think her celebrity has clouded her judgment. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 586 Source ID: Eberhart_4830 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15342 (A6F8D176) Date: 1/1972 Description: Night. High school senior Donna Wilkins is driving in a rural area near Bartelso, Illinois, with a boyfriend when they see lights traveling back and forth in an odd pattern in the distance. Suddenly a luminous triangular object appears right next to them and they speed up. It maintains the same position above their car even though they accelerate to 85 mph. The underside seems to be composed of metal beams. It disappears beyond a tree line as they enter town, Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[They Still Keep Seeing UFOs in Carlyle,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201972%2006%20-%20no%2038.pdf)” East St. Louis \(Ill.\) Metro-East Journal, May 31, 1972, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 38 \(June 1972\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4837 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15343 (4D426E63) Date: 1/1972 Description: Air Commodore [Anthony Norman Davis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%5FNorman%5FDavis) becomes the first head of the British UFO desk to appear on TV to explain how the ministry investigates sightings. The program is part of the BBC’s Man Alive series and includes the “man from the ministry” engaging in debate with a panel of experts and taking questions from the audience. The program is filmed in Banbury, England, town hall following a wave of UFO sightings in Oxfordshire. Davis says all reports received by the Ministry of Defence are “examined with an open mind and without prejudice” but denies that the MoD possesses any evidence that can prove the existence of extraterrestrial visitors. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, pp. 84–85 Source ID: Eberhart_4836 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15344 (0F609E5F) Date: 1/1/1972 Description: At 4:30 a.m. a 25 meter long cigar-shaped object hovered over a power station in the town of Nedre Leirfoss in Sor-Trondelag, Norway. It made a rumbling sound, ejected flames, and shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Contact U.K. Source ID: Johnson_13 Source: Johnson ### Event 15345 (200EA88F) Date: 1/4/1972 Description: On this night a car was levitated in Sweden with possible missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: S. Helmer, FSR, May 1972, p. 31; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case # 243 Source ID: Johnson_89 Source: Johnson ### Event 15346 (DF49CB9F) Date: 1/5/1972 Description: While snowmobiling in East Kingston, New Hampshire five witnesses came upon an object close to some railroad tracks at 10:45 p.m. It glowed yellow, hovered 10 feet above the tracks, 300 feet away. It rose vertically, then descended behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341 & 358 Source ID: Johnson_126 Source: Johnson ### Event 15347 (9E899165) Date: 1/8/1972 Description: On the same night a fifteen year old boy named Skiver took a night time photograph of a hovering UFO in Beckemeyer, Illinois at about ten p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated May 31, 1972 Source ID: Johnson_197 Source: Johnson ### Event 15348 (54DF0301) Date: 1/8/1972 Description: A short humanoid being in the middle of the road attempted to stop a truck in Camas, Spain (Sevilla Province) at 9:35 p.m. When the truck driver refused to stop the being jumped into a nearby ditch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 153 citing Manuel Osuna Llorente Source ID: Johnson_196 Source: Johnson ### Event 15349 (B5BCAAD3) Date: 1/15/1972 Description: Rumors Of Red Alert & Possible Major Incident (Unfounded) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: M, Rating: 0) Reference: NICAP: [720115](http://www.nicap.org/720115malmstrom%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4082 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15350 (32DF9212) Date: 1/19/1972 Description: Three police officers reported observing a strange object in the shape of a "boomerang" hovering over the High School (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Phoenixville, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4083 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15351 (E468FE8F) Date: 1/26/1972 Description: At three a.m. Norman Chastain was out fishing late at night in the St. Johns River near Blount Island, Florida when he saw something like "half a ball" with orange and blue flashing lights. It came "directly toward my boat" and hovered noiselessly overhead at 150 feet. He turned off his light and the object slowly moved off. He had drifted to the shore and with his spotlight he could see in the nearby woods "the darndest looking human-like creature one could ever imagine." Waht he saw was a humanoid creature about five feet tall, with pointed ears, large eyes, and a sharp chin. Next a brilliant white light hit him that paralyzed him until dawn. He noticed an "overpowering stench" in his clothes and hair, and threw away his clothes. Three nights later he smelt the same odor again, and in the morning found a fungus like growth similar to "a cluster of several flesh colored heads looking at me;" he said they "had teeth, big eyes, a wide mouth, and pointed ears," and looked "like the devil looking creature" he saw on Blount Island. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lloyd Brown, The Jacksonville Journal, January 28, 1974; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-05, citing Jacksonville Journal Source ID: Johnson_528 Source: Johnson ### Event 15352 (C69FB659) Date: 1/29/1972 Description: At 7:30 p.m. in Chatsworth, Ventura County, California a slowly rotating disc-shaped object with lights around the rim was seen for a minute by a mail carrier. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9468, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1972 Source ID: Johnson_579 Source: Johnson ### Event 15353 (E417D6D3) Date: Early 2/1972 Description: 7:00 p.m. Sarajevo International Airport in Bosnia picks up an unidentified radar target traveling at about 37 mph. It appears visually as a triangular object. When a Jat Airways Convair approaches the target, it accelerates and vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Milos Krmelj, “[Report from Ljubljana, Slovenia,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2013.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 13 \(February 1973\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_4838 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15354 (4886294D) Date: 2/5/1972 Description: In Evillers, France a red disc with blurry edges flew silently toward the north at a steady speed until gone from view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1974 Source ID: Johnson_704 Source: Johnson ### Event 15355 (BDDB51D7) Date: 2/7/1972 Description: A triangular object was tracked on radar and sighted by several observers on the ground at Sarajevo Airport, Yugoslavia at 7:30 p.m. as it increased speed, and then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Milos Krmelj, FSR Case Histories, February 1973, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_737 Source: Johnson ### Event 15356 (1B33128F) Date: 2/10/1972 Description: At shortly after seven o'clock in the evening a dome-shaped UFO flew from north to south over Fort Duchesne, Utah and was seen by three women hovering over a field for ten minutes. It then shot away to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A80 Source ID: Johnson_800 Source: Johnson ### Event 15357 (A9F4A36A) Date: 2/11/1972 Description: A 24-year-old college graduate reported observing a disc-shaped UFO about 300 to 500 feet in the air and not more that 100 yards in front of the witness, flying right in front of his car around 10:40 P.M (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Apollo Beach, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4084 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15358 (A82B79BE) Date: 2/11/1972 Description: At 10:40 p.m. on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, a 24-year-old credit manager was driving near the shore in Apollo Beach, Florida when a 16 meter wide disc flew 30 meters ahead of his car at just 120 meters altitude. It was about 50 to 60 feet in diameter with a series of windows about the size of a door around its girth. The windows were lit and the light behind them was revolving. It flew off toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1972, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_827 Source: Johnson ### Event 15359 (5C1E733F) Date: 2/11/1972 Description: On this evening two 13-year old boys named Akkan and Green in Loughborough, Leicester, England noticed a square object in the sky with a central red light and four white corner lights, as their train pulled out of the railway station. It hovered over a nearby field, and directed powerful light beams down onto the field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, July 1972, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_826 Source: Johnson ### Event 15360 (660E26F8) Date: 2/12/1972 Description: At 6:30 p.m. a screech was heard outside in Haydock, Merseyside, England, and a dog ran and hid. Later, a 6 foot in diameter blue fall of light followed a girl home at 60 feet altitude. The close encounter lasted 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: R. P. Knowles, FSR Case Histories, June 1972, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_873 Source: Johnson ### Event 15361 (49D9141E) Date: 2/12/1972 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a gray eight meter in diameter disc-shaped object descended from the clouds, and then landed on four legs outside the town of LaGardelle-sur-Leze, Haute-Garronne, France. It then took off and flew to the south-southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1976 Source ID: Johnson_872 Source: Johnson ### Event 15362 (F8266E67) Date: 2/15/1972 Description: At 4:30 p.m. in Rantau Panjang, Kelantan, Malaysia a 6-year-old boy named Husain saw a 2" tall being, but with no UFO present. Fifteen minutes later a 12-year-old boy named Yakob confirmed his report by witnessing the same tiny humanoid creature. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, cases 58 & 59 Source ID: Johnson_926 Source: Johnson ### Event 15363 (3A2A269D) Date: 2/27/1972 Description: A photograph of a domed, transparent object was taken by a Mr. Roll in Mart, Texas at 8:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping data February 28, 1972 Source ID: Johnson_1157 Source: Johnson ### Event 15364 (48F1CDDF) Date: 3/1972 Description: [Victor Marchetti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%5FMarchetti)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%5FMarchetti) who has worked as an analyst for the CIA from 1955 to 1969, announces his plans to write a nonfiction book about the agency and completes a draft of an article for Esquire which, according to a later CIA account, includes “names of agents, relations with named governments, and identifying details of ongoing operations.” The CIA receives a copy of the article and decides to seek an injunction against its publication. The basis for seeking an injunction against Marchetti is the secrecy agreement which he signed when beginning employment at CIA. The agency presents the agreement and the parts of the draft article it considers in violation of the agreement, to Judge [Albert Vickers Bryan Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FVickers%5FBryan%5FJr) of the US District Court for Eastern Virginia, who grants a temporary restraining order in April. The case proceeds to trial, at which Bryan finds for the CIA and issues a permanent injunction requiring Marchetti to submit his writings to CIA for review prior to publication. Marchetti appeals the injunction to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upholds Bryan’s restraint but limits it to classified material. The appeals court also finds that Marchetti is entitled to timely review of materials he submits to the CIA. Marchetti appeals again to the US Supreme Court, but SCOTUS rejects Marchetti’s appeal in December. Marchetti continues work on his book with a coauthor, [John D. Marks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FD.%5FMarks)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FD.%5FMarks) and signs a book contract with publisher Alfred A. Knopf. In August 1973, they submit their manuscript to the CIA. After reviewing the manuscript, the agency responds with a list of 339 passages that it claims are classified information and demands their deletion. Marchetti and Marks reject the demand and indicate they will go to court to print the manuscript as written. The CIA then withdraws its objections to 171 of the items but stands firm on the remaining 168. The trial is held again before Judge Bryan. This time, however, he rejects all but 26 of the deletions requested by the CIA on the grounds that the information in them is not properly or provably classified. The CIA appeals Bryan’s ruling, and ultimately the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds all 168 of the deletions. The book is published by Knopf in 1974 as The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. It is printed with blanks for deleted passages and boldface type for the 171 deletions that CIA originally requested and later withdrew. It is the first book the federal government of the United States ever goes to court to censor before its publication. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Victor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%5FMarchetti\#Writing%5Fcareer) [Marchetti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%5FMarchetti\#Writing%5Fcareer)” Source ID: Eberhart_4839 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15365 (E0CEC2CC) Date: 3/1/1972 Description: A two-meter wide spinning, luminous ball of light hung over a factory in Boussois, France at 6:30 p.m. It moved off toward the northwest in jumps. It was back again the next night, and again the following night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1972 Source ID: Johnson_1209 Source: Johnson ### Event 15366 (CB930801) Date: 3/3/1972 Description: At around one o'clock in the morning police officer Williams of Loveland, Ohio slowed his patrol car when he saw what looked like a dog by the side of the road. It stood up, and was tail-less creature with leather like skin and a face like a frog or a lizard, 3 or 4 ft tall. It leaped over the guardrail and went down the embankment to the river. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-38 (A1143), citing Richard Mackey & Ron Schaffner Source ID: Johnson_1277 Source: Johnson ### Event 15367 (B980BBE8) Date: 3/7/1972 Description: At 2:30 a.m. Diana Granville Matthews was driving along the Warminster-Bath Road near Norridge Common, England when she saw an orange oval-shaped UFO that crossed the path of her vehicle. It came from behind a hedgerow to her left and sailed down to road level, no more than 12 yards in front of her car, before lifting and careering over another hedgerow and out of sight. Startled, she did not stop to investigate but continued driving on. No sooner had her dazed vision become re-accustomed to the road when she saw a tall male figure all in white clothing walking towards her on the far side of the road. He was a few hundred yards ahead of her and was loping along quickly . She noted little about his facial features or coloring, but he was of giant stature. She pressed hard on the accelerator and saw the tall figure striding along through deep pools of water alongside the road. She drove home badly frightened. She went to bed but at about 5 a.m. she was awakened by a sharp rapping on her front door. She heard a voice clearly and insistently calling. She got up, went to the front door and opened it but saw no one there. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1972, citing Ken Rogers, The Warminster Triangle Source ID: Johnson_1367 Source: Johnson ### Event 15368 (56219542) Date: 3/8/1972 Description: A large number of witnesses, including police officers, FAA officials, U.S. Coast Guard personnel and numerous other Muskegon citizens observed a brightly colored UFO around 9:15 P.M (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Muskegon, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4085 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15369 (991A2B62) Date: 3/8/1972 Description: President [Nixon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FNixon) legitimizes the use of special access controls and the “special access program” is finally made official. These are security protocols that provide highly classified information with safeguards and access restrictions that exceed those for regular \(collateral\) classified information. SAPs can range from black projects to routine but especially sensitive operations, such as COMSEC maintenance or Presidential transportation support. In addition to collateral controls, an SAP may impose more stringent investigative or adjudicative requirements, specialized nondisclosure agreements, special terminology or markings, exclusion from standard contract investigations \(carve-outs\), and centralized billet systems. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Special access program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%5Faccess%5Fprogram)” Source ID: Eberhart_4840 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15370 (4A4BE579) Date: 3/10/1972 Description: 4:00 a.m. Giant orange glowing boomerang object with no sound, one hour duration (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milhousen, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4086 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15371 (9B0AD310) Date: 3/10/1972 Description: Ellipse with red light landed about 200 meters away. APRO Bulletin, May-June, 1972 (E) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Normandy, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4087 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15372 (6CC99350) Date: 3/10/1972 Description: In Decatur County, Indiana west-northwest of Milhausen a farm couple reported seeing a huge delta-shaped UFO at 4:10 a.m. A heavy, reddish-orange stone was found on the ground that later vanished. According to APRO field investigator Donald Worley, the woman suffered chest pains at the time of the UFO encounter, and there was some unusual interference with the investigation by a mystery person. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1973, p. 1; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 557 Source ID: Johnson_1408 Source: Johnson ### Event 15373 (0E33E667) Date: 3/10/1972 Description: In Aubigny, Eure district, France a 63-year-old fireman spotted a disc or oval-shaped object with tripod landing gear descend from the sky, then land 200 meters away. It had a red ball of light on top of it and two portholes. The lights on the object blinked out after 40 seconds. Mr. Lauretz reported that his car engine sputtered and lost power when he attempted to leave the scene by driving away. This effect lasted for the first 200 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1972, p. 22, citing Progress Soir, March 20, 1972; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1972, p. 1; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 53 (case 314); Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 253 Source ID: Johnson_1409 Source: Johnson ### Event 15374 (D86E7832) Date: 3/12/1972 Description: The tabloid newspaper The National Enquirer announces a $50,000 reward to “the first person who can prove that an Unidentified Flying Object \(UFO\) came from outer space and is not a natural phenomenon.” It has appointed five experts to a blue-ribbon panel that will evaluate all the entries: [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek), [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) [Frank B. Salisbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FB.%5FSalisbury)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FB.%5FSalisbury) [James A. Harder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder) and [Robert F. Creegan](https://www.albany.edu/updates/2000/10-5/tablecampus.htm\#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DRobert%20F.%26text%3DHe%20was%2085.%2Cthe%20UAlbany%20faculty%20in%201952). The deadline for evidence is January 1, 1973. On May 23, 1973, the panel announces that none of the entries examined warranted the full prize, but it has decided to award $5,000 to the Johnson family of Delphos, Kansas, for submitting the 1971 landing trace evidence. The panel awards seven other UFO cases with a portion of the reward, the last going to Deputy Sheriff [Val Johnson](https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/08/26/minnesota-deputy-squad-car-ufo-mystery) in 1980. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Isaac Koi, “[Concensus Lists: National Enquirer Panel,](https://www.isaackoi.com/best-ufo-cases/10-consensus-lists-national-enquirer-panel.html)” UFOs and Rationality, April 1, 2008; Curt Collins, “[The Blue Ribbon UFO Panel of the](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-blue-ribbon-ufo-panel-of-national.html) [National Enquirer,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-blue-ribbon-ufo-panel-of-national.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, September 13, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_4841 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15375 (6CBC8B6E) Date: 3/14/1972 Description: At 7:50 p.m. a vertical cigar-shaped object hung in southwestern sky and was visible from Walthamstow, Greater London, England. After one minute it suddenly vanished as though had been switched off. It was described as orange colored with a hazy glow, at 20 degrees elevation above the horizon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: K. Phillips, BUFORA Journal, April 1973, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_1488 Source: Johnson ### Event 15376 (6857A4DC) Date: 3/16/1972 Description: Luis Bracamonte, a truck driver, saw a sparkling mist appear over the fields in Granadero, Argentina around dawn. He stopped his truck and saw the mist replaced by a blindingly vivid light. When he opened his eyes again he saw "a large oblong machine with a rim on the upper part and wide projections in the under part" about 100 yards away. Three men with very broad shoulders emerged, walking with difficulty. They "looked like Chinese, but with sharper features." They came up to the witness and one of them touched him, gripping his elbow. They spoke to him in a strange language, but he understood that he should not be afraid of them. Then one of them took out "a plaque with two shining symbols on it," and showed it to him. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-06, citing Jane Thomas, FSR, July-August 1972 Source ID: Johnson_1531 Source: Johnson ### Event 15377 (4E634237) Date: 3/17/1972 Description: On this night in Loveland, Ohio police officer Johnson's headlights picked up an animal lying on the road. As he opened his car door it rose up on its hind legs and showed itself to be a leathery skinned biped with a frog like face. It was three to four feet tall, like the creature seen by Officer Williams two weeks before. It stepped over the guardrail and went down the embankment of the river. Officer Johnson took out his service revolver and fired a shot at it, but missed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-39, citing Richard Mackey & Ron Schaffner Source ID: Johnson_1541 Source: Johnson ### Event 15378 (6969347B) Date: 3/18/1972 Description: The next close encounter occurred in 1972 over the mountains of Upper Austria, at 11:35 p.m. Flying between Krems and Linz, Austria an Austrian DC-9 airliner had a near collision with a huge funnel of white light, which changed color to red. The aircraft's electronic instruments all went haywire during this close approach. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alexander Keul, APRO Bulletin, March 1972, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_1554 Source: Johnson ### Event 15379 (C2FE9D18) Date: 3/19/1972 Description: In 1972 at 10 p.m. in Acuescoma, Mexico at least four people saw a glowing blue sphere land. It rose giving off blue sparks and making a humming sound. It also left four imprints in the ground forming a square 2.5 meters wide, and a central burn mark. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, July 1972, p. 9). There was an electromagnetic effects case that evening in Chard, England. (Source: Harold Watkins, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_1571 Source: Johnson ### Event 15380 (C8F3ADDA) Date: 3/19/1972 Description: 10:00 p.m. A boy named Mario goes out onto his patio at Santa Maria Acuexcomac, Puebla, Mexico, to look for a broom when he sees a bluish light, which gets larger as if it is approaching the ground. He sees that the thing is descending into a vacant lot and, thinking it is a hot air balloon, runs towards it. When he reaches the lot, he sees the thing is a kind of luminous sphere giving off a blue light like that of a welding torch. Mario now becomes frightened and runs to call his mother. As he goes in the house, two neighbors, Zacarian Mendoza and Manuela Carlotta de Mendoza, also see the object. When Mario comes out again accompanied by his mother Josefina, the object, which has been on the ground for 7 minutes, begins to rise up, producing a hum and casting off more blue sparks. Gradually the light and sound are lost in the sky. The next day, Mario goes to the site and finds four deep tracks, about 8 inches deep, separated exactly from each other in the form of a square of 8.2 feet. At an equidistant point in the center of the tracks there is a black burnt mark on the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Phillips, “Landing Traces: Physical Evidence for the UFO,” in MUFON Symposium 1973, Midwest UFO Network, 1973, p. 26 Source ID: Eberhart_4842 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15381 (D4DD5C45) Date: 3/25/1972 Description: At 3:30 a.m. the witness was roused from sleep at his home in Soesterberg, Utrecht, The Netherlands by a loud humming sound and saw a bright light from his window. Looking out, he saw a blinding white light surrounded by a fog, and thought that his car was on fire. He ran out, started his car, and began to move it. His next recollection was that he found himself in a deserted moorland, and he stopped his car. Next, a "human like figure" ran past the car from the rear and then "suddenly...vanished." He got out of the car and saw a lens-shaped object on the ground to his left, about 100 feet wide, surrounded by a greenish glow. The green light came from windows in the craft, and three beams shining upward from it. In one of the windows he could see a human-like being. He approached on foot to within 10-12 feet, and he saw this figure motion to him to go back. The figure was between five foot and five foot four inches tall, and wore a tight fitting metallic looking coverall that had a belt with a tube that ran to his collar. He had almond shaped eyes and seemed to be smiling. Behind him was some sort of instrument panel. Several other humanoid beings were seen standing behind other windows. Then the object then "jumped" from the ground, floated for 30 feet, and then "hurled away" with a scraping noise to the wouthwest. Traces were later found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, August 1976, p. 6; G. S. Wiersema, FSR, November 1972, p. 10; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 509; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-07 (A1146), citing the Dutch Ufological Study Center, The Hague Source ID: Johnson_1657 Source: Johnson ### Event 15382 (CB035A47) Date: 3/26/1972 Description: A car engine stalled at 5:30 a.m. when three red UFOs came down in a field between Dargies and Grandvilliers, Oise, France. It vanished when the car's headlights lit upon it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 383 Source ID: Johnson_1678 Source: Johnson ### Event 15383 (F2E8C5EE) Date: 4/1/1972 Description: 11:00 p.m. Two students are driving between Cacuso and Lucala, Angola, when suddenly their vehicle’s engine and lights fail. They check the batteries and fuses, which are all normal. Then they see two bright lights. Shortly afterward, they hear a whistling noise coming from an object about 130 feet away. It is about 130 feet across, partly lit up, and has three legs hanging from it. It rise to a height of 40 feet, where it hovers briefly, retracts its legs, whistles again, and turns on edge as it moves away. As soon as it leaves, the vehicle’s lights come back on and the engine returns to normal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_4843 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15384 (AA8356E8) Date: 4/2/1972 Description: In 1972 a UFO was seen over Greensburg, Pennsylvania at 9:30 p.m., swaying back and forth in the sky in a "falling leaf" motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, Westmoreland County UFO Study Group Source ID: Johnson_1801 Source: Johnson ### Event 15385 (42A094FE) Date: 4/6/1972 Description: A huge, dark cigar-shaped object flew toward the east slowly for 30 minutes over Vidauban, Var department, France at 2:30 a.m. It had lights on top and bottom, and flew without making a sound. It was confirmed that no planes were up flying at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 124 Source ID: Johnson_1863 Source: Johnson ### Event 15386 (704EC553) Date: 4/8/1972 Description: In Talavera la Real, Badajoz, Spain at 12:30 a.m. four people watched an orange ball of light in a 1.5 meter column of white smoke. A Ferris wheel of fireworks rose up, then flew off fast towards the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 154 Source ID: Johnson_1903 Source: Johnson ### Event 15387 (66C8AA28) Date: 4/14/1972 Description: Evening. At least four adults in various parts of Waterbury, Connecticut, spot a triangular-shaped UFO moving silently. The witnesses estimated its width at about 130–195 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sighting Advisory,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/081%20DECEMBER%201972.pdf)” UFO Investigator, December 1972, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4844 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15388 (C5AEFE41) Date: 4/15/1972 Description: At 6:30 p.m. three women watched a large dark shiny disc-shaped object with two triangular windows on top and a rotating bottom. It approached their house in Driffield, Humberside, England to within 200 meters. It hovered there for a minute, then backed away very slowly. It curved away to the north-northwest, and then went behind some woods. The sighting lasted for over six minutes, and they were able to view the UFO through binoculars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: BUFORA Journal, April 1973, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_2030 Source: Johnson ### Event 15389 (93C9D754) Date: 4/16/1972 Description: In Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru a man had his eyesight impaired, and others reported that headaches were caused by the close approach of a saucer-shaped UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, FSR, July 1972, p. 24, citing Cronica, April 16, 1972 Source ID: Johnson_2056 Source: Johnson ### Event 15390 (081642DC) Date: 4/18/1972 Description: In the afternoon two British tourists in Pokhara, Nepal took a photograph of a swarm of white dots that merged into discs, and then made fantastic maneuvers, flying off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, July 1973, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_2117 Source: Johnson ### Event 15391 (4AB0861C) Date: 4/20/1972 Description: At 2:45 a.m. neighborhood dogs in Scituate, Massachusetts began barking. A policeman on patrol noticed a light beam on the ground, and when he glanced up he saw a perfectly round, white glowing disc-shaped object move overhead. It descended into a marshy area behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 358 Source ID: Johnson_2161 Source: Johnson ### Event 15392 (4F80FE8C) Date: 4/21/1972 Description: EM effect: a car stalled while driving through a forested area in the Charente-Maritime department of France near the village of Ste.-Soulle at 10.00 p.m. A 16 meter diameter domed disc-shaped object descended and landed on four legs, then a one-meter tall dwarf exited from the craft. The witness was frozen with paralysis during the event, which lasted 45 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, July 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1147 Source ID: Johnson_2188 Source: Johnson ### Event 15393 (A9F09C72) Date: 4/22/1972 Description: A close encounter occurred in Thuro By, Fyn, Denmark at 8:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Will Wegner, UFO-Landinger I Danmark, p. 118 Source ID: Johnson_2224 Source: Johnson ### Event 15394 (FEE7755E) Date: 4/22/1972 Description: At 8:15 p.m. several reports were made of fireballs and a disc seen for 15 minutes in the skies over East Greensburg, Lloydsville, Youngstown and Kiska Valley, Pennsylvania. It dropped debris, and metallic fragments were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Latrobe (PA) News Edition, May 10, 1972; Stan Gordon, Skylook, July 1972, p. 12; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1972, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_2225 Source: Johnson ### Event 15395 (6F3A343D) Date: 4/24/1972 Description: Day. A man in Willow Point, British Columbia, on the Inside Passage takes a photo of a disc-shaped object spinning “like a top” and hovering in the sky above Quadra Island. The object has a dull sheen like dirty chrome and lights flashing around its rim. The UFO wobbles, tilts, and shudders, then shoots straight upward about 1,000 feet. It then takes off to the north on a zigzag course. The photo is blurry, but shows a disc. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 72–73, 152 Source ID: Eberhart_4845 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15396 (F36ECA45) Date: 4/24/1972 Description: At two o'clock in the morning Mrs. Taylor, an elderly woman suffering from insomnia, was up late in her apartment in Manchester, England when she saw out her window, above a tall factory chimney, a glowing yellowish white ball-shaped UFO. A figure wearing boots emerged from the sphere. The object eventually seemed to dissolve "within itself." She watched the humanoid for a period of two hours, and it gave her the impression of an "astronaut landing on the moon." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-08, citing Roy Dutton, Joan Nesltrop for BUFORA; Peter Rogerson Source ID: Johnson_2282 Source: Johnson ### Event 15397 (3F28942D) Date: 4/27/1972 Description: A large silver ovoid with a halo vanished in Brasschaat, Antwerp, Belgium at 2:10 a.m. A bright green ball of light (BOL) sped up, flew away fast to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 130 Source ID: Johnson_2374 Source: Johnson ### Event 15398 (18980D4C) Date: 5/2/1972 Description: William G. Lestin and his wife were driving to a motel near Salisbury, Maryland at around 11 p.m. when they saw a luminous disc settle to the ground 100 yards away. Mr. Lestin got out of the car and walked to within 50 feet of the object. He described seeing a round object sitting on tripod landing gear. Moving about underneath it were two four-foot humanoids, resembling human beings but with long arms that dangled to the ground. They were "apparently covered with a glazed coat of grayish material" and wore helmets. As he watched, a door opened and a ramp descended; the two humanoids re-boarded and the object rose up into the air with a blinding red light. The entire incident had lasted more than five minutes. Mr. Lestin was terrified by his experience and had to be sedated when he arrived at his destination. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-10, citing Richard LaPorte, Argosy UFO Annual 1975 Source ID: Johnson_2458 Source: Johnson ### Event 15399 (A1756BF2) Date: 5/5/1972 Description: Aarno Heinonen was at home in Imjarvi, Finland at 10:15 p.m. when he heard a strange noise, and then a female voice that told him to go alone to a certain crossroads. He did so, and encountered a 4 foot, 8 inch tall young woman with blond hair, wearing a yellow pantsuit that seemed to glow, and silver colored shoes. She carried a silvery ball by a handle, and it had three antennae like projections on it. She told him that her people had come from "the other side of the Milky Way" and that three different kinds of humanoids, ranging from very small to very tall, had visited Imjarvi. She also told him that she was 180 years old, and instructed him not to mention the contact to anyone else. Heinonen previously had a dramatic close encounter with a friend while out cross-country skiing in January 1970. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-11, citing UFO Research Center of Finland & Joe Brill Source ID: Johnson_2545 Source: Johnson ### Event 15400 (0344A0DD) Date: 5/8/1972 Description: At 12:15 a.m. a reddish-orange dome-shaped object with portholes flew to the east over Eucla, Western Australia and then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research South Australia, case # SA72023; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 109 Source ID: Johnson_2659 Source: Johnson ### Event 15401 (D35B3934) Date: 5/9/1972 Description: Police and a separate witness in the Mojave Desert near Arvin, California sighted a bright yellow disc that flew to the east shortly before dawn. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1972, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_2689 Source: Johnson ### Event 15402 (46FE606F) Date: 5/13/1972 Description: In Canterbury, New Hampshire at 9:50 p.m. a six-sided object with four legs with landing pads, descended from 150 feet altitude with a falling leaf motion, passed over witnesses, and landed remotely. It had a light beam and made a jet-like noise or buzzing sound. As an animal reaction, a cat owned by one of the witnesses ran away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 358; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 37; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1992, p. 20; NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1972 Source ID: Johnson_2809 Source: Johnson ### Event 15403 (949606B1) Date: 5/13/1972 Description: Dog undisturbed by top-shaped object; cat ran (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [720513](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-720513.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canterbury, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4088 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15404 (425B0439) Date: 5/14/1972 Description: Three sisters who live on a farm about two miles southwest of Germantown, watched a brilliantly lighted UFO near their home at dusk. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Germantown, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4089 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15405 (7567179F) Date: 5/26/1972 Description: President [Richard Nixon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FNixon) and Soviet General Secretary [Leonid Brezhnev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%5FBrezhnev) sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty at the 1972 Moscow Summit. Under the terms of the treaty, each party is limited to two ABM complexes, each of which is to be limited to 100 anti-ballistic missiles. Ratified by the US Senate on August 3, the treaty remains in force until June 2002 when the US withdraws. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic%5FMissile%5FTreaty)” Source ID: Eberhart_4846 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15406 (B34DDD7A) Date: 5/31/1972 Description: Mr. Reeve, a man in his fifties, was driving in the fog in Mannum, South Australia at 6:35 a.m. when he came across a dark oval-shaped object with a red light on one side, a white light on theother, hanging just above the ground. He stopped his car, and the object rose into the fog with a "swish" sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case SA72002 Source ID: Johnson_3185 Source: Johnson ### Event 15407 (AE913A8D) Date: 6/1972 Description: Edward Harris begins publishing Cosmology Newslink, a monthly newsletter on UFO and contactee topics, in Dunmow, Essex, England. It persists until the Summer 1994 issue. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Cosmology Newslink](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Cosmology%20Newslink%20%28Ed%20Harris%29/Cosmology%20Newslink%20-%20No%2001.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Cosmology%20Newslink%20%28Ed%20Harris%29/Cosmology%20Newslink%20-%20No%2001.pdf) no. 1 \(June 1972\) Source ID: Eberhart_4848 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15408 (98C83F5E) Date: 6/1/1972 Description: The principal witness, along with her mother and two friends, were driving to the village of Collage near Molong, New South Wales, Australia at around 8:00 a.m. As she sat in the back seat she looked out the window to her right and noticed a large bright shiny object. It was saucer shaped with a dome on top, and along side of it on the left was a very tall person dressed in an outfit that glowed the same as the ship. Another similar figure was walking towards the road (the craft was about 30 meters away from a fence line, which was 5 meters from the road). A third figure was standing on the right side of the object near a dead tree. All three had on the same clothing with helmets with black visors. She described the aliens as being very tall, approximate eight feet in height. As the car drove she noticed that they seemed to be collecting items from the ground. She also noticed that the one walking towards the road seemed to have turned his helmet and look at their vehicle as it drove off. The witness never told anyone else in the car what she had seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 1972 webpage Source ID: Johnson_3204 Source: Johnson ### Event 15409 (FAA3391C) Date: 6/2/1972 Description: A luminous ovoid object hovered over La Deschaux, Jura department, France at 11:30 p.m., then moved toward the south slowly at a low altitude. It directed a beam of light upwards, with 90 degree rotation. The sighting lasted an hour, and there were four witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Henry-JeanBesset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1972, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_3234 Source: Johnson ### Event 15410 (1ABBCBD2) Date: 6/4/1972 Description: In 1972 at dawn, a farmer watched a disc-shaped UFO hover on its edge near Riverina, New South Wales. The object veered about in all directions in the sky for fifteen minutes, then shot straight up and away. Later that same day shortly after 6:00 p.m. in Bents Basin, New South Wales, Australia a three-meter tall (ten foot!) robot mysteriously vanished, while a 25-foot diameter disc hovered very low to the ground. The six witnesses reported having headaches as aftereffects of their encounter, and there were burn marks on one of their automobiles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) APRO Bulletin, May-June 1972, p. 1; (2) Bill Chalker investigation files, case 2037; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 60 Source ID: Johnson_3276 Source: Johnson ### Event 15411 (8C6DD916) Date: 6/6/1972 Description: New York City artist and psychic [Ingo Swann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo%5FSwann) visits the Stanford Research Institute \[now SRI International\] in Menlo Park, California, to begin remote viewing experiments. He is brought by [Harold E. Puthoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff) and other scientists to a building where, several floors below, is a heavily shielded magnetometer whose sole function is to measure quarks. One scientist asks him to “perturb” the device. As Swann sits there trying to visualize the magnetometer, a scientist monitoring it tells the group that the needle is moving wildly and malfunctioning. The scene is repeated several more times, each time when Swann is imagining the device. Puthoff is intrigued. He writes up his findings and a few weeks later he is visited by two CIA intelligence analysts who want Puthoff and SRI to investigate remote viewing for espionage purposes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Ingo Swann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo%5FSwann\#Magnetometer%5Fpsychokinesis%5Ftests)”; Jim Schnabel, [Remote](https://archive.org/details/remoteviewerssec00schn) [Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies](https://archive.org/details/remoteviewerssec00schn)[,](https://archive.org/details/remoteviewerssec00schn) Dell, 1997; Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis, Little, Brown, 2017, pp. 130–136; Edwin C. May and Sonali Bhatt Marwaha, eds., The Star Gate Archives, Volumes 1–4, Reports of the United States Government Sponsored Psi Program, 1972–1995, McFarland, 4 vols., 2018–2019 Source ID: Eberhart_4849 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15412 (BCA86134) Date: 6/6/1972 Description: On this afternoon in Dayton, Iowa an ovoid object w landing gear was seen to touch down and humanoids were seen on board the craft. At 9:00 p.m. in Rouen, France a white metallic domed disc shot four beams of red light, rose in three small jumps, then shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kevin Randle, APRO Bulletin, May-June 1974, p. 1; Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1973 Source ID: Johnson_3327 Source: Johnson ### Event 15413 (C37E5AA4) Date: 6/9/1972 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a young man in Algodonales, Cadiz, Spain observed a very bright light which temporarily blinded him. The engine of his car failed but the headlights remained on. Ahead of his car, in the middle of the road, was a yellow oval shaped source of throbbing light about two meters in length. Blue protuberances came from the light. It suddenly disappeared, then reappeared over a ditch and finally moved away silently at treetop height. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 155, citing Manuel Osuna Llorente; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 317, citing Ballester Olmos; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 16, 253 Source ID: Johnson_3392 Source: Johnson ### Event 15414 (B12799AC) Date: 6/9/1972 Description: Motorist experienced engine failure, pulsating yellow oval object visible on road ahead. Object illuminated trees as it departed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Algodonales, Cadiz, Spain Source ID: HallUFOE2_206 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15415 (78E03742) Date: 6/9/1972 Description: Pulsating yellow oval on road 5 meters ahead. Ballester Olmos, 1976, p. 37 (E) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Algodonales, Cadiz, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4090 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15416 (DF71CAB0) Date: 6/11/1972 Description: 10:00 p.m. Couple from Millstadt, IL, were driving on 59th St. Lady noticed strange configuration of lights describing a circle. (SL-56, page 7) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belleville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4091 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15417 (F383B651) Date: 6/16/1972 Description: No details on this close encounter listed in EGBA. Witness was "Alterwitz". (EGBA, page 672) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gary, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4092 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15418 (FA603C58) Date: 6/16/1972 Description: A man, Mr. Meerton, leaving his house in Merricks, Victoria, Australia at 8:30 p.m. was confronted by a dull metallic object with 30 orange lights that had just landed in his field. Cows in the pasture panicked. The whole area was illuminated by the UFO, and a strong wind blew that bent the trees over. The UFO also made a high pitched sound like that of an electric mixer. The encounter lasted 90 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Victorian UFO Research Society, Australian FSR, December 1972, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_3515 Source: Johnson ### Event 15419 (795ADE30) Date: 6/17/1972 Description: 2:30 a.m. The White House Plumbers are arrested in the process of burglarizing and planting surveillance bugs in the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate Building Complex in Washington, D.C. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Watergate scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate%5Fscandal)” Source ID: Eberhart_4850 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15420 (B40BCFFF) Date: 6/19/1972 Description: 1:00 a.m. Two airman at George AFB, California, verified each other's report of seeing a "bright orange object", that seemed to be 375 feet in diameter as it sank behind a building southwest of their security-police beat at the base. (Skylook 57, page 12). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: George AFB, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4093 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15421 (8A86704D) Date: Summer 1972 Description: Early morning. The Musson, a Russian scientific ship, is in the North Atlantic roughly 300 miles from Bermuda. The electrician, radio operator, and one of the navigators see an elliptical object moving slowly through the cloudless sky at high altitude from north to south. It changes shape to a wheel and then to an elongated, silvery-white ellipse, then it disappears from view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 60 Source ID: Eberhart_4847 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15422 (E7217803) Date: 6/22/1972 Description: 2:00 a.m. Javier Bosque, a seminarist of the order of St. Joseph Calasanz, is reading in bed at his room at the Colegio Escolapios in Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, when he notices a bright light outside through the half-closed shutters of his window. To his surprise, the window begins opening by itself and a 2-foot-long, football-shaped, metallic, luminous object enters his room and approaches the foot of his bed. His radio begins to emit a loud, continuous sound. He reaches over and turns on a cassette tape recorder. The object descends from about 6 feet above the floor to 15 inches above it. A beam of solid light extends from the object, touching the radio twice, retracts, then touches the cassette recorder. Bosque grabs the recorder and holds the microphone in his lap. The object ascends to about 6 feet above the floor and moves out the window and up. The radio sound weakens. The 8-minute sound recording is analyzed by laboratories in Spain, Brazil, France, and the US. It contains some pure tones at first, followed by modulations in amplitude. Robert H. Coddington finds, after an analysis of the tape, that it most likely is a recording of the chance reception of an ordinary test transmission from a terrestrial broadcast station and does not match Bosque’s narrative. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Albert Adell and Pere Redón, “[UFO Enters and](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201973%20V%2019%20N%202.pdf) [Inspects a Room,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201973%20V%2019%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 2 \(March/April 1973\): 10–13, iii; “[Bosque Spanish UFO Tapes](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf) [Deemed Non-Startling,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 \(December 1980\): 4; Willy Smith, “A Bizarre Event at Logroño: A Taped UFO Sound,” IUR 7, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1982\): 8–10; “[Logroño \(Spain\) Tape Recording](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf) [Explained,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 2 \(April/May 1983\): 5–7; Robert H. Coddington, “[Further](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf) [Analysis of the Logroño Tape,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 2 \(April/May 1983\): 7–10; Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_4851 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15423 (CFD2F002) Date: 6/23/1972 Description: At 3:00 a.m. police and a light plane chased an elusive zigzagging nocturnal light through the skies over Menominee County, Wisconsin. It made a high pitched sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9546, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1972 Source ID: Johnson_3626 Source: Johnson ### Event 15424 (D90B0459) Date: 6/25/1972 Description: At 12:50 p.m. small dark object ascended from the ground and joined a large, delta-shaped object overhead in Melville, Western Australia. Later that day a group of meteorology professors saw a wingless cigar-shaped UFO fly toward the east over Verona, Italy for 20 minutes beginning at 6:00 p.m. A 25-meter circular hole in the ground was found later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1972, p. 8; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 121 Source ID: Johnson_3657 Source: Johnson ### Event 15425 (525E3971) Date: 6/26/1972 Description: At 8 o'clock in the morning some native farm laborers came running to farmer Bennie Smith, the owner of the Braeside farm, near Fort Beaufort, South Africa. They thought they saw a fire in the thick bush land. Thinking it might be poachers on his land, Mr. Smith went to the spot with his .303 rifle. Hovering partially behind some brush 200 yards away was a glowing egg-shaped UFO. He went and called the police, and at 9:00 a.m. Sergeant P. Kitching and Warrant Officer P. van Rensburg arrived at the site. The color of the object was a gun metal blue but after they watched it for a while it started to glow red all over. They were sure it was under some form of intelligent control because when the farm laborers shouted from the bush the object moved down out of sight of the witnesses.

They decided to shoot at it with the rifle. Fifteen rounds were fired. They heard a thud from the seventh shot. The UFO changed color from a red glow to a green glow and then to yellow, and rocked from side to side. They watched it for another hour before the police had to leave the area. Mr. Smith stayed to see it leave a short while later. It turned on end and climbed rapidly into the sky, making a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ivan Clark, The Fort Beaufort police officers: An interview, FSR, September-October 1972, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_3677 Source: Johnson ### Event 15426 (5F6241EA) Date: 6/26/1972 Description: 8:00 a.m. Bennie Smit, the new owner of Braeside Farm 9 miles from Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa, is alerted to a “fiery red ball hovering at tree-top level” by his hired hand Boer de Klerk. Its color changes to bright green and then to whitish yellow, with flames shooting out. Smit dashes home, grabs a rifle, and calls the police. He shoots at the object, but the bullets have little effect. At 10:30 a.m., police sergeant Piet C. Kitching and warrant officer P. R. van Rensburg arrive at the spot where the UFO is still hovering. As the object moves away, Smit fires at it an eighth time; this time he hears a thud, and the object moves up and down and stops changing colors. Smit and Kitchin fire at it some more, after which it disappears and reappears about 60 feet away looking gunmetal gray in color and somewhat oval-shaped. After they fire two final shots, the object moves away through the trees around noon. The next day, van Rensburg leads a team of police officers to the site, looking for evidence. They find nine circular imprints of its supposed landing gear found in damp clay soil. On June 28, Brig. A. Vosloo, divisional commander of police for the Eastern Cape, takes soil samples and plaster casts of the imprints. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[UFO Sightings in South Africa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO%5Fsightings%5Fin%5FSouth%5FAfrica\#1970s%5Fsighting)”; Charles Bowen, “[A Hot Reception at Fort Beaufort,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201972%20N%2011.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 11 \(August 1972\): 1–7; Philipp Human, “[Fort Beaufort Tailpiece,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201972%20N%2011.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 11 \(August 1972\): 7; Clark III 510–511 Source ID: Eberhart_4852 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15427 (14FE0391) Date: 6/26/1972 Description: Daylight, multi witness, (#526) long duration (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Beufort, S. Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_4094 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15428 (B8EF5583) Date: 6/29/1972 Description: 10:00 p.m. A dark, wedge-shaped UFO passes directly over several witnesses at 200–500 feet altitude in Buffalo, South Dakota, at a slow speed. About 100 feet long, it has two brilliant white lights at the front and two orange-white lights in the rear. It moves with the blunt edge forward and hovers intermittently for 40 minutes. It emits a sound like rushing air. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Glenn McWane and David Graham, The New UFO Sightings, Warner, 1974; Marler 85 Source ID: Eberhart_4853 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15429 (8DD1E8C6) Date: 6/29/1972 Description: In 1972 a circular orange UFO hovered at 250 meters altitude around 9 p.m. for two minutes along the shore of Calais, France. It dropped some kind of a liquid, then flew to the northwest out to sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 123 Source ID: Johnson_3732 Source: Johnson ### Event 15430 (183F5326) Date: 6/30/1972 Description: In the afternoon at 4:30 p.m. a disc-shaped object with a tailfin like an airplane hovered over Marcq-en-Baroeul, Nord department, France. Many black dot-like objects could be seen orbiting around the larger craft. There were two witnesses, and the sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1975 Source ID: Johnson_3751 Source: Johnson ### Event 15431 (A55B781B) Date: 7/1972 Description: [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) publishes The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, in which he charges the Air Force with indifference and incompetence in its UFO investigations. He also critiques the Condon report and details well- documented reports of six types of UFOs: nocturnal lights, daylight discs, radar/visual observations, and close encounters of the first, second, and third kind. It is an “articulate challenge to his colleagues to tolerate the study of something they cannot understand,” according to a reviewer in Science. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, [The UFO Experience](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/n3/mode/2up), Ballantine ed., 1974; Clark III 620 Source ID: Eberhart_4854 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15432 (7C7F36CF) Date: 7/3/1972 Description: 9:15 p.m. Maureen Puddy, 27, sees a disc-shaped object on the Mooraduc Road near Frankston, Victoria, Australia. The object is a huge blue disc that hovers above her car. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Present at the Abduction,” IUR 17, no. 3 \(May/June 1992\): 13–14, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_4855 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15433 (F6900A37) Date: 7/3/1972 Description: 7:00 p.m.. More than two dozen witnesses reportedly observed a silvery "triangular-shaped" UFO for almost one hour (7-8 p.m.) before it disappeared behind clouds. (NICAP UFOI, Oct 1972, page 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Shore, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4095 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15434 (47CA0E29) Date: 7/4/1972 Description: 10:10 p.m. Girl guide leader Claudine Dieupart alerts 43 other girl guides and Belgian missionary Rev. Fr. Quertemont, who are sitting around a campfire at Lamonriville, Malmédy, Belgium, to a triangle of white lights moving overhead. They watch the lights for 5 minutes. At 10:30 p.m., several witnesses at a bus stop in Liège view a triangle of bright globes of light moving slowly from west to east. They pass through a cloud bank, illuminating it. About the same time, other witnesses in the western suburbs see a similar display. At 10:31 p.m., a factory worker in Flawinne watches a triangle of three bright lights ascending vertically. At 10:40 p.m., a couple in Spy observe a triangular display of lights surrounded by bluish sparks. At 10:45 p.m. a farmer in Ellezelles notices three bluish beams of light shining down from a luminous cloud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 85–86 Source ID: Eberhart_4856 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15435 (A8CE77A5) Date: 7/4/1972 Alternate date: 7/4/1973 Description: 11:15 p.m. Capt. Erling Bakke and his wife see a peculiar vessel on the water east of Sundsøya, Trøndelag, Norway. It is black, about 25 feet long, 6 feet high, and traveling about 60 mph. It rises up at a 45° angle, then disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. O. Sundberg, “[Stor Expedition till Nansenfjorden,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/UFO%5FInformation/1975/1975-3.pdf)” UFO Information, 1975, no. 3, pp. 9–10; Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_4857 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15436 (A1B37EC2) Date: 7/5/1972 Description: 12:10 p.m. A witness in Belgium is parking his car when he notices a dozen whitish objects flying about randomly at a low altitude. A neighbor describes them as vaguely shaped, fleecy, and rotating slowly. They seem to be moving around a dark triangular object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 87 Source ID: Eberhart_4858 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15437 (0CA78959) Date: 7/5/1972 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a landed UFO started a grass fire when it took off in King William's Town, South Africa. The object resembled a "sailor's cap." Some witnesses in a car attempted to pursue the object but it accelerated out of sight. At 9 p.m. an orange fireball made a huge arc through the sky and then came to hover over some trucks at the Witput railway station in Kraankuil, South Africa. At 10:15 p.m. a huge flying sphere hovered only seven meters in front of a car in Vryburg, South Africa. It changed colors from red to green, gave off sparks, turned yellow, and was gone in a huge flash. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, November-December 1972, p. 15; newspaper clipping, July 7, 1972; Data-Net Report, August 1972, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_3845 Source: Johnson ### Event 15438 (C21320D1) Date: 7/6/1972 Description: A light over Cheox, Belgium at first appeared to be behaving like a satellite, traveling from the north-northwest to the south-southeast. It stopped in place for 15 seconds and suddenly shot off in the same south-southeasterly direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9577 Source ID: Johnson_3882 Source: Johnson ### Event 15439 (8DE45456) Date: 7/10/1972 Description: Driving through the countryside three kilometers outside of Alcaracejo, Spain in Cordoba province, Senor Aranda encountered a yellow oval of throbbing light at 10:15 p.m. He was temporarily blinded by the light. The engine of his car failed but the headlights stayed on. He estimated the UFO was two meters in length and had blue protuberances. It disappeared, then reappeared over a ditch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 38, citing field investigator Enrique Campos; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 54; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 274 Source ID: Johnson_3986 Source: Johnson ### Event 15440 (CE62EF3D) Date: 7/10/1972 Description: Luminous object beamed light at car, engine lost power Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Alcaracejos, Cordoba, Spain Source ID: HallUFOE2_207 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15441 (EE4855B2) Date: 7/10/1972 Description: Luminous object beamed light at car, engine lost power (UFOE II, Section VII). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alcaracejos, Cordoba, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4096 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15442 (6B5B5C4B) Date: 7/13/1972 Description: A dead dog was found with all of its hair missing in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Forty feet away from the carcass was a six-foot wide circle of swirled grass. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case #529 Source ID: Johnson_4034 Source: Johnson ### Event 15443 (56B563F3) Date: 7/14/1972 Description: At 6:45 p.m. nocturnal lights were seen maneuvering in the sky over Chartres, France by three airmen. One flew off to the east; another was a neon-colored disc. Radio interference was experienced for 30 minutes. The event was not reported to authorities. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1973 Source ID: Johnson_4054 Source: Johnson ### Event 15444 (FE63B0CE) Date: 7/14/1972 Description: At around 11:00 p.m. a silent UFO hovered over a house for 15 minutes in Corvallis, Oregon. It was watched by three women in their twenties. It shot straight up at a terrific speed when it left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Glenn McWane, The New UFO Sightings, p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_4055 Source: Johnson ### Event 15445 (406BBAEE) Date: 7/15/1972 Description: Dog alerts, chases triangle (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [720715](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-720715.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Morton, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4097 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15446 (ADD67C76) Date: 7/16/1972 Description: In Odendaalsrus, Orange Free State, South Africa a flat rotating disc was sighted high up in the sky by more than eight witnesses, giving off a bright yellow light. It was estimated to be about one meter in diameter. It descended suddenly and hovered just above a police cruiser. The entire incident lasted 15 minutes. In Malmesbury, Western Cape, South Africa an object that changed color moved up and down at great speed south of the town at 8:30 p.m. There were 10 witnesses and the event lasted 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, FSR, November-December 1972, p. 16; Cape Times, July 17, 1972 Source ID: Johnson_4101 Source: Johnson ### Event 15447 (C363A005) Date: 7/19/1972 Description: 10:35 p.m. Herbert and Mady Mathar and their two children are walking in Faymonville, Belgium, when they see a red-orange point of light slowly moving toward them. Closer, they see that it is hat-shaped. Mathar runs inside to get a camera and takes two photos before the object disappears. Ballester Olmos and van Utrecht conclude that the photos show the Moon setting in the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, [Belgium in UFO Photographs, Volume 1 \(1950–1988\)](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F)[,](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F) FOTOCAT Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 99–113 Source ID: Eberhart_4859 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15448 (D76AB053) Date: 7/19/1972 Description: 10:42 p.m. Peter Reich, aerospace writer for CHICAGO TODAY, saw a UFO and wrote 4 column article. Incredible high-speed of object that looked like anti- collision beacon (red) over Lake Michigan. Estimated at 1/2 mile and 600 mph, object suddenyly stopped, reversed course sharply and appeared to fly along a downward curve in opposite direction. (SL-58, page 12) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4098 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15449 (ABE37940) Date: 7/19/1972 Description: While driving in Kuraby, Queensland (near Brisbane, Australia) at 2:00 a.m. a man heard an odd noise and saw six grayish figures standing along the side of the road. One of them gestured to him. A silver UFO was nearby on the ground. The driver did not stop. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 3; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 483 Source ID: Johnson_4204 Source: Johnson ### Event 15450 (4361C1C7) Date: 7/19/1972 Description: At 10:42 p.m. CDT Mr. P. Reich, an aerospace writer, watched a nocturnal light make crazy, erratic maneuvers over Lake Michigan from Chicago, Illinois. It made instantaneous turns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chicago Today, July 20, 1972 Source ID: Johnson_4206 Source: Johnson ### Event 15451 (0A88210C) Date: 7/19/1972 Description: That same night in Faymonville, Belgium a group of four people sighted a red hat-shaped disc that flew by and stopped over a railroad station. They took three photographs of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: SOBEPS, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4205 Source: Johnson ### Event 15452 (50A5147A) Date: 7/20/1972 Description: In Pietermaritzburg, South Africa a pink cone-shaped UFO appeared directly in front of a car at eleven o'clock in the morning, then descended into a cemetery. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, FSR, November-December 1972, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_4249 Source: Johnson ### Event 15453 (8A2A0F94) Date: 7/20/1972 Description: An ovoid shaped object with a dome on top was seen over the coast at Tongaat, South Africa at 4:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 9 (1978) Source ID: Johnson_4248 Source: Johnson ### Event 15454 (756B65ED) Date: 7/21/1972 Description: At 8:30 p.m. in Pinelands, Western Cape Province, South Africa a witness by the name of Alexander saw a bright red object only two or three meters from the ground. It turned orange and then a golden color. As it rose up it made a large circle in the sky and then shot off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Argus, July 22, 1972; FSR, November-December 1972, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_4276 Source: Johnson ### Event 15455 (62D9641E) Date: 7/22/1972 Description: 8:30 p.m. Sixteen witnesses. Large UFO observed over highway intersection I-55 and Union Rd. by three children. KXOK received 13 calls. (SL-72, page 10) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Louis, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4099 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15456 (75A070DC) Date: 7/23/1972 Description: At 4:10 a.m. in Umkomaas, Kwa-Zulu Natal province, South Africa Mr. and Mrs. Marco took two photographs of a of luminous object in the night sky. They also viewed the object through field glasses. In one of the photographs the object seems to be shaped like a domed disc. The UFO flew out to sea fast, toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phillipp J. Human, FSR, September-October 1972, p. 3; FSR, March 1973, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_4327 Source: Johnson ### Event 15457 (256B4341) Date: 7/23/1972 Description: A large cylindrical UFO with three smaller satellite discs was sighted in Gstaad, Switzerland on this night. All UFOs suddenly vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 9 (1978) Source ID: Johnson_4328 Source: Johnson ### Event 15458 (3C4A4EB8) Date: 7/25/1972 Description: 9:15 p.m. Maureen Puddy sees the same object she had seen on July 3 at almost the same spot. This time it seems to drain power from the car, causing it to stop, the car steering itself off the road. A voice in her head tells her, “All your tests will be negative. Tell media, do not panic. We mean no harm.” Several months later, she is “mentally” abducted into a room where she sees an entity. This event occurs while two other people are present with her, but they only report that Puddy lapses into unconsciousness. On a later occasion, the entity appears as she is driving the car. \(Judith M. Magee, “[The Close Encounter of Maureen Puddy,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20Annual%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review/Australian%20Annual%20Flying%20Saucer%20Review%20-%201983.pdf)” Australian Annual Flying Saucer Review, 1983, pp. 4–9; Judith M. Magee, “[The Close Encounter of Maureen Puddy,](http://members.ozemail.com.au/%7Evufors/puddy.htm)” Victorian UFO Research Society, 1996; Keith Basterfield, “Present at the Abduction,” IUR 17, no. 3 \(May/June 1992\): 13–14, 23; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 20\) July 27 — The Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Oceans and International Environment holds hearings on Senate Resolution 281, proposing an international treaty to ban weather modification as a weapon of war. Dartmouth environmental scientist [Gordon J. F. MacDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FJ.%5FF.%5FMacDonald) opposes the bill, saying that research needs to be unfettered, but he mentions weapons that might use electrical waves, created by the differential between the ionosphere and the surface of the earth, “that would be tuned to the brain waves…. About ten cycles per second…. You can produce changes in behavioral patterns or in responses.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Prohibiting Military Weather](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-92shrg82892/pdf/CHRG-92shrg82892.pdf) [Modification](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-92shrg82892/pdf/CHRG-92shrg82892.pdf), Hearings before the Subcommittee on Oceans and International Environment, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 92nd Cong., 2nd Sess., on S. Res. 281, pp. 72–76 Source ID: Eberhart_4860 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15459 (28F6C80B) Date: 7/25/1972 Description: The witness, a 37-year-old woman, saw a blue light from a saucer-shaped object nearby while driving in Frankston, Victoria, Australia on this evening. She tried to accelerate away from the object, but her car's engine died, although the headlights remained on. She felt as if she was "under observation" and heard a voice. Her engine then started by itself and the saucer left. The woman had seen the same object before on July 3. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 319, citing ACUFOS Source ID: Johnson_4391 Source: Johnson ### Event 15460 (C165A72F) Date: 7/26/1972 Description: In a continuing series of strange encounters at Cradle Hill in Wiltshire, England Robert Mason and Stephen Barnett had reached a field beyond the copse at 9:15 p.m. while it was still light out. A short while later they both looked back towards a barn and caught sight of a figure, resembling that of a small man or boy, in the clearing just in front of the barn. Upon being noticed the figure dodged out of sight behind the side of the barn. Stephen looked through binoculars to see if the being would pass the line of trees leading back down the road to the gate, but saw nothing. They searched the copse but found no one. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1972, citing Ken Rogers, The Warminster Triangle Source ID: Johnson_4418 Source: Johnson ### Event 15461 (102D0C53) Date: 7/29/1972 Description: A silent disc-shaped object rose from behind some trees at night in Tyler, Texas. It had red, green, and blue lights on the underside. It maneuvered at a low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Glenn McWane, The New UFO Sightings, p 46 Source ID: Johnson_4489 Source: Johnson ### Event 15462 (D759B6E3) Date: 7/31/1972 Description: 9:45 p.m. 3-4 Mins. Four people observed a yellow discoid object, 50-60' in diameter at 300' altitude while driving. There was an unconfirmed radar track at Scott AFB. (SL-59, page 13) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belleville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4100 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15463 (E4A5E96F) Date: 7/31/1972 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a power outage was experienced by thousands in Mage, Espirito Santo, Brazil during which battery powered radios would not work. Many discs and nocturnal lights were seen all over the sky for the next three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: O Dia, August 1, 1972; Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1972, p. 9; Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1972, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_4532 Source: Johnson ### Event 15464 (E4F9A79D) Date: 7/31/1972 Description: In Beloeil, Quebec, Canada four witnesses watched a cigar-shaped object move to the east at 9:50 p.m. EDT, then wobble overhead. A Saturn-shaped saucer appeared beneath it, and shot off to the south very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wido Hoville case files, case # A17; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 126 Source ID: Johnson_4533 Source: Johnson ### Event 15465 (A2EA1008) Date: 7/31/1972 Description: Less than an hour later, at 9:40 p.m. CDT four people in Belleville, Illinois observed a yellow discoid, 50-60 feet in diameter, at 300 feet altitude while driving. It had large square windows in the bottom of the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Belleville (IL) New Democrat, August 1, 1972; MUFON case files, report form dated August 15, 1972; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_4534 Source: Johnson ### Event 15466 (2A1CA3E8) Date: 8/1972 Description: [Ingo Swann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo%5FSwann) returns to the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, as do the two CIA intelligence analysts. With Swann in a Faraday cage, the SRI team conducts a series of what’s-in-the-box tests in which office supplies hidden inside a box are presented to Swann, who is asked to identify the objects inside. During a lunch break one of the CIA agents walks outside and collects a small brown moth, capturing it alive, and sealing it inside a box. When Swann looks at the box, he sees “something small, brown, and irregular, sort of like a leaf…. Except that it seems very much alive, like it’s even moving.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena, Little, Brown, 2017, p. 136 Source ID: Eberhart_4861 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15467 (91A8F19E) Date: 8/1972 End date: 10/1972 Description: Numerous UFO sightings are reported throughout rural areas of Puerto Rico, as well as in San Juan and Ponce. People travel to the small town of Adjuntas, where the objects are seen frequently. One Friday night, the mayor of Adjuntas is traveling with a group of people in three cars along a lonely stretch of road in Barrio Garzas when he sees three bright discs moving through the sky. Their light changes in color and intensity. Sightings also center on the town of Utuado, where the Air National Guard has scrambled F-104s to chase the objects. A teacher at Utuado High School is driving back from town with his brother when they see a bright light off in the bush 300 feet from the road. They get out of the car and approach the light, which is sitting in a clearing. It is a flattened disc about the size of a small house and has a set of small, dark rectangles evenly spaced around its edge. It is brilliantly lit and its colors are constantly changing. They watch the object for a few minutes until it vanishes like “someone turning off a light.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Salvador Freixedo, “[UFOs over the Caribbean,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR-CH%201973%20N%2014.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 14 \(April 1973\): 9–10; Henry Cordova, “Encounter in Puerto Rico,” IUR 25, no. 1 \(Spring 2000\): 20–21 Source ID: Eberhart_4866 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15468 (64040E93) Date: 8/1972 Description: The Archives for UFO Research \(Arbetsgruppen för Ufologi\) is founded in Södertälje, Sweden, by [Håkan](https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/) [Blomqvist](https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/)[,](https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/) [Kjell Jonsson](https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-man-who-created-afu.html)[,](https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-man-who-created-afu.html) and [Anders Liljegren](http://www.afu.se/afu2/?page%5Fid=223)[.](http://www.afu.se/afu2/?page%5Fid=223) Its specialized research library for UFO literature is established in 1974, and in 1979 AFU moves to Norrköping. It publishes Ufologen from 1972 to 1974 and the AFU Newsletter from March 1975 to October 2008. In April 2013 it changes its name to the Archives for the Unexplained. Its holdings in 2020 include a reference library of more than 20,000 titles, more than 50,000 magazine issues, some 500,000 clippings, and more than 50,000 European UFO cases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Archives for](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archives%5Ffor%5FUFO%5FResearch) [UFO Research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archives%5Ffor%5FUFO%5FResearch)”; Archives for the Unexplained, “[About AFU](http://www.afu.se/afu2/?page%5Fid=98)”; [Ufologen](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/Ufologen%20%28AFU%29/Ufologen%20-%20No%2001%20-%201972.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/Ufologen%20%28AFU%29/Ufologen%20-%20No%2001%20-%201972.pdf) no 1 \(July 1972\); [AFU Newsletter](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%20Newsletter%20%28AFU%29/AFU%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2001%20-%201975.pdf), no. 1 \(March/April 1975\); [AFU Annual Report](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%20Annual%20Reports%20%28AFU%29/AFU%20Annual%20Report%20-%202014.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%20Annual%20Reports%20%28AFU%29/AFU%20Annual%20Report%20-%202014.pdf) 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_4862 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15469 (E905586B) Date: 8/1/1972 Description: Early morning. 45-min. First observed as a triangle of lights that just hovered. Object turned and flashed away at high speed. At this time there were three bright orange-red lights which illuminated the "saucer" which appeared to have "bat-like" wings. Observers watched with field glasses. (SL-60, page 9) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lebanon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4101 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15470 (18638C71) Date: 8/3/1972 Description: While driving in Pinnaroo, South Australia Mrs. Venning and two traveling companions saw a greyish-white oval object to her left in a paddock. It had lights on both sides, was 30 meters off the ground, and was silent. She drove past without stopping but said that her hair stood on end during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia case files Source ID: Johnson_4631 Source: Johnson ### Event 15471 (FD9CA6E3) Date: 8/4/1972 Description: At dusk a domed, disc-shaped object was viewed through binoculars, hovering over a mountain, by six witnesses in Baakline, Lebanon. It had windows around its rim, and made no sound. It flew off to the southeast after 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Hamadi, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 12; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_4655 Source: Johnson ### Event 15472 (C3961B7D) Date: 8/5/1972 Description: At 10:50 p.m. a driver in Yankallila, South Australia saw an object like a white cloud just above the telephone lines to the east. It was oblong shaped, with a hazy outline, and it was travelling at the same speed as the car, which was 80 km/h. It was lost from sight to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, South Australia UFO Reports - Project 1947 Website, citing UFORSA Source ID: Johnson_4686 Source: Johnson ### Event 15473 (8FB6F2A3) Date: 8/5/1972 Description: Shortly after midnight five independent witnesses had a close encounter with a cone of light, two miles south of Evant, Texas. It was between 100 and 500 feet away, and the sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping, August 24, 1972; DataNet, January 1973, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_4685 Source: Johnson ### Event 15474 (F89D02C3) Date: 8/6/1972 Description: Two teenaged sisters at home at 10:00 p.m. in Christies Beach, South Australia heard a beep-beep noise, then saw a group of 3 or 4 white lights lighting up the ground in an empty lot next door. The lights flew off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case # SA72033 Source ID: Johnson_4735 Source: Johnson ### Event 15475 (102C83B2) Date: 8/6/1972 Description: On this night in a heavily wooded area near Beaver Lake, Alberta, Canada a man felt compelled to go to a campsite where he was convinced he would see a UFO. The main witness and two other men who accompanied him waited at the site for several hours before they saw a light travel across the lake and descend behind some nearby trees. Shortly later they heard heavy footsteps of someone approaching through the trees. Frightened, they ran to their car and began to drive away when a giant creature resembling an octopus with large tentacles appeared, apparently trying to grab them. The three men got out of the car and struggled with the creature, but soon got back into the car and drove away, stopping at a field outside the forest. They then went back, but the creature had disappeared by then. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 181, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_4737 Source: Johnson ### Event 15476 (4F2AD71F) Date: 8/6/1972 Description: At 8:45 p.m. in Liverpool, England an iridescent object hung stationary in the sky for three minutes. It then veered rapidly to the west, and hovered again for another two minutes. It left a contrail when it moved, and red flames shot from the rear end of the object. If finally flew away at 11:03 p.m. towards the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, October 1972, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_4736 Source: Johnson ### Event 15477 (DBC047CC) Date: 8/8/1972 Description: At around 3:00 a.m. Fernando Dedeu's car radio began to develop problems while driving in Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. He stopped the car and gave a ride to a 6.5 foot tall man who was wearing a shallow helmet. The man had a long chin and a turned up collar. Then his car engine stalled, whereupon a UFO next landed in a nearby field and his passenger left the vehicle unseen. The car's door handle lay in the road, detached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alan Baker, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_4777 Source: Johnson ### Event 15478 (F8F54020) Date: 8/9/1972 Description: A woman teacher was camping out in the yard of a friend's house in Saint Jean Du Gard, France and had gone out for a walk at 2:30 a.m. when she noticed a white spherical light that appeared to be in a nearby field. As she stood there watching, she heard footsteps behind her that sounded like someone walking on the dry grass. When she turned around, she was confronted by a five-foot tall, robot-like being that was completely black. Its head was egg-shaped and it had two round white discs for eyes. The witness felt an unbelievable level of fear and had the feeling that the being possessed extraordinary powers; it could in fact control "nature itself." She blacked out and when she recovered found herself back in her tent with her husband. That same morning a truck driver named Marcilio was forced to stop his vehicle in the pre-dawn hours on the Amaral Peixoto Highway in Brazil when the road was blocked by a UFO sitting on the road with yellow and blue flashing lights. It took off rapidly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case # 1102, citing Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe; (2) Gordon Creighton, FSR, September 1972, p. 26, citing O Dia, August 9, 1972 Source ID: Johnson_4800 Source: Johnson ### Event 15479 (094CA5C9) Date: 8/9/1972 Description: 2:30 a.m. A married couple, both college professors, are camping out in a garden in the backyard of some friends’ home just off the road to Nîmes at Saint-Jean-du-Gard, Gard, France. The woman is walking outside and sees a shiny white ball the size of a small car sitting in a nearby parking lot. She hears footsteps behind her and sees a dark shape about 4 feet tall in the shape of a parallelepiped topped by an oval where a head would be. It has 2 white circles for eyes, but no visible arms or legs. It turns toward her and she feels an extraordinary fear. After a few seconds, she runs back inside the tent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Saint-Jean-du-Gard, France, August 9, 1972](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/stjeandugard72.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4863 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15480 (573C5880) Date: 8/10/1972 Description: 2:29 p.m. An earth-grazing meteor passes 35 miles above the Earth’s surface, entering the atmosphere above Utah at 9.3 miles/second and passing northward, leaving the atmosphere over Alberta. It is seen by many people and recorded on film and by space-borne sensors. An eyewitness to the event, located in Missoula, Montana, sees the object pass directly overhead and hears a double sonic boom. The smoke trail lingers in the atmosphere for several minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1972 Great Daylight Fireball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%5FGreat%5FDaylight%5FFireball)”; “[A Meteor That Missed Mountain](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/07/04/79334086.pdf) [States May Have Had Hiroshima Bomb Force,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/07/04/79334086.pdf)” New York Times, July 4, 1974, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_4864 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15481 (E52DCBBB) Date: 8/10/1972 Description: Bright daylight fireball meteor filmed lasting up to 45 seconds or more. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Western United States Source ID: HallUFOE2_208 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15482 (AE534709) Date: 8/11/1972 Description: 5:30 a.m. Same object seen. (SL-59, page 11) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Brook, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4104 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15483 (DF8C7305) Date: 8/11/1972 Description: 5:30 a.m. Orange "football-shaped" object hovered over the ground, sighted by motorists. State Police in Elgin, the DuPage County Sheriff's Office, and suburban police departments reportedly received calls concerning the strange object. (See Bensonville, IL) (SL-59, page 11) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elgin, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4103 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15484 (468E08D1) Date: 8/11/1972 Description: 5:30 a.m. "It was shaped like a football and had a rim around it." Described as 50' long and windowless it continued to pulsate colors. First, a bright orange, then gray, then bright orange again. Estimated at 200' altitude other motorists in vicinity got out of their cars and looked at the object. (SL-59, page 11) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bensonville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4102 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15485 (770194DD) Date: 8/11/1972 Description: Two separate groups of witnesses in Portland, Oregon watched an odd circular object as it circled some TV towers at 10:30 p.m., and then flew under a plane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1972; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9640; Glenn McWane, The New UFO Sightings, p. 58 Source ID: Johnson_4877 Source: Johnson ### Event 15486 (B9B7F1B2) Date: 8/11/1972 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_209 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15487 (96D5D486) Date: 8/11/1972 Description: Shortly before midnight in Gavea, Rio de Janeiro Province, Brazil a metallic saucer-shaped object with two smaller objects orbiting it was seen in the skies. Figures were seen through portholes in the craft. The object emitted a hypnotizing beam of energy, which resulted in an episode of missing time for the two witnesses that lasted perhaps 10 minutes. The object departed to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1972, p. 1; Brad Sparks, Computer Catalog of Type 9 Cases (N=150), case 150; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9641 Source ID: Johnson_4876 Source: Johnson ### Event 15488 (E7963BF4) Date: 8/12/1972 Description: 2:00 a.m.–5:00 a.m. About 30 young members of the Taizé Community in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, France, are having a discussion in a rustic theatre circle to the northwest of the community buildings. Renata Faa is the first to see a star-like object come out of the sky in the west. It lands on the ground on a ridge facing them. Eventually, after more yellow lights appear on the object, they see it as cigar-shaped and about 100 feet long. Five other white lights emit luminous beams that extend progressively across the ground. Two cupolas are visible on its left side. Three small white discs appear on the right side, apparently emerging from the main object, and perform complex maneuvers. Some of the witnesses feel a tingling in their fingertips and knees. Faa and three of the other witnesses decide to walk through the fields and approach the object. Around 3:00 a.m., a multitude of red particles appear in the air around the approaching witnesses and in the ground around them. The lights on the object constantly change their patterns of display and movement. The four witnesses see a dark mass like a haystack on their left about 30 feet away. A small red light is moving haphazardly around it. When one of them shines a flashlight on the haystack, the beam travels horizontally for a bit then is directed perpendicularly upward. Finally, toward 5:00 a.m., the large object rises up and moves off to the south, following the terrain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Tyrode, “[Taizé: A Case Right out of the Ordinary,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201973%20V%2019%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1973\): 16–21; F. Lagarde, “[A Few Words about Taizé,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201973%20V%2019%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1973\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_4865 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15489 (91421464) Date: 8/12/1972 Description: A disc-shaped object landed on top of a Quonset hut in Gem, Kansas at 2:00 a.m., making beeping sounds. Its light illuminated the surrounding field. On the same night two women watched as two very large round UFOs flashed beams of light at each other for 45 minutes in Gallatin, Missouri. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Glenn McWane, The New UFO Sightings, pp. 51 & 52 Source ID: Johnson_4949 Source: Johnson ### Event 15490 (67A90DCD) Date: 8/12/1972 Description: At 1:55 a.m. a huge elongated elliptical object with bright lights hovered near the ground in a forest near Taize, Saone-Loire department, France. It emitted light beams downward, and smaller satellite white disc-shaped objects emerged from it. The UFO reacted to a light flashed at it and caused some physiological effects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Henry-Jean Besset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1973, p. 11; FSR, July-August 1973, p. 16; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 16, 202, 269 & 381 Source ID: Johnson_4948 Source: Johnson ### Event 15491 (638FCB48) Date: 8/12/1972 Description: Elliptical object with bright lights hovered near ground emitting light beams downward, satellite objects emerged. UFO reacted to flashlight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Taize, France Source ID: HallUFOE2_210 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15492 (CDCE7EED) Date: 8/12/1972 Description: Elliptical object with bright lights hovered near ground emitting light beams downward; satellite objects emerged. UFO reacted to flashlight (UFOE II, Section VI). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Taize, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4105 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15493 (AEC47EBE) Date: 8/13/1972 Description: An officer reported that a cigar-shaped object was seen traveling in the sky at 3:00 p.m. near Gatwick Airport, England. It flew from the northeast to southwest with the rear end of the object enveloped in smoke. The smoke or mist eventually obscured the object. After 70 seconds the smoke cleared to reveal the object had vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, October 1972, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_4976 Source: Johnson ### Event 15494 (0D557C4E) Date: 8/13/1972 Description: At 1:00 a.m. in Yauco, Mayaguez Province, Puerto Rico 20 lights emerged from an oval-shaped cloud, and entered a closely similar cloud nearby. They failed to reappear. A photograph was taken of the phenomenon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stendek, March 1973; Awareness, October 1977, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_4975 Source: Johnson ### Event 15495 (7A9F42BE) Date: 8/16/1972 Description: On this evening in Roosboom, Natal, South Africa Elias Khosa saw a "monster" when he was walking home. The creature had a square-shaped head, "like a machine", luminous buttons, and fiery eyes. "The specter faced him, but he could not see its head, although he noticed small flames burning around its feet." The witness invited the "visitor" home for a drink, but it turned and sped off into the veldt at high speed, "emitting flames and smoke." He later had headaches and pains in his legs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Natal Mercury, August 23, 1972; Philipp J. Human, FSR, November 1972, p. 18; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, 1972-18 (A1161); J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 9 (1978) Source ID: Johnson_5090 Source: Johnson ### Event 15496 (9B7CB56B) Date: 8/16/1972 Description: On a highway west of Arroyito, Cordoba province, Argentina, an odd light appeared above a car containing two college professors, Professors Brunelli and Porchietto, at 2:40 a.m. Their car was then levitated, and this was followed by 40 minutes of missing time, with 80 kilometers of their trip not accounted for. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Galindez, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1973, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_5089 Source: Johnson ### Event 15497 (B5E788E7) Date: 8/17/1972 Description: Multi witness, long duration (#533) landing (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norton Sound, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4106 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15498 (EC8F3276) Date: 8/18/1972 Description: Raimundo Alvarez and Pancho Torres, two masons, were working on a roof drain at around two o'clock in the afternoon in Istapalapa, Mexico when they heard a humming sound. Next they noticed that all ordinary daytime sounds had eerily ceased, creating a "stifling" silence. About 50 yards away from them Alvarez saw two strange, eight-foot tall figures, dressed in bright silvery clothing resembling fish scales. When they got closer the two men could see that the beings were unusually broad shouldered and slender. They had round heads that were bright silver in color, with two round bumps in place of eyes, small ears, no visible mouths or noses, hands with four digits, and large webbed feet like those of ducks. They "seemed to float in air" while walking. The beings started to approach the witnesses, but just then a woman carrying a milk can came around the corner of the house, and the two creatures "flew" toward her. A great deal of dust arose from the ground; the two entitiesvanished into it and were not seen again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1973, p. 5; FSR, November 1973, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1972-19 (A1162), citing FSR, Volume 19, # 6 Source ID: Johnson_5130 Source: Johnson ### Event 15499 (63257D14) Date: 8/19/1972 Description: Luminous, bowl-shaped object hovered near ground. Blinding white light brightly illuminated terrain. Object made "whooshing" noise, shot straight up Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Colby, KS Source ID: HallUFOE2_211 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15500 (27505F9B) Date: 8/19/1972 Description: Luminous, bowl-shaped object hovered near ground; blinding white light brightly illuminated terrain; object made "whooshing" noise, shot straight up (UFOE II, Section - V). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [720819](http://www.nicap.org/720819colbydir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colby, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4107 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15501 (EFF469AF) Date: 8/20/1972 Description: At 5:45 a.m. a hat-shaped disc flew toward the east with a loud whirring sound over Montagne-de-Rougemont, Rouville, Quebec. A fireball turned 90 degrees, and shot off to the west-northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wido Hoville case files; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9663 Source ID: Johnson_5188 Source: Johnson ### Event 15502 (D15DB7A1) Date: 8/20/1972 Description: Three city police officers, including a sergeant, observed an oval-shaped object hovering several thousand feet in the sky above Mt. Penn. They said the object changed color from white to red to bluish-green. (NICAP UFOI, Oct 1972, page 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Reading, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4108 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15503 (ADD47AAB) Date: 8/21/1972 Description: Orange object hovering over treetops, beeping sound, radiator boiled over. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 18, No. 6; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 55 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Waukesha County, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4111 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15504 (D1EF3044) Date: 8/21/1972 Description: Mr. Faltersack, age 18, was driving along County Road JF in Waukesha County, Wisconsin at 2:30 a.m. when he saw an orange, circular object approximately 20 to 30 feet in diameter hovering at a low altitude and making a beeping sound. It moved over his car for a few seconds and his car engine and headlights died. The orange object moved off and hovered over some treetops, while his car radiator boiled over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1972, p. 7; NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1972, p. 3; Skylook, October 1972, p. 8; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 55; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 253 Source ID: Johnson_5210 Source: Johnson ### Event 15505 (A2791110) Date: 8/21/1972 Description: 9:45 p.m. A 39-year-old woman reported what appeared to be a solid object surrounded by pulsating lights. She first spotted the "elongated" object and observed it for approximately 20 minutes before it disappeared behind some tall fir trees. (NICAP UFOI, Oct 1972, page 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portland, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_4109 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15506 (F8950B63) Date: 8/22/1972 Description: On this day or the day before, at 4:30 a.m. Mrs. Doris Muthwa and her 12-year-old daughter were drawing water from a river in Roosboom, Natal, South Africa when she looked up and saw what first looked like a man in a white suit, who appeared to be was smoking a cigarette, but then the smoke became a big fire. "There was a bright light shining from his chest which went pink and blue," Mrs. Muthwa said. She estimated that the figure was more than 11 feet tall. She felt an electric shock in his presence, and added, "He must have been emitting some kind of electricity, because it felt just like when I touch the [electric] iron and my body goes all jerky." Suddenly, the giant apparition shot into the sky and disappeared. The woman and her daughter ran from the spot, spilling the water in their flight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philipp J. Human, FSR, November-December 1972, p. 17, citing the Natal Mercury, August 22, 1972; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-21 Source ID: Johnson_5228 Source: Johnson ### Event 15507 (270F35A0) Date: 8/24/1972 Description: USAF jet interceptors were sent after a UFO tracked from Mexico over Texas; teenagers sighted a domed disc-shaped craft at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport construction site at 9:50 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1972, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_5294 Source: Johnson ### Event 15508 (9E6A50AC) Date: 8/25/1972 Description: Steve Cleveland, a carnival worker from Eau Claire, Wisconsin called radio station WLS in Chicago to report that as he had been sitting on his suitcase outside of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin at around 2:00 a.m. hoping to hitch a ride to Eau Clare, when he had seen "a huge ship" come down in a nearby field, out of which came two beings about five feet tall. They took some samples of the vegetation and got back into the object, which then lifted off. He said he observed the phenomenon for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-22, citing APRO Bulletin, November-December 1973 Source ID: Johnson_5327 Source: Johnson ### Event 15509 (85FD38D8) Date: 8/26/1972 Description: A man was driving down the highway in Rural, Illinois on this night when a bright light in the sky caught his attention. He followed it to where he saw a disc-shaped craft descend and hover close to the ground. A door opened in the craft, and an angled plank slid down from it from the doorway to the ground. Several slim humanoid figures wearing coveralls began to exit the craft. The witness crept up to it and suddenly the outer rim slid aside, following the curve of the craft, exposing transparent cylinders, which looked to be incubators with infants inside them. As the witness stared at them in disbelief, one of them opened its eyes and smiled at him, and he smiled back, then a look of distress came upon its face as if it appeared to be having trouble breathing. The man proceeded to pound on the glass, trying to break it open, and then picked up a rock intending to smash it open, but he abruptly felt himself being lifted up, from his two sides, away from the craft. He believes that the aliens knew he had been trying to help, and were glad that the noise he created alerted them to the apparent problem with the incubated hybrid. His memory ends at this point with an ensuing period of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing UFO Watch Source ID: Johnson_5369 Source: Johnson ### Event 15510 (348BCB93) Date: 8/27/1972 Description: 9:45 p.m. A 39-year-old woman reported what appeared to be a solid object surrounded by pulsating lights. She first spotted the "elongated" object and observed it for approximately 20 minutes before it disappeared behind some tall fir trees. (NICAP UFOI, Oct 1972, page 3) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lafayette, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4112 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15511 (5D1EE024) Date: 8/28/1972 Description: On this night, at least two witnesses, including a woman named Benger, had a close encounter with a solid rectangular object with a dome and landing gear while driving 40 miles north of Pimba, South Australia. The UFO seen at ground level and made no noise. Another close encounter with a metallic disc-shaped object occurred at 9:00 p.m. in Point Elliot, South Australia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research South Australia, Australian Centre for UFO Studies case files, cases # SA72009 and SA72034 Source ID: Johnson_5424 Source: Johnson ### Event 15512 (62B55256) Date: 8/28/1972 Description: At around 3:00 a.m. Eduardo Dedeu was driving home between Medanos and Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina when he stopped to pick up a very tall hitchhiker wearing a coat with the collar turned up. His chin was much longer than normal. To Dedeu's remarks the stranger made unintelligible replies. After several miles, his car's lights went out and Dedeu was obliged to stop. Ahead of him on the road was what he first took to be an overturned bus, with a large blue light in the middle and smaller white lights on the sides. When he got out of the car he was dazzled by a brilliant flash of white light, accompanied by intense heat; when he could look again he saw the object, with white lights in its windows, moving leftward. The hitchhiker was gone, and the passenger door handle was detached, laying on the floor of the car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, FSR, November-December 1972, p. 23; Alfredo Serra, FSR Case Histories, April 1973, p. 17; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-23 (A1166), citing Abel Guibe, FSR, Vol. 23, No. 6 Source ID: Johnson_5425 Source: Johnson ### Event 15513 (40F90861) Date: 8/29/1972 Description: Three Reading, Pennsylvania police officers, including a sergeant, observed an oval-shaped object hovering several thousand feet in the sky above Mount Penn. They said the object changed color from white to red to bluish-green. After an unknown period of time, the UFO suddenly shot upward and out of sight, according to the officers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1972, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_5467 Source: Johnson ### Event 15514 (2F263157) Date: 8/29/1972 Description: Three city police officers, including a sergeant, observed an oval-shaped object hovering several thousand feet in the sky above Mt. Penn. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, October 1972, page 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Reading, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4113 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15515 (8B4334B9) Date: 8/31/1972 Description: At ten o'clock in the morning a metallic oval-shaped UFO with a central dome moved over Route 128, a major beltway in the Boston metropolitan area, in Beverly, Massachusetts. It made a loud humming sound when it crossed over a bridge, and flew with an up-and-down motion. Many cars slowed and pulled over to look. the UFO carried a reddish-green light on top. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation, report dated September 5, 1972; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 358 Source ID: Johnson_5528 Source: Johnson ### Event 15516 (613949F3) Date: 9/1972 Description: 8:00 p.m. While commuting home by train from nearby Debrecen, Hungary, workers see about 7 luminous, orange-colored ellipses floating high above Nyírábrány. The phenomena are still there as they are walking home from the train station. The lights are as bright as the full moon and remain in position in a formation of three rows. The spectacle lasts for 30 minutes. The display is seen for the next four evenings in a row in the same part of the sky west of the village. On the last night, one of the lights disappears but returns to the same position in the formation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1989\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_4868 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15517 (A46C13C8) Date: Early 9/1972 Description: Just after midnight. Vasile Cărăbuş, a night watchman at an agricultural cooperative in Valea Plopului, Romania, sees a yellow star with a trail crossing the sky. It then hovers and appears to land in an orchard on the Odaia hill about 1 mile away. A couple days later, Cărăbuş and other locals visit the orchard and find a circular area 15 feet in diameter where all the stems are broken off about 3 feet from the ground. In the center of the circle is a mound of earth about 2 feet in diameter and 15 inches high. In the middle of this is a round hole at least 6 feet deep, around which are three identical impresions 4.5 feet apart. Hundreds of curious onlookers visit the site, among them engineer [Justin Capră](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%5FCapr%C4%83)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%5FCapr%C4%83) who detects a substantial increase in gamma radiation in the center of the circle. Ufologist Călin Turcu notes that the vegetation on the mound of earth is completely absent for the next 4 years and frail after that. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 276–279; Romania 34–35 Source ID: Eberhart_4867 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15518 (63ABD277) Date: 9/7/1972 Description: Two men, Gerard Petit and F. Tantot, in Taize, Saone-Loire department, France first sighted a phosphorescent green light in the sky just before midnight. As it came closer it became a disc-shaped platform three meters in diameter, with four lime green, solid looking luminous pylons or legs, giving the object the appearance of a stool. It hovered just 10 meters in the air. Mr. Tantot would go on to have two more UFO sightings on 11 and 13 September 1972. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Henry-Jean Besset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1973, p. 18; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 396-397 Source ID: Johnson_5727 Source: Johnson ### Event 15519 (DB38DF37) Date: 9/7/1972 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a bright ovoid shaped UFO followed a car with two people home along Highway 203 near Beausejour, Manitoba. It paced the car at a low altitude and flew quite close, and then hovered over their house, spinning. It left by shooting off toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Data-Net Report, November 1972, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_5728 Source: Johnson ### Event 15520 (7D211D0F) Date: 9/9/1972 Description: Radar / Visual At North Bay (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [720909](http://www.nicap.org/720909northbay%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Bay, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4114 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15521 (0FFE4BC3) Date: 9/9/1972 Description: A revolving top-shaped object hovered over Glasgow, Scotland at 4:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 9 (1978) Source ID: Johnson_5794 Source: Johnson ### Event 15522 (9F8834CC) Date: 9/10/1972 Description: 12:45 p.m. Greengrocer Allan James is checking a load on his truck prior to descending from the top of a hill west of Georges Creek, New South Wales. He notices a huge, cigar-shaped object with smaller objects emerging from each end. They group into an arrowhead formation before moving southeast. The large object then climbs at a high rate of speed and disappears. The duration is about 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Eileen Buckle, “[Is Kempsey a](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%206.pdf) [UFO ‘Window’?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 6 \(April 1975\): 3–4; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_4869 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15523 (6E7992A5) Date: 9/11/1972 Description: 1:55 p.m. 8-10' altitude!!! City Editor of the Aubury Evening News was in the Butler Police Station when a woman walked in. She came up over the crest of a high hill and there it was, about 3' above my car. It was about a car length long, but perfectly round with what looked like red fluorescent paint along the top, and it had four feet coming out of the bottom." . (SL-60, page 5) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Butler, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4115 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15524 (76B99939) Date: 9/13/1972 Description: A rural family in Burlington, Colorado, who police said were responsible people, reported that a UFO "as big as a house" flew parallel to their car as they were driving down a country road at night. One of the witnesses said the object landed and took off twice in a nearby field. The object was round and had "rays" or beam of light coming out of it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1972, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_5917 Source: Johnson ### Event 15525 (38D4B337) Date: 9/13/1972 Description: A rural family, who police say are responsible people, reported that a UFO "as big as a house" flew parallel to their car as they were driving down a country road at night. One witness said the object landed and took off twice in a nearby field. (NICAP UFOI, Oct 1972, page 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burlington, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4116 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15526 (1CC63725) Date: 9/14/1972 Description: Following several civilian reports of UFOs in Crumlin, Monmouthshire, Wales several police constables were sent to the scene at around 8:30 p.m. They saw a circular orange object that changed shape to a cone. In Croespenmaen, Wales a bowl-shaped disc was observed hovering and spinning for two hours. The UFO hid three times when aircraft appeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Western Mail, September 16, 1972; FSR, November-December 1972, p. 28; Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_5957 Source: Johnson ### Event 15527 (621B61E9) Date: 9/14/1972 Description: At 4:20 a.m. an unidentified "bogey" was detected on radar at the West Palm Beach International Airport by FAA air traffic controller C. J. Fox and tracked for about an hour. NORAD was alerted and at approximately 6:00 a.m. two F-106 jet interceptors were scrambled from West Palm Beach Airport, Florida to intercept the glowing UFO, but the object disappeared from the radar scopes shortly before the jets arrived. FAA watch supervisor George Morales viewed the object through binoculars and described the object as silver white in color and cigar shaped. Officials at Miami International Airport also tracked the strange object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1972, pp. 1 & 4; Sandra Thomas, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1972, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_5956 Source: Johnson ### Event 15528 (71596838) Date: 9/14/1972 Description: Multi witness, two events, animal (#537), EM effects (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4118 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15529 (DD3E22E0) Date: 9/14/1972 Description: 8:00 p.m. A married couple in Houston, Missouri, watches an unusual bright object after their portable TV is disturbed by interference. It is larger than a star and persists for several minutes before it disappears in a burst of speed. At 3:00 a.m. they are awakened by their dogs barking at something in a nearby woods. They see a bright flash of light at ground level. The next morning, they find an evergreen tree about 300 feet from the house that is yellow on one side and normal-looking on the other. Next to it is a 20 feet x 14 feet oval area of depressed grass. In the center are three small imprints, each sowing an extension or “toe.” The imprints are about 2.5 inches long; one is 1.5 inches deep. A blackened area in the shape of a triangle is in the center of the imprints. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Phillips, [Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf) CUFOS, 1976, p. 86 Source ID: Eberhart_4872 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15530 (8B491396) Date: 9/14/1972 Description: 4:00 p.m. David Owen is sitting on his patio in Bateau Bay, New South Wales, when he notices a distinct “red arrowhead” moving from southwest to northwest in a slow climb. After watching it for several minutes, he takes a color photo with his Instamatic, which shows a disc reflecting light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Australian Arrowhead](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf) [Photograph Reveals Unseen Possible UFO,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 \(February 1981\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_4871 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15531 (8000369D) Date: 9/14/1972 Description: 4:20 a.m. An unidentified target is detected on radar at the Palm Beach \(Florida\) International Airport by FAA air traffic controller C. J. Fox. Fox describes the contact as a “good clear target.” The object is tracked for over an hour when at approximately 6:00 a.m., NORAD is alerted. Two F-106 jet fighters are dispatched from Homestead AFB \[now Homestead Air Reserve Base\] in Miami–Dade County to locate and identify the object. The UFO disappears from radar scopes shortly before the jets arrive. At the airport, FAA watch supervisor George Morales views the object through binoculars and describes it as silver-white in color and cigar-shaped. Officials at Miami International Airport, which also tracks the strange object, report no aircraft are known to be in the area where the UFO was spotted. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Ground/Visual; Two 106’s Scrambled](http://www.nicap.org/720914palmbeach%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4870 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15532 (979651D9) Date: 9/14/1972 Description: Ground/Visual; Two 106's Scrambled (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [720914](http://www.nicap.org/720914palmbeach%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palm Beach, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4119 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15533 (EEFF88FA) Date: 9/14/1972 Description: At 10:45 p.m. two witnesses southeast of Sandoval, Illinois saw a UFO moving toward their car, about 45 feet up in the air. It had green and blue hazy lights and a huge red flickering light on top. It passed directly overhead, then came back and circled the car. Next it hovered nearby for 20 minutes, and finally flew off slowly to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John F. Schuessler case files, report dated July 22, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_5958 Source: Johnson ### Event 15534 (9508B316) Date: 9/19/1972 Description: Mr. Jamieson took photographs as a brilliant disc-shaped object flipped 6-8 times in the sky over Broadmeadows North, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at 10:10 p.m. The object flew at fantastic speeds and was observed for more than 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1972, p. 11; FSR, January-February 1973, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_6090 Source: Johnson ### Event 15535 (A373A154) Date: 9/19/1972 Description: At 5:00 p.m. a sphere with a triangular tail landed in the city of Rosetto Abbruzzi, Italy. After about a minute it took off very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_6091 Source: Johnson ### Event 15536 (2CA205AF) Date: 9/20/1972 Description: 12:45 a.m. A man is driving near Rougemont, Quebec, when he sees a Saturn-shaped object about 100 feet in diameter moving with a pendulum motion toward Mont Rougemont. It climbs to the top of the hill and settles in for 4 minutes. He watches it increasingly brighten from a row of windows at the upper dome and glow pink on the bottom side. He flashes his lights at it, and it rises and dives at his car, passing just 30 feet above it. The engine stalls, the radio goes off, and the headlights dim. A wave of heat passes over him, then the UFO races away. \( Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 144–146; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(Mar. 2008\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_4873 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15537 (AC725AB8) Date: 9/20/1972 Description: Humanoid report. No details, but witness' name was Eastman.(EGBA, Page 673) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Howard, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4117 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15538 (FB48AD64) Date: 9/21/1972 Description: Three witnesses were driving in Rougemont, Quebec, Canada at 12:30 a.m. when they witnessed a Saturn-shaped disc making pendulum movements in the sky, then landing on Mount Rouge. The object was 100-150 feet in diameter and had a row of oval windows. The driver, Mr. G. Poisson, flashed his car headlights at the UFO, and the object responded by diving and coming straight at them, passing only 30 feet overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wido Hoville, Canadian UFO Report, Spring 1974; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 55; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 40 Source ID: Johnson_6190 Source: Johnson ### Event 15539 (D1B050CD) Date: 9/21/1972 Description: At 5:40 a.m. in Santa Isabel, Cordoba province, Argentina Sr. Teodoro Merlo, age 56, a maintenance worker at the Ika-Renault car factory, unlocked and entered a company washroom and was surprised to encounter a "man" nearly eight-feet tall sitting on the long washbasin. The being's complexion was very pallid, and he had a bald head with high, pointed ears. The giant wore a very tight-fitting, dark blue one-piece garment. He noticed the uniform was glove-tight at the wrists, and that the being held his right forefinger below his nose. The figure suddenly vanished unaccountably from the washroom, in which the temperature was abnormally high. Lights in the building went on and off by themselves. Sr. Merlo later suffered eye irritation, repeated headaches, and back pain in his lumbar region for eight days. The witness reported that he again saw the face of the entity in a mirror on the bus the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Galindez, FSR, August 1975, p. 11; UNICAT, case # 576; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-26 (A1169); Stendek, December 1973, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_6191 Source: Johnson ### Event 15540 (2056565E) Date: 9/22/1972 Description: At 9:00 a.m. Virgilio Gomez was driving along a lonely road near the University's experimental farm in Palenque, San Cristobal, Dominican Republic when a man wearing a light green coverall that covered even his feet waved him down. The man wore no gloves, and had a sort of watch on his wrist. The man identified himself as Freddy Miller, a well-known Dominican baseball player who had disappeared mysteriously more than 13 years ago on May 5, 1959. He said that a UFO had rescued him from drowning in a boating accident, when two of his companions drowned, "because of my knowledge of radio technology and my intelligence." Nearby were two slender men seven feet tall. They were dressed like Miller. They had complexions like Orientals and short, chestnut colored hair. Miller pointed out to Gomez the craft in which they had arrived: it was football shaped, the size of an automobile, with a bright "nickel plated" surface. The conversation continued for about five minutes, during which Miller told Gomez that the humanoids were "supposedly from Venus." Then Gomez was told to leave, because theywere departing, and not to worry if his car wouldn't function, because it would return to normal spontaneously. As he drove away Gomez saw the three men approach and get into the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonte N. Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 5; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-27 (A1170), citing Danilo Rodriguez Dominguez, Stendek, March 1973 Source ID: Johnson_6229 Source: Johnson ### Event 15541 (05DA38D7) Date: 9/23/1972 Description: Eight children reported watching a UFO maneuvering in the sky over Sudbury, Ontario for over an hour, beginning at around eight p.m. The object had a green dome and red and green body lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated September 25, 1972, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #127 Source ID: Johnson_6260 Source: Johnson ### Event 15542 (38352009) Date: 9/25/1972 Description: 1:00–1:30 a.m. Near Anderstorp, Sweden, a witness is driving his Opel at 25 mph when the car radio stops working. A couple minutes later, a very bright blue-white light appears behind the car, enveloping the entire vehicle in light at the same time as all electrical equipment in the car ceases to work. The headlights go out and the engine and wipers stop. The light persists for 5 minutes, and the temperature inside the car rises. Suddenly the light is gone, and the electrical system works again. The car starts at the same time as the witness smells a strong odor of ammonia or ether. The witness drives home quickly, terrified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_4874 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15543 (DF82F8AE) Date: 9/27/1972 Description: 5:40 a.m. Teodoro Merlo, maintenance man for the Ika-Renault factory in Santa Isabel, Córdoba, Argentina, is making early rounds at the plant. He enters a previously locked washroom and sees a man sitting on one of the basins who is nearly 8 feet tall and wearing a close-fitting, dark-blue, one-piece garment tight at the wrists. It has a bald head with high, pointed ears, and very white skin. As Merlo approaches, the light by the janitor goes out and a light near the entity goes on spontaneously. Merlo hears a noise like “a metal object striking glass,” and the entity disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Oscar A. Galíndez, “[The Anthropomorphic Phenomena at Santa Isabel, Part 3,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 5 \(February 1976\): 14–16; Oscar A. Galíndez, “[Argentina: The Anthropomorphic](http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2011/09/argentina-anthropomorphic-phenomena-of.html) [Phenomena of Santa Isabel,](http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2011/09/argentina-anthropomorphic-phenomena-of.html)” Inexplicata, September 22, 2011; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1972-09-27-argentina-santaisabel.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1972-09-27-argentina-santaisabel.htm) February 23, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_4875 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15544 (7FCD8816) Date: 9/27/1972 Description: At 11:30 p.m. independent witnesses, one a woman with the surname of Quiroga, saw near the local Ika-Renault auto plant in Santa Isabel, Cordoba, Argentina a luminous object which picked up a tall humanoid entity. It did so by means of a solid beam of blue light. It somehow levitated or took the being up through the tube of light and into the UFO. Others saw a luminous object rising up into the sky from the vicinity of the auto plant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A Galindez, FSR, November 1975, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_6382 Source: Johnson ### Event 15545 (6CB639FB) Date: 9/27/1972 Description: At 11:13 p.m. Enrique Moreno was delivering documents to the Ika-Renault factory in Santa Isabel, Cordoba, Argentina when the fluorescent lights in the engineering room went on and off three times. There was an accompanying noise like that of a turbine lasting for several seconds. Driving his motor runabout outside the plant he briefly glimpsed "a sort of rainbow very near the ground," but thought no further of it until he suddenly encountered a tall figure, glowing a bluish green, moving among a pile of chassis beside his route. As he approached within 30 meters the figure swung around, in a stiff mechanical way, to face him, and at the same time his engine faltered then quit when he came opposite the being.

This humanoid figure, strongly built and about 7.5 feet tall, had eyes like yellow light bulbs, large pointed ears, a square chin, and a slit-like mouth. The face appeared pale green, but this may have been do to a reflection from the clothing, a one-piece luminescent bluish-green tight fitting coverall with a broad silvery belt. Moreno felt an intolerable humming in his ears, a sensation of heat, and itching over his entire body. There was also the smell of burning oil. His arms and legs were paralyzed. After 30 seconds of this confrontation, his motorcycle shot off to the left seemingly under its own volition at high speed, and the witness was returned to the Security Office without his conscious control. He arrived there at 11:30 p.m., but his wristwatch had stopped at 11:13 p.m., leaving 15 minutes unaccounted for. Moreno was in a highly agitated state, and subsequently suffered nausea and pains in the neck, as well as a burning sensation in his eyes. At the encounter site two rectangular "footprints" 8 inches x 16 inches were found and the soil there was warm to the touch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Galindez, FSR, November 1975, p. 21; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-28, citing Dr. Oscar A. Galindez Source ID: Johnson_6381 Source: Johnson ### Event 15546 (D90006CD) Date: 9/28/1972 Description: At 3:40 a.m. in Santa Isabel, Cordoba province, Argentina truck driver Luftolde Rodriguez was making a delivery to the Ika Renault plant four and a half hours after another UFO close encounter, and he had driven into the northeast sector of the plant to unload. He was driving a 1957 Dodge dumptruck. Having unloaded his cargo, he was just starting off when he noticed the whole area light up. He heard someone approaching from behind, and when he looked out the right window he saw, in profile, the torso of a very tall figure pass close by. Only when he could see this figure through the windshield could Rodriguez see its head. At that point the being stopped, did a right about turn stiffly, and looked straight at him. He did another right turn, and walked slowly and awkwardly ahead, finally crossing diagonally to the left and disappearing behind some pallets. He had been in view from 60 to 90 seconds. The entity was dressed in a tight one-piece coverall of luminescent blue-green color, identical to the one seen by Moreno four hours earlier. He was over 2.5 meters tall and his head was bald, with the skull flattened at the rear. He hadlong, narrow pointed ears. His eyes were numerous circles with no eyelids or eyebrows. The nose was straight and the mouth rudimentary. His complexion was very white. Legs and arms were extremely long, and he did not bend his legs as he walked. In his left hand he held a small white sphere the size of a billiard ball. He had on a wide silver belt and large, square silver boots.

A number of physical effects occurred simultaneous with the being's appearance: the truck's engine and lights died, and these effects lasted until it was 25-30 meters distant. Rodriguez was immobilized in his seat. Although he could follow the movement of the figure with his eyes, he could not move either his arms or legs. He heard a humming noise, similar to bees, while the figure was in view. He sat there for several minutes after the figure vanished, not knowing what to do. Finally, some other workers approached to ask what was wrong and he told them what he'd seen. A search disclosed no sign of the intruder, nor where there any traces. Subsequent inquiries disclosed there were a number of independent UFO observations in the area during the evening of September 27-28. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A Uriondo, p. 32; Oscar A. Galindez, FSR, November 1975, p. 21; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-29, citing Dr. Oscar A Galindez Source ID: Johnson_6396 Source: Johnson ### Event 15547 (F161ED07) Date: 9/30/1972 Description: SAM missiles were fired upon a luminous orange sphere that was at a very high altitude hovering over Hanoi, Vietnam in the broad daylight. It stayed in place for an hour and 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Saturday Evening Mercury (Tasmania), September 30, 1972; Australian FSR, December 1972, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_6447 Source: Johnson ### Event 15548 (45B9723D) Date: 10/1972 Description: Harry Belil begins publishing Beyond Reality, a newsstand magazine devoted to parapsychology and \(sometimes\) UFOs, in New York City. It continues through November 1980 and publishes several special UFO issues. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Beyond Reality](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Beyond%20Reality%20magazine/Beyond%20Reality%20No%201.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Beyond%20Reality%20magazine/Beyond%20Reality%20No%201.pdf) no. 1 \(October 1972\) Source ID: Eberhart_4876 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15549 (37E67EF7) Date: 10/1/1972 Description: The CIA awards the Stanford Research Institute \[now SRI International\] in Menlo Park, California, a contract for $49,909 for an eight-month research project on remote viewing. It is given the name Biofield Measurements Program. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena, Little, Brown, 2017, pp. 136–137 Source ID: Eberhart_4877 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15550 (E418CC4E) Date: 10/2/1972 Description: A letter from the Dept. of National Defense, Canada, Brig. Gen. L.A. Bourgeois states: All UFOs reported to CFHQ are investigated by the Director of Operations. It isn’t a practice to allow the public to study these files. Since the beginning of 1968 these UFO reports have been passed along to the NRC. Evidence suggests that UFOs present no threat to the world. They exhibit a unique scientifically advanced technology. Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p467) See also: 9/19/26 Source ID: Maj2_667 Source: Maj2 ### Event 15551 (DB8915A4) Date: 10/2/1972 Description: A letter from the Canadian Department of National Defence states that UFO reports received by the Canadian military are passed on to the National Research Council to determine whether a scientific investigation is warranted. It notes that “certain reports suggest that they exhibit a unique scientific or advance technology that could possibly contribute to scientific or technical research.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 193](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/n201/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/n201/mode/2up) [467](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/466/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4878 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15552 (803E2A10) Date: 10/5/1972 Description: In Remans, Belgium at 1 o'clock in the morning a 20-meter in diameter disc hovered over a car, illuminating the car's interior and the surrounding area in a green color, It flew off toward the south-southwest, but came back again at 4:40 a.m. and landed. Later that evening in Verdugo, California three discs flew at a low altitude toward the south. They had red glowing rims. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1973; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1973, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_6579 Source: Johnson ### Event 15553 (D67A4F43) Date: 10/8/1972 Description: A security guard had a nocturnal close encounter with a 100 foot in diameter domed disc that hovered 300 feet over a factory in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. The UFO made a humming noise, tilted and then shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9722 Source ID: Johnson_6659 Source: Johnson ### Event 15554 (9D57BEC8) Date: 10/8/1972 Description: 12:00 midnight. Security guard John Byrne is patrolling Cairo Mill, an old factory at Waterhead, Lancashire, England, that has been converted to an electronics system testing facility for jet aircraft. Near the bicycle shed he hears a deep humming noise like a generator inside a closed room. The sound bores into his head. He looks up and sees a huge object parked at a height of 300 feet adjacent to the tower end of the mill. It resembles a glowing bell shape turned on end with the flat base vertical to the sheer wall of the tower. The object is giving off a blue, fluorescent glow that falls like a curtain of solid light. Byrne watches for several minutes until the object turns sharply on edge and moves straight up into the sky until it is only a blob of light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Beam Me Up,” Fortean Times 381 \(July 2019\): 30 Source ID: Eberhart_4879 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15555 (9A9C357F) Date: 10/9/1972 Description: 10:00 a.m. Several area residents reported sighting a silvery, blimp-shaped object high in the sky over Knox County at midmorning today, but Vincennes and Knox County police said they had no clues to its identity. Meanwhile, city police received a telephone can from a woman who "followed the UFO from Bicknell to Vincennes." No figures were available on apparent size, speed or height of the object, but all observers gave similar descriptions of its shape. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vincennes, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4120 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15556 (6E617313) Date: 10/9/1972 Description: 7:30 p.m. Ralph and Grace Clapp are driving along Middle Country Road near Selden, New York, when they see a bright white light. It is joined by a red and a green light. They continue driving, and around 7:55 p.m. at the top of a hill west of Coram, the white light hovers into view above the treetops to heir left. Grace sees rectangular windows and no wings on a triangular object that is at least 100 feet across and moving slowly and continuously through the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Bloecher and Sylvia Meagher, “The Seldon UFO,” IUR 32, no. 2 \(December 2008\): 11–14 Source ID: Eberhart_4880 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15557 (06B31AE4) Date: 10/10/1972 Description: Around noon two witnesses in Bontrask, Norrbotten, Sweden saw six tiny delta-shaped objects that flew 7 kilometers in 30 seconds. Three flew off to the north, and three flew off to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GICOFF Sweden, November 1972, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_6722 Source: Johnson ### Event 15558 (B3EF213C) Date: 10/13/1972 Description: At 2:30 a.m., in the old part of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sr. Joaquin Mercado and his wife watched a triangular formation of lights move back and forth in the sky from the terrace of their apartment. In the early morning of the same day, twenty hospital employees of the Aguadilla Hospital and others saw several UFOs maneuvering in the skies. The hospital supervisor, Sra. Rosa G. de Castro, told reporters that she had seen the dish-shaped objects, with a cone on the upper part, very clearly. They had lights rotating around their peripheries. At one point she saw something shoot out from one of them towards the ground, and then come back up again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, pp. 11-14 Source ID: Johnson_6813 Source: Johnson ### Event 15559 (78370240) Date: 10/14/1972 Description: 2:00 p.m. Two airmen were instructed to check the tactical air navigational (TACAN) facility located eight miles east of McChord Air Force Base. Briggs exited the building to investigate the sound. Once outside, Briggs observed a saucer shaped object directly above the TACAN building. Briggs watched as the object landed just south of the TACAN compound. Briggs was startled by the object and entered the TACAN building to summoned Hillsgeck. Once Hillsgeck and Briggs exited the building together, they observed two "creatures" walking towards the fence. (See report by Bill Hamilton) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [721014](http://www.nicap.org/mcchord721014dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McChord AFB, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4121 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15560 (450AE4B0) Date: 10/14/1972 Description: In Rexville, Puerto Rico at 4:00 a.m. a witness named Martinez saw an ovoid object land. Some beings exited from the craft and took concrete blocks from the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9733; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 9 (1978) Source ID: Johnson_6838 Source: Johnson ### Event 15561 (1EC2DEDA) Date: 10/14/1972 Description: 9:00 p.m. A gentleman, while driving a tractor on a side road, observed a dark, rectangular-shaped object (more like a trapezoid) outlined in blue light. Observed suddenly for 3seconds it then switched off. (SL-62, Page 10) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lorraine, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4122 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15562 (B2F218A4) Date: 10/14/1972 Description: Airman First Class Steven Briggs and Airman Dennis Hillsgeck, stationed at McChord Air Force Base in Pierce County, Washington, were instructed to check the tactical air navigational (TACAN) facility located eight miles east of air base. Upon their arrival at the site they opened the locked security fence surrounding it and entered the compound. Once inside, they began their systems check of the equipment. At around 2:00 p.m. Briggs heard a high-pitched engine sound coming from outside the building, so he went out to investigate. Once outside he observed a saucer-shaped object directly over the building. He then watched the object land just south of the compound. Startled, Briggs entered the building and summoned Hillsgeck. Back outside both men observed two "creatures" walking towards the fence. Briggs went back into the building and telephoned the base security police. He yelled that they needed help because "intruders" were attempting to enter the facility. Sgt. Holmes at the security desk dispatched Sgt. Dwight Reid and AIC Michael Tash to the scene. After 17 minutes they arrived and observed Briggs and Hillsgeck standing near their government vehicle; both appeared to be in a daze and neither could speak. An ambulance was summoned. Hillsgeck appeared to have burns around the face. Tash walked around the area and found ground marks in the soft dirt. Suddenly Reid yelled to Tash that an object was directly overhead, and indeed the saucer-shaped object was hovering just above the facility. Sgt. Reid attempted to communicate with the security police desk, but the radio would not work. Reid and Tash then got Briggs and Hillsgeck and drove them from the scene. One mile from the site Reid was able to communicate with security, and he requested assistance, declaring a "Covered Wagon" (a high security violation alert). Four additional security officers arrived, including Sgt. Darren Alexander and his dog "Champ." Approximately 400 yards south of the site, Sgt. Alexander was alerted by his dog to two creatures standing near a remote power station. Sgt. Alexander yelled for the creatures to stand and raise their hands, but instead both creatures moved towards Alexander, who noticed that one of them was holding somekind of an object he thought was a weapon. Sgt. Alexander then fired six rounds form his revolver. After firing the shots, Alexander returned to his vehicle and radioed that he had fired at the creatures. Soon another security alert team arrived. They conducted a search of the area and also observed the saucer sitting on the ground, directly east of the power station. They circled the craft and called for a supervisor, a Captain Henry Stone. When Stone arrived and walked toward the object it flew off in an easterly direction and was out of sight in a few seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1972, citing report from Robert Collins, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_6839 Source: Johnson ### Event 15563 (0AB96EAE) Date: 10/22/1972 Description: Enrique Mercado, who had been involved in other alien encounters, was lounging on the terrace of his house in Mexico City, Mexico at 8 p.m. when a very tall young man suddenly appeared behind him. The man asked: "Enrique, do you want to come with me?" Enrique agreed. The young man straddled Enrique as he grabs a girdle on the man's coveralls. Then they fly through the air, inside an apparently invisible beam, into a hovering saucer-shaped object. Inside the craft Mercado is surprised at the apparent simplicity of the craft's furnishings. There is a table with multi-colored buttons, a screen on the wall, and two armchairs. The saucer then flew into a hovering mothership, around which other saucers were hovering. Mercado is then given a green coverall to wear and he is introduced to the commander of the vessel, a huge man over two meters tall, who wore a blue coverall. The commander's name was Yastek, and he showed Mercado what he called "sky charts". Enrique is informed he is at a point some 100,000 kilometers above Mexico City. Suddenly, he finds himself on the balcony of his house, and two hours have elapsed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1972, citing UFO Geheimnisse, Berlin, January 1998 Source ID: Johnson_7022 Source: Johnson ### Event 15564 (D3D3A0C1) Date: 10/23/1972 Description: 6:30 p.m. Capt. Daryle Brown and two copilots are flying a Wardair airliner at 22,000 feet some 180 miles northwest of Churchill, Manitoba, when they see a bright streak of light approaching from the west. As it comes closer, it appears to be a bullet-shaped object larger than a Boeing 727 and adorned with a cluster of multicolored pulsating lights. Brown notifies the 15 passengers aboard and turns out the interior lights so they can see the object better. Almost a dozen portholes are visible, while red and yellow lights are flashing on the top. At the rear of the object is a fog-like cloud and orange sparks. It takes up a position about 2,500 feet in front of the jet and on the same flight path. The object shines a beam of light at the airplane, bathing it in light that is bright enough to read to, and stops in mid-air directly in front of the jet. Before Brown can take evasive action, it moves off to the right. A dense fog engulfs the object as it disappears in the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jeff Holt, “[Rencontre avec un UFO dans le](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/UFO%20Quebec/UFO%20Quebec%20-%20No%2009%20-%201977.pdf) [Grand Nord Canadien,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/UFO%20Quebec/UFO%20Quebec%20-%20No%2009%20-%201977.pdf)” UFO-Quebec, no. 9 \(1977\): 13–14; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 167–169 Source ID: Eberhart_4881 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15565 (7B3AAE3F) Date: 10/23/1972 Description: An odd humming sound was heard in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. Although he couldn't see anything, the witness took photographs of a canyon in the direction from which the noise originated. On the developed photographs there was an image of an ovoid object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Contact UK; UFO Register, volume 9, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_7047 Source: Johnson ### Event 15566 (8EB1FAF2) Date: 10/23/1972 Description: At around 6 p.m. a yellow and red bullet-shaped UFO approached an airliner that was flying 160 miles northeast of Churchill, Manitoba. There was a very intense beam coming from in front of the object. and exhaust with orange sparks coming from the rear. The airliner's radio failed to work during the encounter. Finally, a fog appeared from nowhere, obscuring the object. There were 15 witnesses, including 40-year-old Daryl Brown. The encounter lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT database, case #492, citing Jeff Holt, UFO Quebec Source ID: Johnson_7048 Source: Johnson ### Event 15567 (089BCE3F) Date: 10/26/1972 Description: An abduction by UFO occupants was reported to the UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington having occurred on this night. It occurred ten miles west of Woodland, California in Yolo County. There were two people involved in the abduction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 17 Source ID: Johnson_7150 Source: Johnson ### Event 15568 (B325D63A) Date: 10/28/1972 Description: At 9:30 p.m. two teachers and others driving between Ubirajara and Galia in Sao Paulo State, Brazil had a close encounter with a 1.5 m in diameter saucer-shaped object that landed on the highway several times. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March 1973, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_7238 Source: Johnson ### Event 15569 (5AE19FAF) Date: 10/28/1972 Description: At 10:10 p.m. Corporal Juan Maria Fuentes Figueroa, age 41, encountered a multicolored, humming domed disc at his military base on Isla de Lobos, Rocha province, Uruguay and pointed his gun at three entities he saw on the ground. The entities were wearing rubber-like black diver suits, and the backs of their heads were elongated, as if they were wearing hoods. He was paralyzed when he did this. A blinding flash occurred when the object took off, then it flew away silently. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT database, case # 454, citing CIOVI; John Wallace Spencer, The UFO Yearbook, p. 161 Source ID: Johnson_7239 Source: Johnson ### Event 15570 (31D13380) Date: 10/28/1972 Description: 10:15 p.m. Cpl. Juan Fuentes Figueroa and four other Uruguayan Navy seamen are stationed at the lighthouse on Isla de Lobos, off Punta del Este, Uruguay. Fuentes goes to inspect the electrical generators and discovers some odd lights, which prompts him to retrieve a handgun from his room. When he returns, he notices an object in the shape of an inverted bowl with several white, yellow, and violet lights on top of a 20-foot terrace. An entity is next to the object and two others \(one much taller\) are descending from the UFO. They all notice Fuentes and face him from about 89 feet away. He raises his gun to shoot but feels strangely paralyzed and confused. The beings reenter the UFO, which moves straight up emitting a humming noise. When it reaches a height of 150 feet, it tilts, belches a bright fireball, and silently disappears at tremendous speed to the southeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Willy Smith, “[Alien Encounter at Isla de Lobos, Uruguay, 10-28-1972,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/isladelobosuruguay1972.html)” UFO Casebook; Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 106–109 Source ID: Eberhart_4882 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15571 (E4A16FB6) Date: 10/29/1972 Description: A metallic gray, domed disc was seen on a clear day by a young woman in Ghlin, Hainaut, Belgium at 10:40 a.m. It had a well-defined outline, and moved slower than a plane. It moved in a straight trajectory, from northwest to southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vertongen Jean-Luc Vertongen, SOBEPS News, March 1976, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_7275 Source: Johnson ### Event 15572 (D6AA0583) Date: 11/6/1972 Description: During an evangelist church service in Paya, the Domican Republic, a UFO passed over the house where the service was being held and lit up everything inside, causing everyone to panick. A strange looking being entered the building, took the paster by the hand, and reportedly healed a woman of stomach cancer. She said that she felt a sensation of cold from the alien's touch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_7505 Source: Johnson ### Event 15573 (1C135631) Date: 11/7/1972 Description: Contactee [Gabriel Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%5FGreen) runs for US President as a candidate of the Universal Party, with [Daniel Fry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FFry) as his running mate, on the ballot in Iowa. The party offers solutions recommended by extraterrestrials for national and international problems. He gets less than 200 votes and subsequently retires from public life. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: S. D. Tucker, False Economies: The Strangest, Least Successful, and Most Audacious Financial Follies, Plans, and Crazes of All Times, Amberly, 2018, chapter 3, excerpted in “Taxing Credulity,” Fortean Times 367 \(June 2018\): 52–55 Source ID: Eberhart_4883 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15574 (56A9BF2C) Date: 11/10/1972 Description: 11:00 p.m. A 19-year-old is riding his Yamaha 250cc Twin motorcycle near Heathfield, East Sussex, England, when suddenly the headlights dim and go out and the engine fails, emitting an “electrical arcing” odor. He looks up and sees a white blob about 100 feet away hovering above some trees. It is about 60 feet high, 30–40 feet in diameter, and glowing white but fuzzy in appearance. After a few seconds it zooms away at about 100 mph in a straight line and is lost to sight. The motorcycle starts by itself. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving](http://cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) [Vehicle Interference](http://cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 55 Source ID: Eberhart_4884 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15575 (C9E6E695) Date: 11/12/1972 Description: 8:00 p.m. Three soldiers \(Petrus Nel, Fanie Rosseau, and Gerrie Buitendag\) are guarding a petrol dump at Rosmead, East Cape, South Africa, when they see a red light moving in circles above the tennis court adjacent to the primary school. At nearby Middelburg police station, Sgt. John Goosen and Constable Koos Brazelle are looking towards Rosmead with binoculars and see an odd light above the town. School Principal Harold Truter sees the light moving vertically up from his home near the tennis court. The court is churned up with huge chunks of surface tar dug up, so he calls the Middelburg police about it. Goosen and Brazelle respond. There are 5 holes in the court, the largest 10 feet in diameter. Two spike holes are also found. The only entrances to the court are still locked up and there are no vehicle tracks inside or outside. A eucalyptus tree at the end of the court has suddenly begun to die and appears scorched. District Police Commandant Col. B. J. van Heerden unsuccessfully tries to duplicate the damage with shovels. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, [pp. 100–101](https://archive.org/details/ufoconspiracyfir00rand/page/100/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4885 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15576 (94B5D914) Date: 11/13/1972 Description: Four witnesses had a close encounter of the second kind with a noisy UFO three miles southeast of Anderson, Shasta County, California. The incident occurred at 6:10 p.m., lasted ten minutes, scared animals, and left physical traces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Redding (CA) Record-Searchlight, November 15, 1972; William M. Murphy, FSR Case Histories, February 1973, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_7636 Source: Johnson ### Event 15577 (C4961D7B) Date: 11/13/1972 Description: Two witnesses watch an unknown aircraft maneuver along Sognefjord, Vestland, Norway. Thirty Norwegian Navy vessels, plus NATO forces, are already investigating a mystery submarine reported in the fjord. The same night, four other witnesses observe a “bright object” on the water. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_4886 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15578 (9A11E52E) Date: 11/17/1972 Description: 8:50 p.m. Two RCMP officers see an object 12 feet in length heading northwest near McIvers on the Bay of Islands, Newfoundland. It disappears in the water with a loud splash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 102 Source ID: Eberhart_4887 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15579 (EEE8E4C5) Date: 11/20/1972 Description: 1:00 p.m. An unidentified submerged object is seen near Kyrkjebø, on Sognefjord, Norway, as it heads away from Mårenlandet toward the fjord’s southern end. Around 1:15 p.m., it is seen by five police officers on Kvamsøy. Norwegian Navy frigates drop mines on the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_4888 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15580 (9AC5BAFC) Date: 11/20/1972 Description: CIA chief [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) comes to Camp David to an interview with [Nixon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FNixon) about what he thinks is a “budgetary matter.” Nixon’s chief of staff, [H. R. Haldeman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FR.%5FHaldeman), also attends. Helms is informed by Nixon that his services in the new administration will not be required. On Helms’s dismissal [William Colby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FColby) later comments that “Dick Helms paid the price for that ‘No’ \[to the White House over Watergate\],” distancing the CIA from the scandal. Helms begins a CIA clean-up, closing down Operation Often and other sensitive programs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms\#Helms%5Fdismissed)” Source ID: Eberhart_4889 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15581 (F7EA267F) Date: 11/21/1972 Description: Night. Four witnesses see four rockets shooting up from the water at Hermansverk, Vestland, Norway. They are silent and resemble small red balls of light. They are also seen the following day, and the Norwegian Navy fires an antisubmarine missile at the intruders. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_4890 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15582 (FC554B64) Date: 11/23/1972 Description: A class of college student observed a silent, wingless, dull-gray fuselage-shaped object fly over a forest in Acheres, Yvelines, France at 8:45 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9766, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 123 Source ID: Johnson_7844 Source: Johnson ### Event 15583 (C0602195) Date: 11/23/1972 Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its fourth and final test attempt Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_rocket) Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome Source ID: Maj2_668 Source: Maj2 ### Event 15584 (FF13D5A3) Date: 11/24/1972 Description: 6:45 p.m. A lady was on her way to Patoka from her home on RR 2, 2 miles SW of the city, when she saw a sudden flash in the sky. First expected to be a "falling star" she then saw it was moving rapidly in a zig-zag fashion from W-E and she slowed her car to watch. (SL-62, Page 11) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Patoka, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4123 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15585 (D19C4760) Date: 11/26/1972 Description: On this evening a yellow delta-shaped UFO flew over L'Ancresse in the English Channel Isles for 10 minutes heading south. A faint hum was heard when the object was overhead, which then zig-zagged through the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, January 1973, p. 30, citing a newspaper source Source ID: Johnson_7941 Source: Johnson ### Event 15586 (FAA8D11E) Date: 11/26/1972 Description: Judy Kendall abduction, three types of beings Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Between Bedoga Bay and Woodland, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_212 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15587 (3FB8B20A) Date: 11/26/1972 Description: Judy Kendall abduction, three types of beings (UFOE II, Section XIII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bt. Bedoga Bay and Woodland, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4124 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15588 (5EFFCB78) Date: 11/28/1972 Description: At 12.30 a.m. Alfonso Rey, age 62, was watching television in his home in Tres Arroyos, Buenos Aires province, Argentina when the TV picture went out. When he got up to check the TV he noticed a tall being seated in an armchair at the opposite end of the room, wearing a blue-green metallic coverall uniform, with helmet, boots, and a black belt with a box attached. The being stood up, and was at least 6.5 feet tall. Sr. Rey asked the being what he wanted, but got no reply. Rey touched the being's hand, which felt cold and abnormally soft, "like foam rubber". He could not describe the facial features except for the eyes, which "seemed to emit a silvery light." Sr. Rey went into the kitchen, followed by the strange visitor, and he noticed that his refrigerator was not running normally. Sr. Rey also noticed that his visitor seemed to be walking on air. Next the being pressed some buttons on his belt apparatus, which caused an amber light to come on. Then he walked to the backdoor, and looking up at the sky pressed other buttons on his belt. The being went outside into the yard, then vanished into thin air. That afternoon, at 4:20 p.m. several patrons of a bar reported witnessing a similar looking stranger in the bar at the corner of Calle Alsina and Calle Pringles, in Tres Arroyos. Their descriptions matched those provided by Sr. Rey. They said the stranger walked into the bar's bathroom and did not emerge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, FSR Case Histories, issue #14, April 1973, p. 11; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-35 ( A1180) Source ID: Johnson_7996 Source: Johnson ### Event 15589 (D38F8F18) Date: 11/28/1972 Description: In La Sarre, Abitibi, Quebec at 10:30 a.m. a nine-year-old boy, Mario Mercier, was alone on an ice skating rink on a sunny day when he observed a white, spherical cloud-like UFO land in a snowy field 700 feet away. Three four-foot tall, square-shouldered beings emerged, wearing black suits and black square-shaped helmets. One of them carried a small black "kettle" that he proceeded to fill with snow. He then walked to the Mercier family chicken house, and was about to enter when the boy cried out. He then turned toward Mario, who attempted to hide inside the rink's hockey net. The UFOnaut walked back, and with one of the others, was seen to "climb" or levitate into the "cloud." The UFO rose vertically swiftly. A 10 foot circle of blackened grass was left behind, with rectangular tracks in snow. It was two years before grass would grow again at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Ferguson, UFO-Quebec, January 1976, p. 9; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-40 ( A1181); John Brent Musgrave. UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 51 Source ID: Johnson_7997 Source: Johnson ### Event 15590 (0AA5E036) Date: 11/28/1972 Description: 2:00 p.m. A witness at Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia, sees lengths of glistening material wrapped around a signpost and on looking up sees that more is falling from the sky. He collects a small sample of the thickest section, but the strands dissolve in his fingers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_4891 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15591 (7FD0D133) Date: 11/30/1972 Description: Diamond-shaped object in paddock, "beeping" sounds on radio. Frola, 1990, p. 121 (E,R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Murray Bridge, S. AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4125 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15592 (71D5A28A) Date: 11/30/1972 Description: 11:15 p.m. A motor mechanic named Maxwell is out testing his vehicle in Murray Bridge, South Australia, when the engine dies and lights go out as he is coming over a rise in the road. The lights come back on but vary in intensity several times. He decides to stop the car. To his left he sees a “diamond shape with the top cut off” noiselessly sitting on the ground 148 feet away in a paddock. His car radio starts making a noise like a “computer on TV,” a constant rhythm. He tries the ignition key but nothing happens, not even the oil light comes on. He tries the wipers and the electric air horn but they do not work either. He locks all the doors and winds up the windows and just sits there for the next 45 minutes. After this time the object leaves, and he finds he can restart the car. An inspection of the vehicle the next day reveals no cause for the electrical problems. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 19–20 Source ID: Eberhart_4892 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15593 (D83979BC) Date: 11/30/1972 Description: Coming over a rise in the road in Murray Bridge, South Australia 19-year-old mechanic named Maxwell had the motor and lights die. They came back on, then sputtered several times. A diamond shaped object with the top cut off was sitting on the ground 45 meters away in a paddock. The car radio made a noise like a "computer on TV", with a constant beeping rhythm. The object made a vertical takeoff. Three holes were later found in the soil at the site of the landing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, citing investigator A. Seer; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 253; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_8079 Source: Johnson ### Event 15594 (0AE7FC0F) Date: 12/1972 Description: Night. Romanian Air Force pilot and writer Lt. Col. [Doru Davidovici](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doru%5FDavidovici) is at an unnamed military base in Romania when he sees an oval UFO flying parallel to the ridge of a roof. It traverses 50°–60° of horizon in 45–50 seconds and disappears among some trees. It is egg-shaped, a white-violet color as if wrapped in a cloud of bright light, and leaves a long trail behind, but it changes to red-orange before disappearing. Radar at the base tracks the object flying north to south at 3,700 mph at a height of 43 miles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 103 Source ID: Eberhart_4893 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15595 (8DED86EB) Date: 12/2/1972 Description: 11:30 p.m. Four witnesses in Hinojos, Huelva, Spain, see a fiery, square-shaped object flying close to the ground, lighting up the terrain. The headlights in two cars die. The car with a gasoline-powered engine also stalls, but the car with the diesel engine keeps running. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 11 \(Sept. 2011\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_4894 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15596 (F91F78C0) Date: 12/4/1972 Description: A pilot and his friend saw a white light hover over Waltham, Massachusetts, and then make rapid V-shaped descents and ascents. When it approached the witnesses, they were able to see that it was pancake shaped, covered with lights, and had a central dome on top. They also heard a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 359 Source ID: Johnson_8178 Source: Johnson ### Event 15597 (1FBB00D8) Date: 12/7/1972 Description: A married couple named Willis saw a cylindrical light hovering while driving in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey at 8:50 p.m. It moved into some nearby woods as their car approached. Ground traces and a missing plug of earth were found in the woods, at the suspected landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Atlantic City Press, December 13, 1972; Data-Net Report, March 1973, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_8260 Source: Johnson ### Event 15598 (A672BCF5) Date: 12/10/1972 Description: A witness in Skelton, West Virginia reported observing a 10 foot wide or large glowing sphere descend slowly to the ground at 9:30 p.m. A shallow 8 foot crater was found at the landing site the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9670; MUFON UFO Journal, issue 236 Source ID: Johnson_8303 Source: Johnson ### Event 15599 (5D0557F6) Date: 12/12/1972 Description: In 1972 in Huaco, San Juan Province, Argentina four men watched three glowing red, oval-shaped objects zigzag over the Rio Huaco valley, heading toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Calindez, Stendek, March 6, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8355 Source: Johnson ### Event 15600 (A308B47B) Date: 12/13/1972 Description: 7:04 p.m. Fritz Abbehusen is watching TV in Dias d’Ávila, Bahia, Brazil, when his set experiences some interference. He goes out on the porch and sees a huge, round luminous object descending to a hill approximately 3 miles from his home. After a while, he goes to get binoculars, and with these he can see that the luminous shape is hovering a several feet above the ground. Its lower part is glowing like a neon light, while the upper part has a row of orange-red portholes. His wife Margarida and servant join him to look at the display. Suddenly, three blinking lights emerge from the object. One of these lights slowly moves in the direction of his house. After 15 minutes, the moving light has arrived within 165 feet in back of the house. Three small beings emerge from it, wearing what appears to be a one-piece suit of whitish or light-gray color. The beings keep their elbows close to the body when walking, as if on tiptoe, raising their knees exaggeratedly at each step. They go away, but the big object remains on the hill until around midnight. At one time it emits a beam that sets the brush on fire. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Dias d’Ávila, Brazil, December 13, 1972](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/abbehusen1972.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4895 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15601 (4558DFBE) Date: 12/22/1972 Description: Two men in a vehicle saw a tall thin, glowing figure standing on the roadway as they drove around a curve in Kauhajoki, Finland at two o'clock in the morning. The beam of the car headlights appeared to curve upon striking the figure. It disappeared into a field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_8566 Source: Johnson ### Event 15602 (65975CA6) Date: 12/24/1972 Description: 3:00 a.m. The Romanian ship Moldoveanu is in the Labrador Sea off Labrador, Canada, when the crew notices a shiny object headed at high speed straight toward their vessel and flying low over the waves. It stops above the ship, changing its shape and color. After an hour, it shoots into the sky and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 279 Source ID: Eberhart_4896 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15603 (DB87C9C9) Date: 12/24/1972 Description: 9:40 a.m. L. J. Reeves is stationed at the PIN-1 Distant Early Warning site at Clinton Point, Northwest Territories, on the Amundsen Gulf. He sees an object like a bright star that moves west to east, stops, then continues on and fades into the distance after 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p.73 Source ID: Eberhart_4897 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15604 (26F76D1A) Date: 12/24/1972 Description: The Romanian ship Maldoveanu while in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Chidley, Labrador, Canada sighted a UFO at 3:00 a.m. The object continually changed shape and color, from round to oval, and from red to yellow to a bluish white. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ion Hobana and Julien Weverberg, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 279 Source ID: Johnson_8591 Source: Johnson ### Event 15605 (EE4A536F) Date: 12/30/1972 Description: Ventura Maceiras, a 73-year-old gaucho, was sitting near his shack in Tres Arroyos, Buenos Aires, Argentina with his dog and his cat when his transistor radio failed. He then heard a loud humming noise, "like angry bees," and looked up to see an object 70 to 80 feet in diameter hovering overhead. It was some 10-12 meters over a grove of eucalyptus trees, and it was emitting a powerful light. An enormous "wheel" was spinning around this object, which at first was reddish orange in color and then became purple. In its upper portion he could see a spherical cabin with two windows, and in one window was visible from the waist upwards a figure wearing dark gray clothing made of inflated "rolls," joined together, similar to our astronaut's space suits. On this being's head was a helmet with a transparent visor and a tube that ran to a box on his back.

With a shower of sparks, the UFO tilted toward Sr. Maceiras, and he could now see a second occupant with identical features and clothing. Their eyes were slanted and their mouths were mere slits, and their faces were very flat. Behind them he could see a small flag or insignia showing a crowned seahorse followed by symbols resembling "S C Y" against a blue background. There was also a long instrument panel bearing "a lot of instruments and clocks."

A powerful flash of light came from the underpart and completely enveloped the cat while temporarily blinding the witness. The humming grew louder, and the UFO changed color again to a blue-green, then moved away, sinking to a height of only 12-20 feet above the ground. It moved off toward the main road, leaving a strong odor like "sulphur or arnica." Maceiras was not frightened---in fact he called out to the occupants of the object to come down and share his mate. After the encounter, his cat disappeared, to return only after 48 hours, her back still showing burn marks. She now shunned the site of her misfortune. The tops of the eucalyptus trees at the site were scorched. Maceiras himself experienced severe physiological aftereffects: diarrhea, nausea, hair loss, and severe headaches, all lasting about two weeks. He also had some trouble speaking, and his eyes watered for a few days. Six weeks after the event he was feeling better and in fact felt rejuvenated, and he began cutting a new set of teeth in his upper gums. These effects were to continue. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Pedro Romaniuk, FSR, July 1973, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing Pedro Romaniuk Source ID: Johnson_8655 Source: Johnson ### Event 15606 (3E74091F) Date: 12/30/1972 Description: A man driving on the A4155 from Henley to High Wycombe, England, rounds a bend and sees an object resembling a vertical cone. What seem to be fluorescent strip lights run down the side, and it emits an intense, high-pitched whistle. The next thing he knows, he is driving through Marlowe in total silence with no memory of how he got there. Some 90 minutes have vanished from his memory. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 \(Christmas 2018\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_4898 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15607 (370F3AB7) Date: 12/31/1972 Description: In Veteli, Finland in 1972 a dark form appeared at 7:30 p.m. and a “force field” threw a girl a distance of three meters. Another girl witnessed the event. Five hours later, at 11:30 p.m. on a highway in Hinojos, Spain a fiery square-shaped flying object flew close to the ground and lit up the surrounding terrain. The headlights in two cars, carrying a total of four witnesses, died. The car with the gasoline-powered engine also stalled, but the diesel-powered engine of the other car kept running. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1975 and issue 133 Source ID: Johnson_8669 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1973 (Back to Top) ### Event 15608 (F4AFB234) Date: 1973 Description: Most Project MKUltra records are deliberately destroyed by order of CIA Director [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms). A cache of some 20,000 documents survives Helms’s purge, as they are incorrectly stored in a financial-records building and discovered following a FOIA request in 1977. These documents are fully investigated during the Senate Hearings of 1977. HTLINGUAL and the NSA’s Minaret programs are shut down to avoid exposure during the Weathermen trial. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project MKUltra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FMKUltra\#Revelation)” Source ID: Eberhart_4900 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15609 (0CF26314) Date: 1973 Description: Dr. [Joseph C. Sharp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FC.%5FSharp) of Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, while in a soundproof room, allegedly hears spoken words broadcast by “pulsed microwave audiogram.” Broadcast in a range between 300 MHz to 3GHz, Sharp is able to identify words that are broadcast without any form of electronic translation device—by direct transmission to the brain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jim Keith, [Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control](https://archive.org/details/JimKeithMindControlWorldControlTheEncyclopediaOfMindControl/page/n9/mode/2up), 2014, p. 220 Source ID: Eberhart_4901 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15610 (173D1F3C) Date: 1973 Description: The Midwest UFO Network changes its name to the Mutual UFO Network and focuses on building a national grassroots UFO investigation network. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_4902 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15611 (1472116A) Date: 1973 Description: David Duquesnoy founds the Association des Amis de Marc Thirouin in Valence, France, named in honor of the founder of the first UFO organization, Commission Internationale d’Enquêtes sur les Soucoupes Volantes, in France in 1951. It begins publishing UFO Informations, edited by Michel Dorier, in March 1974 and continues it through 1983. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO Informations](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFO%20Informations/UFO%20Informations%20-%20No%2001%20-%20mars%201974.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFO%20Informations/UFO%20Informations%20-%20No%2001%20-%20mars%201974.pdf) no. 1 \(March 1974\) Source ID: Eberhart_4903 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15612 (156EC40B) Date: 1973 Description: Suomen Ufotutkijat ry, the Finnish UFO Research Association, is founded in Tampere, Finland. Over the years it has published a Quarterly Report, an Annual Report, and a member newsletter Ufotutkija beginning in 1997 \(now called Yhteydeksi\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Suomen Ufotutkijat](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomen%5FUfotutkijat)”; [The UFO Research of Finland Annual Report](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Finland/UFO%20Research%20of%20Finland/UFO%20Research%20of%20Finland%20Annual%20Report%201981.pdf), 1981 Source ID: Eberhart_4904 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15613 (899B8386) Date: 1973 Description: NORAD now has infrared sensor satellites covering 100% of the earth’s surface from geostationary orbits on a 24-hour basis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 807 Source ID: Eberhart_4899 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15614 (EF19D269) Date: 1/1/1973 Description: At sea off the coast of Mauratania, several crewmembers aboard the SS Wilhelm Kohle sighted two silver discs at 9:15 a.m. flying at a high altitude and heading toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register (Volume 5), 1974, case 1 Source ID: Johnson_15 Source: Johnson ### Event 15615 (8F7AD152) Date: 1/1/1973 Description: At 12:15 a.m. on a highway in the state of Los Lagos, Chile a married couple had their car engine stall the moment a UFO flew over their car. The disc-shaped UFO had a green light and a flashing red light. Their car engine came back on by itself after the UFO had gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping, January 3, 1973; FSR, May-June 1973, Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 55; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, p. 254 Source ID: Johnson_14 Source: Johnson ### Event 15616 (55574CEC) Date: 1/1/1973 Description: Disc with green light and flashing, red light flew over car, engine restarted. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 19, No. 3; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 55 (E) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Osorno, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_4127 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15617 (92061C83) Date: 1/1/1973? Description: After 12:00 midnight. A married couple is driving in Osorno, Chile, when their car stalls just as a disc- shaped object with flashing red and green lights flies overhead. The engine comes to life again after the object disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Shape-Changing UFO Stops Car,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201973%20V%2019%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 3 \(May/June 1973\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_4905 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15618 (83301C4E) Date: 1/1/1973 Description: A domed disc-shaped UFO was sighted in Tres Arroyos, Argentina at 10 p.m., and figures could be seen on board working behind an instrument panel. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christian Vogt, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1973, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_16 Source: Johnson ### Event 15619 (DFC5EE85) Date: 1/2/1973 Description: At least eight witnesses observed a large oval-shaped object that appeared to hover as low as two hundred feet from the ground. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Ana, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4128 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15620 (0E2F51D0) Date: 1/2/1973 Description: In Nowra, New South Wales, Australia at nine o’clock in the evening five people saw a large disc make a 180-degree turn in the sky and follow their car. Figures could be seen through windows in the craft. The craft flew off to the east and out over the sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 141 Source ID: Johnson_31 Source: Johnson ### Event 15621 (0FDB8060) Date: 1/3/1973 Description: NASA announces that Project NERVA has been terminated, even though the project to build a nuclear rocket has been proceeding well. [Annie Jacobsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%5FJacobsen) claims that some failed nuclear tests that have never been declassified could have been responsible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[NERVA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA\#Cancellation)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 311–313](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/310/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4906 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15622 (8F8F9E06) Date: 1/3/1973 Description: At 10 p.m. on this night in Blacksburg, South Carolina on Highway 43 a metallic domed disc chased a car at a very low altitude. The car's headlights dimmed during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated February 9, 1973; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 325, citing UFO Register 1974 Source ID: Johnson_59 Source: Johnson ### Event 15623 (1FC2B577) Date: 1/4/1973 Description: In Londrina, Parana State, Brazil Joao Marques, age 31, observed a UFO hovering over the road near his home at 2:30 a.m. A door in the craft opened, and a human-like figure in white descended on a rope to the ground. The being then picked up a bit of grass and put it to his nose or mouth, then discarded it. He next picked up a hydrangea plant, which he took with him. He ascended the rope and entered the craft, and the UFO left. The height and other features of the being were not given. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-125 (A1185); Walter Buhler, SBEDV Special Bulletin Source ID: Johnson_90 Source: Johnson ### Event 15624 (AAD83283) Date: 1/6/1973 Description: Mr. Lew was driving in his truck between Tiddington and Wheatley in Oxfordshire, England at 6 a.m. when a circular-shaped UFO crossed the road in front of him at a low altitude, as if intending to land in a nearby field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case # 6 Source ID: Johnson_168 Source: Johnson ### Event 15625 (2B12D3E9) Date: 1/8/1973 Description: In Ellenboro, North Carolina a teenager named Gowen noticed his radio making a strange static noise. He looked outside and saw a one-foot wide box in his yard moving very slowly at a few feet above the ground. The snow on the ground in the area beneath the UFO had melted, and a greenish gunk was found on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett case files Source ID: Johnson_198 Source: Johnson ### Event 15626 (B5B815B5) Date: 1/10/1973 Description: At one a.m. in Quarouble, France a glowing box shone a strong beam of light. It made some complex maneuvers, ascending into the sky, then flew off toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 126 Source ID: Johnson_242 Source: Johnson ### Event 15627 (ED68A295) Date: 1/11/1973 Description: At around 2:00 a.m. two people watched a mushroom-shaped object landed next to a barn in Fort Erie, Niagara County, Ontario, Canada. A very low flying maneuvering light also paced a car occupied by a single eyewitness driving between Thorold and Stone, Niagara County, Ontario. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thorold News, January 11, 1973; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), cases 45 & 48 Source ID: Johnson_260 Source: Johnson ### Event 15628 (785AAB4E) Date: 1/11/1973 Description: 9:00 a.m. Building surveyor Peter Day is driving near Cuddington, Bucks, England, when he sees an orange light in the north, moving eastwards. He finds a convenient place to stop, wind down the window, and point his movie camera at the object. He captures 20 seconds of the orange blob on color film as it pulsates and passes behind distant trees before disappearing suddenly \(in a single frame\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, [pp. 160–161](https://archive.org/details/ufoconspiracyfir00rand/page/160/mode/2up); Jenny Randles, [Fire in the Sky: Case History Number 2, The Buckinghamshire UFO](https://bufora.org.uk/documents/1989FireintheSkyJennyRandles.pdf) [Movie Film](https://bufora.org.uk/documents/1989FireintheSkyJennyRandles.pdf)[,](https://bufora.org.uk/documents/1989FireintheSkyJennyRandles.pdf) BUFORA, 1989 Source ID: Eberhart_4907 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15629 (4F4805A9) Date: 1/14/1973 Description: At 12:30 a.m. EST a 27-year-old witness named Allen saw a 30 meter long football-shaped object hovering 30 meters over a trailer park in Chillicothe, Ohio for 10 seconds; it then shot up vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Data-Net Report, March 1973, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_320 Source: Johnson ### Event 15630 (E8018C0B) Date: 1/14/1973 Description: A round flying object reportedly hit several trees in Mentmore, England at midnight. There were metal fragments found in a heap as well as strips of aluminum. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 88 (case 545) Source ID: Johnson_321 Source: Johnson ### Event 15631 (B7A3B6E1) Date: 1/14/1973 Description: At 12:45 a.m. while driving near Christchurch, New Zealand two people first heard a humming sound, then a dark object descended toward the ground at a 45 degree angle. It made a 90 degree turn, and next shone spotlights all over the pastoral countryside at a low altitude. The observers drove away frightened. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research Australia, March 1983 Source ID: Johnson_319 Source: Johnson ### Event 15632 (73D7973A) Date: 1/16/1973 Description: At 7:00 p.m. a domed, metallic object followed a car near Winston-Salem, North Carolina and the car was raised off the road by the object. The two witnesses felt weightless and they could not control the car until the object had departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 326, citing UFO Register 1974 Source ID: Johnson_351 Source: Johnson ### Event 15633 (9FE714EC) Date: 1/23/1973 Description: On this evening a teenage girl driving on Interstate 85 in Gaffney, South Carolina noticed that the radio reception of her car radio was mysteriously blocked. Then she noticed a yellow oval-shaped object with "white lights blinking on and off and going around on its bottom". The UFO followed the traffic on I-85. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Rodger Painter, Gaffney Ledger, February 2, 1973; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, case # 63 Source ID: Johnson_448 Source: Johnson ### Event 15634 (3B517107) Date: 1/27/1973 Description: On this evening a motorist driving near Gaffney, South Carolina reported static on his car radio as he was paced by an oval, metallic UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 327, citing UFO Register, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_544 Source: Johnson ### Event 15635 (F00A32ED) Date: 1/28/1973 Description: In 1973 a domed, semi-circular object hovered over a pond in Winsford, England at 6:35 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Newspaper clipping dated February 8, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_556 Source: Johnson ### Event 15636 (662E06B6) Date: 1/30/1973 Description: A strange light with a cone on top was seen by a single eyewitness from Benowa Estate, Nerang, Queensland, Australia at 3:45 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, The UFO Register (volume 5), case # 39, citing Adelaide Sun Mirror, February 4, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_611 Source: Johnson ### Event 15637 (118077A4) Date: 2/1973 Description: More than 250 people have reportedly have seen the object since it was first sighted in February. The UFO has been observed by many residents hovering soundlessly at tree at tree-top level for minutes at a time before disappearing. Many have claimed the object is huge, with estimates ranging from "bigger that a car" to 1/2 the size of a house. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, May 1973, page 2) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wood River Junction, RI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4129 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15638 (BE06217A) Date: 2/2/1973 Description: [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) is abruptly dismissed and [James R. Schlesinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FR.%5FSchlesinger) is named director of central intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_4908 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15639 (18C774BF) Date: 2/2/1973 Description: Intense blue-white light paced airliner for 20-25 seconds, navigation instruments malfunctioned Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Auckland, New Zealand Source ID: HallUFOE2_213 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15640 (F9C42C7A) Date: 2/2/1973 Description: Aircraft encounters object, gyroscopic & magnetic compass went haywire (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [730202](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/730202dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ohura Beacon (area), NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4130 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15641 (E5F1A0C1) Date: 2/2/1973 Description: Sphere illum. cabin, E-M (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [730202](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/730202dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ohura Beacon (area), NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4131 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15642 (37CEA8A3) Date: 2/4/1973 Description: While driving from Iron Knob to Kimba, South Australia on Route One, Brian Hunt and his passenger, Miss Sharon Kinckler, observed a red light at 9:50 p.m. approximately 32 kilometers northeast of Kimba. It was in a clearing to the right of the road. As they passed it, the two observed a red orange lighted area of rectangular shape, about 10 feet high by 5 feet wide, in which they saw a sharply defined man in a white spacesuit. The figure was of normal height and appeared to be of ordinary shape, but was suspended some 2-3 inches above the ground. He floated into the middle of the lighted area some 2-3 feet above the base. Brian called this to his companion's attention as he accelerated past the scene, and Sharon was able to see the orange glow spread across the entire highway behind them. When they arrived at Miss Kinckler's home in Kimba, they called the local police and a constable accompanied them back to the site. The light was gone and no traces were found. Two other independent witnesses were subsequently located by investigators. Mr. Allen Degnor, a Ceduna truck driver who passed by the same area at 10.00 p.m. described essentially the same phenomenon. Mr. Max Inglis, who had passed Brian and Sharon just before reaching the site of the strange phenomenon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-03, citing Dean Piovesan, Peter Horne, Peter Howell and Keith Basterfield Source ID: Johnson_690 Source: Johnson ### Event 15643 (3BE7BA7F) Date: 2/8/1973 Description: Evening. Three boys reported they saw an orange ball coming out of the west (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pana, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4133 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15644 (C583B972) Date: 2/8/1973 Description: Youths photographed disc-shaped object, analysis supported authenticity Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Conejo, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_214 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15645 (5A419363) Date: 2/8/1973 Description: Youths photographed disc-shaped object, analysis supported authenticity (UFOE II, Section VII) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Conejo, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4132 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15646 (E9DA7E79) Date: 2/9/1973 Description: Bright yellow sphere hovered low over road, engine restarted by itself when UFO departed. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 19, No. 2; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 56 (E) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Albans, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4134 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15647 (7CEA32B6) Date: 2/9/1973 Description: At 3:00 a.m. three people driving in a car on the A414 highway between Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans in Hertford, England encountered a bright yellow sphere hovering low over the road, about 20 or 30 feet above a viaduct. Their car engine stopped. The car engine restarted inself when the sphere rose vertically into the sky and departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March 1973, p. 32; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 56; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 63; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 254 Source ID: Johnson_775 Source: Johnson ### Event 15648 (6771194F) Date: 2/11/1973 Description: Six witnesses, including Mrs. Jack Huffman, observed an oval-shaped object during the day at 5:10 p.m., from Tolly's Supermarket in Decatur, Illinois. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, May 1973, p. 15; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_829 Source: Johnson ### Event 15649 (68CDC75D) Date: 2/11/1973 Description: In the evening at around 8:00 p.m. two delta-shaped UFOs were seen in Draytonville, South Carolina. One hovered at a low altitude, the other landed. The second UFO had an antenna, and paced a car. There were a total of four witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gaffney Ledger, March 23, 1973; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1973 Source ID: Johnson_830 Source: Johnson ### Event 15650 (B8586F63) Date: 2/11/1973 Description: Two Coast Guardsman, including one named Whiteley, viewed a huge wheel-shaped UFO with binoculars at Hengistbury Head, Hampshire, England at around two o'clock in the morning. It was at an extreme altitude and flew offshore to the south. It reportedly was spinning slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bournemouth Evening Echo, February 12, 1973; FSR, July-August 1973, p. 30; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5 (1974), case #78 Source ID: Johnson_828 Source: Johnson ### Event 15651 (804CDEF5) Date: 2/12/1973 Description: Table 1, 116, (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4135 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15652 (31625E92) Date: 2/14/1973 Description: Disc Cavorts Near Airliner / Confirmed By Radar (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [730214](http://www.nicap.org/730214mcalester%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McAlester, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4136 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15653 (63383648) Date: 2/14/1973 Description: Disc with dome maneuvered around DC-8 aircraft, confirmed by airborne radar. Shadowy figures seen in dome Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: McAlester, OK Source ID: HallUFOE2_215 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15654 (1B8725C6) Date: 2/18/1973 Description: In Lexington, Alabama a UFO landed in a pasture at 12:20 a.m., about 300 meters from a farmhouse. According to the witness, named Nix, the light emitted by the object was reportedly so bright that it "almost hurt your eyes to look at it." It was larger than a car but smaller than a bus, and it vanished as if someone had thrown a switch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_984 Source: Johnson ### Event 15655 (3574ED67) Date: 2/19/1973 Description: At 15 meter wide box-shaped object with a dome on top hovered over a reservoir in Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey, making a humming sound. A second object flew by fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10375, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1976 Source ID: Johnson_1000 Source: Johnson ### Event 15656 (9D643316) Date: 2/19/1973 Description: President [Richard Nixon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FNixon) meets on the 18th green of the Inverness \(Florida\) Golf and Country Club with entertainer [Jackie Gleason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie%5FGleason)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie%5FGleason) Gleason has long been a fan of UFOs. He later becomes a subscriber to the newsletter Just Cause \(Citizens Against UFO Secrecy\). Gleason has a collection of 1,700 books on parapsychology, UFOs, and the unknown. Gleason’s second wife, [Beverly McKittrick](https://www.famousfix.com/topic/beverly-mckittrick)[,](https://www.famousfix.com/topic/beverly-mckittrick) says that Nixon took Gleason to a heavily secured area at Homestead AFB \[now Homestead Air Reserve Base\] in Miami-Dade County where he views the remains of small aliens in a top secret repository. McKittrick relates this story in an unpublished manuscript of Gleason called “The Great One.” [Larry Bryant](http://www.jerrypippin.com/UFO%5FFiles%5Flarry%5Fbryant.htm)[,](http://www.jerrypippin.com/UFO%5FFiles%5Flarry%5Fbryant.htm) editor of Just Cause, the newsletter Gleason had a subscription to, files a Freedom of Information Act request with Homestead AFB. Bryant requests documentation on the repository and Gleason’s visit there to see the alien bodies. Homestead replies that “no such records existed.” Bryant also sends an advertisement to the Homestead AFB newspaper soliciting information. The public affairs officer at Homestead denounces the Bryant advertisement and “forbade its publication.” At the same time Bryant writes Gleason providing him with a draft affidavit. He asks Gleason to execute the affidavit so it can be used as part of a growing accumulation of evidence Bryant is collecting in preparation for taking the government to court to release all information on alien crash retrievals. Gleason does not reply. Shortly before his death in 1987, one story says Gleason confirms the story about seeing the bodies at Homestead. The person who Jackie Gleason tells the story to is [Larry Warren](https://peoplepill.com/people/larry-warren-1/)[,](https://peoplepill.com/people/larry-warren-1/) who is a member of the Air Force Security Police at RAF Bentwaters \[now closed\] near Woodbridge, Suffolk, one of two bases in England where in late December 1980, three days of bizarre UFO incidents take place. Warren says that Gleason and Nixon enter a room with 6–8 glass-topped freezers. Inside “were the mangled remains of what I took to be children.” On closer inspection, he sees that some of the figures look old and injured. Gleason cannot sleep or eat for three weeks after the visit. The director of the Secret Service under President [Clinton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FClinton)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FClinton) [Lewis C. Merletti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%5FC.%5FMerletti)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%5FC.%5FMerletti) claims that the idea of a president escaping his secret service agents only happens in the movies. In response to a question by reporter Joan London about the possibility of the president escaping his protection to go out and secretly do something, Merletti claims, “all Hollywood. There’s no sneaking out. It has never happened.” [Marty Venker](https://observer.com/2015/06/saluting-a-secret-service-agent-turned-dj/), a Secret Service agent who worked with Merletti under Presidents [Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%5FFord) and [Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FCarter)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FCarter) however, tells a different story. In his book Confessions of an Ex-Secret Service Agent he explains that not only can the president disappear, but it has happened. Venker states that in the exact year of the Homestead incident with Gleason, 1973, Nixon tries to cut his secret service protection. Venker also states that it was not uncommon for Nixon to try to elude his Secret Service detail. The agents working on the Nixon presidential detail were warned about it. Nixon is familiar with Homestead AFB, which is only minutes from his Biscayne Bay compound. There is no proof that Nixon escorted Jackie Gleason to view alien bodies at Homestead, but everything checked out indicates it could very well have happened. It would have been very easy in terms of distance for the Gleason/Nixon alien event to have occurred. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: presidentialufo.com, “President Nixon, 37th President, January 20, 1969–August 9, 1974”; Brian J. Robb, “The Entertainer, the President, and the Aliens,” Fortean Times 366 \(May 2018\): 30–36 Source ID: Eberhart_4909 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15657 (5C821527) Date: 2/20/1973 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a glowing sphere followed a car near Draytonville, South Carolina for some distance. The car radio went dead while the sphere was nearby, then functioned normally after the two witnesses lost sight of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 330, citing UFO Register 1974 Source ID: Johnson_1025 Source: Johnson ### Event 15658 (0DDA2F11) Date: 2/21/1973 Description: Evening. Six witnesses reported a close encounter with an object with a row of lights, hovering at 50' altitude. (Reggie Bone incident) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elsinore, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4139 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15659 (FA2B06FC) Date: 2/21/1973 Description: Night. Clearwater High School basketball coach Reggie Bone and five players on his team are driving back to Clearwater after a game. On US Highway 60 near Ellsinore, Missouri, Bone notices a “bright shaft of light beaming down out of the sky.” A few miles later, near Brushy Creek, student Randal Holmes notices another light, and Bone pulls over for a closer look. They see lights about 600 feet away from the road hovering over an open field at about 400 feet altitude. The lights seem to be portholes, each a different color: red, green, amber, and white. According to student Cary Barks, they watch it for 10 minutes before the lights rise up noiselessly and disappear over a hill. Around 10:00 p.m., Edith Boatwright of nearby Mill Spring sees a similar object flying low near her farmhouse. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mysterious Lights Keep Piedmont in the Dark,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7808878/st-louis-post-dispatch/)” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 23, 1973, p. 1; MUFON, “Piedmont Missouri Case, 1973”; Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena, Prentice-Hall, 1981, [pp. 6–7](https://archive.org/details/rutledge-project-identification/page/6/mode/2up); Marler 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_4910 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15660 (945A859D) Date: 2/22/1973 Description: On the night prior to this experience, Mrs Maureen Puddy "heard a voice" calling her name. The next morning she perceived a message telling her to return to the site of her 1972 vechicle UFO close encounter. She contacted two investigators of the Victorian UFO Research group and drove with them to the site at Mooraduc Crossing, Victoria, Australia. On route she briefly saw a man sitting in the front seat of the car whom her passengers did not see. As she approached the spot of her earlier encounter, she saw the same figure standing outside the car, but the others again saw nothing. She reported that the figure was normal sized, wearing a white ski suit style coverall tucked in at the wrists and covering the feet. He had long blond hair. He beckoned to Mrs Puddy, but she did not respond; instead, she appeared to lose consciousness.

She experienced some kind of altered state of consciousness, in which she was able to describe to the two passengers in the car what she was seeing at the moment. She felt she was in a round room lit by an unknown source. The figure appeared in the room with her, and the room was shaped like a large mushroom with a stem at the bottom and a hemispherical dome on top. It appeared to have an inner hemisphere that appeared to be wobbling, and had what looked like hieroglyphics on it. She saw no doors or windows in the room, and became frightened; she started to cry and "woke up" with tears in her eyes, but she could recall nothing of what had just happened in her trance-like state. About a week later she was driving with her son, and was seated in the front passenger seat. The same "man" again appeared, sitting between them, but her son did not see him. His presence was accompanied by an abrupt change in the weather, which had been rainy. It suddenly cleared, and Mrs Puddy could see for miles. When the figure vanished abruptly the rainy conditions again prevailed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-09, citing Harry Little and Bill Stapleton Source ID: Johnson_1051 Source: Johnson ### Event 15661 (91662926) Date: 2/22/1973 Description: A very low flying disc-shaped object was seen by two in Copnor, near Portsmouth, England at between 6:30-6:45 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: BUFORA Journal, April 1973, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_1052 Source: Johnson ### Event 15662 (EA803638) Date: 2/24/1973 Description: A cigar-shaped object hovered low over some pine woods two miles from Gaffney, South Carolina. It had nine windows or portholes along the side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case 118, citing Understanding magazine Source ID: Johnson_1083 Source: Johnson ### Event 15663 (55F0A1B4) Date: 2/25/1973 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a vehicle's diesel engine stopped when a reddish-orange ovoid object was encountered blocking the road in Villenueve-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, France. The driver was temporarily paralyzed during the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Claude Poher, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1974, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_1107 Source: Johnson ### Event 15664 (4CF917EB) Date: 2/26/1973 Description: Helene, age 14, was riding the family snowmobile near McWaters, Quebec with her two brothers and seven other teenaged friends, all on snowmobiles, when at around 9 p.m. a giant "headlight" rose from behind them and flew over, illuminating the entire landscape. After it had gone, all the boys went off on a race, leaving Helene behind. The brilliant light source then reappeared and flew back over her. She estimated it was 60 feet in diameter. Suddenly its light went out, and Helene thought it must have been a plane that had crashed somewhere behind her. She turned her snowmobile around and drove back about 150 meters, then got off and walked toward a very large dark bulk that she could make out among some trees. When she was about 50 feet from it a small, cold hand came from over her shoulder and seized her by the chin, attempting to drag her backwards. Thinking it must be her younger brother playing a joke, she broke free and pushed her attacker back so that he fell down into the snow. Turning to face him, she saw a childlike figure smaller than her 13-year-old brother sitting in the snow. She ran back to her snowmobile and grabbed a flashlight, and turned it on the person who was now walking slowly toward her. She saw it was a being less than four feet tall, clad in a dark, close fitting uniform with a "plated" surface, and wearing a helmet covering the head down to the chin. A visor on the helmet reflected the light from the flashlight, and the being's enormous eyes shone brightly in the light, like those of a cat. Terrified, Helene dropped the flashlight, ran to the snowmobile, and fled on it. She was joined by the other snowmobilers, who were returning for her. Her left arm was paralyzed, so she was taken to a doctor at Rouyn, who gave her a sedative. The next day several people went out to the landing site, where they found a large patch of snow melted down to the ground. It was 50 feet in diameter and shaped like a donut. Next to it were the footprints of two small bipeds, a few yards away from each other. The tracks were short and wide with a large protruding great toe. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-84, citing Jean Ferguson, Les Humanoides Source ID: Johnson_1137 Source: Johnson ### Event 15665 (421345C2) Date: 3/1/1973 Description: There were 42 objects with flashing lights observed by multiple witnesses during a three-hour period (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saylors Lake, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4141 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15666 (4EC55D76) Date: 3/1/1973 Description: A major UFO "wave" apparently hit a three-county area of eastern Pennsylvania. Mostly round and oval lighted objects were reported. On March 20th Bushkill Township Police Chief Harold Kostenbader reportedly observed three objects himself. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, May 1973, pages 1, 4) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eastern Area, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4140 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15667 (14CAF944) Date: 3/1/1973 Description: For three hours many observers including police witnessed a procession of at least 40 white objects with red and blue lights fly over Saylors Lake in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania beginning at 7:25 p.m. At 9:50 p.m. more than 200 observers reported seeing a 1000-foot long cone-cylinder; with a metal grating and triangular lights on the underside, at Highland Reservoir, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Stroudsburg (PA) Pocono Record, March 2, 1973; Stan Gordon case files; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1973, p. 1; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 6; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10389; MUFON UFO Journal, issue 239 Source ID: Johnson_1210 Source: Johnson ### Event 15668 (F4341BA9) Date: 3/2/1973 Description: [Schlesinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FR.%5FSchlesinger) appoints [William Colby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FColby) head of the CIA’s clandestine branch. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_4911 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15669 (FF7301A4) Date: 3/3/1973 Description: Around noon in Kampala, Uganda on the shore of Lake Victoria President Idi Amin and his entourage saw a UFO land and then take off again like a "gentle rocket." The UFO was surrounded by "something like smoke." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 10, citing UPI, March 5, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_1278 Source: Johnson ### Event 15670 (59C96FD6) Date: 3/3/1973 Description: President Idi Amin was among a large number of people who saw a UFO splash down into Lake Victoria (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kampala, Uganda Source ID: NICAP_DB_4142 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15671 (56BD887D) Date: 3/7/1973 Description: South Carolina (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: City not noted, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4143 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15672 (C64BCDC5) Date: 3/7/1973 Description: At 10 o'clock on this day in 1973, Japanese tourist Mr. Takao took a photograph of a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand. A silver-colored, Saturn-shaped flying object showed up in the print when the film was later developed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 312 Source ID: Johnson_1368 Source: Johnson ### Event 15673 (DA233010) Date: 3/13/1973 Description: Jorge Roberto Herrera, an engineering student, saw a daylight UFO shaped like two plates put together rim to rim about 20 kilometers north of Salta, Argentina. It descended in a falling-leaf fashion until it was within a yard of the ground, then it settled in a tilted position beside the highway he was on. It was aluminum colored while it was landing, but turned color to a dull copper after in landed. It was about 3-4 meters (16 feet) wide. After three minutes some legs thrust out, which leveled the UFO. Then Herrera saw beside it a being 5 feet two inches tall, dressed in a white "diving suit" with an opaque helmet. The beings arms were cut off short without any hands. The feet were covered by the suit, with no other footwear. He did not see the entity emerge from the craft. It glided a few feet without walking, then vanished. A few seconds later the UFO retracted its legs, returned to an inclined position, and took off. Herrera was about 50 feet away from it at the time. He took what he thought was one step and found he was already standing at the landing marks, having moved 50 feet without any conscious memory. There were seven imprints at the site, nonsymmetrically arranged, covering an area of only about five feet square. A small truck came up and its driver said that he had seen the UFO and it had caused his engine and his radio to fail. This man drove Herrera, who now felt ill, to Salta. He entered a medical clinic there, where he underwent treatment for eight days without ever being told the diagnosis. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-86, citing Fabio Zerpa, ONIFE Source ID: Johnson_1454 Source: Johnson ### Event 15674 (338F4542) Date: 3/13/1973 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a light hovered low over trees making a “throaty sucking sound” (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brecksville, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4144 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15675 (9A70920B) Date: 3/13/1973 Description: Jorge Roberto Herrera humanoid encounter, landing with physical traces (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salta Province, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_4145 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15676 (D75136B7) Date: 3/14/1973 Description: In Canton, Ohio a silent disc-shaped object flashed its lights and darted all over the sky at 9:30 p.m. for 5 minutes. There were at least 12 witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1973, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_1489 Source: Johnson ### Event 15677 (E2C942E6) Date: 3/14/1973 Description: In Piedmont, Missouri at around 11:00 p.m. a sphere with tripod landing gear was seen rising from a lake; it next hovered over a nearby field. Disc-shaped craft were seen flying at high and low altitudes.Photographs were taken and a power outage was also noted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March 1973, p. 3 citing KPWB Radio; BUFORA Journal, Volume 1, 1973, p. 36; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist!, p. 371 Source ID: Johnson_1490 Source: Johnson ### Event 15678 (42256563) Date: 3/15/1973 Description: Police reportedly were swamped with calls regarding a "giant ball" which moved quickly across the evening sky from east to west (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milton, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4146 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15679 (27A72298) Date: 3/20/1973 Description: 7:15 p.m. Lucie Vandervoort is looking out a window of her house in Tarcienne, Belgium, when she sees a bright light approaching. It passes over the roof of a nearby house, then banks, makes a 90° turn, and begins to blink as it disappears to the east. Similar objects appear every 10 minutes, continuing until 9:15 p.m. The objects’ slow speed allows her to take photos. At one point she looks through her late husband’s World War I trench periscope and sees a humanoid figure dressed in shiny, tight-fitting clothes and standing in the front of one of the objects. Only one photo turns out and shows a squarish light against a dark sky. Analysis suggests that the objects were probably aircraft taking off from the military base at Florennes a few miles away, the humanoid figure was imaginary, and the photo was a blurry streetlight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, [Belgium](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F) [in UFO Photographs, Volume 1 \(1950–1988\)](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F)[,](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F) FOTOCAT Report no. 7, 2017, pp.172–183 Source ID: Eberhart_4912 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15680 (BFA9C938) Date: 3/20/1973 Description: Mrs. Vandervoort, who was living outside the village of Tarcienne, Belgium, went outdoors at 7:15 p.m. to close her shutters. She saw a white light pass over the roof of the nearest house some 100 meters away. The UFO approached silently from the direction of the nearby woods and moved toward the east. In the next hour, at intervals of some minutes apart, she saw a total of 25 similar lights or objects fly over at only 10 to 15 meters above the trees, moving very fast. With the aid of a telescope she observed in the front of one of these objects a "man" standing. He was handling a "board" and was just a "tiny" figure but "of great height." He held one arm straight up. The witness reportedly took photos of some of the lights. "It was impressive," she was quoted as saying, insisting they were not normal aircraft. She said she was familiar with aircraft because there is a Belgian Air Force Base northeast of her locale. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-87, citing Alain Boisvert, GESAG Belgium Source ID: Johnson_1587 Source: Johnson ### Event 15681 (758C8529) Date: 3/21/1973 Description: On this night Brian Scott returned to the site of his 1971 alien abduction in Apache Junction, Arizona. He again experienced being taken aboard a UFO by the same nine-foot-tall entities as on the earlier occasion. This time he also encountered a short, squat being known as "The Host." However, he believes the experience was projected into his mind, rather than a real, solid event. The voices of the entities "didn't seem to come from their mouths." He said that on this occasion he also found the pair of boots that he'd lost on his earlier encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-06, citing Dr. Al Lawson, MUFON and CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_1600 Source: Johnson ### Event 15682 (B9D439EF) Date: 3/22/1973 Description: 9:15 p.m. Object approximately 1,500' high hovered over power plant. Witness estimated the object's size at 25' in diameter (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: NICAP: [730322](http://www.nicap.org/grandtower730322dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grand Tower, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4147 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15683 (BCC5B211) Date: 3/24/1973 Description: 7:30 a.m. Arthur de Weerdt is watching a distant airliner in Borgerhout, Belgium, when he notices another sunlit object pacing the aircraft at a higher altitude. Suddenly the object stops and remains motionless for about one minute, then moves at a greater speed, making an angle of 70° before coming to another wobbling halt for about 8 minutes. De Weerdt manages to take a color photograph of the object, which shows a whitish spot. Ballester Olmos and van Utrecht suspect the witness saw a weather balloon and that the photo is the result of a development flaw. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, [Belgium in UFO Photographs, Volume 1](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F) [\(1950–1988\)](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F), FOTOCAT Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 183–196 Source ID: Eberhart_4913 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15684 (BA2C9A63) Date: 3/24/1973 Description: Rapidly moving multi-colored lights, widespread sightings. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Piedmont, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4148 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15685 (D76FB8C3) Date: 3/24/1973 Description: Therines, Oise, France - At midnight M. Brechant, his 11-year-old son Patrice, and his brother-in-law Mr. Cosme, were in a car on a dark night on a UFO hunting expedition. In a field near Songeons, France and some 250-300 meters away from the road, they saw a luminous ball whose light diminished in intensity. For a few seconds 4-6 white luminous rectangles appeared beside it. They tried to drive around the light and observe it from behind. A second luminous ball, likewise in the field, was about 200 meters away. A triangular beam of light emerged from its base, pointing toward the left. Through binoculars Mr. Cosme could see two luminous silhouettes of humanoid beings, one behind the beam and one "sliding on it" towards the point, where it disappeared. They seemed to have elongated heads and enormously broad shoulders. He could not distinguish arms and legs but the one behind the beam seemed to carry a sack on its left side. This silhouette gradually "evaporated." The beam then went out, and then the ball disappeared. On their way home their car was pursued by a ball of yellowish-white light that turned yellowish-green at treetop level. The first saw it 300 meters away and it later approached to within 50 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-88, citing M. Carof & M. Lesbros for Lumieres dans la Nuit Source ID: Johnson_1640 Source: Johnson ### Event 15686 (E867E67C) Date: 3/25/1973 Description: Just after midnight Mr. Brechant, his 11-year-old son Patrice, and his brother in law, Mr. Cosme, were driving in a car on a dark night on a UFO hunting expedition in Therines, Oise, France. They spotted a luminous ball in a field near Songeons only 250-300 meters away. The light diminished in intensity, and for a few seconds 4-6 white luminous rectangles appeared next to it. Then next tried to drive around the field and observe the light from the rear. A second luminous ball was then seen in another field about 200 yards away. From its base emerged a triangular beam of light, with its base on the sphere and its apex pointing toward the left. Through a pair of binoculars Mr. Cosme could see two luminous silhouettes of humanoid beings, one behind the beam and one "sliding on it" towards the point, where it disappeared. They seemed to have elongated heads and enormously broad shoulders. He could not distinguish arms and legs, but the one behind the beam seemed to be carrying a sack on its left side. This silhouette gradually "evaporated," then the triangular beam went out, and next the luminous ball turned off. On their way home their car was pursued by a ball of yellow-white light, then yellowish green light at treetop level, which was first seen 300 meters away and later approached to within 50 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alain Garnard, UFO Register, volume 7, p. 44; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-88 (A1196), citing M. Carof & M. Lesbros, Lumieres dans la Nuit Source ID: Johnson_1658 Source: Johnson ### Event 15687 (4350E67B) Date: 3/25/1973 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a witness driving in Villevueve-sur-Lot, Lot-Garonne, France had a close encounter with a blazing ovoid object on the road ahead. The diesel engine of the car stopped, and the driver was frozen with paralysis for over a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9891, citing Phenomenes Spatiaux, issue 40 Source ID: Johnson_1659 Source: Johnson ### Event 15688 (9FDCE1F3) Date: 3/27/1973 Description: A reddish-orange ball of light flew parallel to I-95 south of Providence, Rhode Island at 12:15 a.m., pacing a car driven by a hospital worker for 15 minutes, driving at a speed of 55 miles per hour. It then stopped ahead of the witness, pulsated and waited when he stopped his car. It followed him for another 15 miles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald R. Todd, APRO Bulletin, May-June 1973, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_1696 Source: Johnson ### Event 15689 (BED56478) Date: 3/28/1973 Description: An object shaped like the Apollo space capsule (cone-shaped) made several large loops in the sky over Mount Bouquet, France at 4:00 p.m.. It flew off toward the east at 800 meters altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 135 Source ID: Johnson_1714 Source: Johnson ### Event 15690 (AE975992) Date: 3/28/1973 Description: 7:00 p.m. Two witnesses see an object with a rough triangular shape hovering at about 200 feet above trees on Stony Lane in Exeter, Rhode Island. It glows with brilliant white lights and has smaller green and red lights at the points of the triangle. The object makes a slight buzzing sound as it moves away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flap over Rhode Island,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201973%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 21, no. 6 \(May/June 1973\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_4914 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15691 (FEE900EA) Date: 3/29/1973 Description: Armando Silva and his wife, of La Salina, were at their country home at the seashore near Caracaya, Venezuela. On the evening of March 28th they had seen two elongated bluish objects high overhead. At about one o'clock at night they awoke to stifling heat inside their house. Mr. Silva went to the balcony and saw the two blue, capsule shaped objects they had seen earlier now flying near the shore. One of them dropped into the sea and re-emerged on the surface. It was then joined by the second, which bobbed on the surface nearby. Silva went down to the beach to get a better view.

At one of the small windows of the first little object that came down from the sky he saw a tiny figure like a five-year-old child. The craft was floating only a few meters from shore. "I was terrified when...I saw a tiny figure...wearing on its head what looked like a great gourd. I cannot say for sure that it was an intelligent being, since I only saw half of its body and its head, which, as I say, looked like a gourd. Nor did I see any arms. And I didn't wait to see if it made any movements." Sr. Silva turned on his heels and ran back into the house, where his wife was watching from the balcony. The two UFOs that had come down from the sky were still bobbing up and down in the water when he rejoined her. The incident lasted about 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-90, citing Gordon Creighton, FSR, Vol. 21 No. 1 Source ID: Johnson_1723 Source: Johnson ### Event 15692 (F60A25F3) Date: 3/29/1973 Description: The last United States combat troops left Vietnam Type: war Reference: [link](https://constitutionus.com/war/when-did-vietnam-war-start/) Location: Vietnam Source ID: Maj2_669 Source: Maj2 ### Event 15693 (8F08C165) Date: 4/1973 Description: Scottish author [Duncan Lunan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%5FLunan) claims he has identified and deciphered a hidden radio message sent as long delayed echoes by an alien space probe that had been detected in 1927. Published along with an accompanying editorial disclaimer, Lunan maintains that the putative message comes from an object at the L5 point in the same orbit as the Moon, sent by the inhabitants of a planet orbiting Epsilon Boötis. He says the message reads, “Start here. Our home is Epsilon Boötis, which is a double star. We live on the sixth planet of seven, coming from the sun, which is the larger of the two. Our sixth planet has one moon. Our fourth planet has three. Our first and third planets each have one. Our probe is in the position of Arcturus, known in our maps.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Spaceprobe from Epsilon Boötis,” Spaceflight 15, no. 4 \(April 1973\); Duncan Lunan, [Man and the Stars: Contact and](https://archive.org/details/manstarscontactc0000luna/mode/2up) [Communication with Other Intelligence](https://archive.org/details/manstarscontactc0000luna/mode/2up), Souvenir, 1974 Source ID: Eberhart_4915 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15694 (9982D6EF) Date: 4/1973 Description: Southeast Missouri State University physics professor [Harley Rutledge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley%5FRutledge) hears of numerous reports of unidentified lights in the sky around Piedmont, Missouri, and decides to subject these reports to scientific analysis. He puts together a team of 620 observers with college training in the physical sciences, including a large array of equipment at 158 different viewing stations: binoculars, RF spectrum analyzers, Questar telescopes, low-high frequency audio detectors, an electromagnetic frequency analyzer, cameras, sound recorders, Geiger counters, and a galvanometer to measure variations in the Earth’s gravitational field. The resulting Project Identification commences in April, logging several hundred hours of observation time and 157 documented sightings over the next 7 years. This is the first UFO scientific field study, able to monitor the phenomena in real-time, enabling Rutledge to calculate the objects’ actual velocity, course, position, distance, and size. Observation of the unclouded night sky often reveals “pseudostars”—stationary lights camouflaged by familiar constellations. Some objects appear to mimic the appearance of known aircraft; others violate the laws of physics. The most startling discovery is that on at least 32 recorded occasions, the movement of the lights synchronize with actions of the observers. They appear to respond to a light being switched on and off, and to verbal or radio messages. Rutledge publishes a final report, Project Identification, on his field research in 1981. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harley D. Rutledge, [Project](https://archive.org/details/rutledge-project-identification/page/n1/mode/2up) [Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena,](https://archive.org/details/rutledge-project-identification/page/n1/mode/2up) Prentice-Hall, 1981; Mark Rodeghier, “Book Review: Project Identification,” IUR 7, no. 1 \(January 1982\): 14–16; Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 249](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/249/mode/2up); Greg Little, “[Why Do Ufologists Largely Ignore the Most Scientific Field Study of UFOs](http://mysterious-america.com/piedmont%2Cmissour.html) [Ever Conducted?](http://mysterious-america.com/piedmont%2Cmissour.html)” Alternate Perceptions, no. 146 \(March 2010\) Source ID: Eberhart_4916 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15695 (61EE58D0) Date: 4/1/1973 End date: 4/8/1973 Description: At least 16 sightings of round or egg-shaped objects (UFOE II, Section VIII). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles Basin, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4149 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15696 (B0842C9C) Date: 4/1/1973 End date: 4/8/1973 Description: At least 16 sightings of round or egg-shaped objects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Los Angeles Basin, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_216 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15697 (BFE562B4) Date: 4/6/1973 Description: At 11:30 a.m. a domed disc-shaped object with portholes and landing gear came down and landed in the woods four miles west of Ellsinore (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ellsinore, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4152 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15698 (46417628) Date: 4/6/1973 Description: Mrs. Dorothy Thompson saw an egg-shaped object at treetop level after her TV set went off and on (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charleston, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4150 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15699 (532C8D40) Date: 4/6/1973 Description: At 11:30 a.m. a domed disc-shaped object with portholes and landing gear came down and landed in the woods four miles west of Ellsinore, Missouri. At the landing site were found three holes in the ground arranged in a triangle pattern, and some damaged foliage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 541; BUFORA Journal, December 1973; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 263 Source ID: Johnson_1864 Source: Johnson ### Event 15700 (8B9D9E18) Date: 4/6/1973 Description: At 8:00 p.m. Mrs. Thompson of Charleston, Missouri saw egg-shaped object at treetop level after her TV set went off and on. She then saw a bright flash of light in her kitchen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5 (1974), case 200; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 340 Source ID: Johnson_1865 Source: Johnson ### Event 15701 (A1288374) Date: 4/6/1973 Description: Domed disc with ports and legs hovered in a grove of trees, physical traces found Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Ellsinore, MO Source ID: HallUFOE2_217 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15702 (99D5B3A4) Date: 4/9/1973 Description: Physicist [Peter A. Sturrock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock) mails questionnaires to all 1,175 members of the San Francisco, California, Chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics asking their opinions on the UFO phenomenon. He receives 423 responses from scientists who have seen things they thought could be UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Peter A. Sturrock, “[UFO Reports from AIAA Members,](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc592.htm)” Astronautics and Aeronautics 12 \(May 1974\): 60–64 Source ID: Eberhart_4917 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15703 (E6B9C4E7) Date: 4/10/1973 Description: A woman driving along US highway 1 in southern Rhode Island saw a reddish-orange object move toward her car, then pass directly overhead. He car lights dimmed and the engine faltered. The object was estimated to be 42 feet in diameter, and was surrounded by a green haze. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald R. Todd, APRO Bulletin, May-June 1973, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_1940 Source: Johnson ### Event 15704 (2FEB555B) Date: 4/10/1973 Description: Orange-red object surrounded by green haze passed over car. APRO Bulletin, MayJune 1973; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 56 (E,L.) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: City not noted, RI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4153 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15705 (707F295F) Date: 4/12/1973 Description: At 10:30 p.m. An orange ball of light was observed from a Cessna 150 by physicist Harvy Rutledge and one other witness at 2500 feet flying southeast of Piedmont, Missouri. The orange ball of light appeared on the slope of Clark's Mountain, and disappeared when the aircraft turned toward it. A simultaneously identical light appeared to their right. When the aircraft banked again, the object turned and then shot straight up. The acceleration was estimated at 330 G's. Also, a glowing ball or disc-shaped object was chased by two experienced pilots in a Piper Cherokee over Farmington, Missouri, the same night and at the same time as the Piedmont incident. The object gave off heat waves, and made no noise. it outdistanced the plane with a tremendous burst of speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles J. Oswald, St. Louis Globe Dispatch, July 11, 1981; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1973, p. 2; Harvey Rutledge, Project Identification, p. 15-18; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_1980 Source: Johnson ### Event 15706 (8C99D2E4) Date: 4/12/1973 Description: 10:30 p.m. OBOL was chased by Piper Cherokee, same night as Piedmont incident. (PID,18) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Farmington, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4155 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15707 (F2DE5396) Date: 4/12/1973 Description: 10:30 p.m. Orange ball of light observed from Cessna 150 at 2500'. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Piedmont (SE of), MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4154 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15708 (F2FF7B3B) Date: 4/15/1973 Description: During the late afternoon on the road between Manor and Penn, Pennsylvania twelve witnesses saw a disc-shaped object, between 35-60 feet in diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bt. Manor & Penn, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4156 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15709 (E21BF9D1) Date: 4/15/1973 Description: During the late afternoon on the road between Manor and Penn, Pennsylvania twelve witnesses saw a disc-shaped object, between 35-60 feet in diameter, that came within 70 meters of a car, causing the car's headlights to dim. During the night of April 15-16 more than a dozen witnesses reported observations of UFOs in the area of Penn and Manor, Pennsylvania, near the larger town of Jeanette. Among these was the report of a single witness who was driving near the Manor, Pennsylvania Power plant at 10:55 p.m. when he observed a large glowing object over the nearby railroad tracks. It was just above the trees, and the light from the object illuminated the immediate area with an intense white color. The witness pulled over to the side of the road and got out for a better look. The object, no more than a hundred yards away, was about 400 yards west of the power plant and approximately 10 feet above the trees. The object itself was completely illuminated but apparently solid in construction and about three car lengths in size. It had a dome like structure on top, which was the same bright color as the rest of the object. Around the main section were 2 or 3 rows of multi-colored lights, or square windows. One was whitish, the next red, and the third a blue or green hue. From the left side of the UFO a line or cord extended some 30 yards, and at the end of the cord floated a human form some eight to ten feet tall, similar to the "Apollo astronauts walking in space". It was of a purple or orange color. The witness did not see the humanoid form retracted into the UFO; rather it disappeared like "a string of lights." The witness had left his lights on and engine running when he got out of his vehicle, and he noticed that the headlights had dimmed to the strength of a weak flashlight. When the object departed, the headlights came back on as bright as before. The object made a high-pitched sound "like a spinning top" when it departed. "You could hear the trees blowing" as it went over them. The encounter lasted three to four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Irwin Standard-Observer, July 1973, p. 27; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 56, citing the UFO Register, (volume 5, 1974), (2) Stan Gordon, Skylook, June 1973, p. 6; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-08 (A1199), citing Stan Gordon; David F. Webb, 1973 - Year of the Humanoids, case 73-07 Source ID: Johnson_2031 Source: Johnson ### Event 15710 (745AD841) Date: 4/19/1973 Description: Sheriffs and others on April 10 reported at least three UFOs over Bernie and in Dexter. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stoddard County, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4157 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15711 (16219BB5) Date: 4/22/1973 Description: Four yellow lights as if on one object, beside rode, buzzed car; burn marks found where UFO first seen. Ballester Olmos, 1976, pp. 40-41 (E) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Guadalcanal, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4158 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15712 (9693C59A) Date: 4/22/1973 Description: In Cazalla de Sierra, Spain at 10 o'clock in the evening, several nocturnal lights crossed a road in unison as if attached together. The witness's car stalled. Two yellow burn marks were found on the pavement. Three hours later in Grafton, West Virginia at 7 p.m. EDT rotating red and green lights put on a display over a dam for two hours. A female witness miscarried her pregnancy the next day, and she has had psychic, paranormal experiences ever since the event. Later, at 8 p.m. near Papeete, French Polynesia a disc hovered over the ship Philippine Bear, then shot straight up into space. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1973, p. 22; (2) Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 98; (3) Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1973 Source ID: Johnson_2226 Source: Johnson ### Event 15713 (5B3055B4) Date: 4/24/1973 Description: Three adults observed an oval-shaped fluorescent-white UFO (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Spring Mills, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4159 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15714 (9DACDF73) Date: 4/27/1973 Description: [Ingo Swann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo%5FSwann)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo%5FSwann) in a remote-viewing experiment at Stanford Research Institute, concentrates on the [Pioneer 10](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer%5F10) space probe on its way to Jupiter. Monitored by [Harold Puthoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff) and [Russell Targ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%5FTarg), Swann yields 13 specific factors about Jupiter, none of which are scientifically anticipated—including the existence of a planetary ring. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Ingo Swann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo%5FSwann\#Swann%27s%5Fdescriptions%5Fof%5FJupiter)”; Ingo Swann, Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy, Ingo Swann Books, 1998, [pp. 18–23](https://archive.org/details/ingoswannpenetration/page/n27/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4918 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15715 (25F3FCF7) Date: 4/27/1973 Description: At 11:30 p.m. five witnesses saw a UFO that hung over a smelting and refining plant in Glover, Missouri for 10 minutes. It was triangle shaped with two red and one green lights, and made no sound. The green light reduced in size, then all three started blinking. The object flew off to the west over Highway 21. It was described as being as big as two cars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ironton (MO) Mountain Echo, May 3, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_2375 Source: Johnson ### Event 15716 (D521EF45) Date: 4/29/1973 Description: More than a dozen residents of the Ferndale sub-division told state police they observed a UFO with "flashing lights" land on Burnside Mountain. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shamokin, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4160 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15717 (5CE65D00) Date: 4/30/1973 Description: Four teenagers driving between Kinchela and Gladstone, New South Wales, Australia saw a bright yellow domed disc or domed-ovoid craft dive quickly toward the ground. They saw a glow from a field a mile from road that they presumed was the landing site. However, when they drove towards it, their vehicle's headlights blacked out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Eileen Buckle, FSR, April 1976, p. 4; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 56 Source ID: Johnson_2429 Source: Johnson ### Event 15718 (F71EB3D4) Date: 4/30/1973 Description: Four teenagers driving saw a bright yellow domed disc or domed-ovoid craft dive quickly toward the ground. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: between Kinchela and Gladstone, NSW, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4161 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15719 (73DD5A0E) Date: 5/1973 Description: A man and his wife employed at the Fazenda Secap claimed to have seen an oval shaped flying craft, "with two figures like people, in big hats and linked together by a sort of tube." (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Catanduva, Sao Paulo (near), Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4163 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15720 (C9853BB4) Date: 5/1973 Description: A series of meetings takes place between USAF representatives \(Col. [William T. Coleman](http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1243564/pg1) and Col. [George](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72741517/george-ryan-weinbrenner) [Weinbrenner](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72741517/george-ryan-weinbrenner)\) and two well-connected Hollywood figures: documentarist [Robert Emenegger](https://prabook.com/web/robert%5Fe.emenegger/381357) and producer [Allan](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761954/) [Sandler](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761954/)[.](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761954/) The colonels encourage the pair to make a documentary on the UFO phenomenon and the question of extraterrestrial life. Not only will they have the military’s full cooperation, they will also have access to their files, including those of the Department of Defense. Upon arriving at Norton Air Force Base \[now San Bernardino, California, International Airport\] the two men are immediately taken to a “clean room used by the CIA,” designed so that “there was no way anyone could eavesdrop” on events taking place inside. Here the proposal takes place, including the promise of using 3,200 feet of a 1971 UFO landing footage at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, that shows several of the “alien visitors” and their meeting with the representatives from the US government. Paul Shartle, chief of requirements for the Norton AFB audiovisual program, promises to get the Holloman footage. Emenegger is told that the military is monitoring signals from an alien group that their extraterrestrial visitors know nothing about. At the last minute, permission to use the film is withdrawn, though Emenegger and Sandler are encouraged to describe the Holloman landing as something that might happen in the future or could have happened. Emenegger goes to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to talk to Weinbrenner, who while haranguing about the need to find out about Soviet Mig-25s, hands Emenegger a signed copy of [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s The UFO Experience. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: presidentialufo.com, “Disclosure Pattern 1972–75”; Clark III 357 Source ID: Eberhart_4919 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15721 (4B7E8858) Date: 5/1973 Description: One of the few UFO encounter cases which also involved animal mutilation. (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [730500](http://www.nicap.org/houston7305xxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_4162 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15722 (95A38372) Date: 5/3/1973 Description: Many observers in the towns of Pitten and Wingene, West Flanders, Belgium witnessed a large red globe at 4:30 p.m. accompanied by tornado like winds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case # 236, citing J. Bonabot Source ID: Johnson_2475 Source: Johnson ### Event 15723 (99DC5A9F) Date: 5/3/1973 Description: On this night at 9:45 p.m. Mrs. Sigrid Karlsson and her son Robert saw an object illuminated by a red light hovering over their neighbor's house in Mantorp, Ostergotland, Sweden. It looked like two saucer plates, separated by a row of broad windows, and it made a loud hissing sound. Robert thought he could see two men inside. As it got closer, its light became yellow-white. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Information Sweden, May 1973, p. 2; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-91 (A1202), citing Canadian UFO Report, #20, 1975; John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, p. P16 Source ID: Johnson_2476 Source: Johnson ### Event 15724 (C10DE374) Date: 5/6/1973 Description: At 10:32 p.m. six witnesses in Gladston, Queensland, Australia, including a woman named Korn, sighted a UFO traveling slowly at 30,000 feet that changed course to the south. It was flashing at irregular intervals. Suddenly it dropped a small light, which shot north. The main light made an abrupt turn, then zig-zagged to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gladstone Observer, May 9, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_2588 Source: Johnson ### Event 15725 (F3119053) Date: 5/6/1973 Description: Humanoid report, no details, (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kokomo, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4165 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15726 (5AC6F677) Date: 5/9/1973 Description: [Schlesinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FR.%5FSchlesinger) orders all CIA officials to report on any activities that “might be construed to be outside the legislative charter of this Agency.” The CIA Office of the Inspector General compiles these into a 693-page report on “potential flap activities,” including surveillance of journalists, Operation Chaos, MKUltra, and mail interception. These come to be known as the Family Jewels. \(Wikipedia, “[Family Jewels ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%5FJewels%5F%28Central%5FIntelligence%5FAgency%29) Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [\(Central Intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%5FJewels%5F%28Central%5FIntelligence%5FAgency%29) [Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%5FJewels%5F%28Central%5FIntelligence%5FAgency%29)”\) Source ID: Eberhart_4920 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15727 (DDA3DB53) Date: 5/11/1973 Description: 8:10 p.m. Row of seven lights observed for 45 seconds by Harley Rutledge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Piedmont, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4166 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15728 (BA94A389) Date: 5/12/1973 Description: At 9:20 p.m. a man driving west on Route 76, near Kent, Ohio observed a group of flashing lights overhead almost directly above his car. They moved with him until he stopped out of curiosity, and so did the lights. Looking up through the windshield he could see a football shaped object that flashed from red to blue to white in a repeating cycle. He then saw a human figure materialize 10 feet below the object. The figure was clad all in silver, and descended rapidly to the roadway directly in front of the car. When it reached the pavement the figure stood looking to the right, then to look directly at the witness. After a half a minute the figure ascended rapidly, "like a helium balloon," towards the object. It vanished before reaching it.

The figure was entirely silver in color and seemed to lack hair and ears. A narrow mouth with a small pointed chin were also observed. He was uncertain whether the silvery body was a close fitting garment or the actual skin color, because he saw what appeared to be the faint outline of a vein running down the inside of one of the arms. The feet were clad with boots or shoes, with a heavy, distinct line between the sole and the boot itself. The height of the figure was not much more than 2.5 feet. When it descended it was approximately ten feet in front of the car. The UFO shot up in a rapid vertical ascent, rocking the car "as if a semi was passing." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-010, citing Larry Moyers and Marc Candusso Source ID: Johnson_2766 Source: Johnson ### Event 15729 (46D116E2) Date: 5/12/1973 Description: 9:20 p.m. The witness was driving west on Route 76, near Kent, when he observed a group of flashing lights overhead, almost directly above the car. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kent (Near), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4167 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15730 (E031EB2E) Date: 5/12/1973 Description: A UFO gyrated in the sky over the harbor of Lourenco Marques, Mozambique for more than an hour in the pre-dawn hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Rand (South Africa) Daily Mail, May 15, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_2765 Source: Johnson ### Event 15731 (5CE639CF) Date: 5/14/1973 Description: Sr. Eduardo Ignacio Calle was driving on the higway in his Fiat 1500 in Oriente, Buenos Aires province, Argentina at 10:30 p.m. when his car experience a total electrical failure. A disc-shaped UFO was sweeping the area with a beam of light, and did so three times. Ground marks were found nearby at a landing site. There were three similar rings six to eight meters in diameter, with three V marks at the external circle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Oscar A. Uriondo & Roberto Banchs, UNICAT database, case 466; Inforespace, April 1975, citing Oscar Galindez Source ID: Johnson_2832 Source: Johnson ### Event 15732 (CBF7FDAA) Date: 5/15/1973 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a one-meter diameter, violet disc-shaped object paced a car for 11 kilometers from Gerena to Sevilla in Spain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 165 Source ID: Johnson_2861 Source: Johnson ### Event 15733 (1B440E7A) Date: 5/15/1973 Description: At around 4:00 p.m. Fay, a 7-year-old girl, was with a boy about her own age on the golf course in Sandown, Isle of Wight, England when they heard a wailing siren at around 4 p.m. They followed it through a hedge into a swampy meadow, where the noise ceased. As they were crossing a brook by a footbridge a strange figure came out from under the bridge. This person fumbled with a book, dropped it in the water, retrieved it, and then went with "a strange hopping motion, with knees raised high" to a metallic "hut" with no windows.

The being was nearly 7-foot tall and neckless. He wore a yellow, pointed, hood with a black knob on top with "wooden" antennae or horns on the sides, and a green tunic with a red collar. "His face had triangular markings for eyes, a brown square of a nose and motionless yellow lips." Other round markings were on his paper-white cheeks, and a fringe of red hair fell onto his forehead. "Wooden slats" protruded from his sleeves and from below his white trousers. There were only three fingers on each blue-gloved hand and 3 toes on his bare, white feet. The being took from the hut a black knobbed microphone, into which he spoke to the children, now 50 meters away, saying "Hello, are you still there?"

Since his tone sounded friendly, they approached him. He then wrote in a "notebook", in a large hand, "Hello and I am all colors, Sam." Talking without the aid of a microphone, his lips did not move, and his speech was unclear. They asked about his clothes, which were all ripped, and "asked if he was really a man." "No", he replied, with a chuckle. When they asked if he was a ghost, he answered "Well, not really, but I am in an odd sort of way." "What are you then?" they asked, but he replied, "You know." He also said that he had no name, and "confided that he was frightened of people."

At his invitation, the children crawled through a flap into his hut, which he told them he had "just made." It contained two levels. The lower, which "had plenty of headroom", was "wall papered" in blue green and covered with a pattern of dials; there was an electric heater and simple wooden furniture. The upper level, less spacious, had a metal floor. He told the children that he fed on berries, and drank the river water after cleaning it. He said he had a camp on the mainland. Inside the hut he removed his hat to reveal round, white ears and sparse brown hair. Before eating a berry, he performed an "odd trick" with it; he placed the berry in his ear, where it disappeared and reappeared at one of his triangular eyes."repeating the process, the berry traveled to his mouth." The children talked to this being for at least half an hour, then rushed across the golf links to tell the firs man they had seen a ghost. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-092 (A1201), citing BUFORA Journal, Vol. 6, No. 5 Source ID: Johnson_2860 Source: Johnson ### Event 15734 (142E83DF) Date: 5/15/1973 Description: There were several reports from England late on this evening. At 11:00 p.m. several saw a silvery disc-shaped object in the sky over Fenham, West Moor, and Spennymoor, Durham. At 11:15 p.m. an ovoid UFO being watched by two on the road between Routh and Wawne, Humberside, England abruptly vanished. At 11:30 p.m. a sole observer in Cottingham, Humberside watched an object that was first round in shape, but later assumed a cigar-like configuration. Finally, there were several reports from independent witnesses and photographs of a silvery disc-shaped object from Rothbury, Northumberland. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), cases 258-260 Source ID: Johnson_2862 Source: Johnson ### Event 15735 (A60B6A42) Date: 5/15/1973 Description: At 3:10 a.m. northwest of Tosny, Eure Department, France a car experience radio interference in the presence of a UFO. The disc-shaped object then arced up into sky, changed shape into a rocket, and vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 141 Source ID: Johnson_2859 Source: Johnson ### Event 15736 (CBD4904F) Date: 5/16/1973 Description: In the mid-afternoon an anonymous man "who enjoys an excellent reputation in Bahia" was walking through his property by the river in Parafuso, Bahia, Brazil carrying his shotgun, when he heard a soft humming. Then a man about 5 feet 3 inches tall appeared in front of him. He wore a brownish gray, tight-fitting coverall, with metallic colored boots and a wide belt with a very large blue buckle. His face and his hands, which had long fingers, were pallid white, his ears were small and pointed, and his head "larger than ours." This man, speaking in Portuguese, told the witness not to be afraid and to put away his gun, saying that he was "not of this world-I come from a planet that you people call a satellite." He also said that his ship was hovering a few yards above them, invisible to the eye. Then he said, "Good bye, brother, I must go" and pushed a white button on his belt buckle. At this a beam of light shone on him "and then drew away, carrying the man with it", he disappeared a few yards above the man's head. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-093 (A1205), citing Alberto Romero, ONIFE Source ID: Johnson_2895 Source: Johnson ### Event 15737 (28FA58AE) Date: 5/17/1973 Description: Table 1, 116, (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Atlantic, At sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_4168 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15738 (70542B3E) Date: 5/18/1973 Description: 10:00 p.m. A large "unidentified flying object with an orange glow" was spotted (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pekin, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4170 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15739 (3A4FF740) Date: 5/18/1973 Description: Table 1, 116, (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Atlantic, At sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_4169 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15740 (36183EBD) Date: 5/18/1973 Description: Behencourt, Somme, France. At 10:30 p.m. a 20-meter wide domed disc glowed, hovered, and revolved only 30 meters above the ground, but made no noise. Animals stared dumbfounded at the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1974 Source ID: Johnson_2956 Source: Johnson ### Event 15741 (23A96E26) Date: 5/18/1973 Description: Two men at Miliscola Beach, Bacoli, Naples, Italy, see a bright disc with a dome 165 feet away over the sea. It hovers at a height of 10 feet and then moves closer. Their car engine and lights fail. The dome is bright like a white neon light, and a red light is rotating around it. After 3–4 minutes, the object lifts off and the car can be restarted. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_4921 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15742 (82F39025) Date: 5/19/1973 Description: Table 1, 116, (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, Turkey Source ID: NICAP_DB_4172 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15743 (42BE9732) Date: 5/19/1973 Description: A blue cylindrical shaped UFO made a low silent pass over Springfield, Missouri at around 9 p.m. It was seen again that same night after midnight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Springfield (MO) News Leader, June 15, 1971; Data-Net Report, November 1971, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_2982 Source: Johnson ### Event 15744 (6B761DDE) Date: 5/19/1973 Description: 9:00 p.m. A blue cylindrical shaped UFO made a low silent pass. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4171 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15745 (61324A02) Date: 5/19/1973 Description: Strange, nylon-like patterns are seen in the sky above Gawler, South Australia. After falling, they vaporize when touched. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_4922 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15746 (1F24A89C) Date: 5/20/1973 Description: Table 1, 116, (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4173 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15747 (4E8D1F80) Date: 5/21/1973 Description: In a wooded area near the town of Kristianstad, Sweden a group of men reported seeing an incredibly huge, black bird-like creature that passed within one hundred feet of them. One witness had a camera with a telephoto lens and attempted to take a picture, but his film jammed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies Source ID: Johnson_3022 Source: Johnson ### Event 15748 (ADFCECE2) Date: 5/22/1973 Description: At eight a.m. Manuel Angle Gonzalez was driving a six-ton truck loaded with asbestos sheeting, cement, and steel, and he was in the vicinity of the town of Cintalapa in the State of Veracruz, Mexico when he noticed five little figures standing in the road ahead of him. They had their arms raised in the air, and they seemed to have appeared from nowhere. He slammed on the truck's brakes and came to a stop only a short distance away from them. At first he thought they might be children, but close up he could see that they were perfectly proportioned adults but only two feet tall. They had light brown skin and black hair, but he couldn't recall any details about what clothing they were wearing. As he got out of his truck the little figures began to scatter to the sides of the road, disappearing into the underbrush along the highway. When he turned to go back to his truck he saw it suddenly engulfed in blue flame, and in a matter of 30 minutes the truck and its normally non-flammable contents were reduced to ashes and fused metal. Two other motorists stopped to witness the conflagration. According to the witness, two days after the fire metal fragments that had been collected from the site spontaneously burst into blue flames and were likewise reduced to ashes. The witness compared the appearance of the little beings to stories of little people from Mexican folklore, called the Chaneques. Investigators later learned that two more trucks were similarly destroyed and that in one case, UFOs were seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-13, citing Ramon A Pantoja and Robert Freeman Bound, Fate Source ID: Johnson_3041 Source: Johnson ### Event 15749 (76340E50) Date: 5/22/1973 Description: Sr. Onilson Patero, a 40-year-old salesman, was driving home to Catanduva in Sao Paolo, Brazil during a rainstorm. He had given a lift to a young hitchhiker and had dropped him off at Itajobi. At around 3:00 a.m., about seven miles from Catanduva on Highway 321, his car began to lose power and his car's radio filled with static interference. He noticed a circle of light moving about inside his car and he pulled over to the side of the road, thinking a truck was about to pass. He then saw a hovering object about 50 feet ahead and 40 feet above the road, and at the same time the interior of his car began to heat up. Patero felt a lack of air so he opened the door and stepped out. A "curtain of light" began to form around the object, and the heat and lack of air diminished. He could now see that the object was not a helicopter. He next saw a "tube of light" hit the car and, as it did, the car became transparent. He fainted. About an hour later two young men found Sr. Patero laying in the mud and rain. He recovered consciousness, crying out "they were trying to get me!" He was taken to a hospital in Catanduva and later released. Over the next several days he suffered physical ailments of an unknown cause. Eleven months later Patero became the principal experiencer in an abduction event in which he vanished for five days, turning up again in Colatina 700 km away. Under regressive hypnosis he described one of his abductors as the same individual he had given a ride to in this case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-12, citing Dr. Walter Buhler, Dr. Max Berezovsky, APRO Source ID: Johnson_3040 Source: Johnson ### Event 15750 (50498748) Date: 5/22/1973 Description: Oval object hovering overhead, blue light beam shone onto car, heat felt. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 21, No. 3-4; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 57 (E,R) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Itajobi, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4174 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15751 (6F1FF7DF) Date: 5/22/1973 Description: 3:00 a.m. Onilson Pátero, an organizer of public libraries for the State of São Paulo, Brazil, is just outside Catanduva, after giving a ride to a stranger. First his car radio gets static and the engine begins to fail. Suddenly he notices a blue circle of light about 8 inches in diameter moving around inside his car. It passes in front of the dashboard and he sees it is transparent. Then a beam of blue light shines on him from the top of the hill he is driving up. He pulls over to avoid a collision, but the light keeps coming toward him. Overcome by a sensation of heat and stuffiness, he steps out of the car and hears a buzzing noise. The UFO is a gray structure about 25 feet thick and 36 feet wide, resembling two soup plates attached rim to rim. A tube stretches out from its base toward the ground. Pátero panics and runs about 100 feet when something holds him back. Turning, he sees that a rod of blue light from the UFO is moving above his car. The light seems to make the car transparent, allowing him to see the contents of the trunk, the wheel gears, the engine, and the interior of the body. Pátero faints. An hour later, two young men drive by and see him lying on the ground in gushing rainwater. They speed on into Catanduva and return with a policeman, Clóvis Queiros. Turning Pátero over, he regains consciousness and they take him to the hospital, where he is soon released. However, the next day he feels an itchiness on his back and stomach. Irritated patches of his skin turn purplish blue. Later, these spots turn yellow and eventually disappear. Subsequent medical examinations show no cause for the discoloration, and Pátero seems in good mental health. He experiences another encounter on April 26, which some investigators think might be a fantasy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Close Encounter in Brazil,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201973%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 21, no. 6 \(May/June 1973\): 1, 3; “[Caso do Automovel que Ficou Transparente,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20094-98%20-%201973-1974.pdf)” SBEDV Boletim, no. 94/98 \(September 1973/June 1974\): 30–40; “[Caso de Onilson Pátero,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%2099-103%20-%201974-1975.pdf)” SBEDV Boletim, no. 99/103 \(July 1974/April 1975\): 2–18; Gordon Creighton, “[The Car That Turned Transparent,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%203-4.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3/4 \(November 1975\): 14–15; Brazil 154–163 Source ID: Eberhart_4923 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15752 (E4F6A952) Date: 5/23/1973 Description: A round spinning UFO with red, green, blue and purple lights buzzed a car with three teenagers (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Gambier, So. AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4175 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15753 (BAB1EF96) Date: 5/23/1973 Description: A round spinning UFO with red, green, blue and purple lights buzzed a car with three teenagers in Mount Gambier, South Australia at 7 p.m., terrigying them. In an undulating course the UFO first hovered, then came straight at their car. It flew up and over them, and passed low over the other side and away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Border Watch, May 1973, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_3050 Source: Johnson ### Event 15754 (AC07E4B9) Date: 5/24/1973 Description: Evening. Noiseless, winglike object of unidentified nature observed by four members of Project Identification team. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Farmington, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4176 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15755 (28C147DD) Date: 5/24/1973 Description: On this night physicist Harley D. Rutledge had his second sighting of a maneuvering delta-shaped object over the Farmington, Missouri airport at 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_3070 Source: Johnson ### Event 15756 (3FB24D52) Date: 5/24/1973 Description: 9:20 p.m. Harley Rutledge and three other members of his Project Identification team at the municipal airport in Farmington, Missouri, see a configuration of four lights \(white, red, red, white\) flying silently overhead at an altitude of about 2,500 feet. Through binoculars, Rutledge can see the white lights reflecting off a metallic structure that could be anywhere from 368 to 2,600 feet across. The array moved quickly out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena, Prentice-Hall, 1981, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/rutledge-project-identification/page/76/mode/2up) [77–99](https://archive.org/details/rutledge-project-identification/page/76/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4924 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15757 (E3038DAD) Date: 5/27/1973 Description: Sao Jose Do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Geni Lisboa was busily baking wedding cakes early in the morning at 2:00 a.m., when her attention was drawn outdoors by the squawking of her pet parakeet. When she looked out she saw a luminous flying object approaching her property. The object circled her garden and hovered above the wall. Ms. Lisboa, only a few meters distant, could see three identical looking figures of small stature through the transparent upper portion. They were behind a kind of "parapet" which hid them from the waist down. Each one was directly a beam of light down as if searching for something. Then their beams simultaneously converged on the witness, immediately paralyzing her. Feeling some pain and dizziness, she was nevertheless able to call out for help to her neighbor, but the object departed before she was able to respond.

When her neighbor arrived, she found Ms. Lisboa's face swollen and her eyes bloodshot. Her body was painful, particularly in the joints and especially in the knees, but she continued working until the pain returned and she was forced to call her neighbor again. Her physiological symptoms worsened and she was hospitalized for what the doctors labelled a prolapsed uterus. She had had a gynecological test six months before and had been healthy. In addition to this, her eyesight worsened after the experience to the point where she was forced to wear corrective lenses for the first time in her life. Also, her previous medical condition of hypertension seemed to have made an improvement to the degree where she was able to drop all previous anti-hypertensive medication. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-94 (A1840), citing Dr. Walter Buhler & Jose Wilson Ribeiro, SBEDV Source ID: Johnson_3123 Source: Johnson ### Event 15758 (28D03D15) Date: 5/27/1973 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a dark, slow moving, silent cylindrical object blocked out stars as it moved across the sky in Feignies, France. There were two long windows on the craft, which flew off to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1975 Source ID: Johnson_3122 Source: Johnson ### Event 15759 (2EA61882) Date: 5/27/1973 Description: 2:00 a.m. A Mrs. Geni, 57, is preparing some wedding cake at her home in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. Through her balcony window she sees a reflection of some kind in her walled-in backyard. When she goes to her porch door, she sees a flying object hovering above the roof of one of the rented buildings on the ground floor in the back some 50 feet away. The object is white-metallic and luminous on the bottom, about 6.5–13 feet wide and 3–6 feet high, with a kind of credenza behind which three entities can be seen. They are small with large round heads, big eyes, protruding lips, dark brown skin, small ears, long flat noses, small arms, and wearing a cap with a ball in the center. Each holds a device like a flashlight that emits a beam of different colors: green on the left, red in the middle, and orange on the right. The object emits a noise like a motor as it sways above the building, then after a few minutes it moves away beyond the horizon. Mrs. Geni goes back to work, but she now has pains in her knees, legs, and head. She screams in pain, and the young woman who rents the building in the back arrives to help. She also has heard the motor noise and confirms that Mrs. Geni’s face is swollen with bloodshot eyes that last for 3 days. At about 5:00 a.m., Mrs. Geni suffers a prolapsed uterus, for which she has to undergo surgery on June 8. She gradually loses hearing in her right ear, her vision deteriorates, and spots appear on her skin. A clock in the kitchen begins to behave erratically. In the backyard, a dwarf coconut tree and a jabuticaba tree both lose their leaves prematurely. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Caso dos Anões de São José do Rio Preto,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20121-125%20-%201978.pdf)” SBEDV Boletim, no. 121/125 \(March/Dec. 1978\): 15–19; Brazil 163–166 Source ID: Eberhart_4925 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15760 (AD231DAF) Date: 5/27/1973 Description: 2:00 a.m. saw a luminous flying object approaching her property. The object circled her garden and hovered (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sao Jose Do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4177 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15761 (6A919A5E) Date: 6/2/1973 Description: 2:15 to 2:30 a.m. The UFO had a series of bright running lights then a large orange- red light was turned on beneath the UFO which lit up the entire landscape. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Divernon, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4179 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15762 (3E8F6ADA) Date: 6/3/1973 Description: A circular indentation five meters across was found as a possible UFO landing site in Old Junee, New South Wales, Australia. Close by were six pod marks about 1 meter in diameter, spaced at a regular distance apart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_3254 Source: Johnson ### Event 15763 (BD5E6CFB) Date: 6/4/1973 Description: 2:00 a.m. Jill Cotmore wakes up in her home near Tyringham, New South Wales, with an uneasy feeling. She lights a cigarette and the room is immediately engulfed in a bright light, even though the windows have heavy curtains. It is so bright that she can’t even see a cupboard 3 feet away from her. Outside, her horse is going berserk. Suddenly, the light is gone. The next day, she finds the horse frothing, and it had apparently been running around the house during the night. This takes place in the middle of a concentration of UFO reports in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[An Australian Chronicle, Part Two,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201976%2006%2000%20-%20Vol%2024%20No%2012.pdf)” APRO Bulletin, June 1976, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4926 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15764 (B6CEE245) Date: 6/6/1973 Description: At four o'clock in the morning a 12-year-old girl saw a UFO land in her backyard in Chevy Chase, Maryland. A diamond-shaped UFO was observed at a low altitude over Woodley, England at 10:05 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1973, p. 3; newspaper clipping dated June 7, 1973; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5, 1974, case 289 Source ID: Johnson_3328 Source: Johnson ### Event 15765 (C22D76F4) Date: 6/7/1973 Description: Yellow "fireball" approached, stopped 50 meters away, prickling sensation felt, later intense headaches. Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, Supplement 17; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 57 (E) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sousas, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4180 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15766 (5E6D617D) Date: 6/7/1973 Description: At ten o'clock in the evening three people in a car near Sousas, Brazil saw a "fireball" which came toward them and stopped 50 meters away. It was 15 feet in diameter and gave off a yellow light. The engine of the car failed when it was nearby and the witnesses felt "prickly." They also had intense headaches later. The object eventually left and the car could be restarted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 341, citing FSR Case Histories, SuppIement No. 17 Source ID: Johnson_3354 Source: Johnson ### Event 15767 (CA01469F) Date: 6/13/1973 Description: In 1973 a 40-foot-long blimp-like object with fins hovered over Penns Wood, Pennsylvania at 500 feet altitude for several minutes before ascending vertically into the clouds. A search revealed there were no blimps scheduled in the area for that time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping, June 15, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_3463 Source: Johnson ### Event 15768 (0F9E1089) Date: 6/14/1973 Description: UFOs were sighted by three young girls had seen a silver, gray and black flying object emitting a green mellow light. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Princton, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4181 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15769 (E1BC8604) Date: 6/14/1973 Description: 4:30 a.m. A man driving saw an object shaped like a pot (truncated cone) flying rapidly toward him at low altitude (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Seville (200 miles north of), Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4182 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15770 (AF080916) Date: 6/15/1973 Description: A man and his daughter were driving near West Bend, Wisconsin when they sighted a low hovering disc-shaped object with several transparent windows. Humanoid figures could be seen behind the windows. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case #847, citing Richard Heiden, FSR, Vol. 27 # 6 Source ID: Johnson_3502 Source: Johnson ### Event 15771 (89527E2F) Date: 6/19/1973 Description: 7:12 p.m. Dull gray, bullet-shaped object observed for several seconds by Harley Rutledge of Project Identification (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Girardeau, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4183 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15772 (58C6BCDD) Date: 6/20/1973 Description: 10:30 p.m. One resident reported seeing a large hovering aerial object described as round or pear-shaped with four or five red lights on top and bottom and a large white light atop. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Wayne, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4184 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15773 (03732820) Date: Summer 1973 Description: 9:30 p.m. Four people in a car were driving near Weston Lake when a bright floodlight-type light was pointed at them. The object was behind the witnesses and off to the right. They stopped their car and watched the object, described as a "flat- bottomed catfish-shaped" object, as it passed overhead and off to the right at 65-70 mph and about 100' up. Duration: 10 mins. (FI-4 /Palmiter/ MUFON Indiana) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Littleyork, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4178 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15774 (15E09966) Date: 6/23/1973 Description: At midnight Roberta T. sighted from her Phoenix, Arizona patio what first appeared to be a star. It descended from the sky until it came much closer and appeared to be a large, illuminated spherical object, hovering in a spot just above some trees beyond her patio. As it hovered, a square opening appeared on the side facing her, like a "garage doors opening." Illuminated brightly from within, she observed a human-like figure approach the opening from one side, cross over, and then bend down to do something. When she uttered an exclamation he abruptly looked up and out at her and peered directly at her, leaning out of the opening. He was visible from the knees up and wore a tight-fitting garment. When he dropped his head down to look at her she could see that he was tall, with a large head and with hands that appeared to be busy working instruments. She next heard a humming sound, and saw a second, smaller object approaching to her left. It passed a post on the patio and abruptly disappeared. She then looked back toward the first object and found it too had vanished. She then fell asleep and when she came to later, found herself lying in a different position.

Under hypnotic regression, she described seeing the same figure appear before her on the patio. She then describes in vague uncertain terms how she was told not to be afraid, and then "taken somewhere" by being floated upwards. She recalled seeing a dog that had been constantly barking also floating in the air. She was in some dark "enclosed" place where she couldn't see and an instrument of some sort was placed on her head, which made her uncomfortable. There were others around her but she "felt" them rather than saw them. She had the impression they were "talking" to each other in a language she could not understand. She also had the impression there were two people present. When she awoke on the patio, it was some 4 or 5 hours later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids, case 73-08D; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 270; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-16, citing Lester Seward for Ground Saucer Watch Source ID: Johnson_3627 Source: Johnson ### Event 15775 (4BED6A05) Date: 6/23/1973 Description: From a cabin on the Rothwell Ranch in Piedmont, Missouri two men watched as a bright light that had a ring around it rose from low on the ESE horizon, moved up-down, then left-right, for a distance of 15 degrees over a 30 minute period beginning at 10:30 p.m. The object silently radiated lines of concentric circles like heat waves. At one point a small light joined the first object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON database of field investigations, case file dated July 9, 1973, field investigator Dan A. Rothwell Source ID: Johnson_3628 Source: Johnson ### Event 15776 (EE2CEE44) Date: 6/23/1973 Description: 10:30 p.m. From a cabin on the Rothwell Ranch, two men watched as a bright light that had a ring around it rose from low on the ESE horizon, moved up-down, then left-right (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [730623](http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/June23.html) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Piedmont, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4185 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15777 (FD820E7C) Date: 6/26/1973 Description: A procession of unidentified flying objects was witnessed twice in the night skies over Switzerland, in Fribourg at 10:15 p.m. and again at Brent-sur-Montreux. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gillieron, UFO-DOC, cases E007 and Q108 Source ID: Johnson_3678 Source: Johnson ### Event 15778 (D895CA32) Date: 6/28/1973 Description: Mobile home park UFO landing, sound, E-M, animal reactions, light beams, bright illumination, physical traces Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Columbia, MO Source ID: HallUFOE2_218 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15779 (121A4399) Date: 6/28/1973 Description: At 9:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Sanders saw a cone-shaped UFO with multicolored lights at treetop level while driving on Route 51 in Sandoval, Illinois. The UFO made two circles over the highway, then headed off toward the south making a roaring sound. Their eyes were "foggy" for two days following their close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John F. Schuessler, Physiological Effects from UFOs, case investigation report dated July 22, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_3717 Source: Johnson ### Event 15780 (66228E16) Date: 6/28/1973 Description: At 12:30 a.m. James and Vanea James saw two silvery-white light beams only 50 feet away from their mobile home in Columbia, Missouri. As they watched the beams faded away revealing a 15-foot long oval object, brilliantly illuminated with orange and blue bands. There was a thrashing sound and a large limb snapped off a nearby tree. During the incident, which lasted 55 minutes, their dogs were strangely quiet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Columbia (Missouri) Tribune, June 28, 1973; Skylook, September 1973; CUFOS case investigation by Ted Phillips; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 269; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 264 and 281 Source ID: Johnson_3716 Source: Johnson ### Event 15781 (8E84A558) Date: 6/28/1973 Description: Multi witness, (#585) human reaction, EM effects (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [730628](http://www.nicap.org/ar-730628dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbia, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4189 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15782 (897DFB10) Date: 6/28/1973 Description: Several dogs undisturbed by oval object w/ light beams/wind (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [730628](http://www.nicap.org/ar-730628dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbia, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4187 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15783 (93306531) Date: 6/28/1973 Description: At 9:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Sanders saw a cone-shaped UFO with multicolored lights at treetop level while driving (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [730628](http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/June28.html) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sandoval, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4186 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15784 (C63CD60D) Date: 6/28/1973 Description: 12:30 a.m. University of Missouri animal care technician James G. Richards, 41, and his daughter Vanea, 16, hear a loud, persistent, thrashing sound outside their house trailer in Columbia, Missouri. Richards moves to the window and sees two bright, silver-white light beams about 5 feet apart from each other and 50 feet away from his window. The beams disappear, and a glowing bright oval form appears, about 12–15 feet in diameter, lighting up the area. The thrashing sound is apparently made by trees moving as if blown by wind, and after the oval form appears, this sound suddenly ceases. As Richards moves from window to window, he notices his dogs lying very still near the corner of the trailer that is nearest to the oval object. The dogs are large security animals that are not easily frightened. Richards thinks it strange they are not barking at all the noise and the bright lights. The object moves away to 200 feet from the window and hovers, and now, less bright to the eye, the witnesses can see a blue band of light and an orange glow extending around the outer edge of the oval. The oval moves back near its original position and disappears by growing smaller before police arrive at 1:45 a.m. Later searches uncover broken tree limbs, damaged foliage, scorched leaves up to a height of 35 feet, and impressions on the ground as deep as 2 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Columbia, Missouri: June 28, 1973](http://www.nicap.org/ar-730628dir.htm)”; Ted Phillips, “[Landing at Columbia, Missouri,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201973%20V%2019%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1973\): 18–25; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 268–270; UFOEv II 61–62 Source ID: Eberhart_4927 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15785 (240101FF) Date: 6/29/1973 Description: Thirteen UFOs, which appeared as "steady white lights," were reported (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bayview, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_4190 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15786 (FE8EA0DA) Date: 7/1973 Description: [David Rockefeller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FRockefeller) founds the Trilateral Commission in Tokyo, Japan, to foster closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe, and North America. It initiates its biannual meetings in October in Tokyo. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Trilateral Commission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral%5FCommission)” Source ID: Eberhart_4928 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15787 (13F27D09) Date: 7/1973 Description: Witness said light descended to an altitude of about 20 meters (75 feet) above the surface of the water and stopped, and then from the underside of the light came what appeared to be a glass-like transparent tube (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [730700](http://www.nicap.org/kokkaido7307xxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kokkaido, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_4191 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15788 (8903E85B) Date: 7/1/1973 Description: Jarmo Nykanen was staying at his lakeside summer cottage in Sounenjoki, Finland when he awoke to a buzzing sound in the early morning hours. The cottage was being bathed in a strong blue light. Going outside, Jarmo saw a blue light "twice as big as a row boat" approach from over the lake. It stopped and hovered offshore. The light seemed to radiate from a kind of "jelly," glowing in an unusual manner. Jarmo thought he could see a strange being inside the light. The next thing he remembered he was lying on the porch of his cottage porch at about 6:00 a.m. He had lost track of four hours of time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1979, Paul Deveraux, Earth Lights Source ID: Johnson_3778 Source: Johnson ### Event 15789 (0113025C) Date: 7/6/1973 Description: Four boys (ages 14-18) saw an illuminated object shaped like a "flat football" near Fairfield Airport about 10 p.m. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fairfield, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4192 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15790 (DDC07F17) Date: 7/6/1973 Description: A 51-year-old married couple in Fonda, Iowa sighted a bright yellow light in the southwestern sky. It moved slowly toward the west-northwest, changing colors from yellow to red to blue. It seemed to be round in shape. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fort Dodge (IA) Messenger, July 9, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_3883 Source: Johnson ### Event 15791 (E39E4204) Date: 7/7/1973 Description: 10:00 p.m. A Mrs. Good is closing the curtains of her house at Porthcothan Bay, Cornwall, England, when she sees two dark semi-cigar-shaped objects hovering over the bay. They are positioned on either side of a glowing, symmetrical ring. After a few seconds, the ring enters the left object and the two shoot off at terrific speed upward. The remaining object follows the same path a short time afterward. She reports the sighting to the nearby RAF St. Mawgan, which explains the sighting as “sun dogs.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 86–87](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n143/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4929 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15792 (FDC104C3) Date: 7/9/1973 Description: Senora Mabel Gorchs de Veron was crossing the central Plaza Colon at 6:30 p.m. in Mar del Plata, Argentina when she observed a bright green light that made her look up. One hundred meters above here was a circular object about 10 meters (33 feet) in diameter, emitting a blue glow. It had a dome on the upper past and a row of small windows around it, through which a dim light came from the inside. There were some "strange figures" looking out from these windows. The domed craft remained motionless for several seconds until a commercial aircraft flew by. The UFO followed it for a few moments before flying out over the sea. A newspaperman and a group of office employees of the Argentine National Airline also observed the UFO. Later that evening, at 7:15 p.m. Sr. Nahuel Villegas succeeded in seeing some shadows moving around inside the same or similar object while looking through his telescope at 200x magnification. The object was at a higher altitude, and remained in the sky for four hours, during which it was seen by hundreds of witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fenomenologia, no. 21, citing personal communication from Sr. Daniel Veron; La Nacion, July 11, 1973; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-75 (A1593), citing Banchs and Veron Source ID: Johnson_3961 Source: Johnson ### Event 15793 (5B0E2A3D) Date: 7/10/1973 Description: At 8 p.m. a supervisor at the Goshen, Indiana rubber plant was called outside by one of his men who had been smoking a cigarette. The man pointed up and to his left, and they both saw an unidentified craft moving very slowly from the northwest to the southeast. There were a number of downward slanted windows in the craft and they could see several humanoid figures moving about inside. Some appeared to be peering down out of the windows. The background behind the figures was red, making the figures look like silhouettes. The unusual thing about the craft was that it made a bobbing motion as it moved.. They watched the UFO for about 10 minutes until it drifted out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3987 Source: Johnson ### Event 15794 (82ED72DD) Date: 7/12/1973 End date: 7/16/1973 Description: A fire destroys some 16–18 million official military personnel records at the Military Personnel Records Center in Overland, Missouri. The losses to federal military records collection include 80% loss to records of US Army personnel discharged November 1, 1912, to January 1, 1960; 75% loss to records of US Air Force personnel discharged September 25, 1947, to January 1, 1964, with names alphabetically after Hubbard, James E.; and some US Army Reserve personnel who performed their initial active duty for training in the late 1950s but who received final discharge as late as 1964. None of the records have duplicate copies, nor are there microfilm copies. No index of these records was made prior to the fire. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[National Personnel Records Center](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FPersonnel%5FRecords%5FCenter%5Ffire) [fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FPersonnel%5FRecords%5FCenter%5Ffire)”; Kevin D. Randle, “Military Records,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_4930 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15795 (83C9D642) Date: 7/13/1973 Description: Dog is afraid of low glowing object (UFO) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [730713](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-730713.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Emden, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4193 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15796 (71E547FE) Date: 7/16/1973 Description: 6:30 p.m. Miguel Romera Fernandez de Cordoba was flying a forest fire aircraft he saw a strange object which looked like a rugby ball cut on lower part. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Between Palamo and Playa de Oro, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4194 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15797 (918A6C6E) Date: 7/17/1973 Description: At 10:00 p.m. on this night three witnesses in the northern Mojave Desert, California observed the descent of a torpedo-shaped UFO over an isolated area, close to a ranch owned by one of them. As the UFO hovered near the ground, three "animate objects" dropped from it to the ground and "ambled" off in different directions. One witness described two glowing reddish lights in what would be the approximate placement of eyes in their heads. The next day tracks similar to those attributed to Bigfoot were made in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-18 (A1213), citing Peter Gutilla, Saga UFO Report, November 1976 Source ID: Johnson_4139 Source: Johnson ### Event 15798 (8E5C1A7C) Date: 7/17/1973 Description: In the Ramapo Mountains northwest of Oakland, New Jersey at 11:23 p.m. a UFO hovered, then zigzagged slowly about for ten minutes before disappearing into the clouds. There were six calls to the police reporting the object. A balloon-shaped object was sighted in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey at about the same time as sightings over the Ramapo Mountains area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ridgewood Herald News, July 19, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_4138 Source: Johnson ### Event 15799 (04A4CD17) Date: 7/18/1973 Description: Three color photographs of a UFO were taken by a nuclear engineer and amateur astronomer at 8:45 p.m. in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. The UFO looked like a bright BB in the dusk sky and reflected sunlight. It vanished after six minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, on site investigation; FSR, September 1973, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_4174 Source: Johnson ### Event 15800 (FFA8F742) Date: 7/19/1973 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a bright red oblong-shaped object suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the northwest sky over a farm north of Brunsville, Iowa. The object abruptly vanished. There were at least three independent witnesses to the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated July 20, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_4207 Source: Johnson ### Event 15801 (638BB9AE) Date: 7/21/1973 Description: At 9:00 p.m. two motorists on highway 139 in Gavignano, Corsica, France felt paralyzed at the same time as the lights, radio, and engine of their vehicle died. They also felt very cold, and while they were unable to move they witnessed a bright shining object rise from ground, and then shoot into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, April 1978, p. 31; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 57 Source ID: Johnson_4277 Source: Johnson ### Event 15802 (6F9130DD) Date: 7/21/1973 Description: E-M effects, paralysis, cold felt; bright object rose from ground and shot into sky, power returned, engine restarted by itself. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 23, No. 6; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 57 (E, R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gavignano, Corisica, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4195 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15803 (5A728BAD) Date: 7/25/1973 Description: A sighting of a humanoid, with no UFO seen, was reported in Durham, Maine. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 999, citing Brunswick Times Record, July 27, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_4392 Source: Johnson ### Event 15804 (D800779E) Date: 7/25/1973 Description: 1:35 p.m. A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8 is flying west at 31,000 feet above the eastern coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, when the pilot sees a “large balloon in close proximity” and radios air traffic control to report it. He says it is 200 feet in diameter and 3 miles away and has been paralleling their course for 5–6 minutes at a speed of 575 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 89 Source ID: Eberhart_4931 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15805 (02BC899C) Date: 7/26/1973 Description: A secret US State Department airgram on “Guidance for Dealing with Space Objects Which Have Returned to Earth” refers to Project Moon Dust: “the designator MOONDUST is used in cases of non-US space objects or objects of unknown origin.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Christopher D. Allen, “Dubious Truth about the Roswell Crash,” IUR 19, no. 3 \(May/June 1994\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_4932 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15806 (F17678DB) Date: 7/27/1973 Description: A 16-year-old UFO buff finds and photographs some strange marks on the ground near Lago d’Idro, Brescia, Italy. In 1977 he undergoes hypnotic regression and realizes he has been touched by a human shape that makes him lose consciousness. When he wakes up he is being sucked into an aerial object through an opening at its base. He finds himself in a round room with four beings. Then a woman comes in and the entities begin moving around and touching him. He is paralyzed and can only move his eyes. He is then taken to another room and directed to sit on a chair as the UFO lands in the spot where he had been before. He then leaves the object and watches it take off. He picks up his camera and photographs the ground traces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1989\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_4933 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15807 (2C5F998B) Date: 7/27/1973 Description: Dome-shaped object 15 ft. in diameter on roadside; rose and crossed road. MUFON UFO Journal, July 1988, p. 19 (R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Isabella, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4196 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15808 (9B27FFCF) Date: 7/27/1973 Description: In Lago D'Idro Brescia, Italy a 16-year-old boy found and photographed some strange traces he found in the area. He seemed to have experienced a period of missing time. Under hypnosis he recalled being approached and touched by a human looking figure. He then became confused and felt he had been sucked up inside a hovering object from below. He found himself in a round room where four beings stood. A woman entered the room and the beings began talking and touching the witness. He could not move the entire time. He was then sat in a chair next to a window, and watched as the object descended and landed. He was then released. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 138, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October-November 1991 Source ID: Johnson_4438 Source: Johnson ### Event 15809 (099F9768) Date: 7/29/1973 Description: Two witnesses were driving near Ottawa, Ontario at around 9 p.m. when they noticed a bright globe of light descend and pass near them. They could see three humanoid figures through three oblong shaped portholes. The object then flew over the car and left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 14, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters Source ID: Johnson_4490 Source: Johnson ### Event 15810 (0B66989F) Date: 7/31/1973 Description: A cigar-shaped object with three smaller satellite objects was sighted for four hours in Hogsby, Kalmar, Sweden starting at 10:30 p.m. There were four witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Swedish author BJT, p. 184 Source ID: Johnson_4535 Source: Johnson ### Event 15811 (BDD15550) Date: 8/1973 Description: A newsclipping mentioned that a 16-year-old boy had seen a UFO "shaped like a trapazoid, only rounded off on the bottom" (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elizabethtown, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4198 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15812 (31BC7039) Date: 8/1973 Description: Three see flying saucer during thunderstorm (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [730800](http://www.nicap.org/7308XXprinceton%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Princeton, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4197 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15813 (63F10F70) Date: 8/1973 Description: 10:30 p.m. Three people are sitting in their front yard in West Seneca, New York, when they hear a low hum coming from an object above their garage. It is a silvery half-egg with glowing orange-and-blue overtones. It begins a slow descent toward the roof, and when it is only 5 feet away, one of the witnesses yells for it to stop. The object stops, hovers briefly, and shoots away straight upward. One of the witnesses hears the same hum at about the same time two days later, and the same object appears, moving down the street. The object is only 3–4 feet above the pavement and covers the width of the road. The witness approaches it, and it stops at the end of his driveway. He walks toward it and gets only 4–5 feet from it without feeling any heat. When his dog barks, he backs away. The object waits a moment, then slowly moves 20 feet down the street, quickly rises, and vanishes rapidly at a 45° angle. \(Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 23–24\) Between August 3–6 — Night. A woman and her children are watching the stars in their backyard in San Antonio, Texas. Two “very perfect” cumulus clouds move into view low above them. A perfectly round sphere with a green glow slowly emerges from the top of the cloud on the left. Soon they see lightning going back and forth from the two clouds but never toward the ground. One lightning bolt hits the sphere and red sparks fly out, whereupon the sphere slowly reenters the cloud. The clouds remain stationary for 35–40 minutes until the sphere disappears, then they float on. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_4934 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15814 (9E887CE6) Date: 8/3/1973 Description: A brightly lit football-shaped object ascended into the sky in staircase maneuvers over Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Lot-Garonne department, France. It made halts at the corners in its step-function climb. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 133 Source ID: Johnson_4632 Source: Johnson ### Event 15815 (23960B93) Date: 8/4/1973 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a flying boxcar-shaped UFO buzzed a car with three male occupants east of Greenup, Illinois. It then hovered over a nearby cornfield, and then over a farmhouse. The encounter lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, October 1973, p. 5; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 42 Source ID: Johnson_4657 Source: Johnson ### Event 15816 (967A2FAE) Date: 8/4/1973 Description: Three youths walking along Tallebudeera Creek Road, Queensland, Australia were reportedly attacked by a two-meter tall hairy humanoid with shiny eyes that stepped out of the bush in an isolated area. The three youths fled the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1823, citing Keith Basterfield Source ID: Johnson_4656 Source: Johnson ### Event 15817 (0ADF601C) Date: 8/4/1973 Description: The fast moving object was rectangular "and had the shape of a large boxcar," Sedgwick said. He described it as being "all the same color, a pale color." (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenup, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4199 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15818 (474E9373) Date: 8/4/1973 Description: Evening. Man saw the object across the top of a farm house owned by Walter Gabel. "It was as big as a house, (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenup, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4200 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15819 (21B63C38) Date: 8/4/1973 Description: A week to ten days after observing a mysterious light maneuvering in the sky, the witness had to return to Phoenix and she asked her brother to go along with her for company. At around ten o'clock on this night, while driving up a hill somewhere in the vicinity of Indio, California she began to receive pictures in her mind and had a sense of presence. These "images" came in grays and browns, and she tried to counter them by thinking of bright colors. She found the gray images unpleasant, and had the sense of an interior, with gray green walls, which had three vague "forms" in it. Believing she was daydreaming and tired, she forced her concentration back to her driving when she noticed colors reflecting on the dashboard and asked her brother if there was something in the sky. Both of them briefly observed a light over the highway changing colors from blue, to green, to red, to yellow, and then to a brilliant white. Then it vanished. It was in view for less than a minute.

Her brother was very excited. The trip continued and seemed to be uneventful. However, later under hypnotic regression she was asked to examine her image of a gray interior more closely. She described the gray-green walls, with at least one black line, or slot, on the back wall. She was with three vague shapes or shadows. It didn't feel like a pleasant place, and she felt she had had another such experience at another time. She was asked to go back to that experience and she found herself in another room with a window looking out on an orange sky. There was a white bench in the room, and the room seemed very sterile. Then she found herself in a huge place with a domed ceiling, and she was standing beside a 20 foot high crystal, set at an angle so that it pointed towards the sky. It was green on the bottom half and it revolved. There were other similar crystals in this place, about five in all, and they were hooked up to a large piece of machinery that was similar to a generator. The crystal was connected to the machine by a rod. The whole room hummed. There were two other people with her; one dressed in gray, looking older with grayish hair. The younger man, wearing black, is taller. They pointed out a formula to her, which was on the wall. It was composed of script letters. She was brought out of the trance and given a post hypnotic suggestion that she will recall the formula and be able to reproduce it on a piece of drawing paper, which she does. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-123, citing case report by Dr. Alvin Lawson, John De Herrera & Dr. William Mc Call Source ID: Johnson_4658 Source: Johnson ### Event 15820 (303A88D4) Date: 8/4/1973 Description: Patty Markwell, 13, was in her mother's car on the way to the Tastee Freeze when she saw the object. "I just saw the end of it over the trees," she said\* "It was real bright, it looked like light bulbs. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenup, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4201 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15821 (CE555AAB) Date: 8/9/1973 Description: A father and his son were driving along the main highway in the Exeter, New Hampshire during the day when they saw a landed UFO along the side of the highway. A tall humanoid figure stood next to the object. The witnesses kept driving without stopping. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-19; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_4801 Source: Johnson ### Event 15822 (CE4BBCDD) Date: 8/9/1973 Description: A father and his son were driving along a main highway in the Exeter area when they saw a landed UFO alongside the highway. A humanoid was standing beside it. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Exeter, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4202 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15823 (507BF6BB) Date: 8/10/1973 Description: On this afternoon four grade-school students and a police officer in Ibague, Colombia saw four small, human-like beings, dressed in white uniforms, beneath a bridge. The beings were only 20 centimeters tall and disappeared when the witnesses approached. Traces were left in the mud and later photographed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-20 (A1216), David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids, case 73-09A, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_4823 Source: Johnson ### Event 15824 (F163E51E) Date: 8/10/1973 Description: Four grade-school students and a policeman saw four small humanoids beneath a bridge. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ibague, Columbia Source ID: NICAP_DB_4203 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15825 (2212BDDD) Date: 8/11/1973 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_219 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15826 (D043B204) Date: 8/11/1973 Description: Air traffic controllers and others in Managua, Masaya, and Granada, Nicaragua witnessed a pseudo-aircraft silently make 90 degree turns in the air and fly off towards the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9937, citing FSR, volume 19, number 6 Source ID: Johnson_4878 Source: Johnson ### Event 15827 (4E3BD1F1) Date: 8/12/1973 Description: Several in Broxburn, Lothian, Scotland watched as a star-like object passed overhead. A car's engine malfunctioned during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 58; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 65; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5 (1974), case # 422 Source ID: Johnson_4950 Source: Johnson ### Event 15828 (4F58BCC7) Date: 8/14/1973 Description: On this afternoon at 1:35 p.m. in Greensburg, Pennsylvania at the Greengate Mall two men taking a short-cut behind the Mall observed a huge, gorilla-like creature run across the railroad tracks. The creature was said to be about 40 feet away, and the presence of a strong odor at the same time was noted. A bloodhound team searched the area, but found nothing. A cigar-shaped UFO was seen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that same night at 9:35 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, on-site investigations, MUFON 1974 UFO Symposium Proceedings, p. 136; John Green, Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us, p. 260 Source ID: Johnson_5009 Source: Johnson ### Event 15829 (192F48DB) Date: 8/14/1973 Description: A 19-year-old Lake Ann, Michigan, resident and his companion claim they observed a cylindrically-shaped object, about 50 feet in length, pass in front of their car around 10:30 p.m. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Traverse City, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4204 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15830 (6C505C24) Date: 8/16/1973 Description: At four a.m. young Cinzia Giomi and 10 other people were returning from a show onboard a small passenger bus, when between Casalincontrada and Chieti, Italy they saw a bizarre figure almost six meters tall, leaning against a light pole. The being was human looking but very tall and thin. It wore a shiny white smock-like outfit and wore tall white boots. It had long white hair and a dark complexion. The witnesses were able to see the figure close up, at a distance of only two meters. The bus stopped in order for the witnesses to get a better look, but the figure quickly faded away, leaving behind a strong sulfur like odor and a consistent whistle-like sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing Fabio Picasso & Moreno Tambellini Source ID: Johnson_5091 Source: Johnson ### Event 15831 (80404833) Date: 8/16/1973 Description: At 10:15 p.m. an abduction experience with missing time occurred in the city of Smalandsstenar, Jonkoping, Sweden to a man named Karlsson. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Information Sweden, November 1973, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_5092 Source: Johnson ### Event 15832 (5E2C2299) Date: 8/17/1973 Description: A man driving near Route 30 in Kingston, Pennsylvania reported that his vehicle almost struck a huge gorilla like animal, with pointed ears and red glowing eyes. The creature ran away screaming like a man in pain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1871, citing Paul G. Johnson & Joan L. Jeffers The Pennsylvania Bigfoot Source ID: Johnson_5115 Source: Johnson ### Event 15833 (22A8FEEE) Date: 8/19/1973 Description: At eight p.m. residents of Buffalo Mills, Pennsylvania spotted an eight-foot tall humanoid walking casually down Main Street. The humanoid had human features with a dark penetrating gaze and wore a shimmering shiny outfit cut in an odd way. He took extremely long strides and barely seemed to touch the pavement. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2080, citing John A. Keel, The Eighth Tower Source ID: Johnson_5162 Source: Johnson ### Event 15834 (26A67975) Date: 8/19/1973 Description: One report report came from a Charleston resident who said a UFO had landed "about 200 feet from my car (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenup, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4205 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15835 (3E423C2C) Date: 8/20/1973 Description: At 10:15 p.m. an 18 meter in diameter disc-shaped object flew over Vertheuil, Gironde department, France and tilted at a 45 degree angle. It had illuminated, square windows. It then leveled off and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10059; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues # 135 & 309 Source ID: Johnson_5189 Source: Johnson ### Event 15836 (6A857A3E) Date: 8/21/1973 Description: At 2:30 a.m. a woman was alone in her bedroom in Derry, Pennsylvania and had her bedroom window open with the drapes closed. She awoke with the feeling that someone was watching her. She turned her head and was horrified to see a hideous face staring at her from the window. The creature was over nine feet tall and had dark oval eyes with no whites nor eyelashes. Apparently it had pushed the drapes aside to look inside. The creature moved back awkwardly as the witness moved. Her daughter also saw a huge shadow on the wall from a figure outside. A strong odor like rotten meat persisted after the creature had gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings 1974, p. 136 Source ID: Johnson_5211 Source: Johnson ### Event 15837 (231FC49C) Date: 8/24/1973 Description: A formation of 5-12 white, round or oval objects was seen and photographed near Toyama on the west coast of Japan. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Yusuke J. Matsumura, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 5; Bougard Michel, Inforespace, February 1975, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_5295 Source: Johnson ### Event 15838 (11BC763E) Date: 8/27/1973 Description: On this night a woman reported seeing a large boomerang shaped craft hovering over a heavily wooded area in Beech Hill. When her husband went out to investigate he encountered a large hairy, biped creature with a wolf-like face. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greensburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4206 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15839 (17101B9D) Date: 8/27/1973 Description: On this night a woman in Greensburg, Pennsylvania reported seeing a large boomerang shaped craft hovering over a heavily wooded area in Beech Hill. When her husband went out to investigate he encountered a large hairy, biped creature with a wolf-like face. He shot at it with his gun with no apparent effect. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1872, citing Paul G. Johnson & Joan Jeffers, The Pennsylvania Bigfoot Source ID: Johnson_5400 Source: Johnson ### Event 15840 (4553C5AB) Date: 8/28/1973 Description: 10:00 p.m. Journalists Titus Zăgrean and Ion Moise are driving near Budacu de Jos, Romania, when they see a big milky-white light in the sky approaching the road they are on. As it crosses the road, they see it is rotating and about 3 feet in diameter. Moving to the west, it veers sharply to the north, accelerates, changes color to yellow-orange then red, and departs at fantastic speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 40 Source ID: Eberhart_4935 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15841 (DC5BDAEB) Date: 8/30/1973 Description: Midnight. Reports of unidentified flashing lights The objects changed colors as they moved through the night, flashing blue, yellow, and green." (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Southern, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4207 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15842 (9E9EA187) Date: 8/31/1973 End date: 12/1973 Description: Flurry of sightings in Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Ohio. Fast-moving oblong objects with bright flashing or revolving lights witnessed by local and state police. (See separate chronology, section VIII.) Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_220 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15843 (224FD185) Date: 9/1973 Description: At Great Lakes Naval Base, Instructor R. K., Gunnery School Grade E-4, while delivering a sealed envelope to the Commandant in the quonset hut, was surprised to see a saucer 30 ft. diam. and 10 ft. ht. resting on a wooden platform. Description: Silvery blue and shimmering, it tapered like a teardrop with a flange running along its topside from one end to the other and there were no windows. R.K. believed this saucer to be the one shot down on its third pass over a Navy vessel by a missile. The saucer crashed in 350 ft. water between Hawaii and the mainland. It was retrieved by a Glomar Explorer, shipped to Hawaii then stateside to Chicago. Type: crash retrieval Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY, HAWAII) Location: Hawaii Source ID: Maj2_670 Source: Maj2 ### Event 15844 (7E8E831A) Date: 9/1973 Description: [Jenny Randles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles) and David Rees found the Manchester Aerial Phenomena Investigation Team in the Greater Manchester area, England. It publishes the Skywatch newsletter through early 1982. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Skywatch](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Skywatch%20%28MAPIT%29/Skywatch%20-%20No%2001.pdf), no. 1 \(September 1973\) Source ID: Eberhart_4936 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15845 (39E570A3) Date: 9/1973 Description: 2:00 a.m. Main features of case; disk craft observed at very close range. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brownsville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4208 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15846 (D4347F49) Date: 9/2/1973 Description: Residents of Big Bear Lake, California reported a series of sightings starting at around 11:00 p.m. of unidentified objects with flashing lights. A hovering multi-colored object was observed, with a red color predominating. It was then revealed to be a red disc, which began moving in various directions, then accelerated and sped away toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Big Bear News, September 27, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_5575 Source: Johnson ### Event 15847 (591B7AF8) Date: 9/2/1973 Description: On this evening Miss Liewragwong and another young girl living in the Klong Toey neighborhood of Bangkok, Thailand had a close encounter sighting of a disc-shaped UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Terry Colvin, FSR Case Histories, February 1974, p. 17, citing Bangkok Post, September 3, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_5573 Source: Johnson ### Event 15848 (BB685B84) Date: 9/2/1973 Description: On his way to work at 1:30 p.m. an older man driving south of Milroy, Indiana a man saw a green, domed disc-shaped object descend making a swishing sound, and he watched the object approach in his car's rearview mirror. The UFO scooped up his car like a forklift. The front and side windows were blacked out, and he could only see out through the rear window. He had 95 minutes of missing time during his abduction experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Nottingham, MUFON field investigation case file database, case 951112aC; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1220, citing Don Worley for MUFON Source ID: Johnson_5574 Source: Johnson ### Event 15849 (CDB6378E) Date: 9/2/1973 Description: 11:00 p.m. Residents reported a series of sightings at night of unidentified objects with flashing lights. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Big Bear Lake, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4209 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15850 (5CE93C77) Date: 9/3/1973 Description: At 4:30 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Yothers in Whitney, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania had an encounter with a Bigfoot looking creature in their yard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Symposium 1974, p. 138; Allen V. Noe, Pursuit, October 1973, p. 84 Source ID: Johnson_5601 Source: Johnson ### Event 15851 (54455C71) Date: 9/3/1973 Description: A motorist driving home in Athens, Georgia first experienced radio interference and then encountered an egg-shaped object that descended onto the road ahead of the car. Two small beings emerged. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 254, 341 Source ID: Johnson_5602 Source: Johnson ### Event 15852 (9FE596D9) Date: 9/3/1973 Description: Radio "went berserk," silver ellipse landed on road ahead of car, humanoid encounter. See Section XII (R) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Athens, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4210 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15853 (B1866B62) Date: 9/3/1973 Description: Many people witnessed the landing of a four meter long vertical cylinder that came down in the town of Feignies, Nord, France. The air surrounding the object was reportedly ionized. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. M. Bigorne, FSR, May 1976, p. 26; Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1976; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case 482 Source ID: Johnson_5600 Source: Johnson ### Event 15854 (AC232BE6) Date: 9/4/1973 Description: In Bavilliers, Belfort department, France at 6:50 p.m. smaller UFOs cavorted over the top of a long cigar-shaped object in the sky. They vanished, and soon jet aircraft appeared apparently looking for the UFOs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 10078, citing LDLN, issue 142 Source ID: Johnson_5634 Source: Johnson ### Event 15855 (3D0CCABC) Date: 9/4/1973 Description: [William Colby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FColby) is named director of central intelligence to succeed [James R. Schlesinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FR.%5FSchlesinger), who leaves on July 2 to become Secretary of Defense. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_4937 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15856 (1B2AC32A) Date: 9/4/1973 Description: At 11:10 p.m. a 30 meter in diameter disc-shaped object was observed in Louvroil, Nord department, France moving with a slow wobble. It shot two separate beams of light that converged on the ground. At the same time an ovoid object was seen at very low altitude in Maubeuge, Nord, France. Plants were found scorched on the ground at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1976; FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_5635 Source: Johnson ### Event 15857 (51611A25) Date: 9/5/1973 Description: Ms. Brown, age 52, saw a silvery metallic sphere at 20 degrees elevation in the sky while driving between Snyder and Big Springs, Texas during a rainstorm at around four p.m. It was the apparent size of the full moon, and had a band around the middle with diamond shapes that did not appear to be windows. It was doing a slow yo-yo, up-and-down motion, and it made no sound that could be heard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John F. Schuessler, MUFON Field Investigator Case Files Source ID: Johnson_5655 Source: Johnson ### Event 15858 (32517063) Date: 9/5/1973 Description: At 11:30 p.m. in Morris, Illinois a discoid object hovered over the Northern Petro Chemical Company plant for 20 minutes. There was a brief power failure reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, issue no. 71, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_5656 Source: Johnson ### Event 15859 (047FA996) Date: 9/5/1973 Description: 11:30 p.m. 20-mins. Discoid object hovered over Northern Petro Chemical Company plant. Brief power failure reported. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Morris, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4211 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15860 (914B8A10) Date: 9/6/1973 Description: On this night a woman passenger in a semi-trailer truck on Route 2 was enroute to Perth and between Penong and Ivy Tanks, Western Australia. She had been sleeping but awoke to observe a bright egg-shaped object on the ground off to the left side of the road. Walking towards an open door was a normal sized figure of human appearance. A second occupant was seen seated inside the object, through a squarish window. He was looking up at something in the craft. As the truck drove past the light rapidly faded until by the time she got the driver to stop only a single white light was visible in the distance. Both figures wore white silvery suits. She said she had been awakened by a "voice" just prior to her observation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-21; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_5686 Source: Johnson ### Event 15861 (4673F7E2) Date: 9/6/1973 Description: The witness was a passenger in a semi-trailer on Route 1 enroute to Perth. She awoke to observe a brightly-lit egg-shaped object on the ground to the left of the road. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: bt. Penong and Ivy Tanks, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4212 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15862 (D6A7C0FC) Date: 9/8/1973 Description: Two military police, Burns and Shade, at Hunter Air Force Base, Georgia observed a saucer-shaped object with flashing red and white lights at 2:20 a.m. It dove at their MP patrol vehicle repeatedly and then chased them at high speeds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Augusta (GA) Chronicle-Herald, September 10, 1973; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 6; Ralph Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 88; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 77, 341 Source ID: Johnson_5768 Source: Johnson ### Event 15863 (735215A6) Date: 9/8/1973 Description: A Savannah police officer saw “a large circular craft something like a flying saucer. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Savannah, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4214 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15864 (812DCCDC) Date: 9/8/1973 Description: A police officer in Savannah, Georgia was sent to investigate reports from residents of a UFO in the area. He saw a "large circular craft" with a spotlight and smaller flashing lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case 516; Ralph Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 88; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 174 Source ID: Johnson_5770 Source: Johnson ### Event 15865 (EB5999BB) Date: 9/8/1973 Description: "Saucer-shaped" object with flashing bright red and white lights dove at MP patrol vehicle (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hunter Army Air Field, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4213 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15866 (D2FC2986) Date: 9/8/1973 Description: At four o'clock in the morning a 20 foot wide lighted UFO passed over Lanett, Alabama at low altitude. News coverage of the sighting appeared in many local newspapers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case 514 Source ID: Johnson_5769 Source: Johnson ### Event 15867 (9BCC9EDF) Date: 9/9/1973 Description: Around 4:00 a.m. Auburn, Alabama police officer Keith Broach had a close encounter with two UFOs. An airplane-sized object was seen changing colors, while a car-sized object came within 150 feet of the ground. The UFOs were also witnessed by a Lanett, Alabama police officer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 174 Source ID: Johnson_5796 Source: Johnson ### Event 15868 (C2DB9359) Date: 9/9/1973 Description: Mr. and Mrs Ron McClure and seven others were watching for UFOs on Cradle Hill, in Warminster, England. At around 2:00 a.m. they saw an orange ball descend behind a copse. Walking toward the copse they encountered a man between 6.5 and 7 feet tall. He was wearing a two-piece garment of dark green denim like material with an "anorak" type hood that almost completely covered his face. He held a silver object resembling a flashlight. The man shouted in a resonant voice; "Move on! Go away!" McClure shouted, "Will you harm us?" There was no reply, he then asked, "Will you come back?" The answer was "Yes." Another member of the group followed this man into the copse, where he vanished while the witness attention was diverted for a moment. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-104, citing Scan Newsletter Source ID: Johnson_5795 Source: Johnson ### Event 15869 (A2873857) Date: 9/9/1973 Description: On this night in Savannah, Georgia several youths reported that a UFO landed in Laurel Grove Cemetery, and ten creatures resembling "big, black hairy dogs" emerged from the landed UFO and ran through the cemetery. The UFO turned out its lights after landing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-22; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_5797 Source: Johnson ### Event 15870 (09BDFC84) Date: 9/9/1973 Description: "Ten big, black hairy dogs" emerged from a landed UFO in Laurel Grove Cemetery and ran through the cemetery. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Savannah, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4215 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15871 (155EB02F) Date: 9/11/1973 Description: Chilean President [Salvador Allende](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador%5FAllende) is overthrown by the armed forces and national police in a coup d’état with the covert support of the CIA. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States intervention in Chile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5Fintervention%5Fin%5FChile\#1973%5Fcoup)” Source ID: Eberhart_4938 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15872 (BC56009F) Date: 9/11/1973 Description: Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut - At 10:30 p.m. two 17-year-old boys were driving north on Route 7 from Westchester County, New York to Connecticut and saw a large oval object with flashing colored lights when they were several miles south of town. The object hovered just over the ridge on the west side of the Housatonic River, and they stopped and got out for a better look. They were joined by another couple, a boy and girl also driving back from Westchester to Connecticut. Meanwhile on Spooner Hill, in Kent, Connecticut to the east, a witness on his way to visit his friends, a young married couple, saw the same object and when he arrived at his friend's house, he called them outside. By this time the object had dropped behind a ridge, although they could still see its lights shining over the crest of the hill. They got into the witness car and drove down the hill to Route 7, where they met the four younger people. All seven then drove north into town to bring back two additional witnesses. The large object was no longer visible, but they now saw a dozen or so smaller whitish lights maneuvering in a circular pattern just this side of the ridge. These lights then separated into a single line and proceeded north toward Mt. Algo, just southwest of the main section of Kent. The witnesses got into their cars and followed the lights toward Kent. The two additional witnesses were dropped off in town while the other seven turned west on Rte. 341 and crossed the bridge over the river, heading toward Mt. Algo. There they turned south on Schaghticoke Road, which runs along the base of the mountain, to Bonu's Field, an open spot about a mile south. The group assembled there briefly but was unable to see anything. Meanwhile, at about the same time, a separate group of three teenage girls, camping out in a backyard along the Housatonic, observed a line of lights descending Mt. Algo on its steep, north side. The witnesses at Bonu's field had gotten back in their cars and drove north again to the junction of Rte 341, where they discovered a small parked white car that had not been there a few minutes earlier. They parked their cars and the two younger boys got out and asked the occupants of the white car (two unidentified girls) if they had seen anything unusual. They said that they were waiting for a group of hikers who had told them an hour earlier that they were "hiking over the mountain" and that the girls should meet them there.

Just then a group of 15 to 20 "hikers" came jogging down Schaghticoke Road from the same direction the young people had just driven (they had not seen anyone on the road). Each "hiker" had a lighted hat like a miner's hat on his head and they all carried poles or "rods." They were mumbling or "chanting" and approached in a double column. They did not answer the boy's questions as they passed on either side of them, when asked where they'd come from. According to the young people, the "hikers" apparently turned right at Route 341 and headed towards Kent. However, when they all got back in their cars and drove after them, the "hikers" were nowhere to be seen--as though they had disappeared into thin air. According to the two young men and the younger couple, there were at least two hours they could not account for. The three older people could not recall what they did or where they went after the "hikers" passed them. Hypnotic regression was attempted, but the results are not described. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Budd Hopkins, 1981 MUFON Conference Proceedings, p. 47; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-122, citing Budd Hopkins, Ted Bloecher Dr. Aphrodite Clamar, and Dr. Robert Naiman; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 41 Source ID: Johnson_5862 Source: Johnson ### Event 15873 (F3702A21) Date: 9/11/1973 Description: Two motorists driving in Long Barn, near Sonora, California in the early morning hours observed a "silverish-yellowish orange disc" hovering silently over a canyon on the south side of Highway 108. Several other sightings were reported in the vicinity between September 12-17. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sonora Daily Union Democrat, September 18, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_5861 Source: Johnson ### Event 15874 (AD670A96) Date: 9/11/1973 Description: "Bright, circular, with two hoops, appeared to have feet on bottom part. Emitted a very powerful light." (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Ferrol del Caudillo, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4216 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15875 (BC71301F) Date: 9/12/1973 Description: Two motorists in the early morning observed a “silverish-yellowish orange disc” hovering silently over a canyon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Barn, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4217 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15876 (F204B2F6) Date: 9/12/1973 Description: Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut - At 10:30 p.m. two 17-year-old boys were driving north on Route 7 from Westchester County, New York to Connecticut and saw a large oval object with flashing colored lights when they were several miles south of town. The object hovered just over the ridge on the west side of the Housatonic River, and they stopped and got out for a better look. They were joined by another couple, a boy and girl also driving back from Westchester to Connecticut. Meanwhile on Spooner Hill, in Kent, Connecticut to the east, a witness on his way to visit his friends, a young married couple, saw the same object and when he arrived at his friend's house, he called them outside. By this time the object had dropped behind a ridge, although they could still see its lights shining over the crest of the hill. They got into the witness car and drove down the hill to Route 7, where they met the four younger people.

All seven then drove north into town to bring back two additional witnesses. The large object was no longer visible, but they now saw a dozen or so smaller whitish lights maneuvering in a circular pattern just this side of the ridge. These lights then separated into a single line and proceeded north toward Mt. Algo, just southwest of the main section of Kent. The witnesses got into their cars and followed the lights toward Kent. The two additional witnesses were dropped off in town while the other seven turned west on Rte. 341 and crossed the bridge over the river, heading toward Mt. Algo. There they turned south on Schaghticoke Road, which runs along the base of the mountain, to Bonu's Field, an open spot about a mile south. The group assembled there briefly but was unable to see anything. Meanwhile, at about the same time, a separate group of three teenage girls, camping out in a backyard along the Housatonic, observed a line of lights descending Mt. Algo on its steep, north side. The witnesses at Bonu's field had gotten back in their cars and drove north again to the junction of Rte 341, where they discovered a small parked white car that had not been there a few minutes earlier. They parked their cars and the two younger boys got out and asked the occupants of the white car (two unidentified girls) if they had seen anything unusual. They said that they were waiting for a group of hikers who had told them an hour earlier that they were "hiking over the mountain" and that the girls should meet them there.

Just then a group of 15 to 20 "hikers" came jogging down Schaghticoke Road from the same direction the young people had just driven (they had not seen anyone on the road). Each "hiker" had a lighted hat like a miner's hat on his head and they all carried poles or "rods." They were mumbling or "chanting" and approached in a double column. They did not answer the boy's questions as they passed on either side of them, when asked where they'd come from. According to the young people, the "hikers" apparently turned right at Route 341 and headed towards Kent. However, when they all got back in their cars and drove after them, the "hikers" were nowhere to be seen--as though they had disappeared into thin air. According to the two young men and the younger couple, there were at least two hours they could not account for. The three older people could not recall what they did or where they went after the "hikers" passed them. Hypnotic regression was attempted, but the results are not described. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-122, citing Budd Hopkins, Ted Bloecher Dr. Aphrodite Clamar, and Dr. Robert Naiman Source ID: Johnson_5903 Source: Johnson ### Event 15877 (E8E1D63E) Date: 9/13/1973 Description: While driving toward Ijui, Brazil at about 1:30 a.m., a group of motorists saw a luminous yellow egg-shaped object approach their car near the town of Gravatai and begin pacing them on the left side, some 2-3 kilometers away. When the driver blinked the headlights off and on, the object reproduced the same signals. The driver stopped the car and he and some passengers then got out, waving their arms. The object was very close to the ground and appeared to be about to land. They resumed their trip and after awhile the object, which continued to pace them, beamed a light in their direction. One of the passengers said she had the impression something or someone was trying to contact her mentally. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Inforespace, August 1975, No. 22; translated from the French by Jacques Deschenes Source ID: Johnson_5918 Source: Johnson ### Event 15878 (EBD7BBFB) Date: 9/13/1973 Description: While driving toward Ijui about 1:30 a.m., a group of motorists saw a luminous yellow egg-shaped object approach their car and begin pacing them to the left side apparently 2-3 km away. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gravatay, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4218 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15879 (3271C7E0) Date: 9/14/1973 Description: At 7:45 p.m. a young woman and her father were driving through a mostly swampy area, when upon rounding a bend in the road they saw a luminous bright orange object shaped like a flower pot (truncated cone) hovering at low altitude (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cuesmes, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_4219 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15880 (E21412E2) Date: 9/14/1973 Description: At 7:45 p.m. a 20-year-old woman with the last name of Plume and her father were driving through a mostly swampy area between Cuesnes and Mons, Belgium, when upon rounding a bend in the road they saw a bright orange luminous object shaped like a truncated cone hovering at low altitude about 200 meters off the road, almost directly over an electric power station. The upper edge seemed jagged and had sparkling antenna-like protrusions at either end. The object was dazzling to look at and seemed to be vibrating slightly. As they pulled abreast of the power station the object's luminosity diminished and it flew away, rising gradually in a slight curve and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dennis William Hauck, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1976, p. 8; Jacques Bonabot, Catalog of Belgian Cases, case 354 Source ID: Johnson_5960 Source: Johnson ### Event 15881 (94E5C614) Date: 9/14/1973 Description: A yellow ovoid-shaped object paced cars near Gravatai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil for 20 minutes beginning at around 1:30 a.m. There were several other reports of UFOs in the vicinity on the same night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Inforespace, August 1975 Source ID: Johnson_5959 Source: Johnson ### Event 15882 (EF28E483) Date: 9/15/1973 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a 13-year-old boy and some other younger children watched a lighted disc-shaped UFO slowly descend over a neighborhood in North Royalton, Ohio. It then hovered silently overhead. They could see three lighted windows and behind them several occupants were inside and they appeared to be looking down. They were described as having large oblong shaped heads that seemed too big for their thin necks. They appeared to be leaning on something, and their long skinny arms were crossing each other. The craft suddenly turned off its lights and ascended quickly out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_5991 Source: Johnson ### Event 15883 (403B62E2) Date: 9/16/1973 Description: Brightly glowing ellipse hovered near house. (UFOE II, page 341) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elmwood Township, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4220 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15884 (58CBFD28) Date: 9/16/1973 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a brightly glowing ellipse hovered near a house in Greilickville near Elmwood Township, Michigan. There were four witnesses, including Mr. Peacock. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 341; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case 570 Source ID: Johnson_6013 Source: Johnson ### Event 15885 (83FC9B2B) Date: 9/17/1973 Description: 9:00 p.m. Anne Taylor is walking to her farm in Romford, Essex, England, after walking her three dogs when she sees a green light near the cowshed. She continues watching the light, which starts moving toward her slowly. Her two terriers are whining and cringing. The light approaches to within a few feet of her, about 12 feet above the ground. It is completely silent. Her watch has stopped, and her spine begins to tingle. She hears a jet plane in the distance, and the light goes out. She hears an “electric whirring” and the green ball shoots straight up. Her dogs return to normal behavior, and her watch starts up again when she returns to the house. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p.](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n143/mode/2up) [86](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n143/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4939 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15886 (E9D5CDE8) Date: 9/19/1973 Description: After midnight two successive F-4 jet interceptors flying above Tehran, Iran attempted to catch a radar-visual UFO that had been widely reported by civilians. Every time visual contact was made and the crews attempted to arm a missile and prepare to fire at it, the weapons systems electronics failed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fund for UFO Research, citing DIA documents Source ID: Johnson_6092 Source: Johnson ### Event 15887 (4CCE28BF) Date: 9/19/1973 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a shiny salad-bowl shaped domed disc hovered at low altitude over Dunkerque, Nord, France. It made no sound, and there were many witnesses at the border post. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 10122; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 133 Source ID: Johnson_6093 Source: Johnson ### Event 15888 (B8672FA2) Date: 9/19/1973 Description: F-4 Phantom radar/E-M Case (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [730919](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/tehrandir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Teheran, Iran Source ID: NICAP_DB_4221 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15889 (DC448D5A) Date: 9/20/1973 Description: Julian Garside was riding home from work at night on a friend's motorbike near Halifax, Yorkshire, England when the two young men saw three bright triangular lights, or shapes, gliding uphill through the woods near the road. They stopped and, out of curiosity, decided to follow. The shapes sped up and the boys noticed an odor like burning oil. When they reached the top of the hill, a quarter mile from the road, the figures had vanished; above them, however, they observed a small, round orange light, like a road-crossing beacon. It vanished in about a minute. There had been no path through the woods, and the three objects (or figures) appeared to glide straight through the undergrowth, leaving no traces. The odor of oil was the only trace left behind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-98, citing BUFORA Journal, July-August 1978 Source ID: Johnson_6139 Source: Johnson ### Event 15890 (EE3CD5F4) Date: 9/20/1973 Description: Skylab III Photo Incident (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [730920](http://www.nicap.org/730920skylabIII%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In Orbit, Skylab Source ID: NICAP_DB_4224 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15891 (7BE4DB31) Date: 9/20/1973 Description: Skylab III's crew photographed a strange red object not more than 30-50 nautical miles from them (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In Space, In Space Source ID: NICAP_DB_4126 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15892 (2920360C) Date: 9/20/1973 Description: On the 59th day of flight the three-man crew in orbit in outer space aboard Skylab III saw and photographed a strange red object over the southwestern Indian Ocean. It was not more than 30-50 nautical miles from them. Alan Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousman reported that the object was brighter than any of the planets. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: www.nicap.org/SkylabIIIdir.htm Source ID: Johnson_6138 Source: Johnson ### Event 15893 (A50F4984) Date: 9/20/1973 Description: A series of reports occurred in Sidney, North Carolina starting on September 20. Though several people reported seeing something, the main witnesses were members of the Williamson family from the town of Sidney. They saw at least one humanoid with large red glowing eyes, a gray face, long hair, pointed ears, and a hooked nose. It was dressed in a brown shirt and black pants and had a small brown cap on its head. It walked with a limp and had one hand missing. It was said to leave no tracks and to leap 50-60 feet in a single bound. It had a metal medallion on its chest, which was said to be used for communication and disappearing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-23; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6140 Source: Johnson ### Event 15894 (0E3C8464) Date: 9/22/1973 Description: At around 6:00 a.m. Isobel Nielson saw an object that at first seemed oval shaped, then assumed a domed disc perspective, as she was travelling on the train near London, England from Glasgow, Scotland. She could not recall the exact location. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, The UFO Register, Volume 5, 1974, p. 51, case 600 Source ID: Johnson_6230 Source: Johnson ### Event 15895 (CD7D337C) Date: 9/23/1973 Description: 7:20 p.m. Witness waiting to turn into Glenbrook Shooping Center. Observed huge object shaped like an ocean liner with rounded back and flat bottom and top. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Wayne, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4225 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15896 (F1125B51) Date: 9/23/1973 Description: In Tyler, Texas a truck driver going to work this morning at five a.m. saw a small "airplane" change shape into a cigar, hover for awhile, and then change shape again into an elongated balloon with lights. He heard a "loop-loop-loop" thumping sound emanating from the object. A bright square light also swung from the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John P. Timmerman, International UFO Reporter, July 2002, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_6261 Source: Johnson ### Event 15897 (FD498A08) Date: 9/23/1973 Description: At 7:20 p.m. a huge object, described as a "flying oceanliner," was seen from a residential area of Fort Wayne, Indiana as it moved behind the treeline. It had five rows of lights of its side, and was seen for several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_6262 Source: Johnson ### Event 15898 (098C7DEA) Date: Autumn 1973 Description: Late night. 1st Lt. Walter F. Billings is a deputy crew commander at the Francis E. Warren AFB Golf launch control capsule missile site northwest of Sidney, Nebraska. Over UHF radio, he hears the crew at LCC India, southwest of Sunol, Nebraska, order its security guards to investigate an alarm at one of India’s 10 launch sites. The guards find that the inner security alarm has also been triggered, meaning that something has penetrated the security fence surrounding the site. They find a large, bright UFO hovering above the site. One minute later, the UFO moves off slowly for several thousand feet then zooms off at a high rate of speed. All crews on duty that night are told not to say anything to the public or media about anything they heard on UHF radio that night. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 338–339 Source ID: Eberhart_4941 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15899 (E72C8EDA) Date: 9/23/1973 Description: 5:00 a.m. A truck driver is driving to work near Tyler, Texas, when a small “cub airplane” seems to fly directly in front of another car on the highway, nearly causing a wreck. The plane flies up over the side of the road and hovers above some trees. Then it changes into a cigar shape with lights. The driver gets out of his truck to watch. The cigar moves off then returns with a new, round shape. It lights up with many multicolored lights and moves above a nearby house. It makes a low, “loop-loop-loop” thumping sound. Then a large, bright, square light descends and swings from the other object. It approaches the truck, then swings back and forth. He tries to jump back in the truck but apparently passes out. He later notices he has some marks on his hip and shoulder. He does remember seeing the UFO change from a round shape into a triangle, and then move out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 24; Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_4940 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15900 (7149BACC) Date: 9/24/1973 Description: Evening. Two patrolmen saw an unidentified light while checking on a report from a woman from Churubosco. Object moved slowly. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Wayne, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4226 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15901 (19550111) Date: 9/24/1973 Description: On this evening two patrolmen in Fort Wayne, Indiana saw an unidentified light while checking on a UFO report from a woman from Churubosco. The object moved slowly. Authorities at Baier Field were notified, who reported that no aircraft were in the vicinity nor had any balloons been launched, but they also observed the object in the western sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, issue 72, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_6289 Source: Johnson ### Event 15902 (001BDCF5) Date: 9/25/1973 Description: At about 9:00 p.m. two people watched a segmented circular object in the sky over Crown Street, Reading, Berkshire, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Reading Evening Post, September 26, 1973; J. Benard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5, 1974, p. 52, case 616 Source ID: Johnson_6323 Source: Johnson ### Event 15903 (C2F0A7EE) Date: 9/26/1973 Description: The main witness was a young woman who was walking through a local park in Actinolite, Ontario, Canada along with some friends during the evening when a strange heavy mist enveloped the area. They saw what seemed to be a silvery glow coming from the center of the mist. and the witness felt strongly attracted to it. As she got closer she saw a beautiful silvery object on the ground. She described it as a "starship." She went inside the object and saw several of her friends being led towards different sections of the craft. She was taken to a large circular room of a transparent blue color with two transparent doors at each end. The occupants of the UFO were all apparently human or human-like beings and beautiful in appearance. Through a large window she saw a woman sitting at a communications console. The witness sat on a chair in the center of the room and ate from a bowl of fruit on a table. A man entered the room and walked into what appeared to be a circular shower stall and removed some dirty coveralls. When the stall lit up the man then emerged wearing shiny clean coveralls. The witness felt that she had experienced some type of mind control onboard the object, which changed her life. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1438, citing Winifred G. Barton, in John Robert Colombo (editor), Dark Visions Source ID: Johnson_6352 Source: Johnson ### Event 15904 (E6424E81) Date: 9/26/1973 Description: On this night a local DJ and four others saw a tall creature with pointed ears, a hooked nose, a gray face, and red glowing eyes in the woods along highway 701 in Sidney, North Carolina. It was dressed in a brown shirt, black pants, and wore a small brown cap and some kind of medallion on its chest. It walked with a limp and was missing one hand. Someone fired five or six shots at the creature with no apparent effect. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Wedd & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1226, citing The Robesonian; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids, case 73-12E Source ID: Johnson_6353 Source: Johnson ### Event 15905 (0E31F6D7) Date: 9/26/1973 Description: A Spanish Air Force Mirage jet was flying at 20,000 feet 24 nautical miles offshore of Valencia, Spain at 8:24 p.m. when an intensely white UFO paced their aircraft briefly. The two Spanish A.F. captains said that the object changed color from white to red, and matched their descent from 20000 feet to 7000 feet. A weak radar return matched the maneuvers of the UFO described by the pilot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case # 822, citing Spanish Air Force Source ID: Johnson_6351 Source: Johnson ### Event 15906 (49C3728C) Date: 9/27/1973 Description: Two girls were standing outside in Beaver County, Pennsylvania at 9:30 p.m. when an eight-foot tall being covered with white hair and with red glowing eyes ran into the woods nearby. The humanoid was carrying a large luminous sphere in its hands. The girls ran off hysterically into their house. The father of one of the girls then went into the woods in search of the creature and stayed there for over an hour. When he returned he refused to talk about what he had seen in the woods. During the period of time he was in the woods several people watched a silvery object hovering over the woods. At one point it emitted a beam of light into the woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Symposium 1974 Source ID: Johnson_6384 Source: Johnson ### Event 15907 (4B1A1A1E) Date: 9/27/1973 Description: At around 5:30 p.m., while picking mushrooms in the woods on Mont Real in Bedarrides, Vancluse, France, the witness observed a four-foot-tall dwarf standing at the edge of the clearing some 100 feet away. As he grabbed something from the ground a second identical-looking being joined the first one from the woods beyond. They looked human and wore beige coveralls that covered up their wrists and neck; their feet were obscured by high grass. Their arms were slender and their hands normal. Each wore a black beret on his head. Thinking they were children, the witness called out to them, whereupon they laughed aloud, then turned and fled into the brush behind them. A few seconds later, the witness saw a dull bluish-gray oval-shaped object, about five meters wide, rise up beyond the trees and ascend to a height of 20 feet, making a slight whistling sound. There it paused briefly, then departed toward the northeast rapidly and in total silence. At the landing site, a bush and some grass had been flattened, suggesting that the UFO had been hovering a foot or so above the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-97, citing Jean Bastide, MUFON UFO Journal , no. 118 Source ID: Johnson_6383 Source: Johnson ### Event 15908 (EA0B39C3) Date: 9/27/1973 Description: Humanoid occupant case. No details. (UFOE II, Section XII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bedarrides, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4227 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15909 (DCFD2BB3) Date: 9/29/1973 Description: Evening. Couple saw a bright-red light swoop down close enough to the earth to light up 1-1/2 acres of land (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Obiob County, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4229 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15910 (84D255B3) Date: 9/29/1973 Description: A woman observed an object for 3 to 4 minutes which appeared to be solid, oval shaped with slightly obtuse-angled ends and glowing with a red-orange color, brighter at the edge than in the center. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hollywood, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4230 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15911 (BB6C376D) Date: 9/29/1973 Description: 8:30 p.m. Sheriff's officers trailed an unidentified flying object {UFO) from the edge of Quincy to Baldwin Field before it disappeared . (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Quincy, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4228 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15912 (A89CE06B) Date: 9/30/1973 Description: The witnesses, Claude Champoux, Florent Papillon and a man called J. R. were camping near a lake--Lac-aux-Bleuets, Quebec, Canada--when they heard a loud engine sound coming from a nearby field. When they went to look the men spotted an oval-shaped, metallic object on the ground. The UFO was silvery in color and emitted flourescent-like orange lights that changed colors to blue, and red. A strange humanoid figure, metallic or robot-like in appearance, stood next to the object. It was wearing either a reflective metallic suit or was itself made out of metal. The being's body emitted bright silvery flashes. While on the ground the object emitted a sound resembling that of a transformer. Soon the strange character disappeared inside the object, which then rose up, moving up and down like a yo-yo, it then accelerated and disappeared at high speed. They estimated the craft to have been about 600 feet in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing Gilles Cote & Marc Leduc, CASUFO Source ID: Johnson_6448 Source: Johnson ### Event 15913 (3DE19E3A) Date: 9/30/1973 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a Franklin County, Ohio man found the landing site of an object he had seen hovering near his home earlier in the evening. The site was in a field of waist-high weeds about a quarter mile south of Hall Road, west of Outerbelt, Ohio. Weeds had been crushed to the ground in a semi-oval area 20 feet x 30 feet. There were no scorch marks. The object had swooped down in a zigzag pattern and dropped below trees. Several dozen other sightings were reported from the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case 82; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_6449 Source: Johnson ### Event 15914 (40D3996B) Date: 9/30/1973 Description: 9:30 p.m. Franklin County man found landing site of object he saw hovering near his home. (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4231 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15915 (EC5C2465) Date: 10/1973 Description: Three teenagers saw a huge-hairy robot-like creature that walked mechanically with its hands upraised. It had a large round head. An egg-shaped UFO was also seen at the same time. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Anthony Hill, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4236 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15916 (913AE019) Date: 10/1973 Description: While driving after midnight, a man saw a light flashing to his left, then right, then in front. It gained speed and disappeared ahead of his car. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: between Columbus and Mansfield, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4235 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15917 (8EB81DBB) Date: 10/1973 Description: 2:30 p.m. Four-engine prop plane took evasive action to avoid collision with strange, horseshoe-shaped object. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Red Bud, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4234 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15918 (FFE62DED) Date: 10/1973 Description: [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) and Sherman J. Larsen establish what will become the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois, with Larsen’s existing Public Education Group as a base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 627; Sherman J. Larsen, “The Founding of CUFOS,” IUR 11, no. 3 \(May/June 1986\): 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_4942 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15919 (C748ED48) Date: 10/1973 Description: Night. Sgt. Michael D. Jenkins of the 96th Security Police Squadron is stationed at Dyess AFB southwest of Abilene, Texas, when a major alert goes off at the base after a large ball of light is reported hovering 100–150 feet above igloo bunkers housing nuclear weapons. Twelve police with M-16s are sent to the Weapons Storage Area, and an incoming C-130 is asked to do a fly-by of the area to get a look at the object. Three K-9 teams that normally patrol the perimeter report that their dogs are afraid and acting up. An order to fire on the object comes from Strategic Air Command Headquarters Offutt AFB near Bellevue, Nebraska. Jenkins hears gunfire and sees a bluish-white streak as the object speeds off. As it leaves, it drops a trail of “angel hair” all the way from the weapons area to the southwest perimeter of the base. The angel hair hangs around on the area ropes and buildings for three days. On the third day it rains and the material dissolves, completely disappearing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert L. Hastings, “[UFO Fired Upon As It Hovered over Nuclear Bomb Storage Facility, Says Former USAF Security Policeman,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/ufo-fired-upon-as-it-hovered-over-nuclear-bomb-storage-facility)” UFOs & Nukes, December 1, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_4943 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15920 (491A2A80) Date: 10/1973 Description: A woman arising from bed glanced out a window and clearly saw three "little men" outside of her house. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Uden, Netherlands Source ID: NICAP_DB_4233 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15921 (6DCB777E) Date: 10/1973 Description: While enroute to work, the witness' motorcycle misfired and stopped as dazzling bright light appeared on the road ahead. As he approached, he saw it was a luminous ovoid object, with smoke underneath, hovering just above the ground. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Puy-Verday, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4232 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15922 (89458F11) Date: 10/1/1973 Description: On this night three teenagers in Anthony Hill, Tennessee saw a huge, hairy, robot-like creature that walked mechanically with its hand upraised. It had a large round head. An egg-shaped UFO was also seen at the same time. This occurred during a thunderstorm, and imprints were later found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-27; David F. Webb, 1973, The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6473 Source: Johnson ### Event 15923 (73FCB978) Date: 10/1/1973 Description: Evening. Two witnesses reported egg-shaped object with brilliant light on top disappear behind nearby trees. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Giles, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4238 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15924 (9B8B6679) Date: 10/1/1973 Description: 6:00 p.m. A lady and her son observed a large domed disc came out of the north, heading south. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Blyton, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4237 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15925 (21608791) Date: 10/3/1973 Description: A former aerospace photographer sighted a silver disc-shaped UFO making erratic maneuvers near SR177, northeast of Cape Girardeau, Missouri at 7:30 p.m. At 8:00 p.m. a UFO landed on a lake and lifted off from the water's surface in East Derry, New Hampshire. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harley Rutledge, Project Identification: The first scientific field study of UFO phenomena, p. 170 Source ID: Johnson_6529 Source: Johnson ### Event 15926 (7BF0A652) Date: 10/3/1973 Description: During a flurry of low-level UFO sightings in the area of North Melbourne, Australia, a man woke up in the middle of the night and noticed two figures standing in the shadows in front of his bedroom wall looking at him. They were described as humanoid and tall, and they appeared to be floating just above the floor. Both swayed gently from side to side. Both beings had large baldheads, slanted eyes, lipless mouths, and small flat noses. Their ears were pressed back against the side of their heads. No clothing details could be discerned. Moments later one of the beings opened his mouth and a high-pitched whine filled the room. At the same time both beings began to fade and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 868, citing George Alahouzos, FSR, Vol. 25 # 1 Source ID: Johnson_6528 Source: Johnson ### Event 15927 (8BD2C704) Date: 10/3/1973 Description: 6:15 a.m. Truck driver injured by UFO: The Eddie Doyle Webb case. (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jackson, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4240 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15928 (F4329D8C) Date: 10/3/1973 Description: Evening. Police officer saw object over Mt. Morris that appeared to project its orange glow in a beam toward the ground and moved with occasional stops. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Polo, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4239 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15929 (008320DE) Date: 10/4/1973 Description: Elliptical object with dome hovered about 10 feet off ground, swaying back and forth. Humanoid being appeared, reptered craft when observed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Chatsworth, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_221 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15930 (3F5DAA93) Date: 10/4/1973 Description: A man was driving on the Simi Freeway in Simi Valley, California during the afternoon when he saw a 30 by 350 foot triangular object in a dust cloud near the road. It was 80-100 feet away and was swaying back and forth 10 feet above the ground. An eight-foot hose dangled from the bottom of the object. A clear bubble three feet in diameter swiveled atop the UFO. As he watched a being crawled around from behind the machine, looked at the witness, and then scrambled out of sight. The humanoid was of normal stature but wore a silvery type of wet suit. The bubble began rotating faster and disappeared inside the object, which emitted a whirring noise. A fog enveloped the craft, which then disappeared. An unidentified woman witness had reported a similar sighting the week before. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-28; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6558 Source: Johnson ### Event 15931 (7F213B69) Date: 10/4/1973 Description: A man driving on the Simi Freeway saw a 30 by 50 foot triangular object in a dust cloud near the road (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Simi Valley, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4242 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15932 (DB9F03B1) Date: 10/4/1973 Description: Elliptical object with dome hovered about 10 feet off ground, swaying back and forth. Humanoid being appeared, (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chatsworth, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4241 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15933 (E147AEE9) Date: 10/5/1973 Description: 6:16 p.m. No sound/3 mins. House sized object seen through binoculars. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Laurel, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4244 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15934 (D9FA8271) Date: 10/5/1973 Description: 7:17 p.m. Buzzing sound heard by some. Police received about 100 calls. Approx 1.5 hours. Unseen shape with red and white lights. A few saw circular shape. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Connersville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4245 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15935 (6D177431) Date: 10/5/1973 Description: At 1:30 a.m. an X-shaped UFO buzzed a car in Launac, France. It ascended and flew off to the horizon within seconds. It made no sound during this close encounter. At 5:20 a.m. in Nohant-en-Gout, France there was another case involving fog or mist. A motorcycle stalled as a luminous ovoid object approached and hovered, with smoke or fog underneath. A being two-meters tall appeared suddenly, put a hand on the witness's shoulder. The creature was wearing a large helmet and had slit eyes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1974 Source ID: Johnson_6580 Source: Johnson ### Event 15936 (E34672B6) Date: 10/5/1973 Description: Another case involving a UFO and mist or fog occurred in Oracle Junction, Arizona on this day. At 6:20 p.m. in Laurel, Indiana a disc the size of a house, with three segments on the bottom, hovered for three minutes. At 7:20 p.m. hundreds of phone calls were received by the police in Connersville, Indiana about a circle of light that was seen in the sky making several passes over the area at high speeds and a low altitude. A third case of this day involving a UFO surrounded by mist or vapor occurred in El Centro, California. At 8:00 p.m. a large, disc-shaped object surrounded by glistening vapor rose to 1200 feet altitude, turned, then shot away leaving a vapor trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case 0095 for 1973; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 676; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 38; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1976, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_6581 Source: Johnson ### Event 15937 (65AB2C57) Date: 10/5/1973 Description: At 3:35 a.m. Helen Hoag of North Miami, Florida--who had previously seen mysterious multi-colored lights outside her window--decided to make an attempt to communicate with them using telepathy. Moments later she unexpectedly found herself inside a circular control room, onboard a V-shaped craft. A beautiful tall blond woman greeted her. She wore shiny pale-blue pants, a jeweled scarf, and a headband. The woman introduced herself then a taller man wearing a silvery white suit appeared and introduced himself as the captain. There was a metallic pole in the center of the craft that flashed in multi-colored hues of light; and it seemed to be part of the flight control mechanism. She was taken to a soft contour chair and given a peach-colored liquid to drink. She was later shown a huge viewing screen on which she was given different messages. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1379; Glenn McWane & David Graham, The New UFO Sightings Source ID: Johnson_6582 Source: Johnson ### Event 15938 (E2E8273B) Date: 10/5/1973 Description: 8:15 p.m. 3 Hours 45 Mins. Object sat in eastern sky from 8:15 to nearly midnight, when it finally diminshed into a light point. Mushroon shaped with flat bottom. Red flashing light on top. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Waterloo, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4246 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15939 (B9C0CC81) Date: 10/5/1973 Description: Five small humanoids in orange garb observed in vicinity of orange domelike object. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saint-Mathias-de-Chambly, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4247 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15940 (6114FCFA) Date: 10/5/1973 Description: 3:00 a.m. 15 mins. Lady saw object emitting high intensity light that hovered near her residence. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ziegler, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4243 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15941 (C7F53316) Date: 10/6/1973 Description: Shortly after midnight a married couple in St.-Mathias-de-Chambly, Quebec saw bright lights on their property. Later that morning they observed a dome like a "tent" about a third of a mile away. A second, smaller object emerged from it and moved across the ground to a distance of about 200 feet from them. Five figures of small stature, wearing bright yellow garments and helmets, moved quickly back and forth between the two objects for a time. When the witnesses next looked, both the objects and the humanoids had vanished. Ground traces were found at the sight the next day consisting of three rectangular imprints arranged in a triangle with 34 foot sides. There was a 50 foot in diameter circle of burnt grass, and a second circle 12 feet in diameter next to a spring. The daughter, who investigated, subsequently suffered from nausea and headaches. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Canadian UFO Report, Spring 1974, p. 22; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1974, p. 1; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-29; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids; UNICAT, case # 512 Source ID: Johnson_6605 Source: Johnson ### Event 15942 (9D64DA5A) Date: 10/6/1973 Description: 12:45 a.m. A couple strolling along a country road near St.-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, see a bright light like a projector emanating from a nearby field. Later, at 11:30 a.m., the woman is hanging clothes on a line in her backyard when she notices a column of smoke rising from fields in the north. She calls over two workmen doing repairs at her home, and they see a yellowish object like a tent near the smoke. Soon a square, yellow object resembling a bulldozer emerges from the tent and travels about 180 feet to a small spring. Between the two objects, moving around in the field, are five “little people” about 4 feet tall performing various actions. Assuming them to be boy scouts, the witnesses notice they are wearing some kind of helmets and clothing that is the same color as the tent. The witnesses return to their work and 20 minutes later someone notices that the objects and figures have disappeared. The couple’s daughter returns in half an hour and goes to check the location. She finds a large, circular patch of burned and crushed grass about 45 feet in diameter, as well as two tracklike marks, each about 6 inches wide. Returning, the daughter feels ill with headache and nausea. A month later, UFO investigators arrive and find additional marks in the shape of a triangle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wido Hoville, “[Un atterrissage á Saint-Mathias de](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/UFO%20Quebec/UFO%20Quebec%20-%20No%2001%20-%201975.pdf) [Chambly,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/UFO%20Quebec/UFO%20Quebec%20-%20No%2001%20-%201975.pdf)” UFO-Quebec, no. 1 \(1975\): 6–9; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 106–107; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1973-10-06-canada-stmathias.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1973-10-06-canada-stmathias.htm) November 7, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_4944 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15943 (D2FAA332) Date: 10/6/1973 Description: Shortly after midnight a married couple saw bright lights on their property. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Mathias, Quebec, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4248 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15944 (C333CE59) Date: 10/7/1973 Description: 10:00 pm.Cigar shaped object with disks. No sound. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Middleton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4249 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15945 (BAF61F4D) Date: 10/8/1973 Description: Evening. A police officer near Laurel, Mississippi, chases a yellow object shaped like a top and making “exhaust-like” noises for several miles. As he approaches within 200 feet, his car stalls and the radio and headlights die. When the object moves away, the lights and radio come back, but the engine will not start for several minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) CUFOS, 1981, p. 58 Source ID: Eberhart_4945 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15946 (1A0DFE64) Date: 10/9/1973 Description: 7:30 p.m. No. sound. One hour plus. Object hovered above canning factory in residential area of town. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eaton, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4251 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15947 (CE7BEEA4) Date: 10/9/1973 Description: Evening, Military radar at nearby Baer Field picked up the object, (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Wayne, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4250 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15948 (17BE87EB) Date: 10/10/1973 Description: 7:00 p.m. A family in Niantic, Connecticut, watches two greenish discs and a white sphere maneuvering over a nearby lake. Odd clouds seem to be accompanying the two discs. One disc and its cloud disappear, while the other disc flies in and out of its cloud as if playing “peekaboo.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_4946 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15949 (8B63584A) Date: 10/10/1973 Description: Round, shiny, metallic object on or near ground, something rectangular about the size of a small person emerged; later reentered, and object took off. (UFOE II, page 341) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Magnolia, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4252 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15950 (26239EA9) Date: 10/10/1973 Description: 8:00 p.m. At least 15 sightings of unidentified flying objects "covered with red, green and blue lights" zooming about at tree-top level, were reported in Southwestern Ohio (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dayton (Near), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4253 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15951 (1BA2342D) Date: 10/10/1973 Description: On this evening, during a time period that was during the height of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, two police officers in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia watched a big fireball making maneuvers and turns in the sky for a few minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Awareness, January 1974, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_6723 Source: Johnson ### Event 15952 (7AD6C800) Date: 10/10/1973 Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Avery Estates, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana a luminous red UFO passed overhead, causing a CB radio to stop working. It flew fast and straight to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ralph Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 128 Source ID: Johnson_6726 Source: Johnson ### Event 15953 (28739C4F) Date: 10/10/1973 Description: At 3:00 a.m. two oddly shaped objects flew over a chemical plant in Yazoo City, Mississippi causing a power outage. At 6:00 p.m. in Magnolia, Mississippi two witnesses, one named Brumfield, saw a round, shiny, metallic object on or near the ground. Something rectangular about the size of a small person emerged, perhaps a robot, and later re-entered, and the object took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Clarion (MS) Ledger, October 18, 1973; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 341 Source ID: Johnson_6724 Source: Johnson ### Event 15954 (1296EA4D) Date: 10/10/1973 Description: Fifteen objects with colored lights buzzed rooftops in New Lebanon, Ohio at 7:30 p.m. By 8:00 p.m. there had been at least 15 different sightings of UFOs "covered with red, green and blue lights" reported in southwestern Ohio, zooming about at tree-top level. Most sightings occurred between Dayton and Cincinnati, and were all classified as "unofficial" reports by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base officials. None were detected on radar, apparently because they were flying too low. A New Lebanon Township, Ohio police officer reported his sighting shortly after 8 p.m. "He didn't want to say he saw it, but he said it," Montgomery County Sheriff's deputy Michael Sullivan reported. "The officer said it was oblong and covered with lights. It appeared stationary in the sky about treetop level for several minutes until he tried to shine his cruiser spot light on it," Sullivan said. "It then zoomed toward him and then shot straight up in the air... after he turned out his light...and disappeared." Sullivan said the UFO sightings lasted from a fleeting moment to twelve minutes. "They would be behind the trees and come up and fly away...as if you startled it or something," he said. A spokesman at Wright-Patterson AFB said there would be no attempt to investigate the sightings unless there was an "imminent danger." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UPI, Columbus Dispatch, October 11, 1973; Cincinnati Post, October 12, 1973; NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1973, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_6725 Source: Johnson ### Event 15955 (5D05F148) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: Dawn. About fifty motorists pulled off the expressway to watch two plate-like objects. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montgomery County, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4255 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15956 (206244B2) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: 7:50 p.m. Four witnesses reported two objects flew over at 400-800 feet and headed east. Each oval-shaped object looked like it had around 25 yellow and green lights, with a mist around them. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Connersville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4258 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15957 (46F78C2E) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: Charles Hickson and Charles Parker abduction case Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Pascagoula, MS Source ID: HallUFOE2_222 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 15958 (9C481157) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: At just before 11:00 p.m. a mass of lights approached Boulder, Colorado from high overhead, flying at a steady speed. Strung out of the bottom were a series of lights divided into thirds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1976, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_6780 Source: Johnson ### Event 15959 (2CAEFA67) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: A three-year old boy reported to his mother that he had been playing with "some old monster" in the backyard. He said it was gray with wrinkled skin and pointed ears. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tanner Williams, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4256 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15960 (AC5C6ED3) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: There were several UFO reports throughout the United States on this day, one in Colorado and the rest in the Midwest and Gulf States. There are 27 reports in the UFOCAT database for this day, including ten reports of nocturnal lights and two close encounters from Ohio alone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_6772 Source: Johnson ### Event 15961 (2DC9175A) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: At dawn around fifty motorists pulled off the expressway in Montgomery County, Ohio to watch two plate-like objects flying around. The Ohio State Highway Patrol was dispatched to the scene. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Chronology 1973, www.nicap.org Source ID: Johnson_6773 Source: Johnson ### Event 15962 (74605B2F) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: 7:30 p.m. 3-Mins. Sounded like swarm of bees. Object hovered over little town at tree top height. Jiggled up and down and sideways. Looked like two saucers together with cabin on top. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Laurel, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4257 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15963 (AE4B23FD) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: In Connersville, Indiana at 4:40 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO with a segmented compartment on the bottom hovered over trees near a house. It was silver colored with a dome, and had three green doors on the bottom. It shot off after several seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1976, p. 1; Kevin D. Randle, The October Scenario, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_6774 Source: Johnson ### Event 15964 (1F33746C) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: Nearly three hours after the first close encounter report from Connersville, Indiana 46 people watched an oval-shaped UFO with a pale yellow light on top, and a segmented compartment on the bottom, as it flew over a U.S. government test range and restricted air space. It took off, but was seen 30 minutes later to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1976, p. 1; Kevin D. Randle, The October Scenario, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_6775 Source: Johnson ### Event 15965 (92BB3A3F) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a domed disc-shaped object hovered low and maneuvered between some trees in Laurel, Indiana for three minutes. It made a sound like a swarm of bees. The object jiggled up and down and sideways, and looked like two saucers joined together with a cabin on top. The bottom of the craft was trisected, with a circle in each of these sections. A truck driver blew his air horn and the craft took off over trees at a fantastic speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Worley, Official UFO, January 1976, p. 16; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 46, citing Donald Worley; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1976, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_6776 Source: Johnson ### Event 15966 (1704E129) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: Around 7:00 p.m. Two men, 19-year-old Calvin Parker and 42-year old [Charles E. Hickson Sr.](https://www.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2011/09/charles%5Fhickson%5Fufo%5Fabductee%5Fw.html)[,](https://www.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2011/09/charles%5Fhickson%5Fufo%5Fabductee%5Fw.html) both of Gautier, Mississippi, are fishing in the Pascagoula River when they hear a buzzing noise behind them. Both turn and are terrified to see a 10-foot-wide, 8-foot-high, glowing egg-shaped object with blue lights at its front hovering just above the ground about 40 feet from the riverbank. As the men, frozen with fright, watch, a door appears in the object and three strange beings float just above the river towards them. The two become numb and paralyzed as the entities carry them into the UFO. Some kind of “eye” device scans them before they are released 20 minutes later. They first contact Keesler AFB in Biloxi, but no one is interested; then they drive to the offices of the Mississippi Press Register a few blocks away, but it is closed. So they call the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office to report their encounter, and they arrive there at 10:30 p.m. At one point during 2 hours of intense grilling by Sheriff [Fred R. Diamond](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50155494/fred-r-diamond)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50155494/fred-r-diamond) they are left alone in an interrogation room where they are unknowingly tape recorded while they continue to speak to each other about the abduction, emotionally distressed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Pascagoula Abduction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascagoula%5FAbduction)”; NICAO, “[The Hickson/Parker Incident](http://www.nicap.org/731011pascagoula%5Fdir.htm)”; “[The Pascagoula Affair,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201973%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 2 \(Sept./Oct. 1973\): 1, 3–4; Clark III 893–898; Charles Hickson and William Mendez, UFO Contact at Pascagoula, Wendelle C. Stevens, 1983; Calvin Parker, Pascagoula: The Closest Encounter: My Story, Flying Disk, 2018; Calvin Parker, Pascagoula: The Story Continues: New Evidence and New Witnesses, Flying Disk, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_4947 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15967 (DC2D8411) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: Two men, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, were doing some evening fishing from an old pier in an abandoned shipyard on the Pascagoula River in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Shortly after nightfall, at around 8:30 p.m., Charley Hickson, looking around to bait his hook, saw a domed, football-shaped object descend until it hovered just off the ground about 30 feet away from them. The craft had two windows and two blue lights, and made a buzzing sound. When the object landed an unseen door opened to reveal a brilliantly lit interior. Three beings came out and floated toward the witnesses. These beings were about five feet tall. Their skin was gray and rough like elephant skin that made them look like mummies. No clothes were apparent. In the center of their faces was something about two inches long that came out to a point and resembled a nose. They had a slit for a mouth, which never opened, if they had eyes they couldn't be seen because the area above the nose was too wrinkled. They had no neck and their ears were pointed and retractable. Their arms were unusually long, and their hands were like mittens with a thumb attached. Their legs never moved but stayed together like a pedestal. Their feet were elephant-like.

When two of the beings grabbed Hickson by his arms he felt a pain in his left shoulder. This immobilized him and allowed his captors to lift him and somehow float him over to the craft. The third being seized Parker, who immediately went limp. Once inside Hickson was nearly blinded by the light but was unable to close his eyelids. He saw no furniture, only a screen-like device on the wall. He hung suspended in the air at a 45-degree angle while an eyelike device appeared out of the wall in front of his face and circled around him. The beings that held Hickson moved in a stiff, mechanical way but did their work with speed and efficiency. One made a buzzing sound. The beings then disappeared for some time. When they returned, they grasped Hickson again and floated him through the opening, which had reappeared. They left him back at the place where they had found him. His legs collapsed when he touched the ground. Parker stood by with a terrified look on his face. Meanwhile, the buzzing sound and blue light resumed, and the craft rose straight up and disappeared almost instantly. Hickson "heard" a message in his mind that the beings were peaceful. Hickson subsequently reported having three more close encounter incidents, one of which apparently involved the same beings. Two involved telepathic communication only and the transfer of information that has not been disclosed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-31; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6777 Source: Johnson ### Event 15968 (72DB72B6) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: 7:40 p.m. Parole Officer [Raymond Broadus](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63090013/raymond-h-broadus), Pascagoula City Councilor Emmanuel P. Sigalas, and an unidentified woman are driving on US Highway 90 west of Gautier, Mississippi, when they see a large, swiftly moving object that descends and hovers a few hundred yards above the ground and meanders toward the Pascagoula River. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 895 Source ID: Eberhart_4948 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15969 (247AAEED) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: Hickson/Parker Incident (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [731011](http://nicap.org/731011pascagoula%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pascagoula, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4254 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15970 (84BFB0D1) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: On the same afternoon as the Hickson and Parker abduction in Pascagoula, Mississippi, a three-year-old boy told his mother that he had been playing with "some old monster" in the backyard. He said the monster was gray with wrinkled skin and pointed ears. This occurred in Tanner Williams, Alabama not far from Pascagoula. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-30; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6778 Source: Johnson ### Event 15971 (D32FD576) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: At 10:30 p.m. the Cline family of Berea, Tennessee awoke to the sound of dogs barking. Looking out, they saw an object that rose from the ground above some trees. Something humanoid with an oversized head was next seen crossing the road. Landing gear imprints were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Pulaski (TN) Citizen, October 24, 1973; W. A Darbro & Stanley L. Ingram, Unidentified Flying Objects Over the Tennessee, p. 54; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids, case 73-18; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 342 Source ID: Johnson_6779 Source: Johnson ### Event 15972 (1DA15B88) Date: 10/11/1973 Description: 9:00 p.m. Larry Booth of Pascagoula, Mississippi, finishes watching TV and checks the front door. He sees a huge round object hovering 5–8 feet above a nearby streetlight. It has red lights that are moving in a clockwise motion around it. It slowly moves away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 895 Source ID: Eberhart_4949 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15973 (F954F7D1) Date: 10/12/1973 Description: 4:00 a.m. A commercial pilot is flying a Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six near Mount Baldy, Arizona, at an altitude of 2,500 feet. He notices a red flashing light on the ground in a remote area, and circles around for a closer look. As he does so, the light begins moving too and reaches a speed about the same as his plane, 170 mph. It is flashing regularly at 2-second intervals. The object is skimming over the ground, apparently following undulations in the landscape. He changes course again to intercept the light, which accelerates instantaneously to 800 mph, moving up and over Mount Baldy, following its contours. The pilot follows it for a few minutes, about 50–60 miles. After about 5 minutes the light makes a right-angle turn and accelerates vertically. After 8–10 flashes, it disappears into the upper atmosphere. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Out of the Past: An Incredible Light,” IUR 9, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1984\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_4950 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 15974 (15D1F29E) Date: 10/12/1973 Description: Humanoid being observed in object like transparent "bell jar" (UFOE II, Section XII) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cincinnati, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4259 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15975 (711822A3) Date: 10/13/1973 Description: 8:30 p.m. A former naval pilot, his wife and two children spotted a "flying saucer like" object. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hollywood, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4260 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15976 (CFE7B7E0) Date: 10/13/1973 Description: Photographs of nighttime lights and objects were taken in Tennessee and West Virginia, in the midst of the largest wave of UFO sightings since 1967. In Elkhorn, West Virginia a photograph was taken of a huge object, flashing regularly every one-third of second, which flew toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Spickler, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1977, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_6814 Source: Johnson ### Event 15977 (D5D5F18A) Date: 10/14/1973 Description: About 80 reports of UFOs (discs with red and green lights, elliptical objects) by citizens and police. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: West Central, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4261 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15978 (DBB5D81E) Date: 10/14/1973 Description: Around 8:00 p.m. Grey fish-shaped object with plastic-like compartment on front and portholes on sides. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Connersville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4262 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15979 (89AF5F7E) Date: 10/14/1973 Description: Evening. About eighty reports. Woman "hysterically" told law officers an oblong object with blinking lights landed in a field in Highland County (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boston, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4263 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15980 (33CD0F8C) Date: 10/14/1973 Description: In Dover, Delaware at 12:20 a.m. a brilliant yellow-orange UFO descended rapidly, and then hovered over the airport. A helicopter was sent up to investigate, which chased the UFO into Maryland. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 174; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_6840 Source: Johnson ### Event 15981 (4EC07608) Date: 10/14/1973 Description: Nancy, age 22, and her boyfriend Jim were camping at Phantom Lake, Wisconsin with another couple and the couple's baby. Nancy and Jim had just settled down in the camper for the night when they were awakened by a bright light shining in through the back window. Then the camper door suddenly burst open. They saw a bright saucer-shaped object about to land, descending in a zigzag motion. Once on the ground the glowing object disgorged a variety of figures, perhaps twenty. They could see a couple of male figures approaching their camper slowly. One appeared to be a black man. A second was similar to a swami, standing on one leg with his other leg wrapped around his head. A disembodied face appeared in the camper telling them not to be afraid. About seven of the men stood in a semi-circle, ten feet away form the van door. One of the seven had dark curly hair and was dressed in blue jeans and a red plaid shirt, and he held a German shepherd in each hand by a leash. The group stood there for about ten minutes, staring silently at the witnesses, who cowered inside the van in great fear. A man appeared carrying what looked like a scroll. Three more beings, different from the others and only four feet tall, came out of the "space ship" and moved about the area very quickly, "just sort of running around." They seemed to glow a whitish green color. One of these perched in a tree.

While this strange assemblage was still present, Jim jumped out of the camper and warned their friends who were asleep in a nearby tent. They were unable to understand what all the excitement was about because they were unable to see either the "spaceship" or any of the beings. Jim hustled them into the camper, collected all their belongings, found his dog and, with the other couple driving, they took off. En route back to Milwaukee Nancy and Jim, riding in the rear of the camper, experienced a variety of strange phenomena, including a gloved hand apparition and a presence. Both Nancy and Jim became hysterical. The other couple perceived nothing unusual and believed their friends had gone crazy. They took them directly to a hospital emergency entrance upon returnning to Milwaukee. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-120, citing Richard Heiden & Lee Jewell Source ID: Johnson_6841 Source: Johnson ### Event 15982 (6DC8882C) Date: 10/14/1973 Description: On this evening there were at least 80 reports of discs with red and green lights in central and western Ohio. These included reports made by both citizens and police from Union and Dayton in Montgomery County, Ohio. In Dayton, Ohio at 7:30 p.m. four "flattened footballs" were chased through the skies by military jets. There were over 50 witnesses. In Boston, Ohio a cow was missing from a pasture after a UFO landed there. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 342; Fairborn (OH) Daily Herald, October 15, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_6842 Source: Johnson ### Event 15983 (F5B62F9A) Date: 10/14/1973 Description: Three men in their late teens observed a very bright round object having sequentially flashing white lights on the periphery and steady red and white lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenfield, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4264 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15984 (73A5D81F) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: Evening. In South Central Indiana, Morgan County Deputy Sheriff Robert Williams said he saw an unidentified flying object that "took off from the ground" (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Martinsville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4265 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15985 (62A3D6B1) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: 11:30 p.m. Three witnesses. No sound. Fishlike object suddenly grew larger and in the blink of an eye appeared just above the ground over a field on the north edge of E. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Connersville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4275 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15986 (EB1589A2) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: 10:30 p.m. Awakened by the barking of their dogs, a farm family saw lights from a UFO in the woods. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Berea (Near), TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4274 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15987 (5B022DC6) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: 9:00 p.m. Oval with dome, no sound, 1 Min. Seen at rear of D&M Mfg. plant when workers stepped outside for break. Craft with row of yellow lights and intersecting lines on bottom hovered (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Connersville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4273 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15988 (9CE65B28) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: 7:30p.m. Forty-five workers saw a round object during their break. Five men from the D & M Dishwashing Manufacturing Co. saw a round object over the AVCO test area. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Connersville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4272 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15989 (BA3FF115) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: Motorist encountered elliptical object with blue and orange body lights, legs, standing on the road.(UFOE II, Section VIII) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Henryville, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4271 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15990 (80CBA98E) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: Woman saw an orange oval giving off red glow hovering at treetop height (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lambert and Marks, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4270 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15991 (56B61A12) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: Numerous witnesses at Raleigh County Airport reported a UFO with red, green, and white lights. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Morgantown, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_4267 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15992 (67E59E7D) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: 4:30 p.m. No sound, three witnesses, 45 seconds. Appeared six blocks from witnesses home. Silver colored oval dome on top with three green doors. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Connersville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4268 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15993 (4DAF2420) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: The witness was awakened sometime after midnight by a brief, high-pitched sound; the room was lit up with a bright, orange-red glow, and he saw three humanoids 4-5 feet tall materialize. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Omro, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4266 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15994 (2CBFE9A7) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: A man in Omro, Wisconsin was awakened sometime after midnight by a brief, high-pitched sound. His bedroom was lit up by a bright, orange-red glow, and he saw three 4-5 foot tall humanoids materialize. They had baldheads; grayish white wrinkled skin and rounded ears. They moved mechanically. The witness passed out and then came to on the floor, propped against the wall, unable to move. The entities were examining him with an oval object that showed the bones of his legs when it passed over them. He had a severe headache and passed out again as a being reached toward him. He awakened toward dawn on the floor. He found the lights were left on the bedroom, and the bed sheets folded neatly back. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-32; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6863 Source: Johnson ### Event 15995 (49C3894C) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: Late on this night a female witness and her sister observed a huge light maneuvering over Connersville, Indiana. The light darted across the sky and began to descend near them. She ran up to the craft and remembered seeing three large windows. In one window stood a very short humanoid with protruding eyes and four fingers on each hand. He wore a tight-fitting outfit with a hood. Other people had gathered to see the UFO and stood around as if in a trance. The witness was taken inside and glided around with the short humanoid next to her. She remembered seeing two other humanoids sitting at a control panel, and three cubicles as well as beautiful curved walls inside the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 972, citing Don Worley, UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 257 Source ID: Johnson_6864 Source: Johnson ### Event 15996 (0AF27811) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: Awakened by the barking of their dogs late on this night, a farm family living near Berea, Tennessee saw lights from a UFO in the woods. Mr. James Cline saw a being with a glowing white head cross the road 50 feet away from him. Claw-like tracks were found in the dirt road later, as well as "landing marks" two feet long by 12 feet wide where the UFO had been. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-33; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6865 Source: Johnson ### Event 15997 (1A042500) Date: 10/15/1973 Description: Dusk. UFO terrorized Indiana farmer and his wife by chasing his truck as he raced for home. Object vanished in a dazzling bursts of speed. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [731015](http://www.nicap.org/huntington731015a.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huntington, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4269 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15998 (38E2567F) Date: 10/15/1973 End date: 10/16/1973 Description: Sheriffs saw and chased pulsating orange objects that alternately hovered, swinging like pendulum, darted around at high speed (UFOE II, Section V, VIII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pine, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4276 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 15999 (4F616E53) Date: 10/15/1973 End date: 10/16/1973 Description: Sheriffs saw and chased pulsating orange objects that alternately hovered, swinging like pendulum, darted around at high speed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Pine, LA Source ID: HallUFOE2_223 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16000 (55945EBA) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: Motorist buzzed by three luminous objects; one with blinding green light followed her home. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chillicothe, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4279 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16001 (B076EFD8) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: Midnight. Single mother Pat Roach is dozing on the couch with her 5-year-old son Kent in an isolated house on the outskirts of Lehi, Utah. Suddenly, Kent wakes up screaming that he has seen a “skeleton.” Roach has a vague memory an intruder and a bright light. Suspecting a prowler, she phones a neighbor, who calls the police at 12:10 a.m. A few minutes later, officers arrive, talk to Roach, find nothing amiss, and leave. Roach then checks on her other children. Two of them, Bonnie and Debbie, tell her they had seen a spaceman who had come into the house and taken them on a spaceship. Debbie remembers being told not to tell anyone, as well as seeing a line of people waiting to go on board. Disturbed, Roach takes her children and spends the rest of the night at a friend’s house. In 1975, Roach sees an article by [Kevin Randle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle) on UFO abductions and contacts him. Randle arranges for an interview and hypnosis sessions with APRO’s research director [James A. Harder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder) An abduction tale slowly emerges that involves some elements that are little known in 1975, among them the aliens’ clinical coldness, their curiosity about human emotion, their interest in gynecology, and human participants in the physical examination. However, Randle now believes that Roach underwent sleep paralysis, was influenced by some abduction accounts over the years, and was led into the narrative by Harder’s leading questions during hypnosis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1011– 1012; Story, [pp. 309–310](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/308/mode/2up); Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/abductedconfront0000lore/page/8/mode/2up) [9–24](https://archive.org/details/abductedconfront0000lore/page/8/mode/2up); Kevin D. Randle, “[Alien Abduction and Leading the Witness,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2005/03/alien-abduction-and-leading-witness.html)” A Different Perspective, March 28, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_4955 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16002 (0D8A81F6) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: Night. William and Donna Hatchett are driving down a country road near Mannford, Oklahoma, when she sees a bright light coming from the south. They first think it is a security light on a pole, but then realize the object is pacing them and descending. When the Hatchetts stop the truck, the light also stops in front of them. As the object hovers, it gives off a blinding light and a penetrating low-pitched hum. They have a feeling that there are occupants who know everything they are thinking. Donna is so afraid that she twice leaves the truck cab and goes into the back. William manages to persuade her to return, and they set off, the object rising up in the opposite direction. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, The UFO Casebook, Warner, 1989, pp. 143–144 Source ID: Eberhart_4954 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16003 (7F34D502) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: 7:45 p.m. A 50-foot-wide bluish object hovers 2–3 feet above US Highway 82, seemingly suspended on a beam of light, near Eupora, Mississippi, 300 feet from a car. The engine and headlights fail as the object lands. Another object hovers about 60 feet above the first, illuminating it. A “catfish-like” creature emerges with flippers for hands, a wide mouth, and feathers on its back. It holds onto a handrail on the craft and never goes down to the ground. It gets back in and the object rises into the air. The driver restarts the car. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Columbus \(Miss.\) Triangle Advertiser, October 24, 1973; David Webb, [1973: Year of the Humanoids](http://cufos.org/books/1973-Year%5Fof%5Fthe%5FHumanoids.pdf), CUFOS, 1976, p. 14 Source ID: Eberhart_4953 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16004 (F8CEDF4E) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: 7:30 p.m. Upon arriving home at Albany, Ohio, Mary Geddis sees a “ghost-like” figure floating about 50 feet above the ground at 1,000 feet distance; it is about 4 feet tall and thin, “like a person draped in a close-fitting sheet.” It is seen only briefly when she notices a bright white object moving about, and approaches to within 200 feet before going away. The object is about 20 feet in diameter and about 25–30 feet off the ground. Later, as she is making supper, she sees a “little blue-green thing” about 2.5 feet tall and with a face with “spiky things at the tops and the sides of the head” looking in an open door; it has stumpy arms \(she sees no legs\) and quickly disappears from sight. UFO sightings occur around the same time in nearby Athens, Ohio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George M. Eberhart, “[The Little ‘Electric’ Man,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 5 \(March 1975\): 10–12 Source ID: Eberhart_4952 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16005 (0505A7B5) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: At a press conference in Illinois, USAF Chief of Staff Gen. [George Scratchley Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FScratchley%5FBrown) states that sightings of what were presumed to be enemy helicopters during the Vietnam War took place, always at night, and prompted shooting by US ground forces. A Combat Air Activities file of 16 such incidents between 1967 and 1969, especially around Pleiku in February 1969, documents some of this activity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Barry Greenwood, “[Air Force](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr14.pdf) [Vietnam Era UFO Reports Surface,](http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/uhr/uhr14.pdf)” UFO Historical Revue, no. 14 \(May 2015\): 3–10 Source ID: Eberhart_4951 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16006 (F4C3BE54) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: Motorist driving to work, object landed on top of his car, all four doors flew open, then closed and he felt weight lift off car, saw a lighted object with blue, yellow, and gold rings around it moving away to south. (UFOE II, Section VIII) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hattiesburg, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4277 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16007 (D28FD650) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: School bus driver saw a glowing yellow-orange oblong object moving west to east. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: London, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4278 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16008 (7BDCC5A8) Date: 10/16/1973 End date: 10/17/1973 Description: A woman was abducted front her home, as well as possibly three of her children and a neighbor boy, and given a medical examination on board a craft. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lehi, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4283 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16009 (B07F0B92) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: Two children, ages 2 and 4, reported a UFO with a pointed dome and rays emanating from the bottom. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burbank, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4282 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16010 (CA74A880) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: Landed UFO with humanoid figures inside (UFOE II, Section VIII, XII) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burbank, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4280 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16011 (F4883E96) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: At 2:00 a.m. Gabriella Versacci was driving on the motorway and had just passed the Langford Budville, England exit. The highway seemed completely deserted, but she saw the glare of a single headlight ahead of her that seemed to be stationary. As she got closer she saw that it was too bright to be a headlight. Her car suddenly began to lose power. The headlights flickered, dimmed, and then cut out. Next the engine faltered, sputtered then fell silent. Panic-stricken Mrs. Versacci pressed her face to the windscreen struggling to steer the car to a halt in the almost complete darkness. Thinking she could not stay there alone in the vehicle, she climbed out the car. She fumbled with the car hood as she lifted it, and as she stood there feeling helpless she noticed a humming sound, faint at first that seemed to be growing stronger. She could not see the source of the hum. As she stood facing the car a heavy hand came down on her shoulder and pushed her to the ground. She struggled to face her assailant and saw a tall, dark-colored metallic figure. Gabriella then saw flickering multi-colored lights and blacked out. When she came to she was standing in a field. The "robot" like figure was standing next to her, and before them stood a strange bright object. It was half-moon shaped, rounded on top and flat on the bottom. It was silver gray in color and rested on thick legs, of which she saw two but there might have been more. It was about 20 feet in height and forty feet across, and it had large, oblong windows in the middle from which yellow lights issued.

Gabriella now realized that the humming sound came from this object. She then blacked out for a second time. She awoke inside a strange room.It was circular, and she was strapped to a table in the center. She was naked but covered with a light blue blanket. Her wrists were bound to the table by what she described as "large rubber bands." Her spread eagle legs were restrained in the same manner, with the bands holding her ankles to the cold surface of the table. The inside of the craft was freezing. She glanced over to a far wall where the "robot" stood inactive. To her right was a console covered in buttons and dials. The floor was covered in what appeared to be black colored rubber matting. A few moments later, three men that came into view proved her. Two stood to the left of the table while the third went to the foot of the table and picked up some boxes or cubes. He placed three of the objects on a rail, which ran the length of the table, one by her head, one by her feet and one in the middle. As soon as the cubes were placed on the rail they began to glow.

The three men were all about the same height, five feet six inches to five feet eight inches tall. Fair skinned and slim in build, they wore the same garments. All wore a skullcap, tied at the back of the head and ending just above the eyes. Facemasks covered the nose and mouth, so only the eyes and upper face were visible. No hair was visible, but she could make out the hair bumps under the caps. The eyes were more rounded than normal human eyes, and seemed emotionless. All three men wore a tunic with a gray colored edging, long gloves that went to the elbows and very long aprons that fell as far as their ankles. Thick-soled boots covered their feet. Every piece of clothing was light blue in color. Throughout the episode none of the man spoke or made any other noise. They looked at each other frequently, and nodded occasionally. Furthermore they did not appear to breathe, making no respiratory noises. During the examination none of the three beings touched Gabriella. The man at the bottom of the bed took a number of gray colored instruments, which he used one by one. A small knife like implement was used to take a nail paring from her right hand index finger. A blood sample was taken with a small plastic looking bottle with tubes and wires attached. Her blanket was removed and a thin pencil-like device was used to prod and probe her and a large black rubber suction device was used on the area around the groin. Soon the examiner placed another blanket over her, which provided badly needed warmth.

Noticing her frequent glances towards the now inactive "robot" the examiner now spoke to her in perfect English. The robot was a trained retriever device. It did all the manual work outside the ship. It brought specimens for examination and study. It was merely a non-thinking intelligence that was programmed to do certain tasks. The examiner spoke in a deep male voice, although Gabriella could not see his mouth move beneath the mask. His eyes never blinked, not even once. His movements appeared practiced, deliberate and precise. When he completed his task, all three men left the room together. After several minutes Gabriella caught sight of the robot again. A flashing purple colored light was coming from it. It did not move but remained by the wall.

Soon one of the men came into view from behind her and walked to the far end of the table. He lifted the end of the blanket form the bottom and stared at her body. At this point she felt something awful was going to happen, and Gabriella struggled with her bonds but could not free herself. The being took a small pin and placed it on her thigh. Gabriella stopped struggling immediately. The device caused numbness in every part of her body apart from her head. The being climbed slowly on the bottom of the bed and slowly and without emotion raped her. She felt discomfort but no pain. Soon the three men came into the room and released her from the table. Gabriella looked down on the floor to see her clothes before passing out one more time that night. When she next regained consciousness Gabriella was standing, fully clothed, next to her car in the deserted country road. Distraught, she drove home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of the Mystery Source ID: Johnson_6897 Source: Johnson ### Event 16012 (F2C3EE20) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: Seventeen and one-half hours later, at 11:30 a.m. in Burbank, California another domed disc was seen making a buzzing sound. Two children, ages 2 and 4, reported a UFO with a pointed dome and rays emanating from the bottom. It made a buzzing sound. As many as four occupants were mentioned. They invited the older boy to look in the object. When the boy's father stepped into the backyard minutes after the sighting, the family dog was barking furiously. No other information. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-35; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6898 Source: Johnson ### Event 16013 (EE8D04F0) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: Upon arriving home in Albany, Ohio in the evening a woman saw a "ghost like" figure floating about 50 feet above the ground a 1000 feet away. It was about four feet tall and thin, "like a person draped in a close fitting sheet." It was seen only briefly. She then noticed a bright white object moving about, approaching to within 200 feet before going away. It was about 20 feet in diameter and 25-30 feet off the ground. Later, she saw a "little blue green thing" look in an open door. It was about 2.5 feet tall and had stumpy arms, and a face with "spiky things at the tops and side of the head." It quickly disappeared from sight. UFO sightings occurred about the same time in nearby Athens and elsewhere. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-36; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6899 Source: Johnson ### Event 16014 (F75179C4) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: Later this night a cab driver reported that he was confronted by a blue, oblong UFO that landed in front of his cab on Interstate 90 between Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi. His car stalled and its lights and radio died. He heard a tapping on the windshield and saw a crab-like thing with two shiny spots for eyes. The driver reportedly later confessed to a hoax, but this has never been confirmed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-34; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6900 Source: Johnson ### Event 16015 (2B8ECFDB) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: A woman was abducted from her home in Lehi, Utah as well as possibly three of her children and a neighbor boy, and given a medical examination on board a craft. Carrying a "machine" of some sort, three beings lifted the woman from a couch and carried her by the arms. Her next memory was of a big, bright room with lots of "lights and buttons" and glass tubes containing liquid. She observed four or five humanoids on the craft and at least two human like beings. The humanoids did not communicate with her, were coldly efficient, and made her feel like a guinea pig. They were 40-5 feet tall, with head coverings, no noses, long fish like mouths, orange hands (gloves?) with two or three big claws or fingers that opened "like a clasp." They had large oval eyes that wrapped around the side of the head. The pupils were big, black, and round and move a lot. Their suits were a fluorescent 'silvery and blue," in contrast to the three beings that took her from her home who wore shiny, bright white uniforms. During the exam she was hooked up to a machine, probed with needles, given a blood pressure test and a gynecological exam. The beings were able to read her mind. One of the humans was bald, about 55, and talked with her and helped during the exam. They gave her a shot to make her forget, and then carried her out a door to be reunited with her children. The incident took between 45 minutes to an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-37; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6901 Source: Johnson ### Event 16016 (7E4FC9B9) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a UFO occupant was sighted at the Istrana NATO Air Base in Campania, Italy. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings 1975, p. 76; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5, 1974, case 727 Source ID: Johnson_6902 Source: Johnson ### Event 16017 (1EC8C143) Date: 10/16/1973 Description: A cab driver reported that he was confronted with a. blue, oblong UFO that landed in front of his car on Interstate 90. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Between Gulfport and Biloxi, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4281 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16018 (736096C6) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Two men were driving on Route 23 toward New York City from work when they saw a large, round, silver craft hovering over a field near Wayne, New Jersey. The UFO landed, so they stopped and got out of their car. But then the driver then got scared and he decided to drive off. The other man stayed behind and conversed with seven human-like beings, four men and three women, who got out of the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-39; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6935 Source: Johnson ### Event 16019 (172E36E5) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Later this same night Police Chief Jeff Greenhaw of Falkville, Alabama photographed a 5 1/2 foot tall being in a crinkly looking silvery suit after investigating a reported UFO landing. The Chief stopped his car in the road and the thing moved slowly like a robot toward the car. When 10 feet away it turned and began running. The Chief pursued it in his patrol car, but the being accelerated and disappeared when the car spun off the road. "He was running in a very odd manner, from side to side, arms down to his sides, and it looked as if he had springs under his feet to propel him. He could take 10 feet in one leap." The photo is regarded by some UFO investigators as a hoax, as showing a man wrapped in aluminum foil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-41; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6936 Source: Johnson ### Event 16020 (1FCAFE11) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Late on this night Clarence Patterson said he and his pickup truck were sucked up into a huge cigar-shaped object with a green light near Loxley, Alabama. He was pulled out of the truck by six robot-like beings that seemed to read his mind. The next thing he remembered he was back on the highway going about 90 mph in the truck. He may have been onboard for up to 30 minutes. A sulphur-like smell was noted during the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-43; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6937 Source: Johnson ### Event 16021 (A3B3781E) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: 8:00 p.m. An 11-year-old girl and her cousin heard a humming sound and The object was saucer-shaped, silver gray on top,with bright lights along the bottom. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Connersville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4286 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16022 (DF5B646A) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: 4:40 p.m. Two young boys spotted a strange object just before dark. Described as silver and looking like a "fish" (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Princeton, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4285 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16023 (AC7D9B1D) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Alleged humanoid photo. Police Chief Jeff Greenhaw photographed a 5' foot being in a silvery suit after investigating a reported UFO landing. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [731017](http://www.nicap.org/falkville731017dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falkville, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4295 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16024 (F238EFE4) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Several sightings of UFOs: circular copper-colored object that descended, hovered near ground, took off straight up (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Johnson City, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4291 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16025 (ABD7F907) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Shortly after midnight Pat Roach and her children Bonnie and Debbie were abducted and taken aboard a UFO in Lehi, Utah. They experienced 45 minutes of missing time; they found they had pin-prick like marks in a triangle on their arms, and recalled going through physical examinations. Debbie was ill at the time, and reportedly was healed as a result of her abduction experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 57; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 340, based on investigation by James Harder Source ID: Johnson_6929 Source: Johnson ### Event 16026 (B65B4DFF) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Police and citizens saw as many as eight yellow-orange, highly maneuverable objects. (UFOE II, Section VIII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clinton, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4290 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16027 (612E30A4) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: At three o'clock in the morning a woman saw a red, transparent ovoid object, 15 feet long and 6-8 feet high. On top was a bubble. Inside she saw a human figure standing up. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pikesville, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4284 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16028 (C1B1F4EA) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Ohio Gov. [John J. Gilligan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FJ.%5FGilligan) and his wife [Mary](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86975518/mary-kathryn-gilligan) are driving near Ann Arbor, Michigan, when they see an amber-colored vertical beam of light. When asked to confirm the sighting, he tells reporters: “I saw this. It wasn’t a bird or a plane.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Gilligan Spots Strange Object,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96622908/the-journal-news/)” Hamilton \(Ohio\) Journal News, October 17, 1973, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_4956 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16029 (A4E445C4) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Pulsating object photographed during sighting wave (UFOE II, Section VII). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elkhorn, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_4288 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16030 (109699CF) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: A silver, oval-shaped object landed on C.S, Rt 29, 300 feet ahead of Paul Brown's car (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Danielsville (Near), GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4294 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16031 (B7988603) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Two men, driving on Route 23 to New York City from work, saw a large, round, silver craft hover over a field, then land. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wayne (Near), NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4289 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16032 (05613A71) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: 9 p.m. A cigar-shaped object chased a vehicle, making a humming sound. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warner Robins, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4287 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16033 (F7AD1F8A) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Offshore oil platform crew saw oblong object with several colored lights hovering about 1,000 feet overhead emitting a whining sound. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crowley, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4292 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16034 (1D4B9C3B) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: There are 113 cases recorded in the UFOCAT database of UFO reports and close encounters on this day and night. There was one from Sweden and two from England, and the rest were from the United States. The common perception was that the UFO wave was concentrated in the South and the Midwestern States, but there were 10 reports from California including six close encounters. The state with the most reports was Tennessee, with 16, followed by Ohio, with 15. Robert Gribble's UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington received many reports, including a landing report with traces in Uniontown, Ohio at 7 p.m. and a vehicle interference CE-II report from Midland, Ohio at 8:30 p.m. At 7 p.m. CDT a car was also pursued south of Memphis, Tennessee by a metallic UFO emitting a beam of light. There were also aircraft UFO close encounters over Anaheim, California at 2 p.m.; Shreveport, Louisiana on this evening; and Johnson City, Tennessee at 9 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_6928 Source: Johnson ### Event 16035 (EF3B0590) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: At three o'clock in the morning a woman in Pikesville, Maryland was awakened by a sound like an explosion. She heard a loud humming sound, walked out onto her front porch. There she saw a red, transparent ovoid object, 15 feet long and 6-8 feet high. On top was a bubble. Inside she saw a human figure standing up. Eighteen hours later, at 9 p.m. in Warner Robins, Georgia a cigar-shaped object chased a vehicle, making a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-38; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6930 Source: Johnson ### Event 16036 (E97CABF1) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: At 5:40 a.m. near Crooked Mountain, Pennsylvania a small circular object with rotating lights hovered over a car being driven by a 47-year-old man. It caused the interior of the car to heat up. The car spun around 180 degrees although the driver had not turned the steering wheel. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 58; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 274 Source ID: Johnson_6931 Source: Johnson ### Event 16037 (C60E312A) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: A circular, copper-colored UFO hovered just off the ground in Watauga, Tennessee on this afternoon while a six foot tall being reached out of a doorway and tried to grab two children. It had two claw-like hands and blinking eyes. At least six other reports of UFOs came from the same area on the same day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-40; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6932 Source: Johnson ### Event 16038 (0E262E9D) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: On this evening a silver colored, oval-shaped object landed on US Route 29 near Danielsville, Georgia about 300 feet ahead of Paul Brown's car, forcing him to make an immediate stop. Two small 4 1/2 foot tall beings clad in silver suits and white gloves appeared underneath the UFO. They had reddish faces and white hair. When Mr. Brown stepped halfway out of his car with a gun in his hand the beings turned and re-entered the craft, which took off with a whooshing sound. Brown fired several shots at it with no apparent effect. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-42; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6933 Source: Johnson ### Event 16039 (A306C339) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: A 50 foot wide UFO hovered two to three feet above Highway 82 near Eupora, Mississippi at twilight, seemingly suspended on a "beam of light." The primary witness's car lights and engine died when it was 100 yards from the craft. Another car stopped just behind him. A second UFO hovered about 60 feet above the first, illuminating it with a light. Both craft were similar in appearance, like inverted cups, and had greenish blue flashing lights. A catfish like creature came out from the top of the lower UFO, holding onto a handrail. It had gray, fish-like skin, a wide mouth, one glowing eye, flipper like feet and webbing between its legs like a "flying squirrel." It had feather like objects on its back, which opened and closed when it moved. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-44; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6934 Source: Johnson ### Event 16040 (BB9DA920) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: At least 10 reports from central Louisiana. Pulsating luminous object changing colors seen near woods (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Powhatan, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4293 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16041 (52CBFE82) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: After 10:00 p.m. Falkville, Alabama, Police Chief Jeffrey Greenhaw responds to a phone call about a UFO on the outskirts of town. On a gravel road, he sees a 5-and-a-half-foot-tall, silver-suited figure in his headlights. He stops, gets out, and talks to the figure, all the while taking Polaroid photos of it. It steps towards him and Greenhaw turns on the red rotating police car light. The figure runs away and although Greenhaw pursues it in his car, it eludes him. The photos quickly become a national news story. NICAP investigator Marion Webb and others strongly suspect this is a hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Falkville, Alabama, Entity / Jeff Greenhaw Case, Oct. 17, 1973](http://www.nicap.org/falkville731017dir.htm)”; “[Police Chief’s Nightmare: Real or Contrived?](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/103%20OCTOBER%201974.pdf)” UFO Investigator, October 1974, pp. 1–2; “[Police Chief Hoaxes](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/130%20JANUARY%201977.pdf) [UFO,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/130%20JANUARY%201977.pdf)” UFO Investigator, January 1977, p. 4; Clark III 482; Good Above, [pp. 301–302](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/300/mode/2up); Source ID: Eberhart_4958 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16042 (431430B6) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Clarence Patterson and his pickup truck were sucked up into a huge/cigar-shaped object with a green light. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Loxley, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4296 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16043 (92A81D35) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Evening. A circular, copper-colored UFO hovered just off the ground while a 6 ft being reached out of a doorway and tried to grab two children. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Watauga, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4297 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16044 (5C66C508) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: A woman was awakened by a sound like an explosion. She heard a loud humming, walked out onto the front porch ana saw a red, transparent oblong object, (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pikesville, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4298 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16045 (B1850160) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Bluish object landed on road, creature encounter. See Section XII (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Europa, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4299 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16046 (2C55FF65) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Paul Brown is driving on US Highway 29 near Danielsville, Georgia, when his car radio suddenly goes wild with strange sounds. He sees a silver, oval-shaped object about 300 feet ahead on the road. He stops and sees two beings with red faces and white hair. Brown grabs a pistol and steps halfway out of his car, but the beings return to the object, which takes off with a whooshing sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Athens \(Ga.\) Banner-Herald, October 18, 1973; “[First Flap in Six Years Resurrects UFOs As National Controversy,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/092%20NOVEMBER%201973.pdf)” UFO Investigator, November 1973, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_4957 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16047 (E24BD138) Date: 10/17/1973 Description: Pulsating object photographed during sighting wave Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Elkhorn, WV Source ID: HallUFOE2_224 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16048 (6E39DA22) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: A tiny silver being was seen standing beside U.S. Rt. 17. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Savannah (near), GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4307 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16049 (8896F6B9) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: 3:30 p.m. A witness in Hamilton, Illinois, sees a huge gray oval or oblong UFO. A second object appears that resembles the first but seems to be covered in “cobwebs” on its upper surface. About 15 minutes later, “cotton-like” material is found that when handled becomes a “small ball which melted as it was touched.” The next morning, a collected sample has totally sublimated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947– 2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 \(Fall 2001\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_4959 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16050 (055698A8) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: Coyne Case (M) E-M (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [731018](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/coynedir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mansfield (near), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4308 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16051 (5F4BE594) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: 11:00 p.m. Army Reserve Capt. [Lawrence J. Coyne](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29459297/lawrence-james-coyne) \(with his crew 1st Lt. Arrigo Jezzi, Sgt. John Healey, and Spec5 Robert Yanacsek\) is flying an Army Reserve UH-1 Huey helicopter at 1,200 feet from Columbus to Cleveland, Ohio. Healey notices a steady, southbound red light. It looks like the port-wing light of an aircraft but seems brighter and carries none of the other FAA-required lights. He watches it disappear behind the helicopter and doesn’t tell the others. A couple minutes later, Yanacsek sees a bright red light on the eastern horizon and watches it for 90 seconds, realizing it is pacing the helicopter. He mentions it to Coyne, who tells Healey to watch it. Soon the light turns and comes towards the helicopter. Coyne takes the controls from Jezzi and puts the helicopter into a descent. He calls Mansfield \(Ohio\) Approach Control but fails to get a response. The red light is now closing on them at a dangerous rate of speed, possibly 684 mph. Coyne pushes the stick down, forcing the helicopter to descend quickly. When he gets to an altitude of 650 feet above the treetops, Coyne looks up and sees the object covering the entire front windshield. The red light is on its nose and a white light is on the tail of this cigar-shaped, metallic structure. Under the tail, a green beam sweeps a 90° arc and shines through the windshield. It hovers above them for 10–12 seconds before accelerating and heading northwest. The bright white light just snaps out. Coyne looks at the altimeter and realizes they have been ascending and are now at 3,500 feet, but the stick is still down. He pulls the stick up and the helicopter levels out at 3,800 feet. Reviewing his instruments, Coyne notices that the magnetic compass is rotating slowly, while the Radio Magnetic Indicator is functioning normally. They make radio contact with Akron and fly on to Cleveland without further incident. Other witnesses on the ground have seen the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Coyne Helicopter, E-M / Magnetic Compass Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/731018mansfield%5Fdir.htm)”; Jennie Zeidman, “[UFO–Helicopter Close Encounter over Ohio,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no, 4 \(November 1976\): 15– 19; Jennie Zeidman, “[More on the Coyne Helicopter Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 4 \(January 1978\): 16– 18; Jennie Zeidman, A Helicopter-UFO Encounter over Ohio, CUFOS, 1979; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 82–85; Jennie Zeidman, “Green Light over Mansfield,” IUR 13, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1988\): 13–14; Jennie Zeidman, “The Coyne Case: Correction and Update,” IUR 14, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1989\): 17–18; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 145; Patrick Gross, “[The Coyne Incident, Mansfield, Ohio, USA, 1973](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/coyne.htm)”; Kevin D. Randle, “[The Coyne Helicopter UFO Case,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-coyne-helicopter-ufo-case.html)” A Different Perspective, August 5, 2014; Kevin D. Randle, “[The](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-coyne-helicopter-encounter-explained.html) [Coyne Helicopter Encounter–Explained?](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-coyne-helicopter-encounter-explained.html)” A Different Perspective, May 1, 2018; Good Above, [pp. 302–303](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/302/mode/2up); Clark III 309–312; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 159–161 Source ID: Eberhart_4960 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16052 (A1723332) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: 11:30 p.m. A group of people in Wooster, Ohio, notices a bright, pulsing, triangular object with three colored lights at each apex, pulsating at different rates. When the object moves, the red light becomes brighter. It moves right, left, up, and down for 25 minutes. The UFO then dips down and shoots straight up into the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_4961 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16053 (342AC4F9) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: 10:30 p.m. red flashing light on the rear, long and narrow described as like a squared-off cigar. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [731018](http://www.nicap.org/mtvernon731018dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4306 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16054 (9BAB9D44) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: 9:00 p.m. (+-) Then we have a report from Gordon Sponseller who was also in the Air National Guard, and he reported while on the air, "There is a strange object. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mansfield (area), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4305 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16055 (FF708141) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: 9:00 p.m. (+-) Now it so happens that Mr. Eldon Heck sent his wife out in the yard to scan the skies while he was on the air. She came back to report that she was sighting something strange over the Shelby area. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shelby, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4304 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16056 (2AB1FFC7) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: Local network of a Ham radio group talking with a Technical Sergeant in the Air Force, said, "There's something strange. First of all, it's a strange light. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Galion, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4303 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16057 (282DC0A6) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: 7:30 p.m. American Airlines Flight 21, a Boeing 747 at 33,000' encountered apparently the same UFO witnessed by Capt. Coyne and his crew over Mansfield, OH (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rosewood, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4302 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16058 (9A68DD9D) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: 7:15 a.m. Sergeant First Class Ralph E. Green caught sight of this extreme burst of light twirling in the air. It had a bright red light on top and a bright red light on bottom. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Knox, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4301 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16059 (E5CBD6F9) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: Two youths were chased by a white "thing" 3-4 feet tall on White Oak Mountain. The thing had a shimmering body, large head with no eyes and ran sideways. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chatham (Near), VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4300 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16060 (0881AE64) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: Capt. Lawrence Coyne, while flying an Army helicopter with three other crewmen were 45 minutes out over Mansfield when Staff Sgt. Robert Yanacsek spotted a red glowing UFO headed toward their helicopter at an estimated 600 mph. It stopped abruptly 500 ft. above them. It had a big, gray, metallic looking hull about 60 ft. long, shaped like an airfoil or streamlined cigar with a red light in front and a green light in the rear, the lead edge glowed red a short distance from the nose. There was a center dome. The ‘copter radio wouldn’t function and the copter was set for a 20 degree dive but gained altitude from 1700 ft. to 3500 ft. with no power applied. After a slight “bounce” the UFO took off to the N.E. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p319, 271) Location: Mansfield, OH Source ID: Maj2_671 Source: Maj2 ### Event 16061 (65DB6902) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: Later this same night a tiny silver being was seen standing beside US Route 17 near Savannah Georgia. A line of autos slowed down to observed the humanoid, but no one left his car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-46; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6961 Source: Johnson ### Event 16062 (B13EACC3) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: On this evening two youths were chased by a white "thing" 3-4 feet tall on White Oak Mountain near Chatham, Virginia. The thing had a shimmering body, large head with no eyes, and ran sideways. A green hazy cloud was seen moving away. Several other reports of objects were made in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-45; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6960 Source: Johnson ### Event 16063 (CF914EDF) Date: 10/18/1973 Description: Army Reserve helicopter encountered domed, craftlike object that beamed green light into cockpit, lifted helicopter off course Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Mansfield, OH Source ID: HallUFOE2_225 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16064 (7FEE1C0B) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: In West Melbourne, Florida a youth called the sheriff's department and said he had been watching television at 4:30 p.m. he looked out the window of his house and saw a UFO in his front yard. Apparently the craft just materialized on the ground and did not fly in. He told the department a creature got out that had silvery skin, crab-like claws, antennas, and looked into his living room window with "scary eyes." The sheriff's department quotes him as saying the creature got back into the saucer-shaped object and flew off. It notes that during the same time there were other reports. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-119, citing a newspaper source Source ID: Johnson_6981 Source: Johnson ### Event 16065 (8D0F348D) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: Cessna pilot, object on radar (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4318 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16066 (648A6352) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: On this evening in Draguignan, France four youths in two cars drove up a small mountain called Le Malmont to investigate the sighting of an orangish yellow UFO seen earlier in the day by a friend and his girlfriend. No UFO was seen, but a being was seen approaching the group silhouetted by a diffuse white glow. Later two of the witnesses saw three entities chasing their car. The entities were wearing one-piece suits with red lights at the waist level. They wore square helmets with luminous, rectangular eye slots. One of the beings wore something resembling a gas mask with a veil covering the face. Their gait was slow and mechanical. Meanwhile, the two witnesses in the other car twice saw two sets of "red legs" cross the road. A short while later their car was swung sideways across the road and then back again by some unseen force. Other effects included EM interference with the engines of both cars, a sensation of heat, an odor like burnt insulating tape, and one of the cars was shaken while parked. The beings made modulated whistling sounds. A powerful white light beam was also seen. No physical traces were found at any of the sites. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-49 (A1254); David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids, case 73-30; Jean Chasseigne, FSR, July 1974, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_6982 Source: Johnson ### Event 16067 (88E360B3) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: In Goshen, Ohio a farmer was walking his dogs in a field in the early evening when they began to bark. Further ahead he saw a landed, round UFO, 40-45 feet in diameter, with white and blue lights around it. From the object's illumination he could see a ladder and two beings standing beside it. They were human like, about six feet tall. When they saw the farmer and his dogs they got into the UFO, which rose slowly with a low humming noise and then took off at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-50; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6983 Source: Johnson ### Event 16068 (E1F7269B) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: 9:30 p.m. Two men followed an object that looked about the size of a B-52, then lost sight of it behind a cluster of trees (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [731019](http://www.nicap.org/images/campbellsville731019dir.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Campbellsville, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4315 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16069 (327346B9) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: A woman was alone traveling by car in Iowa when she noticed a bright light over the next approaching hill. She dimmed her lights and when she crested the hill she noticed a landed disc-shaped object in a nearby cornfield. She slowed her vehicle and saw that the UFO had a slight dome on top and was glowing with a blue light. She called her husband on her CB radio and described the object but soon static made it impossible to communicate by radio. She stopped the vehicle and the next thing she remembered was watching the object take off at high speed. Later under hypnosis the witness remembered seeing five figures standing around her car looking at her. They were about five feet tall with pasty white faces and huge elongated eyes. They had two holes for a nose and slit like mouths. Moments later she found herself inside the object where she saw walls, lots of machinery, and also a very bright light. She next found herself in a room with several monitor-like screens and two humanoids standing near her. These creatures seemed to have claw-like hands. One of the beings was described as more human looking, a female with long hair, a skirt, and a band around her head. The male beings wore one-piece silver metallic jump suits, with gloves, boots, and belts across the chest area. She remembers lying on a table and being forced to remove her clothing. After a physical examination she is led outside by two of the beings and floated to her vehicle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1413; Kevin D. Randle, The October Scenario Source ID: Johnson_6984 Source: Johnson ### Event 16070 (FDF4C593) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: 9:00 p.m. (=-) While out on his farm with his coon dogs, "Sam" came upon a dimly lit object sitting in a field on tripod legs, approx. 300 ft away. The object was saucer-shaped with a dome atop (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goshen, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4313 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16071 (D0A94D93) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: Cows run as object passes over (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [731019](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-731019.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Owego, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4319 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16072 (09604DD5) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: During humanoid encounter lights went out, car displaced off road. See Section XII (L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Draguignan, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4317 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16073 (80E58D5C) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: 7:30 p.m. Upon arriving home, witness saw a "ghost-like" figure floating about 50 ft above the ground at 1000 ft distance; it was about 4 ft tall and thin, "like a person draped in a close-fitting sheet." It was seen only briefly when she noticed a bright white object moving (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albany, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4311 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16074 (6B343A10) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: A woman was driving on Interstate 75 near Ashburn, Georgia when her engine, power brakes and steering quit. No UFO was seen, but a small, metallic man appeared after she had pulled her car to the side of the road. The being had a bubble-dome head or helment with rectangular eye openings. The head moved like a robot's. From the elbows down the arms were narrow and wrinkled, like a chicken's legs. It moved around the car, then was gone. Afterwards she found the engine billowing smoke and the hood intensely hot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-47; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6985 Source: Johnson ### Event 16075 (2A560EAE) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: A farm couple encountered a blue, oval UFO hovering near their mobile home. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Copeland, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4316 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16076 (3B1B964F) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: On this night a farm couple in Copeland, North Carolina encountered a blue, oval-shaped UFO hovering near their mobile home. They then saw a three-foot tall humanoid in a gold metallic coverall standing directly below the object. Their dog fled the area, and didn't return until the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-48; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_6986 Source: Johnson ### Event 16077 (C3AEC5A9) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: 8:35 p.m. Radar/visual, 2 witnesses. No details (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: between Vernon and Sherritts, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4312 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16078 (C31343F3) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: Bluish oval object hovered near mobile home, three-foot-tall humanoid in golden metallic suit seen nearby (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Copeland, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4310 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16079 (F54D5515) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: Woman had power failure in car, encountered a small humanoid with metallicappearing garb and bubble helmet (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ashburn, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4309 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16080 (8538071D) Date: 10/19/1973 Description: A woman was driving on Interstate 75 when her engine, power brakes and steering quit. No UFO was seen, but a small, metallic man appeared after she had pulled the car to the roadside. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ashburn, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4314 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16081 (02CA4694) Date: 10/20/1973 Description: 1:00 a.m. Two women driving in a Volkswagen near Fort Smith, Arkansas, see a glowing object approach them from the south. It descends within 6 feet of their car, at which point the headlights, radio, and engine all fail. The object is about 8 feet in diameter, shaped like a disc, and emits a “computer-like” sound. After about 5 minutes, it moves away quickly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Fort Smith \(Ark.\) Southwest Times Record, October 21, 1973; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) CUFOS, 1981, p. 59 Source ID: Eberhart_4962 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16082 (A4C77283) Date: 10/20/1973 Description: Late at night nine campers, a group of students led by three adults, had gone to El Yunque Mountain Park in Puerto Rico hoping to "contact" UFOs and their occupants. They made camp high up on a mountain trail. Mr. Heriberto Ramos, the group's leader, said that at one point during their ascent they met three persons heading down the trail. There was nothing "alien" about the trio aside from the fact that they all dressed exactly alike and had similar features. One of the group members, who had stayed behind, took a photo of the three mysterious walkers, but only a patch of mist appeared on the developed film.

Later that night the campers found themselves surrounded by five or six vaguely humanoid figures who darted about the thick vegetation. They had claw-like hands and elongated ears. Some of these "monsters" blocked the precipice flanked trail that constituted the only way down from the mountain. Mr. Ramos tried walking cautiously toward pne being, hoping to show that his intentions were amicable. He got to within ten feet from the creature, and was able to describe it as having a triangular head and "extraordinary" eyes. He even he managed to touch the strange being, which did not stir. Its skin felt neither cold nor rubbery. Almost simultaneously, one of his students lit a large, powerful flashlight flooding the area with light. The clawed creature reacted by racing away from the scene, literally tearing a path right through the dense vegetation.

The path led to a 100 foot drop, giving Ramos the impression that they had frightened the being into jumping. But to his amazement it reappeared instantly at the side of its companions, who were still blocking the downhill path. From then until the sky began to lighten the besieged campers were watched by the beings, who remained in constant motion around them. Terror had led one of the students to bang himself repeatedly on the head with a flashlight, hoping to escape the situation by passing out. Seized by an inexplicable urge, another camper expressed a desire to take a walk in the woods. Fearing for his mental state, one of his companions offered to walk with him. Before they'd taken more than a dozen steps, they found what could only be described as a glimmering, polychromatic "egg" lying on the ground. While entranced by the curious flashing object, neither one felt brave enough to touch it.

Later that night they saw it in the claws of one of the alien creatures. At sunrise the campers made a mad dash for their cars that were parked at the bottom of the mountain. No trace of the aliens remained aside from their footprints, which were much larger than a human's and appeared to have been made by heavy creatures. The campers made plaster casts of the prints and photographed them. These materials were stolen by unknown parties some months after the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-52; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids; also Scott Corrales, Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, & Jorge Martin Source ID: Johnson_7005 Source: Johnson ### Event 16083 (3AF06725) Date: 10/20/1973 Description: UFO disables train (diesel) & effects blocking system (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [731020](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/mtvernon.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4322 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16084 (7EDCE5E2) Date: 10/20/1973 Description: Glowing disc descended within 6 ft. of car, "computer-like" sound. Southwest Times Record, Oct 21, 1973; cited in Rodeghier, 1981, p. 59 (E,R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Smith, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_4321 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16085 (C5D07849) Date: 10/20/1973 Description: 2:00 a.m. An early morning encounter with a "triangular-shaped object about the size of two cars" hovering about tree-top high not more than 100 yards" from home. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [731020](http://www.nicap.org/images/richersondraw.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Campbellsville, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4320 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16086 (C2AC9B87) Date: 10/20/1973 Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_226 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16087 (AE935612) Date: 10/20/1973 Description: In the evening Mr. Mars Walker, a student at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia observed a vague, purple shape about 50 yards from the house. A humanoid being with tentacle-like protrusions about the head came from it . He had hands with three or four fingers. It wore a belt that had several odd objects hanging from it, and appeared to be taking readings with them. The being completely ignored the witness for the 30 minute period that the encounter lasted. It was bathed in a green light from the UFO. Eventually it was "taken back into the vessel." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-51; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_7002 Source: Johnson ### Event 16088 (4B979CEE) Date: 10/20/1973 Description: The witness, a young women college student, had left college for home and was then reported missing, her car having been found abandoned in Indiana with the hood up by the side of the road. She turned up four days later at a police station, and reported that she had been driving along a deserted highway when her vehicle's engine sputtered and died at around ten p.m. She stepped out to check on it and was suddenly grabbed from behind by three creatures. She described them as wearing white face masks, or having white faces like molded plastic masks. Their eyes were large and set close to the sides of the head, and they had three-fingered, claw-like hands. They all wore metallic blue coveralls with a white stripe down the side. She was floated onboard a domed, disc- shaped object that was sitting on a nearby field. She was forced into a room, stripped, and then strapped to a table. Then she was given an extensive medical exam in which several needles were inserted into her body. She was left briefly alone in the brightly lit room, and then strapped to a chair. There several electrode-like devices were attached to her body and the creatures interrogated her at length. She was later given water and some food, which she did not eat, and released on a lonely stretch of road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case #1414, citing Kevin D. Randle, The October Scenario Source ID: Johnson_7003 Source: Johnson ### Event 16089 (1CFD5E0B) Date: 10/20/1973 Description: 8:00 p.m. A witness sees a triangular-shaped object with bright white lights hovering above Milton Road in Alton, Illinois. A second triangle is above the first. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Latest UFO over Milton \(Road\),” Alton \(Ill.\) Telegraph, October 22, 1973; Marler 90, 209 Source ID: Eberhart_4966 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16090 (8E0D64D8) Date: 10/20/1973 Description: A UFO passes over Round Valley Reservoir, Clinton Township, New Jersey. Three people who are driving by and watching the object experience car failure. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 59 Source ID: Eberhart_4965 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16091 (56FEED77) Date: 10/20/1973 Description: 6:50 a.m. A conductor on a Louisville & Nashville Railroad train moving northeast out of Mount Vernon, Indiana, sees a bright white light coming out of the north and heading east. When they reach Caborn, Indiana, he notifies the rear conductors, who can now see a bright light \(possibly another train\) behind them. The train’s automatic blocking system is showing a red light, indicating there is a train to the rear. When the train reaches Belknap, the engine stops because a rear diesel unit has apparently overheated. The yardmaster in Evansville informs them that there never was any train behind them. The conductor hits a reset button and the train starts with no trouble. The light in the rear seems to be moving away, and the blocking system turns to an amber signal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO Disables Train](http://www.nicap.org/731020mtvernon%5Fdir.htm)”; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 161–162 Source ID: Eberhart_4964 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16092 (EC66C0FF) Date: 10/20/1973 Description: A 48-year-old homemaker in Gerena, Sevilla province, Spain was in her kitchen washing dishes at 11:15 p.m. when she saw her patio suddenly light up. She next saw an oval-shaped object descend and emit a loud grinding noise. On each end of the object there was a bright red square, while the object's central section appeared transparent. She saw two dark figures inside the UFO. The object descended very close to the ground, emitting a loud sound, and then then shot upwards while increasing in luminescence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case #81, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia De Los Encuentros Cercanos con OVNIS Source ID: Johnson_7004 Source: Johnson ### Event 16093 (0A2B6C1D) Date: 10/20/1973 Description: 2:00 a.m. Sam Richerson and his wife awaken in their home in Campbellsville, Kentucky, when a barking dog disturbs his young son from a deep sleep. When his wife attends to him, she notices a glowing object across the street. They stand and watch the object for 15 minutes. It is a triangular-shaped object the size of two cars hovering at treetop height 300 feet away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Campbellsville \(Ky.\) News-Journal,](http://www.nicap.org/images/richersondraw.jpg) October 25, 1973; Marler 89–90 Source ID: Eberhart_4963 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16094 (A41EE478) Date: 10/21/1973 Description: At 2:30 a.m. Mrs. Heitfeld, a resident of the Cincinnati suburb of Covedale, Ohio awoke with a terrible thirst. A bright light outside her house then attracted her. She drew the curtains and saw a line of lights forming an arc. Each light was as large as an open hand. There were six of them, separated from one another by 120 cm. She also observed another light hovering above a nearby parking lot. Inside this light she observed a gray "ape like" creature. She woke her 13-year-old son who also saw the creature. The being was completely surrounded by a bell-jar shaped area of light. No facial features could be discerned, but the witness could see a snout like feature on the face. Its body was uniformly gray, and it was moving its arms in the sort of jerky way a robot would. Ground traces from the UFO were later found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-53; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_7013 Source: Johnson ### Event 16095 (6ACF63E9) Date: 10/21/1973 Description: 2:30 a.m. [Reafa Heitfeld](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cincinnati/obituary.aspx?n=reafa-heitfeld&pid=149581881) wakes up in her trailer on the west side of Cincinnati, Ohio, and notices a bright light shining outside. The source is a row of six lights forming an arc outside her window, as well as another bright light over the parking lot. Outside the second light she can see a gray “apelike creature” that seems to be fixing something. In the process of calling the police, she hears a loud, deep, booming sound, and the object and creature are gone. Investigator [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) finds that a fire alarm had gone off at the same time in a nearby warehouse only 150 feet away, although firemen can locate nothing that set it off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 554 Source ID: Eberhart_4967 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16096 (357CD223) Date: 10/21/1973 Description: A mother and her son observed a gray humanoid near a UFO. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Covedale, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4323 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16097 (7C22E3F6) Date: 10/22/1973 Description: June Margolin sees a shiny globe dropping web-like substance in large amounts over Sudbury, Massachusetts. It drapes over trees and telephone lines. She collects a sample and puts it in the refrigerator, but the substance still dissipates into strong white threads. The University of Massachusetts field station examines a sample. It is not spider web, but there is not enough of it for a chemical analysis. X-ray fluorescence and diffraction analysis indicates sodium, aluminum, silicon, sulfur, chorine, potassium, calcium, iron, nickel. The substance is 95% organic. Two other analyses indicate slightly different composition. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO ‘Angel’s Hair’ Still](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/096%20MARCH%201974.pdf) [Remains a Mystery,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/096%20MARCH%201974.pdf)” UFO Investigator, March 1974, pp. 1, 3; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 105–106; Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 \(Fall 2001\): cover Source ID: Eberhart_4968 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16098 (753A9ED6) Date: 10/22/1973 Description: 6:50 p.m. A man was farming and noticed an object which looked like it was going to land. No sound was heard. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Upton, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4324 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16099 (8C2EFC37) Date: 10/22/1973 Description: Unconfirmed date & insufficient data report of an object seen flying over a train. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mauni, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4325 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16100 (D9B42170) Date: 10/22/1973 Description: 9:45 p.m.–after midnight. Dewayne and Debbie Donathan are driving toward their home 9 miles east of Hartford City, Indiana, when they see two strange-looking figures 30 feet ahead of them on the road. Four feet tall, they are dressed in tight-fitting silver suits and wear boxlike shoes. They move in a clumsy fashion, their arms flopping oddly along their sides. Debbie accelerates and drives past the figures. The witnesses alert the sheriff’s office, and two officers and a civilian friend, [Gary Flatter](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185711958/gary-l-flatter)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185711958/gary-l-flatter) investigate. They see no figures but hear an odd, high-frequency sound. Around midnight, Flatter hears the sound again south of the original encounter and notes wild animals leaving the area. His headlights pick up two 4-foot figures 20 feet off the side of the road. He can see a hose going from their egg-shaped helmets down to their chests. Three times they rise 3 feet into the air then float down. The fourth time, they fly away, still standing erectly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Occupants in Indiana,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201973%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 2 \(Sept./Oct. 1973\): 1, 3; Clark III 278 Source ID: Eberhart_4970 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16101 (6CB369AE) Date: 10/22/1973 Description: 6:50 p.m. A man is farming in Upton, Indiana, when he notices an object that looks like it is going to land. He and his daughter walk toward the other side of the field to investigate. They can see an object with red, white, and green lights near the railroad tracks. As a train passes through, the object dims and hovers near it for one minute, then takes off to the southeast. An object is seen flying above a train at Maunie, Illinois, the same evening. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The 1973 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1973fullrep.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_4969 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16102 (B23D72FC) Date: 10/22/1973 Description: 9:45 p.m. Couple in car with baby approach small bright silver figures bouncing on highway 9 miles east of Hartford City. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hartford City, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4326 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16103 (3ED61320) Date: 10/22/1973 Description: At 7:35 p.m. two people and three dogs in a car just west of Blacy, Marne, France encountered a silent, faceted sphere over the roadside, causing them temporary paralysis. The object turned and flew to the north, then shot off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bernard Vochelet, GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1975, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_7023 Source: Johnson ### Event 16104 (49E47848) Date: 10/22/1973 Description: At 2:00 p.m. a globe-shaped object was seen hovering in the sky for 30 minutes over Sudbury, Massachusetts by Ms. J. Margolin and a friend. Some web-like "angel hair" material fell from the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1974, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_7024 Source: Johnson ### Event 16105 (FBC40FBF) Date: 10/22/1973 Description: The first in a series of three independent observations of two silver-suited, four foot tall humanoids occurred in Hartford City, Indiana on this night. While driving home Ms. Debbie Carne saw the creatures slowly cross the road in front of her. As she drove past them on the roadside they made a loud noise and raised their arms as if to scare her. About 15 minutes after the first encounter by Ms. Carne, Mr. & Mrs. Donathan approached the same area in a car and saw the same or a similar pair of beings on the road. They were described as wearing bright silver suits, straight in form and with no features noticed except box-like feet. The pair moved in a clumsy, flopping manner as they tried to get off the road ahead of the approaching car. Mr. Donathan described this as a dancing effect. A snake-like pattern of lights was seen dancing over the field. The next day imprints were found in the field where the beings had last been seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Worley, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1973, p. 1; Donald Worley, Official UFO, January 1976, p. 16; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases 1973-54 and 1973-55; David F. Webb, 1973, The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_7025 Source: Johnson ### Event 16106 (E5303025) Date: 10/23/1973 Description: In the morning in Russell Springs, Kentucky a woman encountered two three-foot tall, reddish-skinned humanoids who were near her house. The beings were first seen in her carport, and they walked around the side of the house and entered a washtub-shaped craft sitting on the ground, which then rose over the house and disappeared. The little men were reddish and walked as if on tiptoes. The ground was disturbed where the craft had been sitting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Russell Springs (KY) Times Journal, October 24, 1973; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-57; David F. Webb, 1973, The Year of The Humanoids; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 95; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 344 Source ID: Johnson_7049 Source: Johnson ### Event 16107 (9F9F4B29) Date: 10/23/1973 Description: A woman saw two 3-ft tall beings in her carport who walked around the side of the house, entered a craft "shaped like a washing tub" sitting on the ground (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Russell Springs, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4328 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16108 (76DCA853) Date: 10/23/1973 Description: Angel hair residue fell on Midway, Texas and was analyzed by the University of Texas. The residue was consistent with Dictyna spider web, but the sample did contain some rare elements such as zinc and lanthanum, so it could have resulted from the mixture of crebellate spider web with some other mystery substance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, October 2001, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_7050 Source: Johnson ### Event 16109 (D97808C1) Date: 10/23/1973 Description: Bonnie Collier observes two metallic cigar-shaped objects over Midway, Texas. She photographs one of them. About 20 minutes later, she notices monarch butterflies are getting entangled in “sheets of a web-like substance” falling to earth. She retrieves a grapefruit-sized sample from a mesquite tree and stores it in a box. Some 20 years later, the sample is analyzed by two engineering students at the University of Texas at Austin. A neutron activation survey indicates high concentrations of sodium, potassium, zinc, and lanthanum. Other tests indicate the sample is spider silk produced by a cribellate orb weaver spider. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 \(Fall 2001\): 14; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 106 Source ID: Eberhart_4971 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16110 (8F078403) Date: 10/23/1973 Description: On this night near Dobson, North Carolina David Simpson's car engine stopped and the headlights went out when an oval-shaped UFO, 12 feet wide by 8 feet high, landed near his car. A humanoid with eyes "like balls of fire" peered through his window. Afterwards the car's engine and lights came back on spontaneously without his having to touch the ignition switch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-58; David F. Webb, 1973, The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_7051 Source: Johnson ### Event 16111 (561640F5) Date: 10/23/1973 Description: 12:15 a.m. A wrecker truck driver, gas station owner, encountered these same figures about one mile south of the first sighting. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hartford City, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4327 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16112 (0EC619AC) Date: 10/24/1973 Description: At 11:30 p.m. in Gibsonville, Guilford County, North Carolina a police officer driving on Highway 100 had his patrol car engine stall when he had a close encounter with a bright light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Burlington Times News, October 27, 1973; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 68 Source ID: Johnson_7091 Source: Johnson ### Event 16113 (C910A0DD) Date: 10/24/1973 Description: Rash of UFO sightings by citizens and police. Round, red-orange objects, rapid flight, erratic maneuvers. (UFOE II, Section V) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Airy, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4329 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16114 (98690E49) Date: 10/24/1973 Description: An abduction was reported to have occurred in Millville, New Jersey. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case 244 Source ID: Johnson_7085 Source: Johnson ### Event 16115 (5966E056) Date: 10/24/1973 Description: No sound,15 secs. Dark object with blue and red lights and one intense white light which blinded him. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fayette County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4330 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16116 (F07B55A1) Date: 10/24/1973 Description: 9:00 p.m. David Simpson’s car engine stops and the headlights go out when an oval object, 12 feet wide by 8 feet high, lands close by near Dobson, North Carolina. He sees a humanoid with balls of fire for eyes looking into the car. After the creature leaves, the car engine and lights come back on without his having to start the ignition. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Webb, [1973: Year of the Humanoids](http://cufos.org/books/1973-Year%5Fof%5Fthe%5FHumanoids.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/1973-Year%5Fof%5Fthe%5FHumanoids.pdf) CUFOS, 1976, p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_4972 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16117 (1F8D73C0) Date: 10/24/1973 Description: At 7:15 a.m. a spinning, top-shaped object was seen in the sky over the sea from the deck of the SS Waalekerk, off Genoa, Italy by S. M. Saunders. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case # 827 Source ID: Johnson_7084 Source: Johnson ### Event 16118 (F6EFF0DB) Date: 10/24/1973 Description: An woman in Frederickstown, Ohio was turning into the driveway of her home at nine o'clock when the car lights fell on an object. It was hovering approximately 20 feet over an open area of her backyard. Something "lit up" and the light became too bright to be merely the reflection of her car's headlights. The UFO was about 30 feet long and resembled an airplane's fuselage without wings, with an "open cockpit" at one end. Inside she was able to see three "hooded figures." She hurried into her house and when she looked out through a window, the object had vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Columbus Dispatch, September 19, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-110 (A1264), citing CCAP of Columbus, Ohio Source ID: Johnson_7086 Source: Johnson ### Event 16119 (AAAAC4F8) Date: 10/24/1973 Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Sigsbee, Georgia an ovoid object sat on highway SR133 at a bridge for two minutes before taking off. There were several witnesses, including a separate independent witness nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucers, May 1974, p. 39; Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_7090 Source: Johnson ### Event 16120 (85A95D72) Date: 10/24/1973 Description: At 7:00 p.m. in Griffith Park, California two people watched a large round object at very low altitude. Both witnesses were scared by the object, as were some nearby horses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Santa Ana Register, October 31, 1973 & November 8, 1973; Ann Druffel, FSR, June 1975, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_7089 Source: Johnson ### Event 16121 (86A62C53) Date: 10/24/1973 Description: About 9:00 p.m. CE-III; possible CE-IV. Woman in car pulling into drive, notices her headlights appear to cause a "washtub" object to light up and illuminate her back yard. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [731024](http://www.nicap.org/fredericktown731024dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fredericktown, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4331 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16122 (686A0535) Date: 10/24/1973 Description: Oval, 12 ft. in diameter, landed, humanoid encounter, engine restarted by itself when being departed. D. Webb, 1976, p. 17 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dobson, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4332 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16123 (D3A07279) Date: 10/24/1973 Description: David Simpson's car engine stopped and the headlights went out on Highway 601 when an oval-shaped UFO landed near his car on this night at 9:00 p.m. near Dobson, Surry County, North Carolina. It was 12 feet wide by 8 feet high. A humanoid with eyes "like balls of fire" peered at him through his car window. Afterwards the car's engine and lights came back on without him having to touch the ignition switch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mount Airy News, November 30, 1973; George D. Fawcett, Skylook, January 1974, p. 14; David F. Webb, The Year of The Humanoids, case 73-37; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-58 (A1263); Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 59; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 255, 344, 488 Source ID: Johnson_7088 Source: Johnson ### Event 16124 (C8BF8181) Date: 10/24/1973 Description: At 8:45 p.m. there were a rash of UFO sightings by at least 50 citizens as well as police in Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina. They encountered round, red-orange objects engaged in rapid flight and erratic maneuvers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 26, 1973; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 175, 344 Source ID: Johnson_7087 Source: Johnson ### Event 16125 (BEF65D64) Date: 10/25/1973 Description: FBI Director [Clarencc M. Kelley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%5FM.%5FKelley) explains in a letter to a resident of La Habra, California, that the investigation of UFOs “is not and never has been a matter that is within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 253](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/252/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/252/mode/2up) [475](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/474/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4973 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16126 (3257A9F1) Date: 10/25/1973 Description: Director of FBI, Clarence M. Kelley, states: UFOs are not and never has been a matter that is within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI. Type: statement Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p475) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_672 Source: Maj2 ### Event 16127 (041266B6) Date: 10/25/1973 Description: 9:00 p.m. A 22-year-old man and two 10-year-old boys allegedly see a bright-white, dome-shaped UFO about 100 feet in diameter land in a field near Uniontown, Pennsylvania. “Screaming sounds” emanate from somewhere nearby. The UFO makes a lawnmower-like sound. Suddenly they see two large apelike creatures with glowing green eyes walking along a fence, one in front of the other. The older witness fires a tracer slug with his rifle over the creatures’ heads, but they continue moving forward, seemingly communicating by making whining sounds. The tall and closer of the two, about 8 feet tall, is running its left hand along the fence, while the smaller one is struggling to keep up. The older witness fires three bullets into the larger creature’s chest. It whines and reaches toward the smaller creature. The UFO vanishes and the lawnmower sound ceases. The area where the UFO had been is now glowing brilliant white. The hairy creatures head toward the woods. A policeman arrives at 9:45 p.m. and finds the landing spot still glowing slightly. They hear something moving in the woods nearby and smell a sulfur-like odor. The officer and the witness panic and jump into the police car and drive about 150 feet. [Stan Gordon](http://www.stangordon.info/wp/stan-gordon/) shows up at 1:30 a.m. with four members of his Westmoreland County UFO Study Group. In the company of the witness and his father, they walk around the field until the witness undergoes a violent emotional attack, during which he growls like an animal and throws his father and an investigator to the ground. During his attack, he has an apocalyptic vision in which he receives a dire warning from a man in a black hat and cloak. The older witness undergoes hypnosis with psychologist [Berthold Eric Schwarz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold%5FE.%5FSchwarz), who says he has visions about the impending end of the world and after the event he “felt like an animal.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Berthold Eric Schwarz, “[Berserk: A](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%201.pdf) [UFO-Creature Encounter,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 1 \(July 1974\): 3–11; Clark III 556 Source ID: Eberhart_4975 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16128 (1A771AB8) Date: 10/25/1973 Description: On this night Brian Scott saw an object with blinking lights on the bottom surrounded by haze. He drove to his home in Buena Park, California to get someone else to see it and returned with the teenage babysitter of his children. Both witnesses felt as if their minds had somehow been lifted up to the craft, bathed in green light, and returned. Scott saw short humanoids, but felt that this vague encounter was unplanned, and with different humanoids than in his earlier experiences. A period of an hour and a half could not be accounted for. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-59; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_7125 Source: Johnson ### Event 16129 (397816AC) Date: 10/25/1973 Description: At around nine p.m. 15 people observed a very large red spherical object hovering low in the sky near Uniontown, Pennsylvania which began to descend towards a pasture. The incident began when the principal witness and two boys proceeded up a hill in a field and observed a white, dome-shaped craft on the ground that illuminated the area. It was making a loud whirring sound. It was estimated to be about 100 feet in diameter. They stood about 250 feet from the object, and about 75 feet from a fence line.

Walking along the fence line were two tall figures, from seven to nine feet tall, covered with hair, and with long arms hanging down past the knees. They displayed glowing green eyes. The witnesses shot at the creatures, first tracer bullets were shot over their heads, and then regular bullets was used. The larger of the two creatures turned towards the other almost touching it, and at the same time the object in the field disappeared and the sound stopped. The creatures slowly walked towards the woods. One boy had already run home, and the other two left the field and went to a neighbor's farmhouse and called the state police. When the state trooper arrived he and the main witness went to the site. Where the object had landed there was a glowing area that was about 150 feet in diameter. He said he could read a newspaper from the light. The farm animals refused to go into the area. One witness reported that before they left the field the larger of the two creatures was seen in the woods about 10 feet from them. He shot at it and it struck the fence that stood between them. Later that night an investigation team arrived in the area. Radiation levels were normal and the glow was now gone, but the animals still wouldn't go near the spot. Strange events now began to take place.

Some in the party saw a farmhouse several hundred feet away suddenly light up like daylight for several seconds. The main witness, a rather large man, suddenly began growling, and he threw his father and investigator George Lutz to the ground. The man ran into the field growling and screaming near inhuman screams. His own dog approached him as to attack, then ran off whimpering. He then collapsed onto the ground. Two of the investigating team started to complain they were having trouble breathing, and the air became filled with a strong odor like rotten eggs. As the main witness came out of what appeared to be a trance-like state, he began talking about visions he had seen of the end of the world. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-60; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_7124 Source: Johnson ### Event 16130 (157F6B92) Date: 10/25/1973 Description: 7:15 p.m. Lt. Commander Moyer is traveling south from Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt, a restricted US National Security Agency station along Murat Road on North West Cape, north of Exmouth, Western Australia, when he sees a large, black object in the sky 5 miles to his west at an altitude of 2,000 feet. After about 20–25 seconds, the object accelerates at speed to the north. It is first seen at about 20° elevation, to the west. Moore estimates its angular size as half a degree. It is initially stationary and there is no associated noise at any point, no trail or exhaust. It is last seen at 45°–50° elevation. At about 7:20 p.m., William Gordon Lynn, an Australian civilian and US Navy employee fire captain, notices a large, stationary, black object in the clear sky. It has a halo around the center, which appears to be either revolving or pulsating. He watches it for an estimated four minutes, after which it takes off speedily in a northerly direction and disappears after a few seconds. He thinks it is about 30 feet in diameter and hovering at 1,000 feet over the hills west of the base. On this same date, the base is communicating a DEFCON III alert to conventional and nuclear forces in the region during the Yom Kippur War \(an NSA misreading of a Syrian message to the USSR had indicated a Soviet build-up\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Black](http://www.nicap.org/731025australia%5Fdir.htm) [Sphere Observed / DEFCON-3 Reached](http://www.nicap.org/731025australia%5Fdir.htm)”; Bill Chalker, “The North West Cape Incident: UFOs and Nuclear Alert in Australia,” IUR 11, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1986\): 10–11; Bill Chalker, “[The UFO Connection: Startling Implications](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201986%20V%2031%20N%205.pdf) [for Australia’s North West Cape, and for Australia’s Security,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201986%20V%2031%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 31, no. 5 \(July 1986\): 16– 18; Good Above, [pp. 174–175](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/174/mode/2up); Bill Chalker, “[UFOs Sub Rosa Down Under, Part 4,](http://www.project1947.com/forum/bcoz4.htm)” 1996; Swords 403–405 Source ID: Eberhart_4974 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16131 (E5A3CD3D) Date: 10/25/1973 Description: 9:00 p.m. Glowing orange oval hovered 300 feet above car, light reflected brightly off of car hood; object then sped out of sight. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [731025](http://www.nicap.org/christycreek731025.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Christy Creek, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4333 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16132 (4613B41C) Date: 10/26/1973 Description: The Kingwood, West Virginia police chief and two fire tower observers watched a light cavort over Caddell Mountain on this night for hours. Willard Zinn, a police officer from Terra Alta, West Virginia was driving home via a mountain road at two o'clock at night when he encountered a four-foot tall, brown, or green creature with long, fuzzy hair that darted across the road in front of his car. Zinn skidded into a ditch. The two fire observers joined him and all three saw a very bright, silent, reddish white light whiz overhead at tree top level. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, MUFON Conference Proceedings: 1975, p. 75; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids, case 73-38A; Preston County News, October 30, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_7152 Source: Johnson ### Event 16133 (F3F5AD2B) Date: 10/26/1973 Description: At 8:03 p.m. in Toulon, Var department, France a bright ovoid object divided into three parts. Two of the parts flew off, while the third split in half, and then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10321, citing Charles Garreau, Soucopes Volantes Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes (Third Edition), p. 89 Source ID: Johnson_7151 Source: Johnson ### Event 16134 (B590F546) Date: 10/27/1973 Description: At 6 p.m. fifteen witnesses reported that a lenticular disc-shaped object hovered over a lake, Lago Ramos Mejia in Nequen Province, Argentina at 2000 m altitude or less. There were four UFOs in total, and one approached to within 400-500 meters. It was pulsating with a weak luminosity. It finally moved out of sight in 45 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 189; UNICAT, case # 583, citing ARGENCAT, case # 214 Source ID: Johnson_7196 Source: Johnson ### Event 16135 (4DA7C3F8) Date: 10/28/1973 Description: In Traunstein, Austria two men saw six domed discs extend and retract two arcs of light several times at 11:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ernst Berger, FSR, October 1974, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_7244 Source: Johnson ### Event 16136 (3B003F27) Date: 10/28/1973 Description: 1:15 a.m. Truck driver Dionisio Llanca is changing a tire along Highway 3 some 11 miles from Bahía Blanca, Argentina, when a UFO lands and three humanlike beings, two men and a woman, approach him. Nearly paralyzed by the light from the UFO, Llanca lets one of the beings take a blood sample and later remembers going on board the craft, whose occupants warn him that humans are headed towards disaster. He loses consciousness and wakes up in a railyard 5.5 miles away, then finds himself in a hospital. However, Argentine UFO investigators find major discrepancies and consider Llanca’s story an invention devised to make some money. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Occupant Encounter in Argentina,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201973%2011%2000%20-%20November-December.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 3 \(Nov./Dec. 1973\): 7–8; “[Possible Hoax,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201974%2001%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 4 \(Jan./Feb. 1974\): 11; Gordon Creighton and Charles Bowen, “[The Extraordinary Case of](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%204.pdf) [Dionisio Llanca and the Ufonauts,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 4 \(November 1980\): 2–10; Guillermo Roncoroni, “[Dionisio Llanca: El Informe Solari,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Argentina/UFO%20PRESS/UFO%20PRESS%20-%20No%2019%20-%20%28Ene-Mar%201984%29.pdf)” UFO Press, no. 19 \(Jan./March 1984\): 32–35; “[The Case of](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2030%20N%202.pdf) [Dionisio Llanca in Argentina,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2030%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 2 \(December 1984\): 25–26; “[The Abduction of](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1103940/pg1) [Dionisio Llanca,](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1103940/pg1)” Above Top Secret forum, February 4, 2016; Clark III 601–602 Source ID: Eberhart_4976 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16137 (30F48FAE) Date: 10/28/1973 Description: On this night a lone witness saw a domed object that had landed in a paddock in Waipukurau, New Zealand. It took off at a tremendous speed, leaving behind five ground marks and a scorched area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hawke's Bay Herald Tribune, October 30, 1973; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1974; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5 (1974), case 878 Source ID: Johnson_7242 Source: Johnson ### Event 16138 (DFEB4BAF) Date: 10/28/1973 Description: In the early morning hours Ms. Proctor went to the window in her home in Reno, Nevada and saw three "very large," saucer-shaped objects hovering across the street. A "ground crew" of 10-12 figures, wearing dully glowing "cube type" uniforms, were milling around, as if searching for something. A very low-pitched hum was heard, but no barking by the witness's dog, or others in the neighborhood. When two of the men approached her driveway, the witness took alarm and returned to bed, where she fell asleep immediately. There was no confirmation of anything unusual from any of her neighbors, and no traces were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1974, p. 3; David F. Webb, 1973, The Year of The Humanoids, p. 73; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-63 (A1269) Source ID: Johnson_7241 Source: Johnson ### Event 16139 (30689523) Date: 10/28/1973 Description: On a farm north of Belpre, Ohio the witness noticed TV interference at 8:40 p.m. and it alerted him to the nearby presence of a 10 meter long ovoid UFO, which directed a beam of light on his barn. He tried to shine a flashlight on the object, but the UFO avoided the flashlight beam. It shot off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerry Poling, APRO Bulletin, January-February 1974, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_7243 Source: Johnson ### Event 16140 (6537977E) Date: 10/28/1973 Description: 11:30 p.m. Karl Fichtinger watches an odd orange-yellow light to the south of Bad Traunstein, Austria, that projects two beams of light that creep slowly upward like a pair of snail feelers. After moving up a short distance, they begin curving outward. After 7–10 seconds when they reach a certain height they stop moving, the two tips turn green for 2–3 seconds, a green mist falls down sideways, and the beams disappear. After 2–5 seconds the process repeats again and again. Around 12:30 a.m. he wakes his friend Johann Pritz in another house and they continue to watch the display for several hours. At 2:00 a.m. the light emits a red “missile” that moves east, stops, turns yellow-orange, and produces a similar pattern of signals. Then they notice a third object in the west that looks more like a dark domed disc, and it is also sending thin feelers up light upward. Three more smaller lights join the one in the east. At 3:30 a.m., the missile in the east stops and takes off to the south but the others remain. The witnesses go home at 4:30, and all the objects are gone by 6:00 a.m. They estimate that the first object has given off 1,200 signals, the domed disc some 550, and the missile a minimum of 360. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ernst Berger, “[Luminous](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%202.pdf) [‘Snails’ near Traunstein, Austria,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 2 \(October 1974\): 12–18 Source ID: Eberhart_4977 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16141 (A743FA18) Date: 10/28/1973 Description: Dionisio Llanca humanoid encounter, abduction. (UFOE II, Section XIII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Villa Bordeu, Bahia Blanca, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_4334 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16142 (DBFB9494) Date: 10/28/1973 Description: Dionisio Llanca, age 25, was changing a tire along a deserted road at 1:15 a.m. near Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina when he became aware of a yellow and blue light behind him, and three human-like beings. He then began to feel weak and barely able to move. One of the beings approached and pulled him to his feet, and a second one drew a blood sample from his finger with a device that looked like an electric shaver. Afterward, the witness lost consciousness and suffered trauma to his head and forehead. Under hypnosis and sodium pentothal Llanca recalled being transported onto a hovering, plate-shaped craft via a beam of light. He saw a room with a window and various instruments, including a screen showing a display of the stars. His abductors were two men and two women, between 5 ft. 6 in. and 5 ft. 8 in. (about 1.7m) tall. They had blond hair, wide foreheads, and elongated eyes. They were dressed in gray, tight-fighting uniforms, yellow footwear, and gloves. The beings spoke among themselves in a "squeaky" language, resembling the sound of buzzing bees. A technical device communicated with him in Spanish, or by telepathy, to reassure him and tell him that they had been coming to Earth since 1950. They told him he was chosen for contact because he was simple and good. They warned that the current course of mankind would lead to catastrophe. Later, they said, they would come back and take him with them. Llanca regained consciousness between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., some 10 km (6 miles) from where his truck was. He wandered around with no memory of his own identity until a passerby took him to a hospital, where he remained for several days.

Llanca had nightmares and severe anxiety for a prolonged period, followed by personality change. He changed jobs frequently and finally stopping working altogether, became engaged to be married and then cut off all contact with his fiancee. His parents rejected him, and he subsequently was sentenced to prison for swindling. Afterwards, there were rumors that he had fabricated the story to sell a book, and that the doctors were a party to the hoax (which seems highly unlikely). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 538-539; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1973, p. 7-8; Gordon Creighton & Charles Bowen, "The Extraordinary Case of Dionisio Llanca and the UFOnauts," FSR, November 1980, pp. 2-10; Skylook, March 1974, p. 19; Skylook, November 1975, p. 22; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, pp. 58-59, citing Kevin Randle, The October Scenario Source ID: Johnson_7240 Source: Johnson ### Event 16143 (5F85EAC6) Date: 10/29/1973 Description: At 5:20 p.m. Carlos Argue Balvidares, age 43, the manager of a country estate located 25 kilometers northeast of General Pinto, in Buenos Aires province, Argentina was drinking tea when his 13-year-old son Manuel called his attention to the presence of three people floating in the air over the surface of a pond 100 yards away. Balvidares went to the pond and called out to them. They "disappeared immediately, only to return to show themselves at the opposite shore of the pond, 300 yards away."

(Continued.) There were two men and a woman. The woman was about 5' 3" tall and had long black hair, black clothing, and white boots. The two men were both of the same height and somewhat shorter. The men appeared to be naked and of a "sunburned" color; they may have been wearing tight fitting one-piece suits. They were blond, and their hair appeared "glued on." All three had white complexions, wide foreheads, and small noses. They floated about with their arms held close to their bodies.

(Continued) On the far side of the pond rested a luminous rectangular object approximately 35 feet in diameter and 7-10 feet high. It emitted a beam of light 15 inches in diameter that struck Balvidares. He felt dazzled and he could feel heat from it. Balvidares took his horse and rode to the pond, but when he had got halfway there he encountered an "invisible barrier" and could not proceed. Meanwhile the beings continued to maneuver over the surface of the pond, communicating by "a kind of shriek, like the sound made by a radio which is poorly tuned."

After an hour and a half Balvidares again mounted his horse to ride around the pond, but this time the beings returned to the UFO. The images of the men changed in color to dark green and orange" as they approached the craft. Then the witness smelled "an odor of sulphur" and became drowsy for a few moments. When he recovered the UFO and its entities had gone. On later investigation many triangular footprints four to five inches long, showing four claw marks at the front of the triangle, were found in the vicinity of the UFO's resting place. The object itself left four triangular impressions 15 inches on a side, arranged in a square 13 feet on a side. The horse "exhibited nervousness" after the event, and its hair began to fall out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-117 (A1712), citing Omar R. Demattei, ONIFE Source ID: Johnson_7276 Source: Johnson ### Event 16144 (5CF85684) Date: 10/31/1973 Description: At around 1:30 a.m., while they were driving to Tostado from Reconquista, Santa Fe Province, Argentina on Route 98, Alphonzo L. and his wife saw, about 400 meters away something that looked like a railway car, but with a double row of small windows. It was weakly illuminated by a yellowish light. Inside it they could make out a group of humanoid beings of tall stature, moving around in a hurried manner. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-109 (A1600), citing Dr. Roberto Banchs Source ID: Johnson_7340 Source: Johnson ### Event 16145 (B94D482A) Date: 10/31/1973 Description: Time not given. About 20 miles southwest of Okawville. Eight; high school students were driving a station wagon when they spotted an unexplainable light hovering above the road (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Okawville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4335 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16146 (E99BB50C) Date: 11/1973 Description: Numerous reported landings, humanoids, and E-M effects on cars in province (UFOE II, Section VIII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Quebec, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4346 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16147 (5A76F63E) Date: 11/1973 Description: 1:00 a.m. A witness in Sauk Village, Illinois, is sitting in her dark living room when a light outside causes it to get brighter. She sees a lighted domed disc hovering in the front yard. A central section is filled with alternating blue and gold rectangular lights. It appears to be revolving, except for the dome, which is stationary. Her husband joins her and they continue watching it for 10 minutes. It quickly takes off straight up in 10 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Illinois,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 2 \(April/May 1985\): 5, 7 Source ID: Eberhart_4978 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16148 (D0DED754) Date: 11/1973 Description: Numerous reported landings, humanoids, and E-M effects on cars in province Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Quebec, Canada Source ID: HallUFOE2_227 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16149 (1123BC42) Date: 11/1/1973 Description: At 8:30 p.m. the first in a series of humanoid encounters happened near Goffstown, New Hampshire. Florence Dow heard a thump on her front veranda, and saw a motionless figure wearing an old black coat with a wide brimmed hat pulled down over the face. The figure appeared to be covered with masking tape. It motioned to her with a gloved hand. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 322; David F. Webb, 1973 - Year of the Humanoids, p. 73; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-65 (A1274 Source ID: Johnson_7385 Source: Johnson ### Event 16150 (1A6C7EA3) Date: 11/1/1973 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a disc-shaped craft maneuvered over two small towns in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Many calls were made to the police about ape-like creatures seen in Midland, Pennsylvania. Stan Gordon, the local UFO investigator, reported that there were over 100 witnesses. A 42-foot diameter ring of flattened grass with several triangular holes was found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Worley, Proceedings of the 1973 CUFOS Conference, p. 294; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 96 (case 637) Source ID: Johnson_7386 Source: Johnson ### Event 16151 (1021B091) Date: 11/1/1973 Description: On this night a round object with red and green blinking lights around its circumference hovered near a car in Morehead City, North Carolina. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carteret County (NC) News-Times, November 8, 1973; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 344 Source ID: Johnson_7387 Source: Johnson ### Event 16152 (1BB053EF) Date: 11/1/1973 Description: Round object with red and green blinking lights around circumference hovered near car. (UFOE II, Section VIII) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Morehead City, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4336 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16153 (B30B6020) Date: 11/1/1973 Description: 10:40 p.m. Blue and green object with humming noise observed near Mt. Vernon for 10 minutes. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bufkin, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4337 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16154 (72AB3F16) Date: 11/2/1973 Description: 10:40 p.m. The witness was a 23-year-old warehouseman at Mt. Vernon Milling Co. and reported a wedge-shaped object. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4340 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16155 (D752E680) Date: 11/2/1973 Description: 2:45 a.m. Lyndia Morel, a masseuse in Manchester, New Hampshire, leaves work and begins driving on State Highway 114 to her home in nearby Goffstown. On the outskirts of Manchester, she sees an odd light in the sky that is flashing different colors. The light vanishes when she reaches Goffstown, but it reappears twice more, seemingly brighter and closer. She sees that it is an orange-and-gold globe covered with hexagons like a honeycomb, with an oval window on the upper left. The red, green, and blue flashes come from somewhere near the center of the object, and she hears a high-pitched sound. Suddenly she is unable to remove her hands from the steering wheel. She feels that the object is taking control of her and the car and pulling them in. Her car speeds up against her will as she passes Westlawn Cemetery. The object is now only a few hundred feet away, and through a window she sees a smallish humanoid figure standing behind a console. The figure has a round, grayish head, a wrinkled face, a downturned slit of a mouth, and two large eyes with dark pupils. She feels that he is sending her a telepathic message to be unafraid. Somehow, she slows the car and turns into the driveway of a house just past the cemetery. She jumps out and runs to the kitchen door of the house, ignoring a German shepherd dog that growls and barks at her. She pounds on the door and rings the bell and yells for help as the UFO moves to a position across the street, hovering and watching her, still emitting a high-pitched sound. The residents, Mr. and Mrs. Beaudoin, come to the door and find a terrified woman who is covering her ears and claiming that a UFO is after her. The Beaudoins cannot see or hear anything, but Mrs. Beaudoin calls the police. Investigator [Walter N. Webb](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm) finds that the position of the UFO corresponds too closely to the planet Mars, at least in the later stage of the sighting, to rule that explanation out entirely. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Occupant Encounter in New Hampshire,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201974%2001%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 4 \(Jan./Feb. 1974\): 5–7; “[The 1973 UFO Encounter of Lyndia Morel,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/lyndiamorel1973.html)” UFO Casebook Source ID: Eberhart_4979 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16156 (D1244E39) Date: 11/2/1973 Description: Night. Police officers looking into reports of a “strange animal” seen in the area of Midland, Pennsylvania, spot a large, disc-shaped object in the sky overhead. At least 100 other people also see the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 556 Source ID: Eberhart_4980 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16157 (44930403) Date: 11/2/1973 Description: 10:37 p.m. Cop observed an OBOL (Orange Ball of Light) which reacted to light. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4341 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16158 (6971EAAB) Date: 11/2/1973 Description: UFO with bright yellow light paced car, moved in front of it; motorist felt dizzy and numb. (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [731102](http://www.nicap.org/manchester731102dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goffstown, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4338 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16159 (9CFA30E8) Date: 11/3/1973 Description: Day. At the bottom of a gully in an isolated section of the woods near Midland, Pennsylvania, two hunters find a 42-foot ring impressed in the grass. Investigator [Stan Gordon](http://www.stangordon.info/wp/stan-gordon/) finds a trail of three-toed footprints—11 inches long and 5 inches wide—some 250 yards from the ring. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 556 Source ID: Eberhart_4981 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16160 (4FDCA1D1) Date: 11/3/1973 Description: Sr. Rincon Castillo received telepathic messages to go to a certain isolated area near a lagoon, 150 kilometers south of Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia; at 8:00 p.m. After arriving there he was then instructed to go to a clearing in the woods. There he was told he would find a metallic sphere, which he did. The sphere was small and covered with tiny holes. It suddenly started shooting bright beams of light in different directions. The whole area was next illuminated by a bright glow, and two huge, saucer-shaped objects appeared and flew directly overhead. Both were dripping water and were emitting a strong heat wave. They were silent and had three rotating white spheres on the bottom, and were emitting multicolored lights. The objects then descended out of sight and dimmed their lights. After that, two tall humanoid figures wearing uniforms and helmets with transparent visors approached Castillo from the woods and told him not to be afraid. The two figures took him to a nearby clearing, where a flying craft now appeared overhead, shooting down a beam of yellow light that surrounded both the witness and the humanoids. He was then transported inside the object where he saw two more tall, smiling entities. The beings removed their helmets; they had handsome human features, and shoulder length, blond hair. Some of the men wore tight fitting silvery outfits with orange boots and gloves, while others wore brown outfits. The witness was given information about upcoming Earth changing events, and was given an extensive tour onboard the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: BUFORA Journal, 1973, p. 60; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1277; Albert S. Rosales, 1973 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1213, citing Enigma, issue # 30 Source ID: Johnson_7433 Source: Johnson ### Event 16161 (EC09EEFE) Date: 11/3/1973 Description: Mr. N. Hearn reported a close encounter with a UFO while driving on the golf course in Lewisville, Texas at 9:10 p.m. Buffeting of his vehicle was caused by turbulence from the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lewisville Leader, November 7, 1973; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 60 Source ID: Johnson_7434 Source: Johnson ### Event 16162 (10974E47) Date: 11/3/1973 Description: On this night witnesses in Industry, Pennsylvania reported to the local police the sighting of a large, dark, hairy creature with glowing green eyes. This occurred during heavy UFO activity in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1973 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1873, citing Paul G. Johnson & Joan L. Jeffers, The Pennsylvania Bigfoot Source ID: Johnson_7435 Source: Johnson ### Event 16163 (A24A78E4) Date: 11/4/1973 Description: There was another very interesting report involving two glowing creatures collecting items from the ground in the front yard of Rex Snow. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goffstown, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4342 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16164 (5982B0B2) Date: 11/6/1973 Description: After a month of very heavy UFO activity in the Gulf States and throughout the eastern United States, a fisherman had a close encounter with an unidentified submerged object in the Pascagoula River in Mississippi sometime after 9:00 p.m. on this evening. It was a bright metallic object submerged four to six feet below the surface of the water, and emitted an amber beam 4-6 inches in diameter. It was moving at 4-6 knots, and the fisherman reported that he repeatedly had to beat it away from his boat with an oar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated November 8, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_7506 Source: Johnson ### Event 16165 (74480C45) Date: 11/6/1973 Description: 9:00 p.m. Off-duty patrolmen Gary Steinberg and Thomas Brown are sitting in an unmarked patrol car in Freeport, New York, facing east. They see a bright light in the sky that is not the helicopter they think it is at first. They watch it for 5–10 minutes before it moves away to the southeast. Steinberg tries to get closer in the patrol car, while Brown stays behind and directs him by radio. He gets to within 300–400 feet of it, as it is 700–800 feet in altitude. It now appears football-shaped and 100 feet long. He watches it for 10–15 minutes as it glows silvery blue with an occasional yellow-red pulsating tint. The object then moves off to the southwest, stopping occasionally. A smaller object comes up on his right and drifts up to the larger object and merges with it. The larger object dims in sections \(about 16\), one after the other, and it takes off to the southwest and disappears in a couple seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dick Ruhl, “[Merging UFOs over Long Island,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201974%2001%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 4 \(Jan./Feb. 1974\): 1, 3– 4; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_4982 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16166 (3A411032) Date: 11/6/1973 Description: 2:09 a.m. Owner of Stadium Inn saw huge glowing object from front of place of business, chased at high speed (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Evansville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4343 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16167 (C642F565) Date: 11/6/1973 Description: 9:45 p.m. A USAF security policeman at the eastern portion of Kirtland AFB near Albuquerque, New Mexico, sees a large, glowing object hovering 100 feet above the Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility. It is an oblate spheroid, 150 feet in diameter, gold in color, and absolutely silent. Nine other air policemen are alerted, and four F-101 Voodoo Air National Guard interceptors are scrambled from Kirtland. The UFO begins moving east and passes out of sight at treetop level in the Manzano Mountains. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: R. C. Hecker, “[New Mexico](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201974%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf) [Reports,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201974%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 23, no. 2 \(Sept./Oct. 1974\): 5; Good Need, [p. 321](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/320/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4983 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16168 (F4BD3103) Date: 11/7/1973 Description: Woman driving from Winnfield to Sikes on this foggy night encountered along the roadway a three-foot-tall humanoid being with a large oval head and two bright red eyes (UFOE II, Section XII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winnfield, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4345 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16169 (B78FC1B0) Date: 11/7/1973 Description: Disc-shaped object surrounded by bright green halo, red light emitted from underside. (UFOE II, VIII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chesapeake, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4344 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16170 (EF6C87CC) Date: 11/8/1973 Description: Family dog greatly agitated when two red lights observed (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [731108](http://www.nicap.org/ar-731108dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falmouth, Nova Scotia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4350 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16171 (0BD90EC2) Date: 11/8/1973 Description: Top-shaped object with windows moved with "incredible speed," darted behind jet interceptor, shot straight up in sky (UFOE II, Section II). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Paz, Bolivia Source ID: NICAP_DB_4348 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16172 (293354C6) Date: 11/8/1973 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a motorist driving on I-10 east of Blythe, California observed a circular object in the sky with red, green, and amber lights that moved up-and-down and side-to-side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fontana (CA) Herald-News, November 9, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_7538 Source: Johnson ### Event 16173 (A9AE82FD) Date: 11/8/1973 Description: Joan Scofield reported that her family dog was greatly agitated when her family of six observed two low flying, brilliant red lights that flew over their home in Falmouth, Nova Scotia and circled back at 6:15 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 97; Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, p 5, case 19 Source ID: Johnson_7539 Source: Johnson ### Event 16174 (2BAB0BC0) Date: 11/8/1973 Description: Motorist observed circular object with red, green, and amber lights moving up and down, side to side. (UFOE II, Section VIII) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Blythe, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4349 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16175 (E2D5DC08) Date: 11/8/1973 Description: 2:40 p.m. A group of elementary school students saw a gray-white object shaped like an Apollo capsule (truncated cone) descending as if to land less than 200 feet away. (Marlin Daily Democrat, Texas, Nov. 9, 1973, UPI story) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Johnstown, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4347 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16176 (A96F95F8) Date: 11/8/1973 Description: Top-shaped object with windows moved with "incredible speed," darted behind jet interceptor, shot straight up in sky Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: La Paz, Bolivia Source ID: HallUFOE2_228 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16177 (514E860E) Date: 11/9/1973 Description: A fleet of discs, 9-11 objects in a V-formation, flew over the western shore of Mobile Bay, Alabama. They moved at a speed higher than the speed of normal conventional aircraft, and had a pale yellow (or gold) transparency. There were three witnesses; the main witness was a 29 year old repeater. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert D. Boyd, A Comparative Unit, p. 248; UNICAT, case # 473; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 189; Dwight Connelly, Skylook, May 1976, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_7572 Source: Johnson ### Event 16178 (C9567A7C) Date: 11/11/1973 Description: Airlines crew & interceptor pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Paz, Bolivia Source ID: NICAP_DB_4351 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16179 (970BA94F) Date: 11/11/1973 Description: On this evening in Greenville, South Carolina a three-foot-tall dwarf dressed in light brown coveralls got into a cab and told the driver to take him to Greasy Corners, a local intersection. The dwarf's head was featureless except for goggles or large eyes. He wore gloves and gold boots with gold buttons on the chest. The being paid for the fare with a dollar bill, which had the backside of the bill colored yellow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-71; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids Source ID: Johnson_7598 Source: Johnson ### Event 16180 (2493A1AB) Date: 11/12/1973 Description: No Details (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toronto, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4352 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16181 (8DC84680) Date: 11/13/1973 Description: In an apparent abduction attempt, in 1973 a UFO hovered over a car and "tall, thin, green occupants" tried to stop it on highway 1470 two miles east of Poteet, Texas. Paint peeled from the car due to something dripping from the UFO. Other reports of nocturnal lights seen flying in the sky that evening came from California, Yugoslavia, and Spain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Austin Evening Statesman, November 14, 1973; David Webb, 1973: Year of the Humanoids, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_7637 Source: Johnson ### Event 16182 (E6ECA140) Date: 11/14/1973 Description: In 1973 in a rural part of Greensboro, North Carolina, 9 people watched a blue ovoid UFO that made the trees rustle at 6:30 p.m.. They watched it for several minutes and noted that their dogs were upset by its presence. Later that evening, at 8:30 p.m., they saw it again and it was spitting out turquoise, amber, and white colors from a band around its middle. The case is listed as having EM interference effects. A UFO abduction is reported to have occurred in Kirkwood, Missouri to Robert Baez, although no details are available. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Arlan Andrews, Skylook, February 1974, p. 7; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, citing Steve Erdmann, Beyond Reality, January 1976, p. 25. Source ID: Johnson_7675 Source: Johnson ### Event 16183 (A18C0C00) Date: 11/15/1973 Description: On this night in 1973, a UFO was seen from the air near Managua, Nicaraugua by helicopter and airline pilots, and was also seen by ground observers. It had blue and green flashing lights, and was tracked on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p.038-18 Source ID: Johnson_7694 Source: Johnson ### Event 16184 (D7CADD8F) Date: Mid 11/1973 Description: Evening. Two sentries at a lookout post on the perimeter of Istrana Air Base, Veneto province, Italy, see two beings, about 4 feet 11 inches tall, dressed in white. Further away they see an unconventional craft. The beings run to the UFO and speed away. Marks are found at the landing site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Italy: Top Secret,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 5 \(March 1975\): iii; Good Above, [pp. 143–144](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/142/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_4984 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16185 (47A8886B) Date: 11/15/1973 Description: A bus driver in Catavi, Bolivia reported encountering a little man no more than 30 centimeters in height at the house of a family named Siles. He explained that the little humanoid spoke four languages and was interested in meeting "important officials". He ate raw meat, carrots and the family kept him in a small cage. Another local woman reported seeing two strange humanoids when she looked inside one of the windows of the Siles family. She described the being as having elongated heads with fish-like eyes. They wore shiny metallic, silvery outfits. When the beings spoke they appeared to emit an "electronic"' buzzing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing La Razon, Buenos Aires, November 1973, Fabio Picasso Source ID: Johnson_7695 Source: Johnson ### Event 16186 (21122319) Date: 11/16/1973 Description: 7:00 p.m. Two 11-year old boys are outside in Lemon Grove, California, intending to play in a vacant lot or field in the neighborhood. When they arrive, there is a dark object hovering about 18 inches above the field. It seems inactive. One of the boys cautiously approaches and raps it with his flashlight, making a sound like metal on metal. Instantly, the object’s dome lights up in a brilliant red light that illuminates the entire area. It rises three or four more feet off the ground, and a row of green lights light up around its perimeter, flashing in sequence. The thing begins rotating and making a “woooo woooo woooo” sound. The object is easily visible now and appears as a domed disc. The dome is large and tall \(about equal to half or more of the disc height\) and glowing bright red, then flashing intermittent red. The boys are now frightened and start to run away as the object takes off toward the southwest. At the site are found three marks forming an equilateral triangle within an area of grass swirled in a counterclockwise pattern. A magnetometer at La Posta Astro-Geophysical Observatory in Campo, California, allegedly registers a perturbation at 7:20 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Hovers 18ʺ off Ground / Magnetometer](http://www.nicap.org/731116lemongrove%5Fdir.htm) [Perturbation](http://www.nicap.org/731116lemongrove%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Boys Encounter Landed Object,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201974%2001%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 4 \(Jan./Feb. 1974\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_4985 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16187 (A79360C5) Date: 11/16/1973 Description: 9:45 p.m. Young man (15) and three others (l boy & 2 girls) saw object come down and land twice, Had round thing on it like an electric eye and glowing red basket-like bottom section. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Evansville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4353 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16188 (F15C4815) Date: 11/17/1973 Description: 6:00 p.m. Johann Pritz notices an oblong object emitting lights upward \(similar to those he had seen on October 29\) as he is driving near Ulltichschlag, Austria. He drives home to Bad Traunstein and continues watching the display to the south. He gathers several other witnesses in town, and they continue watching until the object fades out after 7:00 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ernst Berger, “[Luminous ‘Snails’ near Traunstein, Austria,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 2 \(October 1974\): 16–18 Source ID: Eberhart_4986 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16189 (ABC4E76A) Date: 11/18/1973 Description: On this evening four girls between the ages of 14 and 24 years old were accompanied as they drove from Tracy, Quebec toward Montreal by a luminous white flying ball of light. It was perhaps the size of a watermelon. It sometimes flew ahead of them and sometimes behind them, at a considerable distance. They passed through a cloud of red dust that obscured their vision, and shortly after emerging from the cloud they had to swerve to avoid a little man wearing dark clothing and a lappet helmet, who was standing on the white line in the middle of the road. He appeared to be sweeping with push-broom. He was short in stature and they could not see his face. After passing the "sweeper" they saw a car and three dark clad people beside the road. There were several other UFO sightings in this part of Quebec the same evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-114, citing Claude MacDuff and Marc Leduc Source ID: Johnson_7733 Source: Johnson ### Event 16190 (0B85E2CA) Date: 11/18/1973 Description: About 6:00 p.m. Four women are driving south from Tracy, Quebec, to Contrecoeur when they see a “watermelon-sized” ball of yellowish light suddenly appear above a pylon a quarter of a mile ahead of them. As they pass, it starts moving westward over the St. Lawrence River. The object seems to change shape as it flies, becoming alternately larger and smaller, dimming and growing in intensity. The light follows them as they weave in and out through wooded areas. Eventually the object is lost to sight as the women drive into Montreal. At one point they encounter a large volume of traffic that seems to be slowed by an odd pink cloud lying across the highway. They also see a small human figure standing in the middle of the road. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 107–108 Source ID: Eberhart_4987 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16191 (B1F8675B) Date: 11/18/1973 Description: On the previous evening Enrique Castillo of Fulanos de Tal, Colombia was again summoned telepathically to go to an isolated area for possible contact with "extraterrestrials." Hours went by, when at around three o'clock in the morning numerous illuminated objects appeared, one of which detached itself from the rest and slowly approached him in a zigzag fashion. It performed an astonishing series of maneuvers before landing on three supports about 60 meters away. The other lights disappeared. This craft was quite different from the one he had previous encountered, of a rather peculiar shape. A metallic ladder emerged, leaving a narrow, illuminated opening from which a human shaped silhouette could be seen. Castillo started to approach the craft but a deep voice ordered him to stop, and then beckoned him to approach slowly. Soon a human looking alien named Cyril, whom he had met on a previous occasion, met him at the doorway. He invited Castillo to walk up the six steps of the ladder. When Castillo extended his hand to greet him, he stepped back and motioned him to stop between the last step and the door. A very bright blue flash of light shone briefly, bathing Castillo's body. He understood that the blue light was part of a sterilization system.

On board were two other very different beings with "avocado-shaped heads", dressed in one-piece, ample overalls. They smiled constantly. He went to greet them, but they just bowed without extending their hands. The little men were bald, with pale skin, seemingly completed coated with a film of oil. They were about 1.5 meters (4 feet) tall, well proportioned, with large normal eyes and normal ears, a large "Greek" nose, and prominent jaws. Cyril declared that these creatures came from Mercury. Castillo was incredulous because he knew there were immense temperatures contrasts on that planet. But he was told, "you would be astonished by the civilizations that have flourished there." Via a spiral stairway Castillo was taken to the second level, which he found rather cramped. Cyril announced that the craft was on its way to the "mother ship." One of the other beings took Castillo to a closet on the first floor and gestured to him to put on a uniform, which stretched to fit him perfectly.

A gigantic craft came into view. A hatch opened, from which came an intense light. Inside the mother ship Castillo was led through several passageways and in one area he noticed an emblem, in high relief, of a winged serpent holding what looked like an egg. Inside this object Castillo also encountered toilet facilities. In the hall Castillo claims to have encountered yet another thoroughly unbelievable being, a giant man no less than three meters tall. His features were remarkably similar to those of a common terrestrial. His skin was grayish, his hands hairy with normal fingers, shaped at the tips like spatulas. He was dressed in a dull gray uniform. At one point Castillo boarded a smaller craft accompanied by Cyril and the two smaller humanoids. It took them on a ride to different places apparently on earth. Later back aboard the mother ship Castillo claims to have seen a robot, with some human features, and for the first time, women who wore tight-fitting suits and had decidedly feminine features. "Their golden hair framed the most beautiful faces I had ever seen," Castillo enthused. They were as tall as the men, perhaps 1.75 meters. Eventually Castillo was returned to an area not farm from Bogota, Columbia. He had been away for about 26 hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing Timothy Good, Unearthly Disclosure Source ID: Johnson_7732 Source: Johnson ### Event 16192 (A5CFEB9B) Date: 11/19/1973 Description: Orange oval emerged from white cloud, hovered near truck, small humanoid visible inside object. See Section XII (E) truck (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sidrolandia, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4354 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16193 (149B1F92) Date: 11/19/1973 Description: A truck engine stalled in Sidrolandia, Brazil on this night in 1973. Farmer Joao Rodrigues Terra and his farmhand Djalma Da Silva Faques were driving to the farmer's house when they observed a a bright orange oval-shaped object 12 meters in diameter emerge from a strange, low white cloud. It flew at only one meter above the ground and came to within 30 meters. It had a dome on top and bottom. The surface was shiny and metallic with a luminous fan-shaped beam directed from the top, upwards. The UFO continually changed colors. They had trouble starting their pickup truck, and then could only creep along as the UFO paced them only 30 meters away for the next ten minutes. Faques, the passenger, observed the UFO closely and could clearly see a small human figure inside. The truck functioned normally after the object sped away, but its new battery failed three days later and could not be recharged. (Sources: David Webb, 1973 -Year of the Humanoids, case 73-46D; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-76; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 255). On this night in 1975 in Oak Brook, Illinois, a boy saw a domed disc hovering near his home. The UFO had a red light on top and two clear lights on the side. That same night a red oval-shaped UFO followed a car in Saint Thomas, Pennsylvania. It hovered, and then disappeared. . Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_7740 Source: Johnson ### Event 16194 (218735D6) Date: 11/20/1973 Description: UFO Stops Train (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [731120](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/731120mtvernon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4355 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16195 (8E705C3C) Date: 11/22/1973 Description: 2:00 a.m. A woman living in an isolated area near Joliette, Quebec, notices a white object outside her kitchen window. She moves closer to the window and sees a 4-foot-tall being with huge glowing eyes. Around its head or helmet there is a halo; its shoulders slope at a 45° angle from the head. After 15 seconds, the figure withdraws. She alerts her husband, who goes outside to investigate but only finds the dog “scared to death.” The following night the cat is spooked. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Claude Macduff, “[The November 1973 UFO-Invasion of Quebec,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/UFO%20Register%20%28UK%20Contact%29/UFO%20Register%20-%20Vol%2007%20parts%201-2%201976.pdf)” The UFO Register 7, no. 1/2 \(1976\): 12–15; Clark III 496; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 108–109 Source ID: Eberhart_4988 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16196 (559F5327) Date: 11/23/1973 Description: A torpedo-shaped object flew quickly through the sky near the locks at Brunel Ward, Huntsville, Ontario. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Huntsville Forester, November 29, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_7845 Source: Johnson ### Event 16197 (B5F7C3E3) Date: 11/23/1973 Description: 11:30 p.m. This close encounter began with the observation of five red lights in a curve, indicating something round. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Matthews, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4356 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16198 (CFC43432) Date: 11/24/1973 Description: A photograph of a domed ovoid UFO was taken at 5:00 p.m. in the Piedmont region of Italy. A 23-year-old man named Contin took the photo of the object in Susa, Italy as it was making seemingly impossible maneuvers. Jets were later seen chasing the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, October 1974, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_7878 Source: Johnson ### Event 16199 (DD83FC36) Date: 11/25/1973 Description: 9:50 p.m. The RCMP report he and his brother Manus Smith had been driving on old Highway 3 near the western Bear Point turnoff when they encountered some lights in the sky. (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [731125](http://www.nicap.org/ar-731108dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falmouth, Nova Scotia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4357 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16200 (482D9240) Date: 11/26/1973 Description: Two raccoon hunters spotted a large reddish orange sphere across the field north of Lincoln, Missouri at 9:30 p.m. Their dogs ran away, past some cattle, and jumped into their truck and refused to get out. When the hunters drove away the UFO silently paced their truck for half a mile on Highway 65, near some power lines. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, Skylook, February 1974, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_7942 Source: Johnson ### Event 16201 (B92F06EF) Date: 11/28/1973 Description: A Gallup poll shows that 51% of Americans believe UFOs are “real,” as opposed to 27% who think they are “imaginary.” And 11% claim to have seen a UFO, extrapolating into 15 million Americans. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[51% in Gallup](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/11/29/91036607.pdf) [Poll Believe in U.F.O.’s: 11% Note Sightings,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/11/29/91036607.pdf)” New York Times, November 29, 1973, p. 45; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_4989 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16202 (9C0700A9) Date: 11/28/1973 Description: Gallup Poll showed that 51 percent of Americans believe UFOs are "real," 11 percent claim personal sightings, and 93 percent are aware of the subject. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_229 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16203 (618F39B7) Date: 11/28/1973 Description: 7:15 p.m. This incident involved three witnesses who reported two orange-red balls of light that hovered low to the ground in the west for about six minutes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bufkin (2 miles East of), IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4358 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16204 (54D89D89) Date: 11/29/1973 Description: At 6:00 p.m. a blinking white light approached a car in Waukesha, Wisconsin being driven by a Ms. Beckman, with her child as a passenger. The UFO came from the east, stopped at 500 feet altitude, then moved away quickly to the left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, February 1974, p. 5, citing The Waukesha Freeman Source ID: Johnson_8038 Source: Johnson ### Event 16205 (D66F9863) Date: 11/29/1973 Description: At 11:15 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Dotson sighted a silent flying triangle with rounded corners, and flashing a red light in the bottom center with two blue lights on the wings. It moved slowly and paced their car on Route 252 in Paoli, Pennsylvania. The UFO may have had a 100 foot wingspan. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: King of Prussia (Pennsylvania) Today's Post, December 3, 1973; J. Bernard Delair, The UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case # 1065 Source ID: Johnson_8037 Source: Johnson ### Event 16206 (52E5F47A) Date: 11/30/1973 Description: 7:00 p.m. Pilot Riccardo Marano is about to land at Caselle Airport, Turin, Italy, in a Piper Navajo, when the controller notifies him that there is a UFO about 1,320 feet above the runway. He sees a luminous, multicolored ball of light changing from violet to blue to dark red. “When I got closer and had a better view, the object at once made off, flying in a most irregular fashion, maneuvering in a way I have seen no plane do, making fantastic lateral deviations, and sudden vast jumps to and fro, as if it enjoyed playing hide-and-seek. Its speed was as high as” 540 mph, Marano says. Col. Rustichelli, commandant of the Caselle military airfield, sees the UFO on his own radar screen. “It was something solid, lit up, like a plane on my radar.” Commander Tranquillo, pilot of an Alitalia Air Line DC-9 en route from Turin to Rome, calls to the control tower: “I see a shining thing giving out intermittent flashes of light, four miles from me. I dare not approach. I give way.” Commander Mezzalami in another Alitalia DC-9 reports: “I was able to observe the object … notified by the control tower just as I was about to touch down. I had a good view of it        I can offer no theories as to its significance and can only say that it was something very strange indeed.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO Darts To and Fro, Observed from 3 Aircraft and Gnd](http://www.nicap.org/731130turin%5Fdir.htm) [Radar](http://www.nicap.org/731130turin%5Fdir.htm)”; Story, [p. 373](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/372/mode/2up); F. Lagarde, “[Italie: Turin 30 Novembre et Suza 24 Novembre 1973,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20133.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 133 \(March 1974\): 5–6; Gordon Creighton, “[The Italian Scene Once More,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 2 \(October 1974\): 27; 1Pinotti 185–186 Source ID: Eberhart_4990 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16207 (9246D1A1) Date: 11/30/1973 Description: Military radar tracked a UFO near the Torino-Caselle Airport in Turin, Italy; a business pilot named Ricardo Marano and others saw a disc-shaped object with glowing blue-red colored rings hovering 365 meters over the end of the runway. It darted back and forth in the sky, so he gave chase in his Piper aircraft. The object zigzagged away at 5,000 km/hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1973, p. 15; APRO Bulletin, June-July 1975, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 38; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 17, 121, 243 Source ID: Johnson_8080 Source: Johnson ### Event 16208 (437F2B91) Date: 11/30/1973 Description: UFO hovered and darted around near CaseIle Airport, seen by pilots and tracked on airport radar Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Turin, Italy Source ID: HallUFOE2_230 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16209 (B4FB3DE5) Date: 11/30/1973 Description: UFO Darts To & Fro, Observed From 3 Aircraft & Gnd Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [731130](http://www.nicap.org/731130turin%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Turin, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4359 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16210 (726B38A2) Date: 12/1973 Description: Kansas is quietly undergoing an epidemic of strange cattle deaths. The incidents first receive wide publicity in the December 22 Kansas City Times, which takes note of the fact that most of the deaths are Black Angus. They have died within a few miles of US 81 in a dozen counties in north-central Kansas. Many show knife marks on the carcasses, including the apparent butchering of sex organs. The lack of blood and footprints is also puzzling. Sheriffs from the affected counties meet and decide that cultists are responsible. But according to the Kansas State University Veterinarian Laboratory in Manhattan, the animals have died of bloat and coyotes have eaten the soft parts. Many ranchers reject the explanation. Mystery helicopters are also linked to the mutilations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 133; “[Cattle Mutilations Baffle](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96664156/) [Kansas Farmers, Officials,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96664236/)” Kansas City \(Mo.\) Times, December 22, 1973, pp. 1–2, 16; Jerome Clark, “Strange Case of the Cattle Killings,” Fate 27, no. 8 \(August 1974\): 79–90; Roberta Donovan and Keith Wolverton, [Mystery Stalks the Prairie](https://archive.org/details/mysterystalkstheprairierobertadonovankeithwolverton/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/mysterystalkstheprairierobertadonovankeithwolverton/page/n1/mode/2up) THAR Institute, 1976 Source ID: Eberhart_4991 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16211 (C23D3F6D) Date: 12/1973 Description: [Donald E. Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe) publishes Aliens from Space, in which he continues to ignore occupant cases but finally admits that the CIA, not the Air Force, is the primary perpetrator of the UFO cover-up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, [Aliens](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh) [from Space: The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh)[,](https://archive.org/details/aliensfromspacer00keyh) Doubleday, 1973; Clark III 649–650 Source ID: Eberhart_4992 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16212 (63637445) Date: 12/1973 Description: The Société Varoise d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux in Toulon, France, begins publishing the journal Approche in conjunction with the Société Vauclusienne d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux in Vedene, France. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Approche](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Approche/Approche%20-%20no%2001%20-%20Decembre%201973.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Approche/Approche%20-%20no%2001%20-%20Decembre%201973.pdf) no. 1 \(December 1973\) Source ID: Eberhart_4993 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16213 (CA322D54) Date: 12/1/1973 Description: In 1973, Mr. Marjapori was loading gravel at French Lake in Annandale, Louisiana at eight o'clock in the morning when he spotted a silver, cone-shaped UFO. The large end of the cone was revolving, and it was emitting silver streaks from the short end. It shot away to the southeast at a very high speed. At 7:00 that evening a shiny, silver cigar-shaped object descended and paced a car with a mother and daughter in Sugar Grove, Ohio. The UFO had a red light on one end, a green light on the other, and a pulsating white light in the center. It fixed a beam of light on the car and pursued it for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Newspaper Clippings file, December 6, 1973; Geri Wilhelm, Skylook, February 1974, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_8106 Source: Johnson ### Event 16214 (D670E360) Date: 12/2/1973 Description: A box-shaped object approximately 8 feet in diameter was sighted by some fishermen in Bonneville Carteret, Normandy, France at 5:30 in the morning. It directed a beam of light upon their fishing nets. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Courier Ouest, December 7, 1973; Roland Godefroy, Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1973, p. 19; FSR, July 1974, pp. 32-33 Source ID: Johnson_8127 Source: Johnson ### Event 16215 (EB58DDFD) Date: 12/2/1973 Description: A 150 foot wide disc hovered in front of the car of a Mr. & Mrs. Gerard while driving on the interstate highway near Wilsonville, Oregon this evening. The object spun in a circular motion, and traveled up the I-5 freeway. It had circular portholes two to three feet deep, one inverted C-shaped area with no lights, and a blue light on top. It went behind a hill and was gone from view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case #1174 Source ID: Johnson_8130 Source: Johnson ### Event 16216 (66AEE8C6) Date: 12/2/1973 Description: A luminous disc-shaped object maneuvered over the city of Brussels, Belgium shortly after midnight, flashing and glowing. It then faded in intensity to a bright star. It stayed visible for 75 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, July 1974, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_8126 Source: Johnson ### Event 16217 (C5823AEC) Date: 12/2/1973 Description: At 6:00 p.m. several teenagers in Levittown, Pennsylvania observed a UFO with lights "flying funny" up and down the Delaware River. It had three flashing red lights, and made no sound. It next hovered in the sky for one minute, then vanished in the clear sky. At 6:35 p.m. several city residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania watched a UFO over the Linden Avenue area of the city, including some who viewed it through binoculars. It looked like an acorn, with a green bottom. It was blinking slowly and was surrounded by a gray mist or haze. At 11:25 p.m. a cartographer and his wife saw UFO with four blinking white lights and a red light in the center while driving in northeast Philadelphia on Interstate 95. The object had a rectangular-shaped bottom, and a hat-shaped side view; it flew to the north, met up with a cluster of lights, and then flew off towards Bristol. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, December 3, 1973; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), cases #1088, 1090 & 1092; Matthew Graeber, Fate, May 2002, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_8128 Source: Johnson ### Event 16218 (152F92B8) Date: 12/2/1973 Description: At 7 p.m. a strange, robot-like creature about four feet tall, with large round glowing eyes 18 inches wide, was seen in Korning Wood, Quebec, Canada at a distance of about 200 feet from the house of the witness. It possessed a large round head, long arms, and a bright red glow that emanated from behind its head. It disappeared behind the observer's house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing Marc Leduc, CASUFO Source ID: Johnson_8129 Source: Johnson ### Event 16219 (14F0A162) Date: 12/3/1973 Description: There were three close-encounter cases and numerous reports of nocturnal lights reported on this night in 1973 as well. A 26-year-old woman driving along Route 322 at 9 p.m. in Logan, New Jersey, in Gloucester County, first noticed a red glow, then a hamburger-shaped disc with a red light on top and a green light on the bottom. The UFO made a hissing sound, and emitted bright white jets of light from the sides when the object moved, like rocket thrusts. At 11:30 p.m. in Horton Bay, Michigan a glowing, mushroom-shaped UFO was seen over a highway intersection. It made no sound, and “just disappeared.” On that same night on a farm between Lincoln and Cole Camp, Missouri a farmer reported that a low flying UFO frightened his livestock. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Woodbury (NJ) Daily Times, December 5, 1973; Petoskey (MI) News Review, December 4, 1973; Warrensburg (MO) Star-Journal, December 11, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_8165 Source: Johnson ### Event 16220 (9CB05C58) Date: 12/3/1973 Description: James Yorke and his family watch a triangular UFO with colored lights on the bottom for 15 minutes two miles north of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. It is over Minas Basin and crossing the water very slowly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Ledger, “The Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_4994 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16221 (70B8DB5D) Date: 12/5/1973 Description: In the pre-dawn hours a red disc-shaped object was seen over some marshes at a low altitude near Nimes, Gard, France. At dawn 65 bulls of the breed that supplies the French bull rings were found drowned in the river. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: South China Morning Post, December 22, 1973; FSR, July 1974, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_8206 Source: Johnson ### Event 16222 (EC414FAB) Date: 12/5/1973 Description: At 5:30 p.m. a mother and her four teenage daughters first saw a flash of green light, then they saw a lime-green, domed cupcake-shaped object in a snow-covered soybean field while driving southwest of Underwood, Iowa. A search showed no landing traces in the snow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON field investigation case file, field investigator Elmer Kral Source ID: Johnson_8207 Source: Johnson ### Event 16223 (400CF347) Date: 12/5/1973 Description: On this night a basketball coach and two other men in a car near Carnegie, Oklahoma drove toward some flashing lights, and saw a being on the roadside with green flashing lights on his shoulders. The being approached the car. He wore "blood red pants" and a welder's type mask with a red flashing light on top. Another man reported seeing the being and a glowing white light down a side road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Humanoid Report Catalogue, case 1973-79; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids; Tulsa World, December 6, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_8208 Source: Johnson ### Event 16224 (89D2BC54) Date: 12/6/1973 Description: Beginning at around 7:45 a.m., an airliner was delayed from landing three times because of nocturnal lights and radar returns from all over the area of Pisa, Italy for 30 minutes. One of these lights flew off rapidly to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 134 Source ID: Johnson_8234 Source: Johnson ### Event 16225 (A415DC01) Date: 12/6/1973 Description: A burglar alarm went off in a house in La Selva Beach in Santa Cruz, California around 5 a.m. Appliances in house started operating and kept rhythm with the lights flashing on a UFO outside; the freezer in particular surged when the lights on the UFO became intense. Deputy sheriffs came in response to the burglar alarm call and also saw the lights from the craft, which were red, blue, green and orange. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James A. Harder, APRO Bulletin, November-December 1973 Source ID: Johnson_8236 Source: Johnson ### Event 16226 (6F6A306C) Date: 12/6/1973 Description: At 6:45 p.m. in the mountains five kilometers southeast of Fabregues, France two teenagers discovered a 12 meter wide disc-shaped object resting on four legs on the ground. It had a bright dome or "blister" on top. A door in the craft opened and a ladder unrolled. The witnesses fled and the UFO took off, making a humming sound. It pursued the witnesses for awhile, then flew off to the southwest. Four imprints were found in the ground at the landing site. They were arranged in a 1.3 meter square with a central burn mark. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated December 22, 1973; Fred I. Merritt, Leg-Mark Catalog; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 714; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 134; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974) case 1120, citing the Saga UFO Report Source ID: Johnson_8235 Source: Johnson ### Event 16227 (9D8E05DC) Date: 12/6/1973 Description: 6:45 p.m. Witnesses at Fabrègues, Hérault, France, see a landed domed disc on legs with a brightly lit “blister” on top, flashing red and white lights around the rim and making a humming sound. A door opens and a ladder unfolds, causing the witnesses to flee. The craft changes to an orange glow and chases them. Later, four imprints in a 51-inch square are found, along with ladder marks. The area appears “swept” as if by a blast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yves Herbo, “[Décembre 1973: Atterrissages avec traces à Fabrègues,](https://www.sciences-faits-histoires.com/blog/ovni-ufo/decembre-1973-atterrissage-avec-traces-a-fabregues.html)” Sciences Faits et Histoires, November 21, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_4995 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16228 (6E141C1D) Date: 12/8/1973 Description: While harvesting, farmer Kevin O’Connell finds seven sections of his oat crop flattened into circles 3 miles west of Bordertown, South Australia. They are spread over 20 acres and the largest is 14 feet in diameter. The oats are flattened counterclockwise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Terry Wilson, “[1973: Bordertown,](https://oldcropcircles.weebly.com/australia-1973-bordertown.html)” Old Crop Circles Source ID: Eberhart_4996 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16229 (085F6A27) Date: 12/9/1973 Description: A 20 meter in diameter cone-shaped object with metallic antennae was seen in the sky over Mont Ste. Victoire, Bouches-Rhone, France by an aerospace worker at 10:45 a.m. It tilted at an angle, rose in the sky, then shot off toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1975 Source ID: Johnson_8285 Source: Johnson ### Event 16230 (8F450DE6) Date: 12/10/1973 Description: Egg-shaped object with body lights sped toward witnesses, hovered. Reacted to light signals, sped off to south, departed upward at steep angle Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Hochries, Germany Source ID: HallUFOE2_231 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16231 (683EDDF0) Date: 12/10/1973 Description: About 8:30 p.m. Near the Austrian-Bavarian border, Friedrich Lennartz, 33, and Peter Zettel, 29, had a close encounter of the second kind when a multi-colored, ovoid UFO (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hochries, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_4362 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16232 (5FC03886) Date: 12/10/1973 Description: About four hours later (6:20 p.m. local time) in Ouzoues-sur-Loire, France a 50-year-old couple, several other witnesses, and gendarmes watched a silent, 5 meter tall cone-shaped UFO only 20 meters from the ground fly away toward the southwest. Two hours after that, at about 8:30 p.m. in Hochries, Germany near the Austrian-Bavarian border, Friedrich Lennartz, age 33, and Peter Zettel, age 29, had a close encounter of the second kind when a multi-colored, ovoid UFO responded to a red signal rocket they had fired to get the UFO's attention. The UFO had been hovering near a mountain ski resort with the pointed end up. Its size was estimated as nine meters in diameter and 12-14 meters tall. The top portion looked like a yellow dome. Four rows of colored lights (red, green, blue, and white) rotated counterclockwise around the lower portion. They experienced loud static on their short wave radio as the UFO changed color to a dazzling red, made a 90-degree turn, and sped toward the witnesses, traveling 5-6 kilometers in 10 seconds. It hovered close to their mountain for two more hours as their dogs whimpered to be let into the cabin. The UFO then shot upward at a steep angle at "breakneck speed." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 47 Source ID: Johnson_8306 Source: Johnson ### Event 16233 (C68A0972) Date: 12/10/1973 Description: About 6:20 p.m. A 50-year-old couple, several other witnesses, and gendarmes watched a silent, 5 meter tall cone-shaped UFO only 20 meters from the ground fly away toward the southwest. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ouzoues-sur-Loire, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4361 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16234 (2A94136A) Date: 12/10/1973 Description: B. R. Arroyo was driving in his car around 2:00 a.m. when he was paced by an ovoid UFO at low altitude near Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: D. N. Mansell, The UFO Register, volume 5 (1974) Source ID: Johnson_8304 Source: Johnson ### Event 16235 (865EC13E) Date: 12/10/1973 Description: Also on this day in 1973, two 11-year-old boys in Chula Vista, San Diego County, California spotted a flying saucer from their school classroom. The bottom of the object was "real shiny like it was glowing." In Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, California early that morning at 5:50 a.m. a UFO with red lights on top and silver lights on the bottom moved gradually north after remaining stationary for 10 minutes. The UFO was viewed through binoculars, and reportedly had a wide red band that rotated around the middle of the craft's body Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, newspaper clippings, Chula Vista Star & Watsonville Register, dated December 13, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_8305 Source: Johnson ### Event 16236 (396D7694) Date: 12/11/1973 Description: A 54-year-old woman spotted an eleven-meter wide yellow dome-shaped object with striped dark bars from her residential neighborhood of Frameries, Hainaut, Belgium at 5:45 a.m. The object flew in front of the witnessat 12 meters altitude. It had 4 or 5 bars and small red and blue lights slowly flashing underneath every two seconds, plus two headlights. At 6:30 p.m. a luminous white disc-shaped object hovered in place over Dilbeek, Brabant, Belgium for a few minutes. It then swung silently around to show its edge, at the end of which flashed two red lights. The UFO climbed into the sky, leaving toward the northeast. There were three adult witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Bougard, SOBEPS News, May 1976, pp. 30-31 Source ID: Johnson_8342 Source: Johnson ### Event 16237 (A8257010) Date: 12/11/1973 Description: "Circular, like a flying saucer, had an intense red light." Hovered for about 15 minutes (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Malaga, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4363 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16238 (DFC0C749) Date: 12/11/1973 Description: At 6:30 p.m. an oval-shaped object with a tower or antenna on top, pulsated red over a pasture, a quarter of a mile north of Calvert, Texas. It was sighted by a mother and daughter named Smitherman, who reported it made a whooshing sound, took off fast, then landed again behind some trees. It left behind some landing traces on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Calvert (TX) Tribune, December 20, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_8343 Source: Johnson ### Event 16239 (CB6AFF26) Date: 12/12/1973 Description: At 9:15 a.m. the witness was alone at home with her young daughter and had just stepped out onto her patio in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico when she saw a bright oval-shaped craft hovering at a high altitude overhead. It appeared to be rocking back and forth. She went back inside the house and she next heard a loud humming sound, which stopped for a few moments, then started again. She then saw through her kitchen window a strange being standing 15 feet away. He was of normal height, but wore a bright, tight-fitting uniform and a black helmet. His skin was reddish bronze in color and he seemed not to have a mouth or a nose. His eyes were two round holes that stared at the witness intensely. A yellowish beam of light illuminated the man from an unknown source in the sky. The witness felt like she going into a trance, and began receiving telepathic messages from the being. At one point she felt compelled to go to the front of the house, where she saw a floating box about three inches long and very shiny, it seemed to have had a calming effect on her. After the incident she went into a fit of hysterics. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 271, citing Robiou Lamarche, Manifesto OVNI En Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo Y Cuba Source ID: Johnson_8356 Source: Johnson ### Event 16240 (57A7A8D9) Date: 12/13/1973 Description: Patrick Thrush spots a hovering UFO above a river with a tube leading from the craft to the water. Witness takes 2 photos with his flash, the tube retracts and the UFO goes over his car and drops warm dry “rocks” on it. UFO seen by another witness. Norman S. Bean contacted. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [link](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6) Location: Bradenton, FL Source ID: Maj2_673 Source: Maj2 ### Event 16241 (528DBE8B) Date: 12/13/1973 Description: Three 16-year-old boys saw a silver disc hovering 20 feet over the Braden River in Florida. It extended a tube into water. They took two photographs of the UFO. The UFO then retracted its tube while making a clanking sound, buzzed their car, and changed colors from bluish-green to reddish-orange. Three odd rocks, about a half inch in diameter, of iron pyrite were found near the site. Later that night in Cabana Colony, Florida Mr. & Mrs. McGhee saw a flying object as big as a 4-5 houses, that dipped down behind a neighborhood gas station, changing colors from yellow to orange to red. It stayed around for awhile, according to the couple. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, December 23, 1973; 1974 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, p. 52; Dwight Connelly, Skylook, November 1975, p. 26; (2) West Palm Beach (Florida) Weekday, January 2, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_8377 Source: Johnson ### Event 16242 (85B99BDC) Date: 12/13/1973 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a tall cone-shaped object with lights hovered at 30 meters altitude over a road in Haisnes-lez-la-Bassee, Pas-de-Calais, France. It shot away very fast toward the west, making no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 728, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 136 Source ID: Johnson_8376 Source: Johnson ### Event 16243 (317D4570) Date: 12/13/1973 Description: On a crisp, clear night a couple reported seeing a frightening object as they were about to get in their car. The UFO was described as a red light in the sky. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ellwood City, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4365 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16244 (E8E79004) Date: 12/13/1973 Description: 8:50 p.m. While checking on a strange object seen near the Braden River, the witness started to turn his car around, and the high beams from his car picked up a silvery reflecting object hovering 20 feet above the river. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [731213](http://www.nicap.org/bradenton731213dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bradenton, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4364 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16245 (349E179E) Date: 12/14/1973 Description: At 9:43 p.m. in Paso Robles, California a solid red beam of light from a black cone-shaped UFO hit the ground, throwing up dirt. The cone then moved into an amber sphere that began to emit a vapor of some kind. The sphere then took off at a sixty-degree angle up into the sky. Two six-foot tall "robots" with crinkly skin were seen on the ground where the beam had hit. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ann Druffel, Skynet. Source ID: Johnson_8394 Source: Johnson ### Event 16246 (ECBFF22D) Date: 12/15/1973 Description: In 1973, on a highway in Le Gua, France a near collision occurred between a car and a 15-meter long silver cloud shaped UFO at around eleven o’clock in the morning. The UFO was heading in a southerly direction, but made an instantaneous ninety-degree turn and shot off toward the east. At 7:20 p.m. on a highway in Chateauneuf-sur-Loire, France a green ball of light dropped from the sky. At the same time a car’s engine and radio died. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 134, and December 1975 Source ID: Johnson_8414 Source: Johnson ### Event 16247 (A6A422F5) Date: 12/15/1973 Description: A single crop circle is found in a wheat field at Wokuma, South Australia. The wheat has been flattened counterclockwise and there are two bare patches. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Terry Wilson, “[1973: Wokuma,](https://oldcropcircles.weebly.com/australia-1973-wokurna.html)” Old Crop Circles Source ID: Eberhart_4997 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16248 (BBC2FF86) Date: 12/19/1973 Description: 2:00 a.m. Round disc. 16 1/2 ft. dia. Upper half orange, lower half dark red. Transparent cupola on top. Emblem on side of disc. Flashing body lights. Greenish glow. Muffled chirring sound. One humanoid. 3 1/2 ft. tall. Medium build, normal proportions. Dark face with glowing yellow eyes exhibiting oval vertical pupils and veinlets. Pointed ears. (V.M., 28, Ref. Bruno Molon) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vilvorde, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_4366 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16249 (5AB58E8B) Date: 12/19/1973 Description: A famous well-investigated close encounter of the third kind report occurred on this night in Vilvoorde, Belgium. A 28-year-old man awoke at 2:00 a.m. and saw in the yard behind his house a short entity about 1.1 meters tall dressed in a luminous green space suit and helmet. The being carried a device with a long handle and a base that looked similar to a vacuum cleaner. He walked up the side of a wall. The domed disc UFO was about six meters in diameter, and had an insignia shaped like a black circle with a diagonal lightning flash through it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean-Luc Vertongen, FSR, April 1975, p. 13, citing Inforespace Source ID: Johnson_8511 Source: Johnson ### Event 16250 (9FEF0166) Date: 12/19/1973 Description: At 11:00 p.m. later that night two large square objects hovered, maneuvered, and made a loop in the sky over Charmeil Airport, France. They flew away and came back briefly, then left going toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 136 Source ID: Johnson_8512 Source: Johnson ### Event 16251 (E510BA82) Date: 12/19/1973 Description: Red and blue lights moved through the sky, stopped, and then reversed direction abruptly over the city of Grand Island, Nebraska at 9:45 p.m. local time. On the same night a photograph of a UFO was taken in Chilton, Texas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Elmer Kral, MUFON field investigation files, report dated December 19, 1973; (2) J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register (Volume 5), 1974, case 1144, citing Saga UFO Report Source ID: Johnson_8513 Source: Johnson ### Event 16252 (4311662C) Date: 12/20/1973 Description: In the afternoon Mrs. Brooker saw a cone-shaped UFO with flashing lights ascend vertically “very, very fast” leaving behind a trail of smoke in the eastern sky over Norman, Oklahoma. That same day a cattle mutilation was reported having occurred two miles east of Concordia, Kansas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norman Transcript, December 21, 1973; Kansas City Times, December 22, 1973 Source ID: Johnson_8536 Source: Johnson ### Event 16253 (0347E19C) Date: 12/20/1973 Description: That night three teenage girls sighted an oval-shaped object with portholes while driving on a highway eight miles east of Casino, New South Wales, Australia. The UFO made sharp maneuvers, circled the city, flew up high in the sky and came back down to a low altitude. It changed color from red to green to white, and was surrounded by a blue haze. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richmond River (NSW) Express, January 4, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8537 Source: Johnson ### Event 16254 (872FA8B9) Date: 12/20/1973 Description: Two men, Klinn and Wagner, sighted a huge, yellowish glowing blob over Pacific Palisades, California at 2:15 a.m. It had flashing lights forming a triangle. They watched it through a 16x telescope. Forty-five minutes later a huge cigar-shaped UFO with four or five along the side and an appendage appeared in the sky, followed by a domed disc. The entire event lasted 82 minutes, until 3:37 a.m. when the lights went off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_8535 Source: Johnson ### Event 16255 (182EF547) Date: 12/20/1973 Description: 2:15 a.m. Michael Wagner and Robert B. Klinn of Pacific Palisades, California, see a yellow, glowing blob hovering in the south-southeast. Through a telescope, the blob is seen to be a precise arrangement of round, yellow-gold lights. It fades away after 75 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ann Druffel, “Santa Catalina Island Recurring ‘Cloud- Cigars,’” [Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference](http://cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf) Center for UFO Studies, 1976, pp. 67–68; Ann Druffel, “Santa Catalina Channel Cloud Cigars,” IUR 31, no. 1 \(January 2007\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_4998 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16256 (EE74703D) Date: 12/25/1973 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a three-meter wide dome hovered over a field at a farm in Les Riveaux, Allier department, France. Two glowing tubes protruded from the object, and the witness was levitated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8604 Source: Johnson ### Event 16257 (3D33F7B3) Date: 12/31/1973 Description: At 7:00 a.m. on highway 347 between Lens and La Bassee in Pas-de-Calais, France Mr. Liefooghe had a close encounter with two UFOs. He came upon a disc-shaped object on the road, and he watched a cigar-shaped UFO land in a vertical position. He did not stay around but came back later with investigators, who found ground marks and small footprints. At five a.m. CST another cigar-shaped object with two small wings approached a home in La Grange, Illinois rapidly from the west. The object was self-luminous and appeared solid, and passed low over the treetops. At 4:20 p.m. Pacific Standard Time a photograph of a luminous UFO was taken in Spokane, Washington and the event was witnessed by two families. At 10:30 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, on a highway near a farm east of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada a man saw a bright light in his rearview mirror. It looked like the revolving light on a train, except there were no railroad tracks in the vicinity. He then noticed an eight-foot tall giant running in a ditch alongside the truck at speeds up to 60 mph. The being touched the hood and roof of the truck before being out-distanced. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: newspaper clipping dated January 1, 1974; La Grange (Illinois) Suburban Life, January 5, 1974; Gert Herb case investigation files; John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_8670 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1974 (Back to Top) ### Event 16258 (4C2ACA41) Date: 1974 Description: Perry Petrakis founds the Association d’Étude sur les Soucoupes Volantes in Aix-en-Provence, France, and soon establishes branches in Vevey, Switzerland, and Kalmthout, Belgium. It begins publishing the AESV bulletin through June 1981. AESV continues under the name SOS-OVNI in 1990. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [AESV](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/AESV/AESV%20-%20no%2006.pdf), no. 6 \(April 1978\) Source ID: Eberhart_5000 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16259 (5DBDE83B) Date: 1974 Description: Contact \(UK\) expands to Contact International, after establishing many overseas branches in Turkey, Colombia, and elsewhere. It has an international membership of 2,000. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [p. 89](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/88/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5001 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16260 (C3B835F8) Date: 1974 Description: John Hind establishes the Irish UFO Research Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It publishes the Irish UFO News from 1976 to 1980. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Irish UFO News](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Ireland/Irish%20UFO%20News/Irish%20UFO%20News%20-%20No%202.pdf) 1 no. 2 \(July 1976\) Source ID: Eberhart_5002 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16261 (935CBB92) Date: 1974 Description: UFO skeptic [Philip J. Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) publishes UFOs Explained, taking on some difficult UFO cases but finding none worthy of attention. Ufologists take vigorous issue with his representation of cases and publish numerous refutations that are little noticed outside the UFO community. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philip J. Klass, UFOs Explained, Random House, 1974; Clark III 659 Source ID: Eberhart_5003 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16262 (EDE81DD1) Date: 1974 Description: The UFO Subcommittee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is disbanded. \(Story, [p. 8](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/8/mode/2up)\) 1974 — [Bob Gribble](http://avalonlibrary.net/Wendy%5FConnors%5FFaded%5FDisc%5Farchive/NuforcDirectory.pdf), a Seattle, Washington, fireman, establishes the National UFO Reporting Center, with a hotline phone number that is shared with Federal Aviation Administration offices. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Profile,” IUR 7, no. 2 \(March 1982\): 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_5004 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16263 (388D898E) Date: 1974 Description: John Rimmer has moved from Liverpool to London, England, in 1973, but John Harney moves there this year to work for the Kew Observatory. MUFOB continues in London, with Rimmer taking over the bulk of the editorial work. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[History of](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/p/future-publications.html) [Magonia,](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/p/future-publications.html)” Magonia Archive Source ID: Eberhart_5005 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16264 (CF24D2A3) Date: 1974 Description: 12:30 a.m. Two women are driving along Hamilton Road, Quakers Hill, New South Wales, when the car suddenly shakes violently and stops. The radio will not turn on. The driver gets out of the car to get her children out of the back seat when she looks up and sees a massive disc-shaped object at an altitude no greater than the nearby power pole. It is surrounded completely by lights and has a dome in the middle on the top. The object is gun-metal gray and the size of half a football field. It silently moves over the dairy farm next to the road. Then it stops and shoots up into the air. The car starts up with no problems afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_5006 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16265 (AB659A19) Date: 1974 Description: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) renewed Type: law Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_674 Source: Maj2 ### Event 16266 (774EE2E1) Date: 1974 Description: The French government decides to systematically gather UFO reports from the gendarmerie and transmit them to the Centre National d’Études Spatiales \(CNES\). At the time, the gendarmerie has about 300 reports and is getting 100 new ones each year. A committee of the Institut des Hautes Études de Defense Nationale recommends the creation of a special UFO investigation agency. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 11; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_4999 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16267 (C5F319F8) Date: 1/1974 Description: Since 1968, [Marjorie E. Fish](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108104504/marjorie-eleanor-fish), a schoolteacher in Oak Harbor, Ohio, has been fascinated with the star map drawn by [Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) after her abduction. If she could figure out what stars are on the map, she might be able to determine where the UFO came from. With much difficulty and many failed attempts, Fish creates a 3D map that indicates the relevant stars are the two in the Zeta Reticuli binary system, 39.3 light years from earth. She first publishes her results in Pursuit. Later observations reveal some interpretations in Fish’s map to be inaccurate, and she rejects her hypothesis in 2011. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Betty and Barney Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill\#Analyzing%5Fthe%5Fstar%5Fmap)”; Marjorie E. Fish, “[Validation of the](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Pursuit%20-%20SITU%20%28Sanderson%29/Pursuit%20-%20No%2025%20-%20Vol%2007%20No%201%20-%201974.pdf) [Betty Hill Map,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Pursuit%20-%20SITU%20%28Sanderson%29/Pursuit%20-%20No%2025%20-%20Vol%2007%20No%201%20-%201974.pdf)” Pursuit 7, no. 1 \(January 1974\): 4–8; Terence Dickinson, “The Zeta Reticuli Incident,” Astronomy 2, no. 12 \(December 1974\): 5–18; “Update on the Betty Hill Star Map,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 \(Jan./Feb. 1981\): 16, 29; Allan Hendry, “UFO Road Map: or, Lost in the Stars,” Fate 35, no. 2 \(February 1982\): 56–63; David J. Eicher, “[The Zeta Reticuli \(or Ridiculi\) Incident,](https://astronomy.com/bonus/zeta)” January 31, 2001; Brett Holman, “Goodbye, Zeta Reticuli,” Fortean Times 242 \(December 2008\): 50–52; Colin Johnston, “The Truth about Betty Hill’s UFO Star Map,” Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, August 19, 2011; Clark III 586–487 Source ID: Eberhart_5008 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16268 (C74E323C) Date: 1/1974 Description: [Don Berliner](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-IS/berliner.htm) of the Fund for UFO Research does an exhaustive review of the then unreleased Project Blue Book files at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, which include many witness names that are later redacted for public release. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5007 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16269 (63717A8C) Date: 1/3/1974 Description: 9:30 p.m. Two young student teachers are driving home near Leek, Staffordshire, England, when a green mass appears to follow them. The couple feels a presence. Despite being on a lonely road, they get out of the car to watch a dark mass low above their heads, with arcs of blue and green light encircling them. In terror, they head off over the moors, but moments later they run over a cattle grid, inexplicably finding themselves in Ilam 12 miles away. Seconds later there is another bump and they reach a developed area that turns out to be a town 20 miles to the north. They find a police station to report the incident and find that it is now 3:30 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 \(Christmas 2018\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_5010 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16270 (43EC156A) Date: 1/4/1974 Description: Martin W Barry, a Marine sergeant, was making his usual early morning 5 mile run in a park, in a driving rain, when he came up with a 7-foot tall, bulky figure standing in a slumped forward posture, long arms dangling nearly to the ground. Behind it, hovering only a few feet off the ground was an orange pulsating flying saucer. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Ana, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4369 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16271 (D28A46A9) Date: 1/4/1974 Description: 5:15 p.m. Two women were driving, saw hovering object (about 75' high) with two bright lights in front shining straight ahead, and smaller lights around the sides. (SL 75,15) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Berwyn, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4367 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16272 (1D94431D) Date: 1/4/1974 Description: Two woman driving in a car in the suburbs of Chicago followed a low flying UFO in Berwyn, Illinois at around 5:15 p.m. The object had two bright lights and a red tower-shaped structure. It flew at an estimated 75 feet above the ground, then hovered over a high school athletic field. It turned off its lights when it flew away. At shortly after 7:00 p.m. a UFO hovered over Legler Lake, Minnesota. At eight p.m. in rural Lake county Minnesota police officers Haugan and Dufresne of the Waldo Township Police saw four “unbelievably bright” lights, the color and hue of a burning log, from their patrol car. The lights flew to the west, then banked and flew off toward the southwest at an estimated 800 feet altitude. Their sighting lasted 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON Field Investigation files, report dated January 6, 1974; CUFOS case investigation files, report dated May 12, 1975; Two Harbors (MN) Chronicle and Times, January 10, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_91 Source: Johnson ### Event 16273 (6E20DBD3) Date: 1/5/1974 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a disc-shaped object paced a car with six witnesses north of Glenham, North Dakota causing electrical system interference. The UFO followed the witnesses home. Small windows were seen through binoculars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Emenegger, UFOs: Past, Present and Future, p. 128 Source ID: Johnson_129 Source: Johnson ### Event 16274 (D477E642) Date: 1/5/1974 Description: At 4:25 a.m. two police officers, Abbington and Regot, in a patrol car in St. Charles, Missouri followed an oblong UFO with two white rectangular lights and a rotating red light in the center. The object moved directly toward police at one point, and made a hissing sound like escaping steam. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Saga UFO Report, April 1975, p. 50; John F. Schuessler, Skylook, February 1974, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_128 Source: Johnson ### Event 16275 (AAA3985C) Date: 1/5/1974 Description: At 6:00 p.m. a motorist watched a nine meter in diameter domed disc-shaped object fly to the west over the reservoir in Rambouillet, Yvelines department, France. It directed a beam of light down on the water. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1975 Source ID: Johnson_127 Source: Johnson ### Event 16276 (5AF73C07) Date: 1/6/1974 Description: Dog's barking caused woman to look out window (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [740106](http://www.nicap.org/ar-740106dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4368 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16277 (0F181128) Date: 1/6/1974 Description: At 6 p.m. two women watched a strange looking bullet-shaped metallic object move across the sky above Bend, Oregon travelling from the southeast to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bend Bulletin, January 7, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_170 Source: Johnson ### Event 16278 (3A232BB1) Date: 1/6/1974 Description: Martin W. Barry, a Marine Corps sergeant, was making his usual early morning five mile run in the park in Santa Ana, California. He was out running in a driving rainstorm, when he came upon a seven-foot-tall, bulky figure standing in a slumped forward posture, with long arms dangling nearly to the ground. Behind it was hovering an orange pulsating flying saucer, only a few feet off the ground. The creature's head accounted for more than half of its height. It had very large eyes, and its legs were "squashed" and "stubby." It waddled up to Barry and struck him on the chest, knocking him into a pool of water. It then waddled away and climbed aboard the UFO, which rose into the sky. Others reportedly saw UFOs over Santa Ana that day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Human Reports, case 1974-63, citing Andrew Gallagher, Ideal's UFO Magazine, # 1, March 1978 Source ID: Johnson_169 Source: Johnson ### Event 16279 (62C9DD3E) Date: 1/7/1974 Description: Driving toward Warneton, Belgium along the French-Belgian border, the witness experienced the failure of the lights, engine, and radio of his car. He saw a landed object 150 meters away in a field to his right. The UFO was shaped like a World War I British helmet, was 7 to 10 meters wide, and stood on tripod landing gear. It had patches of orange luminescence on top with a white light underneath. Two beings were seen coming from the direction of the object, walking slowly and stiffly toward the car. The shorter entity wore an outfit with horizontal rings around the torso and a round helmet with a large, circular face plate showing a pear shaped, grayish head with no hair, round "marble like" eyes, a rudimentary nose, and a slit-like lipless mouth. He held an object like a short thick ruler with a pointed tip, aimed at the car. The taller entity wore a cubical helmet transparent in form, showing a face identical with the other's but with a small rectangular box under the chin. His suit was a dull metallic gray one-piece coverall, including gloves and heavy, pointed boots. He wore a black belt with a luminous disc in front and a diagonal "Sam Browne" strap from belt to shoulder, with a vertical row of "buttons" on each side of the chest. Both beings had long arms. The interior of the helmets appeared to be illuminated. A third entity was seen standing guard near the object.

The two beings approached to within four meters of the car and the taller was seen opening and closing his mouth. The witness felt a slight shock on the back of his head and heard, simultaneously, a low pitched, modulated sound. The two suddenly wheeled around and walked quickly back to the object, which now pulsated an electric blue color on top. The three beings boarded, the landing gear withdrew, and the object rose slightly, hovered, then ascended rapidly at a 60 degree angle. A car was then seen approaching, whose driver said he had seen the object and its occupants. As the primary witness drove off, he continued to get poor reception on his car radio. The duration of the close encounter was about 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-1, citing Jean Marie Bigorne, Lumeires Dans la Nuit Source ID: Johnson_185 Source: Johnson ### Event 16280 (29BE8DE1) Date: 1/7/1974 Description: Helmet-shaped object with tripod legs on ground nearby, shock, humanoid encounter. See Section XII (E,R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warneton, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_4371 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16281 (E1B5BB11) Date: 1/7/1974 Description: UFO landed, humanoid encounter Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Warneton, Belgium Source ID: HallUFOE2_232 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16282 (C7C480BF) Date: 1/7/1974 Description: 8:40 p.m. A man’s car suddenly dies as he is driving near Warneton, Belgium. He sees a landed domed disc with a flat bottom like a WWI helmet, 23–33 feet in diameter and 7–10 feet wide. It has a flange around its base and three legs. White and orange alternating bands are on the glowing object. Two humanoid beings approach him. They have broad shoulders, heads shaped like inverted pears, long arms, large eyes, and no noses. One is about 4 feet tall, the other somewhat taller; a third being remains near the craft. They wear internally lit cube- shaped helmets with the face visible, gray jumpsuits, and gloves. The taller being comes within 12–15 feet of the vehicle, then opens and closes its mouth. The witness feels a shock to the back of his head and hears a low- pitched sound. The two humanoids quickly return to the craft, which now pulses with an electric blue color, and departs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MM. Bazin, Bigorne, and Bodin, “[Atterrissage à Warneton \(Belgique\): Contact avec les Ufonautes,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20139.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 139 \(November 1974\): 3–6; “[The Robots at Warneton,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 5 \(March 1975\): 6–9; UFOEv II 493 Source ID: Eberhart_5011 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16283 (6535A2CD) Date: 1/8/1974 Description: After leaving his job in Springfield, Ohio Mr. Justice, age 50, experienced the failure of his car lights and engine at 3:13 a.m. He then saw multicolored blinking lights descend just meters in front of his car, followed by the appearance of a blinding white oval of light approximately six feet in diameter, apparently showing the interior of a UFO. He could see five small occupants within, seated on high backed chairs and wearing bright colored robes. Each had very long brown hair that reached almost to the floor. They appeared to be three to four feet tall, but the witness could not recall their facial features. The UFO brightly illuminated the surrounding terrain and his car's interior. After five minutes the interior light went out and the UFO ascended rapidly with another display of multicolored, flashing lights. A maintenance man on the workplace premises had noticed a failure of his "pager" radio four times between seven and eight o'clock earlier that evening although no UFOs were seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-2; citing Leonard Stringfield for CUFOS; J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated July 9, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_199 Source: Johnson ### Event 16284 (1FCFA045) Date: 1/8/1974 Description: 3:00 a.m. [John E. Justice](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47846217/john-everett-justice) leaves the Ohio Masonic Home in Springfield, Ohio, when his headlights dim and the engine dies. He sees a display of aerial lights descending a short distance in front of him. The blinking lights are multicolored “like a rainbow.” Suddenly they blink out and are replaced by a blinding steady white light about 6 feet ahead of and 3 feet above the car. The light is coming from the inside of the object, where he can see a lighted room with a golden aisle and five occupants seated on the left-hand side in a straight row. Each seat is a different color, and the garments of the occupants match the color of the seat. Each has long brown hair that reaches the floor. The object departs suddenly, the interior blinking out and the colored lights reappearing. The car engine starts without difficulty. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_5012 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16285 (C693C14D) Date: 1/8/1974 Description: On this afternoon In Zafferana, Italy a woman was working alone in a small room of her house when she felt a strong rush of wind. She turned around and was confronted by a very bright light, within the light she was able to see a tall man wearing a tight-fitting coverall outfit with gold colored boots. He had short light hair, light skin and large almond-shaped eyes. The witness was not frightened and said she felt a sudden sense of joy and peace. The

Perhaps a coincidence, but on this date in both of the years 1974 and 1975 a cattle mutilation report and a humanoid report occurred within the same 24-hour period. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 559, citing Angel Franchetto, Los Extraterrestres y Nuestro Futuro Source ID: Johnson_201 Source: Johnson ### Event 16286 (932DA0D6) Date: 1/8/1974 Description: A cattle mutilation was reported in McPherson County, Kansas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerome Clark, Fate, August 1974, p. 79 Source ID: Johnson_202 Source: Johnson ### Event 16287 (59719350) Date: 1/8/1974 Description: 3:13 a.m. Leaving his job, witness's car lights dimmed and motor stalled. He saw multicolored lights descend just yards in front of car, followed by the appearance of a blinding white oval of light 6 ft in diameter, apparently tht interior of the object. Five small (3-4 ft) occupants observed, sitting to one side on high-backed seats. A maintenance man on the premises had noticed a failure on his "pager" radio four times between 7 and 10 p.m., although no lights or UFOs were then observed. 5 minutes, E-M effects (CHR 74-02. Investigator: Leonard Stringfield, CUFOS) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4372 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16288 (ED2CA99D) Date: 1/8/1974 Description: At 7:40 a.m. three men driving on a highway south of Enterprise, California saw a steady white light come down vertically from the sky. They said that it appeared to land some place near the Pacheco School in Shasta County. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Redding Record Searchlight, January 11, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_200 Source: Johnson ### Event 16289 (FB544A2A) Date: 1/9/1974 Description: A UFO with a red light on top, and with green, orange, yellow and white flashing lights around the middle traveled west to east over the Deschutes River Canyon, then stopped over Grass Valley, north of Madras, Oregon at 1:30 a.m. It was joined by a second object. That night a UFO with a multi-colored ring of lights was seen descending slowly near Route V eight miles south of Sedalia, Missouri. It disappeared behind a ridge at 8:20 p.m., and may have landed remotely. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Bend Bulletin, January 9, 1974; (2) Ted R. Phillips, Skylook, February 1974, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_224 Source: Johnson ### Event 16290 (CE49ACF6) Date: 1/15/1974 Description: Two students were walking along the beach in Mar Del Plata, Argentina at midnight when they sighted a small white light moving towards the coast from the sea. It divided into three lights as it came closer. They walked to the nearest pier to catch a better look of the lights and began walking down the pier when two more lights became visible to their right. They could now see that the lights were five humanoid beings that were walking gracefully in the water. The seawater reached their chests. These beings were dressed in diving suits and their heads were covered with helmets with a mask and a tube going onto their backs. The beings walked out of the water and onto the road, leaving the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 242, citing Fabio Picasso, Strange Magazine, # 8 Source ID: Johnson_339 Source: Johnson ### Event 16291 (9E696391) Date: 1/18/1974 Description: 4:30 p.m. Giuseppe Cardelli is driving between Milan and Bologna, Italy, when he sees a “strange shining ball” in the sky. He stops his car, gets out, and photographs it. He submits the photo to NASA, which replies on June 18 that it has no explanation. A consultant wonders whether the photo shows a reflection in the car window and finds the “wiggly clouds to the right” interesting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Italian Photo Unexplained,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201975%2009%2000%20-%20Vol%2024%20No%203.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 3 \(September 1975\): 1, 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5013 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16292 (0D2823F8) Date: 1/18/1974 Description: A six-meter long UFO rose vertically in response to light signals flashed at it by three witnesses in Landivisiau, France. It changed shape to a sphere, then left by rising vertically into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 74 Source ID: Johnson_374 Source: Johnson ### Event 16293 (F7F3EF6F) Date: 1/22/1974 Description: A man on his way home from work spotted what he described as a flying saucer near a gravel pit in this New England town. He saw a light in the air and as he approached it, the light became brighter and larger. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, February 1974, page 2) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norton, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4373 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16294 (4BD89941) Date: 1/22/1974 Description: On this evening a domed, disc-shaped object was encountered over a gravel pit in Norton, Massachusetts. It had lights around its edges. It blew out orange and white smoke when it left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1974, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_418 Source: Johnson ### Event 16295 (6706E5E4) Date: 1/23/1974 Description: 8:30 p.m. The entire village heard a terrific explosion preceded by the violent shaking of the ground. Going outside people saw blue and orange lights floating in a circle around Cader Mountain, east of the village. Aa retired military man using the name of "Robert Prescott" that told him that he and some others had been assigned to transport two crates from the crash site at a place called Porton Down military personnel opened the crates and the Prescott saw two humanoid figures about 5 to 6 ft tall, very thin, almost skeletal in nature with a covering skin. Other units supposedly transported live aliens from the "crash" site. (HC addition # 3925; CSETI, Nicholas Redfern, "Cosmic Crashes", Type: H) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Llandrillo, Wales Source ID: NICAP_DB_4374 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16296 (3AC6248D) Date: 1/23/1974 Description: 8:30 p.m. Witnesses at Llandrillo, northern Wales, see a bright object followed by a luminous tail and \(according to one witness\) a blinking blue light. The object is motionless for several minutes, during which time it dims then becomes very bright. It appears to crash around Cadair Bronwen mountain, east of the village. Many people hear a terrific explosion and a violent shaking of the ground recorded up to 60 miles away. Astronomers at Leicester University, England, record at least three fireball meteors this evening. The British Geological Survey identifies the source of the explosion as an earthquake. Police and a mountain rescue team from RAF Valley in Anglesey, Wales, are in the area almost immediately and cordon off access to the supposed crash site on a barren hilltop. They find no trace of a crash the next day, but a nurse on the way to the crash site after being telephoned by police headquarters is on her way up the mountain with her daughters when she sees something sitting on the ground ahead of her. It seems to be intact and is large, circular, and glowing orange. The nurse and her daughters are within a few hundred feet when police and military forces show up and clearly tell her to leave the area. Researcher [Tony Dodd](https://colinandrews.net/TonyDoddPassing.html) is reportedly approached by a retired military man using the name of “Robert Prescott” who tells him that he and some others were assigned to transport two oblong crates from the crash site to a place called Porton Down where the UK Ministry of Defence’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is located. They are instructed not to stop for anyone. Military personnel open the crates and Prescott sees two humanoid figures, apparently dead, about 5–6 ft tall, very thin, almost skeletal in nature with a covering skin. These are placed in decontamination suits. Other units supposedly transport live aliens from the crash site. At 10:00 p.m., a man watches a luminous sphere descend into the sea near the Dee Estuary about 25 miles north. [Nick Redfern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FRedfern) speculates that a UK version of Project Moon Dust might be in activation, which could explain reports of mystery helicopters in the area in prior weeks. [Jenny Randles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles) hears later from a former UK government official that a crashed UFO is being kept in a military base in South Wales. In May, Welsh MP [Dafydd Elis-Thomas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafydd%5FElis-Thomas) asks Defence Minister [Brynmor John](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brynmor%5FJohn) if any official investigation was made; John says the only official investigation was made by the RAF Valley team. National Archives files released in 2005 show that the MoD consulted the Meteorological Office and DI55, which says the meteor explanation is the likeliest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Berwyn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn%5FMountain%5FUFO%5Fincident) [Mountain UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn%5FMountain%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; Jenny Randles, “The Night the Mountain Exploded,” IUR 21, no. 4 \(Winter 1996\): 9– 11, 32; Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 116–124; Andy Roberts, “Fire on the Mountain: The Berwyn Mountain Incident,” IUR 24, no. 3 \(Fall 1999\): 16–23, 30; UFOFiles2, [pp. 90–91](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n149/mode/2up); “[Files Released on 1974 ‘Welsh Roswell,’](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-10863645)” BBC News, August 5, 2010; Andy Roberts, UFO Down? The Berwyn Mountain UFO Crash, CFZ Press, 2010; Clark III 287–288 Source ID: Eberhart_5014 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16297 (D4F83990) Date: 1/23/1974 Description: The entire village of Llandrillo, Wales heard a loud explosion that was preceded by violent shaking of the ground. Running outside, many people saw blue and orange lights floating in a circle around Cader Mountain east of the village. Police and RAF personnel were in the area quickly and cordoned off access to a supposed crash site on the barren hilltop. A nurse, telephoned by the police, was on her way up the mountain to the crash site with her daughters when she saw something sitting on the ground ahead of her. It seemed to be intact and was very large, circular and glowed orange. She and her daughters got to within a few hundred feet of teh object when the police and military showed up and told her to leave. According to UFO researcher Tony Dodd, a retired military man using the name of "Robert Prescott" told him that he and some others had been assigned to transport two crates from the crash site to the top secret military weapons research facility at Porton Down near Salisbury, England. According to Prescott, military personnel opened the crates and found two humanoid bodies about 5 to 6 feet tall, and so very thin they were almost skeletal in nature. Other units allegedly transported live aliens from the "crash" site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 3925, citing CSETI; Nicholas Redfern, Cosmic Crashes Source ID: Johnson_449 Source: Johnson ### Event 16298 (C2EDEEAA) Date: 1/24/1974 Description: While the RAF rescue team is still operating around Cadair Bronwen, three family members see a bright object in the sky near the mountain. Through field glasses, they see a disc-shaped object divided into red, green, yellow, and purple sections. After 10 minutes they call the police and the object disappears behind a cloud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_5015 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16299 (582DBF7B) Date: 1/24/1974 Description: Disc-like object on ground near road; engine restarted by itself when object departed. See Section VI (E,R) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aische-en-Refail, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_4375 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16300 (05893227) Date: 1/24/1974 Description: On this night in Souppes-sur-Loing, Seine-Marne department, France two witnesses watched an ovoid UFO give off flashes and change color. It also made multiple stops and starts, before finally shooting off rapidly to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 142 Source ID: Johnson_488 Source: Johnson ### Event 16301 (2E1AE9E9) Date: 1/24/1974 Description: A young woman returning home at Aische-en-Rafail near Lierneaux, Belgium at 4:03 p.m. saw an object shaped like a flattened cupola resting on the ground. The engine and radio in her car both failed and she stopped near the object. It had three sections, colored red, yellow, and black. After about 30 seconds, it rose up slowly and disappeared behind a line of trees. The car's engine came on by itself as the object left. There were two other sightings that evening in France and another in England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 359, citing SOBEPS News, No. 9, June, 1977; Richard H. Hall, Skylook, February 1976, p. 10; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 142; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 255 Source ID: Johnson_487 Source: Johnson ### Event 16302 (965D64F4) Date: 1/25/1974 Description: 6:30 p.m. WTVW's David Goodnow (later CNN anchorman) saw three glittering red-colored objects like illuminated sign, blinking at random, very bright, with smaller white light on each side (like oOOOo) with no sound. (Ridge files, UFOFC) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Evansville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4376 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16303 (FCD3DD97) Date: 1/26/1974 Description: 2:59 a.m. Capt. Lars Berglund and the crew of a Boeing 727 airliner flying near Lisbon, Portugal, see a V- formation of 10–15 luminous orange discs. Berglund rules out a satellite reentry because of its precision. After the formation passes, another Portuguese aircraft reports the same objects to ground control. A Norwegian and a British aircraft also report the same phenomenon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Formation Seen by Air Crews,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201974%2003%2000%20-%20March-April.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 5 \(March/April 1974\): 7–8; “[Airliner Met 15 UFOs over Lisbon,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/UFO%20Sweden%20Special%20Report%20%28UFO-Sverige%29/UFO-Sweden%20Special%20Report%20-%201974%204.pdf)” UFO-Sweden Special Report, 1974 no. 4, pp. 3– 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5016 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16304 (57AD91DE) Date: 1/26/1974 Description: V-formation of luminous orange discs observed by airline crew Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Lisbon, Portugal Source ID: HallUFOE2_233 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16305 (C295CF31) Date: 1/26/1974 Description: At 2:59 a.m. Captain Berglund and the flight crew of his SAS Boeing 727 airliner flying east of Lisbon, Portugal encountered a precise V formation of 10-15 bright glowing orange disc-shaped objects, flying at 31,000 feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1989, p. 22; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 64; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 121 Source ID: Johnson_529 Source: Johnson ### Event 16306 (7D21D829) Date: 1/26/1974 Description: B-727 crew rep v-form of 10-15 objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lisbon, Portugal Source ID: NICAP_DB_4377 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16307 (DEDAC185) Date: 1/26/1974 Description: Pilots report 5 objects circling plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Ana, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4378 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16308 (53D7DBEF) Date: 1/29/1974 Description: A flight instructor and his student were flying over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Santa Ana, Orange County, California in the middle of the day when they were buzzed by five glowing red UFOs, which circled their plane for the next hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_580 Source: Johnson ### Event 16309 (CE799EDB) Date: 1/31/1974 Description: A V-Shaped light appeared over a car northeast of Tarbes on highway N21, France around two o'clock in the morning in the Pyrenees. The four witnesses felt heat and electricity, and later had headaches. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database case 11084; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 133 Source ID: Johnson_639 Source: Johnson ### Event 16310 (D55A717E) Date: 2/1974 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) visits the APRO headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, asking for a contact list of APRO investigators for the Center for UFO Studies to make use of in a cooperative fashion. [Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) is suspicious of Hynek’s background and does not provide him the list. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Hynek: UFO Movement Basically Amateurs,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201986%2001%2000%20-%20Vol%2033%20No%202.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 33, no. 2 \(January 1986\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_5017 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16311 (0A968863) Date: 2/4/1974 Description: 6:00 p.m. UFO shaped like wooden shoe with transparent dome atop seen outside witness's house, hovering 6 ft over garden. Emitted buzzing sound and disrupted TV reception. (CHR- 74-04, W.A. Darbro, ANLEY Ingram) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shores Community, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4379 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16312 (C1FF4576) Date: 2/6/1974 Description: Late evening. A woman watching TV in rural Fayette County near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, hears a “rattling of tin cans” on her porch. She grabs and loads a shotgun, turns on the porch light, and steps into the doorway of the porch, where she encounters a 7-foot-tall apelike creature with its hands raised in the air. She fires into his midsection and it “just disappeared in a flash of light.” Her son-in-law, who lives in a trailer 100 feet away, hears the shot, grabs a revolver, and heads for her house. Along the way, he sees “shadows of four or five hairy people” who approach him. They have “fire red eyes that glowed in total darkness.” About 1,500 feet away, a red, flashing light hovers above the trees. Investigating police arrive and find no tracks but notice that the animals seem terrified. The son-in-law tells investigator [Stan Gordon](http://www.stangordon.info/wp/stan-gordon/) that he had encountered a similar apelike creature in November 1973. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 556–557; Stan Gordon, “UFO’s, in Relation to Creature Sightings in Pennsylvania,” MUFON 1974 UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1974, pp. 132–154 Source ID: Eberhart_5018 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16313 (07609AD4) Date: 2/8/1974 Description: On this evening at Wadi Jawlan in Yemen east of Al-Makalla, three Arab men saw three large white disc-shaped objects glide toward ground and land in the nearby desert. When on the ground a bright light and three beams of light were directed upward into the sky. The objects stayed on the ground for several hours. Later at the landing site investigators found three imprints, each 85 cm wide, arranged in a triangle with sides 5.3 meters in length. The vegetation was also burnt. On the same evening at 7:30 p.m. a glowing domed disc was sighted in Douvrin, France just 15 meters above the ground. It vanished, then reappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Gordon Creighton, FSR, December 1974, p. 12; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1974 Source ID: Johnson_755 Source: Johnson ### Event 16314 (AC48658B) Date: 2/8/1974 Description: Sunset. Mullah Umar Siddiq, merchant Ibrahim Khaleb, and physician Muhammad Watif are standing on the roof of the Al-Hud Mosque in Al Mukalla, Yemen, when they see three large white discs gliding slowly downward. They gather some provisions, hire three camels, and head for the Wadi Jawlan 32 miles to the east, where they estimate the objects have landed. At dawn, they dismount to say prayers, and a vivid glow lights up the eastern sky above the Wadi Jawlan for a few seconds. The light is yellowish-white and comes from three beams that are stabbing upwards and fanning out into the sky. Although the light dies down, the beams are still visible, eventually growing paler. They find deep, clear-cut tracks of caterpillar-track vehicles all over the rugged area. At three places, about 325 feet apart, they find numerous scoop marks, about 33 inches wide, in an area in the form of a triangle with sides 17 feet wide. The rock has been fused and melted and the grass and thorn-scrub is burnt. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[An Arabian Landing?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 \(December 1974\): 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_5020 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16315 (99AF3BDE) Date: 2/8/1974 Description: 7:25 a.m. Ten girls from the orphanage school in Vălenii de Munte, Romania, watch two yellow-orange spheres above a hill to the southwest of town. After 10 seconds, they merge into one object and take the form of an elongated oval with an orange dome. It begins moving slowly toward the west-southwest, then accelerates and disappears behind the treeline after 40 seconds. Fresh marks are found in a plowed field at the site where the object was seen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 36–37 Source ID: Eberhart_5019 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16316 (6E736211) Date: 2/9/1974 Description: At around 9:00 p.m. four people riding in a car traveling on a highway north-northeast of Evansville, Indiana were levitated by a UFO and lost consciousness. When they recovered they had over two hours of missing time. One of the abductees recalled interacting with an occupant of the UFO, who looked to be human, and who somehow knew the names of the four of them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 46; Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_776 Source: Johnson ### Event 16317 (64E0E845) Date: 2/9/1974 Description: That same night David Swanner of Shores Community, Tennessee claims he was invited by two "men" to ride in a UFO. In a few moments after accepting their invitation they flew over San Francisco, then the Hawaiian Islands. His round trip excursion took only 45 minutes. The purpose of their presence, he was told, was to warn of the "possible destruction of Solar System by atomic bombs." The UFOnauts were between four and five feet tall, wore white coveralls, and had long, pointed chins, with tall foreheads and small eyes, ears, and noses. They claimed that their lifespan was between 125-175 years. Mr. Swanner was instructed to inform the public. He claims to possess proof, but it "cannot now be revealed." This was his third close encounter with the aliens. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, MUFON Symposium Proceedings 1975, p. 51 & 55; Stanley Ingram, Pulaski Citizen, October 30, 1974; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-05 (A1301), citing Stanley Ingram Source ID: Johnson_777 Source: Johnson ### Event 16318 (E64FEE89) Date: 2/11/1974 Description: An orange hemisphere followed a car in Chalons-sur-Marne, Marne department, France at night. Meanwhile, a large cloud-cigar was seen over some trucks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 135 Source ID: Johnson_831 Source: Johnson ### Event 16319 (FDF4E801) Date: 2/13/1974 Description: At 8:20 p.m. north of Colleret, Nord, France a domed disc-shaped object was first sighted as it was heading toward the west. It turned to the south over a geological fault line. A second disc followed the same course ten minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1975 Source ID: Johnson_900 Source: Johnson ### Event 16320 (4A6A9F78) Date: 2/13/1974 Description: On this night a college student in Barrington, New Hampshire sighted a domed ellipse or cigar-shaped object that flew slowly at first, making controlled maneuvers, and then shot away fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1974; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11118 Source ID: Johnson_899 Source: Johnson ### Event 16321 (47428B55) Date: 2/13/1974 Description: A student from the University of New Hampshire reported observing a cigar- shaped object that appeared to have brilliant white lights on both sides. The witness further described the UFO as having an elongated dome on the top (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, April 1974, page 4) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barrington, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4380 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16322 (D4751DE3) Date: 2/14/1974 Description: Round orange object paced, approached truck, E-M effects on lights and engine, truck lifted off road, steering control lost, feeling of vacuum Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Ely, NV Source ID: HallUFOE2_234 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16323 (DB794389) Date: 2/14/1974 Description: 4:25 a.m. Two brothers are transporting their parents’ furniture in a U-Haul truck near Ely, Nevada, when they notice a round, orange object that paces them, then approaches. They feel as though they are “hit by a blast of wind or force field.” The engine and lights give out, the steering goes, and the truck seems to momentarily float, come back down, and coast to a stop. Ahead of them, just over a hill, they see a large, round object with a domed top and wings. The other object approaches again. One brother points a flashlight at it, whereupon they both get an intense feeling of isolation that lasts about 20 minutes. Since the truck appears to be damaged, they flag down a passing car and call for a tow truck. When the tow truck hauls it away, the rear wheels fall off. It needs new tires, a rear axle, outside housing, and gears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Car Disabled by UFO?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201974%2005%2000%20-%20May-June.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 6 \(May/June 1974\): 4–5; UFOEv II 218–219 Source ID: Eberhart_5021 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16324 (89E61708) Date: 2/14/1974 Description: 1:30 p.m. A man was walking along a rural road when he suddenly felt a force pulling at him and a tingling sensation. He then saw a white, disc-shaped object with transparent dome hovering just above the ground. A light beam was directed at him from the apparent craft. Three small beings, about 1.0 to 1.2 meters tall, were moving in and out of an opening and acting interested in the terrain. (Ouranos No. 14, 2nd Quarter 1975. Investigated by M.J. Bertil. Translated from the French by Jacques Deschenes.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Petite-Ile (Reunion), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4382 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16325 (6CB24B5F) Date: 2/14/1974 Description: Two brothers were moving some of their possessions in a truck near Ely, Nevada. At around 4:15 a.m. the engine of the truck began missing and the lights flickered, so they shifted into neutral. They then felt a blast of wind shake the truck and saw an orange colored light moving low to the ground from right to left. They stopped the truck and saw six different lights or objects surrounding them: three blue stationary lights, a red pulsating light, a silver colored saucer, and a reddish-orange saucer. The red light then came directly at the truck, passed close by, and continued on behind them. After the objects had finally disappeared, they found the rear axle on the truck broken in half. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 360, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_917 Source: Johnson ### Event 16326 (9A0D75D8) Date: 2/14/1974 Description: Round orange object, others, moved nearby, force felt, truck lifted off road. See Section VI (E,L) rental truck (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ely, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_4381 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16327 (B2300E0D) Date: 2/17/1974 Description: An unidentified flying object was reported to have landed on Fifth and Jackson Streets. The witness immediately called the local newspaper to report the sighting. The newspaper man then noticed a brilliant object only about 5,000 feet off the ground. It blinked on and off like a light bulb. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, May 1974, page 2) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stuart, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4383 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16328 (FB80A64E) Date: 2/17/1974 Description: At ten p.m. a 10 meter long cigar-shaped object appeared over a vineyard in a rainstorm in Montreal-d'Aude, Aude department, France. It had four blazing lights on display as it moved up a road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe: What You Have Not Been Told about Flying Saucers, p. 86 Source ID: Johnson_964 Source: Johnson ### Event 16329 (E759236D) Date: 2/18/1974 Description: Dog and cattle frightened by slow moving oval (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [740218](http://www.nicap.org/chelseadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chelsea, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4384 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16330 (2B793563) Date: 2/19/1974 Description: A police officer and a gas station operator in Rochester, Minnesota saw a UFO "bigger than a wrecker truck" at 11:27 p.m. It had a white dome shell on top, several afterburners flaming from the bottom, and flew at an altitude of only 100 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS case files, report dated February 20, 1974; George D. Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 30; John Magor, Canadian UFO Report, November 1974 Source ID: Johnson_1001 Source: Johnson ### Event 16331 (B279ECC1) Date: 2/21/1974 Description: French radio journalist [Jean-Claude Bourret](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%5FBourret) interviews French Defense Minister [Robert Galley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FGalley) for his France Inter radio program, OVNIs: Pas de panique! Galley says his department has been interested in UFO reports since the French wave of 1954. Ministry records contain many baffling radar/visual cases. He speaks of the strong quality of the evidence and that people must regard UFOs with a “completely open mind.” The mass of UFO reports “from the airborne gendarmerie, from the mobile gendarmerie, and from the gendarmerie charged with conducting investigations,” all of which are forwarded to CNES, would make people see that it is “pretty disturbing.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[French Minister Speaks on UFOs,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 2 \(October 1974\): 3–4; Good Above, [p. 129](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/128/mode/2up); Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 11; Yves Herbo, “[OVNIs et divulgation: Le Ministre des Armées françaises l’a fait en](https://www.sciences-faits-histoires.com/blog/ovni-ufo/ovnis-et-divulgation-le-ministre-des-armees-francaises-l-a-fait-en-1974.html) [1974,](https://www.sciences-faits-histoires.com/blog/ovni-ufo/ovnis-et-divulgation-le-ministre-des-armees-francaises-l-a-fait-en-1974.html)” Sciences Faits et Histoire, February 2, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_5022 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16332 (761B556E) Date: 2/24/1974 Description: A disc-shaped object flew on a wavy trajectory over the nuclear center at Bagnols-sur-Ceze, Gard, France heading west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 449, citing Liberte Est, February 24, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_1084 Source: Johnson ### Event 16333 (D05A7857) Date: 2/25/1974 Description: After midnight three 1.5m tall human-looking UFOnauts were seen standing on the rim of domed disc-shaped object as it passes by at 50 kph in York Plains, Tasmania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: W. K. Roberts, FSR, November-December 1975, p. 47; Keith Basterfield, In-depth Review of Australian UFO Related Entity Reports, citing Tasmanian UFO Inves. Centre; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2324 Source ID: Johnson_1108 Source: Johnson ### Event 16334 (F3EE2876) Date: 2/25/1974 Description: At 7:15 a.m. in Toulon, France a white T-shaped object hovered for 5 minutes. Its pointed bottom descended and extended what looked like a wire. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1974 Source ID: Johnson_1109 Source: Johnson ### Event 16335 (7547BDA0) Date: 2/27/1974 Description: On a highway one mile east of LaTrobe, Tasmania two witnesses, Thornton and Lamprey, sighted an orange colored UFO with a dome on top at 9:45 p.m. It was either disc shaped or delta shaped with three rounded corners, and it paced their vehicle. The object was about the size of a car. When they turned their car headlights off, the UFO responded by rapidly approaching. Their encounter lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: W. K. Roberts, FSR, November 1975, p. 47 Source ID: Johnson_1158 Source: Johnson ### Event 16336 (8E57DCD6) Date: 2/28/1974 Description: On a mountain road at 10:30 p.m. between Liac and Gensac, France a motorcycle engine died in the vicinity of three red orbs in the sky. An ovoid and dark mass approached from the hills. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #137 Source ID: Johnson_1178 Source: Johnson ### Event 16337 (E8EA7447) Date: 2/28/1974 Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Mellionec, Cotes-Nord department, France two luminous 20 cm long ovoid objects hovered only 1.5 meters above the ground, then rose silently over the rooftops of the town. A third object joined them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 47 Source ID: Johnson_1179 Source: Johnson ### Event 16338 (C6B58C2D) Date: 2/28/1974 Description: In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a man reported that he was home alone at 7:30 p.m., standing in his kitchen, when he suddenly was transported to a square room with no apparent doors or windows. A loud voice emanated from a box-like device in the corner of the room which told him to remain calm. A door then appeared in the wall across from him, then the door opened and a large dark, oval-shaped "apparatus" emerged. The apparatus came towards him and a yellow light came down from the top of it, illuminating him. From out of the oval-shaped machine emerged a figure that was an exact replica of the witness. This double spoke to the witness and told him that he did not intend to harm him or anybody else. This being then disappeared through one of the walls. A large TV like screen then appeared. The witness could see the actions of his double through this screen and was directed to assist him with his voice. He was finally released and the aliens apparently recalled his double. The aliens told the witness that they were here to help humanity. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 829, citing Irene Granchi, FSR, Volume 32, Number 3 Source ID: Johnson_1180 Source: Johnson ### Event 16339 (8F9D990B) Date: 2/28/1974 Description: 5:30 a.m. The witness was riding his motorcycle to work, when suddenly he found himself face to face with two humanoid beings and having no memory of having stopped the motorcycle. It was still dark at this hour. In an adjacent field he saw a dark circular object. Physical traces were found at the landing site. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hirson (Aisne), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4385 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16340 (CCB5E95D) Date: 2/28/1974 Description: The witness was motorcycling to work in Hirson, France at 5:30 in the morning when his motorcycle stopped suddenly in Origny en Thierache, and he found himself face to face with two beings he described as "cosmonauts" standing in the road. The two men grabbed his motorbike and and held on to it firmly. They were dressed in dark coveralls with square helmets, and sleeve-length gauntlets, but it was too dark to see their features through their helmet visors. They wore sleeve-length gauntlets, and one being gestured to the other, who brought out from a bag on his back a small piece of substance resembling chocolate; this he presented to the witness, urging him by gestures to eat it. The witness did so, but to his surprise it had no noticeable taste. They then moved off and let him pass. About 100 feet to the right side of the road he had saw a large, dark circular mass about six feet high, sitting directly on the ground. , where traces of crushed grass were later found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 136, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-06 (A1302), citing Jean Marie Bigorne, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #139 (November 1974, p. 9) Source ID: Johnson_1177 Source: Johnson ### Event 16341 (D47F8926) Date: 3/1974 Description: About 9:00 p.m. A missile launch officer with the 564th Strategic Missile Squadron is on watch at the Malmstrom AFB Romeo Flight missile alert facility near Brady, Montana, when both the outer and inner alarms go off. A security alert team arrives and sees a large, brilliantly self-illuminated object hovering above the Romeo-29 launch facility. Suddenly, the missile starts a countdown. The officer quickly flips the inhibit switch, which puts the system offline. Then the system spontaneously restarts and the missile goes into launch mode again, followed by an inhibit order that does not work. But the launch code is false and the missile remains in its pad. Meanwhile, the UFO moves away straight up at high speed. An F-106 interceptor attempts unsuccessfully to reach it, and Malmstrom AFB radar tracks the UFO. Later he learns that the ground electronics in Romeo-29 are fried as if from a surge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 353–355; Robert L. Hastings, “[Former U.S. Air Force Missile Launch Officer](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/ufo-activated-one-of-his-icbms-twice) [Says a UFO Activated One of His ICBMs—Twice!](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/ufo-activated-one-of-his-icbms-twice)” December 7, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_5023 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16342 (1C86A8CA) Date: 3/1974 End date: 6/1974 Description: Concentration of UFO sightings, including vehicle encounters Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Spain Source ID: HallUFOE2_238 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16343 (75D51B12) Date: 3/1/1974 Description: Starting at 7:20 p.m. on the island of Corsica in the Mediteranean Sea, a round orange scintilating light flew to-and-fro over a NATO military base for an hour, then flew south to the town of Solenzara, Haute-Corse, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 464, citing Nice-Matin, March 3, 1974; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 135; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11167 Source ID: Johnson_1212 Source: Johnson ### Event 16344 (01FD4802) Date: 3/1/1974 Description: At 7:45 a.m. a huge cigar-shaped object glowed red over a vineyard in Epernay, Marne, France. There were three witnesses: Daniel Legrand, age 24, Michel Frappard, age 39, and Mr. Paillard, 39. It had a dome on its underside. It suddenly vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 464, citing L'Union de Reims, March 2, 1974; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1974, p. 3; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 135; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11165 Source ID: Johnson_1211 Source: Johnson ### Event 16345 (CD4CE4A1) Date: 3/1/1974 Description: On the same night a flat, disc-shaped object with many lights on its rim was seen spinning in the sky, in a counter-clockwise direction, over St Louis, Missouri. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1974 Source ID: Johnson_1216 Source: Johnson ### Event 16346 (0524E8B2) Date: 3/1/1974 Description: At eight o'clock in the evening three observers saw a nearby hillside illuminated by a bright yellow light in Vesta Community, Virginia. A red luminous object was then seen ascending from the site. The object, about the size of a Volkswagen, hovered approximately 300 feet above the hill and went through a series of right angle turns, then headed south toward Stuart, Virginia. Billy Wayne Plasters and Richard N. Clifton drove to the landing site by truck and observed the silhouette of a "big, tall, heavyset man" approach from a lighted area. They called out and got no answer. Frightened, they jumped back into their truck and fled. The light on the hillside disappeared a few minutes later. Next day, patches of charred vegetation were found at the site covering a large area. Other people in the vicinity reported seeing strange lights that same night, and hearing unexplained noises. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Center for UFO Studies files; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-07, citing Nancy Lindsay, The Stuart Enterprise Source ID: Johnson_1215 Source: Johnson ### Event 16347 (8362DA8A) Date: 3/1/1974 Description: A woman and her invalid husband were sitting on their front porch enjoying the spring weather on this afternoon near Millington, Tennessee when something in the sky caught their attention. They saw five saucer-shaped objects about two feet in diameter that moved at a low altitude slowly through the sky. They floated leisurely over a field across the road from their house and settled down in the midst of a herd of cows some five hundred yards away. Only one cow paid any attention to the small discs. It acted offended by the intrusion and turned and walked towards one of the mini UFOs. The object rose up, flew over the cow, and settled down again behind the cow. Each time the cow attempted to approach it would simply rise up, pass over the cow and settle down on the other side. The woman's husband became upset. He went and got his rifle and started hobbling out toward the field. The wife saw one of the objects fly very close to her husband's head and then rejoin the others as they flew away. By that time her husband had reached the fence and was standing still. His hands were down at his sides, the rifle clutched in one of them. When she got to him he was icy cold and shivering. All he could say was that one of the objects had "flashed" him with a bright light. She helped him back up to the house and he went inside to lie down on a daybed. He stayed there the rest of the day and said nothing more. The next morning the woman looked out and saw the cow lying dead next to a pond. Two weeks later her husband also died. The doctor said he had died of a heart attack. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, citing Bob Pratt Source ID: Johnson_1214 Source: Johnson ### Event 16348 (E8D3B385) Date: 3/1/1974 Description: At 6:30 p.m. a single witness, Mr. Blandiniere, watched a luminous cigar-shaped object with tapered ends for 10 minutes in the countryside of Saint-Jean-du-Falga, Ariege, France. At a farm in Lapenne, Ariege, France at 7:45 p.m. two strong one-meter light-beams, 12 meters apart, were seen over a hill about 500 meters away. A blue glow illuminated the countryside. There were five witnesses: Mrs. Corbalan, her young son Gerard, 19-year-old Odile, 22-year-old Mr. Corbalan, and Mr. Guy Monserat. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 464, citing La Depeche, March 3, 1974; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 136; Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 11166 & 11168 Source ID: Johnson_1213 Source: Johnson ### Event 16349 (FD8C48A0) Date: 3/3/1974 Description: A delta-shaped object made complex light signals from both leading edges of the UFO was 6:30 a.m. in Avion, France. According to the witness named Dejaeger, the object than shrank in size to a dot in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 143 Source ID: Johnson_1279 Source: Johnson ### Event 16350 (E6575D81) Date: 3/4/1974 Description: At 5:40 a.m. six police officers were confronted by a massively large dark humanoid figure or silhouette while they were investigating noises coming from a parking lot in Montmorency, France. It stood at the edge of the lot. When the officers approached, the figure disappeared quickly into a nearby acacia grove. No traces were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_1300 Source: Johnson ### Event 16351 (199228B5) Date: 3/7/1974 Description: At 6 o'clock in the morning in 1974, two men in their twenties sighted a 30 meter long, brightly illuminated "trolley" in a field in Comberouger, France. It ascended from the ground slowly and changed shape, then flew away to the east at a high rate of speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1977 Source ID: Johnson_1369 Source: Johnson ### Event 16352 (BA4CD2B2) Date: 3/9/1974 Description: Luminous saucer-shaped object with colored rings ahead of plane confirmed by Milan radar, chased by pilot Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Milan, Italy Source ID: HallUFOE2_235 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16353 (90003538) Date: 3/9/1974 Description: G,V, pilot chase & Milan radar track (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milan, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4388 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16354 (0E6A713B) Date: 3/9/1974 Description: 9:58 p.m. Fiat Corporation pilot Alfonso Isaia chases a luminous, saucer-shaped object with colored rings near Milan, Italy. The UFO is confirmed by Milan radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, March 1989, p. 19; Massimiliano Aiello, “[L’avvistamento del Pilota del Agnelli,](http://massimilianoaiello.blogspot.com/2013/01/lavvistamento-del-pilota-di-agnelli.html)” Massimiliano Aiello, January 17, 2013; 1Pinotti 188–189 Source ID: Eberhart_5024 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16355 (C0B3CD86) Date: 3/9/1974 Description: Pilot reports chasing object (radar) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milan, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4389 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16356 (6337416B) Date: 3/12/1974 Description: Keith McDonald and his family were watching at least three UFOs from the window of their living room in Grayslake, Illinois when everyone but Keith became extremely tired and went off to bed. Keith next experienced a time lapse of several hours. Under hypnosis he recalled that three small entities with large eyes, long arms, and pointed ears entered the house and made mumbling sounds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case1974-67, citing Douwe Bosga, Jerry Clark, Mimi Hynek & Ron Owen Source ID: Johnson_1441 Source: Johnson ### Event 16357 (E03D58BC) Date: 3/13/1974 Description: An Argentine Airlines plane en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Córdoba, Argentina, is flanked by two glowing objects that pace it for several minutes, then speed away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 121 Source ID: Eberhart_5025 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16358 (818070F2) Date: 3/13/1974 Description: Airline crew flanked by objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cordoba, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_4390 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16359 (3E068CDC) Date: 3/13/1974 Description: Argentine Airlines plane flanked by two glowing objects that paced it for several minutes, then sped away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: En route San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Cordoba, Argentina Source ID: HallUFOE2_236 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16360 (DE7476D5) Date: 3/14/1974 Description: At 11:30 p.m. Antonia Diez Ramos and her husband, Manuel Valderas Fuentes, both anglers, saw in the yard of their house in Gerena, Sevilla, Spain an ovoid object two meters long by one meter wide. Its edges emitted a strong red color, and the center was transparent. Two forms were distinguished inside. After a while, the object began to maneuver, rising up and disappearing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-68 (A1305), citing Capt. Jose Tomas Ramirez y Barbero Source ID: Johnson_1492 Source: Johnson ### Event 16361 (A225BD0D) Date: 3/14/1974 Description: On this evening a domed disc-shaped craft was seen hovering near the main NATO headquarters in Bauffe, Belgium. The witness was driving on Highway 53 at the time of the sighting, 5:20 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Inforespace, August 1976 Source ID: Johnson_1491 Source: Johnson ### Event 16362 (27B707D2) Date: 3/15/1974 Description: At 1:45 a.m. a man and his fiancé were in a parked car on a road near the shore in Erbalunga, Corsica, France when he looked up and saw on the roadside bank, only 10 feet from their car, the silhouettes of three persons with long arms, bending forward. They appeared "smooth" and no clothing was seen. The witness at once backed up and got out of the road; then his fiancé called his attention to a pyramid-shaped luminous object which was just taking off from a spot about 400 feet away. It had a brilliant yellow base separated by a black band from an orange point area; the point was directed diagonally downwards. Once the object was in the air it suddenly disappeared. The car's radio went out as the object took off. A search the next day found no traces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-69 (A1306), citing Gilles Morel, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #157; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7 (1976), p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_1526 Source: Johnson ### Event 16363 (D01B9E51) Date: 3/15/1974 Description: A man was sleeping in his van in Metairie, Louisiana after visiting a friend when he awoke at six o'clock in the morning to see a silver disc-shaped object hovering above a house across the street. It made no noise at all. His next memory was of getting out of the van. Later he had vague memories of sitting in some type of cold silvery metallic chair and having several "people" standing around him. He remembered that the "aliens" told him not to be afraid, and that someday they would be back. He could not recall anything else. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_1527 Source: Johnson ### Event 16364 (AB6FDE0F) Date: 3/17/1974 Description: Airline pilot reported cigar and five smaller objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Taiwan, Taiwan Source ID: NICAP_DB_4391 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16365 (FB35D020) Date: 3/17/1974 Description: At 3:30 a.m. Cristobal Munoz Romero, a driver for the President of the Cadiz, Spain City Council, was driving through a foggy area five kilometers from the Rota Naval Airbase near Sanlucar de Barrameda when he saw a metallic white light above and to the right of his car. It advanced to within 10 meters of the road and then, seconds later, he saw the silhouette of a human looking being more than 2 meters tall next to the road. The being appeared to be wearing a diver suit from which projected a bright, cylindrical, solid like coherent beam of light from the front part of the collar. The light could lengthen and shrink. As the car passed by the entity the engine began to fail and the automobile was "shaking like a leaf" in a very strong wind. The witness sped up and, in fear, quickly left the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-08, citing Vincente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 361 Source ID: Johnson_1542 Source: Johnson ### Event 16366 (D9B82D35) Date: 3/17/1974 Description: TWA airliner crew observed shiny oval or cigar-shaped object, five smaller spherical-appearing satellite objects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Taiwan Source ID: HallUFOE2_237 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16367 (8CF30FBD) Date: 3/17/1974 Description: The crew of a TWA airliner over Taiwan sees a shiny oval or cigar-shaped object and four smaller, spherical, satellite objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 415; Richard F. Haines, “A Review of Selected Sightings from Aircraft from 1973 to 1978,” in 1979 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1979, p. 127 Source ID: Eberhart_5026 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16368 (993FFAEF) Date: 3/19/1974 Description: In 1974 a witness in Gerena, Spain looked out the window of his home and saw a two meter diameter disc only four meters away from the house. Two helmeted heads of little men were visible inside the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, volume 141 Source ID: Johnson_1572 Source: Johnson ### Event 16369 (43608EAF) Date: 3/20/1974 Description: 11:00 p.m. Adrian Sánchez Sánchez, a salesman, is driving near El Castillo de las Guardas, Seville, Spain, when he sees a large metallic UFO, 450–600 feet long, with three smaller ships shaped like yo-yos. It flies silently and has no windows but towers above and below. One of the objects silently pursues Sánchez and disappears as he enters a village. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Eileen Buckle, “[Spanish UFO Fiesta,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 \(December 1974\): 3; UFOEv II 345 Source ID: Eberhart_5027 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16370 (12023767) Date: 3/20/1974 Description: At 11:10 a.m. a man saw a strange object come from the sky and fall into a valley in El Campillo, Sevilla, Spain. He drove to the site and walked into the valley, where he saw a 200-meter-long, cigar-shaped object. Two smaller objects then entered it, but a third object, shaped like two oval spheres with cupolas on both top and bottom, began to chase him. He got in his car and was able to escape, but noticed heavy static on his car's radio as he drove away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 362, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos Source ID: Johnson_1588 Source: Johnson ### Event 16371 (AEDB14B7) Date: 3/20/1974 Description: Becky Ingram, age 14, heard "voices" in her head several times beginning on March 9th. On this afternoon she compulsively walked out into the center of her school football field in Lewisburg, Tennessee instead of taking the school bus home. Although she recalls seeing nothing in the field, she next remembers finding herself inside a brightly lit room as a ramped door closed behind her. She was confronted by two small humanoid entities, shorter than her. They had blond, short cropped hair and later identified themselves as "Alton" and "Tombo." Becky was instructed to lie on a hospital-like bed where she was examined by a gloved implement that was passed over her. She was taken for an hour's trip "to Australia" and then returned. She felt weak and sleepy, and for several weeks after this incident she was extremely fatigued and suffered from headaches and other physical symptoms. She had two more experiences over the next four months. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-82, citing Stanley Ingram & Don Worley Source ID: Johnson_1589 Source: Johnson ### Event 16372 (B4D36D5F) Date: 3/21/1974 Description: Valdehijaderos, Spain - At 11:30 p.m. Mr. Sanchez had a second encounter less than 24 hours after his first close encounter, near the same site. Driving the same truck, he encountered three "ships" on the ground, and again his motor and lights malfunctioned. As before there were no openings in the UFO, but he saw four men approach him on the road. He got out and ran, and the figures pursued him. After running nearly 2 kilometers he threw himself into an irrigation ditch and hid as the four men searched the area, but they were unable to find him. After waiting a safe period of time, he cautiously returned to his truck. The three objects were still there, and his engine would not start. When he got into the cab and closed the door the same four figures re-appeared, gesturing to each other. They walked around the object and disappeared and it rose off the ground slowly with a humming or whistling sound. The truck then started normally. After passing the site, Mr. Sanchez saw that the third object had again landed and he stopped and returned on foot, hiding about 9 meters away. He saw the figures digging into the roadside with a T-shaped implement and a large horseshoe shaped tool. He could still make out no facial features. After 3 minutes he left. A few days later UFO investigators found radioactive traces and three 12-meter wide circles of flattened grass in the area. Civil guard officers also found traces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen and Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 140; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-10, citing Pere Redon, Joan Crexells & Vicente Rico Gil et al. Source ID: Johnson_1602 Source: Johnson ### Event 16373 (C8928431) Date: 3/21/1974 Description: Truck driver Maximiliano Iglesias Sanchez, age 21, was driving to Algunilla, Spain when he encountered a blinding white light on the road near Valdehijaderos at 2;15 a.m. When he was a distance of 200 meters from the source of the light, his car headlights and diesel engine went out. The 8 meter wide metallic UFO, now only faintly luminous, stood of three half-meter long legs, was wider than the road and had no visible openings. A second non luminous object hovered some 16 meters above the ground to the right. Two beings appeared in front of the landed object, and they gestured with their arms. One went around the side of the UFO and returned, then both disappeared to the right side and the object ascended making a humming sound. The figures were human looking, 6 feet tall, and wore tight fitting coverall type garments with a metallic hue. They appeared to walk and move in a normal manner. Mr. Sanchez was unable to make out any facial features. After he passed the site he looked back and saw that one object had landed again on the road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 175; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-09, citing Pere Redon, Joan Crexells & Vicente Rico Gil et al. Source ID: Johnson_1601 Source: Johnson ### Event 16374 (C874E47D) Date: 3/21/1974 Description: Two Remarkable Encounters: Humanoids & E-M Effects (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [740321](http://nicap.org/740321valde%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Valdehijaderos, Salamanca, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4392 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16375 (D33295D3) Date: 3/23/1974 Description: Albiosco, France (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [740323](http://www.nicap.org/france74.gif) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albiosco, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4393 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16376 (35154E1B) Date: 3/23/1974 Description: 11:30 p.m. A French doctor allegedly photographs an odd object near Albiosc, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. The color image shows a red object like a domed disc and four bright, beamlike extensions. UFO investigator Jean Bedet receives the slide anonymously on April 14, with a note pinned to his car windshield when he is visiting the town of Tavernes, Var. Bedet says his wife and others had seen a similar object at 11:00 p.m. the same night. The consensus among researchers in France is that the photo is a hoax perpetrated by Bedet to confirm the visual sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michel Monnerie, “[La Veillée Nationale d’Observation à Barjols \(Var\),](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20138.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 138 \(October 1974\): 22–26; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “[An Approach to UFO Pictures in](http://www.nicap.org/reports/ikaros.org.es%5Ffotocat%5Fapproach.pdf) [France,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/ikaros.org.es%5Ffotocat%5Fapproach.pdf)” FOTOCAT Report no. 6, \[2009\], p. 33 Source ID: Eberhart_5030 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16377 (FB206FCF) Date: 3/23/1974 Description: At 12:20 a.m. a middle-aged man named Vallentuna was walking home in Lindholmen, Sweden when at a crossroads he mysteriously felt compelled to take an alternate route. Suddenly a brilliant light blinded him. He threw himself in the snow but something lifted him up to a height of 30 to 45 feet. He next found himself at home with no recollection of how he got there. Under hypnosis he recalled seeing four "transparent" beings who had grabbed him, and he then was apparently studied by these beings inside a UFO. He suffered from severe shock after the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-11, citing Carl Axen Jonson & Joseph Brill Source ID: Johnson_1630 Source: Johnson ### Event 16378 (F28E4775) Date: 3/23/1974 Description: On this night a young man known as "Anders" was walking along a dark road in Gustavslund outside Stockholm, Sweden when he heard a voice in his head instructing him to cross the road. Next a blinding light knocked him to the ground, where he lay unconscious until he came to, on his own doorsteps. His wife, disturbed by his condition and baffled by a mysterious burn on the side of his face, sent him to the local Danderyds Hospital. There hypno-therapist Dr. Ture Arvidsson put him under a hypnotic trance and regressed him to the time of the incident. He related how a beam of light had floated him up into the air, then some tall hooded figures touched his head with somekind of unknown device, saying that they would meet him again in the future. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Information Sweden, May 1976, p. 10; Lynn Picknett, The Mammoth Book of UFOs, John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 103 Source ID: Johnson_1631 Source: Johnson ### Event 16379 (47B11E89) Date: 3/23/1974 Description: 3:00 a.m. The chauffeur of the president of the Cádiz Provincial Commission is driving on the highway in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, when he sees a “luminous, metal-like” object moving upward with great brilliancy. As he approaches it, he feels a strange sensation. His car comes to a near stop, wavering back and forth like a feather. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 346 Source ID: Eberhart_5028 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16380 (1B526778) Date: 3/23/1974 Description: Night. A young man \(pseudonym Harald Andersson\) comes out of the parish house in Markim, Stockholm County, Sweden, when he hears a voice in his head telling him to follow a dark forest road. Just after passing a small cottage, he sees two runestones by the side of the path. Suddenly a blinding light knocks him to the ground where he lies unconscious for a while, then wakes up on the doorstep of his villa in Lindholmen, Vallentuna. His wife, disturbed by his condition \(bleeding from his forehead and a burn on his cheek\), takes him to Danderyds Hospital where hypnotherapist [Ture Arvidsson](https://esh-hypnosis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ESH-Newsletter-2016-2.pdf) regresses him to the time of the incident \(twice, on April 1 and May 20\). He discovers that a beam of light has floated him up into the air while tall, hooded figures touch his head with an unknown device, saying they will meet again in the future. Extraordinary abilities follow, including his ability to disrupt a compass needle, see vibrant auras, and premonitions. The incident is apparently witnessed by another man a short distance away. The Swedish Home Guard assigns 50 of its personnel to work with 15 ufologists to examine the region. The group reports a few odd lights in the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Håkan Blomqvist, “[An](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201987%20V%2032%20N%205.pdf) [Abduction in Sweden?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201987%20V%2032%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 5 \(August 1987\): 14–16 Source ID: Eberhart_5029 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16381 (4B5BC3BA) Date: 3/24/1974 Description: A witness driving between Sanlucar and Barrameda, Cadiz, Spain had his car engine die when he encountered a disc-shaped object hovering over the road. There was also a two meter tall being in a spacesuit. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11232, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1975 Source ID: Johnson_1641 Source: Johnson ### Event 16382 (9D1CE2B3) Date: 3/25/1974 Description: At 7:15 a.m. a 34-year-old man was driving in Balagny-sur-Therain, Oise, France an sighted a reddish orange ovoid shaped object hovering ahead of his car. The object shot up rapidly into the sky in a vertical ascent when witness's car neared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 142, p. 12; Michel Figuet and Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 479 Source ID: Johnson_1661 Source: Johnson ### Event 16383 (92BD7E33) Date: 3/25/1974 Description: The witness was driving near Nogaro, Gers, France at 3:00 a.m. when the car engine died. A 0.9 meter tall green-colored dwarf was seen by the side of the road, who had unusually long arms. The car engine restarted spontaneously after coasting past the dwarf creature and the witness drove off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11236, citing Michel Figuet & Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 462 Source ID: Johnson_1660 Source: Johnson ### Event 16384 (D9960E7A) Date: 3/25/1974 Description: Two farmers watched an orange ovoid object ascend from the ground in Ossey-les-Trois-Maison, France at 8:30 p.m. Ground traces were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1975 Source ID: Johnson_1662 Source: Johnson ### Event 16385 (28B86085) Date: 3/26/1974 Description: A truck driver was driving in Valdehijaderos, Spain at 2:00 a.m. when he spotted a strange luminous object like a plate placed above another large, round object hovering motionless over the highway about 200 meters from the him. A similar object, also motionless, was seen 15-20 meters away. Two beings came out of the first vehicle, pointed to the observer's truck, then went inside again, and both vehicles flew away. At 11:30 p.m. the same witness witnessed "three silver ships parked on the highway with light similar to floodlight." The observer stopped the motor of his car and some figures approached him. He ran, frightened, and they followed him. They were about two meters tall (6.5 feet). The next day the Guardia Civil made an investigation. They found a hole in the ground, which the truck driver said he had not made. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 346 Source ID: Johnson_1679 Source: Johnson ### Event 16386 (6FF5B38F) Date: 3/26/1974 Description: At 8:00 a.m. a witness driving near Pouldergat, Finistere, France saw a hemispheric dome-shaped following the road. Next a long, half-cylinder shaped object was seen hovering over an intersection. At 9:00 p.m. another hemispheric dome-shaped object was sighted by three witnesses in Pleuville, Charente, France. It was luminous and had two rays of light coming from it. It flew at a low altitude of under 10 meters, and was estimated to be 4-5 meters in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 77; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1976, p. 20; Michel Figuet & Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 480 Source ID: Johnson_1680 Source: Johnson ### Event 16387 (0F14D4D6) Date: 3/26/1974 Description: 2:00 a.m. Truck driver Maximiliano Iglesias sees a strange object like a plate placed above another large, round object hovering above the highway in Valdehijaderos, Salamanca, Spain, 650 feet away. Another object is 60 feet away. Two beings come out of the first UFO, point to the truck, then go in again. Both objects fly away. At 11:30 p.m., the same witness watches three silver ships parked on the highway with a floodlight. He stops his engine as some figures approach. He runs and they follow. They are about 6.5 feet tall, with arms and legs, but he cannot see their faces. On March 27, the Guardia Civil investigate and find a hole in the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Pere Rédon, “[Valdehijaderos, de Nuevo,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Stendek%20%28CEI%2C%20eISSN%202604-1383%29/Stendek%20-%20Vol%2005%20No%2018%20-%20December%201974.pdf)” Stendek 5, no. 18 \(December 1974\): 12–16; Eileen Buckle, “[Spanish UFO Fiesta,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 \(December 1974\): 4–6; UFOEv II 346 Source ID: Eberhart_5031 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16388 (ADDE5567) Date: 3/27/1974 Description: [Antoine](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98310233/antoine-t-betz), Jerri, and Terry Betz investigate a small brush fire near their residence on Fort George Island, Florida, and come across a metal sphere the size of a bowling ball and weighing 22 pounds. They think the sphere could be a 16th-century cannonball and decide to take it home. Several days later, while Terry is playing the guitar, the sphere seems to react to the music and makes a throbbing noise. Later, the sphere rolls and stops on its own and changes direction. The sphere makes a noise when hit with a hammer, and Terry finds that it moves after being shaken and placed on the ground. In 2012, an analysis by Skeptoid indicates that the sphere is a ball check valve produced by the Bell & Howell company. Its size, weight, and metallurgical composition match those of the company’s check valves. The ball is almost perfectly balanced, and it takes only a small stimulus to make it move or change direction. New Mexico artist James Durling-Jones, who collects scrap metal for his sculptures, remembers loading ball check valves into the rooftop luggage rack of his Volkswagen van and driving through the Jacksonville, Florida, area around Easter of 1971. A few of the balls rolled off the luggage rack and were not retrieved. Skeptoid concludes that this is the sphere’s origin. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Betz mystery sphere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz%5Fmystery%5Fsphere)”; Brian Dunning, “[The Betz Mystery Sphere,](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4334)” Skeptoid podcast, no. 334, October 30, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_5032 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16389 (DE220B5D) Date: 3/27/1974 Description: Night. A large, brightly shining, spindle-shaped object that remains stationary in the air is seen by numerous witnesses in Málaga, Spain, and photographed by Sr. Salas, picture editor of the Sur newspaper. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Eileen Buckle, “[Spanish UFO Fiesta,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 \(December 1974\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_5033 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16390 (F805F44E) Date: 3/29/1974 Description: 1:45 a.m. A French vacationer and a local female friend are lying on a sloping beach near Lomé, Togo, when they hear a high-pitched whine and see an unlighted cylindrical object above the ocean. It heads toward them on a level flight path until it gets to 500 feet away. It stops, and within moments a tidal wave washes over the two witnesses. Wave after wave crash over them as they hold onto a nearby tree. The UFO emits powerful beams of light, and the Frenchman can see the waters parting in a deep trough. They remain paralyzed for 20 minutes until the UFO turns off its lights and flies out to sea. The water surface returns to normal. Over the next few days, the man feels strangely exhausted and has a ringing in his ears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joël Mesnard, “[UFO over Sea Causes Surge of Tidal](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%206.pdf) [Waves,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 \(April 1977\): 4–5, iv; Clark III 250–251 Source ID: Eberhart_5034 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16391 (09576E8D) Date: 3/30/1974 Description: Blinding yellow-green object beside road, buzzing sound; three squarish imprints found. Ballester Olmos, 1976, pp. 46.47 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hombreiro, Lugo, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4394 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16392 (88006DFE) Date: 3/30/1974 Description: At 9.30 p.m. in Hombreiro, Spain a blinding light came from a hovering, ovoid-shaped UFO. The car engine quit and the lights went out. The object flew away making a whistling sound, and the car then functioned normally. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 180 Source ID: Johnson_1738 Source: Johnson ### Event 16393 (DCF9EF5C) Date: 3/30/1974 Description: Blinding light from hovering object, car engine quit, lights went out. Object flew away with whistling sound, car then functioned normally Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Hombreiro, Lugo, Spain Source ID: HallUFOE2_239 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16394 (DE0D3A79) Date: 3/30/1974 Description: 9:30 p.m. Motorists are blinded by a bright yellow-green object on or near the ground along a road near Ombreiro, Lugo, Spain. Car engines fail, headlights go out. After 3–4 minutes, the UFO rises silently and moves away horizontally. It makes a soft buzzing or whistling sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 454 Source ID: Eberhart_5035 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16395 (C79CC3F1) Date: 3/31/1974 Description: A small disc less than a meter in diameter hovered and spun at treetop level over some trees in Tarragona, Spain at 4:00 p.m. The limbs of the trees were thrashed about by a turbulence from the object, and a big noise was heard. The disc flew off to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, December 1974, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_1771 Source: Johnson ### Event 16396 (2F1B8C42) Date: 3/31/1974 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a "small bus" shaped object was seen in Valensole, France. It had large wide windows and a blue-green neon glow, and figures could be seen moving around inside it. The principal witness, his wife, his son, and an 80-year-old woman all saw the craft, and above it were seven vertical red lights. The object appeared to be on the ground. From the house of the wife's parents, at 8:30 p.m. the man saw it again, and was able to approach, first in his car and then on foot, to within 500 yards of it. Valensole is the site of a famous July 1965 humanoid encounter, and there have been many other close encounters from this location as well. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-62 (A1608), citing C. Lavigne, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 153; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 484 Source ID: Johnson_1772 Source: Johnson ### Event 16397 (9858ADE2) Date: 3/31/1974 Description: On this day on the Robertson farm in Callaway, Nebraska a dead mutilated cow and calf were found. The tails had been removed, the blood drained, and the cow's udder had been slit. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Omaha World Herald, April 9, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_1770 Source: Johnson ### Event 16398 (1BC706A9) Date: 4/1974 Description: 3:00 a.m. A staff sergeant assigned to the 355th Security Police Squadron stationed at Incirlik Air Base, Adana, Turkey, witnesses a white, glowing UFO hovering silently over the nuclear storage area about 500 feet above the ground for one hour. It appears to be the size of a Volkswagen. At 4:00 a.m., the UFO suddenly and silently accelerates toward the city. The witness sees the object from the Security Police dormitory about 2 miles away. The next day, other security personnel tell him that the only measures taken are “to set up their M-60 machine guns, and that they were not to fire on the object unless it initiated a hostile act.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Vike, “[Sgt. Reports](https://rense.com/general54/staffsergeantassigned.htm) [Bizarre Events at WY Missile Base,](https://rense.com/general54/staffsergeantassigned.htm)” Rense.com, July 7, 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_5037 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16399 (8D8DBE56) Date: 4/1974 Description: A woman military staffer at the GEC-Marconi contracting company in Frimley, Surrey, England, learns that a break-in has occurred the previous night. A guard suffers a nervous breakdown, is taken to an unnamed hospital, and is not seen again. Later, she hears a discussion in her supervisor’s office and describes it to [Nick Redfern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FRedfern): “We have no way of keeping these beings out. We just don’t know what to do next. If they can get in here, they can get in anywhere.” She learns that the guard had seen an alien sifting through files and papers. A blue light emanated from its helmet, and the being dematerialized before the guard’s eyes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 126; Nick Redfern, “[An Extraterrestrial 007?](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/12/an-extraterrestrial-007/)” Mysterious Universe, December 9, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_5036 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16400 (4576EC89) Date: 4/1/1974 Description: A newspaper reporter in Mount Olive, North Carolina saw a domed, top-shaped UFO approach to within 300 feet of his car at only 75 feet altitude. He took three photographs. The UFO beamed a light ray directly at the witness in his car, and then took off at a tremendous speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, January 1975, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_1792 Source: Johnson ### Event 16401 (A8613B67) Date: Early 4/1974 Description: A couple driving on a country road in east Hancock County, Ohio, spot a low light in the northeastern sky. They drive toward it, but it shoots up into the air so they can see its underside. As the man alerts people to the object on his CB radio, he sees the object lower a box, seemingly to take samples. Then the object approaches the couple and they drive away quickly, but it follows them for 47 miles. At 2:15 a.m., they pull into a Wigwam restaurant, where a man rushes up to them and asks them, “What did you see in the sky?” He denies having a CB radio, and talks in a strangely slow and choppy manner. The man continues to bother them, so they drive away from the Wigwam. Soon they are followed by some strange lights and an orange ball. They stop the car where the road ends and see a “little man on a little black object.” The lights follow them all the way home to Findlay, Ohio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 731–733 Source ID: Eberhart_5038 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16402 (4F5363E5) Date: 4/4/1974 Description: Two 12-year-old girls in A Estrada, Galicia, Spain, see a noiseless metallic object that stops for a few seconds 30–40 feet from the ground, then moves off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, [A Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf) [Events in Spain and Portugal](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf) CUFOS, 1976, pp. 47–48 Source ID: Eberhart_5039 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16403 (35F8FB18) Date: 4/7/1974 Description: A multicolored cone-shaped UFO hovered over a car between Olympia and Lacey, Washington for several minutes on this night. It made a high pitched whining sound, then took off at a tremendous speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Center for UFO Studies files May 1974, citing newspaper clipping Source ID: Johnson_1885 Source: Johnson ### Event 16404 (CBB633EC) Date: 4/8/1974 Description: Close encounter with two witnesses. No details. (Hynek 4-19?, possibly Don Worley Files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fayetteville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4395 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16405 (8BFFFE99) Date: 4/9/1974 Description: At 6:15 a.m. two people driving in a taxi watched a large luminous cigar as it flew southeast toward Mount Dol in Saint Malo, France under a heavry cloud cover. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 141 Source ID: Johnson_1930 Source: Johnson ### Event 16406 (81F988D4) Date: 4/10/1974 Description: The witness, Mr. Smith, had just left work shortly after midnight and was driving toward Waterville, Ohio on Rte. 64 when his motor and lights died near the town of Whitehouse, Ohio. He got out of the car and noticed a car behind him stop. The driver, normally dressed and with gray hair, approached and offered the witness "proof" of his extraordinary powers by dematerializing a rock with a small, hand held device. He then told the witness to he should save his marriage, and promised subsequent "contacts." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, 1975 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, p. 56; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-15, citing Earl Neff & Larry Moyes Source ID: Johnson_1941 Source: Johnson ### Event 16407 (24367D54) Date: 4/11/1974 Description: At 2:30 a.m. Virginia Varela was awakened by a sound in her home near Santa Clara de Olimar, Argentina. When she looked out the window she saw "an indefinite figure which seemed to be covered by a light colored garment." It immediately disappeared. It left footprints of feet wearing boots. Later on she noticed a light and heard more noises. She next saw two shining points of light moving together across the sky. On the following two nights there were again indications that someone had been around the house, and the hum of a motor was heard. Her cows panicked, and one was found dead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-72, citing Prof. Wellington Perrone Source ID: Johnson_1957 Source: Johnson ### Event 16408 (DC22770F) Date: 4/12/1974 Description: At 11:45 p.m. nurses in a hospital in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France saw a red glowing disc, 0.2 m in diameter, vanish and then reappear near the 4th floor of the hospital's cobalt clinic. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 142 Source ID: Johnson_1982 Source: Johnson ### Event 16409 (6A2B1B5B) Date: 4/12/1974 Description: In the early afternoon a bright object ascended vertically from the ground next to the road between Maintenon and Hanches in Eure-et-Loir, France, hovered for five minutes, and then flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 137 Source ID: Johnson_1981 Source: Johnson ### Event 16410 (1DD7E56C) Date: 4/13/1974 Description: 2:00 a.m. Julio Acosta Bertol \(a teacher\), his wife, and a student at Herrera de Alcántara, Cáceres, Spain, observe a luminous rhomboid object with a pink-yellowish semicircle on its upper left. The student hears a prolonged, alarm-like noise. They watch the UFO for 5–6 minutes from a distance of 900 feet before it moves off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, [A Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf) CUFOS, 1976, p. 49; Nick Redfern, “[Spain’s UFO Wave: 1973–1974,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/08/spains-ufo-wave-1973-1974/)” Mysterious Universe, August 28, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_5040 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16411 (5EBD0FB7) Date: 4/14/1974 Description: 8:00 p.m.        and continuing for close to two hours a flurry of UFO sightings was reported. The SOBEPS organization conducted a thorough investigation. ( Easter UFO: A SOBEPS Inquiry by Frank Boitte, Brussels, Belgium.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vedrin & Courriere, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_4396 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16412 (B9F9D8AB) Date: 4/15/1974 Description: 4:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. George Torres observe a flat, round object moving to the north over the low hills in back of their home in Tijeras Canyon, New Mexico. It is in the apparent area of the Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage facility attached to Kirtland AFB. The object changes course to the east at an altitude of 2,000 feet and appears to be 50–75 feet in diameter. It is rotating silently on a central axis. The object turns abruptly to the south, passes behind a small mountain peak, turns east again, and vanishes over the Manzano Mountains. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: R. C. Hecker, “[New Mexico Reports,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201974%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 23, no. 2 \(Sept./Oct. 1974\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_5043 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16413 (F46B5AB9) Date: 4/15/1974 Description: A photojournalist takes four photos of a round object over A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II, 24 Source ID: Eberhart_5042 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16414 (2BC4CECD) Date: 4/15/1974 Description: Passengers on a ferry on the Strait of Gibraltar between Ceuta and Algeciras, Spain, see a round, intense torch-like light rise out of the water near a huge rock, travel at low altitude, then fall into the water again. This happens once again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 346 Source ID: Eberhart_5041 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16415 (7442CC6A) Date: 4/15/1974 Description: Fifteen minutes after the UFO landing in France, all passengers aboard a ferry off the coast of Algeciras, Cadiz, Spain saw a round, intense torch-like light rise from the ocean at 8:30 p.m. It emerged out of ocean near a huge rock, traveled at a low altitude, then dropped into the water. It then rose from the ocean a second time, flew a good distance, then dove back into the water again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 137; Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 188; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 346 Source ID: Johnson_2033 Source: Johnson ### Event 16416 (4403F3E9) Date: 4/15/1974 Description: At 8:15 p.m. a 20-year-old woman named Saudron, who was driving between Gipey and Cosne, Allier department, France, sighted a red glowing hemispherical object on the ground near some woods in the Foret de Dreuille. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 483 Source ID: Johnson_2032 Source: Johnson ### Event 16417 (897A2912) Date: 4/15/1974 Description: Two motorists from Adelaide reported loss of power from their automobiles after sighting UFOs. These reports were made simultaneously with calls pouring into RAAF officials regarding other sightings in the area. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, July 1974, page 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Adelaide, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4397 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16418 (0BA336AE) Date: 4/16/1974 Description: Disc with dome descended, three beings visible inside transparent dome Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Casale Monferrato, Italy Source ID: HallUFOE2_240 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16419 (5A2191C0) Date: 4/16/1974 Description: Morning. Disc. Dark ring with transparent cockpit on top. Row of lights around circumference of ring. Object rotated. No sound. Three humanoid beings. Object hovered, occupants visible in lighted transparent cockpit stared at witness. (Carla and Mauro Bellingeri, Ref. 5, Reference 1, Section XII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Casale Monferrato, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4398 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16420 (7AE9F115) Date: 4/16/1974 Description: 12:50 a.m. Mauro Bellingeri, 26, and his wife Carla Farè, 23, are returning to their villa in Santa Maria del Tempio, Alessandrino, Italy, when they notice a bright object that dives abruptly toward them, stopping at a height of 40 feet above the villa. The Bellingeris get out of the car to look at the motionless object. It has a transparent dome and a central ring of revolving red, green, and yellow lights. Inside the dome are three human- like beings with large, round, opaque, grayish helmets. At the base of the headgear is a hoselike apparatus. One being turns in their direction, then moves back. All three beings then rotate in unison. At this point, 3–4 jets of flame appear beneath the craft, the central portion begins to revolve rapidly, and they hear a whistling sound and feel a blast of air. The UFO speeds away, continuing to whistle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 460–461; 1Pinotti 189–191; Carlo Pirola, UFOs: Reinvestigation in Italy, Lulu.com, 2019, pp. 68–76 Source ID: Eberhart_5044 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16421 (6C345C9F) Date: 4/16/1974 Description: A metallic ovoid UFO approached a car on a highway in Mitcham, South Australia at 6:00 p.m. It revolved slowly, and had four lights on its dome. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1974 Source ID: Johnson_2057 Source: Johnson ### Event 16422 (03AE4458) Date: 4/16/1974 Description: At around 12:50 a.m. a classic Italian CE-III case that has defied explanation occurred in Santa Maria del Tempio, Casale Monferrato, Piemonte district, Italy. Mauro Bellingeri and his wife had just arrived home when a luminous disc-shaped object came out of the sky at them, and then stopped over their house 40 feet up. The craft had a central ring of revolving red, green, and yellow lights that revolved around the cabin. The object made no sound as it hovered there. The couple could see a round, clear, dome-shaped cabin on the upper portion of the object that was 30 feet wide and six feet high. Inside the cabin there were three seated beings who were visible, wearing fishbowl or globe-shaped helmets. After several minutes of just hanging silently in the sky, 4-5 jets of flame were emitted from the underside of the craft, and the outer rim began to turn more rapidly. The object started making a whistling sound. With a strong blast of air that nearly knocked the witnesses down, the object then took off and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Renzo Cabassi, FSR, February 1977, p. 23; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-17 (A1317); Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type-1 UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case # 187; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 18, 373, 460, 489; UNICAT, case 51; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 106 Source ID: Johnson_2058 Source: Johnson ### Event 16423 (EBA69EE0) Date: 4/19/1974 Description: About 9:30 p.m. Ruth Currie and her daughter Laurie see a bright light that seems to be only several hundred feet from their house in Altamont, New York. Curious, they walk toward it until they are within about 200 feet. An oval object is resting on the roadway. It appears to have large windows in the top half, from which comes a brilliant golden glow. Changes of contrast in this light give them the impression that something is moving around within. Currie sends her daughter to get a neighbor, Rose Curtis, and they return shortly. Currie then retreats to her home and phones her husband, who drops what he is doing and hurries over. He can see an object rising up. It shifts speeds and accelerates out of sight. During the bulk of this encounter, the neighborhood dogs are putting up a continuous volley of barking. The next morning, the witnesses get together and go to the site, where they find an area of burned grass 50–75 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [HUMCAT Index 1974](http://cufos.org/HUMCAT/HUMCAT%5FIndex%5F1974.pdf), p. 40; NICAP, “[The 1974 UFO Chronology](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1974fullrep.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5045 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16424 (53227FDE) Date: 4/21/1974 Description: At 12:20 a.m. in Gosselies, Hainaut, Belgium a 10-meter diameter glowing metallic ovoid object halted at 100 meters altitude, made a loud noise, then zig-zagged away. There were two witnesses named Vanderclausen. Four minutes later a loud wailing sound was heard in Jumet, Belgium and a green, 11-meter orb was seen hovering by three witnesses. It shot away to the south. It was back again at 12:30 a.m., then it moved off quickly to the southeast. At 12:30 in Loverval a domed disc-shaped object emitted a sound like American police sirens as it had a close encounter with four witnesses; it flew off to the east. At the same time in Marcinelle, Belgium 11 witnesses, including a 16-year old teenager who was the main witness, watched as a small gray disc with a 40 cm thick base and a three meter high dome oscillated slightly at a distance of only 30 meters. The craft had ten equally spaced windows, which alternated yellow-green and red in color. Half of the dome was illuminated. It too emitted a siren sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Abrassart, Inforespace, June 1975, pp. 33-36; Jacques Bonabot, Catalog of Belgian Cases, cases 372-374; UNICAT case # 172 Source ID: Johnson_2189 Source: Johnson ### Event 16425 (4AC94437) Date: 4/23/1974 Description: A UFO with green, red and white lights engaging in complex maneuvers over Warden Hill was sighted by 64 students in Luton, Essex County, England on this night. A second object had three blinding white lights, and appeared to land. At the suspected landing site large scorched areas and marks were found in the grass, with lumps of a black clayish material also found lying around. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, MUFON Conference Proceedings: 1975, p. 105; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 99, citing the Luton Evening Post, April 23, 1974; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_2257 Source: Johnson ### Event 16426 (B8F5F3E8) Date: 4/25/1974 Description: A domed disc-shaped object hovered nearby an apartment building in Marcinelle, Belgium at 10:30 p.m. It inclined toward the witness, a single woman named Bouchez who was inside the building, and then shot three beams of light over the apartment building. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Abrassart, Inforespace, June 1975, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_2300 Source: Johnson ### Event 16427 (E9447A9D) Date: 4/26/1974 Description: Forty-one year old Oscar Patero failed to return from a short business trip that he embarked upon on this day. Five or six days later he was found rain soaked and covered with ticks on a thousand foot mountain near Colatina in the state of Espiritu Santo, Brazil, which was over 900 kilometers from his home. He said that a light appeared at around 11:30 p.m. just before he crossed a bridge while driving between Catanduva and Julio de Mesquita, Sao Paulo, Brazil. In fact, his car was found there. Under hypnosis he revealed that he had been taken aboard a UFO and been given a physical exam, but he resisted giving any further details except to say that a tall, fair-haired and blue-eyed young man was one of the aliens. The man was described as about 5 feet 8 inches tall with a small nose and small ears. He revealed that this was actually his second UFO encounter, because he had given a ride to this same individual previously on the night of his first encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, November 1975, p. 15, citing O Dia, May 29, 1974; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 81; Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 171; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1320, citing Walter Buhler; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 186B Source ID: Johnson_2343 Source: Johnson ### Event 16428 (25F15661) Date: 4/27/1974 Description: Dogs barked furiously in Neuf-Mesnil, Nord department, France at 10:30 p.m. when a saucer flew by to the east. It rose at a 45 degree angle and leveled off, then rose at a 45 degree again and continued to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1977; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11307, citing LDLN, issue 163 Source ID: Johnson_2377 Source: Johnson ### Event 16429 (3138EAC1) Date: 4/27/1974 Description: On this day a girl in Vallentuna, Sweden drew a sketch of a flying saucer, for no apparent reason. She then went to the window and saw a flying disc up so close that it filled the view from the window. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11306, citing John Wallace Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 204 Source ID: Johnson_2376 Source: Johnson ### Event 16430 (81B59C1B) Date: 4/28/1974 Description: In Greenland, New Hampshire near Pease Air Force Base at 1:10 a.m. a low flying, orange colored UFO was seen by a single male witness, who reported it to the Portsmouth police. It was described as looking like a hockey puck. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Oswald and David F. Webb case investigation files Source ID: Johnson_2395 Source: Johnson ### Event 16431 (1E1F2723) Date: 4/29/1974 Description: Roy Hiltner discovers an odd imprint in his soybean field near North Creek in northwestern Putnam County, Ohio. It is a depression 8 feet in diameter and 12 inches deep, with seven 4-foot-long grooves radiating from it. In the center are two holes, each 12 inches in diameter and 12 inches apart. Local and state officials examine the site and cannot determine a cause. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Two Physical Trace Cases in Northwest Ohio Unexplained,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 3 \(June/July 1985\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5046 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16432 (16F02242) Date: 4/30/1974 Description: At shortly before 10:00 p.m. in Altamont, New York a young girl looked out a window of the nursing home where her mother worked and saw what looked like a car parked on a hillside. She told her mother who also looked out. They thought it might have been a car accident at first since they saw red lights. There appeared to be a golden glow coming from the object. The two left the building to get a closer look. Neighborhood dogs were barking and horses in a field were also making noise. As they got closer they could see a huge oval-shaped object resting on a road. It had a rounded window on top that emanated a golden glow, and the red lights were coming from the front and rear of the craft. They then noticed an indistinct "egg-shaped" figure moving around inside the craft. Another employee of the nursing home and the woman's husband also witnessed the object when he came to pick them up. The UFO rose up into the sky and disappeared quickly into the dark sky. There was a large burned area 60 feet in diameter at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1974, p. 1; Ted Bloecher, 1975 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, p. 56; Margaret Sachs, Celestial Passengers Source ID: Johnson_2430 Source: Johnson ### Event 16433 (019400BD) Date: 5/1974 Description: 2:00 a.m. Iuliu Marian and his wife wake up abruptly in their home in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Outside they see a bell-shaped object or silhouette with a light tube in the center that seems to be waiting for them. Marian grabs a sports sword he keeps under the bed and goes outside, but the object is already moving away. He follows it around a corner of the house and the object is nowhere to be seen. Marian senses the object is still there somehow because he feels some kind of force field. Against his will he returns to his bedroom, the forcefield disappears, and he goes right back to sleep. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 128–129 Source ID: Eberhart_5047 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16434 (06C372A0) Date: 5/1974 Description: 3:30 a.m. US Army Pfc R. Jack Phillips is assigned to the 193rd Military Police Battalion guarding Area 3 of an Army Ordnance Depot \[now returned to Germany\] where surface-to-surface Pershing missiles are stored near Fischbach bei Dahn, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Suddenly waking up, he watches an extremely bright star above him for about 15 seconds. Suddenly it approaches very quickly and hovers just beyond the depot fence line about 300 feet away. The light now looks like a domed disc about 60 feet in diameter with a concave indentation on its underside. It is covered in a greenish glow and completely silent. After 5 seconds the object gets much brighter for a second then dims again. The security lights in the complex go out. Phillips tries to report this, but his field phone is out. The backup generators fail to turn on. Some 30 seconds later, the object takes off so swiftly that he can’t tell in which direction it leaves. The lights come back on and all the bunker alarms go off. A roving unit needs to come by to reset all the alarms manually. Phillips admits that most of the guards sleep on duty, and that is probably why no one else has seen the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 343–346 Source ID: Eberhart_5048 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16435 (1C70FE55) Date: 5/1/1974 Description: Samuel Faria, age 27, was returning home from the center of Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Brazil at 11:30 p.m. when he saw on the street corner a little manno more than a meter tall, clad in clothing like an "astronaut." Faria approached to within 30 feet of him, whereupon the little man pointed a flashlight kind of instrument at him and him in the eyes with a beam of light, temporarily blinding him. Sr. Faria ran for his uncle's house, only 20 meters away, and succeeded in reaching it. The little man wore no helmet, and had muscular arms. In February 1973 Faria had seen a luminous, ring shaped UFO hovering low over his uncle's garden, and on March 11 of that same year had been seized by a creature while returning from the bathhouse in the garden, and encounter that left claw markson his upper arms. These marks remained for eight months. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-84 (A1672), citing Marcos Alexandre Fundao of SBEDV; FSR, February 1978, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_2442 Source: Johnson ### Event 16436 (E0CE4EAF) Date: 5/2/1974 Description: Morning. Carlos Antonio de los Santos Montiel was flying en route from Guerrero state to Mexico city in his Piper Aztec 24, he became aware of three objects positioned extremely close around the plane. (APRO Bulletin, Vol. 24 No. 2, Aug 1975) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [740502](http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case311.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Guerrero state, Mexico Source ID: NICAP_DB_4399 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16437 (80EE8E8D) Date: 5/5/1974 Description: Six photos taken. Boys sight UFO, Hynek called in. (Review Vernon, IL, May 23, 1974 clipping) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lincolnshire, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4400 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16438 (81F897D4) Date: 5/5/1974 Description: At around 7 p.m. Ms. Becky Ingram was driving alone on a country road on Pisgah Ridge, Tennessee when she heard her nickname called ("Tomboy") and was telepathically directed to a nearby field. There she saw a 100-foot long, football-shaped UFO on the ground. In an open doorway, with a ramp extending to the ground, stood two beings named "Alton" and "Tombo" that she had met on a previous encounter, who invited her onboard. She greeted them with a handshake and entered. Inside she saw five or six more humanoid beings seated around a table, eating. She declined an invitation to join them. They spoke in an incomprehensible language. She declined an invitation for another ride, explaining that her family was expecting her. She noticed that this time both Alton and Tombo walked without bending their knees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-85, citing Stanley Ingram & Don Worley Source ID: Johnson_2546 Source: Johnson ### Event 16439 (66DEE15E) Date: 5/5/1974 Description: At around 11:50 p.m. on the beach in Paraipaba, Ceara state, Brazil an odd looking "jeep" was seen being driven with three men with ropes aboard. The jeep ran up the beach five times, then drove into the sea and vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 265 Source ID: Johnson_2547 Source: Johnson ### Event 16440 (1305F6E2) Date: 5/5/1974 Description: 5:30 p.m. David Dorn and Troy Warton, both 11, leave home in Lincolnshire, Illinois, to play basketball. As they walk down the street, they notice a dark object in the western sky. It comes closer, drops to a height just above the treetops, hovers slightly, then rises up and disappears. David has a new camera and he snaps six photos with his Kodak X-15 camera. The color pictures reveal a distinct dark object in the clouds and over the trees. Unfortunately, he discards the negatives. \(“[Boy’s New Camera Records UFO,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5 \(September 1980\): 1\) May 7 \(possibly 1973\) — 9:00 p.m. [Margaret K. Roffe](https://www.fold3.com/record/20914544-margaret-k-roffe)[,](https://www.fold3.com/record/20914544-margaret-k-roffe) nurse’s aide at the Coatesville \(Pennsylvania\) Veterans Administration Hospital, hears tree branches swishing and swaying nearby and sees a UFO descend and land on the roof of Building no. 1 about 150 feet away. Four silver-colored legs emerge from the object, followed by a ramp with steps. Three small figures climb down backwards. They are speaking to each other in high, squeaky voices that sound like “so many birds.” She says “The being nearest the edge of the roof had a very elongated head, grayish=looking skin, arms that extended well below his knees, and what looked like long claws instead of fingers. His legs appeared rather short.” He is bald and looks old. The scene is well lit by an illuminated dome on the roof of the building. When one of the entities notices the witness, they reenter the object, which takes off slowly over the trees, which are again violently agitated. The legs withdraw as it takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 277 Source ID: Eberhart_5049 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16441 (4B4EFF93) Date: 5/7/1974 Alternate date: 5/9/1974 Description: 7:00 a.m. Businessman Amadeo Villar is driving with his wife and daughter near Altos de Cabrejas, Cuenca, Spain, when they see a bright orange object for 40–50 seconds. It darts behind the clouds, where it is still dimly visible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: José Vicente Avila, “[Spain: A UFO over Cabrejas, Witnessed by Three \(1974\),](http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2015/10/spain-ufo-over-cabrejas-witnessed-by.html)” Inexplicata, October 28, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_5050 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16442 (A711ED0C) Date: 5/7/1974 Description: 9:00 p.m. Disc with lighted dome on top. Four silvery legs. Three gray humanoids. <5 ft. tall. Large elongated heads. Short legs. No helmets. Occupants beside landed object seemed to examine disc's legs, re-entered object and disappeared. (Witness: Margaret K. Roffe; Ref.5) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coatsville, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4401 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16443 (423A1A94) Date: 5/7/1974 Description: Mrs. Margaret K. Roffe, a nurse's aide at the local Veterans Administration Hospital in Coatesville, Pennsylvania was walking from one hospital building to another at around 9 p.m. when she heard a swishing sound and saw a disc-shaped object descend and land on the roof of Building #1. Four silver-colored legs emerged from the object just before the object landed, and a ramp came down out of the bottom of the craft. Three gray-skinned humanoid occupants emerged from the craft by climbing down the ramp backwards. They were all less than five feet tall and had long, large bald heads and arms with clawed hands; their legs were short. They spoke an unintelligible language among themselves in high, squeaky voices. She was able to see their features well because the area was well lit by an illuminated dome on the roof of the building. When the beings noticed her they re-entered the object. The object then took off slowly, making a swishing sound, and passed over some nearby trees, which were shaken violently when the craft flew over. The legs withdrew into the object as it took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, 1975 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, p. 56; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 38; George D. Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 31; George D. Fawcett, Saga UFO Report, April 1975, p. 50; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-19 (A1323), citing George Fawcett Source ID: Johnson_2624 Source: Johnson ### Event 16444 (AAE80D11) Date: 5/7/1974 Description: At 6:15 a.m. a yellowish-orange ball of light, one meter in diameter, landed on two legs between two highway tunnels on Highway N518 near Petits Goulets, Drome department, France and was seen by a single male witness named Tardy, who was driving nearby when the incident occurred. The landing spot was on a geologic faultline. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 485 Source ID: Johnson_2623 Source: Johnson ### Event 16445 (3CD4EBF6) Date: 5/9/1974 Description: The documentary film UFOs: Past, Present, and Future is released along with a paperback book of the same title by [Robert Emenegger](https://prabook.com/web/robert%5Fe.emenegger/381357)[.](https://prabook.com/web/robert%5Fe.emenegger/381357) The film shows stock footage of Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, New Mexico, and a recreation of a landing at a hypothetical military base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “UFOs: Past, Present, and Future”; Robert Emenegger, UFOs: Past, Present, and Future, Ballantine, 1974; Internet Movie Database, “[UFOs: It Has Begun](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244276/)”; “[UFOs \(It Has Begun\) Past, Present, and Future documentary,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CJdUA8LQg0)” Jaded Truth YouTube channel, September 29, 2017; Clark III 357 Source ID: Eberhart_5051 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16446 (92B6D22E) Date: 5/9/1974 Description: The main witness and six others were returning home late at night on Highway 57 near Mount Vernon, Indiana when they all spotted a large object hovering close to the ground. The object approached and hovered over their vehicle giving off heat. All the passengers inside except for the principal witness became sick and passed out. He then felt as if he was being drawn upwards and also passed out. He next became aware of a bright white light around him and several figures looking down at him. The beings called him by his name, and then he passed out again. The aliens were described as five feet tall, with light skin, huge almond shaped eyes, and a small lower jaw. They were also apparently very strong. The man believes that his aging process had slowed down subsequent to the abduction. On the same night in nearby Evansville, Indiana a Mr. Oscar Jordan had a close encounter of the first kind with a UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 1844, citing Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters; (2) Oscar A. Jordan, Saga UFO Report, October 1974, p. 78 Source ID: Johnson_2690 Source: Johnson ### Event 16447 (6B662065) Date: 5/9/1974 Description: (Date may not be correct) Evening. Local man (and six others) cllaim he was abducted. Jordan. (Investigated by Mike Cristol) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Daylight, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4402 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16448 (C8D24B11) Date: 5/11/1974 Description: At around 8:45 p.m. Barry King and Ian Vinten in Chingford, Essex, England observed a figure in the distance resembling a woman with long white hair, a featureless face, who was wearing a long black dress . They took out some binoculars and watched her stand perfectly still for 10 minutes as a second black-gowned figure moved among some nearby trees. The woman figure, then the second figure, vanished from view. Next, the first figure re-appeared 50 yards away from its original position and stood motionless again for 10 minutes before vanishing once again from sight. Upon returning to the site at 9:35 p.m., King and Vinten again saw through binoculars two more figures, this time dressed in white. One was motionless, the other was "darting about making very quick movements," but showing no leg movements, as if gliding rather than running. At this point a red lighted UFO was seen rising slowly over the treetops in the same direction. After five minutes it moved off, passing almost directly over the witnesses, making a "weird throbbing, similar to a ship's sonar." It had a central white light and two blinking lights near the edge, as well as a vertically revolving bluish light around the center. It displayed a central red light and two blinking white lights as it moved off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-21, citing Barry King for BUFORA Source ID: Johnson_2743 Source: Johnson ### Event 16449 (75EF3660) Date: 5/12/1974 Description: A UFO covered with over 30 orange and white lights that were each as bright as a welder's torch flew over Maxton, North Carolina. It hovered over a mobile home park shortly after midnight. It was pursued by two men, a police officer and a farmer, in their cars. The UFO made a remote landing but no traces were found on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_2767 Source: Johnson ### Event 16450 (C15F378B) Date: 5/15/1974 Description: A businessman and a teacher in Pedroche, Córdoba, Spain, see a round object the “size of a table” that chases their car and obstructs their path on the road. They turn the car around rapidly and flee. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 346 Source ID: Eberhart_5052 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16451 (C71CAEA7) Date: 5/15/1974 Description: On this day a businessman and a teacher had a UFO pace their car as they drove on the road in Pedroche, Spain. The object was described as round object and the size of table. When it intercepted their course they turned the car around and fled. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 346 Source ID: Johnson_2863 Source: Johnson ### Event 16452 (EAB16591) Date: 5/15/1974 Description: At 1:00 p.m. a dull gray, banana-shaped object was sighted hovering 60 meters over an electronics plant in Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo County, California; it made no noise, and the sighting lasted four minutes. There were independent witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11321, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1974 Source ID: Johnson_2864 Source: Johnson ### Event 16453 (49F9AE74) Date: 5/17/1974 Description: 10:10 p.m. Electronic scanning equipment at the Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility attached to Kirtland AFB near Albuquerque, New Mexico, registers a burst of energy in the upper atmosphere in the 250–275 MHz range. The burst throws all the facility’s instruments off. A trajectory of an apparent falling object is plotted, and a recovery team is dispatched to an area southwest of Chilili, New Mexico, that is cordoned off. A few hours later, a circular, metallic object about 60 feet in diameter is dismantled and transported into a hangar at Kirtland AFB. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: R. C. Hecker, “[New Mexico Reports,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201974%2009%2000%20-%20September-October.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 23, no. 2 \(Sept./Oct. 1974\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5053 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16454 (8964F32B) Date: 5/19/1974 Description: Between Pantano and Tuejar, Valencia, Spain flashes were seen at around 10 p.m. by two witnesses. A red object was next seen resting on a mountain; it went up the mountainside. A red 12 meter saucer was on another mountain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case # 190 Source ID: Johnson_2983 Source: Johnson ### Event 16455 (32C2CBBB) Date: 5/19/1974 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a mother, daughter and son watched a bright object in the sky that was a quarter of a mile away from them in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. It hovered for awhile, then moved into a nearby forest. No evidence of a landing was found. Three hours later and 38 miles to the southwest an occupant report and UFO landing was made at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb, Skylook, August 14, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_2984 Source: Johnson ### Event 16456 (B3ECFD41) Date: 5/20/1974 Description: A young man of 20 was swimming at 12:30 a.m. at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire when he saw a domed disc-shaped object approach from the ocean. It landed on the beach about 80 yards away. It had a domed bulge above and below the central rim, and was about 50 feet in diameter. It stood on four legs and had several lights on the main body of the object. It also gave off heat and emitted a humming or pulsating sound. A hatch folded down and a ramp slid out, and a motor like noise was now also audible. A six-foot tall occupant emerged down the ramp, dressed in a head-to-foot light-colored coverall. Two hoses ran from the chin area to behind the head, with one hose running down the back. The figure stepped out briefly onto the sand and then re-entered the object, which ascended and moved off out to sea. The man searched the landing site and found a "deep, rose colored paste and thick liquid" in the four, deep landing marks. He also found a spot of red where the hatch had opened. Traces had been obliterated by the tide the following morning, before the investigator could gather samples. The landing site is not far from an outflow vent that would later be built for the Seabrook nuclear reactor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-22, citing field investigator John Oswald Source ID: Johnson_3010 Source: Johnson ### Event 16457 (8C494F6B) Date: 5/20/1974 Description: 7:00 p.m. A baker named Le Meur, with his wife and two children, is traveling on a small road toward Landévennec, Finistère, France, when they notice a powerful light ahead at ground level. It consists of a string of 7–8 spheres, each about one foot in diameter and arranged horizontally, about 3 feet above the road. Le Meur turns around and heads to the local Gendarmerie station in Telgruc-sur-Mer to report it. The police examine the site the next day and find a patch of ferns that appear abnormally wilted. They collect some plant and soil samples and send them to a lab in Paris for analysis. The wilted, brown ferns are found to be without chlorophyll and an unknown element \(indicating pheophytins associated with the degradation of chlorophyll\) shows up in the chromatography in ultraviolet light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joël Mesnard, “Landévennec, May 20, 1974,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 20–21; Jérôme Frasson, “An Attempt to Learn about the Trauma Undergone by the Ferns,” IUR 32, no. 4 \(October 2009\): 21 Source ID: Eberhart_5054 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16458 (E02CA22B) Date: 5/20/1974 Description: 00:30 a.m. Disc. 50-60 feet in diameter. Domed above and below with central rim. Four landing legs. Hatch folded down, ramp came out. Humming sound. One humanoid-like being 6' tall. Light colored coveralls. (Ref.5, Molon) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hampton Beach, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4403 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16459 (B2AE8E23) Date: 5/20/1974 Description: At 9:30 p.m. two children in Haisnes-lez-la Bassee, France, age 10, witnessed an ovoid or football-shaped object that descended with an oscillating movement. Ground traces were later found were the UFO came down. At 11:00 p.m. an enormous luminous ball of light approached Haisnes-lez-la Bassee, France and then flew off to the northwest in the direction of Auchy-les-Mines. The estimated diameter of the object was 42 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 487 Source ID: Johnson_3011 Source: Johnson ### Event 16460 (00E17608) Date: 5/22/1974 Description: The wife of a journalist on Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain, photographs an object described in a US Defense Department report as “somewhat like a top.” It remains stationary for a while, then rises and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 24 Source ID: Eberhart_5055 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16461 (46F553E0) Date: 5/22/1974 Description: 10:00 p.m. Boat-shaped or oblong object 50-60' wide. Green and white lights around lower part rotating 3 to 4 square windows emanating white light. Brightly lit transparent area on top. Two small, dark humanoids. (Ref.5) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fairfield, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4404 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16462 (680BE420) Date: 5/23/1974 Description: 10:00 p.m. State Police at Parkersburg, Illinois, took this call and relayed the information to CUFOS.Three witnesses reported a close encounter with telephone affected. Few details. (CUFOS) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Calhoun, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4405 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16463 (FD7406D6) Date: 5/24/1974 Description: In San Clemente, Cuenca, Spain a four meter long ovoid object with four legs was seen on the ground by 53-year-old Demetrio Carrascosa at 11:30 a.m. It had six windows. Rocks scattered on takeoff. The sighting lasted 15-20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 191, citing E. Villagrasa, Stendek, September 1974, p. 25; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 806; UNICAT database, case 570, citing Stendek Source ID: Johnson_3071 Source: Johnson ### Event 16464 (E0098869) Date: 5/25/1974 Description: Beams of light entered a farm house in Graye et Charnay, Jura department, France at around 2:00 a.m., and lights in the sky were seen from an object that changed color. Landing traces were later found in an oval pattern. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976, p. 19; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 138, October 1974; Michel Figuet & Jean-Loius Rucho, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 488 Source ID: Johnson_3089 Source: Johnson ### Event 16465 (37366184) Date: 5/26/1974 Description: At 10 pm. Mr. A. Rias, a stonemason, was listening to his radio in his small cabin in the middle of a field in Les Nourradons, Var, France when static suddenly erupted on the radio. Alarmed, he armed himself with a gun and went outside. He next caught sight of a being running through the field and a bright beam of light was shone upon him. He re-entered the cabin and closed the door. Then he heard knocks on the door and the cabin shook. His dog started trembling, terrified. Re-emeging from the cabin, he saw an object resembling a racecar prototype moving low over the field with two beings inside. Five other humanoids were walking nearby, moving with heavy steps. The beings wore khaki uniforms with large belts and a kind of mask over their faces. One being pointed a glass tube at the witness and a luminous beam of light struck him, paralyzing both him and his dog. The beings and the strange craft soon left towards a forested area and disappeared. The next day he saw red lights in the field that flew away when he approached. Mr. Rias suffered from shock and stayed in bed for the following two days. His dog also appeared to suffer some discomfort for several days. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, citing Herve Laronde, "ET's or Time Travelers," ADEPS, issue # 10 Source ID: Johnson_3105 Source: Johnson ### Event 16466 (1E9F02CC) Date: 5/26/1974 Description: Joseph Susedik was asleep in his camper with his wife and two small children in the pre-dawn hours near Mitchell Caverns, California when he was awakened by a humming sound and a pulsating light that reflected on the inside of the camper wall. He tried to call out to his wife and children but was immobilized. He saw "pinwheels of odd-shaped colored lights," that were red, orange, yellow and blue-green in color but could not recall any further conscious details. He awoke two hours later than usual that morning with bloodshot eyes and body aches. He had vague impressions of having been inside a craft but could not recall any specific. He remembered that he had observed a UFO earlier that evening with other family members.

Later under hypnosis the witness recalled being inside a UFO and described a row of gyroscopes along an inner wall. "Pinwheels" of light energized the gyroscopes to form an "artificial gravity field." He described a crew of eight men, seven of whom wore maroon "foil type uniforms" and one wore a pale blue uniform. One of his examiners looked at his eyes through a magnifying glass. He also saw a "nebulae in various colors showing concentrations of metals and minerals, a color image close up of Saturn displayed on a coil edged screen, and three black reclining style high backed chairs at a control panel. After this incident he claims to have become a prolific inventor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1328, citing investigators Idabel Epperson & William McCall Source ID: Johnson_3104 Source: Johnson ### Event 16467 (9D587217) Date: 5/28/1974 Description: Day. A resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, sees a large glowing object moving across the western face of the Sandia Mountains. It is so bright that no structure is visible. The witness opens his window to listen for noise coming from the object, but there is none. As he watches, the object appears to land on a nearby hill where it remains for an hour before it shoots into the air and vanishes. Three young men are camping in the Sandia Mountains that day around noon. They notice a silver-white UFO on the ground on the east side of Tramway Boulevard NE, between Menaul Boulevard and Copper Avenue. Next to it is a silver, triangular-shaped object with odd rune-like symbols on one of the pointed ends. After reporting the sighting, they wind up being taken to Kirtland AFB for interrogation by civilian intelligence agents. They are told they have witnessed a “Soviet incident” and are to keep their mouths shut, which they do for 34 years before talking to [Linda Moulton Howe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%5FMoulton%5FHowe) in 2007. Around 9:00 p.m., a family sees a large, glowing, football-shaped disc moving across Albuquerque toward the Sandia foothills. They jump in their car and try to follow the object, using dirt roads on the east side of Tramway. They are stopped by a state police officer, beyond whom they can see the UFO hovering low next to a rocky hill. It is surrounded by armed military personnel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Recent Sightings Reported in New Mexico,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/100%20JULY%201974.pdf)” UFO Investigator, July 1974, p. 3; Linda Moulton Howe, “[Glowing Disc Encounter with Military in Albuquerque,](https://www.earthfiles.com/2007/11/29/part-1-glowing-disc-encounter-with-military-in-albuquerque-nm/) [NM,](https://www.earthfiles.com/2007/11/29/part-1-glowing-disc-encounter-with-military-in-albuquerque-nm/)” Earthfiles, November 29, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_5056 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16468 (96728F05) Date: 5/28/1974 Description: A 50-75 foot diameter UFO landed on a nearby hill on this night in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The witnesses were too afraid to approach it. After awhile it lifted off, rotated on its central axis, and moved away rapidly. A grayish residue was found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files Source ID: Johnson_3139 Source: Johnson ### Event 16469 (F370BA5E) Date: 5/28/1974 Description: A resident was awakened to see a large glowing object moving across the western face of the Sandia Mountains. It was so bright that no discernable structure could be seen. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, July 1974, page 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_4406 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16470 (9B2C6856) Date: 5/29/1974 Description: Turis, Valencia, Spain - At 11:00 a.m. Sr. Palmero Camanez, a 70-year-old farmer, was working in his fields on a sunny, hot day when he heard what sounded like a police siren. He then saw a metallic disc-shaped object with a cupola, only 150 meters away from him. He estimated it was 2.5 meters in diameter and two meters in height. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIS y la Ciencia, p. 43; UNICAT, case # 497 Source ID: Johnson_3152 Source: Johnson ### Event 16471 (39A318E3) Date: 5/30/1974 Description: On this day a 200 foot long cigar-shaped object making a humming sound passed within 500 feet of a farmhouse in Regent, North Dakota. It caused static electricity and radio interference. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11337, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 253 Source ID: Johnson_3171 Source: Johnson ### Event 16472 (6568DF67) Date: 5/31/1974 Description: In 1974 the strange events began early in the morning for a young married couple traveling from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to South Africa via Fort Victoria and Beit Bridge. Peter and Frances saw what they thought was a policeman holding a walkie-talkie radio about 10 kilometers south of Umvuma. This is what he seemed to be to Peter, who was driving his Peugeot 404 well in excess of the posted speed limit. As the road was noted for speed traps, he slowed down. The pair of them began to think in more detail about the policeman. The metallic-looking suit seemed queer for a policeman, as they normally wore khaki. The UFO appeared at 2:30 a.m. on the passenger side of the car (left hand side). It appeared fairly close and seemed to keep pace with the car. For a brief while they wondered if it might be a helicopter. It had a bluish tinge, and was flashing bright and steady for 5 seconds, then off for 2 seconds.

The car headlights began to fade next, and there was an immense light around the car. As they drove along it suddenly became very cold in the car. They estimated the drop in temperature to have been between 20 and 30 degrees Fahrenheit, down to less than 50º F. Peter took his foot off the accelerator but the car continued to move forward at an accelerated speed! He tried to apply the brakes but it had no effect, and his steering had no effect on the direction of the car as well.

When they were some 10 km from Fort Victoria the UFO shot off like a shooting star, but it reappeared again about 10 kilometers outside of the city, but this time they also saw a second UFO move into position above the car. Frances fell asleep around 6:15 a.m. just before she feel asleep they lost all sound from the radio. Peter lost all track of time and he remembered nothing from about three minutes after Frances fell asleep. He felt at the time he must have been mesmerized by the road.

At the Customs post at the South African border showed 8:30 a.m. although their watches indicated it was only 7:30 a.m. Peter was also surprised when reading the car's trip odometer. He had reset it to zero at Fort Victoria, but found that it had recorded only 17 km, yet the distance by road was 288 km. He had also filled the gas tank in Fort Victoria and expected to need a full tank when he reached the border, but when he tried to fill the tank it would take only 22 cents worth, which at the time was less than a half gallon. Under hypnosis Frances had no other experiences revealed than those she remembered consciously. Peter, however recalled seeing the inside of the "spacecraft" which had three levels, and interacting with physical beings that he believed could take on any appearance that he wanted them to look like. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carl van Vlierden, "Escorted by UFOs from Umvuma to Beit Bridge", FSR, August 1975, pp. 3-10; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 367, citing FSR; Skylook, March 1975, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 276 Source ID: Johnson_3186 Source: Johnson ### Event 16473 (7F0BAD5A) Date: 5/31/1974 Description: 2:30 a.m. Prolonged car-pacing case during which motorists experienced E-M effects, loss of steering control for their vehicle, abnormal cold and silence, translocation from one place to another, altered appearance of the terrain, humanoid encounter, and amnesia. (Skylook No. 88, March 1975, Mutual UFO Network.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salisbury, South Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_4407 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16474 (22481B45) Date: 5/31/1974 Description: 2:30 a.m. A prolonged Peugeot-pacing case from Mvuma to Beitbridge, Zimbabwe, takes place along the A4 highway, during which motorists experience electromagnetic effects, loss of steering control for their vehicle, abnormal cold and silence, translocation from one place to another, altered appearance of the terrain, humanoid encounter, and amnesia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Carl Van Vlieden, “[Escorted by UFOs from Umvuma to Beit Bridge,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 2 \(August 1975\): 3–8 Source ID: Eberhart_5057 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16475 (08D35764) Date: 6/1974 Description: The Circulo de Argentino de Investigaciones Ufológicas in Córdoba, Argentina, publishes the first issue of OVNIs: Un Desafio a la Ciencia, edited by Oscar A. Galíndez. It runs for 10 issues through February 1976. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [OVNIs: Un Desafio a la Ciencia,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Argentina/Ovnis%20-%20Un%20desafio%20a%20la%20ciencia/Ovnis%20-%20Un%20desafio%20a%20la%20ciencia%20-%20No%2001.pdf) No. 1 \(July 1974\) Source ID: Eberhart_5061 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16476 (F6EC16B2) Date: 6/1974 Description: MUFON pledges its cooperation with CUFOS, offering its network of investigators to secure raw data for analysis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skylook, June 1974 Source ID: Eberhart_5060 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16477 (A62267DC) Date: 6/1974 Description: Astrophysicist [Michael H. Hart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FH.%5FHart) formulates the basic points of [Enrico Fermi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%5FFermi)’s “Fermi Paradox” for an article in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. The paradox is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy and various high estimates for their probability \(such as those that result from optimistic parameters for the Drake equation\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Fermi paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%5Fparadox)”; Michael H. Hart, “[Explanation for the Absence of Extraterrestrials on Earth,](https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1975QJRAS..16..128H)” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 16 \(June 1975\): 128–135 Source ID: Eberhart_5062 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16478 (B6DC0800) Date: 6/3/1974 Description: Maubeuge, Nord department, France. A domed disc with a thin base and blinkers, blinked in response to flashlight signals, but flew away when a car attempted to approach it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #141 Source ID: Johnson_3255 Source: Johnson ### Event 16479 (6CF17889) Date: 6/4/1974 Description: A dark disc with a tail appendage hovered over New York City for five minutes around 6:30 p.m. in 1974. It was sharply outlined in the sky, and at an estimated altitude of 900 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1974. Source ID: Johnson_3277 Source: Johnson ### Event 16480 (9FA22E37) Date: 6/6/1974 Description: 9:30 p.m. A family driving along Route 150 encountered a structured object with a row of body lights. They fled in fear with the object following. When they stopped, the object hovered with a bobbing, fluttering motion above an adjacent field. (Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 2, 1974. Investigation by Raymond B. Fowler.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Hampton, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4408 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16481 (F847BE2B) Date: 6/6/1974 Description: The witness to an earlier report of humanoids in Warneton, Belgium from January 7, 1974 saw the same two entities again. At 8:40 p.m. his car engine sputtered and the cassette player stopped working. He felt an electric shock, then heard a sound, and the beings vanished. At 9:30 EDT, less than seven hours later in Southampton, Massachusetts four men and women saw a domed object with multicolored lights and a bobbing motion, descend near a road. The witnesses fled in fear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, 1975 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, p. 58; FSR, March 1975, p. 9; CUFOS files, report dated July 15, 1974; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 202 Source ID: Johnson_3329 Source: Johnson ### Event 16482 (C4599979) Date: 6/7/1974 Description: A red luminous sphere was seen over Lake George in Goulbourn, New South Wales, Australia at 11:00 p.m. At 3:00 a.m. the next morning dogs began barking and a witness saw a landed UFO and approached to within 300 meters of it. He saw 3-4 very tall (8 feet) beings, who wore glowing silver suits and floated to the ground. They had no facial features. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, case investigation files at J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, dated January 1975 Source ID: Johnson_3355 Source: Johnson ### Event 16483 (72EDB29F) Date: 6/8/1974 Description: At Lake George near Goulbourne, New South Wales, Australia a Mr. L, an elderly farmer, noticed an elongated luminous object in the sky at around 11 p.m. on the night of June 7-8, 1974. It ejected a "falling star" that approached to within two miles of him, hovering about a half a mile up in the sky. It appeared as a red luminous sphere. Later that night this sphere appeared to land behind some trees several miles away. At around three o'clock in the morning he went out with his dog to investigate, and walked toward the landing site. He heard a number of other dogs barking, and a voice that yelled, "shut up!", which caused him to stop. He sat down where he was and waited until around 6:00 a.m., and then went on to the site and found "an area of burnt vegetation for a distance of 200 yards." When the witness was subsequently hospitalized and diagnozed with paranoid schizophrenia, he was able to recall futher details. He remembered that he had approached to withing 300 yards of the landed object, and observed it through binoculars. Three or four men over eight feet tall came from behind the landed craft and "floated" to the ground. They were wearing glowing silver colored suits that covered their bodies up to their necks. He could discern no facial features on the beings. Later, a chute emerged from the object, and down it came a number of cylindrical metal "packing cases." After that, about 40 head of black cattle came down the chute, and were driven away by normal looking men, accompanied by dogs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-27 (A1331), citing Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield Source ID: Johnson_3375 Source: Johnson ### Event 16484 (0B183FBA) Date: 6/9/1974 Description: Night. Maj. Shiro Kubota and Lt. Col. Toshio Nakamura are flying an F-4EJ Phantom II interceptor over the northern perimeter of Japan, apparently to intercept a Soviet aircraft. Ground control explains that they are to investigate a bright orange-red light reported by ground witnesses and tracked on radar. Leveling off at 30,000 feet, they see the light a few miles ahead. It appears to be about 33 feet in diameter, with square-shaped marks around its side. The object dips in a shallow turn as they approach. Suddenly the object reverses direction and shoots straight toward them. Nakamura forces the aircraft into a sudden dive to avoid it, missing the UFO by “inches.” The object then makes high-speed passes at the plane, drawing closer. Then, allegedly, the UFO strikes the F-4, forcing the two pilots to eject. Nakamura’s parachute catches fire and he falls to his death. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 430–431](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/430/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5063 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16485 (A2199F5C) Date: 6/11/1974 Description: No details but recorded as close encounter one with seven witnesses. (CUFOS) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lincolnshire, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4409 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16486 (4808631C) Date: 6/12/1974 Description: On this day a UFO with bouncing movements, or "a bobbing up and down" hovered over tree tops near Grantham, North Carolina for 20 minutes. The craft had windows and a row of lights estimated to be about 15 feet long. It also made a whirring noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 39; Frank Harrison, Skylook, July 1974, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_3441 Source: Johnson ### Event 16487 (BCB47334) Date: 6/12/1974 Description: Alfred A. Knopf publishes The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence by [Victor Marchetti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%5FMarchetti) and [John D. Marks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%5FMarchetti), which discusses how the CIA works and how its original purpose \(collecting and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons in order to advise public policymakers\) has, according to the authors, been subverted by its obsession with clandestine operations. Marchetti uses the expression “cult of intelligence” to denounce what he views as a counterproductive mindset and culture of secrecy, elitism, amorality, and lawlessness within and surrounding the CIA in the service of American imperialism. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[The CIA and](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FCIA%5Fand%5Fthe%5FCult%5Fof%5FIntelligence) [the Cult of Intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FCIA%5Fand%5Fthe%5FCult%5Fof%5FIntelligence)”; Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks, [The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence](https://archive.org/details/ciacultofi00vict)[,](https://archive.org/details/ciacultofi00vict) Knopf, 1974 Source ID: Eberhart_5064 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16488 (E2EEDC43) Date: 6/13/1974 Description: Off Itajai, Santa Catarina, Brazil at 3:30 p.m. several independent observers watched a saucer shaped object come in from the north and land on sea. It floated for five minutes before submerging. At 11 p.m. a UFO that changed colors from silver-white to red, green and orange, then back to silver-white every five minutes, placed a car for several minutes in Gladstone, Tasmania. Approximately an hour and 45 minutes later a domed disc with blinking lights descended over a military installation in Ventorro, Spain. It was spinning and seemed to be vibrating in place, and flew away to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Inforespace, Issue # 25, February 1976 and Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10826; (2) FSR, November 1975, p. 48; (3) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10827 Source ID: Johnson_3464 Source: Johnson ### Event 16489 (8762BF58) Date: 6/14/1974 Description: Earlier that same day, Santiago Pulido Romero, age 46, was driving to his father's farm in Medellin, Spain at 4:30 a.m. when he saw a bright light, then a "pot-shaped" object flying rapidly towards him at a low altitude. The object paced his car at a distance of some 70 meters to the right. When his headlights were turned on the UFO would approach. When he turned them off the UFO moved away. The object hovered over the farmhouse he entered, illuminating the area "like daytime". It rotated as it hovered, with a slight back-and forth, pendulum motion. No sound was heard. The UFO had a conical turret on top, which emitted a brilliant yellow light. Inside the turret he could see three beings more than two meters tall, moving stiffly, with something like helmets on their heads. The object was in view for more than 90 minutes and was seen by others. It departed as the sun rose. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Eileen Buckle, Spanish UFO Fiesta, FSR, December 1974, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_3484 Source: Johnson ### Event 16490 (4C0872F1) Date: 6/14/1974 Description: At 10:15 p.m. in Wallers, France a dark object and some nocturnal lights were sighted low behind some trees. Two lights flew all over the place, while a huge ball of light was seen to land. Ground traces were reportedly found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1976 Source ID: Johnson_3485 Source: Johnson ### Event 16491 (258157B9) Date: 6/14/1974 Description: 5:30 a.m. Lasted 1-1/2 hours and was seen to the East in the direction of Venus and disappeared as Venus would at sunrise. Some investigators report that the witness may have been the town drunk, but here for-the-record is what he reported. This man driving 200 miles north of Seville saw an object shaped like a pot (truncated cone) flying rapidly toward him at low altitude (estimated 100 meters). (Inforespace, No. 22, August 1975; translated from French by Jacques Deschenes.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Medellin Castle, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4410 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16492 (3AE09E0D) Date: 6/14/1974 Description: 5:30 a.m. Santiago Pulido Romero is driving in Medellín, Badajoz, Spain, near the Castillo when he sees a pot- shaped object rapidly approaching him 300 feet above the ground. He turns off his car lights, but the object follows his car parallel to the road about 210 feet away to the right. When he switches his headlights back on, the object begins approaching again, so he switches them off and the object retreats. When he arrives at his father’s property, the object hovers over the barn, moving up and down, so he runs into the house. Later Pulido goes outside to check, and the object is still hovering, lighting up the entire area like daytime. Three humanoid beings are visible inside the object. Early the next morning at sunrise, the object abruptly speeds away. Other witnesses in separate locations also see a UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Eileen Buckle, “[Spanish UFO Fiesta,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201974%20V%2020%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 \(December 1974\): 6–7; “[Un OVNI repond à des signaux lumineux en Espagne,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/Inforespace/Inforespace%20-%20No%2022%20-%201975.pdf)” Inforespace, no. 22, August 1975, pp. 14–15; “[1974: UFO with Occupants Hover over Farm,](http://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/1974-ufo-with-occupants-hover-over-farm/)” ThinkAboutIt, April 6, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_5065 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16493 (74AEE309) Date: 6/14/1974 Description: A maneuvering disc-shaped object was seen by independent witnesses in Nashua, New Hampshire at 12:35 a.m., 12:50 a.m., and 2:00 a.m. over Nashua. It was described as a large metallic object, dark on the lower half, with red lights around the rim. The same or similar object was seen zigzagging over Nashua airport. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Center for UFO Studies case investigation files, received July 17, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_3483 Source: Johnson ### Event 16494 (8F15E39C) Date: 6/15/1974 Description: Mountain guide Keo Wha Unan is inspecting the outer perimeter of a rock formation near Mount Dhajar \(apparently in the Bayan Har Mountains, Tibet\) to make certain it is safe for the next day’s climb. He emerges from a cave and sees a silvery disc hovering about 4 feet above the ground behind a crest of high rocks. It is windowless and shiny with no protrusions. He sees three humanoid figures gathering snow and rocks and putting them inside the UFO. After 5 minutes, they climb a ladder into the craft. The object rises a few feet and shoots straight up like a flash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harry Hill, “[The Bizarre Ancient Astronauts of Tibet,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/American%20UFO%20Publications/UFO%20Update/No%2005.pdf)” UFO Update!, no. 5 \(Winter 1980\): 49, 64 Source ID: Eberhart_5066 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16495 (39D15C0B) Date: 6/16/1974 Description: 5:00 a.m. A farmhand is driving near Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, when a bright object illuminates the highway. He sees three tall, helmeted figures standing inside the craft. When the witness turns off his headlights, the UFO moves away; when he turns them back on, the UFO approaches and follows him home about 230 feet above his car. He turns off his lights again, and the UFO slowly flies away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 346 Source ID: Eberhart_5067 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16496 (5A512B1F) Date: 6/16/1974 Description: At about 5:00 a.m. a 46-year-old farm laborer was driving near Caceres, Spain when a bright object illuminated the highway. He saw three tall helmeted figures standing inside the craft. When the witness turned off his headlights the UFO moved away; when he turned them back on the UFO approached, and followed him home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 188; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 346; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #147; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 193 Source ID: Johnson_3516 Source: Johnson ### Event 16497 (EDB9762D) Date: 6/18/1974 Description: Midnight. Beginning of a series of abductions. Son of farmer had been apparently abducted and no one knew it for some 12 years or spring of 1986. Natural recall of abduction into craft and removal of sperm. Elderly farmer saw object land in soybean field around 12:00 a.m. (Don Worley files) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Metcalf, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4411 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16498 (A005D382) Date: 6/18/1974 Description: 4:30 a.m. Second elderly farmer watched fiery object take off from bean field. (Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Metcalf, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4412 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16499 (AAE9A453) Date: 6/18/1974 Description: At 3:30 p.m. on a sunny afternoon a strange metallic flying object flew around over the sea off the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It was at a distance of some thousand metres or so from the shore at Navegantes. After hovering for some six minutes above the sea, it veered at a 90 degree angle towards the beach and then dropped into the sea. Fisherman Avelino Severiano Generosa, age 46, his parents, his wife, and his nine children were all on the beach when they saw the silent, bright shiny object flying very low along the shore. It remaining stationary for six minutes, then it dropped into the sea. He at once put out in his motor-launch to the area, but found only foam on the sea where the object had disappeared. There were twenty other people on the beach who also saw the object, but none of the others had the courage to go out in the boat to see what was happening. Days later Celso Lemkuni, a diver, tried to make a dive to locate the object, but had no success owing to the strong winds lashing the coast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, "Alleged Kidnappings and Other Matters", FSR, March-April 1975, pp. 21-22, citing O Dia, July 12, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_3537 Source: Johnson ### Event 16500 (970B8521) Date: 6/20/1974 Description: Several hundred witnesses including 15 police saw a luminous cigar-shaped object fly back and forth over the city of Sao Bernardo da Campo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil at 7:30 p.m. It reportedly responded to light signals. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Inforespace, October 1975 Source ID: Johnson_3558 Source: Johnson ### Event 16501 (B1C1B761) Date: Summer 1974 Description: Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. California Gov. [Ronald Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) and his pilot Bill Paynter in his Cessna Citation see a bright white light zigzagging through the sky near Bakersfield, California. They follow the light for several minutes. Paynter says it “was a fairly steady light until it began to accelerate, then it appeared to elongate.” Then, “to our utter amazement, it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told [Nancy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%5FReagan) all about it…. And we read up on the long history of UFOs.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: presidentialufo.com, “Ronald Reagan, 40th President, January 20, 1981–January 20, 1989” Source ID: Eberhart_5059 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16502 (522F69A3) Date: Summer 1974 Description: Late evening. A witness living southwest of Lodi, Wisconsin, sees an intensely bright light that is illuminating a hill on an adjacent golf course. It covers an area the size of a football field, but he cannot see a beam or light source. A few hours later, a couple driving on State Highway 113 south of Lodi observe a triangular object with red and blue circular lights suspended beneath it. The object passes silently less than 20 feet above their car, hovers momentarily, and resumes its slow pass overhead. It is twice the size of their car. They watch as the lights shut off and the object is gone. At 1:00 a.m., a man in Lodi sees what he thinks are headlights pulling into his driveway. He sees three bright points of light fixed horizontally in the black sky. He goes in to get his brother who has a telescope, and they attempt to spot the lights \(only two now\) with the scope. It takes a while, and when they look straight up they see a large, triangular object right above them. No lights are visible, but its undersurface is clearly defined and metallic. It moves over the house, tips upward at a 45° angle, and shoots away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part Two,” IUR 13, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1988\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_5058 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16503 (5C849381) Date: 6/25/1974 Description: 1:15 a.m. A witness is up late in his trailer home at St.-Cyrille-de-Wendover, Quebec, when he hears a “bumm, bumm, bumm” sound, as if something very heavy has fallen onto the ground. He looks out the living room window and sees a UFO hovering low above a near field. It is a disc with a red domed area and an orangish lower area punctuated by oval windows from which comes white light. He sees a 6-foot-tall robot that has apparently emerged from the object and is now only 15 feet from his window. He and his wife see three more robots near the trailer next door. The observation lasts 3 hours as the couple peek out of the window periodically. At one point, they see 15 robots standing in line together close to a creek for 5 minutes. As if on command, they suddenly move together; when they look out again at 4:20 a.m., the craft and the robots are gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marc Leduc, “[Un atterrissage et des humanoïdes á Drummondville,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/UFO%20Quebec/UFO%20Quebec%20-%20No%2001%20-%201975.pdf)” UFO-Quebec 1, no. 1 \(1975\): 10–12 Source ID: Eberhart_5068 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16504 (78DE6F4C) Date: 6/25/1974 Description: A dog began barking at 1:15 a.m. when a domed disc-shaped UFO with red and white lights on top and an orange-lit rim with oval white lights landed in St-Cyrille-de-Wendover, Quebec. Three rings were found at the site, 19 feet in diameter with a 2-foot width. The grass inside the rings did not appear to be disturbed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Center for UFO Studies investigation files, on-site investigation; Wido Hoville, Skylook, November 1974, p. 10; APRO Bulletin, December 1974, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_3658 Source: Johnson ### Event 16505 (B23806F8) Date: 6/29/1974 Description: At one o'clock in the morning in Lille, Nord, France a lenticular-shaped disc that emitted a strong orange light was seen by several witnesses travelling in a cars. The car batteries were drained of power. At 2:25 a.m. a reddish orange luminous cylinder was seen over Hellemes, Nord, France. It hung vertically in the sky and had an intensely bright center section. A second and third set of witnesses saw an orange light but did not see the structure of the object. A fourth set of witnesses saw a violent red light. The cylinder was over the zinc roof of a house, and reportedly in generated smoke from the roof as the zinc roofing partially melted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 495; (2) Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 493; Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1974 Source ID: Johnson_3733 Source: Johnson ### Event 16506 (3C687577) Date: 6/29/1974 Description: At Bogue Inlet, Washington, North Carolina at 9:30 p.m. a businessman was on his boat on the lake when he spotted a cone-shaped UFO hovering over one spot in the lake for ten minutes. It stayed there until a plane flew over, when it then shot up vertically at high speed, giving off an orange, jet-like flame. It was definitely not a Marine military aircraft, according to the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 39; FSR, January 1975, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_3734 Source: Johnson ### Event 16507 (B573D467) Date: 7/2/1974 Description: 3:30 p.m. Some fishermen at Praia dos Navegantes beach, Santa Catarina, Brazil, see a disc with small thrusters on its sides descend and fall into the ocean about 328 feet away. Thinking it is an aircraft, the men head to the splashdown site to help survivors. As Ubelino Severino gets closer, the object sinks, leaving only foam at the surface. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil 517–520 Source ID: Eberhart_5069 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16508 (08614316) Date: 7/6/1974 Description: In Madison County, Nebraska a cattle mutilation was discovered here. A Bigfoot report occurred on the previous day in Burt County, three counties to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fate, November 1974, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_3884 Source: Johnson ### Event 16509 (71FA919B) Date: 7/8/1974 Description: At 12:50 a.m. a luminous disc-shaped object began following a car with two passengers in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Vaucluse department, France. It eluded the car when the car attempted to approach it, then reapproached the car before it shot straight up vertically on departure. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1975 Source ID: Johnson_3933 Source: Johnson ### Event 16510 (868F4FF6) Date: 7/8/1974 Description: A witness named Imolesi had a close encounter with a 15 meter wide disc-shaped object with a wing over a road in Barbiana, Italy at 10:10 p.m. A 25-foot wide circular trace mark was found on the nearby riverbed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Skylook, February 1975; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Reports database, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit Source ID: Johnson_3932 Source: Johnson ### Event 16511 (C96DC3BF) Date: 7/9/1974 Description: Elliptical object with body lights hovered low, moved toward police car; officer turned spotlight on it, brilliant white beam from object illuminated patrol car (Reference 1, Section I). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kingston, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4413 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16512 (35764E06) Date: 7/9/1974 Description: Elliptical object with body lights hovered low, moved toward police car. Officer turned spotlight on it, brilliant white beam from object illuminated patrol car Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Kingston, NY Source ID: HallUFOE2_241 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16513 (55B9AA65) Date: 7/9/1974 Description: Early morning. An elliptical object with rows of alternating red and green lights hovers about 200 feet above a park in Kingston, New York. A hazy white glow emanates from the underside. The object moves to within 500 feet of a police car. When officers James Wallace and Richard Ramsdell turn their spotlight on, a brilliant beam lights up the cruiser. The beam switches off and the object races away at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Hovering Object Shines](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/103%20OCTOBER%201974.pdf) [Spotlight on Police Car,](http://www.cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/103%20OCTOBER%201974.pdf)” UFO Investigator, October 1974, p. 3; UFOEv II 45 Source ID: Eberhart_5070 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16514 (E728BD1D) Date: 7/9/1974 Description: A huge bullet-shaped object hovered over the port of East London, South Africa at 11:50 p.m. It had portholes along the sides of the craft. Electrical power fluctuated in the area at the time of the incident. At about the same time or approximately twenty minutes earlier, at 10:30 p.m. European Time, a dark disc blocked out the stars over Le Luc, France. It had very bright beams of light that were directed onto trees and a hill. It flew silently toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, January 1990; Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1977 Source ID: Johnson_3963 Source: Johnson ### Event 16515 (FC0D21C8) Date: 7/9/1974 Description: At one o'clock in the morning an ellipse-shaped UFO with rows of lights along the side approached a police car on a road near Kingston, New York. It responded to the police spotlight by beaming a bright light into the car. It then sped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files Source ID: Johnson_3962 Source: Johnson ### Event 16516 (7020250B) Date: 7/9/1974 Description: Psychic [Pat Price](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate%5FProject\#Pat%5FPrice) accurately remote views the Soviet URDF-3 facility adjacent to the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan for the Stanford Research Institute \[now SRI International\] in Menlo Park, California. In another experiment, [Puthoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff) and a skeptical scientist named Earl Jones drive to 9 separate metropolitan areas, all chosen by Jones. Back in the SRI lab, [Targ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%5FTarg) monitors Price, who describes 7 of the places accurately —in some cases before Jones and Puthoff even reach the target or before Jones has decided on a target. Price also claims to sense four underground alien bases, volunteering the data outside the SRI experimental parameters. The bases are located under Monte Perdido, Huesca, Spain; Mount Nyangani, Zimbabwe; Mount Hayes, Alaska; and Mount Ziel in Australia’s Northern Territory. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, [pp. 113](https://archive.org/details/remoteviewerssec00schn/page/112/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/remoteviewerssec00schn/page/112/mode/2up) [118](https://archive.org/details/remoteviewerssec00schn/page/118/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/remoteviewerssec00schn/page/118/mode/2up) [148–151](https://archive.org/details/remoteviewerssec00schn/page/148/mode/2up); Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena, Little, Brown, 2017, pp. 166–171 Source ID: Eberhart_5071 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16517 (D2DC0D60) Date: 7/14/1974 Description: 3:36 p.m. A Scandinavian Airlines flight en route to Burlington, Vermont, is flying at 35,000 feet 35–40 miles southeast of Quebec City, Quebec. Capt. Korsvold and the crew notice a triangular object moving southwest and has it in sight for 7 minutes. Radio interference is reported. At the same time, C. W. Bacon is flying a private jet about 35 miles southeast of Quebec City and sees the same triangular object, but it seems to be stationary. Air traffic control at CFB Bagotville in Saguenay, Quebec, reports strong interference on a frequency of 121.5 MHz, a frequency reserved for aircraft in distress. The signal is also disrupting transmissions for 10 minutes at RCAF Station Mont Apica \[now the Lac Castor Canadian weather radar station\]. All is quiet after both the UFO and interference are gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 200](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/200/mode/2up); Arthur R. Bray, The UFO Connection, Jupiter, 1979, pp. 45–46; Patrick Gross, “[Files Obtained from the National Archives of Canada](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/offica06.htm)”; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 89–90 Source ID: Eberhart_5072 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16518 (840E266D) Date: 7/15/1974 Description: Two unregistered helicopters, a white helicopter, and a black twin-engine aircraft open fire on Robert Smith Jr. while he is driving his tractor on his farm in Honey Creek, Iowa. This attack follows a rash of cattle mutilations in the area and across the nearby border in Nebraska. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cattle mutilation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle%5Fmutilation\#Government%5For%5Fmilitary%5Fexperimentation)” Source ID: Eberhart_5073 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16519 (664A3914) Date: 7/17/1974 Description: Yugoslavia (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [740717](http://www.nicap.org/yugo74.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beloite, Yugo Source ID: NICAP_DB_4414 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16520 (95E61505) Date: 7/17/1974 Description: Mrs. Jackie Booth of Avon Lake, Ohio--mother of three--had had several UFO sightings earlier in this year in March and April, and at the end of June a strange and totally unexplained condition affected her eyes when light emanated from them for a two hour period. In early July ground marks that could have come from a landed UFO were found on her lawn. On this night she awoke and went to the front door where she found two strange figures standing. They were about five feet tall and had large heads that were flat on top, glowing eyes set wide apart, slit-like mouths, and grayish-colored skin. Their arms were long, but she could not recall any details below the waist. They entered the house and appeared interested in Mrs. Booth's electric organ. She tried to talk to them, but they communicated with her telepathically, and she could "feel my thoughts leave my head." They wanted her to play the organ, so she sat down and played scales, and when she looked up they had vanished. She went back to bed and tried to convince herself it had been a dream. Later, under hypnosis, she recalled additional details. None of her family had awakened during the incident. Other strange incidents subsequently occurred. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-37 (A1343), citing Allen Benz for APRO Source ID: Johnson_4140 Source: Johnson ### Event 16521 (743FBB0F) Date: 7/20/1974 Description: The fire lookout at Satus Peak in Yakima County, Washington recorded seeing an unexplained ball of light for twenty minutes beginning at 11:15 p.m. Records show that similar sightings occurred here on the same date in 1973 and again in 1981. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, pp. 127, 128, 134 Source ID: Johnson_4250 Source: Johnson ### Event 16522 (DE230AE7) Date: 7/22/1974 Description: At 12:15 a.m. a circular-shaped UFO with an antenna "like a church steeple on its top" flashed blue lights and gave off a white vapor trail when it maneuvered over Lexington, Missouri. There were nine witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 39; FSR, January 1975, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_4302 Source: Johnson ### Event 16523 (AC4C4000) Date: 7/30/1974 Description: 8:50 p.m. Near Solitude, Indiana, just a little over three miles north of us, a Mt. Vernon couple and their little boy were on their way home from a play in New Harmony, heading south on Hwy 69. They observed an object silhouetted against the moonlit haze in the southwest. . (UFOFC files, Fran Ridge) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Solitude, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4415 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16524 (D47ACF97) Date: 8/1/1974 Description: John E. Justice had just left his job at the Ohio Masonic Home for the aged in Springfield, Ohio and was driving home when he heard a voice tell him "let go the steering wheel." Justice ignored this instruction and the order was repeated, calling him "friend." Justice did so, and the car continued down the long drive of its own accord. The voice, somewhat guttural in tone, came from the passenger seat to his right, and Justice could see the seat was depressed, as though someone was sitting in it. He asked if he would be harmed, and was told, "Friend, I would not harm a hair on your head." Justice then asked what he wanted and got no reply. He was told that the voice was that of a "spaceman," and he had been in the UFO Justice and another witness had seen a few nights earlier. Justice was then told that he would be able to see him when he left the car, and was told to look above the power lines ahead. He then observed a figure suspended ten feet in the air in front of his car. It was perfectly human in appearance, a male figure of large build, about 6' 6" tall, holding its arms outstretched in front. The being wore a tight fitting, silvery outfit with a belt, gloves, and short boots. He was very handsome, and illuminated by a strange light. Justice was told that he would be visited again. The figure passed from view and Justice took control of the steering wheel and continued home, very shaken by the experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-38 (A1851), citing Jack Rockel Source ID: Johnson_4574 Source: Johnson ### Event 16525 (CF8FFC86) Date: 8/1/1974 Description: On this evening in Albemarle, North Carolina a round, orange object, bigger and brighter than the full Moon, hovered for 15 minutes above the tree tops, and then sped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 31; Saga UFO Report, April 1975, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_4573 Source: Johnson ### Event 16526 (23FBBF2D) Date: 8/1/1974 Description: At 2:30 a.m. a four meter long, luminous ovoid object flew fast over the beach at Canet-Plage, France. It stopped and hovered in place for three hours. It had portholes through which figures could be seen inside the craft. It left by shooting off toward the west. It was witnessed by a married couple named Rassin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1611, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 146 Source ID: Johnson_4572 Source: Johnson ### Event 16527 (9F1BEC6C) Date: 8/2/1974 Description: In Calvert, Texas a newspaper editor and his wife heard "strange metallic noises", then witnessed a deep red UFO that "roared" and pulsated, and chased their car for several miles on Highway 979. UFO shook all over, like it was about to fall apart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December 1974, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_4606 Source: Johnson ### Event 16528 (4D813CAE) Date: 8/2/1974 Description: At 2:15 p.m. three six-meter wide metallic discs with transparent domes landed in a pasture in Englefontaine, Nord department, France. They made a buzzing sound that was heard by the two children who witnessed it. the discs rose in tandem, then flew off to the west. Crop circles were found at the landing sites. At 10:30 p.m. a domed ovoid object with square windows was seen on the ground in a clearing in some woods in Auzay, Vendee department, France. The UFO jumped up from ground level, turned 120 degrees and flew off into the woods. No traces were found at this second landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 141 & 228 Source ID: Johnson_4605 Source: Johnson ### Event 16529 (8BD9BE56) Date: 8/5/1974 Description: At 8:20 p.m. nine witnesses northwest of Bully-les-Mines, Pas de Calais, France spotted a brilliant, lens-shaped disc hovering over an electric pylon. It rose, wobbled, and then vanished. The entire incident lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 144 Source ID: Johnson_4687 Source: Johnson ### Event 16530 (88981D3C) Date: 8/5/1974 Description: An apparent abduction attempt that was thwarted by two other UFOs occurred shortly after dusk in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Two peasants in their twenties, named Sr. Chiaka and Sr. Monteil, were returning home when they were blinded by a round object in the sky that was "flattened at the sides, and of a silvery color." They found themselves paralyzed and unable to move as the object landed. Two humanoid beings, who were more than two meters tall, emerged from the craft, wearing "lead colored clothing like the skin of sardines." They also had on blue colored goggles and dark belts. They approached the witnesses slowly, making gestures, while a whistling sound came from their machine. What happened next was completely bewildering. Two other UFOs descended from the sky "and took the first UFO and its occupants in tow." The witnesses were then able to move again, and made their escape. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: La Razon, August 6, 1974; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-39; FSR, April 1975, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_4688 Source: Johnson ### Event 16531 (CB98B09A) Date: 8/6/1974 Description: In Basella, Lerida, Spain a man and a woman watched a low-flying disc-shaped object, only 1.5 meters in diameter, follow the local river road at 6:40 p.m. It had running lights, and made a sound like an electric motor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 52 (case 197) Source ID: Johnson_4738 Source: Johnson ### Event 16532 (A348D592) Date: 8/8/1974 Description: President [Richard Nixon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FNixon) resigns in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_5074 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16533 (E00D2CAB) Date: 8/9/1974 Description: President Gerald Ford in office Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_675 Source: Maj2 ### Event 16534 (7DD3B20D) Date: 8/11/1974 Description: At 7:00 p.m. in the town of Salles-la-Source, Averyon, France four witnesses watched as a silent, brilliant ovoid object flew slowly overhead at one kilometer altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10905, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1974 Source ID: Johnson_4879 Source: Johnson ### Event 16535 (46790DBD) Date: 8/11/1974 Description: Between Tilton and Concord, New Hampshire Mark E. Paine and Michael Alden of the Tilton Police Department witnessed three luminous objects in a triangle formation at 3:23 a.m. A fourth object rose from the trees, and flew overhead. A domed ellipse approached the police car, and then veered away. Other police and citizen sightings happened at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 175; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist!, p. 371 Source ID: Johnson_4880 Source: Johnson ### Event 16536 (98137B9A) Date: 8/11/1974 Description: In the early morning hours eight police officers from several jurisdictions observed low-flying saucer-like objects with red, blue, white, and yellow body lights. (Concord Monitor & Patriot, Aug. 12, 1974.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Concord, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4416 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16537 (21410E85) Date: 8/11/1974 Description: 3:23 a.m. Police officers Mark E. Paine and Michael Alden watch three luminous UFOs in a triangle formation between Tilton and Concord, New Hampshire. A fourth object, a domed ellipse, rises from the trees and approaches their car. As the officers signal the object, it signals back, then veers away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 175 Source ID: Eberhart_5075 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16538 (BB97DEED) Date: 8/12/1974 Description: 11:30 a.m. A 15-year-old boy sees a disc maneuvering near a hedgerow at La Brousse, Charente-Maritime, France. It is about the size of a medium car, dull-lead in color, with a green reflective dome. One of three windows open “exactly like the shutter of a vanishing headlight on a sports car.” The lower part of the object rotates, but the dome does not. Later, three sharply defined circles of burnt straw form an isosceles triangle within an oval area of crushed straw. Within each imprint are two small pieces of lead. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: M. Chasseigne, “[Atterrissage à](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20140.pdf) [La Brousse, près de Matha,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20140.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 140 \(December 1974\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_5076 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16539 (F3A090C3) Date: 8/12/1974 Description: At around two o'clock in the morning police from four towns in central New Hampshire saw a domed, oval-shaped object, 40 feet in diameter. At one point it came to within 300 feet of a police cruiser on Interstate 93 in Sanbornton. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1974; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December 1974, p. 39; FSR, January-February 1975, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_4952 Source: Johnson ### Event 16540 (D2674E77) Date: 8/12/1974 Description: In Salles-de-Villefagnan, Charente, France a 15-meter in diameter disc-shaped object was encountered over highways D31 and D27 at 4:10 a.m. Birds in the area were frightened by the UFO, and the eyes of the witnesses hurt after the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 144 Source ID: Johnson_4951 Source: Johnson ### Event 16541 (86B2D87C) Date: 8/13/1974 Description: Just after midnight Aug. 12/13 two motorists driving between Laurel and Meridian independently reported to police that they had seen UFOs. In one car an Air Force officer and his family saw two large saucer-shaped objects displaying a blinding bright blue light approach, then buzz the car three times. (New Orleans States- Item, Associated Press story, Aug, 13, 1974.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Laurel, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4417 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16542 (2586D743) Date: 8/14/1974 Description: A police officer named Noel with another man in a boat on Lake Winnepausaukee near Laconia, New Hampshire took a photograph of three UFOs that appeared to be at only 60 feet altitude above the lake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Saga UFO Report, March 1975, p. 50; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December 1974, p. 39; George D. Fawcett, FSR, January-February 1975, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_5010 Source: Johnson ### Event 16543 (0DE9B468) Date: 8/15/1974 Description: On this clear night a WBZ newscaster and several others saw a large, bluish-green cigar-shaped UFO hovering over Lake Winnipesaukee from Wolfeboro, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Their sighting lasted for 15-20 minutes. At 11:00 p.m. a large cigar-shaped UFO was also sighted by four witnesses in nearby Gilford, Belknap County, New Hampshire. The object was estimated to be about 300 feet long and the sighting lasted 40 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December 1974, p. 39; George D. Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 31; (2) Mr. Yale, CUFOS files, letter dated September 16, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_5046 Source: Johnson ### Event 16544 (B579138C) Date: 8/16/1974 Description: At 3:40 a.m. several observers saw a huge hovering cigar-shaped craft over Malesherbes, France. Next, two small domed disc-shaped objects were seen descending towards the ground. A short time later the witnesses reported seeing strange figures and hearing loud noises in the area near their location. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 2413, citing Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France Source ID: Johnson_5093 Source: Johnson ### Event 16545 (2A253B25) Date: 8/16/1974 Description: Shortly after 7:30 p.m. three boys, ages 9 and 10, in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia saw a buzzing, multi-colored disc-shaped object land. It approached very suddenly from the sky and made an undulating motion as it came in to land. It landed with a blast of hot air, and gave off blue sparks during the process. An animal reaction was noted: their cat was frightened and ran away. The UFO had the outline of a door, and stood on three legs; it had a square at the top, and was 20 feet wide. Circular patches were found on the ground at the landing site. The entire close encounter lasted ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alan Landsburg, In Search of Extraterrestrials, p. 6; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 34; UNICAT, case # 480, citing Graham Conway, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1986 Source ID: Johnson_5094 Source: Johnson ### Event 16546 (D2DE76F8) Date: 8/16/1974 Description: 8:00 p.m. David Bates, 8, Steven Stillie, 10, and Henry Stillie, 7, are taking a shortcut past an abandoned sandpit close to their homes in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Suddenly they hear a high-pitched whine and the cat Bates is carrying panics and escapes his hold; it runs several yards and then stops abruptly. They then see an object with a red light on top and flashing green and white lights on either end. Moving slowly, the UFO reverses course and with an undulating motion heads for the clearing where the sandpit lies and lands there, about 150 feet away. The whine becomes intense. As the object settles down, it releases a blast of hot air that blows dust on he boys. It extends three short legs and blue sparks leap up from the ground. The boys run home. Investigator Graham Conway finds residual material present in three indentations at the site. Analysis shows that it contains an abnormally high amount of zinc. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Graham Conway, “[Close Encounter,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%203%20no%204%20-%201975.pdf)” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 4 \(1975\): 8–11; Graham Conway, “[Close Encounter,](https://www.ufobc.ca/History/1970/close%5Fv2.htm)” UFO\*BC; Graham Conway, “CE2 Secrets,” IUR 17, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1992\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_5077 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16547 (F5D2BF10) Date: 8/20/1974 Description: A series of UFO sightings with police reports and multiple radar confirmation occurred in Albany and Saratoga Counties, New York. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1974, p. 3; Margaret Sachs & Ernest Jahn, Celestial Passengers, pp. 98-101; John Wallace Spencer, UFO Yearbook, p. 165 Source ID: Johnson_5191 Source: Johnson ### Event 16548 (7261FFF6) Date: 8/20/1974 Description: Driving on Route 43 near Derry, New Hampshire at 9:30 p.m. Joe Recupero saw an object through his windshield that was moving from east to west, approximately 300 yards distant, and as "big as a house." It was white in color, fuzzy and bright as the sun, and was followed by several smaller objects. It moved into some trees along the highway between Exits 4 and 5, so he pulled off the road, got out, and began looking for it. After searching for several minutes, he suddenly spotted two small "mummy like" figures in the woods, some 40 yards distant. Alarmed, he got back into his car and drove off. The entire incident lasted one hour, although the mummy figures were only seen briefly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-40 (A1349), citing investigators John Oswald & Bill Haylock Source ID: Johnson_5190 Source: Johnson ### Event 16549 (E084CC90) Date: 8/21/1974 Description: Time not given, or other details. CE-1, multiple witnesses. (CUFOS) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sparta, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4418 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16550 (53B6767B) Date: 8/22/1974 Description: A young woman, Kimberle Lenz, and her brother were abducted while driving on a road near Boulder, Colorado at about 1:30 a.m. The abduction experience lasted two hours, and involved missing time and physiological effects. R. Leo Sprinkle investigated the case and performed the hypnotic regression on the witnesses. Some kind of levitation force was used which pulled the witnesses in the car forward. Grey humanoid beings approached their stopped car from a field. They were made to touch a black box, which caused them to lose consciousness. Under hypnosis it emerged that the beings communicated with them using telepathy; they were curious about human emotions. When the abductees attempted to engage in resistance, they experienced pain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: R. Leo Sprinkle, APRO Bulletin, May 1981, p. 8; R. Leo Sprinkle, MUFON Conference Proceedings: 1980, p. 59; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 86, citing the 1981 Rocky Mountain Conference, p. 62 Source ID: Johnson_5229 Source: Johnson ### Event 16551 (5EC06B9B) Date: 8/23/1974 Description: 9:00 p.m. [John Lennon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FLennon) and [May Pang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%5FPang) watch a rotating, oval-shaped disc with a red light on top from the roof of his penthouse apartment on East 52nd Street in New York City. It is flying less than 100 feet away and moves off soundlessly as they watch it. Lennon mentions it in a liner note to his 1974 Walls and Bridges album. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Halperin, “[John Lennon, May Pang, and the UFO \(1\) Their Story,](https://www.davidhalperin.net/john-lennon-may-pang-and-the-ufo-1-their-story/)” davidhalperin.net, February 11, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_5078 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16552 (6EF3BEFD) Date: 8/25/1974 Description: After 10:00 p.m. A document is leaked to UFO researchers in the US and UK in 1992 and is apparently composed by someone within the US intelligence community who either personally knows about the case or who has run across top-secret documents. Now known as the “Deneb Report,” the document alleges that the following incident took place. Military radar at Corpus Christi, Texas, detects an unknown target moving toward the Texas Gulf coast. Traveling at a speed of 2,500 mph at an altitude of 75,000 feet, the UFO is first spotted over the Gulf of Mexico about 200 miles east of Corpus Christi. After going through maneuvers suggesting intelligent control, the object quickly turns south along the Texas coast, avoiding entry over land, and seems headed toward Brownsville. As the disc continues to hug the Texas coastline, it exhibits controlled descent, calculated turns, speed reductions, and other clear indications of control. The object descends from 75,000 feet to about 45,000 feet by the time it crosses over land into northern Mexico, about 40 miles south of Brownsville. Its speed is down to 2,000 mph and it is slowing very gradually. Zigzagging around mountain peaks that tower above 5,000 feet, the UFO continues to descend, although its speed is still near 2,000 mph at the time that it encounters another aircraft headed toward it on a collision course. Somewhere over a vast desert plain known as El Llano near Coyame, Chihuahua, Mexico, a mid-air collision occurs with a small aircraft flying from El Paso to Mexico City. Debris from the crash rains down on the desert plain below, and efforts are soon underway by both Mexico and the US to recover the remains. Mexican spotter planes first locate the wreckage of the aircraft, even as US electronic surveillance personnel listen in on the rescue activities from across the Texas border. The Americans hear the Mexican spotter planes say that the small craft is almost totally destroyed and that they have found a second crash site nearby with the remains of a nearly intact, shiny, silvery disc. The object is 16 feet, 5 inches in diameter, and equally convex on both upper and lower surfaces. There is an outer rim around the central circumference. The height is slightly less than 5 feet. They see no visible portholes, doors, or markings. In addition, no lights of any kind are apparent. There is also no obvious mechanism for propulsion. The external surface of the disc is like silvery polished steel. Mexican troops recover the crashed disc, winching it up onto the bed of a large military truck. They also retrieve fragments of the crashed civilian aircraft, although there is not much left of it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Presidio](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=68) [1974,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=68)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library; Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte, The Coyame Incident, Roswell Books, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_5079 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16553 (A4E18E8B) Date: 8/26/1974 Description: In Feignies, Nord Department, France at 9:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Moret watched a round black orb, outlined by a faint white luminous corona, split in two. The sphere was about 200 meters away and it slowly descended to hover 20 meters above the ground before it split vertically into two "half moons", one of which flew off to the south-southeast and was lost from sight. The other half remained in place, and figures in helmets were seen moving about inside. A sort of veil was drawn across it, and two "cosmonauts" clad from head to foot in a whitish-gray metallic material, and wearing large helmets, were then seen moving in it. The witnesses watched them for 40 minutes, during which time the UFO remained stationary. The diameter of the original ball was about 25 feet, and the UFOnauts' were estimated to be five-feet tall. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1976 (issue 151), pp. 10-11; Jean Marie Bigorne, FSR, May 1976, p. 25; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 511; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-36(A1351) Source ID: Johnson_5370 Source: Johnson ### Event 16554 (C85D3E2A) Date: 8/28/1974 Description: At 8:55 p.m. a domed disc with portholes, about three times the apparent size of the Moon, moved over Mont-sur-Marchienne, Belgium and flew on toward the north-northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Abrassart, Inforespace, December 1975, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_5426 Source: Johnson ### Event 16555 (D3719E54) Date: 8/28/1974 Description: At 7:30 p.m. three witnesses observed an inverted dish-shaped object that flew over the river in Delta, British Columbia, Canada and landed 150 feet away in a clearing. It made a buzzing sound on descent. It had a square dome on top, with red, green, and white lights, and an exhaust hole that burned two circles in the ground, 4'6" and 5'6" in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, MUFON UFO Conference Proceedings 1975, p. 105; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 750 Source ID: Johnson_5427 Source: Johnson ### Event 16556 (D3B5A22C) Date: 8/28/1974 Description: Another physical traces case occurred on this night at 20:30 p.m. in Niergnies, Nord, France when a saucer-shaped object with "arms" came in low over a beet field. Burnt beet plants were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 141; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 797 Source ID: Johnson_5428 Source: Johnson ### Event 16557 (7D714B79) Date: 8/31/1974 Description: On this night at Navegantes Beach, Santa Catarina State, Brazil Antonio De Azevedo, an angler, was on the beach with his wife when they saw a discoid object with multicolored lights land close beside them. It was shaped like "two plates with the rims stuck together." The vivid lights temporarily paralyzed the observers. From the object emerged three "strange short beings wearing greenish spacesuits". Their faces "seemed to reflect the green color of their clothes." Conversing in a strange language, they quickly "examined" the angler and his wife, then seized his wife and abducted her, taking her into the object, which took off at incredible speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, August 1975, p. 21, citing Diario Popular, September 3, 1974; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-43 (A1355), citing Gordon Creighton, FSR, March 1975, p. 22; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 265 Source ID: Johnson_5529 Source: Johnson ### Event 16558 (0BF6F6D7) Date: 9/1974 Description: Author [Charles Berlitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FBerlitz) writes The Bermuda Triangle, in which he popularizes the concept of the Bermuda Triangle as an area of ocean prone to disappearing ships and airplanes. He quotes his friend J. Manson Valentine, who has reported several UFO sightings in the area. He also perpetuates a fake radio transmission from Lt. Charles Taylor of the missing TBM Avenger bombers in December 1945 containing the warning, “Don’t come after me… They look like they are from outer space.” Berlitz’s claims of unusual EM effects occurring in the Triangle are also fabrications. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles Berlitz, [The Bermuda Triangle](https://archive.org/details/bermudatriangle00berl%5F0)[,](https://archive.org/details/bermudatriangle00berl%5F0) Avon, 1974; Story, [p. 51](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/50/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5080 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16559 (CE5FEB61) Date: 9/1974 Description: USO Apparently Tracked By Radar At Some Point (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [740900](http://www.nicap.org/7409XXguam%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Ocean, Guam Source ID: NICAP_DB_4419 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16560 (75EEB5B0) Date: 9/1/1974 Description: Close approach, (#746) daylight (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [740901](http://www.nicap.org/tc-740901dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Langenburg, Saskatchewan, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4421 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16561 (B780ED74) Date: 9/1/1974 Description: Five dome-shaped objects in pasture, spinning and swirling grass. Objects took off, aligned in formation, climbed into clouds Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Langenburg, Saskatchewan, Canada Source ID: HallUFOE2_242 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16562 (E3094056) Date: 9/1/1974 Description: 11:00 a.m. While he is driving a swather to harvest his rapeseed crop near Langenburg, Saskatchewan, farmer Edwin Fuhr, 36, notices a metallic-appearing dome-shaped object about 50 feet away and stops to investigate. Walking to within 15 feet of it, Fuhr sees that it is spinning and swirling the grass beneath it. This frightens him and he backs away. Climbing back on the swather, he looks around and sees four more identical domes “like brushed stainless steel” arranged in a rough semicircle, all hovering and spinning about a foot above the ground. Whether from fear or an EM effect, Fuhr cannot get the throttle and steering wheel of the swather to respond. One object suddenly takes off, quickly followed by the other four, ascending in a step formation. At about 200 feet they stop, each emitting a puff of gray vapor from exhaust-like extensions at the base. The vapor extends about 6 feet, followed by a downward gust of wind which flattens the rapeseed in the immediate area. The objects then form a straight line, hover for a minute or two, then suddenly ascend into the low cloud cover and disappear. Fuhr goes to the landing area and finds five rings of depressed grass swirled in a clockwise fashion. There is no evidence of heat or burning. Some additional circles are found in the area later that month. Fuhr later learns that cattle in a nearby field bellowed and broke through a fence about the time of the sighting. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Ron Morier, quoted by Canadian Press, says: “Something was there and I doubt it was a hoax. There’s no indication anything had been wheeled in or out and Mr. Fuhr seemed genuinely scared.” Later Morier tells an investigator, “There is no way that this is a hoax. Whatever was in there, it came out of the air and departed the same way, as far as I could tell.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Phillips, [Physical Traces Associated with UFO](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf) [Sightings](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf) CUFOS, 1975, p. 104; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 22–24; Chris Rutkowski and John P. Timmerman, “Langenburg, 1974: A Classic Historical CE2 and a Crop Circle Progenitor?” IUR 17, no. 2 \(March/April 1992\): 4–11; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 148–159; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 110–113; “[Interview with Edwin Fuhr 37 Years](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1156816/pg1) [Later: The Langenburg UFO Case,](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1156816/pg1)” AboveTopSecret forum, January 20, 2017; Mark Melnychuk, “[The Farmer](https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/the-farmer-who-saw-and-the-mountie-who-believed) [Who Saw and the Mountie Who Believed: Sask.’s Most Famous UFO Sighting,](https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/the-farmer-who-saw-and-the-mountie-who-believed)” Regina \(Sask.\) Leader-Post, September 29, 2017; Clark III 673–675; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, pp. 192– 196 Source ID: Eberhart_5081 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16563 (EDAADB7C) Date: 9/1/1974 Description: Cattle found to have broken fence/domed object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [740901](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-740901.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Langenburg, Saskatchewan, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4420 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16564 (DD9A80A0) Date: 9/3/1974 Description: Late in August, while driving on her early morning paper route in Duxbury, Massachusetts, the witness observed a red pulsating object at treetop level. When two beams of light emerged from its base to play across a nearby cranberry bog, her car engine "fluttered" and the car radio emitted static. The car interior became extremely hot and she felt nauseated. On this pre-dawn morning while driving the same route as her previous sighting, the witness heard a voice "inside her head" telling her to turn left at the next intersection, which she did. Then her car radio went out and the car motor died. She next saw four short humanoid figures, each standing upon a "small surface vehicle" resembling a Roto Tiller, darting up and down the road a few inches above the road surface. One figure approached her and asked her, telepathically, to open the car door. When she did not, all four doors flew open at once. The humanoids, after inspecting the interior of the craft, requested that she make certain arm movements, then to bend her head forward. Looking at the back of her head, one being said, "Yes, you are different," and touched the spot with something that left five small puncture marks. He then told her telepathically that there were thousands of ships that have been visiting Earth for many years, and many people who have been examined by the aliens, voluntarily or otherwise. He told her they come from a planet whose name resembled "Omius" or "Omnigus"; and that there was a "mother ship" at that time in Scituate Harbor. In reply to her own questions, the examiner said that she was not permitted to touch them or to board one of their ships, but he promised that she would see a ship subsequently. She was advised that she would suffer headaches for some weeks, which proved to be true; he also said that she would "not like to look upon their faces." The humanoids departed and she arrived home an hour and a half later than usual. The figures were 4-5 feet tall, with small heads in transparent fishbowl helmets, through which she was only able to see "small, beady, very shiny eyes." The spokesman had two stripes on the upper part of his arm, while the other three had stripes that were longer on their sides, just above their waists. The leader had a buckle on his belt upon which was a wavy line. She was extremely upset by this encounter, and told only her husband, who gave details to the investigator. On the night following this encounter, the witness again experienced E-M effects on her car as a large, disc-shaped object with multi-colored lights descended and extended three landing legs from the bottom. The craft passed barely inches from the windshield of her car, and she was able to see an insignia on the UFO that resembled "mathematical symbols." After hovering briefly, the object shot straight up and vanished. The witness refused to cooperate in any further investigation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, MUFON Conference Proceedings: 1975, p. 60; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-46, citing John Giambrone Source ID: Johnson_5603 Source: Johnson ### Event 16565 (9BA5A915) Date: 9/4/1974 Description: Farm animals reacted in panic when a nocturnal light maneuvered at tree top level outside of Sioux City, Iowa. A burnt patch of vegetation was found in an alfalfa field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 104, case 745 Source ID: Johnson_5637 Source: Johnson ### Event 16566 (E60C6B81) Date: 9/4/1974 Description: In Hierges, Nord, France dogs barked fiercely when a metallic domed disc-shaped object approached to within 70 meters only 15 meters above the ground. It was dark with eight white rectangular windows illuminated from inside. A photograph was taken. When the house lights were switched off the object moved, then lifted off vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_5636 Source: Johnson ### Event 16567 (3FEF6F17) Date: 9/6/1974 Description: At 11:20 a.m. a pilot flying at 1200 feet, heading southeast out of Half Moon Bay Airport, California spotted a daylight UFO hovering over some ABM radar domes on top of a ridge of low coastal mountains. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, report dated September 10, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_5687 Source: Johnson ### Event 16568 (16358B5B) Date: 9/7/1974 Description: At 11:30 p.m. in Hergies, Nord department, France a flashlight stopped working when a farmer approached his cowshed. His dogs started howling, and the area became lit up, revealing a circular dark mass hovering 15 meters up in the air. A white beam of light came down to the ground, and the main witness felt an electric shock. Three disc-shaped objects flew off to the east, making no sound. The flashlight functioned normally after the close encounter. There was a total of six witnesses from three families and the incident lasted 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 517-518; Jean-Marie Bigorne, SOBEPS News, January 1976, p. 9; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10970, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976, issue # 156 Source ID: Johnson_5729 Source: Johnson ### Event 16569 (27C04C7F) Date: 9/7/1974 Description: A calf was found mutilated in Pierce County, Nebraska. The blood had been drained from the animal and the sexual organs removed. A Bigfoot sighting was reported the previous day in Jefferson, South Dakota. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, p. 49, case 6 Source ID: Johnson_5730 Source: Johnson ### Event 16570 (1BE3E5AF) Date: 9/8/1974 Description: In Bizeneuille, Allier, France an intensely bright red dome, 12 meters in diameter, was sighted at a low level at 9:30 p.m. It emitted yellow beams of light. Manure sacks were scattered about where the object had been. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1975 Source ID: Johnson_5771 Source: Johnson ### Event 16571 (7AD1B6BA) Date: 9/8/1974 Description: At around 10:30 p.m. and continuing until 1:30 a.m. the next morning, residents of Causses, Herault department, France saw an odd red-orange light, then a luminous sphere that rose from behind a hill. A married couple with their child were driving in town when they observed the sphere. The driver signaled the UFO by blinking the car headlights a couple of times, and it immediately shot toward them and stopped overhead emitting a humming sound, its light illuminating the terrain.After a while the object disappeared. This man and others in the area later saw a large, luminous orange-red disc-shaped object moving around near the ground, its light illuminating a dock, a distillery, grapevines and other terrain features. One witness noted that no light rays or beams were visible between the luminous object and the illuminated ground. Still later, nocturnal lights danced about in the sky all over the town. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976, p. 6; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 147; Ouranos, No. 14, Second Quarter 1975, investigated by M. Grazzioli and M. De Cordova Source ID: Johnson_5772 Source: Johnson ### Event 16572 (176EA10C) Date: 9/8/1974 Description: 10:30 p.m. And continuing until 1:30 a.m. next morning, residents saw an odd red orange light, then a luminous sphere that rose from behind a hill. A motorist blinked his headlights a couple of times at the object, and it immediately darted toward him and stopped overhead emitting a humming sound, its light illuminating the terrain. (Ouranos No. 14, 2nd Quarter 1975. Investigated by M. Grazzioli and M. De Cordova.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Causses, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4422 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16573 (37580D64) Date: 9/8/1974 Description: In Sioux City, Iowa a 16-year-old youth was awakened in his basement room at 3:30 a.m. by a loud noise like a sonic boom. A few minutes later he saw a bright purple light flashing outside his basement window, lighting up the interior of his room. The neighborhood dogs were carrying on, although the usually chirruping crickets in the basement were now silent. Three minutes after the purple light was seen a bright white light the size and shape of a baseball passed in front of the window. He heard a "scratching" sound on the screen door to the backyard, and the purple and white lights again came in through the window. Hearing a "tapping" nose outside, the witness got up and looked out and saw a three-foot tall figure carrying a purple light like a flashlight. He was standing between two garbage cans. The youth yelled and dashed upstairs, just as "an enormous gust of wind" hit the house. The sounds woke up two girls in the house. The following morning a dark scorched mark, three feet in diameter, was found on the concrete patio. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-47 (A1359), citing Dr. Lawrence Lacey for MUFON Source ID: Johnson_5773 Source: Johnson ### Event 16574 (C7E7737A) Date: 9/9/1974 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a luminous UFO hovered over a radio tower in South Bar, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and then landed in a field. The witness was a Ms. K. Vernon. The UFO left behind ground marks at the landing site: a 35 foot wide burnt patch, and four landing pad indentations. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sydney (NS) Post, November 8, 1974; Larry Hatch, U Computer Database, case # 10974 Source ID: Johnson_5798 Source: Johnson ### Event 16575 (FB289A81) Date: 9/9/1974 Description: 8:30 p.m. Professor Andrei Antalffy and his wife are in their summer cottage near Târgu Mureş, Romania, when she notices a silvery-white light behind the house. They go outside and see a rectangular “wall of opaque light” about 82 feet long and 550 away from them. In front of the wall on the ground are four orange spheres about 18 inhes in diameter and grouped two-by-two. They continue to watch the display from inside the cottage until midnight when they retire for the night. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 41 Source ID: Eberhart_5082 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16576 (9E339632) Date: 9/16/1974 Description: On this afternoon west of Dargnies, Somme, France two domed discs were seen on the ground. "Men" were seen working outside the crafts. The objects took off rapidly to the west, and "lava rock" was found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 339 Source ID: Johnson_6015 Source: Johnson ### Event 16577 (17F9570A) Date: 9/16/1974 Description: Around 9:30 p.m. Mrs. A. Richards is driving a 1968 Toyota a few miles northwest of St. Helens, Tasmania, with her two children. The car radio suddenly turns to static as she is passing over a bridge and the sky ahead lights up. The car then loses power as it travels up an incline, and everything goes dead—car lights, radio, heater, and engine. The landscape is lit up by a bright area of light ahead. The mother tries to start the car without success. A deafening vibrating noise then seems to envelop the car. About the same time all three of them feel electric shocks like vibrations for one minute, and a choking smell fills the car so that they leap from the car and flee the scene, leaving the car and the glow in the sky behind. After nearly 2 miles, they reach a house whose resident gives them a ride back to the car to see what is wrong. The hood is warm, but the car starts up and there is no sign of a light. A check at the local garage finds water in the radiator low, otherwise both radio and electrical systems are in working order. The mother suffers from swollen arms and fingers the following day. The right side of her face is numb and she has red marks above her right eyebrow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Auto-Stop,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/TUFOIC%20Newsletter/TUFOIC%20Newsletter%20-%20No%20014%20-%201975.pdf)” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 14 \(1975\): 10–11; “[UFOs and Auto-Stops,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/TUFOIC%20Newsletter/TUFOIC%20Newsletter%20-%20No%20091%20-%20February%202002.pdf)” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 91 \(February 2002\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5083 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16578 (302DAFF3) Date: 9/16/1974 Description: At around 9:15 p.m. Mrs. Richards was driving north of St Helens, Tasmania, Australia with her two young children when she noticed the sky light up ahead of her. Crossing a bridge, the car then lost power and rolled to a stop. The entire electric system was out, even the heater, radio, headlights and dashboard lights, and an attempt to restart the car failed. Then "a deafening vibrating noise enveloped the car." As she and the children covered their ears, "painful electrical shocks began penetrating their bodies." This went on for about a minute. Next, the car filled with a "choking smell," and they evacuated the car and ran down the road to a house some distance away. The local resident noted their alarmed condition and took them in, and after a short while they all went back to check on their vehicle. The light had gone, and all that was unusual with the car was that its hood was hot. The car started normally, and they drove home. Coincidentally, Mrs. Richards husband was out waiting for them and saw lights in the sky and heard a distant roar. Although the children suffered no subsequent physiological effects, Mrs. Richards had swollen arms, fingers, and became numb on the right side of her face. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Saturday Evening Mercury, September 21, 1974; W. K. Roberts, FSR, February 1976, p. 22; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 63; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_6014 Source: Johnson ### Event 16579 (B2FA0CCD) Date: 9/19/1974 Description: At 12:45 a.m. Younic Le Bihan, age 20, was awakened by his parents to observe a UFO hovering outside their house in Riec sur Belon, France. The family was using binoculars to view it. The object resembled a boat; it had lights like portholes that emitted a very bright light that changed from orange to green, and on each side of the base was a red light. The object was estimated to be 30 feet wide and 22 feet high, and it hovered just two feet above the ground. Then the lights were extinguished, and the family saw a star-like light that quickly disappeared. Younic then observed three heavy set humanoid figures, about 5 1/2 foot tall, "waddling" toward them. The beings were dressed in metallic suits and appeared to be floating above the ground, and their faces were not visible. The family fled from their house in fear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-48, citing J. L. Brochard & Pascal Gireaudot Source ID: Johnson_6094 Source: Johnson ### Event 16580 (07D09D97) Date: 9/21/1974 Description: 10:00 p.m. A Swedish army officer is driving with his family near Knutby, Uppsala County, Sweden, when a blinding light approaches the car from the right at an altitude of about 30 feet. The car stops and the radio and headlights go out. The UFO passes the road ahead and then lands on the left side about 250 feet from the road. A large area is lit up by the blinding, green-shimmering light from the object. The witnesses hear a sound like a swarm of bees. Through binoculars, the officer sees an egg-shaped structure some 33 feet long and around 10 feet high. The car engine still does not work. He gets out of the car, then hears a deafening roar. The UFO is taking off vertically with a rocking motion. It flies off slowly at about 100 feet altitude for a few hundred yards, then takes off and disappears in a fraction of a second. He gets back in the car and the radio is playing music and the car starts easily. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Boris Jungkvist, “[Swedish Army Officer Experiences Landing and EM Effects,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%20Newsletter%20%28AFU%29/AFU%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2017%20-%201979.pdf)” AFU Newsletter, no. 17 \(Oct./Dec. 1979\): 11–13; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(September 2011\): 16–17 Source ID: Eberhart_5084 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16581 (58F161B8) Date: 9/21/1974 Description: In Huntsville, Ontario, Canada Oscar Magocsi, a Hungarian-born radio technologist, claimed he encountered a landed disc-shaped object and came in contact with its occupants for the first time. They were human in appearance and said they called themselves "the Psycheans". He claimed to have been given a ride in their craft, flying over Lake Ontario, and was then transported to other worlds. At 9:20 p.m. in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada four teenage girls had a ten minute close encounter with a UFO that caused them some lasting physiological effects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 214; (2) CUFOS case files, letter dated October 20, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_6192 Source: Johnson ### Event 16582 (82E7144F) Date: 9/22/1974 Description: In Tayene, Tasmania, Australia a married woman was driving her car along a mountain road with the radio on when the whole area lit up and a high-pitched whistle came over the radio. A glowing orange-silver disc dropped toward the road and approached to within 20 meters. It hovered 25 meters in front of the car just three meters above the road as the woman backed up the car to escape. It then shot straight up. The witness felt sick after incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: W. K. Roberts, FSR, February 1976, p. 23; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, page 63 Source ID: Johnson_6231 Source: Johnson ### Event 16583 (946C561E) Date: Autumn 1974 Description: 10:00 a.m. A metallic disc some 300 feet across approaches a South Korean antiaircraft shore battery. The commander launches an MIM-23 Hawk guided missile which is immediately shot down by a “white ray” from the UFO. The second ray is directed at the battery, melting the remaining two Hawk missiles into an unrecognizable mass. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Soviet Military Review, June 1989; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 135–136 Source ID: Eberhart_5088 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16584 (0B543B25) Date: 9/24/1974 Description: Two men at Rock Lake, south of Wheatland, Wyoming saw 35 silver disc-shaped objects approach making a droning noise as they flew to the north at 4:40 p.m. The objects stopped and hovered over the lake. One object tilted, circled, and then ascended. The entire event lasted 35 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, December 1975, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_6291 Source: Johnson ### Event 16585 (08B70A89) Date: 9/24/1974 Description: At 12:10 a.m. near Eggardon Hill between Newport and Bridport, England a motorist reported that the interior of his car became cold and there was a loss of power resulting in no acceleration, plus the lights dimmed for four seconds. He witnessed a bluish circular tube with blurred edges that zigzagged as it rose, and was gone from view in 15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 63, citing BUFORA Source ID: Johnson_6290 Source: Johnson ### Event 16586 (9BE6D10E) Date: 9/24/1974 Description: 9:00 p.m. Police officers reported a brilliant elliptical object hovering above the Wiscasset Nuclear Power Station. After severl minutes it rose straight up, leveled off and flew away in an arc across the sky. (National Enquirer report July 8, 1975) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brunswick, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_4423 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16587 (5B3290BF) Date: 9/26/1974 Description: 9:30–10:00 p.m. More than 100 people in north Zealand, Denmark, watch unusual objects and lights in the sky. One driver is suddenly surrounded by a dazzling red light that illuminates the area. The engine, lights, and radio fail. After several attempts, he restarts the car and turns on the lights. A cone of white neon light descends toward the car. A bumping noise and a sound like broken glass is heard on the roof, and then a foot-long spurt of flame erupts from the car radio. The engine and lights fail again. After about 6 seconds a distinct “click” is heard, and everything works normally again. The car engine and radio are undamaged. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_5085 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16588 (3C251180) Date: 9/26/1974 Description: At ten p.m. on a farm in Lynchburg, Ohio two men watched a hovering UFO pulsing different colors. The witnesses shone a light on the UFO, and the UFO beamed back a red beam of light. Their dogs were frantically barking during the encounter, which lasted about five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard Stringfield, CUFOS case files; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 90 Source ID: Johnson_6354 Source: Johnson ### Event 16589 (0A2A6A12) Date: 9/27/1974 Description: An 11-year-old boy and an older friend are on a farm near Jindabyne, New South Wales, when they notice a bright white light about one-half mile away for about 30 minutes. In 1983, the younger man begins to have “vivid memories” of that evening and realizes that both experienced about two hours of missing time. Soon the memory of an abduction emerges in which both witnesses undergo an examination of some kind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Moravec, “[The Jindabyne UFO Abduction Case,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20Newsletter/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20newsletter%20vol%205%20no%205.pdf)” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 5, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1984\): 6–10; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1988, pp. 13–16 Source ID: Eberhart_5086 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16590 (7FD83D67) Date: 9/28/1974 Description: A huge glowing disc, the size of a Boeing 747, was sighted flying to the south on a wavy trajectory east of Eugene, Oregon during the day. It was clearly outlined in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1975 Source ID: Johnson_6397 Source: Johnson ### Event 16591 (26E399B1) Date: 9/29/1974 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a witness named Sorba reported seeing several strange humanoids at the local "Parc de la Gaudiniere", in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France. He described the beings as robot-like, with bumpy looking skin, and without faces. They moved about heavily swinging their arms. Fifteen minutes later, at 12:45 a.m., a 46-year-old woman named Le Bihan and two other witnesses saw three humanoids in Riec-sur-Belon, Finistere, France. They were 1.7 meters tall, corpulent like the Michelin tire man, and moved by rocking side-to-side. There suits were metallic, their heads round, and they had no facial details eventhough they wore no headgear. Physiological effects and post traumatic stress were reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, # 195; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1975, p. 6; J. L. Brochard, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1978, p. 8; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 490; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1361 Source ID: Johnson_6423 Source: Johnson ### Event 16592 (78206F8D) Date: 9/30/1974 Description: Newsweek brings the issue of cattle mutilations to a national audience. Noting that “more than 100 cattle have been found dead and gruesomely mutilated in Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa,” it lists possible culprits: witchcraft cultists, UFOs, helicopter-borne rustlers, marijuana smugglers, and predators. In months and years to come, the scare spreads from the Midwest to the West to the South. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 133 Source ID: Eberhart_5087 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16593 (6775CEBB) Date: 10/4/1974 Description: 8:45 p.m. Strange night close encounter with three MUFON FIs out on routine SKYWATCH patrol. This report was not filed for eleven years because of the nature of the incident. Witnesses feel that the UFO knew where they were and was there BECAUSE they were there. See report synopsis. (UFOFC, Fran Ridge files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [741004](http://www.nicap.org/741004mtvernon%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4424 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16594 (61158C90) Date: 10/5/1974 Description: 8:30 p.m. About same time as night before, this 3-5 minute observation of 6-10 white lights in string heading south to north was logged by the SKYWATCH patrol. (UFOFC, ran Ridge files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4425 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16595 (1164EE07) Date: 10/6/1974 Description: 8:20 p.m. SKYWATCH patrol "Money Man" radioed "Sky King" (Fran Ridge) and "Sailor" about a "bogey" crossing the Ohio River S-N with same description as nights previous. (UFOFC, Fran Ridge files) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4426 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16596 (5A2C2FF2) Date: 10/7/1974 Description: After being summoned telepathically to a remote desert spot near Chilca, Peru the witness saw a luminous, disc-shaped object land this night. It touched down nearby on four legs like protrusions. A door opened and a very tall blond man wearing a silvery outfit came out. The being communicated via telepathy with the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case #282, citing Lisa Rome, UFO Universe, June-July 1991 Source ID: Johnson_6633 Source: Johnson ### Event 16597 (85D4AF3C) Date: 10/7/1974 Description: In the predawn hours on this day in Plant City, Florida a motorcyclist had his engine and all its electrical system die. He had been traveling at 70 mph when suddenly there appeared a UFO right behind him, moving at the same speed. After the ignition system failure he coasted to the roadside and the UFO shot off toward the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tampa (FL) Neighbor, October 16, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_6632 Source: Johnson ### Event 16598 (92FF7871) Date: 10/10/1974 Description: Daytime. Two 9-year-old girls playing on the bank of the Ohio River near the Mid- South Mobile Home Park reported spotting an unidentified flying object on the south side of the river. The girls said the object, about the size of a small automobile, was shaped like a saucer with a handleless cup atop it. (Newsclipping, Messenger & Inquirer, Owensboro, KY) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [741010](http://www.nicap.org/741010owensboro.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Owensboro, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4427 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16599 (AFA065AD) Date: 10/10/1974 Description: Beginning at 10:45 p.m. a luminous triangular or delta-shaped object followed a plane flying 65 kilometers northwest of Gander, Newfoundland, Canada for 25 minutes; there was radar confirmation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 39; Donald Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 102 Source ID: Johnson_6727 Source: Johnson ### Event 16600 (B6853569) Date: 10/10/1974 Description: Cessna 150 Encounters UFO / UFO Drops Below Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [741010](http://www.nicap.org/741010newfoundland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Central Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4428 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16601 (EF2F0C29) Date: 10/10/1974 Description: 10:10 p.m. John Breen, a Canadian armed forces pilot, is paced by a UFO over Grand Falls, Newfoundland, in his Cessna 172, en route from Deer Lake to Gander. A passenger first notices a strange light following the plane when they are 50 miles away from Gander. Every time Breen looks at the light it seems to turn off, but finally he gets a better view: “It seems to be sort of a triangle—or delta-shaped, luminescent greenish light following us.” It stays on for 3–4 seconds, then goes off for a bit, then on again. Gradually it remains steady. About 25–30 miles from Gander, Breen radios the airport, which has no traffic in the area. The object’s reflection is clearly visible in the water of Gander Lake. Breen says: “I started a right turn and then cut hard left. Gander then picked up the object for two or three sweeps, which would have been about 10–12 seconds. When we turned around, I just saw it going off the other way and then I lost it because of the back of the airplane.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gregory M. Kanon, “[‘Something’s Up Here with Us!](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%204%20no%206%20-%201978.pdf)” Canadian UFO Report 4, no. 6 \(Winter/Spring 1978\): 3–4; Good Above, [pp. 200–201](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/200/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Files Obtained from the National Archives of Canada](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/offica07.htm)”; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 90–91 Source ID: Eberhart_5089 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16602 (9AEA5A1E) Date: 10/11/1974 Description: Robert Spencer Carr described in great detail on a local radio show interview the Aztec crash, had anonymous military and civilian witnesses, made international news. Type: interview Reference: [link](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/05/robert-spencer-carr-and-hangar-18.html) Location: Tampa, Florida See also: 3/25/1948 Source ID: Maj2_676 Source: Maj2 ### Event 16603 (D4EB3A5B) Date: 10/11/1974 Description: A metallic domed disc-shaped object came to within a quarter of a mile of a pickup truck being driven by an astronomer in Cloudcroft, New Mexico at 4:10 p.m. The engine of the truck stalled but the tape deck continued operating. The saucer curved up into the sky over the next 8-10 seconds, after which the engine functioned normally again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Sturrock, Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem, p. 130 Source ID: Johnson_6781 Source: Johnson ### Event 16604 (5F04358D) Date: 10/11/1974 Description: 4:15 a.m. The captain and crew of a Capital Airlines DC-8 descending into Gander, Newfoundland, watches as a UFO flashing red and white lights draws alongside the plane as it flies at 290 mph at 7,500 feet. It maintains a parallel course until it finally disappears in cloud cover about 5 miles from Gander. Air traffic control at Gander confirms there is no other aircraft in the vicinity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 201](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/200/mode/2up); Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 91 Source ID: Eberhart_5090 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16605 (01976F8F) Date: 10/11/1974 Description: 4:10 p.m. An astronomer in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, is driving a pickup truck when he sees a silver-gray domed disc behind him to the west. It moves from southeast to northwest on a level, straight course, but in the last 2–3 seconds it turns upward, accelerating rapidly. The witness’s truck stalls out when he tries to accelerate, but the tape deck keeps operating. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Astronomers and UFO’s: A Survey, Part 2, Sightings,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5091 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16606 (313CFBAC) Date: 10/11/1974 Description: [Robert Spencer Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FSpencer%5FCarr) is the guest on a local radio show to promote the upcoming Flying Saucer Symposium by PSI Conferences in Tampa, Florida. During the interview, Carr makes the shocking disclosure of the US government’s cover-up of the UFO crash in Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948 with 12 dead aliens aboard. The Air Force allegedly is storing the bodies at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, in Hangar 18. The announcement creates a media sensation that lasts for months in print and broadcast news. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dave Casey, “[UFOs and 12 Little](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96732653/) [Men,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96732653/)” Fort Lauderdale \(Fla.\) News, October 12, 1974, p. 1; Curt Collins, “[Robert Spencer Carr and Hangar 18,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/05/robert-spencer-carr-and-hangar-18.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, May 29, 2018; Curt Collins, “[Inside Hangar 18 with Dr. Robert Carr,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/06/inside-hangar-18-with-dr-robert-carr.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, June 1, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_5092 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16607 (58D9DE24) Date: 10/11/1974 Description: In Farmington, West Virginia a witness with binoculars watched a dark object with four red lights around the rim at 8:30 p.m., presumed to be disc shaped. The object moved slowly at treetop level, and appeared to be searching the woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 94 Source ID: Johnson_6782 Source: Johnson ### Event 16608 (54EDB0BD) Date: 10/11/1974 Description: The Energy Reorganization Act dissolves the Atomic Energy Commission and splits responsibility for its functions, assigning to the Energy Research and Development Administration \[now the US Department of Energy\] the responsibility for the development and production of nuclear weapons, promotion of nuclear power, and other energy-related work, and assigning to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission the regulatory work, which does not include regulation of defense nuclear facilities. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Energy Reorganization Act of 1974](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%5FReorganization%5FAct%5Fof%5F1974)” Source ID: Eberhart_5093 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16609 (EA208140) Date: 10/14/1974 Description: 9:09 p.m. Air Force security personnel assigned to the Bomber Alert Area of Grand Forks AFB near Emerado, North Dakota, see two large, solid black, oval shapes hovering at 1,500 feet altitude in the northwestern sky. Although each of the unlit objects has five small lights arrayed across its surface, the UFOs approach to within one-quarter mile of the alert area before they are noticed. Within a 3-minute period, 14 security police sentries, two military pilots, and a B-52 maintenance supervisor independently report the objects to their respective control locations. Static on radio and other communications networks are noted. After hovering for 2 minutes, the UFOs slowly move in tandem toward the south, making a faint humming sound as they fade from view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 347–348 Source ID: Eberhart_5094 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16610 (F46AAD5B) Date: 10/15/1974 Description: In Ramona, California five young people from the Overfelt and Nelson families saw a round UFO making a humming noise maneuver in the sky for several minutes, and then land. Many types of animals (a horse, a dog, a goat, chickens, and a cat) reacted to the landed object. Compass deflection was reported, as well as TV and radio interference. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Official UFO, August 1975, p. 12; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11024, citing the MUFON UFO Journal, October 1989, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_6866 Source: Johnson ### Event 16611 (0395ADBC) Date: 10/15/1974 Description: Many types of animals reacted to a round object that landed (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [741015](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-741015.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ramona, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4430 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16612 (692F8071) Date: 10/15/1974 Description: Night. Five witnesses in Ramona, California, watch a mysterious round object as it maneuvers over the Santa Maria Valley. It lands on a hillside and turns ruby red before becoming a brilliant white light. As it passes over, horses act up and a dog tries to grab one witness by her sleeve back into the house. Another dog, chained, runs in and out of the doghouse repeatedly, and the chickens and goats are agitated as well. Radio and TV reception is disrupted, and a compass points to the object as it is moving. The object hovers briefly, then shoots away, emitting a noise like something between a hum and a foghorn. \(NICAP, “[Object Lands / Animal Reactions](http://www.nicap.org/741015santamariavalley%5Fdir.htm) [/ Compass Deviates](http://www.nicap.org/741015santamariavalley%5Fdir.htm)”; Bob Gribble, “Looking Back,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 258 \(October 1989\): 24\) October 25 — 4:15 p.m. Oil-well digger E. Carl Higdon Jr. is hunting elk on the northern edge of Medicine Bow National Forest southeast of Rawlins, Wyoming, when he sees five elk standing motionless. He attempts to shoot one, but the bullet falls about 50 feet from him as if hitting an invisible obstruction. He goes to pick it up, then hears a twig snap and sees a humanoid being \(more than 6 feet tall\) under a tree about 50 feet away. Its hair is sticking up “like wheat straw,” it is bow-legged, and it is wearing a black coverall suit and black shoes. Two belts cross its chest, and another is wrapped around its waist. The being asks Higdon how he is doing and whether he is hungry, after which it tosses him a package of pills. It tells him to take one, saying it will last for four days. Higdon looks up the hill and sees a transparent, lighted cubicle. Suddenly he finds himself inside it, strapped to a seat with a helmet on his head. Two humanoids are also inside, as well as four seats, a control panel, a mirror, a map, and several elk, frozen in a cage. The craft takes him to what seems to be another planet with a mushroom-shaped tower, 100 feet tall. He and one of the humanoids float to the tower, go down an elevator, pass down a corridor, and go into a room with a platform. After being screened by a “glassy shield,” Higdon is told he is “not any good for what we need” and is taken back to the original location, where he rolls down a hill, hurting his head, neck, and shoulder. Around 6:30 p.m., Higdon radios his boss, Roy Fleming of the AM Well Service in Rawlins, with his location and asks for assistance. At 11:40 p.m., Higdon is found by a rescue party, which includes Fleming, the Carbon County sheriff, a deputy, and three other men in several four-wheel-drive pickup trucks. He seems confused, so he is taken to Carbon County Memorial Hospital, unable to remember his own name. He does not recover his memory until the evening of October 27. Many details emerge after Higdon is hypnotized by [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) on November 2 and 17. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 573–576; Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, [pp. 25–37](https://archive.org/details/abductedconfront0000lore/page/24/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5095 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16613 (09D0E4FA) Date: Late 1974 Description: President [Gerald R. Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%5FFord) creates the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, a group of scientists, technicians, and engineers operating under the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Its task is to be “prepared to respond immediately to any type of radiological accident or incident anywhere in the world.” Since 1975, NEST has been warned of 125 nuclear terror threats and has responded to 30. All have been false alarms. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Nuclear Emergency Support Team](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%5FEmergency%5FSupport%5FTeam)”; Jeffrey T. Richelson, [Defusing Armageddon](https://archive.org/details/defusingarmagedd0000rich/page/n7/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/defusingarmagedd0000rich/page/n7/mode/2up) Norton, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_5109 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16614 (31C5F900) Date: 10/17/1974 Description: Dogs barked furiously, circular yellow-white object emitted two light beams to ground, illuminated terrain brightly Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Maitland, N.S.W., Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_243 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16615 (F0952DA2) Date: 10/17/1974 Description: Dogs barked furiously, circular yellow-white object emitted two light beams to ground, illuminated terrain brightly (Reference 1, Section IX). (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maitland, N.S.W, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4431 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16616 (B5324977) Date: 10/20/1974 Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_244 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16617 (128469AF) Date: 10/20/1974 Description: 9:45 p.m. Close encounter with spinning object 15-25' away from two witnesses and their automobile, car engine died. See clippings (main link is page 1) and Page 2.        [http://www.nicap.org/741020elkhart2.jpg](https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nicap.org/741020elkhart2.jpg&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1675890821615760&usg=AOvVaw3YdU_RZYkKIWy3wzNnNSUL) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [741020](http://www.nicap.org/741020elkhart1.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elkhart, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4432 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16618 (E4C7923B) Date: 10/24/1974 Description: Incident similar to "Disappearance of Flight 412". UFO incident date coincides with emergency landing of two jet interceptors with one crashing and the pilot ejecting somewhere in Indiana. (Source: UFOFC) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Northern area, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4433 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16619 (32F5291B) Date: 10/25/1974 Description: Carl Higdon abduction Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Rawlins, WY Source ID: HallUFOE2_245 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16620 (79099851) Date: 10/25/1974 Description: Carl Higdon, an oil driller by occupation, was out hunting in the Medicine Bow National Forest in southern Wyoming in the late afternoon, and when he fired his rifle at an elk the bullet went only 50 feet and then fell to the ground. Next he saw a man standing in a shadow. He was human-like, about 6.2 feet tall, but he lacked a chin and his hair stood straight out. He wore a black uniform with a belt and insignia. Mr. Higdon could not remember what happened next, but he knew he had a two hour period of missing time. Under hypnosis by Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle of the University of Wyoming, he recalled an abduction experience that involved three short humanoids who gave him a medical exam. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Rick Kenyon, CUFOS case files, report dated November 2, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_7126 Source: Johnson ### Event 16621 (0FF46782) Date: 10/25/1974 Description: Carl Higdon abduction (Reference 1, Section XIII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rawlins, WY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4434 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16622 (45C456D2) Date: 10/27/1974 Description: At seven p.m. there were three reports of a close encounter on Highway 42 in New California, Ohio. At 7:04 p.m. two women driving near Liberty Lake Bridge in Carroll County, Maryland suffered physiological effects during a close encounter with a UFO. At 7:30 p.m. five men in a boat in Cincinnati, Ohio had a close encounter with a huge UFO for ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS files, reports dated October 28, 1974, December 8, 1974, and November 18, 1974 Source ID: Johnson_7198 Source: Johnson ### Event 16623 (3BEBD805) Date: 10/27/1974 Description: Abduction case (Reference 1, Section XIII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aveley, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4435 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16624 (E60CF62A) Date: 10/27/1974 Description: A blue, oval-shaped object paced a car in Aveley, Essex, England at 9:50 p.m. John and Elaine Avis and their three children were on their way home from a visit to Harold Hill, some 20 minutes away. A bright light from the sky swooped across the road in front of them, and the radio sparked, the car lights went out, and the engine stalled. It was surrounded by a green mist, which the car rolled into, and they felt a sensation of cold and there was abnormal silence. They were then abducted and they had three hours of missing time. Onboard the craft there were four foot tall creatures with pointed ears and 6 ft. 6 in. tall hooded human-looking albinos. Following the incident John had a nervous breakdown, while Elaine and the children had personality and lifestyle changes. For instance, they became ill if they ate meat. Both John and Elaine gave up alcohol and John stopped smoking. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, April 1978, p. 13; National Enquirer, July 3, 1979; Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to Extraterrestrials: A complete overview of alien lifeforms based on actual accounts and sightings, p. 72; UNICAT, case # 782; John Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 62-63; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 541-544 Source ID: Johnson_7197 Source: Johnson ### Event 16625 (9FED28B3) Date: 10/27/1974 Description: Abduction case Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Aveley, UK Source ID: HallUFOE2_246 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16626 (5EDE2480) Date: 10/29/1974 Description: CE-1. No details (CUFOS) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Melrose Park, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4436 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16627 (9D3DD850) Date: 10/30/1974 Description: UFO Chased By KC-135 Tanker (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [741030](http://www.nicap.org/751030wurtsmith%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wurtsmith AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4437 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16628 (C191F0A8) Date: 10/31/1974 Description: Evening. Two 7th graders and one of their moms reported something quite large with lights all around it. Described as round and black, going around in a circle, bigger than an airplane. A beeping sound was heard. The mother reported the object as shaped like a cigar "and it had little square lights that went on and off." (Newsclipping from NCS) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barrington, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4438 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16629 (4ACE6D44) Date: 11/1974 Description: 6:00 p.m. Lady and her son saw sharply-outlined hovering object through bedroom window, become brighter, made "whirring sound" As it came closer the light changed from white to red, size of plate at arm's length, passed over house. (MUFON, Skylook 89) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kampsville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4439 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16630 (220F37F0) Date: 11/1974 Description: 8:00 p.m. Claire Haser, on an isolated ranch northeast of Goldendale, Washington, sees a yellowish-white glow in the sky on the ground to the north. At 11:00 p.m., as visitors are leaving, she steps outside and sees it again, closer and more intense. Suspended in the air only 10 feet away from the porch and 15 feet above the ground is a “cylinder” about 3 feet long and 14 inches in diameter, standing with its end pointed toward the ground. Projecting from the object is a long, narrow, beam of light about 2 inches in diameter and 3 feet long. The end of the beam is diffuse, and it is slowly rotating clockwise. She watches it for 10 minutes. Not wanting to approach the object, everyone goes back inside. The object is gone 30 minutes later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Greg Long, “Strangeness at Yakima,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_5097 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16631 (D3F53A21) Date: 11/1974 Description: Night. A witness is traveling in his 1971 Mitshubishi Colt near the Sideling hill in northeastern Tasmania when he notices a huge flame-colored glow lighting up the bush to the north. It looka larger than a house. The headlights, radio, and motor of his car all cut out and he is left watching the glow for several minutes. He notices his luminous watch dial has become brighter and that the car’s clock is running 2 minutes slower after the sighting. The mass of light moves back and forth, rises up and away from the witness, and disappears. The witness then able to start his car and continue on his journey. Afterward, the front left mudguard changes color from red to more of an orange. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs and Auto-Stops,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/TUFOIC%20Newsletter/TUFOIC%20Newsletter%20-%20No%20091%20-%20February%202002.pdf)” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 91 \(February 2002\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5098 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16632 (21CB2B83) Date: 11/1974 Description: The Centre for UFO Studies–Australian Co-Ordination Section is founded by Harry Griesberg and David Seargent in Gosford, New South Wales, as a clearinghouse for UFO reports throughout Australia. It publishes the ACOS Bulletin through December 1979. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [ACOS Bulletin](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/ACOS%20Bulletin%20new/ACOS%20Bulletin%20-%20Number%201.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/ACOS%20Bulletin%20new/ACOS%20Bulletin%20-%20Number%201.pdf) no. 1 \(March 1975\) Source ID: Eberhart_5096 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16633 (4B58A88E) Date: 11/2/1974 Description: [Robert Spencer Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FSpencer%5FCarr) gives a lecture at the Flying Saucer Symposium at the International Inn in Tampa, Florida, on the 1948 Aztec, New Mexico, crash/retrieval and the aliens allegedly stored in Hangar 18, calling it the “worst-kept secret in the world.” Carr’s hour-long lecture is short on specifics, but in the question-and-answer session afterward, he is asked about his sources for the information. Carr says there are three witnesses, but they must remain unnamed. He says that the US government will end the coverup, admit that UFOs are really spacecraft from other worlds, and it will happen soon—before the end of the year. Curt Collins writes, “Part of the reason Carr’s story took hold was that it was so familiar, people wanted something like it to be true, and that it seemed to come from an authority figure, a university professor with official governments contacts and sources It also struck a chord with the public, capitalizing on their distrust of the government following the Vietnam war and Watergate scandal.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs and 12 Little Men,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96732653/)” Fort Lauderdale \(Fla.\) News, October 12, 1974, p. 1; “[Symposium Hums with UFO Talk,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96780583/)” Tampa Bay Times, November 4, 1974, p. 1-D; Curt Collins, “Ufology 1974: The Flying Saucer Symposium in Tampa,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, May 25, 2018; Curt Collins, “[Robert](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/05/robert-spencer-carr-and-hangar-18.html) [Spencer Carr and Hangar 18,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/05/robert-spencer-carr-and-hangar-18.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, May 29, 2018; Curt Collins, “[Inside Hangar 18](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/06/inside-hangar-18-with-dr-robert-carr.html) [with Dr. Robert Carr,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/06/inside-hangar-18-with-dr-robert-carr.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, June 1, 2018; Curt Collins, “[The Day after Saucergate,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-day-after-saucergate.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, June 4, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_5099 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16634 (D035A8B4) Date: 11/4/1974 Description: 11:00 p.m. A witness is driving near Scottsdale, Tasmania, when he sees a large, silent UFO. His car engine and radio cut out and his watch dial lights up brightly. The object moves away and abruptly ascends vertically. The left-hand mudguard changes color permanently from red to orange. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Phillips, “[Vehicle](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2005/06/June%202005.pdf) [Effects,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2005/06/June%202005.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 446 \(June 2005\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5100 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16635 (8B991056) Date: 11/5/1974 Description: 8:30 p.m. Harold Verge is driving between Mahone Bay and Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, in the pouring rain when he sees three bright amber lights appear in his rear-view mirror. Suddenly they move to the rigt side of his car and pace it for 30 seconds before disappearing abruptly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 83 Source ID: Eberhart_5102 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16636 (398A4FC5) Date: 11/5/1974 Description: 7:30 p.m. Jesse and Johanna Chilton are driving south on Provincial Highway 2 near Olds, Alberta, when they see a disc about 9 feet in diameter and 50 feet away on their right at a height of 25 feet. It turns and passes them in the opposite direction and they note several exhaust ports emitting yellow flame. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 226–227 Source ID: Eberhart_5101 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16637 (1B32AF5A) Date: 11/7/1974 Description: 3:00 p.m. Two schoolgirls are biking home from school in Waterford, Connecticut, when they see a ball of fire in the sky. They ride to one of their homes and go out in a car, hoping to take a photo. When they get to the shore of Niantic Bay, they see it again with several other people who have stopped. The object is now shaped like a triangular space capsule with rounded corners. Flames shoot from the back as it performs elaborate rolls and maneuvers. Then it takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5103 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16638 (421DA084) Date: 11/8/1974 Description: Jose Maria Cravero and another aviator observed a UFO at close range close to Talavera Air Base near Badajoz, Spain three days earlier. On this night Sr. Cravero returned to the site and witnessed a strange, evasive human-looking entity walking along the side of the road near the UFO landing site. The being had slanted eyes, no nose, and was wearing a brown jacket, black trousers, and what looked like a "Roman helmet" on his head. The body was tall and slender, but he could tell no further details about the beings arms or legs. Cravero was impressed by the furtive, evasive nature of the being. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, March 1975, p. 32; Ted Bloecher, 1975 MUFON UFO Conference Proceedings, p. 62; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-52 Source ID: Johnson_7540 Source: Johnson ### Event 16639 (DA4477CF) Date: 11/11/1974 Description: Night. Police officers Zachary Space and Lester Nagle watch an object hovering level with high-tension wires east of Madison, Ohio. It comes down above the wires for 15–20 seconds, rises up slowly out of sight, then appears again. Along with a deputy sheriff, they watch the object for 20 minutes. It leaves like a flash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Fort Worth \(Tex.\) Cross Country News, January 8, 1975; Marler 90–91 Source ID: Eberhart_5104 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16640 (0A0AAE9C) Date: 11/11/1974 Description: Red Sphere Paces Training Jet (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [741111](http://www.nicap.org/741111pensacola%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pensacola, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4440 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16641 (E648D7FB) Date: 11/13/1974 Description: In 1974, close encounters occurred in Norwalk, Connecticut, Antigo, Wisconsin, and Rockford, Illinois. A cattle mutilation case occurred south of Olney, Texas on the same day as a humanoid report from Antigo, Wisconsin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bilbliography of Anomalies, p. 359 Source ID: Johnson_7638 Source: Johnson ### Event 16642 (A36F7096) Date: Mid 11/1974 Description: 5;30 p.m. Giovanna Sensoli is attending to her animals by her farmhouse near Castelleale, Romagna, Italy, when she notices her chickens and rabbits seem terrified. She notices a man seated on a box that is suspended in the air above her house, rocking to and fro, and only about 12 feet from her. He seems to be about 6 feet 6 inches tall and dressed in a shiny, one-piece garment with green, red, and white markings, and a pair of ski boots with square toes and heels. A helmet covers his face, but he seems to be looking for something. The box has a control rod with colored stripes. The man moves a bit further away to the east on his box. Sensoli sees a bright light to the north and she is overcome by heat. The house is lit up for a few seconds. Sensoli follows the man, trying to understand his gesticulations, but he departs to the east, followed by the light. The incident has lasted 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gianfranco Lollino, “[The ‘Flying Man’ at Castelleale \(Italy\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201987%20V%2032%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 4 \(June 1987\): 25–27; 1Pinotti 193–197 Source ID: Eberhart_5105 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16643 (AF1D1EC5) Date: 11/15/1974 Description: At 5:30 p.m. a woman was tending to some animals on her farm near Castelleale, Emilia-Romagna Province, Italy when she noticed that some of the chickens and rabbits were acting panicky, running around strangely, and staring upwards. She glanced up and saw on top of her house, at roof top height, a "man in a spacesuit" sitting on a 0.6 meter wide box-like object that was swinging back and forth, apparently looking for something. The man was described as tall, heavy set, and wearing a shiny one-piece uniform with green, red, and white markings and large square boots. He wore a helmet with a visor that covered his face. He appeared to be dark complexioned. The man sat on the object, holding a rod like device rocking slowly to and fro. He then moved slowly towards the east where a vivid white light hovered. When she saw the light she immediately felt a wave of heat coming from it. The humanoid then flew slowly towards a nearby cemetery, followed closely by the bright light. He appeared to circle the area several times before disappearing from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Verga Maurizio, ITACAT database; Albert S. Rosales, 1974 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 796, citing Gianfranco Lollino, FSR, Volume 32, issue 4 Source ID: Johnson_7696 Source: Johnson ### Event 16644 (F0896A2F) Date: 11/17/1974 Description: 9:00 a.m. A businessman is taking a walk along the shore of Nørresø in Viborg, Denmark, when he notices an object above the eastern bank of the lake. He snaps a photo of it as it hovers in the air about 1,600– 3,300 feet away. He looks around to see if there are other witnesses, but when he looks back the object is gone. The photo shows a circular object with an estimated diameter of about 65 feet with some cloudy filaments hanging from its base. Investigators suspect it may be a rare instance of a small cumulus cloud that has developed from a black smoke ring. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wim van Utrecht, “[Jellyfish UFO Photographed](https://www.caelestia.be/viborg.html) [over Denmark,](https://www.caelestia.be/viborg2.html)” Caelestia, May 17, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_5106 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16645 (6106346F) Date: 11/21/1974 Description: At 5:30 p.m. 14-year-old Lance Edwards was walking home at dusk in Plattonville, Louisiana when he saw two bright luminous objects flying low over some nearby houses. He pursued them, running down a farm road, and came upon one of the objects resting on the ground at the edge of a woods. Its brightness dazzled him so that he had to cover his eyes. Having the feeling that someone was watching him, he turned and saw a strange figure just behind him. He his astonishment he turned run, but ran straight into the figure and was knocked to the ground. He picked himself up and took off running again, thoroughly frightened. The figure was small, reaching only to Lance's chest, but was stocky. It had no neck and had a "pushed in" nose similar to a Pekinese. The color of its skin was "bluish" like "a bruise." The teen reported the encounter immediately to his father, who took him to the sheriff's office where a complete report was made. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-55, citing Sheriff Frank Theriot Source ID: Johnson_7776 Source: Johnson ### Event 16646 (B7402D28) Date: 11/22/1974 Description: 7:30 p.m. At two-minute intervals, three bright red lights are seen climbing very quickly from the horizon at Madeira, Canary Islands, after which they create brilliant concentric circles. A reporter in Funchal takes a few photos. The lights are probably Poseidon missiles launched by the submarine [USS Mariano G. Vallejo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FMariano%5FG.%5FVallejo%5F%28SSBN-658%29) several hundred kilometers to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy Missile Tests and the Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5107 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16647 (9EF5FE75) Date: 11/24/1974 Description: According to the Spanish Air Force, at 7:50 p.m. a light descended from 8,000 to 6,000 feet and paced a Fokker F-27 IB aircraft for one minute while flying between Tenerife and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. The UFO disappeared when the airplane turned toward the light. The visual sighting lasted for three minutes, while radar returns were recorded at 8:20 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Independent witnesses included a Spanish Air Force Lt. Colonel and his daughter driving in a car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, UNICAT database, case 821 Source ID: Johnson_7879 Source: Johnson ### Event 16648 (F9600200) Date: 11/24/1974 Description: On the same night a circular object paced a private aircraft flying over Shabbona, Illiniois. It suddenly tipped and shot away. The EM effect included a magnetic compass deflection. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50, citing MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989 Source ID: Johnson_7880 Source: Johnson ### Event 16649 (BC0FC9FB) Date: 11/26/1974 Description: A loud 110 decibel roar was followed by the sighting of a two-meter wide sphere or ovoid near the ground in a garden in La Plata, Buenos Aires province, Argentina at around 11:30 p.m. On the ground was found a 3.4 meter diameter ring plus numerous equilateral triangular marks that were one meter on a side. The grass and a tree top was burnt, and a silvery powder residue made up of Calcium Oxide was found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Inforespace, June 1976; Roberto E. Banchs, UNICAT database, case # 587 Source ID: Johnson_7944 Source: Johnson ### Event 16650 (1F5126B2) Date: 11/26/1974 Description: Mike Grivoski, a teenager in Minneapolis, Minnesota saw a large orange luminous ball crossing the sky in the evening and ran for his Polaroid camera. He snapped one photograph. His father also saw the object, which was as bright as the full moon. The photo, however, showed five small lights, each with a dashed trail leading across the picture. Later that night Mike was awakened by the noise of someone in his bedroom. He saw a "creature" with heavy brow ridges, jowls, and large pointed ears removing the photograph from a drawer. When he sat up, the creature dropped the picture and ran out the door. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-77, citing Mike Douglas & Kevin Randle Source ID: Johnson_7943 Source: Johnson ### Event 16651 (BBAEEB74) Date: 11/27/1974 Description: Dora Ellen Afelbaum was driving home near Dallas, Texas in her new car on Thanksgiving night when she saw a light following her. She stopped the car and rolled down her window, thinking it may be a helicopter, but she heard no sound. The light then moved ahead of her and she saw what appeared to be dogs, then a "human like form" running toward the light. Suddenly the light, the animals, and the figure vanished. There were others cars on the highway but none stopped, and no one else appeared to have witnessed the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-78, citing letter from Dora Afelbaum to Fate, February 1977 Source ID: Johnson_7960 Source: Johnson ### Event 16652 (8831867D) Date: 11/28/1974 Description: Pilot Says Compass Affected (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [741128](http://www.nicap.org/741128dekalb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Between Dekalk & Mendota, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4441 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16653 (F663CEC1) Date: 11/28/1974 Description: A pilot, Hugo W. Feugen, flying over Shabonna, Illinois at 12:10 a.m. had a close encounter with a 120 foot wide disc-shaped object, with a dull silver color, that was flying parallel to his Aeronca Champ airplane. His magnetic compass began rotating counter-clockwise at 4-5 rpm. The circular object paced his aircraft for 10 seconds, then suddenly tipped and shot away. It was out of sight in less than one second. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, April 1975, p. 5; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 58; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 121; Richard F. Haines, A Preliminary Report of 64 Pilot Sightings Involving EM Effects on Aircraft, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_7998 Source: Johnson ### Event 16654 (4C03AF2E) Date: 11/28/1974 Description: Pilot reported object and E-M effects on compass (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [741128](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/compass.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shabonna, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4443 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16655 (976A1D52) Date: 11/28/1974 Description: 11:43 a.m. Hugo W. Feugen is flying his own Aeronca Champion aircraft on a bright day over Shabbona, Illinois, and he is checking his position on the aeronautical map to determine if he was still on course. When he looks up, he notices that the magnetic compass is rotating counterclockwise at a rate of four revolutions per minute. He looks to his right side and sees nothing but the town below him. When he turns to his left, he sees a disc or ellipse flying parallel to his aircraft at the same speed \(75–80 mph\) and altitude, pacing him at 120° at an estimated one-quarter of a mile distance. He estimates its size as 120 feet long and 30 feet thick. After pacing him for 8–10 seconds, the object tips slightly and he sees that it is not an ellipse but round in shape. As it tips up at an angle, it accelerates to a fantastic speed toward the east and is out of sight in less than one second. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Pilot](http://www.nicap.org/741128dekalb%5Fdir.htm) [Says Compass Affected](http://www.nicap.org/741128dekalb%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5108 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16656 (50B21954) Date: 11/30/1974 Description: At 6:10 p.m. Jacques M. was driving a car following that of Pierre Errecoundo and Maggy Carof, on a UFO hunting expedition in Grosscourt, Oise, France. It was after dark and the cars were using their headlights. Jacques suddenly saw a man at least eight feet tall in the light of his car's headlights, standing by the roadside. This being was milky white in color, as if wearing a tight white coverall, and his round head was without hair or facial features. Panic-stricken, Jacques drove on past; then, reconsidering, he turned around and drove back. He followed the same route but he saw nothing more of the man. Meanwhile Pierre, noticing that Jacques was no longer following him, had gone back to look for him. He saw a white headlight beam and a red light pass in front of him in the distance, apparently on the road, but silently, and it disappeared before reaching an intersection. Then Jacques showed up in his car. When they compared their stories and retraced his route, it was discovered that Jacques could only account for eight of the 11 minutes he had been gone. He was therefore interviewed later under hypnosis. In a hypnotic trance he recalled that he had gotten out of the car and watched the being for 3.5 minutes, and had felt that he was benevolent. He also said that there had been a big yellowish white light in the field, which "quickly disappeared." The being suddenly vanished, after which the witness returned to his car and to his conscious recollection of events. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-79 (A1613), citing Maggy Carof & Jean Luc Rivera Source ID: Johnson_8081 Source: Johnson ### Event 16657 (38828ED3) Date: 12/1974 Description: 7:30 a.m. A witness sees a vertical object floating above Wemeth Low, a hill near Higher Chisworth, Derbyshire, England. It has a flattened upper end and a tapered base. It changes shape from round to oval and cigar and back to oval before it disappears and discharges several small spheres from its blunt end “like soap bubbles.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_5111 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16658 (1599DBA6) Date: 12/1974 Description: Date given by Professor Carr on 10/11/74 predicting the government will launch a carefully-engineered acclimation effort to prepare American public for an announcement of the existence of extraterrestrial life. Type: interview Reference: [link](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/05/robert-spencer-carr-and-hangar-18.html) Location: Tampa, Florida Source ID: Maj2_677 Source: Maj2 ### Event 16659 (4BE7488E) Date: 12/1974 Description: Astronomy magazine editor [Terence Dickinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence%5FDickinson) writes an open-minded article about [Marjorie E. Fish](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108104504/marjorie-eleanor-fish)’s analysis of [Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill)’s star map and solicits comments from scientists about it. Virtually every issue of the magazine in 1975 carries letters debating the pros and cons of the map, including one by Cornell astronomer [Carl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSagan) [Sagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSagan)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSagan)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Terence Dickinson, “The Zeta Reticuli Incident,” Astronomy 2, no. 12 \(December 1974\): 5–18; David J. Eicher, “[The Zeta Reticuli \(or Ridiculi\) Incident,](https://astronomy.com/bonus/zeta)” January 31, 2001; Clark 587 Source ID: Eberhart_5110 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16660 (BD099537) Date: 12/1/1974 Description: At 11:00 p.m. three persons in a parked car near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada observed several bright lights that looked like they were on the perimeter of a large, dark flying object. The object hovered at a low altitude and moved up and down. On several occasions a light approached their vehicle at high speed and stopped about 20 feet away. These shooting lights were quite bright but dimmed upon stopping, then disappeared. The occupants of the vehicle felt a cold sensation when the lights approached. One of the witnesses saw two human-like figures walking near their car. They were wearing silvery outfits with face masks and helmets. Each helmet had a single antenna. As the UFO left the witnesses felt a strong rush of air and something strike their vehicle. At that moment they felt a strong sensation of heat. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 2745, citing MUFON Canada, quoting the Canadian military Source ID: Johnson_8107 Source: Johnson ### Event 16661 (4452AC3E) Date: 12/2/1974 Description: Driving home near Frederick, Wisconsin at 10:30 p.m. William Bosak, a 69-year-old farmer, noticed something parked on the opposite side of the road ahead. Slowing down to look, his headlights illuminated an object with a curved, transparent front, behind which could be seen a figure visible from the waist up, with arms upraised over his head, as if in terror. The figure seemed to be a little taller than a tall man, and had a square face with hair "sticking straight out from the sides." It had long, narrow ears that stuck straight out, brown furry arms, and a hairy torso. The eyes were large and protruding. Frightened, Mr. Bosak sped up past the object, which was surrounded by a kind of fog. As he passed, the car "darkened, as if in shadow," or his headlights dimmed, and the witness heard a soft whooshing sound. No ground traces were found at the site the following day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-58, citing Dewey Berscheid, Edward E. Lightner, and Jerome Clark; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 375; APRO Bulletin, February, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_8132 Source: Johnson ### Event 16662 (1364E3F5) Date: 12/2/1974 Description: Stephen Jenkins of Croydon, Greater London, England woke up at 3 a.m. to hear clearly audible footsteps on the stairs. Two beings appeared on the landing. Their body texture was "something like closely compressed pulpy leaves." Their faces were reddish, with yellow eyes with hard black pupils. Around them was a translucent, faintly luminous "box like structure." In a moment they were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-73, citing Stephen Jenkins, The Undiscovered Country Source ID: Johnson_8131 Source: Johnson ### Event 16663 (4FC6C6D9) Date: 12/2/1974 Description: 10:30 p.m. Dairy farmer [William L. Bosak](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93993563/william-l-bosak) is driving back to his house southeast of Frederic, Wisconsin, on County Road W when he sees an object reflected in his headlights on the westbound side of the road in front of him. It is a disc-shaped UFO, the bottom half obscured by the fog. But what holds his attention is something inside the object’s “curved front of glass.” Inside stands a figure with its arms raised above its head. He thinks the figure is as scared as he is because its eyes are protruding. It is generally human in shape, but its body is covered in dark tan fur except on the face and chin. Its head hair seems to be swept back, and the calf-like ears stretch out about 3 inches. The mouth and nose seem flat. Bosak speeds past the object and his car lights suddenly go dim. He hears a whooshing sound and the UFO is lost to view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Occupant Case in Wisconsin,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201975%2001%2000%20-%20January-February.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 23, no. 4 \(Jan./Feb. 1975\): 1, 4; Jerome Clark, “[The Frightened Creature on County Road W,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 1 \(June 1975\): 20–21; Clark III 557–558; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1974-12-02-usa-frederic.htm), October 20, 2006 Source ID: Eberhart_5112 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16664 (B8C21938) Date: 12/9/1974 Description: 10:30 p.m. A married couple in Bad Traunstein, Austria, watch for more than 30 minutes a triangular object that hovers above a nearby pylon and sends out beams of green, blue, and red light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ernst Berger, “[The](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%205.pdf) [‘Snails’ Are Still Around,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201975%20V%2021%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 5 \(February 1976\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_5113 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16665 (35ABE969) Date: 12/11/1974 Description: 1:22 a.m. Teacher Călin Turcu hears his dog barking insistently in the backyard of his home in Vălenii de Munte, Romania. Beyond a river about a half-mile away he sees a pulsating, dazzling white light like that coming from a welding machine that illuminates the trees for miles around. In the next 3–4 minutes he takes 7–10 photos. The light persists for 12 minutes until it ascends and fades slowly out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, no. 114 \(May 1977\); Augustin Moraru, “[Phénomène Lumineux Photographie au-dessus de Valenii de Munte,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/UFO%20Quebec/UFO%20Quebec%20-%20No%2013%20-%201er%20trim%201978.pdf)” UFO- Quebec, no. 13 \(March 1978\): 18–19; Romania 38 Source ID: Eberhart_5114 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16666 (7267DBAD) Date: 12/17/1974 Description: 2:30 a.m. John Wagner is in his farmhouse near MacNutt, Saskatchewan, when he notices a large, bright glow to the west that lasts for 25 minutes. The next morning, he finds a circular ring in the snow about 20 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 190–191 Source ID: Eberhart_5115 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16667 (CB488084) Date: 12/18/1974 Description: 7:00 p.m. Executive Engineer Mohammad Riaz and others see a circular light appear above the V-shaped mountain overlooking the approach to Pattan, Pakistan, for about 25 minutes. It is also seen in Chitral, Pakistan. An earthquake \(Hunza Earthquake\) centers on the area on December 28, so this could be a type of earthquake light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Col. William S. Gilliland, “[Balls of Fire Memo,](http://s7datanet.wikidot.com/balls-of-fire-memo)” US Department of Defense Intelligence Information Report, December 18, 1974 Source ID: Eberhart_5116 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16668 (D2D3C1EB) Date: 12/19/1974 Description: CE1, no details. (CUFOS) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Louisville, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4444 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16669 (EA793D02) Date: Winter 1974 Description: 10:30 a.m. Harry Charlton and his wife have just driven east through Melrose, New Mexico, when they see two objects moving on their left at about 1,500 feet altitude. They have no wings, tail sections, or engine nodules. Both are dull gray, like galvanized sheet iron. The larger one is in front, with a slightly smaller one about 600 feet behind. Charlton thinks they are about a half-mile away, but he can hear no noise or see any smoke. When the objects are about abreast of the car, a sliding door opens on the larger one near the front end. A large, shiny sphere \(like polished aluminum\) about 15–20 feet in diameter emerges, moves toward the smaller object, and enters it after a door opens near the rear end. After they move out of sight in a few minutes, Charlton sees two F-111s take off in their direction from Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harry Charlton, \[[Letter](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)\], CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 5 \(May 1981\): 3. Source ID: Eberhart_5009 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16670 (97626330) Date: 12/21/1974 Description: 11:30 p.m. Three Illinois youths report UFO descended into woods. While driving, at a point approximately four miles west of Darmstadt, they were suddenly aware of a bright light illuminating the area around them. (MUFON Skylook 90,12) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Darmstadt, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4445 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16671 (632FCEB7) Date: 12/22/1974 Description: Investigative journalist [Seymour Hersh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour%5FHersh) reveals some of the contents of the CIA “Family Jewels” in a front-page New York Times article. Covert action programs involving assassination attempts on foreign leaders and covert attempts to subvert foreign governments are reported for the first time. In addition, the article discusses efforts by intelligence agencies to collect information on the political activities of US citizens. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Family Jewels \(Central Intelligence Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%5FJewels%5F%28Central%5FIntelligence%5FAgency%29)\)” Source ID: Eberhart_5117 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16672 (3753E589) Date: 12/22/1974 Description: 10:00 p.m. Noticing a bright light shining in her bedroom, the 82-year-old witness looked outside and saw a "boat-shaped," or oblong, object hovering over a neighboring house. The beings, who ignored the witness, were visible only from the waist up. The object remained over the church nearly a half hour, rising and falling slightly, then moved horizontally a short distance and shot upward at high speed. (SYMPAP 1975,64) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fairfield, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4446 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16673 (7E3FDFDC) Date: 12/29/1974 Description: Multiple reports of a UFO with bright colored lights came about the same time that a family of four called the Lumberton County Sheriff's dispatcher to report seeing a humanoid figure wearing "a silver and black suit with some sort of helmet" in the Forest Acres area of Lumberton, North Carolina. The figure would jump into bushes and vanish when observed. The callers sounded sober, according to dispatcher Fred Barnes. Four deputies checked the woods around Forest Road and Barker Ten Mile Road but found nothing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, CUFOS case files, report dated June 5, 1975; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-60, citing Lee Spiegel Source ID: Johnson_8643 Source: Johnson ### Event 16674 (9351FC76) Date: 12/31/1974 Description: The CIA Family Jewels reports describe numerous activities conducted by the CIA during the 1950s to 1970s that violate its charter. According to a briefing provided by CIA Director [William Colby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FColby) to the Justice Department, these include 18 issues that are of legal concern. The documents are released on the CIA website on June 25, 2007. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Family Jewels \(Central Intelligence Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%5FJewels%5F%28Central%5FIntelligence%5FAgency%29)\)” Source ID: Eberhart_5118 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16675 (821E9085) Date: 12/31/1974 Description: Night. Dave Percy and two other security guards at the Pickering, Ontario, Nuclear Generating Station are preparing to greet the new year when they see a cluster of bright red spheres over Lake Ontario to the south. One of them moves closer and hovers over the Number 3 and 4 reactor buildings. It is about 30 feet across. The object hovers for 6–7 minutes, then after a bright flash it takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, p. 120 Source ID: Eberhart_5120 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16676 (10CA8588) Date: 12/31/1974 Description: The Privacy Act, signed into law by President [Gerald R. Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%5FFord), establishes a Code of Fair Information Practice that governs the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of personally identifiable information about individuals maintained in systems of records by federal agencies. The act also provides individuals with a means by which to seek access to and amend their records, and it sets forth various agency record-keeping requirements. Each agency must file an annual report on its FOIA requests to Congress. Citizens can also petition courts to render decisions on whether or not to release documents from agencies. FOIA soon disproves the longstanding denial of interest in UFOs by the CIA, FBI, and military agencies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Privacy Act of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy%5FAct%5Fof%5F1974) [1974](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy%5FAct%5Fof%5F1974)”; ClearIntent, [p. 5](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/4/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5119 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1975 (Back to Top) ### Event 16677 (85266800) Date: 1975 Description: Gilbert Peyret founds Groupement Langeadois de Recherches Ufologiques in Le Puy, France. It publishes OVNI 43 from 1978 to 1980. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [OVNI 43](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ovni%2043%20%28GLRU%29/Ovni%2043%20-%20No%2001%20-%20janv%201978.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ovni%2043%20%28GLRU%29/Ovni%2043%20-%20No%2001%20-%20janv%201978.pdf) no. 1 \(January 1978\) Source ID: Eberhart_5127 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16678 (28B80A13) Date: 1975 Description: The German-speaking MUFON Central European Section begins publishing a monographic series of reports on specific ufological topics. Edited by [Illobrand von Ludwiger](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illobrand%5Fvon%5FLudwiger) in Feldkirchen-Westerham, Bavaria, Germany, the first is titled Die Erforschung unbekannter Flugobjekte. The 12th title is published in 2009. Von Ludwiger publishes two further monographs under the imprint of the Interdisziplinäre Gesellschaft zur Analyse anomaler Phänomene in 2017 and 2019. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Die Erforschung unbekannter Flugobjekte,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/MUFON%20CES%20Berichte/MUFON%20CES%20Bericht%20-%20No%2001%20-%201975%20%E2%80%93%C2%A0Die%20Erforschung%20unbekannter%20Flugobjekte.pdf)” Bericht, Mutual UFO Network– Central European Section, no. 1 \(1975\); “[Rätselhafte Lichter und Objekte am Himmel,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/IGAAP%20Bericht/IGAAP%20Bericht%20-%20No%2001%20-%202017%20-%20Ratselhafte%20Lichter%20und%20Objekte%20am%20Himmel.pdf)” IGAAP-Bericht, no. 1 \(2017\) Source ID: Eberhart_5130 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16679 (ECA5FBA6) Date: 1975 Description: Martial Robé founds Groupe Privé Ufologique Nancéien in Nancy, France. It publishes Réalité ou Fiction from 1975 to 1987. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Réalité ou Fiction](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Realite%20ou%20Fiction/Realite%20ou%20Fiction%20-%20No%2000%20-%201975.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Realite%20ou%20Fiction/Realite%20ou%20Fiction%20-%20No%2000%20-%201975.pdf) no. 0 \(1975\) Source ID: Eberhart_5128 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16680 (A7B66518) Date: 1975 Description: ATF agent Donald E. Flickinger, acting on information supplied to him by a writer who has been investigating animal mutilations, launches an investigation into a supposed Satanist network said to be behind the cattle mutilations. He determines the story is a scheme hatched by a federal prisoner to get leverage to be transferred to a county jail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Daniel Kagan and Ian Summers, Mute Evidence, Bantam, 1984, p. 40; Clark III 133 Source ID: Eberhart_5131 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16681 (E9EF90D3) Date: 1975 Description: Ex-CIA Pilot John Lear stated "The main Air Force sightings were in 1975. And the UFOs descended on every Strategic Air Command base guarding the perimeter of the northern United States. They hovered over the nuclear weapons storage area and they stayed there with impunity for up to two and three hours over a period of three days." Type: ufo sightings Reference: [link](https://www.howandwhys.com/ex-cia-pilot-claimed-to-receive-25-secret-cia-memos-about-aliens-on-earth/) Location: Loring AFB Source ID: Maj2_765 Source: Maj2 ### Event 16682 (EA4C60B0) Date: 1975 Description: [John A. Keel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FKeel) publishes The Mothman Prophecies, an investigation into sightings of a winged creature called Mothman in the area around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966–1967. It combines these accounts with his theories about UFOs and various paranormal phenomena, ultimately connecting them to the collapse of the Silver Bridge across the Ohio River on December 15, 1967. \(Official investigations in 1971 determine it was caused by stress corrosion cracking in an eye bar in a suspension chain.\) Other entities that Keel chronicles are not-quite- human individuals \(men in black\) who intimidate witnesses and seem linked with UFOs. Sometimes, he writes, they threaten witnesses who have not told anyone else about their sightings. Usually they wear dark suits, sometimes with turtle-neck sweaters, and have dark complexions and Oriental features. Others are pale and bug- eyed. Their behavior is frequently odd, as if they are operating in an environment alien to them. In many cases they drive black Cadillacs or other limousine-like vehicles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John A. Keel, [The Mothman Prophecies](https://archive.org/details/mothmanprophecie00keelrich), Saturday Review, 1975; Wikipedia, “[The Mothman Prophecies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FMothman%5FProphecies)”; Clark III 640, 729–730 Source ID: Eberhart_5122 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16683 (65ECE0D0) Date: 1975 Description: [Jerome Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark) and [Loren Coleman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren%5FColeman) publish The Unidentified, one of the first books to reject the notion of alien involvement in UFO experiences and maintain that UFO visions and other paranormal experiences are the psyche’s attempt to escape the stranglehold that rationalism has on human consciousness. Clark later comes to believe his own conclusions are unverifiable, ill-conceived, grandiose, and dismissive of physical evidence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman, The Unidentified: Notes toward Solving the UFO Mystery, Warner, 1975; Clark III 942 Source ID: Eberhart_5123 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16684 (3DF25DCE) Date: 1975 Description: Pierre Monnet founds the Groupement de Recherche et d’Étude du Phénomène OVNI in Sorgues, Vaucluse, France. It publishes Vaucluse Ufologie from 1977 to 1981. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Vaucluse Ufologie: Bulletin d’Information du](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Vaucluse%20Ufologie%20%28GREPO%29/Vaucluse%20Ufologie%20-%20No%2001%20-%20Janvier-Fevrier%201977.pdf) [GREPO](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Vaucluse%20Ufologie%20%28GREPO%29/Vaucluse%20Ufologie%20-%20No%2001%20-%20Janvier-Fevrier%201977.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Vaucluse%20Ufologie%20%28GREPO%29/Vaucluse%20Ufologie%20-%20No%2001%20-%20Janvier-Fevrier%201977.pdf) no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1977\) Source ID: Eberhart_5126 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16685 (59080A84) Date: 1975 Description: [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) publishes The Invisible College, in which he speculates that the UFO phenomenon is a “control system” in which UFOs have been conditioning the human species throughout history using a thermostat-like precision. He believes that it is producing a silent change in human consciousness. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, The Invisible College, Dutton, 1975; Story, [p. 90](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/90/mode/2up); Clark III 1214 Source ID: Eberhart_5124 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16686 (AFD9A608) Date: 1975 Description: Wido Hoville founds the UFO-Quebec organization in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec, and begins publishing the journal UFO-Quebec, edited by Norbert Spehner. It continues until December 1981. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO-Quebec](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/UFO%20Quebec/UFO%20Quebec%20-%20No%2001%20-%201975.pdf), no. 1 \(Jan./April 1975\) Source ID: Eberhart_5125 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16687 (BA231830) Date: 1975 Description: MUFON moves its headquarters from Quincy, Illinois, to Seguin, Texas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_5121 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16688 (E1D35CC0) Date: 1975 Description: Night. Sgt. Eric Slater is flight security controller at the Francis E. Warren AFB Tango-1 missile launch facility southeast of Wheatland, Wyoming. He sees a bright white light coming over the mountains from the Romeo-1 launch facility northwest of Meriden, hugging the contour of the landscape. It stops about 3 miles away and hovers for 1–2 hours. At one point a light beam shoots down from the UFO into the valley below. Then it comes straight for Tango-1. Slater sees it has a dome on top and small, alternating red-and-blue lights on each side. It only leaves when two F-4 Phantoms from Denver enter base airspace to pursue it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 336–337 Source ID: Eberhart_5132 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16689 (9A67EBA8) Date: 1975 Description: The Centro Investigador de Objetos Volantes Extraterrestres begins publishing Vimana, edited by Julio Arcas Gilardi, in Santander, Cantabria, Spain. It continues through 1980. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Vimana](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Vimana%20%28CIOVE%29/1a%20epoca/Vimana%20-%201a%20epoca%20-%20No%201%20-%201975%201%C2%BAS.pdf), no. 1 \(1975\) Source ID: Eberhart_5129 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16690 (E35ED37F) Date: 1/1975 End date: 3/1975 Description: The UFOs in this report were seen by multiple witnesses. The objects landed and took off. They were also spotted on radar and seen visually simultaneously. Message sent to Henry Kissinger, from the American embassy in Algiers, Algeria. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: NICAP: [7501-7503](http://www.nicap.org/docs/7503kissinger.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Algeria, Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_4447 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16691 (4B4CF20C) Date: 1/1975? Description: [Kevin D. Randle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle) and Robert C. Cornett prepare a catalog of “Unknown” cases from the Project Blue Book files before they are withdrawn from public access in April. About 40 of these cases are not in the [Don Berliner](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-IS/berliner.htm) version. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5133 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16692 (1B2B5B4F) Date: 1/1/1975 Description: Four soldiers at a military base saw a luminous yellow-white cone-shaped object descend at a high rate of speed at 6:25 a.m. and hover near their car in Quintanaortuno, Spain. The object went dark. Soon four more UFOs appeared, forming a row "emitting jets of white light downward." Traces were found and photographed at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 199; Skylook, April 1975, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_17 Source: Johnson ### Event 16693 (BCB38903) Date: 1/1/1975 Description: 6:25 a.m. Four Spanish Army soldiers \(Manolo Aguera, Felipe Sánchez, Ricardo Iglesias, and José Laso\) are driving near Quintanaortuño, Burgos, Spain, when Aguera sees a light fall from the sky at great speed. He stops the car and all four get out and watch a bright yellow object just above the ground some 1,300 feet away where the light has fallen. It has the form of a truncated cone and emits white jets of light toward the ground. The light goes out suddenly and four others appear in a straight line, lighting up in succession. Driving on toward Burgos, the soldiers stop two more times to watch the lights. Investigator Malo Martínez later finds two parallel scorched areas where there are numerous randomly spaced holes where the grass has been burned all the way to the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Aqui Vimos el OVNI,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Stendek%20%28CEI%2C%20eISSN%202604-1383%29/Stendek%20-%20Vol%2005%20No%2018%20-%20December%201974.pdf)” Stendek, no. 18 \(December 1974\): cover; Pere Redon, “[Burgos: Primer Caso de 1975,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Stendek%20%28CEI%2C%20eISSN%202604-1383%29/Stendek%20-%20Vol%2006%20No%2019%20-%20March%201975.pdf)” Stendek, no. 19 \(March 1975\): 3–9; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, [A Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf) [Spain and Portugal](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf) CUFOS, 1976, p. 53; Pere Redon, “[The Landing near Burgos,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 \(August 1977\): 22–24, 27; Swords 433 Source ID: Eberhart_5134 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16694 (EC532555) Date: 1/1/1975 Description: Just before sunrise. Actor [Warren Oates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%5FOates) is with four friends \([Lee Clayton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%5FClayton), [Trina Mitchum](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0593854/), Judy A. Jones, and [Ted Markland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FMarkland)\) in the desert about 20 miles northeast of Palm Springs, California, when they see an object moving in a semicircle through the night sky. They describe it as an oval, metallic object flashing yellow, green, and white lights, with one large orange light in the center. Clayton, watching it through binoculars, sees a bell shape on the top, and estimates it is about 3–5 miles away at an altitude of 2,000 feet. It stops and hovers momentarily before moving off behind the mountains. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 226](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/225/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5135 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16695 (E98212E3) Date: 1/1/1975 Description: 9:00 p.m. Two witnesses (William Caldwell) reported that a "large, orange ball" with the apparent size of the full moon was observed from their car, 15-20 degrees above the horizon. MUFON's Walt Andrus told reporters the Moon wasn't visible at the time. (SL-89,10) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kankakee, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4451 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16696 (901DDFC8) Date: 1/1/1975 Description: 6:25 a.m. Four soldiers at a military base saw a luminous yellow-white cone- shaped object descend at a high rate of speed and hover near their car. The object went dark. Soon four more UFOs appeared, forming a row "emitting jets of white light downward." Traces were found and photographed at the site. (Sources: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 199; Skylook, April 1975, p. 1). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Quintanaortuno, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4450 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16697 (D0DA3341) Date: 1/2/1975 Description: Dome-shaped object observed on ground by guard at Air Force base. Body lights visible, ground illuminated as object took off Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Navarra, Spain Source ID: HallUFOE2_247 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16698 (36B6ABF1) Date: 1/2/1975 Description: Photo of Saturn-shaped object with squarish ring, similar to July 7, 1989, case Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Kauai, HI Source ID: HallUFOE2_248 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16699 (AA7F429F) Date: 1/2/1975 Description: 7:35 p.m., John Goode and his wife Margy were driving in their car on the Baltimore Beltway near Route 83 when they saw four bright white lights to the west of Route 83. The lights were traveling in a glide-like motion that Mr. Goode described as "like a gliding ladder." (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, February 1975, pages 1-2) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baltimore, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4454 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16700 (6B27C9DC) Date: 1/2/1975 Description: 7:45 p.m. At Finksburg, about 20 miles west of Baltimore, Mr. Kenneth C. Ryan, an electrical engineer and a private pilot, went to his back door to let the dog in. He immediately noticed four very bright lights about 10 degrees above the horizon in the southwest sky. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, February 1975, pages 1- 2) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baltimore, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4455 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16701 (23A045E7) Date: 1/2/1975 Description: 2:45 p.m. Michael Lindstrom and his wife are relaxing on the beach near the Kauai Sands Hotel on the east side of the island of Maui, Hawaii. His wife notices a strange object moving southward over the beach toward her, and she runs to tell her husband, who is walking nearby. It is soundless, has a square shape, its center is white or silver, and it has a black stripe along its perimeter. A row of lights is visible along the lower edge. He estimates that it is flying at 5,000 feet altitude traveling diagonally to the direction of the wind, and is about one mile away. Before it disappears to the southwest after two minutes, Lindstrom takes three photographs \(slides\), which show a spherical object bisected by a black square and topped by five bright dots. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bruce Maccabee, “A Rare Photo Coincidence,” IUR 15, no. 3 \(May/June 1990\): 4–9, 22 Source ID: Eberhart_5136 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16702 (D8B54695) Date: 1/2/1975 Description: 11:00 p.m. An officer and several soldiers on a military patrol at the Las Bardenas Reales firing range near Arguedas, Navarre, Spain, see a group of intense lights moving slowly then remaining stationary on the ground for 25 minutes. Through binoculars, they see an object shaped like “half an orange” that rises and slowly disappears on the horizon. Some 30 observers view the lights for 3–4 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, [A](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf) [Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal](http://www.cufos.org/books/Catalogue%5Fof%5F200%5FType%5FI%5FUFO%5FEvents%5Fin%5FSpain%5Fand%5FPortugal.pdf), CUFOS, 1976, p. 53; Gordon Creighton, “[UFO](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2024%20N%205.pdf) [Lands on Spanish Air Force Target Range,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2024%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 \(March 1979\): 17–18; UFOEv II 87; Swords 433–434, 526; Good Above, [pp. 151–152](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/150/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/150/mode/2up) [459](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/458/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5137 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16703 (607F042C) Date: 1/2/1975 Description: Photo of Saturn-shaped object with squarish ring, similar to July 7, 1989, case (NICAP UFO Evidence II, Section VII). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kauai, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4453 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16704 (1CB3C348) Date: 1/2/1975 Description: At 11:30 p.m. in Arguedas, Spain 30 military witnesses saw a domed-shaped object on the ground at an Air Force Base. Body lights were visible on the craft, and the ground was illuminated as the UFO took off. The sighting lasted four minutes, and ground traces were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Skylook, December 1975, p. 16, citing Vicente Juan Ballester Olmos Source ID: Johnson_32 Source: Johnson ### Event 16705 (FDE58EA2) Date: 1/2/1975 Description: Dome-shaped object observed on ground by guard at Air Force base. Body lights visible, ground illuminated as object took off (NICAP UFO Evidence II, Section II). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Navarra, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4452 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16706 (3911851E) Date: 1/2/1975 Description: Two hours and fifteen minutes later, at 2:45 p.m. on the eastern shore of Kauai, Hawaii a married couple took three photographs of a 25-foot square UFO, flying below the clouds. Mr. and Mrs. Lindstrom reported that the UFO flew off slowly to the south-southwest. The photographs are regarded by CUFOS as of excellent quality and reliability. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, report dated January 7, 1976; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, p. 293 Source ID: Johnson_33 Source: Johnson ### Event 16707 (36B54F7F) Date: 1/3/1975 Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_249 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16708 (C9D65BB2) Date: 1/3/1975 Description: There were several close encounter reports on this day for 1975 in Tasmania, over the English Channel, in Argentina, and in the U.S. Midwest. At 8:30 p.m. in Cape Girardeau, Missouri physicist Harley Rutledge and his wife had a close encounter with a 20-foot in diameter, semi-convex glowing domed disc, that rose from behind some trees. There was a dim yellow light coming from its dome. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, p. 195 Source ID: Johnson_60 Source: Johnson ### Event 16709 (9D30DD51) Date: 1/3/1975 Description: 8:30 p.m. Dr. Harley Rutledge logged this report in his book. He and his wife saw an object emerge from behind trees, left to right. Described as semi-convex, self illuminated with dim yellow light on top. 3 secs. (PID,195) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Girardeau, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4456 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16710 (756891E0) Date: 1/4/1975 Description: Close Encounter II listed by CUFOS. No details. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mariemont, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4457 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16711 (B6521232) Date: 1/4/1975 Description: 3:30 a.m. Carlos Alberto Diaz is walking home from a bus stop along Daniel de Solier street, Ingeniero White, near Bahía Blanca, Argentina, when he is blinded and paralyzed by a beam of light. He revives inside a UFO where three greenish, 6-foot-tall creatures, are plucking hair from his head and body. Diaz faints and wakes up in the afternoon in Buenos Aires some 400 miles away, where someone takes him to the Hospital Ferroviario. However, an extensive investigation by ufologist Roberto Enrique Banchs uncovers numerous discrepancies that strongly indicate a hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roberto Enrique Banchs and Richard W. Heiden, “[Carlos Alberto Diaz Is a Hoaxer,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201977%2008%2000%20-%20Vol%2026%20No%202.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 2 \(August 1977\): 8; Lon Strickler, “[The Carlos Alberto Diaz Abduction,](https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2012/03/carlos-alberto-diaz-abduction.html)” Phantoms and Monsters, March 2, 2012; Clark III 602 Source ID: Eberhart_5138 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16712 (F9D321AC) Date: 1/5/1975 Description: At 2:30 p.m. 15-year-old David Mahon was in his backyard in Brownstown, Illinois photographing his dog when he heard a loud droning noise and saw a black disc-shaped object passing overhead. He took five photographs, then felt himself being levitated upward and he lost consciousness. He recovered conciousness in a small cubicle only five feet in diameter. There was a row of blinking orange lights that encircled the room at waist height. He remembered being in this compartment for less than a minute. He then fainted again and recovered consciousness near his home. His father told him that he had been gone for nearly an hour. The photographs of the UFO were overexposed and out of focus. There were two other witnesses who briefly witnessed the flying disc in Brownstown. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Eileen Sperber, 1975 letter to CUFOS; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-02 (A1382); Vandalia (IL) Leader-Union, February 4, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_131 Source: Johnson ### Event 16713 (A4D43F26) Date: 1/5/1975 Description: 6:50 p.m. A domed disc with three landing gear legs, 15 meters long with portholes, took off from a landing on a farm. It left behind ground imprint marks and an odor like petroleum. (Sources: Roland Godefroy, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1975, p. 9). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Laulne, Manche Department, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4458 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16714 (7457B925) Date: 1/5/1975 Description: Close Encounter I listed by CUFOS. Two witnesses. No other details. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4459 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16715 (66593865) Date: 1/5/1975 Description: CE-1, one witness. No other details (CUFOS) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bloomington, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4460 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16716 (496AB026) Date: 1/5/1975 Description: Carlos A. Diaz was walking home from the bus after a late night at 3:30 a.m. in Puerto Ingeniero, a town outside Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina when he saw a blindingly bright that emitted a bent beam of light and found himself paralyzed. He then heard a humming noise and was levitated off the ground. He fainted, and when he came to he was inside a spherical room about 8 feet in diameter with luminous walls. Three beings, about 5' 9" tall, entered the sphere. Their heads were half the size of human heads, shaped like smooth green knobs, with small noses and small ears, and were completely devoid of hair. They were dressed in pale cream colored "rubber" suits that covered their entire bodies up to their necks. Although their arms terminated in fingerless stumps, they were nevertheless able to pull out large clumps of Diaz's, but this caused him no pain. They even pulled out some hair from his chest. Finally Diaz fainted again, and when he awoke he found himself lying beside a road outside Buenos Aires. The time was 7:30 a.m. but his watch had stopped at 3:50 a.m. He was nauseous the entire day, and was taken to hospital. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Pedro Romaniuk, FSR, November 1975, p. 39; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-01 (A1381), citing Pedro Romaniuk & Jorge R. Martinez; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 227 Source ID: Johnson_130 Source: Johnson ### Event 16717 (56DB2C58) Date: 1/5/1975 Description: 2:30 p.m. 15-year old David Mahon was behind his house photographing his dog when he heard a loud drone and saw a black disc-shaped object passing over. He took 5 photographs; then he felt himself drawn upward, & lost consciousness. (Humcat 1975-2. Source: Eileen Sperber & David Shert, Type: G High Strangeness Index: 8 Reliability of Source: 7) \[Comments: This case appears to have been an early abduction that maybe was not thoroughly investigated. Hypnotic regression might have revealed more of what occurred to Mahon.\] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brownstown, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4461 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16718 (8171A1B2) Date: 1/5/1975 Description: At 6:55 p.m. in Laulne pres de Lessay, Manche department, France a domed disc-shaped craft 15 meters long with portholes, took off from a landing on a farm. It had three legs as landing gear. The principal witness was 12-year-old Yvon Vildier, but two more adult witnesses named Marie LeClere and Richard (first name only) observed it as a light in the sky. It left behind traces on the ground and a petroleum odor. The ground marks included three large landing pod imprints, irregularly spaced in a triangle 1 m x 1.6 m x 2.5 m, and three small center clustered imprints. The entire event from first observing a luminous phenomenon in the area to the disappearance of the craft lasted 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roland Godefroy, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1975, p. 9; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 530 Source ID: Johnson_133 Source: Johnson ### Event 16719 (AABA113E) Date: 1/5/1975 Description: At 4:50 p.m. three witnesses in separate cars observed a very large (88 meters in diameter) disc-shaped object hovering near a water tank north of Wakefield, Rhode Island. There was a red glow coming from the windows in the craft. It faded from view after four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald R. Todd, APRO Bulletin, January-February 1975, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_132 Source: Johnson ### Event 16720 (D897BCA3) Date: 1/6/1975 Description: near Lordsburg, New Mexico - Three peopIe listening to a CB radio in their parked car at around 11 p.m. saw lights approaching them from behind. As the driver tried to move the car, the CB radio broke into static and the engine wouldn't start. A bluish light beam then shone on the car for a few seconds and the group heard a sound like the hum from high tension wires. The light then disappeared and they could start the car. As they drove away, they saw a blue glow behind a nearby hill. The battery on the car went dead a few days later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO BuIIetin, June 1975; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 376, citing APRO Source ID: Johnson_171 Source: Johnson ### Event 16721 (6CD1B3DD) Date: 1/6/1975 Description: 11:00 p.m. Three peopIe listening to a CB radio in their parked car saw lights approaching them from behind. As the driver tried to move the car, the CB radio broke into static and the engine wouldn't start. The battery on the car went dead a few days later. (Sources: APRO BuIIetin, June 1975; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 376, citing APRO). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lordsburg, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_4462 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16722 (04E9DE42) Date: 1/8/1975 Description: 11:30 p.m. As Dale & Sheryl Ricard were driving home, a brightly lit globe appeared in the sky in front of them; then it approached & paced the car at a distance of 24 ft. About the size of a car, it had a flange bearing 2 red & 2 white lights surrounding a transparent, brightly lit dome, inside of which 3 dark shadowy moving figures were visible. (Humcat 1975-3 Source: New Zealand Spaceview, Auckland # 66 Type: A) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Auckland, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4463 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16723 (90159207) Date: 1/8/1975 Description: Confidential Spanish Report, Spanish Air Force: UFO spotted by military personnel at Las Bardenas Reales, near Zaragoza Air Base Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p459) Location: Las Bardenas Reales, Spain Source ID: Maj2_678 Source: Maj2 ### Event 16724 (B63ADDF1) Date: 1/8/1975 Description: A cattle mutilation was reported to have occurred on this day in rural Texas. At 11:30 p.m. near a power station in Brookby, New Zealand a man and a woman saw an occupant inside a small domed disc-shaped UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files, newspaper clipping dated February 7, 1975; FSR, October 1976, p. 30 citing Spaceview Source ID: Johnson_203 Source: Johnson ### Event 16725 (75E8F2F7) Date: 1/10/1975 Description: On this night three teenagers named Jones, Symms, and Dencie were driving by Lake Erie in St. Thomas, Ontario when a blue light came and hovered over their car, and then followed it along road. They made a sharp turn in their car, and the UFO made an even sharper turn. The car then stalled, and the radio went off as the light drew closer. (Source: London \[Ontario\] Free Press, January 10, 1975). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Thomas, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4464 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16726 (9078F8CE) Date: 1/10/1975 Description: On this night three teenagers named Jones, Symms, and Dencie were driving by Lake Erie in St. Thomas, Ontario when a blue light came and hovered over their car, and then followed it along road. They made a sharp turn in their car, and the UFO made an even sharper turn. The car then stalled, and the radio went off as the light drew closer. It then flew off toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: London (Ontario) Free Press, January 10, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_243 Source: Johnson ### Event 16727 (A9853BD1) Date: 1/12/1975 Description: 2:30 a.m. Ten 3.5-foot-tall humanoids gathered soil samples for three minutes only 100 feet from the street. They wore coveralls with helmets and got back into a domed disc-shaped craft. (Sources: Ted Bloecher, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 33; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 64). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Bergen (in Hudson Park), NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4465 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16728 (E25FDC58) Date: 1/12/1975 Description: 2:45 a.m. George O’Barski is driving home through North Hudson Park, New Jersey, when he hears static on his CB radio. Through the window he sees a dark, round object with brightly lit windows hovering over the ground about 100 feet away. Ten small \(3.5-feet tall\), helmeted figures dressed in coveralls emerge from the UFO, dig up soil, and collect it in bags for about 3 minutes before returning to the craft, which takes off with a humming sound. O’Barski returns to the site the next day and finds holes that had been left. Hudson County Police Officers Thomas Feldhan and John Mackanics investigate and file reports. Months later, O’Barski relays the story to an acquaintance, [Budd Hopkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins) who is interested in UFOs. Hopkins and two others associated with the Center for UFO Studies find independent witnesses, including a doorman at the high-rise Stonehenge apartment building, Bill Pawlowski, who sees a UFO with multiple lights in the park the same time. Hopkins, [Ted](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-IS/bloecher.htm) [Bloecher](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-IS/bloecher.htm) \(then the director of New York MUFON\), and Jerry Stoehrer, also of MUFON, investigate the incident and take soil samples. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Stonehenge \(building\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge%5F%28building%29\#Stonehenge%5Fincident)”; Ted Bloecher, “The Stonehenge Incidents, January 1975,” [Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference](http://cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf) Center for UFO Studies, 1976, pp. 25–38; Ted Bloecher, “[The ‘Stonehenge’ Incidents of January 1975,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 3 \(October 1976\): 3–7; Ted Bloecher, “[The ‘Stonehenge’ Incidents of January 1975, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 4 \(November 1976\): 5–11; Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 64; Budd Hopkins, Missing Time, R. Marek, 1981, pp. 34–50; Clark III 1109–1112 Source ID: Eberhart_5139 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16729 (F24AFF09) Date: 1/12/1975 Description: At 2:30 a.m. ten 3.5-foot-tall humanoids gathered soil samples for three minutes in Hudson Park in North Bergen, New Jersey only 100 feet from the street. They wore coveralls with helmets and got back into a domed disc-shaped craft. The disc made a humming sound when it took off, and CB radio interference was noted. Ground marks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 33; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 64 Source ID: Johnson_279 Source: Johnson ### Event 16730 (2B99FDB4) Date: 1/15/1975 Description: Several reports were made of a green disc heading in an eastward direction near the airport in Groton, Connecticut. Witnesses included an American Airlines crew and two Air National Guard pilots flying in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1975, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_340 Source: Johnson ### Event 16731 (227AF4DD) Date: 1/20/1975 Description: 8:30 p.m. A UFO was reported to the Sheriff's office by a woman who was driving to work. She spotted a round object lit by white lights making a fast circular motion hovernig over a house six miles southeast of town. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, May 1975, page 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vinita, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4467 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16732 (B41C0D81) Date: 1/20/1975 End date: 1/22/1975 Description: At the 13th Aerospace Sciences Meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Pasadena, California, physicist [Peter A. Sturrock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock) organizes a UFO symposium that features talks by astronomer [J.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) ufologist [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e), psychologist [David R. Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001), Hynek associate [Fred Beckman](https://rr0.org/people/b/BeckmanFred/), and ufologist [Ted](https://anomalien.com/hard-ufo-evidence-the-ted-phillips-story/) [Phillips](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207929651/theodore-r-phillips)[.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207929651/theodore-r-phillips)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 102 Source ID: Eberhart_5140 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16733 (B803CDDA) Date: 1/20/1975 Description: 5:00 a.m. Awakened by a brilliant red light shining in her bedroom window, Marjorie Nighbert scurried to the window thinking one of her neighbor's houses was on fire. It wasn't a fire, but a large red blinking ball of light, larger than a "washtub", moving slowly from the north in a southeasterly direction. She described the object as tadpole in shape. (Skylook, newsclipping) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pike, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4466 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16734 (E8C7EC8B) Date: 1/21/1975 Description: Listed with no details as a CE-1. No details. (EGBA,562) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Girardeau, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4468 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16735 (937A2F88) Date: 1/23/1975 Description: 9:00 p.m. Listed as a CE-2 by CUFOS, upgraded from an NL. No other details. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4469 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16736 (61AFD88E) Date: 1/24/1975 Description: On this night an orange glowing ball flew over and illuminated the area. It stopped and hovered for awhile, then engaged in some maneuvers. It finally flew off toward the south. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11648, citing FSR, volume 21, number 1). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barham, Kent, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4470 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16737 (FA49748E) Date: 1/24/1975 Description: On this night an orange glowing ball flew over Barham, Kent, England at a low altitude and illuminated the area. It stopped and hovered for awhile, then engaged in some maneuvers. It finally flew off toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11648, citing FSR, volume 21, number 1 Source ID: Johnson_489 Source: Johnson ### Event 16738 (E11425A3) Date: 1/27/1975 Description: A US Senate committee to investigate abuses by the CIA, NSA, FBI, and IRS is created by a vote of 82–4. Chaired by Sen. [Frank Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FChurch) \(D-Idaho\), the committee is part of a series of investigations into intelligence abuses in 1975, dubbed the “Year of Intelligence,” including its House counterpart, the Pike Committee, and the presidential Rockefeller Commission. It conducts 800 interviews and 250 executive and 21 public hearings. The committee’s efforts lead to the establishment of the permanent US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1976. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Church Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%5FCommittee)” Source ID: Eberhart_5141 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16739 (6964D076) Date: 1/28/1975 Description: Afternoon. Eccentric and contactee [Billy Meier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%5FMeier) sees a disc-shaped spacecraft in Switzerland and takes several photographs of it. The ship lands in a nearby meadow, and a beautiful, pale-skinned, amber-haired spacewoman steps out and approaches him and talks to him for an hour and a half. Her name is Semjase from the planet Erra in the constellation Lyra \(although they have since emigrated to the Pleiades\), and she is the granddaughter of a being named Sfath, who had contacted Meier in 1944. Many other contacts continue, and Meier produces more photos so that he becomes a regional occult celebrity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Contact from the Pleiades, The Author, 1982; Gary Kinder, [Light Years: An Investigation into the Extraterrestrial](https://archive.org/details/lightyearsinvest0000kind) [Experiences of Billy Meier](https://archive.org/details/lightyearsinvest0000kind)[,](https://archive.org/details/lightyearsinvest0000kind) Atlantic Monthly, 1987; George M. Eberhart, “Photographs and Red Faces,” IUR 12, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1987\): 19; Bruce Maccabee, “Pendulum from the Pleiades,” IUR 14, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1989\): 11– 12, 22; Derek Bartholomaus, [Billy Meier UFO Case website](https://www.billymeierufocase.com/index.html) Source ID: Eberhart_5142 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16740 (EB95AFA1) Date: 1/28/1975 Description: An ovoid-shaped UFO hovered over a football field. Only 10 meters above the ground, the object rose slowly into the sky at an angle when a car approached. (Source: ITACAT computer catalogue). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dolianova, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4471 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16741 (84747981) Date: 1/28/1975 Description: In 1975 an ovoid-shaped UFO hovered over a football field in Dolianova, Italy. Only 10 meters above the ground, the object rose slowly into the sky at an angle when a car approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: ITACAT computer catalogue Source ID: Johnson_557 Source: Johnson ### Event 16742 (C5B6603B) Date: 1/31/1975 Description: Night. Mike McKenna, security guard at the Pickering, Ontario, Nuclear Generating Station, sees 6 balls of light from his position at the east gate. They vary in color from bright red to almost white and remain in the area for nearly 2 hours. Two move in from Lake Ontario and hover above the plant’s service center. After remaining motionless for 30 minutes, they take off straight up at a rocket-like speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 120–121 Source ID: Eberhart_5143 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16743 (4DD1B304) Date: 1/31/1975 Description: 10:20 p.m. Alan Lott is walking his dog in Caversham, Berkshire, England, when he sees a group of bright lights to the east. He calls his wife, Clarice, and they both view the lights through binoculars. They are moving slowly and silently in a straight line from east to west and are now directly above the Lotts’ house. The three brightest lights are orange-yellow and arranged in an equilateral triangle formation. There are two smaller lights, one red and another white. After 5 minutes, the formation vanishes behind houses and trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 88–](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n147/mode/2up) [90](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n147/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5144 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16744 (4D160928) Date: 2/1975 Description: Domestic birds, ducks, goats, rabbits, geese, cattle, pigs, and sheep are found dead throughout Puerto Rico with what one veterinarian characterizes as “strange wounds.” The deaths typically occur in the early morning hours and are caused by a sharp instrument that can punch through flesh and bone, usually in the neck region. Around this time and through July, some Puerto Ricans see large, unidentified birds, as well as UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, “[UFOs and Mysterious Deaths of Animals, Part 1,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 \(February 1977\): 15–18; Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, “[UFOs and Mysterious Deaths of Animals, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 \(April 1977\): 6–10; Clark III 139 Source ID: Eberhart_5145 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16745 (5C1AAED8) Date: 2/1975 Description: New York City psychic [Ingo Swann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo%5FSwann) receives a phone call from a friend in a government agency who tells him that he will be contacted by a “Mr. Axelrod.” One morning in March at 3:00 a.m., Axelrod calls Swann and asks him to be in Washington, D.C., at 12:00 noon. This leads to an unlikely adventure involving Swann’s remote viewing of a secret extraterrestrial base on the hidden side of the Moon and his “shocking” experience with a sexy, scantily dressed female alien in a Los Angeles, California, supermarket. He concludes that extraterrestrials are living on Earth in humanoid bodies. Swann deduces that there are many extraterrestrials, that many are “bio- androids,” and that they are aware their only foes on Earth are psychics. Later, Swann and Mr. Axelrod take a flight to an unknown northerly destination, deduced by Swann as possibly Alaska. Along with two twin bodyguards, Swann and Axelrod attempt to secretly watch a recurrent UFO appear and suck up the water of a lake. Axelrod discloses that the silent, growing, oscillating triangle is simultaneously scanning the area and eliminating any animals, and that the silent beams emanating from the object are “blasting deer or porcupines from the woods or something.” The bodyguards realize they are discovered and the group is attacked by the UFO. Swann is thrown to safety by his colleagues and sustains a minor injury. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Ingo Swann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo%5FSwann\#Ufology)”; Ingo Swann, Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy, Ingo Swann Books, 1998, [pp. 23–61](https://archive.org/details/ingoswannpenetration/page/n31/mode/2up), [85–](https://archive.org/details/ingoswannpenetration/page/n91/mode/2up) [100](https://archive.org/details/ingoswannpenetration/page/n91/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5146 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16746 (255DF163) Date: Early 2/1975 Description: Night. A farmer is walking to his barn north of Lundar, Manitoba, when a red ball of light, 14–16 inches in diameter, swoops low over his head. As he gazes up at it, he feels as if hot plastic is being poured on his head. He suffocates and cannot think clearly while it is above him. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 172 Source ID: Eberhart_5147 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16747 (A3AA41DD) Date: 2/4/1975 Description: Night. Three Pickering, Ontario, ambulance drivers, a Durham regional police constable, and Andy Parks, music director of radio station CHOO in Agincourt, watch pulsing, multicolored objects maneuvering above the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Parks says they are “floating around, zipping this way and that.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 121–122 Source ID: Eberhart_5148 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16748 (86F33189) Date: 2/9/1975 Description: 7:20 p.m. Witness reported he and his wife saw a blue object with either beams of light coming down or lighted legs or struts. Conventional aircraft seen simultaneously N & S of object at same relative altitude. (UFOFC, Ridge files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carmi, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4472 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16749 (679818EE) Date: 2/10/1975 Description: Later that evening at 6:00 p.m. a man in Poulderat, France Messr. J. Raphalan saw a red luminous rectangular object hovering over his farm. It shrank to a band of light, and then disappeared. At 8:20 p.m. Messr. M. Fraisse, age 33, witnessed a dark, helicopter-shaped object hover silently over a field for ten minutes in Carces, France. It emitted beams of light, an caused TV interference at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1975 and May 1975 Source ID: Johnson_802 Source: Johnson ### Event 16750 (A11A3D91) Date: 2/10/1975 Description: 7:00 p.m. Two 15-year-old teenagers saw a low-level, 20-meter diameter disc for ten minutes, then watched it shrink away to nothing. At the site there were snapped tree branches and scorched earth. (Sources: CUFOS files, report dated February 27, 1975; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1975; Skylook, December 1975, p. 16; Margaret Sachs, Celestial Passengers, p. 108). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Annandale, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4473 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16751 (A70FC63B) Date: 2/10/1975 Description: 7:00 p.m. Two 15-year-old boys in Annadale, Staten Island, New York, see a glowing ball, 20 feet in diameter, hovering about 400 feet away above some trees near a frozen pond. The brilliant orange mass compresses itself from football-shaped to basketball-shaped over a period of 10 minutes then suddenly disappears. Another witness who is walking a German shepherd dog around the same time reports that the dog reacted very nervously to something in the woods. The boys return early the next morning and find that some trees, ranging 5– 20 feet in height, have been sheared off and some are coated with a carbon-like substance. NICAP investigators have dirt and wood samples analyzed at a scientific laboratory and find that the trees are only superficially burned on their bark but that the fire is oil-based. They suspect the glowing object is a low-temperature fuel fire. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Converging Ball of Light Mystifies Witnesses,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/109%20APRIL%201974.pdf)” UFO Investigator, April 1975, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_5149 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16752 (86261F6E) Date: 2/10/1975 Description: At 7:00 a.m. a silver metallic sphere descended over Foligno, Italy made a ninety-degree turn at ground level, and then shot away fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_801 Source: Johnson ### Event 16753 (8E8E5B6E) Date: 2/10/1975 Description: At 7:00 p.m. in Annandale, New York two 15-year-old teenagers saw a low-level, 20-meter diameter disc for ten minutes, then watched it shrink away to nothing. At the site there were snapped tree branches and scorched earth. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS files, report dated February 27, 1975; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1975; Skylook, December 1975, p. 16; Margaret Sachs, Celestial Passengers, p. 108 Source ID: Johnson_803 Source: Johnson ### Event 16754 (CA8E33D0) Date: 2/11/1975 Description: On Staten Island, New York a silent 20-foot long orange oblate object slowly diminished in size and vanished. Charred ground and snapped-off tree limbs were evident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Staten Island (NY) Advance, February 14, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_832 Source: Johnson ### Event 16755 (677488EE) Date: 2/14/1975 Description: Three humanoid beings in protective gear emerged from domed disc, witness injured, paralyzed, by flash of light (NICAP UFO Evidence II, Sections IX, XII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Petite-He, Reunion, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4474 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16756 (483295ED) Date: 2/14/1975 Description: Three humanoid beings in protective gear emerged from domed disc, witness injured, paralyzed, by flash of light Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Petite-Ile, Reunion, France Source ID: HallUFOE2_250 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16757 (0E5B9B17) Date: 2/14/1975 Description: 12:05 p.m. Antoine Séverin, 21, is on the slope of Piton du Calvaire, a hill outside Petite Île on the southern coast of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, when he hears a deafening beeping sound, feels a blast of heat, and sees a bright metallic object hovering about 5 feet above the ground. A ladder with three steps appears on the underside, and a small being like the “Michelin man” emerges. He is holding a shining object. Two other beings emerge, all with antennae on their heads. A fourth is visible through a porthole. Then Séverin is hurled onto his back by a powerful flash of light. The beings run up the ladder and withdraw it, then the UFO takes off, emitting a loud whistle. For several days he has blurred vision, impaired speech, and a medical diagnosis of shock. The Gendarmerie investigate the case and judge him to be mentally sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lt.-Col. Lobet, “[Atterrissage à Petit Île](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20147.pdf) [\(Réunion\) le 14 Février 1975,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20147.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 147 \(Aug./Sept. 1975\): 4–10; Lt.-Col. Lobet, “[Another](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%202.pdf) [Close Contact on Réunion, Part 1,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 2 \(July 1979\): 6–10; Lt.-Col. Lobet, “[Another](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%203.pdf) [Close Contact on Réunion, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 2 \(September 1979\): 7–10; Patrick Gross, “[Petit-Île, La Réunion, February 14, 1975](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/reunion75.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5150 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16758 (A586F3BC) Date: 2/16/1975 Description: R.M.S. Carmania (UK) observes bright white circular light appear and rise to 20 degrees, leaving comet-like trail, circle and disappear. Repeated four more times at exact hourly intervals. (Soviet scalar EM weapons tests. May have been a ship borne device.) (Clear Intent) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caribbean, At sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_4475 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16759 (180FC075) Date: 2/17/1975 Description: At 9 p.m. Sheriff Richard Egebakken, as well as four other Wheatland County and state officials, observed a bright round object hovering near the Harlowton, Montana nuclear missile base. The object made rapid darting movements, and bobbed up-down. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 175 Source ID: Johnson_965 Source: Johnson ### Event 16760 (09834A34) Date: 2/17/1975 Description: 9:00 p.m. Wheatland County Sheriff Richard Egebakken sees a bright, round object hovering about 500 feet near the Malmstrom AFB K-01 Minuteman missile alert facility 1.7 miles east-northeast of Harlowton, Montana. When Deputy Larry Clifford drives to a point about one mile from the site, the object suddenly shoots up to 2,000 feet, stops, and hovers again. State Game Warden [Gene Tierney](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60624765/gene-w-tierney) says it is not an aircraft. Commissioner [Edgar Langston](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68559742/edgar-langston), also a pilot, sees the object through binoculars from his ranch 15 miles south of Harlowton and sees an antenna-like protrusion on the top. Deputy Herb Lynn stops his pickup truck a few miles out of town to watch and sees it flitting around the sky in all sorts of crazy directions. Deputy Russ Mill, within a mile of K-01, describes a blue object bobbing up and down. Radar at Malmstrom AFB does not track anything. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 45–46 Source ID: Eberhart_5151 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16761 (17769CCE) Date: 2/17/1975 Description: Sheriff, county and state officials observed bright, round object hovering near missile base. Object made rapid darting movements, bobbed up and down Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Harlowton, MT Source ID: HallUFOE2_251 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16762 (F4CFCDFB) Date: 2/17/1975 Description: The Wheatland County Sheriff's office was contacted by radio about 9:00 p.m. Sunday, February 17th by a Highway Patrol radio station who reported that three deputies in Roundup had spotted three UFOs on the horizon heading towards Harlowton. (Harlowton Times newspaper) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roundup, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4476 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16763 (0C8C7E92) Date: 2/17/1975 Description: Sheriff, county and state officials observed bright, round object hovering near missile base. Object made rapid darting movements, bobbed up and down (NICAP UFO Evidence II, Section I). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harlowton, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4477 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16764 (4E339C18) Date: 2/18/1975 Description: Photographs of UFOs were taken on this day in Argentina and Oklahoma. An object that was described at silvery and shiny by the witness, but which appears as flat black against the bright blue clear sky, was taken in Puerto Madryn, Argentina at the ocean shore at 3:20 p.m. A night time photograph of a luminous UFO was taken in Norman, Oklahoma at around 8:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendelle C. Stevens, Saga UFO Report, March 1977, p. 39; Robert Schmidt, FSR, November 1976, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_985 Source: Johnson ### Event 16765 (76E1E498) Date: 2/18/1975 Description: 2:00 a.m. Several Air Policemen from the K-1 missile base \[Kilo Flight Launch Control Facility\] north of Harlowton reported they had spotted an object hovering over K-10 which is located 7 miles north of the Harlowton airport...(Harlowton Times newspaper) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harlowton, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4478 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16766 (0939CDB7) Date: 2/19/1975 Description: A woman driving in Orbak, Denmark reported that at 7:19 p.m.--the same moment that a large circular object descended behind her VW car--the engine and lights failed completely. The object gave off a brilliant blue luminescence and the witness felt a sensation of increased heat in its presence and a prickly sensation. After a few moments the object abruptly vanished and the car could be started. The witness became physically ill after the sighting. There were marks left on the car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 378, citing MUFON UFO Journal, August 1976; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 255 Source ID: Johnson_1002 Source: Johnson ### Event 16767 (D46A2E9E) Date: 2/19/1975 Description: Large circular object descended over car, heat, prickly sensation felt. MUFON UFO Journal, Aug. 1976, p. 15; Jylland Posten, Feb. 25, 1975 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orbak, Den Source ID: NICAP_DB_4479 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16768 (10D90CEE) Date: 2/23/1975 Description: Night. Glenn E. Bradley sees two large cylindrical objects like grain silos floating above Matachewan, Ontario. Both are shining white floodlights downward to the ground and have bright lights at the top. They are traveling to the west at about 30 mph. Bradley begins following them in his pickup truck. Outside the lights of the town he notices that the two silos are accompanied by smaller UFOs about 50 feet in diameter, all darting about at high speed. They appear to be entering and exit the larger silos. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Silos over Ontario,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1985\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_5152 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16769 (5DF81463) Date: 2/23/1975 Description: At sometime between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. two seven-year-old boys named Kono and Yamahata watched a luminous orange UFO approach Kofu, Japan while making a "ticking" sound. It landed on three ball-shaped legs in a nearby vineyard. The object was a domed disc, five meters in diameter and six feet high. The boys got very close to it, and discovered the surface of the object was silver colored and had strange words embossed on its surface. A ladder extended out of the craft down to the ground, and a humanoid creature slightly over four feet tall disembarked. He wore a silver uniform and carried something that looked like a gun. His skin was dark brown and he had large pointed ears, but his large head had no facial features: no eyes, nose or mouth. It merely had wrinkles on the "face" and three silvery two-inch long "fangs" where the mouth should be. Both boys could see one more smaller humanoid in the cockpit holding a control lever. The being that had emerged reached out and touched one of the boys, patting him twice on the shoulder and uttering words "like a tape recorder running backwards." The boy who had been touched sat down, paralyzed either by the touch or fear, but his companion took him on his back and carried him from the vineyard. They then ran to one of the boy's homes and informed their parents, who could at first see the orange light pulsating in the vineyard. Then it disappeared as they watched. Two concrete posts were found pushed over at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS files, report dated July 14, 1975; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1976, p. 5; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-10 (A1391), citing Hayashi Ichinan andYoshihiko Honda Source ID: Johnson_1067 Source: Johnson ### Event 16770 (5B1E48A5) Date: 2/23/1975 Description: At sometime between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. two seven-year-old boys named Kono and Yamahata watched a luminous orange UFO approach Kofu, Japan while making a "ticking" sound. The creature reportedly wore a silver uniform and carried something that looked like a gun. (Sources: CUFOS files, report dated July 14, 1975; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1976, p. 5; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-10 (A1391), citing Hayashi Ichinan andYoshihiko Honda). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kofu, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_4480 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16771 (080936F4) Date: 2/24/1975 Description: 9:50 p.m. Two young men witnessed a 60-foot wide disc-shaped UFO hovering over a nearby field. The UFO effected their TV reception, and their dogs howled in the presence of the object. (Source: E. Jahn, field investigator, CUFOS case file report dated March 11, 1975; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1975, p. 1). (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Enfield, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4481 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16772 (C9A44141) Date: 2/24/1975 Description: Two young men witnessed a 60-foot wide disc-shaped UFO hovering over a nearby field in Enfield, Connecticut at 9:50 p.m. The UFO effected their TV reception, and their dogs howled in the presence of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: E. Jahn, field investigator, CUFOS case file report dated March 11, 1975; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1975, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_1085 Source: Johnson ### Event 16773 (8EDAD050) Date: 2/26/1975 Description: At about 8:45 p.m. a professional man and his companion were on a fishing holiday at a lakeside camp on Lake Sorrell, Tasmania. The main witness was also a former Royal Australian Air Force aircrew member. He saw three glowing objects in the northeast sky, one smaller than the other two, and watched them for some time since they appeared unusual. Then he noticed they were not moving in the same direction as the clouds. Two of the objects moved closer to him and hovered, then receded, intermittently obscurred by clouds. Each had a pulsating red light on the underside. The closer object also had a row of red lights around the rim that were either changing from red to white or rotating. After several minutes the clouds, which had temporarily obscurred the UFOs, started to glow and he saw one object emerge and travel in an easterly direction, stopping over the north shore of the lake. The second object was visible further to the north, stationary over Mount Penny. The main object was now very clearly defined with the red pulsating light very strong. It remained in the area for 8 to 10 minutes. After a bank of clouds went through with a passing storm, the object reappeared, glowed brightly, and suddenly zoomed toward the witnesses "at phenomenal speed." It stopped abruptly 900 meters away and 150 meters up. A brilliant, cone-shaped light beam was projected down toward the lake and swept across the terrain, illuminating the side of the mountain. Then it swept back across the lake beneath the object and faded out. The surface of the lake glowed a flourescent blue. The object then shot away to the northeast "at a colossal speed." The second object sped off in the same direction at the same time. Radio interference was reported at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, July 1975, p. 1; FSR, April 1977, p. 30; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, case 73; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 220-221 Source ID: Johnson_1138 Source: Johnson ### Event 16774 (0FA13128) Date: 2/26/1975 Description: Intensely bright domed disc, orange glow, emitted conical light beam down on lake, illuminated terrain, sped away at "colossal speed" Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Lake Sorell, Tasmania Source ID: HallUFOE2_252 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16775 (62A83C72) Date: 2/26/1975 Description: 8:45 p.m. A former RAAF crewman and a companion are on a fishing trip to Lake Sorell, Tasmania, when they see three glowing objects in the northeast sky, one smaller than the other two. Two of the UFOs move closer and hover, then recede, intermittently obscured by clouds. Each has a pulsing red light on its base. The main larger object is an elongated disc with a row of twinkling red lights around the rim. After a bank of clouds go through with a passing storm, the object reappears, glows brightly, and suddenly zooms toward the witnesses at “phenomenal speed.” It stops abruptly about 2,900 feet away at a height of 490 feet, its lights dimming. It projects a brilliant, cone-shaped light beam toward the lake and sweeps it toward the terrain, illuminating the side of a mountain. Then it sweeps back across the lake beneath the object and fades out. The lake’s surface glows a fluorescent blue-white. The object then shoots away to the northeast. A second object, which has been hovering to the north toward Mount Penny, speeds off in the same direction. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO and Light in Tasmania,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 \(April 1977\): 30–31; Story, [pp. 344–345](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/344/mode/2up); UFOEv II 219–221; [CUFOS case files](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/249C.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_5153 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16776 (A046442F) Date: 2/26/1975 Description: Intensely bright domed disc, orange glow, emitted conical light beam down on lake, illuminated terrain, sped away at "colossal speed" (NICAP UFO Evidence II, Section VI). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Sorell, Tasmania Source ID: NICAP_DB_4482 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16777 (E96E1809) Date: 2/26/1975 Description: Witness saw an oddly structured craft and noticed fish jumping out of the water (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [750226](http://www.nicap.org/ar-750226dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Carlos Reservoir, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4483 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16778 (2E399F2D) Date: 2/27/1975 Description: In Harris county, Texas a cow and a second dead animal were found mutilated. Both of the eyes and the tongue were removed from the first animal. The sexual organs were removed from the second animal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, 050-016, citing the Houston Post, February 28, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_1159 Source: Johnson ### Event 16779 (41FD9CB3) Date: 3/1975 Description: Project Blue Book files transferred from Maxwell AFB, Alabama, to Natignal Archives in Washington, DC. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_253 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16780 (A5B6EF93) Date: 3/1975 Description: CE with octagon near nuclear site (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [750300](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-lakemurray.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lexington, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4484 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16781 (8BEBD6EE) Date: 3/1/1975 Description: Several witnesses in Oporto, Portugal at 8:15 p.m. viewed a cone-shaped object at 400 meters altitude for 30 minutes through binoculars; the object changed in brightness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11695, citing PORTUCAT, case # 153 Source ID: Johnson_1217 Source: Johnson ### Event 16782 (7E6F5409) Date: 3/2/1975 Description: In the Golfo San Matias, Argentina north of the Valdez Peninsula, a group of men on a fishing boat saw a bright light with a definite form behind it moved horizontally through the evening sky at a low altitude. It came from the Patagonian mesa flying out to sea and made a loud buzzing sound. It stopped in the air, and dived under the sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendelle C. Stevens, Saga UFO Report, March 1977, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_1255 Source: Johnson ### Event 16783 (AFE8B664) Date: 3/2/1975 Description: At eight p.m. that same evening in Elmwood, Wisconsin a UFO attempted to land in front of a car with the Forster family inside, while the children in the car screamed. The UFO was a disc the size of a car, white in color with lights all around it, and sticklike legs or landing gear. In their panic they repeatedly honked their car horn, which alerted farmer Roger Weber, who came out of his farmhouse and guided the family home. The UFO flew off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 67 Source ID: Johnson_1256 Source: Johnson ### Event 16784 (EA12FD15) Date: 3/2/1975 Description: North of the Valdez Peninsula, a group of men on a fishing boat saw a bright light with a definite form behind it moved horizontally through the evening sky at a low altitude. (Source: Wendelle C. Stevens, Saga UFO Report, March 1977, p. 39). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Golfo San Matias, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_4485 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16785 (C4DB107C) Date: 3/2/1975 Description: A UFO reported 20 feet over highway, size of car. (NIDS, Summary Report on A Wave of UFO/Helicopters and Animal Mutilations in Cascade County, Montana 1974-1977, Frame 16 of 24 Appendix 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mehmke Hill, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4486 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16786 (3965F155) Date: 3/2/1975 Description: A police officer in Phillips, Wisconsin, hears odd noises on his patrol car radio, then he sees a disc-shaped object with a rounded hump on its top and bottom, along with red and orange lights on the bottom edge. He estimates the object is 30 feet in diameter. When he directs his spotlight on it, the object rapidly ascends. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, Sourcebooks, 1998, p. 109 Source ID: Eberhart_5154 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16787 (57D51EC2) Date: 3/2/1975 Description: 10:30 p.m. A couple and their daughter see a large, yellowish, egg-shaped light moving erratically in short spurts outside their home in the Great Swamp Management Area near West Kingston, Rhode Island. It then stops and hovers for 5 minutes. They then see two orange-white, ball-shaped objects drop from the large UFO and move northward at the approximate speed of an aircraft, disappearing over the horizon. The large object again moves erratically toward the southeast, gradually picking up speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Object Ejects Small Spheres,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201975%2008%2000%20-%20Vol%2024%20No%202.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 2 \(August 1975\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5155 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16788 (D4F73A21) Date: 3/3/1975 Description: Four photographs were taken of two luminous balls, approximately 0.35 meters in diameter, over a hedge in Montsireigne, France at 10:30 p.m. They rose into the sky and were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1977 Source ID: Johnson_1280 Source: Johnson ### Event 16789 (E547334E) Date: 3/6/1975 Description: At two a.m. near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia a man and his cousin watched a bright orange hexagonal shaped craft hovering close to the ground and about a kilometer away. They felt a strange vibration coming from it and perceived an audible sound. The craft then took off vertically at high speed. The main witness reported seeing two human-like figures flying around outside the craft, using what appeared to be backpacks. His parents felt the vibration and heard the humming sound but didn't see the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 1975 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_1339 Source: Johnson ### Event 16790 (69EAF5D9) Date: 3/6/1975 Description: Around midnight Suzanne, a married woman, woke up in Chantilly, France with the feeling that an intruder was in her house. She next heard the sound of dishes breaking. She and her husband went to the kitchen investigate, but found nothing. Her husband went back to sleep, but she remained awake. After awhile she saw a light in the corridor and went back to check. There she confronts a beautiful tall humanoid being with wavy blond hair, wearing a long yellow outfit. The figure seemed to float just above the floor. They exchange glances. The being seemed surprised by her presence and immediately disappeared into the wall. The next day an unusual light came into the house. The witness reports that she experienced a period of "good fortune" after the incident. Previously, she reportedly saw odd beings on a train in 1959 and a luminous sphere in 1962. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 332 Source ID: Johnson_1340 Source: Johnson ### Event 16791 (48C2FBE7) Date: 3/7/1975 Description: The US Embassy in Algiers, Algeria, sends a report to US Secretary of State [Henry Kissinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FKissinger), stating that strange “machines” have been maneuvering over Algerian airspace since January, some near military installations and usually around 7:00–7:30 p.m., often by multiple witnesses. An object with a bright light has been seen near Oran, Bechar, and off the coast on March 6 \(when it is also confirmed on radar\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 79–80](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/78/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5156 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16792 (831F0775) Date: 3/8/1975 Description: 8:00 p.m. A UFO attempted to land in front of a car with the Forster family inside, while the children in the car screamed. The UFO was a disc the size of a car, white in color with lights all around it, and sticklike legs or landing gear. (Source: Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 67). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elmwood, WS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4487 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16793 (8E858554) Date: 3/8/1975 Description: 8:30 p.m. The witness and two daughters, 18 and 10 years old, while traveling east on Highway 26, observed a huge circular object similiar to the shape of a large water tower moving overhead. The object was 100 to 200 feet in size. (Reference: Letter to the Ontario Provincial Police) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stayner, Ontario (near), CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4488 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16794 (D7D8E261) Date: 3/9/1975 Description: Time unknown. Egg-shaped object, bluish lights beaming. (NIDS UFO 89) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belt, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4489 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16795 (FDAC97E5) Date: 3/10/1975 Description: A surgically mutilated dead cow was found in a 30-foot wide crop circle, six miles south of Whiteface, Texas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS case files, report dated March 10, 1975; Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 185 Source ID: Johnson_1410 Source: Johnson ### Event 16796 (23040D2F) Date: 3/12/1975 Description: At 4:30 a.m. several anglers fishing in the surf at Punta Ocoa, Dominican Republic saw a domed, disc-shaped object approaching their location. The dome was transparent and illuminated from the inside. Visible inside the craft stood two human-looking figures, wearing bulky helmets on their heads, looking out and working controls. The craft dove into the ocean and disappeared beneath the waves. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonte Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_1442 Source: Johnson ### Event 16797 (8210E300) Date: 3/13/1975 Description: There were many UFO reports from Ashland and Iron Counties in northern Wisconsin on this night. At 9:00 p.m. a noisy disc-shaped UFO witnessed by the Baker family left a ring-shaped ground mark in the snow in Mellen, Wisconsin. Three nocturnal lights circled and buzzed cars from the Sherriff's department in Iron County at 11:00 p.m. A police radio failed to work for 15 minutes during the encounters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, April-May 1975, p. 1; CUFOS case files, report dated March 20, 1975; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_1455 Source: Johnson ### Event 16798 (27E976E6) Date: 3/14/1975 Description: On this morning in Mellen, Wisconsin Jane Baker's dog reacted to a domed disc-shaped object over the treetops by whining and pawing at its ears. Jane carried the dog back into the house because she refused to move. However, Jane could hear nothing unusual. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, April 1975, p. 3; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 337; Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, www.nicap.org Source ID: Johnson_1494 Source: Johnson ### Event 16799 (73A27926) Date: 3/14/1975 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a landed UFO was spotted on a cloudy night in Lake Sorrell, Tasmania, Australia. The 50-foot diameter yellow ovoid rose slowly from the trees, then shot straight up like a bullet. There were five witnesses of various ages from three families. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre, Australian CUFOS Files, case TA75014; APRO Bulletin, July 1975, p. 3; Ronald D. Story, Space Gods Revealed, p. 345 Source ID: Johnson_1493 Source: Johnson ### Event 16800 (06D2A113) Date: 3/14/1975 Description: Dog reacted to domed object over treetops (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [750314](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-750314.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mellen, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4490 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16801 (7219B7BA) Date: 3/17/1975 Description: 11:02 p.m. NDT . Air Canada Flight 872 reported a green pulsating object at 35,000 feet, crossing his flight path from north to south. Luftansa Flight 401, 120 miles south of of Air Canada 872, reported a solid green object at 31,000 feet crossing his flight path north to south. Current time zone offset: UTC/GMT -2:30 hours (National Research Council of Canada Record Group 77, Vol. 308, reel number 1742, N75/033) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gander, Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4491 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16802 (0025AC6A) Date: 3/18/1975 Description: In 1975, four photographs of a sombrero-shaped UFO were taken by a 19-year-old student named McCarthy at a quarry off of highway 5 near Waterdown, Ontario, Canada shortly after 1:00 p.m. The UFO was described as being the size of a DC-8 airliner. The UFO had many unblinking lights, and flew from east to west, while maneuvering, at a low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, October 1975, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_1555 Source: Johnson ### Event 16803 (52077D1F) Date: 3/18/1975 Description: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [750318](http://www.nicap.org/can75.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamilton, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4492 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16804 (AAB7187A) Date: 3/18/1975 Description: 1:30 p.m. Pat McCarthy, 19, is in a quarry off Ontario Highway 5 near Waterdown, Ontario, trying to take photos of hawks. He is about to leave when he sees a dark object resembling a Frisbee. It is moving swiftly, and he takes four photos of it, capturing the object 3 times. He estimates the object is twice as long as a DC-8. He takes the camera to the Hamilton Spectator, which processes the film in its darkroom. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hamilton \(Ont.\) Spectator, March 18–19, 27, 1975; “[Canadian Photo Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201975%2010%2000%20-%20Vol%2024%20No%204.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 4 \(October 1975\): 1, 3, 6; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 15–18 Source ID: Eberhart_5157 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16805 (1A7834C0) Date: 3/19/1975 Description: In 1975 two police officers in Stockton, California saw an object hovering over parts of the city on four separate occasions, beginning at 1:20 a.m. The UFO was seen changing shape from a cigar to round in appearance. The Stockton city desk sergeant vouched for the veracity of the two police officers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: KLOK radio transcript, CUFOS files Source ID: Johnson_1573 Source: Johnson ### Event 16806 (5406F0D2) Date: 3/22/1975 Description: 10:30 p.m. Two young men and three girls are driving along the Mount Flora to Dingo Beach Road about 50 miles from Nebo, Queensland, when they see a strange light in a gravel storage area to the left of the road. The object is a box-like mass, 8 feet high and 9 feet wide, with a row of flashing white-to-yellow lights about 3 feet above the ground and a circular mass above it. As they stop the car, the object emits a tremendous bang like a shotgun. They are startled and drive on, feeling that the circular mass is watching them, then they return to the original location, but the girls in the back seat are terrified. They drive 9 miles further and find a road construction crew and tell them about the UFO. The two men convince one of the workers to return to the spot, but the object is gone and they find unusual ground marks. On March 25, two investigating officers from RAAF Base Townsville examine three oval-shaped areas, one roughly circular area, and one rectangular area, all apparently recent and produced by a heavy weight or pressure. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 405–406; Bill Chalker, “Physical Traces,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 190–192 Source ID: Eberhart_5158 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16807 (A3CE5550) Date: 3/27/1975 Description: At 11:15 p.m. in Hamlet, North Carolina a retired laborer saw a UFO with a revolving pink light in the front yard of his home. He saw two small creatures "who appeared to be joined by a silver bar." They spoke in a language he couldn't understand. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, Official UFO, November 1975 pp. 12,45; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1395 citing Fawcett Source ID: Johnson_1697 Source: Johnson ### Event 16808 (C31ABC42) Date: 3/28/1975 Description: Sen. [Barry Goldwater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%5FGoldwater) \(R-Ariz.\) writes, in response to an inquiry from UFO researcher Shlomo Arnon: “The subject of UFOs is one that has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret. I have, however, heard that there is a plan underway to release some, if not all, of this material in the near future.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 2](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/n3/mode/2up?q=Shlomo%2BArnon); Nick Redfern, “[UFOs and Senator Barry Goldwater,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-senator-barry-goldwater/)” Mysterious Universe, May 1, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_5159 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16809 (DCDAAE5B) Date: 3/28/1975 Description: Letter from Senator Barry Goldwater stating: Ten or twelve years ago I tried to get access to the building at Wright-Patterson (HANGER-18) where UFO artifacts were stored and I was understandably denied access. It is still classified above TOP SECRET. I’ve heard they plan to release some of the information in the near future and hope not to have to wait too much longer. Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p2) Reference: See Barry Goldwater’s “Blue Room” letters and released FOIA Material 1975–1984, Burbank CA, asked General Curtis LeMay to see Blue Room Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_679 Source: Maj2 ### Event 16810 (C6AA2B9A) Date: 3/28/1975 Description: Two local investigators were driving around northeastern Pennsylvania in the hopes of catching a glimpse of a Bigfoot creature that had been reported in the area. Around midnight they suddenly came upon two tall dark figures with red glowing eyes, who approached their vehicle as if attempting to encircle them. The investigators snapped several photographs before fleeing the area. The pictures only vaguely show what appears to be the glowing eyes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, case # 1874, citing Paul G. Johnson & Joan L. Jeffers, The Pennsylvania Bigfoot Source ID: Johnson_1715 Source: Johnson ### Event 16811 (6E21B0D9) Date: 3/31/1975 Description: At 3:30 a.m. the furious barking of her dogs awoke a woman in St. Hilaire de Cambrai, France. Frightened, the dogs ran and jumped onto the top of the dining room table. The woman opened the curtains and saw a red glow outside and then heard strange, indistinct murmurs and voices. Her son-in-law woke up and looked out a window to see an intensely red rectangular mass about 4.5 meters long and two meters high. It flew half a meter above the ground in a strange hopping motion. It continued on its trajectory, becoming round and greenish-blue in color. Two other family member joined the first two and watched the object move about 80 meters away, now becoming a green spherical form. The dogs calmed down and so the son-in-law went back to bed. Soon the intensity of the sphere lessened, while the remaining witnesses remained watching out a window for the next half hour. At 4:00 a.m. the streetlights brightened and the dogs began barking again. At this point the UFO, now a green sphere, approached the house rapidly and then disappeared. One of the witnesses suffered from eye irritation the next day. Ground traces and "footprints" were found in the vicinity of the house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France Source ID: Johnson_1773 Source: Johnson ### Event 16812 (B528205C) Date: 3/31/1975 Description: Nine hours later, at 9:00 p.m. local time, a merchant in Japan felt a strange urge to go out for a walk on the beach. Guchi Shinda, age 42, went for this walk along the beach in Kawanoe City, Shikoku Province, Japan when he started to experience a sensation of weightlessness and saw what looked like multicolored electrical discharges around him. Suddenly, about 30 meters away, a short white creature appeared. The being had red eyes and a mouth and was wearing a white inflated "astronaut" suit and a round white helmet. It floated just above the sand, looking towards the witness who heard a loud sound resembling "electronic music." He apparently passed out and did not see the humanoid depart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, citing CBA Newsletter, Denys Breysse Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_1774 Source: Johnson ### Event 16813 (3DD8AE28) Date: 4/1975 Description: Blue Book files are withdrawn from public access by Air Force Archives at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, as the security classification and privacy review panel begins reviewing them, sanitizing witness names, and destroying or removing certain documents thought embarrassing. The redactions are made on the original paper files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) pp. 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_5160 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16814 (711D5325) Date: 4/1/1975 Description: A fireball was sighted near a farm south of La Flamengrie, France at 9:10 p.m. Rectangular marks were found in the ground near a mailbox. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1975 Source ID: Johnson_1793 Source: Johnson ### Event 16815 (0D6EBF08) Date: 4/1/1975 Description: The Federal Aviation Administration approves cooperation with the Center for UFO Studies, authorizing air traffic controllers and other personnel to report UFO sightings as their workload permits. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [p. 417](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/416/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5161 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16816 (D1B6F64B) Date: 4/3/1975 End date: 4/9/1975 Description: Some 57 separate UFO sightings involving triangular or delta-shaped UFOs occur in the area around Lumberton, North Carolina. Many cases involve an object hovering silently at low altitude, accelerating instantly, and turning without banking. They are often seen at treetop level and with a bright and maneuverable spotlight. Among the witnesses are 48 police officers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Witnesses Discount Theory That UFO Was Airplane,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99047467/)” Raleigh \(N.C.\) News and Observer, April 5, 1975, p. 19; “[UFO ‘Mystery’ Returns](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99047391/) [with New N.C. Sightings,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99047410/)” Raleigh \(N.C.\) News and Observer, April 6, 1975, p. 1; Jennie Zeidman, The Lumberton UFO Report: UFO Activity in S. North Carolina, April 3–9, 1975, CUFOS, 1976; “[Landing Reported in N. Carolina,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1975-5-may-skylook)” Skylook, May 1975, pp. 3–5; UFOEv II 347–348; Marler 91–94 Source ID: Eberhart_5162 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16817 (662A021F) Date: 4/3/1975 Description: 11:45 p.m. There were sightings in Robeson County and in Scotland County on Highway 71. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rowland (north of), NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4498 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16818 (BFD8689B) Date: 4/3/1975 Description: 11:47 p.m. A Sheriff's deputy named Lewis pursued a V-shaped craft flying to the northeast toward Red Springs. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lumberton, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4499 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16819 (B0563C2E) Date: 4/3/1975 End date: 4/9/1975 Description: Concentration of sightings of Vshaped objects, hover-acceleration, bright illumination Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Lumberton, NC Source ID: HallUFOE2_254 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16820 (49E40B50) Date: 4/3/1975 Description: 3:30 a.m. A police officer on Highway 701 chased an object along Highway 701 before losing it into the cloud cover. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elizabethtown, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4496 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16821 (368B588B) Date: 4/3/1975 Description: There were over 29 separate, independent UFO sightings and close encounters in Robeson, Hoke, Sampson, Bladen, Pitt, and Columbus counties in the early morning hours and again in the evening centered on Lumberton, North Carolina. The first sighting occurred in Lumberton at 1:45 a.m. on Highway 301 where a delta-shaped object the size of a car was sighted by police officers hovering over a water tower. It then shot off to the north. At 2:05 a.m. two sheriff deputies in Hoke County pursued a delta-shaped object flying northeast toward Sampson County. At 2:20 a.m. a silent object with a searchlight flew over Highway 55 in Roseboro, North Carolina at 200 feet altitude and lit up some pecan trees. At 3:30 a.m. a police officer on Highway 701 in Elizabethtown, North Carolina chased an object along Highway 701 before losing it into the cloud cover. That night at 10:30 p.m. a police officer named Godley in Grimesland, North Carolina sighted a disc-shaped object with red, blue and white lights that zigzagged through the sky. At 11:45 p.m. there were sightings north of Rowland in Robeson County and in Scotland County on Highway 71. At 11:47 p.m. a Sheriff's deputy named Lewis pursued a V-shaped craft flying to the northeast toward Red Springs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dwight Connelly, Skylook, May 1975, p. 3; Jennie Zeidman, Lumberton Report: UFO Activity in Southern North Carolina, pp. 5-8; Raleigh News Observer, April 6, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_1820 Source: Johnson ### Event 16822 (39CEF242) Date: 4/3/1975 Description: 1:45 a.m. . The first sighting occurred on Highway 301 where a delta-shaped object the size of a car was sighted by police officers hovering over a water tower. It then shot off to the north. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lumberton, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4493 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16823 (62C65C84) Date: 4/3/1975 Description: 2:05 a.m. Two sheriff deputies in Hoke County pursued a delta-shaped object flying northeast toward Sampson County. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lumberton, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4494 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16824 (8269F569) Date: 4/3/1975 Description: 2:20 a.m. A silent object with a searchlight flew over Highway 55 at 200 feet altitude and lit up some pecan trees. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roseboro, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4495 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16825 (C6BDEB6F) Date: 4/3/1975 Description: 10:30 p.m. A police officer named Godley sighted a disc-shaped object with red, blue and white lights that zigzagged through the sky. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grimesland, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4497 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16826 (06211A65) Date: 4/6/1975 Description: A sighting at sea occurred on this day by the crew of the Japanese ship Shinto Maru, sailing off Singapore. The white, domed disc-shaped UFO skimmed the water, then ascended. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 137 Source ID: Johnson_1867 Source: Johnson ### Event 16827 (731A45E1) Date: 4/6/1975 Description: 2:00 a.m. Two 18-year-old youths, Rod Seagraves and Mike Lewandowski, were driving west on highway A from Wausau, Wisconsin toward Athens when their CB radio stopped working. Mike saw a UFO about 1500 feet north of the road. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-19, citing Richard Heiden for CUFOS). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wausau, WS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4500 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16828 (59388887) Date: 4/6/1975 Description: At 2:00 a.m. two 18-year-old youths, Rod Seagraves and Mike Lewandowski, were driving west on highway A from Wausau, Wisconsin toward Athens when their CB radio stopped working. Mike saw a UFO about 1500 feet north of the road. It was flat on the bottom and dome-shaped on top, and was on or just above the ground. It shone with a pulsating silvery-gray light. In another five minutes of driving they saw what looked like a seven-foot tall "tree trunk" near the road. It was about 100 feet away, and Mike saw it moving slowly. He then drove away toward the west. Reaching Wausau, they parked the car behind a restaurant and both fell asleep at around three a.m. When they awoke at 6:30 a.m. the car was in a different location in the parking lot, both were dirty, and a quarter of a tank of gasoline was gone, which suggested to them that they had driven back to the location of the UFO, but had no recollection of doing so. In subsequent months Mike reported having trouble with his thinking, and his memory was poorer than before the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-19, citing Richard Heiden for CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_1866 Source: Johnson ### Event 16829 (BCDAFD5A) Date: 4/6/1975 Description: On this night in San Juan, Puerto Rico Willie Lopez, a disc jockey, was working in the penthouse studio of WBMJ atop the Darlington Hotel when he heard three knocks on the window of the terrace behind his control panel. There was no way for anyone to get out there without going through the studio, and Lopez had seen no one come in. Curious, he went to the window and saw a "glowing figure" outside that ran and hid behind one of the columns atop the hotel structure. Nervous, he called the station manager Jose Manuel in the hotel. He then went back to the window and saw a luminous oval object 40 feet wide, no more than 4 feet from the hotel tower, performing a slight rocking motion in the air. He was so stunned that he pulled the curtains from the curtain rod. Going back to the controls, he cut into the music broadcast to describe to his listening audience what had just happened. About this time, Jose Manuel arrived at the studio. The disc jockey was in such a state of shock that he had to be taken to the hospital and sedated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-15, citing Sebastian Robiou Lamarche Source ID: Johnson_1869 Source: Johnson ### Event 16830 (BFA4A4D0) Date: 4/6/1975 Description: At 5:15 p.m. five red lights in close formation came in over the Strickland farm one mile north of Pembroke, North Carolina at an estimated speed of 100 mph. They landed not far away, with smoke rising from the ground. At the landing site there were six burnt trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Phillips, Skylook, December 1975, p. 16; Jennie Zeidman, The Lumberton Report: UFO Activity in southern North Carolina, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_1868 Source: Johnson ### Event 16831 (9B3BCE1F) Date: 4/9/1975 Description: 2:30 a.m. A delta-shaped UFO hovered over a house three miles south of Lumberton, and all the lights in the house went out. The lights came back on when the UFO moved away toward the east. (Sources: Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated May 4, 1975; Jennie Zeidman, Lumberton Report: UFO Activity in southern North Carolina, p. 35; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 19). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lumberton, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4501 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16832 (E2AF30D9) Date: 4/9/1975 Description: A delta-shaped UFO hovered over a house three miles south of Lumberton, North Carolina at 2:30 a.m., and all the lights in the house went out. The lights came back on when the UFO moved away toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated May 4, 1975; Jennie Zeidman, Lumberton Report: UFO Activity in southern North Carolina, p. 35; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_1931 Source: Johnson ### Event 16833 (E705FA1E) Date: 4/10/1975 Description: 9:35 p.m. Mr. Robert Diemert sighted a UFO. Diemert was at his airfield, Friendship Field, when the object was sighted. The object was flying in a north- westerly direction at an approximate altitude of 300 feet. The UFO was described as being approximately 50 feet in length. (Reference: Royal Canadian Mounted Police report, April, 11, 1975, Carman, Manitoba, Carman Detachment, National Research Council of Canada Record Group 77, Vol. 308, reel number 1742 N/039) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carman, Manitoba, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4502 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16834 (1EC6F52E) Date: 4/14/1975 Description: [Tage Eriksson](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/e/905-eriksson-tage2), head of UFO investigations at the Swedish National Defence Research Institute, finds the work a waste of time and tries to get it transferred back to the Defense Staff. His request is denied. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 368 Source ID: Eberhart_5163 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16835 (4E181DEC) Date: 4/15/1975 Description: Disc-shaped object with dome, light beam, made right-angle turn, approached, hovered; began to oscillate, shot straight up out of sight in seconds (NICAP UFO Evidence II, Section IV). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Jose, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4503 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16836 (9C84A263) Date: 4/15/1975 Description: A science teacher and six others in San Jose, California viewed an orange glowing domed disc through binoculars as it approached them at 9:23 p.m. The object made a right angle turn toward the witnesses, then stopped over their street and front yard. It was estimated to be 90 feet in diameter, with a ten foot wide cabin structure. Although it made no sound, it emitted a white beam, an orange glow, and red sparks that dropped from underneath it. It oscillated, then shot straight up into space. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Slava Mach, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 14; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 19, 154, & 162 Source ID: Johnson_2034 Source: Johnson ### Event 16837 (BD7E1762) Date: 4/15/1975 Description: Disc-shaped object with dome, light beam, made right-angle turn, approached, hovered. Began to oscillate, shot straight up out of sight in seconds Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: San Jose, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_255 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16838 (7D1B305D) Date: 4/18/1975 Description: A luminous disc came out from behind a house in Piano Chiesa, Italy at 7:50 p.m. and shot up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_2118 Source: Johnson ### Event 16839 (2C804032) Date: 4/19/1975 Description: Mr. Martindale was walking home from mailing letters in Bay City, Michigan at 11:30 p.m. when he saw a humanoid being standing in his front yard. It looked like a man but it was totally black. He received a mental message to go inside the house and not fear anything. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1401 Source ID: Johnson_2137 Source: Johnson ### Event 16840 (957BDE51) Date: 4/20/1975 Description: Night. Stationary beams of light are seen at San José de Jáchal, San Juan, Argentina. In a remote area, three imprints are found forming a 12-foot equilateral triangle surrounding a large smoke blot. Nearby plants are burned and stones are blackened. Some footprints are noted. Seven mushrooms nearly 8 inches tall are found growing there the following day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Fred Merritt, “A Preliminary Classification of Some Reports of UFOs,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5164 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16841 (0B3199D8) Date: 4/22/1975 Description: On this day Professor Hernandez met a woman named "Lya" who claimed to be an extraterrestrial near Querataro, Mexico. They drove together in a car to an isolated area where he had had previous close encounters. They parked and walked about 100 meters on foot to a saucer-shaped craft about three meters in diameter. Lya took out a small, handheld device, and an opening on the craft became visible. They got inside and embarked on a journey. Hernandez soon realized that he is orbiting the Earth, and he was able to see several satellites in outer space. There conversation was mostly about ecological concerns and the coming climatic changes. They talked about changes to the ozone layer, deserts, forests, etc. Lya told him that the aliens insisted that all nuclear tests must come to a complete halt. Hernandez was later brought back to his vehicle. He was then told that their group of aliens was leaving Earth, and was going to be replaced with a more aggressive extraterrestrial race, who would be mostly responsible to forced human abductions and animal mutilations. Professor Hernandez mysteriously disappeared on February 2, 1984 and has never been heard from again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, citing Montiel and Stevens, UFO Contact from Andromeda Source ID: Johnson_2227 Source: Johnson ### Event 16842 (C63A0702) Date: 4/25/1975 Description: Three events occurred in Rugles, Eure, France during this remarkable experience that lasted over an hour, beginning at 9:30 p.m. First, a meteor was seen shooting through the sky. Next, a 40 meter diameter dome with a smaller disc was seen. Finally, a small glowing dome appeared inside a room. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1975 Source ID: Johnson_2301 Source: Johnson ### Event 16843 (D6073CD8) Date: 4/26/1975 Description: A UFO dove at spectators who had stopped to watch it along the side of a highway in Gerena, Sevilla, Spain, causing the witnesses to panic. The six witnesses got back into their cars and drove away, but were chased for two miles. The red, elongated or ovoid object came so close that the drivers were dazzled by the light. When they pulled into a filling station for santuary the light finally shot off rapidly to the east. The incident lasted approximately eight minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 80, citing I. Darnaude; Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1976 Source ID: Johnson_2344 Source: Johnson ### Event 16844 (331C136A) Date: 4/26/1975 Description: 2:00 a.m. Two young witnesses see a light descend briefly behind a school in Chomedey, Laval, Quebec, for a few seconds. They find a piece of metal and a hole in the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Phillips, [Physical Traces Associated with](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf) [UFO Sightings](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf), CUFOS, 1975, p. 106 Source ID: Eberhart_5165 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16845 (14A3617B) Date: 5/1/1975 Description: A bright yellow-orange ball of light was seen at low altitude over the village of Lezay, Deux Sevres, France at 11:10 p.m. It hovered 3-4 meters from the ground and made a flapping sound. It was estimated to be 3.1 meters in diameter, and played cat-and-mouse with the police through the trees for 35 minutes. It's possible that the object made a brief landing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 552; UNICAT database, case 219 Source ID: Johnson_2443 Source: Johnson ### Event 16846 (916C2C11) Date: 5/3/1975 Description: 1:34 p.m. Carlos Antonio de los Santos Montiel is flying a Piper PA-24 Comanche from Zihuatenejo, Guerrero, Mexico, to Mexico City at about 15,000 feet. While passing over Laguna de Tequesquitengo in Jojutla, Morelos, he feels a strange vibration in his airplane. Then he sees to the right, pacing alongside, a 10-to 12-foot-diameter disc with a dome on top. Another appears to the left of the plane, and a third disc approaches head-on, dropping beneath the plane. Carlos feels a jolt as if the object has impacted. He pulls the landing gear lever, but it fails to operate. The plane feels as if it is pulled or lifted, and the controls refuse to respond. Although badly shaken, Carlos notifies Mexico City by radio, describing what is happening. At the same time, air control radar is showing unexplained objects near his plane that are capable of sharp turns, unlike normal aircraft. Finally, their blips merge on the radar screen and speed away toward Popocatépetl volcano. After the objects leave, Montiel is able to lower his landing gear manually and land safely. Aviation personnel who know him testify to his sobriety and trustworthiness. A week later, de los Santos is invited to discuss the sighting on a TV talk show. As he drives to the interview, a large black Cadillac limousine pulls in front of him on the freeway. An identical car appears behind, forcing him to the side of the road. Four tall, broad-shouldered, pale-skinned men in dark suits jump out and approach him, still in his car. Speaking Spanish in a mechanical tone, one warns him to keep quiet about the sighting “if you value your life and your family’s too.” He breaks his appointment, and does so a month later after another visit by the men in black before an interview with [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFOs ‘Escort’ Mexican](http://www.nicap.org/750503mexicocity%5Fdir.htm) [Aircraft / Radar Confirmed](http://www.nicap.org/750503mexicocity%5Fdir.htm)”; “[UFOs ‘Escort’ Mexican Aircraft,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201975%2008%2000%20-%20Vol%2024%20No%202.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 2 \(August 1975\): 1, 3–4; Jerome Clark, “[Carlos de los Santos and the Men in Black,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20V%2024%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 4 \(January 1979\): 8–9; Clark III 730; UFOEv II 133–134; Patrick Gross, “[Piper P24 Paced by Three Flying Discs, 1975](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/montiel75.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5167 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16847 (4E3BBEF8) Date: 5/3/1975 Description: 9:15 p.m. Alois Olenick, 48, is driving west on Mogford Road south of San Antonio, Texas, when an amber- colored object rises up from a grove of trees. The object approaches him quickly, the light on its front changing from amber to red. When it hovers over his pickup for 10–20 seconds, the lights go out and the engine goes dead. He can see two occupants through a clear dome on the top of the UFO. They are bald with long prominent ears and long noses. The bottom of the object is “highly polished metal” that casts a reddish glow. Olenick hears no engine noise, only a shriek of wind. The object takes off straight up and vanishes instantly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gary Graber, “Two Occupants in Craft,” Skylook, no. 99 \(February 1976\): 3–4; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(September 2011\): 17; UFOEv II 461–462 Source ID: Eberhart_5168 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16848 (AD8EB57B) Date: 5/3/1975 Description: 8:00 a.m. A professional photographer is taking pictures of the Irma kød company south of Copenhagen, Denmark, when he sees a bright flash off to his right. When he develops one photo, the image shows an odd object tilted at an angle and slightly out of focus. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kim Møller Hansen, “[Danish UFO-Photo?](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 6 \(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_5166 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16849 (BB54B3CA) Date: 5/3/1975 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a witness in Ashton, Adelaide, South Australia had a close encounter with a blue-green cone-shaped UFO that was making a humming sound. It had light beams and flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case # SA75008 Source ID: Johnson_2477 Source: Johnson ### Event 16850 (EFBEBDEC) Date: 5/3/1975 Description: While flying over Lake Tequesquitengo at 1:34 p.m. near Mexico City, Mexico Antonio Santos Montiel, the pilot of a Monteil Piper PA-24, felt a strange vibration, and saw a domed disc three meters in diameter pacing him to his right. There was another identical looking craft on his left. A third disc approached his airplane head on, and he felt a jolt, as if his plane was being lifted. The Mexico City Air Trafffic Control radar showed the UFOs making sharp turns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, case investigation, report dated August 3, 1975; FSR, February 1976, p. 32; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 121, 243).

1975 - At 9:15 p.m. Alois Olenick, 48, was driving westward on Mogford Road to a nearby store in southern San Antonio, Texas when he saw an amber-colored object rise up from a grove of trees 900 yards away. It then approached his 1959 Chevrolet pickup truck, dropping in altitude, and the main light on the front of the object changed from amber to a blindingly bright, cherry-red light. When it was directly over him it beamed a spotlight on him, and at the same time his truck's lights and engine died, and his truck was nearly buffeted off the road by a strong wind. "When the craft got directly over the top of my pickup," Olenick said, "my lights went completely out and my engine was dead."

He got out and saw a globular craft with two conical protrusions on either side that could have been a central ring (making an overall Saturn shape). The bottom was of "highly polished metal" with a reddish glow. When the UFO tipped at a 37-40 degree angle toward him, he could see that the top half was transparent and that it contained two humanoid occupants, visible by a reddish internal light. They were 5-feet tall or less, with bald heads, large pointed ears, long noses, and slit-like eyes. Their skin appeared smooth and grayish in complexion. They seemed to be handling controls. He said, "They appeared to be just as interested in me as I was in them. One of the occupants, the one farthest away from me, appeared to be the pilot and had his hands on what looked like controls. He was looking up and away from me. The other occupant looked directly at me...and appeared to be observing me. I got a good look at both of them. They weren't human beings like we see here."

There was no sound of a motor coming from the object, but there was a shriek of wind like a cyclone below the craft. Then the UFO turned its lights off and took off staight up, with a gust of wind that buffeted his pickup, and vanished almost instantly. There was an odor "like burning copper or electrical wiring" (he was a sheet metal worker) that persisted inside the truck for some time. His eyes were affected, and he had to wear dark glasses after the effect for some while as a result. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1975-23 (A1404), citing Gary Graber, Skylook, February 1976, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 382, 461-462, 490 Source ID: Johnson_2478 Source: Johnson ### Event 16851 (359E5225) Date: 5/3/1975 Description: UFOs 'Escort' Mexican Aircraft / Radar Confirmed (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [750503](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/rd-750503dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tequesquitengo Lake, Mexico Source ID: NICAP_DB_4505 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16852 (FB7F8555) Date: 5/3/1975 Description: At 11:00 p.m. on the highway N165 west of Quimper, Finistere, France a 6-meter diameter sphere with portholes followed a car west at 200 meters altitude. It hid when the car approached towns but came back. It tracked the car for 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11249, citing Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 55 Source ID: Johnson_2479 Source: Johnson ### Event 16853 (9574D087) Date: 5/3/1975 Description: Saturn-shaped UFO, E-M effects on truck, two humanoids visible through transparent dome Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: San Antonio, TX Source ID: HallUFOE2_257 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16854 (EC8AFFB4) Date: 5/3/1975 Description: Saturn-shaped UFO over truck, beamed light down; humanoids visible in dome. See Section XII (E,L) truck (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Antonio, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_4504 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16855 (5DE7E561) Date: 5/3/1975 Description: Three domed discs paced small aircraft, one off each wing and one behind, confirmed by radar. E-M effects on radio, aircraft lifted Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Tequesquitengo Lake, Mexico Source ID: HallUFOE2_256 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16856 (34605D8B) Date: 5/4/1975 Description: Before midnight. Paul Dedieu, his brother, and a friend are driving near Haywood, Manitoba, when they see an odd star. Red lightning seems to light it up and it zooms away, dripping molten metal and crashes in the vicinty of Lake Manitoba to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 103 Source ID: Eberhart_5169 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16857 (B1C18965) Date: 5/4/1975 Description: Eta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_258 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16858 (FDB79640) Date: 5/4/1975 Description: A UFO was seen near the ground in Cupey, Puerto Rico at 4:20 a.m. in 1975. The object had an intense yellow pulsating light, and a row of eight rectangular lights. Ground marks were found at the site including a burnt area 25 feet in diameter. There were also large three-toed footprints, fourteen inches long and spaced 50" apart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lamarche Sebastian Robiou, FSR, April 1977, p. 8; Stendek, December 1975; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1405 Source ID: Johnson_2509 Source: Johnson ### Event 16859 (F9E8B073) Date: 5/4/1975 Description: At 9:00 p.m. two gendarmes observed an orange ball of light (BOL) the apparent size of the full moon in Lezay, Deux-Sevres, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Coudert, Ouranos, 1978, issue 24, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_2510 Source: Johnson ### Event 16860 (EC26E755) Date: 5/5/1975 Description: 9:20 p.m. A domed disc-shaped object was seen on the ground with two figures inside the dome. The witness, who was in a truck, was hit by a blinding light, and his hands went numb. The encounter lasted for two minutes. (Source: John Schuessler, Physiological Effects from UFOs, p. 64). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pleasanton, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_4508 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16861 (14BDEE07) Date: 5/5/1975 Description: At 9:20 p.m. a domed disc-shaped object was seen on the ground in Pleasanton, Texas with two figures inside the dome. The witness, who was in a truck, was hit by a blinding light, and his hands went numb. The encounter lasted for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Schuessler, Physiological Effects from UFOs, p. 64 Source ID: Johnson_2548 Source: Johnson ### Event 16862 (C668ADF6) Date: 5/6/1975 Description: On this evening in Cameron, West Virginia a man, his daughter, and his daughter's friend where at the local high school basketball court. A green-blue blob (BOL) approached, passing 25 feet above the school. They got in his car to leave, but when the UFO hovered near the car the car's ignition system cut out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cameron (WV) News, May 13, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_2591 Source: Johnson ### Event 16863 (E218C29C) Date: 5/6/1975 Description: Two large silver disc-shaped objects bracketed a USAF jet aircraft testing equipment for an hour flying from Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio. The witness experienced a lapse of time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 174 Source ID: Johnson_2590 Source: Johnson ### Event 16864 (86E332C9) Date: 5/6/1975 Description: Several separate observers driving between Sedona and Oak Creek, Arizona observed a dome shaped, glowing cloud maneuvering between 7:10 p.m. and 9:10 p.m. There were also nocturnal lights and searchlights reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond Jordan, APRO Bulletin, May-June 1976, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_2592 Source: Johnson ### Event 16865 (3B8052DE) Date: 5/6/1975 Description: A ground ring was discovered this day in a pasture in Doughboy, New South Wales, Australia. It was an almost perfect circle of dead grass, with an inside diameter of 3.3m and an outside diameter of 4.6m. The circle deteriorated, leaving behind bare earth. A cowpad in the circle was completely flattened. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1993, p. 23, citing Daily Examiner, May 14, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_2589 Source: Johnson ### Event 16866 (26AAC4C3) Date: 5/6/1975 Description: Day. A pilot testing some new equipment in his airplane southeast of Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, sees three silvery UFOs with portholes flying in formation ahead and closing in on his aircraft. The pilot descends to 1,000 feet, but they keep pace, one on each wingtip, the third above the plane. The pilot levels off and climbs quickly to 3,000 feet, but the objects match his maneuvers for another 60 minutes. All the control panel instruments go haywire, and the pilot loses all sense of time. The UFOs are confirmed by base radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 145–146 Source ID: Eberhart_5170 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16867 (9246102B) Date: 5/7/1975 Description: At 9:00 p.m. four witnesses--two couples--in a car followed a dark ovoid flying object in the mountains west of Tucson, Arizona; the UFO follows the car back, making a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1975, p. 1; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 114 Source ID: Johnson_2625 Source: Johnson ### Event 16868 (61798CF4) Date: 5/12/1975 Description: At 4:10 p.m. a solid looking flying object, trailing exhaust, flew northeast through the sky over Howrah, Tasmania. The UFO changed shape and then made a ninety-degree turn. It then executed a 180 degree turn, and then swooped down and away. A movie film was made of the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Skylook, December 1975, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_2768 Source: Johnson ### Event 16869 (4640A13A) Date: 5/12/1975 Description: 11:30 p.m. Lyle Carson is in his farmhouse 2.5 miles east of Peesane, Saskatchewan, when he and his wife observe a green light for 10–15 minutes. On May 14, Carson is checking some fences and he comes across a perfectly round circle of burned grass, 5 feet in diameter and 6 inches thick on the outside edge. The RCMP take photos and samples. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Phillips, [Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/books/Physical%5FTraces.pdf) CUFOS, 1975, p. 107; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 190 Source ID: Eberhart_5171 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16870 (D1FC75AB) Date: 5/12/1975 Description: That same night at 11:30 p.m. a green light was seen hovering over an area two miles east of Peesane, Saskatchewan for 12 minutes. It then flew away to the east. A perfect circle was found in the grass at the site, two days later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, Skylook, December 1975, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_2769 Source: Johnson ### Event 16871 (B5D0C40D) Date: 5/12/1975 Description: 4:10 p.m. A solid looking flying object, trailing exhaust, flew northeast through the sky. The UFO changed shape and then made a ninety-degree turn. A movie film was made of the UFO. (Source: Richard Hall, Skylook, December 1975, p. 15). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Howrah, Tasmania Source ID: NICAP_DB_4509 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16872 (27322D56) Date: 5/13/1975 End date: 5/14/1975 Description: 11:30 p.m. Multiple witnesses see a bright light a few miles north of Carman, Manitoba, where it has been appearing so frequently since April 10 that it has been nicknamed “Charlie Redstar.” CKY-TV station employees Bill Kendricks and Allen Kerr see a light on the western horizon that rises up, moves slowly south, flashes brilliantly, then shoots straight up. Newspaper editor Howard Bennett and others see a smoky red light above some tall trees. Bennett leads investigators to a potential landing site. Using a radiation survey meter, they find a few radioactive hot spots about 255 feet apart, each with a radius of 25 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 124–126; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 161, 171–181 Source ID: Eberhart_5172 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16873 (A4AC54B4) Date: 5/13/1975 Description: Nautical UFO. At 5:20 a.m. a bright red sphere descended into a lake in Mosciano Sant' Angelo, Abruzzi, Italy. It moved underwater, then emerged. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11258, citing ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_2810 Source: Johnson ### Event 16874 (B7EE51C3) Date: 5/16/1975 Description: Three men wander away from a party on the shore of Stephenfield Lake, Manitoba, when they see a “moon- shaped” object hovering over a dam on the far shore. As they watch, a beam of light shoots from the object to the surface of the lake. A glowing object appears underneath the surface and begins moving toward the witnesses. When it is about 20 feet away, one of them throws a rock at it. It appears to break into pieces and return to its original location, and the beam goes out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Visitations? Manitoba UFO Experiences, Winter Press, 1989, p. 18; Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 23 Source ID: Eberhart_5173 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16875 (44E26152) Date: 5/18/1975 Description: A triangle of lights was sighted over some woods in Rainhill, Merseyside, England at around 10:00 p.m. Some huge footprints were found in the area later, along with some other ground marks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, Northern Network News, August 1975, p. 5; BUFORA Journal, September 1975, p. 6; Jenny Randles, FSR, April 1978, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_2957 Source: Johnson ### Event 16876 (A96F8E90) Date: 5/23/1975 Description: A dog and cat reacted with panic when a bottle-shaped silver UFO flew near a mountainside at 9 p.m. in Sedona, Arizona. There were separate witnesses to the nocturnal fly by. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1976, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_3051 Source: Johnson ### Event 16877 (EA596970) Date: 5/26/1975 Description: 7:45 p.m. Didier Burr, 17, photographs a dark, disc-shaped object outside his second-story window in Nancy, France. The sighting only lasts 10–15 seconds. The photo shows a slightly blurry disc above a nearby building. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Nancy, France, May 26, 1975](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/nancy26mai1975.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5174 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16878 (18AD8D25) Date: 5/29/1975 Description: Two metallic hat-shaped discs flew southeast to northwest very quickly over Montlucon, France at 7:00 p.m. They banked to one side but continued on in a straight line, emitting beams of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1976 Source ID: Johnson_3153 Source: Johnson ### Event 16879 (68D36F56) Date: 5/30/1975 Description: Russell Worobetz is cultivating some stubble near Hazel Dell, Saskatchewan, when he finds two burned areas in the center of his field. They are 5 feet in diameter and 4 feet apart. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 190 Source ID: Eberhart_5175 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16880 (D18716AA) Date: 5/31/1975 Description: At around 9 p.m. an octagonal flying object with an illuminated cross-member, moved very slowly through the sky city sky above London, England. It then vanished while still in view. It was reported by a married couple named Fry. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, FSR, November 1976, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_3187 Source: Johnson ### Event 16881 (24346B0B) Date: 6/1975 Description: Historian [David M. Jacobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FM.%5FJacobs) publishes The UFO Controversy in America, based on his Ph.D. dissertation in history. It becomes a classic history of UFOs and the investigations of the Air Force and other government agencies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David M. Jacobs, [The UFO Controversy in America](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Jacobs%2C%20David%20-%20The%20UFO%20Controversy%20in%20America.pdf), Indiana University, 1975; Clark III 629 Source ID: Eberhart_5177 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16882 (75DD54C2) Date: 6/1/1975 Description: At about 1:30 a.m. a woman was walking around a corner of a major highway on the outskirts of the town of Villarrasa, Huelva province, Spain when she encountered a large object with red, green, and white lights in the middle of the road. Standing next to the object were three very tall human looking beings, who wore bright white uniforms and square helmets. They seemed to be moving their arms around. The witness became frightened and ran home. Around the same time another witness in a different part of town sawa large domed disc with green and red lights, or or near the ground only 15 meters away. Next to the round object stood three very tall men wearing helmets. Each helmet had a green light on it. The men were next seen walking around the object. This witness also became afraid and left. When he looked back, he saw the UFO lifting off from the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact Database, case # 91, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia De Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis Source ID: Johnson_3205 Source: Johnson ### Event 16883 (32BE98A8) Date: 6/2/1975 Description: A series of close encounters began in central Connecticut at 8:45 p.m. On Lent Road in Hamden, Connecticut a witness sighted a disc-shaped UFO with an onboard occupant. Thirty minutes later two witnesses, one on Putnam Avenue in Hamden, Connecticut and another in Wallingford, Connecticut both reported close encounter experiences involving disc-shaped UFOs and lapses of time where they couldn't remember what happened next. At 9:45 p.m. more than 40 people including police saw the same or similar disc in Hamden. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS case investigation files, James Barrett field investigator Source ID: Johnson_3235 Source: Johnson ### Event 16884 (EB714E6A) Date: 6/3/1975 Description: A ten-meter diameter disc-shaped object zig-zagged across a road on Palmer Island, New South Wales, Australia. It is possible there had been a landing because the object had been so close to the ground, and animals were upset. There were 5 witnesses, and the sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 207 Source ID: Johnson_3256 Source: Johnson ### Event 16885 (9112E3E8) Date: 6/4/1975 Description: 7:40 a.m. Henry Francois while driving east on a municipal road 1 mile south and 1/4 of mile west of the junction of P.T.H. #34 and 2, he observed an oval disc shaped object with a very brilliant light close to the top and center. (Reference: Royal Canadian Mounted Police report 11 June 1975. Treherne Detachment RCMP File Reference: 75-079-4) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Holland, Manitoba, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4510 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16886 (44324902) Date: 6/5/1975 Description: In 1975 a couple driving from Appleton to Madison, Wisconsin spotted three UFOs. The second object had a long trail. It came down, split apart like booster rocket, arched through the sky traveling rapidly toward the southwest. On that same night two poor quality photographs were taken of a Saturn-shaped UFO seen above some trees in Colpo, France. The object had antennas and emitted beams of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jay Rath, The W-files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 64; Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1975 Source ID: Johnson_3302 Source: Johnson ### Event 16887 (180D8E59) Date: 6/6/1975 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a car driving between Marcenat and Moulet, France encountered a 30-meter wide ball of light hovering only 15 meters above the ground. It gave off an unpleasant odor, and the witness's car radio stopped working. One half hour later a white luminous ovoid-shaped object was spotted near a farm six kilometers west of Meymans, France. A burglar alarm went off at around the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 554 & 556 Source ID: Johnson_3330 Source: Johnson ### Event 16888 (06596E8D) Date: 6/6/1975 Description: At 9:30 p.m. that evening in Revigny-sur-Ornain, France a policeman took photographs of two luminous ovoid-shaped objects flying over some nearby trees. The UFOs made an S-curve maneuver, then ascended into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1975 Source ID: Johnson_3331 Source: Johnson ### Event 16889 (5B58239A) Date: 6/11/1975 Description: 6:45 p.m. Small men with huge UFO. (NIDS UFO 87) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Smith River, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4512 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16890 (6CF3E817) Date: 6/11/1975 Description: Shiny Triangular Object Encountered By Two Jets (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [750611](http://nicap.org/750611quebec%5Fcity%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Quebec City, Quebec, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4511 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16891 (93DB6F78) Date: 6/12/1975 Description: A diamond shaped object landed on a gravel road in a mountainous area of Big Chimney, West Virginia shortly before 10:00 p.m. It was witnessed by four members of the Crichfield family. Four landing gear imprints were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Center for UFO Studies case files, letter dated August 3, 1975; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Alan Landsburg, In Search of Extraterrestrials, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_3442 Source: Johnson ### Event 16892 (E84778D2) Date: 6/12/1975 Description: Shortly before 10:00 p.m. A diamond shaped object landed on a gravel road in a mountainous area. It was witnessed by four members of the Crichfield family. Four landing gear imprints were found at the site. (Sources: Center for UFO Studies case files, letter dated August 3, 1975; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Alan Landsburg, In Search of Extraterrestrials, p. 8) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Big Chimney, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_4513 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16893 (6F986DDB) Date: 6/13/1975 Description: An electrical engineer with binoculars watched a UFO fly south over Manhattan's tall buildings in New York, New York this night. It had lighted slits on the bottom and a sharp outline, and was estimated to be 750 feet in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1975 Source ID: Johnson_3465 Source: Johnson ### Event 16894 (24D17206) Date: 6/20/1975 Description: A luminous globe, described also like a large incandescent ball, was seen to fall into the sea some miles off the coast of the port of Genova, Italy. (Source: Marco Bianchini, USOCAT by Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU), citing Liberta, June 22, 1975 and La Stampa, June 21, 1975). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Genova, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4514 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16895 (B1D1D1B2) Date: 6/20/1975 Description: A luminous globe, described also like a large incandescent ball, was seen to fall into the sea some miles off the coast of the port of Genova, Italy. The report arrived from a geophysicist of the university that was completing normal surveys and that had immediately signaled the fact to the National Fire Departments. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Marco Bianchini, USOCAT by Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU), citing Liberta, June 22, 1975 and La Stampa, June 21, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_3559 Source: Johnson ### Event 16896 (1539A459) Date: 6/20/1975 Description: 11:10 p.m. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable patrolling on Grand Valley Road northwest of Brandon, Manitoba, notices a bright white light to the northwest, apparently in the area of Kirkham’s Bridge. Another RCMP in the bridge area sees the light 10 minutes later, apparently 220–300 feet above the ground. One officer attempts to close with the light unsuccessfully until he is 3 miles southeast of Hamiota. It flashes red and disappears at 12:15 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Files Obtained from the National Archives of Canada](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/offica02.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5178 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16897 (58C332B7) Date: Summer 1975 Description: Around 12:00 midnight. An orange object appears several times above two fishing trawlers one mile off the coast of Topsail Beach, North Carolina. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Cordy Hieronymus, “[Out of the Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1984\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5176 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16898 (B346B883) Date: 6/23/1975 Description: 12:37 p.m. A British naval vessel is stationed off the west coast of Ireland in a thick fog when the radar operator picks up an echo, presumably a surface vessel closing in on the ship. However, the blip accelerates to an “impossible” speed in one minute. The operator notifies the captain, who files a report. The case is investigated by the Ministry of Defence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Peter Bottomley and Gordon Clegg, “[MoD Tracks UFO on Radar,](http://bufora.org.uk/documents/BUFORAJournalVolume4No.12MarchApril1976.pdf)” BUFORA Journal 4, no. 12 \(March/April 1976\): 8–10; Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 128–129 Source ID: Eberhart_5179 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16899 (994F815C) Date: 6/24/1975 Description: 7:45 p.m. Mr. Eric Falkenburger saw a bright object from his car. The object passed within about 1500 feet of his car and was just above tree top level. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, October 1975, page 2) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Queensland, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4515 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16900 (1179548C) Date: 6/27/1975 Description: A 25 meter in diameter metallic disc hovered just 15 meters above a gasoline service station in Pont-a-Mousson, France at 3:30 a.m. It illuminated the ground as bright as day. That night at 11:20 p.m. a vertical cylinder hung in the sky at only 10 meters altitude in Bouillancourt-la-Bataille, Somme, France. It had two antennae. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1976 Source ID: Johnson_3699 Source: Johnson ### Event 16901 (8B67F6C2) Date: 6/27/1975 Description: 3:30 a.m. A 25 meter in diameter metallic disc hovered just 15 meters above a gasoline service station. It illuminated the ground as bright as day. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1976). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pont-a-Mousson, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4516 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16902 (8002DA1F) Date: 6/27/1975 Description: 11:20 p.m. A vertical cylinder hung in the sky at only 10 meters altitude in Bouillancourt-la-Bataille, Somme, France. It had two antennae. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1976). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pont-a-Mousson, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4517 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16903 (ACD92995) Date: 6/28/1975 Description: On this afternoon in Pontevedra, Spain two witnesses watched as a disc-shaped object came in at a low altitude over the sea and landed on the beach. It landed on tripod landing gear and some humanoids exited the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978 Source ID: Johnson_3718 Source: Johnson ### Event 16904 (CE3787DF) Date: 6/29/1975 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a reddish orange ovoid object with a halo of light flew toward the northwest and maneuvered up into the sky. It was watched for 45 minutes over the town of Puilly, Meuse, France. It was completely silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1975 Source ID: Johnson_3735 Source: Johnson ### Event 16905 (BBC31A6B) Date: 6/30/1975 Description: The USAF Aerospace Defense Command becomes the US executive agent in NORAD. Its Continental Air Defense Command, which it had taken over in 1957, is disestablished and transferred to the Aerospace Defense Command. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Aerospace Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace%5FDefense%5FCommand)” Source ID: Eberhart_5180 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16906 (3ABC323F) Date: 7/1975 Description: 2:00 a.m. Margareta Ivanciov is walking from the train station in Teremia Mare, Romania, when she sees a bright yellow-orange globe nearly 2 feet in diameter floating about 90 feet in front of her and 7 feet above the pavement. It speeds up when she approaches it, keeping the same distance. She notices that it is composed of thousands of bright dots emanating the same color light. It disappears around a corner, anticipating her route, and follows her home, where it hovers briefly before moving into a neighbor’s yard. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 41–42 Source ID: Eberhart_5183 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16907 (9D7C8C33) Date: 7/1975 End date: 11/1975 Description: Concentration of sightings Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Northern U.S. and Canada Source ID: HallUFOE2_259 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16908 (9E28B07E) Date: 7/1975 Description: François Breuil begins publishing L’Insolite in Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire, France. It continues until January 1982. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [L’Insolite](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Insolite%20%28Macon%29/Insolite%20no%2001%20-%20Juillet%201975.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Insolite%20%28Macon%29/Insolite%20no%2001%20-%20Juillet%201975.pdf) no. 1 \(July 1975\) Source ID: Eberhart_5182 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16909 (E9E5259D) Date: 7/1975 Description: 9:30 p.m. A family of four is driving home along the Tasman Highway near Hobart Airport, Cambridge, Tasmania. The interior of the car becomes hot, the engine stalls, and they roll to a stop. Although there is no smell in the air, the family feels that they can taste something like gasoline. Then they see an object hovering above the road ahead of them. It seems 650–980 feet distant and 65 feet in the air. It looks round, is colored a metallic grayish-white, and has its own irridescence or glow. The diameter is close to the width of the road, perhaps 16 feet. They stare at the object for 2 minutes. Suddenly, in a spiraling take-off, the object speeds away to the south. The husband is a car mechanic, and he finds nothing wrong with the car. He gets back in, starts the car, and they go home without further incident, although the object still is visible several more minutes as a diminishing light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Reports from Around Australia,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/ACOS%20Bulletin%20new/ACOS%20Bulletin%20-%20Number%2012.pdf)” ACOS Bulletin, no. 12 \(December 1977\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_5184 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16910 (D03BE7A5) Date: 7/1/1975 Description: Hamden, Connecticut - At 9:20 p.m. two witnesses were sitting on their porch when they noticed a bright red oval shoot across the nearby tree tops. The object was moving at a height of 100 feet above the nearby trees, and covered the distance on three city blocks in approximately 15 seconds. During the sighting static interfered with television reception, and the family dog was upset for a few minutes immediately following the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: "From the Center for UFO Studies", FSR, April 1976, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_3779 Source: Johnson ### Event 16911 (6C3ADD0A) Date: 7/1/1975 Description: Day. A Dutch couple on vacation snap a photo of the panoramic landscape of the Pyrenees mountains just after leaving El Pas de la Casa, Andorra. They have the roll developed in Calafell, Catalonia, Spain, and are surprised to see a strange, yellow-and-orange object in motion in the foreground and casting a distinct shadow. Investigators from the Netherlands UFO group NOBOVO determine that the object is really a road sign photographed directly from their slow-moving vehicle \(the speed of the car was estimated to be no more than 22 mph\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wim van Utrecht, “[Spinning UFO Photographed during Take-Off,](https://www.caelestia.be/pdlc.html)” Caelestia Source ID: Eberhart_5185 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16912 (A4B7143E) Date: 7/2/1975 Description: Photos of Saturn-shaped object, very similar to Hamazaki videotape of July 6-7, 1989 (NICAP UFO Evidence II, Section VII). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4518 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16913 (75BAA2BC) Date: 7/2/1975 Description: Photos of Saturn-shaped object, very similar to Hamazaki videotape of July 6-7, 1989 Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Hawaii Source ID: HallUFOE2_260 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16914 (6D60011E) Date: Early 7/1975 Description: 3:00 a.m. Four young people camping out on the shore of the Charvak Reservoir in Uzbekistan wake up in terror for no apparent reason. They see a glowing sphere rise silently from under the water about one-half mile from shore. Concentric circles of varying thickness and brightness form around it. They watch it for 7 minutes, completely terrified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 121–122 Source ID: Eberhart_5181 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16915 (78C0E8CA) Date: 7/4/1975 Description: 12:05 a.m. A college student and friend were on their way home when they observed a huge oval-shaped object approxiamtely 60 to 80 feet in diameter at about 75 feet in altitude. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, September 1975, pages 1-2 (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Parsippany, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4519 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16916 (EE14B709) Date: 7/4/1975 Description: Cessna 150 pilot & large oval object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fairfield, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4520 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16917 (86507947) Date: 7/4/1975 Description: At five minutes after midnight a 70-foot diameter domed disc was seen near Mountain Lakes, New Jersey sweeping the ground with a bright beam of light near highway 46. It then flew off toward the northeast. There was radio interference noted at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, September 1975, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_3822 Source: Johnson ### Event 16918 (0401CF64) Date: 7/4/1975 Description: Nine teenagers were at a campground in Kentucky on this night. Debbie and Nan Kitley, ages 16 and 17, had gone back out to their pickup truck to talk on the CB radio. The lights on the truck and the CB radio went dead when four bright lights descended over them. They both had a memory lapse about what happened next. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case 195, citing 1984 MUFON UFO Proceedings, p. 168 Source ID: Johnson_3823 Source: Johnson ### Event 16919 (0B2532EE) Date: 7/6/1975 Description: At five o'clock in the afternoon in Mount Pleasant, Ontario a shiny metallic domed disc was seen in a tobacco field. A thirty-foot diameter area of plants was flattened, the tobacco plants were wilted and burned, and an oily residue was found. At the same time a daylight disc made a turn and entered the base of a thunderhead cloud, thirty miles north-northwest of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1975; Canadian UFO Report, Summer 1976, p. 1; Center for UFO Studies, on-site investigation, report dated September 13, 1975; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 122 & 264 Source ID: Johnson_3886 Source: Johnson ### Event 16920 (E0B3998B) Date: 7/6/1975 Description: 5:00 p.m. A shiny metallic domed disc was seen in a tobacco field. A thirty-foot diameter area of plants was flattened, the tobacco plants were wilted and burned, and an oily residue was found. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1975; Canadian UFO Report, Summer 1976, p. 1; Center for UFO Studies, on-site investigation, report dated September 13, 1975; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 122 & 264). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Pleasant, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4522 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16921 (DA046D28) Date: 7/6/1975 Description: Daytime. A disc made a turn and entered the base of a thunderhead cloud, thirty miles north-northwest of Wilkes Barre. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1975; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 122 & 264). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wilkes Barre (near), PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4523 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16922 (B7B259D6) Date: 7/6/1975 Description: 5:00 p.m. Joe Borda is doing farm chores at Mount Pleasant, Ontario, when he sees a domed metallic cylinder landed in a tobacco field. Thinking it is probably a tank truck, he continues and goes home. On July 8, he comes across a circular crushed patch of tobacco plants about 30–40 feet in diameter. Inside the circle are two spots of some substance, reddish purple in color, that feels slippery and oily. The provincial police remove some soil samples; they are not radioactive and do not contain oil. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Graham Conway, “[Strange Voice Heard after UFO](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%203%20no%208%20-%201976.pdf) [Landing,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20%28Magor%29/Canadian%20UFO%20Report%20-%20vol%203%20no%208%20-%201976.pdf)” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 8 \(Summer 1976\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_5186 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16923 (3964871B) Date: 7/6/1975 Description: BAC-111 crew encountered daylight disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wilkes-Barre, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4521 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16924 (6B22FDEA) Date: 7/6/1975 Description: A mutilated cow was found dropped over the entrance to NORAD Headquarters located under Cheyenne Mountain, outside of Colorado Springs, Colorado. All reproductive organs were removed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 192 Source ID: Johnson_3885 Source: Johnson ### Event 16925 (AE5DAD96) Date: 7/12/1975 Description: At 12:50 p.m. Richard W. and three friends, Pat S., Nancy T., and Ross K. were having lunch together at a coffee bar in Dunedin, New Zealand. The weather that was cold and damp and all of them were feeling a bit under the weather. They sat around a table located opposite the stairs and quietly ate their lunches. All of a sudden time seemed to stand still. The noisy and busy coffee bar, occupied by 80 people, became absolutely silent, when everything froze in place like a still frame from a motion picture. People were twisted in strange and unstable positions, frozen while performing movements, and their bodies looked comic. Richard remembered witnessing a cloud of steam suspended motionless in a dynamic configuration above the expreso machine. He also remembered seeing a waitress pulling out hot cakes from the oven, and sustaining their heat in her motionless hands. In the entire cafe only the four of them seemed to be unaffected, thus having the occasion to observe what was actually happening. At the top of the stairs leading down to the coffee bar from street level an unusual man appeared. He was about 1.75 meters tall and looked to be about 19 years old. He was dark, slim, thin, with olive skin and black wavy hair. His clothes looked normal, but displayed taste and elegance. Everything about him looked strikingly perfect. The man was surrounded by a beautiful white glow, especially around his head and chest. The light seemed to come not from him, but from the air that surrounded him. He glided down the stairs without moving his legs. He actually floated in the air slightly above the level of the stairs. Then he moved to the counter and stood first in the queue. As soon as he got there, everything started to happen normally again. People continued their actions from the point when they had been suspended in motion. Everything looked as though nothing had happened. The man bought a glass of fruit juice and sat at the last free chair available at a 12-person table. He acknowledged the witnesses attention with a smile. They wanted to talk to him and find out more about his unusual arrival, but there was no easy access to his chair. So they decided to leave the coffee bar and wait for him upstairs at the only way out. After five minutes of waiting and not seeing him pass, Richard went back down to discover that he had gone, yet there was no other exit from the coffee bar. The group was also quite surprised to find that their various ailments, which included the flu and a migraine headache, were gone. About six weeks later they spotted him again. He stood at the top of the stairs at the same coffee shop again, intent on entering the cafe. He moved his head in their direction as a kind of greeting. His clothes were the same, except that this time he was surrounded by a faint green glow. When he appeared nothing actually happened. He walked down as normal people do (his steps somehow lighter than normal humans) unnoticed by anyone but the witnesses. He again bought a glass of fruit juice and again sat in the same place. A few times he acknowledged their attention by a friendly look. This time they decided to interrupt him and find out who he was, so they wanted to stand up and get closer, but none of them could move. When finally they did manage to stand up, they directed themselves out of the coffee bar seemingly against their will. Pat tried desperately to turn back, but her efforts failed. After a short while Pat decided to return back inside the coffee bar, only to find that the mysterious stranger had already gone. They never saw him again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact database, citing Jan Pajak Source ID: Johnson_4009 Source: Johnson ### Event 16926 (6FF25AA6) Date: 7/12/1975 Description: On the same day as the two incidents above, a giant hairy biped was seen sitting in the window of a hog shed in Preble County, Ohio. watching the ten-year-old witness, who had had a previous UFO encounter. The boy ran to get his mother, but when they returned the creature had gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Worley, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 291 Source ID: Johnson_4010 Source: Johnson ### Event 16927 (EAF30120) Date: 7/12/1975 Description: Four witnesses were walking up a footpath on Highdown Hill in Sussex, England when they saw a disc-shaped craft land nearby. A gray figure with a large lemon-shaped head then appeared. When the witnesses tried to approach the figure a shiny red beam of light hit one of them, and the man who had been struck screamed in pain and fell to the ground. He recovered quickly, and then all four of the witnesses fled the scene. Some glowing powder was allegedly found on the ground in the area later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact database, case # 768, citing Norman Oliver, Quest UFO Magazine (UK), Volume 11, # 6 Source ID: Johnson_4008 Source: Johnson ### Event 16928 (C8E798EF) Date: 7/14/1975 Description: Ground Saucer Watch of Phoenix, Arizona, headed by William Spaulding, files a FOIA request with the CIA for copies of all of its UFO documents or investigations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 113](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/112/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5187 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16929 (18E8BD41) Date: 7/14/1975 Description: 12:30 a.m. A college adminstrator and his wife sighted two unknown objects. The objects were highly-illuminated in white light which pulsed intermittently in an irregular pattern. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, October 1975, page 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washburn, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_4524 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16930 (60975CCC) Date: 7/15/1975 End date: 7/16/1975 Description: 8:15 p.m. David Burgess, an official at Khami Prison in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and a friend see from their car an orange object, almost circular with a flat bottom and a rounded top, hovering above the prison about 1–2 miles away. At 8:45 p.m., another official sees an object in the same place. The following night at 7:30 p.m., a bright silvery object is seen hovering motionless 2–3 miles northeast of the prison by a Mr. and Mrs. Rossiter and their three children. It then moves rapidly to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Southern Africa Reports Several UFO Sightings,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1975-10-october-skylook)” Skylook, October 1975, pp. 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_5188 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16931 (F12A3B54) Date: 7/20/1975 Description: An orange-red metallic disc flew past a plane flying near Williams Air Force Base in Arizona. The plane was being flown by a man named Royce. It disappeared at great speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 39; Saga UFO Report, July 1977, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_4251 Source: Johnson ### Event 16932 (77BF3FE0) Date: 7/20/1975 Description: On a cloudy evening at around 10:00 p.m. an enormous disc-shaped object shot huge beams of energy at four witnesses in Bay Village, Ohio. It was estimated to be at an altitude of one thousand feet and made no sound. It also reportedly had legs or landing gear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated August 5, 1975; FSR, April 1976, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_4252 Source: Johnson ### Event 16933 (8F735744) Date: 7/20/1975 Description: An orange-red metallic disc flew past a plane flying near Williams Air Force Base. The plane was being flown by a man named Royce. It disappeared at great speed. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 39; Saga UFO Report, July 1977, p. 37). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williams AFB, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4525 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16934 (2A07BFFC) Date: 7/20/1975 Description: 10:00 p.m. On this cloudy evening an enormous disc-shaped object shot huge beams of energy at four witnesses. It was estimated to be at an altitude of one thousand feet and made no sound. It also reportedly had legs or landing gear. (Sources: Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated August 5, 1975; FSR, April 1976, p. 24). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bay Village, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4526 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16935 (487BDA51) Date: 7/21/1975 Description: A 40-year-old artist named Malichev, living in Solnechnogorsk, Russia not far from Moscow claimed he had communicated telepathically with three UFO occupants. Their leader, a woman, told him he had a stable psychological system, which was why they had contacted him. They arrived in the middle of the afternoon on this day in a disc-shaped craft with three antennae. He was taken on an otherworldly journey, apparently to a planet with three moons. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, The Soviet UFO Chronicle, p. 202 Source ID: Johnson_4278 Source: Johnson ### Event 16936 (0AFCBA78) Date: 7/22/1975 Description: On Wyfla Hill in Machynlleth, Powys, Wales a young man saw a domed disc-shaped object that blended into its surroundings. It was estimated to be 40 feet in diameter with large round lights five feet in diameter around its base. It was near the ground only fifty feet away from him, and he could see inside the UFO that there were what looked like non-humanoid, jelly like entities. The light on top of the object and those inside the base began to glow and pulsate in a strange mixture of colors, that exactly matched the background scenery. The object went into the background like a chaleleon, and in a few moments was no longer visible. The witness suffered from psychosomatic blindness and other personality changes. Gelatinous Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Andrew Collins, FSR, January 1979, p. 14; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 169; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1403, citing Andrew Collins Source ID: Johnson_4303 Source: Johnson ### Event 16937 (107E2FEB) Date: 7/22/1975 Description: 5:00 p.m. A young boy on holiday with his family in Wales wanders by himself to the top of Wylfa Hill, south of Machynlleth, Powys, Wales. At the top he sees an apparently landed object. About 40 feet wide, it is comprised of a 7-foot round base and surmounted by a clear plastic–like, hemispherical dome. Large round lights about 5 feet in diameter are spaced evenly around the base, about 7 of which are visible, shining in strange colors. Each seems to be recessed into the silvery, metallic base. Clearly seen within the dome is a 7-foot-tall, 15-foot-wide, metallic unit, Two “jelly-like” entities are seen next to it, one on each side. They are approximately 7 feet tall, a whitish-translucent color, amorphous, and constantly changing shape. Inside each entity are hundreds of 6-inch, white, disc-like forms, similar to doughnuts. When another of these entities floats toward the object, the boy flees the scene and unsuccessfully tries to persuade his father to take a look. Returning alone, the boy sees the object carrying the entities disappear by pulsing in and out and changing color rapidly to match those of the surrounding sky and grass. It then “merges” into them. Immediately afterward, the boy suffers acute shock and what a doctor diagnoses as hysterical blindness in one eye that persists for months. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Andrew Collins, “[Jelly-like Entities at](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20V%2024%20N%204.pdf) [Machynlleth,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20V%2024%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 4 \(January 1979\): 14–16 Source ID: Eberhart_5189 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16938 (C2073A23) Date: Late 7/1975 Alternate date: Early 8/1975 Description: 9:00 p.m. A married couple and their small son are driving in the country near Pittsburg, Kansas, when the wife notices an object moving quickly toward them. It comes across the highway at about telephone pole height. The object is round and glowing intensely, with even more intense, small panels inset all around it. It is as wide as the highway and remains hovering. The man pulls the car over and the UFO begins to pull away. They continue following it, but the object changes its motion frequently. Finally it picks up speed and blinks out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 21–22 Source ID: Eberhart_5192 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16939 (2D7EEF43) Date: 7/26/1975 Description: 3:00 p.m. Three Dutch hikers are about to take on the last kilometers of a two-day mountain trip in the Swiss Alps when they allegedly encounter a circular object hovering in the air in front of them. It seems to be made of “some sort of metal, not unlike aluminum,” is dull gray in color, and resembles an inverted soup plate. The strange contraption is approximately 50 feet in diameter and appears to be suspended over the small village of Zwischbergen, Valais, Switzerland, some 328–1,640 feet away. One of them succeeds in taking a color slide of the phenomenon. Immediately after the photo is taken, the object starts to move and glides behind the trees, where it disappears from view. Possible hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Saas Fee Photo,” IUR 20, no. 3 \(May/June 1995\): 19; Wim van Utrecht, “[The Zwischbergen ‘Saas Fee’ Photo,](https://www.caelestia.be/article03.html)” Caelestia, July 15, 2000 Source ID: Eberhart_5190 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16940 (F48A1808) Date: 7/28/1975 Description: 6:00 a.m. A radar installation in the mountains had a close encounter with a dark gray football-shaped UFO. The object was described as the size of a Sabre jet (about 12 meters in length) with well defined edges. (Source: UNICAT database, case 588, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Lanib, July 1986). (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sierra Aitana, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4527 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16941 (0AFDC14F) Date: 7/28/1975 Description: At six o'clock in the morning a radar installation in the mountains of Sierra Aitana, Spain had a close encounter with a dark gray football-shaped UFO. The object was described as the size of a Sabre jet (about 12 meters in length) with well defined edges. It was metallic and appeared to have what looked like rivets. It was first seen at a distance of 150 meters, and moved horizontally toward the witnesses. It made a noise like an electric motor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT database, case 588, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Lanib, July 1986 Source ID: Johnson_4458 Source: Johnson ### Event 16942 (D229FF80) Date: 7/29/1975 Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_261 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16943 (A0283CFE) Date: 7/31/1975 Description: Oval object, occupants visible; light struck witness in face, nose bleed and vomiting. Physical traces at site Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Loxton, South Africa Source ID: HallUFOE2_262 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16944 (5B120B43) Date: 7/31/1975 Description: Oval object, occupants visible; light struck witness in face, nose bleed and vomiting. Physical traces at site (NICAP UFO Evidence II, Section XII). (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Loxton, South Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_4528 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16945 (5B1C8F40) Date: 7/31/1975 Description: At 7:30 a.m. in Loxton, Northern Cape, South Aftrica Mr. Van Graan saw an aluminum or silver colored oval-shaped object on the ground. Inside the craft were four beings. They were small, pale, fair haired, with slanted almond eyes and high cheekbones. They wore light coveralls with hoods. A light beam hit him in the face, causing eye trouble and a nose bleed. The UFO took off with a loud whine. Five equidistant leg marks were left in ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFOs--African Encounters, p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1406, citing Rapport; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 490-493; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11336, citing Cynthia Hind Source ID: Johnson_4536 Source: Johnson ### Event 16946 (971F23AE) Date: 7/31/1975 Description: 7:30 a.m. Farmer Danie van Graan goes to inspect his sheep enclosure at Loxton, Northern Cape, South Africa, and sees a silvery disc with prong-like legs. He approaches to within 15 feet of it. Through a large window he can see 4 people, one standing near a panel of flashing colored lights, the other three apparently looking at some device. The entities are about 5 feet tall, thin and pale, and are wearing whitish coveralls with hoods hanging down around their necks. They have fair-colored hair, slanted eyes, and sharp, pointed chins. They all suddenly look up at him, and van Graan hears a “tick” noise as a light beam hits him in the face. Ill and confused, he tries to avoid the beam. His nose bleeds and he starts vomiting. The humming increases to a sharp whine, and the object takes off at a sharp angle. Later investigation reveals 4 marks on the outside perimeter of a circle 30 feet in diameter impressed in the ground, with crisscrossed central markings. A deposit of small, green granules is found near the center; analysis shows this to be carbon dust, grit, shale with feldspar inclusions, and thaumasite. Nothing grows in the affected area later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFO EvII 493–494 Source ID: Eberhart_5191 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16947 (776EC3C0) Date: 8/1975 Description: The Aviation and Air Defense division of the Swiss Army draws up a seven-page report on UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Forscher](http://grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.blogspot.com/2013/07/forscher-findet-verschollene-ufo-akten.html) [findet verschollene UFO-Akten der Schweiz,](http://grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.blogspot.com/2013/07/forscher-findet-verschollene-ufo-akten.html)” Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell, July 8, 2013; “The Swiss X-Files,” Fortean Times 312 \(April 2014\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_5193 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16948 (FA42A6A9) Date: 8/3/1975 Description: Numerous townspeople watched as a multi-colored cigar-shaped object, predominantly orange in color, settled onto a nearby hill in Antofagasta, Chile. It gave off a chemical smell, which burned their noses, and the witnesses "eyes filled with tears." The whole area was lit by a yellow-orange glow while the object was in the area. After several minutes the UFO shot away to the west toward the Pacific Ocean. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 10; FSR, July-August 1976, p. 33 citing La Razon, August 4, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_4633 Source: Johnson ### Event 16949 (E645CC79) Date: 8/4/1975 Description: At four o'clock in the morning a man and a woman driving near Taltal, Antofagasta province, Chile had their van chased by a huge orange ball of light. It was 100 feet from the side of the road when it first started following them, and the driver was dazzled by the reflection of the object's brilliance in his rear view mirror. Both witnesses felt fear as the object pursued them for three minutes. Finally, the UFO rose up swiftly to a pinpoint of light in the sky, and then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1976; FSR, July 1976, p. 33; Carles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_4659 Source: Johnson ### Event 16950 (03E68358) Date: 8/5/1975 Description: At 6:15 a.m. a 5 meter in diameter disc-shaped object was sighted in Brussels, Belgium. It tilted, then "hid" in clouds near the center of the city at low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1977 Source ID: Johnson_4689 Source: Johnson ### Event 16951 (DBAEDC41) Date: 8/6/1975 Description: In Maubege, Nord, France a white sphere with portholes was seen by three independent witnesses at 9:10 p.m. It may have landed, leaving behind possible landing traces on the ground. It flew off to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1975 Source ID: Johnson_4739 Source: Johnson ### Event 16952 (6C185E32) Date: 8/8/1975 Description: At 10:00 p.m. two teenagers in Ostricourt, Nord department, France, both 17, were watching a luminous object circle in the sky, when it came down in a field a quarter of a mile away from them. Together with a third younger witness they went off to the landing site, located among some old mineshafts and slag piles. They found the object hovering motionless about five meters above the ground, in front of a stand of trees, some 300 meters to their left. It looked like a plate turned upside down with a dome on top, with alternating red and orange lights blinking around the rim. The dome was red and the underneath portion was yellow, and it made no sound. They next saw two humanoid figures standing 30 meters directly in front of them. The beings were about 1.50 metes tall, and they were moving slowly and stiffly in the direction of the young people. They held their arms as if they were "glued to their bodies, and their legs were motionless as they glided smoothly along just above the rough terrain. Although they were brightly illuminated by a white light, they had no discernable features. After about a minute the young people, who had been petrified with fear, "found their legs" and beat a hasty retreat home. They told their parents what they had seen, but no one believed them. Next day the young people went back to the site. Although they could not find any footprints or other ground marks in the area covered by the beings, they did find the ground blackened and grass charred at the point over which the object had hovered. Two months later, when the investigators examined the site, the blackened area was still visible. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne, Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1980; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-39 (A1852), citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne Source ID: Johnson_4778 Source: Johnson ### Event 16953 (FCED114A) Date: 8/10/1975 Description: In Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California four witnesses, including a 19-year-old woman, saw a 40 foot long, hazy blue metallic ovoid with tripod landing gear hovering in the clear night sky shortly after 11:00 p.m. It made a humming sound. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Cerny, Skylook, September 1975, p. 6; FSR, April 1976, p. 24; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 373; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_4824 Source: Johnson ### Event 16954 (2BEBFA3E) Date: 8/11/1975 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a luminous red ball followed four witnesses in a car east to Egreville on Highway D30 in La Brosse, Seine-Marne, France. The frightened observers filed a police report. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean-Claude Bourret, La Nouveau Defi des OVNI, p. 158 Source ID: Johnson_4881 Source: Johnson ### Event 16955 (CE292342) Date: 8/11/1975 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_263 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16956 (FDFEC416) Date: 8/12/1975 Description: At 9:30 p.m. J. P. Brassen watched an oval-shaped craft rise from the sea and land on the beach in Sanary, Var department, France. An oval door opened, and luminous orange beams of light shot out while at the same time he heard a loud hissing sound. Two short humanoids are seen moving around the craft on the ground. The humanoids reportedly had three legs, were very thin and were covered with what appeared to be a shell-like material. They moved around in small jumps and were only 70 cm in height. The witness fled the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 195 (April 1980), Denys Breysse, Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_4953 Source: Johnson ### Event 16957 (99B580EB) Date: 8/13/1975 Description: Sgt. Charles L. Moody abduction case Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Alamogordo, NM Source ID: HallUFOE2_264 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16958 (3297B91D) Date: 8/13/1975 Description: 1:15 a.m. Sgt. Charles L. Moody, stationed at Holloman AFB, is out in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, awaiting a meteor shower. He sees a metallic disc drop from the sky some 300 feet in front of him. It is about 50 feet long, 20 feet wide, and faintly luminous. It stops descending at 20 feet altitude and begins approaching Moody. Uneasy, he gets in his car and turns the ignition on, but the engine is dead. Moody can see an oblong window in the UFO and shadow figures moving within. He hears a high-pitched sound like a dental drill for a short time, then he feels numb. The next thing he knows, the UFO is ascending and disappears from sight within seconds. The car starts and he drives home, where he notices the time is 3:00 a.m., representing about 90 minutes he can’t account for. Moody gets a pain in his lower back in the afternoon. Soon he is put in touch with APRO’s [Jim Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html)[,](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) who calls him on August 21. Moody now has a heat rash on his lower body. His memories about the incident eventually return, and the Lorenzens visit him in 1976 at an overseas post where he narrates an abduction scenario with shortish, human-like aliens with big heads and wearing coveralls. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: L. J. Lorenzen, “[The Moody Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201976%2006%2000%20-%20Vol%2024%20No%2012.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 12 \(June 1976\): 6; L. J. Lorenzen, “[The Moody Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201976%2007%2000%20-%20Vol%2025%20No%201.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 25, no. 1 \(July 1976\): 2, 5–6; Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, [pp. 38–51](https://archive.org/details/abductedconfront0000lore/page/38/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 323–325](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/322/mode/2up); Story, [pp. 233–234](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/232/mode/2up); Clark III 770–771 Source ID: Eberhart_5194 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16959 (D3E6AEFF) Date: 8/13/1975 Description: Staff Sgt. Charles L. Moody, USAF, drove out to the outskirts of town late one night to watch for meteors. As a disc-shaped UFO descended toward him, he tried to start his car to get away but it wouldn’t start. He heard a high pitched whining sound from the UFO and saw shadowy figures in it and felt numbness, after which the UFO departed. After driving home he found he couldn’t account for 1.5 hours. The next day his back was inflamed and he discovered a small puncture wound over his spine and a few days later he developed a body rash. As months passed he regained memory of the missing 1.5 hours. He remembered that he had been in the UFO and in telepathic communication with small 4'8" humanoids. They had whitish gray skin, large heads, large eyes, small slit-like mouths and mask-like features. He had been in a drug-like state on a table and they had poked a rod like device into his back. After this they escorted him about the ship and later dropped him off at his car. Type: ce4 event Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p282) Location: Alamogordo, NM See also: 3/4/1969 Source ID: Maj2_681 Source: Maj2 ### Event 16960 (D92CA774) Date: 8/13/1975 Description: 1:20 a.m. Mr. Moody, age 32, was driving through the desert when he encountered a metallic, disc-shaped UFO. He then experienced a lapse of time or memory loss of an hour and a half. He later was able to recall an abduction by two Grey aliens about 4 feet 8 inches tall. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen & Jim Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, p. 38; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 267). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_4529 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16961 (A0703CC4) Date: 8/13/1975 Description: Sgt. Charles L. Moody, age 32, was driving through the desert near Alamagordo, New Mexico at 1:20 a.m. when he encountered a metallic, disc-shaped UFO. He remembers a high-pitched sound coming from the object and that his car wouldn't start. He then experienced a lapse of time or memory loss of an hour and a half. He later was able to recall an abduction by two Grey aliens about 4 feet 8 inches tall, with large eyes and heads, slit mouths, and wearing tight-fitting coveralls. The abduction experience involved a medical exam on a table, telepathy, and a message. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen & Jim Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, p. 38; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 267 Source ID: Johnson_4977 Source: Johnson ### Event 16962 (740A12F2) Date: 8/13/1975 Description: Near Haderslev, Denmark: Police Officer Evald Hansen Maarup was driving home at 10:50 p.m. when all of a sudden his car was engulfed by a bright blue light while at the same time his car lost all power. The temperature in his car rose to that of a warm summer day and his radio was dead so he couldn’t call for help. The bright beam from the UFO was conical in shape with a bottom diam. of 4–5 meters and a top diam. at the UFO of 10 meters. Two dome-like protrusions were visible on the underside of the UFO that was hovering at about 20 meters altitude. He activated a special camera on the patrol car which automatically took 3 pictures of the UFO. As the UFO sped away he regained power to his car. The developed film which was later turned over to the Danish AF showed the light source of the UFO on it. No report or analysis has been available from the AF to date. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p281) Location: Haderslev, Denmark See also: 3/4/1969 Source ID: Maj2_680 Source: Maj2 ### Event 16963 (26B9B49E) Date: 8/14/1975 Description: 9:35 p.m. Maj. Claude Riddle is flying a helicopter at 900 feet while approaching Stockton \(California\) Metropolitan Airport. Suddenly, air traffic controller Joe Savage sees flashing lights closing in on him in a collision course. When he advises Riddle to take evasive action, the object turns orange and shoots up to 5,000 feet, where it hovers. Riddle looks behind him and sees another light trailing him a mile or so away. When he swings around, he sees it shimmering like a diamond and as big as a jetliner. Two blue beams come out from the sides. Dan Long, another controller sees the object through field glasses at an altitude of about 2,000 feet, then it moves upward while emitting a glow of green-tinted smoke and flashing red lights. Gary Duran and two friends also see the object while walking near the airport. After 5 minutes of hovering near the airport, the object turns bright red and shoots off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[California Pilot Encounters UFO,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1976-2-february-skylook)” Skylook, no. 99, February 1976, p. 16 Source ID: Eberhart_5195 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16964 (CF5FF257) Date: 8/14/1975 Description: ANG helo pilot & ATC's reported disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stockton, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4530 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16965 (C4332CFF) Date: 8/14/1975 Description: Pilots and air traffic controllers at airport observed red-orange disc, gray mist formed, object shot out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Stockton, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_265 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16966 (BAE7780A) Date: 8/14/1975 Description: An Air National Guard helicopter pilot flying in the air at 9:35 p.m. and in communication with several air traffic controllers at Stockton Memorial Airport, San Joaquin County, California were all witnesses to a disc-shaped object emitting a bright orange light, which hovered and performed aerobatics, and later became dark red when the object climbed away at a high speed. The sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Cerny, Skylook, February 1976, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 19, 122 Source ID: Johnson_5011 Source: Johnson ### Event 16967 (53E058F0) Date: 8/15/1975 Description: During a rainstorm at 12:10 a.m. a domed disc with a ring of lights was seen at close range in Blackburn, Lancashireshire, England. It moved slowly and silently. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, Northern Network News, July 1975, p. 10; Awareness, January 1976, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_5047 Source: Johnson ### Event 16968 (CD9E7C12) Date: 8/15/1975 Description: 9:32 p.m. UFO with white and red beams. (NIDS UFO 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vaughn, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4531 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16969 (2642DB8D) Date: 8/16/1975 Description: At 4:30 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Paquet were walking on the outskirts of their village of Forrieres, Luxembourg Province, Belgium on their way to work when they noticed ahead of them on the road a dark 1.20 meter tall human-like figure with a well-proportioned body. It suddenly vanished in plain sight when the man, thinking it might be his son, attempted to approach it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, Case # A1623; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 152 (December 1975) Source ID: Johnson_5096 Source: Johnson ### Event 16970 (13D76556) Date: 8/16/1975 Description: At 3:30 a.m. between Rochdale and Ramsbottom in Greater Manchester, England a nocturnal light followed a flying triangular shaped object to the east. The objects hovered, then flew off to the south. There were at least seven witnesses, including police. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Awareness, January 1976, p. 23; UNICAT, case # 93 Source ID: Johnson_5095 Source: Johnson ### Event 16971 (EA5BB4FB) Date: 8/18/1975 Description: At 6:50 a.m. in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin a silver domed-disc with a transparent cupola on top, hovered 10 feet over a farm, making a buzzing noise. The silhouette of an occupant was seen inside the transparent dome. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1410, citing Wisconsin Rapids Daily Telegram, August 19, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_5132 Source: Johnson ### Event 16972 (39FC94A5) Date: 8/18/1975 Description: Two men, Bernard Gregory, age 19, and Patrick Labonne, age 22, were camping in a clearing in Villeneuve Loubet, Alpes Maritimes Department, France. At around 2:30 a.m. Bernard suddenly felt uneasy, and saw four luminous "forms". He called Patrick, who also saw them. Both men felt they were being observed. Afraid, they woke the rest of their friends. Suddenly all six of them saw a huge light and then a red cloud that ascended into the sky and transformed into a black, compact cigar-shaped object. The being-like forms were described as about 1.75 m in height, each with two eyes in the upper part. The forms were white in color, and they moved very slowly, like on rollers. As the witnesses walked away they looked back, and saw two of the forms in a tree. At this point the witnesses attempted to approach the beings, but were prevented by an "invisible" barrier. After the gray compact cigar-shaped object left, the grass at the site was found to be desiccated, and matted down in a spiral fashion. A white, oval-shaped stain resembling chalk was also found, but disappeared with the morning daylight. During the incident the witnesses noticed there was an unusual silence in the area, but dogs were heard barking in the distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1624; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7 (1978), p. 44; Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Eric Zurcher, "Les apparitions d'humanoides", Gesag 71, ADEPS Bulletin, issue 13 Source ID: Johnson_5131 Source: Johnson ### Event 16973 (222B2B39) Date: 8/20/1975 Description: Evening. Police stations in the area of Albany, New York, receive numerous calls about UFO sightings. State Trooper Michael Morgan is dispatched to the scene of one of the sightings, where a police detective is observing a blimp-sized object hovering at 500 feet over Lake Saratoga. As the reddish, glowing UFO flashes on and off, two smaller objects approach and merge with it. Air traffic controllers at Albany Airport locate the object on a radar scanner. After a few minutes, the two smaller objects break away and leave in the direction from which they had come. The first object moves toward the two policemen who see a brilliant white light shining from the center of its base as it passes over them. Silently, the craft turns and moves away slowly. Suddenly, the UFO disappears. After tracking the target for 45 minutes, the radar operators lose contact with it. However, within a short time, they receive a call from the pilot of a military airplane who warns them that he has just seen a red fireball 1,000 feet above him headed toward the airport. The controllers locate the object just as it enters the 50- mile range of one of their radarscopes. The anti-clutter device is thrown to ascertain whether or not the blip is a radar angel, but the image still comes through clearly. The controllers estimate its speed to be 3,000 mph. About five miles outside Albany, the target vanishes. The controllers speculate that it has either accelerated to a speed of 5,000 mph or has executed a seemingly impossible vertical maneuver at high speed. During the same time as the Albany sightings, large discs and bright lights are seen at low altitude less than 50 miles north over the South Glens Falls area and as far north as Lake George. The case is investigated by [Ernest Jahn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137696266/ernest-thomas-jahn), who contacts the Smithsonian Institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They are unable to give any explanation for the sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [pp. 10–11](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/9/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5196 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16974 (C84168EA) Date: 8/22/1975 Description: At 11:30 p.m. two young men were making a bulk newspaper delivery between Boulogne and Lille by motorbike when they were followed briefly by an unknown "vehicle" in the vicinity of St. Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France. A short distance further they saw a light in a field a few hundred meters from the road. They stopped to look, and they could see an ovoid object on the ground, lit from within by a yellowish white light. It was approximately 3-4 meters long, and to its right were two human forms about two meters tall that stood side by side. The figures were completely illuminated by the light from the object, so none of their features could be made out. The figures began walking very quickly toward the young men. Frightened, they took off on the motorbike and continued their journey. Several kilometers further on they saw the object ascend into the sky at an angle. Perhaps because of their astonishment and fear, they were unable to locate the exact site of their experience when they went back with investigators later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-40, citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne Source ID: Johnson_5230 Source: Johnson ### Event 16975 (49617CE6) Date: 8/22/1975 Description: At 11:45 p.m., while driving between Castronuno and Pollos in Valladolid province, Spain three men spotted a white transparent light that hovered over the road ahead of them. The car's engine died, but the headlights continued to work. When the ball of light, which was four meters in diameter, finally moved slowly off the road to the left, the engine could be restarted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, April 1977, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_5231 Source: Johnson ### Event 16976 (A95C5117) Date: 8/22/1975 Description: 11:30 p.m. Two young men were making a bulk newspaper delivery between Boulogne and Lille by motorbike when they were followed briefly by an unknown "vehicle" in the vicinity of St. Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France. A short distance further they saw a light in a field a few hundred meters from the road. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-40, citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4532 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16977 (BE19DFA7) Date: 8/24/1975 Description: At 5:00 a.m. in Blaine, Minnesota a 100 foot in diameter gray domed disc-shaped craft was sighted, at an estimated distance of 5 miles. It flew to the south slowly, at an estimated altitude of 760 meters, making no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Flying Saucer Review, April 1976, p. 25; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_5296 Source: Johnson ### Event 16978 (E211C1C7) Date: 8/26/1975 Description: 3:15 a.m. Terry O’Leary, his girlfriend Jackie Larson, and Jackie’s mother Sandy Larson leave Fargo, North Dakota for Bismarck, which they plan to reach around 7:00 a.m. Forty-five miles into their trip on Interstate 94, they see a brilliant flash of light and sounds like thunder. About 50 yards away on their left, they watch 8–10 orange, glowing objects heading south to east. One is distinctly larger than the others. The lights descend in a straight line at a 30° angle until they stop over a grove of trees. Suddenly one of the objects splits in half and others shoot away. At this point, the witnesses feel peculiar sensations of being unable to move. Jackie finds herself sitting in the back seat \(she had been in the front seat with the others\) and the lights are gone. The witnesses drive on to Tower City, North Dakota, where Sandy notes the time is 5:23 a.m., an hour later than it should have been. Through a mutual friend, Sandy eventually contacts ufologist [Jerome Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark), who puts her in touch with psychologist [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html), who has used hypnotic regression in abduction cases. Sprinkle conducts three hypnotic sessions with Sandy and Jackie Larson on December 4–6. Sandy remembers a 6-foot-tall entity that looks like a mummy, various medical procedures, and a journey to a place with sand. She has further regressions with Sprinkle in January and February 1976, and she describes an otherworldly journey with three beings on a UFO. Clark writes: “What makes the Larson story interesting, in retrospect, however, is its anticipation of many abduction motifs which, though barely noted or entirely unknown in 1975, had become repeatedly demonstrated aspects of the experience by the late 1980s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 675–678; Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, [pp. 52–69](https://archive.org/details/abductedconfront0000lore/page/52/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5197 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16979 (34646480) Date: 8/26/1975 Description: 4:00 a.m. Near the Grand Forks AFB ICMB Complex. Sandra Larson, age 32, and her daughter Jackie, age 15, were being driven from Fargo to Bismarck, North Dakota by Jackie's boyfriend when they heard a loud rumbling, thunder-like noise and saw eight glowing orange spheres descend from the sky. The objects stopped in mid-air, and three of the objects shot back upwards. This being had a luminosity around its head and shoulders, and it had long metallic-appearing arms. Its body was like "brown vinyl." (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-28, citing Jerome Clark and Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Buffalo, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_4533 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16980 (755FF7D8) Date: 8/26/1975 Description: At 2:20 a.m. two witnesses in a truck on a highway in Sidi Embarek, Algeria watched a two-meter wide disc-shaped object illuminate the area for miles around. It flew at only 25 meters altitude at a speed of 200 kph, and made sudden stops. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11389, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 316 Source ID: Johnson_5371 Source: Johnson ### Event 16981 (65DA9F44) Date: 8/26/1975 Description: near Buffalo, North Dakota - Sandra Larson, age 32, and her daughter Jackie, age 15, were being driven from Fargo to Bismarck, North Dakota by Jackie's boyfriend when they heard a loud rumbling, thunder-like noise around 4:00 a.m. and saw eight glowing orange spheres descend from the sky. The objects stopped in mid-air, and three of the objects shot back upwards. Sandy had a peculiar feeling as though the car was motionless, and at the same time Jackie suddenly found herself in the back seat with no memory of how she got there. When they got to a gas station they discovered that an hour of time was unaccounted for. Later, under hypnosis, Sandra recalled having been "floated" from the car into a UFO, where a six-foot tall being (1.8 m) with a mummy-like head bandaged up in tape, with the eyes remaining visible, had performed some sort of surgical operation on her on a medical table. She had the sensation that even her brain had been briefly removed. This being had a luminosity around its head and shoulders, and it had long metallic-appearing, mechanical arms. Its body was like "brown vinyl." No communication with the being was recalled. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerome Clark, Saga UFO Report, August 1976, p. 21; Skylook, March 1976, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-28, citing Jerome Clark and Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle Source ID: Johnson_5372 Source: Johnson ### Event 16982 (A7547FDA) Date: 8/28/1975 Description: In a scrub pine forest near Truro, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, Lloyd Costa saw two people near a round dome like "tent" in the early evening. The dome was 20 feet in diameter and only 35 feet away. A fluorescent blue light came from inside it. He walked away, but then heard a humming noise and looked back to see that the "tent" was encircled by multicolored rings. It began to rise and fall, and luminous portholes were now visible on the craft. A car stopped and Mr. Elfe, a friend, came through the woods calling for him. He also saw the UFO. The people near the object were described as resembling small "puppets," and were surrounded by something gauzy. There was an almond smell in the air that made Mr. Costa sick. His friend helped him back to his car. The next day he returned to the spot and found a circle of approximately 20 6-inch holes. There were also some pieces of a white woven material, "like spider web, but very strong." The witness recovered some and took it home. He also took home some of the trampled pine needles, which still had the almond-like scent. When he put these in a cardboard box next to some potted plants, the plants died three days later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-29, citing Budd Hopkins & Gerard Stoehrer Source ID: Johnson_5429 Source: Johnson ### Event 16983 (D7345A04) Date: 8/29/1975 Description: Gray, disc-shaped UFO, bright illumination, darted above car, hovered, cast pulsating light beam down on it. Physiological effects (NICAP UFO Evidence II, Section VI). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Muret, Haute-Garonne, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4534 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16984 (1CA86031) Date: 8/29/1975 Description: At 10:45 p.m. Mr. R. Cyrus, a 48-year-old man driving on a clear night between Noe and Longages, France saw a three-meter diameter dark disc in a field that jumped at his car, then shot straight up. The driver lost consciousness for two minutes and suffered other physiological effects after the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 75; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 19, 203, 269; Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1976 Source ID: Johnson_5468 Source: Johnson ### Event 16985 (B9D38DA5) Date: 8/29/1975 Description: Gray, disc-shaped UFO, bright illumination, darted above car, hovered, cast pulsating light beam down on it. Physiological effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Muret, Haute-Garonne, France Source ID: HallUFOE2_266 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 16986 (4AE8E272) Date: 9/1975? Description: 10:30 p.m. Lt. Rafael Muñoz Pastor is returning to Jerez air base \[now Jerez Airport\], Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain, piloting a Grumman AN-1 antisubmarine aircraft with four other crew members. He is flying at 3,500 feet and is already on the landing approach to Jerez, when he receives a call from the Seville air traffic center asking him if he can see any aircraft over Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, where they have a radar target. The crew is seeing a “round light, brilliant red in color and with yellowish edges” in the area, so they are ordered to get closer. When they are 4–5 miles from Sanlúcar, the red ball ascends vertically from 1,000 feet to some 10,000–20,000 feet. Numerous residents of Sanlúcar also see the object from cafes. An F-5A fighter is scrambled from Morón Air Base in Seville province, which also spotted the object, and the Grumman returns to Jerez after viewing the light for an estimated 45 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Spanish Military UFO Encounter,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 7–9 Source ID: Eberhart_5198 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16987 (54879864) Date: 9/2/1975 Description: 12:30 a.m. A silent, dark disc-shaped object was seen pulsating on the roadside of a highway. It then hovered at treetop level, and shot straight up very quickly. (Source: FSR, April 1976, p. 25, citing CUFOS). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chesterland, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4535 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16988 (E64032FD) Date: 9/2/1975 Description: A silent, dark disc-shaped object was seen at 12:30 a.m. pulsating on the roadside of a highway in Chesterland, Ohio. It then hovered at treetop level, and shot straight up very quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, April 1976, p. 25, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_5576 Source: Johnson ### Event 16989 (A3153BF5) Date: 9/3/1975 Description: Night. When Miss Melinda Chow got off her homebound bus she saw an orange disc glowing above some nearby treetops & descending. She came out in a clearing to see the UFO resting on stilts 200 ft away. Near it was walking a humanoid being about 5 ft tall, with long narrow legs, very short arms, & "a face that occupied about half the height of his body." His skin was gray & leathery, and he walked "in a bouncing, hopping motion." (Humcat 1975-31 Source: Richard Hall Type: C) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manassas, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4536 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16990 (76D0C57B) Date: 9/3/1975 Description: 8:00 p.m. Three witnesses in Tujunga, California, see two helicopters following a UFO. The top of the object is a vibrant blue green, the middle portion white, and the bottom part red. It appears to change to a saucer shape and zigzags around the sky. Shortly before 11:00 p.m., the witnesses see the lights go on at a nearby Nike missile base in the mountains. Afterward, the witnesses’ eyes turn red and painful. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ann Druffel, “[California](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1976-2-february-skylook) [Report: The Mystery Helicopters,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1976-2-february-skylook)” Skylook, no. 99, February 1976, pp. 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_5199 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16991 (41D82BDE) Date: 9/7/1975 Description: A black heifer calf was found mutilated in Kiowa, Colorado. The incisions appeared to be of a surgical nature, and the rectum had been removed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, p. 50, case 21 Source ID: Johnson_5731 Source: Johnson ### Event 16992 (1649DEA3) Date: 9/9/1975 Description: Shortly before 9 p.m. a Ms. DelGouffe sighted a grayish ovoid or elliptical object emitting two white light beams in Jette, East Flanders, Belgium. It flew between the witness and the belltower of a church. Its computed size was 2 meters. It flew from the northwest to the southeast. If left no trail, nor did it have a halo. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Thiry, SOBEPS News, May 1976, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_5799 Source: Johnson ### Event 16993 (A2A9A708) Date: 9/10/1975 Description: On this evening two children in Moulin Sous Fleron, Liege, Belgium were frightened by a being dressed entirely in black that moved like an ape and jumped from the bushes in front of them. They ran to a neighbor's house. Twenty minutes later the same being was seen again by another witness, who reported that the being had thrown rocks at him. No UFO was reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Awareness, April 1975, p. 12; newspaper clipping in CUFOS files; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1625; Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact Database, case # 1761, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_5830 Source: Johnson ### Event 16994 (FD0BC4EE) Date: 9/11/1975 Description: Sen. [Floyd K. Haskell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%5FHaskell) \(D-Colo.\) contacts the FBI and relates his concern about dead and mutilated cattle found in Colorado and other western states. The mutilations involve loss of ears, eyes, and genitalia, with most of the blood drained from the carcasses. Haskell estimates there have been 130 mutilations in 9 states during the past two years. He has also heard that US Army helicopters have been seen near the sites of some of the mutilations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Federal Bureau of Investigation, “[Animal Mutilation Part 1 of 5,](https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%201%20of%205/view)” FBI Records: The Vault, pp. 12–18 Source ID: Eberhart_5200 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16995 (B07EE665) Date: 9/11/1975 Description: Bernie, a young Milwaukee truck driver, was driving his truck near Rockford, Illinois around 1:00 a.m. when he had an "out of body experience" (OOBE) and the next thing he knew he found himself in a UFO. He conversed with a human-like entity, whom he identified as "Bob C", telepathically for nearly two hours. During this exchange he was given a number of apocalyptic prophecies, and was then handed a cube-like device (or crystal) with instructions that if anyone should demand it, he should surrender it immediately. He then found himself back in his truck. When he arrived at his destination and parked his truck, he got into his car to drive home and found his passage blocked by a UFO. Several "Men in Black" (MIB) types confronted him and asked for the device. He turned it over to the men. Following his experience, he claimed to have a number of additional telepathic communications with "Bob C." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-41, citing Lee Jewell for NICAP, Don Mueller, Jerome Clark and Richard Heiden Source ID: Johnson_5863 Source: Johnson ### Event 16996 (DCCBAEE2) Date: 9/14/1975 Description: 2:30 a.m. Round 30' UFO with two vivid green lights (NIDS) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Geyser, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4537 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 16997 (B0CC892A) Date: 9/14/1975 Description: Calling themselves The Two \(or Bo and Peep\), [Marshall Applewhite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%5FApplewhite) and [Bonnie Nettles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43147136/bonnie-lou-nettles) hold a meeting in a hotel in Waldport, Oregon. When 20 of the 300 audience members disappear after the meeting, the Oregon State Police launch an investigation. Other audience members think the topic is vague but involves something about leaving in a UFO from a camp somewhere in Colorado. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 565 Source ID: Eberhart_5201 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 16998 (891013D0) Date: 9/15/1975 Description: In August 1975 about 20 people in and around Gilroy, California saw unexplained red and white lights in the sky on successive nights. On August 10, a lighted object followed and badly frightened 12-year-old Imelda Victor and another woman as they were driving to the girl's house. The girl's mother also saw the object, which had "four large landing gear like arms coming out of it." On this night Mrs. Victor (a doctor by profession), woke up to find two beings in silvery suits standing near her in her bedroom. They had small slits for eyes, the nose and the mouth. She felt very calm. They asked her telepathically to go with them, and she found herself floating up into a hovering UFO. As she floated up she clearly saw the roof of the house and the stars. Inside, she had a sensation of intense beauty, with emerald colored floors. The walls were silvery, smooth, and with large round instruments. She was then blinded by a white light, and the next thing she remembers she woke up in bed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact Database, citing David Pratt, Visitors from the Twilight Zone; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 92 Source ID: Johnson_5992 Source: Johnson ### Event 16999 (493C938D) Date: 9/17/1975 Description: At 8:20 p.m. two women in their fifties were driving on a highway in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts when they briefly glimpsed a large humanoid creature. They noticed that as they were traveling they were the only vehicle in the road, and there was total silence in the area. Suddenly, a very tall gray figure with bits of white hair appeared in front of the car. It had luminous oblong shaped eyes and what appeared to be white whiskers. The humanoid figure seemed to be in total "control" and had a "majestic" air to him. It also had a long tail that narrowed towards the end. The driver swerved to avoid hitting the creature, and temporarily ran off the road, so they did not see the humanoid depart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS case files, report dated May 6, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_6045 Source: Johnson ### Event 17000 (DE159A60) Date: 9/19/1975 Description: In Les Mureaux, France at 10:30 p.m. a 22-meter long reddish-orange cigar-shaped object zig-zagged up the Seine River at only 5 meters altitude. The size and distance of the object was calculated by triangulation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1977 Source ID: Johnson_6095 Source: Johnson ### Event 17001 (E665C017) Date: 9/20/1975 Description: At 12:40 a.m. a glowing orb of light hovered near two TV towers in St.-Josse-Ten-Noode, Belgium for three minutes, then moved away against the wind. A perfectly ovoid-shaped cloud lit from inside hovered over the airport in Zaventem, Belgium for over an hour, beginning at 5:30 p.m. It was viewed through binoculars by several witnesses. At 7:50 p.m. a bright star-like object zigzagged over La Hulpe, Belgium then flew off straight toward the south-southwest. At 9:30 p.m. three nocturnal lights in a triangle formation changed into a row formation, then chased each other over Etterbeek, Belgium. They later regrouped. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Inforespace, May 1977 Source ID: Johnson_6141 Source: Johnson ### Event 17002 (D10413AF) Date: Fall 1975 Description: Evening. Two soldiers of a Chinese People’s Liberation Army unit stationed in Jianshui County, Yunnan, China, encounter a huge saucer-shaped object circling above their heads and emitting beams of soft orange-colored light. One of the men runs into the camp to sound an alarm, while the other stays to watch it. A few minutes later, the camp commandant and about a dozen armed men run up to the barracks entrance and find no trace of the soldier who had stayed behind. The commandant orders all officers and enlisted men to search, but they do not find him. A few hours later, four soldiers taking over sentry duty suddenly hear the sound of someone moaning behind them. They see the missing man, who has reappeared. His eyebrows, beard, and hair have grown extremely long. When he fully regains consciousness, his memory is completely gone. His wristwatch shows that it had stopped long ago. His weapons and watch are found to be slightly magnetized. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dong, “[Extracts from Paul Dong’s](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf) [Feidie Bai Wen Bai Da](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf) [\(Questions and Answers on UFOs\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 \(August 1984\): 17; Clark III 653 Source ID: Eberhart_5204 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17003 (313C2824) Date: Fall 1975 Description: 4:00 a.m. A couple driving east toward Toppenish, Washington, see a bright white light that appears overhead and slightly ahead of them. At first they think it might be a helicopter with a searchlight, but then an area about one mile in diameter lights up around their car, their radio becomes noisy, and their headlights dim. The flood-lit area suddenly goes out and the light speeds up in the sky and disappears. When they reach Ahtanum, Washington, about 25 miles from the first incident, the bright light again appears overhead briefly, then streaks away and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: W. J. Vogel, “The Yakimas and ‘Earthlights,’” IUR 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1984\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5205 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17004 (BC0DE78F) Date: 9/23/1975 Description: 10:30 p.m. An elongated fuselage-shaped object 15 meters long with several big, lighted portholes appeared. It moved rapidly and vanished instantaneously when chased by a French Air Force Mirage III jet. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 39). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cambrai, Nord, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4538 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17005 (E0CDEDB4) Date: 9/23/1975 Description: An elongated fuselage-shaped object 15 meters long with several big, lighted portholes appeared over Cambrai, Nord, France at 10:30 p.m. It moved rapidly and vanished instantaneously when chased by a French Air Force Mirage III jet. It made four appearances. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_6263 Source: Johnson ### Event 17006 (271CCA82) Date: Fall 1975 Description: A married couple and the husband’s business partner purchase an abandoned ranch property in a remote rural area of western Colorado, hoping to turn it into a working cattle ranch. Not long after moving in, numerous weird events start taking place that last for a two-year period: whirring noises, UFOs, strange footprints in the snow, hairy bigfoot-like creatures, and UFO occupants. The witnesses eventually move back to Denver, where they are interviewed by geologist John S. Derr and psychologist [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html), as well as R. Martin Wolf, Steven Mayne, and [Jerome Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “[Multiple Phenomena on Colorado Ranch,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201978%2007%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%201.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 1 \(July 1978\): 5–8; John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “[Multiple Phenomena on Colorado Ranch,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201978%2008%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%202.pdf) [Part 2,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201978%2008%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%202.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 2 \(August 1978\): 7–8; John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “[Multiple Phenomena on](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201978%2009%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%203.pdf) [Colorado Ranch, Part 3,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201978%2009%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%203.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 3 \(September 1978\): 6–8; John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “[Multiple Phenomena on Colorado Ranch, Part 4,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201978%2010%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%204.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 4 \(October 1978\): 5–8; John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “[Multiple Phenomena on a Rocky Mountain Ranch, Part 5,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201978%2011%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%205.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 5 \(November 1978\): 5–8; John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “[Multiple Phenomena on a Rocky Mountain Ranch,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201978%2012%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%206.pdf) [Part 6,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201978%2012%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%206.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 6 \(December 1978\): 7–8; John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “[Multiple Phenomena](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201979%2001%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%207.pdf) [on a Rocky Mountain Ranch, Conclusion,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201979%2001%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%207.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 7 \(January 1979\): 5–8; Clark III 558–559 Source ID: Eberhart_5203 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17007 (B331031E) Date: 9/25/1975 Description: A member of the U.S. Air Force, at home on leave in Mountlake Terrace, Washington was awakened by barking dogs at 5:50 a.m. He saw a bright red sphere about a foot in diameter hovering 12 inches off the ground in front of his parked car. Beside it stood a man about 6' 5" tall. The witness next heard a high-pitched, beeping sound that made him feel as if he were going to faint. He awakened his wife and the beeping sound immediately stopped. When they looked again the sphere and the figure were both gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1975-33, citing Robert Gribble, NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_6324 Source: Johnson ### Event 17008 (2A2BE43D) Date: 9/26/1975 Description: In Asservent, near Maubeuge, France a very large disc-shaped object was watched by some 12 witnesses at 9:30 p.m. This disc was only 20 meters from the ground. A cone-shaped object detached from it and rose vertically. Eight photographs were taken. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Skylook, May 1976, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_6355 Source: Johnson ### Event 17009 (7FFFE241) Date: 9/26/1975 Description: 9:30 p.m. A very large disc-shaped object was watched by some 12 witnesses. This disc was only 20 meters from the ground. A cone-shaped object detached from it and rose vertically. Eight photographs were taken. (Source: Richard Hall, Skylook, May 1976, p. 9). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Asservent, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4539 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17010 (3E88897B) Date: 9/27/1975 Description: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics hosts a symposium, “Hypotheses Concerning the Origin of UFOs,” sponsored by the Los Angeles, California, section. The proceedings are published under the title Thesis and Antithesis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [p. 417](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/416/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5202 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17011 (7A5968AB) Date: 9/30/1975 Description: Cows bolted at descent of domed disc (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [750930](http://www.nicap.org/orlanddir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orland, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4540 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17012 (2E24CC60) Date: 9/30/1975 Description: Domed disc hovered, illuminated area "like daylight," cows fled. Emitted bright red light, humming sound, took off at high speed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Corning, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_267 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17013 (70696ACF) Date: 9/30/1975 Description: At 3:30 a.m. two men, Philips and Brown, had a close encounter with a domed disc-shaped object hovering over a dairy farm seven miles south of Corning, California and illuminating the dairy "like daylight". It emitted a bright red light, and made a humming sound. Cows fled from area. The UFO hovered for 3-5 minutes, then took off and was out-of-sight "in the blink of an eye." An inside occupant was also seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Corning (CA) Daily Observer, October 16, 1975; Dwight Connelly, Skylook, October 1975, p. 14; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 283; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 19, 281 Source ID: Johnson_6450 Source: Johnson ### Event 17014 (6686882C) Date: 10/1975 Description: Security Option 5 Alert At NORAD (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [7510xx](http://www.nicap.org/7510XXnorad%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cheyenne Mountain, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4541 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17015 (7BF23B8D) Date: 10/1975 Description: University of Montana sociologists [Robert Balch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBalch) and David Taylor locate the followers of [Applewhite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%5FApplewhite) and [Nettles](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43147136/bonnie-lou-nettles) in Arizona and join the group clandestinely. The Two make themselves scarce, fearing an infiltration and possible assassination. Balch and Taylor describe the cult in a Psychology Today article in October 1976 and articles in sociological journals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert W. Balch and David Taylor, “Salvation in a UFO,” Psychology Today 10, no. 5 \(October 1976\): 58–62, 66, 106; Robert W. Balch and David Taylor, “[Seekers and Saucers: The Role of](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000276427702000604) [the Cultic Milieu in Joining a UFO Cult,](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000276427702000604)” American Behavioral Scientist 20, no. 6 \(July/Aug. 1977\): 839–860; Robert W. Balch, “[Waiting for the Ships: Disillusionment and the Revitalization of Faith in Bo and Beep’s UFO](https://archive.org/details/godshavelandedne0000unse/page/136/mode/2up) [Cult,](https://archive.org/details/godshavelandedne0000unse/page/136/mode/2up)” in James R. Lewis, ed., The Gods Have Landed: New Religions from Other Worlds, State University of New York, 1995, pp. 137–166; Clark III 565–566 Source ID: Eberhart_5206 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17016 (0F5CCE9E) Date: 10/1975 End date: 12/1975 Description: Reliable military personnel saw unconventional and unexplained aerial objects hovering around nuclear weapons storage sites, aircraft alert areas and missile control complexes at installations across the northern United States. In some instances, as radar sightings of the objects were made, Air Force fighter planes were sent aloft in unsuccessful pursuit, although the records gave no indication that the fighters fired on the intruders.” Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/11/03/suit-seeks-to-lift-secrecy-veil-from-agencys-ufo-documents/c6ab8756-7268-4a3a-a657-316a5bcc4e80/) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_685 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17017 (6E06712E) Date: 10/1/1975 Description: At around 8:00 p.m. two teenagers, Michio Hikawa and Takashi Furuya, were parked in a car at a scenic spot in Japan's Southern Alps near Hakushu, Japan when Furuya became agitated about a group of children resembling beggars near the car. Hikawa didn't see them. Among the figures Furuya saw were some resembling girls, about one meter tall, dressed in white. Pointing them out to his companion, Hikawa still was unable to see them, and turned on the car's headlights. When this happened the figures faded away, but their car was abruptly pulled backwards several times by an unseen force, eventhough the hand brake was on. Frightened, the two teenagers left the area. Hikawa suggested that the figures may have been "spacemen", and the pair returned to the scene later, where the same mass displacement effects occurred to the car again. Again fearful, the pair drove home. The car subsequently malfunctioned and required repairs, the result of a broken piston. Peculiar "hoof like" marks were observed on a window in the car following the encounter. There were no reports of UFOs seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-44, citing Jun Ichi Takanashi for APRO Source ID: Johnson_6474 Source: Johnson ### Event 17018 (F80BC4BC) Date: 10/2/1975 Description: On this night in Fort Lee, New Jersey a single witness said an oval-shaped object with red and green lights that came close to witness after appearing at first as a bright light. It circled behind some trees, then passed the witness making a faint whirling sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_6502 Source: Johnson ### Event 17019 (89360190) Date: 10/3/1975 Description: On this night a large mass of white light, with smaller blue lights inside, hung stationary over Quincy, Massachusetts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_6530 Source: Johnson ### Event 17020 (2C71936C) Date: 10/3/1975 Description: On this night a large mass of white light, with smaller blue lights inside, hung stationary over Quincy. (Source: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 7). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Quincy, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4542 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17021 (1782374F) Date: 10/4/1975 Description: 2:55 a.m. Two police officers, Francis J. Gross and C. Ragazzo were on routine patrol when officer Ragazzo received a radio call from Gross informing him of five "strange looking" lights in the south-west sky. Both officers were able to observe the objects for a period of five minutes. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR. December 1975, page 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ramsey, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4543 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17022 (0B4CC002) Date: 10/6/1975 Description: On this night in Santa Clara, California three witnesses had a close encounter with a saucer-shaped disc with a bluish white glow underneath. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_6606 Source: Johnson ### Event 17023 (D0C084D1) Date: 10/7/1975 Description: Robert Suffern of Three Mile Lake reported that a UFO landed about 13 miles northwest of Bracebridge, Ontario on this night, and he almost ran over one of its occupants with his car. Mr. Suffern said the craft was about 12-14 feet across, nine feet high, and circular in shape. "There was a black strip running around the circumference, and what looked to be a small platform at the bottom of the vehicle." Mr. Suffern said he found the craft while driving around to investigate "a glow in the sky" seen by his sister, and who telephoned him to say she thought his barn might be on fire. The UFO was parked on a road that led to the lake. A few seconds after he saw it, the ship lifted straight up from the road in front of his car. "There was no dust raised, no apparent thrust, nothing," he said. "It went straight up and over the trees."

Mr. Suffern turned his car around and headed home. However, when he reached the top of the hill, he had to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting "some sort of creature." The being was the height of the car fender. It was humanoid in appearance and wore a globe-shaped helmet, and walked like a midget. The helmet was slightly lighter in color and the "spacesuit" was like tin foil that had been crushed and flattened out. The creature turned, took three or four steps, vaulted over a fence, and disappeared. Suffern raced back to his house and arrived in time to see the object hover near his home before crossing the lake. He was badly shaken by the incident. "It's all right to think what you would do…but when it actually happens, you are scared because you are dealing with the unknown." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, "Looking Back October 1975", National UFO Reporting Center website Source ID: Johnson_6634 Source: Johnson ### Event 17024 (B2A74781) Date: 10/7/1975 Description: 8:00 p.m. After his sister calls and alerts him to a “fiery glow” near his barn on Three Mile Lake Road north of Bracebridge, Ontario, Robert Suffern, 27, drives to the spot and finds no fire. However, when he starts going back to his sister’s house he finds a large disc-shaped object resting in his path. The UFO quickly ascends and is lost to sight. When he turns around and starts heading to his own home, a small figure wearing a helmet and silver-gray walks in an “ape-like fashion” in front of his car, causing him to hit the brakes. It runs into a field. Suffern gets out and puts his hands on a post and he seemingly becomes weightless, making it easy to jump over the fence. Later that night he sees an “orange fluorescent light” in the pasture of his property. Moments later, he receives two phone calls telling him not to interfere. On October 12 at 3:00 a.m. Suffern receives a phone call from a “Lt. Colin Hunter” from the White House and leaves a number to call him back. He calls the number later and talks to a military officer claiming to be Lt. Col. Waters. A month later, he and his wife are given a thorough examination by Canadian military doctors. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1975-10-07-threemilelake-canada.htm), September 13, 2006; “[The Robert Suffern](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread504922/pg1) [UFO Encounter,](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread504922/pg1)” Above Top Secret forum, September 26, 2009; John Greenewald, “[Suffern Three Mile Lake](https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/suffern-three-mile-lake-incident-ufo-lands-road-white-house-reportedly-calls/) [Incident: UFO Lands on Road, White House Reportedly Calls,](https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/suffern-three-mile-lake-incident-ufo-lands-road-white-house-reportedly-calls/)” The Black Vault, July 6, 2017; Clark III 358 Source ID: Eberhart_5207 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17025 (A26F5AEF) Date: 10/10/1975 Description: On highway D45 east of Pierreclos, Saone-et-Loire department, France at ten p.m. a car's lights and engine died when a fuzzy looking 100 meter wide disc-shaped object hovered nearby, then rose vertically, and flew off to the southeast slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976 Source ID: Johnson_6728 Source: Johnson ### Event 17026 (634EAD57) Date: 10/16/1975 Description: 8:20 p.m. Seven witnesses including the main witness named Landeros sighted two UFOs maneuvering in the sky. The first object was triangular in shape with white and yellow lights. (Source: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 9). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Davis, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4544 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17027 (2547E660) Date: 10/16/1975 Description: In Davis, California at 8:20 p.m. seven witnesses including the main witness named Landeros sighted two UFOs maneuvering in the sky. The first object was triangular in shape with white and yellow lights. It went down and up rapidly, then back-and-forth. The second UFO was a domed disc; it came from same direction as the first and had red, green, and blue lights spinning on its rim. It hovered, tilted, and shot off toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_6903 Source: Johnson ### Event 17028 (7092C493) Date: 10/17/1975 Description: Morning. Masaki Machida, a TV reporter for the Akita Broadcasting Company, is at Akita Airport in Akita Prefecture, Japan, when he sees a disc-shaped object descending in the east. Air traffic controllers and passengers watch the golden disc with white lights hover 5,000 feet above the ground some 5 miles from the airport. Telecommunications officer Kenichi Waga warns all pilots to watch out for the UFO. Toa Domestic Airlines pilot Capt. Masarus Saito says the object looks like two plates put together. After 5 minutes, it flies off to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 10](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/9/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5208 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17029 (3654257B) Date: 10/17/1975 Description: Object with flashing green lights flew over truck, hovered over road ahead, shone light beam toward truck. MUFON UFO Journal, October 1990, p. 20, 22 (E,L) cement truck (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Helena, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4545 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17030 (20EE4792) Date: 10/17/1975 Description: Large object with green flashing lights passed over truck from behind, hovered ahead, lights and engine failed, light beam directed toward truck Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Helena, MT Source ID: HallUFOE2_268 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17031 (B3239BEE) Date: 10/18/1975 Description: 12:30 a.m. John Struble is driving his truck 25 miles northwest of Helena, Montana, when he notices a large object, 50 feet in diameter and 25–30 feet in the air. The object passes over his truck from the rear and then stops and hovers about 300 feet ahead of him. It directs a very bright light at him, causing the truck’s lights and engine to go out. The UFO remains for about 5 minutes before it moves away. The object makes a noise like a big jet and then rockets straight up into the sky and moves away to the east at an incredible speed. When the UFO disappears the truck’s lights and engine come back on. Struble notices that his nonelectric watch has stopped for 5 minutes, the duration of the sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 33](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/32/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5209 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17032 (EB46524F) Date: 10/18/1975 Description: 12:30 a.m. John Struble was driving his truck when he noticed a large object, fifty feet in diameter and twenty-five to thirty feet in the air. The object passed over his truck from the rear and then stopped and hovered about one hundred yards ahead of him. (Reference: Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood, Clear Intent, page 33) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Helena (25 miles NW of), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4546 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17033 (874602E7) Date: 10/19/1975 Description: 11:00 p.m. Two men walking just west of town noticed a red light approaching their position at high speed. It stopped over them, and was described as an almond shaped craft pointed at the ends. It then turned bluish in color and began to hover. (HC addition # 744, CUFOS Reports,Type: A) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hailey, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_4547 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17034 (299E822B) Date: 10/20/1975 Description: An NBC-TV movie, The UFO Incident, on the [Betty and Barney Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) abduction case airs, starring [James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FEarl%5FJones) [Earl Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FEarl%5FJones) and [Estelle Parsons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle%5FParsons)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle%5FParsons) It is based on the book The Interrupted Journey by [John G. Fuller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FG.%5FFuller). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[The UFO Incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FUFO%5FIncident)” Source ID: Eberhart_5210 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17035 (910349B0) Date: 10/20/1975 Description: 4:30 p.m. A couple living on a ranch near Priest Butte, Montana, reported that they had seen a UFO about half a mile from their home, on the east slope of Priest Butte. Using binoculars, they described it as being egg-shaped, with the large end of the craft on the ground. (Reference: Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood, Clear Intent, page 34) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Priest Butte, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4548 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17036 (2E970518) Date: 10/20/1975 Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_269 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17037 (9FBA2D2A) Date: 10/22/1975 Description: At dusk a disc-shaped object with wings silently circled buildings in downtown Covington, Kentucky and then hovered. It had rotating lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, Skylook, January 1976, p. 5; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_7028 Source: Johnson ### Event 17038 (9038B73F) Date: 10/22/1975 Description: At noon a 5-year-old cow was found dead and mutilated in a field near Hayden, Colorado. An unidentified helicopter was seen in the area at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11474 Source ID: Johnson_7026 Source: Johnson ### Event 17039 (CAEA181E) Date: 10/22/1975 Description: At 1:30 p.m. a brilliant white domed disc was seen over trees, then angled down over the town of Artix, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France before ascending and flying off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1977 Source ID: Johnson_7027 Source: Johnson ### Event 17040 (998CA0CD) Date: 10/23/1975 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped object flew low over a car in Fairfield, Ohio. It extended a rod with four small orange balls at the tip. In York, Pennsylvania four orange lights in a delta formation traveled slowly and silently over the city. At 9:45 p.m. two UFO witnesses in Phoenix, Maryland experienced an episode of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case investigation files; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 796 Source ID: Johnson_7052 Source: Johnson ### Event 17041 (B26A345C) Date: 10/25/1975 Description: On the same night in Happy Camp, California three men, Harris, Gayer, and Jackson had a humanoid encounter involving ground traces and the levitation of their car. On the previous night they had seen a large reddish orange light take off. This evening at 7 p.m. they found three imprints arranged in a triangle, 18 inches x 24 inches and 20 feet apart. They heard a high-pitched screeching sound. They directed their spotlight in the direction of the noise and saw two large eyes five feet above the ground and a black outline. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 164; MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 121; Alan Berry, Official UFO, May 1977, p. 14; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1435, citing Paul Cerny, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1978, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_7128 Source: Johnson ### Event 17042 (8688B7FD) Date: Late 10/1975 Description: Near 12:00 midnight. An incident occurs near Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, the home of the National Combat Operations Center, that triggers a Security Option 5 Alert. According to an informant at the center interviewed by [Francis Ridge](http://www.nicap.org/whoswho/ridge.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/whoswho/ridge.htm) nobody is allowed to enter the base, except cleared, high-ranking officers or cleared security patrols. No one is to leave. Those personnel on base who have just completed duty are rolled out of bed. Jet interceptors are scrambled. Unidentified targets are tracked on radar for at least 20 minutes. In fact, everything they put in the air for an attack on the US is airborne. The base stays on alert through 6:00 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Security Option 5 Alert at NORAD](http://www.nicap.org/7510XXnorad%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5212 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17043 (3B3737D2) Date: Late 10/1975 Description: 2:45 a.m. James D. Appleman of Bensalem, Pennsylvania, sees two large condensation trails making a giant X just above the moon. For several nights he has been noticing two unusual stars forming different shapes, and he thinks this might be related. He grabs his camera and takes three black-and-white photos. Two of the photos show two irregular light blobs, which he does not remember seeing when he exposed the film. In 1980, he sends a copy of the photos to the Center for UFO Studies because they resemble the lights in two undated photos taken from an airplane by J. Allen Hynek that appeared in his book The UFO Experience. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Did a Twin](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf) [Photograph a Twin UFO?](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 1 \(January 1981\): 1; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine, 1974, [opp. p. 151](https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/page/n169/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5211 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17044 (BA98F072) Date: 10/25/1975 Description: Bt. 6:00 & 7:00 p.m. A local man was struck by a blue beam of light, reputedly from a disc. He subsequently died. Several other witnesses reported being attacked and terrified by the experience. Some reported being paralyzed by a blue light. (Source: Charles Bowen, FSR, July 1976, p. 33 and Saga UFO Report, citing La Razon, October 27, 1975). (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sao Gondolo do Amarante, Ceara state, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4550 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17045 (0FE857A9) Date: 10/25/1975 Description: 6:00 p.m. A young woman with the surname of Dira had bathed in a lagoon in Sao Gondolo do Amarante on the river and was washing clothes when she felt a heat wave and saw an oscillating blue light in the sky nearby. She managed to escape inside her house, but she had a high body temp, bloodshot eyes, and her skin looked like it had a sunburn. (Source: Claude Bourtembourg, SOBEPS News, March 1976, p. 18; Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 80; both sources cite J. Gualberto.) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sao Gondolo do Amarante, Ceara state, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4549 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17046 (2DE61D9A) Date: 10/25/1975 Description: Two close encounter incidents occurred within an hour of each other in the same community in Ceara state, Brazil. At around 6 p.m. a young woman with the surname of Dira had bathed in a lagoon in Sao Gondolo do Amarante on the river and was washing clothes when she felt a heat wave and saw an oscillating blue light in the sky nearby. ing in river felt burning, saw oscillating blue light in sky. Frightened, she took cover in some undergrowth, but the light increased intensity. When the blue light approached even closer she ran home. She managed to escape inside her house, but she had a high body temp, bloodshot eyes, and her skin looked like it had a sunburn. Within the hour a local man was struck by a blue beam of light, reputedly from a disc. He subsequently died. Several other witnesses reported being attacked and terrified by the experience. Some reported being paralyzed by a blue light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Claude Bourtembourg, SOBEPS News, March 1976, p. 18; Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 80; both sources cite J. Gualberto; (2) Charles Bowen, FSR, July 1976, p. 33 and Saga UFO Report, citing La Razon, October 27, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_7127 Source: Johnson ### Event 17047 (5737018D) Date: 10/26/1975 Description: Mrs. L. E. Dison, age 43, and her daughter were driving home at one o'clock in the morning in Cahaba Heights, Alabama when they saw on the dark side of the road two 8 foot tall beings wearing wearing silvery boots and tight fitting clothing of a dull silver color, and helmets. The front of helmets were luminous or light reflecting. The one nearest them had an arm up, pointing at the sky. The second was looking up at the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ed Planz, CUFOS files, report dated September 1976 Source ID: Johnson_7153 Source: Johnson ### Event 17048 (60E6CCCD) Date: 10/26/1975 Description: In Happy Camp, Siskiyou County, California just after midnight Steve Harris, San Gayer, and Carl Jackson returned to the spot of their "creature" sighting earlier that evening, accompanied by Helen White and Rick Pool. They shone spotlights around, but saw nothing. Then Steve fired his rifle several times. Immediately they heard a loud "wow-wow-wow" sound, and turned around to see in their spotlights the dark, non-reflecting forms about 5 feet tall. They were vaguely human shaped, with a glow around the edges, and about 30-35 ft away. These forms were moving about slowly, but staying at the same distance. They seemed to absorb the light from the flashlights without reflecting it, but occasionally an entire shape would start glowing slightly. No details could be made out. After several seconds, during which Helen failed to use her Polaroid camera, Helen and then the others began to feel a choking sensation, "as if the oxygen was being depleted from the air." After another three or four minutes of this, all five of them piled into their Ford Bronco and drove away. Looking back, they saw a glowing orange disc-shaped object rise up from near where they had been. It was about 40 feet in diameter, and it followed them at a distance of 150 feet and right above the treetops, until they reached the highway. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1975-54, citing Paul Cerny for MUFON Source ID: Johnson_7154 Source: Johnson ### Event 17049 (F239627A) Date: 10/27/1975 Description: UFO circles weapons storage area (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [751027](http://www.nicap.org/751027loring%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Loring AFB, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_4551 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17050 (47FCF06A) Date: 10/27/1975 Description: 3:00 a.m. Factory workers David Stephens and Glen Gray are sitting in a trailer they share in Norway, Maine, when they hear something explode outside. Briefly puzzled, they decide to go for a drive to nearby Thompson Lake. A short distance down the road, their vehicle abruptly turns onto a back road leading into Oxford, Maine. Gray no longer has control of the steering. Two minutes later, they pass through Oxford, a trip that normally takes 10 minutes, and down the eastern side of Thompson Lake. A mile south of Oxford, they see a herd of cows resting on the ground and shaking their heads from side to side. A few seconds later, they see two white lights on their left in a cornfield. The lights suddenly rise into the air. Gray stops the car, rolls down the windows and listen for the sounds of an engine, but the lights are soundless. Now they have a good view of a huge, cylinder-shaped object 20–30 feet away. Around its body are green, blue, and yellow lights that suddenly go out when the object ascends above a row of trees. Gray starts the car and roars down the road, followed by the UFO. The next thing they know, they are a mile farther down the road, the car stopped. Their eyes feel like they are on fire and appear orange. The UFO is visible in the eastern sky. They drive into West Poland, Maine, turn around, and go back the way they came. After a few minutes the UFO disappears, and they decide to go south again. For no reason, Gray turns onto a gravel road leading to Tripp Pond, where the engine stalls and the radio goes out. They can see the cylinder-shaped UFO in the sky about 500 feet away, which moves farther away as soon as they notice it. Some 45 minutes later, two disc-shaped objects with colored lights appear, and a thick fog rises out of Tripp Pond, engulfing the car. The radio abruptly turns on, and as they drive further, they receive a mental impression indicating that “We’re not done with you yet. We are coming back for you.” It is now 6:30 a.m. At 7:00 a.m., they arrive at Stephens’s parents’ house in Oxford, suffering from burning eyes, sore throats, and aching teeth. They are not speaking coherently. Gray has some hallucinations later in the day while watching TV. Maine ufologists [Shirley Fickett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86027173/shirley-c%5F-fickett) and [Brent Raynes](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/raynes-brent-6818/) soon hear about the case and meet with the two on the evening of October 28. Many unusual events take place that night and the next day, so Fickett contacts hypnotist [Herbert Hopkins](http://realmib.tripod.com/hopkins.html)[,](http://realmib.tripod.com/hopkins.html) 58, in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. He conducts eight hypnosis sessions between December 1975 and March 1976. Gray becomes upset early in the investigation, so only Stephens’s testimony is complete. It indicates an abduction scenario similar to other cases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brent M. Raynes, “[The Twilight Side of a UFO](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%202.pdf) [Encounter,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 2 \(July 1976\): 11–14; Shirley M. Fickett, “[The Maine UFO Encounter:](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%202.pdf) [Investigation under Hypnosis,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 2 \(July 1976\): 14–17; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “[Comments on the Psychiatric-Paranormal Aspects of the Maine Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 2 \(July 1976\): 18–22; Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, [pp. 70–79](https://archive.org/details/abductedconfront0000lore/page/70/mode/2up); Marcus Lowth, “[The Disturbing Alien Encounter of David Stephens,](https://www.ufoinsight.com/aliens/abductions/alien-encounter-david-stephens)” UFO Insight, August 29, 2018; Clark III 861–865 Source ID: Eberhart_5213 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17051 (827B026C) Date: 10/27/1975 Description: 7:45 p.m. S/Sgt. [Danny K. Lewis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57611703/danny-kay-lewis) is patrolling the weapons dump at Loring AFB \[now Loring International Airport\] near Limestone, Maine, when he sees an unidentified aircraft approaching the north perimeter at an altitude of about 300 feet. It has a red navigation light and a white strobe light. The craft enters the perimeter of the base. In the control tower, S/Sgt. [James P. Sampley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208914490/james-paul-sampley) of the 2192nd Communications Squadron is on radar duty and gets a return from an unknown target 10–13 miles east-northeast of Loring. Sampley makes numerous attempts by radio on all available communications bands, civilian and military, to contact the craft, but he gets no response. The unidentified craft circles and comes within 300 yards of the restricted nuclear storage area at a low altitude of 150 feet. Back at the weapons dump, Lewis notifies his Command Post at the 42 Bomb Wing that an unknown aircraft has penetrated the base perimeter. The base is immediately put on major alert status, a Security Option 3, and Security contacts the tower. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 16–26](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/16/mode/2up); Nukes 361–363, 369–371 Source ID: Eberhart_5214 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17052 (67B9163C) Date: 10/27/1975 Description: The Loring AFB incidents are extremely well documented, both in terms of personal testimonials and declassified CIA and National Military Command Center (NMCC) documents. Retired Sgt. Stephen B. Eichner was on duty when a strange object hovered over the Loring ammunition dump. Eichner told how he and fellow airmen had seen a football-shaped reddish orange object, three or four car-lengths long, hovering over the Loring ammunition dump. He said the object suddenly vanished, then reappeared some distance away at the end of a runway. Numerous other visual and radar sightings were made at Loring. Air Force planes were scrambled in a luckless attempt to track down the object. Eichner said it made no noise and could not be mistaken for a helicopter. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/11/03/suit-seeks-to-lift-secrecy-veil-from-agencys-ufo-documents/c6ab8756-7268-4a3a-a657-316a5bcc4e80/) Reference: [Debrief](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35674/the-bizarre-mystery-of-unexplained-aerial-incursions-over-loring-air-force-base) Location: Loring AFB Source ID: Maj2_682 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17053 (AFC19F4F) Date: 10/27/1975 Description: October 28, 1975; Objects with body lights penetrated security areas on two consecutive nights, hovered near weapons storage area, tracked on radar Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Loring AFB, ME Source ID: HallUFOE2_270 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17054 (9848FB9D) Date: 10/27/1975 Description: David Stephens and Glen Gray were driving at around 2:30 a.m. on a rural highway between Norway and West Poland, Maine when David discovered that the car was no longer responding to the steering wheel. It turned of its own accord onto a back road full of potholes, but they felt no bumps, which suggested the car was being levitated. They came to a cornfield where two lights were visible four feet from the ground. As these lights rose silently to treetop level, they realized that they were coming from a very large, gray cylindrical object, "as big as a football field." They were then enveloped in a blinding light, leaving them both unconscious. They regained consciousness only when the car had reached West Poland. They turned back, and the car automatically turned onto a road leading to Tripp Pond (also called Thompson Lake). The UFO was there, waiting for them, about 150 feet up. Another UFO only one-quarter as big, soon joined by a second, maneuvered over the pond, showing red, green, and blue lights. A smoke or fog then rose from the pond and concealed these two objects, so they could then see only the larger object, which showed a long window and three bright lights. Finally it rose vertically, together with the smoke. They drove to David's parents trailer, by which time both were feeling sick, with chills, swollen hands and feet, and orange whites of the eyes. They lacked balance and coordination, and felt lightheaded. Stephens experienced intense thirst, and both men slept very deeply. Hallucinations and poltergeist-like activity troubled them for the next few days.

Later under hypnosis, Stephens recalled that when they had encountered the bright light he had somehow been taken from the car into a round, metallic looking room with a small round window, from which he could see the car below. A Grey being 4.5 feet tall, wearing a long black robe that seemed to be made of paper, entered the room. It had a bald, mushroom-shaped white head and slanting "white" eyes, a small flat nose, and no mouth. The hands had a thumb and only three long fingers. By telepathy, this entity told Stephens not to be afraid. He was taken into a brightly lit adjoining room where there were four other beings. Here he was told to undress and lie on a table. Blood samples were taken, and a square machine with dials scanned his body. The Grey humanoids also took a button from his clothes. Finally, he put on his clothes, and was somehow transported back to his car. The beings told him they would see him again. The two men had experienced three hours of missing time. Both were ill for three days, and had a number of paranomal experiences, including a stocky Man in Black (MIB) who visited Stephens and told him not to talk about what had happened to them. Even when hypnotized he resisted revealing when the beings told him they would return. Their physiological effects included chills, swollen feet and ankles, eye discoloration, difficulty swallowing, and sore teeth. The Stephens family subsequently observed UFOs on numerous occasions. Investigation began the next day, and hypnosis sessions followed between December 1975 to March 1976. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Shirley Fickett, FSR, July 1976, p. 14; Brent M. Raynes, FSR, July 1976, p 11; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 270; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1975-55 (A1428), citing Al Erickson, Shirley Fickett, Brent Raynes & Dr. Berthold Schwarz; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery (Volume 2), case 140; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 546-547 Source ID: Johnson_7199 Source: Johnson ### Event 17055 (70FBBE80) Date: 10/27/1975 Description: A helicopter like object, but not a normal helicopter, hovered over the Brunswick Naval Air Station in in Maine in the early morning hours, at the same time as a Loring AFB UFO incident. It stayed for 5-10 minutes, then flew off over Atlantic Ocean. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bangor Daily News, January 20, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_7200 Source: Johnson ### Event 17056 (36D38DBF) Date: 10/27/1975 Description: At around 8 p.m. Steve Harris, San Gayer, and Carl Jackson returned to the spot of their creature sighting in Happy Camp, California about an hour earlier, accompanied by Helen White and Rick Pool. They shone spotlights around, but saw nothing. Then Steve fired his rifle several times. Immediately they heard a loud "wow-wow-wow" sound, and turned around to see in the spotlights three dark, non-reflecting forms about five feet high, vaguely human in shape, with a glow around the edges, 30-35 feet away. These forms were moving about slowly, but staying at the same distance. They seemed to absorb the light without reflecting it, but occasionally the whole shape would glow slightly. No further details could be made out. After some seconds, during which Helen failed to use her Polaroid camera, Helen and then the others began to feel a choking sensation, "as if the oxygen was being depleted from the air." After 3 or 4 minutes of this, all five of them piled into their Ford Bronco and drove off. Looking back, they saw a glowing orange, disc-shaped object rise up from close to where they had been. It looked to be about 40 feet in diameter, and it followed them at a distance of 150 feet just above the trees until they reached the highway. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 165; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1975-54, citing Paul Cerny, MUFON Field Investigator Source ID: Johnson_7201 Source: Johnson ### Event 17057 (69290136) Date: 10/27/1975 Description: 8:45 p.m. Sgt. Grover K. Eggleston of the 2192nd Communications Squadron is on duty at the Loring AFB \[now Loring International Airport\] tower near Limestone, Maine, when the call from the Command Post comes in. He observes the unknown target. Six minutes later, Eggleston notes that the target appears to be circling approximately 10 miles east-northeast of the base. This action lasts for 40 minutes when, suddenly, it disappears from the screen. Either the object has landed or it has dropped below the radar coverage. The Wing Commander arrives at the weapons storage area 7 minutes after the initial sighting. Immediately other units of the 42nd Police begin pouring into the area. Security vehicles with blue flashing lights are converging from all over the base. Through the Loring Command Post, the Wing Commander requests fighter coverage from the 21st NORAD Region at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, New York, and the 22nd NORAD Region at North Bay, Ontario. However, fighter support is denied by both regions. The Wing Commander then increases local security posture and requests assistance from the Maine State Police in trying to identify the unknown craft, which they presume is a helicopter. They make a call to local flight services for possible identification, without results. The 42nd Security Police conduct a sweep of the weapons storage perimeter inside and out. An additional sweep is made of the areas that the craft has flown over. All actions produce no results. The craft breaks the circling pattern and begins flying toward Grand Falls, New Brunswick. Radar contact is lost in the vicinity of Grand Falls, 12 miles from Loring. Canadian authorities are not notified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO Circles Weapons](http://www.nicap.org/751027loring%5Fdir.htm) [Storage Area](http://www.nicap.org/751027loring%5Fdir.htm)”; ClearIntent, [pp. 16–26](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/16/mode/2up); Nukes 361–363, 369–371 Source ID: Eberhart_5215 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17058 (6D9C7C82) Date: 10/27/1975 Description: David Stephens was one of the principals of this famous abduction case. It's one of the most interesting such incidents, not only for the abduction itself but for its curious aftermath. The case is also discussed in Thomas E. Bullard's UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery and in my The UFO Encyclopedia, 2nd Ed., pp. 685-90. (Jerry Clark) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [751027](http://www.mufon.com/bob%5Fpratt/maine.html) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oxford, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_4552 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17059 (36369E83) Date: 10/28/1975 Description: 7:45 - 8:20 p.m. While patrolling the weapons storage area, Staff Sgt. Lewis, along with Sgt. Clifton W. Blakeslee and Sgt. William J. Long, again spotted the lights of an unidentified aircraft approaching Loring AFB from the north at an altitude of about 3,000 feet. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Loring AFB, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_4554 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17060 (80BE1055) Date: 10/28/1975 Description: 12:15 a.m. EST. One cup and saucer hat shaped object, very bright, low about 500 feet, was observed over the slag pit Murray Mine, Sudbury. (National Research Council of Canada Record Group 77, Vol. 308, reel number 1742) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sudbury, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4553 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17061 (480135B0) Date: 10/28/1975 Description: On this night a police officer in Viroqua, Wisconsin viewed a round object the size of twin-engine plane that had gold, red and orange lights rotating around the craft. He reported it over his police radio and it was subsequently seen by police in four counties. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 10; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 84 Source ID: Johnson_7246 Source: Johnson ### Event 17062 (1295E2AA) Date: 10/28/1975 Description: Confidential CINC/NORAD Report: UFOs, suspicious objects seen by ground personnel. Sounded like jet aircraft. Intermittent radar contact made with object. Jets scrambled to intercept but objects lights went out, interceptors passed and then came on again. Then the object increased in speed and raised to a high altitude and could not be discerned from the stars. Description: Through binoculars, looked like 100 ft. sphere and appeared to have craters around the outside. To date, AF and SAC helicopters have failed to provide a positive I.D. of the UFO. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p468) Location: Loring AFB See also: 11/11/75 See also: 7/1952 Source ID: Maj2_683 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17063 (B055858C) Date: 10/28/1975 Description: DC-9 pilot followed by UFOs, E-M, radar (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belgrade, Yugo Source ID: NICAP_DB_4555 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17064 (B06C5C99) Date: 10/28/1975 Description: Four police officers and others saw at least two nocturnal lights in the sky from Caribou, Arrostook county, Maine at same time as Loring AFB radar picked up blips 15 miles east of the base in Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lawrence Fawcett & Barry J. Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, p. 22; UNICAT, case # 486 Source ID: Johnson_7245 Source: Johnson ### Event 17065 (73192454) Date: 10/28/1975 Description: 7:45 p.m. While patrolling the weapons storage area, S/Sgt. [Danny K. Lewis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57611703/danny-kay-lewis), along with Sgt. Clifton W. Blakeslee and Sgt. William J. Long, again spots the lights of an unidentified aircraft approaching Loring AFB near Limestone, Maine, from the north at an altitude of about 3,000 feet. It approaches to within about 3 miles of the base perimeter and is seen to have a flashing white light and an amber or orange light. Lewis reports the sighting to his Command Post, and the Wing Commander comes out to the weapons storage area to see for himself. He reports seeing an object whose speed and motion are similar to that of a helicopter. The craft is also observed on radar and observed over the flight line by Sgt. Steven Eichner, Sgt. R. Jones, and others. They see an orange and red object shaped like a stretched-out football hovering in mid-air. It turns out its lights and then reappears making jerky motions, then hovers about 150 feet over the end of the runway. It is about four car- lengths long, solid, reddish-orange, with no doors or windows, and with no visible propellers or engines. It is completely silent. The base goes on full alert and a sweep is made by security, but the object turns off its lights and is not seen again. Radar picks up a target moving in the direction of Grand Falls, New Brunswick. SAC Headquarters is again notified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_5216 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17066 (CF3A9768) Date: 10/29/1975 Description: 1:00 a.m. EST. Actual transcript: One unidentified helicopter was sighted 300 to 500 meters from the weapons storage area at Loring AFB, Maine. The helicopter was at an altitude of 150 feet and penetrated Loring AFB. (SOURCE: 42 BW CP LORING AFB 291140Z OCT 75; SAC CP OPS CONTROL 291954Z OCT 75. (Actual document below. See page 1 & 2) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Loring AFB, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_4556 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17067 (CC4123CC) Date: 10/29/1975 Description: NMCC Joint Staff Memo: Subject: AFB penetration. At 290200 EST, AFOC informed NMCC that an unidentified helicopter (UFO), possibly two, had been sighted flying low over Loring AFB, Maine, in proximity to a weapons storage area. Army Nat. Guard helos called in to assist in locating UFO. NORAD informed of the incident by SAC. Received authority to proceed into Canadian airspace, if necessary, to locate UFO. A similar incident was reported the evening before. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p468) Location: Loring AFB Source ID: Maj2_684 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17068 (9C308390) Date: 10/29/1975 Description: Beginning at 10 p.m. an unknown object maneuved over the town of Sao Goncalo do Amarante, Ceara State, Brazil at low altitude for two hours, causing panic. It shot beams of blue and orange toward the ground; it stopped for a few minutes over a filling station, causing a power outage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Claude Bourtembourg, SOBEPS News, March 1976, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_7279 Source: Johnson ### Event 17069 (89C6F185) Date: 10/29/1975 Description: A 15-year-old teenager in Mount Healthy, Ohio had a close encounter with a cylindrical UFO at around 8:00 p.m. He reported that it was only 25 feet overhead, and completely silent. Red lights rotated on the bottom of the object. When it left it shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_7278 Source: Johnson ### Event 17070 (9DEDCC98) Date: 10/29/1975 Description: An unknown helicopter with an orange light landed in a munitions storage area at Loring Air Force Base, Maine for the second night in a row. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II). A Thirty Year Report, p. 77; Awareness, February 1978, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_7277 Source: Johnson ### Event 17071 (EA91D17B) Date: 10/29/1975 Description: 1:00 a.m. Another unidentified helicopter is seen near the weapons storage area at Loring AFB, Maine. October 29 or 30 — 4:00 p.m. A radar-visual UFO sighting takes place at Wurtsmith AFB \[now Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport\] near Oscoda, Michigan. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Shiny Disc Hovers over Restricted Area](http://www.nicap.org/751029wurtsmith%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5217 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17072 (9E9A49E5) Date: 10/30/1975 Description: Shiny Disc Hovers Over Restricted Area (Cat 2,9,10,11) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, NC) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [751030](http://www.nicap.org/751029wurtsmith%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wurtsmith AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4558 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17073 (D0885DFF) Date: 10/30/1975 Description: Security police and others watched objects breach security areas, hover low over weapons storage area Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Wurtsmith AFB, MI Source ID: HallUFOE2_271 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17074 (E26FC82C) Date: 10/30/1975 Description: At about 10:10 p.m. a KC-135 U.S. Air Force tanker returning from a refueling mission, flying at a speed of 200 knots, and an altitude of 2000 feet, sighted at least two nocturnal lights and mystery 'choppers' around and over the Wurtsmith AFB in Oscoda, Michigan, a Strategic Air Command base. The objects breached security areas, and hovered over the nuclear weapons site. Base personnel thought they saw the running lights of a low flying craft they thought was a helicopter, except that it hovered and moved up-and-down erratically near the base perimeter. One white light was pointed downward, and two red lights were visible near the trailing edge. Airman Michael J. Myers, an air policeman on duty near the main gate, saw several unidentified lights near the western edge of the base. The object turned north and appeared to lose altitude. Between 10:15 and 10:25 p.m. base security police at the back gate of Wurtsmith reported to the command post that an unidentified "helicopter" with no lights had come over the back gate and hovered at a low altitude over the weapons storage area. Radar was also tracking low-flying objects intruding into the base, and the incoming KC-135 confirmed seeing two UFOs that sped away each time it attempted to close for identification. The UFOs flew away at 1,200 mph. One shot away to the west, the other went north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 89-90; UNICAT, case # 617; Lawrence Fawcett & Barry J. Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, p. 41; International UFO Reporter, April 1978, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_7307 Source: Johnson ### Event 17075 (E848A6BE) Date: 10/30/1975 Description: 12:00 a.m. Football shaped UFO. (NIDS UFO 42) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ford Creek at Augusta, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4557 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17076 (0A5A1081) Date: 10/30/1975 Description: 10:10–11:00 p.m. A series of unidentified helicopter sightings take place in a secure area in Wurtsmith AFB \[now Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport\], Michigan, by security police on the ground and by the crew of a KC-135 tanker returning from a refueling mission piloted by Maj. Frederick Pappas and 5 crew members. The tanker at 2,700 feet has visual and skin paint over Lake Huron for about 20 miles heading southeast. The light hovers and moves up and down in an erratic manner. The tanker follows the object for 1–2 hours, but never get close enough to see anything other than a single, steady orange light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO Chased by KC-135 Tanker](http://www.nicap.org/751029wurtsmith%5Fdir.htm)”; Nukes 371– 372; Skinwalkers 124 Source ID: Eberhart_5218 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17077 (A4B23ACA) Date: 10/31/1975 Description: At 11:17 p.m. EST, a visual sighting of an unidentified object was reported 4 nautical miles NW of Loring AFB, Me. The alert helo was launched to identify the object but was unable to make contact. The alert helo was launched again at 0146 hours EST, November 1, 1975, in response to a slow moving target picked up by RAPCON (Radar Approach Control). (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [751031](http://www.nicap.org/751031loring%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Loring AFB (4 miles NW of), ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_4562 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17078 (A02CB7B7) Date: 10/31/1975 Description: 11:17 p.m. A visual sighting of an unidentified object is reported 4 miles northwest of Loring AFB, Maine. The alert helicopter is launched to identify the object but is unable to make contact and is launched again at 1:46 a.m., in response to a slow-moving target picked up by RAPCON radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[RAPCON Tracks Slow-](http://www.nicap.org/751029wurtsmith%5Fdir.htm) [Moving Target during Loring Intrusions](http://www.nicap.org/751029wurtsmith%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5219 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17079 (1A72711F) Date: 11/1/1975 Description: Time not given. UFO hovered 75' away, one foot off ground. (NIDS UFO 92) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Monarch, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4563 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17080 (C2620280) Date: 11/1/1975 Description: At 9:00 p.m. in Barcelonnette, Alpes-Haut-Provence, France a ball of light hovered over a mountain, then jumped across the valley and stopped over a second mountain; finally, it just fades away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1975 Source ID: Johnson_7388 Source: Johnson ### Event 17081 (046CAF0B) Date: 11/2/1975 Description: Night. Witnesses in Medford, Minnesota, including Helen Kay, see a brilliant orange-red light go behind a building, where they suspect it has landed. At the location, they find a bare spot, 12 feet square, of burned grass and ashy residue. At some distance away they see a red ball of light above the trees and try to catch up with it by car but it eludes them. Soil samples from the alleged landing site are submitted to geologist [Edward J. Zeller](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188639525/edward-jacob-zeller) at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, who subjects them to an examination using thermoluminescence and finds the readouts normal for the center of the trace but severely elevated at the edges. He suspects that the edges have been subjected to hard ionizing radiation, but this is not conclusive. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Sighting Noted,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12654935/medford-mn-ufo-landing/)” Fergus Falls \(Minn.\) Daily Journal, November 5, 1975, p. 22; Edward J. Zeller, “[The Use of Thermoluminescence for the Evaluation](http://cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf) [of UFO Landing Site Effects,](http://cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf)” Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Center for UFO Studies, 1976, pp. 301–308, reprinted in IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 19–22, 28 Source ID: Eberhart_5221 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17082 (62E34EF1) Date: Early 11/1975 Description: 8:00–9:00 p.m. Bill Jackson, a reporter for the Sterling \(Colo.\) Advocate, his wife Cheryl, and their young child are driving on State Highway 61 halfway between Otis and Sterling, Colorado, when they see a red light in the sky ahead of them. As it approaches, they see it is a huge object \(as big as a 747\) with a dozen rows of multicolored lights, perhaps hundreds of them. It passes slowly over their car, so close that Jackson thinks he can hit it with a stone. They drive at high speed the rest of the way to Sterling. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard Sigismond, “A CE-I, a Lonely Road, a Black Night,” IUR 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1984\): 5, 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5220 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17083 (C992E992) Date: 11/3/1975 Description: 5:45 a.m. Ontario Police constables in Haileybury, Ontario, see a round object with fingers of white light emanating from it hovering northeast of town. Another object to the north of it has red, green, and white lights. After about 1 hour both objects begin moving slowly south and gaining altitude. They are still visible at 7:00 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Files Obtained from the National Archives of Canada](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/offica03.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5222 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17084 (0CDF6AC7) Date: 11/3/1975 Description: Dick Jackson, age 56, awoke late at night around two o'clock in the morning in Bokoelia, Florida and stepped outside his trailer home. The next thing he recalls, he found himself standing beside a domed object, with steps leading up to a door. He climbed the steps and was invited in. The interior was a single round compartment, 24 feet in diameter and 8 feet high, with a small control panel. There were eight crewmembers inside, but only one spoke to him. This man was five feet tall, stocky and of dark complexion, and elderly looking. He wore brown coveralls with no shirt. Speaking in English, he told Mr. Jackson that they came from the planet "Planteh." They have been preparing "a neighboring planet" for colonization by Earth people, and Jackson was asked to help then recruit colonists; perfect health was offered to him in return for his assistance. After 90 minutes of conversation Jackson left the craft, which took off with great speed. Then he found himself in his trailer. He told his 16-year old son of the experience. The case appears to have episodes of distorted reality or missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1975-42, citing Frazier Moore, Fort Myers News-Press Source ID: Johnson_7436 Source: Johnson ### Event 17085 (89A958FB) Date: 11/3/1975 Description: Late night. Unknown individuals penetrate the flight line at Grand Forks AFB north of Emerado, North Dakota. At least two KC-135 aircraft are hit by small arms fire. Security forces pursue the intruders but apparently do not apprehend them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 48–49](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/46/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5223 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17086 (24F18721) Date: 11/3/1975 Description: At 11:45 p.m. the two witnesses, Christian Talbot and Susan Mondor, were driving on an old dirt road in Saint-Dominique-de-Bagot, Quebec, Canada on a very bright starry night. They heard a strange noise and their vehicle engine abruptly stalled. Out of nowhere a strange figure then approached the vehicle very quickly. Both witness could only catch a glimpse of the stranger, described as somewhat "caveman" in appearance, with dark hair and a beard, pointy ears, and "demonic" facial features. The top half of its body was greenish and the bottom half was pale white. This strange creature ran by the car and disappeared into the woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Marc Leduc, CASUFO Source ID: Johnson_7437 Source: Johnson ### Event 17087 (55372ECE) Date: 11/4/1975 Description: At 6:50 p.m. a red disc-shaped object flanked by two nocturnal lights stopped in place, then descended slowly into some woods near Lussault-sur-Loire, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1977 Source ID: Johnson_7462 Source: Johnson ### Event 17088 (276B6733) Date: 11/4/1975 Description: At 6:50 p.m. a red disc-shaped object flanked by two nocturnal lights stopped in place, then descended slowly into some woods near Lussault-sur-Loire, France. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1977). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lussault-sur-Loire (near), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4565 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17089 (09A4F9D4) Date: 11/4/1975 Description: Cylinder hovering at treetop level, windows, body lights visible. Skylook, MUFON, January 1976, p. 6 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ross, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4564 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17090 (AA11B972) Date: 11/5/1975 Description: Travis Walton Case (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [751105](http://nicap.org/751105snowflake%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Snowflake, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4566 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17091 (6FD9AA01) Date: 11/5/1975 Description: 40' Object Causes Van to Hit Ditch (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [751105](http://www.nicap.org/751105redwater%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Redwater, Alberta (north of), CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4567 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17092 (B3BB9DB5) Date: 11/5/1975 Description: 9:50 p.m. (Approximate) Mr. Wayne Morrow, observed an unidentified object flying 10 miles south of Bowden, Alberta. Mr. Morrow was proceeding northbound on NBR 2 Highway at the time of the sighting. The object was approximately 50 feet above the ground traveling in a southerly direction at 100 mph. The object was sighted for approximately 5 to 10 seconds. (National Research Council of Canada Record Group 77, Vol. 308, reel number 1742 N75/149) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bowden, Alberta (10 mi south of), CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4569 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17093 (C0138426) Date: 11/5/1975 Description: 12:30 a.m. Jim Divall is driving north of Redwater, Alberta, when he comes upon a large, black, revolving object in the road ahead. He has to drive his vehicle into a ditch to avoid hitting it. The object is 40 feet in diameter. He gets out to watch it for a few minutes as it makes a rushing sound, then it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 185 Source ID: Eberhart_5224 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17094 (2A068038) Date: 11/5/1975 Description: Just after 6:00 p.m. [Travis Walton](https://ufocongress.com/travis-walton/) and six fellow log cutters finish a long day of thinning undergrowth in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Snowflake, Arizona. Heading up Mogollon Rim Road, Walton soon notices something shining among the branches off to the right. The others see it too. They turn up Old Verde Road toward Turkey Springs. The spaces between the trees flash by too quickly to make out what the object is, but a clearing reveals a yellowish glow that washes across the road in front of them. The driver speeds up to get a closer look. They reach the clearing, and about 110 feet away a glowing disc hangs in the air, making a high- pitched buzz and floating motionless between the trees, only 15 feet off the ground. The truck slams to a halt and Walton opens his door to get a better look. There is no sound. One of the cutters shouts: “My God! It’s a flying saucer!” Walton then steps out of the cab and walks toward the object. The others beg him to get back in the truck, but he feels compelled to get a close-up look. He approaches the craft cautiously, glancing back to the truck now and then as his friends continue to plead with him. Coming within 6 feet, Walton stops and stares up at its glowing underside. Suddenly, the silence gives way to what Walton later describes as the thunderous swell of a turbine engine. A narrow beam of light fires from the bottom of the disc and strikes Walton in the chest. It lifts him up, then knocks him unconscious to the ground like a thunderbolt. In a panic, the rest of the crew speeds away toward the main road, terrified. When the men regain their senses, they return to the clearing to rescue Walton, but the craft is gone and so is Walton. Despite a thorough search of the area, they find no trace of him and drive home. When they report what happened, the authorities discount the men’s tale as a ridiculous attempt to cover up a murder and launch an extensive search for Walton’s body. They search for several days and find nothing. Walton reappears outside Heber, Arizona, on November 10 and corroborates their story, with the addition of what happened aboard the spacecraft. Walton awakes in a hospital-like room, observed by three short, bald creatures. He fights with them until a human wearing a helmet leads him to another room, where he blacks out as three other humans put a clear plastic mask over his face. He remembers nothing else until he finds himself walking along a highway, with the UFO departing above him. In the days following, The National Enquirer awards Walton and his coworkers a $5,000 prize for “best UFO case of the year” after they pass polygraph tests administered by Cy Gilson of the Arizona state police \(repeated in 1993\), the Enquirer, and APRO. A private investigator named John McCarthy tests Walton using an outdated procedure with a polygraph in 1975 and finds him deceptive. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Travis Walton UFO Incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis%5FWalton%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, [pp. 80–113](https://archive.org/details/abductedconfront0000lore/page/80/mode/2up), [161–190](https://archive.org/details/abductedconfront0000lore/page/160/mode/2up); Travis Walton, [Fire in the Sky](https://archive.org/details/1996traviswaltonfireinthesky), Marlowe, 1996; Geoff Price, “Lie Detection in UFO Controversies,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 15–16, 31; Kevin D. Randle, “The Truth about Polygraphs,” IUR 22, no. 4 \(Winter 1997–1998\): 28; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 145; Clark III 1234–1249 Source ID: Eberhart_5225 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17095 (7901C6A6) Date: 11/5/1975 Description: 4:10 a.m. At least six UFOs near ground. (NIDS UFO 14) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Raynesford (near), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4568 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17096 (12937AC6) Date: 11/5/1975 Description: Travis Walton abduction case Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Heber, AZ Source ID: HallUFOE2_272 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17097 (327C9CA3) Date: 11/6/1975 Description: A domed disc landed on three legs in Merxheim, France at 10:00 p.m. The dome on the craft opened, and the head and shoulders of an occupant was seen partially emerging from it. The dome closed and the UFO rose up into the air, then took off toward the east-southeast Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #11518 Source ID: Johnson_7507 Source: Johnson ### Event 17098 (CBA25B29) Date: 11/6/1975 Description: US Attorney General [Edward H. Levi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FH.%5FLevi) issues a set of guidelines to limit the activities of the FBI. These guidelines require the FBI to show evidence of a crime before using secret police techniques like wiretaps or entering someone’s home without warning. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_5226 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17099 (F9DADD7B) Date: 11/6/1975 Description: 10:00 p.m. A domed disc landed on three legs. The dome on the craft opened, and the head and shoulders of an occupant was seen partially emerging from it. The dome closed and the UFO rose up into the air, then took off toward the east- southeast (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #11518). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Merxheim, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4570 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17100 (6DD1D09E) Date: 11/7/1975 Description: Malmstrom AFB, Montana, RV,E-M (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [751107](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/malmstrom75dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lewiston, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4571 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17101 (3E76A511) Date: 11/7/1975 Description: Targeting system tampered with (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [751107](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-malmstrom751107.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4572 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17102 (FA593636) Date: 11/7/1975 Description: 3:00 p.m.–November 8, 9:53 p.m. Remote electronic sensors trigger an alarm at Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls, Montana, indicating that something is violating security at several missile launch sites. Underground, in the launch control facility, two officers note the signal, but there is no TV surveillance topside. A missile security helicopter checks the area and Sabotage Alert Teams consisting of 4–6 men are ordered to proceed to the areas. One SAT team drives down the highway and onto a dirt road that leads to the K-7 area near Judith Gap, Montana. About a mile away, the team sees an orange, glowing object. As they close to within half a mile, they can see that the object is tremendous in size. They radio to the launch control facility that, from their location, they are viewing a brightly glowing, orange, football field-sized disc that illuminates the missile site. The SAT team is ordered to proceed into the K-7 site. However, they refuse to go any farther, clearly fearful of the intimidating appearance of the object. It begins to rise, and at about 1,000 feet, NORAD picks up the UFO on radar. Two F- 106 jet interceptors are launched from Great Falls and head toward the K-7 site. The UFO continues to rise. At about 200,000 feet, it disappears from NORAD’s radar. The F-106s are never able to get a clear sighting of the several UFOs, which play cat-and-mouse with the aircraft, extinguishing their illumination when they approach, and re-illuminating after the fighters return to base. All members of the SAT team are directed to the base hospital, where they are psychologically tested. No one can identify the object, but the members of the SAT team obviously have been through a traumatic experience. Targeting teams, along with computer specialists, are brought to the launch site to examine the missile and the computer in the warhead. When the computer is checked, they find that the tape has mysteriously changed target numbers. The reentry vehicle is then taken from the silo and brought back to the base. Eventually the entire missile is changed out. Radar and visual sightings continue for the next 31 hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Malmstrom AFB Incident \(1975\)](http://www.nicap.org/babylon/malmstrom75dir.htm)”; ClearIntent, [pp. 27–29](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/26/mode/2up); Richard Sigismond, “Four Huge Orange Discs and the Case for the UFO,” IUR 8, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1983\): 7–8; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 \(Mar. 2012\): 11–12; Nukes 358–361 Source ID: Eberhart_5227 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17103 (9BC4E9E6) Date: 11/7/1975 End date: 11/8/1975 Description: Base personnel saw orange disc that breached security area, illuminated missile site, tracked on radar Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT Source ID: HallUFOE2_273 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17104 (D1C451EA) Date: 11/8/1975 Description: Two F-106 fighter jets were scrambled out of Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana at 7:45 Z. At 2:53 a.m. local time a visual sighting of at least one low level noctural light was made by the Sabotage Alert Teams on the ground. The radar target was at 300 feet altitude, and the weather station reported no anomalous propagation. Targets would turn out their lights whenever the jets approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: US Air Force Air Command Center report dated November 8, 1975; Richard Sigismonde, International UFO Reporter, March 1983, p. 7; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 132; UNICAT, case # 15 Source ID: Johnson_7541 Source: Johnson ### Event 17105 (686B5406) Date: 11/8/1975 Description: F-106's scrambled after UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [751108](http://www.nicap.org/751108malmstromafb%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4573 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17106 (9A2A34B0) Date: 11/8/1975 Description: At 1:00 a.m. campers in the Catskill Mountains, New York had an abduction experience with one hour of missing time. Campers at the Pepactin Reservoir in Ulster County first saw a luminous "sled" with hoops on top descend. "Rabbits" approach tent (screen memory?). 60 min missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_7542 Source: Johnson ### Event 17107 (20D7B2BA) Date: 11/8/1975 Description: On November 1st a mineralogist walking near Vauchingnon, France happened upon some peculiar tracks in the grass of the prairie. These circular tracks were six inches across and nearly an inch deep, as if made by a heavy biped taking long strides, which ran for some distance. He wanted to photograph them, but because it was getting late in the afternoon he decided to come back later. He returned with a friend on this afternoon. Before they located the tracks they saw two quasi-human figures about five feet tall, dressed in dark blue or black, emerge from a copse of woods 50 meters away. These beings had very long arms and were taking extraordinarily long strides. They began to ascend a very steep slope, and the mineralogist's friend ran after them, but the beings climbed the slope so quickly that they easily escaped from view and were lost in some bushes ont he hill. The main witness reported that no human athlete, in his opinion, could have duplicated their performance. A few seconds later a white station wagon with dark painted windows came into view on a little traveled road further up the slope, then took off again at high speed. Immediately afterwards, a small blue car did exactly the same thing. Although the bushes blocked their view, the witnesses believed that these two vehicles had picked up the humanoids. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Blocher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-63, citing Joel Mesnard & Hean Marie Bigorne Source ID: Johnson_7543 Source: Johnson ### Event 17108 (248358C5) Date: 11/8/1975 Description: At 8:20 p.m. Strategic Air Command reported a UFO 20 miles southeast of Lewistown, Montana. It was an orange-white, disc-shaped object. NORAD radar was unable to get a height check. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fund for UFO Research report, p. 100 Source ID: Johnson_7544 Source: Johnson ### Event 17109 (3398BBF0) Date: 11/10/1975 Description: 10:15–11:20 p.m. A bright light passes over Minot AFB, North Dakota, moving west to east at 1,000– 2,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 48](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/48/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5228 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17110 (D5EBC245) Date: 11/10/1975 Description: A long entry from the 24th NORAD Region Senior Director's Log said: "UFO sighting reported by Minot Air Force Station, a bright star-like object in the west, moving east, about the size of a car. First seen approximately 1015. Approximately 1120, the object passed over the radar station, 1000-2000 feet high, no noise heard. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minot AFB, ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_4574 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17111 (1B8A006D) Date: 11/11/1975 Description: Spherical Object Tracked on Height Finder Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [751111](http://www.nicap.org/751111falconbridge%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falconbridge, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4580 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17112 (26C90AF0) Date: 11/11/1975 Description: A Montana Fish and Game Department employee saw a light flying directly behind a B-52 bomber. Using his rifle scope to get a better look, he noted that the strange object seemed to be pacing the aircraft. The object then briefly attached itself to the B-52, detached itself, and climbed out of sight. The sighting was reported to Sheriff Pete Howard of Choteau County. Howard conducted follow-up interviews with military personnel and learned that as the object attached itself to the B-52, the plane's radar equipment went out. (Reference: Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood, Clear Intent, page 35) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Freeze Out Lake, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4579 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17113 (B42FA2AF) Date: 11/11/1975 Description: Evening. Capt. [Keith Wolverton](https://www.schniderfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Keith-Wolverton?obId=7770702&/obituaryInfo) of the Cascade County Sheriff’s Department and a deputy are returning to Great Falls from Missoula, Montana. Suddenly a large orange light descends out of the northern sky, lighting up both sides of the road. It passes directly over the cruiser at about 200 feet. It goes from horizon to horizon in 4 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 34–35](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/34/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5232 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17114 (F9F34184) Date: 11/11/1975 Description: Lawrence Albert sighted a solid, spherical, evenly distributed green light. The object was much brighter than the sky background and was sharply outlined. The witness stated the apparent size of the object was that of a quarter held at arm's length. The speed of the object was twice that of a jet plane. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, January 1976, page 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beltsville, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4578 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17115 (A72D8F17) Date: 11/11/1975 Description: A confidential NORAD communication reveals that Air Guard helicopters, Strategic Air Command helicopters, and NORAD F-106s are scrambled during the recent UFO sightings over Northern Tier military bases. They fail to produce positive identifications. In a priority message sent from SAC headquarters in Offutt AFB near Bellevue, Nebraska, to numerous Air Force bases during the same month, the Air Force reveals its continuation of a policy to deny USAF interest in the subject: “News media queries concerning such unidentified overflights are properly the concern of the Air Defense Command, and queries should be referred to CINC- NORAD/OI… Remarks should be confined to personal experiences and care should be taken to avoid speculation or to imply Air Force interest beyond security of the installation.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 347](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/347/mode/2up); Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 87–90](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/86/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5231 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17116 (2F018E2C) Date: 11/11/1975 Description: A Montana Fish and Game Department employee at Freezeout Lake, Montana, sees a light flying directly behind a B-52 bomber. Using his rifle scope to get a better look, he notes that the strange object seems to be pacing the aircraft. The object then briefly attaches itself to the B-52, detaches, and climbs out of sight. The sighting is reported to Sheriff Pete Howard of Choteau County. Howard conducts follow-up interviews with military personnel and learns that as the object attaches itself to the B-52, the plane’s radar equipment goes out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 35](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/34/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5230 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17117 (0CAE77E7) Date: 11/11/1975 Description: 6:15 a.m. A spherical object is observed from Canadian Forces Station Falconbridge \[now closed\] in Valley East, Ontario. The object appears to be rotating and has a surface similar to the moon. The object ascends and descends. The object is observed on height-finder radar at altitudes from 42,000–72,000 feet intermittently for 6 hours. Two F-106 jets are sent from Selfridge AFB \[now Selfridge Air National Guard Base\] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, but report no visual or radar contact. Other lights are seen periodically over the next few days, including at least seven members of the Ontario Police in Sudbury. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Spherical Object Tracked on](http://www.nicap.org/babylon/malmstrom75dir.htm) [Height Finder Radar](http://www.nicap.org/babylon/malmstrom75dir.htm)”; ClearIntent, [pp. 50–51](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/50/mode/2up); Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 152–156; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 114–121; Good Above, [pp. 202–203](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/202/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Files Obtained from the National Archives of](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/offica04.htm) [Canada](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/offica04.htm)”; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 207–219 Source ID: Eberhart_5229 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17118 (73AA4DCD) Date: 11/11/1975 Description: Civilians, police officers, military officers, and NORAD radar saw and tracked UFOs that alternately hovered and darted around at high speed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Falconbridge, Ontario, Canada Source ID: HallUFOE2_274 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17119 (39E75CFF) Date: 11/11/1975 Description: 3:00 a.m. EST. Six nurses at the Pioneer Manor Sudbury, observed a very bright object over the Sudbury Stadium. The object seemed to hover at first and then suddenly shot into the sky. It was still visible when the Sudbury Regional Police arrived at 4:55 a.m. (National Research Council of Canada Record Group 77, Vol. 308, reel number 1742) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sudbury, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4575 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17120 (CABD1FBF) Date: 11/11/1975 Description: 4:55 a.m. EST. Sudbury Regional Police constables came on a follow up call by six nurses at the Pioneer Manor to check on a reported UFO. The constables observed four objects clearly in the sky. (National Research Council of Canada Record Group 77, Vol. 308, reel number 1742) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sudbury, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4577 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17121 (ABF972F9) Date: 11/11/1975 Description: Confidential CINC/NORAD Report related to sightings over nuclear missile bases in 1975 Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/468/mode/2up) p468) Location: US See also: 10/28/75 Source ID: Maj2_686 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17122 (305AEA31) Date: 11/11/1975 Description: 5:00 a.m. EST. Constables Keables and Whiteside, Sudbury Regional Police, observed a cylindrical-shaped object with shafts of light bright enough to light up clouds in immediate area. (National Research Council of Canada, Record Group 77, Vol. 308, reel number 1742) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sudbury, Ontario (near), CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4576 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17123 (7F90EDDB) Date: 11/12/1975 Description: 7:15 a.m. 23rd NORAD Region. UFO Reported from Radar site at Falconbridge Ontario, Canada (Sudbury). Reported by Mr. Julian Prince of Sudbury thru Ontario Provincial Police (also observed by 2 OPP constables ZADOW & BRETT) 2 objects seen appeared to be artificial light fading on and off with jerky motion. Broken cloud layer with no estimated base. No radar contact made and no request for fighter scramble initiated. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falconbridge, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4581 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17124 (30D81695) Date: 11/13/1975 Description: On this night in 1975 a number of multi-colored nocturnal lights were reported in the midwestern and southern United States. Sparkling white, red, and yellow lights flew in formation erratically in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Red, green, and white lights were sighted in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, moving up-and-down and diagonally. In Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin bright white lights that dimmed, disappeared, and then re-appeared were sighted. In Mobile, Alabama a UFO, changing colors, moved across the horizon. A round silver object was seen moving slowly in the northwest sky in Orlando, Florida. It suddenly disappeared. (Source: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 13.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: midwestern and southern, USA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4582 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17125 (E55C012E) Date: 11/13/1975 Description: On this night in 1975 a number of multi-colored nocturnal lights were reported in the midwestern and southern United States. Sparkling white, red, and yellow lights flew in formation erratically in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Red, green, and white lights were sighted in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, moving up-and-down and diagonally. In Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin bright white lights that dimmed, disappeared, and then re-appeared were sighted. In Mobile, Alabama a UFO, changing colors, moved across the horizon. A round silver object was seen moving slowly in the northwest sky in Orlando, Florida. It suddenly disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 13. Source ID: Johnson_7639 Source: Johnson ### Event 17126 (B214B42B) Date: 11/14/1975 Description: 9:02 p.m. EST (event time). Message of Nov. 15: "0533z (12:33 a.m. EST)...UFO report from Falconbridge, occurrence time 0202z. Report sent to NCOC Surveillance, referred to Assistant Command Director Space Defense Center, and Intelligence. These three individuals considered the report a UFO report and not an unknown track report." (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falconbridge AFS, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4583 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17127 (6C48D275) Date: 11/15/1975 Description: A red flying object approached a car driven by a Mrs. Prichard with three passengers in Pacific, Missouri, then ejected several white balls of light (BOLs). The metal of the car was magnetized after the encounter. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1976; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4587 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17128 (FA0CAF8B) Date: 11/15/1975 Description: 6:30 a.m. EST. Lyman Paquette, his wife, plus his brother and sister in law observed one bright white object that looked like a cup in a bowl due east at 70 degrees elevation. Witnesses using binoculars observed the object climb quite high and can hardly now be seen without the aid of binoculars. The object was observed for 20 minutes. (National Research Council of Canada, Record Group 77, Vol. 308, reel number 1742 N75/182) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sudbury, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4584 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17129 (CA9DD367) Date: 11/15/1975 Description: 7:42 a.m. UFO 23rd NORAD REGION. From Falconbridge Radar Site a civilian, Oliver Kizioja, Sudbury, Ontario, at 0615 was standing in back yard facing south. Observed one bright yellow object moving up and back, leaving a tail. It was very high but did not change position in regard to other stars. He watched for 15 minutes, then called radar site. Not observed on radar. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falconbridge AFS, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4585 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17130 (0A902D3E) Date: 11/15/1975 Description: 11:30 a.m. event. 12:29 p.m. 23rd NORAD REGION. From Falconbridge. At 1130, Lyman Paqutte, married student, residence Laurentian Univ., Sudbury, Ontario. Reported he had been looking due east, sky partly cloudy, saw one bright white object about 70° elevation, high out of range of binoculars. It climbed high out of range of binoculars. Observed for 20 minutes and witnessed by his wife, brother-in-law and sister-in-law. Negative radar contact. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falconbridge AFS, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4586 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17131 (368442E8) Date: 11/15/1975 Description: A disc-shaped UFO rose from the sea near a large radio antenna in Marseille, France. It circled, then made a 90 degree turn to the south and flew out to sea. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marseille, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4588 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17132 (838A70BC) Date: 11/15/1975 Description: Also in 1975, a red flying object approached a car driven by a Mrs. Prichard with three passengers in Pacific, Missouri, then ejected several white balls of light (BOLs). The metal of the car was magnetized after the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1976; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 66. Source ID: Johnson_7698 Source: Johnson ### Event 17133 (2E036C6E) Date: 11/15/1975 Description: a disc-shaped UFO rose from the sea near a large radio antenna in Marseille, France. It circled, then made a 90 degree turn to the south and flew out to sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_7697 Source: Johnson ### Event 17134 (549D90D3) Date: 11/16/1975 Description: Red ellipse hovering 1-1.5 km. away; suddenly flew away. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 22, No. 6; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 66 (E) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Curiel, Valladolid, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4591 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17135 (7EBC0178) Date: 11/16/1975 Description: 9:30 p.m. EST. 17 November 1975 1705 23rd NORAD region; UFO reported 0230z from a Mr. John Dunlops. Two objects, oval shaped with two yellow flashing lights, moving north to south, then became stationary, observed for 10 minutes, one above the other, sky was cloudy. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manitoulin Island, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4590 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17136 (5328F7DA) Date: 11/16/1975 Description: Red ellipse hovering 1-1.5 km. away; suddenly flew away. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 22, No. 6; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 66 (E) car (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Curiel, Valladolid, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4589 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17137 (C8895093) Date: 11/17/1975 Description: 24 NORAD Region UFO at 132345z Large orange ball with 2 red lights stationary; Azimuth 045° from River Court, Ontario. No radar contact. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Falconbridge AFS, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4592 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17138 (8C344EA1) Date: 11/17/1975 Description: 7:00 p.m. Suzanne Erenberger and Dave Vardeman are driving on US Highway 30 about one-quarter mile west of Mount Vernon, Iowa, when they see white lights in the southwestern sky. They stop the car and get out to watch for a while. Frightened, they drive into town to notify the police. The police chief describes Erenberger as “terrified, nearly hysterical.” An officer accompanies the two students back to the location but sees nothing unusual. Erenberger tells a reporter from the Cedar Rapids Gazette that they were only 30 feet away from one of the lights, which was only 25 feet off the ground. She makes a drawing of a domed object for a high-school newspaper. UFO investigator [Kevin D. Randle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle) interviews Erenberger on November 27, and she tells him there is a bright light coming from a 30-foot-wide disc-shaped object with a huge glass dome. She thinks she can see two humanoid shapes behind it. But Vardeman separately tells Randle that he only sees lights in the distance and nothing else. Randle also talks to an additional witness, [Richard Manson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81833790/richard-carl-manson), who has seen a red light about the same time. Randle concludes that the lights come from aircraft landing at the Cedar Rapids Municipal Airport and that Erenberger’s details are confabulations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Coed: ‘No Doubt about What I Saw,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96881701/)” Cedar Rapids \(Iowa\) Gazette, November 19, 1975, p. 3C; Kevin D. Randle, “UFOs on Memory Lane,” IUR 26, no. 1 \(Spring 2001\): 9–11, 30 Source ID: Eberhart_5233 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17139 (1B247A9B) Date: 11/18/1975 Description: At 6:30 a.m. Reginald Jack Langstaff while traveling in a vehicle observed a bright orange to red object with a curved dome shaped top and the sides were sloped 70 to 80 degrees. (Reference: Royal Canadian Mounted Police report, November 26, 1975. Shoal Lake Detachment RCMP File References: 75-700-126, National Research Council of Canada Record Group 77, Vol. 308, reel number 1742) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Strathclair, Manitoba, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4594 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17140 (FB783259) Date: 11/18/1975 Description: 4:31 a.m. UFO. RAPCON notified. (NIDS UFO 20) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kevin/Dunkirk area, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4593 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17141 (79B0A2F7) Date: 11/19/1975 Description: On this night in 1975 in Oak Brook, Illinois, a boy saw a domed disc hovering near his home. The UFO had a red light on top and two clear lights on the side. (Source: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 13). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oak Brook, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4595 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17142 (B2002AD0) Date: 11/20/1975 Description: Michel, Robert, and Claude Souris found the Centre d’Études et de Recherches des Phénomènes Inexpliqués in Saintes, France. It publishes a CERPI Circulaire newsletter from February 1976 to 1981. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [CERPI](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/CERPI/CERPI%20-%20no%2001%20-%20fevrier%201976.pdf), no. 1 \(February 1976\) Source ID: Eberhart_5234 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17143 (95A527EA) Date: 11/20/1975 Description: The police chief of Camilla, Georgia reported that a big, round UFO hovered just 80 meters above his police station at two a.m. It had bright lights on the top and bottom. It flew away slowly to the southeast and was in view for three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_7753 Source: Johnson ### Event 17144 (3768F8F9) Date: 11/20/1975 Description: The police chief of Camilla, Georgia reported that a big, round UFO hovered just 80 meters above his police station at two a.m. It had bright lights on the top and bottom. It flew away slowly to the southeast and was in view for three minutes. (Source: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 73). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Camilla, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4596 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17145 (0FA05C96) Date: 11/21/1975 Description: On this night a shining round object with a blinking light moved quickly from north to south in the eastern sky from Forest Grove, Oregon. At 3:00 a.m. the fifth UFO abduction occurred to a UFO abductee in Garden Grove, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 67; (2) FSR, October 1976, p.19; Alvin H. Larson, Proccedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 141-142 Source ID: Johnson_7777 Source: Johnson ### Event 17146 (B236C994) Date: 11/22/1975 Description: Pilots observe UFO near nuclear plant (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [751122](http://www.nicap.org/751122savannah%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Savannah, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4597 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17147 (7CCDE1FE) Date: 11/22/1975 Description: At 5:50 p.m. two men, Auman and Andrews, who were flying at 4,000 feet altitude 15 miles north of Walterboro, South Carolina saw a white ball of light above them but under the cloud ceiling at 20,000 feet. The UFO came in from coast, crossed in front of and above their plane, made a slight wobble, then a sharp turn, and finally accelerated away to the southwest. The bright white UFO was seen above the Savannah River Nuclear Plant during this encounter, that lasted for 4-5 minutes. Jacksonville ATC confirmed three reports by pilots in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Arlan K. Andrews, report filed with J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies; Skylook, January 1976, p. 19; Rense.com, citing Larry Fawcett & Barry Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_7804 Source: Johnson ### Event 17148 (201A3F06) Date: 11/23/1975 Description: A domed disc-shaped object with three white lights and a smaller blinking red light in the center was sighted by a young couple in Chicago, Illinois at 4:50 p.m. on a clear evening. It hovered motionless for a few seconds, dropped down, hovered again, then moved to the east, hovered a third time, and finally moved rapidly off to the northwest. It made no sound and the witnesses were confident it was not a plane or helicopter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fred Merritt, on-site case field investigation Source ID: Johnson_7847 Source: Johnson ### Event 17149 (F5F6A5E7) Date: 11/23/1975 Description: A one-meter in diameter disc was spotted just over the highway D786 in Treguier, France. It followed a car west, but turned back quickly to the east when the car approached the town. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11555, citing Jean Claude Bourret, La Nouveau Defi des OVNI, p. 164 Source ID: Johnson_7846 Source: Johnson ### Event 17150 (45395817) Date: 11/25/1975 Description: On this night in a field nine miles west of Goodridge, Minnesota, a disc-shaped object eight feet in diameter was seen in a field. It rose off the ground, then relanded. The witness's car stalled, and later required major tune-up repair work. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 66). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goodridge, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4598 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17151 (8B9C1766) Date: 11/25/1975 Description: On this night in a field nine miles west of Goodridge, Minnesota, a disc-shaped object eight feel in diameter was seen in a field. It rose off the ground, then relanded. The witness's car stalled, and later required major tune-up repair work. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 66 Source ID: Johnson_7912 Source: Johnson ### Event 17152 (7539D464) Date: 11/27/1975 Description: Mr. And Mrs. Henry Vidal and their five-year-old son were en route to Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico at around 2:30 a.m. when they saw a bright object approach them at high speed. Glowing different colors, it hovered silently ahead of their car, which had slowed down to a crawl despite all attempts by Mr. Vidal to speed up. The object was cone-shaped and the bottom appeared to rotate rapidly, "like a drill." It was so large and so close that it filled most of their windshield, and remained in position near their slowly moving car for what they thought was 15 minutes, after which it rapidly climbed away and disappeared from view. They reached the town of Culiacan at 7:00 a.m., about two and a half hours late, and the missing time could not be accounted for. After they returned to their home in Santa Ana, Mrs. Vidal began to have a series of nightmares in which she dreamed she had been abducted by a UFO. In another dream she was levitated from her bed by a group of shadowy, small entities using some bright fluorescent lights. Her husband, awakened by her cries, awakened his wife, and she had scratches on her arms and legs that she could not account for. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-64 (1804), citing Dr. Alvin H. Lawson Source ID: Johnson_7961 Source: Johnson ### Event 17153 (08B27101) Date: 11/27/1975 Description: A round or disc-shaped object, yellow in color, approached to within 100 feet of two hunters on Peters Mountain, West Virginia at around 6:00 p.m. It blinked on-and-off, then shot away as three U.S. Air Force jets entered the airspace, but reappeared after the jets had gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_7962 Source: Johnson ### Event 17154 (C2DABB13) Date: 11/27/1975 Description: Two men, Marquis and Rindahl, were driving on a road nine miles east of Goodridge, Minnesota when they were approached from ahead by a silent glowing red object at 7:15 p.m. It approached to within half a mile at 200 feet altitude, then landed. The driver turned the car around but the engine began to stall, and the vehicle subsequently required an extensive tune up before it would run right. A second driver reportedly also saw the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Middle River (MN) Record, January 7, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_7963 Source: Johnson ### Event 17155 (A474DB01) Date: 11/28/1975 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a UFO in Arendal, Norway caused lasting physiological effects for two 75-year-old witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS files, report dated December 2, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_8000 Source: Johnson ### Event 17156 (C2289A5E) Date: 11/28/1975 Description: At 3:30 a.m. an orange-red luminous disc-shaped object was encountered in Mosciano Sant' Angelo, Abruzzi, Italy under some electric power lines, moving slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case 75 Source ID: Johnson_7999 Source: Johnson ### Event 17157 (F89EFF8D) Date: 11/29/1975 Description: On this night a silvery cylinder with bright lights hovered overhead for one minute In New Rochelle, New York, then came down to 200-300 feet above ground, before ascending again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_8039 Source: Johnson ### Event 17158 (E7B4686F) Date: 11/30/1975 Description: Unit One of the Leningrad \[now St. Petersburg\], Russia, nuclear power plant is being brought back online after scheduled maintenance when it begins to run out of control. A partial meltdown occurs, destroying or damaging 32 fuel assemblies and releasing radiation into the atmosphere over the Gulf of Finland. The official line is that a manufacturing defect caused the destruction of only one fuel channel, but the accident is really caused by an uncontrollable increase in the steam void coefficient. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, pp. 66–67 Source ID: Eberhart_5235 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17159 (C1DC3DB3) Date: 12/1975 Description: The Air Force panel finishes reviewing the Blue Book files and turns over the sanitized version to the National Archives, apparently without yet physically moving the files to NARA facilities. These files now include an added set of AFOSI files of UFO investigations from 1948 to 1968 released by AFOSI in December 1975. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5236 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17160 (87EFBC1E) Date: 12/2/1975 Description: Sandra Larson awoke at four o'clock in the morning to find two beings standing beside her bed in Fargo, North Dakota. They were the same type she had seen on August 26th: about six feet tall, brown vinyl like bodies with metallic looking arms, and mummy-like heads bandaged up in tape (with the eyes remaining visible). They floated her out through the bedroom wall to a field several blocks away, where they took her onboard a UFO. When she was taken from the craft they were in a desert landscape with white sand, lit by a celestial body resembling the moon. She was taken into a square building where a humanoid--she thought of him as a scientist--interrogated her using telepathy. Then she was taken home, again floating through a closed door into her house. She thought about taking a bath, and the entities asked her what "soap" was; she took them to her basement and gave them a cup of laundry detergent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-60 (A1437), citing Jerome Clark, UFO Report, August 1976, p. 21; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 270 Source ID: Johnson_8134 Source: Johnson ### Event 17161 (8F8D8A79) Date: 12/2/1975 Description: There were five separate reports of unmarked black helicopters flying around missile sites and nearby towns in Carter, Conrad, Fairfield, Great Falls, Montana and at the Fort Benton J-5 Missile Site in Chouteau County, Montana. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roberta Donovan, Mystery Stalks the Prairie, pp. 47-51; Great Falls Tribune, December 5, 1975 Source ID: Johnson_8133 Source: Johnson ### Event 17162 (E2E2C7E9) Date: 12/4/1975 Description: 11:05 p.m. Wayne Major, reporter for the North Bay Nugget, observed two quiet triangular shaped objects moving SE. The North Bay Tower advised one light aircraft in the area who reported sighting something else in the area. Possibility of pictures. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4600 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17163 (EEB27877) Date: 12/4/1975 Description: On this evening a man was alone in his leather shop in Arizona when two human looking beings entered. One was male and the other female. He had seen the male before. They were both nearly human in appearance, except they had yellow colored eyes, high cheeks, flat noses, and wide thin mouths. The man was also bald, and the woman appeared to be wearing a wig. While the man was over 6 feet tall, the woman was somewhat shorter. Their skin seemed translucent it was so pale, and their fingers were exceptionally long, especially the middle one, but their legs were unusually short. Feeling strangely unable to resist them, he went with them into his back room and undressed. The woman went over his body with a small metallic device, then undressed and had sexual intercourse with the witness, making animal sounds during the process. At one point he was told by the beings that they had lost the will to resist evil, so they needed to interbreed with humans. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: letter in CUFOS dated March 11, 1978; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1629; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, case # 2231, citing B. Ann Slate & William McCall Source ID: Johnson_8179 Source: Johnson ### Event 17164 (8B733659) Date: 12/5/1975 Description: Evening. An object that looked like a Ferris wheel on its side was sighted on this night. It had yellow and amber colored lights spinning around it as the object moved forward. (Source: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, pp. 11 & 14). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clarkston, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4601 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17165 (0D0A93FF) Date: 12/5/1975 Description: Evening. A flying object with two large clear lights in front, and a red light in the rear was encountered this evening. A string of lights connected the three large lights and would change colors from red to green to brown to yellow. The UFO moved erratically, in rapid short spurts (Source: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, pp. 11 & 14). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montville, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4602 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17166 (1AA8BF71) Date: 12/5/1975 Description: An object that looked like a Ferris wheel on its side was sighted in Clarkston, Georgia on this night. It had yellow and amber colored lights spinning around it as the object moved forward. On that same night another flying object with two large clear lights in front, and a red light in the rear was encountered in Montville, New Jersey. A string of lights connected the three large lights and would change colors from red to green to brown to yellow. The UFO moved erratically, in rapid short spurts Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, pp. 11 & 14 Source ID: Johnson_8209 Source: Johnson ### Event 17167 (A7873742) Date: 12/7/1975 Description: 5:57 p.m. Slow-moving UFO. RAPCON on radar. (NIDS UFO 22) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Choteau, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4603 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17168 (5F8A18AA) Date: 12/8/1975 Description: 6:00 a.m. UFO landed on ground, like bean. (NIDS UFO 33) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Simms (area), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4604 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17169 (8C0D0FC7) Date: 12/8/1975 Description: On this night in the Siskiyou Mountains of California five young men witnessed a greenish cloud-shaped object slide over a cut in a mountain low over the tops of tree stumps in a clear cut area. Inside the greenish glow they could see the outline of a man. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul C. Cerny, UFO case investigation files; San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, April 4, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_8273 Source: Johnson ### Event 17170 (562097C2) Date: 12/8/1975 Description: In a pasture in Cascade County near Simms, Montana nocturnal lights were seen to have landed near the carcass of a dead calf two nights in a row. On this, the second night, the calf’s carcass was later found mutilated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 183 Source ID: Johnson_8272 Source: Johnson ### Event 17171 (2B1E8351) Date: 12/8/1975 Description: At 5:30 p.m. in Palais-sur-Vienne, France a huge ball of light was seen hovering by some high tension electrical power lines. The light vanished after several seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1976 Source ID: Johnson_8271 Source: Johnson ### Event 17172 (EBBB4AB4) Date: 12/8/1975 Description: A photograph of a metallic, domed disc was taken at two o’clock in the afternoon by a man in Nagoya, Japan. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendell Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 319 Source ID: Johnson_8270 Source: Johnson ### Event 17173 (DA4A6174) Date: 12/8/1975 Description: In Tranmere, South Australia a mother and daughter heard a strange noise at 2:45 a.m. The next morning they discovered that something had apparently landed on and crushed some of their strawberry plants. They found two 0.9-meter diameter areas in which the plants were flattened and swirled in a counter-clockwise direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_8269 Source: Johnson ### Event 17174 (DC08220F) Date: 12/9/1975 Description: 5:00 p.m. UFO flying near B-52. (NIDS UFO 35) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Freeze Out Lake, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4605 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17175 (3B99B615) Date: 12/9/1975 Description: 8:43 p.m. UFO, tan or orange, 500'. (NIDS UFO 28) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Missoula (Coming from), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4606 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17176 (D6BA6396) Date: 12/10/1975 Description: A mutilated dead calf was found on a ranch near Seguin, Texas while silent helicopters were reported the night before. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lawrence Fawcett & Barry Greenwood, The UFO Coverup, p. 103 Source ID: Johnson_8307 Source: Johnson ### Event 17177 (DCA9AFC0) Date: 12/11/1975 Description: 7:00 p.m. Great Falls International Airport. UFO sighted, oblong object 10' above ground. (NIDS UFO 44) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Great Falls, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4607 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17178 (48E770A0) Date: 12/11/1975 Description: At 11:30 p.m. Bud Le Duc was driving home from Toppenish, Washington when his headlights fell on three very tall men standing beside the road. One of them jumped--in one bound--to the middle of the roadway, a distance of about 15 feet, and the leap appeared to happen in slow motion. The man then slowly raised both his arms above his head. Le Duc swerved his car and passed within two or three feet of him. The man was between seven and eight feet tall and very thin, with long arms and matted reddish, shoulder-length hair. His very long face had a long pointed nose and pallid white skin. The upper lip was pulled back to show teeth, while the lower lip was very thin. He wore a black one-piece garment with white bands at the wrists and ankles and a patch of white at the neck. He also had on black boots. The other two men were dressed in a similar manner. The man in the road held something reddish purple in his left hand, "with a wire on it." Le Duc kept driving, but shortly afterwards saw an elongated luminous object behind his truck, which blinked on and off several times. Soon a bright light illuminated his truck's cab and surroundings, and stayed with the truck until Le Duc reached his home. Another source, UFO investigator Greg Long, reported that at the same time that Le Duc had this encounter with the strange men on the road, the apparition of a very close friend who had been recently killed in a car accident appeared to be sitting in the passenger seat. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David W. Akers and William Vogel for CUFOS, report dated December 17, 1975; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-62 (A1439), citing David W. Akers Source ID: Johnson_8344 Source: Johnson ### Event 17179 (692946A7) Date: 12/12/1975 Description: Robert Suffern and his wife meet with two military officers, one Canadian, the other American, at his home near Bracebridge, Ontario. They tell him the October 7 incident was a “mistake” caused by the malfunctioning of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. The officers show him close-up photos of UFOs and say that their governments have been cooperating with aliens since 1943. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 358 Source ID: Eberhart_5237 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17180 (9821A335) Date: 12/14/1975 Description: Late evening. A man is driving his truck on a gravel road along Toppenish Ridge in the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington State when he sees a cow and two calves running toward him as if fleeing from something. Moments later he sees three figures in the ditch. One jumps up on the road, covering 15 feet in a single slow-motion leap, its arms above its head. The witness describes it as a skinny, 7-foot-tall man with a narrow, pale face and long, pointed nose. It is dressed in close-fitting black clothing and boots. On its chest there is a white trapezoid insignia. The entity is carrying something purple it its left hand that has a wire on it that runs down its arm. The other two creatures remain on the side of the road. The witness speeds up, swerving around the figure. A few moments later, a bright, elongated UFO appears behind him. The interior of the truck is flooded with light. Suddenly he becomes aware of a “shadow” in the passenger seat. From the shape of the head and coat, the man “knows” it is a friend of his. The friend looks at him, leans forward and looks up at the light, falls back, wipes his eyes, and vanishes. At that moment, the light disappears. The next morning, he learns that his friend has been killed in a shooting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, CUFOS, 1990, pp. 56–60; Clark III 281 Source ID: Eberhart_5238 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17181 (BBBD07DB) Date: 12/15/1975 Description: [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) and [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) publish The Edge of Reality, which discusses how the extraterrestrial hypothesis does not seem to explain UFOs fully. Although they acknowledge the UFO phenomenon is real, its reality skirts the edges of accepted science, and they both lean toward an interdimensional hypothesis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallée, The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Regnery, 1975 Source ID: Eberhart_5239 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17182 (859C5FAD) Date: 12/15/1975 Description: 11:00 p.m. On a farm, a five-meter in diameter disc landed in a field. It rose up fast and shot away toward the west-southwest. At the same time there were several unexplained nocturnal lights in the sky. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Neuvelot, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4608 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17183 (449DC641) Date: 12/15/1975 Description: On a farm near La Neuvelot, France at 11:00 p.m. a five-meter in diameter disc landed in a field. It rose up fast and shot away toward the west-southwest. At the same time there were several unexplained nocturnal lights in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_8415 Source: Johnson ### Event 17184 (16E8AFDB) Date: 12/17/1975 Description: In the city of Americana, 16-year old Mr. Salles de Andrade encountered an intense beam of light while walking home at night and woke up the next day in a thicket, 28 kilometers away. He had no recollection for the time that he had been missing, but he had strange marks on his forehead and arms, and experienced headaches. (Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1976, p. 19). (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4609 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17185 (56D390BF) Date: 12/17/1975 Description: In the city of Americana, in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil 16-year old Mr. Salles de Andrade encountered an intense beam of light while walking home at night and woke up the next day in a thicket, 28 kilometers away. He had no recollection for the time that he had been missing, but he had strange marks on his forehead and arms, and experienced headaches. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1976, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_8469 Source: Johnson ### Event 17186 (75F885A0) Date: 12/18/1975 Description: 7:45 a.m. A "dah-dit" noise accompanied the slow ascent of an eight-meter wide, gray domed disc over a residential area. The object had square shaped windows. It flew away toward the southeast. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ancy, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4610 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17187 (686C56B0) Date: 12/18/1975 Description: ??? a.m. UFO, radar lock, Penroy. Pentagon notified of UFO. (NIDS UFO 40) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dutton, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4611 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17188 (C4F46D66) Date: 12/18/1975 Description: At 7:45 a.m. a "dah-dit" noise accompanied the slow ascent of an eight-meter wide, gray domed disc over a residential area of Ancy, France. The object had square shaped windows. It flew away toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976).

A aircraft flying near Maelifelli, Iceland on this day in 1976 picked up a clear radar image of a UFO at a distance of 100 miles and flying at 18,000 feet altitude. They tracked the UFO for one minute as it rushed below and passed their plane at a speed of 3,600 miles per hour. (Source: International UFO Reporter, March 1977, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_8491 Source: Johnson ### Event 17189 (E8BF3B34) Date: 12/19/1975 Description: 11:30 p.m. SAC men witnessed UFO on ground. (NIDS UFO 43) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roy (to Fergus), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4612 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17190 (4DD75A49) Date: 12/23/1975 Description: 6:00 a.m. Great Falls International Airport. Egg-shaped UFO on ground. (NIDS UFO 46) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Great Falls, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4614 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17191 (30B31C2E) Date: 12/23/1975 Description: Flat, round, orange object passed nearby, engine restarted by itself. Rodeghier, 1981, p. 67 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goodridge, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4613 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17192 (1614609A) Date: 12/23/1975 Description: Three 19-year-old girls driving together in Goodridge, Minnesota noticed a bright light in the sky, and their car's engine and lights failed. The light came closer and they saw it was an orange colored object, flat on top and round on the sides. It also had several flashing yellow lights and appeared to be 20-30 feet in diameter. After passing only 25 feet from the car, it suddenly vanished, whereupon and the car's lights and engine spontaneously came back on by themselves. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Warren (Minnesota) Sheaf, December 31, 1975; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 391 Source ID: Johnson_8569 Source: Johnson ### Event 17193 (A1DC483F) Date: 12/23/1975 Description: Night. Three 19-year-old girls driving together noticed a bright light in the sky, and their car's engine and lights failed. The light came closer and they saw it was an orange colored object, flat on top and round on the sides. (Sources: Warren (Minnesota) Sheaf, December 31, 1975; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 391). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goodridge, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4615 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17194 (B517574A) Date: 12/24/1975 Description: A huge disc covered the entire N19 highway in Bar-sur-Aube, France. It vanished at 8:10 p.m. when a car approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976 Source ID: Johnson_8592 Source: Johnson ### Event 17195 (6ED2F1C4) Date: 12/24/1975 Description: At 10:00 p.m. power circuit breakers were tripped four times when a glowing ball of light came down near the ground in Ploubazlanec, Cotes-du-Nord, France. A 0.2 meter area of burnt grass was found at the site were it apparently touched down. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 75 Source ID: Johnson_8593 Source: Johnson ### Event 17196 (BBB7509A) Date: 12/24/1975 Description: 10:00 p.m. Power circuit breakers were tripped four times when a glowing ball of light came down near the ground in Ploubazlanec, Cotes-du-Nord, France. A 0.2 meter area of burnt grass was found at the site were it apparently touched down. (Source: Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 75). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cotes-du-Nord, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4617 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17197 (FC620D8E) Date: 12/24/1975 Description: 8:00 p.m. (+) A huge disc covered the entire N19 highway. It vanished at 8:10 p.m. when a car approached. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bar-sur-Aube, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4616 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1976 (Back to Top) ### Event 17198 (34B12E88) Date: 1976 Description: In Worlds Beyond, [Ian Ridpath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%5FRidpath) discusses ETI, life and human development, life in the Solar System, the feasibility of interstellar travel, and the possibility that alien probes have already visited Earth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ian Ridpath, [Worlds Beyond](https://archive.org/details/signsoflifesearc0000ridp/page/n1/mode/2up), Harper and Row, 1976; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 \(1994\): 146–147 Source ID: Eberhart_5247 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17199 (AD3A8014) Date: 1976 Description: 9:30 p.m. A man who lives on a hill overlooking the Boeing factory in Renton, Washington, notices lights hovering above the building at the south end of the plant. Suddenly the lights shoot straight up in the air and move to the north end of the plant, dropping down and hovering again. It then makes a quick arc and hovers about 900 feet above the witness’s house. The object is circular with a curved low top, sides that slope inward, silent, and a continuous row of windows separated every 10–15 feet by thin vertical supports. A yellow or amber light is at the top. It is about 50 feet in diameter and 12–15 feet high. He can see 3–4 images moving back and forth inside the craft. After about 3 minutes, the object moves toward Lake Washington and disappears in 4 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Seen](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf) [Inspecting Seattle Boeing Plant,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 6 \(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5248 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17200 (05A69D3A) Date: 1976 Description: Meteorologist [Sture Wickerts](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/fakta/lexikon/1025-wickerts-sture-1925-1999) replaces [Tage Eriksson](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/e/905-eriksson-tage2) as head of UFO investigations at the Swedish National Defence Research Institute. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 368 Source ID: Eberhart_5246 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17201 (56FEB7E0) Date: 1976 Description: Historian Nicolas Greslou launches the Comité Savoyard d’Études et de Recherches Ufologiques in Chambery, France. It publishes a quarterly newsletter, Le Phénomène OVNI, from 1977 to 1985. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Le Phénomène OVNI](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Phenomene%20OVNI%20%28CSERU%29/Phenomene%20OVNI%20-%20No%2001%20-%204e%20trim%201977.pdf), no. 1 \(Oct./Dec. 1977\) Source ID: Eberhart_5245 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17202 (01D928D6) Date: 1976 Description: Author [Roberta Donovan](https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/roberta-messier-donovan/article%5Ffc118823-b14d-517b-b4f7-3f90f5f11059.html) publishes Mystery Stalks the Prairie with Cascade County Deputy Sheriff [Keith](https://www.schniderfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Keith-Wolverton?obId=7770702&/obituaryInfo) [Wolverton](https://www.schniderfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Keith-Wolverton?obId=7770702&/obituaryInfo) of Great Falls, Montana, documenting his investigations of cattle mutilations with a suspected cult involvement. They are not sure whether mystery helicopters and UFO s are related to the mutilations, but either way federal government officials seem to know what is going on. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roberta Donovan and Keith Wolverton, [Mystery Stalks the Prairie](https://archive.org/details/mysterystalkstheprairierobertadonovankeithwolverton/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/mysterystalkstheprairierobertadonovankeithwolverton/page/n1/mode/2up) THAR Institute, 1976; Wikipedia, “[Cattle mutilation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle%5Fmutilation\#Cults)”; Nukes 365–369 Source ID: Eberhart_5244 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17203 (B46F5161) Date: 1976 Description: In his book Gods of Aquarius, author [Brad Steiger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%5FSteiger) introduces the concept of “Star People,” human beings tied by physiology, past lives, or both, to extraterrestrials who came to earth long ago and are preparing them for a societal transformation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Steiger, Gods of Aquarius: UFOs and the Transformation of Man, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976; Clark III 90–91 Source ID: Eberhart_5243 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17204 (02E6628C) Date: 1976 Description: Ancient astronaut author [Zecharia Sitchin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecharia%5FSitchin) writes his first book of many, The 12th Planet, proposing an explanation for human origins involving extraterrestrials. Sitchin attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he claims was a race of beings from a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru. He asserts that Sumerian mythology suggests that this hypothetical planet of Nibiru is in an elongated, 3,600-year- long elliptical orbit around the Sun. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Zecharia Sitchin, [The 12th Planet](https://archive.org/details/12thplanet00sitc), Avon, 1976 Source ID: Eberhart_5242 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17205 (77167074) Date: 1976 Description: US writer [Bill Kaysing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FKaysing) publishes a book claiming that NASA lacks the technical expertise to land astronauts on the moon and that numerous optical anomalies in the Apollo photos show that the moon landings are faked in a studio or at Area 51. The book launches a host of similar moon landing conspiracy theories. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon%5Flanding%5Fconspiracy%5Ftheories) [landing conspiracy theories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon%5Flanding%5Fconspiracy%5Ftheories)”; Bill Kaysing, We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, Health Research, 1976 Source ID: Eberhart_5241 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17206 (C01593DF) Date: 1976 Description: [David Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) gives his UFOCAT computer file to the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois, where it is updated by Fred Merritt. The database is kept on an IBM mainframe computer at a nearby computer facility with a magnetic tape backup. In 1982 it proves too expensive for CUFOS to maintain on a mainframe, so it is removed from active use and stored on tape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Fred Merritt, “UFOCAT: A Unique Tool for Research,” IUR 1, no. 2 \(December 1976\): 14–15; Center for UFO Studies, “[UFOCAT-2009](http://www.cufos.org/UFOCAT.html)” Source ID: Eberhart_5240 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17207 (CBDA9982) Date: 1976 Description: Project SIGMA becomes an independent project from Project xxxxxxx. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, SIGMA) Location: US Attributes: Majestic See also: 1968 Source ID: Maj2_687 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17208 (A40E91F9) Date: 1/1/1976 Description: 1:00 a.m. Three witnesses watched a 15-meter long football-shaped object hover 800 meters above a road then shot straight up in the sky fast. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1979). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marle, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4618 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17209 (235AEB2C) Date: 1/1/1976 Description: Three witnesses watched a 15-meter long football-shaped object hover 800 meters above a road at one o'clock in the morning in Marle, France then shot straight up in the sky fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1979 Source ID: Johnson_18 Source: Johnson ### Event 17210 (4421D00E) Date: 1/3/1976 Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_275 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17211 (2736E635) Date: 1/4/1976 Description: A technician driving home is stuck in rush hour traffic at Sale, heading toward Altrincham, Cheshire, England. Suddenly his radio begins to hiss and crackle, and flashes of light spark out, dancing across the windshield. As he looks out through the steady rain, two angular, ice-blue lights pass slowly across his field of view. Moments later they are gone, the sparking stops, and the radio works again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 \(Christmas 2018\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_5249 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17212 (1D8E3DDF) Date: 1/5/1976 Description: At 5:50 p.m. Jean Claude Silvente, age 10, was walking through a vacant lot overgrown with brush and surrounded by buildings in Domene, Isere, France when he heard a noise, and saw that a bell-shaped UFO had landed next to some bushes. It was about 30 feet away from him, about 15 feet high, a luminous white color, and resting on five thin legs. A door in the craft opened and a very tall man, at least two meters tall, emerged. He wore tight, white luminous coveralls and had long blond hair. On the back of each hand was a green circle. He walked stiffly with his arms extended in front of him, in the manner of a sleepwalker. When the boy sneezed, this “giant” turned toward him, and Jean Claude ran home. A short while later he was sent out by his mother to get some milk, and while returning home he saw the same being again. It was following him on the sidewalk 80 feet behind, still with its arms held out stiffly in front of him. Jean Claude ran home. Note: An almost identical humanoid was seen in Chamouilley, France in October of that same year. It had similar features, was tall and had blond hair, and it also walked in the manner of a sleepwalker with one slight difference, it appeared to be wearing tight-fitting goggles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, November 1976, p. 62; Bil Gil Helair, Skylook, May 1976, p. 5; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7, p. 44; Jean-Claude Bourret, OVNI l' Armee Parle, p. 146; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Human Reports, case 1976-02, citing Michel Levy, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 159 Source ID: Johnson_134 Source: Johnson ### Event 17213 (B83485CC) Date: 1/5/1976 Description: 5:50 p.m. Jean Claude Silvente, age 10, was walking through a vacant lot overgrown with brush and surrounded by buildings in Domene, Isere, France when he heard a noise, and saw that a bell-shaped UFO had landed next to some bushes. It was about 30 feet away from him, about 15 feet high, a luminous white color, and resting on five thin legs. A door in the craft opened and a very tall man, at least two meters tall, emerged. (Sources: Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, November 1976, p. 62; Bil Gil Helair, Skylook, May 1976, p. 5; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7, p. 44; Jean-Claude Bourret, OVNI l' Armee Parle, p. 146; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Human Reports, case 1976-02, citing Michel Levy, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 159). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Domene, Isere, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4619 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17214 (1056BA9A) Date: 1/6/1976 Description: Domed disc with body lights descended, illuminated car interior with blue light. Missing time, abduction, physiological effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Stanford, KY Source ID: HallUFOE2_276 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17215 (60B77936) Date: 1/6/1976 Description: Returning from getting milk in Domene, Isere, France at 6 p.m., Jean Claude Silvente, age 10, again saw a two-meter tall Nordic looking being wearing silver coveralls, the same as he had seen the day before. The man was standing on the sidewalk only 30 yards from his house, in the same posture as before, but only 12 feet away from him this time. He spilled the milk and ran. His sister’s boyfriend, who had been following him, saw nothing. But when they returned to the same spot Jean Claude, his mother, his 17-year-old sister, and ther boyfriend all saw a red “headlight” dive down from the sky at them “as if it would land on them.” They ran away in panic to a nearby police station. At 8:20 p.m. a cigar-shaped UFO with lights on the bottom flew slowly over the town of Laissaud, Savoie, France. It periodically emitted beams of light downwards for 5 minutes, then zoomed away to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, November 1976, p. 62; Bil Gil Helair, Skylook, May 1976, p. 5; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7, p. 44; Jean-Claude Bourret, OVNI l' Armee Parle, p. 146; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Human Reports, case 1976-03, citing Michel Levy, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 159; (2) Michel Figuet & Jean-Loius Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 594 Source ID: Johnson_172 Source: Johnson ### Event 17216 (AD6E99E7) Date: 1/6/1976 Description: Domed disc with body lights descended, illuminated car interior with blue light; missing time, abduction, physiological effects (Ref. 1, Section XIII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stanford, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4620 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17217 (D498A956) Date: 1/6/1976 Description: 11:15 p.m. Mona Stafford and two friends, Louise Smith and Elaine Thomas, are driving southwest on Highway 78 between Stanford and Hustonville, Kentucky, when they see an intense red glow in the east. It grows larger, then descends rapidly to the right of the car at tree-top level. As it hovers, they can see a disc shape with round windows with rotating, blinking red lights around each of them; yellow lights stretch below these, and a luminous blue dome is on top of the object. The UFO moves closer, flips on its side, and shines three beams of bluish-white light on the road, and another into their vehicle. Smith, apparently dazed, gets out of the car, but Stafford pulls her back in. There is a “dead silence,” their skin tingles, and they start getting severe headaches. They find the car has started back up on its own and is moving at 85 mph with no help from Smith. Stafford feels as if it is being pulled. Moments later, they find themselves 8 miles away, just outside Hustonville. When they get home to Smith’s trailer in Liberty, Kentucky, around 1:25 a.m., they find they are missing about an hour and a half of time. All three of them experience odd physical and psychological symptoms. The women are hypnotized by ufologist [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) who finds that they have generally compatible memories of an abduction event. Over time, their memories of the missing time period grow more elaborate, but their story contains elements and images echoed in other accounts before and since. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Kentucky Abduction,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201976%2010%2000%20-%20Vol%2025%20No%204.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 25, no. 4 \(October 1976\): 1, 3–6; Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, [pp. 114–131](https://archive.org/details/abductedconfront0000lore/page/114/mode/2up); “The Kentucky Abduction,” IUR 2, no. 3 \(March 1977\): 6–7; Story, [pp. 192–195](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/192/mode/2up); John Greenewald, “[The 1976](https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/1976-stanford-kentucky-abductions/) [Stanford, Kentucky, Abductions,](https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/1976-stanford-kentucky-abductions/)” The Black Vault, April 26, 2016; Clark III 643–648 Source ID: Eberhart_5250 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17218 (91A2337B) Date: 1/6/1976 Description: Three women, Mona Stafford, Louise Smith and Elaine Thomas where driving on Hustonville Road in Stanford, KY around 11:15 p.m., headed for the home of Mrs. Smith. Their car began driving as if it had a mind of its own, reaching 85 MPH even though Mona was hitting the brakes. A glowing red UFO descended and emitted a bright light into the car with a gaseous hazy quality. The UFO stayed close to the car and the women described it as enormous, metallic and disk shaped with a dome on top, a ring of red lights around its mid section, and a yellow, blinking light on the bottom. When the chaos subsided, they were in the car still driving down the road at a normal speed, but they were covered with burns. Upon reaching Mrs. Smith's home, they realized it was 1:20 a.m., meaning they had over an hour of missing time. They contacted the police, and soon their story hit nationwide headlines. UFO investigators began studying their case eagerly, and found a number of strange verifiable phenomena. Mechanical and electrical devices often stopped working in their presence, and Mrs. Smith's pet bird went wild with fear in her presence, and no longer would allow her near it. All took polygraph tests administered by the Lexington Police Department. All passed. Under a series of hypnotic sessions, the women all recalled being abducted by alien beings on a spaceship, and probed in many uncomfortable ways. Elaine Thomas died two years after the abduction, of unknown causes. The women have sought no fame or fortune from their UFO experience, and have tried hard to be left alone. Type: abduction Reference: [Website: "The Night Sky II", Article: Stanford UFO Abductions](https://www.thenightskyii.org/stanford.html) Location: Stanford, KY Source ID: Maj2_904 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17219 (CBCE0282) Date: 1/8/1976 Description: 5:30 p.m. Several saucer shape (UFO 51 NIDS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shale Plant on "Bootlegger", MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4621 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17220 (5F77228B) Date: 1/9/1976 Description: Jean Dolecki, age 55, was driving home after sunset at 7:10 p.m. near Echevis, Isere department, France when a luminous object appeared in the sky and landed 100 yards away in a farm field beside the road. It had the form of a "coffee pot", a 50-60 foot high cylinder with a narrow waist, the upper portion larger than the lower one, and was about 40 to 45 feet in diameter. From the bottom a bright white light turned on, which illuminated it. The top surface seemed to be vibrating, and on each side near the top was attached a relatively small vertical helix, which also vibrated. A door opened in the upper portion, and three beings that looked like “robots” resembling “aluminum diving suits,” 6.5-7.0 feet tall, descended. They had square heads, disproportionately small legs, and in lieu of arms, a telescopic “pole” about 7 feet long, mounted on their chests. These entities moved about near the UFO for about ten minutes, walking in a mechanical manner and wagging their poles up and down. They then re-entered, and the machine took off, disappearing at a rapid speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gil Bil Helaar, Skylook, May 1976, p. 4; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-16 (A1445), citing Gil Helaar Source ID: Johnson_225 Source: Johnson ### Event 17221 (FDDE034B) Date: 1/10/1976 Description: Near the shore of the ocean in Merville, Normandy, France a witness named Masseron heard a voice repeating "LPX LPX..." at around ten p.m. and saw a 1.5 meter long ovoid object standing on the ground. A black being stood nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1978 Source ID: Johnson_244 Source: Johnson ### Event 17222 (1092398D) Date: 1/10/1976 Description: 11:00 p.m. Two pulsating red lights at 500' (UFO 48 NIDS) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belt (NE of), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4622 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17223 (96B70DDB) Date: 1/11/1976 Description: At 5:55 p.m. a 14-year-old boy was walking through the falling snow to a friend’s house in Hamden, Connecticut when he saw a large glowing figure floating, near some sumac bushes 400 feet away. The figure was seen in profile from the waist up. There was no discernible face, and the back of the head was flat and corrugated. The glow from the head extended above the bushes that were 7-8 feet high, and extended about 9 inches from the body, with a less luminous silvery outer glow that extended another 9” beyond that. The teen ran to a friend’s house; then they got two other friends, and armed with a 22-caliber rifle he returned to the site. When they encountered the figure again one of them shone a flashlight on it, and it fell backwards behind a ridge. When the flashlight was pointed away the figure rose up again, and remained in view for 3-4 seconds before slowly ducking back behind the ridge. When it came up a third time, he shot at it twice with the .22 aiming over its head; it slowly descended for the third and last time. One of the witnesses was unable to see the being. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-17 (A1446), citing James P. Barrett, APRO; CUFOS files, report dated February 29, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_261 Source: Johnson ### Event 17224 (157E157E) Date: 1/14/1976 Description: Mrs. J. Stewart was driving on a highway in East Bethel, Minnesota and when she arrived home she could not account for at least one hour of her time. Under hypnosis she recounted being abducted from her car by a tall figure dressed in white. There were two more such beings in the door of a translucent UFO. bottom bubble of UFO. She recalled at one point that the face of the being was very close to her own face, and it had big slanted eyes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Swanson, CUFOS case investigation files, report dated January 22, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1447, citing Brad Ayers Source ID: Johnson_322 Source: Johnson ### Event 17225 (8E67C0C5) Date: 1/17/1976 Description: 5:30 p.m. 70' altitude, light bulb shape (UFO 55 NIDS) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Augusta (15 miles W. of), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4623 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17226 (8CA06BCE) Date: 1/17/1976 Description: 5:40 p.m. UFO. NORAD did not confirm. (UFO 54 NIDS) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Great Falls, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4624 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17227 (86E2ACA3) Date: 1/19/1976 Description: About 7:30 p.m. Witnesses saw an object with two bright lights hovering over woods about 300 yards away. After about 2 minutes the object sped away, passing directly overhead making a low whirring noise. (The Press, Atlantic City, NJ, Jan. 21, 1976.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Heislerville, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4625 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17228 (4153E929) Date: 1/21/1976 Description: Sometime before 3:55 a.m. MST. NMCC Memo: The following information was received from the Air Force Operations center at 0555 EST: "Two UFOs are reported near the flight line at Cannon AFB, New Mexico. (Actual FOIA document) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [760121](http://www.nicap.org/760121cannondoc.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cannon AFB, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_4626 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17229 (C7BE3E11) Date: 1/21/1976 Description: MEMO from NMCC by Rear Adm. J. B. Morin stating: Two UFOs reported near the flight line at Cannon AFB, N.M. Security Police report the UFOs to be 25 yards (75 ft.) in diameter, gold/silver in color with blue light on top, hole in the middle and red light on the bottom. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p524, B1-F p342) Location: Cannon AFB, NM Source ID: Maj2_688 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17230 (54BAA815) Date: 1/21/1976 Description: Before 3:55 a.m. Security police see two UFOs near the flight line at Cannon AFB, southwest of Clovis, New Mexico. The objects are 75 feet in diameter, gold or silver in color, with a blue light on top, a hole in the middle, and a red light on the bottom. An Air Force officer calls the UFO Education Center in Wisconsin to report he “had a very close sighting and was able to witness a type of vehicle that did maneuver and that was unlike any type aircraft he has ever seen.” One observer claims to see a dozen UFOs through a Starlight Scope from the flight tower. A Clovis policeman sees a cigar-shaped object with pulsating red, white, and blue lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96913977/) [Continue Clovis Visits,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96913977/)” Las Cruces \(N.Mex.\) Sun-News, January 25, 1976, p. 1; Rear Adm. J. G. Morin, “[Report](http://www.nicap.org/760121cannondoc.htm) [of UFO, Cannon AFB, NM,](http://www.nicap.org/760121cannondoc.htm)” January 21, 1976; “Cannon AFB: UFOs, Burned Circles, and Cows Found Mutilated,” UFO Info; Good Above, [p. 524](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/524/mode/2up); Good Need, [p. 349](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/348/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5251 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17231 (D050694D) Date: 1/21/1976 Description: 9:00 p.m. 300' craft on ground with others. (UFO 52 NIDS) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fairfield, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4627 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17232 (A45701C1) Date: 1/23/1976 Description: At 1:30 a.m. in Lompoc, California a nurse driving not far from Vandenburg Air Force Base had a close encounter with a 50 foot long ovoid UFO. Her car radio went wild, and she felt like she had been hypnotized. Near Vandenburg AFB Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12150, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 273 Source ID: Johnson_450 Source: Johnson ### Event 17233 (82971737) Date: 1/23/1976 Description: 6:00–10:30 p.m. “Scores” of UFO sightings take place around Clovis, New Mexico. Town Marshal [Willie](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/easternnewmexiconews/obituary.aspx?n=willie-ronquillo&pid=18518230) [Ronquillo](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/easternnewmexiconews/obituary.aspx?n=willie-ronquillo&pid=18518230) of Texico follows a silent object with green, yellow, and blue lights 900 feet above his car before it speeds away to the north. A police dispatcher in Artesia sees 6–7 flashing lights in the sky at 750–1,000 feet altitude. They hover for a while, then move away at high speed toward Carlsbad. Members of the UFO Study Group, composed of employees of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories, arrive in Clovis at 11:30 p.m. to investigate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs Continue Clovis Visits,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96913977/)” Las Cruces \(N.Mex.\) Sun-News, January 25, 1976, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_5252 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17234 (6072BFAF) Date: 1/23/1976 Description: At 5:15 p.m. a 17-year-old witness had gotten off the bus in Bolton, Lancashire, England and was returning home to her housing development. She then saw an object with two lights, one amber and the other red, over the Rumsworth Reservoir. The object suddenly streaked toward her and came to hover directly over her. The metallic looking UFO was about 25 feet in diameter and shaped like an octagon, with one amber light and a flashing red light. It had a curved base and a flat top. It rotated on its axis, and the witness's teeth vibrated as if ultrasonic sound waves were emanating from the object, causing her pain in her mouth. Also, pressure on her shoulders knocked her down, and she attempted to scream but was unable to. She ran home terrified. Later under hypnosis it was revealed that she had suffered a 45 minute period of missing time and could vaguely recall an abduction experience. She could only recall being inside a room with a tall blond or albino woman who wore a long gown. She was told by this woman “not to be afraid” and felt that information was being inserted into her brain at high speed. She was also given several apocalyptic messages. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, FSR, May 1976, p. 32; Bolton Evening News, January 24 & 27, 1976; John F. Schuessler, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 3; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, case # 518, citing Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions Source ID: Johnson_451 Source: Johnson ### Event 17235 (B97511FA) Date: 1/25/1976 Description: 8:09 p.m. A Sheriff's deputy was driving with his family when an object started coming toward the car. The deputy immediately stopped the car and turned off the headlights. The object appeared to be the size of a semi-truck and had rotating lights of many different colors. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, May 1976, page 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gillette, WY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4628 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17236 (C0838CA1) Date: 1/26/1976 Description: M. Claude Cretin, while driving at 9:45 p.m. between Bouze and Beaune, Cote D’Or department, France saw a searchlight beam flash three times. He then noticed a humanoid being standing in the bushes about 20 feet away beside the road. The being was wearing a diving suit of yellow-orange color with a round-topped helmet and a rectangular face plate. Atop the helmet was a whitish light. He could only make out the upper portion of the figure because the bushes blocked his view. After driving on, he went and notified the police, who investigated on the following day and found freshly broken branches at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-21 (A1451); Alain Gamard, UFO Register, Volume 7, p. 44, citing Le Bien Public, March 24, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_530 Source: Johnson ### Event 17237 (FFAA3D25) Date: 1/27/1976 Description: 4:25 a.m. Mrs. Rosemary Heitmeyer was still awake looked out her hall window and observed three objects that looked like upside down soup bowls with domed tops. The objects were bobbing and moving very slowly. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, April 1976, page 3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Key West, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4629 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17238 (7EBDFC28) Date: 1/28/1976 Description: In 1976 two physiological effects cases occurred on the same night, the first in Benacazon, Spain and the second in Dargo, Victoria, Australia. The first occurred at 12:30 a.m. in the European time zone, while the second occurred several hours later at 11:30 p.m. local time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, May 1976, p. 21; FSR, October 1976, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_558 Source: Johnson ### Event 17239 (057FE6A2) Date: 1/29/1976 Description: At around 10:15 p.m., while driving near Pahrump, Nevada southwest of Las Vegas, Country & Western singer Johnny Sands saw a rusty orange cigar-shaped object descend from the sky. The object was at least 60 feet long, and had flashing red and white lights on one end and a dark ring around the middle section, which also had portholes. His car stopped running, and he got out to check the engine. He next saw two men, about 200 feet away, walking toward him. They wore silver sparkling one-piece uniforms with a diagonal black stripe, and a round white central emblem. He wanted to get back into his car but felt paralyzed and unable to move. As the men approached, he saw that they were bald and had close set squinting eyes, a grayish white complexion, and something that lookede like folds or gills under their ears. Their mouths were very small and their noses “puggish.” One of them questioned Sands in English, but he did not hear the words coming from the being's mouth. It spoke in a slow, “robot-like” voice. The voice asked him, “What are you doing here?” and he replied, “I am an entertainer.” The next question was “What are your means of communication,” which he was at a loss to answer. Four or five other questions were asked, which he has chosen not to reveal. They said that they would see him again. Turning to go, the leader brushed his fingertips over Mr. Sands hand, which seemed to release him from the paralysis. They walked away, and the car started again. Many observers reported seeing rust-colored cigar shaped objects over the Las Vegas Valley that night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March-April 1976, p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-32 (A1453), citing Bob Pratt, National Enquirer Source ID: Johnson_582 Source: Johnson ### Event 17240 (E625F5B1) Date: 1/29/1976 Description: Mr. Carrasco, a 29-year-old farmer, was walking home at 12:30 a.m. in Benacazon, Sevilla province, Spain when he heard a noise “like a jet.” Turning around, he saw a brilliant light hovering in the sky; it approached and landed 18 feet away. It was dark green, rectangular, and taller than a telephone booth, and it stood on three legs. From this landed object emerged two men 6’6” or more in height, who came to within 12 or 15 ft of the witness. They were clad in dark but luminous tight fitting clothing resembling rubber or plastic, with wide belts whose buckles emitted blindingly bright and hot flashes of red and white light; he could not see their faces, but noticed that they had shoulder-length blondish-white hair. The witness put his hands over his face, but could not stir from the spot. He heard the men talking in a language he could not understand; then he began to run. The UFO rose and flew over him, emitting something that burned him; he lost consciousness until at 0230A he found himself at the door of his house in Benacazon. He had to be hospitalized for shock. In the hospital he was found to have strange sooty black marks on his right cheek, on the palms of both hands, on his shoulders and on his right arm; these began to disappear after 7-8 hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joaquin M. Nogales, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1976, p. 16; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-31 (A1452), citing J. J. Benitez, FSR, Vol. 22, No. 1 & Iker Jimenez Source ID: Johnson_581 Source: Johnson ### Event 17241 (4EFE85DF) Date: 1/31/1976 Description: 3:30–5:00 a.m. UFOs are spotted by security police over the radar site at the Armament Development and Test Center at Eglin AFB, southwest of Valparaiso, Florida. Photos are taken. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brig. Gen. Fred A. Treyz, “[Unidentified Flying Object Sighting,](http://www.nicap.org/760131eglindoc.htm)” January 31, 1976 Source ID: Eberhart_5253 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17242 (1865B673) Date: 1/31/1976 Description: 4:30 EST (3:30 CST). UFOs were spotted over the base's Armament Development and Test Center, just like it happened in Loring AFB in 1975. This 31 jan 1976 NMCC memo dated the same day at 1400 EST states: 1. At 310805 received phoncon from AFOC: MG Lane, CG, Armament and Development Test Center, Eglin AFB, Florida called and reported a UFO sighting from 0430 EST to 0600 EST. (NMCC) (Actual FOIA document) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [760131](http://www.nicap.org/760131eglindoc.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eglin AFB, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4630 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17243 (9B8DB6C7) Date: 2/1976 Description: Ufologist [James W. Moseley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FW.%5FMoseley) launches an eight-page newsletter of UFO information and rumor. Its title varies, but by July 1981 Moseley has settled on Saucer Smear. It is sent out for free every month or so to several hundred UFO buffs whom Moseley calls “nonsubscribers.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 776 Source ID: Eberhart_5254 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17244 (6284508C) Date: 2/1976 Description: 7:20 p.m. [Ruby Breslin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39544636/ruby-s-breslin) is driving along Central Expressway in Dallas, Texas, when her daughter sees an object just as she takes the exit ramp to the Northwest Highway. It has windows and a flashing red light on top, and hovers for 4–5 minutes before shooting straight up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Out of the Past,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1984\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5255 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17245 (756474F2) Date: 2/1976 Description: Night. A married couple living near the Tasman Highway in Tasmania have retired for the evening. The woman is already asleep and the man has just turned off the light when he sees three 7–8 feet tall entities passing through the closed door of the bedroom. One touches the man’s leg and he goes numb to the waist. He lets them attach some kind of glowing sack to his body, but when they start to approach his wife, he lashes out with one arm that hasn’t gone numb. His wife wakes up and starts struggling too. The entities exit through some kind of orange portal outside the closed window and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_5256 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17246 (49651327) Date: 2/1976 Description: Humanoid report. No details. (SR,89) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Woodlawn, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4631 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17247 (2A657AA2) Date: 2/5/1976 Description: 9:48 p.m. UFO landed near ranch house, 300' long. (UFO 57 NIDS) A report of a UFO landing came in from the Simms area February 5, 1976, and for the first time in their long and frustrating investigation, officers arrived on the scene in time to see the object for themselves. But they were thwarted in their attempts to get a closer look. (Reference: MYSTERY STALKS THE PRAIRIE by Roberta Donovan and Keith Wolverton, pages 48-49) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Shaw, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4633 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17248 (8FB2049D) Date: 2/5/1976 Description: Two women saw a dark domed disc with red and white lights through a second floor bedroom window. Inside the transparent dome they could see two human like figures. They had tight fitting hoods on their heads. The UFO flew away over an orchard. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1861, citing Joel Mesnard). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4632 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17249 (14EC1914) Date: 2/5/1976 Description: Two women saw a dark domed disc with red and white lights through a second floor bedroom window at their home in France. Inside the transparent dome they could see two human like figures. They had tight fitting hoods on their heads. The UFO flew away over an orchard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1861, citing Joel Mesnard Source ID: Johnson_705 Source: Johnson ### Event 17250 (5595096B) Date: 2/7/1976 Description: A man and a woman reported they had five hours of missing time that occurred near a wharf on Talbot Island, in Duval County, Florida at 10 p.m. Under hypnosis they revealed an abduction experience, including a table exam onboard a craft, with a screen image of the inside of the woman's body. There were seven different humanoid types, a body implant, and communication to the woman that she was "coming along real well." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS files, letter from investigator Evelyn Brunson dated March 14, 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1456, citing Evelyn Brunson Source ID: Johnson_738 Source: Johnson ### Event 17251 (11336F1F) Date: 2/7/1976 Description: 5:15 a.m. The rniddle-aged couple lived in a mobile home. The whole area was lit up "like a dusk to dawn light that wasn't supposed to be there." He was at the back of the trailer looking south at the object, which was less than 200' off the ground and 500-600 yards distant at first. (Ridge files, UFO Filter Center) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Farmersville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4634 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17252 (AE619611) Date: 2/8/1976 Description: 5:30 p.m. Two domed objects, white and blue. (UFO 70 NIDS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manchester, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4635 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17253 (FA940B3B) Date: 2/8/1976 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a silvery white disc-shaped object flew over Kissimmee, Florida at less than 300 meters altitude, making a whistling noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1976 Source ID: Johnson_756 Source: Johnson ### Event 17254 (A2A91363) Date: 2/8/1976 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a silvery white disc-shaped object flew over at less than 300 meters altitude, making a whistling noise. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1976). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kissimmee, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4636 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17255 (DD542EC9) Date: 2/10/1976 Description: 11:00 p.m. A woman living near Lake City called the sheriff's office to report a "flying saucer." Sheriff deputies were dispatched to investigate and reported seeing a UFO hovering about 500 to 600 feet in the air. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, July 1976, page 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: High Spring, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4637 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17256 (92B741D8) Date: 2/10/1976 Description: On Denslow Hill two 14-year-old teenagers, Grey and Barnet, saw two very short humanoid beings shuffle rapidly across a road. They wore purple-colored luminous one-piece suits and their waists were 20-22 inches above the ground. (Source: James P. Barrett, case investigation files, and HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Encounters, case A1457). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hamden, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4638 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17257 (313A6F80) Date: 2/10/1976 Description: In Hamden, Connecticut on Denslow Hill two 14-year-old teenagers, Grey and Barnet, saw two very short humanoid beings shuffle rapidly across a road. They wore purple-colored luminous one-piece suits and their waists were 20-22 inches above the ground. When the boys followed them a bright white, lemon-shaped UFO blinked on, and took off into the air only 15 feet away from them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James P. Barrett, case investigation files, and HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Encounters, case A1457 Source ID: Johnson_804 Source: Johnson ### Event 17258 (FCD32803) Date: 2/12/1976 Description: A metallic polygon UFO with multi-colored lights was seen moving at a slow speed, under 100 mph, in Magra, Tasmania, Australia. At 3:50 a.m. it then abruptly accelerated to a speed between 500 and 1,000 mph as it sped off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tasmania UFO Investigation Centre, ACOS Bulletin, June 1976, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_874 Source: Johnson ### Event 17259 (8A92E74F) Date: 2/12/1976 Description: A large disc-shaped object descended, tilted, and then came down into some trees in Salisbury, Massachusetts near a nuclear submarine base. It rose up, and then performed some amazing maneuvers. There were 13 witnesses and the encounter lasted for over 70 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skylook, May 1976, p. 3; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 136 Source ID: Johnson_875 Source: Johnson ### Event 17260 (FC9F4402) Date: 2/13/1976 Description: 4:00 a.m. A truck driver driving saw a bright object ahead and to his left.. It was low to the ground. The light had maintained its position relative to his truck for some time, so the driver woke up his companion. The driver estimated the object was about one kilometer away and 300 meters in altitude. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 392, citing ACOS Bulletin, June 1976) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Berridale (between Tarraleah and), Tasmania Source ID: NICAP_DB_4639 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17261 (146ACA24) Date: 2/14/1976 Description: 7:20 p.m. Black Horse Lake. UFO, 500' high, landed near lake. (UFO 59 NIDS) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Benton, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4640 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17262 (27DDB936) Date: 2/15/1976 Description: Two men, Gelo and Carmona, were riding on a motorcycle between Olivares and Gerena, Sevilla, Spain at 8:10 p.m. when their motorcycle engine died. They then saw a 30 meter long cigar-shaped object on the roadside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, October 1976, p. 10; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, case 76 Source ID: Johnson_927 Source: Johnson ### Event 17263 (9F0B4CA3) Date: 2/17/1976 Description: A truck driver driving between Tarraleah and Berridale, Tasmania saw a bright cigar-shaped object ahead and to his left at around four o'clock in the morning. It was low to the ground. The light had maintained its position relative to his truck for some time, so the driver woke up his companion. The driver estimated the object was about one kilometer away and 300 meters in altitude. The two men tried a transistor radio, but it emitted only static until the end of the sighting. They estimated the object to be 10 meters in diameter with a dome on top. After being paced for 60 kilometers, they stopped to change drivers. When they did this the UFO dropped down to within 300 meters of their truck, then hovered nearby. As they started driving again, the UFO moved across the road and paced them again at varying distances until sunrise. A small orange light accompanied the main object during the latter half of the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1976, p. 19; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 392, citing ACOS Bulletin, June 1976 Source ID: Johnson_966 Source: Johnson ### Event 17264 (C3902CE6) Date: 2/18/1976 Description: At 6:45 p.m. PST 8-10 discs were sighted flying in a V formation over Rancho Cordova, California. The objects were 3 to 6 meters in diameter, gray in color, and made no sound. Afterwards the witness saw ten aircraft circling that portion of the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS investigation file, report dated March 1, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_987 Source: Johnson ### Event 17265 (3C132BAD) Date: 2/18/1976 Description: At around eight o'clock in the evening EST two women driving in a rural area reported that lights high in the sky paced their car for 13-14 miles from Chatchee to Lincoln, Alabama. Near Okatchee, Alabama they saw a large orange object in the woods near the ground to their left. Their CB radio stopped working, making no static, no sound at all. Two objects then followed them until they reached Lincoln, Alabama, where the UFOs approached to within 300-400 feet. The women saw five objects at this point. After passing through Lincoln, the objects stopped pacing the car and the CB radio suddenly started working. The two objects that had paced the car were egg-shaped and glowing with a fluorescent light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS investigation file, report dated May 17, 1976; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 392, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_986 Source: Johnson ### Event 17266 (AD1DF7A8) Date: 2/18/1976 Description: 8:00 p.m. EST. Two women driving in a rural area reported that lights high in the sky paced their car for 13-14 miles from Chatchee to Lincoln, Alabama. Near Okatchee, The two objects that had paced the car were egg-shaped and glowing with a fluorescent light. (Sources: CUFOS investigation file, report dated May 17, 1976; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 392, citing CUFOS). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Okatchee (near), AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4642 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17267 (4E6C994B) Date: 2/18/1976 Description: 6:45 p.m. PST 8-10 discs were sighted flying in a V formation over Rancho Cordova, California. The objects were 3 to 6 meters in diameter, gray in color, and made no sound. Afterwards the witness saw ten aircraft circling that portion of the sky. (Source: CUFOS investigation file, report dated March 1, 1976). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rancho Cordova, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4641 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17268 (BF676334) Date: 2/19/1976 Description: During a series of close encounter reports from the city of North Bergen, New Jersey, at two o'clock in the morning a Mr. Daliz noticed a human figure in Hudson Park with a light attached to his head, bent over and apparently picking things up from the ground and putting them into a little bag. The witness thought the man was wearing a one-piece uniform, and seemed to be dragging his feet as he walked. He continued doing this activity for 20 minutes. No UFO was seen at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Bloecher, FSR, October 1976, p. 6; Ted Bloecher, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1976, p. 14; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-39 (A1460), citing Bloecher, Stoehrer & Hopkins Source ID: Johnson_1003 Source: Johnson ### Event 17269 (F4A0336B) Date: 2/19/1976 Description: 9:15 p.m. Numerous witnesses reported a strange object to the Parsipany Police Department. The object was a large rectangularly shaped object seen hovering in the vicinity of Jersey City Reservoir. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, April 1976, page 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Hiawatha, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4645 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17270 (48DC5683) Date: 2/19/1976 Description: About 8:10 p.m. "...went on deck for another check and saw two balls of light moving very rapidly toward the eastern shore ..., altitude approximately 2000 feet heading due east. (Letter to CUFOS from Warren Ballard, Mar. 4, 1981, from ship's log. ) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chesapeake Bay, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4643 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17271 (2CB2EABC) Date: 2/19/1976 Description: The National Archives starts microfilming the redacted Project Blue Book files through the commercial firm Fuller & Dees Marketing Group in Montgomery, Alabama. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_5257 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17272 (AB9B0FB2) Date: 2/19/1976 Description: 7:00 p.m. Sutter County sheriff's office received a call reporting a UFO being observed by two witnesses. Deputy Gerald Teplansky was dispatched to the scene and was able to observe the objects for about five minutes. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, July 1976, page 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marysville, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4644 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17273 (19EA266A) Date: 2/20/1976 Description: 7:00 p.m. A young man and woman saw some odd red lights in the sky in Essex County, Massachusetts. Then two flattened disc-shaped objects with three triangular lights descended close to their car and maneuvered nearby for about 10 minutes. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 394, citing MUFON case file). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Essex County, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4646 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17274 (74D2855D) Date: 2/20/1976 Description: At 7:00 p.m. a young man and woman saw some odd red lights in the sky in Essex County, Massachusetts. Then two flattened disc-shaped objects with three triangular lights descended close to their car and maneuvered nearby for about 10 minutes. The car's radio had heavy static during a portion of the sighting. The two objects finally flew out of view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 394, citing MUFON case file Source ID: Johnson_1026 Source: Johnson ### Event 17275 (33ED984D) Date: 2/20/1976 Description: In answer to a request by UFO researcher [Robert Todd](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/04/robert-todd-is-gone.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/04/robert-todd-is-gone.html) the National Security Agency states that the NSA “does not have any interest in UFOs in any manner.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 181](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/180/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5258 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17276 (CA64CA34) Date: 2/22/1976 Description: 10:00 a.m. Leonard Hegele, a 29-year old student, spotted a seven-foot tall humanoid with three-foot wide shoulders walking through a field about a mile from Interstate I-15 south of Great Falls, Montana. It walked with a non-human gait. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-41 (A1463), citing Jerome Clark; Great Falls Tribune, February 23, 1976). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Great Falls (near), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4647 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17277 (D8B65B47) Date: 2/22/1976 Description: Leonard Hegele, a 29-year old student, spotted a seven-foot tall humanoid with three-foot wide shoulders walking through a field about a mile from Interstate I-15 south of Great Falls, Montana at around 10 a.m. It walked with a non-human gait. Mr. Hegele stopped his car and attempted to chase the being, but when he got to within 700-800 feet, the creature turned around to face him and Hegele lost his courage and ran back to his car. While he was chasing the creature Hegele saw a gray, oval shaped object hovering in the air nearby. It hovered only 10 feet above the ground, but periodically rose and fell back down another 15 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-41 (A1463), citing Jerome Clark; Great Falls Tribune, February 23, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_1053 Source: Johnson ### Event 17278 (50FE49C4) Date: 2/24/1976 Description: 9:27 p.m. A six meter in diameter domed disc hovered over a road. There were four legs on the bottom of the craft, and it was silent. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, Skylook, May 1976, p. 3). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stratham, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4648 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17279 (1AB56D58) Date: 2/24/1976 Description: A six meter in diameter domed disc hovered over a road in Stratham, New Hampshire at 9:37 p.m. There were four legs on the bottom of the craft, and it was silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, Skylook, May 1976, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_1086 Source: Johnson ### Event 17280 (1AB63095) Date: 2/25/1976 Description: Eight miles north of Nashville, Illinois at 7:30 p.m. that same evening, while driving by on the highway a woman caught sight of two eight-foot tall beings standing about fifteen feet from the roadway. As her car drew even with the second being a blue light flashed across her face. She drove away in fear, and she continued to watch a blue glow in her rear view mirror. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated February 26, 1976, citing field investigator Kretsch Source ID: Johnson_1112 Source: Johnson ### Event 17281 (EB77E55C) Date: 2/25/1976 Description: 8:30 p.m. UFO photos, daylight sighting. (UFO 66 NIDS) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Location unknown, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4652 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17282 (89A63F21) Date: 2/25/1976 Description: Evening. Humanoid report. Woman encountered two "beings" while driving on a country road NW of Nashville. The being flashed a blue light at her before she sped away. Beings described as very tall "with large feet and no necks." (MUFON 100-7, CUFOS-AP) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nashville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4651 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17283 (422BE131) Date: 2/25/1976 Description: In Maneru, Spain at 4:00 p.m. five school children saw a UFO descend and land in a nearby field. The UFO was 8-10 meters wide, and had a transparent dome. A two-meter tall being emerged dressed in a black coverall suit. The figure took a few steps through the field of barley, and then returned to the craft, and took off. There were landing traces at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, April 1977, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_1111 Source: Johnson ### Event 17284 (38F051B7) Date: 2/25/1976 Description: The first humanoid report on this day occurred in Kettering, Tasmania. A glowing, domed object landed on the beach at 1:00 a.m., making a humming noise. Beings were seen through the windows in the craft. The domed disc made a louder noise as it took off, and flew away toward the east. Later that night numerous witnesses in Maydena, Tasmania, sighted two orange lights. They flew toward the southwest at a speed less than 100 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 161, citing FSR; Keith Roberts, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_1110 Source: Johnson ### Event 17285 (8124976C) Date: 2/25/1976 Description: 1:00 a.m. A glowing, domed object landed on the beach at 1:00 a.m., making a humming noise. Beings were seen through the windows in the craft. The domed disc made a louder noise as it took off, and flew away toward the east. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kettering, Tasmania Source ID: NICAP_DB_4649 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17286 (AF3EF78A) Date: 2/25/1976 Description: 4:00 p.m. Five school children saw a UFO descend and land in a nearby field. The UFO was 8-10 meters wide, and had a transparent dome. A two-meter tall being emerged dressed in a black coverall suit. (Source: Gordon Creighton, FSR, April 1977, p. 27). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maneru, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4650 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17287 (1004BE4E) Date: Late 2/1976 Description: 1:00 a.m. A man in Kettering, Tasmania, is awake tending to a child when he looks outside to his east and sees what he thinks is an aircraft descending at 45°. After watching for a couple of minutes, he goes outside. The object comes down behind a small bank on the far side of a sports field opposite his house. He crosses the field, climbs the bank, and sees from about 82 feet away, a dome-shaped object emitting a bright-white to yellow light from three or four windows. When he looks through the object’s windows he can see a tall cylinder \(that he likens to a ship’s compass mounting\), motionless gray shapes \(like car seats with headrests seen from the rear\), and perhaps entities. He hears a humming noise. The object takes off to the east with the noise increasing in volume. It climbs away at 60° and recedes to a point source and disappears. The total duration is 6–7 minutes. The next day he returns to the spot and notes the rough grass beyond the sports field has been scorched in a circular patch. This grass later dies. On October 24, 1977, the Tasmanian UFO Information Centre takes soil samples of this area that are examined by Geoff Stevens using a thermoluminescence test. His investigation reveals no significant, systematic differences in the thermoluminescence content of soil and mineral particles taken from within the affected area, and control samples taken from outside this area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Geoff Stevens, “Thermoluminescence Measurements of Soil Samples Affected by a UFO,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1978, pp. 1, 3–6; Keith Roberts and Geoff Stevens, “[The Kettering, Tasmania, Landing: A Study,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20V%2024%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 3 \(November 1978\): 18–21; “Tasmanian Landing in 1976,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 21 Source ID: Eberhart_5259 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17288 (C48C86ED) Date: 2/26/1976 Description: 6:15 P.M. Mrs. Audrey Manny observed a large dome shaped object hovering to the south of her home. After about three minutes it started moving toward her at a rapid rate of speed. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, April 1976, page 3) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Island, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4653 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17289 (499C5B26) Date: 3/1976 Description: [Werner Walter](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%5FWalter%5F%28Ufologe%29) and Hansjürgen Köhler found Centrale Erforschungsnetz Auβergewöhnlicher Phänomene \[later Himmelsphänomene\] in Mannheim, Germany. The first issue of its somewhat skeptical, anti-ETH, monthly CENAP-Report is published, continuing until May 2007. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Centrales Erforschungsnetz](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrales%5FErforschungsnetz%5Fau%C3%9Fergew%C3%B6hnlicher%5FHimmelsph%C3%A4nomene) [Auβergewöhnlicher Himmelsphänomene](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrales%5FErforschungsnetz%5Fau%C3%9Fergew%C3%B6hnlicher%5FHimmelsph%C3%A4nomene)”; [CENAP Report](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/CENAP%20Report%20%28CENAP%29/CENAP%20Report%20-%20No%20001.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/CENAP%20Report%20%28CENAP%29/CENAP%20Report%20-%20No%20001.pdf) no. 1 \(May 1976\) Source ID: Eberhart_5260 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17290 (85A967D0) Date: 3/1/1976 Description: On this afternoon a group of boys in Oldham, Cairo Mill, Greater Manchester, England watched a saucer with a transparent dome fly in and out of the clouds for a minute. The dome was reportedly revolving. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Delair J Bernard, Northern Network News, 1976, volume 26, number 7 Source ID: Johnson_1218 Source: Johnson ### Event 17291 (C4A57D55) Date: 3/2/1976 Description: At 8:10 p.m. a silver box, about five meters in diameter, flew low over the trees in Theville, France. Two men, Messrs. Leveziel and Mahaut witnessed the UFO, which was described as having 30 round holes on each side. It flew off toward the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis Leblond, Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1976, p. 12, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 163 Source ID: Johnson_1257 Source: Johnson ### Event 17292 (F29595F3) Date: 3/2/1976 Description: 8:10 p.m. A silver box, about five meters in diameter, flew low over the trees in Theville, France. Two men, Messrs. Leveziel and Mahaut witnessed the UFO, which was described as having 30 round holes on each side. It flew off toward the northwest. (Source: Francis Leblond, Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1976, p. 12, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 163). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Theville, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4654 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17293 (FD05979E) Date: 3/3/1976 Description: Night. French AF T-33, object illuminates aircraft. Testimony of French fighter pilot Colonel Claude Bosc. On night training flight in a T-33, Bosc saw a bright light approach at high speed on a collision course. His jet was then enveloped in green phosphorescent light for several seconds. Radar showed nothing, but two other pilots saw the encounter from a distance. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4656 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17294 (62A48703) Date: 3/3/1976 Description: Three hours after the abduction of the 12-year-old in Brazil, a luminous green sphere with a luminous tail nearly collided with a French Air Force T-33 jet over Tours, France. The UFO climbed vertically, levelled out, came at the aircraft, and the two-meter wide sphere passed within 30 cm when it passed over the right wing. It didn't show up at all on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 40 Source ID: Johnson_1282 Source: Johnson ### Event 17295 (5C6A6291) Date: 3/3/1976 Description: 4:00 p.m. A 12-year-old boy named Ojeda saw a 40-foot in diameter shiny disc in a clearing in the forest in Refrigerio, Brazil. It sat upon some type of metallic platform. Two beings in shiny suits, less than five feet tall, were seen outside making repairs. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1465, citing Gray Barker, UFO Report, June 1977, p. 37). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Refrigerio, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4655 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17296 (448F2E8A) Date: 3/3/1976 Description: Night. Claude Bosc, a student pilot flying a French Air Force T-33 on a training mission at 19,500 feet, sees a rapidly approaching bright light in the distance near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. In 1–2 seconds, the object speeds toward him and his plane is surrounded by a green phosphorescent light that illuminates the aircraft for several seconds. The green sphere, only 3–6 feet in diameter, avoids a collision at the last minute and passes over his right wing. The radar shows nothing, but two other pilots see the encounter from a distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Comité d’Études Approfondies, Les OVNI et la Defense: A Quoi doit-on se Préparer? \([UFOs and Defense: What Should We](https://www.ufocasebook.com/pdf/COMETA%5Fpart1.pdf) [Prepare for?](https://www.ufocasebook.com/pdf/COMETA%5Fpart1.pdf)\), July 16, 1999, pp. 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_5261 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17297 (06E7D41E) Date: 3/3/1976 Description: At four o'clock in the afternoon a 12-year-old boy named Ojeda saw a 40-foot in diameter shiny disc in a clearing in the forest in Refrigerio, Brazil. It sat upon some type of metallic platform. Two beings in shiny suits, less than five feet tall, were seen outside making repairs. Blinded by a flash of intense light, he was captured and taken aboard the craft. The beings communicated with the boy using telepathy, and gave him a physical exam on an exam table. He had skin burns resulting from the flash of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1465, citing Gray Barker, UFO Report, June 1977, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_1281 Source: Johnson ### Event 17298 (D4CE2403) Date: 3/5/1976 Description: Miss Rasmussen, a 23-year-old woman in Redmond, Oregon first saw an object high in the sky at 9:25 p.m., which then dropped down to an altitude of only 75 feet. The object was disc-shaped, about 26 feet in diameter, and had red and white lights revolving around its exterior. Two light beams were directed from the object to the ground. The radio in her car went dead when the object came near, and although the woman kept driving, the radio did not work again until two miles down the road. The object did not follow the car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS News Bulletin, June 1976, p. 5; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 68, case 395, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_1318 Source: Johnson ### Event 17299 (752CAD39) Date: 3/5/1976 Description: At dusk Mrs. T. went to her back doorstep in Cheshire, Connecticut to call in the children. When she looked up she saw an object moving slowly at treetop level “a few thousand feet away.” Her husband came out and saw it, two. It had a translucent dome on top and gold lights around its periphery. Above the dome was a deep red flashing light, and there were holes in the bottom out of which a blue light shone. Mr. T. estimated its size as 80 feet in diameter. It descended among some trees in a wetlands area near their home. They watched it for two hours, until 9:30 p.m. The man and his two sons then got in their van and drove to a point closer to the object. They noticed an unnatural silence, but could not get a good view. When they returned home Mrs. T. was missing. After searching the house, they returned to the living room when she suddenly showed up. Her speech was slow and slurred, and she claimed that she had been in the bedroom. At 11:30 p.m. the couple went to bed, but they woke up at 12:45 a.m., finding that they had somehow exchanged positions in bed. Both felt nauseous, and the back door of their house was found to be open. The next day an investigator visited them and discovered three wedge-shaped holes in the ground and broken tree branches where the UFO had evidently landed near the house. A few days later the couple vaguely remembered being taken onboard the craft during the hour before they woke up. The husband clearly recalled “being in a galley area where they were eating. An extraterrestrial was sitting there with his head on his hand looking up at me as if saying, “What are you doing here?” This being had wrinkled whitish gray skin, high cheekbones, a high forehead, and eyes that were three or four times bigger than human eyes; he was also bald. He was looking at the man with an expression of “disdain.” Under hypnosis the wife remembered much more. One kind of alien was about four feet tall, a second group, “the doers”, were about 5.5 feet tall; and a third type with huge eyes and pupils like that of a cat, was 6.6 feet tall. The couple said the beings communicated with them by telepathy, and that they believe that “their minds have been probed by extraterrestrials since the March incident.” Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-88 (A1805), citing James Harder, James Barrett & Dick Nycz for CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_1317 Source: Johnson ### Event 17300 (0D35C302) Date: 3/5/1976 Description: 9:25 p.m. A 23-year-old woman saw an object high in the sky, which then dropped down to an altitude of only 75 feet. The radio in her car went dead when the object came near, and although the woman kept driving, the radio did not work again until two miles down the road. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 395, citing CUFOS) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Redmond, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_4657 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17301 (034E92AD) Date: 3/11/1976 Description: An Iberian Airlines pilot flying above Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, watches an elongated object, shaped like a dirigible gondola and lighted from within through several window-like openings, pace his aircraft with occasional bursts of speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 122, 146 Source ID: Eberhart_5262 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17302 (D22458A9) Date: 3/11/1976 Description: Object paced airliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palma de Majorca, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4658 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17303 (925AC467) Date: 3/12/1976 Description: Paso Fondo, Brazil (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [760312](http://www.nicap.org/braz76.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paso Fondo, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4659 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17304 (A81A5B90) Date: 3/14/1976 Description: A married couple driving between Liria and Olocau, Valencia, Spain saw a dark figure float across the road ahead of them. at 9:45 p.m. Depite being dark it was luminous and shaped like the "Michelin man." Their car headlights died as they approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1978, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_1495 Source: Johnson ### Event 17305 (09CECEA8) Date: 3/15/1976 Description: 10:14 p.m. Two objects are tracked on radar flying over the landing strips at Simón Bolívar Airport near Caracas, Venezuela, at 3,000 mph. Tower operators ask the unidentified craft to identify themselves. Instead they take off and disappear over the Caribbean Sea. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard H. Hall, “[UFOs Tracked on Radar at Venezuelan](https://vdocuments.mx/mufon-ufo-journal-1977-1-january.html?page=3) [Airport,](https://vdocuments.mx/mufon-ufo-journal-1977-1-january.html?page=3)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 110 \(January 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5263 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17306 (FB1D8D90) Date: 3/15/1976 Description: 9:20 p.m. The sighting lasted until 1:30 a.m. on March 16. The first observer happened to have a citizens band radio and began communications with other people regarding the light that was displaying unusual movements in the clear night sky. Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, April 1976, pages 3-4) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: NW, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4660 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17307 (41AD8283) Date: 3/19/1976 Description: In 1976 a flying disc paced a car with three people inside very closely in Big Run, Pennsylvania. White beams of light were directed into the car from the UFO. It flew away when the car reached a highway intersection. An independent observer witnessed the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1977 Source ID: Johnson_1574 Source: Johnson ### Event 17308 (BDB2E217) Date: 3/22/1976 Description: 5:42 a.m. A couple are stopped in their car outside a hotel in Nemingha, New South Wales, deciding on directions. Suddenly a bright, greenish-yellow light descends and completely envelops a nearby white car, which drifts to the wrong side of the road, wrapped in a thick ball of white haze. Its headlights go out. After 2 minutes the haze dissipates, and a woman gets out of the car and wipes a white substance off the windshield with a yellow cloth. She is about to get back in when its lights come back on by themselves. She throws the cloth on the roadside, drives a short way, and the yellow cloth bursts into flame. When the white car passes the couple, they notice it is covered in a thick white substance, except for the windshield. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[Road Hazard Down](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%205.pdf) [Under?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 \(February 1977\): 28–32; Bill Chalker, “[Postscript to the Nemingha](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%203.pdf) [Case,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 \(October 1977\): 22, 27 Source ID: Eberhart_5264 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17309 (0B001CD6) Date: 3/25/1976 Description: 11:40 p.m. UFO descended over vehicle, 50' diameter. (UFO 77 NIDS) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belt, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4661 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17310 (67BC5B0D) Date: 3/26/1976 Description: 9:15 p.m. UFO described as a light that zig-zagged in the sky. (UFO 78 NIDS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Great Falls (10 mi. S of), MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4662 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17311 (15746737) Date: 3/26/1976 Description: The CIA responds to the Ground Saucer Watch FOIA request, claiming that its only involvement with UFOs was with the 1953 Robertson Panel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 113](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/112/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5265 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17312 (034778AF) Date: 3/27/1976 Description: At 6:45 a.m. the engine and headlights of a car died in St. Denis, Reunion, a French territory in the Indian Ocean while in the presence of a small cloud by the roadside. The small cloud then rose up vertically, and shot off toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1976 Source ID: Johnson_1698 Source: Johnson ### Event 17313 (5A4FBD8B) Date: 3/27/1976 Description: 6:45 a.m. The engine and headlights of a car died in St. Denis, Reunion, a French territory in the Indian Ocean, while in the presence of a small cloud by the roadside. The small cloud then rose up vertically, and shot off toward the southwest. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1976). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Denis, Reunion, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4663 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17314 (81DB2760) Date: 3/27/1976 Description: 5:95 p.m. Distant cylindrical object described as a jumbo jet with no wings observed for 25 seconds moving SE to NW and climbing at a high rate of speed. No sound. (Ridge files, UFO Filter Center) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4664 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17315 (7E849ED6) Date: 3/28/1976 Description: No details on this close encounter (C1) (CUFOS) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Villa park, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4665 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17316 (B7E4B982) Date: 3/30/1976 Description: Miss Roseti da Silva, a 23-year-old college student, was blinded by a beam of white light from an unseen flying object in Quixada, Brazil. The energy beam sapped her strength and she lost consciousness. She was hospitalized with burns and nervous exhaustion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1976, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_1739 Source: Johnson ### Event 17317 (8ACDE7F6) Date: 3/31/1976 Description: During a campaign stop in Appleton, Wisconsin, Georgia Gov. [Jimmy Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FCarter) is asked by Thomas Heiman, associate director of the UFO Education Center, whether he would make public all the UFO files if he became president. Carter answers, “Yes, I would make these kinds of data available to the public, as President, to help resolve the mystery about it.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Grant Cameron, “Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Prize, and Extraterrestrials” Source ID: Eberhart_5266 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17318 (F8D1A185) Date: 4/1976 Description: [Michel Monnerie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%5FMonnerie) and Raymond Bonnaventure begin publishing Ufologie Contact, a newsletter intending to reach all the UFO groups iaround Paris, France. It soon falls under the auspices of the Société Parisienne d’Étude des Phénomène Spatiaux et Étranges in Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, France, and continues through at least 1981. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Ufologie Contact](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ufologie%20Contact/Ufologie%20Contact%20-%20Series%201%20-%20No%2002%20-%201er%20mai%201976.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ufologie%20Contact/Ufologie%20Contact%20-%20Series%201%20-%20No%2002%20-%201er%20mai%201976.pdf) ser. 1, no. 2 \(May 1976\) Source ID: Eberhart_5268 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17319 (782F639C) Date: 4/1976 Description: DARPA names Lockheed the winner of a competition to build a stealth bomber. Immediately it begins manufacturing two flying Have Blue prototypes in Skunk Works Building 82 in Burbank, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FHave%5FBlue) [Have Blue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FHave%5FBlue)” Source ID: Eberhart_5267 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17320 (5A4FAE51) Date: 4/1/1976 Description: A 30-meter wide arrowhead shaped UFO hovered at a 30 degree angle in the sky southwest of the city of Heusca, Spain starting at 10:30 p.m. It was seen three times that night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Inforespace, January 1977 Source ID: Johnson_1794 Source: Johnson ### Event 17321 (C31C4A32) Date: 4/2/1976 Description: 1:50 a.m. Detective Sgt. Norman Collinson is driving home along the M62 and M66 motorways near Bury, Greater Manchester, England. As he turns north onto the M66 he observes a white disc of light moving very fast, crossing the path he is traveling. The object is heading toward Knoll Hill, east of Bury. The UFO makes a right- angle turn onto a south-southeast heading. Puzzled, the officer stops his vehicle and gets out to look at the light. As he does so, the light stops and hovers nearby. It then begins to perform a series of spectacular right-angle box turns, after which it moves off in the direction of Heywood, with Collinson following it in his car. The object stops a second time and again repeats the angular movements before streaking away at a tremendous speed. The incident is reported to the MOD and Manchester Airport. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles and Peter Warrington, “[Police](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%202.pdf) [Encounter at Bury,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 \(August 1977\): 13, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5269 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17322 (64EEA83F) Date: 4/2/1976 Description: Mr. Bazargani from Chalus, Iran was walking through a forest near his home on this day in 1976 when he had a UFO stop directly overhead. He realized he was paralyzed and could not move when he saw four beings emerge from the craft via a ladder. They took him aboard and brought him into a oval-shaped room. The UFO occupants were described as having big noses and thin lips. They took a strange looking instrument that emitted light and scanned it over his body from head to foot. His abduction lasted two days. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1466 Source ID: Johnson_1802 Source: Johnson ### Event 17323 (91DA8F35) Date: 4/2/1976 Description: Mr. Bazargani from Chalus, Iran was walking through a forest near his home on this day in 1976 when he had a UFO stop directly overhead. He realized he was paralyzed and could not move when he saw four beings emerge from the craft via a ladder. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1466). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chalus, Iran Source ID: NICAP_DB_4666 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17324 (D87A9D70) Date: 4/3/1976 Description: 4:30 a.m. Several residents of Quixadá, Ceará, Brazil, during an outdoor physical education session, see a large disc-shaped object that glides silently a few feet from the ground emitting an intense light. At about the same time in another part of the city, Luis Barroso Fernandes is preparing to travel to a site a few kilometers away on his donkey cart. He soon hears a buzzing sound, and a flying object 10 feet in diameter positions itself above him. It slowly descends in front of his cart about 100 feet away. The device emits a beam of light that strikes the donkey and Barroso, who immediately become paralyzed. A door opens on the UFO and two small beings emerge. One holds something like a flashlight and aims a beam that strikes Barroso in the face, causing him to lose consciousness. He wakes up in a different spot, dizzy and suffering from a burning sensation on his face, and a headache. The left side of his body is reddish, and he has difficulty getting into his cart and getting it moving. He asks his wife to take him to Dr. Antônio Moreira Magalhães, who prescribes a tranquilizer. He continues to feel sick, his eyes burn continuously, and the left side of his body is red. A few days later, his hair turns gray and he suffers memory lapses. After his symptoms worsen and other doctors fail to help, his family checks him into a psychiatric hospital in Fortaleza. His condition deteriorates, and he dies in April 1993. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Elias Bruno, “[Brazil: The](http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2012/04/brazil-barroso-case-1976.html) [Barroso Case,](http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2012/04/brazil-barroso-case-1976.html)” Inexplicata, April 29, 2012; Clark III 180–182; Brazil 179–184 Source ID: Eberhart_5270 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17325 (193995F0) Date: 4/4/1976 Description: C1. Close Encounter listed but no details, one witness. (EGBA,673) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huntington, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4667 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17326 (5FE9EEC9) Date: 4/5/1976 Description: 7:10 p.m. Cylindrical object, aluminum colored. (UFO 80 NIDS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Great Falls, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4668 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17327 (093EA898) Date: 4/7/1976 Description: A couple driving their car in Kontich, Belgium at 9:15 p.m. saw a dirigible-shaped UFO cross the road at a fairly low altitude. It had red and white spotlights around its perimeter. At 11:40 p.m. in Laroque Timbaut, France a three meter tall pinkish, ovoid object, 1 meter in diameter, hung just above the ground. It then jumped at distance of 200 meters almost instantaneously. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Delaire, UFO Register, Volume 7 (1976), p. 31; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11691 Source ID: Johnson_1886 Source: Johnson ### Event 17328 (E04BE770) Date: 4/7/1976 Description: 11:40 p.m. A couple driving their car saw a dirigible-shaped UFO cross the road at a fairly low altitude. It had red and white spotlights around its perimeter. (Sources: J. Delaire, UFO Register, Volume 7 (1976), p. 31; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11691). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kontich, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_4669 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17329 (982F1EB8) Date: 4/9/1976 Description: CONFIDENTIAL CIA Message: Source (name Censored) seeks guidance from CIA UFO experts as to material in his report that should remain classified. Type: confidential message Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p508) Location: Langley, VA Source ID: Maj2_689 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17330 (264E1B08) Date: 4/13/1976 Description: C1, no details. (EGBA,685) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alliance, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4670 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17331 (FC5B949A) Date: 4/14/1976 Description: A heavily redacted CIA memo shows a reference to someone’s having sought “guidance from CIA UFO experts as to material in his report that should remain classified.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 143](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/142/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5271 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17332 (8F92E201) Date: 4/17/1976 Description: Two girls, the Melling sisters aged 12 and 9, saw a Mothman-like "bird-man" hovering in the sky over a church in Mawman, Cornwall, England. They drew a sketch of a man with wings, big pointed ears, and a large triangle in place of the nose and mouth. It so frightened the entire family that they ended their vacation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doc Shiels, Fortean Times, June 1976, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_2088 Source: Johnson ### Event 17333 (D02B8934) Date: 4/17/1976 Description: June and Vicky Melling, on vacation in Mawnan, Cornwall, England, see a large winged creature hovering above the tower of St. Mawnan and St. Stephen’s Church. They are so frightened by the sight of a large “feathered bird-man” that their father Dan Melling cuts short the vacation. Magician and showman [Tony “Doc”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5F%22Doc%22%5FShiels) [Shiels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5F%22Doc%22%5FShiels) investigates the case, and one of the girls provides him with a drawing of the creature, which he dubs “Owlman.” Other sightings emerge over the next few years. Occult historian Gareth J. Medway suggests that the whole thing is a hoax by Shiels, who has a reputation for hoaxing. Medway notes that witnesses claiming encounters with the legendary monster “were either Doc Shiels, or friends of Doc Shiels, or relatives of Doc Shiels, or reported their sightings to Doc Shiels \(and to no one else\), or else wrote letters describing what they had seen to newspapers and were never interviewed by anyone.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Owlman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owlman)”; Robert J. M. Rickard, “Birdmen of the Apocalypse!” Fortean Times 17 \(August 1976\): 14–20; Doc Shiels, “To Wit! To Woo? Some Thoughts about Owlman,” Fortean Times 27 \(Autumn 1978\): 44–46; Jonathan Downes, The Owlman and Others, Domra, 1997; Clark III 602 Source ID: Eberhart_5272 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17334 (5AFE7DCB) Date: 4/18/1976 Description: On this night in 1976 Ms. Larson was abducted out of her bedroom in Fargo, North Dakota to a UFO some distance away from her house. Inside the UFO she was put on a slab and hooked up to a complex of wires. She was levitated back to her house at dawn. She saw a small metallic cube zigzag and land on her lawn on the return trip. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1467, citing Jerome Clark Source ID: Johnson_2119 Source: Johnson ### Event 17335 (57A94245) Date: 4/21/1976 Description: In Harbor City, Los Angeles County, California while driving on the San Diego Freeway at 11:00 a.m. two witnesses reported sighting a large white metallic domed disc. It was estimated to be between 200 and 300 feet in diameter, and was flying at 3,000 feet altitude. It moved slowly at 5-10 mph, with a titled orientation of 45 degrees to its direction of flight. The craft had a window on its dome. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1976, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_2190 Source: Johnson ### Event 17336 (91E82CA6) Date: 4/21/1976 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a 23-year-old woman stopped her pickup truck on a bridge three miles east of Stacy, Minnesota on Highway 19 in Chisago County when she noticed a green pulsating light off the road. It passed overhead at an estimated 300-400 feet altitude. She estimated the orb was 12-15 feet in diameter. RF interference consisted of CB radio static during the close encounter. After 45 seconds of even flight it shot straight up when it departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 68 Source ID: Johnson_2191 Source: Johnson ### Event 17337 (7CB28781) Date: 4/22/1976 Description: Huge orange object, figures moving inside, blue flash, witness stunned; TV interference coincided. Rodeghier, 1981, p. 68; Schuessler, 1995, p. 109 (E,R,L) police car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Elmwood, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4671 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17338 (A50BE85A) Date: 4/22/1976 Description: 11:00 p.m. Police officer George Wheeler, on duty at Elmwood, Wisconsin, notices a glow at the top of Tuttle Hill. He drives closer and sees an object as high as a two-story house and 250 feet across with an orange-white light at the top and six bluish-white lights on the side. It is 500 feet away and about 100 feet off the ground. He thinks he can see, though an open side panel, something moving inside it. The object has several partially extended legs and a long, black, hose-like appendage. Suddenly the object rises straight up. He sees some kind of flash and his car lights go out, the motor stops, the radio goes dead, and he becomes dazed. A second police car arrives, noticing that the car door is open, and takes the witness to a hospital, from which he is released four days later. Some people in the area have difficulty with TV reception at the same time as the encounter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Reports,” CUFOS News Bulletin, June 1976, pp. 5–6; Patrick Gross, “[George Wheeler’s Close Encounter, 1976](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/wheeler76.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5274 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17339 (F1946C02) Date: 4/22/1976 Description: 1:45 a.m. RCMP Constable Bill Toffan sees an apparent vehicle with its lights flashing ahead of him as he is driving on Canada Highway 16 west of Terrace, British Columbia. As he rounds a curve, he sees it is actually in the air 300 feet above the trees. Suddenly there is a blinding flash and he nearly loses control of his car. After a brief report appears in the press, the RCMP orders Toffan not to discuss the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mountie ‘Ordered’ into](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96923374/) [Silence,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96923374/)” Vancouver \(B.C.\) Sun, April 26, 1976, p. 8; Good Above, [pp. 194–195](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/194/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Files Obtained](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/offica01.htm) [from the National Archives of Canada](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/offica01.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5273 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17340 (D5189436) Date: 4/22/1976 Description: At 11:10 p.m. in Elmwood, Wisconsin police officer George Wheeler encountered a huge, 250-foot wide, silvery lens-shaped UFO hovering only 100 feet above the ground and just 500 feet away from his car. It had an orange-white light on top and six blue windows, landing gear. He could see movement of figures moving around inside the craft. When the UFO flashed a blue color his car's headlights, motor, and two-way radio failed. He was stunned by the flash and experienced a lapse of consciousness. He didn't remember anything else until someone stopped and asked him if he need help. He was hospitalized from April 23 to April 27. Another independent witness, Frederickson, saw a UFO land that night in Elmwood. There was also TV interference reported in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Eau Claire (WI) Leader-Telegram, May 14, 1976; Jack M. Bostrack, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1976, p. 4; APRO Bulletin, April 1976, p. 1; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 69; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 256, 269 Source ID: Johnson_2228 Source: Johnson ### Event 17341 (83F9B50E) Date: 4/23/1976 Description: 11:15 p.m. While half the town was watching a reddish oval shaped craft maneuvering overhead, 14-year-old Fidel Hernandez Rolla was playing with some friends in a field outside of town, when they saw the reddish spheres slowly descend and land on a nearby field. The craft was topped by a crystal dome and inside the dome several very tall, human-like figures could be seen moving about. He then saw three tall man-like figures appear from behind the object, not very far from his location. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, citing Iker Jimenez, Enigmas Sin Resolver). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Matapozuelos, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4673 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17342 (EE9EC184) Date: 4/23/1976 Description: At 11:15 p.m., while half the town of Matapozuelos, Spain was watching a reddish oval shaped craft maneuvering overhead, 14-year-old Fidel Hernandez Rolla was playing with some friends in a field outside of town, when they saw the reddish spheres slowly descend and land on a nearby field. All of Fidel's friends fled in panic, so he was left behind alone. With a mixture of fear and curiosity, Fidel approached the object and then crouched behind a stonewall to watch the enigmatic craft. Suddenly a row of lights became visible inside an opening in the craft. Fidel was able to see numerous multi-colored lights, monitors and other unidentified apparatus inside the craft. The craft was topped by a crystal dome and inside the dome several very tall, human-like figures could be seen moving about. He then saw three tall man-like figures appear from behind the object, not very far from his location. The humanoids were over two meters tall and wore tight-fitting white uniforms with belts and boots. They all had light blond, shoulder-length hair. Their faces were human-like but with large almond-shaped eyes. In single file the three tall beings walked to a potato field where several pounds of potatoes were stacked high in a pyramid. After looking at the potatoes for a few seconds, the beings then stared at the witness. At this point Fidel heard unintelligible words inside his head, as if the humanoids were attempting to communicate with him telepathically. A few seconds later the beings suddenly vanished in plain sight. At the same time, the object rose up from the ground emitting a steady buzzing sound. As the object disappeared into the distance, several additional towns people arrived to see the object disappear into space. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, citing Iker Jimenez, Enigmas Sin Resolver Source ID: Johnson_2259 Source: Johnson ### Event 17343 (BB6B2C40) Date: 4/23/1976 Description: A man was reportedly abducted for four hours by a UFO that landed in a pasture in Quixada, Ceara State, Brazil at 5:00 a.m. Soon after the abduction experience his mental and physical health quickly deteriorated, and now he is described as completely mindless by his fellow villagers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 136; Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next?, p. 153; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 270 Source ID: Johnson_2258 Source: Johnson ### Event 17344 (7AD5BC28) Date: 4/23/1976 Description: Humanoid report, witnessed by Robertson. (EGBA,493) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Flintville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4672 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17345 (1B9CFBA3) Date: 4/23/1976 Description: 2:40 a.m. A 1st Lt. is on communications duty aboard a US Navy destroyer in the Atlantic southwest of Bermuda. The lookout calls his attention to a green light dead ahead through light fog three miles away at 10° above the horizon. Radar reports no target and the sonar room hears no engines. The crew watches the green light dip to 30–40 feet above the surface and approach the ship. The lieutenant orders a course change to starboard, and the green light becomes much larger, making a comparable turn to port in order to pace the ship. The ship and the object both make subsequent turns, with the light now only 50-60 feet away. Suddenly a large blip appears on the radar scope. The destroyer returns to its original heading and the light stations itself on the port beam. When the captain comes on deck, the light circles the ship twice. Then once again off to port, it becomes a brighter green, tilts at an angle, and submerges. The next day the captain tells the crew not to discuss the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald R. Todd, “[Ship’s Crew Sees UFO,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201978%2005%2000%20-%20Vol%2026%20No%2011.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 11 \(May 1978\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_5275 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17346 (DFB91F8E) Date: 4/25/1976 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a 12 meter in diameter UFO crossed the road in front of a car being driven by a Mr. Y. Vandenbroek in Tervuren, Belgium, at an altitude of 100 meters. Suddenly four searchlights were turned on inside the object, and directed at the ground. The object moved silently, tilted at an angle after five minutes, and moved away slowly. There were eight witnesses from four separate families. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Rudy de Groote, UFO Register, volume 7 (1976), p. 31, citing the Gazzette Antwerpen Source ID: Johnson_2302 Source: Johnson ### Event 17347 (EA9FF9C1) Date: 4/26/1976 Description: At 11:30 a.m. a disc-shaped object maneuvered for more than two minutes in the sky between Carson and Long Beach, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ann Druffel, Skynet, April 1976, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_2345 Source: Johnson ### Event 17348 (9678F213) Date: 4/26/1976 Description: C1. No details. (EGBA,493) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fayetteville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4674 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17349 (82FA61A9) Date: 4/30/1976 End date: 5/2/1976 Description: The Center for UFO Studies holds its first conference on UFO research at the Hyatt House in Lincolnwood, Illinois. The proceedings are published later in the year, featuring papers on sighting waves, exosociology, and humanoid reports. Presenters include [Ted Bloecher](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-IS/bloecher.htm), [Ann Druffel](https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2020/06/ufologist-ann-druffel-dies.html?fbclid=IwAR3N-uW1ZAkq5p21hxc11siol67dwjxfSq2vLaTl8v0pExaBh0OeTDuLTyc), [Loren Gross](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-IS/gross.htm), [Richard H.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) [Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) [David M. Jacobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FM.%5FJacobs)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FM.%5FJacobs) [James McCampbell](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-IS/DECEASED/mccampbell.htm), [David Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001)[,](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001) [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) David Webb, and [Ray Stanford](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/tireless-tracker-rewrote-the-book-on-dinosaurs-in-maryland/2012/04/17/gIQARzRcTT%5Fstory.html)[.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/tireless-tracker-rewrote-the-book-on-dinosaurs-in-maryland/2012/04/17/gIQARzRcTT%5Fstory.html)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles Bowen, “[The Editor Goes West,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 2 \(July 1976\): 26–28; Richard F. Haines, “[CUFOS Holds Its First Technical Conference,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 3 \(October 1976\): 13–17; [Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference](http://www.cufos.org/books/Proceedings%5Fof%5Fthe%5F1976%5FCUFOS%5FConference.pdf), Center for UFO Studies, 1976 Source ID: Eberhart_5277 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17350 (04473F7E) Date: 4/30/1976 End date: 5/1/1976 Description: The Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal is launched at a specially convened conference of the American Humanist Association. [Paul Kurtz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FKurtz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FKurtz) [James Randi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FRandi), [Martin Gardner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FGardner)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FGardner) and [Ray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%5FHyman) [Hyman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%5FHyman) take seats on the executive board. The committee will be funded with donations and sales of their magazine, Skeptical Inquirer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee%5Ffor%5FSkeptical%5FInquiry)” Source ID: Eberhart_5276 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17351 (D6876F1E) Date: 5/4/1976 Description: Several witnesses reported seeing a narrow, bright red trail that climbed steeply into the sky from sea level south of Robben Island in Three Anchor Bay, South Africa. A loud explosion followed it. The object turned in flight. Ninety minutes later the main witness heard a second explosion. That witness was Brigadier General C. Smith. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 80 Source ID: Johnson_2511 Source: Johnson ### Event 17352 (FB8D4FF1) Date: 5/4/1976 Description: A cattle mutilation was discovered this day on a ranch south of Glenwood Springs, in Garfield County, Colorado. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fate magazine, September 1976, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_2513 Source: Johnson ### Event 17353 (FFC4E034) Date: 5/4/1976 Description: Also in 1976, a 74-year-old grandmother and two of her grandchildren saw a domed disc slowly flying by in the sky over Wilrijk, Belgium at 10:45 p.m. local time. It had small lights around the rim of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delaire, UFO Register Volume 7, p 32 Source ID: Johnson_2512 Source: Johnson ### Event 17354 (A68C9E4A) Date: 5/4/1976 Description: About five hours after the Belgium UFO encounter a farmer driving through one of his fields in Orfordville, Wisconsin at dusk noticed a hovering object 150 feet above him. It had two bright headlights and two rotating red lights. An hour later his son saw the same lights; they did a U-turn in the sky and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, Center for UFO Studies, case file dated August 24, 1976; CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1976, p. 5; John Wallace Spencer, UFO Yearbook, p. 78 Source ID: Johnson_2514 Source: Johnson ### Event 17355 (7510469B) Date: 5/9/1976 Description: A 22-year-old couple saw a rectangular object in the northwestern part of the sky over the town of Braine-le-Comte, Belgium at 10:30 p.m. In the middle portion of the object protruded something like a funnel. It flew off to the north, describing a large circle in the sky as it did so. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Rudy de Groote, UFO Register (Volume 8), 1977, p. 32, citing the Gazzette Antwerpen Source ID: Johnson_2691 Source: Johnson ### Event 17356 (61CC67C6) Date: 5/9/1976 Description: 10:30 p.m. A 22-year-old couple saw a rectangular object in the northwestern part of the sky. In the middle portion of the object protruded something like a funnel. It flew off to the north, describing a large circle in the sky as it did so. (Source: Rudy de Groote, UFO Register (Volume 7), 1977, p. 32, citing the Gazzette Antwerpen). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Braine-le-Comte, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_4675 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17357 (85F4281F) Date: 5/11/1976 Description: A silver suited figure stood next to silver sphere on the ground in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It was sighted by a Mrs. Kent at 6:15 a.m. as she passed by. Both were gone 20 minutes later when she passed by the site again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Bernard Delair, Northern Network News, June 1976, vol. 25, p. 8; Jenny Randles, FSR, October 1976, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_2744 Source: Johnson ### Event 17358 (69523648) Date: 5/11/1976 Description: 6:15 a.m. A silver suited figure stood next to silver sphere on the ground in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It was sighted by a Mrs. Kent at 6:15 a.m. as she passed by. Both were gone 20 minutes later when she passed by the site again. (Source: J. Bernard Delair, Northern Network News, June 1976, vol. 25, p. 8; Jenny Randles, FSR, October 1976, p. 27). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manchester, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4676 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17359 (63687FBF) Date: 5/13/1976 Description: On this day several observers in USAF F-4 Phantom jets reported seeing two silver objects pacing a KC-135 tanker flying over William AFB, Candler, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 40; Rufus Drake, Saga UFO Report, July 1977, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_2811 Source: Johnson ### Event 17360 (5C13F748) Date: 5/14/1976 Description: Mr. Urruti, age 47, was driving his truck when he encountered an unusual fog while crossing over a bridge. An oyster shaped UFO emitted a blinding light beam, and both he and his truck were somehow picked up and abducted. (Sources: FSR, October 1976, p. 31, citing La Razon, May 22, 1976; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 77; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 92, citing FSR; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1472, citing La Razon). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Olavarria, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_4677 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17361 (E04D2660) Date: 5/14/1976 Description: Mr. Urruti, age 47, was driving his truck in Olavarria, Argentina when he encountered an unusual fog while crossing over a bridge. An oyster shaped UFO emitted a blinding light beam, and both he and his truck were somehow picked up and abducted. Inside the craft he saw a luminous horseshoe-shaped instrument panel 3-4 meters long. A cask-like device with many cables attached to it was placed on his head, and he received messages from it that he would not reveal. He had sharp pain in his neck and wrists following the experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, October 1976, p. 31, citing La Razon, May 22, 1976; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 77; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 92, citing FSR; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1472, citing La Razon Source ID: Johnson_2833 Source: Johnson ### Event 17362 (75C0EF96) Date: Mid 5/1976 Description: The US National Archives publicly releases the redacted Project Blue Book paper files at its College Park, Maryland, branch. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_5278 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17363 (3175F958) Date: 5/16/1976 Description: On this afternoon around 4 p.m. a 49-year-old woman waiting at a bus stop in St. Louis, Missouri saw a strange looking man. He was normally dressed, but had pallid facial features and wore goggles. He had a long sharp nose, a pointed chin, and a small mouth. She watched him for 15 minutes before taking the bus. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case (A1473) Source ID: Johnson_2896 Source: Johnson ### Event 17364 (8C327F59) Date: 5/18/1976 Description: At 10:45 a.m. in St. Job-in-'T Goor, Antwerp province, Belgium, two young women, a 19-year-old and a 21-year-old, saw an aluminum colored UFO disappear behind some trees at 10:45 a.m. At 10:30 p.m. a man and his family observed a large, house-sized object hovering close to a nearby hill in Sant'Onofrio, Abruzzi, Italy. The object approached the witnesses' home and from its top section a strong yellow light was directed over the area. The UFO had a large round opening from which a red light shone. From inside the porthole a dark, shadowy, man-like figure could be seen looking out at the witnesses for a brief period. It then moved away. A second object resembling a gray sphere with a ring around it was seen hovering above an abandoned house at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Rudy de Groote, UFO Register, volume 7, p. 32, citing Gazette Antwerpen; (2) Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian catalogue, case 85 Source ID: Johnson_2958 Source: Johnson ### Event 17365 (0D269BBB) Date: 5/18/1976 Description: 10:30 p.m. A man and his family observed a large, house-sized object hovering close to a nearby hill. The object approached the witnesses' home and from its top section a strong yellow light was directed over the area. The UFO had a large round opening from which a red light shone. From inside the porthole a dark, shadowy, man-like figure could be seen looking out at the witnesses for a brief period. (Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian catalogue, case 85) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sant'Onofrio, Abruzzi, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4678 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17366 (239A6D92) Date: 5/20/1976 Description: C1, one witness, no details. (EGBA,494) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jamestown, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4679 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17367 (4E992FC3) Date: 5/21/1976 Description: A luminous UFO shaped like coolie hat paced a car in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico containing three occupants. One of the passengers, a 28-year-old woman named Bryant, experienced five hours of missing time and later related an abduction experience. She reported being taken aboard the UFO where she was given intensive medical examinations and had several body samples taken. Among other procedures they scraped her skin, and drew fluid from one of her eyes. The occupants were short, about four feet tall, and had large hairless heads with large dark almond-shaped eyes. They also wore uniforms that resembled police uniforms. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 093, citing the San Antonio (Texas) Light, March 20, 1983; John F. Schuessler, Physiological Effects from UFOs, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_3023 Source: Johnson ### Event 17368 (BBDAB8BA) Date: 5/21/1976 Description: A luminous UFO shaped like coolie hat paced a car in the desert near Alamogordo, containing three occupants. One of the passengers, a 28-year-old woman named Bryant, experienced five hours of missing time and later related an abduction experience. She reported being taken aboard the UFO where she was given intensive medical examinations and had several body samples taken. (Sources: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 093, citing the San Antonio (Texas) Light, March 20, 1983; John F. Schuessler, Physiological Effects from UFOs, p. 70). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alamogordo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_4680 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17369 (89443C4C) Date: 5/23/1976 Description: 9:00 p.m. A dog and cat reacted with panic when a bottle-shaped silver UFO flew near a mountainside in Sedona. There were separate witnesses to the nocturnal fly by. (Source: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1976, p. 5). (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sedona, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4681 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17370 (7D57F1B0) Date: 5/27/1976 Description: A cattle mutilation was reported to have occurred in Hocking County, Ohio on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 705, citing Ed Sanders Source ID: Johnson_3124 Source: Johnson ### Event 17371 (9B3E44AF) Date: 5/31/1976 Description: A 17-year-old man named T. White saw a 5 foot, 6 inch tall humanoid in his backyard in Daw Park, South Australia at around 2:00 a.m. The being wore a silver coverall suit with white boots, a black visor helmet, and had a box strapped to its chest. It flew into a white ellipsoid UFO that made no sound as it left. The household wiring was effected. Unintelligible language was heard as well. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case SA 76001; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1474, citing Horrie Aspinall & Keith Basterfield Source ID: Johnson_3188 Source: Johnson ### Event 17372 (C611003D) Date: 6/1976 Alternate date: 7/1976 Description: 7:20 a.m. Father driving girl student to school. Object sitting in sky somewhere beyond train that was passing. Grey-silver metallic bar bell shaped object with a few black places she thought were windows. In bar between the two balls was open space. (Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Liberty, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4690 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17373 (FEC0FF99) Date: 6/1976 Description: Ground Saucer Watch issues its first newsletter, which is published through December 1982. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Ground Saucer](http://cufos.org/GSW-Bulletin/GSW%5FBulletin%5F01%5FJun%5F76.pdf) [Watch Bulletin](http://cufos.org/GSW-Bulletin/GSW%5FBulletin%5F01%5FJun%5F76.pdf)[,](http://cufos.org/GSW-Bulletin/GSW%5FBulletin%5F01%5FJun%5F76.pdf) no. 1 \(June 1976\) Source ID: Eberhart_5279 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17374 (A4A71DD5) Date: 6/3/1976 Description: 9:55 p.m. Two people saw a disc-shaped object the color of silver or chrome moving nearby in the sky. They followed it in their car for some time as it changed directions and moved erratically about. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 398, citing personal investigation). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Troy, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4682 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17375 (3B5ECA9C) Date: 6/3/1976 Description: Two people saw a disc-shaped object the color of silver or chrome moving nearby in the sky over Troy, Michigan at 9:55 p.m. They followed it in their car for some time as it changed directions and moved erratically about. They also heard unusual static on the car radio during the sighting. Eventually the object suddenly left very quickly and they could not keep pace with it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 398, citing personal investigation; CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1976, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_3257 Source: Johnson ### Event 17376 (486038B1) Date: 6/5/1976 Description: 11:30 p.m. A glowing cigar-shaped object hovered at a 40-degree angle over highway 140. It appeared to have windows. It then made erratic maneuvers in the sky. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1976). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Merced, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4683 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17377 (EF9EF8C7) Date: 6/5/1976 Description: At 11:30 p.m. in 1976 a glowing cigar-shaped object hovered at a 40-degree angle over highway 140 in Merced, California. It appeared to have windows. It then made erratic maneuvers in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1976 Source ID: Johnson_3303 Source: Johnson ### Event 17378 (6BDACC51) Date: 6/7/1976 Description: At 10:40 p.m. in Cincinnati, Ohio two men witnessed a circular object with revolving white lights while dogs howled in reaction to its presence. The men took 17 photographs. The object disappeared once, then after it reappeared it circled to the west, next to the east, and left the area after ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1976, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_3356 Source: Johnson ### Event 17379 (76AC63B3) Date: 6/7/1976 Description: C2, one witness. (CUFOS, 9/76) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cincinnati, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4684 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17380 (04CD2530) Date: 6/9/1976 Description: Mr. Lusignan, a patent examiner, lost while hiking in the mountains near Echo Lake, Clear Creek County, Colorado saw two rectangular objects descend from the sky and land by a creek at about 10 p.m. He watched as 15-20 people emerged from the two craft. They were "dressed in Indian or gypsy clothing" and talked in low whispers as they set up a camp for the night. They talked in an unintelligible language. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Clear Creek Courant, June 18, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1475, citing Leonard H. Stringfield and the Front Range Journal, June 17, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_3393 Source: Johnson ### Event 17381 (B676A94D) Date: 6/11/1976 Description: Orange dome-shaped object hovered above road and over bridge, E-M effects on car; missing time, abduction (Ref. 1, Section XIII). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Le Martinet, Drome, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4686 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17382 (FC720C2A) Date: 6/11/1976 Description: Orange dome-shaped object hovered over bridge, memory loss, apparent abduction. See Section XIII (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hotstun, Drome, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4685 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17383 (D5D52A36) Date: 6/11/1976 Description: 1:15 a.m. Hélène Guiliana is driving through Chatuzange-le-Goubet, Drôme, France, when her car engine misfires and stalls and the headlights go out. Some 80 feet away near the Pont du Martinet bridge she sees an orange light in the form of a “dome.” She experiences fear and covers her face with her hands. After what seems a few seconds, the light disappears. Driving home upset and afraid, she misses a familiar sign and drives a mile out of her way. When she arrives home, it is 4:00 a.m. Under hypnosis on July 22 \(repeated on August 18\), she tells of meeting two waist-high dwarves with large eyes, dressed in black overalls. They carry her toward the light, which she enters through an iron door. Inside a high, round room, they place her on a table, putting handcuffs on er hands and feet. After an examination, she is returned outside and the craft departs straight up noiselessly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[L’Etrange Rencontre d’Hélène Guiliana,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Ouranos/Ouranos%20-%20Nouvelle%20Serie%20-%20no%2018%20-%201er%20trim%201977%20%28Scan%20CEPS%20%2B%20AAMT%29.pdf)” Ouranos, new ser. 18 \(Jan./Mar. 1977\): 5–7; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 2 \(December 1976\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_5280 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17384 (01B4EEA5) Date: 6/11/1976 Description: Dome-shaped object hovered above road, E-M effects on car. Missing time, abduction Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Le Martinet, Drome, France Source ID: HallUFOE2_277 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17385 (7A6D5F0C) Date: 6/11/1976 Description: Pizancon, France - Driving home at 1 a.m., Helene Giuliana, age 20, found that the engine of her car had stopped and the headlights went out. Then she noticed above the Martinet bridge, 75 feet ahead of her, a bright reddish-orange dome-shaped light. She put her hands over her eyes and when she looked again it had disappeared. She was able to restart her car and drove home. When she arrived home at 4 a.m. she realized it had taken her two hours longer than it should have. Under hypnosis she recalled being taken aboard the UFO by two short beings with large eyes, wearing black coveralls. She was fastened onto an operating table, where they ran "a kind of box" over her. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Bastide, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1976, pg. 6. Source ID: Johnson_3427 Source: Johnson ### Event 17386 (64D83D78) Date: 6/13/1976 Description: In Dulce, New Mexico on this night in 1976, a dead cow, mutilated and with body parts missing was found in a field next to triangular pod marks. A flying disc was seen that same evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11740 Source ID: Johnson_3466 Source: Johnson ### Event 17387 (7605BB45) Date: 6/15/1976 Description: Dog alerts to huge cigar then hides (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [760615](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-760615.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Strathmore, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4687 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17388 (D2DC342E) Date: 6/20/1976 Description: After 1:00 a.m. A young married couple and their 4-month-old child are detained and examined by entities as they are traveling near Goodland, Kansas, en route to Colorado. UFO investigator [Richard Sigismond](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/richard-sigismond-obituary?pid=188656773) meets repeatedly with them in July–October 1976 using hypnotic regression techniques to enhance their memories. The experience is traumatic for them, and they require counseling. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Abduction in Western Kansas,” IUR 1, no. 2 \(December 1976\): 12; “Abduction in Western Kansas,” IUR 2, no. 10 \(Oct. 1977\): 4–7 Source ID: Eberhart_5281 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17389 (6CE3B359) Date: 6/20/1976 Description: The alien abduction of a 19-year-old married couple and their infant occurred at around one o'clock in the morning, from their car while driving on I-70 five miles west of Colby, Kansas. The Delduca family reported they had encountered a UFO that was a 150-foot wide saucer-shaped craft that stood 40 feet tall. They initially had several hours of missing time, but were able to recall their experience through the aid of hypnotic regression. They recalled that there were three 5.0 to 5.5 foot tall humanoids, matching the description of short Grey humanoids, wearing helmets. They were given physical exams and communicated with via telepathy. They had body marks and rashes subsequent to their encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Sigismonde, CUFOS field investigation report dated July 12, 1976; UNICAT database, case # 197, citing Richard Sigismonde; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1477; International UFO Reporter, December 1976, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_3560 Source: Johnson ### Event 17390 (5D3A296E) Date: 6/21/1976 Description: An hour and a half later two 5 meter wide discs were seen hovering silently in Le Conquet, France. They moved away and then came back extremely quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 79 Source ID: Johnson_3585 Source: Johnson ### Event 17391 (8A2E663F) Date: 6/21/1976 Description: At 12:40 a.m. a kite-shaped UFO shone a beam of light at a police car in Ringsted, Denmark causing some electrical malfunctions. It lit the road, then flew off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11750 Source ID: Johnson_3583 Source: Johnson ### Event 17392 (A492DB24) Date: 6/21/1976 Description: 12:40 a.m. Police officer Th. Brandt-Jensen sees a bright, blue-white light cross the road behind him in Ringsted, Zealand, Denmark. He thinks it might be an airplane in trouble. He speeds up to 90 mph toward a crossroad where he can pull off the highway. The object catches up to within 165–250 feet and its light strikes his car, the engine and lights going out immediately. He guides the coasting vehicle to the road shoulder, gets out, and catches a glimpse of the object as it disappears behind the horizon. It resembles a glider with a ray of light coming from it that swings back and forth as it passes his car. It makes a slight whistling sound and appears to be about 50 feet long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Rapporter Danmark,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Denmark/UFO%20Nyt%20%28SUFOI%29/1976/UFO%20Nyt%20-%20No%205%20sep-okt%201976.pdf)” UFO-Nyt, 1976 no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1976\): 186–187; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_5282 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17393 (CF02985B) Date: 6/21/1976 Description: At 9:15 a domed disc shaped UFO was seen at treetop level in Rome, Italy. It had a transparent cupola bubble on the bottom. It moved out of sight behind some buildings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_3584 Source: Johnson ### Event 17394 (51B49C3F) Date: 6/22/1976 Description: DC-10 encountered object with windows (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Central India, India Source ID: NICAP_DB_4688 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17395 (74969CDC) Date: 6/22/1976 Description: 10:30 p.m. Spherical object, transparent, huge, brightly luminous, no sound. Two human-like beings over 6' tall, flesh color, large bright eyes. Pointed wing-like appendages for hands. Brilliant red suits covered body, halo around heads. Object moved in, hovered, made 90-degree turns. Diameter varied greatly. Occupants visible inside object operating instrument panel. Object departed out to sea. (Bruno Molon CEIII study) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Galdar, Canary Islands, W. Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_4689 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17396 (1B2D0A9E) Date: 6/22/1976 Description: Guia de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Spain) - Three men in a taxi observed a gray-colored, perfect sphere at 9:30 p.m. which hovered a few meters above the ground. The taxi's radio stopped working and the witnesses felt very cold. Inside the sphere, which was transparent, they saw two humanoids about three meters tall, wearing reddish, tight-fitting clothing. The driver switched on a spotlight and pointed it at the object, which rose up about 30 feet and emitted a bluish gas. It then grew as large as a 20-story building, though the two humanoids and their control panels remained their original size. After a few minutes, the huge object flew away, giving off a whistling sound. People in a nearby house reported that their TV had stopped working during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 412, citing FSR, Vol. 23, No. 3 Source ID: Johnson_3605 Source: Johnson ### Event 17397 (C10CD4F2) Date: 6/22/1976 Description: 9:27 p.m. Dr. Don Francisco-Julio Padrón León and Santiago del Pino are traveling in a taxi when they see a gigantic ball of light 200 feet ahead of them between Gáldar and Agaete, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. The taxi radio cuts out. Inside the light, which is actually like a transparent soap bubble, they see some panels and two enormous beings on a platform. The humanoids are some 9–10 feet tall, wear black diving helmets and red tight- fitting coveralls, and are moving levers about. Their hands are enclosed in black cones. The backs of their heads are disproportionately large, and their legs are short. The taxi driver switches the headlights on, and the UFO rises as a bluish gas is emitted from a tube and expands the size of the sphere to a 20-story building. The driver turns the car around and goes to a nearby house. The inhabitants say their TV set just blacked out. They continue watching through a window. When the sphere stops expanding, they hear a high-pitched whistle and the object speeds off to the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. M. Sanchez, “[Canary Islands Landing: Occupants Reported,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 \(October 1977\): 4–7; Good Above, [pp. 153–154](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/152/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5283 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17398 (28148DAA) Date: 6/22/1976 Description: 10:30 p.m. A bright red light like a rocket emerging from the sea at a distance climbs diagonally and turns into a brilliant semicircular dome over the Canary Islands. It is transparent with a bluish-white hue. The crew of the corvette Atrevida watches the object for 40 minutes, during which time a foreign tourist takes a photo. 400 miles to the south, the crew of the ship Osaka Bay also sees the luminous phenomena in the shape of a sphere. Maj. Antonio Munáiz Ferro-Sastre investigates the sightings for the Spanish Air Force and rejects the hypothesis that the light is from a naval missile launch. However, two Poseidon missiles are launched in the area around the same time by the submarine [USS Von Steuben](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FVon%5FSteuben%5F%28SSBN-632%29). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. M. Sanchez, “[Canary Islands Landing: Occupants Reported,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 \(October 1977\): 4–7; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 91–97](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/90/mode/2up); Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy Missile Tests and the Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_5284 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17399 (89192BCA) Date: 6/22/1976 Description: In the town of Galdar on the island of Las Palmas also in the Canary Islands, at 10:30 p.m., an electric-blue semi-transparent sphere with two tall entities inside was seen hovering for 20 minutes. The object then changed size enormously, growing in size to the equivalent of a twenty-story building. On that same night a photograph of another UFO was taken near Maspalomas on the neighboring island of Tenerife. A close encounter with a UFO emitting beams of light also occurred earlier in Bothwell, Tasmania around 7:30 p.m. local time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, November 1976, p. 33; FSR, October 1977, p. 7; ACOS Bulletin, December 1976, p.24; ABC, June 27, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_3606 Source: Johnson ### Event 17400 (6734F297) Date: 6/23/1976 Description: 11:30 p.m. Paulo Coutinho, 18, is returning home from a night class in Aricanduva, São Paulo, Brazil, when he sees a light in the sky moving westward. Suddenly he feels paralyzed as the light approaches and descends about 25 feet away. A short being emerges with a big head, large eyes, pointed ears, small mouth, and an upturned nose like a pig. It is bald, has no eyebrows, and wears a tight one-piece bluish-gray suit with an emblem on its chest. Coutinho rises into the air toward a huge cigar-shaped object, in which he undergoes an abduction experience. Coutinho is still missing the next morning. A friend finds his books and notebooks scattered on the street and brings them to his parents. A police search fails to find him. In the evening of June 24, Coutinho is discovered lying on the steps of the garden door in a semiconscious state. He is cold as if he has been there some time. He is later revived at a nearby hospital. The police officer who carries him to the ambulance later feels a strong irritation in his arms. Ballpoint pens in Coutinho’s pockets are radioactive. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[O Caso dos Añoes](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20116-120%20-%201977-1978.pdf) [Extraterrenos de Vila Aricanduva São Paulo, Capital,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20116-120%20-%201977-1978.pdf)” SBEDV Boletim, no. 116/120 \(July 1977/Feb. 1978\): 6–18; “[Caso Paulo Coutinho,](https://www.fenomenum.com.br/ufo/casuistica/1970/pcoutinho)” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Brazil 185–194 Source ID: Eberhart_5285 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17401 (511832A0) Date: 6/23/1976 Description: An abduction experience occurred this night in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A bright nocturnal light approached a man causing him to become frozen in place with paralysis. It stopped some 20 to 25 feet away and the light went out. A short, bald-headed being with a big head, large eyes, and pointed ears, no eyebrows, and wearing a bluish-gray coverall bearing an emblem on the chest approached. The man was levitated aboard a cigar-shaped UFO. He reported having telepathic communication with the Ufonaut. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1507 Source ID: Johnson_3629 Source: Johnson ### Event 17402 (47591F65) Date: 6/25/1976 Description: A woman and two teenage girls were driving on interstate highway I-680 in Pleasanton, California when they saw an eighty-foot long, 40-foot wide ellipsoidal object. It had a revoling bottom section with red and white panels of light. It was self-luminous, and kept pace with the car, flew over, then flew away over some houses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON case investigation files; MUFON UFO Journal, March 1977, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_3659 Source: Johnson ### Event 17403 (64C6D238) Date: 6/26/1976 Description: Spanish journalist [Juan J. Benitez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FJ.%5FBen%C3%ADtez) interviews Gen. Carlos Castro Cavero, commander of the Canary Islands division, who tells him: “The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data. Maybe when this group of nations acquires more precise and definite information, it will be possible to release the news to the world.” He says the Spanish Air Ministry investigates UFO cases, including those involving pilots. He admits that he has watched a UFO for more than an hour at his ranch. It remains stationery for that length of time, then shoots off towards Ejea de los Caballeros, Zaragoza, covering 12.5 miles in less than 2 seconds. Cavero believes UFOs are “spaceships or extraterrestrial craft.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[Important Statement by Spanish Air Force Chief,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 3 \(October 1976\): 2; Patrick Gross, “[Documents: 50 Years of UFO Disclosure](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rec/carloscastrocavero.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5286 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17404 (9439DA28) Date: 7/1976 Description: The New England UFO Study Group publishes its first newsletter, which lasts through September 1982. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [New](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/New%20England%20UFO%20Newsletter/New%20England%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2001%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2001%20-%201976%2007.pdf) [England UFO Newsletter](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/New%20England%20UFO%20Newsletter/New%20England%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2001%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2001%20-%201976%2007.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/New%20England%20UFO%20Newsletter/New%20England%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2001%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2001%20-%201976%2007.pdf) no. 1 \(July 1976\) Source ID: Eberhart_5287 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17405 (7B1DC3AE) Date: 7/3/1976 Description: Two 14-year-old girls, Ms. Chapman and Ms. Perry, in Mawman, England heard a hissing sound around 10 o'clock at night. They then saw a flying humanoid as big as a man, with glowing red eyes. It looked like "a big owl with pointed ears." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT, case A1641, citing Fortean Times, August 1976, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_3806 Source: Johnson ### Event 17406 (E9FA513C) Date: 7/4/1976 Description: 12:45 p.m. A huge disc-shaped object hovered for a long time over Bilbao, Spain. It flew back over the city and surrounding area several times, then made a ninety- degree turn and flew off toward the south. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11764). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bilbao, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4691 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17407 (4167663B) Date: 7/4/1976 Description: At 12:45 p.m. a huge disc-shaped object hovered for a long time over Bilbao, Spain. It flew back over the city and surrounding area several times, then made a ninety-degree turn and flew off toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11764 Source ID: Johnson_3825 Source: Johnson ### Event 17408 (05CA82F2) Date: 7/4/1976 Description: On this morning in Mawman, England a young girl and her sister saw a man perched in a tree nearby who had legs "bent backwards like a bird." It had red glowing eyes and a gray body. It saw them and rose straight up through the trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of humanoid reports, case A1642 Source ID: Johnson_3824 Source: Johnson ### Event 17409 (D223FA60) Date: 7/5/1976 Description: 9:00 a.m. Two brothers, 8-year-old Andy and 6 year-old Joel Rygh were playing when they heard "strange noises followed by a grunting sound and then a whistle." When they looked in the direction of the noises they saw a seven-foot tall man standing behind a bush. (Source: Pat Miller, Sioux Falls (SD) Argus-Leader, August 15, 1976). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gitchie Manitou Park, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4692 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17410 (596C9557) Date: 7/5/1976 Description: At 9 o'clock in the morning two brothers, 8-year-old Andy and 6 year-old Joel Rygh were playing in Gitchie Manitou Park, Iowa when they heard "strange noises followed by a grunting sound and then a whistle." When they looked in the direction of the noises they saw a seven-foot tall man standing behind a bush. He was wearing a shiny blue uniform. When the whistling sound became louder the boys ran to get their brothers Chris, age 11, and Tom, age 9. All four boys then saw a pulsating glowing domed object emerge from behind a large tree 50 yards away. The object was "about the size and shape of a large haystack." It hovered with a humming sound for five seconds, and then sped away. Small oak trees that the craft hovered over were later found defoliated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Pat Miller, Sioux Falls (SD) Argus-Leader, August 15, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_3846 Source: Johnson ### Event 17411 (294F5849) Date: 7/11/1976 Description: Two Indian Air Force MiG 21 jets are scrambled near the Pakistani border to intercept what appears initially on radar to be a Pakistani jet. But the object is moving at 2,600 mph, and the two pilots see the target is an amber- colored disc that pulls away before they can catch up to it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 303](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/302/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5288 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17412 (327967A0) Date: 7/12/1976 Description: On this evening in Savanna, Oklahoma three boys watched a white disc-shaped object with beams of light search through some woods at a low altitude. The air felt warm and they heard a "Whoosh!" sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: McAlester Democrat, July 15, 1976; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1977, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_4011 Source: Johnson ### Event 17413 (54B8C262) Date: 7/12/1976 Description: The National Archives makes available the 94 reels of 35mm microfilm with redacted Project Blue Book files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_5289 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17414 (00A57BE2) Date: 7/14/1976 Description: Before dawn. For a period of two hours, two brightly shining UFOs perform fantastic maneuvers at the Gobernador Edgardo Castello Airport in Viedma, Rio Negro, Argentina. At dawn, the sunlight neutralizes the bright lights of the UFOs, but the observers see them leave the area at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 1 \(November 1976\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5290 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17415 (53065E5E) Date: 7/15/1976 Description: At around 5:30 a.m. Margarita Caginas, age 28, and Miguel Ruiz Sampeiro were on their way to work in Escalante, Santander, Spain when they saw from behind a flying or levitating humanoid being “over 3 meters tall.” It was dressed in a brightly shining, dark brown outfit, and wore a silver disc on its head. It also floated along without its feet touching the ground. It paid no attention to the witnesses until it disappeared around a bend. There were other independent witnesses, including the local mayor who saw it from his window. He described it as a tall entity wearing a dark outfit that emitted luminous flashes from the chest area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-57, citing ABC Madrid, July 18, 1976; FSR, Volume 22, Number 4 Source ID: Johnson_4075 Source: Johnson ### Event 17416 (0A918303) Date: 7/16/1976 Description: About 6:30 p.m. Seven staff members of the National Police Agency criminal investigation section saw an unidentified object that circled over the Imperial Palace, about 400 yards from the police building. The object circled at a low altitude for about 10 minutes, then flew out of sight. (Agence France-Presse story, Washington Post, July 18, 1976.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tokyo, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_4693 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17417 (D68A2FC0) Date: 7/18/1976 Description: C2, no details. Witness: Gilpin (SRUFOS,242) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gravel Switch, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4694 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17418 (73B15129) Date: 7/22/1976 Description: In Germantown, Wisconsin a hexagonal object with a flat bottom hovered over the highway at 10:50 p.m. No color was noted, but it had 4-5 lights in front, with a green light on one end and a red on the other. It hovered for five minutes, and had a red flame coming from the bottom the entire time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1976, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_4304 Source: Johnson ### Event 17419 (87CABD0A) Date: 7/22/1976 Description: 10:50 p.m. A hexagonal object with a flat bottom hovered over the highway. No color was noted, but it had 4-5 lights in front, with a green light on one end and a red on the other. It hovered for five minutes, and had a red flame coming from the bottom the entire time. (Source: CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1976, p. 6). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Germantown, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4695 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17420 (03DB9FE5) Date: 7/23/1976 Description: [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) arrives on the set of [Steven Spielberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FSpielberg)’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Mobile, Alabama, and gives a lecture on UFOs to some of the actors who are interested \([Bob Balaban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FBalaban), [Richard Dreyfuss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FDreyfuss), [Melinda Dillon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda%5FDillon)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda%5FDillon) and 30+ others. At some point his cameo is filmed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Balaban, Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, an Actor’s Diary, Titan, 2002 Source ID: Eberhart_5291 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17421 (171284E7) Date: 7/28/1976 Description: Two women school teachers in their forties were attending an educational conference when they looked out the window of their ninth floor hotel room at the Stouffers Waterfront Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri at 10:30 p.m. and saw a 100 foot in diameter disc-shaped craft fly right up to their window, stopping only about 50 feet away. It had a revolving rim of lights like windows around its perimeter. It shot off after a few seconds, making a rapid ascent. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald A. Johnson case files, report dated March 9, 1988 Source ID: Johnson_4460 Source: Johnson ### Event 17422 (FC28AB6C) Date: 7/28/1976 Description: Capt. [Eldon W. Joersz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldon%5FW.%5FJoersz) and Maj. George T. Morgan Jr. attain a world airspeed record of 2,193 mph in a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird over Beale AFB near Marysville, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed SR-71](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FSR-71%5FBlackbird) [Blackbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FSR-71%5FBlackbird)” Source ID: Eberhart_5292 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17423 (BC256B12) Date: 7/28/1976 Description: 3:45 p.m. Adult counselor Ira Leifer and 13 teenage boys are resting from a hike in the woods at Camp Delaware \[now Greenwood Trails\] west of Winsted, Connecticut, when they hear a high-pitched whine. They see a silvery, flat-bottomed UFO 15–25 feet in diameter through a clearing in the trees. A purple haze surrounds it and on top they see a red glow. The object is hovering at a steep angle. After 15–25 seconds the whine returns, and the object takes off and is lost to sight in a second or two. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Daylight CE I Seen by 14 Witnesses in Connecticut,” IUR 1, no. 1 \(November 1976\): 6–7; Clark III 247 Source ID: Eberhart_5293 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17424 (6D4FE4FA) Date: 7/28/1976 Description: 3:45 p.m. Fourteen boys and their camp counselor Mr. Leifer, from Camp Delaware, were hiking in the afternoon on Blueberry Mountain, three miles southwest of Winsted, Connecticut. The group was astonished to see a shiny, metallic domed disc hovering over their heads. (Source: International UFO Reporter, November 1976, p. 6). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winsted (near), CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4696 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17425 (BB9FF1C0) Date: 7/28/1976 Description: Fourteen boys and their camp counselor Mr. Leifer, from Camp Delaware, were hiking in the afternoon on Blueberry Mountain, three miles southwest of Winsted, Connecticut. At 3:45 p.m. the group was astonished to see a shiny, metallic domed disc hovering over their heads. It made a high-pitched whine like the feedback from a loudspeaker. They heard a second whine, accompanied by a high-speed vertical ascent, and within a few seconds the UFO had vanished by shooting straight up in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, November 1976, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_4459 Source: Johnson ### Event 17426 (A0BD60F1) Date: 7/29/1976 Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_278 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17427 (A1CDF00D) Date: 7/30/1976 Description: On a clear evening shortly after 9:00 p.m. two very large, brown cigar or "sausage" shaped UFOs were sighted from a British Airways Trident II airliner near the Portuguese Coast, 64 kilometers south of Lisbon, Portugal. The UFOs were seen by three crew members as well as picked up on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 106; Omar Fowler, FSR, November 1976, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4507 Source: Johnson ### Event 17428 (9B390B63) Date: 7/30/1976 Description: 9:00 p.m. A British Airways Trident 2E piloted by Capt. Dennis Wood is flying at 29,000 feet over the North Atlantic about 40 miles south of Lisbon, Portugal, when air traffic control radios a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar that is flying near them and asks for a confirmation of a radar target. Wood and his crew look up and see a stationary bright light. They announce the sighting to their passengers. After several minutes watching the light, two cigar- shaped objects appear below and to the right of the light. A Portuguese airliner in the vicinity also observes the objects. Wood confirms the sighting, saying, “There is no way this is a star or planet.” Fighters are immediately scrambled from Lisbon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Battleship-Sized Object Tracked by 3 Airlines](http://www.nicap.org/760730portugaldir.htm)”; Jenny Randles, “Casebook: The Portugal Sighting,” Fortean Times 199 \(September 2005\): 27 Source ID: Eberhart_5295 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17429 (7FF156F5) Date: 7/30/1976 Description: 1:30–3:45 a.m. Patrols at different locations in the US Army’s Fort Ritchie \[now closed\], in Cascade, Maryland, see objects over the base. One crew sees three oblong objects with a reddish tint. Another watches a UFO over the ammunition storage area at an altitude of 300–600 feet. In another spot, an Army police sergeant sees an aerial object the size of a two-and-a-half-ton truck. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brig. Gen. L. J. LeBlanc Jr., “[Reports of Unidentified](http://www.nicap.org/760730ftritchiedocs.htm) [Flying Objects \(UFOs\),](http://www.nicap.org/760730ftritchiedocs.htm)” National Military Command Center, July 30, 1976 Source ID: Eberhart_5294 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17430 (330F6881) Date: 7/30/1976 Description: Battleship-Sized Object Tracked By 3 Airlines (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [760730](http://www.nicap.org/760730portugaldir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In air space, Portugal Source ID: NICAP_DB_4698 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17431 (66811BE6) Date: 7/30/1976 Description: 0345 EDT. NMCC in Washington, DC put out this memo at 0545 EDT: 1. At approximately 0345 EDT, the ANMCC called to indicate they had received several reports of UFO's in the vicinity of Fort Richie. The following events summarize the reports (times are approximate) 0130 - Civilians reported a UFO sighting near Mt. Airy Md. (Actual FOIA document) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [760730](http://www.nicap.org/760730ftritchiedocs.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Ritchie, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4697 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17432 (419BDDD2) Date: 7/30/1976 Description: NMCC Joint Staff Memo: Subject: Reports of UFOs. At approx. 0345, EDT, the ANMCC received several reports of UFOs near Fort Ritchie. At 0130, civilians reported an UFO to the NAB. At 0255, two separate patrols sighted three UFOs; oblong with a reddish tint. At 0300, the Desk Sgt. (name with held) sighted an UFO over the ammo storage area at 100–200 yds. altitude. At 0345, an Army Police Sgt. sighted an UFO in the vicinity of sight R. ANMCC was requested to have each individual write a statement on the sightings. One person said the UFO was the size of a 2.5 ton truck. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Fort Ritchie, Cascade, Maryland Source ID: Maj2_690 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17433 (2E6C9323) Date: 7/31/1976 Description: 11:45 p.m. Debbie Focken and other witnesses see an oblong object with illuminated windows hovering about 100 feet above Eldon’s Standard Service Station in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Apparently the UFO causes extensive electrical damage to a CB radio, a burglar alarm, an adding machine, a cash register, and a vending machine. The owner and employees claim that lightning has caused the damage, and that is what they report to the insurance agency, but there is no thunderstorm that evening. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Gas Station Damaged by UFO?” IUR 1, no. 2 \(December 1977\): 13; “Council Bluffs CE II,” IUR 2, no. 3 \(March 1977\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_5296 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17434 (261C31F8) Date: 7/31/1976 Description: Debbie Focken was working at a convenience store and gas station sometime after 11:00 p.m. in Council Bluffs, Iowa when she had a close encounter with an oblong UFO that had lit windows, but no other features. Electromagnetic effects included damage of the CB radio and burglar alarm. The UFO hung in the air, 100 feet over the service station in an urban part of the city for several minutes, and illuminated the surrounding area. An adding machine, the cash register, and a vending machine were all damaged by some kind of field effect from the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ralph C. DeGraw, International UFO Reporter, December 1976, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 226 Source ID: Johnson_4537 Source: Johnson ### Event 17435 (5858A164) Date: 8/1976 Description: A. Troitsky and six others observe a silvery disc over the Pirogovskoye Reservoir north of Moscow, Russia. It is about 8 times the apparent size of the full moon and is moving slowly at an altitude of perhaps 120 feet. The object has two revolving stripes along its side and a black hatch on its underside from which a small cylinder protrudes, its lower portion rotating. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_5300 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17436 (2E6A4189) Date: 8/1976 Description: Day. A man is working on his mobile home in the forested hills near Medford, Oregon, when he sees two intensely bright lights “like burning magnesium” silently move across the sky, side by side. They appear to be discs, curved on the top and flat on the bottom, and in between them is a third object, which seems to be a World War II–era bomber. The tips of each wing appear to be resting on the discs, and its propellors are not turning. The three objects pass overhead and move beyond the hill behind him. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmermania: A Step Too Far into the Timmerman Files?” IUR 27, no. 4 \(Winter 2002–2003\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5299 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17437 (FE623A09) Date: 8/1976 Description: 10:17 a.m. A Swedish J-5 jet pursues six delta-shaped silver objects in formation until they accelerate out of sight over Lake Bolmen, Sweden. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Swedish Air Force Colonel Reports Six Delta-UFOs,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%20Newsletter%20%28AFU%29/AFU%20Newsletter%20-%20No%2018%20-%201980.pdf)” AFU Newsletter, no. 18 \(Jan./Mar. 1980\): 9–10 Source ID: Eberhart_5298 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17438 (8777165C) Date: 8/1976 Description: American SF novelist [George H. Leonard](http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/leonard%5Fgeorge%5Fh) publishes Somebody Else Is on the Moon, which records his observations, drawings, and NASA photos of lunar pipes, conduits, gears, gas nozzles, flares, huge rigs for sifting through dust, hovering vehicles, odd lights, and electromagnetic towers on the lunar surface—all of it indicating alien mining operations. Leonard argues that NASA secretly knows of alien activity on the Moon. It is possible that Leonard has written the book as a spoof. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George H. Leonard, [Somebody Else Is on the Moon](https://archive.org/details/somebodyelseison0000leon), McKay, 1976 Source ID: Eberhart_5297 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17439 (57A55CD3) Date: 8/1/1976 Description: At 4:30 a.m. a 20-year-old woman heard a noise and looked out her bedroom window in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to see two beings of average height. She could not see any facial details. A white light went out from these beings toward the east. She heard a loud voice talking in an unintelligible language. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-29 (A1486), citing Richard Heiden, report dated June 22, 1977 Source ID: Johnson_4575 Source: Johnson ### Event 17440 (D01234FF) Date: 8/1/1976 Description: In New Haven, Connecticut around 6:00 p.m. a man told police he had been buzzed by a round silver, dish-shaped object, which froze his car as he was driving on Route 63 between Bethany and New Haven. When the UFO passed overhead the engine of his car died and the car came to a stop. When he tried to leave the vehicle, he said, the door wouldn’t budge and he began to feel “tingly”. Eventually he too became paralyzed. While this was going on, an object which he felt might have taken his picture, appeared below the low flying disk. Finally it flew off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, citing MUFON of Connecticut Source ID: Johnson_4576 Source: Johnson ### Event 17441 (52A31445) Date: 8/2/1976 Description: 3:30 a.m. A domed UFO is seen at an altitude of 15–18 feet at St.-Pierre-sur-Mer, Hérault, France. It has orange lights that go on and off slowly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: M. Grazioli, “[Enquête dans l’Hérault,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20166.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 166 \(June/July 1977\): 26–27 Source ID: Eberhart_5301 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17442 (84A13913) Date: 8/2/1976 Description: At around four o'clock in the morning Michael Wood, age 26, was driving home when, as he reached Ten Mile Hill near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia he heard a sound like loud electronic music "turned up too high.” The area in front of his car lit up like a "yellow lighted picture screen", on which he could see projected the profile of a figure, ten feet tall, wearing a tight-fitting black jacket and a pair of light trousers, which seemed to be turning to look at him. He braked his car but the car went through the “screen.” He could find no trace of it after stopping and going back to look for it again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-60, citing TUFOIC Source ID: Johnson_4607 Source: Johnson ### Event 17443 (1F5E0646) Date: 8/2/1976 Description: At 3:30 a.m. in St. Pierre-sur-Mer, Aude department, France a five-meter in diameter domed disc was encountered hovering at six meters altitude. The lights went out immediately on the object, then came back on gradually. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1977 Source ID: Johnson_4608 Source: Johnson ### Event 17444 (5DBF8CDA) Date: 8/3/1976 End date: 8/4/1976 Description: 11:25 p.m. The pilot of Tunisair Flight Tu8953, en route from Monastir to Tunis, Tunisia, sees a flying object at 3,200–3,900 feet moving north to south. At 11:27 p.m., five objects showing red and green lights are seen over Monastir and confirmed on radar. From 12:24 a.m. to 4:00 a.m., five separate radar returns are tracked and visually confirmed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 80](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/80/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5302 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17445 (73B99A0F) Date: 8/4/1976 End date: 8/5/1976 Description: 10:43–10:52 p.m. An Air France pilot en route to Monastir, Tunisia, is followed by an unidentified object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 80–81](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/80/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5303 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17446 (8FDBDE17) Date: 8/4/1976 Description: A ten-year old boy, Lorenzo Alvarez Vazquez, in the Bilbao suburb of Bulla, Vizcaya province, Spain reported seeing two small “extraterrestrial beings", about 1.20 or 1.30 meters high, on this evening. They had green eyes and noses and wore silvery clothing. They said nothing, but shone a light on the boy as they stood next to a motorcycle. He watched them for five minutes, and then went to get other local residents who, upon returning to the spot, saw nothing although the boy said he could still see one of the entities. One of the residents pointed a gun in the direction indicated by the boy, who then announced the “spaceman” had taken refuge behind a car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-30 (A1644); Gordon Creighton, FSR, April 1977, p. 28, citing a newspaper clipping Source ID: Johnson_4660 Source: Johnson ### Event 17447 (13BAE76B) Date: 8/5/1976 Description: At ten o'clock in the morning the Chiasson family were driving in the Gaspesie Provincial Park in Quebec when they encountered a thick fog. The vehicle's lights and engine failed, and the car's interior began to feel very hot. A red light beam struck the road in front of car, and it was then that they saw a 40-foot wide, scallop-shell shaped object sitting on legs. The craft had windows, and through the windows they could see seven-foot tall entities inside that had big eyes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1634, citing Jean Ferguson Source ID: Johnson_4692 Source: Johnson ### Event 17448 (C93ED641) Date: 8/5/1976 Description: At 9:15 a.m. PDT the firelook at Satus Peak on the Yakima Indian Reservation in Washington State again reported seeing mystery ghost lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, p. 130 Source ID: Johnson_4691 Source: Johnson ### Event 17449 (BA52B785) Date: 8/5/1976 Description: Amidst a series of cattle mutilation incidents, at 4:00 a.m. two workers at the Sterling, Colorado feedlot saw three human-like figures glide over one of the feedlot fences. The ground had been muddy at the time but no footprints were found anywhere near the fence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1488, citing Dorothy Aldridge, Colorado Springs Gazzette Telegraph Source ID: Johnson_4690 Source: Johnson ### Event 17450 (07F0D71A) Date: 8/6/1976 Description: 10:00 a.m. A family is driving in Gaspésie National Park, Quebec, when a beam of red light penetrates the fog and creates a six-inch circle on the road ahead. The beam paces ahead of them for several miles, then collapses and withdraws upwards. A dazzling white light then approaches and stops ahead. Strong heat builds up in the car, so the father stops the vehicle. The headlights and radio fail, and the engine dies. All four get out and walk toward the object, which now appears as a scallop-shaped craft on landing legs, stretching across the road. The wife notices a massive “face” looking at them. Two 7-foot tall beings are apparently floating near the UFO, dressed in close-fitting, khaki-brown suits. The witnesses flee back into the car. The object moves away in a flash of light and burst of heat. The car starts again. All four suffer from itching for the next 10 hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jean Ferguson, Les Humanoides: Les Cerveaux qui Dirigent les Soucoupes Volantes, Leméac, 1977; NICAP, “[Gaspesian Park,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/760806quebec%5Freport.htm) [Quebec: Humanoids/E-M Case](http://www.nicap.org/reports/760806quebec%5Freport.htm)”; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 29–30 Source ID: Eberhart_5305 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17451 (37B0E3FB) Date: 8/6/1976 Description: 12:20 a.m. Police at La Soukra, Tunisia, see four lighted objects that disappear one by one until 1:45 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 81](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/80/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5304 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17452 (242B6C51) Date: 8/6/1976 Description: At around ten o'clock in the morning Freddy Chiasson, age 52, his wife Claire, and their two sons Morris and Rony were driving across Gaspesian Park, Quebec, Canada in a thick fog, heading toward Matane. Suddenly, a beam of red light coming from the sky struck the road ahead of their car. Despite the thick fog, this beam had very sharp edges, and formed a circle 6 inches in diameter where it struck the road. It paced their car for several miles, always staying the same distance ahead, then broke up into several “sections” which shut up into one another, like a collapsible telescope, and rose back upwards in a coherent light fashion. They then saw a dazzling white light to their left, which the witness estimated to be a half mile away. This light approached them and stopped over the road some distance ahead of them. Mr. Chiasson stopped the car. They then felt a very strong sensation of heat, and the car’s headlights and radio went out. Next the car's motor died, and it could not be re-started. They could smell a peculiar “acid” odor that irritated their nasal passages.

They got out of their car and walked through the fog toward the fuzzy, intense light ahead. When they reached it, they found that it came from an oval, scallop shell-like object that was wider than the road and resting on legs. It was about 40 feet wide, 15 feet high, and made of a dull metal with four square circumferential windows three feet wide, out of which light was pouring. They could hear a dull sound, like wood rubbing on wood at regular intervals. Mrs. Chiasson approached the windows and let out a scream when she confronted a large face in the window with big round eyes. The sight made Mr. Chiasson feel like vomiting. All four family members ran back to their car, which still could not be started. After a few minutes the two youths again walked through the thinning fog toward the object, followed by their father. When they had got to within ten paces they could see that the light inside had gone out. Two beams of blue-green light appeared, coming from behind the UFO toward the witnesses. Mr. Chiasson felt sick, his eyes watered, and he vomited. Then the light rays went out, and they saw two beings standing or floating beside the object. They were about seven feet tall, bald, and looked very ugly to the witnesses because their appearance filled them with feelings of terror. They wore brown khaki uniforms, like a police officer's but closer fitting, and were holding tubes about a yard long. The beings were stocky with wide shoulders, which were “too high” and round bodies. Their square-chinned, straw yellow faces had big, round eyes without eyelids and thick red lips. Neither Mr. Chiasson nor his sons saw noses or ears, and they may not have had any. They stood still, but turned their heads as if examining the witnesses. After this confrontation which seemed to last for minutes, the three male witnesses fled back to the car, where Mr. Chiasson vomited again. After this there was a burst of light in front of them followed by another wave of unbearable heat that made them all crouch down in the car. This intensified for a short while, and then gradually passed. When they got up they could see that there was nothing ahead of them, and the fog had practically dissipated. The car could be started at this point. At the place where the UFO had been there was a slight luminous vapor. For about ten hours afterwards, all four of the Chiassons suffered from intense itching. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-92 (A1634), citing Jean Ferguson, Les Humanoides, p. 224 Source ID: Johnson_4740 Source: Johnson ### Event 17453 (CA90FD22) Date: 8/7/1976 Description: 10:00 p.m. Mark Ziegelbauer, 15, of Malone, Wisconsin, and his father [Orville](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62039097/orville-norbert-ziegelbauer) see multicolored lights fly past their new silo and land in a distant hayfield. Mark drives over to the spot and shines his headlights into the field. He sees an object the size of a “camper-trailer” and two green men, one about 5 feet 7 inches, the other shorter. They put their hands up and “disappeared somehow.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Youth Claims Seeing 2 Green Men from UFO,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80908609/ufo/)” Fond du Lac \(Wis.\) Reporter, August 10, 1976, p. 26; Clark III 279 Source ID: Eberhart_5306 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17454 (A7D0C884) Date: 8/7/1976 Description: At ten p.m. a father and son in Malone, Wisconsin saw an object the size of a small camper, with revolving multicolored lights, land in a hayfield. The son drove to the landing site and saw in his car headlights two green men, five foot seven inches tall. The beings put their hands over their eyes, and vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fond du Lac Reporter, August 10, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1489, citing Mary Sondergard, FSR, April 1977, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_4768 Source: Johnson ### Event 17455 (F821BFA4) Date: 8/7/1976 Description: 11:48 p.m. The control tower at the Djerba-Zarzis International Airport, Tunisia, tracks a UFO on radar to the northwest. The sighting is confirmed by a Tunisair pilot, who says it is a lighted object that seems to touch down near the airport then turn south after climbing up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 81](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/80/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5307 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17456 (2D27984B) Date: 8/8/1976 Description: 7:50 p.m. Radar at Sidi Ahmed Air Base at Bizerte Airport, Tunisia, tracks a target going east to west. It turns south and disappears. Tunisian authorities contact the US State Department asking whether the US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean can shed any light on the incidents. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 81](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/80/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5308 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17457 (87E403C7) Date: 8/10/1976 Description: A number of objects were observed at Penticton Tower. The objects had steady flashing green and red lights and were seen by civilians and members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. (Reference: Fawcett and Greenwood, Clear Intent, page 47) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vancouver, BC, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4699 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17458 (D27357C2) Date: 8/10/1976 Description: 5:00 a.m. Teresa de Tejero wakes up suddenly in her room at the Hotel Da Balaia in Albufeira, Portugal, and sees a vivid luminous rectangle on the window curtains. She wakes up her husband Francisco, who goes to the window and sees an object with six reddish lights that appears to be on another wing of the hotel. One of its lights seems to be directed straight into their bedroom. They go back to sleep. In the morning, Francisco looks out the window and finds there is no hotel wing where he thought the UFO was. He realizes that the object must have been huge to masquerade as two floors of the hotel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ignacio Darnaude, “[Spies in the Supernumerary Attic?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 \(October 1977\): 20–21 Source ID: Eberhart_5309 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17459 (F4D7164A) Date: 8/10/1976 Description: Sr. Francisco Tejero, age 44, his wife Teresa Lacave, and their friends Jose Valles and wife Pilar Osborne Domecq were on holiday at the Hotel Da Balaia in Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal and had gone into the hotel bar for something to eat at around 5:00 p.m. They saw two men and a woman there who were engaged in a discussion, but at the same time seemed to be watching the witness’s party most intently. The two men were short in stature, “with European features but very dark.” They seemed to be between 40 and 50 years old, yet their hair was far too white in color for being middle aged. Suddenly two strange flashes of light came from the direction of this mysterious trio, like the flashbulbs of a camera, and although they observed no camera, the two Spanish couples had the strong impression that someone had just photographed them, perhaps with the aid of a minature, concealed camera. What's more, the two couples began to feel an indescribable malaise, so they quickly finished their drinks and left the bar to go have dinner. Later that night Teresa awoke with a start, and to her great astonishment she observed that on the curtains of the hotel window (which was open on this hot night) there was a very vivid luminous rectangle, “like a TV screen.” She immediately thought of the strange “spies” in the bar, and her next thought was that maybe they had entered the bedroom and were going to rob them or do them some kind of mischief. She turned and shook her husband vigorously. Her husband jumped out of bed and went to the window. In his account he said: “It was as though I was in some sort of trance, as if I had been hypnotized by someone. Outside, all was utterly, infinitely peaceful.” He was moving around like an automaton. He looked out the window and saw a rectangular thing, with six reddish lights on it, resting on another wing of the hotel which made an angle with the main face on which their window lay. All was dark underneath the “thing”, and nothing else was to be seen. He remained there motionless for awhile, gazing at the structure or “attic” with a sense of irritation because one of the lights was directed right into their bedroom. He then turned around and went back to sleep. In the morning they were astonished to find out that there was no other wing of the hotel running out at an angle. There was no building, or structure of any kind whatsoever. There was simply no “attic.” Their rooms were on the top floor of the hotel. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos, FSR, October 1977, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_4825 Source: Johnson ### Event 17460 (C46FBACB) Date: 8/11/1976 Description: 11:00 p.m. Two boys aged 13 and 14 are standing on the beach in La Linea de Concepción, Spain, facing the Strait of Gibraltar when they see a yellowish-white UFO approaching from over the Mediterranean. It seems to have an axis that bisects it. The object climbs rapidly, changing color to whitish and then a vivid yellow. It approaches another, larger object and enters it. While they watch it, the light of a nearby lighthouse goes out temporarily. The larger object remains in place. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Blacks Out Lighthouse,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 1 \(June 1977\): iii Source ID: Eberhart_5310 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17461 (CE083A07) Date: 8/11/1976 Description: At 9:00 p.m. hundreds of observers in Quito, Ecuador witnessed more than 20 luminous cones illuminate the roads, etc; then fly off to the west. Police lines were flooded with UFO reports. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, April 1977, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_4883 Source: Johnson ### Event 17462 (BCD288FF) Date: 8/11/1976 Description: At 11:30 p.m. two teenagers in La Linea Beach, Cadiz, Spain saw a nocturnal light at high altitude circle and enter a "mothership". A lighthouse then winked out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, June 1977, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_4882 Source: Johnson ### Event 17463 (053054D8) Date: 8/12/1976 Description: Calignaia, Tuscany, Italy was visited by a USO (unidentified submarine object) at 10:30 p.m. Dogs barked as a colored light maneuvered under the surface of the river. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11812, citing ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_4954 Source: Johnson ### Event 17464 (CAB29357) Date: 8/13/1976 Description: 8:30 a.m. The pilot of a Piper Arrow PA-28 is flying at 3,500 feet between Diepholz and Petershagen, Germany, when he notices a strange light approaching from the northeast. After 3–5 minutes, the object comes closer and takes a fixed position off the left wing. The object is oval-shaped and very bright yellow in its center with an indistinct flame-orange boundary. Suddenly the Piper goes into two rapid 360° clockwise rolls from which the pilot must recover manually. He discovers that he has dropped about 500 feet during the roll-and- recovery maneuver. When he next checks his instrument panel, he discovers that his magnetic compass is spinning in a clockwise direction so fast that he can’t read the number in its square window. Looking outside again, he sees that the UFO is still behind him, suggesting that he has lost the same amount of altitude. The pilot climbs back to his cruise altitude and calls on the radio to flight control at Hannover airport. The air traffic controller tells him that the radar shows both his airplane and another object nearby. The controller says that an aircraft will be sent to investigate. Little more than 4 minutes later, two USAF F-4 Phantom jets arrive on either side of him travelling 400–500 mph. The jet on the right side is slightly lower, closer, and ahead of the jet on the left. The pilot is certain they are American planes. Just as the jets arrive, the UFO accelerates forward and then upward at about a 30° angle above the horizontal and turns right, passing in front of his aircraft. It quickly outdistances its pursuers and is out of sight in a matter of seconds. The compass eventually returns to normal operation after the UFO departs. The pilot is interrogated after his landing by “military men.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “An Aircraft/UFO Encounter over Germany in 1976,” IUR 24, no. 4 \(Winter 1999\): 3–6 Source ID: Eberhart_5311 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17465 (A98EBE7B) Date: 8/14/1976 Description: 6:30 p.m. A couple out walking along a road on Cartmel Fell in Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England, see a bright light in the sky. Through binoculars, it looks like a silver disc reflecting light from its top surface. After 30 seconds, it becomes smaller as if it is moving away. Two other witnesses see a similar object at the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Report 7670,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Northern%20UFO%20News%20%28Jenny%20Randles%29/Northern%20UFO%20News%20-%20No%2028.pdf)” Northern UFO News, no. 28 \(September 1976\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_5312 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17466 (B8DEF385) Date: 8/14/1976 Description: At around five o'clock in the afternoon, two boys with a dog on a farm in El Fundo, the Dominican Republic, saw a robot-like being dressed in black pants and a red sweater. The creature had scaly skin with a yellowish-green skin tone, curly blond hair, and walked stiffly. the dog barked furiously at the being. A black sphere rolled behind some underbrush and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonte N. Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_5012 Source: Johnson ### Event 17467 (017AC9A0) Date: 8/15/1976 Description: 3:00 a.m. A distant bright light appears above El Real de la Jara, Seville, Spain, as 20 automobiles stop on the highway to watch it. Taxi driver Pablo Garcia García blinks his lights at it, and the object appears to approach much closer. García stops signaling, but the other drivers panic and drive away rapidly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[Some Recent Spanish Reports,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 6 \(April 1977\): 28–29 Source ID: Eberhart_5313 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17468 (B39BBF23) Date: 8/15/1976 Description: Five witnesses, including a Mrs. Lucas, age 25, saw a domed oval-shaped UFO under some trees in a nearby creek bed in Connersville, Indiana at 10:55 p.m. It was a mostly dark object with a wide band of light. As it flew off to the northeast, and turned on green and red revolving lights around its middle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 65 Source ID: Johnson_5048 Source: Johnson ### Event 17469 (F0F193EC) Date: 8/15/1976 Description: 10:55 p.m. Object (repeat appearance three days later with artifact.), vacuum cleaner sound, 2.5 mins. Site of events was creek bed off Harrisburg road. Wife of rural family out in backyard notices wide band of white light in creek bed under trees. (Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Connersville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4700 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17470 (37886DE5) Date: 8/16/1976 Description: On this night on Denslow Hill, Hamden, Connecticut two 14-year-old teenagers, Grey and Barnett, saw two very short humanoid beings shuffling rapidly across the road. They wore purple-colored, luminous, one-piece suits and their waists were only 20-22 inches above the ground. When the boys followed them a bright white, lemon-shaped UFO blinked on and took off into the air, only 15 feet away from the boys. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFOCAT, James P. Barrett case investigation files Source ID: Johnson_5098 Source: Johnson ### Event 17471 (70B02029) Date: 8/16/1976 Description: At around four o'clock in the morning Dean Anderson and Wayne Schutte were working on golf course maintenance when they both noticed an orange “craft” as it dropped down into a culvert on the golf course at Peninsula State Park in Egg Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin. Anderson, who was riding a lawn mower, saw by its powerful headlights a figure first standing, and then running on the golf course, so he pursued him on his riding mower. He saw that the man’s helmet lit up and his belt first start glowing reddish, but then glowed green, yellow, pink, and orange, while the antenna on his helmet flashed bright red. Anderson had now closed to within ten feet of him, and could see that he was about seven feet tall and had a long nose. Suddenly, an energy beam shot down in front of the mower, causing it to stop, and the figure next turned around and looked at Anderson. Within a few seconds a small “scout ship” descended and opened a 3 foot by 3 foot door, which had flashing panels of light inside. The tall figure floated up into this doorway, and “the craft glowed bright blue, red, and orange and then took off.” The footprints of the man were measured to be 20 inches long, 8 inches wide, and five feet apart where he had been running. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keta Steebs, Sturgeon Bay Advocate, March 31, 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, Case # 1976-63 (A1490); Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 66; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, case # 0331, citing HUMCAT Source ID: Johnson_5097 Source: Johnson ### Event 17472 (091CB471) Date: 8/18/1976 Description: 11:15 p.m. Object, no sound, 2.5 mins., five witnesses. Lady, out shaking rug on porch and sees glow in creek bed. Family watches as object again (See Aug. 15) rises from same place near creek and take the same route into the sky and away. (Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fayette County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4702 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17473 (0956E23A) Date: 8/18/1976 Description: 8:30 p.m. A family of four was traveling about 30 miles outside of Orlando, Florida. Suddenly they noticed a saucer-shaped craft appear at a very close altitude of approximately 1000 yards over their auto. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Central, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4701 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17474 (CE8A0A17) Date: 8/20/1976 Description: Brothers Jim and Jack Weiner, with friends Charles Foltz and Charles Rak, claim they are abducted by aliens during a camping trip near Allagash, Maine. According to the four men, hypnotic regression allows them to recall being taken aboard a circular UFO and being “probed and tested by four-fingered beings with almond- shaped eyes and languid limbs.” In a later interview by the St. John Valley Times, Charles Rak changes his story, saying he did see strange lights during the camping trip, but the abduction part of the story is a total fabrication, and he went along with the narrative for financial gain. The other three members of the group stand by the abduction story. According to Jim Weiner, “Jack, Charlie, and I, after all these years, are still in agreement with the Eagle Lake event as we \(three\) remember it. We also accept the results of the hypnotic regression sessions and subsequent polygraph tests as supportive of an abduction scenario.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, The Allagash Abductions, Wild Flower, 1993; Jessica Potila, “[Subject of 1976 UFO Incident Casts Doubt on ‘Allagash](https://fiddleheadfocus.com/2016/09/10/news/community/top-stories/subject-of-1976-ufo-incident-casts-doubt-on-allagash-abductions/) [Abductions,’](https://fiddleheadfocus.com/2016/09/10/news/community/top-stories/subject-of-1976-ufo-incident-casts-doubt-on-allagash-abductions/)” Fort Kent \(Maine\) Fiddlehead Focus, September 10, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_5314 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17475 (33AB9668) Date: 8/21/1976 Description: 10:30 p.m. A 90-foot-long cigar-shaped object descends from 4,000 feet over the Forêt de Molière to the east of Poitiers, France. Witnesses hear a humming sound and smell an odor. It ascends and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochées en France, Alain Lefeuvre, 1979, p. 627 Source ID: Eberhart_5315 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17476 (2CDFBFDE) Date: 8/22/1976 Description: Midnight–4:00 a.m. Eleven witnesses see a luminous orb, 9–21 feet in diameter, with antennae, flying over Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, Bas-Rhin, France. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ph. Wiedenhoff, “[Dans le Bas-Rhin,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20166.pdf)” Lumières de la Nuit, no. 166 \(June/July 1977\): 17–20 Source ID: Eberhart_5316 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17477 (9A01D48E) Date: 8/23/1976 Description: At 4:10 a.m. three diamond-shaped objects zig-zagged over a cement plant in Haney, British Columbia. They emitted red laser-like beams of light, and flew off rapidly to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11832, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_5263 Source: Johnson ### Event 17478 (33262D5C) Date: 8/23/1976 Description: Dean Anderson was cutting grass on a golf course in Egg Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin at 4:15 a.m. when he saw a large orange craft drop down into a culvert behind the road. Anderson stopped his lawn mower. Two figures emerged from a door in the craft and floated down to the ground on a “band of light.” The craft then took off. Both figures carried flashlights 3 feet long. They came up to Mr. Anderson and one of the beings extended his hand, which the witness shook. He said, “We come in peace. I am Sunar from Jupiter. This is Treena; she comes from Saturn.” The witness shook Treena’s hand while Sunar allegedly explained that they were here on a scientific mission, gathering specimens. Treena took off her outer spacesuit, and appeared in a close fitting, light green one-piece suit; the top was of “some glistening metallic material,” but the pants were dull. She also wore slippers. Her skin was light tan, her eyes blueish gray, and she had shoulder length hair. She was 5’2” tall. Sunar did most of the talking; he had copper colored skin, and said he was over 200 years old. The witness was told that the man he had chased on a previous closer encounter was Muton, from Mars, and that Sunar had once met Baha’u”llah, the founder of the Baha’i religion. After about 20 minutes of conversation, Treena put her spacesuit back on, and gave Anderson an envelope made of yellow nylon cloth, which she asked him not to open for nine days. The craft returned, and the two UFOnauts ascended to it on a beam of light. The craft was estimated to be 30 feet wide at the bottom, and 60 feet high. As soon as daylight allowed, the witness photographed the footprints of Treena and Sunar in the dirt. Later, upon opening the envelope, the witness found a gold-colored, engraved amulet inside. There is no mention of what he did with it, or whether he still has it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-64; Keta Steebs, Sturgeon Bay Advocate, March 31, 1977; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 66 Source ID: Johnson_5262 Source: Johnson ### Event 17479 (1193392A) Date: 8/25/1976 Description: At shortly after 8:00 p.m. a silver disc-shaped object hovered over the Tappan Zee Bridge in South Nyack, New York for 10 minutes. It then ascended, and flew away to the east. There were several other sightings in Westchester County. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Wallace Spencer, UFO Yearbook, p. 91 Source ID: Johnson_5329 Source: Johnson ### Event 17480 (A46A91E5) Date: 8/25/1976 Description: At 2:30 a.m. a 10-year-old boy in Blissfield, Michigan got up to go to the bathroom. When he looked out the window he saw a deep orange luminous globe blinking on and off and slowly zigzagging in the sky. He watched it for 10-15 minutes, feeling a “pull” from it. Then when it blinked he suddenly found himself inside it, where two greenish beings sat with their arms over a table with little black knobs. They were busy manipulating the knobs while a third being stood in front of the boy. The third entity was about an inch taller than the boy. The beings appeared not to have any eyes, nose, mouth, or neck, and instead of fingers they had pincers like a crayfish. They had two small projections on the top of their heads. Their legs did not end in feet, and when they walked it sounded like "a wooden legged pirate.” The skin on their cheeks and arms was bumpy and rough like an alligator, and there were scales on their bodies. They did not utter words, but “hummed like Morse code.” After what seemed like about five seconds the boy found himself back in his house, and ran upstairs. Later that same night, at about five a.m., his 11-year old sister awoke and saw a blue light outside her window. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dr. Ron Westrum, CUFOS case files, report dated November 12, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-65, citing Ron Westrum Source ID: Johnson_5328 Source: Johnson ### Event 17481 (FE8BCB72) Date: 8/25/1976 Description: 12:30 p.m. Three children see beings in polished-silver suits and a UFO rising upward from a schoolyard in North Reddish, Stockport, Manchester, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Rees, “[‘Floating’ Entity at Reddish,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 2 \(July 1979\): 29–31 Source ID: Eberhart_5317 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17482 (26BDCCC4) Date: 8/26/1976 Description: Four men--Weiner, Foltz, and Rak (including a set of twins)--had gone out night fishing in a canoe during a camping trip on East Lake in the Allagash Waterway, Maine when at around 9:00 p.m. one of them became aware of being watched. He turned around and saw a huge, bright, multicolored sphere of light rising from below the treeline. When one of the men shined a flashlight at the object, it began to approach their canoe slowly. A tube-shaped beam of light was emitted from the object and hit the water. The object and the beam of light began approaching the four men and all four of them began to paddle frantically toward shore, trying to get away. At this point they lost all conscious memory of what happened next. Later, under hypnosis all four remembered being levitated up from their canoe and into the hovering craft via a hollow tube-like beam of light. Inside the they encountered several short dark gray-colored humanoids with large oval-shaped heads and huge, black, almond-shaped eyes. They all wore metallic uniforms and were described as somewhat insect like. The men were made to undress and sit on a plastic like bench. The humanoids then looked into each of the men’s eyes and mouths with a pencil size rod with a light on its tip. Then each was made to lie on an exam table where each was examined with several handheld and large scanning machine like instruments. Samples of bodily fluids were taken from all four men. Later, after several hours, they were floated back down into their canoe. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, The Allagash Affair; Alan Baker, p. 17; Albert S. Rosales, 1976 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1134, citing Raymond E Fowler, MUFON UFO Journal, issue 300 Source ID: Johnson_5374 Source: Johnson ### Event 17483 (7CF8869C) Date: 8/26/1976 Description: Enrique Mercado Orue of Cerro De La Estrella, Mexico City, Mexico was taken onboard a UFO after being instructed to go to an isolated area. He described everything he saw onboard the craft as very quaint and simple, not at all sophisticated looking. He also saw what appeared to be a star-map on a wall. Inside the craft he met human-like occupants of different statures. Some were over two meters tall, but others were much shorter than that. The women were generally shorter than the men; they were described as beautiful and well built, wearing form-fitting outfits, which seemed metallic in texture. He traveled onboard the “spacecraft” for what seemed like a short distance, and did not go to another planet. He was shown a guest room where he was allowed to sleep comfortably. Later, he was given four crackers to eat and a small glass of a substance resembling wine. He was told that what he ate would last for four days. Among many things the humanoids told him was that they believed “in a higher being.” Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1976 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Fabio Picasso Source ID: Johnson_5373 Source: Johnson ### Event 17484 (AE19C8E7) Date: 9/1976 Description: The Cambridge UFO Research Group is founded by Bonnie Wheeler in Cambridge, Ontario. She produces a bimonthly newsletter through September 1994. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Cambridge UFO Research Group Newsletter](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/CUFORG%20%28Bonnie%20Wheeler%29/CUFORG%20-%20Vol%202%20No%2003%20-%201980%2009.pdf) 2, no. 3 \(September 1980\) Source ID: Eberhart_5319 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17485 (3F00DEAD) Date: 9/1/1976 Description: 12:38 a.m. UFO described as two red lights on top, silver bottom. (UFO 105 NIDS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Missile M-1, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4703 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17486 (605272E3) Date: 9/1/1976 Description: Day. A retired science teacher watches a circular glowing object while walking on a beach near Aguada, Puerto Rico. The object moves slowly, hovers, then falls abruptly, tumbling over and over, until it nearly enters the ocean. It then rights itself and moves slowly westward. It has a dull gray finish and appears to be quite distant. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 1 \(November 1976\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5321 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17487 (F4CB7BB5) Date: 9/1/1976 Description: 10:35 a.m. A witness is walking with her dog in a field off Larimer County Road 76H northwest of Larimer, Colorado. She looks up and sees a large \(100 feet long\), silver-colored, silent cylinder flying at about 50 mph to the south. It is only 200–250 feet in altitude and has two rings around it towards each end. She watches it for several minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “More Letters,” IUR 8, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1983\): 16; “[More Similarities Begin to Appear,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Bulletin 4, no. 6 \(Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_5320 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17488 (2D476BC1) Date: Early 9/1976 Description: Three men watch a dense white cloud hover low above Rua Cajati in São Paulo, Brazil. It dissipates, revealing a disc-shaped object that emits light beams of various colors. When policemen arrive and draw their weapons, they become paralyzed like statues. The smoke cloud reappears and envelops the disc, which takes off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: O Dia \(Rio de Janeiro\), September 8, 1976; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 2 \(December 1976\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_5318 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17489 (3D880FE1) Date: 9/2/1976 Description: At 5:00 a.m. a UFO with multiple lights was involved in a close encounter in Jaca, Huesca, Spain. It moved toward the car of two of the witnesses, circled around it, and then moved over it. A truck driver was an independent witness. The UFO had a solid top, but indistinct bottom; it was 7-8 meters in diameter, and made a soft whistling sound. Physiological effects were reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case # 455, citing Stendek, December 1981, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_5577 Source: Johnson ### Event 17490 (FB643369) Date: 9/3/1976 Description: 7:00 p.m. Farm laborer João Romeu Klein, 19, returns home to Brusque, Santa Catarina, Brazil, after visiting a friend. As he approaches the house, he spots a flying object in the shape of a deep dish that rotates slowly counterclockwise. The upper part of the object is flattened, and a luminous light on top varies according to the speed of the craft’s movement and vacillates from red \(high speed\) to orange, from yellow to light green, and finally to white. When the craft is still, the intensity of the light diminishes. The object itself is gray in color and nearly 10 feet in diameter. The UFO moves toward Klein, passes 33 feet above his head, and then hovers in front of him about 16 feet from the ground. A bright, red light shines from the center of its base, through which three small beings about 3 feet tall slowly descend. The humanoids form a line across the entire width of the road and prevent him from passing as the UFO moves behind him some 33 feet away and 26 feet above the ground, close to some trees. The beings open their arms in an apparent blocking gesture, communicating with each other in an unfamiliar language. Klein draws his knife and tosses it toward the beings; it whizzes through the air, but at one point appears to float before falling to another spot. Each being wears a staff at its waist. The crew member in the center reacts by waving his staff toward Klein. The staff fires a beam of bluish-white light that hits Klein in the left thigh. He faints on being struck and is later found by his neighbors. His leg is paralyzed, so he goes to Azambuja hospital in Brusque, where doctors find no sign of injury. He recovers after a few days. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Os](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20136-145%20-%201981-1982.PDF) [Tripulantes da Serra do Moura, Novo Trento, Brusque, Estado de Santa Catarina,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20136-145%20-%201981-1982.PDF)” SBEDV Boletim, no. 136/145 \(Sept. 1981/April 1982\): 10–12; Clark III 218–220; Luis Lopez, “[Quase 40 Anos Depois, Homem Relata](https://refletir24.rssing.com/chan-45623680/article1021-live.html) [Experiência com Extraterrestres em Brusque, SC,](https://refletir24.rssing.com/chan-45623680/article1021-live.html)” Novos Insólitos, May 12, 2016; Brazil 194–198 Source ID: Eberhart_5323 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17491 (D70A51A3) Date: 9/3/1976 Description: At 7:00 p.m. local time, about two hours after the missing time close encounter in England, Joao Romeu Klein, age 19, was returning home after visiting his mother near Serra Do Mouro, Santa Catarina State, Brazil when he observed an approaching disc-shaped object from the south. The object had a rotating lower half and a bright light on top which seemed to change colors. The UFO flew over the witness, then came to a halt just ahead of him. It projected an intense beam of red light from its base. Inside this beam three small beings levitated slowly to the ground. The three small humanoids took up positions across the road, blocking Joao's path. The object then glided over to a clump of trees nearby. As the witness continued to walk, the three small beings spread out their arms in an obvious attempt to block him, while at the same time speaking in an unknown language. The witness threw a knife at the beings but it seems to strike an invisible wall. The being in the middle then pointed a rod like device at the witness from which a beam of bluish white light emerged. The witness apparently blacked out and was found later on the ground by his neighbors. The beings were described as heavy set and human like, wearing tight gray coveralls, and globular fishbowl helmets that covered their heads. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Buhler, FSR, August 1982, p. 5; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 230; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-66 (A2249), citing Dr. Walter Buhler; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, case # 834, citing Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR, Vol. 28, # 1 Source ID: Johnson_5608 Source: Johnson ### Event 17492 (0F8A4187) Date: 9/3/1976 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a 63-year-old woman and her 18-year-old friend were walking past a waste storage area in Fencehouses, England when they saw a domed, oval-shaped object, resting on sledge runners, on a mound of earth. It had a large glass like compartment in the center, and a bright orange dome on top. It was 5 feet long and 3.5 feet high. As the witnesses approached it, they noted that the wind and the traffic on a nearby road both seemed to stop, and they later discovered that their watches had stopped. One of the witnesses ran her hand over the object; it felt very smooth and warm. Suddenly two humanoid entities “the size of dolls” appeared beside it; they had long white hair parted down the middle, large eyes, and claw-like fingers. Apparently frightened by the witnesses, they put both hands up to their faces. The witnesses were not sure what happened next, but after experiencing a period of missing time the next thing they remember is that the object took off at great speed with a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, FSR, April 1977, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-66 (A1493), citing John Rouse for Contact & Northern UFO Network Source ID: Johnson_5607 Source: Johnson ### Event 17493 (1A5966AB) Date: 9/3/1976 Description: An extremely bright, silent object with three colored jets at the rear was seen over North Canton, Guangdong Province, China at 8:00 p.m. It flew up vertically, then horizontally. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 87 Source ID: Johnson_5606 Source: Johnson ### Event 17494 (03453C68) Date: 9/3/1976 Description: At around 1:00 a.m. a woman was alone at her home in Ravenna, Italy when she heard a noise outside. When she looked out she could see an red oval-shaped object on the ground between two houses. Nearby were four or five small spheres. Standing in front of the ovoid object was a tall being, dressed in what appeared to be body armor and a helmet with a protuberance in the center. She was distracted for a moment and lost sight of the being, and when she looked back she saw the object take off at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, case # 997, citing BUFORA Journal, Vol. 8 # 3, quoting Maurizio Verga; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case # 88 Source ID: Johnson_5605 Source: Johnson ### Event 17495 (2084D967) Date: 9/3/1976 Description: Early morning. A witness in Bethel, Alaska, hears a high-pitched whine and looks out at the tundra where a small \(2.5–3-inch diameter\) white beach ball seems to be moving just above the ground. After a while it tilts so that she can see it is a disc with a rotating “platinum-shiny” area in the middle. The object arcs upward, then back down, and seems to disappear into the ground, whereupon the whine stops. She can find no ground markings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_5322 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17496 (9B085968) Date: 9/3/1976 Description: 9:00 p.m. Two women, one 63 and the other an 18-year-old relative, are returning from a family visit in Fence Houses, Durham, England, when they see a peculiar object resting on a mound of earth in a section of mining wasteland. They walk toward it, feeling a sort of attraction, and see that it is an oval object about 3 feet high and 5 feet long and standing on chrome or steel runners. The main compartment is glasslike with an orange section on top. When they reach the object, they sense the wind and traffic noise have stopped. The older woman touches the glassy side, which feels warm. At this point two strange entities are seen within the craft with long white hair parted down the middle, large eyes, and claw-like hands. They are both the size of a large doll, perhaps 1–1.5 feet tall. Frightened, the two women hurry away, noting that the street noise has returned. The object then takes off at great speed, making a humming noise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: William D. Muir, “[UFO Landing at Fencehouses, County](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%206.pdf) [Durham,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 \(April 1977\): 2–3 Source ID: Eberhart_5324 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17497 (910E170C) Date: 9/3/1976 Description: The witness heard a very high-pitched whine in the early morning in Bethel, Alaska, and looked out onto the tundra where a small (3 inches in diameter) white "beach ball" seemed to be moving in the air, close to the ground. After a while it tilted so that she could see that it was a disc with a rotating, shiny, platinum-colored area in the middle. The object arced upwards, then back down, and seemed to just disappear into the ground. As soon as it entered the ground, all sounds stopped. On inspection, she found no ground marks or evidence where it had disappeared. Following this incident by about a month, the same witness and a little dog were on her porch facing the area of the sighting. She went inside for a couple of minutes and the dog wandered off. She immediately began to search for her dog, following its tracks in the fresh snow, but she couldn’t find her. “It was snowing. And her little tracks went out there and she just disappeared? She weighed maybe five pounds max, so possibly some owl or something could have gotten her, but there wasn’t,,,any other disturbance in the snow.” Since these events the witness feels that she has had a few very unusual light-projecting experiences, which have resulted in vivid dreams or out of body experiences. The contents of her experiences are difficult to describe. She has the feeling of movement, and there are these enormously huge, very bright shining objects that are suspended in space, all around her. They are all different kinds of geometrical shapes and forms, but they are immense. She also has had the feeling like being in an invisible corridor that she is moving down. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael D Swords, “Unusual Experiences From the Timmerman Files”, International UFO Reporter, Summer 2002 Source ID: Johnson_5604 Source: Johnson ### Event 17498 (A6A662F3) Date: 9/5/1976 Description: Three men saw a four foot tall dwarf at a former Army building in La Spezia near Mount Parodi, Italy on this day. The being wore a black coverall uniform, with part of it covering its head. It had two oblique slits for eyes. It walked in a clumsy way, "as if sliding on the ground." It vanished leaving no footprints. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1496, citing Stampa Sera, September 6, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_5657 Source: Johnson ### Event 17499 (9251C3F5) Date: 9/5/1976 Description: On this night in a shopyard in Vargem Grande, Minas Gerais province, Brazil 39-year-old Mr. Coelho de Silva was a five-meter in diameter yellow glowing dome with a blue violet band around its base, and a hole at its center. As the witness ran away he felt a blow and was knocked down. He then saw a being slide down on a hook from the hole. He wore a dark metallic uniform with an opaque helmet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1494, citing J. Allen Hynek and Alberto F. do Carmo Source ID: Johnson_5658 Source: Johnson ### Event 17500 (B467BDAF) Date: 9/5/1976 Description: 10:30 a.m. A fast-moving disc with dome was observed, vertical ascent. One witness. (Rutledge, PID,200) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Girardeau, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4704 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17501 (EAA3F8F1) Date: 9/6/1976 Description: At around eight o'clock in the evening a 60-foot wide UFO with windows landed only 100 feet from a truck in Accopampa, Peru. The truck motor stalled. Two men emerged from the UFO. They stood about 5" 8" tall (1.8 m), wore shiny spacesuits, and carried lamps. One touched one of the witnesses, who felt a hot searing sensation and suffered from temporary paralysis. He later claimed to be healed of his arthritis pain. Landing traces were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1495, citing La Razon, September 8, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_5689 Source: Johnson ### Event 17502 (883B0CE0) Date: 9/6/1976 Description: On this night bat-wing shaped UFOs were seen in Port Austin, Michigan; the next morning US Air Force radar tracked five UFOs for 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 243 Source ID: Johnson_5688 Source: Johnson ### Event 17503 (A563F81A) Date: 9/6/1976 Description: G,V, AF radar & 5 UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Austin, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4705 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17504 (C27FB6EE) Date: 9/8/1976 Description: At around 10:00 p.m. two men in their twenties, Torres and Bedjara, driving in a truck on the highway between Ollachea and Ayaviri, Peru encountered a 30 meter wide saucer in the roadway. Two six foot tall, human-looking UFOnauts with flashlights examined the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, January 1977, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_5775 Source: Johnson ### Event 17505 (23BE86C3) Date: 9/8/1976 Description: Leoncio Torres and Elena Bedjara are driving a truck on the road between Ollachea and Ayaviri, Peru, when a UFO lands 90 feet in front of them. Two strange creatures about 6 feet tall approach the blocked truck with flashlights. The creatures touch the couple’s backs and they feel a burning sensation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 1 \(January 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5325 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17506 (576F418B) Date: 9/8/1976 Description: 10:03 p.m. White, triangular object with red lights. (UFO 107 NIDS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: India 3 and India site, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4706 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17507 (7D5DCCA2) Date: 9/8/1976 Description: At 3:00 a.m. a 25 meter ovoid object hung in the sky low over a gully in Elephant Pass, Tasmania. A nocturnal light also hovered nearby the witness, and the witness reported feeling a tingling sensation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, citing Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12391, citing Jan Aldrich Source ID: Johnson_5774 Source: Johnson ### Event 17508 (AD83B923) Date: 9/9/1976 Description: About 2:00 a.m. Farmer Hermelindo da Silva is making his way home from the bar he owns in Vargem Grande, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when his dog grows agitated. A flash of light illuminates the area, followed by a strange buzzing sound. He sees a bright object about 4 feet in diameter above him. The dog begins barking nonstop until it receives some type of shock, apparently from the craft, and flees in terror. The light goes out, and da Silva runs back to the bar and flattens himself against the outside wall. The object lights up again, scaring him, so he picks up a piece of wood and throws it at the object. The light goes out again and the buzzing ceases, only to be replaced by a hiss. He feels a blow to his shoulder and falls to the ground, then he runs toward his house with the object 10 feet above him. Cables and hooks descend from the UFO, accompanied by a small creature about 3 feet tall. Da Silva hits its shoulder, causing it to jump and fall, then gets into a fight with it for 15 minutes. Finally, the creature loops a cable around da Silva’s ankle and hoists him screaming into an opening on the craft. His brother-in-law hears him and sees him ascending. Da Silva manages to get loose from the cable and falls 20 feet into a plant. He runs to the house, bruised. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1220–1221; Brazil 198–200 Source ID: Eberhart_5326 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17509 (A5229125) Date: 9/9/1976 End date: 9/10/1976 Description: Around 3:00 p.m. A worker at the Liangshan Cotton Mill south of Longwangmiao, Shandong, China, sees a spherical object at 45° elevation about 9,800–13,000 feet away. The upper part is bright silver, and the lower part is dark gray. It moves in the direction of the sun. It reappears on September 10, although it seems larger. It shrinks in size toward 12:00 noon and finally appears like a twinkling star in the daytime. It reverts to its former size in the afternoon, and then in front of more than 1,000 witnesses it flies away and disappears around 5:00 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, p. 88 Source ID: Eberhart_5327 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17510 (3C991EDB) Date: 9/9/1976 Description: A small disc-shaped object, three meters in diameter, dropped four cables toward the ground in Vargem Grande, Minas Gerais State, Brazil at around two o'clock in the morning. A humanoid looped a hook from one over a man's leg, but he was able to escape. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 56 Source ID: Johnson_5801 Source: Johnson ### Event 17511 (2B8A3665) Date: 9/9/1976 Description: A silver domed disc was seen spinning at an altitude of two kilometers over Yichun, China at 6:00 p.m. It spewed out a misty cloud, then flew off quickly to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 89 Source ID: Johnson_5800 Source: Johnson ### Event 17512 (72BCC42B) Date: 9/10/1976 Description: 6:00–7:00 p.m. British European Airways Flight 831 from Moscow to London is cruising at 33,000 feet over Lithuania when a blinding, stationary light is seen on the starboard side of the airliner, apparently 10–15 miles away and 5,000–6,000 feet below. The light resembles a yellowish sodium vapor lamp and is too intense to view directly. It lights up the top of the cloud layer below. The pilot asks the Soviet authorities to identify the source, but they come back with a negative response, saying he should not ask questions. The light is visible for 10–15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Aerial Observation of Intense Source of Light,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005515703.pdf)” CIA Foreign Intelligence Information Report, November 18, 1976 Source ID: Eberhart_5329 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17513 (F5C919DC) Date: 9/10/1976 Description: Low-hovering disc with dome, rotating rim and bright lights, power failure. Object moved away, shone beams of light down (Ref. 1, Section I). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colusa, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4707 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17514 (159ACD19) Date: 9/10/1976 Description: Colusa, California. At 12:45 a.m. mechanic Bill Pecha and other household members noticed a complete electrical system failure in their mobile home. Next, stepping outside to check the circuit breakers, he felt static electricity and spotted a brightly lit, 150 foot domed disc-shaped object with a clockwise rotating rim hovering almost overhead, just 50-60 feet away. The object had a red light in front and other lights on either end, and the bright light that came from the bottom of the object dimmed when hovering. On the underside it had 6-8 dangling cables, and on each were two arms with hooks which retracted when Pecha stepped toward the object. The object retreated, moving slowly out over a field, with the cables still retracting. The white light underneath intensified and a cone of light was projected downward, but initially the beam was truncated before reaching the ground. The object maneuvered above a neighbor's house illuminating the ground with beams of light. Two other similar UFOs were seen in the distance casting blue light beams down onto power lines, and an arc of light was extending upward from the power lines to the objects. When the object shot away at high speed to the west, it lit up the foothills, then it rushed back over the neighbor's property again as the other two, more distant object sped away in different directions, and were gone in 30 seconds. The power came back on in Mr. Pecha's mobile home; the entire elapsed time of the close encounter was 9 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Colusa (CA) Sun-Herald, September 12, 1976; Brad Sparks, CUFOS files, report dated October 3, 1976; Paul C. Cerny, International UFO Reporter, January 1977, p. 6; UNICAT, case 234; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_5831 Source: Johnson ### Event 17515 (EBC80C99) Date: 9/10/1976 Description: Low-hovering disc with dome, rotating rim and bright lights, power failure. Object moved away, shone beams of light down Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Colusa, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_279 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17516 (193AFA3A) Date: 9/10/1976 Description: 12:54 a.m. Bill Pecha Jr. is watching TV in his home 3 miles southwest of Colusa, California, when suddenly the picture crackles, fades, and blacks out, and the air conditioner dies. He goes outside to check on the circuit breaker and feels an electrical sensation. He looks up and sees an object 85 feet in diameter hovering above a TV antenna near the barn about 50 feet away. The main body of the craft is a disc shape, which appears to be rotating in a clockwise direction, with a large dome that remains stationary on top. The object makes little or no sound, and is silver or gray in color, except for the very bottom, which has a “porcelain” look about it. Two hook- like cables are hanging down. Pecha approaches until he is just under one edge. The UFO moves slowly away and retracts its cables. Two hatches open on either end, revealing a “spotlight.” He goes inside and wakes up his wife Lenda, who also sees the object. Pecha can now see two other objects over high-tension power lines a mile to the west, emitting light beams at the tops of the transmission towers. The first UFO is moving closer and passes over a neighbor’s house, shining a light on it. Frightened, Pecha grabs his two children and he and his wife speed away in their pickup. They stop at a friends’ house and draw their attention to the distant light. The encounter ends at 1:03 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Cerny, “[UFO Hovers over California Farm,](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/270C.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 197 \(October 1976\): 3– 8; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case files](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/270C.pdf)\]; “The UFO Finalist,” IUR 2, no. 1 \(January 1977\): 6–8; Clark III 294–296; Micah Hanks, “[Tentacles and Telephone Lines: The Colusa, California, UFO Incident of 1976,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/tentacles-and-telephone-lines-the-colusa-california-ufo-incident-of-1976/)” Mysterious Universe, February 22, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_5328 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17517 (673E2DBD) Date: 9/11/1976 Description: A cat went crazy with fear and the witness's TV experienced interference when a 30-meter wide disc-shaped object came down by some woods in St-Verand, France at 10:40 p.m. The telephone was out of operation for seven days. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12402 Source ID: Johnson_5864 Source: Johnson ### Event 17518 (3A894A38) Date: 9/11/1976 Description: 8:00 p.m. [Herbert Hopkins](http://realmib.tripod.com/hopkins.html)[,](http://realmib.tripod.com/hopkins.html) the hypnotist investigating the 1975 Oxford abduction case, is alone in his home in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. The telephone rings, and the caller identifies himself as vice president of the nonexistent New Jersey UFO Research Association. He wants to come and discuss the Oxford case. Hopkins consents, telling him to come right over. As soon as he switches on the back light, he sees a man in dark clothing walking up the porch stairs. Hopkins unthinkingly opens the door right away. The stranger is wearing a black derby, black jacket, black tie, white shirt, gray gloves, black trousers, and black shoes. The crease in his pants is razor sharp. The man never introduces himself but sits down and removes his hat. He is completely hairless, devoid of eyebrows and eyelashes, but his lips are a vivid red. The stranger speaks in a monotone. After Hopkins discusses what he knows about the David Stephens case, the man remarks, “That’s just what I thought,” and abruptly changes the subject. “You have two coins in your left pocket,” he says. Hopkins acknowledges he has a dime and a penny. The stranger tells him to take one out and hold it in his palm. He does and is shocked to find that its color has changed to bright silver, then light blue. It grows blurry and fuzzy and finally fades away in a vapor. The stranger says that no one else “on this plane will ever see that coin again.” The stranger then asks if he knew why [Barney Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) died, saying “He died because he knew too much. He died because he had no heart, just as you have no coin.” He orders Hopkins to destroy all the audiotapes of Stephens’s hypnosis sessions, as well as any other UFO literature he has sitting around, or he will suffer the same fate as Barney Hill. The stranger gets up, speaking slowly, and says his energy is running low. He gets up slowly and walks down the porch steps one foot at a time. Hopkins sees a bright light outside, rushes to the kitchen window, and sees the light and the man are gone. About 90 minutes later, Mrs. Hopkins and two of their sons arrive home from a movie. He tells them what happened, and one of the sons finds a series of marks in the narrow driveway that look like a small tractor tread. They are gone the next day. Hopkins burns all his tapes, correspondence, and literature at the urging of his family. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Berthold Eric Schwartz, “[The Man-in-Black Syndrome, Part 1,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 4 \(January 1978\): 9–15; Berthold Eric Schwartz, “[The Man-in-Black Syndrome, Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20V%2023%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 5 \(February 1978\): 22–25; Berthold Eric Schwartz, “[The Man-in-Black Syndrome, Part 3,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20V%2023%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 6 \(April 1978\): 26–29; Clark III 863–864 Source ID: Eberhart_5330 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17519 (39E688CC) Date: 9/11/1976 Description: Night. Three members of the Hood family are driving back along a country road to their home in Little Britain, Ontario. Paul Hood notices a flashing light in the treetops. When their car approaches, it darts off. Days later, Paul and Don Hood find a 30-foot-diameter circle of burned ground and grass swirled in a counterclockwise direction near a split-rail fence in a swamp less than a quarter-mile from their home. Six holes the size of grapefruits are also present. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 1 \(January 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5331 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17520 (34D9E737) Date: 9/13/1976 Description: Ranch worker George Aguerre sees an object like an upturned funnel with windows landing for 3–4 minutes near Tacuarembo, Uruguay. It emits two brilliant beams of light from the top and is about 45 feet in diameter. Police find landing marks and a burned area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 1 \(January 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5332 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17521 (145DE45B) Date: Mid 9/1976 Description: 4:00 p.m. A copilot of a Boeing 727 for the Brazilian Varig airline sees a disc-shaped object about 120 feet in diameter over the Amazon forest between Manaus and Belém, Brazil. The aircraft’s radar confirms the sighting. The pilot is carrying a camera and snaps a photo of the UFO, which starts jumping from one side to the other in front of the plane, causing the crew to panic. The sighting lasts about 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 198; Brazil 535–536 Source ID: Eberhart_5333 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17522 (F5F4C5D1) Date: 9/15/1976 Description: On this night in Los Teques, Venezuela a man ran to the gate of the textile plant were he works, in a state of shock and terror. He collapsed and was sent to the local hospital. He later claimed that he had seen a disc-shaped object land, and had a confrontation with several undescribed occupants from the object. For two months there were nightsly UFO sightings in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, November 1976 Source ID: Johnson_5993 Source: Johnson ### Event 17523 (63FFEE50) Date: 9/16/1976 Description: 9:45 p.m. A witness in Eureka, California, sees a large orange light at treetop level that rushes overhead, then stops and hovers for 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 1-1-7,” IUR 1, no. 1 \(November 1976\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5335 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17524 (72B93380) Date: 9/16/1976 Description: 9:15 p.m. Six witnesses in Modesto, California, see a rolling orange ball of light heading slowly south. Possible balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 1-1-6,” IUR 1, no. 1 \(November 1976\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5334 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17525 (24A81F9E) Date: 9/17/1976 Description: In Wingen, New South Wales, Australia at 3:30 a.m. a round, bright object with an intense blue glow passed only 12 feet over a car. The car engine stopped and the lights went out, and the speedometer needle jumped about even though the car was stationary. The driver, a 30-year-old man named Ryan, felt an intense heat from the object, and his watch stopped working. He also reported that his flashlight wouldn't work, even though it had new batteries. The UFO made a low humming sound. Trouble with the performance of the car persisted after the event. The close encounter lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website, citing UFO Research NSW; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 69, citing Australian CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_6046 Source: Johnson ### Event 17526 (F44853AE) Date: 9/18/1976 End date: 9/19/1976 Description: 10:30 p.m. Residents of the northeast portion of the city of Tehran, Iran, watch a multicolored aircraft hovering a few thousand feet in the air. Some of them call the nearby Mehrabad Airport, reaching night supervisor Houssain Pirouzi, who goes outside at 11:15 p.m. to look. With his binoculars, he sees a bright object flashing colored lights and changing positions at an altitude of 6,000 feet. Around 12:30 a.m., Pirouzi alerts the Iranian Air Force command post. Deputy Gen. Nader Yousefi also sees the object and scrambles an Air Force F-4 Phantom II interceptor piloted by Capt. Aziz Khani and 1stLt. Hossein Shokri from Shahrokhi Airbase \[now Hamadan Airbase\] to the west at 1:30 a.m. They close in on the object, but the jet’s radio and instruments give out. Only when Khani pulls away does functionality return. Squadron Cmdr. Parviz Jafari takes off in a second jet with 1stLt. Jalal Damirian in pursuit at 1:40 a.m. Some 27 miles from the UFO, Jafari picks the object up on radar, the return indicating something the size of a Boeing 707. Visually, it is flashing like a strobe with intense red, green, orange, and blue lights \(in a diamond shape\) so bright that Jafari cannot see its body. He approaches within 70 miles, then the object jumps 10° to the right, then twice again the same amount. Suddenly a smaller round object comes out of the large object and heads straight toward the interceptor at a high rate of speed. Jafari tries to fire an AIM-9 heat-seeking missile at it, but his weapons control panel malfunctions, as well as his radio and instruments. Jafari turns to the left to avoid an impact with the small object, which approaches to 4 miles distance, then stops. It returns to the large object, which emits another smaller object. Jafari is ordered back to the base, but the light follows him. During final approach, another object \(a thin rectangle with three lights\) appears at low altitude in front of his plane. Gen. Yousefi then orders Jafari to approach the light and get a look. When he is within 4 miles, the radio and instrument panel go out again. The light disappears from view after Jafari lands. Base Commander Gen. Abdulah Azerbarzin claims the complete investigation records are turned over to the US Air Force, which insists it only has one memo from USAF Lt. Col. Olin R. Mooy, who sat in on one of the pilot interviews. A US Defense Intelligence Agency evaluation rates the case High \(of major significance\). The sighting is apparently tracked by a US Defense Support Program satellite. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1976 Tehran UFO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976%5FTehran%5FUFO%5Fincident) [incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976%5FTehran%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[Iranian F-4 Phantom Jet Chase, Radar/Visual/E-M/IAD Signal](http://www.nicap.org/760919tehran%5Fdir.htm)”; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 1 \(November 1976\): 2; “The U.S. Government and the Iran Case,” IUR 3, no. 1 \(January 1978\): 6–7; “Review of Iranian UFO Reports,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 \(Jan./Feb. 1981\): 14–15; “[Now You See It, Now You](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf) [Don’t!](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 1 \(February 1982\): 3; Center for UFO Studies, \[[case documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1976%5F09%5F17%5FIR%5F07%5FTehran%5FPratt%5FMultWit-Radar.pdf)\]; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 85–88; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 98–104](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/98/mode/2up); Clark III 624–626; Kean, [pp. 86–92](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/86/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/86/mode/2up) [149–150](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/148/mode/2up); Swords 340–341; Good Above, [pp. 318–321](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/318/mode/2up), [497–500](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/496/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 302–303](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/302/mode/2up), [315–317](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/314/mode/2up); A. Meessen, “[Deux jets F-4 rencontrent un ovni à Téhéran,](https://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/Deux%5Fjets%5FF4%5Frencontrent%5Fun%5Fovni%5Fa%5FTeheran.pdf)” April 30, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_5336 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17527 (B6C3B442) Date: 9/19/1976 Description: At 1:15 a.m. Eloi Weigert and Jose Pinto, captain and first officer of the Portuguese airline TAP, flying a Boeing 707 airliner at 4000 feet altitude and at a speed of 240 km/hour were five minutes after takeoff from Portela Airport in Lisbon, Portugal when they spotted a bluish white light in front of them. They immediately contacted the control tower because the UFO was hovering in front of them, but it then moved in another direction. The minimum distance to the object was only 200 meters. The white light (reported to be blue by the tower) accelerated fast to the north. The close encounter lasted 45 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1976, p. 14; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 40; UNICAT, case # 789; Charles Bowen, FSR, April 1977, p. 31 & June 1977, p. 1; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 107 Source ID: Johnson_6098 Source: Johnson ### Event 17528 (31BF5903) Date: 9/19/1976 Description: 1:00–2:00 a.m. A silvery, luminous circular object is seen flying southwest to northwest \(parallel to the coast\) at an altitude of 3,200 feet in multiple locations in Morocco, including Agadir, El Kelaa des Sraghna, Essaouira, Marrakesh, Casablanca, Rabat, Kenitra, Meknes, and Fez. It gives off an intermittent trail and is completely silent. The US Embassy in Rabat forwards a summary to the US State Department, asking for more information. A reply comes in October from Secretary of State [Henry Kissinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FKissinger)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FKissinger) who cites the Condon study and natural causes, although he rules out meteors and reflections from a polar-orbiting satellite. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 86–](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/86/mode/2up) [88](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/86/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5337 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17529 (AF497238) Date: 9/19/1976 Description: At 1:10 a.m. four crew members on a Boeing 707 airliner, Duarte, Alexio, Graca, and Santos, flying over the Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal at 35,000 feet altitude encountered an intense bluish light, which suddenly turned off, then became many less intense lights. There were three or four on top of the object, three smaller yellow lights below that, and two at the bottom of the object that looked like portholes. The minimum distance to the object was one mile. The duration of the sighting was five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case # 790, citing Joaquim Fernandes, p. 163 Source ID: Johnson_6097 Source: Johnson ### Event 17530 (B60F6046) Date: 9/19/1976 Description: Two Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom jets with AIM-9 missiles were scrambled to intercept a UFO, 40 nautical miles north of Tehran, Iran at 1:30 a.m. local time. They were vectored in by ground radar, and the UFO was described as a brightly luminous domed disc the size of a Boeing 707. A small object was shot by the larger disc toward the plane. First, the aircrafts' inertial navigation systems fluctuated and their radio communications were lost. When the pilot of the first aircraft, Houssain Perouzi, tried to fire one of his missiles at the UFO, their jet lost control of all its instruments. The second jet just lost weapons control. The disc was changing colors and shape when first detected; it next engaged in a series of sharp maneuvers. A third object descended vertically and landed in a desert area. The entire incident lasted two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1976, p. 1; Richard H. Hall, International UFO Reporter, March 1992, p. 4; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50; UNICAT, case # 372; Richard F. Haines, citing a Joint Chiefs of Staff report dated July 19, 1978; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 20, 122, 244 Source ID: Johnson_6096 Source: Johnson ### Event 17531 (ED94F424) Date: 9/19/1976 Description: F-4 fighter aircraft attempted intercept of radar-visual UFO, E-M system failures, physiological effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Tehran, Iran Source ID: HallUFOE2_280 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17532 (2EF49D40) Date: 9/19/1976 Description: Tehran, Iran: Civilians reported an UFO to the AFB. The Iranian AF scrambled an American F-4 for intercept. As the F-4 was vectored towards the brilliant UFO, all communications and instrumentation were suddenly lost. As the pilot broke off pursuit, all aircraft functions returned to normal. A second F-4 that was scrambled began closing in on the UFO at greater than Mach 1 and was closing on the UFO at 150 nautical mph., but the UFO accelerated and stayed ahead of the F-4 (confirmed by Radar). Multi-colored flashing lights were visible on the UFO. The moment the F-4 pilot tried to lock an AIM-9 missile at the UFO he lost all weapons panel and communication control. The UFO launched two smaller UFOs, one of which began to follow the F-4. After evasive action by the F-4, the smaller UFO returned and united with the larger UFO. The other smaller UFO seemed to have landed on the ground so the pilot flew down to investigate it. The landed UFO appeared to be 12feet in diameter. As the pilot descended the light from the landed UFO went out and he lost sight of it. The DIA termed this sighting as “an outstanding report. This case is a classic which meets all the criteria necessary for a study of a UFO phenomenon.” And, “an inordinate amount of maneuverability was displayed by the UFOs.” Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p497, TEHRAN, B1-F p288, B1-G p72) Location: Tehran, Iran See also: 10/2/72 See also: 9/20/76 Source ID: Maj2_691 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17533 (9D26E366) Date: 9/19/1976 Description: A TAP Air Portugal Boeing 707 nearly collides with a UFO shortly after takeoff at Lisbon, Portugal. The oval object is glowing blue with a horizontal row of red and white lights. It is also seen by an air traffic controller who says that the object does not show up on radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “\[[Aerial Emergency in Lisbon Due to a ‘Flying](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201976%2011-12%20-%20no%2091-92.pdf) [Disc’](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201976%2011-12%20-%20no%2091-92.pdf)\]” La Crónica \(Buenos Aires\), September 23, 1976; Good Above, [p. 154](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/154/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5338 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17534 (6BCC6FF2) Date: 9/19/1976 Description: Iranian F-4 Phantom Jet Chase, Radar/Visual (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [760919](http://www.nicap.org/760919tehran%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Teheran, Iran Source ID: NICAP_DB_4708 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17535 (E9EE0BE1) Date: 9/19/1976 Description: F-4 chase (M), R/V with E-M (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [760919](http://www.nicap.org/760919tehran%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Teheran, Iran Source ID: NICAP_DB_4709 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17536 (425EFCD8) Date: 9/20/1976 Description: A witness was on his terrace in Digne, Basses-Alpes department, France at 10:00 p.m. when he noticed a luminous "cabin" shaped object that was hovering about 200 meters away and 100 meters above the ground. The object was 12 feet square and 6 feet high, and it was the color of an incandescent lamp. No additional structure could be seen. He watched it for about seven minutes. Human-shaped shadows could be seen moving around inside. The object departed slowly at first, then shot away at great speed. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1980; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-24, citing ADEPS, March 1977, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_6142 Source: Johnson ### Event 17537 (6597FD0F) Date: 9/22/1976 Description: A TAP Boeing 707 reported a near collision with a luminous UFO being escorted by four smaller satellite objects near Lisbon airport, Portugal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 40 Source ID: Johnson_6232 Source: Johnson ### Event 17538 (C97D7A58) Date: 9/22/1976 Description: In Regal, Minnesota a ten-year-old boy saw a 3 to 3.5 foot tall green humanoid tapping on his bedroom window at 10:30 p.m. It had big red eyes, no nose, a slit for a mouth, and long arms. It walked to the edge of the roof and floated down to the ground. Outside was a gray rectangular UFO that made no sound. It rose up into the sky vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Barry, CUFOS case investigations file, citing Kandiyodi County Sheriff's Office; International UFO Reporter, November 1976, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_6233 Source: Johnson ### Event 17539 (323F4536) Date: 9/22/1976 Description: 10:30 p.m. A 10-year-old-boy in Regal, Minnesota, sees a 3.5-foot-tall creature with a large bald head, large red eyes, and green skin floating outside his bedroom window. A couple minutes later, the creature floats down to a cube-shaped craft, which he enters. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 1-1-27,” IUR 1, no. 1 \(November 1976\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5339 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17540 (744656EB) Date: Autumn 1976 Description: 2:00 a.m. Missile Combat Crew Commander Bruce Fenstermacher is on alert duty at one of the underground launch capsules at Francis E. Warren AFB near Cheyenne, Wyoming, with another crewman, when the officer-in- charge at the launch facility asks two security guards to report anything that seems unusual. A few seconds later, one of them reports seeing a pulsating white object in the sky. He can see flashing red and blue lights between the pulsations. It is about 10 miles north of their position and close to the launch control facility itself. The UFO is hovering about 100 feet above the building and looks like a “fat cigar” about 50–60 feet long. It begins to move away but stops close to one of the missile silos. Over the next 2 hours or so, the UFO hovers near several more missile silos. The security guards are terrified and refuse to approach any missile site that has the UFO over it. Sometime around 4:30 a.m., the object zooms away and disappears in seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 340–343 Source ID: Eberhart_5343 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17541 (5F2D559C) Date: 9/24/1976 Description: 2:30 a.m. A conservation officer and his wife watch a dark object fly over Lake Red Rock near Otley, Iowa. It moves noiselessly at 40 mph and about 600 feet altitude. Binoculars reveal a blinking red light flanked by pairs of amber lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 1-1-35,” IUR 1, no. 1 \(November 1976\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5340 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17542 (313752D8) Date: 9/24/1976 Description: 7:30 p.m. John Hopkins, the son of hypnotist [Herbert Hopkins](http://realmib.tripod.com/hopkins.html), and his wife Maureen, meet two odd individuals, “Bill” and “Jane,” who have arranged a meeting at a fast-food restaurant near their home in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. The conversation is uncomfortable and strange but does not involve UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 864–865 Source ID: Eberhart_5341 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17543 (0D614D5E) Date: 9/25/1976 Description: Night. Vera White and three others traveling by car between farms in the Karawinna area to the west of Mildura, Victoria, Australia, notice a strange object on the ground in a paddock. It takes off vertically and hovers silently for about 5 minutes. They return to the site in the daytime and find a circle of flattened, discolored grass about 30 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Melbourne Sun, September 29, 1976; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 2 \(December 1976\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_5342 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17544 (0B59107F) Date: 9/25/1976 Description: At 11:00 p.m. between Mildura and Karrawinna, Victoria, Australia four witnesses watched red lights near the ground in a field. They hovered for one minute over their initial position, 50-100 feet above the ground, then drifted to the east gaining altitude; they then hovered again, and finally vanished. A distant rumbling was heard just after their disappearance. Three days after the sighting of the low level lights, a 21.6 meter (71 foot) circle of dried grass was found in the paddock were the straw had been blown or sucked off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, December 1976, p. 10; ACOS Bulletin, December 1976, p. 24; Bill Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1993, p. 24; UNICAT, case # 792 Source ID: Johnson_6325 Source: Johnson ### Event 17545 (53890448) Date: 10/1976 Description: Abduction report. Two witnesses. Disc observed. Confidential report. (MUFON Indiana, Ridge files) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rigdon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4710 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17546 (79A81632) Date: 10/1976 Description: George J. Myers and his wife are traveling 3 miles southeast of Winnebago, Nebraska, on US Highway 73 \[now US 75\] when they notice a large patch of cornfield with no corn growing. It is on sloping ground and in the shape of a perfect circle 100 feet in diameter. They learn from local farmers that it had appeared earlier in the year while the corn was still quite short, killing off growth later in the summer. A light “like lightning” was seen shortly before the damaged area was noticed. Myers takes photographs of the circle and soil samples, which are later taken to the University of Nebraska and show evidence of a chemical spill. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Large Circular Physical Trace:](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf) [Is It Common?](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1982\): 1; “[Large Physical Trace Identified,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1983\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_5346 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17547 (1818A97B) Date: 10/1976 Description: Guillermo Carlos Roncoroni begins publishing UFO Press in Buenos Aires, Argentina, until November 1986. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO Press](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Argentina/UFO%20PRESS/UFO%20PRESS%20-%20No%2001%20-%20%28Oct%201976%29.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Argentina/UFO%20PRESS/UFO%20PRESS%20-%20No%2001%20-%20%28Oct%201976%29.pdf) no. 1 \(October 1976\); Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 99–100 Source ID: Eberhart_5345 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17548 (0FEC3BD5) Date: 10/1976 Description: The head of the UFO desk at the Swedish National Defence Research Institute, [Sture Wickerts](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/fakta/lexikon/1025-wickerts-sture-1925-1999), travels to Målilla, Kalmar County, Sweden, to conduct a search for an unknown object thought to have crashed in the woods. He supervises diving operations into a water-filled hole possibly connected to the incident. Nothing is found but old logs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 369 Source ID: Eberhart_5344 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17549 (0083BCE5) Date: 10/3/1976 Description: On this night a luminous object rose up from the road only twenty meters in front of an approaching car in Tonsberg, Norway. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: U computer database, case 11905 Source ID: Johnson_6531 Source: Johnson ### Event 17550 (16320069) Date: 10/5/1976 Description: A farmer in Torrita, Victoria found two circles seven meters apart, each 5.5 meters in diameter. The grass inside the circles had been swirled and burnt. At 9:40 p.m. in Drumchapel, Scotland Mr. B. Goodwin watched a silver ball descend and then as it approached the ground it swung back-and-forth in a pendulum motion. The UFO suddenly shot straight up and disappeared into the night sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australasian Ufologist, April 1993, p. 24; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The secret history of Scotland's UFO phenomenon, p. 59 Source ID: Johnson_6583 Source: Johnson ### Event 17551 (8357C768) Date: 10/6/1976 Description: At 7:20 p.m. six witnesses saw a domed disc-shaped object over a factory in Rive-de-Gier, Loire, France. A figure was seen moving about inside the dome. The object turned extremely bright and shot away rapidly to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1979 Source ID: Johnson_6607 Source: Johnson ### Event 17552 (232D5DB4) Date: 10/7/1976 Description: Sir Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada, addressed the UN General Assembly urging recognition of UFOs as a serious international scientific problem. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: New York, NY Source ID: HallUFOE2_281 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17553 (D41AAF50) Date: 10/12/1976 Description: 7:30 p.m. Multiple independent witnesses in Sonora, California, are drawn outside by a loud noise like “six jets.” They see a large red oblong UFO hovering with a wobbling motion. After 5 minutes, the UFO shoots upward and disappears. The next day, angel hair strands are found and sent to David Miletich at the University of Chicago. They are found to be “whitish, fibrous material of uniform composition being quite fine with frequent branching.” The primary constituents are carbon and nitrogen, but it is not spider web. A sample tested at the Michael Reese Hospital Microbiology Lab shows it to be contaminated with a low level of radioactive tritium. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Angel Hair: Under Analysis,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): 4, 8; “Angel-Hair Analysis Complete,” IUR 3, no. 3 \(March 1978\): insert; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 106–107 Source ID: Eberhart_5347 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17554 (6C47521C) Date: 10/15/1976 Description: At 6:20 p.m. in the mountains of Auribeau, Alpes-Maritimes, France three witnesses sighted an eight-meter wide disc-shaped object that flew toward the south, and then circled a tower on a hilltop. It had two white beams of light. It finally flew off towards the sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1977 Source ID: Johnson_6868 Source: Johnson ### Event 17555 (2480DFB8) Date: 10/15/1976 Description: Driving home from friend's apartment near midnight in the suburbs of Burgoberbach, France, an 18-year-old woman had a close encounter with a disc-shaped object that made no sound. The UFO had two rows of lights: the top row was red and the bottom row was white. There was no moon nor stars visible in the sky at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carol & Rex Salisberry, MUFON case files, case # 891006c Source ID: Johnson_6869 Source: Johnson ### Event 17556 (286744A7) Date: 10/15/1976 Description: Paul Bennett was playing with five friends near Westfield Grove in Wrose, Yorkshire, England at around 7:30 in the evening when he saw “a little black creature about two-foot tall” standing at the edge of the road. The short humanoid creature then ran with little short paces across the road and up Westfield Grove. Its head was “squashed” like a tomato, and it had no feet or toes; its legs extended straight to their extremities; similarly, its thin arms were lacking hands and fingers. There were no facial features visible, neither ears nor hair. None of the other boys appeared to have seen it, and most of them made fun of Paul when he told them. One of them, Michael McDermott, did assist Paul in a search for some evidence of the little creature, and they found a set of 30 small circular footprints leading from a puddle along the route taken by the being. McDermott claimed he heard a faint whistling sound and someone calling Bennett’s name. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-97 (A1867), citing Nigel Watson & Roger Hebb, MUFOB Source ID: Johnson_6867 Source: Johnson ### Event 17557 (7F8218B5) Date: 10/17/1976 Description: Disc Hovers Near Japanese Airport (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [761017](http://www.nicap.org/761017japan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Akita Airport, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_4711 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17558 (9B80C0D0) Date: 10/17/1976 Description: At 10:40 a.m. at Akita Airport, Japan Captain Masara Saito, age 34, an airline pilot for Toa Airlines, situated in an airliner on the runway and preparing to takeoff, and the control tower observed a glowing yellow disc, like two plates rim-to-rim. It hovered to the south near the airport for five minutes, then flew away toward the sea. Over 50 people witnessed the UFO. The object was estimated to be 16 feet in diameter, at an estimated altitude of 1500 meters from the ground. "It was something I had never seen before," said Captain Saito. Tazawa Takumi, air traffic controller on duty, who observed the object through binoculars, said it looked like "two plates placed together, with the top one inverted." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1991, p. 22; National Enquirer, January 4, 1977; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 134 Source ID: Johnson_6938 Source: Johnson ### Event 17559 (8EF0B1FA) Date: 10/17/1976 Description: 10:40 a.m. A brilliant golden disc hovers south of Akita Airport, Japan, for 5 minutes. Kenichi Waga, telecommunications officer in the control tower, says “It was disc-shaped, larger than a car, but smaller than an airplane.” Capt. Masara Saito, 34, Toa Airlines \[now Japan Air System\] pilot, is preparing to take off when he notices “a strange looking disc-shaped object 5,000 feet from the ground.” Tazawa Takumi, air traffic controller on duty, who observes the object through binoculars, says it looks like “two plates placed together, with the top one inverted.” The unidentified object finally flies away toward the sea. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Disc Hovers near Japanese](http://www.nicap.org/761017japan%5Fdir.htm) [Airport](http://www.nicap.org/761017japan%5Fdir.htm)”; UFOEv II 134 Source ID: Eberhart_5348 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17560 (80082F18) Date: 10/17/1976 Description: Control tower and airline pilot on runway observed glowing disc like "two plates placed together" hovering to south. Object then flew away. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Akita Airport, Japan Source ID: HallUFOE2_282 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17561 (F6AB7C82) Date: 10/19/1976 Description: An object like a silver, luminous mercury lamp is seen over Paso de Los Toros, Durazno, Uruguay. The UFO allegedly causes the deformation of a metal refrigerator, the discharge of three car batteries, and the bursting of a refreshment bottle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 3 \(March 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5349 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17562 (47CAEE45) Date: 10/19/1976 Description: 9:35 p.m. A group of people at the southwest end of Lake Harriet in Minneapolis, Minnesota, watch a yellow cone of light with a row of windows at the bottom hover below the cloud cover for 2 minutes, disappear, and reappear in a new location. This repeats 4–5 times before the object shoots up into the clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 1-2-20,” IUR 1, no. 2 \(December 1976\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_5350 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17563 (ED7DF992) Date: 10/21/1976 Description: 5:40 p.m. Several witnesses saw a glowing red circular object moving slowly south at an estimated 1500 meters altitude. Two rows of square windows were visible along the perimeter, and a white light beam shone upwards from the object. (Bertil Soderquist, MUFON representative in Sweden.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stockholm, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_4712 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17564 (219D7A2F) Date: 10/22/1976 Description: 1:20 a.m. Paul Thompson is driving home from his job on Interstate 494 where the highway turns to the northeast in Woodbury, Minnesota. He sees yellow and red lights about 2 miles ahead on the north side of the road. As he moves closer, he finds that the lights are actually two objects suspended in the air above a marshy area behind some woods about 300–400 feet north of the interstate. They are soft rounded triangles with red glows at the tip of the triangle and yellow pulsating lights protruding from the blunter ends. The objects are apparently metallic, about 20–25 feet in their longer dimension, and hover without making a sound. Thompson gets out of his car to watch. A truck approaches and one object rises vertically and zooms away. As the truck is abreast of his position, the second object ascends and flies directly over them. A CUFOS investigator examines the marshy area two days later and finds an oblong area, 40 feet by 20 feet, devoid of cattails and heavy grass. Inside the oblong is a smaller, irregular area where he finds exposed soil is and a few round holes the size of a quarter. He takes soil samples, which are sent to University of Kansas geologist [Edward J. Zeller](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188639525/edward-jacob-zeller) for thermoluminesce testing. The soil from the site center shows essentially no thermoluminescence, indicating t had been subjected to strong heat. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [CUFOS case file](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/259C.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_5351 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17565 (25AE747E) Date: 10/23/1976 Description: About 7:15 p.m. A couple driving saw a row of very bright rotating lights rising above the trees, then stopping and hovering. They stopped the car to investigate, and saw that the lights were on a dark, elongated object. (Walter N. Webb investigation report.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winchester, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4713 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17566 (27463468) Date: 10/23/1976 Description: 4:00 p.m. Three men—Nicholas Flaskas, Frank Zonaras, and Bill Zonaras—waiting to film a solar eclipse at Taola Point in Ben Boyd National Park, New South Wales, notice two unusual objects on the horizon close to the ocean. The UFOs alternately move toward and away from them. The men take both motion picture and still photos, showing one bell-shaped object and another discoid in shape. They turn their attention to the eclipse and when it is over, the objects are gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Reneke, “[The Benboyd UFO Movie: History and Evaluation,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20Newsletter/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20newsletter%20vol%201%20no%202.pdf)” UFO Research Australia 1, no. 2 \(March/April 1980\): 19–23; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 31 Source ID: Eberhart_5353 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17567 (CB5C5A83) Date: 10/24/1976 Description: 10:30 p.m. A man driving home with his young daughter encountered two globes of light hovering near the highway. When he passed, the object (apparently dumbbell-shaped) followed and confronted him. (Lumieres dans La Nuit No. 169, November 1977.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hobling, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4714 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17568 (F1102B4E) Date: 10/24/1976 Description: At 10:30 p.m. Romeo Lucarelli was driving home from Hestroff to Hobling, Moselle, France with his little daughter when he saw two lights ahead, which he first took to be a car parked on a hilltop. As he approached, he realized that it was a dumbbell or cigar-shaped UFO about 15 meters long, hovering in the air about 100 meters altitude. After he had passed it by it began to follow him, and the UFO passed over his car so as to be in front of him. He signalled with his headlights, and then saw in the middle of the dumbbell a rectangular “screen” or window feebly lit by an orange light, in which the silhouettes of two occupants appeared, as if looking at him. He came to the village of Hobling and drove to his house, and the UFO was now hoveriong above his garage, so he pointed it out to his wife who was home at the time. She went and brought him the binoculars, but just as soon as he was about to use them the UFO “turned out its lights.” They next heard a dull humming sound. At the spot at which he had first sighted the UFO three circular landing marks were found; each consisted of two tangential double circles of crushed grass, the outer ones about three feet larger in radius than the inner ones, and the entire area was about 50 feet wide. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-95 (A1685), citing G. Bretelle & B. Wagner Source ID: Johnson_7092 Source: Johnson ### Event 17569 (5712F56C) Date: Late 10/1976 Description: 7:30 p.m. Four physicians and a diplomat in an undeveloped region of Algeria south of Algiers watch a bright oval light on the horizon heading toward them. The object casts a faint beam downward, sweeping the ground, as it darts around the sky silently. It is bright when in motion, but faint when it stops. After an hour it fades, leaving a glowing space in the dark sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5352 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17570 (B434DC3D) Date: 10/28/1976 Description: At 7:05 p.m. on a clear night six witnesses saw a multicolored object approach them and pass silently 100 feet over a house in Evansville, Indiana. It ascended rapidly, hovering twice, before disappearing out of sight. Five or more objects were ejected from the cylinder when it was at higher a altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1976, p. 13; Francis L. Ridge, MUFON field investigations database, case 900603; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p.65 Source ID: Johnson_7248 Source: Johnson ### Event 17571 (7F1BE807) Date: 10/28/1976 Description: From the porch of their house Richard Britt and his 12-year-old son Richie saw a luminous domed disc-shaped object flying horizontally over some woods in Lake View, near Dillon, Florence County, South Carolina at 10:30 p.m. It began hovering close to the ground. It went out of sight for a short while and Britt went indoors, but his son Richie continued to watch. The object reappeared, rotating and emitting red, green, and blue lights. Then it flew down towards Richie and stopped near the porch. Now it began to give off a white light. The craft was aluminum colored, about the size of a large automobile, and had a set of small triangular windows above, which formed one large triangular window. In this window stood a being with pale white skin, apparently unclothed,with no other facial features except two large dark eyes. It had no neck, and its hands were claw-like. Richie began to scream for his father, but when his father rushed out there was nothing left to see. Richie had to be treated for hysteria, and he could not talk about what he had seen until the next morning. In the morning Mr. Britt noticed a 15 x 20 foot area in front of the porch where there was no frost on the grass. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Florence (SC) Morning News, November 11, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-74 (A1505); George D. Fawcett, Awareness, March 1977, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_7249 Source: Johnson ### Event 17572 (89D622E0) Date: 10/28/1976 Description: 7:05 p.m. A close encounter case with six witnesses. Although a nocturnal sighting, the case has a high degree of strangeness, as can be deduced from the testimony of witness Lee Golden: "This is no hallucination. This thing came right over the top of the house (which was 50' from the witness), I'd say a hundred-150' over the top of the house. Duration: 15 minutes. Moved slowly at first, then seemed to stop, then moved quickly away and out of sig (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Evansville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4715 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17573 (E1AD1B5E) Date: 10/28/1976 Description: On this evening a 600 foot diameter aerial craft allegedly settled over a small mountain near Guadalajara, Mexico causing cars in the area to experience electrical failure. When the cars stopped, the drivers got out and stood watching the craft making various maneuvers. After the UFO sighting a person who claimed to be from the "spaceship" asked for a medical examination at the clinic of an eminent and respected 43-year-old doctor. The doctor did perform the exam and was shocked at his appearance. His skin was milky white, and apart from a few black strands on his head there was no other hair on his body. He insisted that humans on our planet were very low on the scale of evolutionary development, and that we had yet to discover the three more planets that exist in our solar system. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Contact, p. 89; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-103, citing Thomas Hyman & Charlotte Blaab Source ID: Johnson_7247 Source: Johnson ### Event 17574 (D23E0029) Date: 10/29/1976 Description: At 8:25 p.m. six young men were out playing near a walled playing field next to a local cemetery in Baracaldo, Spain when they heard a loud crackling sound. Two of the boys next noticed an object resembling a telephone booth and emitting a red and white light descend towards the walled in field, so they ran to the field and saw it land behind some bushes on three legs. An oval-shaped opening became visible from which a red light shone. Then two very tall human like figures emerged. The figures wore tight-fitting black diving suits and wide bright belts. The figures walked slowly towards the wall, and the two boys could now see bright shiny eyes but no other facial features. One of the humanoids banged on the wall several times, and then both walked to the center of the yard. One of them then pulled out a long thin object from a sack he was wearing on his side and pointed it at the wall, and a long thin beam of light came from the device and hit the wall several times; at one point the beam turned white. Moments later both figures walked back to their craft. At this point the teens ran to tell their families and so did not see the object depart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, case # 637, citing J. J. Benitez, La Quinta Columna Source ID: Johnson_7280 Source: Johnson ### Event 17575 (4857651F) Date: 10/29/1976 Description: A man was walking his dog in a local park in Toronto, Ontario at around 10 p.m. when a fluorescent bluish green light descended from the sky and enveloped him. He then saw something resembling a television screen in front of him. Soon images of apparently extraterrestrial figures appeared and communicated with the witness. His dog was terrified during the encounter and the witness suffered from general malaise afterwards. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing John Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters Source ID: Johnson_7281 Source: Johnson ### Event 17576 (C1841AAE) Date: 10/30/1976 Description: Spanish journalist [Juan J. Benítez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FJ.%5FBen%C3%ADtez) receives the first batch of some 300 pages of UFO reports from the Spanish Air Ministry in Madrid, Spain. The documents include photos and clips of gun-camera film taken by air force pilots. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[The Spanish Government Opens Its Files,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 \(October 1977\): 3; J. J. Benítez, OVNIs: Documentos oficiales del gobierno español, Plaza y Janés, 1977; Good Above, [p. 152](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/152/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5354 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17577 (60145123) Date: 10/30/1976 Description: A PTA meeting was in progress at a school in El Abrojal, Uruguay at 10 p.m. when a yellow, illuminated rectangular flying object was seen on the ground. There was an immediate failure of the electrical system at the school, which was based on 12V batteries, and a sudden blast of hot air was felt by the several witnesses, including the main witness, Isabel Cardozo de Alvez. At the same time a red sphere of light was seen by a man and a woman, Silva and Camargo, in a residential area of the city. Its close approach caused a loss of consciousness for five minutes. Afterwards, their physiological effects were: sleepiness, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, and eye irritation (photopthalmia). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, cases # 514 & 515, citing CIOVI Source ID: Johnson_7309 Source: Johnson ### Event 17578 (EB53D9D7) Date: 10/30/1976 Description: A married couple was driving with Maggy Carof and they were just turning onto the D-50 highway in Cernoy-en-Berry, Loiret, France at noon when Ms. Carof saw a short being standing on the edge of the highway, about 200 yards away. It was about the stature of a 12-year-old child. The being was wearing a blue gray cape with a white collar, and a black cap like that of a Pierrot. This figure then disappeared “progressively,” beginning with the right side. An immediate search of the area showed nothing. The witness’s dog, which was in the car, moaned at the moment of the observation, and was sick for the rest of the day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-13 (A1648), citing Maggy Carof Source ID: Johnson_7308 Source: Johnson ### Event 17579 (36668477) Date: 10/31/1976 Description: Woody Polston's abduction occurred on this night from a campsite in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. He made contact with a big cylindrical kind of disc-shaped object, then a second huge craft. He watched the two craft for 2-3 minutes before he entered a semi-conscious state, followed by his alien abduction experience for the next 12 hours. After the abduction he was plaged by nightmares, and his watch was affected. The watch was 10 hours slow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2142, citing R. Leo Sprinkle Source ID: Johnson_7342 Source: Johnson ### Event 17580 (4C823CC3) Date: 10/31/1976 Description: At about 6:00 p.m. the witness was being driven back home by her husband on his motorcycle, and was going west on Figueroa Avenue in Los Angeles, California. As they drove in front of a hotel, she looked up and saw a metallic disc-shaped craft, shooting up from behind the buildings. The object remained at a height of 100 feet as it traveled in a straight line, occasionally dipping by 30 feet. Rounding a curve, the sun shone on the object, and it appeared to turn transparent. Inside, she was able to see three or four human like figures. Two of them were looking at her, and they were leaning over a console or platform. She commented that the men looked very handsome. She gave them the peace sign, but they did not respond, displaying no emotion just curiosity. The couple attempted to follow the object but eventually lost sight of it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1976 Humanoid Contact database, case # 3578, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_7341 Source: Johnson ### Event 17581 (BC6EDEF5) Date: 11/1976 Description: The first issue of the International UFO Reporter \(IUR\) is published by the Center for UFO Studies, with [J.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) as editor-in-chief and [Allan Hendry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%5FHendry) as managing editor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: IUR 1, no. 1 \(November 1976\); Clark III 567–568, 627 Source ID: Eberhart_5355 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17582 (A5C2434B) Date: 11/1976 Description: Dominique Delille founds Groupe d’Études du Phénomène OVNI in Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay, Loire, France. It publishes a quarterly newsletter, Siècle Inconnu, which continues under the names GEPO Informations and OVNI et Cie through 1983. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [INFO OVNI](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/GEPO%20%28Siecle%20Inconnu%2C%20Ovni%20%26%20Co%29/GEPO%20No%2001%20-%20INFOVNI%20-%20No%20%201%20-%20nov%201976%20%28GEPI%29.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/GEPO%20%28Siecle%20Inconnu%2C%20Ovni%20%26%20Co%29/GEPO%20No%2001%20-%20INFOVNI%20-%20No%20%201%20-%20nov%201976%20%28GEPI%29.pdf) no. 1 \(November 1976\) Source ID: Eberhart_5356 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17583 (DF836E69) Date: 11/4/1976 Description: 8:30 p.m. A married couple in Martinsburg, Ohio, see two irregularly shaped objects, rounded on the bottom, hovering low near their car. One descends, flying over some woods, while the other is seen above the telephone wires by the road. Both have a red light on top, a whiter flashing light on the bottom, and a revolving red light. Around 9:30 p.m., three similar objects are seen by a woman 4 miles away, slowly changing formation for 5 minutes in the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 1-2-62,” IUR 1, no. 2 \(December 1976\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_5357 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17584 (D3FB5F00) Date: 11/5/1976 Description: 8:08 p.m. A young woman is watching television at her home in Rives, Isère, France. She sees a bright light outside and calls her father. From their balcony they watch an intense white light speed across the sky from northwest to southeast and disappear in the mountains. The father thinks the light is spinning. At the same time a French physicist is driving 7 miles away near Voreppe. He sees a luminous disc brighter than the full moon and stops his car to watch it. The object is white in the center, bluish-white at the periphery, and is surrounded by an intense green halo. It is moving silently southeast but stops for a few seconds before moving off 30° from its previous course at a much greater speed. It passes in front of the Massif du Taillefer before it disappears behind Mont Néron. The sighting lasts 20–25 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, “[Estimates of Power Optical Output in Six Cases](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf) [of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 \(1998\): 352–354 Source ID: Eberhart_5358 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17585 (2BFEFB37) Date: 11/6/1976 Description: A cattle mutilation was discovered on a ranch northeast of Canby, Minnesota. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 605 Source ID: Johnson_7508 Source: Johnson ### Event 17586 (C2E39161) Date: 11/8/1976 Description: A close encounter occurred in North Belmont, North Carolina at 8:45 p.m. Two 14-year-old girls reported a 25 foot in diameter disc-shaped object with flashing red lights and a steady white light, making a beeping noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, December 1976, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_7546 Source: Johnson ### Event 17587 (2F0B3E94) Date: 11/8/1976 Description: 8:45 p.m. Two 14-year-old girls in the northern part of Belmont, North Carolina, see a round gray object about 20–30 feet in diameter “on edge.” It hovers several hundred feet in the air for 5 minutes, then moves east over the trees. It emits a beeping noise and is covered in flashing white lights and red steady lights. More than 100 people report seeing UFOs in nearby Gastonia on November 10. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 1-2-75,” IUR 1, no. 2 \(December 1977\): 11; “[106 People ‘Saw UFOs,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32679397/the-gastonia-gazette/)” Gastonia \(N.C.\) Gazette, November 11, 1976, p. 11 Source ID: Eberhart_5359 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17588 (E68EB789) Date: 11/8/1976 Description: At 3:30 p.m. an engineer was driving with three other people in Givet, Ardennes, France when they spotted what appeared to be a landed, domed, disc-shaped object. It was hovering on three legs 30 meters away. It had a flat bottom and a transparent dome or cupola which showed the "busts" of two large heads. They stopped the car to observe the object, but were hit by a blast of heat as the object departed. The object had been hovering just above the ground, never quite touching down, although it did have rectangular footplates. The grass was crushed over an eight meter diameter area, and the sighting has lasted no more than five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-12, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 76 Source ID: Johnson_7545 Source: Johnson ### Event 17589 (F5DE3E6A) Date: 11/10/1976 Description: 8:20 p.m. A teenage girl driving alone near Putnam, Connecticut, passes underneath two dark metallic objects about 50 feet in diameter, one flying at an angle behind the other. Both objects have a red light in front, two on the sides, and a blue light in the back, all blinking. One banks slightly before it goes out of view, revealing a row of illuminated windows around the circular edge and a smaller circle like a “hatch” underneath. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 1-2- 79,” IUR 1, no. 2 \(December 1977\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_5360 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17590 (AD06737E) Date: 11/12/1976 Description: Jose Maria Trejo and Juan Carrizosa Lujan were on sentry duty at Talavera La Real Air Force Base in Badajoz, Spain when at 1:45 a.m. they heard a very loud, penetrating whistle that continued for five minutes, stopped, and then started again. When it stopped the second time they saw a light in the sky in the direction of Badajoz, “like a flare,” which lit up a wide area beneath it. After about 20 seconds it vanished. A third sentry, Jose Hidalgo, joined them and accompanied by a guard dog they went to search the fuel stockpile area. They had gone about a thousand feet when they experienced a localized “whirlwind,” which alarmed them and caused them to load their rifles. Then they heard a sound like branches being broken in the direction of some nearby eucalyptus trees, so they released the guard dog. The dog charged off toward the trees, but after a few seconds came staggering back and whimpering. Four more times they ordered the dog to go to the trees, but each time he came back in the same manner. Then Trejo glimpsed a green light out of the corner of his eyes, and when he turned around he saw a luminous humanoid figure at least ten feet tall, only 50 feet away. The thick, luminous figure seemed to consist entirely of small points of light, and more intense around its periphery. The small head appeared to be covered by a helmet. The arms seemed to be crossed, and legs and feet could not be seen. Trejo tried to fire his rifle, but was unable to because he felt a sudden sensation of weakness, and collapsed to the ground. The other two men then caught sight of the entity and fired at it. Between the two of them they fired 40-50 shots. At the instant the firing began the apparition vanished. The other two men helped Trejo to his feet, and at this time all three heard the whistle again, coming from the direction of the eucalyptus trees. It lasted for 10-15 seconds and then ceased. At dawn 50 men searched the area. They found nothing. Particularly mystifying was the fact that they could not find a single spent cartridge case. Moreover, the adobe wall of the base, which was just behind where the being stood and should have been pockmarked with bullet holes, showed not a single bullet pockmark. A few days after the incident Trejo lost his vision, and then fell unconscious. He was hospitalized, but his hospital tests showed nothing abnormal. About two weeks later he again lost his vision for about 15 minutes. He was hospitalized for a month and during that time suffered from severe headaches. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Juan Jose Benitez, FSR, February 1978, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-99 (AA1686), citing Juan Jose Benitez; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 231; Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to Extraterrestrials, p. 118 Source ID: Johnson_7613 Source: Johnson ### Event 17591 (6D3A3AA4) Date: 11/12/1976 Description: At 6:15 p.m. James Howard, age 15, and his friend Brian Hollis, age 14, observed an object with pulsating red, green, and blue lights, which stopped in the air and descended into some nearby woods in Tarboro, near Edgecombe, North Carolina. They were alarmed and ran home. Looking back, they saw a nine foot tall milky white figure wearing a diamond shaped red helmet, who came floating out of the woods about 150 yards away from them. Under the helmet its head appeared to be blackish gray, and its short legs seemed to have no feet. It stopped and seemed to look at the boys, then floated on and disappeared behind a nearby billboard. The entire incident lasted about 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-76, citing MUFON Source ID: Johnson_7614 Source: Johnson ### Event 17592 (EEF3BCB0) Date: 11/13/1976 Description: In Chandlers Ford, England, a couple saw a silver-suited man near a supermarket, seven miles away from another CE-3 report. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leslie Harris, FSR, February 1977, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_7640 Source: Johnson ### Event 17593 (8F657A4E) Date: 11/14/1976 Description: 9:00 p.m. Joyce Bowles and Ted Pratt are driving down the A272 near Winchester, England, when their car starts to jolt and shake and then veers off the road into a grass verge by the roadside. The car is subject to electrical interference as the engine roars, and the lights seem to shine brighter than usual. They spot what appears to be an orange, cigar-shaped craft, 15 feet in length, with three entities behind a window. As they watch, a bearded humanoid wearing a silver suit comes out of the object, walks to the car, and looks in on the witnesses. He then disappears and the couple are able to drive off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leslie Harris, “[UFO and Silver-Suited Entity Seen near](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%205.pdf) [Winchester,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 \(February 1977\): 3–6; Richard Nash, “[UFO and Occupants](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%205.pdf) [Reported near Winchester,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 \(February 1977\): 7–8; Jenny Randles, “[Questions and](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%205.pdf) [Comments on the Nash Interview,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 \(February 1977\): 8; Frank J. Wood, “[Alleged](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%205.pdf) [CE-III at Winchester: Vehicle Examination,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201976%20V%2022%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 \(February 1977\): 9–14; Good Above, [pp. 70–71](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/70/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5361 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17594 (2B0E44FA) Date: 11/14/1976 Description: In 1976, Ms. Joyce Bowles, 42, and Mr. Edwin Pratt, 58, were driving near Winchester, England to pick up the woman's son and girlfriend from a farm at 8:50 p.m. when they notice an orange glow in the sky. They turned down a narrow lane and immediately their car began to "shudder and shake as though it were coming to pieces." The car was pulled diagonally off the road. When the car came to rest they saw a glowing, orange, 15-foot-long cigar-shaped object about 5 yards in front of their car, hovering 12-18 inches from the ground. They were both badly frightened and the driver turned off the engine.

The UFO appeared to have jets beneath it from which a vapor was issuing. In the top left portion of the craft was a window, through which they could see the heads of three men. A 6 foot tall man with a slim build, wearing a silvery suit, emerged by passing through the side of the object. He had long blonde hair, a dark beard, and his skin was pale. Just as he approached the woman noticed a "whistling noise." Reaching the car, the man bent over, placed one hand on the roof, and looked inside. His eyes were pink "like an albino rabbit," and were so penetrating that when the woman looked away she could still see spots of light as an after-effect. She also felt that the man transmitted some kind of influence that caused them to remain calm. The being stood at the side of the car for 2 minutes, then moved away to the rear of the vehicle. He did not reappear, and when they again looked forward the UFO had disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leslie Harris, FSR, February 1977 (Vol. 22, No. 5), p. 3. Source ID: Johnson_7676 Source: Johnson ### Event 17595 (354F5415) Date: 11/14/1976 Description: Multiple sightings in the early evening, including a silver helmet-shaped (domed disc) object emitting yellow-red light from the underside hovering low above the treetops. (Bertil Soderquist, MUFON representative in Sweden.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kolsva and Aland Island, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_4716 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17596 (34640231) Date: 11/15/1976 Description: 1:15 a.m. Six distant objects with brilliant white lights are seen performing unusual patterns in the sky at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They seem to have a metallic texture and make an intermittent sound like a “belt sander on metal.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-1-1,” IUR 2, no. 1 \(January 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5362 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17597 (468821B7) Date: 11/16/1976 Description: Lockheed’s first Have Blue demonstrator stealth aircraft, HB1001, after going through numerous tests and getting a visual camouflage makeover, is flown from Burbank, California, to Area 51 in Nevada. After four taxi tests, HB1001 is ready for test flights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FHave%5FBlue) [Have Blue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FHave%5FBlue)” Source ID: Eberhart_5363 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17598 (EAC68EF8) Date: 11/19/1976 Description: 7:15 p.m. Witnesses from aircraft and ships around the Canary Islands watch a point of light climbing into the sky in a spiral motion, expanding to a diameter 3–4 times that of the moon. It has a semicircular shape and gives the impression that it is resting on the horizon. Among the witnesses are Gen. Carlos Dolz de Espejo, chief of staff of the Canary Islands Air Zone, and the crew of the Spanish Navy school ship [Juan Sebastian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%5Ftraining%5Fship%5FJuan%5FSebasti%C3%A1n%5Fde%5FElcano) [Elcano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%5Ftraining%5Fship%5FJuan%5FSebasti%C3%A1n%5Fde%5FElcano)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%5Ftraining%5Fship%5FJuan%5FSebasti%C3%A1n%5Fde%5FElcano) Maj. Antonio Munáiz Ferro-Sastre again investigates, concluding that it was a “craft of unknown origin endowed with an unknown propulsion energy.” The time correlates with four Poseidon missile launches by the submarine [USS Alexander Hamilton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FAlexander%5FHamilton%5F%28SSBN-617%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FAlexander%5FHamilton%5F%28SSBN-617%29)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy Missile Tests and the Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_5366 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17599 (A35B8BD1) Date: 11/19/1976 Description: Commandante Angel Parreno, the pilot of an Iberian Airlines Boeing 727 on a flight from Santiago de Compostela to Madrid, Spain, watches an unknown object accompany his aircraft for 20 minutes. Possible barium cloud released by a rocket. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 2; Good Above, [p. 154](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/154/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5365 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17600 (6B1160C6) Date: 11/19/1976 Description: President-Elect [Jimmy Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FCarter) meets with CIA Director [George H. W. Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FH.%5FW.%5FBush) to discuss certain “exotic and very closely held items relating to sources and methods.” At one point, Bush and his aide Jennifer Fitzgerald take Carter and Vice President [Walter Mondale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%5FMondale) aside to describe particularly sensitive CIA programs. Congressional Research Service Policy Analyst [Marcia S. Smith](https://spacepolicyonline.com/about-us/) claims that part of the debriefing is about UFOs, which Carter has asked about. But Bush explains that this “information was information that existed on a need to know basis only. Simple curiosity on the part of the President wasn’t adequate.” Carter determines to replace Bush with his Naval Academy classmate [Stansfield Turner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stansfield%5FTurner) after the inauguration. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: presidentialufo.com, “President Carter, Daniel Sheehan, and Donald Menzel: The Congressional Research Service UFO Studies for President Carter” Source ID: Eberhart_5364 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17601 (CD62D03F) Date: 11/19/1976 Description: 8:00 p.m. Three women watch a large yellow-orange light slowly and silently meander 150 feet above a church in St. Peter, Minnesota. They drive to a police station, where officers also see the now distant light head from west to east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-1-16,” IUR 2, no. 1 \(January 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5367 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17602 (15EA7A4F) Date: 11/22/1976 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a man named Czornoh driving near Rockford, Michigan briefly encountered an oblong, greenish object 60 feet long that descended toward the ground. It was surrounded by haze, with a reddish colored backside, and moved behind some trees, causing radio interference. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 69 Source ID: Johnson_7805 Source: Johnson ### Event 17603 (5E4B5C72) Date: 11/23/1976 Description: A lounge owner and a bartender watched a large domed object as it hovered over trees in Kenner, Louisiana on a clear night, flashing red, green, and white lights. The dome was three times the size of a helicopter, and it passed over their car at 3:30 a.m. It hovered for two minutes over the trees, then moved slowly toward Moisant Airport in the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, January 1977, p. 5; UNICAT, case # 233 Source ID: Johnson_7848 Source: Johnson ### Event 17604 (A94E9066) Date: 11/23/1976 Description: 3:30 a.m. A lounge owner and an employee are frightened when an object 3 times the size of a helicopter flies over their car from the south in Kenner, Louisiana. It has flashing red, green, and white lights. The object hovers above some trees in the distance for 2 minutes, then heads slowly east toward Moisant Airport \[now Louis Armstring New Orleans International Airport\]. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-1-25,” IUR 2, no. 1 \(January 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5368 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17605 (8AC3AC60) Date: 11/24/1976 Description: A cone-shaped object with a light followed a truck on a highway in New Albany, Indiana at 10:30 p.m. It went away when other vehicles approached, but reappeared when they were gone and was seen for more than an hour. It left by departing toward the east. There were 13 witnesses to the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, January 1977, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_7881 Source: Johnson ### Event 17606 (78DD61B4) Date: 11/24/1976 Description: 10:30 p.m. An Indiana Gas serviceman sees a 12-foot white cone of light with sparklers at its base diminish to a blinding point source alongside his pickup truck outside New Albany, Indiana. It follows him from the Kentucky border and moves silently ahead into the eastern sky when he reaches town. Other witnesses see it as a distant point of light; when they leave, the object rushes back over the serviceman’s house and disappears into the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-1-27,” IUR 2, no. 1 \(January 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5369 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17607 (849E0785) Date: 11/25/1976 Description: 9:00 p.m. A couple in Beecher, Illinois, watch an oblong, glowing, orange object 45° in the western sky for 5–6 minutes. Holding stationary, the object diminishes to a point source and returns to its original shape, larger than the moon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-1-29,” IUR 2, no. 1 \(January 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5370 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17608 (AC776DF2) Date: Early 12/1976 Description: Afternoon. Eero Lammi is on his way home from school in Oulu, Finland, when he sees a 15-foot ball of light move across toward him from across the Gulf of Bothnia and land in a nearby field. When he approaches it, the object shoots out a beam of light that hits him in the chest. He feels a searing pain and blacks out. His parents think it is a prank until a doctor finds slight burns on his chest and back. The case is investigated by the Swedish Military High Command. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 2 \(February 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5371 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17609 (EBF3BD39) Date: 12/5/1976 Description: At 2:30 a.m. a 150-foot diameter disc zigzagged over an electrical power station for about an hour in Solleftea, Vasternorrland, Sweden. It had diffuse lights on its underside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, April 1977, p. 2, citing Nya Norrland, December 6, 1976 Source ID: Johnson_8210 Source: Johnson ### Event 17610 (08109205) Date: 12/5/1976 Description: 2:30 p.m. Several witnesses at Sollefteå, Västernorrland, Sweden, observe an elongated object \(an estimated 148 feet long\) with round openings along the fuselage. A blue-green light is shining from the openings, a red light at the front, and a diffuse orange glow from the underside. The object hovers above a military base built into the mountainside at an elevation of about 165 feet. After a while, the object moves on and hovers above a nearby power station. Then it moves jerkily sideways, jumping rapidly between different positions. After hovering for 15 minutes, it tilts up and rapidly speeds upwards and out of sight, disappearing at 3:30 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5372 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17611 (6117789F) Date: 12/5/1976 Description: 2:30 p.m. Several witnesses observed an elongated object (estimated 45 meters long) with round openings along the fuselage. A blue-green light shone from the openings, a red light at the front, and a diffuse orange glow from the underside. The object hovered above a military base built into the mountainside at an elevation of about 50 meters. (Bertil Soderquist, MUFON representative in Sweden.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sollefted, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_4717 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17612 (444AE6E3) Date: 12/6/1976 Description: John Brady and Ronald Pullman were driving home to Milford, Delaware at 3:30 a.m. and were at a place called Slaughter Neck when they saw two tall figures in an adjacent cornfield, about 100 yards away. The two giant humanoid figures were maybe 8 or 9 feet tall, and standing close together as though they were hugging. They appeared to be of a pine green color. No traces could be found the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Milford Chronicle, December 9, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-80 (A1512 Source ID: Johnson_8237 Source: Johnson ### Event 17613 (34B687C9) Date: 12/6/1976 Description: At 5:30 a.m. a married couple were heading west on Sterling Road in Davie, Florida to drop off his two children, ages 4 and 1 ½ years, at a local daycare center. As he was passing a bicyclist he noticed a fireball in the northwest sky falling fast. After a minute the husband pulled over and shut off the car, to say a prayer because he thought he had seen an airplane crashing. He sat there for several minutes, then he and his wife observed a huge dull, grayish metallic object that was heading slowly towards them. The object was immense, made no sound, nor emit any smoke or exhaust that could be noticeable from thermal fluctuations of the air around it. The object appeared to be oblong or cigar-shaped, more than 250 feet long and more than 30 feet high. There seemed to be some sort of whitish light atop and a light at each end, front and rear but not white.

As it approached their vehicle his wife leaned her upper body out of the window to look up at it, while he watched it from behind the windshield inside. As they kept asking what it was, he noticed that the entire interior of the car had become illuminated. He then also noticed that his four-year old daughter leaning on the back window looking up. He then looked at his interior light and saw that it was not lit. He again looked out his side window and it was still pitch black outside the car. He did his best to get a fix on the structure of the craft, that was now less than 50 feet from them. The surface did not appear to be metallic at all, but it had a rough, sandy texture similar to that of shark skin. He could not locate any seams on it or anything that would suggest conventional construction methods.

The object became stationary and they sat staring at it for minutes. Then he saw a small, child-like figure fun in front of the headlights from the left. It started to climb over the metal road barrier, but hesitated and turned toward him. It wore no shoes, belt, tools, weapons, or any other accessories. His first thought was to jump out and grab the being to throw it in the car trunk, but a mental voice told him not to move or he would be harmed. He tried to lift his arm and was horrified because it looked like it was cut off where the light ended inside the car. He looked again at the small figure again and had the thought that he could easily overpower it. A voice again warned him that the stretch cloth suit the figure was wearing carried 40,000 volts of piezo-electrical current. The small being then hopped over a fence and entered a field of a horse farm. His last memory of the incident was of looking behind his car and seeing a somewhat different shaped object about one mile south of his location, moving slowly at first but then accelerating so fast that it appeared to just vaporize. He then drove off without speaking another word to his wife, and at the daycare center they realized that they had been at the site for over 40 minutes. He also lost his eyesight for almost two days after the incident. The witness also claims that, after several years of nightmares, he discovered that the occupants of the craft he had seen were from a parallel universe. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_8238 Source: Johnson ### Event 17614 (BFC74208) Date: 12/10/1976 Description: In 1976 two humanoid encounters occurred in Europe. At 1:30 a.m. in Ponte de Lima, Portugal, a 2-meter tall dark figure, wearing a one-piece robe that fell to the ground in a straight, featureless line, and having no signs of arms or legs, glided over the street in front of two school teachers, a married couple in their fifties. Their dog hid behind them, then retreated. The figure was in view for five minutes, the entire time it took them to walk to the man's sister's house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT case 1810, citing Joaquim Fernandes, Insolito magazine, May 1978, pp. 14-16 Source ID: Johnson_8308 Source: Johnson ### Event 17615 (706D11EE) Date: 12/10/1976 Description: A complex abduction scenario occurred that evening in central France. Antonia (last name withheld), 68, was driving to her home near Limoges. She had entered a small woods that was strangely illuminated by a white light. When she turned a corner in the road that light became a lenticular mass of brilliant light about 30 feet wide and 10 feet high, resting on the road ahead. When 20 meters from it she stopped and tried to back up. Instead the car was pulled forward onto the right shoulder of the road. In the midst of the light she felt her head forcibly turned to the right. She perceived an arm appear that described an arc through the air from front to back. All at once the lights went out, and her car motor and headlights died. She heard a slight click, and a sound like a sliding door opening. Two white luminous rectangular shapes about a meter in height seemed to appear in front of the hood of her car. She then felt two electric shocks running from head to toe, and lost consciousness.

She awoke to the sound of a pistol-shot and something striking against her car. She thought she heard a voice say in French, "Oh, we have killed her!" Her outside mirror on the driver side had been broken off. She tried to get out of the car but had no sensation in her legs. The sensation in them began to return, but her feet were slewed over toward the right side of the car, where they had not been before. Looking around, she realized the car was now about 100 meters beyond the place she had lost consciousness. She turned on her headlights, and saw a metallic gray flying saucer hovering motionless 3 meters above the road, 3-4 meters ahead of her. It had two lights sunk into the lower portion, and also two darker 8" squares, and was at least 30 feet wide. Her car engine suddenly started up spontaneously. Immediately the UFO's lights went out and it silently took off. She felt the car buffeted with a shock wave as it left. Antonia drove home, arriving 55 minutes later that she should have. Her dogs shunned her, and she could not sleep that night.

(Continued.) In the morning she discovered a tear in her skin between her vagina and anus. On washing out her genital area she found that her vagina was stuffed with an earth-like substance. A vaginal infection subsequently resulted from this. Her memory of the event, including the missing time, gradually returned. For two weeks she suffered from insomnia, and vivid images repeatedly came into her mind.

She recalled being in a circular room, dark except at the center. There was no visible source for the light. In front of her, suspended from the two ends by metal pipes from the ceiling, was a green table in the shape of a half-cylinder, convex side up, about five feet long. She was forcibly placed and twisted about into various extreme and painful positions upon this "vaulting horse" ("cheval d'arcon"). Two figures stood looking at her. Not very tall, they wore close-fitting coveralls. One had a narrow, black mustache, wore a black skullcap, and his uniform had an "officer's collar." They had elongated, slanted eyes. The one with the cap smiled "tenderly" at her; the other looked evil and malevolent. She could also hear others "murmuring" that she could not see. She remembered seeing a hand holding an instrument like a toy windmill, a spiral vane on a stick that had sparkling points of light. In the dark wall were visible two dimly lit, small portholes, less than 8 inches in diameter. Later, she felt herself standing, being moved about as if someone was dressing her, then being thrown down onto something hard.

When Antonia had her car's mirror replaced, the mechanic was surprised to observe that her car was strongly magnetized. The investigator, who spent a great deal of time working with the abductee, rejects fabrication or psychopathology as explanations for her experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1869, citing Revue des Soucoupes Volantes #5, February 1978, pp. 5-11 Source ID: Johnson_8309 Source: Johnson ### Event 17616 (90D12E57) Date: 12/12/1976 Description: On this morning around 7:20 a.m. at a factory in Meylan, France Mr. Hermann, a 38-year-old security guard, saw a 5.5' tall luminous green human form appear about 20 meters away from him. It stood in the center of a circular orange-yellow spot. It seemed to be wearing a helmet. Mr. Hermann’s neck muscles were paralyzed, but he was able to run outside. When he returned it was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edmond Thomas, Ouranos, October 1977, p. 11; David Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1649 Source ID: Johnson_8357 Source: Johnson ### Event 17617 (319BF4B8) Date: 12/14/1976 Description: 2:00 a.m. Panoramic radar at an air force base at Contrexéville, Vosges, France, picks up unknown targets at 2:00 a.m., 3:00 a.m., and 3:30 a.m. Seven air traffic controllers are the witnesses. The radar paints the targets as 10–15 miles apart every 10 seconds, meaning their speed is estimated at 4,200–6,200 mph, a supersonic speed of Mach 5 to 8, at an altitude of 6.5 miles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Claude Poher, “A Case of Radar Detection of UFOs in France,” IUR 29, no. 3 \(Fall 2004\): 13–14, 27 Source ID: Eberhart_5373 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17618 (2E4E8AFA) Date: 12/14/1976 Description: Three unknowns detected at Air Force Base #292 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [761214](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/contrexeville761214dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Contrexeville, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4718 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17619 (8AF82CB8) Date: 12/15/1976 Description: 7:00 a.m. Arnold Barker is driving south on Alberta Highway 46 \[now Highway 63\] nearly 3 miles south of Boyle, Alberta, when he sees two bright flashing lights flying west to east. As the object passes overhead, he realizes it is not an airplane. He jumps out of his truck to get a better look and sees that the lights are now red, zigzaging, and attached to each other by a faint connection. The object appears to be landing silently in a field to the east of the road, but it stops about 6–10 feet from the ground and 100–150 feet away. Barker takes a few steps toward it, but it takes off and moves north. He gets in his truck again to turn around and the object follows him, again as a white light. He speeds up to 75 mph and outdistances it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August North, pp. 185–187 Source ID: Eberhart_5374 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17620 (99677754) Date: 12/15/1976 Description: 9:20 p.m. A driver in Holland, Massachusetts, sees a cigar-shaped object twice the width of the moon hovering low in the east about 500 feet away. Human-like forms are visible through a row of windows on the side. It disappears in a bright red flash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-2-1,” IUR 2, no. 2 \(February 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5375 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17621 (87C3E477) Date: 12/15/1976 Description: At 9:20 p.m. on this evening in 1976 in Holland, Massachusetts, a cigar shaped UFO hovered stationary in the sky for a few moments. The figures of three or four beings could be seen through oval-shaped windows in the craft. The object disappeared in a bright red flash after another 7-8 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_8416 Source: Johnson ### Event 17622 (A0B44353) Date: 12/16/1976 Description: 12:15 p.m. Michael Winterborne, meteorological officer for the Kalgoorlie Airport in Western Australia, sees a white, football-shaped object, glowing and pulsating with fuzzy edges, rush from the northeast horizon to the northwest horizon at great speed. At 2:45 p.m., he sees it again, arching overhead toward the west. Both incidents are timed by stopwatch at 12 seconds. Dave Bower, at the Scotia nickel mine about 50 miles to the north, sees a UFO drifting slowly westward at about 1,000 feet altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 3 \(March 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5376 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17623 (6EFF40E7) Date: 12/18/1976 Description: At 12:55 a.m. on Soda Springs Mountain Road in Caribou County, Idaho three police officers had a close encounter with a 30-foot diameter oval-shaped UFO. The object was devoid of seams or windows, and had the bulk of three to four cars. It emitted a light green light and hovered only 60 feet away from them. It made no sound when hovering, but made a whistling "wind" sound when in motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case investigations file, December 1976; International UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_8492 Source: Johnson ### Event 17624 (A560CAA4) Date: 12/18/1976 Description: Twenty-two hours later at 10:30 p.m. six witnesses, twenty miles south of Miami, Florida watched an oval glow with a disc-shaped object inside fly to the south, passing over their heads at only 150 feet. The object turned and flew away to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case investigations file, December 1976; International UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_8493 Source: Johnson ### Event 17625 (5A2C7529) Date: 12/18/1976 Description: 8:30 p.m. A group of witnesses see a red-orange oval light pass overhead in Miami, Florida, about 250 feet up. It turns west in a smooth, even motion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-2-12,” IUR 2, no. 2 \(February 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5380 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17626 (1B26CF24) Date: 12/18/1976 Description: 12:55 a.m. On Soda Springs Mountain Road, three police officers had a close encounter with a 30-foot diameter oval-shaped UFO. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case investigations file, December 1976; International UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 6). 77Jan-May Various Cities UK 1 Miniwave of UFO sightings, including round and triangular objects (NICAP UFOE II, Section VIII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caribou County, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_4719 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17627 (18B51266) Date: 12/18/1976 Description: 5:20 p.m. Several children in Newfolden, Minnesota, see an object speeding across the sky then stopping. It has 6–9 orange and white lights flashing on and off around the perimeter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-2-9,” IUR 2, no. 2 \(February 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5379 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17628 (C9EABA20) Date: 12/18/1976 Description: A Flugfélag Íslands \[now Air Iceland Connect\] airliner in flight from Akureyi to Reykjavik, Iceland, picks up a clear radar target at 18,000 feet over the Mælifell volcano. It tracks the object for one minute as it rushes 2 miles below the aircraft at 3,600 mph. The object is not seen visually. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 3 \(March 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5378 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17629 (080C67FB) Date: 12/18/1976 Description: 12:55 a.m. On Wood Canyon Road east of Soda Springs, Idaho, police officer Dennis Abrams has a close encounter with a 30-foot diameter, oval-shaped UFO. It lacks any seams or windows and has the bulk of three to four cars. It emits a light green light and hovers only 60 feet away. It makes no sound when hovering but makes a whistling “wind” sound when in motion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “CE-I Seen by Independent Policemen in Idaho,” IUR 2, no. 2 \(February 1977\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_5377 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17630 (FB36B6B3) Date: 12/19/1976 Description: At two o’clock in the morning in Bourke, New South Wales, Australia. Mr. Mann, 26-years-old, suffered lasting physiological effects from a UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australian Centre for UFO Studies, case investigation files, report dated April 7, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8514 Source: Johnson ### Event 17631 (D6842DA3) Date: 12/19/1976 Description: On this night in Salters Point, Western Australia two men, Brennan and Gibbs, heard a whirring sound and then sighted a two-foot wide disc-shaped UFO that flew behind a house at only 30 feet altitude. It then shot away toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_8515 Source: Johnson ### Event 17632 (35BCDA47) Date: 12/19/1976 Description: At 6:20 p.m. in Concord, California a 53-year-old man sighted a nocturnal light zigzagging toward the north, then circle and reverse direction. It moved at a slow speed at first, then sped up, and finally shot away to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, case investigation files, December 1976 Source ID: Johnson_8516 Source: Johnson ### Event 17633 (51AD7663) Date: 12/19/1976 Description: 6:20 p.m. A witness in Concord, California, sees a silent, star-like light moving northward in an erratic fashion: zigzagging, up and down, in circles, backing up, speeding up for 1 minute. Then it speeds up and moves downward in a curve, zooming out of sight in 1 second. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-2-13,” IUR 2, no. 2 \(February 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5382 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17634 (E9132D39) Date: 12/19/1976 Description: The first KH-11 Kennen reconnaissance satellite \(codenamed Key Hole\) is launched by the US National Reconnaissance Office. It is the first American spy satellite to use electro-optical digital imaging that offers real- time optical observations. The capabilities of the KH-11 are highly classified, as are images they produce. The satellites are believed to have been the source of some imagery of the Soviet Union and China made public in 1997; images of Sudan and Afghanistan made public in 1998 related to the response to the 1998 US embassy bombings; and a 2019 photo, revealed by President [Donald Trump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FTrump), of a failed Iranian rocket launch. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[KH-11 KENNEN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11%5FKENNEN)” Source ID: Eberhart_5381 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17635 (7CFC0F7B) Date: 12/19/1976 Description: Night. Neil Brennan and Dean Gibbs step outside when they hear a whirring noise near Aquinas College, Salter Point, Western Australia. Brennan sees a bright disc, 2 feet in diameter, hovering 30 feet in the air behind his house. It then disappears toward the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Perth News \(W.A.\) News, December 20, 1976; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 2 \(February 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5383 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17636 (9F3C533B) Date: 12/20/1976 Description: There were thirteen UFO reports in the early morning hours from various provinces of Spain, including Granada, Malaga, Valencia, Murcia, Alicante, Melilla, and Cadiz. At 1:50 a.m. several witnesses watched a metallic appearing object radiate luminous rays of light and light up the sky with an intense luminosity in Malaga, Spain. A few minutes later yellow, red, and bluish green balls of light flew over Valencia, Alicante, and Almeria. Objects flew rapidly toward the south or southwest. At 2:00 a.m. an enormous blue violet ball of light flew over Malaga at high speed. Ten minutes later a triangular or cone-shaped UFO, pale blue in color, flew from the north to the south over Murcia. A huge ovoid object, blue violet in color, was also seen flying in the same direction over Algeciras, Spain at about the same time. On the same day the Sloop Rippe disappeared mysteriously in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida, southeast of Fort Lauderdale. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sanchez de Medina Fermin, Stendek, June 1978, pp. 2-4; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 411, citing Richard Winer Source ID: Johnson_8538 Source: Johnson ### Event 17637 (151CE70A) Date: 12/26/1976 Description: At 7:30 p.m. an ambulance driven by two men named Banks and Schofield was paced for 22 minutes by two oval-shaped objects through the mountains 25 miles northwest of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. The UFOs would dart back-and-forth in the sky. The river used his dome light and siren to signal them. The UFOs flashed light back at them for a few seconds, then skipped off over the trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 69 Source ID: Johnson_8615 Source: Johnson ### Event 17638 (FFBCF85D) Date: 12/29/1976 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Chapin, who had the previous experience in October 1969, again notice that their mine site near Redding, California, is unseasonably warm. Chapin walks carefully down toward the creek as his wife remains in the car. When he shouts and tells her to bring the gun, she observes a similar object to the one they had seen seven years earlier, except more pock-mocked on the surface, some 175–200 feet away from Mr. Chapin. It moves rapidly in the air and zaps both of them, knocking them to the ground. Chapin hits his head against the canyon wall and his wife falls to the road. They remain unconscious for about 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Redding, California CE II Case,” IUR 3, no. 3 \(March 1978\): insert Source ID: Eberhart_5384 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17639 (4241A2BC) Date: 12/31/1976 Description: On this night in Bristol, Wales, UK Ken, an off-duty policeman, was driving home after his work shift and was passing the entrance gate of a research facility when he saw an 8 to 9 foot tall "spaceman" being. The being was wearing a one-piece suit and a helmet with a black visor over his eyes. Ken had no idea what he was looking at, so he drove straight home, arriving there in a state of shock. Although he told his wife, who did not believe him, he did not make an official report because he feared professional repercussions. The next day, he learned from reading the local newsapaper that two other people reported seeing a "spaceman" looking into their car in Chilcomb, near Winchester, England after their car engine failed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: http://www.colinandrews.net/UFO-PoliceSergeant-SilburyHill.html Source ID: Johnson_8671 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1977 (Back to Top) ### Event 17640 (77926DDF) Date: 1977 Description: José Jean Pereira de Alencar founds the Centro de Estudos Ufologicos in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, and publishes the journal UFOnotas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 56](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/55/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5388 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17641 (B1C631BB) Date: 1977 Description: Former USAF Sergeant, Mario Woods, claims that Richard Doty was present at the debriefing of his 1977 UFO incident over a nuclear silo at Ellsworth AFB. Type: debriefing Reference: [link](https://twitter.com/RyanSprague51/status/1612522327488487435) Location: Ellsworth AFB Source ID: Maj2_694 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17642 (BDBE6CCD) Date: 1977 Description: V. Alexeyev said that at some “unnamed” weapons test ranges when UFO’s appeared soldiers signaled, mostly in a physical way. The UFO’s responded by “compressing” their visual shape. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [link](https://www.amazon.com/RUSSIAS-ROSWELL-INCIDENT-Amazing-Former-ebook/dp/B06XD2BNXV) Location: Soviet Union Attributes: communication Source ID: Maj2_696 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17643 (F48A691C) Date: 1977 Description: California State University, Long Beach, English professor [Alvin H. Lawson](https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/corona-del-mar-ca/alvin-lawson-4373974), along with technical writer John DeHerrera and physician William C. McCall, carries out a study in Anaheim \(California\) Memorial Hospital to determine if the abduction stories told by “real” abductees under hypnotic regression resemble the stories told by others who are asked to imagine an abduction under hypnosis. After the experiment, carried out by student volunteers, Lawson declares that the imaginary accounts are all but identical to the real accounts. He then formulates a Birth Memories Hypothesis, which argues that abductions are nonphysical, archetypal fantasies in which the witness’s birth memories play a central role. However, Lawson’s methodology and results are later critiqued severely. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alvin H. Lawson, “[What Can We Learn from Hypnosis of Imaginary ‘Abductees’?](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1977-11-november)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 120 \(November 1977\): 7–9; Alvin H. Lawson, “[What Can We Learn from Hypnosis of](http://weekinweird.com/2012/01/30/learn-hypnosis-imaginary-abductees-pt-2/) [Imaginary ‘Abductees’? Part 2](http://weekinweird.com/2012/01/30/learn-hypnosis-imaginary-abductees-pt-2/),” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 121 \(December 1977\); Alvin H. Lawson, “What Can We Learn from Hypnosis of Imaginary ‘Abductees’? Part 3,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 122 \(January 1978\); Alvin H. Lawson, “[Hypnosis of Imaginary ‘Abductees,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/Lawson%2CImaginery%20UFO%20Abductees-1.pdf)” in Curtis G. Fuller, ed., Proceedings of the First International UFO Congress, Warner, 1980, pp. 195–213; D. Scott Rogo, “Imaginary Facts: The Case of the Imaginary Abductions,” IUR 10, no. 2 \(March/April 1985\): 3–5; D. Scott Rogo, “Birth Traumas from Outer Space,” IUR 10, no. 3 \(May/June 1985\): 4–5, 16; Clark III 944–945 Source ID: Eberhart_5391 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17644 (FAEF8635) Date: 1977 Description: An Australian soldier is traveling on the Nullabor Plain in South Australia when he and a companion, an American soldier, watch the descent of a purple-green fireball. They drive to the impact site and see a crashed UFO. The Australian goes inside and sees two aliens, one dead and the other making a squealing sound. They are about 5 feet tall and pot-bellied, with long, thin arms and large, black eyes. When he comes out again, he finds that military personnel have arrived. They arrest him and his friend and keep him in custody for two weeks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[UFO Crash/Retrieval Stories: The Australian Experience,](https://www.auforn.com/Bill%5FChalker%5F29.htm)” 1998; Clark III 345 Source ID: Eberhart_5392 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17645 (92D95DD2) Date: 1977 Description: Roger Thome founds Groupe d’Étude et de Recherche sur les OVNI Haute-Marne/Meuse in Chaumont, Haute- Merne, France, which publishes five issues of Groupe 5255 in 1980–1982. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Groupe 5255](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Groupe%205255/Groupe%205255%20-%20No%2001%20-%201980%20Fevrier.pdf), no. 1 \(February 1980\) Source ID: Eberhart_5390 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17646 (38932FDA) Date: 1977 Description: Fernando António Milhano Patinha founds OVNIGrupo 7 in Lisbon, Portugal. It publishes a quarterly magazine, OVNI. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 235](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/235/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5389 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17647 (DBEA4B9D) Date: 1977 Description: Lawrence J. Fenwick, Joseph Muskat, and Harry Tokarz found the Canadian UFO Research Network in Willowdale, Ontario, to investigate reports and inform the public. It begins publishing the CUFORN Bulletin in late 1979, lasting until the summer of 1999. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [CUFORN Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/CUFORN%20%28Canada%2C%20Fenwick%29/CUFORN%20Bulletin%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2002%20-%201980%20-%20Jan.pdf) 1, no. 2 \(January 1980\) Source ID: Eberhart_5387 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17648 (62154496) Date: 1977 Description: Constitutional attorney [Daniel P. Sheehan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FSheehan%5F%28attorney%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FSheehan%5F%28attorney%29) at the request of Congressional Research Service researcher [Marcia S.](https://spacepolicyonline.com/about-us/) [Smith](https://spacepolicyonline.com/about-us/)[,](https://spacepolicyonline.com/about-us/) visits the brand-new Madison Building at the Library of Congress to look at the “classified sections of Project Blue Book.” He claims to have seen photos of a flying saucer embedded in snow and surrounded by USAF personnel wearing parkas. There are symbols on the side of the crashed craft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: presidentialufo.com, “President Carter, Daniel Sheehan, and Donald Menzel: The Congressional Research Service UFO Studies for President Carter” Source ID: Eberhart_5386 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17649 (0E48A819) Date: 1977 Description: [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) publishes The Hynek UFO Report as a review of and commentary on Project Blue Book records. It is largely ghostwritten by Elaine M. Hendry, [Allan Hendry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%5FHendry)’s wife and a graduate student in astronomy at Northwestern University. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, [The Hynek UFO Report,](https://archive.org/details/hynekuforeport00alle/page/n7/mode/2up) Dell, 1977; Clark III 620 Source ID: Eberhart_5385 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17650 (58DAC63C) Date: 1977 Description: Maj. Gen. Hideki Komura, an adviser to Japan’s Cabinet Research Office, admits that UFO investigations are carried out at a top level. He says that in the 1950s, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force encouraged reports from the public, but they had too many reports to analyze. Now he admits they cooperate closely with the US government’s Foreign Technology Division. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 431](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/430/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5393 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17651 (803C6D13) Date: 1977 Description: CAUS (Citizens Against UFO Secrecy), a non-profit freedom of information activist group that advocates for the release of classified information regarding UFOs, is founded. Type: non-profit organization Reference: [Wikipeda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Against_UFO_Secrecy) Location: Scottsdale, Arizona Source ID: Maj2_692 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17652 (8EF63054) Date: 1/1977 Description: [Alfred Webre](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alfred%5FWebre) joins the Center for the Study of Social Policy at the Stanford Research Institute \[now SRI International\] in Menlo Park, California, as a senior policy analyst. He intends to develop an “extraterrestrial communication” project with White House backing. He plans to establish a comprehensive UFO database, hire scientific advisers to evaluate the data, and issue policy recommendations, including one to end military and intelligence secrecy. He is referred to an unnamed female staff member of the White House Domestic Policy Staff, who is supportive of his proposal. He is promised approval of his proposal, but never hears back from the White House again. The request is terminated in September. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Steven M. Greer, Disclosure: Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History, Crossing Point, 2001, pp. 441–446; Dolan II 142 Source ID: Eberhart_5396 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17653 (7056329A) Date: 1/1977 Description: The Roper Organization asks two questions about UFOs in a survey: 44% “believe in” life elsewhere in the universe and 29% in UFOs as extraterrestrial. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_5394 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17654 (C07C979A) Date: 1/1977 End date: 5/1977 Description: Miniwave of UFO sightings, including round and triangular objects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: UK Source ID: HallUFOE2_283 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17655 (47A131F4) Date: 1/1977 Description: [Peter A. Sturrock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock) of Stanford University releases the results of his survey on UFO sightings and beliefs of professional American astronomers. He has mailed out 2,611 questionnaires, with half \(1,356\) completed and returned. Sixty-two respondents \(nearly 5%\) say they have witnessed or obtained an instrumented record of an event they could not identify and that might be related to UFOs. Some 53% prefer additional scientific study of UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sturrock Reports His UFO-Survey Results,](https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.3037584)” Physics Today 30 \(May 1977\): 112; “Astronomers and UFO’s: A Survey,” IUR 2, no. 3 \(March 1977\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_5395 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17656 (2AAED7C1) Date: 1/1/1977 Description: 7:50 PM. A lenticular metallic disc with flames coming from the bottom made a 180-degree turn and flew off toward the south. The witness's eyes were sore from the glare of the light. (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chabeiul, Drome, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4721 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17657 (71C70203) Date: 1/1/1977 Description: 10:00 PM. A luminous hemisphere-shaped object, about .65 meters in diameter, maneuvered and glowed among trees. Broken branches were found later in the area. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eyragues,Bouches-Rhone Department, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4724 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17658 (85155D9C) Date: 1/1/1977 Description: 9:00 PM. A TV crew filmed a UFO. It made a sound like an electric motor. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leca de Palmeira, Oporto Province, Portugal Source ID: NICAP_DB_4723 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17659 (4846E004) Date: 1/1/1977 Description: There were several UFO reports on this day from France and Portugal. A pink glowing sphere hovered in the sky for six minutes in Creysseilles, France at 1:30 a.m., then flew away to the east toward the Mezayon Valley. At seven p.m. a luminous yellow-orange ovoid hovered in the sky for five minutes over Saint-Donat in Drome department, France. It drifted toward the southwest and was gone by eleven p.m. At 7:50 p.m. in Chabeiul, also in Drome, France a lenticular metallic disc with flames coming from the bottom made a 180-degree turn and flew off toward the south. The witness's eyes were sore from the glare of the light. At 8:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Perez had a close encounter with a ten-meter long ovoid object in nearby Valence, France that chased their car. They also complained of eye pain and conjunctivitis as a result of the encounter, and a watch of theirs had stopped working. The UFO made a reappearance 40 minutes later. At nine p.m. in Leca de Palmeira, Oporto Province, Portugal a TV crew filmed a UFO. It made a sound like an electric motor. At ten p.m. a luminous hemisphere-shaped object, about .65 meters in diameter, maneuvered and glowed among trees in Eyragues, France in Bouches-Rhone department. Broken branches were found later in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 637; Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1979; International UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 2; Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1977; Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT computer catalogue Source ID: Johnson_19 Source: Johnson ### Event 17660 (ABD982FA) Date: 1/1/1977 Description: 8:00 PM. Mr. and Mrs. Perez had a close encounter with a ten-meter long ovoid object that chased their car. They also complained of eye pain and conjunctivitis as a result of the encounter, and a watch of theirs had stopped working. (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Valence, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4722 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17661 (BB7FE5B1) Date: 1/1/1977 Description: 1:30 AM. A pink glowing sphere hovered in the sky for six minutes, then flew away to the east toward the Mezayon Valley. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Creysseilles, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4720 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17662 (A9639506) Date: 1/1/1977 Description: Late on this night in New Canaan, Connecticut a young witness remembers being floated through his house downstairs against his will. Terrified, he saw a being shorter than him that floated beside him at the same time. He tried to grab the wall and banister but could not get a firm hold. His next memory was of being in the driveway being floated down the road surrounded by several gray-colored figures. He tried to get away but his legs just cycled aimlessly in mid-air. He had vague memories of being in a dark room with a metallic floor with some "people" that were involved in a project, which calmed him down and made him feel good. This was all he could remember. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_20 Source: Johnson ### Event 17663 (1E4B23CA) Date: 1/1/1977 Description: 8:00 p.m. François Perez and his wife are chased in their car by a 33-foot long oval object in Valence, Drôme, France. They retrace their route one hour later after telling police. They see the oval object again, about 1,200 feet from them in a field. It appears to be 90–120 feet in diameter and surrounded by a halo of white light. After 10 minutes, the object begins flashing and rises up into the air at a 45° angle. They complain of eye pain and conjunctivitis for 48 hours afterward, and Perez’s watch stops working. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[French Couple Report Being Chased by](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97088136/) [‘Big Glowing Star,’](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97088136/)” Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1977, p. 28; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 2 \(February 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5397 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17664 (A3BDC436) Date: 1/3/1977 Description: At 9:30 a.m. a 24-year-old woman and her young sister were doing the wash next to their rural home that was near Carapito Beira Alta, Portugal. They saw on top of a nearby hill a strange looking bulky figure that was dark and motionless. It resembled an eight-foot-tall box with a round head on top and legs that appeared too thin towards the bottom. A strange sound, resembling several dogs barking into a microphone, seemed to emanate from the figure. The two witnesses became afraid and locked themselves in their house. They next heard a sound like someone was dragging something outside on the sand path that encircled their house. The sound stopped at the edge of a nearby pine grove. This was too much for the 24-year-old woman, who suffered a nervous collapse. Investigators found a small radioactive spot at the foot of the hill, plus other ground traces in evidence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 107, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis Source ID: Johnson_61 Source: Johnson ### Event 17665 (9F4D2A18) Date: 1/4/1977 Description: 12:30 a.m. A man was training his German shepherd dog in a pine grove when the animal suddenly became agitated and sat next to him. He then saw hovering 10 meters from the ground a dark metallic domed object that was emitting a beeping sound. Near the object was a very tall, heavy set figure, human like. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carapito Beira Alta, Portugal Source ID: NICAP_DB_4727 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17666 (DD02E6C7) Date: 1/4/1977 Description: At 12:30 a.m. man was training his German shepherd dog in a pine grove in Carapito Beira Alta, Portugal when the animal suddenly became agitated and sat next to him. He then saw hovering 10 meters from the ground a dark metallic domed object that was emitting a beeping sound. Near the object was a very tall, heavy set figure, human like. The object suddenly emitted a silvery lighting flash and disappeared, and so did the bulky figure. The witness suffered from severe headaches soon after the incident, and his dog died with no obvious cause of death in August of the same year. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 106, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia De Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis Source ID: Johnson_92 Source: Johnson ### Event 17667 (0FF3DE2E) Date: 1/4/1977 Description: 12:30 a.m. A man was training his German shepherd dog in a pine grove when the animal suddenly became agitated and sat next to him. He then saw hovering 10 meters from the ground a dark metallic domed object that was emitting a beeping sound. The witness suffered from severe headaches soon after the incident, and his dog died with no obvious cause of death in August of the same year. (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carapito Beira Alta, Portugal Source ID: NICAP_DB_4725 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17668 (70155383) Date: 1/5/1977 Description: At 8:00 a.m. two teenagers in Wrexham, Wales took photographs of four disc-shaped objects flying in a procession of objects. Their clear photos were analyzed and pronounced as genuine by the Kodak film company. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11903; Warrington, UFOs: a British Perspective, p. 89 Source ID: Johnson_138 Source: Johnson ### Event 17669 (8FE37B8C) Date: 1/5/1977 Description: At 4:10 a.m. a 30 foot in diameter domed disc was seen over power lines near the town of Bednesti, 20 miles west of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada on Highway 16. A beam of energy struck two witnesses in separate cars, and both experienced 20 minutes of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Sinclair, APRO Bulletin, March 1977, p. 1; Joseph Kovacs, report to CUFOS, January 14, 1977 Source ID: Johnson_137 Source: Johnson ### Event 17670 (ADB82BCE) Date: 1/5/1977 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a gray, 15 meter disc-shaped object hovered silently at 25 meters altitude near Eriswell, Suffolk, England for 20 minutes, 100 meters away. It then shot up into the sky and flew away. There were two witnesses and a dog present. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11906 Source ID: Johnson_139 Source: Johnson ### Event 17671 (C0005CF7) Date: 1/5/1977 Description: Two separate truck drivers in Nysater, Varmland, Sweden had a close encounter at 1:15 a.m. with a disc-shaped object on Highway 18. The saucer was just above the roadway, with five legs extended as landing gear. Both of the observers were paralyzed and frozen in place for five minutes, 150 meters away from the craft. The UFO emitted a solid coherent light beam. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bertil Soderquist, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1978, p. 18; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 270 Source ID: Johnson_135 Source: Johnson ### Event 17672 (67DFB9E2) Date: 1/5/1977 Description: At 2:30 a.m. EST in Napanee, Ontario, Canada three police officers watched a bright object hovering over the Lennox Hydro Electric Power Station. A red NL nocturnal light bounced up and down for 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11901; MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 118 Source ID: Johnson_136 Source: Johnson ### Event 17673 (DF63650A) Date: 1/6/1977 Description: At 1:15 a.m. Mrs. Florida Malboeuf, about 50 years of age, was sitting at her window on the Rue Casgrain in the city of Montreal, Quebec when she saw an oyster shaped, flat bottomed metallic object with a row of white lights around its base. It came flying in from the north and landed on the rooftop of a three-storey apartment building across the street from her, only 60 feet away. Immediately two figures appeared on the roof, they were over six feet tall and thin, with long arms and they wore white one-piece uniforms with their heads covered with tight "bath helmets." They stood looking at the street, then at the sky, then they apparently returned to the object. A moment later they disappeared, and the UFO rose from the roof about 20 feet, and then flew off to the east. Her son Andre went over to the rooftop in question and found there a large elliptical shaped crust of ice, 0.8 inches thick, and about 18 feet in diameter that was on top of the snow, evidently formed by the local melting of the snow. In relief on this plaque and going toward the façade of the building, were four small, narrow footprints only 6.5 incheslong. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-01, citing Marc Leduc & Wido Hoville, UFO Quebec Source ID: Johnson_173 Source: Johnson ### Event 17674 (0E1F35C1) Date: 1/6/1977 Description: 1:15 a.m. Florida Malboeuf is sitting at her window at 6420 Casgrain Avenue in Montreal, Quebec, when she sees an oyster-shaped, flat-bottomed metallic object with a row of white lights around its base. It flies in from the north and lands on the rooftop of a three-story apartment building across the street from her only 60 feet away. Immediately two figures appear on the roof; they are over six feet tall and thin, with long arms. They are wearing white one-piece uniforms with their heads covered with tight “bath helmets.” They stand looking at the street, then at the sky, then they apparently return to the object. A moment later they disappear, and the UFO rises from the roof about 20 feet and flies off to the east. Her son André goes over to the rooftop in question and finds a large, elliptical-shaped crust of ice, about 18 feet in diameter, on top of the snow. He also finds four small footprints only 6.5 inches long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marc Leduc and Wido Hoville, “[Un UFO sur une maison,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/UFO%20Quebec/UFO%20Quebec%20-%20No%2009%20-%201977.pdf)” UFO-Quebec, no. 9 \(1977\): 6–10; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 62–66 Source ID: Eberhart_5398 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17675 (47F6C3FF) Date: 1/10/1977 Description: 12:00 noon. Horse farmer [William McCarthy](https://www.fosters.com/article/20081009/GJNEWS%5F01/710096205) is looking out his window at the falling snow when he is surprised to see a hole in his pond in the town of Wakefield, New Hampshire. The pond, 105 by 75 feet, was frozen solid just the day before. He goes outside for a closer look. The hole is perfectly round and cuts smoothly through 14 inches of ice. Eight inches of slush surrounds the hole. Peering into the hole, McCarthy sees something that looks like a one-foot-square box. He races back to the house and brings family members over for a look. Then he goes to the barn to pick up a rake, hoe, and pole. Back at the pond, McCarthy sees that the box has sunk three feet into the muck at the bottom. Frustrated in his attempt to retrieve the object, he calls a friend, Bob Palmer, who arrives around 2:30 p.m. Concerned that they might be dealing with radioactive satellite or aircraft debris, Palmer notifies the police, who soon arrive in the company of a local Civil Defense representative. The Geiger counter indicates a reading alarmingly above normal \(3 roentgens per hour versus normal background radiation of .001 roentgen\). The McCarthys are warned to stay away from the water, and the CD man and the police leave to inform their superiors. By 4:00 p.m. the circle of slush has expanded to 10 feet. When McCarthy observes the pond in the morning, he discovers a second hole, this one about 50 feet from the original. Not long afterwards, someone from the attorney general’s office warns McCarthy not to let his animals drink from the pond; he reappears later in the day to express concern about possible water seepage. He also directs McCarthy and his family not to discuss the affair with anyone else until the official investigation is completed. The next day the pond is frozen over again. Disregarding warnings, McCarthy walks out on it and looks down through the clear ice where the hole has been and to the pool bottom. A fresh 6-inch-wide trench stretches from beneath the first hole all the way to the second. To all appearances, the object that entered via the former has left via the latter. State police escort all but the officially connected off the farm. Investigators try unsuccessfully to drain the pond, then see a 6-by-3-foot opening where the original hole had been. Distant observers think they see the searchers retrieve a black object and place it inside a van, which quickly leaves the area. By the end of the day, a statement from the governor’s office declares that more sophisticated equipment has found no abnormal radioactivity in the pond and the surrounding area. The black object, the authorities contend, is a container filled with soil and stone samples collected for analysis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[What’s Going On? N.H. Pond Mystery Called False Report,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97113739/)” Boston Globe, January 14, 1977, p. 3; Allan Hendry, “The Wakefield Incident: Telling a UFO from a Hole in the Ground,” IUR 2, no. 2 \(February 1977\): 8; “Wakefield Wrap-Up,” IUR 2, no. 2 \(February 1977\): insert; Clark III 1233–1234 Source ID: Eberhart_5399 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17676 (B71FC83A) Date: 1/10/1977 Description: 4:00 p.m. A driver stopped at an intersection in Biloxi, Mississippi, watches a disc on edge descend at an 80° angle, growing larger. When it reaches treetop level, it banks in a curve into the trees. As it leaves, it presents a round face as large as the full moon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-2-48,” IUR 2, no, 2 \(February 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5400 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17677 (6F01C317) Date: 1/11/1977 Description: The crew of an Indian Air Force jet transport is flying 42 miles west of Varanasi, India, when it encounters three luminescent discs that fly past, circle once, then continue east. Apparently, thousands see the objects from the ground over a period of 45 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 303](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/302/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5401 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17678 (C765386A) Date: 1/13/1977 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a 17-year-old woman driving in Plantation, Florida had her car paced by a disc-shaped object. It engaged in erratic maneuvers, and then was joined by a second disc. Both objects flew off to the east. They did not appear on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, pp. 2 & 36 Source ID: Johnson_301 Source: Johnson ### Event 17679 (51B57257) Date: 1/13/1977 Description: 12:30 a.m. A driver is paced by a UFO shaped like a flattened football with a dark equator in Plantation, Florida. The noiseless object is glowing with a steady white light underneath. It moves erratically in front of the car, and turns a corner as she pulls into her home. As she jumps out, she sees a second object join it in the northeast, and both speed toward the east in 5–6 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-2-52,” IUR 2, no. 2 \(February 1977\): insert. Source ID: Eberhart_5402 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17680 (046E6B0D) Date: Mid 1/1977 Description: 3:00 a.m. Eino Maki is out grooming the ski slopes at the Briar Mountain Lodge near Norway, Michigan. He notices that a nocturnal light UFO \(seen frequently in the area since November 1976\) is keeping pace with him as he moves up and down the slopes, edging closer. At first it is about 2 miles away at treetop level; now he can see red lights on the object. A bit unnerved, Maki goes back to the lodge and positions himself behind it. The light moves out of sight, and Maki goes back to work about 15 minutes later. Soon the light returns and it is below him on the same ski run, shining brightly. He decides to go home in his pickup truck. One week later, around 11:00 p.m., the same thing starts happening again, but Maki decides to run home right away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth Schellhase, “UFOs on the Ski Slopes of Northern Michigan,” IUR 7, no. 2 \(March 1982\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_5404 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17681 (A31E9D53) Date: 1/15/1977 Description: 8:15 p.m. An unusually bright light is seen bobbing up and down low in the southern sky of Charleston, Oregon, for 30 minutes. It gradually drops below the horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-3-2,” IUR 2, no. 3 \(March 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5403 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17682 (45C6B054) Date: 1/16/1977 Description: On a clear and cloudless morning a giant flying saucer appeared over the southwestern part of Moscow, Russia. It was photographed as it hovered for more than an hour. It had a grayish-blue surface, but was distinctly visible against the blue sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 69 Source ID: Johnson_352 Source: Johnson ### Event 17683 (D41821B3) Date: 1/16/1977 Description: On a clear and cloudless morning a giant flying saucer appeared over the southwestern part of Moscow, Russia. It was photographed as it hovered for more than an hour. (Source: Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 69). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moscow, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_4728 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17684 (6E45106A) Date: 1/18/1977 Description: A UFO witness in Bussieres-Saint-Georges, France was thrown into some bushes when three glowing balls of light flew overhead at one a.m. The witness had 75 minutes of missing time, and the incident was followed by many days of persistent headaches. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 317 Source ID: Johnson_375 Source: Johnson ### Event 17685 (BE7AA16C) Date: 1/18/1977 Description: 1:00 AM. A UFO witness was thrown into some bushes when three glowing balls of light flew overhead at one a.m. The witness had 75 minutes of missing time, and the incident was followed by many days of persistent headaches. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 317). (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bussieres-Saint-Georges, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4729 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17686 (3E2F4C20) Date: 1/20/1977 End date: 1/20/1981 Description: President Jimmy Carter in office Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipeda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_693 Source: Maj2 ### Event 17687 (48A837FA) Date: 1/21/1977 Description: G,A,V, mult. radars, airliner report (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bogota, Columbia Source ID: NICAP_DB_4730 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17688 (A11E9098) Date: 1/21/1977 Description: Airliner, R/V, reaction to landing lites (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bogota, Columbia Source ID: NICAP_DB_4731 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17689 (4D33431D) Date: 1/21/1977 Description: Boat brightly illuminated by round glowing object, abnormal silence, heat, boat held back as if by invisible force, light beam, time loss (NICAP UFOE II, Section VI). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Bernard Parish, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4732 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17690 (35D70AA9) Date: 1/21/1977 Description: 8:45 PM. Two hunters spotted an extremely bright light which seemed to appear from nowhere. The light moved over them and just hovered. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, February 1977, page 4) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Bernard Parish, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4733 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17691 (533CC08E) Date: 1/21/1977 Description: 4:45 p.m. Three female factory workers in Bridlington, Yorkshire, England, are walking to work on Bessingby Way when they see a hazy oval object hovering above the Britax PMG factory roof just before it begins moving to the right and stopping again. Almost immediately they spot another hazy object hovering above the adjacent K. B. Dixon woodyard. It begins moving forward at a slow pace then stops above a ventilation pipe in the Dixon factory wall. As it hovers the haze disappears, and the object’s features become more distinct. It is larger than a double-decker bus and shaped like a rugby ball. All three are able to see through a row of windows on the side that reveal a corridor inside. On one end is a tube-like structure or pole. Soon it moves over some community gardens and hovers briefly at about 6 feet altitude, lowers its “pole,” and appears to suck up a polythene bag. Both objects now move off to the west. The sighting duration is 5–10 minutes. The witnesses are terrified during the event, experiencing a cold sensation sweeping over them and a prickly irritation in their eyes. They develop sore throats and colds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert Morrell, “[UFOs over Bridlington Factories,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 \(October 1977\): 8–10, 21 Source ID: Eberhart_5406 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17692 (9B0FB8BD) Date: 1/21/1977 Description: 3:15 p.m. An observer in Aspen, Colorado, watches a stationary object for more than an hour. Through binoculars it looks like a 3:1 rectangle with rounded corners of blue-green light. It fades from view in the same position. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-3-12,” IUR 2, no. 3 \(March 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5405 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17693 (C1E0D2D9) Date: 1/21/1977 Description: Brilliant white light zigzagging erratically at high speed, confirmed on ground and airborne radar. Responded to pilot flashing his landing lights. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Bogota, Colombia Source ID: HallUFOE2_285 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17694 (CDA680B9) Date: 1/21/1977 Description: Boat brightly illuminated by round glowing object, abnormal silence, heat, boat held back as if by invisible force, light beam, time loss Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: St. Bernard Parish, LA Source ID: HallUFOE2_284 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17695 (0AC95283) Date: 1/21/1977 Description: Night. Capt. Gustavo Ferreira and the crew of Avianca flight HK-1273 see an extremely bright white light in front of his plane. They are 7 minutes out of the El Dorado Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, westbound at 20,000 feet. At the same time, airport radar operator Jorge Jimenez watches a target moving at 27,340 mph in a zigzag motion. Ferreira watches the light change color in response to his turning on his landing lights and head south after 3 minutes. Jimenez sees the target cut 90° to the south at the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 7 \(July 1977\): 2; UFOEv II 135 Source ID: Eberhart_5408 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17696 (E2859395) Date: 1/21/1977 Description: 8:45 p.m. Robert Melerine and Irwin Menesses are doing some hunting along a dike canal about one mile northeast of Yscloskey, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, one in a boat and the other walking along the shore. Melerine sees a bright red light in the sky. Suddenly the light seems right around him as the boat is engulfed in the glow, which extends to the surrounding landscape. There is no noise, and the light flies away into the woods. Menesses is already back at camp and has not seen the light. They both get into the boat and move down the dike canal, using the outboard motor. The light reappears and moves closer to them. Although the motor is running the boat is not moving, seemingly held in place. Then the light quickly leaves and the boat lurches forward with great force, causing both men to fall. The light again flies at low level into the trees and continues on until they lose it. They estimate that the light is about 15–25 feet in diameter, roughly circular, faceted, and strikingly fast when it moves toward them. Both men report nausea, stomach aches, and fever for 2 days after the incident \(it is flu season\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Mysterious Hovering Light Observed by Yscloskey Men,” St. Bernard \(La.\) News, January 26, 1977; “Mysterious Hovering Light Still a Mystery,” St. Bernard \(La.\) News, February 9, 1977; Ted Peters, “[Warm Light](https://vdocuments.mx/mufon-ufo-journal-1977-2-february.html?page=3) [Stops Everything!](https://vdocuments.mx/mufon-ufo-journal-1977-2-february.html?page=3)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 111 \(February 1977\): 3–6 Source ID: Eberhart_5407 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17697 (5635017F) Date: 1/22/1977 Description: On this night six people in a car in Chalmette, Louisiana watched a domed, disc-shaped object with legs at a low altitude for 10 minutes. It reportedly was spinning; it tilted and played among the trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March 1977, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_419 Source: Johnson ### Event 17698 (ECB3D13F) Date: 1/23/1977 Description: This humanoid encounter began at 12:30 a.m. when a penetrating sound and bright lights coming from the sky awoke the villagers of Santa Rosa, Lara State, Venezuela. A circular UFO with intense multicolored flashing lights, emitting waves of heat, circled the small community and landed on the banks of the Turbio River, causing panic. Two small human like figures, walking stiffly, could be seen moving about inside the object "slowly and in a robot like fashion" for the next five minutes. When a crowd of people armed with flashlights approached, the object took off when someone shone a flashlight on the object's interior. It left behind a 12 foot wide burn mark, landing gear imprints, and a "greasy granular material" on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark da Silva, FSR, June 1977, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-03 (A1703); Jerome Clark & William R. Corliss, UFO Calendar 1999 Source ID: Johnson_452 Source: Johnson ### Event 17699 (E6F9D75B) Date: 1/26/1977 Description: Dogs bark while object is present (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [770126](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/ar-770126.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Anchorage, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4734 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17700 (A2C3759B) Date: 1/26/1977 Description: Three witnesses in Anchorage, Kentucky watched as a 100 foot in diameter domed disc hovered at 80 feet altitude over a snowy field at 10:30 p.m. Their dogs barked during the close encounter. The craft flew toward the south, then vanished. The incident lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January 1977, p. 4; International UFO Reporter, April 1977, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_531 Source: Johnson ### Event 17701 (C559CCEA) Date: 1/27/1977 Description: 1:05 AM. A teenager spotted a rectangular, orangish-red object coming down to near his jeep. Later under hypnosis, however, he related being taken inside the object and examined by three strange creatures who were shaped like machines. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 406, citing CUFOS; IUR,2,4) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Prospect, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4736 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17702 (8B1EA895) Date: 1/27/1977 Description: At 1:05 a.m. a teenager in Prospect, Kentucky spotted a rectangular, orangish-red object coming down to near his jeep. His jeep's radio failed 15 seconds into the sighting. He felt compelled to watch the object, which stayed in the vicinity only a short time. Later under hypnosis, however, he related being taken inside the object and examined by three strange creatures who were shaped like machines. The electrical system on his jeep went haywire the day after the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 406, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_545 Source: Johnson ### Event 17703 (EFBEA5B9) Date: 1/27/1977 Description: 1:05 AM. A teenager spotted a rectangular, orangish-red object coming down to near his jeep. His jeep's radio failed 15 seconds into the sighting. The electrical system on his jeep went haywire the day after the sighting. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 406, citing CUFOS; IUR,2,4) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Prospect, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4735 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17704 (07B4BC62) Date: 1/27/1977 Description: At two o'clock in the afternoon Donald Fender, age 49, a self-employed bee keeper from Greeneville, Tennessee was driving on Route 40 to Madison (north of Nashville). He was in his pickup truck and had his dog with him. In the vicinity of Cookeville, Tennessee his dog began to act strangely, and Fender felt "like someone wanted to talk to me." Obeying an impulse, he turned off onto a side road. He noticed a long balloon-like thing that stretched along one side of the road for a distance of about a mile or so. It was white and silky in color and texture. He then saw another one on the other side of the road. Curious, he pulled over and stopped his car. His dog was by then acting quite agitated.

Suddenly, without any transition, he found himself inside a solid white oval-shaped room, or enclosure, approximately 50 feet long. He sensed, rather than observed, five humanoids gathered around him. They were small in size and they stared at him. One was to his immediate left. They began to question him about a number of things, most of which Fender was unable to remember. They also gave him certain information: they told him they "were emissaries of peace" and that they could enter Earth's atmosphere only at this point---or "window"--along the road, that this spot would "become the future home of space travel." They also told him of dire events including major catastrophes that would come about in the near future.

He was shown various scenes as though he were floating far above them, of areas of mass devastation. These included scenes of farmlands he identified as being in England, which were devoid of any life. After approximately 15 minutes he suddenly found himself back in his truck with no idea of how he got there. Along the roadside there was no longer anything unusual to be seen, and his dog was behaving normally again. He felt very strange and disturbed by the experience. Arriving at Madison an hour later than he expected, he was unable to account for the lost time. There was a good deal about the experience that he was unable to recall. He was so upset about it that within a week he drove to Washington, D.C. to report the incident officially. He went to the Department of Defense where he claimed he spoke to Defense Secretary Brown himself. His story was met with little enthusiasm. There was more to his story than he was willing to divulge to investigators, he claimed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-05, citing Leonard H. Stringfield Source ID: Johnson_546 Source: Johnson ### Event 17705 (1D9FC55D) Date: 1/27/1977 Description: Evening. Humanoid report. Concerned businessman while driving through Clarksville had a bizarre experience. (MUJ-110) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clarksville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4737 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17706 (12A5B59C) Date: 1/27/1977 Description: 1:05 a.m. A 19-year-old trucker is driving on State Highway 329 southeast of Prospect, Kentucky, when he spots a rectangular, orange-red object coming down near his jeep. His radio fails 15 seconds into the sighting. He feels compelled to watch the object, which stays in the vicinity only a short time. When he arrives home, he discovers that it has taken 45 minutes to complete a 7-minute trip. Later under hypnosis, he relates being taken inside the object and examined by three strange creatures who are shaped like machines \(looking like a giant one- armed tombstone, a 7-foot teletype machine, and a man-sized Coke machine\). The electrical system on his jeep goes haywire the day after the abduction. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Single Witness Abduction in Kentucky,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 6–7; Carla L. Rueckert, “[Kentucky Close Encounter,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 \(October 1977\): 15–16, 19 Source ID: Eberhart_5409 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17707 (CA67691E) Date: 1/28/1977 Description: 10:05 p.m. Students in Platteville, Wisconsin, watch an orange “fuzzy oval” object larger than a full moon descend from a low angle above the southern horizon into distant trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-3-22,” IUR 2, no. 3 \(March 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5410 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17708 (7E0A9DB5) Date: 1/29/1977 Description: 9:30 p.m. A patrolman and an unnamed couple in East Haven, Connecticut, see a horizontal row of 5–6 white lights, rotating left to right. The object hovers for 6 minutes, rises from 45° in the east to 80°, drops lower, executes left and right 90° turns, and fades low in the southern sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-3-23,” IUR 2, no. 3 \(March 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5411 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17709 (D702C523) Date: 2/1977 Description: An Italian Air Force F-104 is followed for 23 minutes by a UFO that is brighter than the moon. It remains about 2,400–2,700 feet behind the plane. The base authorizes him to intercept it, but when he climbs to 12,000 feet, the UFO paces him then disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_5413 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17710 (7C8BE858) Date: 2/1977 Description: 10:30 p.m. A Danish serviceman is walking to his quarters at Naval Station Grønnedal \[now Kangilinnguit\] in Greenland pauses to look at the Northern Lights. He retrieves a camera to take photos and notices an elliptical dark object below the aurora. The object appears on only one of his time-exposure photos. Possible altocumulus cloud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kim Møller Hansen, “[Elliptical Object over Greenland Naval Station,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 3 \(June/July 1984\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_5412 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17711 (71B32428) Date: 2/1/1977 Description: 8:30 p.m. Two helicopter pilots flying south at 60 mph near Carthage, Missouri, watch a northbound light pass beneath them and climb to their altitude at 2,000 feet and 300–500 feet away. It appears to be a dark, vertical cylinder 10–15 feet high, 5–8 feet wide, and with struts and a light on the bottom. As the helicopter circles, the object rises higher and heads southeast, disappearing in a second or two. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-3-33,” IUR 2, no. 3 \(March 1977\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5414 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17712 (6A539D60) Date: 2/1/1977 Description: 9:05 p.m. A police sergeant in Glendale, California, sees a bright red light 45° in the west. He drives “within a block” of the light and sees it as bigger than the full moon, perhaps 100–150 feet in diameter, and hovering silently for 3–4 minutes. It moves at incredible speed away to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-3-35,” IUR 2, no. 3 \(March 1977\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5415 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17713 (621248EF) Date: 2/2/1977 Description: Close encounter (CE-II) one witness. (EGBA, 510) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Louisville, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4739 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17714 (A0A089B8) Date: 2/2/1977 Description: Farmer Zbigniew Tuszewski finds a strange disc 1.6 feet in diameter and weighing 66 pounds in his field in Dalabuszki village, north of Gostyń, Poland. Concave on one side, flat on the other, the find does not appear to be from a satellite. A spectroscopic analysis shows the presence of nickel, cobalt, niobium, molybdenum, vanadium, and tellurium; however, another analysis shows no evidence of nickel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5416 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17715 (1FA7313B) Date: 2/2/1977 Description: A 21-year-old man reported to police in Concord, California that on leaving a restaurant at 4:10 a.m. he was confronted by two short, gray-skinned men with large skulls, no hair, and eyes with black pupils. The next thing he knew he was in a school playing field and facing a circular craft. The craft had landed on the ground there and had a ladder extending toward him. Next he found himself inside the object with no recollection as to how he got there. He was examined by the beings, and told telepathically that they were on "a mission to study life habits" on Earth. They also told him that their craft was from a larger ship located outside the Earth's atmosphere. While on board he stuck his hand into a chamber, which cause "all sorts of lights to go off." Finally, he found himself outside an apartment complex in Concord, where for 15 minutes he was paralyzed and unable to move. He called the police at 5:33 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case Humcat 1977-06, citing The Concord Transcript Source ID: Johnson_670 Source: Johnson ### Event 17716 (09E13981) Date: 2/2/1977 Description: CE-II, one witness (EGBA,577) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pineville, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4738 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17717 (110DF4A5) Date: 2/3/1977 Description: At 9:30 p.m. several children at a youth camp in Tasmania, Australia at Seven-Mile Beach observed a stationary, dome-shaped object hovering near the beach. The object then moved behind some trees, partially obscuring it. On the dome was a row of windows through which at least two of the children reported seeing a thin humanoid figure with a round head. It seemed to be moving back and forth behind the window. One child described the object as similar to two plates placed edge to edge, with flashing yellow white lights along the edge and a red light on top of the dome. The object disappeared from view behind the trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-68, citing Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre Source ID: Johnson_680 Source: Johnson ### Event 17718 (D1F3209B) Date: 2/3/1977 Description: 9:30 PM. Several children at a youth camp at Seven-Mile Beach observed a stationary, dome-shaped object hovering near the beach. The object then moved behind some trees, partially obscuring it. The object disappeared from view behind the trees. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-68, citing Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tasmania, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4740 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17719 (D1A0DD9D) Date: 2/4/1977 Description: 2:25 AM. An automobile club patrolman sighted a luminous orange object at some distance from his car. His two-way radio had heavy static while the object was in view. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 407, citing Northern UFO Network News, 1977) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Basford, Staffordshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4741 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17720 (AC69247D) Date: 2/4/1977 Description: Around 12:00 noon. Fifteen children, mostly 10-year-old boys, at Broad Haven Primary School in Pembroke, Wales, are playing football when they see a silvery cigar-shaped UFO in a field behind the building, partially hidden by trees and shrubs. Two in the group say it has a silver dome with a flashing light at the top. Six of them claim to see a silver man with pointed ears next to the craft. The school’s headteacher Ralph Llewellyn asks them to draw the UFO and is amazed at how similar the drawings are. Local UFO enthusiast Randall Jones Pugh brings the story to the attention of the national media and soon sightings of UFOs and alien occupants spring up within a 20-mile radius of Broad Haven, especially near RAF Brawdy \[now Cawdor Barracks\], east of St. Davids. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Peter Paget, The Welsh Triangle, Granada, 1979; “[Broad Haven UFO Sightings Marked 40 Years On,](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-38723643)” BBC News, February 4, 2017; Peter Paget, The Welsh Triangle Revisited, The author, 2018; David Clarke, “Close Encounters of the Playground Kind,” Fortean Times 357 \(September 2017\): 16–18; UFOFiles2, [pp. 94–95](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n155/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5418 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17721 (443B5522) Date: 2/4/1977 Description: 6:30 a.m. A woman and her daughter step outside their house in Senožeti, Slovenia, and see a glowing orange ellipse about four times the size of the moon hovering about 10° above the forest. It is silent and has 4–7 brighter spots on it. Walking along, they watch the object disappear and see a glow arising from the woods as if there is a fire in a nearby village. They run to the spot but find nothing there. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5417 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17722 (29AE8307) Date: 2/4/1977 Description: Basford, Staffordshire, England - At 2:25 a.m. an automobile club patrolman sighted a luminous orange object at some distance from his car. His two-way radio had heavy static while the object was in view. There was simultaneous radio interference at the Stafford police headquarters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 407, citing Northern UFO Network News, 1977 Source ID: Johnson_691 Source: Johnson ### Event 17723 (B04775F2) Date: 2/4/1977 Description: At 1:30 p.m. several schoolboys at Broad Haven school in Pembrokeshire, Wales saw a huge silvery object on the ground about 300 yards away from them in an adjoining field. David George, age 9, said it was making a humming sound, and looked like a saucer with a point on top. He saw a man with long pointed ears and wearing a silver suit standing next to it. Tudor Jones, age 10, Jeremy Passmore, age 9, and David Ward, age 10, also saw the being. David Ward said, "the people wore green--they had sort of cameras---and they had pointed ears." The landed UFO was still there at 2 p.m. The object was a seen third time, again in the same place for five minutes, by a total of 14 boys and one girl. Their drawings show a domed, disc-shaped object. The site where the UFO was seen was surrounded by a muddy swamp; no traces were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-07, citing Randall Jones Pugh, BUFORA; Randall Jones Pugh, FSR Source ID: Johnson_692 Source: Johnson ### Event 17724 (72962A67) Date: 2/6/1977 Description: UFO researcher [Larry W. Bryant](https://ufoview.tumblr.com/) writes a letter to President [Jimmy Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FCarter), suggesting that he look into the roles played by military and civilian intelligence agencies in the UFO cover-up. He receives the standard USAF brush-off letter, saying that UFOs are no longer being investigated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Larry W. Bryant, UFO Politics at the White House, Invisible College, 2001 Source ID: Eberhart_5419 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17725 (66961299) Date: 2/7/1977 Description: 12:30 PM. School students from a school saw a gray flattened cigar-shaped object moving slowly through the sky, surrounded by a vapor or mist. It changed color to orange, then to green, and flew off toward the east-southeast. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. (Sources: Northern Network files, case report dated March 1, 1977; Awareness, July 1977, p. 20). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newcastle-under-Lyme, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4742 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17726 (9FDE1818) Date: 2/7/1977 Description: At 12:30 p.m. school students from a school in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England saw a gray flattened cigar-shaped object moving slowly through the sky, surrounded by a vapor or mist. It changed color to orange, then to green, and flew off toward the east-southeast. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Northern Network files, case report dated March 1, 1977; Awareness, July 1977, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_739 Source: Johnson ### Event 17727 (E3503655) Date: 2/9/1977 Description: 8:45 p.m. A deputy sheriff and constable in Flora, Mississippi, watch a UFO six times the size of their car hover 20–50 feet above them for 30 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-3-48,” IUR 2, no. 3 \(March 1977\): 8; “Close Encounter in Mississippi,” IUR 2, no 4 \(April 1977\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_5421 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17728 (09D97940) Date: 2/9/1977 Description: 5:20 a.m. A high-altitude light is seen hovering for several minutes above Bondi, New South Wales, Australia, before shooting off to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 5 \(May 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5420 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17729 (07A4F568) Date: 2/10/1977 Description: From a window in her house Ms. Lois Stovall of Tucson, Arizona saw a luminous object in the sky approach her house from the north. She and her grandmother, Mrs. Alice Buckner, went our to the yard at 7:30 p.m. for a better view and saw it hovering over a small tree less than 50 feet away. It was capsule shaped with a cylindrical vertical axis, and transparent on the side facing them with dark vertical bars. Through the transparent surface they could see a flame-like light and a human-shaped figure, gray all over gray, that looked puffed up like a balloon. It had ridges or rings running round the appendages, like the Michelin Man. She could not see any hands or feet. This figure in an inflated suit was about four feet tall and was standing crouched over in a space only barely big enough for him. The light was coming from between his feet. Mrs. Buckner walked directly beneath the object and tried to touch it but it was hovering two feet too high. She could see there was a faceplate in the being's suit, and she could barely make out some sort of face behind it. The object began to ascend, and soon passed out of sight to the south. Ms. Stovall saw three helicopters with glowing red cabin lights flying very low over the adjacent school grounds. The investigators were unable to find any plausible source for these mystery aircraft. Mrs. Dessie Turner, a neighbor, also saw the object while it hovered, and estimated that it was 6.5 feet high and 2.5 feet in diameter. She thought she could see a shadowy figure inside. She also saw the helicopters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Encounters, case 1977-8, citing Coral Lorenzen, APRO; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, APRO Bulletin Source ID: Johnson_805 Source: Johnson ### Event 17730 (EF9954A5) Date: 2/10/1977 Description: 7:30 PM. From a window in her house Ms. Lois Stovall saw a luminous object in the sky approach her house from the north. She and her grandmother, Mrs. Alice Buckner, went out to the yard for a better view and saw it hovering over a small tree less than 50 feet away. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Encounters, case 1977-8, citing Coral Lorenzen, APRO; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, APRO Bulletin). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4743 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17731 (983E145C) Date: 2/10/1977 Description: 12:45 a.m. Tom Thibault is alone on the road to Southville, Nova Scotia, when his car is pushed back 250 feet by a 30-by-60 foot object hovering silently 10–12 feet above the road. A blue light emerges from the object that creates an electric shock and an unbearable noise. Thibault suffers a memory loss and gets headaches when he drives by the scene afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Digby \(N.S.\) Courier, February 24, 1977; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 5 \(May 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5422 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17732 (057DA3CF) Date: 2/11/1977 Description: Police officers Creel and Luke had a close encounter with a UFO in Flora, Mississippi. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1977, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_833 Source: Johnson ### Event 17733 (D80980E3) Date: 2/11/1977 Description: 8:40 p.m. Health service cook Slavka Gorsek and her two children see an intense beam of light come through a bedroom window in their home in Gaberke, Slovenia. It illuminates the room briefly then goes out. The light is coming from an egg-shaped object about 8–11 feet wide that has landed only about 50 feet away behind a chicken coop. It is bright white with a green or blue center. For 2–3 minutes they can see and hear nothing, until the object flashes again and takes off. Three days later Gorsek notices a “glimmering dust” at the landing site and the marks of five landing gear. An analysis is performed but with ambiguous results. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Milos Krmelj, “[UFO](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/MUFON%20Journals/mufonufojournal-19779-september-130429023849-phpapp02.pdf) [Landing in Yugoslavia,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/MUFON%20Journals/mufonufojournal-19779-september-130429023849-phpapp02.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 118 \(September 1977\): 6–8 Source ID: Eberhart_5423 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17734 (B4320855) Date: 2/13/1977 Description: At around 7 p.m. a five meter long walnut-shaped UFO followed a student on a motorbike to a farm in Laspeyre, Lot-et-Garonne, France. It was emitting beams of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1978 Source ID: Johnson_901 Source: Johnson ### Event 17735 (15903819) Date: Mid 2/1977 Description: 10:30 p.m. Another nocturnal light mimics Eino Maki’s movements as he grooms the ski slopes at Brian Mountain Lodge near Norway, Michigan. After going away once, it reappears right over him, illuminating him and a large area around him. He races his tractor at top speed \(15 mph\), maneuvering under struts and wires so it can’t get at him. Assistant Manager Jake Malone hears the tractor gearing up outside and sees a huge brilliantly lit object the “size of a boxcar” following Maki up the slope. When he reaches the top, the UFO hovers, silently bouncing up and down, about 500 feet from the lodge. Maki estimates the object is about 60–80 feet long. Some 10–15 people exiting the lodge begin to see the display as well. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth Schellhase, “UFOs on the Ski Slopes of Northern Michigan,” IUR 7, no. 2 \(March 1982\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_5424 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17736 (8F5E1DAF) Date: 2/16/1977 Description: 9:15 p.m. A woman in Utica, Michigan, watches for 2 minutes a vertical cylinder of white light that is pointed at the top. It is stationary, silent, shrouded in white haze, and about 10 times as long as the full moon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-4-7,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5428 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17737 (5D6BB429) Date: 2/16/1977 Description: Afternoon. Nine children, age 8–11, are playing netball with their teacher, Mair Williams, at Rhosybol School in Anglesey, North Wales, when they see an object flying north. It has a black dome on top and a silver, cigar-shaped base. It remains in sight for 3 minutes, goes behind the only cloud in the sky, reappears for one minute, then disappears. The teacher takes them back inside, separates them, and tells them to draw what they have seen. The sighting is reported to RAF Valley in Anglesey, which can offer no positive identification. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke, “Close Encounters of the Playground Kind,” Fortean Times 357 \(September 2017\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_5426 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17738 (26CE2617) Date: 2/16/1977 Description: 9:00 p.m. A commercial pilot standing outside his truck in Canton, Mississippi, watches a cylindrical object about 40 feet long pass alongside him a few hundred feet away at 30 mph. It has one steady white light in front and makes a noise like a wheezing turbine. It recedes into the west after 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-4-6,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5427 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17739 (A9B4C002) Date: 2/16/1977 Description: Morning. Four boys and one adult at Penlee Secondary School in Plymouth, Devon, England, independently see a cigar-shaped object flying horizontally above the school playground before it climbs into a cloud and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke, “Close Encounters of the Playground Kind,” Fortean Times 357 \(September 2017\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_5425 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17740 (44DB826A) Date: 2/17/1977 Description: During the day a teacher and two canteen workers at Broad Haven school watched a silvery yellow cigar-shaped object glide over a field emitting a loud humming sound. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1386, citing J. A. Brooks, Ghosts and Legends of Wales). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pembrokeshire, Walws Source ID: NICAP_DB_4744 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17741 (0EC381AA) Date: 2/17/1977 Description: During the day a teacher and two canteen workers at Broad Haven school in Pembrokeshire, Wales watched a silvery yellow cigar-shaped object glide over a field emitting a loud humming sound. Before it left the area, a human-like figure was seen briefly to step out of the object and then go back inside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1386, citing J. A. Brooks, Ghosts and Legends of Wales Source ID: Johnson_967 Source: Johnson ### Event 17742 (DB80F655) Date: 2/18/1977 Description: Disc hovered, illuminated barnyard, farm animals reacted, watchdog later died. Witness felt electric shock, heat, paralysis. Physiological and physical effects. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Salto, Uruguay Source ID: HallUFOE2_286 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17743 (CB7124EF) Date: 2/18/1977 Description: Dog and cows reacted to low hovering disc (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [770218](http://www.nicap.org/ar-770218.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salto, Uruguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_4745 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17744 (794086D4) Date: 2/20/1977 Description: 10:15 p.m. A domed disc is seen for 1–2 minutes by a man and his son in Victorville, California. It is silver in color with three windows, three legs or wheels, and two hooks at both ends. It hovers above houses 3–4 blocks away, then recedes toward the northwest after attaching itself to the top of a second object to form a sphere. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-4-15,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5429 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17745 (7DB057FE) Date: 2/20/1977 Description: On this night in Gallarta, Vizcaya province, Spain a local farmer, Sr. Juan Sillero, was awakened by the sound of his dogs barking and by a loud humming sound. When he went outside he saw a hovering metallic object with numerous lights and what appeared to be three-legged landing gear dangling down. The craft had a semi-transparent dome on top and was surrounded by rectangular windows. Behind the windows several moving figures moved slowly back and forth. At one point he was approached by two tall, human-looking beings wearing dark diver suit, who explained to the witness that they had to leave the area since they had been "detected." On another occasion the witness saw a robot-like creature exploring the area after it came out of a landed craft. There were other independent witnesses of UFOs descending over the area. The witness saw a craft land in the same area a week later. Landing traces were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 2337, citing Pedro Guirao, OVNIs, Proximo Contacto? Source ID: Johnson_1027 Source: Johnson ### Event 17746 (BA3B00F2) Date: 2/22/1977 Description: 9:30 p.m. Antonio Serena, his wife Francesca Castellanos, and their three children are followed by a bright light for one hour and a distance of about 25 miles. The light is first spotted as they are driving northwest of Llíria in Valencia province, Spain, and follows them through the town of Vilamarxant. The car experiences some engine and light problems and des not seem to be able to accelerate. When they approach the village of Cheste, the light seems to move ahead of them, get much closer, and extend some legs in preparation for landing. One of the daughters gets sick from anxiety. The object moves away when a second auto approaches from the opposite direction. Despite the seeming drama of the incident, the light seems to have been Venus and the engine problems are due to a drained battery, as [Ian Ridpath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%5FRidpath) points out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [pp. 327–330](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/326/mode/2up); Ian Ridpath, “[A Spanish Close](http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/serena.html) [Encounter Re-examined,](http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/serena.html)” Ian Ridpath’s UFO Skeptic Pages, January 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_5431 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17747 (F030278B) Date: 2/22/1977 Description: Severe corrosion of the KS 150 reactor in Jaslovské Bohunice, Czech Republic, causes a release of radioactive material into the plant area, requiring a complete decommission. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[KS 150](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KS%5F150\#1977%5Faccident)” Source ID: Eberhart_5430 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17748 (02ABF9BD) Date: 2/24/1977 Description: Humanoid encounter (NICAP UFOE II, Section XII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Langenargen, Lake Constance, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_4746 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17749 (07105185) Date: 2/24/1977 Description: At 3:00 a.m. Lothar Schaefler saw a cigar-shaped object carrying four very bright lights land about 150 feet away in Langernargen Bodense, Germany. The object emitted an extremely high-pitched, piercing tone of constant intensity. Lothar ran along the outside wall of his kitchen and threw himself on the ground behind some small bushes in front of the backyard fence. The whole area was brilliantly lit now. Next Lothar heard a short whistling sound, and felt a slight draft of air. He saw, appearing from nowhere, two strange alie- looking beings directly behind him. The figures were no more than 1.10 to 1.30 meters tall. The beings had somewhat human-looking bodies, but their long arms reached almost below their knees. Also conspicuous were their oddly cramped-looking fingers, reminiscent of those of spastic children. They wore somekind of frill around the neck - somewhat like a harlequin - with some 6-7 light green "star like serrations," but he could not make any other clothing. Their skin appeared to be paler than human skin. Their hairless heads were completely round, as were their clearly defined mouths. No nose or ears could be seen, and neither did they appear to have necks. The strange figures were rocking their torsos slowly back and forth. Their eyes were slanted and large like those of a cow, and they stared unflinchingly at the witness, who was now paralyzed with fear. He was so terrified that he beat upon the glass of the closed door, instead of opening it. Abruptly, the UFO and the entities then vanished "like a light being switched off." At least six other independent witnesses saw mysterious lights and objects over the area on the same date. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-09, citing I. Von Ludwiger & I. Brand Source ID: Johnson_1087 Source: Johnson ### Event 17750 (1EA523B2) Date: 2/24/1977 Description: Humanoid encounter Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Langenargen, Lake Constance, Germany Source ID: HallUFOE2_287 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17751 (14F5D3E5) Date: 2/25/1977 Description: 7:45 p.m. A 16-year-old bicycling near Cyprus College in California is followed by a star-like object that appears in the west, 45° up. The light enlarges to a thin cigar-shape, 4–5 times the width of the moon, after rushing toward him in 5 seconds. He cycles away, frightened, and has to be driven home in tears by friends. His friends and family see the object as a “star” that sets in the west in 25 minutes. Possibly Jupiter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-4-19,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5432 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17752 (741AD650) Date: 2/26/1977 Description: 9:00 p.m. An accident investigator in Ontario, California, sees a white triangle with rounded sides as big as the full moon. It moves silently and slowly from overhead toward the east, 45° up. It changes course twice in the next 4–5 minutes before it disappears in the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-4-21,” IUR 2, no. 4 \(April 1977\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5433 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17753 (384AC070) Date: 2/27/1977 Description: Nils Toms Labba, age 51, a reindeer keeper in Ovre Soppero, Norrbotten province, Sweden was out on his motor scooter in the woods. At 10:00 a.m. near a lake beachfront he observed four strange beings dressed in brown. They seemed to be just staring blankly. Nearby them was a UFO about the size of a car that appeared to be transparent. When he approached to within 500 feet they quickly entered the object, and it ascended silently into the sky. When it took off the light made his eyes irritated. He drove to the landing site on his scooter but found no traces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, Center for UFO Studies, newspaper clipping dated March 8, 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-10 (A1710), citing Noorlandska Socialdemorkraten Lulea, Sweden Source ID: Johnson_1160 Source: Johnson ### Event 17754 (DD6810DD) Date: 3/4/1977 Description: 6:00 a.m. Ludwig Siegal is driving on Provincial Road 201 about 4 miles west of Sundown, Manitoba. He sees a shimmering oval object ahead of him and silently hovering about 15 feet above the highway. It is yellowish cream around the outer edge, darkening to more yellowish in the middle. He passes directly underneath the object, which does not appear to be solid. Two miles further, Siegal sees three entities, 5 feet tall and shaped like bowling pins, in the glare of his headlights. They are arranged in a row along the left side of the road and have bulbous heads, narrow necks, and flared bodies. Unable to stop in time, he crashes into the group but feels no impact. They simply disappear as they touch the car’s bumper. Looking in his rear-view mirror, he sees all three of them reappear behind his car, shrink to a small size, and vanish. Siegal calls the RCMP from a nearby friend’s house. They find skid marks, but no traces of blood or any impact marks on Siegal’s car. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 166, 221–223 Source ID: Eberhart_5434 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17755 (5C150B19) Date: 3/4/1977 Description: Three UFO reports are recorded on this day in 1977 from Great Britain. At 8:00 p.m. an elliptical UFO changed color from white to red to green in Oxenden, England. It moved slowly and silently in the sky at an estimated altitude of 500 feet. Forty-five minutes later a cigar-shaped UFO w triangular fins on its upper and lower margins was sighted at Blackpool, England. At 10:00 p.m. in Lytham St James, a 9-year-old girl watched a 3-pointed object hover, spin, and change directions abruptly. The triangular craft had a yellow light at each corner and three red lights clustered underneath, and pulsated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Awareness, July 1977, p. 20; Northern UFO Network News, July 1977, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_1301 Source: Johnson ### Event 17756 (E5DE45B6) Date: 3/5/1977 Description: At 11:00 p.m. Lonnie Stites and his wife, Deborah, were driving their pickup truck around a bend in the road in McNatt, Missouri when "the whole area lit up like a football field light was turned on, and a very bright light was shined on our windshield." He saw a man of normal height or slightly smaller stature standing alongside the road. He was human looking, but dressed in green coveralls with square glasses and a tight green cap over his ears. He was "waving us down." Up on the hill was another figure carrying what appeared to be "a ball of electricity about the size of a basketball." The second figure was walking away from an object that looked like a water tank, about 10 feet across and 10 to 15 feet tall, with red lights going around it. The UFO was about 50-60 feet from them. Mrs Stites said that she saw two people on the hillside carrying "basketball sized lights," and that the UFO at one point flew over the truck. They turned the truck around and drove away in great fear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: St Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch, May 1, 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-11, citing Monte Blue Skelton & Bob Pratt Source ID: Johnson_1319 Source: Johnson ### Event 17757 (FB4CFC5E) Date: 3/5/1977 Description: 11:00 PM. Lonnie Stites and his wife, Deborah, were driving their pickup truck around a bend in the road when "the whole area lit up like a football field light was turned on, and a very bright light was shined on our windshield." He saw a man of normal height or slightly smaller stature standing alongside the road. He was human looking, but dressed in green coveralls with square glasses and a tight green cap over his ears. He was "waving us down." (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-11, citing Monte Blue Skelton & Bob Pratt). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McNatt, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4748 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17758 (2EF322F3) Date: 3/6/1977 Description: 5:55 PM. Four witnesses, 5-mins. Two objects, three minutes apart. First one big enough to hold an 18-wheeler. (Ridge files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Evansville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4750 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17759 (ADE85AE7) Date: 3/6/1977 Description: At 1:05 a.m. Mr. Kiese, a security guard, age 18, witnessed an orange, domed disc-shaped UFO descend into the field near his factory's security gate in Sylmar, California. The UFO either landed or hovered close to the ground for five minutes, but no noticeable landing traces were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_1341 Source: Johnson ### Event 17760 (357C4AF8) Date: 3/6/1977 Description: 1:05 AM. Mr. Kiese, a security guard, age 18, witnessed an orange, domed disc- shaped UFO descend into the field near his factory's security gate. The UFO either landed or hovered close to the ground for five minutes, but no noticeable landing traces were found at the site. (Source: Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 12). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sylmar, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4749 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17761 (D33AF2BF) Date: 3/7/1977 Description: 9:00 PM. Mrs. Jane Bowles was driving with a friend, Mrs. Ann Strickland, along a country road when their car stopped and a brilliant glow "like a white sun" lit up the area around them. An oval object was observed that was luminous and making a humming sound. A man emerged from the UFO, one similar in appearance to the one involved in Mrs. Bowles earlier close encounter. The women returned to Winchester, and Mrs. Bowles observed that her hands were red and swollen. She had to remove her wedding ring and she found the skin underneath raw. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Encounters, case 1977-12, citing Lionel Beer, BUFORA). (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winchester, Hampshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4752 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17762 (BDEA1D74) Date: 3/7/1977 Description: 8:34 p.m. French Air Force pilot Maj. René Giraud and navigator Capt. Jean-Paul Abraham, flying a Dassault Mirage IV supersonic bomber over Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France, see a huge UFO. The light appears bigger and bigger as it approaches their aircraft from the rear right. The pilot is flying at Mach 0.98 and makes a turn to the right and then to the left to make sure the light is not a reflection of some sort in the cockpit. As he does these maneuvers, both crew members can distinguish that the light is on the front of a dark, solid object. Despite the evasive maneuver, the unidentified object manages to stay exactly behind them for a few seconds, a very dangerous situation if the unknown object is hostile. Then the object makes a turn to the northwest at an estimated speed of Mach 2, and flies away to the left of the Mirage IV. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [pp. 123–124](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/122/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 304–305](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/304/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Mirage IV Jet Bomber Encounters UFO, France, March 7, 1977](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/giraud77.htm)”; “[L’Observation d’OVNI du](http://ovni-extraterrestre.com/l-observation-d-ovni-du-colonel-rene-giraud-1977) [Colonel René Giraud \(1977\)](http://ovni-extraterrestre.com/l-observation-d-ovni-du-colonel-rene-giraud-1977),” OVNI et Extraterrestre, November 10, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_5435 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17763 (36F5DB52) Date: 3/7/1977 Description: At nine p.m. Mrs. Jane Bowles was driving with a friend, Mrs. Ann Strickland, along a country road near Winchester, Hampshire, England when their car stopped and a brilliant glow "like a white sun" lit up the area around them. An oval object was observed that was luminous and making a humming sound. A man emerged from the UFO, one similar in appearance to the one involved in Mrs. Bowles earlier close encounter. He was human like with long hair, a beard, and pink eyes. He approached, holding out his hands, and touched Mrs Bowles. His hands were warm to the touch like a human's. The man looked at Mrs. Strickland and then spoke in an unknown language. He gave something to Mrs. Bowles which she would not divulge, and then he returned to the UFO, which ascended into the sky with a hum and high-pitched noise. The women returned to Winchester, and Mrs. Bowles observed that her hands were red and swollen. She had to remove her wedding ring and she found the skin underneath raw. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Encounters, case 1977-12, citing Lionel Beer, BUFORA Source ID: Johnson_1370 Source: Johnson ### Event 17764 (E5CE485E) Date: 3/7/1977 Description: Radar-visual UFO approached Mirage bomber, sped away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France Source ID: HallUFOE2_288 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17765 (FBD0EFB4) Date: 3/7/1977 Description: 7:30 PM. Nine independent witnesses watched a red ball of light maneuver against the wind. Holes were found burnt in the ground at a possible landing site. (Sources: Allan Hendry, The UFO Handbook, p. 120; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11471). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gatchelville, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4754 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17766 (7AE749AB) Date: 3/7/1977 Description: 9:00 PM. Mrs. Jane Bowles was driving with a friend, Mrs. Ann Strickland, along a country road when their car stopped and a brilliant glow "like a white sun" lit up the area around them. An oval object was observed that was luminous and making a humming sound. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Encounters, case 1977-12, citing Lionel Beer, BUFORA). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winchester, Hampshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4753 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17767 (065D28E6) Date: 3/7/1977 Description: Object made passes at Mirage IV (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4751 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17768 (3F56FAF9) Date: 3/8/1977 Description: Nine independent witnesses watched a red ball of light maneuver against the wind in Gatchelville, Pennsylvania at 7:30 p.m. Holes were found burnt in the ground at a possible landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, The UFO Handbook, p. 120; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11471 Source ID: Johnson_1384 Source: Johnson ### Event 17769 (025D50AD) Date: 3/8/1977 Description: 7:30 p.m. Eleven witnesses in six groups \(including Thelma Lowe, Harold Wilson, Sara Green, Mrs. Everett Miller, Mrs. W. E. Runge II, and Robert Smyth\) watch a red ball of fire the size of the full moon drift over their houses and alight on the ground south of Gatchellville, Pennsylvania. It leaves a large patch of burning grass \(100 feet long by 30 feet wide\), with a mysteriously unscathed area delineated by three holes at the vertices. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case Number 2-4-44,” IUR 2, no. 5 \(May 1977\): 6–7; “Close-Out on the Gatchellville, PA CE II,” IUR 3, no. 3 \(March 1978\): insert Source ID: Eberhart_5436 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17770 (27BF2B9B) Date: 3/9/1977 Description: 7:20 p.m. Susanna and Maria Stratford watch a shiny saucer with a red light on top and a rounded bottom descend to 30 feet above the ground and hover for 20 minutes, veering left and right above the trees in Saanich, British Columbia. It disappears toward the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Night UFO: It Came Back to See Us,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96778501/times-colonist/)” Victoria \(B.C.\) Times, March 11, 1977, p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_5439 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17771 (E77400C6) Date: 3/9/1977 Description: 12:34 a.m. Captain Assapa, Flight Officer Berehan, and Flight Engineer Negassa of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET-701 are flying near Qarun Lake, Egypt, when they see a formation of eight lights, with two larger ones in the lead, flying southeast. They are the color of “arc welding.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 5 \(May 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5437 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17772 (531CF517) Date: 3/9/1977 Description: 3:10 a.m. Brian Grimshaw and his friend Jeff are driving to a textile factory in Nelson, Lancashire, England, when they see a cigar-shaped, metallic object in the sky. They stop the car for a better look. The UFO has lights at either end that are changing color, and the entire object is surrounded by a gray mist. The witnesses hear a sound they describe as like the tide coming in and going out. As the object comes closer, the car engine stops and the headlights dim. After five minutes, the object flies off and the car restarts. Both witnesses come down with headaches shortly afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tony Grimshaw and Jenny Randles, “[Frightening Car-Stop near Nelson,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 \(August 1977\): 3–5, 12; UFOEv II 223–224; Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley, Part 4,” Fortean Times 328 \(July 2015\): 28–29 Source ID: Eberhart_5438 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17773 (CA3C0921) Date: 3/9/1977 Description: Ellipse with red-orange lights approached, hovered, tingling sensation felt, physiological effects. See Section VI (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nelson, Lancashire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4755 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17774 (6CA26309) Date: 3/9/1977 Description: Brightly lighted ellipse hovered, car engine failed, lights dimmed. Pressure, tingling sensation felt, physiological effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Nelson, North Lancashire, UK Source ID: HallUFOE2_289 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17775 (32934178) Date: 3/9/1977 Description: A cigar-shaped, metallic object appeared in the sky over Nelson, Lancashire, England at 3:10 a.m., so the two witnesses stopped their car for a better look. The UFO had lights at either end that were changing color and the entire object was surrounded by a gray mist. The witnesses heard a sound they described as being like the tide coming in and going out. As the object came quite close, their car's engine stopped and the headlights dimmed. After five minutes, the object flew off and the car could be restarted. Both of the witnesses came down with headaches shortly after the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, Vol. 23, No. 2 Source ID: Johnson_1398 Source: Johnson ### Event 17776 (2630E229) Date: 3/9/1977 Description: 10:40 p.m. Four adult witnesses in Long Grove, Illinois, are attracted outside by a loud crackling noise. Searching around with a powerful spotlight, they see an object 60° up in the northern sky about 1,000 feet up. It is a white, tapered rectangle with a black silhouette behind it about the size of the full moon. They watch it maneuver within the spotlight beam and watch it sporadically for 30 minutes until it vanishes within the beam; the noise stops immediately. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-4-46,” IUR 2, no. 5 \(May 1975\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5440 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17777 (C1736041) Date: 3/10/1977 Description: 4:00 PM. Hoax photo. (APRO Bulletin) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4756 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17778 (359F12A3) Date: 3/10/1977 Description: Indianapolis, Indiana - A 13-year-old boy with the last name of Brandenburg took three photographs of a dark disc-shaped object with a transparent dome near his home shortly before four o'clock in the afternoon, while the UFO was circling the area. The photographs appeared to be genuine, according to APRO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS case files, report dated April 12, 1977; APRO Bulletin, April 1977, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_1411 Source: Johnson ### Event 17779 (FAAF8235) Date: 3/10/1977 Description: 7:40 p.m. Ten crew members of two oil tankers anchored one mile apart at the Arjuna Oil Field in the Java Sea, Indonesia, see an object the apparent size of the full moon. It is primarily dark with a red light in the middle and emits beams of yellowish-white light in two directions. It is only about 1,000 feet above the surface of the water. Coming from the west, it circles the offshore oil field twice and then speeds off to the east after 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 2 \(February 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5441 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17780 (7444ED05) Date: 3/11/1977 Description: Rancher B. T. Bray discovers a 14-foot diameter, circular ring in a paddock at Brayfield Station, southwest of Port Neill, South Australia. No UFO is seen. The topsoil, soft everywhere else, is surprisingly hard in the ring, with the grass in the center undisturbed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adelaide \(S.A.\) Advertiser, March 12, 1977; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5442 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17781 (ED831F7E) Date: 3/12/1977 Description: 9:05 p.m. United Airlines Flight 94 is flying south of Syracuse, New York, on a course toward Boston’s Logan Airport in Massachusetts. Suddenly the airplane starts a gradual, smooth \(15° bank angle\) turn to the left by itself. Within 5–10 seconds both captain Neil Daniels, 57, and the flight officer turn and look to their left side and see an “extremely bright white light at about their own altitude.” It is perfectly round and almost 3° arc in apparent diameter. Daniels estimates its distance to be about 3,000 feet and probably as big or bigger than a DC- 10 in size. Its intensity is like that of a flashbulb. Boston Center calls them and asks, “United 94, where are you going?” Daniels replies, “Well, let me figure this out. I’ll let you know.” Then they notice that “the three compasses were all displaying different readings. The FO’s compass was within 20° arc of the compass in front of the captain and was not rotating. It was then that the FO uncoupled the autopilot and flew the airplane manually.” Meanwhile, the UAP “followed right along with us” for about 4–5 more minutes then “it took off and picked up speed very rapidly and just disappeared, over about 15 seconds, back towards our 8:00 o’clock position and slightly upward.” Daniels asked ATC if they have any radar traffic in the area and they reply, “no.” Later, ATC tells Daniels, “So whatever it was, we don’t know. But it did cause a disruption in the magnetic field around the aircraft to the point where it did pull the aircraft off course.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “[Aviation Safety in America: A](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d02ea1772637c00014776c5/1560472092579/narcap.TR1.AvSafety.pdf) [Previously Neglected Factor,](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d02ea1772637c00014776c5/1560472092579/narcap.TR1.AvSafety.pdf)” NARCAP, October 15, 2000, p. 80; “[Air Force Pilot Neil Daniels Sighting,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50f0FU9U0Js)” Riddlept YouTube channel, October 8, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_5443 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17782 (F468E496) Date: 3/12/1977 Description: 9:05 PM. The pilot and first officer of an United Airlines DC-10 observed a round bright white object. The object had strong effects on the autopilot and the three compasses. (Reference: Catalog of Military, Airline, Private Pilots Sightings from 1916 to 2000 Dominique F. Weinstein) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Syracuse (south of), NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4757 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17783 (7D8862CB) Date: 3/13/1977 Description: Two teenagers near Mandurah, Western Australia observed a globe of light moving in a straight line in the sky at 8:30 p.m. Their car's engine died during the sighting, which lasted only a few seconds, but their car headlights remained on. The object was bluish-white in color and vanished in the distance, still moving at a steady speed. The car's engine then could be restarted with no trouble. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 409, citing ACUFOS Source ID: Johnson_1456 Source: Johnson ### Event 17784 (81AE2E03) Date: 3/13/1977 Description: At 9:00 p.m. Stephen Taylor, age 17, was walking home from a visit to his girlfriend's house in Pen-Y-Cwm, Pembrokeshire, Wales when he saw an orange, luminous, pear-shaped UFO in the sky. He walked to a friend's house to tell him but was not believed. About half a mile further on he noticed that he could not see the lights of farmhouses to his right. Looking closer, he saw that they were obscured by a large dome-shaped object, dark in appearance, about 30 to 40 feet in diameter and 40 feet high, that was resting in the adjacent field. Around its underside there was a dim glow of light. As he watched he heard footsteps, and looking around only a few yards away was a figure "like a skinny human six-foot tall." The being looked "like an old man" with high cheekbones, and had large round eyes resembling those of a fish. Over its mouth was a box like device with a tube leading over the shoulder. It was wearing a one-piece suit that looked semi-transparent. Taylor took a swing at the figure and ran for home. On arrival he found his dog acted strangely toward him, snarling and barking, and had to be put outdoors. The dog behaved normally the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977 -13, citing Randall Jones Pugh, BUFORA Source ID: Johnson_1457 Source: Johnson ### Event 17785 (A4383577) Date: 3/13/1977 Description: 9:00 PM. Stephen Taylor, age 17, was walking home from a visit to his girlfriend's house when he saw an orange, luminous, pear-shaped UFO in the sky. The dog behaved normally the next day. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977 -13, citing Randall Jones Pugh, BUFORA). (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pen-Y-Cwm, Pembrokeshire, Wales Source ID: NICAP_DB_4758 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17786 (E19AF2E6) Date: 3/13/1977 Description: 9:00 PM. Stephen Taylor, age 17, was walking home from a visit to his girlfriend's house when he saw an orange, luminous, pear-shaped UFO in the sky. Around its underside there was a dim glow of light. As he watched he heard footsteps, and looking around only a few yards away was a figure "like a skinny human six-foot tall." HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977 -13, citing Randall Jones Pugh, BUFORA). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pen-Y-Cwm, Pembrokeshire, Wales Source ID: NICAP_DB_4759 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17787 (91B6A180) Date: 3/15/1977 Description: At 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Joan Le Clair and four other local people saw a UFO hovering over some nearby trees in West Jacksonport, Door County, Wisconsin. Mrs. Le Clair looked through binoculars and could see an elongated object, green on top and bottom, with a red band around the center. "There appeared to be another compartment on the bottom of this disc, and I could see windows in this lower part. There appeared to be a figure inside the object." After three minutes the UFO sped away. Other observers of the UFO failed to see the windows or the occupant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sturgeon Bay Advocate, March 17, 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-14 (A1715), citing Thomas Heiman Source ID: Johnson_1528 Source: Johnson ### Event 17788 (9C0AD3F8) Date: Mid 3/1977 Description: Around 11:00 p.m. James Ferguson and Tom Patton are in the desert about 2 miles west of Tucson, Arizona, preparing to take night photographs of saguaro cacti using flash-lighting effects. As they are getting ready to take a photo, the floor of the desert around them suddenly brightens. They see a large mass of light rise from behind a distant range of hills and hover for many minutes just above the horizon. Quickly, they turn the camera on its tripod toward the light and take a time exposure. Several minutes pass and suddenly the light moves rapidly to the north and disappears in the distance. The trail of light on the photo shows the light’s departure. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[1977 Nocturnal Light Photograph Reported,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 1 \(May 1980\): 1; “[Tucson](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf) [1977 Nocturnal Light Remains Unidentified,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 \(August 1980\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5445 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17789 (CC995620) Date: Mid 3/1977 Description: Observers at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran, see 20–25 UFOs flying from the desert toward the city. The pilots and passengers of an Iranian airliner flying at more than 6 miles altitude about 87 miles from the city describe them as yellow in color. A Japanese pilot the same distance south of Tehran switches on all his lights when he sees a huge object in front of his plane. He claims 15–20 smaller objects fly out of the large one directly toward the pilot, who changes course and heads for Mehrabad. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Review of Iranian UFO Reports,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 \(Jan./Feb. 1981\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5444 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17790 (09F0E681) Date: 3/15/1977 Description: 8:30 PM. Mrs. Joan Le Clair and four other local people saw a UFO hovering over some nearby trees. Mrs. Le Clair looked through binoculars and could see an elongated object, green on top and bottom, with a red band around the center. "There appeared to be another compartment on the bottom of this disc, and I could see windows in this lower part. There appeared to be a figure inside the object." (Sources: Sturgeon Bay Advocate, March 17, 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-14 (A1715), citing Thomas Heiman). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: West Jacksonport, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4760 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17791 (5B0D33C3) Date: 3/18/1977 Description: In 1997 several men in cars from Canaan, New Hampshire chased a silent, elongated nocturnal light through three towns at 8:45 p.m. EST. At 8:30 p.m. MST a V formation of fast moving lights, most likely from a single, very large craft, were seen heading toward Prescott, Arizona. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis Ridge, UFO Info News; Michael Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 333 Source ID: Johnson_1556 Source: Johnson ### Event 17792 (CEC7A77E) Date: 3/19/1977 Description: 8:00 p.m. Sylvia Laidler and her daughter Darlene are driving eastbound on Highway 401 near Belleville, Ontario, when a red streak appears in the north. The object stops abruptly over the highway in front of her car, maintaining a red, pulsating glow, then approaches them, flying on the south side of the road at tree-top level. It is triangular with turquoise lights, red flashing lights, and a golden light flashing at the bottom. It hovers silently above them briefly then moves off to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Hovered over Car,” Belleville \(Ont.\) Intelligencer, May 6, 1977; Marler 96–97 Source ID: Eberhart_5446 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17793 (ABB8E637) Date: 3/20/1977 Description: On this night a husband and wife were in a pair of sleeping bags by the seashore in Pebble Beach, California when they saw a bright disc-shaped object come from the ocean straight towards them. The woman had a brief recollection of seeing several tall humanoids without mouths, who communicated with her telepathically and showed her a book. She later recalled that the craft was flat, streamlined, and black in color. A beam of light was shone on the couple and apparently took them inside the UFO. The eyes of the aliens were reportedly black and shiny but rounded towards the nose and did not blink. The aliens were about six and a half to seven feet, thin, with delicate bodies, and very long fingers. They wore skintight one-piece diver outfits like wetsuits. Their heads were completely hairless. The inside of the craft resembled a doctor's office: it was very bright white and warm. The wife was made to lie on a very cold table, where she was strapped down and observed many instruments, one of which made a buzzing sound. The woman had been involved in previous close encounter incidents. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, citing WBS Newsletter, special edition # 4 Source ID: Johnson_1590 Source: Johnson ### Event 17794 (FFD326E0) Date: Spring 1977 Description: Alleged skirmish between U.S. military forces and a landed (or disabled) alien craft. (Case B-13 in Status Report II, Leonard Stringfield; SYMPAP, 1978,77) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lumberton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4747 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17795 (9838BD28) Date: 3/20/1977 Description: On this night a husband and wife were in a pair of sleeping bags by the seashore when they saw a bright disc-shaped object come from the ocean straight towards them. The woman had a brief recollection of seeing several tall humanoids without mouths, who communicated with her telepathically and showed her a book. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pebble Beach, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4761 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17796 (545A39A5) Date: 3/21/1977 Description: 8:50 PM. Two witnesses on a flight at 1500', two UFOs at 1/2-mile range,15 seconds duration. (Haines printout) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4762 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17797 (656F86A3) Date: 3/22/1977 Description: 10:20 a.m. Tom Evison and his wife watch for 15 minutes a bright stationary light an estimated 10 miles north of their location in Seatoun, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. Seen through a telescope, it appears as elongated with black vertical lines. It slowly fades away in place. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 5 \(May 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5447 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17798 (2EE6A1B6) Date: 3/23/1977 Description: 5:40 AM. Snowy morning. Blue lights were ahead which lady thought was a snow plough. One blinking light of unknown shape flew across in; front of her then suddenly 6 to 12 blue lights took up position 2 to 3 feet in front of her slowly traveling car. The car was illuminated with a blue light and static came on radio. (Worley files) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Farmland, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4763 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17799 (D59C03AF) Date: 3/23/1977 Description: 5:40 AM. Snowy morning. Blue lights were ahead which lady thought was a snow plough. One blinking light of unknown shape flew across in; front of her then suddenly 6 to 12 blue lights took up position 2 to 3 feet in front of her slowly traveling car. Next day at spot in road her car radio went dead. (Worley files) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Farmland, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4764 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17800 (6CA2C0B0) Date: 3/24/1977 Description: 8:50 p.m. Witnesses on La Palma and Tenerife, Canary Islands, see a reddish light emerge from the sea, climb very fast, move in a zigzag fashion, and leave behind a huge, bright halo that lasts 10 minutes. Several minutes later, a Scandinavian DC-8 passing over Ad Dakhla on the coast of Western Sahara observes a luminous cloud to the west. A South African Airways jumbo jet describes the same phenomenon. 310 miles to the south, Capt. M. Brackenridge and the crew of the merchant ship Kinpurnie Castle witness a luminous semicircle on the horizon, with a small bright arc inside. In only 3 minutes it has reached colossal dimensions. Seven minutes later, it has completely dispersed, after a second luminous spot appears above it. The sighting correlates with the launch of two Poseidon missiles from the [USS Woodrow Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FWoodrow%5FWilson%5F%28SSBN-624%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FWoodrow%5FWilson%5F%28SSBN-624%29)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy Missile Tests and the Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5448 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17801 (0283C14B) Date: 3/29/1977 Description: 12:30 a.m. A witness in a rural area near West Decatur, Pennsylvania, sees an “upside-down teardrop” object 100–200 feet long and 60 feet wide drift in from the east at treetop level. With the point of the teardrop pointing upward, the gray-brown object features a large panel of fluorescent green light on the bottom. Drifting west into a field, the object makes a sound like a “rope spinning in the air.” Climbing at a 45° angle to a half-mile up in 15 seconds, it levels off and accelerates to the southwest in 8 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-5-43,” IUR 2, no. 5 \(May 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5449 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17802 (51191600) Date: 3/29/1977 Description: Object Tracked on Radar by B-1 Bomber (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [770329](http://www.nicap.org/770329POceandir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: W. of California, Pacific Ocean Source ID: NICAP_DB_4765 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17803 (527FE381) Date: 4/1/1977 Description: 10:40 p.m. A woman is driving her three young children south on the west side of DeRuyter, New York, when she finds herself overtaking and driving underneath a 35–40-foot object hovering 30 feet above the maple trees. The UFO has three outer red and blue lights and a sequential series of red lights in two rows on the center bottom. One mile away, two other witnesses go in search of a red glow without being able to overtake it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-5-46,” IUR 2, no. 5 \(May 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5450 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17804 (48F86851) Date: 4/4/1977 Description: 1:30 AM. A 52-year-old woman was watching jackrabbits by moonlight on the Veterans Administration Hospital grounds when she heard a whirring noise and looked up to see a luminous white UFO coming down for a landing. Then a human like figure, well over six-foot tall with very broad shoulders, walked toward her from the UFO. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4766 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17805 (6D800EDE) Date: 4/4/1977 Description: 8:15 PM.. Susanne Fortier was walking on the lawn behind her house with her collie dog. Whe heard a sound like a "wind or whistle" and she then observed a small object land in the vicinity of the children's playhouse. It was about five feet in diameter, with eight "pods or legs", windows or doors all around it, and an antenna on top. The interior was a bright red, and it contained six three-foot-tall occupants who had long slit-like eyes, ape like noses, and no hair. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977- (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gorham, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4767 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17806 (4A32DC89) Date: 4/4/1977 Description: Tucson, Arizona - A 52-year-old woman was watching jackrabbits by moonlight on the Veterans Administration Hospital grounds at 1:30 a.m. when she heard a whirring noise and looked up to see a luminous white UFO coming down for a landing. It was ellipsoidal in shape with fuzzy contours, and landed approximately 30 to 40 feet away. The top of the object was a soft luminous pink, and something like a horizontal periscope or boom protruded form the right side. The object was about 40 to 50 feet in diameter and about 20 feet high. The whirring ceased when it landed, but she saw no landing gear. Then a human like figure, well over six-foot tall with very broad shoulders, walked toward her from the UFO. She had not seen him emerge through a door in the craft. He wore a silvery one-piece uniform that was tight-fitting, like a frogman's wetsuit, and he had on mitten-like gloves. He spoke to her, saying "I am Onleel, I want to talk with you, come with me." She saw only his eyes and no other facial features. The eyes were large and dark. The voice was probably telepathic and it seemed to come from his eyes. She felt compelled to obey. The next thing she remembers she is inside the ship, with no recollection of how she got onboard.

She followed Onleel through a main central room and through a doorway to a smaller room. In the room are three or four other beings, in general similar to Onleel but smaller in size, between four to five feet tall. They wore brown one-piece suits with boots. Two were seated at a control panel, while the third stood before a screen. They paid no attention to her. She had the impression that might have been female, but there was nothing about their shape to suggest this except their smaller size. The fittings and furniture were all of "spun aluminum" and there was a bright light that illuminated the interior that came from no visible source.

Continued: In the smaller adjacent room Onleel sat the witness down and offered her an aluminum cup with liquid resembling milk. She declined the drink. Then Onleel asked her a number of questions, some of which were of a highly personal nature, indicating that he must already know a great deal about her. He asked her what she would do in various hypothetical situations, and he discussed with her aspects of reincarnation. When asked how she would react to the prospect of facing death, she responded by saying she would accept it. He told her that she was "one of the developing ones---there are many of you scattered all over the planet," and he said they "would be coming back for her." The witness asked when and why, and he answered, "it is not for you to know."

His voice came out in a metallic monotone, like it was computer generated. After the quiz, which lasted perhaps 20 to 30 minutes, she found herself outside the object with no recollection of how she got there, dazed and upset. She was on the street outside the VA Hospital grounds near her own apartment. She got home at about 2:30 a.m. There were many things about her experience she is unable to remember. She had been wearing a new pair of shoes, and that morning she noticed that they were covered with what looked like desert dust and burrs. In a way this confirmed for her the reality of her experience, that it had not been a dream. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-16, citing investigator Fred Dennis Source ID: Johnson_1836 Source: Johnson ### Event 17807 (AC801228) Date: 4/4/1977 Description: Gorham, Coos County, New Hampshire - Mrs. Susanne Fortier was walking on the lawn behind her house with her collie dog at 8:15 p.m. Whe heard a sound like a "wind or whistle" and she then observed a small object land in the vicinity of the children's playhouse. It was about five feet in diameter, with eight "pods or legs", windows or doors all around it, and an antenna on top. The interior was a bright red, and it contained six three-foot-tall occupants who had long slit-like eyes, ape like noses, and no hair. The skin of their faces seemed very wrinkled. They wore gloves. Mrs Fortier could hear "a garble of voices" talking, like a bunch of CB voices, and felt a great deal of heat come from the craft. She watched it for about 15 minutes, after which it rose straight up and flew off to the south. When she got back in the house she found her face and legs red from the heat. Her dog, which reacted noticeably to the object, would still not let her go near the area a month later. No traces were found at the landing site, which had been muddy. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-15, citing investigator Mrs. Lorraine Duchesne, MUFON Source ID: Johnson_1837 Source: Johnson ### Event 17808 (BF727CE3) Date: 4/5/1977 Description: 9:00 p.m. A young couple and others in Lincolnton, North Carolina, see 5–6 red-orange lights hovering 200 feet away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-5-52,” IUR 2, no. 6 \(June 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5452 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17809 (FF0C19F1) Date: 4/5/1977 Description: 2:17 p.m. A pilot driving on I-94 northbound near Deerfield, Illinois, sees an object coming toward him \(southbound\) first in the distance then directly above him later on. It is a silver mushroom three times the apparent size of the moon, and it moves silently toward Chicago against the wind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-5-51,” IUR 2, no. 5 \(May 1977\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5451 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17810 (948836BC) Date: 4/5/1977 Description: 2:17 PM. 1-1.5 mins. Pilot driving on I-94 northbound on a cold, cloudy day (overcast at 5,000') saw object coming toward him (southbound) first in distance then directly above him later on. Described as a silver mushroom three times the apparent size of the moon, moved silently toward Chicago against the wind. (IUR,2,5) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Deerfield, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4768 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17811 (C243CA3F) Date: 4/6/1977 Description: 7:00 PM. The witness, a woman in her thirties living on Rue Cleroux, Ste. was in her kitchen when she saw a strong light come in her back window. When she raised the blind she saw a disc-shaped object with a dazzling, pulsating white luminosity, about 35 feet in diameter. After four or five minutes a humanoid being appeared, visible from the waist up because of the terrain. He had a helmeted head, shiny red and metallic shoulders, and was seen from the rear. He appeared in front of the object. (Sources: Marc Leduc, UFO Quebec, April 1977, issue # 10; HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-74, citing Marc Leduc). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ste. Dorothee, Quebec, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4769 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17812 (384314BE) Date: 4/6/1977 Description: The witness, a woman in her thirties living on Rue Cleroux, Ste. Dorothee, Quebec, Canada was in her kitchen at seven p.m. when she saw a strong light come in her back window. When she raised the blind she saw a disc-shaped object with a dazzling, pulsating white luminosity, about 35 feet in diameter. It was hovering several yards above a tree 35 feet tall. It bore a pulsating red luminous domed cupola on top without windows. Around its lower periphery revolved yellow, green, blue, and red blinking lights. She heard a buzzing sound like a huge swarm of bees.

After watching the UFO for perhaps 15 seconds, she ran to her bathroom and hid. Two minutes later the noise and the light ceased. She went out on the street in front of her house where she found a 13-year-old boy, Jos Madison, pointing a carbine at the sky. The now silent disc-shaped UFO was hovering 100 feet up in a tilted position. Jos did not fire his gun, but called to his friend Alair Narby, also 13 years old. Jos's two sisters also joined them and watched the UFO, which was now moving from place to place above the houses by jumps too rapid to observe. It then stopped in place for more than five minutes, during which Mrs. Madison came out and also observed it.

Now after sunset, the UFO moved off toward the Nadon River, where it again dashed back and forth. The two boys followed it to the Nadon field by the river, in which there was a temporary pond formed by melted snow. They saw the UFO approach the river, flying very low, and it skimmed over the pond producing a loud sizzle of boiling water. It then landed behind a slight rise. It then emitted a very strident sharp sound. After four or five minutes a humanoid being appeared, visible from the waist up because of the terrain. He had a helmeted head, shiny red and metallic shoulders, and was seen from the rear. He appeared in front of the object. Above his head was a red light, apparently floating in midair. He looked to the right and left, then bent down and was not seen again. Shortly afterward the disc rose, lit up, and at an altitude of about 65 feet resumed its erratic movements. Darkness had fallen and the boys returned home, finally running because it seemed to them the UFO was following them. They temporarily suffered partial deafness, perhaps from the UFO's noise. At least three families on the block experienced total interference with their TV reception during this time. At the landing site different tracks and what appeared to be footprints were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Marc Leduc, UFO Quebec, April 1977, issue # 10; HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-74, citing Marc Leduc Source ID: Johnson_1870 Source: Johnson ### Event 17813 (2DA52E76) Date: 4/7/1977 Description: Mr. Cyril John, age 64, a former local political leader, was up early for an early start to London at 5:00 a.m. in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales when he noticed a light shining in his bedroom window. Looking out he observed two objects. The first was a silvery-gray egg-shaped object with a bright orange-red light on top of it. It was about four feet across and was rocking gently in the air about 60 meters away. The second was a seven to eight foot tall humanoid figure, who floated in the air with arms out and legs bent back, like a "free fall parachutist." There was only about 35 feet between the man and the observer. No features could be seen on the figure's face, and it wore a uniformly silver-gray "boiler suit." It remained motionless in the air for more than 25 minutes. Then both the being and the ovoid object began slowly moving off, gradually disappearing from view in the distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-17 [A1719], citing Randall Jones Pugh, British UFO Research Association Source ID: Johnson_1887 Source: Johnson ### Event 17814 (56DD4FD6) Date: 4/7/1977 Description: 5:00 AM. Mr. Cyril John, age 64, a former local political leader, was up early for an early start to London when he noticed a light shining in his bedroom window. Looking out he observed two objects. The first was a silvery-gray egg-shaped object with a bright orange-red light on top of it. It was about four feet across and was rocking gently in the air about 60 meters away. The second was a seven to eight foot tall humanoid figure, who floated in the air with arms out and legs bent back, like a "free fall parachutist." (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-17 \[A1719\], citing Randall Jones Pugh, British UFO Research Association). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales Source ID: NICAP_DB_4770 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17815 (EE91D636) Date: 4/8/1977 Description: A domed disc-shaped object flew around two witnesses in Cedar Springs, Michigan at two o'clock in the morning, hovering and flashing over some nearby trees. Ring ground marks were found on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS files, report dated April 10, 1977 Source ID: Johnson_1904 Source: Johnson ### Event 17816 (B1AE145A) Date: 4/8/1977 Description: 10:35 p.m. A cigar-shaped object glowing red at each end darts north to south across Interstate 64 in Lexington, Kentucky, several times. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-5-80,” IUR 2, no. 6 \(June 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5455 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17817 (C7F87E4F) Date: 4/8/1977 Description: 2:00 a.m. A domed disc-shaped object flies around two witnesses in Cedar Springs, Michigan, hovering and flashing over some nearby trees. Ring ground marks are later found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-5-57,” IUR 2, no. 5 \(May 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5453 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17818 (7D6E8C16) Date: 4/8/1977 Description: 2:00 AM. A domed disc-shaped object flew around two witnesses, hovering and flashing over some nearby trees. Ring ground marks were found on the ground. (Source: CUFOS files, report dated April 10, 1977). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cedar Springs, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4771 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17819 (634E0AB0) Date: 4/8/1977 Description: 8:08 p.m. A teenager and his mother in St. Louis, Missouri, watch a flat disc four times the width of the moon silhouetted against the clouds. It has three steady white lights around its edges and moves silently from a high angle in the east to a low angle in the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-5-58,” IUR 2, no. 6 \(June 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5454 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17820 (05546FCC) Date: 4/10/1977 Description: 2:30 a.m. Martha and Olof Eriksson watch a yellow light with a red “textile-like” appendage hanging below it at Flykälen, Jämtland, Sweden. It is 100 feet in diameter and moving from south to north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5456 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17821 (6E2F1FAB) Date: 4/12/1977 Description: At 3:30 p.m. two young girls walking under a highway overpass by a canal in Tucson, Arizona and were following a path up a small hill when they saw a UFO hovering above some nearby brush. The craft was dark gray, metallic, and shaped like a drum. It had four to six long spider like legs hanging from its bottom. The UFO rose slowly and disappeared towards the southeast following a curved path. From out of some bushes beneath where the object had been hovering, a thin, human-like figure emerged. It had long brown hair and was wearing a blue top and dark pants, but it also wore strange looking boots. Behind the thin figure five other shorter figures appeared. The group walked briskly away in single file, towards the desert and into the distance where they could no longer be seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1810, citing Virgilio Sanchez Ocejo, Destino, Vol. 27 # 3, quoting APRO Source ID: Johnson_1985 Source: Johnson ### Event 17822 (B82EC8A4) Date: 4/12/1977 Description: On this night in Herbrandston, Dyfed, Wales there was a red glow in the sky when an 11-year-old boy reported seeing a figure 50 meters away dressed in a silver diver suit, wearing a large helmet and with a square, featureless face. The being drifted through a closed gate on a country lane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hugh Turnbull, FSR, June 1977, p. 6, citing Western Telegraph, April 28, 1977 Source ID: Johnson_1984 Source: Johnson ### Event 17823 (3FF0D891) Date: 4/12/1977 Description: 3:30 PM. Two young girls walking under a highway overpass by a canal in were following a path up a small hill when they saw a UFO hovering above some nearby brush. From out of some bushes beneath where the object had been hovering, a thin, human-like figure emerged. It had long brown hair and was wearing a blue top and dark pants, but it also wore strange looking boots. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1810, citing Virgilio Sanchez Ocejo, Destino, Vol. 27 # 3, quoting APRO). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4773 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17824 (61F0842B) Date: 4/12/1977 Description: Shortly before 11:00 a.m. a woman in the city of Oxelosund, Sweden heard a shrill whistling sound. A brown, four-meter diameter disc hovered 100m over a water tower. It had an antenna with a sphere on top. It hovered in place for four seconds. When the UFO departed a strong noise was heard causing windows to vibrate. It left toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Information Sweden, May 1977, p. 17; Bertil Soderquist, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1978, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_1983 Source: Johnson ### Event 17825 (D7A34E86) Date: 4/12/1977 Description: Humanoid report. No details. (EGBA,680) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rising Sun, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4772 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17826 (09676E5E) Date: 4/12/1977 Description: at 11 p.m. in Henschen, Indiana a couple were driving to their trailer home and had to make a stop to change their baby's diaper. As the husband looked for a diaper in the car he glanced out a window and saw a twelve foot tall hairy creature with fierce glowing red eyes. The creature uttered some guttural sounds and made an apparent aggressive move towards the car. They drove off quickly, but the creature chased their vehicle as they attempted to flee. It pounded angrily on their car and dented it, flinging its arms up and down. The following night the couple saw a similar creature perched near a tree that was overlooking their mobile home. The creature took several steps towards the house and was shot at by the husband several times, at which point it seemed to jump up and disappeared in plain sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1710, citing Jim Barnett, UFOs and Alien Encounters # 1 Source ID: Johnson_1986 Source: Johnson ### Event 17827 (032E5B4E) Date: 4/14/1977 Description: 2:00 AM. Three witnesses on board a flight at 31,000'. Seen briefly four times. Radar and E-M. (Haines printout) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Luxembourg, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_4774 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17828 (154C442C) Date: 4/14/1977 Description: 2:00 a.m. Captain Scherrer, Senior First Officer Schmid, and hostess Rothenhofer are on board Swissair Flight SR-798 near Maastricht, Netherlands. Schmid notices the first of four “lightning-like lights” in an otherwise clear sky. Ground radar calls the plane’s attention to a target 15 miles away at their 1 o’clock position. The crew sees two targets briefly at that position but only on radar. Then all three of them see another flash. Maastricht radar watches the target fall back east of the plane and rush at high speed back to a 1 or 2 o’clock position only 3 miles away. There is still no visual contact. A few minutes later, a third silent lightning-like flash is seen just in front of the airliner. Maastricht radar watches the target playing with the plane behind its tail and right wing, where the fourth flash is seen. A military radar places the speed of the target when moving fast at Mach 4 or 5. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 6 \(June 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5457 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17829 (089CDDAB) Date: 4/16/1977 Description: An object consisting of two spherical lights that flickered back and forth between orange and deep red appeared to hover over Bushey, Watford, England. It approached and then suddenly vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, October 1977, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_2059 Source: Johnson ### Event 17830 (A6137498) Date: 4/17/1977 End date: 4/23/1977 Description: An International Congress on the UFO Phenomenon is held in Acapulco, Mexico, organized by Mexico City businessman Guillermo Bravo. Speakers include [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek), [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e), [John A. Keel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FKeel), William Spaulding, [Walt Andrus,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152550777/walter-harrison-andrus) and [Dennis Hauck](https://prabook.com/web/dennis.hauck/219952). Prime Minister [Eric Gairy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FGairy) makes a strong plea for a United Nations program to investigate UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “‘First’ International Congress on the UFO Phenomenon,” IUR 2, no. 5 \(May 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5459 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17831 (80B7CE0E) Date: 4/17/1977 Description: 4:00 p.m. A woman in La Louvière, Hainaut, Belgium, watches a flat cylinder with faceted sides move from the southwest to northeast. The object is dark, seems solid, and emits no smoke or trail. It moves in a straight line with an oscillation in the same direction as the wind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5458 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17832 (CC29C3DC) Date: 4/17/1977 Description: At around 4:00 p.m. a 67-year-old woman in La Louviere, Belgium sighted a solid, dark, flat cylinder-shaped object with faceted sides. It oscillated as it flew from southwest to northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1977, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_2090 Source: Johnson ### Event 17833 (572E4CD1) Date: 4/17/1977 Description: On a clear night at 4:30 a.m. a rectangular craft with windows was sighted by a 36-year-old man in North Haven, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. It made no sound as it flew. It speed was under 100 mph as it traveled to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kel Blackman, ACOS Bulletin, December 1977, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_2089 Source: Johnson ### Event 17834 (DE0771D2) Date: 4/18/1977 Description: About 12:05 a.m. George Thrupp and Margaret Mancour of the weather office at Vancouver International Airport in British Columbia have just gotten off their shift when they see a “blue flash” over the airport. It appears in the south sky above Richmond. The light is coming from a cigar-shaped object larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet that is orange on the top half and blue on the bottom half with dark portholes along the side. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Pair Sight UFO](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96850575/the-vancouver-sun/) [at City Airport,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96850575/the-vancouver-sun/)” Vancouver \(B.C.\) Sun, April 19, 1977, p. 35 Source ID: Eberhart_5460 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17835 (1E316FB1) Date: 4/18/1977 Description: White House Press Secretary [Jody Powell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody%5FPowell) states in the “Washington Whispers” column of US News and World Report that “before the year is out” there will be “unsettling disclosures” about UFOs, “based on information from the CIA.” Later, the White House claims the story is a “misunderstanding” by Powell. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert Scheaffer, “[‘UFO Disclosure’ Happening Again This Year,](https://skepticalinquirer.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/09/SI-SO-16-16.pdf)” Skeptical Inquirer 40, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 2016\): 16– 17 Source ID: Eberhart_5461 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17836 (340DACC3) Date: 4/18/1977 Description: At 1:20 a.m. a Mr. O'Connor reported seeing occupants inside a UFO from the Veterans Administration Hospital in Tucson, Arizona. Mr. Thrupp and Mr. Mancor, two weathermen in Vancouver, British Columbia watched an orange and blue cigar-shaped UFO with black portholes pass over the city in the predawn sky. It flashed as it went from south to north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Center for UFO Studies case files, June 1977, International UFO Reporter, August 1977, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_2120 Source: Johnson ### Event 17837 (51F1ECB5) Date: 4/19/1977 Description: 2:00 AM. The radio of hotel owner Rosa Gremville suddenly went dead. Moments later she heard a loud humming noise outside and looking out she was dazzled by a "huge moon lighting up the area, moving about like a seesaw." It descended and landed in a field 100 yards behind the hotel. Burn marks were found on the ground at the site the next day. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-18; Randall Jones Pugh, FSR, August 1977, p. 6 for BUFORA). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Little Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales Source ID: NICAP_DB_4776 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17838 (CC6F5150) Date: 4/19/1977 Description: 2:00 AM. The radio of hotel owner Rosa Gremville suddenly went dead. Moments later she heard a loud humming noise outside and looking out she was dazzled by a "huge moon lighting up the area, moving about like a seesaw." It descended and landed in a field 100 yards behind the hotel. "It was round, with flames coming from the top of a dome. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-18; Randall Jones Pugh, FSR, August 1977, p. 6 for BUFORA). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Little Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales Source ID: NICAP_DB_4775 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17839 (2466991F) Date: 4/19/1977 Description: Santiago Laco Ozano, 32, is milking cows in Rocha, Uruguay, when he hears a strange noise as the area around him is illuminated. Looking up, he sees a small object giving off a powerful beam of light. He faints, and on recovering about 5 minutes later, notices his hair is slightly burned. He is admitted to a nearby hospital, whose personnel verify the singeing and that his scalp has no lesions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 1 \(January 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5462 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17840 (17915E94) Date: 4/19/1977 Description: 2:00 AM. The radio of hotel owner Rosa Gremville suddenly went dead. Moments later she heard a loud humming noise outside and looking out she was dazzled by a "huge moon lighting up the area, moving about like a seesaw." It descended and landed in a field 100 yards behind the hotel. Two creatures 8 or 9-feet tall emerged from the dome through the flames. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-18; Randall Jones Pugh, FSR, August 1977, p. 6 for BUFORA). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Little Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales Source ID: NICAP_DB_4777 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17841 (2C308FA4) Date: 4/19/1977 Description: Early morning. Rosa Granville, proprietor of the Haven Fort Hotel in Little Haven, Pembroke, Wales, is disturbed by a strange humming noise. She looks out a window and sees an oval-shaped object “like the moon falling down” land behind her home. Two tall humanoids appear in front of the UFO, which is about the size of a minibus. They have blank faces and pointed heads and are wearing white outfits like boiler suits. They appear to “take measurements or gather things” and climb a grassy bank in a field. When she returns to the window after calling other family members, the object and the figures have vanished. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 96](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n157/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5463 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17842 (73C3C304) Date: 4/19/1977 Description: Little Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales. At two o'clock in the morning the radio of hotel owner Rosa Gremville suddenly went dead. Moments later she heard a loud humming noise outside and looking out she was dazzled by a "huge moon lighting up the area, moving about like a seesaw." It descended and landed in a field 100 yards behind the hotel. "It was round, with flames coming from the top of a dome. There was a light on it, like a pulsating star." Two creatures 8 or 9-feet tall emerged from the dome through the flames. They wore cream or silvery colored jumpsuits. She could see no facial features nor any hair on these creatures, eventhough see tried to discern what they looked like through a pair of binoculars. They looked as though they had hands, but she saw no fingers. "I though their feet were webbed." The figures walked around near the object for about 15 minutes. Mrs. Gremville wanted to scream, but she had lost her voice. She went in search of another witness and when they returned the UFO and humanoid figures had gone. Burn marks were found on the ground at the site the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-18; Randall Jones Pugh, FSR, August 1977, p. 6 for BUFORA Source ID: Johnson_2138 Source: Johnson ### Event 17843 (82F117E1) Date: 4/19/1977 Description: At 5:00 a.m. in Rocha, Uruguay a small UFO landed on a dairy farm. The witness to the event fainted and his hair was singed by a close encounter with the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, January 1978, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_2139 Source: Johnson ### Event 17844 (5D81E167) Date: 4/20/1977 Description: Mark Marston, age 11, was looking for bird's nests in a hedge in Herbrandston, Pembrokeshire, Wales when "a red glow appeared in the sky 50 yards away." A few moments later a figure appeared and drifted through a closed gate at the other end of the field. It was dressed in a silver suit, like a diver, with a large helmet and a square, featureless face. It approached Mark rapidly, who turned and fled for home, screaming. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977, citing Randall Jones Pugh for BUFORA Source ID: Johnson_2162 Source: Johnson ### Event 17845 (357A4F17) Date: 4/20/1977 Description: Mark Marston, age 11, was looking for bird's nests in a hedge when "a red glow appeared in the sky 50 yards away." A few moments later a figure appeared and drifted through a closed gate at the other end of the field. It was dressed in a silver suit, like a diver, with a large helmet and a square, featureless face. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Herbrandston, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4778 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17846 (D01A0506) Date: 4/21/1977 Description: Bill Bartlett, age 17, was driving on Farm Street in Dover, Massachusetts with two friends at 11:30 at night when he saw a creature on the top of a stone wall, about 20 feet away. It was between 3.5 and 4 feet tall and had a small, slender body with a very large melon-shaped head, showing no features except two large round orange glowing eyes. Its skin was gray, "like the color of a shark," and it had large hands and feet with digits that appeared to wrap around whatever supported them. It turned its head slowly to stare at them. Bill drove away quickly, but his companions had not seen it. An artist, he made a drawing later for investigators, now widely reproduced in many sources. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-20, citing Loren Coleman, Joseph Nyman, & Walter Webb Source ID: Johnson_2192 Source: Johnson ### Event 17847 (55AB8655) Date: 4/21/1977 Description: 7:15 p.m. A couple in Towson, Maryland, sees a gray capsule with short, stubby wings, two yellow headlights, and no windows. Several times the full moon, the object flies silently from low in the east to above their car in 4 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-6-5,” IUR 2, no. 6 \(June 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5464 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17848 (A79CB97F) Date: 4/22/1977 Description: 3:10 a.m. Three witnesses in Washburn, Wisconsin, see a flat, round object with five white lights on its rim and two red lights on its bottom. It pursues their car for three-quarters of a mile, even around curves and driving at 90 mph. The object overshoots them, slows down, and moves only 30 feet in front of them. After 4 minutes it accelerates in a steep climb toward the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 4-22-77,” IUR 2, no. 6 \(June 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5465 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17849 (B4C55DF1) Date: 4/22/1977 Description: Five hours later, in Yatala Vale, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia a solid-looking UFO with light beams caused a 19-year-old woman's motor vehicle's engine to stall at 11:45 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield case investigation files, case S050 Source ID: Johnson_2231 Source: Johnson ### Event 17850 (C1D8C04C) Date: 4/22/1977 Description: Four hours after the humanoid encounter in Massachusetts, at 3:10 a.m. CDT in Washburn, Wisconsin three witnesses chased a fuzzy appearing disc in their car at speeds of up to 90 mph around curves. The object maintained a distance 30 feet overhead of them, in front of theiur car. After a few minutes it climbed, and shot off to the southwest. The sighting lasted a total of 5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 3; UNICAT, case # 210 Source ID: Johnson_2230 Source: Johnson ### Event 17851 (749FDD14) Date: 4/22/1977 Description: At 12:30 a.m. John Baxter, age 15, was walking home from his girlfriend's house along a road off Farm Street, 1.2 miles from the previous night's humanoid sighting, when he saw a short, ape-like creature with a very large "figure-8" shaped head on Miller Road in Dover, Massachusetts. Its eyes looked like two lighter circles in the center of its head. A sketch of the creature matched the one made the night before by a 17-year-old man who saw the creature on top of a stone fence next to Farm Street. There was a third sighting of the creature the following night by two teenage girls driving down a road in Dover. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases A1722-A1724, citing Loren Coleman; Jerome Clark, Fate, March 1978, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_2229 Source: Johnson ### Event 17852 (F4F6A80B) Date: 4/23/1977 Description: In Dover, Massachusetts shortly before midnight Will Taintor, age 18, was driving Miss Abby Brabham, age 15, home. At a point 1.2 miles east-northeast of the Baxter sighting the previous night, they saw a small figure crouching on all fours, facing their car, in the lefthand lane of the road. It looked like a hairless, beige-colored small ape, but with a very large, oblong-shaped head. It had two large round eyes in the center of its head, which glowed green in the car's headlights. No nose, ears, or tail could be seen. They drove past within eight feet of the creature, which Abby observed closely for about five seconds. Her companion, occupied with driving the car, only glimpsed it briefly. Neither of them knew of the other earlier sightings at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-22 (A1724), citing Loren Coleman, Joseph Nyman & Walter Webb; Jerome Clark, Fate, March 1978, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_2261 Source: Johnson ### Event 17853 (8C276CFE) Date: 4/23/1977 Description: At around 1:00 a.m. Mrs. Pauline Coombs, age 31, and her husband Billy, age 36, were watching television at their Ripperston farm near Little Haven, Dyfed, Wales when they saw a silver-suited figure outside their window. Pauline had seen it first, but she said nothing about it to her husband until he himself saw it. "It must have been over seven-foot tall, because we could not see its face." It was described as three feet wide, surrounded by a luminous glow. Its box shaped helmet framed a dark square area in which no face was visible. They called the BUFORA investigator Randall Jones Pugh, and the police immediately, but the figure had gone before they arrived. Mrs Coombs and her family had been involved in two other UFO incidents prior to this encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hugh Turnbull, FSR, June 1977, p. 6, citing Western Telegraph, April 28, 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-23, citing Randall Jones Pugh, for BUFORA Source ID: Johnson_2260 Source: Johnson ### Event 17854 (790A2E72) Date: 4/23/1977 Description: 9:30 p.m. Pilot William Sorum and copilot Richard Drzal are flying a DC-10, Northwest Orient Flight 27, from Seattle, Washington, to Anchorage, Alaska. About 50 miles east of Middleton Island, Alaska, they see a bright white star moving smoothly from the southern horizon across their field of view to the northern horizon for about 40 seconds. It passes in front of them at a 45° above them at their altitude of 39,000 feet. Radar Approach Controller Terry Siegrist and others at Anchorage International Airport see a linear flight of four separate unidentifiable blips suddenly appear on radar screens at 30 miles distance from the city, covering 10 miles in 6–12 seconds \(3,600 mph\). Correlation between the two observations is not established. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Radar/Visual in Alaska,” IUR 2, no. 7 \(July 1977\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5466 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17855 (EE0A1774) Date: 4/24/1977 Description: At around one o'clock in the morning Mrs. Pauline Coombs, age 31, and her husband Billy, age 36, were watching television at their Ripperston farm near Dale, Pembrokeshire, Wales when they saw a silver suited figure at their window. Pauline saw it first, but said nothing to her husband until he saw it himself. "It must have been over seven feet tall," because it was too tall to see its face." It was quite wide--about three feet--and surrounded by a luminous glow. It was wearing a box-shaped helmet that framed a dark squarish area in which no face was visible. They called Randall Jones Pugh, the BUFORA investigator, and the police immediately, but the figure had gone before either arrived. Mrs. Coombs and her family had been involved in several other close encounter incidents prior and after this encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-23, citing Randall Jones Pugh, BUFORA Source ID: Johnson_2283 Source: Johnson ### Event 17856 (FCD5A430) Date: 4/25/1977 Description: 3:45 a.m. Eight soldiers camped on a military patrol 3 miles from Putre, Arica y Parinacota, Chile, suddenly see two bright violet lights nearby. The soldiers’ dog and horses remain still while the lights hover nearby. The leader of the group, Corporal Armando Valdés Garrido, orders the other soldiers to put out their campfire. The two large lights are about a half-mile away and hovering close to the ground. Valdés approaches the lights, ordering them to identify themselves. At this point a bright light envelops Valdés and he apparently vanishes in a mist in plain view of the others. The soldiers frantically begin searching for him but are unable to find him. At around 4:15 a.m., Valdés suddenly reappears. He has a strange look on his face and he gives out a sinister laugh, asking several times where his mother is. Then he says, again in a very sinister sounding voice, “You will never know who we are and where we come from.” The others notice that he appears to have a week’s growth of beard, whereas he had been clean-shaven just an hour ago, and his digital watch indicates the impossible date of April 30. He is almost in hysterics and one of the soldiers has to slap him, at which point Valdés faints. One of the other soldiers, Raúl Salinas, who has been standing a few feet in back of the others, notices a strange humanoid creature behind some nearby rocks. He describes it as half animal and half human; no facial features are visible, but it seems to be wearing a helmet and is carrying a red light. Salinas is stunned to see the creature appear at several places simultaneously. He thinks that there might be several humanoids. He does not mention this to the others at the time, since they are already scared, but the others do not see the humanoid or humanoids. When Valdés wakes up he cannot remember where he has been. In 2013, Valdés, now an evangelical pastor, admits that no one on the patrol saw aliens—only that they saw something that frightened them. He claims he only left the group to go urinate. Many ufologists now feel that the Chilean government encouraged the abduction scenario to mask the presence of troops and horses in northern Chile in the event of a war with Argentina or a regional conflict. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Caso Cabo Valdés](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso%5FCabo%5FVald%C3%A9s)”; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 7 \(July 1977\): 2; “[The Chilean Abduction,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201977%2007%2000%20-%20Vol%2026%20No%201.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 1 \(July 1977\): 1, 3; “Cabo Valdés se confiesa: ‘Nunca me abdujeron,’” La Cuarta, February 18, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_5467 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17857 (301E1FBC) Date: 4/25/1977 Description: 3:50 AM. Eight soldiers on a military patrol suddenly saw a bright light nearby. The soldiers' dog and horses remained still while the lights hovered nearby. The leader of the group, Corporal Armando Valdes, ordered the other soldiers to put out their campfire. The two large lights were about 800 meters away, and hovering close to the ground. Cpl. Valdes suddenly reappeared. He had a strange look on his face and he emitted a sinister laugh, asking several times where his mother was. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 3062, citing Diego Contreras & Raul Nunez). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pampa Lluscuma, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_4779 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17858 (AEB1694D) Date: 4/25/1977 Description: At 3:50 a.m. eight soldiers on a military patrol on the Pampa Lluscuma, Chile suddenly saw a bright light nearby. The soldiers' dog and horses remained still while the lights hovered nearby. The leader of the group, Corporal Armando Valdes, ordered the other soldiers to put out their campfire. The two large lights were about 800 meters away, and hovering close to the ground. Cpl. Valdes approached the lights, ordering them to identify themselves. At this point a bright light enveloped Valdes and he vanished in plain view of the others. The others began frantically searching for him but they were unable to find him. At around 4:15 a.m. Valdes suddenly reappeared. He had a strange look on his face and he emitted a sinister laugh, asking several times where his mother was. Then he said, again in a very sinister sounding voice, "you will never know who we are and where we come from."

The others noticed that he appeared to have a week's growth of beard, whereas he had been clean-shaven just an hour ago, and his digital watch indicated the impossible date of April 30. He was almost in hysterics and one of the soldiers had to slap him, at which point he fainted. One of the other soldiers, Raul Salinas, who had been standing a few meters back of the others, noticed a strange humanoid creature behind some nearby rocks. He described it as half animal and half human; no facial features were visible, but it seemed to be wearing a helmet and was carrying a red light. Salinas was stunned to see the creature appear at several places simultaneously, he thought that maybe it could have been several humanoids. He did not mention this to the others at the time, since they were already scared, but the others did not see the humanoid or humanoids. When Valdes woke up he could not remember where he had been. It is assumed the Chilean military conducted various medical tests on Valdes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 3062, citing Diego Contreras & Raul Nunez Source ID: Johnson_2303 Source: Johnson ### Event 17859 (28A060D2) Date: 4/26/1977 Description: Two witnesses, including a 31-year-old woman named Coombes, reported that a 7-8-foot tall luminous silver figure, three feet wide, looked in a window for an hour in Milford Haven, England on this night. The humanoid form, whose face was black with no features, vanished when a neighbor drove up. An orb chased the car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1977, p. 2, citing a newspaper clipping Source ID: Johnson_2346 Source: Johnson ### Event 17860 (359FB3CC) Date: 4/26/1977 Description: Pauline Coombes reports seeing a luminous silver figure 7–8 feet tall looking into her window at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, for an hour. She doesn’t say anything until her son notices it too. Humanoid in form, the figure’s face is black and featureless; it vanishes when a neighbor drives up. Two weeks earlier, a yellow sphere had chased her car; she accelerated to 80 mph to escape it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5468 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17861 (A1F3E3F8) Date: 4/29/1977 Description: 11:45 p.m. A woman and her daughter are driving north of Oxford, Ohio, when a white light begins pacing their car on the left about 180 feet away. They speed up and pass it after 3 minutes. The mother only sees a light, but the daughter perceives a “saucer with a vertical cone.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-6-34,” IUR 2, no. 6 \(June 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5470 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17862 (8897B2B5) Date: 4/29/1977 Description: A car being driven by a 47-year-old woman and accompained by another female passenger was paced by a white glowing objectin Oxford, Ohio for three minutes. The description of the shape differed, but one of the women described it as a disc-shaped object. The incident occurred near a Nike missile base. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_2411 Source: Johnson ### Event 17863 (66EB36B5) Date: 4/29/1977 Description: A car being driven by a 47-year-old woman and accompained by another female passenger was paced by a white glowing object for three minutes. The description of the shape differed, but one of the women described it as a disc-shaped object. The incident occurred near a Nike missile base. (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 3). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oxford, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4780 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17864 (3B6BC858) Date: 4/29/1977 Description: Manuel Lopez, the pilot of a single-engine plane, is allegedly blinded in flight by a UFO near Bogotá, Colombia. Circling in the air for 2 hours, Lopez’s calls for help are recorded and played on a local radio station: “I’ve lost my sight; I don’t know what to do!” Four aircraft surround him and talk him down to a safe landing at El Dorado International Airport by radio. He is rushed to a military hospital suffering from shock. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Colombian](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97175208/) [Pilot Says UFO Blinded Him,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97175208/)” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 7, 1977, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5469 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17865 (6721D910) Date: 5/1977 Description: [Leonard H. Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield)’s Situation Red: The UFO Siege! is published, supporting the thesis that the US military has acquired extraterrestrial hardware and possibly bodies. The book immediately prompts dozens of alleged first- hand witnesses of crashed UFOs or alien bodies to contact Stringfield with their stories. One of his informants is a medical doctor \(“Doctor X”\) who says he has conducted medical tests on alien cadavers at a major medical facility in the eastern US. Stringfield is later able to visit Doctor X and a colleague of his, Doctor Y, who has examined an alien tissue sample under a microscope. The aliens are said to be 3.5–4.5 feet tall, weighing 40 pounds, with large heads. They have slender torsos and long, thin arms. Their skin is tan or gray, elastic, and reminiscent of reptilian skin. A colorless liquid is present in the bodies; there are no red cells. The eyes are slanted without pupils, and they have heavy brow ridges, apertures in place of ears, small noses, and slitlike mouths. They have no teeth. Doctor X avoids Stringfield’s later questions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege! Doubleday, 1977; UFOEv II 593 Source ID: Eberhart_5471 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17866 (1CEAB5B5) Date: 5/1977 Description: A young radio technician is lying in bed during a power blackout in Gloggnitz, Austria. Suddenly a hollow globe about 1.6 feet in diameter and made up of separate red bars of light appears over the bedroom floor. It begins moving slowly and silently toward a glass door. The witness jumps out of bed, bumping into the ball of light with his leg. He feels nothing and there are no aftereffects. The bars of light begin to shrink in diameter, causing the ball to dim and disappear. No traces are left behind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5472 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17867 (E0D77980) Date: 5/1977 Description: Groupe d'Etude des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-Identifies (GEPAN) organized under the auspices of the French national space agency for the study of UFOs. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: France Source ID: HallUFOE2_290 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17868 (1B810230) Date: 5/1/1977 Description: The Groupe d’Etude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non Identifiés \(GEPAN\) is founded as a section of France’s Centre National d’Études Spatiales on the initiative of CNES Director [Yves Sillard](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves%5FSillard). Its purpose is to quiet public fears about a flurry of UFO sightings, as well as to coordinate reports of the Gendarmerie, civil aviation, the Air Force, and the meteorological service. Its first director is aeronautical engineer [Claude Poher](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%5FPoher). GEPAN sets up a Scientific Council of astronomers and other scientists and professionals to put in place data- collection systems for UFO reports from official agencies and investigate cases already reported. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jean-Pierre Petit, “[The Truth about G.E.P.A.N.,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201990%20V%2035%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 35, no. 4 \(December 1990\): 22–24; Mark Rodeghier, ed., “The 1999 French Report on UFOs and Defense,” IUR 25, no. 2 \(Summer 2000\): 20–21; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 11–13; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 12–13: Swords 440–442; Good Above, [pp. 135–136](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/134/mode/2up); Clark III 546 Source ID: Eberhart_5474 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17869 (7BBEF376) Date: 5/1/1977 Description: 2:00 a.m. Amateur astronomer Lev Boethin sees a red-brown oval object 10 times the size of the moon near Mudeng, Philippines. It moves silently from the southeast to the northwest parallel to the ground 20° above the horizon. He estimates it is only 300 feet away and moving faster than an aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 6 \(June 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5473 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17870 (ABB85C23) Date: 5/3/1977 Description: 9:20 p.m. A woman in Wilcox, Pennsylvania, sees a large silver sphere with many blue lights around its equator. The object hovers close to the west side of her house, casting a spotlight on the ground. It begins moving and disappears straight up in one second. Her two dogs refuse to go near the spot afterward and are fussy about eating. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-6-53,” IUR 2, no. 6 \(June 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5477 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17871 (D2C4DAA8) Date: 5/3/1977 Description: At 9:20 p.m. on a clear night a 29-year-old woman in Wilcox, Elk County, Pennsylvania sighted a large silver sphere near a power plant that had many lights in the middle and was not revolving. It directed a spotlight down, and after 10 minutes shot straight up. There was some kind of animal reaction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_2481 Source: Johnson ### Event 17872 (01347C26) Date: 5/3/1977 Description: 3:55 a.m. A caller tells police in Hainault, northeast London, that a strange object is above the small lake in Hainault Forest Country Park. Two policemen are dispatched, and they see a “large bright red light” on the eastern shore. They exit their vehicle and notice an object like a “bell tent” about 900 feet away that continuously pulsates from dull to very bright red for the next 2–3 minutes. The UFO seems to be hovering silently. Then the object appears to “dissolve on the spot.” The officers decide somewhat reluctantly to go across the lake and investigate. Then one of them looks up and briefly sees a thin, large, white crescent hanging in the sky. This also dissolves on the spot. Reaching the location of ground zero, they find nothing except a strong burning smell. They make a report to the local UFO group, the Essex Hotline, and investigator Barry M. King interviews one of the officers that night. The next day, one large bush is found damaged: flattened in the center and slightly burned. A gorse bush appears to have borne a heavy weight, because almost all the limbs are snapped off the central branch and displaced in an outward-radiating splay. No radiation or magnetic anomalies are found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Barry M. King, “[Landing at Hainault Seen by Police,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 \(August 1977\): 8–11; Andrew Collins, “[Follow-Up at Hainault,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 \(August 1977\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_5475 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17873 (C26102DD) Date: 5/3/1977 Description: At 3:55 a.m. police in Hainault Forest, England took an emergency telephone call. The caller said that some strange UFO was over the forest near the small lake. Two policemen were directed to the scene. Arriving, they proceeded along the lake road and noticed a "large bright red light" across on the eastern shore. They stopped, exited their vehicle, and then observed a "bell tent" shaped thing, about 300 yards distant. This object pulsated continuously from dull to very bright red for the next 2 to 3 minutes. The UFO seemed to be hovering silently. Then, as they watched apprehensively, the object appeared to "dissolve on the spot". Because the thing was no longer visible, the officers somewhat reluctantly decided to go across the lake and investigate the spot. As they were doing this, one of them looked up and briefly saw a thin, large, white crescent shape hanging in the sky. This "apparition" also dissolved on the spot. Reaching the location of ground zero, as best they could tell, they found nothing at all, except a strong smell of burning. No cause could be determined. A report was immediately made to the local UFO investigator [The Essex Hotline], and field investigator Barry King came out and interviewed the officer that very night. In daylight, one large bush was found to have damage: it was flattened in the center and slightly burned. The gorse bush appeared to have had a very heavy weight set on top of it, and the result was to break almost all of the limbs, including snapping off the central branch. The pattern of breakage was to displace the branches into an outward radiating splay. No radiation nor magnetic anomalies were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Barry M. King, FSR, August 1977, p. 8; Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 7; Mke Swords, www.nicap.org/waves/1975fullreport.htm Source ID: Johnson_2480 Source: Johnson ### Event 17874 (799CDC67) Date: 5/3/1977 Description: 6:35 p.m. Several people in the eastern part of Jakarta, Indonesia, are watching the sky with binoculars when they see a round UFO that traverses the sky in one minute. It carries flashing red, green, white, and blue lights located in circles around the rim. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 2 \(February 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5476 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17875 (4299E852) Date: 5/4/1977 Description: A 23-year-old man, Sr. Ferreira, disappeared in front of his fellow factory employees in Atuba, Para state, Brazil fulfilling a prediction made on May 4, 1976 that UFOnauts would come back for him. He turned up the next day, 40 miles away, and said he had been in the company of extraterrestrials, but feared revealing the details of his encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1729, citing O Estado Parana, May 5, 1977 Source ID: Johnson_2515 Source: Johnson ### Event 17876 (4946037E) Date: 5/5/1977 Description: 9:15 AM. A 22-year-old Cessna 150 pilot trainee, Sr. Lopez Ojeda, had a close encounter with a white object that looked like an inverted plate while flying over Tabio, Cundinamarca province, Colombia. (Sources: Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 291; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1977; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50; CUFOS files, citing newspaper clipping dated May 6, 1977). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tabio, Cundinamarca province, Colombia Source ID: NICAP_DB_4782 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17877 (97C19D7A) Date: 5/5/1977 Description: Midnight. The witness, a truck driver, had made a rest stop at a truck stop on the major highway near Ragusa, Italy when he saw a yellow light illuminate the cab. The light originated from a gray metallic, oval-shaped object that was hovering near the truck and close to the ground. A figure wearing a dark gray coverall and a helmet could be seen inside one of the openings. It seemed to be controlling and directing the yellow beam of light. (Sources: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO catalogue, case 93; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1522, citing ITACAT). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ragusa (near), Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4781 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17878 (5ECC031F) Date: 5/5/1977 Description: At midnight the witness, a truck driver, had made a rest stop at a truck stop on the major highway near Ragusa, Italy when he saw a yellow light illuminate the cab. The light originated from a gray metallic, oval-shaped object that was hovering near the truck and close to the ground. It had a rotating ring around its middle and two circular openings, one on the top and one on the bottom. A figure wearing a dark gray coverall and a helmet could be seen inside one of the openings. It seemed to be controlling and directing the yellow beam of light. It made some hand gestures towards him as if greeting him. A flattened area was found in the grassy field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO catalogue, case 93; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1522, citing ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_2550 Source: Johnson ### Event 17879 (B7916F63) Date: 5/5/1977 Description: At 9:15 a.m. a 22-year-old Cessna 150 pilot trainee, Sr. Lopez Ojeda, had a close encounter with a white object that looked like an inverted plate while flying over Tabio, Cundinamarca province, Colombia. There was a brilliant flash of light that temporarily impaired his vision, and the airplane's control would not respond for a short while during which his surroundings seemed strangely altered. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 291; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1977; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50; CUFOS files, citing newspaper clipping dated May 6, 1977 Source ID: Johnson_2549 Source: Johnson ### Event 17880 (BEC6B47B) Date: 5/6/1977 Description: In Encinitas, California a large domed disc-shaped object descended into canyon. A school teacher and fifteen students witnessed the descent, and said that they could see figures inside the craft. It was seen again one hour later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12693 Source ID: Johnson_2594 Source: Johnson ### Event 17881 (C9CC46BC) Date: 5/6/1977 Description: A large domed disc-shaped object descended into canyon. A school teacher and fifteen students witnessed the descent, and said that they could see figures inside the craft. It was seen again one hour later. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12693). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Encinitas, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4783 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17882 (DD6D2DDA) Date: 5/6/1977 Description: At 2:30 a.m. a man in Challans, Vendee department, France had a close encounter by a railway bridge with a two-meter sphere surrounded by a blue halo. It followed the witness as he walked home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978 Source ID: Johnson_2593 Source: Johnson ### Event 17883 (B613DCD1) Date: 5/7/1977 Description: A powerful spotlight from a silent, delta-shaped object lit the forest in Undersaker, Jamtland, Sweden on this night. A very large second object, also triangle shaped and with three large windows rose in the beam of light. Both objects hovered over the trees, then changed shape from triangular to rectangular. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, November 1977, p. 8; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 191; UNICAT, case 195, citing Allan Hendry Source ID: Johnson_2626 Source: Johnson ### Event 17884 (1B958B7D) Date: 5/7/1977 Description: A powerful spotlight from a silent, delta-shaped object lit the forest in Undersaker on this night. A very large second object, also triangle shaped and with three large windows rose in the beam of light. Both objects hovered over the trees, then changed shape from triangular to rectangular. (Sources: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, November 1977, p. 8; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 191; UNICAT database, case 195, citing Allan Hendry). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Undersaker, Jamtland, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_4784 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17885 (278EEC53) Date: 5/7/1977 Description: Night. Jenny Nordin and a companion in Undersåker, Jamtland, Sweden, watch a triangular object with its apex pointing downward shining and gleaming above a woods. A string of lights appears around its base and the object changes to a rectangle with a pointed top. The display continues for 2 hours until a spotlight shines down from the right side, illuminating the trees. An enormous object with three large windows rises up in the light; both objects hover and gradually extinguish. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 11 \(November 1977\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5478 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17886 (9ECDDB5B) Date: 5/8/1977 Description: 2:00 p.m. A couple driving west on Interstate 80 in Joliet, Illinois, watch an object like a silver straw hat move silently eastbound over their car. At 2:30 p.m., see a silver sphere with a Saturn ring or halo around it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-6-64” and “Case 2-6-65,” IUR 2, no. 6 \(June 1977\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5479 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17887 (51F4756C) Date: 5/8/1977 Description: 2:30 PM. Adult couple experienced object like a silver sphere with "saturn ring" or halo around it, heading eastbound. 30-secs. (IUR,2,6) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Joliet, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4786 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17888 (0A4B88AF) Date: 5/8/1977 Description: 2:00 PM. Adult couple driving westbound watched as a silver "straw hat" the size of the moon rush eastbound over I-80 (and their car) making no noise. Object, which was in view 30-seconds, was flying against the wind. (IUR,2,6) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Joliet, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4785 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17889 (B9501128) Date: 5/8/1977 Description: Two men, were parked in a marshy, densely wooded area of the Hainault Forest, a park in London, England near Cabin Hill. They had been walking their dog in a light rain at around 7 p.m. when they heard a rustling sound in the bushes. They then observed a huge figure, about eight feet tall and four feet wide, that crossed their path about 25 feet away and disappeared into the woods. It was dark blue in color and brighter than its surroundings. It had no distinct arms or legs that could be discerned. A UFO landing had been reported in the area a few days earlier---the reason for the investigator being at the site at the time when he encountered the startled witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-25, citing Barry King, FSR, Vol. 23, # 2 Source ID: Johnson_2660 Source: Johnson ### Event 17890 (9630D96F) Date: 5/8/1977 Description: Shortly after 2:00 p.m. two couples driving in separate cars, westbound on Interstate 80 near Joliet, Illinois saw a silver object, described as a sphere with Saturn rings or looking like a "straw hat" as big as the moon, swooped silently over their cars, moving rapidly. It headed off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_2661 Source: Johnson ### Event 17891 (12C9CD86) Date: 5/9/1977 Description: 9:30 PM. Leslie Hendricks while walking out of the Livingston Shopping Mall observed a large glowing sphere high up in the southwestern sky. The sphere was about the size and color of a harvest moon. It appeared to be hovering at an altitude higher than that of an ordinary commercial aircraft. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, July 1977, page 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Morristown, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4789 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17892 (F692CA56) Date: 5/9/1977 Description: 9:30 PM. Mrs.Nancy Allocco and her two children, Lee, age twelve and Nell, age fourteen, observed a large glowing object in the sky. ( Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, July 1977, page 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harding Township, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4787 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17893 (F82C81B7) Date: 5/9/1977 Description: 9:30 PM. Leslie Hendricks while walking out of the Livingston Shopping Mall observed a large glowing sphere high up in the southwestern sky. The sphere was about the size and color of a harvest moon. ( Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, July 1977, page 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harding Township, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4788 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17894 (2BCF4A4E) Date: 5/10/1977 Description: A three and a half year old girl, Maria do Socorro, had accompanied her grandmother while she did laundry in Serra Branca, Paraiba state, Brazil and then vanished suddenly at around 11:00 a.m. She was missing for 22 hours. She mysteriously turned up at the doorsteps of her family's garden. She said she had seen a beautiful woman with a white scarf on her head and was irresistibly attracted to a strong beam of light which the lady ran behind. The lady spoke to the child but she "did not open her mouth to talk." Friends and neighbors spent an entire day searching the area where she had last been seen, without finding a trace. It was assumed by all involved that the phenomenon had an apparently extraterrestrial cause, but no UFO was seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-26, citing Noticias Populares, a Brazilian newspaper Source ID: Johnson_2720 Source: Johnson ### Event 17895 (A4DA6D4D) Date: 5/10/1977 Description: 5:10 a.m. Phylis Barlow watches a triangular UFO circling slowly in the sky above Rome, Georgia. It is flying at a tilt, and on the bottom is a circle of foggy light surrounding a triangle of intense bright light. She watches it with a friend for 10 minutes as it makes a second pass over the area. It descends silently to 1,000 feet and they can see it has a grayish-silver color and three creamy yellow, honeycombed lights. It moves off to the southeast at great speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Rome \(Ga.\) News-Tribune, May 10, 1977; Marler 97–98 Source ID: Eberhart_5480 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17896 (1B86128D) Date: 5/11/1977 Description: 3:00 a.m. A woman and her son are awakened in their home in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, by a loud humming sound. They see a green, glowing sphere with a dark equator hovering for 30 minutes near the house. It shoots straight up and away and the hum stops. The 11-year-old boy stays home from school for several days because he is scared. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-6-77,” IUR 2, no. 6 \(June 1977\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5481 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17897 (FD3E449B) Date: 5/11/1977 Description: 4:45 a.m. Three witnesses in Fresno, California, see a bright yellow light rise erratically from the northern horizon to a fixed position overhead in one minute. A second light, flashing white 3 times a second, rises from the west to a 50° position above the western horizon. Both are stationary for 3 minutes. The yellow object sways back and forth. The white light disappears and the yellow light fades into the overcast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-6-79,” IUR 2, no. 6 \(June 1977\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5482 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17898 (91D59887) Date: 5/11/1977 Description: 9:45 p.m. An adult couple near Bonner Springs, Kansas, see a silent disc-shaped object with white windows hovering for 70–80 seconds, then fly away slowly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-6-84,” IUR 2, no. 6 \(June 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5483 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17899 (D70A7B8B) Date: 5/11/1977 Description: A housewife reported sighting a green glowing ball with a dark equator hovering near her home in Clearfield, Pennsylvania at three o'clock in the morning. It shot straight up into the sky and was gone in less than a second. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_2745 Source: Johnson ### Event 17900 (C9FB6E66) Date: 5/11/1977 Description: At 9:45 p.m. in Bonner Springs, Kansas a silent disc-shaped object with white windows hovered for 75 seconds, then flew away slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_2746 Source: Johnson ### Event 17901 (E041B60B) Date: 5/11/1977 Description: 9:45 PM. A silent disc-shaped object with white windows hovered for 75 seconds, then flew away slowly. (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 36). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bonner Springs, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_4791 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17902 (02474E48) Date: 5/11/1977 Description: 3:00 AM. A housewife reported sighting a green glowing ball with a dark equator hovering near her home. It shot straight up into the sky and was gone in less than a second. (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 8). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clearfield, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4790 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17903 (4EF8B9DA) Date: 5/15/1977 Description: Two twin sisters had gone into Middle Cliff field, at St. Brides, Pembrokeshire, Wales not farm from their home at Ripperston Farm, to play games. It was just after three o'clock when they saw a silver-suited figure walking away from them, about 60 to 70 feet away. The being went up to a hedge and seemed to walk through the barbed-wire fence adjacent to it. It then disappeared. On the other side of the field a silvery-white disc-shaped object with a red light landed. A a ramp-like stairway came out and a red "box" was ejected down the stairway to the ground. The stairs were then retracted, and the door in the object closed and the UFO took off. The girls ran home for their mother, but when they returned to the field there was no sign of the object or the being. The UFO was seen again that day, flying seaward, and large footprints were found in the grass at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1978, p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-27, citing Randall Jones Pugh for BUFORA Source ID: Johnson_2865 Source: Johnson ### Event 17904 (8C30DA81) Date: 5/15/1977 Description: 4:30 a.m. A driver in Clarksville, Tennessee, sees a round object with 7–8 blue-green lights flashing in its center. It appears to drop 7–8 red flares as it is flying southbound in a straight path. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-7-1,” IUR 2, no. 7 \(July 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5484 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17905 (F5D10493) Date: 5/16/1977 End date: 5/17/1977 Description: 11:00 p.m. Officers M. L. Davidson and F. E. Bartlett of the Memphis Police Tactical Squad spot a triangular UFO near Old Allen Road and Frayser-Raleigh Road in Memphis, Tennessee. At 3:45 a.m., officers T. L. Todd and J. W. Jeter watch a similar object, 300 feet long, near the Norris Road exit of Interstate 240. It is hovering about 200 feet above the ground near some power line towers and is in the shape of a perfect triangle standing on edge. Later, Jeter watches it through his rifle scope flying horizontally then taking off at great speed. A Tennessee State Highway patrolman has also seen a triangular object in Collierville. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Triangular Red, Green,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98898976/the-brownsville-herald/) [Flying Object Sighted,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98898976/the-brownsville-herald/)” Brownsville \(Tex.\) Herald, May 17, 1977, p. 1; Marler 94–96 Source ID: Eberhart_5485 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17906 (80DCC838) Date: 5/17/1977 Description: In Tranent and seven surrounding towns in Lothian, Scotland, shortly after nine p.m., a domed disc-shaped object and other objects were seen in the skies on a clear evening. One of the witnesses was a 13-year-old boy named McKenzie. The UFOs generally flew off to the east. The sightings lasted at least 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, November 1978, pp. 30-31 Source ID: Johnson_2935 Source: Johnson ### Event 17907 (A6F2A16C) Date: 5/17/1977 Description: A SWAT team witnessed a "flying Xmas tree" soar over the city of Memphis, Tennessee at 3:30 a.m. It was silent, and seen just 35 feet over twin electrical power towers. It was the length of a football field, and 50-75 yards wide. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, MUFON UFO Journal, issue 289; UNICAT, case # 549 Source ID: Johnson_2937 Source: Johnson ### Event 17908 (7A056253) Date: 5/17/1977 Description: In the village of Icoaraci, near Belem do Para, Para State, Brazil two fiery balls of light were seen in the sky at 9:30 p.m. One was green, and the other was red, and they came from opposite directions and collided causing a tremendous flash and a sound like thunder. The sky filled with a pink smoke, which slowly dissipated after 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Otto Raymundo, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1977, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_2936 Source: Johnson ### Event 17909 (3E9880CA) Date: 5/17/1977 Description: 9:00 PM In Tranent and seven surrounding towns in Lothian, a domed disc-shaped object and other objects were seen in the skies on a clear evening. (Source: FSR, November 1978, pp. 30-31). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lothian, Scotland Source ID: NICAP_DB_4792 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17910 (EE92DFC2) Date: 5/17/1977 Description: The Joint Chiefs of Staff re-release JANAP 146 \(E\), specifying “unidentified flying objects” as something that must be reported by military personnel. It distinguishes UFOs from other types of known aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joint Chiefs of Staff, “[Change No. 2 to JANAP 146 \(E\),](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/janp1462.htm)” May 17, 1977 Source ID: Eberhart_5486 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17911 (47155B5B) Date: 5/17/1977 Description: 9:30 PM. In the village of Icoaraci, two fiery balls of light were seen in the sky. One was green, and the other was red, and they came from opposite directions and collided causing a tremendous flash and a sound like thunder. (Source: Otto Raymundo, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1977, p. 8). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belem do Para, Para State (near), Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4793 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17912 (CE361285) Date: 5/18/1977 Description: At 6:30 p.m. two 10-year-old girls, named McLennan and Morrison, heard a strange whirring sound while playing in a field near their house in New Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland. It appeared to come from a nearby woods. When they approached and saw a domed cylindrical object near the ground about 300 meters away. It had a steady red light on top of the small dome. The object was metallic in color and about 30 feet long, and it had a red band encircling the lower section. The girls believed the object was hovering two feet above the ground---the same height as a fence situated between them and the object. They could not see any landing gear. To the right of the object was a very tall, thin "man," partially hidden by some bushes. He stood at least six-foot tall, and his arms were disproportionately short. He wore a silver coverall uniform. When he started to move toward them, the girls became frightened and fled. When they reached a safer distance, they turned around and saw that the man had disappeared. The object then began to ascend, moving off in three jerky "stepped up" maneuvers, and finally ascending vertically at a terrific speed. They hurried home and told their parents, who said they had heard the humming sound. The police were notified, and a circular area of scorch marks was found at the site, with minor damage over an area of about 100 yards including singed trees and underbrush. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, FSR, January 1978, p. 7; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO phenomenon, p. 120; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-28 (A1733) Source ID: Johnson_2959 Source: Johnson ### Event 17913 (B9ECCCE7) Date: 5/18/1977 Description: Humanoid report. No details. (EGBA, 576) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4794 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17914 (B3064888) Date: 5/19/1977 Description: 10:45 p.m. A travel agent driving in Clayton, New Jersey, watches a blindingly bright round object composed of many small white lights packed together and three main lights in front. It hovers for nearly a minute over telephone wires, then the lights begin flashing and the object ascends in a steep climb. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-7-15,” IUR 2, no. 7 \(July 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5487 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17915 (2978F65C) Date: 5/20/1977 Description: 9:45 PM. Doris Cuningham and her nine year old son were proceeding toward their apartment building when the child suddenly motioned for his mother to look over the pool. Hovering no more than twelve stories above the ground was a large circular shaped object. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, May 1977, page 4) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vienna, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4795 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17916 (525BB7BF) Date: 5/20/1977 Description: 11:00 p.m. Three 14-year-old boys are in a field near Bayview Avenue and Willow Pass Road, West Pittsburg \[now Bay Point\], California, about a half mile from Suisun Bay. They see a saucer-shaped object surrounded by a row of white, rectangular windows that flash on and off. A blue light zigzags near the object. It is hovering near the ground between railroad tracks and the bay, then it shoots across the water in a matter of seconds and returns equally fast, moving silently toward them and stopping about 150–300 feet away. One minute later, they see three figures advancing toward them from near the lights. They are dark human forms, about 5-foot-6 to 6 feet tall, surrounded by mist and moving with a stiff, limping walk. The boys run across the street and look back in time to see the figures fade from view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO with ‘Dark Figures’ in California,” IUR 2, no. 7 \(July 1977\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5488 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17917 (3C5CAA8F) Date: 5/21/1977 Description: Two close encounters involving UFOs with coherent light beams occurred on this night in Dorset county, England. At 10:55 p.m. Mr. Morse, age 26, witnessed a large silver disc-shaped object that hovered over a field in Canford Heath, Poole, England. A green cone of light extended from the object as a coherent beam of light. It flew off to the west. Fifteen minutes later a car with two 30-year-old women was followed by another disc between Longham and Wimborne in the Dorset countryside. It had a solid beam that cut through the terrain. The energy beam had a definite, abrupt end to it. The disc dropped to the ground, but the women did not stay around to investigate. There were six other sightings reported that night in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leslie Harris, FSR, January 1978, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_3025 Source: Johnson ### Event 17918 (EC24AC8C) Date: 5/21/1977 Description: At 12:24 a.m. a taxi driver and his passenger saw a white football-shaped object in the sky in Leicester, England. At one point it looked like five balls joined together in a circle. It or they hovered silently, then moved off and disappeared from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, October 1977, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_3024 Source: Johnson ### Event 17919 (4C25311E) Date: 5/21/1977 Description: 10:20 p.m. Three airmen stationed at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, England, observe a triangular-shaped light moving erratically in the sky. Within minutes the light is tracked on radar at RAF Patrington \[now closed\], moving in a zigzag pattern. The target registers on radarscopes for 4 minutes until the screens are “partially obliterated by high-powered interference” that returns to normal once the target disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 305](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/304/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5490 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17920 (C69F0BC4) Date: 5/21/1977 Description: 9:30 p.m. A family in St. Louis, Missouri, sees a “comet” with a long tail moving in the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-7- 25,” IUR 2, no. 7 \(July 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5489 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17921 (65924CD2) Date: 5/23/1977 Description: A fiery looking torus-shaped object hovered and tilted over Santiago, Chile at six o'clock in the morning. A beam extended from the object, and swung back and forth like a pendulum. At ball of light was at the end of the beam. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1978 Source ID: Johnson_3052 Source: Johnson ### Event 17922 (BB130014) Date: 5/23/1977 Description: 6:00 AM. 8A fiery looking torus-shaped object hovered and tilted over Santiago. A beam extended from the object, and swung back and forth like a pendulum. At ball of light was at the end of the beam. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1978). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santiago, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_4796 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17923 (36947460) Date: 5/26/1977 Description: 4:10 PM. An ovoid object followed an airliner for 30 seconds according to one of the passengers aboard. The witness, a radio announcer, reported that the object was larger than the airliner and flew away toward the east. (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1977, p. 3). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dowagiac, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4797 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17924 (0B5C5F56) Date: 5/26/1977 Description: Dog and Horse raise alert to bright object near ground (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [770526](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-770526.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orange, Australia Source ID: NICAP_DB_4798 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17925 (E6C50D16) Date: 5/26/1977 Description: 4:10 p.m. A 39-year-old radio announcer and his wife are watching an eastbound jet overhead at Dowagiac, Michigan. Suddenly a brown, cigar-shaped object, distinctly outlined, rushes from the rear left side of the plane to a position “one plane length” behind it. The object is 1.5 times as long as the jet. It follows for about 30 seconds and then rushes ahead of it and is gone in 3 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-7-36,” IUR 2, no. 7 \(July 1977\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_5493 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17926 (28CBCE3B) Date: 5/26/1977 Description: 8:45 a.m. Two witnesses in Detroit, Michigan, see three blue teardrop-shaped objects moving in a V- formation. They move from a high angle in the north to a low angle in the northwest, hovering “like helicopters” for one minute. They pull out of formation, swoop low, regroup, and climb again in formation at a 40° angle, fading from view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-7-35,” IUR 2, no. 7 \(July 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5492 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17927 (F02676CE) Date: 5/26/1977 Description: An ovoid object followed an airliner for 30 seconds over Dowagiac, Michigan at 4:10 p.m. according to one of the passengers aboard. The witness, a radio announcer, reported that the object was larger than the airliner and flew away toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1977, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_3106 Source: Johnson ### Event 17928 (FA13B80E) Date: 5/26/1977 Description: 1:15 a.m. The crew of an RAF Avro Vulcan B.2 bomber piloted by Flight Lt. David Edwards is flying at 28,000 feet over the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France at a speed of Mach 0.86 when they observe bright lights coming from the west. The lights resemble aircraft landing lights, but they soon blink out leaving a large orange glow with a bright-green fluorescent spot. An object emerges from the glow, moving to the west, climbing at an angle of 45°, and leaving a thin contrail. The radar operator reports jamming-type interference. Camera film from the aircraft’s radar records a “strong response” from the direction of the sighting, consisting of three separate radar returns at varying distances, the third made up of three targets all 600 feet wide. On the film the UFO appears as an “elongated shadow.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 305–307](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/304/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 92–94](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n153/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5491 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17929 (1AE3C394) Date: 5/28/1977 Description: At 3:10 a.m. a large dark box-shaped object shot up from the ground near a utility pole in St. Roch, France lighting up the area. Traces were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1978 Source ID: Johnson_3140 Source: Johnson ### Event 17930 (C06CE2A2) Date: 6/3/1977 Description: At eight o'clock in the evening two people driving in a car in Hanover, Northern Cape province, South Africa experienced radio static on their car radio as a three meter wide nocturnal light paced their car. The color of the object was blinding white, but they were unable to determine its shape. Their close encounter lasted 20 minutes in total. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFOs--African Encounters, p. 157 Source ID: Johnson_3258 Source: Johnson ### Event 17931 (1CB09B09) Date: 6/6/1977 Description: 11:30 p.m. Mark Henshall is riding his motorbike home at Lartington, Teesdale, England, in the pouring rain when he sees two purple lights to his side. He notices he is losing power as he rides up a small hill. A car is just starting to pass him, and it too is slowing down. Suddenly, both bike and car are enveloped in a nearly blinding, fuzzy, ultraviolet light. Henshall feels his bike being pulled up the incline and notices steam pouring off his back and legs, which are getting unbearably hot. The motorcycle and car stop just as the misty violet glow overhead vanishes. The car driver tells Henshall that he lost all engine power for 30 seconds and yet was pulled forward. The metal side of the motorbike is far hotter than normal and impossible to touch without risking serious burns. The brakes are found to be so badly worn that they need a complete resetting. When Henshall returns home, his mother notices that his face is sunburned and hot to the touch. He also experiences nausea for a few days. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Straight, “[Vehicle Stop near Barnard Castle,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20V%2023%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 5 \(February 1978\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_5496 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17932 (555EC3F2) Date: 6/6/1977 Description: Oval object over two vehicles; heat felt, mass displacement. Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 23, No. 5; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 70 (E) cars (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yorkshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4799 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17933 (2E53909E) Date: 6/6/1977 Description: A disc with red, orange, and green colored lights hovered for 20 minutes over the Wangara Valley, New Zealand. It had a white band across the middle, and vanished after several seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_3332 Source: Johnson ### Event 17934 (39D4ACDE) Date: 6/6/1977 Description: Later than same night near Barnard Castle in England both a car and a motorcycle lost power in the presence of at least two purplish ovoid UFOs. A 16-year-old motorcyclist saw two purple objects for 30 seconds along the side of the road. A pinkish-purple object, shaped like an oval meat dish, suddenly appeared over his cycle and an approaching car. The engines of both vehicles began to lose power. Both vehicles were dragged twenty-five feet along the highway not under their own power. The motorcyclist also felt increased heat and the motorcycle's metal body became hot to the touch. The object then suddenly disappeared. The next day, the brakes on the cycle were found to be abnormally worn. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, February 1978, p. 6; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 411, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_3333 Source: Johnson ### Event 17935 (72C0B9B6) Date: 6/9/1977 Description: A yellow "TV screen" hovered just over the roadway in El Garrobo, Sevilla, Spain at 11:30 p.m. It turned blue and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1978 Source ID: Johnson_3394 Source: Johnson ### Event 17936 (E1258F43) Date: 6/10/1977 Description: A woman in Deerfield, Illinois, watches a gray-white light projecting “dots of color” that are drawn back to the source. It remains stationary in the low southwestern sky for 15 minutes, then shoots off in a slight climb in a matter of seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-7-87,” IUR 2, no. 7 \(July 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5497 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17937 (0AA860D1) Date: 6/12/1977 Description: A man would had just been laid off work was attending a meeting of his colleagues in Crystal Lake, Illinois to discuss the matter. During the course of the meeting he'd had half a dozen beers. About 11 p.m. he left the hotel for some fresh air. Outside he immediately saw approaching him three small figures emerging from an alley adjacent to the hotel. His first thought was that they were coming for him, but he noticed a fourth being lying directly in front of him on the ground, only a few yards away. It was doubled up, with its back toward him, as if injured. He also noticed a strange absence of sound, in that he was unable to hear any traffic sounds coming from the street. The beings were about 4 feet 10 inches tall, with small, slender bodies and large baldheads. They were wearing glass fish bowl-type helmets, with a metallic band attached from the helmets to their uniforms. The uniforms were tight one-piece suits of a dark green color, with a metallic luster. The only facial feature he could see through the helmet were two large, round, luminous eyes. They lifted the prone colleague and carried him off toward the alley. Throughout the encounter he felt no fear--he had the feeling, in fact, that they had somehow informed him they would not harm him. He made a report to the police, and he told his friends but was laughed at. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Center for UFO Studies files, report by Douwe Goaga dated February 8, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_3444 Source: Johnson ### Event 17938 (8EC9AD29) Date: 6/12/1977 Description: Time not given nor any details except this was reported as a CE-III. (SYMPAP, 1978,14) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crystal Lake, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4800 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17939 (DC89737F) Date: 6/12/1977 Description: In Bardney, England this afternoon a group of boarding school boys, concealed on the opposite side of a hedge, saw a black "stick man" with a round, featureless head, "jolting" along about 150 meters away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1736 Source ID: Johnson_3443 Source: Johnson ### Event 17940 (925C8B90) Date: 6/14/1977 Description: President [Jimmy Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FCarter) is allegedly given a UFO briefing at the White House and bound to secrecy. According to former USAF Capt. [Robert M. Collins](https://www.exopaedia.org/Robert%2BCollins), an MJ-12 officer meets with Carter. A reconstruction of the conversation is known as “Executive Briefing: Project Aquarius” and later leaked to UFO researcher [William](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) [Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) However, there is no hard evidence that such a briefing has taken place. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert M. Collins, ed., “[Executive Briefing: Project Aquarius](https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp%5Fsociopol%5Fmj12%5F16.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5498 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17941 (30CD5306) Date: 6/14/1977 Description: Prime Minister [Eric Gairy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FGairy) of Grenada opens the Organization of American States General Assembly with a call for a n international investigation of UFOs. He says he was asked by participants at the UFO conference in Acapulco, Mexico, to continue his efforts. He asks OAS members to support the issue when it comes up at the United Nations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Caribbean Government Calls for UFO Probe,” IUR 2, no. 7 \(July 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5499 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17942 (97A32176) Date: 6/16/1977 Description: Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa - At 5:15 a.m. a glowing object engulfed a van being driven by a single witness, a Mr. Gouws, in a brilliant light. The man experienced amnesia when exposed to the intense light source and may have possibly been abducted, as he has an hour of time unaccounted for. There was a buzzing sound accompanying the light and the van's engine and lights died. Later the engine restarted spontaneously by itself. Mr. Gouws was so fearful after the incident that he was shaking like a leaf. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, citing MUFON UFO Journal, September 1977; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 256 Source ID: Johnson_3517 Source: Johnson ### Event 17943 (A227486D) Date: 6/16/1977 Description: Glowing object, van enveloped in light, buzzing sound, engine restarted by itself. Die Vaterland, June 23, 1977 (E,L) van (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Middelburg, S. Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_4801 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17944 (4FECBC77) Date: 6/17/1977 Description: Dusk. Five individuals—Dale Schexnaider and his wife, their two daughters, Jena, 14, and Krissy, 11, and a close family friend—are breaking camp and preparing to go home from the Cotile Lake Recreation Area, Louisiana. Just before they reach the clearing that leads to the road, the male friend begins feeling a “low frequency vibration” in his bones. Looking upward, he sees the outline of a huge, disc-shaped UFO hovering completely still, surrounded with points of light. The friend estimates it is about 75 feet across and 50 feet tall. The two daughters have been talking, but they too notice the humming noise and see the UFO. The object then floats almost directly above them, and the middle of the craft starts to glow. Several rays or beams of blue light shoot from the UFO, striking them in the solar plexus. It is an intense, electric, silver-blue, thin beam. They hear crackling sounds in the air and they can’t move. Slowly they force their heads down to see their arms glowing with electric blue light. Movement is difficult—as in a dream, slow and heavy. After about 10 seconds, all the lights vanished instantly, along with the force field. The craft begins to glide away over the treetops. The children are frantic, and the male friend is inwardly terrified. The parents are back at the camp and see none of this. The case is reported to [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) by a friend, and he later visits the witnesses and speaks to all three. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A CE-II As a Picnic Guest,” CUFOS Bulletin, Summer 1980, pp. 1, 3; “An Electric-Blue Close Encounter,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1981, pp. 4–5, 10, 12 Source ID: Eberhart_5501 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17945 (43EFAC09) Date: 6/17/1977 Description: 12:00 noon. José Francisco Rodrigues is flying a Portuguese Air Force Dornier Do 27 light plane over the Castelo de Bode dam in central Portugal. When he emerges from the clouds, he sees a dark object against a backdrop of white stratocumulus clouds, slightly to the right of his plane. Thinking that the object is a cargo plane, he banks to the left and immediately radios to ask if there is any traffic in the vicinity. Air controller Sgt. Jose Vicente Saldanha replies in the negative. As Rodrigues completes a turn to port, the object suddenly appears at his 11 o’clock position no more than 20 feet away. It is definitely not a cargo plane. The upper section, partially concealed by cloud, is black, and on the lower section there are four or five panels. The object is about 42–50 feet in diameter. Suddenly it accelerates and vanishes from what the pilot believes is an initial stationary position. The Dornier begins to vibrate violently and goes into an uncontrolled dive. Struggling to regain control, Rodrigues pushes the control column forward. Air speed increases to 160 mph then 207 mph as the ground comes nearer. He regains control when almost “touching the tree tops” and the plane lands in one piece with a badly shaken pilot. During the encounter the directional electric gyroscope \(connected to a magnetic compass\) rotates wildly, and by the time the plane lands it has deviated by 180° relative to the magnetic compass. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Willy Smith, “Unknown Intruder over Portugal,” IUR 10, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1985\): 6–8; Good Above, [pp. 154–156](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/154/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5500 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17946 (B8E15615) Date: 6/17/1977 Description: 2:00 AM. A 29-year-old man returned home in Austin and saw a light in the distance he thought was an airplane but heard no engine sound. The object, a yellow-orange disc, flew along the shoreline of the lake, passing in front of the witness at his lake front home, and flew from view into the distance. (Source: MUFON Investigation files, case #890709). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Austin, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_4802 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17947 (BFF05500) Date: 6/17/1977 Description: In 1977 a 29-year-old man returned home in Austin, Texas at about 2:00 a.m. He saw a light in the distance he thought was an airplane but heard no engine sound. The object, a yellow-orange disc, flew along the shoreline of the lake, passing in front of the witness at his lake front home, and flew from view into the distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON Investigation files, case #890709). That same day in Portugal near the Castelo de Bode dam, a Portuguese Air Force Dornier 27 aircraft encountered a dark daylight object about 13-15 meters in diameter as it flew out of some clouds. The magnetic compass onboard the plane malfunctioned during this close encounter. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_3529 Source: Johnson ### Event 17948 (000E9C8F) Date: 6/20/1977 Description: A year later another abduction occurred, this time from a bedroom in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Gayle Bever recalled under hypnosis that during a two hour period of missing time she had been taken from her bedroom shortly before midnight by human-looking beings wearing coveralls. She was also given a physical exam. She has a small circular scar, 1 cm in diameter, on her shoulder in the shape of a wheel with spokes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1977, p. 1; R. Leo Sprinkle, MUFON Conference Proceedings: 1980, p. 57; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 142, citing APRO Bulletin Source ID: Johnson_3561 Source: Johnson ### Event 17949 (F4026BC7) Date: 6/20/1977 Description: A committee of advanced workshop participants from the Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale has been tackling the UFO situation for the French government since at least 1976. It produces a report titled Rapport sur les “Phénomènes Aeriens Non Identifiés, which is translated into English by Bonita Samuelson and published by the Center for UFO Studies in 1980 under the title Report on Unidentified Aerial Objects. The committee members are divided about the existence of true UFOs, but they agree that the UFO theme can be used in psychological warfare. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Claude Maugé, “GEPAN and COMETA,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_5502 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17950 (3E81D6E0) Date: Summer 1977 Description: Physicist [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) uses FOIA requests to obtain some 400 pages of UFO-related documents, mostly from 1947–1955, from the FBI by the end of the year. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bruce S. Maccabee, “[UFO Related Information from the](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/MUFON%20Journals/mufonufojournal-197710-october-130429023929-phpapp01.pdf) [FBI File, Part 1,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/MUFON%20Journals/mufonufojournal-197710-october-130429023929-phpapp01.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 119 \(October 1977\): 13–15, [reprinted](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/140%20NOVEMBER%201977.pdf) in UFO Investigator, November 1977, pp. 1–4 Source ID: Eberhart_5495 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17951 (F82D842A) Date: 6/21/1977 Description: Centeno, Argentina (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [770621](http://www.nicap.org/arg77.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Centeno, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_4804 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17952 (E02DD1D6) Date: 6/21/1977 Description: On this day a 10 meter long silver cigar shaped object followed two people riding on a motorcycle between Salford and Bury. It replicated all of their turns and was completely silent. It finally flew off behind a house. (Source: FSR, August 1978, p 10). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salford and Bury btn., UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4803 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17953 (2EB409EB) Date: Summer 1977 Description: Around 2:00 a.m. Senior Airman James M. Dunn is on K-9 security patrol at the Weapons Storage Area at Loring AFB \[now Loring International Airport\] near Limestone, Maine, when he gets a call from a sergeant at Entry Control about a bright light above his truck. He sees an intense light, which is directed onto the truck at a 45° angle. The interior of the truck cab seems to glow with a greenish hue. About 5 seconds later the light goes out. Dunn talks to the sergeant, who seems a bit stunned. A few minutes later, two F-106 interceptors shoot above the WSA, apparently looking for a radar target. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 373–375 Source ID: Eberhart_5494 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17954 (1D6D95A2) Date: 6/21/1977 Description: On this day a 10 meter long silver cigar shaped object followed two people riding on a motorcycle between Salford and Bury, England. It replicated all of their turns and was completely silent. It finally flew off behind a house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, August 1978, p 10 Source ID: Johnson_3586 Source: Johnson ### Event 17955 (309DD90E) Date: 6/23/1977 Description: A driver of a newspaper delivery van driving between Noupoort and Middelburg, South Africa saw a dull glow at a quarry beside the road at 5:15 a.m. A glowing phosporescent UFO then came out of the quarry and hovered in front of the delivery van, causing the van's engine and headlights to fail. After a few moments the UFO departed, making a buzzing sound when it left. The engine of the van started by itself, then stopped, then started again when the driver pressed the pedal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 71, case 413, citing MUFON UFO Journal, September 1977 Source ID: Johnson_3630 Source: Johnson ### Event 17956 (16F49B81) Date: 6/23/1977 Description: A driver of a newspaper delivery van saw a dull glow at a quarry beside the road. A glowing phosporescent UFO then came out of the quarry and hovered in front of the delivery van, causing the van's engine and headlights to fail. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Noupoort and Middelburg (btn), S.Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_4805 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17957 (67CB743C) Date: 6/24/1977 Description: At one o'clock in the morning a UFO was sighted hovering over the sea from the coastal town of La Caleta, in the Dominican Republic. Sr. Cruz watched as the object extended a tube from its bottom, and then sucked up water. Two occupants could be seen inside the object, viewed through windows in the craft. Sr. Cruz's car engine failed, and he felt a numbing sensation in his arms and legs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonte Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 6; Stendek, September 1978, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_3644 Source: Johnson ### Event 17958 (EFDC37C3) Date: 6/24/1977 Description: 1:00 AM. A UFO was sighted hovering over the sea from the coastal town of La Caleta. Sr. Cruz watched as the object extended a tube from its bottom, and then sucked up water. Two occupants could be seen inside the object, viewed through windows in the craft. Sr. Cruz's car engine failed, and he felt a numbing sensation in his arms and legs. (Sources: Leonte Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 6; Stendek, September 1978, p. 5). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Caleta, Dominican Republic Source ID: NICAP_DB_4806 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17959 (DF276C39) Date: 6/24/1977 End date: 6/26/1977 Description: Fate magazine holds an International UFO Congress at the Pick-Congress Hotel \[now the Congress Plaza Hotel\] across from Grant Park in downtown Chicago, Illinois, in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) sighting. Some 1,500 people attend to hear speakers [Ted Bloecher](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-IS/bloecher.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-IS/bloecher.htm) [Jerome Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark), [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e), [Stanton T. Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) Kenneth Arnold, [Jim and Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html), [David M. Jacobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FM.%5FJacobs), [Frank Salisbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FB.%5FSalisbury), [J. Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [Ted Phillips](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207929651/theodore-r-phillips)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207929651/theodore-r-phillips) [Dennis Hauck](https://prabook.com/web/dennis.hauck/219952), [Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill), and [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html). Fate editor [Curtis G. Fuller](https://occulthealth.com/fuller-curtis-1912%E2%80%931991/) publishes the presentations in paperback format in May 1980. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Chicago UFO Conference,” IUR 2, no. 7 \(July 1977\): wrap; Curtis G. Fuller, ed., Proceedings of the First International UFO Congress, Warner, 1980 Source ID: Eberhart_5503 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17960 (CCBCB5CD) Date: 6/25/1977 End date: 6/26/1977 Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale holds its Second National Conference in Toscolano-Moderno, Brescia, Italy, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold)’s sighting. Speakers include [Roberto Pinotti](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%5FPinotti)[,](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%5FPinotti) [Antonio Ribera](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Antonio%5FRibera)[,](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Antonio%5FRibera) [Ion Hobana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%5FHobana)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%5FHobana) [Florin Gheorghiţă](https://ozn.fandom.com/ro/wiki/Florin%5FGheorghi%C8%9B%C4%83)[,](https://ozn.fandom.com/ro/wiki/Florin%5FGheorghi%C8%9B%C4%83) [W. Raymond Drake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%5FRaymond%5FDrake)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%5FRaymond%5FDrake) Ernest Ameglio, Roberto Farabone, Roberto Villamil, Gianni Settimo, Sergio Conti, Francesco Izzo, Renzo Cabassi, Stelio Asso, and Mario Pagni. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[2](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201977%2007-12%20No%2075-76.pdf)[o](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201977%2007-12%20No%2075-76.pdf) [Congresso Nazionale di Ufologia,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201977%2007-12%20No%2075-76.pdf)” Notiziario UFO, no. 75/76 \(July/Dec. 1977\): 1–32 Source ID: Eberhart_5505 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17961 (77C203E3) Date: 6/25/1977 Description: A man is driving on the A303 with his partially sighted fiancée near Warminster, Wiltshire, England, when they see a triangle of white lights ahead of them. When the lights get near to the car, they break away, one to the side of the road, and the two others on either side of the witnesses. They dance in the air for a while, then an orange globe emerges from the center of each. All the lights move to the rear of the car and disappear behind it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 90](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n149/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5504 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17962 (748262B1) Date: 6/26/1977 Description: A 16-year-old in Tehran, Iran took three photographs of three lights moving in a triangular formation at 4:00 a.m. Another neighborhood family also witnessed the flying lights. A missing time experience occurred to a 13-year-old boy in Treinta y Tres, Uruguay on this night, or close to this date. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, January 1981, p. 15; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case 46 Source ID: Johnson_3679 Source: Johnson ### Event 17963 (FC843AF0) Date: 6/26/1977 Description: 2:45 a.m. Two witnesses see a flashing light source pass swiftly across the sky twice in about 10 minutes in Greece, New York. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-8-26,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5506 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17964 (115BFC26) Date: 6/27/1977 Description: 11:00 p.m. A woman and three children in Genesee, Wisconsin, drive toward a structure composed of three parallel cylinders until they are underneath it. The hovering object looks as big as the full moon, with two steady white lights in front and a red light on top. When she stops her car, the object moves off to the southeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-8-36,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5507 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17965 (4B55EA92) Date: 6/28/1977 Description: On this night a man with a flat tire was stopped on the highway between Abadan and Ahvaz, Iran when he suddenly felt heat from a "huge, bright object" that was very close to him. Mr. Shojacei reported that the UFO changed color from red to green to purple, then its lights went off. For 45 minutes the lights stayed nearby, surrounded by fog. When he turned off his car headlights, the UFO would extinguish its lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January 1981, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_3719 Source: Johnson ### Event 17966 (E3277CD9) Date: 6/28/1977 Description: On this night a man with a flat tire was stopped on the highway between Abadan and Ahvaz, Iran when he suddenly felt heat from a "huge, bright object" that was very close to him. (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January 1981, p. 15). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Abadan and Ahvaz btn., Iran Source ID: NICAP_DB_4807 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17967 (65D1FC33) Date: 6/28/1977 Description: Night. A man with a flat tire is stopped on the highway between Abadan and Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran, when he suddenly feels heat from a nearby “huge, bright object” that changes from red to green to purple to blue. Its lights go off, and as the witness sits in the car to sleep, the light returns, even closer. When he turns off his car headlights, the UFO extinguishes its lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Review of Iranian UFO Reports,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 \(Jan./Feb. 1981\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5508 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17968 (D143B8AB) Date: 7/1977 End date: 12/1977 Description: Numerous UFOs are reported in Colares, Pará, Brazil. Residents claim that scars on their bodies are caused by lights in the sky that they call “Chupa Chupa” \(literally “sucker-sucker”\). Believing it will keep the lights away, residents of Colares organize night vigils, light fires, and ignite fireworks. Mayor [José Ildone](http://poetavigilengo.blogspot.com/2012/06/jose-ildone-favacho-soeiro-nasceu-em.html) [Favacho Soeiro](http://poetavigilengo.blogspot.com/2012/06/jose-ildone-favacho-soeiro-nasceu-em.html) officially requests help from the Brazilian Air Force. The operation, a historic military operation in the Amazon basin, is commanded by Capt. [Uyrangê Bolivar Soares Nogueira de Hollanda Lima](https://filmow.com/uyrange-bolivar-soares-nogueira-de-hollanda-lima-a527775/). In late 1977, several photos of the lights are recorded, but the military remains skeptical. After approximately four months, the operation is closed after the Air Force can identify no unusual phenomena. The official documents can be seen in the Brazilian National Archives. According to ufologist [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e), a number of individuals are reportedly killed as a result of the “lightning” fired at them by the UFOs, and injuries are consistent with radiation effects from microwaves. Other ufologists claim that the lights from UFOs have sucked blood from 400 people. In 1997, two decades after the operation, Capt. Hollanda gives an interview to ufologists [Ademar José Gevaerd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ademar%5FJos%C3%A9%5FGevaerd) and [Marco](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%5FAnt%C3%B4nio%5FPetit) [Antônio Petit](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%5FAnt%C3%B4nio%5FPetit) where he recounts his experiences living alongside his men. Three months after the interview, he is found dead in his home “after he seemingly hung himself using the belt of his bathrobe,” attracting the interest of conspiracy theorists. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operação Prato](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera%C3%A7%C3%A3o%5FPrato)”; Jacques Vallée, Confrontations, Ballantine, 1990, [pp. 136–](https://archive.org/details/confrontationssc00vall%5F0/page/135/mode/2up) [139](https://archive.org/details/confrontationssc00vall%5F0/page/135/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/confrontationssc00vall%5F0/page/135/mode/2up) [220–226](https://archive.org/details/confrontationssc00vall%5F0/page/219/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 367–368](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/366/mode/2up); Timothy Good, Unearthly Disclosure, Century, 2000, pp. 187–200; “[Caso Chupa-Chupa e Operação Prato: Entrevista com o Coronel Hollanda](https://www.fenomenum.com.br/ufo/casuistica/1970/chupachupa14),” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Brazil 442–493; Clark III 838–857; Patrick Gross, “[Colares 1977](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/colares.htm)”; Skinwalkers 117–118 Source ID: Eberhart_5509 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17969 (E121A4F4) Date: 7/1977 Description: Evening. Three young boys, Todd being 12-years old, were playing on the- playground north of Maplewood School. But as the lights approached, not changing position, they couldn't see any stars between them. The other two boys fled, but Todd was entranced as this now massive triangle-shaped thing came in over the trees in the east and moved overhead at, what he thought, was about 150'. There was a low-toned hum as it moved at about 25-30 mph. (Worley files) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Connersville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4808 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17970 (29619461) Date: 7/1977 Description: Howard Gontovnick begins monthly publication of UFO Canada in Laval, Quebec. It continues until April 1979. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO Canada](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/UFO%20Canada%20%28Gontovnick%29/UFO%20Canada%20-%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(July 1977\) Source ID: Eberhart_5510 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17971 (0D77D5AC) Date: 7/1977 Description: Flight Lieutenant A. M. Wood sees two luminous, round objects, 4–5 times the size of the full moon, hovering 5,000 feet in the air over the sea off RAF Boulmer near Alnwick, Northumberland, England. Two other base personnel, a Cpl. Torrington and a Sgt. Graham, watch the objects with Wood for almost 2 hours. They are tracked on base radar and at RRH Staxton Wold. The objects separate, one moving west of the other and “as it maneuvered it changed shape to become body-shaped with projections like arms and legs.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[RAF Boulmer:](https://www.ufocasebook.com/rafboulmer1977.html) [Reports of UFO Sightings Were Hushed Up,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/rafboulmer1977.html)” Northumberland Today, January 28, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_5511 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17972 (566C7ED8) Date: 7/1/1977 Description: Luminous round object with dome hovered above a NATO base security zone, spinning. Changed color, emitted sound like swarm of bees Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Aviano, Italy Source ID: HallUFOE2_291 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 17973 (79334FC7) Date: 7/1/1977 Description: 3:00 a.m. Electronic alarms suddenly sound at NATO’s Aviano Air Base north of Pordenone, Italy. Something has set off the magnetic and motion detectors in the high hurricane-type fence protecting the compound. Simultaneously a power outage occurs at the Victor Alert facility that houses fighter aircraft, and though a back- up system immediately kicks in, minor power fluxes go on for the next 15 to 20 minutes. An American soldier named James Blake sees a large bright light hovering at a low altitude above a soybean field about 600 feet beyond the fence line of the compound. Many soldiers see the object, which appears to be domed, spinning, and changing colors. It is 150 feet in diameter and making a noise like a “swarm of bees.” USAF security and a unit from the Italian National Police are dispatched, but the object moves away before the units arrive. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Antonio Chiumiento, “[UFO Alert at a NATO Base in Italy,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2030%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 2 \(December 1984\): 2–5; Good Above, [pp. 144–145](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/144/mode/2up); Jerry Rowles, “[The Mystery of Aviano,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1996/02/February%201996.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 334 \(February 1996\): 3–6; John S. Derr, “[Quake Light?](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1996/04/April%201996.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 336 \(April 1996\): 19–20; Gerald E. Rowles, “[Update on Aviano,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1998/11/November%201998.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 367 \(November 1998\): 19; 1Pinotti 199–204; Patrick Gross, “[Aviano AFB, Italy, July 1st, 1977](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/aviano77.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5512 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17974 (84C361D0) Date: 7/1/1977 Description: 2:10 PM. A Piper Cherokee pilot observed a black cigar-shaped object enveloped in a "heat of haze" flying at 1,800 to 2,000 feet. (Reference: UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA EIGHTY YEARS OF PILOT SIGHTINGS Catalog of Military, Airline, Private Pilots Sightings from 1916 to 2000 Dominique F. Weinstein) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Timaru, South Canterbury, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4809 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17975 (7124C986) Date: 7/1/1977 Description: Luminous round object with dome hovered above a NATO base security zone, spinning; changed color, emitted sound like swarm of bees (NICAP UFOE II, NICAP UFOE II, Section II). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [770701](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/770701avianodir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aviano, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4810 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17976 (D04B150D) Date: 7/2/1977 Description: 12:45 p.m. A woman driving her car in Benton Harbor, Michigan, sees a silent silver disc, edge on, with the apparent diameter of the full moon. It is hovering motionless with its left side tilted down. Trees obscure her vision for about one minute; when they clear, the object is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-8-51,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5513 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17977 (6A9D6929) Date: 7/3/1977 Description: 7:30 p.m. Jennifer F. Canfield and her husband are sitting on their front porch in Pennsylvania across the Delaware River from Callicoon, New York, when they notice a brilliant light coming slowly and silently up the river from the southeast at 1,000–1,500 feet. Through binoculars, it appears to be a domed elliptical object with two headlights and apparent windows. The object suddenly blinks out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[1977 Sketch/Sighting and 1981 Sketch](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf) [Similarity: Another One,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1983\): 1, 7 Source ID: Eberhart_5514 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17978 (D01805FB) Date: 7/3/1977 Description: 9:30 p.m. A man in Clarksburg, West Virginia, briefly watches a silver rectangular object fly under a low cloud cover toward the north. It climbs at a 30° angle and is lost in the clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-8-54,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5515 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17979 (9F9428AC) Date: 7/4/1977 Description: 7:45 P.M. PST Four witnesses observed a disk-shaped object approximately 20-22 feet in diameter hovering overhead for around five minutes. Description: I saw people in a disk shaped object approximately 20- 22 feet around hovering over me for around 5 minutes with 6-7 people on board. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toppenish, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4812 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17980 (A2331B3C) Date: 7/4/1977 Description: 9:30 p.m. Ten witnesses in different parts of Rapid City, South Dakota, observe three dark objects moving silently toward the west. Each has a row of closely spaced red lights randomly flashing. Two of them seem to merge in the distance, and the remaining pair disappears into a cloud bank. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-8-55,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5516 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17981 (8A90DFEC) Date: 7/4/1977 Description: Prior to a fireworks display, a retired USAF Colonel, his wife and another couple observed two starlike objects for thirty minutes. Both objects moved at random speeds. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, December 1977, page 4) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arlington, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4811 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17982 (52760FF4) Date: 7/6/1977 Description: 5:50 PM. A spherical light--larger than the apparent size of Venus--moved, hovered for two minutes, and then shot away. (Source: Awareness, April 1979, p. 4). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Steynsburg, South Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_4814 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17983 (2DD73CD9) Date: 7/6/1977 Description: Steynsburg, South Africa - At 5:50 p.m. a spherical light--larger than the apparent size of Venus--moved, hovered for two minutes, and then shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Awareness, April 1979, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_3887 Source: Johnson ### Event 17984 (BFF57B87) Date: 7/6/1977 Description: 6:30 p.m. At Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia, a ham radio operator reports a UFO that moves from west to east in about seven minutes. The object is flat, but positioned directly overhead it appears round in shape and yellowish-green in color. It hovers for about 5 seconds, then resumes its movement and disappears in the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 2 \(February 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5517 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17985 (C39595B7) Date: 7/7/1977 Description: 11:00 p.m. The Russian motor ship Nikolay Ostrovsky is going north through the Strait of Tartary, off the east coast of Russia, when the crew sees a cloud-like formation in the shape of a rectangle, moving at the same speed as the ship, about 980–1,300 feet to the east. Radio operator O. Dereza has an eerie feeling of being watched. It disappears at 11:32 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 115 Source ID: Eberhart_5519 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17986 (9A038809) Date: 7/7/1977 Description: Three thousand residents of Zhang Po saw two huge, orange-colored UFOs descend from the sky during the showing of an outdoor movie. Eyewitnesses heard a humming sound and felt heat emanating from the objects, which maneuvered just above the crowd. (Anthony Lee, FSR, March 1983, pg. 24). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Zhang Po, China Source ID: NICAP_DB_4815 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17987 (6B919FC6) Date: 7/7/1977 Description: 8:30 p.m. As some 3,000 people are attending an outdoor screening of a Romanian film in Zhangpu County, Fujian, China, two objects appear in the sky, flying low. They emit an intense orange glow and are only a few feet apart, traveling in complete silence for a few seconds before speeding out of sight. A panic ensues, and allegedly 300 people are injured and two children killed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Anthony Lee, “[UFO Reports from China \(2\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2028%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 4 \(March 1983\): 24–25 Source ID: Eberhart_5518 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17988 (3784A5D5) Date: 7/7/1977 Description: Zhang Po, China - Three thousand residents of Zhang Po, China saw two huge, orange-colored UFOs descend from the sky during the showing of an outdoor movie. Eyewitnesses heard a humming sound and felt heat emanating from the objects, which maneuvered just above the crowd. The UFOs generated a panic and stampede in which two children were trampled to death and dozens of other bystanders were injured. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Anthony Lee, FSR, March 1983, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_3907 Source: Johnson ### Event 17989 (6EA6318E) Date: 7/8/1977 Description: Silver disc with dome, green windows, moved erratically around farm for 20-25 minutes, flew away slowly. CUFOS report; see Rodeghier, p. 71 (E) tractor (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jessup, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4816 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17990 (6CBD66C8) Date: 7/9/1977 Description: A dull silver saucer-shaped UFO hovered off to the left side of a road in Flat Rock, Michigan at 2:30 a.m. It was only about 200 feet above and the ground and 150 feet from the road. It had many red and green lights around its rim, and a beam of light illuminated the ground for two minutes. The object floated away over the treetops moving toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files Source ID: Johnson_3964 Source: Johnson ### Event 17991 (534D917D) Date: 7/9/1977 Description: 2:30 a.m. A 38-year-old singer sees a dull-silver, saucer-shaped UFO hovering on the left side of Telegraph Road in Flat Rock, Michigan. It is only about 200 feet above the ground and 150 feet from the road. It has many red and green lights around its rim, and a beam of light illuminates the ground for 2 minutes. The object floats away over the treetops, moving toward the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-8-72,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5520 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 17992 (D060AD5E) Date: 7/9/1977 Description: 2:30 AM. A dull silver saucer-shaped UFO hovered off to the left side of a road. It was only about 200 feet above and the ground and 150 feet from the road. (Source: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Flat Rock, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4817 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17993 (53A70B76) Date: 7/10/1977 Description: 1:00 AM. A chicken farmer was walking to town to catch a bus. A bright greenish blue light appeared and swooped down from the sky to chase him. It circled back and came to hover above some nearby woods, and he could now make out a V- shaped craft. At one point he awoke briefly to see several men staring at him. They examined him in silence. (Source: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? and in Timothy Good (ed.), The UFO Report 1991). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pinheiro, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4818 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17994 (9E046C46) Date: 7/10/1977 Description: At one o'clock in the morning a chicken farmer in Pinheiro, Brazil was walking to town to catch a bus. A bright greenish blue light appeared and swooped down from the sky to chase him. It circled back and came to hover above some nearby woods, and he could now make out a V-shaped craft. He shone his flashlight at it and was suddenly struck by a light beam from the craft that knocked him down, creating a tingling sensation before he lost consciousness. At one point he awoke briefly to see several men staring at him. They examined him in silence. He finally woke up several hours later, and felt terrible pains throughout his body that prevented him from working for two months. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? and in Timothy Good (ed.), The UFO Report 1991 Source ID: Johnson_3988 Source: Johnson ### Event 17995 (0C90B429) Date: 7/12/1977 Description: 1:50 AM. A domed disc passed over a hill in Roseto Degli Abruzzi. Two kids playing with walkie-talkies experienced RFI radio interference. (Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roseto Degli Abruzzi, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4819 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17996 (0E0039EF) Date: 7/12/1977 Description: A domed disc passed over a hill in Roseto Degli Abruzzi, Italy at 1:50 a.m. Two kids playing with walkie-talkies experienced RFI radio interference. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_4012 Source: Johnson ### Event 17997 (C2D67A7F) Date: 7/12/1977 Description: 2:10 AM. Police radios were reporting unusual lights being observed at Mayfield, KENTUCKY, which is 85 miles SW of the UFOFC at Mt. Vernon, INDIANA. (UFO Filter Center, Ridge files) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mayfield, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4821 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17998 (293EE4C5) Date: 7/12/1977 Description: 2:10 AM. Our local police dispatcher reported to the UFO Filter Center at Mt. Vernon, INDIANA, that multiple witnesses were reporting unusual lights to police at Mt. Vernon, ILLINOIS, which is 60 miles to the NW. (UFOFC, Ridge files) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4820 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 17999 (215373A7) Date: 7/12/1977 Description: At 8:30 p.m. Adrian De Olmos Ordones, age 42, was resting on the balcony of his house in Quebradillas, Puerto Rico when he saw a very small figure across the road. It was about 40 feet away, and it slipped under a farm's barbed wire fence and walked toward a lamp post only 20 feet away. The little man was only three and a half feet tall and wore a green garment that seemed to be inflated with air. He also wore a large metallic helmet with a glass face plate encasing the head that came to a slight point on top. The helmet was surmounted by a short extension with a luminous point on top. On the being's back was a box like a knapsack. Sr. De Olmos also observed that he had only four fingers, that his feet were webbed like a duck's, and that he had a short tail, not long enough to reach the ground. In his right hand he carried a small shiny object. The witness told his daughter bring him a pencil and paper so he could make a sketch, but by mistake she turned on the balcony light. When she did the being ran back to the fence, passed under it, and then stopped and put his hand on his belt. Two red and two blue lights appeared on the backpack with two downward jets of sparks came out, accompanied by a sound like an electric drill. The being ascended 10 feet into the air and flew horizontally to a grove of trees 150 yards away. Mr. Olmos, his family, and neighbors watched the lights of the figure as he moved about the trees for 10 minutes, in company with another light. During this period the cattle on the adjacent farm "went crazy," running about and bellowing. The next day humanoid tracks were found and photographed at the site. A neighbor woman had seen a luminous object descend into the woods two days before. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 3; FSR, April 1978, p. 9; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-36 (A1741), citing Sebastian Robiou Lamarche; Jorge Martin; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 232 Source ID: Johnson_4013 Source: Johnson ### Event 18000 (8F2C74AC) Date: 7/12/1977 Description: Night. A man and his daughter in Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, see a small humanoid in a green inflated suit with a pointed helmet that has a light on top. When the daughter switches on an outside light, it seems to be scared and activates a backpack that lets it climb upward over a neighboring farm and trees. The cows react by making a racket. Another person in the area reports an illuminated UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Superman vs. Airbus,” Fortean Times 323 \(February 2015\): 31 Source ID: Eberhart_5521 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18001 (F562E590) Date: 7/13/1977 Description: Dog started barking at 3:30 AM. This barking was unusual, described as a “scared” bark (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [770713](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-770713.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Emden, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4822 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18002 (48EED150) Date: 7/13/1977 Description: 12:30 a.m. A couple in Dinwiddie, Virginia, see a large silvery star stationary in the sky as rolling storm clouds pass overhead. It “skips” in position slightly once and increases in brightness when lightning flashes. It disappears when another lightning strike occurs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-8-84,” IUR 2, no. 8 \(August 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5522 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18003 (A4D1C3F4) Date: 7/14/1977 Description: A daylight disc was observed flying over West Springfield, Massachusetts by a woman at around 11:00 o'clock in the morning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Center for UFO Studies files Source ID: Johnson_4056 Source: Johnson ### Event 18004 (FE551A40) Date: 7/15/1977 Description: 11:45 p.m. Adult witnesses on a boat on the Colorado River near Blythe, California, watch an oval light, 3–4 times the size of the moon, darting silently above them in all directions and on both sides of the river. It stops abruptly, comes close to the boat, then curves around the river. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-9-2,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5523 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18005 (57257333) Date: 7/15/1977 Description: 10:45 PM. Mrs. Fern Frey (name changed) was lying in bed with her 11-year-old daughter who was asleep. She cautiously peeked through the curtain and watched in bewilderment as the green light retreated, "just like a liquid being drawn up through a straw." In a matter of seconds the light was "siphoned" up into a low hovering object that was shaped like an inverted saucer a couple of hundred feet away. She guessed it was about 30' in diameter and was metallic. (MUJ-122,9) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bellevue, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4823 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18006 (CF740E58) Date: 7/15/1977 Description: Mrs. Fern Frey had a close encounter with a disc-shaped UFO in Bellevue, Kentucky at 10:45 p.m. She watched as a green beam retracted into the 30-foot wide craft like "liquid being sucked up through a straw". The UFO then lifted off and disappeared into a wooded area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1978, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_4076 Source: Johnson ### Event 18007 (4C9A8250) Date: 7/15/1977 Description: At 11:45 p.m. PDT five people in a boat on a lake in Blythe, Riverside County, California watched an ovoid object, three to four times the size of the Moon, as it darted about in all directions for the next two hours. Its illuminated surface reflected on the surface of the water. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1977, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4077 Source: Johnson ### Event 18008 (51999896) Date: 7/16/1977 Description: Before 12:00 midnight. A bright light in the west above Baton Rouge, Louisiana, moves 10°–15° from its original position and back again. The object remains in the same position, even though the stars have shifted by the time it is last seen at 1:15 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-9-4,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5525 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18009 (8AF67E83) Date: 7/16/1977 Description: 11:15 p.m. As Air India Flight 9, piloted by Capt. Dingra, makes its final approach to Dum Dum Airport \[now Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport\] in Kolkata, India, air traffic controllers notice a second object closing in on the Boeing 747. Witnesses on the ground report a saucer-shaped object rushing toward the airliner. When it gets dangerously close, the passengers and crew can see it. It departs 2 miles from the aircraft’s final touch-down. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 304](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/304/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5524 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18010 (43829C03) Date: 7/16/1977 Description: Multiple UFO abductee Betty Andreasson had her sixth close encounter experience on this night in Wakefield, Massachusetts. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 137). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wakefield, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4824 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18011 (EDAD3F80) Date: 7/16/1977 Description: Multiple UFO abductee Betty Andreasson had her sixth close encounter experience on this night in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 137 Source ID: Johnson_4102 Source: Johnson ### Event 18012 (4274B74B) Date: 7/17/1977 Description: A domed disc-shaped UFO, resembling a straw hat, landed on a ranch near Barra do Corda, Brazil. The ranch owner saw a short, hairy humanoid get out of the object, carrying "tools." (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12248). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barra do Corda (near), Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4825 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18013 (318E4CA6) Date: 7/17/1977 Description: On this day a police dog handler saw a white cigar-shaped UFO above the village of Arkesden, Essex, England. A woman also reported seeing the same object at the same time, from 20 miles away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, Catalogue of Police Reports of UFOs, case 63, citing The Daily Mail, July 18, 1977 Source ID: Johnson_4142 Source: Johnson ### Event 18014 (9B02380B) Date: 7/17/1977 Description: At five o'clock in the morning a glowing sphere landed on the Nova Melia Ranch near Barra do Corda, Maranhao State, Brazil only 200 meters from the ranch owner. After the brightness abated, the ranch owner, Joao Batista Souza, could see that the object was a domed disc-shaped craft, resembling a straw hat. The man hid behind a mound and watched as a door in the craft opened, and a short being about one meter in height got out. The hairy humanoid was carrying some sort of torch emitting a red light in his left hand, and some other type of "tool" in his right hand. The being's face could not be seen because it was wearing a full helmet with "antennae," but the rest of its body was completely covered in hair. At this point the rancher apparently lost consciousness, because members of his family later found him lying where he had hid and carried him into the ranch house, where he remained in bed for several days, too weak to get up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 2510, citing Daniel Rebisso Geise, FSR, Volume 39, Number 3; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12248; citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_4141 Source: Johnson ### Event 18015 (E3157F47) Date: 7/17/1977 Description: Romanian ufologists Călin Turcu, Valeriu Niculescu, Adrian Pătruţ, and Augustin Moraru establish an informal group called “Romanian UFO Researchers” \(RUFOR\). It publishes 27 issues of a RUFOR newsletter between 1979 and 1986 and 21 issues of a RUFOR magazine in 1994–1996. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 38–39 Source ID: Eberhart_5526 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18016 (290E7A32) Date: 7/18/1977 Description: 12:05 a.m. An intense blue-white glow hovers 200–300 feet above a creek near Fairview, Pennsylvania. After 4 seconds, it jumps to the north with a hum “like a hair dryer” and is lost to sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-9-8,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5527 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18017 (CC63D2F6) Date: 7/18/1977 Description: A red, round object hovered over some olive trees in Palomares, Spain at 2:10 a.m. It directed a beam of light to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978 Source ID: Johnson_4175 Source: Johnson ### Event 18018 (E4C10A75) Date: 7/18/1977 Description: A red, round object hovered over some olive trees in Palomares, Spain at 2:10 a.m. It directed a beam of light to the ground. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palomares, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4826 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18019 (8B3EEA78) Date: 7/19/1977 Description: An abduction by aliens including a physical exam occurred around midnight on this night in the United States (location withheld). When the abductee awoke she found three pasty white short humanoids in her living room. They were 4.5 feet tall, hairless, and had watery, liquid appearing eyes. They took her onboard a UFO by levitating her with a light beam and conducted some type of physical exam after making her lie on a metallic, exam table. For the following ten days after her return the abductee felt ill and experienced vertigo. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, Volume I: Comparative Study of Abductions, case 111 Source ID: Johnson_4208 Source: Johnson ### Event 18020 (D8F22C09) Date: 7/21/1977 Description: 4:15 AM. Officer John W. Bruner, a deputy sheriff, was on duty and was the first person to observe the phenomenon. Officer Bruner and his partner Officer Coogler were parked west of the object which appeared to be approximately 1/2 to 1 mile away. Bruner and Coogler got out of their vehicle and tried to observe the object better by shinning their light on it. The object moved toward the men and the officers turned off the light because they became nervous at seeing the object's response to their light. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, October 1977, page 4) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Porter, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_4827 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18021 (2A111F26) Date: 7/21/1977 Description: 10:05 p.m. Witnesses in Glenview, Illinois, watch a light move from the north to the southeast in about 3 seconds. It stops for 1 second, hooks backward, and stops again. When the witnesses look back, it has disappeared. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-9-19,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5529 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18022 (35D0CDFA) Date: 7/21/1977 Description: [Frank Press](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FPress)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FPress) director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, writes to [Robert A. Frosch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FFrosch)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FFrosch) NASA administrator, and explains that the White House is receiving numerous inquiries about UFOs and wonders if NASA could form a small panel to follow up on the Condon report to see if there are any new findings. Press also suggests that NASA become the focal point for further UFO inquiries. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [p. 242](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/242/mode/2up); Clark III 787; Good Above, [pp. 368–369](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/368/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5528 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18023 (3D3B8DBB) Date: 7/21/1977 Description: At 4:15 a.m. Police Officer John W. Bruner, a deputy sheriff, was on duty In Porter, Texas and was the first person to observe the UFO. Officer Bruner and his partner Officer Coogler were parked west of the object, which appeared to be approximately hald a mile to a mile away. Bruner and Coogler got out of their vehicle and tried to observe the object better by shinning their light on it. The object moved toward the men and the officers turned off the light because they became nervous at seeing the object's response to their light. The object then moved back to its original location. They agreed that the object appeared to have six portholes surrounding a type of framework. The two officers observed the UFO for approximately 45 minutes. During that time period, the UFO appeared to stand still in mid air, pulsate, travel at incredible speeds, and fly erratically. The officers described the UFO's apparent size to be about that of a grapefruit at arm's length. Officer Bruner was convinced that the object he saw was neither a balloon nor a helicopter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1977, page 4 Source ID: Johnson_4279 Source: Johnson ### Event 18024 (43D44C03) Date: 7/22/1977 Description: An 18 meter in diameter domed, bowl-shaped disc hovered 50 meters over a house in Croix-en-Plaine, France at 10:30 p.m. Rays from the UFO converged on the roof of the house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1979 Source ID: Johnson_4305 Source: Johnson ### Event 18025 (A704D05B) Date: 7/22/1977 Description: An 18 meter in diameter domed, bowl-shaped disc hovered 50 meters over a house in Croix-en-Plaine, France at 10:30 p.m. Rays from the UFO converged on the roof of the house. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1979). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Croix-en-Plaine, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4828 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18026 (2BDABA30) Date: 7/23/1977 Description: At 12:45 a.m. a 26-year old woman and her 13-year-old niece looked out their bedroom window in Lindley, New York before retiring and saw 11 or 12 white lights in a "dipper" shaped formation that were moving about in the sky. One bright light appeared on a hill 300 yards away. They could hear a whooshing sound, then two lights rose in the air. Then next heard footsteps from the creek, about 100 yards away, and saw two small figures floating up and down in front of a tree by the creek. After this they saw several more figures, at various spots, carrying what seemed to be flashlights. They wore tight-fitting, "skin diver" suits with glowing green belts.

A luminous red rectangular object was seen by one of the witnesses. It approached the creek, and then backed away. At this point both witnesses developed severe headaches. They then saw a figure on a distant hill shining a light on a tombstone there, and the stone seemed to rise up into the air and move back and forth. A figure taller than the others, who were less than four feet tall, stood near the light on the hill and called out with an "ooh, ooh" signal. The others all approached him and, five minutes later, deployed back into adjacent fields. One of them approached the house. He came under the second story window and dropped to the ground, as if to conceal himself, he then approached the door and rattled the handle. By this time, 3:45 a.m., the older witness had called her mother, who notified the state police. All of the lights and figures disappeared just prior to the arrival of the police, the lights in the sky being indistinguishable from stars. Both witnesses believed only an hour had passed but actually over three hours had elapsed. They complained of burning eyes and headaches that lasted for two days. Footprints were found in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1977, p. 36; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-37 (A1742), citing Ted Phillips, Douglas Dains, & Dr Gary Truce for CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_4329 Source: Johnson ### Event 18027 (2760C029) Date: 7/23/1977 Description: 12:45 a.m. A 26-year old woman and her 13-year-old niece look out their bedroom window in Lindley, New York, before retiring and see 11 or 12 white lights in a dipper-shaped formation that are moving about in the sky. One bright light appears on a hill 900 feet away. They hear a whooshing sound, then two lights rise into the air. They next hear footsteps from Morgan Creek about 300 feet away and see two small figures floating up and down in front of a tree. Then they see several more figures at various spots carrying what seem to be flashlights. They wear tight-fitting, “skin diver” suits with glowing green belts. One of the witnesses sees a luminous red rectangular object that approaches the creek and then backs away. At this point both witnesses develop severe headaches. Then a figure on a distant hill on a neighbor’s farm shines a light on a tombstone there, and the stone seems to rise up into the air and move back and forth. A figure taller than the others, who are less than four feet tall, stands near the light on the hill and calls out an “ooh, ooh” signal. The others all approach him and, 5 minutes later, deploy back into adjacent fields. One of them approaches the house. He comes under the second-story window and drops to the ground, as if to conceal himself, then approaches the door and rattles the handle. By this time, 3:45 a.m., the older witness has called her mother, who notifies the state police. All of the lights and figures disappear just prior to the arrival of the police, the lights in the sky indistinguishable from stars. Both witnesses believe only an hour has passed but in fact more than three hours has elapsed. They complain of burning eyes and headaches that last for two days. The witnesses find three footprints in the powdery dust of their driveway. Further incidents occur on July 25 and August 1. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Allan Hendry, “The Lindley Episodes: CE III’s in New York State,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): 5–7 Source ID: Eberhart_5530 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18028 (B1439797) Date: 7/23/1977 Description: 12:45 AM. A 26-year old woman and her 13-year-old niece looked out their bedroom window before retiring and saw 11 or 12 white lights in a "dipper" shaped formation that were moving about in the sky. One bright light appeared on a hill 300 yards away. They then saw a figure on a distant hill shining a light on a tombstone there, and the stone seemed to rise up into the air and move back and forth. A figure taller than the others, who were less than four feet tall, stood near the light on the hill and called out with an "ooh, ooh" signal. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lindley, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4829 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18029 (B1ADEAFE) Date: 7/24/1977 Description: 10:30 PM. On Route 951 east of Cruis, a couple, Mr. & Mrs. Gaizand, reported seeing a white luminous form shaped like a hemisphere sitting on the ground by the side of the road. Next to the craft stood two human-like figures. The figures were about 1.65 meters in height and wore gray uniforms and helmets. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1980, issue # 195). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cruis (east of), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4830 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18030 (E568E6AF) Date: 7/24/1977 Description: 8:40 PM. Report not phoned in to UFO Filter Center but came over police scanner (KNI Net) at UFOFC. Report of an "aircraft going down" prompted law enforcement officials to look for a crash. None found. (UFOFC, Ridge files) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Henderson, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4831 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18031 (6716E5DF) Date: 7/24/1977 Description: At 10:30 p.m. on Route 951 east of Cruis, France a couple, Mr. & Mrs. Gaizand, reported seeing a white luminous form shaped like a hemisphere sitting on the ground by the side of the road. The object was about 7-8 meters in diameter and about 2.50 meters in height, and was about 40 meters away from the road. It had three bright bluish-white lights. Next to the craft stood two human-like figures. The figures were about 1.65 meters in height and wore gray uniforms and helmets. Mrs. Gaizand was seized by a panic and begged her husband to drive away. Both suffered from conjunctivitis and insomnia after the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1980, issue # 195 Source ID: Johnson_4358 Source: Johnson ### Event 18032 (D19D6F7F) Date: 7/26/1977 Description: Maldonada, Uraguay (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [770726](http://www.nicap.org/uruguay77.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maldonada, Uraguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_4832 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18033 (5E33A77C) Date: 7/26/1977 Description: 10:10 p.m. Astronomer Zhang Zhousheng and others watch a strange spiral object in the air above a northern suburb of Chengdu, Sichuan, China. At its center is a yellowish light, with the arms of the spiral blue and greenish. The object is 60° in the air and moving in a straight line at a constant speed. It is visible for about 5 minutes before it is covered up by clouds. The object is visible to other witnesses in localities along a 110-mile, north-to-south line, for as long as 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, pp. 99–102 Source ID: Eberhart_5531 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18034 (3B182C9E) Date: 7/29/1977 Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_292 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18035 (C3CF6B71) Date: 7/30/1977 Description: Early morning. Airmen on the night shift at RAF Boulmer in Alnwick, Northumberland, England, are alerted by a call from a civilian who is watching two bright objects hovering above the North Sea. Duty controller Flight Lt. A. M. Wood and others on the base can also see them, hovering close to the shore at about 4,000–5,000 feet. They move apart slowly as they climb into the sky. The object on the west side is conical with its apex at the top. It seems to be rotating and changes its shape to an arrowhead. It is apparently 4–5 times the size of a Whirlwind helicopter. After the objects move away out to sea, radar at RAF Boulmer picks up two targets 20–30 miles out, corroborated by radar at RAF Patrington in Yorkshire. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 92](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n151/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5532 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18036 (A35EA5F8) Date: 7/31/1977 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a three-meter in diameter luminous disc-shaped object maneuvered over the city of Motta San Giovanni, Sicilia, Italy. The city experienced a power outage for five minutes, until it went away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_4538 Source: Johnson ### Event 18037 (84EBD526) Date: 7/31/1977 Description: 6:30 p.m. A university art professor in Normal, Illinois, calls his wife and secretary to see a silver “stretched cigar” three times its apparent diameter in length. The object flies in a slow, straight path from southwest to northeast and is lost in the trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-9-68,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5533 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18038 (FC43DFDF) Date: 7/31/1977 Description: 6:30 PM. University professor called wife and secretary to see a silver "stretched cigar" three times (apparent) diameter in length. Object flew in slow straight path from 30-degrees in SW to 30-degrees in NE and was lost in the trees. (IUR,2,9) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Normal, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4833 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18039 (A1C84607) Date: 8/1977 Description: CE-2. No details other than 1-witness last name Elmer. (EGBA,688) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Berlin Heights, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4834 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18040 (1B89DDD7) Date: 8/1977 Description: 9:30 p.m. Graham Niven sees two green objects in the southern sky at Raeford, North Carolina. They are moving swiftly to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[One Reporting Witness: Two Reported Sightings,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 10 \(October 1981\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_5534 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18041 (5C8F4A89) Date: 8/1/1977 Description: 9:30 a.m. An 11-year-old boy playing baseball in Springfield, Ohio, sees a white cigar-shaped object flying southbound from low in the western sky for 15 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-9-70,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5535 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18042 (C7E4B0B6) Date: 8/1/1977 Description: At around two o'clock in the morning, a man and a woman in Steuben, New York who had been involved in a previous UFO encounter a week earlier had another encounter with aliens. They watched six or seven humanoid beings with glowing green belts, similar to those they had seen the week before. Two of them had glowing gray belts, and one of the witnesses saw two normal sized human figures that glowed a silvery white instead of green. After observing them for an hour they woke a third witness, who saw only blue-green lights. When they shone a flashlight beam on one of the figures it disappeared, but re-appeared when the light beam was removed. It gradually became very foggy, so at 4:30 a.m. they went to bed, but the first two witnesses thought they could hear the sound of a woman screaming three times, and then a door slamming. They experienced headaches and ringing in their ears. The third witness, who heard a noise like someone chiseling rock and a high-pitched chirping sound, did not suffer from a headache. They saw no UFOs that night, but there were other reported sightings in the area on subsequent nights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1977, p. 7; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-42 (A1747), citing field investigator Douglas Dains for CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_4577 Source: Johnson ### Event 18043 (92EF78DC) Date: 8/2/1977 Description: Marauding UFOs destroy the town of Chester, Illinois, according to a hoax concocted by Official UFO magazine editor [Myron Fass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron%5FFass)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron%5FFass)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Allan Hendry, “Sleep Well, Chester, Illinois: It’s Ufology That’s Hurting,” IUR 3, no. 1 \(January 1978\): wrap; Clark III 599 Source ID: Eberhart_5536 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18044 (730F209B) Date: 8/3/1977 Description: In Thaxted, Essex, England a 24-year old man named Stevens was driving at around 3:30 a.m. when his car lost power from 50 mph to 35 mph despite applying full throttle. Two orange-red oval lights were seen hovering nearby at the time, at a distance of 300-400 yards. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Andrew Collins, FSR, January 1978, p. 25; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 21, 275 Source ID: Johnson_4634 Source: Johnson ### Event 18045 (D91B653C) Date: 8/3/1977 Description: Afternoon. NASA astrophysicist [Richard C. Henry](https://henry.pha.jhu.edu/henryDir/rch.html.old) is one of several persons asked to attend a meeting to discuss what to do about [Frank Press](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FPress)’s recommendation. The group decides to turn the issue over to Space Science Director [Noel W. Hinners](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel%5FHinners)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel%5FHinners) At the end of the meeting, Henry lets Hinners know that he has some relevant expertise on UFOs \(as a consultant to APRO\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard C. Henry, “[UFOs and NASA,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/2/jse%5F02%5F2%5Fhenry.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 2, no. 2 \(1988\): 93–142; Clark 787–788 Source ID: Eberhart_5537 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18046 (180770AD) Date: 8/3/1977 Description: On this day in Campos, Brazil a gray disc-shaped object was seen on the ground and three tall, thin, baldheaded figures were seen moving around the object performing various tasks. They wore gray coveralls with green belts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, citing Antonio Faleiro Source ID: Johnson_4635 Source: Johnson ### Event 18047 (759C9154) Date: 8/3/1977 Description: Caferina Vargas Martin, age 20, of Escalada, Huelva, Spain left her home at 7:30 p.m. to walk to her grandmother's house in La Corte, about three kilometers distant. The pathway between the two villages winds along a creek at the foot of a mountain, with lush vegetation along the way. While walking along the footpath, at around 7:55 p.m., she was momentarily blinded by a bright reflection of light. About 20 meters further on, another flash of light again shone in her face. She believed it was a bicycle headlight, but she quickly felt her strength ebb away as the light source was replaced by two strange humanoid figures: a woman two meters tall and a slightly shorter man. The woman had long platinum hair that hung to the middle of her back, but the man's hair was shorter and slightly disheveled. Their facial features were "repulsive" to the witness because the woman had very large eyes, and only two holes where her nose should be, with a slit-like mouth that moved without opening. Both figures were dressed in tunics; the woman's was a dark green color, but shiny as if made up of many tiny points of light, with wide long sleeves that went to her hands. The tunic extended to the ground so her feet were unseen. The man's tunic was a light chestnut color, and also with brightly reflecting points of light. It came to his knees, below which was a narrow, darker tunic that extended to the ground. Their skin was citron yellow in color. While the woman gesticulated with her arms, both beings remained indifferent to the witness's presence. Feeling faint, Caferina sat down on a rock and then passed out. When she came to there was no one there and it was then dark. Frightened and upset, she ran back home. It was 8:50 p.m. when she got home, nearly an hour after her encounter began. She suffered from psychological shock and had nightmares for the next several nights, and was treated by doctors. Some personal belongings of hers also turned up missing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-60 (A1751), citing Ignacio Darnaude, Joaquin Mateos, Manuel Filpo Jose Ignacio Alonso & Antonio Moya; Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978 Source ID: Johnson_4636 Source: Johnson ### Event 18048 (B0CC7479) Date: 8/3/1977 Description: Orange-red objects hovered nearby, car lost power Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Thaxted, North Essex, UK Source ID: HallUFOE2_293 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18049 (E4E229FA) Date: 8/3/1977 End date: 8/18/1977 Description: Italian researchers Giovanni and Piero Mantero of the Centro Internazionale Richerche e Studi sugli UFO in Genoa hold a 15-day skywatch on Monte Verrugoli west of La Spezia, Italy. The mountain is known for reports of strange phenomena. During the skywatch a total of 108 nocturnal lights are observed, 82 appearing as points of light, 7 oblong in shape, 7 spherical, one like a tilted plate, 3 discoid, one like a half-moon, and 7 other miscellaneous forms. Most are yellow, but some are reddish or blue. Occasionally the unidentified lights seem to increase in luminosity in response to signals made with a flashlight. During their presence, dogs in the neighborhood bark almost constantly. The objects disappear when conventional aircraft appear in the sky. Sounds of breaking tree branches are heard, unidentified voices are registered on a tape recorder, wristwatches malfunction, and areas of flattened grass are found. On one of the last nights of the project, Giovanni Mantero claims to have seen a strange aerial entity with a transparent face. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [pp. 232–233](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/231/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5538 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18050 (33CA3C6E) Date: 8/3/1977 Description: On this day a gray disc-shaped object was seen on the ground and three tall, thin, baldheaded figures were seen moving around the object performing various tasks. They wore gray coveralls with green belts. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, citing Antonio Faleiro). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Campos, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4836 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18051 (01567E34) Date: 8/3/1977 Description: Orange-red objects hovered nearby, car lost power (NICAP UFOE II, Section VII). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Thaxted, North Essex, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4835 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18052 (EB41C196) Date: 8/4/1977 Description: The offices of the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Federal Energy Administration are dissolved and become the cabinet-level US Department of Energy, with the oversight of policies on energy and safety in handling nuclear material. Its responsibilities include the nation’s nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the US Navy, energy conservation, energy-related research, radioactive waste disposal, and domestic energy production. It also directs research in genomics; the Human Genome Project originated in a DOE initiative. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States Department of Energy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FDepartment%5Fof%5FEnergy)” Source ID: Eberhart_5539 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18053 (37EB62DD) Date: 8/4/1977 Description: 9:10 p.m. A man in Teddington, southwest London, England, is outside watching the sky when he sees a small light traveling fast to the right of a well known Heathrow Airport flight path. Watching it through binoculars, it looks like a metallic submarine shape with five portholes. It hovers for 20 seconds almost on the flight path. It moves away quickly when an aircraft approaches. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 \(June 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5540 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18054 (D5F824ED) Date: 8/5/1977 Description: A red disc-shaped object hovered at 30 meters altitude for about a minute on this night in Reguengo do Fetal, Leiria, Portugal, and then it took off fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: PORTUCAT, case 182; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12279 Source ID: Johnson_4693 Source: Johnson ### Event 18055 (D36B5A9B) Date: 8/6/1977 Description: 10:30 AM. Tom Dawson, 63, a retired car salesman, was taking a walk down to his favorite fishing pond, when suddenly a disc-shaped craft silently came into view, hovering just a few feet off the ground between nearby trees. Simultaneously, Dawson found himself unable to move, and noted that his two dogs and some twenty head of cattle seemed to suffer from the same affliction. (Source: The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, edited by Ronald D. Story. New American Library, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, N.Y. 10014. 2001. Feature submitted by researcher Billy J. Rachels. (mysterious-america.net) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pelham, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4837 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18056 (9B2BEB1E) Date: 8/6/1977 Description: 8:55 p.m. A young woman close to Port Columbus Airport \[now John Glenn Columbus International Airport\] in Columbus, Ohio, stops her car to watch two cylindrical objects with bulbous ends approach her from the southwest. They are dark gray or green and have bright white lights on opposite ends. They appear to bank and twist for 10–15 seconds. One ascends, stops, and vanishes; the other does the same maneuver one second later, all “too fast for airplanes.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-9-81,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5541 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18057 (85249842) Date: 8/6/1977 Description: 10:30 AM. Tom Dawson, 63, a retired car salesman, was taking a walk down to his favorite fishing pond, when suddenly a disc-shaped craft silently came into view, hovering just a few feet off the ground between nearby trees. Dawson described the object as being about 50 feet in diameter and 15 feet high, encircled by what appeared to be portholes, with a dome on top. As he watched helpless, a ramp was extended down to the ground and seven hairless, snow-white entities appeared. (Source: The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, edited by Ronald D. Story. New American Library, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, N.Y. 10014. 2001. Feature submitted by researcher Billy J. Rachels. (mysterious-america.net) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pelham, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4838 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18058 (523893FB) Date: 8/7/1977 Description: A nearly perfect circular ring, 12 feet in diameter and 8 inches wide is discovered in someone’s backyard on an island in the Mississippi River near Galena, Illinois. The ring is caused by a substance composed of tiny beads that discolors the grass and leaves on the ground. A similar ring is found near Chesterton, Indiana, on August 12. Analysis by the University of Chicago shows that the rings are caused by slime mold. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Allan Hendry, “A Physical Trace Doth Not a CE II Make,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5542 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18059 (C989247F) Date: 8/7/1977 Description: 3:43 AM. Two witnesses on a flight, one UFO. (Haines printout) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cairo, Egypt Source ID: NICAP_DB_4839 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18060 (2106DDDD) Date: 8/9/1977 Description: 2:00 p.m. A witness in Wheaton, Illinois, sees 8–16 pinpoints of light “like magnesium burning” silently maneuvering in and out of the overcast clouds. They appear to be approaching very fast from 60° in the north. Looping and swooping, they move apart after about 15 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-9-85,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5543 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18061 (D9856FBE) Date: 8/9/1977 Description: At around 1:30 a.m. Police Constable David Swift was investigating an unusual fog in a nearby fog located in East Hull, Yorkshire, England. As he crossed the field, he saw three figures who seemed to be dancing around a non-existent Maypole. Each had an arm raised. "One figure was a man in a sleveless jerkin and tight-fitting trousers...the other two were women in bonnets, shawls, and white colored dresses." Thinking they were drunks, he approached them. At about 50 feet away the entire scene vanished. "No one was there." He drove about the area in his car, but found nothing more. He then reported the incident to his sergeant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1977 Humanoid Reports; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-44, citing Robert J. Richard, Fortean Times, issue # 23 Source ID: Johnson_4802 Source: Johnson ### Event 18062 (C7D4E9DB) Date: 8/10/1977 Description: A man named Bogea was chased by a delta-shaped flying object through the forest in Pinheiro, Maranhao State, Brazil in the early morning hours. He reported being abducted and shown a strange city for hours. When he was returned in was located far from his original location. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12283, citing Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 100 Source ID: Johnson_4826 Source: Johnson ### Event 18063 (6050CBAF) Date: 8/10/1977 Description: Humanoid report. No details. (EGBA,676) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Madison County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4841 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18064 (0B0B2083) Date: 8/10/1977 Description: Early morning hours. A man named Bogea was chased by a delta-shaped flying object through the forest. He reported being abducted and shown a strange city for hours. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pinheiro, Maranhao State, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4840 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18065 (CA4FA21E) Date: 8/10/1977 Description: 8:50 p.m. Two adult couples in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, watch a bright, blue-green star silently loping from low in the west toward the northeast for 30–45 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-9-87,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5544 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18066 (02B9DCAF) Date: 8/11/1977 Description: 8:45 p.m. A couple are driving near Hayden, Alabama, when they see an object hovering silently about 150 feet in the air. A blue-gray light in its center turns on and they can see its disc-like shape and size, which is about 65 feet in diameter. The object shoots north like a bullet, then stops a short distance away. Keeping it in view, they drive home and call the police. The woman sees the UFO circle around them three times and land. A second object comes out of the hills to the northeast and stops directly above the first object at about 400 feet. The lower object rises up to join the other briefly, and they can see a blinking red light on top. The objects accelerate to the south and vanish from sight. Total duration is 5 minutes. \(“Case 2-9-89,” IUR 2, no. 10 \(October 1977\): wrap\) August 13 \(approximately\) — Night. At Nocero Umbra, Perugia, Italy, several witnesses, including Bruno Vitali, see a cone-shaped object “more than a meter high.” Vitali tries unsuccessfully to hit the object with his car because as he speeds forward, the object maintains the same distance. Students who investigate the site later find a stone that is intensely hot 2 days after the encounter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 12 \(November 1977\): 2; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 32 Source ID: Eberhart_5546 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18067 (83E7D97D) Date: 8/11/1977 Description: A silent disc-shaped object came over the horizon and was seen by five witnesses, including police. There was something that looked like a "radar mast" on the object that was rotating. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Brunswick, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4842 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18068 (11317BA0) Date: 8/11/1977 Description: 8:05 p.m. A 37-year-old police detective in South Brunswick, New Jersey, watches a silent disc-shaped object come over the horizon. Four other witnesses also see it. There is something that looks like a rotating “radar mast” on the object. It rises into the clouds and shoots off toward the north-northeast after 3.5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2- 9-88,” IUR 2, no. 9 \(September 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5545 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18069 (19412A68) Date: 8/11/1977 Description: A 24-year-old construction worker named White and his wife were driving on a mountain road in Hayden, Alabama at 10:45 p.m. CDT when a 65-foot diameter domed disc stopped in the air close by and extended its landing gear. A second disc approached and stopped in the air directly over the first one. The witnesses had an episode of missing time and could not recall everything that happened next. They do recall seeing a domed disc accelerate and speed quickly out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, September 1977, p. 36; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 410; UNICAT, case # 189 Source ID: Johnson_4887 Source: Johnson ### Event 18070 (CB22DDB2) Date: 8/11/1977 Description: In Nocera-Umbra, Umbria, Italy at 12:10 a.m. Sr. Bruno Vitali was driving home after work when his headlights picked up a shining triangular figure in front of him on the road. It was about five feet tall and not more than 30 inches wide, and was hopping in front of the car as if trying to fly away from being observed. Another man, Oscar Tega, stated he heard a very loud whistling noise at the same time just prior to the motorist's encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-45 (A1752), citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 170 Source ID: Johnson_4884 Source: Johnson ### Event 18071 (FF6118FD) Date: 8/11/1977 Description: At 4:00 a.m. three police in Casco Township, Michigan witnessed a large silent silver saucer fly overhead at 25 mph. It had two white spotlights directed down from the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12284, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue 232 Source ID: Johnson_4885 Source: Johnson ### Event 18072 (AB18DE74) Date: 8/11/1977 Description: In South Brunswick, New Jersey at 10:45 p.m. EDT a silent disc-shaped object came over the horizon and was seen by five witnesses, including police. There was something that looked like a "radar mast" on the object that was rotating. It rose up into the clouds and shot off toward the north-northeast after four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, September 1977, p. 36; UNICAT, case # 199 Source ID: Johnson_4886 Source: Johnson ### Event 18073 (A7C212EA) Date: 8/13/1977 Description: A 2.2 meter ovoid object landed in a field in Houetteville, Eure department, France at one o'clock in the morning. Ground traces werefound later during a large scale investigation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978 Source ID: Johnson_4978 Source: Johnson ### Event 18074 (A74AC5FB) Date: 8/15/1977 Description: The Big Ear Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio, in searching for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, detects a strong, intermittent signal lasting for 72 seconds that stands out distinctly from the background noise. The team quickly rules out a terrestrial origin or a broadcast from a satellite. Nevertheless, the signal is so powerful and unusual that Jerry Ehman, the astronomer who analyzes the data print out, annotates the signal with the word “Wow!” The Big Ear team continued to observe the same part of the sky, as have others, but the Wow! signal never returns. In 2020, using the Gaia 3D star database developed by the European Space Agency, amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero identifies a Sun-like star in the region of the sky where the Wow! signal originated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Wow! Signal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!%5Fsignal)”; Daniela Breitman, “[Wow! Signal Explained after 40 Years?](https://earthsky.org/space/wow-signal-explained-comets-antonio-paris/)” EarthSky, June 7, 2017; “[Sun-Like Star Identified As the Potential Source of the Wow! Signal,](https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/sun-like-star-identified-as-the-potential-source-of-the-wow-signal)” Physics ArXiv Blog, November 19, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_5548 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18075 (5A05FE07) Date: Mid 8/1977 Description: Between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. Canute Jensen, 13, and Kevin Rurka, 12, are in a treehouse on the Chris Jensen farm 27 miles north of Edmonton, Alberta. They are taking photos when they see a large, dark, block- shaped object moving through the sky. Canute snaps three photos before the object disappears upward in the clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Photographed from a Tree-House in Canada,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 7, no. 8 \(August 1981\): 1, 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5547 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18076 (CBDE5F59) Date: 8/16/1977 Description: At 12:30 a.m. in Fage, Lot department, France a one-meter tall, upright metallic ovoid object closely pursued a teenage driver at a very low altitude as he drove along a winding mountain road. The UFO caused EM effects on the car's engine and lights. It flew away toward to southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1980 Source ID: Johnson_5099 Source: Johnson ### Event 18077 (C9638CF9) Date: 8/17/1977 Description: 2:00 p.m. James R. Leming is driving on Interstate 70 westbound about 15 miles west of the Nebraska– Colorado state border. He sees a strange object moving swiftly in the sky and pulls over to watch. It moves to the north, then veers back to the highway and runs a parallel course along the interstate. Directly over the road it remains stationary for 3 minutes, and Leming is able to take three photographs, only one of which is not blurry because the object began speeding away. He estimates it was 600 feet away, its altitude at about 500 feet above the road, positioned at a 40° angle above the horizon, and 40–45 feet from tip to tip with a downward curve at each end. Ground Saucer Watch explains the photo as a chip in the glass of Leming’s windshield, but Leming contests that. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[1977 Photograph/Sighting and 1982 Sketch Similarity,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1983\): 1; Fred Adrian, “[Letter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1983\): 2–3; James R. Leming, “[Letter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 \(Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5549 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18078 (26A9EB2B) Date: 8/25/1977 Description: Many witnesses in Montjoly, Finistere, France watched a noctural light rise from the sea at 9:30 p.m. It was seen a second time at 11:02 p.m. It zigzagged to the west, and was completely silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 340 Source ID: Johnson_5331 Source: Johnson ### Event 18079 (32E83CA7) Date: 8/25/1977 Description: At 10:30 a.m. a driver described as a very reliable man was driving along a highway in Lluchmayor Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain when he saw a very small (35 cm) object in the road directly ahead of him. It was too late to stop the car, and he knocked the "bowling pin shaped" thing down and ran it over, "feeling an intense sensation that he had killed a living being." Investigation at the site disclosed a circular wet stain. About two weeks earlier, there had been a UFO sighting at Palma de Mallorca. No UFO was associated with this incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-46, citing Ignacio Darnaude & Antonio Moya Cerpa Source ID: Johnson_5330 Source: Johnson ### Event 18080 (BBEABFDE) Date: 8/26/1977 Description: The witness in Fontanigorda, Liguria, Italy was having difficulty sleeping and got up at 4:15 a.m. when he noticed through some partially opened blinds a very bright white light approach and stop a few meters away. Moments later two figures with gold-colored faces appeared in front of the light. The light then moved to the right side near the curtains, which were the only things separating the witness from the phenomenon. Next, one of the humanoid figure started to enter his bedroom through the curtains; it had an oval-shaped head with an upside-down, triangle-shaped light on the top part of its face. The witness yelled out, causing the figure to leave, leaving a faintly luminous handprint on the curtains. Soon after this, two more figures were heard walking by. Finally, the lights and the figures vanished. Investigators reportedly found ground traces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact database, case # 1530, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case # 99; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12310 Source ID: Johnson_5375 Source: Johnson ### Event 18081 (E33A7B57) Date: 8/27/1977 Description: Humanoid report. No details. (EGBA, 560) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aurora, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4843 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18082 (5447306A) Date: 8/28/1977 Description: 8:40 p.m. The same couple in Hayden, Alabama, who saw a UFO on August 11 see a similar bright object 2 miles away from the previous site. It has several beige lights, and it darts toward their car in seconds when they stop to look. All the lights go out and come back on at the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-10-37,” IUR 2, no. 10 \(October 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5552 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18083 (1F3A534D) Date: 8/28/1977 Description: A major UFO incident involving 17 police occurred in the Windermere area of the Cumbria Lake District, England at 12:10 a.m. A diamond or "kite"-shaped UFO was seen for 20 minutes; it had two extremely bright lights, and made a faint "purring" sound. There were multiple independent witnesses. The UFO eventually flew out to sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 8; Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda, p. 131 Source ID: Johnson_5430 Source: Johnson ### Event 18084 (AAB6D932) Date: 8/28/1977 Description: Francis Lloyd, age 24, was driving a large truck from Haverfordwest, Wales; with him was John Dwyer, age 16. Two miles outside of Carmarthern, on the A48 Highway, they had descended the Nanticaws Hill grade at 2:30 a.m. and were about to begin to climb the next hill when, at the bottom of the dip, they saw two tall humanoid figures standing on the right hand verge near the highway. The figures were at least seven feet tall, and were reddish orange in color, as if wearing celluloid suits; they had huge heads that reminded the witnesses of Guardsmen's Busbies. The figures stood motionless, facing each other slightly, and appeared to be holding some sort of object between them. They had chrome or silver-colored antennae that appeared to come out of their chests and stood as high as the tops of their heads. The two men drove right on past without stopping, and although the figures were in view for no more than six of seven seconds, they were fully lit by the eight headlights of their large rig. No craft was seen by either man. Three months later, there was a fatal car accident at the same site, killing four men. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case #1977-61 (A1812), citing F. W. Holiday, FSR, Vol. 24, # 1 Source ID: Johnson_5432 Source: Johnson ### Event 18085 (EF626DA9) Date: 8/28/1977 Description: A large, silent delta-shaped object with rounded points was seen at 12:38 a.m. hovering over a street in Hayward, California. It abruptly turned and followed the witness's car. The two women witnesses were able to evade the object by accelerating to 65 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1977, p. 3; UNICAT, case # 196 Source ID: Johnson_5433 Source: Johnson ### Event 18086 (88C46691) Date: 8/28/1977 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a family of three was driving home to Portoferraio from an outing in Marciano, Livorno, Italy in rainy weather when their headlights illuminated a strange figure walking by the side of the road. It looked robot like, had broad shoulders, and was wearing a golden, glittering, close-fitting coverall outfit and had a broad brimmed hat, with two antennas on its head. The face looked like paper mache. They notified the carabinieri, but the figure had gone before they arrived at the scene. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case #1977-47 (A1755), citing Francisco Izzo Source ID: Johnson_5434 Source: Johnson ### Event 18087 (97402001) Date: 8/28/1977 Description: 12:10 AM An on duty police officer PC IAN MACKENZIE observed two very bright horizontal lights in the vicinity of Langdale Pike that moved towards him and grew brighter. He ruled out any type of aircraft. At the same time PS JOHN McMULLEN also spotted the UFO from his location whilst walking through Keswick with three other officers. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Windermere, Cumbria, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4844 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18088 (2DB41643) Date: 8/28/1977 Description: 12:38 a.m. Two witnesses on a deserted rural boulevard near Hayward, California, see an odd triangular object with red, blue, and white lights. They drive toward it, overtake it, and pass underneath, and they see that it is much larger than the full moon. Then it turns abruptly and follows them, but they accelerate to 65 mph and evade it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-10-35,” IUR 2, no. 10 \(October 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5551 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18089 (52084F5B) Date: 8/28/1977 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a close encounter occurred in Cogolludo, Guadalajara, Spain when the main witness, Jaine de Frias Redondo, age 17, and several of his friends saw a "flattened walnut" UFO. The inital sighting lasted just a short time, but then the UFO moved away and hovered over Mount Otero for the next two hours, turning its lights on and off, with a pulsating white halo. Traces were found: a two-meter wide circle, and several holes in the ground 8 cm diameter, and 5 cm deep. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case 444, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Investigacion OVNI, p. 76 Source ID: Johnson_5431 Source: Johnson ### Event 18090 (FC51E469) Date: 8/28/1977 Description: 12:10 a.m. For more than 20 minutes, police \(including PC Ian MacKenzie, PS James Trohear, PC Alexander Inglis, and PC David Wild\) and citizens in Windermere, Cumbria, England, watch a large lighted object in the shape of a “stingray fish” \(triangular\). It flies slowly at 1,500 feet altitude, hovering occasionally. All witnesses describe it as silent, except for one, who hears a “quiet hum.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 131–133 Source ID: Eberhart_5550 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18091 (4614BCF1) Date: 8/30/1977 Description: At 8:30 p.m a number of independent witnesses in Healdsburg, California watched a huge lighted object with multicolored lights maneuvering over the area. One of the lights appeared to detach itself from the larger craft, and then descended close to the witnesses' vehicle. The smaller object was described as having several lighted windows and two beams of light. One of the witnesses claimed to be able to see a humanoid figure with a frog-like head looking out from one of the windows. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 916, citing Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 71 Source ID: Johnson_5500 Source: Johnson ### Event 18092 (2E66E8AE) Date: 8/30/1977 Description: At midnight two college students, Rocco Cerullo and Michael Giovanelli, were walking from Sturno, Avelino, Italy to Frigento when they saw three red lights symmetrically arranged in the midst of some shrubbery overhanging the road. They also heard an intermittent "beep-beep" sound. Continuing on foot to a nearby quarry, they saw a figure over two meters tall, wearing a silvery tight fitting coverall and a helmet. Where the eyes should have been there were two blinking orange lights. The young men fled back to Sturno, where they found three other friends, and all of them drove back to the area in a car. When they got there, all five saw the strange being advancing and withdrawing, with mechanical movements, on a steep slope. Oddly, it seemed to stand at a slant, perpendicular to the slope. Frightened, they decided not to drive the car any further into the abandoned quarry, which appeared lit up as if by a halo. Instead, they sped back to Sturno, returning again with two more witnesses. The humanoid was still there, coming and going with emissions of intermittent light from its helmet. When one of the parties flashed a light on the figure, it emitted sounds like "radio signals." It then approached the car and the sounds ceased. It came to about 15 feet away and beckoned, as though indicating for the witnesses to follow. Finally, at about 3:30 a.m., it emitted a blinding light from its helmet and disappeared. The outline of an object with portholes had been seen further down the slope. After the flash, the men fled back to the village. When they again returned both the humanoid and the object were gone. That next morning trampled bushes were foundin the quarry, along with three holes in the ground that were arranged in an isosceles triangle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-48, citing Francesco Izzo Source ID: Johnson_5499 Source: Johnson ### Event 18093 (2FC8BDAC) Date: 8/31/1977 Description: 12:30–3:15 a.m. A total of seven witnesses see a lighted cylindrical object at the top of a disused quarry on the road between Sturno and Frigento, Avellino, Italy. Near the object is an entity about 7 feet 10 inches tall. It has two red-orange lights in a spot where its eyes might be and is wearing metallic-looking coveralls, a possible helmet, a metallic belt, and a black box on its arm. At one point the entity shines a bright beam of light at them. The duration of the sighting is due to the original two witnesses going back and forth to a nearby village to collect additional observers. A triangle of depressions is found that indicates something as heavy as 40 tons has landed there. Some of the witnesses are regressed hypnotically and recall the same narrative. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Maurizio Verga, “[Seven](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%201.pdf) [Scared Witnesses and a Humanoid,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 1 \(May 1979\): 17–19, 22; 1Pinotti 205–210 Source ID: Eberhart_5553 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18094 (A9C0A6E3) Date: 8/31/1977 Description: At shortly after midnight two college students, Rocco Cerullo, and Michael Giovanelli, were walking from Sturno, Italy to Frigento when they saw three red lights symmetrically arranged in the midst of some bushes overlooking the road, They also heard an intermittent "beep-beep" sound. Continuing on, near a quarry a mile from Sturno, they saw a figure over two meters tall that was wearing a silver, tight-fitting suit and helmet. Where the man's eyes should be there were two blinking orange lights. The witnesses fled back to Sturno where they found three friends, and all five returned by car. The group saw the strange being advancing and retreating with mechanical movements on a steep slope. He appeared to stand at an angle perpendicular to the slope. Some rocks were disturbed and rolled down the slope. The abandoned quarry appeared to be illuminated as if by a halo, and they became frightened and went back to Sturno, returning this time with two more witnesses. The tall humanoid was still there with emissions of intermittent light from its helmet. When one of them flashed a light at the figure, it emitted radio-like sounds. When it approached the car and the sounds ceased. It came as close as 15 feet, and beckoned, as though wanting the witnesses to follow. Finally, at about 12:30 a.m. it emitted a blinding light from its helmet and disappeared. The outline of an object with portholes had been seen further down the slope. After the flash the group fled back to the village. They returned again later that morning, and everything was gone. Trampled bushes were in evidence, and what looked like landing gear imprints were found in the quarry with three holes arranged in an isosceles triangle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-48 (A1756), citing Francesco Izzo; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 201; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12315, citing ITACAT; Fred Merritt, Leg-Mark Catalog Source ID: Johnson_5530 Source: Johnson ### Event 18095 (D9302EFB) Date: 8/31/1977 Description: Two witnesses suddenly noticed a disc-shaped craft flying above a nearby palm grove. The craft stopped to hover. It had a large white light on the bottom and a green and a blue flashing light, plus several brightly lit windows could be seen on its side. The object then shut off its lights and vanished. Later that night a woman had gone out in his yard to empty some cooking waste when she saw four little men wearing silvery outfits standing by a water faucet. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mediania Alta Loiza, PR Source ID: NICAP_DB_4845 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18096 (9C2F0325) Date: 8/31/1977 Description: In Mediania Alta Loiza, Puerto Rico at 8 p.m. two witnesses were sitting and chatting at the steps of their home when they suddenly noticed a disc-shaped craft flying above a nearby palm grove. The craft stopped to hover. It had a large white light on the bottom and a green and a blue flashing light, plus several brightly lit windows could be seen on its side. The object then shut off its lights and vanished. Later that night a woman had gone out in his yard to empty some cooking waste when she saw four little men wearing silvery outfits standing by a water faucet. They seemed to have short antennae like protrusions from their heads, large pointy ears, and were bald headed. They had small mouths and their necks were long and thin. They all had their arms crossed in front of their chest. The woman screamed and ran back inside her house to alert the others, but the little men had already gone when they came out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 267, citing Robiou Lamarche, Manifesto OVNI en Puerto Rico Santo Domingo Y Cuba Source ID: Johnson_5531 Source: Johnson ### Event 18097 (6C2D9377) Date: 9/1977 Description: Lt. Gen. Akira Hirano, chief of Japan’s Air Self-Defense Forces, admits that UFOs are seen frequently in Japan and that they are quietly investigated. However, the following day his staff denies that he intended to comment on official investigations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 430](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/430/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5555 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18098 (57A60FEC) Date: 9/1/1977 Description: Air Force Letter from Col. Charles H. Senn, Wash., D.C., to Gen. Duward L. Crow (Ret.), NASA, Wash., D.C. stating: Enclosed are the UFO Fact Sheet and standard response to UFO public inquiries you requested. I sincerely hope you are successful in preventing a reopening of UFO investigations. Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p581) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_697 Source: Maj2 ### Event 18099 (0C01F665) Date: Early Autumn 1977 Description: 5:20 p.m. A woman police constable is waiting at a bus stop near Lewes, East Sussex, England, when she notices a large, silent object at about 300 feet altitude. On impulse, she waves at the object, which then comes closer. It seems to be made of a light greenish-gray metal with a moderately reflective surface. A blue-green light is coming out of its dome, and underneath the object is a dense, black, circular section. At closest approach, the UFO is no more than 50 feet away. She experiences a sense of timelessness, and she later cannot account for about 20 minutes of time. When the bus arrives, she feels a numbness as she fumbles for change. When she gets to the top deck, the object is gone. She develops an acute headache that lasts into the following day. Her eyes burn and water for a week afterward, and she suffers recurring gastric discomfort. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 115–116](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/114/mode/2up), [457](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/456/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5576 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18100 (DEB0C4E0) Date: 9/4/1977 Description: Airlines pilot encountered object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Billings, MT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4847 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18101 (756972AC) Date: 9/4/1977 Description: 3:30 p.m. Farmer Luis Sandoval, 74, is resting in a hammock near Corozal, Puerto Rico, when he decides to get up and move to another spot. He hears some popping noises and sees an object like an elongated, bright blue candle. It moves toward him, making an increasingly loud roaring-engine noise, then drops down beside him. The object abruptly turns into a 3-foot-high dwarf, dressed in jacket and tie, with an ugly face. He speaks encouragingly, says he is an extraterrestrial, and gives Sandoval a complete physical examination. The dwarf steps away to admire the scenery and says, “How nice Puerto Rico is.” He then turns into a flaming blue candle and vanishes upward in a flash. Other dwarf sightings take place in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[A New](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20V%2024%20N%202.pdf) [Medicare?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20V%2024%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 2 \(August 1978\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5556 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18102 (4803EB88) Date: 9/6/1977 Description: NASA administrator [Robert Frosch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FFrosch) responds to [Frank Press](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FPress), saying that he is “inclined to agree” with his recommendation on a new UFO panel; however, NASA wants to be assured that an inquiry is “justified,” and that if funding is provided, it could hire a project officer to review reports from the past 10 years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 787 Source ID: Eberhart_5557 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18103 (F3D809A6) Date: 9/7/1977 Description: Five members of a family, traveling in a car south of the city of Havelock North, sighted a cigar-shaped, solid-appearing object moving parallel to the road (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Havelock North (south of), NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4848 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18104 (D259C500) Date: 9/7/1977 Description: Five members of a family, traveling in a car south of the city of Havelock North, New Zealand at 9:40 p.m., sighted a cigar-shaped, solid-appearing object moving parallel to the road. It gave off a brilliant, hot, bluish light from its leading edge, which seemed to reflect off the rest of the body of the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_5732 Source: Johnson ### Event 18105 (30EDC6F1) Date: 9/7/1977 Description: In N'Djamena, Chad at eight o'clock in the evening a luminous cloudy object flew over from the north to the south. Twelve blasts or explosions were heard. At nine p.m. a loud "krim-krim" sound was heard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1977 Source ID: Johnson_5733 Source: Johnson ### Event 18106 (1483A58C) Date: 9/7/1977 Description: At 10:24 p.m. a nocturnal light with a vague outline made several passes at a car in Tooele, Utah. The UFO made a 90-degree turn to the west, then another back to the east, and left going toward the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, October 1977, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_5734 Source: Johnson ### Event 18107 (8B8C37D7) Date: 9/7/1977 Description: 10:24 p.m. A white glow is seen rushing silently three times over a 15-minute period in Tooele, Utah. It first travels to the south but executes a 90° turn toward the west. Five minutes later it returns, moving east. Ten minutes later it reappears, slower and lower, moving to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-10-58,” IUR 2, no. 10 \(October 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5558 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18108 (B63DD059) Date: 9/8/1977 Description: 12:30 a.m. An ex-pilot sees a dark, bullet-shaped object while walking his dog in New Orleans, Louisiana. It rushes silently to the east and changes course slightly to the southeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-10-60,” IUR 2, no. 10 \(October 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5559 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18109 (6CF77102) Date: 9/9/1977 Description: Grenada Prime Minister [Eric Gairy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FGairy) meets with President [Jimmy Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FCarter) in the White House for 45 minutes. Carter gives Gairy a copy of the Condon report. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 143 Source ID: Eberhart_5560 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18110 (25538AD2) Date: 9/10/1977 Description: A beam of red light penetrated the roof of 32-year-old Beatriz Almada da Costa's house in the village of Santo Antonio do Ubintuba, Para State, Brazil at 7:30 p.m. As the beam struck her body, paralysis spread throughout her body accompanied by chills and shaking. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_5832 Source: Johnson ### Event 18111 (190D868F) Date: 9/14/1977 Description: [Press](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FPress) again asks [Frosch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FFrosch) for help with [Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FCarter)’s UFO mail problem and repeats his suggestion for a scientific UFO panel to investigate reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: presidentialufo.com, “President Jimmy Carter” Source ID: Eberhart_5561 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18112 (CD40F6EE) Date: 9/14/1977 Description: At around 11:00 p.m. in Cassel, Nord department, France a glowing sphere first descends, then reverses course and follows a car for three minutes. The car windows were pock-marked as a result of the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1980 Source ID: Johnson_5961 Source: Johnson ### Event 18113 (58F0023F) Date: 9/15/1977 Description: 2:15 a.m. A 33-year-old bus driver named Antonio Bogado La Rúbia leaves his home in Paciência, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to catch a bus. As he is walking by a deserted field, he sees a UFO “like an enormous hat.” He takes two steps back and is grabbed by two men. Suddenly he is floating inside the UFO, surrounded by two rows of a dozen men each, about 5 feet 5 inches tall. They are wearing football-shaped helmets with a wide band running across the broad portion and are cut into mirror-like sections from which blue flashes are emitted. They seem like robots, but La Rúbia can hear them breathing. A typical abduction scenario follows. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Brazilian CE4](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201977%2010%2000%20-%20Vol%2026%20No%204.pdf) [Case,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201977%2010%2000%20-%20Vol%2026%20No%204.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 4 \(October 1977\): 1–4; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 11 \(November 1977\): 2, 8; “[Ufonautas Unipedais \(Robôs\) Seqüestram Motorista de Ônibus no Rio de Janeiro,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20121-125%20-%201978.pdf)” SBEDV Boletim, no. 121/125 \(March/Dec. 1978\): 20–44; Brazil 211–224 Source ID: Eberhart_5562 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18114 (C67D4CB9) Date: 9/15/1977 Description: Paciencia, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. At 2:20 a.m. Antonio La Rubia, age 33, a bus driver, was en route to work when he saw a flying saucer in a field that looked like an enormous hat. Frightened, he started to run when a blue light beam lit up the area, and he found that he could not move. At the same time, three very odd figures materialized nearby him. The figures were about four feet tall, with football-shaped heads or helmets and a tall antenna on top. The only features he could make out of the heads were a row of shiny, small, mirror-like sections around the center of the head, from which blue flashes were being emitted. The beings had stocky bodies and long, elephant trunk-like arms ending in a single digit. Their robot-like bodies were covered by a rough metallic surface he believed could have been the body surface, or skin. Their bodies were rounded at the bottom and surmounted a single leg, like a pedestal, with a rounded base.

The three creatures surrounded La Rubia, and he was captured inside an invisible glass or "bell jar." The robots floated above the ground and one pointed a syringe like device at him and he began to move toward the object. The next thing he knew he was inside the craft with no recollection of how he entered it. He was in a white "aluminum" corridor, with one transparent wall, through which he could see the field from which he had just come. Two figures went one way, the third another. He could see through the transparent wall that the object was airborne. A bright blue light came on, and he found himself in a large circular hall. There were a dozen similar entities on either side of the hall; they reminded him of children sitting in a schoolroom on single legged chairs. Up until now he had been unable to speak, but suddenly he found his voice and began screaming, "Who are you? What do you want from me?" The figures fell back at the sound and tumbled all over the floor. They lifted their single digits to the antennae on their heads and held them. These tips rotated so rapidly that only when they held them could he see them clearly.

He noticed a small box-like device standing on two poles that raised it to about the height of his chest. An antennae jutted up from each end of the box, and a receptacle stood atop it. The robot-like entities removed small devices from the belts around their waists, and placed them in this container, pushing a key on the box. When this happened, a scene would appear on the wall in moving color. The first showed Antonio, lying naked, on an unseen table, while he was being examined by a being with a small bluish light, while another being examined his head. Another "slide" was projected and showed Antonio, still naked, standing alone. Other images included a view of him dressed and carrying a shopping bag, with his teeth chattering; another showed a horse and cart on a dirt road, with a barefoot peasant wearing a straw hat. Another picture of him showed him next to an orange ball, and then next to a blue ball beside which stood another entity. The next slide showed an image of a big dog attacking one of the entities, and the being began melting from top to bottom, until it was nothing but a porridge like substance. Then in the "film" one of the entities moved toward the dog and pointed a syringe like device at the animal and it too began melting, after turning blue. A UFO "factory" was displayed in another image; then a train entering a tunnel; and a view of a busy Rio thoroughfare. One scene showed La Rubia vomiting and defecating into his clothes.

During this display, an entity approached and pointed a syringe at him; his arm was raised against his will and the syringe was stuck into his middle finger, taking a blood sample, but leaving no mark. The entity then pointed it at a wall and drew three red circles intersected with an "L". The next thing he remembered was being thrown overboard, where he found himself once again in the street, with all his belongings, as well as one of the beings. His watch had stopped at 2:20 a.m. The being then vanished, and the object ascended out of view. His head was spinning and he was burning. The time was 3:55 a.m. Anotonio was eventually taken to a hospital, where he suffered from sporadically high fevers and insatiable thirst. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-75, citing Irene Granchi for APRO Source ID: Johnson_5994 Source: Johnson ### Event 18115 (51DF777A) Date: 9/17/1977 Description: 2:00 a.m. A couple driving near Kargowa, Poland, notice two unusual lights in the sky. They drive a half mile further, then the lights approach them at incredible speed and hover above the car. The driver stops to look at them and notices that one light is bigger and whiter than the smaller yellowish light. When he drives away, the lights continue to pace them for 6 miles, keeping 10–30 feet away from the car until they reach Wolsztyn, where they rise up and speed away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 32–33 Source ID: Eberhart_5564 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18116 (6A54473C) Date: 9/20/1977 Description: 4:00 a.m. A large “star” sending out beams of light appears moving slowly over Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia. It is last seen as a semicircular glow, bright red in the middle and white on the sides. The total duration is 10–12 minutes. Scientist Mikhail Dimitryev describes it as a “giant jellyfish.” The phenomenon is seen over a vast territory, from Copenhagen, Denmark, and Helsinki, Finland, in the west to Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia, in the east. Government officials from northern European countries send letters to [Anatoly Alexandrov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%5FAlexandrov%5F%28physicist%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%5FAlexandrov%5F%28physicist%29) president of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, expressing concern about whether the observed phenomenon is caused by Soviet weapons testing and whether it constitutes a threat to the region’s environment. Col. [Boris](http://www.noufors.com/Colonel%5FBoris%5FSokolov.htm) [Sokolov](http://www.noufors.com/Colonel%5FBoris%5FSokolov.htm) reveals that the phenomenon is observed from 12:00 midnight by military men along the Finnish border; when they try to report it, all their communications fail. All communications are restored after the phenomenon ceases. Since 1977, the phenomenon has often \(though not universally\) been attributed to the launch of the Soviet satellite Kosmos-955. In the same year, a preliminary report for the Academy of Sciences of the USSR contains an immense body of visual observations, radiolocation reports, physical measurements, and accompanying meteorological data. It concludes that “based on the available data, it is unfeasible to satisfactorily understand the observed phenomenon.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Petrozavodsk phenomenon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrozavodsk%5Fphenomenon)”; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 10 \(October 1977\): 2; Gordon Creighton, “[A Russian ‘Jellyfish,’](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201977%20V%2023%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 4 \(January 1978\): 19–20; Good Need, [pp. 351](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/350/mode/2up); Enrique Vicente, “UFOs in the Soviet Union,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 118–119 Source ID: Eberhart_5566 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18117 (D51F44D1) Date: 9/20/1977 Description: 3:00 a.m. The watch officer of an Alfa-class nuclear submarine in the White Sea off Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, notices an object moving swiftly to the southwest. It seems to stretch out, turning into a long, glowing ribbon. As it flies over him, it looks like a cylinder with one of the ends becoming asymmetrical. The cylinder ejects small objects that fly off in different directions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_5565 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18118 (4059E496) Date: 9/20/1977 Description: A huge jellyfish-shaped light beamed rays to the ground in Petrozavodsk, Russia, causing damage to windows at around four o'clock in the morning. It also melted holes in some flagstones. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: V. I. Sanarov, Awareness, October 1978, p. 4; Gordon Creighton, FSR, January 1978, p. 19; Richard H. Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. T-8 Source ID: Johnson_6143 Source: Johnson ### Event 18119 (66A0BE8F) Date: 9/21/1977 Description: 8:47 p.m. A student notices a flashing light in the northern sky in Phoenix, Arizona. Suddenly, a formation of 8 triangles with rounded edges appears, 7 of them in a straight line, equally spaced. The eighth is slightly forward. They shoot noiselessly overhead and are lost in the glare of the southern sky. One crosses the face of the Moon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-11-9,” IUR 2, no. 11 \(November 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5568 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18120 (A92BC770) Date: 9/21/1977 Description: Ground Saucer Watch files a complaint, spearheaded by lawyers [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) and [Henry Rothblatt](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-09-08-me-3011-story.html), with the CIA for failure to produce materials on the 1952 Ralph Mayher incident and the [Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1) report on the 1953 Robertson Panel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “CIA Sued over UFO ‘Cover-Up,’” IUR 3, no. 1 \(January 1978\): wrap; “[CAUS Picking](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20Old%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%20Vol%201%20Issue%2001%20-%20Old%20Series.pdf) [Up Where GSW and NICAP Left Off,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20Old%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%20Vol%201%20Issue%2001%20-%20Old%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause 1, no. 1 \(April 1978\): 1–4 Source ID: Eberhart_5567 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18121 (212132FE) Date: 9/22/1977 Description: Object with row of "windows" overtook airliner, accelerated, made 90-degree turn, soared upward out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: El Paso, TX Source ID: HallUFOE2_294 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18122 (35D7A6B5) Date: 9/22/1977 Description: 10:25 p.m. A police detective in Ardmore, Oklahoma, watches a pulsating star rush about erratically. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-11-12,” IUR 2, no. 11 \(November 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5571 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18123 (5D94C07F) Date: 9/22/1977 Description: An elongated object with brightly lit windows passed Continental Airlines flight 954 near El Paso, Texas on a cloudy morning at 5:25 a.m. There were three witnesses onboard the DC-10. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, October 1977, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 40; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 21 & 123 Source ID: Johnson_6234 Source: Johnson ### Event 18124 (7731A3AE) Date: 9/22/1977 Description: G, FAA radar & 3 UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Omaha, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_4850 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18125 (414797BC) Date: 9/22/1977 Description: Four FAA radar controllers in Omaha, Nebraska, track a large formation of unidentified objects. They are gone from the scope in less than a minute at an estimated speed of 17,000 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, March 1983, p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5570 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18126 (F94B2495) Date: 9/22/1977 Description: 5:25 a.m. Capt. [George Didlake](http://www.rdrnews.com/archive/?p=61835), piloting Continental Airlines Flight 954, is climbing to 33,000 feet out of El Paso, Texas, when he sees an elongated object rapidly overtaking his DC-10. It has a row of brightly illuminated windows running front to rear and is blow the aircraft at roughly 12,000 feet. First Officer Jack Forsythe and Second Officer [Russ Goodenough](http://readyfortakeoffpodcast.com/rft-180-fighter-pilot-airline-pilot-russ-goodenough/) see the object as well. It passes the aircraft at a speed “beyond comprehension,” makes a 90° turn, and shoots up out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dave Kenney, “[Airline Crew Spots UFO,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201977%2009%2000%20-%20Vol%2026%20No%203.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 3 \(September 1977\): 1, 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5569 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18127 (3959700B) Date: 9/22/1977 Description: Object w/row of lights overtook DC-10 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: El Paso, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_4849 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18128 (4DE2F2FD) Date: 9/22/1977 Description: Three objects like aircraft tracked on FAA radar in V-formation at almost 17,000 mph Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Omaha, NE Source ID: HallUFOE2_295 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18129 (BDD89D63) Date: Fall 1977 Description: 5:20 p.m. A female police constable in Isfield, Sussex, England, sees a silent object flying at 300 feet altitude while waiting for a bus. On an impulse, she waves at the object, which then approaches her. It seems to be made of light greenish-gray metal with a moderately reflective surface. On top of its dome is a blue-green light, and underneath the object is a dense, black, circular section. At its closest approach, it is no further than 50 feet away. Her memory is unclear after this, but when the bus arrives, she feels numb and uncoordinated and seems to have lost 20 minutes of time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 115](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/114/mode/2up), [457](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/456/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5554 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18130 (8B3A7688) Date: Fall 1977 Description: 5:20 PM. The policewoman noticed a curious, silent object, estimated to be as large as a four-inch plate held at arm's length, at no more than 300 feet altitude. (Good, Above Top Secret, 115 457) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [77Fall](http://www.nicap.org/waves/1977%5Fsussex.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lewes, Sussex (near), UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4846 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18131 (481AADB5) Date: Late 9/1977 Description: 11:00 p.m. Ethel May Field is in her backyard in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, England, when she hears a humming nose and looks up. A circular object with a dome on top is approaching from the south-southwest. Its surfaces are gray, and a brilliant blue-yellow light is streaming from the underside. It is about 20 feet in diameter, and Field can see two humanoid figures visible almost to the waist inside the dome. The object hovers above her garden, its light so brilliant that she puts her hands up to shield her eyes. She can feel the heat on her hands and a vibration in the ground for a second or two. The occupants have silver suits and headgear. The figure on the right appears to be operating controls, while the one on the left is looking directly at her, making a gesture as if pointing downward. Alarmed, she runs back to the house and the object speeds away to the northwest. In the following week, she develops a skin irritation on the palms of her hands. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leslie Harris, “[Parkstone UFO and](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20V%2024%20N%202.pdf) [Occupants,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201978%20V%2024%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 2 \(August 1978\): 6–8 Source ID: Eberhart_5572 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18132 (3437A503) Date: Late 9/1977 Description: 1:00 a.m. A witness working as a receptionist at the Paralela 45 Motel on Highway 1 north of Ploieşti, Romania, sees a large object 3–4 times as large as the Moon, which is visible in another part of the sky. It has an orange-red core with a yellowish-red halo at the edges. It stands motionless for 3–4 minutes, then descends slowly toward the southwest before shooting away at an nicredible speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 42–43 Source ID: Eberhart_5563 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18133 (A3D644B0) Date: 9/25/1977 Description: At midnight a man who had had a close encounter with a bright multicolored object the previous night, was again driving on the same highway on his way to San Juan, Puerto Rico when he began hearing voices in his head. He stopped his car and flagged down a passing police officer, and he was taken to the local police station in Pedro Avila. When he felt better he left and again headed off towards San Juan, but after a few minutes he once again began to hear voices, so he stopped the car and suddenly a bright light appeared. There was a brilliant flash, and a three-foot tall figure encased in light appeared. The witness felt dizzy and got out of his vehicle. He felt a strange attraction to the little man and could not stop himself from approaching. The humanoid carried two loops in his right hand, and something resembling a flashlight that emitted a brilliant golden yellow light. The figure also radiated a blue aura that at times would briefly turn golden. The little man pointed to a nearby hovering light, and then entered it, which vanished abruptly. The man suffered from severe neck pain after his encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, cse # 267, citing Robiou Lamarche, Manifesto OVNI en Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo y Cuba Source ID: Johnson_6326 Source: Johnson ### Event 18134 (82939943) Date: 9/26/1977 Description: At 8:10 p.m. five silent disc-shaped object flew along some power lines in Griselles, France. One of the UFOs shot away very quickly. An electric oven stopped working when the UFOs approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12346, citing Jean-Claude Bourret, La Nouveau Defi des OVNI, p. 238 Source ID: Johnson_6357 Source: Johnson ### Event 18135 (3CF5D777) Date: 9/26/1977 Description: At 7:36 a.m. a woman named Cater was driving by a pasture in Minehead, England near Kilve on highway A39 in Somerset with she noticed fog and a floating gray, egg-shaped mass above a hedge. The cows in the nearby field were acting very disturbed. Her skin prickled as if she had entered an electrostatically charged energy field and she heard a humming sound. When she checked the time 12 minutes had passed but it seemed it should have been a much briefer experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 5, citing BUFORA Journal, July 1978 Source ID: Johnson_6356 Source: Johnson ### Event 18136 (0CDFF3A6) Date: 9/26/1977 Description: Five silent disc-shaped object flew along some power lines. One of the UFOs shot away very quickly. An electric oven stopped working when the UFOs approached. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Griselles, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4851 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18137 (5FF916A2) Date: 9/27/1977 Description: CE-3. (EGBA,687) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bellbrook, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4852 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18138 (A8C0E012) Date: 9/27/1977 Description: 4:36 a.m. A witness is driving toward Kirksville, Missouri, about 6 miles west of town when he notices a light behind him to the left. It is a yellow-orange object with flashing red lights, as big as the Moon, and is following him about 500 feet away at treetop level. He increases his speed to 120 mph, but the UFO keeps the same pace. As he reaches town the object climbs slightly and shoots off out of sight in 2 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-11- 22,” IUR 2, no. 11 \(November 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5573 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18139 (65984697) Date: 9/27/1977 Description: 12:15 p.m. A dredge master and four crew members see a UFO that remains visible for one minute off the northwest coast of Wowoni Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Consisting of a cone of translucent material with dark spots, the object emits violet, white, and red light from its top. It has a forward, undulating motion against the wind and is spinning on its axis at about 9,000 feet altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 2 \(February 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5574 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18140 (ED0CE8EA) Date: 9/28/1977 Description: 2:45 p.m. A grocery store clerk watches a distant bright light moving west over Burlington, Iowa. A second point of light appears, catches up to the first one, and both weave a figure 8 at least 6 times as they pass nearly overhead to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-11-24,” IUR 2, no. 11 \(November 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5575 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18141 (92A3F623) Date: 10/1977 Description: Evening. CE-1, three witnesses, saucer hovered, paced car. (CIQ,24) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lima, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4854 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18142 (1ED502EA) Date: 10/1977 Description: The Petrozavodsk phenomenon in Russia contributes to the creation of the Setka program—Soviet research into anomalous atmospheric phenomena, proposed by scientist [Anatoly Alexandrov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%5FAlexandrov%5F%28physicist%29). Two research commissions are set up: the Setka-MO, under the orders of the Ministry of Defense and composed mainly of military personnel, and the Setka-AN, under the orders of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and composed of scientists. The first group has the task of studying the military aspects of the problem, such as the possible influences of the UFOs on the malfunctioning of military devices and installations; the ministry names special officers in all military units who are tasked with the responsibility of watching out for unusual phenomena. The second group studies physical effects related to UFOs and tries to understand the causes. The coordination of the first commission is entrusted to Col. [Boris Sokolov](http://www.noufors.com/Colonel%5FBoris%5FSokolov.htm)[,](http://www.noufors.com/Colonel%5FBoris%5FSokolov.htm) that of the second commission to Prof. [Vladimir Migulin](https://fineartamerica.com/featured/vladimir-migulin-soviet-physicist-ria-novosti.html), supported by Dr. [Yulii Platov](http://www.euroufo.net/2011/12/platov-yulii-russia/) as deputy coordinator. According to one of his aides, Igor Sinitsin, it is KGB Chairman [Yuri Andropov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%5FAndropov) who initiates these programs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Programma Setka](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma%5FSetka)”; Good Above, [p. 237](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/236/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 351–352](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/350/mode/2up); Nick Paton Walsh, “[KGB Chief Ordered 4m Soldiers to Keep Watching the Skies for UFOs,](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/23/nickpatonwalsh.theobserver)” The Guardian, March 23, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_5577 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18143 (690EBE95) Date: 10/1977 Description: Evening. CE-1 from train. looked like 90' diameter "birthday cake". (MORA) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [771000](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/7710xxfostoriadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fostoria, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4853 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18144 (440BE3CE) Date: 10/1/1977 Description: 7:00 p.m. Leo and John Girardeau are hunting 3 miles west of Libau, Manitoba, when they see an object approaching from the west at an altitude of 500 feet. As it approaches, the witnesses go into their truck and turn on the lights. The object, about 75–100 feet wide and 25–30 feet high, reverses direction and moves westward. One of the men fires a shotgun to lure it back; when this fails, they pursue it in their truck. Running out of road a few miles later, they stop and watch it move out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 12 \(December 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5578 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18145 (46655F8F) Date: 10/1/1977 Description: At 7:00 p.m. two brothers were hunting in an uninhabited area near a quarry west of Libau, Manitoba, Canada when they saw a UFO that looked like an inverted bowl with two long extensions. It was 75-100 feet wide, 25 feet high, and 1/2 a mile away at 500 feet altitude. It made a humming noise, and moved away slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1977, p. 2; UNICAT, case # 188 Source ID: Johnson_6475 Source: Johnson ### Event 18146 (4C3C5399) Date: 10/2/1977 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a four-meter in diameter domed disc buzzed an amateur astronomer outside with a telescope in Auchey, Pas-de-Calais, France passing only four meters overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 309 Source ID: Johnson_6503 Source: Johnson ### Event 18147 (943B9124) Date: 10/3/1977 Description: Dayt. Daylight disc, one witness. (EGBA,506) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Flemingsburg, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4855 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18148 (4AFFB097) Date: 10/4/1977 Description: 2:45 p.m. A group of 10 children see a strange object hovering between two trees while they are playing at Upton Primary Junior School in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. Their teacher, Mrs. Hindmarsh, immediately separates them and asks them to draw what they have seen. Their drawings are consistent, so she passes them on to the Cheshire police, who take the report seriously and check with the Manchester Airport, which reports that nothing unusual was detected on radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 97](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n161/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5579 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18149 (E7F55FE7) Date: 10/5/1977 Description: 10:40 a.m. TV cameramen Manuel Juarez and Oscar Tobar are videotaping a car commercial in Guatemala City, Guatemala, when a UFO comes into view. Instead, they videotape the UFO, which is in view for 51 seconds moving at about 100 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 11 \(November 1977\): 8; “First Photos of Guatemala Videotape,” IUR 3, no. 1 \(January 1978\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_5580 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18150 (ED5F1847) Date: 10/6/1977 Description: A housewife in Fiesole, Italy had gone to visit the pediatric ward of the local hospital, and was looking out the window at 10 p.m. when she noticed a pulsating red light on the ground beside a nearby hill. It was the apparent size of a full moon. Moments later two similar pulsating lights descended at a 45 degree angle and came down near the witness. The woman opened the window and was able to see one of the lights dim, then stop and hover, as if preparing to land. At this point she was joined by other witnesses. The light turned silvery white in color and landed. It then began changing colors, first to red and then to silvery white. When the color was silvery white two human like figures could be seen moving slowly inside the length of the illuminated object. The other witnesses became tired of watching after awhile, and left to got to bed. Later, the original witness saw another light appear again in the same location. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 1532, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_6608 Source: Johnson ### Event 18151 (0A48183C) Date: 10/7/1977 Description: Nine disc-shaped UFOs circled a Soviet Navy submarine tender on this day. The radio, electronics, and on-board communications were all disrupted. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Soviet Navy submarine tender, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_4856 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18152 (97E826F5) Date: 10/7/1977 Description: Prime Minister of Grenada [Eric Gairy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FGairy) addresses the UN General Assembly urging the recognition of UFOs as a serious international scientific problem. He says that he has seen a UFO and was “totally overwhelmed” by the experience. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 20 Source ID: Eberhart_5581 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18153 (E504C8BA) Date: 10/7/1977 Description: Nine disc-shaped UFOs circled a Soviet Navy submarine tender on this day. The radio, electronics, and on-board communications were all disrupted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A cosmic Samizdat, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_6635 Source: Johnson ### Event 18154 (73FEB81A) Date: 10/7/1977 Description: The Soviet submarine repair ship Volga is in the Barents Sea when its radar picks up an unknown target approaching at a distance of 60 miles. Captain Tarankin goes to the bridge and sees 9 bright discs moving in from the northeast. They arrive and circle around the ship’s masts for 18 minutes. During this time, all of the ship’s communications links no longer work. Captain Tarankin tells his men to remember the incident, so that no one will be able to say their captain is drunk or crazy. After the discs depart, communications is restored. The incident raises some concern in the Soviet Navy, and Fleet Admiral [Nikolai Ivanovich Smirnov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%5FIvanovich%5FSmirnov) issues a directive on mandatory reporting of UFO sightings by Soviet hydrographic, scientific research, and reconnaissance ships. The directive is written by naval officer and ufologist [Vladimir G. Azhazha](https://peoplepill.com/people/vladimir-azhazha/) and signed by Naval Deputy Chief of Staff Petr Nikolayevich Navoytsev. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, [pp. 29–30](https://archive.org/details/ufochroniclesofs00vall/page/28/mode/2up); Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 11–13 Source ID: Eberhart_5582 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18155 (110A0994) Date: 10/9/1977 Description: 8:30 p.m. Holly Prunchak is working as a security guard at the French-Hecht plant east of Walcott, Iowa, when she sees flashing lights rising straight up from distant trees in the northwest. They level off and move toward her. They are blinding in intensity and flash on and off like a beacon, apparently surrounded by a dark oval shape. Her FM radio goes silent, and her walkie-talkie fails. All animal sounds go quiet when the object is in view. The object looms about 300 feet away, passing near a streetlight that extinguishes for at least one minute. The object drops down onto trees of an adjacent farm. At this point she hysterically calls for help on a telephone intercom system, but no one takes her seriously. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “CE II in Iowa,” IUR 2, no. 12 \(December 1977\): 4, 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5583 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18156 (97CA0342) Date: 10/11/1977 Description: 7:55 p.m. A farmer in Fairfield, Vermont, hears an odd noise and looks out his window. He and his family watch a bright light source \(a bright red light flashing next to a dimmer white light\) hovering above a swamp. The object shines a light beam down into the swamp as if searching for something. A second red light approaches from over a nearby house and comes within several hundred feet of the first object; both continue to hover and circle. One vanishes at 11;30 p.m., while the other persists until 1:30 a.m. when the sky becomes cloudy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-11-53,” IUR 2, no. 11 \(November 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5584 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18157 (C75E92FA) Date: 10/11/1977 Description: Starting at around six o'clock in the evening a bright pulsating light flew alonside a Soviet airliner for 24 minutes as it flew over Ryazan, Russia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_6783 Source: Johnson ### Event 18158 (E1528DD9) Date: 10/13/1977 Description: 3:55 PM. Retired ploice officer, ex-pilot, watched, along with other young men, a "star" in clear daylight rush from SSE to NNE, passing E of overhead in straight path w/o sound or trail. (IUR NF, 10/31/77) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Champaign, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4857 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18159 (56DC9370) Date: 10/13/1977 Description: 10:15 p.m. S/Sgt Steven N. Haidinger is in his backyard at Chanute AFB \[now closed\] near Rantoul, Illinois, where he is looking at the moon through his telescope. He hears what sounds like wind passing around a building and looks straight up. About 500 feet in the air is an object slowly moving from the west-northwest. He trains his telescope on it and tries to follow it. The object looks rectangular, about 150 feet long, and 10 feet across. It has small, square indentations in patterns along its sides and it rotates as it moves, about once every 2 seconds. It moves out of sight in about 12 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 1 \(January 1981\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5586 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18160 (F53DC442) Date: 10/13/1977 Description: 3:55 p.m. A retired police officer and ex-pilot in Toledo, Ohio, watches, along with other young men, a “star” in clear daylight rush from south-southeast to north-northeast, passing east of overhead in a straight path without sound or trail. The estimated speed is Mach 1, but it slows down and stops for the last 10–15 seconds before vanishing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-11-60,” IUR 2, no. 11 \(November 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5585 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18161 (86EEBFAC) Date: 10/14/1977 Description: Dayt. daylight disc. (EGBA,721) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4858 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18162 (F6498E6B) Date: 10/14/1977 Description: 7:00 p.m. A physician in Toledo, Ohio, watches a red-orange object moving silently east, passing overhead, and disappearing in the distance. Possible balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-11-63,” IUR 2, no. 11 \(November 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5587 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18163 (65F6C323) Date: 10/15/1977 Description: In Colares, Para State, Brazil Raimundo Galvao Trindade, age 36, saw an orange light outside in the sky at 4:00 a.m. He next felt as if he had been pricked by a needle in the leg from a beam of energy. His subsequent symptoms included weakness, a headache, dizziness, and a red area on his thigh. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_6870 Source: Johnson ### Event 18164 (3FD14B7E) Date: 10/15/1977 Description: 6:45 p.m. British diplomat Alan K. Rothnie is driving near Rolvenden, Kent, England, when he sees a glowing bluish object in the sky traveling fast from south to north and shaped “somewhat like a flattened avocado pear.” The blunt leading end seems to be rimmed with a shining metal, and the back end is trailing sparks. The object moves away in 90 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 87–88](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n145/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5588 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18165 (290CCBA0) Date: 10/15/1977 Description: At 8:00 p.m in Zugliano, Veneto, Italy a huge luminous disc-shaped object descended into a field, and then stayed on the ground for several minutes. A metallic noise was heard, and the object suddenly took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_6871 Source: Johnson ### Event 18166 (4BF03AF1) Date: 10/17/1977 Description: A woman and her children watch a blindingly bright red light from their first-floor porch in Uccle, Belgium. It is stationary and silent for one hour in the southwest at an estimated 1,000 feet altitude. Finally, the object moves toward the west, then north, and disappears in the distance. An independent group of witnesses several streets away also watch the light. A half-hour later, the daughter of the original family sees another pair of similar objects in the south about 400–500 feet off the ground. These circle for 30 minutes and then disappear to the south. One hour later, the family watches another bright light maneuvering in the southwest before disappearing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 3 \(March 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5589 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18167 (76414C94) Date: 10/17/1977 Description: Uccle, Belgium. On this evening a blinding red nocturnal light hovered silently for an hour. Then it went to the west, turned to the north, and had two more nocturnal lights circling it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 2; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 191, UNICAT, case # 176 Source ID: Johnson_6939 Source: Johnson ### Event 18168 (C4305D57) Date: 10/20/1977 Description: 8:15 p.m. Keith Kilford and Philip Staff watch a small orange triangle over a house in Bromley, Kent, England, that grows to twice its size, shrinks again, and moves rapidly away until it disappears. It reappears about 10 minutes later and disappears again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no 12 \(December 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5591 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18169 (3A6A17E2) Date: 10/20/1977 Description: Several witnesses in San José, Costa Rica, see lighted objects around Pico Blanco, a mountain to the south of town. One physician sees a “squat, orange object” for 20 minutes until it ascends at great speed and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no 12 \(December 1977\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5590 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18170 (6549A8A2) Date: 10/22/1977 Description: At 7:30 p.m., in the second sighting by Dr. Wellaide Carvalho in Colares, Para State, Brazil a bright metallic object, thimble shaped, was seen spinning over a beach at 100 meters altitude and a distance of 1500 meters. It moved in a wavy rocking motion, making quick stops. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_7029 Source: Johnson ### Event 18171 (BBE2C204) Date: 10/22/1977 Description: 2:40 a.m. A half-moon-shaped orange cloud, 3 times the size of the Moon, is seen hovering and descending at Irondequoit, New York. Chunks “like teardrops” are seen falling off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-12-16,” IUR 2, no. 12 \(December 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5592 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18172 (39CB1083) Date: 10/23/1977 Description: 3:30 a.m. A glowing triangular white cloud is seen in Rochester, New York, receding to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-12-17,” IUR 2, no. 12 \(December 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5593 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18173 (CCA051CC) Date: 10/24/1977 Description: 2:00 a.m. A musician watches a saucer-shaped object at Cerrillos, New Mexico, approaching at a low angle from the south. It moves across his view for 15–30 seconds, stops for 15–20 seconds in the southwest, and zooms away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-12-25,” IUR 2, no. 12 \(December 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5594 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18174 (FDED30F2) Date: 10/25/1977 Description: 5:30 p.m. Three witnesses, including two deaf 14-year-olds, Johny Myhr and Frank Sverre Mandt, view a disc-shaped object some 33 feet in diameter that hovers and then descends behind some bushes at Åsbygda, Ringerinke, Norway. After about 10 seconds it rises into the air again. The boys run to the nearby Alm school. They notice the object ascending at a 40° angle and see several windows in the craft. What appears to be a human-looking person is behind one of the windows. Tracks are later found in the newly plowed field. Each track is rectangular with rounded corners, and measures 5.5 inches by 1.2 feet with a depth of 4 inches. The tracks are arranged in a triangular shape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Strange Aircraft Spotted in Åsbygda,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20%28English%20language%29/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%201981%20No%201.pdf)” Nordic UFO Newsletter 1, no. 1 \(1981\): 16–18 Source ID: Eberhart_5595 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18175 (02750DBB) Date: 10/25/1977 Description: In Asbygda Ringerike, Norway at 5:30 p.m. three witnesses, including two deaf 14 year olds, Johny Myhr and Frank Sverre Mandt, sighted a disc-shaped object some ten meters in diameter that hovered and then descended behind some bushes. After about 10 seconds it rose into the air again. The boys ran to the nearby Alm school. They noticed the object ascend at a 40-degree angle, and saw several windows in the craft. There was what appeared to be a human-looking person behind one of the windows. Tracks were later found in the newly plowed field. Each track was rectangular shaped with rounded corners, and measured 14 cm by 36 cm with a depth of 10 cm. The tracks were arranged in a triangular shape. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GICOFF Sweden, September 1977, p. 5 citing a newspaper clipping; UFO Information Sweden, January 1978, p. 22 citing an on-site investigation; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, citing Ole Jonny Braene Source ID: Johnson_7129 Source: Johnson ### Event 18176 (1D79F3E4) Date: 10/25/1977 Description: 5:30 PM. Three witnesses, including two deaf 14 year olds, Johny Myhr and Frank Sverre Mandt, sighted a disc-shaped object some ten meters in diameter that hovered and then descended behind some bushes. Tracks were later found in the newly plowed field. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Asbygda Ringerike, Norway Source ID: NICAP_DB_4859 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18177 (55E7827A) Date: 10/26/1977 Description: 12:45 p.m. En route from Dyess AFB near Abilene, Texas, to Dallas, cruising at 15,000 feet in a T-38 jet trainer, 1st Lt Seth Bryant \(instructor pilot\) and 1st Lt Choate \(student pilot\) overhear transmissions from Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center to another pilot who has seen a red object he cannot identify. Choate then sees the red object and informs the pilot of its position. The object is flying at 10,000–12,000 feet and seems stationary. The distance is estimated to be about 23 miles away. Initially, the light is brilliant and appears to be closing rapidly. An evasive maneuver is considered but deemed unnecessary. The pilot contacts Fort Worth Center, giving the position of the object and asks if he is tracking anything on radar, but he isn’t. The size of the red light decreases, similar to a very slowly rotating beacon, and is lost to sight. The total duration is less than a minute. Choate recalls static over his headset at the time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Near Collision with T-33 / Radio Static](http://www.nicap.org/771026abilene%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5596 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18178 (1F5D3283) Date: 10/26/1977 Description: During an evening of intense UFO activity in the skies above Colares, Para State, Brazil a young woman, 25-year-old Nueza Pereira Aragao, was in her kitchen with her sister reading a book. At 10:15 p.m. a light beam came through the roof, badly frightening her. She was immediately attended to by military doctors, who were part of a team in the area investigating the UFO activity. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_7155 Source: Johnson ### Event 18179 (5C6D5CCC) Date: 10/26/1977 Description: A 14-year-old girl was walking home in Via Lagaccio, Genova, Italy at 9:00 p.m. when she spotted a strange humanoid figure standing by a nearby tree. The figure began walking very slowly and seemed to stagger like if intoxicated. The figure was short and very pale and had only two digits on each hand. It was dressed in black and wore some sort of helmet. The witness became frightened and ran home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 998, citing Massimo Varrichio, BUFORA Journal, Vol. 7 # 3 Source ID: Johnson_7156 Source: Johnson ### Event 18180 (EBC4195A) Date: 10/26/1977 Description: Three hours later a bright red sphere hovered in front of a USAF T-38 aircraft flying from Abilene to Dallas, Texas. It departed in a rapid vertical climb and changed color to white after effecting the navigation instruments and producing a large amount of static on the radio. There were several other witnesses to the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website, citing MUFON UFO Journal, March 1983; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 21 & 123 Source ID: Johnson_7157 Source: Johnson ### Event 18181 (99DD73AB) Date: 10/26/1977 Description: Red sphere ahead of airplane, navigation instruments and radio E-M effects. UFO changed color to white, climbed vertically at high speed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Between Abilene and Dallas, TX Source ID: HallUFOE2_296 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18182 (52379B77) Date: 10/26/1977 Description: 5:20 PM. Flight with two witnesses observed 4-5 UFOs. Very brief. (Haines printout) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In Air Space, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_4861 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18183 (BC84D5D6) Date: 10/26/1977 Description: Private pilot & T-38 pilot enc object, E-M (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dallas, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_4862 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18184 (85F56861) Date: 10/27/1977 Description: 5:35 p.m. At Cagliari Elmas Airport on Sardinia, Italy, three helicopters of the Italian Army’s Aviazione Leggera dell’Esercito are followed for more than 5 minutes by an orange disc. It is seen and tracked by both military and civilian witnesses and from the airport control tower. Air Force Col. Giomaria orders a jet interceptor to take off but it fails to catch up to the intruder. Maj. Francesco Zoppi and copilot Lt. Riccardelli manage to approach to within 1,000 feet. The sighting causes a feverish exchange of messages between airport personnel, the NATO base at Decimomannu, Sardinia, the [USS Saratoga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FSaratoga%5F%28CV-60%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FSaratoga%5F%28CV-60%29) and several military planes in flight. Col. Mario d’Angelo, commander of the airport’s Air Force base, sends a detailed report to [Attilio Ruffini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attilio%5FRuffini), the Italian Minister of Defense, who orders an investigation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 4 \(April 1978\): 2; “[Italian](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1980-4-april) [Government Report,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1980-4-april)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 146 \(April 1980\): 15; Good Above, [pp. 145–146](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/144/mode/2up); 1Pinotti 211– 213 Source ID: Eberhart_5597 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18185 (B7AE119B) Date: 10/27/1977 Description: 5:35 PM. Flight with 5 witnesses observed UFO, unknown altitude, range, 1,000', 5-mins. (Haines printout) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In Air Space, Sardinia Source ID: NICAP_DB_4863 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18186 (0BF6BFF0) Date: 10/29/1977 Description: On this evening on Mosqueiro Island, near Colares, Para State, Brazil Benedito Campos and his 17-year-old wife Silvia Mara were at home when they spotted an oval-shaped, silvery object emitting a greenish beam, like a searchlight, towards the room where they were lying in bed. Curious, they approached a small window and as they did, the beam shot in through the window and made straight for Silvia, throwing her into some sort of benumbed, trance-like state. Silvia, who was pregnant at the time, then fainted. Two humanoid entities then entered the house, carrying something resembling a gold flashlight; again the beam struck Silvia, this time hitting her in the left arm at wrist level. Benedito ran to a neighbor's house and was also briefly paralyzed by a light beam. Both husband and wife were later taken to a local hospital, were they both recovered. However, Benedito suffered from depression after the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 138; Albert S. Rosales, 1977 Humanoid Contact Database, case # 3779, citing Daniel Rebisso Geise Source ID: Johnson_7282 Source: Johnson ### Event 18187 (E1C2F3F0) Date: 10/29/1977 End date: 11/3/1977 Description: Police and citizens in the area of Erie, Pennsylvania, report multiple sightings of star-like lights, some flashing. Some are likely aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Mini-’Flap’ in Northwestern Pennsylvania: But of IFOs?” IUR 2, no 12 \(December 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5601 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18188 (3A2705AB) Date: 10/29/1977 Description: 7:45 p.m. Two young teenagers in North East, Pennsylvania, notice a light flashing different colors in the west. They think they see a dark “pancake” body twice the Moon’s diameter attached to the light. They go into their house where they are babysitting, and the object shines a spotlight down to the spot where they were originally standing. It hovers about 10 feet above some grapevines, then swoops toward the house and moves into trees to the north. They call police, but every time one visits the house, all they can see is a distant light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2- 12-39,” IUR 2, no. 12 \(December 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5600 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18189 (E5664186) Date: 10/29/1977 Description: 4:00 p.m. Four men at a gas station in downtown Hagerstown, Maryland, watch a round white object half the size of the Moon. It silently orbits counterclockwise around a cloud, emerging from behind, crossing in front, then disappearing behind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-12-38,” IUR 2, no. 12 \(December 1977\): 3–wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5599 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18190 (FAEDB7A8) Date: 10/29/1977 Description: 7:30 a.m. A patrolman in North East, Pennsylvania, spots a brown, cigar-shaped object moving towards him. He can see a tail fin. It changes direction to the southwest and disappears, Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-12-37,” IUR 2, no 12 \(December 1977\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5598 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18191 (037E53CA) Date: 10/30/1977 Description: Mrs. Pauline Coombs, her mother, and her four children were driving back to their Ripperston Farm home near Dyfed, Pembrokeshire, Wales at around three o'clock in the afternoon when her mother called their attention to a white disc-like object over their car. It flew in from the direction of the sea. Curious, the women drove in the direction of the shoreline and then crossed two fields to get to the ocean's edge. Several hundred yards offshore is a rock outcrop called Stack Rocks, rising up 80 to 100 feet from the water. They could not see the UFO but they did see two humanoid figures walking about on the rocks. They were dressed in silvery outfits, similar to a frogman's wetsuit. Their heads or helmets were extremely large and rectangular in shape, rounded at the corners, and with no observable features. They appeared to be looking for something. A "door" appeared on the right hand face of the rocks, sliding alternately open and shut like the door of a dumbwaiter. One of the figures entered this doorway and appeared to descend a stairway, disappearing in the darkened interior, and then reappearing once again. The stairway was not visible to the viewers. On his final descent the door closed and disappeared from view. To the left side of the rocks the second figure appeared to "walk" out over the water's surface, finally disappearing behind the left side of the rocks. The display had lasted for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-54, citing Randall Jones Pugh, BUFORA Source ID: Johnson_7310 Source: Johnson ### Event 18192 (C3B49159) Date: 10/30/1977 Description: A woman was driving with her husband near Sonora when suddenly a cloud of blue smoke engulfed their car. The car stopped and its lights went out. She lost consciousness and then woke up with several humanoids carrying her to a landed oval-shaped craft standing on legs. 77OctLate Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire UK 2 A uniformed officer observed a UFO at an altitude of only 500-700 feet above the Plain. He described it as being oblong with a rounded top and a flat bottom. The object was seen to travel at a very slow speed across the landscape. Source BUFORA Vol 6 No 6 March/April (Reference: THE 5TH ANNUAL PRUFOS POLICE REPORT 2006 by Detective Constable 1877 HESELTINE British Transport Police (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sonora (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4865 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18193 (4CC33E21) Date: 10/30/1977 Description: A woman was driving with her husband near Sonora when suddenly a cloud of blue smoke engulfed their car. The car stopped and its lights went out. She lost consciousness and then woke up with several humanoids carrying her to a landed oval-shaped craft standing on legs. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sonora (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4864 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18194 (7E381F0D) Date: 10/30/1977 Description: At around 7:00 p.m. Martha Throne was driving with her husband to Sonora, California when suddenly a cloud of blue smoke engulfed their car. The car stopped and its lights went out. She lost consciousness and then woke up with several humanoids carrying her to a landed oval-shaped craft standing on legs. The Grey humanoids had flat noses, and were wearing coverall type suits. A blanket was put over her head but she was reassured by means of mental telepathy that she would be all right. She was then placed on a table in a shiny room, where she was examined by two humanoids while others nearby attended to other duties. Her watch as well as her husband's stopped just after 7 p.m. and never ran again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sonora Daily Union Democrat, November 22, 1982; John F. Schuessler, UFO Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 77; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 484, citing Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of the Mystery Source ID: Johnson_7311 Source: Johnson ### Event 18195 (7F5471EC) Date: 10/31/1977 Description: 9:35 p.m. Several students in Placentia, California, watch a disc with four lighted portholes hovering and eclipsing the moon for a few seconds. It shoots away toward the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 2-12-46,” IUR 2, no. 12 \(December 1977\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5604 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18196 (1B2D9E5B) Date: 10/31/1977 Description: [David Williamson Jr.](https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/david-williamson-jr-%E2%80%9951)[,](https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/david-williamson-jr-%E2%80%9951) a NASA assistant administrator for special projects, drafts a memorandum of a proposed letter to be signed by [Noel W. Hinners](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel%5FHinners) and sent to [Robert A. Frosch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FFrosch)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FFrosch) The letter mentions a revival of interest in UFOs and paranormal phenomena, as well as new sightings. It mentions a lack of tangible evidence to analyze and a lack of protocols for investigating UFOs as hindrances to NASA setting up an investigatory panel: “All in all, undertaking a formal study at this time appears to be fraught with peril.” Williamson sees two choices: refuse the project, or have NASA review the best cases from civilian UFO organizations and new cases. He foresees problems with workload, peer pressure, and prejudgment—an enormous expenditure of resources. However, he recommends examining the best cases from the civilian groups. The inquiry will be handled by Hinners, Williamson, and NASA administrator [Kenneth D. Chapman](https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/spokesman/name/kenneth-chapman-obituary?id=20980732). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 788 Source ID: Eberhart_5603 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18197 (E85CA581) Date: 10/31/1977 Description: The National Enquirer sends a series of questions to Secretary of the Air Force [John C. Stetson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FC.%5FStetson) about the 1975 Northern Tier UFO incidents. The Air Force admits they do not know what the objects were. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 23–24](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/22/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5602 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18198 (CED5B7DB) Date: 11/1/1977 Description: At 12:30 a.m. Orlando Fontenelle Trindade, a 40-year-old fisherman, saw a light flying north at medium speed while fishing in the river in Colares, Para State, Brazil. The light then moved toward his boat. A reddish-yellow light was next seen at 20 meters above the water, when near the first light it stopped. It was visible toward the sea until 5:30 a.m. On another boat a blue light was seen over the ship's mast at 1:00 a.m. After spinning 15 revolutions it turned toward sea and slowly went away. It also was visible until 5:30 a.m., and its calculated distance at closest approach was 300 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, www.theblackvault.com, pp. 23-24 Source ID: Johnson_7389 Source: Johnson ### Event 18199 (F0DA6AF2) Date: 11/1/1977 Description: At 7:00 p.m. a very bright reddish light, semi-circular in form, with the upper half red emitting very bright blue flashes of light, was observed over Colares, Para State, Brazil. When it changed its flight direction, it was no longer emitting rays of light. At 7:15 p.m. Antonio Acacio de Oliveira sighted a reddish-yellow light that was blinking blue that momentarily disappeared. When an FAB helicopter took off, the light returned and followed helicopter over the Bay. It then climbed away at a high rate of speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, www.theblackvault.com, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_7390 Source: Johnson ### Event 18200 (694031AD) Date: 11/1/1977 Description: Afternoon. Students Johnny Myrh and Frank Sverre see a flying object approaching from the north as they are walking home from a school bus station in Nybygda, Ringerike, Norway. The light-green object lands about 300 feet away in a newly ploughed field. They see a human-like figure inside the object behind one of its windows. After 10 seconds, the object lifts off, leaving three equally spaced marks in the ground, 1.2 feet long and 3–7 inches wide. Each imprint is made by something with a curved bottom. The sighting is partially corroborated by one of the attendants at the school who sees a shining object at the same time and place but at a much greater distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 1 \(January 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5605 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18201 (BC4B05AD) Date: 11/2/1977 Description: Italian Air Force pilots and pilots of two German Air Force F-101G Starfighters, as well as the tower personnel at Cagliari Elmas Airport on Sardinia, Italy, see a circular or elliptical ball of fire flying at tremendous speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 146](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/146/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5606 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18202 (F438D803) Date: 11/3/1977 Description: Ivan De Oliviera, age 36, was on the river in Colares, Brazil at 1:30 a.m., when he witnessed a very bright blue flying light at great distance, which stopped two meters above the water in the navigation channel. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_7438 Source: Johnson ### Event 18203 (96698755) Date: 11/10/1977 Description: 4:31 p.m. UFO researcher [Ray Stanford](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/tireless-tracker-rewrote-the-book-on-dinosaurs-in-maryland/2012/04/17/gIQARzRcTT%5Fstory.html) sees a stationary metallic gray object in the southwestern sky as he is walking his dog in Austin, Texas. Its smaller end is at the top and there is a slight variance around the larger, lower end of the object, which seems to be vibrating. After several seconds, it seems to elongate and rotate. After another 10 seconds, it appears in the shape of a Coke bottle, then disappears quickly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ray Stanford, “Letter,” IUR 7, no. 3 \(May/June 1982\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_5607 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18204 (FB2EFFF9) Date: 11/12/1977 Description: Evening. [William J. Hermann](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hermann-william-j) sees a disc-shaped object chasing a Cessna aircraft over Charleston, South Carolina. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 570 Source ID: Eberhart_5608 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18205 (78589EC7) Date: 11/13/1977 Description: At eleven o'clock at night in Fox-Amphoux, Var department, France a young couple in their twenties, driving on highway D 561, observed a disc-shaped light in the sky over the hills between Fox-Amphoux and Aups. After driving several kilometers the couple again saw it, now larger and blinking, at the crossroads of Logis d'Amphoux; it seemed to be above the nearby town of Fox. They pulled their car to the side of the road and watched it for 15 minutes. Next they saw, about 200 meters behind them along the road, a small point of light near the ground, as though someone were carrying a flashlight. They turned around and drove back toward the light and observed, about 30 to 50 meters away, an unstable, two-dimensional image of a human-like entity of a phosphorescent white color, with no visible arms or legs and no features on its head. It was about five-foot eight inches tall, "advancing and retreating," and fading in and out. They compared the form to a TV image. The couple associated the lights seen earlier with the figure, became frightened, and drove off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1980; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-56, citing Alain Prigent Source ID: Johnson_7641 Source: Johnson ### Event 18206 (3B341FC8) Date: 11/13/1977 Description: At 11:35 p.m. two Air Force security police officers at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota were checking out a report of trespassers at a restricted nuclear weapons storage site, when they noticed a bright light hovering above a nearby hill. One of the men remained in the patrol vehicle as the second investigated the source of the light. As the officer approached the area he observed a human like figure wearing a shiny green metallic uniform and a helmet with visor. The witness ordered the figure to stop, but it continued walking towards the source of the light. As the officer pointed his M-16 at the figure the being suddenly turned around and pointed an object at the officer. This was followed by a bright flash of light from the object, and then the M-16 carbine exploded causing burns to the hands of the officer. As the injured officer hid, the other officer arrived and he observed two similarly clad figures; he challenged both but they refused to stop, so he then fired his weapon, striking both. They were seen to fall, but 15 seconds later both stood up and fired several flashes of light at the officer, who was able to take cover and was unhurt. He then followed the two intruders and saw them enter a landed disc-shaped craft. The object then emitted a brilliant flash of green light, and disappeared into the sky. Later investigation revealed that several components to one of the nuclear warheads were missing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1977 Humanoid Contact database, case # 1208, citing Enigma, issue # 43, also Leonard Stringfield). On this evening in Silverton, England, in 1978,a large pulsating light buzzed four men in a car, forcing the driver to stop the car. In Espanola, New Mexico, a mutilated cow was discovered. The rectum and udder had been removed with surgical incisions. (Sources: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1979, p. 11; Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, Volume 50, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_7642 Source: Johnson ### Event 18207 (F748A48E) Date: 11/13/1977 Description: Daylight disc. (EGBA,504) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbia, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4867 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18208 (4DBFF936) Date: 11/16/1977 Description: 10:59 p.m. An alarm sounds at the Ellsworth AFB L-09 missile site 7 miles southwest of Nisland, South Dakota. Two security men, Airmen 1st Class Kenneth Jenkins and Wayne E. Raeke, are dispatched to the scene from Ellsworth. As Raeke is inspecting the rear fence line, he \(allegedly\) sees a helmeted figure in a glowing green metallic suit. It points a weapon at Raeke’s rifle and causes it to disintegrate, burning his hands and arms. Jenkins helps him back to their security vehicle. When Jenkins goes back to the rear fence line, he sees two of these beings. They ignore his command to halt, so he opens fire on them. His bullets strike one on the shoulder and the other in the helmet. The figures run over a hill and Jenkins pursues them. He sees them entering a 20-foot- diameter saucer-shaped object that shoots away over the horizon. As Raeke is air-evacuated from the scene, investigators discover that the missile’s nuclear components have been stolen. A follow-up investigation by [Bob](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/palmbeachpost/obituary.aspx?n=robert-v-pratt&pid=15755452) [Pratt](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/palmbeachpost/obituary.aspx?n=robert-v-pratt&pid=15755452) of the National Enquirer determines that Jenkins and Raeke are real and on active duty, but everything else about the incident is bogus. Raeke has suffered no injuries and does not even know Jenkins. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Incident/Complaint](https://www.thevoicebeforethevoid.net/incidentcomplaint-report-by-commander-44-missile-security-squadron-ellsworth-air-force-base-south-dakota/) [Report,](https://www.thevoicebeforethevoid.net/incidentcomplaint-report-by-commander-44-missile-security-squadron-ellsworth-air-force-base-south-dakota/)” November 16, 1977; Clark III 358–359 Source ID: Eberhart_5609 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18209 (9E21BF0C) Date: 11/16/1977 Description: Ellsworth AFB Hoax (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: NICAP: [771116](http://www.nicap.org/h771116.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ellsworth AFB, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_4868 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18210 (77C6E57E) Date: 11/17/1977 Description: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by [Steven Spielberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FSpielberg)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FSpielberg) premieres in New York City. The plot involves benevolent aliens who make their presence known to selected individuals and world governments through escalating UFO waves. The film culminates in a spectacular landing and contact hidden from the public by an ingenious cover-up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jennifer Henderson and George M. Eberhart, “30 Years of Close Encounters,” IUR 31, no. 3 \(October 2007\): 16–18, 28; Clark III 259; Internet Movie Database, “[Close Encounters of the Third Kind](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/)” Source ID: Eberhart_5610 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18211 (B545DD6E) Date: 11/18/1977 Description: 9:17 p.m. A bright white light moving at a high rate of speed comes alongside a small aircraft flying at 13,000 feet between Vichy and Troy, Missouri, and paces the airplane for 3 minutes. The light then moves away at high speed. The pilot reports that while the light is abreast of his aircraft, one of his transponders stops working. After the UFO pulls away, the transponder resumes its normal operation. The object paces the aircraft for 3–4 miles at a distance of 17 miles and is fairly high above the aircraft. The pilot turns on his other transponder and nothing happens, then the object takes off on a 120°–130° heading and shoots out of sight. The second transponder recovers, but the pilot can never get the first one to work again. He has no trouble with the other instruments. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[UFO KO’s Transponder](http://www.nicap.org/CATEGORIES/03-EME%5FCases/771118troy%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5612 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18212 (7612A438) Date: 11/18/1977 Description: 5:30 a.m. A hunter sees an object 4–5 times the size of the full moon ascending about 900 feet away in a wooded area near Richmond, Virginia. It is smoky-gray and egg-shaped with one white light at the top and two flashing lights on the bottom. Possible balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-1-12,” IUR 3, no. 1 \(January 1978\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5611 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18213 (D1F3A012) Date: 11/18/1977 Description: Light a/c paced for three minutes, E-M (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Troy, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4871 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18214 (95EFFF78) Date: 11/22/1977 Description: Newspaper reporters and police sighted a UFO in La Aurora, Uruguay at 11:00 p.m. The UFO came from the southeast, passed low over a house in a zigzag motion, and disappeared into the northwestern sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Van Der Velde, APRO Bulletin, May 1982, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_7807 Source: Johnson ### Event 18215 (AC977D01) Date: 11/22/1977 Description: Between 1:00 a.m. and 5:18 a.m. there were repeated sightings of reddish yellow lights flying over Belem, Para State, Brazil at low altitudes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, pp. 33-34 Source ID: Johnson_7806 Source: Johnson ### Event 18216 (B1B637F5) Date: 11/23/1977 Description: At 8:30 p.m. in the village of Colares, Para State, Brazil 35-year-old Anotnio Ferreira witnessed an "airship," red on the bottom, gray metallic on the top, and oval-cylindrical in shape. It was estimated to be 1500 meters distant, and it moved in small wavy pulsing actions, spinning as it went. At the same time 34-year-old pilot Ivaldo Viegas Pantoja was flying from Colarfes and spotted the dull metallic "airship" when his plane was at 60 meters altitude, and the UFO was at only 30 meters, 3000 meters away. It was small, perhaps only 1.5 meters in size, and going from southeast to east at 100 km/h. He reported being frightened by his encounter with the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacion Prato, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_7849 Source: Johnson ### Event 18217 (B02666E2) Date: 11/24/1977 Description: At 10:10 p.m. a UFO came out of the southwest, flying over a ranch following some high tension power lines in the town of La Aurora, Uruguay. It changed colors and caused radio interference. There was a 10 minute power failure in the city of Salto. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Van Der Velde, APRO Bulletin, May 1982, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_7882 Source: Johnson ### Event 18218 (C685A93E) Date: 11/24/1977 Description: 10:00 p.m. A polygraph examiner with experience as a pilot and sailor is sitting on her porch in Smyrna, Georgia, when she notices an object the size of a distant aircraft fly out ion front of the moon. The object is white, intensely luminous, and shaped like a hemisphere. It hovers for a few seconds, shoots straight up, hovers again, and then tilts back \(showing its bottom portion with two Saturn-like rings of light\) and flies back in front of the moon and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-1-20,” IUR 3, no. 1 \(January 1978\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5613 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18219 (0522DCC0) Date: 11/27/1977 Description: [William J. Hermann](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hermann-william-j) chases another disc-shaped UFO in Charleston, South Carolina, in his car and takes four photographs. He has other sightings on December 2 and 4 and on January 22, 1978, when he snaps eight photos. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 570 Source ID: Eberhart_5614 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18220 (C39CDF2B) Date: 11/28/1977 Description: Wellington Friday, UN ambassador at large for Grenada, addresses the United Nations on the seriousness of the UFO phenomenon and the need for global cooperation in investigating them. He is aided in his statement by ufologist [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) Friday appeals to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to convene UFO hearings. The next two days are focused on preparation of a draft resolution to be presented to the General Assembly on November 30. The United States says that it can “sympathize” with Grenada’s efforts but cannot support the draft resolution. On November 30, the US delegates, Coast Guard Cmdr. John Feigle and John Krindler, meet with Grenada Prime Minister [Eric Gairy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FGairy) in a closed-door session to make the resolution more moderate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, “Inside Look at Grenada’s UFO Mission at the United Nations,” IUR 3, no. 2 \(February 1978\): 6–7; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1978; Antonio Huneeus, “[Rare Footage of Famous 1978](http://www.openminds.tv/rare-footage-78-un-ufo-682/9712) [UN UFO Hearing Found,](http://www.openminds.tv/rare-footage-78-un-ufo-682/9712)” Open Minds, May 13, 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_5615 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18221 (20DE9170) Date: 11/28/1977 Description: Miguel da Silva Moreira, age 31, in Vila Mosqueiro, Para state, Brazil witnessed red-yellow lights in the sky emitting blue rays in all directions at 7:30 p.m. From a bigger object came two small lights moving in opposite directions. Three minutes later five more came, and flew off to the northeast. There were several other independent reports of the same phenomenon that night from Belem and Colares. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, pp. 37-39 Source ID: Johnson_8001 Source: Johnson ### Event 18222 (0B033B44) Date: 11/29/1977 Description: Hovering dome-shaped object sped toward witness, stopped, beamed blue light onto dead tree, which fluoresced in bright colors. Sheep fled Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Waimata Valley, Gisborne, New Zealand Source ID: HallUFOE2_297 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18223 (92DE8D7A) Date: 11/29/1977 Description: Mr. McLean, a UFO investigator, got an anonymous phone call reporting a UFO landing. He drove to the location at 10:20 a.m., located 16 miles from the city of Gisborne in the Waimata Valley, New Zealand. He noticed a large domed UFO that suddenly approached to within 200 feet of him, and it emitted a blue beam of light that hit a dead tree, causing the sheep in the area to panick and scatter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Xenolog, March 1978, p. 10; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 164; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 293; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 204 Source ID: Johnson_8040 Source: Johnson ### Event 18224 (3546BDBA) Date: 11/29/1977 Description: On this night three Soviet scientists on a camping trip near Serpokhov, a city south of Moscow, Russia woke up when they heard peculiar voices speaking in a language they did not recognize. The voices continued talking for the next half hour, at the end of which an 80-foot, lightbulb-shaped UFO suddenly shot up from the ground and disappeared into the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, citing Jerome Clark Source ID: Johnson_8042 Source: Johnson ### Event 18225 (C0323241) Date: 11/29/1977 Description: Hovering dome-shaped object sped toward witness, stopped, beamed blue light onto dead tree, which fluoresced in bright colors. Sheep fled (NICAP UFOE II, Section VI). (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Waimata Valley, Gisborne, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4872 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18226 (5CD39EAE) Date: 11/29/1977 Description: Hovering dome-shaped object sped toward witness, stopped, beamed blue light onto dead tree, which fluoresced in bright colors. Sheep fled (NICAP UFOE II, Section VI). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Waimata Valley, Gisborne, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4866 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18227 (C2A6B8AE) Date: 11/29/1977 Description: Late in the evening a woman was driving her daughter along a lonely stretch of road near Coldstream, England when suddenly a seven-foot tall, dark, hooded figure leaped out of some bushes along the side of the road. The figure jumped directly in front of the car. The witness slammed on the brakes but the figure suddenly vanished in plain sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, January 1979, p. 25; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 759, citing Northern UFO News, issue # 50 Source ID: Johnson_8041 Source: Johnson ### Event 18228 (5017DD61) Date: 11/30/1977 Description: In Costilla County, Colorado a 3-year-old cow was found dead and mutilated near the San Pablo Wilbert Maestas Ranch. A helicopter had been seen in the vicinity with bright revolving lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien case files, citing Sheriff report and Valley Courier, December 6, 1977 Source ID: Johnson_8082 Source: Johnson ### Event 18229 (1A85693D) Date: 12/1977 Description: CE-2, landing, two women reluctant to talk. (MUJ-122) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Danville, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4874 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18230 (63F8DA74) Date: 12/1977 Description: GEPAN’s Scientific Council holds its first meeting. The group is given a two-volume report of 290 pages, including three general presentations, three detailed investigations, an analysis of two UFO photos, and five statistical analyses of samples and cases. The council reaches conclusions and recommendations for further study. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000– 2001\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_5616 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18231 (E7600C4B) Date: 12/1977 Description: 1:10 AM. CE-1 (50-100' distant) with egg-shaped object, two witnesses. (MUJ122,9) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Mitchell, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4873 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18232 (4813F6F2) Date: 12/1977 Description: [Jim and Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) publish Abducted!, a collection of 20 years of UFO abduction cases. Most of the aliens they describe are small with large heads and eyes, no hair, and communicate by telepathy. They suggest that abductions are the latest logical step in an alien information-gathering process. Each abductee, they believe, has specific information of value to the aliens. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Coral and Jim Lorenzen, [Abducted! Confrontations with Beings](https://archive.org/details/abductedconfront0000lore) [from Outer Space](https://archive.org/details/abductedconfront0000lore)[,](https://archive.org/details/abductedconfront0000lore) Berkley, 1977 Source ID: Eberhart_5617 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18233 (EDD194C2) Date: 12/1977 Description: The crew of the fishing trawler Vasily Kiselev also observed something quite extraordinary. Rising vertically from under the water was a doughnut-shaped object. Its diameter was between 300 and 500 meters. It hovered at the altitude of four to five kilometers. The trawler's radar station was immediately rendered inoperative. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Novy Georgy Island (near), Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_4875 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18234 (8DBC414A) Date: 12/1/1977 Description: 8:28 p.m. An electrician is driving east out of Elm City, North Carolina, when a large object drifts into view from the north. It has one intense headlight in front, 4–6 blue lights around the edges, and many red and white lights forming portholes along the sides. It is shaped like a torpedo with four swept-back fins at the back with a round band connecting them, and it is making a humming sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-1-30,” IUR 3, no. 1 \(January 1978\): 3, wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5620 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18235 (BB11D9EF) Date: 12/1/1977 Description: The Have Blue HB1001 stealth aircraft is tested for the first time at Area 52 in the Tonopah Test Range by pilot [Bill Park](http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/park.html)[.](http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/park.html)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FHave%5FBlue\#HB1001) [Have Blue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FHave%5FBlue\#HB1001)” Source ID: Eberhart_5619 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18236 (78C97309) Date: 12/2/1977 Description: A Waimata Valley, New Zealand farmer had awakened at three a.m. when he heard his dogs barking in the kennels. When he went outside he saw a 50-foot in diameter saucer-shaped object on the ground, about 100 feet away from his house. It was red in color and he could see it had two open doors or ports. Near his dog kennel were two silver-suited humanoid figures of slight build, about 4 feet 8 inches tall; they were carrying off one of his dogs, which appeared to be unconscious. He got his gun and opened fire on the creatures, hitting one. They dropped the animal and the figure that was hit staggered off into the bushes while the second one entered the object, which then took off. The dog was comatose for a few minutes, but later recovered. Friends visiting the farmer later found him in a state of shock, fearful that they would return for retribution. Footprints were found at the site. The incident also occurred during a rash of UFO sightings in the area. The next evening there were reports of hovering objects in Invercargill and Gore Matura, New Zealand at 10:20 p.m. and shortly after 11:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1978, p. 2; Xenolog, March 1978, pp. 6-13; UNICAT, case # 166; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-69 (A1772), citing David Conway, Gisborne Aerial Phenomenon Research Group Source ID: Johnson_8135 Source: Johnson ### Event 18237 (2A933690) Date: 12/2/1977 Description: Five 45-foot in diameter domed discs hovered over Roseville, Michigan at 12:20 a.m. Three more discs joined them. Two figures were seen inside each dome. All flew away to the northwest after a couple of minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8136 Source: Johnson ### Event 18238 (28F07115) Date: 12/2/1977 Description: A close encounter occurred in North Charleston, South Carolina at 9:30 a.m. with a disc-shaped UFO that caused gravity effects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: North Charleston (SC) Banner, December 7, 1977; APRO Bulletin, July 1978, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_8137 Source: Johnson ### Event 18239 (37A07C29) Date: 12/2/1977 Description: A Ms. Crowl had a close encounter with a UFO in Elysburg, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Shamokin (PA) News-Item, December 3, 1977 Source ID: Johnson_8138 Source: Johnson ### Event 18240 (CDA66F72) Date: 12/2/1977 Description: On this day there were also a series of unexplained booms or skyquakes heard all along the eartern seaboard of the United States from South Carolina to New Jersey. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory recorded reports from Asbury Park, Belmar, Farmingdale, Haledon, Hammonton, Hazlet, Howell, Long Branch, Mount Holly, Ocean County, Old Bridge, Oyster Creek, Point Pleasant, Red Bank, Toms River, and Wall Township, New Jersey as well as Charleston and other parts of South Carolina. The earliest report in the day appears to have come from Charleston, South Carolina at 9:30 a.m. and the last report may have been at 3:45 p.m. in New Jersey. The Oyster Creek, New Jersey skyquake was heard near a nuclear power plant, which caused some concern. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dallas (TX) Times-Herald, December 17, 1977; New York Times, December 20, 1977; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 800-821, citing U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Source ID: Johnson_8139 Source: Johnson ### Event 18241 (3CE06A97) Date: 12/2/1977 Description: Night. A farmer in the Waimata Velley of New Zealand wakes up when his dogs bark loudly in their kennels. He goes to the back door and sees a landed saucer-shaped craft in a paddock about 100 feet away. It is about 50 feet in diameter and bright red with two open doors in the side. By the kennels he sees two humanoid beings about 4 feet 8 inches in height with slim builds. They are carrying one of the dogs, which appears comatose. The farmer shoots and hits one of the creatures, apparently startling them into dropping the animal. The being that is hit runs off into the bushes, and the other runs into the UFO, which then ascends vertically. The dog remains dazed for a few minutes and then becomes agitated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 \(June 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5621 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18242 (7690F2CD) Date: Early 12/1977 Description: 5:15 p.m. A witness is driving from Falck to Brettnach, Moselle, France, when he notices three lights on a triangular object hovering silently. It disappears abruptly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 98 Source ID: Eberhart_5618 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18243 (79FAA619) Date: 12/6/1977 Description: 9:05 p.m. A man in Big Sandy, Tennessee, sees an unusual configuration of lights outside his bedroom window in the east-northeast. They are oriented like a telephone pole with a red light on top and many white and blue lights down both sides. He and his wife watch the object for 10 minutes as it hovers, drops down, and glides to another hovering position. Eventually it moves out of sight behind trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-1-40,” IUR 3, no. 1 \(January 1978\): wrap Source ID: Eberhart_5623 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18244 (F3B6D0B8) Date: 12/6/1977 Description: Along the coast of Tatapouri, New Zealand a red disc-shaped object came in over the land from the direction of the sea and followed a car with three female passengers along Highway 35 for a mile until they stopped the car, causing the car headlights to dim during its pursuit. The car's new battery had no water remaining in it after the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1978, p. 2, citing Spaceview April 1978; Xenolog, March 1978, p. 16; UNICAT database, case 167, citing IUR Source ID: Johnson_8239 Source: Johnson ### Event 18245 (3D2D04BD) Date: 12/6/1977 Description: 7:30 p.m. Three people in a car near Tatapouri Point, New Zealand, see a red disc coming from the direction of the ocean. It seems to follow their car for about one mile until the driver stops. At that instant, the object veers off into the hills northwest toward the Waimata Valley. They note their car lights are much dimmer than usual, and on arriving at their destination discover that the car battery has no water in it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 \(June 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5622 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18246 (593277A8) Date: 12/7/1977 Description: The United Nations draft resolution on UFO investigations is shelved until next year’s General Assembly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “United Nations Shelves UFO Involvement,” IUR 3, no. 1 \(January 1978\): wrap; Leonard H. Stringfield, “Inside Look at Grenada’s UFO Mission at the United Nations,” IUR 3, no. 2 \(February 1978\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_5624 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18247 (FFE8BFF6) Date: 12/7/1977 Description: A red, disc-shaped object came over land from the direction of the sea. It followed a car with three people inside. The headlights on the car dimmed but did not go out during the sighting, which ended when the UFO veered off into the sky. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tatapouri, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4877 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18248 (37B60F3C) Date: 12/7/1977 Description: In Tatapouri, New Zealand a red, disc-shaped object came over land from the direction of the sea at 7:30 p.m. It followed a car with three people inside. The headlights on the car dimmed but did not go out during the sighting, which ended when the UFO veered off into the sky. When the witnesses arrived home, they found the car's battery had no water in it, even though it had been serviced only two days prior to the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 416, citing Spaceview, first quarter, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8261 Source: Johnson ### Event 18249 (14B20E99) Date: 12/8/1977 Description: R/V involving airline crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4879 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18250 (8881FF53) Date: 12/8/1977 Description: 8:00 p.m. Air traffic controllers at Oxnard, California, track 4 UFOs about 3–5 miles north of Laguna Peak. They watch the targets for nearly 3 hours. Around 9:00 p.m., a Golden West commuter aircraft reports two large bright lights maneuvering around it for 15 minutes. The pilot says the object approaches so close that it “scared the hell out of me.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, March 1983 Source ID: Eberhart_5625 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18251 (A28D8B42) Date: 12/8/1977 Description: G,V, FAA radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oxnard to Los Angeles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4880 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18252 (653725B3) Date: 12/8/1977 Description: Four UFOs tracked on radar; bright, circular objects maneuvered around airliner Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_298 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18253 (A2CBCB2F) Date: 12/9/1977 Description: Oval passed Cessna 206 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kunanurra, N. Territory, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4881 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18254 (D5E93866) Date: 12/10/1977 Description: A 22-year-old man was out walking his dog in Shotton, Clwyd, Wales at around midnight when his dog drew his attention to a tall white figure standing behind a fence. The figure was about eight feet tall and wearing a padded "space suit" that was self-luminous; it also wore a visor. The being walked stiffly with one arm raised. The man ran home as quickly as he could, followed by his dog. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1977 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 395, citing Janet & Colin Bord, Modern Mysteries of Britain Source ID: Johnson_8312 Source: Johnson ### Event 18255 (8BCC88F7) Date: 12/10/1977 Description: A complex abduction case with one hour of missing time happened near Limoges, France at 6:30 p.m. The percipient was driving in a car when it experienced EM ignition interference effects. This was followed by an episode of lost time; what was recalled was an abduction with a physical exam by several humanoids. The witness recovered consciousness in the car, and the car restarted itself. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 317 Source ID: Johnson_8311 Source: Johnson ### Event 18256 (B759B949) Date: 12/10/1977 Description: At 12:30 a.m. in Pontecchio Marconi, Italy a dome-shaped UFO flew slowly at ground level 80 meters away. It had odd looking lights on its top. At 8:00 a.m. in Legnano, Italy a single witness in a car reported that a bright red ovoid object hovered in a upright orientation just half a meter above the ground, only 20 meters away. It then paced the car for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_8310 Source: Johnson ### Event 18257 (B0D2C163) Date: 12/12/1977 Description: 2:25 PM. Two witnesses on flight at 37,000', range unknown, three UFOs, 4-mins 45 sec. (Haines printout) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In Air Space, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4882 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18258 (E0CEE11D) Date: 12/13/1977 Description: An unexplained animal mutilation was discovered this day in Blue Springs, Missouri. A calf had been killed and mutilated with surgical incisions. The right ear and tail had been removed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, 1980, p. 50, citing Blue Springs Examiner, December 21, 1977 Source ID: Johnson_8379 Source: Johnson ### Event 18259 (79E40ED1) Date: 12/13/1977 Description: At 11:00 p.m. an orange-red, disc-shaped object descended over a paddock in Leitchville, Victoria, Australia. It then emitted three smaller objects that operated independently. One of these zigzagged, abruptly shot up to higher elevation, then descended again. The UFOs appeared to signal back and forth. Soil and grass samples collected from a circle of burnt grass found on the ground reveal the burn marks were caused by an electrical discharge. No electrical power lines are located near the paddock where the ground traces were discovered. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 6; Adelaide News, December 15, 1977; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 163; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 415 Source ID: Johnson_8378 Source: Johnson ### Event 18260 (B9437127) Date: 12/13/1977 Description: The National Enquirer publishes [Bob Pratt](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/palmbeachpost/obituary.aspx?n=robert-v-pratt&pid=15755452)’s well-researched article, “UFOs Spotted at Nuclear Bases and Missile Sites” about the Northern Tier cases. He lists names and dates that can be used for a FOIA request, which UFO researcher [Barry Greenwood](http://www.ufoevidence.org/researchers/detail11.htm) promptly files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 5–6](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/4/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5627 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18261 (5F6B53A4) Date: 12/13/1977 Description: The UN General Assembly adopts Decision 32/424, which acknowledges [Eric Gairy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FGairy)’s resolution, forwards it to member states, and shelves the matter until the next general assembly one year later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, “[My Advisory Role for Grenada’s UFO Mission at the United Nations,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1977-11-november)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 120 \(November 1977\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_5626 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18262 (6003B075) Date: 12/13/1977 Description: Geminid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_299 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18263 (C127394F) Date: 12/13/1977 Description: An orange-red, disc-shaped object descended over a paddock. It then emitted three smaller objects that operated independently. One of these zigzagged, abruptly shot up to higher elevation, then descended again. The UFOs appeared to signal back and forth. Soil and grass samples collected from a circle of burnt grass found on the ground reveal the burn marks were caused by an electrical discharge. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leitchville, Victoria, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4883 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18264 (195C5218) Date: 12/15/1977 Description: At 8:45 p.m. a domed disc illuminated the area of Saint Ciers du Taillon, France like day, then flew away. It came back again the same site 20 minutes later. That same night a blindingly bright light came up close to a French Navy Nord-262 transport plane with three crew members aboard and followed it, circling it for five minutes. The UFO did not appear on ground radar at the naval base in Lorien, in Morbihan department, France. Also that night mysterious booms were reported up and down the eastern Atlantic shoreline of the United States at around 10:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1981; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 41 citing J. Troadec; Washington Post, December 17, 1977 Source ID: Johnson_8417 Source: Johnson ### Event 18265 (3E3DE897) Date: 12/15/1977 Description: A domed disc illuminated the area of Saint Ciers du Taillon like day, then flew away. It came back again the same site 20 minutes later. That same night a blindingly bright light came up close to a French Navy Nord-262 transport plane with three crew members aboard and followed it, circling it for five minutes. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saint Ciers du Taillon, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4885 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18266 (E3C69051) Date: 12/16/1977 Description: On a highway just north of Uzes witnesses on two separate motorbikes both had their bikes stall in the presence of a Saturn-shaped UFO with a red ring around it. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Uzes (just north of), France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4887 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18267 (80C2FC95) Date: 12/16/1977 Description: There was a great flash in the northeastern sky, followed by a UFO gyrating downward as if out of control. Huge sparks fell to the ground, and the UFO descended as if going to land, but then suddenly rose up into the sky at tremendous speed. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Aurora, Uruguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_4889 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18268 (498FC101) Date: 12/16/1977 Description: On a highway just north of Uzes, France at 10:00 p.m. witnesses on two separate motorbikes both had their bikes stall in the presence of a Saturn-shaped UFO with a red ring around it. The UFO crossed over highway D979 going east, then flew away to the west. At 11:25 p.m. in La Aurora, Uruguay there was a great flash in the northeastern sky, followed by a UFO gyrating downward as if out of control. Huge sparks fell to the ground, and the UFO descended as if going to land, but then suddenly rose up into the sky at tremendous speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1978; Bob Van Der Velde, APRO Bulletin, May 1982, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_8445 Source: Johnson ### Event 18269 (FA192304) Date: 12/17/1977 Description: 7:45 p.m. A red, luminous object is seen by Kenny and Carol Drake of Council Bluffs, Iowa, falling to earth near the northern city limits. At the scene, they find an area covered by molten metal that is glowing orange- red, igniting the grass. Police and firemen who arrive 15 minutes later all see the fallen mass, estimated at 35–55 pounds. An investigation concludes that it is not space debris, a meteorite, or a hoax. Two of the 11 witnesses to the fall describe a round object hovering in the sky, edged by blinking red lights. The retrieved material is composed of solid metal and slag with white ash inclusions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, “[Physical Analyses in Ten Cases of](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F2.pdf) [Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material Samples,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F2.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 \(1998\): 367–372; Keith Basterfield, “[Vallée–Nolan, et al., Peer Reviewed Analysis of Unusual Materials Paper Published,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2021/12/vallee-nolan-et-al-peer-reviewed.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, December 11, 2021; Garry P. Nolan, Jacques F. Vallée, Sizun Jiang, and Larry G, Lemke, “[Improved Instrumental Techniques, Including Isotopic Analysis, Applicable to](https://www.docdroid.net/IO2hKxr/1-s20-s0376042121000907-main-pdf) [the Characterization of Unusual Materials with Potential Relevance to Aerospace Forensics,](https://www.docdroid.net/IO2hKxr/1-s20-s0376042121000907-main-pdf)” Progress in Aerospace Sciences 128 \(January 2022\) Source ID: Eberhart_5630 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18270 (9A024D24) Date: 12/17/1977 Description: Two UFOs tracked on radar giving "strong" returns, at speeds in excess of 1,000 mph. One made head-on pass at an aircraft, observed on radar Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Colorado and South Dakota Source ID: HallUFOE2_300 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18271 (462720C4) Date: 12/17/1977 Description: Shortly after four o’clock in the afternoon in Kenyon, Rhode Island a huge domed disc dropped silently toward the ground over a meadow and stopped, an estimated 400 feet above the ground. It had a small dome on the top of the object and three square windows. When the disc turned to a vertical position both cars in the vicinity stalled. The UFO gave off a bluish-white glow, and the witnessed experienced skin burns and rashes as a result of the intense light, and eye irritations after the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald R. Todd, APRO Bulletin, July-August 1978, p. 4; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 72 Source ID: Johnson_8470 Source: Johnson ### Event 18272 (F8CA7189) Date: 12/17/1977 Description: On that same night at 11:30 p.m. in St-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantic department, France a flaming disc-shaped UFO flew to the south and out to sea. The same or a similar object continued to hover offshore. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8471 Source: Johnson ### Event 18273 (ACFFDEF5) Date: 12/17/1977 Description: 4:00 p.m. Marguerite Camp is in her pickup truck on State Highway 2 near Kenyon, Rhode Island, when she spots an “ovoid, plate-like” object that is tilted slightly to the west. She stops and gets out to watch the UFO, which is 3–4 times the size of a B-29 in diameter and glowing blue-white. She sees 4–5 dark windows and its bottom half is blurry. Another woman, driving an AMC Gremlin, pulls up behind her. While they are watching the object, the engines of both vehicles stall. The object turns up on its edge and climbs vertically, and hovers for 10 more minutes. The second woman gets back in her car, starts it up, and drives away. The object speeds off to the west, takes on a pinkish glow, and fades in the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dan Todd, “[Large Objects Stalls Autos,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201978%2007%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%201.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 1 \(July 1978\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_5629 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18274 (023F5043) Date: 12/17/1977 Description: A flaming disc-shaped UFO flew to the south and out to sea. The same or a similar object continued to hover offshore. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantic department, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4890 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18275 (C045CDEA) Date: 12/17/1977 Description: 3:34 a.m. Radar facilities in Colorado and South Dakota track two UFOs that give strong returns, moving at more than 1,000 mph. They are tracked for the next 30 minutes, during which time one of the objects makes a close head-on pass at an aircraft. A third radar station is unable to function while the unknowns are in the area. One of the other facilities is put out of operation when the main shaft holding the radar antenna is severely bent by an unknown force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, March 1983 Source ID: Eberhart_5628 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18276 (93E2E605) Date: 12/17/1977 Description: G,V, strong returns (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colorado & So. Dakota, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_4891 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18277 (6AA30197) Date: 12/17/1977 Description: Blue-white glowing oval, windows; one witness reported eye irritation. APRO Bulletin, July 1978; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 72 (E) pickup truck & car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kenyon, RI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4892 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18278 (33E0926E) Date: 12/18/1977 Description: On the same night, at four o’clock in the morning Central Standard Time, three 16-year-old girls saw a frightening monster while driving 15 miles north of Zoto del Marina, Mexico. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: letter from one of the witnesses to the J. Allen Hynek, Center for UFO Studies, dated August 9, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8495 Source: Johnson ### Event 18279 (CFD577F9) Date: 12/18/1977 Description: A 34-year-old man, Mr. Herrero Sierra was driving his pickup truck down a road at a few minutes past midnight when the vehicles lights and radio suddenly died. A man dressed in a divers suit approached and told him through telepathy to come aboard a hat-shaped UFO. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Guadalajara, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4893 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18280 (7642ABB6) Date: 12/18/1977 Description: In Guadalajara, Spain a 34-year-old man, Mr. Miguel Herrero Sierra was driving his pickup truck down a road at a few minutes past midnight when the vehicle’s lights, engine, and radio suddenly died. He pulled to the side of the road but couldn't find anything wrong with the car. He decided to wait in the truck for help. A man dressed in a diver’s suit approached and told him through telepathy to come aboard a hat-shaped UFO, under which there was a cylindrical chamber that extended to the ground. Inside the object was a 14-meter wide circular room with smooth walls. Mr. Herrero stayed inside for approximately three hours, communicating telepathically with the occupants of the craft. He was released later, and discovered that he had a small puncture wound on his arm, as if they had taken a blood sample from him although he did not recall them doing so. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1978, p. 15, citing Cronica, January 26, 1978; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-57 Source ID: Johnson_8494 Source: Johnson ### Event 18281 (5AAF881F) Date: 12/21/1977 Description: A green glow was first seen by a married couple. This was followed by the sighting of a 12-foot-long ovoid UFO moving at a low altitude, at an estimated distance of only 75 feet. The UFO ascended slowly, then show away fast into the nearby woods. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Mitchell, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4895 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18282 (379509E2) Date: 12/21/1977 Description: NASA administrator [Robert A. Frosch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FFrosch) sends a response to Frank Press at OSTP, saying that NASA would be willing to continue to answer public inquiries and examine any bona fide new physical evidence that comes in, but declines to set up a panel to investigate cases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [pp. 242–243](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/242/mode/2up); Clark III 788–789; ClearIntent, [p. 193](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/192/mode/2up); presidentialufo.com, “President Jimmy Carter”; “[NASA Letter Declines UFO ‘Research Activity,’](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1977-11-november)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 120 \(November 1977\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5631 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18283 (5AAAFCF9) Date: 12/21/1977 Description: A green glow was first seen by a married couple in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky at shortly after one o’clock at night. This was followed by the sighting of a 12-foot-long ovoid UFO moving at a low altitude, at an estimated distance of only 75 feet. The UFO ascended slowly, then show away fast into the nearby woods. That same night there were several reports of mystery booms being heard in Burlington, Atlantic, and Bergen Counties in New Jersey. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard Stringfield, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1978, p. 9; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 63; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, pp. 808, 811, and 820, citing the US Naval Research Laboratory Source ID: Johnson_8553 Source: Johnson ### Event 18284 (4294EFF0) Date: 12/22/1977 Description: White disc, red blinking lights top and bottom, paced airliner for 20 minutes. Emitted green "smoke" from underside, sped out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: North Atlantic Source ID: HallUFOE2_301 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18285 (B91B9C01) Date: 12/22/1977 Description: Circular object paced TWA for 20 minutess (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: N. Atlantic, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_4896 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18286 (3D29C07E) Date: 12/27/1977 Description: 10:54 PM. Two witnesses, two UFOs on flight at 2,000'. E-M effects. 6-10 min. duration of sighting. (Haines printout) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In Air Space, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4897 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18287 (4C2FE306) Date: 12/27/1977 Description: 10:54 p.m. Police officers Ron Arey and Howard Dellinger are flying in a Bell Jetranger police helicopter at 1,100 feet in Charlotte, North Carolina, when they see two lights approaching from the northwest. They pass the chopper to the right at an estimated 200 feet. Charlotte FAA air traffic controller Ray Bader confirms two unknown targets on radar. Later on, the object circles the helicopter at an estimated distance of 200 feet. The UFO looks like a globular white light reflecting upward into a silver, parachute-like object with ribs connecting the light to it. Possibly a prank balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Object over N.C. on Dec. 27, 1977,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201978%2002%2000%20-%20Vol%2026%20No%208.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 8 \(February 1978\): 1, 5; “A Radar-Visual in Charlotte: UFO or Prank Balloon?” IUR 3, no. 3 \(March 1978\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_5633 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18288 (A9DF1B17) Date: 12/27/1977 Description: A White House press release states that it accepts NASA’s evaluation of the UFO situation and will not pursue its initiative any further. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_5632 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18289 (F29CF91C) Date: 12/27/1977 Description: Two very bright cones of bright light moved rapidly through the sky over Charlotte, North Carolina at 10:45 p.m., tracked by a Charlotte Police helicopter and appearing on radar. Allan Hendry, the investigator at the time for the Center for UFO Studies, suggested a prank balloon might be the explanation, but the UFO was too bright and emitted an energetic ball of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Charlotte Observer, December 31, 1977; APRO Bulletin, February 1978, p. 1; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 8; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_8624 Source: Johnson ### Event 18290 (38016BB4) Date: 12/28/1977 Description: Morning. A lenticular object flew over Reaves Park at a low altitude. It was silent and had three lights that blinked in sequence. It was estimated to be flying at only 100 meters altitude. If moved away to the south, away from a grassfire. (Source: Norman (Oklahoma) Transcript, March 1, 1978). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norman, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4898 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18291 (D186A8D2) Date: 12/30/1977 Description: A white, oval light about 27 feet in diameter paces a car 90 feet away near Keith, South Australia. The two witnesses, a brother and sister, report that as they slowed their car to 5–10 kph, the engine begins misfiring. They stop, and the light continues on its course. After it is gone, the car can be started again and driven with no difficulties. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf), CUFOS, 1981, p. 72 Source ID: Eberhart_5635 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18292 (2D0328F2) Date: 12/30/1977 Description: Stanford astrophysicist [Peter A. Sturrock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock) writes to [Frosch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FA.%5FFrosch), offering to make available physical evidence “such as films, material samples, etc.” obtained by his Study Group on Anomalous Phenomena. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 789 Source ID: Eberhart_5634 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18293 (BC2CD2AC) Date: 12/30/1977 Description: near Keith, South Australia - A white, oval light about 27 feet in diameter paced a car 30 meters away. The two witnesses, a brother and sister, reported that as they slowed their car to 8-15 km/h, the engine began misfiring. They then stopped and the light continued on its course. After it was gone, the car could be started again and driven with no difficulties. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 418, citing UFO Research (South Australia) Newsletter, July-August, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8656 Source: Johnson ### Event 18294 (623A3FEE) Date: 12/30/1977 Description: A white, oval light about 27 feet in diameter paced a car 30 meters away. The two witnesses, a brother and sister, reported that as they slowed their car to 8-15 kph, the engine began misfiring. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Keith (near), S.AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4899 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1978 (Back to Top) ### Event 18295 (3EB936DF) Date: 1978 Description: [Timothy Green Beckley](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/beckley-timothy-green-7093/) begins publishing a somewhat sensational UFO Review in New York City. It runs at least until 1994. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO Review](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Review%20%28Tim%20Beckley%29/UFO%20Review%20-%20No%2001.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Review%20%28Tim%20Beckley%29/UFO%20Review%20-%20No%2001.pdf) no. 1 \(1978\) Source ID: Eberhart_5640 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18296 (ABEDC156) Date: 1978 Description: Brazilian ufologist [Irene Granchi](http://www.openminds.tv/irene-granchi-dies/7123) begins publishing a quarterly magazine titled OVNI Documento in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 235](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/235/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5639 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18297 (B9C3CD55) Date: 1978 Description: After many years of informal contacts with the Italian military, Centro Ufologico Nazionale succeeds in obtaining from the staff of the Italian Department of Defense the first official dossier of UFO sightings reported by Italian military personnel during 1977. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Story, [p. 67](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/66/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5638 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18298 (2C3D17D1) Date: 1978 Description: [Gene Duplantier](http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2020/03/Duplantier-obit.html) publishes one issue of Ufolk in Willowdale, Ontario, a compendium of photos of many ufologists active in the mid-1970s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Ufolk](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Ufolk%20%28Duplantier%29/Ufolk.pdf), no. 1 \(1978\) Source ID: Eberhart_5637 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18299 (726CEEA8) Date: 1978 Description: A Gallup survey this year shows that 57% of Americans think UFOs are real, 9% have reported a sighting, and 51% think there is intelligent life on other planets. A Roper Organization survey finds that 7% have seen a UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A New Gallup Poll on UFOs,” IUR 3, no. 6 \(June 1978\): insert; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_5636 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18300 (686E562C) Date: Late 1970's Description: In an interview, Colonel-General Gennady Reshetnikov, chief of the Top Command Academy of the Air Defence Forces reported several incidents where aircraft were scrambled to chase UFO’s. He also investigated sightings of a cigar shaped object with portholes in the late 70’s over Arctic region of Norilsk, alarming local military units. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [link](https://www.amazon.com/RUSSIAS-ROSWELL-INCIDENT-Amazing-Former-ebook/dp/B06XD2BNXV) Location: Norilsk, Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_695 Source: Maj2 ### Event 18301 (A3D65693) Date: 1/1978 Description: Playboy publishes a “panel discussion” on UFOs that features essays by [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html), [James A. Harder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder) [Frank Salisbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FB.%5FSalisbury)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%5FB.%5FSalisbury) [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) [Philip J. Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) and [Ernest H. Taves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%5FH.%5FTaves). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Playboy Panel: UFOs,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/0%20-%20Articles/United%20States/Playboy/1978%2001%2000%5FPlayboy%20-%20UFO%20Panel.pdf)” Playboy, January 1978, pp. 67–98, 128, 249–250 Source ID: Eberhart_5641 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18302 (29850C5F) Date: 1/1978 Description: Night. Police Sgt. Tony Dodd and Constable Alan Dale are driving near Cononley, North Yorkshire, England, when the road in front of them lights up. They stop the patrol car, look up, and see an object about 100 feet away and moving silently at 40 mph. It has three large spheres below it, portholes around the perimeter, and a dome on top. The object passes overhead and seems to land in a wood on a distant hillside. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 116–117](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/116/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5644 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18303 (33971367) Date: 1/1978 Description: During the flight of a Yakolev Yak-40 airliner between the Medvezhye gas field and Nadym, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, the crew notices a bright round object that approaches rapidly and sometime later appears in front of the aircraft, apparently much larger. A crash appears imminent, but the object soars up in front of the nose of the airliner. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Stonehill, “[Pilot and Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich and UFOs,](http://www.openminds.tv/pilot-cosmonaut-pavel-popovich-ufos/28257)” Open Minds, June 12, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_5643 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18304 (CC2BB4AD) Date: 1/1978 Description: The Russian Academy of Sciences releases a report, translated by [Richard F. Haines](http://www.nicap.org/bio-haines.htm) and published by the Center for UFO Studies as Observations of Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena in the USSR: A Statistical Analysis, written by [Lev M. Gindilis](https://www.flickr.com/photos/obartunov/6200041565) of the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute in Moscow. Data processing and bookkeeping is performed by I. G. Petrovskaya and most of the text is written by engineer-physicist D. A. Menkov. Significantly, the report is approved for official publication by Academician [Nikolai Kardashev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%5FKardashev), one of the USSR’s top experts in SETI. Its reports and data come from a sample of 256 Russian cases compiled by [Felix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel) [Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel) According to space historian [James Oberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FOberg), many of the sightings in the report correspond to Soviet tests and reentries of the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, a nuclear weapons delivery system developed in the 1960s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Petrozavodsk phenomenon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrozavodsk%5Fphenomenon\#Soviet%5Finvestigation)”; L. M. Gindilis, D. A. Men’kov, and I. G. Petrovskaya, [Observations of Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena in the USSR: A Statistical Analysis](http://cufos.org/pdfs/Phenomena%5Fin%5FUSSR%5FA-548.pdf), CUFOS, June 1980; “Russian Report on UFOs,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 \(July/Aug. 1980\): 16–17; James E. Oberg, “[The](https://www.debunker.com/texts/soviet%5Fcoverup.html) [Great Soviet UFO Cover-Up,](https://www.debunker.com/texts/soviet%5Fcoverup.html)” MUFON UFO Journal, October 1982; Swords 458–460 Source ID: Eberhart_5642 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18305 (4E9CF8DF) Date: 1/1/1978 Description: Mr. Hallstrom witnessed a metallic domed disc with a clear dome and several windows over Santa Monica, California at 1:07 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, case investigation files, report dated January 18, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_21 Source: Johnson ### Event 18306 (ADD1621A) Date: 1/1/1978 Description: Veteran pilot observed domed disc with portholes Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Santa Monica, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_302 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18307 (1815C932) Date: 1/1/1978 Description: 12:45–1:00 p.m. Pilots [Floyd P. Hallstrom](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54838008/floyd-philip-hallstrom) \(in a Cessna 170A\) and Jim Victor \(in a Mustang II 4954\) are flying over Santa Monica, California, at 7,500 feet when they see an object approaching at high speed. As the UFO passes about 6,000 feet to his left, Hallstrom is looking down on it an angle of about 30°–45° and its true form suddenly becomes clear to him. He is able to make out the complete form of a saucer and can see the dome, also very vividly clear, including all the windows, about 16–20 evenly spaced around the circumference of the dome, located just above the base. The dome appears to be a perfect hemisphere about 20 feet in diameter resting on the base, which is about 30 feet in diameter. The UFO continues on a course opposite to the pilot’s with no sign of rotation, oscillation, pitch, roll, or yaw. Neither is there any sign of a propulsion system. The sun reflects off the dome as a bright spot when the UFO passes. After about a minute, the object disappears from view behind the Cessna. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Cessna Encounters Disc with Dome and Windows](http://www.nicap.org/780101santamonica%5Fdir.htm)”: “An Air-Visual Sighting of a Daylight Disc in California,” IUR 3, no. 4 \(April 1978\): insert; UFOEv II 136–138 Source ID: Eberhart_5645 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18308 (FF981A30) Date: 1/1/1978 Description: Cessna Encounters Disc With Dome & Windows (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [780101](http://www.nicap.org/780101santamonica%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Monica, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4900 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18309 (A6E3C91D) Date: 1/2/1978 Description: A man was sitting in his front room in Gomez Palacio, Mexico reading late at night when he suddenly looked up to see a tall blond, blue-eyed man in his room. The witness asked, "Who are you?" When he received no reply he asked, "What are you doing here?" At this point the stranger, whose body was surrounded by a strange glow, turned around without touching the floor. The visitor floated through the doorways of two other rooms and onto the patio at the rear of the house, followed by the witness. The glow around the man's body increased and he flew up into the air and out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Paul R. Hill, APRO Bulletin, September 1978 Source ID: Johnson_35 Source: Johnson ### Event 18310 (A19BD116) Date: 1/2/1978 Description: Four young men were driving home on an isolated road in a flat boggy area called Simonswood Moss in Rainford, England when they realized they had taken a wrong turn onto a narrow dirt road bordering a ditch. Suddenly a seven foot tall figure appeared in the glare of the headlights, eight meters ahead. The being was wearing a white fluorescent one-piece suit with boots. It had no discernible facial features and it had very short arms ending in claws. It also had a box with two flashing red lights on its chest. The figure took two steps towards the witnesses and stopped. The witnesses panicked, left the area and drove to a nearby farm where they notified the authorities. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case #377, citing Peter Hough, UFOs 1947-1987: The 40-Year Search for an Explanation Source ID: Johnson_34 Source: Johnson ### Event 18311 (14E52515) Date: 1/2/1978 Description: 11:00 p.m. Four young men are driving through an isolated area known as Simonswood Moss, between Rainsford and Kirkby, West Lancashire, England, when they realize they have taken a wrong turn onto a narrow dirt road bordering a ditch. They suddenly see a 7-foot tall figure with red eyes appear in the glare of the headlights 26 feet ahead. The being is wearing a white fluorescent one-piece suit with boots, it has no discernible facial features, and it has short arms ending in claws. On its chest is a box with two flashing red lights. The figure takes two steps towards the witnesses and suddenly stops. The witnesses panic and leave the area, driving to a nearby farm where they notify the police. A later investigation suggests that they have seen a cow wandering down the lane, the car’s headlights reflecting in its eyes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Peter Hough, “UFO Occupants,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 129–130; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-01-02-uk-simonswood.htm)[,](http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-01-02-uk-simonswood.htm) September 11, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_5646 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18312 (A81A4E91) Date: 1/3/1978 Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_303 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18313 (A0968F0C) Date: 1/3/1978 Description: The Stovold family was driving between Cadnam and Fordingbridge, in Hampshire, England in the late afternoon when they spotted a turreted disc-shaped object hovering just 300 feet over the heath a short distance away. It had lights on the top of its dome. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, July 1978, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_62 Source: Johnson ### Event 18314 (9FD5D8E7) Date: 1/4/1978 Description: The witness was lying in his bed in Wrose, England on this night when a short silvery transparent figure suddenly appeared hovering above the bed. It seemed human like and was wearing a monk like robe. It also appeared to have some short wing like protrusions and a bright halo type light around its head. It vanished in plain sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case 1790, citing Nigel Watson, Portraits of Alien Encounters Source ID: Johnson_93 Source: Johnson ### Event 18315 (A8C83234) Date: 1/5/1978 Description: V-formation of 10 lights passed plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Klamath Falls, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_4901 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18316 (AD6D8E2D) Date: 1/6/1978 Description: Two men leaving a beachfront cafe saw a bright bluish light flying low over the ocean descend at a steep angle at high speed. The light then stopped, and descended more slowly into a wooded area next to a nearby campground. Both men ran into the woods, which were now illuminated by a bluish glow. Upon entering a clearing, they saw a 2.1 meter tall human-like figure, standing eight meters away from them. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santo Antonio de Caparica, Estremadura, Portugal Source ID: NICAP_DB_4902 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18317 (CF5C1CB2) Date: 1/6/1978 Description: Two men leaving a beachfront cafe in Santo Antonio de Caparica, Estremadura, Portugal at 10:30 p.m. saw a bright bluish light flying low over the ocean descend at a steep angle at high speed. The light then stopped, and descended more slowly into a wooded area next to a nearby campground. Both men ran into the woods, which were now illuminated by a bluish glow. Upon entering a clearing, they saw a 2.1 meter tall human-like figure, standing eight meters away from them. It wore a loose fitting silvery outfit that was shiny in appearance. The being also wore a large white helmet with a narrow black visor across the eyes. The figure seemed surprised by their presence, turned around and with a heavy, slow motion walked back towards a metallic blue, saucer-shaped craft with a dome on top, that was hovering very close to the ground. Both men became frightened and fled in panic from the clearing. During the encounter one of the men felt a buzzing sound inside his head, and later suffered from insomnia. The next day an eight meter in diameter circle was found in the ground in the clearing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT database, case 609, citing Galaxia 2000; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 108, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia de los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis Source ID: Johnson_174 Source: Johnson ### Event 18318 (2F20E91D) Date: 1/9/1978 Description: Two members of the Gould family were sitting in their living room in South Middleton, Massachusetts at 7:30 p.m. when they saw an approaching large yellow ball of light angling towards the ground through their window. One of them ran out the back door to glimpse the object disappear behind some trees. Telephone interference was experienced in the home at about this time. Later one of the children in an upstairs bedroom reported seeing a white figure at the foot of his bed that tried to touch him. Moments later the father heard a noise coming from an empty room, and when he went to investigate he then heard a noise at the window. Pulling back the curtains, he saw a white figure standing on top of the back porch roof, only four feet away. The figure was hooded and seemed to be wearing a mask. Later while investigating a noise at the door to the front porch he again saw the white suited figure standing just outside the glass door. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 143; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 22; David F. Webb, FSR, June 1981, p. 23, citing Raymond E. Fowler; David F. Hall & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1905 Source ID: Johnson_226 Source: Johnson ### Event 18319 (04473311) Date: 1/9/1978 End date: 1/10/1978 Description: Humanoid case Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: South Middleton, MA Source ID: HallUFOE2_304 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18320 (8B194BAD) Date: 1/9/1978 End date: 1/10/1978 Description: Humanoid case (section XII) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Middleton, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4905 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18321 (1B5FAF55) Date: 1/10/1978 Description: A 31-year-old paramedic was driving to pick up her husband (a policeman) from work when the 3-year-old son drew her attention to a "moving star" nearly overhead. At destination a few seconds later she noted a silver disc-shaped object which reversed direction, moved forward again and moved off behind building to which she was parked. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4908 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18322 (1555A87D) Date: 1/10/1978 Description: A 25-year-old man observed two irregularly shaped bright yellow objects in the night sky while driving.One of the objects approached and appeared to slowly move down a mountainside. It seemed to periodically issue a "shower of sparks". This initial sighting lasted for about 20 minutes. The man then drove on but had difficulty recollecting the next part of his journey. Some 30 minutes later he observed a very bright object that looked like a "chicken coop" at a place called Bakers Creek Falls, near Armidale, New South Wales. The object was on the ground, stationary for 10 minutes, and then it moved. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grafton, New South Wales (near), AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4906 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18323 (632F2D94) Date: 1/10/1978 Description: On or before this day at 4:20 p.m. a married couple named Blakemore encountered a black cylindrical UFO with a turret at the rear in Blandford, Dorset, England. The UFO emitted a cloud of fog or smoke, radiated beams of light, and then ascended into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, July 1978, p. 4, citing the Yeoville Gazette, January 13, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_246 Source: Johnson ### Event 18324 (AE6FA5E8) Date: 1/10/1978 Description: A 25-year-old man name Price observed two irregularly shaped bright yellow objects in the night sky while driving near Grafton, New South Wales, Australia at around 4:00 a.m. One of the objects approached and appeared to slowly move down a mountainside. It seemed to periodically issue a "shower of sparks". This initial sighting lasted for about 20 minutes. The man then drove on but had difficulty recollecting the next part of his journey. Some 30 minutes later he observed a very bright object that looked like a "chicken coop" at a place called Bakers Creek Falls, near Armidale, New South Wales. The object was on the ground, stationary for 10 minutes, and then it moved. It was a very large elongated object with "portholes", hovering over the ground. He took photographs but they only show a blurred yellow shape.

Mr. Price next got out of his car and set off walking into the paddock to try to get closer to the object. However, as he got nearer the object appeared to retreat into an extensive fog. The witness advanced and saw the fog retreating out of the ravine. Suddenly the movement of the fog stopped and returned along its original path towards him. It quickly enveloped him, reducing visibility to less than 10 feet. The fog was accompanied by a sound similar to a vacuum cleaner. Then the fog quickly dissipated along with the sound, leaving the witness alone. He returned to his car in the morning and noticed two "shockwaves" one minute apart, as if the whole area was suddenly shaken, and then normality. The witness could not recollect up to an hour of the journey despite traveling on a twisting and turning road, which presumably required the driver's constant attention. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: ACOS Bulletin, September 1978, p. 27; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 248; Mark Moravec, PSIUFO Phenomena Source ID: Johnson_245 Source: Johnson ### Event 18325 (C8DEFC69) Date: 1/10/1978 Description: Mr. Gould, age 52, was chopping wood just north of his house in South Middleton, Massachusetts at 2:30 p.m. when he spotted a white-suited figure standing on a path about 90 feet away. The figure was described as four and a half feet tall with broad shoulders and arms that hung down its sides. It wore a square helmet with two round eyeholes and gray gloves, each with three digits. The witness spoke English and French at the figure but got no reaction. After awhile the witness drove back home and on his way there spotted a large egg-shaped object on a slope in a partially wooded area. The object was dark gray in color and had bubble like windows. Ground traces were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb, FSR, June 1981, p. 24; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1906, citing Raymond E. Fowler; MUFON UFO Journal, issue #143; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 491 Source ID: Johnson_247 Source: Johnson ### Event 18326 (ABBCE201) Date: 1/10/1978 Description: 12:25 a.m. A 31-year-old paramedic is driving to pick up her husband \(a policeman\) from work in Chicago, Illinois, when her 3-year-old son draws her attention to a “moving star” nearly overhead. At her destination a few seconds later, she notes a silver disc-shaped object \(“with teacups on top and bottom of saucer”\) as large as a full moon moving forward with yellow-orange trail behind as it moved. The object stops, reverses direction, moves forward again, and moves off behind a building. The trail is only visible while the object is in motion. Duration is 1–2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-2-39,” IUR 3, no. 2 \(February 1978\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5647 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18327 (1875552D) Date: 1/11/1978 Description: Sphere flew below Cessna 150 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4909 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18328 (F88C4662) Date: 1/11/1978 Description: A group of witnesses in South Middleton, Massachusetts had a close encounter with a battleship gray ovoid or elongated UFO at 4:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb, FSR, June 1981, p. 24 citing Ray Fowler Source ID: Johnson_263 Source: Johnson ### Event 18329 (40E50BCB) Date: 1/11/1978 Description: At 9:35 p.m. a noisy disc-shaped object with a "rear spoiler" and headlights followed two 15-year-old teens in Mytchett, Surrey, England. It had portholes and flew overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, June 1978, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_262 Source: Johnson ### Event 18330 (38D77C66) Date: 1/14/1978 Description: In Redding, California a woman named Chapin woke up in the middle of the night to see a strange entity standing near her bed. He had a flat head, large eyes, and a big nose. He appeared to extend his arms over her. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 187 Source ID: Johnson_323 Source: Johnson ### Event 18331 (A4178E26) Date: 1/14/1978 Description: 8:30 p.m. Four witnesses inside a house in Delavan, Wisconsin, see an orange ball half the size of the full moon descend into view through a window. They watch the sphere hover for one minute, move 10° to the north, hover, and then move off quickly to the northern horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-2-50,” IUR 3, no. 2 \(February 1978\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5648 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18332 (052DF3D7) Date: 1/15/1978 Description: A single engine Sundowner flying from Evansville, Indiana to Cincinnati, Ohio, encountered a UFO flying a collision course approximately 22 miles north of Louisville, Kentucky. The pilot accompanied by his instructor and girlfriend, related that he was flying at 5,500' when he spotted two bright lights at eye level at some unknown distance ahead. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Washinton County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4910 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18333 (58942895) Date: 1/17/1978 Description: As a response to [Sturrock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock)’s letter, NASA astrophysicist [Richard C. Henry](https://henry.pha.jhu.edu/henryDir/rch.html.old) writes to [Noel Hinners](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel%5FHinners) suggesting that examination of any UFO evidence could be assigned to the Astrophysics Division at Goddard Space Flight Center managed by Program Scientist [Frank Martin](https://exploredeepspace.com/about-us/board%5Fof%5Fadvisors/board-of-advisors-frank-martin/). He suggests as project scientist [Stephen P.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FP.%5FMaran) [Maran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FP.%5FMaran) at Goddard. Henry gets no response. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 789 Source ID: Eberhart_5649 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18334 (7F43D2B2) Date: 1/18/1978 Description: Alien being shot dead by MPs (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [780118](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/fortdixdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fort Dix/McGuire AFB, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_4911 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18335 (1FD1D6E6) Date: 1/18/1978 Description: MP at Ft. Dix shoots and kills an Alien. Incident report sent to Col. Landon and Brig. Gen. Brown (AFOSI). The reporting officer was S. W. (initials), Lt. 1st Class. Sgt. J.M. (initials), Security Police Squad (PACAF) also witnessed and reported the incident (Sept. 16, 1980). Type: alien encounter Reference: [link](https://nationalufocenter.com/blog/2013/09/30/alien-being-shot-dead-by-mps-january-18-1978-ft-dix-mcguire/) Location: Ft. Dix, NJ Source ID: Maj2_700 Source: Maj2 ### Event 18336 (F130F3AF) Date: 1/18/1978 Description: Formations of UFOs seen, MP at adjacent Fort Dix shot humanoid being, AF security police found body on deserted runway Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: McGuire AFB, NJ Source ID: HallUFOE2_305 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18337 (74A55DA0) Date: 1/18/1978 Description: 3:00–5:00 a.m. A security policeman at McGuire AFB \[now Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst\] in Burlington County, New Jersey, is called to help investigate a low-flying UFO over the neighboring Fort Dix army base. An Army MP pursues the object, but his radio transmission is cut off just as a grayish, 4-foot-tall being with fat head, long arms, and a slender body appears in front of his car. The MP fires five rounds into the being and one round into the object above. The UFO shoots upward and joins 11 others high in the sky, and the being runs into the woods toward the Fort Dix fence line. A security patrol finds its dead body near the McGuire AFB runaway, giving out a foul, ammonia-like stench; then AFOSI arrives and ropes everything off. Retired USAF Maj. [George Filer III](https://ufocongress.com/ufo-conference/2011-speakers/major-george-filer/)[,](https://ufocongress.com/ufo-conference/2011-speakers/major-george-filer/) who later serves as MUFON New Jersey director, asserts that he was stationed on the base at the time and that the story is true, although he did not see the alien. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 97–98; Leonard H. Stringfield, “[The Fatal Encounter at Ft. Dix–McGuire: A Case Study: Status Report IV](http://www.nicap.org/reports/fortdixSYM.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/reports/fortdixSYM.htm)” 1985, in MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, 1985; Leonard Stringfield, “The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s Cage,” UFOs 1947– 1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 153–155; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1987; John L. Guerra, Strange Craft: The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs, The Author, 2018; Erik Larsen, “[In New Book,](https://www.app.com/story/news/history/erik-larsen/2019/09/03/new-book-retired-air-force-major-claims-alien-killed-joint-base-mcguire-dix-lakehurst/2194355001/) [Retired Air Force Major Claims Alien Was Killed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst,](https://www.app.com/story/news/history/erik-larsen/2019/09/03/new-book-retired-air-force-major-claims-alien-killed-joint-base-mcguire-dix-lakehurst/2194355001/)” app, September 3, 2019; Clark III 511–513; Keith Basterfield, “[NIDS Investigated the Reported Shooting of a Non-Human Entity:](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/12/nids-investigated-reported-shooting-of.html) [Fort Dix/McGuire AFB, 18 January 1978; the NIDS Investigation,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/12/nids-investigated-reported-shooting-of.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, December 17, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_5650 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18338 (ACE39AF5) Date: 1/18/1978 Description: During the early morning hours of January 18, 1978, UFOs were sighted flying over Fort Dix and McGuire AFB, adjacent military bases. Shortly afterward, an Air Force security patrol was ordered to the back gate of McGuire AFB to allow entry to New Jersey State Police who were searching for something. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [link](https://nationalufocenter.com/blog/2013/09/30/alien-being-shot-dead-by-mps-january-18-1978-ft-dix-mcguire/) Location: Ft. Dix, NJ Source ID: Maj2_699 Source: Maj2 ### Event 18339 (232DA414) Date: 1/19/1978 Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy files a request with the US State Department for classified UFO documents and includes the date and time information, transmittal numbers, and message serial numbers, but the department replies that it cannot locate the specified information. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 193–194](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/192/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5651 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18340 (12E8E7D3) Date: 1/22/1978 Description: Beginning at 9:30 p.m. a disc-shaped object hovered over the city of Figueira da Foz, Portugal for 30 minutes, radiating red, green, and white lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT database, case # 200 Source ID: Johnson_420 Source: Johnson ### Event 18341 (3B348F31) Date: 1/23/1978 Description: 7:40 p.m. A carpenter is standing on his front porch in Toledo, Ohio, when he notices a stationary saucer- shaped object about 30° above the horizon in the eastern sky. It is lit by the reflection of the city lights and the Moon and is slightly larger than a distant aircraft. It has dark, outlined windows and a small structure on top. The object then moves off rapidly to the south and blinks out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-3-14,” IUR 3, no. 3 \(March 1978\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5652 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18342 (F59BD361) Date: 1/23/1978 Description: At 7:40 p.m. a 48-year-old carpenter named Senecal and one other witnessed a distinct disc-shaped object that hovered over Toledo, Ohio for five minutes. It had windows and a structure on top. It shot away to the south. Total duration of sighting was 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_454 Source: Johnson ### Event 18343 (D9187D29) Date: 1/23/1978 Description: A dark brown hat-shaped object was seen hovering over the beach in Colares, Para State, Brazil at 11:30 p.m. It had two legs that were visible, looked transparent, and had a bottom that reflected a greenish blue light. Its estimated distance was 400 meters, and it was in view for 10 minutes. At 11:53 p.m. a reddish-yellow light flew over Belem, Para, Brazil from north to south at 900 feet altitude. It traveled at a medium speed 1000 meters away, with a trajectory curving to the left. It made no sound, and the duration of the sighting was one minute. On the same day an object was filmed with a Canon Super 8 movie camera in Rio Laranjeira, Para, Brazil using Extachrome film. It looked like a fried egg or a domed disc. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacion Prato, pp. 24 & 45 Source ID: Johnson_453 Source: Johnson ### Event 18344 (16C2AE57) Date: 1/23/1978 Description: On the same day a Mrs. Grusheski had a close encounter with a UFO in Hilltown, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George M. Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 774, citing Doylestown Daily Intelligencer, January 24, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_455 Source: Johnson ### Event 18345 (04474417) Date: 1/24/1978 Description: The Soviet reconnaissance satellite Kosmos 954 reenters the Earth’s atmosphere while traveling on a northeastward track over western Canada. At first the USSR claims that the satellite has been completely destroyed during re-entry, but later searches show debris from the satellite has been deposited on Canadian territory along a 370-mile path from Great Slave Lake to Baker Lake. The effort to recover radioactive material from the satellite is dubbed Operation Morning Light. Covering a total area of 48,000 square miles, the joint Canadian–US team \(consisting of the emergency Nuclear Emergency Support Team\) sweeps the area on foot and by air through October 15. They are ultimately able to recover 12 large pieces of the satellite, 10 of which are radioactive. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Kosmos 954](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%5F954)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 314–316](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/314/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5653 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18346 (746AA38C) Date: 1/24/1978 Description: Between Leicester and Hinckley, England at least 17 people saw a delta-shaped object shortly after 7:00 p.m. It flew low overhead, making no noise. It had steady red, blue, and yellow lights and as it headed south from Leicester it was seen by 12 more witnesses in Hinckley. There was also a sighting earlier that evening of an unusual nocturnal light by a married couple in Patcham, East Sussex, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 18; Awareness, July 1978, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_490 Source: Johnson ### Event 18347 (57E41B8D) Date: 1/24/1978 Description: At least 17 people saw a delta-shaped object that flew low overhead, making no noise. It had steady red, blue, and yellow lights and as it headed south from Leicester it was seen by 12 more witnesses in Hinckley. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leicester and Hinckley (btn), UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4912 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18348 (F89E8F69) Date: 1/26/1978 Description: 12:31 a.m. A policeman in Williamston, North Carolina, watches a round light the size of the full Moon at 60° in the northwest. The light moves quickly toward the south then hovers 10–15 seconds before changing course. A windstorm is in progress and the object is beneath the clouds. Another officer 3 miles away also watches the object for 10–20 seconds before it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-3-19,” IUR 3, no. 3 \(March 1978\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5654 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18349 (BB0C308D) Date: 1/27/1978 Description: Early morning. Four men on the banks of the River Weaver see a silver balloon-shaped object land in a meadow near Frodsham, Cheshire, England. It emits a strong purplish glow that makes it hard to look at. Two entities of normal height emerge. They wear silvery suits and have miners’ lamps on their heads, and these glow purple. Cows on a nearby field seem to become paralyzed, unable to move. Using a metal cage, the entities pen in one cow and seem to measure it. The witnesses become frightened and run from the area, and as they run they feel a strange tingling sensation in their groins. One of the men develops sunburn-like marks on his leg. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, Alien Abductions: The Mystery Solved, Inner Light, 1988, [pp. 66–67](https://archive.org/details/alienabductionsm0000rand/page/66/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5656 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18350 (04169C14) Date: 1/27/1978 Description: 12:00 midnight. A flight instructor is flying his Cessna 172 to Opalocka, Florida, when he sees a formation of six objects with no lights over Key West. Each object is disc-shaped and reflects the moonlight. They are flying in a ragged straight line, approximately equidistant, at 7,000 feet, then disappear in the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-3-24,” IUR 3, no. 3 \(March 1978\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5655 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18351 (AFF6BD37) Date: 1/27/1978 Description: Cheryl DeSanctis sees a blinking red and white light hovering above some trees near Barry Drive in Vineland, New Jersey. She watches it for 5 minutes, then a red ball moves from behind it, descending to just a few feet above the rooftops where its light reflects off the houses. After 10 minutes, the red ball moves to the north and the first light departs to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Vineland Is Beset by UFO Sitings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201978%2004%20-%20no%20105.pdf)” Atlantic City \(N.J.\) Press, February 3, 1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 105 \(April 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5657 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18352 (6BA1EF3B) Date: 1/27/1978 Description: Four men were out in a field by the River Weaver when they sighted a silvery balloon-like object float down along the course of the river and land on the bank. It emitted a strong purplish glow that made it hard to look at. Two figures of normal height emerged. They wore silvery suits and had miner’s lamps on their heads, and these glowed purple. Cows on a nearby field seemed to become paralyzed and unable to move. Using a metal cage, the UFOnauts penned in one cow and seemed to measure it. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fordsham, Cheshire County, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4913 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18353 (EC8F89EC) Date: 1/27/1978 Description: Four men were out pouching early in the morning in a field by the River Weaver in Fordsham, Cheshire County, England when they sighted a silvery balloon-like object float down along the course of the river and land on the bank. It emitted a strong purplish glow that made it hard to look at. Two figures of normal height emerged. They wore silvery suits and had miners lamps on their heads, and these glowed purple. Cows on a nearby field seemed to become paralyzed and unable to move. Using a metal cage, the UFOnauts penned in one cow and seemed to measure it. The witnesses became frightened and ran from the area, and as they ran they felt a strange tingling sensation in their groins. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 519, citing Jenny Randles, Abduction Source ID: Johnson_547 Source: Johnson ### Event 18354 (6DEC6814) Date: 1/28/1978 Description: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics held symposium on Space and UFOs in Los Angeles, CA. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: US Source ID: HallUFOE2_306 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18355 (3AE0B278) Date: 1/31/1978 Description: John C., age 10, and his friends Eddy and Michael H. (8 and 10 years old) were playing on the ice in the playing field of the Montvale Memorial Elementary School in Montvale, New Jersey at 6:15 p.m. It was dark, and the school's floodlights illuminated the field. The boys then noticed a "plane" like object that passed slowly over the field. Moments later a second object arrived, which was described as shaped like a square with large yellow lights in each corner, with a slight dome on top and a red light underneath. The object emitted a red beam of light towards the ground, but stopped short before touching it. They next noticed several humanoid figures moving around the school park, walking stiffly. These figures were of average height and bald headed, and dressed in bright yellow outfits with boots and gloves. One of the beings looked different, because he had a larger head which seemed "creased" down the middle and had on a brown cape over the yellow suit. As the boys watched the figures, they noted an uncanny silence and an unpleasant sulphur like odor in the area. The figures walked away towards the nearby Public Works Garage. The boys then noticed another figure, this one a woman standing in the parking lot. She had medium long brown hair and wore a dark suit with blue fur around her shoulders and when she walked, she did as if in slow motion. She sat down on a low fence then raised her arm very slowly and pointed to the sky, apparently at another hovering square shaped object. The woman then also walked towards the Public Works building and at one point seemed to appear and disappear as a police vehicle drove by near her. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 36 & April 1978, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_640 Source: Johnson ### Event 18356 (0E0567CF) Date: 1/31/1978 Description: 11:00 p.m. Pat Martinelli is outside her home on North Maple Drive in Vineland, New Jersey, when she sees an object silently hovering above the nearby trees. It is a triangle with the point at the back and many red and white lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Vineland Is Beset by UFO Sitings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201978%2004%20-%20no%20105.pdf)” Atlantic City \(N.J.\) Press, February 3, 1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 105 \(April 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5659 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18357 (9A410D2C) Date: 1/31/1978 Description: A round object with two brilliant lights in its center approached a farmhouse and circled the paddock at low altitude. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pawleena, Tasmania Source ID: NICAP_DB_4916 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18358 (37D4AC13) Date: 1/31/1978 End date: 2/1/1978 Description: 6:15 p.m. Four boys are playing on the ice of the Montvale \(N.J.\) Memorial Elementary School playing field. They notice an “airplane” that passes slowly over the field; moments later, another object arrives, shaped like a square with large yellow lights in each corner, with a slight dome on top and a red light underneath. It emits a red beam of light toward the ground but stops short before touching it. They next notice several humanoid figures moving around the school park, walking stiffly. They are about average height and bald-headed, dressed in bright yellow outfits with boots and gloves. One of them looks different, because he has a larger head that seems “creased” down the middle and has on a brown cape over the yellow suit. As the boys watch, they note an uncanny silence and an unpleasant sulfur-like odor. The figures walk away toward the nearby Public Works Garage. The boys then notice another figure, this one a woman standing in the parking lot. She has medium long brown hair and wears a dark suit with blue fur around her shoulders. She walks in slow motion and sits down on a low fence and raises her arm very slowly, pointing to the sky at another hovering square object. The woman then walks toward the Public Works building and at one point seems to appear and disappear as a police vehicle drives by near her. A similar scenario occurs the next evening. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Bloecher, “CE-III Report from Montvale, N.J.: Preliminary Report,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 123 \(February 1978\): 4–7; “A Possible Close Encounter of the Third Kind in New Jersey,” IUR 3, no. 4 \(April 1978\): 3, 7; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-01-31-usa-montvale.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-01-31-usa-montvale.htm) December 6, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_5658 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18359 (9082FAE4) Date: 2/1978 Description: 2:00 a.m. A State Police officer is on foot patrol between Ornontowice and Chudów, Poland, when he notices that his dog is acting strangely. He looks up and sees a black cigar-shaped object with small windows moving above him. He hears a slight humming noise like a vacuum cleaner. It moves off to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 109– 110 Source ID: Eberhart_5660 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18360 (BBF03C7B) Date: 2/1/1978 Description: The witness saw a large silvery disc-shaped object shoot overhead and land behind some nearby trees. Two figures about six feet tall were next seen standing next to the landed UFO. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4917 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18361 (DC9F3744) Date: 2/1/1978 Description: Night. Six teenagers are driving north on Hance Bridge Road in Vineland, New Jersey. They see a series of four large lights low in the sky approaching them. It swerves about 500–600 feet in altitude and a mile distant, and they can see that the object is triangular with a light in each corner. It returns the way it came, so they decide to follow it for 6–7 miles before pulling over and stopping the car. When they turn their headlights off, the object’s lights go out. When they turn the headlights back on, the UFO lights up again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Vineland Is Beset by](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201978%2004%20-%20no%20105.pdf) [UFO Sitings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201978%2004%20-%20no%20105.pdf)” Atlantic City \(N.J.\) Press, February 3, 1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 105 \(April 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5661 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18362 (89ADE968) Date: 2/1/1978 Description: At 10:20 p.m. the witness saw a large silvery disc-shaped object shoot overhead and land behind some nearby trees in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. Two figures about six feet tall were next seen standing next to the landed UFO. Both were human looking wearing silvery suits. The UFO then left the area at very high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 165, citing Nigel Watson, Strange Magazine # 10 Source ID: Johnson_656 Source: Johnson ### Event 18363 (EC27627B) Date: 2/1/1978 Description: NASA Information Sheet claims NASA is not involved in a research program involving UFOs, nor is any other government agency. The U.S. Air Force no longer investigates UFOs. (see NASA arrest laws re. private citizens) Type: information sheet Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p515) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_701 Source: Maj2 ### Event 18364 (F5C0581E) Date: 2/2/1978 Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy supplies the US State Department with more information regarding UFO documents that it knows exist, but are stonewalled for months until they are sent a photocopy of an article in UFO Investigator that includes some of the documents. As [Barry Greenwood](http://www.ufoevidence.org/researchers/detail11.htm) writes, “the only way to get documents released was to have them in the first place so that one could mail them back to the agency as proof that they existed.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 194](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/194/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5662 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18365 (5A4152B4) Date: 2/2/1978 Description: 9:30 p.m. Brian Mosychuk is walking in a neighborhood of Edmonton, Alberta, when he sees a car-sized object with blue lights on front and back approaching from the northwest. It hovers above him making a rumbling sound, then a beam of light shoots toward him. Mosychuk leans back to avoid the beam, but it shines on his feet in the snow. He runs away, and when the looks back the object is flying away to the northeast, leaving behind a red trail. He tells his father, who goes out and finds a round circle in the snow. They call the police, who find a melted hole about 28 inches in diameter. Samples of snow, including some with carbon spots, are taken to CFB Edmonton for a contamionation check. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 191 Source ID: Eberhart_5663 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18366 (365732AE) Date: 2/4/1978 Description: Dog in house responds to hovering object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [780204](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-780204.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Orange, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4919 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18367 (728104CA) Date: 2/4/1978 Description: 3:30–4:00 a.m. A weird humming sound awakens Claire Semaza and her two children in Orange, California. The sound increases in volume until it hurts her ears, and the family dog barks frantically, punctuated by an odd pause for several seconds. Outside, they see an oval or cigar-shaped object not far above the trees about one half-mile away. Below and around it is a layer of gray haze. It begins slowly rising, leaving the haze behind. The object has a bright red light at each end that sends shafts of light toward the ground. Several bluish-white lights are visible between the two red ones. It rises higher, flashes a brilliant white light on and off for 3 seconds, then quickly disappears. Meanwhile, the dog has been taking her 7 puppies one by one and hiding them behind the drapes on the second floor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Idabel Epperson, “Canine Mother Hides Puppies from UFO,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 122 \(January 1978\): 7; “Unusual Animal Reaction in California NL Case,” IUR 3, no. 4 \(April 1978\): insert Source ID: Eberhart_5664 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18368 (D5C74501) Date: 2/5/1978 Description: Thirty miles east of Baladonia, Western Australia a 30-year-old truck driver was paced by a UFO on the Eyre Highway at around one o'clock in the morning. At some point during the incident, a brightly lighted object passed him, and then a small dull light pursued him for 30 minutes, retreating only when other traffic approached. He then had three hours of lost memory. The only memory he had was of a fragmentary recollection of some conversation with an entity about an invention. At sometime after four a.m. he found himself a few miles outside the town, with most of his clothing scattered about the truck cab. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1980, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_706 Source: Johnson ### Event 18369 (26C9F2E8) Date: 2/5/1978 Description: Thirty-year-old Julio Fernandez and his English Pointer dog Mus were driving in his car to do some early morning hunting for hares. They were driving towards Soria province, Spain. At about 4:30 a.m. Julio stopped to drink coffee and anis at a wayside bar known as the Hostal 113, beside the highway on the outskirts of Algora. At 5:45 a.m. Julio left the bar and drove on, half an hour later passing Medicaneli. Suddenly he "knew" that he had to be at a certain location 15 km further on, and put his foot down on the accelerator. At this point his conscious recollection stopped.

Later under hypnotic regression Julio remembered driving his car when for no accountable reason he suddenly braked. From this point on the car seemed to act of its own accord, reversing, and then coming to a halt after having entered a narrow dirt trail backwards. Then the engine stopped, the lights went out, and the radio cassette player ceased to work. It was as though the electrical current had been completely severed, because the new battery no longer charged and the plugs no longer sparked properly.

Mus started growling, so as a precaution Julio took his Winchester single barrel, semi-automatic shotgun out of the trunk and loaded it with its maximum of five carriages. It was then that he caught sight of two somehat human looking beings coming down the road. They halted only one and a half meters from him. They wore seamless one-piece pastel green coveralls that reached to the feet and gave off a very faint luminosity. Their uniforms had no zippers nor openings and gathered at the waists. The suits were sufficiently tight fitting for their muscles to show. They wore pale yellow cowls or hoods, leaving only the face uncovered.

The men were about two meters tall and had extremely broad shoulders, with powerful dorsal muscles showing prominently, narrow waists, and they seemed unusually athletic. Among features that set them apart from ordinary human beings were the exceptionally long arms and hands, large crania and very large eyes. Julio felt a sense of peace and calm envelop him. When they addressed him he at first thought they were using speech, but later realized that their lips did not move, so he assumed they communicated telepathically with him.

They asked him to calm down and to follow them. Julio obeyed, taking along his dog and the gun. Julio was then led to a huge mushroom-shaped craft that had been concealed behind two hills in the bottom of a small valley, though hovering four meters above the ground. It was shaped like an inverted soup plate, had a matt, silvery metallic color, and appeared to have a diameter of about 60 or 70 meters and a height of some 15 to 20 meters.

Arriving underneath the central area of the craft, Julio noticed its had a completely smooth surface, as though molded in one piece, with no rivets or fittings. At this point he became aware of a powerful odor of pine, or possibly ozone, a smell also detectable on board. Julio's gun and knife levitated upwards into the craft. A smooth metallic cylinder then emerged silently from the center of the disc, stopping just above the ground. It was about four meters in height and 2.5 meters in diameter. A door, sliding upwards, opened in the descended cylinder's wall, revealing a small compartment lit by a strange white light coming from everywhere that Julio found disturbing.

By now frightened, he hesitated before stepping through the door into the shaft. The dog refused to follow him so Julio had to drag him in. What was now an interior elevator rose silently, stopping at an entrance to a corridor, where they alighted. Further along was another corridor, with two metallic doors, about 2.5 meters high. The whole appearance of the place was the most clinically aseptic. The walls were continuous with the ceiling, being joined by a gentle curve. Continuing along the circular passage, he came to a small ladder. The ladder looked like the steps of a swimming pool, with a very shiny finish and a cylindrical handrail. One of the beings led the way up, scaling the steps in two jumps with phenomenal agility. With some difficulty Julio followed, carrying the dog under his right arm and with the gun over his shoulder. He noticed the railing felt cold. At the top of the ladder was another individual who assured Julio that he had nothing to worry about. The "flight deck" was about 15 meters wide and five meters high. In the center stood a kind of console. It had some resemblance to an electronic organ. It was about 2.5 meters wide and had set metal footings with a transparent screen. The control table itself stood upon a circular platform. Elsewhere stood three smaller consoles set around the circumference of the room, in front of which were high conical seats. Also set close to the surrounding wall was a large square lead gray panel and a metallic rectangular table.

Set around the dome at intervals of about one and a half meters were rectangular windows made out of something like smoked glass. Meanwhile, his dog Mus had been around the flight deck, sniffing at everything, including at least one of the aliens, who reacted in a surprised manner. When Julio called out to his dog, the sound of its name evoked surprise among the entities. On asking where his hosts originated, Julio received an unintelligible mental response, including the expression "three seven, squared."

The aliens indicated that they would like to examine his dog and take blood samples from him. Mus was carried to a rectangular table and blood from his paw was extracted using a fairly normal looking syringe. The men then communicated to Julio that they wanted to examine him and placed him behind the screen on the rectangular table. After a few minutes he was given to understand that was all to be required of him. But in subsequent recollections---which proved harder to recover and which clearly he found disturbing---Julio said that numerous samples had been extracted from him, including blood, semen, urine, spinal fluid, saliva, and gastric juices. He believed that two women, similar facially to the men, were also onboard at the time. Julio was ordered to sit on one of the seats at the central console. Next to Julio sat one of the crewmembers who raised the left armrest and nimbly fingered several silvery buttons. The seat began to revolve along a track in the central console. Julio continued to sit beside the crewmember, his dog and gun at his side. Suddenly, a brief, piercing whistle was heard, producing a slight commotion on the flight deck.

The tallest of the three crew members quickly headed toward one of the consoles and all three studied the remote viewing screens in front of them. An image appeared of an older looking man. The crew members began talking among themselves. The man on the screen seemed to be a superior and spoke first, and then the others conversed with him. The language sounded harsh to Julio, he described it as sounding like a mixture between German and Korean. They seemed to spit out the words as they were talking, and some of the sounds were like coughs. The image disappeared from the viewing screen and Julio found himself back in telepathic communication with his hosts. Hectic activity ensued; as crewmembers started desperately pushing buttons. The central platform began to rotate in a counterclockwise direction, halting when the control console came in line with what Julio assumed was a "computer." Another whistling sound could be heard, from which point Julio seems to have passed out. After another whistle Julio was awake again. The crewmembers showed interest in Julio's gun and, passing it around among themselves, asked him about its use. A heavy smoker, Julio lit a cigarette. The men asked if they might take one away for study and deposited it into the same cylinder. Soon Julio was escorted to the lift cylinder, the metal door rose and he was back outside, in bright sunlight.

He staggered back to his car, where his dog awaited him, having run ahead. The car engine now worked, and he drove away without bothering to look back at the disc. Among the information imparted telepathically to Julio by the UFOnauts was that other, shorter beings were coming here who employed less ethical methods. These others, it was explained, "are engaged in probing and programming" the minds of those humans whom they have contacted or kidnapped. Julio Fernandez was killed in a car crash in 1992, coincidentally near the site where he claimed to have been abducted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1979, p. 15, citing Cronica, May 22, 1979; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1918; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions The Measure of a Mystery, case 143, citing FSR, February 1985, p. 4; Timothy Good, Unearthly Disclosure, pp. 126-139 Source ID: Johnson_707 Source: Johnson ### Event 18370 (AA47C767) Date: 2/5/1978 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a corporate pilot flying northwest of Klamath Falls, Oregon had a close encounter with a V-formation of ten bright orange-white lights which paced his plane, climbed rapidly, then sped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 124 Source ID: Johnson_708 Source: Johnson ### Event 18371 (F6433B5A) Date: 2/5/1978 Description: 6:00 p.m. Two Bradley University security guards in Peoria, Illinois, are making their rounds when their car lights up. An intensely bright object is ahead of them and about 45° up in the east. They drive another two blocks to an open areas and get out of the car to watch two objects, the larger of which is as big as the full Moon. They are both changing colors from green to red to white. The smaller one abruptly disappears as the larger object is flying loops, dropping down behind the houses, moving back up, and maneuvering abruptly. They discuss the UFOs with some passing students. The object remains visible for at least 45 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-3-62,” IUR 3, no. 3 \(March 1978\): insert Source ID: Eberhart_5665 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18372 (1318B06C) Date: 2/7/1978 Description: The International UFO Reporter reported that a 23-year old police officer named Linnevold was fired from his job for chasing a UFO during a sighting that occurred on this night shortly after 1:00 a.m. in Calmar, Iowa. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, July 1978, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_740 Source: Johnson ### Event 18373 (B47DF747) Date: 2/9/1978 Description: Residents saw a boomerang or triangular object hovering near their homes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saline, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4920 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18374 (E6FCBD5E) Date: 2/9/1978 Description: A carbon copy of an apparent USAF incident report is received at the office of the National Enquirer in Lantana, Florida. Accompanying the document is an unsigned letter dated January 29 and “revealing” the Ellsworth AFB incident of November 16, 1977. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Pratt, “[The Truth about the ‘Ellsworth Case,’](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1984-1-january)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 191 \(January 1984\): 6–9; Clark III 358 Source ID: Eberhart_5666 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18375 (9B986BDF) Date: 2/9/1978 Description: At around two o'clock at night residents of Saline, Michigan saw a boomerang or triangular object hovering near their homes. Mr. & Mrs. Sibson as well as an Air Force mechanic reported their sightings to the Center for UFO Studies. According to them it made a slight humming noise, and was the size of three 747's with a "great intensity of light coming from the center fuselage area." It flew off toward the west slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS files, letter dated February 17, 1978; Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_778 Source: Johnson ### Event 18376 (83BEAA31) Date: 2/10/1978 Description: WJR-AM radio personality Marc Avery is on his way to the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on I-275 when he and his wife see two lights hovering above their car for 30–50 seconds. He calls the radio station and speaks on air, asking if anyone else has seen the lights. Two men in the area of Merriman Road and Michigan Avenue in Wayne, Michigan, call in to say that 5 minutes earlier they had seen a large UFO traveling east to west at treetop level. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Forty Years Ago This Weekend, a WJR Radio Personality May Have Encountered a UFO,](https://www.michiganradio.org/arts-culture/2018-02-09/forty-years-ago-this-weekend-a-wjr-radio-personality-may-have-encountered-a-ufo)” Michigan Radio, February 9, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_5667 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18377 (6E22723D) Date: 2/12/1978 Description: At 6:00 a.m. two large cigar-shaped object hovered in a vertical position over Courbevoie, Hauts-Seine department, France. One tilted and flew off to the southwest as the sun was rising; the second soon followed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13050; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 217 Source ID: Johnson_876 Source: Johnson ### Event 18378 (E52ED198) Date: 2/12/1978 Description: 11:00 p.m. David Mace and his wife are driving on Tennant Way approaching Lake Sacajawea in Longview, Washington, when they see an orange triangle with a hole in it silently hovering above the lake near Washington Way. They watch it for 15 seconds before it takes off to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Couple Reports UFO above Lake](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201978%2003%20-%20no%20104.pdf) [Sacajawea,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201978%2003%20-%20no%20104.pdf)” Longview \(Wash.\) News, February 13, 1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 104 \(March 1978\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5668 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18379 (39DA0F65) Date: 2/13/1978 Description: On this night two young men, LaMazon and Martinez, were driving on National Highway 11 near San Justo, Santa Fe province, Argentina when a strong white light approached their vehicle and the car stopped immediately. A tall being dressed in black approached, stopped three meters away, turned around, then walked back into the light. No traces or footprints could be found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thompson, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1978, p. 16, citing Cronica, February 15, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_902 Source: Johnson ### Event 18380 (6B6FDAC3) Date: 2/15/1978 Description: Late at night, a 15-year-old teenage girl woke up in her bed in her home near Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She saw an intense light emanating from outside her bedroom window and was unable to move. However, she was able to see out the window and saw a luminous dome-shaped object hovering very close to the ground in the garden. It was completely motionless, and had pulsating multi-colored lights on its top. Suddenly she heard a voice inside her head that said: "We will pick you up and you will join us." Terrified, she answered in her mind: "No, I will not come with you because I am materialistic and very attached to the banal joys of life. You are advanced spiritually and extremely distant from my concerns. Leave me, spirituality does not interest me". After about an hour of what felt like constant mental struggle her paralysis subsided and she was finally able to move. The dome-shaped machine then slowly rose up from the garden. Terrified, she ran for her parents, who saw the slowly ascending object leave, emitting multicolored flashes of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Jimmy Guieu, Our Masters the Extraterrestrial Ones Source ID: Johnson_928 Source: Johnson ### Event 18381 (5A5C4405) Date: 2/17/1978 Description: Three school teachers, Mr. Moreno, Mr. Aguilar and Mr. Coronado were on their way back to the town of Cocula, Mexico from a late dinner, when around 2:00 a.m. they noticed bright flashes of green, red and white light coming from a nearby hill. They stopped their vehicle and got out to get a better look. They walked towards the lights, which appeared to be about 300 meters away. The light seemed to dim the closer they got to it. When they were about 20 meters from it, they noticed that it was now an opaque egg-shaped object, about 15 meters in length. It appeared to have three antenna-like protrusions on top. The UFO now gave off a fluorescent white glow. Curious, the three men continued to approach even closer, and began to surround it. Suddenly, one of the men noticed something moving very close to him and signaled the other two. All three of them then saw a short "robot like" humanoid in a freshly dug ditch, and it appeared to be still digging. The being was wearing a tight fitting silvery outfit with a round helmet. The little man simply ignored the trio and kept digging. Frightened all three men ran across the field, got back into their vehicle, and drove away at high speed. The next day they returned to the site and found numerous ground traces, including the ditch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 3507, citing J. J. Benitez, El Arbol y La Serpiente Source ID: Johnson_968 Source: Johnson ### Event 18382 (BDF4ECA8) Date: 2/19/1978 Description: At 10:15 p.m. a Mrs. Moon of Tucson, Arizona witnessed two plain coin-shaped discs that flew silently to the north from over housetops to the hills. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1978, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_1005 Source: Johnson ### Event 18383 (BA14E246) Date: 2/19/1978 Description: 1:20 p.m. Radar operators on two separate systems in Minnesota track a large, solid object, which starts ascending rapidly as soon as one operator switches his system to manual. It seems to take evasive action by stopping, starting, and descending. The operator tracks it traveling about one mile in one second \(3,600 mph\) and moves vertically “instantaneously.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, March 1983 Source ID: Eberhart_5669 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18384 (138525E7) Date: 2/19/1978 Description: The television series Project U.F.O. debuts in the US on NBC-TV. Running for two seasons of 13 episodes each, the show is based loosely on the real-life Project Blue Book. The show is created by [Jack Webb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%5FWebb), who pores through Air Force files looking for episode ideas. The first season stars [William Jordan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJordan%5F%28actor%29) as Maj. Jake Gatlin alongside [William Caskey Swaim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FCaskey%5FSwaim) as Staff Sgt. Harry Fitz. Former USAF Col. [William T. Coleman](http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1243564/pg1) is a producer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project U.F.O.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FU.F.O)”; Internet Movie Database, “[Project U.F.O.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077065/)” Source ID: Eberhart_5670 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18385 (29CDADC9) Date: 2/19/1978 Description: Six witnesses in Louhans, Saône-et-Loire, France reported seening a dark disc-shaped object that ascended from a field behind a house. It had portholes around its perimeter, and made a noise on takeoff. The incident lasted several hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1978 Source ID: Johnson_1004 Source: Johnson ### Event 18386 (F7D993FF) Date: 2/22/1978 Description: 9:40 p.m. Brian Metcalfe, an FAA air traffic controller, is driving northeast on Interstate 80, approaching Newcastle, California. Seeing two intense lights moving slowly in the sky, he pulls over and gets out to look. The only sound he can hear is a low hum. The object moves southwest along the freeway at about 30–40 mph at an altitude of 2,000–3,000 feet. He notices it is delta-shaped. Other witnesses in the area also see the object over Auburn, California, just before 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[More Reports Confirm Sighting Strange Craft in Placer Area,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201978%2004%20-%20no%20105.pdf)” Auburn \(Calif.\) Journal, March 1, 1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 105 \(April 1978\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5671 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18387 (3DD5E2A2) Date: 2/23/1978 Description: Mr. & Mrs. Morello were sitting in their car in Sesto Fiorentino, Toscana, Italy listening to their car's stereo when they began getting heavy interference on the radio. Mr. Morello got out of the car to investigate and found himself engulfed in a warm, violet cloud of light. He saw four humanoid "shapes" and other lights around him. He got back into his car where he found his wife crying. They had a twenty minute lapse of missing time they couldn't account for. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2162, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #207; Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October/November 1991 Source ID: Johnson_1068 Source: Johnson ### Event 18388 (F3673DF4) Date: 2/23/1978 Description: Mr. & Mrs. Morello were sitting in their car listening to their car's stereo when they began getting heavy interference on the radio. Mr. Morello got out of the car to investigate and found himself engulfed in a warm, violet cloud of light. He saw four humanoid "shapes" and other lights around him. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sesto Fiorentino, Toscana, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4921 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18389 (9B18EC9B) Date: 2/23/1978 Description: 11:45 p.m. A couple hears interference on their car radio in Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy. When the man gets out to investigate, a warm, violet light envelops him. He sees four shapes and lights all around. After walking around the car, he goes back inside and finds his girlfriend crying. Twenty minutes of missing time has passed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 \(July/Aug.1989\): 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_5672 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18390 (B786CFBB) Date: 2/28/1978 Description: [Stanton Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) has discovered retired Maj. [Jesse A. Marcel](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/jessemarcel.htm) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and interviews him about the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, incident. Marcel says the debris was like nothing on earth. Friedman has also interviewed [Lydia Sleppy](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2008/05/lydia-sleppy-1973-interview.html), who worked at Albuquerque radio station KOAT and remembers the military intervention on the story. [William L. Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) and Friedman compare notes from two separate interviews Friedman has conducted about the crash. By 1980, Friedman and Bill Moore have interviewed at least 62 witnesses to the Roswell incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore, [The Roswell Incident](https://archive.org/details/roswellincident00berl), Grosset & Dunlap, 1980; Kevin D. Randle and Anthony Bragalia, “Two Roswell Witnesses, Reconsidered,” IUR 32, no. 3 \(July 2009\): 6–8, 24; Clark III 320 Source ID: Eberhart_5673 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18391 (DCE3CB26) Date: 3/1978 Description: David and several soldiers were out on a routine patrol. While resting David was putting on his backpack when he noticed a flash of light from an object just above the trees. The object was metallic and elliptical in shaped, was hovering 300' away and was completely silent. Then it shot away at an incredible speed without a sound. Years later, David had started having flashbacks of what really happened. He remembers putting on his backpack when a dwarf-like creature in a cloak and hood approached him. He said the creature would take him into the forest where he would be given something. He was led away from the rest of the group, who did not react at all to what was going on. He was taken to a clearing in the woods where a ship had landed. Type: abduction Reference: [Website: "The Night Sky II", Article: Soldier Meets His Doppelgänger](https://www.thenightskyii.org/david.html) Location: Near Bulawayo Zimbabwe Source ID: Maj2_903 Source: Maj2 ### Event 18392 (086D3686) Date: 3/1978 Description: Widespread UFO sightings, including formations and disc-shaped objects with windows (section VIII). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Many Locations, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4924 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18393 (4C9E181B) Date: 3/1978 Description: Widespread UFO sightings, including formations and disc-shaped objects with windows Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Minnesota Source ID: HallUFOE2_307 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18394 (134A4228) Date: 3/1/1978 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with a dome flew toward the east, then turned toward the northeast as it flew through the sky in Sterling Heights, Michigan at 9 p.m. It had colored portholes that flashed light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1978 Source ID: Johnson_1220 Source: Johnson ### Event 18395 (B8314C3D) Date: 3/1/1978 Description: There were also multiple reports of nocturnal lights and close encounters from several independent witnesses in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on this night, between 9:20 and 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS files; Pittsburgh (PA) Post-Gazette, March 4, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_1221 Source: Johnson ### Event 18396 (90AAE15D) Date: 3/1/1978 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a man named Folger in McKinney, Kentucky had a close encounter with round gray object with a square top and a window. The UFO hovered at just 200 feet altitude, and had colored lights. It shot away fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stanford (KY) Interior Journal, March 2, 1978; UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 106 Source ID: Johnson_1219 Source: Johnson ### Event 18397 (1529B860) Date: 3/2/1978 Description: In the city of Gisborne, New Zealand at 5:55 a.m. a man sighted a cigar-shaped UFO with a dome on top. At eight p.m. that evening in Pelotas, Brazil in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Jose Alvaro, age 20, was abducted aboard a UFO and had a forced sexual encounter with a tall female UFO crew member. As in the famous Antonio Villas Boas abduction, he was rubbed down with a sponge and an apparent disinfectant liquid before sex. The woman was described as a tall, human-like female with protuberant eyes, who made groaning noises during sex. He described the UFO as spherical and blue in color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Xenolog, March 1978, p. 19; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case no. 129 Source ID: Johnson_1258 Source: Johnson ### Event 18398 (638B0884) Date: 3/9/1978 Description: Pilot Luciano Ascione is flying northbound at 2,600 feet 75 miles away from Vicenza, Italy, when a green, rocket-shaped object appears on his right about 1 mile away. Other planes in the area report a green flash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 92–93](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/92/mode/2up); 1Pinotti 214–215 Source ID: Eberhart_5674 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18399 (24C7C66B) Date: 3/10/1978 Description: At 10:10 p.m. a round object with glowing blue and red lights was seen by several witnesses in Sylva, North Carolina. It made a humming sound, gave off beeps and flew in circles at a low altitude. It finally flew off at high speed after three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sylva (North Carolina) Herald, March 16, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_1412 Source: Johnson ### Event 18400 (AFA9D456) Date: 3/10/1978 Description: A round object with glowing blue and red lights was seen by several witnesses. It made a humming sound, gave off beeps and flew in circles at a low altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sylva, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4926 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18401 (BC09A127) Date: 3/10/1978 Description: 7:30 PM (IUR,3,12) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4925 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18402 (2638929C) Date: 3/11/1978 Description: Sometime around 11 p.m. three people were camping on the site of a Maori burial ground in the Waimata Valley, New Zealand when one of them awoke suddenly and saw a being looking at them. Her memory went blank at this point, but she does recall that at 4:00 a.m. the next morning all three of them woke up and left the area. Under hypnosis, she recalled that she and one of her companions were drawn onboard a luminous domed disc-shaped craft by a beam of light. A humanoid being of medium built, who wore a pair of silvery calf-length boots, met them inside. He communicated with her by telepathy and warned them to keep silent about the experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Xenolog, September 1978, p. 14; APRO Bulletin, February 1982, p. 3; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 50 Source ID: Johnson_1426 Source: Johnson ### Event 18403 (7FC380DC) Date: 3/11/1978 Description: 10:40 p.m. Four witnesses in the Waimata Valley, New Zealand, watch a red and green object shaped like a top hat. Two of them approach in their car to about 100 feet, but the object shuts off all its lights and disappears. The same object reappears twice more the same evening. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gisborne \(N.Z.\) Herald, March 16, 1978; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 5 \(May 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5676 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18404 (2B7D77D4) Date: 3/11/1978 Description: Sundown. Two men from L’Île-Perrot, Quebec, are camping near the shore of Reservoir Baskatong when they see a comet-like, bright blue object leaving a fiery trail plummeting toward the surface of the lake. It disappears behind trees, and the men jump up, grab their cameras, and run to the lake. The object is hovering silently above the surface, where it remains stationary for 30 seconds before moving to the other side of the lake. One of them starts snapping photos, but after 5 seconds the object rises swiftly and disappears like a flash into the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Said Photographed,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97216889/)” Tampa \(Fla.\) Times, March 13, 1978, p. 1; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 4 \(April 1978\): 2; Wido Hoville and Don Donderi, “[RR2 au Lac Baskatong,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/UFO%20Quebec/UFO%20Quebec%20-%20No%2016%20-%204e%20trim%201978.pdf)” UFO-Quebec, no. 16 \(December 1978\): 8–10, 15–22; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 4–9 Source ID: Eberhart_5675 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18405 (35A73774) Date: 3/12/1978 Description: Early morning. A mill worker at Kawerau, New Zealand, is driving back to Gisborne when a brilliant orange light illuminates the interior of his car. He sees a large oval object floating alongside about 50 feet away. He thinks it is as large as a five-story building and has thousands of small lights on the sides. Slowly it rises to 300– 400 feet and floats away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gisborne \(N.Z.\) Herald, March 16, 1978; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, np. 5 \(May 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5677 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18406 (41482E4E) Date: 3/14/1978 Description: A luminous dumb bell-shaped UFO hovered over two witnesses driving in Saint Paul, Vosges, France at 7:15 p.m. It rose to enter the clouds, and then left quickly to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1978; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13090 Source ID: Johnson_1496 Source: Johnson ### Event 18407 (098F5B93) Date: 3/16/1978 Description: 9:00 p.m. Mayor [Mark M. Millis](https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sanluisobispo/name/mark-millis-obituary?id=7098016) of Arroyo Grande, California, and Mayor [Al Dutra](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75961877/alfred-carl-dutra) of Grover City are leaving a meeting at Arroyo Grande City Hall when they see a triangular-shaped lighted object the size of a Boeing 747 moving slowly to the southwest about one mile in the air. Capt. Antony Wood of the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Department also sees the object at Oceano, and other witnesses as far north as Morro Bay report the UFO, which has two bright lights in front and smaller ones in the back. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mayors, Police, Others See UFO in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99089489/) [South County,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99089489/)” Santa Maria \(Calif.\) Times, March 17, 1978, p. 12 Source ID: Eberhart_5678 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18408 (FADD9B1E) Date: 3/17/1978 Description: 11:30 p.m. Service engineer Ken Edwards is driving back from a union meeting in Sale, Greater Manchester, England, on Daten Avenue, Risley, past the UK Atomic Energy Authority site. As he is approaching the roundabout near the Universities Research Reactor building and the UKAEA fire station, he notices a 7-foot-tall silver figure coming down a steep embankment to his left. Stopping his van, Edwards watches the figure descend with an unnatural stiff-legged gait. The figure walks across the road only 15 feet from him. As he passes Edwards, the figure looks at him and two beams of light shoot from its eyes and dazzle him. It continues walking toward the security fence surrounding the UKAEA site. The figure raises an arm \(one of two that seem to come out of its chest\) and walks through the 10-foot-tall, barbed wire-topped, chain link fence, disappearing into the darkness. He later drives to the Pudgate police station to report the sighting. Police accompany him to the site where they find a group of UKAEA constabulary officers gathered at the spot, but since there is no hole in the fence, they discount his story. However, years later investigator Glen Vaudrey discovers that the tall figure was a 6 foot, 5 inch fireman dressed in a high-temperature fire suit who was trying to scare some students in an isolation building across the road. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Man on the Moss,” Fortean Times 305 \(October 2013\): 29; Glen Vaudrey, “Atom Age Alien? Solving the Mystery of the Risley Silver Man,” Fortean Times 397 \(October 2020\): 36–41; Jenny Randles, “Silvery Ships from the Stars,” Fortean Times 403 \(March 2021\): 30–31 Source ID: Eberhart_5679 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18409 (66464FEE) Date: 3/18/1978 Description: William J. Herrmann abduction case Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Summerville, SC Source ID: HallUFOE2_308 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18410 (F3F156AB) Date: 3/18/1978 Description: On the evening of this date an auto mechanic observing a UFO through binoculars in North Charleston, South Carolina was rendered unconscious and levitated by a tubular, aquamarine beam of light. Amnesia followed and he found himself alone in a field miles away from where he had encountered the disc-shaped UFO. Through hypnosis he recalled an abduction sequence by four-and-a-half-foot tall beings with spongy white skin, big eyes and head, that wore rust colored jump suits. Among the features of the abduction included a physical exam on a table inside the UFO, being given messages and an artifact. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 294 Source ID: Johnson_1557 Source: Johnson ### Event 18411 (F87FC71F) Date: 3/18/1978 Description: William J. Herrmann abduction case (section XIII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Summerville, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4927 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18412 (50CE44AB) Date: 3/18/1978 Description: Around 4:00 p.m. Leo Giampietro and his wife are driving 15 miles west of Palm Springs, California. He pulls over when he sees a brown-colored domed disc the size of a distant aircraft moving in a straight path over the mountains in the southwest. It hovers for a few seconds and he can hear a humming sound. He manages to snap tree photos. The noise stops and the object shoots straight up and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-5-18,” IUR 3, no. 5 \(May 1978\): 3; “Case Update,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5680 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18413 (6635F50F) Date: 3/18/1978 Description: 9:15 p.m. [William J. Hermann](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hermann-william-j) is out looking for UFOs near Charleston, South Carolina, when he sees apparently the same UFO he has photographed frequently before. He starts running toward it when it suddenly swoops toward him and directs a paralyzing blue-white beam at him. Hermann loses consciousness. When he wakes up again, it is 12:05 a.m. and he is in a field in Summerville, 15 miles from his home. He sees the UFO departing in its characteristic zigzag pattern. He calls the police, who drive him home. The next few nights he suffers from nervousness, headaches, and insomnia. Not long afterward, he is hypnotized by [James A. Harder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder) an engineering professor affiliated with APRO. He recalls an abduction/contact experience on board a spacecraft with beings from Zeta Reticuli. The leader tells him that if mankind persists in its warlike ways, civilization will be destroyed. Hermann continues to experience contacts and he begins to channel alien writings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wendelle C. Stevens and William J. Hermann, UFO Contact from Reticulum, Wendelle C. Stevens, 1981; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-03-18-usa-summerville.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-03-18-usa-summerville.htm) April 18, 2012; Clark III 570–571 Source ID: Eberhart_5681 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18414 (7F034541) Date: 3/22/1978 Description: 11:00 p.m. Gary Oickle, David Oickle, and two friends are sitting around a campfire in Patapsco Valley State Park, Maryland, near the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tunnel. They see a strange object in the southeastern sky that moves around for 10 minutes before it disappears behind a ridge. Another object soon appears over their campsite from behind a ridge to the north; this time it is a triangular shape about 150–200 feet on each side with large windows, three white lights at each corner, and a red light on top. Three of the witnesses think they see the silhouette of a figure in the windows. It moves very slowly, hovering at times, to the southeast. Another star-like object appears in the south after the triangle moves away. It changes colors repeatedly from blue to green to yellow to red. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joe and Doris Graziano, “[Object over State Park,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201978%2004%2000%20-%20Vol%2026%20No%2010.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 10 \(April 1978\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_5683 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18415 (01A62957) Date: 3/22/1978 Description: 7:00 and 8:45 p.m. Two waves of UFO sightings are reported over a wide area between Cumberland, Wisconsin, and Newport, Minnesota. UFO investigator Robert E. Engberg traces the first wave beginning around Chisago City, Minnesota, and moving east between Dresser and St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. The second wave originates near Cumberland and follows an 85-mile course to St. Paul, Minnesota. Witnesses see formations of red lights, single round objects with red body lights, and orange globes in straight-line and oblique formations. Some disc-shaped objects are also reported with rows of body lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Valley UFO Sightings of March 22, 1978,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201979%2006%20-%20no%20119.pdf) [Described,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201979%2006%20-%20no%20119.pdf)” Taylors Falls \(Minn.\) The Dalles Visitor, May 1979, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 119, pp. 7– 9; “A Mini-Flap in Minnesota: UFO or Helicopters?” IUR 3, no. 5 \(May 1978\): insert Source ID: Eberhart_5682 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18416 (39AC39C0) Date: 3/24/1978 Description: Just after 12:00 noon. Luis Carlos Serra, 16, is picking guava in the forest just west of Penalva, Maranhão, Brazil, when he hears a sharp noise like a car horn. He looks up and sees a bright white light about 20 inches wide high above the palm trees. Suddenly he falls flat on his back, paralyzed. After a short time, he starts rising in the air toward a round UFO with four balls on the bottom, a dome on top, and three windows. He floats through one of the windows head-first. Inside he drops to the floor, still paralyzed, and sees three entities about 3 feet high and wearing “diving suits.” He is taken somewhere with no trees and tall grass and subjected to an examination. Soon he loses consciousness and wakes up three days later in a scrub forest. A nearby fisherman, José Ribamar dos Santos, hears his cry, finds and recognizes him, and takes him back to town. Serra is examined in the hospital by Dr. Linda Macieira, who finds that he has four teeth missing and is completely bald with his hair burned off. He has a general loss of motor control and a lack of sensitivity to pain. He does not eat, so he is fed intravenously for the 7 days he is hospitalized. On March 30 he is transferred to the Serme Hospital in São Luis, where 6 doctors examine him, including neurologist [Antônio Saldanha](https://www.doctoralia.com.br/antonio-de-padua-saldanha/neurologista/sao-luis)[,](https://www.doctoralia.com.br/antonio-de-padua-saldanha/neurologista/sao-luis) who finds that Serra still cannot speak and is generally unresponsive and in shock. Two psychiatrists, Renato Barcelar and Barcelar Viana, examine him after he recovers his ability to speak a few days later. He repeats his story without variation every time. He is discharged on April 7. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 899–901; “[Caso Luis Carlos Serra,](https://ufologiagja.blogspot.com/2014/04/caso-luis-carlos-serra.html)” Galáxia Mundo GAEMU, April 2014; Brazil 251–255 Source ID: Eberhart_5685 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18417 (BC3DDC73) Date: 3/24/1978 Description: In one case documented by New Mexico police and the FBI, an 11-month-old cross Hereford-Charolais bull, belonging to Manuel Gomez of Dulce, New Mexico, is found mutilated. It displays “classic” mutilation signs, including the removal of the rectum and sex organs with what appears to be “a sharp and precise instrument,” and its internal organs are found to be inconsistent with a normal case of death followed by predation. The animal’s heart, as well as bone and muscle samples, are sent to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for microscopic and bacteriological studies, while samples from the animal’s liver are sent to two separate private laboratories. Los Alamos detects the presence of naturally occurring Clostridium bacteria in the heart but is unable to reach any conclusions because of the possibility that the bacteria represent postmortem contamination. They do not directly investigate the heart’s unusual color or texture. Samples from the animal’s liver are found to be completely devoid of copper and to contain 4 times the normal level of zinc, potassium, and phosphorus. The scientists performing the analysis are unable to explain these anomalies. Blood samples taken at the scene are reported to be “light pink in color” and “did not clot after several days” while the animal’s hide is found to be unusually brittle for a fresh death \(the animal was estimated to have been dead for 5 hours\) and the flesh underneath is found to be discolored. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cattle mutilation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle%5Fmutilation\#Laboratory%5Freports)”; Amanda Push, “[Underground Aliens and Cattle Mutilations: Dulce,](https://dgomag.com/contents/3710) [New Mexico, Has Long Been the Site of Strange Activity and Conspiracy Theories,](https://dgomag.com/contents/3710)” DGO, February 26, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_5684 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18418 (FBDF9D78) Date: 3/24/1978 Description: On this day a 16-year-old boy had gone out into the woods near Penalva, Maranhao, Brazil and disappeared, and a search party failed to locate him. Eighty-one hours later a fisherman heard a shout for help and found the boy standing in a forested area, dazed and unable to stand up. He was taken to a local hospital where he was found incoherent and bleeding from the head where some of his hair was missing. Four of his teeth were also missing. He also seemed to be paralyzed. After three days later in the hospital he was able to talk about what had happened to him. He said he had been gathering guava fruit outside a wooded area when he heard a loud siren like sound. He looked up and saw a bright light coming from above the trees. He then fell down to the ground unable to move, and was then levitated up into a hovering flying object that had three spheres on the bottom. He entered the object through a window and fell softly on the floor. Inside the craft he encountered three short beings that wore uniforms with helmets and visors, and spoke in a loud, incomprehensible language. The boy was then taken on a journey to a strange land with no trees, no lakes, and no birds, and a darkness above him. He could only see a field with tall grass. He was then floated onto a stone table where he was examined. He felt liquid going down his throat and he passed out. His next memory was that of coming to in the hospital. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 109; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 540, citing Bob Pratt, in Timothy Good (editor), The UFO Report 1991 Source ID: Johnson_1642 Source: Johnson ### Event 18419 (8E01FC11) Date: 3/27/1978 Description: Astronaut [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FCooper) appears on the Merv Griffin Show and discusses UFO stories from government insiders. [Merv Griffin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv%5FGriffin) asks him about occupant reports, and Cooper thinks they are credible. From what he has heard \(although he has never been briefed on the matter\), the aliens look no different from ordinary humans. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Thomas O’Toole, “[Cooper: UFO Stories from ‘Credible’ Sources,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/04/07/cooper-ufo-stories-from-credible-sources/8607ee62-1f41-4c66-b6c2-3ee9e848c6bc/)” Washington Post, April 7, 1978 Source ID: Eberhart_5686 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18420 (A5BF4261) Date: 3/27/1978 Description: During a 9-hour period near San Diego, California, an F-14 Tomcat aircraft loses control and makes touch- and-go landings; an A-4 Skyhawk crashes into the Pacific 50 miles to the west; and an S-3A Viking anti- submarine aircraft from Naval Air Station North Island explodes and crashes into the ocean 6 miles from the base. On March 28, a college art instructor and a shipping company owner are talking on the phone when they are interrupted by another conversation on the line. Someone is apparently giving a briefing to a general about aircraft losses, instruments going haywire, and something that crashed near Palm Springs that the news media was told was a meteor. A “General Kelley” \[Lt. Gen. [Robert E. Kelley](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106542/lieutenant-general-robert-e-kelley/) at Eglin AFB? Lt. Gen. [John R. Kelly Jr.](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106618/lieutenant-general-john-r-kelly-jr/) at the Pentagon?\] is said to be on his way to the site. No agency admits to having such a conversation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/194/mode/2up) [194–195](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/194/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5687 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18421 (8AE4FF52) Date: 3/27/1978 Description: A girl riding on a motorcycle saw a long red triangular UFO hovering 200 feet above the ground in Ratby, England at 9:00 p.m. It made a loud droning noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12585 Source ID: Johnson_1699 Source: Johnson ### Event 18422 (51A5F056) Date: 3/28/1978 Description: 12:00 midnight–1:30 a.m. Irene Bigelow is outside her home in Denver, Colorado, when she sees three bright-orange UFOs motionless in the air for more than an hour. She estimates they are as large as her garage’s double door. At 1:30, they break formation, with the light on the right moving to the right. The other two remain stationary at first, then all three ascend into the sky in different directions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard Sigismond, “Four Huge Orange Discs and the Case for the UFO,” IUR 8, no. 2 \(March/April 1983\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5688 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18423 (7C6C1C0B) Date: 3/29/1978 Description: 9:30 PM. Truckers engulfed by "UFO" light.(MUJ-126,3) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [780329](http://nicap.org/780329Indy.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4928 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18424 (BFB3A6A9) Date: 3/29/1978 Description: 7:30 a.m. Christopher Kloppenborg and Geoffrey Kloppenborg are out mustering sheep near Albury, New South Wales, Australia. They see a very bright, stationary, chrome-colored light that is casting a shadow on a hillside. They use binoculars to watch it for 5–8 minutes. It appears to have black shapes along its side and is shaped like a short cigar. Geoffrey returns to the house to get a camera, and on his return he sees a second, smaller object, traveling over the hills toward the first object. It turns in front of the bigger object, and then both depart over the hills to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Melbourne Herald, April 8, 1978; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 7 \(July 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5689 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18425 (3A3EDD6D) Date: 3/30/1978 Description: A chrome colored cigar-shaped object hovered over a nearby hillside, casting a shadow on the ground. A second stingray shaped object swept through the sky in a slow arc and came to a position beside the larger object. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albury, New South Wales, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4929 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18426 (E60A0C77) Date: 3/30/1978 Description: At shortly after 7:00 o'clock in the morning in Albury, New South Wales, Australia a chrome colored cigar-shaped object hovered over a nearby hillside, casting a shadow on the ground. A second stingray shaped object swept through the sky in a slow arc and came to a position beside the larger object. There was an eerie, abnormal silence that persisted over a mile-wide area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_1740 Source: Johnson ### Event 18427 (E34DA89F) Date: 3/30/1978 Description: A "flying boxcar" covered with lights crossed a field and buzzed a car at low altitude in Pompey Center, New York after 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, June 1978, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_1741 Source: Johnson ### Event 18428 (FD1FCE51) Date: 3/31/1978 Description: 8:30 p.m. A young man is walking his dog in a field in Dublin, Ireland, when he spots a silver cigar-shaped object hovering about 45° above the horizon. For the next 20 minutes, a doorway repeatedly \(about 20 times\) opens, releasing a red light, the door closes again, the red light returns to the object, and the door opens and readmits it. The object remains motionless another 10 minutes, then shoots upward at fantastic speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 7 \(July 1989\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5690 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18429 (17CE01A3) Date: 4/1978 Description: An Iranian airline pilot is flying between Ahvaz and Tehran, Iran, when he sees a glittering flying object. He manages to photograph it, but civil aviation authorities prohibit its release. Radar controllers at Mehrabad Airport track a target 20 times the size of a jumbo jet on their screens. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 89](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/88/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5692 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18430 (8524C118) Date: 4/1978 Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy is formed by [W. Todd Zechel](https://www.wiscnews.com/saukprairieeagle/news/local/obituaries/w-todd-zechel-of-prairie-du-sac---published/article%5F696590a6-91c6-5248-a014-2cccc841c5b6.html), [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm)[,](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) and [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932). Its purpose is to uncover UFO data through the Freedom of Information Act, lawsuits against government agencies, and investigation of high-quality UFO reports. It launches a newsletter, Just Cause. The group brings a lawsuit against the CIA using the Freedom of Information Act for release of UFO documents. It receives more than 900 documents from the CIA in 1979 but are refused 57 because of “national security considerations.” Just Cause lingers on until January 1982 under the title UFOrmant. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Citizens Against UFO Secrecy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%5FAgainst%5FUFO%5FSecrecy)”; “[CAUS](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20Old%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%20Vol%201%20Issue%2001%20-%20Old%20Series.pdf) [Picking Up Where GSW and NICAP Left Off,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20Old%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%20Vol%201%20Issue%2001%20-%20Old%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause 1, no. 1 \(April 1978\): 1–4; ClearIntent, [p. 192](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/192/mode/2up); Clark III 240 Source ID: Eberhart_5691 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18431 (D77198AC) Date: 4/2/1978 Description: Round object with body lights hovered ahead of car, made pulsating sound. Tilted down, beamed a bright light from the top onto car. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Strinestown, PA Source ID: HallUFOE2_309 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18432 (26953297) Date: 4/2/1978 Description: 8:30 p.m. Lee Robinson is riding her motorcycle on Sunset Road toward Henderson, New Zealand, when she stops to watch floating lights approaching her from the distance. She makes out a wedge-shaped form, broad at the front and narrow at the back, with two red lights, a green light, and a glass front. It stops 600 feet away, hovering. Two figures in dark robes can be seen from the waist up looking down at her. She stares at it petrified for several minutes until a car approaches and the object flies off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5695 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18433 (60FE17A0) Date: 4/2/1978 Description: 1:40 p.m. Warren Smith is 8–9 miles northwest of Calgary, Alberta, when his border collie starts running in circles and looking up. Smith looks out his window and sees a silent, grayish-silver disc slightly larger than the full moon. It moves straight up and down, in and out of the cloud layer three times for about 30 seconds. Each time the object comes out of the clouds it remains visible for about 10 seconds. Smith notices a large number of “lightning rods” that move in and out on its surface. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 5 \(May 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5694 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18434 (FE02EFCC) Date: 4/2/1978 Description: Morning. A loud explosion on Bell Island, Newfoundland, causes damage to some houses and electrical wiring in the surrounding area. A number of TV sets in Lance Cove and other communities explode at the time of the blast. It is initially thought to be caused by ball lightning. Meteorologists state that atmospheric conditions at the time are not conducive to [lightning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning), although some witnesses report balls of fire and streaks of light in the sky. The boom is heard 34 miles away in [Cape Broyle.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%5FBroyle) The incident is investigated by [John Warren](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lamonitor/obituary.aspx?n=john-l-warren&pid=171244563) and Robert Freyman from Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, as a possible a “superbolt”—an unusually large bolt of lightning. A 2004 documentary on the History Channel about electromagnetic pulse weapons, The Invisible Machine, investigates the possibility that it may have been the result of top-secret experiments. However, on April 23, 2019, hundreds of people on the island hear another explosion, which is almost immediately determined to have been a massive section of rock breaking away from the northern part of the island and impacting the ground and sea with extreme force. Large cracks almost two feet across were observed developing in the area in the years prior to the collapse, and signs were placed to warn visitors to stay away from the unstable features. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Bell Island \(Newfoundland and Labrador\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%5FIsland%5F%28Newfoundland%5Fand%5FLabrador%29\#Bell%5FIsland%5Fboom)”; ClearIntent, [pp. 96–97](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/96/mode/2up); Brian Dunning, “[The Bell Island Boom,](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4190)” Skeptoid podcast no. 190 \(January 26, 2010\); B. Jessee, “[The Bell Island](https://medium.com/the-mysterious-miscellany/the-bell-island-boom-40f5b92506cd) [Boom,](https://medium.com/the-mysterious-miscellany/the-bell-island-boom-40f5b92506cd)” Medium: The Mysterious Miscellany, December 23, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_5693 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18435 (4F40D108) Date: 4/2/1978 Description: Round object with body lights hovered ahead of car, made pulsating sound; tilted down, beamed a bright light from the top onto car (section XII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Strinestown, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4930 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18436 (18A30451) Date: 4/6/1978 End date: 6/24/1978 Description: Six cattle are found mutilated on farms near Elsberry, Missouri. Orange lights and “flashing stars” are seen in the vicinity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Background on the Elsberry Events: Are UFOs Linked with Cattle Mutilations?” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 5–6; Marler 19–20 Source ID: Eberhart_5697 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18437 (AFB04566) Date: 4/6/1978 Description: 7:30 p.m. Vicki Burns is standing outside the stable on her farm near Prince George, British Columbia, when a narrow beam of light, 2 inches in diameter, comes from above some trees and shines into her barn for 5 seconds. She hears her horses scream, and inside they seem dazed and frightened. She and her mother notice a bright white light moving in the sky, darting back and forth. Some neighbors come over for 3 hours to watch the light for and attend to the horses. An odd circle is found on either side of the filly’s neck. A veterinarian, Dr. McKee, examines the horses the next day, and they still appear to be in shock. He explains the circle as ringworm, but cannot account for the animals’ fatigue or behavior. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 223–226 Source ID: Eberhart_5696 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18438 (E6A8A7B3) Date: 4/7/1978 Description: Three boys saw two lights. Then they could see four lights; two in front and two in the back. Then a blue light appeared between the two lights in the rear, and flashed about 7 or 8 times. Each flash was accompanied by a beep, then the blue light stayed on. The object was about as big as a jet and approximately 200-300' high and about 70 yards from the witnesses. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Evansville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4931 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18439 (8E31EA9B) Date: 4/8/1978 Description: A low flying oval-shaped object with an estimated diameter of 3.5 meters hovered over a garage at around 6:00 a.m. for 15-20 seconds in Saint-Laurent, France at a distance of 500 meters from the witness and an altitude of 50 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Pierre Delval, Ouranos, issue number 24 (1978), p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_1905 Source: Johnson ### Event 18440 (A8296C96) Date: 4/9/1978 Description: 10:10 a.m. A single witness looking out his bedroom window in Toronto, Ontario, watches a silver shiny cigar traveling eastbound for 10 seconds. The object is brighter than the moon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 5 \(May 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5698 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18441 (BF53B3BD) Date: 4/10/1978 Description: A police officer at a stakeout for animal mutilators sighted a silent, 12 foot long red-glowing cylinder at 5:20 a.m. in Goochland, Virginia float away from a pasture. It flew sideways at 20 feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, April 1988; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12615, citing MUFON Source ID: Johnson_1942 Source: Johnson ### Event 18442 (497EC689) Date: 4/11/1978 Description: The crew of the [HMAS Adroit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS%5FAdroit%5F%28P%5F82%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS%5FAdroit%5F%28P%5F82%29) operating out of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, in the Timor Sea, watches a UFO hover and sink to the horizon several times before disappearing. It is large and bathed in bright red lights. At one point it seems to be close to the ship and at another point it flickers on and off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 406 Source ID: Eberhart_5699 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18443 (9012C88C) Date: Mid 4/1978 Description: Many residents of Mumbai, India, sight a bright white, streak-like light moving at several hundred miles per hour from north to south at an altitude of about 2,000 feet. A similar object is seen the following day, moving south to north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 \(June 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5700 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18444 (ABDCF2A8) Date: 4/19/1978 Description: Day. Police officer Mark Coltrane is on patrol in Colfax, Wisconsin, and stops by the side of the road to eat lunch. His radio has some static. He then notices a metallic-looking disc rising into the sky a short distance from the parking space. While the object seems to move toward him, Coltrane picks up his Polaroid camera, comes out of the car, and snaps some photographs. The object is so close in one of the images that some details of its lower surface are visible. The total observation lasts a few minutes, the object soon accelerating and fading into the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Colfax, Wisconsin, USA, April 9, 1978](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/colfax78.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5701 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18445 (E3F333AE) Date: 4/19/1978 Description: On this night four children were playing in the basement of a home in South Middleton, Massachusetts when one of the girl's, a suspected UFO abductee, happened to glance at the window. A foot away from the window a white face was staring back at her, just inches above the ground level. it was oval shaped with vertical nose slits and a narrow mouth, the eyes were large slanted and gold in color. A transparent helmet possibly covered the head. She yelled at her companions but when she turned back again to look the entity was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb, MUFON UFO Journal, issue #143; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1936; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case #260 Source ID: Johnson_2140 Source: Johnson ### Event 18446 (B99FDD2B) Date: 4/23/1978 Description: Mrs. Castro was driving on Highway 101 in Goleta, Santa Barbara County, California at 7:30 p.m. when her car engine lost power, and her car radio went off. A bright light in the sky made a "zinging" sound, then dimmed to reveal four revolving green and blue lights on the UFO, estimated to be about 10 meters in diameter. The close encounter lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 72 Source ID: Johnson_2262 Source: Johnson ### Event 18447 (6D8F5259) Date: 4/23/1978 Description: Mrs. Castro was driving on Highway 101 when her car engine lost power, and her car radio went off. A bright light in the sky made a "zinging" sound, then dimmed to reveal four revolving green and blue lights on the UFO, estimated to be about 10 meters in diameter. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goleta, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4932 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18448 (C8F83BC1) Date: 4/25/1978 Description: At 7:00 p.m.a witness on the shore in Vittorio, Sicily, Italy observed through binoculars a glowing "boat" 5 kilometers offshore. It then ascends, and hovers in the sky for 45 minutes. It had two antennas at the ends of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, July 1981 Source ID: Johnson_2306 Source: Johnson ### Event 18449 (BF441C22) Date: 4/25/1978 Description: Later that same day UFO investigator Pat De La Franier was in his office in Stratford, Ontario going over some UFO reports when there was a sudden knock at the door. Where his office is located he could ordinarily hear everyone coming through the main door when admitted through the security door, and then hear their footsteps walking down the hall. But this knock came abruptly, and when he opened the door there was a very odd-looking man standing there. He was dressed entirely in black. He was about five and a half feet tall, extremely thin, with a somewhat unusually large head. His hair looked like it had been completely shaved and the hair was just growing back. His skin had an unusual olive hue. His lips were very thin and his cheeks were sunken in. His eyes were dark and so elongated that they literally wrapped around his temples. La Franier had never seen eyes like that, "They just bored into me". The stranger just stood there staring at him. La Franier was fixated by his eyes and he felt somehow intruded upon on a mental level. After a full minute the man spoke. "Would you like a photograph of your family?" It was a strange question, and his voice was very strange, too. It was low and hesitant as if this man had absolutely a poor conception of how to put a sentence together. The English was flawless, but he struggle to get through the sentence. La Franier said no, he did not need any more pictures. And with that the stranger stepped back, turned and just disappeared. The man was completely gone. Later La Franier discovered that many of his papers were missing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Susan Michaels, Sightings: UFOs Source ID: Johnson_2307 Source: Johnson ### Event 18450 (10F2D72C) Date: 4/25/1978 Description: At 2:30 in the afternoon the witness was in her kitchen in Villamare Di Sapri, Italy when she noticed a large luminous sphere; clear in color descend to the ground nearby. The witness went to fetch a camera. At this point the sphere seemed to shrink in size and a short being wearing a bright orange coverall type suit stepped out. The being walked around looking in all directions. Its face appeared brighter than the rest of the body and it had human like features. On its head it wore a cone-shaped device or cap. It moved in short steps and bounds. This apparently frightened the witness who yelled for her husband. The being glanced at the witness and then ran behind a nearby tree stump. A thick fog then began forming in the area and simultaneously the luminous sphere shrank in size and dissolved into nothing. The being apparently disappeared also. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 207 (July 1981); Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 1536; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_2305 Source: Johnson ### Event 18451 (27B6F1AB) Date: Late 4/1978 Description: 10:00 p.m. A dog staying with a couple living on Michigan Avenue in Dearborn, Michigan, near the Ford Motor plant lets out an awful howl. The woman goes outside to see what the matter is and notices a large round object, perfectly silent, about 500 feet above the garden. It hovers a minute or two then moves toward the Ford plant. It is about 125 feet in diameter and has a row of windows circling the bottom that emit colored light. It stops every 2–3 minutes and never travels more than 25 mph. They watch it for a total of 15 minutes, and their landlady sees it as well. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 1 \(May 1980\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5704 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18452 (E759C945) Date: 4/25/1978 Description: At 2:15 a.m. a UFO with an inside occupant was sighted by a Mr. Hake while driving along Highway 83 in Baltimore, Maryland. The close encounter lasted several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS files, report received in 1978 Source ID: Johnson_2304 Source: Johnson ### Event 18453 (354AB0F7) Date: 4/26/1978 Description: A close encounter of the first kind happened in Eden Prairie, Minnesota to a witness named Stoddard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Eden Prairie (MN) News, May 4, 1978; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 40 Source ID: Johnson_2347 Source: Johnson ### Event 18454 (68B8A5D8) Date: 4/26/1978 Description: 11:00 p.m. Debra Gairns, her husband, and a friend are driving in Welland, Ontario, when a triangular object with red, blue, and white blinking lights hovers briefly and silently above their car. It moves away and stops above a grove of trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 102 Source ID: Eberhart_5702 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18455 (9DC4A493) Date: 4/27/1978 Description: Two witnesses near the Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport in Rome, Italy, watch a small green object shoot out of a larger green object. The display moves smoothly from directly overhead to about 45° in 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 7 \(July 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5703 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18456 (01AED455) Date: 4/29/1978 Description: Night. Ten persons call the Aurora, Illinois, police department to report a UFO. One couple believes they have had a close encounter with the object, which they describe as a domed disc the size of a football field. The police alert the Center for UFO Studies and [Allan Hendry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%5FHendry) interviews some of the witnesses. He learns that some connect TV interference and power failures with the UFO’s appearance. An 11-year-old boy is so frightened that he hides behind the back seat of the family car. However, Hendry identifies the source of the sighting as an advertising plane owned and operated by a Chicago firm. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Allan Hendry, “The Case for IFO Study: A Recent Example,” IUR 3, no. 6 \(June 1978\): 6–7; Clark III 568 Source ID: Eberhart_5705 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18457 (C006FDFF) Date: 5/1978 Description: Red Army officer Anatoly Malishev is allegedly confronted near Pirogovskoye Reservoir, Mytishchinsky District, north of Moscow, Russia, by two entities wearing dark suits who communicate with him by telepathy and take him on board their craft. He is given a salty-tasting drink, but requests an alcoholic drink, only to find that the entities do not imbibe. He asks why, and they reply, “Perhaps if we did, we would not be such an advanced civilization.” They take him on a trip to the dark side of the Moon \(where they have a base\) and to their home planet 3 light years away then back to Earth, all taking about 40 minutes. Malishev reports his experience to his superior officers, who threaten a court martial. However, he is subjected to hypnosis and passes a lie detector test and apparently does not go through a trial. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nikita A. Schnee, “[Contact Reported near Pyrogovskoye Lake,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 6 \(March 1981\): 6–8; Heikki Vertanen, “[Soviet Contact Case near Pyrogovskoe](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2028%20N%203.pdf) [Lake: The Missing Pages,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2028%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 3 \(January 1983\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_5706 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18458 (B7F878C4) Date: 5/2/1978 Description: On the same day in Escazu, Costa Rica Eduardo Enrique Lacayo, age 10, was out playing in the front yard of his uncle's house at 6:30 p.m. when he saw a cat. He decided to chase it as it ran towards a large empty lot across the street. As he ran towards the field he suddenly noticed a hovering silvery disc-shaped object that emitted a strong yellow light. The UFO resembled two soup plates placed together and was about 15 meters in diameter, and it was hovering at about 200 meters above the ground with a slight wobbling motion. A gray cloud-like mist emerged from the object and descended towards the ground. Stunned, Enrique watched as the mist-like vapor assumed the shape of a human-like figure that remained suspended above the ground. The figure wore a kind of "cape" or long tunic that did not reach its feet, since the witness was able to observe gold-colored laceless shoes on the figure's feet. The figure was about 170 meters tall. The cat also apparently observed the spectacle, since the animal's fur stood on end and it quickly scurried from the scene. Eduardo did not notice any facial features on the figure except what appeared to be thin lips. The figure extended its arms at him, as if beckoning him to approach, and it appeared to open its mouth. At this point the boy became afraid, and ran away quickly away. Looking back he did not see the figure again, and the UFO rose up into the sky at very high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Carlos Vilchez Source ID: Johnson_2460 Source: Johnson ### Event 18459 (D922A9FF) Date: 5/2/1978 Description: A witness noticed two white uniformed Grey humanoid figures standing on the grounds of an abductee's property in South Middleton, Massachusetts. They stood motionless and held their arms close to their bodies. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 844, citing David F. Webb, FSR, Vol. 27 # 2 Source ID: Johnson_2459 Source: Johnson ### Event 18460 (7A9EEC4A) Date: 5/2/1978 Description: A 10 year-old boy was out playing, saw a cat and ran to a field when he suddenly noticed a hovering silvery disc-shaped object that was about 15 meters in diameter, and it was hovering at about 200 meters above the ground with a slight wobbling motion. He watched as a mist-like vapor assumed the shape of a human-like figure that remained suspended above the ground. The figure was about 170 meters tall. The cat also apparently observed the spectacle, since the animal's fur stood on end and it quickly scurried from the scene (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Escazu, Costa Rica Source ID: NICAP_DB_4933 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18461 (680A8174) Date: 5/4/1978 Description: Soon after a blinding blue light caused a road accident near Villa Mercedes, San Luis province, Argentina about 100 city residents saw 50 greenish-blue UFOs flying over the city. In the midst of a dazzling light, they perfectly executed a series of maneuvers: they broke into two formations and then rejoined, and then they disappeared from view. Shortly after that some people reported that they had witnessed the landing of a saucer-shaped craft nearby. A being dressed in a green uniform emerged from the craft for a short while. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Buenos Aires Herald, May 8, 1978; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Tasmanian UFO Report 1983, quoting Le Soir (Belgium), March 30, 1982 Source ID: Johnson_2516 Source: Johnson ### Event 18462 (F8965596) Date: 5/6/1978 Description: At 5:40 a.m. a group of several witnesses, including police, observed 25-30 luminous UFOs make a turn over the city of Catamarca, Argentina. They shot off to the west at great speed. It was seen by several members of the guard from the province's police headquarters. On the same day a strange flying object fell to earth in a mountainous zone near Baritu in northern part of Salta province. A widespread aerial and ground search was conducted, in an area "practically inaccessible" due to the terrain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1978, p. 14, citing Cronica, May 12, 1978; FSR, November 1978, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_2595 Source: Johnson ### Event 18463 (7E061225) Date: 5/6/1978 Description: 4:15 p.m. An object crashes into the southern slope of El Taire mountain on the Rio Bermejo along the border of Bolivia and Argentina. It produces a sonic boom that is heard 120 miles away and shatters windows in villages 30 miles away. Argentinian border police search for wreckage, while reporters visit the town of Aguas Blancas, Bolivia, to interview witnesses. Velez Orozco is one of the witnesses to the fall, and he thinks the object was 15 feet in diameter and conical. Border Patrol Cpl. Natalio Farfan Ruiz says the object “made the earth tremble” as it passed over. The Bolivian Air Force dispatches three airplanes and discovers the crash site on its side of the border. One of the flights includes a Bolivian astronomer, who sees a rockslide that may have been caused by the crash. On May 14, police from Tarija, Bolivia, find the object, a dull metallic cylinder 12 feet long with a few dents. A telex sent by US Ambassador [Paul H. Boeker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FH.%5FBoeker) to the State Department requesting an explanation. In a secret telex on May 18, Secretary of State [Cyrus Vance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus%5FVance) replies that “appropriate government agencies” have been consulted, but there is no correlation with known re-entries. He refers Boeker to the 1973 Project Moondust order. The US military attaché in La Paz sends a message to Wright-Patterson AFB and USAF headquarters at the Pentagon, claiming that the Bolvian Army has found nothing, but would send two USAF officers to Tarija to investigate. Col. Robert Simmons and Maj. John Heise arrive with a Bolivian Air Force officer. On May 23, three Bolivian Air Force officers and a guide set out on horseback to the mountain, locating the rockslide on May 25. Parallel to the slide is a 325-foot trench, 10–12 feet wide at the top. Some of the large rocks appear burned, and the grass around it is brown and withered. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 2; ClearIntent, [pp. 201–](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/200/mode/2up) [205](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/200/mode/2up); Kevin Randle, The Government UFO Files, Visible Ink, 2014, pp. 279–280; Michael Hesemann, “[UFO](http://www.noufors.com/ufo%5Fcrash%5Fin%5FBolivia%5Fwitnessed%5Fby%5Fthousands%5Fof%5Fpeople.html) [Crash in Bolivia Witnessed by Thousands of People](http://www.noufors.com/ufo%5Fcrash%5Fin%5FBolivia%5Fwitnessed%5Fby%5Fthousands%5Fof%5Fpeople.html)” Source ID: Eberhart_5707 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18464 (584D02EA) Date: 5/7/1978 Description: A squadron of 40 UFOs circle dozens of times in formation over San Luis province, Argentina, in the midst of a luminous bluish-green light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5708 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18465 (D8BF3799) Date: 5/10/1978 Description: Evening. Numerous people watch a moon-sized oval object with clearly delineated edges, no trail, and an intense white light in Clavarazza, Genoa, Italy. It remains stationary high in the sky for three minutes, pulsates for 7 minutes, then blinks out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1989\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5710 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18466 (5BA019FF) Date: 5/10/1978 Description: The witness was walking home alone when he observed a very bright object in the sky that began to descend at a high speed. The object came low over a nearby fenced field, and he could now see that it was a shiny circular metallic craft within a fiery ball of flames. The area around the witness seemed to darken, and he felt compelled to walk towards the fence. He was quickly grabbed by two short humanoids who wore shiny white tight fitting suits. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4936 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18467 (A4050A87) Date: 5/10/1978 Description: Early morning. Farmer [Jan Wolski](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/164596567/jan-wolski) is out driving a horse-drawn cart in Emilcin, Poland, when he is jumped by two “short, green-faced humanoid entities” about 5 feet tall. They jump onto Wolski’s cart, sit next to him, and start to speak in a strange language. At first, he mistakes them for foreigners because of their “slanted eyes and prominent cheekbones.” Wolski drives his cart, with the two beings aboard, to a clearing where a large white object is hovering about 16 feet in the air. It is about 15–16 feet high and as long as a bus. Four black objects on the surface generate a humming sound. A platform descends to the ground, and he is taken on board by the two entities, along with two additional ones. There are about 8–10 benches situated around the craft, each for one person to sit in. There are some rooks in front of the door, one of which is moving its legs and wings but seems to be immobilized. Wolski is then examined with a tool that resembles two dishes or “saucers.” After this, he is ordered to get dressed again, and then he notices there are no lights or windows on the craft, only the daylight coming through the door. The entities eat and offer him something like icicles, but he refuses them. The UFO’s interior is black with a grayish tint, similar to that of the creatures’ outfits. Wolski returns home to his family and notifies them of what has happened, urging them to come see the floating craft. He tells his sons, who call to other neighbors, and together they go to investigate the site. The grass where the craft had been shows signs of usage, trodden down and “covered with dew and paths coming in all directions.” Wolski goes home, leaving the rest of the neighbors and family at the site. His sons claim there are footprints left behind by the beings, though they do not describe them well. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Emilcin Abduction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilcin%5FAbduction)”; “Story of a Polish CE-III,” IUR 8, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1983\): 13–14; Poland 35–40; “The Jan Wolski Case: An Amazing Close Encounter \(Poland, 1978\),” History Disclosure, May 25, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_5709 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18468 (199B66C4) Date: 5/10/1978 Description: At 10:50 p.m. the witness was walking home alone in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil when he observed a very bright object in the sky that began to descend at a high speed. The object came low over a nearby fenced field, and he could now see that it was a shiny circular metallic craft within a fiery ball of flames. The craft continued to descend, and projected two bright beams of white light to the ground and extended four metallic legs. The area around the witness seemed to darken, and he felt compelled to walk towards the fence. He was quickly grabbed by two short humanoids who wore shiny white tight fitting suits. Their heads were enclosed in helmets with closed visors and with two small antennas protruding from the top. The beings spoke to the witness, then took him inside the craft.

Once inside he started having difficulty breathing and noticed that the air seemed warmer and dense. The room was illuminated by a bright light. It was at this point that he noticed two more beings seated at a strange looking console. The beings walked over to him and he was surprised to see that they were female dressed in shiny white suits, with attractive capes made of the same material. These also wore helmets with antennas. They were a little taller than the other humanoids and had hair down to their shoulders. One had black hair and the other was blond. The black haired female approached the witness and told him that he was going to be taken to their planet. The witness declined the invitation and begged to be released. At this point the blond woman walked over and ordered the others to let him go. He was then allowed to walk out and down a stairway to the ground. He stood on the ground and watched while the object ascended at high speed and vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, # 1621 citing Casellato, Da Silva and Stevens, UFO Abduction at Botucato Source ID: Johnson_2722 Source: Johnson ### Event 18469 (BCEC5CD7) Date: 5/10/1978 Description: A UFO abduction occurred in a forest in Emilcin, Lublin, Poland sometime after 7:00 a.m. The abductee, a 71-year-old man named J. Wolski, encountered a UFO shaped like a bus, making a humming sound. The humanoid had a greenish color and wore a black helmet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 100, citing Fate, September 1994; UNICAT database, case 002, citing International UFO Reporter, November 1983, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_2721 Source: Johnson ### Event 18470 (ADAE25DC) Date: 5/13/1978 Description: At 3:32 a.m. police office Manuel Amparano was on the outskirts of Kerman, California when he saw a reddish glow ahead. He drove up to investigate. Getting closer, he observed an oval-shaped object, smaller than the apparent size of the full Moon, handing in the sky. It was a very bright crimson red. Suddenly, a blue beam was directed toward him. The object then receded and was gone. Amparano felt a tingling sensation in his body as he drove to the police station. However, six people at the station noted that he looked sunburned "as red as a lobster." His skin stayed that way for four hours before returning to normal. His skin was reddened even through his uniform. Althought the redness went away rapidly, there were areas where the skin was actually burned, on his arms, face, and neck. These burns were visible for two days, and the day following his skin blistered on his face and in places on his arms. He had the discomfort for a week. Doctors told him he could have been exposed to microwave radiation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, pp. 10-11; Fresno (CA) Bee, May 19, 1978; APRO Bulletin, August 1978, p. 4; UNICAT, case # 153 Source ID: Johnson_2812 Source: Johnson ### Event 18471 (43FB0A84) Date: 5/13/1978 Description: 10:45 p.m. A teen couple are sitting on a porch in Northport, Alabama, when they see an intensely bright pale- yellow light. It is oblong in shape and the size of the full moon. It hovers in the east for about 15 minutes, rocking slightly black and forth. They see three tripod legs on the underside. The girl’s mother comes out and notices her daughter is pale and shaking with fear. The object falls a short distance and remains stationary again for a few seconds before moving slowly away beyond trees on the horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-6-29,” IUR 3, no. 6 \(June 1978\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5713 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18472 (DDD3C076) Date: 5/13/1978 Description: 3:32 a.m. Police officer Manuel J. Amparano is on the outskirts of Kerman, California, when he sees a reddish glow ahead. Getting closer, he observes an oval-shaped object, smaller in apparent size than the full moon, hanging silently in the sky. It is a very bright crimson-red color, which despite its brightness does not hurt his eyes. It shoots out a beam of blue light similar to a camera flash, then recedes and is gone. Amparano feels “a tingling sensation” in his body as he drives to the station, but he is not concerned. When he gets out, the 6 witnesses at the station note that he is sunburned “as red as a lobster.” His skin shows this condition for about 4 hours before returning to normal, even in areas underneath his uniform. However, no burn is present where the car door is between him and the flash. Also, he has no burn on his back, which is away from the car window as he peers out. Although the redness fades, there are areas where the skin is actually burned \(arms, face, neck\). These are noted on a visit to Fresno Community Hospital. These burns are visible for 2 days. The day following the encounter, “fever blisters” break out on his face and in places on his arms, and these last a week. Allegedly, doctors at the hospital tell the officer that the burns look like they are caused by microwave radiation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “California Policeman Burned by UFO,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 10–11; “A Classic CE2P: Kerman, California, 1978,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 11–12; Jason Marzak, “1978 Kerman UFO Burning: 061401,” Fringe Republic, June 11, 2014; Kevin D. Randle, “[May 13, 1978: Kerman, California,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/06/may-13-1978-kerman-california.html)” A Different Perspective, June 15, 2015; Kevin D. Randle, “[Kerman, California UFO Case: An Update,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/06/kerman-california-ufo-case-update.html)” A Different Perspective, June 20, 2015; Kevin D. Randle, “[Kerman Police Officer Adds His Perspective,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/08/kerman-police-officer-adds-his.html)” A Different Perspective, August 26, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_5711 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18473 (C77F8834) Date: 5/13/1978 Description: 4:00 a.m. A 16-year-old student, Jamshid Saiadipour, is staying up late studying for exams in Shiraz, Iran. He looks through his window and sees a glowing, hat-shaped UFO, hovering motionless. He takes a photo of it, which appears in the May 18 issue of Tehran Magazine. The article winds up in US Defense Intelligence Agency files and is released through FOIA in 1980. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Matching Photo from Iran Found in CUFOS Files,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 8 \(August 1981\): 4; “[Sheraz, Iran, October 8, 1978,](https://books.google.com/books?id=YGYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=%22Franklin%2BYouri%22%2B1978%2BUrmia&source=bl&ots=QFdGb0Hk7%5F&sig=ACfU3U22JDATRIQhvIa7O0186x4oWcq1wA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidl9LgpfjnAhWMm-AKHeqhDIwQ6AEwAHoECA4QAQ%23v%3Donepage&q=%22Franklin%20Youri%22%201978%20Urmia&f=false)” Popular Mechanics, July 1998, p. 64 Source ID: Eberhart_5712 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18474 (E8987FFC) Date: 5/14/1978 Description: G,V, Radar Confirms Unidentified Lights (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [780514](http://www.nicap.org/780514pinecastle%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pinecastle Electronic Warfare Range, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4938 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18475 (40EBD4D4) Date: 5/14/1978 Description: Navy radar tracked an oblong object with body lights, illuminating the terrain, observed by citizens. Object alternately hovered and accelerated Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Ocala, FL Source ID: HallUFOE2_310 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18476 (7DFBAF74) Date: 5/14/1978 Description: Also in 1978, in Lowestoft, Norfolk county, England at 8:00 p.m. a disc hovered over some trees, then descended and faded away. Four figures, two large and two small, were seen nearby where the object came down. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12647 Source ID: Johnson_2835 Source: Johnson ### Event 18477 (0CDF3D59) Date: 5/14/1978 Description: At 10:20 p.m. 12 men witnessed a UFO with multicolored lights at the Pinecastle Tracking Station, near Ocala Forest, Florida. It hovered over trees and an old Civil Defense tower, then made a hairpin turn. It flew at only 50 to 100 feet altitude as confirmed by radar, and had red, green and white lights flashing in sequence. The Captain of the "Lisa C" on the Apalachicola River also witnessed it at 10:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1978, p. 4; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 22, 244; Xenolog, June 1978, p. 9; NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1978, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_2834 Source: Johnson ### Event 18478 (A8002107) Date: 5/14/1978 Description: 10:00 p.m. SK-1 Robert J. Clark, the duty officer at the US Navy Pinecastle Electronic Warfare Range in Ocala National Forest, Florida, receives a call from Rocky Morgan reporting an oblong-shaped UFO with an intensely bright, flashing light near Silver Glen Springs. Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center reports no aircraft in the area. Clark and the base air controller, Gary Collison, climb an observation tower and contact external security to alert radar technician Timothy Collins. They watch a cluster of stationary lights at an estimated altitude of 1,600 feet to the west-northwest perhaps 3 miles away. Collins activates the MSQ-102 Radar. After a 20-minute warmup, the radar detects an unidentified blip fluttering over the tower. The tracking computer is put on the target, which is showing very little movement. At 11:20 p.m., his radar locks on to it at treetop level. It seems to be as large as a jetliner. 10–15 minutes later it vanishes from both sight and radar, but at 11:40 p.m. he sees a similar object 15° to the north. Collins tries to train the radar on the object, but it disappears suddenly. Around midnight, another object is seen 3 miles to the northwest. For 5 seconds it moves at 575 mph, then accelerates for 2 seconds, and executes a hairpin turn in one second—a radical reversal of direction. Now the UFO is shooting northward toward the base, slowing to a mere 3 mph. Collins finally locks on this object. Shortly afterward, the target vanishes. A dozen naval personnel visually observe red, green, and white lights from the control tower for more than an hour. The captain of the Lisa C on the Apalachicola River also witnesses the lights at 10:30 p.m. \(or 1:00 a.m.\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Radar Confirms Unidentified Lights](http://www.nicap.org/780514pinecastle%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Flying Object Baffles Computer](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/internationalheraldtribune18may1978.htm) [with Maneuvers in Florida Sky,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/press/internationalheraldtribune18may1978.htm)” International Herald Tribune, May 18, 1978; “[Navy Says Unusual Sighting Was](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97271361/) [Just an Object Flying Unidentified,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97271361/)” Orlando \(Fla.\) Sentinel, May 18, 1978, p. 4-C; “Navy Radar-Visual in Florida, Part I,” IUR 3, no. 6 \(June 1978\): 4–5; “Case 3-7-1,” IUR 3, no. 7 \(July 1978\): 3; “[UFO Sighting at](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/146%20SEPTEMBER%201978.pdf) [Pinecastle Elecytronic Warfare Range,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/146%20SEPTEMBER%201978.pdf)” UFO Investigator, September 1978, pp. 1–2; Second Look, April, May, June, October 1979; Clark III 829–830 Source ID: Eberhart_5714 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18479 (E97FFB6F) Date: 5/15/1978 Description: A man walking observed a hovering multi-colored luminous cube shaped object that was making a buzzing sound and emitting a yellow beam. He then received telepathic thoughts telling him that the cube was not occupied, but soon human- like beings would arrive on Earth (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caujimolpa and Obregon (btn), Mexico Source ID: NICAP_DB_4939 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18480 (F91C72B7) Date: 5/15/1978 Description: At 1:00 a.m. the 24-year-old river pilot of the 'Lisa C' and another crewmember on the Apalachicola River, five miles south of Wewahitchka, Florida had a four minute close encounter with a 30-50 wide domed disc-shaped object coming out of the water. It had 8-10 illuminated windows, and each window was estimated to be 4-foot square, and was a frosty pink color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1978, pp. 2-3; UNICAT, case # 161 Source ID: Johnson_2866 Source: Johnson ### Event 18481 (861C9696) Date: 5/15/1978 Description: A cattle mutilation was discovered this day on a farm in Gilroy, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 90 Source ID: Johnson_2867 Source: Johnson ### Event 18482 (4B63A8A4) Date: 5/15/1978 Description: On this cloudy evening Ignacio Sanchez Munoz, age 19, was walking along the road between Caujimolpa and Obregon, Mexico after finishing work at a nearby restaurant. He observed a hovering multi-colored, luminous cube-shaped object that was making a buzzing sound and emitting a yellow beam. He then received telepathic thoughts telling him that the cube was not occupied, but soon human-like beings would arrive on Earth. After conversing with the voice for an hour he was told, "soon we shall return to chat with you." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1978, p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1940, citing IUR Source ID: Johnson_2868 Source: Johnson ### Event 18483 (2FF1A301) Date: 5/15/1978 Description: Evening. Ignacio Sanchez Munoz, 19, is walking along the road between Cuajimalpa borough and Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City, Mexico, after finishing work at a nearby restaurant. He observes a hovering, multicolored, luminous, cube-shaped object that is making a buzzing sound and emitting a yellow beam. He then receives telepathic thoughts telling him that the cube is not occupied, but soon human-like beings will arrive on Earth. After conversing with the voice for about an hour he is told, “soon we shall return to chat with you.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 7 \(July 1978\): 2; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-05-15-mexico-cuajimalpa.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-05-15-mexico-cuajimalpa.htm) April 30, 2010 Source ID: Eberhart_5715 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18484 (21C5B15A) Date: 5/17/1978 Description: A woman cooking heard a sound like thunder which seemed to be coming from the ground. A short time later her son Adas came inside to tell her that he had seen a box-shaped aircraft, like "a little house," fly low over their barn. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Emilcin, Poland Source ID: NICAP_DB_4940 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18485 (3CEDA7C9) Date: 5/17/1978 Description: At 8:30 a.m. at a farmhouse in Emilcin, Poland just eight-tenths of a kilometer from the scene of Jan Wolski's humanoid encounter the day before, a mother was preparing breakfast while her two children, Adas and Agnieska, played outside. She heard a sound like thunder which seemed to be coming from the ground. A short time later her son Adas came inside to tell her that he had seen a box-shaped aircraft, like "a little house," fly low over their barn. It then vanished by shooting up vertically with a sound like thunder. Adas said that the object was flying with its smallest wall forward, and there was a square window in this side with rounded corners through which he could see a pilot. On the edges of the side, he said, were moving, swaying black rods, like the feelers on a snail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Xenolog, December 1978, p. 2; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Timothy Good, Alien Base Source ID: Johnson_2938 Source: Johnson ### Event 18486 (EEFE7E69) Date: 5/17/1978 Description: 8:00 a.m. A 71-year-old farmer is driving his horse-drawn carriage through a wooded area about 37 miles outside Lublin, Poland. By the roadside he sees 2–4 men about 5 feet tall wearing tightly fitting black “diver suits.” The men have green faces, slanting eyes, and webbed fingers; they move in a jumping motion and invite him into a “bus-shaped” white rectangular vehicle hovering nearby. The interior looks like a completely black room outfitted only in benches. He is examined by an apparatus that looks like an X-ray machine, and the men offer to share with him a transparent substance that they are eating, but he declines. The farmer later returns to the site with some villagers and finds rectangular footprints in the muddy road bank. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 7 \(July 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5716 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18487 (07D72BD5) Date: 5/19/1978 Description: Cars stopped on US highway 29 in Greenville, South Carolina to watch a huge, silver colored cigar hovering in the sky around 4 p.m. It caused a two mile long traffic backup, and there were over 75 witnesses to the event, which lasted over two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, July 1978, p. 12; Greer (South Carolina) Citizen, May 31, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_2985 Source: Johnson ### Event 18488 (5D2325BE) Date: 5/24/1978 Description: Driving in the city a 21-year-old college student saw a metallic object nearby. His car radio experienced a burst of static as he sighted the object, which was glowing yellow-white with blue, orange, green, and yellow lights rotating on its bottom. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tuscaloosa, AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4941 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18489 (D1DE1A67) Date: 5/24/1978 Description: Driving in the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama at 9:15 p.m. a 21-year-old college student saw a metallic object nearby. His car radio experienced a burst of static as he sighted the object, which was glowing yellow-white with blue, orange, green, and yellow lights rotating on its bottom. The driver continued to drive past the object and did not see how it departed or when. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 72, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_3072 Source: Johnson ### Event 18490 (4004CE7A) Date: 5/30/1978 Description: 11:00 p.m. Two witnesses are stargazing with a telescope 5 miles west of Tulsa, Oklahoma, when they see four gray-white ovals in a fixed sword-like formation pass silently overhead in a straight line from the southwest. They are lost behind trees above the northeast horizon. Each oval is about the size of the moon and flying in a 45° angle to the direction of travel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-7-54,” IUR 3, no. 7 \(July 1978\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_5717 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18491 (4553859E) Date: 6/1978 Description: GEPAN’s Scientific Council meets for the second time. This time, a five-volume report totaling 670 pages is prepared. The first volume is a synthesis written by [Claude Poher](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%5FPoher). Volumes 2–4 contain 10 detailed field investigations and the fifth volume gathers other studies and less detailed cases. The reports are never published. According to [Jean-Jacques Velasco](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%5FVelasco), Poher’s assistant, the statistical study evaluates 678 reports and classifies them into four categories: perfectly or probably identified \(26%\), insufficient information \(36%\), and unidentified \(38%\). The council asks for a deeper study on statistical methodology, models of propulsion, and the psychology of perception. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “First Summary of the Work of the French Government’s ‘GEPAN’ UFO Organization,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 \(Oct./Nov. 1978\): 22; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_5720 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18492 (FBFD28AF) Date: 6/1978 Alternate date: 7/1978 Description: 10:15 p.m. Graham Niven and friends are listening to the radio in Raeford, North Carolina, when it picks up some strange interference for about 10 minutes, They see a rectangular UFO with rounded edges coming toward them from the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[One Reporting Witness: Two Reported Sightings,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 10 \(October 1981\): 2–3 Source ID: Eberhart_5721 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18493 (89431B81) Date: 6/1978 Description: [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932)[,](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) on behalf of Ground Saucer Watch, files a discovery motion requesting UFO files from the CIA. His motion consists of 635 interrogatory questions, nearly 300 requests for documents, and includes 60 CIA documents attached as exhibits. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard Hall, “[Lawsuit Filed against CIA,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1978-5-may)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 126 \(May 1978\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5719 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18494 (9ED205BB) Date: 6/1/1978 Description: Teachers commuting to schools in La Bajada, Catamarca province, Argentina saw three UFOs with pale green luminescence and a metallic appearance at around 7:30 a.m. The objects zig-zagged from southeast to east, next performed a parabolic turn, and then flew off to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1978, p. 15, citing Chronica, June 7, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_3206 Source: Johnson ### Event 18495 (4BB8F0C6) Date: 6/2/1978 Description: 10:00 p.m. A married couple driving toward Hameenlinna, Finland, watch a formation of 7–9 bright lights in the eastern sky. After 8 seconds, they disappear behind trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 5 \(May 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5722 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18496 (F83ACA09) Date: 6/4/1978 Description: Motorists observed flashing lights in the woods, stopped to investigate and saw a bright red, revolving hemispherical object about 10 meters above the ground. It was approximately 10-12 meters in diameter. Next morning physical traces including a deep imprint were found at the site and separate witnesses were located. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bellaria, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4942 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18497 (8CD900A7) Date: 6/4/1978 Description: Four years later a UFO again appeared over New York City. In the afternoon, at a medical center on the Eastside of the city near the FDR parkway, a medical student took a photograph of a three-foot tall egg-in-cup saucer. The episode had many independent witnesses with accompanying television coverage and newspaper reports. Approximately five hours earlier that day a private pilot and his passenger reported a near collision with a hovering saucer-shaped UFO over Pasadena, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1978, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_3278 Source: Johnson ### Event 18498 (DF9B8AF9) Date: 6/7/1978 Description: At 8:00 p.m. two flashing yellow lights flew above Amapa, Brazil at an altitude above 35,000 feet. The lights flew parallel to one another, about 100 meters apart, and flew from the south to the northwest at a medium speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, www.theblackvault.com Source ID: Johnson_3357 Source: Johnson ### Event 18499 (E5EA3CED) Date: 6/10/1978 Description: A dark, silent wedge-shaped object with a square formation of white lights in the back and a triangular formation of red and white lights in the front paced the car of two students, ages 21 and 19, as they drove eastbound on Route 299. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Paltz, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_4944 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18500 (473BDD18) Date: 6/10/1978 Description: A dark, silent wedge-shaped object with a square formation of white lights in the back and a triangular formation of red and white lights in the front paced the car of two students, ages 21 and 19, as they drove eastbound on Route 299 in New Paltz, New York. The UFO turned south toward them and passed over their car. The male student got out of the car and ran underneath it, and said it was as large as his outstretched hand at arm's length. It shot off toward the southwest horizon in a few seconds time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1978, p. 4. Source ID: Johnson_3412 Source: Johnson ### Event 18501 (22F246EA) Date: 6/10/1978 Description: 9:30 p.m. A dark, silent wedge-shaped object with a square formation of white lights in the back and a triangular formation of red and white lights in the front paces a car driven by two students, ages 21 and 19, as they travel east on State Highway 299 near New Paltz, New York. The UFO turns south toward them and passes over their car. The male student gets out and runs underneath it, noting it is as large as his outstretched hand at arm’s length. It shoots off toward the southwest horizon in a few seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-7-121,” IUR 3, no. 7 \(July 1978\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5723 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18502 (38D5BC11) Date: 6/11/1978 Description: 11:28 p.m. After hearing reports of unidentified aircraft from two previous sentries, Gunnery Sgt. Brininger and PFC Johnny Johnson, go on sentry patrol at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Standing outside on an 80-foot tower, the two men watch a distinctly outlined, illuminated white ball with a short conical tail approach from the south. Within 5 seconds, the object moves west of their position and 20°–30° up Briniger estimates that the ice-cream cone shaped UFO is as close as 300 feet away and 200 feet in the air, flying parallel to the fence line. He directs a spotlight at the object, which abruptly makes a sharp turn to the west. It is in sight for 8–10 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-7-130: Three UFOs over High Security Military Base?” IUR 3, no. 7 \(July 1978\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_5725 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18503 (C1308916) Date: 6/11/1978 Description: 10:30 p.m. Capt. Namdar, the pilot of a Boeing 707 flying from Shiraz to Tehran, Iran, is descending to 25,000 feet over Isfahan. He sees a huge, purple form passing below him at amazing speed. The Tehran airport cannot confirm a radar tracking. Suddenly the plane’s cabin is flooded with brilliant yellow light radiating from two sources. It feels as hot as “a sunny day in summer in Spain.” The purple light continues to follow the plane until a portion of the UFO separates from it and moves toward the southeast side of the witnesses. Then the original object vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Review of Iranian UFO Reports,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 \(Jan./Feb. 1981\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5724 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18504 (CC12F0A2) Date: 6/11/1978 Description: Cessna pilot observed small silvery oval that maneuvered near his plane (section III). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4945 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18505 (BBB7001D) Date: 6/11/1978 Description: Cessna pilot observed small silvery oval that maneuvered near his plane Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_311 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18506 (789AA763) Date: 6/14/1978 Description: A 60-foot diameter disc directed beams of light at two boys. The boys found they were paralyzed and couldn't move. They reported an episode of missing time. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williamson, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_4946 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18507 (A215358D) Date: 6/14/1978 Description: At 10:40 p.m. a 60-foot diameter disc directed beams of light at two boys in Williamson, West Virginia. The boys found they were paralyzed and couldn't move. They reported an episode of missing time. Others heard an odd noise while this was taking place. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, June 1988 Source ID: Johnson_3486 Source: Johnson ### Event 18508 (2A728DC3) Date: 6/15/1978 Description: Before 3:00 a.m. The Russian motor ship Novokuznetsk is departing from the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador. The crew sees from the bow four rapidly departing bright white trails about 66 feet in length. At the same time, two other trails 33 feet long approach the vessel. Later, straight ahead of the ship, a white luminescent sphere rises up from the water, flies around the ship, hovers for a few seconds at an altitude of 60 feet, flies higher, zigzags, and dives back into the water, Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 66–67 Source ID: Eberhart_5726 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18509 (9F4FA47C) Date: 6/16/1978 Description: Oulton, England - At 11:15 p.m. a 16-year-old man was returning from his girlfriend's house in a heavy rainstorm when he started hearing a very loud voice "talking nonsensically" all around him. The voice was so loud that he thought it might wake everyone in the village and he compared it to the voice of a radio announcer. The volume rose and fell as though the voice was being blown on the wind. He could not distinguish the words, however, and it faded away after about five seconds. He walked another 50 meters further on when he noticed, through a wooded gate to his right, a cylindrical column of white light. This vertical beam appeared to be on the grounds of a convent and was 200 meters away. It looked to be 3 1/2 meters high and 2 meters in diameter, and it appeared solid and sharply defined. The witness then had the impression that something or someone was in the beam, and he became scared and ran home, having watched the beam for about 5 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Martin Keatman, BUFORA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1 Source ID: Johnson_3519 Source: Johnson ### Event 18510 (8C364F8F) Date: 6/16/1978 Description: A man had been hitchhiking home after midnight when he spotted a soft glowing object in a nearby field near Borisoglebsk, Voronezh, Russia and walked towards it. As he approached he could see that the object had a transparent dome on top and inside he could see three short humanoids. The dwarf beings had large egg-like heads and very long fingers. They seemed to be working around a central console. When he got to within 25 yards of the object he was stopped by some kind of a force field and blacked out. When he came to he noticed that the briefcase he had been carrying looked old and frayed. The force field was gone, so he again began to walk toward the object but was knocked down by a blast of wind. The craft began to glow and rose off the ground and shot away quickly at high speed. He learned later that he had lost track of 45 minutes of time. Under hypnosis he recalled being gently led into the craft and examined. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 420, citing Fortean Times, issue # 33, quoting Felix Zigel; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13211, citing FSR, Vol. 29, No. 5 Source ID: Johnson_3518 Source: Johnson ### Event 18511 (A1B065A1) Date: 6/17/1978 Description: 1:20 p.m. Photographer Linda Arosemena is taking photos of President [Jimmy Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FCarter)’s helicopter taking off from Fort Clayton \[now closed\] near Balboa, Panama. Her final frame shows an oval object that she has not visually noticed. Arosemena, who works for the Defense Mapping Agency at Fort Clayton, sends the photo to Carter with an explanation of the circumstances. Brenda Reilly and Sandra Chandler report seeing a similar object on June 16 while fishing at nearby Fuerte Amador. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs Breach Presidential Security!](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Update%20%28Beyond%20Reality%29/UFO%20Update%20No%202.pdf)” UFO Update! no. 2 \(Winter 1979\): 15, 56; Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 50](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/49/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5728 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18512 (6B75EC8C) Date: 6/17/1978 Description: 4:30 a.m. Patrolmen Robert Fiorentino and Amthony Puglio of the Maplewood \(New Jersey\) Police Department see a soundless triangular UFO, twice the size of the full moon, while on patrol. It has a white light on each tip and red lights in the center. The object circles them twice and shines bright lights down on them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[It’s](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98948047/) [Unidentified, Flies, But Doesn’t Scare Cops,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98948047/)” New York Daily News, June 24, 1978, p. 4JL Source ID: Eberhart_5727 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18513 (4764A48A) Date: 6/18/1978 Description: 10:45 p.m. Manford Hammond, a water superintendent in Elsberry, Missouri, watches an object “like two hubcaps put together” that alternately hovers and maneuvers slowly and silently from the vantage point of his home on Black Street. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-8-12,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5729 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18514 (09AAEA9A) Date: 6/19/1978 Description: 1:30 a.m. Franck Pavia and Jean-Marc Guitard are stopped on the side of a road in Gujan-Mestras, Gironde, France, to repair a turn signal when suddenly all the lights in the town go out. A powerful rumble startles them, and they notice an oval, red object surrounded by white flames flying toward them at an altitude of 11,000 feet. Jean-Marc is unable to breathe and faints. The object then changes direction and shoots away. They knock on the door of a baker named Varisse to tell their story, visibly terrified. At about the same time, a restaurant manager named Bachère is driving toward Bordeaux when he sees a large orange ball, very bright, hovering above La Réole at about 1,000 feet before disappearing. It reappears at the same spot one minute later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, “[Estimates of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf) [Characteristics,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 \(1998\): 354–356 Source ID: Eberhart_5730 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18515 (A8A78D41) Date: Summer 1978 Description: Day. Eligio Macchini is taking photos from the rail of a river excursion boat on the Rhine River, Germany. When the film is developed, he notices a dark spot on one print. Years later, he sends it to the Center for UFO Studies, which determines it is not an emulsion defect or processing flaw. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Möglicher UFO ist über dem Rhein](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf) [photographieren,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 2 \(April 1982\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_5718 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18516 (FACF9311) Date: 6/22/1978 Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman in Pacific Palisades, California, watches an irregularly shaped oval glow with shifting green-yellow-gray colors like a “TV glow.” Moving slowly eastward at first, it speeds up until it recedes to a star size, then arcs back in two minutes and disappears in the northwest. Two other witnesses also see the UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-18-18,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\):3 Source ID: Eberhart_5731 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18517 (E19073FB) Date: 6/24/1978 Description: Oval w/red lights circled airliner (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Madison, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4948 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18518 (0AE0BE60) Date: 6/24/1978 Description: 10:48 p.m. The pilot and passenger of a commercial charter plane flying northwest between Madison and New Lisbon, Wisconsin, see a distant bright light making extremely fast back-and-forth motions. At one point it passes above the plane. The object is tracked on radar by air traffic controllers Glen Wonnacott and Wayne Nurenberg at the Aurora \(Ill.\) Air Route Traffic Control Center. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Radar-Visual in Wisconsin,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 11–15 Source ID: Eberhart_5732 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18519 (E585D7CB) Date: 6/24/1978 Description: Radar-Visual (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [780624](http://www.nicap.org/rvwiscdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wisconsin airspace, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_4949 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18520 (835D1F1D) Date: 6/25/1978 Description: At an evening baseball game in Medway, Massachusetts around 8 p.m. a silvery-gray domed disc came down low over the field and hovered, bobbed, wobbled, and moved behind some trees. It re-emerged, wobbled and hovered again for about a minute. Its distance was about 200-300 feet from the by-standers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1978, pg. 16 Source ID: Johnson_3660 Source: Johnson ### Event 18521 (CD2F651C) Date: 6/25/1978 Description: At an evening baseball game a silvery-gray domed disc came down low over the field and hovered, bobbed, wobbled, and moved behind some trees. It re-emerged, wobbled and hovered again for about a minute. Its distance was about 200-300 feet from the by-standers. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Medway, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4950 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18522 (1BD656DC) Date: 6/26/1978 Alternate date: 6/27/1978 Description: 11:00 p.m. The 77-year-old mother of a prominent TV commentator is dazzled by a white, rotating globe of light on a rooftop terrace across from her inner house court in Vienna, Austria. The light appears to be breaking into pieces that fall down. Then a spotlight cone moves along the gutter of the terrace from left to right toward the light, and both lights go out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 \(Oct./Nov. 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5733 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18523 (749700A0) Date: 6/26/1978 Description: A UFO landed for several minutes on the patio of a residence in Ayacucho, Argentina. Mr. and Mrs. Belloq--the couple who lived there--awoke to a humming noise, looked out and saw that only a few meters over the treetops was the flying disc. It had no lights and no windows, and ascended after hovering a few more minutes and flew off slowly in the direction of the city of Tandil. A Bigfoot sighting also occurred on this night in South Crossett, Arkansas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, September 1978, p. 13; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 380, citing the Crossett (Arkansas) News-Observer, June 29, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_3680 Source: Johnson ### Event 18524 (F2B0A2B6) Date: 6/26/1978 Description: A UFO landed for several minutes on the patio of a residence in Ayacucho, Argentina. Mr. and Mrs. Belloq--the couple who lived there--awoke to a humming noise, looked out and saw that only a few meters over the treetops was the flying disc. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ayacucho, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_4951 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18525 (A87407F4) Date: 7/1978 End date: 12/1978 Description: Italian, South American, Middle Eastern, and Asian UFO wave. (See separate chronology, section VIII.) Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_312 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18526 (3EB43ADC) Date: 7/1978 Description: 7:30 a.m. Seamen on the Russian vessel Yargora in the Mediterranean not far off the coast from Algiers, Algeria, observe a pearly white flattened sphere moving to the west. On its underside it has three antenna. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 52 Source ID: Eberhart_5734 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18527 (539F1420) Date: 7/1978 Description: 1:00 p.m. A witness and his father are driving a U-Haul truck north on Interstate 65 near Ardmore, Alabama. Just after passing the welcome center, they look up and see a large silver ball on the tree line to the east. After disagreeing on whether it is a weather balloon, they stop the truck and get out to look. A door slides open in the bottom of the object and a smaller silver ball emerges and moves to their right, and a second comes out and moves to the left. They both hover for about 5 minutes, then return one at a time to the larger object, which stands motionless a few more minutes before slowly moving away to the northeast. Suddenly it shoots away at great speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_5735 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18528 (7334A8A8) Date: 7/2/1978 Description: 8:00 a.m. Verlee Carson is sitting in her house in Ely, Nevada, and notices two jets flying overhead to the south. One is followed closely by four white balls and the other is followed by three balls. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Viril Staff, “[Letter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1983\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5736 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18529 (23847B35) Date: 7/3/1978 Description: 9:00 p.m. A Mrs. Jenkinson and a friend are playing tennis in Louth, Lincolnshire, England, when they spot a flat, silver oval in the sky reflecting sunlight and moving in a straight line northward in the western sky. They watch it for 5 minutes. Another object is seen a few minutes later in moving north in the eastern sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Case](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Northern%20UFO%20News%20%28Jenny%20Randles%29/Northern%20UFO%20News%20-%20No%2052.pdf) [7887,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Northern%20UFO%20News%20%28Jenny%20Randles%29/Northern%20UFO%20News%20-%20No%2052.pdf)” Northern UFO News 52 \(September 1978\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5737 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18530 (FD572EEF) Date: 7/4/1978 Description: At 3:15 p.m. in Santa Paula, California a small domed disc-shaped object, about 3-4 feet in diameter with rotating parts on top, made a head-on pass at two witnesses in an airplane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1978, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_3826 Source: Johnson ### Event 18531 (744E693D) Date: 7/4/1978 Description: 3:15 p.m. A small domed disc, about 3–4 feet in diameter with rotating parts on top, makes a head-on pass at 800 mph toward [Floyd Hallstrom](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54838008/floyd-philip-hallstrom) and Keith Sorensen, who are flying a Cessna at 120 mph and 3,500 feet altitude near Santa Paula, California. Its dome is a bright chrome with two protrusions. Hallstrom turns the plane around and the object makes a second pass before disappearing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-8-80,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5738 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18532 (1AA69C2A) Date: 7/4/1978 Description: Saucer-shaped object 40' in diameter, transparent dome on top. Brightly-lighted, red in color. Two tall human-like beings. Long golden hair, wearing white robes. Three or four smaller beings with space suits and helmets. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Etna, Sicily, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4952 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18533 (2C80B397) Date: 7/4/1978 Description: 34-year old school principal watched a distinctly outlined metallic sphere the size of airplane rush in from the East (Chicago) at speed faster than a/c exceptionally high. Object stopped dead over his house and remained stationary for 2-3 minutes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Schaumburg, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4956 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18534 (1F673B16) Date: 7/4/1978 Description: Two Italian Air Force sergeants \(Franco Padellero and Attilio di Salvatore\), an Italian Navy NCO \(Maurizio Esposito\), and Antonina di Pietro are driving in the Parco dell’Etna, Sicily, Italy, when they spot a triangular formation of three red pulsating lights above Monte Sona. They stop the car for a better look. One of the lights breaks away from the group and approaches as close as 980 feet before disappearing. They drive in that direction and stop by a ravine to look at a luminous disc that gives off a yellow light about 325 feet away. Five or six very tall entities are standing next to it. Two of them walk up the ravine to within 16 feet of the witnesses. They are dressed in tight-fitting white coveralls and have shoulder-length hair. The two smile, and one points to the disc, which is radiating multicolored lights. The lights go out temporarily when another car drives by. Duration is 35 minutes. All the witnesses feel a euphoria, even 36 hours afterward. [Richard Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) notes that the witnesses have satisfied their curiosity and drive away without more concern; he indicates that they have been exposed to the lectures of contactee [Eugenio Siragusa](https://mauriziobaiata.net/2011/11/10/intervista-ad-eugenio-siragusa-1919-2006-la-verita-non-si-vende-e-non-si-compra/)[,](https://mauriziobaiata.net/2011/11/10/intervista-ad-eugenio-siragusa-1919-2006-la-verita-non-si-vende-e-non-si-compra/) although the witnesses seem to be responsible people. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 2; Good Above, [pp. 146–147](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/146/mode/2up); Maurizio Verga, “[La vague italienne de 1978,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20207.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 207 \(Aug./Sept. 1981\): 33; Richard H. Hall, “Italian UFO Wave of 1978,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 153 \(November 1980\): 12–13; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-07-04-italy-etna.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-07-04-italy-etna.htm) November 12, 2009; 1Pinotti 216– 217 Source ID: Eberhart_5740 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18535 (1B32DCC1) Date: 7/4/1978 Description: 3:15 PM. US private aircraft at 2800', two witnesses, 1 minute (Haines printout) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4955 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18536 (A4162ACD) Date: 7/4/1978 Description: A small domed disc-shaped object, about 3-4 feet in diameter with rotating parts on top, made a head-on pass at two witnesses in an airplane. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Paula, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4954 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18537 (8D34A72F) Date: 7/4/1978 Description: At 11:30 p.m. at Mount Etna, Italy three red objects, one a domed disc ten meters in diameter, landed behind a mountain. Five or six "Nordic" looking beings with long blond hair emerged from the craft, wearing uniforms that looked like diving suits. The four witnesses were paralyzed and could not move during the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1978, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_3827 Source: Johnson ### Event 18538 (2D490134) Date: 7/4/1978 Description: 3:45 p.m. A 34-year old school principal in Schaumburg, Illinois, watches a distinctly outlined metallic sphere the size of airplane rush in from the east at a speed faster than an aircraft and exceptionally high. The object stops dead over his house and remains stationary for 2–3 minutes. Then it starts rising with a slight veer to the south until it is out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-8-81,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5739 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18539 (6C074EFD) Date: 7/5/1978 Description: Many cattle mutilations are occurring on the ranch owned by Manuel Gomez near Dulce, New Mexico. State Police Officer [Gabe Valdez](http://hosting-24467.tributes.com/obituary/print%5Fselections/92062275?type=6)[,](http://hosting-24467.tributes.com/obituary/print%5Fselections/92062275?type=6) having heard that certain cows might be marked in some way before being mutilated, pens 120 of Gomez’s cattle in a corral and moves them through a squeeze chute under a series of ultraviolet lights. The examination reveals that five of the animals have a “glittery substance on the right side of the neck, the right ear, and the right leg.” Valdez and Gomez remove the substance, along with control samples, and send them to [Robert Schoenfeld](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/abqjournal/obituary.aspx?n=robert-schoenfeld&pid=188147534) at the Schoenfeld Clinical Laboratories in Albuquerque. Schoenfeld finds “highly suspicious” deposits of potassium \(70 times above normal\), magnesium, calcium, and aluminum. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tommy Roy Blann, “[UFO Connection in Dulce and Taos, New Mexico?](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/MUFON%20Journals/mufonufojournal-19798-august-130429025321-phpapp01.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 138 \(August 1979\): 14; Greg Valdez, Dulce Base: The Truth and Evidence from the Case Files of Gabe Valdez, Levi-Cash, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_5741 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18540 (E1D5D23D) Date: 7/5/1978 Description: On this night a bell-shaped UFO hovered just outside an apartment window in Forest Park, Georgia only five or six feet away. It was about 12 feet in diameter and made no noise as it moved silently over the next apartment complex. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Walters, UFOs are real: Her's the proof, p. 126 Source ID: Johnson_3847 Source: Johnson ### Event 18541 (A8589CCB) Date: 7/6/1978 Description: Car levitated, altered environment, memory loss, translocation of vehicle (sections XII, XIII). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mendoza, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_4957 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18542 (E326F25B) Date: 7/6/1978 Description: Car levitated, altered environment, memory loss, translocation of vehicle Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Mendoza, Argentina Source ID: HallUFOE2_313 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18543 (C1E2A242) Date: 7/6/1978 Alternate date: 7/7/1978 Description: Between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. The fiancée of Robert Garbauskas is in Sandwich, Massachusetts, taking photos of a ship in the Cape Cod Canal when she sees a small, rust-colored, apparently solid object hovering about 35° in the sky for 3–4 minutes. She snaps a photo of it, which shows a dark object with a yellow arc of light above it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[1978 Object with Arc of Light Photographed,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 \(August 1980\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_5742 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18544 (BC1C6FD7) Date: 7/6/1978 Description: An "apportation" (an translocation in time or space) allegedly occurred near Mendoza, Argentina on this date in 1978. Francisco Nunez, age 66, and his son of the same name, age 24, both mechanics, were driving south of the city in their 1930 Chevy pickup when their vehicle was lifted from road. They experienced a total change in their environment and scenery and found themselves speeding through a city with tall buildings on a five-lane highway. The sky, which had been clear and starry, was now red.

They were nearly blinded by a brilliant red light and felt very cold. The vehicle's engine and the car stereo stopped running, and they noticed that all sounds had ceased. Finally their car "landed" back on the highway near Lujan de Cuyo, about 9 kilometers (5.5 miles) beyond the point where the incident had begun. Their pickup's engine restarted and they drove home. Both men felt a compulsive need to wash the car and take a bath. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 14, translating Cronica, August 30 & 31, 1978; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 554 Source ID: Johnson_3888 Source: Johnson ### Event 18545 (2D894836) Date: 7/7/1978 Description: At the urging of Grenada Prime Minister [Eric Gairy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FGairy)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FGairy) the Grenada delegation to the United Nations issues a statement calling for “open discussions on the very important subject \[of UFOs\] … a matter of great significance at this time for all mankind.” \(“U.N. Background,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 \(Oct./Nov. 1978\): 5; Clark III 1189\) Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_5743 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18546 (513432DB) Date: 7/7/1978 Description: The CIA agrees to let Ground Saucer Watch amend its complaint to include requests for virtually all CIA- related UFO records. The lawsuit opens in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Update on the Ground Saucer Watch \(GSW\) Lawsuit Against the CIA,” IUR 3, no. 7 \(July 1978\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5744 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18547 (64AE9D7C) Date: 7/8/1978 Description: An 80 meter long ovoid object flew over Katta-Kurgan, Uzbekistan toward the southeast, then landed in a vineyard at 11:45 p.m. Ground marks were later found on the ground, and the vegetation (grape vines) were effected. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14162, citing Illobrand von Luviger, UFOs - Zeugen and Zeichen, p. 363 Source ID: Johnson_3935 Source: Johnson ### Event 18548 (CA024C24) Date: 7/8/1978 Description: A motorist saw a sharp white gleam of light some 300 meters ahead on the road. As he came to the curve, he saw that the gleam came from a mass approximately 5 meters in height. He can not observe the base of the object, which is below the side of the road. The top was rounded in the form of a dome, surmounted by a white light. As he drove by he saw through a transparent wall in the UFO numerous human like figures wearing helmets and tight-fitting suits. Ground traces were found at the site. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lempdes, Puy-de-Dome, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_4958 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18549 (D86A0E97) Date: 7/8/1978 Description: An 80 meter long ovoid object flew over toward the southeast, then landed in a vineyard at 11:45 p.m. Ground marks were later found on the ground, and the vegetation (grape vines) were effected. (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Katta-Kurgan, Uzbekistan Source ID: NICAP_DB_4961 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18550 (F7408F5A) Date: 7/8/1978 Description: At midnight a motorist saw a sharp white gleam of light some 300 meters ahead on the road in Lempdes, Puy-de-Dome, France. As he came to the curve, he saw that the gleam came from a mass approximately 5 meters in height. He can not observe the base of the object, which is below the side of the road. The top was rounded in the form of a dome, surmounted by a white light. As he drove by he saw through a transparent wall in the UFO numerous human like figures wearing helmets and tight-fitting suits. He drove away but soon came back with his wife and her mother, who saw two zigzagging luminous points of reddish-orange and green lights. Ground traces were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1721, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine, and Pierre Delval, Contacts of the 4th Type Source ID: Johnson_3934 Source: Johnson ### Event 18551 (81D3A000) Date: 7/9/1978 Description: Two young men were walking along the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Butler, Ohio when they heard a noise from the bushes ahead. The youths saw a huge seven foot tall figure with large red glowing eyes. One of the witnesses panicked and ran home, the second remained transfixed by the creature and was unable to move. The being was apparently beckoning to the young man to approach. The entity was described as having a huge round head, large red eyes and was making an unusual growling noise. The witness was finally able to flee the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1829, citing Ron Schaffner, UFO Ohio Yearbook 1979 Source ID: Johnson_3966 Source: Johnson ### Event 18552 (1F5B7F92) Date: 7/9/1978 Description: An object descended from the sky to within a few kilometers of the witness in General Alvear, Argentina. It moved away at a very low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stendek, December 1978, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_3965 Source: Johnson ### Event 18553 (BACE7022) Date: 7/10/1978 Description: A carload of residents were parked at the local railroad crossing near Bellville, Ohio around 10 p.m. when they noticed a huge dark figure with red glowing eyes that appeared to be in a slumped position standing over the tracks. The frightened witnesses fled the area and later notified the police. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1830, citing Ron Schaffner, UFO Ohio Yearbook 1979 Source ID: Johnson_3989 Source: Johnson ### Event 18554 (2DB5ED6F) Date: 7/11/1978 Description: Two young boys were playing in a tree and heard a loud noise coming from the nearby woods. They were confronted by a strange robot-like being. As they ran to town they were chased by a bright blue light most of the way. Strange tracks were later found at the site of the encounter. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Can Cifre, Ibiza, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_4962 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18555 (5833CAD5) Date: 7/11/1978 Description: 11:20 p.m. A man driving alone in a remote area on State Highway 100 three miles south of Waterbury, Vermont, sees a beam of light descend from the trees. It is about 1.5–2 feet in diameter but spreads out into a cone that covers the entire street and moves toward his car, illuminating the interior like “40 flash cameras.” The reflection off the car hood is dazzling. Petrified for 45 seconds, he finally sticks his head out the door and feels considerable heat. The light shrinks and dims, revealing the silhouette of a saucer darker than the sky and about 80–100 feet in diameter. The object is at treetop level and has small steady white lights on each side and a rib-like structure on the bottom. After hovering above the car a few seconds, it moves southwest about 200 yards and then takes off almost simultaneously. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-8-129,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5745 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18556 (5AC49BF2) Date: 7/11/1978 Description: Two young boys were playing in a tree in an empty field near the Can Fita farm in Can Cifre, Ibiza, Spain when they heard a loud noise coming from the nearby woods. Thinking it could be some kind of animal, they climbed down the tree and were confronted by a strange robot-like being. The humanoid had a bright metallic body that reflected the sunlight, two antenna-like projections from the top of its head, and large slit like eyes and mouth. To their horror it began moving towards them using incredibly long jumps. Both boys ran towards a nearby barbwire fence, but were astonished to see another bizarre figure standing just in front of some nearby trees. They describe the second figure as a man over two meters tall, bearded and with long black hair and wearing a long white cape that was flowing in the wind. Their fear increased when they realized both figures had apparently come from a huge landed UFO that was partially hidden behind some nearby electrical pylons. As they ran to town they were chased by a bright blue light most of the way. Strange tracks were later found at the site of the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: La Historia de Los OVNI en España Source ID: Johnson_3995 Source: Johnson ### Event 18557 (3D2A7824) Date: 7/11/1978 Description: A 44-year-old woman was watching television in Alto Da Mooca, Sao Paolo, Brazil as her 3 sons slept in their room. At around eleven o'clock her small dog began acting strangely by running around in circles, then running from the kitchen and to the door that led outside, apparently trying to get out. She walked towards the door and heard a loud "mechanical" sound. When she opened the door she was confronted by two short humanoids who hovered just above the ground. Both humanoids stood side by side. Behind the humanoids was an oval-shaped craft that had landed on three metallic leg. One being approached the now paralyzed witness, making gestures as if to calm her down, while the other humanoid floated around outside as if searching for something. The only movement she was able to make was to raise her arms to her chest. She could not utter a word.

The humanoid closest to her caressed her head while the other floated towards the UFO, situated in the middle of her yard. The being standing next to her then floated to a door in the UFO and removed from his belt an aluminum container. The container illuminated the yard in a bizarre yellow "coherent" light that appeared solid. The beam of light would enlarge, then decrease in size intermittently. The beam of light was directed towards the kitchen area, the yard and into the landed UFO. The humanoid aiming the beam of light then preceded to take a small cylinder from his belt which emitted a cloud of smoke, enveloping both humanoids. A few seconds later both beings boarded the object, but before entering they beckoned for her to come with them. When they got no response they waved at her and entered the object. Soon a plume of smoke emerged from the bottom and the object began to ascend. Two bright yellow lights became visible and the craft flew off into the distance. Before it left she thought she saw another figure through a porthole in the object.

Moments later the witness was again able to move. She ran to notify her family who said she appeared cold and very pale. She described the humanoids as 1.25 meters in height, wearing round silver metallic helmets on their heads. In the front of the helmet was a blue dimly lit area. Their faces inside the helmets appeared yellowish, and their eyes were round and dark, and lacked irises or eyelids. They had small flat noses and seemed to lack ears or mouths. Where the mouth should have been was a round metallic plate. Their one-piece suits were light gray in color and both had belts with numerous gadgets. Their bodies were very thin, and their heads were disproportionately large. One of the humanoids was somewhat heavier and appeared to be a female; this one had a metallic disc-shaped emblem or plate on the chest, about 15 cm in diameter with a small white light in the middle. The other humanoid's uniform lacked one. The object was metallic and oval in shape with several oval-shaped portholes. It had antennae and a multicolored sphere of light on the top. During the encounter there was a total lack of sound. There was also a strong smell resembling ammonia and she felt extremely cold. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Revista Brasileira OVNI, UFO News Brazil Source ID: Johnson_3996 Source: Johnson ### Event 18558 (D80F6043) Date: 7/12/1978 Description: A watch stopped when an orange glowing domed disc-shaped UFO came out from under the clouds (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wiener Neustadt (near), Austria Source ID: NICAP_DB_4965 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18559 (A73C35B4) Date: 7/12/1978 Description: A watch stopped when an orange glowing domed disc-shaped UFO came out from under the clouds 13 kilometers from the mountain town of Wiener Neustadt, Austria at 10:15 p.m. The two witnesses reported that the object then simply vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ernst Berger, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1978, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4014 Source: Johnson ### Event 18560 (999F1305) Date: 7/12/1978 Description: At around 11:00 p.m. a reddish-orange disc-shaped object, making a whistling sound, was sighted by several witnesses five kilometers away from Estacio Rambion in San Juan, Argentina. At the railway station the telephone stopped working and there was a television blackout. The batteries of some road machinery equipment were also damaged. A dog howled during the incident, which lasted about 15 minutes, and it later lost its hair. Three horses were also reported missing and never found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1981; UNICAT database, case 595, citing Guillermo Roncoroni Source ID: Johnson_4015 Source: Johnson ### Event 18561 (E6E7E9EA) Date: 7/13/1978 Description: [Todd Zechel](https://www.wiscnews.com/saukprairieeagle/news/local/obituaries/w-todd-zechel-of-prairie-du-sac---published/article%5F696590a6-91c6-5248-a014-2cccc841c5b6.html), research director of Ground Saucer Watch and director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, files a FOIA request with the CIA that includes information about a crashed spacecraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “GSW + FOIA + CIA = 1,000 Pages of UFO Information,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5746 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18562 (3999A8CE) Date: 7/14/1978 Description: [Eric Gairy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FGairy)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FGairy) accompanied by ufologists [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e), [David R. Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001), [Leonard H.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) and [Claude Poher](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%5FPoher)[,](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%5FPoher) meet with UN Secretary General [Kurt Waldheim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%5FWaldheim) to organize a steering committee to develop plans for possible UN involvement in UFO research. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1189; “UFOs in the U.N.,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5748 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18563 (E639DA32) Date: 7/14/1978 Description: Dawn. A Spanish Army unit on an exercise in Mazarrón, Murcia, Spain, watches an unfamiliar group of lights for two hours above a road: a red light that vanishes occasionally, two greenish-white lights that shine sporadically, and four white lights that appear irregularly and fly without any specific formation. Their height over the terrain is estimated at 13–100 feet. The lights oscillate and move forward, leaving the road and moving around obstacles like houses and hills, then coming back to the road in front of the group of soldiers. A reconnaissance of the area the following night reveals nothing unusual, except the antenna of a meteorological station that probably was not the source of the lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 434 Source ID: Eberhart_5747 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18564 (5B7A1A66) Date: 7/16/1978 Description: A Lufthansa airliner flying over the northern part of Iran encountered a glowing UFO floating in the sky. The presence of the object caused electrical interference with the aircraft's instruments. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_4103 Source: Johnson ### Event 18565 (1E05F579) Date: 7/16/1978 Description: On this night J. R. B. and his family observed a dome-shaped metallic object land in a field. A short humanoid with greenish skin and large oval-shaped eyes emerged briefly from the craft. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Iracauba, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_4970 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18566 (140A3B0D) Date: 7/16/1978 Description: At nine p.m. in Farningham, England a metallic gray cigar-shaped object descended over a highway, causing a car on the highway to stop. The witness reported that the car was then levitated inside a beam and brought up inside the craft through an opening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harry Hatch, U computer database, case 12725 Source ID: Johnson_4104 Source: Johnson ### Event 18567 (FB8D58B0) Date: 7/16/1978 Description: On this night J. R. B. and his family observed a dome-shaped metallic object land in a field in Iracauba, Brazil. A short humanoid with greenish skin and large oval-shaped eyes emerged briefly from the craft. It then re-entered the object, which took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing GEPUC Brazil Source ID: Johnson_4105 Source: Johnson ### Event 18568 (856C9BC3) Date: 7/16/1978 Description: A Lufthansa airliner flying over the northern part of Iran encountered a glowing UFO floating in the sky. The presence of the object caused electrical interference with the aircraft's instruments. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In air space, Iran Source ID: NICAP_DB_4966 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18569 (446800D2) Date: 7/16/1978 Description: A metallic gray cigar-shaped object descended over a highway, causing a car on the highway to stop. The witness reported that the car was then levitated inside a beam and brought up inside the craft through an opening. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Farningham, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_4968 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18570 (16D869AD) Date: 7/16/1978 Description: Residents sleeping on their terraces in the northern pat of Tehran, Iran, spot a “strange glowing object” floating southwest toward Saveh. One witness claims it is hovering directly above him. The control tower at Mehrabad Airport confirms the existence of the light. An air crew reports unusual readings on their instruments. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tehran Journal, July 18, 1978; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 2; Good Above, [pp. 321–322](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/320/mode/2up), [501–](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/500/mode/2up) [502](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/500/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5749 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18571 (7CDBD353) Date: 7/17/1978 Description: A one-meter diameter sphere was seen spinning 1.5 meters above the ground. At the site witnesses found scorched earth and burnt rocks. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Castanheira de Pera, Portugal Source ID: NICAP_DB_4972 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18572 (817752D5) Date: 7/17/1978 Description: A one-meter diameter sphere was seen spinning 1.5 meters above the ground in Castanheira de Pera, Portugal at 5:30 in the morning. At the site witnesses found scorched earth and burnt rocks. Later that evening, at 7:15 p.m., several witnesses saw a circular UFO in the sky above Chacabuco, Argentina. It varied in color between red and yellow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT: Portugal UFO computer database, case 221; Stendek, December 1978, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_4143 Source: Johnson ### Event 18573 (D3667574) Date: 7/18/1978 Description: A red-orange object hovered over Lurate Caccivio, Italy. It resumed revolving and emitted a hissing sound as it departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence: Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 349 Source ID: Johnson_4176 Source: Johnson ### Event 18574 (A0DFB2E1) Date: 7/18/1978 Description: A red-orange object hovered over Lurate Caccivio, Italy. It resumed revolving and emitted a hissing sound as it departed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lurate Caccivio, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_4974 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18575 (FC7CE9D2) Date: 7/18/1978 Description: DoD Staff Message: UFO spotted over North Tehran, Iran Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p501) Location: Tehran, Iran Source ID: Maj2_702 Source: Maj2 ### Event 18576 (A342D330) Date: 7/19/1978 Description: 9:30 p.m. A teacher is driving with his wife through Hudson, New York, when they spot a motionless, amber- colored, curved object in the sky as wide as a full moon. It remains behind them as they drive to a friend’s house, where they join another couple to watch it. The light suddenly goes out, and 30 seconds later they hear a roar that moves off to the southeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-9-19,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5750 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18577 (DAD3E272) Date: 7/20/1978 Description: 1:20 a.m. A soldier on duty at the main gate of the military section of the Logroño-Agoncillo Airport in La Rioja, Spain, sees a strange object in the air. A second lieutenant and a corporal get to the gate in time to watch for 5 minutes an object moving slowly and noiselessly east to west some 3,300 feet above the ground. Two of the witnesses describe it as lozenge-shaped, while the other two say it has the shape of a triangle. All agree that there is an intense white light flashing at one-second intervals in the center, while other lights appear in various parts of the dark object. It continues to fly steadily until it disappears from sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 434 Source ID: Eberhart_5751 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18578 (44DDBCEE) Date: 7/21/1978 Description: 10:15 p.m. A couple in Davyhulme, Greater Manchester, England, observes a dark disc hovering in the twilight sky. It is surrounded by an aura, from which 30–40 beautiful purple rays shoot out at various angles like spokes from a wheel, extending to about 12 times the diameter of the central disc. After about 90 seconds, the “rays” collapse inward in sequence, and the object slowly extinguishes itself. During the sighting, the couple notice with some puzzlement that the normally busy street is strangely quiet and devoid of people and traffic. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 866; Jenny Randles, UFO Reality, R. Hale, 1983 Source ID: Eberhart_5753 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18579 (DF1F2FCC) Date: 7/21/1978 Description: 9:30 p.m. Chloene Bechdolt notices a bright red light near the ground in the north field of her farm near Uniopolis, Ohio. She goes inside and around 10:00 p.m. notices that the light is still there and larger in size. She goes back outside and approaches the light, thinking it might be poachers. She thinks she hears someone talking, so she shouts a warning at it. The object makes a hum and shoots straight up. On July 23, she and her nephew find a 100-foot circular area of cut beans in the field, and the timothy stubble looks like it has been scorched about one inch from the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Large Circular Physical Trace: Is It Common?](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1982\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_5752 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18580 (D27114E4) Date: 7/22/1978 Description: 1:15 p.m. A retired couple in Ventura, California, is attracted outdoors by an odd noise and see a silver form moving overhead. It has lines across its surface and is making a noise like a card flapping against bicycle spokes. It flies straight away and disappears in the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-9-28,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5754 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18581 (D4A0F875) Date: 7/23/1978 Description: Several Coast Guard stations observed cigar-shaped object with same pattern of body lights, moving at very high rate of speed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Lake Michigan Source ID: HallUFOE2_314 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18582 (FE526843) Date: 7/23/1978 Description: Several Coast Guard stations observed cigar-shaped object with same pattern of body lights, moving at very high rate of speed (section II). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Michigan, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_4975 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18583 (9F853029) Date: 7/24/1978 Description: In Wheatley, Oxfordshire, England an object looking exactly like helicopter but making absolutely no sound was sighted at 11:45 p.m. It had a bright light in front, several large orange lights in the rear, and flew at a low altitude. No helicopters were known to be flying on this night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, October 1978, p. 11, & December 1978 Source ID: Johnson_4359 Source: Johnson ### Event 18584 (0DF299C3) Date: 7/25/1978 Description: A large metallic cylindrical object hovered for 30 seconds between Roche-Posay and Chatelle, France at 9:15 p.m. It moved, then hovered again, then moved away toward the southwest making short stops. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Pierre Delval, Ouranos, vol. 24 (1978), p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_4393 Source: Johnson ### Event 18585 (3D941A7F) Date: 7/26/1978 Description: 9:40 p.m. Chinese Air Force flying instructor Sha Yongkao is piloting a plane with a student at an airfield in Shangxi province, China. They are flying at 9,800 feet when they see two glowing objects circle the airport twice before moving off. Yongkao attempts to pursue the objects unsuccessfully and is told no other aircraft are being tracked in the vicinity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dong, “[Extracts from Paul Dong’s](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf) [Feidie Bai Wen Bai Da](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf) [\(Questions and Answers](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf) [on UFOs\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 \(August 1984\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5755 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18586 (EE0E895D) Date: 7/27/1978 Description: 12:45 a.m. [Clora E. Winscher](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142044878/clora-e-winscher) is driving a 1974 Mercury Comet east on US Highway 50 on the east side of Union, Missouri, at about 45 mph. She notices in her rearview mirror a brilliant light approaching from behind at high speed. She feels a “terrific shove” and the rear end of the car lifts up and gets moved along the road for 300 feet, completely out of control. As she approaches a bridge, the car drops down again, and she sees the light rise over the roof and disappear upward to the left. Two dents, 22 inches apart, are found in the upper edge of the trunk, but the paint is not fractured. About the same time, 12 miles west in Beaufort, Missouri, [Velma Clines](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59280627/velma-clines) watches a dull red-orange, round UFO fly toward her house before it speeds away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II p. 278; “Case 3-9- 59,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_5756 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18587 (8BEA50B1) Date: 7/27/1978 Description: Elongated object with flashing lights, humming sound, close to ground, moved up and down for about 15 minutes, flew away. Trouble restarting engine. International UFO Reporter, September 1978, see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 72 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sheffield Village, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4977 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18588 (EA4372FD) Date: 7/27/1978 Description: 7:46 p.m. Three men are flying a radio-controlled model airplane in a field in Marshall, Michigan, when they spot a silver cylindrical object with black lines across its surface. It moves eastward from directly overhead to a position 45° up in the east and vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-9-68,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5757 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18589 (E48F8851) Date: 7/27/1978 End date: 7/28/1978 Description: Rash of UFO sightings reported to police over two days, probably including Delta Aquarid meteors (section VIII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Union, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4978 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18590 (B08F0BEE) Date: 7/27/1978 Description: Woman reported brilliantly lighted object buzzed her car, briefly lifted it off road (section VII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Union, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4976 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18591 (BF461539) Date: 7/27/1978 Description: 10:45 p.m. Two witnesses in Sheffield, Ohio, watch a “silver banana” with a red and blue flashing light about a half-mile away, low in the east. They hear a wavering hum. It approaches their car to within 600 feet; the car’s electrical system fails, and the engine stops and cannot be restarted for another 90 minutes. After about 15 minutes the light shoots away to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-9-65,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_5758 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18592 (CDF63E5F) Date: 7/27/1978 End date: 7/28/1978 Description: Rash of UFO sightings reported to police over two days, probably including Delta Aquarid meteors Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Union, MO Source ID: HallUFOE2_316 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18593 (0408A65B) Date: 7/27/1978 Description: Three people driving in Sheffield Village, Ohio observed a silver, banana-shaped object with red and blue flashing lights at 10:45 p.m. The engine and headlights of their car went out as the object came close to the ground about 600 feet away. It made a wavering, humming sound and moved up and down near the ground for about 15 minutes, then flew away. The car could not be restarted for an hour and a half after the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 421; International UFO Reporter, September 1978 Source ID: Johnson_4439 Source: Johnson ### Event 18594 (91D913FB) Date: 7/27/1978 Description: Woman reported brilliantly lighted object buzzed her car, briefly lifted it off road Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Union, MO Source ID: HallUFOE2_315 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18595 (1254B23D) Date: 7/28/1978 Description: 12:00 midnight. Personnel at the Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Coast Guard station watch a similar light for 4 minutes moving swiftly from west to northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5762 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18596 (82829EB8) Date: 7/28/1978 Description: 11:57 p.m. Six members of the Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Coast Guard station, including Doug Wangen and Seaman Gary Randall, see a lighted object with flashing white, red, green, orange, and blue lights coming from Lake Michigan and moving toward Rawley Point. It stops abruptly, and Randall snaps 10 photos. The object then “slingshots” to the northwest in seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5761 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18597 (DECCB4EF) Date: 7/28/1978 Description: 11:45 p.m. The Ludington, Michigan, Coast Guard station gets a phone call from a man whose daughter and boyfriend have seen a strange object over Lake Michigan. Coast Guardsman Don Clark and others see a cluster of white lights, one flashing, and one steady green light near the shoreline. It is very bright, proceeds westerly past the Big Sable Point Lighthouse, and then accelerates silently over the horizon “faster than a plane.” Clark radios the Coast Guard station at Two Rivers, Wisconsin, about the light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Complete Details on the Michigan- Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5760 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18598 (07F79264) Date: 7/28/1978 Description: A UFO traveling at 1200 mph was sighted over Two Rivers, Wisconsin at 11:57 p.m. What was described was the silhouette of either a cylinder or a sphere with a series of white, red, green, orange and blue colored lights, with one light at a time flashing from different positions. It flew to the northeast in an erratic flight path. At midnight the same or a similar object was seen and photographed over Two Rivers, Wisconsin and sightings continued in the next early morning hours over Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_4461 Source: Johnson ### Event 18599 (8637A37C) Date: 7/28/1978 Description: 8:28 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Gruss of Benton Harbor, Michigan, see a long, brightly lit, silver cylinder at about 6,000 feet altitude. It stays stationary for 30 minutes, then moves southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Complete Details on the Michigan- Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5759 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18600 (3D8F9D2F) Date: 7/29/1978 End date: 7/30/1978 Description: The 1978 MUFON UFO Symposium takes place in Dayton, Ohio. Ufologist [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) announces that he has collected more than 50 sources with “information relative to the subject of retrievals or storage of alien craft, and/or deceased alien humanoids recovered from the craft.” He presents 17 witness testimonies to the audience as evidence of some 9–10 possible retrievals of crashed or downed UFOs, although his refusal to provide their names embroils him in controversy. This is the first of his seven “status reports” on accounts and rumors about UFO crash/retrievals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, “[Retrievals of the Third Kind,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/1978-mufon-symposium)” 1978 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1978, pp. 77–105; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 75–76; Leonard Stringfield, “The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s Cage,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 145–147 Source ID: Eberhart_5767 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18601 (1DC2A065) Date: 7/29/1978 Description: 2:40 a.m. A Coast Guard vessel in Lake Superior among the Apostle Islands, Wisconsin, sees a large, yellow- white, oblong object that appears and reappears briefly in a slightly different position each time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5766 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18602 (C4DC4657) Date: 7/29/1978 Description: 12:45 a.m. Seaman Gary Randall and another witness at the Two Rivers Coast Guard station see another UFO closing in from the southwest. It approaches for 40 seconds then stops for 1 minute. Then it flies northeast and shoots straight up and out of sight in 20 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5765 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18603 (5668C503) Date: 7/29/1978 Description: 12:25 a.m. Coast Guard observers at the Grassy Island Range Lighthouse in Green Bay, Wisconsin, report to Two Rivers that they are seeing a UFO heading to the west at high speed with white and red flashing lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_5764 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18604 (4C86FE6E) Date: 7/29/1978 Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_317 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18605 (52C3D887) Date: 7/29/1978 Description: 12:01 a.m. A second westbound light is seen by Coast Guard at the Ludington, Michigan, station. It has red lights and very bright strobes flashing erratically. The Two Rivers, Wisconsin, station spots an object 3 minutes later, but it is moving north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5763 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18606 (5E8035E7) Date: 7/29/1978 Description: On this day in 1978 a 15-year-old boy and his grandfather spied an eight-foot tall hairy creature by the river in Little River, Texas. They were working in a nearby field when they saw the Bigfoot-like creature. It left footprints 14" long and 9" wide. A Sheriff measured the footprints left behind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, September 1978, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_4492 Source: Johnson ### Event 18607 (902DF676) Date: 7/29/1978 Description: At 12:25 a.m. the Green Bay, Wisconsin lighthouse keeper reported that he had seen a UFO heading westbound at high rate of speed. It had an irregularly flashing white light and red lights. At 2:40 a.m. a U.S. Coast Guard craft near Apostle Island, Wisconsin on Lake Superior saw a large, yellow-white oblong object. There were five separate sightings reported of the object. Witnesses also reportedly saw the Aurora Borealis and several meteors. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_4491 Source: Johnson ### Event 18608 (BA746C19) Date: 7/29/1978 Description: Ufologist Leonard Stringfield gives his first talk on Crash Retrievals in Dayton, OH. He is threatened twice (by phone and then in person), moved to a location not of his choosing by security men with radios. Type: public presentation Reference: [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/crash-retrieval-researcher-leonard-stringfield-was-threatened-twice-before-his-first-1978-talk-595d255f2c9b) Location: Dayton, OH Source ID: Maj2_703 Source: Maj2 ### Event 18609 (F0C7A78B) Date: 7/30/1978 Description: In Norway on a farm between the towns of Hageltjern and Hageland in Hordaland province a small disc, described as a 0.4 meter in diameter extremely bright circular object, landed at 1:00 a.m. and scorched the earth and vegetation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, February 1980 Source ID: Johnson_4508 Source: Johnson ### Event 18610 (199C33B0) Date: 8/1978 Description: Bank manager Serrano Silva and a Columbian Navy officer suffer temporary paralysis when a flying object buzzes their car on a highway between Tunja and Bogotá, Columbia. The car’s engine and headlights die. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[South](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95564342/) [America: Hotbed of Bizarre UFO Sightings,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95564342/)” Windsor \(Ont.\) Star, November 14, 1978, p. 20 Source ID: Eberhart_5768 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18611 (BB58952C) Date: 8/1/1978 Description: A 12-year-old son of a prominent local doctor encountered an unusual humanoid creature not far from a mine in an isolated area near Lewiston, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 917, citing Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact Source ID: Johnson_4578 Source: Johnson ### Event 18612 (E6E85CFD) Date: 8/1/1978 Description: A six-month-pregnant woman in Clarksville, Tennessee had been taking a nap around 10:00 p.m. when she woke up to see a large craft hovering outside the upstairs window, over a nearby wood shack. Her husband saw the object too. She fainted but then heard a voice in a thick Middle Eastern accent that told her to open her eyes. When she did eyes she was confronted by a tall creature resembling an insect, thin and white in color, wearing a dark outfit. It communicated with her by using telepathy. There were several other similar creatures wearing jumpsuits standing in the room. Their heads were large and rounded. The witness conducted a mental conversation with the leader, and asked it several questions about its origin. The witness suddenly panicked and screamed and began to faint, and some of the creatures began backing away. But moments later a long needle was painfully inserted into her belly. She then passed out, and awoke later to see the taller creature talking to the others. At one point the witness claimed she saw several helicopters flying around the hovering craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 3201, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_4579 Source: Johnson ### Event 18613 (06B4B79F) Date: 8/1/1978 Description: A woman had been taking a nap when she woke up to see a large craft hovering outside the upstairs window, over a nearby wood shack. She fainted and then heard a voice telling her to open her eyes. When she did she was confronted by a tall creature resembling an insect, thin and white in color, wearing a dark outfit. It communicated with her by using telepathy. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clarksville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4979 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18614 (85A85B5E) Date: 8/3/1978 Description: 7:20 p.m. An engineer, his wife, and his daughter are driving toward Nurmijärvi, Finland, when a 6-foot oval with clear black contours and a light-colored center flies silently in front of them, moving from right to left in 5– 10 seconds before vanishing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 \(Oct./Nov. 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5769 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18615 (83EECB4A) Date: 8/3/1978 Description: 10:50 p.m. During a mini-flap of UFO sightings in Lowell, Massachusetts, a couple watch an oval light that has rising bands of shifting colors hovering above trees to the northwest. The man jumps in the car to drive to it as the woman continues watching and sees a smaller light appear to its right. A third light appears to the left, which swings above the first light and joins the second one. All of the lights vanish. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-9-104,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5770 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18616 (F200581C) Date: 8/4/1978 Description: 9:30 p.m. A 12-year-old boy in East Leroy, Michigan, hears a noise and looks out his window to watch a silver cigar drop vertically downward to a position 100 feet away and 15 feet up. It snaps into a horizontal position and hovers for 5–10 seconds. A white, steam-like exhaust emits from a funnel at its rear and steams up the boy’s window. After a few more seconds it zooms off into the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-9-107,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5771 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18617 (4F9492AA) Date: 8/5/1978 Description: (1) On an overcast day at 11:30 a.m. a group of witnesses on a boat on Lake Crescent, Tasmania encountered a 30-meter long, dark brown cigar-shaped object, half a meter wide and only a meter or two above the water. It moved away quickly. (2) That evening on Lake Sorell, Tasmania the area was illuminated by a flying object. A nocturnal light maneuvered back and forth for 30 minutes, then faded away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Xenolog, December 1978, p. 19; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12755; (2) Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, August 1978, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_4694 Source: Johnson ### Event 18618 (CB6C597C) Date: 8/5/1978 Description: At one p.m. a large, dark cigar-shaped object with a white spot flew toward the northwest over Gatwick International Airport in England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12756, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_4695 Source: Johnson ### Event 18619 (06BDD095) Date: 8/5/1978 Description: At 11:15 p.m. a TV director and another 40-year-old man had a close encounter with a whirring, gray triangular object while driving two miles southeast of Laurie, Missouri on Highway 5. Their close encounter lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 8; UNICAT, case 572, citing IUR Source ID: Johnson_4696 Source: Johnson ### Event 18620 (1A854415) Date: 8/5/1978 Description: 9:50 p.m. A family on the shore of Lake Sorell, Tasmania, watch a glow behind a hill to the south. Within minutes, the whole area lights up and a small white light appears, moving back and forth at tree level. It remains visible 20–30 minutes, then disappears suddenly. Earlier in the day, another group had reported a brown, cigar- shaped object over nearby Lake Crescent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Launceston Examiner, August 12, 1978; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5772 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18621 (8C7D80B8) Date: 8/5/1978 Description: 11:15 p.m. A TV director is driving northwest on State Highway 5 about 2 miles southeast of Laurie, Missouri. He and his son watch two red lights rise up about 25 feet off the road to their left to an altitude of 30 feet. They are attached to a triangular object that flies over their car to their right, cut back to the top of a hill, turn around, and approach them again, only to descend behind trees. The rear dimension of the triangle is about 10–15 feet across. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-9-120,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_5773 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18622 (99F6E6B6) Date: 8/6/1978 Description: Antonis Coulouris was driving his truck on a country road between Agia Marva and Lefkohori, Greece at night when he suddenly saw several "giant humanoids" caught by the truck's headlights. Terrified, he put the truck in reverse to get away and drove about 60 meters until the engine stopped functioning. The lights went out and it felt like something was shakinghis truck. For 15 seconds he tried to turn on the engine with no success, but after that the shaking stopped and the engine again functioned normally. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Makis Nodaros Source ID: Johnson_4741 Source: Johnson ### Event 18623 (45D6E6A9) Date: 8/6/1978 Description: Several reports were received by the police from the public in Billinghurst, England of a UFO in the sky, so a police cruiser was dispatched. On arrival at 9:35 p.m. Officer Page saw a triangular UFO hovering motionless in sky as clouds passed by. After a short while it flew away toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine, July 2003, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_4742 Source: Johnson ### Event 18624 (FCA80A16) Date: 8/7/1978 Description: 9:00 PM. Light with whirring noise paced car for several minutes. (IUR,3,9) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Peoria, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_4981 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18625 (671A0C79) Date: 8/7/1978 Description: 10:00 p.m. A couple is driving west on War Memorial Drive to a First Assembly of God church in Peoria, Illinois when they see a shooting star fly across their view. Five minutes later, they arrive at church and, walking behind it, see a bright white light with flashing red and blue lights hovering about 40 feet in the air for 5–7 minutes. It shoots off to the east in a split second. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-9-132,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5774 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18626 (A5B594BC) Date: 8/8/1978 Description: At 9:40 p.m. in Belton, Missouri several military personnel witnessed the flyover of a UFO that was tracked on radar. The encounter lasted 45 minutes. A cattle mutilation had been discovered earlier that day in Elsberry, Missouri. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 3; UNICAT database, case 145; (2) Elsberry Democrat, August 10, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_4779 Source: Johnson ### Event 18627 (269A2BF9) Date: 8/8/1978 Description: Heavily-witnessed radar-visual case near Kansas City. In Belton, Missouri several military personnel witnessed the flyover of a UFO that was tracked on radar. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [780808](http://nicap.org/780808beltondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belton, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_4982 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18628 (9B748858) Date: 8/8/1978 Description: A group of tourists along the shore of the Sea of Azov near Henichesk, Ukraine, see a flying disc three times larger than the moon. It has protrusions on the top and bottom, two rows of portholes, and is surrounded by a bright orange glow. Every 15 seconds, smaller discs \(a total of 15–20\) fly out from the lower protrusion, accompanied by a blinding explosion. They hover for a few seconds then depart rapidly to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 176 Source ID: Eberhart_5775 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18629 (01557CE6) Date: 8/8/1978 Description: 9:40 p.m. Witnesses in Belton, Missouri, and several military personnel at nearby Richards-Gebaur Air Reserve Station \[now closed\] witness the flyover of a UFO that is also briefly tracked on radar. Joseph Staudinger Jr. sees the object at about 2,800 feet in altitude and looking like two white strobe lights in front and back with three rows of red lights that are rotating around its middle. The encounter lasts 45 minutes. A cattle mutilation has been discovered earlier that day in Elsberry, Missouri. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Heavily-Witnessed Radar-Visual Case near Kansas City,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 3–6 Source ID: Eberhart_5776 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18630 (3BEC4D2E) Date: 8/10/1978 Description: A mushroom-shaped object was sighted at close range over a military base in General Belgrano. The object was several meters in diameter, and had an array of flashing lights around its rim. It flew at a low altitude, and hovered for 10 minutes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: General Belgrano, Santa Fe, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_4983 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18631 (3C5CD68B) Date: 8/10/1978 Description: CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator Gene F. Wilson asks [Todd Zechel](https://www.wiscnews.com/saukprairieeagle/news/local/obituaries/w-todd-zechel-of-prairie-du-sac---published/article%5F696590a6-91c6-5248-a014-2cccc841c5b6.html) of CAUS to suspend his FOIA request until he has a chance to look at the 1,000 pages of documents that are currently under review for release. Most of these files are from the Office of Scientific Intelligence in the 1950s, leading CAUS to suspect that they will mostly consist of Air Force and Navy UFO reports, plus some records of unauthorized CIA investigations. \( Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “GSW + FOIA + CIA = 1,000 Pages of UFO Information,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5777 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18632 (3E7FAA0D) Date: 8/10/1978 Description: A mushroom-shaped object was sighted at close range over a military base in General Belgrano, Santa Fe Province, Argentina on this night. The object was several meters in diameter, and had an array of flashing lights around its rim. It flew at a low altitude, and hovered for 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1978, p. 14, citing Cronica, August 13, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_4827 Source: Johnson ### Event 18633 (5277A85E) Date: 8/11/1978 Description: Silver dome-shaped object, green glow, hovered overhead, began circling. E-M effects, dogs whined. UFO finally took off at high speed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Roosevelt, UT Source ID: HallUFOE2_318 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18634 (508622AC) Date: 8/11/1978 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_319 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18635 (C36016A0) Date: 8/11/1978 Description: At 10:50 p.m. MDT in Roosevelt, Utah Mr. Murray also saw a silvery domed disc that made a purring sound. It had a green glow and hovered overhead, and then began circling. His dog whined and his household appliances quit working while the UFO was close by. It took off at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maiden (NC) Times, August 16, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_4890 Source: Johnson ### Event 18636 (49797EA2) Date: 8/11/1978 Description: On the island of Corsica three witnesses in San Lucie, Tallano, France had a close encounter at 10:40 p.m. with a UFO that responded to a spotlight shone in its direction. The UFO, viewed through binoculars, made quick jumps as it maneuvered. Two more objects followed the same path as the first. The sightings lasted 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12765, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 239 Source ID: Johnson_4888 Source: Johnson ### Event 18637 (97DA2D69) Date: 8/11/1978 Description: Silver dome-shaped object, green glow, hovered overhead, began circling; E-M effects, dogs whined; UFO finally took off at high speed (section V). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Roosevelt, UT Source ID: NICAP_DB_4984 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18638 (450CDC0A) Date: 8/11/1978 Description: At 10:55 EDT in Buffalo Shoals, North Carolina Mr. T. Mayo saw a domed disc that made a humming sound. The engine and headlight of his motorcycle died when he passed close by a domed disc hovering low by the ground. The object then shot straight up into the sky making a humming noise. At 11:59 p.m. EDT a deputy sheriff in Great Mills, Maryland used his police cruiser's spotlight to attempt to illuminate a cigar-shaped UFO he was viewing just over a nearby tree. It evaded his attempts to do so. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 23, 175, 182, 191; International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_4889 Source: Johnson ### Event 18639 (2241960D) Date: 8/11/1978 Description: Glowing, yellow domed disc passed nearby, hovered, shot straight up, humming noise. MUFON UFO Journal, August 1988, p. 16; Maiden, N.C. Times, Aug. 16, 1978 (E,L) motorcycle (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Buffalo Shoals, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_4985 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18640 (D2494329) Date: 8/11/1978 Description: A deputy sheriff in a police cruiser in Great Mills, St. Marys county, Maryland at 11:59 p.m. attempted to use a spotlight to illuminate a vaguely defined, silver blimp or cigar-shaped UFO that was just over the tree top level and some mobile homes. The object had a "cloudy" fog-enveloped underside, and it successfully hid from the five witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 9; UNICAT, case # 151; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 63 Source ID: Johnson_4891 Source: Johnson ### Event 18641 (36FFA644) Date: 8/11/1978 Description: 11:59 p.m. A deputy sheriff and four youngsters are driving on Chancellors Run Road in Great Mills, Maryland, when they see a silvery, blimp-shaped light hovering at treetop level above some trailers. It appears larger than a full moon. The deputy shines the cruiser’s spotlight toward it and scans the length of the object, yet the beam does not light up the large shape. She drives closer, but the UFO begins to get cloudy on its underside and moves slowly behind the trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-9-184,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5778 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18642 (DA2C41BE) Date: 8/12/1978 Description: 9:25 p.m. A young couple in Niceville, Florida, are driving on a dirt road when a lighted object that looks like an eye moves toward them. The center part is like shiny black glass and the body is metallic silver with two antennae on top. It fills half the windshield in angular size as it moves over the roof of the car. They hear no noise and feel no rush of wind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 3-9-187,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(September 1978\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5779 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18643 (722764D9) Date: 8/12/1978 Description: Two 21-year-old college students were driving in Niceville, Florida near Eglin Air Force Base when suddenly an oval-shaped UFO rushed at their car. At close approach it had the appearance of an "eye-like" form, with a "cornea" of shiny black glass, and a "body" of metallic silver. The object also had two antennas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 6; UNICAT, case # 152, citing IUR Source ID: Johnson_4955 Source: Johnson ### Event 18644 (BBF380B8) Date: 8/13/1978 Description: Viewed thru binoculars. A silent metallic cylindrical object with a turbine wheel at the rear end was viewed through binoculars for two minutes over Villaverde del Rio, Sevilla province, Spain at 1:00 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1979 Source ID: Johnson_4979 Source: Johnson ### Event 18645 (65548A7A) Date: 8/15/1978 Description: In La Paz, Bolivia a buzzing sound woke the male witness up on this night. He looked out from his house and saw a nearly featureless, silver fuselage hovering in the sky, glowing a luminous green color. It reportedly had portholes. The sighting lasted for more than two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12769, citing UFO Roundup, Volume 2, number 35 Source ID: Johnson_5049 Source: Johnson ### Event 18646 (71780E02) Date: 8/16/1978 Description: Air traffic controllers at Gatwick Airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, see a UFO but decline to say exactly what it is. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 72](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/72/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5780 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18647 (21440880) Date: 8/17/1978 Description: Assistant US Attorney for the District of Columbia William Briggs asks [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) of Ground Saucer Watch to identify broadly all categories of UFO documents to enable the CIA to search for all its UFO records. Based on a draft by [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm)[,](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) Gersten prepares a stipulation that requests the CIA to conduct a reasonable search of 22 CIA component branches. US District Court Judge [John H. Pratt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FH.%5FPratt) makes the order a binding one, giving the CIA until mid-December to complete the task. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “GSW + FOIA + CIA = 1,000 Pages of UFO Information,” IUR 3, no. 8 \(August 1978\): 9–10 Source ID: Eberhart_5781 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18648 (83F3B3A9) Date: 8/17/1978 Description: 10:30 p.m. Radars of the Air Self-Defense Corps at Nemuro Radar Site on Hokkaido, Japan, pick up a target flying from the north to south-southwest at about 40 mph more than a half-mile above Nemuro Channel south of Kunashir Island. It approaches the eastern end of Hokkaido and is later picked up by radars at Cape Erimo. Two F-4EJ Phantom jets are scrambled from Chitose Air Base about 10 minutes later and are guided to the targets, now in the vicinity of Nakashibetsu. But the pilots can see nothing on their airborne radars and return empty- handed. The target persists on ground scopes, moving south toward Kushiro. Twice more, jets are sent up but fail to detect a blip. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 \(September 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5782 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18649 (E86377D2) Date: 8/18/1978 Description: A 60-foot in diameter domed disc, with an antenna with a red light on top of it, was seen in close vicinity in Port Crane, New York at 11:15 p.m. It had an arrow-like projection of light. It hovered for 30 seconds at 45 feet above the ground, causing TV interference and setting off the buzzing of a magnetic detector. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1978, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 136, citing IUR Source ID: Johnson_5134 Source: Johnson ### Event 18650 (0D9668FD) Date: 8/18/1978 Description: A large glowing disc-shaped UFO was seen in a forest near Gravigny, Eure department, France at 10:30 p.m. It flashes red, slowly ascended vertically slowly, and then made a quick 90-degree turn, finally shooting off to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1979 Source ID: Johnson_5133 Source: Johnson ### Event 18651 (5293FC42) Date: 8/18/1978 Description: 11:20 p.m. A relative staying at the home of UFO researcher Douglas Dains in Port Crane, New York, notices the reception on the television is disrupted shortly before a UFO detector \(a magnetic field instrument\) starts buzzing. Dains himself is not at home. The relative steps outside and sees a domed UFO with a red light on top of an antenna approach from the northwest to a position 50 feet behind a tree and 45 feet in the air. It hovers there for 30 seconds. It then departs to the southwest, disappearing behind a mountain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Absent UFO Researcher,” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_5783 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18652 (79633B09) Date: 8/20/1978 Description: 1:30 a.m. A nurse is sitting in her car on Oberlin Street in Maplewood, New Jersey, when she sees an object shaped like a car fender with four blue lights moving toward her from the east. She gets out of her car as it flies overhead. Then it stays in place, rocking silently back and forth, before taking off to the northeast, making a machine-like noise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Huge ‘Car Fender,’” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_5784 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18653 (237AD66C) Date: 8/20/1978 Description: A 64-year old security guard was on patrol in downtown Toledo looking at a "large plane" approaching from the north against a clear, pre-sunset sky. As it passed overhead at a uniform speed, about 1500-2000 feet up, it could be resolved that it was actually a cigar shape. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4986 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18654 (9E1C454E) Date: 8/20/1978 Description: A 64-year old man in Toledo, Ohio witnessed a dull silver silent fuselage at 7:30 p.m. that flew to the south on steady course and speed, at an estimated altitude of 2000 feet. It was twice the apparent size of the Moon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1978, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_5192 Source: Johnson ### Event 18655 (13FD592F) Date: 8/20/1978 Description: 7:30 p.m. A 64-year old security guard is on patrol in downtown Toledo, Ohio, looking at a “large plane” approaching from the north. As it passes overhead at a uniform speed, about 1,500–2,000 feet up, it is seen as a cigar with small brackets. It is dull silver, distinctly outlined, and twice the angular size of the full moon. It then continues its straight path southbound to the horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Daylight Urban ‘Cigar,’” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5785 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18656 (4C222A32) Date: 8/21/1978 Description: 5:30 p.m. A 33-year old housewife, in the company of her children, 8 and 10, watches a silver Frisbee-like object from their front porch 3 miles north of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. Standing outdoors, they see the saucer in the southeast, much larger than a full moon would look, perhaps as large as a car. The Frisbee has a sharp outline and metallic appearance. No sound can be heard over the heavy traffic noise. According to the children, it then shoots over to the southwest in two seconds. Finally, it moves straight up out of sight in an instant. Duration is 5–8 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Daylight ‘Frisbee,’” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5787 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18657 (CAA4D195) Date: 8/21/1978 Description: Night. The Madagascar Interior Ministry announces that a UFO has crashed and exploded in the marketplace at Fort-Dauphin. Radio Madagascar says that the cigar-shaped object had lit up the ground before plunging downward. Locals rush out of bed to put out the flames. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 \(Oct./Nov. 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5788 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18658 (D36B7339) Date: 8/21/1978 Description: A 33-year old housewife, in the company of her 8- and 10-year old children, watched a silver "frisbee" from their front porch. Standing outdoors, looking up at the clear sky, they saw the saucer in the SE, much larger than a full moon would look (at night) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4987 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18659 (AC97B94A) Date: 8/21/1978 Description: 5:00 p.m. A witness sketches an oblong UFO over an open area near Banksville, New York. It is at least 150–200 feet long with while and blue colors, two lights in front, and silent. It disappears over a golf course t the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Long Rectangular UFOs: Five Different Cases of Similarly Shaped Objects,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 9 \(September 1981\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_5786 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18660 (459A77BB) Date: 8/21/1978 Description: Evelyn Clayton's family and friends were out on the front porch of her home near Minerva, Ohio at 10:30 p.m. when they heard noises coming from the direction of an old chicken coop just to the right of the house. They then saw two pairs of yellow lights that seemed to be reflecting a porch light. Scott Patterson went to his car and turned the headlights on in hopes of getting a better look. They could now see that the lights were eyes on what appeared to be two cougar-like animals. Then the group saw what looked like a large hairy bipedal creature step in front of the large cats as if to protect them. This humanoid then lurched towards the Patterson's car. The witnesses fled inside the house and called the sheriff's office. The hairy bipedal creature appeared at the kitchen window while they were waiting for the deputy sheriffs to arrive. Patterson pointed a 22-caliber pistol at it, while Evelyn Clayton loaded a .22 caliber rifle. The creature stood outside the window for close to ten minutes. They decided they would not shoot it unless the creature made advances toward them. It left quickly without harming anyone. A strong stench resembling "ammonia sulfur" remained in the area long after the creature was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 3061, citing Ron Schaffner Source ID: Johnson_5212 Source: Johnson ### Event 18661 (E1BD99B4) Date: 8/22/1978 Description: On the same night as the hunters' close encounter experience in Argentina, several guests were having dinner outdoors at a resort on top of a cliff in Southampton, Bermuda. They saw what first appeared to them to be a helicopter approaching. When the UFO got closer it shone a blood red spotlight on the witnesses, and they now realized that what they were seeing was really a 30-foot in diameter disc-shaped object. The craft had brightly lit rectangular windows around its perimeter. The main witness and several of the other guests could now see several Grey figures that appeared to be waving at them; one of the beings stared directly at one of the witnesses. After about a minute the silent craft flew out over the ocean and disappeared. At this point, several military jets appeared and appeared to give pursuit to the object. Later that night, at around 5:00 a.m., the wife of the main witness woke up and was startled to see a short figure standing in their room. The figure raised one hand, waved, then lept right out the balcony window, a distance of about 10 feet, never touching the rail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1978 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3618, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_5234 Source: Johnson ### Event 18662 (3C484CDF) Date: 8/22/1978 Description: On this night at 9:30 p.m. three hunters near Coronel Dorrego, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina heard strange noises, then smelled a sulphur odor. They next saw a circular UFO with a black center and white edges, and giving off blue reflections, only 100 meters away from them. They jumped in their car to drive away, but suddenly found themselves 50 meters away, with the car facing the other way. This suggests that they experienced a period of missing time lasting at least several minutes, but from the account no one appears to have investigated this further. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1978, p. 14, translating a newspaper article from Cronica, August 25, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_5233 Source: Johnson ### Event 18663 (2ADDD352) Date: 8/22/1978 Description: Ten years to the day after the Kalgoorlie, Western Australia aerial encounter of 1968 another nearly identical incident transpired, again over Western Australia. Flying from Adelaide to Perth a Murchison Air Services airliner encountered a large cigar-shaped object that flew ahead of the airliner. An opening appeared in the object, and smaller UFOs emerged and maneuvered around it, then reentered, and the UFO finally shot off at tremendous speed. When the large object emitted the smaller satellite objects the aircraft's radio failed until the small objects had re-entered and the parent object had sped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 23; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 23,124 Source ID: Johnson_5232 Source: Johnson ### Event 18664 (CB95B9F9) Date: 8/22/1978 Description: Four rnen were driving in a car pool to work watched a small circular, vague "cloud" descend suddenly in the South. As they watched the cloud before them while driving at expressway speeds, they watched it change to a bright silver and hover, though rocking from side to side. It now looked solid and metallic. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Moscow, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4989 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18665 (A9D355A0) Date: 8/22/1978 Description: Large object w/satellite objects near a/c. E-M (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Perth, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_4988 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18666 (C09B9C6C) Date: 8/22/1978 Description: 7:03 a.m. Four men are driving in a carpool from Moscow, Pennsylvania, to work at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Coolbaugh Township on I-380. They watch a small circular “cloud” descend suddenly in the south. It changes to a bright silver and hovers, rocking from side to side. It now looks solid and metallic. It rises slightly and flies off to the southeast at an estimated 800–900 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Daylight ‘Cloud,’” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5789 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18667 (F67630AC) Date: 8/22/1978 Description: An oval-shaped translucent object ringed by a halo of light flies silently over the Andes Mountains in Neuquen province, Argentina, in a 300-mile path. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Close Encounters Thrill Latins,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97272984/)” Detroit \(Mich.\) Free Press, November 22, 1978, p. 6C Source ID: Eberhart_5790 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18668 (9DAED253) Date: 8/22/1978 Description: Object ahead of airliner, opening appeared, smaller objects emerged, maneuvered around it, reentered and "departed at a tremendous speed." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Adelaide to Perth, Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_320 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18669 (EF2116E5) Date: 8/23/1978 Description: 8:04 p.m. P. A. Hadden is on board the tanker MV Ficus in the Indian Ocean \[or the South China Sea\] 260 miles from the Malacca Strait. He watches an elongated triangle formation of three lights moving in from 60° above the northeast horizon. When they reach 75°, nearly overhead, the lights suddenly stop. He estimates them to be 100 miles high. The light in the right rear continues moving in the opposite direction of the ship and off to its left at great speed, disappearing in the distance; the light in the left rear shifts over to occupy the position in the formation it had occupied. After 5 seconds of remaining still, it shoots back to the left again and departs at high speed. The remaining light rushes forward, following the same path as the first light. Total duration of the sighting is 1 minute 20 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 \(Oct./Nov. 1978\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5791 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18670 (734B57EE) Date: 8/23/1978 Description: A young motorist reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown as he encountered several tall humanoids with human features near Santiago, Chile. The beings were wearing helmets and standing on the roadway. Two other motorists also reported seeing similar beings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1978 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1017, citing Marcen Journal, Volume 2, number 2 Source ID: Johnson_5264 Source: Johnson ### Event 18671 (9AD19D18) Date: 8/23/1978 Description: On this night on the highway between La Serena and Coquimbo, Chile a UFO was seen by two motorists. Inside the craft were two figures wearing a kind of helmet similar to those used by miners; the helmets were luminous. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1956 Source ID: Johnson_5265 Source: Johnson ### Event 18672 (CC469C02) Date: 8/23/1978 Description: At 8:15 a.m. in the Baltic Sea 40 nautical miles off of Cape Hel a Polish vessel had radar malfunction and TV interference when it encountered a red ball of light in the sky. The crew reported a strange smell, one man's leg was paralyzed, he felt nauseous, and lost consciousness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Cashman, Project 1947 website, EM effects Source ID: Johnson_5267 Source: Johnson ### Event 18673 (2DEAF68B) Date: 8/23/1978 Description: On this night in Penalva, Maranhao State, Brazil a witness saw three medium-sized humanoid figures in a field. They were wearing silvery, loose-fitting coveralls, and round translucent helmets with what appeared to be face coverings or "plates". The humanoids were encased in an eerie glow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1978 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Antonio Faleiro Source ID: Johnson_5266 Source: Johnson ### Event 18674 (0E3E75DA) Date: 8/24/1978 Description: 10:00 p.m. A 54-year old cook is driving north from her brother’s house about 10 miles south of Ottumwa, Iowa. She is on Cliffland Road alongside the Des Moines River in a wooded, rural area. A full-moon-sized red- orange light shoots silently from the east to the west in several seconds. As it flies across the front of her car, her windshield fogs up and the car stalls out to a stop. The interference lasts only a few seconds, and the car restarts without her turning the key; the window defogs as quickly as it had steamed up. She last sees the light against a background of trees up ahead, lower than the treetops. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Car Interference in Iowa,” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5792 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18675 (6280688C) Date: 8/24/1978 Description: At 11:40 p.m. in Ginghamsburg, Ohio two orange lights flew close to a car with two 19-year-old teenage girls as passengers, causing the engine to lose power as they drove past. The lights gave off a humming sound. One shone a light beam on the witnesses for about a second. When the witnesses looked back, the lights were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allen Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1978, p. 14; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, page 73; UNICAT, case 141; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 257 Source ID: Johnson_5299 Source: Johnson ### Event 18676 (2126CBB6) Date: 8/24/1978 Description: 11:40 p.m. Two 19-year old girls, driving west near tiny Ginghamsburg, Ohio, watch two oddly colored orange lights twice the size of aircraft landing lights. A humming sound can be heard both from the lights and from the car radio. The driver can’t get the car to go faster than about 20 mph. The lights are coming from the left, one directly over the other. They look away momentarily and the lights are gone; they look again, and the lights are moving above the car. From the south they have moved to the northwest over a field. A rod or a light beam comes down from one ball of light and shines a light at the witnesses for one second. The driver tries to flash the car lights at it, to no avail. They look away briefly and do not notice how the lights vanish. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Car Interference in Ohio?” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5793 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18677 (3BA9A981) Date: 8/24/1978 Description: Red-orange object flew in front of car, windshield fogged up; engine restarted by itself. International UFO Reporter, December 1978, see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 73 (E) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ottumwa, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4991 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18678 (C73F00EE) Date: 8/24/1978 Description: On this afternoon six children from a local school in Hamburg, Germany saw a round silvery object slowly descend and land in an open field. The object had two round black dots on its side. A ladder descended from the craft, and two human-like figures emerged; they wore white helmets and dark uniforms. The witnesses ran to get some help, but upon returning both the object and the figures were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1978 Humanoid Contact Database, case # 205, citing Ulrich Magin Source ID: Johnson_5297 Source: Johnson ### Event 18679 (636A3370) Date: 8/24/1978 Description: Two orange lights, humming sound, light beam shone onto car. International UFO Reporter, December 1978, see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 73 (E,R) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ginghamsburg, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_4990 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18680 (0DF6959E) Date: 8/24/1978 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a red-orange object flew in front of a car being driven by a 54-year-old woman, ten miles south of Ottumwa, Iowa. Mist, fog, and condensation were noted. The car engine died and the windshield fogged up by the close presence of the UFO. The nocturnal light then flew behind some trees, after which the engine restarted by itself. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allen Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1978, p. 14; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, page 73; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 257 Source ID: Johnson_5298 Source: Johnson ### Event 18681 (E58739F2) Date: 8/24/1978 Description: On this night a luminous craft descended in La Serena, Chile. It was reportedly very big in size. Two beings of human shape (perhaps the same two seen in Germany earlier in the day), paralyzed the witness. He tried to run, but fainted in the roadway. On the same night eight military pilots reported they saw several UFOs maneuver in the area around their air base in Temuco, Chile. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: La Razon, August 27, 1978; Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1978, p. 15; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1957 Source ID: Johnson_5300 Source: Johnson ### Event 18682 (474664BB) Date: 8/25/1978 Description: A young couple in Villa Carlos Paz, Entre Rios, Argentina was pursued by a UFO that gave off a yellow light with violet flashes and left a brilliant trail. It made a high-pitched humming sound like jet turbines, and made two turns over their vicinity. To get away they hid in an abandoned house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 16, citing Cronica, September 27, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_5332 Source: Johnson ### Event 18683 (459610E2) Date: 8/26/1978 Description: At ten o'clock in the evening two witnesses in a car in Hyannis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod watched an oval-shaped craft hovering low over the US Route 6 road. Within the craft several figures could be seen moving about behind several rectangular windows. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 2358, citing Raymond E. Fowler Source ID: Johnson_5376 Source: Johnson ### Event 18684 (53FD91FD) Date: 8/26/1978 Description: Two witnesses in a car on Cape Cod watched an oval-shaped craft hovering low over the US Route 6 road. Within the craft several figures could be seen moving about behind several rectangular windows. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hyannis, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4992 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18685 (382D34F0) Date: 8/27/1978 Description: A private plane flying over Massachusetts Bay, 10 miles north-northwest of Provincetown had a near collision at 2500' with a 18-foot diameter silver disc. Ground radar confirmed the presence of the unknown craft. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Provincetown, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_4994 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18686 (B8A601B1) Date: 8/27/1978 Description: 1:40 p.m. Arthur Silva is flying a Cessna 150 about 10 miles north of Provincetown, Massachusetts, with Harold Johnson as passenger. Johnson sees a bright reflective object at the same altitude \(2,500 feet\) directly ahead about 4 miles away. It moves closer, picking up speed and shooting by them at about 600 mph, apparently missing the plane by 1,000 feet. It is a silvery-white, metallic sphere with no wings and about 18 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Daylight Sphere over Massachusetts,” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5794 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18687 (58B1443A) Date: 8/27/1978 Description: 4:45 p.m. A Korean War veteran in Gloucester, Massachusetts, watches a bright yellow cylinder approaching him from low in the north. At an altitude of 2,000 feet, it appears smaller than an F-100 fighter. It moves off to the south, flying faster than a jet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “And Then, 3 Hours Later,” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5795 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18688 (FEE64DCC) Date: 8/27/1978 Description: A private plane flying over Massachusetts Bay, 10 miles north-northwest of Provincetown, Massachusetts had a near collision with a 18-foot diameter silver disc at 1:40 in the afternoon. Ground radar confirmed the presence of the unknown craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1978, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_5401 Source: Johnson ### Event 18689 (9E7A12C5) Date: 8/28/1978 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a small, sombrero-shaped domed disc stopped near the town of Fontenet, Charente-Maritime, France for a brief while. It flew off to the northeast, changing colors with its acceleration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1981 Source ID: Johnson_5437 Source: Johnson ### Event 18690 (B186BD9F) Date: 8/28/1978 Description: Six papers are presented at the American Psychological Association Symposium in Toronto, Ontario, relating to the topic of using hypnosis to investigate UFO experiences. The presenters are H. Kent Newman, [R.](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) [Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) [James Harder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FHarder) [Alvin Lawson](https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-xpm-2010-sep-27-la-me-alvin-lawson-20100927-story.html)[,](https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-xpm-2010-sep-27-la-me-alvin-lawson-20100927-story.html) W. C. McCall, and [Michael Persinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FPersinger)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FPersinger)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Ufologists Meet the Social Scientists,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 \(Oct./Nov. 1978\): 19–21 Source ID: Eberhart_5796 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18691 (7EB00F12) Date: 8/28/1978 Description: US private aircraft with three witnesses at 33,000' observed three UFOs for 1/2 minute. (Haines printout) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In air space, W. Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_4996 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18692 (53807EF9) Date: 8/28/1978 Description: Two witnesses on the 5th floor of an apartment building in Livorno, Italy were awakened by a buzzing noise. They looked out, and saw a domed disc at only 30 meters altitude. It had a transparent dome. After a couple minutes it flew away, gaining altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12789, citing ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_5435 Source: Johnson ### Event 18693 (635B40A0) Date: 8/28/1978 Description: aT 12:43 P.M. Two small metallic spheres and an oval-shaped object followed a Boeing 727 airliner over Mattenheim, Germany. They ascended and flew off to the east in sequence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 41; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 160 Source ID: Johnson_5436 Source: Johnson ### Event 18694 (34C2F895) Date: 8/29/1978 Description: An ovoid object with reddish flashes moved at a low altitude in the proximity of the local observatory. Residents discarded the notion that it was a plane. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Guemes, Cordoba province, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_4997 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18695 (D225DF27) Date: 8/29/1978 Description: On this night in Guemes, Cordoba province, Argentina an ovoid object with reddish flashes moved at a low altitude in the proximity of the local observatory. Residents discarded the notion that it was a plane. At 11:00 p.m. two UFOs appeared in the skies over the city of Mendoza, Argentina. Their estimated speed was 6000 kph, altitude 30,000-40,000 meters, and they were photographed with "special cameras and techniques." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 14, citing Cronica, August 29 & 31, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_5469 Source: Johnson ### Event 18696 (5738B6EF) Date: 8/30/1978 Description: 11:10 p.m. A man in Gloucester, Massachusetts, looks out his window to see what is causing a loud sound in 5-second bursts. He sees over Ipswich Bay an elongated, fiery red rectangle moving north to south at around 100 mph. One end is dipped down 45°. It stops, hovers for 10 seconds, and moves out of sight behind trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Again, 3 Hours Later,” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5800 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18697 (515DAF90) Date: 8/30/1978 Description: 8:45 p.m. A witness is standing outdoors at a suburban shopping center in Nashua, New Hampshire, when she spots a formation of 6–8 white lights arranged in a circle and moving from southeast to north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Meanwhile, a Little Ways North,” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5797 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18698 (AC51D452) Date: 8/30/1978 Description: Late night. Residents of Lisbon, Portugal, see a large round object with bright red and white lights flying about 600 feet above the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Portuguese Welcome UFO,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97274960/)” Oshkosh \(Wis.\) Daily Northwestern, August 31, 1978, p. 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5798 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18699 (5ADCF909) Date: 8/30/1978 Description: 11:00 p.m.–midnight. A 38-year-old man is driving a pickup on State Highway 38 a half-mile west of Nisula, Michigan, when a cone-shaped object flies toward him from the east. It has two steady red lights at the ends and one steady white light in the middle. It flies low and silently over the truck, which then stalls for one second. He gets home and he and his wife watch the red lights in the distance, still moving slowly up and down from east to south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Another Vehicle Stalled,” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_5799 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18700 (0A44FC99) Date: 8/30/1978 Description: Witness driving on State road 44 observed an orange egg shaped object. Light suddenly engulfed her car and she remembers nothing until she found herself driving about 5 miles down the road. At home troubled mentally and discovered two puncture wounds on her buttocks and small lumps in mid chest. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Union County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_4998 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18701 (2EE16388) Date: 8/30/1978 Description: Cone-shaped object with body lights flew overhead. International UFO Reporter, December 1978, see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 73 (E) pickup truck (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nisula, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5000 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18702 (2102E8B6) Date: 8/30/1978 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a 38-year-old couple driving in a pickup truck on Highway 38 in Nisula, Michigan had a close encounter with a cone-shaped object with body lights that flew low overhead. Their truck stalled for one minute when the UFO was overhead. It could be restarted by turning the ignition key. The cone-shaped UFO was silent, and had two red lights and one white light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1978, p. 15; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 257; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 73; UNICAT, case # 144 Source ID: Johnson_5501 Source: Johnson ### Event 18703 (82964E8D) Date: 8/31/1978 Description: A unexplained cattle death and mutilation was discovered this morning five miles northeast of Mancos, Montezuma County, Colorado on the Bartel Ranch. A calf had been killed and mutilated. Its left eye, tongue, rectum, and sexual organs had been removed with surgical incisions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, p. 50, case 42, citing the Durango Herald, September 1, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_5533 Source: Johnson ### Event 18704 (1C0C4587) Date: 8/31/1978 Description: At 9:50 p.m. two small lights descended from a hovering "silo-shaped" craft in Necochea, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Their luminosity increased and decreased. After the two small lights emerged from the larger object and reached at point in the sky over a shed containing cars and machinery, and they just hung in the air for awhile. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1978, p. 15, citing Cronica, September 8, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_5535 Source: Johnson ### Event 18705 (4C6A5C12) Date: 8/31/1978 Description: A woman was sitting in her office on the tenth floor of an office building in London, England on the south bank of the Thames River at 7:00 p.m. when she glanced out a window and noticed an object moving at rooftop level. It was bright silver in color and was shaped like an elongated parachute. At the bottom was a man protruding from its tip. The parachute or cone-shaped object moved horizontally, then stopped briefly above a building. It finally went behind the National Theater and was not seen again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 999, citing P. Hardman, BUFORA Journal, Volume 8, No. 4 Source ID: Johnson_5534 Source: Johnson ### Event 18706 (B9705D1C) Date: 8/31/1978 Description: Two men, Srs. De Cesare and Martin, were driving in a truck at two o'clock at night between San Juan and San Luis on Highway 147 in Argentina when they were circled closely by a group of UFOs. Their truck's engine stopped and they got out, throwing themselves to the ground and hiding among the roadside vegetation. The truck battery was totally discharged and the truck could not be restarted. At dawn dead goats and birds were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1978, p. 15, citing Cronica, October 1, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_5532 Source: Johnson ### Event 18707 (47E029B8) Date: 8/31/1978 Description: Two men, Srs. De Cesare and Martin, were driving in a truck on Highway 147 in Argentina when they were circled closely by a group of UFOs. Their truck's engine stopped and they got out, throwing themselves to the ground and hiding among the roadside vegetation. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Juan and San Luis (btn), Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_5001 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18708 (A93DFF12) Date: 9/1978 Description: UFOs are reported around Heathrow Airport in London, England. A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority denies that any are tracked on radar, but adds, “It’s in the interest of national security that not too much fuss is made about this sort of thing.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 72](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/72/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5803 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18709 (E0654E42) Date: 9/1978 Description: [Chris Rutkowski](https://ufocongress.com/chris-rutkowski/) begins publishing the Swamp Gas Journal newsletter in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It continues until summer 1997, with six special issues thrown in. \([Swamp Gas Journal](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Swamp%20Gas%20Journal/Swamp%20Gas%20Journal%20-%201978%20Volume%201%20Number%201.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Swamp%20Gas%20Journal/Swamp%20Gas%20Journal%20-%201978%20Volume%201%20Number%201.pdf) no. 1 Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: September 1978 Source ID: Eberhart_5802 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18710 (963E23BD) Date: 9/1978 Description: GEPAN organizes a large gathering of about 100 people from more than 40 civilian UFO groups, but cooperation does not last. Criticism comes from both skeptics and the conspiratorial-minded. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_5801 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18711 (8AE44B9A) Date: 9/1/1978 Description: After 8:00 p.m. Several villagers in Llanerchymedd, Anglesey, Wales, including some teenagers and a man hunting rabbits, watch a bright white light descend slowly behind a new housing estate. An egg-shaped object is seen hovering and illuminating the trees. Other independent witnesses see a large silvery sphere above a field and watch the cows panic and hear neighborhood dogs start barking furiously. A Mrs. Parry and her young daughter look out from an upstairs bedroom and see three tall men in gray uniforms with caps or helmets attached to their suits walking across a field. Some of the teens run to the village to alert the police, who upon their arrival find the village in an uproar, thinking it has been invaded. At 10:00 p.m., Vivienne Roberts sees a purplish object with a mass of yellow lights above the vicarage. Her horses begin to panic and sweat profusely. Later, UFO investigators triangulate the position of the supposed landing site and find a circular patch of flattened barley and a path leading up to it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Martin Keatman, “[The Llanerchymedd UFO,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 5 \(March 1980\): 16–23; Story, [p. 211](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/210/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5804 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18712 (55F4E16E) Date: 9/1/1978 Description: Several villagers including a man hunting rabbits watched a bright white light descend slowly behind a new housing estate. Other independent witnesses saw a large silvery sphere above a field, and watched the cows panic and neighborhood dogs start barking furiously. A woman and her young daughter looked out and saw three tall men in gray uniforms with caps or helmets attached to their suits walk across a field. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Llanerchymedd, Anglesey, Wales, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5004 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18713 (8135747F) Date: 9/1/1978 Description: Shortly after 8:00 p.m. in Llanerchymedd, Anglesey, Wales several villagers including a man hunting rabbits watched a bright white light descend slowly behind a new housing estate. Other independent witnesses saw a large silvery sphere above a field, and watched the cows panic and neighborhood dogs start barking furiously. A woman and her young daughter looked out and saw three tall men in gray uniforms with caps or helmets attached to their suits walk across a field. She ran to the village to find some other witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 281, 491; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1961; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 245 Source ID: Johnson_5559 Source: Johnson ### Event 18714 (D8AB26C8) Date: 9/2/1978 Description: 8:00–8:15 a.m. Roberto Pozzi, 14, hears a noise like ducks and hissing combined in a western suburb of Alessandrio, Piedmont, Italy. He sees an object over a nearby cornfield. It stops making noise, swings laterally, and shoots up into the air. He finds a 22-by-10-foot depressed area of cornstalks bent down halfway up the stalk. Two rows of stalks are bent to the east, a third row to the west. Other sightings take place in the same area around Alessandrio on September 3, 6, 7, and 13. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 14; 1Pinotti 217 Source ID: Eberhart_5805 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18715 (C81D774A) Date: 9/2/1978 Description: A man heard a hissing sound and saw a metallic-looking cigar-shaped object about 10 meters long rising from a maize field. An area about 3 x 7 meters was found in the field where plants were bent and dehydrated. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Michele, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5007 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18716 (1847E1AB) Date: 9/2/1978 Description: A metallic-looking, cigar-shaped object was seen taking off from a field of maize at 8:10 a.m. in San Michele, Veneto, Italy. It made a hissing sound. An area of crushed and dehydrated plants was found at the landing site. It was 6.5 meters by 3 meters (20 feet x 10 feet). There were reportedly several witnesses, including the main witness, a 14-year-old named Pozzi. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March 1979, p. 6; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 14; UNICAT, case # 108, citing Toselli, FSR;Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 265, 349 Source ID: Johnson_5578 Source: Johnson ### Event 18717 (B271C116) Date: 9/2/1978 Description: On this night Gene LeTourneau, a newspaper reporter, and his wife watched a box-shaped, noiseless object at Russell Pond in Maine. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Portland Press Herald, September 13, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_5579 Source: Johnson ### Event 18718 (C46DA4EF) Date: 9/3/1978 Description: 10:00 p.m. Edilia Cresta Gallo and three other women see a strip of white light descend between a road and a maize field in Alessandrio, Piedmont, Italy. The strip morphs into a bright fireball about 5 feet wide. It disappears and reappears twice more. The women complain of a burning sensation in their eyes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_5807 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18719 (B7DCF19F) Date: 9/3/1978 Description: David W. Swift of the University of Hawaii Department of Sociology presents a paper prior to the American Sociological Association meeting in San Francisco, California, on the disconnect among scientists’ support for SETI research and their disdain for UFO research. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Scientists’ Selection of New Areas for Investigation: UFOs or ETI?” IUR 3, no. 10/11 \(Oct./Nov. 1978\): 21–22 Source ID: Eberhart_5806 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18720 (BFE0A62F) Date: 9/4/1978 Description: 12:15 a.m. A university professor in Gordon, Wisconsin, sees a flashing, pale-yellow ball of light as he is driving north on US Highway 53. It crosses the road in front of him only 50 feet away at an estimated 160 mph. It makes a sharp 90° turn parallel to the road, descending to about 15 feet, and travels parallel to his car at 60 mph about 150 feet west of the road. As he slows down to 20 mph for a better look, the light also slows down. When the light is 250 feet ahead, it goes out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Professorial Witness,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_5808 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18721 (6CA10EA3) Date: 9/6/1978 Description: On this same night in Cordoba, Argentina a luminous UFO, giving off red and blue sparks, started to emit a high-pitched whistling sound at 11:15 p.m. Power outages occurred throughout the neighborhood. The first UFO was joined by two or three other UFOs in an undulating motion, and together they flew off in a V-shaped formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_5692 Source: Johnson ### Event 18722 (76CDDE53) Date: 9/6/1978 Description: 6:45 a.m. Juan O. Perez, 12, goes to gather a herd of horses near Venado Tuerto, Argentina. As he rides his horse, he senses something flying overhead. Several objects appear and begin maneuvering and shooting out beams of multicolored light. His horse panics, and Perez manages to ride home. His father berates him and tells him to go back. When he returns, he finds a large domed object with windows on the ground. A door opens and a 7-foot-tall being wearing gloves and a cylindrical helmet appears. It seems to be attached to the object by some type of breathing apparatus. It invites Perez inside the craft, so he ties his horse to a ladder protruding from the bottom of the object and climbs in. His horse is panicked again and keeps kicking the object, injuring its leg. Inside, he sees a panel with buttons and some tables. A robot-like entity is cutting some animal bones into pieces. Perez tries touching the tall being and objects inside but is prevented by an invisible barrier. Perez jumps out the door and back to the ground. The tall being follows him outside. Perez asks for one of the giant’s gloves as proof of his experience. When it takes off the glove, Perez sees a green, claw-like hand with blue metallic nails. The tall being then pricks Perez’s right arm and apparently extracts some blood. As Perez rides home with the glove, two flying objects catch up to him and emit a small slab and sphere that descend and brush by the horse. They pull the glove up with a magnetic force. The wound on Perez’s arm stays open for many years and seeps a transparent liquid. A scar remains six years later when Perez has a medical check-up for military service; he is declared unfit because of the story he tells about its origin. After the event, Perez begins having premonitory dreams about unfortunate events. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact, Ballantine, 1990, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/confrontationssc00vall%5F0/page/153/mode/2up) [153–156](https://archive.org/details/confrontationssc00vall%5F0/page/153/mode/2up); “[Jacques Vallée: The Juan Perez UFO Case,](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1248998/pg1)” Above Top Secret, October 20, 2019; David Metcalfe, “[Witness of Another World: Exploring the Soul of a Phenomenon,](https://davidmetcalfe.wordpress.com/2019/10/21/witness-of-another-world-exploring-the-soul-of-a-phenomenon/)” Exploring the Outer Edges of Society and Mind, October 21, 2019; Mark Pilkington, “The Gaucho Also Cries,” Fortean Times 391 \(April 2020\): 38–40; Internet Movie Database, “[Witness of Another World](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7027162/)” Source ID: Eberhart_5809 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18723 (6CA07FBD) Date: 9/6/1978 Description: Late evening. Two witnesses at the San Michele boarding house in Sassello, Savona, Italy, see two round black objects close enough to form a figure 8. The are making sounds like incomprehensible radio chatter. They depart at great speed, leaving circular imprints behind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5810 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18724 (123BFC0B) Date: 9/6/1978 Description: The young witness, Juan O. Perez, had gone out at dawn to bring in a herd of horses in Venado, Tuerto, Argentina. At 6:45 a.m. as he rode his horse through the morning fog he felt something fly overhead. Next, several objects appeared and began maneuvering overhead, emitting powerful beams of multicolored, changing lights. His horse panicked and he barely managed to ride back home. When he got home, his father reprimanded him and ordered him to go back to get the horses. Back in the field he encountered a large round object on the ground; it had a dome on top with several round windows. A door in the craft opened, and a seven-foot tall being wearing gloves and a cylindrical helmet appeared. The being seemed to be attached to the object by some type of breathing apparatus. He invited Juan to come inside. They boy then tied his horse to the craft's ladder and climbed in. Inside, he was able to see a panel with buttons, tables, and a small robot-like being that was apparently busy disecting the large bones of some animals resembling either cows or horses. Afraid, the boy jumped out of the object and onto the ground. The tall being followed him out. He then requested that the giant give him one of the giant's gloves, as proof of the experience, and when he removed the glove he then saw that the being had green, claw-like hands with blue metallic nails. The being then pricked Juan's right arm, apparently extracting some blood in the process. As he rode back toward home carrying the glove, two flying objects caught up with him and emitted a small slab and sphere that descended and brushed by the horse, pulling off the glove like a magnet. Another curious feature of his report was that while inside the UFO the young witness attempted to touch the being and the object several times, but was prevented from doing it by what appeared to be an invisible barrier. Six days prior to the incident the witness's father had found a mutilated cow in one of his pastures. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1978 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 919, citing Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact Source ID: Johnson_5690 Source: Johnson ### Event 18725 (FD23CD25) Date: 9/6/1978 Description: A luminous UFO, giving off red and blue sparks, started to emit a high-pitched whistling sound. Power outages occurred throughout the neighborhood. The first UFO was joined by two or three other UFOs in an undulating motion, and together they flew off in a V-shaped formation. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cordoba, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_5011 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18726 (5A747377) Date: 9/6/1978 Description: Round object, 30' in diameter, 15' high, hemispherical dome on top. Several round windows. Multicolored lights. One giant humanoid, over 7' tall. Green hand, blue conical nails, long gloves, cylindrical helmet. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Venado Tuerto, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_5009 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18727 (04B971CC) Date: 9/6/1978 Description: A man on his way to bed in Sassello, Italy heard strange sounds outside his house and looked out his bedroom window. He saw two round black objects sitting in the street. They made sounds like an incomprehensible radio dialogue, e.g. "bla, ble, bli, bla." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_5691 Source: Johnson ### Event 18728 (8CE09644) Date: 9/7/1978 Description: 1:00 a.m. A college student in Dayton, Ohio, sees two bright orange lights, closely spaced horizontally. They remain stationary for 2 minutes, then dim and begin to move for 2–3 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “This One’s 50-50,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_5811 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18729 (DAA54B6D) Date: 9/7/1978 Description: 8:40 p.m. Many people in the San Michele boarding house in Sassello, Savona, Italy, see a large luminous object hovering above La Carta to the east. The boarding house owner, Piera Viacava, switches on the TV, but the picture is distorted. The light moves south for a few minutes. Franco Viacava drives off in a Fiat with two friends toward the light, but their engine loses power and slows down. The radio and tape player also malfunction briefly. A French woman driving in the area has her car stopped as the object hovers suddenly above her. Her dog barks until the light goes away and the car resumes working. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Oct./Nov. 1979\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5812 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18730 (D46DE99B) Date: 9/8/1978 Description: At 3:37 a.m. in Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe State, Argentina a power blackout occurred, followed by an intense light. A domed oval-shaped object then hovered 50 meters above a witness named Torres; it was 10 meters in length. A luminous beam came from the object, and the witness felt a sensation of intense heat while the object oscillated smoothly in the air. He later had a sunburn as a result of his exposure to the beam. The power outage was documented as occurring at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 15, citing La Nacion, September 12, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_5776 Source: Johnson ### Event 18731 (99D3D62F) Date: 9/9/1978 Description: 8:35 p.m. Airline pilots flying over the Mediterranean about 88 miles east of Barcelona, Spain, watch some unidentified lights for 35 minutes. Personnel from Barcelona Air Control Center maintain a conversation with the pilots but detect no targets on their radar screens. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 434–435 Source ID: Eberhart_5813 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18732 (C3E17FD0) Date: 9/9/1978 Description: There were three reports from Benevides, Para State, Brazil on this evening. At 7:20 p.m. a reddish-yellow light flew southwest to northwest at 12,000 feet altitude, 400 km/h, with a curving trajectory; it went out 2/3rds of way across the sky. At 8:25 p.m. another reddish-yellow light flew southwest to northeast at 9,000 feet altitude, emitting blue light rays; when overhead the light went out. At 9:10 p.m. a third reddish-yellow light was seen zigzagging from the southeast to the west at medium speed, 4000 feet altitude; it emitted two very strong flashes of blue light, and then went away at great speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, p. 55 Source ID: Johnson_5802 Source: Johnson ### Event 18733 (56D6C7D1) Date: 9/10/1978 Description: At 4:40 p.m. two men were sitting at home watching television in Las Salinas, San Miguel de Tucuman, Tucuman State, Argentina when they starting having TV interference. They next attempted to use a stereo player, and then the radio, but these did not function properly either. They then heard some noises coming from an adjoining shop that was connected to their house. When they went to investigate, they found some broken bottles on the floor and some other damage. Moments later, they became aware of presence of two short beings standing nearby. These beings were dressed in bright blue, one-piece suits, dark blue helmets, and high boots also bright blue in color; on their arms they wore shiny black gauntlets that went above the elbow. Their faces were brown and their complexion seemed pockmarked, their eyes looked normal and their noses were flat. One of the figures was holding an object that looked like a "hair dryer", and was pointing it at the witnesses. Both men then received a telepathic message warning them not to scream. At this point one of the men ran for the door, and in response both figures put their fingers up their noses and vanished instantly, reappearing in a different location in the shop. They did this several more times as the first witness, armed with a knife, ran around trying to get out of the shop. Some empty crates were thrown at the witnesses during the melee. They finally managed to escape, and summoned the police who searched the premises but found nothing. Neighbors had reported seeing strange lights in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2251, citing Jorge Eduardo Catoja, FSR, Volume 28, number 4; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 825, citing Jorge Eduardo Catoja Source ID: Johnson_5833 Source: Johnson ### Event 18734 (733E630A) Date: 9/10/1978 Description: 10:15 p.m. A stationary formation of several dozen lights is seen at Dearborn Heights, Michigan, for 15 minutes before it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Michigan NL,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_5815 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18735 (FD6CF1FA) Date: 9/10/1978 Description: At 10:15 p.m. in Dearborn Heights, Michigan a postal clerk, Mr. T. Atkins, and five other witnesses sighted a stationary formation of red lights at a 45 degree elevation in the sky, that blinked on-and-off 3-5 times in 15 minutes. They grew dimmer over time, then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 11; UNICAT, case # 129 Source ID: Johnson_5837 Source: Johnson ### Event 18736 (A39342D3) Date: 9/10/1978 Description: 8:30 p.m. Richard Renne is flying his single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza at 9,500 feet southeast at 170 mph near Bakersfield, Missouri, when he sees a yellowish-white light descending from 15,000 feet. It follows him behind his right wing, then shoots up to 20,000 feet in a perfectly straight trajectory. It moves back to his 3 o’clock position before it shoots off upward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “But This One’s Good,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_5814 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18737 (252B19EE) Date: 9/10/1978 Description: In flight over Springfield, Missouri 30-year-old Richard Renne sighted a yellow-white light at 8:30 p.m. that descended from 15,000 feet to the altitude of his Beech Bonanza airplane (9500 feet). It went below his tail, then to the 3 o'clock position, and then finally ascended above 25,000 feet. Another second light flew around erratically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 11; UNICAT, case 128; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_5836 Source: Johnson ### Event 18738 (90E6DCCE) Date: 9/10/1978 Description: At 9:22 p.m. a disc-shaped object was sighted in Poitiers, Vienne, France by six witnesses. It made a pendulum wobble, and had six lights arranged around the circumference on the bottom. There was also an orange-yellow cigar-shaped object, and a triangle-shaped object with a red tip, orange behind tip, and a yellow body. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Coudert, Ouranos, 1978, issue 24, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_5835 Source: Johnson ### Event 18739 (36313D06) Date: 9/10/1978 Description: At 8:30 p.m. in Port MacQuarie, New South Wales, Australia two men sighted a hat-shaped disc, glowing on-and-off around the perimeter, that dropped behind the treeline. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australia CUFOS files, report dated September 1978; ACOS Bulletin, December 1978, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_5834 Source: Johnson ### Event 18740 (021F3FAB) Date: 9/11/1978 Description: An ovoid-shaped UFO hovered 400 meters over the city of Lisbon, Portugal at 7:30 p.m., causing several traffic jams by the cars that stopped to watch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12817, citing Diario de Lisboa Source ID: Johnson_5865 Source: Johnson ### Event 18741 (80B6A4D5) Date: 9/11/1978 Description: A gray cube, viewed at 11:00 p.m. by a man through a telescope in Torbay, Devon, England split into two separate objects that moved in opposite directions. The sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, October 1978, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_5866 Source: Johnson ### Event 18742 (6A20E085) Date: 9/13/1978 Description: 9:30 p.m. Angelo Ciompi watches a reddish disc moving in the eastern sky above Spinetta Marengo, Italy. It stops abruptly, drops down, and is lost to sight behind some houses. A column of flames rises up from the spot. Ciompi and others rush to the area and see a fire burning in the brushwood-covered wasteland. Firemen put out the blaze, but the area is overflown by lights in the evening that descend and ascend at the site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Oct./Nov. 1979\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5816 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18743 (2CADAB99) Date: 9/14/1978 Description: At 5:55 a.m. in Rome, Italy a triangular shaped object seen by hundreds for five minutes, including police, guards, and airline workers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 15, citing La Cronica, September 15, 1978; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year History, p. 349 Source ID: Johnson_5962 Source: Johnson ### Event 18744 (15554986) Date: 9/14/1978 Description: At 6:00 a.m. in Torre del Lago, near Firenze, Italy a cigar-shaped object with a blue trail of light behind it gave off intense light beams. The craft's lights went off-and-on two or three times during the sighting, which lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 15, citing La Cronica, September 15, 1978; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_5963 Source: Johnson ### Event 18745 (2E4D415D) Date: 9/14/1978 Description: At 10:00 p.m. in San Basilio, Sardegna, Italy a big brilliant light in the night sky resolved to a huge metallic gray ovoid. It hovered for a couple of minutes, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1981 Source ID: Johnson_5964 Source: Johnson ### Event 18746 (ADBAEF81) Date: 9/14/1978 Description: 6:00 a.m. Hundreds of witnesses all over Italy, from Sicily to Florence, watch a luminous projectile moving northward. Italian ufologists are calling it a UFO rather than a meteor because a few accounts have it moving in a different direction or appearing to stop briefly. Probable meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Oct./Nov. 1979\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5817 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18747 (004E29FA) Date: 9/14/1978 Description: The owner of a large firm and prominent business executive was driving on I-80 to Randolph, Nebraska and had reached a point two miles west of Belden at around 10:00 p.m. when an object descended on the highway ahead of him, directing a light beam on the road surface. It looked like a tank with treads but without guns. As the witness stepped out of the car, a door opened on the object and a man stepped out. He seemed normal, was dark haired, of normal height and wore white pants and a white shirt. He spoke to the witness by name, in perfect English, then re-entered the object, which rose up in a brilliant column of light emitting a high pitched whine as it left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, December 1978, p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1964; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 317, citing Robert E. Bartholomew, UFO Lore, quoting APRO Bulletin Source ID: Johnson_5965 Source: Johnson ### Event 18748 (C6B975F0) Date: 9/15/1978 Description: A woman stood at the south window and saw vaguely, object with lights in a long shape, red and pink as if on fire in SW sky. Angular size was somewhat less than moon's. No sound . Two "normal" men dressed in white suits could be seen about 100 yards from window, too dark for details They started for the house, but then stopped and turned back. The UFO came in fast at this point and came very close to ground then left very fast climbing to the West. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Delano, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5012 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18749 (29BCDEAF) Date: 9/15/1978 Description: 2:30 a.m. A 31-year-old woman is lying in bed awake for 30 minutes at her home in Delano, Tennessee, when a funny feeling makes her look outside. She stands at the south window looking out at fields and sees a bright moon and an object with lights in a long shape, red and pink as if on fire, in the southwest. Two “normal” men dressed in white suits can be seen about 300 feet from the window, but it is too dark for details. They start moving toward the house, but then stop and turn back. The UFO comes in fast at this point very close to the ground, then leaves quickly, climbing to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Tennessee Humanoids?” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 12; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-09-15-usa-delano.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-09-15-usa-delano.htm) May 15, 2010 Source ID: Eberhart_5818 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18750 (110BF0C7) Date: 9/15/1978 Description: At four o'clock in the morning a 26-year-old woman in Carpentersville, Illinois was awakened by a whirring sound and she went to her bedroom window to look outside. The noise stopped, but then she saw the figure of a six-foot tall man. He was dressed in a silvery suit. Several feet away from him she saw a small, silver, domed disc sitting on the edge of the grass. It was opaque and smooth and was the source of the whirring sound. The witness then screamed at her husband to wake up, and her dog started barking furiously. They both tried to phone the police but the phone was not working. When the police eventually arrived both the mysterious visitor and the UFO were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 228, citing International UFO Reporter, Vol. 4, # 2 Source ID: Johnson_5995 Source: Johnson ### Event 18751 (B8776357) Date: 9/15/1978 Description: A 26-year-old woman was awakened by a whirring sound and she went to her bedroom window to look outside. The noise stopped, but then she saw the figure of a six-foot tall man. He was dressed in a silvery suit. Several feet away from him she saw a small, silver, domed disc sitting on the edge of the grass. It was opaque and smooth and was the source of the whirring sound. The witness then screamed at her husband to wake up, and her dog started barking furiously. They both tried to phone the police but the phone was not working. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carpentersville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5014 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18752 (DA252F2C) Date: 9/15/1978 Description: 4:00 a.m. A 26-year-old secretary is awakened in Carpentersville, Illinois, by a whirring sound. She goes to the bedroom window to look outside. The noise stops, but then she sees the figure of a 6-foot tall man. He is dressed in a silvery suit. Several feet away from him she sees a small, silver, domed disc \(about 3 feet wide by 2 feet tall\) sitting on the edge of the grass. It is opaque and smooth and the source of the whirring sound. The witness then screams at her husband to wake up, and her dog starts barking furiously. They both try to phone the police but the phone is not working. When the police arrive 15 minutes later, both the visitor and the UFO are gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Stuffing a 6-Foot Ufonaut into a 2-Foot UFO,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 12; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-09-15-usa-carpentersville.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-09-15-usa-carpentersville.htm) October 27, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_5819 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18753 (8C3FF0C4) Date: 9/15/1978 Description: The principal witness and her family had seen a shiny disc-shaped flying object hovering near their farmhouse in Edmunston, New Brunswick, Canada late this night. The witness could only recall vague memories after this, but she remembers the police were called. Years later her mother told her that she had seen the disc land and saw figures come out of it. The next night she woke up thirsty and asked her father to bring her a glass of water. As she followed her dad to the kitchen she noticed an odd smell, which was at the same time smokey and sweet. She then noticed a small being walking behind her. It was about four feet tall, grayish green in color, and had no visible eyes, ears, mouth, or nose. It had some sort of bag, which it threw over the witness. Her last memory was of seeing her father standing still as if frozen in place. She doesn't remember anything else. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case #3559, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_5996 Source: Johnson ### Event 18754 (BC73F455) Date: 9/16/1978 Description: At 2:30 a.m. in Delano, Tennessee a witness saw two humanoid beings with what looked like flashlights in the yard. Then a pink-colored UFO descended, and the figures vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12827, citing International UFO Reporter, July 1979 Source ID: Johnson_6016 Source: Johnson ### Event 18755 (9CEF44B5) Date: 9/16/1978 Description: 1:30 a.m. Stephen Colclough and his girlfriend are driving through Dilhorne, Staffordshire, England, when they notice a red and white light moving across the sky. Suddenly an enormous black object looms up in front of them, completely silent, and shoots a powerful searchlight beam for at least 3 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Shot a Beam of Light at Our Car: Claim,” Stoke-on-Trent \(UK\) Evening Sentinel, September 16, 1978; Marler 102 Source ID: Eberhart_5820 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18756 (62494EC5) Date: 9/17/1978 Description: Car engine and lights failed, domed disc descended onto road. Two small humanoids emerged, examined car, reentered object, took off Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Torrita di Siena, Italy Source ID: HallUFOE2_321 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18757 (051DD591) Date: 9/17/1978 Description: In Torrita di Sienna, Tuscany, Italy at 8:15 p.m. two witnesses watched a bright sphere descend over the area the same time a electrical blackout occurred. Shortly after that a motorist, Sr. R. Faralli, a 25-year-old man driving a Fiat 127, was on his way home when his engine and lights went out, then a bright red object descended over the road just ahead of him and hovered. It was a domed disc, hat like in shape. He found he was paralyzed and could not move, as he watched a panel open and two humanoids emerge and float towards his vehicle. They were five feet tall and wore green coveralls and helmets with aerials and face masks, and they floated about four feet above the ground. They circled the car and appeared to inspect it. Their skin also appeared greenish. They re-entered the UFO, which took off with a flash of light and an explosive sound. The witness suffered eye irritation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roberto Pinotti, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 15; Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 153 (November 1980); Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1981; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 265, 270, 349, 491, 495; UNICAT, case # 111; Mark Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1968 Source ID: Johnson_6048 Source: Johnson ### Event 18758 (FE26CA2C) Date: 9/17/1978 Description: 8:00 p.m. Hairdresser Rivo Faralli hears an explosion like a rifle shot at Torrita di Siena, Italy. He goes to visit his mother on the other side of town, who has also heard the noise and seen a flash of light that causes the lights and TV to go out. When Faralli is driving home at 9:00 p.m. on the Via Pié agli Orti, the engine and lights of his car die. He feels paralyzed as he watches a domed disc come near and float inches from the ground. The dome opens up and two 3.5-foot-tall beings emerge, floating 4 inches from the ground. They are wearing green one-piece suits; their helmets have clear visors and two small spiraling antennas. Their faces look like green- skinned skulls through the visors. Faralli watches them make a full circle around the car without noise or gesture, then return to the UFO, which rises up several yards, seemingly propelled by three red, orange, and blue-colored beams, and shoots off vertically. The car starts on its own. He returns to the site the following day and finds three burn marks in the unpaved road. Digging into the ground, he finds the earth carbonized to a depth of 8 inches. Soil samples are taken to the European Atomic Energy Community labs at Ispra, which finds that the road material has been burned by a temperature less than 500° Celsius, and not by a bonfire or hydrocarbon fuels. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roberto Pinotti, “Landing, E.M. Effects, and Entities at Torrita di Siena,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1979\): 3–6; Maurizio Verga, “[Another CEIII Report from Italy,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1979\): 6–7; “UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 15–16; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 18; UFOEv II 495– 496; 1Pinotti 220–223; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-09-17-italy-torritadisienna.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-09-17-italy-torritadisienna.htm) January 15, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_5821 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18759 (BF11CC8E) Date: 9/17/1978 Description: At the Maatsuyker Island Lighthouse an electrical power failed twice when a big glowing light flew by south of the island. It was seen by four men at the lighthouse (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maatsuyker Island, Tasmania, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5018 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18760 (077EB3D2) Date: 9/17/1978 Description: Orange domed disc ahead of car illuminated area, light beams humanoid encounter, physical traces. See Section XII (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Torrita di Siena, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5020 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18761 (8974D681) Date: 9/17/1978 Description: At the Maatsuyker Island Lighthouse, Tasmania, Australia electrical power failed twice at 9:20 p.m. when a big glowing light flew by south of the island. It was seen by four men at the lighthouse, including the main witness, a 47-year-old man named Burns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australian CUFOS Files, case file NA781219 Source ID: Johnson_6047 Source: Johnson ### Event 18762 (E8889212) Date: 9/18/1978 Description: 3:30 p.m. Giorgio Filiputti is fishing in the Corno river at the point where the Zumiel irrigation canal runs into it south of San Giorgio di Nogaro, Udine, Italy, when he hears a whistling sound, sees vegetation rustling, and feels a blast of air. Climbing up the riverbank to investigate, he sees a domed disc about 13–16 feet in diameter that is resting on a mudflat 66 feet away. The object is brassy or yellowish metallic with telescopic legs that terminate in flat pads. A figure about 3.5 feet tall appears from behind the dome, walking around the rim. It wears tight-fitting coveralls of scaly, silvery material that sparkles in the sunlight. It wears boots, has two containers at waist level, and white gloves. Its face is dark bronze with almond-shaped eyes and large pupils. The entity stares at the shocked Filiputti. After a few minutes it begins walking again, stoops down, and works on a horseshoe-shaped protrusion on the dome. Finally, it continues walking around to the other side. Filiputti hears a rumbling sound and a piercing whistle as the object begins to rise, withdrawing its landing gear. The underside looks like it has a grid pattern, and it emits a bluish glow like a tongue of flame. When it reaches an altitude of 33 feet, it turns on edge and speeds out of sight to the southwest. He has been watching it for about 6 minutes. Three circular imprints about 20 inches in diameter are found in the dry mud and sand. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Antonio Chiumiento, “[‘The](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2028%20N%205.pdf) [Little Oriental Airman’: Another Remarkable C.E.III Case in Italy,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2028%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 5 \(June 1983\): 3–8; UFOEv II 497–498; 1Pinotti 223–230 Source ID: Eberhart_5822 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18763 (4C0E2F74) Date: 9/18/1978 Description: Mr. Gould, age 52, had experienced a series of humanoid encounters in January of 1978 in his neighborhood. At two o'clock on this early morning, again in South Middleton, Massachusetts he looked out the front window of his house and noticed a group of humanoid figures standing besides the road. Five of the figures wore white coverall suits, as in the previous encounters, and one wore black. The black dressed individual appeared to be pointing to the ground. Their clothing was reflective. After a few minutes the beings walked into the woods and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1969, citing David F. Webb, FSR Source ID: Johnson_6072 Source: Johnson ### Event 18764 (0D84E186) Date: 9/18/1978 Description: Whistling sound, disc-shaped object with dome on mudflat. Small humanoid emerged, made repair to craft, took off with loud explosive sound Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Melaria, Porto Nogaro district, Italy Source ID: HallUFOE2_322 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18765 (34EE357F) Date: 9/18/1978 Description: Whistling sound, disc-shaped object with dome on mudflat. Small humanoid emerged, made repair to craft, took off with loud explosive sound (section XII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Melaria, Porto Nogaro district, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5021 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18766 (B1EF2B75) Date: 9/20/1978 Description: 3:40 p.m. G. W. Schoen is spreading fertilizer on a farm near Westminster, Maryland, when he notices a gray, pear-shaped object tilted at an angle and flying above the edge of a wooded area. He can see plates, girders, cylinders, and other structures on it. Schoen senses that it is exerting a mild “pulling” force on him. It is visible for 30–35 seconds before it passes behind a cloud. He estimates it is 340–350 feet long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1982\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5823 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18767 (54A70A01) Date: 9/20/1978 Description: In Chingford, England a hexagon-shaped object was seen over the town. The Ministry of Defence asked a retired police constable to investigate. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12835; Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 71 Source ID: Johnson_6145 Source: Johnson ### Event 18768 (CEA3B3CE) Date: 9/20/1978 Description: At 11:30 p.m. Sr. J. Marchisio was driving near a lake in Maria Teresa, Santa Fe province, Argentina when he spotted a red spherical object by the side of the road. He signaled with his lights, then pulled over. Next, he was struck by multi-colored beam of light, and he was unable to control his vehicle as it was transported seven kilometers at high speed. During the translocation he experienced viewing an unfamiliar, altered or otherworldly, environment, and there was damage to his vehicle that resulted from the weird experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 14, citing Rosario Tribune, November 2,1978 Source ID: Johnson_6147 Source: Johnson ### Event 18769 (10FA7A38) Date: 9/20/1978 Description: On Councillor Island near the town of Currie, Tasmania, Australia a large yellow light followed a car with three passengers for six miles at 9:15 p.m. It flew off over a hill, then returned. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12836; Australian CUFOS files, case # NA781111 Source ID: Johnson_6144 Source: Johnson ### Event 18770 (842E165F) Date: 9/20/1978 Description: Two witnesses were driving on the outskirts of Tampa, Florida near some orange groves at around 6 p.m., when they spotted a huge dark blue flying object that had an orange glow coming from some large windows. The object glided silently over their heads. Through the windows in the craft they were able to see several figures that seemed to be talking excitedly to one another, and some of them waved down at the witnesses. The driver attempted to chase the UFO, which came down to some 50 feet above the ground. At this point their memory of the event becomes a little sketchy, and they experienced a period of missing time. However, the main witness did have some vague memories of the two of them walking through an orange grove without talking to each other. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 3573, citingPeter Davenport, NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_6146 Source: Johnson ### Event 18771 (736CD2D1) Date: 9/20/1978 Description: 5:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Hundreds of people watch a white, roughly triangular object over Tuscany, Italy. It moves northeast and turns red. Probable balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Oct./Nov. 1979\): 16–17 Source ID: Eberhart_5824 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18772 (A3C028B9) Date: 9/21/1978 Description: A 12-year-old boy in Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires province, Argentina photographed a UFO during the day with a Kodak instamatic camera. The image in the newspaper shows a black body between some iron bars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1978, p. 15, citing Cronica, October 1978, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_6193 Source: Johnson ### Event 18773 (B775F861) Date: 9/21/1978 Description: At 7:40 p.m. a young man was walking near a field in Cosenza, Calabria, Italy when the area was suddenly illuminated by a bright light and he could no longer see his surroundings. Shortly later, he saw an oval-shaped object resting on the ground on top of a nearby hill. A human-like figure stood by the object. It wore two antennae-like protrusions on its head. Frightened, he began to run away but fell down while four humanoids approached him, making huge, bizarre, bounding-like jumps. Next, he fainted, and when he awoke he again saw that the four 5-foot-tall entities were closer, wearing buttoned jackets, backpacks, and helmets with antennae. Their hands appeared to be shaped like pincers. This frightened him and he fainted again, and when he finally woke up sometime later everything had vanished. Coincidentally, at around the same time (8:00 p.m.) a bright light approached an Italian Air Force F-104 jet over Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It disappeared after three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 17; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1971; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 136, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October-November 1991 Source ID: Johnson_6194 Source: Johnson ### Event 18774 (0752286A) Date: 9/21/1978 Description: 8:00 p.m. A young man walking near a yard in Cosenza, Calabria, Italy, sees the area illuminated as if by daylight. The surrounding blocks are lost to view. On a hill he sees an oval object and a human shape with two antennae. Frightened, he runs away but falls as four humanoids come closer to him by jumps. He faints, and when he comes to he is surrounded by four entities wearing buttoned jackets, a rucksack, and helmets with antennae. Their hands look like pincers. He faints again and walks up at 8:30 p.m., but the UFO and entities are gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 \(July/Aug.1989\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5825 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18775 (3BAA797E) Date: 9/22/1978 End date: 9/23/1978 Description: Car participating in road rally brightly illuminated by glowing object, lifted off road, driver and passenger blinded, steering control lost Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Buenos Aires Province, Argentina Source ID: HallUFOE2_323 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18776 (C09F4D89) Date: 9/22/1978 End date: 9/23/1978 Description: Car participating in road rally brightly illuminated by glowing object, lifted off road, driver and passenger blinded, steering control lost (section VI). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Buenos Aires Province, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_5022 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18777 (F9415826) Date: Fall 1978 Description: Two very bright but distant lights approached four witnesses, then moved toward them, hovering within 500-600 over some power lines. All natural sounds stopped at this point. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Waterford, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5003 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18778 (340C4004) Date: 9/23/1978 Description: 4:30 a.m. Carlos Acevedo and Angel Moya are driving a Citroën CG on the flat pampas south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, stragglers on the final leg of a 39-day stock car race. They notice a yellow and violet light shining in their rear-view mirror, approaching fast. Suddenly, the engine and headlights quit, then the car is lifted 15 feet off the road and set down again one minute later 75 miles north. The gasoline tank is also allegedly drained. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: San Diego \(Calif.\) Union, November 14, 1978; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5826 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18779 (324D559A) Date: 9/23/1978 Description: Before dawn, during a road rally north of Viedma, Argentina one of the cars, a Citroen being driven by two men named Sr. Acevedo Ramirez and Sr. Moya, was approached from behind at high speed by a bright yellow luminous light, blinding the witnesses. They estimated the approaching object's speed at 300 kph. They felt their car levitated four meters from the ground and experienced the loss of steering, and the car's engine and lights died. As the light faded their car descended to the right shoulder of the road. However, they had experienced a two hour loss of time and were somewhere else along the road than they should have been. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 15, citing Cronica, September 24, 1978; Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1978, p. 11; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 204, 276, 350 Source ID: Johnson_6265 Source: Johnson ### Event 18780 (9B2E7FE8) Date: 9/23/1978 Description: That morning a florist in the city of Rosario saw a reddish-orange lighted sphere make several 90-degree turns impossible for any conventional aircraft. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rosario, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_5023 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18781 (8591C75E) Date: 9/23/1978 Description: At midnight two locksmiths watched a mysterious light pulsating and hovering silently above the ground near Biela Lake, Carpathia, Romania. It suddenly disappeared in plain sight. Around the same time an army private at a nearby military barracks was walking around some buildings when a two meter tall, dark man confronted him. The soldier ran into the barracks to get additional witnesses, but when they came back out he was unable to locate anyone. He saw the being again, later, standing against a window. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1783, citing Boczor Iosif, Fate, September 1994 Source ID: Johnson_6264 Source: Johnson ### Event 18782 (52402527) Date: 9/23/1978 End date: 9/24/1978 Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Two cable car technicians at the Bâlea Lake resort, Romania, are awakened by a red light visible through dense fog. It is apparently coming from an object some 30 feet outside their window. The light disappears. At the same time, at a military barracks on the site where soldiers have been assigne dwork duties, Cpl. Ioan Dörr gets up and goes outside for a drink of water from a tap at the corner of the building and sees a dark, motionless silhouette only a few feet away. It persists for at least another 5 minutes. The next evening at 11:45 p.m., Sgt. Ion Radu notices a dark figure about 8 feet tall moving slowly on a mound some 65 feet away. Noticing that something had broken open the shutters of their barracks windows, some of the soldiers begin throwing stones at it. Radu approaches to within 4 feet of the figure and raises a club to hit it, but he feels a hot blast and falls backward into the snow. Two other soldiers with him remain paralyzed for a few seconds. The entity moves away with kind of a floating motion. Radu remains unconscious for about 10 minutes as the soldiers try to resuscitate him. Five soldiers see a “wreath of lights” at the spot where the figure had stood and others hear mysterious scratching at the window shutters. The next morning they find four parallel scratches on the shutters about 4 inches apart. The soldiers all decide to spend the next night at a nearby resort. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 130–132 Source ID: Eberhart_5828 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18783 (0B17877A) Date: 9/23/1978 Description: 1:28 p.m. A man is driving past a cattle lot 2 miles north of Dexter, Iowa, when he sees a silver cigar- shaped object 150 feet above the ground. He jumps out of his truck and tries to get underneath it as it hovers, but it moves off to the northeast and is gone in less than a minute. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Another Daylight Cigar,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_5827 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18784 (9290913A) Date: 9/23/1978 Description: That morning a florist in the city of Rosario, Argentina saw a reddish-orange lighted sphere make several 90-degree turns impossible for any conventional aircraft. The object crossed over the Parana River into Entre Rios province. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 16, citing Cronica, September 27, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_6266 Source: Johnson ### Event 18785 (08529FE3) Date: 9/24/1978 Description: At the army barracks near Biela Lake, Carpathia, Romania the witness of a humanoid encounter the previous night was out with a friend checking an animal trap when they ran into another soldier who suddenly cried out, pointing to a tall dark figure on a nearby hill. The being was standing next to an oil tank. The three men retreated to their barracks, then came back out, noticing that the being was still there. One of them walked towards the figure holding a club in his hand, and attempted to strike at it, but was somehow unable to hit it. That soldier suddenly fell over backwards. The being then bent down and examined him for a few moments. The other two heard a strange sound coming form the being and saw something flash in its hand. They wanted to assist their friend but were unable to move. When the being finally disappeared and they were able to move they went to check on their friend. He was unconscious and half of his body appeared softer than the other half. His face and hands were red. That night other soldiers saw weird dancing egg-shaped lights on top of the hill, and strange marks were found on the barrack window blinds the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1784, citing Boczor Iosif, Fate, September 1994 Source ID: Johnson_6292 Source: Johnson ### Event 18786 (9714B1DB) Date: 9/24/1978 Description: 5:30 p.m. Two witnesses see a silver oval moving from east to west in Vineland, New Jersey. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Daylight Oval,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_5829 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18787 (981D0C67) Date: 9/25/1978 Description: On this afternoon in Ostuni, Apulia, Italy two observers watched a disc-shaped object make a whistling sound at 25 meters altitude. It maneuvered, made a descent and wobbled. It shot off to the south toward a NATO base. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12846, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 208 Source ID: Johnson_6327 Source: Johnson ### Event 18788 (E2FBEA13) Date: 9/25/1978 Description: Three woman observed an object coming down from the sky into the field. Dog barked. UFO was oblong, very, very huge with a kind of greenish-gray color. It had three lights, one red and two white. No sound and it moved flying sideways behind the barn and then took off flying frontways. 140' imprint left in soybean field. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenfield, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5024 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18789 (77878BB3) Date: 9/26/1978 Description: On this night Alejandro Hernandez and his 13-year-old son had gone for a drive southeast of Santiago, Chile. Hernandez felt an odd sensation that slowed the car down. When he looked out the car window he saw a hovering UFO nearby. A hatch opened on bottom of the object and their vehicle and its two occupants was elevated up into the craft. Inside, five short humanoid beings surrounded by a bright light approached them. One of them spoke in a metallic voice and ordered them to exit the vehicle. Once outside the car they saw numerous devices with red and orange lights. When they asked the UFOnauts where they were from, they remained silent but all pointed upwards. After ten minutes both witnesses were deposited back on the ground. There apparently were other witnesses to their abduction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 3394, citing El Mundo de las Enigmas Source ID: Johnson_6359 Source: Johnson ### Event 18790 (ED78A353) Date: 9/26/1978 Description: 12:05 a.m. A 19-year-old grocery worker is driving on Lunn Road in Strongsville, Ohio, when she sees on her left a flat-domed disc edge on. She stops her car, and the object moves closer. When it is right in front of her car over the road, her FM radio gets lost in static for 10–15 seconds and her headlights flash off for one second. Then the object slowly rises up and flies off out of sight to her right. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Another EM Story,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_5830 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18791 (70814CE6) Date: 9/26/1978 Description: Disc with dome moved back and forth, heavy static on FM radio, headlights out briefly. International UFO Reporter, July 1979; see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 73 (R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Strongsville, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5027 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18792 (679BDDBE) Date: 9/26/1978 Description: At 12:05 p.m. a domed disc giving off a dim glow through openings around its perimeter was sighted by a 19-year-old female grocery worker driving near the Lunn River in Strongsville, Ohio. The sighting lasted over two minutes, during which there were 15 seconds of FM radio static and her car's lights went out for one second. When the UFO flew close to the witness's car she reported it felt like someone was watching her. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 73; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 257; International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_6358 Source: Johnson ### Event 18793 (B2F94407) Date: 9/27/1978 Description: 7:25 p.m. Two witnesses see a formation of lights above a suburban forest preserve in Gurnee, Illinois. One steady red light is on top, two steady yellow lights are below them, and one blue flashing light is seen briefly. It suddenly drops halfway to the ground and back up again in 5 seconds before moving off to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Illinois NL,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_5833 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18794 (2F5730B2) Date: 9/27/1978 Description: 8:00 a.m. Katarzyna Kolińska is on her way to school in Przyrownica from Magnusy, Poland, when she sees a bright flash of light near a mountain. The children who arrive at the school before classes go to a small nearby grove of trees to play. There they encounter a strange man, 5.5 feet tall with a green face and dark costume, who is walking through the forest 30 feet away. He turns to face the children, and they panic and run back to school, one child losing his shoe in the rush. The teacher returns with some of the children to the spot, but student Anna Jarocińska goes in the wrong direction and meets only 480 feet from the school a being whose face is a “featureless mask.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 43–45 Source ID: Eberhart_5831 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18795 (A46B56F8) Date: 9/27/1978 Description: At 8:00 p.m. two witnesses watched an object with pulsating red lights fly low over some pine trees in Prcirovnik, Poland. The object was oval shaped and appeared to descend into the woods. In the woods, a mushroom picker encountered three short beings dressed in black one-piece suits with flippers on their feet. On their chests they wore a yellow emblem with a red dot, and on their heads they wore tight-fitting black helmets. The beings were greenish in color and had pointed ears, red slanted eyes, and pronounced cheekbones. They gave off a strong chlorine-like odor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 563, citing Felix Zigel, UFO Landings in the USSR and Other Countries Source ID: Johnson_6385 Source: Johnson ### Event 18796 (232FEF21) Date: 9/27/1978 Description: 1:00 p.m. Henryk Marciniak is picking mushrooms in the forest near Golina, Poland. He notices a strange landed object standing on four legs about 330 feet away in a clearing. When he rides over to investigate, a door opens and two small beings with unpleasant faces and greenish skin emerge, walking down some steps that have appeared. They approach him, one poking at the motorcycle and the other holding a device like a camera. The first one takes his bag of mushrooms. Marciniak shakes hands with them and tries to indicate the mushrooms are edible and the bike is for riding. Suddenly a buzzing sound comes from the object. The two entities go back inside and the object takes off and disappears. Many years later Marciniak denies the story, possibly because he wants to be left alone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 45–46 Source ID: Eberhart_5832 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18797 (8A3DCF94) Date: 9/28/1978 Description: 2:00 a.m. Two women driving south through a residential area of Omaha, Nebraska, sees a dark cone- shaped object approaching her from the right. It has three bright white lights on the bottom. The object slows down, flying low, and the witnesses pass by it. A pre-recorded tape in the car’s player gets completely erased as this happens, even though other tapes in a box are not affected. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A ‘Zapped’ Cassette,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_5834 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18798 (DFA3662F) Date: 9/28/1978 Description: On this day a Bigfoot creature was seen east of Bonner Springs, Kansas from Interstate 70, in Wyandotte county. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geroge Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 314, citing Topeka Capital Journal, September 30, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_6399 Source: Johnson ### Event 18799 (6E333DBB) Date: 9/28/1978 Description: Two twenty-year-old female steel company employees were driving in a residential area when they drove by a dark, cone-shaped UFO with three white rotating lights on the underside. The tape cassette in the VW car's tape player erased as the car drove close to the object, but other cassette tapes in a cardboard box on a car seat were undamaged. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Omaha, NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_5028 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18800 (418E83AD) Date: 9/28/1978 Description: Between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. a 40-year-old woman in the Izmailovskiy region of Russia noticed a short humanoid figure standing on the balcony of her house and facing the window. She stared in fascination at the figure, which she described as having a disproportionately large, wide head with definite Asian features. It had narrow pale lips, a small chin, and snub nose with large visible nostrils. The eyes were of normal size but slanted. Somehow the creature gave the witness an overall impression of curiosity and benevolence while it stared directly at her. She could not see any ears and had something dark covering its head. The color of its face was brilliant yellow. The creature moved its head from side to side and then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing V. G. Azhazha, Another Life Source ID: Johnson_6398 Source: Johnson ### Event 18801 (5D036074) Date: 9/28/1978 Description: At two o'clock in the morning two twenty-year-old female steel company employees were driving in a residential area in Omaha, Nebraska when they drove by a dark, cone-shaped UFO with three white rotating lights on the underside. The tape casette in the VW car's tape player erased as the car drove close to the object, but other casette tapes in a cardboard box on a car seat were undamaged. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_6400 Source: Johnson ### Event 18802 (699A7EA9) Date: 9/28/1978 Description: 7:20 p.m. A man in Kettering, Ohio, spots a grayish cigar reflecting the light of the setting sun. Flying silently with its long dimension in the direction of travel, it seems to be 10,000 feet or lower. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “What’s Going on in Ohio? Another Daylight Cigar!” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_5835 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18803 (BBABAB58) Date: 9/29/1978 Description: At 8:55 p.m. in Orange, California ten witnesses watched a huge dark disc-shaped object with very strong spotlights make abrupt turns in the sky. It chased a car for 15 minutes continuing to make abrupt turns, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Willard D. Nelson, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_6427 Source: Johnson ### Event 18804 (4F9D1EF9) Date: 9/29/1978 Description: A disc-shaped object landed in the Groendal Nature Reserve, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. It was seen by a single female witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1978, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_6424 Source: Johnson ### Event 18805 (C9C3A52E) Date: 9/29/1978 Description: There were two reports from Seven Hills, New South Wales, Australia on this date. At 5:30 p.m. a huge red disc hovered over the main road. and was seen by five witnesses including a 30-year-old woman named Stevens. At 8:00 p.m. a huge red disc-shaped object was seen hovering over a high tension power line tower by a 40-year-old woman named Summerling; it then flew off to the north-northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12855, citing Australia CUFOS summary of reports 1978-1982; (2) Australian CUFOS case files, report dated November 13, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_6425 Source: Johnson ### Event 18806 (3633D772) Date: 9/29/1978 Description: At 8:30 p.m. in St. George, Queensland, Australia four hunters in a vehicle travelling in a rural area shot at an ovoid flying object. It dodged the bullets, then followed the car, causing electromagnetic interference effects. The object flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 167 Source ID: Johnson_6426 Source: Johnson ### Event 18807 (3F6BA37B) Date: 9/29/1978 Description: At 11:08 p.m. a woman fire watcher at Satus Peak, Yakima County, Washington sighted a cigar-shaped object with a row of lit windows. The object made a faint electric motor sound. She watched the object through binoculars for four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, p. 132 Source ID: Johnson_6428 Source: Johnson ### Event 18808 (57FA265B) Date: 9/29/1978 Description: A resident Indian woman sees a disc-shaped object take off from the Groendal Nature Reserve near Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1978 Source ID: Eberhart_5836 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18809 (746EF6C6) Date: 10/1978? Description: 12:00 noon. Two Chilean F-5 aircraft piloted by Capts. Hernán Gabrielli Rojas and Danilo Catalán Farias are on a training mission near Mejillones, Chile. Both pilots see a radar target that gives a return equal to 10 aircraft carriers. Ground radar at Cerro Moreno airport \[now Andrés Sabella Gálvez International Airport\] in Antofagasta picks up the object and confirms its large size. The pilots continue to fly south between 30,000–35,000 feet. At a distance of 20 miles, they see an object “like a plantain banana” swathed in smoke. They approach it cautiously with their gun cameras on, but the UFO disappears at a huge speed to the west, heading toward Easter Island, vanishing from all three radar screens. Duration is 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “[Antofagasta, Chile: October 1978,](https://www.caelestia.be/darkblob19.html)” Caelestia, October 31, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_5838 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18810 (6713ECC6) Date: 10/1978 Description: John Acuff’s mismanagement of NICAP \(destruction of the reporting network, loss of members, paying himself a $20,000 contractor’s fee\) leads to his resignation as director. Acuff remains on the board and keeps the case files in his personal possession. He is replaced by Alan Hall, a retired CIA employee who accepts the position after a number of other ex-CIA men are offered the job. Support for Hall on the NICAP board comes from Charles Lombard, an aide to Sen. [Barry Goldwater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%5FGoldwater) and a former covert CIA employee. Lombard and John Fisher are voted onto the board. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard H. Hall, “[The Quest for the Truth about UFOs: A Personal Perspective](http://www.nicap.org/papers/hall-IUR1994.htm) [on the Role of NICAP,](http://www.nicap.org/papers/hall-IUR1994.htm)” in 1994 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1994, pp. 185–201; ClearIntent, [p. 207](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/206/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5837 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18811 (038802E7) Date: 10/2/1978 Description: 11:15 a.m. Four students, ages 12–16, from Despatch, Eastern Cape, South Africa, are hiking in the Groendal Nature Reserve when they see a silver object on the ground. About 900 feet to the west of it are two beings in silver suits that seem to glide without walking. A third being joins them, holding a silver “suitcase,” and they glide along a fence along a steep incline a short way before vanishing. The silver object disappears too. Later, three forest workers find 7-inch oval footprints about one mile from the site. On October 18, three South African police officers and two trackers visit the encounter site and find a large area of depressed grass with 8 symmetrical marks around its perimeter and 4 marks within the oval area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “South African CE III,” IUR 5, no. 1a \(January 1980\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_5839 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18812 (EB64D5FE) Date: 10/2/1978 Description: At 7:15 p.m. seven triangular objects were sighted simultaneously in the sky over Kingstanding, West Midlands, England by many. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, April 1979, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_6506 Source: Johnson ### Event 18813 (9659DB02) Date: 10/2/1978 Description: Shortly before two o'clock in the afternoon in Unanderra, near Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia a six-meter long non-metallic ovoid object flew over to the southwest, then zig-zagged quickly to the west over the mountains at Kiama. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australian CUFOS case files, report dated October 10, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_6505 Source: Johnson ### Event 18814 (411D46CC) Date: 10/2/1978 Description: At 11:15 a.m. four young boys in the Groendal Nature Reserve, Uitenhage, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa had been out hiking in an isolated area, and were now waiting to be picked up by their parents, when suddenly their attention was drawn to a glistening object in the distance. They next saw two men wearing shiny silvery outfits, standing just to the west of the object. The men were able to move across the difficult terrain in a gliding motion, and on on top of the hill they were joined by a third man that appeared to be carrying a small suitcase. The three men then glided towards a dividing fence and flew over it, and one stopped to look at the boys. The silver suit covered his forehead, so only his lower face was clear, but they could see he had gray skin. Finally, the men glided up a hill and seemed to disappear upon reaching the summit. During the incident the boys noticed a strange silence in the area and two of them felt disoriented. Possible ground traces were found on the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1978, p. 5; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January 1980, p. 7; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1976; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 904, citing Cynthia Hind, Phenomenon: 40 years of Flying Saucers Source ID: Johnson_6504 Source: Johnson ### Event 18815 (69198161) Date: 10/3/1978 Description: At 9:37 p.m. a car driving over a mountain pass near Sayama City, Japan was suddenly illuminated. An orange beam of light came down from the sky and struck the Mr. Amano's two-year-old daughter's stomach. Then a short humanoid being with no obvious nose appeared and pressed a metallic object against his forehead. He began receiving telepathic communication from the being accompanied by a high-pitched noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1977 Source ID: Johnson_6533 Source: Johnson ### Event 18816 (D5E14EA0) Date: 10/3/1978 Description: Thousands of witnesses saw two UFOs in an unusually clear sky. One was shaped like a "croissant" and the other was cylinder-shaped. Both gave off an intense luminosity. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bogota, Columbia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5030 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18817 (3438C04C) Date: 10/3/1978 Description: Thousands of witnesses in Bogota, Colombia saw two UFOs in an unusually clear sky. One was shaped like a "croissant" and the other was cylinder-shaped. Both gave off an intense luminosity. Traffic halted throughout the city during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1978, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_6532 Source: Johnson ### Event 18818 (3A549E2D) Date: 10/5/1978 Description: In Palpala, Argentina at 8 o'clock in the evening, two witnesses, Barrionuevo and Mercado, saw an alien being with a light attached to its chest through a kitchen window. It was very tall, with ugly eyes, a face marked as if with scratches, a reddish-orange neck, and white hair. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1978, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_6584 Source: Johnson ### Event 18819 (1E10327D) Date: 10/6/1978 Description: 3:00 a.m. Two witnesses driving west on US Highway 87 halfway between Capulin and Des Moines, New Mexico, see an octagonal object several times larger than the moon with light shining through sections of it. As it passes above their car, it seems to be metallic. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Octagonal Tank,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5840 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18820 (6CE94450) Date: 10/7/1978 Description: 6:30 p.m. Two truck drivers on US Highway 224 near Lodi, Ohio, see a tight formation of pink/red lights flashing on and off floating toward them to the north. They both stop to get out and look. All four lights break formation and move off in different directions, disappearing in seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Intriguing Ohio NL’s,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5842 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18821 (798AA4A2) Date: 10/7/1978 Description: A woman is driving with her 13-year-old nephew near San Cataldo, Sicily, Italy, when one of her tires has a blow-out. She repairs the tire but cannot start the car again. Above at an altitude of 50 feet, she sees a silver object resembling a plate turned upside down, about 65 feet in diameter. It emits a strong light, and the bottom has a transparent door through which she can see three or four shadows passing behind it. The UFO leaves quickly with a humming sound after 5–10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Maurizio Verga, “[La vague italienne de 1978 \(Deuxième Partie\),](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20210.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 210 \(December 1981\): 32; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sept. 2011\): 20; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-10-07-italy-sancataldo.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-10-07-italy-sancataldo.htm) November 17, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_5841 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18822 (12D3C6A5) Date: 10/8/1978 Description: 10:30 a.m. Teenager Franklin Youri takes a photo of an unusual object behind his home near Lake Urmia, Iran. It appears just above the line of the roof, and its shape is similar to the May 13 Iranian photo. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Interesting](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf) [Newly Discovered Photo from Iran,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 7 \(July 1981\): 1, 3; “[Sheraz, Iran,](https://books.google.com/books?id=YGYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=%22Franklin%2BYouri%22%2B1978%2BUrmia&source=bl&ots=QFdGb0Hk7%5F&sig=ACfU3U22JDATRIQhvIa7O0186x4oWcq1wA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidl9LgpfjnAhWMm-AKHeqhDIwQ6AEwAHoECA4QAQ%23v%3Donepage&q=%22Franklin%20Youri%22%201978%20Urmia&f=false) [October 8, 1978,](https://books.google.com/books?id=YGYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=%22Franklin%2BYouri%22%2B1978%2BUrmia&source=bl&ots=QFdGb0Hk7%5F&sig=ACfU3U22JDATRIQhvIa7O0186x4oWcq1wA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidl9LgpfjnAhWMm-AKHeqhDIwQ6AEwAHoECA4QAQ%23v%3Donepage&q=%22Franklin%20Youri%22%201978%20Urmia&f=false)” Popular Mechanics, July 1998, p. 64 Source ID: Eberhart_5844 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18823 (E553DE58) Date: 10/8/1978 Description: 7:00–9:00 a.m. A very small object is seen resting in a field 300 feet from the [Marlett Sturgell](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73416863/marlett-tillman-sturgell) farmhouse near Jenkins, Missouri. For 2 hours it is watched intermittently by his wife [Dora](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73416951/dora-mary-sturgell), son Norman, son-in-law, and two others, all members of the Sturgell family. At 9:00 a.m., it ascends and moves off to the northwest. The witnesses then notice a larger, more distant object, wingless, hovering in the sky. The small object heads directly toward it and either flies under it or enters into it. It moves away rapidly and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Physical Trace Case in Missouri,” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 11–13; Donald L. Seneker and George M. Koch, “[Missouri Landing-](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1979-5-may) [Trace Case,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1979-5-may)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 135 \(May 1979\): 3–7; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_5843 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18824 (C7BFCF1A) Date: 10/8/1978 Description: A man was driving with his sleeping wife through Lowton, Greater Manchester, England when at 11:30 p.m. a figure suddenly appeared in his headlights, standing in the middle of a grassy median strip in the center of the highway. The figure was human like but over six feet tall and was wearing a shiny silvery uniform. The figure was also encased in an orange glow. The man drove on but could still see the orange glow in the roadway when he looked back. Earlier in the same area other witnesses had seen a large lighted object with a silvery dome, and reported that three bumps underneath the object descended slowly towards the road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 763, citing Peter Hough & Stephen Balon in Northern UFO News, issue # 55 Source ID: Johnson_6664 Source: Johnson ### Event 18825 (20FBE16C) Date: 10/8/1978 Description: A hat-shaped disc was photographed at 5:30 in the afternoon over a camp in Gobernador Virasoro, Corrientes, Argentina. The object resembled an inverted dish or narrow-brimmed hat. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 14, citing Clarin, November 2, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_6663 Source: Johnson ### Event 18826 (FD6F9E70) Date: 10/8/1978 Description: A cattle mutilation was reported in Avoca, Arkansas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 373, citing Robers (AR) Daily News, October 9, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_6662 Source: Johnson ### Event 18827 (62A767F9) Date: 10/8/1978 Description: At 7:00 a.m. seven separate witnesses in Jenkins, Missouri, including a 71-year-old couple, watched two ovoid objects, one on the ground, for two hours. At its closest the nearest object was 180 feet away, and left behind ground traces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December1978, p. 11; citing Ted Phillips; UNICAT, case # 135; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 191; Joplin Globe, October 24, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_6661 Source: Johnson ### Event 18828 (BF6D11EB) Date: 10/8/1978 Description: Multiple witnesses, daylight, two objects, (#1320). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jenkins, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_5031 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18829 (D481E2A2) Date: 10/8/1978 Description: 11:30 p.m. A Mr. and Mrs. Trantor are driving along the A580 near Lowton, England, when their headlight beams catch a figure standing in the grassy strip between the two lanes. It is well over 6 feet tall and dressed in a silver-foil reflective suit. It is immersed in orange light. Stunned, they drive past it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Fake Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 8–9; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-10-08-uk-lowton.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-10-08-uk-lowton.htm) April 26, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_5848 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18830 (D650825D) Date: 10/8/1978 Description: 10:40 p.m. Elfed Williams is driving south on the A5025 near Penysarn, Anglesey, Wales, when he sees an orange light that passes overhead and hovers in the southwest. He stops at a friend’s house in the village and they continue to watch the light, which increases in size and is still hovering silently at about 200 feet. At first it looks like two saucers joined at the rims by a black band, but when it begins approaching the witnesses, it takes on the shape of an orange-hued triangle. It moves away then shoots off at a fast speed, Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin Babbs, “[Expanding UFO](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%201.pdf) [over Anglesey,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 25, no, 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1979\): 23–24 Source ID: Eberhart_5847 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18831 (39D796CC) Date: 10/8/1978 Description: 7:10 p.m. A student takes a photo of a distant daylight disc from his home, 2 miles east of Anderson, South Carolina. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Photo,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_5846 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18832 (724F24B8) Date: 10/8/1978 Description: 5:11 p.m. A couple in Huntington Park, California, watch a huge black disc at a high altitude moving toward the Sierra Madre Mountains in the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Who Else Saw This Monstrous Disc?” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5845 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18833 (BBE0A1CC) Date: 10/8/1978 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a multi-colored disc-shaped object hovered north of Ord, Nebraska at a low altitude (75m) while making a loud buzzing sound. The object beams two tentacled figures down to the ground, who collect soil and plant samples. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_6660 Source: Johnson ### Event 18834 (6D4A503F) Date: 10/10/1978 Description: 6:35 a.m. A chemistry professor in Agoura Hills, California, goes outside to observe Jupiter and sees another bright object to the south of it. It is moving slowly and soon splits into two lights, one brighter than the other. They spread apart and move away at different speeds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Another Nocturnal Light That Split Up,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5849 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18835 (6DB8461D) Date: 10/10/1978 Description: 9:30 p.m. A Mrs. Grime and her two sons, 15 and 21, see a silvery disc ringed by flashing white lights near their home in Leigh, England. They can see three bumps on its underside. It makes a faint humming sound as it moves overhead. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Fake Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5850 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18836 (21EA5732) Date: 10/15/1978 Description: At 7:30 a.m. the witness, a 50-year-old important Communist Party politician, was alone in a wooded area in Jaraba, Zaragoza, Spain attempting to photograph some eagle nests, when suddenly all sounds in the area ceased. He then began walking and next heard a weak whistling sound. He started to feel nauseated with a metallic taste in his mouth, and his wristwatch felt hot to the touch. When he turned around, he saw in clearing a 5 meter metallic dome-shaped craft whose perimeter was which surrounded by small antennae like protrusions. Next to the object stood two very tall men, 1.90 meters in height, with blond hair wearing blue-gray outfits and wide belts. One was leaning over a metallic tube apparently stuck on the ground. The other carried a box with a small sphere on top. The one holding the tube motioned to the witness to approach. The man felt a wave of heat as he approached to within 20 meters, so he stopped and frightened, yelled at them. He heard his own voice in a strange, weirdly distorted manner. The two UFOnauts then walked back over to the object and got aboard. The whistling sound now intensified and the witness felt an electric shock on the back of his neck and strange vibrations on the ground. The craft lifted up and flew out of sight while the whistling sound increased. He managed to take a photograph of the object as it departed, and a hole was found in the ground at the scene. UFO investigators found the witness to be well qualified but uncooperative, seeking to avoid publicity. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2174; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 101, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis Source ID: Johnson_6872 Source: Johnson ### Event 18837 (B73FEAA8) Date: 10/15/1978 Description: At 7:40 p.m. in Caumont, Vaucluse department, France a domed disc-shaped object buzzed two witnesses in a car at 80 meters altitude. It had a ring of red lights around its rim. It vanished quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1978 Source ID: Johnson_6873 Source: Johnson ### Event 18838 (E8D75D3E) Date: 10/15/1978 Description: On this night a doctor named Rotela and his family were followed by a luminous yellow-orange object about 2 feet in diameter, until their car became bogged down. The ball of light then landed near the Salado River, 30 kilometers from Gobernador Crespo, Santa Fe province, Argentina. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1979, p. 15, citing La Nacion, October 20, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_6874 Source: Johnson ### Event 18839 (B03804F6) Date: 10/20/1978 Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_324 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18840 (94C08C24) Date: 10/20/1978 Description: Dusk. Kate Chmurny, an archaeologist at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire, watches a triangular object flying at 30 mph northward along Interstate 93 at a height of 100 feet above the Pemigewasset River floodplain in Campton, New Hampshire. It is about 20 feet wide and completely silent, moving by raising and lowering one side. The object has a single bright white light on the underside and rows of red and greenish lights along the edges that reflect against a metallic surface. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joseph K. Long, “[Letter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 2 \(April/May 1983\): 5–8 Source ID: Eberhart_5851 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18841 (2FE42CFF) Date: 10/21/1978 Description: Aircraft Accident Investigation Summary Report: Fredrick Valentich vanished while reporting a UFO playing cat and mouse with his airplane which was a Cessna 182L. It’s hovering above me… it’s got a greenlight and sort of metallic (like) it’s all shiny (on) the outside… it’s hovering and it’s Airplane not an aircraft… (end of transmission…pilot presumed dead). Type: ufo encounter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p461-463, B1-F p298) Source ID: Maj2_704 Source: Maj2 ### Event 18842 (60171342) Date: 10/21/1978 Description: Cessna pilot Frederick Valentich aerial encounter with elongated object, plane and pilot disappeared Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Bass Strait, Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_325 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18843 (BA51D393) Date: 10/21/1978 Description: 7:06 p.m. Australian pilot [Frederick Valentich](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90220097/frederick-valentich)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90220097/frederick-valentich) 20, is on a 145-mile training flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft over Bass Strait between Moorabbin, Victoria, and King Island. He radios Melbourne air traffic control to report that an unidentified aircraft is following him at 4,500 feet. He is told there is no known traffic at that level. Valentich can see a large, unknown aircraft that appears to be illuminated by four bright landing lights. He is unable to confirm its type but says it has passed about 1,000 feet overhead and is moving at high speed. Then he says the aircraft is approaching him from the east, thinking that the other pilot might be purposely toying with him. The other aircraft is “orbiting” above him. It has a shiny metal surface and a green light on it. Then he begins experiencing engine problems. Asked to identify the aircraft, Valentich radios, “It’s not an aircraft.” His transmission is then interrupted by unidentified noise described as being “metallic, scraping sounds” before all contact is lost. A sea and air search is undertaken that includes oceangoing ship traffic, an RAAF Lockheed P-3 Orion aircraft, plus eight civilian aircraft. The search encompasses more than 1,000 square miles. Search efforts cease on October 25 without result. A Department of Transport investigation into the disappearance is unable to determine the cause, but it is “presumed fatal” for Valentich. In 1983, an engine cowl flap is found washed ashore on Flinders Island. In July 1983, the Bureau of Air Safety Investigation asks the Royal Australian Navy Research Laboratory about the likelihood that the cowl flap might have traveled to its final position from the area where the aircraft disappeared. The bureau notes that “the part has been identified as having come from a Cessna 182 aircraft between a certain range of serial numbers.” which includes Valentich’s aircraft. At least 15 other UFOs are reported between midday and 9:00 p.m., six in Victoria, one on King Island, and others further away. Roy Manifold, vacationing at Crayfish Bay, Cape Otway, Victoria, inadvertently takes two photos of peculiar black objects just 20 minutes before Valentich reported his sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Disappearance of Frederick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance%5Fof%5FFrederick%5FValentich) [Valentich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance%5Fof%5FFrederick%5FValentich)”; “Fred Valentich: The Missing Australian Pilot,” IUR 3, no. 12 \(December 1978\): 2–10; Bill Chalker, “[The Missing Cessna and the UFO,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2024%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 \(March 1979\): 3–5; Bill Chalker, “[Vanished? The Valentich Affair Re-examined,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2030%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 2 \(December 1984\): 6–12; Richard F. Haines, [Melbourne Episode: Case Study of a Missing Pilot](http://www.nicap.org/books/Melbourne%5FEpisode/Melbourne%5FEpisode.pdf)[,](http://www.nicap.org/books/Melbourne%5FEpisode/Melbourne%5FEpisode.pdf) L.D.A. Press, 1987; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 31–32; Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/174/mode/2up) [175–182](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/174/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/174/mode/2up) [461–463](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/460/mode/2up); ClearIntent, [pp. 93–96](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/92/mode/2up); UFOEv II 138–140; Kean, [pp. 54–58](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/54/mode/2up); Richard F. Haines and Paul Norman, “[Valentich Disappearance: New Evidence and a New Conclusion,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/14/jse%5F14%5F1%5Fhaines.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 14, no. 1 \(2000\): 19–33; Clark III 1208–1212 Source ID: Eberhart_5852 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18844 (1D433723) Date: 10/21/1978 Description: Famous "Valentich" Cessna 182 case (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [781021](http://www.nicap.org/781021bassstrait%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bass Strait, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5033 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18845 (A8B1210D) Date: 10/22/1978 Description: The Minister of Agriculture and several other dignitaries saw a flying object hover for several minutes over the city of Arequito, Santa Fe, Argentina on this night. The object had segmented orange luminosities glowing from compartments or portholes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 14, 1979, citing La Nacion, October 24, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_7030 Source: Johnson ### Event 18846 (AC01D9CA) Date: 10/23/1978 Description: At an open-air motion picture film showing in Kansu Province in China, several Chinese Air Force pilots sighted a large, bright rectangular object at an estimated 21,000-foot altitude. They watched it for two to three minutes. They said it carried intensely bright lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March 1983, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_7053 Source: Johnson ### Event 18847 (A371CBA4) Date: 10/23/1978 Description: 10:04 p.m. Chinese Air Force pilots are attending an outdoor film screening at Lintao Air Base, Gansu province, China, when an elongated object with two searchlights and a glowing tail appears in the sky moving to the west. Chinese Air Force pilot Zhou Qingtong says it is large and close to the ground. They watch it for 2–3 minutes as it circles above them. A report in the CIA files indicates it is flying at 20,000 feet, varying from witness reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Report from China,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 \(February 1981\): 5; “[A Close](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2028%20N%204.pdf) [Encounter with Unpleasant Consequences,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2028%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 4 \(March 1983\): 25; Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/212/mode/2up) [213–214](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/212/mode/2up); Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, pp. 119–120 Source ID: Eberhart_5854 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18848 (9130FDEC) Date: 10/23/1978 Description: 6:30–8:30 p.m. Some 200 people involved in 67 sighting reports watch a lighted delta-shaped UFO over Leicestershire, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Throwing a Light on UFO,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201986%2002%20-%20no%20199.pdf)” Leicester \(UK\) Mercury, December 2, 1985, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 199 \(February 1986\): 12; Marler 103, 120 Source ID: Eberhart_5853 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18849 (E42CDA92) Date: 10/23/1978 Description: Two photographs were taken at night of an object shaped like a "priest's hat" in Pescara, Italy. It had a very brilliant center with crab-colored edges. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_7054 Source: Johnson ### Event 18850 (03F3E1FB) Date: 10/23/1978 Description: At an open-air motion picture film showing, several Chinese Air Force pilots sighted a large, bright rectangular object at an estimated 21,000-foot altitude. They watched it for two to three minutes. They said it carried intensely bright lights. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kansu Province, China Source ID: NICAP_DB_5034 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18851 (098B2C80) Date: 10/24/1978 Description: At 7:45 p.m. a witness driving in a car had a close encounter with physiological effects with a four-meter in diameter orb that was hovering low by some telephone lines in Compigny, Yonne, France. The driver felt an intense cold in the presence of the UFO, which shot up vertically after a couple of minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12895; Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1979, issue 191 Source ID: Johnson_7094 Source: Johnson ### Event 18852 (CE679CD3) Date: 10/24/1978 Description: Between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. two fishermen in a boat in Grottammare, Marche, Italy saw a 20 meter long, dark object emerge from the Adriatic Sea and hover for 30 seconds. It then dove back down to a depth of 20 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allen Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 17; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12895; Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1981 Source ID: Johnson_7093 Source: Johnson ### Event 18853 (E0A16080) Date: 10/25/1978 Description: Later that night in a factory in Godoy Cruz, Mendoza province, Argentina two night-shift workers were surprised by a short dwarfish being (0.75 meters tall), who hopped on one leg and operated a complicated looking machine that levitated the workers and left them floating in midair when it vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1979, p. 15, citing La Razon, October 26, 1978; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1982, also citing La Razon Source ID: Johnson_7131 Source: Johnson ### Event 18854 (1F6F07DC) Date: 10/25/1978 Description: Around five o'clock in the morning a 51-year-old farmer name Giovanni was searching for a stray cow in the hills near his home in Tagliocozzo, Abruzzi, Italy when he came to an open field and spotted a large light brown object shaped like a shoeshine box on the ground. Lighted windows surrounded the craft. He approached to within three feet and saw six to seven humanoid beings inside. These were described as small and human like, both male and female. The women were blonde and had beautiful pink skin and smiled at him. The men were uglier, had darker skin and appeared elderly, and they ignored him. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Roberto Pinotti, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_7130 Source: Johnson ### Event 18855 (0A4B53AD) Date: 10/25/1978 Description: The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act creates a “secret federal court” \(Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court\) for issuing wiretap warrants in national security cases. This is in response to findings from the Watergate break-in, which allegedly uncovers a history of presidential operations that has used surveillance on domestic and foreign political organizations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%5FIntelligence%5FSurveillance%5FAct)” Source ID: Eberhart_5856 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18856 (EC740D6E) Date: 10/25/1978 Description: 5:00 a.m. Giuseppe di Giovanni, a 51-year-old farmer, is in search of a stray cow in the hills of San Donato di Tagliacozzo, Abruzzo, Italy, when he comes to an open field and spots a large light-brown object shaped like a shoeshine box on the ground. Lighted windows surround the craft. He approaches to within 3 feet and sees 6–7 humanoid beings inside. They are small and humanlike, both male and female. The women are blonde and have beautiful pink skin. They smile at him. The men are uglier, have darker skin, and appear elderly. They ignore him. Frightened, he runs behind a bush. When he looks out again, the object is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 17–18; 1Pinotti 238–239 Source ID: Eberhart_5855 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18857 (483301A8) Date: 10/25/1978 Description: A 51-year-old farmer name Giovanni was searching for a stray cow in the hills near his home when he came to an open field and spotted a large light brown object shaped like a shoeshine box on the ground. Lighted windows surrounded the craft. He approached to within three feet and saw six to seven humanoid beings inside. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tagliocozzo, Abruzzi, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5035 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18858 (F5B96EDB) Date: 10/26/1978 Description: In Remoulins, Gard department, France a four-meter wide ball of light hovered low by some telephone lines at 11:45 p.m. The witness in a car felt intense cold. The object shot straight up when it left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_7158 Source: Johnson ### Event 18859 (9820A270) Date: 10/26/1978 Description: Night. RCMP Constable James Blackwood receives a report about a UFO hovering above Random Island across from Clarenville, Newfoundland. He heads down to the waterfront and sees an object about 200 feet above the sound. He observes it for nearly two hours with binoculars and a high-powered scope. It is soundless, oval, and has a fin on its tail. When Blackwood flashes the lightbar on his cruiser, the object mimics it by flashing some lights of its own. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[ICYMI: Story of UFO Sighting in Newfoundland Town Is in Mint Condition,](https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/news/provincial/icymi-story-of-ufo-sighting-in-newfoundland-town-is-in-mint-condition-507482/)” Saltwire, October 8, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_5857 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18860 (D4E15A13) Date: 10/27/1978 Description: On or about this date two musicians, members of an orchestra, discovered the remains of two small beings (0.17 m tall), hanging from a tree branch on a beach in Posorja Beach, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1979, p. 15, citing Cronica, October 27, 1978; Xenolog, March 1979, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_7202 Source: Johnson ### Event 18861 (C7547283) Date: 10/28/1978 Description: 10:45 p.m. Joyce Blackburn is putting out milk bottles on the step of her bungalow on the south side of Warrington, England. She sees a strange light hovering above the Fiddler’s Ferry Power Station. Her husband and two children also watch the UFO until it starts pulsating and moving away. Its glow is so bright that their eyes hurt in looking at it through binoculars. It vanishes, then reappears heading toward them at an angle. They can see it is a disc with a dome on top, tilted slightly toward them. As it passes over their heads, they hear a faint humming noise and can see three orange bumps in a triangular formation on its underside. It moves away to the northeast toward another power station. Total duration is 7 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Fake Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_5858 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18862 (BB61335E) Date: 10/29/1978 Description: At 11:15 p.m. in Woolston, Warrington, Cheshire, England a bell-shaped UFO with a bright light on top caused car radio interference in a vehicle being driven near some railway tracks by Ms. J. Fletcher, a woman in her twenties. The UFO had rings of light circling its base, and three bumps on the bottom. It hovered, tilted at an angle, descended, and moved away to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, International UFO Reporter, November 1986, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_7283 Source: Johnson ### Event 18863 (D7D0EFCF) Date: 10/29/1978 Description: 11:15 p.m. Janet Fletcher is stopped at a traffic light in Woolston, England, when she gets static on her radio for a few seconds. She sees a bell-shaped object to the east hovering above a rail line. It has a bright light on top and rings of light circling the base, which has three glowing inset lights or bumps. After 30 seconds, it tilts at an angle and begins to move away, apparently descending. She moves forward when the light changes, but she does not see it again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Fake Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5859 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18864 (0134E283) Date: 10/30/1978 Description: 6:30 p.m. Two teenagers see a triangular UFO over a field in Sherman, Texas. The object shoots a blue light at the witnesses, temporarily blinding them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sherman Youth ‘Sights’ UFO,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201979%2001%20-%20no%20114.pdf)” Denison \(Tex.\) Herald, October 31, 1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 114 \(January 1979\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_5860 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18865 (3923FFD0) Date: 10/30/1978 Description: Pilots and air traffic controllers saw shiny objects, one sped away, circled, maneuvered, descended in distance Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Tobalaba Airfield, Santiago, Chile Source ID: HallUFOE2_326 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18866 (F18672DA) Date: 10/30/1978 Description: At 9:30 p.m. Sebastiana Francelina de Jesus, his older brother, and a younger cousin were traveling by Jeep on their way to a local farm in Carmo Da Cachoeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil when suddenly an unknown force halted the vehicle in its tracks, then pulled it backwards into the mud on the side of the road. All this occurred while a torrential rain was falling. The Jeep was hopelessly mired in the mud. As the three witnesses attempted to dislodge it a very large object emitting an intense rotating light suddenly appeared. The UFO flew over them at very low altitude and then descended to hover a few meters away from the witnesses. The light from the object was so bright that it temporarily blinded the three young people. The older man nearly fainted from fright.

Two bright rotating beams of light illuminated the area around them and the interior of the Jeep. They could also hear a steady droning noise coming from the object. After awhile they began to hear what seemed to be human voices coming from the object, but the voices spoke in an unknown language. The terrified witnesses began screaming for help because they began to feel a bizarre effect: all three felt as if they were "floating." They also described the feeling like "they were growing in size." Finally the UFO began to move away, throwing numerous rocks and debris up into the air. As it sped away from view a small spherical orange-yellow light followed the craft. The witnesses then felt their environment return to normal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues Source ID: Johnson_7312 Source: Johnson ### Event 18867 (7C60B07B) Date: 10/30/1978 Description: Some men were traveling by Jeep on their way to a local farm when suddenly an unknown force halted the vehicle in its tracks, then pulled it backwards into the mud on the side of the road. The UFO flew over them at very low altitude and then descended to hover a few meters away from the witnesses. The light from the object was so bright that it temporarily blinded the three young people. The older man nearly fainted from fright. After awhile they began to hear what seemed to be human voices coming from the object, but the voices spoke in an unknown language. The terrified witnesses began screaming for help because they began to feel a bizarre effect: all three felt as if they were "floating." (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carmo Da Cachoeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5037 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18868 (4D566121) Date: 10/30/1978 Description: Pilots, ATC's rep object near airport (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santiago, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_5040 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18869 (DA99254C) Date: 10/31/1978 Description: A group of ten youngsters were sitting around chatting in a field in Loose Valley, near Maidstone, Kent, England at around midnight. After about 45 minutes of talk a boy named Will leapt to his feet and began slapping his head, saying that there was a bee in his hair. He looked absolutely terrified. A girl named Dorothy and another witness then saw a tall, thin figure wearing a hat, "dancing" behind him. Will said later that it was as if a terrifically loud buzzing was coming up through the top of his head. However, only one other person present, Rachel, heard any buzzing. Partially satisfied that they had stumbled on a bee's nest they moved a distance away. As they moved Dorothy and Will saw a ring outlined in the grass that enclosed where they had been sitting. Eventually it started to rain, so the group headed for Rachel's house. As they left one of the young men turned around and saw the same thin black figure walk across the opening between some trees to where they had been sitting.

Later, while sitting in Rachel's bedroom, one of the young men looked at Will and saw an amorphous black blob drop out of his hair onto the bed. He was the only one who saw this. A few seconds later a black shape started whizzing around the room. The main movement was from bottom left to top right and getting larger during its flight. This created a great fright among those present. Altogether four witnessed this strange phenomenon. Later on the girls slept in a room together, and Rachel and Dorothy again saw a black blob in the curtains during the night. Upon awakening, one of the young men saw the thin black figure silhouetted against some wardrobe doors. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Fortean Times Magazine On-line Source ID: Johnson_7343 Source: Johnson ### Event 18870 (A51FB8D0) Date: 11/1978 Description: A new civilian UFO “initiative group” holds its inaugural seminar at Moscow University in Russia. It is directed by former navy officer and ufologist [Vladimir G. Azhazha](https://peoplepill.com/people/vladimir-azhazha/) with the assistance of Nikita A. Schnee. Launched under the auspices of the A. S. Popov Scientific and Technical Society for Radio, Electronics, and Television, the group calls itself BPVTS for short. Members include [Lev M. Gindilis](https://www.flickr.com/photos/obartunov/6200041565) of the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute in Moscow, Vice Admiral M. M. Krylov, space technician Y. G. Nazarov, and cosmonaut [Yevgeny Khrunov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny%5FKhrunov)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny%5FKhrunov) At the seminar, some individuals storm into the auditorium and disrupt the meeting; university officials ask the group to leave. Schnee claims that [Felix Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel) is responsible for the disruption in order to thwart the activities of civilian researchers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nikita A. Schnee, “[Ufology in the USSR,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2027%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 1 \(June 1981\): 8–10 Source ID: Eberhart_5861 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18871 (BF3425E7) Date: 11/1/1978 Description: The Air Force decides to produce an F-117A stealth fighter based on the mostly successful tests of Have Blue aircraft at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. The contract goes to Lockheed’s Skunk Works. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Lockheed F-](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FF-117%5FNighthawk) [117 Nighthawk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FF-117%5FNighthawk)” Source ID: Eberhart_5862 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18872 (C5A0FFC4) Date: 11/1/1978 Description: Two men in their late twenties, Harmon and D'Ambrosio, reported having a missing time experience of about an hour in length, associated with a UFO sighting in Indian Lake, Hamilton County, New York starting at 5:30 p.m. There were also physiological effects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2, case # 18, citing P. Mazzola Source ID: Johnson_7391 Source: Johnson ### Event 18873 (C5CCB36A) Date: 11/1/1978 Description: 7:45 p.m. [Jenny Randles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles)’s father is getting static on his VHF radio channel at their home in Irlam, Greater Manchester, England. Shortly afterward, they both hear a loud roar. She looks out the window and sees a row of four white lights that drift slowly past from west to east. An hour later, Randles goes outside and talks to 9 children who have been playing outside. They have seen the object too. It is diamond shaped and framed by lights that do not flash. Some report three lights or bumps on the underside. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Fake Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 9–10 Source ID: Eberhart_5863 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18874 (DE88C574) Date: 11/3/1978 Description: A red UFO hovered and pulsed near Brooke High School in Bethany, West Virginia for five minutes beginning at 7:00 p.m. It made a low humming sound. Three separate cops plus many other independent witnesses saw the fireball and two 300 foot long objects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted Spickler, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1979, pp. 9-10 Source ID: Johnson_7439 Source: Johnson ### Event 18875 (9067904B) Date: 11/6/1978 Description: Another cattle mutilation was discovered northwest of Cave Springs, Arkansas. A calf had been killed, and the eyes, tongue, and sexual organs had been removed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 374 Source ID: Johnson_7509 Source: Johnson ### Event 18876 (A96DEB92) Date: 11/7/1978 Description: 9:30 p.m. A witness traveling west on US Highway 20 near South Bend, Indiana, notices a bright light in the sky, much larger than a star. Suddenly it moves directly to the south of her location at a fast rate of speed. As it approached, it disappears and she hears a tremendous roar that shakes the ground. Suddenly, an object banks directly in front of her car about 90 feet away and no more than 20 feet above the ground, making a slow, deliberate turn, then hovering or moving slowly and silently in front of her, then passing behind her car. It is ringed with small windows and has alternating and flashing blue and red lights near each window. She turns around but loses sight of it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Recently Received Sighting Reports,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 4 \(April 1981\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5864 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18877 (1CECAD76) Date: 11/8/1978 Description: 5:30 p.m. While fishing in the Adriatic Sea off San Benedetto del Tronto, Marche, Italy, on board the Exodus, three fishermen—Flaviano Mattiucci, Gennaro Mattiucci, and Dino Focaracci—see, at low altitude and for a few seconds, a red and yellow spherical light. After emerging from the sea, it seems to return into it, after rising and falling from the sky. About one hour later, the radar of another fishing boat, the Andrea Padre, reports a moving submerged object, which appears to follow the vessel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Ship Tracks Submerged Object / Boat](http://www.nicap.org/781108del%5FTronto%5Fdir.htm) [Observes Light](http://www.nicap.org/781108del%5FTronto%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5865 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18878 (9C515F28) Date: 11/8/1978 Description: Ship Tracks Submerged Object / Boat Observes Light (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 3) Reference: NICAP: [781108](http://www.nicap.org/781108del%5FTronto%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5041 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18879 (269A85C5) Date: 11/9/1978 Description: The CIA contacts the NSA with a referral of 15 UFO documents for review for possible declassification through the GSW lawsuit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 181](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/180/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5866 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18880 (494C9972) Date: 11/9/1978 Description: Major UFO/E-M Incidents Over Kuwait (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [781109](http://nicap.org/781109kuwait%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oil Fields, Kuwait Source ID: NICAP_DB_5046 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18881 (74230AE5) Date: 11/9/1978 Description: During a spate of other close encounters in the area, including a car pacing, a 24-year-old taxi driver named Wright spotted a bizarre humanoid shape crossing Sugarloaf Road in Risdon Vale, Tasmania, Australia at 3:15 a.m. A green shape drifted out into road, shaped like a four-foot tall triangle, 2.5 feet wide at its base. The taxi's radio abruptly quit, accompanied by a high-pitched squeaking noise. The shape was described as green in color about one and a half meters tall and 3/4 meters wide at the base, it tapered to a narrow top. The shape drifted out into the road and at the same time the taxi radio emitted a high-pitched squeal as the driver broke hard stopping only 5 meters from the shape. At five feet away the triangle figure vanished into thin air. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1979, p. 8; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, A1988; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vechicle Interference, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_7574 Source: Johnson ### Event 18882 (811082DE) Date: 11/9/1978 Alternate date: 11/10/1978 Description: A cylinder-shaped UFO “bigger than a jumbo jet” with a large dome and flashing lights appears over the northern oil fields of the Kuwaiti Oil Company at Umm Al-Aish, Kuwait, causing the pumping station to automatically shut down. It lands and remains on the ground for seven minutes. When the UFO vanishes, the pump starts working again. There are seven witnesses, one of them an American. This and other sightings compel the government of Kuwait to appoint a committee of the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research to investigate the reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Major UFO/E-M Incidents over Kuwait](http://www.nicap.org/781109kuwait%5Fdir.htm)”; “[UFOs over Kuwait,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201979%2001%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%207.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 7 \(January 1979\): 1; “Kuwaiti Landing,” IUR 5, no. 1a \(January 1980\): 6; ClearIntent, [p. 90](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/90/mode/2up); Clark III 662 Source ID: Eberhart_5867 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18883 (CA080653) Date: 11/9/1978 Description: Technicians observed landing of discshaped object in oil field, E-M effects on oil pumps and communications Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Kuwait Source ID: HallUFOE2_327 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18884 (9C2A84EE) Date: 11/9/1978 Description: Technicians observed landing of disc-shaped object in oil field, E-M effects on oil pumps and communications (section IV). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oil Fields, Kuwait Source ID: NICAP_DB_5032 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18885 (83ABEC0D) Date: 11/9/1978 Description: An acorn-shaped domed UFO with flashing red lights landed at Oil Field Centre No. 24 in the Kuwait desert at 12:50 a.m. The UFO caused EM effects including the disruption of all telecommunications and the malfunction of the pumping station electrical equipment. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January 1979, p. 1; Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 15, citing Cronica, November 14, 1978; Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1979, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 300, 351 Source ID: Johnson_7573 Source: Johnson ### Event 18886 (152148E4) Date: 11/9/1978 Description: At 8:45 p.m. three military Coast Guardsmen, including the main witness named Valentino, were driving near the ocean five miles west of Silvi Marina, Abruzzi, Italy when they were buzzed by a one-meter in diameter, intense red ball of light that caused radio interference. The UFO first rose up from the surface of the seea at a 45 degree angle, flew straight at them for 250-300 meters. The light then shot up into the sky, and then zoomed off to the east. The UFO was not seen on radar, but was also witnessed by two fishermen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 15, citing La Razon, November 12, 1978; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 18; Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1981, p. 34; UNICAT, case # 114, citing Maurizio Verga Source ID: Johnson_7575 Source: Johnson ### Event 18887 (268C6B7D) Date: 11/9/1978 Description: Project Mercury Astronaut [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper), in a letter to the U.N., states that UFOs are interplanetary vehicles and crewed by aliens. He also describes seeing 100's of UFO's over Europe during 1951. Type: letter Reference: [link](http://www.ufoevidence.org/news/article161.htm) Location: New York City Source ID: Maj2_706 Source: Maj2 ### Event 18888 (963C3585) Date: 11/9/1978 Description: Technicians observed landing of disc-shaped object in oil field, E-M effects on oil pumps and communications (section IV). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In oil fields, Kuwait Source ID: NICAP_DB_5042 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18889 (949B8D22) Date: 11/11/1978 Description: Late in the evening four witnesses traveling by car near Bragg Creek, Alberta on a snowy night noticed a bright white light approaching their vehicle. As it got closer they could see that it was a huge object resembling a hovercraft. It had numerous lighted square windows. One witness was able to see several human-like figures standing behind the windows. At one point the witnesses became disoriented and there appears to have been some time loss. One of the witnesses heard what appeared to be music coming from inside the craft. No other sound was detected. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 860, citing W. K. Allan, FSR Source ID: Johnson_7600 Source: Johnson ### Event 18890 (B90A3422) Date: 11/11/1978 Description: A woman was driving through a wooded area in Savigny Le Sec, Cote D'Or, France at 12:15 a.m. when she saw a long light gray object on the ground nearby. About ten short figures were walking around the object. The beings had large bright eyes, large noses, no necks and wore light gray coveralls. The witness became frightened and drove away from the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1722, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_7599 Source: Johnson ### Event 18891 (1780E74A) Date: 11/11/1978 Description: Late in the evening four witnesses traveling by car noticed a bright white light approaching their vehicle. As it got closer they could see that it was a huge object resembling a hovercraft. It had numerous lighted square windows. One witness was able to see several human-like figures standing behind the windows. At one point the witnesses became disoriented and there appears to have been some time loss. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bragg Creek, Alberta, Can Source ID: NICAP_DB_5044 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18892 (FE71C1E7) Date: 11/12/1978 Description: At 7:30 p.m. three red spherical UFOs approached Rome, Italy from the sea. One descended and crossed the flight path of incoming airliners. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 13, citing Cronica, December 11, 1978; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 18; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 154 & 351 Source ID: Johnson_7616 Source: Johnson ### Event 18893 (D9B5F050) Date: 11/12/1978 Description: At 1:30 a.m. in Saluzzo, Piedmonte, Italy a yellow and red domed disc-shaped object swooped down over the roadway and illuminated a car and the surrounding area, causing the car tape deck to stop working. It had four legs or landing gear appendages. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 18; Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1981; UNICAT, case 115 Source ID: Johnson_7615 Source: Johnson ### Event 18894 (384A05E2) Date: 11/13/1978 Description: 4:00 p.m. Elizabeth McKibben, a British nurse at the Inuit settlement of Black Tickle, Labrador, sees a red-orange light to the west hanging motionless at 1,000 feet above some houses for 30 minutes. A second light appears suddenly and moves underneath the first, and both begin a slow descent and disappear. Several young students also see the object and make drawings of it. A fire had broken out 2 miles west on the tundra about 3 hours before the sighting, apparently caused by “fireballs” hitting the ground. Teacher Stephen MacDonald goes to help put out the fires at Martins Pond, where the tundra is burning in patches \[methane outgassing?\]. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Canadian Trace?” IUR 5, no. 1a \(January 1980\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5868 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18895 (5A507C54) Date: 11/14/1978 Description: In 1978 a 51-year-old farmer in San Donato di Tagliacozzo, Italy saw a dark, beige, three meter wide disc on the ground. Humanoids were seen inside the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT database; Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1981, p. 34. Source ID: Johnson_7677 Source: Johnson ### Event 18896 (C906B91B) Date: 11/15/1978 Description: A circular green object was sighted by military fighter pilots while flying over eastern Washington State. Also, a brilliant green ovoid UFO was sighted that night near the ocean shore in Innisfail, Queensland, Australia. The witness was a 24-year-old man named O'Brien. He described the UFO as being only 100 feet away from him and having blurred edges. As he watched, the glow surrounding the object became elongated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42-07; Australian Centre for UFO Studies Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1978-1982, p. 10. Source ID: Johnson_7699 Source: Johnson ### Event 18897 (4460B752) Date: 11/15/1978 Description: An electronics worker in his twenties was driving his car in East Islip, New York on this same night at 6 p.m. when a flash of light led to a period of unconsciousness. Later than night he recalled in flashbacks that five beings came to his car and pushed down the window. They then took him somewhere, examined him and walked him through a strange, unusual environment. His next conscious memory was of sitting by the road nowhere near his car. His clothes were in disarray, his shoes untied, and his shirt buttoned improperly. At first his memory was so impaired that he could not even remember the name of his wife or his telephone number. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Budd Hopkins, "UFO Abductions: The invisible epidemic," in MUFON Symposium Proceedings 1981, p. 45 Source ID: Johnson_7700 Source: Johnson ### Event 18898 (BC315005) Date: 11/15/1978 Description: Four military aircraft are flying over eastern Washington State when an unknown object is detected on radar at 13,000 feet some 40 miles away. One of the jets is ordered to approach the object. The pilot gets a visual confirmation but cannot lock on with his in-flight radar. The interceptor comes within 8 miles of the object but is forced to turn away by low fuel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, August 1983 Source ID: Eberhart_5869 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18899 (865D57B0) Date: 11/19/1978 Description: In 1978 a group of oil company technicians made a motion picture of a UFO in Kuwait, but the film came out blank when developed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II, p. 154, citing The Guardian, November 24, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_7741 Source: Johnson ### Event 18900 (85202266) Date: 11/20/1978 Description: A mushroom-shaped UFO, bigger than a double-decker bus, with a blue flashing light on top, hovered over a car near Rowlands Castle. It shot off, circled around, and hovered over the car again for an additional ten seconds. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rowlands Castle (near), UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5047 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18901 (CC1F030E) Date: 11/20/1978 Description: 9:30 p.m. A female medical technician, her sister, daughter, and two housemaids experience a power failure in their home in a northern suburb of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. They see a bright light in the sky that shoots out bright blue rays. It moves off behind a hill, and two small lights, one yellow, the other reddish, approach from the same hill. The witnesses run upstairs and watch from a window. The lights stop next to a road, the Avenida de los Martires, as a car comes along and illuminates them with its headlights. The women now see that the lights are attached to the abdomens of two flying entities, which appear to be cone-shaped, twice as tall as a normal-sized man, and wearing white translucent sheets. Three silhouettes cross the car’s headlights, and all the lights \(including the car’s\) go out. The witnesses hear a metallic noise like a garage door. Then the two lights turn on again and fly off. The power in the house returns. The episode lasts 45 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 2; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-11-20-dominican-losriosarroyohondo.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-11-20-dominican-losriosarroyohondo.htm) December 3, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_5870 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18902 (492F7449) Date: 11/20/1978 Description: In 1978 at six o'clock in the evening GMT, a mushroom-shaped UFO, bigger than a double-decker bus, with a blue flashing light on top, hovered over a car near Rowlands Castle in Great Britain. It shot off, circled around, and hovered over the car again for an additional ten seconds. Later that night, at 9:30 p.m. local time, a UFO was seen landing remotely in Los Rios, a suburb of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. At the same time there occurred an electrical power failure. Two three-meter tall conical shaped beings or robots are seen approaching a residence containing five female witnesses, when two or three normal sized beings run in front of a passing car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, January 1979, p. 11; Leonte Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_7754 Source: Johnson ### Event 18903 (64A257CA) Date: 11/21/1978 Description: Lufthansa and TWA airliner crews flying over Newfoundland both reported sighting a domed disc that was emitting moving beams of light. It had landing gear and antennae. At 5:30 a.m. a UFO hovered over a water tower for 30 minutes at the Al Sabriyah Oil Field in Kuwait. At 6:00 p.m. a Puma helicopter pilot and several other witnesses on the ground in Miradj, Iran reported sighting a big yellow light and changed color to red, then vanished above the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42; International UFO Reporter, January 1980, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_7778 Source: Johnson ### Event 18904 (110DB1A8) Date: 11/21/1978 Description: Two airliner crews encountered disc with dome, structural features, emitting light beams Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Newfoundland Source ID: HallUFOE2_328 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18905 (9E3A9742) Date: 11/21/1978 Description: Domed disc w/legs encountered by TWA (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newfoundland, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5048 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18906 (50F24607) Date: 11/21/1978 Description: 5:30 a.m. A UFO appears over a Kuwaiti oilfield at Al-Sabriyah near the Iraqi border. An employee of the company takes photos of it as it passes a water tower and then hovers over the site for 30 minutes. Long- distance communications cease functioning. The internal phone system works, however, and workers are able to alert their boss, who steps outside and sees the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs over Kuwait,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201979%2001%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%207.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 7 \(January 1979\): 1, 3; “Kuwaiti Landing,” IUR 5, no. 1a \(January 1980\): 6; Clark III 663 Source ID: Eberhart_5871 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18907 (01C5F166) Date: 11/22/1978 Description: Elsie Oakensen was driving in Weedon, Northamptonshire, England at 5:30 p.m. when a gray egg-timer shaped object with green and red lights began pacing her car. She saw spots of pure white light on the road coming from the UFO. After half a mile the car engine and headlights failed. The daylight darkened and she next experienced 15 minutes of missing time; her next conscious memory was of her driving the car in 3rd gear but she had no memory restarting it. Four women saw the same object two hours later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 74 Source ID: Johnson_7810 Source: Johnson ### Event 18908 (ABC8E112) Date: 11/22/1978 Description: A car was buzzed by a UFO in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia on this night, causing the car's speedometer needle to spin wildly and then break. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1982 Source ID: Johnson_7808 Source: Johnson ### Event 18909 (4B487673) Date: 11/22/1978 Description: In Cascas, Peru a multi-colored UFO appeared at a party honoring the Virgin of the Rosary. It gave off red, violet and white lights for 15 minutes. After the initial surprise, the partygoers enthusiastically applauded the UFO during the show. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 13, citing Cronica, November 24, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_7809 Source: Johnson ### Event 18910 (106063BB) Date: 11/22/1978 Description: 5:30 p.m. Elsie Oakensen is driving home to Church Stowe, Northamptonshire, England, on the A5 when she passes beneath a hovering object shaped like a dumbbell with red and green lights. As she turns onto Main Street, her foot is flat on the accelerator but there is no sound from her engine and her car coasts to a halt. Her car lights fail as circles of light dance around the road, illuminating a nearby farmyard. The car restarts, but she only drives about 300 feet when it stops again. She claims the “natural light” disappears and she is enveloped in pure darkness. Then suddenly a white circle of light approximately 3 feet in diameter shines on the road, as if someone has pressed on a switch, the normal light returns, and she drives the car normally. She estimates she has about 15 minutes of missing time. Later, at 7:10 p.m., she feels a tightening sensation around her forehead, one that she remembers having felt just prior to the encounter. At 7:20 p.m., four young women driving through the nearby village of Preston Capes see red and green lights and beams shooting out from clouds as their car engine temporarily loses power. After trying hypnosis with minimal results, Oakensen tries creative visualization at the scene and recovers some abduction memories. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-11-22-uk-churchstowe.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1978-11-22-uk-churchstowe.htm) November 13, 2011; Jenny Randles, “Much More Than Marsh Gas,” Fortean Times 311 \(March 2014\): 27 Source ID: Eberhart_5872 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18911 (3A8A7BA7) Date: 11/23/1978 Description: At 6:30 p.m. a fluorescent, wedge-shaped UFO flew silently over an oil field in Abu Dhabi, UAE. There were 11 oil workers as witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1979, p. 5, citing UPI; APRO Bulletin, January 1979, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_7850 Source: Johnson ### Event 18912 (DFFABA81) Date: 11/23/1978 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped UFO flew over Gois, Coimbra, Portugal very rapidly to the north, radiating an orange glow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: PORTUCAT, case 236, citing Diario de Coimbra Source ID: Johnson_7852 Source: Johnson ### Event 18913 (DA1EAA2D) Date: 11/23/1978 Description: In the early evening a silver triangular object with two yellow lights paced a "Tristar" airliner from Heathrow Airport, Kent, England. It came back several times during the three minute encounter, and was tracked on radar. There were several independent witnesses. At 7:15 p.m. a man in Whitstable, Kent, England making weather observations at his home saw a silver, plate-shaped UFO, within a block of light gray vapor. The UFO was glistening silver, and emerged from the front of the mist. It showed great acceleration, and left a vapor trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) D. N. Mansell, Awareness, April 1979, p. 11; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42; (2) UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1979, p. 11, citing Whitstable Times, November 24, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_7851 Source: Johnson ### Event 18914 (08940E4A) Date: 11/24/1978 Description: 11:45 a.m. Angelo d’Ambros, 61, is out gathering firewood in a copse near Gallio, Vicenza, Italy, when he comes across two entities just a few feet away from him. One is about 4 feet tall, the other about 8 inches shorter. They are suspended in the air about a foot off the ground. They are extremely thin and have a yellowish skin that is stretched tightly over their bones. Their heads are bald, and at the sides are enormous ears that rise vertically and end in points. Their eyes are large and white, without eyelids. Their large noses extend down to the lower lip of a sizable mouth from which extend two tusks. They wear tight-fitting coveralls. The smaller one starts moving back and forth from right to left in very quick jerks. Its motion causes a stir in the air, and vegetation rustles as the tips of its ears touch the lower branches of nearby trees. Incomprehensible grumblings come from the mouth of the shorter entity. The taller being reaches one of its long hands to take away d’Ambros’s pruning knife. D’Ambros holds on to it tightly, but he feels a strong electric shock. He grabs a large branch and takes a swipe at them as they take flight. D’Ambros runs after them, and he watches them make for a domed UFO resting in a clearing 100 feet away on four landing pods. The entities climb aboard, and the object takes off horizontally at a dizzying speed in absolute silence and disappears behind high fir trees. The next day he returns to the clearing and finds a nearly circular area about 12 feet in diameter in which the grass appears black, pressed, and whirled in a counterclockwise direction. D’Ambros discovers two U-shaped traces about 8 inches long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Two Humanoids in Gallio,” IUR 8, no. 3 \(May/June 1983\): 8–11; Antonio Chiumiento, “[Gallio: Faccia a faccia](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201980%2004-05%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204-5.pdf) [con due ufonauti,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201980%2004-05%20-%20Vol%203%20No%204-5.pdf)” Notiziario UFO 3, no. 4/5 \(April/May 1980\): 4–9; Antonio Chiumiento, “[Umanoidi a Gallio,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201981%2005-12%20-%20Vol%2016%20No%2099.pdf) [Seconda Parte,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201981%2005-12%20-%20Vol%2016%20No%2099.pdf)” Notiziario UFO 16, no. 99 \(May/Dec. 1981\): 16–19; 1Pinotti 241–250 Source ID: Eberhart_5873 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18915 (CE245E84) Date: 11/24/1978 Description: Sr. D'Ambros, age 61, had gone into a nearby woods at 11:45 a.m. near Gastagh, Italy to gather some firewood and had sat down on a log to rest. He was horrified to suddenly see two strange looking beings looking at him. The beings were hovering very close to the ground. They were described as a meter tall and thin with large pointed ears. One was shorter than the other. They had yellowish skin, large smooth and bald elongated heads, long pointed noses and large mouths with two long pointed fangs. They were clad in dark, tight fitting coveralls that started below the knee and extended up to their necks. They also had huge hands and feet with extremely long fingers and nails. The shorter of the beings approached the witness and began making sudden "sliding" moves around him, never touching the ground. The witness screamed for help and asked who they were but they only answered him with mumbling sounds. The taller creature now approached and attempted to take the witness's pruning axe from him. After a brief struggle the creatures fled into the woods. The witness chased after them but lost sight of them. He then came upon a clearing where a solid, metallic disc-shaped craft with a dome on top rested on four legs. He saw a pair of long hands close a small trap door on the dome, then the disc took off silently and at high speed emitting a burst of red flame from its bottom. During the same time other independent witnesses had watched a similar object maneuvering over the area. Ground traces found in the area included a 12-foot wide burnt circle, with vegetation whirled counterclockwise, U-shaped imprints 20 cm long and 3 cm deep, and uprooted bushes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Antonio Chiumiento, International UFO Reporter, May 1983, p. 8; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2176, citing IUR; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 492 Source ID: Johnson_7884 Source: Johnson ### Event 18916 (5A962748) Date: 11/24/1978 Description: Sr. Gordillo and three friends were out hunting in the pre-dawn hours around 3:30 a.m. in a wooded hilly region near the River Guadiamar in Gerena Guadiamar, Sevilla province, Spain when they all saw a red light on the ground in a nearby eucalyptus grove. They all carried bright lanterns and continued looking for game. They crossed the river, and temporarily forgot about the red light for a few minutes. They then noticed that the light was now in a nearby clearing in the woods. Two of the witnesses approached the area, while the others remained behind. The two men saw, partially hidden by some trees, a large bowl-shaped or jug-shaped craft with a red light on top and numerous multicolored lights on the front; it rested on two shiny silvery legs. Next to the object stood a tall, heavy set human-like figure, who appeared to be wearing a large round black helmet with a glass visor over the face. His clothing was silvery and he wore large boots. The being walked slowly back and forth in front of the object, at one point approaching the witnesses briefly. It made low humming noises. The men became frightened and left the area. Large footprints were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1979, p. 1; Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1979; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Enciclopedia De Los Encuentros Cercanos Con Ovnis & UNICAT database case # 485, citing Stendek, volume 37, number 1 Source ID: Johnson_7883 Source: Johnson ### Event 18917 (5E4DF9C9) Date: 11/25/1978 Description: Pam Owens abduction case. (MUFON investigation report) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kordel, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_5049 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18918 (7EFCE5AF) Date: 11/25/1978 Description: While participating in a trans-Atlantic crossing during a yatch race, the skipper of the yatch "Salamandre" watched a very shiny white disc come down to right above the boat. The greenish-blue color surrounding the object was so brilliant that it was blinding. The UFO shot off at astonishing speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, May 1979, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_7913 Source: Johnson ### Event 18919 (FB3610EF) Date: 11/25/1978 Description: That night in Trier, Germany at 10 p.m. an abduction by UFO occupants occurred. A metallic, ovoid UFO with a flashing red light hovered over a car with a German couple and a nineteen-year-old American woman named Owens. The car's occupants experienced over 90 minutes of missing time. The principal abductee, the wife of an American soldier stationed in Germany, was levitated aboard the UFO. She was five months pregnant at the time. She had no memory of the abduction prior to hypnosis. During hypnosis she recalled that the aliens had huge, baldheads, and deep-set eyes. They had a greenish colored skin, with a roughness like mummy wrapping. Their hands had four fingers, and were twice the length of human fingers. Dark triangular objects with pale yellow lights were seen over Heathrow Airport and in Ducklington, England that day and evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Jane Thomas (translator), UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, April 1980, p. 14 citing The Independent, January 22, 1980; (2) UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, April 1979, p. 11, citing the London Sunday Express, January 11, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_7914 Source: Johnson ### Event 18920 (2AA07719) Date: 11/25/1978 Description: While participating in a trans-Atlantic crossing during a yacht race, the skipper of the yacht "Salamandre" watched a very shiny white disc come down to right above the boat. The greenish-blue color surrounding the object was so brilliant that it was blinding. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlantic Ocean, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_5050 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18921 (5E4DF9C9) Date: 11/25/1978 Description: Pam Owens abduction case. (MUFON investigation report) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Trier, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_5051 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18922 (8458707F) Date: 11/27/1978 Description: [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) [Stanton T. Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman), Lawrence J. Coyne, and Grenada Ambassador at Large Wellington Friday speak before the UN Special Political Committee. Grenada seeks to interest the UN in a three-member panel to initiate a formal UFO study program, but its efforts are unavailing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1190; J. Allen Hynek, “Ufologists and the United Nations: A Novel Moment in the History of UFO Research,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 \(Oct./Nov. 1978\): 3–18 Source ID: Eberhart_5874 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18923 (6B358F4F) Date: 11/27/1978 Description: At 11:20 p.m. all clocks in the village of Figueira da Foz, Portugal stopped for one hour and then started again when a UFO flew over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, July 1979 Source ID: Johnson_7964 Source: Johnson ### Event 18924 (7BE8463B) Date: 11/27/1978 Description: Also December 8, 1978. UN committee meetings on UFOs. Speakers included J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee, Stanton Friedman, Lawrence J. Coyne. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: New York, NY Source ID: HallUFOE2_329 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 18925 (697CE6AB) Date: 11/28/1978 Description: A woman sleeping in a caravan trailer in Channel, Tasmania, Australia was disturbed by noises outside at two o'clock in the morning. She went out to investigate and saw two short, squat humanoid figures nearby. The upper half of the creatures was white, and they were wearing some type of head cover. They seemed to be moving their arms. The witness became frightened and went back inside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 47, citing Keith Roberts, TUFOIC Tasmania Source ID: Johnson_8002 Source: Johnson ### Event 18926 (61128121) Date: 11/28/1978 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a very bright, multi-colored, pencil-shaped object flew directly over the highway in Lathrop, Michigan, positioning itself above vehicles. It had orange, green, and blue colored lights. Tire-like things appeared to be wrapped around it, and it made no noise. Suddenly, it lit up the ground for five seconds and shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mike Nelson, Menominee Herald, December 15, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8008 Source: Johnson ### Event 18927 (CFC2E042) Date: 11/28/1978 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a Mr. Helin had a close encounter with a UFO in Vase, Sweden that lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Information Sweden, March 1979, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_8007 Source: Johnson ### Event 18928 (EB6826C6) Date: 11/28/1978 Description: At 6:00 p.m. in Walsden, West Yorkshire, England a witness reported having a close encounter with a neon-blue disc-shaped object that was low and close for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_8006 Source: Johnson ### Event 18929 (FDBFA43A) Date: 11/28/1978 Description: At 3:15 p.m. in Tome-Acu, Para State, Brazil 26-year-old Luiz Gomes Freitas de Vale had a close encounter with a bright gray, metallic oval-shaped UFO, which after buzzing him rose vertically at great speed, and then maintained a horizontal position. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, Operacion Prato, p. 56 Source ID: Johnson_8005 Source: Johnson ### Event 18930 (333E92D0) Date: 11/28/1978 Description: On this morning Mr. & Mrs. K. in Keddie, Plumas County, California had a close encounter with a UFO that involved a lapse of time of 30 minutes experienced by the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March 1979, p. 3; Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_8004 Source: Johnson ### Event 18931 (CC9E2091) Date: 11/28/1978 Description: At 4:00 a.m. a witness driving in Holmes Chapel Junction, Cheshire, England experienced bad radio static, then had a close encounter with a large metallic object with a large light in front, which approached the car and emitted two beams, one angled 45 degrees up, the other angled 45 degrees down. The UFO had a bevelled bottom and a fin-like tail. There was no trouble with the car engine. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website Source ID: Johnson_8003 Source: Johnson ### Event 18932 (661FC47A) Date: 11/29/1978 Description: In the early afternoon a metallic gray domed disc halted directly over car in Brindisi, Apulia, Italy. Two witnesses in the car got out and fled. The UFO then shot away to the northeast over the Adriatric Sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 212 Source ID: Johnson_8044 Source: Johnson ### Event 18933 (04056724) Date: 11/29/1978 Description: At 12:45 a.m. a woman heard someone banging on the window of her terrace in Naples, Italy. When she went to investigate she saw two humanoid figures about one meter (3.3 feet) in height, wearing round luminous helmets and wearing dark loose fitting uniforms. The little men moved about in quick graceful movements. She yelled for her son but the figures suddenly vanished in plain sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Chris Aubeck, Return to Magonia; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2177 Source ID: Johnson_8043 Source: Johnson ### Event 18934 (404B4858) Date: 11/29/1978 Description: Three witnesses. A car had been chased down a rural road by a flashing UFO. At one time it shot a blue flame out of the front and the car stalled and the lights went out. After the car chase the object was seen to circle a house and surrounding fields at 100-300' off the ground. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Richmond, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5052 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18935 (01DC6426) Date: 11/30/1978 Description: At round 6 a.m. six to nine bright nocturnal lights rose from the sea off the shore of Ventimiglia, Liguria, Italy, and then flew away. There were several witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 212 Source ID: Johnson_8083 Source: Johnson ### Event 18936 (1189FD50) Date: 12/1978 Description: Alan N. Hall, a retired CIA employee, officially becomes president of NICAP among baseless charges that a sinister CIA conspiracy has undermined the organization. He operates out of his home without access to the files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[To Our Readers,](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/148%20APRIL%201979.pdf)” UFO Investigator, April 1979, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, “[The Quest for the Truth about UFOs: A](http://www.nicap.org/papers/hall-IUR1994.htm) [Personal Perspective on the Role of NICAP,](http://www.nicap.org/papers/hall-IUR1994.htm)” in 1994 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1994, pp. 185–201 Source ID: Eberhart_5875 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18937 (AFBF2626) Date: 12/1978 Description: Two teenage girls from London Mills reported a tubular aircraft approached their car as they drove on Illinois Rt.11 near Rapatee. It came within about 10 feet of their vehicle, circled them once, and left "toward the east at a fantastic speed, but there wasn't any noise at all." (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rapatee, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5054 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18938 (2B84E720) Date: 12/1/1978 Description: In 1978 at 1:40 a.m., a small dark disc with a luminous underbody, estimated to be about 1.5 meters in diameter, flew slowly along the coast heading south in Giulianova, Italy. About four hours later, in Milan, Italy the entire electrical system of a car failed when a luminous, orange and green saucer-shaped UFO flew overhead. The object circled the car then rose vertically. The car functioned without trouble after the UFO left the scene. At 7:15 that same morning a silver triangle with yellow lights flew from the west to the east over Ruislip, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Lumieres dans la Nuit and ITACAT; (2) Awareness, April 1979, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_8108 Source: Johnson ### Event 18939 (784382F8) Date: 12/1/1978 Description: A small dark disc with a luminous underbody, estimated to be about 1.5 meters in diameter, flew slowly along the coast heading south in Giulianova, Italy. About four hours later, in Milan, Italy the entire electrical system of a car failed when a luminous, orange and green saucer-shaped UFO flew overhead. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Giulianova, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5055 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18940 (4659728A) Date: 12/1/1978 Description: President [Jimmy Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%5FCarter) establishes the Information Security Oversight Office through Executive Order 12065, “National Security Information.” The office is under the jurisdiction of the National Archives and Records Administration, and its mission is to provide for an informed American public by ensuring that the minimum information necessary to the interest of national security is classified and that information is declassified as soon as it no longer requires protection. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Information Security Oversight Office](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%5FSecurity%5FOversight%5FOffice)” Source ID: Eberhart_5876 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18941 (6B21D34D) Date: End of 1978 Description: UFO research at the USSR Academy of Sciences came under the umbrella of STEKA-AN. UFO acronym was banned until 1989, instead “Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena” was the sanctioned acronym. Type: book reference Reference: [link](https://www.amazon.com/RUSSIAS-ROSWELL-INCIDENT-Amazing-Former-ebook/dp/B06XD2BNXV) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_698 Source: Maj2 ### Event 18942 (E0D58A35) Date: 12/2/1978 Description: Thirty-one year old Emilio Carrascosa Atienza saw an intense white light land 200 meters away from his car while he was driving in Chiva, Valencia, Spain at 11:00 p.m. Its brightness decreased as he approached the spot in his car. He then heard a penetrating foreign voice on his car radio, and next two reddish-orange balls of light appeared near the horizon before winking out. Dr. Willy Smith of the UNICAT project rated the witness as highly reliable. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 139; UNICAT, case # 502, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIS y la Ciencia, p. 76 Source ID: Johnson_8142 Source: Johnson ### Event 18943 (681EE479) Date: 12/2/1978 Description: A photograph was taken of a disc-shaped object in Abu Dhabi, UAE by four young men, one named Salimeen. According to the report there were also physiological effects on the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January 1979, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_8141 Source: Johnson ### Event 18944 (E0C692C7) Date: 12/2/1978 Description: A nine minute long videotape was made of a luminous object over Roanne, France on this evening. The luminous round object appeared over the tops of mountains, traced a big circle, and then remained still for several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 13, citing Cronica, December 4, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8140 Source: Johnson ### Event 18945 (288D4333) Date: 12/2/1978 Description: A civil servant takes a photo of a UFO as he is walking along a beach in Kuwait. It shows a domed disc with a self-luminous tube protruding from the bottom. Other witnesses also see the UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs over Kuwait,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201979%2001%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%207.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 7 \(January 1979\): 3; Clark III 663 Source ID: Eberhart_5877 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18946 (FF57C4A3) Date: 12/3/1978 Description: A brightly lit globular shaped object was seen flying at a low altitude over Leme. Several moving figures could be seen moving inside through a large opening. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Leme, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5057 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18947 (2F304EDD) Date: 12/3/1978 Description: A brightly lit globular shaped object was seen flying at a low altitude over Leme, Brazil on this night. Several moving figures could be seen moving inside through a large opening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing GEPUC Brazil Source ID: Johnson_8166 Source: Johnson ### Event 18948 (6CBAC8D9) Date: 12/4/1978 Description: On this night a woman named Isabel D. saw a brightly illuminated blue-greenish rail in her backyard in Mendoza, Argentina. When she stepped on it she felt intense cold, but at the same time it was like she was in an intense energetic state. She then saw two figures of milky white color. She fell into her swimming pool, and bruised her left ear, eye, and waist. When she recovered she found her left eye bruised and violet rectangular marks behind her left ear and on her waist. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1995; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing John Schuessler, UFO Related Human Physiological Effects; Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1979, p. 11, citing Radiolandia, September 21, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_8180 Source: Johnson ### Event 18949 (DA60F67E) Date: 12/4/1978 Description: The CIA passes on three other UFO documents to the NSA for declassification review. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p.](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/180/mode/2up) [181](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/180/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5878 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18950 (D838762F) Date: 12/6/1978 Description: 11:30 p.m. While patrolling at Marzano, near Torriglia, a village northeast of Genoa, Italy, 26-year-old night watchman Piero Fortunato Zanfretta notices four lights moving in a courtyard. He gets out of his car holding his pistol and flashlight, moving cautiously along a house wall. Something pushes him forward and he falls. When he gets up, his head hits something and he points his flashlight upward to see a 6-foot-tall creature with an ugly face. Terrified, he runs to the car and is blinded by a yellow, triangle-shaped object taking off from behind the house. He calls for help on the radio. When his colleagues arrive at 1:00 a.m., they find him lying in a nearby lawn in a confused state of mind. On December 23, Zanfretta is hypnotized by a medical doctor. An abduction scenario emerges in which he is taken to a bright room by giant entities who put a hot and painful helmet on his head. The humanoids are green-skinned and have yellow triangular eyes, red veins on their heads, pointed ears, and rounded fingers. Further abductions and memories emerge over time, finally ceasing in 1980. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style, Part Two, December,” IUR 4, no. 5 \(November 1979\): 13–15; Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 \(July/Aug.1989\): 15–16; Rino Di Stefano, [The Zanfretta Case: Chronicle of an Incredible True Story](https://www.rinodistefano.com/en/books/the-zanfretta-case.php), The Author, 2014; Jason Charbonneau, “[Zanfretta Abductions, 1978–1981,](https://www.thinkanomalous.com/zanfretta-abductions.html)” Think Anomalous, May 6, 2017; 1Pinotti 253–258 Source ID: Eberhart_5879 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18951 (F3F1CAFA) Date: 12/6/1978 Description: A security guard at the local hydroelectric plant in Marimbonda near Fronteira, Brazil was at his guardhouse on top of the dam at 10:30 p.m. when he noticed some lights shining down on the water surface. He went out to investigate and noticed a luminous circular object approach from across the river. The object came closer and began to hover close to the ground near the power station. The guard could see a door and a small window on the UFO. The window opened and a human face looked out at the witness. The craft's door then opened and three tall men came out. These men wore shiny metallic blue coveralls and all had very long, smooth black hair. The beings approached the guard and spoke to him in an unintelligible language. He panicked and tried to fire a warning shot into the air with his revolver, but it jammed. One of the men then went inside the UFO and came back out holding a black box and handed it to one of the others. After that the witness was able to understand the beings and was told they were here on a "research and study mission." At one point one of the men started collecting stones from the ground and the witness protested. The men then put away the box and calmly walked back into their craft, which left silently and at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR, Vol. 25 # 3 Source ID: Johnson_8244 Source: Johnson ### Event 18952 (757F71D1) Date: 12/6/1978 Description: In the isolated taiga in the Amur region of Siberia a metallic UFO shaped like a mushroom was found apparently having crashed. The body of a short dwarf-like humanoid was found inside, which was delivered for autopsy to the scientific research institute in Novosibirsk. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Siberia (Amur region of), Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5059 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18953 (44BC7E2A) Date: 12/6/1978 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a 26-year-old night watchman, Fortunato Zanfretta, was patrolling a housing development in Marzano Di Torriglia, Genova, Italy when he noticed some moving "torch lights" coming from a nearby courtyard. He tried to radio his headquarters but the two-way radio would not work. Armed with a pistol and a flashlight he entered the courtyard to search the area. He was suddenly pushed from behind and fell. He got up and was confronted by a huge, three-meter tall reptilian "creature." The witness was by now terrified and he dropped his flashlight and ran towards the car. He then saw a bright yellow, triangular shaped craft take off from behind a house. He called for help and was later found unconscious at the site by the other guards. Later, under hypnosis, he recalled being taken into a very bright room by giant beings that put a painful helmet on his head. The beings were described as green skinned with yellow triangular eyes, red veins on their heads, and pointed ears. He suffered from persistent headaches after the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Luciano Boccone, UNICAT database, citing International UFO Reporter, November 1979, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1997; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 139, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October-November 1991 Source ID: Johnson_8243 Source: Johnson ### Event 18954 (D81C9C89) Date: 12/6/1978 Description: In the isolated taiga in the Amur region of Siberia between the rivers Urkan and Tyndoy, a metallic UFO shaped like a mushroom was found on this day, apparently having crashed. Its diameter was about 5.5 to 6 meters and it was about 3.0 meters in height. It reportedly weighed 720 kg. It was transported to Novosibirsk, Russia where it was hidden in the Akademgorodok region. The body of a short dwarf-like humanoid was found inside, which was delivered for autopsy to the scientific research institute in Novosibirsk. When first discovered the humanoid allegedly still had shown vital signs, and it stayed in a coma-like state for two weeks before dying. A segmented aperture was found on the side of the disc where apparently other crewmembers had escaped out through an escape pod. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Anton "Cade" Belousov, Soviet X Files List Source ID: Johnson_8240 Source: Johnson ### Event 18955 (D031B878) Date: 12/6/1978 Description: At 6:30 a.m. three lights in a triangular pattern were seen in the sky over Avezzano, Abruzzi, Italy at the same time that a delta-shaped object was spotted on the ground. EM effects were noted. At the landing site on some farm land there were later found some burnt areas and deep ground marks in the soil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 212 Source ID: Johnson_8241 Source: Johnson ### Event 18956 (8548061F) Date: 12/6/1978 Description: Mrs. Pilar Martinez de Arregui opened the windows in her home in Alegria de Alava, Spain at 12:40 a.m. in order to relax after a long day, as her husband slept in the nearby bedroom. She spied a strong orange light reflected from the glassware inside the house. She investigated and found that the source of the light was in a nearby field, but the light had gradually disappeared. Temporarily forgetting about the mystery light, Pilar began doing some housework, when a second more powerful orange flash of light again brought her attention outside. She saw a orange sphere object approaching from the sky at very high speed. Afraid, she ran and turned off all the lights in the house. Outside the object had now landed some 100 meters from the house. The craft was oval in shape appeared to balance itself just above the ground. Crouching behind her window she peered out and noticed a light like a flashlight that was being carried by two tall and very corpulent humanoid figures. Pilar noticed that the humanoids wore tight-fitting one-piece coveralls, very light in color. They had just appeared standing next to the landed object; they had not emerged from any opening, they had just sudden appeared. Both beings began approaching the house. For several minutes she watched them move around through partially opened blinds. Finally, she decided she would bathe and then go to bed. Later, feeling nervous, she got up from bed and looked again to see the object rise and emit a sharp whirring sound. It quickly disappeared from view. Investigators found unusual tracks at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: Historia de Los OVNI en Espana Source ID: Johnson_8242 Source: Johnson ### Event 18957 (747158BD) Date: 12/8/1978 Description: The United Nations meetings on UFOs conclude, resulting in UN Decision 33/426 relating to the “establishment of an agency or a department of the United Nations for undertaking, coordinating, and disseminating the results of research into unidentified flying objects and related phenomena.” Beyond newspaper publicity, the meetings have no impact and no other nation backs Grenada. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Grenada UFO Item,](https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978USUNN05784%5Fd.html)” WikiLeaks, \[telegram\], December 8, 1978 Source ID: Eberhart_5880 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18958 (9A4F5B68) Date: 12/8/1978 Description: In 1978 a seven-meter diameter domed disc hovered over a road in Portegrandi, Italy at 1:30 a.m. It had four windows on its side and emitted rays of light. At 2:45 a.m. on a road in Catanzaro, Italy three policemen saw a luminous domed object tilt over the roadway. It shot away from them when they hit it with a spotlight. Later that evening at 11:30 p.m. two young men were walking along a mountainside path in Milanere, Torino, Italy when they sighted a bluish white light among the trees. One of the men approached the pear-shaped light and he suddenly vanished. The bright light then took off into the sky. The other man went for help and a rescue party searched for the missing man. He was found unconscious, cold, and weak. He had been missing for thirty minutes. Light bothered his eyes, and a scar was found on his leg. All that he could remember was seeing three to four figures with large pumpkin shaped heads standing in front of the light. He was paralyzed, and vaguely remembered odd lights and sounds and the feeling of being touched. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues 212, 214; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 137, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October-November 1991 Source ID: Johnson_8274 Source: Johnson ### Event 18959 (F7BCCAD0) Date: 12/8/1978 Description: 11:00 p.m. Two young men walking along a mountain slope near Milanere, Torino, Italy, see a blue-white light among the trees. One of them walks toward it, but he disappears. A few minutes later the light takes off into the sky. The other man goes for help and a group of people comes to search for the missing man. He is found in a different direction, unconscious, cold, and weak. Both witnesses suffer from conjunctivitis for several days. The one who vanished has a strange scar on his leg. He only remembers approaching a pear-shaped light when he sees 3–4 human shapes with pumpkinlike heads silhouetted against the light. He becomes paralyzed and can vaguely remember being touched and raised. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 \(July/Aug.1989\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_5881 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18960 (CD8F07F9) Date: 12/8/1978 Description: A seven-meter diameter domed disc hovered over a road in Portegrandi. It had four windows on its side and emitted rays of light. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Portegrandi, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5061 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18961 (29A38262) Date: 12/9/1978 Description: Police watched a multi-colored object with intermittent flashing lights. When spotlighted the UFO seemed to enlarge, then emitted a beam down onto the police car. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Reggio di Calabria, Sicily, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5062 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18962 (9EDD5072) Date: 12/9/1978 Description: Police in Reggio di Calabria, Sicily, Italy watched a multi-colored object with intermittent flashing lights at 6:00 a.m. When spotlighted the UFO seemed to enlarge, then emitted a beam down onto the police car. Five lights came on aboard the object. When the police spotlight was turned off, the lights on the UFO went off as well. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 175 & 351; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citingLumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 214 Source ID: Johnson_8286 Source: Johnson ### Event 18963 (689B010F) Date: 12/10/1978 Description: In 1978 at 6:00 a.m., a round, luminous UFO approached a car with a married couple and their little son in Baena, Spain. It hovered over their car and paced it for several miles. The witnesses went to the police, who saw the object hovering over a hilltop. The object remained visible until broad daylight. At the same time, in Peage, France, a luminous UFO, about five meters in diameter and with an antenna, followed a man out walking at only 15 meters above the ground. Several others also saw it. At 7:20 a.m., a silver, triangular shaped object with yellow lights swooped down over a car in Comner, England, causing the two occupants to panic and the driver to swerve off the road. They described the craft as bigger than a "Hercules" C-5A military transport plane. It was totally silent, and flew off to the east. Later that evening two reporters in Fontanales on the Grand Canary Islands saw three UFOs at a high altitude. They gave off white, yellow, blue and red flashes of light, and were seen for several hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Cronica, December 12, 1978; Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 13; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1979; (3) UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 13; (4) D. N. Mansell, Awareness, April 1979, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_8313 Source: Johnson ### Event 18964 (63B09E09) Date: 12/10/1978 Description: The weekly Parade magazine carries a story by Michael Satchell summarizing the UFO events at Loring, Malmstrom, Wurtsmith, and other Northern Tier bases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Satchell, “UFO’s vs. USAF: Amazing \(But True\) Encounters,” Parade magazine, December 10, 1978, pp. 8–11; ClearIntent, [p. 54](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/54/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5882 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18965 (B0AC8363) Date: 12/11/1978 Description: On this night in Arembepe, Brazil a tall human-like figure with light colored skin, dark hair, and wearing a tight fitting silvery suit and boots was seen coming out of a metallic basin-shaped object about 12 meters in diameter that had landed in a field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Antonio Faleiro, Brazil Source ID: Johnson_8347 Source: Johnson ### Event 18966 (48B71CBB) Date: 12/11/1978 Description: A police trooper took a photograph of a round, possibly disc-shaped object that was directing an intense beam of energy at the ground. The photograph, taken from a highway patrol car, shows a black dot on white background. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Avellino, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5063 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18967 (5EF6B39B) Date: 12/11/1978 Description: A taxi driving on a road near the town of Navelli was forced to brake when two luminous globes were blocking the road ahead. The engine of the vehicle then died. Two humanoids glided across the surface without touching the ground. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Navelli, Abruzzi, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5064 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18968 (229F1DA9) Date: 12/11/1978 Description: On this night a tall human-like figure with light colored skin, dark hair, and wearing a tight fitting silvery suit and boots was seen coming out of a metallic basin-shaped object about 12 meters in diameter that had landed in a field. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arembepe, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5067 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18969 (A229A5AC) Date: 12/11/1978 Description: On this afternoon a police trooper in Avellino, Italy took a photograph of a round, possibly disc-shaped object that was directing an intense beam of energy at the ground. The photograph, taken from a highway patrol car, shows a black dot on white background. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, March 1979, p. 14, citing Cronica, December 12, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8345 Source: Johnson ### Event 18970 (7BE2484F) Date: 12/11/1978 Description: A taxi driving on a road near the town of Navelli, Abruzzi, Italy was forced to brake at 10 p.m. when two luminous globes were blocking the road ahead. The engine of the vehicle then died. Two humanoids glided across the surface without touching the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_8346 Source: Johnson ### Event 18971 (54EC1153) Date: 12/12/1978 Description: At 11:45 p.m. Alfonso Marinelli was traveling in his new Mercedez near Navelli, in the Abruzzi region of Italy when his engine suddenly quit. He then noted two bright lights approaching slowly in his direction. As the lights approached Marinelli was able to make out two short human-like figures. The figures wore silvery suits, resembling those of astronauts. The suits were luminous, and both figures wore huge oval-shaped helmets. The front of the helmets had black visors. Over the chest the figures had what appeared to be straps with a bright round light on the center. The figures rose off the ground to a height about 90 cm and in flew over the witness vehicle, quickly disappearing from sight. Marinelli was soon able to start his car's engine and drove away from the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Archivio S.U.F. Source ID: Johnson_8360 Source: Johnson ### Event 18972 (D7B99ED1) Date: 12/12/1978 Description: Luminous UFO emitted light beam, shone onto car, tape player malfunctioned. See Section VIII, 1978 Sighting Wave (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marzocca, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5069 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18973 (9253FE76) Date: 12/12/1978 Description: Ms. Adele Holzer was in her car driving to work when she saw a hemispherical white disc. As the UFO hovered over some nearby trees, six beams of green light shot from it and she felt slightly paralyzed by one of them. Her watch had stopped at 08:01 a.m. and her car's ignition key, that she believed had been in her hand the entire time, was bent. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burghausen, Bavaria, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_5070 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18974 (AD39074E) Date: 12/12/1978 Description: Alfonso Marinelli was traveling when his engine suddenly quit. He then noted two bright lights approaching slowly in his direction. As the lights approached Marinelli was able to make out two short human-like figures. The figures wore silvery suits, resembling those of astronauts. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Navelli (near), Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5074 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18975 (1297F357) Date: 12/12/1978 Description: At 10:15 p.m. a motorist in Marzocca, in the Tuscany region of Italy, experienced engine failure, the lights of his car died, and the car’s cassette tape player stopped working. He then saw a luminous flying object that emitted a beam of light onto his car. When the object departed the car’s lights came back on and the tape deck resumed playing. On the same night a photograph of a domed disc with a neon glow was taken near an oil field by a Dubai government official in the United Arab Emirates. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-year Report, p. 352; Richard Hall, The MUFON UFO Journal, January 1979, p. 5 citing The Arab Times Source ID: Johnson_8359 Source: Johnson ### Event 18976 (17915DB8) Date: 12/12/1978 Description: Ms. Adele Holzer was in her car driving to work at 8 a.m. when she saw a hemispherical white disc in Burghausen, Bavaria, Germany. More puzzled than afraid, she pulled off to the side of the road, and saw a "row of shining green ports along its periphery." Then, she thought to herself, "If I could only see its bottom," and it suddenly turned exposing the underneath. She said there were three spheres on its bottom surface, the middle one being larger. It possessed a bright orange spot at its center. As the UFO hovered over some nearby trees, six beams of green light shot from it and she felt slightly paralyzed by one of them. She lost track of time as the object hovered over her. When the light beams went out the object rose silently up into the sky. Her watch had stopped at 08:01 a.m. and her car's ignition key, that she believed had been in her hand the entire time, was bent. She later told investigators she felt "somebody was trying to get into telepathic contact with her." She claimed to have been given a message saying that they had friendly intentions and wanted to stop us from destroying the Earth. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Michael Hessemann Source ID: Johnson_8358 Source: Johnson ### Event 18977 (D44D512B) Date: 12/13/1978 Description: UFOs were seen for thirty minutes over several cities in Chaco province, Argentina on this evening. In Resistencia a newspaper photographer took a nighttime photograph of a UFO that changed color several times as it flew toward the south-southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 14, citing La Razon, December 13, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8381 Source: Johnson ### Event 18978 (DBCB580B) Date: 12/13/1978 Description: Two soldiers on guard duty at the AFB saw a UFO with pulsating lights maneuver and hover near them. As the object was leaving a strange being shot up from the ground skywards, quickly disappearing from sight. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brindisi AFB, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5077 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18979 (E3EECDA8) Date: 12/13/1978 Description: Shortly after two people saw a luminous mass descend close to the ground and then take off at high speed towards Puglia, Italy two soldiers on guard duty at the Brindisi Air Force Base saw a UFO with pulsating lights maneuver and hover near them. As the object was leaving a strange being shot up from the ground skywards, quickly disappearing from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 2351, citing Edoardo Russo Source ID: Johnson_8380 Source: Johnson ### Event 18980 (72DB5560) Date: 12/14/1978 Description: Two 12-year-old girls in Park Ridge who were tobogganing in the city park saw a saucer-shaped object with a row of flashing red lights on the top and bottom and flashing yellow lights in between. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Park Ridge, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5083 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18981 (FB3DFEF1) Date: 12/14/1978 Description: On Highway 116 a tubular-shaped craft hovered and circled a car being driven by two teenage girls. The craft circled the car "close enough to have touched it." (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: London Mills, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5084 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18982 (7BDE8E18) Date: 12/14/1978 Description: A large UFO paced a car with three women inside. The object had two transparent blue lights and followed them to one of their homes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pomeroy, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5085 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18983 (A1579D9E) Date: 12/14/1978 Description: A UFO with bright red lights suddenly appeared and started to circle the car driven by Mr. La Bandera and his two passengers. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sarandi del Yi, Uruguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_5086 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18984 (00F2BAB3) Date: 12/14/1978 Description: As a result of the Ground Saucer Watch lawsuit, the CIA releases some 340 of its own UFO-related documents, 900 pages in all. The letter, signed by CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator George Owens, states that 57 documents are being withheld for national security purposes. Also, 196 other documents originating from other agencies are forwarded to them for response to GSW. The CIA had faced a deadline of December 1977 to produce the documents but were granted an extension by US District Court Judge [John H. Pratt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FH.%5FPratt)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FH.%5FPratt)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The GSW vs. CIA Lawsuit,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 20–22; Good Above, [pp. 327–328](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/326/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5883 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 18985 (E13D8168) Date: 12/14/1978 Description: Finally, in Pomeroy, Washington a large UFO paced a car with three women inside. The object had two transparent blue lights and followed them to one of their homes. It circled around their car once, and then sped off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies; Pomeroy East Washingtonian, December 21, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8400 Source: Johnson ### Event 18986 (73AC3F66) Date: 12/14/1978 Description: In Sarandi del Yi, Uruguay, a UFO with bright red lights suddenly appeared and started to circle the car driven by Mr. La Bandera and his two passengers. It circled at a distance of only 10 meters (33 feet). It changed color to a deep green when it crossed the highway and made a steep climb into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_8399 Source: Johnson ### Event 18987 (CE1FE77B) Date: 12/14/1978 Description: In Illinois in the early evening hours two close encounters occurred. At 5:30 p.m. two 12-year-old girls in Park Ridge who were tobogganing in the city park saw a saucer-shaped object with a row of flashing red lights on the top and bottom and flashing yellow lights in between. It had 3 balls on the bottom. It hovered for 20 minutes, and then made a semi-circle in the sky before leaving. On Highway 116 in London Mills at 7:00 p.m. a tubular-shaped craft hovered and circled a car being driven by two teenage girls. The craft circled the car "close enough to have touched it." It had two parallel tubes and one perpendicular tube but no windows. It took off fast toward the east. The father of one of the girls, Ralph Brashear, reported the incident to the police. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, pp. 543 & 549; Park Ridge (IL) Herald, December 21, 1978; London Mills (IL) Times, December 21, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8398 Source: Johnson ### Event 18988 (1E58C93D) Date: 12/14/1978 Description: In Brewer, Maine a local resident named John felt an overwhelming compulsion to go out. He got dressed, got in his car, and drove away leaving his young daughter alone at home at 1:30 a.m. John drove in a daze along Route 9E, a very desolate stretch of road. All of a sudden his car's motor went completely dead and he coasted to a stop. His battery wasn't dead because his headlights remained on. He tried unsuccessfully to re-start the car. He then heard a very loud crackling noise. He turned to his right and slightly ahead of his car was a huge, long dark rectangular object, about 50 feet from the road. It was hovering 30 feet above the ground. As soon as John saw it a rectangular portion on the front end lit up and shone a soft green light through his front windshield. John felt a strange tingling sensation, like "pins & needles." He also felt himself sink into a trance. He remained fully aware but could not move a muscle. Strangely, his initial fear upon sighting the huge object had disappeared, and he now felt calm and unafraid. The soft green light abruptly changed color to a reddish pink and began pulsating first slowly, then faster and faster. He then heard a voice say: "Do not be afraid. We will not harm you. We are from the 17th star." The lights then slowed down and John heard the voice say, "We will return." He felt a strong conviction that this statement was true. The lighted rectangle suddenly blinked off, and John heard a strange clicking sound again. The UFO then backed away and rose at an angle. On his way home he felt very cold. The next morning he noticed his skin peeling around his nose, forehead, and from the back of his ears. He suffered severe headaches after the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1998; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Raymond E. Fowler, UFO Testament Source ID: Johnson_8397 Source: Johnson ### Event 18989 (7BB064F3) Date: 12/14/1978 Description: That same pre-dawn night in New England a Dublin, New Hampshire resident driving in Hancock saw a green, cigar-shaped object traveling at high speed at treetop level flying toward the east, from the area of Highway 101 toward Hancock. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_8396 Source: Johnson ### Event 18990 (5EA3955B) Date: 12/14/1978 Description: At least nine separate close encounter events occurred on this date around the world. The first three occurred in Italy. At four o'clock in the morning a four-meter wide cone-shaped object was seen hovering only three meters from the ground in Rome. It had a row of illuminated portholes, and three beams of light came from its bottom. At 4:30 in the afternoon in San Vito del Normanni, Italy a witness reported seeing flying spheres in the sky for 15 minutes; one of the objects descended to the ground. An hour and ten minutes later, a red dome-shaped object was sighted on the ground in Mogoro, Italy. The object was bright enough to illuminate the clouds and the surrounding area, and it produced a smoke that didn't dissipate with the wind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Xenolog, March 1979, p. 22; Lumieres dans la Nuit, numbers 214 and 240 Source ID: Johnson_8395 Source: Johnson ### Event 18991 (1781C2DD) Date: 12/14/1978 Description: A man drove in a daze along a very desolate stretch of road. All of a sudden his car's motor went completely dead and he coasted to a stop. He turned to his right and slightly ahead of his car was a huge, long dark rectangular object, about 50 feet from the road. He also felt himself sink into a trance. He remained fully aware but could not move a muscle. He then heard a voice say: "Do not be afraid. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brewer, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_5079 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18992 (D74A5942) Date: 12/15/1978 Description: At 11:50 p.m. a truck driver in Ragusa, Italy suddenly experienced radio interference and stopped to fix it. He then saw two very tall humanoids standing only five meters away. They were dressed in black, tight-fitting coveralls and helmets. They helmets had short protuberances like antennae on the sides and they had transparent face plates. Inside human-like faces could be seen. Two bright beams of light were emitted from their helmets that illuminated the cab of the truck. The beings came closer and uttered unintelligible sounds, then turned and left. Seconds later the witness saw a dome-shaped craft take off with a bright flash. A strong smell of sulphur was noticed in the vicinity. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 153 Source ID: Johnson_8422 Source: Johnson ### Event 18993 (DFB7B376) Date: 12/15/1978 Description: At 5:45 p.m. a luminous orange sphere, about two meters in diameter, passed low over houses in a residential area of Macomer, Italy on the island of Sardinia. At 6:30 p.m. several witnesses in Collegno,Torino, Italy spotted a bizarre human-like figure about 1.60 meters in height, wearing a rose-colored coverall and without facial features. It moved around in a field at very high speed and then remained immobile, leaning against a wall for more than 30 minutes. The witnesses were afraid to approach the figure. Some thought it was a prank and summoned the authorities. As the police arrived the strange figure suddenly ran through an opening in the wall at incredibly speed and quickly disappeared from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Chris Aubeck, Return to Magonia Source ID: Johnson_8420 Source: Johnson ### Event 18994 (9592357F) Date: 12/15/1978 Description: Back on the island of Sicily at 11:45 p.m. a witness named Capuzello saw two, two-meter tall beings exit from a saucer-shaped craft that had landed on a road in Licodia Eubea, Italy. They spoke some kind of unintelligible language that sounded like gibberish. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues 214 and 240; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT -Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_8421 Source: Johnson ### Event 18995 (976DB1C7) Date: 12/15/1978 Description: A truck driver suddenly experienced radio interference and stopped to fix it. He then saw two very tall humanoids standing only five meters away. Seconds later the witness saw a dome-shaped craft take off with a bright flash. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ragusa, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5087 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18996 (EE193F3E) Date: 12/15/1978 Description: Two young boys were playing in a yard on the island of Sicily, near a large TV antenna. The sky darkened and then a large disc-shaped craft approached and tilted at an angle, just above the TV antenna. A bright beam of light shot out of the opening and a strange, 1.5 meter tall monster descended within the beam. The being was described as "ugly" with two large eyes and two antenna-like protrusions on its head. A second similar being reportedly descended carrying a "laser" type gun and shot at a rock causing it to burn and explode (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Catania, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5090 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 18997 (F6438910) Date: 12/15/1978 Description: At 12:15 p.m. two young boys were playing in a yard in Catania, Italy on the island of Sicily, near a large TV antenna. The sky darkened and then a large disc-shaped craft approached and tilted at an angle, just above the TV antenna. The object emitted multicolored rays of light and had an open hatch in its center section. A bright beam of light shot out of the opening and a strange, 1.5 meter tall “monster” descended within the beam. The being was described as "ugly" with two large eyes and two antenna-like protrusions on its head. A second similar being reportedly descended carrying a "laser" type gun and shot at a rock causing it to burn and explode. He was seen to bend down, touch the ground, and then spill a black liquid on it. Moments later a beam of light transported the beings back into the craft. The craft then shot away at high speed. Ground traces were reportedly found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT - Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_8419 Source: Johnson ### Event 18998 (99C0388E) Date: 12/15/1978 Description: There were a series of close encounter UFO incidents in Italy on this date in 1978. In Torrebruna, Italy a man driving his car shortly after midnight saw a lighted UFO hovering just above the roadway. He blinked his headlights and the object descended and landed on the road ahead of him. The car's radio then stopped working. He got out of his car and approached the object and a door opened up. He then entered and found himself in a circular brightly illuminated room crammed full of instrument panels. He did not see any occupants. After a few minutes the witness left the object and saw it depart at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Chris Aubeck, Return to Magonia; Lumieres dans la Nuit, numbers 214 and 240 Source ID: Johnson_8418 Source: Johnson ### Event 18999 (E0C5625D) Date: 12/16/1978 Description: Early morning, predawn hours five UFOs emitted different colors, made a semi- circular turn, and then hovered over a mountain for several minutes before finally shooting away. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caracas, Venezuela Source ID: NICAP_DB_5098 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19000 (568D620B) Date: 12/16/1978 Description: At McCarran Airport a married couple and a child saw a disc-shaped object with glowing white lights. An airline pilot flying in the vicinity also reported that a UFO streaked by his airliner although the UFO did not appear on radar. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_5099 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19001 (3D1E959B) Date: 12/16/1978 Description: On this night on a road one-mile south of Abington, Indiana the witnesses’s car engine and radio went dead when a UFO appeared coming over the trees only ten feet above the ground. The aluminum colored UFO was shaped like a trapezoid with rounded corners, with two lights in the front and two on the bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richmond (Indiana) Paladium Item, January 1979, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_8450 Source: Johnson ### Event 19002 (EC5F255A) Date: 12/16/1978 Description: In Saltillo, Mexico in the state of Coahuila a flying object exploded in the night, lighting up the sky with a violet color. The explosion was reportedly heard over a 1,000 square kilometer area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 14 citing La Razon, December 22, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8451 Source: Johnson ### Event 19003 (8151628A) Date: 12/16/1978 Description: In Caracas, Venezuela in the early morning, predawn hours five UFOs emitted different colors, made a semi-circular turn, and then hovered over a mountain for several minutes before finally shooting away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 14 citing Cronica, December 16, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8448 Source: Johnson ### Event 19004 (D1FA4368) Date: 12/16/1978 Description: Over Calama, near the city of Antofagasta in northern Chile at shortly after midnight, a Chilean Air Force jet sighted and tried to intercept a huge luminous rectangular flying object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42 citing the MUFON UFO Journal, December 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8447 Source: Johnson ### Event 19005 (4D7263D4) Date: 12/16/1978 Description: At 2:30 a.m. in Francavilla, Italy a college coed saw an ovoid UFO surrounded by a white mist. She was standing in her living room by a balcony overlooking the sea when she noticed a gaseous form, white in color with two pulsating lights, a red one at one end, a green one at the other end. It descended onto the surface of the sea and became a very bright flourescent white light that reflected off the surface of the water. She attempted to wake her parents but they continued to sleep. She next noticed two short figures standing in the garden at the adjacent apartment. They were very thin with large squarish heads and large feet. Both were wearing dark gray tight-fitting uniforms. They turned a corner moving as if in slow motion and in a limping manner, disappearing down an alleyway. Moments later the bright white light, now very near the breakwater, vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 218; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT - Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_8446 Source: Johnson ### Event 19006 (B919F9DE) Date: 12/16/1978 Description: 8:00 p.m. Radar detects a UFO at 10,000 feet in the region around Calama, Chile. Three F-5Es are sent from Antofagasta to intercept it and they see a large triangular object some 50 times the size of their planes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Select Triangular UFO Cases,” Bob Pratt Files Source ID: Eberhart_5884 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19007 (8911B93B) Date: 12/16/1978 Description: At 5:30 a.m. at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada a married couple and a child saw a disc-shaped object with glowing white lights. The UFO made several falling leaf movements. An airline pilot flying in the vicinity also reported that a UFO streaked by his airliner although the UFO did not appear on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Las Vegas (Nevada) Sun, December 17, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8449 Source: Johnson ### Event 19008 (EE0B10B6) Date: 12/16/1978 Description: Shortly after Midnight. Near the city of Antofagasta in northern Chile a Chilean Air Force jet sighted and tried to intercept a huge luminous rectangular flying object. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Calama, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_5097 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19009 (9A816B1B) Date: 12/16/1978 Description: Dark object three times the size of a moon came over low above trees and hovered near auto causing its motor and radio to stop. As it hovered in front of the auto three red lights were seen and a large white light was on the rear. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Abbington, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5095 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19010 (8D103AE8) Date: 12/16/1978 Description: A college coed saw an ovoid UFO surrounded by a white mist. It descended onto the surface of the sea and became a very bright flourescent white light that reflected off the surface of the water. She next noticed two short figures standing in the garden at the adjacent apartment. They were very thin with large squarish heads and large feet. Both were wearing dark gray tight-fitting uniforms. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Francavilla, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5093 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19011 (C7BFA4E3) Date: 12/17/1978 Description: At 4:30 a.m. off the coast of Catania, Italy located on the Mediterranean island of Sicily, two people witness a small ovoid object take off from the sea in small, multiple jumps heading toward the west. At 7:00 a.m. in San Cataldo, also in Sicily, several independent witnesses watched a luminous disc land and take off again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 214 Source ID: Johnson_8472 Source: Johnson ### Event 19012 (14317F4E) Date: 12/17/1978 Description: On the same night as the Sicily UFO landing, on the shoreline of Saint Ewe in Cornwall County, England a red mushroom-shaped UFO was seen at a low altitude, with a shaft of light reaching to the ground. The UFO was estimated to be 100 feet in diameter and had icy blue discs of light around the rim. A snowy white mist, apparently generated by the UFO concealed the ground beneath the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 13, citing the Dublin, Ireland Independent, December 24, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8473 Source: Johnson ### Event 19013 (4BAA4496) Date: 12/19/1978 Description: At 6:00 a.m. local time a silver wing-shaped UFO hung over Flattop Mountain south of Alamosa, Colorado for about three hours. It was viewed through binoculars and seen by several Mountain Bell Telephone employees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alamosa Valley Courier, December 20, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8518 Source: Johnson ### Event 19014 (3058DB86) Date: 12/19/1978 Description: In Montebello di Bertona, Italy at 6:00 a.m. a single witness reported that a UFO shaped like a cylindrical “space capsule” landed and then lifted off again. It had rotating lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 216 Source ID: Johnson_8517 Source: Johnson ### Event 19015 (C6838F17) Date: 12/19/1978 Description: A single witness reported that a UFO shaped like a cylindrical space capsule landed and then lifted off again. It had rotating lights. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Montebello di Bertona, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5101 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19016 (A8A3A692) Date: 12/20/1978 Description: Three people on the balcony of their house south of the city watched a huge sphere low in the sky over the shoreline of the Mediterranean. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sorrento, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5102 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19017 (A2BB773E) Date: 12/20/1978 Description: Several luminous UFOs zigzagged over Caracas, Venezuela in the early morning hours. They were seen by dozens of witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 14, citing La Razon, December 20, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8540 Source: Johnson ### Event 19018 (5D7F8EB8) Date: 12/20/1978 Description: At five o’clock in the morning three people on the balcony of their house south of the city of Sorrento, Italy watched a huge sphere low in the sky over the shoreline of the Mediterranean. It made an odd noise like radio static, and vanished. Less than three hours later at 7:20 GMT a silver triangle-shaped object crossed the sky at a high altitude flying from west to east over the town of Yarnton, Oxfordshire, England. At eight p.m. that evening an orange ovoid object left a dark mass near the ground for 30 minutes in the town of Tarranto, Italy. The two witnesses fled in terror. Radio interference was experienced at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues 216 and 240; D. N. Mansell, Awareness, April 1979, p. 12, citing Data Research Source ID: Johnson_8539 Source: Johnson ### Event 19019 (C442D43F) Date: 12/20/1978 Description: US Rep. [Samuel S. Stratton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FS.%5FStratton) \(D-N.Y.\) expresses concern to his Armed Services Investigations Subcommittee about the “alleged ability of unknown aircraft to penetrate airspace and over above SAC bases, their weapons storage areas, missile sites, and launch control facilities, and the inability of Air Force equipment and personnel to intercept and identify such aircraft.” Stratton sends a letter to USAF Maj. Gen. [Charles C.](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107668/lieutenant-general-charles-c-blanton/) [Blanton](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107668/lieutenant-general-charles-c-blanton/) requesting incident reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 54](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/54/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5885 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19020 (C9F318A1) Date: 12/21/1978 Description: Also December 22 and 31, 1978. New Zealand radar-visual and photo cases. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: New Zealand Source ID: HallUFOE2_330 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19021 (95FDFD59) Date: 12/21/1978 Description: G,V, R/V by a/l crews, photos (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Zealand, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5108 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19022 (66569E50) Date: 12/21/1978 Description: In 1978 there were a series of UFO reports from throughout Argentina. At shortly after two o’clock in the morning several witnesses in Resistencia, Argentina saw 6-7 objects moving in formation through the sky at great speed. The UFOs were radiating a bright, light blue light but made no sound. Power outages were reported throughout the city. At 2:45 a.m. a very large glowing disc-shaped UFO headed a formation of three other craft that flew from north to south at an estimated 1000 meters altitude in La Rioja, Argentina. They reportedly lit up the sky like day. Each object was white in color with a green halo, and they left behind a bluish trail. A truck driver said his truck’s radio stopped working at the time. Ten minutes later a giant light was observed in the western sky in Santa Fe, Argentina. It was blue and green in color, and spewed fiery particles, resembling “an airplane on fire.” Smaller objects surrounded it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, pp. 14-15, citing La Razon, December 22, 1978 and El Independencie, December 22, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8554 Source: Johnson ### Event 19023 (B267CD93) Date: 12/21/1978 Description: At 2:45 a.m. a very large glowing disc-shaped UFO headed a formation of three other craft that flew from north to south at an estimated 1000 meters altitude. They reportedly lit up the sky like day. Each object was white in color with a green halo, and they left behind a bluish trail. A truck driver said his trucks radio stopped working at the time. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: La Rioja, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_5106 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19024 (9B2F9589) Date: 12/21/1978 Description: 3:30 a.m. Wellington Air Traffic Control contacts Capt. Vern Powell, pilot of a freight aircraft about to make the Blenheim to Christchurch run, New Zealand, alerting him to the position of the objects, which have stayed in position. He ascends to 7,500 feet and sees one white light, tinged with red, through the clouds. It follows Powell’s plane, and Wellington radar tracks it for 12 miles before it disappears. As they near Christchurch Airport, Powell and his copilot Ian Pirie notice a return on their onboard radar. By the next sweep it has moved one mile closer, moving at about 8,000 mph. They cannot confirm anything visually, but the radar indicates the object has streaked off to the left and disappears. Then Powell and Pirie see a flashing light in front of them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The New Zealand UFO Films, Part I,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 3–4; Clark III 799 Source ID: Eberhart_5887 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19025 (122EAF35) Date: 12/21/1978 Description: Shortly after two o’clock in the morning several witnesses saw 6-7 objects moving in formation through the sky at great speed. Power outages were reported throughout the city. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Resistencia, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_5103 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19026 (97DCCC4D) Date: 12/21/1978 Description: A giant light was observed in the western sky. It was blue and green in color, and spewed fiery particles, resembling an airplane on fire. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Fe, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_5105 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19027 (6E42522C) Date: 12/21/1978 Description: 12:30 a.m. Capt. [John B. Randle](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209453536/john-beavis-randle) is flying an Argosy cargo plane from Blenheim to Christchurch, New Zealand, when he notices white lights in the sky above the mouth of the Clarence River at Waipapa Bay. He contacts Wellington Air Traffic Control, which confirms that it has five oscillating objects on its scopes. The lights are also seen on the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The New Zealand UFO Films, Part I,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 3; Clark III 799 Source ID: Eberhart_5886 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19028 (72E8FB74) Date: 12/22/1978 Description: [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) of CAUS files a request with the NSA for copies of the 18 UFO-related documents the CIA has referred to it. NSA’s Chief of Policy Roy R. Banner later declines their release on the basis of national security. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 181](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/180/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5888 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19029 (6CCBCF37) Date: 12/23/1978 Description: Three important UFO sightings occurred on this date. Dr. Palumbo, the director of the meteorological institute at the University of Naples in Naples, Italy saw a luminous object travel from the east to the west at a high rate of speed. It left no trail behind. At ten o’clock in the evening a luminous 12-meter diameter disc was sighted over a road in Albinia, Tuscany, Italy. It moved off over some woods, and then turned and flew away toward the north. There was extensive news coverage of both sighting reports. In the state of Maldonado, Uruguay on a beach between the cities of Piriapolis and Funta del Este a reporter, Sr. L. Rengger, saw a giant V-shaped formation of yellow lights. A couple of the lights pursued his car, and one of the two crossed the road in front of his car at an estimated 300 meters altitude at a distance of 500 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 14, citing La Nacion December 24, 1978; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 216; (3) Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 13, citing La Razon, December 27, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8570 Source: Johnson ### Event 19030 (1391C79B) Date: 12/24/1978 Description: 6:50 p.m. Benito Franchi, 45, is working in the power station at Pietracamela, Terama, Italy, in a room with two AC generators, one connected to power and the other disconnected, when he suddenly feels ill and faint. The working generator’s dial hands register an overload on the network, and the dial hands on the disconnected generator are also waving. This continues for about one minute, leaving the dials badly out of calibration. Franchi feels paralyzed and falls to the ground. Suddenly everything stops, and out of the window he sees three or four bright flashes coming from a ball of brilliant red light that hurts his eyes. The object takes off and disappears to the southwest. Franchi suffers from severe conjunctivitis, and the generator dials must be calibrated again. Shortly afterward, a large luminous UFO is seen hovering above the Gran Sasso massif to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 1Pinotti 259 Source ID: Eberhart_5889 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19031 (B643D03D) Date: 12/25/1978 Description: Two huge UFOs came screaming over Lake Arrowhead in San Bernardino county, California at 7:18 p.m. They made a sound similar to ambulances. There were two sets of independent witnesses to the fly-by, for a total of five witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 112, citing Mountain News & Mountaineer, December 28, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8607 Source: Johnson ### Event 19032 (D45C101E) Date: 12/25/1978 Description: A fleet of six UFOs was seen by Peruvian fishermen over the Caynarachi River in the San Martin department, Peru on this night. They first noticed a brightly illuminated rhomboid object that passed over from south to north. It was followed by five more objects in formation. The UFOs had yellow, amber, and violet lights. The men fled in fright. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 13, citing Cronica, December 26, 1978 Source ID: Johnson_8606 Source: Johnson ### Event 19033 (3844E4EA) Date: 12/25/1978 Description: At 4:30 a.m. a three-meter long, oddly shaped UFO was seen at a low altitude over Cicagna, Liguria, Italy. It had what looked like iron claws on one end of the object. The UFO fired a beam of light, then shot off toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 216 Source ID: Johnson_8605 Source: Johnson ### Event 19034 (E781B1A7) Date: 12/25/1978 Description: A fleet of six UFOs was seen by Peruvian fishermen over the Caynarachi River (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Martin department, Peru Source ID: NICAP_DB_5109 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19035 (E4CF765A) Date: 12/25/1978 Description: Two huge UFOs came screaming over Lake Arrowhead (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Bernardino County, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5110 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19036 (DC30C453) Date: 12/25/1978 Description: A three-meter long, oddly shaped UFO was seen at a low altitude over Cicagna, Liguria, Italy. It had what looked like iron claws on one end of the object. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cicagna, Liguria, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5111 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19037 (3DDA70B3) Date: 12/28/1978 Description: On or about this date at about 4:30 a.m. three men, employees of a power company, were driving a company truck toward a bridge on the Rio Segundo between Arroyito and Transito, Cordoba Province, Argentina when they were approached by an intense light from a hill and suddenly found themselves teleported 15 kilometers further away from the bridge to the town of Transito. They believed no time had passed because their cigarettes were the same length as they had been when they neared the bridge. At some point, the men spotted a domed UFO, described as a flattened rhombus 25 meters in diameter that was revolving, and one of them apparently signaled the occupants of the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, April 1979, p. 14, citing Cronica newspaper, December 29, 1978; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2000; MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 133 Source ID: Johnson_8636 Source: Johnson ### Event 19038 (451845E6) Date: 12/28/1978 Description: A luminous object surrounded by a red halo flew over L'Aquila, Italy on this night. It stopped several hundred meters over an electrical generating plant, according to two power plant technicians, and the generator stopped for five minutes while the central power plant instruments went "haywire." Several had to be adjusted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, April 1979, p. 14, citing La Razon newspaper, December 30, 1978; Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1979 Source ID: Johnson_8635 Source: Johnson ### Event 19039 (FD0453AA) Date: 12/28/1978 Description: A round orange object with six lights underneath and the size of a double decker bus, and emitted a zooming sound (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hemel Hempstead, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5112 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19040 (2EC89F70) Date: 12/28/1978 Description: At 11:48 p.m. security guard Fortunato Zanfretta was out on patrol of a housing complex in Marzano di Torriglia, Italy when he suddenly yelled over his radio that he had lost control of his vehicle, because it was speeding down a mountain road on its own accord. The car finally stopped and Mr. Zanfretta got out to investigate a strange light hovering nearby. He was later found incoherent next to his car. His pistol had been fired six times, and giant footprints were found at the site. Under hypnosis, he recalled that he had being taken onboard a UFO by giant humanoids and examined with strange devices. He was asked several questions by them and was told that they would be back soon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 140, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October-November 1991 Source ID: Johnson_8634 Source: Johnson ### Event 19041 (241D1D40) Date: 12/28/1978 Description: A dark disc shaped object rose from the sea surface and flew to the west. Rays of light beamed down from the object, and several metallic satellite objects jumped around it. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Tecla, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5113 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19042 (19BAD500) Date: 12/28/1978 Description: A luminous object surrounded by a red halo stopped several hundred meters over an electric power generating plant. The generator stopped working for five minutes (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: L'Aquila, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5114 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19043 (821DB59F) Date: 12/28/1978 Description: A policeman was out patrolling told that he had lost control of his vehicle. It sped down a mountain road on its own accord. When the car finally stopped, he got out to investigate a nearby strange light in the sky. He was later found lying incoherent next to his car. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marzano Di Torriglia, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5115 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19044 (F67843B1) Date: 12/30/1978 Description: 12:12 AM. Foreign commercial aircraft, 4 witnesses at 10-14,000', 53 minutes. (Haines printout) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In air space, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5116 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19045 (57D1597E) Date: 12/30/1978 Description: 7:30 a.m. Erwin Vitelli sees a steely-blue object hovering in the southern sky above Zuchwil, Solothurn, Switzerland. It appears in the shape of three globes merging with one another, each one with a light source directed downward. The object is visible for about one minute. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Early Morning, Late December, Swiss](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf) [Sighting,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1983\): 1, 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5890 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19046 (D28E514E) Date: 12/30/1978 Description: A man was walking through the Plaza Garibaldi in Viareggio, Italy on this night when suddenly he heard a whistling sound and saw an object land close by. The craft seemed metallic and was shaped like a missile. A being described as a metallic robot briefly stepped out, and its body gave off an intense heat. Moments later the creature re-entered the UFO, which disappeared at high speed towards the sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1554, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13037, citing ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_8657 Source: Johnson ### Event 19047 (97E33793) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: There were several other UFO reports from around the world on this day, from Brazil, England, Scotland, Italy, Switzerland, and Florida. In Mirrasol, Sao Paulo State, Brazil a man was walking home around 11:00 p.m. when he heard a noise and noticed a light approaching from behind while crossing the street. He stepped aside, thinking that it was a car, but he then realized that it was a huge yellowish light that was attached to the bottom of a large flying object. He was suddenly struck by a beam of light and lost consciousness. Later, he found himself inside the object, next to a corridor. He next noticed three short humanoid creatures who spoke among themselves in a strange incomprehensible language. The beings wore helmets and coveralls and their faces were covered in a green light. Their eyes resembled two simple holes, lacking eyelids or eyebrows. He apparently then blacked out again, and arrived home at 3:30 a.m. without any further recollection of the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter K. Buhler, Guilheme Pereira, and Ney Matiel Peres, UFO Abduction at Mirassol Source ID: Johnson_8673 Source: Johnson ### Event 19048 (2357CD94) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: In the early morning hours of this day in 1978, at shortly after midnight, a famous motion picture film was taken by a news crew while flying off the eastern coast of South Island, New Zealand near the town of Kaikoura. The luminous UFO was seen by everyone on board the aircraft and was tracked by radar at the same time. It was somewhat cone shaped, and was not a Japanese shrimp fishing boat, as claimed by debunkers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 6; APRO Bulletin, May 1980, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_8672 Source: Johnson ### Event 19049 (CE5168DD) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: One hour after the multiple UFO flyovers in Great Britain, at three p.m. EST three men saw a silver disc hovering only one block away from one of their residences in Homestead, Florida. Mr. Betancourt, age 37, described the UFO as being between 40-50 feet in diameter and having no visible engine or wings, and making no noise. It hovered over a neighbor’s backyard for about 30 seconds before flying off. At 10:00 p.m. European time in Zermatt, Switzerland two people witnessed a luminous round object over the alpine glacier, brightly illuminating the ice. Later that night, at 2:30 a.m. the next morning, a big electrical power outage occurred in the city. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dade News-Leader, January 3, 1979; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13046 Source ID: Johnson_8675 Source: Johnson ### Event 19050 (CEFDA3D3) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: 7:00 p.m. Hundreds of people in the United Kingdom see a bright light with a long trail behind it streak across the heavens from northwest to southeast. RAF Fylingdales in the North York Moors, England, quickly identifies it as the reentry of a booster rocket that launched a Russian satellite, Kosmos 1068, into orbit on December 26. Jenny Randles examines reports of the reentry, which in general accurately reflect the event, and compares them to UFO reports, concluding that it is unlikely that all UFOs are IFOs in various degrees of exaggeration. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “The Case Against the IFO,” IUR 10, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1985\): 4–6; Jenny Randles, “Jenny Randles Replies,” IUR 10, no. 3 \(May/June 1985\): 8–9, 15; UFOFiles2, [pp. 98–99](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n163/mode/2up); Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 \(Christmas 2018\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_5893 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19051 (F08B8DA4) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: 4:00 a.m. Bobby Hines wakes up at her home in Demopolis, Alabama, because her dogs are barking outside. She sees a large, bright object hovering above the trees 1,800 feet from the house and wakes her husband. The UFO is the size of a small house and triangular in shape. It approaches the witnesses, moving in a zigzag pattern and hovering 50 feet off the ground for 30 minutes. Two police officers respond to their call and watch the UFO as well, which finally moves off to the southeast making a funny noise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 103–104 Source ID: Eberhart_5892 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19052 (1B91B5F6) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: Early morning hours shortly after midnight, a famous motion picture film was taken by a news crew while flying off the eastern coast of South Island, New Zealand near the town of Kaikoura. The luminous UFO was seen by everyone on board the aircraft and was tracked by radar at the same time. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: NICAP: [781231](http://www.nicap.org/781231newzealand%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Island air space, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5117 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19053 (09BB7905) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Mason sighted a cigar-shaped object at 7:00 p.m. moving silently through the sky from the west to the east (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bayford, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5119 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19054 (DB41C89C) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: 7:02 PM. A triangle with a grayish hue crossed the sky from west to east. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edinborough, Scotland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5122 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19055 (8B196F73) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: A 3-meter in diameter glowing sphere appeared over a marsh. It had dark triangular spots that moved back and forth on the surface of the object. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Posada, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5120 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19056 (DEBEC32B) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: 7:00 PM. A silver triangle crossed the sky from west to east. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carlisle, Cumbria, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5121 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19057 (F464EF3D) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: In Posada, Italy at one o’clock in the morning, a 3-meter in diameter glowing sphere appeared over a marsh. It had dark triangular spots that moved back and forth on the surface of the object. In Bayford, England Mr. and Mrs. Mason sighted a cigar-shaped object at 7:00 p.m. moving silently through the sky from the west to the east. The UFO had a long body with lots of tiny lights. Before losing sight of it two strong lights came on, one in the middle and one at the end. At the same time a silver triangle crossed the sky from west to east in Carlisle, England in Cumbria. Two minutes later a triangle with a grayish hue crossed the sky from west to east in Edinborough, Scotland, and three minutes after that another huge triangle was seen flying in the same direction over Hull, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue; UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 13 citing the Hertfordshire Mercury, December 31, 1978; D. N. Mansell, Awareness, April 1979, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_8674 Source: Johnson ### Event 19058 (03BFEAAF) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: 7:05 PM. A huge triangle was seen flying in the same direction. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hull, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5123 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19059 (B12C60C2) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: Three men saw a silver disc hovering only one block away from one of their residences in Homestead. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Homestead, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5124 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19060 (853B8D0A) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: Two people witnessed a luminous round object over the alpine glacier, brightly illuminating the ice. Later that night, at 2:30 a.m. the next morning (Jan 1, 1979), a big electrical power outage occurred in the city. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Zermatt, Switzerland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5125 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19061 (AF8C9F64) Date: 12/31/1978 Description: 12:10 a.m. [Quentin Fogarty](https://www.funeral.info/n/wmqfvs)[,](https://www.funeral.info/n/wmqfvs) a reporter for Melbourne’s 0/10 Network assigned to do a story on the Vern Powell sighting 10 days earlier, has chartered an Argosy cargo plane, piloted by Capt. William Startup and First Officer Robert Guard. While flying from Wellington to Christchurch, New Zealand, with David Crockett and his wife Ngaire as camera crew over the Cook Strait near the site of the Powell sighting, Startup and Guard see 6–7 bright, pulsating lights like Chinese lanterns above the sea off Kaikoura. They fade and disappear, then return to view. Crockett starts filming. Wellington is tracking a target a mile behind the aircraft that stays on the screen for about one minute without moving. Another, stronger target appears to the right of the plane. Fogarty manages to crack, “Let’s hope they’re friendly!” Twice, Startup vainly attempts a 360° turn to get a glimpse of the object. After landing at Christchurch, Startup invites the passengers to accompany him back to Blenheim. Fogarty, Crockett, and another journalist, Dennis Grant, agree to do so. The plane flies out at 2:15 a.m., and within 2 minutes aircraft radar picks up a target 37 miles away. Startup turns toward it, but it moves to the right and vanishes almost immediately. Other radars pick up targets intermittently. The object returns in view of the plane, moving toward it, then drops out of sight to the right. Afterward, Fogarty notices a strange light that seems to be coming from the cargo hold. Two pulsating white lights soon appear on the port side of the plane. One settles into a rolling, turning pattern and falls at an incredible speed. This sequence Crockett captures on film. [Bruce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) [Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) spends 10 days in New Zealand and Australia interviewing witnesses and analyzing the film, which he concludes does not have any mundane explanation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Kaikoura lights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaikoura%5Flights)”; “The New Zealand UFO Films, Part I,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 4–8; “The New Zealand Film Analysis, Part II,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 3–6; Story, [pp. 392–395](https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofuf0000unse/page/392/mode/2up); W. C. Chalker, “[A Re-Viewing of the Great Nocturnal Light,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 1 \(June 1980\): 12–18 Quentin Fogarty, Let’s Hope They’re Friendly! Angus and Robertson, 1983; Bruce Maccabee, “[Analysis and Discussion of the Images of a Cluster of Periodically Flashing Lights off the](https://scientificexploration.s3.amazonaws.com/files/jse-1-2.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJXJ6FAXJI7UFHDLQ&Expires=1644187678&Signature=CI%2FmlOoddgQChHWlMWnK%2BDE%2B7%2BU%3D) [Coast of New Zealand,](https://scientificexploration.s3.amazonaws.com/files/jse-1-2.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJXJ6FAXJI7UFHDLQ&Expires=1644187678&Signature=CI%2FmlOoddgQChHWlMWnK%2BDE%2B7%2BU%3D)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 1, no. 2 \(1987\): 149–190, slightly [revised](http://brumac.mysite.com/NEW%5FZEALAND/NZFlashingLight/NZFlashingLight.html) in January 2002; Bruce Maccabee, “[Atmosphere or UFO? A Response to the 1997 SSE Review Panel Report,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/13/jse%5F13%5F3%5Fmaccabee.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 13, no. 3 \(1999\): 431–443; Clark III 799–801; “[How the 40-Year-Old Mystery of a UFO in](https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/travel-stories/how-the-40yearold-mystery-of-a-ufo-in-new-zealand-lives-on/news-story/d01fbaad50e77d9179e06435dbb8b581) [New Zealand Lives On,](https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/travel-stories/how-the-40yearold-mystery-of-a-ufo-in-new-zealand-lives-on/news-story/d01fbaad50e77d9179e06435dbb8b581)” News.com.au, December 19, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_5891 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1979 (Back to Top) ### Event 19062 (53247B94) Date: 1979 Description: The English-language Sri Lanka UFO Register begins publication in Weligama, Sri Lanka, edited by Ananda L. Sirisena. It continues through 1988. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sri Lanka UFO Register](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sri%20Lanka/Sri%20Lanka%20UFO%20Register/Sri%20Lanka%20UFO%20Register%20-%20no%2002.pdf), no. 2 \(Oct./Dec. 1979\) Source ID: Eberhart_5899 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19063 (EA001FDE) Date: 1979 Description: The Argentine Air Force creates another group to study UFOs within the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales. It lasts until 1987. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Milton W. Hourcade, “[Argentina: UFO Declassification,](https://www.uapsg.com/2020/07/argentina-ufo-declassification.html)” UAPSG–GEFAI, July 29, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_5897 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19064 (5CA01131) Date: 1979 Description: The Uruguayan Air Force creates CRIDOVNI, a special commission to investigate all UFO sightings within the country. It includes freelance ufologists but seems to have disbanded in the mid-1980s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 100 Source ID: Eberhart_5898 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19065 (BCF2DEF9) Date: 1979 Description: Ufologist Paul Bennewitz, President and owner of Thunder Scientific Company in Albuquerque, NM, lives next to the Manzano Weapons Storage Area, near Sandia Base. He’s also an investigator for APRO (Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization), and others see strange lights in the night sky over the Manzano Test Range outside Albuquerque. Type: letter Reference: [link](https://www.exopaedia.org/Paul+Bennewitz) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: Maj2_707 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19066 (7D12DDAE) Date: 1979 Description: Patrick Geoffroy founds the Association Dijonnaise de Recherches Ufologiques et Parapsychologiques in Ruffey-lès-Echirey \(later in Quetigny\), Côte-d’Or, France. It begins publishing Vimana 21, a journal that continues until early 1989. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Vimana 21](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Vimana%2021/Vimana%2021%20-%20No%2001%20-%201979.pdf), no. 1 \(1979\) Source ID: Eberhart_5896 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19067 (C7C5403B) Date: 1979 Description: Jacques Bonabot founds the Studiegroep voor Vreemde Luchtverschijnselen in Antwerp, Belgium, as the Flemish counterpart to the Groupement pour l’Étude des Sciences d’Avant-Garde in Bruges. It publishes SVL Tijdschrift from January 1982 to October 1987. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [SVL Tijdschrift](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/SVL%20Tijdschrift/SVL%20Tijdschrift%20-%20Jaargang%201%20No%2001%20-%20jan%201982.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(January 1982\) Source ID: Eberhart_5895 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19068 (13780D21) Date: 1979 Description: British science fiction author [David Langford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FLangford) publishes an allegedly nonfiction novelette, An Account of a Meeting with Denizens of Another World, 1871. It is an account of a UFO encounter, as experienced by a man in Buckinghamshire, England; in its framing story Langford claims to have found the manuscript in an old desk \(the story’s narrator, [William Robert Loosley](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56241021/william-robert-loosley), is a genuine ancestor of Langford’s wife\). But no ufologists take it seriously. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Langford, An Account of a Meeting with Denizens of Another World, 1871, David and Charles, 1979; Clark III 599–600 Source ID: Eberhart_5894 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19069 (D3F83E77) Date: 1/1979 Description: In an article in Just Cause, researcher [Todd Zechel](https://www.wiscnews.com/saukprairieeagle/news/local/obituaries/w-todd-zechel-of-prairie-du-sac---published/article%5F696590a6-91c6-5248-a014-2cccc841c5b6.html) claims that [Keyhoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKeyhoe)’s National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena has long been riddled with CIA-friendly or covert board members and staff, among them [Joseph Bryan III](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993)[,](https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bryan%5FJoseph%5FIII%5F1904-1993) [Karl T. Pflock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FT.%5FPflock)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FT.%5FPflock) Stuart Nixon, John Acuff, and [Roscoe Hillenkoetter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FH.%5FHillenkoetter) Because of NICAP’s current acute financial crisis, he concludes that if the CIA had wanted to “destroy the leading anti-secrecy organization of the 1960s, they couldn’t have done a better job.” [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) disputes this analysis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Todd Zechel, “[NI-CIA-AP or NICAP?](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/MUFON%20Journals/January%20-%20February%201979.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 133 \(Jan./Feb. 1979\): 6–9 Source ID: Eberhart_5900 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19070 (7F583558) Date: 1/1979 Description: [Axel Ertelt](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel%5FErtelt) begins publishing Mysteria, a journal of UFO and ancient astronaut information, in Halver, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany. It continues through at least April 1987. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Mysteria](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/Mysteria%20%28Axel%20Ertelt%29/Mysteria%20-%20Issue%2001%20-%201979%2001.pdf), no. 1 \(1979\) Source ID: Eberhart_5901 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19071 (8F5D0B3C) Date: 1/1/1979 Description: 5:00 a.m. Former USAF UFO spokesman [Albert M. Chop](https://sohp.us/interviews/bios/chop-albert.php) and his wife and daughter watch a triangular UFO moving slowly eastward over the mountains southeast of Palm Desert, California. It is about 10 times as bright as the background stars. It is in sight for about 45 minutes, by which time it has become a small, distant light in the eastern sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, [p. 61](https://archive.org/details/ufoencyclopedia00marg/page/61/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5903 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19072 (D46B9808) Date: 1/1/1979 Description: A member of the public, Keith Jones was about to go into the restaurant where he worked near Denbigh when he observed a UFO at an altitude of 100-150 feet. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Denbigh, North Wales Source ID: NICAP_DB_5127 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19073 (FADB737C) Date: 1/2/1979 Description: Mr. L. M. went to open a window inside his house in Nuoro on the island of Sardinia, Italy because of the intense humidity when he noticed two short human like figures "floating" ten meters above the ground outside the building. Startled, he watched the two figures from his balcony. The two humanoids wore transparent coveralls, like plexiglass, and under that gray metallic outfits that emitted a bluish glow. They wore white-colored helmets on their heads with clear visors. He could see that their faces were normal; very handsome with large eyes. They also wore white tight-fitting boots and had a dark cylinder shaped "container" around their waists. During the encounter the witness felt chills. As the beings approached the house they smiled at the witness and were soon lost from sight in the distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Archivio S.U.F. Source ID: Johnson_36 Source: Johnson ### Event 19074 (54352454) Date: Early 1/1979 Description: About 6:00 p.m. A1C John W. Mills III is with a second lieutenant conducting a below-ground azimuth alignment procedure at the Ellsworth AFB Delta-3 missile site southwest of Cottonwood, South Dakota, when the security guard bangs on the ladder and tells them to come up. Going topside, they hear a loud, low-frequency hum permeating the launch facility. The guard leads them out of the gate where they see a dark object with straight edges in the sky. It seems to be shaped like a parallelogram, but they can’t tell how high it is. The guard is upset, but the other two men are oddly calm, even though they are not supposed to be outside the gate, and they return to the missile and descend the ladder to continue the alignment. Then the lights go off, the truck engine stops running, the radio goes out, and the missile site goes off alert. The hum is gone, but they can still see the dark object. Some 10 minutes later the lights come back on and they notice the object is gone. Targeting teams from two other launch sites report similar experiences. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 377–387 Source ID: Eberhart_5902 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19075 (4FBFA25E) Date: 1/3/1979 Description: Dog barked, mother and child saw craft on ground, humanoid encounter Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Mindalore, South Africa Source ID: HallUFOE2_332 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19076 (33BF02FE) Date: 1/3/1979 Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_331 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19077 (FD42AA65) Date: 1/3/1979 Description: The second experience also occurred while driving. Mr. Filiberto Cardenas, age 45, was driving on Okeechobee Road just north of Miami, Florida with three family friends when the car engine suddenly failed. He and another man got out of the car to check under the hood when a large luminous object emitting a humming sound descended over the vehicle. The witness vanished in plain sight of the others, apparently taken up into the object by a beam of light.

He was found dazed two hours later and 16 miles away from the original location by a police officer. Later he recalled being taken up and blacking out. He found himself onboard the object and three human-like beings all dressed in tight-fitting white suits took him to an ocean front setting where they opened a "lock" on a rock and entered through a tunnel beneath the sea. The beings were of average height, wearing outfits that covered their heads with winged snake-like emblems on their chests.

They spoke to the witness in Spanish and mainly spoke about coming wars and disasters. He was led to a seat made out of stone and given a liquid to drink that tasted like honey. A huge door then opened in front of him and several persons came out. Cardenas began feeling a strong pressure in his chest and at this point an individual approached him and told him he was welcomed. The individual appeared totally human and spoke with a South American accent. Indeed this man told Cardenas that he was from earth but had lived with extraterrestrials for a while now. He was then taken through a corridor into what appeared to be a great city. He then entered a small room where he was suddenly sucked into the wall, which then flipped over and became a bed. Paralyzed, he was unable to move and noticed several figures moving around him. As a light blinded him something was inserted into his ear. From the wall there emerged what looked like several arms ending in suction cups that covered his body. He felt no pain but could not move.

After the examination he was taken to another room. There he saw a tall seat and on it was a tall man wearing a cape; he also saw numerous consoles and monitors. He was shown images of three pyramids joined by a thin ray of light. Cardenas apparently slept several times and was awakened and given several tablets to eat. In another room he saw several human like figures wearing gray coveralls. In another room he saw a large gathering of people in what he thought was a "party".

Soon he was taken into another room where he saw a large rocket-style ship in which he was taken along with three other humans. He was made to sit on a suction-like seat. After a short trip he was made to exit and given something to eat. He last saw the object disappear into the distance. He was found disoriented by a police officer in an isolated section of the city. A medical exam found 108 tiny pricks on his body. Days after the encounter he suffered from severe sweating, extreme thirst, extreme temperature changes, and a strong sulfur like smell followed him, he also suffered from memory loss, decreased sexual appetite and strange time altering episodes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Miami Herald, January 5, 1979; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of A Mystery; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case 458, citing Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo; Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 3; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 84 Source ID: Johnson_65 Source: Johnson ### Event 19078 (955FE779) Date: 1/3/1979 Description: There were two incidents involving missing time or abductions on this day. The first occurred in Mindalore, South Africa. A man and a woman were driving in foggy conditions near a mine at 11:50 p.m. They saw a gray cone-shaped craft with four legs that had landed, and then experienced a 20-minute lapse of time, but they did recall witnessing humanoids associated with the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_64 Source: Johnson ### Event 19079 (DE38D4E5) Date: 1/3/1979 Description: At 11:15 p.m. a couple was crossing a roadway in Mirabello, Italy when they noticed a red beam of light on the ground. They got into their car and drove closer to get a better look. As they approached they perceived a strong burning smell, an odor like burnt human hair. The light resembled a pulsating vertical bar, red in color encircled by a round halo. As they got even closer they saw a human like figure walk in front of the light, and moments later a second figure walked from the opposite direction. As a result of the intense cold the witnesses had to leave the area. As they drove away they observed a similar but larger light on the ground in front of a nearby orchard. The light slowly pulsated. Again the witnesses had to leave because of the cold weather. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case 1555; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_63 Source: Johnson ### Event 19080 (4AD6E18F) Date: 1/3/1979 Description: Mr. Filiberto Cardenas, age 45, was driving on Okeechobee Road just north of Miami, Florida with three family friends when the car engine suddenly failed. He and another man got out of the car to check under the hood when a large luminous object emitting a humming sound descended over the vehicle. The witness vanished in plain sight of the others, apparently taken up into the object by a beam of light. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [790103](http://www.nicap.org/790103miamidir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miami, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5130 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19081 (92221953) Date: 1/3/1979 Description: Dog barked, mother and child saw craft on ground, humanoid encounter (section XII). (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mindalore, S, Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_5128 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19082 (E0A420CF) Date: 1/4/1979 Description: Just after 12:00 midnight. Meagen Quezet and her son André go looking for their dog that has just run barking away from their home in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa. Driving along a remote country road, they find the dog standing 60 feet away from a lead-colored, egg-shaped object with landing gear. Five or six dark- skinned entities are standing in front, wearing white or pink suits and shoes. One with a beard bows to Quezet and says something unintelligible. André runs to get his father, whereupon the beings enter the craft, which takes off making a purring sound. Quezet undergoes hypnotic regression by [Bernard Levinson](https://birthpsychology.com/person/bernard-levinson) on June 21, where she remembers the “leader” cajoling her to come on board, which she does with her son, seeing lights, panels, chairs, and a table. They jump out again, protesting that they can’t go. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Another South African CE III,” IUR 5, no. 1a \(January 1980\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_5904 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19083 (A26E7C0E) Date: 1/4/1979 Description: That same morning at around seven a.m. in Rowley Regis in the West Midlands, England, Mrs. Jean Hingley had waved goodbye to her husband on a bitter cold morning when she saw a light in the garden. Thinking he had left the light on she went to investigate, but it was turned off so she returned to the kitchen. She put down some food for the family Alsatian dog and called him from the garden, but he flopped down as if drugged and gazed at the ceiling, glassy-eyed. Then, with a "zee---zee-zee" noise, three weird creatures flew past her into her lounge. They were only one meter tall and had waxy white faces, coal-black eyes with no eyebrows, and very thin mouths. They wore silvery clothes with transparent fishbowl-type helmets over their heads. These humanoids also had transparent “wings” or wing attachments. Jean clung to her sink paralyzed but then, she says, she also suddenly floated towards the lounge.

Jean noticed that the aliens were inspecting the ornaments on the Christmas tree with interest. They also probed into her mind with telepathy—“It was like a light or an X-ray penetrating.” They told her she would not be harmed and, when she asked where they were from, one said, “We come from the sky.” When she explained the house was decorated to celebrate Jesus’s birthday, they claimed “We know all about Jesus.”

They said they would return. “We come down here to talk to people but they don't seem to be interested.” Finally, when she showed them how to light a cigarette they fled as if in terror, taking a mince pie each with them. Outside in her garden was an egg-shaped object with windows. They floated into it, and it took off, emitting a bluish flash and pulsating twice before disappearing with a flash. The dog returned to normal, and Jean called the police. The electric clock in the house had stopped, and all her cassette tapes were magnetized and unplayable. In the snow where the object had sat was an oval outline, which the local UFO group was able to photograph before the snow melted. She also suffered from a case of conjunctivitis as a result of her close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alfred Budden, Fortean Times, June 1988, p. 40; Jenny Randles, Abduction; Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to Extraterrestrials, p. 92; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 440 Source ID: Johnson_95 Source: Johnson ### Event 19084 (01D78728) Date: 1/4/1979 Description: A group of four farmers saw a small glittering sphere float about in the sky over Jitra, Malaysia at 6:45 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 86 Source ID: Johnson_94 Source: Johnson ### Event 19085 (3C472F6E) Date: 1/5/1979 Description: 6:20 p.m. Anmarie Emery is driving near Auburn, Massachusetts, when she notices three, red-glowing, triangular objects flying over woods to her left. As she rounds a corner, she sees them hovering above the road directly in front of her. The radio goes dead, the car slows to a stop \(although the engine continues to run\), and she feels completely paralyzed. The closest object is only 30 feet away. She feels heat on her face and smells an unpleasant odor. When another car approaches, the three objects shoot straight up, one at a time, and everything returns to normal. When she returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts, she notices her face is reddened. She develops a rash and peeling skin the next day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 302–303; Raymond E. Fowler, “[Close Encounters with E-M and Physical Effects,](https://vdocuments.mx/mufon-ufo-journal-1979-3-4-march-april.html?page=8)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 134 \(March/April 1979\): 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_5905 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19086 (13B970F0) Date: 1/5/1979 Description: Two members of the Quezet family in Mindalore, Gauteng province, South Africa experienced a 20 minute episode of missing time in the pre-dawn hours when they had a close encounter with an ovoid object that made a buzzing sound. Meagan Quezet and her 12-year old son Andre were out looking for their dog shortly after midnight after they heard it barking. Soon they noticed a peculiar pink glow beyond a tarmac road. Thinking that it was a police car, they approached the area. As they reached the glow they noticed that it came from a peculiar egg-shaped craft resting on the ground on several thin leg-like protrusions. The intense pink glow emanated from the top of the craft. Suddenly5 or 6 men jumped to the ground from an opening in the craft. One walked to the far end of the object, two remained standing in front of it, and two others approached the witnesses. The men appeared to speak among themselves in a loud "sing-song" unintelligible language; two kneeled down and appeared to touch the asphalt. All the men wore tight-fitting white suits; all but two had hoods that covered most of their faces. The one who appeared to be the leader approached Mrs. Quezet and spoke to her in a high-pitched unintelligible voice. He made a slight bow towards her as if in a form of salute. He had a black beard, frizzy black hair, and slanted eyes and dark olive skinned complexion. Soon the men walked back to the craft and entered the object, the craft then emitted a whistling sound, the thin leg-like protrusions telescoped back into the craft, which then rose up and disappeared into the clouds. Under hypnosis the witness recalled being taken inside the object where she saw chairs, panels and a table. She was asked to come with them but she refused. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Xenolog, March 1979, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_140 Source: Johnson ### Event 19087 (E67A8823) Date: 1/5/1979 Description: Three glowing, red triangular objects confronted car, forward motion impeded, physiological effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Auburn, MA Source ID: HallUFOE2_333 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19088 (C169252F) Date: 1/5/1979 Description: CE-II case with EM effects on car. (Raymond Fowler investigation report) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sturbridge, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5135 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19089 (6C182F31) Date: 1/5/1979 Description: Jean Hingley had waved goodbye to her husband as he went off to work in the bitter cold morning in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England at around 7:00 a.m. Then she saw a light in the garden. Thinking her husband had left the carport light on, she went out to investigate, but it was still to dark, so she returned to the kitchen. She put down some food for the family Alsatian dog, Hobo, and called him from the garden, but he flopped down as if he had been drugged and gazed at the ceiling, glassy eyed. Then, with a "zee-zee" noise, three weird looking creatures flew past her into the lounge. There were only three and a half feet tall, and had waxy white faces and coal-black eyes with no eyebrows and very thin mouths. They wore silvery uniforms, with a transparent fish-bowl type helmet over their heads. They also had transparent wings, and floated. Jean was left clinging to the sink, paralyzed, but she next suddenly also floated towards the lounge. Jean noticed that the aliens were inspecting the ornaments on their Christmas tree with interest. She said they also probed her mind with telepathy, "it was like a light or an X-ray penetrating." They told her telepathically that she would not be harmed, and when she asked them where they were from, one of them reported "we come from the sky." She then explained to them why the house was all decorated, to celebrate Jesus's birthday. "We know all about Jesus," they claimed. They said they would return. They also claimed that "we come down here to talk to people but they don't seem to be interested." Finally, when she showed them how to light a cigarette, they fled in terror, taking a mince pie with them. Outside in her garden was an egg-shaped object with windows. They floated into it and it took off, emitting a bluish flash and pulsating twice before disappearing with a flash. The dog returned to normal, and Jean called the police. Her electric wall clock had stopped, and all her cassette tapes were magnetized and unplayable. In the snow outside where the object had sat, there was an oval outline, which the local UFO group was able to photograph before the snow melted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1979 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 440, citing Alfred Budden, Fortean Times, issue # 50; Jenny Randles, Abduction Source ID: Johnson_141 Source: Johnson ### Event 19090 (9257D72A) Date: 1/5/1979 Description: In the town of Bannalec, Finistere, France a 15 meter in diameter circular object hovered near the ground at around 10 p.m. for three minutes. It had a blue halo, and shot away very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1979 Source ID: Johnson_142 Source: Johnson ### Event 19091 (9AB841C3) Date: 1/5/1979 Description: A 15 meter in diameter circular object hovered near the ground at around 10 p.m. for three minutes. It had a blue halo, and shot away very fast. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1979). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bannalec, Finistere, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5134 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19092 (EF7FBDDA) Date: 1/5/1979 Description: At 6:20 p.m. three red triangle-shaped UFOs were sighted over Interstate 290 in Auburn, Massachusetts; AM and CB radios were affected. There was steering loss, loss of power, and the main witness's car was reportedly levitated as well. Ms. Emery felt heat, paralysis, and she had a skin rash as the result of her close encounter. The UFOs flew off to the northwest. Also during this period of repeated sightings of low level lights and a diamond-shaped object over the area, a witness reported seeing a 7-8 foot tall hairy figure in a field at 11:00 p.m. near Sturbridge, Massachusetts. He shone a spotlight at it and the creature ran towards him. The witness fired three shots at it and then ran away, shooting one more time over his shoulder. The shots appeared to have no effect on the creature, but it stopped and did not pursue him further. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Raymond Fowler, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 8; (2) Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 17; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2192; Albert S. Rosales, 1979 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case addendum # 741, citing CUFOS Source ID: Johnson_143 Source: Johnson ### Event 19093 (7425F357) Date: 1/5/1979 Description: Three red triangles hovered over road; heat, paralysis, physiological effects, car slowed. MUFON UFO Journal, Mar.-Apr. 1979, pp. 8-9 (R) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Auburn, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5133 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19094 (DCB1F513) Date: 1/6/1979 Description: 10:30 a.m. A journalist aboard the Japanese icebreaker [Fuji](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%5Ficebreaker%5FFuji%5F%28AGB-5001%29) in Antarctic waters sees an object resembling a bluish-white kite moving silently at a high rate of speed. Witnesses guess the altitude as 2–3 miles, with differences of opinion on whether its course s straight or zigzag. The crew reports further sightings of a similar object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Asahi Shinbun \(Osaka\), January 23, 1979; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5906 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19095 (45C7BF4F) Date: 1/8/1979 Description: At 5:30 p.m. in San Croce Sull’Arno in the Tuscany region of Italy a 40-meter wide domed disc with an antenna flew over a farm at only ten meters above the ground. The farm animals were panicked and a tree bent over as the object passed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO catalogue Source ID: Johnson_205 Source: Johnson ### Event 19096 (52A98BEC) Date: 1/8/1979 Description: In Rome City, Indiana at eight o’clock in the evening two people sighted a 15-foot long cylinder at a low altitude near a school. The UFO had an intense light, and shot away at a high speed after five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1979 Source ID: Johnson_206 Source: Johnson ### Event 19097 (B1501428) Date: 1/8/1979 Description: In the Tuscany region of Italy a 40-meter wide domed disc with an antenna flew over a farm at only ten meters above the ground. The farm animals were panicked and a tree bent over as the object passed. (Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO catalogue). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Croce Sull'Arno, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5138 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19098 (4687BFB4) Date: 1/8/1979 Description: At three o’clock in the morning in Tunis, Tunisia a group of people witnessed a small disc, about 1.5 meters in size, hovering near a lake for 10 minutes. It then shot away and was gone in a split second. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1979 Source ID: Johnson_204 Source: Johnson ### Event 19099 (837AE4CF) Date: 1/8/1979 Description: A group of people witnessed a small disc, about 1.5 meters in size, hovering near a lake for 10 minutes. It then shot away and was gone in a split second. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1979) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tunis, Tunisia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5140 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19100 (4ED50E01) Date: 1/8/1979 Description: Mr. Marion Ritchie and his wife viewed a UFO on County Road 138 for a continuous 5 minutes. Mr. Ritchie, a credible man in his community, viewed a cylinder-shaped object over an open field about 50' from the road with lights of white, red, and green. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rome City, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5137 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19101 (165A9D54) Date: 1/9/1979 Description: A domed ovoid-shaped UFO chased a car driving along Route 26 for three hours between Tacuarembo, Argentina and Melo, Uruguay during the day. There were four people in the car, two of them police. The UFO changed color and brightness, from red to bluish white, formed over a base ring of plasma. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, April 1979, p. 14, citing El Heraldo, January 17, 1979 & La Razon, January 12, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_229 Source: Johnson ### Event 19102 (2F4426F1) Date: 1/9/1979 Description: Three police officers driving on a highway in Castel D'Asso, Latium, Italy saw a 10 meter in diameter glowing disc-shaped object at or near the ground at 5:30 a.m. They tried to use their two-way radios but experienced radio interference. The saucer shaped craft rose to one meter altitude and moved away rapidly in a horizontal direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Verga Maurizio, ITACAT, case # 143 Source ID: Johnson_228 Source: Johnson ### Event 19103 (8B927720) Date: 1/9/1979 Description: At three o'clock in the morning a milkman at the Willow Grove Exit of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania suddenly encountered a bright orange circular UFO hovering over his truck. It vanished abruptly. Other witnesses reported UFO sightings in Norristown, Lower Merion, and Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: King of Prussia Today's Post, January 11, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_227 Source: Johnson ### Event 19104 (D67435D7) Date: 1/11/1979 Description: On this night a short humanoid about 80 cm tall, wearing a helmet with two luminous antennae, approached a witness in Fortaleza, Ceara State, Brazil and touched him on the arm, burning him. The being wore a silvery suit and blue boots, and apparently arrived in a gray-colored object about 15 meters in diameter with lighted windows. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Antonio Faleiro Source ID: Johnson_265 Source: Johnson ### Event 19105 (E38F14D2) Date: 1/11/1979 Description: Nightly appearances of flying discs over the city of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo State, Brazil began on this evening and continued for the next 10 nights. The objects emitted different colored lights and were seen by several thousand city residents. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 14, citing La Razon, January 12, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_264 Source: Johnson ### Event 19106 (600D80F7) Date: 1/12/1979 Description: On this night in the farming community of Sorocaba, Sao Paolo State, Brazil three newspaper reporters watched a large luminous disc-shaped object descend and hover near the ground, while hundreds of other witnesses watched several luminous discs maneuver over the nearby village. Two small beings, about four and a half foot tall, emerged from the object. The beings were human in appearance and were wearing one-piece outfits with fishbowl type helmets over their heads. The helmets emitted bright beacons of light. Suddenly everything became very dark and moments later the disc ascended and disappeared behind some nearby hills. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1641, citing A. J. Gevaerd and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Abductions at Maringa Source ID: Johnson_280 Source: Johnson ### Event 19107 (897964A3) Date: 1/13/1979 Description: On this evening, perhaps as early as 4:30 p.m., a 50-year-old farmer named Mancini in Viterbo, Italy spotted a large blindingly bright fiery red sphere descend in a nearby pasture. The sphere changed colors to a bright orange and then to red, and finally dimmed to reveal a two-meter wide metallic sphere. A small man only 20 inches tall, wearing a silvery white suit, emerged from the object and walked around the object, frequently bending down as if he was picking things up. Frightened, the witness ran away from the scene. The object took off and flew to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 15 , citing Hoja Lunes, Jan. 15, 1979; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case 143; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13608; BUFORA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 996 Source ID: Johnson_302 Source: Johnson ### Event 19108 (23FE7555) Date: 1/13/1979 Description: At 11:50 a.m. a 12-year-old boy named Suarez, the son of the school's janitor, was alone in a school room in Loreto, Santiago del Estero province, Argentina when he heard a sudden noise. Looking around, he saw a rectangular silvery object, five feet tall by two feet wide and three feet long, hovering a few inches above the schoolyard ground. Two flaps opened on the sides of the object and two little men emerged and descended. Each was about three feet tall and dressed in shiny aluminum colored one-piece coveralls, and their hands had only four fingers. Both wore helmets with dark faceplates that covered the eyes. They each had a device with a tube and clock-like instrument attached. They entered the school and one being grabbed the boy. A voice coming from the object spoke to him in Spanish telling him to sit down. Once seated the boy was paralyzed and unable to move from the chair, while one of the beings went into another room and the other went back inside the object. A reddish beam of light from the object knocked the witness out. When he woke up later the object and beings were gone, but a strong sulphurous odor remained behind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 15; citing Cronica, Jan. 16, 1979; FSR, July 1979, p. 21; Thomas E Bullard, UFO Abductions, The Measure of A Mystery, case 53; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 499 Source ID: Johnson_303 Source: Johnson ### Event 19109 (75CDE09E) Date: 1/13/1979 Description: A farmer spotted a large fiery red sphere descend and land in a nearby pasture. The sphere changed color to a bright orange, then it began to dim revealing a two- meter wide metallic sphere. A small man wearing a silvery white suit emerged from the object and walked around the object, frequently bending down as if he was picking things up. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Viterbo, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5141 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19110 (CA66AAFC) Date: 1/14/1979 Description: The Moreno family called a local newspaper to report the sighting of a five meter in diameter metallic, oval-shaped object that moved rapidly through the sky over Pilar, Madrid, Spain at 6 p.m. It disappeared behind some tall buildings, and left behind a small trail that faded away quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, March 1979, p. 15, citing Hoja Lunes, Jan. 15, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_324 Source: Johnson ### Event 19111 (3DFEA484) Date: 1/14/1979 Description: At 7 p.m. three orange disc-shaped objects traveled to the northwest over Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France at 250 meters altitude in a triangular formation. They then vanished as if erased from the sky, nearby some hills. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13610, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1979 Source ID: Johnson_325 Source: Johnson ### Event 19112 (A50A322A) Date: 1/16/1979 Description: Two women teachers, Ms. Griselda and Ms. Gonzalez, in the city of David in Panama, sighted an oval-shaped UFO in the evening while walking home from night school. The UFO was spinning and gave off orange and blue lights. It stopped and changed direction without turning, and made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thompson, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 15; citing El Sol, January 18, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_353 Source: Johnson ### Event 19113 (7DFC35C4) Date: 1/16/1979 Description: Two women teachers, Ms. Griselda and Ms. Gonzalez, sighted an oval-shaped UFO while walking home from night school. The UFO was spinning and gave off orange and blue lights. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: City of David, Panama Source ID: NICAP_DB_5143 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19114 (C3FD7DB6) Date: 1/16/1979 Description: Gen. Emiliano Alfaro Arregui, chief of staff of the Spanish Air Force, writes to the Ministry of Defense to say that whenever a UFO sighting is reported to the authorities, an Informing Judge is appointed by the corresponding Air Region to proceed with a proper investigation. Some reports are caused by natural phenomena, while others are unidentified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 424, 513 Source ID: Eberhart_5907 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19115 (9CF10295) Date: 1/18/1979 Description: A two-meter wide orange disc-shaped UFO mades two passes over two witnesses in Metzeral, France at five p.m.. The UFO made a buzzing sound and had lights at both ends. Both witnesses' eyes hurt after the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, July 1979 Source ID: Johnson_376 Source: Johnson ### Event 19116 (0D00A022) Date: 1/18/1979 Description: At 11:30 later that same night in Lusiana, Italy a witness's car engine died when an ovoid UFO landed nearby. A door in the craft opened and two humanoids emerged. They reportedly had vibrating antennae-like ears or antennae on the sides of their heads. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2274 Source ID: Johnson_377 Source: Johnson ### Event 19117 (7DD6C25F) Date: 1/18/1979 Description: A witness's car engine died when an ovoid UFO landed nearby. A door in the craft opened and two humanoids emerged. They reportedly had vibrating antennae-like ears or antennae on the sides of their heads (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lusiana, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5146 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19118 (2B75B203) Date: 1/18/1979 Description: A two-meter wide orange disc-shaped UFO made two passes over two witnesses. The UFO made a buzzing sound and had lights at both ends. Both witnesses' eyes hurt after the close encounter. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Metzeral, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5144 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19119 (D7D133F1) Date: 1/18/1979 Description: 7:07 p.m. [Brinsley Le Poer Trench](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinsley%5FLe%5FPoer%5FTrench%2C%5F8th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FClancarty), Lord Clancarty, has put down a motion for debate in the House of Lords on the official policy of the UK government on UFOs. He begins the debate by launching into a history of UFOs and stresses the international character of the phenomenon. He concludes with a request for the [Minister of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FMulley) [Defence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%5FMulley) to be interviewed on national TV. [Lord Trefgarne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FTrefgarne%2C%5F2nd%5FBaron%5FTrefgarne) rejects the proposal on the grounds that there are many things that can masquerade as UFOs, plus the Bible has nothing to say about extraterrestrials. [Lord Kimberley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FWodehouse%2C%5F4th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FKimberley) agrees that a parliamentary group should be set up. [Lord Oxfuird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FMakgill%2C%5F13th%5FViscount%5Fof%5FOxfuird) and [Lord Davies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan%5FDavies%2C%5FBaron%5FDavies%5Fof%5FOldham) agree there should be future investigations to settle the question. The [Bishop of Norwich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%5FWood) expresses concern that a UFO cult could compete with Christianity. [Lord Gladwyn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladwyn%5FJebb) deems the evidence inconclusive, but [Lord Kings Norton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxbee%5FCox%2C%5FBaron%5FKings%5FNorton) favors an investigation. [Lord Rankeillour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron%5FRankeillour) states emphatically that UFOs exist, and they might be dangerous. [Lord Gainford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FPease%2C%5F3rd%5FBaron%5FGainford) relates a personal sighting of a nocturnal light over Argyll, Scotland, the previous December 31. The [Earl of Halsbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FGiffard%2C%5F3rd%5FEarl%5Fof%5FHalsbury) provides a list of natural causes for UFOs, and [Lord Hewlett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FHewlett%2C%5FBaron%5FHewlett) paraphrases debunking arguments. The [Earl of Cork](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%5Fof%5FCork) [and Orrery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%5Fof%5FCork) lashes out at Trefgarne’s skepticism. [Lord Strabolgi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FMontague%5Fde%5FBurgh%5FKenworthy%2C%5F11th%5FBaron%5FStrabolgi) firmly rejects the request for an official investigation on the grounds that all UFO reports can be explained conventionally. Clancarty winds it up by saying, “Nothing is impossible in this world or this universe. It is just that the seemingly impossible takes a little time to come about.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1979/jan/18/unidentified-flying-objects)” Hansard Lords Debate, vol. 397, cc1246–1316, January 18, 1979; Allan Hendry, \[House of Lords UFO Debate\], IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 9–11; Good Above, [pp. 73–75](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/72/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 99–104](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n163/mode/2up); Clark III 616–618 Source ID: Eberhart_5908 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19120 (10F8F535) Date: 1/18/1979 Description: 11:30 p.m. A car driven by a 42-year-old woodcutter stops abruptly in Lusiana, Vicenza, Italy. Its lights go out and the doors open by themselves. An orange ball is sitting in the road ahead, and two 3-foot-tall, copper- colored humanoids emerge from a door. They are wearing metallic-looking, scaled coveralls. Their hands are long and end in pointed nails. They invite him on board by gestures and he follows them into a small room with electronic-looking gadgets and a screen. They begin undressing him, but he resists. The wall opens and an overall garment is shown to him. He refuses to wear it and he implores them to let him go. One of the beings gives him a small box with writing on it. A door opens and the man leaves. Suddenly the orange light disappears and his car lights come on again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1989\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5909 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19121 (CE860E16) Date: 1/19/1979 Description: The witness was driving to the town of Bastia, Italy in Liguria province in the evening and had just turned a curve in the road when his vehicle's engine suddenly stalled. As he looked under the hood he noticed two figures looking at him from behind a nearby electrical pylon on the side of the road. At first he thought they were electrical company workers and did not pay them any attention. But he soon looked back at the two figures more closely and noticed that one was about 2.50 meters in height and massive in appearance, while the other figure was somewhat shorter. Both wore shiny tight-fitting outfits. The figures stared at him for a few minutes and then walked back into the woods. Soon after his encounter with these two strange beings he was able to start his engine. That same evening another witness saw a bright bluish light descend into the same woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Notizieufo, X-Files # 6 Source ID: Johnson_387 Source: Johnson ### Event 19122 (8554E574) Date: 1/20/1979 Description: The Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research committee releases its report on eight UFO sightings in Kuwait from November to December 14, 1978. The report rejects the idea that the UFOs are espionage devices, but it remains equivocal about whether they are extraterrestrial. The committee recommends that the government take all measures to protect the country and its oilfields. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘UFO’ Sightings Cause Security Concern in Kuwait,](https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979KUWAIT00486%5Fe.html)” WikiLeaks, \[telegram\], January 29, 1979; ClearIntent, [p. 90](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/90/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5910 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19123 (131B4EE9) Date: 1/21/1979 Description: Front-page stories of another UFO sighting in Kuwait appear the day after the committee’s report. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 90](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/90/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5911 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19124 (E13DD1B6) Date: 1/23/1979 Description: A dentist and three students were traveling by car late at night on the barren plain of Toquilla, Casanare province, Colombia when suddenly their motor engine stalled. They then saw two metallic objects land nearby and three men wearing tight-fitting silvery outfits and large helmets came out. There was a sudden whirlwind that surrounded their vehicle and they could no longer see the figures or the objects. When the "whirlwind" went away the figures and objects were no longer there. They had "disappeared like magic". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 15 and April 1979, p. 15, citing La Provincia, January 26, 1979 and Cronica, January 25, 1979; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2195, citing Cronica Source ID: Johnson_456 Source: Johnson ### Event 19125 (25DCBD90) Date: 1/23/1979 Description: A gray cigar-shaped object with portholes and green and orange lights, circled the hills and bay of Stanraer, Dumfries, Scotland. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Flying Saucers and How to See Them, p. 100 Source ID: Johnson_457 Source: Johnson ### Event 19126 (53554D5C) Date: 1/24/1979 Description: A dentist and three students were traveling by car when their engine suddenly stalled. They then saw two metallic disc-shaped objects land on tripod landing gear nearby, and three men wearing tight fitting silvery outfits and large helmets exited from a hatch in one of the objects. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toquilla (near Tunja), Colombia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5155 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19127 (A862E293) Date: 1/24/1979 Description: 20-year-old John Scott Cates had stopped his car and gotten out to relieve himself when a blue beam of light from the sky struck him. It caused his hair to stand up like an electric static charge. Two UFOs appeared, and he experienced a six-hour long memory lapse. His next recollection was being back in his car, where he noticed that his engine restarted when a ringing noise sounded. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lindale (near), TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5151 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19128 (040646EB) Date: 1/24/1979 Description: Close-range sighting and humanoid encounter. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tyler, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5149 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19129 (973917AD) Date: 1/24/1979 Description: In this day in Toquilla near Tunja, Colombia a dentist and three students were traveling by car when their engine suddenly stalled. They then saw two metallic disc-shaped objects land on tripod landing gear nearby, and three men wearing tight fitting, silvery outfits and large helmets who exited from a hatch in one of the objects. A sudden whirlwind surrounded their vehicle and they could no longer see either the figures or the objects. When the "whirlwind" abated both the figures and the UFOs were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13623, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue 119; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979 [electronic version], citing Miguel Forero, Centro Investigacion OVNI, Colombia Source ID: Johnson_491 Source: Johnson ### Event 19130 (F220B78F) Date: 1/24/1979 Description: Driving near Lindale, Texas at around 10:00 p.m. 20-year-old John Scott Cates had stopped his car and gotten out to relieve himself when a blue beam of light from the sky struck him. It caused his hair to stand up like an electric static charge. Two UFOs with a violet-red light moving between then appeared, and he experienced a six-hour long memory lapse. His next recollection was sitting in front of the car on the ground. He was scared, shaky, cold, and his stomach was in knots. He noticed that his engine restarted when a ringing noise sounded. He had a memory loss and the clock in his car was found to be 5 1/2 hours off. He was left with holes in his shirt, holes in his trousers and socks, and a 5-inch wide diamond-shaped burn on his chest. His hair was also somewhat burned. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 201(b); Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO; p. 191; Richard C. Niemtzow, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 3; Bob Pratt, UNICAT database, case # 62, citing Richard C. Niemtzow; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 85 Source ID: Johnson_492 Source: Johnson ### Event 19131 (A1D7863C) Date: Late 1/1979 Description: The Setka-AN group of the USSR Academy of Sciences publishes a skeptical article in the weekly publication Nedelya that tries to show that all UFOs are natural phenomena that UFO enthusiasts are popularizing through their inept investigations as anomalous. Setka-AN hopes to have a solution to the UFO problem “in a few months.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nikita A. Schnee, “[Ufology in the U.S.S.R.,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2027%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 1 \(June 1981\): 8; Good Above, [p. 237](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/236/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5912 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19132 (48A78FD5) Date: 1/26/1979 Description: At 8:45 p.m. a restaurant worker south of Denbigh, Clwyd, Wales, U.K. first spotted a domed ovoid object hovering silently for several minutes, only 120 feet overhead. Two police constables, Berwyn Jones and Nevil Hughes, also witnessed the phenomenon together with several other independent witnesses. The object was a dark metallic color, and it emitted a strong beam of light. It flew off to the southeast of the valley. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March 1979; Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_532 Source: Johnson ### Event 19133 (7A4F9DB5) Date: 1/28/1979 Description: A 1.5-meter long ovoid hovered over a house in Vannes. A UFO witness to repeated UFO encounters experienced lasting physiological effects due to the close approach of 2 disc-shaped UFOs. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vannes, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5158 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19134 (DED936E2) Date: 1/28/1979 Description: On this evening in 1979 a 1.5-meter long ovoid hovered over a house in Vannes, France. The UFO zipped over above an empty lot. It beamed white beams of light down onto the ground and up into the clouds, at around 5:15 p.m. A UFO witness to repeated UFO encounters experienced lasting physiological effects due to the close approach of 2 disc-shaped UFOs. The observer also heard a mechanical voice in his head that said, "We mean you no harm." Also on this day, a disc-shaped UFO shot dazzling beams of light onto a road in Taining County, China. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 3; Paul Dong, UFO over modern China, p. 126 Source ID: Johnson_559 Source: Johnson ### Event 19135 (9857B1A2) Date: 1/29/1979 Description: In the early morning hours a married couple in Bissoe Truro, Cornwall County, England were awakened to find their bedroom lit up brightly. One of the witnesses looked out the window and was amazed to see a bright hovering oval-shaped craft. Inside could be seen two human-looking men with long wavy blond hair. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cornwall County, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5160 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19136 (F2951AC6) Date: 1/29/1979 Description: In the early morning hours a married couple in Bissoe Truro, Cornwall County, England were awakened at around two a.m. to find their bedroom lit up brightly. One of the witnesses looked out the window and was amazed to see a bright hovering oval-shaped craft. Inside could be seen two human-looking men with long wavy blond hair. The UFO glided silently away and then shot away at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case 1435, citing Bob Boyd, Plymouth UFO Research Group Source ID: Johnson_583 Source: Johnson ### Event 19137 (3CAB89D4) Date: 1/29/1979 Description: [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) appeals the NSA’s decision to withhold the 18 UFO-related documents forwarded to the NSA by the CIA but is again denied. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 181](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/180/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5913 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19138 (5FD95ECA) Date: 1/30/1979 Description: At 7:29 a.m. a young man named Patrick, a previous UFO abductee, was driving in Quitman, Texas when he experienced either an abduction or teleportation experience that included five minutes of unexplained missing time. He found himself in Gilmer, Texas, a distance of 30 miles away from his last known location. He also had a strange cut on his arm. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard C. Niemtzow, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_612 Source: Johnson ### Event 19139 (137D5674) Date: 2/1979 Description: Mississippi House Resolution No. 14, proposed by Rep. [Horace Buckley](http://crdl.usg.edu/people/b/buckley%5Fhorace%5F1941/) of Jackson and calling for a complete US Senate investigation of UFO sightings, dies in committee. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Allan Hendry, “UFOs and Government: 1979,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 7–9 Source ID: Eberhart_5914 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19140 (4191687F) Date: 2/1979 Description: A woman and her aunt in Shelby, Ohio, are just sitting down to watch television when a bright light shines outside their window. It is hanging in the air behind their dog kennel. When the woman goes out to investigate, two more lights appear and enter the original one. Then that light disappears and is replaced by red and green lights that resolve into a large number of lights of both colors on an object. As she approaches, the UFO begins to move toward her and passes overhead. It is as big as a jetliner, with bolts on its base as large as volleyballs. Her dog begins whining and cowering, and she gets a severe pain in her head that causes her to fall on her knees. As the object moves away with a soft whirring noise, she gets back on her feet. She estimates she was only outside for 5 minutes, but she and her aunt cannot account for an additional 45–50 minutes. Her headache persists for several weeks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_5915 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19141 (FAE998F9) Date: 2/5/1979 Description: A young man driving in Lawitta, Tasmania, Australia experienced the brilliant illumination of his car at 9:50 p.m. by a bright white light that enveloped his car. His car radio died, then the engine and headlights, and he experienced paralysis and other physiological effects. He next experienced several hours of missing time and memory loss. He was treated for shock. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 24, 258, 303 & 456; MUFON UFO Journal, August 1980, p. 6; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_709 Source: Johnson ### Event 19142 (374BA589) Date: 2/5/1979 Description: Car engulfed in intense white light, memory loss, dazed, witness admitted to hospital. MUFON UFO Journal, August 1980, p. 6 (E,R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lawitta, Tasmania, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5162 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19143 (C3BFFADF) Date: 2/5/1979 Description: At 2:00 a.m. two women spotted a UFO while driving home from work in Brick Township, New Jersey. It was bright orange, fuzzy semi-circular with blue tints. It was seen just above the treeline, and estimated to be the size of a Zeppelin. It hovered over a lake near the airport, and then over the airport. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Asbury Park (NJ) Press, February 5, 1979; UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_710 Source: Johnson ### Event 19144 (E0568D1D) Date: 2/5/1979 Description: Brilliant illumination of car, E-M effects. Driver shocked and dazed, memory loss Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Lawitta, Tasmania Source ID: HallUFOE2_334 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19145 (17BB3B8D) Date: 2/5/1979 Description: 9:50 p.m. A man is driving on the Lyell Highway near Lawitta, Tasmania, when his car radio stops. Seconds later, an intense white light envelops the car, and he cannot see beyond the hood. The car’s lights and motor fail at the same time. The next thing he knows, he is getting stopped in Hobart by police for driving his car without headlights. The police find that he does not know his name, where he has come from, or where he is going. He is taken to the hospital and examined, where he is found to be in a state of shock. It is only at the Royal Hobart Hospital that his memory of the preceding events returns. His vehicle, a Ford Cortina 71TC, is inspected and found to have a dead battery and low oil level. The cut-off switch on the alternator needs replacing, as does some wiring, especially for the headlights. Radiator water is also found to be low. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sightings,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/TUFOIC%20Newsletter/TUFOIC%20Newsletter%20-%20No%20027%20-%20May%201979.pdf)” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 27 \(May 1979\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5916 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19146 (03D56155) Date: 2/8/1979 Description: 6:00 PM. An oval-shaped flying object approached a car driving between Broad Hinton and Clyffe Pypard in Wiltshire, England. It came to within 150 to 300 feet at its closest approach. It had a cluster of very bright strobe-like lights that lit up ground. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wiltshire (near), UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5164 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19147 (4CE7F87E) Date: 2/8/1979 Description: Beehive-shaped object beside road, rose about one meter, light flash. MUFON UFO Journal, December 1979 (E,L) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Liverpool Creek, Qnsld., AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5163 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19148 (4359B803) Date: 2/8/1979 Description: At six o'clock in the evening an oval-shaped flying object approached a car driving between Broad Hinton and Clyffe Pypard in Wiltshire, England. It came to within 150 to 300 feet at its closest approach. It had a cluster of very bright strobe-like lights that lit up ground. The UFO made a V-turn, then stopped over a water tower before departing. It made no noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 12, citing the Wiltshire Gazette, February 15, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_757 Source: Johnson ### Event 19149 (DFD9196E) Date: 2/9/1979 Description: A dark, beehive-shaped UFO was encountered by a 53-year-old man named Hathaway at 9:00 p.m. while he was driving near Liverpool Creek, Queensland, Australia. The failure of his car's engine and lights closely corresponded with a brilliant flash of light coming from the object. It rose vertically when it left. The witness experienced memory loss for some of the events surrounding his close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1979 Source ID: Johnson_780 Source: Johnson ### Event 19150 (AFE22263) Date: 2/9/1979 Description: Over 50 UFOs surrounded the butane freighter "Tamames" in the Mediterranean Sea as it approached the Escombreras refinery in the Baleares Islands. The ship's log reports that clouds appeared at 3:00 a.m., and the ship's radar showed the presence of many huge aerial objects. The presence of yellow lights in the clouds continued for six hours. The radar of a second ship also reported the presence of the UFOs, but not ground radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 15, citing Pueblo, February 9, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_779 Source: Johnson ### Event 19151 (2134A0AF) Date: 2/9/1979 Description: [Joseph J. F. Clark](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78074151/joseph-j%5Ff-clark), associate director, Legislative Liaison for the Air Force, responds to Rep. [Samuel S.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FS.%5FStratton) [Stratton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FS.%5FStratton) \(D-N.Y.\) saying that “permanent” UFO files are not maintained, but includes some memos, messages, and log entries from the Northern Tier cases that have already been released through FOIA requests. Stratton fails to follow up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 55](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/54/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5917 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19152 (4639BADD) Date: 2/9/1979 Description: 9:00 p.m. Peter Hathaway is driving on the Bruce Highway north of the Liverpool Creek bridge near Cowley Beach, Queensland, when he sees a “little white light” sitting on the edge of the asphalt. As he approaches within 100 feet, he notices a dark beehive-shaped object behind it, which now rises vertically off the surface about 3 feet. Hathaway is momentarily blinded by a flash of light. Opening his eyes, he sees that his car headlights and engine have stopped. He coasts to a truck rest stop, where his lights come back on and the engine starts perfectly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[1979,](http://www.auforn.com/1979.htm)” Australian UFO Research Network; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 304–305 Source ID: Eberhart_5918 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19153 (BFF8D123) Date: 2/9/1979 Description: Over 50 UFOs surrounded the butane freighter "Tamames" in the Mediterranean Sea as it approached the Escombreras refinery in the Baleares Islands. The radar of a second ship also reported the presence of the UFOs, but not ground radar. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baleares Islands (near), Mediterranean Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_5165 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19154 (D3A86918) Date: 2/13/1979 Description: A newsman driving in Cassola, Italy saw a metallic gray disc in a field. It had a weak bluish-glow coming from the bottom of the craft. It rose vertically into the sky very fast. Radio interference was reporeted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Verga Maurizio, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue, case 145 Source ID: Johnson_903 Source: Johnson ### Event 19155 (C321C128) Date: 2/13/1979 Description: A small cigar-shaped object with small windows came out of a cloud in the predawn hours and was seen by four witnesses in Melo, Uruguay. It changed colors from red to green to yellowand finally to blue while it flew in a horizontal straight line. It then went back into the clouds. The witnesses included a young woman and the Police Chief of the city. It was the young woman's second sighting and the Police Chief's third. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thompson, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 15, citing Cronica, February 14, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_904 Source: Johnson ### Event 19156 (46E6582B) Date: 2/15/1979 Description: A 15 meter in diameter luminous domed disc was seen over the Metauro River in Fano, Italy during a rainstorm. It shot out "black rays" or beams. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fano, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5167 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19157 (41C51050) Date: 2/15/1979 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a 15 meter in diameter luminous domed disc was seen over the Metauro River in Fano, Italy during a rainstorm. It shot out "black rays" or beams. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_929 Source: Johnson ### Event 19158 (016601AD) Date: 2/16/1979 Description: [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) again files a FOIA request with the NSA, this time requesting all documents in its possession or under the control of the NSA relating to UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 181–182](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/180/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5920 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19159 (DB3BE455) Date: 2/16/1979 Description: New Mexico State Police Officer [Gabe Valdez](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74752350/gabriel-levi-valdez) informs the FBI that cattle in New Mexico are “being shot with some type of paralyzing drug and the blood is being drawn from the animal after an injection of an anti- coagulant.” In some cases, the animal’s legs have been broken, perhaps by clamps being placed on them. Helicopters without any identifying numbers are seen in the area of these mutilations. Valdez tells the FBI that he thinks it is a clandestine operation either by the CIA or the Department of Energy \(although in 1980 he tells journalist [Linda Moulton Howe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%5FMoulton%5FHowe) that he thinks aliens are responsible\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Federal Bureau of Investigation, \[[cattle](https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%204%20of%205) [mutilation documents](https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%204%20of%205)\] Source ID: Eberhart_5919 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19160 (FBC8D9C2) Date: 2/18/1979 Description: At 2:30 a.m. an incident involving missing time and vehicle electrical system interference occurred in Lardit, Aveyron district, France. Dark objects flew over a reservoir, followed by a 1.5 meter in diameter metallic disc. The witness experienced semi-paralysis and the car's electrical system failed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13644, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1979 Source ID: Johnson_988 Source: Johnson ### Event 19161 (D83DDA50) Date: 2/18/1979 Description: An incident involving missing time and vehicle electrical system interference occurred. Dark objects flew over a reservoir, followed by a 1.5 meter in diameter metallic disc. The witness experienced semi-paralysis and the car's electrical system failed. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lardit, Aveyron district, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5168 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19162 (5AF50574) Date: 2/19/1979 Description: At noon four police officers viewed a bluish silvery disc in the sky over Dixon, Solano County, California through binoculars. It looked "like a frisbee that was dropped and floating down." The outer portions of the object looked reflective but it was dark in the middle. No weather balloons were in the area at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dixon Tribune, February 22, 1979; UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_1006 Source: Johnson ### Event 19163 (C3B1DC35) Date: 2/21/1979 Description: In Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England a rotating object landed in a quarry at two o'clock in the morning. Police and two others went to investigate, but found nothing. Later that evening in Oakenholt, Clywd, Wales a woman out walking her dog at 6:15 p.m. was surprised when the animal suddenly laid down on the ground and began whining for no apparent reason. Glancing ahead of her, she saw a bright orange hovering spinning sphere. She then looked to her side and saw nearby, standing in the shadows among some bushes, two silvery-garbed humanoid figures who appeared to be smiling. Her dog temporarily distracted her, and when she looked back again the figures were gone. The bright orange sphere then vanished, and the dog ran home barking. (For a nearly identical incident, but one involving missing time, see the account on February 18, 1990 in Germany). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Paul Devereax, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 101; (2) Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 861, citing Jenny Randles & Paul Whetnall, FSR, Volume 25, No. 4 Source ID: Johnson_1038 Source: Johnson ### Event 19164 (3A174A6E) Date: 2/22/1979 Description: In Meanwood, near Leeds an eight-foot long ovoid object landed for three minutes. It left behind landing traces. (Source: Timmothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 72). (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Meanwood, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5171 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19165 (FAADD531) Date: 2/22/1979 Description: 4:00 p.m. Two 14-year-old girls, Lynsey Tebbs and Susan Pearson, are tobogganing down the slopes that surround their housing complex in Meanwood, Leeds, England. They are startled by a loud whining noise coming from an object that is descending nearby. After it lands, the noise changes to a hum, which then fades as it rests on the snow. It is gray and egg-shaped, with two fins on either side, and is the size of a small car. Frightened, the girls run up the hill but pause to take another look. The object rests on the ground for about 3 minutes, then starts humming and approaches the girls, landing again on the slope about 80 feet away. After another few minutes, it wobbles and takes off. Investigators from the Yorkshire UFO Society visit the site on February 25 and find odd indentations in the snow in two places. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Birdsall and Graham Birdsall, “[Landing and Possible Traces near](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Northern%20UFO%20News%20%28Jenny%20Randles%29/Northern%20UFO%20News%20-%20No%2062.pdf) [Leeds,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Northern%20UFO%20News%20%28Jenny%20Randles%29/Northern%20UFO%20News%20-%20No%2062.pdf)” Northern Ufology, no. 62 \(July 1979\): 9–10; Good Above, [pp. 72–73](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/72/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5921 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19166 (866C496D) Date: 2/22/1979 Description: In Meanwood, near Leeds, England at around 4:00 p.m. a eight-foot long ovoid object landed for three minutes. It left behind landing traces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timmothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 72 Source ID: Johnson_1054 Source: Johnson ### Event 19167 (C8E28AC0) Date: Late 2/1979 Description: 9:10 p.m. Chinese Air Force flight instructor Sha Yangkao is flying a night fighter over Houma, Shanxi, China, when he sees a bright luminous object shoot across the sky from south to north, apparently flying supersonically at an altitude of 3,300 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dong, “[Extracts from Paul Dong’s](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf) [Feidie Bai Wen Bai Da](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf) [\(Questions and Answers on UFOs\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 \(August 1984\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_5923 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19168 (5EADFC73) Date: 2/25/1979 Description: 2:00 a.m. Both Circulación Aérea Militar Operativa \(CAMO\) radar and radar at the W-8 military station detect an unidentified target 52 miles to the southeast of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, flying at an altitude of 14,400 feet. An Iberia airliner in the area is alerted, and the pilot reports an intense, elongated light above his position. The W-8 local radar detects a transponder signal. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 435 Source ID: Eberhart_5922 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19169 (526AB52B) Date: 2/26/1979 Description: Ernaldo Camusoni, age 49, was clearing an overgrown field at the entrance to a farm in Serodino, Santa Fe province, Argentina late in the evening after 8 p.m. when everything became illuminated behind him, turning the darkness into day. When he turned around he saw an approaching object land 40 meters away from him. He tried to make out what the object looked like, but the light emanating from it was too intense to capture much detail. The shape was like a truncated cone. As he approached the object, he saw a strange luminous figure emerge from the rear of the craft. The figure appeared to be robot-like in nature, lacking any arms, and it did not move its body when it walked. Its head appeared to be of normal size, but it had what appeared to be a trunk-like object coming from the area of the face. It wore a very shiny outfit. The robot entity walked towards the witness, approached to within three meters, and stood silently, seemingly observing the witness. Camusoni didn't feel afraid, but did feel curiosity towards the strange entity. Apparently the creature did not want to communicate since it suddenly wheeled around, returning to the object and disappeared behind it. The craft then rose up and disappeared at high speed towards the south, making a rushing sound. The whole encounter lasted five minutes. Ground traces were found the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT database, case #601, citing Oscar Alemanno, Quarta Dimension Source ID: Johnson_1139 Source: Johnson ### Event 19170 (71FBD769) Date: 2/26/1979 Description: Ernaldo Camusoni, age 49, was clearing an overgrown field at the entrance to a farm in Serodino late in the evening when everything became illuminated behind him, turning the darkness into day. When he turned around he saw an approaching object land 40 meters away from him. As he approached the object, he saw a strange luminous figure emerge from the rear of the craft. The whole encounter lasted five minutes. Ground traces were found the next day. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Serodino, Santa Fe province, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_5172 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19171 (33F1B323) Date: 3/1979 Description: 9:00 a.m. Two Republic of Korea Air Force F-4D Phantom II jets, piloted by Lt. Col. Seungbae Lee and Col. Byungsun Lim, are flying at 15,000 feet while returning from the annual Team Spirit military exercise to Daegu Air Force Base, South Korea. Near Palgong Mountain in the Taebaek Range, a star-like, stationary object appears in the distance that grows in size as the jets approach. Neither the aircraft nor the base can register the object on radar. When they reach within 15 miles of the light, it shoots away to the east and hovers again. The disc is as big as a jumbo jet and radiates bright golden light from top to bottom. Red and blue lights sparkle from its rim. After the jets circle twice above the object, it speeds away to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 310](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/310/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5924 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19172 (FF74C09B) Date: 3/2/1979 Description: Early morning. Witnesses in Rivera, Uruguay, see an oval-shaped object with portholes. One witness, Ernesto Fagundez, watches the UFO circle a transmitting tower he is working on then stop. Through the portholes he can see entities with large heads that are wearing transparent helmets. The object dives over a truck carrying farm workers before it rises into the air, leaving a fiery trail and a column of smoke. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(Aug. 1979\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5925 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19173 (ACA27414) Date: 3/2/1979 Description: People watched an ovoid object dive at a truck and circle a radio tower. The encounter lasted for a few minutes; helmeted figures were reportedly seen onboard the craft. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rivera, Uruguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_5175 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19174 (8C71A6F6) Date: 3/2/1979 Description: In Rivera, Uruguay several people watched an ovoid object dive at a truck and circle a radio tower. The encounter occurred at around 7 a.m. and lasted for a few minutes; helmeted figures were reportedly seen onboard the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 2, citing newspaper source Source ID: Johnson_1259 Source: Johnson ### Event 19175 (EB55472D) Date: 3/3/1979 Description: The Spanish Joint Chiefs of Staff meet and decide to formally define UFO information as classified, rather than confidential. The reason is that the civilian UFO group Centre d’Estudis Interplanetaris in Barcelona had solicited King [Juan Carlos I](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%5FCarlos%5FI%5Fof%5FSpain) in January to provide access to UFO information collected by the Spanish armed forces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 424, 514 Source ID: Eberhart_5926 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19176 (0A65A59B) Date: 3/5/1979 Description: Dusk. Many residents of the Canary Islands are captivated with the sight of a strange sunset. Multicolored concentric rings or bright zigzag trails are seen on the horizon towards the west, forming an enormous cloud. A few minutes after 8:00 p.m., a point of light is seen to ascend, leaving a luminous jet that appears to expand, developing into a huge, bright dome. Independent sets of clear photos are obtained from distant points of view. The phenomenon is even seen from Safi, Morocco. Maj. Pedro Ortega García and Capt. José Juan Abad Cellini investigate for the Spanish Air Force and conclude that the luminous cloud was 320 miles in diameter at an altitude of 40 miles. They again reject the missile hypothesis, but the US Navy has launched four Poseidon missiles from the [USS Kamehameha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FKamehameha%5F%28SSBN-642%29) around the same time that probably account for the phenomena. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente- Juan Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy Missile Tests and the Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_5927 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19177 (EACBD4A5) Date: 3/6/1979 Description: Dome-shaped object skimmed treetops, moved up and down, illuminated area. Similar object hovered over highway, swept area with light beam Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Westminster, SC Source ID: HallUFOE2_335 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19178 (3B532DC1) Date: 3/6/1979 Description: 7:30 p.m. [Ben Chastain](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173088313/ben-francis-chastain) watches a round, luminous object about 12 feet in diameter skimming low over treetops in Westminster, South Carolina, arousing the dogs. At one point the object comes within 150 feet, its glow illuminating the area. Oconee County Deputy Sheriff [Jimmy Roach](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156901259/james-h%5F-roach) and his wife see the object from a distance. About 8:00 p.m., Bill Osborne watches a larger object \(80 feet long and 25 feet wide\) that sweeps the area with a light beam. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Iris Harrelson Maack, “[Press Reports,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201979%2006%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%2012.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 12 \(June 1979\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_5928 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19179 (5BE385AB) Date: 3/6/1979 Description: Dome-shaped object skimmed tree-tops, moved up and down, illuminated area. Similar object hovered over highway, swept area with light beam (section VI). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westminster, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5177 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19180 (8EDA9509) Date: 3/6/1979 Description: At shortly past seven o'clock in the evening, a luminous dome or domed disc descended and brightly illuminated the surrounding area near a home in Oconee County, South Carolina. There were 14 witnesses, including police. The UFO emitted a light beam, and executed sharp turns during the 44 minutes it was visible. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, June 1979, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_1342 Source: Johnson ### Event 19181 (6FDE7C07) Date: 3/13/1979 Description: While Grenada Prime Minister [Eric Gairy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FGairy) is at the United Nations, the New Jewel Movement led by [Maurice Bishop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%5FBishop) launches an armed revolution and overthrows the government. Gairy stays in exile in the US until 1983. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_5930 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19182 (117839A8) Date: 3/13/1979 Description: 11:00 a.m. An uncorrelated radar target is detected over the Mediterranean Sea north of Algeria by radar in the Pegaso control room at Torrejón Air Base in Madrid, Spain. It is traveling at 970 mph on a northwest course toward Spain. Three minutes later a scramble is ordered, and a Dassault Mirage III fighter takes off from Manises Air Base \[now Valencia Airport\] to identify the target, but the track soon vanishes from the radar. It has moved about 71 miles in that time. Four minutes later, the target reappears in another position, this time motionless. The Mirage is vectored toward the new position. When the fighter is about 9 miles from the target, it moves in a northwest direction, accelerating to 840 mph and climbing to more than 15 miles. Six minutes later, it changes course to the northeast, and in two minutes it is gone. The Mirage never gets a visual contact. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 435–436, 527 Source ID: Eberhart_5929 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19183 (7FAE3921) Date: Spring 1979 Description: UFO investigator [Raymond E. Fowler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FE.%5FFowler) publishes The Andreasson Affair, introducing the story of [Betty](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/andreasson-betty) [Andreasson](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/andreasson-betty)[,](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/andreasson-betty) a Massachusetts housewife who recounts a 1967 abduction encounter with short humanoids having large heads and eyes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, The Andreasson Affair, Prentice-Hall, 1979 Source ID: Eberhart_5932 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19184 (21F08D05) Date: 3/27/1979 Description: An oval-shaped or saucer-shaped UFO flew over the Tabouret Reservoir in Isere, France and then landed on the ground, leaving ground marks. A man was seen outside the craft, according to the police report. (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Isere, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5178 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19185 (273978E7) Date: 3/27/1979 Description: At 5:20 p.m. an oval-shaped or saucer-shaped UFO flew over the Tabouret Reservoir in Isere, France and then landed on the ground, leaving ground marks. A man was seen outside the craft, according to the police report. At 8:00 p.m. a thirty-foot long cylindrical UFO rose from the surf off of the shore at Oak Bluffs on Martha Vineyard, Massachusetts. The witness was reportedly frozen in place during the 20 minute close encounter, and his watch stopped working. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Rouseel, OVNI, Verites Cachees, p. 91; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1979 Source ID: Johnson_1700 Source: Johnson ### Event 19186 (2FA3CF1F) Date: 3/28/1979 Description: 4:00 p.m. Reactor number 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, suffers a partial meltdown, resulting in a radiation leak. The accident begins with failures in the non-nuclear secondary system, followed by a stuck-open pilot-operated relief valve in the primary system, which allows large amounts of nuclear reactor coolant to escape, contaminating the containment building with thousands of gallons of radioactive water. The staff has no choice but to vent radioactive gases directly into the atmosphere. The mechanical failures are compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a loss-of-coolant accident due to inadequate training and computer interface oversights relating to ambiguous control room indicators. In particular, a hidden indicator light leads to an operator manually overriding the automatic emergency cooling system of the reactor because the operator mistakenly believes that there is too much coolant water present in the reactor and causing the steam pressure release. No one is harmed by the released radiation, which is contained entirely in a cloud of short-lived isotopes of inert gases that drift out over the Atlantic Ocean. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Three Mile Island accident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%5FMile%5FIsland%5Faccident)”; Mike Gray and Ira Rosen, The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island, Norton, 1982; Grace Halden, Three Mile Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Popular Culture, Routledge, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_5931 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19187 (E6B29941) Date: 4/7/1979 Description: Several cars experienced electrical system failures on highway 33 in Bigand, Argentina. Mr. Celotto, a farmer, saw an eight meter wide disc land, and circular ground traces were found later in a soybean field. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bigand, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_5180 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19188 (B11F28DD) Date: 4/7/1979 Description: Several cars experienced electrical system failures on highway 33 in Bigand, Argentina at eight o'clock in the morning. Mr. Celotto, a farmer, saw an eight meter wide disc land, and circular ground traces were found later in a soybean field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1979, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_1888 Source: Johnson ### Event 19189 (2AAF7C1B) Date: 4/9/1979 Description: Two Apache tribal officers on patrol near Dulce, New Mexico, see a round, silent craft hovering 50 feet above the ground, with a searchlight aimed downward on cattle below. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cattle mutilation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle%5Fmutilation\#Government%5For%5Fmilitary%5Fexperimentation)” Source ID: Eberhart_5933 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19190 (64B024D7) Date: 4/12/1979 Description: Early evening. A family is driving home from the grocery store at Brockton, Massachusetts. They see a piano- shaped object with lights all over it. A spotlight is beaming down, and there is one red light on top. They lose sight of the object, but suddenly all four car windows go down and back up; then they go down halfway and back up. The same thing happens when they stop at a red light. They see the object again, which is now following them. They park near their house, and the UFO hovers across the street. The man shuts off Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” the engine and the windows act up again as the UFO moves directly overhead. The father and son get out of the car, and the UFO shoots a beam down at each of them in turn. It then moves down the street and away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_5934 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19191 (A8A51536) Date: 4/16/1979 Description: At 11:30 p.m. in Bedarrides, Vaucluse, France a red sphere, the size of a car, descended fast and then landed. Flashes white and red lights. It left behind ground traces at the landing site. There were at least two witnesses, and the incident lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1979; Jean-Luc Rivera, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1979, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_2060 Source: Johnson ### Event 19192 (55B06557) Date: 4/19/1979 Description: Police witnesses reported seeing a mother ship which later spewed out smaller UFOs,all of which landed in a valley. Military authorities were investigating. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Talisay, Philippines Source ID: NICAP_DB_5183 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19193 (C706BFFB) Date: 4/19/1979 Description: At shortly after 11:00 p.m. two witnesses to a UFO in Croy, England ran from their car when the brightly lit object passed low overhead. They reported an abnormal silence, as they could no longer hear the car engine or the door slam when they fled. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_2141 Source: Johnson ### Event 19194 (FB6C32D3) Date: 4/19/1979 Description: Two witnesses to a UFO in Croy ran from their car when the brightly lit object passed low overhead. They reported an abnormal silence, as they could no longer hear the car engine or the door slam when they fled (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Croy, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5184 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19195 (D9791465) Date: 4/19/1979 Description: 11:30 p.m. John Milroy and his mother are driving from Ardersier to Croy, Inverness, Scotland, when he sees headlights in the distance. The lights get larger and rise above the road. Thinking it is an airplane crash, they get out of the car and experience an abnormal silence; they can no longer hear the car engine or the door slam when they flee. Everything reverts to normal when they reach a ditch. The mother is so excited she needs to be sedated the next day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5935 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19196 (CC91F16D) Date: 4/20/1979 Description: Former astronaut and US Sen. [Harrison Schmitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison%5FSchmitt) \(R-N.Mex.\) and US Attorney [R. E. Thompson](https://www.modrall.com/attorney/r-e-thompson/) convene an informal public hearing on cattle mutilations in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its goal is to show that criminal activity is taking place involving many states and it requires federal action. About 200 people attend, including Fort Worth \(Tex.\) Star-Telegram reporter [Jim Marrs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%5FMarrs)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%5FMarrs) Thompson warns law enforcement officers not to reveal any evidence that might be used at a later trial. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Thomas P. Deuley, “[Mutilation Hearings Held in New Mexico,](https://vdocuments.mx/mufon-ufo-journal-1979-7-july.html?page=8)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 137 \(July 1979\): 8–9; Christopher O’Brien, Stalking the Herd: Unraveling the Cattle Mutilation Mystery, Adventures Unlimited, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_5936 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19197 (38F1B6E7) Date: 4/21/1979 Description: On this night two Grey aliens materialized briefly in abductee B. Herrmann's home in North Charleston, South Carolina. They appeared in a blue-green haze, and left behind a metal bar with peculiar markings, which they said was a gift of "understanding and respect". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Columbia (SC) State, June 28, 1981; UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1981, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_2193 Source: Johnson ### Event 19198 (8C863A03) Date: 4/21/1979 Description: Late night. A helicopter pilot and a mechanic are returning by car to their unit in the Blonie area, Poland. A light descends rapidly and silently over the road, resolving itself into 4 large lights attached to a solid object more than 100 feet long. It stops and hovers at 300 feet and then shoots upward instantaneously. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 68–69 Source ID: Eberhart_5937 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19199 (71404686) Date: 4/25/1979 Description: Retired FBI agent [Kenneth M. Rommel Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102222895/kenneth-m-rommel) begins a major investigation of cattle mutilations. Financed by grants from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration and the Santa Fe, New Mexico, District Attorney’s office \(which has been designated as the coordinating state investigative agency for cattle mutilations\), the inquiry focuses on New Mexico cases, though it pays some attention to incidents in other states. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cattle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle%5Fmutilation\#U.S.%5Fgovernmental%5Fexplanation) [mutilation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle%5Fmutilation\#U.S.%5Fgovernmental%5Fexplanation)”; Clark III 133 Source ID: Eberhart_5938 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19200 (E18671F1) Date: 4/27/1979 Description: A four meter in diameter, intense reddish-orange colored sphere with "stiff waving arms" or appendages was seen over a farm (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Jacques de Nehou, Manche department, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5186 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19201 (CB402679) Date: 4/27/1979 Description: At seven o'clock in the morning a four meter in diameter, intense reddish-orange colored sphere with "stiff waving arms" or appendages was seen over a farm in St. Jacques de Nehou, Manche department, France. It flew off silently to the northeast slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1980 Source ID: Johnson_2378 Source: Johnson ### Event 19202 (A76A64DB) Date: 4/29/1979 Description: An airline stewardess was at the shore in Makapu'u, when she sighted a huge triangular UFO with many lights. It moved at an estimated 100 mph and made a humming sound. It maneuvered in the sky and flew away out to sea. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Makapu'u, HI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5187 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19203 (A356A99F) Date: 4/29/1979 Description: An airline stewardess was at the shore in Makapu'u, Hawaii at 10:45 p.m. when she sighted a huge triangular UFO with many lights. It moved at an estimated 100 mph and made a humming sound. It maneuvered in the sky and flew away out to sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13689, citing APRO Bulletin, May 1979 Source ID: Johnson_2412 Source: Johnson ### Event 19204 (84A60C6D) Date: 5/1979 Description: [Victor Marchetti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%5FMarchetti)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%5FMarchetti) former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA and author of the 1974 book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, writes an article in Second Look on “How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon.” He asserts that “we have, indeed, been contacted—perhaps even visited—by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.” He claims that the CIA does not discuss UFOs openly because they are deemed “sensitive activities,” but he has heard rumors of crashed UFOs and extraterrestrial signals picked up by the National Security Agency. Attempts by the government to deny the reality of UFOs have all the hallmarks of a classic coverup, he writes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Victor Marchetti, “How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon,” Second Look 1, no. 7 \(May 1979\): 2–7; Nukes 490–491 Source ID: Eberhart_5939 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19205 (A26954DE) Date: 5/1/1979 Description: Oil field landing, reaction to light, landing traces Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Vizcacheras, Argentina Source ID: HallUFOE2_336 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19206 (5819F8A7) Date: 5/1/1979 Description: At around 4:00 a.m. some goats in Las Vizcacheras, Mendoza, Argentina fled their pen in panic. The noise from the goats woke the three witnesses, a group of petroleum engineers and technicians. A rectangular UFO was then seen hovering 20 meters above the ground, just 70 meters from the witnesses. It gave off colored streams of light as it took off. There was a circle found at the landing site of hardened ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT database, case 602, citing Victorio Corradi; Jane Thomas, UFO News Clipping Service, August 1979, p. 11, citing Radiolandia, May 25, 1979; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 265 Source ID: Johnson_2444 Source: Johnson ### Event 19207 (2370B677) Date: 5/1/1979 Description: Oil held landing, reaction to light, landing traces (sections VII, X). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vizcacheras, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_5188 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19208 (56644523) Date: 5/1/1979 Description: 4:00 a.m. YPF company engineers at the Vizcacheras oil fields in a remote area of Argentina’s Mendoza province accessible only to employees are awakened by goats bleating in a corral. When they go outside to investigate, they see a UFO hovering silently about 230 feet from the encampment and 65 feet above the ground. They wave a lantern and the UFO seems to respond by blinking a light, then slowly lands nearby. More light signals are exchanged, then the UFO takes off and disappears toward the Andes mountains at 4:35 a.m. After the sighting, the goats \(about 1,500\) refuse to return to their corral. The engineers go to inspect the landing spot and find a large circle in which the sand has been petrified or hardened into chunks. Soil samples are taken to a Professor Corradi for analysis. Corradi, identified as director of the Institute for Extrahuman Studies, says the samples are being analyzed by the Office of Mining. Corradi remarks that that the “permanent presence of the UFOs over the uranium mines of La Pintada and Cuesta de los Terneros in San Rafael and now in Vizcacheras, is not a coincidence.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard H. Hall, “[Extraterrestrial Psychology,](https://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-hall2.htm)” 1988; “Argentine Oil Field Landing,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 139 \(September 1979\) Source ID: Eberhart_5940 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19209 (5BE187E4) Date: 5/3/1979 Description: A 65-year-old woman named Karlsson had a close encounter with an oval-shaped object in Undenas, Karlsborg Municipality, Vastra Gotaland County, Sweden at 9:00 p.m. It was first seen weaving in and out silently between the trees. It hovered as the witness ran back toward her house, and then shot straight up at very high speed, making two dull explosions like sonic booms. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Acke Svensson, FSR, December 1983, p. 5, citing UFO-Sverige Source ID: Johnson_2482 Source: Johnson ### Event 19210 (B4CBC4E4) Date: 5/4/1979 Description: Eta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_337 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19211 (6E1187F8) Date: 5/5/1979 Description: Object with portholes, blinding red-orange light, landed within 50 meters. Cronica, May 7, 1979 Buenos Aires, Argentina (E,R) police car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pampulhas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5189 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19212 (6F0C061A) Date: 5/5/1979 Description: On this night an object with portholes landed in a field in Pampulhas, Minas Gerais, Brazil for 90 seconds. The witnesses were two police officers, who reported that the encounter caused EM effects on their vehicle. The ground was lit brightly, and figures could be seen looking out through portholes in the craft. It took off vertically at great speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1979, p. 14; MUFON UFO Journal, November 1979, p. 11, citing Cronica May 5, 1979; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 258 Source ID: Johnson_2552 Source: Johnson ### Event 19213 (6DA0B0F6) Date: 5/5/1979 Description: Clear photographs were taken of a metallic, hat-shaped disc over a dam in Calamuchita, Cordoba, Argentina. The photographs were taken in the middle of the afternoon by a 34-year-old man named L. Ferreyra. The UFO had three portholes, and made no sound. It shot straight up when it left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1979, p. 9, citing Clarin, May 5, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_2551 Source: Johnson ### Event 19214 (D1016E78) Date: 5/6/1979 Description: Bright orange lights on road ahead, terrain illuminated, lights shot straight up at high speed. Frola, 1990, p. 204 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brisbane, Queensland, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5190 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19215 (3D091B17) Date: 5/6/1979 Description: While driving on the southwestern part of Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia at 12:30 a.m. four witnesses had a close encounter with orange lights when their car's electrical system failed. The car looked a different color in the light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13695, citing Australian Centre for UFO Studies Source ID: Johnson_2596 Source: Johnson ### Event 19216 (1D26D964) Date: 5/7/1979 Description: 10:00 a.m. Two witnesses on an airliner about one hour south of Chicago, Illinois, notice two bright-white rectangular objects slightly higher than the airplane. They gradually fade from view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Long Rectangular UFOs:](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf) [Five Different Cases of Similarly Shaped Objects,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 9 \(September 1981\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5941 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19217 (51106AC2) Date: 5/9/1979 Description: A power failure occurred in the predawn hours in Choconta, north of Bogota, Colombia. Ten to fifteen discs were sighted by numerous observers for 15 minutes. Eight of them buzzed the telecom satellite station. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_2692 Source: Johnson ### Event 19218 (FC2A59C9) Date: 5/9/1979 Description: Early morning. A fleet of 10–15 UFOs alarms people in Choconta, Colombia. Eight of the objects have lights that change from red to blue to orange and yellow. An electrical blackout takes place, and dogs, chicken, and cattle get disturbed and run away. The objects examine the Telecom satellite tracking station before ascending rapidly and disappearing in the clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_5942 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19219 (9ACB078D) Date: 5/12/1979 Description: At 1:30 p.m. three observers in Atwater, Los Angeles County, California watched a 3' x 7' disc hovering over power line poles. It made a humming sound that seemed to attract birds that followed it as it flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13697, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue 119 Source ID: Johnson_2770 Source: Johnson ### Event 19220 (620BADFC) Date: 5/16/1979 Description: Sr. dos Santos next saw an object descend towards the ground in a clearing. He approached to within 180 meters, and saw that the object was shaped like a "telephone booth" about 1 meter in height. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [790516](http://www.nicap.org/790516baependidir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baependi, Minas Gerais State (near), Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5191 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19221 (CB745D46) Date: 5/16/1979 Description: 10:30 a.m. Arlindo Gabriel dos Santos is hunting with two friends in a forest near Baependi, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when he becomes separated from the others. He sees an object descend towards the ground in a clearing. He approaches to within 600 feet and sees that the object is shaped like a telephone booth about 3 feet tall. He takes a photo of the object before it abruptly disappears in plain sight. He walks to the clearing and sees another object shaped like a toy top and a little larger than the previous object, descending swiftly. It has a small propeller on top and a long, pointed protrusion on the bottom. As he tries to photograph the second object, he hears a whooshing sound, and the craft is quickly enveloped in smoke. He notices a third craft descending overhead. This one is barrel-shaped and hovers for a bit before landing. It also has a large propeller at one end and is covered with red stripes. It vanishes when he tries to approach. Dos Santos finally sees a huge, white, egg-shaped object descend. It has a pointed top and fin-like protrusions on each side. Next to the fins are several windows. As it descends it makes a horrific noise like a choking motor and puts out four landing pods. He approaches and tries to take another photograph, but there is a sudden flash that temporarily blinds him and leaves his eyes irritated. Frightened, he drops the camera and runs, but is only able to get about 30 feet before he is can no longer move. Behind him he notices two men wearing helmets with transparent visors and gloves. They grab him, each taking one arm. He begs them to let him go in the name of God, but they answer, “In the name of God, we are all brothers; we don’t harm anybody.” The voice comes from a box-like apparatus on their backs. He is taken toward the landed UFO. As he gets near, he can feel an intense cold surrounding it. Another helmeted figure stands by a ladder extending from the craft, looking from side to side. The man asks dos Santos if he has seen a “Zurca.” Dos Santos thinks he is referring to one of the smaller objects. The man extends a gloved hand and pulls dos Santos inside the craft through a square doorway. The atmosphere inside the craft is pleasant and cool, and there is a smell like “baby powder” in the air. Other men wearing dark, tight-fitting outfits are sitting on seats. The men have large slanted eyes, thin noses, and large mouths, and they are operating some type of machinery. They stand up and begin conversing in an unknown language. Suddenly, a heavyset woman emerges from another room. She wears a white uniform, gloves, but no helmet. Dos Santos describes her as good looking, tanned, with long light fine hair. The woman and one of the men then take him into a corridor. He enters a room where he sees a square object in the middle. The man pushes a button on the wall and the object rises. It resembled a large piece of marble. The woman takes out a long wand and points it at the object. On the object dos Santos sees an image of the planet Earth and other planets. At this point, the man removes his helmet revealing short, light-colored hair. When dos Santos leaves the craft, he is told to cover his eyes and not look as the object leaves. He follows these instructions and does not see the object depart. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[May 16, 1979: Near Baependi, Minas Gerais State,](http://www.nicap.org/790516baependidir.htm) [Brazil](http://www.nicap.org/790516baependidir.htm)”; “[Grandes Manobras Extraterrestres na Fazenda do Sobrado, Baependi, MG,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20132-135%20-%201980.PDF)” SBEDV Boletim, no. 132– 135 \(Jan./Aug. 1980\): 28–71; Jackson Luiz Camargo, “[O Caso do Embornal,](https://www.fenomenum.com.br/ufo/casuistica/1970/embornal)” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Brazil 258–266 Source ID: Eberhart_5943 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19222 (C7210CD4) Date: 5/16/1979 Description: On the same day as Arlindo dos Santos's close encounter of the third kind in Brazil a mechanic in Charleston, South Carolina felt compelled to return to a spot where he had previously seen a UFO. A disc-shaped craft landed, and he was given a metal bar as a gift, along with the message that the occupants will return again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13700; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 294 Source ID: Johnson_2898 Source: Johnson ### Event 19223 (CFFBE946) Date: 5/16/1979 Description: Arlindo Gabriel dos Santos was hunting with two friends in a forest near Baependi, Minas Gerais State, Brazil around 10:30 a.m. when he became separated from the others. Sr. dos Santos next saw an object descend towards the ground in a clearing. He approached to within 180 meters, and saw that the object was shaped like a "telephone booth" about 1 meter in height. He had been carrying his Kodak camera with him, and was able to take a snapshot of the object before it abruptly disappeared in plain sight. He walked to where the craft had been, and then saw another object swiftly descend. This next object was shaped like a toy top, and a little larger than the previous object. It had a small propeller like apparatus on top and a long pointy protrusion on the bottom. As he tried to photograph this second object he heard a whooshing sound and the craft was quickly enveloped in smoke. He got closer to the smoke, and then he noticed yet a third craft descending overhead. This one was barrel shaped and about one meter tall. It balanced above the ground before landing. It too had a large propeller at one end, and was covered with red stripes. This object too suddenly vanished when he tried to approach.

He finally saw a huge white, egg-shaped object descend to the ground. The ovoid craft had a pointy top, and a fin-like protrusions on each side. Next to the fins Arlindo could see several windows. While it descended it produced a horrific noise like a choking motor, and as it neared the ground it put out four, leg like landing pods. Arlindo approached and tried to take another photograph, but there was a sudden flash that temporarily blinded him and left his eyes irritated. Frightened, he dropped the camera and ran, but was only able to get about 10 meters before he became frozen in place, unable to move. He said it felt like someone had grabbed him from behind. Behind him he noticed two men wearing helmets with visors and gloves. Behind their transparent visors he could see human faces. They grabbed him, each taking one arm. He begged them to let him go in the name of God, but he received the answer, "In the name of God, we are all brothers, we don't harm anybody." The voice seemed to originate from a box like apparatus on their backs. He was taken towards the landed object. As he got near it he could feel an intense cold surrounding it. Another helmeted figure stood by a ladder extending from the craft, looking from side to side. The man asked Arlindo if he had seen something, which sounded to him like a "Zurca." Arlindo thought he could have been referring to one of the previous smaller aerial craft. That man then extended a gloved hand and pulled Arlindo inside the craft through a square shaped doorway. The atmosphere inside the craft was pleasant and cool, and there was a smell like "baby powder" in the air. There were other men sitting around on seats in the room. He described them as human like, wearing dark tight-fitting outfits. The men had large slanted eyes, thin noses, and large mouths and they seemed to operating some type of unknown machinery. The men stood up and began conversing among themselves in an unknown language. Suddenly from another room a heavyset woman emerged. She wore a white uniform, gloves, but no helmet. The witness described her as good looking, tanned, with long light fine hair. The woman and one of the men then took him into a corridor. He then entered a room where he saw a square shaped object in the middle. The man pushed a button on the wall and the object rose up. The object resembled a large piece of marble. The woman then took out a long wand like object and pointed it at the object. On the object the witness then saw an image of the planet Earth and other planets. At this point the man the removed his helmet and the witness could see that he had very short, light colored hair. When Arlindo left the craft he was told to cover his eyes and not to look as the object left. He followed these instructions and did not see the object depart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing Dr. Libirajara Franco Rodriguez & Maria Jose Pereira Source ID: Johnson_2897 Source: Johnson ### Event 19224 (BEDEB686) Date: 5/16/1979 Description: A mechanic felt compelled to return to a spot where he had previously seen a UFO. A disc-shaped craft landed, and he was given a metal bar as a gift, along with the message that the occupants will return again. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charleston, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5192 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19225 (8019D979) Date: 5/17/1979 Description: At 12:25 a.m. William Herrman saw a UFO from his home in Summerville, South Carolina and felt the urge to get in his car and follow it to a remote location. Everything became silent, and the object descended from the sky, and pulled him inside the craft by means of a blue beam of light. He then lost consciousness. When he woke up he was on a exam table. He was medically examined by short, light skinned beings, with large heads and oval-shaped eyes. They wore red, tight-fitting coveralls and pullover boots, and their leader had an emblem like a winged serpent on his chest. They conversely extensively. He was then taken on a journey and allowed to view a larger vessel in flight and people on the surface looking up at the craft. He was eventually returned to the same field as his first abduction experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case # 191B, citing Wendell Stevens; Columbia (SC) State, June 28, 1981; Albert S. Rosales, 1979 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # 2258 Source ID: Johnson_2939 Source: Johnson ### Event 19226 (92984667) Date: 5/19/1979 Description: 2:27 a.m. Tailor Mike Sacks and his brother Ray are on the moors near Stacksteads, Lancashire, England, looking for the UFO that Mike had already seen twice the previous winter. They have staked out the hills with a camera and suddenly hear a muted howling noise echoing through the night. The noise is coming from a white, glowing light falling toward them. The glowing mass slows down and the howling stops. Now directly overhead, the object is hovering just feet above a stream. They see a dome on top that emits electric blue sparks, a middle section, and a rim with a translucent metallic glow. The object tilts to reveal intricate detail on its underside, then accelerates and disappears. The men take a dozen photos, but they only show black sky when processed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “The House on Haunted Moor,” Fortean Times 322 \(January 2015\): 23 Source ID: Eberhart_5944 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19227 (54E08E96) Date: 5/19/1979 Description: Six school children reported sighting a landed object and four tiny humanoid figures near it. The creatures were only about 4 inches tall. One of the students attempted to catch one of the creatures but was shot in the hand. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5194 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19228 (51832CD2) Date: 5/19/1979 Description: In Bukit Mertajam on the island of Pinang, Malaysia six school children reported sighting a landed object and four tiny humanoid figures near it in the middle of the afternoon. The creatures were only about 4 inches tall. One of the students attempted to catch one of the creatures but was shot in the hand. The creature then shot at a brick, breaking it into pieces. Afterwards the creatures ran back into their tiny craft. Another student reportedly grabbed the small object and was shocked by an electric current. The object then took off, and an adult witness watched the object taking off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Admad Jamaludin, A Summary of UFO and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 81 Source ID: Johnson_2986 Source: Johnson ### Event 19229 (1FEFADB9) Date: 5/20/1979 Description: 8:00 a.m. A scientist, Ron Kruppa, sees a large UFO emitting smaller objects in Davao City, Philippines. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Stretching the Truth in the Philippines,” IUR 5, no. 1a \(January 1980\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_5945 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19230 (FB9ACB84) Date: 5/22/1979 Description: 10:00 p.m. A man walking in a park in Piastów, Poland, sees two bright yellow beams of light coming from a dark object about 10 feet wide floating just above the ground. Walking to within 10 feet of the object, he can see a third beam of light below it. Green geometrical shapes appear and vanish along the side of the UFO. A blinking red light shines out on the upper surface, in between the vertical bars of an H-shaped sign taking up almost the entire top. Suddenly the object shines with a white-blue light, and the man’s face feels like it is burning. Frightened, he runs away and does not look back. The next morning, he feels as if something heavy is pressing on his head; two weeks later, sores containing dried blood break out on his face. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists in Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1986\): 15–16; Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs in Poland,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 124 Source ID: Eberhart_5946 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19231 (BCC0879F) Date: 5/25/1979 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a nocturnal light came down and landed behind a store in the town of Charleston, Missouri. A neon sign was effected and a clock in the vicinity was later found to be 18 minutes slow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, p. 208 Source ID: Johnson_3091 Source: Johnson ### Event 19232 (B7DA7C95) Date: 5/25/1979 Description: 1:10 AM. A silver colored, heel-shaped or bullet-shaped object hovered between fifty and five hundred feet above some trees near the Sacramento River for three minutes. It made a sound like an electric motor as it moved very slowly toward the two witnesses, Ruben and Carlos Genera. Many animals reacted to its presence. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colusa, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5199 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19233 (03C150E7) Date: 5/25/1979 Description: At 1:10 a.m. a silver colored, heel-shaped or bullet-shaped object hovered between fifty and five hundred feet above some trees near the Sacramento River in Colusa, California for three minutes. It had a row of red and blue-green lights along its leading edge between two headlights. It also had a smooth metallic surface. It made a sound like an electric motor as it moved very slowly toward the two witnesses, Ruben and Carlos Genera. Many animals reacted to its presence. The close encounter lasted seven minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul C. Cerny, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1984, p. 3; UNICAT database, case 235, citing Paul Cerny Source ID: Johnson_3090 Source: Johnson ### Event 19234 (9582FB9C) Date: 5/25/1979 Description: A nocturnal light came down and landed behind a store in the town of Charleston, Missouri. A neon sign was effected and a clock in the vicinity was later found to be 18 minutes slow. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charleston, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_5197 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19235 (A45289F7) Date: 5/26/1979 Description: A UFO with two antennae was sighted over the city. With the aid of binoculars figures could reportedly be seen inside the craft. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manila, Philippines Source ID: NICAP_DB_5204 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19236 (C8EEE2A9) Date: 5/26/1979 Description: A disc with three legs for landing gear hovered just a half a meter above the ground. The witness was temporarily blinded by beams of light from the object. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kulim, Malaysia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5202 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19237 (F2F2A09E) Date: 5/26/1979 Description: Private pilot and airline crew saw string of orange objects maneuvering and changing formation, tracked on radar Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Hailey, ID Source ID: HallUFOE2_338 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19238 (F8B5B4F3) Date: 5/26/1979 Description: 12:05 a.m. The pilot of a private airplane flying near Hailey, Idaho, spots five orange objects flying in a horizontal line. They tilt, spread out, and regroup in a vertical formation. As they pass to his left, his magnetic compass and direction finder begin spinning, the radio is filled with static, and the engine sputters. One of the objects approaches at high speed, and the pilot begins a climb and loses sight of the UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Compasses,](http://www.nicap.org/790526hailey%5Fdir.htm) [Radio, Engine Affected on Aircraft](http://www.nicap.org/790526hailey%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_5947 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19239 (84650234) Date: 5/26/1979 Description: G,V, FAA radar, pilot & a/l visuals (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hailey, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_5206 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19240 (4AD97E3C) Date: 5/26/1979 Description: Two fishermen observed a hemispherical object with blinding white headlights and a row of body lights. It hovered in one spot for 2-3 minutes, then flew overhead emitting a humming sound like an electric generator. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [790526](http://www.nicap.org/images/790526colusa.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colusa, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5201 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19241 (9238DB3D) Date: 5/26/1979 Description: A disc with three legs for landing gear hovered just a half a meter above the ground in Kulim, Malaysia at 8:30 a.m. The witness was temporarily blinded by beams of light from the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1979, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_3107 Source: Johnson ### Event 19242 (08E12A9C) Date: 5/26/1979 Description: Pilots enc string of objects, R/V (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hailey, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_5207 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19243 (DC0D51BA) Date: 5/26/1979 Description: In Manila, the Philippines that same night a UFO with two antennae was sighted over the city. With the aid of binoculars figures could reportedly be seen inside the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1979, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_3108 Source: Johnson ### Event 19244 (E7448617) Date: 5/29/1979 Description: There were two high quality reports of aircraft encounters with UFOs on this day. The first occurred at five minutes after midnight over Hailey, Idaho when a Braniff Airlines crew, as well as private pilots flying in the area, independently reported sighting five orange objects in a line, moving to the left of the airliner. The objects performed up and down and other maneuvers. The plane's engines ran rough, and the compass and ADF system temporarily malfunctioned. The second occurred around noon local time and was tracked by ground radar at Cerro Moreno Air Force Base in Chile, who were in radio contact with airborne military personnel, who had a visual sighting of a black triangular object with two small tails. The object made a turn, then moved in the opposite direction from the aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 14; (2) Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1979, p. 12, citing La Prensa, May 29, 1979; MUFON UFO Journal, November 1979, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_3154 Source: Johnson ### Event 19245 (F7566DCC) Date: 6/1979 Description: In Messengers of Deception, [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) claims that a shadowy human group, some of whom have infiltrated UFO organizations like NICAP and CUFOS, is manipulating UFO myths for its own purposes, while the UFO phenomenon operates as a control system—manifested in “intense activity followed by quiet periods—intended to lead human consciousness into a new concept of reality.” On the other hand, he argues that the UFO phenomenon is ancient and that the message has changed with the times. He claims the current concept of flying discs originated in Germany in the 1930s, with the unknown private group gaining control of them after World War II. Contactees are manipulated by human programmers. Many ufologists think Vallée has gone too far in his anti- ETH approach and is conspiracy mongering. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, [Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and](https://archive.org/details/MessengersOfDeceptionUFOContactsAndCultsJacquesValle1979/mode/2up) [Cults](https://archive.org/details/MessengersOfDeceptionUFOContactsAndCultsJacquesValle1979/mode/2up), And/Or, 1979; Vincent White, “[A Critique,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201979%2006%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%2012.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 12 \(June 1979\): 3–5; Clark III 1214 Source ID: Eberhart_5948 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19246 (DEC7FFD8) Date: 6/1979 Description: 3:00 a.m. A woman doctor is in the TV room of her parents’ home in Boardman, Ohio, suffering from insomnia. She sees something flashing outside the window, illuminating the entire area outside. A cylinder-shaped light comes through the closed window and passes three feet from her face. It then comes to look more like a paperclip that flashes on and off, meandering about, apparently not interested in her. She runs into the bedroom and does not see it again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_5949 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19247 (1DE0786D) Date: 6/6/1979 Description: An alleged abduction experience by aliens occurred this afternoon near Dubois, Wyoming. While camping in a wilderness area the witness looked up towards a clear spot in the clouds and then lost trackof time. He found himself in a large room while a being surrounded by light stood at his side. He remembers looking back at his body and seemingly walking on air toward a network of wires. At that point someone placed a helmet on his head and he had a sensation of expanded consciousness and a rushing in of information. He could look down and see the ground from his viewpoint in the air. A being nexted touched a small device to different points on his arm. He conversed with the beings about the nature of happiness and helping others. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, volume I: A comparative study of abductions, case 211, citing Dr. Leo R. Sprinkle Source ID: Johnson_3334 Source: Johnson ### Event 19248 (621CCE3E) Date: 6/9/1979 Description: A private pilot flying southeast of Clearlake, California sighted six bright "doughnut" shaped objects flying at great speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42, citing MUFON UFO Journal, August 1983 Source ID: Johnson_3395 Source: Johnson ### Event 19249 (68E21850) Date: 6/10/1979 Description: 4:40 p.m. A family in Milford, Connecticut, watches a disc “like two plates put together” approach from the south. It is silver on top and dark on the bottom and seems to have a band around the edge and triangular markings. After it passes silently behind the trees to the north of them after 1 minute, they jump into a car and drive after it. It seems to be traveling at 20–25 mph, and they are able to overtake it flying parallel to the road. It seems to be flying at an altitude of 1,000 feet, and disappears to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 4-1-40,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_5950 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19250 (4609AB36) Date: 6/12/1979 Description: Pine Ridge, South Carolina. Members of a rock band practicing in a barn stepped outside to watch an unusual form hovering low over the containment building and smokestack of the Carolina Power & Light nuclear power plant one half mile away to their northeast. An ovoid shaped object, seen primarily by its lights in the clear dusk sky, had two huge bright yellowish-white beams of light. After hovering motionless for 2-5 minutes all the lights faded except a blue light. The UFO moved off and was gone in "three blinks of the eye." After about five minutes, a second sighting took place. It hovered to the right of the nuclear power plant and directed a beam of light at it while hovering for another 2-5 minutes. The second object flew off toward the northwest. No one at the power plant reported seeing anything unusual to the chief of security. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_3445 Source: Johnson ### Event 19251 (1F6A8ACD) Date: 6/12/1979 Description: Members of a rock band practicing in a barn stepped outside to watch an ovoid shaped object hovering low over the containment building and smokestack of the Carolina Power & Light nuclear power plant one half mile away to their northeast. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pine Ridge, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5208 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19252 (5AFF58A9) Date: 6/12/1979 Description: 8:45 p.m. Members of a rock band practicing in a barn in Pine Ridge, South Carolina, step outside to watch an unusual form hovering low over the containment building and smokestack of the Carolina Power and Light nuclear power plant one half mile away to the northeast. An ovoid-shaped object, seen primarily by its lights, shines two bright yellowish-white beams of light. After hovering motionless for 2–5 minutes, all the lights fade except a blue light. The UFO moves off and is gone almost instantly. After about 5 minutes, a second object is seen hovering for 2–5 minutes to the right of the nuclear power plant and directing a beam of light at it. It flies off toward the northwest. No one at the power plant reports seeing anything unusual. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 4-1-47,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_5951 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19253 (8C6F9A3A) Date: 6/14/1979 Description: 8:30 a.m. A woman in St. Petersburg, Florida, sees an object with a long transparent trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 4-1-51,” IUR 4, no. 1 \(July 1979\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_5952 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19254 (D8884A18) Date: 6/17/1979 Description: 10:00 p.m. A witness in North Prairie, Wisconsin, watches a star, slightly dimmer than Jupiter, move silently across the sky from east to west, passing overhead. It suddenly makes a 90° turn to the north and is lost in the cloud cover. Ten minutes later, he and his family watch a similar light transit the sky, again from east to west, in 10–15 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Wisconsin NL,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_5953 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19255 (CE7B12BB) Date: 6/18/1979 Description: Sr. A. Ferreira was returning home from his job as a security guard when a metallic oval-shaped craft landed on three legs near his home. Three humanoids came out of the craft and paralyzed him with red beams of light, from boxes that they carried on their chests. These humanoid beings also carried boxes on their backs and had an insignia on their chests. He was floated onboard the craft alongside and once inside he believed he passed out. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mirassol, Sao Paolo State, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5209 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19256 (98300BA1) Date: 6/18/1979 Description: Sr. A. Ferreira was returning home from his job as a security guard in Mirassol, Sao Paolo State, Brazil at 3:00 a.m. when a metallic oval-shaped craft landed on three legs near his home. Three humanoids came out of the craft and paralyzed him with red beams of light, from boxes that they carried on their chests. These humanoid beings also carried boxes on their backs and had an insignia on their chests. He was floated onboard the craft alongside and once inside he believed he passed out. However, under hypnosis he remembered traveling to a larger craft where he found himself in a dark room with small lights and what looked like star maps. Ten to twelve humanoids were in the room with him. They were of two different types. Some had skin with a greenish tinge, with black smooth hair, thin lips, thin noses, pointed ears, and large eyes. The others were similar in appearance except that they had brown skin, kinky hair, dark eyes, and thick lips. All were between four and five feet tall and wore white uniforms and gloves. He was taken to another room and laid on a couch, a naked woman the entered the room. She was human like with black almond-shaped eyes, brown skin, a large head, red kinky hair, and very foul smelling breath. He resisted her sexual advances but was forcibly restrained. They spread an oily substance on his body, and forced him to have sexual intercourse with the female. The beings spoke in an unknown language among themselves but by telepathy with him. He was given the impression that they were conducting genetic experiments and were interested in reproduction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 131, citing APRO Bulletin, November 1983, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_3538 Source: Johnson ### Event 19257 (B6F6C01A) Date: 6/19/1979 Description: A man and a woman saw a silvery object with a dome on top emitting a blue beam of light into a nearby forest. The woman went to investigate, and saw the object, which was about one meter in diameter, at close range. Inside the dome were two very small creatures with large eyes and frog-like skin. When she started to touch the object, she was temporarily blinded by a bright light and the craft sped away. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rauma, Finland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5211 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19258 (4F950D75) Date: 6/19/1979 Description: 10:02 p.m. A witness in Clarksville, Tennessee, is walking his dog when he sees a metallic egg-shaped object, surrounded by a glow, approaching from the west. It appears to be at 8,000 feet altitude. It comes to a stop for 30 seconds, then picks up speed slowly for 7 seconds, and blasts off with a shower of sparks trailing behind it, disappearing in the southeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Rocketing ‘Egg’ over Tennessee,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_5954 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19259 (98181270) Date: 6/22/1979 Description: The yacht Rainbow II was heading for Corsica,. On board was the owner of the boat, his wife and children and a crew of 11 people. About three miles ahead of the prow of the boat they saw a black cylindrical shape. This object was coming out from the surface of the sea like a tower and rose 30 meters into the air. Although the compass showed the yacht as headed in the right direction, the yacht instead drifted about 12 miles south and ended up in Bastia. Another strange occurrence was that the dog on board started barking and appeared scared and terrified. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gorgona (offshore of), Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5214 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19260 (687062E9) Date: 6/22/1979 Description: On this afternoon offshore of Gorgona, Italy in the Ligurian Sea during a beautiful summer day, the yacht Rainbow II was heading for Corsica, after leaving Viareggio at 3:45 p.m. On board was the owner of the boat, who was a businessman in Milano, his wife and children and a crew of 11 people. At about 6:30 p.m. the beautiful and tranquil day was interrupted by a bewildering and disturbing event. About three miles ahead of the prow of the boat they saw a black cylindrical shape. This object was coming out from the surface of the sea like a tower and rose 30 meters into the air. The yacht approached and they noticed the dimensions and shape of the object. When they were within 1.5 miles from the object, it disappeared below the surface with a loud rumble in less than three seconds. This sighting was also observed from the harbormaster's office on Livorno. The harbor captain remained in continuous radio contact with the crew and in particular with its wireless operator, Mr. Guzzi. But this phenomenon did not end with the disappearance of the object. Although the compass showed the yacht as headed in the right direction, the yacht instead drifted about 12 miles south and ended up in Bastia. This change of course was unexplainable because the sea was calm, there were no currents, and the compass was working perfectly. Another strange occurrence was that the dog on board started barking and appeared scared and terrified. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Marco Bianchini, USOCAT by Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU), www.cisu.org; Carl Feindt, www. waterufo.net Source ID: Johnson_3607 Source: Johnson ### Event 19261 (EEBA3900) Date: 6/26/1979 Description: That same day some debris that fell from the sky, dubbed the "Mississauga Blob", landed on a picnic table in the backyard of a home in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal accounts of sightings and close encounters, p. 215 Source ID: Johnson_3683 Source: Johnson ### Event 19262 (4EBD6E93) Date: 6/26/1979 Description: At 3:15 p.m. that afternoon eight security guards in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania watched a domed disc-shaped UFO maneuver in the daytime sky. The underside of the object turned extremely bright, then it made a ninety-degree turn and flew off toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_3682 Source: Johnson ### Event 19263 (FFDFFEE8) Date: 6/26/1979 Description: 3:00 a.m. A 77-year-old man in Wheeling, Illinois, is awakened by his border collie and goes outside. When he opens the back door he sees a uniformly glowing “balloon,” 6–7 feet in diameter and sharply outlined. His dog steps forward and watches it as it hovers rock-steady at 60 feet up and 100 feet away or less. After 4–5 minutes it moves slowly behind the trees to the southwest. Running to the front of his house, he sees an identical form 70 feet up and moving silently to the northwest. It goes behind trees in 3–4 minutes. Duration is 10–13 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Two Glowing Globes,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_5955 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19264 (D21AC296) Date: 6/26/1979 Description: 3:20 p.m. A sharply outlined “mushroom” is seen moving out of the south by a group of eight neighbors in the northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is smaller than the full moon, but at one point they can detect four “domes” on its rotating underside. The object is illuminated with colors ranging from burgundy to silver. At one point it makes a 90° turn and circles around completely, becoming a minty green color. It continues slowly north and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “An ‘Adamski’ Mushroom?” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_5956 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19265 (3A885D7F) Date: 6/26/1979 Description: A dog started barking at 3 a.m. when a six-foot diameter balloon-shaped object glowed and hovered over the yard of a home in Wheeling, Illinois. The object flew toward the southwest. A second object of the same description appeared and flew to the northwest, disappearing behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_3681 Source: Johnson ### Event 19266 (514C076D) Date: 6/26/1979 Description: A dog started barking when a six-foot diameter balloon-shaped object glowed and hovered over the yard of a home in Wheeling, Illinois. The object flew toward the southwest. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wheeling, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5217 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19267 (E71480D7) Date: 6/28/1979 Description: Security guard Antonio Carlos Ferreira is allegedly abducted from his workplace, a furniture factory in Mirassol, São Paulo, Brazil. He is approached by three humanoid figures who tranquilize him and take him aboard a small ship that ferries him to a larger craft further away. There he is put in front of a large TV screen and presented with a variety of images before being forced to mate with a female alien. He is tranquilized again and returned to the ground. The aliens are approximately 4 feet tall with pointed ears, slanted eyes, and human-like mouths. They lack eyebrows or eyelashes and speak in a language that superficially resembles Japanese. Some have dark skin and red curly hair, while others have light skin and straight black hair. The ship is spherical with three legs protruding from the bottom, and the interior is lit by bright red and green lights. Ferreira states that he encountered the aliens again in 1982, with the craft supposedly landing close enough for him to see the female alien and a childlike alien observing him from a distance. He experiences a third encounter later in 1982 in which he is taken into the hangar of an alien craft by a green beam of light before being injected with a yellow substance. He is then taken to meet the two aliens once more, the younger of whom he is led to believe is his own child. Other encounters follow, to a total of 16 or 20 between 1979 and 1989. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Caso Mirassol](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201979%2006%2000%20-%20Vol%2027%20No%2012.pdf)”; Ney Matiel Pires, “[3-Sexto Contato com Ufonautas de Antônio Carlos Ferreira,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Brazil/SBEDV/SBEDV%20-%20No%20158-161%20-%201984.PDF)” SBEDV Boletim, no. 158–161 \(May/Dec. 1984\): 14–54; Walter K. Buhler, Guilherme Pereira, and Ney M. Pires, UFO Abduction at Mirassol, UFO Photo Archives, 1985; Clark III 764–765; Aileen Garoutte, “[Contact at Mirassol,](http://ufoexperiences.blogspot.com/2005/05/contact-at-mirassol.html)” UFOexperiences, May 22, 2005; Brazil 277–282 Source ID: Eberhart_5957 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19268 (A167619D) Date: 7/1979 End date: 12/1979 Description: Flurries of sightings Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_339 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19269 (66E7F0F8) Date: 7/1/1979 Description: 3:40 p.m. A factory supervisor and his wife are driving in Crystal Lake, Illinois, when they see an aluminum- colored ellipse hovering in the north-northeast at an estimated 1,000 feet. It moves with jerky movements to the east-southeast, drops down to 500 feet, and remains stationary over a stand of trees about one mile away for 2–3 seconds. It ascends and descends about five times. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Daylight Disc in Illinois,” IUR 4, no. 2 \(August 1979\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_5958 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19270 (206C189C) Date: 7/4/1979 Description: 1:30 a.m. A Swedish man is walking along a dark road after leaving a tavern not far from Monastiri Beach, Poros, Greece. He hears a powerful buzzing or shushing noise overhead. Not more than 25 feet above the trees on the uphill side of the road is a black, disc-shaped object, about 25 feet wide, that is blocking out the light of the stars. Within seconds a bright light beams down at him from the center of the object. He feels an electrical sensation and a general lightness. The light blinks out and the man begins running away, but the disc is descending and following him. The beam of light blinks on again when it is 50–60 feet above him. Two backpackers witness this and come running to aid him. The light blinks out again and four blinking red and green lights appear at the edge of the disc, which moves ahead another 150–200 feet. The UFO then rises to 400–500 feet and flies steadily until it disappears behind a hill. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “High Adventure in Greece,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 \(Jan./Feb. 1982\): 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_5959 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19271 (7B15E9B0) Date: 7/5/1979 Description: Object Just Off The Water / Radar Tracked From Boat (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [790705](http://www.nicap.org/790705gulfofalaska%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf of Alaska, S. of Seward, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5219 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19272 (88BF0A32) Date: 7/13/1979 Description: Ed knew immediately that the object was not a helicopter or a plane-it was flatter and wider with lights around the outside of the main front area. He ran to the house, calling his family, but only his wife joined him. The object, some 75-100 feet in diameter, was now directly over their house and pool. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Clarita Valley, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5220 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19273 (8B20B668) Date: 7/15/1979 Description: On the same night a couple in San Antonio, Texas sighted three large glowing balls of light hovering outside their home. They watched as five strange humanoid creatures floated down from the balls of light. The beings were described as thin, with grayish skin, large heads, and large dark oval-shaped eyes. The man ran to get his gun, but suddenly both he and his wife were overcome with a profound drowsiness and lost consciousness. Their next memory they had was waking up in the morning to find the man's shotgun totally dismantled and placed on the kitchen table. Later a frightening abduction was recalled under hypnosis. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Preston Dennett, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1993 Source ID: Johnson_4079 Source: Johnson ### Event 19274 (043007F8) Date: 7/15/1979 Description: At 4:00 a.m. a man was sleeping at his home in Nimes, France when his car alarm went off and woke him up. He then went outside to investigate, and saw a glowing object hovering just two meters above the ground. It had multicolored lights and was shooting flashes of light up into the sky. An opening became visible at one end of the object, and a short squat figure with thick arms and legs and a round body appeared. It began moving slowly towards the witness, who ran back inside his house. There were three other witnesses who saw the lights from the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2211; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1725, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_4078 Source: Johnson ### Event 19275 (8E176C69) Date: 7/16/1979 Description: A flat metallic disc with rivets visible was seen by two men fishing on Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territory, Canada at around 11:00 a.m. They were able to take 12 photographs of the object as it passed over their boat. Reportedly a wristwatch being worn by one of the men malfunctioned. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, APRO Bulletin, May 1981, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4106 Source: Johnson ### Event 19276 (9E380318) Date: 7/16/1979 Description: A flat metallic disc with rivets visible was seen by two men fishing on Great Bear Lake. They were able to take 12 photographs of the object as it passed over their boat. Reportedly a wristwatch being worn by one of the men malfunctioned. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Great Bear Lake, NWT, Can Source ID: NICAP_DB_5221 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19277 (37FF92AF) Date: 7/17/1979 Description: 6:00 a.m. A couple in a rural area northeast of Des Moines, Iowa, are fixing breakfast when through their window they see a small, circular light source to the northeast. It hovers silently for 5 minutes. It starts moving slowly upward at a 70° angle, then breaks into two smaller objects that shoot out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Iowa UFO Splits in Two,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_5960 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19278 (289586BF) Date: 7/18/1979 Description: A metallic disc flew over the city in the afternoon. It had a shiny top and dark bottom section. It sped up, and then shot straight up. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Belfort, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5223 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19279 (1CA41BC2) Date: 7/18/1979 Description: A metallic disc flew over the city of Belfort, France at 2:30 in the afternoon. It had a shiny top and dark bottom section. It sped up, and then shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1979 Source ID: Johnson_4177 Source: Johnson ### Event 19280 (53EDDA62) Date: 7/21/1979 Description: Six witnesses to a close encounter with a capsule-shaped object for several minutes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: West Plains, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_5224 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19281 (A5274BD2) Date: 7/25/1979 Description: 11:30 a.m. Farmer Federico Ibáñez Ibáñez, 54, leaves the village of Turís, Valencia, Spain, to gather grapes from his vineyard. He finds an egg-shaped, white, metallic object resting on two feet in the access road to his field. Two small beings run from behind a carob tree on his left and enter the craft. They are wearing white outfits “puffed up with air” with protruding black tubes. The UFO suddenly ascends at great speed, stirring up a whirlwind. The case is investigated in depth in 1979 and reinvestigated in 2008. It features unique shapes for both the landed craft and its occupants. The one witness is apparently credible. Ground traces are found as circumstantial evidence. Spanish investigator [Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos](http://independent.academia.edu/VICENTEJUANBALLESTEROLMOS/CurriculumVitae) concludes: “My considered impression is that the witness sincerely believes in the tangible reality of his experience, and I have not found any reasonable evidence of a lie or episode of fantasy, nor any proof that he embellished his account.” Ballester Olmos’s latest thought is, “Did the witness invent or hallucinate the event under the influence of the current publicity for the Star Wars movie?” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Imagination or Reality? The Landing at Turís, Revisiting a 1979 Spanish CE3,” IUR 33, no. 1 \(March 2010\): 3–7, 22–24 ; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “[Imagination or Reality? The Landing at Turis,](https://www.academia.edu/39927304/IMAGINATION%5FOR%5FREALITY%5FTHE%5FLANDING%5FAT%5FTURIS)” Academia.edu, \[2013\] Source ID: Eberhart_5961 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19282 (CF00D4B5) Date: 7/25/1979 Description: A large white light made several passed at a car. One hour later a diffuse white ball of light maneuvered in the sky for 30 minutes over the Chatsworth Reservoir. At 3:15 a housewife and cocktail waitress was abducted while driving home from work by a UFO she thought was a plane crashing (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canoga Park, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5225 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19283 (55837B80) Date: 7/25/1979 Description: At 2:00 a.m. in Canoga Park, California a large white light made several passed at a car. One hour later a diffuse white ball of light maneuvered in the sky for 30 minutes over the Chatsworth Reservoir. At 3:15 a housewife and cocktail waitress was abducted while driving home from work by a UFO she thought was a plane crashing. She experienced an episode of missing time and partial amnesia about other events, but did recall undergoing a physical exam while lying on her back. A probe was inserted into her leg, and her eyes were dabbed with a liquid. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; Davd F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2212 Source ID: Johnson_4394 Source: Johnson ### Event 19284 (FFD00D29) Date: 7/25/1979 Description: At 11:30 a.m. Federico Ibanez, a 54-year-old farmer, was out driving his car in his vineyards in Turis, Valencia, Spain when he sighted something white and shiny ahead of him. He thought at first it was his neighbor's car, but when he rounded a bend in the road the object blocking the road resembled a vertical half-egg that stood on legs, with the truncated end facing downwards. It was nine feet high and almost 3 feet wide. He then noticed two 3-foot-tall beings running toward the object. The wore white shiny outfits that covered their head and came down to their knees. They had small black legs that ended in little feet that looked like "boxing gloves." Their faces were blank except for what appeared to be a black protruding face mask of some sort. Within seconds the beings entered the object, which then took off throwing up a cloud of dust. Sr. Ibanez got back in his car and drove off to inspect his vines. A subsequent investigation found four circular marks on the road forming a precise rectangle. The farmer, who knew nothing about UFOs, had a solid reputation among his friends and neighbors. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Patrick Huyghe, The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials, p. 46; Gordon Creighton, The Encounter at Turis, FSR, June 1982, pp. 17-18 Source ID: Johnson_4395 Source: Johnson ### Event 19285 (E454B53A) Date: 7/27/1979 Description: 11:10 p.m. Gary Hull is on the patio of his in-laws’ home in Stamford, Connecticut, when he sees an orange light in the northwest. He calls his wife Kathleen and others, and they watch it move silently across the sky at treetop level. After 5 minutes, it stops and hovers. Four or five white flashes erupt from its right side, followed by 4–5 faint sounds like firecrackers. At 11:19, a commercial jet flies overhead and under the UFO, which accelerates almost straight up in 5–10 seconds, diminishing to a pinpoint. Other witnesses 3.5 miles to the north and a few miles to the west watch similar objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Independent Witnesses in Connecticut,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_5962 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19286 (D723B201) Date: 7/29/1979 Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_340 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19287 (A1DABF07) Date: 8/1979 Description: Round Object Hovers Over Wheat Field (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [7908xx](http://www.nicap.org/7908XXmerom1%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Merom, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5227 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19288 (FF73BE44) Date: 8/1979 Description: Dusk. A witness in Halifax, Nova Scotia, watches through a telescope a round object with 12–18 lights around its base approaching from the southeast. It hovers for about 30 seconds. He calls to his wife to verify the observation, which has now moved directly overhead. The lights give off constant beams downward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1982\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5964 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19289 (A14232C9) Date: 8/1979 Description: Evening. A resident of Człuchów, Poland, is rowing his boat on a lake when he sees a “dark oblong object” moving rapidly and soundlessly along the surface of the water without disturbing it. It disappears behind some lakeside vegetation. Another witness on shore sees it apparently land, so he calls his two dogs and heads toward the spot. About 65 feet from the shore he can see two entities in dark suits walking toward the forest. The dogs run toward them and they stop and turn around. The dogs stop in their tracks, bark, and retreat in terror. The witness watches the entities as they continue walking. They are about 5 feet tall and sealed in diving outfits. At the level of their eyes is a glass plate through which they can apparently see. Their hips are unnaturally wide and each has a hump between the back of the neck and the shoulders. The witness calls out to them, but they begin running into the trees. A luminous rectangular object floats up from the treetops about 325 feet away and hovers 100 feet from the ground. A blue-green light is along its sides, shading away into white in the middle. The UFO speeds away, leaving no findable landing traces. The witness claims his dogs’ front legs become paralyzed 6 months later and he has to put them to sleep. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists in Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1986\): 16; ; Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs in Poland,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 124–125 Source ID: Eberhart_5965 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19290 (73F4AE55) Date: 8/1979 Description: Harry Griesberg and David Seargent form the Australian Centre for UFO Studies from the CUFOS Australian Co-Ordination Section. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 28 Source ID: Eberhart_5963 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19291 (DD971F67) Date: 8/1/1979 Description: Astronomer [Allan Hendry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%5FHendry) publishes The UFO Handbook, a harshly pessimistic assessment of his investigative experience with the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois. The first part covers IFOs, showing how normal objects can be misinterpreted as UFOs. The remainder of the book covers techniques that can be used by UFO investigators. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Allan Hendry, The UFO Handbook, Doubleday, 1979; Clark III 569 Source ID: Eberhart_5969 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19292 (3611B09E) Date: 8/1/1979 Description: White ball made two passes, two-way and portable radios failed. International UFO Reporter, September-October 1979, see Rodeghier, 1981, p. 74 (R) police car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lewisboro, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5228 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19293 (6CCD9418) Date: 8/1/1979 Description: The Fund for UFO Research is established as a nonprofit corporation in the District of Columbia to raise money to support scientific UFO research and public information projects. It remains active through 2011. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Fund](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/FUFOR%20reports/FUFOR%20-%201982%20Q4%20-%20Quarterly%20Report%20October-December.pdf) [for UFO Research Quarterly Report](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/FUFOR%20reports/FUFOR%20-%201982%20Q4%20-%20Quarterly%20Report%20October-December.pdf), Oct./Dec. 1983; Clark III 520 Source ID: Eberhart_5968 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19294 (CB32264F) Date: 8/1/1979 Description: 1:35 a.m. Westchester County police officer William Shaughnessy sees apparently the same white ball of light at the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, New York, as that reported by several citizens of Lewisboro the same night. It passes southeast directly over his car, at 600–800 feet altitude. It stops above some treetops, makes a complete right turn, and disappears to the west. 12 minutes later, it comes flying back, hovers, shoots over his car again, and is gone quickly. During this time, Shaughnessy cannot reach his station by either low-band FM or portable radio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Cop Ridiculed for NL Sighting in New York,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_5966 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19295 (B24AE781) Date: 8/1/1979 Description: US Air Force Intelligence is redesignated the Electronic Security Command. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FIntelligence%2C%5FSurveillance%5Fand%5FReconnaissance%5FAgency) [Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FIntelligence%2C%5FSurveillance%5Fand%5FReconnaissance%5FAgency)” Source ID: Eberhart_5967 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19296 (00A6EC65) Date: 8/2/1979 Description: One of the spheres shot towards the rear of their vehicle while the other descended close to the ground. A large rectangular shaped opening became visible in the second object and three humanoid figures were seen descending a ladder. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Le Delus, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5229 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19297 (18B04A6B) Date: 8/2/1979 Description: Morning. A teen who mows the lawn finds a strange design on the lawn of an 8-acre estate about 8 miles north of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The owner waits a week before reporting it to the police, who alert the Center for UFO Studies, which investigates the marking on August 22. The trace is visible as flattened, yellowed grass in a semicircle between two straight lines forming a 120° angle. An analysis of the soil sample indicated nothing unusual in the chemistry, and no herbicides or petroleum. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[1979 Ground Mark Remains Unidentified,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 2 \(June 1980\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_5970 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19298 (AE7A97E3) Date: 8/2/1979 Description: 11:30 p.m. Multiple witnesses watch a triangular object flying from south to north over Herndon and Atwood, Kansas; and Culbertson and McCook, Nebraska. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 104–106 Source ID: Eberhart_5971 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19299 (F6F4E05B) Date: 8/2/1979 Description: At 2:30 a.m. the two witnesses were driving through the town of Le Delus on the island of Ile D'Oleron, France when they noticed a green flash of light overhead followed by two bright descending spheres. One of the spheres shot towards the rear of their vehicle while the other descended close to the ground. A large rectangular shaped opening became visible in the second object and three humanoid figures were seen descending a ladder. The witnesses did not stay to see any more, but drove away quickly from the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1734, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine; Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1979 Source ID: Johnson_4609 Source: Johnson ### Event 19300 (73054345) Date: 8/4/1979 Description: At 10:35 p.m. a 60-year-old woman and her grandson watched a glowing object approach their location in Canoga Park, California from the west. It then hovered silently above a nearby apartment building. They described it as a domed metallic saucer with a transparent dome. Inside the clear dome two humanoid figures could be seen. They appeared to have oversized heads, but were human in shape. The object tilted to one side, levelled off, then tilted in the opposite direction and flew off behind some trees to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walt Greenewald, International UFO Reporter, September 1979, p. 11; Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 15; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 24 & 492 Source ID: Johnson_4661 Source: Johnson ### Event 19301 (33D4B1C2) Date: 8/4/1979 Description: Large, glowing disc with bubblelike dome on top, two humanoid beings visible through transparent dome Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Canoga Park, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_341 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19302 (72CC9C13) Date: 8/4/1979 Description: 10:35 p.m. Maria Artura and her grandson see a domed, disc-shaped object approach from the west over Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California. Two humanoid beings with oversize heads are inside. The object stops and hovers above an apartment building on the other side of the street. It tilts to one side, returns to horizontal, then flies behind a tree, stops, and tilts the other way. Finally, it flies away to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “California Humanoids?” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 11; Richard H. Hall, “Dyad ‘Scout Craft,’” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 25; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1979-08-04-usa-canogapark.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1979-08-04-usa-canogapark.htm) December 25, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_5972 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19303 (5DC57B1A) Date: 8/4/1979 Description: Large, glowing disc with bubble-like dome on top, two humanoid beings visible through transparent dome (section XII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [790804](http://www.nicap.org/images/790804canoga.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canoga Park, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5231 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19304 (F54CAF3E) Date: 8/5/1979 Description: 7:00 p.m. A man driving 20 miles north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sees five large red lights suddenly appear in front of his car. They are in a V-formation, four in one row, the fifth forming the other. They move downward toward the horizon, where they vanish. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Strange Formation in Wisconsin,” IUR 4, no. 3/4, Sept./Oct, 1979: 11 Source ID: Eberhart_5973 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19305 (2FDC6F27) Date: 8/5/1979 Description: Waynesburg, Pennsylvania: two cops in a police helicopter reported that a two-foot wide disc-shaped object passed them at 4:05 p.m. It flew slowly at first, then sped up. Their helicopter could not catch up with it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_4697 Source: Johnson ### Event 19306 (E06A9014) Date: 8/9/1979 Description: Pilot observed two disc-shaped objects below his plane, contour flying "on the deck" through hills and valleys Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Hayfork, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_342 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19307 (3E651374) Date: 8/9/1979 Description: Two white, 30-foot diameter lenticular discs were seen flying together below an aircraft being flown by the state police southeast of Hayfork, California at around ten o'clock in the morning. The discs were hugging the terrain, following the contour of the land and flying in and out of the canyons below, nearly grazing the ground. Their speed, when first sighted, was estimated to be 600 miles per hour, but they accelerated and sped away to the north at 1,500 mph. There were four witnesses who watched the craft for 20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 191; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 24, 125; UNICAT database, case 47, citing Paul Cerny Source ID: Johnson_4803 Source: Johnson ### Event 19308 (5999BBBD) Date: 8/9/1979 Description: Two discs below plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hayford, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5232 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19309 (11007B6F) Date: 8/10/1979 Description: 9:00 p.m. Two witnesses are on the shore of a lake near Czluchow, Poland, when they see an object gliding swiftly along the surface and vanishing behind some vegetation on the bank. One witness collects his dogs and approaches the spot, but before he gets there, he encounters two entities dressed in black who are moving toward the woods. The dogs run toward them barking, but the entities turn to face them and the dogs stop barking and go back. The beings are dressed in coveralls. They have wide hips, a lump at the base of their necks, and curved forearms, and they are gliding rather than walking. They vanish, and while searching for them the witness sees a rectangular object hovering about 300 feet away and flashing beams of white and blue-green light. It vanishes suddenly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bronislaw Rzepecki, “[UFO Reports from Poland,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201988%20V%2033%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 33, no. 1 \(March 1988\): 5–6; Poland 46–48 Source ID: Eberhart_5975 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19310 (B8234179) Date: 8/10/1979 Description: Two large metallic spheres are found in Bolivia, one near Enconada and another near Buen Retiro, just hours after reports of a fireball in Bolivia and northern Chile. Newspaper reports at the time focus on the reentry of a satellite or rocket stage as the possible cause, suggested by Col. [Ariel Coca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcotics%5Fin%5FBolivia\#Narcotics%5Fcorruption), director of the Bolivian Air Force Academy. The Defense Attaché of the US Embassy in La Paz promptly informs the US Defense Intelligence Agency via telexed Moon Dust reports, which include translations of two Bolivian newspaper reports. Moon Dust is the unclassified name of a cold war USAF program to obtain Soviet space hardware that survives reentry. In 2014, amateur satellite tracker [Ted Molczan](http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/author/ted-molczan/) presents strong circumstantial evidence that the spheres are debris from the reentry of the Delta rocket second stage 1979-072B that launched [Westar 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westar) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the same day. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Moon Dust, Object Found near Santz Cruz \*U\*,](https://prochazkaondrej.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/moondustaug2009.pdf)” August 17, 1979; “[Moon Dust,](https://prochazkaondrej.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/moondustaug2009.pdf) [Additional Object Reportedly Found near Santa Cruz \*U\*,](https://prochazkaondrej.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/moondustaug2009.pdf)” August 21, 1979; Ted Molczan, “[Re-Entry Sightings](http://www.satobs.org/reentry/1979-072B/1979-072B.html) [and Debris Recovery of 1979-072B, Bolivia: 1979 August 10 UTC,](http://www.satobs.org/reentry/1979-072B/1979-072B.html)” Visual Satellite Observer, July 30, 2014; Ted Molczan, “[Bolivia: Spheres Found August 1979, La Prensa Article,](http://www.satobs.org/reentry/1979-072B/La%5FPrensa.pdf)” Visual Satellite Observer; Good Above, [pp. 322–323](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/322/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_5974 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19311 (D833C956) Date: 8/11/1979 Description: On this night in Lumut, Malaysia a group of vocational students sighted three hairy creatures between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. The entities were ten-feet tall, had red eyes, and typically disappeared mysteriously into thin air as approached. As a result of the publicity uproar following the events of this night the Technical Institute was temporarily closed and the students were sent home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 94 Source ID: Johnson_4892 Source: Johnson ### Event 19312 (CB236EC3) Date: 8/11/1979 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_343 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19313 (0B3048DD) Date: 8/11/1979 Description: Three pairs of white lights hovered and maneuvered over Highway 23 and a lake in Ann Arbor, Michigan at 9:41 p.m. The main witness was a 27-year-old scientist. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1979, p. 11; UNICAT, case # 105 Source ID: Johnson_4893 Source: Johnson ### Event 19314 (B1D73D34) Date: 8/11/1979 Description: 11:00 p.m. Two 18-year-olds, a male college student and a female telephone company employee, are sitting in a car near Bergen Park, Colorado, looking at the homes at the base of a small mountain on Soda Creek Road off Interstate 70. They see a white light about two-thirds of the way up the mountain. It grows bigger, four times the brightness of the houselights at the base of the mountain. It seems to become a cluster of four lights with a dark space in the middle. After 3 minutes, the light silently rises over the mountain, hovers for 3 seconds, and drops down behind it. A glow remains over the mountain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Colorado Landing,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_5977 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19315 (192083BF) Date: 8/11/1979 Description: Radio interference was experienced over a wide area of Wheatridge, Colorado around 11:00 p.m. when a UFO was seen hovering in the sky for three minutes. The UFO dropped toward a mountainside and was lost from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 12; UNICAT, case # 106 Source ID: Johnson_4894 Source: Johnson ### Event 19316 (75D38EAC) Date: 8/11/1979 Description: Two campers saw white beams of light shining down next to their tents while camping outside of Ashland, Oregon. Moments later several translucent humanoids entered their tents and studied the campers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1995 Source ID: Johnson_4895 Source: Johnson ### Event 19317 (C515F90C) Date: 8/11/1979 Description: Radio interference was experienced over a wide area of Wheatridge, Colorado when a UFO was seen hovering in the sky for three minutes. The UFO dropped toward a mountainside and was lost from sight. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wheatridge, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_5233 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19318 (64E337AE) Date: 8/11/1979 Description: 9:41 p.m. A graduate student and a friend are taking an evening drive in a semi-rural area in Northfield Township, Michigan. They notice two white stationary lights about 300 feet from the road and 500 feet in the air. They turn the car around and see another formation of white lights and a flashing red light to the west. A total of three sets of lights appear heading south. They follow one group, which hovers above some power lines. The couple continues to pursue and be pursued by the similar formations of lights for 30 minutes. At the intersection of Joy and Whitmire Lake Road, one set of lights flies directly above them at 1,000–1,500 feet altitude, making a noise like a jet or the wind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Scientists Chase Michigan UFOs?” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_5976 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19319 (459FEEC1) Date: 8/12/1979 Description: 10:00 p.m. Two teenage brothers are driving 9 miles west of Rolla, Missouri, in an undeveloped area. A red light and a blue light appear over the car, apparently circling each other. The two lights seem to blend into one, forming a soft white color. Sparks shoot out, and the single light source arcs upward and vanishes in the western sky. Both feel strange sensations of both pressure and floating as this occurs. These effects, along with involuntary body movements and trouble speaking and breathing, last 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Teens Claim Bizarre Effects,” IUR 4, no 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_5979 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19320 (8521FF73) Date: 8/12/1979 Description: 2:00 a.m. Engineer Y. Podvyazniy and two companions are on the shore of the Black Sea west of the microdistrict of Khosta near Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. They notice a brightly illuminated object approaching erratically from the sea. Suddenly it skips to within one mile of the witnesses, who take 9 photos, estimate its size as 165–330 feet, and notice four glowing lights that look like portholes. The object is only 16–65 feet above the water when it slowly moves away to a distance of 9 miles. A patrol boat uses its searchlight to illuminate the object, which appears to be spherical. When the object lights up and dims, the searchlight and the patrol boat’s lights also dim. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 133–134 Source ID: Eberhart_5978 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19321 (2E5D74FC) Date: Mid 8/1979 Description: Night. Hospital administrator Jon Linnell and his wife are driving home from Northwood, North Dakota, to Warren, Minnesota, when they see bright lights over a field to the left. 15 seconds later the lights come toward them and hover above their car. Linnell slows the car down and the object takes off to the north. It is silent and too bright to look at. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Deputy’s UFO Story](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12239437/val-johnson-marshall-co-ufo-1/) [Evokes Other Tales,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12239477/val-johnson-marshall-co-ufo-2/)” Minneapolis Star, September 11, 1979, pp. 1, 5; Clark III 716 Source ID: Eberhart_5980 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19322 (D0EC65AD) Date: 8/15/1979 Description: A short humanoid with long arms was seen on the roadside of Highway D134 in France at 11:00 p.m. A man driving near the village of Lussac in Charente-Maritime department, France suddenly saw the short humanoid standing on the roadway, completely illuminated by his vehicle's headlights. The being raised its long arms and at this point the car's engine stalled. It was wearing a tight fitting outfit with a transparent helmet. The being then quickly jumped into the bushes and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1981; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1733, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_5050 Source: Johnson ### Event 19323 (33B79EC3) Date: 8/16/1979 Description: A 40-year-old farmer and four others in Providence, Kentucky reported observing a silver disc-shaped object with a bubble top tumbling and turning at an estimated 2,000 feet altitude at 4:30 p.m. If flew around for six minutes before going over some hills to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_5100 Source: Johnson ### Event 19324 (8E5CCFA2) Date: 8/16/1979 Description: 4:22 a.m. A male nurse is driving south on US Highway 19 seven miles south of Washington, Pennsylvania. Ahead of him on the left is a large, luminous object that looks like a football. It appears to be 60 feet up as he drives underneath it. It remains stationary as he drives away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ”Pennsylvania ‘Football,’” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5981 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19325 (667708B3) Date: 8/16/1979 Description: 4:30 p.m. A silver, pan-shaped object flies past an eastbound truck near Providence, Kentucky, at 2,000– 3,000 feet altitude. It tumbles in flight, turning over sideways before disappearing behind a hill. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Kentucky Daylight Saucer,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5982 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19326 (A22B85AD) Date: 8/17/1979 Description: 9:00 p.m. Elma l’Abbe is flying above Saint-Jovite, Quebec, in a Piper PA-28 Cherokee Warrior piloted by a friend. She looks out the window and notices that both wings are turning red. The pilot says his controls are jammed, but both feel the aircraft being pulled upward. They then see a large red ball of energy nearly 300 feet in diameter and 50 feet thick close to the right wing. It speeds away rapidly and appears to have a white light on its tail end. The aircraft falls about 1,000 feet and levels out at 4,000 feet. The object disappears into a cloud, where it rotates, showing red on one side and white on the other. The ball of light disappears into the orange sky of the sunset. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 92–95 Source ID: Eberhart_5983 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19327 (F864C676) Date: 8/19/1979 Description: Mother and children abducted (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: East Didsbury, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5234 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19328 (E472A321) Date: 8/19/1979 Description: 10:20 p.m. A witness at his home 16 miles southeast of Dallas, Texas, sees a shimmering light with amber portholes silently darting around near some radio towers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Texan NL,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5984 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19329 (A48D114C) Date: 8/19/1979 Description: On this evening a woman and her two children were picking wild flowers on the river bank in East Didsbury, England besides some open land when they noticed a flash of light with shades of pink, orange, and silver above a nearby golf course. Soon they saw a curious looking object descend towards the ground in an apparent crash landing. They ran up the embankment to get a better view of the object, which they described as resembling a gondola with a curved base and a girder-like structure, with a reddish glow on top. The witnesses felt attracted towards the object and began walking towards it. The next thing they knew they were running away, and the grass around them was swaying as if in a strong wind. The UFO could be seen flying silently away. After the incident the mother and daughter developed strange lesions on their legs, and her young son had nightmares. Under hypnosis the mother was able to recall several strange beings with elongated heads and "puppet like" faces. She remembered being examined on a table by some sort of light beam. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1583, citing Peter Hough & Jenny Randles, Mysteries Of The Mersey Valley Source ID: Johnson_5163 Source: Johnson ### Event 19330 (4D66760B) Date: 8/20/1979 Description: 7:30–9:00 p.m. Some 119 people in northern and eastern Poland observe several different types of cylindrical or spherical UFOs. Reports come from Sopot, Jurata, Gdańsk, Bydgoszcz, Malbork, Jastrzębie, Olsztyn, Świecie, and Warsaw. Vacationers in Sopot and Jurata see a cigar ejecting a smoky trail and flames. In Gdańsk, the objects are cigar-shaped or oblong changing into a sphere. Bogdan Śmiech from Malbork watches 9– 10 balls of light 3–4 miles above the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 72–73 Source ID: Eberhart_5985 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19331 (5D1FB4E9) Date: 8/23/1979 Description: 8:15 p.m. Two fishing boats belonging to the Szomborg family, the Hel-125 and Hel-127, are in the Baltic Sea some 46 miles off the Hel peninsula, Poland, when their radar malfunctions and the TV set reception fails. Lucjan Szomborg on the Hel-127 notices two bright-red lights in the air less than a mile away. Suddenly another larger, pulsating light appears abut 1,500 feet in front of the boat and the original two lights, which are apparently attached to a dark object, move silently toward it. A white light emerges from the two smaller lights, which then disappear in the distance. The pulsating light begins flashing erratically, emitting strong vibrations, and Szomborg steers his boat closer. The red light places itself directly in the Hel-127’s path three times, matching the boat’s course changes. The crew members begin to get nervous, some getting severe headaches, chest pains, and nausea. The navigator, Henryk Elwardt, is gripped with pain, affected by the pulsing vibrations. Szomborg, feeling symptoms of paralysis and temporary blindness, manages to change course and warn his father on the Hel-125 of danger. All the on-board equipment has suddenly stopped working. After 20 minutes, Szomborg notices that the red sphere has moved further away. The boats safely return to Hel by 4:00 a.m., and the equipment is working again. Doctors, neurologists, and psychiatrists examine the crew and find nothing physically wrong, but they are prescribed sedatives and the Polish Navy prohibits them from going out to sea for 3 weeks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 122–124; “[UFO nad Bałtykiem 23 sierpnia 1979 r.,](https://ufo-relacje.pl/2019/08/04/ufo-nad-baltykiem-23-sierpnia-1979-r/)” UFO-Relacje.pl, August 4, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_5987 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19332 (DD2EC760) Date: 8/25/1979 Description: 3:30 p.m. Three witnesses in a boat at Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, watch an object with a metallic surface move downward in an oscillating manner and maneuver for 6–7 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Wisconsin DD,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_5988 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19333 (D5AAF7DA) Date: 8/25/1979 Description: In Villenueve-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne department, France a 10-meter in diameter disc-shaped UFO paced a car at 11:20 a.m. for two minutes, and then stopped low over a field. No traces were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1979 Source ID: Johnson_5333 Source: Johnson ### Event 19334 (E4AB8450) Date: 8/25/1979 Description: A 25-year-old administrator and two of his companions on Balsam Lake in Polk County, Wisconsin watch a shiny metallic disc oscillating in the sky in a falling leaf motion for seven minutes. It stopped, rose up, circled, and then went off towards the northeast. That night in Hudon, Wisconsin four more people, including a 40-year-old salesman, witnessed a disc-shaped UFO for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_5334 Source: Johnson ### Event 19335 (0C50B78E) Date: Late 8/1979 Description: 10:00 p.m. Mrs. H. M. Dickinson and another witness see a small, transparent object shaped like a lightbulb moving west to east just outside the window of her home in Surry, Maine. Inside it is an entity sitting on a box and facing what seems to be a control panel. The object is lighted from within and blinks out after 5 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Seated Occupant in Light-Bulb-Shaped 1979 Maine CE-III,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 2 \(April/May 1984\): 1, 3 Source ID: Eberhart_5986 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19336 (38CE2D5E) Date: 8/26/1979 Description: Two men were walking and they looked up and saw a huge object coming towards them (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sitio Dentro, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5235 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19337 (52A0016F) Date: 8/26/1979 Description: Two men in Sitio Dentro, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil were walking back home late at night when they saw a huge bright light appear above them, illuminating the area like daytime. They looked up and saw a huge object coming towards them. They could see two beings inside the craft through a transparent window. The beings could be seen from the waist up and looked nearly identical to each other. Both men ran behind a house and squatted by a wall, trying to hide from the UFO. It then passed over a nearby bar making a very loud noise. The next morning they discovered that the roof of the bar had been tore off and several rafters had been broken. One of the men felt sick for three days after the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 2594, citing Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone Source ID: Johnson_5377 Source: Johnson ### Event 19338 (A7A791FB) Date: 8/27/1979 Description: Val Johnson Case (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases, Code: T, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [790827](http://www.nicap.org/790827marshallco%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marshall County, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5236 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19339 (15E12F83) Date: 8/27/1979 Description: 11:00 p.m. A family in Smithtown, New York, watches a round object with a band around its equator and many small orange lights fly toward them from the north. They remain outside after it disappears, hoping it will return, and it does, flying from west to east and rising up sharply and silently. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “New York NL Appears Twice,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5991 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19340 (29F19560) Date: 8/27/1979 Description: 2:30 p.m. Flying instructor Laurie Adlington has just left Blackbushe Airport in Yateley, Hampshire, England, with Lt. James Plastow from Sandhurst Military College for his pilot’s license test in a Cessna 150. They are at 2,000 feet heading toward Basingstoke when Adlington suddenly grabs the controls and throws the Cessna into a steep bank and descent to avoid a collision. An object suddenly speeds past the front of the aircraft, coming within a few feet of the windshield. The rotating object is about 12 inches in diameter, shaped like a doughnut, reflects light with a silvery glow “like a blob of mercury,” and has a honeycombed surface. They can make out the hint of an aerial on one side. The object begins flying around the plane for a short time before it flies underneath it and then streaks upward and away to about 3,000 feet. Possible early use of a drone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Omar Fowler, “[Mini-Disc over Blackbushe,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 1 \(June 1980\): 18–19 Source ID: Eberhart_5990 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19341 (69F2004A) Date: 8/27/1979 Description: 1:40 a.m. Deputy Sheriff [Val Johnson](https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/08/26/minnesota-deputy-squad-car-ufo-mystery) is on duty in the west end of Marshall County, Minnesota, driving on County Highway 5 west of Stephen when he sees a light through his side window. The light is to his south, shining from a grove of trees standing along State Highway 220 near the Red River. He thinks it might be from a downed drug-smuggling airplane. He turns south on 220, accelerates to 65 mph, and moves closer. The light moves toward him, traveling so fast that it crosses the 1.5 miles separating them almost instantaneously. It makes no sound and still looks just like a blinding light. Johnson hears glass breaking and sees the inside of the patrol car light up. After the light hits, he loses consciousness. When he wakes up, his head is resting on the steering wheel and his eyes are staring at the red “engine” light on the dashboard. He looks out the window and sees the car has skidded sideways across the northbound lane and now faces eastward. The front tires are touching the gravel on the shoulder. He can see only with difficulty and feels like he is moving in slow motion. At 2:19 a.m., he radios headquarters and asks for assistance. Deputy Greg Winskowski arrives on the scene shortly. Johnson is still inside the car with a red bump on his forehead, so he calls an ambulance. At the hospital, Dr. W. A. Pinsonneault examines Johnson’s eyes, but the probe light hurts so much that Johnson cannot stand it more than a few seconds at a time. Pinsonneault suspects corneal flash burns and covers his eyes with bandages. Sheriff Dennis Brekke drives Johnson’s 1977 Ford LTD patrol car back to the garage. The inside light on the driver’s side is smashed. On the hood, 4 feet 4 inches behind the smashed light and close to the windshield, is a flat-bottomed, circular dent, half an inch in diameter. A crack in the windshield on the driver’s side about 18 inches behind the dent runs top to bottom, with four apparent impacts; it looks as if a cluster of small objects, stones perhaps, have done the damage. The car’s battery-powered clock, set correctly at 7:00 p.m. when Johnson came on duty, is 14 minutes late. So is Johnson’s wind-up wristwatch, set at the same time. The red plastic lens covering the roof light on the driver’s side shows a triangular puncture, and the lens is dislodged from the housing. A radio antenna shaft is bent over at a 60° angle. The large “bubble” lamp just inches in front of the antenna is unscathed. The trunk antenna for CB radio is bent at 90°. Brekke, after calling the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois, takes Johnson to Grand Forks, North Dakota, at 11:00 a.m. for an eye examination by ophthalmologist Leonard Prochaska, who finds that Johnson’s problems have cleared up. [Allan Hendry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%5FHendry) of CUFOS determines that the car damage is inconsistent with anything an airplane could have caused. Meridan French, a windshield expert with the Glass Division of Ford Motor Company, concludes that a flat-ended object had made a forceful impact with the hood and then tilted toward the windshield. A team of engineers at Honeywell’s materials testing laboratory indicates that flying particles were responsible for the damage to the headlight glass and lamp plastic. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Val](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%5FJohnson%5Fincident) [Johnson incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%5FJohnson%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[Val Johnson Case](http://www.nicap.org/790827marshallco%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Deputy’s UFO Story](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12239437/val-johnson-marshall-co-ufo-1/) [Evokes Other Tales,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12239477/val-johnson-marshall-co-ufo-2/)” Minneapolis Star, September 11, 1979, pp. 1, 5; “Minnesota CEII: The Val Johnson Story,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 \(Sept./Oct. 1979\): 4–9; “Minnesota CEII: The Val Johnson Story, Part Two, Laboratory Analyses and Conclusion,” IUR 4, no. 5 \(November 1979\): 4–11; Chris Rutkowski, “[Special Report: Stephen, Minnesota; Not Proof, But…](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Swamp%20Gas%20Journal/Swamp%20Gas%20Journal%20-%201980%20Volume%201%20Number%207.pdf)” Swamp Gas Journal 1, no. 6 \(April 1980\): 1–4; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 25; Clark III 713–716 Source ID: Eberhart_5989 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19342 (1E130495) Date: 8/29/1979 Description: 2:00 a.m. Russ Johnson is driving on Highway 50 on the western outskirts of Vermillion, South Dakota, when he spots a blinding headlight in front of him. It is stationary for 2 seconds, then it streaks toward him and engulfs his car. Johnson closes his eyes and hits the brakes, skidding the car to a stop, spinning sideways until it faces east. He opens his eyes and sees the light heading away west. The next day, the still-shaken Johnson goes to the site with Robert Adams at the University of South Dakota, who sees the skid marks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 716; “Case 4-5- 2,” IUR 4, no. 5 \(November 1979\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_5992 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19343 (C52F3F73) Date: 8/29/1979 Description: 10:00 p.m. A 47-year-old housewife sees the lower corner of a gigantic “mothership” outside her living room window in a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois. The blimp-like UFO is so huge she can’t see the whole length or height. It extends the whole block of houses at treetop level. She reports four different kinds of humanoid creatures \(7 in all\) visible through the hull, which is luminous and yellow in color. She hears a loud humming sound. The duration is 45 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Two That Got Away,” IUR 5, no. 1 \(January 1980\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5995 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19344 (A4203338) Date: 8/29/1979 Description: 10:30 p.m. Charles Weeden and his father see an orange light moving erratically in the sky to the west over Sycamore, Illinois. They call the police, and Deputy Berna Van Vlerah looks outside the station 2.5 miles west of the Weedens and sees the orange light to her southeast, low above the horizon. Using binoculars, she sees a flat- bottomed orange dome shape within the light. She watches it for 5 minutes, then drives to the Weedens and watches it there to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Orange NL in Illinois?” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5996 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19345 (E6C1EE20) Date: 8/29/1979 Description: A silvery cigar with an orange light and square windows approached, hovered, and then finally sped away over the horizon in Ernestowo, Bydgoszcz, Poland. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 24; International UFO Reporter, May-June 1987, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_5471 Source: Johnson ### Event 19346 (4B83C9CA) Date: 8/29/1979 Description: Silvery cigar with orange light and square windows approached, hovered, finally sped away over horizon Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Ernestowo, Poland Source ID: HallUFOE2_344 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19347 (338A57FC) Date: 8/29/1979 Description: Silvery cigar with orange light and square windows approached, hovered, and finally sped away over horizon (section IX) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ernestowo, Poland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5237 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19348 (470467BE) Date: 8/29/1979 Description: Two primary school students were walking home from school through Zachodni Park in Wroclaw, Poland around four p.m. As they were walking by one of the alleys they saw a strange disc-shaped object on the ground, with two silvery-garbed humanoids standing next to it. Another being was inside the transparent dome on the top of the object. The students ran to get additional witnesses, but when they returned to the landing site the object and its occupants were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing Tymoteusz Tobala & Marcin Mioduszewski, CBUFOIZA, Poland Source ID: Johnson_5470 Source: Johnson ### Event 19349 (7B016BEA) Date: 8/29/1979 Description: Mount Cameron, Tasmania, Australia - The witness had gone outside at 7:30 p.m. to investigate the reason her dog was barking when she noticed a bright light above a nearby mountain. It accelerated its downward approach and came towards her. The witness mentally told the object to retreat, which it then did. Subsequently the witness saw an apparition of a small humanoid (not described) that was in a seated position. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citingMark Moravec, PSIUFO Phenomena Source ID: Johnson_5472 Source: Johnson ### Event 19350 (60B69D30) Date: 8/29/1979 Description: The 47-year-old witness was at home in her Oak Lawn residence, southwest of Chicago, Illinois as she watched a huge blimp-like structure pass over her house at treetop level. Through the craft's luminous yellow hull, apparently transparent, four different types of three-foot-tall humanoids could be seen. The object made a loud humming and roaring sound as if left the area. No other witnesses were located. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 292, citing International UFO Reporter, January-February 1980 Source ID: Johnson_5473 Source: Johnson ### Event 19351 (2D425807) Date: 8/29/1979 Description: 7:30 p.m. A married couple is taking their dog on a duck hunt between Dziki and Ernestowo, Poland, when they notice a “strange orange ball” coming from behind a hill about 3 miles away. The husband studies it through binoculars, estimating its speed as about 95 mph. The ball proves to be the front of a huge steel-colored cigar- shaped object, which stops 1,300 feet away and hovers above some buildings for about 10 seconds. They can see five large, square windows with rounded corners; the three in the front glow with orange light, while the other two seem covered by a shade. The object moves forward about 40 feet and stops. Half a minute later, sparks shoot from the rear and the UFO vanishes over the horizon. An orange glow remains behind. Alojzy Pawlik sees the same object in Laskowice at about the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bronislaw Rzepecki, “Encounters in Poland,” IUR 12, no. 3 \(May/June 1987\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_5994 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19352 (C3AB0036) Date: 8/29/1979 Description: 11:15 p.m. Harry Joe Turner is driving a 1974 Kenworth tractor-trailer loaded with mustard and ketchup on US Highway 17 two miles from Warrenton, Virginia. His CB radio starts acting up, giving out a noise that gets louder and louder. Something grabs him tightly on his left shoulder. He sees a large object looming over his cab and hears two thumps. Even though he is going 70 mph, he sees a figure standing outside. When it throws open the door, Turner grabs his .32 automatic pistol and fires 8 rounds at it with no effect. He then blacks out. Turner wakes up in the passenger seat at 3:00 a.m. at his destination in a Fredericksburg warehouse but can’t remember how he got there. The odometer indicates he has only traveled 17 miles, not 80, yet he has used 114 gallons of fuel. The top 2 inches of the CB antenna are melted off, and 30 inches of the AM/FM antenna has broken off. A filmy substance covers the truck. He drives back home but is confused and his eyes are overly sensitive to light. Turner wakes up in a Winchester hospital diagnosed with a broken blood vessel in his left eye. He begins to remember more about the experience and recalls his truck being lifted into a UFO piloted by two humanlike figures dressed in white shirts and pants, one of whom is named Alpha La Zoo Loo. He seems to take a trip in space to a planet beyond Alpha Centauri. On September 3, after taking valium, Turner is arrested for speeding. He thinks aliens are chasing him. Turner continues to undergo anxiety attacks. [Allan Hendry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%5FHendry) and Fred Whiting from the Center for UFO Studies are unable to corroborate Turner’s story, and the two antennas appear to be deliberately altered. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Iris Maack, “[Truck, Rig, Abducted \(?\),](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201979%2012%2000%20-%20Vol%2028%20No%206.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 28, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 1–3; Clark III 1139–1141 Source ID: Eberhart_5997 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19353 (21655536) Date: 8/29/1979 Description: 8:00 a.m. A woman is in her alfalfa field 10 miles north of Pasco, Washington, when she sees what appears to be a post sitting a half-mile away. It is about 4–5 feet tall. About 10 minutes later she sees that the object is now in the air, flying slowly in a horizontal position, land bullet-shaped, looking black on its flat end and silver on its rounded end. A neighbor also sees the object before it disappears in the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Flying Fence Post in Washington State,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_5993 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19354 (6054499C) Date: 8/30/1979 Description: 4:00 p.m. During a thunderstorm, three passengers and the driver watch a 2-foot yellow and green ball of light rush down from the north only 5 feet in front of a Metropolitan Transit Commission bus on the southwest side of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It hits the pavement and erupts into a shower of sparks and smoke with a loud explosion. The shocked bus driver runs over the point of impact as the vehicle is shaking. No lasting effects can be found in the pavement after the storm. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 4-5-3,” IUR 4, no. 5 \(November 1979\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_5999 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19355 (A929EC7E) Date: 8/30/1979 Description: 2:30 a.m. A student camping out at Slip Bluff County Park near Lamoni, Iowa, is awakened by her dog barking. She sees a formation of lights on an oval object about a city block away. It moves away horizontally, still close to the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Landing in Iowa?” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_5998 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19356 (25B5050D) Date: 9/1979 Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy is losing momentum due to lack of money and public support. Search fees have become prohibitive: In response to a CAUS request for data on UFO trackings, NORAD informs them that it will require 18,383 hours and $294,157. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1979 Source ID: Eberhart_6000 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19357 (76276865) Date: 9/2/1979 Description: The witness, a surveyor, was out picking mushrooms at five o'clock in the afternoon in a wooded part of Petushka, Russia when he came upon a large, shiny, metallic looking mushroom-shaped craft on the ground. The bottom half of the craft emitted a soft pink light, and the top domed section was encased in an orange mist. The craft appeared to be spinning and emitting luminous flashes from its edges. Two short men emerged from the object. They were strongly built with broad shoulders and strong chests. They wore black tight-fitting suits that covered their entire bodies. The suits had two small slits at eye level. They were talking among themselves in a language that sounded more like the twittering of birds than anything else. They appeared to inspect the craft, and then were somehow sucked up inside it. The UFO subsequently took off. On the spot where the object had been resting the soil was found to be totally sterile with all living organisms completely absent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 835, citing Gordon Creighton, FSR, Vol. 27, number 5; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13272 Source ID: Johnson_5580 Source: Johnson ### Event 19358 (FA94F80B) Date: 9/2/1979 Description: Witness was out picking mushrooms and saw a landed UFO which effected the ground (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Petushka, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5238 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19359 (A35DEEA2) Date: 9/3/1979 Description: 10:40 p.m. Two witnesses in Cape Charles, Virginia, see a bright light zigzagging in an unusual manner for one minute in the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Virginia NL,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6003 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19360 (EC90D15A) Date: 9/3/1979 Description: 9:30 p.m. Two couples in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, see a red disc hovering in the western sky as they are driving from their cottage. The dashboard and engine lights fail, so the driver pulls over. The lights come back on but go off again when the car moves forward again. This happens again 5–6 times in less than a minute. Once their view of the light is blocked, the lights come back on. The object moves on to the southwest at incredible speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Car Interference Case,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6002 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19361 (14EB4B5D) Date: 9/3/1979 Description: At 9:30 p.m. two married couples had a close encounter of the second kind with a disc-shaped object while driving in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allen Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, p. 6, 12; UNICAT, case # 85 Source ID: Johnson_5610 Source: Johnson ### Event 19362 (414544A0) Date: 9/3/1979 Description: Following a series of low level sightings in Gateshead, England by the main witness and her family, the woman awoke in the middle of this night to see a small metallic disc-shaped object inside her bedroom. A dozen small dwarfs now appeared. They were about three feet tal and had large heads and eyes and feminine features. They wore white uniforms and white cloaks. They walked up to her bed and examined her. The witness was paralyzed during the encounter. She later reported a subsequent incident with another entity. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 764, citing John Watson, Northern UFO News, # 74 Source ID: Johnson_5609 Source: Johnson ### Event 19363 (4F7BA400) Date: 9/3/1979 Description: 7:30 p.m. Two witnesses watch an “aluminum oil drum with wings” flying silently above Oroville, California, in a straight line. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “California Flying Drum,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6001 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19364 (A8ADCBB5) Date: 9/3/1979 Description: Following a series of low level sightings in Gateshead by the main witness and her family, the woman awoke in the middle of this night to see a small metallic disc- shaped object inside her bedroom. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gateshead, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5241 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19365 (DAFDC260) Date: 9/4/1979 Description: 8:15 p.m. Two boys in Ashland, Wisconsin, watch a cone-shaped object with a slightly curved bottom flopping around and tumbling in the sky. They chase it on their bicycles but it outdistances them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Tumbling Cone in Wisconsin,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6005 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19366 (E06A1910) Date: 9/4/1979 Description: 7:45 p.m. Three men are driving north along Richmond Township Road A near New Richmond, Wisconsin, when they see a silver disc 500 feet to the west over some treetops. It moves toward the road and crosses it at 10 mph behind their pickup, then pausing to hover above a field 10 feet up. They jump out to watch the UFO wobbling about 300 feet away. Two more cars stop to watch. The object moves off to the east, still wobbling. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “DD and Independent Witnesses,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6004 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19367 (F7663BBC) Date: 9/4/1979 Description: A small silver disc-shaped object, 2.5 to 3.0 feet in diameter, hovered with a wobbling motion low over a field in New Richmond, Wisconsin at 7:45 p.m. It rose and moved away, still wobbling. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, p. 7; UNICAT, case 86 Source ID: Johnson_5638 Source: Johnson ### Event 19368 (DB8C0232) Date: 9/5/1979 Description: 10 :45 a.m. Lawrence Hogan is driving on County Road MM one mile east of Dresser, Wisconsin. A black dot moves over the trees ahead of him about 50 feet up, slowing down 600 feet away and descending below the tree line. He stops his truck to watch it move east. He sees that the object is metallic and silent. He chases it, alternately moving and hovering, for 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Then, the Next Day,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_6007 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19369 (9AD7AC63) Date: 9/5/1979 Description: 3:40 a.m. Dr. Barbara Anaczkowska-Piazza, a driver, and a stretcher bearer are taking a pregnant patient in an ambulance from Żuławka Sztumska to the hospital at Sztum, Poland. As they are passing through Tropy Sztumskie, they notice a large orange-red ball on their left that seems to parallel them as they turn toward Kalwa. At one point it looks so close that the driver fears it will block their way. It seems to have two dark, horizontal bands across it. They turn back to a railway crossing and alert the guards to the object, which is now less bright and soon turns dark. The observation lasts 20 minutes. Although there are some discrepancies in the accounts of its movement, Wim van Utrecht and others are certain that it was the full moon setting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Emma Popik, “Under Intelligent Control?” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 6 \(March 1981\): 2–4; Poland 55–57; Wim van Utrecht, “[Lunar](https://www.hjkc.de/%5Fblog/16471-ufo-forschung-ifo-universitt-moon-madness/) [Terror in Poland: A Doctor’s Dilemma,](https://www.hjkc.de/%5Fblog/16471-ufo-forschung-ifo-universitt-moon-madness/)” CENAP UFO-Forschung, October 31, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_6006 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19370 (5227613A) Date: 9/5/1979 Description: At 10:45 a.m. a large, football-shaped object with a brilliant metallic sheen was seen by five witnesses near a lake two miles east of Dresser, Wisconsin. It closed to within 200 meters of their car, moved over the lake, and was seen again later over a gravel pit; it ascended at an 85 degree angle. Total duration was five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, pp. 7, 12; APRO Bulletin, December 1979, p. 3; UNICAT, case # 87 Source ID: Johnson_5659 Source: Johnson ### Event 19371 (1E4AD972) Date: 9/9/1979 Description: 4:30 a.m. A driver sees a bright amber light through her windshield to the west in Streamwood, Illinois. It approaches, then moves back to the west, dipping left and right. It approaches again, floating downward and growing brighter. Red and yellow spikes of light emanate from a bright white center. When she feels her face growing hot, she pulls sharply onto another street. Looking through her rear-view mirror, she sees the light make an abrupt turn to the left and disappear in the north in a few seconds. By noon, her face is sunburned and sore; the skin flakes off the next day and she quickly recovers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 4-5-4,” IUR 4, no. 5 \(November 1979\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6008 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19372 (6F7B3FA5) Date: 9/9/1979 Description: The silver disc had angular size about half that of the full moon. The black center could be resolved on the underside and the outline was distinct against the clear blue sky. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chicago, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5243 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19373 (DDB67DB1) Date: 9/9/1979 Description: At 8:30 p.m. (PDT) a group of geologists spotted a cone-shaped object that emitted a smaller box-shaped object northwest of Maricopa, California. The box then flew along the San Andreas fault line. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1989, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_5806 Source: Johnson ### Event 19374 (30F865C4) Date: 9/9/1979 Description: A 28-year-old female medical technician suffered physiological effects from a close encounter with a UFO at 4:30 a.m. in Streamwood, Cook County, Illinois. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, November 1979, p. 12; UNICAT, case 97 Source ID: Johnson_5804 Source: Johnson ### Event 19375 (AEF333B5) Date: 9/9/1979 Description: Four or five 6-pointed star-shaped objects paced a police Cessna airplane with three passengers flying 30 kilometers north of Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany at 9:30 p.m. They darted back and forth in front of the light plane, playing cat-and-mouse. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases - Europe, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_5803 Source: Johnson ### Event 19376 (A0D2D515) Date: 9/9/1979 Description: 7:30 p.m. A salesman and some customers are outside in Richfield, Minnesota, when they notice a silver form shaped like a truck tire with a flat underside moving to the south. It hovers for 4–5 seconds before moving off only 80–90 feet away from them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Minnesota Daylight CE I,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_6009 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19377 (A1CACFE5) Date: 9/9/1979 Description: "Gee, that looks like a flying saucer," thought the 38-year-old witness in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois when he observed a silver disc moving directly overhead at 4:30 in the afternoon. His neighbors and the members of his family agreed. The silver disc had a black center on the underside and was distinct against the clear blue sky. Its angular size was about half that of the full moon. There was no noise as it moved south to northeast at high altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_5805 Source: Johnson ### Event 19378 (6B116784) Date: 9/11/1979 Description: Repeated reports of multiple nocturnal lights maneuvering back and forth across the sky were made from the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington State from 11:00 p.m. onwards. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Vogel, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, p. 9; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 191; UNICAT, case # 88 Source ID: Johnson_5869 Source: Johnson ### Event 19379 (3BFB26E2) Date: 9/11/1979 Description: 5:40 p.m. Donald Schultie watches a blue-gray object approach him from the east in Millsboro, Delaware. His son and councilwoman Dorothy Grey also see it. The UFO is an oblate sphere with a flashing white light. He estimates it is 10 feet wide. It hovers 300–500 feet away in a nearby field for 5 minutes then moves up and away to the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Delaware DD,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_6010 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19380 (778C9236) Date: 9/11/1979 Description: A phantom helicopter was seen over Albuquerque, New Mexico on this night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1979, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_5868 Source: Johnson ### Event 19381 (1DE97A3F) Date: 9/11/1979 Description: All electrical power failed in the city of Huaihua, China at 8:50 p.m. Next, a UFO shooting beams of light was seen, leaving behind a lens-shaped cloud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 132 Source ID: Johnson_5867 Source: Johnson ### Event 19382 (B1318874) Date: 9/12/1979 Description: 8:45 p.m. A complete power failure takes place in Huaihua, Hunan, China. At 9:00 p.m., a bright object appears overhead, emitting a vertical stream of white rays. It flies upward at an angle and vanishes soundlessly a minute later, leaving two masses of hemispherical luminous clouds about 328 feet across. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dong and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, p. 132 Source ID: Eberhart_6011 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19383 (A6D65293) Date: 9/12/1979 Description: 11:00 p.m. A fire lookout at the Satus Peak tower on the Yakama, Washington, Indian Reservation sees a large orange ball of light between the Goat Rocks Wilderness Area and Mount Adams. It remains below the skyline for the most part, slowly moving in a number of different directions before fading from view. An hour and 15 minutes later, two more orange balls appear in the area of Simon Butte. Moving erratically. They are joined by a third light, and all fade away after 45 seconds. The third ball apparently makes another appearance 5 minutes later and is visible for 45 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “More NLs in Yakima,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_6012 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19384 (9834904A) Date: 9/14/1979 Description: Disc with flamelike jets around perimeter hovered ahead of car, darted from point to point; took off at "very high speed" (section X). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canoga Park, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5244 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19385 (AD088DD1) Date: 9/14/1979 Description: A beam of light shone through the witness's bedroom window and she suddenly felt dizzy. She then felt herself being levitated through some form of a tunnel and encountered two aliens in a field. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oakenholt, Wales, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5245 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19386 (03B7807F) Date: 9/14/1979 Description: Two women in Canoga Park, California witnessed a disc-shaped object with flamelike jets around the perimeter hovering ahead of their car at 7:55 p.m. It tilted, darted from point to point, and then took off at very high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ann Drufel, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 13; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_5968 Source: Johnson ### Event 19387 (4AF704FE) Date: 9/14/1979 Description: On this night a beam of light shone through the witness's bedroom window in Oakenholt, Wales and she suddenly felt dizzy. She then felt herself being levitated through some form of a tunnel and encountered two aliens in a field. A huge craft hovered nearby and a beam of light lifted her inside. The interior of the craft consisted of one large room with three other alien beings and an almost human appearing girl of about 19 years of age. The room contained a portrait of an older being, apparently a leader. After a 30 minute otherworldly trip the beings showed her an alien zoo with many bizarre animals. The beings communicated with the witness and then said goodbye, whereupon she then found herself back in her bed again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 2234, citing Jenny Randles & Paul Whetnall Source ID: Johnson_5967 Source: Johnson ### Event 19388 (79A02D4C) Date: 9/14/1979 Description: Disc with flamelike jets around perimeter hovered ahead of car, darted from point to point. Took off at "very high speed" Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Canoga Park, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_345 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19389 (739409F4) Date: 9/14/1979 Description: At 6:30 a.m. a boat crew off the coast of Siniscola, Sardegna, Italy watched a sphere with luminous rays as it hovered for ten minutes over the ocean, then shot away fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 200, December 1980 Source ID: Johnson_5966 Source: Johnson ### Event 19390 (A348269F) Date: Mid 9/1979 Description: 4:30 a.m. Teenagers Holly Travis and Debbie LaRose wake up at the Travis house in Sanford, Maine, and see through a window a huge, orange, round object whose underside is clearly visible as it slowly \(10–15 mph\) passes overhead, gently spinning on its axis, at about 500 feet elevation. It slowly descends behind the roof of the neighbor’s house. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard Sigismond, “Four Huge Orange Discs and the Case for the UFO,” IUR 8, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1983\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_6013 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19391 (EF125FFB) Date: 9/16/1979 Description: Night. Curtis Olson is mowing hay on his farm near Lake City, Minnesota, when he finds a circle of flattened corn 50 feet in diameter. The stalks are flattened in a pattern radiating from the center of the circle, and some are charred. He finds a path leading to another circle 18 feet away. At first, he thinks lightning caused it, but then he considers the possibility of a UFO. County Extension Agent [Matt Metz](https://www.postbulletin.com/mathias-p-matt-metz-wabasha/article%5Fc1b03785-3d07-59f5-96d9-eb0df5347326.html) thinks it might have been a combination of wind and decay. In 1987, Curtis’s uncle David Olson admits to creating the circles as a practical joke, using his burlap-covered feet and a posthole tamper. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Farmer Says UFO](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97555844/) [Caused Field Damage,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97556001/)” Minneapolis Tribune, September 19, 1979, pp. 2B, 4B; “[Not Everyone in Lake City](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97556418/) [Accepting Prankster’s](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97556508/) [Confession in UFO Mystery,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97556508/)” Minneapolis Star and Tribune, April 8, 1987, pp. 1B, 6B; Clark III 602 Source ID: Eberhart_6014 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19392 (13677CF9) Date: 9/17/1979 Description: In the Bavarian town of Eichstatt three pentagon-shaped UFOs were seen by many, including 10 police officers. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eichstatt, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_5247 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19393 (22583575) Date: 9/17/1979 Description: 9:00 p.m. A witness driving in Portsmouth, Virginia, sees a large star approaching her until it is only 30 feet up and less than a block away. She says it seems as large as a three-story house and looks like a gigantic faceted wedding cake with three layers. She hears a muffled sound of a motor. One small green light is on the object’s side, while the underside floods the ground with light. After 2 minutes, it moves slowly off to the left. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Faceted Wedding Cake?” IUR 4. No. 6 \(December 1979\): 9–10 Source ID: Eberhart_6015 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19394 (284494C8) Date: 9/17/1979 Description: At quarter past midnight in the Bavarian town of Eichstatt, Germany three pentagon-shaped UFOs were seen by many, including 10 police officers. One object hovered at 500 meters, then shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1981; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13306, citing MUFON Source ID: Johnson_6049 Source: Johnson ### Event 19395 (F07A4B78) Date: 9/17/1979 Description: At 7:30 a.m. a luminous white disc-shaped object was seen hovering over some trees in Vieille-Eglise, Pas-de-Calais, France; it shot away toward the northeast. Shortly after that three military interceptor jets converged on the location. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1981 Source ID: Johnson_6050 Source: Johnson ### Event 19396 (7102A2D7) Date: 9/19/1979 Description: At 7:00 p.m. four witnesses, including two 11-year-old boys with the surnames Lara and Moron, had a close encounter with a hovering, flashing, round red light in an empty lot in the neighborhood of Lujan de Cuyo, the city of Santa Ines, Mendoza province, Argentina. The object, which was emitting the flashing red light from the top of the craft, was 20 meters above ground at the time. After touching down on the ground, the object rose two meters into the air, and then landed again. Its color changed from red to white to blue. The UFO landed with a shrill sound, giving off rays of blue and white light. At the landing site were found five holes, three centimeters in diameter and two cm deep, with one of the holes in the center. These imprint marks were within a 50 cm circle marked on ground, which was compacted and hard.No unusual radioactivity was detected, but a policeman who touched the traces had his hand swell up. A general power blackout occurred in the area at the time, which was associated with the UFO landing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1979, p. 11, citing Cronica, September 24, 1979; UNICAT, case # 461, citing Daniel Moreno, UFO Press, July 1983, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_6100 Source: Johnson ### Event 19397 (EFDAD618) Date: 9/19/1979 Description: [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932), on behalf of Ground Saucer Watch, meets with CIA attorneys and Judge [John H. Pratt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FH.%5FPratt) at US District Court for the District of Columbia. The CIA has moved for summary judgment, asserting that the GSW requests for UFO files are an “undue burden” and that the papers released so far are of little importance. Pratt gives GSW 60 days to provide a written response to the CIA motion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1979 Source ID: Eberhart_6016 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19398 (45F7E244) Date: 9/19/1979 Description: A man was surprised to see a circular gray metallic object on the ground near his house. A short human-like figure appeared next to the craft. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Barrio La Gloria, Mendoza province, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_5248 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19399 (64F3D503) Date: 9/19/1979 Description: The witness, a military man, awoke in the middle of the night in his home in Barrio La Gloria, Mendoza province, Argentina unable to sleep, so he lit a cigarette and walked to the kitchen, leaving his family still sleeping. He leaned on the kitchen window ledge, and when he pulled the curtain aside he was surprised to see a circular gray metallic object on the ground near his house. A short, human-like figure appeared next to the craft. He wore a very white outfit with what appeared to be a bright green visor over the eyes. The witness sensed some type of telepathic message, but could not recall its contents, and does not remember how the figure and the object left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 376, citing Richard Heiden, quoting R. Banchs Source ID: Johnson_6099 Source: Johnson ### Event 19400 (5FAD4C58) Date: 9/20/1979 Description: 5:30 a.m. A woman is driving in Poplar Grove, Illinois, when a pear-shaped blue light, surrounded by a white haze, engulfs her van in blinding light. Her AM radio is racked with static. She floors the accelerator to get away but can’t get past 40 mph. She recalls a sense of lightness as if she and the van are floating. The next thing she remembers is driving almost 6 miles further ahead at the intersection of Beaverton and Poplar Grove Road. She stops a police car for help, and her husband comes to pick her up. She sleeps abnormally and exhibits bouts of hysteria for a while after the event. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 4-5-5,” IUR 4, no. 5 \(November 1979\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6017 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19401 (D2EAB969) Date: 9/20/1979 Description: Miroslaw Goralski and Krzysztof Kobus had been working in their garden in Sztum, Poland late in the evening and at 9 p.m. were cleaning their tools when a UFO descended abruptly into their enclosure. One witness described the UFO as resembling a "ring," and the other--who saw it from a different angle--said it looked like "two silver deltas connected by a cross." Both men experienced a high frequency squeaking sound in their heads. As they approached to investigate they were engulfed by a dense white "fog" and illuminated by bright light. They both felt inertial effects as if rising up into the air at high speed. Kobus propped himself against a soft object like an "armchair," which later vanished, and he experienced a kaleidoscope of colors and other odd sensations as if thoughts were flowing into his brain from an external source. Goralski asked questions of what he supposed were unseen entities, and obtained partial answers in an unspecific fashion. "What is matter?" he asked, and the answer he received was, "The most important attribute of matter is its ability to pervade through other matter." Goralski leaned over to the edge of the "fog" and could clearly see the town below. He experienced a visual display like a "time tunnel," including people in costumes of bygone days. Suddenly they fell, as if from a height of about 30 cm, and landed back in the garden. Goralski ran home, arriving there at 9:30 p.m.. The witnesses were administered psychological test, that indicated their personalities were normal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Emilia Popik, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1980, p. 16; Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1981; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 306; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 155; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2221; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing MUFON Journal Source ID: Johnson_6149 Source: Johnson ### Event 19402 (0E5D8EF1) Date: 9/20/1979 Description: At 5:30 a.m. a pear-shaped form of blue light engulfed an automobile being driven by a 28-year-old nursing home employee in Poplar Grove, Illinois. The surrounding area was lit up like daylight. In addition, the car's AM radio was racked with static and the car lost power and was unable to exceed 40 mph. The woman next experienced an undetermined amount of missing time. At the same time another close encounter occurred in Fennimore, Wisconsin when a Mr. G. Gratz encountered a landed UFO that gave off a sulphurous odor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, November 1979, p. 12; UNICAT, case # 98; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 68 Source ID: Johnson_6148 Source: Johnson ### Event 19403 (FF4A338E) Date: 9/21/1979 Description: Two men working in garden saw landed UFO and entities (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sztum, Poland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5250 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19404 (9763E91F) Date: 9/23/1979 Description: In Feignies, Nord, France a near collision occurred on the D136 highway between an automobile and a six-meter wide disc on the highway, at five o'clock in the morning. The UFO had portholes around its rim. It flew off toward the southwest into some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1980 Source ID: Johnson_6267 Source: Johnson ### Event 19405 (C42DA0C5) Date: 9/23/1979 Description: A silver cigar-shaped object approached a cattle lot two miles north of Dexter. It was only 150 feet above the ground, had no wings or windows, and made no sound. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dexter, Ia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5252 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19406 (9BA5371D) Date: 9/23/1979 Description: A near collision occurred on the D136 highway between an automobile and a sixmeter wide disc on the highway. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nord, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5253 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19407 (DD0AAD32) Date: Fall 1979 Description: MUFOB changes its name to Magonia, with a nod to [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e)’s book Passport to Magonia. It continues until April 2009. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Magonia](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Magonia/Magonia%20-%20No%2001%20-%201979.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Magonia/Magonia%20-%20No%2001%20-%201979.pdf) no. 1 \(Autumn 1979\); Clark III 706; “[History of](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/p/future-publications.html) [Magonia](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/p/future-publications.html)[,](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/p/future-publications.html)” Magonia Archive Source ID: Eberhart_6020 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19408 (8B4D4E3D) Date: 9/23/1979 Description: A silver cigar-shaped object approached a cattle lot two miles north of Dexter, Iowa at 1:28 p.m. It was only 150 feet above the ground, had no wings or windows, and made no sound. It hovered in place for a few minutes so the witness, a 49-year-old contractor, got out of his truck and attempted to walk underneath it. It then moved off toward the northeast, moving rapidly, and rose slightly into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_6268 Source: Johnson ### Event 19409 (36D42DBB) Date: 9/25/1979 Description: In a farming region of Talco a peasant out plowing the fields encountered a landed disc-shaped craft. A tall humanoid emerged from the object and briefly chased the peasant. The humanoid caught up with the farmer placing its hand on his shoulder. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Talco, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_5254 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19410 (BCECF3FD) Date: 9/25/1979 Description: At 5 p.m. two witnesses at Lake George in Rochester, New York saw a silent, chrome-colored flattened sphere rise in the sky and shoot off to the northeast. It left behind no trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, December 1979, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_6329 Source: Johnson ### Event 19411 (2DA53F2D) Date: 9/25/1979 Description: In a farming region of Talco, Chile a peasant out plowing the fields encountered a landed disc-shaped craft. A tall humanoid emerged from the object and briefly chased the peasant. The humanoid caught up with the farmer, placing its hand on his shoulder. Later the farmer was treated at a local hospital for second and third degree burns on his shoulder, apparently caused by the humanoid's touch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1075, citing Saga 1980 UFO Annual Source ID: Johnson_6328 Source: Johnson ### Event 19412 (9DD60962) Date: 9/26/1979 Alternate date: 9/27/1979 Description: 8:45 p.m. Pat Gagliardo and another woman watch a single, blinking white light moving above the treetops near Norwich, Connecticut. They drive home to get two binoculars and another witness, then see the light approaching them from the east, now visibly attached to a boomerang-shaped object with the concave side toward them. It stops, tumbles end over end, and moves toward them again, slowly passing overhead, then shoots off to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Connecticut NL,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_6018 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19413 (EBD0C1F5) Date: 9/26/1979 Description: A witness in Monsey watched a saucer-shaped craft hover above some nearby power lines. The craft emitted a soft humming sound and was about 35 feet in diameter. Then he saw a shadowy figure. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Monsey, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5256 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19414 (09B0C044) Date: 9/26/1979 Description: At 5:00 p.m. a witness in Monsey, New York watched a saucer-shaped craft hover above some nearby power lines. The craft emitted a soft humming sound and was about 35 feet in diameter. On the bottom of the object there was a ring of rotating colored lights. On the upper section was a circular row of windows, and at the top was an antenna like projection. The witness stood about 80 feet away and was able to see shadowy figures appearing at the windows. The UFO then flew straight up and away at incredible speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_6360 Source: Johnson ### Event 19415 (393D68DD) Date: 9/29/1979 Description: 8:45 a.m. A screenwriter sees two bright silver spheres moving above Hollywood, California. Each is somewhat smaller than a full moon and are revolving counterclockwise around a common axis between them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Different Kind of Hollywood Spectacle,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_6019 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19416 (ADC1E772) Date: 10/1979 Description: Day. Cornel Alexandru Olteanu is gathering mushrooms in a forest near Valea Berii near the source of the Teleajen River in the Ciucaş Mountains, Romania. He notices a gray object like a car in a clearing under a high cliff about 320 feet away. He walks toward it and sees it looks more like a metallic disc with a turret and is sitting on 3–4 legs. Nearby are two little men about 4 feet tall who seem to be working on something. They have large eyes, bald heads, and yellowish skin, and they are dressed in a one-piece suit. Noticing him, they turn toward Olteanu, who is suddenly unable to move. The men turn around and climb up a ladder into the object. Flashing white lights come on and the object takes off into the sky and over some trees, which bend over as if they are going through a hurricane. After it is gone, Olteanu can move again. He notices a yellowish stain at the landing site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 132–133 Source ID: Eberhart_6023 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19417 (E9BCE173) Date: 10/1979 Description: In a remote area near Melville, Saskatchewan, a CUFOS investigator is looking into a cattle mutilation when his truck begins swerving uncontrollably. He stops and gets out as he hears a low humming noise in the nearby bush. Walking toward it, he feels sharp pains in his back and his knees collapse. The hum becomes louder as he crawls back to the truck and drives away. He loses his sense of direction and hears a rapid clicking noise. The speedometer needle fluctuates wildly between 10 and 85 mph. Suddenly his disorientation leaves and he drives home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Two CE-IIs in Western Canada,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 \(August 1980\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_6022 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19418 (93E33AB0) Date: 10/1979 Description: Construction for an F-117A Nighthawk support facility begins at Tonopah Test Range inside Area 52, Nevada. The facility at Area 51 serves as a model for the Tonopah project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 343](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/342/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6021 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19419 (750D7A26) Date: 10/4/1979 Description: In the early evening a seven-year old boy in Handsworth, Sheffield, England watched a seven-foot-tall silvery figure that was apparently drilling a hole in the ground with a tube. The boy watched the figure until it suddenly spotted him. The figure then disappeared in a puff of pink smoke. Four non-human looking footprints were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing Janet & Colin Bord, Modern Mysteries of Britain Source ID: Johnson_6560 Source: Johnson ### Event 19420 (F1DCB28C) Date: 10/4/1979 Description: Garbage collector Aldo Natoli was on his way to work in Viggiu Varese, Italy at 3:20 a.m. when he spotted two strange figures suspended about 20 cm from the ground, and gesticulating animatedly among themselves without making a sound. Natoli stopped his Vespa motorscooter and continued observing the scene. The figures were thin and human-like, wearing dark blue, loose fitting coveralls. Their eyes were fluorescent and they had black hair. When the witness restarted his scooter, the figures disappeared into the darkness. The scooter then malfunctioned but moments later it started again. He then drove away from the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing C.U.N. Source ID: Johnson_6559 Source: Johnson ### Event 19421 (C144690A) Date: 10/4/1979 Description: 12:00 noon. A sales manager watches a silver, domed-shaped object with a black flat bottom from a 38th- floor window on Madison Avenue and 26th Street in New York City. It is seen by three others on the same floor and two others on the floor immediately below. It moves north and makes a sharp turn before apparently hitting the Empire State Building. It clears the Pan Am building and flies off along the Hudson River at a high altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The UFO That Almost Hit the Empire State Building,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_6024 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19422 (AC876870) Date: 10/6/1979 Description: A 28-year-old stone mason and his companion driving between Capulin and Des Moines, New Mexico at three o'clock in the morning had a close encounter with an octagonal UFO that came in low in front of the car. It was several times larger than the Moon, with light that was shining through sections of the object. It appeared to be metallic, with bolts "like a tank," and passed slowly and silently over the car headed eastbound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_6610 Source: Johnson ### Event 19423 (59444E01) Date: 10/6/1979 Description: The witness had been watching television late at night by himself in Toms River, New Jersey when around midnight a sense of apprehension overcame him and an intense blue light appeared inside the room. It brightened and then faded. The witness armed himself with a handgun and went outside to investigate. He saw a bright light among the nearby trees. Something then touched his neck and he dropped his gun and fell to the ground, unable to move. Several shadowy, short humanoids came up to him. They had bright eyes, long fingers, and skinny arms. The beings seemed weak and fearful of him. They also felt cold to the touch. A light surrounded the witness and he floated towards a black cloud with a light inside. He next remembered being in a room where the beings touched him with lights and "drained him of energy." The beings never spoke to or otherwise communicated with the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery ; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 495, citing Bullard Source ID: Johnson_6609 Source: Johnson ### Event 19424 (36B389D3) Date: 10/6/1979 Description: 7:30 p.m. A couple driving south on County Road 46 near Amery, Wisconsin, see two red, luminous globes, each as large as the full moon, hovering above the southeast horizon. They drive on another 2–3 miles watching them before the two objects join together and hovers 250 feet above the field to their left, bathing it in a pinkish glow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Red Globes in Wisconsin,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_6025 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19425 (9AADDD51) Date: 10/6/1979 Description: 9:30 p.m. A couple are driving on Interstate 35 east of Barnum, Minnesota, when they see a ball of light 3–6 feet in diameter approaching low over some trees. It rolls and bounces silently over the top of the car in about 10 seconds. After driving another 500 feet, the car’s engine dies and the headlights malfunction. The battery is so dead that it can’t be jump-started. The alternator also has to be replaced. The mechanic who does the repair work says that the interior looks like a fire has gone through it \(though not the exterior\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Case 4-5-6,” IUR 4, no. 5 \(November 1979\): 12; Mark Rodeghier, “[A Summary of Vehicle Interference Reports and a Description of a](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FSpectrum%5Fof%5FUFO%5FResearch.pdf) [Possible Natural Phenomenon Causing Some Events,](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FSpectrum%5Fof%5FUFO%5FResearch.pdf)” The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988, p. 165 Source ID: Eberhart_6026 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19426 (A7A418A3) Date: 10/7/1979 Description: Four 15-year-old youngsters were playing in a field in Heiloo, Netherlands at around seven p.m. when they encountered several strange luminous flashes and lights around them. They soon saw what appeared to be a luminous "mass" behind some nearby bushes. One of them approached and was confronted by a tall humanoid with a large human-like face. The being had white hair and large, red, almond-shaped protruding eyes. The figure wore a shiny white robe. One of the other boys then approached on a bicycle and saw three other similar figures standing immobile about 50 meters away. Apparently a total of seven humanoids were encountered at one time or another for the next hour. They seemed to be able to move around from one place to another in an instant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1487, citing Hans Van Kampen Source ID: Johnson_6636 Source: Johnson ### Event 19427 (CA30B1E2) Date: 10/12/1979 Description: On this night two glowing humanoids about 1.20 meters in height, that appeared not to have eyes or arms, were seen moving around in a field in Goiania, Brazil. They moved about with jerky, mechanical movements. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing Antonio Faleiro, Brazil Source ID: Johnson_6802 Source: Johnson ### Event 19428 (01E6D752) Date: 10/15/1979 Description: G,V, AF radar & 2 UFOs, state police vis. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dover, DE Source ID: NICAP_DB_5258 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19429 (820C64D5) Date: 10/16/1979 Description: 6:10 p.m. Two witnesses on the east side of Saint Paul, Minnesota, near Interstate 694 see a silvery domed disc with a flat bottom traveling toward the southwest, moving up and down and drifting about. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Another Minnesota DD,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_6027 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19430 (96239EE9) Date: 10/20/1979 Description: 12:30 a.m. A 15-year-old boy in a farmhouse in Baldwin, Wisconsin, sees two intese white lights circling counterclockwise over a hayfield about 1,200 feet away. He goes outside for a closer look, but the lights disappear. Three days later, the family finds a 30 foot-by-45 foot triangular area of brown and dried vegetation in the hayfield. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Wisconsin CE II?” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_6028 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19431 (9BC62C9D) Date: 10/25/1979 Description: 5:56 p.m. A young man and his sister are driving through Westmont, Illinois, and see a flat-bottomed object. Bright luminous white in the middle, its outer edge is more yellow. It moves back and forth, somersaults, and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Illinois Flipping Disc?” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_6029 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19432 (90C169FE) Date: 10/26/1979 Description: Roosters crowed, ducks quacked, geese honked, and bullfrogs started croaking loudly in response to a silver, bullet-shaped craft that hovered briefly over a farm near a river in Colusa, California at 12:15 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, www.nicap.org, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_7159 Source: Johnson ### Event 19433 (009D8154) Date: 10/26/1979 Description: Roosters crowed, ducks quacked, geese honked, and bullfrogs started croaking loudly in response to silver bullet-shaped craft that hovered briefly (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [791026](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-791026.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colusa, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5259 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19434 (1E2C01A2) Date: 10/27/1979 Description: Three Russian aircraft approaching Khatanga, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, encounter a large UFO about 850 feet long and only a half-mile away with three spheres attached to it. Each sphere has three portholes. The pilot of an Antonov An-26 transport cannot get his compass to work properly unless it is directed at the object, which paces the aircraft, flying over and around it. A similar object is seen shortly afterward at Alykel Airport near Norilsk, and the Messoyakha Gas Field. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 95 Source ID: Eberhart_6031 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19435 (C1342B6E) Date: 10/27/1979 Description: 6:15 a.m. Lou Blackburn takes three photographs of his friends’ fishing boat coming out of the Motunau River on the South Island of New Zealand. After it is developed, one of the slides shows a cluster of about 19 blue-white lights in the sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Fred and Phyll Dickeson, “[The Motunau, New Zealand, UFO Photograph,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 6 \(June 1981\): 1, 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_6030 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19436 (D4C0E911) Date: 10/29/1979 Description: In Hayden v. National Security Agency/Central Security Service the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rules that the records of the National Security Agency are so sensitive to national security that they are afforded a “special dispensation” from adversarial scrutiny through FOIA. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Hayden v. National Security](https://casetext.com/case/hayden-v-natl-sec-agcycent-sec-serv) [Agency / Central Security Service](https://casetext.com/case/hayden-v-natl-sec-agcycent-sec-serv)[,](https://casetext.com/case/hayden-v-natl-sec-agcycent-sec-serv) US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, October 29, 1979 Source ID: Eberhart_6032 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19437 (C72FF5F3) Date: 11/1979 Description: Colonel General Sapkov observes UFO changing colors and hovering for 30 minutes over secret rocket test range (Kapustin Test Range — where V-2 was tested) Type: ufo sighting Reference: [link](https://www.amazon.com/RUSSIAS-ROSWELL-INCIDENT-Amazing-Former-ebook/dp/B06XD2BNXV) Location: Kapustin Test Range Source ID: Maj2_708 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19438 (9218355B) Date: 11/1979 Description: During rocket tests at the Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia, a Col. Gen. Sapkov and other officers see a bright-green elliptical object, occasionally changing hues, hover over the range for 30 minutes. Sapkov claims to see the same phenomenon in 1986 and is assured by officers that this is a common occurrence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 51 Source ID: Eberhart_6033 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19439 (F61B5FFA) Date: 11/4/1979 Description: Iran Hostage Crisis Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis) Location: Iran Source ID: Maj2_709 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19440 (6A9CFE97) Date: 11/8/1979 Description: On this day a round, silvery object with flashing lights was seen by two women at a bus stop in Pentland Hills, Borders, Scotland. It briefly hovered, then shot off at high speed toward Dechmont Law. At 5:50 p.m. five women in Livingston watched a circle of lights that slowly rotated. At 7:50 p.m. a dome shaped UFO was seen at 400 meters distance in Bellsquarry, Livingston, Lothian, Scotland. It glowed white with pulsating blue and red lights on either side. The two witnesses watched it for several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, pp.12-13 Source ID: Johnson_7547 Source: Johnson ### Event 19441 (9C0889C1) Date: 11/8/1979 Description: 7:00 p.m. Five teenage girls in West Palm Beach, Florida, watch a round object with multiple lights, a door, and a bubble roof descend to the east and hover there for 5 minutes. It rises again, flies over a store near the witnesses and disappears over the southern horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Palm Beach Puzzle,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6034 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19442 (BC65CD35) Date: 11/9/1979 Description: On this evening Robert Taylor, a forestry worker, was walking his dog in Dechmont Law, Scotland when he came across a large ovoid or spherical object on tripod landing gear in a woodland clearing. This UFO dropped two 1.5 foot naval mine-shaped objects with protruding spikes, which floated up to him and attached to his trousers leg. They began to drag him towards the landed craft. This was accompanied by a suction noise and a pungent odor,and at this point he passed out and remained unconscious for the next 40 minutes. He came to face down on the ground, and experienced a choking odor in the air, a blinding headache, a burning sensation on his chin, itching on his left thigh, and he felt extremely weak. After a few minutes he managed to crawl to his pickup truck and drive home. Ground traces were found at the landing site. He suffered lasting physiological effects including headaches, itching, thirst, and general weakness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, 19800701; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, 19800815; Fate magazine, June 1983, p 68; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 2; Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to Extraterrestrials, p. 98; Jenny Randles, Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs, p. 93; UNICAT, case # 338; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_7577 Source: Johnson ### Event 19443 (CC320540) Date: 11/9/1979 Description: During the day an unusually bright light in sky split into two equally bright objects over Easterhouse, Glasgow, Scotland. They moved around the sky before reuniting, then vanished into thin air. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 65 Source ID: Johnson_7576 Source: Johnson ### Event 19444 (D776BE20) Date: 11/9/1979 Description: 10:30 a.m. [Robert Taylor](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1546390/Bob-Taylor.html), a 61-year-old forestry worker, is out one night working in the Dechmont Woods near Livingston, Scotland. Taylor and his dog are on duty when he spots a UFO hovering completely motionless and silent above the ground. Described as approximately 20 feet across and 12 feet high, the strange object is made of a “dark gray metallic material.” Taylor thinks the UFO is possibly going transparent from time to time in order to disguise itself. A ring or platform encircles the object with spikes topped with propellers. Two more small spiky spheres come from the craft and make a sound as their spikes move across the ground. Taylor is then grabbed by these two smaller objects and dragged to the UFO. As this is happening, he can smell a strong, sickening odor. Soon after this, he loses consciousness and remains passed out about 20 minutes. He is woken up by his dog, which is running around and barking in a panic. He hears a kind of hissing sound and realizes that the craft is beginning to leave. Seconds later the UFO disappears. Taylor is unable to walk or talk properly after the event. He suffers from a headache, sickness, and pain in his chin for some hours afterward. Authorities are appointed to investigate the site and find tracks where Taylor says the smaller spheres were dragging him. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Robert Taylor incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FTaylor%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “Taylor Incident”; Steuart Campbell, “[Close Encounter in](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201979-1989%20Journal%20of%20Transient%20Aerial%20Phenomena/JTAP%20-%20%20Vol%201%20No%202%20-%20%20Mar%201980.pdf) [Scotland,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201979-1989%20Journal%20of%20Transient%20Aerial%20Phenomena/JTAP%20-%20%20Vol%201%20No%202%20-%20%20Mar%201980.pdf)” Journal of Transient Aerial Phenomena 1, no. 2 \(March 1980\): 43–46; Martin Keatman and Andrew Collins, “[Physical Assault by Unidentified Objects at Livingston, Part I,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 6 \(April 1980\): 2–7; Martin Keatman and Andrew Collins, “[Physical Assault by Unidentified Objects at Livingston, Part](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%201.pdf) [II,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 1 \(June 1980\): 25–28; Martin Keatman and Andrew Collins, “[Physical Assault](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%203.pdf) [by Unidentified Objects at Livingston, Part III,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 3 \(September 1980\): 1–4; “A Scottish Abduction?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 \(July/Aug. 1980\): 15–16; Steuart Campbell, “[Close](https://bufora.org.uk/documents/1982EncounteratLivingstonBUFORAResearchPaperNo.1LockwoodandBayer.pdf) [Encounter at Livingston,](https://bufora.org.uk/documents/1982EncounteratLivingstonBUFORAResearchPaperNo.1LockwoodandBayer.pdf)” ed., Charles F. Lockwood and Leslie W. Bayer, BUFORA Case History No. 1, July 1982; Patrick Gross, “[Dechmont Woods, Scotland, November 9, 1979](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/dechmontwoods79.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_6035 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19445 (E6D10736) Date: 11/11/1979 Description: Spanish Radar Visual Case? Probably Not. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2) Reference: NICAP: [791111](http://www.nicap.org/791111spanish%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mediterranean Isle of Majorca, At Sea Source ID: NICAP_DB_5260 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19446 (E5536ED6) Date: 11/11/1979 End date: 11/12/1979 Description: 11:00 p.m. Flight JK-297, a TAE Supercaravelle outbound from Salzburg, Austria, has just made a refueling stop on Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, before setting course toward Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. Pilot Francisco Javier Lerdo de Tejada and his crew notice a set of red lights that are fast approaching the aircraft. They appear to be on a collision course, alarming the crew. The captain requests information about the lights, but neither the Pegaso Defense Radar Center in Torrejón Air Base, Madrid, nor the flight control center in Barcelona can provide any explanation. In order to avoid a possible collision, the captain changes altitude. However, the lights mirror the new course and stay about 1,600 feet away from the plane. Since the object is violating all elementary safety rules and the crew considers an evasive maneuver impossible, the captain decides to go off-course and make an emergency landing at the Manises airport in Valencia. The lights abandon the pursuit just before the aircraft lands. However, three new UFO targets are detected by the radar, each one with an estimated diameter of 650 feet. The objects are seen by several witnesses. One of the UFOs passes very close to the airport runway, and emergency lights are lit by the land crew in case the object happens to be an unregistered flight experiencing difficulties. Because the object answers no attempts to communicate, a Mirage F-1 takes off at 2:10 a.m. from the nearby Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete to intercept the object. The pilot, Spanish Air Force captain Fernando Cámara, has to increase his speed to 920 mph just to achieve visual contact with what he sees as a truncated cone-shaped object. Despite his initial efforts, the object quickly disappears. Cámara is told of a new radar target, indicating that another object might be near Sagunto. When he is close enough, the object accelerates and disappears again. This time, though, the UFO seems to respond, and the Mirage has its electronic flight systems jammed. At last, and after a third intercept attempt, the UFO finally disappears, heading for Africa. After 90 minutes of pursuit, the pilot is forced to return to the base with no results. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Manises UFO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manises%5FUFO%5Fincident) [incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manises%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[Spanish Radar Visual Case? Probably Not](http://www.nicap.org/791111spanish%5Fdir.htm)”; “Spanish Radar Visual Case,” IUR 4, no. 6 \(December 1979\): 14–15; Good Above, [pp. 156–157](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/156/mode/2up); Juan José Benitez, “[Jetliner ‘Intercepted’ by UFO near](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%205.pdf) [Valencia,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201979%20V%2025%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 5 \(March 1980\): 13–15; J. J. Benítez, Incidente en Manises, Plaza y Janés, 1982; J. Plana Crivellén, “[Encounters in Spanish Air-Space between Aircraft and UFOs,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201989%20V%2034%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 34, no. 1 \(March 1989\): 22–23 Source ID: Eberhart_6036 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19447 (C0024CA3) Date: 11/11/1979 Description: The pilot of a Spanish jetliner that made an emergency landing after being pursued by 2 UFOs at 14,000 feet. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [791111](http://www.nicap.org/images/791111canary.jpg) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ibiza, Canary Islands Source ID: NICAP_DB_5261 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19448 (FCC400CA) Date: 11/14/1979 Description: 8:10 p.m. A witness near Killaly, Saskatchewan, sees a white light land in a field about a quarter mile to the south of her house and then go out. Her dogs keep snarling and barking all night long. The next morning her husband passes the field and notices that it is emitting a dense cloud of smoke. He finds a ring of smoldering grass some 30 feet in diameter, but with snow still visible in the center. The unburnt grass next to it is flattened. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Two](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf) [CE-IIs in Western Canada,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 \(August 1980\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_6037 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19449 (35985B8C) Date: 11/15/1979 Description: 5:00 p.m. A group of children playing in Chiraleș, Romania, see a milky-white object that looks like a mace head with protuberances moving silently from north to south about 50 feet from the ground. It appears to be 3 feet in diameter and lands at a nearby mound. The children run toward the mound but stop when they see two glowing objects land on it with tripod legs. Two little men 2.5 feet tall, dressed in metallic costumes with antennae, come out of one of the objects through a door and walk around with a bouncing motion. The children keep approaching, so the men run back into the craft, which takes off in a burst of red-orange flames. Small circular impressions are found, although they get disturbed by curious onlookers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 134–135 Source ID: Eberhart_6038 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19450 (B82978A7) Date: 11/15/1979 Description: 9:00 p.m. Two teenage boys in Gadsden, Alabama, see a domed disc the size of a house approach them from the south until it is 900 feet away and 750 feet in the air. The light underneath it is so bright that it illuminates the entire object. It makes a U-turn and passes overhead as it moves south with a jerky motion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Alabama Saucer,” IUR 5, no. 1 \(January 1980\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6039 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19451 (7FAD0E51) Date: 11/17/1979 Description: 4:20 p.m. The underground Pegaso Defense Radar Center at Torrejón Air Base in Madrid, Spain, detects an unknown target some 25 miles south of Motril, Grenada, and a Mirage F1 is scrambled from Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete, Castilla–La Mancha. By the time the jet arrives in the vicinity, the target has disappeared. At 6:16 p.m., the pilot is heading back to Los Llanos when he sees three powerful red-yellow lights in the shape of a triangle about 12 miles away. They do not register on radar. In spite of chasing the lights at 720 mph, the Mirage cannot close the gap. During his descent into Los Llanos, some childish, laughing voices break into the UHF-1 channel linking him to Pegaso: “Hello, how are you? Hello, hello,” they say in Spanish. The interference lasts 30 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[El OVNI que sobrevoló la ciudad de Motril,](http://ovni-mitologiaorealidad.blogspot.com/2019/05/el-ovni-que-sobrevolo-la-ciudad-de.html)” OVNI: ¿Mitologia o Realidad?, May 24, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_6041 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19452 (974A7959) Date: 11/17/1979 Description: 2:30 p.m. A 13-year-old boy is walking home from school through a clearing in the woods in Pound Ridge, New York, when he sees what looks like a solid, 3-foot-tall maple tree surrounded by an electric glow. It hovers for 3 seconds only 12 feet away from him, then shoots straight up into the sky, changing color from green to red. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Flying Tree in New York?” IUR 5, no. 1 \(January 1980\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6040 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19453 (A9CD6C9C) Date: 11/18/1979 Description: 1:15 a.m. A man in Antioch, California, watches a bright red light flying from east to the northeast. It stops for 3–5 seconds and changes to purple then pale blue and moves off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Fast NL in California,” IUR 5, no. 1a \(January 1980\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6042 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19454 (54A906DA) Date: 11/20/1979 Description: A witness stopped his car at a certain spot. He then saw a diamond-shaped UFO hovering and maneuvering in front of him at a low altitude. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Laborie, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5262 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19455 (56F966BD) Date: 11/20/1979 Description: South of Laborie, France a witness stopped his car at a certain spot at 6:30 p.m. He reported it was quite possible he felt compelled to do so. He then saw a diamond-shaped UFO hovering and maneuvering in front of him at a low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1981 Source ID: Johnson_7755 Source: Johnson ### Event 19456 (EB05A80B) Date: 11/26/1979 Description: 5:00 a.m. A phone call to police in Pontoise, Val d’Oise, France, brings officers to the apartment of Jean-Pierre Prevost, 25, a clothing seller, who has claimed that a colleague, Franck Fontaine, has been abducted by a UFO. Fontaine reappears on December 3, claiming to remember only that a luminous fog had descended on his car and he woke up later in a cabbage field. GEPAN investigates and finds the story problematic. On July 7, 1983, Prevost confesses that the story was a hoax intended to promote a spiritual message. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Enquête GEPAN](http://www.ldi5.com/ovni/sepra/nt6.php) [79/07: A propos d’une disparition](http://www.ldi5.com/ovni/sepra/nt6.php), Note Technique no. 6, Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non- identifiés, Centre Nationale d’Étude Spatiales, March 31, 1981; “French Abduction: ‘Travis Walton’ Style,” IUR 5, no. 1 \(January 1980\): 3; Jacques Bonabot, “1979 Fontaine Case Now Admitted to Be a Hoax,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 190 \(December 1983\): 10; “[Cergy-Pontoise Hoax,](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cergy-pontoise-hoax)” Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology; Clark III 230–232 Source ID: Eberhart_6043 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19457 (1208983E) Date: 11/27/1979 Description: At 4:30 a.m. at least seven witnesses observed a 42-foot long ovoid UFO hovering right over the Sheraton Hotel in Norwich, Connecticut. It hovered tilted, and was completely silent. Finally, it shot off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lawrence Fawcett, International UFO Reporter, January 1980, p. 4; UNICAT, case # 72 Source ID: Johnson_7965 Source: Johnson ### Event 19458 (F8091726) Date: 11/27/1979 Description: 4:25 p.m. Yvette Godfrey is assistant manager of a spa in the Barker Shopping Plaza off State Highway 82 near the Connecticut Turnpike in Norwich, Connecticut. She sees a cigar-shaped object hovering at an angle directly above the Norwich Sheraton Motor Inn about 30 feet above the Sheraton sign on the roof. Other women at the spa observe it too. It moves a bit to the south and stops again for a minute before turning west into the clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Connecticut Cigar,” IUR 5, no. 1 \(January 1980\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6045 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19459 (AFD4CD9C) Date: 11/27/1979 Description: A 13-year-old girl \(“Christelle”\) in France is terrorized by the landing of a UFO and the sight of one of its crew. GEPAN investigates the landing traces. Grass is flattened for several days after the incident, and samples are taken to Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse for analysis. Prof. André Touzé of the university’s Center for Plant Physiology says there is no “unequivocal evidence of chemical of biological disturbance of the samples.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Enquête GEPAN no. 79/06](http://www.ldi5.com/ovni/sepra/nt8.php)[,](http://www.ldi5.com/ovni/sepra/nt8.php) Note Technique no. 8, Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non- identifiés, Centre Nationale d’Étude Spatiales, October 26, 1981; Peter A. Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, Warner, 1999, [pp. 97–98](https://archive.org/details/ufoenigma00pete/page/96/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6044 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19460 (3630B9AD) Date: 11/27/1979 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a circular object gave off intense blue flashes of light while it hovered over a busy traffic intersection in Madrid, Spain. Two police cars were sent to the intersection, and experienced radio interference while the UFO hovered above them for the next three hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, February 1980, p. 10; Pretoria News, November 29, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_7967 Source: Johnson ### Event 19461 (FDB0D55C) Date: 11/27/1979 Description: At 5:15 p.m. a 13-year-old girl saw a large cigar-shaped object with several white lights on it approach at an oblique angle and land in a field in Porcie-Amblagnieu, Isere department, France. It made a whistling sound. A very tall man like figure wearing a shiny silvery outfit got out and stood next to the object. The witness became frightened and ran home. The grass had been flattened at the landing site, swirled in a spiral pattern bending toward the top of a slope. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT database, case # 405, citing GEPAN Technical Note # 8; Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1979; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1735, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_7966 Source: Johnson ### Event 19462 (8FA56D1A) Date: 11/30/1979 Description: On the same night a couple staying in a beachfront cabin in El Combate, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico saw a bright, multicolored oval-shaped object hovering above the water ½ mile off shore. It appeared to emit some type of fog or vapor; the object then began blinking its lights on and off. The witnesses lost interest for a short time and left their viewing point and and went back to watching television. A few minutes later an intense white light flooded their living room from outside. Looking out, they could see some kind of luminous flat platform approaching the shoreline, and on top of the platform stood a four-foot-tall man. He wore a one-piece white outfit with gloves and boots, a very wide belt, and a large helmet with a dark visor that completely covered his face. The source of the white light was a luminous white sphere directly on top of the platform, which emitted some type of multicolored smoke. Upon seeing this the couple screamed, causing the platform and its occupant to return back to the hovering object offshore. At this point the witnesses returned back inside and did not see the object depart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 70, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue # 1 Source ID: Johnson_8086 Source: Johnson ### Event 19463 (92BA99E4) Date: 11/30/1979 Description: A peasant named Santiago was weeding a palm grove near La Palma, Oaxaca state, Mexico at around 5 p.m. when eight very tall armed men approached him. They had apparently come from a nearby hovering disc-shaped object, which was emitting a green light. The men wore green goggles, had communicators, and carried what appeared to be "machine guns." They all had very dark complexions. They spoke to the witness in Spanish and ordered him to cut off his penis with his machete. The witness apparently wandered the rest of the night in shock and was given medical treatment in the morning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2227; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 323, citing Robert E. Bartholomew, UFO Lore Source ID: Johnson_8085 Source: Johnson ### Event 19464 (10944B92) Date: 11/30/1979 Description: At 3:25 a.m. four police officers from Rickmansworth, England in two separate patrol cars chased a long luminous cigar-shaped object at 500 feet altitude for over two hours. The object flew off toward the southeast. A balloon cover story was later released to explain their sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 9; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_8084 Source: Johnson ### Event 19465 (386EC4CE) Date: 11/30/1979 Description: 8:00 p.m. At Playa el Combate beach outside Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico, Ramonés Torres and his wife are watching television when they see a bright light hanging at a height of 100 feet above the sea about 900 feet from their house. After about 30 minutes it moves down toward the sea, flares up, and goes out. Torres goes back to the TV set, but after 15 minutes the light returns, this time shining brightly through the window. The light is on a platform floating on the sea only 130–140 feet away, approaching at about 8 mph, and they can see a small man on it about 4 feet high wearing silvery-white coveralls and a big helmet. Suddenly the platform reverses and the light goes out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jorge Martín, “[A Small Alien Being Seen in Puerto Rico,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201999%20V%2044%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 \(Autumn 1999\): 21–22 Source ID: Eberhart_6046 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19466 (9ED3E272) Date: 12/1979 Description: The Moscow City Committee of the Soviet Communist Party forbids all activities of the BVPTS civilian UFO group, but it persists into the 1980s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nikita A. Schnee, “[Ufology in the USSR,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2027%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 1 \(June 1981\): 8–10; Nikita A. Schnee, “[Comments,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Sweden/AFU%5FNewsletter/AFU%5F1984%5F27.pdf)” AFU Newsletter, no. 27 \(Jan./Dec. 1984\): 21 Source ID: Eberhart_6047 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19467 (4E4D0F6C) Date: 12/1/1979 Description: The US Strategic Air Command assumes control of the ballistic missile warning system and all Space Surveillance Network facilities from the deactivating Aerospace Defense Command, with data streams continuing to flow to NORAD. NORAD retains the radar networks and operates many radar sites jointly with the FAA as Semi-Automatic Ground Environment. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Strategic Air Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic%5FAir%5FCommand\#Post-Vietnam%2C%5F1970s%5Fbudget%5Fcuts%2C%5F1980s%5Frenewal%2C%5Fand%5Fthe%5FCold%5FWar%5Fredux)” Source ID: Eberhart_6048 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19468 (61AA13D5) Date: 12/2/1979 Description: Blimp-like object seen my motorists on Hwy. 62 between Mt. Vernon & Evansville. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [791202](http://www.nicap.org/791202mv%5Fmarrs.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon & Evansville (btn), IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5264 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19469 (CF2A2FCC) Date: 12/2/1979 Description: Six witnesses observed a descending object for 15 minutes that went from a bright distant light in the NW to a pair of bright headlights to what appeared to be a huge jet aircraft with external lights, but with NO sound (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [791202](http://www.nicap.org/791202mtvernondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5263 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19470 (F32486BC) Date: 12/2/1979 Description: While stopped for gas at night on the Corso Europa highway in Genoa, Italy F. Zanfretta, age 27, was approached by a tall figure with an oval-shaped head who wore a loose fitting windbreaker. At the same time a fog like mist surrounded the gas pumps and the figure ordered Zanfretta to accompany him. Zanfretta obeyed, and he was eventually taken onboard a craft which had landed in a wooded area near Marzano. While flying over the area he was reportedly shown the earth from outer space, looking like a marble free-floating in space. The occupants of the craft also showed him numerous photographs of friends and others, whom he did not know. He was also shown a large glass cylinder filled with a blue liquid, inside of which floated a huge hairy ape-like "Bigfoot" creature. In another container he saw a horrible creature resembling a prehistoric pterodactyl. In yet a third container he saw a large toad-like creature. While onboard the craft he met a tall green-colored reptilian like humanoid who called himself "Dargos", whom he had met on a previous occasion. The tall humanoid reportedly offered Zanfretta a transparent sphere that contained a rotating golden pyramid as proof of their existence, but Zanfretta refused to accept it. Allegedly, local residents reported a power outage near Marzano on this night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing CUN Genova; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2228 Source ID: Johnson_8143 Source: Johnson ### Event 19471 (D532BFB5) Date: 12/3/1979 Description: 10:20 p.m. Former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer John Pushie takes 7 photos \(four of which turn out\) of a bright light from his home 7 miles west of Sydney, Nova Scotia. The light hovers in one spot then moves quickly away at one point. He shows them to the commanding officer of CFS Sydney Radar Base \[now closed\] in Lingan Road, who says he wants to send them to the National Research Council. One month later they are returned with a note saying that Pushie had photographed the star Vega. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Former RCMP Officer Photographs](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Journal%20UFO/1981%5FVol%202%20No%204.pdf) [UFO near Sydney N.S.,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Journal%20UFO/1981%5FVol%202%20No%204.pdf)” Journal UFO 2, no. 4 \(March 1981\): 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_6050 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19472 (640CBE13) Date: 12/3/1979 Description: On this night in 1979 in the province of Guadalajara, Spain veterinarian Dr. A. Cuesta was driving between Humanes and Yunque de Henares when a UFO began pacing his car and followed him for several kilometers. The craft positioned itself only 15 meters above his car, and emitted a blinding light, causing him to lose control and drive off the highway. On the same night at 10:25 p.m. in Clay County, Nebraska two teenage girls were driving west of Fairfield on highway 73 when they sighted a metallic domed disc-shaped UFO pursue their car for about five minutes at a distance of 400 meters. The UFO was about 10 meters in diameter. Their sketches of the object appear remarkably similar to those drawn by the two abductees in the Buff Ledge, Vermont case from 1968. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 13, citing Mundo Diario, December 5, 1979; APRO Bulletin, April 1980, p. 6, citing Hastings Daily Times, December 14, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_8167 Source: Johnson ### Event 19473 (91BA6D4B) Date: 12/3/1979 Description: 7:45 p.m. Chris and Ralph Smith of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, see a shiny, semicircular object with red and yellow fire beneath it hover for 5 minutes before it disappears into the sea. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 102–103 Source ID: Eberhart_6049 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19474 (CDBDBDE2) Date: 12/4/1979 Description: Lilli Karlsson, a young woman, was taking a walk about an hour after midnight in the Brevik Hills of Vastervik, Sweden when she suddenly became paralyzed and unable to move. Nearby, she could see a luminous object hovering close to the ground. Two five-foot tall thin humanoids appeared from behind the object. She heard them talking in an unintelligible language, and she believed that they were discussing her. She also heard a voice that told her not to be afraid. One of the beings approached and stretched out its hand to her, but she remained paralyzed. They continued to talk between themselves as they walked back to their craft. A thin cloud of smoke came from under the object and enveloped the object, causing it to disappear. When the craft was gone the paralysis went away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2229; FSR, January 1981, p. 6, citing Vasterviks Times, September 22, 1980; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case #324, citing Robert E. Bartholomew, UFO Lore Source ID: Johnson_8181 Source: Johnson ### Event 19475 (4DA36ABD) Date: 12/4/1979 Description: 5:00 p.m. Two witnesses are driving on State Highway 32 near Mansfield Depot, Connecticut, when they see a bright, football-shaped “cloud” hovering low over the trees to the north, turning slowly. The driver stops just north of the intersection with US Highway 44. The object is now seen to have a complex shape with multiple lights as it hovers above some power poles to the west. It starts moving slowly to the south. The witnesses try to follow it but lose sight of it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Six Days Later in Connecticut,” IUR 5, no. 1 \(January 1980\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_6051 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19476 (D4A6B357) Date: 12/4/1979 Description: A young woman was taking a walk when she suddenly became paralyzed and unable to move. Nearby, she could see a luminous object hovering close to the ground. Two five-foot tall thin humanoids appeared from behind the object. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vastervik, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_5265 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19477 (BAAE8D26) Date: 12/5/1979 Description: At 5:55 p.m. three groups of six orbs exited a cigar-shaped object over Ansted, West Virginia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January 1980, p. 4; APRO Bulletin, May 1980, p 8 Source ID: Johnson_8211 Source: Johnson ### Event 19478 (D9751748) Date: 12/5/1979 Description: 5:55 p.m. Norma White watches a bright star from her restaurant in Ansted, West Virginia. It remains stationary for 15 minutes at a height of 2,000 feet over the mountains to the north. Then it approaches her, passing overhead at 100 mph. It hurts her eyes to look at it. Then the light goes out, allowing her to see a Y-shaped object emitting a dull green light. Clusters of red lights are at the three points of the Y. It silently turns and flies off to the east. Other lights appear in the sky \(18 or so\) and are observed by police officers Charles Crosier and Dan Cohenour. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Mini-Flap of West Virginia,” IUR 5, no. 1a \(January 1980\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6052 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19479 (8562005E) Date: 12/6/1979 Description: 6:29 a.m. An Archuleta County deputy sheriff is driving west on US Highway 160 in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, when he sees an orange-gold light in the western sky. It quickly grows to the size of a fuzzy full moon in 2–3 seconds. Holding its position, it vanishes without a sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Colorado UFO: Head On?” IUR 5, no. 1 \(January 1980\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6053 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19480 (1BE588AD) Date: 12/7/1979 Description: 10:10 p.m. A couple sees a milky-white object while driving through Madison, Connecticut. They pull over on Bishop Lane and watch it make abrupt changes of direction for a few minutes before it fades from sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Connecticut Disc,” IUR 5, no. 1a \(January 1980\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_6054 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19481 (B18B25BD) Date: 12/9/1979 Description: 9:45 p.m. US Coast Guard Storekeeper 1st Class Michal Williams sees a stationary white light above the Mississippi River near the dam in Keokuk, Iowa. It lights up the river below it. The light moves straight up at high speed, changing from white to red and coming to an abrupt stop. The light goes out. Williams and a radioman see it again in the northeast and view it through binoculars. It has two red lights and a white light flashing irregularly. It flies around the dam and into the west-northwest in a matter of seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Coast Guard Sighting in Iowa,” IUR 5, no. 1a \(January 1980\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6056 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19482 (1EF580F9) Date: 12/9/1979 Description: 9:15 a.m. French Air Force Capt. Jean-Pierre Fartek and his wife observe an oscillating UFO hovering near the ground in front of a row of apple trees at his home in a village near Dijon, Côte d’Or, France. It looks like two “reversed saucers pressed against each other,” gray-metal above and dark blue below, with no lights or portholes. He describes the sighting to Gen. [Denis Letty](https://rr0.org/people/l/LettyDenis/)[,](https://rr0.org/people/l/LettyDenis/) who includes the case in the 1999 COMETA report. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[1979: Air Force Captain Jean-Pierre Fartek Spots UFO,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/2010/fartek1979.html)” UFO Casebook, September 14, 2010; Kean, [pp. 124–](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/124/mode/2up) [126](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/124/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6055 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19483 (F4C61FEF) Date: 12/10/1979 Description: In Caravac de la Cruz, Spain, at 10:00 p.m., a UFO with blue lights and a light green hue approached a family in their car at a low height. The driver stopped and signaled with his headlights. The UFO responded by flashing its lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Heiden, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 13, citing Ya, December 12, 1979 Source ID: Johnson_8315 Source: Johnson ### Event 19484 (9131C17B) Date: 12/10/1979 Description: A fireball or missile flew in over the Grays Harbor area from the sea, executed a 180-degree turn, and headed west. It crashed in a clear-cut forest near Elk River, on the south side of the bay. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Grays Harbor, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5267 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19485 (B436C5B1) Date: 12/10/1979 Description: On this evening in 1979 a fireball or missile flew in over the Grays Harbor, Washington area from the sea, executed a 180-degree turn, and headed west. It crashed in a clear-cut forest near Elk River, on the south side of the bay. Many witnesses told of a military roadblock in the area over the next two days, including what looked like National Guard or Army trucks. One former Navy SEAL reported encountering active Navy SEALs at a lunch counter in town during this same time period. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, March 1980, p. 7; Donald A. Johnson, 1988 on-site investigation Source ID: Johnson_8314 Source: Johnson ### Event 19486 (99C0624A) Date: 12/10/1979 Description: Elaine Kaiser was abducted from her bedroom in Rhode Island on this night. She saw a white light and lost consciousness. Under hypnosis she remembered flowing up a beam of light into a semi-circular room, aboard a craft. A being gave her a smock and she put it on without resistance, and then lay down on a table, while an unknown man laid on another table nearby. Instruments connected her to the man, and something like a blood transfusion occurred. A giant being in a black metallic suit relieved her pain by passing a had in front of her face. He told her telepathically that he came from 2.4 million light years away. Several months later she thought she recognized this same man in a crowd. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery (Volume 2), pp. C-58-59, citing Pontiac (MI) Oakland Press, August 22, 1982 Source ID: Johnson_8316 Source: Johnson ### Event 19487 (2D57B78E) Date: 12/10/1979 Description: A UFO with blue lights and a light green hue approached a family in their car at a low height. The driver stopped and signaled with his headlights. The UFO responded by flashing its lights. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caravac de la Cruz, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_5268 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19488 (DBB2EE46) Date: 12/11/1979 Description: At 2:00 in the afternoon a 64-year-old husband and wife, "Melvin" and "Naomi", were at their mountain home near Lake Isabella, 35 miles from Bakersfield, California watching television when both suddenly passed out. Their memories returned only partially, but they seemed to have had 48 hours of missing time with an abduction aboard a UFO. The wife remembered being in some kind of operating room, lying naked on top of the examination table and unable to move. She saw her husband trying to enter the room but was prevented by a panel that rose from the floor and blocked him. The husband recalled being in a room with a Grey, faceless woman, five-foot ten inches tall who communicated with him via telepathy and refused to release him. Both remembered feeling cold and hearing the sound of an engine. Other partial memories included a man and a woman entering their house, and the feeling of being watched and threatened by an unseen presence. The couple was found incoherent and suffering various burns and other injuries that they never fully recovered from. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Howard Ford, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1982, p. 11; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of A Mystery, case 54 Source ID: Johnson_8348 Source: Johnson ### Event 19489 (21018661) Date: 12/11/1979 Description: 11:45 a.m. Flight instructor Leslie Groves is tutoring a pupil aboard a Cessna 150 flying at 4,500 feet south of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, when he spots something strange that appears to come out of a cloud above Winter Hill. It is clearly a solid ball of white light that is passing in and out of the clouds. He asks the student to bank in order to minimize any risk of a collision. By now the object is pulling away in an arc described as a “well-controlled swooping motion” at about 2,500 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ron Sergeant and Jenny Randles, “[Aircraft in](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%201.pdf) [Encounters over Bolton,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 1 \(June 1980\): 19–21 Source ID: Eberhart_6057 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19490 (B8A5627D) Date: 12/12/1979 Description: At 11:45 p.m. a multi-colored disc passed by fast a residential neighborhood in Romans, France at a low altitude, spinning as it went. It left behind a luminous trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1980 Source ID: Johnson_8361 Source: Johnson ### Event 19491 (6DC9B296) Date: 12/12/1979 Description: A multi-colored disc passed by fast a residential neighborhood in Romans, France at a low altitude, spinning as it went. It left behind a luminous trail. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Romans, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5269 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19492 (B5EEEE01) Date: 12/13/1979 Description: 4:00 a.m. Two truckers \(Wang Dingyuan and Wang Jianming\) are driving separate vehicles on the Lanxi-Xin’angiang Highway near Longwangmiao, Zhejiang, China, when they see a bright beam of light ahead. When the lead driver sees two “unusual human beings” standing on the highway, he stops. They are short, perhaps 4.5 feet tall, and wear what look like spacesuits. The second driver also stops but does not see the beings, which soon vanish. The drivers decide to switch vehicles. A few miles down the road, the new lead driver sees the same entities, and the men again stop the trucks. The drivers turn their lights off and on, but the beings remain. When one of the drivers emerges with a crowbar, they disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dong and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, pp. 140–141; Good Above, [pp. 214–215](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/214/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6058 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19493 (2C359C6D) Date: 12/13/1979 Description: Two helmeted humanoids in silver suits were seen near a factory located between Lan Xi and the Xim An River in Zhejiang province, China. They were 200 meters away, and stood beside a highway. They had square objects like boxes and "thermos bottles" slung over shoulders. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Shu Jia Lin, APRO Bulletin, January 1986, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_8382 Source: Johnson ### Event 19494 (C31CF1E9) Date: 12/19/1979 Description: A white, egg-shaped UFO¬one meter in diameter¬landed in an upright orientation in a yard. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lunel, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5270 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19495 (1C7A902E) Date: 12/19/1979 Description: At 7:00 a.m. a white, egg-shaped UFO—one meter in diameter—landed in an upright orientation in a yard in Lunel, France. It was then seen moving down the driveway at ground level by three witnesses. That same night southwest of Gainesville, Florida a large bright disc chased a car down a road, hovered over a house, then shot away at a high rate of speed heading south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1980; MUFON UFO Journal, March 1980 Source ID: Johnson_8519 Source: Johnson ### Event 19496 (31877847) Date: 12/19/1979 Description: A large bright disc chased a car down a road, hovered over a house, then shot away at a high rate of speed heading south. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gainesville, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5271 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19497 (5C0C3A6A) Date: 12/20/1979 Description: 4:30 a.m. A pilot and two other witnesses are driving near Therien, Alberta, when they see an elongated object drop from 1,000 feet to 200 feet, turning red as it descends, for about 5–10 minutes. It crashes into the ground not too far away from their car. They can feel the impact. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 103 Source ID: Eberhart_6059 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19498 (BBE5479E) Date: 12/20/1979 Description: A huge diamond-shaped object was seen low in the sky at 9:45 p.m. by several witnesses outside Des Moines, Iowa. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, February 1981 Source ID: Johnson_8541 Source: Johnson ### Event 19499 (FB7310F7) Date: 12/23/1979 Description: 3:30 p.m. A salesman exiting the Orange Freeway at Riverside in Northeast Anaheim, California, sees an object silently pass over him at 300 feet up. The front part is octagonal and the rear is a rectangle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A California ‘Whatsit.’” IUR 5, no. 1a \(January 1980\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6060 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19500 (66084E92) Date: 12/23/1979 Description: A 27-year-old salesman traveling on Highway 57 in Fullerton, California had a daytime close encounter with a UFO at around 3:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January 1980, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_8571 Source: Johnson ### Event 19501 (124A1D38) Date: 12/27/1979 Description: 11:15 a.m. Two construction workers are driving south on Knott Street in Coquille, Oregon, when they see a bright flash in the southern sky. It is caused by a reflection off a thin, metallic, domed object wobbling nearby. It is about 40–50 feet in diameter and 6–7 feet thick. The object descends to about 1,000 feet. The witnesses try to drive closer and look at it through inexpensive binoculars as it flies down the valley before it disappears to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Daylight Disc in Oregon,” IUR 5, no. 1a \(January 1980\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6061 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19502 (0AB8A6B5) Date: 12/27/1979 Description: Night. A car factory worker at Halewood, Merseyside, England, is walking home when he senses something behind him. Turning around, he sees a floating white sphere, several feet in diameter, heading silently toward him. He watches it pass, and the tingling at the back of his neck intensifies. When it is about 20 feet ahead, it stops and shoots to the southwest at a 45° angle. The man’s hair remains charged with static for two days. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 \(Christmas 2018\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_6062 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19503 (2B0E01FB) Date: 12/29/1979 Description: We had a call from the sheriff's department at 11:00 PM, and they said they were looking at a UFO. We looked on the radar and observed the target in the area westbound, very fast. 8001or02 Evansville Il 2 Woman walking dog sees blimp-like UFO overhead (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Area, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5272 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19504 (72A5923F) Date: 12/30/1979 Description: After presenting his findings to the GEPAN Scientific Council, [Claude Poher](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%5FPoher) resigns as director. His position is not made public, but it meets with strong opposition from the media. Poher then takes a one-year leave of absence from CNES to sail around the world with his family in a boat he has built himself. Mathematician [Alain Esterle](https://fr.linkedin.com/in/alain-esterle-242882114) replaces Poher as GEPAN director, remaining until 1983. Under his direction, GEPAN is productive, issuing a series of detailed technical notes on cases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “GEPAN: France’s Official UFO Agency,” IUR 5, no. 1 \(January 1980\): 6–8; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 12–13; Clark III 546 Source ID: Eberhart_6063 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19505 (4609E045) Date: 12/30/1979 Description: At 1:30 a.m. laborer Sebastiano Pannitteri suddenly woke up in his bedroom in Catania, Sicily, Italy and observed a strange phenomenon. The electrical power seemed to be out and he heard his brother-in-law's dog growling outside. Looking out the window, he saw a luminous white mass approaching, and within the light he could see a human like figure. Stunned, he went to the window and saw the back of a very tall figure wearing a very tight-fitting luminous white coverall that accentuated its musculature. The head was round and was either bald or covered with a white helmet. The being's shoulders and chest area appeared wider than normal. He had what looked like several black dots on his upper back. His arms were at his sides. The figure seemed to move slowly at first, but after five minutes it appeared to glide quickly, disappearing over a nearby wall. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing Archivio CUN Source ID: Johnson_8658 Source: Johnson ### Event 19506 (59575F62) Date: 12/31/1979 Description: 4:00 a.m. A family in Demopolis, Alabama, wakes up to the sound of their dogs barking wildly. When one witness goes outside to quiet them, he sees a bright, triangular object the size of a house hovering above trees about 1,200 feet away. It approaches in a zigzag path. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Demopolis \(Ala.\) Times, January 4, 1979; Marler 172 Source ID: Eberhart_6064 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1980 (Back to Top) ### Event 19507 (D64CDDFC) Date: 1980's Description: Area-51 workers and widows said that throughout the 1980s the Air Force and its contractors regularly filled 55-gallon drums with toxic wastes, emptied them into football-field size trenches, doused them with jet-fuel and burned them. They claimed that the U.S. Air Force generated and mishandled hazardous substances, and that the Environmental Protection Agency failed to take necessary action to enforce the requirements of the resource conservation act against the Air Force. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://www.rcfp.org/high-court-wont-review-state-secrets-privilege-area-51-case/) Location: Area 51 Source ID: Maj2_710 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19508 (3FDFC69C) Date: 1980 Description: Donald Goldsmith and Tobias Owen publish The Search for Life in the Universe, an open-minded textbook on SETI. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald Goldsmith and Tobias Owen, [The Search for Life in the Universe](https://archive.org/details/searchforlifeinu00gold/page/n1/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/searchforlifeinu00gold/page/n1/mode/2up) Benjamin/Cummings, 1980; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 \(1994\): 147–151 Source ID: Eberhart_6069 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19509 (5C876F23) Date: 1980 Description: [Ann Druffel](https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2020/06/ufologist-ann-druffel-dies.html?fbclid=IwAR3N-uW1ZAkq5p21hxc11siol67dwjxfSq2vLaTl8v0pExaBh0OeTDuLTyc) and [D. Scott Rogo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%5FScott%5FRogo) publish The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, a report on their investigations into a series of abductions and UFO-related events in California involving several women over a period of 25 years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, Prentice-Hall, 1980; Clark III 415 Source ID: Eberhart_6065 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19510 (CF7B8B08) Date: 1980 Description: [Richard F. Haines](http://www.nicap.org/bio-haines.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/bio-haines.htm) an aerospace psychologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, publishes Observing UFOs, a technical book on analyzing UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Observing UFOs: An Investigative Handbook, Nelson-Hall, 1980 Source ID: Eberhart_6066 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19511 (45E58040) Date: 1980 Description: During interception exercises, seven MiG-12s from the Mierzęcice Air Base \[now Katowice Airport\], Poland, notice a saucer-shaped object with flashing lights approaching them. It has a blue-gray cupola on top and is three times bigger than any of the aircraft. It flies to each of the MiGs and maneuvers around them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 65 Source ID: Eberhart_6070 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19512 (AD3BC647) Date: 1980 Description: [Alejandro Agostinelli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro%5FAgostinelli) and Juan Carlos Zabalgoitia establish the Centro de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos No Convencionales in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and publish three issues of a boletín informativo. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [CEFANC Boletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Argentina/CEFANC%20Boletin%20Informativo/CEFANC%20Boletin%20Informativo%20-%20No%2001%20-%20Ene%201980.pdf) [Informativo](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Argentina/CEFANC%20Boletin%20Informativo/CEFANC%20Boletin%20Informativo%20-%20No%2001%20-%20Ene%201980.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Argentina/CEFANC%20Boletin%20Informativo/CEFANC%20Boletin%20Informativo%20-%20No%2001%20-%20Ene%201980.pdf) no. 1 \(Jan./March 1980\) Source ID: Eberhart_6067 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19513 (E42F84AA) Date: 1980 Description: An All-Russian Research Public Organization is launched informally by Russian science-fiction writer [Alexander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%5FKazantsev) [Kazantsev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%5FKazantsev)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%5FKazantsev) aerospace engineer [Vadim Chernobrov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim%5FChernobrov), astronaut [Georgy Beregovoy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy%5FBeregovoy), and other enthusiasts to explore the mysteries of the universe and nature, research new ways of space technology development, and collect information about UFOs and anomalous events in the Soviet Union. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Kosmopoisk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmopoisk)” Source ID: Eberhart_6068 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19514 (EA186BC3) Date: 1/1980 Description: 11:00 p.m. A Brazilian electronics businessman and 9 others see a disc-shaped object shine a light down on the water near the eastern bank of the Rio Tapajós 30 miles south of Santarém, Brazil. The man, his family, and some relatives are camping at a beach. Several teenagers are still awake, lying in hammocks and talking, when they see the UFO come across the river, stopping about 30 yards from the beach and shining a light on the water 60 feet below. The UFO hovers briefly then begins moving north, parallel to the shore. It travels more than half a mile, with the spotlight shining straight down before it disappears. The light beam leaves a trail of luminescence for several hundred yards. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil—Where Next?, Horus House, 1996, [pp. 146–147](https://archive.org/details/UFODangerZoneBobPrattHowTheyStealOurBloodAndMayKillPeoplePreIceAgeUfoOccupantsAn/page/n163/mode/2up); Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 22–23 Source ID: Eberhart_6072 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19515 (5E8730C2) Date: 1/1980 Description: The Gemeinschaft zur Erforschung unbekannter Phänomene \(later Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des UFO- Phänomens\) publishes the first issue of Journal für UFO-Forschung in Lüdenscheid, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany, which is still in operation in 2022. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Journal für UFO-Forschung](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/JUFOF%20%28GEP%29/JUFOF%20-%20Issue%20001%20-%201980%2001.pdf), no. 1 \(January 1980\); Journal für UFO-Forschung [website](https://www.jufof.de/) Source ID: Eberhart_6071 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19516 (DA994B86) Date: 1/3/1980 Description: In Van Nuys, California a huge, domed disc-shaped object dropped from the sky at 8:30 p.m. to just 50 feet above the car containing three female witnesses. It tilted, then shot up. Two more discs then joined it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_66 Source: Johnson ### Event 19517 (DB9760D7) Date: 1/5/1980 Description: At around five a.m. the witness, a 33-year-old painter living in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England suddenly awoke in his bedroom to see a huge two-meter tall glowing green figure standing at the foot of his bed. It looked to him more like a holographic image than a solid figure. The being apparently communicated with the witness using telepathy. Among the many things mentioned was that his race regularly transported human beings to other planets in order to colonize them. When a planet was in danger of overpopulation they somehow started a war in order to reduce the number of inhabitants on that planet. He also warned that the Earth was in danger of "breaking in half." Apparently the witness's wife slept through the entire encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case #3423, citing Jenny Randles Source ID: Johnson_144 Source: Johnson ### Event 19518 (6FFBD4C5) Date: 1/5/1980 Description: A light in the sky flashed and changed colors as it moved over Santa Ponsa, Islas Malgrata, Baleares, Spain at 8:00 p.m. It made upward jumps in an oscillating motion, and would stop cold at times. Three powerful lights in a triangle pattern were higher in the sky, changing color from orange to blue to white, and making left-to-right moves. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Heiden, UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1980, p. 10, citing Baleares, January 6, 1980 Source ID: Johnson_145 Source: Johnson ### Event 19519 (15CC8712) Date: 1/10/1980 Description: The NSA’s Roy R. Banner releases two UFO-related documents to [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932)[,](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) but states that the original 18 he has requested are exempt from release because of national security, adding that the NSA is reviewing 79 other documents originating with other federal agencies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 182–187](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/182/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6073 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19520 (AEF07E32) Date: 1/12/1980 Description: A man saw a lenticular-shaped object over him. The UFO projected a beam of light and formed a dome shaped luminous form on the ground, not far from the witness. He was met there by a tall, blond-haired humanoid that had tanned skin and slanted eyes with a very prominent chin (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huayana, Bolivia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5273 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19521 (700209A1) Date: 1/12/1980 Description: On this night in the town of Huayana, in the Potosi Valley, Bolivia a man saw a lenticular-shaped object over him. The UFO projected a beam of light and formed a dome shaped luminous form on the ground, not far from the witness. He then experienced strange sensations when he walked inside the light dome. He was met there by a tall, blond-haired humanoid that had tanned skin and slanted eyes with a very prominent chin. The man claimed he had sensations of love and serenity projected to him by the tall humanoid. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 1577, citing Luis Fernando Mostajo, The Missing Link, issue # 124 Source ID: Johnson_281 Source: Johnson ### Event 19522 (220545CD) Date: 1/13/1980 Description: 9:00 p.m. Brenda Simanski and Janine Mattson quit their shift at the Seminary Nursing Home on Pioneer Road in Red Wing, Minnesota. Standing in the parking lot, they see a star making a bizarre zigzag pattern. It moves above them and they see it is a triangle 15 feet wide and 20 feet long with two white lights in front, blue lights in two of the corners, and a red light between the blue ones. Three other witnesses come out of the building and also watch the object, which leaves slowly and silently to the north-northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[5 Watch Tree-Hovering](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201980%2003%20-%20no%20128.pdf) [UFO for 6 Minutes, ‘Won’t Say It’s from Space,’](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201980%2003%20-%20no%20128.pdf)” Red Wing \(Minn.\) Republican Eagle, January 15, 1980, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 128 \(March 1980\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6074 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19523 (A8560202) Date: 1/14/1980 Description: 6:05 a.m. Truck driver William Barrett is on an early delivery run from Burnley to Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, when he hears a deep humming sound. Looking ahead, he sees a machine with flames underneath hovering at a lay-by off the roadside. He slows his truck to a near crawl and moves past the object, which looks like a “toast rack” with curved sides and three red glows emerging from the edge to create a misty fuzziness obscuring the base. Now only 25 feet away, he sees that it has a bell- or tortoiseshell shape with a metallic sheen and a tube sticking up from the top. The red glows emerge from under a rim that runs around the lower part of the object. He can now see two figures standing in front of the object, one standing erect and wearing a uniform with a peaked cap, and the other crouched forward, wearing a silvery-gray jump suit. As he passes, the arc lights on the object start flickering like a disco. His headlights go out, and his mind gets hazier and he loses consciousness. He experiences missing time until he jerks awake sometime around 8:30 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Close Encounter in UFO Alley,” IUR 26, no. 1 \(Spring 2001\): 3–8, 28–29 Source ID: Eberhart_6075 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19524 (048867A1) Date: 1/17/1980 Description: 10:30 p.m. Chilean astronomer [Fernando Noël](https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/3391/) is at his home in the eastern suburbs of Santiago, Chile, when he sees a luminous point of light at 20° elevation moving from southwest to west. It is silent and resembles a satellite. He calls two other witnesses, during which time the object disappears. At 10:45 p.m., he sees a bright light moving slowly toward the zenith. Looking more closely, he sees it is actually a group of 30 objects in a V- formation. Each individual light of the group is pale white with a slight tint of yellow. The formation moves from 20° above the western horizon to about 20° above the eastern horizon before disappearing gradually. The duration is approximately 2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unidentified Atmospheric Phenomena Observed by an Astronomer,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/volume-7-number-4-1993)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 7, no. 4 \(1993\): 439–441 Source ID: Eberhart_6076 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19525 (B81AC84E) Date: 1/21/1980 Description: 11:40 p.m. Seven women are driving home in two cars from a bridge game near Council Bluffs, Iowa. The first car with six witnesses, including Marilyn Anderson, sees a cluster of lights in the western sky as they are driving on Pioneer Trail. The lights are hovering about 200–300 feet above a bluff less than a city block away. When they stop the car to get out for a closer look, the lights speed away to the southwest. The seventh woman, in a separate car behind them, does not see the lights, but Anderson tells her about them when she pulls up. She continues driving home, but when she gets to Longview Drive, her car stalls, and the radio and lights go out. She restarts the car, but it stalls out another quarter-mile away. A bright orange light appears in a cornfield about 900 feet away with an intensity that hurts her eyes. Scared, she locks herself inside the car and passes out. When she wakes up, her car is turned sideways across the road, but she is able to drive it home. She can still see the orange light from her kitchen window, but she has some blotches and redness on her skin that fades by 4:20 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Possible Abduction in Iowa,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 \(July/Aug. 1980\): 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_6077 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19526 (0885CA7B) Date: 1/23/1980 Description: [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) files an appeal with the NSA to release more UFO material. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 187](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/186/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6078 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19527 (812B809F) Date: 1/24/1980 Description: 1:00 p.m. A. Golotikin is working as a mechanic aboard the Brilliant, a Russian fishing trawler operating 20–30 miles off the coast of Western Sahara. He and the rest of the crew see a black, cigar-shaped object moving slowly toward the ship in complete silence. They watch it for 5–7 minutes through binoculars, then it disappears as it gets closer to the ship. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_6079 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19528 (E309C1B2) Date: 1/28/1980 Description: Three UFO encounters were reported in France on this day in 1980. The first occurred in La Racine at 4:20 a.m. An orange, glowing, lima bean shaped UFO flew up highway D34 for several kilometers in a northwesterly direction, closely following the terrain. At 7:10 p.m. near Grandrieux, a four-meter diameter cylinder-shaped disc followed a car up and down route N377. Several square windows ringed the UFO. Later, at Aurillac around 9:10 p.m. a luminous orange sphere flew by closely while shining down a beam of light. Meanwhile, several nocturnal lights hovered high overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1981, July 1981, and issue #214. Source ID: Johnson_560 Source: Johnson ### Event 19529 (B1FD1A52) Date: 1/29/1980 Description: At ten p.m. three National Telephone Company officials, Gomez, Polar, and Aguilar, on the highway between the towns of Desaguadero and Pomata, Peru saw a bright circular UFO with red and white lights on the bottom hover stationary at 1000 meters altitude. It went behind a cloud for three minutes, then was observed for five more minutes as it flew over Lake Titicaca. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Heiden, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 13; translating El Commercio, February 16, 1980; Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 14, translating La Razon, February 15, 1980 Source ID: Johnson_584 Source: Johnson ### Event 19530 (C2BD848E) Date: 2/1980 Description: The Australian Centre for UFO Studies begins publishing the Journal of the Australian Centre for UFO Studies, edited by Harry Griesberg and [Keith Basterfield](http://www.auforn.com/Kbintro.htm)[,](http://www.auforn.com/Kbintro.htm) until at least November 1985. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Journal of the Australian](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20CUFOS%20Journal/ACUFOS%20Journal%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf) [Centre for UFO Studies](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/Australian%20CUFOS%20Journal/ACUFOS%20Journal%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(February 1980\) Source ID: Eberhart_6080 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19531 (8A765E52) Date: 2/2/1980 Description: Two aliens briefly paralyzed a female witness in Araguari, Brazil. The beings were described as being a little bit over one meter in height and having large heads. They used a small object that emitted a luminous beam. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing Revista Brasileira de Ufologia Source ID: Johnson_671 Source: Johnson ### Event 19532 (6D133C70) Date: 2/6/1980 Description: Mr. Pavao, a 55-year old farmer from Montargil, Portugal had just left his farm and was taking his sheep to the fields at around eleven o'clock in the morning. He heard a noise and had a feeling that something was happening behind him. At the same time his dog started to panic. He turned and was surprised to see two eight-foot tall humanoids standing close to him and staring at him. The humanoids looked very strong and were dressed in gray suits. Their faces looked human except their eyes and skin appeared different. Their hands were hairy and very big. The beings approached him with friendly gestures and touched his left shoulder and several other parts of his body. At the same time they spoke in an unknown language with a modulation similar to human speech. One of the beings then pointed to the sheep, and Mr. Pavao told him the type of animal it was. Meanwhile the two beings kept talking and laughing. The witness then gave an order to his dog to fetch one of the sheep. When he looked back towards the beings he saw an intense flash of light that blinded him for a few seconds. After that the beings had vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 2378, citing Victor Laurenco, PORTUCAT Source ID: Johnson_727 Source: Johnson ### Event 19533 (0F5CB9DC) Date: 2/7/1980 Description: 9:50 p.m. Daryl Browne, a ranch hand at the Glenalta horse ranch near Stirling, South Australia, is watching TV when he hears dogs howling and timber crashing outside. His two guard dogs are howling in fear. Outside he sees a yellow half-moon-shaped object about 25–30 feet long. It is 100 feet up in the branches of a 230-foot-tall cypress tree, branches bending under its weight. The trunk shows large gouges. Browne calls the police, but the object is gone by the time they arrive. For 2 days, Browne’s dogs refuse to go near the tree. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Smashes Tree in Australia,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 \(July/Aug. 1980\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6081 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19534 (AFC26531) Date: 2/11/1980 Description: A man spotted a low flying whitish-orange luminous object lifting off from some nearby woods. Minutes later the object divided into three separate luminous sections, then re-united again into one luminous spot. Near the ground two huge man-like silhouettes appeared in front of the lights. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Botafuegos, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_5275 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19535 (3D77BCB1) Date: 2/11/1980 Description: At 10:00 p.m. Carlos Vommaro, age 22, was driving home from dinner at his girlfriend's house westbound on Route 22 between the towns of Ingeniero Huergo and Cervantes in Rio Negro province, Argentina when he noticed a strong glowly light over a field 200 meters away, on the left side of his truck and at about 30 meters altitude. He described the object as having two big "L" structures with a luminous rectangular form inside. The edges of the luminous "L's" seemed to be covered in a diffused vapor that seemed to reflect the light. Perplexed, Vommaro watched the object as it came parallel to him. Vommaro then decided to escape, speeding up to about 60 mph when suddenly everything around him became dark and he blacked out. When Vommaro woke up he found himself leaning over the steering wheel. The light was now on top of the vehicle, and suddenly from the area of the luminous rectangular area a beam of light shot out, which seemed to spread out in width the further away it got. The beam of light covered the vehicle, but not its interior; it seems to be stronger at the point of origin. Terrified, Vommaro jumped out of his vehicle, running for help but the road is completely deserted. A couple of minutes later he saw a car approaching from the direction of General Roca, and he frantically tried to flag down the car. The car slowed down briefly, but then sped away. Perhaps the approaching driver had seen the luminous object still hovering above the road. After coming to his senses Vommaro now realized he was outside of the town of Cervantes, located more than 15 km away from were he had been, and he has about an hour of missing time he can't account for. When he got home his dogs reacted strangely, did not seem to recognize him, and attempted to attack him. The next day he suffered from lack of appetite, weakness, lumbar back pain, and leg pain. There was also some damage to his car. There were numerous other UFO reports that evening from Argentina and Chile. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1980, p. 14, citing Rio Negro, February 16, 1980; Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 20; Alejandro Chionetti, UFO Press, issue # 12, April 1983 Source ID: Johnson_836 Source: Johnson ### Event 19536 (15E8F1ED) Date: 2/11/1980 Description: Brilliant orange light in field, memory loss, physiological effects. MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, pp. 20-21; Omaha, Nebr., Morning World-Herald, Feb. 14, 1980 (E,R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Council Bluffs, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5277 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19537 (0FCF2FD5) Date: 2/11/1980 Description: A man was driving home when he noticed a strong glowly light over a field 200 meters away, on the left side of his truck and at about 30 meters altitude. He blacked out and remembered entities. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rio Negro province, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_5278 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19538 (AD2ECD01) Date: 2/11/1980 Description: At around 4 p.m. a woman in Bisuschio, Italy went outside to hang some linen to dry and was looking towards a nearby hill when she saw a strange dwarf creature in a tree about 50 meters away. He was about 30-40 cm tall, and was wearing black clothing. She went back inside and looked at the creature again out a window, at the same time calling her son to come see. She also called her mother in-law on the telephone. The boy observed the tree with a pair of binoculars but was unable to distinguish any additional features. The being appeared to move from branch to branch, and then seemed to stand on a very thin branch that appeared incapable of supporting his weight. The humanoid looked to be trying to conceal his face with his hand. He soon disappeared from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_834 Source: Johnson ### Event 19539 (C8D3DCCE) Date: 2/11/1980 Description: Thirty-two people, including the mayor of Ahilinco, Neuquen province, Argentina saw an object shaped with a triangle high in the sky over the Andes Mountains shortly before 11:00 p.m. It remained motionless for three minutes, then the triangle disappeared leaving the lights visible. After several more minutes the lights gyrated and blinked out, and they could see the dark triangle again silhouetted against the background. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 15, citing Cronica, February 15, 1980; Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_837 Source: Johnson ### Event 19540 (1D338677) Date: 2/11/1980 Description: In Botafuegos, Spain later that same night five witnesses, including Rafael Tobajas, spotted a low flying whitish-orange luminous object lifting off from some nearby woods. Minutes later the object divided into three separate luminous sections, then re-united again into one luminous spot. Using a pair of binoculars, they watched the lighted object descend in a falling leaf motion. Near the ground two huge man-like silhouettes appeared in front of the lights. They were grayish in color and over three meters in height. They made huge leaps and strides over the ground, jumping easily over obstacles, but they seemed to move in slow motion and stayed in front of the luminous orbs of lights. According to Tobajas, the humanoid forms stopped briefly by a small creek and seemed to bend down several times. The humanoids suddenly began running at witnesses, who became terrified and drove away frantically from the area. The tall gray humanoid forms persisted in chasing the witness's vehicle for several minutes. Tobajas reportedly encountered similar humanoid figures at night, one year later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing Dr. Jimenez del Oso and J. J. Benitez Source ID: Johnson_835 Source: Johnson ### Event 19541 (E70E7E5A) Date: 2/11/1980 Description: At 11:00 p.m. another triangular UFO was seen in Chamical, La Rioja province, Argentina. The triangular object surrounded by light blue luminosity, with reddish hues, left behind a long smoke trail. It was seen by over 200 witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 15, citing Diario Cuyo, February 15, 1980; Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_838 Source: Johnson ### Event 19542 (965CFDA6) Date: 2/11/1980 Description: At 11:30 p.m. Dr. Martinez and his family in El Medano, Catamarca province, Argentina saw an enormous orange ball of light that cast three beams of light, one left and one right, and then one down. After several minutes it shot away at incredible speed parallel to the horizon.There was a total of 10 witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 15, citing El Sol, February 15, 1980; Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_839 Source: Johnson ### Event 19543 (1FD3F41D) Date: 2/11/1980 Description: At 11:45 p.m. witnesses in San Vicente, Santiago del Estero, Argentina saw a trangular object shine intermittent green, red, yellow lights toward the ground. It remained motionless for five minutes, then disappeared quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_840 Source: Johnson ### Event 19544 (F972A8A5) Date: 2/11/1980 Description: A woman driving on Highway G66 in Council Bluffs, Iowa encountered an orange UFO at 11:40 p.m. Her car lights and engine experienced electrical difficulties and she underwent a 32 minute lapse of time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Omaha (NE) Morning World-Herald, Feb. 14, 1980; APRO Bulletin, April 1980, p. 5; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, pp. 20-21; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 258 Source ID: Johnson_841 Source: Johnson ### Event 19545 (8B269D5E) Date: 2/21/1980 Description: 11:15 a.m. An 11-year-old girl getting ready for bed in Stamford, Connecticut, looks through a window and sees a large white oval of light low in the west-northwest sky, apparently four times the size of the moon. Her grandmother joins her and watches the object, which is swinging with a pendulum motion. It is still visible about 30 minutes later. The family’s German shepherd dog barks continually at it while it is visible and for 20 minutes after it is last viewed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Allan Hendry, “[Unusual Backyard Visitor,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 2 \(June 1980\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6082 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19546 (F42D1E08) Date: 2/25/1980 Description: 2:30 p.m. Oil worker Rusty Pennington is watching a pump a quarter mile west of Youngsville, Pennsylvania. Suddenly he hears an explosion that lasts only a split second and sees a domed disc to the left of his truck. He estimates the object is 20 feet wide and 6–8 feet high. Flying at treetop level, it streaks silently downward from southwest to northeast and disappears in the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Daylight Disc in Pennsylvania,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 \(July/Aug. 1980\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6083 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19547 (B06F0873) Date: 2/25/1980 Description: On a cloudy day at 2:30 p.m. in Youngsville, Pennsylvania a 23-year old man, R. Pennington, heard an explosion mixed with a whining noise, and then saw a 20-foot wide disc with a transparent dome on top out of his truck window. The trajectory of the UFO continued to follow a 250 kW electric transmission line. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1980, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_1113 Source: Johnson ### Event 19548 (760888E2) Date: 2/28/1980 Description: The National Enquirer runs an article, “Former Intelligence Officer Reveals ‘I picked up wreckage of UFO that exploded over U.S.’” that includes a portion of a December 1979 interview by [Bob Pratt](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/palmbeachpost/obituary.aspx?n=robert-v-pratt&pid=15755452) with [Jesse](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/jessemarcel.htm) [Marcel Sr.](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/jessemarcel.htm) as a pre-publication teaser for [Berlitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FBerlitz) and [Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29)’s forthcoming book. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Roswell 1947:](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/d/ni1980pratt.htm) [First Ufologists Investigations](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/d/ni1980pratt.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_6084 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19549 (49717106) Date: 3/1980 Description: Nanotechnologist [Robert A. Freitas Jr.](http://www.rfreitas.com/) advocates searching for alien probes or artifacts on planets, satellites, and asteroids because it is more cost-effective than looking for distant radio signals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert A. Freitas Jr., “[Interstellar Probes: A New Approach to SETI,](http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/InterstellarProbesJBIS1980.htm)” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 33 \(1980\): 95–100 Source ID: Eberhart_6085 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19550 (56D621B5) Date: Early 3/1980 Description: 9:45 p.m. Fred Wirth Jr. steps outside his home in Bulverde, Texas, and sees a large orange glow 45° up in the northern sky about 100 feet above his property, lighting it up with an orange glow. After hovering silently, it shoots up in the air and stops, now appearing as a red, blinking dot. His wife joins him but instantly becomes nauseous and throws up. He starts sweating profusely. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Strange Reactions to Huge Glow,” IUR/Probe, September 1980, pp. 74–75 Source ID: Eberhart_6086 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19551 (6A2599DC) Date: 3/3/1980 Description: Four family members of a family in Buen Consejo, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico were awakened at midnight by noises on their patio where they kept caged rabbits. When they looked out they were stunned to see five strange looking beings inspecting the cages. Two of the beings were five feet tall and the others were three tall and more heavy-set. The tall thin creatures wore brown one-piece brown outfits, and had grayish skin with large ears, large eyes, and large flat noses with large thick lips. Their fingers were large and were connected by a thin membrane. Both carried a bright metallic-looking sphere in their right hands. The smaller beings were similar in appearance, except they had large bright medallions hanging from their necks and belts. A fifth witness later saw the same five beings enter a landed disc-shaped craft on a roadway near the village. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 72, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue # 1 Source ID: Johnson_1283 Source: Johnson ### Event 19552 (49034E9E) Date: 3/6/1980 Description: A disc hovered over mine tailings in Warren, Arizona at around 1 p.m. and then flew along the ridge of a mountain. It turned on its edge and flew off to the south. The entire sighting lasted eight minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, Filer's Files, volume 9, issue 30 Source ID: Johnson_1343 Source: Johnson ### Event 19553 (843E55A2) Date: 3/6/1980 Description: Later that same night a witness reported seeing a slow flying disc-shaped UFO over the town of Hudson, New Hampshire at 8:40 p.m. The object made a low, steady humming sound. A second object was seen flying toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1980 Source ID: Johnson_1344 Source: Johnson ### Event 19554 (45527F19) Date: 3/6/1980 Description: On this night a witness reported seeing a slow flying disc-shaped UFO over the town. The object made a low, steady humming sound. A second object was seen flying toward the west. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hudson, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5281 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19555 (E97F206B) Date: 3/6/1980 Description: A disc hovered over mine tailings in Warren and then flew along the ridge of a mountain. It turned on its edge and flew off to the south. The entire sighting lasted eight minutes. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warren, Az Source ID: NICAP_DB_5280 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19556 (6A7D4ABF) Date: 3/7/1980 Description: 12:10 a.m. Former Navy pilot Larry Crawford sees a star-like light moving 700–800 mph at 30,000 feet above Memphis, Tennessee. While he is watching it move for 10 seconds, it executes a hairpin turn. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Pilot: ‘No Human Could Have Survived Turns Like That!’” IUR/Probe, September 1980, pp. 75, 78 Source ID: Eberhart_6087 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19557 (194CF525) Date: 3/8/1980 Description: Object buzzed car, jet-like sound, bright illumination; dog howled as if his ears hurt (section XII). (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wilmington, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5282 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19558 (3614110D) Date: 3/8/1980 Description: Object buzzed car, jetlike sound, bright illumination. Dog howled as if his ears hurt Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Wilmington, NC Source ID: HallUFOE2_346 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19559 (929A6416) Date: 3/9/1980 Description: Lady said barking dogs drew her attention to a strange very bright object hovering motionless 20' away from ground near back of house. Three antenna-like sticks at slight angle pointing to ground. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newcastle, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5283 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19560 (DC560574) Date: 3/12/1980 Description: 12:45 a.m. At least 10 witnesses, including city police and county sheriff deputies, watch an odd light maneuvering, climbing, and descending in the sky above Gladstone, Michigan. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Much Ado about Little?” IUR/Probe, September 1980, p. 78 Source ID: Eberhart_6088 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19561 (61AB67A2) Date: 3/13/1980 Description: A 31-year-old man saw a huge cigar-shaped object with red lights at both ends fly silently south to north over the A422 highway east of Alcester, Warwickshire, England. The man's steering wheel became unbearably hot during the flyover, and it caused burns on his hands. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Warwickshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5284 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19562 (851E1929) Date: 3/13/1980 Description: 7:50 p.m. A subcontractor on a job is driving near Haselor, Warwickshire, England, when he sees a white, cigar-shaped object with a steady red glow on either end pass in front of his windshield. The steering wheel instantly becomes hot, causing him to lift his hands off the wheel. He maneuvers the car off the road until it cools enough to steer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tony Green, “[Witness Burned by Passing UFO,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 \(January 1981\): 32–33 Source ID: Eberhart_6089 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19563 (55968E7F) Date: 3/13/1980 Description: At 7.50 p.m. a 31-year-old man saw a huge cigar-shaped object with red lights at both ends fly silently south to north over the A422 highway east of Alcester, Warwickshire, England. The man's steering wheel became unbearably hot during the flyover, and it caused burns on his hands, including one that left a permanent mark on his left hand. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tony Green, FSR, January 1981, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_1458 Source: Johnson ### Event 19564 (1DF91F18) Date: 3/15/1980 Description: Huge cigar UFO in Ohio. Three witnesses for one hour. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bannock County, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5286 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19565 (B53D3BC0) Date: 3/15/1980 Description: 8:00 p.m. A couple in Bannock, Ohio, Spot a bright light in the southwestern sky. They watch it for 20 minutes before it approaches their home. The light is a spotlight attached to a large cigar-shaped object with red and blue lights along its length. The spotlight switches off as it passes overhead and moves to the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Chief Investigator Allan Hendry Reports: Huge Cigar UFO in Ohio,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 \(August 1980\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6090 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19566 (BE92589D) Date: 3/19/1980 Description: In the evening in 1980 a 29-year-old man on a motorcycle was chased for over an hour by a small, oval-shaped UFO. The UFO was about two feet in diameter and had sparks shooting out of it in all directions. It flew low above the ground. That same evening a golden colored UFO hovered over the Mississippi River for 50 minutes near Keithsberg, Illinois. It moved back and forth, descending and ascending over the trees along the riverbank. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1980, p. 11; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980 Source ID: Johnson_1575 Source: Johnson ### Event 19567 (05EFCC1A) Date: 3/21/1980 Description: Two 19-year-old teenage boys, one the son of the circus owner, had burns on their bodies after a 1:15 a.m. UFO close encounter in Gioia del Colle, Italy. One had burn marks on his wrist under his wristwatch, and the other had scalding burns on his waist where his waist band had two iron studs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Massimo Greco, UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1980, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_1603 Source: Johnson ### Event 19568 (C8E18AF2) Date: 3/22/1980 Description: G, FAA & 3 UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Burlington, VT Source ID: NICAP_DB_5287 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19569 (FE91FAF4) Date: 3/22/1980 Description: [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) meets with two new sources in Erie, Pennsylvania, who show him three photos allegedly showing an alien cadaver encased in glass in Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio. He is suspicious and tries to verify them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1980 Source ID: Eberhart_6091 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19570 (9C199B5D) Date: 3/22/1980 Description: 10:00–11:00 p.m. Burlington \(Vermont\) International Airport radar tracks three small objects that join with a larger, brighter object then separate again. They are apparently over Malletts Bay. Speeds of up to 1,500 mph are recorded, and the objects quickly disappear to the west. Traffic controller Donald Kernan says the lights “did a kind of dance.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Satellite Objects on RADAR](http://www.nicap.org/800322burlington%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_6092 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19571 (888698F7) Date: 3/22/1980 Description: Three smaller objects were observed on airport radar joining a larger, brighter object, then separating again Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Burlington, VT Source ID: HallUFOE2_347 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19572 (08E5C35E) Date: 3/24/1980 Description: The NSA issues a general denial of releasing all of its UFO materials to the public as requested by [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932)[.](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 187](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/186/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6093 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19573 (E6B4A177) Date: 3/24/1980 Description: 7:30 p.m. When his dog starts barking furiously, James Balkcom notices a bright light moving along the railroad tracks in James, Georgia, at treetop level. It comes to a stop and hovers above the home of Benton Evans. The Evanses go outside to watch the light, which has colored lights blinking inside it. After 5–10 minutes, it begins moving along the tracks again with a pulsing “shh-shh” noise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Low-Flying Georgian Globe,” IUR/Probe, September 1980, pp. 78–79 Source ID: Eberhart_6094 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19574 (4F1B4CD1) Date: 3/25/1980 Description: 10:15 p.m. Debbie Harris and Sheri Gustafson are driving on the Dayton–Xenia Road three miles east of Dayton, Ohio, when Harris notices bright, beaming lights in the sky. They assume it is an illuminated tower, but when they pull over, it appears to be about 25 feet above the ground and 210 feet away. The lights seem to come from an airplane-sized object with a green light, a red light, and crossed white beams. After hovering to their north for about 2 minutes, it shoots off rapidly to the northeast and disappears behind a hill. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Ohio Close](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf) [Encounter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 3 \(July 1980\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6095 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19575 (FB9D4622) Date: 4/1980 Description: A farmer in central Texas is walking through his pasture to check on a cow that is about to give birth. Instead, he sees two nonhuman creatures carrying a calf between them, each holding one of its limbs. They are about 4 feet high and light yellow-green in color. He runs away and does not return to the location for two days, whereupon he finds the carcass of the calf. It looks as though it has been turned inside out, and only the head, feet, and hide remain. Researcher [Tom Adams](http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2018/06/Adams-Massey-Obits.html) says the farmer is extremely reluctant to discuss the incident any further. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, July/August 1984 Source ID: Eberhart_6096 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19576 (B6F8FEA3) Date: 4/2/1980 Description: Another UFO abduction occurred on this day in 1980 in Pudasjarvi, Finland. Ms. Ivanoff, age 25, was driving her car across a bridge when her car entered a fog and her car headlights were deflected upwards. She saw a silver domed disc with portholes overhead. She next lost consciousness and experienced a two-hour period of time loss. She later recalled interacting with Grey aliens and encountering an environment in an otherworldly environment. They conducted a medical exam on her and returned her to her car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, Volume 1, p. 100 Source ID: Johnson_1803 Source: Johnson ### Event 19577 (9E196830) Date: 4/2/1980 Description: Car drove into "fog," headlights deflected upwards, driver abducted onto silvery domed object with portholes, examined on metallic table (section XIII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pudasjarvi, Finland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5288 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19578 (064C236B) Date: 4/2/1980 Description: Car drove into "fog," headlights deflected upwards, driver abducted onto silvery domed object with portholes, examined on metallic table Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Pudasjarvi, Finland Source ID: HallUFOE2_348 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19579 (E7CF8408) Date: 4/4/1980 Description: Charleston, SC (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [800404](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://ufologie.net/htm/charleston1980.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charleston, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5289 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19580 (D5B55D16) Date: 4/6/1980 Description: Three bright spheres hovered low over a house in Lodz, Poland spreading a blinding light. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lodz, Poland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5290 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19581 (E249E127) Date: 4/6/1980 Description: 9:00 p.m. William Meara and his wife Brenda are driving on I-84 just south of its intersection with I-90 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, when they see a red blur above a road sign. The blur resolves into a disc about 30 feet in diameter with smaller discs surrounding it. The object passes silently above their car, moving northeast. The duration is 3 minutes. When Meara tries to start his car 30 minutes later at home, it acts completely dead but works again normally the next morning. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Connecticut Close Encounter,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6 \(Sept./Oct. 1980\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6097 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19582 (4338921A) Date: 4/6/1980 Description: Three bright spheres hovered low over a house in Lodz, Poland spreading a blinding light. Frightened, the couple living in the house locked themselves in and came out only the following morning, when the three spheres had gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: E. Russo, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_1871 Source: Johnson ### Event 19583 (BAB7D22F) Date: 4/9/1980 Description: A woman driving through a forested area saw a bright light descending toward her car, first mistaking it for an aircraft landing light. The object then stopped and hovered ahead just off the road. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bollwiller, Alsace, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_5291 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19584 (0C860F63) Date: 4/10/1980 Description: A businessman driving on the Philadelphia Church Road near Lincolnton, North Carolina, sees a red, disc- shaped object approach and hover above his car. It directs a light toward the ground. When he stops his car and rolls down the window, he hears an intense humming sound. He watches it for about 5 minutes until it takes off at a 30° angle and heads south, leaving a thin exhaust trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Those Funny Lights in the Sky,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201980%2005%20-%20no%20130.pdf)” Hickory \(N.C.\) Focus, May 1, 1980, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 130 \(May 1980\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6098 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19585 (6E6EE859) Date: 4/10/1980 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a hovering red disc-shaped object searched the ground in Lincolnton, North Carolina with a beam of light, then took off at a 45 degree angle, making an intense humming sound. A red sphere was seen later south of town at treetop level. There were three witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_1943 Source: Johnson ### Event 19586 (2D558585) Date: 4/10/1980 Description: Red disc-shaped object emitted light beam to ground. Took off with intense humming sound leaving exhaust trail Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Lincolnton, NC Source ID: HallUFOE2_349 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19587 (F3A40348) Date: 4/10/1980 Description: Red disc-shaped object emitted light beam to ground; took off with intense humming sound leaving exhaust trail (section IX). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lincolnton, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5292 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19588 (DF646FC1) Date: 4/11/1980 Description: 7:15 a.m. Personnel at the La Joya Air Base \[part of the Mariano Melgar Airport\], Arequipa, Peru, see a strange object flying in the vicinity. The base commander orders a Sukhoi Su-22 fighter-bomber to destroy the target, assumed to be a Chilean balloon. Lt. Oscar Santa María Huertas commands the scrambled aircraft. As soon as the object is in his sights some 1,800 feet above the ground, he fires 64 rounds from his 30mm guns at it. The bullets seem to hit the object without causing any damage. The UFO then hurls skyward at tremendous speed. Huertas follows, putting the Sukhoi into Mach 1.2. As he approaches, the object makes a sudden stop and the Sukhoi flies past it at 36,000 feet. Further maneuvering takes place, and Huertas finds the object chasing him at one point at 62,000 feet. He abandons the mission 52 miles away from the base. After he lands 22 minutes later, the object reappears at the base and remains visible nearly 2 hours. A Department of Defense information release gives an erroneous date of May 9, 1980. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [pp. 93–98](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/92/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/92/mode/2up) [150–151](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/150/mode/2up); Dolan II 214; Good Above, [pp. 324–325](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/324/mode/2up), [503–504](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/504/mode/2up); Yohanan Díaz Vargas, “[Peru: La Joya AFB, the Perfect UFO Case \(1980\),](http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2016/11/peru-la-joya-afb-perfect-ufo-case-1980.html)” Inexplicata, November 14, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_6099 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19589 (6E81C83F) Date: 4/13/1980 Description: A witness is driving on the eastern outskirts of Halifax, Nova Scotia, when he sees an unusually bright light. As he drives 5–6 miles closer, it resolves into two lights side by side. After driving another 20 miles closer, he sees the two lights are attached to one object. When directly underneath, it appears to be 1,000–1,200 feet long and cigar-shaped with lights on the front and back and one side. A truck driver has also pulled over to watch the UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1982\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_6100 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19590 (6A65E0F5) Date: 4/17/1980 Description: Day. Michael Romanowski, 8, sees a white boomerang-shaped object in Buffalo, New York. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Crescent](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf) [Reports from New York and Illinois,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 \(August 1980\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6101 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19591 (88DFB961) Date: 4/20/1980 Description: Five apparently metallic Saturnshaped objects, Iligh-speed flight in formation at low altitude, visible against local terrain Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: San Mateo, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_350 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19592 (788624FB) Date: 4/20/1980 Description: Barrio Aguerre, Ciudad Treinta Y Tres, Uruguay. At 12:40 a.m. 19-year-old Luis Vital Carneiro was returning home after visiting friends during a powerful electrical storm in the region. After entering a field through a gate he noticed a strange light cavorting over the field. Then, about 50 meters away near a barbwire fence, he noticed two short humanoid figures. Curious, he jumped the fence and approached the figures. At a distance of ten meters from the humanoids he noticed that they were projecting lights from the top of their heads down toward the ground. These lights suddenly turned red, and the two figures disappeared to re-appear 30 meters from the road. As Carneiro attempted to jump the barbwire fence again, a beam of light struck him that knocked him senseless. When he regained his composure Carneiro ran to his aunt's house nearby and told her what had happened.

Mrs. Orialis De Los Santos, his aunt, went out into her garden where she saw in the nearby field a group of four humanoids that seemed to quickly glide back and forth above the ground. Accompanied by Vital, they then counted a total of thirteen humanoids that "glided" about in different directions, within an area of about 100 square meters. For almost an hour the witnesses watched the strange humanoids cavort about as if playing. Vital Carneiro again attempted to approach one of the humanoids but again was knocked down by a beam of red light that seemed to come from the creature's head. He fell to the ground feeling as he had been struck by lighting. Concerned for his safety, Mrs De Los Santos ran to her stricken nephew and dragged him inside the house.

From inside the house they could still see the short humanoids gliding about, plus at about 500 meters distance, behind some trees, a large bright silvery light appeared on the ground that began slowly rising up and down. The witnesses described the humanoids as 60 cm in height, with very large heads, triangular faces, large pointed ears, and rounded eyes. Their bodies were small and "rectangular" in shape. They wore a kind of gray uniform and a rounded cap from where the beams of light originated. They seemed to communicate among themselves in quick bursts of "buzzing sounds." They glided quickly across the ground and according to Mrs. De Los Santos they stood on small rounded platforms. However, Carneiro does not recall seeing the platforms. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1980, p. 12; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case 62, citing Shoney Santana, Bettina Allen & Fabio Zerpa Source ID: Johnson_2163 Source: Johnson ### Event 19593 (0CEB96E0) Date: 4/20/1980 Description: 9:00 p.m. A group of nine family members are on their front lawn in Hyderabad, India, and see a bell-shaped cloud forming at about 2,000–3,000 feet altitude. It remains stationary and they look away, but soon they see three smaller bell-shaped clouds forming evenly spaced below the first and forming an equilateral triangle. The smaller clouds then merge with the larger one and form an orange ball bright enough to throw a shadow on the roof near them. It shoots off at great speed toward the airport, then disappears after breaking into four smaller orange balls of light. The duration of the sighting is 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 18–19 Source ID: Eberhart_6104 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19594 (8F753BFF) Date: 4/20/1980 Description: 5:30 a.m. [Richard A. Jokinen](https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/richard-a-jokinen-birth-1933-death-2004/4243266)[,](https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/richard-a-jokinen-birth-1933-death-2004/4243266) an electrical engineer, is driving north on I-280 in San Mateo, California, on a fishing trip with his 18-year-old son. They see five bright, apparently metallic, Saturn-shaped objects flying very fast in formation at low altitude. The objects are traveling about 500 feet above the Crystal Springs Reservoir and are visible against trees of the coastal mountains west of the reservoir. The sighting lasts about 5 seconds, during which the objects cross 120° of viewing angle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Allan Hendry, “[Five ‘Saturns’ in California,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5 \(September 1980\): 3; UFOEv II 164–165 Source ID: Eberhart_6102 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19595 (8C6EFA03) Date: 4/20/1980 Description: In the suburbs of Palatine, Illinois at 8:20 p.m. a father and son viewed a grayish-black, crescent-shaped UFO with white lights at the ends of each curve. The white lights flashed every 3-5 seconds. The craft made abrupt changes in direction as it flew. They viewed it through binoculars for most of their seven minute sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Timmerman, CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1980, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_2165 Source: Johnson ### Event 19596 (0AB551DE) Date: 4/20/1980 Description: 8:20 p.m. Sam Puccinelli is parking his car in his garage in Palatine, Illinois, when he sees a crescent-shaped, gray-black object with flashing white lights. He looks at it with his binoculars with his 13-year-old son for 7 minutes before it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Crescent Reports from New York and Illinois,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 \(August 1980\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6103 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19597 (911B1207) Date: 4/20/1980 Description: Two roofers working in the late evening sighted a bright yellow disc-shaped UFO rise vertically from Lake Norman Reservoir, not far from a nuclear power plant in Rutherford County. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Norman Reservoir, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5294 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19598 (30DB12A2) Date: 4/20/1980 Description: Five apparently metallic Saturn-shaped objects, high-speed flight in formation at low altitude, visible against local terrain (section IV). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Mateo, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5293 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19599 (6CE1100E) Date: 4/20/1980 Description: At 5:30 a.m. in San Mateo, California two witnesses in a car on I-280 watched five bright metallic Saturn-shaped objects silently travel the length of the San Andreas Reservoir. They flew straight and fast to the southeast. They reflected sunlight, and were seen against the background of hills and the overcast sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1980, p. 3; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 25 & 155 Source ID: Johnson_2164 Source: Johnson ### Event 19600 (5014D296) Date: 4/21/1980 Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_351 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19601 (6E6DC300) Date: 4/22/1980 Description: 10:00 p.m. Police Officer Manuel Medina and dispatcher Sedilla of Springer, New Mexico, are parked on a traffic watch when one of them notices a bright star in the west at about 45° moving like a balloon with a start- stop motion. Medina shines his car’s spotlight on the object, which drops to a lower elevation. He turns the light off and the object ascends again. He turns the red cruiser light on, and the object seems to respond with a reddish hue. The light disappears over the Cimarron Mountains 20 miles away at 11:10 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Allan Hendry, “[Familiar](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf) [Description,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 2 \(June 1980\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6105 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19602 (319C2DFD) Date: 4/23/1980 Description: At 7:40 p.m. on this evening Sr. N. Sayago was driving his car on the outskirts of the city of Santa Rosa, La Pampa province, Argentina when he noticed something falling from the sky near some high-tension power lines. His vehicle suddenly stopped and could not be re-started again. He next felt a chilling breeze at this heet. He looked up and saw a very tall being gesturing at him. He was approached by two of these seven foot tall creatures, who he described as seven feet tall, with webbed hands, long pointed ears, protruding mouths, and almost no hair. They both wore shiny, almost luminous black diver suits. Their faces resembled very gaunt skulls, with hollow eyes and no visible noses. The beings moved their lips but did not speak. One of them took his hand with both of his cold hands, and Sr. Sayago beganto feel weak and dizzy. He then passed out. When he awoke he and the car were ten blocks away from where the encounter had taken place. He was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, June 1980, p. 9, citing the Buenos Aires Herald, April 24, 1980; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, HC# 243, citing Fabio Picasso, Strange Magazine, #8 (listing the date as April 22nd) Source ID: Johnson_2263 Source: Johnson ### Event 19603 (482EBD69) Date: 4/24/1980 Description: Two roofers working in the late evening at 9:00 p.m. sighted a bright yellow disc-shaped UFO rise vertically from Lake Norman Reservoir, not far from a nuclear power plant in Rutherford County, North Carolina. It made a loop in the sky and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; UFO Magazine (USA), June 1990, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_2284 Source: Johnson ### Event 19604 (E9464ADF) Date: 4/26/1980 Description: A disabled man and a woman neighbor in Holton, Indiana watched a luminous, golden-colored triangle, that appeared and passed in front of the full moon at around 11:00 p.m. It hovered for awhile, then shot straight up, and finally zigzagged before vanishing at a 45 degrees angle above the horizon in the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, CUFOS News, September 1980, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_2348 Source: Johnson ### Event 19605 (9740FB7A) Date: 4/26/1980 Description: 11:00 p.m. Two witnesses in Holton, Indiana, watch a luminous flashing form in the northwest sky. Golden- colored and triangular in shape, it appears larger than the full moon. The object hovers, then shoots straight up in seconds. It zigzags before vanishing in the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Golden Triangle in Indiana,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5 \(September 1980\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6106 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19606 (C5055904) Date: 5/1980 Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy’s attorney [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) brings a lawsuit against the National Security Agency to compel it to release 135 documents it has withheld from FOIA requests. The suit also includes the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration \(which it claims conducted an inadequate search for its UFO records\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Fred Whiting, “CAUS Goes to Court,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6 \(Sept./Oct. 1980\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_6107 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19607 (E3B466A3) Date: 5/1980 Description: Early afternoon. Thousands of base personnel and their families are congregating at Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City, South Dakota, to watch an SR-71 Blackbird take off after a refueling stop. A1C John W. Mills III and a few other airmen are on top of the barracks for a view. They see an odd, triangular object above the B-52 Alert Pad about half a mile away. It begins to move down the flight line, and they see it is a gray-black delta shape at an altitude of 500 feet. For some reason it is not visible through the pair of binoculars they have. It makes a right turn and suddenly disappears above a parachute-rigging building. The SR-71 does not take off. Later in the day, an official “flash” message goes out to base personnel telling them not to talk to the press in case they had seen anything. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 387–392 Source ID: Eberhart_6108 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19608 (D260021D) Date: 5/1980 Description: Late afternoon. Two witnesses are driving through Manlius, New York, when they catch a glimpse of a disc- shaped object the size of a football field hovering above a patch of trees. The driver stops the car and steps outside. Yellow, red, and green lights are rotating around its perimeter. A commercial aircraft and news helicopter are also visible in the sky. The object is still not moving and soundless. Then two jet fighters, apparently scrambled from Griffiss AFB \[now the Griffiss Business and Technology Park\] in Rome, New York, fly toward the object, which takes off like a bullet and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 211 Source ID: Eberhart_6110 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19609 (6462DACF) Date: 5/1980 Description: The Chinese UFO Studies Association is established under the auspices of Wuhan University, with branches in Beijing, Shanghai, and the provinces of Guangdong, Sichuan, Shanxi, Hubei, and Guangxi. It is headed by Cha Leping, a 26-year-old astrophysics student. The association later is incorporated into the China UFO Research Organization as an official branch of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dong, “Letters,” IUR 7, no. 2 \(March 1982\): 3; Good Above, [p. 206](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/206/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6109 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19610 (3BAB9A8D) Date: 5/2/1980 Description: Shiny sphere flying with rapid up and down motions observed through binoculars; stopped, spinning, over Lick Observatory, accelerated rapidly and sped away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Jose, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5296 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19611 (D816F4F2) Date: 5/2/1980 Description: 10:15 a.m. A Santa Clara County park ranger and another county employee are in the hills east of San Jose, California, when they see a shiny, mirror-like spherical object moving north to south. They take turns studying it through binoculars. The object has a blue-green band in the center and is orange at the bottom. It makes rapid up- and-down motions as it moves forward and spins faster as its speed diminishes. The object stops and spins toward Lick Observatory to the east of their position for 10 seconds. Then it accelerates rapidly and speeds away to the south. The sighting duration is 3–4 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 226 Source ID: Eberhart_6111 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19612 (C144639F) Date: 5/2/1980 Description: Shiny sphere flying with rapid up and down motions observed through binoculars. Stopped, spinning, over Lick Observatory, accelerated rapidly and sped away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: San Jose, California Source ID: HallUFOE2_352 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19613 (C0532D6B) Date: 5/4/1980 Description: Eta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_353 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19614 (4DE66C58) Date: 5/5/1980 Description: In San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay construction workers and truck drivers at a meat packing plant that was under construction saw a red and green luminous ball hovering overhead. It emitted a dull noise, and its presence interrupted electrical light power and also caused battery-operated radios to go dead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 9, citing La Razon, May 16, 1980 Source ID: Johnson_2553 Source: Johnson ### Event 19615 (B7F4F122) Date: 5/5/1980 Description: As she is driving home from Oklahoma to Eagle’s Nest, New Mexico, Myrna Hansen and her 6-year-old son see several UFOs in a field near Cimarron, New Mexico, after which they suffer confusion and a 4-hour loss of time. [Paul Bennewitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz), an Albuquerque, New Mexico, owner of humidity equipment company Thunder Scientific and a UFO investigator, on May 11 brings psychologist [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) in to meet Hansen. He hypnotizes them and gets a detailed abduction story from the mother, who also remembers watching the aliens mutilate a calf. Hansen also remembers being taken by the UFO to an underground area in New Mexico \(leading Bennewitz to suspect it is the Manzano Weapons Storage Area at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque\) where she sees tanks of water with cattle body parts, as well as a human arm. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms, Howe Productions, 1989, pp. 112–116; Linda Moulton Howe, Facts and Eyewitnesses, The Author, 1993, pp. 234–245; Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, [pp. 15–28](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/14/mode/2up); Marcus Lowth, “[The Chilling and Bizarre Abduction Encounter of Myrna Hansen,](https://www.ufoinsight.com/aliens/abductions/abduction-encounter-myrna-hansen)” UFO Insight, May 19, 2018; Clark III 359–360 Source ID: Eberhart_6112 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19616 (28CA6CC5) Date: 5/6/1980 Description: [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) finds an article in UFO Sightings by David McCarthy titled “Quest for Teleportation,” which features a photo of an alien cadaver similar to the ones he was given in March. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David McCarthy, “[The](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Sightings%20%28Timothy%20Green%20Beckley%29/UFO%20Sightings%20-%201980%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf) [Quest for Teleportation,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Sightings%20%28Timothy%20Green%20Beckley%29/UFO%20Sightings%20-%201980%20vol%201%20no%201.pdf)” UFO Sightings 1, no. 1 \(July 1980\): 40–45; MUFON UFO Journal, December 1980 Source ID: Eberhart_6113 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19617 (1D0A3462) Date: 5/7/1980 Description: 3:50 p.m. A Dutch KLM airliner is flying just over 30,000 feet above the Dachstein Mountains in the Austrian Alps. The pilot sees a gray spherical object flying overhead, which he reports to the Air Control Center in Vienna, which contacts the Austrian Air Force. Maj. Karl Schwarz orders three Saab 105 aircraft to intercept. Once they make visual contact, two of the jets attempt the intercept while the third takes film footage. The UFO’s erratic movements, however, make it impossible to follow, and the object is soon out of sight. At 5:50 p.m., a German Lufthansa airliner comes in close contact with a similar object, Schwarz orders two more fighters to scramble. The Saab 105 pilots think the object’s variable speed means it is playing with them. It is flying some 9,800 feet above them, but they cannot maneuver well enough to catch it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Terry Hooper, “[UFO Interceptions Attempted,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201980%20V%2026%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 4 \(November 1980\): 21 Source ID: Eberhart_6115 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19618 (8654D427) Date: 5/7/1980 Description: Day. X-ray technician Ruth Weaver experiences interference on her car radio while driving near Valdese, North Carolina. It blacks out completely and she sees a huge object move beneath the cloud cover directly ahead of her car. It makes a U-turn, then it banks, revealing the shape of an upside-down soup bowl with a dome on top. A red triangle is on the underside. It looks like a Stetson hat as it moves away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 452; George D. Fawcett, Human Reactions to UFOs Worldwide \(1940–1983\): What We Have Learned from UFO Repetitions, The Author, 1986, [p. 16](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/fawcett.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_6114 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19619 (F2765193) Date: 5/7/1980 Description: At 5:20 p.m. an object described as an "upside down soup bowl" with a dome on top came out of cloud cover directly ahead of the witness's car driving on I-40 near Valdese, North Carolina. It was estimated to be 40 feet in diameter and had a red rectangular area on the bottom. It made a U-turn, then banked away. The car's radio experienced interference during the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 25, 452, citing Tarheel UFO Newsletter, June 1980 Source ID: Johnson_2627 Source: Johnson ### Event 19620 (69145685) Date: 5/7/1980 Description: Disc with dome maneuvered near car, E-M effects on radio (section XII). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Valdese, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5297 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19621 (73377E80) Date: 5/7/1980 Description: Disc with dome maneuvered near car, E-M effects on radio Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Valdese, NC Source ID: HallUFOE2_354 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19622 (90FB9822) Date: 5/7/1980 Description: At 9:05 p.m. a woman with the last name of Riley was driving her car in Redding, California accompanied by her two teenage daughters (15 and 14 years old) and by another 13-year-old girl, when they were frightened by the sudden appearance of a patch of smoke or fog that suddenly enveloped their van. All normal noises ceased, while the women seemed to "float" inside a "cloud". Very worried, as soon as they were able to leave the "cloud" they drove to a friend's house, where they discovered that they could not account for 30 minutes of time. During the hours that followed they suffered from various physiological reactions and the following day, marks resembling strange punctures appeared on the skin of two of the girls. Soon afterwards they experienced strange dreams in which "men" were pointing strange weapons or objects at their heads. The witnesses reported the strange event to the police who advised them to contact a private UFO organization. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations, p. 79; APRO Bulletin, June 1980, p. 1; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 22, citing APRO Bulletin, June 1980, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_2628 Source: Johnson ### Event 19623 (9093B013) Date: 5/9/1980 Description: Red balls of light the size of lemons climbed up, across, and down telephone lines in Bargersville, Indiana then went up another pole on a clear evening at 9 p.m. A dog whined and barked as more red balls of light moved across a woman's back and the hair on her head. The balls of light made no noise Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Timmerman, CUFOS News Bulletin, October 1980, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_2694 Source: Johnson ### Event 19624 (20EB95FA) Date: 5/9/1980 Description: At 7:00 a.m. a Peruvian Air Force Sukhoi-22 warplane was scrambled to intercept a UFO flying near the Mariano Melgar AFB, near La Joya, Arequipa Province, Peru. It fired on the round object, but the UFO zipped off unharmed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 324; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_2693 Source: Johnson ### Event 19625 (11A4DCB1) Date: 5/9/1980 Description: 9:00 p.m. A woman is driving home with her daughter in Bargersville, Indiana, when bright red flashes of light illuminate the inside of her truck and the surrounding area. The flashes are caused by red balls of light about the size of lemons in the empty fields around them. The balls blink on and off in succession, climbing up one telephone pole. Moving down, and crossing the road to perform the same motion on another pole. They approach the truck, forcing her to back up the truck. Finally, the phenomenon ceases and she drives home. When they get there, her German shepherd dog starts whining and barking. Her husband steps outside to see what’s going on. Suddenly, their two daughters start screaming as small red balls of light move across their mother’s back and behind her hair. She does not feel anything, but the dog runs to the barn and stays there all night. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Allan Hendry](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf) [Reports: A Spooky Experience in Indiana,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 6 \(October 1980\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6116 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19626 (ED461D6C) Date: 5/10/1980 Description: DoD Report: The FAP (Peruvian Air Force) spotted a UFO twice and tried to intercept and destroy the UFO without success. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p503) Location: Area 51 See also: 7/1952 Source ID: Maj2_711 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19627 (D1B335E0) Date: 5/12/1980 Description: A brilliant blue disc hovered at a low altitude for ten minutes over Bulawayo. It shot straight up, stopped, then shot up again and was gone. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_5298 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19628 (2FABEA74) Date: 5/12/1980 Description: A brilliant blue disc hovered at a low altitude for ten minutes over Bulawayo, Zimbabwe at six p.m. It shot straight up, stopped, then shot up again and was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1990 Source ID: Johnson_2771 Source: Johnson ### Event 19629 (10CBD1B5) Date: 5/14/1980 Description: Glowing disc cast light beam onto road. Car entered beam, headlights flickered off and on several times, afterwards worked normally Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Simpson County, MS Source ID: HallUFOE2_355 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19630 (75441F93) Date: 5/14/1980 Description: Glowing disc shone light beam on road, E-M when car entered light beam. BiloxiGulfport, Miss., Daily Herald, May 14, 1980 (L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Simpson County, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_5299 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19631 (758D73B4) Date: 5/14/1980 Description: 9:15 p.m. John Ray spots three dark discs while he is driving in the rain through a rural area near Mars Hill, Maine. Each is larger than the full moon and has numerous white lights on the bottom. They pass silently above his car and hover ahead of him in close formation about 500 feet up. Suddenly they take off and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Close Encounter in the Rain,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 7 \(November 1980\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_6118 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19632 (9AA34298) Date: 5/14/1980 Description: 3:30 a.m. Howard and Julia Pickrel are driving on US Highway 49 through Simpson County, Mississippi, when they see a glowing disc high in the sky. A beam of light from the disc makes a spot of light on the ground as wide as their car. As they drive through the light beam, their lights go on and off 7–8 times. After they are out of the beam’s path, the lights do not flicker again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 307–308 Source ID: Eberhart_6117 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19633 (F043C152) Date: 5/14/1980 Description: On a rainy night shortly after 9:00 p.m. while driving through a forested area in Mars Hill, Aroostook County, Maine 33-year-old Mr. Ray reported that three dark discs flew silently over his car. They then stopped and hovered ahead of him in close formation, at 500 feet altitude. They suddenly took off at an incredible speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, CUFOS Newsletter, November 1980, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_2837 Source: Johnson ### Event 19634 (E166B829) Date: 5/14/1980 Description: Simpson County, Mississippi - A glowing disc high in the sky cast a light beam on the roadway at 3:30 a.m. When a car with witnesses Mr. & Mrs. Pickrel drove through the light beam the "car lights went on and off about 7-8 times". The headlights and console lights later functioned normally. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 307, citing the Biloxi Daily Herald, May 14, 1980; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 25, 258; MUFON UFO Journal, July 1980 Source ID: Johnson_2836 Source: Johnson ### Event 19635 (F7624FCA) Date: 5/15/1980 Description: At 12:40 a.m. a Mr. Hughes, driving on the M53 Motorway in Wirral, Merseyside, England sighted an object shaped like two curved artillery shells side-by-side close to the ground. Two shielded beams of light were projected downward from the object onto the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Alan Bell, FSR, August 1981, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_2869 Source: Johnson ### Event 19636 (163B2943) Date: 5/16/1980 Description: 3:00 p.m. A civilian pilot is flying a Pirat glider near a cement mill in Działoszyn, Poland, when he notices an object maneuvering across the fumes from factory chimneys below. Seconds later it moves in front of the glider, and he takes evasive action. It is an isosceles triangle shape with a side length of 30 feet and a dull brownish- green. At one point it turns up one of its corners at an angle of 45° in an apparent attempt to correct its flight. Then it changes orientation to the horizontal, shrinks in size, and disappears. A similar object is seen the same day near Wielún. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 69 Source ID: Eberhart_6119 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19637 (B48C53C1) Date: 5/22/1980 Description: 11:05 p.m. The Air Transit Control Center at Gran Canaria Airport in the Canary Islands detects some unidentified traffic toward the southwest moving at 685 mph. A few minutes later, an aero-taxi pilot reports a bright object passing to his left and descending toward the ocean. A Spanish Air Force officer investigates and concludes the object is unknown, even though its position observed by the pilot matches that of Venus. A false radar echo is also possible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 436, 528–529 Source ID: Eberhart_6120 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19638 (F2808CF6) Date: 5/23/1980 End date: 5/25/1980 Description: The first Rocky Mountain Conference on UFO Investigation, organized by psychologist [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) to bring contactees together, is held in Laramie on the University of Wyoming campus. Barely 20 people show up, but Sprinkle notes they are average, normal people, though highly susceptible to hypnotic suggestion. Most claim some psychic abilities, and many report a feeling of being monitored or experiencing continuing contact with UFO entities. They feel anxiety about the state of the human race and worry about a coming cataclysm. The conferences continue to at least 1996, attracting as many as 200 attendees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 300–301 Source ID: Eberhart_6121 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19639 (E984AC91) Date: 5/28/1980 Description: Denver KMGH-TV investigative journalist [Linda Moulton Howe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%5FMoulton%5FHowe) releases A Strange Harvest, a 2-hour documentary that suggests unusual wounds found on cattle are the work of extraterrestrial beings who harvest body parts required for their survival or research, and that the US government is complicit. The documentary wins a Regional Emmy award in 1981. She interviews Denver surgeon [Arlen Meyers](https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-arlen-meyers-27r4t) on excising tissue with a laser; and [Lou Girodo](https://krtnradio.com/2017/02/13/in-loving-memory-of-louis-p-girodo/), chief investigator for the District Attorney’s Office in Trinidad, Colorado. The show also features a hypnotic regression session by [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) on Judy Dorarty, who says she witnessed a mutilation outside Houston, Texas, in May 1973; under hypnosis, she describes seeing a calf drawn up in a pale yellow beam of light into a UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Internet Movie Database, “[A Strange Harvest](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6362274/)”; Clark III 363; “[Alta Loma 1973,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=340)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 1, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_6122 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19640 (B2E2642D) Date: 5/30/1980 Description: The CIA moves for summary judgment in [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932)’s lawsuit for UFO documents. The court grants it, despite the 57 remaining UFO documents the CIA admits it is withholding. CAUS appeals on June 24. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “CAUS Update,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 \(Nov./Dec. 1980\): 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_6123 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19641 (43B85675) Date: 6/1980 Description: [Leonard H. Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) publishes The UFO Crash/Retrieval Syndrome: Status Report II, New Sources, New Data, presenting the accounts and rumors he has heard of crashed UFOs retrieved by the military. He has contacted four different military sources claiming to have seen a movie film depicting a crashed saucer and small alien bodies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard Stringfield, “The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s Cage,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 147 Source ID: Eberhart_6128 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19642 (33D11446) Date: 6/1980 Description: [Kenneth Rommel](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102222895/kenneth-m-rommel) releases Operation Animal Mutilation, a long report that devastatingly debunks popular theories. The animals have died of natural causes, he contends, and the mysterious aspects can be explained prosaically. He cites ornithologist Kenneth Sager: “The larger the animal, the more difficult it is for the scavenger to gain access to the food supply below the tough surface. \[Thus they attack the\] softer points of entry, namely the eyes, anal openings, and the soft underbelly areas, especially the udders of female bovines.” L. D. Kuttner of the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine says that many scavengers can make as clean a cut as “might be done by a surgeon with a knife.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cattle mutilation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle%5Fmutilation\#U.S.%5Fgovernmental%5Fexplanation)”; Kenneth M. Rommel Jr., [Operation](https://www.think.cz/issue/22/articles/0597/mutiliations/romindex%5Ffiles/sidelist.html) [Animal Mutilation](https://www.think.cz/issue/22/articles/0597/mutiliations/romindex%5Ffiles/sidelist.html)[,](https://www.think.cz/issue/22/articles/0597/mutiliations/romindex%5Ffiles/sidelist.html) Report of the District Attorney, First Judicial District, State of New Mexico, prepared for the US Criminal Justice Department, 1980; Federal Bureau of Investigation, Animal Mutilation documents, 1974– 1980, [part 1](https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%201%20of%205/view)[,](https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%201%20of%205/view) [part 2](https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%202%20of%205/view)[,](https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%202%20of%205/view) [part 3](https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%203%20of%205/view), [part 4](https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%204%20of%205/view), [part 5](https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%205%20of%205/view); Clark III 133 Source ID: Eberhart_6127 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19643 (113D1044) Date: 6/1980 Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy is reorganized after the departure of [W. Todd Zechel](https://www.wiscnews.com/saukprairieeagle/news/local/obituaries/w-todd-zechel-of-prairie-du-sac---published/article%5F696590a6-91c6-5248-a014-2cccc841c5b6.html), with [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) as director and Lawrence Fawcett as assistant editor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 240 Source ID: Eberhart_6126 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19644 (04D7F521) Date: 6/1980 Description: NICAP is disbanded after the last issue of the UFO Investigator is published, and its files are eventually turned over to the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO Investigator](http://cufos.org/UFOI%5Fand%5FSelected%5FDocuments/UFOI/162%20JUNE%201980.pdf) 11, no. 6 \(June 1980\); Clark III 794 Source ID: Eberhart_6125 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19645 (3A083745) Date: Early Summer 1980 Description: Two women see a green, miniature airplane outside a house in Matsbo, near Hedemora, in central Sweden. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clas Svahn, “Green Miniature Airplane Hovers in Front of a House,” IUR 29, no. 3 \(Fall 2004\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_6124 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19646 (8BF6C697) Date: 6/2/1980 Description: [Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) receives eight more prints showing an alien cadaver encased under glass. One photo shows a hand with four fingers and clawlike nails. His source claims they were obtained from a secret study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1980; Leonard Stringfield, “The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s Cage,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 147–148 Source ID: Eberhart_6129 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19647 (E87C1388) Date: 6/3/1980 Description: [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) arrives at [Paul Bennewitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz)’s house in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for another hypnotic session with Myrna Hansen. Bennewitz, now very paranoid, meets him at the door with a gun, saying he needs to protect himself from aliens. A strained and brief hypnosis session follows, after which Sprinkle returns to Wyoming. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, [pp. 24–25](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/24/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6130 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19648 (E55B109F) Date: 6/4/1980 Description: In 1980 two brothers commuting to work in Abasto, Argentina saw a strange luminous object in the pre-dawn sky at around 5:30 a.m. It made no noise, was 12 meters in diameter, and emitted white and reddish flashes of light. The UFO flew over fast, halted above the two men, then shot off to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 9, citing La Razon, June 5, 1980 Source ID: Johnson_3279 Source: Johnson ### Event 19649 (B0FCD813) Date: 6/5/1980 Description: In 1980 a series of strange UFO-related events occurred in both Malaysia and the San Luis Valley of Colorado. At dusk in Moffat, Colorado a mustard yellow, old-fashioned "whirlybird" copter was seen rising from a pasture. The next morning a prize-winning bull was found dead. No nearby airport had ever seen such a craft. At 2:20 a.m. in Port Klang, Malaysia a spinning, luminous bluish-red ball hovered just 30 feet over a large oil installation. It emitted beam of light that struck a house near the petroleum tanks, and the house caught fire. Nearby airport radar confirmed the presence of a UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 42; Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 96 Source ID: Johnson_3304 Source: Johnson ### Event 19650 (137BA3EF) Date: 6/11/1980 Description: An unknown cigar-shaped object passes close to a commercial aircraft near Venice, Italy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 162 Source ID: Eberhart_6131 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19651 (41D5BF93) Date: 6/14/1980 Description: At 7:05 two reporters for the La Capital newspaper in Rosario, Argentina said that a "fleet of flying saucers" was seen by several witnesses and themselves from Independencia Park. One was shaped like a "teething ring", the second was smaller and white in color, and the third object was like a dot with a halo around it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 9, citing Cronica, June 15 & 16, 1980, translated by Jane Thomas; Alan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1980, pp. 15-16 Source ID: Johnson_3489 Source: Johnson ### Event 19652 (D452C1C5) Date: 6/14/1980 Description: At the same time pilots, crew, and passengers of some commercial airplanes were forced to delay their takeoffs while a UFO flew toward the Ezeiza, Argentina runway. It nearly crashed into a building, but gained altitude and flew away. It was tracked on radar at the Jorge Newbery airport in Ezeiza. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 11, citing Cronica, June 17, 1980, translated by Jane Thomas Source ID: Johnson_3488 Source: Johnson ### Event 19653 (5F05AB1E) Date: 6/14/1980 Description: There were over 30 reports of luminous ring-shaped UFOs from Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil this evening. At around 7 p.m. twenty kilometers west of Junin, Argentina a circular object approached a car with five people inside from behind, forcing the driver to pull over. The object was dark in the center with luminous white points around the rim. It descended by the highway with a vertical motion and hung about 1.5 meters above the ground. It left a trail of white smoke. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 12, citing La Razon, June 18, 1980, translated by Jane Thomas Source ID: Johnson_3487 Source: Johnson ### Event 19654 (50DA4319) Date: 6/14/1980 Description: An LAN Chile airline pilot reported that a UFO made a head-on pass at his plane at 50,000 feet altitude. The glowing yellow object was moving faster than his aircraft. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santiago, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_5301 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19655 (904911B3) Date: 6/14/1980 Description: 7:00–8:00 p.m. A flurry of UFO sightings by numerous witnesses takes place in Córdoba, Jorge Newbery and Ezeiza airports in Buenos Aires, and Rosario, Argentina, including airport personnel and meteorologists, with extensive newspaper coverage. Objects appear singly and in “fleets” and are described variously as “luminous oval-spherical,” “spinning top,” spindle-shaped, and a sphere that emits “an intense luminous ray that illuminated the surface of the river.” At Pajas Blancas Airport in Córdoba, a UFO causes operations to be stopped for several minutes after it follows the landing pattern of aircraft into the airport. Sightings occur around the same time in Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay. CUFOS suspects many of the observations might be due to a high-altitude barium cloud produced by a rocket launch. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The UFO ‘Flap’ in South America,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6 \(Sept./Oct. 1980\): 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_6133 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19656 (2D5CF7E1) Date: 6/14/1980 Description: Evening. Many residents of Moscow, Russia, see a huge, reddish-orange, horseshoe-shaped object accompanied by swirling luminous gases. Some 250 miles to the west, Lt. Col. Oleg Karyakin hears a low- frequency booming noise and sees a bright object less than 500 feet away. He runs toward it, feels some resistance, but continues until he is about 150 feet away. It gives off a high-pitched sound and briefly emits three white rays, then ascends rapidly, hovers for 2 seconds, then moves to the northwest and vanishes. Shortly afterward, he sees a large, reddish UFO above some treetops. Another bright object is accompanying the first, flying horizontally and leaving a fiery trail. Some 30 others witness this event. Soviet investigators conclude that the objects were the launches of two communications satellites, a [Gorizont](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorizont) and [Kosmos 1188](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%5F1188). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 59; Good Above, [pp. 238–241](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/238/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6132 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19657 (63C8EDBA) Date: 6/14/1980 Description: Flurry of UFO sightings by numerous witnesses, including airport personnel and meteorologists, with extensive newspaper coverage. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cordoba and Rosario, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_5300 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19658 (6E09C736) Date: 6/15/1980 Description: 2:00 a.m. A 70-year-old woman in Oak Park, Illinois, sees an object like a white half-moon with a serrated edge. At first she thinks it is the moon, but it begins moving to the east and disappears in 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Allan](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf) [Hendry Reports: A Lunar Impostor,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 \(August 1980\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_6134 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19659 (1F5A3FFC) Date: 6/15/1980 Description: 11:30 p.m. Students Kevin Smith and Jill Harper are walking along Hidden Beach in Rio Del Mar, California, when a 4-foot-long, 10-inch-wide cigar-shaped object passes about 30 feet above them moving southwest over the water and landing in the ocean without a splash. As it bobs about, a light comes on in the interior. Smith yells at it and the light goes out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Romance under a UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 \(July/Aug. 1980\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6136 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19660 (35034B5C) Date: 6/15/1980 Description: 2:30 a.m. Security Policeman Charles P. Wagner and two others at RAF Bentwaters \[now closed\], near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, watch a 2-foot diameter spherical object maneuver above several A-10 aircraft parked at the base. Moments later, the orb suddenly splits into three smaller spheres, all of which vanish in a flash of light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert L. Hastings, “[New Bentwaters UFO Witness Goes on the Record,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/new-bentwaters-ufo-witness-goes-on-the-record)” UFOs & Nukes, November 22, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_6135 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19661 (B55861A7) Date: 6/17/1980 Description: 11:00 p.m. Two women driving with four young children north on Interstate 75 near Grayling Army Airfield in Grayling, Michigan, when they see two lights moving from right to left in front of their car. Two minutes later, three more lights \(two blinking, one steady\) appear to the right and pace the car at 85 mph, moving closer until they are about 100 feet directly above them. They are completely silent and possibly attached to an oblong-shaped object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Michigan Close Encounter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 3 \(July 1980\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_6137 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19662 (6B458699) Date: 6/18/1980 Description: A schoolgirl saw what looked like a big monkey-like creature shrink to something only a few inches tall outside her house in Lumut, Perak State, Malaysia at 7:00 a.m. She screamed and then fainted. At 10:30 a.m. that morning two more schoolgirls went to the local school and saw two minature figures less than 7 feet away from them. One was dressed in a white spacesuit, the other in black. They were very hairy and only about two inches tall. Both carried backpacks and some sort of weapons. Their feet did not touch the ground. That evening at around 8 p.m. two teachers and several students searched a field and saw three more of the tiny entities, dressed in white. They also found a U-shaped mark on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, cases 97, 98, & 99 Source ID: Johnson_3539 Source: Johnson ### Event 19663 (235799FA) Date: 6/20/1980 Description: While descending through 15,000 feet for a landing, a senior Kuwait Airways pilot and crew observed a huge, brightly illuminated hemispherical object with a flat base moving steadily eastward at a slightly lower speed than his aircraft. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In air space, Kuwait Source ID: NICAP_DB_5302 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19664 (6BFDF7FD) Date: 6/20/1980 Description: 9:00 p.m. While descending through 15,000 feet for a landing, a senior Kuwait Airways pilot and crew observe a huge, brightly illuminated hemispherical object with a flat base moving steadily eastward over Kuwait City at a slightly lower speed than his aircraft. “When I turned north at Wafra, the phenomenon was still clearly visible and remained so until we descended below the haze layer and started to approach the runway.” The crew of another airline flight 90 miles away reports sighting the same phenomenon. Radar does not detect the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: American Embassy, Kuwait, “Investigation of Unusual ‘Light Phenomenon’ Seen in Kuwait’s Skies,” telex, July 1980, in “[U.S. State Department ‘UFO’ Documents, Reviewed and Released 7 Feb 2000](https://www.cufon.org/cufon/staterepts.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_6138 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19665 (C16EAFE1) Date: Summer 1980 Description: Ex Soviet test pilot Lev Vyatkin plane collided with an aircraft emitting a “hard beam”. The pilot managed to land successfully, but the wing, touched by the beam, continued to glow for several more hours. Type: ufo encounter Reference: [link](https://curiosmos.com/kapustin-yar-russias-alleged-area-51-10-things-you-should-know/) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_712 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19666 (CD0D3F8D) Date: 6/21/1980 Description: In Assumption, Illinois at 1:30 a.m. Ms. McLeod reported that two low flying, slow orange colored domed discs circled and hovered for five minutes while directing a beam of light toward the ground. There was an unnatural quiet and the witness's dog never barked during the sighting. Two minutes after the UFO left natural sounds returned to the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, August 1980, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_3587 Source: Johnson ### Event 19667 (8160B9AD) Date: 6/21/1980 Description: 1:30 a.m. Janet McLeod notices two large, orange, domed discs circling low about four blocks west of her home in Assumption, Illinois. They stop and hover at treetop level. The top one gradually fades out from top to bottom. The lower one turns on its side and shines a beam toward the ground for 5 minutes. Then it goes back to the horizontal and fades out in the same way. When she steps outside 5 minutes later, she notices it is dead quiet, the natural sounds resuming after 2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Twin Domed Discs in Illinois,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 \(July/Aug. 1980\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6139 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19668 (C5869DAD) Date: 6/28/1980 Description: Two civilian pilots, José L. Maldonaldo Torres and José A. Pagán Santos, are flying an ERCO Ercoupe 415-D at 1,500 feet over the Mona Passage between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. They send out a mayday message saying they are looking at a “weird object” that makes them change course three times. Their plane disappears and no wreckage is found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 312](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/312/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/312/mode/2up) [320](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/320/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6140 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19669 (4589CA08) Date: 7/1980 Description: AFOSI special agent Sgt. [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) writes an anonymous letter to APRO claiming that a Civil Air Patrol cadet named Craig R. Weitzel had seen and photographed a UFO landing near Pecos, New Mexico. Weitzel takes photos and is debriefed at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque. An alien, a man in a dark suit from Sandia Laboratories, and crashed UFOs stored at the Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility are also mentioned. But the letter is disinformational bait to see whether the [Lorenzens](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) might prove to be “useful idiots.” Weitzel admits to investigator [William Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) and, later, Benton Jamison in 1985 that he had seen a UFO in 1980, but it was a classic daylight disc and took place in the southeast, not New Mexico. Much later on, Doty admits to Moore that he had composed the letter as disinformation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 361–362; Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/54/mode/2up) [54–57](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/54/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/54/mode/2up) [64–66](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/64/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 406–408](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/406/mode/2up); \[Richard Doty\], [Craig Wetzel letter](http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S17-Weitzel-Letter.pdf), July 1980 Source ID: Eberhart_6141 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19670 (CB4C22D4) Date: 7/4/1980 Description: 11-year-old boy reported a disc-shaped object with dome-circle on bottom. Object was moving from overhead to the south, lost the object as it moved behind his home. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5303 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19671 (D78B5A4A) Date: 7/5/1980 Description: A large silent sphere dropped to the surface of Lake Navsjon north of Naveksvarn, Sweden at 11:50 p.m. It changed colors while on the surface of the lake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: AFU Sweden Source ID: Johnson_3848 Source: Johnson ### Event 19672 (71E9341B) Date: 7/5/1980 Description: A large silent sphere dropped to the surface of Lake Navsjon north of Naveksvarn, Sweden. It changed colors while on the surface of the lake (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Navsjon, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_5304 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19673 (6F0C142F) Date: 7/6/1980 Description: A silent, fifteen-meter diameter round object hovered only 500 feet away. A dog hid in fear. A six-meter long indentation was discovered on the ground. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bear River, Nova Scotia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5306 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19674 (83D1AE81) Date: 7/6/1980 Description: At 2:30 a.m. in Bear River, Nova Scotia a silent, fifteen-meter diameter round object hovered only 500 feet away. A dog hid in fear. A six-meter long indentation was discovered on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 134 Source ID: Johnson_3889 Source: Johnson ### Event 19675 (635C9BF5) Date: 7/6/1980 Description: A large silent sphere dropped to the surface of Lake Navsjon north of Naveksvarn, Sweden. It changed colors while on the surface of the lake (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Navsjon, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_5305 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19676 (A1B83E67) Date: 7/12/1980 Description: 11:00 p.m. A professor and his wife are getting ready for bed in Urbandale, Iowa, when they notice three round light spots in a triangular formation high in the southern sky. The lower two are like bright stars, while the upper ones seem larger. The smaller lights are zig-zagging and coming together under the larger light for 20 minutes until all three abruptly disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Meandering Lights in Iowa,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 6 \(October 1980\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6142 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19677 (3274ECA1) Date: 7/16/1980 Description: At 10:30 a.m. a Civil Air Patrol cadet along with several other witnesses observed a dull metallic, circular object maneuvering near Pecos, New Mexico. The cadet got closer to the object after it landed in a nearby clearing and took some photographs. He then observed a human looking figure dressed in a metallic suit emerge from the object and walk a few feet away from it. Moments later the figure returned to the object and it quickly took off and flew towards the northwest. The cadet was later approached by a mysterious man who wanted him to turn over the photographs to him. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up, p. 407 Source ID: Johnson_4107 Source: Johnson ### Event 19678 (923DFDFB) Date: 7/16/1980 Description: A Civil Air Patrol cadet along with several other witnesses observed a dull metallic, circular object maneuvering near Pecos, New Mexico. The cadet got closer to the object after it landed in a nearby clearing and took some photographs. He then observed a human looking figure dressed in a metallic suit emerge from the object and walk a few feet away from it. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pecos, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_5309 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19679 (B1A9C0A5) Date: 7/18/1980 Description: Seven delta-shaped objects cavorted and landed at 10:15 p.m. in Pine Bush, New York. Ellen Crystal approached them in her car, and they in turn took off and paced her car. It was her impression that the UFOs wanted to be seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ellen Crystal: The Silent Invasion, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_4178 Source: Johnson ### Event 19680 (58BD874E) Date: 7/18/1980 Description: Seven delta-shaped objects cavorted and landed at 10:15 p.m. in Pine Bush. Ellen Crystal approached them in her car, and they in turn took off and paced her car. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pine Bush, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5312 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19681 (AE4D0244) Date: 7/21/1980 Description: Farmer John Scull discovers a circular swathe of flattened oats in his field near the Westbury White Horse in Wiltshire, England. He discovers a second circle on July 31 and informs the media on August 13. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p.](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n189/mode/2up) [117](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n189/mode/2up); Terry Wilson, “[Case Study 1: Westbury 1980,](https://menwhoconnedtheworld.weebly.com/41-case-study-1.html)” Men Who Conned the World, December 24, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_6143 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19682 (AA069382) Date: 7/28/1980 Description: Author and researcher John Keel is interviewed by David Letterman. Keel says that animal mutilation cases keep him up at night. Type: interview Reference: [link](https://twitter.com/MikeColangelo/status/1612248787770114050) Location: New York City Source ID: Maj2_713 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19683 (733F2A37) Date: 7/31/1980 Description: A red light moved over a motorcycle in Ayamonte, Huelva province, Spain at 1:15 a.m. and when the UFO came to within 1.5 meters over top of the motorcycle the engine died and was impossible to restart. The object then moved over a concrete platform on the right side of the road, near the bank of a river, and then at last dove at the motorcyclist before leaving. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Luis R.Gonzalez Manso, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1981, p. 14, Correo Andalusia, August 1, 1980 Source ID: Johnson_4539 Source: Johnson ### Event 19684 (D7C1E925) Date: 8/1980 Description: Three guards reported sighting an aerial light which descended on the Sandia Military Reservation. Ernest Edwards reported the sighting to AFOSI Special Agent Richard Doty, unaware that Doty had already heard from Russ Curtis (the Sandia Security Chief) that a Sandia Security guard had sighted a disc-shaped object near a structure just minutes after the sighting by the three Manzano guards. Doty included these reports and several others in his formal report, forwarding it to AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) Headquarters in Washington DC. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [link](https://www.exopaedia.org/Paul+Bennewitz) Location: Manzano Test Range Source ID: Maj2_715 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19685 (FA986A99) Date: 8/1980 Description: 10:00 p.m. Two students at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, see a brilliant oval object in the sky near the Summer Palace. It has several lights that flash on and off 2–3 times per second. The object itself is shaped like “two straw hats placed brim to brim” with a brilliant center line. It stops hovering and ascends vertically, disappearing in 3–4 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Chinese Connection…and Some Wholesome Chinese Philosophy,” IUR 7, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1982\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6146 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19686 (5DD3CEA4) Date: 8/1980 Description: Another set of photos allegedly showing part of an alien cadaver is released by Charles Wilhelm and Dennis Pilichis, who receive them through UFO researcher Willard McIntyre, apparently from an anonymous US Navy source. William Spaulding of Ground Saucer Watch analyzes them and suggests they show a monkey used in early rocket tests. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, “Status Report on Alleged Alien Cadaver Photos,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 154 \(December 1980\): 11–16; Leonard H. Stringfield, “[The Puzzling Case of the Cadaver Photos,](https://vdocuments.mx/mufon-ufo-journal-1981-9-september.html?page=15)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 163 \(September 1981\): 15–19; Juan-Vicente Ballester-Olmos, “[The Tomato Man in](http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2022%5F03%5F15%5Farchive.html) [Retrospective](http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2022%5F03%5F15%5Farchive.html),” UFO FOTOCAT Blog, March 13, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_6144 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19687 (1CEEB48E) Date: Early 8/1980 Description: Thousands of witnesses see UFOs for several days in a row over Tianjin, China, and the Bohai Sea. One large object keeps appearing and vanishing like a will-o’-the-wisp. Occasionally objects are tracked on radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dong, “[Extracts from Paul Dong’s](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf) [Feidie Bai Wen Bai Da](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf) [\(Questions and Answers on UFOs\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 \(August 1984\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_6145 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19688 (E26903BC) Date: 8/3/1980 Description: Three airmen and five civilians at separate locations sighted an object that looked like a "metallic balloon" with two flat sides, according to a base spokesman. It either landed or hovered just above a grassy area near a taxiway on the base. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norton AFB, San Bernardino, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5313 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19689 (DF6770B2) Date: 8/4/1980 Description: At 4:50 in the afternoon Edith Sage was walking down an alley on her way to some nearby shops in Medway, Kent, England when she saw a ring of smoke and sparks coming from a spot nearby, and an unusual craft suddenly materialized. It resembled a small helicopter without any rotor blades, doors or engines. There was a large transparent dome at the front of the object, and it had green and tan camouflage markings on the side. She could see two men seated inside, who were of normal height and wore gray jumpsuits. They looked very much alike except one had long blond hair and the other had dark hair, and both had olive skinned complexions. All sounds area suddenly ceased and there was also a sweet odor in the vicinity. The men apparently communicated with her via mental telepathy, but we don't know the content of their communication. The craft then suddenly disappeared in plain sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 234; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 74; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2255; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 354 Source ID: Johnson_4662 Source: Johnson ### Event 19690 (30147CCD) Date: 8/5/1980 Description: At around 1:00 a.m. a 130-meter in diameter disc-shaped object descended to the ground at the Oktyabriski oil field in Russia. It flew off to the north, but it left a big hole with vitified sand glass walls: 20 tons of sand were reportedly missing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13506, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_4698 Source: Johnson ### Event 19691 (2D030076) Date: 8/8/1980 Description: During the previous evening, around 9:30 p.m., author Ellen Crystal was out in an isolated field near Pine Bush, New York by herself when she noticed a large lighted object descend among some nearby trees. The object turned its lights off as it landed. She decided not to approach. However, after midnight she decided to investigate, drove near the site, and with a flashlight caught sight of a four-foot tall thin humanoid with a large head and huge yellow cat-like eyes. It was wearing a tight fitting, beige jumpsuit. The being stood there briefly and stared at the witness, who panicked and quickly drove away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ellen Crystal, The Silent Invasion, p. 41; Ellen Crystal, UFO Universe, Spring 1989 Source ID: Johnson_4780 Source: Johnson ### Event 19692 (00AFF844) Date: 8/8/1980 Description: Author Ellen Crystal was out in an isolated field near Pine Bush by herself when she noticed a large lighted object descend among some nearby trees. With a flashlight caught sight of a four-foot tall thin humanoid with a large head and huge yellow cat-like eyes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pine Bush, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5314 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19693 (02CE2970) Date: 8/8/1980 End date: 8/9/1980 Description: Before 12:00 midnight. Three security policemen on the eastern side of the Manzano Weapons Storage Area adjacent to Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, see a bright light descend in a restricted area about 3 miles to the north-northeast. It travels quickly and stops suddenly over Coyote Canyon. At 12:20 a.m., a Sandia guard observes a disc-shaped object with a bright light hovering behind a building. He approaches it with a shotgun and attempts to use his radio, but it has stopped working. The object shoots straight up. These and other incidents result in a report being filed with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Kirtland. The incident is subsequently investigated by agent [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard)[,](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) who files a preliminary report on the incident. The document is leaked to [William Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) in January 1982 and obtained in a subsequent FOIA request by [Barry Greenwood](http://www.ufoevidence.org/researchers/detail11.htm). Moore and [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) both interview Doty, who says there are most likely other documents including a longer report that he had written up. However, after Noah Lawrence at AFOSI Headquarters tells Maccabee there are no other documents on file, Doty begins to backtrack. Maccabee also meets Russ Curtis inside the Manzano area who says that the incident never took place \(which contradicts Curtis’s statement to Moore in 1982\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 362; Good Above, [pp. 405–406](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/404/mode/2up), [522–523](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/522/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 322](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/322/mode/2up), [329](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/328/mode/2up); Bruce Maccabee, “[UFO Landing near](http://brumac.mysite.com/kirtland1.html) [Kirtland AFB: Welcome to the Cosmic Watergate,](http://brumac.mysite.com/kirtland1.html)” 2000; Robert L. Hastings, “[UFOs Filmed Hovering over U.S.](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/ufos-filmed-hovering-over-us-air-force-nuclear-weapons-storage-area) [Air Force Nuclear Weapons Storage Area,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/ufos-filmed-hovering-over-us-air-force-nuclear-weapons-storage-area)” UFOs & Nukes, May 13, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_6147 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19694 (CFF7394B) Date: 8/9/1980 Description: A few minutes after midnight a Sandia Security detail of three men, Ferenz, Rist, and Frazier, reported that a disc-shaped object landed behind the "HQ CR 44" nuclear storage building at Sandia Laboratories, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. One of the security guards drove his jeep into Coyote Canyon and approached on foot. He had a clear view of the round disc-shaped object at the Manzano Weapons Storage Area. His radio would not work when he tried to radio for backup. The UFO shot straight up and away at high speed at the end of the 30 minute encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lawrence Fawcett & Barry J. Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, pp. 224-225; Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 406; UNICAT database, case 373, citing Fawcett & Greenwood Source ID: Johnson_4804 Source: Johnson ### Event 19695 (2F2EF8D6) Date: 8/9/1980 Description: UFO landing near Kirtland, AFB (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, NC) Reference: NICAP: [800809](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/kirtland800809dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_5316 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19696 (BD38AD57) Date: 8/9/1980 End date: 9/3/1980 Description: AFOSI Complaint Form: At Kirtland AFB three persons report seeing UFO over a Restricted Test Range. On Aug. 9th a Sandia Security Guard drove down the Coyote Canyon access road to check out an alarmed building and observed a landed UFO next to an alarmed building. The UFO was around disk shaped object. As he approached the object on foot equipped with a shotgun the object took off in a vertical direction at a high rate of speed. His radio wasn’t working right at the time so he couldn’t reach dispatch. The building contained HQ CR 44 material. (Nature of material not known.) Type: ufo sightings Reference: [link](https://twitter.com/MikeColangelo/status/1612248787770114050) Location: Kirtland AFB Source ID: Maj2_714 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19697 (067CFDC9) Date: 8/10/1980 Description: A New Mexico State policeman saw a UFO land in the Manzano Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico, near the Sandia Nuclear Weapons Facility. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lawrence Fawcett & Barry J. Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, p. 225 Source ID: Johnson_4828 Source: Johnson ### Event 19698 (84B6EA17) Date: 8/15/1980 Description: UFO skeptic [Philip Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) sends a letter to A. G. McNamara of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Ottawa, Canada, which serves as a repository for Canadian UFO reports for the Canadian National Research Council. Klass characterizes New Brunswick ufologist [Stanton Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) as a snake oil salesman and UFO guru whose lectures are filled with falsehoods, disparaging his credentials, his ego, and his modus operandi. He warns McNamara that the astronomers at the institute will soon be the targets of Friedman’s coverup accusations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 221–222 Source ID: Eberhart_6148 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19699 (14ED746B) Date: 8/16/1980 Description: Frank Scott and another soldier were ordered to go by jeep, to a location outside of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia where a UFO had recently been seen. They arrived there at around two o'clock in the afternoon, and observed a long cylindrical craft hovering close to the ground. The object was at least 170 meters long, and broad as well, and it emitted a buzzing sound that made the air vibrate. The craft was also emitting a beam of light towards the ground, and within the beam they could see a small humanoid being descending to the ground. The humanoid descended to the ground alone. Both men remained in the jeep, armed with their side arms, and watching the spectacle. Their weapons suddenly became disabled, as if welded together. Then there was a terrible noise, and Scott lost consciousness. He awoke much later in his base infirmary, not knowing how he had gotten there. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing personal testimony by Frank Scott to Overmeire Source ID: Johnson_5101 Source: Johnson ### Event 19700 (EC96F90F) Date: 8/17/1980 Description: 1:15 a.m. Security guard [Phil Battle](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175585633/phillip-battle) is driving his truck in the parking lot of the Teledyne-Ohio Steel plant in Lima, Ohio, and sees an unusual bright light in the sky. He steps out and watches a round, silvery form about 270 feet away. It has little holes on the surface, a flashing yellow light, and white floodlights all around it. It hovers for about 5 minutes, moving back and forth. Battle’s CB radio does not work when he tries to alert others. Suddenly a yellow light shoots out at Battle, knocking him back against his truck, scarring his knee and hurting his back and kidneys. The beam also reddens his left eye. The UFO then takes off. He and other guard look for the object and see a light about 1,200 feet to the north, slightly larger than the moon, which drifts westward after 15– 20 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Knocked Back by a Light Beam,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6 \(Sept./Oct. 1980\): 14; “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 1 \(January 1981\): 2–3 Source ID: Eberhart_6149 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19701 (EBF33526) Date: 8/17/1980 Description: Witness knocked back by light beam. 5-min duration and three witnesses. (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lima, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5317 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19702 (9B6FEFD4) Date: 8/18/1980 Description: A large double cube-shaped object was seen on the ground of a Baltic Island off Estonia in the early evening. It had a sweeping beam of light. It reportedly polymorphed into a domed saucer-shaped object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden, issue # 24 Source ID: Johnson_5135 Source: Johnson ### Event 19703 (73880D7F) Date: 8/20/1980 Description: 10:30 p.m. A college student is driving on a rural road about 5 minutes east of Mossy Head, Florida, when he becomes aware of an array of lights hovering above a hill ahead of him. They move low over the area from right to left, 300–600 feet ahead of him. It disappears, but another cluster of lights rushes by him on his left side with a quiet whoosh sound. Inadvertently he begins driving more slowly, slumped over the steering wheel. He continues driving to Jacksonville, where he notices his bare feet are red and inflamed. The redness fades away by the evening of the following night, leaving only some apparent bites marks that are sore to the touch. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A CE I—](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf) [or II—or III in Florida,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 7 \(November 1980\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6150 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19704 (E325283A) Date: 8/21/1980 Description: Young woman and daughter driving home, E-M effects on car, car lifted off road onto craft, humanoids examined them on tables in room with "fog" on floor Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: East Texas Source ID: HallUFOE2_356 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19705 (563328C0) Date: 8/21/1980 Description: Young woman and daughter driving home, E-M effects on car, car lifted off road onto craft, humanoids examined them on tables in room with "fog" on floor (section XIII). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: East, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5318 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19706 (C2E304FD) Date: 8/22/1980 Description: In eastern Texas a UFO abduction occurred when a car was levitated inside of a hovering circular craft. Meagan Elliott was driving at 12:40 a.m. with her young daughter Renee in the early morning hours, on a desolate road near Lake Fork Reservoir, Wood County, Texas when her car radio became garbled and she heard a loud electrical noise, then her car headlights dimmed. The vehicle was suddenly lifted off the road, and they found themselves in a bright circular room, still inside the car, which sat on the flat metallic bottom of the hovering craft. A voice in her head told her to get out of the car, but she refused to move. Next, a small putty colored humanoid being with a large bard heald, his feet encased in mist, appeared and forced open the car door. He then forced Meagan and Renee to follow him. He was described as having huge oval eyes, no body hair, a broad flat nose, and a small slit for a mouth. Both of them were then clamped down on metallic tables, and their bodies were probed by two humanoids using different types of tools and a scanning device. Before being returned to the car and lowered to the ground, they said they were fed various colored pills. Under hypnosis, Meagan recalled extensive communication with the beings. They made the disturbing statement that the Earth "was a fearful planet with a tendency for annihilation." She also recalled being shown seven characters, which represented the name of the place they came from, it sounded like "Asterisk", but she said she could not pronounce it correctly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 308; MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982, p. 3 & February 1984, p. 14; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 146; Albert S. Rosales, 1980 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 411, citing Richard H. Hall Source ID: Johnson_5235 Source: Johnson ### Event 19707 (387CEA29) Date: 8/22/1980 Description: That night at the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico three Sandia Facility guards saw a nocturnal light maneuvering at high speeds over the nuclear weapons facility. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lawrence Fawcett & Barry Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, p. 225 Source ID: Johnson_5236 Source: Johnson ### Event 19708 (D457C573) Date: 8/23/1980 Description: At 4:08 a.m. two mining students camping in the mountains near Beijing, China saw an object emitting white light and traveling on an irregular course. It looked like a crescent-shaped portion of a disc of the Moon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Anthony Lee, FSR, March 1983, p. 24; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 218 Source ID: Johnson_5268 Source: Johnson ### Event 19709 (6B794540) Date: 8/24/1980 Description: 4:08 a.m. Three tourists camping out in the Changping District near the Juyong portion of the Great Wall of China take a photo of an unusual object. The photo reportedly looks like three stars in an inverted T shape with a surrounding halo of light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[First UFO Spotted in China,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 3 \(March 1981\): 4; “Chinese UFO Study,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 \(March/April 1981\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6151 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19710 (9515918A) Date: 8/28/1980 Description: At 1:15 p.m. a three foot long, football-shaped UFO was seen by two men, John F. Clark and Lloyd List, from a Cessna 172 over Red Bluff, California. It was solid, smooth, and metallic. It maintained its distance ahead of their plane for 5-6 seconds, then was overtaken. Its axis was parallel to the horizon, and it did not bobble in the plane's turbulence as would a balloon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case # 614 Source ID: Johnson_5438 Source: Johnson ### Event 19711 (E2DD415F) Date: 8/31/1980 Description: A witness named Lister reported seeing a disc-shaped object making a humming noise between Ashbourne and Derby, England at 12:20 a.m. According to the report it maneuvered in the sky, and there were other independent witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1981, p. 12; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13525, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_5536 Source: Johnson ### Event 19712 (752438F5) Date: 8/31/1980 Description: A witness named Lister reported seeing a disc-shaped object making a humming noise. According to the report it maneuvered in the sky, and there were other independent witnesses. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: between Ashbourne and Derby, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5320 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19713 (BE9340CB) Date: 9/1980 Description: [Charles Berlitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FBerlitz) and [Bill Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) publish The Roswell Incident, the first major review of the 1947 Roswell crash, based largely on [Stanton Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman)’s research. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore, [The Roswell](https://archive.org/details/roswellincident00berl) [Incident](https://archive.org/details/roswellincident00berl)[,](https://archive.org/details/roswellincident00berl) Berkley, 1980; Clark III 320 Source ID: Eberhart_6152 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19714 (010B1F4C) Date: 9/1/1980 Description: The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore is published. Type: book Reference: [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Roswell-Incident-Charles-Berlitz/dp/1567311326) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_716 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19715 (D5BA94D1) Date: 9/1/1980 Description: NSA attorneys move for a summary judgment in the CAUS-initiated lawsuit, asserting that the 135 documents are being justifiably withheld. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “CAUS Update,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 \(Nov./Dec. 1980\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6153 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19716 (69FB70B3) Date: 9/2/1980 Description: At 9:30 a.m. a blimp-shaped object with eerie lights and odd maneuvers was seen in Texarkana, Arkansas by a doctor who was also a pilot; it vanished on the spot! Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: William D. Leet, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1982, p. 5; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing MUFON Source ID: Johnson_5581 Source: Johnson ### Event 19717 (97A16301) Date: 9/3/1980 Description: 3:00 p.m. Margaret Lambert and her family are parked at a scenic overlook along Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia when they notice a bright reflection. She is taking a photo of her son and the reflection seems to be pulsating as she focuses her camera. It appears as a small round light behind her son’s head in the photo. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “‘Glowing Object’ Photographed on Virginia Hillside,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5 \(May 1981\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6154 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19718 (8022D2AA) Date: 9/4/1980 Description: 1:15 p.m. Flight instructor Lloyd List is flying northbound at 138 mph in a Cessna 172 at 6,500 feet about 5 miles south of the airport in Red Bluff, California. His passenger, a school official, calls his attention to a shiny object ahead of them. For the first 5–6 seconds, the object grows larger in angular size. Then it stops getting larger, as if it has adopted the Cessna’s speed and direction. They close in on the object and watch it shoot right by the airplane’s left wingtip only 30 feet away. It looks like a metallic football no larger than 3 feet in size. It is silent and the surface has a mirror finish. It exhibits no wobble as it passes through the plane’s turbulence. List descends to 6,000 feet and turns to the south to look for it but cannot find the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Plane’s Near Collision with Mini-UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 \(Nov./Dec. 1980\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_6155 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19719 (F20258CF) Date: 9/6/1980 Description: UFO proponents and debunkers square off at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., for a day- long debate on the merits of UFO sightings. The proponents include [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) and [Allan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%5FHendry) [Hendry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%5FHendry); the debunkers are [Philip J. Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass), [James E. Oberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FOberg), and [Robert Sheaffer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FSheaffer). The debate is moderated by [Frederick C. Durant](https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2856/1). The most heated exchanges occur between Klass and Hendry over the [Val Johnson](https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/08/26/minnesota-deputy-squad-car-ufo-mystery) close encounter case of 1979. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stuart Rohrer, “[Tempest in a Saucer,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/09/08/tempest-in-a-saucer/df457dca-539b-494b-8a30-1bdea8880055/)” Washington Post, September 8, 1980, p. B-1; J. Allen Hynek, “Encounter at the Smithsonian,” CUFOS Bulletin, Fall 1980, pp. 6–10; Jerome Clark, “Phil Klass vs. the ‘UFO Promoters,’” Fate 34, no. 2 \(February 1981\): 56–67; Clark III 1081–1082 Source ID: Eberhart_6156 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19720 (D10A2272) Date: 9/6/1980 Description: 9:15 p.m. Ufologist [Jenny Randles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles) and a friend are riding a motorcycle north on the M4 after attending the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, when they see three lights that appear one after another then line up in a triangular formation hovering above a distant hilltop. As they drive past, one light blinks out, leaving two side by side. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Mass Market Media Saucery,” Fortean Times 361 \(Christmas 2017\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_6157 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19721 (893EC9BC) Date: 9/7/1980 Description: A couple out elk hunting, Mr. & Mrs. Gautreau, awoke three hours late, the wife with a sore mouth. Through hypnosis it was revealed that they had been abducted by three alien being. The beings were described as thin in build and had large heads and eyes; they stood between 5'7" and 6 feet tall. The abduction occurred at four o'clock in the morning at McGuire's Ranch, Wyoming. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 113 Source ID: Johnson_5735 Source: Johnson ### Event 19722 (CF0BAE80) Date: 9/8/1980 Description: After doing a radio show in Albuquerque, New Mexico, [Bill Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) is contacted by phone from someone at Kirtland Air Force Base. He meets the man he calls “Falcon” \(described as elderly and gaunt\) later at a restaurant, beginning a long-running relationship between Moore and 10 members of a shadowy group connected with military intelligence and supposedly opposed to the coverup of UFOs. The story soon emerges that the Roswell incident involved alien bodies and that in 1949 another alien, this one still alive, was found and housed at Los Alamos until its death in the early 1950s. It is called an Extraterrestrial Biological Entity \(EBE\) and is the first of three that the government would have in its custody. Moore decides to cooperate with these AFOSI sources and provide them with information. They tell him there is considerable interest in [Paul Bennewitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz) and that he is to spy on Bennewitz and APRO as well, inundating them with disinformation that Doty and others will supply. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 360; Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, [pp. 59–63](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/58/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6158 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19723 (822558E8) Date: 9/8/1980 Description: [Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) writes and signs a fake two-page AFOSI complaint form, titled “Kirtland AFB, NM, 8 Aug–3 Sept 1980, Alleged Sightings of Unidentified Aerial Lights in Restricted Test Range,” which describes several UFO sightings at Manzano and at the Coyote Canyon section of the Department of Defense Restricted Test Range, as well as an alleged report of a UFO landing on August 10 by a New Mexico state patrolman. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 362 Source ID: Eberhart_6159 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19724 (38DB9F85) Date: 9/9/1980 Description: 8:00 p.m. Barbara Kaisler is driving home with her daughter in Portsmouth, Virginia, when they see a dark disc some 5–6 stories higher than the rooftops in the north. When they stop at an intersection, they can see the disc tumbling end over end, now climbing at a 30° angle. It disappears in clouds to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Dark Disk in Virginia,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 \(March/April 1981\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6160 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19725 (2ED89C03) Date: 9/11/1980 Description: L. Garrett, age 40, saw a huge gray domed blimp or ovoid UFO making a buzzing noise. It was purplish metallic gray in color. It had a pipe protruding from it, and long windows. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Easley, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5323 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19726 (D762EFAC) Date: 9/11/1980 Description: Two friends saw a rounded, seamless disc-shaped UFO that made a whining noise. It hovered over trees in a yard 100 feet away from his bedroom window. It rotated and wobbled. Physiological effects included red burning eyes, swollen glands in neck, headache. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Anderson, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5321 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19727 (99ABC26E) Date: 9/11/1980 Description: 9:25 p.m. [Milton Shippee](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208153652/milton-arthur-shippee) and his family are driving south on State Highway 32 near I-84 in West Willington, Connecticut, when they see a “pancake”-shaped object in the southeast. It is tilted on one side as it moves about 50 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “‘Domed Pancake’ over Connecticut,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 \(Nov./Dec. 1980\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6163 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19728 (1FC58E8F) Date: 9/11/1980 Description: 8:05 a.m. Larry Garrett is working on his car in Easley, South Carolina, when he hears a sound like a swarm of bees. Looking north, he sees a large metallic UFO with black, square windows. He guesses it is 80–100 feet in size. It hovers above a hill then drifts off to the north behind some trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “South Carolina’s Giant UFOs,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6 \(Sept./Oct. 1980\): 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_6162 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19729 (117DEC13) Date: 9/11/1980 Description: 4:20 a.m. Jerry McAlister is awakened in his bedroom in Anderson, South Carolina, by a loud screech. He goes to the window and sees a round object about 70 feet wide hovering above his backyard trees 110 feet away. Hundreds of steady bright white lights surround its perimeter, rotating in a clockwise direction. A row of square white windows is also visible. McAlister wakes up his wife Faye, who also watches the object, which, after tilting on its side, is now receding to the east-northeast at a good rate of speed. The UFO settles into place as a distant white light source that persists until dawn at 7:05 a.m. McAlister claims his ears ring for another 3 days from the initial noise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “South Carolina’s Giant UFOs,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6 \(Sept./Oct. 1980\): 11– 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6161 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19730 (3A321FC6) Date: 9/12/1980 Description: A bright, round object radiating red and white colors from all sides is reported south of Bojnord, North Khorasan, Iran. It moves very quickly for one hour above the city. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Review of Iranian UFO Reports,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 \(Jan./Feb. 1981\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_6164 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19731 (25AEBDF4) Date: 9/13/1980 Description: Night. Some people camping near Hamilton, Texas, wake up when their tent is lit up with a yellow glow. Outside is a loud humming sound and above them at no more than 125 feet is a triangular object. The underside is grayish or greenish, and two lights appear at each tip in a combination of yellow-white, red-green, and blue-white. The object is moving north very slowly but stops for about 10 seconds and begins to pulsate, almost sounding as if it will stall. It starts up again, heads north, and is soon gone. Thirty minutes later, the group hears a loud explosion, and some people see sparks above the top of a hill. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, January 1981 Source ID: Eberhart_6165 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19732 (7B9DAFCA) Date: 9/16/1980 Description: Sgt. J.M. (initials) of the PACAF writes to Len Stringfield that he was stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ, when, on Jan. 18, 1978, an MP shot and killed an alien at the Ft. Dix Army base next to the AFB. Type: letter Reference: ([link](https://nationalufocenter.com/blog/2013/09/30/alien-being-shot-dead-by-mps-january-18-1978-ft-dix-mcguire/) Location: McGuire AFB, NJ See also: 1/18/78 Source ID: Maj2_717 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19733 (61139851) Date: 9/21/1980 Description: The pilot and four passengers onboard a Piper Aztec airplane, including Wendy and Michael Gannon, witnessed two red UFOs for nine minutes while flying over Crewe, Cheshire, England at 8:00 p.m. The objects had a hazy round outline, and an apparent size of 1.25 degrees. The top one approached to within 450 meters distance, and hovered for three minutes. When accelerating a red glow was visible from the rear. During the encounter they experienced radio interference on their VHF mobile transceiver. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 191; UNICAT, case # 401, citing S. R. Cleaver Source ID: Johnson_6195 Source: Johnson ### Event 19734 (910E073D) Date: 9/21/1980 Description: A female credit manager in Lima, Ohio briefly observed a vivid orange to red object that appeared through an opening in the clouds. It resembled the bottom view of an Army tank, with runners on two sides. It went back up through the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Timmerman, CUFOS Newsletter, November 1980, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_6196 Source: Johnson ### Event 19735 (FA00ED8B) Date: 9/21/1980 Description: 7:00 p.m. A witness is driving west on a county road near Lima, Ohio. She looks up and sees a square opening in the clouds that looks like a picture frame. A vivid orange or red object that looks like the bottom of an Army tank with runners on two sides appears in the opening, remaining stationary for a few seconds before disappearing back into the opening, which then fills up with clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Army Tank in the Clouds in Ohio,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 7 \(November 1980\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_6166 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19736 (18427AFE) Date: 9/22/1980 Description: Another air collision nearly occured over the Caribbean Sea south of Haiti between Pan Am flight 440 and an unidentified bluish-green cigar-shaped object. The UFO had a horizontal row of 5-6 steady lights, which the flight crew presumed were windows. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caribbean Sea (south of), Haiti Source ID: NICAP_DB_5324 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19737 (D86A8B5C) Date: 9/22/1980 Description: At 3:43 a.m. another air collision nearly occured over the Caribbean Sea south of Haiti between Pan Am flight 440 and an unidentified bluish-green cigar-shaped object. The UFO had a horizontal row of 5-6 steady lights, which the flight crew presumed were windows. The distance between the Pan Am flight and the UFO at its closest approach was less than a mile. The estimated length of the UFO was 50 feet. It changed course when the plane flashed its landing lights. The event was witnessed independently by the crew of two other airliners in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, November 1980, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_6235 Source: Johnson ### Event 19738 (6C64656E) Date: 9/22/1980 Description: 3:43 a.m. Pan Am Flight 440, flying at 39,000 feet and piloted by Capt. Dave Garber, nearly collides with an unidentified blue-green cigar-shaped object over the Caribbean Sea south of Haiti. The UFO has a horizontal row of 5–6 steady lights, which the flight crew presumes are windows. The distance between the Pan Am flight and the UFO at its closest approach is less than a mile. The estimated length of the UFO is 50 feet. It changes course when the plane flashes its landing lights. The event is witnessed independently by the crew of two other airliners in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “‘Chiles-Whitted’ Revisited: UFO Sighting Confirmed by Three Flight Crews,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 \(Nov./Dec. 1980\): 12–14 Source ID: Eberhart_6167 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19739 (571FC33B) Date: 9/25/1980 Description: Elias Seixas de Mattos and two of his friends were returning to Rio de Janeiro in a truck. At 10:28 p.m., when they had reached a point on the road near Conceicao de Araguaia, Goias State, Brazil the driver felt a sensation like a cold liquid on his body, and heard a voice in his head telling him to go to a certain spot. The other two men saw a flash of light hit the hood of the truck. All three of them then saw a luminous object on the ground about a mile away. Sr. Seixas got out of the vehicle and attempted to film the object, while the other two men panicked and ran from the truck. A short while later Elias, feeling drowsy, talked one of the other men into driving the truck. They next experienced the vehicle behaving in a strange manner, perhaps because it was being levitated, followed by a period of missing time. Later under hypnosis, Elias recalled floating into a fiery red, cigar-shaped object with flashing white lights. Inside, he entered an egg-shaped chamber attached to a large white circular room with tables and machinery. A seven foot tall being, described as wearing a tight fitting, yellow coverall outfit that covered his entire body and head except for his face, operated the machinery. The being had large, slanted, lilac colored eyes, a long nose, a large lipless mouth, long arms and hands, and very pale skin. He wore a belt with a circular buckle that had colored lights. An invisible barrier apparently prevented the witness from approaching the being. Seixas was submitted to several medical examinations on top of an exam bed-like apparatus. At one point the aliens connected some type of equipment to his head and chest. In addition, blood and sperm samples were taken from him. He remembered seeing two human like beings, one black, the other white, who resembled identical twins; they wore tight-fitting gray uniforms. The beings told Seixas that their point of origin was within the star cluster of Ursa Minor, and that they had bases on the planet Mars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 1; Timothy Good, Alien Contact, p. 93; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of A Mystery, case # 72; Albert S. Rosales, 1980 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 493 Source ID: Johnson_6330 Source: Johnson ### Event 19740 (54A3C4A7) Date: 9/26/1980 Description: In Blythe, Riverside County, California at 2:26 p.m. a luminous Saturn-shaped UFO passed directly over the house of a 20-year-old female witness. The craft flew slowly, stopped briefly in in the west, and finally shot straight up out of sight. The witness was badly frightened, and claimed to have a headache and sore-throat from her encounter; her symptoms were gone the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, November 1980, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_6361 Source: Johnson ### Event 19741 (79CE74C3) Date: 9/26/1980 Description: 4:30 a.m. Susan Southerland, Debbie Riley, and Kim Conolty are driving in Washington, Indiana, when they see a streetlight-shaped light source slightly above the treetops. It begins moving toward them. Even after their car turns, the light stays on their left side. They drive to the police station and ask officers Tim Roark and Don Grannon to look at it through binoculars, and they are convinced it is something unusual. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Mini-Flap in Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 \(Mar./Apr. 1981\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_6168 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19742 (4BB410D4) Date: 9/26/1980 Description: 2:26 p.m. A woman watches a Saturn-shaped object approach her home in Blythe, California, from the east and pass overhead for 2–3 minutes and shoot straight up out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Daylight ‘Saturn’ over California,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 \(Nov./Dec. 1980\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6169 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19743 (EAA2BB29) Date: 9/28/1980 Description: Two discs circle Aerostar PA60 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boca Raton, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5325 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19744 (559C210A) Date: 9/28/1980 Description: At 2:45 in the afternoon two bright yellow UFOs shaped like hamburger buns spproached to within 200 feet of an airplane flying over Boca Raton, Florida near Pompano Beach. The UFOs circled the plance 8-10 times maintaining a distance of approximately 1500 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 161 Source ID: Johnson_6401 Source: Johnson ### Event 19745 (C07E1F57) Date: 9/30/1980 Description: 1:00 a.m. George Blackwell, a farmer near Rosedale, Victoria, Australia, is awakened by a noise and his disturbed livestock. Getting up, he goes outside and sees a 24-by-15-foot sphere passing by, some 6–9 feet off the ground and 450 feet distant. It stops above a water tank, then settles to the ground. Blackwell rides a motorcycle to the spot and stops 45 feet from the landed object. It is making a loud whistling sound. After 3 minutes, the UFO emits a louder noise, gives off a blast of air, and moves off to the east. A 30-foot doughnut-shaped ring is found where the object rested, and Blackwell experiences health problems the next week. The 10,000-gallon water tank is mysteriously drained of water. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Rosedale, Victoria, Australia: September 30, 1980](http://www.nicap.org/ar-800930dir.htm)”; Keith Basterfield and Bill Chalker, “[Rosedale, Victoria: A Close Encounter,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20Newsletter/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20newsletter%20vol%202%20no%201.pdf)” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 2, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1981\): 17–22; Bill Chalker and Keith Basterfield, “[The Rosedale Landing with Physical Traces,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 6 \(March 1981\): 4–5; “Physical Trace in Australia,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 \(March/April 1981\): 14–15; “From Foreign Lands,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 5 \(July/Aug. 1981\): 17; Bill Chalker and Keith Basterfield, “[Landing with Physical Traces near Rosedale, Victoria, Australia,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201981%2012%2000%20-%20Vol%2029%20No%2012.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 29, no. 12 \(December 1981\): 3–5; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 31 Source ID: Eberhart_6170 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19746 (4F3CF53B) Date: 9/30/1980 Description: Object with whistling noise lands on farm (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [800930](http://www.nicap.org/ar-800930dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rosedale, Victoria, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5327 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19747 (D47E2806) Date: 9/30/1980 Description: Spinning topshaped object with body lights, whistling sound, landed near water tank, vibrations felt, uncomfortable sound, livestock reacted. Physical traces Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Rosedale, Victoria, Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_357 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19748 (9F61F540) Date: 9/30/1980 Description: UFO researcher [William Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) meets for the first time with AFOSI officer [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) \(whom Moore refers to as “Sparrow”\). Doty is the middleman for an Air Force colonel \(later called “Falcon” by Moore\) who Moore first contacted on September 5. \(The identity of the colonel has not been established, but it may possibly be Doty’s superior officer, Col. [John Barry Hennessey](https://rr0.org/people/h/HennesseyJohnBarry/index.html).\) Doty claims that [Stanton T. Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) and [Brad Sparks](http://www.noufors.com/Brad%5FSparks.htm) know him personally and will vouch for him \(untrue\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Sparks and Barry Greenwood, “The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12,” in MUFON 2007 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 2007, pp. 92–159 Source ID: Eberhart_6171 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19749 (33A0DBDB) Date: 9/30/1980 Description: At one o'clock in the morning in Rosedale, Victoria, Australia 54-year-old caretaker George Blackwell heard a screeching whistle, and then saw a 25 foot wide domed disc or top-shaped UFO withmulticolored body lights and a black tube appendage that landed on the ground at the cattle station called White Acres. He got to within 50 feet of it on his motorcycle before it took off with a wave of heat and an explosive sound, showering down debris, and left a black ring on the ground at the landing site. In addition, 10,000 gallons of water were missing from a nearby water tank. During the close encounter a horse galloped away and cattle bellowed, panicked and ran. Mr. Blackwell suffered from physiological effects including headaches and vomiting, and diarrhea that lasted for a week. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, APRO Bulletin, December 1981, p. 3; Harry Griesberg, Frontiers of Science, July 1981, p. 17; UNICAT, case # 44; Bill Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1993, p. 25; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 309 Source ID: Johnson_6451 Source: Johnson ### Event 19750 (287E5D61) Date: 9/30/1980 Description: Horses and cattle reacted to top-shaped object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [800930](http://www.nicap.org/ar-800930dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rosedale, Victoria, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5326 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19751 (4BB87B0E) Date: 10/1980 Description: James W. Allen, 14, is photographing Ben Vrackie mountain in Perthshire, Scotland. As he is walking home he hears a weird humming noise, sees a disc-shaped object, and takes a photo of it. Analysis of the photo points to a hoax photo of a helium-filled balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Young Scottish Photographer Sends Photograph,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 10 \(October 1981\): 1, 6; Steuart Campbell, “[Investigation Report on 1980 Photograph at](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf) [Pitlochry, Scotland,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1985\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_6173 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19752 (A9324883) Date: 10/1980 Alternate date: 11/1980 Description: Ground-based radar at RAF Neatishead, near Norwich, England, tracks an aerial object executing aerial maneuvers that “defied all convention.” A very bright light is seen by the pilot of an RAF F-4 Phantom II aircraft. It vanishes as quickly as it has appeared. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 136 Source ID: Eberhart_6174 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19753 (C97AD5EF) Date: 10/1980 Description: [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) who now has about 20 first-hand informants to various crash/retrievals, begins to encounter resistance and silence from some of them, who are apparently under increased suspicion and surveillance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1980 Source ID: Eberhart_6172 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19754 (904BB891) Date: 10/1/1980? Description: A group of people go to Lucky Point, east of Monroe City, Indiana, to look for UFOs. High in the eastern sky they notice a dark triangle, as large as the full moon and possibly surrounded by a light glow. As it moves overhead, they hear a voice announce, “the time is now.” It changes direction slightly and accelerates to the northwest. The group reports a tingling sensation and a humming noise on their FM scanner radios. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Mini- Flap in Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 \(Mar./Apr. 1981\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6175 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19755 (8937061D) Date: 10/5/1980 Description: On this night near Ta Kang, China several sailors off the coast in a ship on the Yellow Sea, including a witness named Hung, saw a reddish cone-shaped object with an intense bluish-green electric-arc glow fly overhead. It was close enough that they were able to feel heat from the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March 1983, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_6585 Source: Johnson ### Event 19756 (CE501146) Date: 10/5/1980 Description: 3:00 a.m. Five off-duty metalworkers at the Dagang Oilfield, Tianjin, China, see a cone-shaped, red, glowing object that lights the area below. Workers feel a scorching heat as it flies by and disappears over Bohai Bay. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, p. 190 Source ID: Eberhart_6176 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19757 (E34BCC1A) Date: 10/5/1980 Description: On this night near Ta Kang, several sailors off the coast in a ship on the Yellow Sea, including a witness named Hung, saw a reddish cone-shaped object with an intense bluish-green electric-arc glow fly overhead. It was close enough that they were able to feel heat from the object. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ta Kang (near), China Source ID: NICAP_DB_5328 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19758 (DB639D61) Date: 10/6/1980 Description: 5:50 p.m. A retired man is resting on his sundeck in Ipswich, Massachusetts, when he sees a silver object tumbling end-over-end. He grabs binoculars and watches as it passes overhead and continues, appearing to descend as it disappears behind trees toward the Sagamore Hill Solar Radar Observatory \[now relocated to Millstone Hill, Westford\] in South Hamilton. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Tumbling Daylight UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 \(Jan./Feb. 1981\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_6177 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19759 (E6AAB099) Date: 10/7/1980 Description: 11:30 p.m. Witnesses near Yelm, Tenino, and Offutt Lake, Washington, report a large object shaped like a triangle or diamond with red and green lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Thurston County Logs Some Mysterious Night Sights,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98964224/)” Olympia \(Wash.\) Daily Olympian, October 9, 1980, p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_6178 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19760 (EEE0DC20) Date: 10/15/1980 End date: 10/20/1980 Description: According to analyst [Gary Sick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%5FSick)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%5FSick) meetings are allegedly held in Paris, France, between emissaries of the Reagan/Bush campaign, with future CIA Director [William J. Casey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FCasey) as a key participant, and “high-level Iranian and Israeli representatives” to make a secret deal with Iran to delay the release of the American hostages until after the election. In return for this, the United States purportedly arranges for Israel to ship weapons to Iran. Sick is never able to prove his claims, but the evidence suggests that the [Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) administration ships arms to Iran, both through Israel and directly, from 1981 to 1987 as payment for Iranian cooperation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[October Surprise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October%5FSurprise%5Fconspiracy%5Ftheory) [conspiracy theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October%5FSurprise%5Fconspiracy%5Ftheory)”; Gary Sick, [October Surprise: America’s Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan](https://archive.org/details/octobersurprisea00sick)[,](https://archive.org/details/octobersurprisea00sick) Times Books, 1991 Source ID: Eberhart_6180 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19761 (8215888A) Date: 10/15/1980 Description: 11:30 p.m. A Knox County, Indiana, deputy sheriff stops by the side of a road to stretch his legs. Out of the east comes a black triangular form, as big as a house and 10 times the angular size of the full moon. He estimates it is 250 feet away and 200 feet up at its closest. Five figures are visible from the waist up through a long window on one side of the triangle. Large slanted unblinking eyes, white skin, and a straight-line mouth are visible on their elongated heads. He thinks they look afraid, so he tries to telepathically assure them not to be afraid. They respond by asking him, “Why do you hate the Iranians?” The object draws closer the speeds away to the northeast. During the sighting, his police radio displays intermittent interference and his patrol car’s engine and headlights pulsate. The deputy feels light-headed and sluggish, and his eyes water. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Mini-Flap in Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 \(Mar./Apr. 1981\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_6179 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19762 (A417FB47) Date: 10/16/1980 Description: Evening. Operators at Tianjin Binhai International Airport, China, are observing the movements of Flight 402 on radar when an unexplained echo shows up. When the airliner is about 6,500 feet from the runway, the plane’s blip disappears for 7 seconds. The mystery target gives a strong, distinct return, and it seems to cause strong radio interference as the airliner touches down. Other anomalous targets show up later that night, but none are seen visually. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 215–216](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/214/mode/2up); Paul Dong, “[Extracts from Paul Dong’s](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf) [Feidie Bai Wen Bai Da](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf) [\(Questions and Answers on UFOs\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201984%20V%2029%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 \(August 1984\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_6181 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19763 (75346AC7) Date: 10/19/1980 Description: 7:50 p.m. Donald Shive, his wife Star, and two children are driving west near Albion, Michigan, when they see an object with two white lights on the sides and a red and blue light on the front and back. It is moving at about 25 mph at an altitude of 200–500 feet when it moves over the car at an intersection. The car stalls and the lights go out briefly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Stalls Van in Michigan?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 \(Nov./Dec. 1980\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6182 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19764 (5F05A116) Date: 10/20/1980 Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_358 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19765 (EBD2724A) Date: 10/21/1980 Description: 8:35 a.m. Betty Long and a friend see a formation of three egg-shaped objects in the northern sky over San Diego, California. The bright sun makes them seem uniformly white and featureless. After moving to the right for three minutes, they turn 90° to the left and move away from the witnesses. The formation retains its triangular shape throughout the sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Daylight ‘Eggs’ over California,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 \(December 1980\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6183 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19766 (AA1D2385) Date: 10/23/1980 Description: Boomerang-shaped object with body lights shone brilliant light beam down smoke stacks, accelerated, made noninertial turn. Satellite objects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Morenci, AZ Source ID: HallUFOE2_359 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19767 (5FE6BFF0) Date: 10/23/1980 Description: Boomerang-shaped object with body lights shone brilliant light beam down smoke stacks, accelerated, made noninertial turn. Satellite objects (section I). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Morenci, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5329 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19768 (7DAABD1A) Date: 10/23/1980 Description: A high school band was holding practice in the evening at a playing field between Clifton and Morenci, Arizona. They sighted a string of lights shaped in a triangular pattern hovering above them. It would move and stop, then move and stop again. At 8:55 p.m. in Morenci, Arizona a crew of maintenance workers at a copper smelting plant saw a UFO with 12 red lights and a big searchlight on the front. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, pp. 21-22 Source ID: Johnson_7055 Source: Johnson ### Event 19769 (51D0BF02) Date: 10/23/1980 Description: 8:55 p.m. Randall Rogers and Larry Mortensen, employed at the Phelps-Dodge Corporation’s copper smelting site at Morenci, Arizona, go outside to pick up three other employees for an evening meal break. They notice a boomerang-shaped object approaching the north smokestack at 1,500–2,000 feet altitude and a very slow speed. It stops and hovers briefly, then comes down to 700–1,000 feet, just above the stack. A brilliant light erupts from the forward angle and shines directly down into the interior of the stack. 10 seconds later it goes out and the object moves south to hover above the south stack and shine the bright light inside. It then moves off at 5–10 mph to the south, then suddenly takes off at great speed to the southwest. A very short time later, it returns and hovers above the slag dump. The object is seen as dull black and perhaps 1,320 feet from wingtip to wingtip. Eight reddish lights are on each wing about 75 feet apart and connected by a white tube of light. Greenlee County Sheriff Ralph Gomez also observes the object, as do about 100 members of the Morenci High School band. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO over Copper Smelter,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201981%2007%2000%20-%20Vol%2029%20No%207.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 29, no. 7 \(1981\): 1–3 Source ID: Eberhart_6184 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19770 (68DF7903) Date: 10/24/1980 Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz contacts Major Ernest Edwards of the Kirtland AFB Security Police who, over the period of the next few months, became concerned and requested the guards on the Manzano Weapons Storage Area to report to him any sightings of unusual aerial lights. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [link](https://www.exopaedia.org/Paul+Bennewitz) Location: Manzano Test Range Source ID: Maj2_718 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19771 (08B3E1C5) Date: 10/26/1980 Description: A lopsided triangle shaped UFO was observed by a husband and wife on their farm in a close encounter. The object can be described two full moons spaced about 12 feet apart with a flashing red light in back like a lopsided triangle. Their animals were effected while the UFO was over the barn. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greene County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5330 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19772 (00028473) Date: 10/26/1980 Description: A "huge" lopsided triangular object was seen by a farmer and his wife in a close encounter on their farm in Green County, Indiana. Moreover, their farm animals were affected while the UFO was over their barn. The UFO passed only twenty feet over the barn and disturbed their pigs. The object looked "like facets of a diamond." It moved smoothly from a hovering position, and had two steady white lights with a flashing light in the back. When it moved further away it looked like a bright orange light in the southwestern sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case # 41, citing Frontiers of Science, July 1981, p. 14; Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, www.nicap.org, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_7160 Source: Johnson ### Event 19773 (19949631) Date: 10/26/1980 Description: 7:00 p.m. An oddly shaped UFO is observed by a husband and wife on their farm 2 miles southeast of Bloomfield, Indiana. The object looks like two full moons spaced about 12 feet apart with a flashing red light in back like a lopsided triangle. Each white light is about 3 feet in diameter, and the white is intense but nothing around lights up. The object is at treetop level and passes to the right of a security light. There is no reflection of metal anywhere. The woman gets the impression that the lights are connected to something huge, saying: “The object passed about 20 feet above the barn making no sound and lights making no light. When it was over the barn roof, the sows with baby pigs in the barn jumped up and began wild grunting and knocking about in their pens. They settled down immediately after the object cleared the roof. The object is now coming very slowly towards the front of our house and yard. My husband had gone back into the house to watch from the front windows, my children are crying, and I am on the back porch having the time of my life.” The UFO disappears behind the roof line of the house. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Tractor-Chasing Saucer,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 5 \(July/Aug. 1981\): 14–15; “[October UFO in Indiana Reported,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 8 \(August 1981\): 6; “[Greene](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf) [County, Indiana, 1980 CE II,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 2 \(April/May 1985\): 1, 6, 8; John P. Timmerman, “Greene County Close Encounter,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 10–12 Source ID: Eberhart_6186 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19774 (666FDA30) Date: 10/26/1980 Description: [Paul Bennewitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz) over a number of months has become convinced that he has uncovered evidence of aliens controlling humans through electromagnetic devices, and furthermore claims that UFOs are regularly flying near Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque and the nearby Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility and Coyote Canyon Test Area. He is also convinced there is an alien base beneath Archuleta Peak northwest of Dulce, New Mexico. After failing to convince APRO \(who considers him deluded\), Bennewitz contacts AFOSI special agent Sgt. [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) at Kirtland Air Force Base, who meets with him at his home today along with Jerry Miller, Kirtland’s scientific advisor for the Air Force Test and Evaluation Center. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 359; Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, [pp. 34–35](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/34/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/34/mode/2up) [135–137](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/134/mode/2up); Robert L. Hastings, “[UFOs Filmed Hovering over U.S. Air](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/ufos-filmed-hovering-over-us-air-force-nuclear-weapons-storage-area) [Force Nuclear Weapons Storage Area,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/ufos-filmed-hovering-over-us-air-force-nuclear-weapons-storage-area)” UFOs & Nukes, May 13, 2012; Alejandro T. Rojas, \[Bennewitz/Kirtland AFB documents\]; Alejandro T. Rojas, “[Ex–Air Force Law Enforcement Agent Claims He Hoaxed Major UFO](http://www.alejandrotrojas.com/ufos/ex-air-force-law-enforcement-agent-claims-he-hoaxed-major-ufo-mythologies/) [Mythologies,](http://www.alejandrotrojas.com/ufos/ex-air-force-law-enforcement-agent-claims-he-hoaxed-major-ufo-mythologies/)” June 29, 2019; Dolan II 225–229 Source ID: Eberhart_6185 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19775 (3B9B1E12) Date: 10/28/1980 Description: Two women, Stolfe and Klein, driving in the suburbs of Middletown, New York on this evening had a close encounter with a triangular object that hovered silently at tree top level. It was seen again 15 minutes later, making a slight humming sound. It shone four light beams down on them in their car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, May 1981, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_7250 Source: Johnson ### Event 19776 (61B391C6) Date: 10/29/1980 Description: On this evening in Middletown, Orange County, New York a triangle-shaped object hovered silently at tree top level. It was seen again 15 minutes later, when it shined four light beams down on witnesses in a car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1981, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_7284 Source: Johnson ### Event 19777 (6492BCD1) Date: 10/31/1980 Description: Day. The airport control tower at Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, detects a UFO on its radar. An F-5 squadron has just landed, with the exception of one plane, whose pilot requests authorization to pursue. He sees a bright gold object right in front of him and accelerates to approach, but the object immediately speeds up. The control tower loses the object on its radar. The pilot continues to pursue for 2 minutes before the UFO speeds off over the ocean. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 206–207; Brazil 555–556 Source ID: Eberhart_6187 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19778 (9B316C6B) Date: 11/1/1980 Description: At 5:30 p.m. two witnesses driving in a car in Hovsta, Sweden encountered an ovoid object that descends only 12 meters away from them. The car engine dies and the vehicle shakes. Two figures were seen moving inside a window in the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden Newsletter, issue 22 Source ID: Johnson_7392 Source: Johnson ### Event 19779 (9EA83793) Date: 11/1/1980 Description: A deputy sheriff on routine patrol in Lucky Point, Indiana had stopped to rest at 9:00 p.m., and was standing next to his police patrol car when he noticed a large, black, triangular-shaped craft hovering at an angle about 200 feet away. The craft had large rectangular windows on its side, and five humanoids could be seen standing inside from the waist up. The beings were "Greys", having gray-colored skin with large heads, slim necks and slim bodies. No other features could be seen. As the police officer stood watching in amazement he received a telepathic message. The message asked him, "Why do you hate the Iranians?" He thought to himself that he did not hate anybody. At that moment one of the figures turned and faced the others, and as this happened the object suddenly shot straight up and disappeared at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 78; Albert S. Rosales, 1980 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1846 Source ID: Johnson_7393 Source: Johnson ### Event 19780 (79902F99) Date: 11/1/1980 Description: Sheriff deputy involved in CE-III. Organization never provided any documentation or report. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Monroe City, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5332 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19781 (DF4808A0) Date: 11/2/1980 Description: 12:42 p.m. A couple driving westbound on US Highway 50 some 20 miles east of Montrose, Colorado, notice a silver, oblong object in the distance. As the highway starts to curve, it is seen against a background of mesa. They stop the car for a better look for another 10 seconds. It banks like an aircraft to the right and its shape changes to an oval. It disappears by shooting up over the top of the mesa toward the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Daylight Disc in Colorado,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 \(March/April 1981\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6188 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19782 (A80BF3F1) Date: 11/2/1980 Description: 3:00 p.m. Mike Clampett and his wife are stepping out of a Toyota showroom on Solano Avenue in Vallejo, California. They see a group of people looking at the sky where a Piper Cub seems to be on a collision course with a cigar-shaped object. The plane is moving north to south while the UFO flies silently from high in the east to the west. The object is rotating or spiraling about once every second. It takes nearly 10 minutes for the object to reach nearly overhead, dropping in altitude all the while. It remains stationary in the zenith about 5 minutes then moves to the south at a higher altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Spiralling Daylight Cigar,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 \(Jan./Feb. 1981\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_6189 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19783 (2A38A8AC) Date: 11/3/1980 Description: A cigar-shaped UFO hovered at 100 meters altitude, causing TV interference in Orebro, Sweden at 10:00 p.m. It had a row of yellow windows. The TV was alright after the UFO left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12920; Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden, issue 22 Source ID: Johnson_7440 Source: Johnson ### Event 19784 (63F88573) Date: 11/3/1980 Description: A private pilot flying near Ozona, Texas at 6:50 p.m. saw a bright, elongated glowing object that flew at great speed. The EM effects experienced included the plane's engine stopping temporarily, and the cabin lights dimming. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Walter Andrus, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990, p. 22; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 51 Source ID: Johnson_7441 Source: Johnson ### Event 19785 (3948489A) Date: 11/3/1980 Description: At 9:00 p.m. two people driving in a vehicle southeast of Sterling City, Texas witnessed a shape changing UFO in the middle of US Highway 87. The UFO jumped up to avoid a collision with their car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990 Source ID: Johnson_7442 Source: Johnson ### Event 19786 (31E69CD3) Date: 11/5/1980 Description: 8:45 p.m. A private pilot named Dennis is flying a Piper PA-32R-301T Turbo Saratoga SP at 8,000 feet near Lake Berryessa, California. He spots an orange, bullet-shaped light that is keeping even with him at 212 mph. The light brightens and begins to pulse with an increasing frequency, then shoots forward and makes a perfect right-angle turn upward. Five minutes later, it reappears behind him and performs a similar maneuver. The sighting is corroborated by a commercial airliner. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Twin ‘Déjà vu’ Sighting?” IUR 7, no. 1 \(January 1982\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6190 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19787 (8248995F) Date: 11/6/1980 Description: [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) files a reply to the NSA’s September request for summary judgment. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “CAUS Update,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 \(Nov./Dec. 1980\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6191 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19788 (C19841D7) Date: 11/6/1980 Description: 7:55 a.m. Nancy Parker is a passenger on a Western Airlines flight passing over Monterey Bay, California. She takes three photos of the scenery below, but when she develops the film, a bright, disc-shaped object appears on the second photo. Probable reflection or lens flare. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Reflection or Object? Photo from Airliner](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf) [Being Studied,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associates Newsletter 2, no. 3 \(March 1981\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_6192 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19789 (079204D4) Date: 11/10/1980 Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz presented his evidence of sightings near the Kirtland Air Force Base and the Manzano range to high ranking Air Force personnel including Brigadier General William Brooksher. In the report of this meeting, it is noted that Bennewitz was advised to apply for an Air Force grant to study the phenomena. Type: private presentation Reference: [link](https://www.exopaedia.org/Paul+Bennewitz) Location: Manzano Test Range Source ID: Maj2_720 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19790 (51A95278) Date: 11/10/1980 Description: [Paul Bennewitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz) visits with a small group of officials—including Brig. Gen. [William Brooksher](https://www.sunsetgardenstricities.com/obituary/2017/05/william-brooksher/), base AFOSI head Maj. Thomas Cseh, and scientists from the USAF Phillips Weapons Lab—at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico to present his film, photos, and electromagnetic findings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 359; Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, [pp. 41–44](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/40/mode/2up); Alejandro T. Rojas, \[Bennewitz/Kirtland AFB documents\] Source ID: Eberhart_6193 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19791 (32F4B620) Date: 11/10/1980 Description: 9:00 p.m. A man observes a stationary white light some 30° up in the western sky near the intersection of State Highway 30 and Interstate 270 in Sunset Hills, Missouri. A second object, orange in color, silently circles it for several minutes before taking off to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Orbiting Lights near St. Louis,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1980%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV1.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 \(December 1980\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6194 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19792 (EB6BBF1C) Date: 11/11/1980 Description: 6:40 p.m. Seven commercial aircraft—four Iberia Boeing 727s, a British airliner, an air-taxi, and a Transeuropa aircraft—encounter an unusual green object over Barcelona, Maella, Palma de Mallorca, and other points in northeastern Spain. Spanish journalist [Juan J. Benítez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FJ.%5FBen%C3%ADtez) investigates and determines that either 7 identical UFOs are involved or a single object is responsible, one capable of traveling hundreds of miles within minutes. Comandante Ramos, one of the Iberia pilots, says that the object is “like an enormous soap bubble” that is coming straight for his aircraft. He puts it into an evasive dive. When it passes close to the plane, they see a second smaller ball. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Juan J. Benítez, “[Anniversary Aerial Encounters,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201981%20V%2026%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 6 \(March 1981\): 12–14; Good Above, [pp. 157–159](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/156/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6195 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19793 (C700A8E2) Date: 11/13/1980 Description: A hamburger-shaped disc hovered for three minutes in the late afternoon over Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, making a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13584, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_7643 Source: Johnson ### Event 19794 (60852504) Date: 11/14/1980 Description: Two students saw a flat cylindrical UFO hovering over an athletic field in Heidelberg. The object had powerful headlights with a pinkish glow, and smaller red and yellow lights. It approached the witnesses and stayed over them for 10 minutes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Heidelberg, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_5333 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19795 (2F056157) Date: 11/14/1980 Description: At 6:30 p.m. two students saw a flat cylindrical UFO hovering over an athletic field in Heidelberg, Germany. The object had powerful headlights with a pinkish glow, and smaller red and yellow lights. It approached the witnesses and stayed over them for 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 42. Source ID: Johnson_7678 Source: Johnson ### Event 19796 (16C15AA7) Date: 11/16/1980 Description: Leonid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_360 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19797 (2F1D3716) Date: 11/17/1980 Description: SECRET USAF OSI Document: Analysis of photo of UFO following C-5A aircraft inclusive. Photo analysis of Cylinder Shaped UFO legitimate. Photo E. showed legitimate disc shaped UFO of 37 ft. diameter with trilateral insignia on object. USAF still has an interest in all UFO sightings over installations and test ranges. Several other Government agencies, lead by NASA, actively investigate legitimate sightings through COVERT COVER. One agency that deceives the public which such covert cover is the UFO reporting center at U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Rockville, MD. 20852. (The results of PROJECT AQUARIUS is still classified TOP SECRET with access limited to “MJ-12”.) Type: secret document Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p528) Location: US Attributes: majestic Source ID: Maj2_719 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19798 (E8BAEB86) Date: 11/17/1980 Description: Sgt. [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) tells [Bennewitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz) that AFOSI has decided against any further investigation of his claims. The same day, Doty forges a communication \(later called the “Aquarius document”\) from AFOSI headquarters at Bolling AFB in Washington, D.C., to the Seventeenth District AFOSI office at Kirtland and gives it to [Bill Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) It mentions, briefly and cryptically, analyses of a UFO film apparently taken in October. It also mentions MJ-12 and a government UFO investigation “outside official intelligence channels” called the Aquarius Project. Bill Moore calls it a retyped version of a real AFOSI message with a few spurious additions. Doty tells Moore to pass it on to Bennewitz, which he does eventually. In 2005, Doty tells radio host [Art Bell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%5FBell) that AFOSI’s interest in Bennewitz has nothing to do with aliens; rather, it is to protect the technologies and activities at Kirtland AFB. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 528](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/528/mode/2up); Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, [pp. 43](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/42/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/42/mode/2up) [120–129](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/120/mode/2up); “[Greg Bishop](http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S5-Greg-Bishop-and-Richard-Doty-Coast-to-Coast-AM-with-host-Art-Bell-Interview-Transcript.pdf) [and Richard Doty, Coast to Coast AM with Host Art Bell, Interview Transcript,](http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S5-Greg-Bishop-and-Richard-Doty-Coast-to-Coast-AM-with-host-Art-Bell-Interview-Transcript.pdf)” February 27, 2005; Clark III 362 Source ID: Eberhart_6196 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19799 (D8A2ED2C) Date: 11/18/1980 Description: For the resolution of the CAUS v. NSA, the National Security Agency creates two affidavits to explain why UFO information is to be withheld from the public. The affidavits are written by the chief officer of policy for the NSA, Eugene F. Yeates. The first of the two is the “unclassified, softened-down” version released to CAUS and the public. The affidavit says that it is in the NSA’s direct interests not to have the documents published, as they can compromise national security because they contain sensitive intelligence regarding the interception of foreign communication; and no meaningful amount of information can be declassified without giving foreign intelligence information regarding US time and methods of information interception. The second affidavit is for Judge [Gerhard A. Gesell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard%5FGesell) only, classified “top secret,” which the judge can read with an “in camera” clearance. The judge sides with the NSA after reviewing the affidavit \(released to CAUS through an FOIA request with 95% redactions, later released in 1997 with only 25% redacted, and in 2014 with a bit less missing\). Gesell states that “the public interest in disclosure is far outweighed by the sensitive nature of the materials and the obvious effect on national security their release may well entail.” CAUS fashions an appeal to the US Supreme Court. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Citizens Against UFO Secrecy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%5FAgainst%5FUFO%5FSecrecy)”; Eugene F. Yeates, [In Camera Affidavit](http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/nsa/nsaaffidavit-aftermdr-july2014.pdf), Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy v. National Security Agency, US District Court for the District of Columbia, October 9, 1980; J. Allen Hynek, “A Cosmic Watergate?” IUR 9, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1984\): 10–12; ClearIntent, [pp. 187–188](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/186/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 417–419](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/n433/mode/2up), [535–539](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/534/mode/2up); John Greenewald, “[UFOs: The National](https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-national-security-agency-nsa-collection/) [Security Agency \(NSA\) Collection,](https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-national-security-agency-nsa-collection/)” The Black Vault, September 10, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_6197 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19800 (E03A6F52) Date: 11/18/1980 Description: Hundreds of people in north-central Missouri, including a dozen police officers, saw a large, triangular object over a period of more than four hours. At one time, the object was tracked on radar moving erratically at a speed of about forty-five miles an hour. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kirksville, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_5334 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19801 (9C457DEA) Date: 11/18/1980 Description: 7:30–11:00 p.m. Many people living in northern Missouri and northeastern Kansas, from Edina, Missouri, to Fairview, Kansas, report a formation of unusual lights traveling slowly and noiselessly. An airport and the police department in Kirksville, Missouri, receive 25 calls or so. The basic description is a triangular formation with two bright headlights. Rick Hull, a 20-year-old photographer from Trenton, Missouri, watches the lights pass overhead four different times; the underside shows a diamond-shaped array of white lights with a steady red beacon in the middle. There are also two bright headlights and an apparent dome with seven green lights around it. He manages to photograph the array only once out of several attempts. Most people provide an estimated altitude for the lights as 300–400 feet, but a Trenton witness puts it at 1,000–1,500 feet, and Missouri Highway Patrolman Bob Lober guesses 1,500–1,800 feet in Edinburg, Missouri. The lights change direction frequently. Radar technician Franklin West, located at a remote radar station of the Kansas City Air Route Traffic Control Center at Sublette, Missouri, finds a radar target in the same direction and distance as visual reports that local witnesses alert him to. It passes through the Kirksville area 4–5 times in a 2–3 hour period. He estimates its speed at 45 mph. A pilot landing at the Olathe, Kansas, Air Route Traffic Control Center says he recognizes the UFO as a refueling tanker with jets following it, which matches an established refueling track in the area. The Center for UFO Studies confirms that Altus AFB in Oklahoma, flew a huge C-5A cargo aircraft behind a KC-135 tanker from Grissom AFB in Peru, Indiana, that evening. The two planes flew in tandem at 20,000 feet at an indicated air speed of 250 knots beginning at 8:00 p.m. and ending around 11:00 p.m. However, there are a few discrepancies with the reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[North Missourians Report](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98964720/) [Strange Lights in Night Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98964773/)” Chillicothe \(Mo.\) Constitution-Tribune, November 19, 1980, pp. 1, 12; Joe and Doris Graziano, “[Press Reports,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201981%2005%2000%20-%20Vol%2029%20No%205.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 29, no. 5 \(June 1981\): 6; “Radar-Visual Light Form Seen by Independent Witnesses,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 \(March/April 1981\): 12–14; Marler 109–112 Source ID: Eberhart_6198 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19802 (83C2ECA0) Date: 11/19/1980 Description: Blue beam engulfed car, swishing sound, car levitated; abduction. See Section XIII (R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Longmont, CO Source ID: NICAP_DB_5336 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19803 (8C1E1F5F) Date: 11/19/1980 Description: Light beamed onto car, lights and radio failed, car levitated on board domed craft surrounded by dense cloud or mist, couple examined. Car placed back on road Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Longmont, CO Source ID: HallUFOE2_361 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19804 (F7E9DBFE) Date: 11/19/1980 Description: 11:45 p.m. A couple is driving home to Longmont, Colorado, from Denver when they hear a loud “whish” and a beam of blue light strikes their car. Their headlights begin to dim and the radio emits static before fading out. The back wheels of the car leave the pavement and the car rises at an angle into the air. They lose consciousness and wake up as the car is resuming its 50 mph journey down the road. More than one hour of time is missing. The next day, the woman finds a rectangular mark on her abdomen and soon has vivid dreams of a craft and an entity. She develops a nearly fatal case of pneumonia and finds out she is pregnant. The man discovers a melanoma on his legs, but it improves. Under hypnosis they recall seeing a hovering domed craft, a luminous entryway, and a humanoid with a large head, gray skin, thin fingers, and shiny golden garb. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard Sigismond, “CE-IIIs: New Dimensions in Investigations,” IUR 7, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1982\): 9–15 Source ID: Eberhart_6199 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19805 (288CF353) Date: 11/19/1980 Description: In 1980 an attorney in Sedalia, Missouri observed a cigar-shaped object in the early morning hours. The description was the same as an object seen in Huntsville earlier that night. That night, driving near Longmont, Colorado, an art teacher and his wife encountered an intense blue beam of light and felt the rear wheels of their car lifted off the pavement. They then experienced an hour of missing time. Under hypnosis they recounted being abducted and submitting to a medical exam. The wife, who was two months pregnant, discovered a rectangular mark on her lower abdomen immediately after the experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, May 1981, p. 6; Richard Sigismonde, FSR, December 1983, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_7742 Source: Johnson ### Event 19806 (0110F469) Date: 11/24/1980 Description: Official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that an association to study UFOs had been established in Peking. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: China Source ID: HallUFOE2_362 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19807 (DC8AFF9C) Date: 11/24/1980 Description: Around 10:00 p.m. A teenager in New Lenox, Illinois, sees two green light sources from his bedroom window. They move back and forth in the southern sky and disappear briefly when a plane flies below them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFOs—or IFOs over Joliet?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 \(Jan./Feb. 1981\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6200 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19808 (5893AEA2) Date: 11/25/1980 Description: A cone-shaped UFO was seen in 1980 at 10:30 p.m., three miles away from three witnesses in Minocqua, Wisconsin over Lake Tomah. The UFO flickered with red, green and white lights. It was joined by and circled by a second UFO. The objects made no sound, but did cast reflections in the lake waters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May 1981, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_7915 Source: Johnson ### Event 19809 (1E82B29C) Date: 11/25/1980 Description: Early morning. Policemen in New Lenox, Manhattan, Joliet, and Ellwood, Illinois, watch a bright white light that fluctuates in brightness and mostly remains stationary. Probable sightings of Venus. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFOs—or IFOs over Joliet?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 \(Jan./Feb. 1981\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6201 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19810 (BA651133) Date: 11/25/1980 Description: 6:40 a.m. A glowing orange ball is seen maneuvering around the Ninian Northern oil platform in the North Sea. It is large enough to be seen by workers at the Brent oil platform 12–15 miles away. An RAF Hawker Siddeley Nimrod aircraft is sent to the area, but no public conclusions are reached about its nature. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 136 Source ID: Eberhart_6202 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19811 (DECC6397) Date: 11/26/1980 Description: A witness driving in a car near Bentwaters RAF Air Base in Suffolk, England at around 2:00 p.m. saw a black ball in the sky being chased by two jet aircraft. It stopped in the sky, then shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, From Out of the Blue, p. 133 Source ID: Johnson_7945 Source: Johnson ### Event 19812 (89042DFE) Date: 11/26/1980 Description: [Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) receives a call from former astronaut Sen. [Harrison Schmitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison%5FSchmitt) \(R-N.Mex.\) who asks him about AFOSI’s role in [Bennewitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz)’s claims. Doty tells him they are not investigating. But Doty later admits what he tells Schmitt is not true. AFOSI has told him to make Bennewitz believe there is an impending alien invasion because Bennewitz is actually observing secret Air Force projects. According to Doty, the Air Force wants to discredit Bennewitz so no one will figure that out. However, Doty claims that in doing so, he created hoaxed documents that are given to Bennewitz and other UFO researchers, and that he broke into Bennewitz’s house and office. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alejandro T. Rojas, “[Ex–Air Force Law Enforcement Agent Says He Hoaxed Major UFO Mythologies,](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exair-force-law-enforceme%5Fb%5F5312650)” Huffington Post, May 13, 2014; Clark III 359–362 Source ID: Eberhart_6203 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19813 (DF86BB8E) Date: 11/27/1980 Description: A group of four driving to a hospital in central Kansas arrived at the hospital much sooner than they had planned. They encountered a green beam of light off to the side of highway and ahead of them at two o'clock in the morning. It was coming from a huge flying object, "as big as a city block," that was cone-shaped with peach, green, and white colored lights. Somehow it had caused them to be transported closer to their destination, according to the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, International UFO Reporter, November 1986, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_7968 Source: Johnson ### Event 19814 (189080E7) Date: 11/28/1980 Description: Police constable Alan Godfrey, age 31, was on routine patrol in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England when at 5:05 a.m. he encountered a metallic disc with a dome on top and a row of five windows, blocking the road ahead. He fetl attracted to it, and alternately frightened and secure while he sat in his patrol car. When he attempted to alert headquarters to its presence he found that his radio would not work. He then sketched the craft. The domed metallic disc had the rowof windows, was luminous, and had additional lights on top and bottom. The central section was spinning; bushes beneath it were agitated. Abruptly, he found himself one hundred yards farther down the road than he had been, and the UFO was gone. He had a vague recollection of getting out of his car and looking for the object, and hearing a voice, and he had 15 minutes of missing time. When he returned to the car it would not start.

Later, under hypnosis, Godfrey recalled that he lost consciousness after a beam of light from the object struck him. Then he felt himself floating into the craft and meeting a human-like being named Joseph. The UFO occupant was six feet tall, and friendly in demeanor; Joseph had a thin nose, a beard, and mustache. He wore a skullcap and was clad in a robe, making him look something like a Biblical prophet. A large black dog accompanied him. The room also contained eight metallic robots, each about three and a half feet tall, with headgear like lampshades, which were making a sort of murmuring chatter. Whenever they touched Godfrey, beeping sounds emanated from them. Joseph directed Godfrey to a bed. He thought about resisting, but instead lay down on the bed, where a beam of light from the ceiling shone down on him. Communicating by telepathy, Joseph touched his head, and Godfrey lapsed into unconsciousness for a while. The robots removed Godfrey's shoes and studied his toes. Meanwhile, instruments were placed on his arms and legs , which caused him discomfort to the point of sickness. There was a sickly odor that permeated his nostrils, and he closed his eyes from time to time. Joseph asked him questions, but Godfrey would refuse to tell investigators what they were. The alien told Godfrey that they had met before, apparently when Godfrey was a child. After the incident, he had a split in the sole of his boot, and a bruise on his foot. EM effects were the failure of two different radio systems (UHF and VHF). Three other cops saw a bright light moving toward Todmorden at the time of Godfrey's abduction experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, FSR, August 1981, p. 4; UNICAT, case # 786; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 561-562; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 115; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case # 102; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 386, citing Janet & Colin Bord, Modern Mysteries of Britain, and Jenny Randles, The Pennine UFO Mystery Source ID: Johnson_8009 Source: Johnson ### Event 19815 (144BCC3E) Date: 11/28/1980 Description: Constable Alan Godfrey encountered craft on road, time loss. Abduction scenario emerged under hypnosis (section XIII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [801128](http://www.ufocasebook.com/godfreyabduction.html) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5337 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19816 (CC280FB1) Date: 11/28/1980 Description: Constable Alan Godfrey encountered craft on road, time loss. Abduction scenario emerged under hypnosis Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK Source ID: HallUFOE2_363 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19817 (FB0A782C) Date: 11/29/1980 Description: 5:00 a.m. While checking reports of cattle wandering around a local council estate in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, Police Constable [Alan Godfrey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%5FGodfrey) allegedly sees a bright light ahead on Burnley Road that appears to be a hovering, rotating object. He sees twigs and leaves swirling around beneath it. He experiences missing time of approximately 25 minutes, during which he splits a boot and acquires an itchy, red mark on his foot. Via hypnotic regression, he recalls being medically examined by alien creatures. In May, Godfrey had investigated the death of [Zigmund Adamski](https://www.astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2019/10/5/zigmund-adamski)[,](https://www.astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2019/10/5/zigmund-adamski) who had been missing for five days before his body was found on top of a coal pile. According to the coroner, Adamski died of a heart attack. Godfrey tells reporters at the time that he believes it possible that Adamski was abducted by aliens and placed on the coal pile “by someone or something.” Godfrey self-publishes Who or What Were They? in 2017, a book that includes his speculations regarding the Adamski case, abduction claims by [Travis Walton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis%5FWalton%5FUFO%5Fincident), and his own UFO sighting. In 2014, a partial witness to the event surfaces, a bus driver on Burnley Road who around 4:55 a.m. experiences one of the physical effects Godfrey describes—an oddly localized whirlwind buffeting debris and leaving a swirled road surface beneath. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Alan Godfrey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%5FGodfrey)”; Jenny Randles, “[The Alan Godfrey Abduction, November 28,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/godfreyabduction.html) [1980,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/godfreyabduction.html)” UFO Casebook; “[Alan Godfrey,](http://www.noufors.com/Alan%5FGodfrey.htm)” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Jenny Randles, The Pennine UFO Mystery, Granada, 1983, [pp. 122–135](https://archive.org/details/pennineufomyster0000rand/page/122/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/pennineufomyster0000rand/page/122/mode/2up) [147–168](https://archive.org/details/pennineufomyster0000rand/page/146/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp. 118–119](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/118/mode/2up); Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley: Part One,” Fortean Times 325 \(April 2015\): 27; Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley: Part Two,” Fortean Times 326 \(May 2015\): 27; Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley, Part 3,” Fortean Times 327 \(June 2015\): 29; Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley, Part 4,” Fortean Times 328 \(July 2015\): 28–30; Alan Godfrey, Who or What Were They? The Author, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_6204 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19818 (0740D930) Date: 11/29/1980 Description: Mechanic Granger Taylor, 32, of Duncan, British Columbia, a man obsessed with aliens and UFOs to the point of building his own full-size model in his backyard, announces to his friends and parents that he is going to board an alien spacecraft and take a 42-month interstellar voyage. He is never seen again. In 1986, truck fragments and bones are found at a blast site on Mount Prevost. Though DNA testing is not in common use at the time, pathology work by the coroner attributes the adult human bones to Taylor. Fragments of clothing found amid the decayed material are from a shirt owned by Taylor, as confirmed by his mother. Representatives from the auto division of the RCMP confirm the truck is his. A report by the B.C. Coroners office officially declares Taylor dead. A CBC-TV documentary about Taylor, Spaceman, is released in 2019 but fails to come up with a likely explanation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Hooper, “[The Man Who Went to Space and Disappeared,](https://www.vice.com/en/article/yvwjkv/the-man-who-went-to-space-and-disappeared-the-story-of-granger-taylor)” Vice, July 1, 2016; Mike Taylor, “[What Happened to Granger Taylor?](https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/what-happened-to-granger-taylor-4669648)” Vancouver \(B.C.\) Times Colonist, February 3, 2019; CBC-TV, “[Spaceman,](https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/episodes/spaceman)” 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_6205 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19819 (D4950851) Date: 11/29/1980 Description: Two on duty uniformed traffic officers were parked up in a pub car park when they observed a very bright UFO low on the horizon. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5338 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19820 (4B568B1F) Date: 12/1980 Description: UFO landing between the Bentwaters and Woodbridge NATA bases in England. Nearby animals driven into a frenzy, surrounding trees damaged, left moderate levels of radiation, 17 firsthand witnesses, event filmed. Type: ufo landing Reference: APCIC Vol 10 #4–1985 Location: between the Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge See also: 3/3/1985 Source ID: Maj2_721 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19821 (1A29D107) Date: 12/1980 Description: Army Lt. Col. [John B. Alexander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FB.%5FAlexander) discusses in Military Review how psychotronic weapons could be developed by studying the paranormal. He discusses the remote-viewing studies of [Russell Targ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%5FTarg) and [Harold E.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff) [Puthoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff) and their potential military applications. As for psychotronic weapons, he sees much potential, saying, “with development, these weapons would be able to induce illness or death at little or no risk to the operator. Range may be a present problem, but this will probably be overcome if it has not been already.” As an example, he cites work by the Soviets, who have “examined the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans and have applied those techniques against the US Embassy in Moscow.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John B. Alexander, “[The New Mental Battlefield:](https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp%5Fsociopol%5Fmindcon16.htm) [‘Beam Me Up, Spock!](https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp%5Fsociopol%5Fmindcon16.htm)’” Military Review 60, no. 12 \(December 1980\) Source ID: Eberhart_6206 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19822 (0407F5A8) Date: 12/3/1980 Description: One year later, at 10:30 p.m. on Highway 57 in McLain, Mississippi Mr. and Mrs. Lowrey had the FM radio of their car quit, the car’s headlights dim, and the car heater quit when a luminous, blue-white ball of light came briefly over the right side of the car’s hood. They estimated the light to be about a foot in diameter and only a meter away. The seat belt alarm also came on during the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January 1981, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_8168 Source: Johnson ### Event 19823 (4EEF7441) Date: 12/3/1980 Description: On Highway 57 in McLain, Mississippi Mr. and Mrs. Lowrey had the FM radio of their car quit, the car's headlights dim, and the car heater quit when a luminous, blue-white ball of light came briefly over the right side of the car's hood. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McLain, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_5339 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19824 (E3F420E8) Date: 12/3/1980 Description: 8:30 p.m. On State Highway 57 about 10 miles south of McLain, Mississippi, Robert and Janice Lowrey \[or Lawrey?\] see a luminous, blue-white ball of light to the east. The FM radio of their car quits, the car’s headlights dim, and the car heater quits when light comes briefly over the right side of the hood. They estimate the light to be about a foot in diameter and only 3 feet away. The seat belt alarm also comes on during the encounter. The light just vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Vehicle Affected by Mini-UFO?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 \(Jan./Feb. 1981\): 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_6207 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19825 (D1DE954A) Date: 12/4/1980 Description: 8:38 a.m. Graham Moyle and other controllers at the Perth, Western Australia, airport report watching “silver tumbling discs” two or three times through 11:00 a.m. Danielle Russell, 12, sees four objects with lights that change color from red to blue to green moving quickly north to south at 11:00 a.m. There is a reported paint on the radar 7 miles distant at a speed of 138 mph and a height of 5 miles. The target is lost in the radar’s cone of silence. The RAAF scrambles a Macchi jet, but it cannot find the objects. At 1:20 p.m., a target is detected on the radar at 21 miles, due south. The tower tracks an object high above one of the runways. Five minutes later, the radar returns another target. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Jet Hunt for Australian UFOs,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 \(Jan./Feb. 1981\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6208 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19826 (0ED03FF6) Date: 12/4/1980 Description: Radar-visual sighting of four objects at airport Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Perth, Western Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_364 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19827 (F9A6F39F) Date: 12/4/1980 Description: A young man had a close encounter with a saucer-shaped object with a row of rectangular windows around the circumference, and was struck by a light beam on the chest and felt paralyzed. Perceived communication, apparent abduction, burn marks on chest corresponding to light beam position. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Foxboro, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5341 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19828 (6F7B3F71) Date: 12/4/1980 Description: G,V, Four UFOs on a/port radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Perth, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5344 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19829 (B9C9D542) Date: 12/5/1980 Description: 10:00 p.m. Two teenagers parked next to a swimming pool in a subdivision of Normal, Illinois, see a stationary bright white light about half the size of the full moon in the western sky. Suddenly it splits into two smaller halves that rejoin, growing small and fuzzy, then brighten and enlarge. Three small lights shoot out and snap back in again. They watch the display for about one hour. During the last 15 minutes, their ears begin to hurt simultaneously. The pain shifts from their right ears to their temples, and they both feel a pea-shaped lump under their skin. They return home. The next day the lumps are gone but they have headaches. On December 8 at 8:45 p.m., the boy returns to the same spot alone and sees another light for about one minute. When he calls his girlfriend again to tell her, both regain the painful lumps in their temples. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Youths Link Pain with UFO,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 \(February 1981\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6209 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19830 (9EA22D32) Date: 12/6/1980 Description: 9:01 a.m. Jean Findley of Poole, Dorset, England, is waiting for a bus and feels the urge to look up. She sees a disc-shaped, domed UFO hovering above nearby trees. Feeling “spellbound” and experiencing a sensation of “peace, calm, and warmth,” she watches the object emit a beam of light, rotate once, and fly away at a great rate of speed. She looks at her watch and sees that 4 minutes have elapsed, seemingly in the space of a few seconds. Even though it is rush hour, she sees no one else around. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 866; Jenny Randles, UFO Reality, R. Hale, 1983 Source ID: Eberhart_6211 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19831 (A223B66B) Date: 12/6/1980 Description: 12:45 a.m. A man is driving westbound a few miles north of Edwardsville, Illinois, when a disc-like object cuts across his view from the south about 100 feet away. It seems to be 40 feet in diameter and 9–13 feet thick. Five intense, steady, blue-white lights illuminate its dark shape. He sees windows at the center. The witness tries to drive toward the object, but his car engine fails for 1–2 minutes. The object zips off after a few minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Current Sighting Reports,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 3 \(March 1981\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6210 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19832 (2B640A0E) Date: 12/10/1980 Description: At 1:30 a.m. two witnesses from Hollywood in a boat watched a cloud-cigar maneuver erratically for five minutes over the San Pedro Channel offshore of Los Angeles, California, giving off a pink glow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, issue 162 Source ID: Johnson_8317 Source: Johnson ### Event 19833 (43CAC502) Date: 12/12/1980 Description: Burns and radiation damage. Cash/Landrum inc (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: NICAP: [801212](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/cashlandir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huffman, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5345 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19834 (3A71D2C2) Date: 12/13/1980 Description: 5:47 p.m. James Garrigus sees an oblong, pulsating orange glow descending at a 30° angle in the northeast as he is driving in Lima, Ohio. Suddenly it curves back upward in a backwards “J,” continuing to move in the same direction. The light increases speed, still bobbing and spinning, and finally shoots upward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Nocturnal Light in Ohio,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 \(February 1981\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6212 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19835 (BB7E1152) Date: 12/15/1980 Description: In 1980 over 40 people in the southeastern part of London, England saw a UFO hover, divide into pieces, re-group, dart a short distance, and then shoot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 76 Source ID: Johnson_8423 Source: Johnson ### Event 19836 (F06D325A) Date: 12/15/1980 Description: Over 40 people in the southeastern part of London, England saw a UFO hover, divide into pieces, re-group, dart a short distance, and then shoot straight up. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: London, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5346 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19837 (B6F0CC32) Date: 12/15/1980 Description: 3:00 p.m. About 40 witnesses at the Orpington Hospital redevelopment site in London, England, watch a UFO that alternately hovers, moves slowly, shoots across the sky, and finally divides into three and disappears straight up at 4:15 p.m. The object is an elongated triangular shape with a reddish-orange nose, silvery body, and diamond-blue rear section, with its nose pointing southeast. Peter McSherry, clerk of works for Lovell \(Southern\) Ltd estimates its height at 50,000 feet. A video of the object is taken in the presence of other witnesses at Seal Chart near Sevenoaks, Kent, and although it shows only a point of light in a cloudless sky, it does corroborate the sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 76–79](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/76/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6213 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19838 (75A98622) Date: 12/17/1980 Description: No details except 5 witnesses of a C1. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenup County, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5347 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19839 (52E97D0E) Date: 12/18/1980 Description: Several witnesses on a farm in Colesburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa watched an odd glowing cloud-like object with a hazy funnel of light that reached downward to the ground for five minutes on an otherwise clear night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1981, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_8496 Source: Johnson ### Event 19840 (11D2FA28) Date: 12/18/1980 Description: Cows and horses alerted, then ran as small light flew by (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [801218](http://www.nicap.org/ar-801218dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rio, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5348 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19841 (FBFBC3E0) Date: 12/18/1980 Description: On the same night on a farm in Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil, four men and women watched farm animals (cows and horses) panic and run from a 10-inch wide flying silver sphere that flew around for 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Newby Luce, MUFON investigation files database, case #931248J Source ID: Johnson_8497 Source: Johnson ### Event 19842 (0AF18C1D) Date: 12/25/1980 Description: 9:00 p.m. Soviet spy satellite Kosmos 749 re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere, breaks into several pieces, and creates a spectacular fireworks display over northwest Europe. Police stations, coast guards, and the RAF receive hundreds of calls reporting four or five “comet-like objects leaving bright trails.” Astronomers also record three fireball meteors the same night, the largest and brightest appearing at 3:00 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 105](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n173/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6214 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19843 (48C6D45F) Date: 12/26/1980 Description: 3:00 a.m. A series of reported sightings of unexplained lights near Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, have become linked with claims of UFO landings. The events occur just outside RAF Woodbridge \[now MOD Woodbridge\], used at the time by the United States Air Force. USAF personnel, including deputy base commander Lieutenant Colonel [Charles I. Halt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FI.%5FHalt), claim to experience a UFO event. A security patrol \(A1C [John](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/A1C%5FJohn%5FBurroughs.html) [Burroughs](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/A1C%5FJohn%5FBurroughs.html) and S/Sgt Budd Steffens\) near the East Gate of RAF Woodbridge sees lights apparently descending into nearby Rendlesham Forest. These lights are attributed by astronomers to a piece of natural debris seen burning up as a fireball over southern England at the time. The observers initially think it is a downed aircraft but, when others \(S/Sgt [James Penniston](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/Sgt%5FJames%5FPenniston.html), Burroughs, and A1C [Edward Cabansag](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/A1C%5FEdward%5FCabansag.html)\) enter the forest to investigate they see, according to Halt’s memo, a glowing object, metallic in appearance, with colored lights. As they attempt to approach the object, it appears to move through the trees, and “the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy.” Penniston later claims he and Burroughs encountered a “craft of unknown origin” while in the forest, which he photographs and touches, although there is no publicized mention of this at the time and no corroboration from other witnesses. \(Burroughs only reports a blinding white light.\) Shortly after 4:00 a.m., local police are called to the scene, but they report that the only lights they can see are those from the Orfordness Lighthouse, a few miles away on the coast. After daybreak, Burroughs and Penniston return to a small clearing near the eastern edge of the forest and find three small impressions on the ground in a triangular pattern, as well as burn marks and broken branches on nearby trees. At 10:30 a.m., the Suffolk Constabulary are called out again, this time to see the impressions, which they think could have been made by an animal. [Georgina Bruni](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgina%5FBruni)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgina%5FBruni) in her book You Can’t Tell the People \(2000\), publishes a photo of the supposed landing site taken on the morning after the first sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_6215 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19844 (66E90DFD) Date: 12/27/1980 End date: 12/30/1980 Description: Air Force security police encounter with landed craft in Rendlesham Forest, physical evidence (section II). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [801227-30](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/801227rendledir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rendlesham, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5350 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19845 (1A146646) Date: 12/27/1980 Description: No details except 5 witnesses of a C1. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greenup County, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5349 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19846 (52867FEE) Date: 12/27/1980 Description: 9:30 p.m. Construction workers skating in Yantan Park, Lanzhou, Gansu province, China, notice a red triangular object moving slowly in the eastern sky. It moves above them and they notice it has a misty circle surrounding it and a dark red center. It also has a gray protuberance that shines a brilliant light, and the outer edge emits regular flashes of yellow light. They watch it for 7 minutes until it disappears in the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Chinese Connection…and Some Wholesome Chinese Philosophy,” IUR 7, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1982\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6216 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19847 (7B134AE6) Date: 12/27/1980 Description: Bentwaters AFB, England - A famous close encounter landing with radar confirmation, and a possible encounter with humanoids occurred in the early morning hours between Bentwaters and Woodbridge RAF/USAF Bases. The case involved many military personnel, including the base commander, Colonel Halt. A nocturnal light had been sighted repeatedly over several nights prior to this encounter. On the night in question a 12 foot wide cone-shaped object was encountered near the ground outside the west gate of the Bentwaters base. According to several of the military witnesses, the UFO shone light beams into the nuclear weapons storage area, them landed or hovered quite close to the ground in the forest outside the base. A USAF security patrol outside the back gate of RAF Woodbridge likely had the closest encounter. The UFO they saw hovered at treetop level, and was described as being round with a red light on top and several blue lights underneath. It was surrounded by a yellow mist. It landed in a field, illuminating the ground, then shot up. Larry Warren, one of the military enlisted men present, claims that UFO occupants were seen on this occasion. At the same time, in nearby Martlesham in Suffolk county, a nocturnal light followed a car and then shot up into the air, causing a herd of cows to stampede. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 26, 77, Jenny Randles, From Out of the Blue, p. 16; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 15; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 320; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. 123 Source ID: Johnson_8625 Source: Johnson ### Event 19848 (CF012C83) Date: 12/27/1980 Description: USAF UFO report signed by Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, Deputy Base Commander, RAF Woodbridge stating: Two USAF security police patrolmen saw a UFO either hovering or on legs outside the backgate, Woodbridge. Being early morning, it illuminated the entire forest with a white light. Description: Metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, pulsing red light on top and banks of blue lights underneath. Approx. 2–3 meters across and 2 meters high. It maneuvered through the trees and disappeared. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p456) Location: RAF Woodbridge See also: 12/29/1980 Source ID: Maj2_722 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19849 (AC5A96A5) Date: 12/27/1980 End date: 12/30/1980 Description: Late Dec. 1980; Rendlesham Forest, England, Col. Halt Case (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: NICAP: [801227-30](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/801227rendledir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rendlesham Forest, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5351 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19850 (4B4EB371) Date: 12/27/1980 End date: 12/30/1980 Description: Air Force security police encounter with landed craft in Rendlesham Forest, physical evidence Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Bentwaters AFB, UK Source ID: HallUFOE2_365 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19851 (B09D93F2) Date: 12/28/1980 Description: 1:48 a.m. RAF Woodbridge Deputy Base Commander [Charles Halt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FI.%5FHalt) visits the alleged December 26 landing site with 20–30 servicemen \(including [John Burroughs](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/A1C%5FJohn%5FBurroughs.html)[,](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/A1C%5FJohn%5FBurroughs.html) Sgt. [Adrian Bustinza](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/Sgt%5FAdrian%5FBustinza.html)[,](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/Sgt%5FAdrian%5FBustinza.html) Sgt. Bobby Ball, and Sgt. [Monroe Nevels](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/SSgt%5FMonroe%5FNevels.html)\). They take radiation readings in the triangle of depressions and in the surrounding area using an AN/PDR-27, a standard US military radiation survey meter. Although they record 70–100 microR/hr at the landing site, in other regions they detect only 30–40 microR/hr, around the background level. Furthermore, they detect a similar small “burst” over half a mile away from the landing site. Halt records the events on a microcassette recorder, the “Halt tape,” released to UFO researchers in 1984 by Col. Sam Morgan, who has succeeded [Ted Conrad](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/Colonel%5FTed%5FConrad.html) as Halt’s superior. The tape chronicles Halt’s investigation in the forest in real time. During this investigation, a flashing light is seen across the field to the east, almost in line with a farmhouse, as the witnesses had seen on the first night. The Orfordness Lighthouse is visible further to the east in the same line of sight. Later, three star-like lights are seen in the sky, two to the north and one to the south, about 10° above the horizon. The brightest of these hovers for 2–3 hours and seems to beam down a stream of light from time to time. Astronomers have explained these as merely bright stars. In June 2010, retired Col. Charles Halt signs a notarized affidavit, in which he again summarizes what happened, then states he believes the event to be extraterrestrial and covered up by both the UK and US military. Contradictions between this affidavit and the facts as recorded at the time in Halt’s memo \(dated January 13, 1981\) and tape recording \(made December 28\) have been pointed out. In 2010, base commander Col. Ted Conrad provides a statement about the incident to UFO researcher [David Clarke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29) Conrad states that “We saw nothing that resembled Lieutenant Colonel Halt’s descriptions either in the sky or on the ground” and that “We had people in position to validate Halt’s narrative, but none of them could.” In an interview, Conrad criticizes Halt for the claims in his affidavit, saying “he should be ashamed and embarrassed by his allegation that his country and Britain both conspired to deceive their citizens over this issue. He knows better.” Conrad also disputes the testimony of Sgt. [James Penniston](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/Sgt%5FJames%5FPenniston.html)[,](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/Sgt%5FJames%5FPenniston.html) who claims to have touched an alien spacecraft; he had interviewed Penniston at the time and he had not mentioned any such occurrence. Conrad also suggests that the entire incident was a hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_6217 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19852 (474C4C3A) Date: 12/28/1980 End date: 12/29/1980 Description: Around 12:00 midnight. USAF A1C [Larry Warren](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/Larry%5FWarren.html) claims he is on patrol at RAF Woodbridge with other servicemen who are bringing lighting equipment to a large clearing called Capel Green. At 12:30 a.m., he is directed into the woods to “investigate a disturbance.” They soon come to a large field where about 40 military personnel are gathered. They are ordered to surround what appears to be a bright fog or mist. When his group enters the field, Warren sees it is a glowing, yellow-green, circular object not more than 12 inches in height. Two officers walk around it with Geiger counters, someone takes photos, and another operates a movie camera. He hears shouts of “Here it comes!” and sees a small red light that quickly approaches his group at 1:30 a.m. The basketball-sized object makes a downward arc and hovers at 20 feet above the ground. It then explodes in a blinding flash that gives off no heat. Instantly, about 25 away, Warren claims he sees a large, pyramid-shaped object topped by a glowing red light. Covering the entire surface are what look like boxes and pipes. An officer orders [Bustinza](http://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/Sgt%5FAdrian%5FBustinza.html) and Warren \(now feeling nauseous\) to approach within 10–15 feet of the object. Before long they are ordered further back. A staff car arrives, carrying Col. [Gordon Williams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FE.%5FWilliams) and his staff. From far behind the object comes a bright bluish ball of light. Warren claims he can see large-headed beings inside. He sees Col. Williams approach the beings and stare at them. Warren arrives back at Security Control at 4:30 a.m. Most ufologists find Warren’s account unreliable, and the book he coauthored, Left at East Gate, is withdrawn by the publisher, Cosimo, in 2017 after finding “inaccurate or embellished” testimony. In 2010, [Jenny Randles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles), who first reported the Rendlesham case in the London Evening Standard in 1981 and coauthored with local researchers the first book on the case in 1984, Sky Crash: A Cosmic Conspiracy, emphasizes her previously expressed doubts that the incident was caused by extraterrestrial visitors. While suggesting that an unidentified phenomenon might have caused parts of the case, she notes: “Whilst some puzzles remain, we can probably say that no unearthly craft were seen in Rendlesham Forest. We can also argue with confidence that the main focus of the events was a series of misperceptions of everyday things encountered in less than everyday circumstances.” The most plausible skeptical explanation is that the sightings are due to a combination of several factors. The initial sighting on December 26, when the airmen saw something apparently descending into the forest, coincides with the appearance of a bright fireball over southern England; such fireballs are a common source of UFO reports. The supposed landing marks are identified by police and foresters as rabbit diggings. According to the witness statements from December 26, the flashing light seen from the forest lay in the same direction as the Orfordness Lighthouse. When the eyewitnesses attempted to approach the light, they realized it was further off than they thought. Timings on [Halt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FI.%5FHalt)’s tape recording indicate that the light he saw, which lay in the same direction as the light seen two nights earlier, flashed every five seconds, which was the flash rate of the Orfordness Lighthouse. The star-like objects that Halt reported hovering low to the north and south are thought by some skeptics to have been misinterpretations of bright stars distorted by atmospheric and optical effects. No evidence has emerged to confirm that anything came down in the forest. However, [Nick Redfern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FRedfern) in The Rendlesham Forest UFO Conspiracy alleges that the events were created by US and UK military as part of a series of top-secret experiments involving ball lightning and the “use of sophisticated holograms and hallucinogens” to test the reactions of the personnel exposed to them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Rendlesham Forest incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham%5FForest%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[Rendlesham](http://www.nicap.org/801226rendlesham%5Fdir.htm) [Forest Encounter / Halt Case](http://www.nicap.org/801226rendlesham%5Fdir.htm)”; Brenda Butler, Dot Street, and Jenny Randles, Sky Crash, Grafton, 1984; Jenny Randles, “Mystery at Rendlesham,” IUR 9, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1984\): 10–11, 15; “[A Flashlight in the Forest,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29015789/the-guardian/)” The Guardian \(UK\), January 5, 1985, p. 9; Robert H. Coddington, “[An Analysis of the Rendlesham Forest Incident](http://cufos.org/cases/1980%5F12%5F27-28%5FUK%5FSUFF%5FRendlesham-Forest%5FIUR%5FArticlesR.pdf) [Tape,](http://cufos.org/cases/1980%5F12%5F27-28%5FUK%5FSUFF%5FRendlesham-Forest%5FIUR%5FArticlesR.pdf)” IUR 10, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1985\): 9–13; Jenny Randles, “[The Cover-Up in England,](http://cufos.org/cases/1980%5F12%5F27-28%5FUK%5FSUFF%5FRendlesham-Forest%5FIUR%5FArticlesR.pdf)” IUR 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1987\): 9–12, 20; Jenny Randles, “[A Fire in the Forest: New Light on the Rendlesham Landing,](http://cufos.org/cases/1980%5F12%5F27-28%5FUK%5FSUFF%5FRendlesham-Forest%5FIUR%5FArticlesR.pdf)” IUR 13, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1988\): 4–17, 21; Jenny Randles, “[Rendlescam,](http://cufos.org/cases/1980%5F12%5F27-28%5FUK%5FSUFF%5FRendlesham-Forest%5FIUR%5FArticlesR.pdf)” IUR 14, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1989\): 16–18; Good Above, [pp. 79–96](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/78/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/78/mode/2up) [456](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/456/mode/2up); Nick Pope, Open Skies, Closed Minds, Simon & Schuster, 1996, [pp. 141–165](https://archive.org/details/openskiesclosedm0000pope/page/140/mode/2up); Larry Warren and Peter Robbins, [Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Bentwaters-Woodbridge UFO](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9781569247594) [Incident, Its Cover-Up, and Investigation](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9781569247594)[,](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9781569247594) Marlowe, 1996; Jenny Randles, UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe? The Full Story of the Rendlesham Forest Close Encounter, Blandford, 1998; Jenny Randles, “Seeing the Forest for the Trees: New Twists in the Bentwaters Case,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 16–19, 29–30; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 105–111](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/104/mode/2up); Georgina Bruni, You Can’t Tell the People, Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000; Jenny Randles and Richard Hall, “[The Rendlesham Forest Case: Point/Counterpoint,](http://cufos.org/cases/1980%5F12%5F27-28%5FUK%5FSUFF%5FRendlesham-Forest%5FIUR%5FArticlesR.pdf)” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 8–15, 30; Jenny Randles, “[Rendlesham Forest: The British MoD File,](http://cufos.org/cases/1980%5F12%5F27-28%5FUK%5FSUFF%5FRendlesham-Forest%5FIUR%5FArticlesR.pdf)” IUR 26, no. 3 \(Fall 2001\): 21–25, 30–32; Ian Ridpath, “[The](http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/rendlesham.html) [Rendlesham Forest UFO Case,](http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/rendlesham.html)” Ian Ridpath, February 28, 2003; “[Rendlesham: UFO Hoax,](https://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/east/series3/rendlesham%5Fufos.shtml)” Inside Out: BBC, June 30, 2003; Dave Cosnette, “[The Bentwaters Rendlesham Forest Incident,](http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicrend.html)” January 2005; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 145–146; Kean, [pp. 169–173](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/168/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/168/mode/2up) [179–188](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/186/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 105–115](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n173/mode/2up); Nick Pope, with John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, [Encounter](https://archive.org/details/encounterinrendl0000pope) [in Rendlesham Forest](https://archive.org/details/encounterinrendl0000pope)[,](https://archive.org/details/encounterinrendl0000pope) Thistle, 2014; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham Forest Genesis: Part One,” Fortean Times 336 \(February 2016\): 24–25; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham Forest Genesis: Part Two,” Fortean Times 337 \(March 2016\): 28–29; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham Forest Genesis: Part Three,” Fortean Times 338 \(April 2016\): 26–27; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham Forest Genesis: Part Four,” Fortean Times 339 \(May 2016\): 26–27; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham Forest Genesis: Part Five,” Fortean Times 340 \(June 2016\): 28–29; Andrew Pike, The Rendlesham File: Britain’s Roswell? Flying Disk Press, 2017; Nukes 403–443; Clark III 950; Matt Salusbury, “Rendlesham Revisited,” Fortean Times 387 \(Christmas 2019\): 28–29; Jim Penniston and Gary Osborn, The Rendlesham Enigma: Book 1, Timeline, The Authors, 2019; “[Colonel Charles Halt Returns to Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, Sept.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQW-jdEed8U) [8th 2019,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQW-jdEed8U)” David Young Paranormal Dimensions Radio Presenter YouTube channel, October 6, 2019; Nick Redfern, The Rendlesham Forest UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2020; Jim Penniston and Gary Osborn, “The Full Report,” The Rendlesham Forest Incident Official Website; Jim Penniston and Gary Osborn, “Witness Statements,” The Rendlesham Forest Incident Official Website; Jim Penniston and Gary Osborn, “Others Involved,” The Rendlesham Forest Incident Official Website; Center for UFO Studies, \[[Rendlesham case](http://cufos.org/cases/1980%5F12%5F27-28%5FUK%5FSUFF%5FRendlesham-Forest%5FGreenwoodR%5FRedacted.pdf) [documents](http://cufos.org/cases/1980%5F12%5F27-28%5FUK%5FSUFF%5FRendlesham-Forest%5FGreenwoodR%5FRedacted.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_6218 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19853 (4177F809) Date: 12/29/1980 Description: Shortly after 9 p.m. Betty Cash, age 52, was driving through a pine forest on a rural road near her home in Dayton, Texas with her friend Vickie Landrum, age 57, and Landrum's grandson, six-year-old Colby. They watched as a brilliant diamond-shaped object descended over the road directly in front of them, spitting flames from its underside. Betty Cash slammed on the brakes and brought the car to a halt about 150 feet away from the UFO. They immediately felt an intense heat inside the car and heard a loud roaring sound. They got out of the car and stared at the blinding light and a metallic structure as big as the 200 foot-tall water tower in Dayton. It was shaped like a diamond with a blunt top. The UFO seemed to be struggling to climb above the treetops, and it was emitting blasts of fire and a continuous roar that reminded the women of a shrill welding torch, only much louder. After ten minutes the object rose above the trees, tilted onto one side, and began moving off slowly toward the south. They then saw up to 23 large, Chinook style helicopters show up in the sky, apparently in pursuit of the object.

(Continued.) On the drive home Betty and Colby said they suffered headaches and later nausea, and over the next several days experienced bouts of vomiting, diarrhea, and skin burns. Betty Cash also lost most of her hair, and on January 2, 1981 was admitted to Houston's Parkway General Hospital as a burn patient. She spent four of the next five weeks in the hospital.

Cash and Landrum contacted the state police and nearby military bases, but no one could or would provide them with an explanation. Cash was advised to contact John F. Schuessler, a NASA contractor and employee of McDonnell Douglas Aircraft, who was a project manager for the Space Shuttle Flight Operation, and is now the Director for MUFON. Schuessler and NASA physicist Alan Holt interviewed the witnesses, who took them to the encounter site. Where the UFO came down over the highway the yellow line had swiggled from the melting heat. "A roughly 20-foot circle of the road surface appeared to have melted and then resolidified," said Schuessler. Trees in the vicinity were blackened twenty feet above the ground on the side facing the road.

Schuessler also found five other witnesses who had observed the same or a similar UFO the same night. Another eight witnesses, including a Dayton police officer, claimed to have seen the swarm of helicopters but not the UFO. For the next several years Schuessler tried without success to identify the helicopters and where they came from, but there were unconfirmed rumors that the helicopters came from a Texas Air National Guard base.

Health problems continued to plague Betty Cash, Vicky Landrum and Colby. Cash moved to Birmingham, Alabama where, as Dr. Bryan McClelland said in an interview, "The illness that she suffered after her exposure was an absolute classic radiation injury in which she lost skin and hair, then had diarrhea and vomiting. She could not have made it up. Vicky Landrum has subsequently died. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John F. Schuessler, MUFON case investigation files; Randy Fitzgerald, Reader's Digest Source ID: Johnson_8644 Source: Johnson ### Event 19854 (4469CB55) Date: 12/29/1980 Description: A low flying UFO was escorted by a large number of helicopters (23) including some Chinooks and possibly Hueys, near Dayton, Texas. It was probably escorted to the Top Secret underground installation within Fort Hood, Texas. The secret air force base is NOT listed in the Air Force Officer’s Guide or the Air Force Almanac (it is an Army AFB). The name of the Secret base is Gray AAF, Texas. The special group piloting the helicopters escort for UFO are known as the “BLUE BOYS”. The Texas Department of Public Safety works closely with Gray AAF on UFO cases. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Dayton, TX See also: 6/6/88 Source ID: Maj2_724 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19855 (9F927FFB) Date: 12/29/1980 Description: Diamond- or spindle-shaped object blocked vehicle. Heat, sound, strong physiological effects indicating radioactivity. Mystery helicopters followed UFO Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Huffman, TX Source ID: HallUFOE2_366 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19856 (01AE1A30) Date: 12/29/1980 Description: Lt. Col. C. I. Halt, sees a UFO that separates into 5 UFOs and later sees 3 other UFOs. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p456) Location: RAF Woodbridge See also: 12/27/1980 Source ID: Maj2_723 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19857 (BF410E17) Date: 12/29/1980 Description: Cash/Landrum Case (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [801229](http://www.nicap.org/801229huffman%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huffman, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5352 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19858 (330B511E) Date: 12/29/1980 Description: Cash-Landrum incident. It was investigated by ex-Col. John B. Alexander on behalf of the inspector General of the Pentagon. Type: ufo encounter Reference: [link](https://www.roswellufomuseum.com/post/the-cash-landrum-ufo-incident) Location: north of Houston, TX Source ID: Maj2_725 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19859 (35DF5D33) Date: 12/29/1980 Description: 9:00 p.m. While driving through the Piney Woods of East Texas near Huffman, about 40 miles northeast of Houston, [Betty J. Cash](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2014/02/whos-who-in-cash-landrum-ufo-case.html) and her two passengers notice a bright light ahead. As they draw within about 130 feet, they are confronted by a fiery diamond-shaped object, emitting flames down toward the road. What happens after that is mind-boggling. Betty Cash and [Vickie](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42263879/vickie-marzelia-landrum) and [Colby Landrum](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2014/02/whos-who-in-cash-landrum-ufo-case.html) suffer apparent radiation illness after watching a flame-spewing UFO and mystery helicopters. Eventually, Cash and Landrum contact their US Senators, [Lloyd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBentsen) [Bentsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FBentsen) and [John Tower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FTower)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FTower) who suggest that the witnesses file a complaint with the Judge Advocate Claims office at Bergstrom Air Force Base \[now Austin-Bergstrom International Airport\]. In August 1981, Cash, Landrum, and Colby are interviewed at length by personnel at Bergstrom and told that they should hire a lawyer and seek financial compensation for their injuries. With attorney [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) taking on the case pro bono, the case winds its way through the US courts for several years. Cash and Landrum sue the federal government for $20 million. On August 21, 1986, US District Court Judge [Ross N. Sterling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%5FN.%5FSterling) dismisses their case, noting that the plaintiffs have not proved that the helicopters are associated with the government and that military officials have testified that US armed forces do not have a large, diamond-shaped aircraft in their possession. Although there is no doubt that the incident occurred, it is now considered by many to be a non-UFO case. In December 2018, [Brian Dunning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%5FDunning%5F%28author%29) investigates the case and reports his findings on the Skeptoid podcast. He finds that the notes taken by Cash’s cardiologist, [Vasudev B. Shenoy](https://www.healthcare6.com/physician/houston-tx/vasudev-shenoy-1060562.html)[,](https://www.healthcare6.com/physician/houston-tx/vasudev-shenoy-1060562.html) attribute her hair loss to the autoimmune disease alopecia areata, that her other symptoms could be caused by illnesses that started before the incident, and that Landrum’s only documented illness is developing a cataract in one eye. He suspects that “Cash and Landrum wrongly, but honestly, placed the blame for their health problems onto whatever they saw; and even pushed the truth a bit trying to get the Air Force to pay for it.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cash-Landrum incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash%E2%80%93Landrum%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[Cash/Landrum Case](http://www.nicap.org/801229huffman%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Burns Follow UFO Incident,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201981%2008%2000%20-%20Vol%2029%20No%208.pdf)”APRO Bulletin 29, no. 8 \(1981\): 1–4; “Physical Effects, Helicopters, and a Fiery UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 4 \(May/June 1981\): 13–14; John Schuessler, “Cash-Landrum Case Closed?” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 222 \(October 1986\): 12, 17; John Schuessler, “[Medical Injuries Resulting](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FSpectrum%5Fof%5FUFO%5FResearch.pdf) [from a UFO Encounter,](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FSpectrum%5Fof%5FUFO%5FResearch.pdf)” The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988, pp. 58–69; John F. Schuessler, [The](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Schuessler%2C%20John%20F%20-%20Cash-Landrum%20Radiation%20Case%20-%20VISIT%20report.pdf) [Cash-Landrum Radiation Case](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Schuessler%2C%20John%20F%20-%20Cash-Landrum%20Radiation%20Case%20-%20VISIT%20report.pdf), Project VISIT, 1998; “[Huffman 1980,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=354)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, December 11, 2006; Michael D. Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological Effects? Part 2,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(September 2011\): 4–5; Good Above, [pp. 303–305](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/302/mode/2up); ClearIntent, [pp. 106–108](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/106/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 335–337](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/334/mode/2up), [345–346](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/344/mode/2up); Clark III 226–228; Curt Collins, “[The Cash-Landrum Case UFO Document Collection,](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2013/07/resource-guide-for-cash-landrum-ufo-case.html)” Blue Blurry Lines, October 3, 2019; Project VISIT, \[[case articles and clippings](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized%5Fby%5FAFU/Schuessler%2C%20John%20F%20-%20Cash-Landrum%20Radiation%20Case%20-%20VISIT%20report.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_6219 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19860 (4B707CF8) Date: 12/31/1980 Description: Near Sacramento, California the main witness, John, was driving on California Highway 5 heading toward Sacramento. Shortly after 10:00 p.m. he spotted a large, dark object coming toward him and moving slowly, left to right. The object passed him, but when he looked behind him it was no longer in sight. "I have to see what this is," he thought to himself and he intended to pull over at the same time that he started to feel groggy and his truck's engine began sputtering. He experienced a period of missing time, and the next thing he remembered was that he felt he had just awakened from sleep, although he was driving with both hands on the steering wheel. It struck him as odd that all the holiday traffic was gone and no other vehicles were on the roadway. Thinking only a few minutes had passed, he called his girlfriend to tell her about his unusual experience, and was surprised that she was angry with him because he had been out of touch for nearly three hours. It was already 1:00 a.m. on New Years Day.

(Continued.) In 1992 John underwent hypnotic regression, and was able to remember some of what had happened to him during his missing time episode. He remembered being led somewhere by hand, and having no control. Whoever was leading him seemed to have all the control. John became very agitated as they wanted him to look at something and he didn't want to. Becoming even more agitated and crying, he remembered that the aliens were showing him tanks and he didn't want to be there. John could not bear to look at what was being shown to him, and it took two more hypnotic regression sessions to get through his block and remember what he had been looking at. John described a small baby floating in some type of hearvier-than-water fluid. Tearfully, he described one of "them" saying this particular baby was his and that he had to show it some love. John recalled, "They are saying, I am here for a reason, there are a number of them telling me it's my child, to love it, to feel love for that baby. I need to connect; they tell me it will help the baby feel part of something. I can't believe this is happening!" After showing John "his baby", the beings escorted him to another romm he described as "clean, sterile and bright, with a long table in the middle." John began crying again and said, "I'm telling them I don't want to do this again." He recalled the aliens telling him that they were just going to take a sample. He became more agitated and repeated twice, "It's not right what they are doing...it's not right!" Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1980 Humanoid Reports, citing Yvonne Smith, Yvonne@ysmith.com. Source ID: Johnson_8676 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1981 (Back to Top) ### Event 19861 (1E4CFA6D) Date: 1981 Description: New York artist [Budd Hopkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins) publishes Missing Time, which first describes his research into abductions that show they are far more plentiful than anyone suspects, biological in purpose, and perhaps lifelong in scope. Hopkins also shows that a period of unexplained missing time is a typical aspect of the abduction experience. The information comes primarily from hypnotic regression performed by licensed psychologist [Aphrodite Clamar](https://doctor.webmd.com/doctor/aphrodite-clamar-ab8738e2-5b55-4812-a744-3992f61501fd-overview), who also conducts psychological tests on the abductees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Budd Hopkins, [Missing Time: A Documented Study of](https://archive.org/details/missingtimedocum00hopk%5F0) [UFO Abductions](https://archive.org/details/missingtimedocum00hopk%5F0)[,](https://archive.org/details/missingtimedocum00hopk%5F0) R. Marek, 1981 Source ID: Eberhart_6220 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19862 (8DE5DD5E) Date: 1981 Description: A husband and wife are sleeping in their farmhouse near Newark, Ohio, when their dogs start barking loudly. They can hear people talking outside their window in a “foreign” language. They do not investigate, but in the morning they find three sets of footprint-like traces outside. They look like elongated scratch marks about 12 inches long, are uniform in shape, and go all the way to the fence line and through it. The couple begins to see a “perfectly round white circle of light,” about 1.5 inches in diameter, moving slowly around in their bedroom each night. The light is seen for about a month, no matter how the blinds and curtains are arranged. Sometimes it would stop moving for hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_6222 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19863 (4035762D) Date: 1981 Description: The "China Society of UFO Research" (CSUR) research organization was established. More than 600 UFO's have been reported within the past 5 years in China. Studies will be done on UFO's and human body science relationships. Type: research organization Reference: "Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good page 219 Location: China Source ID: Maj2_726 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19864 (0097F87B) Date: 1981 Description: Center for UFO Studies researcher [Mark Rodeghier](http://www.cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html) publishes UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, a comprehensive catalog and analysis of 441 cases where UFOs seem to affect cars or motorcycles. He finds that most of these cases occur in the late evening or early morning hours, and that in 35% of the cases, witness estimate they are within 100 feet of the object. Rodeghier also notes a high concentration of four characteristics: the presence of a light beam, loss of control of the vehicle, a physiological effect on the witness, and the UFO chasing the vehicle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, [UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/UFO%5FREPORTS%5FINVOLVING%5FVEHICLE%5FINTERFERENCE.pdf) CUFOS, 1981 Source ID: Eberhart_6221 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19865 (7B204E0B) Date: 1981 Description: The Norsk Institutt for Vitenskapelig Forskning og Opplysning in Trondheim, Norway, begins publishing the NIVFO Bulletin, edited by Gunnar Bertelsen and Kilbjørn Stenødegård. It continues through spring 1995. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [NIVFO](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/NIVFO-Bulletin/NIVFO-Bulletin%20-%201981%20No%201.pdf) [Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/NIVFO-Bulletin/NIVFO-Bulletin%20-%201981%20No%201.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/NIVFO-Bulletin/NIVFO-Bulletin%20-%201981%20No%201.pdf) no. 1 \(1981\) Source ID: Eberhart_6223 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19866 (DB283EAB) Date: 1/1981 Description: A. Bindas observes a radiant object above the city of Khatanga, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, during the polar night. It disappears and reappears abruptly, hovers, and directs a wide beam of light on the ground. After 5–7 minutes it zooms off in a spiral-shaped trajectory. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, p. 97 Source ID: Eberhart_6224 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19867 (DC82A71E) Date: 1/3/1981 Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_367 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19868 (63A83A32) Date: 1/6/1981 Description: Four silvery discs executed turns, maneuvers, in a diamond formation. Objects flashed in sunlight as they turned, crossed western sky Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Payson, AZ Source ID: HallUFOE2_368 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19869 (9815641B) Date: 1/6/1981 Description: Four silvery discs executed turns, maneuvers, in a diamond formation. Objects flashed in sunlight as they turned, crossed western sky (sections V, X). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Payson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5354 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19870 (4473040A) Date: 1/8/1981 Description: On a boat near Flinders Island two men saw two nocturnal lights exchange light beams. The sea was illuminated by the UFO display, and the batteries on board the boat were found to be dead. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Flinders Island (near), Tasmania Source ID: NICAP_DB_5355 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19871 (B9D6CCC9) Date: 1/8/1981 Description: Object descends onto a nearby hill. Update (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [810108](http://www.nicap.org/lt-810108dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Trans en Provence, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5357 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19872 (6E48D00A) Date: 1/8/1981 Description: Perhaps the best documented and most thoroughly investigated case of physical effects from a UFO occurred on this day in Trans-en-Provence, France. At five p.m. Mr. Nicolai, a gardener, saw a metallic disc-shaped object making a whistling sound land hard in a garden. It was estimated to be eight feet by six feet in size, and had four openings on the underside. It also had a thick band around the middle section of the object. The case quickly came to the attention of the police and was soon investigated by GEPAN, the French government’s scientific team of UFO investigators. The physical traces included evidence of vegetation and soil heating, skid marks, and circular ground marks. The chemical analysis revealed that the soil had been heated to temperatures not in excess of 600 degrees Celsius. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact, p. 104 Source ID: Johnson_207 Source: Johnson ### Event 19873 (D95CE921) Date: 1/8/1981 Description: Landing, physical trace case investigated by official French agency Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Trans-en-Provence, France Source ID: HallUFOE2_369 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19874 (2C2EA3D1) Date: 1/8/1981 Description: At 11:00 p.m. on a boat near Flinders Island, Tasmania two men saw two nocturnal lights exchange light beams. The sea was illuminated by the UFO display, and the batteries on board the boat were found to be dead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research Australia Newsletter, May 1982, p. 7 citing Tasmania UFO Investigation Centre, report dated March 6, 1982 Source ID: Johnson_208 Source: Johnson ### Event 19875 (971EA34E) Date: 1/8/1981 Description: 5:00 p.m. A well-documented case of physical effects from a UFO takes place in Trans-en-Provence, Var, France. Renato Nicolaï, a gardener, hears a strange whistling sound while doing agricultural work on his property. He then sees an object in the shape of two saucers, one inverted on top of the other, about 8 feet in diameter land about 150 feet away at a lower elevation. It has a thick band around the middle section, two circles that look like trapdoors, and two feet that extend about 8 inches below the body of the machine. The object takes off almost immediately, rising above the tree line and departing to the northeast. The case quickly comes to the attention of the police and is soon investigated by GEPAN, the French government’s scientific team of UFO investigators. The physical traces include evidence of vegetation and soil heating, skid marks, and circular ground marks. The chemical analysis reveals that the soil has been heated to 300°–600° C. [Jean-Jacques Velasco](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%5FVelasco) thinks that the object could have weighed between 4 and 5 tons. Trace amounts of phosphate and zinc are found in the sample material, and an analysis of wild alfalfa near the landing site shows chlorophyll levels 30%–50% lower than expected. The police report says that the trace, which appears on an active road, looks like one made by a car tire. This explanation is dismissed by GEPAN because of Nicolaï saying otherwise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Trans-en-Provence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-en-Provence%5Fcase) [Case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-en-Provence%5Fcase)”; NICAP, “[Disc Leaves Extensive Ground Traces](http://www.nicap.org/lt-810108rep.htm)”; [Enquête 81/01: Analyse d’un Trace](http://www.ldi5.com/ovni/sepra/nt16.php)[,](http://www.ldi5.com/ovni/sepra/nt16.php) Note Technique no. 16, Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés, Centre Nationale d’Étude Spatiales, March 1, 1983; Michel Bounias, “[Biochemical Traumatology As a Potent Tool for Identifying Actual Stresses Elicited by](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/4/jse%5F04%5F1%5Fbounias.pdf) [Unidentified Sources,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/4/jse%5F04%5F1%5Fbounias.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1 \(1990\): 1–18; Jean-Jacques Velasco, “[Report on](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/4/jse%5F04%5F1%5Fvelasco.pdf) [the Analysis of Anomalous Physical Traces: The 1981 Trans-en-Provence UFO Case,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/4/jse%5F04%5F1%5Fvelasco.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1 \(1990\): 27–48; Jacques Vallée, “[Return to Trans-en-Provence,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/volume-4-number-1-1990)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1 \(1990\): 19–25; Michel Bounias, “Further Quantification of Distance-Related Effects in the Trans-en-Provence Case,” JUFOS 5 \(1994\): 109–121; Peter Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, 1999, [pp. 257–297](https://archive.org/details/ufoenigma00pete/page/256/mode/2up); Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 112–120](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/112/mode/2up); Swords 443–445; 2Pinotti 53–56 Source ID: Eberhart_6225 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19876 (254D0BBE) Date: 1/9/1981 End date: 3/7/1981 Description: Local concentration of sightings Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Northern California Source ID: HallUFOE2_370 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19877 (77FF04D3) Date: 1/12/1981 Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy files an appeal against the CAUS v. NSA decision. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 188](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/188/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6226 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19878 (3FFCFDA0) Date: 1/13/1981 Description: Bentwaters AFB Air Force Memo from Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, Deputy Base Commander. Type: memo Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Bentwaters AFB See also: 12/27/80 See also: 12/29/80 Source ID: Maj2_727 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19879 (28797937) Date: 1/14/1981 Description: An odd sound was heard at 7:30 p.m. as 16 round objects with body lights maneuvered overhead in Wadesboro, North Carolina. TV sets in the area experienced interference. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tarheel Group, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1981, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_326 Source: Johnson ### Event 19880 (4BB5C255) Date: 1/15/1981 Description: 10:15 p.m. Three sets of witnesses in Prairieton, Indiana, driving past two different fields on the same road, see 7–11 four-foot-tall humanoids that appear to be searching for something. Some witnesses think they are naked; others report they are wearing “tight-fitting suits.” Most witnesses are within 20 feet of the creatures, usually watching for 15–20 seconds before racing off. At 10:30 p.m., two women in a different area of town get a fleeting glimpse of a 6–7-foot tall creature with fur and luminous red eyes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Mini-Flap in Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 \(Mar./Apr. 1981\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6228 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19881 (656379AA) Date: 1/15/1981 Description: 9:30 p.m. People in Terre Haute, Indiana, begin reporting a string of about a dozen lights in the sky to a local television station. The lights are stationary then disappear by shooting straight up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Mini-Flap in Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 \(Mar./Apr. 1981\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6227 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19882 (708B9D51) Date: 1/17/1981 Description: 10:00 a.m. A witness at a construction site near Virginia Beach, Virginia, sees two silver cigars moving northbound in the eastern sky. Each has distinct outlines, a surface like aluminum, and pointed ends. They are flying with a slight up/down motion but horizontally at about 1,000–2,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Current Sighting Reports,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 3 \(March 1981\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6229 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19883 (F95D1CC5) Date: 1/20/1981 End date: 1/20/1989 Description: President Ronald Reagan in office. Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan) Location: Washington DC See also: 12/27/80 See also: 12/29/80 Source ID: Maj2_728 Source: Maj2 ### Event 19884 (B1672B6B) Date: 1/22/1981 Description: Many witnesses see a brilliant triangular object with multiple red lights descending swiftly above the treetops just southeast of Jesup, Georgia. It is only visible for a few seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 171–172 Source ID: Eberhart_6230 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19885 (BB1777FB) Date: 1/23/1981 Description: At two o'clock in the morning Dario Mazzaglia, a farmer in Los Acantilados, Buenos Aires province, Argentina observed flames in the distance, and then saw an ovoid UFO with a reddish-orange glow hovering low over the ground for more than a minute. It made a whistling sound on takeoff. Burnt grass was found at the landing site later, with the roots burnt 3 cm below the surface. Three circular landing gear marks were located around the burn. Electromagnetic effects included interference with the radio and vehicle headlights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case # 606 Source ID: Johnson_458 Source: Johnson ### Event 19886 (06466659) Date: 1/25/1981 Description: Hovering cigar- or spindle-shaped object, disc with dome, darting motions, numerous photographs taken (section VII). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chatsworth, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5358 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19887 (9DC90D5C) Date: 1/25/1981 Description: Hovering cigar- or spindle-shaped object, disc with dome, darting motions, numerous photographs taken Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Chatsworth, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_371 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19888 (70CBDE5E) Date: 1/26/1981 Description: At 4:30 p.m. a police patrol car stalled in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France when it encountered a cigar-shaped UFO. The five meter long object had portholes, and was hovering four meters over a field. It moved over the road, then turned and flew away toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14165, citing Robert Roussel, OVNI, Verites Cachees, p. 151 Source ID: Johnson_533 Source: Johnson ### Event 19889 (186F92E0) Date: 1/26/1981 Description: In Newton, North Carolina at 8:35 p.m. police and an amateur astronomer witnessed a silent rectangular UFO, which maneuvered at 300 feet altitude. It had flashing lights on its sides. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tarheel UFO Study Group, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1981, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_534 Source: Johnson ### Event 19890 (C011B317) Date: 1/28/1981 Description: In 1981 at 5:30 in the morning, a disc was sighted maneuvering over some woods and landing behind some trees in Colle Maddalena, Italy. A burnt circle of grass and some charred tree branches were found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_561 Source: Johnson ### Event 19891 (98E6A250) Date: 1/28/1981 Description: A disc was sighted maneuvering over some woods and landing behind some trees in Colle Maddalena, Italy. A burnt circle of grass and some charred tree branches were found at the landing site. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Colle Maddalena, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5359 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19892 (477EC27C) Date: 1/30/1981 Description: At around 1 p.m. three photographs were taken of a giant daylight cloud-cigar shaped UFO north of Florence, Arizona with a Kodak Instamatic camera. There were six military witnesses. The whole object could not fit into a single frame. Its apparent size was compared to a 12" ruler at arm's length. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May 1981, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_613 Source: Johnson ### Event 19893 (BF7F1DB3) Date: 2/1981 Description: 2:00 AM. A woman was awakened by a loud engine type noise coming from outside, she ran out and watched a round object hovering nearby and emitting multi-colored beams of light. Three human like beings cold be clearly seen inside, one them glanced briefly at the witness then the object rose and disappeared. The next day two dead bloodless horses were found on the field where the object had hovered. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Quindira, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5361 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19894 (C272DA7B) Date: 2/3/1981 Description: A luminous ovoid object maneuvered at 30 meters altitude in Ross, Tasmania and paced a car. When the car approached a hotel, it shot straight up and out of sight. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ross, Tasmania Source ID: NICAP_DB_5363 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19895 (301FC39E) Date: 2/3/1981 Description: At 9:40 p.m. a luminous ovoid object maneuvered at 30 meters altitude in Ross, Tasmania and paced a car. When the car approached a hotel, it shot straight up and out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Roberts, UFO Research Australia Newsletter, May 1982, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_681 Source: Johnson ### Event 19896 (6F2DD678) Date: 2/7/1981 Description: The Larry King Show carries a three-hour program on UFOs with a panel consisting of [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall), [Bruce S. Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) and [Don Berliner](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-IS/berliner.htm)[.](http://www.nicap.org/bios/WHO-IS/berliner.htm) The first hour consists of [Larry King](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%5FKing) interviewing the panelists; then he takes phone calls for two hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, March 1981, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6231 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19897 (1AA9695C) Date: 2/9/1981 Description: Red object buzzed Cessna 150 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Jose, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5364 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19898 (48A5F7F6) Date: 2/9/1981 Description: Red-lighted object made pass at aircraft, instant relocation. "Very tight turns," hovered, accelerated away at "extremely high rate of speed." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: San Jose, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_372 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19899 (C7F117B2) Date: 2/10/1981 Description: The witness had parked her car in her apartment parking lot when she saw a huge lighted object with a ring of flashing lights. The UFO left but a second smaller craft appeared and descended with a falling leaf motion. She later recalled abduction experiences. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Auburn, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5365 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19900 (6C858679) Date: 2/10/1981 Description: The witness had parked her car in her apartment parking lot in Auburn, Washington at 11:35 p.m. when she saw a huge lighted object with a ring of flashing lights. The UFO left but a second smaller craft appeared and descended with a falling leaf motion. The witness ran to her apartment and apparently blacked out. Under hypnosis she recalled that a light shone on her and she suddenly found herself in a domed room with smooth white floors, walls and ceiling. The room contained a desk-like object with lights and an examination table. She undressed and two beings entered, held her by her arms and pressed her down on the table. A third being examined her abdomen. The beings were humanoid with light bulb shaped heads and with large unblinking eyes, small noses and ears, and slit-like mouths. They were thin with sloping shoulders, long hanging arms with 4 long fingers and had grayish skin. They wore metallic blue coverall uniforms with an insignia of a triangle inside a circle on the chest. Another being wore a reddish orange colored uniform. They conversed with the witness by using telepathy. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of A Mystery; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 463 Source ID: Johnson_806 Source: Johnson ### Event 19901 (037A645F) Date: 2/12/1981 Description: Night. About 25–30 people on an interstate highway in Flagstaff, Arizona, see a cigar-shaped object like a blimp, white in color with dark veins. A small white object is at one end. After 2 minutes, the small object takes off at a high rate of speed and disappears. Meanwhile, a fog surrounds the blimp and it drifts away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_6232 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19902 (C2473011) Date: 2/13/1981 Description: The witness observed several golden lights on a nearby field. He approached the lights but these suddenly rose up, circled, and landed again, this time closer to his home. At the same time his dogs were going berserk. Later he heard footsteps and his dog attracted him to a "figure" standing by the fence. The figure was a meter and a half tall, square in shape and metallic almost robotic in nature; it lacked a head, arms or feet. A scorched area was found on the ground by government authorities. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fuentecen, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_5367 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19903 (5B3EB4D8) Date: 2/13/1981 Description: The main witness had finished closing up his canteen in Fuentecen, Valladolid province, Spain at 2:30 a.m. He was walking back to his house when he observed several golden lights in a nearby field. He approached the lights but they suddenly rose up, circled, and landed again, this time closer to his home. The man went inside and woke his wife and son, and they all observed an object on the ground that intermittently gave off bright flashes of light. At this time his dogs began barking and acting strangely. His wife became frightened and went back to bed. Later, he heard footsteps and one of his dogs led him to a "figure" standing by the fence on his property. The being was a meter and a half tall, box-like in shape, and appeared metallic and almost robotic in nature. It did not seem to have a head, arms or feet. The dog approached the figure and began barking, and then both man and his son heard a strange barking "echo" that seem to come from the figure itself. The witness grabbed a flashlight and ran out, he then heard a loud "crackling" sound. The figure by now had disappeared. He next saw an object with rotating red lights rise from a nearby field and leave at high speed. A scorched area was found on the ground by government authorities. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, 19810113; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 641, citing J. J. Benitez, La Quinta Columna Source ID: Johnson_905 Source: Johnson ### Event 19904 (844F6BFF) Date: 2/14/1981 Description: 1:45 AM. A 17-year old girl was baby-sitting when she spotted an object hovering at treetop level about 50 feet away. The object was silent and had three white lights forming the point of an equilateral triangle. Inside the craft two humanoid beings could be seen. These were described as having very large heads, oriental like eyes, gill like ears, and two holes instead of a nose. One appeared to be sitting and the other standing behind an instrument panel. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Greensburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5371 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19905 (2E6DE0C6) Date: 2/15/1981 Description: 2:00 AM. A brilliant white light that began filling her room awakened the witness. She got out of bed and through her window saw a bright hovering disc shaped object. Under hypnosis she recalled being taken onboard by several seven-foot tall humanoids with pointed chins and yellow cat like eyes (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Franklin, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5373 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19906 (CB35D858) Date: 2/18/1981 Description: Jose Fermin Albornoz, an illiterate shephard, awoke at 4:00 a.m. to the sounds of his animals causing a commotion. Looking out from his hut he saw a "beautiful" blue light hovering over a field about 20 meters away. His animals were effected and he recalled an abduction experience. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Manzano Amargo, Neuquen Province, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_5375 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19907 (CCFF977D) Date: 2/18/1981 Description: Jose Fermin Albornoz, an illiterate shephard, awoke at 4:00 a.m. to the sounds of his animals causing a commotion. Looking out from his hut he saw a "beautiful" blue light hovering over a field about 20 meters away. He woke up another shepherd, but his companion became extremely afraid, screamed out and hid under his blanket. He then heard a loud buzzing sound that appeared to originate from overhead. This was followed by something like the sound of a diesel truck, although the remote mountainous area of Manzano Amargo, Neuquen Province, Argentina that they were in was only accessible by horseback. Suddenly two short humanoid entities appeared out of nowhere, standing side by side. The beings spoke to him in an unknown, unintelligible language. Terrified, Jose now became confused and his next memory was of seeing a bright light quickly flying away. He described the humanoids as about one meter in height with extremely wide shoulders. They seemed to have normal hands and feet, but he could not make out any facial features. They wore helmets and tight fitting, dark blue outfits. During the incident some nearby horses stampeded away from the area, apparently terrified. Albornoz said the spherical light was bluish in color, and it did not illuminate the surroundings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carlos Ferguson, UNICAT database, case 463 Source ID: Johnson_989 Source: Johnson ### Event 19908 (A4FF8FB7) Date: 2/19/1981 Description: At 8:20 a.m. a silver cylinder looking like a flute flew silently over the city of Kunming, Yunan Province, China at low altitude on a clear day. town, silent, clear sky. At 5:50 p.m. an object shaped like a double cylinder, similar to a tuna can on top of a soup can, maneuvered over a mining area in the mountains of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China making a roaring sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, pp. 207-208 Source ID: Johnson_1007 Source: Johnson ### Event 19909 (2967598D) Date: 2/19/1981 Description: On this evening Mr. & Mrs. Morgan in Corte Madera, California had a close encounter with a gray metallic, rounded disc-shaped object the size of a house. It hovered over some trees giving off a pink and blue aura. It had brilliant square headlights and a blue light underneath. It made a deep, low-pitched sound like a hydroelectric plant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_1008 Source: Johnson ### Event 19910 (A52DEC81) Date: 2/25/1981 Description: An Aeroflot YAK-40 airliner flying northwest of Tallinn, Estonia was paced by two orange, elongated objects at 9:24 p.m. The UFOs flew parallel to the plane and then approached from 70 degrees to the right (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tallinn (northwest of), Estonia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5378 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19911 (EDAA490B) Date: 2/25/1981 Description: An Aeroflot YAK-40 airliner flying northwest of Tallinn, Estonia was paced by two orange, elongated objects at 9:24 p.m. The UFOs flew parallel to the plane and then approached from 70 degrees to the right. The crew saw four orange lights on the first object and 3 lights on the other one. After three minutes the first object executed a turn to the right, then to the left. The second object repeated the maneuver and followed after the first some six to eight minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 176 Source ID: Johnson_1114 Source: Johnson ### Event 19912 (B1E26C52) Date: 2/28/1981 Description: The Center for UFO Studies can no longer afford to keep [Allan Hendry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%5FHendry) on as a full-time investigator, so his affiliation ends. It closes its Evanston, Illinois, office and moves to [Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 569 Source ID: Eberhart_6233 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19913 (3602AC4B) Date: 3/1981 Description: 4:40 PM. 5-min duration, two witnesses. Responsible woman, secretary in an executive office, was out driving, which she said was most unusual for her. She had intended to stop for coffee when she sees three shining objects in the sky, and so engrossed in them drives right past the local Pancake House. Suddenly the objects disappear into "what looked like puffs of smoke." A minute later one reappears "directly over the street in front of me, so close that I could have counted the lights on the bottom of the object, had I not panicked." (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Memphis, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5383 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19914 (190408DB) Date: 3/1981 Description: 10:30 AM. A truck driver was delivering produce to a nearby village when he noticed strange lights on a nearby field behind a row of eucalyptus trees. As the witness entered the field he spotted a large metallic dome shaped craft on the ground about 50 yards away. The object seemed to be supported by three "telescopic" legs like protrusions. He then noticed several man-like figures sitting behind the windows, these were human like, wore helmets and brown uniforms. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Algeciras (near), Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_5381 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19915 (D91F0EC9) Date: 3/1981 Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale begins a newsletter to supplement its official journal, Notiziario UFO, edited by [Roberto Pinotti](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%5FPinotti)[.](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%5FPinotti) Titled Quaderni UFO, it is edited by Gianfranco Neri in Bologna, Italy, and continues through at least May 1983. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Quaderni UFO](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Quaderni%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Quaderni%20UFO%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2001%20-%201981%2003-04.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(Mar./Apr. 1981\) Source ID: Eberhart_6234 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19916 (F7B0CB3F) Date: 3/1981 Description: Late night, Jane Murphy had gone to bed late when she suddenly woke up standing in a field feeling very cold and wet. She then noticed a huge metallic object hovering over the field, suddenly a group of figures, as many as 10 approached her. When she woke up she was on a bed in a strange room. Several figures were around her communicating via telepathy telling her to look at them. One of the entities was seven-foot tall, human looking with totally black eyes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Birstall West Yorkshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5379 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19917 (34233507) Date: 3/1981 Description: The Journal of UFO Research is first published by China’s UFO Research Organization. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dong, “Letters,” IUR 7, no. 2 \(March 1982\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6235 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19918 (CF65CE09) Date: 3/1981 Description: 4:30 a.m. A witness is driving toward a pancake house in Memphis, Tennessee, for a cup of coffee when she sees three shining objects in the sky. She is so engrossed in watching that she passes by the restaurant. Suddenly the objects disappear into what look like puffs of smoke. A minute later, one reappears directly over the street in front of her. She turns into the Admiral Benbow Inn parking lot and alerts the night watchman, who sees the object hovering above her car and then rise above the inn. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFOs in a Puff of Smoke,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 5 \(July/Aug. 181\): 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_6236 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19919 (AEF9AE98) Date: 3/6/1981 Description: 1:00 a.m. A registered nurse living on West Granville Avenue on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, watches a triangular array of three white lights outside her south-facing window. The lights seem to be connected by “spokes.” The array is rotating in a clockwise direction. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Nocturnal Triangle in Chicago Night Sky,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 \(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1984\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6237 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19920 (C3B184FA) Date: 3/10/1981 Description: At Carleton Moors, two uniformed police officers observed a large glowing oval shaped UFO as it moved over the moors. (Source: Yorkshire Post, The 5TH ANNUAL PRUFOS POLICE REPORT 2006 by Detective Constable 1877 HESELTINE British Transport Police). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Skipton, North Yorkshire (near), UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5384 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19921 (D0C045E5) Date: 3/17/1981 Description: 4:03 a.m. Sgt. Russell Yokum of the St. Helens, Oregon, police is on patrol on US Highway 30 on the edge of town when he sees a bright light apparently above the Columbia River. He goes to the Columbia County Courthouse for a better view, where he is joined by other police, but the object is no longer visible. Meanwhile, they are conversing via CB radio with Donald Atkins, who is in nearby Ridgefield, Washington, and watching a stationary light over the river. Atkins transmits a faint humming sound the object is making through his CB radio to officer Ricky Cade, who captures it on a cassette recorder. Yokum and Cade look to the south and see a bright orange-red light about 80–100 feet above the river, apparently the same one that Atkins is watching. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “An Orange\(!\) Ball at St. Helens for St, Patrick,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no 4 \(May/June 1981\): 11–13; Mark Rodeghier, “St. Helens Revisited,” IUR 7, no. 3 \(May/June 1982\): 12–14; J. Allen Hynek and Howard R. Schechter, “[Narrow-Band Acoustic Analysis of a Recorded UFO Sound,](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FSpectrum%5Fof%5FUFO%5FResearch.pdf)” The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988, pp. 1–12; Julie Thompson, “[The Strange Case of the St. Helens UFO,](https://www.thechronicleonline.com/news%5Fpaid/the-strange-case-of-the-st-helens-ufo/article%5Ff8597718-aeb3-11e7-b6b5-cb42d1c6ca18.html)” St. Helens \(Oreg.\) Chronicle, October 11, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_6238 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19922 (5BC0C5C5) Date: 3/18/1981 Description: NORAD becomes the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[North American](https://www.thechronicleonline.com/news%5Fpaid/the-strange-case-of-the-st-helens-ufo/article%5Ff8597718-aeb3-11e7-b6b5-cb42d1c6ca18.html) [Aerospace Defense Command](https://www.thechronicleonline.com/news%5Fpaid/the-strange-case-of-the-st-helens-ufo/article%5Ff8597718-aeb3-11e7-b6b5-cb42d1c6ca18.html)” Source ID: Eberhart_6239 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19923 (A681D2B4) Date: 3/20/1981 Description: 9:30 p.m. Larry Tilman is on Neil Road southwest of London, Ohio, hoping to get a UFO photo. He notices a small orange light over the city moving in a zig-zag fashion. It moves closer to his location, so he takes a time exposure photo as the light blinks out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Nocturnal Lights, March 20–21, 1981, London, Ohio,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 2 \(April/May 1984\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6240 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19924 (F75C2754) Date: 3/21/1981 Description: 7:00 p.m. Larry Tilman again takes time-exposure photos of orange balls of light east of London, Ohio, near Madison Lake State Park. One appears to be the size of a car. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Nocturnal Lights, March 20–21, 1981, London,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf) [Ohio,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 2 \(April/May 1984\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_6241 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19925 (01C843DD) Date: 3/21/1981 Description: 11:35 p.m. A friend is driving Alba Dunlap home northbound on Runnymede Road in Toronto, Ontario. They see a disc-shaped object directly ahead and above them that has a red light on a central dome and white flashing lights around its perimeter. It seems to be 30–40 feet in diameter. They watch it for 2 minutes, then it moves slowly west and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 6 \(June 1981\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_6242 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19926 (36DD86CA) Date: 3/25/1981 Description: At 7:15 p.m. the crews of six boats saw a gray colored, 60 meter tall cone-shaped UFO hovering one meter over the sea off the coast of Ayamonte, Huelva, Spain for 20 minutes. It then ascended vertically. The weather was clear at the time of the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1981, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_1663 Source: Johnson ### Event 19927 (EECDFC94) Date: 3/30/1981 Description: 10:00 p.m. A huge bright light hovers over trees for 10 minutes in Alton, Illinois. The UFO moves towards two witnesses at about 10 mph. Frogs stop croaking and dogs begin barking excitedly. The object appears oval and is black except for lights on the circumference. A large circular opening is visible in the bottom of the black disc. Inside the opening the witnesses see “this churning motion of bright white light with yellow and orange colors in it...like gases rolling around in there.” After about 20–30 minutes it takes off rapidly. Shortly thereafter a jet flies over. Another UFO is seen coming across the trees a good 5 minutes later with the same results. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Another World,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 5 \(July/Aug. 1981\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6243 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19928 (86C64F85) Date: 3/30/1981 Description: A metallic sphere descended from the sky at a 45º angle and stopped over a house in Magny, France. It then shot straight up and away. A check with authorities showed there were no scheduled balloon releases at that time. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Magny, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5385 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19929 (A8943818) Date: 3/30/1981 Description: Huge bright light went to very dim, had lights on the bottom as it hovered over trees for ten minutes. Object moved towards witnesses at about 10 mph. Frogs stopped croaking and dogs began barking excitedly (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alton, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5386 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19930 (73D5F3CC) Date: 3/30/1981 Description: A metallic sphere descended from the sky at a 45º angle and stopped over a house in Magny, France at 11:20 a.m. It then shot straight up and away. A check with authorities showed there were no scheduled balloon releases at that time. That evening there were reports from pilots from all over Pennsylvania at the same time that a pilot reported seeing a rocket or cigar-shaped object southwest of Philadelphia at 11:50 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1981 Source ID: Johnson_1742 Source: Johnson ### Event 19931 (642B5588) Date: 4/1/1981 Description: 7:30 PM. The main witness and a friend were driving back home when they noticed three bright lights above the highway. As they approached the top of a hill another larger light appeared. The witness pulled off to the side of the road and then saw a huge lighted bowl shaped object. They both attempted to leave the area but they apparently went into a trance and lost consciousness. The next thing they remembered was sitting in their vehicle and noticing something moving quickly away from the car, moments later a flash of light shot up into the sky (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Vernon, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_5388 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19932 (F6D15F55) Date: 4/3/1981 Description: 9:30 p.m. Some 50 people driving on National Route 35 north of Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina, watch an object hovering about 300 feet directly over the Escuela Agrotécnica de Santa Rosa for several minutes. It is a saucer-shaped craft about 100 feet in diameter that is radiating light over its circumference due to an intense white light at its center. It speeds away to the west and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A New Radio Link,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1981, p. 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6244 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19933 (05BD95D1) Date: 4/4/1981 Description: The complete failure of an aircraft's electronics, including the transponder, DME, navigation equipment, and two-way radios, occurred when a bullet-shaped UFO passed within 500 feet of an airplane being flown by Mr. Dennis, (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Luis Reservoir, Merced County, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5390 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19934 (6B450157) Date: 4/8/1981 Description: 3:00 a.m. A private pilot named Dennis is flying a Piper PA-28-181 Archer II near the San Luis Reservoir, California, when a bullet-shaped object pulls alongside the airplane. Simultaneously, Dennis’s distance-measuring equipment, navigation and communications radios, and transponder go out. The object shoots ahead of the plane by about 1,500 feet and executes some erratic motions. Then, slowly drifting back, it paces him. The object is glowing orange and has a whirling bluish ring around it. The object pulsates and shoots forward about 4–5 miles ahead of the plane, and makes an instantaneous right-angle turn upward, in somewhat of a repeat of his November 5, 1980, sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Twin ‘Déjà vu’ Sighting?” IUR 7, no. 1 \(January 1982\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6245 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19935 (70629F67) Date: 4/8/1981 Description: The complete failure of an aircraft's electronics, including the transponder, DME, navigation equipment, and two-way radios, occurred when a bullet-shaped UFO passed within 500 feet of an airplane being flown by Mr. Dennis, a flight instructor, while flying over San Luis Reservoir, Merced County, California at 3:00 a.m. The electronics recovered after the UFO had gone. The object was described as 35-50 in length, with a pulsating orange front end, and having a blue ring perpendicular to the craft. The object was said to be whirling, and made an instantaneous 90 degree turn. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J.Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 6; UNICAT database, citing Tom Page, case 34; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 43 Source ID: Johnson_1906 Source: Johnson ### Event 19936 (D43A6F7C) Date: 4/12/1981 Description: Two-foot diameter aluminum-like disc hovered a few feet off road about 40 feet away; climbed rapidly through sky and disappeared in distance (section IV). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Goodhue, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5391 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19937 (C8D9A55C) Date: 4/12/1981 Description: In a remote farm area of Goodhue, Minnesota a civil engineer and his wife encountered a two-foot diameter aluminum-like disc as they drove by just 40 feet away. In the early afternoon R. E. Schenk, age 56, and his wife were driving south on Highway 58. At about 1:30 p.m. they saw the small disc, shaped like two saucers, one inverted on top of the other. The object was hovering just a few feet off the road about 40 feet away, with sunlight reflecting off its surface. Surprised by what he had seen, the former Navy pilot turned and drove back. He and his wife then saw the object at an estimated 2,000-4,000 feet altitude. It climbed rapidly through the sky, and disappeared in the distance, headed in the direction of Minneapolis. The weather was clear, and visibility unlimited. It was a bright, sunny day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 26, 155, 165; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1981 Source ID: Johnson_1987 Source: Johnson ### Event 19938 (974B6BDE) Date: 4/12/1981 Description: Two-foot diameter aluminum-like disc hovered a few feet off road about 40 feet away. Climbed rapidly through sky and disappeared in distance Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Goodhue, MN Source ID: HallUFOE2_373 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19939 (76B938CE) Date: 4/15/1981 Description: A huge metallic triangular object with several red lights on the sides and very bright white light on the leading edge flew over Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire. It flew very low to the ground, and passed over a car flying off to the west. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Sunapee, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5392 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19940 (4D687C21) Date: 4/15/1981 Description: 7:30 p.m. Walking through the parking lot of the P&C grocery store in Windsor, Vermont, Linda Kingsbury and Lucy Slothower notice two bright lights in the sky moving toward them. They are part of a dark, triangular object with additional blue and yellow lights on the underside. As it passes overhead, they hear a heavy humming. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Cruises Windsor,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201981%2005%20-%20no%20142.pdf)” White River Junction \(Vt.\) Valley News, April 17, 1981, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 142 \(May 1981\): 4; Joe and Doris Graziano, “[Press Reports,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201981%2008%2000%20-%20Vol%2029%20No%208.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 29, no. 8 \(August 1981\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6246 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19941 (D82F6B37) Date: 4/15/1981 End date: 4/20/1981 Description: 12:20 AM. Two police officers in their car saw a strong reddish light descending from the sky. The engine and electrical components to their vehicle become inoperative as a saucer about 3 m in diameter and 1 m in height lands on the street about 50 meters away from their vehicle. A small door opened on the saucer and the witnesses see two human forms emerge; the figures began gesticulating and "jumping" around. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Catania, Sicily, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5393 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19942 (8F2D78BF) Date: 4/15/1981 Description: A huge metallic triangular object with several red lights on the sides and very bright white light on the leading edge flew over Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire at 7:35 p.m. It flew very low to the ground, and passed over a car flying off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_2035 Source: Johnson ### Event 19943 (C0F91231) Date: 4/16/1981 Description: 9:30 p.m. Engineer [Eugene A. Fucci](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/212436504/eugene-anthony-fucci) is driving southeast on Interstate 89 in Grantham, New Hampshire, when he notices two bright stars, one of which descends to just above the horizon. Shortly afterward, a huge triangular- shaped object with colored lights on the underside and a bright white light on top flies over his car. He estimates the object is about the size of five B-52s and moving at 2,000 feet altitude at 200 mph. It appears to be all metal and black in color. It passes to the west-southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mount Sunapee UFO Supports Area Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201981%2006%20-%20no%20143.pdf)” West Lebanon \(N.H.\) Valley News, April 22, 1981, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 143 \(June 1981\): 4; “[Triangular](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf) [UFO, April 16, 1981, at Grantham, N.H.,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no 2 \(April 1981\): 2, 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6247 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19944 (19A3FAA4) Date: 4/20/1981 Description: Walter and Judy Austin, a 42-year-old married couple, were flying in a Cessna 210 at 1,600 feet over Cannon Airport in Reno, Nevada at 10:30 a.m. when they sighted a domed disc-shaped UFO. The UFO was seen below their horizon at a distance of only 300 feet. They described it as a solid object, shiny like chrome, which tilted and fluttered as it flew. It was small, onlly 3-5 feet in diameter. It tilted, accelerated rapidly, then sped away toward the cloud shrouded mountains. It did not appear on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1981, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 26 & 125 Source ID: Johnson_2166 Source: Johnson ### Event 19945 (DE76554B) Date: 4/20/1981 Description: Sr. J. De Souza Ramos was driving on Highway 101 near Linhares, Brazil in Sao Paulo state at 6:30 p.m. when a bright light overtook and blinded him. He recovered consciousness five days later. When he awoke he was in a remote part of Brazil, over 1000 kilometers away to the northwest, and without his car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 251, citing FSR, August 1981, p. 19; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13682; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 79 Source ID: Johnson_2167 Source: Johnson ### Event 19946 (E1CB1846) Date: 4/20/1981 Description: 3-5' object hovered below Cessna 210 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Reno, NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_5395 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19947 (00605672) Date: 4/20/1981 Description: Small, shiny object below private plane. Object fluttered or tilted, accelerated rapidly, sped away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Reno, NV Source ID: HallUFOE2_374 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19948 (CBB19EF9) Date: 4/21/1981 Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_375 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19949 (5402A986) Date: 4/25/1981 Description: 7:00 a.m. Du Shengyuan notices a curious object circling in the sky above Beijing, China. After unsuccessfully calling media outlets, he goes back outside and finds the object is now directly overhead at more than 6,500 feet. Through binoculars he can see it is bullet-shaped and varies its speed, sometimes hovering. The middle part is white, and the bottom is luminous green. It moves out of sight at 7:25 a.m. Some 20 other people also watch the UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, pp. 216–218; Good Above, [pp. 217](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/216/mode/2up), [470](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/470/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6248 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19950 (68671DF9) Date: 4/25/1981 Description: At 3:54 a.m. a dog barked excitedly at the same time a married couple saw a bright light hovering over some nearby woods in Ottoville, Ohio. The object repeatedly moved up-and-down as it remained in one part of the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1981, p. 3, citing the Putnam County Sentinel, April 29, 1981 Source ID: Johnson_2309 Source: Johnson ### Event 19951 (E9561C9E) Date: 4/25/1981 Description: In Beijing, China at 7:00 a.m. a bullet-shaped ellipsoid, with the middle of the object white and the bottom green, glowed and hung in the sky in a vertical position. It moved slowly, then stopped, and finally shot away fast. The sighting lasted 25 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 216 Source ID: Johnson_2308 Source: Johnson ### Event 19952 (50205F70) Date: 5/1981 Description: The main witness had seen for the past 2 months numerous slow flying UFOs and strange lights over the area. She then heard a sound similar to a sewing machine, she turned around and saw the figure of a "feminine appearing" man with small rounded narrow shoulders, a thin head and thick turtle like neck. She could not make out any eyes, legs, or arms. The next thing she remembered was floating through the air over the cornfields behind her house. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yakima, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5396 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19953 (E830904F) Date: 5/1981 Description: 3:00 AM. Traveling on a road, 3 women, 34-year old Sandra, Viviane and Marie France see a horizontal orange cigar-shaped object, hovering on the right side of the road. As they drove to the top of the hill the cigar vanishes. Soon a white sphere follows their vehicle. Later under hypnosis Sandra remembered seeing humanoids inside the object, described as of normal size, elongated eyes, thin bodies and wearing white coveralls from head to toes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mennecy, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5397 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19954 (D958D680) Date: 5/1/1981 Description: A 26-year-old woman reported a large white glowing disc-shaped object just 150 feet from her home in Clark County, Washington. It made a humming sound and flew off to the south toward Oregon. The incident lasted slightly less than a minute. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clark County, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5399 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19955 (26DE6D9E) Date: 5/1/1981 Description: A 26-year-old woman reported a large white glowing disc-shaped object just 150 feet from her home in Clark County, Washington at around 4:00 a.m. It made a humming sound and flew off to the south toward Oregon. The incident lasted slightly less than a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Greg Long, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_2445 Source: Johnson ### Event 19956 (A9C2D7EE) Date: Early 5/1981 Description: Merle Shane McDow is attached to the US Navy Atlantic Command Support Facility in Norfolk, Virginia, when a UFO is tracked moving at high speed on at least five radar scopes up and down the Atlantic coast. The UFO sets off a Condition Zebra alert in the Naval Command Center, and Adm. [Harry D. Train II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FD.%5FTrain%5FII) gives the order to force down the object and recover it. US jets chase the UFO for more than an hour as far north as Greenland, sometimes confirming it visually, but it evades them. During the event, KH-11 reconnaissance satellites take photos of the object. The object moves from Nova Scotia to Norfolk in one sweep of the radar. Eventually it moves off at tremendous speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Steven M. Greer, Disclosure: Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History, Crossing Point, 2001, pp. 238–245; Stephen Erdmann, “[Dr. Greer’s Greatest UFO Query,](https://www.ufodigest.com/article/dr-greers-greatest-ufo-query/)” UFO Digest, June 1, 2018; Good Need, [pp. 337–338](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/336/mode/2up); “[Condition Zebra: UFOs Overhead, Merle Shane McDow,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TkfQy83ayM)” Abundance of Energy YouTube channel, October 7, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_6249 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19957 (109D1950) Date: 5/4/1981 Description: A bright disc landed on the ground in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state, Brazil and then vanished. A witness felt pulled toward the spot. Burnt grass was found at the site. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Minas Gerais state, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5400 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19958 (214EB3D2) Date: 5/4/1981 Description: At 10:40 p.m. a bright disc landed on the ground in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state, Brazil and then vanished. A witness felt pulled toward the spot. Burnt grass was found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 229 Source ID: Johnson_2517 Source: Johnson ### Event 19959 (3E82354E) Date: 5/4/1981 Description: 2 :00 p.m. As he is pulling up to his home in Danville, Pennsylvania, on a motorcycle, William F. Hummer notices “cobwebs” hanging over houses, telephone wires, and parked cars. Wispy material is falling from the sky. He sees something moving around in the sky and goes in to get binoculars. He and another man watch several flying discs as they dart overhead in groups of twos and threes. One pauses and he can see it is round and metallic with a dome and “kind of peak on it.” His sister joins them and says they can see big masses of material floating around for 30 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 126 Source ID: Eberhart_6250 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19960 (8690EAD6) Date: 5/5/1981 Description: 6:00 p.m. Russian cosmonaut [Vladimir Kovalyonok](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%5FKovalyonok) is orbiting in the [Salyut 6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut%5F6) space station over South Africa and moving toward the Indian Ocean. After doing some gymnastic exercises, he notices through a porthole an elliptical object resembling a “melon” with two clouds like a “barbell,” moving in the same direction as the Salyut in a suborbital path. Then a “kind of explosion happened, very beautiful to watch, of golden light.” One or two seconds later, a second explosion follows, and two golden spheres appear. Soon the Salyut enters the Earth’s terminator and he cannot see them any longer. [James Oberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FOberg) speculates that the object could have been a South African test of an Israeli Jericho-class solid-fuel missile from the Denel Overberg Test Range near Arniston, Western Cape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Pegasus Research Consortium, “[Russian Cosmonaut Sees UFO While in Orbit Aboard Salyut-6](https://www.thelivingmoon.com/49ufo%5Ffiles/03files2/1981%5FRussian%5FCosmonaut%5FUFO%5FSalyut%5F6%5FSpace%5FStation.html) [Space Station,](https://www.thelivingmoon.com/49ufo%5Ffiles/03files2/1981%5FRussian%5FCosmonaut%5FUFO%5FSalyut%5F6%5FSpace%5FStation.html)” 2002; Mori, “The Amazing Story of the Salyut-6 UFO Encounter,” forgetomori, April 16, 2011; James Oberg, “[Have Cosmonauts Seen Launches?](http://www.jamesoberg.com/cosmonauts-see-launches.pdf)” December 18, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_6251 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19961 (1E9550C8) Date: 5/5/1981 Description: 9:30 p.m. The Earl Richards family in Tewksbury, New Jersey, notices lights moving outside after their television goes off and the electric lights dim. Earl Jr. sees dozens of green, blue, and red lights buzzing in the southern sky, apparently accompanying an enormous flying object covered with hundreds of lights. It is elongated and he can see an outline of wings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Reported in Tewksbury,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201981%2006%20-%20no%20143.pdf)” Hunterdon County \(N.J.\) Democrat, May 14, 1981, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 143 \(June 1981\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6252 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19962 (BD0241C8) Date: 5/12/1981 Description: A man and a woman, a truck driver and a cashier, were driving near Clatskanie, Oregon at around five o'clock in the morning. A large delta-shaped UFO surrounded by a turbulent fog or mist "like smoke from a chimney" followed their truck for 15 miles. It had a white light and two orange lights. As it directed a beam of light at their vehicle the truck lost power, and they smelled an odor like antifreeze. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_2772 Source: Johnson ### Event 19963 (EFDBC99B) Date: 5/12/1981 Description: A man and a woman, a truck driver and a cashier, were driving near Clatskanie, Oregon. A large delta-shaped UFO surrounded by a turbulent fog or mist "like smoke from a chimney" followed their truck for 15 miles. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Clatskanie (near), OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_5403 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19964 (6C15D31E) Date: 5/13/1981 Description: In Grays, South Carolina several independent observers reported seeing a disc-shaped object drop down from the sky to tree-top level around 9 p.m. It was silent with red glowing lights; it hovered briefly, spinning, and then went away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1981, p. 2; citing Hampton (SC) Guardian, May 20, 1981 Source ID: Johnson_2813 Source: Johnson ### Event 19965 (6800494E) Date: 5/14/1981 Description: Cosmonauts Savinikh and Kovlenok observed a strange object from their space station. At first the object was 1/2 mile away but it eventually approached to a distance to 300 feet. Inside the cosmonauts saw three brown skin beings with slanted bright blue eyes straight noses and bushy eyebrows. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: in space, from onboard the Soyuz T-4 spacecraft, Space Source ID: NICAP_DB_5404 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19966 (540462B5) Date: 5/14/1981 Description: Cosmonauts [Victor Savinykh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%5FSavinykh) and [Vladimir Kovalyonok](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%5FKovalyonok), aboard the [Salyut 6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut%5F6) space station, supposedly observe a strange spherical object with 8 windows and well-lit inside. At first it is 1/2 mile away but it eventually approaches to 300 feet. Inside, the cosmonauts see three brown-skinned beings with slanted bright blue eyes, straight noses, and bushy eyebrows. At a distance of 100 feet, they resemble mechanical robots. Their facial expressions remain emotionless. They seem to be requesting closer contact with the Soviet craft. The object shifts around erratically and from time to time it vanishes, but then reappears in an instant. It seems to be metallic, but it has no doors, no solar batteries, no optical systems, no antennae, and no marks or writing of any kind. The cosmonauts also notice normal-looking armchairs, some devices, and walls inside the craft. Using a pair of powerful binoculars, the cosmonauts see the beings showing them what appears to be a star map. Allegedly the cosmonauts film the event and the film is later shown to party leaders by cosmonaut [Georgy Beregovoy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy%5FBeregovoy). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 67–68 Source ID: Eberhart_6253 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19967 (D5C50489) Date: 5/16/1981 Description: 2:30 p.m. A man is fishing in the Thompson River near Kamloops, British Columbia, when the water about 300–450 feet away starts bubbling up. A 15–20-foot UFO rises out of the water and slowly approaches the witness at a 45° angle, passes directly above him, accelerates upward, and speeds away. Pellets from the UFO, apparently from the object, fall around him. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Submarine UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 5 \(July/Aug. 1981\): 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_6254 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19968 (7A372D79) Date: 5/16/1981 Description: A couple named Winsome were driving in the desert when they noticed a red glowing dome low on the side of the road. It vanished as the car approached, but a glowing light flew off to the west. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cocklebiddy (near), AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5406 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19969 (F1472762) Date: 5/16/1981 Description: A couple named Winsome were driving in the desert near Cocklebiddy, Western Australia when they noticed a red glowing dome low on the side of the road. It vanished as the car approached, but a glowing light flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australian CUFOS Bulletin, August 1981 Source ID: Johnson_2899 Source: Johnson ### Event 19970 (394928C6) Date: 5/20/1981 Description: 1:30 a.m. A witness is driving south on Shawnee Road southwest of Lima, Ohio, when he notices lights on his left less than a mile ahead. He sees an object hovering silently about 150–200 feet away and 75–100 feet in the air. He watches it from his car for 3 minutes. It has a glowing lavender-colored area around its outer edge and a dim white light radiating from the center of its flat base. The object moves to the northeast and accelerates. He loses interest and drives away, but another object begins moving parallel to his car about 300 feet to his left. He speeds up, but it maintains its pacing until it veers to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Recent Close Encounter with UFO in](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf) [Ohio,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 7 \(July 1981\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6255 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19971 (355FA2F1) Date: 5/22/1981 Description: Evening. Several hundred people in Florida, Uruguay, watch a drum-like UFO with red lights on the rear and green and red lights on each side. Its appearance coincides with an electrical blackout due to a power overload in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A New Radio Link,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1981, pp. 2–3 Source ID: Eberhart_6256 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19972 (488F6E90) Date: 6/1/1981 Description: In Cavan, South Australia a former radio booster station saw a huge whitish-blue ball of light, the size of a house, on the right of it at 5:45 a.m. The ball of light rolled across in front of a car beign driven by a witness named Watson, and the car drove through it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Cashman, Project 1947 website; Australian IUR, August 1981, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_3207 Source: Johnson ### Event 19973 (E604045A) Date: 6/5/1981 Description: 10:00 p.m. Ding Shiliang and other students at Xi’an University, Shanxi, China, see a luminous flying object that splits into two parts, then three, then four. Shortly afterward, two of the units on either side vanish, leaving the other two segments still in position. Another UFO appears and the objects merge into one, splitting into two again later. It vanishes 20 minutes later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, pp. 219–220 Source ID: Eberhart_6259 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19974 (AFB89804) Date: 6/6/1981 Description: Two teenagers in Little Rock saw a small, four-foot long rectangular UFO and a small disc cavorting over a backyard garage and shed. They came very close and the leaves on some trees were withered. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Little Rock, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5407 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19975 (3DE03F87) Date: 6/6/1981 Description: At one o'clock in the morning two teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas saw a small, four-foot long rectangular UFO and a small disc cavorting over a backyard garage and shed in Little Rock, Arkansas. They came very close and the leaves on some trees were withered. At 10 p.m. several sentries in the Uigher Region of China watched a white, cigar-shaped object hover, then land in the Gobi Desert. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, June 1982, p. 6; Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 220 Source ID: Johnson_3335 Source: Johnson ### Event 19976 (B270760E) Date: 6/10/1981 Description: 12:15 a.m. An Indian couple on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington State are driving west when the immediate area around their vehicle is illuminated. Overhead they see a large “badge-shaped” object about 35 feet in the air. Its periphery is marked by small, multicolored flashing lights. There are three large pale-yellow lights, one on each side and one centered between these. The object follows them for about one mile and then ascends vertically at a rapid speed and disappears into a cloud-like mist of its own making. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Yakima Reservation Report,” IUR 8, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1983\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_6260 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19977 (EB4DEE40) Date: 6/10/1981 Description: 5:19 p.m. A worker at Sandia Laboratories is in the back yard of his home on the east side of Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he sees an object flying west at a high altitude, 20,000–30,000 feet. It begins to tumble erratically. A second object with a bright light appears slightly above it, moving 2–3 times faster than a commercial airliner. The witness can hear no sound. The duration is 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “What the Bombardier Saw,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 \(Jan./Feb. 1982\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6261 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19978 (AB6E61BC) Date: 6/12/1981 Description: Truck Slows Down, Water In Tank Heats Up (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [810612](http://nicap.org/810612alice%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alice, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5408 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19979 (4D4A1984) Date: 6/12/1981 Description: Farmer Chen Kang and his wife watch an object with twinkling lights in southern Taiwan. After hearing a strange sound, they look up and see a crystal object shaped like a reversed cone gliding downward. It lands behind a tree and continues whirling like a top and emitting fog. It flies off after about 10 minutes without leaving any traces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: South China Morning Post, June 14, 1981; “[UFO Lands in Taiwan,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 7 \(July 1981\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6262 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19980 (49FA7A0E) Date: 6/12/1981 Description: Disc with dome hovered over truck, forward motion impeded, truck lifted off road Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Alice, TX Source ID: HallUFOE2_376 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19981 (0F741755) Date: 6/12/1981 Description: Robert Gomez, a vacuum truck driver, was headed west on highway FR 665 toward Alice, Texas after finishing a job. His vehicle had about 165 gallons of water in the tank and no pressure. At 2:10 p.m. he saw a bright object in the sky that he first thought was an airplane. It increased in brightness and stopped in midair. The object was domed disc-shaped, brilliant white in color and with a dark ring around the rim and another dark ring around its center. Gomez felt the truck slowing down and tried to accelerate. The truck's exhaust stacks were blowing smoke, but the truck had apparently been lifted a foot off the ground. Although his AM radio quit working, his CB radio was still working, so he reported what was happening to his dispatcher. Shortly later the UFO disappeared into the clouds. Smoke was discovered coming out of the water tank valve, which now showed 55 pounds of pressure on the gauge. He opened the valve to drain the remaining water, but only steam came out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, pp. 313-314; MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 276 Source ID: Johnson_3446 Source: Johnson ### Event 19982 (CE7858B1) Date: 6/13/1981 Description: At twenty minutes after midnight a spinning transparent cone, 3 meters in length, touched down on the ground in Chia-Li, Taiwan. It expelled a mist, then took off and shot away to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, p. 272 Source ID: Johnson_3467 Source: Johnson ### Event 19983 (BD045BCA) Date: 6/13/1981 Description: 12:20 AM. A spinning transparent cone, 3 meters in length, touched down on the ground in Chia-Li, Taiwan. It expelled a mist, then took off and shot away to the north. (Source: Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, p. 272). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chia-Li, Taiwan Source ID: NICAP_DB_5409 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19984 (E87C85CD) Date: 6/15/1981 Description: A physicist watched an uneven line of six orange UFOs fly silently by the town of Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China at 7:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 221 Source ID: Johnson_3503 Source: Johnson ### Event 19985 (3DA15E4D) Date: 6/18/1981 Description: The first YF-117A stealth fighter makes its maiden flight at Groom Lake, Nevada. The aircraft remains a tightly held secret for much of the 1980s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FF-117%5FNighthawk)” Source ID: Eberhart_6263 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19986 (5F554275) Date: Summer 1981 Description: [William Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) gives [Paul Bennewitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz) an altered version of the Project Aquarius document from 1977. Moore had seen the original in November 1980 and has had his own copy since February 1981. He gives Bennewitz this document on behalf of Air Force Intelligence, knowing it has been altered, in order to retain his access to inside information. The document is the first time that the term MJ-1 makes its appearance. According to Moore, the original said that the NSA had altered Bennewitz’s photos and incidentally found them to be authentic. In the altered memo, NSA becomes NASA. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, [pp. 120–123](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/120/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6257 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19987 (63652671) Date: Summer 1981 Description: Chinese UFO researcher Paul Dong \(Moon Wai\), a resident of California, becomes the editor of the China UFO Research Organization’s Journal of UFO Research and goes on a month-long lecture tour all over China. He collects hundreds of UFO cases from the period 1978–1981. In the next few years, hundreds of other cases \(some dating back to 1940\) are published in the journal. Many of them are published in UFOs over Modern China, by Wendelle C. Stevens and Paul Dong, 1983. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Dong, “Letters,” IUR 7, no. 2 \(March 1982\): 3; Good Above, [pp. 206–207](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/206/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6258 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19988 (D2944424) Date: 6/22/1981 Description: In 1981 at 10:35 a.m. the fire lookout at the Satus Peak fire tower on the Yakima Indian Reservation in central Washington State saw a slow moving light descend in the sky, moving toward the northwest. The light entered a long, thin cloud, and never exited. At about the same time a large orange glow filled the windshield of a motorist and family in Forreston, South Australia pulsing on and off once a second. They drove under the source of the light and then it vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, p. 133; UFO Research Australia Newsletter, May 1982, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_3608 Source: Johnson ### Event 19989 (1AA56316) Date: 6/28/1981 Description: Kennebunk, Maine - Carol Palmero was sitting in her backyard at about 2 p.m. when she saw a UFO pass overhead. The object was shaped somewhat like a football with rounded ends, made no noise and flew at a steady rate of speed from northeast to west. The following day (June 29), at about 9 p.m., Fire Chief Ramon Nolette was standing in front of the dispatch station when he saw a green and white light go 1,000 to 1,500 feet into the air. Twenty minutes later he saw another one. After Nolette called the Coast Guard he received calls from more than fifteen people asking what the lights over the water were. Other calls to the Coast Guard came from Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Wells, Ogunquit and Old Orchard Beach. A boat was sent out at 9:20 p.m. to look for the source, but the lights were not seen again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Graziano, Press Reports, APRO Bulletin, November 1981, pg. 8 Source ID: Johnson_3720 Source: Johnson ### Event 19990 (C5FCC21B) Date: 7/1981 Alternate date: 8/1981 Description: 11:00 p.m. A man is camping with the Red Cross in a small town to the southeast of San José, Costa Rica. He sees a well-lit, triangular object about 1,200 feet away and perhaps 1,000 feet above the ground. It is completely silent. After hovering, the object turns, moves, makes a sharp angular turn, and then another to draw a triangular path in the sky. Then it moves rapidly high, then low, back to its original location. A second triangle approaches, and they hover in close proximity to each other for 30 minutes. Then they split up and disappear rapidly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_6280 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19991 (532ED01C) Date: 7/4/1981 Description: L-1011 Encounters Disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [810704](http://www.nicap.org/810704michigan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Huron, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5410 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19992 (76EC21A0) Date: 7/4/1981 Description: Major airline L-1011 jumbo jet en route from San Francisco to New York City encountered silvery disc-shaped object Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Over Lake Michigan Source ID: HallUFOE2_377 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 19993 (0D2AD333) Date: 7/4/1981 Description: 4:45 p.m. Captain Phil Schultz is flying TWA Flight 842, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar commercial airliner, east at 37,000 feet over south-central Lake Michigan not far from Muskegon, Michigan, when a silvery disc darts into view ahead and above it. Expecting a mid-air collision, they brace themselves for impact. The object then moves rapidly in an arc down to the left and rolls, presenting a side view with six evenly spaced black portholes along the edge. It then disappears to the north. Schultz estimates the disc is moving at 1,000 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “[Commercial Jet Crew Sights Unidentified Object: Part 1,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201982%20V%2027%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 4 \(January 1982\): 3–6; Richard F. Haines, “[Commercial Jet Crew Sights Unidentified Object: Part 2,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201982%20V%2027%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 5 \(March 1982\): 2–8; UFOEv II 141–142; Kean, pp. 59–61 Source ID: Eberhart_6264 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19994 (4A15F5B8) Date: 7/4/1981 Description: At 9:20 p.m. a star-like object flew in a sine-wave pattern across in sky in Shazhou County, China. Fire lookouts at the Sopelia Tower station on the Yakima Indian Reservation in Washington State reported seeing mysterious balls of light at 10:15 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 223; Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, p. 134 Source ID: Johnson_3828 Source: Johnson ### Event 19995 (60ED520C) Date: 7/9/1981 Description: First there was a whistling sound, and then a white sphere descended over a garden in Villemoirieu, Isere department, France at 12:50 a.m. The object shot off to the south-southwest very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 216 Source ID: Johnson_3967 Source: Johnson ### Event 19996 (68E75FFC) Date: 7/11/1981 Description: 10:30 PM. 5-1/2 mins duration. Girl Scout supervisor at camp headquarters suddenly hears his dog barking in a warning manner. The witness moves to an unobstructed view of the pool and notices the pool lights are not on. Instead, directly above the pool, and higher than the regular lights, is a brilliant light. Suddenly the lights go out. He hears a whirring noise that rises in pitch as it apparently rises into the sky. When he turns on the lights he noticed the pump is not running and the water level is down three feet. (IUR-3,6) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Byron, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5411 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 19997 (7214A53C) Date: 7/11/1981 Description: 10:30 p.m. A camp director at Girl Scout camp headquarters near Port Byron, Illinois, suddenly hears his dog barking in a warning manner. Through the trees that screen the camp swimming pool, he sees bright lights. He moves to an unobstructed view of the pool and notices the pool lights are not on. Instead, directly above the pool, and higher than the regular lights, is a brilliant light. Suddenly the lights go out. He hears a whirring noise that rises in pitch as it apparently rises into the sky. When he turns on the lights, he notices the pump is not running and the water level is down three feet, meaning some 30,000 gallons of water are gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Encounter at the Pool,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 \(Jan./Feb. 1982\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_6265 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 19998 (8F58A0AA) Date: 7/12/1981 Description: At 12:50 a.m. five observers driving in a vehicle, including a college professor and a social worker, in South Canterbury, New Zealand saw a brightly lit domed disc-shaped craft with gold, red and green lights. It paced their car along a back road, making no sound. The object had several brightly lit windows and slot like indentations on its surface. A heavyset squat figure was seen at one of the windows. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May 1982, p. 3; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 26, citing the Timaru Herald, July 31, 1981; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 2438, citing the MUFON UFO Journal, November 1981, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_4016 Source: Johnson ### Event 19999 (D3B6D237) Date: 7/12/1981 Description: 12:50 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Thew are driving east along a back road from Pleasant Point to Temuka, New Zealand, with their three young daughters when they are confronted by a brilliant, bright green, gold, and red object coming from the opposite direction. It stops abruptly about 600–900 feet away, then changes direction and begins silently pacing the car. Mrs. Thew, who is driving, becomes frightened and speeds up to 65 mph in an effort to reach a lighted area of town. The UFO keeps pace and moves closer, allowing the witnesses to see more details, such as two slots like vertically elongated rectangles and a row of square portholes. After a while it shoots away to the east. When they arrive home in Temuka at 1:20 a.m., they are surprised to see the object about 1,000 feet overhead. It remains visible another 40 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 49–50 Source ID: Eberhart_6266 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20000 (F3954795) Date: 7/12/1981 Description: Brightly lighted, dome-shaped object with windows approached, turned, followed car, bright illumination. Object finally shot away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Temuka, New Zealand Source ID: HallUFOE2_378 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20001 (1FDD17C0) Date: 7/12/1981 Description: Brightly lighted, dome-shaped object with windows approached, turned, followed car, bright illumination. Object finally shot away (section I). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: South Canterbury, NZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5414 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20002 (1EBE97B5) Date: 7/12/1981 Description: A nocturnal light hung stationary in the sky over the Dee Estuary in Cheshire, England on this night, and then shot off at high speed. It was sighted by an air crew that corroborated the ground level sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Wallace Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 89 Source ID: Johnson_4017 Source: Johnson ### Event 20003 (BBBA92D1) Date: 7/15/1981 Description: 10:55 p.m. Four witnesses, three of them fire control lookouts, on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington State, see a large, bright-white object make two passes over the reservation. One witness sees a rocketlike flame coming out of the object. On a second pass, the object is moving south when it makes an almost right-angle turn and disappears to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Yakima Reservation Report,” IUR 8, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1983\): 11, 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6267 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20004 (0CD6BA48) Date: 7/15/1981 Description: A missing time incident occurred in Uppington, England on this night, and an abduction experience was subsequently revealed through hypnosis. Three women, Ms. Walters, Ms. Hawkins, and Ms. Hayward, were driving home from a nightclub at 2:10 a.m. on the A5 expressway when they all suddenly experienced a strange mood change. They all sat quietly, going into some form of limbo. Then across an open field four white and two red lights appeared that seemed to be attached to a dark object. The object was round and began pacing their vehicle. At this point the vehicle seem to lose power and would not accelerate. All the women panicked and became more confused when the UFO and lights suddenly vanished. There was a time lapse, of perhaps 25 minutes, noted when they reached their destination.

Later under hypnosis, one of the women recalled the car being floated up into the sky and entering the bottom of the object through two large double doors. She was held down on a reclining chair and medically examined by several four-foot tall figures, who were hairless and had deep set dark eyes, very thin arms, and strange noses. They wore green cloaks. The second woman recalled being in a large room when several four-foot tall robot like entities with round heads, no facial features and wheel-like feet rolled in; she was not examined. The third woman remembers being hit by a beam of light. She felt pain and was floated into a room, there she encountered two six-foot tall humanoids, one male and the other female, both wearing green cloaks. They both had dark, shoulder-length hair, vivid blue eyes and extremely white skin. They seemed very friendly and appeared intrigued with her clothing. The third woman was also given a medical exam. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norman Oliver, BUFORA Journal, April 2003, p. 3; John Wallace Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 119, citing the Shropshire Star, July 17, 1981; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 526, citing Jenny Randles, Abduction Source ID: Johnson_4080 Source: Johnson ### Event 20005 (79157B99) Date: 7/15/1981 Description: Several people were fishing on a lake in Newberry, South Carolina at 10:30 p.m. when at least one witnessed a thirty-foot long cigar-shaped object that maneuvered over the lake, then floats in place for 3 minutes. He also saw steam or mist rising from the water. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1982 Source ID: Johnson_4081 Source: Johnson ### Event 20006 (F9EDC7C7) Date: 7/15/1981 Description: 2:30 p.m. Robert H. Nelson is flying a kite on the west side of Westfield, Massachusetts, when he notices a white rectangular object motionless in the southeast. After 20 seconds it emits swirls of vapor along its entire length that gradually dissipate. Another similar object appears in the north at the same altitude and also emitting vapor or smoke. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert H. Nelson, “[Letter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1983\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_6268 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20007 (831ED7CE) Date: 7/16/1981 Description: Before midnight. Two teenage boys are driving south on Highway 2A past CFB Penhold \[now Red Deer Regional Airport\]. A cube-shaped object 100 feet long with flashing lights approaches them from the front, stops about 15 feet off the ground, circles their car, and moves out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 227 Source ID: Eberhart_6269 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20008 (D1E77A38) Date: 7/16/1981 Description: 2:00 AM. Three women were on their way back home on the A5 expressway when they all suddenly experienced a strange mood change, they all sat very quiet going into some type off limbo state. Then across an open field besides the road four white and two red lights appear. They seemed to be attached to a dark object. The object was round and began pacing the vehicle. At this point the vehicle seem to lose power and would not accelerate. There was an apparent time lapse noted when they reached their destination. Later under hypnosis one of the women recalled the car being floated up to the sky and entering the bottom of an object through two large double doors. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atcham, Shropshire (near), UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5415 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20009 (BC65C742) Date: 7/18/1981 Description: On this afternoon two students in Patras, Greece took a photograph of a silver, saucer-shaped object performing maneuvers over some nearby islands. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13718 Source ID: Johnson_4179 Source: Johnson ### Event 20010 (40E4F865) Date: 7/18/1981 Description: Two students in Patras, Greece took a photograph of a silver, saucer-shaped object performing maneuvers over some nearby islands. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Patras, Greece Source ID: NICAP_DB_5418 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20011 (F6DE131F) Date: 7/19/1981 Description: Around 11:45 p.m. Chrystal Jackson and her son Chris are driving north on State Highway 17 near Sugar Camp, Wisconsin, when they see a large, reddish-orange, elliptical object hovering near some pine trees less than 500 feet away on their right. One minute later, their car’s speed unaccountably reduces from 55 to 30 mph. The car seems to be dragging, even with the accelerator pressed to the floor. The object keeps the same distance from the car for 10–15 minutes and another 10 miles when they turn west on State Highway 70, although it appears to be stationary. The car regains engine power after another 2 miles. A mechanic later finds that the two fuses controlling the brake lights and tail lights have blown, and the battery is leaking. A few days later, they discover that the thermostat in the engine is broken. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Two People, a Car, and a Strange Object,” CUFOS Bulletin, Summer 1981, pp. 9–10, 2 Source ID: Eberhart_6271 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20012 (F4CCF05F) Date: 7/19/1981 Description: 8:27 p.m. Malcolm Smith is traveling on a boat up the Mahakam River in Borneo, Indonesia, when he sees an odd star that begins to blink, move in an arc, fade, and go out. It reappears 2 minutes later, moving and blinking more frequently, then it veers away and fades out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Malcolm Smith, “Enigmatic Objects,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 30 Source ID: Eberhart_6270 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20013 (7C81AFF3) Date: 7/22/1981 Description: 3:10 a.m. Al Wagner, toll booth operator at the Mississippi River bridge in Muscatine, Iowa, goes out to feed some wild rabbits that hang around the bridge, when he notices six of them lying flat as though paralyzed with fear. Wagner sees an orange, nearly spherical object rising from behind the trees on the Illinois side of the river. It is about 30 feet in diameter and is glowing with an internal yellow light, which goes out as the object approaches. The object clears the highest part of the bridge by about 10 feet, making a wheezing sound. At its closest, it is 150 feet above the ground and 750 feet away from Wagner. It disappears above a small hill to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Case of the Paralyzed Rabbits,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 \(Jan./Feb. 1982\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6272 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20014 (FF561F92) Date: 7/23/1981 Description: 10:30 p.m. James L. McCabe is sitting outside his home on Highland Avenue in Dover, New Jersey, looking for satellites with binoculars. Suddenly, two flashing white lights appear above the southern horizon. Their flashes become more frequent when their speed increases. One speeds away, but the other approaches, slipping in and out of the clouds for 20 seconds. He estimates it is at 1,500 feet when overhead, has a flat bottom, a strange raised center section, and a flat metallic color. Its top has a rippled appearance. The upper section has two windows. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Cast Metallic Object Reported over Dover, New Jersey,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 2 \(April/May 1983\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_6274 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20015 (F738A87F) Date: 7/23/1981 Description: 8:45 p.m. [Louise Betulius](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103166646/louise-m-betulius) is fishing in a lake near Evansville, Indiana, when she sees the reflection of a large object in the water. It is a large sphere about 10–12 feet in diameter and moving silently west to east. Shortly afterward, it returns over some trees to the east, moving slowly toward the lake. It comes down about 3 feet off the ground and hovers 4–5 feet from the edge of the water, then moves slowly back to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1982\): 2–3 Source ID: Eberhart_6273 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20016 (F23E3979) Date: 7/24/1981 Description: A huge silent disc-shaped UFO was seen for three to ten minutes by thousands over Ningsia, China. It flew at a very high altitude and left a spiral trail. It made no sound. About ten minutes later in Qinghai, China a huge lens-shaped disc with portholes was seen by thousands. It flew from the northeast to the southwest. Photographs of the object were taken, and several drawings were published. In Zigong, Henan Province, China at 11:00 p.m. thousands saw a domed disc-shaped UFO for up to two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendell Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 226-227; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 235; John Wallace Spencer & Hilary Evans, Phenomenon: Forty Years of Flying Saucers, p. 62 Source ID: Johnson_4360 Source: Johnson ### Event 20017 (12C7DA32) Date: 7/24/1981 Description: A huge silent disc-shaped UFO was seen for three to ten minutes by thousands over Ningsia, China. It flew at a very high altitude and left a spiral trail. It made no sound. Photographs of the object were taken, and several drawings were published. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Zigong, Henan Province, China Source ID: NICAP_DB_5419 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20018 (2993A2A3) Date: 7/25/1981 Description: At around 4:00 a.m. a bright silver disc with six round portholes was seen by the crew of an Iberia B-727 airliner as it flew between Valencia and Barcelona, Spain. It appeared to be reflecting sunlight in the dawn sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_4396 Source: Johnson ### Event 20019 (4EE43EDC) Date: 7/25/1981 Description: A bright silver disc with six round portholes was seen by the crew of an Iberia B- 727 airliner as it flew between Valencia and Barcelona, Spain. It appeared to be reflecting sunlight in the dawn sky. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: between Valencia and Barcelona, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_5421 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20020 (381E17E1) Date: 7/29/1981 Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_379 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20021 (7DEE1D77) Date: 7/30/1981 Description: Sen. [Pete Domenici](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%5FDomenici) \(R-N.Mex.\) meets briefly with Sgt. [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, about AFOSI investigations into [Paul Bennewitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz)’s claims. He then dashes off to talk to Bennewitz. However, he soon loses interest and drops the matter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 359; Alejandro T. Rojas, \[Bennewitz/Kirtland AFB documents\] Source ID: Eberhart_6275 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20022 (F40F3746) Date: 7/30/1981 Description: 8:30 p.m. Jennifer Lindsey and her three children are driving near Berwick, Mississippi, when they notice an object with bright lights moving back and forth across the sky. As they arrive home, the object is moving at a low altitude above the house. It is bigger than an airplane, shaped like an arrowhead, and appears to be metallic. Behind it is a red light traveling in tandem. It passes over the house again 30 minutes later, moving west, without the trailing red light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Doris and Joe Graziano, “[Press Reports,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201982%2001%2000%20-%20Vol%2030%20No%201.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 30, no 1 \(February 1982\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6276 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20023 (DE3573FD) Date: 7/31/1981 Description: At 8:40 p.m. a black object, covered by "fog", accompanied by two satellite lights which operated independently, flew over the stern of a boat on a lake near Cape Vaaraniemi, Lieksa, Finland and was watched by two witnesses. One man, age 35, felt paralyzed and couldn't move his body or his head, but could talk. Seven hours of missing time followed. After effects included intense nightmares and disruption of balance. Hypnosis was unsuccessful in revealing any additional details. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 10; APRO Bulletin, February 1982, p. 1; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case 55; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 271, 416 Source ID: Johnson_4540 Source: Johnson ### Event 20024 (83928FE7) Date: 7/31/1981 Description: Black sphere and satellite lights seen, two approached motorboat, one surrounded by "fog." Paralysis felt, missing time, physiological effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Lieksa, Finland Source ID: HallUFOE2_380 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20025 (BF93B82B) Date: 7/31/1981 Description: Black sphere and satellite lights seen, two approached motorboat, one surrounded by "fog." Paralysis felt, missing time, physiological effects (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section VII). (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lieksa, Finland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5424 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20026 (ED3257AE) Date: 7/31/1981 Description: 9:15 p.m. A husband and wife are driving along a bumpy road near Kinston, North Carolina, when their headlights and dash lights go out and the engine stops. They open the doors and get out to push the car to the side of the road \(noticing later that it is odd that they can see the road on a moonless night\) and the lights suddenly come on again. They start the car up again and drive the short way home. Mechanics tell them they don’t know why a car would do that, so they assume there was a UFO involved. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Cars That Go Stop on the Night,” IUR 7, no. 1 \(January 1982\): 9–10 Source ID: Eberhart_6279 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20027 (FD6FA49F) Date: 7/31/1981 Description: 8:50 p.m. Two men in a motorboat on lake Mönninselkä near Pielisjärvi, Finland, see a dark spot in the sky. Four lights suddenly appear above them, and a fog forms in front of the boat. They lose the ability to move and soon lose consciousness. When they wake up, they are differently placed in the boat, the time is 4:10 a.m., and the boat is drifting. They go back ashore to their cottage, their heads begin to ache, and they feel very sleepy. Their hands tremble for nearly 2 weeks afterward, and their sense of balance is disturbed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Pielinen Event,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Finland/UFO%20Research%20of%20Finland/UFO%20Research%20of%20Finland%20Annual%20Report%201981.pdf)” UFO Research of Finland Annual Report, 1981, p. 10 Source ID: Eberhart_6278 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20028 (D6F4FD3F) Date: 7/31/1981 Description: Black sphere and satellite lights seen, two approached motorboat, one surrounded by "fog." Paralysis felt, missing time, physiological effects (section VII). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lieksa, Finland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5423 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20029 (F831EEFA) Date: 7/31/1981 Description: Black sphere and satellite lights seen, two approached motorboat, one surrounded by "fog." Paralysis felt, missing time, physiological effects (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section VII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lieksa, Finland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5422 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20030 (65ACE19F) Date: 7/31/1981 Description: An interview with Russian UFO expert [Felix Ziegel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%5FZiegel\#UFO%5Fstudies) appears in the Italian weekly magazine Gente, followed by a second part in the August 7 issue. Ziegel claims he has 50,000 UFO reports on file in the Moscow Aviation Institute and has compiled eight volumes of research material that are still unpublished. He believes there are three basic types of UFO occupants: spacemen \(tall beings\), humanoids \(human-like\), and aliens \(short and like the “greys”\). He says that UFOs carry crews of androids that possess the ability to appear and disappear at will and “seem to be deliberately constructed in order to confound all our notions of space, matter, time, and dimension.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 240–241](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/240/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6277 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20031 (E0F06A23) Date: 8/1981 Description: Three mysterious flattened circles appear in a cornfield within a natural amphitheater known as The Devil’s Punchbowl at Cheesefoot Head near Winchester, Wiltshire, England. The central circle is 55 feet in diameter; two smaller circles are arranged on either side. Ufologist [Pat Delgado](https://colinandrews.net/Research-Dedication-PatDelgado.html) examines the field and is struck by the sharply defined edges of the circles and the manner in which the cornstalks are flattened in a clockwise swirl. He suspects UFO activity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Pat Delgado, “[Cheesefoot Head Mystery Rings,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201982%20V%2027%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 5 \(March 1982\): 13–15; Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews, Circular Evidence, Guild, 1989, [pp. 20–21](https://archive.org/details/circularevidence0000delg%5Fv4g9/page/20/mode/2up); Pat Delgado, “[1981:](http://thecroppie.co.uk/2016/07/11/1981-cheesefoot-head-triplet/) [Cheesefoot Head Triplet,](http://thecroppie.co.uk/2016/07/11/1981-cheesefoot-head-triplet/)” The Croppie, July 11, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_6281 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20032 (A76DCB72) Date: 8/1/1981 Description: Dog oddly silent as domed disc passed over house (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [810801](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-810801.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Newport, DE Source ID: NICAP_DB_5426 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20033 (91411270) Date: 8/5/1981 Description: At 10:30 a.m. a shiny white round object shot straight up when chased by an Indian Air Force jet near Guwahati, India. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 44; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984 Source ID: Johnson_4699 Source: Johnson ### Event 20034 (45F692FF) Date: 8/5/1981 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a cone of light maneuvered at 20 meters altitude, only 30 meters away from three young witnesses in Bruscarella, Italy. The UFO had orange beams of light, and cause an electrical power outage. The witnesses watched a large disc-shaped object with three bright lights land in a field. Another man reported seeing three human-like figures dressed in black exit the object and walk around. A scorched area on the ground was found where the object had landed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case 155; Albert S. Rosales, citing UFO Pavia Source ID: Johnson_4700 Source: Johnson ### Event 20035 (665BB09A) Date: 8/8/1981 Description: A teardrop shaped UFO with a spinning ring paced an airplane off its left wing over San Jose, California on this day. Instruments onboard the plane experienced failures, but the effects ended when the object departed upwards. The aircraft briefly disappeared from FAA radar during the encounter. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Jose, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5427 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20036 (08104795) Date: 8/8/1981 Description: 6:15 p.m. A witness is on the beach with some friends at Chalupy on the Hel peninsula, north of Gdynia, Poland. He leaves them briefly to go back to a camping area and sees, 500 feet in front of him, “two boys in dark suits” dashing into the bushes on his right. A moment later they reappear, standing on the path in front of him. They are 5 feet tall, wear green suits, and have green faces with big, almond-shaped eyes and slits for mouths. He can see dark boxes, violet and yellow cables, and tapes and spirals hanging from belts on the entities. He notices a silvery object and receives a telepathic message to “not be afraid.” He walks closer to them and hears another message: “Keep walking. Don’t stop.” The witness has the curious sensation of “passing through the interior of a ball.” He walks past them, looks back, and they have disappeared. On his right, the silvery disc, 6 feet high and 16–20 feet long, is hovering only 3 feet above the ground. Investigators later find seven odd oval marks where the object had been. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bronislaw Rzepecki, “Encounters in Poland,” IUR 12, no. 3 \(May/June 1987\): 18, 21; Bronislaw Rzepecki, “[UFO Reports from Poland,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201988%20V%2033%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 33, no. 1 \(March 1988\): 6–7; Poland 48–50 Source ID: Eberhart_6282 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20037 (AC3C7E15) Date: 8/8/1981 Description: A teardrop shaped UFO with a spinning ring paced an airplane off its left wing over San Jose, California on this day. Instruments onboard the plane experienced failures, but the effects ended when the object departed upwards. The aircraft briefly disappeared from FAA radar during the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_4781 Source: Johnson ### Event 20038 (95B43CEB) Date: 8/10/1981 Description: Russell Matson and another man were driving down a road in Apple Valley, Minnesota at 3:30 a.m. when they sighted a hexagonal object nearly overhead, at perhaps a distance of 500 feet. It had two green, two red, and white lights on its corners. It was estimated to be between 60 and 90 feet across. The object pivoted, making a 90 degree turn while stationary, then descended and approached the witnesses. It made a soft "whoosh" sound as the object passed, like gas escaping from a propane tank. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Northfield News, August 20, 1981; J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 13; John F. Schuessler, MUFON UFO Journal, Novemer 1982, p. 3; UNICAT database, case 35, citing J. Allen Hynek Source ID: Johnson_4829 Source: Johnson ### Event 20039 (C1E7AFD4) Date: 8/10/1981 Description: 3:30 a.m. Russell Matson is driving west on 150th Street in Apple Valley, Minnesota, when just west of Pilot Knob Road he sees a hexagonal object nearly overhead, at perhaps a distance of 500 feet. It has two green, two red, and white lights on its corners. It is 60–90 feet across. The object pivots, making a 90° turn while stationary, then descends and approaches the witness. It makes a soft whooshing sound as it passes, like gas escaping from a propane tank. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Investigator’s Dilemma,” IUR 7, no. 1 \(January 1982\): 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_6283 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20040 (9113ACF6) Date: 8/10/1981 Description: Russell Matson and another man were driving down a road in Apple Valley when they sighted a hexagonal object nearly overhead, at perhaps a distance of 500 feet. It had two green, two red, and white lights on its corners. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Apple Valley, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5429 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20041 (C4511197) Date: 8/12/1981 Description: 2:15 a.m. Rupert Pring is several miles outside of Anderson, Indiana, taking time-exposure photographs of the Perseid meteor shower with a camera attached to a tripod. He notices a distant light flashing like a strobe far to the south; it is soon joined by a second strobing light, and both move northeast in a straight line. The lights are as bright as a “halogen automobile headlight at 50 feet.” They stop moving briefly twice near the star Eta Tauri, then make a sharp right turn to the southeast. When Pring first notices the lights, he gets out of his car for a better sight, but freezes abruptly, “like something heavy was pushing down on my head and shoulders.” He experiences nausea for three days afterward and has a temporary, day-long memory loss. Meanwhile, the camera has captured much of the 6-second flight path of the lights in an 8-minute time exposure. Further investigation prompts Pring to reveal that he and his wife had an abduction experience with missing time later that morning. As for the photo, the lights were most likely caused by Pring failing to close the shutter of his camera as he removed it from the tripod and thus picked up two mercury-vapor lights at a farmhouse about a half-mile away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Nocturnal Light Close Encounter,” IUR 7, no. 2 \(March 1982\): 5–7; Mark Rodeghier, “March-April Cover Photo Mystery Solved,” IUR 7, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1982\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_6284 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20042 (7436280A) Date: 8/15/1981 Description: 6:00 p.m. Twenty workers returning from the fields at the Forestry Commission Station of La Rochelle, 5.5 miles northeast of Mutare, Zimbabwe, see a ball of light moving around at a low level. Clifford Muchena is in charge of the group, and he watches the 5-foot fireball maneuver around the grounds then move up to an observation tower, entering through the top window before it bursts into flame. As Muchena is ringing a warning bell, he sees the fireball come back down the tower, go past him, and burst into flame again at an outbuilding. Muchena goes to douse the fire but stops when he sees three men wearing silver coveralls. The light is too bright to see clearly, and after it goes out the beings are gone. Women in the compound have seen the fireball and the entities and run out into the bush, thinking they are ghosts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Cynthia Hind, “[Entities at New Rochelle,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/Abduction%201971%2CCanada.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 183 \(May 1983\): 6–10; Cynthia Hind, “UFOs and the African Tribal System,” UFOs 1947– 1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 94–96 Source ID: Eberhart_6285 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20043 (B07F3ECD) Date: 8/15/1981 Description: Twenty farm laborers returning from work at 6:00 p.m. saw a fireball rolling across the grounds of the forestry station in La Rochelle, nine kilometers from Mutare, Zimbabwe. Three humanoid entities wearing shiny overalls were seen briefly before the light went out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri-News, July 1988, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_5051 Source: Johnson ### Event 20044 (E8DC3600) Date: 8/16/1981 Description: Midnight, the witness was driving alone outside of Winnipeg when he saw a huge UFO gliding over the roadway. Dimly outlined from the glow inside the "windows" of the central mass were two or three figures, whose features were not discernible, but whose heads and shoulders indicated they were humanoid in shape. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winnipeg, British Columbia (near), CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5430 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20045 (F4A28BAB) Date: 8/16/1981 Description: A huge object approaches the island of Cyprus. Radar at a Sovereign British Base, either Akrotiri or Dhekelia, track it at 30,000 feet going 900 mph. It comes to a sudden stop and hovers above the base for 45 minutes. Witnesses take many photos of a bright white triangle more than 700 feet long. Allegedly, the Ministry of Defence had sent an encrypted message to the base prior to the sighting, ordering a “complete stand-down of aircraft in the event that any strange ‘aerial phenomena’” are sighted. On August 17, a man and woman arrive at the base, stay for 6 hours, then leave with all the photos and other evidence. Shortly afterward, according to an informant, US and UK Air Force personnel meet at RAF Lakenheath in England to discuss the case. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 157–158 Source ID: Eberhart_6286 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20046 (0409CD02) Date: 8/18/1981 Description: Mrs. Schmidt and her three children saw a 25-foot octagon hover 100 feet over their driveway in Sandstone, Minnesota. It was silent, and had red and green flashing lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Pine City Courier, September 3, 1981; John F. Schuessler, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_5136 Source: Johnson ### Event 20047 (7E9AEBE8) Date: 8/19/1981 Description: Daylight. The witness was driving along a highway when a brilliant silvery object descended over her vehicle and forced her to pull off the side of the road. She was then taken onboard by several seven-foot tall humanoids and examined. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Franklin, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5432 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20048 (369729DA) Date: 8/23/1981 Description: At 12:30 a.m. four witnesses on a boat near Malibu Beach, California saw an arrowhead/fish-shaped object with white, red, and green lights. It illuminated the ocean and made a humming sound as it flew slowly overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_5269 Source: Johnson ### Event 20049 (CA3A94C2) Date: 8/25/1981 Description: Two women, Chinigo and Gudaitis, driving in a car on a rural road in Killingly, Connecticut at 9:15 p.m. saw two bright lights, then a lopsided hexagonal shaped object that followed their car through several turns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1982, p. 7; John F. Schuessler, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 4, citing Norwich Bulletin, August 27, 1981 Source ID: Johnson_5335 Source: Johnson ### Event 20050 (4E23D5A3) Date: 8/28/1981 Description: At 9:10 p.m. a 12 meter long, lemon-shaped UFO was seen near the ground on a farm in Trevelin, Chabut Province, Argentina, hovering at 2 meters altitude. It had extended thin legs for landing gear, portholes, and a blindingly bright 1 meter wide searchlight. The close encounter lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14264, citing FSR, volume 28, number 3 Source ID: Johnson_5439 Source: Johnson ### Event 20051 (D5B14631) Date: 8/30/1981 Description: UFO brightly illuminated car, witness badly frightened, memory loss. Fired pistol at object circling the car, fled at high speed. Red dots like puncture marks found on wrists Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: El Cajon, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_381 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20052 (446AAA1B) Date: 8/30/1981 Description: There were two dramatic abduction events which occurred in San Diego County, California on this evening separated by just a few minutes. At 10:30 p.m. Mr. Santoro, a reserve police officer was driving near the town of Alpine, California when he encountered a huge dark, disc-shaped object hovering 15 feet above the roadway. The witness's vehicle suddenly stopped on its own accord. There was a bright flash, then moments later two small Grey humanoid beings approached and took him from his vehicle. He found himself back in his vehicle 15 minutes later and saw the dark disc rising rapidly into the sky, shining a beam of white light towards the ground. The witness fired four shots at the object and then drove home at high speed. Magnetic cassette tapes in the witness's vehicle had been partially erased. In El Cajon, California a 27-year old computer engineer was abducted at 10:35 p.m. A luminous object illuminated the interior of his car. The luminous object then circled his car, and the witness fired a pistol at the object and attempted to flee the scene. He was badly frightened by the experience, and discovered that he had a memory loss and could not account for 30 minutes of his time. Red dots like puncture marks were found on his wrists, suggesting that he had been abducted as well. His digital watch was also damaged. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) San Diego Tribune, July 1,1987; Robert Gribble MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991, p. 19; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 695, citing Bob Gribble; (2) MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 13; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 56; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 27 & 155, citing investigator M. Podell Source ID: Johnson_5502 Source: Johnson ### Event 20053 (236FD2E8) Date: 8/30/1981 Description: UFO brightly illuminated car, witness badly frightened, memory loss. Fired pistol at object circling the car, fled at high speed. Red dots like puncture marks found on wrists (section IV). (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Alpine (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5434 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20054 (E7546EC4) Date: 9/1981 Description: In the evening the main witness was coming back from school when she saw a man pointing up to the sky. She looked up to see a ball shaped object about 3 meters in diameter slowly descending over them. The object stopped at about 5 meters above the pair. It was described as white in color with some visible figures on its surface. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dusheti, Georgia, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5436 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20055 (6B87D181) Date: 9/1981 Description: Over several nights over 20 members of the public saw a cigar shaped UFO over the town of Todmorden in West Yorkshire. On one of those nights two uniformed police officers also saw the object. (Source: Daily Star 30/03/82, The 5TH ANNUAL PRUFOS POLICE REPORT 2006 by Detective Constable 1877 HESELTINE, British Transport Police) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5435 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20056 (1ECC6300) Date: 9/1981 Description: The Association d’Étude sur les Soucoupes Volantes renames its AESV Bulletin as OVNI Présence and moves its publishing operation to its Swiss office in Vevay, Switzerland. Yves Bosson takes over as chief editor. The magazine continues until February 1995. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [OVNI Présence](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Switzerland/OVNI%20Presence/Ovni%20Presence%20-%20No%2018.pdf), no. 18 \(September 1981\) Source ID: Eberhart_6287 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20057 (AC0D7D68) Date: 9/1981 Description: Midnight the witness was vacationing in the area and had camped on the south side of the lake. While he slept that night a very loud noise awakened him, looking out of the tent he saw a bright sphere descending rapidly overhead. Through an open port he was briefly able to see a humanoid figure apparently wearing a green outfit. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Meinau Island, Bodensee, Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_5438 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20058 (354AFDA6) Date: 9/5/1981 Description: A 50 meter wide, bell-shaped domed disc was seen on the ground by three witnesses in a forest in Mansigne, Sarthe, France. It emitted two beams of light. Ground traces and a powder residue were found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch,U computer database, case # 14268, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 313 Source ID: Johnson_5660 Source: Johnson ### Event 20059 (546A4DE9) Date: 9/5/1981 Description: On this day possible UFO landing traces were also found in Blanchardville, Wisconsin by Robert Johnson on his farm. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Graziano, APRO Bullletin, January 1982, p. 8; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 63 Source ID: Johnson_5661 Source: Johnson ### Event 20060 (EE1B6073) Date: 9/6/1981 Description: Dogs ran and barked when a DC-10 sized cigar-shaped object flew silently low over the trees in Pollock Pines, California. It flew slowly at 10 mph to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_5693 Source: Johnson ### Event 20061 (E429E2A6) Date: 9/10/1981 Description: At around 11:00 p.m. Denise Bishop, age 23, of Weston Mill, Plymouth, Devonshire, England had a time distortion while in contact with a pencil thin, green beam of light from a 125 foot wide, metallic appearing UFO. It felt "as though a film had been stopped and started again." The huge UFO was the "same shape as the body of a crab", and it hovered over a hill of residential houses, emitting 6 to 7 pink, purple and white light beams. The green beam of light from the UFO hit her left hand, and she was unable to move. Some congealed matter formed on her hand, causing a burn. She still had a burn on her hand three months later that looked like a "pale birth mark." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 7; UNICAT, case 311, citing Robert Boyd; Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 98; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 271, 383 Source ID: Johnson_5838 Source: Johnson ### Event 20062 (CD6DB022) Date: 9/10/1981 Description: 11:15 p.m. Denise Bishop, 23, is returning to her home in Weston Mill, Plymouth, England, when she sees some lights behind the house. As she goes to the back of the bungalow, she sees an enormous metallic-gray UFO hovering above houses on top of a hill. Six or seven broad shafts of light are shining down on the rooftops beneath it. As she grabs the doorknob to go inside, a lime-green pencil of light comes from the object and hits the back of her hand and she cannot move. The light remains for 30 seconds; when it switches off, she opens the door and goes inside. The UFO then lifts into the sky and moves away. An hour of so later, she notices a burn mark on her hand. The next day she visits Bob Boyd, an investigator with the Plymouth UFO Research Group, who takes photos of her hand, which has a patch of shiny dermis with spots of blood and bruising. On September 12, Boyd visits her with a nurse, who persuades her to see a doctor. Scab tissue forms on September 15, followed by a scar that is still visible in July 1982. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 98–101](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/98/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6288 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20063 (83DA59B8) Date: 9/11/1981 Description: After having a late dinner with some friends, Mauricio Cavallo decided to drive around Monferrato hill in Trino Vercellese, Piemonte, Italy. He parked his vehicle and proceeded to explore on foot. He soon saw a bright football-shaped light that appeared to descend into the thick woods. After checking where he thought the light had landed, and failing to find anything, he decided to drive home. At home he felt uneasy and could not sleep. Inexplicably, around three a.m. he decided to drive back to the site where the light had come down. When he arrived he was overcome by a strange malaise, and soon saw a reddish orange yellow light floating about 100 meters away. Terrified, Cavallo felt himself being levitated up towards the light. His next recollection was of being inside a sphere where he was able to perceive numerous lights and movement around him. He then heard a metallic voice in his head tell him not to be afraid. Soon a tall woman, about 1.90 meters in height, appeared in front of Cavallo. She had black hair in a bun, Oriental shaped eyes, and she lacked any fingernails. She wore a long sleeveless habit with white boots. Among other things, the woman told Cavallo that she hailed from the planet Clarion and that her name was Ciama. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, citing Moreno Tambellini, Alieni in Italia Source ID: Johnson_5870 Source: Johnson ### Event 20064 (D3B45AB1) Date: 9/12/1981 Description: A man saw a bright football-shaped light that appeared to descend into the thick woods. When he arrived he was overcome by a strange malaise, and soon saw a reddish orange yellow light floating about 100 meters away. Terrified, Cavallo felt himself being levitated up towards the light. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Trino Vercellese, Piemonte, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5440 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20065 (1E0D6101) Date: 9/12/1981 Description: After having a late dinner with some friends, Mauricio Cavallo decided to drive around Monferrato hill in Trino Vercellese, Piemonte, Italy. He parked his vehicle and proceeded to explore on foot. He soon saw a bright football-shaped light that appeared to descend into the thick woods. After checking where he thought the light had landed, and failing to find anything, he decided to drive home. At home he felt uneasy and could not sleep. Inexplicably, around three a.m. he decided to drive back to the site where the light had come down. When he arrived he was overcome by a strange malaise, and soon saw a reddish orange yellow light floating about 100 meters away. Terrified, Cavallo felt himself being levitated up towards the light. His next recollection was of being inside a sphere where he was able to perceive numerous lights and movement around him. He then heard a metallic voice in his head tell him not to be afraid. Soon a tall woman, about 1.90 meters in height, appeared in front of Cavallo. She had black hair in a bun, Oriental shaped eyes, and she lacked any fingernails. She wore a long sleeveless habit with white boots. Among other things, the woman told Cavallo that she hailed from the planet Clarion and that her name was Ciama. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, citing Moreno Tambellini, Alieni in Italia Source ID: Johnson_5904 Source: Johnson ### Event 20066 (67482F30) Date: 9/16/1981 Description: At Charleston Lake, Ontario three members of a family watched three red spheres at 9 p.m. The first object came in over the lake at tree level, banked left over the water, and disappeared in the east. The other two stayed over water, then vanished "into thin air". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_6018 Source: Johnson ### Event 20067 (3852F6C3) Date: 9/16/1981 Description: Mr. Burke, age 48, was driving between Nowra and Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales, Australia when his car was enveloped in a blazing light which allegedly melted his tape recorder. It also caused soreness in witness's leg and fingers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: ACOS Bulletin, March 1982, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_6017 Source: Johnson ### Event 20068 (D7C3E4DD) Date: 9/17/1981 Description: At 9:00 p.m. in Kentfield, Marin County, California a huge disc-shaped object passed over homes, making a deep rumbling sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_6052 Source: Johnson ### Event 20069 (BAEAC71C) Date: 9/17/1981 Description: A woman by the name of Wharry reported sighting a disc-shaped object in Apple Valley, San Bernardino County, California at 8:00 p.m. It hovered, shot away and then came back. It was spinning, had colored lights, and was not far from George Air Force Base. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1982, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_6051 Source: Johnson ### Event 20070 (62A19009) Date: 9/18/1981 Description: 9:15 p.m. John Sharwath and Randy Bandurant are driving north on the Moorpark Freeway north of Thousand Oaks, California, when they notice three bright lights like floodlights on the horizon to the north. As they approach the end of the freeway in Moorpark, the light resolves into five separate lights, three in a row above and two below. When they pass nearly under the lights, they notice two triangular bodies that the lights are associated with. At 9:25 p.m., Cherie Thompson and Joyce Bandurant are driving on the Moorpark Freeway some distance behind the other car, and they see two triangular lighted objects. The lowest passes over their car at 50– 100 feet altitude near the Olsen Road interchange. They stop along the freeway to watch, but the objects are disappearing behind the hills. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982; UFOEv II, 229–231 Source ID: Eberhart_6290 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20071 (2708C932) Date: 9/18/1981 Description: Triangular objects with body lights, humming sound, observed three times over freeway and valley area (section VI). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Conejo Valley, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5442 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20072 (6A96DC1F) Date: 9/18/1981 Description: 8:45 p.m. Six members of a family in Simi Valley, California, watch a light approach and see a triangular object with five bright white lights on the front and sides. The unlit center portion appears to be like brushed aluminum with a grid pattern. As it passes overhead, they hear a low-pitched hum. A blinking, red-orange light is at the rear. Two or three smaller lights are following in its path. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 229 Source ID: Eberhart_6289 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20073 (A4F8E2B6) Date: 9/18/1981 Description: Triangular objects with body lights, humming sound, observed three times over freeway and valley area Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Conejo Valley, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_382 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20074 (078BF074) Date: 9/18/1981 Description: Four witnesses, two each in two cars, were driving on the SR23 Freeway south of Moorpark, California at 9:15 p.m. when they sighted three bright delta-shaped objects in the sky. They were estimated to be between 25 and 50 feet in length, and they flew at a low 100-foot altitude. They went behind some hills, and then came back. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: William F. Hassel, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_6073 Source: Johnson ### Event 20075 (9F3AF59E) Date: 9/20/1981 Description: On this night a man reported seeing a bright luminous object on the ground next to a local bridge near his residence in Genoa, Italy. As he approached the object he noticed a very tall figure who was wearing a shiny luminous outfit. The being had very large dark eyes. Initially frightened, the witness became very calm when the being gazed at him with a very gentle stare. After a few moments the being boarded the cylindrical object that was partly hidden behind some bushes. The object then rose and disappeared quickly from view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14280, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 1525, citing ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_6150 Source: Johnson ### Event 20076 (15931F33) Date: 9/25/1981 End date: 9/27/1981 Description: The Center for UFO Studies holds a second conference in Chicago, with talks by [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek), [Budd Hopkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins) [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) and [Mark Rodeghier](http://www.cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html)[.](http://www.cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html) Presented papers are printed in The Spectrum of UFO Research. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[CUFOS Symposium in Chicago Well-Attended,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 11 \(November 1981\): 1, 6; Mimi Hynek, ed., [The Spectrum of UFO Research](http://cufos.org/books/The%5FSpectrum%5Fof%5FUFO%5FResearch.pdf), CUFOS, 1988; Ron Westrum, \[review\], JUFOS 1 \(1989\): 172–174 Source ID: Eberhart_6291 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20077 (5922B023) Date: 9/26/1981 Description: Mountaineers [Reinhold Messner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold%5FMessner) and [Doug Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%5FScott) watch a UFO the size of the full moon for nearly 3 hours during an unsuccessful attempt on the main peak of Mount Chamlang in the Himalayas near Makalu in Nepal. The object at first is moving slowly southward, then shifts to the east, northwest, and finally north, making irregular movements before it disappears somewhere over Tibet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Top Climber: I Spotted UFO,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97657246/)” Montreal \(Quebec\) Gazette, October 10, 1981, p. 26; “From the Heart of Asia: Two UFOs, a Half Century Apart,” IUR 7, no. 1 \(January 1982\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_6292 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20078 (078C158D) Date: 9/28/1981 Description: Hungarian-American filmmaker and UFO hobbyist [Colman VonKeviczky,](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keviczky%5FK%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n) founder of the Intercontinental UFO Galactic Spacecraft Research and Analytic Network, writes a five-page letter to President [Ronald Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan), claiming that UFOs are an extraterrestrial task force that will destroy earth unless world leaders collaborate. It is the third time he has written, and it includes 17 documents that illustrate the “potential threat of the UFO forces.” In response to VonKeviczky’s letter to Reagan, Maj. Gen. [Robert L. Schweitzer](https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/21/us/security-adviser-ousted-for-a-talk-hinting-at-war.html), White House chief military advisor, writes: “The President is well aware of the threat you document so clearly and is doing all in his power to restore the national defense margin of safety as quickly and prudently as possible.” VonKeviczky shows the letter to the Associated Press, which contacts Schweitzer, who says the letter is a mistake and thought the threat refers to the Soviets. Schweitzer is fired on October 21 for making unauthorized belligerent statements about Russia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: presidentialufo.com, “Ronald Reagan, 40th President, January 20, 1981–January 20, 1989”; “[A](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97657557/) [Top General Talks of War](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97657557/)[,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97657557/) [Is Reassigned,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97657587/)” Boston Globe, October 21, 1981, pp. 1, 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6293 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20079 (DEFFA26C) Date: 10/1981 Description: USAF Airman Simone Mendez, 21, trained as a telecommunications specialist, is working at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a top-secret clearance. One of her coworkers gives her a top-secret message with a copy of a classified document stating that NORAD has been tracking UFOs entering the Earth’s atmosphere. She holds on to it until January 1982 when she attempts to return the document to Nellis. She is told that the document must be destroyed. One thing leads to another, and Mendez finds herself under interrogation by the FBI and AFOSI. This includes polygraph tests, which she fails because she finds them very distressing. This leads to an emotional breakdown, hospitalization, and medication. There are more interrogations over the next few months, and another hospitalization. Eventually, the Air Force clears her of criminal charges, but her security clearance is stripped, and she is transferred to another base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Simone Mendez Case,](https://alienexpanse.com/index.php?threads/the-simone-mendez-case.2668/)” Alien Expanse, September 18, 2018; Paul Carr, “[Conversation 18: Simone Mendez,](https://aerial-phenomenon.org/conversation-13-simone-mendez/)” Aerial Phenomena Investigations, September 23, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_6295 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20080 (3D699EEF) Date: 10/1981 Description: Local concentration of sightings (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section VIII). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Texas Gulf Coast, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5443 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20081 (DB947881) Date: 10/1981 Description: Local concentration of sightings Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Texas Gulf Coast Source ID: HallUFOE2_383 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20082 (DF51C3E9) Date: 10/1981 Description: NORAD refuses to waive fees for FOIA requests from Citizens Against UFO Secrecy because of “cumulative and recurring” requests. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 10](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/10/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6294 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20083 (F7A4E2E5) Date: 10/2/1981 Description: Afternoon. Three days after a nighttime UFO sighting, Grant Breiland goes down to the business district in Victoria, British Columbia, to meet a friend. When the friend does not show, Breiland calls him up from a pay phone. Immediately afterward, he sees two men watching him. Dressed in dark suits, they have suntanned, expressionless faces and unblinking eyes. When they speak, their lips do not move. The first one asks his name, then the second asks for his address and phone number. He does not respond, and after 5 seconds, the men leave through the main door and walk in perfect synchronization to a nearby roadway. Breiland follows them and sees them enter a muddy plowed field some 80–90 feet across. Three-quarters of the way across, the men vanish, leaving no footprints behind. During the entire time the men are visible, no other human beings are in view and no cars pass by. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: P. M. H. Edwards, “[M.I.B. Activity Reported from Victoria B.C.,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201982%20V%2027%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 4 \(January 1982\): 7–12; Clark III 733 Source ID: Eberhart_6296 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20084 (F6A842FD) Date: 10/2/1981 Description: Helmstedt, Germany - At around 2:10 a.m. the witness was riding a bus through East Germany to Mittaguzeit in the East Berlin sector when he noticed two tall figures walking on the side of the road. They were oddly dressed, wearing silvery coveralls. They were also walking in a peculiar fashion, and he had never seen similar people before in the area. The bus continued on and he lost sight of them. The next day there were reports of bright lights over the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 183, citing Ulrich Magin Source ID: Johnson_6507 Source: Johnson ### Event 20085 (7EB2D0DE) Date: 10/5/1981 Description: One of the events following the Breiland abduction occurred on this day in Victoria, British Columbia. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon two men, dressed in dark clothes, visited the abductee. They were stiff and expressionless, their eyes were unblinking and they talked and walked mechanically. Their eyes also appeared not to reflect light. They seemed unaccustomed to typical manners or customs. After they left they vanished without leaving footprints on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume I: Comparative Study of Abductions, p. 202. Source ID: Johnson_6586 Source: Johnson ### Event 20086 (4440DBA8) Date: 10/8/1981 Description: At 6:40 p.m. a one-meter wide red disc-shaped object flew slowly over the town of Linkou, Heilongjiang province, China from east to west at 350 meters altitude. Its estimated distance was 2500 meters. It was rotating and gave off an intense glow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wendelle C. Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 234 Source ID: Johnson_6665 Source: Johnson ### Event 20087 (5E21D0B7) Date: 10/8/1981 Description: Three people driving in a car through Salen Forest on the Island of Mull, Highland, Scotland encountered a sudden fog around the middle of the day. The mist appeared to come from nowhere, and seemed to attach itself to the car. They felt a vibration and a sensation of heavy pressure, witnessed a blurred silvery shape, and after that experienced several hours of missing time.Three watches and a clock stopped working. The contents of the car trunk was found strewn about. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 119; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_6666 Source: Johnson ### Event 20088 (9745D433) Date: 10/8/1981 Description: 11:00 a.m. Hannah McRoberts is taking photos with her family at a rest area some 30 miles north of Kelsey Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. She snaps a color photo of one of the mountains to the west that has an interesting cumulus cloud above it. When the photo is developed, it shows a silvery disc to the right of and above the peak. UFO researcher [Richard F. Haines](http://www.nicap.org/bio-haines.htm) examines the original and determines that the image shows an unknown three-dimensional object positioned at least 30 feet away from the camera. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Daylight Disc](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201982%20V%2027%20N%204.pdf) [Photo](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201982%20V%2027%20N%204.pdf)”; Richard F. Haines, “[Analysis of a UFO Photograph,](https://scientificexploration.s3.amazonaws.com/files/jse-1-2.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJXJ6FAXJI7UFHDLQ&Expires=1644187678&Signature=CI%2FmlOoddgQChHWlMWnK%2BDE%2B7%2BU%3D)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 1, no. 2 \(1987\): 129–147 Source ID: Eberhart_6297 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20089 (541EF7FA) Date: 10/8/1981 Description: On this day at around eleven o'clock in the morning a famous color UFO photograph of a silvery disc-shaped object with a clear bubble dome was taken thirty miles north of Kelsey Bay on the eastern side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia by Ms. Hannah McRoberts. The 25-year-old woman was traveling with family and took a photograph of a mountain at the time and did not observe the UFO when she snapped the picture.The resulting photograph shows an object to the right of and above the peak and a plume of cloud. The photograph has been judged authentic by Dr. Richard F. Haines and Dr. James Harder, among others. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, December 1983, p. 16 citing Bill Allan; UNICAT, case # 593; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 295).

For photo see: http://www.ufoevidence.org/photographs/section/1980s/Photo43.htm (opens in new tab/window Source ID: Johnson_6667 Source: Johnson ### Event 20090 (D55E2FF8) Date: 10/8/1981 Description: Daylight disc photo (section VII). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vancouver Island, B.C., CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5446 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20091 (AE9740BB) Date: 10/8/1981 Description: Daylight disc photo Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada Source ID: HallUFOE2_384 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20092 (06F560C1) Date: 10/8/1981 Description: 3:00 PM. Six boys were racing dirt bikes near a lake when one of them fell and hit his head. Two of the other boys went to assist him, when suddenly a bright green light was seen descending over the surface of the lake. Inside the light appeared to be a gray metallic oval shaped craft that descended on telescopic like legs near the witnesses. A door became visible on the craft and a tall human like figure then appeared, his arms seemed to be extended up into the air. It wore a loose fitting silvery outfit, its arms were very long, and its feet resembled oval appendages. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Praglia, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5447 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20093 (64D4FADD) Date: 10/15/1981 Description: 7:30 p.m. Many citizens of Hällefors, Sweden, observe a huge cigar-shaped object “as large as a truck” that appears suddenly in the north gliding along just above the treetops. Four oblong windows are apparent, through which a blue-white light shines, and a red light is in the rear. A clear and piercing engine noise is evident as it slowly moves south for more than an hour. Former Chief Constable Björn Fagrell describes it as like two connected railway cars. The object makes a slow clockwise turn around the village, after which a flame comes out of the rear of the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Flying Truck’ Seen over Hällefors for 75 Minutes!](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20%28English%20language%29/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%201982%20No%201.pdf)” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1982, no. 1, pp. 6–8; Stig Aggestad, “[The Hällesfors Incident Continues to Grow: Giant UFO Still Unidentified,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20%28English%20language%29/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%201983%20No%201.pdf)” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1983, no. 1, pp. 2–3; Christer Nordin, “[The UFO over Hällefors: A Smuggled-In](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20%28English%20language%29/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%201983%20No%201.pdf) [Airship, Says ‘Magasinet,’ a Channel 2 TV Program,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20%28English%20language%29/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%201983%20No%201.pdf)” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1983, no. 1, pp. 3–5 Source ID: Eberhart_6298 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20094 (37911324) Date: 10/17/1981 Description: Abel Boro was hunting with his friend Ribamar Ferreira in the rain forest in Matoes, near Parnarama, Maranhao State, Brazil when they saw a bright star that descended and hovered over the two terrified men, focusing its light on Boro. He climbed a tree and Ferreira ran away. The object hovered over the tree, spinning around and doing something bad to Boro, who was shaking with fear. His body was glittering. When Ferreira came back with help, Boro was dead; his body was all white and he reportedly didn't have a drop of blood left in him. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 95; National Enquirer, December 29, 1981; FSR, March 1989; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 188 Source ID: Johnson_6940 Source: Johnson ### Event 20095 (F5664C77) Date: 10/19/1981 Description: Barry Goldwater, Senator, Arizona, in a letter to Lee Graham, Aerojet Electric Systems, Azusa, CA, states that he has given up trying to get into the BLUE ROOM at Wright-Patterson AFB where UFO artifacts are stored by the Air Force. Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_729 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20096 (04C9410A) Date: 10/19/1981 Description: Sen. [Barry Goldwater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%5FGoldwater) \(R-Ariz.\) responds to constituent Lee M. Graham asking about rumors of alien technology and bodies at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. He writes: “I have long ago given up acquiring access to the so-called blue room at Wright-Patterson…. this thing has gotten so highly classified, even though I will admit there is a lot of it that has been released, it is just impossible to get anything on it.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Color Blue and UFO’s,](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread682434/pg1)” Above Top Secret forum, March 30, 2011; Nick Redfern, “[UFOs and Senator Barry Goldwater,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/ufos-and-senator-barry-goldwater/)” Mysterious Universe, May 1, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_6299 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20097 (A48698FB) Date: 10/24/1981 Description: Two young men traveling on an isolated stretch of road near Port Lincoln, South Australia stopped their vehicle at 9:30 p.m. after one of them reported seeing what appeared to be a "flare" in the sky to his left, southeast towards Spencer Gulf. They stopped and both saw a second light that moved around and flew up and down the hills and gullies, before stopping in one particular gully. They continued to watch for a while before setting off again. The two talked about what they had seen, and shortly one of them felt like stopping again. What happened next was a missing time and abduction experience that was hard for them to explain. He recalls "drifting off" into a white endless space. He knew he was there but he couldn't move. A figure 1.2 meters tall walked up the road and stopped in front of him. It looked like it was wearing a toga like the Romans wore. It stood there for a while before vanishing. The other man woke up and sat for a while before his friend asked, "What happened"? He recalled walking into a big white room and also had vague recollections of an entity, seen as an outline standing some 15 meters away from the car. They had several hours of unaccounted for time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, July 1982, p. 4; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 57 Source ID: Johnson_7096 Source: Johnson ### Event 20098 (7BA15E26) Date: 10/24/1981 Description: Two men were fishing close to the mouth of the River Salso near the city of Licata, Sicilia, Italy around 7:45 p.m. when they noticed some lights emerging from the sea. Five minutes later they noticed emerging from the surface three bright lights or forms that approached their position. One of the men grabbed a flashlight and pointed it towards the source of the lights. He was now able to see a two-meter tall humanoid standing in water up to its knees. The creature appeared hairy and was apparently only seen by one of the men, who felt a mysterious attraction towards the creature and the lights. Frightened, he fled the scene along with the other man who had only seen the lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 1524, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_7095 Source: Johnson ### Event 20099 (85BC002E) Date: 10/25/1981 Description: At 10:40 p.m. a 25 foot long glowing ovoid object followed a car east of Snowtown, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, for miles. Radio interference was experienced. The UFO illuminated the surrounding terrain, maneuvered, and hid. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14304; UFO Research Australia, January 1982 Source ID: Johnson_7132 Source: Johnson ### Event 20100 (C5BCA1A1) Date: 10/26/1981 Description: Two men in a car near the seashore in Dickinson, Galveston County, Texas saw a silvery disc-shaped object paralleling their car and then crossing the road ahead of them. Nocturnal lights were seen in the area that evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 13; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14305 Source ID: Johnson_7161 Source: Johnson ### Event 20101 (6A0DBD4D) Date: 10/28/1981 Description: An appeal of the CAUS v. NSA case is heard by a three-judge panel \([J. Skelly Wright](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FSkelly%5FWright), [Roger Robb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%5FRobb), and [Norma Holloway Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma%5FHolloway%5FJohnson)\) of the US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia. In a brief decision issued barely a week after oral arguments, the judges uphold the lower court’s decision without comment. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Suit Seeks to Lift](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/11/03/suit-seeks-to-lift-secrecy-veil-from-agencys-ufo-documents/c6ab8756-7268-4a3a-a657-316a5bcc4e80/) [Secrecy Veil from Agency’s Documents,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/11/03/suit-seeks-to-lift-secrecy-veil-from-agencys-ufo-documents/c6ab8756-7268-4a3a-a657-316a5bcc4e80/)” Washington Post, December 3, 1981; William A. Moore, “[CAUS vs.](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201982%2001%2000%20-%20Vol%2030%20No%201.pdf) [NSA Lawsuit Goes to US Supreme Court,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201982%2001%2000%20-%20Vol%2030%20No%201.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 1 \(February 1982\): 2–3 Source ID: Eberhart_6300 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20102 (776C333F) Date: 10/30/1981 Description: In a forested area in Worthing, West Sussex, England a large colored disc-shaped object, half red, half white, with the two colors flashing alternately and transposing positions when flashing, passed over two witnesses in a car at 7:30 p.m. The craft had two exhaust ports emitting sparks; it rose in the air, came toward the car, and left toward the sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_7313 Source: Johnson ### Event 20103 (A919A06A) Date: 10/31/1981 Description: Shortly after 9 p.m. a huge, bright, round object was observed flying at 180 meters altitude through the sky in Marcos Juarez, Cordoba, Argentina. It was witnessed by Pedro Heslop of Austral Airlines and Alberto Paracampo of Aerolineas Argentinas, pilots of commercial flights coming in for landings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 125 Source ID: Johnson_7344 Source: Johnson ### Event 20104 (E9A734B6) Date: 10/31/1981 Description: 2 airliners report object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marcos-Juarez, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_5444 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20105 (51EF1475) Date: 10/31/1981 Description: A UFO near Parnarama, Maranhao State, Brazil emitted an intense glare that caused the witness to feel an electric shock, increased body heat, loss of speech, paralysis and weight loss. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 96, citing El Comercio, Quito, Ecuador, November 4, 1981 Source ID: Johnson_7345 Source: Johnson ### Event 20106 (B96FA4C7) Date: 11/1981 Description: Residents of the Hessdalen valley, Norway, begin reporting frequent sightings of unusual lights that hover \(sometimes for as long as an hour\) and sometimes streak off at speeds that render them all but invisible. On many occasions the lights are below the horizon, either just beneath the tops of nearby mountains or not far from the ground or the rooftops of nearby houses. The lights come in various shapes, but three predominate: a bullet or cigar, a sphere, and an “upside-down Christmas tree.” They are usually yellow or white. Sometimes a small red light appears in front of the others, the various lights maintaining a fixed position, leading observers to suspect they are all attached to a single, dark object. More often than not, they are seen at night moving from north to south; but daylight sightings also occur, usually during the winter. Anomalous sounds are sometimes reported. Especially frequent activity occurs between December 1981 and mid-1984, when the lights are seen 15–20 times per week, attracting many tourists. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Hessdalen lights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessdalen%5Flights)”; “Project Hessdalen: The Colored Lights of Norway,” IUR 8, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1983\): 6–8; “Project Hessdalen,” IUR 10, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1985\): 14; J. Allen Hynek, “Tracking the Hessdalen Lights,” IUR 10, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1985\): 10–11; Clark III 571 Source ID: Eberhart_6301 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20107 (14386223) Date: 11/1981 Description: Localized concentration began, continuing off and on for several years. Many structured object cases, photographs (see January—February 1984). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Hessdalen, Norway Source ID: HallUFOE2_385 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20108 (F95B74D2) Date: 11/1981 Description: Localized concentration began, continuing off and on for several years. Many structured object cases, photographs (January-February 1984). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hessdalen, Norway Source ID: NICAP_DB_5445 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20109 (B5EE7228) Date: 11/1/1981 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a seven meter in diameter dome or hemisphere-shaped object hovered at 35 meters altitude in St. Fiacre, Seine-Marne, France. It illuminated the ground with a beam of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 212 Source ID: Johnson_7394 Source: Johnson ### Event 20110 (8A0A46B2) Date: 11/3/1981 Description: The US District Court for the District of Columbia issues a per curiam judgment that denies an appeal of the CAUS case against the NSA. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Federal Court Upholds Decision Against CAUS,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1981%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV2.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 12 \(December 1981\): 6; ClearIntent, [p. 188](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/188/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6302 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20111 (76E538C2) Date: 11/3/1981 Description: Civil Action, Case #80–1562, goes against the plaintiff and for the defendant, the NSA. The NSA retains the right to withhold 156 Top Secret records containing communications intelligence (COMINT) reports which were produced between 1958 and 1979. Only military personnel with a Top Secret Clearance were allowed to view the documents for the court hearing. NOT even the Judge was allowed to see them, even though he ruled against the plaintiff (CAUS). Type: court case Reference: Pea Reseach (A3, B1-A) Location: US See also: 6/24/83 Source ID: Maj2_731 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20112 (58A321E9) Date: 11/3/1981 Description: Newspaper article on CAUS vs. NSA: “Suit Seeks to Lift Secrecy Veil From Agency’s UFO Documents”. Type: newspaper article Reference: [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/11/03/suit-seeks-to-lift-secrecy-veil-from-agencys-ufo-documents/c6ab8756-7268-4a3a-a657-316a5bcc4e80/) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_730 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20113 (47B73CF9) Date: 11/8/1981 Description: At 6 p.m. Mrs. A. S. Carew witnessed a cone-shaped object that flew horizontally from northeast to southwest in Mtepatepa, Zimbabwe. A smaller shape was ejected from the front of the larger object, then another and another. Several explosions were heard later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO AfriNews, June 1989, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_7549 Source: Johnson ### Event 20114 (01E05768) Date: 11/8/1981 Description: At around 3 p.m. a 15 meter long metallic ovoid landed 15 meters away from six teenagers in Praglia, Liguria, Italy. The six boys were racing dirt bikes near a lake when one of them fell and hit his head. Two of the boys went to assist him, when suddenly a bright green light was seen descending over the surface of the lake. Inside the light appeared to be a gray metallic, oval-shaped craft that descended on telescopic like landing gear near the witnesses. A door became visible, and a tall, human-looking UFOnaut emerged. His arms seemed to be extended up into the air. He wore losse fitting, silvery coveralls. His arms appeared to be very long, and his feet resembled oval appendages. The being seemed to have no neck, and a triangular shaped head with normal looking eyes. The humanoid proceeded to walk towards the lake, and then to walk on the surface of the water. A few moments later he walked back into the object, which took off at high speed, disturbing the surface of the lake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1981 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1523; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14312, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_7548 Source: Johnson ### Event 20115 (FD347710) Date: 11/9/1981 Description: A large boat shaped, green colored UFO with an open cab or hatch fell into Lake Zaysan. Four humanoid wearing the same color green coveralls were apparently inside. Apparently the craft and its occupants were damaged upon impact. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Esengul, Karasu Region, Kazakhstan Source ID: NICAP_DB_5449 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20116 (40397D4E) Date: 11/12/1981 Description: 6:00 p.m. Air traffic controllers at the Greek-American NATO base in Chortiatis, Greece, pick up unidentified targets on their radar screens. Six pursuit aircraft are scrambled, but the UFOs disappear as soon as the planes approach. At 6:45 p.m., luminous objects appear over Edessa, Greece, and maneuver for 30 minutes. Other objects are spotted at Kalochori, Michaniona, Giannitsa, Larissa, Ptolemaida, and Lagyna. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Hide-and- Seek of the UFOs and the Six Jets That Went after Them,” IUR 7, no. 1 \(January 1982\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_6303 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20117 (E8280B4A) Date: 11/12/1981 Description: At 6:00 p.m. NATO jets were scrambled from the Hortiati NATO Air Base in Macedonia, Greece in pursuit of UFOs tracked on military radar. UFOs played hide-and-seek with them, disappearing and then reappearing 45 minutes later. UFOs were also seen and reported in the villages of Kalokorio, Mihaniona, and Laina, as well as the cities of Gianitsa and Edessa. At 6:45 p.m. objects shaped like flaming parachutes, emitting powerful lights, hung in the sky over the city of Edessa, Greece for 30 minutes. Most city residents saw them, including some with binoculars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_7617 Source: Johnson ### Event 20118 (86C22C33) Date: 11/13/1981 Description: Another radar-visual encounter occurred in Greece in 1981. UFOs returned for the second night to the Hortiati NATO Air Base, were picked up on radar, and witnessed by police in Thessaloniki. NATO jets were scrambled to intercept the unknowns, again without success. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Iinternational UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_7644 Source: Johnson ### Event 20119 (39D5FCB2) Date: 11/21/1981 Description: Mid-afternoon. An eight-meter wide red disc, giving off a weak blue glow, flew at treetop level west of Naveksvarn, Sweden towards the east. Photographs were taken. (Source: AFU Sweden). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Naveksvarn (west of), Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_5453 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20120 (F2555573) Date: 11/21/1981 Description: In the middle of the afternoon an eight-meter wide red disc, giving off a weak blue glow, flew at treetop level west of Naveksvarn, Sweden towards the east. Photographs were taken. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: AFU Sweden Source ID: Johnson_7779 Source: Johnson ### Event 20121 (98152B84) Date: 11/24/1981 Description: Domed disc hovered nearby, beamed light down onto truck. Driver fled, object followed and beamed light on truck a second time before departing Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Marshall, TX Source ID: HallUFOE2_386 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20122 (78512AFB) Date: 11/24/1981 Description: 9:30 p.m. Power company employee [Dale Spurlock](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21092046/dale-c%5F-spurlock) sees a red pulsating domed disc at treetop level while driving just north of Darco, Texas, on the Darco Cutoff Road near a small lake and some power lines. It has four colored lights—a row of red, blue, green, and amber lights—at the base of the dome. It makes no sound as it passes left to right just above the tress, and then hovers. The object tilts and two headlights from the front of the UFO shine directly down on Spurlock’s pickup truck. The object is revolving counterclockwise and moves off to the east. The truck’s electrical system \(alternator and battery\) is damaged. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Nocturnal Rural Encounters,” IUR 7, no. 3 \(May/June 1982\): 5–8; “[1977 Sketch/Sighting and 1981 Sketch Similarity: Another One,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1983\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_6304 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20123 (BB3AA0C9) Date: 11/24/1981 Description: Domed disc hovered nearby, beamed light down onto truck. Driver fled, object followed and beamed light on truck a second time before departing (section VI). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marshall, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5455 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20124 (DA55C29B) Date: 11/24/1981 Description: Dale Spurlock saw a red pulsating domed disc at treetop level while driving 10 miles south-southwest of Marshall near Darco, Texas at 9:30 p.m. It was seen near a small lake and some power lines, and had four colored lights--a row of red, blue, green, and amber lights--at the base of the dome. It made no sound as it passed left to right just above the tress, and then hovered. The object tilted, and two strong headlights from the front of the UFO shown directly down on his pickup truck. The object was revolving counterclockwise, and left towards the east. The truck's electrical system (alternator and battery) was damaged. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Combest, International UFO Reporter, May 1982, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 14; UNICAT database case # 027, citing John Combest; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 205, 374 & 383. Sketch courtesy of Richard H. Hall Source ID: Johnson_7885 Source: Johnson ### Event 20125 (10AB37D0) Date: 11/28/1981 Description: On this evening Deputy Sheriff Hendsbee, his wife, and four others in other cars had a close encounter with a blinding light on State Route 43 in Madison, southwest of Starks, Maine. It paced the sheriff's car and prevented their passage, forcing a detour onto SR 148. The incident lasted more than 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maine Telegram, December 1, 1981; Michael Kimball, Yankee magazine, April 1982, p. 76; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, 19911121; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 199; UNICAT, case # 482 Source ID: Johnson_8010 Source: Johnson ### Event 20126 (CD92C553) Date: 12/1981 Description: A triangular object appears between Royton and Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. The UFO has a light on each corner; one of the lights detaches and flies off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 137 Source ID: Eberhart_6305 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20127 (65E90B85) Date: End of 1981 Description: The witness, Magdalena Sobrino, was out in her yard hanging clothing when she noticed a bright light approaching over the nearby Coca-Cola factory. The light became bigger as it approached her position. It came closer without emitting any noise until the witness was able to notice what appeared to be a transparent cabin- like section. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fuenlabrada, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_5456 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20128 (CCC118C1) Date: 12/1/1981 Description: On this night in 1981 a bullet-shaped object, a sphere, and several nocturnal lights were sighted flying to the north over Hessdalen Valley, Norway toward Trondheim. According to John Spencer, this report was the first of a four-year wave of reports from the Hessdalen Valley. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 143 Source ID: Johnson_8109 Source: Johnson ### Event 20129 (12DF86CA) Date: 12/1/1981 Description: On this night a bullet-shaped object, a sphere, and several nocturnal lights were sighted flying to the north over Hessdalen Valley, Norway toward Trondheim. According to John Spencer, this report was the first of a four-year wave of reports from the Hessdalen Valley. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hessdalen, Norway Source ID: NICAP_DB_5457 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20130 (BF99A04B) Date: 12/4/1981 Description: 7:10 PM. Two groups of witnesses about twenty miles east of Hartford, CT, saw strange lights or objects travel at a rather slow speed from east to west along a path north of the witnesses. Known as The Case of the Flying Christmas Tree. (Complete report by Bruce Maccabee). (On Dec. 22, 1989 there was a similar event at Vernon, IN) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [811204](http://brumac.8k.com/ChristmasTree/) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hartford, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_5458 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20131 (21E86D93) Date: 12/4/1981 Description: President [Ronald Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) issues Executive Order 12333 extending the powers of US intelligence agencies. It is regarded by the American intelligence community as a fundamental document authorizing the expansion of data collection activities and later is employed by the National Security Agency as legal authorization for its collection of unencrypted information flowing through the data centers of internet communications giants Google and Yahoo! It repeats a prohibition against state assassinations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Executive Order 12333](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive%5FOrder%5F12333)” Source ID: Eberhart_6306 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20132 (53FE69F0) Date: 12/8/1981 Description: An enormous UFO shaped like an orange ball, and estimated to be 750 feet in length, made a number of turns in the sky south of Reserve, New Mexic and then executed a ninety-degree turn near Luna Mountain. The five witnesses said they saw a jet aircraft chase the UFO out of sight. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Reserve (South of), NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_5459 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20133 (884936E5) Date: 12/8/1981 Description: 7:30 p.m. Alma Hobbs is driving with her two children on State Highway 12 three miles southwest of Reserve, New Mexico. An enormous UFO shaped like an orange ball, estimated to be 750 feet in length, makes a number of turns in the sky. They arrive at a restaurant near the intersection of State 12 and US Highway 180, where Dan Luscomb and Rosie Tafoya also see the object, which executes a 90° turn near Luna Mountain as a jet aircraft chases the UFO out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Hunting Old and New UFOs in New Mexico,” IUR 7, no. 2 \(March 1982\): 13–14; “Update on the Reserve, N.M. ‘Tube-Like’ UFO,” IUR 7, no. 3 \(May/June 1982\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_6307 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20134 (9298E724) Date: 12/8/1981 Description: In 1981 an enormous UFO shaped like an orange ball, and estimated to be 750 feet in length, made a number of turns in the sky south of Reserve, New Mexico at 7:30 p.m. and then executed a ninety-degree turn near Luna Mountain. The five witnesses said they saw a jet aircraft chase the UFO out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, June 1982, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_8275 Source: Johnson ### Event 20135 (649D1E43) Date: 12/15/1981 Description: In San Luis del Palmar, Corrientes Province, Argentina at 3:30 a.m. 42-year-old Ruben Meneses was driving a dump truck on a dirt road at 3:30 a.m when he had a close encounter with a brilliant object that approached his truck. The truck began to vibrate, and hefelt a tingling sensation all over his body. He was unable to move as the truck was lifted up into the air and seemed to become transparent. Meneses then blacked out. He later awoke sitting confused in his truck at a location about 55 miles from where he had been, and did not remember how he got there. He was hospitalized in a state of confusion, shock, and disorientation. When he awoke he also had a vague memory of a humanoid encounter.Later under hypnotic regression he remembered being taken inside a room with mirror like walls, where he was made to lie down on a cot-like bed. He saw three short thin humanoids with dark gray skin, extremely long arms and thick wrinkles on their foreheads. The little beings communicated with Meneses using telepathy. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 271; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 3461, citing Eduardo Alfredo Lopez Source ID: Johnson_8425 Source: Johnson ### Event 20136 (6D4219F1) Date: 12/15/1981 Description: A 42-year old Ruben Meneses was driving a dump truck on a dirt road. Suddenly he observes a bright object that approaches the truck, the truck begins to vibrate, and he is filled with a tingling sensation all over the body. He was not able to move as the truck rises up in the air and apparently becomes transparent. Meneses apparently then passes out. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Luis Del Palmar, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_5460 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20137 (B22AA216) Date: 12/15/1981 Description: After sunset. Ali Ozel sees an extremely bright light hovering at a distance of 650–980 feet above his car in Aksaray, central Anatolia, Turkey. It performs some maneuvers and disappears to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1983\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_6308 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20138 (668D6AC4) Date: 12/15/1981 Description: At dusk in 1981 in Aksaray, Nigde province, Turkey a bright light shaped like a "flying tray" hovered some 200 to 300 meters from a car, performed maneuvers in the sky for a few minutes, then shot away toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Haluk Egeman Sarikaya, International UFO Reporter, January 1983, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_8424 Source: Johnson ### Event 20139 (AE9101ED) Date: 12/16/1981 Description: In the evening on this day in 1981 a disc with a white band in the middle appeared over Nigde, Turkey. The same or a similar object was seen over the city on multiple subsequent nights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1994, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_8452 Source: Johnson ### Event 20140 (96FEFE41) Date: 12/17/1981 Description: Daniel Edwards was awakened by the furious barking of his dog towards a pine forest behind his house. He walked out of the house and was startled to see a huge fire like light, illuminating a mass clump of trees a few hundred yards away. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bladenboro, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5463 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20141 (962DB7A8) Date: 12/19/1981 Description: UFO swooped over vehicle, blocked road Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Areal, Brazil Source ID: HallUFOE2_387 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20142 (A6905FD5) Date: 12/19/1981 Description: Silo-shaped object swooped over vehicle, blocked road ahead of car. (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section XII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Areal, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5466 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20143 (8ADB476B) Date: 12/19/1981 Description: At 8:10 p.m. two witnesses in Oliveto Lucano, Italy saw a two-meter wide spinning luminous ball of light fly over a church at 20 meters altitude and move off behind some buildings in the town. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue Source ID: Johnson_8520 Source: Johnson ### Event 20144 (581ECE08) Date: 12/19/1981 Description: That same night at 10 p.m. in Aguas Claras, Brazil a car was stalled by a UFO. A bullet shaped UFO sat on the roadway in front of the stalled car. It rose up, then came back and followed the car into town. There were two witnesses in the car and other independent witnesses to the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, February 1987; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #13812).

Early in the afternoon on this date in 1996 a silver gray metallic object struck the top of a Boeing-757 cockpit belonging to a Chinese Southern Airlines aircraft on a flight between Beijing and Wuhei, China cracking the outer windshield. The plane made an emergency landing. (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48, citing J. Trainor, UFO Roundup Source ID: Johnson_8521 Source: Johnson ### Event 20145 (06537E4B) Date: 12/19/1981 Description: Silo-shaped object with three legs landed on road ahead of car. See Section VI (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Areal, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5451 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20146 (F007BDAD) Date: 12/20/1981 Description: 7:00 p.m. Journalists [Nils Kåre Nesvold](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils%5FK%C3%A5re%5FNesvold) and Per Holden see a shiny, spherical object at Vongraven, Norway, the apparent size of a large star. It is steady and intense with no halo. It is flying nearly 3 miles distant and about 3,300–6,500 feet above a mountain. Its speed is irregular, and it changes both course and altitude. Suddenly it disappears as though it is switched off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 89–90 Source ID: Eberhart_6309 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20147 (EBAC4029) Date: 12/21/1981 Description: Captain O. Celen and other people in Aksaray, Turkey, see a huge, glittering, silent, egg-shaped object shedding a greenish light over the building site of the Aksaray Engine Factory. It is hovering at 800–1,000 feet and shoots away to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1983\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_6310 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20148 (5FA7EE01) Date: 12/21/1981 Description: In the evening on this day in 1981 a Turkish Army captain and several townspeople watched a silent glittering ovoid object illuminate a large engine factory complex with a bright green colored light in Aksaray, Turkey. It flew at an estimated 800 to 1000 feet altitude, and shot away to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sarikaya Haluk Egeman, International UFO Reporter, January 1983, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_8555 Source: Johnson ### Event 20149 (5568ACAC) Date: 12/28/1981 Description: 10:30 a.m. G. W. Schoen and two others are talking outside a stable on a farm south of Westminster, Maryland, when they see a grayish-black object flying east to west against the wind and below the clouds at 1,000 feet. It is shaped like a lightbulb, with visible ribs and dark black lines. It climbs slowly and gradually disappears from sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1982\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6311 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20150 (BC164A62) Date: 12/29/1981 Description: Two boys playing in a snow fort behind their house heard a humming sound then saw a lighted disc shaped craft with red lights shining on its top and multicolored lights on the bottom fly overhead and disappear from sight. They saw a four-foot tall human like figure float over a nearby fence and come towards them. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brooklyn, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5467 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20151 (CA8457E1) Date: 12/29/1981 End date: 12/30/1981 Description: [William Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) meets twice with AFOSI officer [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) in a restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Doty provides Moore with copies of three documents, one of which is a “fake” to test Moore. Another is the one-page Aquarius teletype. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Sparks and Barry Greenwood, “The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12,” in MUFON 2007 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 2007, pp. 92–159 Source ID: Eberhart_6312 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1982 (Back to Top) ### Event 20152 (ABBE891D) Date: 1982 Description: Audits and Surveys, in a report sponsored by Merit Report, finds that 49% of Americans definitely or probably think extraterrestrial UFOs have been here. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6315 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20153 (F278556A) Date: 1982 Description: The National Security Agency, through the Department of Justice, covertly misappropriates a Prosecutors Management Information System \(PROMIS\) developed by private firm Inslaw to aid prosecutors in tracking cases. Inslaw claims that the feds withheld payments on the software, then pirated it, making modifications to allow it to monitor intelligence operations, then giving or selling it to Israel and 80 other countries through [Earl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%5FBrian) [W. Brian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%5FBrian)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%5FBrian) a man with close personal and business ties to President [Ronald Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) and then-presidential counsel [Edwin Meese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%5FMeese)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%5FMeese) The NSA uses it to covertly conduct real-time electronic surveillance of the flow of money to suspected terrorists and other perceived threats to US national interests. [Fabrizio Calvi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrizio%5FCalvi) and Thierry Pfister in 1997 claim that NSA has been “seeding computers abroad with PROMIS-embedded SMART \(Systems Management Automated Reasoning Tools\) chips, code-named Petrie, a Trojan horse capable of covertly downloading data and transmitting it, using electrical wiring as an antenna, to US intelligence satellites” as part of an espionage operation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[PROMIS \(software\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROMIS%5F%28software%29)”; Ryan Gallagher, “[Dirtier Than Watergate,](https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2011/04/promis-government-inslaw)” New Statesman, April 20, 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_6314 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20154 (97D3808A) Date: 1982 Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz was sending regular reports to the APRO and contacted US Senator Harrison Schmidt and Senator Peter Domenici, as well as other UFO investigators such as Linda Moulton Howe and John Lear. By 1982, APRO had decided to investigate Bennewitz’s claims. They sent William Moore, one of their directors and a former schoolteacher turned writer and ufologist, to talk to Bennewitz. Bill Moore later stated in a public confession that he was recruited by someone with the code name Falcon to lead Paul Bennewitz astray by giving him false information. He claimed that he was given his orders by AFOSI agents (believed to be Richard Doty and Steve Atwater), and that for four years, he was asked to feed disinformation, including the forged “Aquarius Document” to Bennewitz. This disinformation included “verification” of Bennewitz’s beliefs about the “grays” and the underground base at Dulce. Bennewitz had to be hospitalized for “exhaustion”. He later died on June 23, 2003. Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://www.exopaedia.org/Paul+Bennewitz) Location: Albuquerque, NM Source ID: Maj2_732 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20155 (CCA3B72D) Date: 1982 Description: [Richard Mingus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FMingus) is coordinating security operations for Livermore in the Area 6 section of the Nevada Test Site when, just as an unsecured, live nuclear weapon is being lowered into an 800-foot-deep shaft prior to testing, an alert goes off that the facility is under attack. It turns out that Wackenhut Security has decided to conduct a mock helicopter attack on an access point to Area 51 to test the system for weaknesses but neglects to inform the Department of Energy beforehand. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 333–338](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/332/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6313 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20156 (0D8F492C) Date: 1982 Description: 10:00 PM+. Two local militia sergeants were driving a "UAZ-469" vehicle (Russian patrol jeep) in an area about 10-15 kilometers from the city when suddenly they saw a very bright beam of light shining down to earth from somewhere in the sky. The beam of light appeared to be scanning the surface of the ground, and every blade of grass appeared to be lit by it. Several seconds later a hatch opened on the hull of the craft and several tall (about 3-4 meters in height) humanoids exited the object and went to a nearby field. The men could only speak in stuttering voices. At first they were subjected to alcohol tests but it proved negative, both were then sent to a mental hospital. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Voronezh (near), Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5469 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20157 (8376C9A4) Date: 1982 Description: The Royal Australian Air Force grants permission to UFO researcher [Bill Chalker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FChalker) to examine its UFO files. Chalker visits the archives in Canberra, A.C.T., and reviews more than 1,000 reports in 53 RAAF files through 1984, allowing him to compile a detailed summary covering the years 1950 to 1980. He concludes that the existence of some interesting cases in the files is not suggestive of an RAAF coverup. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 33 Source ID: Eberhart_6317 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20158 (41D57E90) Date: 1982 Description: Brazilian ufologist [Irene Granchi](http://www.openminds.tv/irene-granchi-dies/7123) founds the Centro de Investigação sobre a Natureza dos Extraterrestres in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The group is eventually taken over by her daughter [Chica Granchi](http://socex.net/site/chica-granchi/)[.](http://socex.net/site/chica-granchi/)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Claudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga, “[Entrevista: Irene Granchi, a Grande Pioneira da Pesquisa Ufológica no Brasil,](https://ufo.com.br/entrevistas/a-grande-pioneira-da-pesquisa-ufologica-no-brasil.html)” Portal UFO, May 4, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_6316 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20159 (F0C40437) Date: 1/2/1982 Description: Writer [Bob Pratt](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/palmbeachpost/obituary.aspx?n=robert-v-pratt&pid=15755452) flies out to Arizona to meet [William Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) who has called him to propose a non-fiction book project about UFOs. Moore tells him about MJ-12, Project Aquarius, and other alleged revelations. Pratt secretly tapes his conversations with Moore, which reveal his contacts with [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) and other agents of disinformation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brad Sparks and Barry Greenwood, “The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12,” in MUFON 2007 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 2007, pp. 92–159 Source ID: Eberhart_6318 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20160 (861EFC8F) Date: 1/3/1982 Description: Two Brazilian Air Force F-5 fighters flying at about 5,000 feet over Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, see a dark metallic-looking object about 66 feet long, 55 feet high, and 3,000 feet away. The control tower cannot see anything in the vicinity. The F-5s get closer, but the object ascends and stays above them. They stay in this position for 30 seconds and then the UFO accelerates and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 205; Brazil 552 Source ID: Eberhart_6319 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20161 (CD84A6CD) Date: 1/5/1982 Description: The Society for Scientific Exploration is founded by [Peter A. Sturrock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock) at a meeting held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., in order to study phenomena “generally regarded by the scientific community as being outside their established fields of inquiry.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Professors Join in UFO Study Forum,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1982\): 1, 3; Clark III 1082–1083 Source ID: Eberhart_6320 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20162 (B6BA8944) Date: 1/9/1982 Description: 8:20 p.m. Carl \(Eddie\) Cox III steps outside his rural home near Washington, North Carolina, to photograph the rising full moon with a new 35mm camera using high-speed color film. He sees and takes 8 photographs of a strange, tubular object moving from the northeast. The photos show a double tube with varying configurations of white and red-orange lights. The final photo shows the tops of nearby trees and distant condensation trails. Analysis suggests that the sighting is due to a distant aircraft passing through a condensation trail. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Tubular UFO](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf) [Photographed, January 9, 1982,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 3 \(June/July 1982\): 1, 4; “[January UFO](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf) [Photos Become Identified FOs,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 6 \(Dec. 1982/Jan. 1983\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_6321 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20163 (5C782F37) Date: 1/15/1982 Description: 7:05–11:35 p.m. Three sightings occur one after the other in Turkey. An object resembling a tray is seen at 7:05 p.m. over Niğde in central Anatolia. At 9:35 p.m., two UFOs are reported at Havsa, Edirne, accompanied by reported malfunctioning TV sets in the town. Around 11:30 p.m., a reported UFO causes the citizens of İzmir, western Anatolia, to panic. When the UFO hovers above the Buca forest it takes on a flaming appearance, causing fire brigades to rush to the scene, keeping watch over the object for 45 minutes until it vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1983\): 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_6322 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20164 (C4A1DC89) Date: 1/18/1982 Description: In the Hessdalen Valley of Norway a luminous metallic ovoid flew over telephone lines at 7:30 p.m. in a mining area. Magnetic anomalies were recorded. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, November-December 1983, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_378 Source: Johnson ### Event 20165 (ECEA8031) Date: 1/18/1982 Description: 7:30 PM. A luminous metallic ovoid flew over telephone lines in a mining area. Magnetic anomalies were recorded. (Source: International UFO Reporter, November-December 1983, p. 7). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hessdalen, Norway Source ID: NICAP_DB_5472 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20166 (0AA6FE26) Date: 1/22/1982 Description: A female was abducted in Weaver, Iowa by several 5-foot-tall beings with large heads, cat-like eyes, and small mouths. They were hairless, and had long arms and hands with only four-digits. She was submitted to a physical exam, and allegedly had something implanted into her head. During the exam, the aliens were particularly interested in her hands and wrists. A tube was inserted into her body and she could feel fluid or drugs going through her arms. They communicated with her using telepathy, and told her that she would perform some important task in the future. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 451 Source ID: Johnson_421 Source: Johnson ### Event 20167 (8E93313B) Date: 1/24/1982 Description: 7:00 AM. Five early morning joggers watched a Saturn-shaped object with a revolving rim and sharp lights descend nearby them. (Source: Ahmad Jamaludin, FSR, December 1988, p. 22). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: village of Ipoh in Perak, Malaysia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5474 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20168 (196EA0F9) Date: 1/24/1982 Description: A flashing light with irregular flashes of red and white traveled from west to east silently across the sky in Stockdale, Texas. It arced slightly and appeared to hover in the eastern sky, 30 degrees above the horizon. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stockdale, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5473 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20169 (9AA9A2E4) Date: 1/24/1982 Description: A flashing light with irregular flashes of red and white traveled from west to east silently across the sky in Stockdale, Texas. It arced slightly and appeared to hover in the eastern sky, 30 degrees above the horizon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, CUFOS case files, report form dated January 24, 1982 Source ID: Johnson_494 Source: Johnson ### Event 20170 (4960D9D2) Date: 1/24/1982 Description: In the village of Ipoh in Perak, Malaysia five early morning joggers watched a Saturn-shaped object with a revolving rim and sharp lights descend nearby them at around 7:00 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, FSR, December 1988, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_493 Source: Johnson ### Event 20171 (A2B9E463) Date: 1/29/1982 Description: At two o'clock in the morning a student in Bankstown, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia had a low level close encounter with a five-meter thick rectangular object with a glassy metallic surface. The object was only 100 meters away. It had bluish yellow bottom lights, and green lights on the side. The UFO caused nearby trees to sway, TV static interference, and streetlights in the area to turn off. The object took off with a vertical ascent. After the object left the streetlights came back on 20 minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, UFOIC case files; Mark Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website Source ID: Johnson_585 Source: Johnson ### Event 20172 (F2D762CB) Date: 1/31/1982 Description: A general contractor and his wife observed a very large grayish cone-shaped object with rows of amber and blue body lights and two huge white light beams in front through their south-facing window. The object was issuing bright illumination about 400-500 feet from their home. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mechanicsville, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5475 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20173 (59A2B907) Date: 2/1982 Description: [William Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) receives a plain envelope from one of the intermediaries of “Falcon.” Inside are Air Force documents signed by [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) regarding unexplained lights over Kirtland AFB and Manzano in New Mexico from 1980. Moore and [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) examine the documents and conduct a detailed on-site investigation, finding no contradictions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, [p. 209](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/208/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6323 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20174 (0C5AF49B) Date: 2/2/1982 Description: 8:00 p.m. Susanne Anderson, 18, is jogging in Skövde, Sweden, when she notices two intense blinking lights that seem to be coming toward her. She hears no sound and gets frightened. After speeding up to a full run, she turns around and sees a metal-blue, saucer-shaped object with a blinking red light on the bottom. Terrified, she hides in a school building. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A Short Tale of a Swedish CE-1,” IUR 7, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1982\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6324 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20175 (F62762F0) Date: 2/6/1982 Description: Prof. John Spencer Carr of Clearwater FL calls ufologist Leonard Stringfield and revealed a key USAF officer’s witness name to the 1948 Aztec C/R. Stringfield sat back dumbfounded, because in the past this officer had spoken to Stringfield and told him about UFO’s. The USAF officer saw the occupant bodies on location. Type: telephone call Reference: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1552424352683016192) Location: Clearwater FL See also: 3/25/1948 Source ID: Maj2_733 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20176 (9D44C2BE) Date: 2/8/1982 Description: A delta-shaped object followed a car home, then flew overhead. The witness ran inside his house to hide. The UFO made no sound. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bakersfield, VT Source ID: NICAP_DB_5477 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20177 (73C1231F) Date: 2/8/1982 Description: 3:11 AM. A large, multicolored flying object paced a commercial aircraft for 82 minutes. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: near Petrolina to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5476 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20178 (154D0AEA) Date: 2/8/1982 Description: Capt. Gerson Maciel de Britto, piloting a Boeing 727 for VASP Flight 169, notices an intense light source while flying over Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil, on a southern course. It starts accompanying the aircraft in a parallel course, keeping the same distance. But the object soon begins changing its speed, moving ahead of the plane and then allowing it to catch up. As it approaches Belo Horizonte, the object approaches the plane, allowing crew and 150 passengers to view its lenticular form. At this point, the light emanating from the UFO penetrates the interior of the cabin and illuminates it with a bluish tint. The UFO is still in clear view as the aircraft begins landing at Galeão Airport in Rio de Janeiro. Some witnesses on the Rio-Niterói Bridge also see the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Climactic UFO Case of the Winter 1982 Brazilian ‘Flap,’” IUR 7, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1982\): 11–13; Luiz Augusto da Silva, “[Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: The VASP-169 Flight Brazilian Episode Revisited,](https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/553)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 27, no. 4 \(2013\): 637–654; Patrick Gross, “[UFO-Aircraft Encounters](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/pp-sng1982.htm)”; Clark III 198–200; Brazil 537–541 Source ID: Eberhart_6325 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20179 (28739284) Date: 2/8/1982 Description: That evening in Bakersfield, Vermont a delta-shaped object followed a car home, then flew overhead. The witness ran inside his house to hide. The UFO made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13830, citing Joe Nyman Source ID: Johnson_759 Source: Johnson ### Event 20180 (AF03E33E) Date: 2/8/1982 Description: Starting at 3:11 a.m. a large, multicolored flying object paced a commercial aircraft for 82 minutes. VASP flight #169 was paced by the UFO from Pernambuco state near Petrolina to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was disc shaped and had flashing red, blue, orange, yellow and white lights. The airline crews of two more planes also witnessed the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, International UFO Reporter, July 1982, p. 11; APRO Bulletin, April 1982, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 44, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit Source ID: Johnson_758 Source: Johnson ### Event 20181 (337AAFBC) Date: 2/10/1982 Description: A UFO with an intense, lime green light hovered just six feet above the snowcovered ground in Willernie, Minnesota. Five spots of fire fell to the ground as the object rose, and melted holes in the snow. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Willernie, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5478 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20182 (3CB05D0E) Date: 2/10/1982 Description: Six Soviet sailors discover and investigate a "disabled ship" in the fog. They are missing for five days. When they are returned they report that they had been pulled up into a cigar-shaped UFO, and the beings onboard the UFO communicated with them by gestures. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: in the Black Sea, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5479 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20183 (31B71684) Date: 2/10/1982 Description: On the same day as the alleged disappearance of the Soviet sailors a close encounter occurred in Escanaba, Wisconsin. At 11:35 p.m. on Highway C537 three seventeen-year-old young women were driving in a car near a river when they encountered a low flying domed disc. The mist from the rear of the object looked like "lit up snowflakes." The rim around the bottom of the UFO had red windows all the way around it, and a red light shone through the windows. Their sighting lasted seven minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kenneth Schellhase, International UFO Reporter, May-June 1982, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_809 Source: Johnson ### Event 20184 (65AA78CC) Date: 2/10/1982 Description: At shortly after midnight a UFO with an intense, lime green light hovered just six feet above the snow-covered ground in Willernie, Minnesota. Five spots of fire fell to the ground as the object rose, and melted holes in the snow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Twohy, newspaper clipping Source ID: Johnson_807 Source: Johnson ### Event 20185 (A7EDE110) Date: 2/10/1982 Description: 11:35 p.m. Tammy Utt and two other 17-year-old girls are driving in a car on I Road and 18th Road west of Escanaba, Michigan, when they encounter a low-flying domed disc. The mist from the rear of the object looks like “lit up snowflakes.” The rim around the bottom of the UFO has red windows all the way around it, and a red light shines through the windows. The sighting lasts seven minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Nocturnal Rural Encounters,” IUR 7, no. 3 \(May/June 1982\): 8–11; Kenneth C. Schellhase, “A Unique Triad of CE-I Sightings,” IUR 7, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1982\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6326 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20186 (BB6A02BB) Date: 2/10/1982 Description: On Highway C537 three seventeen-year-old young women were driving in a car near a river when they encountered a low flying domed disc. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Escanaba, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5480 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20187 (7841D12A) Date: 2/10/1982 Description: On this day in the Black Sea six Soviet sailors discover and investigate a "disabled ship" in the fog. They are missing for five days. When they are returned they report that they had been pulled up into a cigar-shaped UFO, and the beings onboard the UFO communicated with them by gestures. One of the men reportedly went insane, dove overboard, and was drowned. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 74, citing the National Enquirer, November 2, 1982 Source ID: Johnson_808 Source: Johnson ### Event 20188 (242DD445) Date: 2/12/1982 Description: Mr. Robert Sprout, age 60, reported to the Center for UFO Studies that at 5:45 p.m. he witnessed a square black object with four white and yellow lights arranged in the corners three miles east of Joliet, Illinois. It had an X-shaped, coal-black area connecting the four corners. The UFO changed direction in flight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS case files Source ID: Johnson_877 Source: Johnson ### Event 20189 (E96D0281) Date: 2/12/1982 Description: 5:45 p.m. Civil engineer Robert A. Sproat is driving south on Gouger Road just south of County Road 7 in Lockport, Illinois, when he sees a light similar to an aircraft landing light over the Lockport locks and dam. It begins a smooth banking turn to the left at about 1,000 feet, and he can make out a structure about 40 feet square. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert A. Sproat, “[Letter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 3 \(June/July 1983\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_6327 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20190 (2B1ECC05) Date: 2/13/1982 Description: A 25 meter arrowhead-shaped UFO with spotlights hovered over a field in Spartanburg, South Carolina at 10:30 p.m. It then followed a car being driven by the witness. An odd silence was noted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14349, citing APRO Bulletin, volume 31, no. 5 Source ID: Johnson_906 Source: Johnson ### Event 20191 (C1D34899) Date: 2/14/1982 Description: At night, two witnesses, Fernando Antonio Martins & Edson Maragon watched a luminous triangular shaped craft land on an open field. Three humanoids exited the object. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Cruz das Palmeiras, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5481 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20192 (8DF28500) Date: 2/15/1982 Description: Barbara Warmoth was asleep when a brilliant light filled her bedroom. She looked out the window and spotted a luminous disc-shaped craft hovering nearby. That is the last she remembered for one hour and 15 minutes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New York City, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5483 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20193 (E3DF35D7) Date: Mid 2/1982 Description: 9:00 p.m. Aubre Brogden is driving along Vermont Highway 36 near Bakersfield, Vermont, when she sees a lighted triangular object in the sky approaching her. As she pulls into her driveway, it hovers above her backyard about 25 feet away then silently moves directly above her. She estimates it is as large as a football field. The object moves away noiselessly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Recurrent Sightings on Vermont Highway,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201983%2007%2000%20-%20Vol%2031%20No%207.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 31, no. 7 \(July 1983\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_6328 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20194 (02B043DF) Date: 2/19/1982 Description: E-M effects on car, dome-shaped object overhead, driver blacked out, taken to hospital with memory loss, physiological effects (section VII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rio Negro Province, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_5485 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20195 (114EE09C) Date: 2/19/1982 Description: At 9:15 p.m. Juan Fattorel, age 41, was driving his truck along a secondary road in Allen, Rio Negro Province, Argentina when his engine suddenly cut out. He coasted to a stop and pulled over to the side of the road. He next heard a loud buzzing sound coming somewhere from his left and in close proximity. When he looked he saw a small silvery mushroom-shaped disc hovering a meter over the ground about 10 meters away. It appeared to be balancing itself with short ascending and descending movements. At that moment his eyesight began to become blurry. He next heard a deep "electronic" voice coming from the object, which sounded somewhat threatening in nature. It told him to step out of the truck. Frightened, he refused to move, thinking he would be robbed. When he attempted to restart the truck he felt a painful, tingling sensation in his neck and blacked out. He experienced at least 20 minutes of missing time. When he woke up he was unable to see clearly, with a buzzing sound in his ears and still feeling some pain in his neck. He had some unexplained burns on his skin. A passing motorist picked him up, and he was hospitalized in a state of confusion, shock, and disorientation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: La Razon, Feb. 23, 1982; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1983, p. 18; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 258 & 271; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, citing Alejandro Chinetti, UFO Press # 15, January 1983 Source ID: Johnson_1009 Source: Johnson ### Event 20196 (C704CF3B) Date: 2/19/1982 Description: E-M effects on car, dome-shaped object overhead, driver blacked out, taken to hospital with memory loss, physiological effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Allen, Rio Negro Province, Argentina Source ID: HallUFOE2_388 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20197 (061F6799) Date: 2/19/1982 Description: Mushroom-shaped object above car, sound, witness blacked out; later physiological effects. La Razon, Feb. 23, 1982 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Allen, Rio Negro Province, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_5452 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20198 (BE5416AA) Date: 2/19/1982 Description: 4:54 p.m. A strange radiance is noticed in the sky above the frozen Lake Onega, from Petrozavodsk in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. The glow is pale blue and is shaped like a cloud, inside of which is an elliptical bright spot. After a few minutes, the bright spot disappears behind the forest, but the luminescent cloud remains in the sky for a time. Around 5:00 p.m., two more spots appear, moving together. One of them resembles the first object but is smaller. The other is a luminous sphere moving in a spiral. As it moves, it leaves a hazy trail that quickly disappears. At 5:15 p.m., a bright arrow-shaped object flies directly above the city a great speed, leaving a trail. None of the objects make any sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 152 Source ID: Eberhart_6329 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20199 (61B07C44) Date: 2/20/1982 Description: 41-year old Juan Fattorel was traveling in his truck along a secondary road when suddenly the engine cut out; He saw close UFO and aliens and his eyesight was effected. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rio Negro Province, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_5489 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20200 (8792FE5B) Date: 2/24/1982 Description: A bright round, lighted object flew over a car in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. Its passage was accompanied by radio interference effects. (Source: Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 14). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Fleetwood, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5493 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20201 (FFCFF537) Date: 2/24/1982 Description: At 6:30 a.m. a bright round, lighted object flew over a car in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. Its passage was accompanied by radio interference effects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_1088 Source: Johnson ### Event 20202 (C8051843) Date: 2/24/1982 Description: 5:15 a.m. Neillsville, Wisconsin, police officer Chuck Urban is patrolling 12 miles west of town when a bright light approaches him on his left. He stops his squad car, turns off his headlights, grabs a camera, and takes a picture that turns out poorly. He hears no sound from the object. The light follows him as he returns to Neillsville. The light is so bright he can see the road plainly. At one point the light crosses the road ahead of him for a few miles, then recrosses to the other side. He loses sight of it as he enters town. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Nocturnal Rural Encounters,” IUR 7, no. 3 \(May/June 1982\): 11; “Neillsville Revisited: The Cop and the Light That Turned Night into Day,” IUR 7, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1982\): 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_6330 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20203 (AB066023) Date: 2/25/1982 Description: A large disc with a dome on top flew over the witness's car and shone a beam of light onto the ground. The UFO came very near the ground and may have landed temporarily, then rose up and flew off over the witness's house and out of sight. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Saltsburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5495 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20204 (D2918042) Date: 2/25/1982 Description: A large disc with a dome on top flew over the witness's car in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania and shone a beam of light onto the ground. The UFO came very near the ground and may have landed temporarily, then rose up and flew off over the witness's house and out of sight. The entire sighting lasted about five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, MUFON and PASU case investigation files, report dated April 1982 Source ID: Johnson_1115 Source: Johnson ### Event 20205 (C1113141) Date: 3/1982 Description: The witness was traveling in her car when she suddenly lost control of the steering. She felt her vehicle being pulled by an unknown force towards a light that was hovering at tree top level straight ahead. Soon she found herself in a clearing in a wooded area. Nearby sat a silvery metallic disc resting on three legs. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_5497 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20206 (A6A6017E) Date: 3/1/1982 End date: 3/5/1982 Description: A worldwide nuclear war game was directed from the White House (source: House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on International Security & Scientific Affairs hearing, April 2, 1982. Rep. Larry Winn, Jr. ER-Kans.] presiding). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Washington DC Source ID: HallUFOE2_389 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20207 (941FD411) Date: 3/4/1982 Description: In 1982 at 10:30 p.m. a car on the A65 highway in Hellifield, England was surrounded by blue lights and levitated up into the air. The woman driver felt a strong sensation of cold, and experienced 30 minutes of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Devereax, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 112 Source ID: Johnson_1302 Source: Johnson ### Event 20208 (1CF6A4DB) Date: 3/4/1982 Description: A car on the A65 highway in Hellifield, England was surrounded by blue lights and levitated up into the air. The woman driver felt a strong sensation of cold, and experienced 30 minutes of missing time. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hellifield, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5500 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20209 (13881307) Date: 3/4/1982 Description: [Brinsley Le Poer Trench](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinsley%5FLe%5FPoer%5FTrench%2C%5F8th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FClancarty), the Earl of Clancarty, asks in the House of Lords how many UFO reports the Ministry of Defence has received in the past 4 years, [Viscount Long](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FLong%2C%5F4th%5FViscount%5FLong) replies that there were 750 sightings in 1978, 550 in 1979, 350 in 1980, and 600 in 1981. Clancarty thinks the totals must be higher, but Long explains that not all reports reach the MoD. The [Earl of Kimberley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FWodehouse%2C%5F4th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FKimberley) asks how many of those remain unidentified, and Long replies that he does not have those figures as they “disappeared into the unknown before we got them.” [Peter Hill-Norton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FHill-Norton) asks whether all UFO reports received by the MoD before 1962 were destroyed because they were of “no defense interest,” and if so, who decided that. Long says that all reports have been preserved since 1967. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 101–102](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/100/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6331 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20210 (543A0CC6) Date: 3/6/1982 Description: Night. A cylindrical object passes above the Stadium Morenão in Campo Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, during a soccer game attended by more than 24,000 people. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil 290–293 Source ID: Eberhart_6332 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20211 (5D63DF0B) Date: 3/8/1982 Description: There were two close encounter UFO reports on this day from Georgia and Connecticut. At 1:45 p.m. three former Air Force pilots flying in a private corporate jet saw a ten foot diameter silver disc that flew within 25 feet of their left wingtip. They were flying close to Metter, Georgia at the time, 60 miles southwest of Allendale, South Carolina. At 8:15 p.m. three witnesses in a house in Bethel, Connecticut saw two rows of red lights pass over their house and fly off towards the north-northeast at a low altitude. The UFO caused the house to shake when it passed over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 17; Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases 13845 & 13846; International UFO Reporter, November-December 1982, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_1385 Source: Johnson ### Event 20212 (C3AF9432) Date: 3/8/1982 Description: Three former Air Force pilots flying in a private corporate jet saw a ten foot diameter silver disc that flew within 25 feet of their left wingtip. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Metter (near), GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5503 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20213 (52F170A6) Date: 3/8/1982 Description: 8:15 p.m. Two highly technically trained people separated by more than a mile observe a silent object near Bethel, Connecticut. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The Case of the Rumbling Leviathan,” IUR 7, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1982\): 8–10 Source ID: Eberhart_6334 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20214 (76B8BF81) Date: 3/8/1982 Description: [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932)’s 84-page petition \(filed in early 1982\) for the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of CAUS v. NSA is dismissed by the US Supreme Court, which declines to hear the case because releasing the files “could seriously jeopardize the work of the agency and the security of the United States.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 188–189](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/188/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6333 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20215 (A83C4086) Date: 3/13/1982 Description: Several teenagers attending a disco in Messel, near Frankfurt, Germany watched three groups of four lights arranged in squares in the night sky. The first two formations of objects moved slowly, and then hovered. The third group flew fast. At 21:30 a luminous blue domed disc appeared over some woods, and approached to within 100 meters. It was ten meters in diameter, made a humming sound, and had rotating multicolored lights. Police also witnessed the object. The close encounter lasted 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_1459 Source: Johnson ### Event 20216 (6D854217) Date: 3/13/1982 Description: Several teenagers watched three groups of four lights arranged in squares in the night sky. The first two formations of objects moved slowly, and then hovered. The third group flew fast. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Frankfurt (near), Germany Source ID: NICAP_DB_5504 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20217 (D80F2B3F) Date: 3/14/1982 Description: At 3:30 a.m. a brilliant red ball of light (BOL) flew at a very low altitude and illuminated a farm in Woodstock, Queensland, Australia. It darted away and then came back. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research Australia, May 1982 Source ID: Johnson_1497 Source: Johnson ### Event 20218 (D871BA3C) Date: 3/15/1982 Description: A mother and her two children were driving on a busy highway when they spotted a rectangular glowing object with a cross in the center hovering over the area. As the car drew closer the mother heard a low humming sound and felt dizzy and had difficulty driving. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Dimas (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5505 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20219 (D51E2335) Date: 3/17/1982 End date: 3/20/1982 Description: The Project Hessdalen team manages to take four photos of oblong lights passing in front of Finnsåhøgda and Fjellbekkhøgda mountains near Hessdalen, Norway. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Project Hessdalen: The Colored Lights of Norway,” IUR 8, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1983\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_6335 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20220 (91BA5B66) Date: 3/18/1982 Description: Mr. J. Duty, an Army reservist, watched a domed disc-shaped UFO hover off to the left side of a highway in Flatwoods, Kentucky around 10:40 p.m. in 1982. The disc had red, green, blue, and white lights around its base, which blinked in rotation. It made a humming noise, circled the witness's car, then flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Parsons, field investigator, CUFOS investigation files; Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_1558 Source: Johnson ### Event 20221 (75C8060A) Date: 3/18/1982 Description: Mr. J. Duty, an Army reservist, watched a domed disc-shaped UFO hover off to the left side of a highway in Flatwoods, Kentucky. The disc had red, green, blue, and white lights around its base, which blinked in rotation. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Flatwoods, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5508 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20222 (3440FD21) Date: 3/21/1982 Description: 8:30 p.m. Karl Stewart is driving eastbound on the Ohio Turnpike in northwest Ohio when he sees what appears to be a jet aircraft to the south at about 500 feet altitude. Its lights are much brighter than normal landing lights, and there are no airports in the vicinity. Pulling over to watch it, he sees it has three arms, small windows, and red and green strings of running lights. It gains altitude before banking north over the highway. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A New](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf) [Model UFO?](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1983\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6336 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20223 (AB922DAD) Date: 3/21/1982 Description: On an overcast evening a UFO shaped like a vertical football with three tube-like appendages banked to the north across the Ohio Turnpike in Toledo, Ohio and next came in low over a residential area at 200 feet altitude. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5509 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20224 (4C68FD81) Date: 3/21/1982 Description: On an overcast evening at 9 p.m. a UFO shaped like a vertical football with three tube-like appendages banked to the north across the Ohio Turnpike in Toledo, Ohio and next came in low over a residential area at 200 feet altitude. It flew off to the south. It had three steady white lights and a small blinking red light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Karl R. Stewart, CUFOS case files Source ID: Johnson_1604 Source: Johnson ### Event 20225 (89A6C34B) Date: 3/22/1982 Description: The witness had gone outside to investigate a commotion among his dogs and cats and saw two lights descend from the sky and land. He approached with his car but the vehicle stalled. He approached on foot holding a flashlight and encountered a five-foot six-inch tall man dressed in a silvery coverall with a hood. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Slanesville, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5510 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20226 (37721ED1) Date: 3/23/1982 Description: 2:00 a.m. Tim Miron, 18, is driving north on I Road northwest of Escanaba, Michigan, when he sees an orange-red light, which gets bigger and begins flashing red beams from its underside after he turns on I.5 Lane. The object keeps moving closer and he sees it directly behind a telephone pole to his left 125 feet from the road, hovering 10 feet above the ground. Miron arrives at his family’s farm, jumps out, and sees the UFO moving directly toward him. He wakes up his mother and the two of them watch the object for the next 30–45 minutes as it maneuvers over a wide area around the farm, finally disappearing behind some trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth C. Schellhase, “A Unique Triad of CE-I Sightings,” IUR 7, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1982\): 5–7 Source ID: Eberhart_6337 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20227 (72A47EDF) Date: 3/25/1982 Description: Two uniformed officers, PS. Ian Victory and PC Anthony Underwood were driving a marked police vehicle when they observed a yellow lozenge shaped UFO in the sky. Stopping the vehicle they sat and watched it pass overhead. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5514 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20228 (8948BE18) Date: 3/26/1982 Description: Leading investigators from UFO-Norge hold a town meeting in Ålen, Norway, near Hessdalen. Of the 130 residents who attend, 17 say they have seen a yellow spherical light, 12 a cigar-shaped object, and 6 an oblong object with one red and two yellow lights. Later in the week, two officers from Værnes Air Station in Trondheim interview some witnesses and conclude that Hessdalen residents have been seeing these lights since 1944 and their accounts are credible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 571; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 89, 90 Source ID: Eberhart_6338 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20229 (3D4D69CF) Date: 3/30/1982 Description: 11:15 p.m. Nanette Morrison is driving home in Charlottesville, Virginia, when she spots a large, brilliant light in the sky hovering several hundred feet in the air and a quarter mile away. It approaches as she makes a turn and flies right over her car, later pacing her as she drives the remaining 15 blocks. She pulls up to the curb, and the UFO stops and hovers above a house across the street less than 400 feet away. The object reverses direction and moves away as she runs up to her house. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “A Remarkable Double Encounter,” IUR 8, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1983\): 4–5; “Double Encounter Questioned,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_6339 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20230 (C4DA4471) Date: 3/30/1982 Description: An ovoid or "submarine"-shaped object flew over a car in Charlottesville, Virginia at 11:15 p.m. It then hovered over the road, made a U-turn, and then paced the car for 15 blocks. It flew away toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, November 1983, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_1743 Source: Johnson ### Event 20231 (EAC8FB77) Date: 3/30/1982 Description: 11:15 PM. An ovoid or "submarine"-shaped object flew over a car. It then hovered over the road, made a U-turn, and then paced the car for 15 blocks. It flew away toward the north. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Charlottesville, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5515 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20232 (E2B71094) Date: 4/1982 Description: A lone witness out for an early morning walk spotted a large shiny silver oval shaped craft on the ground on a nearby field. Next to the object stood two short man-like figures, described as very thin, with long arms, and elongated egg shaped heads. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: V (near), Denmark Source ID: NICAP_DB_5518 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20233 (774700C7) Date: 4/1982 Description: Nancy and her daughter were in a camping tent in Fey Canyon, her baby granddaughter was also with her. That night she saw a lighted disk and a small entity entered the tent and grabbed her arm. All three were abducted. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sedona, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5516 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20234 (EE17ED17) Date: 4/1/1982 Description: 7:15 p.m. Three men are repairing a jeep in Petrolia, Pennsylvania, when one of them notices a bright object with a flashing red light just above the trees. A few minutes later they see it has risen much higher. After they turn on the jeep’s headlights, the bright object moves toward them. When they turn the lights off again, the object backs away. The lights go on again, and the UFO passes over their heads at 250 feet. Its bright lights go out, and its triangular shape becomes clear, as well as its gun-metal color and the luminescent mist surrounding it. A red light is on the front, with white and amber lights on the other angles. Two bright lights shoot away from the triangle, one going north and the other south. When a jet approaches from the east, the object stops and becomes bright. Then it rises straight up until it is out of sight. For several days, the witnesses have severe headaches, and one has diarrhea. Other triangular UFOs are seen in the Pittsburgh area from March 22 to May 19. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stan Gordon, “[Pennsylvania Low-Level UFO Sightings,](http://www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=1559)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 172 \(June 1982\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6340 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20235 (09E51A64) Date: 4/1/1982 Description: A reddish triangular object with rounded apexes and a light in each corner was sighted by three witnesses. The witnesses reported suffering from headaches after their close encounter. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Washington, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5520 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20236 (76DCD426) Date: 4/1/1982 Description: 11:30 p.m. Nanette Morrison looks out her front window and sees a bright, fluorescent object hovering a few hundred feet above the tree line and a short distance away from her home in Charlottesville, Virginia. She tells her mother to come and look. As she does, the object flares up brightly and zips away at an incredible speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “A Remarkable Double Encounter,” IUR 8, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1983\): 5, 15; “Double Encounter Questioned,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_6341 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20237 (95B70FA9) Date: 4/1/1982 Description: In North Washington, Pennsylvania a reddish triangular object with rounded apexes and a light in each corner was sighted by three witnesses at 7:15 p.m. It was surrounded by a glittering mist that seemed to come from the rear of the object. Two glowing spheres shot out from the craft, one shot off toward the north, the other toward the south. The witnesses reported suffering from headaches after their close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1982, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_1795 Source: Johnson ### Event 20238 (7CECECFE) Date: 4/2/1982 Description: President [Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) issues Executive Order 12356, which eliminates response time limits on FOIA requests. Searches for UFO documents show significantly more delays of 2 years or more, and search fees rise dramatically. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikisource, “[Executive Order 12356](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive%5FOrder%5F12356)” Source ID: Eberhart_6342 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20239 (311E6CD2) Date: 4/3/1982 Description: A woman schoolteacher in Bolingbrook was awakened by a high pitched sound "like a blender running in a box." She looked out at the cloudy, windy and cold weather conditions in her residential neighborhood and saw a bright blue domed disc-shaped object land next to some power lines. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bolingbrook, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5522 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20240 (FAC75733) Date: 4/3/1982 Description: At around three o'clock in the morning a woman schoolteacher in Bolingbrook, Illinois was awakened by a high pitched sound "like a blender running in a box." She looked out at the cloudy, windy and cold weather conditions in her residential neighborhood and saw a bright blue domed disc-shaped object land next to some power lines. It lifted off and then landed a second time. The UFO had blue lights around the rim, and was only about 50 yards away. The blue light from the object illuminated the area as bright as day. A street light went out. The police received calls of power outages and blue flashes at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fred Merritt, International UFO Reporter, July 1982, p. 6; UNICAT database, case 25, citing Fred Merritt Source ID: Johnson_1821 Source: Johnson ### Event 20241 (6ADF70CD) Date: 4/3/1982 Description: 3:00 a.m. A woman schoolteacher in Bolingbrook, Illinois, is awakened by a high-pitched sound “like a blender running in a box.” She looks outside and sees a bright blue, domed, disc-shaped object land next to some power lines. It lifts off and then lands a second time. The UFO has blue lights around the rim and is only about 150 feet away. The blue lights illuminate the area as bright as day. A streetlight goes out. The police receive calls of power outages and blue flashes at the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Fred Merritt, “A Blue Domed-Disc for Bolingbrook,” IUR 7, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1982\): 6–8 Source ID: Eberhart_6343 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20242 (345F4C0E) Date: 4/7/1982 Description: A mushroom cap shaped flying disc paced two people in a car. It had hazy lights and made odd maneuvers, not jerky but always smoothly executed. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Wayne, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5524 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20243 (C10E98E5) Date: 4/7/1982 Description: The [Earl of Cork and Orrery](https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FReginald%5FBoyle%2C%5F13th%5FEarl%5Fof%5FCork%5F%281910-1995%29) asks in the House of Lords how many of the 2,250 sightings of UFOs reported to the MoD in 1978–1981 are still classified. [Viscount Long](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FLong%2C%5F4th%5FViscount%5FLong) says none are and there is no reason why anyone could not come and look at the reports in the MoD archives. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 102–104](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/102/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6344 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20244 (106643E5) Date: 4/7/1982 Description: A mushroom cap shaped flying disc paced two people in a car in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It had hazy lights and made odd maneuvers, not jerky but always smoothly executed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing APRO Bulletin, June 1982 Source ID: Johnson_1889 Source: Johnson ### Event 20245 (DDC26E4C) Date: 4/8/1982 Description: An 80-foot wide boomerang shaped object, with a convex curved rear end, paced a car being driven by two teenagers. The UFO followed as close as 30 feet altitude, and the two girls feared capture. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Escanaba (west of), MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5525 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20246 (B3F230A8) Date: 4/8/1982 Description: 11:50 p.m. Angie Parrotta and Nancy Hanson, both 18, are driving south on County Road 533 west of Escanaba, Michigan. They notice a bright star to the southwest, which soon becomes two huge yellowish-white “headlights” attached to an object. It descends and moves toward them. They speed up but the object keeps pacing them on their right. They become frightened when they see a blinking red light on the craft. They watch the UFO move swiftly toward Escanaba in the east and quickly lose sight of it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth C. Schellhase, “A Unique Triad of CE-I Sightings,” IUR 7, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1982\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_6345 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20247 (BDE91E64) Date: 4/8/1982 Description: An 80-foot wide boomerang shaped object, with a convex curved rear end, paced a car being driven by two teenagers west of Escanaba, Michigan at 11:45 p.m. The UFO followed as close as 30 feet altitude, and the two girls feared capture. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fred Merritt, International UFO Reporter, September 1982, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_1907 Source: Johnson ### Event 20248 (A34AA4F0) Date: 4/18/1982 Description: A woman heard a loud noise, stepped onto her patio and saw a cigar-shaped object beneath the overcast, thick in the middle and tapered on both ends. The object flew at treetop level directly over her townhouse. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5526 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20249 (E1F61C93) Date: 4/20/1982 Description: Sometime after three a.m. a man in County Tyrone, Ireland awoke trying to scream and immediately became aware of two unusual humanoid figures standing by his bed. One was short and the other tall and lumpy, and the second being somehow had its head inside the witness's mouth. The beings were communicating in a language that resembled the ringing of bells. The witness could not move or yell because he was paralyzed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 1508, citing Steve Gerrard, Northern UFO News # 101 Source ID: Johnson_2168 Source: Johnson ### Event 20250 (7A03485C) Date: 4/22/1982 End date: 4/23/1982 Description: Night. A group of Polish Air Force pilots during missions over northwest Poland in the area from Elbląg to Ostróda and Olsztyn encounter a weird light at 47,500 feet that does not appear on their radar. It looks like a cloud with the central part a raised-up cupola and is emanating beams of light from the underside. Around it is some kind of vapor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 66 Source ID: Eberhart_6346 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20251 (8B257FF2) Date: 4/23/1982 Description: 5:15 a.m. Officials at the Head Office of Meteorology in Ankara, Turkey, observe two UFOs that are maneuvering over the city for an hour. They are elliptical and disappear in the direction of the Eskisehir Highway around 6:15 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1983\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_6347 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20252 (8C37B223) Date: 4/25/1982 Description: Three people in a car in Clare, South Australia noticed a red glow in the sky at 8:30 p.m. It approached and followed their car for three kilometers. It was described as a ball of fire with white streaks through it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield case files, citing The Advertiser, April 27, 1982 Source ID: Johnson_2310 Source: Johnson ### Event 20253 (7D292E74) Date: 4/27/1982 Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy files a request with the National Security Agency for all legal documents used to prepare its case in CAUS v. NSA, especially any portion of the top-secret Yeates affidavit of November 1980. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [p. 189](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/188/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6348 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20254 (87503945) Date: 4/29/1982 Description: A woman named Mary E. Boule saw a silent dome-shaped object near Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York at 11:40 p.m. The object had a turquoise blue light on top and portholes. It flew low at 400-500 feet altitude, and definitely entered the air base's restricted air space. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS files, letter from witness Source ID: Johnson_2413 Source: Johnson ### Event 20255 (C608F9F0) Date: 4/29/1982 Description: A woman named Mary E. Boule saw a silent dome-shaped object near Plattsburgh Air Force Base. The object had a turquoise blue light on top and portholes. It flew low at 400-500 feet altitude, and definitely entered the air base's restricted air space. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Plattsburgh Air Force Base (near), NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5527 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20256 (B301175C) Date: 5/1982 Description: Several Argentine soldiers riding in a UNIMOG (Army) vehicle spotted several short man-like figures with large heads running towards a dark hovering disc shaped object. The craft hovered only a few cm from the ground. As the vehicle approached the object its engine began to sputter without any apparent cause. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut (near), Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_5528 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20257 (2ED0E8DF) Date: 5/2/1982 Description: In an isolated area, some kangaroo hunters were walking down an electrical fence when they came upon a large disc shaped craft on the ground. Groups of seven- foot tall beings stood or walked on a large glass rim. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ripley, Queensland, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5530 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20258 (215B4695) Date: 5/5/1982 Description: In Youngstown Ridge, Pennsylvania a single witness observed a 15-foot diameter top-shaped UFO with a dome at 8:00 p.m. There was a red pulsating light contained within the dome. It was described as the size of Piper Cub aircraft, and it flew slowly to the east at an estimated altitude of 1000 feet, then reversed direction toward Greensburg. At 11:17 in in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania hundreds of residents witnessed many unidentified nocturnal lights. Police watched a semi-transparent delta-shaped object fly from the northwest to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1982, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_2554 Source: Johnson ### Event 20259 (C3861445) Date: 5/9/1982 Description: A hat-like UFO was photographed near Taisetsuzan National Park, east-southeast of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. There is a mountain backdrop in the photograph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Flying Saucers and How to See Them, p. 74 Source ID: Johnson_2695 Source: Johnson ### Event 20260 (0CBE3D94) Date: 5/12/1982 Description: A large, disc-shaped UFO was seen by the roadside in Turis, Spain. It perimeter was revolving and it appeared to be searching the area with beams of light. It rose up and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13877, citing APRO Bulletin Source ID: Johnson_2773 Source: Johnson ### Event 20261 (4D556E6F) Date: 5/12/1982 Description: A large, disc-shaped UFO was seen by the roadside in Turis, Spain. It perimeter was revolving and it appeared to be searching the area with beams of light. It rose up and flew away. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Turis, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_5532 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20262 (8F353B67) Date: 5/18/1982 Description: NSA Director of Policy Eugene Yeates releases a highly redacted portion of his 21-page affidavit used in the CAUS v. NSA lawsuit. An unredacted section reveals that the NSA holds 79 UFO documents referred by other agencies as well as 160 documents originating with the NSA, four of which have already been released. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: ClearIntent, [pp. 189–190](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc/page/188/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6349 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20263 (13500F94) Date: 5/20/1982 Description: A couple driving near a golf course in Caboolture, Queensland, Australia saw a bright light descend. They noted that it was a saucer-shaped object with portholes around the lower part. It emitted blue beam of light at front of car. They had a period of missing time, but do recall witnessing a two meter tall silver-suited being. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case 2670, citing UFO Research Queensland Source ID: Johnson_3012 Source: Johnson ### Event 20264 (E9BE1E12) Date: 5/20/1982 Description: A couple noted a saucer shaped object with portholes in the lower section. The object emitted a blue beam of light and came around to the front of the car. The couple appeared to have experienced a short period of missing time, and recalled seeing a 2-meter tall silver suited entity (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Caboolture, Queensland, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5533 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20265 (FD304957) Date: 5/22/1982 Description: Diamond-shaped object with body lights, bright "headlights," flew overhead, seen clearly in police spotlight. Abnormal silence Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Cleveland, TX Source ID: HallUFOE2_390 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20266 (3349B011) Date: 5/22/1982 Description: 11:00 p.m. Liberty County Deputy Sheriff John McDonald notices two bright lights above tall pine trees near Cleveland, Texas. He points his spotlight toward them as they sink out of sight, but they reappear and pass over his head at about 1,000 feet. He shines his spotlight again and sees a diamond shape with four rounded corners. The object is large, silent, and grayish in color. Seconds later he hears a high-pitched whine as it quickly departs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John F. Schuessler, “[Policeman Encounters Diamond-Shaped UFO,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1983-4-april)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 182 \(April 1983\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6350 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20267 (C425626F) Date: 5/22/1982 Description: Diamond-shaped object with body lights, bright "headlights," flew overhead, seen clearly in police spotlight. Abnormal silence. (section V). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cleveland, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5496 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20268 (76A63EFF) Date: 5/22/1982 Description: Diamond-shaped object with body lights, bright "headlights," flew overhead, seen clearly in police spotlight. Abnormal silence (section V). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cleveland, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5535 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20269 (AB175C87) Date: 5/23/1982 Description: At 3:30 a.m. a nocturnal light paced a car in Bowna, New South Wales, Australia only 3 meters above the ground. It hovered when the car stopped. A diamond shaped object was seen hovering over the car's destination. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australian Center for UFO Studies files Source ID: Johnson_3053 Source: Johnson ### Event 20270 (7A49FE98) Date: 5/23/1982 Description: A nocturnal light paced a car in Bowna, New South Wales, Australia only 3 meters above the ground. It hovered when the car stopped. A diamond shaped object was seen hovering over the car's destination. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bowna, New South Wales, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5536 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20271 (D65F878A) Date: 5/24/1982 Description: 10:15 p.m. An orange-colored light is seen by many tourists moving at a slow speed at an altitude of 4,900– 6,500 feet toward Marmaris, Muğla, Turkey. It hovers for about 5 minutes over the sea, moves to the south, speeds up, and ascends. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1983\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_6351 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20272 (A6C0E865) Date: 6/1982 Description: [Leonard H. Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) issues his third status report, UFO Crash/Retrievals: Amassing the Evidence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, UFO Crash/Retrievals: Amassing the Evidence, Status Report III, The Author, 1982 Source ID: Eberhart_6352 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20273 (93E879DC) Date: 6/1/1982 Description: Two UFOs allegedly hover above the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, for 14 seconds, one of them directly above launch pad number 1. On June 2, bolts and rivets are found that supposedly have been sucked out of the support towers, and welded sections have come apart. The other UFO hovers above the adjacent housing complex, knocking out thousands of panes of glass or making fine holes in them. The cosmodrome is said to be put out of action for two weeks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[Russia: Naughty Henry Gris Says It Again! ‘Soviet Space-](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2028%20N%206.pdf) [Centre Knocked Out by UFOs,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2028%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 6 \(August 1983\): 27–28 Source ID: Eberhart_6353 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20274 (11B19BBC) Date: 6/3/1982 Description: A young woman was awakened by a voice slowly calling her name. When she got up from bed she saw a large glowing object outside her window. She saw two man- like figures staring at her from inside the craft, and a small table inside the object. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brooklyn, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5537 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20275 (71C141EF) Date: 6/3/1982 Description: Night. The examining magistrate and bailiff at Demirköy, Kirklareli, Turkey, watch an object with orange lights at an altitude of 160–200 feet. It has two lighted hemispheres with a dark rectangular mid-section. The poplar trees underneath it are shaking violently. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1983\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_6354 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20276 (6E2B8F06) Date: 6/3/1982 Description: At around 4:00 a.m. a young woman in Brooklyn, New York was awakened by a voice slowly calling her name. When she got up from bed she saw a large glowing object outside her window. She saw two man-like figures staring at her from inside the craft, and a small table inside the object. The two men began moving back and forth very quickly. The UFO then changed into a bright fiery flame and disappeared. The woman received a telepathic message before it departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 1085, citing Brad & Shirley Hansen Steiger, Starborn Source ID: Johnson_3259 Source: Johnson ### Event 20277 (D65D0CAA) Date: 6/10/1982 Description: Wedge-shaped object with body lights hovered low over reservoir, lights reflecting in water. Instant relocation, red light beam shone on house, then on car Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Madbury, NH Source ID: HallUFOE2_391 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20278 (BDEDF24F) Date: 6/10/1982 Description: Wedge-shaped object with body lights hovered low over reservoir, lights reflecting in water; instant relocation, red light beam shone on house, then on car (section I). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Madbury, NH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5570 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20279 (F980E7F4) Date: 6/10/1982 Description: While driving home, a woman and several children observed a disc-shaped object with dome on top and blinking red lights, and a row of rectangular windows on the side, hovering in the sky. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albany, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5539 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20280 (7293EF29) Date: 6/10/1982 Description: Three witnesses in Madbury, New Hampshire, see a wedge-shaped object with bright white lights and smaller blue-green-red body lights hovering about 50 feet above the Bellamy Reservoir, its lights reflecting on the surface of the water. As they try to move to a better viewing location, the object moves away, almost instantly. They see it again hovering above a house with an oscillatory motion. A red light beam shines down on the house and then on the car. After a while the object approaches the car from behind and passes above it by about 30 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 41 Source ID: Eberhart_6355 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20281 (0B8DB5B3) Date: 6/12/1982 Description: Everyone on board a British aircraft sees a large translucent object 500 feet long flying at 41,000 feet altitude over Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria, Germany. It has the form of a “double rectangle surmounted by a globe \(egg-shaped\) crowned by a silver one.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 162 Source ID: Eberhart_6356 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20282 (E2E52253) Date: 6/15/1982 Description: A fireball with an odd shape flew rapidly toward the power plant in Romeoville, Illinois. It stopped and hovered, then flew away fast toward the west. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Romeoville, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5540 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20283 (C3E0A849) Date: 6/15/1982 Description: At around 9:30 p.m. a fireball with an odd shape flew rapidly toward the power plant in Romeoville, Illinois. It stopped and hovered, then flew away fast toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #14404, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue #177 Source ID: Johnson_3504 Source: Johnson ### Event 20284 (804831E0) Date: 6/18/1982 Description: Five Chinese Air Force jet pilots flying over Heilongjiang Province, China at 9:57 p.m. encountered a huge odd looking aerial object. for two hours. Their gyro-compass gave a wrong directional reading, 30 degrees on right, and they experienced radio jamming during their three hour encounter. The yellowish-green UFO was stationary at first, then climbed rapidly and increased speed. At about the same time at the Bishui Forestry Center, also inHeilongjiang Province, China a beam shot up from behind a hill, 300 meters away, that turned into a creamy-yellow spiral. At the top of this beam was a white disc, 30-40 cm in diameter, that was dazzling and revolved counter-clockwise. It made a buzzing sound, then shot up straight up and away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Timothy Green, Above Top Secret, p. 217; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 3; (2) Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 247 Source ID: Johnson_3540 Source: Johnson ### Event 20285 (F53A2128) Date: 6/18/1982 Description: 9:10–10:53 p.m. Five Chinese Air Force pilots are flying on patrol over the northern military frontier in Hebei province, China. At 10:06 p.m., a large yellowish-green object appears in the northern sky, whirling fast and creating rings of light. After 10 seconds, the center of the ring explodes “like a hand grenade.” It grows larger than the apparent size of the full moon, and black spots appear near its center. The aircraft lose their communications and navigational systems and are forced to return to their base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Five Chinese Pilots](http://www.nicap.org/820618china%5Fdir.htm) [Encounter Object / EME](http://www.nicap.org/820618china%5Fdir.htm)”; Good Above, [pp. 217–218](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/216/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/216/mode/2up) [471](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/470/mode/2up); Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, pp. 243–245 Source ID: Eberhart_6357 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20286 (D8D48F95) Date: 6/25/1982 Description: 2:30 a.m. Kathy Freeman watches a bright star that makes two right-angle turns near Libertyville, Illinois. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1982-83%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV3.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1982\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6358 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20287 (1426674A) Date: 6/27/1982 Description: A mechanical engineer on an airliner flying northwest of Launceston, Tasmania watched a metallic sphere pace the Boeing 737 aircraft for two minutes, then ascend, flying off toward the north. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Launceston, Tasmania (NW of), AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5541 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20288 (ED076DAF) Date: 6/27/1982 Description: Bob Lazar appears on the front Sunday page of the “Los Alamos Monitor” Type: newspaper article Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: Maj2_735 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20289 (ABBE8729) Date: 6/27/1982 Description: A mechanical engineer on an airliner flying northwest of Launceston, Tasmania watched a metallic sphere pace the Boeing 737 aircraft for two minutes, then ascend, flying off toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australian Center UFO Studies Catalogue of Reports 1978-1982, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_3700 Source: Johnson ### Event 20290 (9F541AF6) Date: 6/27/1982 Description: Following a screening of E.T.: The Extraterrestrial at the White House, President [Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) leans over to director [Steven Spielberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FSpielberg) and comments, “You know, there aren’t six people in this room who know how true this really is.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: presidentialufo.com, “Ronald Reagan, 40th President, January 20, 1981–January 20, 1989” Source ID: Eberhart_6359 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20291 (BA80F202) Date: 7/1982 Description: A lone witness reported seeing a 15-meter diameter disc-shaped object hovering at about 100 meters from the ground. Through an apparent opening he saw several short helmeted humanoids moving about in stiff mechanical movements resembling those of robots. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mersin, Turkey Source ID: NICAP_DB_5542 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20292 (5B77C4B4) Date: 7/1/1982 Description: The Center for UFO Studies discontinues its toll-free 1-800 number distributed to police offices across the country. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Discontinue 800 \#, Report Quality Low,” IUR 7, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1982\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6360 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20293 (9C2CC637) Date: 7/6/1982 Description: 7:30 p.m. A man driving alone near Hampshire, Tasmania, finds that his car is gradually losing power and stops. He turns off the ignition and the lights, then gets out of the vehicle when he notices a stationary, noiseless object that looks like a large army helicopter about the size of a bus. It is blue-black in color and seems to be gradually moving to the west for about 90 seconds. He starts the car’s engine and leaves the area. An inspection of the car finds nothing to account for its behavior. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_6361 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20294 (10C6FA64) Date: 7/7/1982 Description: A silent, bladeless helicopter-shaped UFO glowed as it hovered over a railway yard in Highclere, Tasmania, Australia at 7:30 p.m., causing the witness's car engine to malfunction. The close encounter lasted four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14416, citing MUFON UFO Journal, February 1983 Source ID: Johnson_3908 Source: Johnson ### Event 20295 (9EA58695) Date: 7/14/1982 Description: In Easley, South Carolina what looked like a "water tank" in a nearby field flew away when the witness's car headlights hit it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January 1983 Source ID: Johnson_4057 Source: Johnson ### Event 20296 (AFE3E58B) Date: 7/20/1982 Description: In the middle of the afternoon a local cattleman in Vejer de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain was on his motorcycle using a seldom traveled road when his motorcycle came to a stop and would not start. He then walked to what he thought was a tanker truck a hundred meters away, but when he got to about 30 meters away from it he saw two huge human-like figures standing in the middle of the road. They wore shiny metallic armored suits and fishbowl-like clear helmets. One stood near a wire fence and was looking at the cattle in the nearby field. The beings then walked back to the object as if in slow motion. They entered the object through an open hatch, which took off silently towards the north. Ground traces were reportedly found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 98, citing investigator Fernandez-Peri and Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros con OVNIs Source ID: Johnson_4253 Source: Johnson ### Event 20297 (D27063BA) Date: 7/20/1982 Description: A a local cattleman walked to what he thought was a tanker truck a hundred meters away, but when he got to about 30 meters away from it he saw two huge human- like figures standing in the middle of the road. The beings then walked back to the object as if in slow motion. They entered the object through an open hatch, which took off silently towards the north. Ground traces were reportedly found at the site. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Vejer de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_5544 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20298 (7AD91910) Date: 7/21/1982 Description: In Whitley City, Kentucky at 2:00 a.m. a top-shaped object lit up a garden with a red beam of lightdirected downwards. The craft had 30 lights around its rim. It flew to the north, then circled back, and finally flew off by making a vertical ascent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14419, citing APRO Bulletin, February 1982 Source ID: Johnson_4280 Source: Johnson ### Event 20299 (110B7EBD) Date: 7/22/1982 Description: Three witnesses saw a dark boomerang-shaped (or V-shaped) object with bright orange-yellow "headlights" hovering in the sky. As they watched, they noticed a total silence in the area. The object finally began moving and as it passed by their location, they heard a deep humming sound. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Katy, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5548 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20300 (976297D6) Date: 7/22/1982 Description: At around 11:00 p.m. three women were sitting outside talking by their apartment complex in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England when they noticed a bright light above an empty piece of property. The light moved to the north and became a little elongated, then became top shaped and reddish in color, and then finally disappeared above Winter Hill. Later a dog that was with them began barking, then ran inside. The women next heard a peculiar sucking or croaking noise that was repeated four times, then a figure appeared suddenly in the empty field. It was normal height and wore a one-piece uniform that had a round helmet with visor. There was also a hose-like protrusion that came out of the visor. In one hand it held a square box that seemed connected to the hose. The women became frightened and ran inside. The police were called and searched the area but failed to find anything. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 690, citing DIGAP Report, Northern UFO News, issue # 100 Source ID: Johnson_4306 Source: Johnson ### Event 20301 (AB964D91) Date: 7/23/1982 Description: At two a.m. four 16 year olds--with the last names Lebeau, Cousineau, and Labre--saw an intense beam of white light from a multi-colored UFO in a field in Ste-Dorothee, near Laval, Quebec. Shortly later they heard beeping, and when they shone a spotlight in the direction of the noise it revealed a five to six foot tall being with a large brown head and orange eyes. They all suffered from intense stomach pain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, CE5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 210; FSR, November 28, 1982 Source ID: Johnson_4330 Source: Johnson ### Event 20302 (3C8EA6CF) Date: 7/23/1982 Description: Four 16 year olds saw an intense beam of white light from a multi-colored UFO in a field. Ehen they shone a spotlight in the direction of the noise it revealed a five to six foot tall being with a large brown head and orange eyes. They all suffered from intense stomach pain (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ste-Dorothee, Quebec, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5549 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20303 (245508BB) Date: 7/25/1982 Description: At 4:00 o'clock in the morning a bullfighter in Punta Umbria, Spain observed blinking re and yellow lights near the beach. He thought it was the scene of a car accident and approached. What he saw was a square-shaped craft and a 3-meter (10 foot) tall robot standing at the side of the UFO. It had no arms, and the head was covered with a metal mesh material. It made guttural sounds. Later that day several independent witnesses reported seeing a blunt gray, 300-foot long cigar-shaped object with windows fly over woods and the sewage treatment plant in Latrobe, Pennsylvania heading west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 0640; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1983 Source ID: Johnson_4397 Source: Johnson ### Event 20304 (67C15C81) Date: 7/25/1982 Description: Several independent witnesses reported seeing a blunt gray, 300-foot long cigar- shaped object with windows fly over woods and the sewage treatment plant heading west. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Latrobe, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5553 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20305 (6D874478) Date: 7/25/1982 Description: A bullfighter observed blinking red and yellow lights near the beach. He thought it was the scene of a car accident and approached. What he saw was a square-shaped craft and a 3-meter (10 foot) tall robot standing at the side of the UFO. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Punta Umbria, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_5552 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20306 (8C743BCE) Date: 7/28/1982 Description: Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets Dr. Edward Teller at a presentation. Type: meeting Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Location: Los Alamos, NM Source ID: Maj2_734 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20307 (14ABC322) Date: 7/30/1982 Description: At 10:10 p.m. a small glowing, transparent figure was seen among the branches of a tree on the property of a nearby house in Mendoza, Argentina. It was dressed in a robe, had a very small head and a triangular shaped body. There was a sizzling sound and the smell of smoke, and the being faded away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 1167, citing Gray Barker Source ID: Johnson_4509 Source: Johnson ### Event 20308 (1CD62D3C) Date: 7/31/1982 Description: In the middle of the day six unidentified spheres flew over Red Square, the center of power for the Soviet Union, in Moscow, Russia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 201 Source ID: Johnson_4541 Source: Johnson ### Event 20309 (AD6C7C9C) Date: Early 8/1982 Description: A man is in a meadow near a forest on the shore of the Vistula River a few miles northwest of Warsaw, Poland. Suddenly he hears a sound like an electric motor and sees a rectangular, black, domed object above the treetops that rises and sails slowly beyond the river. Windows in the dome cast a flickering light Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bronislaw Rzepecki, “Encounters in Poland,” IUR 12, no. 3 \(May/June 1987\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_6362 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20310 (9419CB5B) Date: 8/2/1982 Description: On this night a shiny silvery man was seen standing on the side of the road at Hapuku Bridge in New Zealand. He had no distinguishable features, and the bottom half of the figure was dark. The motorist drove by and did not stop. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 293, citing SBI Report Source ID: Johnson_4610 Source: Johnson ### Event 20311 (03F82EDD) Date: 8/2/1982 Description: A couple and their son while driving home to Kent and noticed an illuminated object above the treeline, projecting a beam of light into the sky which moved back and forth like a searchlight. The object had four red body lights. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Sawyer, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5554 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20312 (8F41D2C6) Date: 8/10/1982 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a married couple and their son were driving home to Kent, Washington and were near Lake Sawyer when they noticed an illuminated object above the tree line, projecting a beam of light into the sky which moved back and forth like a searchlight. The object had four red body lights. When they stopped at a stop sign, they saw that the searchlight beam had disappeared and a new light beam had begun rotating in a downward direction. Moreoever, the UFO appeared to be moving in their direction. As they turned a corner, a bright beam of light shone down into their car "bathing the driver in red light." The light and object then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald A. Johnson, Puget Sound Aerial Phenomena Research Newsletter, Autumn 1982; MUFON UFO Journal, December 1982, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4830 Source: Johnson ### Event 20313 (AC57CD88) Date: 8/11/1982 Description: At 6:00 p.m. Pat Clausing, driving on Washington State Route 18 from Maple Valley to Auburn, Washington witnessed a 100 foot long ovoid object flying at 150 feet altitude. The object paralleled the hilly terrain in a controlled flight, flying to the southwest near power lines. The sighting lasted two and a half minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald A. Johnson case files; MUFON UFO Journal, August 28, 1982 Source ID: Johnson_4896 Source: Johnson ### Event 20314 (C3418288) Date: 8/13/1982 Description: At 10:45 a.m. a professional videographer filming the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington noticed something zip by very fast. The videotape shows a dark, domed disc (similar to the McMinnville 1950 photographs) moving fast, and it extends and contracts in flight. Bruce Maccabee analyzed the images. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald A. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1982, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4981 Source: Johnson ### Event 20315 (DDFF1E9D) Date: 8/13/1982 Description: At 9:30 p.m. cones maneuvered and joined a large cigar with a row of lights along the side, over the town of Abram in Greater Manchester, England. There were reported EM effects. There were many witnesses to this event, which lasted for 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Science and the UFOs, p. 89 Source ID: Johnson_4980 Source: Johnson ### Event 20316 (F67D81AB) Date: 8/21/1982 Description: Bob Lazar appears in the “Arizona Republic” newspaper in Phoenix AZ and is said to be working in “Los Alamos, NM National Laboratory” Type: newspaper article Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90486974/bob-lazar-los-alamos/) Location: Phoenix, AZ Source ID: Maj2_736 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20317 (3F3AFC64) Date: 8/24/1982 Description: On this day children encountered a large UFO on the ground in a fruit plantation in Sarikei, Malaysia. Several midget humanoids with large heads were seen moving near the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Center for Malaysian UFO Studies; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14434, citing Flying Saucer Review Source ID: Johnson_5301 Source: Johnson ### Event 20318 (DEEE27BB) Date: 8/26/1982 Description: A deer hunter in a hammock in a tree at night, in the jungle in Cocalinho, Maranhao State, Brazil, waiting for deer, was zapped by a beam from a nocturnal ball of light at around 6 a.m. He became sick, laid down, and died shortly thereafter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, pp. 187, 207 Source ID: Johnson_5378 Source: Johnson ### Event 20319 (B8555458) Date: 8/30/1982 Description: At 11:55 p.m. a battleship gray, disc-shaped object estimated to be 200 feet in diameter chased a car in Derry, Pennsylvania with a single male occupant. It kept moving in front of the vehicle, pacing it at 40 feet altitude. The bottom of the object had a dark black door, and the UFO had amber lights around its perimeter. It made a high-pitched "whoop-whoop" sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, June 1984, p. 8; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1983 Source ID: Johnson_5503 Source: Johnson ### Event 20320 (BEC312B2) Date: 9/1982 Description: Late night. Ros Reynolds and her boyfriend were driving to visit friend when their vehicle was suddenly engulfed in light and an object then flew over them. The object then began to follow the car, traveling alongside them. Suddenly the car engine went dead, the car stopped and then she went blank. She could only remember getting back in the car and by the time she arrived at her friends they had lost nearly three hours. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corby, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5555 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20321 (CB7B6C4A) Date: 9/1982 Description: Rosalind Reynolds-Parnham and her boyfriend Philip are driving through the northwestern outskirts of Sudbury, Suffolk, England, when they see an object with an oval mass of orange lights moving through some pylons and causing sparks. They can smell a noxious odor. They drive on, and when they are near Cavendish on the A1092 some lights approach them from behind and the car loses power. When they arrive at their destination, they realize they have lost four hours of time. Rosalind begins to recall an abduction experience, aided by some disturbing dreams and odd scars on her abdomen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Abduction and Physiological Effects,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 4–6, 23; Carl Nagaitis and Philip Mantle, Without Consent: A Comprehensive Study of Missing Time and Abduction Phenomena in the United Kingdom, Ringpull, 1994; “[Aliens Cost Me My Boyfriend](https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/703533/ALIENS-COST-ME-MY-BOYFRIEND-AND-KIDS-claims-abductee-taken-after-car-stopped-by-UFO) [and Kids,](https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/703533/ALIENS-COST-ME-MY-BOYFRIEND-AND-KIDS-claims-abductee-taken-after-car-stopped-by-UFO)” London Express, August 24, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_6363 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20322 (FFF58D36) Date: 9/1982 Description: A man driving around dusk on the I90 road saw an object hovering above the tree line. The craft was wedge shaped and triangular from below. His vehicle engine ran rough then stalled, and the lights inside flashed as the object approached. He was able to see two figures that seemed clothed in silver like material. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Girard, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5558 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20323 (C30F61EB) Date: 9/2/1982 Description: 7:15 p.m. John T. Sery notices an object following a Cessna aircraft at an altitude of 1,500 feet above Minneapolis, Minnesota. It matches the pace of the airplane until it reaches a point about 4 miles away when it descends. His two daughters also view the UFO. The bottom and top of the object are jet black, and it has an equatorial band that is silvery metallic with a hint of rainbow reflections. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Minnesota Flying Black Hamburger,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 6 \(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_6364 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20324 (BDBED7BB) Date: 9/4/1982 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a 150 foot long cigar-shaped object made a deep humming sound at low altitude in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It had a red light and a white beam that searched the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1983 Source ID: Johnson_5639 Source: Johnson ### Event 20325 (21E40270) Date: 9/6/1982 Description: Dogs bark and lights dim as disc follows power line (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [820906](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-820906.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Auberry, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5561 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20326 (8CB57256) Date: 9/9/1982 Description: A partial meltdown occurs at Chernobyl nuclear power plant Unit One in Pripyat, Ukraine. Officials deny that an accident has taken place, but radioactive contamination reaches the town and spreads as far as 9 miles from the plant. It includes iodine-131, fragments of uranium dioxide fuel, and hot particles containing zinc-65 and zirconium-niobium-95 consistent with partial destruction of the reactor core. Contaminated areas around the plant are simply sluiced with water and covered with soil and leaves. Lenin Square is discreetly covered with a new layer of asphalt. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, pp. 69–70 Source ID: Eberhart_6365 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20327 (86172028) Date: 9/11/1982 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a bright white disc-shaped object stopped in Butler County, Pennsylvania when hit by a beam of light, hovered for two minutes, then rose straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1983 Source ID: Johnson_5871 Source: Johnson ### Event 20328 (B87FBFFA) Date: 9/17/1982 Description: At 11:03 p.m. a bright patch of light exploded into an orange fireball near the M.V. Strathdee, a Romanian registry ship sailing in the South Atlantic at the geographical coordinates -11.62 S 33.47 W. According to the article in the MUFON UFO Journal, it flashed rays of light and made no sound. A geiger counter reading indicated a radiation level of 5-7 rads. There were 16 witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: William R. Corliss, Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 283; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1984 Source ID: Johnson_6053 Source: Johnson ### Event 20329 (297F87CE) Date: 9/17/1982 Description: 9:00 p.m. Capt. Stefan Freitag and the crew of the Romanian cargo ship Bosca are steaming 200 miles off the coast of Brazil in the South Atlantic when they see an object like a full moon, accompanied by a smaller, star-light object, which grows brighter and larger in size. Both objects disappear, leaving behind a shiny cloud. Then another moon-like object appears, during which a silent explosion takes place and an orange object is ejected. A fourth moon appears and approaches the ship, causing the crew to panic and the ship’s dog to howl. A fifth object appears briefly, leaving a glow that persists for 30 minutes. A Geiger counter indicates a radiation level of 5–7 rads on the ship. A similar phenomenon is seen by another ship in the general area at 11:03 p.m. and on the following night. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gerhard Cordier, “[Adventure under the Equator,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20Newsletter/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20newsletter%20vol%204%20no%203.pdf)” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3 \(Nov./Dec. 1983\): 3; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1985; Marine Observer 53 \(1983\): 132 Source ID: Eberhart_6366 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20330 (ED4ACB39) Date: 9/17/1982 Description: A bright patch of light exploded into an orange fireball near the M.V. Strathdee, a Romanian registry ship sailing in the South Atlantic. According to the article in the MUFON UFO Journal, it flashed rays of light and made no sound. A geiger counter reading indicated a radiation level of 5-7 rads. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: At sea, South Atlantic Source ID: NICAP_DB_5563 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20331 (7731C91F) Date: 9/17/1982 Description: While walking his dog, a man saw a boomerang-shaped object traveling southeast with erratic, zig-zagging motions. His wife came outside to join him, and together they saw three disc-shaped objects pass overhead. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ipswich, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5562 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20332 (FB6F15F8) Date: 9/18/1982 Description: 3:00 p.m. Villagers in Suchowola, Poland, see a triangular UFO with lights at its tips. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 75–76 Source ID: Eberhart_6367 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20333 (779DF2B4) Date: 9/24/1982 Description: At 6:00 p.m. three witnesses in a rescue boat in Braviken Bay, Ostergotland, Sweden had their navigational radar go crazy when their boat was caught in the wake of a very large object that dove into the ocean from the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden, issue # 25 Source ID: Johnson_6293 Source: Johnson ### Event 20334 (D778B6E1) Date: 9/30/1982 Description: 1:30 a.m. A man and his son finish picking fruit in their orchard on Wolicka street near Czerniaków Hill in Warsaw, Poland. It is well after curfew, so they make their way toward home stealthily. Near the Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych building they smell smoke and see a strange object 20 feet in diameter hovering 3 feet above the ground. A faint orange glow is emanating from its base, causing the grass to smolder. Two thin beings are near the object. One has a device that projects an orange glow. The witnesses leave the scene carefully. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 51; “[Bliskie spotkanie w Warszavie w 1982 roku,](https://ufo-relacje.pl/2020/02/12/bliskie-spotkanie-w-warszawie-w-1982-roku/)” UFO-Relacje.pl, February 12, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_6368 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20335 (F4A0197E) Date: 9/30/1982 Description: At 8:15 p.m. four women in their thirties--Messina, LaMontagne, Poland, and LeClair--had a close encounter with a large metallic ovoid object with red lights while driving on a highway east of Exeter, New Hampshire. It was seen at treetop level. The women got out of the car and attempted to get closer. The sighting lasted four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1983, p. 4; UNICAT, case # 16 Source ID: Johnson_6452 Source: Johnson ### Event 20336 (74EB8F39) Date: 9/30/1982 Description: 10:15 p.m. Four women, all management personnel of New England Bell Company, are returning to Exeter, New Hampshire, after a trip to a county fair to the north. They are riding in a Mercedes owned by the driver, Mary Ann Poland. She and the passengers \(Rose Messina, Mary LaMontagne, and Nicky LeClair\) see a low-flying bright light approaching. Poland pulls the car over and they all jump out, as if the object has a compelling influence on them. The object is egg-shaped with swirling red lights around its equator and a white beam of light coming down from the side. After a few minutes it sinks down behind the tree line. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Exeter Revisited,” IUR 8, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1983\): 4–7 Source ID: Eberhart_6369 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20337 (20F7975F) Date: 10/1982 Description: A generator explodes at Reactor Number One of the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia. The turbine hall burns down, and an emergency team is airlifted from the Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia to help save the core. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adam Higginbotham, Midnight in Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, p. 70 Source ID: Eberhart_6370 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20338 (0617E69F) Date: 10/1982 Description: Looking out the window he was able to see glowing green colored disc shaped craft hovering above the barnyard. On the ground below several small shadowy figures could be seen moving around. Suddenly thee of the short figures appeared at the bedroom door. The beings took the witnesses by their hands and led them to the hovering disc shaped object at the orchard. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Des Moines (near), IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5565 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20339 (2D437B2E) Date: 10/2/1982 Description: 8:00 PM. Ten witnesses of a deltoid object with no sound. (IUR-8,1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Springfield, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_5567 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20340 (DDE77608) Date: 10/2/1982 Description: 8:00 p.m. The North Arkansas Community College volleyball team \(and their coach Sue McDonald\) is returning from a game in Kansas and are near Springfield, Missouri, when they see an object with two brilliant white lights and a blinking red light. It hovers 100–150 feet nearly above the bus. The underside is in full view and about 40–50 smaller lights are plainly visible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[CE-I for a Volleyball Team,](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/317C.pdf)” IUR 8, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1983\): 12–14 Source ID: Eberhart_6371 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20341 (7526D2FA) Date: 10/2/1982 Description: At 5:00 p.m. ten college women, members of a volleyball team, saw an arrowhead or pentagon-shaped object with many multicolored lights while riding in their van onHighway 13, 18 miles north of Springfield, Missouri. The object glided over nearby trees, and then hovered near their van. Its lights were white, yellow, and red, and it gave off white beams of light. It finally moved away silently after 30 seconds. Three hours later ten people in a bus in Brighton, Missouri watched a silent manta ray-shaped object hovering nearby. It too had many lights, and tilted at an angle. Their sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Boone County (AR) Headlight, October 7, 1982; (2) Erwin Polakoff, International UFO Reporter, January 1983, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_6508 Source: Johnson ### Event 20342 (D171237A) Date: 10/4/1982 Description: 4:00–8:00 p.m. Russian Army Lt. Col. Vladimir Plantonev witnesses an hours-long UFO sighting near an IRBM missile base outside the village of Belokorovichi, Ukraine. It looks “just like a flying saucer,” but with no portholes and a smooth surface. It soundlessly makes a turn on its edge. Suddenly, an unspecified number of nuclear missiles spontaneously go into an automated launch sequence by themselves, proceeding to a countdown of 15 seconds before aborting and returning to standby status. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Russian Base Loses Control of Nuclear](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/317C.pdf) [Missiles](http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/317C.pdf)”; Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 81; Robert L. Hastings, “Remarkable Reports from the Missile Field,” IUR 32, no. 1 \(August 2008\): 25–26; Antonio Huneeus, “[Soviet Nukes and UFOs,](http://www.openminds.tv/soviet-nukes-and-ufos/2002)” Open Minds, January 26, 2010; Nukes 445–452 Source ID: Eberhart_6372 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20343 (D7E74CDE) Date: 10/4/1982 Description: Russian Base Loses Control of Nuclear Missiles (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [821004](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/821004ukraine%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ukraine, USSR Source ID: NICAP_DB_5569 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20344 (B347625B) Date: 10/10/1982 Description: Four hat-shaped saucer-shaped objects with flashing lights flew low and fast over San Carlos Sija, Guam at around 6 a.m. A radio died during the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14452 Source ID: Johnson_6729 Source: Johnson ### Event 20345 (8BD8829E) Date: 10/12/1982 Description: Nova presents the documentary The Case of the UFO’s, which is criticized as a biased perspective. The participants on the US version of this BBC production include skeptics [Philip Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) [James Oberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FOberg)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FOberg) and [Michael](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FPersinger) [Persinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FPersinger)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FPersinger) with only brief appearances by [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) and [Allan Hendry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%5FHendry). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Nova: The Case of the UFO’s](https://archive.org/details/TheCaseOfTheUFOs), Time-Life, 1982; J. Allen Hynek, “Nova and UFOs,” IUR 7, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1982\): 3–5; J. Allen Hynek, “An Editorial Apology,” IUR 8, no. 3 \(May/June 1983\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6373 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20346 (04B0FE62) Date: 10/14/1982 Description: 2:00 a.m. Four residents of Alta, Troms og Finnmark, Norway, see three points of light appear above the mountains to the south-southeast. Each point of light is made up of several smaller lights bunched close together. They move in a northerly direction at a great speed, apparently about 43–50 miles in 5 seconds, or about 35,000 mph. Suddenly light rays flash down toward the ground simultaneously from all three objects. The rays are made up cones with an opening angle of about 15°. Their color is a powerful white with a bluish hue, especially at the sides. After 20–25 seconds, the rays begin to widen just as the light begins to diminish in strength. In 2–3 seconds the cones became “an ocean” of light with an opening angle of some 180°. Then they move off one by one with a separation time of one second. At the same moment as the lights go out there appears an ellipsoid object that gives off a faint light, but nevertheless is distinctly visible. Its color is pink with a deeper color tone that becomes gray just underneath the object. It is motionless, hanging in the sky for 30 minutes, then it suddenly disappears. All of the observers feel a strange, dead silence during the entire observation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Elbjørg Feldbjerg, “[Extraordinary](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20%28English%20language%29/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%201983%20No%202.pdf) [Observation from Alta,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20%28English%20language%29/Nordic%20UFO%20Newsletter%20-%201983%20No%202.pdf)” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1983, no. 2, pp. 15–18 Source ID: Eberhart_6374 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20347 (F156AEBB) Date: 10/15/1982 Description: 1:35 p.m. A witness at the Diamond Shamrock plant at Lamar \[now Botham Jean Boulevard\] and Lenway Street in Dallas, Texas, sees a domed, metallic disc that apparently has risen up from the Trinity River bottom and is heading east. He estimates it is 60 feet wide and flying at 3,000–4,000 feet. It has bright red lights on top. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Letter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1983\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_6375 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20348 (81530261) Date: Late 1982 End date: Early 1983 Description: "Night Siege" boomerangs, continuing for a long period of time Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: New York State and Connecticut Source ID: HallUFOE2_396 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20349 (B48D91B7) Date: 10/16/1982 Description: 4:00 PM. Cube-shaped object tumbles across sky while being pursued by two military jets. Any sound masked by jets. (MUJ-189) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boyd County, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5571 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20350 (72B9995D) Date: 10/18/1982 Description: Silver oval with "four legs" (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [821018](http://www.nicap.org/lakenorman821018dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Norman, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5572 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20351 (12B7C198) Date: 10/18/1982 Description: 7:50 p.m. A couple is driving along Quinpool Road near Armview Avenue in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when they see an object about 8 times the size of the full moon traveling silently south to north at about 50 mph and 300 feet altitude. It is cigar-shaped with a steady green light in front and a flashing green light in back. They have it in sight for 15 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Correspondence,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1983\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_6376 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20352 (FC55E8FA) Date: 10/18/1982 Description: Silver oval UFO with "four legs" (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, NC) Reference: NICAP: [821018](http://www.nicap.org/lakenorman821018dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Norman, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5573 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20353 (14DA2F3E) Date: 10/19/1982 Description: Night. A US Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft monitoring Soviet military activity is buzzed by a huge object \(larger than the RC-135\) over the eastern Mediterranean Sea. British personnel at RAF Troödos on Cyprus listen to the radio calls of the American crew for 90 minutes as the encounter unfolds at 35,000 feet. The UFO, described as a multitude of lights flashing 20 at a time, is picked up on the aircraft’s radar as it approaches from the south about 2 miles away. It circles around the plane and closes in. Two US Navy F-14 fighters are scrambled from an aircraft carrier, and an RAF Phantom is diverted from a night flying exercise to intercept the object south of Cyprus. As the three interceptors approach, the RC-135 crew sees the object depart to the south. The fighter pilots can see nothing. Following the incident, British authorities launch a secret investigation, the results of which \(including a transcript of the RC-135 crew’s conversation with ground controllers\) are sent to the US Department of Defense in November. One senior RAF official strongly suspects that the object is a mirage effect from lights on the coast of Israel or Lebanon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke, “A Cold War Close Encounter,” Fortean Times 357 \(September 2017\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_6377 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20354 (F9C7C2C3) Date: 10/21/1982 Description: 12:35 p.m. An oval object about 3 feet in diameter descends into a garden in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, and hovers about 3 feet off the ground. After 20 minutes the object takes off silently. The witness, a cellular biologist, reports that when the UFO rises up, the grass under it stands up straight. In the afternoon, the witness notes that two amaranth plants located near the UFO have desiccated, withered leaves. The witness calls the Gendarmerie, who inspect the garden and take some samples of the amaranth plants. The analysis of the samples made by GEPAN finds that the plants are dehydrated, but there is no evidence of radiation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Enquête](http://www.ldi5.com/ovni/sepra/nt17.php) [86/06: L’Amarante](http://www.ldi5.com/ovni/sepra/nt17.php)[,](http://www.ldi5.com/ovni/sepra/nt17.php) Note Technique no. 17, Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés, Centre Nationale d’Étude Spatiales, March 21, 1983; Swords 445–446 Source ID: Eberhart_6378 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20355 (580D5A37) Date: 10/22/1982 Description: 8:00 PM A large dull grey triangular shaped object with a humming sound came slowly from the southeast,flew over witnesses in yard of rural home, paused to hover in the northeast over a 10 foot tree, then moved out of sight in the northeast. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Westort, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5574 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20356 (EB2B5076) Date: 10/24/1982 Description: Pilot & student enc dbl globular object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lowell, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5575 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20357 (E95AA190) Date: 10/24/1982 Description: At 6:20 a.m. an unidentified object shaped like two globes connected by a nozzle with four tubes, buzzed a light aircraft being flown by a student pilot and a flight instructor southeast of Lowell, Indiana. The two men reported that they felt heavy turbulence from the object, and their altimeter malfunctioned. The craft made complex maneuvers for several minutes, and climbed at a speed of 6000 feet per second. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Remaley, International UFO Reporter, May 1983, p. 4; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 51; Richard F. Haines, A Preliminary Report of 64 Pilot Sightings Involving EM Effects on Aircraft, p. 50; UNICAT, case # 10 Source ID: Johnson_7097 Source: Johnson ### Event 20358 (0A5BD3CF) Date: 10/24/1982 Description: 9:20 a.m. Pilot Michael Davis and his father \(a student pilot\) are flying a 1968 Piper PA-28 Cherokee 140 about 10 miles southeast of Lowell, Indiana. Just after reaching their cruising altitude of 2,300 feet, they encounter an object they at first think is a malfunctioning parachute. At one point, the UFO flicks across their nose, veering to its left and missing the aircraft’s right wingtip by no more than 10 feet. It has no exhaust trail. At the instant that it passes, the vortex hits them so hard that the plane’s airframe groans in protest, and the altimeter goes “wacky.” It continues to curve to the left, still accelerating and eventually beginning to climb until it finally disappears into the distant haze. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Pilots Encounter Object over Indiana / EME](http://www.nicap.org/821024lowell%5Fdir.htm)”; Mark R. Remaley, “An Incredible Close Encounter from Credible Pilots,” IUR 8, no. 3 \(May/June 1983\): 4–7 Source ID: Eberhart_6379 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20359 (03262E6C) Date: 10/27/1982 Description: Early evening. Bonnie McCrory and her father, Maurice Smith, are driving south on the Richardson Highway near Summit Lake, Alaska, when their pickup stops with a frozen gas line. After about 20 minutes, they notice a huge ball on the ridge to the east. It is silver-colored and looks like a geodesic dome. Within the next hour it changes color from silver to yellow to orange to fiery red-orange. It slowly moves up the ridge until it moves out of sight. Possibly the full moon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard Sigismond, “Alaska Close Encounter,” IUR 9, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1984\): 8–9; Hobart Gregory Baker, “Sail Along, Silvery Disc,” IUR 10, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1985\): 16, 20; Richard Sigismond, “Sail Along, Silvery Disc: A Response,” IUR 11, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1986\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_6380 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20360 (49A842F1) Date: 10/27/1982 Description: On this evening a father and daughter witnessed a large silvery sphere, 100 feet in diameter, with pocks like a golf ball, near Summit Lake, Alaska. It changed color to orange, and then to red, only 100 yards away from them. It made no sound. The close encounter lasted about an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Sigismonde, International UFO Reporter, November 1984, p. 8; UNICAT, case # 80 Source ID: Johnson_7203 Source: Johnson ### Event 20361 (7EBBB9A0) Date: 11/1982 Description: After 12:00 midnight. A man and his wife are camping in Davies Valley, Imperial County, California, when they are awakened by a surge of static electricity. A huge object shaped like a manta ray 200 feet across is hovering above them. It makes a humming sound as it slowly passes over them, heading east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Doris and Joe Graziano, “[Press Reports,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201983%2008%2000%20-%20Vol%2031%20No%208.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 31, no. 8 \(August 1983\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6381 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20362 (820BBCA8) Date: 11/1/1982 Description: A man in Phoenix, Arizona reported that he had had a UFO abduction on this night, at around 11:15 p.m. He recalled lying naked on an exam table made out of something resembling leather. He was in a dimly lit room, with a door that opened with a swooshing sound. He saw a four-foot six-inch tall creature, slender, with long thin arms, and with six fingers on each hand. The being had a large bulbous head with slightly bulging eyes. There were other similar beings in the room while the witness was being examined. He could not remember any additional details. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1982 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3827, citing UFO Abductions Raw Data Page, UFO Watch Source ID: Johnson_7395 Source: Johnson ### Event 20363 (8B4367DB) Date: 11/2/1982 Description: Shiny disc below two military aircraft darted up to their altitude, rapidly circled one of them, sped out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Maxial, Estremadura Province, Portugal Source ID: HallUFOE2_392 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20364 (E325A50D) Date: 11/2/1982 Description: 10:50 a.m. Capt. Júlio Miguel Guerra is flying a DHC-1 Chipmunk in the region of Serrea de Montejunto and Torres Vedras, Portugal, near Ota Air Base \[now Military and Technical Training Center of the Air Force\] in Ota, Alenquer, Portugal. He encounters a metallic disc at 4,900 feet that engages in evasive maneuvers and circles his plane. The object is 7 feet in diameter and its lower hemisphere is reddish. A circular dark area is visible on the bottom and something looking like a grid encircles its middle. The pilot of another Chipmunk trainer sees the same object at 11:05 a.m. The object continues circling between the two aircraft for 10 minutes, when it makes a pass at the second plane and speeds off to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: José Sottomayor and Antônio Rodrigues, “[Close](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201987%20V%2032%20N%205.pdf) [Sighting by Portuguese Air Force Pilots \(November 1982\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201987%20V%2032%20N%205.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 5 \(August 1987\): 12– 13; Júlio Miguel Guerra, “Circled by a UFO,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 3, 21; Kean, [pp. 47–51](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/46/mode/2up); UFOEv II 108–109 Source ID: Eberhart_6383 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20365 (4FC4A80E) Date: Early 11/1982 Description: 6:15 p.m. Rachel Morton is waiting for a bus in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, when a triangular-shaped object with a domed covering passes noiselessly overhead. Two small white lights are at the front and three lights at the top. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Whitby \(UK\) Gazette, November 12, 1982; Marler 114 Source ID: Eberhart_6382 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20366 (89278FA4) Date: 11/2/1982 Description: Round object made pass at AF trainer (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maxial, Portugal Source ID: NICAP_DB_5576 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20367 (50A71BFC) Date: 11/6/1982 Description: 3:45 PM. A brilliant round, intense light was seen in the sky over Lombard, Illinois. There appeared to be very small airplanes circling this huge unmoving object. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lombard, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5577 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20368 (D1B8FA68) Date: 11/6/1982 Description: A brilliant round, intense light was seen in the sky over Lombard, Illinois at 3:45 p.m. There appeared to be very small airplanes circling this huge unmoving object. The witness, D. Keogh, called the nearby Adler Planetarium, but got the usual "run around." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies files Source ID: Johnson_7510 Source: Johnson ### Event 20369 (90079C3A) Date: 11/10/1982 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a man walking home in Vegas De Coria, Spain heard a loud wailing sound as he approached his house. He looked around, and noticed a strange black lump on the ground nearby. He walked towards it and as he got near the thing began to grow larger until it became a huge, dark man-like figure that approached him making a strange "swishing" sound. The frightened witness retreated and grabbed two stones from the ground. He then screamed and the figure stopped, turned, and left. He then saw a bright flash and the figure vanished. The figure was described as completely black, almost two-meters tall, and wearing a black cape. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 605, citing J. J. Benitez, La Quinta Columna Source ID: Johnson_7593 Source: Johnson ### Event 20370 (00F86FB0) Date: 11/13/1982 Description: A farmer walking a mule at 9:30 p.m. in Arrolobos, Spain saw a dark figure walk toward him. The witness yelled, asking who he was. The figure replied in a low guttural voice "Don't you know me?" It then ran down a bank and disappeared. It was described as tall, muscular, and wearing a black outfit. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, citing J. J. Benitez Source ID: Johnson_7645 Source: Johnson ### Event 20371 (FAFAC438) Date: 11/16/1982 Description: Leonid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_393 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20372 (D05FE64A) Date: 11/18/1982 Description: Late at night Andreas Schneider sighted a maneuvering disc-shaped object over Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. He lost consciousness and had an out-of-body experience, feeling that his "astral" body was taken into the object. Inside he encountered several short beings with wrinkly rough gray skin and huge heads. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands Source ID: NICAP_DB_5578 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20373 (4A2D14BD) Date: 11/18/1982 Description: Late at night Andreas Schneider sighted a maneuvering disc-shaped object over Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. He lost consciousness and had an out-of-body experience, feeling that his "astral" body was taken into the object. Inside he encountered several short beings with wrinkly rough gray skin and huge heads. The beings communicated by using telepathy and told Schneider they were from the planet "Humo." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 3180, citing S.I.B. Betelgeuse Source ID: Johnson_7734 Source: Johnson ### Event 20374 (B9D48121) Date: 11/19/1982 Description: At 11:10 p.m. a 36-year-old nurse on her way to work noticed a green light over a field directly ahead of her, south of Temperanceville, Virginia and not far from the NASA facility at Wallops Island. She stopped her car and looked in the direction of the light, and noticed that it was on a circular silvery grayish object that was shining a bright shaft of light onto the field. In the center of the object she could see a large bubble like window illuminated by a soft white light. Inside the window she could see three dark human-like figures moving around, visible from the waist up. The object then moved slowly towards her car flying over it, making a humming sound like a generator. It flew towards the bay and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Grattan, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1983, p. 16; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982; case #222 Source ID: Johnson_7743 Source: Johnson ### Event 20375 (89969D46) Date: 11/19/1982 Description: Circular object with body lights shone light beam down into field, three humanoid silhouettes visible inside. Object rose, flew directly over car, humming sound (sections IX, XII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Temperanceville, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5580 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20376 (370BBAC3) Date: 11/19/1982 Description: Circular object with body lights shone light beam down into field, three humanoid silhouettes visible inside. Object rose, flew directly over car, humming sound Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Temperanceville, VA Source ID: HallUFOE2_394 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20377 (B90649AF) Date: Late 11/1982 Description: Senior Coastguard Bernard O’Reilly watches a lighted triangular object hovering silently for several minutes over Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. It moves away to the southeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lincolnshire \(UK\) Daily Echo, December 1, 1982; Marler 114 Source ID: Eberhart_6384 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20378 (7FE4803E) Date: 11/25/1982 Description: Day. US Army Military Policeman Christopher Grooms is on guard duty in Tower 5 at the Army Special Weapons Depot at Kriegsfeld, a nuclear weapons storage and maintenance site in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He watches for over 10 minutes a dark triangular-shaped craft fly slowly in a straight line from the southwest, over the valley, over the town of Gerbach, and directly over his watchtower, flying toward the northeast. After approaching for about 7 minutes, it flies directly overhead and Grooms steps out onto the tower landing with M- 16 in hand and looks straight up at the object. It is completely silent and has no markings. As it passes over, the object rotates 360° nose down, pointing directly at him, then rotates back into its original position. Grooms has “the overwhelming feeling that it was acknowledging my presence with this maneuver or was ‘checking me out’ as it did it.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert L. Hastings, “[Triangular UFO above a U.S. Army Nuclear Weapons Depot Performs a 360-](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/triangular-ufo-above-a-us-army-nuclear-weapons-depot-performs-a-360-degree-roll) [Degree Roll,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/triangular-ufo-above-a-us-army-nuclear-weapons-depot-performs-a-360-degree-roll)” UFOs & Nukes, January 26, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_6385 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20379 (62956067) Date: 11/27/1982 Description: Police Commander Michael McDonald was on patrol at 5:00 a.m. when the area around his car was lighted, as if by a phosphorous flare. Looking up he saw a large white UFO with tinges of red at an altitude of 900–1000 ft. Two other officers, alerted by radio, also observed the UFO. The other two cars gave pursuit to the UFO at speeds of between 60–65 mph but the UFO outdistanced them. A few minutes later another UFO was noted by the commander and then the other two officers. It was a diffuse “domed disc” which was seen to emit a beam of light towards the ground. The UFO then disappeared behind the tree line of a forest preserve. The police report includes a tape recording of the radio communications during the sighting. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Palatine, IL Source ID: Maj2_737 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20380 (C91F734C) Date: 11/27/1982 Description: At 5:00 o'clock in the morning in Palatine, Illinois in the suburbs of Cook County, there was a vehicle encounter between three police officers and a domed disc-shaped object 30 feet in diameter, which emitted a light beam toward the ground. It began when a luminous object with brilliant illumination brightly illuminated a police patrol car, then changed direction when pursued. The white domed disc was later seen to the east, with a light beam extended toward the ground, as it descended behind the tree line. The entire episode lasted about three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, International UFO Reporter, March 1983, p. 10; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 188 & 315; UNICAT, case # 13 Source ID: Johnson_7969 Source: Johnson ### Event 20381 (16B9A0F3) Date: 11/27/1982 Description: At 6:00 a.m. two hunters in a deer blind in Castroville, Texas saw a multi-colored V-shaped object nearly over their heads, moving very slowly toward the west. It would stop, drop suddenly several thousand feet, move laterally very fast, then turn without banking. It never made a sound. It disappeared from view just at sunrise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Elmer J. Romigh, MUFON Field Investigations Database, case 931235J Source ID: Johnson_7970 Source: Johnson ### Event 20382 (D3266872) Date: 11/27/1982 Description: 5:00 a.m. A luminous object with brilliant lights brightly illuminates a police patrol car driven by Cmdr. Michael McDonald near the intersection of West Northwest Highway and Smith Street in Palatine, Illinois. Two other officers \(Ron Roszak and Dennis Somsel\) in two other patrol cars on Lincoln Avenue see a domed, disc- shaped object 30 feet in diameter, which emits a light beam toward the ground, then changes direction when pursued. The white disc is later seen to the east, with a light beam extended toward the ground, as it descends behind the tree line, seemingly landing in Busse Woods \(Ned Brown Forest Preserve\). The entire episode lasts about 12 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “A Police Puzzler from Palatine,” IUR 8, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1983\): 10– 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6386 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20383 (9B725F1D) Date: 11/27/1982 Description: Two hunters in a deer blind in Castroville, Texas saw a multi-colored V-shaped object nearly over their heads, moving very slowly toward the west. It would stop, drop suddenly several thousand feet, move laterally very fast, and then turn without banking. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Castroville, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5582 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20384 (1FA374FF) Date: 11/27/1982 Description: Luminous object brightly illuminated police car, changed direction when pursued. Domed disc shape seen to east, light beam toward ground, descended behind tree line (section V). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Palatine, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5581 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20385 (DA59BEA0) Date: 11/27/1982 Description: Luminous object brightly illuminated police car, changed direction when pursued. Domed disc shape seen to east, light beam toward ground, descended behind tree line Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Palatine, IL Source ID: HallUFOE2_395 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20386 (2F01A680) Date: 11/29/1982 Description: In Botucatu, Sao Paolo State, Brazil Joao Valeiro da Silva was awakened at 1:50 a.m. by indigestion and a noise in his backyard. He opened the door and went outside where a brilliant beam of light fell on him and he was confronted by three beings, each about six feet tall, who were wearing blue, tight-fitting coveralls with holes for their eyes and mouth. They approached him, holding their palms up as if showing they carried no weapons. Despite the friendly gesture the witness fainted. Nobody missed him until early morning when his brother, Simeon, awoke at 5:00 a.m. and discovered him missing and signs of a struggle. His family found Joao lying outside, nude and unconscious, alongside his clothing in a rumpled pile. They rushed him to a hospital where he recovered two hours later. Although Joao did not remember being taken onboard a craft, he found himself seated on a circular seat in what resembled a well-lighted hospital-like operating room, and the same beings who had confronted him at his door appeared again. They wore clothing, which looked as if it were made of rubber material, and talked to each other in an unintelligible language as they led him to a wall bearing an outline of a human form. The beings would look at the drawing and then at him, as if comparing the two. Then they left the room by passing through a wall. A naked female who looked human then entered the room. She had long hair, was deeply tanned or dark skinned, and looked to be about 20 years old. She carried a Y-shaped instrument about a foot long. As she grasped his head and touched his cheek with the device he lost consciousness. He had a mark on his cheek, a scratch on his chest and an arm, and his wristwatch had stopped at 4:20 a.m. An interview with his family disclosed a "sickly smelling oily substance" had covered his nude body. Da Silva also complained that his genitals "were burning". da Silva had been troubled by poltergeist activity before the abduction, but it ceased. He later had several other adbuction experiences. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1983, p. 2; FSR, October 1984, pp. 22-25; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 132; Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 142; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 562 Source ID: Johnson_8045 Source: Johnson ### Event 20387 (EFA2777E) Date: 11/30/1982 Description: In Botucatu, State of Sao Paolo, Brazil Joao Valeiro da Silva was awakened at 2:00 a.m. by a noise in his backyard. He opened the door and was confronted by two strange little men and a woman, each about three feet tall, and wearing brilliant blue coveralls. They approached him, holding their palms upward as if to show they carried no weapons. Despite the friendly gesture the witness fainted, and nobody missed him until early next morning when his brother Simeon awoke early at 5:00 a.m. and tiptoed into his room to borrow some antacid medicine. He noticed Joao was missing and what looked like signs of a struggle, so he awakened the household. His family found Joao lying outside, nude and unconscious, and alongside him was his clothing in a rumpled pile. They rushed him to hospital where he recovered two hours later. Although Joao did not remember being taken onboard a craft, he remembered that he found himself in a hospital-like operating room, and the same small beings were there that had appeared at his door. They wore clothing that looked it was made from a rubber material. They talked to him and led him to a wall bearing an outline of a human form. The beings would look at the drawing and then at him, as if comparing the two. Then they left. A naked girl then entered the room. She had long hair, was tanned or dark, and carried an instrument about a foot long. When she grasped his head he lost consciousness. An subsequent interview with his family disclosed that a "sickly smelling oily substance" had covered his nude body. Da Silva also complained that his genitals "were burning". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, citing Gray Barker's UFO Annual 1983 Source ID: Johnson_8087 Source: Johnson ### Event 20388 (98A1A2BB) Date: 12/1982 Description: During naval exercises in the Black Sea near the port of Sevastopol in the Crimea, Russia, an unidentified target is detected over the Balaklava District at a low altutude. It has a sharp nose and sparks coming from its tail section. The object does not respond to attempts at communication, so jet interceptors are scrambled. The object descends into the water when they approach. Soviet naval ships cannot detect it underwater. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 133–134 Source ID: Eberhart_6387 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20389 (333BD53E) Date: 12/2/1982 Description: A silent object beamed three lights down at 8 a.m., then followed a car in Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England. There followed an RAF investigation of the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Contact, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_8144 Source: Johnson ### Event 20390 (DB807A10) Date: 12/8/1982 End date: 12/12/1982 Description: The Third International Congress of Extraterrestrial Science is held in Rosario, Argentina, with representatives from Spain, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and the US, as well as Argentina. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Third International Congress of Extraterrestrial Science,” IUR 8, no. 3 \(May/June 1983\): 3, 7, 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6388 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20391 (C4677CCC) Date: 12/10/1982 Description: At 9:00 p.m. two observers in Bacup, Lancashire, England sighted a UFO that looked like two semicircles of white light connected by two bars of red light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Science and the UFOs, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_8318 Source: Johnson ### Event 20392 (B8C21815) Date: 12/10/1982 Description: 7:55 a.m. Stephen Eric Alexander is waiting for a school bus with his daughter in Rosedale, Queens, New York City, when he sees an object among a flock of birds. The birds disperse and leave the object alone, drifting silently at 25 mph. After 15 seconds, it tilts and veers to the southwest and disappears. He estimates the object is 11 feet wide and 5 feet tall, 150 feet away from him, and 210 feet above the ground. Its ends pointed slightly downward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[1977 Photograph/Sighting and 1982 Sketch Similarity,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1983\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_6389 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20393 (73FAAE42) Date: 12/10/1982 Description: A rocket cigar-shaped object with windows, looking very much like the one seen by Chiles and Whitted in 1948, was witnessed by UFO investigator Paul Cerny on SR36 west of Mineral, Tehama County, California, as it sailed by heading to the southwest at 8:15 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Cerny, MUFON UFO Journal, issue 179 Source ID: Johnson_8319 Source: Johnson ### Event 20394 (5F8E3BF9) Date: 12/17/1982 Description: In 1982 at five p.m. at a military base in Malmby, Sweden Captain Bergstrom of the Swedish Army was out jogging and saw a huge “flying bus” with two other metallic disc-shaped objects escorting it. The three objects glided down to land in a clearing behind some trees. Two other witnesses watched the objects change color as they landed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, November 1984, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_8474 Source: Johnson ### Event 20395 (FB4A75A2) Date: 12/21/1982 Description: A witness driving from Échallens to Orbe, Vaud, Switzerland, notes a red globe 5–6 inches in diameter closely following his car. The light spreads inside the car as the object apparently settles down on the rear seat. He experiences about 8–10 minutes of missing time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Newspaper Item from Bern, Switzerland, January 12, 1983,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1983\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6390 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20396 (27C70D16) Date: 12/21/1982 Description: 1:50 PM. An orange light followed a car down a highway in Maddington. The UFO would hide when the car slowed down, then come back and pace the car when the driver sped up. (Sources: Australian Center for UFO Studies) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Maddington, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5583 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20397 (259F2FF5) Date: 12/21/1982 Description: Two UFO car pursuits occurred in the same twenty-four hour period on opposite sides of the globe. At 1:50 p.m. an orange light followed a car down a highway in Maddington, Western Australia. The UFO would hide when the car slowed down, then come back and pace the car when the driver sped up. In Penthereaz, Switzerland at 9:00 p.m. a small glowing sphere followed a car for ten minutes and lit up the vehicle’s interior. The luminous ball was estimated to be only 12 centimeters in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australian Center for UFO Studies; Bruno Mancusi, SWICAT Swiss UFO catalogue Source ID: Johnson_8556 Source: Johnson ### Event 20398 (C4C248A1) Date: 12/21/1982 Description: 9:00 PM. A small glowing sphere followed a car for ten minutes and lit up the vehicle's interior. The luminous ball was estimated to be only 12 centimeters in diameter. ((SWICAT Swiss UFO catalogue). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Penthereaz, Switzerland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5584 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20399 (A585CA68) Date: 12/30/1982 Description: A green beam of light shone into a house on this night in Mirassol, Brazil and a noise was heard coming from the bedroom by the young man who lived there. He next saw three humanoid beings emerge from the room: two wore white coveralls and helmets, while the third had no helmet and had red hair and dark skin. They asked him if he was afraid as they walked by, and he said no. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 793, citing Irene Granchi Source ID: Johnson_8659 Source: Johnson ### Event 20400 (A1A40E5F) Date: 12/31/1982 Description: Around 11:50 p.m. An off-duty police officer and his family see a boomerang-shaped object drift slowly over their home near Kent Cliffs, New York. They can see a solid structure with roughly 15 red, green, and white lights anchored to its underside. It maintains a constant altitude of about 490 feet, moves at a gentle walking pace, and makes only a faint hum. As it passes over, he feels a deep vibration in his chest. At one point, the lights go out and three blinding white lights in the shape of a triangle appear in their place. About 5 seconds later, the colored ones return, and the object drifts out of sight. Warehouse foreman Edwin Hansen, 55, sees what appears to be the same object as he is driving down Interstate 84, just moments later. Hansen, among others, stops on the side of the road after spotting a boomerang-shaped formation of lights that project a bright beam of light to the ground. It is so large that it fills the sky in front of him, and it makes slow, tight circles in the air. Just as he thinks he’d like to get a closer look, the object moves in his direction. He panics as it approaches, but then hears a voice in his head that tells him not to be afraid. At the same time, the object turns away and the beam goes out. Hansen says that he “felt thoughts that weren’t \[his\] own,” and believes that he has received a telepathic communication from the UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NightSiege 5–9 Source ID: Eberhart_6391 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20401 (5EC4626F) Date: 12/31/1982 Description: In Kent Cliffs, New York in the lower Hudson River Valley a police officer and his wife spotted a delta-shaped UFO making a faint, low frequency hum at 11:54 p.m. The colored lights on the object switched off and three bright white lights lit up the ground. He was able to shoot some movie film of the UFO, but the images are of low quality. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek & Phil Imbrogno, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_8677 Source: Johnson ### Event 20402 (FA64F3A6) Date: 12/31/1982 Description: In the lower Hudson River Valley a police officer and his wife spotted a delta- shaped UFO making a faint, low frequency hum. The colored lights on the object switched off and three bright white lights lit up the ground. He was able to shoot some movie film of the UFO, but the images are of low quality (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kent Cliffs, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5585 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1983 (Back to Top) ### Event 20403 (D4F29830) Date: 1983 Description: Since 1966, some 6,700 Ummo communications have been received. The early ones are written in Spanish, but over time they are composed in French, though certain grammar and punctuation oddities indicate that Spanish, not French, is the writers’ first language. Other analyses indicate a British origin. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Planetary objects](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%5Fobjects%5Fproposed%5Fin%5Freligion%2C%5Fastrology%2C%5Fufology%5Fand%5Fpseudoscience\#Ummo) [proposed in religion, astrology, ufology, and pseudoscience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%5Fobjects%5Fproposed%5Fin%5Freligion%2C%5Fastrology%2C%5Fufology%5Fand%5Fpseudoscience\#Ummo)”; Wikipedia, “[Ummo](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ummo)”; Jacques Vallée, Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception, Ballantine, 1990, [pp. 90–121](https://archive.org/details/revelationsalien00vall/page/90/mode/2up); Bob Rickard, “The Ummo Mystery,” Fortean Times, no. 149 \(September 2001\): 34–35; Reinaldo Manso, Ummo: Un Historia de un Obsesión, Megustaesscribirlibros, 2015; Reinaldo Manso, “Were the Ummites British?” Fortean Times 336 \(February 2016\): 58–59; Clark III 1185–1186 Source ID: Eberhart_6392 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20404 (A1B75EF9) Date: 1983 Description: A handful of mysterious seeds have been delivered to Earth by space aliens (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [830000](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/1mufon/mufon%5Fmx0000%5F83.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Puebla, MX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5587 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20405 (A7466638) Date: 1983 Description: [Philip J. Klass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FKlass) writes UFOs: The Public Deceived for Prometheus Press, claiming that all significant government documentation has been released and that UFO reports are nothing but hoaxes, misidentifications, and distortions. He personally attacks [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee), [Richard Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall), and others. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philip J. Klass, UFOs: The Public Deceived, Prometheus, 1983 Source ID: Eberhart_6393 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20406 (4DAEA4A8) Date: 1/1983 Description: The first issue of Cuadernos de Ufologia, edited by José Ruesga Montiel and featuring case investigations by many Spanish ufologists, is published in Seville, Spain, by the Colectivo Cuadernos \(and beginning in 1997 by La Fundación Anomalía\). It continues through April 2012. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Cuadernos de Ufologia](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Cuadernos%20de%20Ufologia%20%28Fundacion%20Anomalia%29/1a%20epoca/Cuadernos%20de%20Ufologia%20-%20No%2001%20-%201983.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Cuadernos%20de%20Ufologia%20%28Fundacion%20Anomalia%29/1a%20epoca/Cuadernos%20de%20Ufologia%20-%20No%2001%20-%201983.pdf) no. 1 \(January 1983\) Source ID: Eberhart_6394 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20407 (4888DFF1) Date: 1/10/1983 End date: 1/11/1983 Description: CAUS director and attorney [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) has two meetings with [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) in New Mexico. During the first meeting, with [Bill Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) in attendance, Doty is guarded in his comments. At the second meeting with Gersten alone, he speaks openly about the 1977 Ellsworth AFB “incident” that he claims AFOSI and the FBI are investigating. He tells Gersten that the US government knows why UFOs appear in certain places and that “beyond a doubt they’re extraterrestrial” and come from 50 light years away. He mentions Project Aquarius, which he says is the government’s top-secret involvement in communications with aliens. He speaks of documents that tell of agreements between the US government and extraterrestrials under which the aliens are free to conduct animal mutilations and land at a certain base, in exchange for information about advanced UFO technology. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 363 Source ID: Eberhart_6395 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20408 (EEC8FBC6) Date: 1/12/1983 Description: 4:30 p.m. A man and his two sons encounter a short entity in a gray “wetsuit” uniform holding a glowing L-shaped object in a swampy area near their house in Pine Township, Porter County, Indiana. Both are floating 2– 3 feet above the ground. A second being is peering over a fence at them. The encounter lasts about 5 minutes, and no UFO is seen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: R. A. Busse, “An Indiana CE-III,” IUR 8, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1983\): 6–9 Source ID: Eberhart_6396 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20409 (FEBB1C05) Date: 1/12/1983 Description: 4:30 PM. CE-III, humanoid report by three witnesses, "L-shaped" object held. UFO not seen and no sound heard. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [830112](http://www.nicap.org/pinetwp830112.pdf) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tippecanoe County, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5588 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20410 (7BAE456A) Date: 1/14/1983 Description: 7:53 p.m. A bright object appears in the sky above Adana, Turkey, and many people stop their cars to look at it. Soon the object is joined by two US Air Force jets from Incirlik Air Base. One of the jets flies in tight circles around the UFO, which dwarfs it in size and is described as a disc with a dome on the underside. The object accelerates and disappears over the Mediterranean Sea with the jets in pursuit. Only one jet returns to base, although the other could have been lost during an unrelated search-and-rescue mission. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 312–](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/312/mode/2up) [313](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/312/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6398 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20411 (CE7DD788) Date: 1/14/1983 Description: 5:54 p.m. Amateur astronomer [Todd Lohvinenko](https://memorials.friendsfs.ca/todd-lohvinenko/4225237/) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, observes a “perfectly black orb” traversing the Sun in 3 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Todd Lohvinenko, “[A Mysterious Object,](https://www.rasc.ca/sites/default/files/publications/nn-1983-04.pdf)” National Newsletter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 77, no. 2 \(April 1983\): L19 Source ID: Eberhart_6397 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20412 (880B722E) Date: 1/18/1983 Description: Two hundred people, including school students, a boys soccer team, their coaches, and two detectives witnessed two triangles of light fly over Cardiff, Wales at dusk. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_379 Source: Johnson ### Event 20413 (C7C4494C) Date: 1/19/1983 Description: 6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. South Wales police begin to receive reports of UFOs. Two detectives in Swansea observe a silent, triangular object with three pulsating lights at 1,000 feet altitude. Carole Griffiths and her husband are driving home in Cardiff when they see a large triangular object in the sky and pull over to watch. It has 11 lights around it. Similar objects are seen in Porthcawl and other Welsh localities. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 114–117 Source ID: Eberhart_6399 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20414 (A4AB0BC2) Date: 1/19/1983 Description: Hundreds Watch Massive UFO (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [830119](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/1mufon/mufon%5Fgb0119%5F83.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5589 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20415 (0AAF1BB6) Date: 1/27/1983 Description: 7:00 p.m. Peggy Iery sees a large central white light with two flanking lights over some power lines as she is returning home 2 miles north of Marquette, Michigan. Suddenly it appears over her car and seems so huge that it blocks out the sky. Its shape is a perfect pentagon with a small white light at each of the corners; the bottom is silvery and flat. She drives home quickly, and she and her husband see four lights nearby, which gradually recede beyond the trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth C. Schellhase, “The Marquette Pentagon,” IUR 8, no. 3 \(May/June 1983\): 11–13 Source ID: Eberhart_6400 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20416 (5AC4C380) Date: 1/30/1983 Description: Four witnesses were driving in a car down a road in the countryside near Olkusz, Katowice, Poland at around 9 p.m. when they had a close encounter with a cylinder of light, which became a glowing ovoid object. During the encounter they noticed that the surrounding scenery appeared strange and altered. After the experience all observers were very tired. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bronislaw Rzepecki, FSR, March 1988 Source ID: Johnson_614 Source: Johnson ### Event 20417 (4A2FE844) Date: 2/3/1983 Description: At 1:10 a.m. a 28-year-old woman observed a very large metallic, cylindrical flying object with structural detail up close while driving on a highway near Mobile, Alabama. She could see 20-30 occupants inside through the windows. They appear to pay no attention to her, although she feels a sense of euphoria during the event. She had earlier had dreams of a UFO abduction encounter including a physical exam. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ed Brown, APRO Bulletin, May 1984, p. 1; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 103 Source ID: Johnson_682 Source: Johnson ### Event 20418 (14EAB08E) Date: 2/3/1983 Description: 1:10 AM. A 28-year-old woman observed a very large metallic, cylindrical flying object with structural detail up close while driving on a highway near Mobile. She could see 20-30 occupants inside through the windows. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mobile (near), AL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5590 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20419 (03F27F04) Date: 2/7/1983 Description: 8:19 p.m. A witness in Coffeen, Illinois, sees a triangular object with bright lights. A similar object is seen by a police officer 10 miles southwest of Brighton, Illinois, around 8:27 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 209 Source ID: Eberhart_6401 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20420 (7E3C9A80) Date: 2/11/1983 Description: The Parisian newspaper Le Figaro cites unnamed specialists who say that GEPAN exists only because it reflects the enthusiasm of former President [Valéry Giscard d’Estaing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9ry%5FGiscard%5Fd%27Estaing) and that it costs too much, even though it is only a small percentage of the CNES budget. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 547 Source ID: Eberhart_6402 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20421 (C672EC40) Date: 2/19/1983 Description: A class of school children, a football team, and police officers Mike Troake and G. Humphreys witnessed a huge triangle during the daytime as it passed overhead in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales. It flew along the coastline at various points. It was completely silent, and the front was shaped like a Zeppelin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sun Mirror, February 20, 1983; Gary Hazeltine, Police Reports of UFOs (PRUS) Online Database, case # 110 Source ID: Johnson_1010 Source: Johnson ### Event 20422 (CF30C7C3) Date: 2/19/1983 Description: Daytime. Up to 200 people observed a huge triangular shaped UFO pass overhead in various places along the South Wales coast. They included a class of schoolchildren and a football team. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Swansea, Glamorgan, South Wales, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5592 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20423 (66152159) Date: 2/26/1983 Description: 8:30 p.m. Monique O’Driscoll and her 17-year-old daughter are driving near the frozen White Pond in Putnam County, New York, when they see a silent, multicolored, boomerang-shaped object about 200–300 feet wide. It has many lights, which seem to respond to their thoughts. It has a crisscross lattice structure and tubes on its underside. Their CB radio just has static. Another independent witness, Rita Rivera, probably sees the same object, a V-shaped array of 50 lights with amber, red, and blue colors. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NightSiege 8–14; Philip Imbrogno, George Lesnick, and Chris Clark, “Boomerang Update,” IUR 8, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1983\): 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_6403 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20424 (BEC15102) Date: 2/26/1983 Description: A mother and daughter named O'Driscoll, driving near the frozen White Pond in Kent Cliffs, Putnam County, New York at around 8 p.m. saw a silent, multi-colored 200-300 foot wide boomerang-shaped object with many lights, at a minimum distance of 100 meters, which seemed to respond to their thoughts. It had a criss-cross lattice structure and tubes on its underneath side. Their car radio experience RF interference. Another independent witness that night saw probably the same object, a V-shaped array of 50 lights with the colors amber, red, and blue. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek and Philip Imbrogno, Night Seige, p. 8; UNICAT database, case 209, citing J. Allen Hynek; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 156 Source ID: Johnson_1140 Source: Johnson ### Event 20425 (802AC115) Date: 2/26/1983 Description: A mother and daughter named O'Driscoll, driving near the frozen White Pond in Kent Cliffs saw a silent, multi-colored 200-300 foot wide boomerang-shaped object with many lights, at a minimum distance of 100 meters, which seemed to respond to their thoughts. Their car radio experience RF interference. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kent Cliffs, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5593 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20426 (E2B2392A) Date: 3/2/1983 Description: Space Aliens Terrorize Tiny Mountain Village (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [830302](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/1mufon/mufon%5Fbo0302%5F83.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ckolo, Bolivia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5595 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20427 (FC193187) Date: 3/8/1983 Description: President [Ronald Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) delivers a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in which he refers to the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” and the “focus of evil in the modern world.” He asserts that the Cold War is a battle between good and evil. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Evil Empire speech](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil%5FEmpire%5Fspeech)” Source ID: Eberhart_6405 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20428 (B3258813) Date: 3/10/1983 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a bright light near the southeastern horizon approached a car with Mr. & Mrs. Waldemar aboard just north of Naylor, Missouri. As the elongated object approached they could see a cluster of red, green, and orange lights on the craft, which they estimated to be 150 feet long from front to back. The UFO turned and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1983, p. 1, citing Clay County Courier, March 17, 1983 Source ID: Johnson_1413 Source: Johnson ### Event 20429 (D21F76F1) Date: 3/10/1983 Description: Train Stalled By Huge UFO (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [830310](http://nicap.org/830310ventilla%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ventilla, Bolivia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5596 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20430 (ED9D0AA3) Date: 3/11/1983 Description: [Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) authorizes National Security Decision Directive 84, which substantially increases governmental control over federal employees, particularly their relationships with the media. It mandates that all employees with access to sensitive information are now subject to lifetime censorship of their writings and speeches on these topics. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Safeguarding National Security Information,](https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/nsdd/nsdd-84.pdf)” National Security Decision Directive 84, March 11, 1983; Frederick W. Whatley, “[Reagan, National Security, and the First Amendment: Plugging Leaks by Shutting Off](https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa037.pdf) [the Main,](https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa037.pdf)” CATO Institute Policy Analysis no. 37, May 8, 1984 Source ID: Eberhart_6406 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20431 (A3154253) Date: 3/11/1983 Description: Richard Mull finds a large star-shaped hole in his bean field west of Wauseon, Ohio, around which the dirt is mounded up. It has six long points 19 feet long and four shorter points 9 feet long. In the center is a depression 8 feet in diameter and 8 inches deep, and at the center of this depression is a small hole 2 inches in diameter that goes down to a depth of 6 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Two Physical Trace Cases in Northwest Ohio Unexplained,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 3 \(June/July 1985\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_6407 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20432 (4B26244C) Date: 3/14/1983 Description: At 3:15 a.m. a police officer, Tony Dodd, observed nocturnal lights passing over the moor in Carleton Moor, North Yorkshire, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, Police Reports of UFOs, case 116, citing Yorkshire Post Source ID: Johnson_1498 Source: Johnson ### Event 20433 (59FCBD89) Date: 3/15/1983 Description: 5:00 p.m. An unidentified target is tracked by USAF radar at RAF Upper Heyford \[now closed\], Oxford, England, until 9:15 p.m. Sgt. Byrd Cormier says they do not have radio contact with it. A slow, brilliant white light is seen by some civilians in Berkshire. Cpl. Candellin at RAF Brize Norton, Oxford, claims that RAF radar cannot pick up the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Alert As Mystery Light Passes over Berks,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201983%2004%20-%20no%20165.pdf)” Reading \(UK\) Evening Post, March 16, 1983, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 165 \(April 1983\), p. 13; Good Above, [pp. 104–105](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/104/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6408 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20434 (CC68F24D) Date: 3/15/1983 Description: UFO Alert as Mystery Light Passes over Berks (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [830315](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/1mufon/mufon%5Fgb0315%5F83.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Reading, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5597 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20435 (E790C3AA) Date: 3/17/1983 Description: 7:00–10:00 p.m. Hundreds of people see a boomerang-shaped object moving slowly and hovering over I-84 near Brewster, New York. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philip Imbrogno, “Boomerang over Three Counties,” IUR 8, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1983\): 11; Philip Imbrogno, George Lesnick, and Chris Clark, “Boomerang Update,” IUR 8, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1983\): 9– 10; NightSiege 18–25; Patrick Gross, “[The Hudson Valley UFO Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/hv/hudson17mar1983.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_6409 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20436 (B9F93C30) Date: Spring 1983 Description: 10:00 p.m. A woman hospital employee is driving to work near New London, Connecticut, when she sees a light flick by quickly in the sky ahead. It stops above the treetops and shines a searchlight-like beam down on the woods. She pulls over to watch. Abruptly the object moves directly in front of her. There is no other traffic, although the road is usually busy. The object is round and has blue, yellow, red, and white lights flickering in a circle. She blacks out for a short time and finds that the engine, lights, and radio have been shut off. The window has been rolled down. The car stalls when she tries to start it, but the engine finally catches and she drives to work, where she arrives uncharacteristically late at 11:05. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 23 Source ID: Eberhart_6404 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20437 (5D8AB312) Date: 3/23/1983 Description: In what later becomes known as his “Star Wars” speech, President [Ronald Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) announces his plans to develop an anti-missile capability to counter the threat of Soviet ballistic missiles and to make these nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete.” This paves the way for a Strategic Defense Initiative as an alternative to a proliferation of missiles under the concept of mutual assured destruction. SDI is derisively nicknamed by Senator [Ted Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FKennedy) \(D-Mass.\) as “Star Wars,” after the 1977 film by [George Lucas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FLucas). By the early 1990s, with the Cold War ending and nuclear arsenals rapidly reduced, political support for SDI collapses. SDI officially ends in 1993, when the administration of President [Bill Clinton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FClinton) redirects the efforts towards theatre ballistic missiles and renames the agency the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. BMDO is renamed the Missile Defense Agency in 2002. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Strategic Defense Initiative](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic%5FDefense%5FInitiative)” Source ID: Eberhart_6410 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20438 (4B57D975) Date: 3/23/1983 Description: Night. Russian Major V. Gorsky is stationed in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia when he sees, along with two of his commanding officers, a silvery disc at an altitude of 1,300 feet and 1–2 miles away. Its colors seem to be changing constantly, and it is surrounded by a blue halo. A narrow beam of light descends from it, illuminating the area. More than 30 other soldiers witness the display. It studies the area another 4 minutes, then the beam disappears, the halo vanishes, and the object is gone instantly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 127–128 Source ID: Eberhart_6411 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20439 (6867AD55) Date: 3/24/1983 Description: 10:00 p.m. The last sighting of many this night is by an IBM executive who sees a lighted object “larger than a 747” hovering over pine trees near his home in Danbury, Connecticut. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1278 Source ID: Eberhart_6416 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20440 (6E883F62) Date: 3/24/1983 Description: 4:45 PM. California Highway Patrol officer Harold R. Chandler was on routine patrol near the Northern California border with Oregon when he spotted a dark, circular object, flat with no protuberances, flying overhead across his path. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Happy Camp, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5601 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20441 (F805D218) Date: 3/24/1983 Description: Cat appears frightened when V-shaped lights appear (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [830324](http://www.nicap.org/ar-830324bdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yorktown, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5599 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20442 (2430D832) Date: 3/24/1983 Description: Wing or V-shaped UFO hovered, emitted light beam downward. (NICAP UFO Evidence II, Section IX) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bedford, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5600 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20443 (1C4479AA) Date: 3/24/1983 Description: Night. After a dramatic UFO sighting that occurred on this night in Mount Storm, New York a man given the pseudonym "Wright", a 16-year-old youth, and his 13- year-old sister had recurrent dreams of being abducted aboard a UFO by Grey aliens, which included a physical exam in a chair with a scan by some type of scanning equipment. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mount Storm, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5602 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20444 (09291401) Date: 3/24/1983 Description: 7:30 p.m. A corporate executive in Bedford, New York, sees a half-circle of lights hovering behind some trees near a commuter-bus station. There is no sound. After watching for 5 minutes, he goes inside his house to alert his family, but when they come outside, the lights are gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1277 Source ID: Eberhart_6412 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20445 (81834997) Date: 3/24/1983 Description: 8:00 p.m. Four persons in Carmel, New York, see a half-circle of red and white lights and the vague outline of a larger object to which they are attached. The lights are hovering above trees several hundred yards away. They drift to the east and are lost to view, but almost immediately a family living a quarter mile away sees them drift into view. Through binoculars they can see a “huge object” with a dull-green metallic color connecting the lights. When the UFO turns slightly, they see it has a V shape. At that moment a brilliant beam of white light shoots down from the center of the object, and in it a small reddish object descends then shoots off “very, very fast toward the north.” The beam is shut off and the object turns and heads slowly east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1277 Source ID: Eberhart_6413 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20446 (66C8F6F6) Date: 3/24/1983 Description: 8:30 p.m. Police officers in Yorktown, New York, say that their switchboard is flooded with calls reporting a large, boomerang-shaped UFO with red, blue, and green lights. Police in the nearby villages of Millwood and New Castle receive a flood of calls as well, describing an object as large as a football field. William Hele, a meteorologist for the National Weather Corporation, sees an asymmetrical V-shaped object about 1,300 feet long, with 6–7 lights as he is driving south on the Taconic Highway. The object descends from about 2,000 to 980 feet altitude and slows as it approaches. Hele realizes that the lights are all changing colors at different times, as if lit by a rotating prism within the structure. Suddenly, all the lights go out, leaving nothing in their place, as if whatever object was supporting them has simply disappeared. The lights reappear 30–40 seconds later, and a few seconds after that, the object turns to the north and flies away, as the lights change to a slime green. At the same time, people 15 miles north in Putnam County see a smaller object exhibiting similar behavior. Ruth Holtsman describes a silent object that hangs motionless in the sky. While it is in view, a driver pulls up and stops almost directly underneath it. The lights start to flash in a wild sequence up and down its “wings.” The driver jumps into his car and speeds away. Then the UFO approaches Holtsman’s car, which is bathed in a blinding white light as it speeds under the boomerang. John Miller sees the object hovering above a pond near his home in Brewster, New York. It is aiming two very bright searchlight beams over the surface of the water. He hears a faint whooshing sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philip Imbrogno, “Boomerang over Three Counties,” IUR 8, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1983\): 10–11; Philip J. Imbrogno and Chris Clark, “Boomerang Saga Continues,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1984\): 4–6 ; Philip J. Imbrogno, “Westchester Boomerang: March 24, 1983,” IUR 9, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1984\): 9–12; NightSiege 15–16, 25, 30–35, 39, 41–42; Marler 117–119; Clark III 1277–1278 Source ID: Eberhart_6414 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20447 (FA1E3659) Date: 3/24/1983 Description: Wing or V-shaped UFO hovered, emitted light beam downward Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Bedford, NY, and vicinity Source ID: HallUFOE2_397 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20448 (486376A8) Date: 3/24/1983 Description: Dog did not respond to boomerang (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [830324](http://www.nicap.org/ar-830324dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ossining Reservoir, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5598 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20449 (869C89D9) Date: 3/24/1983 Description: After a dramatic UFO sighting that occurred on this night in Mount Storm, New York a man given the pseudonym "Wright", a 16-year-old youth, and his 13-year-old sister had recurrent dreams of being abducted aboard a UFO by Grey aliens, which included a physical exam in a chair with a scan by some type of scanning equipment. There were 30 other UFO reports on this night from Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek & Philip J. Imbrogno, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 163; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2267 Source ID: Johnson_1643 Source: Johnson ### Event 20450 (6561F2C6) Date: 3/24/1983 Description: 8:45 p.m. Several dozen diners at a ski-resort restaurant near Stormville, New York, see white lights in a boomerang shape hovering over a utility pole 600 feet away. Three other people driving near the pole stop by it. The driver, a corrections officer, gets out and studies the object about 200 feet above him. It is silent, and the structure that holds the lights is dark and nonreflective. After watching it for 20 minutes, he heads back to his jeep, at which time the UFO moves down the road. He follows it to Interstate 84 and all the lights go out, allowing him to see the boomerang shape. The lights come back on and he follows the object for more than an hour, clocking it speed at 20 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Clark, “Boomerang!” IUR 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1984\): 10; Clark III 1278 Source ID: Eberhart_6415 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20451 (EBF98D60) Date: 3/26/1983 Description: On this evening two witnesses driving in Careme, Tarn-Garonne, France encountered sudden fog, and then a huge disc-shaped UFO. Their car turned unaccountably onto an unknown dirt road, and they had a possible missing time experience. The entire experience lasted 50 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 317 Source ID: Johnson_1681 Source: Johnson ### Event 20452 (4B80AEE3) Date: 3/26/1983 Description: Evening. Two witnesses driving in Careme encountered sudden fog, and then a huge disc-shaped UFO. Their car turned unaccountably onto an unknown dirt road, and they had a possible missing time experience. The entire experience lasted 50 minutes. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 317). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Careme, Tarn-Garonne, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5603 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20453 (EB1DB358) Date: 3/27/1983 Description: A cigar-shaped UFO about the size of a Boeing 747 hovered over Gorki Airport at low altitude for 40 minutes. No jets were scrambled. The Soviet Government appointed a cosmonaut Pavel Popovich to head the Commission on Abnormal Atmospheric Phenomena. Popovich declared the incident definitely had taken place. Type: ufo sighting Reference: "Extra-Terrestrials Amoung Us" by George C. Andrews Location: Gorki, Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus Source ID: Maj2_738 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20454 (2A063D2D) Date: 3/27/1983 Description: Evening. Russian Air Traffic Controllers had radar-visual reports of a steel-gray colored UFO, the shape of a cigar and the size of an airliner, in view and on their screens for 40 minutes. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gorky (50 nautical miles north of), Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5606 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20455 (44265645) Date: 3/27/1983 Description: During this evening Russian Air Traffic Controllers had radar-visual reports of a steel-gray colored UFO, the shape of a cigar and the size of an airliner, in view and on their screens for 40 minutes. It was first picked up 50 nautical miles north of Gor'kiy, Russia and vanished about 25 nautical miles from the city. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, September-October 1984, p. 13, citing Popovich Source ID: Johnson_1701 Source: Johnson ### Event 20456 (33DA48EA) Date: 3/28/1983 Description: Radar at the airport at Gorky \[now Nizhny Novgorod\], Russia, tracks an unidentified target flying at 110– 125 mph at an altitude of 1,310–1,970 feet. Flight Controller A. Shushkin sees the cigar-shaped object, which is similar to an aircraft in size but has no wings and is metallic. It is in view for only 10 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/242/mode/2up) [243](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/242/mode/2up); Paul Stonehill, “[Pilot and Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich and UFOs,](http://www.openminds.tv/pilot-cosmonaut-pavel-popovich-ufos/28257)” Open Minds, June 12, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_6417 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20457 (5602E1E4) Date: 3/30/1983 Description: Delta-shaped flying objects were seen widely over suburban Shrub Oak, New York at 8:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, Philip Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 202 Source ID: Johnson_1744 Source: Johnson ### Event 20458 (4EB49701) Date: 3/30/1983 Description: 8:00 PM. Delta-shaped flying objects were seen widely over suburban Shrub Oak, New York. (Source: J. Allen Hynek, Philip Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 202). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shrub Oak, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5607 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20459 (EC8B69A9) Date: 3/31/1983 Description: Dog barked at boomerang (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [830331](http://www.nicap.org/ar-830331dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sandy Hook, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_5608 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20460 (A9C56317) Date: 4/9/1983 Description: [Linda Moulton Howe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%5FMoulton%5FHowe) flies to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to interview Sgt. [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) for an HBO series she is working on, UFOs: The ET Factor, but Doty does not show. She calls Jerry Miller, chief of reality weapons testing at Kirtland AFB, whom she knows from an earlier conversation about [Paul Bennewitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz)’s claims. Miller drives her to his home and calls Doty, who arrives promptly. Doty’s attitude is defiant and nervous, but Howe asks him about the alleged 1971 Holloman AFB landing. Doty says [Robert Emenegger](https://prabook.com/web/robert%5Fe.emenegger/381357) got the date wrong and that it was actually April 25, 1964, shortly after the Socorro landing. Transferring to his office at Kirtland, Doty is reluctant to talk about the 1977 Ellsworth landing. He shows her a bogus, undated document, A Briefing Paper for the President of the United States on the Subject of Unidentified Flying Vehicles. The document lists UFO crash/retrievals and states that UFOs are piloted by extraterrestrials from a nearby solar system and have been on earth for many thousands of years. Through genetic manipulation, they have influenced the course of human evolution and helped shape our religious beliefs. Roswell and the 1949 living alien are mentioned, as well as Projects Snowbird \(retroengineering a crashed UFO\), Aquarius \(umbrella project involving all ET contacts\), Sigma \(an ongoing electronic communications effort with aliens\), and the defunct Garnet \(investigation of ETs on human evolution\). Doty promises Howe thousands of feet of film of crashed discs, bodies, EBE-1, and the Holloman landing for her documentary. He says that a similar release of data through Emenegger and [Allan](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761954/) [Sandler](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761954/) was halted because “political conditions were not right.” When she tells her HBO contacts about this, they ask her to secure a letter of intent from the US government with a legally binding commitment to secure the promised film footage. HBO wants the film, but Doty now stalls. In June, Doty tells her he is officially off the project. Further contacts up to March 1984 are fewer. In 2008, Doty claims that the intelligence community targeted Howe to find out who her inside sources were. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms, Howe Productions, 1989, pp. 143–156; Dolan II 299–307; Good Above, [p. 425](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/424/mode/2up); Clark III 363–365 Source ID: Eberhart_6418 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20461 (D286893C) Date: 4/10/1983 Description: Luminous object descended, power failure, animal reaction, traces. See Section I (E,L) two cars (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [830410](http://www.nicap.org/cat3-1964on.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ross, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5609 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20462 (7E99A122) Date: 4/10/1983 Description: 8:30 p.m. Two drivers near Ross, Ohio, see a large, bright, oval object that seems to land. The property owner at the location also sees a white light on a hillside behind his home and watches the object ascend slowly before moving away at speed. The drivers’ car lights flicker, and the engines nearly stall. The landowner reports flickering houselights and TV problems. Investigation of the landing site indicates that a heavy circular object about 50 feet in diameter has landed, producing a 3-foot burn mark in the center. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Ross, Ohio: April 10,](http://www.nicap.org/ar-830410dir.htm) [1983](http://www.nicap.org/ar-830410dir.htm)”; Charles J. Wilhelm, “Ross, Ohio, Landing Case,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 186 \(August 1983\): 3–7; UFOEv II, p. 65 Source ID: Eberhart_6419 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20463 (3EF69AED) Date: 4/10/1983 Description: Luminous object landed, E-M effects, animal reaction. UFO rose from field illuminating area, body lights visible, accelerated rapidly out of sight, physical traces Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Ross, OH Source ID: HallUFOE2_398 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20464 (7AB52226) Date: 4/10/1983 Description: Dog vocalized and bristled when objected landed (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [830410](http://www.nicap.org/ar-830410dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ross, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5610 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20465 (5F3B2F30) Date: 4/10/1983 Description: Object lands in field near a house (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) Reference: NICAP: [830410](http://www.nicap.org/ar-830410dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ross, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5611 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20466 (22F3E217) Date: 4/11/1983 Description: 7:05 PM. Young man & two friends saw a light with light-beam. (Ridge files) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5612 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20467 (B5E4EC05) Date: 4/26/1983 End date: 4/27/1983 Description: Day. For two days, a UFO is seen above Nuremberg, Germany. Amateur astronomer Walter Schwarz takes a photo that apparently shows a balloon. A local radio station hires a Lear jet to approach it, reaching 12,300 feet, but it is still too far away to identify it. Eckard Pohl, the astronomer at the Nuremberg Observatory, tracks it and says that it looks like a deformed pyramid with a pointed top and estimates it is flying at an altitude of 14.3 miles. The object is later identified as a balloon launched from eastern Europe. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hans-Werner Peiniger, “[‘UFO’](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/JUFOF%20%28GEP%29/JUFOF%20-%20Issue%20027%20-%201983%2003.pdf) [bei Nürnberg aufgeklärt,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/JUFOF%20%28GEP%29/JUFOF%20-%20Issue%20027%20-%201983%2003.pdf)” Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 27 \(May/June 1983\): 68–69; Hans-Werner Peiniger, “[UFO über Köln identifiert,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/JUFOF%20%28GEP%29/JUFOF%20-%20Issue%20028%20-%201983%2004.pdf)” Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 28 \(July/Aug. 1983\): 99–100; “[Excitement](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf) [Chasing a Mysterious Flying Object,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 \(Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984\): 3; “[Nurnberg](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf) [UFO Becomes IFO,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1984\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6420 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20468 (73B0071E) Date: 4/27/1983 End date: 5/2/1983 Description: Divers see an object like a submarine conning tower in Husnesfjorden, Hordaland, Norway. By 1:00 p.m., a search team from Norwegian Defense is at the site, consisting of the corvette [KNM Sleipner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipner-class%5Fcorvette), two submarines, and one Orion aircraft equipped with antisubmarine weapons. The next day the [KNM Oslo](https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/knm-oslo.htm) and two more frigates join the search. At 4:55 p.m., the Oslo has a first sonar contact south of Leirvik on Stord island. At 5:21 p.m., it fires a Terne rocket as a warning. On April 29, a possible sonar contact is recorded in Selbjørnfjord. On the afternoon of April 30, the Oslo, after another sonar contact, fires a Terne rocket and drops a mine. Five minutes later it launches four more rockets, but then the sonar contact is lost. Around 4:00 p.m., five Terne rockets are fired at nearby Halsenøy. Near midnight, a sonar contact south of Leirvik results in another rocket firing. On May 1, at 4:20 p.m., another sonar contact takes place and six Terne rockets are fired. They hit the water and plunge deep before detonating. Immediately afterward, an Orion aircraft drops a mine at the same spot in Skåneviksfjorden. At 5:20 p.m., the Oslo again attacks with six rockets. Five minutes later it launches four more rockets, and the sonar contact is lost. At 8:30 p.m., an Orion aircraft has the last sonar contact. The aircraft drops mines at the entrance to the Høylandssundet. On May 2, mines are dropped in the Selbjørnfjord. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6421 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20469 (7B3CFD6B) Date: 4/28/1983 Description: A UFO came along and flew over a soccer match in progress in Huepul, Chile at only 5 meters above the field. It stopped the game as the 200 people present stared at the incredible sight before them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, December 1983, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_2396 Source: Johnson ### Event 20470 (EF7C5B96) Date: 4/28/1983 Description: A UFO came along and flew over a soccer match in progress in Huepul, Chile at only 5 meters above the field. It stopped the game as the 200 people present stared at the incredible sight before them. (Source: FSR, December 1983, p. 8). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huepul, Chile Source ID: NICAP_DB_5613 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20471 (DF4447DB) Date: 5/4/1983 Description: 3:50 AM. A silent yellowish orange ball of light was seen by a Mr. J. Philips hovering 350 feet over a power line pole in Lawrence, Kansas. It flew away toward the northeast slowly at 35 mph. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lawrence, KS Source ID: NICAP_DB_5614 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20472 (7B4DCB46) Date: 5/4/1983 Description: 3:50 a.m. Police officer James Philips sees a silent, yellowish-orange ball of light over the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas, hovering 350 feet over a power line pole. It flies away toward the northeast slowly at 30–40 mph. The sighting lasts three minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “A ‘Yorg’ in Kansas,” IUR 8, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1983\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6422 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20473 (671B75B4) Date: 5/4/1983 Description: At 3:50 a.m. a silent yellowish orange ball of light was seen by a Mr. J. Philips hovering 350 feet over a power line pole in Lawrence, Kansas. It flew away toward the northeast slowly at 35 mph. The sighting lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Professor E. J. Zeller, International UFO Reporter, September 1983, p. 14; UNICAT, case # 006, citing IUR Source ID: Johnson_2518 Source: Johnson ### Event 20474 (8461220B) Date: 5/9/1983 Description: At 3:00 a.m. Robert and Janine Lorent in Sambreville, Belgium sighted a three meter diameter metallic inverted dish-shaped object with a rotating lower part. It was silent when first noticed, then a white beam of light turned on. There was a red light also on the lower part, and small white lights below row portholes, when it began making a purring turbine noise. Their close encounter lasted six minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UNICAT, case # 624, citing Michel van Der Elst, Inforespace, June 1985, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_2696 Source: Johnson ### Event 20475 (6EF03085) Date: 5/12/1983 Description: 1:50 a.m. Three police officers on the Warrenville Heights, Ohio, police force see four dim lights moving silently in a wedge formation from south to north. They smoothly transition to a diamond formation as they near the constellation of Ursa Major. They shift into another formation again before speeding off in two different directions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Multiple Witness: Multiple UFO Sighting,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1983-84%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV4.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1983\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_6423 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20476 (B9723C12) Date: 5/13/1983 Description: Bizarre cone-shaped UFOs were spotted over Australia by hundreds of people (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [830513](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/1mufon/mufon%5Fau0513%5F83.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Romsey, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5615 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20477 (69C981AB) Date: 5/20/1983 Description: Hundreds of people living in the Australian state of Victoria reported seeing brightly colored UFOs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [830520](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/1mufon/mufon%5Fau0520%5F83.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Various cities in Victoria, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5616 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20478 (78F34ECF) Date: 5/20/1983 Description: Sam Meadows and another ranch hand discover a perfect circle of disturbed grass in a pasture on the Teas Ranch in Hemphill County near Canadian, Texas. The circle is 29 feet in diameter, with an outer circle of much shorter and greener buffalo grass that is 4 inches wide. This is a characteristic of new grass that comes up after a fire has burned the old grass. A prickly pear cactus pad is found at the edge of the ring; the side closest to the ring is devoid of spines, while all the spines facing away from the ring are undamaged. No UFO is seen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: W. Clark Ellzey, “A Ring on a Panhandle Ranch, and Others,” IUR 8, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1983\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_6424 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20479 (24B16CE6) Date: 5/23/1983 Description: Night. Farmer Alcineu Sousa is aboard his twin-engine airplane returning from a visit to a farm near Corumbiara, Rondônia, Brazil. As he is about to land on his farm near Porto Velho, Rondônia, he sees an opaque light about 30 feet in diameter on his left that begins to approach and shine more brightly. His airplane instruments start to go haywire. He pulls the plane sharply to the right, but the UFO does the same but more moderately. A few seconds later, the light disappears over the horizon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 200–201; Brazil 541 Source ID: Eberhart_6426 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20480 (456872CD) Date: 5/23/1983 Description: A disc-shaped object with a black top, blue sides, square windows, and a reddish golden metallic bottom maneuvered over trees in McHenry, Illinois at 7:30 p.m. It was witnessed by an art teacher as it then rocked violently, levelled out, and flew off following the contour of the land. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January-February 1985, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_3054 Source: Johnson ### Event 20481 (212A0001) Date: 5/23/1983 Description: 7:30 p.m. A high school art teacher and his daughter watch a disc-shaped object with a black top, blue sides, square windows, and a reddish golden metallic bottom maneuvering over trees in McHenry, Illinois. It then rocks violently, levels out, and flies off following the contour of the land. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘I Know What I Saw…But I Don’t Know](http://www.nicap.org/830523mchenry.pdf) [What I Saw,’](http://www.nicap.org/830523mchenry.pdf)” IUR 10, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1985\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_6425 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20482 (BC861CC8) Date: 5/23/1983 Description: 7:30 PM. A disc-shaped object with a black top, blue sides, square windows, and a reddish golden metallic bottom maneuvered over trees in McHenry, Illinois. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [830523](http://www.nicap.org/830523mchenry.pdf) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: McHenry, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5617 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20483 (B30895AD) Date: 5/24/1983 Description: 6:00 p.m. A schoolboy is in his parents’ backyard in Jüchen, Germany, when he sees a red ball shoot down and hover above a nearby electric power line. It ejects a pyramid-shaped array of colored lights toward the ground. A few minutes later, the array disappears from the object downward to the ground. The object then speeds away into the sky toward its point of origin. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hans-Werner Peiniger, “[CE 2–Fall in Jüchen,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/JUFOF%20%28GEP%29/JUFOF%20-%20Issue%20030%20-%201983%2006.pdf)” Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 30 \(Nov./Dec. 1983\): 161–168; “[CEII Case in Jüchen, West Germany,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1984\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_6427 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20484 (3C6DF400) Date: 6/1983 Description: Abduction report (Ridge files) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Liberty, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5618 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20485 (3D28DC93) Date: 6/3/1983 Description: Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish ufologists launch Project Hessdalen under the directorship of [Leif Havik](http://www.iliuka.no/leif.htm), Odd-Gunnar Røed, [Erling Strand](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling%5FStrand), Håken Ekstrand, and Jan Fjellander. They secure technical assistance from the universities of Oslo and Bergen, as well as cameras with grating filters, a seismograph, Geiger counter, radar, infrared viewer, laser, magnetograph, and spectrum analyzer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Project Hessdalen: The Colored Lights of Norway,” IUR 8, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1983\): 6–8; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 90; Clark III 572 Source ID: Eberhart_6429 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20486 (1F07A3DA) Date: 6/5/1983 Description: 5:00 a.m. Retired restaurant manager Mario Claretto wakes up because his dogs are barking outside his home at Varzi, Pavia, Italy. He sees a shining object with an orange headlight on a hill across the road from his house. It is hovering low above an alfalfa field. Its upper portion is slowly rotating, showing a silver section, a dark section, then the orange light. After finishing some work in the kitchen, Claretto goes outside for a closer look. He sees another person walking toward the object; after approaching very near, the person runs away, escaping down the road. Claretto points the object out to a neighbor, Bruno Stafforini, who has also woken up because of the dogs. The UFO rises after skimming the grass for a few feet, its dome recedes, and it emits a vapor. It seems to change its form to cigar-shaped. Suddenly it speeds off to the south-southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Antonio Chiumiento, “[Un U.F.O. a](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201983%2009-10%20-%20Vol%2018%20No%20101.pdf) [Varzi,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notiziario%20UFO%20%28CUN%29/Notiziario%20UFO%20-%201983%2009-10%20-%20Vol%2018%20No%20101.pdf)” Notiziario UFO, no. 101 \(Sept./Oct. 1983\): 4–10; Antonio Chiumiento, “Close Encounter at Varzi,” IUR 9, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1984\): 4–5, 13; Antonio Chiumiento, “[A Landing at Varzi in Northern Italy,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201985%20V%2030%20N%206.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 6 \(August 1985\): 2–9; Antonio Chiumiento and Paolo Toselli, “[L’atterrissage de Varzi \(Italie\),](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/LDLN/LDLN%20-%20No%20257-258.pdf)” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 257/258 \(Nov./Dec 1985\): 32–37; 2Pinotti 61–68 Source ID: Eberhart_6430 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20487 (C090E132) Date: 6/5/1983 Description: In Varzi, Italy at 5:00 a.m. in 1983 dogs began barking when a cigar-shaped UFO approached the ground. The object emitted a foggy vapor at ground level, rose up and hovered in the air. It extended a rotating dome and orange light, and then flew away toward the south-southwest. In Vidor, Texas six people watched a star-shaped object with three rounded protrusions hover in the sky for 2 hours. It left when aircraft arrived on the scene. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, November-December 1984, p. 4; APRO Bulletin, May 1984, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_3305 Source: Johnson ### Event 20488 (544B2F9A) Date: 6/12/1983 Description: UFO Turns Night into Day (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [830612](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/1mufon/mufon%5Fbr0612%5F83.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cupira, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5619 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20489 (48E231F4) Date: 6/20/1983 Description: Sen. [Barry Goldwater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%5FGoldwater) \(R-Ariz.\) replies to UFO researcher [William S. Steinman](https://rr0.org/people/s/SteinmanWilliamS.html) regarding government knowledge of UFOs: “I have no idea of who controls the flow of ‘need-to-know’ because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it my business since.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [p. 243](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/250/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6431 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20490 (7AE2DD71) Date: 6/21/1983 Description: A wingless cigar-shaped object circled a strategic nuclear facility at Dubno, Ukraine for 18 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13365, citing FSR, volume 37, no. 4 Source ID: Johnson_3588 Source: Johnson ### Event 20491 (D150A215) Date: Summer 1983 Description: [Richard Haines](http://www.nicap.org/bio-haines.htm) founds the short-lived North American UFO Federation, an effort to unite MUFON, CUFOS, and other groups \(except APRO\) to standardize UFO investigations, educate the public, and resolve the UFO mystery. Insufficient funding dooms the effort to failure. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, September 1983 Source ID: Eberhart_6428 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20492 (AE6C3A69) Date: 6/21/1983 Description: A wingless cigar-shaped object circled a strategic nuclear facility at Dubno, Ukraine for 18 minutes. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13365, citing FSR, volume 37, no. 4). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dubno, Ukraine, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5620 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20493 (36131DB8) Date: 6/22/1983 End date: 6/27/1983 Description: At the International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, the Los Alamos National Laboratory puts forward a proposal for a 3,500-square-foot \(with plans for extending it to 6,000 square feet\) National Underground Science Facility beneath the Nuclear Test Site in Nevada. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Martin Nieto, “Physics at the Proposed National Underground Science Facility,” Los Alamos National Laboratory, June 1983 Source ID: Eberhart_6432 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20494 (3867CA11) Date: 6/23/1983 Description: USS Tuscaloosa Encounters UFOs / Midway Tracks (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [830623](http://www.nicap.org/830623northseaofjapan%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Sea, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_5621 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20495 (A6C07168) Date: 6/24/1983 Description: Larry W. Bryant, Director of CAUS, filed a Civil Action, Case #83–1932 (Judge Oliver Gasch) petitioning for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Extraterrestrial, in the United States District Court for the Dist. of Columbia, seeking to obtain the release from custody of “one or more occupants of apparent extraterrestrial origin.” Mr. Bryant contends that the Government action in maintaining secret custody, detention, and prosecution of such extraterrestrials is unlawful and a violation of their basic rights and is seeking to restore their civil rights. Type: lawsuit Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Washington DC See also: 11/3/81 Source ID: Maj2_739 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20496 (894A21A4) Date: 6/30/1983 Description: Kathy Davis Abduction at Kitley Woods. (Budd Hopkins) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [830630](http://www.ufocasebook.com/copelywoods.html) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5622 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20497 (AB2D7783) Date: 6/30/1983 Description: At their home in the suburbs near Indianapolis, Indiana a mother, "Kathy Davis" and her daughter separately witnessed a large light appear over their pool house after 10:45 p.m. They then had two hours of missing time. Under hypnosis, both remembered that an egg-shaped object landed in the yard and burned the grass. An abduction by Grey aliens followed, involving a medical exam on board the craft. They were left with a mental warning not to remember the details of their abduction experience. The next day both felt nauseous. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Budd Hopkins, Intruders; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case # 195, citing MUFON 1984 UFO Conference Proceedings, p. 168; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. 127; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 79 Source ID: Johnson_3752 Source: Johnson ### Event 20498 (43DF68E5) Date: 7/1983 Description: Statistician [Jean-Jacques Velasco](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%5FVelasco) replaces [Alain Esterle](https://fr.linkedin.com/in/alain-esterle-242882114) as director of GEPAN. Esterle is dismissed, apparently because of potential scandal about GEPAN’s apparent collaboration with the French Army on magnetohydrodynamic propulsion experiments, done without the knowledge of GEPAN’s resident expert, [Jean-](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre%5FPetit) [Pierre Petit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre%5FPetit)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre%5FPetit) who has suggested such a project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Groupe d’études des phénomènes aérospatiaux non](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe%5Fd%27%C3%A9tudes%5Fdes%5Fph%C3%A9nom%C3%A8nes%5Fa%C3%A9rospatiaux%5Fnon%5Fidentifi%C3%A9s) [identifiés](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe%5Fd%27%C3%A9tudes%5Fdes%5Fph%C3%A9nom%C3%A8nes%5Fa%C3%A9rospatiaux%5Fnon%5Fidentifi%C3%A9s)”; Clark III 547; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_6433 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20499 (56E8F560) Date: Early 7/1983 Description: [Debbie Jordan-Kauble](https://ufocongress.com/debbie-jordan-kauble-2019/) \(using the pseudonym of “Kathie Davis”\) and her mother see a light about 2 feet in diameter moving around the family pool house in Indianapolis, Indiana. Some days later they notice a section of their backyard has turned brown, a circular area about 8 feet in diameter. She contacts [Budd Hopkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins), who speaks with Debbie and her family and uncovers a pattern of events that have affected them for years. It appears that Debbie, her mother, and two of her children have been abducted at different points of their lives. Debbie and her mother have identical scars on their lower legs from apparent childhood abductions, and Hopkins believes that Debbie and her son have implants inserted near their brains, one through the nasal cavity and another through the ear. Hopkins conducts numerous hypnotic regression sessions, revealing apparent pregnancies induced by aliens. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Budd Hopkins, [Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods](https://archive.org/details/intrudersincredi00hopkrich)[,](https://archive.org/details/intrudersincredi00hopkrich) Random House, 1987 Source ID: Eberhart_6434 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20500 (2BB05F09) Date: 7/6/1983 Description: 7:30 PM. A motorist in his 1982 Toyota was driving home on a clear evening when his car gradually lost power and coasted to a stop. He saw beyond the fence an object about 100 feet away and 15-20 feet above the ground, dark cigar-like in shape with a blue haze around it (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hampshire, Tasmania, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5624 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20501 (71493E2D) Date: 7/6/1983 Description: Daytime. Sighting of a Polish Air Force pilot and co-pilot of a near collision with 2 cylindrical objects that were 6 meters long and a diameter of 2 meters. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In air space, Poland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5623 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20502 (71C01799) Date: 7/7/1983 Description: An unauthorized target appears on the radar screens at Darłowo Airport, Poland, corresponding to a rotating, oblong object with a steel-colored covering flying at 11,0000 feet. Polish Air Force Captain Praszczałek and another pilot go up to intercept it and get within 660 feet. He sees a solid hull, 50 feet long and 6 feet across. Just after they are ordered to shoot it down, the object shoots up to 30,000 feet, too high to pursue. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 64–65 Source ID: Eberhart_6435 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20503 (547EB71B) Date: 7/12/1983 Description: 9:30 p.m. A police officer answers a call at a location southeast of Danbury, Connecticut, where several people are standing outside looking at a circular pattern of lights that are flashing red, blue, and green. The lights appear to be attached to a silent object 300 feet in diameter and less than 500 feet in altitude. The officer shines a spotlight on it, and the object projects a brilliant flash of white light downward. It then moves quickly to the north and is lost behind trees. At 10:55 p.m., Danbury Police Chief Nelson Macedo, his brother-in-law Charles Yacuzzi, his son Michael, and retired policeman Jim Lucksky are boating on Candlewood Lake north of Danbury. They notice a circular gray object silently hovering high in the sky. 20–30 bright blue, red, orange, and green lights moving in a circular pattern are visible on the object. The men turn off the boat lights and the object shuts off its own lights. After several minutes, Yacuzzi turns the lights on again, and the UFO switches on bright lights and moves off behind the mountains. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NightSiege 96; Richard Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, Sourcebooks, 1998, pp. 132–133 Source ID: Eberhart_6436 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20504 (17C7FED5) Date: 7/14/1983 Description: Space Alien Baby Found Alive (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [830714](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/1mufon/mufon%5Fru0714%5F83.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Frunze, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5626 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20505 (751C4DA1) Date: 7/17/1983 Description: On this night an abduction occurred in Sommerecourt, France. At ten o'clock in the evening a luminous globe paralyzed a 45-year-old man, Mr. S. Gasparovic, and then levitated him into the air. He lost consciousness at this point and experienced an episode of missing time. He regained consciousness in the hospital. He was told that he was found wandering "like a robot" and he recalled that he had spoken to small beings with pointed ears. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 317 Source ID: Johnson_4144 Source: Johnson ### Event 20506 (38C12F24) Date: 7/19/1983 Description: Two photographs were taken of two UFOs in Matapouri, New Zealand on this night. They were taken one minute apart and they show two objects moving slowly across the sky. Streetlights and the planet Venus serve as references in the photos to show their relative motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, May 1984, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_4209 Source: Johnson ### Event 20507 (B4883817) Date: 7/22/1983 Description: 9:30 PM. A huge silent, stationary, boomerang shaped UFO with two large orange lights and many smaller lights in the middle of the V was sighted hovering over the suburbs in Houston, Texas. It then moved away past many witnesses. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5628 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20508 (89C46813) Date: 7/22/1983 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a huge silent, stationary, boomerang shaped UFO with two large orange lights and many smaller lights in the middle of the V was sighted hovering over the suburbs in Houston, Texas. It then moved away past many witnesses. There was a wind sound but no jet noise, and was lost from sight in the distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 14, citing John Schuessler Source ID: Johnson_4307 Source: Johnson ### Event 20509 (23716DC0) Date: 7/22/1983 Description: 12:40 a.m. Police constables Raymond Ellens and Peter Ferguson are on car patrol east of Melton, Melbourne, Victoria, when they see a bright, stationary light over the center of the town. As they approach, they discern that it is composed of two lights. The object turns west and hovers about 200 feet above the Melton Regional Shopping Centre. Soon the object flies off to the southeast, making a high-pitched humming sound. After rising to about 500 feet, the UFO moves off to the north and is lost to sight. The UFO is picked up on radar at Tullamarine Air Traffic Control in Melbourne. The constables see it again at 2:40 a.m. when it appears to be on the ground at the rear of the Toolern Vale stables \(they inspect the paddock but find no traces\), then it is lost to view until 4:30 a.m. when they are again at the shopping mall. At some point police Sgt. Barry Harman and Chief Inspector Hickman also see the UFO above the shopping center. The constables follow the object, this time with more lights visible. Between their position and the object is the Australian Army Rockbank Receiving Station, and it seems to be headed directly toward the antenna array. Before reaching it, the object turns and arcs again to the north. Ellens and Ferguson lose sight of it at about 6:00 a.m. Their written report states that over time the UFO flew in a triangular pattern bounded by Melton, Rockbank, Sydenham, and Diggers Rest in a counterclockwise path between 200 and 1,600 feet in altitude. The Australian Signal Intelligence facility at Rockbank is alerted that its security has been breached. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 21–22; Keith Basterfield, UFOs: A Report on Australian Encounters, Reed Books, 1997, pp. 84–86 Source ID: Eberhart_6437 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20510 (0F7BBA82) Date: 7/22/1983 Description: Two dazzling UFOs flew rings around a town, buzzing an important army base (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [830722](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/1mufon/mufon%5Fau0722%5F83.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Melbourne, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5627 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20511 (E282BB89) Date: 7/25/1983 Description: 5:15 a.m. Tom Jackson is getting ready for work in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, when he sees a bright light outside his bathroom window. He opens it and sees a huge object hovering above pine trees about 750 feet away. It is metallic gray, possibly 300 feet long, and elongated but with the front and back ends dropping down. It has two rows of evenly spaced windows. After 5 minutes it moves toward the town’s sewage plant. Other residents report a brilliant orange light over the sewage plant. Still others hear a loud, high-pitched sound so intense that it causes headaches and disturbs neighborhood dogs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1983 Source ID: Eberhart_6438 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20512 (ABB71262) Date: 8/1/1983 Description: Two young men were driving a truck in Urbanopolis, Minas Gerais State, Brazil at eight o'clock in the evening when they felt a sensation of cold and increasing atmospheric pressure, heard buzzing, and saw a small reddish ellipsoidal light beam strike their truck from above. It dragged the truck back from accelerating when the driver attempted to drive faster. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Antonio Silva Faleiro, APRO Bulletin, December 1984, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4580 Source: Johnson ### Event 20513 (7607349C) Date: 8/1/1983 Description: 12:15 a.m. Terry Conner is at the intersection of West County Line Road and South Ashland Avenue about 1.5 miles southwest of Beecher, Illinois, when he sees a cluster of red flashing lights. They are coming from an object in a farmer’s field about 450–600 feet away. It appears to be 30 feet tall with 40–50 continuously flashing red lights in the shape of a vertical U. After 2 minutes, two large steady red lights appear to rise until they are even with the top of the U. After 10 seconds, all the lights go out at once. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Beecher, Illinois, Nocturnal Lights](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf) [Remain Unexplained,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1984\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_6439 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20514 (ED8B0411) Date: 8/5/1983 Description: In the mountains of Cerros Colorados, Argentina on Highway 74 on this night truck drivers encountered a gigantic disc-shaped UFO radiating flashing lights of various colors; it was seen at 400 meters for 3 minutes, then vanished as it sped away at a staggering speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, FSR, December 1983, p. 9, citing Tiempro Argentina, August 9, 1983 Source ID: Johnson_4701 Source: Johnson ### Event 20515 (D438EB91) Date: 8/9/1983 Description: 8:50 PM. Close Encounter with two winesses for 11 minutes. Light only, possibly explainable with some elements of strangeness. (NUFORC & MUFON Indiana/Ridge files) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Selma, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5630 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20516 (08BC6DC2) Date: 8/9/1983 Description: A 34-year-old man named Platner saw a UFO in Winifreda, La Pampa province, Argentina at 7:30 p.m. and followed it in his van. When he stepped out of his van he was paralyzed by a beam of light. Four small humanoids wearing diver suits with large round eyes, one of them a female, emerged from the craft and communicated with him using telepathy. He was taken aboard the craft, undressed, a blood sample was taken, and he subsequently became unconscious. When he came to again he was on top of his van. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jane Thomas, FSR, December 1983, p. 9, citing Diario Popular, August 12, 1983; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case # 104, citing FSR Source ID: Johnson_4805 Source: Johnson ### Event 20517 (F3E6E404) Date: 8/9/1983 Description: A respected businessman says he was abducted by aliens (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [830809](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/1mufon/mufon%5Farg0809%5F83.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Winifreda, Arg Source ID: NICAP_DB_5629 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20518 (3602BF1C) Date: 8/9/1983 Description: At 8:45 p.m. an extremely bright metallic dome-shaped object maneuvered over Interstate highway I-225 near Selma, Indiana, observed by 19-year-old Jennifer Irving for ten minutes. It had strange beams of light and made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 79 Source ID: Johnson_4806 Source: Johnson ### Event 20519 (68DFAA7D) Date: 8/10/1983 Description: 1:10 AM. Two witnessed a domed disc-shaped object at low altitude around their mobile home and garage west of Flint, Michigan. The object had two "headlights." (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, September 1983). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Flint, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5631 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20520 (FA80F4B8) Date: 8/10/1983 Description: Two witnessed a domed disc-shaped object at low altitude around their mobile home and garage west of Flint, Michigan at 1:10 a.m. The object had two "headlights." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, September 1983 Source ID: Johnson_4831 Source: Johnson ### Event 20521 (64EEE586) Date: 8/12/1983 Description: Fisherman taken aboard UFO (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: NICAP: [830812](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/1mufon/mufon%5Fgb0812%5F83.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Aldershot, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5632 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20522 (2371D83E) Date: 8/12/1983 Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Alfred Burtoo is fishing along the Basingstoke Canal in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, when a disc-shaped UFO lands nearby. Two humanoid beings approach him. They are 4 feet 6 inches tall, dressed in green overalls, and wear helmets with visors. They gesture at Bertoo to follow them, and he goes up a stairway into the craft. He is made to stand under an amber light. The beings speak to him in broken English, telling him that he is too old and infirm for their purposes. They then let him go. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 106–112](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/106/mode/2up); Marcus Lowth, “[The Bizarre Ordeal of Alfred Burtoo: The Abduction That Wasn’t,](https://www.ufoinsight.com/aliens/abductions/alfred-burtoo-abduction-wasnt)” UFO Insight, August 7, 2017; Solomier, “08-12-1983: The Alfred Burtoo Incident,” dtube: Hive Blog, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_6440 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20523 (115841B4) Date: 8/12/1983 Description: 11:10 p.m. In the Maraponga neighborhood of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, João de Lira Pessoa Neto is riding his motorcycle with his friend Plínio Couto de Alencar Júnior to a party. The cycle breaks down, so they push it home and head back on foot to the party. They pass the train tracks and the Cavan poles factory, where they notice that a transformer that always buzzes is silent. Stray dogs do not bark, and the lights on the poles are blinking intermittently. A strong light blinks near them and they see a disc-shaped object about 325 feet above the Lagoa da Maraponga, its shape reflected in the dark water. The object moves, and the two witnesses run off. Party hosts Roberto de Lira Pessoa Neto and his wife Rejane, Rejane’s sister, and a sailor named Cal are intrigued and decide to return to the site together. They look around and see the UFO landing on the lake shore. The disc has large round windows and a brightly lit interior. Inside they see human-looking beings moving about and looking out the windows. Roberto sees three humanoid figures beside the UFO. They seem to be covered in a plastic cloak and have a wobbling gait. Plínio thinks the object disappears and reappears like a mirage. The witnesses begin running away when another similar UFO appears above them and causes a gale. It disappears, and everything returns to normal, with dogs barking and the transformer buzzing. Later at home, João has a strong urge to return to the scene. The object is still there, and he has a compulsion to meet the occupants. He suddenly gets dizzy and nauseous and falls to the ground unconscious. He revives 2 hours later and finds himself in a soccer field and cannot remember how he got there. He goes home, but his behavior changes, becoming ruder. On May 21, 1989, João drowns under mysterious circumstances in a lagoon in Uruoca, Ceará, Brazil. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Reginaldo de Athayde, “[Seqüestro por ETs no Nordesté e reavaliado,](https://ufo.com.br/artigos/sequestro-por-ets-no-nordeste-e-reavaliado/)” Portal UFO, December 1, 1995; Clark III 710–712; Brazil 297– 303 Source ID: Eberhart_6441 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20524 (A3EB75E3) Date: 8/13/1983 Description: A motorist stopped at a scenic overlook saw a bright pulsating light. As it neared he could see that its light was pulsating every two seconds. He could now see that the light was on a disc-shaped object with shiny domed top that was revolving and dark underside. It passed out of sight in about 2-3 minutes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shipley, West Yorkshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5634 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20525 (0B1D12C7) Date: 8/14/1983 Description: Two women in a car driving on I-695 west of Baltimore, Maryland experienced an hour of missing time and were detoured from their usual route home. When they recovered their awareness of events, they saw a domed saucer-shaped object with windows hovering at 50 feet altitude near their home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13912; APRO Bulletin, January 1984, p. 1; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case # 28 Source ID: Johnson_5013 Source: Johnson ### Event 20526 (2E2B3A7D) Date: 8/15/1983 Description: 6:00 AM. Complicated abduction report, with many reports of previous encounters. (Ridge files) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Evansville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5636 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20527 (F0EDD5FD) Date: 8/26/1983 Description: Russian Jets Blasted Out of the Sky (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [830826](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/1mufon/mufon%5Fru0826%5F83.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ventspils, Russia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5635 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20528 (41681101) Date: 8/26/1983 Description: (IUR-9,1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cedar Lake, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5637 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20529 (61D6DB4C) Date: 8/26/1983 Description: 4:00 a.m. A Mrs. Zurwaski is awakened by brilliant white flashes of light reflecting off the trees to the east of her house in Cedar Lake, Indiana. She gets up, thinking a thunderstorm is approaching, and she sees the screen on the front door flooded with intense light. Her husband is also awake by now, and he describes the light as yellowish. Through a picture window, Mr. Zurwaski sees an object hovering 4–5 feet off the ground in their yard. Mrs. Zurawski hears a swoosh and a crackle and notices a ribbon of light moving southeast. Five days later, they discover in their yard a ring of dead grass in a perfect circle 13 feet in diameter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Remaley, “The Light and the Ring,” IUR 9, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1984\): 4–6 Source ID: Eberhart_6442 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20530 (F7BE6FA6) Date: 8/27/1983 End date: 8/29/1983 Description: The British UFO Research Association holds its Third International UFO Congress in High Wycombe, London, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[3d International UFO Congress, August 1983,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/BUFORA%20-%201981-1989%20BUFORA%20Bulletin/BUFORA%20Bulletin%20-%20%20No%2011%20-%20Nov%201983.pdf)” BUFORA Bulletin, no. 11 \(November 1983\): 8–21; “3d Bufora International UFO Congress,” IUR 8, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1983\): 9, 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6443 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20531 (0459E2AD) Date: 9/1983 Description: British ufologist [Jenny Randles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles) publishes UFO Reality, in which she defines the “Oz Factor,” the “sensation of being isolated, or transported from the real world into a different environmental framework.” She suggests that this feeling, often reported by UFO witnesses, “is almost suggestive of the witness being transported temporarily from our world into another, where reality is but slightly different.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, UFO Reality: A Critical Look at the Physical Evidence, R. Hale, 1983; Clark III 866 Source ID: Eberhart_6444 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20532 (8E60F830) Date: 9/1/1983 Description: GEPAN is reorganized by transferring it to a smaller department in CNES. The seven members of its scientific council are given different assignments, leaving [Jean-Jacques Velasco](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%5FVelasco) in sole charge with no scientific advisers. GEPAN’s resources and personnel are drastically reduced. During the following years, the scientific council no longer meets, despite repeated demands by one of its members, [Christian Perrin de Brichambaut](http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/handle/2042/51980/meteo%5F1995%5F11%5F8.pdf), general inspector of the National Meteorology Office. A last meeting of the council takes places in 1987. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 12– 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6445 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20533 (E8004049) Date: 9/1/1983 Description: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet interceptor over the Sea of Japan near Moneron Island \(just west of Sakhalin island\) while flying over prohibited Soviet airspace. All 269 passengers and crew aboard are killed, including Rep. [Larry McDonald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%5FMcDonald) \(D-Ga.\) and president of the anticommunist John Birch Society. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Korean Air Lines Flight 007](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%5FAir%5FLines%5FFlight%5F007)” Source ID: Eberhart_6446 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20534 (8F96FF8D) Date: 9/3/1983 Description: Day. Wiesław Machowski, his daughter, and a friend are fishing in a coastal lake near Wicie, Poland. They notice an orange sphere with another object below it and keep their eyes on it for 30 minutes or so. The larger light emits a smaller one that stops and returns to the bigger one; the sequence keeps repeating. When they return to their boarding house, they see it again but much closer to the coast. Machowski grabs a camera and takes three photos that shows the large object looking like a hat standing on its brim, and the object disappears shortly afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 57–58 Source ID: Eberhart_6447 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20535 (0495E1E1) Date: 9/18/1983 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a boomerang with lights moved slowly across the sky over Carmel, Putnam County, New York for ten minutes, then banked to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, July 1984, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_6074 Source: Johnson ### Event 20536 (6E8E7E9D) Date: 9/19/1983 Description: At 9:00 p.m. 3 in a car in Tomkins Cove, Rockland County, New York had a close encounter with a 40 foot in diameter, disc-shaped object that was seen over some high tension lines. The UFO followed their car, making a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1983, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_6101 Source: Johnson ### Event 20537 (75CB8F18) Date: 9/20/1983 Description: A fire lookout at Sopelia Tower in Yakima County, Washington spotted a nocturnal light making zigzag maneuvers in the sky at 8:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, p. 136 Source ID: Johnson_6151 Source: Johnson ### Event 20538 (E8781737) Date: 9/26/1983 Description: Midnight. The Soviet orbital missile early warning system \(SPRN\), code-named Oko, reports a single intercontinental ballistic missile launch from the US. Lt. Col. [Stanislav Petrov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav%5FPetrov)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav%5FPetrov) who is on duty during the incident, correctly dismisses the warning as a computer error when ground early warning radars do not detect any launches. Part of his reasoning is that the system is new and known to have malfunctioned previously; also, a full-scale nuclear attack from the US would involve thousands of simultaneous launches, not a single missile. Later, the system reports four more ICBM launches headed to the Soviet Union, but Petrov again dismisses the reports as false. The investigation that follows reveals that the system indeed has malfunctioned, and false alarms are caused by a rare alignment of sunlight on high-altitude clouds underneath the satellites’ orbits. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1983 Soviet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%5FSoviet%5Fnuclear%5Ffalse%5Falarm%5Fincident) [nuclear false alarm incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%5FSoviet%5Fnuclear%5Ffalse%5Falarm%5Fincident)” Source ID: Eberhart_6448 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20539 (E73EA2EB) Date: 10/1983 Description: Odd-Gunnar Røed begins publishing the Project Hessdalen Bulletin in Duken, Norway, in English. It updates readers on the latest sightings of nocturnal lights around Hessdalen, Norway. It continues through April 1985. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Project Hessdalen Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/Project%20Hessdalen%20Bulletin%20%28English%20language%29/Project%20Hessdalen%20Bulletin%20-%20Vol%201%20No%201%20-%201983%20No%201.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(October 1983\) Source ID: Eberhart_6449 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20540 (7F742FDB) Date: 10/1983 Description: 6:45 p.m. Paula E. Green, 12, undergoes her first abduction experience as she is walking through Judy Woods in Bradford, England, with a 14-year-old friend. It is the first of some 52 further incidents. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Daily Star Sunday, May 9, 2021; Nigel Watson, “Fifty-two Shades of Grey: Paula’s Story,” Fortean Times 407 \(July 2021\): 30–31 Source ID: Eberhart_6451 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20541 (175FC5FA) Date: 10/1983 Description: Flying Saucer Review editor [Gordon Creighton](https://www.ufoinfo.com/news/gordoncreighton.shtml) writes an essay on his beliefs about UFOs, which he thinks are piloted by Islamic jinns. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gordon Creighton, “[A Brief Account of the True Nature of the ‘UFO Entities,’](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201983%20V%2029%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 1 \(October 1983\): 2–6; Clark III 499 Source ID: Eberhart_6450 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20542 (3AEAAE37) Date: 10/3/1983 Description: 2:00 AM. The second Kathy Davis abduction. (Sympap,84) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5638 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20543 (4E4201D7) Date: 10/3/1983 Description: At 8:00 p.m. nine amateur astronomers sighted at blue ovoid object orbited by smaller objects over Split, Croatia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1983 Source ID: Johnson_6535 Source: Johnson ### Event 20544 (4E575790) Date: 10/3/1983 Description: At two o'clock in the morning Debbie Tomey heard a voice call her in her bedroom at her home in suburban Indianapolis, Indiana. She saw a small ball of light fly through her hallway. Under hypnosis she recalled being drowsy, then being touched by a device clamped to her neck. She saw a short humanoid being, and then experienced an episode of missing time. When she regained consciousness she found herself outside her house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 1: Comparative Study of Abductions, case 195 (episode K Source ID: Johnson_6534 Source: Johnson ### Event 20545 (E0A0B8B6) Date: 10/3/1983 Description: 8:00 PM. Nine amateur astronomers sighted at blue ovoid object orbited by smaller objects over Split, Croatia. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1983). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Split, Croatia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5639 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20546 (59E00AE5) Date: 10/11/1983 Description: An egg-shaped UFO with a one blunt end and one round end and two large spotlights hovered low over a roadway four miles south of Cochrane, Ontario at 6:30 a.m. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, May 1984, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_6784 Source: Johnson ### Event 20547 (49EFFBEF) Date: 10/13/1983 Description: 8:30 p.m. Catherine Burk is driving to her home in Altoona, Pennsylvania, when she sees a large, silvery disc pass about 30 feet above her car. The force of the UFO lifts the right side of her car briefly off the road, causing her lights to blink out and the engine to stall. She suffers hearing loss in her right ear, has severe headaches, and develops problems with her shoulder, chest, and spine. Local police investigate and find her “visibly shaking.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 232; MUFON UFO Journal, November 1983 Source ID: Eberhart_6452 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20548 (DC3A1118) Date: 10/13/1983 Description: In Gaffney, South Carolina, a married couple awoke at 12:30 a.m. to the sound of a siren, then witnessed a glowing orange-yellow UFO only twenty feet above their neighbor's house. Dogs barked. The UFO, estimated as the size of Winnebago, had two beams of light coming from the bottom. It crossed some power lines and headed to the east toward the nuclear power plant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George D. Fawcett case investigations file; UFO Magazine, June 1990, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_6815 Source: Johnson ### Event 20549 (3560776E) Date: 10/13/1983 Description: UFO near Cherokee Nuclear Station (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, NC) Reference: NICAP: [831013](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-cherokee.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gaffney, SC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5640 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20550 (A5039980) Date: 10/15/1983 Description: Silvery disc passed over car, right wheels lifted off road, car lights blinked off and on. Car dropped hard back onto road, engine stalled. Severe physiological effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Altoona, PA Source ID: HallUFOE2_399 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20551 (D17A7E04) Date: 10/15/1983 Description: Silvery disc passed overhead, right wheels lifted off road; physiological effects. See Section VI (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Altoona, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5641 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20552 (6E175F76) Date: 10/17/1983 Description: At 6:50 p.m. an oyster-shaped object passed over a house at 2000 feet altitude in Bedhampton, Hampshire, England. It was described as silent, very bright, with five lights by the two witnesses, two men named Woods and Waters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, July 1984, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_6941 Source: Johnson ### Event 20553 (289B73E6) Date: 10/20/1983 Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_400 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20554 (8BE7ECF3) Date: 10/23/1983 Description: 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombings Type: terrorist attack Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings) Location: Beirut, Lebanon Source ID: Maj2_740 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20555 (F5FD0955) Date: 10/25/1983 End date: 10/29/1983 Description: The US and a coalition of six Caribbean nations attack the island nation of Grenada. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, the intervention results in an American victory in a matter of days. It is triggered by the strife within the People’s Revolutionary Government that results in the house arrest and execution of the previous leader and second Prime Minister of Grenada [Maurice Bishop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%5FBishop), and the establishment of the Revolutionary Military Council with [Hudson Austin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%5FAustin) as chairman. The invasion results in the appointment of an interim government, followed by democratic elections in 1984, and serves as a tune-up for the US military, which has been out of action for 10 years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States invasion of Grenada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5Finvasion%5Fof%5FGrenada)” Source ID: Eberhart_6454 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20556 (AA8BC8A6) Date: 10/25/1983 Description: 8:00 PM. An experienced sky observer named Kraus at the Pine Mountain Observatory in Bend, Oregon watched a red light, possibly with antennas shoot toward him. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bend, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_5642 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20557 (54E19763) Date: 10/25/1983 Description: An experienced sky observer named Kraus at the Pine Mountain Observatory in Bend, Oregon watched a red light, possibly with antennas shoot toward him at 8:00 p.m. It lit up the area incredibly brightly as it hovered over the observatory,then drifted off toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, July 1984, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_7133 Source: Johnson ### Event 20558 (33CC6AD8) Date: Late 10/1983 Description: Evening. Villagers in Hollesley, East Suffolk, England, witness a triangular object with three powerful white lights on its base that illuminate the ground below it. Ron Marco says the lights form a triangle and remain perfectly still, until it moves above his head and other witnesses. Debbie Foreman and Pauline Osborne report headlight and engine trouble when the UFO appears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 160–161; Stacia Briggs and Siofra Connor, “[Weird Suffolk: Hollesley, the UFO](https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/stories-of-ufo-s-in-hollesley-2447200) [Hotspot,](https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/stories-of-ufo-s-in-hollesley-2447200)” East Anglian Daily Times \(Ipswich\), April 13, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_6453 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20559 (A5ED37E8) Date: 10/26/1983 Description: At 10:00 p.m. in a rural area of Slaterville, New York a round UFO with 2-3 horizontal rows of windows was sighted on a cloudy night. It had a single revolving light on top, and was the size of a very large room. The minimum distance to the object was only 200 meters, and it was viewed through binoculars. The UFO hovered, and then went behind the hills. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 8; UNICAT, case # 300 Source ID: Johnson_7164 Source: Johnson ### Event 20560 (8FAE71DF) Date: 10/26/1983 Description: 9:00 p.m. David Keener is driving on US Highway 321 northeast of Hickory, North Carolina, when a diamond-shaped object, red in front, bright green in the rear, hovers low over his car and then rises up again. The observation lasts about 5 minutes and the object is silent throughout. He reports the incident to the sheriff’s department. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984 Source ID: Eberhart_6455 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20561 (1D893598) Date: 10/26/1983 Description: At 9:00 p.m. on US. Highway 321 northwest of Hickory, North Carolina a silent, diamond-shaped object stopped a car for 5 minutes, then rose into the sky and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984 Source ID: Johnson_7163 Source: Johnson ### Event 20562 (CF365796) Date: 10/26/1983 Description: At 3:00 a.m. in Columbus, Georgia three people in a car at Camp McKensie, a Boy Scout camp, had a close encounter near some railroad tracks with a gray spherical object that made no sound. The object approached over the railroad tracks and disappeared. The witnesses first thought it was a train coming. One of the witnesses had a euphoric reaction to the experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerrold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1994, p. 18, citing MUFON Field Investigator Jim Maples, case # 931210E Source ID: Johnson_7162 Source: Johnson ### Event 20563 (58A72B97) Date: 10/28/1983 Description: At 2:15 a.m. an engineer in Mahopac, New York saw a 100 foot wide delta-shaped UFO repeatedly probe the surface of a lake with a red beam of light. Every time a car passed by the lake the lights on the object went out. The dramatic sighting lasted 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek & Philip Imbrogno, Night Seige, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_7251 Source: Johnson ### Event 20564 (BB5B0EDC) Date: 10/28/1983 Description: 10:00 p.m. Two men are driving in the countryside near Ithaca, New York, looking for signs of deer in order to plan their hunting activities. They see a lighted area low in the sky ahead of them. Through binoculars, they see that the light is cast by a round object with three rows of lighted window panels and an illuminated rotating dome that is bright enough to reflect off the low clouds. They estimate it is 15–25 feet in diameter, It stays visible for about 5 minutes as it moves slowly and noiselessly over the ridge of a hill. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CUFOS case file Source ID: Eberhart_6457 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20565 (CBE0A8EA) Date: 10/28/1983 Description: 2:15 a.m. Biomedical engineer Jim Cooke is driving by the Croton Falls Reservoir on his way back to Mahopac, New York, when he sees “aircraft lights” approaching and dropping very fast. Oddly, they seem to hover for a while, then blink out. Cooke gets out of his car, walks toward the shoreline, and spots a triangular object hovering less than 15 feet above the water and 200 feet away. After a few minutes, 9 red lights come on from its sides and a red beam of light from the underside probes the water. The UFO moves to four locations above the reservoir, each time shining the red light on the water and remaining at a steady altitude. Each time a car drives by, its lights go out. Cooke estimates the object is 100 feet long at the base and 30 feet at the apex. After 10–15 minutes, it lifts upward at a 30° angle and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NightSiege 2–4 Source ID: Eberhart_6456 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20566 (F36766D5) Date: 10/29/1983 Description: At 4:40 a.m. two police constables saw a large structured object with two rows of lights maneuvering over hills while driving along the A59 Highway on Blubberhouses Moor, North Yorkshire, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Devereax, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 109; Gary Heseltine, Police Reports of UFOs, case # 117, citing the Yorkshire Post Source ID: Johnson_7285 Source: Johnson ### Event 20567 (AB99A042) Date: 10/31/1983 Description: Police officer Hamel and several other witnesses observed an octagon-shaped ovoid at 8:30 p.m. low over trees and buildings in Rochester, New Hampshire. It made a humming noise as it hovered and maneuvered for 60 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, September 1984, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_7347 Source: Johnson ### Event 20568 (90FF0339) Date: 10/31/1983 Description: An F-5E interceptor was scrambled by the Brazilian Air Force as many witnesses in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil reported a silvery spot maneuvering over city at 5:10 p.m. The official explanation was balloon, but UFO researchers in Brazil don't accept it as plausible. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, July 1984, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_7346 Source: Johnson ### Event 20569 (4815630D) Date: 10/31/1983 Description: 5:10 PM. An F-5E interceptor was scrambled by the Brazilian Air Force as many witnesses in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil reported a silvery spot maneuvering over city. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5643 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20570 (BD8668CE) Date: 11/1983 Description: The captain and crew of the Russian diving support vessel Sprut are in Kola Bay, northern Russia, when they observe an ellipsoid object slowly moving over the surface at an altitude of 1,640–3,280 feet for 90 minutes. The object separates into three parts, each of which increases in speed and flies to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 145 Source ID: Eberhart_6459 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20571 (BF8451FD) Date: 11/1983 Description: The Project Hessdalen team goes to Hessdalen, Norway, and explains their project to the locals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 572 Source ID: Eberhart_6458 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20572 (7883334E) Date: 11/1983 Description: Dawn. Humanoid report. No details. (Sympap,84) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Spencer, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5644 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20573 (4896AF74) Date: 11/1/1983 Description: A cylindrical object with an "eye" or window, 14 feet long, was seen maneuvering and tumbling low to the ground over a neighborhood in Spring Valley, California at 9:40 a.m. by a 15-year-old teenager. The lights and an electric fan went off once or twice during the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, June 1984, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_7396 Source: Johnson ### Event 20574 (3D0CF3CC) Date: 11/1/1983 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a fiery ball was seen humming and lighting the area around Vale das Velhas, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. A man was levitated by the UFO, but a second witness pulled the first witness away from an apparent abduction. Nevertheless, he was sick for a full year after the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 50 Source ID: Johnson_7397 Source: Johnson ### Event 20575 (E2B468DB) Date: 11/7/1983 End date: 11/11/1983 Description: NATO carries out a command post exercise code-named Able Archer 83. Its purpose is to simulate a period of conflict escalation, culminating in the US military attaining a simulated DEFCON 1 coordinated nuclear attack. Coordinated from the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe \(SHAPE\) headquarters in Casteau, Belgium, it involves NATO forces throughout Western Europe. The Soviet leadership is concerned that this could be a ruse for an actual US nuclear strike and moves to a high alert. Historians such as [Thomas Blanton](https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/thomas-blanton), director of the National Security Archive, and [Tom Nichols](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%5FNichols%5F%28academic%29), a professor at the Naval War College, argue that Able Archer 83 brought the world close to a nuclear war. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Able Archer 83](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able%5FArcher%5F83)” Source ID: Eberhart_6460 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20576 (3BAED907) Date: 11/7/1983 Description: Police Sgt Tony Dodd's Experience (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Skipton, North Yorkshire, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5645 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20577 (A6EE3E6A) Date: 11/18/1983 Description: The National Endowment for Democracy is founded in Washington, D.C. It is managed by such individuals as [Henry Kissinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FKissinger), [Sally Shelton-Colby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%5FShelton-Colby), [Barbara Haig](https://www.ned.org/experts/barbara-haig/), and others. Although furnished with $80 million in funding from Congress, its private status keeps it safe from FOIA requests. Among its programs are: destabilizing [Ferdinand Marcos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%5FMarcos) in the Philippines and [Manuel Noriega](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%5FNoriega) in Panama; supporting the Nazi PAN party in Mexico; channeling money to the Contras; and supporting operatives in the Medellin drug cartel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[National Endowment for Democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FEndowment%5Ffor%5FDemocracy)” Source ID: Eberhart_6461 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20578 (DA8F8DF3) Date: 11/26/1983 Description: Evening. Humanoid Report, one witness. (SYMP84) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5647 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20579 (946B5A99) Date: 11/27/1983 Description: A bedroom visitation with paralysis occurred on this night to four-year-old Robbie Tomey in his home in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana. He reported that a little man with a big head had been in his room in the predawn hours. He had lights around his head, and the boy was unable to move. The entity spoke without moving its mouth, and "he told me he wanted to take Casey [his brother]." He left through the closet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case # 195M, citing Budd Hopkins, MUFON UFO Conference Proceedings 1984, p. 179 Source ID: Johnson_7971 Source: Johnson ### Event 20580 (ED042BCC) Date: 11/28/1983 Description: 8:40 p.m. A woman in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, notices a ball of light approaching her. She goes inside to get her boyfriend and two children. They watch the light approach to within 400 feet, where it hovers at treetop level. It appears to be half the size of the house. Three smaller objects come from behind it and travel southeast, apparently landing in a swampy area near a manufacturing plant. The woman and children run toward the object on foot, while the boyfriend jumps in a car to pursue it. At one point he sees the object hovering above a small lake less than 200 feet away. But within seconds it vanishes. All four witnesses later experience eye irritation, and the boyfriend’s face and hands turn red and feel sore. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984 Source ID: Eberhart_6462 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20581 (DAC45E6D) Date: 11/29/1983 Description: Dr. Robert I Sarbacher, consultant US Research and Development Board and President and Chairman of the Board, Washington Institute of Technology, in a letter to Dr. William I. Steinman states that Frank Scully’s book (“Behind the Flying Saucers”) story is true and persons definitely involved in operations of recovered saucers were John von Neuman and Dr. Vannever Bush. Also, Dr. Sarbacher thought that Robert Oppenheimer was also involved. Dr. Sarbacher had been invited by President Eisenhower to attend several discussions associated with the reported recoveries, but was unable to attend them. He did receive Special Reports on the recoveries at the Pentagon but was instructed NOT to remove them from his office. Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A2, ["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p525, B1-G p49) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_741 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20582 (1480F1F0) Date: 11/29/1983 Description: [Robert Sarbacher](http://www.noufors.com/Dr%5FRobert%5FSarbacher.htm) replies to a query by UFO researcher [William S. Steinman](https://rr0.org/people/s/SteinmanWilliamS.html) about crash-retrievals in the late 1940s. He confirms he was “invited to participate in several discussions associated with the reported recoveries” of UFOs, although he was unable to attend the meetings. He described the retrieved saucer material as “extremely light and very tough,” and he had heard that the aliens “were constructed like certain insects we have on Earth.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 320; Good Above, [pp. 525–526](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/524/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6463 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20583 (B253BBC3) Date: 12/1983 Description: A witness walking his dogs at Sherlocks Farm in Groombridge, East Sussex, England, sees a triangular UFO with an orange light at each apex. It makes a low droning sound as it passes by. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 137 Source ID: Eberhart_6464 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20584 (F0580375) Date: 12/7/1983 Description: 9:00 p.m. A woman and her son and daughter stop at the Pioneer Road exit off I-43 near Cedarburg, Wisconsin, to watch a brightly lit object silently descend and maneuver in front of them for 5–6 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “[UFO Hotline Reports,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1984\): 5; Richard Heiden, Jeffrey Paul, and Donald Schmitt, “CE-I with an ‘Orgy’ of Lights,” IUR 9, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1984\): 8–9, 15 Source ID: Eberhart_6465 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20585 (17C44AAD) Date: 12/12/1983 Description: A triangular flying object was sighted by three men. It moved erratically and made no sound. It had blinking red and white lights. Its erratic path was detected on FAA radar at the Greater Rockford, Illinois airport. (Source: APRO Bulletin, September 1984, p. 8). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Byron, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5648 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20586 (1CE1D5CD) Date: 12/12/1983 Description: 6:30 p.m. Mike and Jeff Goodwin and Robert Blanchard are driving in Byron, Illinois, when they see a triangular “falling star” that starts moving horizontally at treetop level. At one point it seems to nearly collide with a similar object. They both have blinking red and white lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Doris and Joe Graziano, “[Press Reports,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201984%2009%2000%20-%20Vol%2032%20No%206.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 32, no. 6 \(September 1984\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6466 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20587 (A1FD7E70) Date: 12/12/1983 Description: A triangular flying object was sighted over Byron, Illinois by three men. It moved erratically and made no sound. It had blinking red and white lights. Its erratic path was detected on FAA radar at the Greater Rockford, Illinois airport. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1984, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_8362 Source: Johnson ### Event 20588 (419C4C0F) Date: 12/14/1983 Description: 8:00 p.m. Realtor Antônio Nelso Tasca is driving about 4 miles north of Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil, when he feels compelled to turn onto a dirt road. After about 5 minutes he encounters a white and green object like a bus about 33 feet long and 10 feet high in the road ahead. He stops 100 feet from it, turns off the headlights and engine, and walks toward it. It has 10 squarish windows and is floating just above the ground. A few feet away he begins to feel heat and decides to return to his car. Suddenly a beam of white-red light strikes him and somehow pulls him toward the object. He wakes up inside the UFO and an abduction scenario takes place, compete with sex with a light-haired alien female who says her name is Cabala. She gives him a message warning that continued deployment of nuclear weapons will lead to bad things for Earth. Tasca wakes up around 6:00 a.m. at a different spot from where he had the encounter. A medical examination reveals a strange burn on his ribs and other odd marks on his backbone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil 303–311; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1983-12-14-brazil-chapeco.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1983-12-14-brazil-chapeco.htm) March 15, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_6467 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20589 (A55EEF58) Date: 12/15/1983 Description: 6:25 AM. Mr. Coventry reported seeing a fog in which all sounds stopped. A gray flying object the shape of a railroad car, but with a convex curved roof, then appeared, making crackling and humming sounds. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glasgow, Scotland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5650 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20590 (F337076D) Date: 12/15/1983 Description: In 1983 Mr. Coventry in Glasgow, Scotland reported seeing a fog at 6:25 a.m. in which all sounds stopped. A gray flying object the shape of a railroad car, but with a convex curved roof, then appeared, making crackling and humming sounds. The UFO had three porthole-shaped windows in the side, and what appeared to be a yellow smoke swirled around in the interior of the object. It shot up into the sky and was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The secret history of Scotland’s UFO phenomenon, p. 88 Source ID: Johnson_8426 Source: Johnson ### Event 20591 (CB4B2EBE) Date: 12/20/1983 Description: 5:30 PM. Witness driving in Riverside had his car buzzed by a 7" wide sphere that had pegs protruding from it. It flew by the car at eye level. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1983, p. 4). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Riverside, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5651 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20592 (685AFF56) Date: 12/20/1983 Description: A witness driving in Riverside, California at 5:30 p.m. had his car buzzed by a 7” wide sphere that had pegs protruding from it. It flew by the car at eye level. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1983, p. 4 Source ID: Johnson_8542 Source: Johnson ### Event 20593 (86C2F17C) Date: 12/27/1983 Description: 10:30 p.m. A small disc-shaped object with eight green lights lands in an open field across the street from the home of a witness in Indianapolis, Indiana. After 10 seconds, the lights go out. The witness continues to watch from her home for an hour before retiring. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “[UFO Hotline Reports,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1984\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6468 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20594 (B99E2F45) Date: 12/27/1983 Description: 10:30 PM. A small disc-shaped object with eight bright green lights descended from the sky and landed in an open field across the street from the home of the witness. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5652 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20595 (57EAD371) Date: 12/30/1983 Description: 6:30 p.m. Four witnesses are driving along Illinois Highway 70 near Eddie Road about 8 miles northwest of Rockford, Illinois, when a red domed-shaped object emerges from what looks like an explosion and moves to the south. It vanishes when it reaches an unusual configuration of parallel stars. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Letter,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 4 \(Aug./Sept. 1984\): 2 Source ID: Eberhart_6469 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1984 (Back to Top) ### Event 20596 (A5618FCC) Date: 1984 Description: Hessdalen Valley, Norway, G,V, numerous (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hessdalen Valley, Norway Source ID: NICAP_DB_5653 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20597 (42059308) Date: 1984 Description: From the Air Traffic Controllers Manual: Controllers MUST report UFOs immediately to AIS (Military), LATCC. A completed report MUST be sent to MOD (AFOR). A list of phone numbers and locations is shown in the directory at Appendix H. Type: manual Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p458) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_742 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20598 (69CC3480) Date: 1984 Description: A Hispanic male living in the Reseda neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, encounters odd lights in his house and missing time. Although not his first abduction experience, his memories are uncovered through hypnosis sessions conducted by parapsychologist [D. Scott Rogo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%5FScott%5FRogo), who gives him the pseudonym of “Sammy Desmond.” The case is significant for the marks on the witness’s body and the many sexual elements of the story. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: D. Scott Rogo, “The Abduction of Sammy Desmond,” IUR 12, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1987\): 4–13, reprinted by Aileen Garoutte, “[The Abduction of Sammy Desmond](http://ufoexperiences.blogspot.com/2005/07/abduction-of-sammy-desmond.html)” and “[The Abduction of Sammy Desmond, Final,](http://ufoexperiences.blogspot.com/2005/07/abduction-of-sammy-desmond-final.html)” UFOexperiences, July 5 and 7, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_6473 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20599 (F2308E89) Date: 1984 Description: Aggressive dogs become uneasy in presence of red light (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [840000](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-840000.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rockdale, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5654 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20600 (2D9F9E01) Date: 1984 Description: An antiaircraft defense system near Astrakhan, Russia, tracks a spherical object flying along the Caspian Sea coast at 6,500 feet. It does not respond to radio contact. Two fighters are scrambled but they fail to catch up with it. When the pilots fire at the UFO, it descends to 325 feet. When it approaches Krasnovodsk \[now Türkmenbaşy\], Turkmenistan, a helicopter gunship is scrambled to make another attempt to shoot the object, which then ascends to a height beyond the copter’s capabilities. The UFO then heads for the Caspian Sea and disappears from sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vadim K. Ilyin, “[KGB’s ‘Blue Folder’ Reveals Shootings, Landings in USSR,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2001/11/November%202001.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 403 \(November 2001\): 8; “[KGB Blue Folder,](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread180878/pg1)” Above Top Secret forum, November 1, 2005; Good Need, [pp. 353–](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/352/mode/2up) [354](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/352/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6476 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20601 (2F2A28F3) Date: 1984 Description: UK researcher [Hilary Evans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary%5FEvans) publishes Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors, which equates a wide range of entity experiences, including UFO events, and explains them all as psychosocial manifestations because percipients psychologically need them for some reason. He follows up with a sequel in 1987. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hilary Evans, Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors, Aquarian, 1984; Hilary Evans, Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians, Aquarian, 1987; Clark III 943–945 Source ID: Eberhart_6471 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20602 (E5729592) Date: 1984 Description: UFO Research Australia is formed as an informal information-exchanging network. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 34 Source ID: Eberhart_6472 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20603 (9445A975) Date: 1984 Description: Daniel Kagan and [Ian Summers](https://www.bethlehemhousegallery.com/artists/ian-summers/) publish a 500-page book titled Mute Evidence, arguing that animal mutilations are a made-up mystery. Only veterinary pathologists, not regular veterinarians, are truly qualified to determine the cause of an animal’s death, they write. They do admit there are some real mutilations of two kinds: copycat incidents where pranksters cut up the bodies of already dead cattle, and ritualistic killings by cult members. The latter incidents occur mostly in Idaho. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Daniel Kagan and Ian Summers, Mute Evidence, Bantam, 1984; Clark III 140–141 Source ID: Eberhart_6470 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20604 (D411F144) Date: 1984 Description: USAF seizes 89,000 acres of public land adjacent to Groom Lake Type: land seizure Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Location: Area-51 Source ID: Maj2_743 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20605 (08BFB132) Date: 1984 Description: 9:45 p.m. Brazilian Air Force Col. Marcelo Hecksher of the 1st Squadron of the 10th Aviation Group \(Poker Squadron\) is flying back to Santa Maria Air Force Base from Rio de Janeiro. When he begins descent preparations over the city of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he notices a strong, slightly bluish light on his right. Radar in Curitiba and Santa Maria do not have it on their scopes. The light then accelerates forward, rises, and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 207–208; Brazil 557–559 Source ID: Eberhart_6475 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20606 (4FAFBB32) Date: 1984 Description: The F-117 completes testing at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada and begins formal operations under the 4450th Tactical Group. The 4450th is absorbed by the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing in 1989. In 1992, the entire fleet is transferred to Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, under the command of the 49th Fighter Wing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FF-117%5FNighthawk)” Source ID: Eberhart_6474 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20607 (7E691E5C) Date: 1/1984 Description: A luminous triangle preceded by a flashing light passes over Guildford, Surrey, England, silently moving to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 137 Source ID: Eberhart_6478 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20608 (BDC2EE78) Date: 1/1984 Description: Project Hessdalen sends out a report form to 3,300 households in and around Hessdalen valley, Norway. January — Seven oil field workers in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, see a silvery disc flying at a high altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stars and Stripes, January 28, 1984; “U.S. Armed Forces Publication Tells of Lebanon UFO,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 2 \(April/May 1984\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6477 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20609 (2E84699E) Date: 1/1984 End date: 2/1984 Description: Numerous sightings, radar trackings, photographs by scientific field team with instruments Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Hessdalen Valley, near Roros, Norway Source ID: HallUFOE2_401 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20610 (43E109B8) Date: 1/3/1984 Description: 4:14 AM. An ovoid UFO flew low over Lake Michigan and was sighted by three women in Port Washington, Wisconsin. The UFO had three portholes. (Source: Donald R. Schmitt, International UFO Reporter, March-April 1984, p. 3). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lake Michigan, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5655 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20611 (D812C745) Date: 1/3/1984 Description: 4:14 a.m. A woman wakes up in her home near Port Washington, Wisconsin, when a bright light shines through the bedroom window. She sees a strange object with three circular lights in a fixed position about 50 feet from the shore of Lake Michigan. The center light, as bright as a searchlight, rotates north, casting an illumination on the water, which is seen to be turbulent. All three lights are rotating clockwise around a 30-foot body. She wakes up her husband, who suggests that it is a Coast Guard helicopter. But the object is completely silent. After a short time, a smaller object also with three lights appears over the first one, hovers a few minutes, then disappears. The searchlight periodically shines directly in the window. The object moves about 20–30 feet then hovers there another 10–15 minutes. At 5:15 a.m., it moves away and disappears to the southeast. The woman goes back to bed, but soon feels a powerful electric shock penetrate her body with a buzzing sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald R. Schmitt and Richard W. Heiden, “People Who Live in Glass Houses…See UFOs,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1984\): 3, 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6479 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20612 (97D9B018) Date: 1/3/1984 Description: At 4:14 a.m. an ovoid UFO flew low over Lake Michigan and was sighted by three women in Port Washington, Wisconsin. The UFO had three portholes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald R. Schmitt, International UFO Reporter, March-April 1984, p. 3; UNICAT, case # 1 Source ID: Johnson_67 Source: Johnson ### Event 20613 (9BE1CEA6) Date: 1/8/1984 Description: 3:00 AM. EST. In the witness's bedroom a short humanoid pointed a beam at the witness in bed. When the being had left a three-foot long by 18" cylinder shot straight up into the sky outside. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Framingham, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5656 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20614 (8302A10F) Date: 1/8/1984 Description: 3:15 a.m. Three people are traveling southeast in a van at mile marker 236 on I-80 southeast of Cozad, Nebraska, when the highway lights up and they see a huge disc as big as a baseball diamond 75–100 feet above and slightly to the right of the road. Bright lights are evenly spaced around the rim, most of them white, but others pink or blue. As the car passes it at a slow speed, they can detect no motion and can hear no sound. They attempt to communicate by Citizens Band radio, but the radio picks up strange interference like an “intermittent bleeping.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “Nebraska Close Encounter,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1984\): 10–12; “Addendum to Nebraska Encounter,” IUR 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1984\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6480 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20615 (B65294F8) Date: 1/8/1984 Description: 3:15 AM. CST. On Interstate 80 three people driving in a van outside Cozad saw a 100-foot diameter disc hover 80 feet over the highway. It was blazingly brilliant and had more than 15 colored circular lights around the rim. They heard an intermittent beeping on the van's CB radio. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cozad (outside), NE Source ID: NICAP_DB_5658 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20616 (0C54E820) Date: 1/8/1984 Description: At 3:00 a.m. EST in the witness’s bedroom in Framingham, Massachusetts a short humanoid pointed a beam at the witness in bed. The witness felt that the being could telepathically read her mind. When the being had left a three-foot long by 18" cylinder shot straight up into the sky outside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991 Source ID: Johnson_209 Source: Johnson ### Event 20617 (4738F90F) Date: 1/8/1984 Description: Seventy-five minutes later, at 3:15 a.m. CST, on Interstate 80 three people driving in a van outside Cozad, Nebraska saw a 100-foot diameter disc hover 80 feet over the highway. It was blazingly brilliant and had more than 15 colored circular lights around the rim. They heard an intermittent beeping on the van's CB radio. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, March 1984, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_210 Source: Johnson ### Event 20618 (91ED4553) Date: 1/9/1984 Description: Two witnesses in a car driving north of Hawthorne, New Jersey at 9:33 p.m. saw two silent 75-foot in diameter parabolic discs 200 feet above SR 208. The objects seemed to be avoiding being seen by passing cars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1983, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_231 Source: Johnson ### Event 20619 (A516078A) Date: 1/9/1984 Description: Mr. & Mrs. Sprinster had a close encounter with a multi-colored triangular shaped UFO 10 miles west of Torrington, Connecticut on Route 4 at 9:30 p.m. The object moved very slowly, and dropped in altitude to pace their car. Its underside was criss-crossed with tubes and grill work. A red light in the center of the object detached, circled the object three times, then returned back to its original position. It left by making a sharp turn to the south. The encounter lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_230 Source: Johnson ### Event 20620 (3E2CC861) Date: 1/9/1984 Description: 10:30 p.m. Two witnesses driving on State Highway 208 near Hawthorne, New Jersey, see an object with lights descend then move away from their car. After driving another 300 feet they spot another object over the road. They drive directly under the object, which is moving slowly at an altitude of 200 feet. The driver pulls over, and the object moves toward the first UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “[UFO Hotline Reports,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 \(Feb./March 1984\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6481 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20621 (590D5D99) Date: 1/9/1984 Description: 10:30 PM. Several independent witnesses reported seeing a huge silent cigar shaped object over the highway on SR 14 15 miles north of Mojave, Kern County, California. It was only 100 feet over the road and had red lights on the bottom; it flew off to the north. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mojave, Kern County (north of), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5664 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20622 (0C4435A1) Date: 1/9/1984 Description: 9:33 PM. Two witnesses in a car driving north of Hawthorne saw two silent 75- foot in diameter parabolic discs 200 feet above SR 208. The objects seemed to be avoiding being seen by passing cars. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawthorne (north of), NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5663 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20623 (D6DB4EAC) Date: 1/9/1984 Description: 9:30 PM. Mr. & Mrs. Sprinster had a close encounter with a multi-colored triangular shaped UFO 10 miles west of Torrington on Route 4. The object moved very slowly, and dropped in altitude to pace their car. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Torrington (10 miles west of), CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_5662 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20624 (40C4995C) Date: 1/9/1984 Description: 7:30 PM. A metallic object described as blimp like with red lights buzzed two cars on US Highway 395 south of Pearsonville, near the China Lake Weapons Center in Kern County on a clear night. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pearsonville, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5661 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20625 (61E6DB06) Date: 1/9/1984 Description: 6:30 AM. While driving his truck down a country road, the witness described the object as looking like a football turned up on end, metallic-grey in color, about 150 feet tall and moving about 50 feet off the ground and about 100 feet from his vehicle. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Capron, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5660 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20626 (5513C032) Date: 1/9/1984 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a metallic object described as blimp like with red lights buzzed two cars on US Highway 395 south of Pearsonville, near the China Lake Weapons Center in Kern County on a clear night. At 10:30 p.m. several independent witnesses reported seeing a huge silent cigar shaped object over the highway on SR 14 15 miles north of Mojave, Kern County, California. It was only 100 feet over the road and had red lights on the bottom; it flew off to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) APRO Bulletin, November 1984, p. 1; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14071; (2) Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1984, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_232 Source: Johnson ### Event 20627 (C513919D) Date: 1/13/1984 Description: New York Post: Soviet scientists are puzzled by the flight of a mysterious bright sphere followed by seven small lights which flew at great speed but low altitude across southern Russia and Ukraine. The objects changed altitude and direction and were flying less than half a mile above the ground. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/AFU_19840500_APRO_Bulletin_v32_n3/page/n1/mode/2up?q=%22The+Flying+Saucer+As+I+Saw+It%22) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_744 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20628 (475FCB6B) Date: 1/14/1984 Description: A speeding red light, the shape of a triangle and larger than a normal aircraft, hovered over Surrey, England and then disappeared. It returned two minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, June 1984, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_327 Source: Johnson ### Event 20629 (8B7A8602) Date: 1/20/1984 Description: 9:30 p.m. A mother and two children are driving near Jasper, New York, when they see a large, gold, oval object that seems to be pacing their car. It lands on a nearby ridge and after a few seconds ascends into the sky. It repeats this maneuver several times, speeding up and slowing down when she does the same. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6482 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20630 (BA38A4B4) Date: 1/21/1984 End date: 2/26/1984 Description: Project Hessdalen sets up three fieldwork stations, the primary one on Aspaskjolen mountain, and two smaller ones at Hersjøen and Litlefjellet, Norway. This group secures technical assistance from the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, the University of Oslo, and the University of Bergen. Over the course of one month, investigators see numerous lights, take photos of many of them, and track them instrumentally. On three occasions, lights are seen visually and tracked on radar simultaneously, casting a reflection on the radar screen so strong that a Norwegian defense expert later says that if that is not a solid object, then it must be a “strongly ionized gas.” One of the lights is tracked moving at 19,000 mph. On another occasion, a light under constant visual observation shows up on radar only on every second sweep. In most instances \(33 in all\), when radar shows something, the eye or a camera sees nothing. On two occasions the researchers direct a laser beam on passing lights. Out of a total of nine times, the lights respond all but once in a curious way, changing from a regular flashing light to a double-flashing light. The total number of sightings in this period is 188, although some may be attributable to passing aircraft. Only four of the photos taken through the special lens grating come out well enough to show light spectra, and only two of these are useful for analysis. Changes in the magnetic field are recorded in 40% of the sightings, but the Geiger counter and infrared viewer prove unhelpful. Researchers categorize the phenomenon into three different types: a white or blue-white flashing light, high in the air; a yellow light with a red light on the top, sometimes flashing; and a slow-moving, yellow or white light that maneuvers, stops for an hour or more, and continues maneuvering. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Project Hessdalen](http://www.hessdalen.org/index%5Fe.shtml)” website; “[Description of](http://www.hessdalen.org/pictures/description.shtml) [the Phenomena,](http://www.hessdalen.org/pictures/description.shtml)” Project Hessdalen; Erling Strand, “[Project Hessdalen 1984: Final Technical Report,](http://www.hessdalen.org/reports/hpreport84.shtml)” Project Hessdalen, January 5, 1985; “[Hessdalen: 18 February 1984,](http://www.hessdalen.org/pictures/H-a15a19.shtml)” Project Hessdalen; “[Project Hessdalen: 1984,](http://www.hessdalen.org/pictures/H-a12.shtml)” Project Hessdalen; “Norway Lights Continue: Update on Project Hessdalen,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1984\): 9, 12; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 90; Clark III 572–573 Source ID: Eberhart_6483 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20631 (0CEC5973) Date: 1/21/1984 Description: 9:30 PM.While driving home to Edison, a mother and two children watched in amazement as an enormous gold, oval-shaped object appeared to pace their car. As they watched, the object appeared to land on a nearby ridge and after a few seconds it ascended into the sky. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jasper (near), NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5665 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20632 (8D2CBD4A) Date: 1/22/1984 Description: 7:25 AM. The cabin crew of United Airlines flight 729, flying westbound at 43,000 feet, observed a blurry bright red object about the size of a DC-9 airliner move from northeast to southwest. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toledo (30 miles east of), OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5666 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20633 (EC25A26B) Date: 1/22/1984 Description: 7:09 a.m. A witness in Huntington, West Virginia, observes a brilliant orange ball of light about 900 feet hovering above a neighbor’s house. Its glow illuminates the ground. After a minute, it speeds away to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6484 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20634 (89472CA8) Date: 1/22/1984 Description: 7:00 p.m. A young couple parking near Waycross, Georgia, spot a large object approaching their car at treetop level. It crosses a logging road near their car, goes across an open area to a stand of trees, then turns around. The driver begins speeding away, but the object moves directly over the car. It has an L-shaped light pattern on its underside with two red lights and one green light. The glow from the red light illuminates the car interior. The object follows them for about 75 down a county road before it moves away at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6486 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20635 (C2BCF720) Date: 1/22/1984 Description: 7:25 a.m. The cabin crew of United Flight 729 is flying westbound 30 miles east of Toledo, Ohio, at 43,000 feet. They see a blurry, bright-red object the size of a DC-9 move from northeast to southwest for a few seconds. It leaves a contrail that they pass through. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6485 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20636 (F3CF50C8) Date: 1/22/1984 Description: 7:09 PM. On the way outdoors to start his car the witness observed a large brilliant ball of orange light in a stationary position about 900 feet above the neighbors house. The glow from the ball illuminated the entire ground area. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Huntington, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_5669 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20637 (AA9F6B4F) Date: 1/22/1984 Description: 7:00 PM. Two occupants of a car observed a circular object with three brilliant white lights and a corona of white light covering its entire surface. As the object approached the car the driver made a 180 degree evasive turn only to have the object pull alongside and pace his vehicle. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Arnold, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_5668 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20638 (8F4CFF06) Date: 1/22/1984 Description: 7:00 PM. ¬: While parked in a wooded area, a young couple spotted a large object approaching their car at treetop level. The object crossed the logging road near their car, went across an open area to a stand of trees, then turned end-for-end. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Way Cross (near), GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5667 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20639 (E805C53E) Date: 1/22/1984 Description: At 7:25 a.m. a blurry red object was viewed by the crew of United Airlines flight 729 westbound at 43,000 feet altitude 30 miles east of Toledo, Ohio. left contrail, visible only a few seconds. At 7:00 p.m. a car was chased by a UFO in Waycross, Georgia. It illuminated the interior of the car with a red light. There were many nocturnal light reports in the area on the same evening. At 7:09 p.m. an orange ball of light hovered silently for one minute over Huntington, West Virginia. It suddenly moved west at a high rate of speed. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, International UFO Reporter, March 1984, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_422 Source: Johnson ### Event 20640 (E0B6F92D) Date: 1/22/1984 Description: At 7:00 p.m. two witnesses in Arnold, Missouri reported that a 25 foot diameter, white glowing saucer paced their car for three minutes at only 150 feet altitude. Three helicopters were seen circling the area afterwards. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11075, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue 191 Source ID: Johnson_423 Source: Johnson ### Event 20641 (273B33A9) Date: 1/22/1984 Description: 7:00 p.m. Two witnesses in a car in Arnold, Missouri, see a circular object with three brilliant white lights and a corona of white light surrounding it. As it approaches the car, the driver makes an evasive turn, only to have the object pace them within 150 feet for 3 minutes. A vertical shaft of light comes from the top of the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6487 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20642 (F86B1865) Date: 1/26/1984 Description: Mrs. Green and her 7-year-old son were driving in Texas when they first encountered radio interference. UFO stops car, car out-of-control into ditch, bright light, 75 minutes missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_535 Source: Johnson ### Event 20643 (9008984D) Date: 1/27/1984 Description: 5:40 a.m. Four witnesses at Valley Center, California, see five stationary white lights in the northern sky about 2 miles away. Four are in a diamond formation while the fifth is in the center. After watching the display for several minutes, they notice smaller white lights maneuvering around the larger ones. They seem to increase to as many as 100. Suddenly the formation, small lights as well, moves away to the northwest and the witnesses can hear a soft humming sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6488 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20644 (5A874131) Date: 1/27/1984 Description: 6:15 a.m. Two boys delivering papers in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, see a circular object with lights around its edge hovering above houses about two blocks away. After a few seconds it ascends at a 45° angle. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6489 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20645 (FDE97D65) Date: 1/27/1984 Description: 6:15 AM. Two young boys delivering papers observed a big circular object with lights around the edge hovering over houses about two blocks distant. They watched the object for several seconds, then it ascended into the sky at about a 45 degree angle (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: King Of Prussia, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5671 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20646 (92BCF792) Date: 1/27/1984 Description: 5:40 AM. Four witnesses observed five large, brilliant, stationary white lights in the northern sky. Four of the lights were in a diamond formation with the fifth light in the center of the formation. After watching the display for several minutes they noticed smaller white lights maneuvering around the large lights. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Valley Center, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5670 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20647 (965B8DA3) Date: 1/28/1984 Description: 6:30 PM. A young couple sighted an orange ball descending through the cloud layer and appeared to land on a ridge behind the tree line. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Flemington, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5672 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20648 (A35C3782) Date: 1/28/1984 Description: In 1984, an orange sphere was seen to land on a ridge in Flemington, New Jersey. Two witnesses saw the UFO descend and land at 6:30 p.m., while many others saw a bigger object rise from the same spot 20 minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, March 1984, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_562 Source: Johnson ### Event 20649 (ED6CA0DD) Date: 1/28/1984 Description: 6:30 p.m. A young couple in Flemington, New Jersey, notice an orange ball descending through the cloud layer and appear to land on a ridge behind the tree line. At 6:50 a.m., the husband sees a bright object ascend from the same ridge, pause in mid-air, then move away horizontally in the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6490 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20650 (024655BA) Date: 1/30/1984 Description: At 9:00 p.m. nine oil platform workers in a swampy area 50 miles west of Miami in Dade County, Florida watched a 200 foot in diameter domed disc-shaped object with a huge red glow and a silver dome, engage in a high speed vertical descent and then hover for 10 seconds. It then changed color from orange to a metallic chrome color, then back to orange. It also had dozens of flashing lights. It instantaneously moved away to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, International UFO Reporter, March 1984, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_615 Source: Johnson ### Event 20651 (A0992A10) Date: 1/30/1984 Description: 9:00 PM. Mine men working on an oil platform observed a bright orange object descending from the sky at a high rate of speed. When at an estimated altitude of 10,000 feet and about five miles distant, the object came to an instant stop. The bright orange glow faded and the crew observed an object with a bright chrome dome-shaped top and dozens of flashing lights on the underside. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Miami (40 miles west of), FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5673 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20652 (34E74221) Date: 1/30/1984 Description: 9:00 p.m. Nine men working on an oil platform in the Big Cypress National Preserve about 40 miles west of Miami, Florida, see a bright orange object descending at a high rate of speed about five miles away. At about 10,000 feet, it comes to an instant stop. The orange glow fades and they can see an object with a chrome dome and dozens of flashing lights on the underside. All witness estimate it to be at least 200 feet in diameter. It remains stationary for 10 seconds, turns orange again, and speeds away to the east. Witnesses in Jensen Beach and the Miami area also see the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6491 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20653 (7013BD9B) Date: 2/1984 Description: The Commission for the Investigation of Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena is established in Moscow, Russia, although its announcement in the West is delayed until May. Affiliated with the Committee for the Protection of Natural Environment of the All-Union Council of Scientific Technical Societies, the commission is made up of scientists and academicians and is headed by former cosmonaut [Pavel Popovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%5FPopovich), who tells the trade union newspaper Trud that there have been hundreds of reports in Russia each year, most of which can be explained away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 243](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/242/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6492 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20654 (E14C441A) Date: 2/1984 Description: Night. The commander of a group of soldiers in the 103rd Regiment guarding warehouses at Przasnysz Airfield, Poland, sees a light silently coming in his direction. It is attached to a huge oval object 70–100 feet across that is moving soundlessly 150 feet above the ground. He and his assistant feel unexplained terror and paralysis, remaining rooted to the spot. Noticing a light at its rear end, he considers taking an AK-47 and shooting it out, but receives a mental command not to do so or he would be paralyzed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 67 Source ID: Eberhart_6494 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20655 (9163EFA5) Date: 2/1984 Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale begins a newsletter, Notizie C.U.N., to replace Quaderni UFO. It is edited by Gian Paolo Grassino in Turin, Italy, and continues until September 1985. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Notizie C.U.N.](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notizie%20CUN/Notizie%20CUN%20-%20No%2000.pdf), no. 0 \(February 1984\) Source ID: Eberhart_6493 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20656 (28E1903D) Date: 2/3/1984 Description: Mr. Jonsson was driving home in Tingsryd, Sweden at around 1:00 a.m. when he saw a disc-shaped object 80 meters across and some 5-10 meters above the road ahead of him. He got to his home, got his camera, and went back to the site of his encounter. His car stalled, and he recalled seeing several beings who attempted to abduct him. He had nearly two hours of missing time. An independent witness verified seeing the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, June 1985, p. 8; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 270 Source ID: Johnson_683 Source: Johnson ### Event 20657 (C3749997) Date: 2/3/1984 Description: 1:00 AM. Mr. Jonsson was driving home when he saw a disc-shaped object 80 meters across and some 5-10 meters above the road ahead of him. He got to his home, got his camera, and went back to the site of his encounter. His car stalled, and he recalled seeing several beings who attempted to abduct him. He had nearly two hours of missing time. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tingsryd, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_5674 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20658 (640943AD) Date: 2/7/1984 Description: 4:00 AM. The witness got out of bed and went to the window and saw a bright white circular object with a hump on top in a stationary position about four feet above his neighbors yard. He estimated that the object was about 200 feet from him and the size of a small car. He saw an image like a man next to the object. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atco, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5677 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20659 (87DAE52E) Date: 2/7/1984 Description: 4:00 a.m. A witness in Atco, New Jersey, awakes to a loud humming sound and finds his room illuminated by a bright light. He goes to the window and sees a bright circular object with a hump on top in a stationary position about four feet above his neighbor’s yard and 200 feet away. It is about the size of a small car. A human- like “image” is standing next to it, but that vanishes and the object ascends in a zigzag pattern, then moves away at a high rate of speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 \(March/April 1984\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6495 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20660 (1B0657FC) Date: 2/7/1984 Description: The witness awoke to a loud humming at four o'clock in the morning in Atco, New Jersey and a bright light illuminated the bedroom. Outside a bright white 10-foot wide circular UFO with a hump in the middle--a domed disc--was hovering over a neighbor' s yard, 200 feet away. It ascended in a zigzag at a high rate of speed. A lawn ornament figure was reported missing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, International UFO Reporter, March-April 1984, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_741 Source: Johnson ### Event 20661 (5F86BA7F) Date: 2/20/1984 Description: 6:12 p.m. [Leif Havik](http://www.iliuka.no/leif.htm) is standing in the snow outside the Project Hessdalen headquarters on Aspaskjolen, Norway, when a red light flies around his feet and disappears. It is also witnessed by Age Moe. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 90 Source ID: Eberhart_6496 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20662 (AA37E81A) Date: 2/22/1984 Description: 4:00 PM. This sighting was by five highly educated witnesses. The object's appearance underwent a regular change (possible rotation) approximately every 60 seconds from an upside-down ice cream cone to a rectangle. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5679 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20663 (5E9D1AD5) Date: 2/22/1984 End date: 2/23/1984 Description: Night. Witnesses in Flushing, Michigan, see objects with triangular lighting patterns that shine beams of light to the ground. The lights approach the car of one witness who sees they are part of a cigar-shaped object 100 feet above the ground. A jogger reports a light so intense that it hurts his eyes. Another witness sees an object with triangular-shaped lights hovering less than 200 feet above the ground, illuminating the area behind her house and panicking her cats. Two more objects pass above her house. Investigator [Shirley Coyne](http://www.mimufon.org/newsletter/July09.pdf) locates 12 people who have seen the lights, but only three will fill out a report. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984 Source ID: Eberhart_6497 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20664 (1C04B9F6) Date: 2/23/1984 Description: 4:00 p.m. Five witnesses, all with PhDs, report an upside-down-ice-cream-cone-shaped object over the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio. It seems to be surrounded with a fog, but it changes its appearance about every 60 seconds, at one point looking rectangular. It is seen for 20 minutes, heading in the direction of Port Columbus Airport \[now John Glenn Columbus International Airport\]. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Irena Scott, “[Description](https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/76311582.pdf) [of an Aerial Anomaly Viewed over Columbus, Ohio,](https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/76311582.pdf)” Ohio Journal of Science 88, no. 2 \(1988\): 23; Irena Scott, “UFO Studies in the Scientific Literature,” IUR 15, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1990\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_6498 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20665 (0203C754) Date: Late 2/1984 Description: 3:30 a.m. A driver in Everett, Washington, sees a huge, silvery green, egg-shaped object moving toward his car from a wooded area. Within a few seconds it bounces from one side of the road to the other, passing over his car. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984 Source ID: Eberhart_6499 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20666 (0B52835D) Date: 2/26/1984 Description: Project Hessdalen ends its instrumented study in the Hessdalen Valley of Norway, near Roros. Nocturnal lights were seen all over the sky, and appeared to "climb" up the mountains, then flash. Observers were hit by a spotlight at 3:10 a.m. on this date. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 246 Source ID: Johnson_1141 Source: Johnson ### Event 20667 (19BC7F27) Date: 2/29/1984 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a man and his dog in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania witnessed a 40 foot wide diamond-shaped object wobbling in the southeast sky at an estimated 50 feet altitude. He also reported interference on his TV set. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984 Source ID: Johnson_1192 Source: Johnson ### Event 20668 (D12E0429) Date: 2/29/1984 Description: On the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio at 3:30 p.m. witnesses observed a black sphere half a meter in diameter that hovered just over a University building, then shot off very fast toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, May 1986 Source ID: Johnson_1191 Source: Johnson ### Event 20669 (CE0C1081) Date: 2/29/1984 Description: 3:30 PM. On the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio witnesses observed a black sphere half a meter in diameter that hovered just over a University building, then shot off very fast toward the southeast. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Columbus, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5680 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20670 (9F33BF4D) Date: 2/29/1984 Description: 9:00 PM. A man and his dog in Mechanicsburg witnessed a 40 foot wide diamondshaped object wobbling in the southeast sky at an estimated 50 feet altitude. He also reported interference on his TV set. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mechanicsburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5681 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20671 (846F1B1C) Date: 2/29/1984 Description: 9:00 PM. A man and his dog in Mechanicsburg witnessed a 40 foot wide diamond- shaped object wobbling in the southeast sky at an estimated 50 feet altitude. He also reported interference on his TV set. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mechanicsburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5682 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20672 (1718588C) Date: 2/29/1984 Description: 9:00 p.m. A woman in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, sees a dark, diamond-shaped object approach her at no more than 50 feet above the ground. White lights are at the front and back, blinking red lights at the sides, and smaller lights between each of the four points. It is “longer than a tractor trailer and wide as two tractor trailers.” It wobbles and passes over trees to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984 Source ID: Eberhart_6500 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20673 (E9F0741E) Date: 3/4/1984 Description: The UK Ministry of Defence, for the first time ever, releases UFO reports to the public. Sixteen reports, most of which are severely redacted and missing key data, are sent to the British UFO Research Association. When he is asked about possible landing cases, such as the 1980 Rendlesham incident, Defence Undersecretary for Procurement [John Lee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FLee%2C%5FBaron%5FLee%5Fof%5FTrafford) replies that these are not distinguished from other reports of aerial phenomena. In any event, he says, “none of these reports was of any defence significance.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 112–113](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/112/mode/2up); Nick Pope, Open Skies, Closed Minds, Simon & Schuster, 1996, [Appendix 1](https://archive.org/details/openskiesclosedm0000pope/page/238/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6501 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20674 (E638FB79) Date: 3/6/1984 Description: 10:00 p.m. Two police officers, Tom Jensen and Gary Myers, watch a large boomerang or U-shaped UFO west of Norris, South Dakota, after having been alerted by a citizen 10 minutes earlier. At its closest approach, Myers sees it as a pattern of lights in an inverted L pattern. As it passes, it blocks out the sky and stars. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “A CE-I, a Lonely Road, a Starry Night,” IUR 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1984\): 6–9 Source ID: Eberhart_6502 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20675 (AD1DA1A1) Date: 3/6/1984 Description: 10:00 PM. A large boomerang or U-shaped UFO was seen by two police officers, Jensen and Myers, west of Norris, South Dakota, after having been called out on a reported sighting of the UFO by a citizen ten minutes earlier. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norris (west of), ND Source ID: NICAP_DB_5683 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20676 (2A137BA5) Date: 3/6/1984 Description: A large boomerang or U-shaped UFO was seen by two police officers, Jensen and Myers, west of Norris, South Dakota at around 10 p.m., after having been called out on a reported sighting of the UFO by a citizen ten minutes earlier. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, March 1984, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_1345 Source: Johnson ### Event 20677 (58922D38) Date: 3/9/1984 Description: MP [Patrick Wall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%5FWall) asks in the UK House of Commons that the Secretary of State for Defence provide statistics on UFO landings, unexplained cases, and radar sightings for 1980–1983. [John Lee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FLee%2C%5FBaron%5FLee%5Fof%5FTrafford) responds that there were 350 UFO reports in 1980 \(dodging the question of whether or not the MoD could identify them\), 600 in 1981, 250 in 1982, and 390 in 1983. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 113](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/112/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6503 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20678 (8AF11E98) Date: 3/11/1984 Description: A mother and daughter observed a large cylindrical-shaped UFO hovering outside their family room window in Wolcott, Connecticut. The object was just seven feet above the ground, and only four feet from the window. It made no sound, and stayed there for seven minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, APRO Bulletin, June 1984, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_1427 Source: Johnson ### Event 20679 (55C27868) Date: 3/11/1984 Description: A mother and daughter observed a large cylindrical-shaped UFO hovering outside their family room window in Wolcott, Connecticut. The object was just seven feet above the ground, and only four feet from the window. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wolcott, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_5684 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20680 (30056DBF) Date: 3/11/1984 Description: After 12:00 midnight. A mother and her daughter see a large cylindrical object just a few feet away through the window of their home in Wolcott, Connecticut. For 7 minutes it hovers about 7 feet above the ground, then moves away silently. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal. April 1984 Source ID: Eberhart_6504 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20681 (0B27AA31) Date: 3/14/1984 Description: On this night a string of six orange, sausage-shaped UFOs flew over Sverdlovsk, Russia. They changed color in unison. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14112; FSR, December 1992 Source ID: Johnson_1499 Source: Johnson ### Event 20682 (7E79BF51) Date: Spring 1984 Description: A Soviet pilot in a MiG-23 is scrambled to intercept an object flying at supersonic speed from north to south over the Mikha Tskhakaya Airfield south of Senaki, Georgia. The MiG-23, flying at 16,400 feet in full afterburner at Mach 1.2, is unable to close in on the object. By the time the interceptor is approaching the coastline of the Black Sea, it is flying at Mach 1.6. The pilot activates his infrared search and track system when he is 7.5 miles away from the target and sees the largest “bloom” he has ever encountered. By the time he reaches Mach 2, he has to break off due to lack of fuel, never having acquired a visual target. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 352–353](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/352/mode/2up), [365](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/364/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6511 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20683 (CCF3CBD7) Date: 3/21/1984 Description: 8:00 PM. Three 12-meter long boomerang-shaped objects hovered at low altitude over a highway in Claxton. One of the object flew directly overhead at treetop level. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Claxton, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5686 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20684 (2462B024) Date: 3/21/1984 Description: At 7:45 p.m. a truck driver driving on Interstate highway I-87 south of Albany, New York saw a delta-shaped UFO that looked larger than a Boeing 747. It paced his truck for five minutes. He reported it had "prism-ish" lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno & Bob Pratt, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 63 Source ID: Johnson_1605 Source: Johnson ### Event 20685 (FCDB53AE) Date: 3/21/1984 Description: Three 12-meter long boomerang-shaped objects hovered at low altitude over a highway in Claxton, Georgia at 8 p.m. One of the object flew directly overhead at treetop level. It had lights all over it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 81 Source ID: Johnson_1606 Source: Johnson ### Event 20686 (58160D7C) Date: 3/21/1984 Description: 8:00 p.m. A mother and daughter driving south on Perry Road near Claxton, Georgia, notice an unusual light through the trees. As they top a hill, they slow the car to a near stop when they see three boomerang-shaped objects, with wings pointing downward, hovering above a field. Each has two bright lights in the top center and a row of small, multicolored lights that blink in rapid sequence. One object is larger \(at least 40 feet wide\) than the others and moves over their car in perfect silence. Its underside appears dark metallic. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Local Woman, Daughter](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201984%2004%20-%20no%20177.pdf) [Report ‘Close Encounter,’](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201984%2004%20-%20no%20177.pdf)” Claxton \(Ga.\) Enterprise, March 29, 1984, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 177 \(April 1984\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6506 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20687 (CA517BA6) Date: 3/21/1984 Description: 7:45 PM. A truck driver driving on Interstate highway I-87 south of Albany saw a delta-shaped UFO that looked larger than a Boeing 747. It paced his truck for five minutes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Albany (south of), NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5685 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20688 (3C8A7830) Date: 3/21/1984 Description: 7:45 p.m. A truck driver driving on Interstate 87 south of Albany, New York, sees a boomerang-shaped UFO about 100 feet altitude that looks larger than a Boeing 747. It has red, white, and green lights. It paces his truck for five minutes then vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NightSiege 71–73 Source ID: Eberhart_6505 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20689 (BF5F3FD7) Date: 3/24/1984 Description: 5:50 a.m. Five nuns at the Sainte-Marie Cistercian Abbey in Boulaur, Gers, France, see a bright oval object about 16 feet long and 6.5 feet tall from the first-floor balcony. It is hovering at first, then starts moving up and down and right and left “at the speed of lightning.” It stops about 100 feet above the cemetery and 325 feet away from the witnesses. There is no sound. Then it takes off in the direction it came from. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Groupe d’Études et d’Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés, “[Notes d’Enquête, Boulaur \(32\) 24.03.1984,](https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/Notes%20d%27enquete55.pdf)” June 30, 2014; Swords 447 Source ID: Eberhart_6507 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20690 (64FB47AA) Date: 3/25/1984 Description: 8:55 p.m. A driver in Santa Monica, California, sees a bright red ball of light, about 10 inches in diameter, maneuvering around her car with a bouncing motion. It approaches to within a foot of her car, lighting up the hood and windows for one minute. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984 Source ID: Eberhart_6508 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20691 (6438BD1B) Date: 3/25/1984 Description: Night. Hundreds of people see low-flying lights over the Taconic State Parkway near Peekskill, New York. The lights seem to be attached to a slow-moving, boomerang-shaped object with six intense white lights and a green light in the center. A photographer estimates the object is about 300 feet long and flying at 30 mph. It moves over some water and the lights go out. He videotapes the incident, but nothing shows up on the tape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NightSiege 78–83 Source ID: Eberhart_6509 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20692 (DF44632B) Date: 3/28/1984 Description: 8:00 p.m. A triangular object passes above a car in West Nottingham, New Hampshire, at an altitude of 50 feet. It has two bright lights and is silent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “[UFO Hotline Reports,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201984%2005%2000%20-%20Vol%2032%20No%203.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 32, no. 3 \(May 1984\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6510 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20693 (FB0415C3) Date: 4/1984 Description: Reported in APRO Bulletin: D.M., who lives just south of White Swan, WA went out to his rural mailbox just before dawn to get his paper. He observed a large flying triangle passing overheard. It was lighted completely around its perimeter with multicolored lights which burned steadily. He estimated it was 8k-10k feet high, made no noise and was in sight for several minutes as it wasn't moving at high speed. Type: ufo sighting Reference: [Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/AFU_19840500_APRO_Bulletin_v32_n3/page/n1/mode/2up) Location: White Swan, WA Source ID: Maj2_746 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20694 (87A317AC) Date: 4/1984 Description: PC Richard Milthorp was one of at least 20 uniformed officers who observed a dome shaped circular UFO that appeared to ‘fire’ balls of light to the ground for two hours. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stanmore, Middlesex, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5687 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20695 (5B2E470C) Date: 4/9/1984 Description: Several intercontinental airline pilots reported sighting a mushroom-shaped cloud, similar to what forms in the atmosphere after a nuclear explosion, over the western part of the Pacific Ocean. The cloud was slightly luminous, about 200 miles in diameter, and at a height of 65,000 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: William Corliss and Jerome Clark, UFO Calendar 1999 Source ID: Johnson_1932 Source: Johnson ### Event 20696 (C41B92DE) Date: 4/10/1984 Description: Night. While driving down a country road near Rhinelander, Wisconsin, two witnesses see a stationary, cigar- shaped object about 225 feet from the roadway. It has a row of lighted windows, and several spokes protrude from the surface. Each spoke has a white light on the tip. While hovering at treetop level, the object pivots 360° and then stops. After observing it for 4 minutes, the witnesses drive past it and go home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1984\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6512 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20697 (D0EAD4C6) Date: 4/12/1984 Description: 2:10 a.m. Air traffic control radar at Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados tracks a large group of unknown targets moving at about 100 mph in “loose but distinct formation” 30 miles southeast of the island. Authorities notify Prime Minister [Tom Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%5FAdams%5F%28politician%29), the Barbados Defense Force, and the police commissioner. The BDF is put on Red Alert. By 2:20 a.m., the formation is 14 miles off the coast when two targets veer off to the island’s west side, two others move to the east, while the remainder keep on moving north. Police are deployed to the beaches. At 3:30 a.m., the BDF launches a patrol boat and scrambles a Cessna but does not find anything. Radar is still tracking objects at 4:00 a.m. over the northern part of the island. By 4:10 a.m., they disappear to the west. A temperature inversion is a possible cause. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[1984: UFOs Place Barbados Defence Force on Full Alert,](https://notesfromthemargin.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/1984-ufos-place-barbados-defence-force-on-full-alert-this-really-happened/) [This Really Happened,](https://notesfromthemargin.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/1984-ufos-place-barbados-defence-force-on-full-alert-this-really-happened/)” Notes from the Margin, March 13, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_6513 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20698 (4EE15BDD) Date: 4/13/1984 Description: 10:00 p.m. While boating on a lake near Gainesville, Florida, two witnesses see a stationary oval-shaped object at an altitude of 100 feet about 300 feet from their boat. The object shines a cone of bright white light onto the surface of the water. After about 3 minutes, it hovers out of sight behind some trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1984\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6514 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20699 (DE2E4E84) Date: 4/15/1984 Description: 12:00 midnight. Some 20 witnesses \(farm workers, a police officer, venture scouts\) at Llangernyw, North Wales, see a pink-orange ball that drifts to the ground and explodes in a shower of purple sparks. Out of the shower emerges a white disc that appears to land out of sight behind a ridge. A large army helicopter and two military trucks apparently perform a search of the area beginning at daylight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Anatomy of a UFO Wave,” IUR 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1986\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_6515 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20700 (447642FB) Date: 4/18/1984 Description: 9:30 p.m. A married couple is driving on a road near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, England, when they come upon a huge rectangular object straddling the road ahead. It has at least 60 lights arrayed in rows on its frame. Red and green lights are at its edges, but the majority are white. The object remains absolutely still and silent about 100 feet in the air. They are anxious to get home, so they do not see the object leave. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Anatomy of a UFO Wave,” IUR 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1986\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6516 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20701 (EC4AA0F0) Date: 4/18/1984 Description: A rectangular UFO hovered only 100 feet above the side of a road near the RAF Lakenheath Air Base in England. It had red, green and white lights, and was silent. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lakenheath Air Base, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5688 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20702 (2D19FE2C) Date: 4/18/1984 Description: A rectangular UFO hovered only 100 feet above the side of a road near the RAF Lakenheath Air Base in England. It had red, green and white lights, and was silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, March 1986, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_2121 Source: Johnson ### Event 20703 (C83CB911) Date: 4/19/1984 Description: 8:05 p.m. A family in Llano, Texas, watches a huge dome-shaped object pass over their house at an altitude of only 200 feet. It has red lights around it. A jet aircraft appears to be pursuing it. The mother says she can hear a humming sound coming from it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1984\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6517 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20704 (D50ED359) Date: 4/19/1984 Description: 8:05 PM. Five people in Llano, Texas, witnessed a huge dome-shaped UFO fly over their house at only 200 feet altitude. It made a loud humming noise and had lights on the rim. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Llano, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5689 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20705 (78DB7728) Date: 4/19/1984 Description: At 8:05 p.m. five people in Llano, Texas witnessed a huge dome-shaped UFO fly over their house at only 200 feet altitude. It made a loud humming noise and had lights on the rim. A jet aircraft was seen in pursuit of the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, May-June 1984, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_2142 Source: Johnson ### Event 20706 (24B1235D) Date: 4/19/1984 Description: At 16.00 GMT air traffic controllers at an eastern airport in England witnessed a glowing sphere that looked like "masses of silver paper crinkled up" touch down on a cross runway, then rocket skyward in a maneuver they judged impossible for aircraft. It climbed 3000 feet in under a second. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, March-April 1986, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_2143 Source: Johnson ### Event 20707 (FFD63853) Date: 4/19/1984 Description: 16.00 GMT. Air traffic controllers at an eastern airport in England witnessed a glowing sphere that looked like "masses of silver paper crinkled up" touch down on a cross runway, then rocket skyward in a maneuver they judged impossible for aircraft. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: At an eastern airport, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5690 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20708 (24AB9E7E) Date: 4/20/1984 Description: 10:04 p.m. Four people in a car in Beaverton, Oregon, see a large, pulsating, yellow light high in the sky. The driver stops, and a small, bright-blue object comes into view, moving toward the yellow object at high speed. Suddenly, a “fast red thing” shoots out of the blue object and knocks the yellow object in half, one part disintegrating and the other part falling to the ground. Two other objects, yellow and blue, appear with the blue object chasing and apparently shooting down the yellow object. The blue object then climbs at a high speed vertically and vanishes in the clouds. The observation lasts 20 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1984\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6518 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20709 (81E99048) Date: 4/20/1984 Description: Four people in a car in Beaverton, Oregon reported watching an aerial "dogfight" between a blue UFO and a yellow UFO at 10:04 p.m. The blue UFO zapped the yellow fireball with a red beam, apparently causing it to disintegrate because its light went out. The blue object then shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, International UFO Reporter, May 1984, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_2169 Source: Johnson ### Event 20710 (3F5B07A1) Date: 4/22/1984 Description: 10:10 p.m. A woman and her mother are watching TV at a trailer park in Saltfleet, Lincolnshire, England, when they see a dome-shaped object with circle of white lights, a small group of red lights above, and a brilliant white light on top. It is hovering nearby and about 500 feet in the air. More lights turn on and the object begins to revolve. As its speed increases, the colors blend into one another. The object moves away to the south, but over the next hour it circles the trailer park in wide loops that take it several miles out to sea before returning over their heads. It switches a searchlight beam off and on. The woman’s two dogs are looking fearfully at the UFO. At one point the object drops to 100 feet and hovers in absolute silence above the witnesses. The searchlight comes from two headlight beams projecting forward. The UFO has a “smoky glass” dome on top. Dogs are howling for miles around. The object switches off all but four of its lights and climbs vertically before heading out to sea to circle for a few more minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Saltfleet Encounter,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Northern%20UFO%20News%20%28Jenny%20Randles%29/Northern%20UFO%20News%20-%20No%20113.pdf)” Northern UFO News, no. 113 \(May/June 1985\): 10–11; Jenny Randles, “Anatomy of a UFO Wave,” IUR 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1986\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6519 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20711 (A6C3C1AC) Date: 4/22/1984 Description: Four witnesses near the shore at Saltfleet, Lincolnshire, England reported seeing a domed disc with a transparent dome that made several wide loops over the coast. It shone spotlights on a trailer park, buzzed the witnesses, and then rose vertically. It hovered at a 45 degree angle for two minutes. Their dogs were afraid. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, International UFO Reporter, March 1986, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_2232 Source: Johnson ### Event 20712 (0D911213) Date: 4/24/1984 Description: 7:10 PM. Radar visual confirmation. A 1000 foot long cigar-shaped object followed a KC-135 USAF tanker aircraft through a U-turn over the mountains of Chimayo, New Mexico while separate nocturnal lights cavorted about in the sky. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chimayo, NM Source ID: NICAP_DB_5691 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20713 (E3CFC05D) Date: 4/24/1984 Description: Radar visual confirmation. At 7:10 p.m. a 1000 foot long cigar-shaped object followed a KC-135 USAF tanker aircraft through a U-turn over the mountains of Chimayo, New Mexico while separate nocturnal lights cavorted about in the sky. Radar blips were tracked at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1984 Source ID: Johnson_2285 Source: Johnson ### Event 20714 (BFB856AA) Date: 4/25/1984 Description: 9:55 PM. Structural details of a UFO were observed by three witnesses in a car as the UFO passed over them at 100 feet while they were driving down American Canyon Road in Napa, California. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Napa, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5696 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20715 (A13B5EA3) Date: 4/25/1984 Description: 5:30 PM. A silver colored, 150 foot long, bulbous-shaped object with a long tail hung in the sky, rocking back and forth 80 feet above the ground over a garden in Blairgowrie, The Orkney Islands, Scotland. Mrs. Freeman's dog cowered, and she was temporarily blinded by a ball of light from the object that struck her and entered her body, and she felt the warmth emitted by it but at the same time felt a sensation of calm. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: The Orkney Islands, Scotland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5693 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20716 (2F3571C8) Date: 4/25/1984 Description: 9:55 p.m. Three witnesses driving on American Canyon Road south of Napa, California, see a huge triangular object the size of a football field hovering 100 feet above the road. They drive beneath it, and after 5 minutes the object moves out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “[UFO Hotline Reports,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1984-5-6-mayjune)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 195 \(May/June 1984\): 11; Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1984\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6521 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20717 (78FA43EE) Date: 4/25/1984 Description: 6:00 p.m. A woman is in her garden at Blairgowrie, Scotland, working on a tapestry when her dog leaps up and runs indoors. A ball of light appears in the air and seems to enter her body. She is blinded for a few seconds but feels calm. A white cloud rises from her head and hovers above some bushes. It blinks twice and climbs into the sky toward a large silvery object shaped like a house key. The cloud moves along the length of the key, flashing and lighting up bits in turn. She calls her son, who arrives just as the UFO sways from side to side and vanishes in a sudden pink flash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Anatomy of a UFO Wave,” IUR 11, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1986\): 7– 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6520 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20718 (E4840F60) Date: 4/25/1984 Description: At 5:30 p.m. a silver colored, 150 foot long, bulbous-shaped object with a long tail hung in the sky, rocking back and forth 80 feet above the ground over a garden in Blairgowrie, The Orkney Islands, Scotland. Mrs. Freeman's dog cowered, and she was temporarily blinded by a ball of light from the object that struck her and entered her body, and she felt the warmth emitted by it but at the same time felt a sensation of calm. A beam of light flowed upward from the object. After a few minutes the object vanished in a pink flash. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 125; Jenny Randles, International UFO Reporter, March 1986, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_2311 Source: Johnson ### Event 20719 (8E6C16EE) Date: 4/25/1984 Description: Structural details of a UFO were observed by three witnesses in a car as the UFO passed over them at 100 feet while they were driving down American Canyon Road in Napa, California. The UFO was first seen at 9:55 p.m., and described as delta shaped and over 300 feet wide. It flew away up the canyon, and was in sight for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, International UFO Reporter, May 1984, p. 16; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1984 Source ID: Johnson_2312 Source: Johnson ### Event 20720 (445342F9) Date: 4/26/1984 Description: At 10:00 p.m. in Screven, Georgia several witnesses including police watched a W-shaped object with lights that flew at a low altitude and at a speed of 160 km/hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 82 Source ID: Johnson_2351 Source: Johnson ### Event 20721 (A237B170) Date: 4/26/1984 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a multicolor disc fired fireballs at the ground and maneuvered in the sky over Stanmore, London, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 114 Source ID: Johnson_2350 Source: Johnson ### Event 20722 (62DCE8F4) Date: 4/26/1984 Description: At around 11:00 a.m. a humanoid wearing an odd helmet was seen in the woods west of Macomer, Sardinia, Italy by two children. There was an odd silence that permeated the encounter, which lasted only a couple of minutes. A disc-shaped object rose from the forest floor, then flew off to the east-northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14138, citing CISU Source ID: Johnson_2349 Source: Johnson ### Event 20723 (7AE28ED3) Date: 4/26/1984 Description: 11:00 AM. A humanoid wearing an odd helmet was seen in the woods west of Macomer, Sardinia, Italy by two children. A disc-shaped object rose from the forest floor, then flew off to the east-northeast. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Macomer, Sardinia (west of), Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5697 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20724 (35CD92C2) Date: 4/26/1984 Description: 9:45 p.m. Terri West spots an odd light in the sky from her home on Belmont Lane, Stanmore, Greater London, England. At 10:15 p.m., she joins her neighbors Ruth and Bruno Novelli to watch the light, which is moving back and forth and constantly changing colors from blue to green to pink. Soon it emits a large ball of light that shoots toward the ground. The witnesses call the police at 10:22 p.m. A team of police arrives and watches the object for about 2 hours. Police Constable Richard Milthorp says the light is originally at 45° but after 15 minutes it moves up and to the right. He draws a sketch of the object, which is circular in the middle with a dome above and below. It has different colored lights on the top and bottom. One of the officers takes photos, but they do not come out well. Some others chase the UFO by car, but it is already fading from view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 114–115](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/114/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [p. 130](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n211/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6523 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20725 (C89E87CD) Date: 4/26/1984 Description: On a visit to the 6513th Test Squadron, Red Hats at Groom Lake, Nevada, USAF Lt. Gen. [Robert M. Bond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FM.%5FBond) requests to fly a MiG-23 BN fighter-bomber, a newly acquired supersonic Soviet aircraft flown for testing. Instead of the usual 2 weeks of training, Bond is given a cursory briefing while sitting inside the cockpit with an instructor. Just as he is flying at 40,000 feet and over Mach 2 speed, a hydromechanical inhibitor activates, preventing him from disengaging the afterburner. Bond loses control, makes a distress call, and is killed while ejecting. The MiG-23 crashes on Jackass Flats in Area 25, still contaminated from NERVA rocket testing. Bond’s body is discovered by a USAF sergeant on his way to work, who removes the rank insignia from Bond’s flight suit with a pocketknife before going to get help. The USAF does not confirm or deny that Bond was flying a MiG when he died and states that he was flying “an Air Force specially modified test craft,” but it leaks the information on the MiG testing program to journalist Fred Hoffman. There are fears that the publicity will also lead to the exposure of the F-117 program, still secret and also based at Tonopah, but this does not happen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Robert M. Bond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FM.%5FBond\#Death)” Source ID: Eberhart_6522 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20726 (B85369E5) Date: 4/27/1984 Description: 9:45 p.m. Linda Braga and her daughter Piper see a starlike object that follows their car along West Ridge Road in Cornville, Maine. About 35–45 feet in diameter, the red and yellow object comes almost within touching distance. When they reach their driveway, it backs off and hovers above a field, then moves around to the other side of the house. It disappears in the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Recently Received Sighting Reports,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1984-85%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV5.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 \(Oct./Nov. 1984\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6524 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20727 (6B048B33) Date: 5/1/1984 Description: The book “Clear Intent”, later renamed to “The UFO Cover-up: What the Government Won’t Say” in 1990, written by Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood is published. Type: book Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Against_UFO_Secrecy) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_745 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20728 (CFB30AB3) Date: 5/2/1984 Description: Australian Minister of Defence [Gordon Scholes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%5FScholes) announces that the RAAF will fully investigate only those UFO sightings that “suggest a defence or national security implication.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “The North West Cape Incident: UFOs and Nuclear Alert in Australia,” IUR 11, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1986\): 11; Good Above, [p. 182](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/182/mode/2up); Swords 408–409 Source ID: Eberhart_6525 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20729 (023591FD) Date: 5/4/1984 End date: 5/6/1984 Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale holds its Third International Congress in Genoa, Italy. Speakers include [J.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) [Roberto Pinotti](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%5FPinotti)[,](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%5FPinotti) and [Antonio Ribera](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Antonio%5FRibera)[.](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Antonio%5FRibera)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roberto Pinotti, “Italian Report,” IUR 9, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1984\): 3, 16; 2Pinotti 70 Source ID: Eberhart_6526 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20730 (5CFF0436) Date: 5/5/1984 Description: 9:45 p.m. Five workers on a garbage truck are near the Rio Seco, Tucumán, Argentina, when they see a strange light like a fireball. The truck stops, and later it is found that the fuses have burnt out. The upper part of the object is giving off a red light and the lower part a blue light, and it hovers above the truck for 20 seconds. It then moves away silently and disappears. Residents of Rio Seco also see the light, which illuminates the village. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_6529 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20731 (C855EEC5) Date: 5/5/1984 Description: DSP Satellite Tracks Fast Walker (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [840505](http://www.nicap.org/840505orbit%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In Space by the ultra-sensitive orbiting USDSP satellites, In Space Source ID: NICAP_DB_5699 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20732 (7C804D55) Date: 5/5/1984 Description: 2:55 a.m. A witness in Piedmont, South Carolina, hears a loud pulsating sound and looks out the window in time to see a large metallic object passing above his house at about 750 feet. Described as bigger than an Air Force C-5A transport, the object is shaped like a flattened football. A car stops along the road, and the driver gets out to watch it. All of the dogs in the neighborhood are howling as it is in view for 2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1984\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6527 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20733 (64A3FB0E) Date: 5/5/1984 Description: At 1400 hours GMT a Defense Support Program (DSP) spy satellite detected the entry of an unknown object that passes 15 miles in front of it, and then flew below it over the Indian Ocean. The unknown object changed course, and flew back out into outer space. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael D. Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 324 Source ID: Johnson_2556 Source: Johnson ### Event 20734 (02F4FDE6) Date: 5/5/1984 Description: At 2:55 a.m. a loud pulsing sound preceded the presence of a metallic ovoid or football-shaped UFO flying overhead at 200 feet altitude in Piedmont, South Carolina. The dogs in the neighborhood all howled and went crazy. There were two witnesses, and the encounter lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, International UFO Reporter, May 1984, p. 16; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1984 Source ID: Johnson_2555 Source: Johnson ### Event 20735 (582B7702) Date: 5/5/1984 Description: 7:30 p.m. An ultrasensitive orbiting US Defense Support Program spy satellite detects the entry of an unknown object that passes 15 miles in front of it only 1.8 miles away, and then flies below it over the Indian Ocean. The encounter lasts 9 minutes. An alert is triggered at NORAD. The object is moving at 22,000 mph, changes course, and flies back into outer space. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[DSP Satellite Tracks Fast Walker](http://www.nicap.org/840505orbit%5Fdir.htm)”; Ronald S. Regehr, How to Build a $125 Million UFO Detector, 1998, pp. 27–28, 84 Source ID: Eberhart_6528 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20736 (195D2E72) Date: 5/6/1984 Description: A 13-year-old boy working at a kennel in Williston, Florida heard a humming noise, and noticed that the dogs were attempting to hide in their pens and whining. As he went out to investigate the area turned red with illumination, and a bright red disc-shaped object hovered only 20 feet over his head. He felt heat coming from the object. When he returned to the dog pens, the dogs barked at him and would not let him inside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, International UFO Reporter, May 1984, p. 16; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1984, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_2597 Source: Johnson ### Event 20737 (7A8DF10F) Date: 5/6/1984 Description: 10:30 p.m. A 13-year-old boy is washing out dog pens in Williston, Florida, when he hears a humming sound behind him. The dogs start whimpering and running around the pens. Suddenly, the area turns red and looking up, the boy sees a bright red circular object that hovers for about 5 seconds at only 20 feet altitude before it shoots across a field and stops again. He goes inside to get his mother, who sees the object moving across the field before vanishing. The dogs remain agitated afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 \(May/June 1984\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6530 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20738 (5EF756DE) Date: 5/6/1984 Description: Time not given. A 13-year-old boy working at a kennel in Williston, Florida heard a humming noise, and noticed that the dogs were attempting to hide in their pens and whining. As he went out to investigate the area turned red with illumination, and a bright red disc-shaped object hovered only 20 feet over his head. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williston, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5700 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20739 (85F4758A) Date: 5/16/1984 Description: Dept. of the Army letter to W. S. Steinman stating that the IPU was disestablished in the late 1950s and all records were transferred to the Air Force. Therefore the Army isn’t aware of what their function was even though it was a Secret unit of the Army. (FOIA requests to USAF) Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p55) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_747 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20740 (79113F7A) Date: 5/18/1984 Description: 10:40 PM. A Skywatch team observed a flashing strobe light coming out of the NE heading SW. The object then passed directly over the team at high altitude and exhibited anamalistic motion during final distant five minutes of the 12 minute observation. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5702 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20741 (E84F62B4) Date: 5/19/1984 Description: Midnight. The witness said that he was outside behind his house working on equipment. He was working by electric light and suddenly noticed everything around him became brightly lit. He looked up to see that the light source was a brilliant orangish-colored light, low in the northwest. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Williams, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5703 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20742 (40A4F07D) Date: 5/19/1984 Description: In rural Williams, Indiana at 11:50 p.m. the witness was working on equipment outside behind his house on a warm, clear Saturday night. His wife was sleeping inside, and two of this neighbors had just left after stopping by to visit him. Suddenly, everything around him became brightly lit, and the witness felt a tingling sensation. He looked up to see that the light source was a brilliant orange light, low in the northwest sky. It was totally silent and he could only see the light, no craft could be seen. He went inside to call his two neighbors to come back and see the strange light, but he did not wake his wife who is a sound sleeper. He went back outside and the UFO was there as before. After 10-15 minutes had passed, the object began to drift away to the northwest where he lost sight of it. Shortly after this his neighbors arrived. They had not seen the UFO and teased him and seeing things. The object was reportedly 400-500 feet away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 81, citing Palmiter, MUFON Indiana Source ID: Johnson_2987 Source: Johnson ### Event 20743 (5ACD7A75) Date: 5/20/1984 Description: Evening. Black triangle came in, stopped over car for one minute, 200-300 feet overhead, moved off. (UPRO) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Monroe City, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5704 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20744 (76CD535D) Date: 5/29/1984 Description: [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) gives a presentation on “Properties of the UFO Phenomenon” at a special session on “The Edges of Science” of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New York City. He presents a summary of 400 UFO cases by responsible witnesses, “some of whom were independent of each other but observed the same event \(and sometimes in daylight\) which defied both common sense and common physical sense.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “The UFO Phenomenon,” IUR 9, no. 4 \(July/August 1984\): 3–5, 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6531 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20745 (24F6FFFF) Date: 5/29/1984 Description: A huge disc with a flat base and two vast searchlights passes silently over Fairy Cottage, near Laxey, Isle of Man. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Mysterious Island: The UFO Legacy of the Isle of Man,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6532 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20746 (75E16941) Date: 5/31/1984 Description: 8:45 PM A V-shaped formation of lights were seen by Mr. D. Boyd in Yorktown, New York. An engineer and private pilot, he watched them turn and fly away toward the west. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yorktown, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5707 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20747 (DCA53AC8) Date: 5/31/1984 Description: 8:15 p.m. A V-shaped formatio60659gme n of 15 lights, estimated to be the size of a Boeing 747 airliner if all are connected to one object, passes directly over the home of John Burdett, an IBM engineer in Hawthorne, New York. It makes no sound as it passes overhead except for a faint humming. All lights simultaneously turn blue and then it makes a tight 180-degree turn and flies off to the north. At 8:30 p.m., the object is seen from Route 117 in Pleasantville, New York, and follows a car down the Taconic State Parkway. At 8:45 p.m., David Boyd in Yorktown, New York, sees a V-shaped formation of lights turn and fly away to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philip J. Imbrogno, “More Nocturnal Lights,” IUR 9, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1984\): 6–8 Source ID: Eberhart_6533 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20748 (F7011F5E) Date: 5/31/1984 Description: A V-shaped formation of ten to fifteen red lights flew over the Hudson Valley on this night and was seen from several locations. At 8:15 p.m. a V-Shaped formation of 15 lights, estimated to be the size of a Boeing 747 airliner if all connected to one object, passed directly over the home of an IBM engineer in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York. It made no sound as it passed overhead except a faint humming. All lights simultaneously turned blue, and then made a tight 180-degree turn and flew off to the north. At 8:30 p.m. the same or a similar object was seen from Route 117 in Pleasantville, New York. It was reported to be larger than a football field, and it followed a car being driven on the Taconic Parkway. At 8:45 p.m. the lights were seen by Mr. D. Boyd in Yorktown, New York. An engineer and private pilot, he watched them turn and fly away toward the west. V-shaped or triangular UFOs were also sighted later that night in Fishkill and south Putnam County. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip Imbrogno, International UFO Reporter, September 1984, p. 5-7 Source ID: Johnson_3189 Source: Johnson ### Event 20749 (74D23D3F) Date: 5/31/1984 Description: 8:15 PM. A V-Shaped formation of 15 lights, estimated to be the size of a Boeing 747 airliner if all connected to one object, passed directly over the home of an IBM engineer in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York It made no sound as it passed overhead except a faint humming. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawthorne, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5705 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20750 (176F1038) Date: 5/31/1984 Description: 8:30 PM. A V-shaped object was seen from Route 117 in Pleasantville, New York. It was reported to be larger than a football field, and it followed a car being driven on the Taconic Parkway. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pleasantville, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5706 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20751 (BB807F25) Date: 6/4/1984 Description: A very luminous object shone a bright light into the window of a mobile home in Staunton, Virginia. The UFO was football-shaped, about the size of a car, and made a faint buzzing noise. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Staunton, VA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5708 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20752 (14956DAA) Date: 6/4/1984 Description: In 1984 a very luminous object shone a bright light into the window of a mobile home in Staunton, Virginia. The UFO was football-shaped, about the size of a car, and made a faint buzzing noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_3280 Source: Johnson ### Event 20753 (F73B9E22) Date: 6/6/1984 Description: UFO investigators went to a Jewish cemetery in the UFO hotspot of Pine Bush, New York. A close encounter with a landed, delta-shaped UFO scared them away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ellen Crystal, The Silent Invasion, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_3336 Source: Johnson ### Event 20754 (5F0158AF) Date: 6/6/1984 Description: UFO investigators went to a Jewish cemetery in the UFO hotspot of Pine Bush, New York. A close encounter with a landed, delta-shaped UFO scared them away. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pine Bush, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5709 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20755 (423FB088) Date: 6/14/1984 Description: 10:30 PM. Guards at the Indian Point nuclear power plant on the Hudson River, New York sighted a dark disc-shaped object with lights, 30 feet in diameter, that stayed over the nuclear reactor for 15 minutes (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, NC) (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: NICAP: [840614](http://www.ufocasebook.com/indianpoint1984.html) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indian Pt Nuclear Plant, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5710 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20756 (88E98AF6) Date: 6/14/1984 Description: 10:15 p.m. New York State Power Authority security police at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant near Buchanan, New York, watch 10 or more bright lights arranged in a boomerang pattern hovering for about 15 minutes a quarter mile away. Behind them is a dark mass about 300 feet long that blocks out the lights of a plane that flies behind it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philip J. Imbrogno, “[Incident at Indian Point,](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc689.htm)” UFO Evidence; Clark III 1278; NightSiege 162–164 Source ID: Eberhart_6535 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20757 (D73C0BDD) Date: 6/14/1984 Description: At 10:30 p.m. guards at the Indian Point nuclear power plant on the Hudson River, New York sighted a dark disc-shaped object with lights, 30 feet in diameter, that stayed over the nuclear reactor for 15 minutes. It finally flew away toward the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek & Philip Imbrognio, Night Siege, p. 143 Source ID: Johnson_3490 Source: Johnson ### Event 20758 (F56982B8) Date: 6/15/1984 Description: On a partially cloudy day, at 4:12 p.m., 20 nautical miles east of the Straits of Gibraltar in the Mediteranean Sea the crew of the tanker Gori watched a disc-shaped object maneuver and pace their ship. The 25 meter in diameter disc had a rotating red dome, and a rosy neon glow from what looked like a cylindrical "tailpipe". The UFO was gleaming with a grayish metallic shine. The lower portion of the craft had a precise round shape, its diameter no more than twenty meters. Around the lower portion of it they also observed "waves" of protuberances on the outside plating.

The base of the object's body consisted of two semi-discs, the smaller being on top; they slowly revolved in opposing directions. At the circumference of the lower disc Globa saw numerous shining, bright bead-like lights. The seaman's attention was centered on the bottom portion of the UFO. It looked as if it was completely even and smooth, its color yellow like that of an egg yolk, with three pie-shaped spots, and in the middle of it they discerned a round, nucleus-like stain. At the edge of the UFO's bottom, which was easily visible, was something that looked like a pipe. It glowed with an unnaturally bright rosy color, like a neon lamp. The top of the middle disc was crowned by a triangular-shaped something. It seemed that it moved in the same direction as the lower disc, but at a much slower pace. Suddenly the UFO jumped up several times, as if moved by an invisible wave. Many lights illuminated its bottom portion. The crew of GORI tried to attract the object's attention using a signal projector. By this time Captain Sokolovky was on the deck with his men. He and his Second-in-Command watched the object intensely. However, the UFO appeared to be distracted by another ship, approaching at the port side. It was an Arab dry cargo ship, on its way to Greece. The Arabs confirmed that the object hovered over their ship. A minute and a half later the object changed its flight's trajectory, listed to the right, gained speed and ascended rapidly. The Soviet seamen observed that when it rose through the clouds, appearing and disappearing again, it would occasional shine in the sun's rays. The craft then flared up, like a spark, and was gone instantly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sergey Romanov, International UFO Reporter, May 1993, p. 17; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 50; Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files Source ID: Johnson_3505 Source: Johnson ### Event 20759 (CE6E43D1) Date: Mid 6/1984 Description: 4:10 p.m. Seaman Alexander Globa and mate of the watch Sergey Bolotov are beginning their watch on board the Russian tanker Gori in the Mediterranean Sea 20 nautical miles east of Gibraltar. They see what seems to be an airplane with its landing lights on and flying toward them at an altitude of 4,920 feet about 2 miles away. It is shaped like a “frying pan turned upside down” with a shiny, metallic surface. It emits bright, irregular flashes of light. In two minutes it reaches the ship’s position, turns south, and keeps pace with the ship, gyrating for 3 minutes. The object is perfectly round and about 75 feet in diameter. There is a round, black spot on the bottom, and a cylindrical “tailpipe” is seen at the junction of two segments that are rotating in opposite directions. At 4:20 p.m., another ship approaches to the left, and the object flies quickly toward it and hovers above it. Capt. Sokolovsky contacts the vessel, an Egyptian dry cargo ship enroute to Greece, and it confirms the presence of the UFO. After 90 seconds it quickly moves back to the Gori, ascends at an angle of 40°–45°, veers to the right, and eventually disappears. Total duration of the sighting is 12 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sergey Romanav, “Disk with Rotating Cupola Observed near Straits of Gibraltar by Russian Ship in 1984,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(May/June 1993\): 17–18; Paul Stonehill, “Questions about a Russian Case,” IUR 18, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1993\): 21; Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 69–70 Source ID: Eberhart_6536 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20760 (3FDA990F) Date: 6/21/1984 Description: A large, slow V-shaped craft passed low over a radio tower in Hyde Park, New York at 8:00 p.m. It had headlights and made a faint humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1984 Source ID: Johnson_3589 Source: Johnson ### Event 20761 (AE767E25) Date: 6/21/1984 Description: 9:30 p.m. Investigators Dick Ruhl and Richie Petracca are on Interstate 84 in Dutchess County, New York, when they see a brilliant white wedge-shaped object floating and turning in the sky. The lights suddenly turn red, and as the object continues to turn, they see red, green-blue, and white lights. They stop and get binoculars out, then notice another object on the left. Both objects glide slowly and maneuver, constantly changing from white as they approach, and to red as they turn away. They finally form up into a boomerang shape. Ruhl and Petracca suspect they are seeing the “Stormville pilots,” so they drive to the Stormville airport. After waiting in the snack bar a short time, people see lights in the direction of the Green Haven Correctional Facility. It turns out they are six Cessna Skyhawks, apparently with mufflers on the engines, and they land one by one on a nearby runway. Ruhl photographs the serial number of one of the planes, N76106. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dick Ruhl, Richie Petracca, Sal Giamusso, and Gerry Arena, “[The Westchester Sightings,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201984%2009%2000%20-%20Vol%2032%20No%206.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 32, no. 6 \(September 1984\): 5–6; Philip J. Imbrogno. “The Hudson Valley Sightings: A Reply to Dick Ruhl and APRO,” IUR 10, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1985\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6537 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20762 (931D62F2) Date: Summer 1984 Description: Day. A Mrs. Danuta takes her 2-year-old son to a playground in the Podwisłocze district of Rzeszów, Poland. A green-metallic object with a bright cupola 8 feet tall approaches, brushing a tree, and the woman picks up her son and hides behind a tree. It is making a loud noise and hovering 30–50 feet above the ground. It then moves toward some nearby apartments, shoots up, and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 59 Source ID: Eberhart_6534 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20763 (6EE5AFCF) Date: 6/21/1984 Description: 9:44 p.m. Witnesses see unidentified lights over the Wanaque Reservoir in New Jersey for more than two hours. The manager of a tavern on Ringwood Avenue in Haskell sees an egg-shaped object moving faster than a blimp. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[E.T. Circling Area?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201984%2008%20-%20no%20181.pdf)” Wayne \(N.J.\) Today, July 4, 1984, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 181 \(August 1984\), p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6538 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20764 (A6A188E5) Date: 6/22/1984 Description: 11:00 AM. An object shaped like the rounded-off "tail fin" of an airplane with a very short fuselage came straight down over a woman's car in her driveway (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Adelanto, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5712 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20765 (86307255) Date: 6/22/1984 Description: In 1984, an object shaped like the rounded-off "tail fin" of an airplane with a very short fuselage came straight down over a woman's car in her driveway in Adelanto, California at 11 o'clock in the morning. She watched it hover 125 yards away as it wobbled and made a "fluttering" motion. On the same night a videotape showing six lights in a crucifix formation was made in Montrose, New York just eight miles south-southeast of West Point. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, December 1984, p. 8; J. Allen Hynek and Philip J. Imbrogno, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 200 Source ID: Johnson_3609 Source: Johnson ### Event 20766 (0349521B) Date: 6/24/1984 Description: UFO Hovers Over Nuclear Power Plant (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [840624](http://www.nicap.org/840624peekskill%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Peekskill, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5713 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20767 (AA4756F0) Date: 6/25/1984 Description: Night. A huge, slow-moving object with many lights is seen near Bethel, Connecticut, for 20 minutes. It looks like a big Ferris Wheel on its side. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NightSiege 98 Source ID: Eberhart_6539 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20768 (8E5A223A) Date: 6/25/1984 Description: A bright circle trailing a red tail and flashing a beam of light from its circumference was seen hovering over Blairgowrie in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. A V-shaped object was seen to leave and return to the circular object several times. After awhile both objects faded away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The secret history of Scotland's UFO phenomenon, p. 141 Source ID: Johnson_3661 Source: Johnson ### Event 20769 (19FCA6B0) Date: 6/25/1984 Description: A bright circle trailing a red tail and flashing a beam of light from its circumference was seen hovering (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Blairgowrie in The Orkney Islands, Scotland Source ID: NICAP_DB_5714 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20770 (BF32035E) Date: 7/1984 Description: Prentice-Hall publishes Clear Intent by Lawrence Fawcett and [Barry J. Greenwood](http://www.ufoevidence.org/researchers/detail11.htm)[,](http://www.ufoevidence.org/researchers/detail11.htm) a history of Air Force, FBI, and CIA involvement in UFO investigations and secrecy, including many FOIA-released recent reports and documents. The book immediately sells out and is unavailable for most of the summer. A second printing in late August also sells out immediately. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood, [Clear Intent: The Government](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc) [Coverup of the UFO Experience](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc)[,](https://archive.org/details/clearintentgover00fawc) Prentice-Hall, 1984; George M. Eberhart, “‘Clear Intent’ Reviewed,” IUR 9, no. 4 \(July/August 1984\): 6–7, 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6540 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20771 (4372D302) Date: 7/1984 Description: Highly paranormal activity and reported abduction during the first part of the month of July. Witness later reported this incident while in prison and again when out on work release, after drug-related incarceration. Reported his ex-wife would back him up. Case never investigated. (Ridge files) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: St. Phillips, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5715 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20772 (6225164F) Date: 7/5/1984 Description: A disc with an orange halo hovered over a park in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at 9:38 p.m. at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet. It winked out after fifteen seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_3849 Source: Johnson ### Event 20773 (DA555988) Date: 7/5/1984 Description: 9:38 PM. A disc with an orange halo hovered over a park in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cape Girardeau, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_5716 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20774 (9DB3565F) Date: 7/10/1984 Description: Four members of the Italian Parliament—[Giancarlo Abete](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giancarlo%5FAbete)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giancarlo%5FAbete) [Publio Fiori](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publio%5FFiori)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publio%5FFiori) [Alessandro Scajola](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro%5FScajola)[,](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro%5FScajola) and [Martino](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martino%5FScovacricchi) [Scovacricchi](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martino%5FScovacricchi)—present a question to the government on whether it would consider involving private and civilian experts as future consultants on UFOs. Minister of Defence [Giovanni Spadolini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%5FSpadolini) emphasizes the role of the Italian Air Force in UFO investigations and denies the necessity to involve outsiders, although it does not rule out cooperation with Italy’s National Research Council. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 2Pinotti 71 Source ID: Eberhart_6541 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20775 (003E301D) Date: 7/12/1984 Description: On this night hundreds of witnesses in the Hudson Valley, Westchester County, New York saw a number of small round lights which hovered, made abrupt right angle turns, disappeared and reappeared. The objects changed colors, made a faint humming sound, and moved from one shaped-formation to another. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 71; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. 128; Discover, November 1984 Source ID: Johnson_4018 Source: Johnson ### Event 20776 (33EC861B) Date: 7/12/1984 Description: On this night hundreds of witnesses in the Hudson Valley, Westchester County, New York saw a number of small round lights which hovered, made abrupt right angle turns, disappeared and reappeared. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hudson Valley, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5717 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20777 (0D9D6448) Date: 7/13/1984 Description: 4:30 p.m. A mysterious object comes into view above Rzeszów, Poland, remaining stationary for a long time. A flight controller from Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport estimates it is at 6,500 feet and is slowly moving to the northwest. Mielec Airport air traffic controller Kasimierz Lubertowicz scrambles an Iskra jet trainer on a scouting mission. As pilot Henryk Bronowicki approaches the object at 24,600 feet, he realizes it is not a weather balloon and is moving away from him. He gives up the chase, but the object descends and he approaches it again, failing to reach it as it retreats. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 74–75; Arek Miazga, “[Pilot kontra UFO nad Mielcem 13.07.1984,](http://arekmiazga.blogspot.com/2019/06/pilot-kontra-ufo-nad-mielcem-13071984.html)” Spotkania z Nieznanym, June 1, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_6542 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20778 (E3A85322) Date: 7/15/1984 Description: northwest of Detroit, Maine - Carol Cloukey and Robert White were driving on their way to Pittsfield, Maine for dinner. At 9:05 p.m., after traveling about a mile they rounded a bend and Carol, who was driving, was the first to see a bright yellowish-orange light. Suddenly the light made a perfect vertical drop in mid-air. They sped up to get ahead of the object, but the light dropped lower again, and was now dead center above the car windshield. Carol stopped and slammed the car into reverse. After backing up about 50 feet they saw that the object was alongside of them on the left side of the car and about 150 off the ground. The glow had subsided, and in the evening twilight it appeared grayish in color, triangular shaped, and larger than a 747 aircraft. It had 4 red lights and 1 or 2 brighter white lights. It made no sound. Robert opened his door to see if it was possible to make a 180-degree turn, and he told her to back into the driveway of a farmhouse. The object was now almost directly above them at an approximate altitude of 100 feet. He observed that when they stopped the UFO stopped, and when they moved the UFO moved! It became apparent that "it" did not want to let them go. Robert got out of the car and started to run toward the farmhouse. Carol called to him that another car was coming down the road. The UFO now began to move away slightly, traveling in a northeasterly direction for a distance of a few hundred feet when it suddenly vanished right before their eyes. Robert later expressed wonderment that such a large object could suddenly disappear in such an inexplicable manner. They estimated that the total incident took about two minutes to transpire. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leland Bechtel, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1984, pp. 14-15 Source ID: Johnson_4083 Source: Johnson ### Event 20779 (B1329BC3) Date: 7/15/1984 Description: A low flying cigar-shaped UFO was seen at Greens Beach, Tasmania, Australia at 11:45 a.m. It created a smoke cloud which kept enveloping it as it moved. The object maneuvered back and forth at low altitude, then flew off to the south. Duration: 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_4082 Source: Johnson ### Event 20780 (7753311A) Date: 7/15/1984 Description: 9:05 PM. Carol Cloukey and Robert White had been on their way to Pittsfield, Maine for dinner. After traveling about a mile they rounded a bend and Carol, who was driving, was the first to see a bright yellowish-orange light. Suddenly the light made a perfect vertical drop in mid-air. They sped up to get ahead of the object, but the light dropped lower again, and was now dead center above the car windshield. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Detroit, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_5718 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20781 (6150F2DF) Date: 7/19/1984 Description: 8:20 PM. A huge boomerang-shaped object with lights running along its leading edge was seen flying over Pound Ridge. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pound Ridge, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5719 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20782 (83628D6A) Date: 7/19/1984 Description: A huge boomerang-shaped object with lights running along its leading edge was seen flying over Pound Ridge, New York at 8:20 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, Philip Imbrogno & Bob Pratt, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 106 Source ID: Johnson_4210 Source: Johnson ### Event 20783 (059D2195) Date: 7/19/1984 Description: 10:00–11:00 p.m. Police in Danbury, Bethel, Brookfield, and New Fairfield, Connecticut, receive reports of a low-flying, slow-moving object “as large as a football field.” It directs intense beams of light toward the ground and gives off heat felt by those beneath it. It has white lights in a circular pattern. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Area Police Get Reports of](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201984%2008%20-%20no%20181.pdf) [UFOs,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201984%2008%20-%20no%20181.pdf)” Danbury \(Conn.\) News-Times, July 20, 1984, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 181 \(August 1984\), p. 1 Source ID: Eberhart_6543 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20784 (1523A8C6) Date: 7/24/1984 Description: 9:00 PM. A very large boomerang-shaped UFO hovered only 300 feet over an active vent of the Indian Point Nuclear Plant cooling tower for 15 minutes on the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, NC) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indian Pt Nuclear Plant, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5720 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20785 (E74D8922) Date: 7/24/1984 Description: 10:20 p.m. Electronics executive [Bob Pozzuoli](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94181985/robert-joseph-pozzuoli) shoots a videotape of a large object with a ring of 6 lights in the sky over Brewster, New York. It moves behind a pine tree then emerges as a string of rotating multicolored lights and a flashing red light in the rear. The video also shows airplanes flying in formation. The tape is analyzed by [Lew Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew%5FAllen) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who is apparently unable to explain it adequately. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NightSiege 117– 124 Source ID: Eberhart_6545 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20786 (1D8537A8) Date: 7/24/1984 Description: 9:00 p.m. Security police at Indian Point Nuclear Plant at Buchanan, New York, again see a UFO with a semicircle of lights. The lights first flash yellow, then white, then blue. Far to the rear is a blinking red light. The dark mass behind the lights blocks out the stars as it approaches steadily. The plant’s movement-detecting sensors and alarm systems fail, as does the computer responsible for security and communications. By the time it gets to 500 feet away, the police can see an ice-cream-cone-shape and a solid body the length of three football fields. As it passes over the Unit 3 reactor, at one point getting as close as 30 feet, it is moving so slowly that the police can keep up with it by walking. An officer inside the plant watching security monitors is instructed to film the object using a camera atop a 95-foot pole; the camera has to pan almost 180° to cover the entire length of the object. One officer notices two hollow spheres or portals in the bottom. The UFO takes 5 minutes to pass over them. By the time the security police call Camp Smith, a National Guard base 10 miles away, and ask for an armed helicopter, the UFO is gone. Many other people in the area also report seeing the UFO over the plant. Police in Peekskill receive quite a few calls that evening. Police Sgt. Hoffman goes out to investigate and sees a giant UFO with more than a dozen white lights in a V formation slowly move toward the power plant. On July 25, the security guard supervisor tells them to forget what happened. Video and audio records of the event are removed, and in the next two days representatives of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission oversee a shakeup of the plant’s security operations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philip J. Imbrogno, “[Incident at Indian Point,](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc689.htm)” UFO Evidence; Clark III 1278; NightSiege 159–168 Source ID: Eberhart_6544 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20787 (125022AD) Date: 7/24/1984 Description: At 10:20 a videotape was made by a Mr. Pozzouli of a ring of lights in the dark sky over Brewster, New York in the Hudson River Valley, suggesting a dark circular, ellipsoid, or disc-shaped object. Analysis of the videotape was done by Dr. Lew Allen of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek & Philip J. Imbrogno, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 128; Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_4362 Source: Johnson ### Event 20788 (5969A073) Date: 7/24/1984 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a very large boomerang-shaped UFO hovered only 300 feet over an active vent of the Indian Point Nuclear Plant cooling tower for 15 minutes on the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York. Several guards came forward to report the incident, reporting there were a total of eleven witnesses to the UFO at the plant that night, and that the security guards broke out shotguns. A big coverup by government officials was claimed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, June 1985, p. 8; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14168, citing George C. Andrews, Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 302; J. Allen Hynek & Philip J. Imbrogno, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 148; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 120; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. 128 Source ID: Johnson_4361 Source: Johnson ### Event 20789 (23195B39) Date: 7/24/1984 Description: 10:20 PM. A videotape was made by a Mr. Pozzouli of a ring of lights in the dark sky over Brewster, New York in the Hudson River Valley, suggesting a dark circular, ellipsoid, or disc-shaped object. (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brewster, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5721 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20790 (7B519B2F) Date: 7/27/1984 Description: At 3:45 a.m. a spark-tailed fireball splashed down 1000 yards south of Lummi Island in Washington State. The impact sent a plume of water 100 feet into the air before the object sank and the water as the surface of the sea rolled and bubbled. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_4440 Source: Johnson ### Event 20791 (9289B922) Date: 7/27/1984 Description: At 3:45 a.m. a spark-tailed fireball splashed down 1000 yards south of Lummi Island in Washington State. The impact sent a plume of water 100 feet into the air before the object sank and the water as the surface of the sea rolled and bubbled (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lummi Island, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5722 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20792 (6FB938E5) Date: 7/30/1984 Description: In Leslie, South Carolina a 18 meter long silver cigar-shaped object followed a fence line in a pasture at around 9:00 p.m., making a light whirring noise. It had lights on the side. Traces were found on the ground in the pasture. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_4510 Source: Johnson ### Event 20793 (E4C84FF4) Date: 8/1984 Description: [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) moves to Scottsdale, Arizona, from Evanston, Illinois, under the influence of entrepreneurs [Tina Choate and Brian Myers](http://www.nicap.org/APRO/APRO%5Ffiles%5FSvahn.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/APRO/APRO%5Ffiles%5FSvahn.htm) who introduce him to wealthy Englishman Jeffrey \(or Geoffrey\) Kaye with the promise of funding a new UFO organization \(the International Center for UFO Research in Phoenix\), publications, and a TV series about Hynek’s life. The CUFOS office moves to Glenview, Illinois, where Sherman J. Larsen operates it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Expert Moving to Arizona,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97727952/)” Chicago Tribune, August 21, 1984, Sec. 2, p. 1; Keith Basterfield, “[Why Did J. Allen Hynek Move to Scottsdale?](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2017/10/why-did-j-allen-hynek-move-to-scottsdale.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, October 8, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_6546 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20794 (4B862BCD) Date: 8/11/1984 Description: In Carleton, North Yorkshire, England three large NLs hovered over some trees at around 1:45 a.m. A silent 100-foot wide disc maneuvered in the sky, and then flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Devereaux, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 114 Source ID: Johnson_4897 Source: Johnson ### Event 20795 (D6FCE19D) Date: 8/14/1984 Description: On this night in Tom Price, Western Australia a tourist saw a UFO with red, green, and blue flashing lights apparently land on a nearby hill. He got out of his car, walked up the hill, and saw two lights hovering in the air. When he turned around and walked back to his car, one of the lights followed him back to car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_5014 Source: Johnson ### Event 20796 (DBBDE253) Date: Late Summer 1984 Description: 8:00 p.m. Kazimierz Lubertowicz, chief of air traffic control at Mielec airfield, Poland, reports that a pilot and 30–40 airfield workers and military personnel are watching a motionless red-orange light for 2 hours. It is actually floating very slowly to the southeast at an altitude of 1,300–1,600 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 68 Source ID: Eberhart_6550 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20797 (AE24CFFC) Date: 8/20/1984 Description: 9:00 p.m. Irene Lunn and her daughter are driving near Deer Trail Drive in Mahopac Falls, New York, when they notice triangle-shaped UFO with an unusual L-shaped tailpiece. They stop to observe it more carefully. The object has one red light, one green light, and eight white lights, and is moving south when it makes a sudden 90° turn and slowly moves toward them. They drive the short way home where they retrieve some binoculars. She can clearly see a dark, metallic object, which moves off to a neighbor’s yard and hovers. A rectangular object with white lights in each corner comes into view and moves in front of the first UFO for 5 seconds, then vanishes. The triangular object continues to hover, then silently moves off out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Multiple Sightings in New York,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201985%2005%2000%20-%20Vol%2032%20No%2011.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 32, no. 11 \(May 1985\): 1–2 Source ID: Eberhart_6547 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20798 (543C4BC6) Date: 8/20/1984 Description: At around 9:00 p.m. a triangular-shaped object with an L-shaped tail hung in the sky over a pond in Mahopac Falls, Putnam County, New York, then followed after two witnesses in their car making sharp maneuvers. Next it moved over top of a neighbor's house, and hovered over their yard for three minutes. A second UFO was seen there an hour and a half later that was rectangular shaped. In Kingston, Ulster County, New York there were more Hudson Valley type sightings of delta-shaped objects with lights, including a possible abduction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gerry Arena, APRO Bulletin, May 1985, p. 1; J. Allen Hynek & Philip Imbrogno, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 204 Source ID: Johnson_5193 Source: Johnson ### Event 20799 (706DB98D) Date: 8/23/1984 Description: Afternoon. Military radar at Otopeni Airport \[now Henri Coandă International Airport\] near Bucharest, Romania, picks up a target flying above Alexeni Air Force Base \[now closed\] east of Urziceni at 13,000–14,700 feet. The target, the size of a small plane or helicopter, appears out of nowhere and is tracked by 4–5 different radars in separate locations on different frequencies. After 15 minutes, the object is spotted visually. Through a telescope it appears oval, metallic and shiny, and about 9 feet long. During its appearance, the base notices a strong interference on VHF and short wave radios. The target climbs and descends about 7–8 times to altitudes ranging from 6,500 feet to 34 miles as it moves west at speeds up to 7,450 mph, making zigzagging movements and turning at sharp angles. It is under observation for 40 minutes and is lost at a height of 62 miles as it disappears into space at 620 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 104–105 Source ID: Eberhart_6548 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20800 (230E362A) Date: 8/25/1984 Description: [Philip Imbrogno](http://toptenbookreview.com/?cat=486) and [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) convene a public meeting on the Hudson Valley sightings in a middle school in Brewster, New York, and 1,500 people show up. [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) attends, as well as news media, various people from the FBI, Air Force officers from Pease AFB \[now Pease Air National Guard Base\], and a mysterious man who has met with Imbrogno and claims to be from the National Security Agency. The [Pozzuoli](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94181985/robert-joseph-pozzuoli) videotape is shown and 900 people fill out UFO sighting reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Strange Sights Brighten the Night Skies Upstate,](https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/25/nyregion/strange-sights-brighten-the-night-skies-upstate.html)” New York Times, August 25, 1984, p. 25; NightSiege 135–147; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1984 Source ID: Eberhart_6549 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20801 (0BD40F49) Date: 8/26/1984 Description: At a lake near Danbury, Connecticut a witness encountered a UFO and lost 30 minutes of conscious memory; felt "inspected-rejected." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek & Philip Imbrogno, Night Seige, p. 204 Source ID: Johnson_5379 Source: Johnson ### Event 20802 (B00384F2) Date: 8/29/1984 Description: In Ashbury Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey a round UFO with spinning yellow lights hovered over area at 2:30 a.m., making a loud noise that woke many from their sleep. Fort Monmouth tracked a 90-foot wide object on radar at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, May 1985, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_5474 Source: Johnson ### Event 20803 (E3727FED) Date: 8/30/1984 Description: 9:05 PM. Pulsating orange object sighted by MUFON SSD Ridge's 8-year-old daughter. Object was in the north heading east at low level for approximately 10 minutes. This NL was logged as an OBOL (Orange Ball Of Light) and witnessed by the SSD and his son, Brian (15), who observed the object from the roof of their home north of town. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mt. Vernon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5723 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20804 (C844662B) Date: 9/1984 Description: Lawrence Fawcett and [Barry Greenwood](http://www.ufoevidence.org/researchers/detail11.htm) launch a new series of Just Cause newsletters to continue their documentation of government involvement in UFOs discussed in Clear Intent. The newsletter continues until November 1997. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Just Cause](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201984%2009%20%20-%20No%2001%20-%20New%20Series.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201984%2009%20%20-%20No%2001%20-%20New%20Series.pdf) new series, no. 1 \(September 1984\) Source ID: Eberhart_6551 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20805 (9BFA7B6B) Date: 9/1984 Description: Marc Leduc begins publishing Bulletin d’Information Ufologique in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec, until June 1986. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Bulletin d’Information Ufologique](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Bulletin%20d%27Information%20Ufologique%20%28Leduc%29/Bulletin%20d%27Information%20Ufologique%20-%20Vol%201%20No%201%20-%20sept%201984.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(September 1984\) Source ID: Eberhart_6552 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20806 (E77D7B53) Date: 9/2/1984 Description: 7:28 p.m. Physicist [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) is standing near the Light Street Pavilion in the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, when he sees a black spot in the air to the southeast. It moves slowly north for 7 minutes at a steady rate until it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bruce Maccabee, “‘Black Hole’ over Baltimore,” IUR 10, no. 2 \(March/April 1985\): 6–9 Source ID: Eberhart_6553 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20807 (0D00F5B8) Date: 9/2/1984 Description: A black, saucer-shaped UFO was seen for six minutes flipping around the Inner Harbor area of Baltimore, Maryland in slow motion. It was witnessed by many, including physicist Bruce Maccabee. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1985 Source ID: Johnson_5582 Source: Johnson ### Event 20808 (27BAB7BD) Date: 9/7/1984 Description: 4:10 a.m. While approaching Minsk, Belarus, the pilots of a Soviet Aeroflot Tu-134 airliner are startled to see a strange, brightly glowing shape that appears to their right and follows their path closely for several minutes. The glowing object changes shape repeatedly, appearing first as rays, then concentric circles, then as a cloud, and finally as an amorphous mass. While copilot Gennady Lazurin sketches the object, Captain Igor Cherkashin contacts air traffic officials, who report that radar shows a strange “double” object, believed to be the airliner and the unidentified object. Years later, reports surface of a second flight crew traveling in the opposite direction who also see the glowing object. At the same time that the pilots in the first craft notice the UFO, a Soviet missile is launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Lazurin’s sketches of the object closely parallel sketches made by other witnesses at rocket launches, including amateur observers of the Soviet missile launch watching in Finland. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Soviet Airliner Given ‘Escort’ by UFO,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Clippings/0%20-%20Master/1980s/1985%2001%2031%5FHouston%20Chronicle%5FAFU%20scan%5FCFI%20archive%5Fkeyword%20UFO.pdf)” Houston \(Tex.\) Chronicle, January 31, 1985, pp. 1, 10; Richard H. Hall, “Soviet Sky Spectacular,” IUR 11, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1986\): 11–14; Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 88–89; Good Above, [pp 243–247](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/242/mode/2up); Dmitry Sudakov, “USSR’s Most Renowned UFO Sighting Linked to Ballistic Missile Launch?” Pravda, August 9, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_6554 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20809 (9F7D4E42) Date: 9/17/1984 Description: In Goshen, Connecticut a row of lights paced car on a rural road at 9:30 p.m. The configuration of lights in the row first turned into a U-shaped, and then into a delta. They seemed to be part of one UFO, changing shape. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George C. Andrews, Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 301 Source ID: Johnson_6054 Source: Johnson ### Event 20810 (AB275611) Date: Fall 1984 Description: The UK Ministry of Defence is reorganized, making the group Sec. AS \(2a\) its main focal point for receiving public UFO reports. Its mission is to “determine whether or not UFOs present a threat to the security and defence of the United Kingdom.” It has no other budget than minor staff costs and its records are unclassified. However, [Timothy Good](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%5FGood) uncovers evidence that the U.K Provost and Security Services at RAF Rudloe Manor \[now MOD Corsham\] northeast of Bath, England, are conducting more serious and secret UFO investigations. More recent declassified files have revealed that RAF Rudloe Manor was a filter center for UFO reports in the 1950s. The British Police Force’s elite Special Branch in 1997 opens files on two UFO researchers in the UK who are collecting data on the Rudloe Manor operations—Robin Cole and Matthew Williams. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Churchill Ordered UFO](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-10853905) [Cover-up, National Archives Show,](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-10853905)” BBC News, August 5, 2010; Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 193, 203, 210; Good Above, [pp. 70](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/70/mode/2up), [121–126](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/120/mode/2up); Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 35–37 Source ID: Eberhart_6560 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20811 (1B05A5E8) Date: 9/23/1984 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a large disc-shaped UFO followed a Piper airplane from Cordoba to Resistensia, Argentina. It reportedly maneuvered at great speed, and changed color from silver to orange. The plane's compass oscillated between 0.5 and 270 degrees, and there were several other variations noted in other onboard instruments. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 51 Source ID: Johnson_6270 Source: Johnson ### Event 20812 (BEE51A3C) Date: 9/23/1984 Description: 8:00 PM. A large disc-shaped UFO followed a Piper airplane from Cordoba to Resistensia, Argentina. It reportedly maneuvered at great speed, and changed color from silver to orange. The plane's compass oscillated between 0.5 and 270 degrees, and there were several other variations noted in other onboard instruments. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cordoba to Resistensia, Argentina Source ID: NICAP_DB_5724 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20813 (FD9A76BE) Date: 9/23/1984 Description: At 7:30 p.m. several nocturnal lights buzzed fishermen fishing in the Parnaiba River in Maranhao State, Brazil. A door was heard to slam, and voices were heard. Footprints were found on the bank of the river. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 182 Source ID: Johnson_6269 Source: Johnson ### Event 20814 (27E1587F) Date: Late 9/1984 Alternate date: Early 10/1984 Description: 9:00 p.m. Militia Capt. Boris Ivanovich Vladimirov is riding in the right seat of a patrol vehicle with another policeman in Bayramgulovo, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, when they notice an unusual triangular pattern of colored lights about 80 feet away on the right side of the road in a freshly plowed field. There are 11 lights on the left and right sides of the object and 13 lights up the center. The lights on the edge flash sequentially like a theater marquee. After a bit, all the lights turn off. The next day, Vladimirov returns to the field and finds three round depressions in the soil about 10 inches deep and 36 inches in diameter. They are at the corners of an equilateral triangle 26 feet apart. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “CE2 in the Eastern Urals,” IUR 17, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1992\): 11–13 Source ID: Eberhart_6555 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20815 (BCF76AB1) Date: 10/1984 Description: Astronomer and UFO expert J. Allen Hynek, accompanied by field investigators Philip Imbrogno and Dennis, saw a "Ferris wheel" shaped UFO in the sky in Hudson Valley, New York that turned on its side and then disappeared. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hudson Valley, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5726 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20816 (B20A2A3E) Date: 10/1984 Description: 11:45 p.m. Five witnesses, including missile technician Shamil Yuaihmetov, see a metallic cigar-shaped object slowly descending at a 45° angle near the Kattakurgan tactical nuclear missile base in Uzbekistan. It emits a hissing sound. The next day, three apparent landing-gear marks in an equilateral triangle pattern are found in a nearby vineyard in an area of damaged vines measuring 100 by 260 feet. Each depression is 20 inches deep. The case is investigated by S. P. Kuzionov of the Russian Geographical Society. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, “[Physical Traces](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2005/05/May%202005.pdf) [Associated with Unidentified Flying Objects,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2005/05/May%202005.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 445 \(May 2005\): 5; Nukes 452–453 Source ID: Eberhart_6556 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20817 (EBB4C28C) Date: 10/5/1984 Description: Astronomer and UFO expert J. Allen Hynek, accompanied by field investigators Philip Imbrogno and Dennis, saw a "Ferris wheel" shaped UFO in the sky in Hudson Valley, New York that turned on its side and then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno & Bob Pratt, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 151 Source ID: Johnson_6587 Source: Johnson ### Event 20818 (582BDB46) Date: 10/5/1984 Description: 1:00 a.m. Science teacher and UFO investigator [Philip J. Imbrogno](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2011/07/crash-of-philip-j-imbrogno.html) and Fred Dennis are returning from an interview with witnesses in Peekskill, New York, on US Highway 9 when they see, near Ossining, New York, a large half-circle of 6 bluish-yellow lights connected to a partially illuminated structure. Suddenly it flips on its side and turns like a Ferris wheel. After 30 seconds, it is lost behind some trees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philip J. Imbrogno, “[Incident at](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc689.htm) [Indian Point,](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc689.htm)” UFO Evidence; Clark III 1277 Source ID: Eberhart_6557 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20819 (2AFBD95C) Date: 10/8/1984 Description: 7:40 a.m. Giuseppe Cocozza goes into his alfalfa field near Prata di Principato Ultra, Avellino, Italy, to get some fodder for his cow. On the beaten-earth path to the field he encounters an entity about 4 feet tall, wearing a blue helmet on its head and carrying a blue box on its back that features tubes running into the helmet and the entity’s back. Its body is covered with long, dark-brown hair, and it appears to be using a T-shaped instrument to explore the ground. There is a wide, aluminum-colored slit around its eyes. After noticing Cocozza, the entity moves toward a clearing among some hazel bushes, emitting small bluish flames from its sides. The witness backtracks and loses sight of it, but sees a UFO ascend at an angle from the bushes, turn, and shoot away toward a mountain range. Cocozza returns with a shotgun and finds some hoof-like footprints and holes left by the strange instrument, as well as landing marks apparently caused by the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Umberto Telarico, “[Close Encounter at](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201986%20V%2032%20N%201.pdf) [Prato di Principato Ultra \(Italy\), October 1984,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201986%20V%2032%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 1 \(December 1986\): 9–18; 2Pinotti 72–83 Source ID: Eberhart_6558 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20820 (E99DDCF7) Date: 10/8/1984 Description: At 7:40 a.m. a four foot tall furry being wearing a helmet was seen on the ground in Prato Principato, Compania, Italy carrying a forked tool. A box-shaped UFO took off vertically and flew off rapidly to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 261; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Source ID: Johnson_6668 Source: Johnson ### Event 20821 (C2DD256E) Date: 10/9/1984 Description: 3:30 a.m. A beam of light coming in through a window wakes up Isidoro Ferri in his residence on the Via della Tessaia in Polcanto, northeast of Florence, Italy. He sees that it is coming from the forehead of a dark figure on a nearby hill across the road. Suddenly the figure and light vanish, and Ferri sees a stationary ink light with three jets projecting downward. After several minutes, this light disappears and an extremely bright white light approaches and floods the area. Ferri gets up and approaches the window but finds himself paralyzed for a few seconds. The light then withdraws, and he finds he can move again. The white light is replaced by a red lens- shaped light that hurts his eyes then moves on to the northwest. Ferri’s dog has not barked through the entire encounter, refuses food for the next several days, and stays in its doghouse for 2 weeks. Three circular holes 4 inches in diameter and 1 inch deep are found in an area of somewhat flattened grass. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Edoardo Russo, “[Italian](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201985%20V%2030%20N%204.pdf) [Update 1984,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201985%20V%2030%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 4 \(May 1985\): 26; 2Pinotti 84–92; Patrick Gross, [URECAT](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1984-10-09-italy-polcanto.htm)[,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1984-10-09-italy-polcanto.htm) February 1, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_6559 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20822 (3B45964F) Date: 10/23/1984 Description: 8:30 PM. A disc-shaped object with an amber light on the bottom and red lights in a circle on top of the disc buzzed a witness driving in a car (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tyrone (north of), PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5727 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20823 (730B3B93) Date: 10/23/1984 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a disc-shaped object with an amber light on the bottom and red lights in a circle on top of the disc buzzed a witness driving in a car north of Tyrone, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: APRO Bulletin, January 1986, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_7056 Source: Johnson ### Event 20824 (6BAB6AEB) Date: 10/24/1984 Description: Diamond-shaped object, blue & white. One humanoid four feet tall, large head, large eyes, slender arms. Occupant outside of hovering object. Approached farm. Stood in light for ten minutes, returned to craft and departed. (Humrep, Molon) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Park Rapids, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5728 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20825 (31573C1B) Date: 10/31/1984 Description: At 8:45 p.m. the entire staff of radio station WVIP saw a brilliant, 100-yard-wide triangle flying over Mount Kisco, New York, going north. Ms. Bellatoni, a news reporter, had just left the Mount Kisco police station when she saw a solid object with more than 12 lights in a V-formation. One dozen more people watched it with her. Mr. Wescon, a 44-year-old engineer, watched the 12 or more lights in the V-formation fly over his location; it had steady red and white lights. When the object stopped to hover, its lights began to flash. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, pp. 150-158 Source ID: Johnson_7348 Source: Johnson ### Event 20826 (AD5749E7) Date: 11/1984 Description: Discover magazine publishes a cover story on the Westchester County sightings, which claims that the UFOs are actually a group of pilots from Stormville, New York, who fly ultralight aircraft in a tight formation and use their lights in such a way as to create boomerang or circle patterns. The author, [Glenn Garelik](https://www.proz.com/profile/44501), notes that single-engine planes, even when directly overhead, are barely audible at ground level when they are flying above 3,000 feet. However, it fails to disclose that many witnesses are much closer to the object than that, nor does it mention the hovering for extended periods. In his 1987 book Night Siege, [Philip J. Imbrogno](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2011/07/crash-of-philip-j-imbrogno.html) lists 12 reasons for rejecting the explanation of the Stormville pilots. On those occasions when witnesses see both a plane and a UFO, the plane is clearly audible and the UFO is not, even if it is much closer. The UFO also appears on nights when the Stormville pilots are not in the air. The UFO’s maneuvers simply are beyond the capacity of most aircraft, and the power and intensity of the lights is far beyond the power capacity of small planes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Glenn Garelik, “The Great Hudson Valley UFO Mystery,” Discover 5 \(November 1984\): 18–24; NightSiege 1998; Clark III 1278–1279 Source ID: Eberhart_6561 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20827 (A5161024) Date: 11/1984 Description: British UFO researcher [Timothy Good](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%5FGood) interviews astrophysicist [Pierre Guérin](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/guerinchauvet01.htm) on the future of GEPAN. Because it is under the aegis of CNES, which is ill-disposed toward UFOs, Guérin says, it is doomed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 136–139](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/136/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6562 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20828 (0C1B15BA) Date: 11/14/1984 Description: As the space shuttle Discovery approaches the dysfunctional satellite Westar VI on the [STS-51-A](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-A) mission, its video camera records for 2 seconds a gray blob that seems to materialize near the top center of the frame and move in a curved path across the right side of the frame. [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) says the blob could be a “reflection of something in a window or a small nearby particle.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Appears during NASA STS-51-A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymOfxOByeOI) [Mission November 1984,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymOfxOByeOI)” Real UFO Files Disclosed YouTube channel, July 10, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_6563 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20829 (F27EC10B) Date: 11/17/1984 Description: 8:45 PM. Abduction near Mt. Vernon, IN. Two percipients, several hours. (Ridge files). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Savah, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5730 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20830 (75B83AC7) Date: 11/23/1984 Description: 10:30 PM. Another black triangle report by two witnesses. No details. (UPRO) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Monroe City, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5731 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20831 (AC825122) Date: 11/26/1984 Description: A UFO seen at 6:15 p.m. by Mr. & Mrs. Hoel in Gloucester, Massachusetts seemed to respond to their comments while flying over Magnolia Bay. The dark triangular object, 150 feet wide, with a canopy underneath, flew at 125 feet altitude and passed over Magnolia Bay and surrounding trees. It made a low droning sound, and seemed to be made of a non-reflective material. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, June 1985, p. 8, citing the Gloucester Times; John Melesciuc, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1986, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_7946 Source: Johnson ### Event 20832 (BDC31F85) Date: 11/26/1984 Description: 6:15 PM. A UFO seen by Mr. & Mrs. Hoel in Gloucester, Massachusetts seemed to respond to their comments while flying over Magnolia Bay. The dark triangular object, 150 feet wide, with a canopy underneath, flew at 125 feet altitude and passed over Magnolia Bay and surrounding trees (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gloucester, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5732 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20833 (DBBB7FF7) Date: 12/1984 Description: Night. A married couple are up late watching TV in Trafford, Pennsylvania, when they hear a tapping on the window. They see a red ball of light about as big as a basketball that moves away from the window. They turn on the outside lights to watch the ball, which has black marks among the red and gives off beams and sparks. It floats over a neighbor’s house. They go back to watching TV, but the red light taps on the window once more before going away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_6565 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20834 (6A0D56C1) Date: 12/1984 Description: [Bob Gribble](http://avalonlibrary.net/Wendy%5FConnors%5FFaded%5FDisc%5Farchive/NuforcDirectory.pdf)[,](http://avalonlibrary.net/Wendy%5FConnors%5FFaded%5FDisc%5Farchive/NuforcDirectory.pdf) who operates the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington, discontinues sending UFO reports to MUFON and sends them to Michael Hart’s Compufon for posting on the Usenet bulletin board. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1985 Source ID: Eberhart_6564 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20835 (082538B1) Date: 12/5/1984 Description: Several hundred witnessed a bright ovoid object fly east over Imperia, Alpes-Maritime, France and Genova, Italy at 11:30 a.m. giving off bursts of flashing light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, May 1985; MUFON UFO Journal, April 1985 Source ID: Johnson_8212 Source: Johnson ### Event 20836 (C5E9718D) Date: 12/10/1984 Description: In Nice, Alpes-Maritime, France a 10-year-old girl reported seeing two rose-pink ovoid UFOs at 3:30 p.m. in clear skies. The objects were flying from south to north in a straight line. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 305 Source ID: Johnson_8320 Source: Johnson ### Event 20837 (10505A69) Date: 12/11/1984 Description: North Hollywood, California, film producer [Jaime Shandera](https://obscurantist.com/oma/shandera-jamie/) receives an unmarked package in the mail containing an undeveloped roll of 35mm film with the faked 1952 Eisenhower briefing document and the 1947 Truman MJ-12 memo. He tells researcher [William Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29), and they have the roll developed. Postmarked Albuquerque, New Mexico, the package is most likely sent by individuals in AFOSI at Kirtland AFB, including special agent Master Sgt. [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard), to plant disinformation in William Moore’s UFO research. They wait until 1987 to release the document. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe, 1997, [p.](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9781569247815/page/89/mode/2up) [90](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9781569247815/page/89/mode/2up); Clark III 365–366 Source ID: Eberhart_6566 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20838 (903CF491) Date: 12/14/1984 Description: Gray ellipse, blinding light from underside, landed ahead of car, car dragged toward UFO. Clark, 1990, p. 21, dated 1987; Chalker, 1996, pp. 182-183 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Launceston, Northern Tasmania, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5733 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20839 (64FCDFC8) Date: 12/26/1984 Description: Three small discs zig-zagged in the sky over the shoreline at Hexam, New South Wales, Australia at 2:30 a.m. They were joined by a cigar-shaped object. The head and upper torso of a figure was reportedly seen inside one of the discs. All object flew off to the east toward an Air Force Base. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14203 Source ID: Johnson_8616 Source: Johnson ### Event 20840 (496CDC0E) Date: 12/30/1984 Description: 10:00 PM. A 30 foot long X-shaped object paced a car for 20 minutes along a highway in Martinsburg, West Virginia. There were five lights on the bottom of the craft and it made a humming noise. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Martinsburg, WV Source ID: NICAP_DB_5734 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20841 (DB4DFCA0) Date: 12/30/1984 Description: At about 10:00 p.m. a 30 foot long X-shaped object paced a car for 20 minutes along a highway in Martinsburg, West Virginia. There were five lights on the bottom of the craft and it made a humming noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case number 1147 Source ID: Johnson_8660 Source: Johnson ### Event 20842 (5C965B1B) Date: 12/31/1984 Description: In Level Green, Pennsylvania in the UFO hotspot of Westmoreland County, two residents of the community heard a tapping sound on one of their house windows at 6:10 p.m. They saw what looked like an eye-like orb peering in through the window. It turn and flew away, but repeated the performance one more time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, June 1985 Source ID: Johnson_8678 Source: Johnson ### Event 20843 (D628341B) Date: 12/31/1984 Description: 6:10 PM. In Level Green, Pennsylvania in the UFO hotspot of Westmoreland County, two residents of the community heard a tapping sound on one of their house windows. They saw what looked like an eye-like orb peering in through the window. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Level Green, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5735 Source: NICAP_DB --- ## Year: 1985 (Back to Top) ### Event 20844 (EAF3378A) Date: 1985 Description: Near the town of Krasnovodsk \[now Türkmenbaşy\], Turkmenistan, a radar station under the command of Captain L. Valuev tracks a disc-shaped object at an altitude of 60,000 feet and apparently more than one-half mile in length. The object is stationary, and some time later a small disc about 16 feet in diameter flies out of it and then lands on a lengthy spit on the Caspian Sea. Patrol boats rush to that area, but when they reach a distance of 325 feet from the object, it takes off and flies more than one-half mile away. This happens five times. Then the object ascends at a huge speed and reaches the larger disc, which rises up and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alexander Dremin, “[Soviet](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1170.htm) [Army Fought UFOs,](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1170.htm)” Pravda, January 2004; Good Need, [p. 354](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/354/mode/2up); Vadim K. Ilyin, “[KGB’s ‘Blue Folder’ Reveals](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2001/11/November%202001.pdf) [Shootings, Landings in USSR,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2001/11/November%202001.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 403 \(November 2001\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6567 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20845 (DC2294B7) Date: 1985 Description: Scientific UFO Conference in Darlian, China. China Daily reported that 20,000 people involved in UFO research. Professor Renglin of Guangzhou Jinan University said more than 600 reports in China in prev. 5 years. Type: conference Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: China Source ID: Maj2_748 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20846 (DC13BD80) Date: 1/1985 Description: A Roper Organization poll finds that 25% of Americans think that UFOs come from somewhere else in the universe. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 13, 20 Source ID: Eberhart_6569 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20847 (74B73FB3) Date: 1/1985 Description: [Jerome Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark) begins to take over as editor of the International UFO Reporter as [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) distances himself from operations at the Center for UFO Studies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 628 Source ID: Eberhart_6568 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20848 (E1B9261E) Date: 1/10/1985 Description: US physicist [Bernard Eastlund](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FEastlund) files a patent on a “Method and apparatus for altering a region in the earth’s atmosphere, ionosphere, and/or magnetosphere,” that proposes a 40-square-mile radio transmitter using Alaskan natural gas to generate current to create electromagnetic radiation to excite a section of the ionosphere. The patent speculates on “possible ramifications and potential future developments” including magnetotelluric surveys, local weather modification, and missile defense. Eastlund later claims that HAARP is built using his patents, prompting [Nick Begich Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency%5FActive%5FAuroral%5FResearch%5FProgram\#Conspiracy%5Ftheories) to charge in 1995 that HAARP is capable of secretly controlling the weather. According to HAARP program manager [John L. Heckscher](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mainlinemedianews/obituary.aspx?n=john-l-heckscher&pid=185927244), “HAARP certainly does not have anything to do with Eastlund’s thing, that is just crazy. What we have here is a premier scientific research facility with military applications.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Patent, “[Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region of the Earth’s Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and/or](https://patents.google.com/patent/US4686605) [Magnetosphere,](https://patents.google.com/patent/US4686605)” granted August 11, 1987 Source ID: Eberhart_6570 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20849 (0CE35C42) Date: 1/13/1985 Description: Journalist [James Bamford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FBamford) reveals the existence of the still-secret National Reconnaissance Office in a New York Times article. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James Bamford, “[America’s Supersecret Eyes in Space,](https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/13/magazine/america-s-supersecret-eyes-in-space.html)” New York Times Magazine, January 13, 1985, Sec. 6, p. 39 Source ID: Eberhart_6571 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20850 (3C7C2048) Date: 1/13/1985 End date: 1/27/1985 Description: Project Hessdalen II is launched to study the recurring lights of Hessdalen, Norway, with the participation of [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) who arrives on January 26, but little light activity is noted. The phenomenon ceases in 1986. Investigators disagree on what the Hessdalen lights are. Odd-Gunnar Røed thinks they have some complex natural cause. [Erling Strand](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling%5FStrand) finds it odd that the lights are so localized in time and space and must be an unknown phenomenon. [Paul Devereux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FDevereux) is convinced that they are earthquake lights resulting from seismic activity \(even though the seismograph recorded no tremors\). University of Oslo physicist Elvand Thrane says the lights remain a mystery. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, “Tracking the Hessdalen Lights,” IUR 10, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1985\): 10–11; “[Projekt Hessdalen, Teil II,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/JUFOF%20%28GEP%29/JUFOF%20-%20Issue%20048%20-%201986%2006.pdf)” Journal für UFO-Forschung 48 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 164–170; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 90–92; Gerson S. Paiva and C. A. Taft, “[Hessdalen](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/25/jse%5F25%5F2%5FPaivaandTaft.pdf) [Lights and Piezoelectricity from Rock Strain,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/25/jse%5F25%5F2%5FPaivaandTaft.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 25, no. 2 \(2011\): 265–271; Clark III 573; G. Pascoli, “[Are Hessdalen Lights a Reality, an Illusion, or a Mix of the Two?](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/35/jse%5F35%5F3%5FPascoli.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 35, no. 3 \(2021\): 590–622 Source ID: Eberhart_6572 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20851 (A5F84B09) Date: 1/18/1985 Description: On this evening around 8 p.m. a green glowing disc crossed a road in Waldeslust, France at a low altitude. There was a plasma glow surrounding the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 306 Source ID: Johnson_380 Source: Johnson ### Event 20852 (80604F0D) Date: 2/1985 Description: 2:35 a.m. Freight train \#1702, consisting of 70 empty cars and a locomotive, is paced by a strange object for 31 miles from Essoyla station through Suoyarvi, Karelia, Russia, for 1 hour and 20 minutes. It comes from the side and crosses the railway about 100–160 feet ahead of the train. The men feel as if hypnotized and stare at an object about 13 feet in diameter that moves silently above the ground as if drifting. When the train is approaching the Novye Peski station, Engineer Sergei Orlov switches on his portable radio and contacts a woman on duty who goes out to meet the approaching train. She is surprised to see the shining ball followed by the vibrating object looking like an “upturned basin.” The train appears, moving at about 37 mph. She thinks the ball might hit the station, but right before the switch, it suddenly separates from the locomotive and passes around the building. When it returns, the object moves again toward the train, which speeds up as if the UFO is pulling it. The train manages to stop only near the Zastava station and the ball disappears behind the forest. The crew has to wait for a train coming from the opposite direction toward Petrozavodsk. Conductor Mironov gets out of the cab to examine the wheels, and as soon as he walks around the locomotive he feels a strange force press him against the train. He cannot move, but eventually it lets up; he reaches the cab and the train starts off as if it is waiting for him to take his seat. The train keeps moving for some time until the ball disappears behind trees. Automatic recorders on the locomotive and other official documents corroborate the testimony. The shining ball is noticed earlier at the Kutizhma station even before it is spotted by the train. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Objects Pull Train](http://www.nicap.org/8502XXrussia%5Fdir.htm)”; Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 95 Source ID: Eberhart_6573 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20853 (DEEAA82B) Date: 2/8/1985 Description: A 19-year-old man named Thomas was abducted in the early morning hours in Pwllheli, Wales. He was seized by the arm and floated into a 25-foot diameter domed, disc-shaped craft by beings wearing gray uniforms and octagon-shaped helmets. They communicated with him using telepathy and gave him a physical exam. He was also taken on an off-world journey. He returned in a state of shock, with a sunburn on his body. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 563 Source ID: Johnson_760 Source: Johnson ### Event 20854 (BFBC3B46) Date: 2/12/1985 Description: A woman in Vasa, Minnesota went outside at 11:00 p.m. to see why her dogs "were going crazy". She saw two multicolored light clusters hovering over a nearby field. One of them blinked out, while the other one came straight at her. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1986, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_878 Source: Johnson ### Event 20855 (CC037120) Date: 3/1985 Description: Noon. At a military shooting range at Mălina, west of Galaţi, Romania, Doru Voloşeniuc is sent to collect compasses from a military vehicle when he sees a flat, silvery object hovering about 5 feet above the ground. It becomes shrouded with a blue-green mist as it increases its rotation. He hears an unusually strong and penetrating ringing sound and he is lifted off the ground more than 12 inches and slams into the road face down. Looking up, he sees the object is no longer there. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 93–94 Source ID: Eberhart_6574 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20856 (CB779651) Date: 3/1/1985 Description: Three silent, teardrop-shaped objects flew quickly over the city of Randburg, South Africa in a V formation, heading toward the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1990 Source ID: Johnson_1222 Source: Johnson ### Event 20857 (FBD40B3A) Date: 3/1/1985 Description: At shortly after midnight a bluish-white light entered a house in California through the ceiling. Landed outside in the yard was a wedge-shaped craft. Two seven-foot tall beings entered the house wearing blue uniforms and domed helmets. The witness was paralyzed and abducted, and remembers being inside a blue shaft of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard J. Boylan, Close Extraterrestrial Encounters, p. 130 Source ID: Johnson_1223 Source: Johnson ### Event 20858 (95989EFE) Date: 3/3/1985 Description: Meeting between researchers Ray Boeche and Scott Colborn and US Senator J. J. Exon D-Neb concerning the 12/1980 Bentwaters and other incidents. Exon is described as concerned that as a member of the Armed Services Committee he has not been fully appraised of the Bentwaters and other UFO events. Type: meeting Reference: APCIC Vol 10 #4 1985 Location: Washington DC See also: 12/1980 Source ID: Maj2_749 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20859 (047A9E3D) Date: 3/7/1985 Description: 11:40 a.m. A witness is driving south on North Stevens Street between 12th and 16th streets in Tacoma, Washington, when he sees a long, glowing, oval object to his left less than 2 miles away. The object, the width of four full moons, begins banking to the northeast. At a traffic light, the witness is able to take three photographs of the distant object, and he drives another mile toward the UFO, taking a fourth photo before it shoots straight up and out of sight. The photos only show a blur of distant light. A day later, the witness develops a rash on his face. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sighting Report from Tacoma,](http://cufos.org/CUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter/1985%5FCUFOS%5FAssociate%5FNewsletter%5FV6.pdf)” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 3 \(June/July 1985\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_6575 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20860 (D972460E) Date: 3/14/1985 Description: A woman driving in Riverview, Missouri on this night saw three lights in the sky. Two went out, while the remaining one turned into red and white blinking lights on a boomerang-shaped craft, which passed overhead, and then hovered. Other objects followed, as close as 700 feet. ARTC radar had two faint stationary targets on their radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 93 Source ID: Johnson_1500 Source: Johnson ### Event 20861 (461FE704) Date: 3/21/1985 Description: [Philip J. Imbrogno](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2011/07/crash-of-philip-j-imbrogno.html) and his team of investigators \(Sheila Sabo and [George Lesnick](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ctpost/obituary.aspx?n=george-andrew-lesnick&pid=139282249&fhid=4258)\) see a UFO immediately after leaving the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where they took part in a call-in TV show about the Hudson Valley sightings. They see a circular structure ringed in 7 brilliant lights hovering over a 15-story building, watch it turn in the sky, and chase it down Interstate 95. The object glides effortlessly across the sky. The FAA later tells them that the sighting involves pilots flying in an illegal formation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NightSiege 189–194 Source ID: Eberhart_6576 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20862 (F4F942D7) Date: 4/19/1985 Description: In a letter from Ministry of Defense, Lord Trefgarne states, “There is no organization in the MOD appointed solely for the purpose of studying UFOs, and no staff are employed on the subject full time… the staff in the Department… examine the reports as part of their normal duties… and we cannot inform observers of the probable identity of the objects seen.” Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: London, England Source ID: Maj2_750 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20863 (40F1F848) Date: 4/26/1985 Description: A shiny sphere was sighted over a farm near Gomoab, Namibia, Africa at around 8 p.m. The next morning a 15-meter deep well was found dry. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1991 Source ID: Johnson_2352 Source: Johnson ### Event 20864 (053C7E42) Date: 5/9/1985 Description: At 4:30 a.m. a man had stopped his motorcycle by the side of the road in Lowton, England to have a smoke. He became aware of a humming sound coming from the adjacent field. When he walked closer to the field, he saw a silvery glow coming from a depression in the field. Two figures suddenly appeared, and when he started to flee he heard a voice say, "Do not be afraid." The beings were both human looking, and of similar appearance. They both had blond, shoulder length hair parted in the middle, and were wearing what looked like blue ski suits. The female was about five feet tall, and the male somewhat shorter. Each had an egg-shaped implement attached to a belt around their waist. The woman did all the talking, and she explained that they were from "the third solar system." She also said they use the Earth's magnetic field and gravity for propulsion. After the conversation was finished, both beings walked to the silvery glow in the field. Moments later the humming sound increased and the glow brightened. Then a craft shaped like a football and the size of two large buses lifted off from the hollow in the field. It hovered for a few seconds, then silently shot away at incredible speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 150; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14120; Albert S. Rosales, 1985 Humanoid Sightings Report Database, case # 1587, citing Peter Hough & Jenny Randles, Mysteries of the Mercy Valley Source ID: Johnson_2697 Source: Johnson ### Event 20865 (31E9CD47) Date: 5/20/1985 End date: 5/25/1985 Description: Army Col. [John B. Alexander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FB.%5FAlexander) \([Howard Blum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FBlum) gives him the pseudonym “Harold Phillips”\), director of advanced concepts at the US Army Laboratory, forms a UFO working group titled Advanced Theoretical Physics Group made up of scientists and officers throughout the defense and intelligence community. His intent is to credibly gain access to actual deep-black military programs on UFOs or provide consultants for them. It meets for the first time this week, with only three other meetings: August 6–7, 1985; April 24, 1986; and November 18, 1987. They meet at BDM McLean Secure Facility in Virginia, and the last time at the Pentagon. This first meeting’s attendees include [Robert M. Wood](https://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/12insiders/McDonnell%5FDouglas%5FUFO%5FStudies.html) \(McDonnell Douglas\), Lt. Col. [Ronald F. Blackburn](http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/02/lt-colonel-ronald-f-blackburn-usaf-rtd.html) \(Air Force\), Milt Jansen \(or Janzen\), Don Keuble \(Lockheed\), [Harold E. Puthoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff) \(SRI\), Ed Speakman \(Army Intelligence\), [Howell McConnell](http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2011/03/howell-mcconnell-ex-nsa-2.html) \(NSA\), [William S. Wilkinson](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=william-s-wilkinson&pid=135692542) \(CIA\), and others. The group’s effort appears to be connected to an engineering project under retired Adm. [Bobby Ray Inman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%5FRay%5FInman). Wood says the meetings are top secret, but he hears “nothing that was truly classified.” Wood gives a presentation on UFO propulsion. Other people supposedly connected to the group are Maj. Gen. [Albert Stubblebine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FStubblebine)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FStubblebine) [Jack Houck](http://www.jackhouck.com/) \(Boeing\), and remote viewer [Ed Dames](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate%5FProject\#Ed%5FDames). Alexander states that one of ATP’s goals is: “Study of the UFO data could provide a potential for a leap in technology. This would not require access to a craft, but could be derived from scientific examination of the reports determining the theoretical physics required to achieve such results.” The group dissolves in 1988, since no government agency wants to openly fund it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Howard Blum, [Out There: The Government’s Secret Quest for](https://archive.org/details/outtheregovernme00blum) [Extraterrestrials](https://archive.org/details/outtheregovernme00blum)[,](https://archive.org/details/outtheregovernme00blum) Simon & Schuster, 1990; John B. Alexander, [UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities](https://archive.org/details/ufosmythsconspir0000alex), Thomas Dunne, 2011; Good Need, [pp. 340–341](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/340/mode/2up); Dolan II 382–384; Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science 3, Anomalist, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_6577 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20866 (6DEFE95B) Date: 5/23/1985 Description: 10:35 p.m. A Soviet bomber regiment carrying out a scheduled mission spots an oval, orange object over the Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. Radar does not track it, but observers estimate it is traveling close to 350 mph. A light halo surrounds it. The sighting lasts 13 minutes, during which time the object occasionally descends and remains motionless. Two hours later, a similar object is seen at high altitude for 10 minutes, emitting beams of light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 76 Source ID: Eberhart_6578 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20867 (EBDB6266) Date: 5/26/1985 Description: 9:30–10:15 p.m. More than 100 people around Newtown and Southbury, Connecticut, see a low-flying, silent, circular formation of lights that passes over Interstate 84, causing many cars to pull over for a look and some to lose power. Commercial airline pilot Randy Etting sees the lights as he is driving along I-94. He pulls off the road and snaps a photo of the formation. He is sure there is a solid object behind the lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philip J. Imbrogno, “[1985:](https://www.ufocasebook.com/i84encounter.html) [Close Encounter on Interstate 84, Connecticut,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/i84encounter.html)” UFO Casebook; NightSiege 200–201 Source ID: Eberhart_6579 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20868 (C5234C50) Date: 5/27/1985 Description: In St. James City, Florida a dark elliptical UFO was sighted over the ocean at 9:45 p.m. It had lights around the perimeter, mostly white lights but there seemed to be sparkling colors at times scintillating around the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON database of filed investigation files, Shirley C. Fox investigator, case 931205E Source ID: Johnson_3125 Source: Johnson ### Event 20869 (EB874B45) Date: 6/11/1985 Description: 10:40 p.m. A Chinese Boeing 747 airliner encounters a UFO on its flight from Beijing to Paris that almost forces the captain to make an emergency landing. Flight CA 933 is over Lanzhou, Gansu province, China, when Captain Wang Shuting and his crew first observe the object. The UFO crosses the path of the airliner at an altitude of 33,000 feet at a very high speed. The object illuminates an area of 25–30 square miles and is huge, with an apparent diameter of 6 miles. It is elliptical in shape and has an extremely bright spot in the center, with three horizontal rows of bluish-white lights on the perimeter. The sighting lasts for 2 minutes. Passengers do not see the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Translation from China of June 11th UFO over Dung Kou,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 3 \(June/July 1985\): 6; Good Above, [p. 218](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/218/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6581 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20870 (98AD3F4B) Date: 6/11/1985 Description: Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China -- A Chinese Civil Aviation Administration Boeing 747 encountered a UFO on the Peking to Paris flight that almost forced the captain to make an emergency landing. Flight CA 933 was over Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, at 2240 hours when Captain Wang Shuting and his crew first observed the object.. The UFO flew across the path of the airliner at its altitude of 33,000 feet at a very high speed. The object illuminated an area of twenty-five to thirty square miles and was huge, with an apparent diameter of six miles. It was elliptical in shape and had an extremely bright spot in the center, with three horizontal rows of bluish-white lights on the perimeter. The sighting lasted for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, pg. 212 Source ID: Johnson_3428 Source: Johnson ### Event 20871 (3C7F0BFD) Date: Summer 1985 Description: Midnight. Biochemist [Kary Mullis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary%5FMullis) \(who in 1993 won a Nobel Prize for his work on the polymerase chain reaction\) is outside his cabin in Mendocino County, California, when he sees a glow next to a fir tree. Pointing his flashlight in that direction, he sees that the glow is coming from a raccoon with black eyes. The raccoon speaks to him, saying, “Good evening, doctor.” He gives a friendly reply, and a moment later it is suddenly morning and he is walking on a road uphill from the cabin with no idea how he has gotten there. His clothes are clean and dry. Mullis goes back to the cabin for some sleep. Later, he returns to the area near the fir tree and experiences an irrational panic. In 1987, he sees the cover of [Whitley Strieber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley%5FStrieber)’s Communion and feels a vague sense of recognition. His adult daughter Louise, who has also experienced missing time at the cabin, has the same reaction. Mullis has no memory of seeing a UFO or having an abduction experience, but he insists the experience is real. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kary B. Mullis, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, Pantheon, 1998, [pp. 130–136](https://archive.org/details/dancingnakedinmi00mull/page/130/mode/2up); Bill Chalker, “[An Interesting](http://www.cufos.org/Abductions/strange%5Fevidence%5Faddendum.html) [Aside,](http://www.cufos.org/Abductions/strange%5Fevidence%5Faddendum.html)” 1999 Source ID: Eberhart_6580 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20872 (DBBBDD4B) Date: 6/27/1985 Description: During startup of the first reactor at the Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant, Saratov Oblast, Russia, a relief valve bursts and superheated steam at 572° F. escapes into the annular compartments surrounding the reactor well. Fourteen men are possibly boiled alive. The incident is covered up by Soviet authorities. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, pp. 70–71 Source ID: Eberhart_6582 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20873 (ABB45C28) Date: 6/28/1985 Description: USAF ACCESS RESTRICTED NOTICE: Report TR-DE-3A, Oct. 15, 1955, from Air Tech. Intel. Ctr., file no. TS5–2862, has been WITHDRAWN from the National Archives and is classified a TOP SECRET UFO Report. Type: report Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p529) Location: National Archives, Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_751 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20874 (612183BA) Date: 7/1985 Description: 3:00 p.m. As a pilot is flying a Grumman AA TR-2 toward the Port Columbus International Airport \[now the John Glenn Columbus International Airport\] in Ohio, the airport gives him authorization to investigate a “second sun” about two-thirds the size of a football field a few miles to the northwest. It is not tracked on ground radar. As he approaches, he sees it is a huge bright light that switches off as he gets closer, revealing a gray sphere. The object apparently consists of “millions” of clearly visible, pentagon-shaped, partially translucent crystals. The pilot estimates they are 6 inches in diameter, all spaced identically about 12 inches apart. He decides to penetrate the mass with his left wing, hoping he can knock some to the ground. As his wing slices through, he hears what sounds like a hailstorm on a tin roof and he sees hundreds of crystals breaking along the wing. The aircraft turbulence does not disturb the small objects, but their impact on the wing nearly destabilizes him. Later, he looks for fragments embedded in the wing, but does not find any. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Filer, “Filer’s Files,” \#12-2005, March 16, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_6583 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20875 (C1B330DF) Date: 7/14/1985 Description: 12:56 a.m. Brian McMullan Sr., Brian McMullan Jr., and a third member of the rock band C.E.IV \(because of their interest in UFOs\) are in the garden outside the home of their bass player in a northern suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, when they see an amber ball skipping along the sky. It crosses the sky in 25 seconds, slowly changing color to red. They estimate it is about 60 feet across and vanishes toward Fenwick Moor. The band remembers being “paralyzed with awe” for several minutes after the sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Cosmic Rock,” Fortean Times 397 \(October 2020\): 31 Source ID: Eberhart_6584 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20876 (6E34CBBD) Date: 7/15/1985 Description: A 25-year-old CAD draftsman was in his bedroom in Cobbtown, Georgia at around two a.m. when he had a close encounter with two 70-foot diameter discs which had lights around their rims. They made a high pitched sound and he fell into a trance, but when he spoke the word "Jesus" they seemed to disappear. All electrical appliances in the house were damaged from electromagnetic effects, and three dogs who lived with him never returned. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_4084 Source: Johnson ### Event 20877 (226AD863) Date: 7/18/1985 Description: [Jaime Shandera](https://obscurantist.com/oma/shandera-jamie/) and [William Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) discover the unsigned, carbon-copy 1954 Cutler-Twining memo in Box 189 of Record Group 341 in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., between two file folders. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_6585 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20878 (AFB7DE83) Date: 7/22/1985 Description: 5:45 p.m. Two Hawk jets of the Zimbabwe Air Force piloted by C. Cordy-Hedge and T. R. Van Rooyen are scrambled from Thornhill Air Base in Gweru, Zimbabwe, following sightings in Bulawayo and five other cities in Matabeleland South. The object is seen and tracked on radar at Bulawayo Airport. It looks orange and round with a short cone on top. When the jets arrive at Bulawayo, the object is hovering at 7,000 feet, but it suddenly accelerates to a height of above 70,000 feet in less than a minute. The Hawks level off at 31,000 feet and return to Thornhill, where the object is seen for a few moments before disappearing horizontally at high speed. Air Commodore [David Thorne](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SRvhtgCJUT0/USB6CV%5Fsw9I/AAAAAAAACDE/ClZwrLMJCsI/s1600/Ph%2B3%2BThorne.jpg) states: “As far as my Air Staff is concerned, we believe implicitly that the unexplained UFOs are from some civilization beyond our planet.” UFO researcher [Cynthia Hind](http://www.noufors.com/Cynthia%5FHind.htm) speaks to some Bulawayo witnesses who think the object is a balloon coated with reflecting material, but radar operators say it is clear it is no balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [pp. 433–434](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/432/mode/2up); MUFON UFO Journal, November 1985; Cynthia Hind, “[Report on the](https://bufora.org.uk/documents/BUFORABulletinNo.21May1986.pdf) [UFO Sighting in Zimbabwe: July, 1985,](https://bufora.org.uk/documents/BUFORABulletinNo.21May1986.pdf)” BUFORA Bulletin, no. 21 \(May 1986\): 5–9 Source ID: Eberhart_6586 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20879 (E2B33D8C) Date: 8/1985 Description: Several dozen Chinese scientists gather in Dalian, Liaoning, China, to exchange views on UFO research for the first time. Some 40 papers are presented and 17 of them are selected to be published in the proceedings. An article in China Daily reports that there is an enormous interest in UFOs in China and that the China UFO Research Organization has a membership of 20,000. The organization’s chairman, Liang Renglin of Jinan University in Guangzhou, says that more than 600 reports were made in the past 5 years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFO Conference Held in Darlian,” China Daily, August 27, 1985; Good Above, [pp. 219](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/218/mode/2up), [472](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/472/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6587 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20880 (270AA3EC) Date: 8/2/1985 Description: At 9:45 p.m. in Black Earth, Wisconsin a white nocturnal light projected a beam of light that moved back and forth like a searchlight. The beam stopped, then the object descended slowly in a zig-zag pattern. There were no radar returns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 63 Source ID: Johnson_4611 Source: Johnson ### Event 20881 (3FBD3E02) Date: 8/5/1985 Description: 8:15 p.m. Antiaircraft batteries open fire on a UFO that is flying from west to east over northeastern Tehran, Iran. They apparently miss. The batteries believe the object is an Iraqi warplane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Iran Fires on Shining Object in](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97742456/) [Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97742456/)” Newport News \(Va.\) Daily Press, August 7, 1985, p. 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6588 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20882 (A55C8BFE) Date: 8/10/1985 Description: The Russian nuclear submarine K-431 is refueling at the Chazhma Bay naval facility near Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia. A reactor tank lid is improperly replaced, which quickly results in a thermal explosion. There are 10 fatalities, and 49 other people suffer radiation injuries. The explosion releases a massive amount of radioactivity and contaminates large areas of land and water. The disaster is kept secret for many years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Soviet submarine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%5Fsubmarine%5FK-431) [K-431](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%5Fsubmarine%5FK-431)” Source ID: Eberhart_6589 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20883 (21D69C10) Date: 8/15/1985 Description: 4:05 p.m. Greek Olympic Airways Flight OA 132, piloted by Christos Stamulis, is flying from Zürich, Switzerland, to Athens and is just passing the Swiss-Italian border at 25,000 feet when a wingless projectile passes 200–500 feet below them from left to right. The object is about 6 feet long, dark brown or black, and is coming from the Italian side of the border. Italian and Swiss military deny any tests. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6590 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20884 (2520E612) Date: 8/17/1985 Description: Afternoon. For several hours, witnesses throughout central Chile see distinct, luminous spots in the sky, sometimes motionless, sometimes moving slowly. Television crews film the objects, astronomers in Santiago photograph them, and the Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport tracks them on radar. Early explanations by the Chilean Air Force center on weather or research balloons, but a Chilean Civil Aeronautics report states that the sightings remain an enigma. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: J. Antonio Huneeus, “[A Chilean Overview,](https://vdocuments.mx/mufon-ufo-journal-1986-6-june.html?page=5)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 218 \(June 1986\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_6591 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20885 (44C5BECB) Date: 8/18/1985 Description: Four civilian pilots are flying a Cessna on a southerly course at 3,200 feet altitude near Söderhamn, Gävleborg, Sweden, when they spot a missilelike object, some 20 feet long, going in the opposite direction. They see it is a metallic missile with steering fins in the back. It occasionally changes its course according to the terrain. The pilot dives down a bit to follow it, but they can’t keep up. The Swedish military spends 6 months trying to identify it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 12; Swords 369–370 Source ID: Eberhart_6592 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20886 (2FAC4EBB) Date: 8/27/1985 Description: Darlian, China, the “China Daily” reports: 20,000 people are involved in UFO research. The first recognized photo of a UFO in China was taken in 1945. Type: newspaper article Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p472) Location: Darlian, China Source ID: Maj2_752 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20887 (104D507C) Date: 8/31/1985 Description: A UFO, shape unknown, rose from the ground near US Highway 95 in Laughlin, Nevada at 10:00 p.m. It directed beams of light on cars and a house, and radio interference was reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case 1028 Source ID: Johnson_5537 Source: Johnson ### Event 20888 (FFC53107) Date: 9/5/1985 Description: Top politicians and pilots saw and then photographed a bright, cigar-shaped UFO over Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The plane's radar indicated it was at 100,000 feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George C. Andrews, Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_5662 Source: Johnson ### Event 20889 (EC420D81) Date: 9/9/1985 Description: 12:05 p.m. British pilot David J. Hastings is flying a Cessna 337 Super Skymaster with his instructor, US pilot David Patterson, south of Las Vegas, Nevada, with the Mojave Desert in California just coming into view, when they nearly collide with an oblong-shaped object that suddenly appears directly in front of them. They duck beneath the instrument panel. When they get up, they sense something moving on the port side of the plane, so Hastings takes two photos in that direction. When the film is developed, one shot shows a blurry image of a UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David J. Hastings, “Across the USA in a Cessna Skymaster,” Pilot, June 2000, pp. 56–59; UFOFiles2, [pp. 132–](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n211/mode/2up) [133](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n211/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 399–400](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/398/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6593 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20890 (9727EBCF) Date: 9/11/1985 Description: Dogs barked and a farmer watched as a glowing ball of light with a beam searched the terrain in Vilnius, Lithuania at 10:10 p.m. The beam was peculiar because it did not light the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gordon Creighton, FSR, March 1988 Source ID: Johnson_5872 Source: Johnson ### Event 20891 (7B3E4AA1) Date: 9/13/1985 Description: The US P78-1 Solwind solar observation satellite is destroyed in orbit at an altitude of 326 miles by an ASM-135 ASAT missile launched from a USAF F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft. The test results in 285 cataloged pieces of orbital debris. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Solwind](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solwind)”; Wikipedia, “[ASM-135 ASAT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135%5FASAT)” Source ID: Eberhart_6594 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20892 (FB39627F) Date: 9/15/1985 Description: Disc-shaped object hovered ahead of car; second object paced alongside car, bright illumination of area (section IX) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bagshot Heath, Surrey, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5736 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20893 (6AD16613) Date: 9/15/1985 Description: In Bagshot Heath, Surrey, England a fifty-foot diameter lenticular disc with portholes around the rim paced cars at ten o'clock in the evening. The main witness, named McMurray, experienced telepathic communication with the UFO occupants, and had a possible missing time experience and abduction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, October 1986 Source ID: Johnson_5997 Source: Johnson ### Event 20894 (6F5447E2) Date: 9/15/1985 Description: Disc-shaped object hovered ahead of car. Second object paced alongside car, bright illumination of area Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Bagshot Heath, Surrey, UK Source ID: HallUFOE2_402 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20895 (50CA0AFD) Date: Autumn 1985 Description: 8:30 p.m. A father and son are driving in Cannock Chase toward Rugeley, Staffordshire, England. As they round a bend in the road, they see a large, black, triangular object stationary 150 feet in the sky about 100 feet away. A bright light appears at each point of the triangle. After a short time, it shoots away at incredible speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Tale of a Chase Hi-Tech Triangle,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%202001%2006%20-%20no%20383.pdf)” Wolverhampton \(UK\) Cannock Chase Post, December 21, 2000, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 383 \(June 2001\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6596 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20896 (AB8423F3) Date: 9/27/1985 Description: Two police officers in Long Clawson, England, are the latest witnesses of a triangular-shaped object that has been seen multiple times in the area around Leicester since August. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Throwing a Light on UFO,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201986%2002%20-%20no%20199.pdf)” Leicester \(UK\) Mercury, December 2, 1985, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 199 \(February 1986\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6595 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20897 (AD232BB3) Date: 10/1985 Description: The Russian motorship Baltiysky-35 is in the Baltic Sea bound from Lübeck, Germany, to Riga, Latvia, when the crew observes a bright dot in the sky emanating concentric circles of a light-green color. Researcher Konstantin Khazanovich considers this to be the result of a Soviet ballistic missile laiunch from the Murmansk area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 172 Source ID: Eberhart_6597 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20898 (E065F41E) Date: 10/5/1985 Description: Whitley Streiber reported that he was abducted on this night near Middletown, New York. He remembered fog and a blue light before the missing time experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Whitley Streiber, Communion, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_6588 Source: Johnson ### Event 20899 (08D25C76) Date: 10/10/1985 Description: A small crescent-shaped object with rounded, swept back or drooping wings flew silently over a farm in Statesville, North Carolina at 7:45 p.m. It had a convex window in the bottom center of the craft and was dark with a reddish glow. The sighting was made by a 37-year-old man, and lasted 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON investigation case files, case # 930412J, investigator Franklin B. Reams Source ID: Johnson_6730 Source: Johnson ### Event 20900 (DA2B4034) Date: 10/10/1985 Description: There were at least 60 unidentified radar returns from flying objects without transponders on this evening over Tucson, Arizona. At one point a police helicopter engaged in a pursuit of at least one nocturnal light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case 1032 Source ID: Johnson_6731 Source: Johnson ### Event 20901 (FE65F344) Date: 10/16/1985 Description: A delta-shaped UFO flew over the beach at West Haven, Connecticut at 11:30 p.m. The witness received burns on his body that resembled a sunburn while standing under the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George C. Andrews, Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 314 Source ID: Johnson_6904 Source: Johnson ### Event 20902 (C067361D) Date: 10/26/1985 Description: In Petersburg, Virginia a large cigar-shaped object crossed the sky at a high altitude at 6:30 p.m. The sighting had a two minute duration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1020 Source ID: Johnson_7165 Source: Johnson ### Event 20903 (A4E74E69) Date: 11/1985 Description: GEPAN has received 1,615 UFO reports from the Gendarmerie in France dating as far back as 1974. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 546 Source ID: Eberhart_6598 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20904 (F8E3CEEB) Date: 11/3/1985 Description: 8:30 p.m. Two men in a small vessel in the waters off Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia, notice a high- altitude object in the north looking a bit larger than a star, rapidly moving toward them. It sends a beam of light to earth at a sharp angle, although the beam does not reach the ground. As the UFO approaches the boat its engine stops. The captain restarts the engine, but it dies again when the object is overhead. The UFO moves off toward the city and disappears. The men use oars to return to shore. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 77–78 Source ID: Eberhart_6599 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20905 (AC24DABD) Date: 11/16/1985 Description: Leonid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_403 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20906 (5EF6A1EB) Date: 11/16/1985 Description: [Mark Rodeghier](http://www.cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html) is named deputy scientific director of the Center for UFO Studies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “To Our Readers,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_6600 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20907 (0C94A656) Date: 11/19/1985 Description: Silent, triangular object with body lights Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Madison, WI Source ID: HallUFOE2_404 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20908 (38A1EACF) Date: 11/19/1985 Description: Silent, triangular object with body lights (section IX). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Madison, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5737 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20909 (E8E8CCDE) Date: 11/19/1985 Description: At the 1985 Geneva Summit between President [Ronald Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) and Soviet General Secretary [Mikhail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%5FGorbachev) [Gorbachev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%5FGorbachev)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%5FGorbachev) Reagan remarks during a toast that if the people of the world were to find out that there was some alien life form that was going to attack the Earth approaching on Halley’s Comet, then that knowledge would unite all the peoples of the world. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: presidentialufo.com, “Ronald Reagan, 40th President, January 20, 1981– January 20, 1989” Source ID: Eberhart_6601 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20910 (56668D75) Date: 11/19/1985 Description: 11:00 p.m. A woman is returning to her home near Madison, Wisconsin. Suddenly she sees three lights above a row of trees descending toward a house on the north side of the street. She pulls over to the curb and sees the lights make a sharp, 90° turn toward her car. Then it rises several feet in front of the car avoiding the power lines. Triangular and black, the object is the size of a large car with a light on each side. Sweeping to the north, the triangle stops and hovers directly over a house. She leaves and calls the Madison police department. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part Two,” IUR 13, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1988\): 17–18; Marler 163 Source ID: Eberhart_6602 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20911 (0AB16E5B) Date: 11/21/1985 Description: A photograph was taken of a UFO over Port Chester, New York. It showed only seven lights in a circle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, Philip Imbrogno and Bob Pratt, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_7780 Source: Johnson ### Event 20912 (8BABFC46) Date: 11/22/1985 Description: At 8:30 p.m. police phone lines in Manhasset, New York were swamped with calls reporting a silent, delta-shaped UFO with blinking lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case 1052 Source ID: Johnson_7812 Source: Johnson ### Event 20913 (D49551B2) Date: 11/22/1985 Description: After 5:00 p.m. A Wisconsin state employee is driving north on County Highway CV near DeForest, Wisconsin, when he notices three white lights hovering 20–30 feet above a farmhouse. He exits the highway for a closer look. The UFO is roughly triangular, dull gray, 40 feet across, and its bottom is sloped into contours. It is hanging stationary over a 60-foot-high tree as the witness pulls his car past it. He gets out of his car about 200 feet away, and the object moves closer toward him to about 100 feet over the road. Smoothly and quickly it moves away to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part Two,” IUR 13, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1988\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_6604 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20914 (B9F206DA) Date: 11/22/1985 Description: Silent triangular object Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: DeForest, WI Source ID: HallUFOE2_405 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20915 (80602360) Date: 11/22/1985 Description: In the predawn hours of the morning a witness saw a silent delta-shaped object that hovered over homes in DeForest, Wisconsin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case 1059; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 368 Source ID: Johnson_7811 Source: Johnson ### Event 20916 (D0192F63) Date: 11/22/1985 Description: Silent, triangular object (section IX). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: DeForest, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5738 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20917 (8218160C) Date: 11/22/1985 Description: [Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) writes a letter to International UFO Reporter Editor [Jerome Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark), effectively resigning as editor-in-chief, citing health reasons. He also states that his connection with [Tina Choate, Brian Myers](http://www.nicap.org/APRO/APRO%5Ffiles%5FSvahn.htm), and the ICUFOR operation in Phoenix, Arizona, is “null and void.” Funding from the British investor Kaye has fallen through, and Choate and Myers are more interested in the commercial aspects than UFO research. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Dr. Hynek Resigns,” IUR 10, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1985\): 20; O’Connell, 2017, pp. 332–338 Source ID: Eberhart_6603 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20918 (3D7D018E) Date: 12/1985 Description: Some members of the Centro Ufologico Nazionale, including [Paolo Toselli](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo%5FToselli), Gian Paolo Grassino, and Edoardo Russo, are dissatisfied with its administration and priorities. They break off and form the Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici. The newsletter Notizie C.U.N. becomes Notizie UFO with the same editor, Gian Paolo Grassino, in Turin, Italy. It changes the name in February 1998 to UFO Notizie and is now published as Notizie CISU. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Notizie UFO](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notizie%20UFO%20%28CISU%29/Notizie%20UFO%20-%20No%2011.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Notizie%20UFO%20%28CISU%29/Notizie%20UFO%20-%20No%2011.pdf) no. 11 \(December 1985\); [UFO Notizie](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/UFO%20Notizie%20%28CISU%29/UFO%20Notizie%20-%20No%2057.pdf), no. 57 \(February 1998\); Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici, “[Notizie CISU](http://www.cisu.org/rivista/notizie-cisu/)”; 2Pinotti 96–97 Source ID: Eberhart_6605 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20919 (71CFF9D4) Date: 12/20/1985 Description: On this night a red ovoid object rose from a quarry in Meliden, Wales into the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Devereax, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_8543 Source: Johnson ### Event 20920 (6961DD34) Date: 12/23/1985 Description: 3:10 a.m. The merchant ferry [Manuel Soto](https://www.trasmeships.es/los-buques/manuel-soto/)[,](https://www.trasmeships.es/los-buques/manuel-soto/) owned by Transmediterránea Company, is sailing from Las Palmas to Arrecife in the Canary Islands when the third officer on duty sees a light on the horizon ahead. Initially he identifies it as the star Antares but soon realizes the position is wrong. He takes measurements of its height and azimuth. It remains in the same spot for 15 minutes, after which it begins moving quickly. Other crew members see the light approaching the ship and reaching the zenith 2 minutes later. The object’s outline does not resemble an airplane or helicopter, and it has an intense white light at its center, a weaker red light near it, and another soft light set apart. The object is flying low and silently. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 436 Source ID: Eberhart_6606 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20921 (02E0FB91) Date: 12/26/1985 Description: Whitley Strieber alien encounter (section XIII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ulster County, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5739 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20922 (4ECFB157) Date: 12/26/1985 Description: Night. Novelist [Whitley Strieber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley%5FStrieber) undergoes a bizarre UFO abduction in his cabin in upstate New York. After he is awakened by a peculiar noise, he opens his eyes to see a small, inhuman creature rushing toward his bed. The next thing he knows it is morning, and he is feeling disoriented and angry but can’t tell why. Later, the full story of missing time, terrifying flashbacks, and intrusive examinations by entities he calls the “visitors” unfolds under the direction of [Budd Hopkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins) in hypnosis sessions by [Donald Klein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FKlein) of the New York Psychiatric Institute beginning in March 1986. Strieber tells the story in his 1987 book Communion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Whitley Strieber, [Communion: A True Story](https://archive.org/details/CommunionWhitleyStrieber/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/CommunionWhitleyStrieber/mode/2up) Avon, 1987; Clark III 1112–1113; Nick Redfern, “[Whitley Strieber’s](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/03/whitley-striebers-communion-at-30/) [Communion](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/03/whitley-striebers-communion-at-30/) [at](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/03/whitley-striebers-communion-at-30/) [30,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/03/whitley-striebers-communion-at-30/)” Mysterious Universe, March 2, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_6607 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20923 (97297A67) Date: 12/26/1985 Description: Whitley Strieber alien encounter Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Ulster County, NY Source ID: HallUFOE2_406 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20924 (85AE76FA) Date: 12/26/1985 Description: On this night best-selling author Whitley Streiber claims he was abducted again on this night from his cabin in Orange County, New York. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Whitley Streiber, Communion, p. 9; Jenny Randles, Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs, p. 106 Source ID: Johnson_8617 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1986 (Back to Top) ### Event 20925 (7D7D55D1) Date: 1986 Description: NORAD technical intelligence works on 813 initial Unknown targets this year \(whittled down quickly from an even greater number of Uncorrelated Targets\). Nearly two-thirds are pursued by fighter interceptors and more than one-third of the scrambled cases are successfully intercepted and identified. Almost half of the total are identified by further Air Traffic Control correlation, leaving 123 Remaining Unknowns at the end of the year. This is reduced further in early 1987 to 87 “Not Identified” REMs by additional intelligence correlation analysis, leaving roughly 10% of the initial amount unidentified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 801 Source ID: Eberhart_6608 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20926 (917912A1) Date: 1986 Description: Colonel General Sapkov observes UFO over Kapustin Test Range Type: ufo sighting Reference: [link](https://www.amazon.com/RUSSIAS-ROSWELL-INCIDENT-Amazing-Former-ebook/dp/B06XD2BNXV) Location: Kapustin Test Range See also: 11/79 Source ID: Maj2_753 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20927 (92426541) Date: 1986 Description: Night. Dissident Chinese writer [Ma Jian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%5FJian%5F%28writer%29) has escaped from custody and is making his way through dangerous terrain in Lancang Lahu Autonomous County in southern Yunnan, China. Suddenly, a ball of light the size of a cantaloupe appears in the darkness. It rises from a stream and floats through the trees, then stops by some branches 30 feet away. It drops to his eye level and he follows it through the forest, guiding his way for 12 miles until dawn. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path through China, Pantheon, 2001, [p. 279](https://archive.org/details/reddustpaththrou00maji%5F0/page/278/mode/2up); Clark III 652–653 Source ID: Eberhart_6609 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20928 (2634AA93) Date: 1/1986 Description: Jimmy Goddard begins publishing Amskaya, a newsletter of the contactee-oriented STAR Fellowship, in Weybridge, Surrey, England. It continues through July 2018. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Amskaya](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Amskaya%20%28Jimmy%20Goddard%29/Amskaya%20-%20No%20001%20-%201986%2001.pdf), no. 1 \(January 1986\) Source ID: Eberhart_6610 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20929 (2651C9E1) Date: 1/1/1986 Description: The Usenet bulletin board service ParaNet is launched, managed by James J. Speiser in Arizona. It quickly develops into a thriving community where a full range of researchers, skeptics, and cranks can post articles. Dale Goudie takes over the online information service Computer UFO Network. Operating out of Mercer Island, Washington, it functions as a UFO bulletin board using a voice and data line connected to an IBM personal computer. CUFON receives most of its reports from [Bob Gribble](http://avalonlibrary.net/Wendy%5FConnors%5FFaded%5FDisc%5Farchive/NuforcDirectory.pdf) of the National UFO Reporting Center. In Seattle. By late 1986, Goudie has more than 1,700 members and is receiving many calls per day, mostly IFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, February 1986; MUFON UFO Journal, July 1986; Walt Andrus, “[Director’s Message,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1986-11-november)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 223, November 1986, pp. 19, 18; Dolan II 380–381 Source ID: Eberhart_6611 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20930 (8A5CB99B) Date: 1/3/1986 Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_407 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20931 (CBDC35AF) Date: 1/3/1986 Description: On a farm in Roseville, Placer County, California at 8:15 p.m. a 300-foot in diameter disc-shaped object flew right overhead, then made a fast 90 degree turn and was gone. The house and barn both shook as a result. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1037 Source ID: Johnson_68 Source: Johnson ### Event 20932 (0B1A2717) Date: 1/5/1986 Description: Police and several other witnesses in Mineral Point and Vermont, Wisconsin (both located in Iowa County) saw a silent nocturnal light at low altitude that hovered, turned, and made other maneuvers. It was covered on the local TV news. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case 1076; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 84 Source ID: Johnson_146 Source: Johnson ### Event 20933 (C2AB7690) Date: 1/7/1986 Description: UFO emitted six light beams toward ground. About 20 minutes later in Pittsburgh, silver-gray disc with body lights hovered, mist formed around it. Object tilted, moved out of sight (section IX). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Butler, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5740 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20934 (5C56E816) Date: 1/7/1986 Description: UFO emitted six light beams toward ground. About n minutes later in Pittsburgh, silver-gray disc with body lights hovered, mist formed around it. Object tilted, moved out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Butler, PA Source ID: HallUFOE2_408 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20935 (A3FDF0D7) Date: 1/7/1986 Description: A UFO emitting beams of light toward the ground is seen in Butler, Pennsylvania. In Pittsburgh, 20 minutes later, a silver-gray disc is seen hovering. Mist forms around it, the object tilts, and it moves out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1986, p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6612 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20936 (CEBFFD12) Date: 1/7/1986 Description: At a trailer court in the mountain community of Butler, Pennsylvania at 10:54 p.m. a UFO emitted six "solid" light beams towards the ground. About 20 minutes later in Pittsburgh a silver-grayish disc-shaped UFO with body lights hovered in the sky, with a mist forming around it. The object tilted and then moved out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_186 Source: Johnson ### Event 20937 (72E0ACE3) Date: 1/9/1986 Description: 9:00 p.m. Multiple cars stop along Interstate 84 in Hartford, Connecticut, to watch a silent boomerang- shaped object, estimated to be the size of a Boeing 747, with white, red, blue, and green lights. It moves low through the sky then hovers for 15 seconds before heading off to the west. The boomerang is also seen by dozens of witnesses in Torrington, Connecticut. A family sees the UFO, with 10 white lights, hover directly over their house, engulfing their home in a brilliant white light. They are so frightened they flee to the basement. The building inspector for Torrington sees a “cigar with square windows” near Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks. The FAA claims the object is a blimp, although there are no blimps flying in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NightSiege, 5–6, 194 Source ID: Eberhart_6613 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20938 (A3675C1A) Date: 1/9/1986 Description: Multiple cars stopped along Interstate 84 in Hartford, Connecticut at 9:00 p.m. to watch a silent boomerang-shaped object, estimated to be the size of a Boeing 747, with white, red, blue and green lights as it moved low through sky, then hovered for 15 seconds before heading off to the west. The boomerang seen over Hartford and New Britain was also seen by dozens of witnesses in Torrington, Connecticut. A family reported the UFO, with 10 white lights, hovered directly over their house, engulfing their home in a brilliant white light. They were so frightened they fled to the basement. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14294, citing Dale Goudie, CUFON; Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, pp. 5-7 Source ID: Johnson_233 Source: Johnson ### Event 20939 (8850DD88) Date: 1/15/1986 Description: At around seven p.m. the witness was walking home on Wiktorska Street in Mokotow, Poland when he saw a dull metallic bowl-shaped flying object descend and land in a vacant field between two buildings. Moments later a hatch slid open from the top of the object and a woman dressed in black came out. The man felt compelled mentally to go with the woman, who took him inside the UFO. it was very bright inside the craft and he saw two men wearing dark tight-fitting overalls with hoods. He was ordered to lie down on a table, and at this point he lost consciousness. He later awoke standing at the door outside of his house with no recollection of what happened in between. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1986, case # 952, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 209 Source ID: Johnson_341 Source: Johnson ### Event 20940 (ADA5463C) Date: 1/22/1986 Description: Three saucer-shaped objects, stacked vertically, were seen over Prestatyn, Clwyd, Wales at 9:00 p.m. They went south toward Meliden, performing aerobatics. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Devereax, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_424 Source: Johnson ### Event 20941 (525EA53D) Date: 1/29/1986 Description: In Dal'negorsk, Vladivostok, Russia in eastern Asia a red fireball flew parallel to the ground with an estimated speed of 15 meters per second, leaving no wake or trail. At 7:55 p.m. it dove silently into the slope ofHill 611 (a mountain 611 meters in height), then jumped up-and-down six times. A very bright light, like flames from a welding torch, was observed coming from the mountain for an hour, then the red ball of light took off. Traces at the site included a fine, glassy metallic fabric debris, lead and iron pellets, and magnetic anomalies. Temperature at the crash site was estimated to have been as high as 25,000 deg C. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 92; William R. Corliss, Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 283 Source ID: Johnson_586 Source: Johnson ### Event 20942 (94C2518F) Date: 1/29/1986 Description: 7:50 p.m. Inhabitants of Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia, see a reddish ball about half the size of the full moon. The ball is flying soundlessly parallel to the ground. It is later determined that its speed is approximately 34 mph and that it is about 2,300–2,625 feet in altitude. When the object reaches Height 611 \(also known as Mount Izvestkovaya\) it starts to descend and then crashes into the hill. All witnesses but one agree there is no sound when the object reaches the ground. Some say the object falls with a flash and is not visible after that; others claim it oscillates at altitude above the hill, radiating light of varying intensity as it goes up and down. The light given off by the object is described by some as a forest fire, which lasts for approximately one hour. A scientific team led by [Valery Dvuzhilny](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/vladivostok-u-s-s-r-soviet-botanist-valeri-dvuzhilny-news-photo/515217982), head of the Far Eastern Commission for Anomalous Phenomena, arrives on the site on February 3. Some rocks at the impact site have drops of silvery metal, which are later determined to be lead. The type of lead found on Height 611 is different from lead found in local lead deposits. Also, black, glassy, drop-shaped beads and mesh fragments are found at the site. In all, approximately 70 grams of lead, 5 grams of mesh fragments, and 40 grams of beads are discovered. The radiation level of the landing ground is normal. Photos of the site using two different cameras all develop as blank. Chemical analyses of the beads show they are mostly composed of lead, silicon, and iron. Some of the drops contain significant amounts of zinc, bismuth, and rare earth elements. An analysis of the soil, rocks, and burned wood taken from the landing ground shows that the chemical composition is similar to the composition of samples taken from the site of the 1908 Tunguska event. The mesh fragments are also analyzed; the material does not dissolve in strong acids and organic solvents, even when exposed to high temperatures for prolonged periods of time. One of the mesh fragments is discovered to be composed of scandium, gold, lanthanum, sodium, and samarium. An analysis of another mesh fragment shows gold, silver, and nickel. After that fragment is heated in a vacuum, the analysis no longer shows these elements; however, molybdenum and rhenium are detected. The concentration of gold found in one of the mesh fragments is equivalent to 1,100 grams per metric ton. This is much higher than gold deposits in the region, which become economic to extract when the concentration of gold reaches 4 grams per metric ton. There are no gold deposits in Dalnegorsk that contain gold at concentrations high enough to extract. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: StealthSkater Archives, \[[Dalnegorsk articles](http://www.stealthskater.com/Documents/Dalnegorsk%5F01.pdf)\]; Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, Russia’s Roswell Incident, Flying Disk Press, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_6614 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20943 (6EDA0733) Date: 2/4/1986 Description: 3:00 a.m. A woman in Reseda, California, wakes up with a sinus headache. She hears animals in the neighborhood barking, growling, and howling. Looking outside, she sees above a power line a black object hovering with a peculiar vibrating motion. It is “like a black mirror with a small, white fluorescent aura around it.” After 3–4 minutes, it emits orange bands of light. She wakes her husband, who manages to see a thin, white mist floating away. A strong wind comes up for 5 minutes afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6615 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20944 (9B7B1ABF) Date: 2/6/1986 Description: 8:30 p.m. [Valery Dvuzhilny](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/vladivostok-u-s-s-r-soviet-botanist-valeri-dvuzhilny-news-photo/515217982) reports that two yellow globes appear in the north and approach the Dalnegorsk crash site, circle it four times, and disappear in a flash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: StealthSkater Archives, \[[Dalnegorsk articles](http://www.stealthskater.com/Documents/Dalnegorsk%5F01.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_6616 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20945 (16037B2F) Date: 2/8/1986 Description: While driving on State Route 117 in Lima, Ohio at 7:00 p.m. a young couple spotted a dark triangular UFO with three bright lights, hovering over some trees near a farm. The object was estimated to be 50-60 feet long and made no sound. Their sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John P. Timmerman, International UFO Reporter, July-August 1986, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_761 Source: Johnson ### Event 20946 (EE5242FB) Date: 2/8/1986 Description: 7:00 p.m. Matthew Woodard, 16, and Melinda Hays, 17, are driving toward Lima, Ohio, from the west on State Route 117. As they are crossing the bridge over the Ottawa River, they see a large, dark object about 50–60 feet long hovering above some trees on the right side of the road. It parallels them as they turn left on Seriff Road. It has a rectangular upper section with a single steady white light on top and sloping sides with a red and blue light on the lower left. The object eventually disappears in the distance behind trees and houses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John P. Timmerman, “A Giant Triangle,” IUR 11, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1986\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_6617 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20947 (2D550007) Date: 2/12/1986 Description: At 12:33 a.m. a 48-year-old woman in Lima, Ohio saw a dark triangular UFO hovering over her neighbor's house, 150 feet away. It was between 50 and 60 feet in length, and 15-20 feet wide. It had a red light on top, and white lights in the lower two corners. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Timmerman, International UFO Reporter, July 1986, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_879 Source: Johnson ### Event 20948 (A8D3031D) Date: 2/12/1986 Description: 12:33 a.m. A woman who lives on the northwest edge of Lima, Ohio, is awakened by a loud sound. She looks out and sees a “strange dark object” in the southeast sky. It is triangular in shape, has white lights in the two lower corners and a red light in the top corner, and is hovering about 250 feet away. She goes to wake her husband, but when she returns the object is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John P. Timmerman, “A Giant Triangle,” IUR 11, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1986\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_6618 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20949 (993944EA) Date: 2/26/1986 Description: 7:30 p.m. [Charles, the Prince of Wales,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%2C%5FPrince%5Fof%5FWales) is returning to London, England, after a tour of Dallas, Texas. While flying over the Irish Sea, the pilot of his Vickers VC10 observes a bright red flash in the sky. Charles does not see it, but several other aircraft in the vicinity also report a reddish ball of fire with a tail \(undoubtedly a meteor or space debris reentry\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Nonencounter with a non-UFO,” IUR 11, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1986\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_6619 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20950 (0C191B06) Date: 2/28/1986 Description: Hovering oval object, body lights, brightly illuminated the area, moved up, down, and sideways. Dog agitated during sighting Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: New Castle, PA Source ID: HallUFOE2_409 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20951 (2779BCA1) Date: 2/28/1986 Description: Hovering oval object, body lights, brightly illuminated the area, moved up, down, and sideways. Dog agitated during sighting (section VII). (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Castle, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5741 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20952 (4955765B) Date: 2/28/1986 Description: 11:30 p.m. Multiple witnesses in New Castle, Pennsylvania, watch a 50-foot-long lighted object, with two apparent legs for landing, hovering and moving up, down, and sideways. A dog becomes completely agitated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1986, p. 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6620 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20953 (CD7E4B5B) Date: 3/1/1986 Description: Many cars pulled over on I-5 near Payne Field, Everett, Washington at around 8:30 p.m. to watch nine large disc-shaped UFOs drop NLs. The display lasted for nearly an hour before the objects shot straight up and departed. No explanation was given by the U. S. Air Force when inquiries were made. At about the same time, a private pilot flying over Snoqualmie Pass, Washington encountered two amber spheres for one minute duration; there was radio static on his two-way radio during the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case 1089; Paul Ferrughelli, case 736; Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1986-94, citing MUFON UFO Journal; (2) Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 192 Source ID: Johnson_1224 Source: Johnson ### Event 20954 (16CAC2E7) Date: 3/18/1986 Description: Two triangular objects flying one behind the other with their points forward are seen near Newport, South Wales. The first is covered with multicolored lights, while the second has three lights at each point. Both are a few hundred yards long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 138 Source ID: Eberhart_6621 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20955 (D7A1DE2A) Date: 3/19/1986 End date: 6/15/1986 Description: Concentration of sightings including many physiological effects cases and traumatic effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Brazil Source ID: HallUFOE2_410 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20956 (B81FF96A) Date: 3/19/1986 Description: A wave of UFO sightings started in Brazil on this date in 1986. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A thirty-year report, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_1576 Source: Johnson ### Event 20957 (80A6BDD6) Date: 3/21/1986 Description: At 1:00 a.m. a farmer reported seeing an object with brilliant lights descend and land slowly near him in Santa Ana, Corrientes province, Argentina. Two short humanoids wearing black tight fitting uniforms emerged from the object. They approached the witness and signaled to him, then spoke to him in an unknown language. The beings left when the witness told them he could not understand them. A six-meter circle of burned grass was found on the site and the witness suffered from headaches after the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1986, case # 926, citing UFO Data Base Source ID: Johnson_1607 Source: Johnson ### Event 20958 (40773790) Date: 3/25/1986 Description: A triangular object with rounded apexes approached and then hovered ahead of a car with three witnesses near Downingtown, Pensylvania at 12:30 a.m. It made no sound. The encounter lasted more than four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1986, p. 8; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 368 Source ID: Johnson_1664 Source: Johnson ### Event 20959 (D6E16A62) Date: 3/26/1986 Description: Night. Some 500 witnesses in Kingston, New York, see an object “like a giant Ferris wheel” the size of a football field. It makes a humming sound and has intensely bright lights, mostly white but also red, yellow, green, and blue. A dark mass behind the lights blots out the sky. Suddenly the object flips on its side before moving away. A police officer who sees the UFO says it cannot be “a bunch of guys flying in planes.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NightSiege 197– 198 Source ID: Eberhart_6622 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20960 (6200A145) Date: 3/30/1986 Description: Three domed discs paced a bus in Caraguatatuba, Brazil at 11:30 p.m. They made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Boletim CEPEX Source ID: Johnson_1745 Source: Johnson ### Event 20961 (4598476D) Date: 4/2/1986 Description: On this day in 1986, author Whitley Strieber's young son was abducted for what may have been the first time, from the family cabin in Orange County, New York. A huge black disc was involved with the abduction experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Whitley Streiber, Communion Source ID: Johnson_1804 Source: Johnson ### Event 20962 (FBF75C50) Date: 4/6/1986 Description: On this night at 8:45 p.m. a large disc-shaped ojbect was seen over San Francisco, California. It split into two discs, then a third disc joined the pair, making a V formation that flew off rapidly to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case 1064 Source ID: Johnson_1872 Source: Johnson ### Event 20963 (1B493A25) Date: 4/12/1986 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a single witness in Delmont, Pennsylvania sighted a 6-meter glowing circle of light only 5 cm from the ground in a residential area. It extended some legs and was completely silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1986 Source ID: Johnson_1988 Source: Johnson ### Event 20964 (C9EE3016) Date: 4/20/1986 Description: On the same night a group of police officers in Kremmling, Colorado saw a mysterious flying triangle with lights. It hovered over the southern shore of Green Mountain Reservoir, then took off to the southwest. A jet aircraft flying in the sky at the time was observed taking evasive action and veered to avoid a collision with the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 27 Source ID: Johnson_2171 Source: Johnson ### Event 20965 (4C64CEA8) Date: 4/20/1986 Description: At 7 p.m. three people were in a boat on a reservoir near Pacajus, Ceara State, Brazil when a gray colored UFO, the size of a car, swooped down silently out of sky and approached the boat, then flew back up and away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 232 Source ID: Johnson_2170 Source: Johnson ### Event 20966 (D84C405E) Date: 4/22/1986 Description: 11:00 p.m. Two people are driving on the Via Flaminia near Pesaro, Italy, when their car engine stops. After hearing a strange sound, they see 3 discs 65 feet in diameter with domes and tripods standing on the left of the road. They have white and blue lights. After hovering for 20 seconds, the discs emit a strong whistle, accelerate, and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_6624 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20967 (4CBBBD9C) Date: 4/22/1986 Description: In Farmington, Missouri at 9:45 p.m. a single witness reported seeing ring of bright lights rotating while it passed him by. It was also seen in the surrounding area by others. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1075 Source ID: Johnson_2234 Source: Johnson ### Event 20968 (3DDB78AE) Date: 4/22/1986 Description: A 60 foot x 40 foot x 20 foot rectangular object was sighted over Salt Lake City, Utah at 12:30 a.m. It flew slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1072 Source ID: Johnson_2233 Source: Johnson ### Event 20969 (CA902F15) Date: 4/22/1986 Description: After 10:00 p.m. Medical technicians taking an injured man in an ambulance to Debrecen, Hungary, see a huge, luminous, orange sphere flying silently above the right side of the road at Hajdudorog and moving along with them. It is about 325 feet away from them, floating at 100–130 feet. The sphere is surrounded by a ring, and flames appear on its surface from time to time. Two flames blaze on opposite sides, while another moves to and fro along its middle. The sighting lasts for 15 minutes for a distance of nearly 12 miles. When the ambulance reaches Hajdúböszörmény, the object speeds up, stops above a forest, and slowly descends while radiating a bright light that illuminates the trees. It goes out shortly afterward. On the return from Debrecen, the huge sphere returns over Józsa, this time with 6–7 flames instead of 3. It speeds over the village and “waits” on the other side for the ambulance, following it again to the north. The perplexed technicians decide to stop the ambulance. The UFO slows down, but does not stop, moving over a power line and illuminating the cables below. The ambulance recommences its journey, with the object following for another 10 minutes. A short time later, covering the same route, the technicians notice that the forest where the sphere landed is on fire. They find the grass all wet, with 5- foot flames \(natural gas?\) emanating from the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1989\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6623 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20970 (C44808DD) Date: 4/25/1986 Description: 9:05 p.m. A private pilot sees a V-shaped configuration of approximately 12 spherical nocturnal lights for about 15 seconds in Memphis, Tennessee. He estimates they are moving at 300 knots at an altitude of under 1,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6625 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20971 (FB022205) Date: 4/26/1986 Description: 1:23 a.m. The Number 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at Pripyat, Ukraine, has a power surge during a backup generator test. Flawed reactor design and inadequately trained personnel lead to the fuel rods overheating, causing an explosion and meltdown, necessitating the evacuation of 300,000 people from the area. Around 5% of the core is released into the atmosphere, dispersing radioactive material across Europe. The reactor explosion kills two of the reactor operating staff. In the emergency response that follows, 134 firemen and station staff are hospitalized with acute radiation syndrome due to absorbing high doses of ionizing radiation. Of these 134 people, 28 die in the days to months afterward, and approximately 14 suspected radiation-induced cancer deaths follow within the next 10 years. Among the wider population, an excess of 15 childhood thyroid cancer deaths are documented as of 2011. The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation at multiple times reviews all the published research on the incident and finds that at present, fewer than 100 documented deaths are likely attributable to increased exposure to radiation. Determining the total eventual number of exposure-related deaths is uncertain based on the linear no-threshold model, a contested statistical model that is used in estimates of low-level radon and air pollution exposure. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Chernobyl disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl%5Fdisaster)”; Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_6626 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20972 (EE4DD03D) Date: 4/26/1986 Description: Object Observed After Chernobyl Explosion (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [860426](http://www.nicap.org/860426chernobyl%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Chernobyl, Ukraine, USSR Source ID: NICAP_DB_5742 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20973 (955B407E) Date: 4/26/1986 Description: About 4:30 a.m. During the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, Mikhail Varitsky and other technicians observe a fiery sphere, similar in color to brass, within 1,000 feet of the damaged Unit 4 reactor at the height of the fire. Two bright rays shoot out from the object, directed at the reactor. It hovers in the areas about 3 minutes, then the rays vanish as the UFO moves slowly away to the northwest. Radiation levels taken just before the UFO appears read 3,000 milliroentgens/hour; after the rays, the readings show 800 milliroentgens/hour. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 68–69; “[UFO Prevents Blast at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant,](https://english.pravda.ru/news/russia/18024-n/)” Pravda, September 16, 2002 Source ID: Eberhart_6627 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20974 (335941DC) Date: 4/27/1986 Description: Dr. J. Allen Hynek, scientific consultant to the Air Force Project Blue Book for many years, and founder of the Center for UFO Studies, died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona on this day. He had been suffering from an inoperable brain tumor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 325 Source ID: Johnson_2379 Source: Johnson ### Event 20975 (BE7EBECA) Date: 4/27/1986 Description: [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) dies in Scottsdale, Arizona, from a malignant brain tumor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Good-bye, Allen,” IUR 11, no 3 \(May/June 1986\): 3, 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6628 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20976 (F2C4E001) Date: 4/27/1986 Description: A large, silent metallic object was seen at treetop level by a motorist in La Follette, Tennessee at 11:10 p.m. It sped off when the witness stopped to investigate. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case 1081 Source ID: Johnson_2380 Source: Johnson ### Event 20977 (95CA7563) Date: 5/3/1986 Description: Two witnesses in Bellingham, Washington reported seeing five V-shaped objects that flew in formation, from north to south, and crossed the sky from horizon to horizon in 10 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1084 Source ID: Johnson_2483 Source: Johnson ### Event 20978 (8AC5D721) Date: 5/6/1986 Description: Several witnesses are driving from Worthing to Billinghurst in West Sussex, England, when they see a trapezium-shaped object with two square lights in front, and two green and one red light in the rear. Making a dull humming sound, it hovers above the road then zigzags behind their car. After they step out of their vehicle, the object comes straight at them, turns, and proceeds to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 138 Source ID: Eberhart_6629 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20979 (C4029349) Date: 5/7/1986 Description: Thirty objects engaged in zigzag maneuvers over Greensburg, Pennsylvania for eight minutes starting at around 8:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14345; MUFON UFO Journal, December 1986 Source ID: Johnson_2629 Source: Johnson ### Event 20980 (4627E54E) Date: 5/8/1986 Description: UFO researcher Lee M. Graham, who has met several times with [Bill Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) and received documents about Project Snowbird and Project Aquarius, writes to the Defense Investigative Service about Moore’s contacts. Moore had sported an ID badge that is identical to other DIS badges Graham has seen. Moore says his superior was named “Richard,” which probably indicates USAF intelligence agent [Richard C. Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, June 1989; Dolan II 406–407 Source ID: Eberhart_6630 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20981 (808EF796) Date: 5/9/1986 Description: A witness from Danville, Pennsylvania called the UFO Reporting Center in Seattle to report a missing time episode involving three family members associated with an unexplained power failure that occurred at 9:30 p.m. An injury the witness had suffered was also reportedly healed miraculously. Multiple abduction experiences were suspected. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1086 Source ID: Johnson_2698 Source: Johnson ### Event 20982 (10EA8E5F) Date: 5/11/1986 Description: Cessna pilot and wife saw dome-shaped object make head-on pass at plane Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Sedona, AZ Source ID: HallUFOE2_411 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20983 (98A02002) Date: 5/11/1986 Description: Head-on pass of object below Cessna 172 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sedona, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5743 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20984 (B21153CC) Date: 5/11/1986 Description: Minister Robert H. Henderson and his wife, Nann, of Phoenix, AR, were flying at an altitude of 8500 ft. at 4 p.m. when a very bright UFO was seen approaching head-on to them. As he prepared to take evasive action the UFO passed quickly to the left and below of his plane. The UFO was seen to be wingless and resembling a “modified half-sphere, with the flat side down.” The closure rate was estimated at about 1200 mph. Type: aerial ufo encounter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: near Sedona, AR Source ID: Maj2_754 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20985 (A26559A3) Date: 5/11/1986 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a three-foot diameter disc with lights buzzed a car with three witnesses traveling on Highway 26 in Deridder, Louisiana at only six feet altitude. There were no electromagnetic effects noticed. The object next shot straight up into the sky and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case 1087 Source ID: Johnson_2748 Source: Johnson ### Event 20986 (74E3EF82) Date: 5/11/1986 Description: Cessna 172 pilot Robert Henderson and his wife Nann had an aerial encounter with a "modified half-sphere, with the flat side down" while flying over Sedona, Arizona at 4:00 p.m. It approached their plane head on and shot quickly to left, passing below the airplane. Its speed was estimated at 1,200 mph. Their sighting lasted less than a minute, and they detected no sound coming from the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 316; UNICAT database, case 660, citing Willard D. Nelson, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1986, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_2747 Source: Johnson ### Event 20987 (8978B756) Date: 5/15/1986 Description: On this night a 70-year-old farmer named Joaquim, who lived near Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil watched a lighted object hovering about 50 paces away and approximately 15 meters above the ground for about 30 minutes. The object flashed a beam of light around the terrain, and it occasionally struck the witness as he stood in his doorway. Because of the brilliance of the light, he shielded his face with his left arm, but at one point the light struck his right eye. Joaquim said he heard voices, but couldn't understand the language. As the object glided away it hit some electric wires and broke one of them. He reportedly lost about 80% of the vision in his right eye, and he had a sunburn-like burn on his left arm. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1987; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 317 Source ID: Johnson_2870 Source: Johnson ### Event 20988 (A61A14E5) Date: 5/16/1986 Description: A private pilot flying from Brasilia, Brazil was followed 460 miles by several small luminous objects, type unknown. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14351. citing George C. Andrews, Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 316 Source ID: Johnson_2900 Source: Johnson ### Event 20989 (0AA20A75) Date: 5/19/1986 Description: 6:30 p.m. 2ndSgt Sergio Mota da Silva, airport flight controller for São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, sees two luminous objects about 6,500 feet above the city and 9 miles away. Through binoculars, the objects have distinct borders and intense multicolored flashing lights in the lower part. At 7:00 p.m., flight controllers at Brasilia and São Paulo confirm three primary radar targets above São José dos Campos. Around 7:30 p.m., da Silva sees more lights, predominantly red, but changing to yellow, green, and orange. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_6631 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20990 (DED7BE80) Date: 5/19/1986 Description: 7:40 p.m. Visual UFO sightings continue over São José dos Campos, with objects remaining motionless for long periods of time. By 8:00 p.m., CINDACTA radars in Brasilia track 8 unidentified targets on their screens. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_6632 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20991 (06B56C56) Date: 5/19/1986 Description: Starting at 9:10 p.m. multiple radar-visual trackings by civilian and military pilots occurred in Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For nearly three hours, air traffic control and military radar tracked up to 21 unidentified objects, and jet interceptors pursued them, making visual contact in some cases. The night was clear with good visibility. The objects appeared to be red-orange balls of light (BOL), but changed frequently to white or green. Col. Ospires Silva, oil company president and former president of EMBRAER Airlines, with his pilot, Commander Alcir Pereira da Silva, was descending through 2,000 feet (600 meters) on their landing approach to Sao Jose de Campos, near Sao Paulo, at 9:10 p.m. Sao Paulo radar notified them that an unknown object was in the area, so they broke off the pattern and turned to follow a bright red-orange light that seemed to dance around in the sky. Meanwhile, radar at Brasilia confirmed the presence of an unknown ojbect. As they pursued the object in the twin-engine Xingu aircraft, the light blinked off every 10-15 seconds, only to reappear in a new location, as if jumping from point to point. Their low performance airplane could not gain on the object, which they estimated was traveling at 1,500 km/hour (900 mph), so they abandoned the chase after about 30 minutes.

By that time the Brazilian Defense Center, which operates an integrated civil-military radar ATC system, was on full alert due to numberous UFOs cluttering their radar screens in the vicinity of Sao Jose dos Campos and nearby Sao Paulo. All civilian air traffic was put on hold, as jet interceptors were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB, Sao Paulo State, and Anapolis AFB, near Brasilia. Three F-5E jets were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB, followed by three Mirage III jets from Anapolis AFB. The first visual contact was made about 10:550 p.m. Lt. Kleber Caldas Marinho, age 25, an F-5E pilot, was vectored toward a target indicated by radar to be 35 miles (56 km) distant, but he was unable to catch up. At one point ground radar showed the UFO rapidly approaching his jet, but he saw nothing at that time. Later, he did see a very intense reddish light that changed color to white, then to green, then to red again. Another F-5E pilot, Capt. Marcio Jordao, age 29, managed to close in to within 12 miles and saw a very strong, intensely bright light, continuously changing color from white to green. When the object moved off shore and out to sea he broke off contact and returned to base.

Ten to thirteen white and green UFOs (BOLs) were chased by the three Mirage III fighters. Only one of the jets was able to make visual contact. The jets closed to within two miles, then the UFOs outflew the jets and climbed vertically up to 33,000 feet. The radar controller at Anapolis AFB testified that there were several targets behind one of the Mirage jets, six to one side and seven to the other. Radar had tracked the UFOs at speeds of up to 800 knots (920 mph). At time the objects made 80 degree turns. "No plane I know can make turns like that at 1,000 km/h," Capt. Viriato de Freitas said. The unexplained nature of the UFOs was openly acknowledged by the authorities. The decision to release the news to the public was made personally by the president of Brazil, and carried out by the Air Force Minister, Brig. Gen. Octavio Moreira Lima. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 110-111; Willy Smith, International UFO Reporter, July 1986, p. 4; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 40; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, pp. 317-318; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. 131, UNICAT, case 535 Source ID: Johnson_2988 Source: Johnson ### Event 20992 (BD6054BF) Date: 5/19/1986 Description: Radar-visual and pilot sightings, military jet interceptors scrambled in pursuit Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Source ID: HallUFOE2_412 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 20993 (E84C8BEB) Date: 5/19/1986 Description: Near Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Between 9:00 to 12 midnight the Brazilian Air Defense and the Civil Air System were swamped with Radar and pilot UFO sightings. As Ospires Silva, President of Petrobras Oil Company were preparing to land, the control tower informed him of UFO targets on their radar. He and his companion, Alcir Pereira da Silva, saw bright red-orange UFOs, not at all like stars or planes. They attempted to pursue the UFOs for 30 min. but gave up as the UFOs seemed to be jumping from place to place. At this time three F-5E fighter jets were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB. Capt. Marcio Jordao was able to approach within 12 miles of an UFO, visible to him as a bright light changing from white to green. Lt. Kleber Caldas Marinho chased another UFO which was a very intense light, changing from white to green then red again. Both pilots broke off chase as they were running low on fuel. Ground Radar picked up 10–13 more UFOs that surrounded another plane with Capt. Armindo Souza Viriato de Marinho, K.C. Freitas piloting it. Capt. Freitas tracked the UFOs on his radar, but only de Freitas, A.S.V. saw them visually once as they climbed vertically past him. Brig. Gen. Octavio Moreira Lima made these events public at a press conference and allowed the pilots and radar operators to be questioned by the media. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil See also: 7/1952 Source ID: Maj2_755 Source: Maj2 ### Event 20994 (64955EE4) Date: 5/19/1986 Description: 9:00 p.m. A Xingu light airplane piloted by Col. [Ozires Silva](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozires%5FSilva), an aeronautical engineer and a manufacturing CEO for Petrobras, is preparing for a landing at São José dos Campos. His copilot Cmdr. Alcir Pereira da Silva receives a call from CINDACTA in Brasilia asking them to confirm some unidentified targets. They look and see bright red or red-orange lights “not at all like stars or planes.” Aborting the landing, they attempt to pursue one of the objects, which blinks on and off irregularly, appearing in a new location each time as if changing position rapidly. After about 30 minutes, they give up the chase and land. The Xingu makes three other attempts to land, but each time is diverted toward looking at other unidentified lights and targets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_6633 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20995 (826E6025) Date: 5/19/1986 Description: 10:23 p.m. By this time, the Air Defense and Air Traffic Control Center is on full alert, radar screens showing numerous unidentified targets. Three F-5E fighter jets are scrambled from Santa Cruz Air Force Base near São Paulo. One of the pilots, Capt. Marcio Brisola Jordão, is able to approach within 12 miles of an unidentified target, visible to him as a strong, constant light that is changing colors continuously from white to green. He breaks off contact when the object moves away out to sea. Another F-5E, piloted by Lt. Kleber Caldas Marinho, chases a very intense red light that changes to white, then green, then red again. Running low on fuel, he has to return to base. Both ground and airborne radar are tracking the objects. After the F-5E pilots make visual contact, more jets are scrambled from Anápolis Air Force Base, Goiás, about 10:50 p.m. This second flight consists of three Mirage III fighters equipped with Sidewinders and Martra missiles. One of the pilots, Capt. Armindo Sousa Viriato de Freitas, is vectored toward 10–13 unidentified targets at a distance of 20 miles. Radar controllers see the objects surrounding his plane, 6 stationed on one side and 7 on the other, and later following his plane at a distance of two miles, but only see them visually once when they are climbing vertically. During the night, a total of 21 luminous objects, apparently spherical and ranging in size from 165 to 330 feet in diameter, are seen, captured on radar, and pursued by jet fighters. Activity ceases around 11:20 p.m. The Air Force Minister, Brig.Gen. [Octávio Júlio Moreira Lima](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oct%C3%A1vio%5FJ%C3%BAlio%5FMoreira%5FLima)[,](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oct%C3%A1vio%5FJ%C3%BAlio%5FMoreira%5FLima) makes the events public at a press conference and allows the pilots and radar officers to submit to news media questioning in Brasilia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Brazilian Aircraft / UFO Encounter /](http://www.nicap.org/860519rio%5Fdir.htm) [Radar-Visual](http://www.nicap.org/860519rio%5Fdir.htm)”; Wikipedia, “[Noite dos discos voadores](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noite%5Fdos%5Fdiscos%5Fvoadores)”; Willy Smith, “The Brazilian Incident,” IUR 11, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1986\): 4–6; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1986; J. Antonio Huneeus, “[UFO Alert in Brazil,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1986-11-november)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 223 \(November 1986\): 6–7, 9, 15; Willy Smith, “[UFO Chase in Brazil \(May 1986\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201986%20V%2032%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 1 \(December 1986\): 6–8; Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947– 1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 111–113; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 121–127](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/120/mode/2up); Kean, [pp. 199–202](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/206/mode/2up); Good Above, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/426/mode/2up) [427–428](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/426/mode/2up); Clark III 830–835; Brazil 417–441; Patrick Gross, “[Jets Chase UFOs over Brazil in 1986](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/brazil86.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_6634 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 20996 (053B633D) Date: 5/19/1986 Description: Brazilian Aircraft / UFO Encounter / Radar-Visual (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [860519](http://www.nicap.org/860519rio%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Rio de Janeiro Sao Paulo, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5744 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 20997 (7680B133) Date: 5/24/1986 Description: A cigar-shaped object landed in Encounter Bay, Victor Harbour, South Australia at 12:10 p.m. and then submerged. It was described as having fins and a propeller. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3073 Source: Johnson ### Event 20998 (8ED570B9) Date: 5/29/1986 Description: On this night Sr. Flores was lying in his bedroom at home near the city center of Santa Rosa, Argentina when he heard a loud buzzing sound coming from outside. Simultaneously a powerful light came shining through his window, while dogs in the neighborhood began barking. As he looked outside he saw an object hovering above the treetops near his house. He was confronted by two eight-foot tall beings who were blocking his door. These creatures seemed to lack mouths, noses, and ears; but they had dark eyes and long thin hands with only three fingers, the middle one being the longest. The beings wore silvery, tight fitting overalls with a wide belt having some kind of tools or accessories hanging from them. He could also see that each wore a necklace with a medallion on it. The beings were busy making quick gestures, when they suddenly vanished. Sr. Flores could then step outdoors and witnessed a ball shaped object moving at high speed towards the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Patrick Huyghe, A Field Guide to Extraterrestrials, p. 58; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1986, citing Fabio Picasso, Strange Magazine # 8 Source ID: Johnson_3155 Source: Johnson ### Event 20999 (C719C55D) Date: 6/1986 Description: The Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici in Turin, Italy, begins publishing its official journal UFO–Rivista di Informazione Ufologica through autumn 2017. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO–Rivista di Informazione Ufologica](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/UFO%20Rivista%20di%20Informazione%20Ufologica%20%28CISU%29/UFO%20Rivista%20di%20Informazione%20Ufologica%20-%20No%2001.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/UFO%20Rivista%20di%20Informazione%20Ufologica%20%28CISU%29/UFO%20Rivista%20di%20Informazione%20Ufologica%20-%20No%2001.pdf) no. 1 \(June 1986\) Source ID: Eberhart_6635 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21000 (83C1CEB3) Date: 6/3/1986 Description: On this night Paulo Pereira Campos was returning to his home accompanied by his two daughters in a rural part of Nego, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. He noticed a luminous yellow, oval-shaped object approaching them. They all ran and hid in a bamboo grove, where they watched the object land about 200 meters away. Two short figures emerged from the UFO and walked around the area for 15 minutes. They then entered the craft and it took off and left. Footprints were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1986, citing Antonio Faleiro Source ID: Johnson_3260 Source: Johnson ### Event 21001 (FBC83447) Date: 6/8/1986 Description: A 40-foot long, cigar-shaped UFO was seen in a red mist in Metcalf, Illinois at 8:30 p.m. It was seen for 30 seconds, less than half a mile away, and was completely silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1119 Source ID: Johnson_3376 Source: Johnson ### Event 21002 (C9B70987) Date: 6/12/1986 Description: Two persons observed three deep blue colored objects flying in a triangular formation. When they over flew Lake Trasimeno they descended vertically into the lake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Marco Bianchini, USOCAT by IItalian Center for UFO Studies (CISU). http://www.cisu.org/ Source ID: Johnson_3447 Source: Johnson ### Event 21003 (34D86EF2) Date: 6/13/1986 Description: At 12:30 p.m. a shiny, silver torpedo hovered for three minutes over St. Joseph, Missouri then shot away to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case 1122 Source ID: Johnson_3468 Source: Johnson ### Event 21004 (1AB2E8B5) Date: 6/20/1986 Description: At 4 a.m. Cesar Locatelli was driving through a brushy isolated area in Mentrux-en-Joux, Jura, France searching for a swarm of wild bees he believed was nearby when he made a turn under some trees and came upon a large transparent, brightly illuminated bluish disc-shaped object partly resting on top of a large boulder. The disc was about 9 meters in diameter. Inside the object he could clearly see six human-like figures of short to average height, perhaps 5 feet tall. These figures were wearing white hooded tunics with cowls like the kind worn by monks. These covered their heads and obscured their faces. They all were standing around an oval table, apparently bent over it. He attempted to drive away but his car engine stalled. At the same time he could hear a high-pitched humming sound. He was finally able to restart the car and drove away. When he returned to the site several months later he was surprised to see that the large boulder was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joel Mesnard & Michael Morel Seythoux, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 305; FSR, Vol. 37, No. 1 Source ID: Johnson_3562 Source: Johnson ### Event 21005 (1A8FA324) Date: 6/21/1986 Description: Two years later another series of sightings occurred on this evening in the Hudson Valley area. This time delta shaped objects and lights were reported in Westchester County, New York. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. Allen Hynek, Philip Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 201 Source ID: Johnson_3590 Source: Johnson ### Event 21006 (BAC27A1E) Date: 6/26/1986 Description: Two objects flew parallel to each other over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 9:49 p.m. After a minute of flight they began rotating around an imaginary center, stopped with one ahead of the other, and moved off. One of the objects brightened for several seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, November 1986, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_3684 Source: Johnson ### Event 21007 (2B682268) Date: 6/26/1986 Description: 9:49 p.m. A husband and wife see two objects traveling from southwest to northeast, about as bright as Venus, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They move on parallel paths below a scattered cloud cover. After a minute, they appear to begin rotating, then stop and move out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6636 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21008 (6D8CA950) Date: 7/6/1986 Description: A nurse in Sonoma, California reported that a white glowing disc followed her car through several turns at 5:15 a.m. It flew away in the direction of Napa. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case 1177 Source ID: Johnson_3890 Source: Johnson ### Event 21009 (D02C958D) Date: 7/11/1986 Description: A Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth attack aircraft crashes in Sequoia National Forest, California, killing pilot Maj. [Ross E. Mulhare](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191950268/ross-edward-mulhare) and starting a fire. The Air Force establishes restricted airspace around the site. Armed guards prohibit entry, including firefighters, and a helicopter gunship circles the area. All F-117 debris is replaced with remains of a F-101A Voodoo crash stored at Area 51. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jeffrey T. Richelson, “[When Secrets Crash,](https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0701crash/)” Air Force Magazine, July 1, 2001 Source ID: Eberhart_6637 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21010 (FB974EF9) Date: 7/15/1986 Description: 12:00 midnight. A single witness walking home from the bus station in Watertown, Massachusetts, is watching airliners land at Logan Airport when he sees a string of three bright-orange lights. They are moving along the same glide path as the incoming jets but seem to slow down, come to a dead stop, then vanish instantly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6638 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21011 (BAF29F93) Date: 7/17/1986 Description: A UFO zigzagged over Westwood, Massachusetts at 12:26 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 757 Source ID: Johnson_4145 Source: Johnson ### Event 21012 (AF5D3544) Date: 7/19/1986 Description: Several sightings of nocturnal lights and discs occurred on this night in Florida, Illinois, and Washington State. At 4:30 a.m. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida 50 silvery discs maneuvered in and out of the clouds and flew off in various formations toward the west. In Metcalf, Illinois at 8:10 p.m. a shiny object turned bright white as it flew silently below the clouds. The objects shape was not possible to determine. In Maple Valley, Washington two adults and a child watched a white star-like object move to-and-fro on a wiggly flight path, flying silently to the northeast. In Monroe, Washington a round green object moved very fast from west to east at a high altitude. It left a green trail in the sky. It was not a meteor, claimed the military witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, cases 1116, 1124, 1127 and 1128 Source ID: Johnson_4211 Source: Johnson ### Event 21013 (5A69F96C) Date: 7/29/1986 Description: At 11:50 p.m. a very bright nocturnal light was reported over the lake at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. A larger object was seen hovering over the light, and a cloud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case 1179 Source ID: Johnson_4493 Source: Johnson ### Event 21014 (EE5B5E69) Date: 7/30/1986 Description: At 11:00 p.m. two discs flew slowly overhead in Bangor, California making a soft high-pitched sound. They first flew north to south, then turned and sped off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14407; Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1138 Source ID: Johnson_4511 Source: Johnson ### Event 21015 (F45AA1A0) Date: 7/31/1986 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a huge bright light came at a lady in a pickup truck in her driveway in Richmond, Indiana. It zoomed in, and then stopped directly in front of the truck, staying there for several seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 96 Source ID: Johnson_4542 Source: Johnson ### Event 21016 (6E220003) Date: 8/1986 Description: 2:00 a.m. Meteorologist Ion Lazeanu is making routine radar observations at the National Meteorological Administration in Bucharest, Romania, when he picks up a stationary target that appears to be above the city of Sofia, Bulgaria, at an altitude of 18.6 miles. It suddenly disappears and relocates 3 miles lower down. After a short while it relocates to its original position. Over the next 3–4 weeks, he detects the same target every night he is on duty for periods of 3–20 minutes. He discovers another target above Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In February 1988 it reappears above Sofia, and in March 1988 he tracks it moving horizontally toward Varna, Bulgaria. At one point he locks the radar directly on the target and the system is temporarily disabled. He estimates that the target has a length of at least 4,920 feet. \(Ion Lazeanu, “[Unusual Phenomenon Observed with Radar Device in](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/European/European%20Journal%20of%20UFO%20and%20Abduction%20Studies/European%20Journal%20of%20UFO%20and%20Abduction%20Studies%20-%20vol%201-1.pdf) [Romania,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/European/European%20Journal%20of%20UFO%20and%20Abduction%20Studies/European%20Journal%20of%20UFO%20and%20Abduction%20Studies%20-%20vol%201-1.pdf)” European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies 1 no. 1 \(March 2000\): 33–34\) August 11 \(approximately\) — 6:00 p.m. A retired factory worker and his wife are sitting in their driveway in Lima, Ohio, when they see a rotating, diamond-shaped object about 20 feet in diameter pass nearby. They watch it for less than 2 minutes. It is flying low, passing behind several trees as it moves from west to northeast and out of view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6639 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21017 (4DACD991) Date: 8/1/1986 Description: At 10:30 p.m. two men in their thirties, Long and Jandura, were fishing from a boat on Banksons Lake, Michigan when they had a close encounter with a completely silent 300 foot long triangular object that was only 200 feet above the lake. The object had a brilliant steady white light and three blinking red lights, and there was some type of movement between the lights. The men felt heat coming from the object and became very shaky and scared. They also experienced some temporary physiological effects: eye damage, conjunctivitis, and a swelling and discoloration of the skin. The UFO flew off to the north-northwest after 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1986, p. 7; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 319; UNICAT, case # 659, citing Virginia Tilly Source ID: Johnson_4581 Source: Johnson ### Event 21018 (D614F7F2) Date: 8/5/1986 Description: Vibration caused a house to shake in St. Petersburg, Florida at 4:30 a.m. There was also radio interference and the house lights flickered. Outside a low flying disc-shaped UFO passed overhead, flying very fast to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1146 Source ID: Johnson_4702 Source: Johnson ### Event 21019 (467617EF) Date: 8/10/1986 Description: At 9:45 p.m. in Manteca, Contra Costa County, California a large disc-shaped object flew fast and silently from the southeast to the northwest. A second disc was seen at 11:15 p.m., which made a 90-degree turn straight up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case # 1139 Source ID: Johnson_4832 Source: Johnson ### Event 21020 (D69F938D) Date: 8/11/1986 Description: At 6:00 p.m. a retired factory worker and his wife saw a large, roating, diamond-shaped object in Lima, Ohio. Its dimensions were estimated to be 40 feet by 20 feet. The object flew quite low, and passed behind several trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, International UFO Reporter, November 1986, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_4899 Source: Johnson ### Event 21021 (72C0D5A6) Date: 8/11/1986 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_413 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21022 (CB66D13B) Date: 8/11/1986 Description: In Key Largo, Florida a silent wing-shaped object, 65 feet wide by 40 feet long, flew overhead at 400 feet altitude at 4:30 a.m. It had bright lights in the front. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case 1142 Source ID: Johnson_4898 Source: Johnson ### Event 21023 (84072CDA) Date: 8/12/1986 Description: 9:50-10:10 P.M. Lighted object seen over wide area moving SW to NE was Japanese satellite. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Eastern United States Source ID: HallUFOE2_414 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21024 (66A538ED) Date: 8/12/1986 Description: 12:00 midnight. A single witness in Cridersville, Ohio, sees two UFOs, one while watching the Perseid meteor shower, and the other 7 hours later while driving to work. The first object is a white ball of light seen for about 60 seconds; the second is a circular bluish object in the western sky seen for 1–2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6640 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21025 (DF71B54C) Date: 8/13/1986 Description: 7:50 p.m. A family of three observes a metallic, hamburger-shaped object through a sixth-floor hospital window in Indianapolis, Indiana, for 4–5 minutes. It passes above an airliner going in the opposite direction. The object tips on its edge at one point, and it has a haze of pale green along one side. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1986\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6641 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21026 (81F6ADC9) Date: 8/13/1986 Description: At 12:30 a.m. in Syracuse, Ohio an air traffic controller and two other witnesses observed red, green and white nocturnal lights flashing in the sky for 45 minutes. The airport radar confirmed that there were numerous objects hovering and maneuvering in the vicinity. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case # 1148 Source ID: Johnson_4982 Source: Johnson ### Event 21027 (2408D3E5) Date: 8/13/1986 Description: At 7:50 p.m. in Indianapolis, Indiana a silent metallic hamburger-shaped domed disc was seen by three witnesses from the sixth floor of a hospital. It flew from north to south at a low altitude. Later, it flew above an airliner, seemingly evading detection by the occupants of the airliner. When it passed above the airliner, it tipped up on one edge and reflected sunlight. It had a pale green haze that was visible along one side. As a special note, a UFO abduction occurred near this location six weeks later on September 30, 1986. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, International UFO Reporter, November 1986, p. 13; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 97, citing John Timmerman Source ID: Johnson_4983 Source: Johnson ### Event 21028 (25114EB6) Date: 8/15/1986 Description: 11:00 p.m. A married couple on vacation in Calalzo di Cadore, Belluno, Italy, are sitting near a wood outside town when they see a bright light descend. It soon becomes a disc-shaped, domed object, blue in color and luminescent. They see it land, then their awareness ceases until two hours later. By this time the object has disappeared, and only a dark circular trace is left on the ground where grass is bent and blackened for a diameter of 30 feet. Strange dreams and difficulty sleeping, as well as the memory of two humanlike beings in coveralls, persuade them to be hypnotized on August 23–24 by a physician in Pordenone. They relate that a being had come out of the disc and took them on board without touching them. Inside they are laid down and given a medical examination of some kind. The entities have long, oval-shaped heads with phosphorescent eyes, pointed ears, and narrow mouths. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 \(July/Aug.1989\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6642 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21029 (6AA043EB) Date: 8/15/1986 Description: UFO landed, witness had two-hour memory loss, strong physical traces at site. Memory later returned of two humanoid beings, views inside a craft Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Calalzo di Cadore (Bellino), Italy Source ID: HallUFOE2_415 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21030 (38882991) Date: 8/15/1986 Description: In Calalzo di Cadore, Bellino, Italy a witness saw a luminous blue, domed disc-shaped UFO land, then he blacked out and had a two hour memory lapse. When he regained consciousness the craft was gone, but the grass was bent and blackened in a 9-meter (30 foot) wide circle. After a period of troubling dreams his memory later returned of two tall, pallid humanoid beings wearing gray coveralls, and views inside the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: International UFO Reporter, July-August 1989, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 29, 508 Source ID: Johnson_5052 Source: Johnson ### Event 21031 (14682643) Date: 8/15/1986 Description: UFO landed, witness had two-hour memory loss, strong physical traces at site. Memory later returned of two humanoid beings, views inside a craft (section XIII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Calalzo di Cadore, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5746 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21032 (0E647673) Date: 8/22/1986 Description: In Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England a lone witness reported encountering a 60 foot diameter ovoid object, beaming light at 50 feet altitude, at 10:45 p.m. There were lights on the sides of the UFO. Repeater witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case # 1617 Source ID: Johnson_5237 Source: Johnson ### Event 21033 (93D18F96) Date: 8/31/1986 Description: 2:30 a.m. A man is driving home when his car engine stops in Manzuno, Italy. He gets out to find out what happened, hears a sharp whistle and dogs barking, and sees two bright lights. The objects descend and remain visible for more than 15 minutes. He sees their shape as rectangular with a luminous trail. The engine comes back on as the objects disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_6643 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21034 (9897C0E9) Date: 9/1986 Description: [Vicki Ecker](https://ico.humans.net/profile/vicki.ecker) and Sherie Stark launch a newsstand magazine, California UFO, which becomes one of the most widely read periodicals in ufology. It soon changes its name to just UFO, varying its frequency from quarterly to bimonthly, to erratically with the final issue of 158 appearing in 2012. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[UFO Magazine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO%5FMagazine)”; Clark III 1155 Source ID: Eberhart_6644 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21035 (89C91D96) Date: 9/1986 Description: [George M. Eberhart](https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/eberhart-george-martin-1950) publishes UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Contact Movement, a comprehensive, two- volume bibliography of all UFO literature known up to this time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George M. Eberhart, UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Contact Movement: A Bibliography, Scarecrow, 1986, [vol. 1](http://cufos.org/books/Ufos%5FAnd%5FThe%5FExtraterrestrial%5FContact%5FMovement%5Fv1.pdf) and [vol. 2](http://cufos.org/books/Ufos%5FAnd%5FThe%5FExtraterrestrial%5FContact%5FMovement%5Fv2.pdf); Clark 358 Source ID: Eberhart_6645 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21036 (6A15EC2F) Date: 9/6/1986 Description: While driving in Evansville, Indiana at 3:30 a.m. two military Air Traffic Controllers encountered a 55-foot long cigar-shaped object with fins on the top and bottom. It floated at 3 mph from behind a tree, and was in view for 15 seconds. It had red, blue and green lights. It turned south, and then vanished. That evening at 7:30 p.m. four extremely bright red lights in a tight rectangular formation, traveling northeast to southwest, made a sharp angled turn to the right, then flew off to the northeast ascending at a 45 degree angle. It gave off a burst of black smoke when it turned. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, pp. 99-100 Source ID: Johnson_5694 Source: Johnson ### Event 21037 (5BDD17D9) Date: 9/7/1986 Description: In Forest Row, England, UK a slow moving, silent, glowing ball of orange light flew from west to east over a golf course at ten minutes past midnight. At 9:40 p.m. east of Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania a glowing ball of light rose from a field and paced a car on SR highway 201 for three minutes. During the pursuit the FM radio on the car emitted nothing but static. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, cases 1185 and 1619 Source ID: Johnson_5736 Source: Johnson ### Event 21038 (62E8B159) Date: 9/13/1986 Description: On this night, during a rash of UFO sightings in the region, Mrs. Lourdes Altamirano watched a huge luminous object descend and hover above a large tree in Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosi State, Mexico. Several gigantic figures descended from the object and inspected the surroundings, at one point they showed interest in a large ceramic jar near the witness's house. She attempted to wake her husband but he remained asleep. After awhile, the beings reboarded their craft, which took off at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Contacto OVNI Source ID: Johnson_5919 Source: Johnson ### Event 21039 (781A576F) Date: 9/19/1986 Description: At 1:10 a.m. a seven-meter in diameter, bowl-shaped disc landed on the road on 5 thin legs in Fredensborg, Denmark. A tube of light extended from the object, then was retracted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Scandanavian UFO Information News, issue 11; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14458 Source ID: Johnson_6102 Source: Johnson ### Event 21040 (97A7C540) Date: 9/21/1986 Description: A huge Ferris-wheel shaped object was seen spinning in the sky at 7:50 p.m. as it crossed above the M1 motorway in Markfield, Leicester, England. It flew off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14459; FSR, March 1990 Source ID: Johnson_6197 Source: Johnson ### Event 21041 (B87238F1) Date: Fall 1986 Description: USAF Lt. Col. Ernie Kellerstrass \(Hawk\), who works at the Foreign Intelligence Division at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, invites several individuals—[Harold E. Puthoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff) \(Partridge\), [John B. Alexander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FB.%5FAlexander) \(Chickadee\), [C. B. Scott Jones](https://www.exopaedia.org/Jones%2C%2BScott) \(Hummingbird, an aide to Sen. [Claiborne Pell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claiborne%5FPell)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claiborne%5FPell) D-R.I.\), USAF Capt. [Robert M. Collins](https://www.exopaedia.org/Robert%2BCollins) \(Condor\), [William Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29), and [Jaime Shandera](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5388625/)—to his home in Beavercreek, Ohio, to discuss UFOs, extraterrestrials, and Area 51. Kellerstrass claims to know USAF Lt. Col. [Robert R. Hippler](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65715202/robert-r-hippler) \(allegedly an officer in a top secret Air Force UFO study\), physiological studies of actual aliens, and the presence of an alien base on Area 51. The group meets several times. Moore and Shandera become concerned that their telephones are being monitored, so they decide to assign a bird name to anyone they discuss UFO military activities with. Others in the “Aviary” are forensic medical doctor and CIA officer [Christopher \(Kit\) Green](https://www.irva.org/conferences/speakers/green.html) \(Blue Jay\), Defense Intelligence Agency officer [Dale E. Graff](https://www.irva.org/conferences/speakers/graff.html) \(Owl\), CIA agent [Harry Rositzke](https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/08/us/harry-rositzke-91-linguist-and-american-spymaster.html) \(Falcon, according to Greg Bishop\), and USAF OSI agent [Richard C. Doty](https://ufoscoop.com/richard-c-doty/) \(a Falcon substitute\). Another, only known as Raven \(alleged to be DIA scientist Jack Verona, [Richard Helms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FHelms) or possibly [Henry Kissinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FKissinger)\), appears to be the most connected. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert Collins and Richard Doty, Exempt from Disclosure: The Disturbing Case about the UFO Coverup, Peregrine, 2005, pp. 8, 86; Bruce Maccabee, “[Hawk Tales,](http://www.jerrypippin.com/Hawk%20Tales.pdf)” June 2005; Dolan II 384–386, 466 Source ID: Eberhart_6646 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21042 (D33421E3) Date: Fall 1986 Description: Night. A group of five lights maneuver at high speed above the Malmstrom AFB Alpha-01 missile alert facility southeast of Belt, Montana. Air Force Security Policeman Joseph C. Pscolka watches them make sharp-angled turns and stop at the same time instantly. Other launch control facilities in the same sector call in to report the lights. Soon five more lights descend from the clouds to join the others. They stop momentarily, then all 10 dart around “like crazy fireflies” for a minute before moving close to the ground. They zip off at high speed in all directions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 396–397 Source ID: Eberhart_6647 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21043 (497081F0) Date: 10/10/1986 Description: 1:30–2:00 a.m. Witnesses see strong lightning-like flashes in the sky northeast of Fürjes, near Békéscsaba, Hungary. The flashes do not go lower than some 700 feet from the ground. The flashes are vertical, yet 5 times “thicker” than lightning. The flashes stop and a shining, metallic-blue, misty phenomenon appears and floats about for 5–6 minutes until it gradually fades away after breaking into several parts, each about 30–80 feet long. The display is followed by an unusual odor that persists for 20–30 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1989\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6648 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21044 (735816FA) Date: 10/14/1986 Description: 11:00 p.m. A couple driving north on US Hwy 45 near Bristol, Wisconsin, sees red and white lights flickering on the road ahead. They drive cautiously forward and see a large, triangular object hovering 30 feet above the pavement. The lights are running along its outer edges. They pull up almost directly underneath it, park, and step out of the car. They see a grid structure on its lower surface. Two minutes later the UFO drifts slowly toward the southeast and vanishes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part Two,” IUR 13, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1988\): 18–19; Clark III 247 Source ID: Eberhart_6649 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21045 (97B70276) Date: 10/20/1986 Description: Blue-green oval ahead of car, forward motion impeded Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Edmonton, Queensland, Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_417 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21046 (9658E490) Date: 10/20/1986 Description: Bright blue-green oval paced ahead of car, buzzing sound, forward motion impeded. Chalker, 1987, p. 176 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edmonton, Queensland, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5747 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21047 (927EF3FC) Date: 10/20/1986 Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_416 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21048 (ACE2B11B) Date: 10/28/1986 Description: UK researcher [Jenny Randles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles) receives a call from a British military man who refuses to give his name or phone number. He says his commanding officer has given him her phone number and suggests she might want 600 pages of UFO reports that have come into his possession. One document appears to be a report from 1948 that uses the term “befabs” to describe “beings from alien objects.” Another file, from Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio in 1977, is titled “Elimination of Non-Military Sources.” Randles is suspicious but intrigued. The two speak again on October 30 and agree to meet at a local pub a couple hours later. She brings along a colleague, Peter A. Hough. The informant \(“John”\) is in his late 20s and a former member of the Royal Army Corps. In 1983, his commanding officer had befriended a USAF computer technician at Wright-Patterson AFB who had accidentally tapped into UFO files. The British officer copied many of the files but is arrested for being in a secure area without permission. During questioning, the technician withholds the fact that he still has copies of the files and manages to tell the British officer where they are and request he take them out of the US. For 2 years, his commanding officer shows “John” some of these reports until he leaves active duty in 1985. In August 1986, “John” returns for a reservist training camp, and his former commander gives him a key to where the documents are stored and tells him to take them, read them, and offer them to Randles. The pub meeting ends with an agreement for “John” to deliver the files the next time they meet on November 7. “John” never shows up but writes a letter to Randles saying that he has been detained at a base and interrogated about the documents, which he is informed was the “creation of an educated prankster.” He apologizes for letting her down, and she never hears from him again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “The Cover-Up in England,” IUR 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1987\): 9–12, 20 Source ID: Eberhart_6650 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21049 (AC9CF578) Date: 11/1986 Description: Brilliant Pebbles, a non-nuclear system of satellite-based interceptors designed to use high-velocity, watermelon-sized, teardrop-shaped projectiles made of tungsten as kinetic warheads, is conceived by physicist [Lowell Wood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell%5FWood) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Livermore Director [John Nuckolls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FNuckolls) describes the system as “the crowning achievement of the Strategic Defense Initiative.” Though regarded as one of the most capable SDI systems, the Brilliant Pebbles program is canceled in 1994 by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Brilliant Pebbles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant%5FPebbles)” Source ID: Eberhart_6651 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21050 (AFF86390) Date: 11/2/1986 Description: Cow and horse responded to hovering object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [861102](http://www.nicap.org/bayportdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bay Port, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5748 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21051 (36CC4D15) Date: 11/3/1986 Description: On this day three UFOs was seen by two witnesses entering Lake Trasimeno off Castiglione del Lago, Italy. water. The three objects flew in a triangle formation, with many spherical satellite bodies that were brightly lit and blue in color. The formation descended to a low altitude, and appeared to be about five meters in size. Having reached the lake, the objects dived perpendicularly into the water. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carl Feindt, UFOs and Water, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_7443 Source: Johnson ### Event 21052 (C39F6960) Date: 11/16/1986 Description: 9:00 p.m. Between Nocera Umbra and Valtopina, Perugia, Italy, two witnesses see a dark disc, 26 feet in diameter with a blue dome, fly over their car. The car stops and restarts after the object goes away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_6652 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21053 (DBBA084D) Date: 11/16/1986 Description: Leonid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_418 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21054 (B3FFDCBA) Date: 11/17/1986 Description: JAL Flight 1628 (C), Saturn-shaped, R/V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [861117](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/861117alaskadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: NE Alaska, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5749 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21055 (5675B512) Date: 11/17/1986 Description: 5:10 p.m. Japan Air Lines Flight 1628, a Boeing 747 cargo plane with a crew of three, is in the vicinity of Fort Yukon, Alaska, on its way to Anchorage. The jet is carrying a cargo of French wine and is flying at 35,000 feet through darkening skies, a red glow from the setting sun lighting one horizon and a full moon rising above the other. Capt. Kenju Terauchi and First Officer Takanori Tamefuji, along with Flight Engineer Yoshio Tsukuda, see two small objects and one huge Saturn-shaped object visually and on radar for more than 30 minutes. The objects follow the airplane for about 350 miles. The pilot changes course and altitude several times, with FAA permission, in an effort to identify the objects. Two rectangular-appearing objects sparkling with arrays of lights suddenly loom directly in front of them, one above the other. After a few minutes they abruptly change position and appear side by side. They move quickly, stop suddenly, and swing from side to side in unison, as if linked together. VHF radio communications are occasionally garbled at this time and cease when the two objects move away to the left of the aircraft. Two flat white lights continue to pace the airplane, then drop back and are lost from view both visually and on radar. About 5:30 p.m., while in the vicinity of Fairbanks, Terauchi checks a white light behind the plane and sees “a silhouette of a gigantic spaceship.” It is walnut-shaped, symmetrical above and below, with a central flange. He says, “It was a very big one—two times bigger than an aircraft carrier.” At its closest point, the large object casts such a bright light that it illuminates the cockpit, and Terauchi can feel heat on his face. Radio communications again became garbled during the close approach. The crew becomes frightened by the large object and requests permission to change course. After the course change, they look back and see the object still following them. Increasingly fearful, they request a descent to get away from the UFO \(“We had to get away from that object”\). After they descend and turn again, the object disappears. The FAA at first confirms that several of its radar traffic controllers had tracked both the 747 and the large object, and that USAF radar has also done so. Later official statements back away from this and try to ascribe the radar targets to weather effects. On December 29, the FAA issues a report stating, “We are accepting the descriptions of the crew, but are unable to support what they saw.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%5FAir%5FLines%5FCargo%5FFlight%5F1628%5Fincident)”; NICAP, “[Fantastic Flight of JAL 1628](http://www.nicap.org/861117alaska%5Fdir.htm)”; Bruce Maccabee, “The Fantastic Flight of JAL 1628,” IUR 12, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1987\): 4–23; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 128–132](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/128/mode/2up); Kean, [pp. 218–229](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/226/mode/2up); Swords 342; Good Above, [pp. 432](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/432/mode/2up), [532](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/532/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 400–401](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/400/mode/2up); “[JAL Flight 1628 over Alaska,](http://ufoevidence.org/topics/jalalaska.htm)” UFO Evidence; Clark III 630–632 Source ID: Eberhart_6653 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21056 (841929AF) Date: 11/17/1986 Description: Japan Airlines flight #1628, a Boeing 747 freighter, was cruising at 35000 ft. altitude and at 5:11 p.m. the pilots noticed bright lights 30 degrees to the left and below them. The UFOs moved up directly in front of the 747 and, said Capt. Kenju Terauchi, “most unexpectedly, two spaceships stopped in front of our face, shooting off lights (like numerous exhaust pipes). The inside cockpit shined brightly and I felt warm in the face.” The UFOs appeared as two rectangular clusters or arrays of light, one above the other. As the larger UFOs moved away from the 747 Airlines Flight 1628 there remained two smaller flat white UFOs. At about 5:30 p.m. Capt. Terauchi checked the pale white light behind their craft visually. He saw a gigantic “walnut-shaped” UFO (Saturn-shaped) following them. As an evasive action the Capt. ordered the 747 to turn away from the giant UFO that was following them, at which time the UFO “spaceship” disappeared. Type: ufo sightings Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: Fort Yukon, Alaska Source ID: Maj2_756 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21057 (1DC2B897) Date: 11/17/1986 Description: Japan Airlines freighter aircraft encountered lighted maneuvering objects. bright illumination, heat, radar-visual, E-M effects, satellite objects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Fort Yukon, AK Source ID: HallUFOE2_419 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21058 (18E768D4) Date: 11/21/1986 Description: On this evening several witnesses in Stamford, Connecticut saw a number of nocturnal lights and beams of light appear in the sky. A seventy-foot long ovoid object skimmed over treetops and buzzed a car, then vanished. Later that night in Culver City, California a huge silent manta ray shaped object flew in a southerly direction. It faded in and out of visibility. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, cases 1197 and 1092 Source ID: Johnson_7781 Source: Johnson ### Event 21059 (19F72382) Date: 11/24/1986 Description: 11:00 p.m. Dale Goretske is driving in Waukesha, Wisconsin, when he notices some flashing red lights in the sky to the southeast about 450 feet away. They are attached to a flattened triangle about 75 feet wide with pairs of flashing red lights at each corner. On the sides are pairs of steady white and red lights. The object is rotating silently. He tries to approach it in his car, but it moves away and is lost to sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joe and Dorie Graziano, “[Press Reports,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201987%2009%2000%20-%20Vol%2033%20No%207.pdf)” APRO Bulletin 33, no. 7 \(September 1987\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6654 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21060 (8DE6B4F7) Date: 11/25/1986 Description: Afternoon. Civil and military personnel in Magadan Airport, Russia, notice an unidentified radar target. Since there is another aircraft in the vicinity, air traffic control asks the pilot to be aware of an unknown object. The plane and UFO “pass clear of each other,” although no details are given. Afterward, the object turns east and speeds up to 1,800 mph over the water toward Kamchatka and disappears from radar screens. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vadim K. Ilyin, “[KGB’s ‘Blue Folder’ Reveals Shootings, Landings in USSR,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2001/11/November%202001.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 403 \(November 2001\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6655 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21061 (56164DC4) Date: 11/25/1986 Description: Many UFO reports were received from Wakefield, Rhode Island during the evening. A UFO at low altitude directed beams of light at cars on US Highway 1. Two silent discs paced a truck on SR 671 northeast of Winchester, Virginia at 11:10 that night. They stayed parallel to the driver's side of the vehicle, and then veered away. A radar target passed close to an airliner near the city of Magadan, Russia. It turned right over Shelekhov Bay, and achieved a top speed of 3000 kilometers per hour when it crossed the Kamchatka shoreline, where it was lost from radar screens 150 kilometers off shore. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center; MUFON Journal, November 2001, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_7916 Source: Johnson ### Event 21062 (28B81C75) Date: Mid 12/1986 Description: Navy Commander “Sheila Mondran” is on duty at the US Space Command’s Surveillance Center inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex near Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sensors detect something tripping the US Navy Space Surveillance System \(the Space Fence\), a multistatic radar system built to detect orbital objects passing over the US. The intrusion occurs above Lake Kickapoo, Texas. Mondran’s team tracks the object’s maneuvers, including loops, backtracks, crash dives, and fast climbs. She sends a flash alert to the Commander- in-Chief of NORAD, but the object immediately disappears. Two searches are ordered: one by NORAD’s Space Detection and Tracking System, the other by a network of sophisticated telescopes. Nothing turns up. The flash alert is recalled the following day. A summary of the incident is sent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and President [Ronald Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) for his daily briefing. Reagan recommends a follow-up investigation, but none is known to have occurred. The story has not been verified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Howard Blum, Out There: The Government’s Secret Quest for Extraterrestrials, Simon & Schuster, 1990, [pp. 25–32](https://archive.org/details/outtheregovernme00blum/page/24/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6656 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21063 (59870285) Date: 12/23/1986 Description: Two police constables, Jim Begg and Tom Murphy, saw a bright orange moving light over Armadale, Edinburgh, Scotland on this evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, Police Reports UFO Database, case 125, citing the West Lothian Courier, January 1988, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_8572 Source: Johnson ### Event 21064 (572A20ED) Date: Late 12/1986 Description: 2:30 a.m. A road-maintenance engineer is driving on the highway between Hajdúböszörmény and Debrecen, Hungary, when he sees a “trailer with lit-up windows” landed in a field about 900 feet away. An orange light is flooding through the windows. The object is in the same spot where the sphere chasing the ambulance in April had passed above power lines. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1989\): 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_6657 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1987 (Back to Top) ### Event 21065 (774B045E) Date: 1987 Description: Fortean Tomes publishes UFOs 1947–1987, edited by Hilary Evans and [John Spencer](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FSpencer%5F%28Autor%29) and sponsored by the British UFO Research Association, in an attempt to place current knowledge about the UFO phenomenon in perspective. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hilary Evans and John Spencer, eds., UFOs 1947–1987: The 40-Year Search for an Explanation, Fortean Tomes, 1987; Mark Rodeghier, \[Review\], JUFOS 1 \(1989\): 169–172 Source ID: Eberhart_6659 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21066 (BCA4C436) Date: 1987 Description: Abduction researcher and folklorist [Thomas E. Bullard](https://ancientalienpedia.com/contributors/b/thomas-e-bullard-ph-d/) publishes UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, a two-volume comparative analysis of nearly 300 alleged abduction cases up through 1985, 103 of which offer both extensive information and reliable investigation. Bullard’s study summarizes key episodes and descriptive elements of the abduction narrative and attaches percentages to each to indicate how often a given feature occurs. He finds that the classic abduction story consists of eight possible episodes—capture, examination, conference, tour of the ship, journey or otherworldly journey, theophany, return, and aftermath. Few reports contain every episode; only capture and return are universal. He also examines features of the entities’ behavior and appearance, the UFO involved in the abduction, and the methods of mental and physical control. Bullard examines the literalist and reductionist hypotheses for abduction events, critiquing each. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, Fund for UFO Research, 1987; Thomas E. Bullard, “Abductions in Life and Lore,” IUR 12, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1987\): 14–19; Thomas E. Bullard, “Hypnosis and UFO Abductions: A Troubled Relationship,” JUFOS 1 \(1989\): 3–40; Thomas Bullard, [The Myth and Mystery of UFOs](https://archive.org/details/mythmysteryofufo0000bull)[,](https://archive.org/details/mythmysteryofufo0000bull) University Press of Kansas, 2010; Clark III 13–33 Source ID: Eberhart_6658 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21067 (5223EE3D) Date: 1987 Description: Thomas F. McDonough discusses the possibility of extraterrestrial life in The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, addressing UFOs in a largely negative and uninformed chapter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Thomas F. McDonough, [The Search](https://archive.org/details/searchforextrate0000mcdo/page/n3/mode/2up) [for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Listening for Life in the Cosmos](https://archive.org/details/searchforextrate0000mcdo/page/n3/mode/2up), John Wiley, 1987; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 \(1994\): 151–155 Source ID: Eberhart_6660 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21068 (23398FF0) Date: 1/1987 End date: 3/1987 Description: Flurry of sightings including cigar-shaped objects, a radar tracking, and other features Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Belleville, WI Source ID: HallUFOE2_420 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21069 (C351EBFC) Date: 1/8/1987 Description: A couple in Lakeland, Florida reported a large vertical cylinder in the sky over their house on this night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 198 Source ID: Johnson_211 Source: Johnson ### Event 21070 (20B1D169) Date: 1/9/1987 Description: 2:30 a.m. A road-maintenance engineer is on a routine checking tour between Hajdúböszörmény and Debrecen, Hungary, at the same point where his colleague had seen a “trailer” in December. He sees a “farmhouse” with the windows lit up, but knowing there is no farmhouse in that location, he stops the truck. The object is sitting near the overhead power lines between two stacks of straw. It is about 50 feet in diameter, disc- shaped, and rounded off at the rim. Through the center line runs a row of 8–10 portholes with warm, yellow light emanating from them. Between each window is a grayish-white streak of light. He can see an open door about 5– 6 feet high under the row of windows, through which he can see light and a floor with transverse ribs. Then he notices two entities wearing dark coveralls standing outside the object, while another appears in the door opening. Yellowish flashes erupt every 2–4 seconds from the top of the object. The witness flees the scene. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1989\): 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_6661 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21071 (D9D880E4) Date: 1/15/1987 End date: 1/16/1987 Description: 8:00 p.m. Police officer Glen Kazmar and Jeff Furseth watch a triangular configuration of red, white, and blue blinking lights that remain stationary in the southwestern sky over Belleville, Wisconsin. At 2:50 a.m., they are driving along Quarry Road west of town and see a “close-knit cluster of red, blue, and white lights.” After 15 minutes, they alert the Dane County Sheriff and are soon joined by a deputy from Verona and two Green County sheriff’s deputies, all of whom leave after debating what to do about reporting the lights. At 3:20 a.m., Kazmar and Furseth see the object move to the southwest. They call the FAA Center in Aurora, Illinois, which admits it has a slow-moving target in the area that won’t respond. Other witnesses near Monroe, New Glarus, and Verona also see lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part One,” IUR 12, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1987\): 4–6; UFO Wisconsin, \[[Belleville articles](http://ufowisconsin.com/county/reports/r1987%5Fbell%5Fdane.html)\]; “[The Other UFO Days: Belleville, WI,](https://ufodays.net/2019/08/13/the-other-ufo-days-belleville-wi/)” UFO Days, August 13, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_6662 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21072 (ACFFE648) Date: 1/23/1987 Description: Three witnesses watched a blue ovoid object hover over houses in Gig Harbor, Washington at 9:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1212 Source ID: Johnson_459 Source: Johnson ### Event 21073 (DAB2EBD9) Date: 1/25/1987 Description: At eleven p.m. the witness was alone in her apartment in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine and had just gone to bed when seven to nine human-like figures suddenly appeared in her bedroom, standing in front of her closed French windows. The entities were of medium height. Some were male while the others were female. The men were bearded and the woman had straight hair down to their shoulders. All had beautiful faces with clear penetrating eyes. The witness attempted to move but could not. She then received a telepathic message telling her to remain still. She felt no fear but instead had an overwhelming sensation of joy. The beings gathered around her bed and bent over her. She noticed one of the women place a device on her nearby piano and bend over it. At one point she saw a light-colored disk and was told that it was her ovum. Later the entities informed her that it was their time to leave and they gradually faded away. The witness suffered from gynecological problems as a result of the encounter and has never been able to subsequently become pregnant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, case # 1801, citing Vladimir Rubtsov, Ph.D., MUFON Symposium Proceedings 1994 Source ID: Johnson_510 Source: Johnson ### Event 21074 (B3F375A1) Date: 1/27/1987 Description: The National Security Agency responds to a letter from Sen. [John Glenn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FGlenn) \(D-Ohio\) stating that the NSA’s Project Aquarius does not deal with UFOs, but that “Apparently there is or was an Air Force project by that name which dealt with UFO’s.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dale Goudie and Christian Lambright, “[The Ice Documents Press Conference,](http://www.cufon.org/cufon/presconf.htm)” June 25, 1987 Source ID: Eberhart_6663 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21075 (11BA3BD5) Date: 1/29/1987 Description: At 5:43 a.m. several Mozambican laborers working in Zimbabwe reported seeing a large, brightly lit balloon-shaped object passing over Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. The witnesses were able to see two men inside the craft. One was dressed in blue and the other in white. The witnesses interpreted the object as "witch doctors" traveling from South Africa. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, case # 1050, citing Cynthia Hind, MUFON Symposium Proceedings 1987 Source ID: Johnson_587 Source: Johnson ### Event 21076 (7BDB8B3C) Date: 1/31/1987 Description: Large Discs / Flight 53 Tracks At A Mile A Second (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [870131](http://www.nicap.org/870131alaskadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In air space, AK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5750 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21077 (4F9AFB15) Date: 2/1987 Description: Horror-fiction writer [Whitley Strieber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley%5FStrieber) publishes Communion, the first-person account of his abductions and encounters recovered through hypnosis, as well as his lifelong involvement with mysterious events. The book remains on the bestseller list for a long time, and [Ted Seth](https://www.artrenewal.org/artists/ted-seth-jacobs/2312) [Jacobs](https://studioescalier.com/students/faculty/)’s cover illustration of an alien with large black eyes jars many people to recall their own apparent encounters with similar creatures. Strieber follows up on his experiences in seven subsequent books, in which he elaborates on his belief that the human species is in the process of being ushered into a higher level of understanding and existence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Whitley Strieber, [Communion: A](https://archive.org/details/CommunionWhitleyStrieber) [True Story](https://archive.org/details/CommunionWhitleyStrieber), Avon, 1987; Wikipedia, “[Communion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion%5F%28book%29) [\(book\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion%5F%28book%29)”; Clark III 5, 1112–1113; Whitley Strieber, Transformation: The Breakthrough, William Morrow, 1988; Whitley Strieber, Breakthrough: The Next Step, HarperCollins, 1995; Whitley Strieber, The Secret School: Preparation for Contact, HarperCollins, 1997; Whitley Strieber and Anne Strieber, eds. [The Communion Letters](https://archive.org/details/communionletters0000unse)[,](https://archive.org/details/communionletters0000unse) HarperPrism, 1997; Whitley Strieber, Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens among Us?, St. Martin’s, 1998; Whitley Strieber, [The Key: A True Encounter](https://archive.org/details/the-key-a-true-encounter-whitley-strieber)[,](https://archive.org/details/the-key-a-true-encounter-whitley-strieber) Jeremy Tarcher, 2001; Whitley Strieber, Solving the Communion Enigma, Jeremy Tarcher, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_6664 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21078 (DC1E8B7C) Date: 2/6/1987 Description: 7:30 p.m. Jeff Zweifel is walking home from work near Belleville, Wisconsin. He sees an object nearby with a bright white directional light aimed at a right angle to him. A red light is also visible, then a blue light. As he continues to walk, the object approaches him. When it is directly in front, a white light comes on. From left to right, red, white, and blue lights flash. A short gray trail of smoke is coming out the back. The object continues moving slowly and silently east at the same altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part One,” IUR 12, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1987\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_6665 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21079 (83506257) Date: 2/7/1987 Description: Motorists encountered hovering large oval object, lights around perimeter, terrain brightly illuminated Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Potters Mills, PA Source ID: HallUFOE2_421 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21080 (13366841) Date: 2/7/1987 Description: On this night three motorists in Potters Mills, Pennsylvania and the Seven Mountains area encountered a large 300 foot long hovering oval object. It had lights around its perimeter, and the mountainside terrain was brightly illuminated by its presence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 30; UFO Magazine (USA), June 1990, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_742 Source: Johnson ### Event 21081 (CA251AC6) Date: 2/7/1987 Description: Motorists encountered hovering large oval object, lights around perimeter, terrain brightly illuminated (section IX). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Potters Mills, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5751 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21082 (01ACD84B) Date: 2/15/1987 Description: The San Jose Mercury states that the Pentagon has a “Black Budget” which has become a “Black Hole” for secret projects spending. It is far bigger than the federal budget for education, transportation, agriculture or the environment. These Projects are classified above TOP SECRET, therefore very few federal investigators have the security clearances necessary to audit black programs. Type: newspaper article Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (J4-B) Location: San Jose, CA Source ID: Maj2_757 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21083 (929660A1) Date: 2/16/1987 Description: At a conference in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, Soviet President [Mikhail Gorbachev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%5FGorbachev) discloses that President [Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) had raised the possibility of an alien invasion during the Geneva Summit in 1986: “I shall not dispute the hypothesis, although I think it’s early yet to worry about such an invasion. It is much more important to think about the problems that have entered our common home.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Russians Worried UFOs Could](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1525.htm) [Trigger Wars,](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1525.htm)” UFO Evidence Source ID: Eberhart_6666 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21084 (A4512BD9) Date: 2/25/1987 Description: 4:10 p.m. Filmmaker [Paul Davids](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FDavids) is at work in his home office in East Los Angeles, California, when his children call him to see a “flying saucer.” Looking outside, he sees a metallic, domed disc making its way silently and smoothly across the sky over the valley in front of his house. They open the window and go out on the roof for an unobstructed view and spend the next 4–5 minutes watching it. At its closest point, about 500 feet away, it hovers in one position for about 2 minutes, wobbling with an even, slow oscillation. Its bottom seems to transform from silver to pitch black and back to silver again. Then it flies away at a faster but uniform speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Davids, “Starry Night,” IUR 14, no. 3 \(May/June 1989\): 13–15, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_6667 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21085 (1BEBEFC8) Date: 2/25/1987 Description: Movie producer Paul Davids and two others watched two silent, silver domed discs maneuver close to his residence in Pasadena, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1994 Source ID: Johnson_1116 Source: Johnson ### Event 21086 (EFCDCA9C) Date: 3/1987 Description: San Antonio, Texas, freelance journalist Ed Conroy begins to find himself a target of an unmarked Bell 47 helicopter that hovers around his apartment building. The instances increase as he researches [Whitley Strieber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley%5FStrieber)’s abduction story for a possible article. Black helicopters and CH-47 Chinooks also appear in his vicinity, and someone repeatedly changes the outgoing message on his home answering machine. Several people close to him begin to tell him about their nighttime experiences with entities and balls of light. These occurrences continue through 1988. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ed Conroy, [Report on Communion](https://archive.org/details/reportoncommunio00conr%5F0)[,](https://archive.org/details/reportoncommunio00conr%5F0) Avon, 1989 Source ID: Eberhart_6669 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21087 (3B11E16D) Date: 3/1987 Description: The Society for Scientific Exploration publishes the first issue of its Journal of Scientific Exploration, edited by astronomer [Bernard Haisch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FHaisch)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FHaisch)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Journal of Scientific Exploration](https://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/volume-1-number-1-1987) 1, no. 1 \(1987\); Clark III 1082–1083 Source ID: Eberhart_6668 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21088 (9615999D) Date: 3/1987 Description: 3:00 a.m. A British Army communications officer is sleeping alone on the moors near Bishop Monkton, North Yorkshire, England, during a military exercise. He sees a strange red light in the sky circling slowly and silently around him. He watches it for 20 minutes as it makes three circuits that are precisely the same. Two F-4 Phantom II jets appear and give chase to the light, which plays cat and mouse with them. This continues for 5 minutes, then the light shoots away at great speed. The jets remain a few more minutes before returning. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Brief Cases,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Northern%20UFO%20News%20%28Jenny%20Randles%29/Northern%20UFO%20News%20-%20No%20157.pdf)” Northern UFO News, no. 157 \(October 1992\): 13; Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 163–164 Source ID: Eberhart_6670 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21089 (F886702B) Date: 3/6/1987 Description: 5:30 p.m. County surveyor [Harvey Funseth](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50956944/harvey-c-funseth) and Fred Gochenauer are driving north of Belleville, Wisconsin, and spot four peculiar objects one above the other in the western sky. They take a side road to get a better look and stop alongside an open field. The main cigar-shaped object is silhouetted against the sunset, standing vertically above three smaller sections. The objects are all about a quarter mile away at low altitude. As they watch, the top object moves away from the smaller ones toward their right. It looks like an airplane fuselage without any markings, wings, or tail. It has a flashing light on top and two red glowing areas on the back, followed by a short vapor trail. Funseth estimates it is about 2,000 feet altitude. It picks up speed and streaks away to the northeast. The remaining smaller objects are now obscured by a mist. Witnesses in other parts of town also see a similar display. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part One,” IUR 12, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1987\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_6671 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21090 (6AE5E25A) Date: 3/7/1987 Description: A family of three in Pingwu county, Sichuan, China, is awakened by a loud, high-pitched hum. They go outside and are blinded by a beam of light coming from a huge reddish object shaped like a straw hat that is hovering above them. They pass out and wake up later to find themselves strapped to steel tables in a circular room occupied by humanoid entities with 3 eyes and standing 3 feet tall. The aliens take blood samples from them and probe them with needles, also making an incision on the child’s thigh. The next thing they know, they are walking down a road 7 miles from their home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Saunders, “UFOs over China,” Fortean Times 331 \(October 2015\): 32 Source ID: Eberhart_6672 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21091 (08332906) Date: 3/7/1987 Description: At 8:20 p.m. the witness was walking along a dirt road in Dobroslawice, Poland heading for his house when suddenly he saw five bright flashes of light. He looked in their direction and saw a bright ball of light. It landed between some trees and took off a few seconds later. He continued walking until he saw a strange creature on the road just in front of him. The creature, which was wearing a tight-fitting dark suit, made a long jump into the bushes. Scared, the witness also hid in some bushes. From his hiding place he saw five additional creatures about 1.20 meters in height, wearing similar dark outfits. He started to run from the area when he noticed one of the creatures was walking straight towards his hiding place. He ran about the entire 1.5 kilometers to his house. The next day he went back to the location with his family and found several footprints in the snow and a dead bull with one of its ears cut off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, citing Tymoteousz Tobala & Marcin Mioduszewski, CBUFOIZA, Poland Source ID: Johnson_1372 Source: Johnson ### Event 21092 (C43E8A25) Date: 3/7/1987 Description: At midnight a family of three in the town of Ping Wu, Szechwan Province, China, including a young child, was awakened by a loud high-pitched humming coming from outside their small house. All three went outside to investigate and were nearly blinded by a beam of yellow light coming from a huge reddish-orange hat-shaped UFO. It hovered above them, spinning slowly. The humming grew louder and all three had a strange floating sensation, and then blacked out. When they awoke they found themselves strapped to three steel tables in a circular room. The woman began screaming when a tiny hatchway opened in the wall and five three-foot tall humanoid beings stepped into the room. They were human in shape, but with featureless faces having three huge white eyes on their foreheads. Their skin looked translucent and was bluish in color. The creatures said nothing as they proceeded to remove blood from all three abductees' arms. They then inserted long needles into their knees and ankle joints. The husband and the child seemed to have been in a trance-like state during the encounter. Electrode devices were taped to their skulls and the woman was again able to hear the loud high-pitched humming sound. One of the beings made an incision on the child's thigh that was quickly healed by a pencil-like device that was passed over it. Moments later the room became dark and everything began spinning. Their next conscious memory was walking on a roadside, seven miles from their home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, case # 1376, citing Lillian Crowner Desguin, UFOs: Fact or Fiction Source ID: Johnson_1371 Source: Johnson ### Event 21093 (2F812C10) Date: 3/10/1987 Description: According to MUFON, a silent triangular shaped UFO buzzed Corydon, Indiana at 11:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 578, citing Francis L. Ridge Source ID: Johnson_1414 Source: Johnson ### Event 21094 (EA3740C3) Date: 3/12/1987 Description: US Army Intelligence letter: The IPU (Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit) of the Scientific and Technical Branch, Counter intelligence Directorate, Department of the Army was disestablished during the 1950’s and never reactivated. All of its records were turned over to the USAF (which can’t seem to locate them). This letter was sent to Timothy Good. Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (["Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p484) Location: US See also: 5/16/84 Source ID: Maj2_758 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21095 (670E06E7) Date: 3/12/1987 Description: 9:15 p.m. Cmdr. Alvaro de Camargo is flying a Transbrasil Boeing 737-300 from Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil, to Manaus, Amazonas, when his radar detects an object directly in front of him. The Rio Branco tower says it has nothing on its radar. Suddenly the blip disappears from the screen, just as three orange lights appear on the left side of the airplane’s wing. Some passengers now can see the lights, flying parallel to each other and to the plane for about 20 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 201; Brazil 542 Source ID: Eberhart_6674 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21096 (F060A1BB) Date: 3/12/1987 Description: Gallup releases a report indicating that there are three adult Americans who believe that “UFOs are real” for every two skeptics. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[1 Person in 2 Now Believes in UFOs,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97803452/)” Santa Rosa \(Calif.\) Press-Democrat, March 12, 1987, p. 13; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_6673 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21097 (2B1EA559) Date: 3/13/1987 Description: At 4:54 a.m. a silent, tapered 12-foot long cylindrical object pursued a car near Moose Jaw, Saskachewan, Canada for four minutes. It followed the car with three witnesses closely, coming to within an estimated 40 feet. It gave off no Exhaust. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989 Source ID: Johnson_1460 Source: Johnson ### Event 21098 (6899B530) Date: 3/16/1987 Description: A, weather radar, giant (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Toronto to Winnipeg, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5752 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21099 (17686317) Date: 3/20/1987 Description: 1:00 p.m. Police in Verona, Wisconsin, view a triangular pattern of red, white, and blue flashing lights from the police station. The on-duty officer takes a squad car to investigate as the object moves behind a hill and hovers above a field. Within a minute, the lights move to the southwest and soon are out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \(Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part One,” IUR 12, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1987\): 8\). Source ID: Eberhart_6675 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21100 (C9228AD9) Date: 3/23/1987 Description: Evening. A woman hears a crash outside her home in Concord, North Carolina, and goes outside to investigate. She sees a domed disk in her backyard about 75 feet away, partially obscured by a tree. The dome is about 6 feet in diameter on top of an object about 25 feet high. The dome is projecting an intensely bright orange light that creates shooting pains in her eyes and lights up the entire yard. The lower part of the object is blue-silver and an 18–20 foot wide ramp extends down from it. Her eyes still hurt, so she does not see the UFO leave. No ground markings are found the next day, although two days later she discovers that a metal post on her dog lot has been magnetized. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 22–23 Source ID: Eberhart_6676 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21101 (44027A0D) Date: 3/23/1987 Description: A woman in Concord, North Carolina heard a crash outside her home in the evening and went to the window to investigate. Though partially obscured by a tree and its limbs, there was no question that she was looking at a domed disc parked in her backyard. The dome was about six feet in diameter and the whole craft was about 25 feet high. From the dome came the brightest orange light that she had ever seen. It was so bright that she could only look for a short while, turn away, recover, and look again. The light created shooting pains in her eyes, so that her eyes didn't fully recover for two to three days. The orange light filled the back of her yard so thoroughly that it seemed almost tangible. "It was so dense that my outside light looked just like a small light bulb, [and I] couldn't see the post at all." Her neighbor heard the noise and told her that everything down by her house looked very orange. All around the object it looked just like a thick orange fog.

The lower part of the craft looked blue-silver, especially what seemed to be an extended 18-20 foot wide ramp. The object was about 75 feet from her. Her eyes were hurting and so she didn't see it leave. No ground marks were found the next day. Two days later her grandson visited and was told the story. He walked the area and held up some keys to the fence gate at the dog lot, which was close to the sight. The keys swung over on their own and hit the metal post, indicating that the post had been magnetized. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Swords, International UFO Reporter, Summer 2002, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_1632 Source: Johnson ### Event 21102 (198C8C3D) Date: 4/1987 Description: UFO abduction researcher [Budd Hopkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins) publishes Intruders, an account of his investigation into the abduction experiences of [Debbie Jordan-Kauble](https://ufocongress.com/debbie-jordan-kauble-2019/) \(using the pseudonym of “Kathie Davis”\) an Indianapolis woman whose long series of abductions include an instance when the beings impregnate her by artificial insemination aboard a UFO, then return a few months later to remove the fetus. During a subsequent abduction several years later, the beings introduce her to a frail little girl, half-human, half-alien, and tell her this girl is her daughter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Budd Hopkins, [Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods](https://archive.org/details/intrudersincredi00hopkrich), Random House, 1987; Jerome Clark, “A Conversation with Budd Hopkins,” IUR 13, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1988\): 4–12 Source ID: Eberhart_6677 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21103 (C3CA4738) Date: 4/17/1987 Description: At around 11:00 p.m. seven people witnessed a disc-shaped object hovering over a lake in Soderbarke, Kopparberg, Sweden. The bottom of the object was glowing, until a dark cloud engulfed the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database Source ID: Johnson_2091 Source: Johnson ### Event 21104 (5D0499C0) Date: 5/1987 Description: [William Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) announces that for the past six and a half years he and some associates “succeeded in establishing a cooperative relationship with a number of well-placed contacts within the American intelligence community.” He provides a copy of one page of the MJ-12 briefing document, with some text blacked out FOIA-style. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, June 1987 Source ID: Eberhart_6678 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21105 (0EEF1900) Date: 5/1/1987 Description: The Center for UFO Studies moves from Glenview, Illinois, to 2457 West Peterson Avenue in Chicago. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “CUFOS Is Moving,” IUR 12, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1987\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_6679 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21106 (4FE1E6F0) Date: 5/16/1987 Description: Huge unidentified target on weather radar for four minutes Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Airliner en route from Toronto to Winnipeg, Canada Source ID: HallUFOE2_422 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21107 (FBBE157E) Date: 5/16/1987 Description: On this day an airline crew tracked a UFO on their weather radar. A Canadian Air International Boeing 737 was en route from Toronto, Ontario to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Capt. Rick Olsen was flying at 31,000 feet (9,000 meters) when he and his first officer observed an unidentified object on their weather radar. The radar track indicated an object "about the size of an aircraft carrier" about 50 miles away at approximately their altitude, and traveling on roughly the same course at 5,400 mph (8,600 km/hr). The radar target lasted about four minutes. Weather was hazy at the time, and the aircraft was not close enough to make visual contact. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 246; John Robert Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 215 Source ID: Johnson_2901 Source: Johnson ### Event 21108 (E18A4ABA) Date: 5/31/1987 Description: British ufologist [Timothy Good](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%5FGood) has also received a copy of the MJ-12 briefing document \(the same one received by [Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) and [Shandera](https://obscurantist.com/oma/shandera-jamie/)\) in March and shares it with the press, adamantly refusing to say who sent it to him. The first mention appears in the London Observer, and soon it is the subject of pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post, and ABC-TV’s Night Line. Many ufologists denounce the documents as a forgery. Good admits to researcher [Richard Dolan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FM.%5FDolan) in 2008 that the source was probably “connected to” [Richard Doty](https://ufoscoop.com/richard-c-doty/). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Above, [p. 544](https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055/page/544/mode/2up); Dolan II 398; Clark III 366 Source ID: Eberhart_6680 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21109 (63495F13) Date: 6/1987 Description: [Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) provides photocopies of all the pages of the Majestic-12 briefing document. Certain areas that had been blacked out are now readable, although redacted sections still exist. Moore has done his own redacting. He also reveals the Cutler-Twining memo. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, July 1987 Source ID: Eberhart_6681 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21110 (3090E66D) Date: 6/9/1987 Description: 7:00 p.m. At RAAF Base Learmonth, near Exmouth, Western Australia, observers see a white light at 5,000 feet about 16 feet in diameter moving silently in a zigzag fashion from east to west. It hovers at the north end of the airstrip for 6–7 minutes, changes from white to amber, moves up into a cloud, then speeds off to the northeast. A Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport that takes off during the observation has difficulty establishing VHF radio communication. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 409–410 Source ID: Eberhart_6682 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21111 (CA81F8EC) Date: 6/11/1987 Description: [Bill Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) [Jaime Shandera](https://obscurantist.com/oma/shandera-jamie/), and [Stanton Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) hold a press conference on the MJ-12 briefing document and the Cutler-Twining memo, asserting that they appear to be genuine. Friedman has found that [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) did attend a briefing in Washington on November 18, 1952. He has also uncovered evidence that astronomer [Donald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) [Menzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FHoward%5FMenzel) was also a leading cryptographer and an elite member of the intelligence community. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ 12: The Evidence So Far,” IUR 12, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1987\): 13–17; Dennis Stacy, “[18th](https://vdocuments.mx/mufon-ufo-journal-1987-8-august.html?page=7) [International Symposium,](https://vdocuments.mx/mufon-ufo-journal-1987-8-august.html?page=7)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 232 \(August 1987\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6683 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21112 (4E0B761D) Date: 6/16/1987 Description: Two amateur astronomers, after having heard a strong hiss, saw on the mirrored water of the Adriatic Sea off the shore of Riccione, Italy a luminescent object of ovoid shape. During the few minutes of the sighting, the object changed coloration several times. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Marco Bianchini, USOCAT by Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU). http://www.cisu.org/ citing La Gazzetta, June 17, 1987 Source ID: Johnson_3520 Source: Johnson ### Event 21113 (0485FB25) Date: 6/19/1987 Description: 11:00 p.m. Brazilian Air Force Capt. Faria de Sousa is landing his aircraft at Anápolis Air Base ALA 2, Goiás, Brazil, when the control tower asks him to investigate “strange traffic” nearby. When he arrives at the location, his onboard radar registers the presence of another aircraft close by and his cockpit lights up. He sees a huge ball of light about 10 feet in diameter above his plane, but the light does not register on his radar. After 3 minutes he lands because he is running out of fuel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 206; Brazil 554–555 Source ID: Eberhart_6684 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21114 (A5D8D08D) Date: Summer 1987 Description: UK researcher [Timothy Good](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%5FGood) publishes Above Top Secret, containing clean copies of the MJ-12 documents. The book is an international exposé of UFO investigations and secrecy by the governments of the UK, US, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Australia, Canada, China, and Russia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Timothy Good, [Above Top Secret: The](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good) [Worldwide UFO Cover-Up](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good)[,](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good) Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987 Source ID: Eberhart_6686 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21115 (BBE7C98A) Date: 6/25/1987 Description: Capt. [William Cantrell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-cantrell-07a26528) and the crew of Delta Airlines Flight 1083 are near Charleston, West Virginia, when they see a small missile heading straight for the aircraft before it swerves to the side about 500–600 feet below. Cantrell describes the projectile as short, squatty, and homemade looking, about 4–6 feet long with large fins. It appears to be descending and unpowered. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 12–13 Source ID: Eberhart_6685 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21116 (AC5004DA) Date: 7/4/1987 Description: On this Fourth of July holiday two adult women in Pensacola, Florida were outside in the evening setting off sparklers when they spotted a light in the sky. It first appeared to be flying south but it then turned in their direction and approached, coming to within 30 feet of them. Both ran into their house screaming. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Rex Salisberry, MUFON case investigation files, case 890704 Source ID: Johnson_3829 Source: Johnson ### Event 21117 (EB5B4B00) Date: 7/22/1987 Description: The Military Archives Division of NARA issues a list of 10 problems with the Cutler-Twining memo: it was incorrectly filed; no other researchers have found information on MJ-12; the classification “Top Secret Restricted Information” was not in use until the [Nixon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FNixon) administration; the memo does not bear an official letterhead or watermark; it does not match the paper [Cutler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FCutler) used at the time; no records are found of an NSC meeting on July 16, 1954; another memo is found saying that NSC members were called to a civil defense exercise on July 16; and there is no entry in [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower)’s appointment books on a special meeting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: National Archives, “[Majestic 12 or](https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos\#mj12) [‘MJ-12’ Reference Report](https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos\#mj12)”; “[The MJ-12 Fiasco,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201987%2009%20%20-%20No%2013%20-%20New%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause, new series, no. 13 \(September 1987\): 1–22 Source ID: Eberhart_6687 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21118 (64D8C6ED) Date: 7/22/1987 Description: The Hawesville Encounter (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [870722](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/hawesville870722dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hawesville, KY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5753 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21119 (556934E8) Date: 7/23/1987 Description: In the middle of the day six spheres made 90 degree turns in the sky in broad daylight over West Pensacola, Florida. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 198 Source ID: Johnson_4331 Source: Johnson ### Event 21120 (84D7E801) Date: 7/24/1987 Description: An ovoid shaped object hovered over US Route 301 in Savannah River, Georgia not far from the Savannah River nuclear facility. It had green and orange bands of color alternating from the top and bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 84 Source ID: Johnson_4363 Source: Johnson ### Event 21121 (CA3D0041) Date: Late 7/1987 Description: 9:00 p.m.–5:00 a.m. A married couple and their daughter are riding in a horse cart, returning to their home near Będzienica, Poland. They notice two huge red spheres, apparently attached to each other, descending toward the northeast a few miles away and disappearing behind the horizon. After arriving home a few minutes later, the area outside their house becomes flooded in white light. The family rushes outside and sees two groups of three white lights silently floating low above a field less than one mile away to the northeast. The man alerts his neighbor and they return to the road to watch the lights for several minutes. Soon they notice a large red triangular light moving up and down in the northeast less than 2 miles away. After 6 minutes they hear a high-pitched sound like a car horn and the red light disappears. They continue watching the white lights, but soon notice that another neighbor’s barn about 1,000 feet away seems to be on fire. The man goes home to get his motorcycle and two daughters, but when they get to the barn there is no fire and the light is coming from another set of white spheres to the south. By this time it is after 10:00 p.m., and they ride the motorcycle to a nearby hill to watch the lights. Soon one of the daughters sees a large object like a vertical white TV screen 10 feet high approaching from the east about 60–100 feet above the ground. Two humanoids with angular heads and in green coveralls are visible against the screen, one large and one smaller. The man restarts the motorcycle with difficulty and returns home. Some 300 feet from their farmhouse, they see another object, a fireball with a tail descending in the area where they had seen the red triangle. Tired, the daughters and his wife go to sleep around 11:00 p.m., but the man stays up to watch the UFO activity. Around 4:00 a.m. the original two sets of white objects rearrange into a complex group of 7 lights and remain that way for another hour. The next day, the man feels sick with heart problems and is taken to a hospital for a short stay. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Arek Miazga, “[Z historii UFO na Podkarpaciu: Bliskie spotkanie w](http://arekmiazga.blogspot.com/2011/07/historia-ufo-na-podkarpaciu-bliskie.html) [Będzienicy–Nockowej \(1987\),](http://arekmiazga.blogspot.com/2011/07/historia-ufo-na-podkarpaciu-bliskie.html)” Spotkania z Nieznanym, July 3, 2011; Poland 77–80 Source ID: Eberhart_6689 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21122 (4CBB5D27) Date: 7/27/1987 Description: 12:00 midnight. Witnesses in Accra and the Volta Region of Ghana see a large and apparently silent object over the Gulf of Guinea. Some people report the sound of explosions associated with it. A Ghana Air Force pilot views the missile-shaped object from the ground near Accra, traveling south over the ocean. It displays a yellow light at its trailing end, similar to a rocket. It appears to be at least twice as large as a Boeing 747. It stops descending and begins to climb, gaining altitude. Eight smaller, bluish lights appear in circular formation, seemingly the result of the object’s propulsive power. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 413–414 Source ID: Eberhart_6688 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21123 (8F495E09) Date: 7/31/1987 Description: Two men riding motorcycles at 11:30 p.m. in Terre Haute, Indiana saw a flying pyramid-shaped object, and they followed it for awhile but then lost sight of it. However, they came to an automobile that was stopped by the side of the road, and the car's occupants were acting strangely. In a daze, all four occupants got out of their car and walked a mile from that point. The men strongly suspected that the UFO was responsible for their odd behavior. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 109 Source ID: Johnson_4543 Source: Johnson ### Event 21124 (65F89D75) Date: 8/2/1987 Description: Maria Marzoli was in Domodossola, Italy at 9:45 p.m. when she saw a bright white light encased in what appeared to be a cloud descend from a nearby mountain. When she approached the spot in order to get a better look she saw three floating human like figures approaching the light. The figures were about 1.80 meters in height, and glided just above the ground in a vertical position. All three wore light-colored tunics and pants and had long light-colored hair. The figures briefly turned to stare at the witness before disappearing into the bright spherical white light. The light then disappeared into the distance, changing color into a greenish tint. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, citing Archivio SUF, Tambellini Source ID: Johnson_4612 Source: Johnson ### Event 21125 (EC0E3CE9) Date: Early 8/1987 Description: A Soviet soldier serving with the military contingent in Leningrad \[now St. Petersburg\] is dispatched with four others to northern Karelia, where they join up with another unit. Their job is to guard a UFO that soldiers had recently discovered near Vyborg. A military plane had taken it to Monchegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, and deposited it in a former fuel depot. The guards get a close look at the object, which is more than 50 feet long, 16 feet wide, and 9 feet high, grayish-tan in color, smooth, and seamless. It is tube-shaped, with fins extending from the mid-section all the way to the rear. At the tip of its nose are outward-pointing triangles in a triangular formation. One week later, senior officers show up and attempt to enter the craft unsuccessfully. The craft is moved to a hangar and all but one of the soldiers are sent back to Leningrad. In September, a successful entry is made, according to the remaining officer. Inside, they discover two armchairs, two steering wheels, and a featureless control panel. The cockpit is so small that two adults can hardly fit inside. Investigators who collect “rod-like items” from inside experience mild burns on their hands \(though gloved\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 345; Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 96–97 Source ID: Eberhart_6690 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21126 (58813AEB) Date: 8/4/1987 Description: 10:00 p.m. Gordon Baker and two others watch two cross-shaped objects pass slowly and silently over his home from northeast to southwest in Exmouth, Devon, England. Describing it like a “flying fairground” at 38,000 feet, he watches a jet aircraft fly underneath it. They watch it for 15 minutes until it disappears on the horizon. Observers in Lympstone and Budleigh Salterton also see the object. Two huge, delta-shaped objects are seen making successive passes over Plymouth, Devon, between 10:30 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. Observations were also made in Bude, Cornwall, and Exeter, Devon, where they were apparently tracked on radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Flying Fairground’ Is](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201988%2001%20-%20no%20222.pdf) [Seen over Town,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201988%2001%20-%20no%20222.pdf)” Exmouth \(UK\) Herald, August 7, 1987; “[Whitehall Silent over Flying Fairground,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201988%2001%20-%20no%20222.pdf)” Exmouth \(UK\) Herald, August 14, 1987, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 222 \(January 1988\): 16; Marler 139 Source ID: Eberhart_6691 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21127 (1E915C8A) Date: 8/4/1987 Description: Many independent witnesses from Plymouth, Devon County, England watched a huge delta-shaped object with many lights cross over Exmouth at 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14530, citing Gordon Creighton, FSR, March 1988 Source ID: Johnson_4663 Source: Johnson ### Event 21128 (07C3A352) Date: 8/5/1987 Description: On this night in Gainesville, Florida a huge, silent circular disc-shaped object stopped 100 feet over an observer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 198 Source ID: Johnson_4703 Source: Johnson ### Event 21129 (C915495F) Date: 8/6/1987 Description: Late in the evening, on the road between Barcis and Cimolais, Italy a car with three occupants encountered a red beam of energy and the car's engine stalled. What happened next was even more inexplicable, because the car with the three witnesses aboard seemed to have been instantaneously transported several miles to San Daniele. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, From Out of the Blue, p. 95 Source ID: Johnson_4743 Source: Johnson ### Event 21130 (1960BCBF) Date: 8/8/1987 Description: A security guard sighted a large circle of light over a pasture near Denver, Colorado. Two cows were found dead and mutilated the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Contact, p. 59 Source ID: Johnson_4782 Source: Johnson ### Event 21131 (67EEDB36) Date: 8/11/1987 Description: A shiny metallic oval-shaped object with lights hovered, brightened, and then took off like a "shot out of a rifle" on this night in Osbornville, New Jersey. It left a white trail as it did so. It stopped abruptly, maneuvered, and then shot straight up into space. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_4901 Source: Johnson ### Event 21132 (E705B3E3) Date: 8/11/1987 Description: A bus driver in Peterborough, South Australia reported that a bright green ball of light traveled parallel to his bus and effected the bus electrical system. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, citing report filed with RAAF Source ID: Johnson_4900 Source: Johnson ### Event 21133 (3D5635AD) Date: 8/11/1987 Description: Shiny oval, hovered; brightened, took off like a shot, left white trail. Stopped abruptly, maneuvered, lights flashed, shot straight up out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Osbornville, NJ Source ID: HallUFOE2_423 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21134 (E96599C9) Date: 8/11/1987 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_424 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21135 (EF3DE150) Date: 8/11/1987 Description: Several people see a triangular object with three lights over Sevastopol, Crimea, Russia. A yellow light surriounds the perimeter, and a bright white light is seen inside. The object hovers and maneuvers for 3 hours with a trajectory that changes unpredictably. It disappears, reappears, and smaller objects separate rom it and take off at great speed. It finally takes off quickly away from the shoe. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 136 Source ID: Eberhart_6693 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21136 (84771777) Date: 8/11/1987 Description: Shiny oval, hovered; brightened, took off like a shot, left white trail; stopped abruptly, maneuvered, lights flashed, shot straight up out of sight (sections IX, X). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Osbornville, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5754 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21137 (1313220F) Date: 8/11/1987 Description: A witness in Osbornville, New Jersey, sees a shiny, oval object that hovers, becomes brighter, and takes off like a shot, leaving a white trail. It then stops abruptly, maneuvers, flashes more lights, and shoots straight up out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 30 Source ID: Eberhart_6692 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21138 (0E4BE765) Date: 8/18/1987 Description: Many people witnessed a disc-shaped object in Corydon, Indiana at 11:45 p.m., including the main witness, a 36-year-old woman. The UFO was black with a bulging center, and it had a bottom section with multiple orange, red and blue lights. It was described as being very large, and estimated to be about 400 meters away at an altitude of 800 feet. Its speed was slow, except when it took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James Delehanty, field investigator, MUFONCD-Rom case file database, case # 881002 Source ID: Johnson_5137 Source: Johnson ### Event 21139 (49E9B276) Date: 8/20/1987 Description: On this night in Pine Bush, Orange County, New York a nocturnal light was seen traveling at treetop level. It became a delta-shaped object with four headlights in front as it came closer. It maneuvered for awhile, and then flew off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ellen Crystal, p. 1 Source ID: Johnson_5194 Source: Johnson ### Event 21140 (CFA1C386) Date: 8/23/1987 Description: Corydon, Indiana (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [870823](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/870823dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Corydon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5755 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21141 (2244CE12) Date: 8/23/1987 Description: 2:00–3:00 a.m. A witness sees a circular, white object west of Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary, flying slowly to the north. A thin, orange-colored light beam sweeps from it several times from west to east. Suddenly it “jumps” with tremendous speed from one place to another and remains stationary, still sweeping its light beam for at least 30 minutes. Then it suddenly disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1989\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6694 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21142 (5922B24D) Date: 8/23/1987 Description: Fifteen witnesses in Corydon, Indiana, including five UFO field investigators, shot a video of an orange, flare-like light with a small red light flying in tandem at 9:30 p.m. The lights were also viewed through binoculars as they flew away to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 109 Source ID: Johnson_5270 Source: Johnson ### Event 21143 (77994666) Date: 8/24/1987 Description: At 2:30 a.m. a house near Vejle in Denmark was illuminated from above. Three metallic disc-shaped craft with windows were seen hovering only one meter over the roof. Photos were taken but the images came out blank. The incident lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: SUFOI News, issue 14 Source ID: Johnson_5302 Source: Johnson ### Event 21144 (12BD8CD2) Date: 8/27/1987 Description: Three aeronautical engineers in Wuxi City, Jiangsu province, China watched a point of light spiral across the sky at 9 p.m. leaving a trail of light. At 10:15 p.m. in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China the airport tower personnel saw a small ball of light hover 300 meters from the end of the runway. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 139 Source ID: Johnson_5402 Source: Johnson ### Event 21145 (6BE1DF56) Date: 8/30/1987 Description: [William S. Steinman](https://rr0.org/people/s/SteinmanWilliamS.html) makes another attempt to contact possible crashed-saucer insider [Eric A. Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FA.%5FWalker%5F%28engineer%29), whom [Robert Sarbacher](http://www.noufors.com/Dr%5FRobert%5FSarbacher.htm) has indicated was a behind-the-scenes participant. Steinman calls Walker, saying he is inquiring about “meetings that you attended at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in/around 1949–1950, concerning the military recovery of flying saucers, and bodies of occupants.” Walker replies: “Yes, I attended meetings concerning that subject matter.” Walker agrees they are talking about recovered aliens and seems nonchalant about the subject. Walker adds: “Yes, I know of MJ-12. I have known of them for 40 years… You are delving into an area that you can do absolutely nothing about… Forget about it!” Walker tells Steinman that he would consult his notes on the topic and hints he might cooperate further. Steinman writes Walker on August 31, sending him the MJ-12 briefing document and asking about Project Aquarius. Three weeks later, Walker replies, saying, “Some things you have right and some things you have very wrong.” He admits a machine was recovered and is still stored near “Wright Field.” Four normal looking males were found at the site, very much alive. “They learned the English language within a few hours and it was our decision not to make public spectacles of them, but to allow them to be absorbed into American culture.” Each of the four, Walker alleges, became highly successful in technology, sports, and finance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Grant Cameron and T. Scott Crain Jr., UFOs, MJ-12, and the Government: A Report on Government Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals, Mutual UFO Network, 1991, pp. 7–15 Source ID: Eberhart_6695 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21146 (9EEA4995) Date: 8/31/1987 Description: 10:55 p.m. A dark, domed, disc-shaped UFO with a mast or antenna on top comes down quickly over the high-security Naval Submarine Base Bangor \[now Naval Base Kitsap\] on the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, which houses the Trident nuclear ballistic submarine fleet. It hovers over a playground. Randy Springsteen, 8, and Dennis Mauer, 10, sons of military personnel, are sitting on the swings and see an entity with a big head, big pointed “cat” ears, wrinkled skin, and a greenish complexion in an open hatch. It has a thin, spindly body, long webbed fingers and toes, and tabs or suction cups on the ends of its fingers and toes. It also has a wrinkled mouth “like an old grandma’s.” The boys estimate the being is about 6 feet tall. It points a device that directs a beam of energy at the two boys on the swings, causing the levitation of the metal swings. The boys flee quickly into the Springsteen home and get Charlene Springsteen, who sees a row of lights in the sky as the UFO takes off and flies away. Charlene then has the boys draw separate sketches of both the UFO and the alien, which are remarkably similar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald A. Johnson, “[The Bangor CE3,](http://strangetextsbutcher.blogspot.com/2019/10/an-unusual-ce-iii-ufo-report-from.html)” IUR 14, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1989\): 4–6, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_6696 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21147 (9DDF751A) Date: 8/31/1987 Description: At 10:55 p.m. a dark, domed disc-shaped UFO with a mast or antenna on top came down quickly over the high security Bangor submarine base housing, home of the Trident nuclear ballistic submarine fleet in Bangor, Washington and hovered over a playground. Two boys who were sons of military personnel, ages 8 and 10, were sitting on the swings and saw an occupant with a big head, big pointed "cat" ears, wrinkled skin, and a greenish complexion in an open hatch. It had a thin, spindly body, long webbed fingers and toes, and tabs or suction cups on the ends of the fingers and toes. It also had a wrinkled mouth "like an old grandma's." The boys estimated the being to be about six feet tall. It pointed a device that directed a beam of energy at the two boys on the swings, causing the levitation of the metal swings. The boys fled quickly into the home of one of them and got his mother, who saw a row of lights in the sky as the UFO took off and flew away. Mrs. Springsteen, the mother of one of the boys, then had the boys draw separate sketches of both the UFO and the alien, which were remarkably similar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. case investigation, report dated September 3, 1987; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2266).

(Artist's composite sketch by Rebecca Helen Johnson Woodaman Source ID: Johnson_5538 Source: Johnson ### Event 21148 (105DC887) Date: 9/1987 End date: 12/1987 Description: Sighting concentration, including 60 reports to sheriff's office in Little River County. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Foreman and Ashdown, AR Source ID: HallUFOE2_426 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21149 (233269B5) Date: 9/1987 Description: The final issue of the APRO Bulletin is published by [Jim and Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [APRO Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201987%2009%2000%20-%20Vol%2033%20No%207.pdf) 33, no. 7 \(September 1987\) Source ID: Eberhart_6698 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21150 (1755C55B) Date: 9/1987 Description: Three witnesses in Taunton, Somerset, England, observe a triangular object with bright white lights at each point and red lights underneath, rotating to the left. Its size is estimated to be comparable to three C-130 aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 139 Source ID: Eberhart_6699 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21151 (ECC7C7AE) Date: 9/1/1987 Description: Ellipse with windows beamed light down on children in playground, two humanoids visible in object Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Bangor, WA Source ID: HallUFOE2_425 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21152 (3F9E66EA) Date: 9/1/1987 Description: Ellipse with windows beamed light down on children in playground, two humanoids visible in object (section XII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bangor, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5756 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21153 (EAC0574C) Date: Early Autumn 1987 Description: Evening. [Rich](https://www.johnquint.com/ViewCondolences.php?FuneralHomeID=JohnQuint&ID=424) and Kathy Dicenzo, their children, and a family friend are sitting outside their weekend residence in the southern Ohio hills in front of a campfire. Suddenly a dark shape appears passing from in back of them from the north over the roof of the house and blotting out the stars in a precise boomerang shape. The perimeter of the shape is covered with 12–20 individual lights. All sounds from insects, tree frogs, and distant dogs stops. The campfire flame rises straight up, frozen. The aspen tree in the front yard stops “quaking” and the children gasp. The soundless object is low, and it extends beyond the 72-foot length of the house. After one minute, the light configuration wobbles, the lights change from amber to red, and the object splits into three sections, spreads out, and dissipates. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jennie Zeidman, “Strangeness in the Night,” IUR 14, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1989\): 5, 22 Source ID: Eberhart_6697 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21154 (1986BA1B) Date: 9/3/1987 Description: Five witnesses, including three police, witnessed a metallic-appearing, disc-shaped object over some power lines in Greensburg, Pennsylvania at around 1:00 a.m. It was the documented cause of an electrical power outage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_5611 Source: Johnson ### Event 21155 (F17F6443) Date: 9/4/1987 Description: JMP (Justice for Military Personnel) letter sent to President Ronald Reagan. This letter, verified by: Astronaut [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper), Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe (USMC, Ret.) (now deceased), MUFON (Sequin, TX), APRO (Tucson, AZ) and Just Cause (Coventry, CT) states that: “WE (military personnel) have been ordered by the CIA to shoot at UFOs, silence pilots who have seen UFOs, intimidate, harass, jail, confine to institutions, and destroy military careers of witnesses to UFO sightings. We VIOLATED the Freedom of Information Act by hiding Government documents.” Maj. Keyhoe sent this letter to PEA Research in 1987. Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (JMP) Location: Washington DC See also: 7/1952 See also: 9/24/1947 Source ID: Maj2_760 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21156 (319BB41D) Date: 9/8/1987 Description: On this night at 10:00 p.m. two security guards patrolling a section of a by-pass road under construction in Deepcar, Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire, England saw a hooded figure standing on an inaccessible bridge near the road junction. When they directed the headlights of their car upon the figure it suddenly vanished. Moments later both men saw what appeared to be a group of small children apparently dancing around an electricity pylon. Upon approaching the figures, they also suddenly vanished into thin air. No footprints or other traces were found on the muddy ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Devereux, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 99; Albert S. Rosales, 1987 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1625, citing Paul Devereux Source ID: Johnson_5777 Source: Johnson ### Event 21157 (2536899A) Date: 9/11/1987 Description: 8:15 p.m. Lydia B. Lövendal-Papae and her husband are walking between Herăstrău Park \[now King Michael I Park\] and Aviators Square in Bucharest, Romania, when they see a large, reddish-orange star hovering above the nearby Arcul de Triumf. After a minute, it moves to right above them and stops for a couple minutes before it sways back and forth. Suddenly it makes large zigzag movements toward the Romanian National Television building and disappears to the northeast. After 5 minutes, her husband sees a white beam shooting briefly from the direction it has gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 45–46 Source ID: Eberhart_6700 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21158 (7D1621C4) Date: 9/13/1987 Description: A radioactive contamination accident takes place in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, after a forgotten radiotherapy source is taken from an abandoned hospital site in the city. It is subsequently handled by many people, resulting in four deaths. About 112,000 people are examined for radioactive contamination and 249 of them are found to be contaminated. In the cleanup operation, topsoil has to be removed from several sites, and several hundred houses are demolished. All the objects from within those houses, including personal possessions, are seized and incinerated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Goiânia accident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia%5Faccident)” Source ID: Eberhart_6701 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21159 (D8EA9BD4) Date: 9/14/1987 Description: A 23-year-old man in Hebron, Indiana witnessed a very large, black, boomerang-shaped object, the size of a railroad car, only 75-100 feet away and at 75-100 feet altitude. It had two rows of steady blue lights on the underside, with 11 lights in each row. The object was described as blacker than black. Its speed was very slow, moving at about 15 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Rigg, MUFON field investigator, MUFON case files CD-ROM, report # 880808 Source ID: Johnson_5969 Source: Johnson ### Event 21160 (427907A3) Date: 9/14/1987 Description: 6:05 p.m. A man and his daughter are walking in Debrecen, Hungary, when she sees a “flying log.” The man looks up and sees a cylindrical object flying very slowly to the north. After 3 minutes it disappears without a trace. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1989\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6702 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21161 (1503786E) Date: 9/21/1987 Description: President Reagan states to the UN General Assembly “Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.” Type: statement Reference: [link](https://www.cultureready.org/blog/reagans-1987-un-speech-alien-threat-resonates-now) Location: New York City Source ID: Maj2_759 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21162 (88786549) Date: 9/22/1987 Description: 9:00 p.m. A young couple is sitting outside in Bossier City, Louisiana, when they see a large, conical or triangular object pass silently in the sky. It has sparsely distributed lighting on its base and seems metallic and solid. They estimate it is several football fields in length. On October 6, the man sees the object again, moving in the same direction toward Barksdale Air Force Base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6703 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21163 (457F51A3) Date: 9/24/1987 Description: A 16-year-old farm boy and high school student, Tirn Kendall, was driving at 35 mph down a road in Corydon, Indiana when he noticed a bright blue light behind him. Within seconds the Saturn-shaped UFO proceeded to pass him and moved in front, then tilted right to avoid hitting a house, powerlines and trees. The object went straight ahead, and then shot straight up, paused and finally accelerated out of sight. When the UFO passed the car there was a slight stall to the engine, and the headlights and dashboard lights dimmed for a few seconds. The UFO was about the size of a car, had a greenish-yellow glow, antennae, and multicolored (red, orange, blue and green) lights on the rim. There was a bright blue light in the center of the bottom dome and antennae on both the top and bottom domes. The close encounter lasted 15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, citing MUFON case # 871104, Field Investigator Delehanty; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_6294 Source: Johnson ### Event 21164 (62644910) Date: 9/25/1987 Description: Contactee spy comedy “Real Men” movie is released Type: movie Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_%28film%29) Location: DC Source ID: Maj2_761 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21165 (5A5549EC) Date: 10/1/1987 Description: Marysville, Indiana. At 7:50 p.m. a black rectangular object was witnessed by a lone witness for 10 minutes while driving in a rural area. The UFO flew silently to the southwest, then toward the northwest, and finally further to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 112 Source ID: Johnson_6476 Source: Johnson ### Event 21166 (177EDB1B) Date: 10/8/1987 Description: On this night a round UFO ran an Ohio family off the road while driving in Grahams Forge, Virginia. The object made no sound and sped away to the north after buzzing their car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Danny B. Gordon, Don't Look Up! The Real Story Behind the Virginia UFO Sightings, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_6669 Source: Johnson ### Event 21167 (C129B35C) Date: Mid 10/1987 Description: 6:00 p.m. A man is driving up Candlewood Lake Road, near Brookfield, Connecticut, when he sees a low-flying aerial object that passes over the trees to the left. After making a turn, he notices four cars stopped with no lights on off the side of the road. He flashes his headlights and his car’s radio and electrical power dies. All the other drivers—three men and a woman—are out of their cars. They tell him that their vehicles stopped as a large, bright aircraft flew over and passed silently over a hill in the west. It had all white and amber lights and was triangular in shape. Two other cars drive by at that time and their engines sputter but they do not stop. He notices a glow in the woods. He wants to investigate it, but no one will accompany him. Grabbing a flashlight, he walks into the woods for about a quarter of a mile, watching the glow get brighter. As he climbs a hill, the glow turns deep red and then off-white. As he reaches the top of the hill, he sees a lighted object, but trees block his view. He climbs down the hill to a clearing and sees an object like a dark triangle hovering silently in \(not above\) the trees. He hears a noise and sees a figure wearing a helmet and a dark suit with glowing metallic stripes around the arms and waist approaching the object. It reaches the UFO and looks in the witness’s direction. He hears thoughts in his head saying that he shouldn’t come closer. As he watches, the figure raises its hand as if to say goodbye and vanishes in a flash of red light. The object then blinks out as if someone has just turned it off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NightSiege 201– 203 Source ID: Eberhart_6704 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21168 (E4ABDE15) Date: 10/23/1987 Description: Danny Gordon and two friends were driving out from Wytheville toward Fort Chiswell, Virginia on Interstate 81 at 7:30 p.m. looking for UFOs that had been sighted in the area. They saw a large V-shaped object make a 90-degree turn over the highway. It flew silently overhead, changing light colors as if signaling the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Danny Gordon, Don't Look Up: The real story behind the Virginia UFO sightings, p. 54 Source ID: Johnson_7057 Source: Johnson ### Event 21169 (F64FB252) Date: 10/31/1987 Description: A hovering object was seen on Halloween night over Wytheville, Virginia It shot off and broke sound barrier, rattling windows in homes in the town. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Danny B. Gordon, Don't Look Up! The Real Story Behind the Virginia UFO Sightings, p. 40 Source ID: Johnson_7349 Source: Johnson ### Event 21170 (E40CDFCF) Date: 11/1987 End date: 12/1987 Description: Flurry of sightings including oval objects with flashing body lights. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Central North Dakota Source ID: HallUFOE2_427 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21171 (7A564970) Date: 11/11/1987 Description: 5:00 p.m. Edward Walters, president of a construction company in Gulf Breeze, Florida, has his first alleged encounter with a UFO. He sees a glowing, top-shaped craft with a row of portholes across the midsection and a luminous ring on the bottom. He rushes in and grabs a Polaroid camera and snaps a photo just as the UFO is moving from behind a tree. He takes three more photos as the object, 150 feet away, drifts in a northeasterly direction. As he is taking more photos, the object moves above him, and Walters is hit by a blue beam that paralyzes him and lifts him several feet off the ground. After hearing a computerlike voice and a female voice, he sees images of dogs. Then he falls hard on the pavement and the UFO is gone. Over the next few months, Walters \(initially concealing his identity as “Mr. X”\) and his family claim a bewildering variety of close encounters, including abduction incidents, and Walters continues to produce more photos of the UFOs plaguing him. The veracity of his claims causes a rift in ufology, with MUFON championing the case and CUFOS very skeptical. California ufologist and songwriter [Zan Overall](http://www.zanoverallsongs.com/bio/) produces evidence that Walters knew how to double-expose photos well before his UFO pictures. In June 1990, a model UFO, seemingly a prototype for a fake UFO in his photos, is found in the wall of the house formerly occupied by Walters. One week later, Tom Smith Jr., 22, comes forward claiming he has seen Walters fake some of the photos. Photoanalyst [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) continues to support Walters’s claims, coauthoring a book with him in 1997. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Gulf Breeze UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf%5FBreeze%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; MUFON UFO Journal, March 1988; Donald M. Ware, Charles D. Flannigan, and Walter H. Andrus Jr., “[The](https://vdocuments.mx/mufon-ufo-journal-1988-4-april.html) [Gulf Breeze, Florida, Photographic Case: Supplement to Part I,](https://vdocuments.mx/mufon-ufo-journal-1988-4-april.html)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 240 \(April 1988\): 13–14, 21; Jerome Clark, “Editorial: Ill Breeze,” IUR 13, no. 2 \(March/April 1988\): 3, 23; Dennis Stacy, “Gulf Breeze: A Note to the Skeptical,” IUR 13, no. 2 \(March/April 1988\): 10–11; Mark Rodeghier, “Gulf Breeze: A Note to the Committed,” IUR 13, no. 2 \(March/April 1988\): 12–13, 23; Mark Rodeghier and Robert D. Boyd, “Gulf Breeze, Florida: The Other Side of the Coin,” CUFOS Bulletin, April 1988, pp. 1–4; Jerome Clark, “Editorial: Breeze from the Gulf,” IUR 13, no. 3 \(May/June 1988\): 3; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1988; MUFON UFO Journal, July 1988; MUFON UFO Journal, August 1988; Bruce Maccabee, “A History of the Gulf Breeze, Florida, Sighting Events,” in MUFON 1988 International UFO Symposium, MUFON, 1988, pp. 113– 204; Richard H. Hall and Willy Smith, “Balancing the Scale: Unanswered Questions about Gulf Breeze,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 248 \(December 1988\): 3–7; Dan C. Overlade, “Psychological Evaluation of Mr. Ed,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 248 \(December 1988\): 7–8; Bruce Maccabee, “[The Scale Remains Unbalanced,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1989-4-april)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 252 \(April 1989\): 3–24; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989; Bruce Maccabee, “Billy, No; Ed, Yes,” IUR 14, no. 3 \(May/June 1989\): 16–19, 24; Wim van Utrecht, “How to Take Your Own Gulf Breeze Photos,” IUR 14, no. 3 \(May/June 1989\): 20–21, 24; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990; Ed Walters and Frances Walters, [The Gulf Breeze Sightings](https://archive.org/details/gulfbreezesighti00walt), Morrow, 1990; Zan Overall, Gulf Breeze Double Exposed: The ‘Ghost-Demon’ Photo Controversy, CUFOS, 1990; Craig Myers, “[Gulf Breeze](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97812167/) [UFO Model Found,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97812339/)” Pensacola \(Fla.\) News Journal, June 10, 1990, pp. 1, 8; Craig Myers, “[I Saw UFO Photos Faked,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97812609/) [Witness Says,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97812696/)” Pensacola \(Fla.\) News Journal, June 17, 1990, pp. 1, 4; Bruce Maccabee, “The Gulf Breeze Lights,” IUR 17, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1992\): 4–12; Art Hufford, “The Gulf Breeze Lights, Continued,” IUR 17, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1992\): 11– 12; Zan Overall, “The Gulf Breeze RUFOs,” IUR 17, no. 2 \(March/April 1992\): 14–18; Barbara Becker, “The Invention of a Gulf Breeze UFO,” IUR 17, no. 2 \(March/April 1992\): 19–21, 23; Bruce Maccabee and Ed Walters, UFOs Are Real: Here’s the Proof, Avon, 1997; James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 287–297; Clark III 550–552 Source ID: Eberhart_6705 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21172 (84BCC1D3) Date: 11/11/1987 Description: First five photos reported taken by builder Ed Walters Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Gulf Breeze, FL Source ID: HallUFOE2_428 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21173 (EBFE6C5B) Date: 11/11/1987 Description: First five photos reported taken by builder Ed Walters (section VII). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf Breeze, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5757 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21174 (F5920FF1) Date: 11/12/1987 Description: In Ringsted, Denmark an observer spotted a short child-like figure in a field at 8:20 p.m. Upon closer investigation he also saw a three meter in diameter glowing ball float up and then spin into the sky at high speed. The witness felt the short figure may have entered the ball shaped craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14570, citing SUFOI News, issue 11; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, case # 2500, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Source ID: Johnson_7618 Source: Johnson ### Event 21175 (58D0A99D) Date: Mid 11/1987 Description: 7:00 p.m. Jim Dawes is one of the witnesses of an object in the shape of the supersonic airplane Concorde at Wolverhampton, England. When it reaches overhead, he sees it is composed of many different lights in a triangle shape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Mystery of ‘Concorde shape UFO,’” Wolverhampton \(UK\) Express-Star, December 2, 1987; Marler 120 Source ID: Eberhart_6707 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21176 (D23D00F4) Date: 11/18/1987 Description: The US Congress issues its investigative report on the Iran–Contra Affair. It concludes that "the central remaining question is the role of the President in the Iran–Contra affair. On this critical point, the shredding of documents by [Poindexter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FPoindexter)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FPoindexter) [North](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%5FNorth), and others, and the death of [Casey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FCasey), leave the record incomplete.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Iran–Contra affair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra%5Faffair\#Congressional%5Fcommittees%5Finvestigating%5Fthe%5Faffair)” Source ID: Eberhart_6706 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21177 (0AA907BA) Date: 11/20/1987 Description: In 1987 in Gulf Breeze, Florida at 4:00 p.m. Ed Walters photographs a disc-shaped object outside his home. He then receives a telepathic message in Spanish telling him, "No photographs!" Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ed Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_7756 Source: Johnson ### Event 21178 (0B2F910B) Date: 11/23/1987 Description: 8:25 p.m. Rick Devine goes out the back door of his home in Shreve, Ohio, to round up the family dogs and cats. He glances up and sees four blobs of cool-white light maneuvering in a cloverleaf pattern \(elliptical orbits with a common center of flight, meeting at the center\) in an area of sky a few hundred feet in diameter. The objects move slower at the outer edges of the orbit and faster as they near the center. Devine shoos the animals inside \(no reaction to the display\) and calls to his wife Janet. She joins him and they continue to watch the objects. She describes the lights as rectangular. They cross the street into a schoolyard to get closer to the lights, which move away as if in response. At no time does the brightness or color or altitude of the lights change. Seemingly, the display covers an area equivalent to a baseball diamond. It moves back across the road, and the Devines follow. As they watch, the four blobs of light come together in the center, move outward and continue onward, disappearing 90° from each other. The sighting lasts 35 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jennie Zeidman, “Strangeness in the Night,” IUR 14, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1989\): 4–5 Source ID: Eberhart_6708 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21179 (EA116ED4) Date: 11/23/1987 Description: Dogs and cats non reactive to quad search lights (IFO). (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [871123](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-871123.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Shreve, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5758 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21180 (7BEEABA8) Date: 11/24/1987 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a woman and two teenagers driving in Gulf Breeze, Florida saw a multicolored disc-shaped object pacing them at a distance. The 30 foot in diameter object then stopped and hovered over some woods. The witnesses stopped to watch it. It was spinning and had a row of windows. A small red ball of light was emitted from the underside of the UFO. Next, the disc moved laterally, and finally ascended out of sight. The sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Boots Eckerd, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 890406; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_7886 Source: Johnson ### Event 21181 (40BC9CBA) Date: 11/25/1987 Description: In 1987 an abduction occurred in Okaloosa County, Florida not far from the town of Destin. A woman reported that her 5-year-old son was apparently taken aboard a UFO that night. He had been sleeping on the couch late that night, when he told his mother that a short, robot-like entity approached him and he was levitated up and into a hovering, disc-shaped object that was in a clearing in some nearby woods. He remembered being medically examined. He also reported that his throat hurt when he tried to talk about the experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 200; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, case #58, citing Donald M. Ware, MUFON Source ID: Johnson_7917 Source: Johnson ### Event 21182 (3890CE27) Date: 11/28/1987 Description: 9:10 p.m.–12:00 midnight. 33 unknown objects fly at low altitude over the coast of Primorsky Krai, Far Eastern district, Russia, on the Sea of Japan. Witnesses describe various shapes—cylinders, cigars, globes—all moving silently. Thirteen UFOs are seen above Dalnegorsk. The objects cause a 2-minute disruption of electrical circuits, including TVs and computers. More than 100 witnesses are questioned by the Far Eastern Commission. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 94 Source ID: Eberhart_6709 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21183 (B3275DB9) Date: 12/1987 Description: John Grace founds the Leading Edge International research group after receiving the “Dulce Papers,” a set of documents allegedly disclosing unethical experiments on humans—such as breeding techniques, DNA manipulation, and genetic modification—at an underground base in Dulce, New Mexico. The papers inspired and are included in The Matrix series of six books published from 1988 to 2007 by Grace under the pseudonym Valdamar Valerian. These huge compilations of supposed documents and insider information discuss the alien visitors and treaties with earthly governments, harvests of human body parts, friendly and unfriendly alien species, the creation of humans and culture by aliens, acquisition of alien technology, and the dangers of an alien takeover. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Darryl Smith, “[The Dulce Papers,](https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/offlimits/esp%5Fofflimits%5F2.htm)” Crowded Skyes; “Leading Edge International,” UFO-Alien Database; Clark III 9–10 Source ID: Eberhart_6712 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21184 (564AF0FF) Date: 12/1987 Description: [Barry Greenwood](http://www.ufoevidence.org/researchers/detail11.htm) calls the MJ-12 documents hoaxes, most likely contrived by [Richard C. Doty](https://ufoscoop.com/richard-c-doty/), who has apparently been Moore’s source for much of his UFO information. He cites the disparity between the briefing document’s extensive discussion of the Roswell crash and the mere 7 lines of text on the 1950 Texas crash. Greenwood also charges that the Cutler-Twining memo had been planted, as it had been found in a virtually empty box in the National Archives containing a small number of non-UFO documents. [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) thinks the Cutler-Twining memo is genuine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1987; MUFON UFO Journal, July 1988 Source ID: Eberhart_6711 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21185 (A0A9C0C3) Date: 12/1/1987 Description: 7:15 a.m. A former London policeman \(pseudonym Philip Spencer\) is walking across Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire, England, to visit his father-in-law in East Morton. He was walking up a small hill when he notices an odd-looking figure in the trail ahead of him. It is dark green and about 4 feet tall with an oversized head and long, thin arms. The creature makes a gesture at Spencer, which he takes to be a warning telling him to stay away, but he takes out his camera and snaps a picture. The creature then runs away and Spencer follows it. He loses the creature in the fog but then sees an object rise from the moor and disappear into the sky. It is a whitish color and consists of two saucer-shaped parts on top of each other. He hears a loud hum. He fails to take a photo of the object. Rather than continue with his planned route, Spencer heads to another town that was about 30 minutes away. When he arrives, he finds that it is about two hours later than he expects it to be. Additionally, the compass he has taken with him is pointed in the opposite direction than it should be. While the photo is getting examined by experts, Spencer has strange dreams. Following ufologist Peter Hough’s advice, he attends a session of regressive hypnotherapy carried out by Jim Singleton on March 16, 1988. Under hypnosis, Spencer’s original account of the incident changes. Singleton calls it a genuine recall. Spencer now remembers that when he saw the creature on the hill he was instantly paralyzed, lifted up a few feet, and pulled into the craft. When he enters, a voice tells him to be calm. A group of green aliens then performs medical experiments on him, inserting items into his nose and mouth. He is given a tour of the craft and shown a film with apocalyptic imagery, including nuclear explosions, famines, and floods. He is then shown a second film, but he never reveals the contents of this film, saying that the aliens who abducted him do not want humanity to know. Following this, Spencer is returned to Ilkley Moor, where he then takes his photograph. He claims that the alien is actually waving goodbye to him, not telling him to stay away, as in his original account. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Ilkley Moor UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkley%5FMoor%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; Peter Hough, “[The Green Alien of Ilkley Moor,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos%5Fovnis/Foto%20Green%20Humanoid%201987%2CEngland.pdf)” Fate, March 1999, pp. 35–41; Matty Sweeney, “[Ilkley Moor Alien](http://www.theparanormalguide.com/blog/ilkley-moor-alien-photograph) [Photograph,](http://www.theparanormalguide.com/blog/ilkley-moor-alien-photograph)” The Paranormal Guide, October 7, 2014; “[Picture Post: When Ilkley Moore Became an Alien](https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-culture/picture-post-when-ilkley-moor-became-alien-landing-site-1832740) [Landing Site,](https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-culture/picture-post-when-ilkley-moor-became-alien-landing-site-1832740)” Yorkshire Post, October 13, 2014; Nick Redfern, Top Secret Alien Abduction Files, Red Wheel/Weiser, 2018; Patrick Gross, “[The Ilkley Moor Encounter of the 3rd Kind, 1987](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/ilkleymoor.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_6713 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21186 (5CE725C5) Date: 12/1/1987 Description: In the pre-dawn hours on this morning in 1987 on the outskirts of Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire, England ex-constable and UFO abductee Mr. Spencer photographed a little man on the moors south of town. The ufonaut ran to a disc-shaped craft and took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Flying Saucers and How to See Them, p. 108 Source ID: Johnson_8110 Source: Johnson ### Event 21187 (C71D8769) Date: 12/2/1987 Description: At 3:00 a.m. Ed Walters heard some strange voices outside his home in Gulf Breeze, Florida speaking Spanish. Thirty minutes later his dog started barking, so he went out on his porch to check and when he pulled a blind he saw a four foot tall Grey humanoid being with large almond-shaped eyes looking at him. The being wore wome type of shield over its eyes, chest, and lower body and was holding a lighted rod in its right hand. The creature turned around and ran towards a nearby open field. Ed Walters chased the creature, and was suddenly struck by a blue beam of light. He was unable to move his legs and fell to the ground, as if the beam was holding him down. When he was finally able to move, he ran back to the house and grabbed his camera and his gun. He photographed a large, bowl-shaped craft with darkened portholes and an illuminated orange ring on the bottom. He could also see a beam of blue light shining down from it onto the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 239; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 204; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2234; Albert S. Rosales, 1987 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 358, citing Donald Ware, Walt Andrus, and Charles D. Flannigan Source ID: Johnson_8145 Source: Johnson ### Event 21188 (ABEE799E) Date: 12/5/1987 Description: At 3:00 p.m. a cylindrical UFO flew dangerously close to an aircraft on landing approach, then followed the aircraft and hovered near the airport in Indianapolis, Indiana. The witness was driving east when he saw the prop plane as it broke through clouds at 4600 feet on landing approach. The vertical cylinder hovered at only 3-4 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 112 Source ID: Johnson_8213 Source: Johnson ### Event 21189 (CCCE4521) Date: 12/9/1987 Description: Night. Oddly moving lights in the sky appear over Nottingham, England, traveling quickly and emitting a deep hum. A triangular object about 250 feet long covered in 150 red and white lights is observed over a farm near Hull around the same date. Similar UFOs are seen in Staffordshire and Long Eaton, Derbyshire. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Mystery of City UFO Sightings,” Nottingham \(UK\) Evening Post, December 10, 1987; Hull \(UK\) Daily Mail, December 11, 1987; Long Eaton \(UK\) Trader, December 23, 1987; Marler 121 Source ID: Eberhart_6714 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21190 (C772303E) Date: 12/10/1987 Description: In 1987, in Oriole Beach, Santa Rosa county, Florida some kids saw what looked like an "extra streetlight" glide behind some trees and houses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ed Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 339 Source ID: Johnson_8321 Source: Johnson ### Event 21191 (A2B25FF1) Date: 12/12/1987 Description: About 8:50 P.M. (CST). Soviet rocket casing orbital decay and atmospheric re-entry, multiple fiery objects from NW to SE. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_429 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21192 (4834934D) Date: 12/12/1987 Description: On this day six odd looking humanoid beings were sighted on the ground near a nuclear power plant in Malvezi, France in a restricted area. They were overheard speaking in an unintelligible language. They flew away on flying sleds. Later that night United Airlines flight 1405 reported that two UFOs, each with two rows of lights, approached the airliner at a rapid speed 50 miles east of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, December 1988, p. 22; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 45 Source ID: Johnson_8363 Source: Johnson ### Event 21193 (7A9A8893) Date: 12/13/1987 Description: Ufologist John Lear claims Dr. Edward Teller is MJ-12 Type: statement Reference: Article by John Lear (TODO) Location: Nevada Source ID: Maj2_762 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21194 (AE7ED9E0) Date: 12/13/1987 Description: Geminid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_430 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21195 (D884C0F8) Date: 12/14/1987 Description: Elliptical object landed ahead of car, blocked road. Headlights and engine failed, blinding light from underside. Car dragged toward object Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Launceston, Northern Tasmania Source ID: HallUFOE2_431 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21196 (4567A9EE) Date: 12/14/1987 Description: Elliptical object landed ahead of car, blocked road; headlights and engine failed, blinding light from underside. Car dragged toward object (section XII). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Launceston, Tasmania Source ID: NICAP_DB_5759 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21197 (36EF03B1) Date: 12/14/1987 Description: 9:30 p.m. A gray, oval-shaped object lands on the road ahead of a Mercedes car near Launceston, Tasmania. The engine and lights fail instantly, and the driver brakes to a stop. Intense light comes from the base of the object that is painful to the driver’s eyes. He leaves the car and gets sick, hiding behind a tree from where he watches his car being dragged about 33 feet, as if attracted by a magnet, and leaving tire marks on the road. A Land Cruiser approaches the scene and its lights fail, but the diesel engine continues to operate. The object takes off with a whirring sound. The car is covered with melted specks of asphalt, and serious electrical problems must be fixed after the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_6715 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21198 (0FEC447C) Date: 12/17/1987 Description: In 1987 Ed Walters took several photographs of a disc-shaped UFO with lights at one o’clock in the morning in Gulf Breeze, Florida. An abduction of Mr. Walters may have occurred the same night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_8475 Source: Johnson ### Event 21199 (49E137D5) Date: 12/21/1987 Description: CIA letter to former assistant director of NICAP Mr. Richard H. Hall stating the CIA’s reasons for denying certain FOIA requests about himself on the basis of national defense reasons and must be kept secret. Mr. Hall is an UFO investigator and book author. Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Hall) Location: Langley, VA Source ID: Maj2_763 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21200 (97DC4270) Date: Winter 1987 Description: Night. Air Force Security Policeman Joseph C. Pscolka is awakened by the night shift flight security controller at the Malmstrom AFB N-01 missile alert facility northwest of Grassrange, Montana, who tells him that an alarm response team responded to a security alert at the N-06 launch site and had not been heard from for nearly an hour. Pscolka assembles a security response team and joins them to drive to the site. The security lights are out and the alarm team’s vehicle parked 50 feet from the wide-open gate with its lights out and engine off. Pscolka drives up to the vehicle when his own Peacekeeper APC loses power. At that moment, the alert team bursts from its vehicle and runs to the APC, begging to be let in. Their vehicle had shut down entirely, even the flashlights. The entire launch facility, up to 20 feet outside the gate, is devoid of snow, even though the snow outside is knee- deep. Pscolka goes up to the facility alone after posting guards. When he gets to the snow-free zone, he notes the temperature is warmer, even hot. Everything within the facility is warm to the touch, including the soil. But there are no intruders. A few more APCs approach down the access road, and suddenly all the facility and vehicle lights come on again. After the incident, the teams are debriefed and ordered not to tell anyone about it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 397– 401 Source ID: Eberhart_6710 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21201 (18C8413A) Date: 12/23/1987 Description: Ed Walters photographed three oval-shaped UFOs at 5:55 a.m. from his home in Gulf Breeze, Florida. He had the impression that they wanted to be photographed, according to his account of the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 86 Source ID: Johnson_8573 Source: Johnson ### Event 21202 (EB8EF8FC) Date: 12/25/1987 Description: Barking dogs alerted witness to treetop hovering sphere (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Coon Rapid, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5760 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21203 (BD7FC9EE) Date: 12/25/1987 Description: A very intense, pink or reddish-orange light lit up the whole lake in Coon Rapids, Minnesota at 10:00 p.m. The UFO was first seen above the trees along the shorline. It then went down to the lake level and turned off all illuminated like a light turned off with a switch. At least 16 holes were discovered in the ice on the lake the next day. The holes were between one and five inches in diameter and were within 200 feet of where the first witness had been standing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: William McNeff, MUFON Field Investigations Database, case 910902 Source ID: Johnson_8608 Source: Johnson ### Event 21204 (01B75366) Date: 12/29/1987 Description: Lear Jet heir [John Lear](https://www.exopaedia.org/Lear%2C%2BJohn), based on stories by Albuquerque businessman [Paul Bennewitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz) claims in a statement on ParaNet that he has independent confirmation of a secret underground base near Dulce, New Mexico, populated by gray aliens and humans. Direct communication between one alien group and the US government took place at Holloman AFB in April 1964. Lear alleges that the MJ-12 group entered into a relationship with possible ET intelligences between 1969 and 1971 and in exchange for super technology, gave carte blanche to the ETs to conduct experiments and abductions on unsuspecting human beings. Lear also claims that the ETs, with our government’s knowledge, are mutilating domestic cattle and sheep, and in some cases even humans are the victims. In 1972–1973, a secret underground facility at Groom Lake, Nevada, was built “for and with the help of” the ETs. Lear claims that [William Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) is being used as a conduit by MJ-12 \(which includes [Edward Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) [Henry Kissinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FKissinger)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%5FKissinger) [Bobby Ray Inman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%5FRay%5FInman)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%5FRay%5FInman) and possibly [John Poindexter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FPoindexter)\) to release information about the alien presence on earth. Many ParaNet members question his assertions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Dulce Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce%5FBase)”; “[Statement Released by John Lear,](https://strangetextsbutcher.blogspot.com/2018/08/john-lear-december-29-1987.html)” December 29, 1987; Don Ecker, “Driven to Destruction,” Fortean Times 121 \(April 1999\): 40–43 Source ID: Eberhart_6716 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1988 (Back to Top) ### Event 21205 (415717DF) Date: 1988 Description: Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets ufologist John Lear Type: meeting Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Location: NV Source ID: Maj2_764 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21206 (30E83AD2) Date: 1988 Description: [Michael Corbin](https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/michael-corbin-rip/) becomes administrator of ParaNet, which runs through the mid-1990s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_6717 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21207 (C0F1C2CA) Date: 1988 Description: College instructor [Karla Turner](https://ufo.fandom.com/wiki/Karla%5FTurner) and her husband are in counseling to learn why they are feeling physical symptoms of stress. She reads Missing Time by [Budd Hopkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins) and Communion by [Whitley Strieber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley%5FStrieber) and soon recalls having seen an odd light in the sky as a girl and begins to dream about UFOs. Having learned hypnotic regression techniques from her therapist, she regresses her husband, whereupon he remembers several childhood experiences with gray aliens. Several nights later, Karla awakens to sounds of clicks and bumps in the house, followed by disembodied voices in her bedroom. She later remembers a nightmare from her childhood in which an insect-like being holds her hand and tells her it is her mother. Soon she and her husband undergo regression by an Oklahoma UFO researcher, which produces accounts of repeated abductions since childhood and evidence that her whole family was involved. After one session, Karla, her husband, and a third person see a lighted, disc- shaped craft hovering above them. Two weeks later, she again hears voices in the night and loud knocking sounds. She wakes to find small punctures on her inner wrist and three white circles on her abdomen. Into 1989, more body marks appear, including a solid red triangle on her arm, puncture wounds, scratches, and bruises. Poltergeist phenomena occur. The Turners begin to notice a white car parked near their house, and unmarked helicopters seem to follow them. They begin to suspect the US military is monitoring them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Karla Turner, [Into](https://archive.org/details/into-the-fringe) [the Fringe: A True Story of Alien Abduction](https://archive.org/details/into-the-fringe), Berkley, 1992 Source ID: Eberhart_6718 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21208 (33728D18) Date: 1/1988 Description: A family in the vicinity of Pasadena, California, notices a large, perfectly circular brown spot, 13 feet in diameter, in their backyard in the midst of their lush, well-cared for St. Augustine grass. It seems to have appeared the morning after the wife awakens to see a small, gray-skinned entity standing beside her and probing her torso with medical instruments. She had seen a strange light beam one month earlier. The brown area slowly fills in with Bermuda grass after 6 months. The Los Angeles County agricultural pathologist who examines a soil sample finds four southern chinch bugs \(Blissus insularis\) that he says can cause similar damage, although the progression is much slower and requires many more insects than four. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ann Druffel, “CE3—and CE2?” IUR 14, no. 3 \(May/June 1989\): 10–12, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_6719 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21209 (A25F380E) Date: 1/3/1988 Description: Some very bright lights in the sky paced a car for several miles around 5 p.m. in Grimsby, England. It was seen for nine minutes before it departed by shooting straight up. At 9:30 p.m. an ovoid flying object was seen over southern Leeds, England, then an airplane appeared in the sky. The UFO zig-zagged toward the plane, causing a near collision, then was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, pp. 11-12 Source ID: Johnson_69 Source: Johnson ### Event 21210 (0ECC66BA) Date: 1/4/1988 Description: Two 35 centimeter red spheres maneuvered low over a field in Vetterslev, Denmark starting at 6: 45 p.m. and continuing for two hours. Melted snow and small footprints were later found in the field. During that same time there were at least eight UFO sightings reported throughout parts of Yorkshire, England. At 8:10 p.m. a torpedo-shaped object, resembling a World War II V-1 German “buzz-bomb,” flew over the city of York. It reportedly emitted smoke, flame, and debris, and was followed through the sky by a brilliant ball of light. At 8:45 p.m. a thin, pencil-shaped UFO with red and blue running lights was sighted in Selby. At 9:10 p.m. a ex-RAF man saw flashing lights around a 400-foot diameter, layered disc that glowed orange in Leeds. In Dewsbury at 11:30 p.m. a disc flew back and forth in the sky, making a swishing sound. It either extinguished its lights, or vanished, because its disappearance seemed to be instantaneous. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Scandinavian UFO Information Newsletter, issue #11; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, pp. 14-17 Source ID: Johnson_96 Source: Johnson ### Event 21211 (51F34371) Date: 1/5/1988 Alternate date: 1/15/1988 Description: 5:00 a.m. Cristian Tuţă is doing mandatory military service in a unit at Roşu, Romania, on the shore of Lacul Morii. While on guard duty, he notices an oval light positioned vertically 30 feet above the bridge to the only island on the lake. He estimates it is 45 feet high and 15 feet wide. Inside are four much brighter lights in the shape of a cross. At first it remains motionless, but begins quickly moving up and down along the bridge like a sine wave for 30 minutes. It stops abruptly and moves slowly to the southwest at an altitude of 60 feet. When it comes to a clump of trees, it changes its shape to two discs put together. In a split second it zooms away to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 46–48 Source ID: Eberhart_6720 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21212 (DD40FE0E) Date: 1/12/1988 Description: At 5:25 p.m. Ed Walters was driving in his pickup truck on US 98 in Gulf Breeze, Florida when an object appeared ahead of him shining a white beam of light through the windshield, partially paralyzing his forearms and hands. He stopped the truck and pulled over to the side of the road. He now felt numb and his arms were stinging. The object approached quickly and hovered three feet above the roadway. He was able to grab his shotgun and got out of the truck, attempting to crawl under it. At this point the object brightened and came closer. A beam of white light struck Walters on the back of his legs. The object next began rotating and a blue beam of light appeared under it. The beam deposited five small beings on the roadway, all of whom wore some type of shield like coverings. They had large black oval-shaped eyes and carried glowing rods. The beings approached Walters, who then managed to crawl back into his truck and was somehow able to start it; he then drove quickly away from the area at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 107; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1988, case # 359, citing Donald Ware, Walter Andrus & Charles Flannigan, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 239 Source ID: Johnson_282 Source: Johnson ### Event 21213 (04168875) Date: 1/12/1988 Description: Ed Walters produces his most famous photo—a brightly lit structured craft hovering above a road near his home in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ed Walters and Frances Walters, [The Gulf Breeze Sightings](https://archive.org/details/gulfbreezesighti00walt)[,](https://archive.org/details/gulfbreezesighti00walt) Morrow, 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6721 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21214 (53DAA1AF) Date: 1/19/1988 Description: A father and daughter were driving to pick up the mother from work at around 5:00 p.m. in Benton, Louisiana. They pulled into the parking lot of her work and stopped to wait for her. The lot, the street, and the nearby Interstate highway were all in their normal hubbub of activity. The daughter brought her father's attention to a streak of light in the sky. Almost as soon as he focused on it, the light seemed to appear immediately in front of them, about 150 feet away and about 50 feet above the ground. It was a dull silver or steel gray disc-shaped object. Around the perimeter were openings like wind scoops, which spun about fairly rapidly. From the top of the disc emerged a sheath from which extended rotary blades like those seen on helicopters. The craft performed this extension as they watched, although the blades did not turn. The disc was about the size of an automobile and about five feet tall. It never made any noise for the minute and a half of the performance. A strange silence permeated the environment. "It seemed...that there were no cars moving, [we] didn't hear a thing in the world. Nothing. Just like the world stood still." Then the device zipped away, and as soon as it had left "the traffic on I-20 came alive and the parking lot became active." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Swords, International UFO Reporter, Summer 2002, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_388 Source: Johnson ### Event 21215 (D7BF4473) Date: 1/19/1988 Description: Glowing red object followed car, moved up and down as if following contours of local terrain (section X). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Launceston, AR Source ID: NICAP_DB_5761 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21216 (B07FE9BA) Date: 1/19/1988 Description: Glowing red object followed car, moved up and down as if following contours of local terrain Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Foreman, AR Source ID: HallUFOE2_432 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21217 (9F776E68) Date: 1/19/1988 Description: 5:00 p.m. A father and daughter are driving to pick the mother up from work in Benton, Louisiana. When they pull into the mall parking lot, the daughter notices a streak of light in the sky that suddenly moves right in front of them about 150 feet away and 50 feet above the ground. It is a dull silver disc with “turbines” or openings around its perimeter that are spinning like a slowly moving fan. From the top of the object emerges a sheath with rotary blades, although the blades do not rotate. The disc is about the size of an automobile, around 5 feet tall, and completely silent. For 90 seconds, all the noise of the mall seems muted. Then the device begins to move and zips away quickly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 21 Source ID: Eberhart_6722 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21218 (5AA6BC69) Date: 1/20/1988 Description: Knowles family encounter with oval object that buzzed car, car lifted off road, physical traces (section VI). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mundrabilla, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5762 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21219 (26C0BF1A) Date: 1/20/1988 Description: Knowles family encounter with oval object that buzzed car, car lifted off road, physical traces Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Mundrabilla, Western Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_433 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21220 (562D56B3) Date: 1/20/1988 Description: The four member Knowles family was driving on the Nullabor Plain west of Mundrabilla in Western Australia at around 4:30 a.m. when their car started being paced by a mysterious light. It followed them for nearly 90 minutes. The close encounter took a dramatic turn when the UFO buzzed the car from behind and somehow lifted it from the road. The car was airborne a few feet above the ground for a short period, then was dropped back onto the highway surface, causing the tires to pop. The UFO had a bright yellow light in the center and looked like the sketch below. The "egg-cup" shaped object then flew off. The car had dents and scratches on the roof, and their luggage that had been strapped to the roof was gone. An ash residue was also found inside the car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Pat Delgado, FSR, June 1988, p. 1; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 2): A Thirty Year Report, pp. 30, 205, 276 Source ID: Johnson_395 Source: Johnson ### Event 21221 (6A8F34BF) Date: 1/20/1988 Description: 4:10 a.m. Faye Knowles and her three sons Patrick, Sean, and Wayne are en route along the Eyre Highway from Perth, Western Australia, to Melbourne, Victoria, by car, when they observe a bright, egg-shaped object ahead of them on the road near Mundrabilla, Western Australia. Sean is driving and has to swerve to miss the object. The egg-shaped object then begins to follow their station wagon. At some point, Sean does a U-turn to approach the object, but soon goes back to driving eastward. The family becomes disoriented, and the sequence of events is difficult to reconstruct. They roll down the windows and a “grayish-black mist” enters into the car. Faye reaches out the window to touch the roof and feels something warm, soft, and rubbery that covers her hand in black dust. They hear a thud on the roof and come to believe that the object has lifted their car off the road. They are let down suddenly and the right rear tire blows out. A truck driver named Graham Henley is driving ahead of the Knowles’s car; he sees a bright light in his rearview mirror for about 5 minutes. Shortly after Henley pulls into Mundrabilla, the Knowles family arrives in a state of disorientation. He inspects the damaged tire, sees dents in the roof, and smells something burnt. Henley and another trucker drive back to the scene and find skid marks and footprints. In the afternoon, the family report to police in Ceduna, South Australia, who note their distress and the dents in the roof. Samples of the black dust are collected for forensic analysis. The police tests are never done, but at least half of the material is obtained by ufologists [Keith Basterfield](http://www.auforn.com/Kbintro.htm) and [Ray Brooke](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2018/09/ray-brooke-passing-of-australian-uap.html), who take it to a laboratory. The analysis reveals ordinary materials: sodium chloride, sodium, aluminum, magnesium, sulfur, potassium, silicon, chlorine, clay particles, and calcium. The Seven Network pays the Australian Mineral Development Laboratories to test the vehicle for radioactivity, but there is none above background. AMDEL states that the car tire has failed due to being underinflated, and the dust, smell, and smoke is due to the blowout. Another set of samples is taken from the car by the Victorian UFO Research Society and sent to two different labs, again with commonplace results. However, one analysis by [Richard Haines](http://www.nicap.org/bio-haines.htm) in the US concludes that the interior dust is different from the exterior dust, which contains a possible trace of astatine, a radioactive chemical element. Faye’s hand became red and swollen in the days after the event. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield and Ray Brooke, “[The Mundrabilla Incident,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20Newsletter/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20newsletter%20vol%206%20no%201.pdf)” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 6, no. 1 \(April 1988\): 3–20; Keith Basterfield and Ray Brooke, “[The Mundrabilla Incident: An Update,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20Newsletter/UFO%20Research%20Australia%20newsletter%20vol%207%20no%201.pdf)” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 7, no. 1 \(May 1989\): 3–9; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 36-37; Keith Basterfield, “Samples from the Mundrabilla CE2,” IUR 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1990\): 12–13; UFOEv II 232–237; Siani, “UFOs on the Nullarbor Plain \(Part 1\),” Strange Days, September 27, 2007; Siani, “UFOs on the Nullarbor Plain \(Part 2\),” Strange Days, September 27, 2007; Brian Dunning, “[The Knowles](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4715) [Family UFO Incident,](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4715)” Skeptoid podcast, no. 715, February 18, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_6723 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21222 (A9B76116) Date: 1/21/1988 Description: 8:00 p.m. Ex-Navy Lt. Dan McIndoe and his family are at their home 5 miles north of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, when they see a white light with red and blue flashes. They watch it maneuvering for 2 hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Donald A. Johnson, “UFOs in Washington Skies,” IUR 13, no. 2 \(March/April 1988\): 4–6 Source ID: Eberhart_6724 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21223 (BCD76FEB) Date: 1/22/1988 Description: A 60-foot long triangular UFO flew to the east low over the road, just ahead of the two witnesses' car in Kettlewell, North Yorkshire, England at 9:00 p.m. It had many lights, some of which were flashing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_425 Source: Johnson ### Event 21224 (1863384B) Date: 1/23/1988 Description: A massive "footprint-shaped" or peanut-shaped UFO was seen over Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England at 12:45 a.m. It had many tinted-glass portholes, and flew slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_460 Source: Johnson ### Event 21225 (B3E5D97A) Date: 1/24/1988 Description: At 5:30 p.m. on this evening at his home in Gulf Breeze, Florida Ed Walters took his twenty-first UFO photograph of a domed, disc-shaped object. The blurring movement of the object suggests that when the object left it accelerated at 20 G's, according to photometric analysis. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 210, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 239 Source ID: Johnson_495 Source: Johnson ### Event 21226 (E5453EF0) Date: 1/25/1988 Description: Barking dogs alerted to triangle, treetop height (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [880125](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/sharondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sharon, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5764 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21227 (3D49E044) Date: 1/28/1988 Description: Ex-CIA Pilot Claimed To Receive 25 Secret CIA Memos About Aliens On Earth Type: interview Reference: [link](https://www.howandwhys.com/ex-cia-pilot-claimed-to-receive-25-secret-cia-memos-about-aliens-on-earth/) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: Maj2_766 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21228 (60B5EF03) Date: 1/31/1988 Description: A woman had a close encounter with a silent charcoal black triangular object while driving in the suburban town of Eureka, Pennsylvania at 6:50 p.m. The object passed only 30 feet above her car. It had three bright white headlights on the side facing her when sighted, six small white lights underneath in two clusters of three, and a red light on the bottom forward. The edges of the object sloped out underneath. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, MUFON Field Investigations Database, case # 880940 Source ID: Johnson_641 Source: Johnson ### Event 21229 (FBC8E32E) Date: 2/4/1988 Description: 8:10 p.m. A woman is driving between Bacup, Lancashire, and Todmorden, Yorkshire, England, when she sees an intense orange, egg-shaped light to the south-southeast above Tooler Hill when she is crossing the border between the two counties. Its interior is like a “swirling liquid \(or fire embers\) with constantly changing patterns.” She stops to watch it as it hovers for another 2–3 minutes. As she drives away it starts to move, so she pulls over again and watches it \(now dimmer\) move away to the southwest. It speeds up as it descends below the level of the hillside. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “[Another Pennine Earthlight?](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Northern%20UFO%20News%20%28Jenny%20Randles%29/Northern%20UFO%20News%20-%20No%20137.pdf)” Northern UFO News, no. 137 \(June 1989\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_6725 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21230 (D2BC4636) Date: 2/8/1988 Description: In Gulf Breeze, Florida at around eight o'clock in the evening, Ed Walters and his wife witnessed a small bright orange ring in the sky. Mr. Walters snapped a Polaroid photograph of it, then experienced two hours of missing time. He claims he has no memory of taking the photo. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_762 Source: Johnson ### Event 21231 (81C6CF95) Date: 2/9/1988 Description: 8:00 a.m. A man looking for farm work near Oswestry, Shropshire, England, sees a dog run from a parked car he is passing. The dog crosses the road and runs barking straight int a swirling, yellowish, glowing mist about 45 feet in diameter that straddles a hedgerow. The mist is making a noise like rushing air. The dog owner gets out of the car, and the witness follows her toward the glow and tries to calm her down. As they approach, their hair stands on end, their skin begins tingling, and they smell sulfur as an eerie stillness envelops them. Moments later, the glow disappears as if it is melting away. The dog is lying on the ground looking ill. Its eyes are red and its coat is soaking wet, yet the moisture is evaporating rapidly with steam visibly rising. The man carries the dog back to the car and the woman drives off with it. He later finds out that the dog recovered after an hour or so but died a few weeks later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, Piatkus, 2001, p. 11; Jenny Randles, “UFOs Can Damage Your Health, Part Two,” Fortean Times 365 \(April 2018\): 27 Source ID: Eberhart_6726 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21232 (5C8D086C) Date: 2/9/1988 Description: In Oswestry, Shropshire, England a 45 foot in diameter yellow cloud of something that looked like fog was seen straddling a hedgerow around 8:00 a.m. It glowed brightly and made a noise like rushing air. A dog ran into it and disappeared for a time. The two adult witnesses, a man and a woman, reported feeling a tingling sensation and smelling a sulphur smell. The dog was later found unconscious, wet and hot; its eyes were red and it seemed close to death. It died a few weeks later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_781 Source: Johnson ### Event 21233 (18E48848) Date: 2/10/1988 Description: 7:45–8:30 p.m. Numerous independent observers on the border of Cambria and Somerset counties near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, see a 60-foot object with several rows of lights that make it look like a “cruise ship in the sky.” The object passes over cars and trees at an altitude of 50–100 feet. It emits a slight humming sound and projects multiple beams of light toward the ground. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Number of UFO Reports in State Unprecedented in ‘88,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2002%20-%20no%20235.pdf)” Latrobe \(Pa.\) Bulletin, January 9, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 235 \(February 1989\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_6727 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21234 (9BE9E2F3) Date: 2/11/1988 Description: Airliner encounters huge object with lights (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beira, Mozambique, Africa Source ID: NICAP_DB_5765 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21235 (AAD28130) Date: 2/11/1988 Description: Pilot saw hovering object, intense lights like searchlights in a triangle. Climbed vertically out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Beira, Mozambique Source ID: HallUFOE2_434 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21236 (23537523) Date: 2/11/1988 Description: Beginning at 6:09 p.m. the pilot, Simplicio Pinto, and crew of a LAM Boeing 737 airliner witnessed a hovering object with intense lights like searchlights arranged in a triangle, off the coast of Beira, Mozambique. The object seemed to be a huge box-shaped craft with three lights, which hovered for more than an hour, and then climbed vertically out of sight. The object was tracked on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 14; Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, January 1991; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 45; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 30, 126 Source ID: Johnson_842 Source: Johnson ### Event 21237 (C090F8AE) Date: 2/12/1988 Description: Numerous witnesses watched as several spherical objects sailed over Svetliy Klyuch, near Dal'negorsk, Vladivostok, Russia at eight o'clock in the evening, and then hovered over a field for several minutes. A beam of light was directed down at a building. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 121 Source ID: Johnson_880 Source: Johnson ### Event 21238 (9515AC9A) Date: 2/15/1988 Description: Nocturnal lights and a domed disc descended over a high tension tower in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England then silently shot off at 12:20 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_930 Source: Johnson ### Event 21239 (826A408F) Date: 2/16/1988 Description: Two police officers saw a very large spinning oval-shaped UFO with flashing red and green lights around its circumference in the Rosehill area of Willenhall, England. It made no sound and flew off quickly toward the southeast. Two more cops saw the same or a similar UFO from Walsall. Their reports were sent to the Ministry of Defence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 10, citing Nicholas Redfern, A Covert Agenda, p. 165; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 23 Source ID: Johnson_951 Source: Johnson ### Event 21240 (697E3410) Date: 2/22/1988 Description: Cat fearful as disc at treetop level emitted beam (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [880222](http://www.nicap.org/irwindir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Irwin, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5766 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21241 (EDC05B6D) Date: 2/22/1988 Description: In suburban Irwin, Pennsylvania a silent, orange disc-shaped object flew close by to three witnesses. It had a colorful aura, and shot two beams of light down before zig-zagging away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989; MUFON field investigations database, case 880302 Source ID: Johnson_1055 Source: Johnson ### Event 21242 (94F34BDF) Date: 3/1/1988 Description: Watching TV in Johnstown, Pennsylvania at 7:50 p.m., a witness and two friends saw a bright light in the valley, so they went outside for a better look. The object, described as a white oval, remained stationary and silent for another five minutes before it "took off like streak of lightning. It just disappeared." Later that same evening, a football-shaped object with a white light at the front end and a red light at the tail was sighted by a woman over a farm in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania at 9:40 p.m. It had a reflecting surface on the leading side of the bottom of the object (reflecting white light). The white light flashed while moving, but not while hovering. Her sighting lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, MUFON investigation files, cases # 880931 & 880932 Source ID: Johnson_1225 Source: Johnson ### Event 21243 (28A336AF) Date: 3/3/1988 Description: 8:30 p.m. The brothers Farisano are returning home from a soccer championship near General Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, when they notice some strange lights above a nearby bridge. As they approach the lights, their vehicle engine suddenly stalls. They try to restart it but cannot, so they remain in their truck watching the lights. They now see that the lights are on a spherical object with a large red light on the top and several white lights in a row on the bottom section. The object hovers close to the ground. Inside the transparent midsection the witnesses can see a shadow-like figure moving about. The object suddenly moves slowly out of sight, after which the truck engine restarts and they drive home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_6728 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21244 (9629C97D) Date: 3/4/1988 Description: In 1988 a well-reported, well-investigated case occurred for over an hour off the shore of Lake Erie near Eastlake, Ohio. At 8:35 p.m. a very large illuminated ellipse or cigar-shaped object with smaller satellite objects hovered over, then landed on the ice on Lake Erie, not far from a nuclear power plant. Among the many witnesses included personnel from the local US Coast Guard station. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, January 1989 Source ID: Johnson_1303 Source: Johnson ### Event 21245 (DA1757F2) Date: 3/4/1988 Description: Eastlake Close Encounter (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, NC) Reference: NICAP: [880304](http://www.nicap.org/880304eastlake%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eastlake, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5767 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21246 (EF4551CA) Date: 3/4/1988 Description: Coast Guard witnesses, large illuminated ellipse hovering over Lake Erie, landing on ice. Smaller triangular objects emerged, zipped around independently Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Eastlake, OH Source ID: HallUFOE2_435 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21247 (39869090) Date: 3/4/1988 Description: 8:35 p.m. Sheila and Henry Baker and their three children are driving home to Eastlake, Ohio, after going to dinner. As they near the waterfront, Sheila notices something hovering above Lake Erie, so they drive down to the beach to investigate. A huge, metallic-gray, football-shaped object like a blimp is silently rocking back and forth, blinding white light emanating from both ends. It begins circling, moving overhead at about 1,300 feet. Somehow it causes the lake ice to rumble and crack. The Bakers get nervous and drive home, where they can still see the UFO with red and blue blinking lights along the bottom edge. 5–6 bright triangular lights detach from the side, hovering at first, then darting and zigzagging around at high speeds. Each is smaller than a Cessna and cross 50- mile stretches low over the ice “in the snap of a finger.” They make several passes toward the Perry Nuclear Power Plant about 20 miles away. The Bakers alert the Coast Guard, and Seaman James Powers and Petty Officer John Knaub drive to the beach, where the triangular objects approach them. They give a blow-by-blow radio report to the Coast Guard base in Detroit. Other witnesses in different locations also see the triangles. Suddenly the smaller objects return to the large one, which seems to be landing on the ice. They reenter it, the ellipse flashes a series of red, blue, and yellow lights, and the light at the end turns from white to red. Suddenly the lights go out and the ice booming stops. The witnesses assume the object has gone beneath the surface. The Coast Guard report the next day suggests that the lights were Venus and Jupiter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Eastlake Close Encounter](http://www.nicap.org/880304eastlake%5Fdir.htm)”; Richard P. Dell’Aquila, “[Ohio Flap,](https://vdocuments.mx/mufon-ufo-journal-1989-1-january.html?page=15)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 249 \(January 1989\): 15–17; Dolan II 428–431; John Lasker, Technoir: 13 Investigations from the Dark Side of Technology, the US Military, and UFOs, The Author, 2010, pp. 23–28; Marcus Lowth, “[The Baker Family UFO Encounter over Lake Erie,](https://www.ufoinsight.com/ufos/close-encounters/baker-family-ufo-lake-erie)” UFO Insight, August 2, 2018; Michael Lee Hill, “[Never Before Heard! Famous 1988 Lake Erie Coast Guard UFO Event Update: Audio](https://www.michaelleehill.net/blogs/news/never-before-heard-famous-1988-lake-erie-coast-guard-ufo-event-update-audio-witness-testimony) [Witness Testimony!](https://www.michaelleehill.net/blogs/news/never-before-heard-famous-1988-lake-erie-coast-guard-ufo-event-update-audio-witness-testimony)” Michael Lee Hill blog, August 18, 2018; Patrick Gross, “[Lake Erie, USA 1988](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/erie.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_6729 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21248 (3C80A5BF) Date: 3/5/1988 Description: [Richard Doty](https://ufoscoop.com/richard-c-doty/) writes to ufologist [Larry W. Bryant](https://ufoview.tumblr.com/) that he had never promised film footage to [Linda Moulton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%5FMoulton%5FHowe) [Howe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%5FMoulton%5FHowe)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%5FMoulton%5FHowe)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 365 Source ID: Eberhart_6730 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21249 (5353339C) Date: 3/7/1988 Description: During a campaign rally in Rogers, Arkansas, vice president and presidential candidate [George H. W. Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FH.%5FW.%5FBush) is approached by a UFO buff named [Charles Huffer](http://www.berlinbrats.org/faculty/FACHuffer08Obit.pdf)[,](http://www.berlinbrats.org/faculty/FACHuffer08Obit.pdf) who asks him if he will tell the truth about UFOs. He sort of promises to declassify the information. Later, Huffer declines to send him any UFO cases because “you’re a CIA man. You know all that stuff.” “I know some,” Bush replies, “I know a fair amount.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: presidentialufo.com, “George Bush, 41st President” Source ID: Eberhart_6731 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21250 (73B6FC91) Date: 3/10/1988 Description: At 8:45 p.m. UFO investigators on the A61 highway north of Sheffield, England saw a large pulsating orange ovoid UFO fly by at 400 feet altitude Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_1415 Source: Johnson ### Event 21251 (876D30E6) Date: 3/12/1988 Description: Nr Edwards AFB, California, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Edwards AFB (near), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5768 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21252 (AC11E2B2) Date: 3/14/1988 Description: On this day in Goreloe, Dalniy Vostok, in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, a very large sphere stopped over the village. Next, a small pink object split off and shot away to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 122; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14665 Source ID: Johnson_1501 Source: Johnson ### Event 21253 (B36C7664) Date: 3/16/1988 Description: Dog responds and hides in close encounter (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [880316](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-880316.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Yukon Territory near Carcross, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5769 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21254 (2675F32F) Date: 3/20/1988 Description: John Salter, Jr., and John, III, abduction Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Wisconsin Source ID: HallUFOE2_436 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21255 (771E91F6) Date: 3/20/1988 Description: John Salter, Jr., and John, III, abduction (section XIII). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Unknown City, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5770 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21256 (4F5806C2) Date: 3/23/1988 Description: Motorists saw bright light ahead, engine lost power, radio failed. Four square yellow lights and light beam visible. Car returned to normal after lights disappeared (Basterfield, 1997a). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: East Tamar Highway, Tasmania Source ID: HallUFOE2_437 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21257 (97FF69B9) Date: 3/23/1988 Description: Motorists saw bright light ahead, engine lost power, radio failed. Four square yellow lights and light beam visible. Car returned to normal after lights disappeared (Basterfield, 1997a). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: East Tamar Highway, Tasmania Source ID: NICAP_DB_5771 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21258 (51FE641B) Date: 3/30/1988 Description: In Grand Canal, Florida at 10:30 p.m. two adults and two girls observed a diamond-shaped UFO over a house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ed Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 353 Source ID: Johnson_1746 Source: Johnson ### Event 21259 (750EB3A0) Date: 4/1988 Description: [William Steinman](https://rr0.org/people/s/SteinmanWilliamS.html) again contacts [Eric A. Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FA.%5FWalker%5F%28engineer%29) at his Florida residence and asks about the current members of MJ-12. Within a week, Walker mails Steinman’s handwritten note back to him from Penn State, not Florida. At the top of the letter, Walker has written, “Must reply, did code \(–1\),” and placed numbers from 1 to 26 above certain words in Steinman’s letter. Later in the month, T. Scott Crain calls Walker, who says he cannot talk about the UFO subject. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Grant Cameron and T. Scott Crain Jr., UFOs, MJ-12, and the Government: A Report on Government Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals, Mutual UFO Network, 1991, pp. 16–22 Source ID: Eberhart_6732 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21260 (634BD7A7) Date: 4/2/1988 Description: Two abductions occurred on this night in 1988, one in Massachusetts and another in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Nyman and the UFO Newsclipping Service Source ID: Johnson_1805 Source: Johnson ### Event 21261 (FB7EA422) Date: 4/3/1988 Description: A mother and daughter were awakened by a throbbing sensation and the sound of a tree falling in Gulf Breeze, Florida at 2:45 a.m. They looked out and saw a flying object only 50 feet above the ground, with a circle of orange "porthole-like" lights around its middle. A beam of light struck the mother, who had a strong feeling of being watched. The entire encounter lasted over two hours. The mother is also employed as a schoolteacher (see the other schoolteacher reports in 1968 and 1982 for similarities). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 18, citing field investigator V. Lyons Source ID: Johnson_1822 Source: Johnson ### Event 21262 (6C788D5D) Date: 4/9/1988 Description: A triangular UFO hovered for three minutes over Stode, Sweden at 1:00 p.m. It vanished in a cloud of smoke. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: AFU Sweden Source ID: Johnson_1933 Source: Johnson ### Event 21263 (EC035E53) Date: 4/12/1988 Description: [Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html)[,](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html) founder of APRO, [dies](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/929123/coral-elsie-lorenzen) in Tucson, Arizona. CUFOS had been attempting to purchase the APRO archives, but is thwarted by someone who convinces Coral’s son, Larry Lorenzen, that this is a bad move and that the APRO board should reconsider. He wants the archive to stay in Arizona. [Tina Choate and Brian](http://www.nicap.org/APRO/APRO%5Ffiles%5FSvahn.htm) [Myers](http://www.nicap.org/APRO/APRO%5Ffiles%5FSvahn.htm)[,](http://www.nicap.org/APRO/APRO%5Ffiles%5FSvahn.htm) with their dubious International Center for UFO Research, convince the APRO board that they are the most logical recipients. In 1989, the board gives them the archives free of charge. Former APRO board member [Robert Dean](https://www.exopaedia.org/Dean%2C%2BBob) later realizes Choate and Myers are scam artists. They immediately bar anyone from using the files and move them to a garage at an undisclosed location in Scottsdale or Sedona, Arizona. It is not known if the paper archives still exist, although fortunately APRO case files prior to 1957 have been preserved digitally. In 2010–2012, Choate and Myers are involved in a fraudulent scheme to acquire and illegally sell a valuable collection of fossils. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Obituary: Coral Lorenzen,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201988%20V%2033%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 33, no. 3 \(September 1988\): 15; Clas Svahn, “[Unique UFO Archive Hidden in Warehouse \(APRO Archives and Files\),](http://ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1145.htm)” UFO Evidence; Jamie Ross, “[Collector Sues over $25M in Fossils,](https://www.courthousenews.com/collector-sues-over-25m-in-fossils/)” Courthouse News Service, May 17, 2010; Isaac Koi, “Rare Microfilms of UFO Documents Now Online: APRO, US Air Force, etc. \(PDF archives\),” Above Top Secret forum, December 15, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_6733 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21264 (80D4864A) Date: 4/28/1988 Description: A single witness driving on US highway 98 east of Gulf Breeze, Florida had a disc-shaped UFO pace his van. The UFO stayed just ahead of the van and beamed a blue beam down onto the road. At the same time planes were seen circling the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON field investigation files, case #880501; Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1988, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_2397 Source: Johnson ### Event 21265 (62BD4E26) Date: 5/1/1988 Description: Ed Walters reported another abduction experience that began at 1:20 a.m. in Gulf Breeze, Florida. He found himself walking along a dirt path in a dark wooded area near his hom. He soon saw a hovering lighted object overhead and attempted to photograph it, but was soon surrounded by several figures that grabbed him from behind. The beings seemed to move in short bursts of speed. He remembers falling down and then being surrounded by at least 20 of the creatures. Each one was equipped with a silver rod and covered in a box like suit. He was then unable to move. They picked him up and carried him, and it was then that he noticed that their hands felt rough. He experienced a burning pain that twisted down his spinal cord like an electrical shock, and he was able to move again. The creatures then scattered about him. He felt a voice in his head that constantly talked to him, calling him by the name of "Zehaas." He rolled on the sand and tried to grab the nearest being but missed. He then rushed the creatures, who had now formed a circle around him. One of the creatures rushed forward and touched him on the shoulder with one of the silver rods, causing a white flash. He was then hit repeatedly with the silver rods, at times causing pain. He continued to struggle and fell backwards on top of one of the creatures. He noticed at this point that the creature wore a helmet. The being began to struggle and a sour smell, like mildew filled Walters nostrils. Finally the struggle ended when Walters became unconscious. Upon recovering consciousness he found himself in a hazy pie-shaped hazy room, where he presumes he was given a medical examination. The missing time experience lasted 75 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ed Walters, UFO Abductions in Gulf Breeze; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 216 Source ID: Johnson_2446 Source: Johnson ### Event 21266 (2922EFC5) Date: 5/4/1988 Description: MUFON Director of Investigations [Dan Wright](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/wright-dan-102119/) poses a set of open questions for [John Lear](https://www.exopaedia.org/Lear%2C%2BJohn)[,](https://www.exopaedia.org/Lear%2C%2BJohn) nearly all of which concern Lear’s sources. Lear claims that most of his information comes from confidential sources within the intelligence community, while a lesser portion comes from open sources and his own “informed speculation.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard P. Dell’Aquila, “[Who Is John Lear?](http://www.ufonet.it/archivio/john.lear.htm)” UFONet.it, 1988 Source ID: Eberhart_6734 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21267 (5C3C4D21) Date: 5/4/1988 Description: During a question-and-answer session following a speech to the National Strategy Forum in Chicago’s Palmer House Hotel, President [Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) is asked about the most important “need” in international relations. He replies: “I’ve often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer– a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn’t we all of a sudden find that we didn’t have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn’t we come together to fight that particular threat?” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: presidentialufo.com, “Ronald Reagan, 40th President, January 20, 1981–January 20, 1989” Source ID: Eberhart_6735 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21268 (22D666EB) Date: 5/5/1988 Description: For the third time, publicly, President Ronald Reagan states that the nations of the earth would unite if we were threatened by an Alien race from a hostile planet. Type: statement Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (J4-A) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_767 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21269 (DA1753E9) Date: 5/7/1988 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a blue sphere was seen at 600 meters altitude over the city of Sakharnaya, in Vladivostok, Russian Far East; it was completely silent. Sections of it pulsed light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14695; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 123 Source ID: Johnson_2630 Source: Johnson ### Event 21270 (6A77815C) Date: 5/9/1988 Description: At 3:00 a.m. a 34-year-old woman driving in Waltham, Massachusetts had a close encounter with a red ball of light (BOL) larger than 3 car lengths. Initially she saw it through the windshield. The intensity of the light dimmed and brightened considerably about every 5 seconds. There was a whooshing sound. The encounter lasted about half a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Nyman, MUFON field investigation files, case # 881011 Source ID: Johnson_2699 Source: Johnson ### Event 21271 (0BBB3D96) Date: 5/11/1988 Description: On the shore of Pensacola Bay, a couple in their sixties videotaped several UFOs over Gulf Breeze, Florida at 8:00 p.m. for 8 minutes. Initially there was one yellowish-orange object, which was joined by others. The lights brightened and pulsed, hovered, then descended; and faded in and out of view. They made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald M. Ware, MUFON field investigations database, case 901113 Source ID: Johnson_2749 Source: Johnson ### Event 21272 (EC5BC6A9) Date: 5/13/1988 Description: At 4:40 a.m. a man photographed a flying saucer and jets south of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. He then experienced three hours of missing time. When he recovers consciousness, he is south of Betances. During hypnotic regression he recalled humanoid beings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14698, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 311 Source ID: Johnson_2814 Source: Johnson ### Event 21273 (0DD79537) Date: 5/13/1988 Description: At 1:30 p.m. a silent metallic disc wobbled over the road near two witnesses in Enkoping, Sweden. It rose up vertically until it was gone from view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden, issue 34; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14699 Source ID: Johnson_2815 Source: Johnson ### Event 21274 (5C5721B7) Date: 5/13/1988 Description: On this night painter Maria Adilia Germana Hohagen reported seeing numerous "extraterrestrial" craft flying over her area of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She heard a voice in her head tell her to return to her home. She did, and from the balcony observed an object with multicolored lights that emitted several metallic sphere. During a hypnotic regression session, she remembered being abducted and medically examined by several human looking, two-meter tall humanoids. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1988 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Pablo Villarrubia & Mario Rangel Source ID: Johnson_2816 Source: Johnson ### Event 21275 (E65CB818) Date: 5/16/1988 Description: 9:30–10:00 p.m. Eileen Ballard and four friends are outside in Stafford, England, when they notice two spotlights in the sky. The objects they are attached to position themselves side by side, one above the other, and fly slowly and silently across the sky. Red and green lights are visible on the undersides. BUFORA initially attributes the sighting to two US Air Force F-117 stealth fighters, an aircraft that had not yet been acknowledged, but this is considered unlikely as other witnesses come forward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Did Mystery Lights Reflect Secret Flights of F-](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98981228/) [19?](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98981228/)” Stafford \(UK\) Newsletter, May 20, 1988, p. 3; “[After MP’s Plea, More Tell of UFO Mystery,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99042219/)” Stafford \(UK\) Newsletter, July 1, 1988; Marler 121–123, 139–140 Source ID: Eberhart_6736 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21276 (9F36525F) Date: 5/21/1988 Description: Townshend, Vermont - Jack and May Weiner recalled an abduction experience while at their mountain home. This was Jack's second abduction experience, the first occurring while on a camping trip with three other men in the Allagash Wilderness area of Maine. Jack's dog wanted to go out and when he let the dog outside, late on this evening, he noticed a blue light shining through the kitchen window. He went outside and saw a glowing object hovering over a nearby field. He recalled walking back inside the house. Under hypnosis he recalled that several short beings with large heads and eyes entered his bedroom. The beings lifted Jack and his wife and floated them towards a bright light. They were taken in front of the large hovering object that glowed a bright blue from its bottom. It hovered silently and there was a strong smell of ozone in the air. They were both taken inside the object and given medical exams by the beings. A lump was allegedly discovered and the cyst removed. Later they were both floated across the lawn, into their house and back inside through the unopened front door. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1993 Source ID: Johnson_3026 Source: Johnson ### Event 21277 (438B3E42) Date: 5/23/1988 Description: A black cylindrical object hovered in the northern sky for 30 minutes, as seen from Fredericia, Denmark at 4 p.m. It then appeared to vanish. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Scandinavian UFO Newsletter, issue #12 Source ID: Johnson_3055 Source: Johnson ### Event 21278 (6D3237B0) Date: 6/1/1988 Description: 8:10 p.m. A Boeing 737 pilot, on a final approach to the runway at El Tepual Airport in Puerto Montt, Chile, suddenly encounters a large white light surrounded by green and red. The light is coming straight toward the airplane, and the pilot makes a steep turn to the left to avoid a collision. The object is also seen by air traffic control personnel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [pp. 194–195](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/202/mode/2up); “[1988: La historia del Ovni de El Tepual, Puerto Montt,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9GPdtwFnf0)” Prensa Vértice TV YouTube channel, August 17, 2012; Rodrigo Bravo Garrido and Juan Castillo Cornejo, “[Incidente del Boeing](http://parinacotaufoarica.blogspot.com/2015/10/incidente-del-boeing-737-del-vuelo-lan.html) [737 del Vuelo Lan Chile 045 con un F.A.N.I. el 01 de Junio de 1988,](http://parinacotaufoarica.blogspot.com/2015/10/incidente-del-boeing-737-del-vuelo-lan.html)” Parinacota UFO Arica, October 10, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_6737 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21279 (6172CDA6) Date: 6/6/1988 Description: Letter received from ufologist Paul F. Bennewitz describing Project Beta: Alien base located in New Mexico consisting of type "Grey" Aliens. NASA CIR film has aided in locating this base and revealing US Military involvement with the "Greys". Aliens helped US Military to build a working saucer, Atomic Powered. Two women and a boy exposed to radiation burns by this saucer. Government is not picking up the medical bills. "Grey" base is currently abandoned. Another group called "Orange" is based on the west slope of Mt. Archeleta near "the Diamond". Goal of Project Beta: to locate, inventory and propose ways of destroying Alien bases. Type: letter Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Location: New Mexico See also: 12/29/80 Source ID: Maj2_768 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21280 (FF858E97) Date: 6/6/1988 Description: On this morning in West Point, Florida a UFO was seen ascending straight up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 369 Source ID: Johnson_3337 Source: Johnson ### Event 21281 (3481936E) Date: 7/1988 Description: The Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici launches another newsletter, Rassegna Casistica, edited by Alessandro Cortellazi in Turin, Italy. It continues through December 1991. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Rassegna Casistica](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Rassegna%20Casistica%20%28CISU%29/Rassegna%20Casistica%20-%20No%2001%20-%201988%2007.pdf), no. 1 \(July 1988\) Source ID: Eberhart_6740 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21282 (7A8C998D) Date: 7/1988 Description: Walter Corrêa do Prado of Boqueirâo, Paraiba, Brazil, undergoes about one hour of missing time after seeing a strong light illuminating three blocks in his neighborhood. After witnessing other UFOs over the next month or so \(one with his wife that leaves traces of burned grass\), he begins reading UFO literature. In April 2000, do Prado is hypnotically regressed by Mario Rangel, and an abduction narrative surfaces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 308–309; Brazil 329– 333 Source ID: Eberhart_6739 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21283 (8431AE20) Date: 7/1988 Description: [Cynthia Hind](http://www.noufors.com/Cynthia%5FHind.htm) begins publishing UFO Afrinews in Harare, Zimbabwe. It continues until July 2000. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Zimbabwe/Afrinews%20%28Cynthia%20Hind%29/UFO%20AFRINEWS%20-%20No%2001.pdf) [Afrinews](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Zimbabwe/Afrinews%20%28Cynthia%20Hind%29/UFO%20AFRINEWS%20-%20No%2001.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Zimbabwe/Afrinews%20%28Cynthia%20Hind%29/UFO%20AFRINEWS%20-%20No%2001.pdf) no. 1 \(July 1988\) Source ID: Eberhart_6738 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21284 (24A1D9CF) Date: 7/1988 Description: Horses panic as object flies by (UFO) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [880700](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-880700.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: MacMillan Pass, NWT/Yukon Border, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5772 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21285 (11514823) Date: 7/17/1988 Description: Night. Several witnesses see two objects with red and green flashing lights make two crisscross passes near the generating station in Homer City, Pennsylvania. Later one object drops from the sky and makes two passes about 200 feet from the ground. It is circular in shape and about the size of a large car. It has four leg-like structures with lights on them that protrude from the bottom. A hissing noise can be heard as the object passes close by. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Number of UFO Reports in State Unprecedented in ‘88,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2002%20-%20no%20235.pdf)” Latrobe \(Pa.\) Bulletin, January 9, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 235 \(February 1989\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6741 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21286 (0443CCE2) Date: 7/19/1988 Description: An abduction occurred in Johannesburg, South Africa at 3:40 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1993 Source ID: Johnson_4212 Source: Johnson ### Event 21287 (EB1C8F88) Date: 7/24/1988 Description: At 2:40 a.m. on Lake Ojesjon in Kopparberg, Sweden three brilliant hat-shaped discs followed a boat for five kilometers. The four witnesses reported that there was an "oppressive silence" that surrounded the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden Newsletter, issue # 34 Source ID: Johnson_4364 Source: Johnson ### Event 21288 (79568917) Date: 8/1988 Description: After eight years of stress, fear, and paranoia, [Paul Bennewitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz) has turned over his business to his sons and barricaded himself in his house. His family, convinced his sanity and health are in danger, commits him to the Anna Kaseman Hospital in Albuquerque, where he stays for a month. After his release, his family keeps him away from ufology and ufologists. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, [pp. 217–218](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/216/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6742 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21289 (65909285) Date: 8/1988 Description: José Semitiel Martínez begins publishing the newsletter Búsqueda in Gerona, Spain. It folds in March 1995. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Búsqueda](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Busqueda%20Boletin/Busqueda%20Boletin%20-%20No%2001.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Busqueda%20Boletin/Busqueda%20Boletin%20-%20No%2001.pdf) no. 1 \(August 1988\) Source ID: Eberhart_6743 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21290 (23F78CE0) Date: 8/3/1988 Description: 11:15 a.m. Kaye Stricker is stopped at a traffic light at the corner of Gadsden Avenue and West Avenue K in Lancaster, California, when she sees a shiny object in the sky coming from the northwest. It hovers briefly over the Sierra Highway before “evaporating.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Van Driver Reports Sighting UFO in Sky over Lancaster,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201988%2011%20-%20no%20232.pdf)” Palmdale \(Calif.\) Antelope Valley Press, August 4, 1988, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 232 \(November 1988\): 1 Source ID: Eberhart_6744 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21291 (173D3906) Date: 8/22/1988 Description: At around one o'clock in the morning an abduction experience occurred at a campsite near Athens, Maine. Two people were tent camping when a disc-shaped object landed nearby and emitted a white light. Next, a red ball exited the object and seemed to scout around their campsite. After that, a "veil of lights" entered their tent, and they experienced 45 minutes of missing time. Reportedly the event has caused a profound change in their philosophy of life. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1992, p. 15, citing Field Investigator DeSimone, case # 920305E; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14721, citing MUFON Source ID: Johnson_5238 Source: Johnson ### Event 21292 (6AAF09C2) Date: 8/22/1988 Description: A red ball of light (BOL) with white lines and a light on one side circled the valley of the farming community of Monroe City, Indiana. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, December 1993 Source ID: Johnson_5239 Source: Johnson ### Event 21293 (8FBD5BD3) Date: 8/23/1988 Description: At 4:30 a.m. a 30-year-old man was on his way to work, driving west on M-72 in Harrisville, Michigan when he noticed bright lights coming toward him. It turned out to be a multi-colored, domed disc-shaped object. When even driving in the same direction of the object it moved slowly to the east, then turned gently and moved off to the south. The sighting lasted several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Shirley Coyne, MUFON case files, case # 890610C Source ID: Johnson_5271 Source: Johnson ### Event 21294 (0CFCB97D) Date: 8/25/1988 Description: In Dal'negorsk in the Far East of Russia a dull white hemisphere rose up from near the ground behind a house at 11:00 p.m. It was surrounded by a fog or mist. The object then was seen emitting a beam of light. It remained present for two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 123 Source ID: Johnson_5336 Source: Johnson ### Event 21295 (CA7C7978) Date: 9/2/1988 Description: Afternoon. A man sitting by a pond on his rural residence near Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, is startled to see an object come out of the sky from the north and hover 50 feet away from him about 30 feet above the ground. It is spherical and about 15–20 feet in diameter. The upper section is red and the underside orange-red. The center is divided by a glass-like, amber-colored window, and lights can be seen flashing inside. The object emits a mist toward the ground. It silently hovers for about 2 minutes before moving off to the north. Later, the man finds a depressed area in the tall grass about 12 feet in diameter where the grass is swirled counterclockwise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Number](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2002%20-%20no%20235.pdf) [of UFO Reports in State Unprecedented in ‘88,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2002%20-%20no%20235.pdf)” Latrobe \(Pa.\) Bulletin, January 9, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 235 \(February 1989\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6745 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21296 (AF987385) Date: 9/3/1988 Description: A female witness was preparing for bed at 1:10 a.m. in Ipswich, Massachusetts when she heard a noise outside that was a cat. She looked out through an upstairs window and saw a multicolored rectangular object in the sky. She went downstairs and looked at it from another angle, then awoke a male witness, who also saw it. Both went outside, but the obj had gone. 2+ witnesses. It was estimated to be eight feet in length, and 70 feet away over some trees. It had lights around edge, and was over the same field as 1976 UFO sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, MUFON case files, case # 880903; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_5612 Source: Johnson ### Event 21297 (F3DD46F4) Date: 9/6/1988 Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Trun, Orne, France a driver saw an orange, barrel-shaped object with ailerons as it flew over the road fast, made a turn, and then hovered over the roadway, apparently waiting for him. It was completely silent. When the driver turned off the car headlights, the object left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 15 Source ID: Johnson_5695 Source: Johnson ### Event 21298 (97638792) Date: 9/11/1988 Description: At 8:07 p.m. a woman in Gulf Breeze, Florida saw a large UFO that appeared to be towing a smaller disc through the sky. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Edward Walters, UFO Abductions at Gulf Breeze, p. 184 Source ID: Johnson_5873 Source: Johnson ### Event 21299 (12DD5E99) Date: 9/13/1988 Description: At 10:45 p.m. a 39-year-old witness stepped outside his house in Chiloquin, Klamath County, Oregon and saw a multicolored, oval object moving away. He got his wife, daughter, and a telescope. They watched the object in the sky for more than an hour. They saw the same object "at distance" for the next two nights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hernandez Jose L. Hernandez, MUFON field investigation case files database, case # 930508J Source ID: Johnson_5920 Source: Johnson ### Event 21300 (58307FE3) Date: 9/15/1988 Description: An agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations contacts the Dallas, Texas, office of the FBI and supplies the Bureau with a copy of the MJ-12 documents. The set is obtained from a source whose identity AFOSI has decided must remain classified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kremlin 181–182 Source ID: Eberhart_6746 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21301 (DDDE3903) Date: 9/19/1988 Description: The Fund for UFO Research Inc. provides $500 in funding to Elaine Douglas and Mr. Richard Hall for Washington DC area Abduction research. Type: funding Reference: [link](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/0%20-%20UFO%20Researchers/Elaine%20Douglass/Elaine%20Douglass%20files.pdf) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_769 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21302 (CB21FCA0) Date: 9/22/1988 Description: On a highway in Walcha, New South Wales, Australia at 7:30 p.m. a car engine died and the driver reported it got cold inside the car when a red light hovered over his car for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, Keith Basterfield investigation files, citing investigator Bryan Dickeson; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14733, citing John Schuessler, Physiological Effects from UFOs Source ID: Johnson_6236 Source: Johnson ### Event 21303 (6BBAB28D) Date: 9/24/1988 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a 400 meter long fiery cylinder flew at low altitude over the tundra near Bruderovskiy-Raspadok in the Asiatic region of Vladivostok, Russia. It left behind a white vapor trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 126 Source ID: Johnson_6295 Source: Johnson ### Event 21304 (25F08183) Date: 9/25/1988 Description: 10:30 p.m. A man is driving along State Highway 113 in Lorain County, Ohio, when his car stalls. He sees two other stalled cars on the side of the road, so he gets out and talks to the four people from the other cars for a few minutes. They realize there are lights nearby in the woods that come from a silvery triangular object with a rim and rounded base. The treetops above it seem to be moving, although it is a calm night. After 15–20 minutes the object rises at an angle and moves away slowly and silently, passing overhead. It seems wider than the road. From the center of the base there is a white light like a fluorescent lamp. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_6747 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21305 (6AA90E3E) Date: 9/25/1988 Description: Three separate cars stalled on State Route 113 in Lorain County, Ohio at 10:30 p.m. The occupants of the cars then spotted a silent, silver, delta-shaped object in some woods. The noticed that the treetops near the object were swaying despite the fact that there wasn't any wind at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas M. Olsen, FSR, June 1989 Source ID: Johnson_6331 Source: Johnson ### Event 21306 (DA00D440) Date: 9/28/1988 Description: A 28-year-old couple driving in Atherton, Indiana saw intensely bright lights approach their car and move overhead. The lights turned out to be from a triangular shaped object. When directly overhead the automobile's electrical system failed, and a clock and their wristwatches lost three minutes. There was also a loud humming sound. Both witnesses were very tired for the next couple of days. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: field investigator Mike Palmiter, MUFON investigation files database, case #890210 Source ID: Johnson_6402 Source: Johnson ### Event 21307 (27005D24) Date: 10/1988 Alternate date: 11/1988 Description: Pilot [Robert Hopkins](https://twitter.com/cobraball3?lang=en) is flying a USAF RC-135S Cobra Ball reconnaissance aircraft east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia when he is notified that the USSR has launched an RSD-10 Pioneer IRBM toward the Kura Missile Test Range at Klyuchi, Kamchatka Krai. The 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty allows the Soviets to test-fire IRBMs into the sea, rather than breaking them up. Moving into position to collect telemetry information from the launch, Hopkins observes a “translucent, milky white wall moving from the left, over the USSR, to the right, over the Northern Pacific Ocean. It covered the entire sky from ground level to as far up as we could see looking out the front windows of the airplane.” The wall of light passes at an estimated 6,200 mph, disappearing eastward and leaving darkness behind it. Some analysts at the USAF Foreign Technology Division think it is caused by something in the first-stage fuel of the RSD-10; others suggest it is produced deliberately to dazzle US observation satellites. Some speculate that Russia has a secret Dome of Light weapon that has been observed several times since and that might involve a plasma that can temporarily disrupt electronics and blind a satellite. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway, “[U.S. Spyplane Pilot’s Account Indicates Soviet Russia Tested](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26356/mysterious-russian-dome-of-light-baffled-us-spy-plane-pilot-during-cold-war-missions) [a ‘Dome of Light’ Superweapon,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26356/mysterious-russian-dome-of-light-baffled-us-spy-plane-pilot-during-cold-war-missions)” The Drive: The War Zone, February 6, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_6755 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21308 (F820147A) Date: 10/8/1988 Description: After speaking to [John Lear](https://www.exopaedia.org/Lear%2C%2BJohn) by phone for the first time on October 4, conspiracy theorist [Milton William](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%5FWilliam%5FCooper) [Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%5FWilliam%5FCooper) receives in the mail a number of Lear’s writings, as well as the dubious “O.H. Krill” document, allegedly written by a USAF NCO named John Grace, claiming that the US government has a long-standing relationship with an alien civilization; a version of [Abraham Zapruder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%5FZapruder)’s [John F. Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination%5Fof%5FJohn%5FF.%5FKennedy) assassination film enhanced to show Secret Service Agent [William Greer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FGreer) shooting a pistol at Kennedy; Lear’s transcription of statements by a former Green Beret captain named William English regarding a nonexistent Project Grudge Report number 13 that refers to alien bodies; and a paper on Project Excalibur regarding underground facilities that was supposedly written by [Bob Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) while working at Los Alamos. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: O. H. Krill \[John Grace\], “[A Situation Report on Our Acquisition of](https://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/krill1.htm) [Advanced Technology and Interaction with Alien Cultures,](https://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/krill1.htm)” IllumiNet BBS, June 1988; Don Ecker, “Freedom of Disinformation,” Fortean Times 122 \(May 1999\): 28–31; Dolan II 443–447 Source ID: Eberhart_6748 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21309 (61940A8B) Date: 10/10/1988 Description: In Akirkeby, Denmark a tractor's headlights flickered when a triangle of light passed overhead at around 6:00 p.m. The tractor functioned normally after the object had gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Scandinavian UFO Information Newsletter, issue 12 Source ID: Johnson_6733 Source: Johnson ### Event 21310 (EBA9081B) Date: 10/10/1988 Description: A bus driver and seven passengers in Mundrabilla, Western Australia said that several bright nocturnal lights paced their bus for 10 minutes at 12:10 a.m. Their report was ridiculed by the news media. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 163 Source ID: Johnson_6732 Source: Johnson ### Event 21311 (C10671A1) Date: 10/13/1988 Description: Former Sen. [Barry Goldwater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%5FGoldwater) appears on [Larry King](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%5FKing)’s syndicated radio show and responds to a caller who asks him whether the story about a secret Blue Room at Wright-Patterson AFB is true. He says his friend Gen. [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) got quite angry at him when he tried to gain access to the room, which is said to hold evidence related to UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 488–489 Source ID: Eberhart_6749 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21312 (BD198BC3) Date: 10/14/1988 Description: [Bill Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) and his associates cooperate with “Falcon” and others in the “Aviary” to present a nationally televised two-hour special titled UFO Cover-Up? Live! Host [Mike Ferrell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FFarrell) interviews [Betty Cash](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2017/12/betty-cash-vickie-landrum-and-their-ufo.html) and [Vickie](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2013/12/remembering-betty-cash-and-vickie.html) [Landrum,](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2013/12/remembering-betty-cash-and-vickie.html) and finally “Falcon” \(or someone pretending to be him\) and “Condor” \(identified by some as DIA employee Col. [Robert Collins](https://www.exopaedia.org/Robert%2BCollins)\), who appear in silhouette with voices altered. They embarrassingly proclaim that the ETs have a preference for Tibetan music and strawberry ice cream. [Robert Emenegger](https://obscurantist.com/oma/emenegger-robert/) also appears, claiming he is convinced of the reality of the alleged UFO contact at Holloman AFB. Paul Shartle describes the Holloman film footage, saying it shows aliens emerging from a disc-shaped craft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: presidentialufo.com, “Disclosure Pattern 1972–75”; Internet Movie Database, “[UFO Cover-Up? Live!](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0846738/)”; Don Ecker, “Driven to Destruction,” Fortean Times 121 \(April 1999\): 40–43; Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, [pp. 200–202](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/200/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/200/mode/2up) [211–212](https://archive.org/details/projectbetastory0000bish/page/210/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6750 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21313 (65B0C42A) Date: 10/14/1988 Description: “UFO Cover-Up?: Live!” Broadcast from Washington DC on 130 syndicated stations throughout the US. Soviet ufologists appeared live by satellite. AFOSI officer Rick Doty played the part of ‘Falcon’ in the Kodak-produced documentary, but it is generally accepted he wasn’t the ‘real’ Falcon of the Aviary. Type: TV broadcast Reference: [link](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0846738/) Reference: [link](https://www.exopaedia.org/Richard+Doty) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_770 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21314 (59E425FE) Date: 10/24/1988 Description: An abduction by aliens with a physical exam occurred on this night in Adelaide, South Australia. A man awoke and became aware of a a group of short humanoid beings at the foot of his bed. Three or four of them stood back, but one approached him. The being who approached was one meter in height, with a large head and big eyes, and appeared to be surrounded by what looked like a glowing white light. He suddently felt overwhelmed with fatigue, and passed out or fell back asleep. He awoke in a sterile type room, and was given a medical exam. The light in the room was so bright he could not see his surroundings. This was followed by a period of missing time, and he recovered consciousness back in his bed two hours later; his arm was paralyzed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, citing Golden Age, February 10, 1989; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 101 Source ID: Johnson_7098 Source: Johnson ### Event 21315 (8A118297) Date: 10/24/1988 Description: Dog and cat wanted to approach rectangle above treetops (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [881024](http://www.nicap.org/valparaisodir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Valparaiso, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5773 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21316 (DAA2DFDD) Date: 10/24/1988 Description: In Valparaiso, Florida at 9:30 CDT a U.S. Air Force housewife with an M.B.A. witnessed light beams moving past her second story window. She looked out and saw a silent rectangular object hovering outside. It had a dull gray surface and was about 100 feet long, three feet high, and three to four feet deep. It had three white lights side-by-side at one end. Surprisingly, her dog and car wanted to approach the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, 19890515, citing Field Investigator Muril V. D. Garten, case # 881102; Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, www.nicap.org, case # 08-19;Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 514, citing Dan Wright Source ID: Johnson_7101 Source: Johnson ### Event 21317 (D3329299) Date: 10/24/1988 Description: At 9:00 p.m. CDT in Skene, Mississippi a 20-year-old man was at home studying when he heard a low hum. He went outside to check on the source of the noise, and he saw a 32 meter in diameter cone-shaped object with colored lights, flying over his home at only 150 feet altitude. He watched it move across sky until it went behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James A. Scarborough, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 881203; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case #512, citing Dan Wright Source ID: Johnson_7100 Source: Johnson ### Event 21318 (D37BFD68) Date: 10/24/1988 Description: A large luminous UFO landed in a park in Sevan, Armenia, and then took off again. Black pumice and burnt soil was found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14691, citing Richard F. Haines, JUSA-CISAAF Translations, p. 401 Source ID: Johnson_7099 Source: Johnson ### Event 21319 (BF844F24) Date: 10/25/1988 Description: 5:00 a.m. A Miami, Florida, couple is on their balcony terrace when they see 3 yellow lights moving erratically from west to east. They pass behind the only cloud in the sky then disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_6751 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21320 (DC3FB93B) Date: 10/25/1988 Description: The Dallas, Texas, office of the FBI transmits a 2-page secret Airtel to headquarters that says the MJ-12 documents have been getting local publicity and asks if the documents are still classified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kremlin 182 Source ID: Eberhart_6752 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21321 (398A4CCB) Date: 10/26/1988 Description: On this evening there were several reports of sightings of boomerang and V-shaped objects in Porterville, California. Beginning at 8:00 p.m. witnesses spotted 2 or 3 objects, V-shaped with red and white lights, which flew in front of the moon. The witnesses speculated that they could have been stealth bombers, but Northrup denied any of their stealth aircraft were flying that night. Futhermore, additional sightings included objects that were engaged in zigzag maneuvers after 9:45 p.m. In Antelope Valley, California two witnesses reported that a 600 foot wide boomerang flew over at 25 mph; it was joined by a second object, while 15-20 smaller disc-shaped objects trailed behind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Imbrogno Philip J. Imbrogno & Marianne Horrigan, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 29; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 515, citing UFO Newsclipping Service; MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990 Source ID: Johnson_7166 Source: Johnson ### Event 21322 (44D24393) Date: 10/26/1988 Description: 9:00 p.m. Many residents of the San Joaquin Valley around Fresno and Kingsburg, California, see a low- flying object with three red lights in a V-formation. It seems to be circling and is visible for 45 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unidentified Object](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99145963/) [Steals across Valley Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99146272/)” Fresno \(Calif.\) Bee, October 28, 1988, pp. 1, 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6754 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21323 (A13FE4F4) Date: 10/26/1988 Description: Jim Speiser ejects both [Milton William Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%5FWilliam%5FCooper) and [John Lear](https://www.exopaedia.org/Lear%2C%2BJohn) from ParaNet for bad behavior and peddling probable disinformation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Ecker, “Freedom of Disinformation,” Fortean Times 122 \(May 1999\): 28–31 Source ID: Eberhart_6753 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21324 (B18C3CBC) Date: 11/1988 Description: GEPAN is renamed Service d’Étude des Phénomènes de Rentrées Atmosphériques \(SEPRA\), but the Scientific Council is still closed, and no more technical reports are produced. [Velasco](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%5FVelasco) is still tasked with studying UFO reports, but not in making analyses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 13; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 13; Clark III 547; Swords 448 Source ID: Eberhart_6756 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21325 (793C60A5) Date: 11/6/1988 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a silent, mysterious low-flying "airplane" and a mushroom-shaped disc were sighted in Vittsjo, Sweden. Television interference and flashing lights were reported at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: AFU Sweden case file catalogue, case 34 Source ID: Johnson_7511 Source: Johnson ### Event 21326 (206B0DC6) Date: 11/9/1988 Description: At 9:35 p.m. a 35-year-old woman driving home in Maylene, Alabama spotted a bright light "new to the area;" she became curious and stopped her car. A light from behind the trees rose up and crossed over her car, and the witness could see a structured, 40-foot wide disc-shaped craft. The woman next found herself driving home again, and she reports having had a brief out-of-body experience during the encounter. The entire incident lasted ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jeff & Karen Ballard, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 890712; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_7578 Source: Johnson ### Event 21327 (6586B74B) Date: 11/10/1988 Description: Assistant Secretary of Defense [J. Daniel Howard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FDaniel%5FHoward) holds a Pentagon press conference and reveals the existence of the F-117A stealth fighter. After the announcement, pilots can fly the F-117 during daytime and no longer need to be associated with the LTV A-7 Corsair II for training, flying the T-38 supersonic trainer for travel and training instead. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FF-117%5FNighthawk)” Source ID: Eberhart_6757 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21328 (3300EA73) Date: 11/11/1988 End date: 11/12/1988 Description: 5:00 p.m. A truck driver returning from Utah to Baker, California, goes through a series of bizarre and inexplicable experiences, some of them ufological, that leave him convinced that his truck is possessed and “they” have been in control of him all along. The experiences end shortly after midnight before he returns to Baker and leave him terrified. During the drive he has been drinking copious amounts of coffee, which may have contributed to his hallucinatory excitement. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ann Druffel, “The Caffeine Zone,” IUR 13, no. 3 \(May/June 1988\): 18–22 Source ID: Eberhart_6758 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21329 (F00C1858) Date: 11/12/1988 Description: Aviation designer [Brad Sorensen](https://www.bradsorensen.com/about) attends an air show at Norton AFB in San Bernardino, California, and is taken to a huge hangar by a former high-ranking Defense Department official to view the Lockheed Pulsar, nicknamed the Aurora, that allegedly can be anywhere in the world 30 minutes after launch. Behind a big black curtain are three flying saucers hovering above the floor. The small saucer is about 24 feet in diameter. The next biggest one is 60 feet in diameter at the base, and another one is 130 feet. They are referred to as Alien Reproduction Vehicles. A videotape shows the smallest of the three vehicles making three little, quick, hopping motions; then it accelerates straight up and out of sight, completely disappearing from view in just a couple of seconds. There is a cut-away illustration that shows oxygen tanks and a robotic arm that can extend out from the side of the vehicle for collecting samples in space. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark McCandlish, “[Alien Reproduction Vehicles,](http://nationalufocenter.com/artman/publish/printer%5F395.php)” Filer’s Files, \#19-2011, May 4, 2011; Dolan II 457–461 Source ID: Eberhart_6759 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21330 (8ECBB87F) Date: 11/15/1988 Description: First and only test of the Soviet Buran orbital spaceplane. It was the first spaceplane to perform an uncrewed flight, including landing in fully automatic mode. Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_%28spacecraft%29#Orbital_flight) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: Maj2_771 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21331 (EE132295) Date: 11/22/1988 Description: The Northrup Grumman B-2 stealth bomber is first publicly displayed at United States Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, where it is assembled. This viewing is heavily restricted, and guests are not allowed to see the rear of the B-2. However, Aviation Week editors find that there are no airspace restrictions above the presentation area and take aerial photographs of the aircraft’s then-secret rear section with its suppressed engine exhausts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FGrumman%5FB-2%5FSpirit)”; Steve Pace, B-2 Spirit: The Most Capable War Machine on the Planet, McGraw-Hill, 1999 Source ID: Eberhart_6760 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21332 (FEBD9379) Date: 11/24/1988 Description: A witness saw a six-foot tall humanoid figure near Hunge, Sweden at 9:00 p.m. It wore a tight-fitting diver's suit and a helmet. It suddenly vanished into thin air as the witness approached it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1988, case # 2374, citing Andre Liljegren, AFU Newsletter, issue # 34 Source ID: Johnson_7887 Source: Johnson ### Event 21333 (D2656F74) Date: 11/28/1988 Description: Physicist [Edward Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) allegedly calls the out-of-work physicist and electronics technician [Robert Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) and gives him the name of a contact in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lazar makes contact, and later receives a call from EG&G, a high-tech company with contracts at Groom Lake, Nevada. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 475 Source ID: Eberhart_6761 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21334 (9F6290F3) Date: 11/29/1988 Description: Dr. Edward Teller calls Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar Type: telephone call Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: Maj2_772 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21335 (C23336D0) Date: 11/30/1988 Description: An arranged meeting takes place in Washington, D.C., between AFOSI and FBI agents, who request information about the MJ-12 documents. The Air Force tells the FBI the documents are completely bogus and the FBI should cease its inquiry. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kremlin 182–183 Source ID: Eberhart_6762 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21336 (EE084544) Date: 12/1988 Description: Crash Retrieval Program worker Bob Lazar starts working at Area-51/S-4 (Unclear: Lazar’s book says 1/89 in Preface) Type: historical event Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Location: Area 51 Source ID: Maj2_773 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21337 (0BB74BB9) Date: 12/1/1988 Description: 11:00 p.m. A captain of the Brazilian Air Force flying a Mirage fighter jet is returning from a mission and is over Jaboãtoa dos Guararapes, Pernambuco, Brazil, when his radar indicates traffic about one mile from his position. He requests permission to intercept and goes after the brilliant disk-like object that has a dull glow like copper. The CINDACTA III radar still finds nothing. The UFO begins to approach the jet and suddenly his instruments begin to fail. A red light in the center begins to grow stronger and the pilot arms his missiles; but the missiles do not respond to his command and the UFO flies off in mere seconds. But the chase continues another 10 minutes, during which time the UFO plays with its pursuer. After landing, the pilot is told that another aircraft has seen a strange object about 15 minutes earlier in the state of São Paulo more than 1,242 miles away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 207; Brazil 556–557 Source ID: Eberhart_6764 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21338 (649CE697) Date: 12/1/1988 Description: [Robert Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) allegedly interviews at EG&G, but is informed that he is overqualified for the position in question Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 475 Source ID: Eberhart_6763 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21339 (0391E546) Date: 12/2/1988 Description: A brilliant light was first seen lakeside in Shelton, Mason County, Washington State by four witnesses at 7:00 p.m. Next, four dark boomerang or V-shaped craft, from 75 feet to 300 feet in width, passed slowly overhead at low altitude. They were as big as Boeing 747 airliners, according to the observers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989 Source ID: Johnson_8146 Source: Johnson ### Event 21340 (7E0D6E02) Date: 12/4/1988 Description: A man was stopped at a traffic light at 2:00 a.m. in Carmel, Indiana in suburban Indianapolis when he saw a silent bright light approach, zig-zag, move away, return, then go out of sight. The fuses in his car were blown during the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Field Investigation Database, case 900815, field investigator Francis L. Ridge Source ID: Johnson_8182 Source: Johnson ### Event 21341 (6E5BC68A) Date: 12/4/1988 Description: 5:25 a.m. A police officer en route to his station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, notices a brilliant glow in the sky ahead of him. It is so bright he can hardly see as he drives down a four-lane road, and he swerves and blocks two lanes. About 150 feet in the air is a 75-foot-long, highly polished silver object shaped like an ellipse. It is emitting a humming sound and casting light into and all around his car. It moves left and right, then shoots straight up into the sky, stopping again briefly before departing. The officer’s eyes hurt badly from the brightness and he feels ill. There is a sunburn-like rash on his face, and he has severe eye irritation, headache, and neck pain after the incident. He notes that the paint on his car has been dulled and an unusual powder-like substance is found on the exterior. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Number of UFO Reports in State Unprecedented in ‘88,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2002%20-%20no%20235.pdf)” Latrobe \(Pa.\) Bulletin, January 9, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 235 \(February 1989\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_6765 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21342 (5E5C6554) Date: 12/4/1988 Description: Silvery oval object hovered, brilliant illumination, physiological effects. UFO maneuvered erratically, emitted silvery white trail when flew away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Harrisburg, PA Source ID: HallUFOE2_438 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21343 (1DCA3B0C) Date: 12/4/1988 Description: Silvery oval object hovered, brilliant illumination, physiological effects. UFO maneuvered erratically, emitted silvery white trail when flew away (section V). (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harrisburg, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5774 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21344 (E0E2A5FB) Date: 12/4/1988 Description: At 5:25 a.m. in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania a 23-year-old corrections officer was driving, then saw a 75-foot diameter silvery oval disc with blinding white lights near some power lines. The object manuevered, hovered, and made a humming sound. The UFO emitted a silvery white trail when it flew away, departing by shooting straight up into the sky. The officer saw another automobile nearby; inside was another witness who appeared terrified and disoriented, and a possible abductee. Potassium cloride dust was found on the cars, and the two witnessed experienced burns on their faces and blurred vision. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leslie, Varnicle, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989, p. 10; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 31, 176, 272; MUFON UFO Field Investigation Database, case 890104, field investigator Stan Gordon Source ID: Johnson_8183 Source: Johnson ### Event 21345 (F541D19E) Date: 12/5/1988 Description: A gray cigar-shaped object zigzagged over Gulf Breeze, Florida at 4:55 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 475, citing UFO Newsclipping Service Source ID: Johnson_8214 Source: Johnson ### Event 21346 (75D89315) Date: 12/5/1988 Description: [Robert Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) interviews at EG&G again for what seems like a part-time position. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 475 Source ID: Eberhart_6766 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21347 (E3D65323) Date: 12/6/1988 Description: [Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) reports to work at the EG&G building at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada. There he meets with a security officer named Dennis Mariani, who escorts him on a flight to Area 51 at Groom Lake, where Lazar signs a secrecy agreement that requires intensive monitoring of his activities. He and Mariani board a bus with blacked-out windows and ride for 30 minutes down a dirt and gravel road. They arrive at a base near Papoose Dry Lake known as S-4. Lazar’s ID is prepared, he is given a physical and treated for allergic reactions to unknown substances, then he begins work at S-4. Lazar claims he only visits S-4 on six or seven occasions between December 1988 and April 1989 to learn about Project Galileo, which deals with gravity and propulsion, and training on an “antimatter reactor.” He also reads about a second project, Looking Glass, concerned with seeing back in time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 475; Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 11](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/10/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6767 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21348 (869FDC73) Date: 12/10/1988 Description: At 6:00 p.m. many people in Nottingham, England witnessed a 300-foot long object hovering at low altitude, making a faint humming noise. The authorities had no explanation for it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, volume 33, issue 1 Source ID: Johnson_8322 Source: Johnson ### Event 21349 (29FA26A0) Date: 12/12/1988 Description: In 1988 four people on a lonely road in Wisbech, England were buzzed by a disc-shaped UFO at around 7:40 p.m. Many police cars and helicopters were seen combing the nearby fields later that night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_8364 Source: Johnson ### Event 21350 (DD2204F0) Date: 12/18/1988 Description: At 2:45 a.m. four gendarmes in Le Vigan, Gard, France traveling in two vehicles observed a strange form hovering low ahead of them, composed of superimposed red luminous rectangles. The object was 7-8 meters above the center of the road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 24 Source ID: Johnson_8498 Source: Johnson ### Event 21351 (A33AACF7) Date: 12/18/1988 Description: [Milton William Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%5FWilliam%5FCooper) surfaces on CompuServe online network, claiming that while working as a quartermaster with an intelligence team for Adm. [Bernard A. Clarey,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FA.%5FClarey) commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, he had seen two documents, Project Grudge Special Report 13 and an MJ-12 briefing. He elaborates on [Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29)’s and [Lear](https://www.exopaedia.org/Lear%2C%2BJohn)’s tales of crashes and alien bodies, adding that the aliens are called Alien Life Forms \(ALFs\) and that he has seen photos of aliens that supposedly landed at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, in 1964 or 1977. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 452– 453; Clark III 367 Source ID: Eberhart_6768 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21352 (B7B1B977) Date: 12/28/1988 Description: 7:45 p.m. Many people in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, see a huge, bright-yellow triangular object in the sky. Mañuel Marcado watches as two F-14 Tomcats \(probably from an aircraft carrier\) approach the object from either side then cross in front of it. The light stops in mid-air and absorbs both planes, according to Marcado. The object moves over Lago Samán, then divides itself into two triangles, one of which shoots off to the east and the other to the north. Allegedly, the triangular objects were tracked on US Navy radars. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 379](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/378/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6769 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21353 (76712E4B) Date: 12/28/1988 Description: A very controversial case occurred on this day over Puerto Rico near Cabo Rojo, east of Betances in Mayaguez province. According to two male witnesses on the ground, at 7:45 p.m. two US Air Force F-14 fighter jets tried to intercept a very large triangular metallic looking UFO with brilliant yellow lights on the right tip and red lights on the left tip. The UFO veered to left, turned back, and then reduced speed. Both jets disappeared inside the UFO! The UFO then split into two and rose straight up vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 30; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 148; Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 222; FSR, July 1991; Jerome Clark, UFOs in the 1980s. The UFO Encyclopedia, Volume 1, p. 187 Source ID: Johnson_8637 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1989 (Back to Top) ### Event 21354 (3A6F65BF) Date: 1989 Description: The date provided in an interview by Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD for the failure of the “Crash Retrieval Program” Type: historical event Reference: [link](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources) Source ID: Maj2_774 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21355 (4D35AECE) Date: 1989 Description: Year of Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s W-2 statement Type: tax statement Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: Maj2_776 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21356 (5943860C) Date: 1/1989 Description: The Long Island UFO Network begins publishing the Long Island UFO Reporter, which soon changes its name to the Long Island UFO Update, edited at first by George McLain in Center Moriches, New York. It continues through December 1992. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Long Island UFO Reporter](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Long%20Island%20UFO%20Update%20%28John%20Ford%29/Long%20Island%20UFO%20Update%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%2001.pdf) 1 no. 1 \(January 1989\) Source ID: Eberhart_6771 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21357 (A42D1CE7) Date: 1/1989 Description: [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) issues his fifth Status Report. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, UFO Crash/Retrievals: Is the Coverup Lid Lifting? The Author, 1989 Source ID: Eberhart_6770 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21358 (F21BD0B1) Date: 1/12/1989 Description: Two men driving in Underwood, Indiana saw a diamond-shaped object for five minutes moving across the roadway in front of their car. They drove directly under the craft, 100' above them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_284 Source: Johnson ### Event 21359 (C79B833C) Date: 1/12/1989 Description: On this night a woman driving her car in Duclair, Seine-Maritime department, France observed within 30 meters of the top of a marsh an enormous cylindrical form with a cupola on top. The UFO was emitting a yellow light, had a series of red luminescent portholes, and a white base. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 26 Source ID: Johnson_283 Source: Johnson ### Event 21360 (584FBCAC) Date: 1/18/1989 Description: Forest animals freeze as cylinder passes overhead (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [890118](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890118bdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Glen Allen, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_5775 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21361 (5E51855E) Date: 1/18/1989 Description: Barking dogs alert witness to domed objects (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [890118](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890118dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Somerville, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5776 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21362 (73E16EC3) Date: 1/18/1989 Description: The family of a retired USAF non-commisioned officer was awakened by their dog at 3:57 a.m. They saw 6-8 objects over their own land and some nearby property for the next hour and three-quarters. The objects would vanish at times when jet aircraft flew over. The event continued and the lights were still present when the family left for work andschool that morning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON field investigation files, case 890603 Source ID: Johnson_381 Source: Johnson ### Event 21363 (CAB9830D) Date: 1/20/1989 End date: 1/20/1993 Description: President George H. W. Bush in office Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush) Source ID: Maj2_775 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21364 (65B320EC) Date: 1/22/1989 Description: A pilot flying at 6,500 over Texarkana, Texas observed a large silver, cylinder-shaped object flying 300 feet below him at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14732 Source ID: Johnson_426 Source: Johnson ### Event 21365 (3C12ABB4) Date: 1/23/1989 Description: At eight p.m. a polygon-shaped object descended over a power plant in Andebu, Norway and hovered for 2 minutes. It shot up vertically when it left. At 8:30 p.m. in Sande, Norway two people watched a 7 meter long dark object with lights and windows that moved slowly towards a house. It had sharp edges. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Inforespace, issue 83 Source ID: Johnson_461 Source: Johnson ### Event 21366 (4CC0C86A) Date: 1/23/1989 Description: Two women, aged 64 and 42, saw a disc-shaped object hover 90 feet overhead in Gainesville, Florida at five a.m. for five minutes. It was 10 feet in diameter and made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15283 Source ID: Johnson_462 Source: Johnson ### Event 21367 (D8FDBCFA) Date: 1/23/1989 Description: A 73-year-old couple in Greens Fork, Indiana sighted a UFO shaped like sperm whale without the tail at 9:30 p.m. The couple were the parents of a woman newspaper reporter who reported their sighting. The object moved slowly and low overhead until out of view. There was also a smaller satellite object that was yellow in color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 119 Source ID: Johnson_463 Source: Johnson ### Event 21368 (74495CBE) Date: 1/24/1989 Description: Two large triangular shaped objects that were accompanied by 4-5 smaller bright objects were seen by dozens over Valliant, Oklahoma for more than an hour. The large objects had red, white, and blue lights. They hovered and moved slowly at tree-top level. The smaller lights maneuvered between them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 109; McCurtain (Oklahoma) Daily, February 1, 1989 Source ID: Johnson_496 Source: Johnson ### Event 21369 (842DAD79) Date: 1/28/1989 Description: Evening. A triangular UFO is seen over Tiptree, Essex, England. Its color changes from bright to dull white before it shoots to the southwest. Other triangular UFOs are observed in southeast Essex in January. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 124 Source ID: Eberhart_6772 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21370 (A2390C39) Date: 1/29/1989 Description: A woman in Redding, California reported six giant beige triangular objects that moved from south to north at low altitude at 9:35 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 238, citing Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_588 Source: Johnson ### Event 21371 (18817200) Date: 1/30/1989 Description: In the predawn hours in the ocean off Shagwong Point, Long Island, New York a fishing boat's radar system and other electronics failed when it was approached by a light on the sea or hovering just above the water less than a mile away. A diamond shaped UFO estimated to be 150 feet in size was then seen as it moved toward the boat, turned west, and then finally south, making a slight humming sound. There were three witnesses on board and the incident lasted several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 31; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 215, citing the UFO Newsclipping Service Source ID: Johnson_616 Source: Johnson ### Event 21372 (75053C09) Date: 1/30/1989 Description: At 9:40 p.m. a witness in Blenfleet, Essex, England spotted a 300-foot long "bus" in the sky at 900 feet altitude. It had two rows of windows, and it moved slowly and silently through the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_617 Source: Johnson ### Event 21373 (E232C539) Date: 1/30/1989 Description: Three witnesses in Battle Mountain, Nevada saw a delta-shaped object in the sky with a red light at 5:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 16, citing the UFO Newsclipping Service Source ID: Johnson_618 Source: Johnson ### Event 21374 (513BF08D) Date: 2/1989 Description: Numerous witnesses in Gloucestershire, England, report a noiseless triangular UFO “ablaze with lights.” One report describes a series of light beams emanating toward the ground that give it a “tripod effect.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wilts & Gloucester Standard of Cirencester, February 24, 1989; Marler 124–125 Source ID: Eberhart_6773 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21375 (4408D1AE) Date: 2/1989 Description: Local concentration of sightings. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Fyffe, AL Source ID: HallUFOE2_439 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21376 (24CA1DC7) Date: 2/6/1989 Description: On this night a woman in Perm, Russia saw a bright disc-shaped object hovering over the area. The craft brightened suddenly and the witness became disoriented. She could only remember that her own dog attacked her. Later, under hypnosis, she recalled confronting two very tall figures within a light. The beings touched her on the back with a very cold metallic triangular device, which had the effect of blocking her memory of the experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 578, citing Jacques Vallee Source ID: Johnson_728 Source: Johnson ### Event 21377 (48941AB3) Date: 2/7/1989 Description: A 17-year-old girl observed a small sphere with red and blue lights hovering only 3 meters over her backyard in New Haven, Connecticut. It was 60 feet away, and reportedly caused her a temporary tingling sensation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15297; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 240, citing Robert Gribble Source ID: Johnson_744 Source: Johnson ### Event 21378 (E85A376F) Date: 2/7/1989 Description: At 10:30 p.m. several witnesses were driving together along an isolated section of Route 4 in Sassovivo, Italy when they started to see intermittent circular flashes of light ahead of them. As they got closer they saw five circular objects on the ground alongside the road. The vehicle's engine stalled as five humanoids, about 90 cm tall, emerged from the crafts and surrounded the vehicle. The humanoids wore white, astronaut like suits, and had black hair and large staring eyes. They moved rapidly around the vehicle, completely ignoring the witnesses. For some time their vehicle was prevented from moving. After awhile the humanoids went back into their circular objects and then these craft disappeared from sight. The source indicated that the driver died soon after the encounter, but provided no information as to the cause of death. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing CUN Source ID: Johnson_743 Source: Johnson ### Event 21379 (FAEB395F) Date: 2/8/1989 Description: Dogs barked constantly as 2 small discs landed (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [890208](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890208dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf Breeze, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5777 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21380 (9FE22C86) Date: 2/8/1989 Description: 3:40 a.m. A man in Gulf Breeze, Florida, wakes to the sound of dogs barking outside. He sees a small object descending low over a nearby lot. It appears to be two connected discs, one on top of the other, not more than 3 feet in diameter. A white light is on top, and many other lights are blinking in shades of red, orange, and green. He approaches it, but it disappears in a flash of light. The duration is about 12 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Gulf](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890208dir.htm) [Breeze, Florida: February 8, 1989](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890208dir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_6774 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21381 (D4F29BF7) Date: 2/8/1989 Description: A man in Gulf Breeze, Florida was awakened by his dogs, and saw a UFO descend making a sizzling sound and land in a vacant lot only 80 feet away from his house. He awoke his wife and son. They saw three small discs land. When the man shone a flashlight at one of the objects it flashed back and then they all disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ed Walters, UFO Abductions at Gulf Breeze, p. 184; Rex Salisberry, MUFON field investigation file database, case 890405; Larry Hatch, U computer data, case 14819, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue #255 Source ID: Johnson_763 Source: Johnson ### Event 21382 (A54F8FE5) Date: 2/10/1989 Description: 8:42 p.m. A woman in Grove Oak, Alabama, tells the Fyffe, Alabama, police department that she has been watching a curved object for more than an hour with a pair of binoculars. It has a red light on each end and a white light in between, with the top of the curve outlined in green light. Police Chief [Junior Garmany](https://wtwilsonfuneralchapel.com/tribute/details/932/Junior-Garmany/obituary.html) and Assistant Chief Fred Works drive to the site and see the object at 1,000–1,500 feet, completely silent. It begins moving away as they approach. The officers drive after the object, following it for 12 miles when it suddenly reverses direction and flies over their patrol car at 300–400 mph. It is soon seen by law enforcement officers to the south in Crossville, Geraldine, and Collinsville, Alabama. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office receives more than 50 calls from citizens in surrounding communities, including Dawson and Dog Town, Alabama, and Lick Skillet, Tennessee, regarding a “silent thing streaking through the dark.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Friday Night UFO Remains a](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2003%20-%20no%20236.pdf) [Mystery,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2003%20-%20no%20236.pdf)” Fort Payne \(Ala.\) Times Journal, February 14, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 236 \(March 1989\): 10; Meghan Mitchell, “[Alabama’s UFO Capital Still Has a Story to Tell,](https://cw.ua.edu/56148/top-stories/alabamas-ufo-capital-still-has-a-story-to-tell/)” The Crimson White \(University of Alabama\), October 28, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_6775 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21383 (EA860017) Date: 2/10/1989 Description: In Fyffe, Alabama a lighted triangular-shaped object with rounded corners flew around in the sky and was watched for more than an hour by four witnesses, including police. It flew over the police cruiser at an estimated distance of 1,500 meters at a steady speed, and made no sound. There were other sightings in surrounding communities, including De Kalb City, Dawson, Dog Town, and Lick Skillet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Commercial Appeal, March 15, 1989 Source ID: Johnson_810 Source: Johnson ### Event 21384 (FEDBDED5) Date: 2/11/1989 Description: A woman at home on a foggy evening in San Antonio, Texas was attracted by a humming sound she heard outside at 11:15 p.m. She then saw a hovering orange, oval-shaped disc that emitted a strong blue beam of light. The beam of light extinguished the closest street light. The next odd thing that happened is that a firetruck appeared driving down her street. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert E. Morgan, MUFON field investigation case files, case #890402; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_844 Source: Johnson ### Event 21385 (C785FBC6) Date: 2/11/1989 Description: Two men were recording music in their apartment in Levittown, New York at around 9:00 p.m. when they began to hear strange noises coming from outside. Going to a window, they saw two US government helicopters hovering overhead. They then saw two more flying in tandem, and between them was a huge, shiny metallic object with multicolored lights. Both witnesses ran outside, jumped into their car, and began following the UFO and the mystery helicopters. Once on the expressway the helicopters left and the giant object turned into a ball of fire before their eyes. Both witnesses then suffered a blackout. When they recovered they realized they were now driving towards the entrance of a bridge. Later, one man recalled being in a room with several short humanoids with large black eyes. He also claimed seeing numerous symbols resembling hieroglyphics. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, issue #258; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 945 Source ID: Johnson_843 Source: Johnson ### Event 21386 (5CFA532D) Date: 2/13/1989 Description: 9:00–10:00 p.m. A large, low-flying, cylindrical UFO is reported by many witnesses in the North Caucasus region of Russia. It has spotlights in front and back, porthole-like openings along the sides, fins on its tail, and travels at about 65 mph. As it flies over Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, it drifts down to an altitude of 150 feet then flies off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, [pp. 32–33](https://archive.org/details/ufochroniclesofs00vall/page/32/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6776 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21387 (6FC97D45) Date: 2/15/1989 Description: Fyffe, Alabama, police officer Dennison Scott and two other officers investigate a citizen’s report of a strange object in the sky, flashing multicolored lights for more than an hour before it moves away toward the northwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 472–473 Source ID: Eberhart_6777 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21388 (F518A989) Date: 2/24/1989 Description: A multi-colored triangular shaped object flew over the town of Butler, Pennsylvania making a roaring sound a 8:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, MUFON field investigation file 900310 Source ID: Johnson_1089 Source: Johnson ### Event 21389 (16D7E28C) Date: 2/25/1989 Description: In Benayeo, Victoria, Australia near Edenhope, a large oblong UFO with a dome at the rear end hung in the sky at 7:30 a.m., and then vanished in place. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 218 Source ID: Johnson_1117 Source: Johnson ### Event 21390 (2E47C43C) Date: 3/1989 Description: [Robert Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) allegedly sees a disc on his third visit to S-4 at Groom Lake, Nevada. It is a classic-looking flying saucer, resting on three legs in a hangar. It is about 35–40 feet in diameter, 15 feet tall, and the color of pewter. During his stay at S-4, he sees a total of 9 flying saucers, each distinctive in design and size. His assignment, however, involves just one craft he nicknames the “sport model,” which he is allowed to examine on his fourth visit to S-4. The disc has three levels, and he is cleared for the lower two. Lazar crawls underneath the craft and sees three “gravity amplifiers” that focus a “Gravity A” wave from the “total annihilation” reactor in the center level of the craft. In this level, he sees a control panel and very small chairs—too small for human pilots. He discovers that part of the skin of the craft can become transparent, allowing one to look through it like a window. According to Lazar, the fuel for the craft is Element 115 \[later synthesized in 2003 and named moscovium in 2016, but this is much different than what Lazar describes\], housed in the reactor where it undergoes bombardment and spontaneous fission, producing antimatter particles that are converted to electricity with 100% efficiency. This power operates the amplifier, distorts the surrounding gravitational field, causes the craft to be invisible, and shortens the distance to a charted destination. Speed-of-light limitations are irrelevant. But Element 115 cannot be manufactured on Earth. The aliens have left only 500 pounds of it, but just 223 grams \(half a pound\) can fuel a craft for a long time. On another occasion, Lazar witnesses a demonstration of the craft, which lifts off the ground, moves left and right, and sits back down. He has access to and reads more than 100 documents dealing with the craft, its propulsion, and alien technology, as well as photos of gray alien bodies. The aliens are allegedly from the Zeta Reticuli 1 and 2 star system. The Reticulans claim to have genetically corrected human evolution up to 65 times over the past 10,000 years using viruses. They have given humans religion to prevent them from self-destructing and claim to be able to exert mind control on people when they are relaxed or sleeping. Lazar allegedly catches a glimpse of a small, gray alien standing between two men in white coats in a small room inside the secret S-4 facility. The documents also mention an exchange of information and hardware between the US government and the Reticulans until 1979, when some kind of conflict occurred. This is when the aliens leave and the military begins reverse-engineering what alien tech they have acquired. Then in May 1987, some scientists take an antimatter reactor to an underground Nevada test facility, where they are killed when attempting to cut the reactor open. Lazar claims he was hired as a substitute for one of these men. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Billy Goodman Happening, Nov. 21, 1989,” transcript of call-in radio show, KVEG-AM, Las Vegas, Nevada; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1990; Grant R. Cameron, T. Scott Crain, and Chris Rutkowski, “In the Land of Dreams,” IUR 15, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1990\): 4–8; “[S-4 Papoose Lake,](http://boblazardebunked.com/real-area-51-tech/)” Bob Lazar Debunked; “[New High-Def Photos of S-4,](http://boblazardebunked.com/real-area-51-tech/)” Bob Lazar Debunked; “[Element 115,](http://boblazardebunked.com/investigating-s4-e115/)” Bob Lazar Debunked; Dolan II 475–478; Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 12](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/12/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6779 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21391 (CDA4FD4E) Date: 3/1989 Description: The Center for UFO Studies launches a new series of its Journal of UFO Studies, edited by [Michael D. Swords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FD.%5FSwords), who examines the literature relating to extraterrestrial intelligence in order to provide a basis for judging the ETH as an acceptable concept for use in analyzing UFO phenomena. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Science and the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis in Ufology,” JUFOS 1 \(1989\): 67–102 Source ID: Eberhart_6778 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21392 (7DAD47DF) Date: 3/1989 (approximate) Description: Lazar takes group near Groom Lake to view UFO’s Type: ufo sighting Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Location: Papoose Dry Lake Source ID: Maj2_778 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21393 (E38EC539) Date: 3/1/1989 Description: Albuquerque, New Mexico, ufologist [Robert Hastings](https://www.ufohastings.com/bio) issues a 13-page statement with 37 pages of appended documents and mails it to many prominent individuals in ufology. He claims “Falcon” is [Richard Doty](https://ufoscoop.com/richard-c-doty/) and “Condor” is [Robert Collins](https://www.exopaedia.org/Robert%2BCollins)[,](https://www.exopaedia.org/Robert%2BCollins) and that Doty and [Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) are spreading disinformation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 370 Source ID: Eberhart_6780 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21394 (74C5B5F8) Date: 3/1/1989 Description: Many police personnel and others at 10 locations, centered on De Kalb County, Alabama reported UFOs. Sightings started in Fyffe, Alabama at 8:00 p.m. At 10:10 p.m. police from six agencies and a fire chief reported sightings in Geraldine, Alabama, and took one poor-quality photograph. At 11:30 p.m. the highway patrol in Fort Payne reported sighting the Fyffe UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine, June 1990, p. 26; UFO Newsclipping Service; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15316 Source ID: Johnson_1226 Source: Johnson ### Event 21395 (F858631E) Date: 3/1/1989 Description: At 8:03 p.m. a mother and daughter in Union City, Ohio spotted a huge metallic triangle craft, halfway between the car and their house (1/8th of a mile away). It was described as gigantic, 500 feet in length, and making a low rumbling sound. It terrified them when it moved toward them. The close encounter lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p 120 Source ID: Johnson_1227 Source: Johnson ### Event 21396 (5E53AB96) Date: 3/2/1989 Description: At 9:35 p.m. a 60-year-old man in Shrub Oak, Westchester County, New York reported that a huge metallic boomerang-shaped UFO with many lights in front came overhead, just fifty feet above the ground. Later he could not account for about 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, case 246, citing Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_1260 Source: Johnson ### Event 21397 (B063DB86) Date: 3/9/1989 Description: Night. Susan Stockman, a reporter for the Rainsville \(Ala.\) Weekly Post, is with general manager Teri Baker when she snaps three time-lapse photographs of a distant UFO just above the treetop level, showing a movement unlike that of an airplane that appears shortly afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Susan Stockman, “[Section Native Says UFOs Are Real,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2004%20-%20no%20237.pdf)” Rainsville \(Ala.\) Weekly Post, March 9, 1989; Susan Stockman, “[A First-Hand Glimpse of the UFO,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2004%20-%20no%20237.pdf)” Rainsville \(Ala.\) Weekly Post, March 16, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 237 \(April 1989\): 3–6 Source ID: Eberhart_6781 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21398 (D045FDF5) Date: 3/12/1989 Description: 7:30 p.m. [Gary Coker](http://southerntorch.com/community/remembering-gary-coker/) of Skirum, Alabama, sees a large UFO with red and green flashing lights on the side and two white lights about 6 feet in diameter on the bottom hovering about 5 miles away. Another man in Geraldine, Alabama, sees an object the size of a football field hovering above his chicken house at about the same time. In both cases, the object disappears after the witnesses go inside to get a camera or binoculars. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Some Say](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2004%20-%20no%20237.pdf) [UFO Is As Big As a Football Field,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2004%20-%20no%20237.pdf)” Rainsville \(Ala.\) Weekly Post, March 16, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 237 \(April 1989\): 3 Source ID: Eberhart_6782 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21399 (AF58434A) Date: Spring 1989 Description: Bob Lazar takes groups of friends on Wednesday nights into the desert around Papoose Dry Lake, 15 miles south of Groom Lake. They appeared to be large glowing, disc-shaped objects. At least one sighting was recorded on video. Type: ufo sighting Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Location: Papoose Dry Lake Source ID: Maj2_777 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21400 (0AF1975B) Date: 3/22/1989 Description: 8:30 p.m. After telling writer [Gene Huff](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5108055/) and pilot [John Lear](https://www.exopaedia.org/Lear%2C%2BJohn) about his UFO secrets, [Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) and his wife Tracy drive Lear’s RV to Tikaboo Peak, Nevada, off Highway 375 to view a test flight of a flying saucer at S-4. Lear sees an elliptical-shaped light through Lear’s Celestron telescope for 7 minutes. Lear videotapes the encounter, and the tape shows a bright light apparently maneuvering. When the camera zooms in close to the object, it seems to be spinning. They watch it descend behind a mountain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tom Mahood, “[The Robert Lazar Timeline,](https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-bob-lazar-corner/the-lazar-timeline/)” Other Hand, January 1997; Susan Wright, UFO Headquarters: Investigations on Current Extraterrestrial Activity, St. Martin’s, 1999 ed., [pp. 186–209](https://archive.org/details/ufoheadquartersi0000wrig/page/186/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6784 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21401 (134F79CB) Date: 3/25/1989 Description: The Soviet Mars probe [Phobos 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos%5F2) takes an infrared photograph of what appears to be a large and long cylindrical object very close to Mars moonlet Phobos. If this Phobos Mystery Object is at the same distance as the moonlet itself, it would be roughly 1.2 miles wide and 15 miles long. Its surface brightness is the same as Phobos. Its sides are parallel and both of the ends are rounded. The end toward Phobos narrows slightly; the other end has a short protrusion. This is the last image taken by the probe. On March 27 it fails to reestablish communications with Earth due to an onboard computer malfunction and goes into a spin. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 70–73; Patrick Gross, “[Soviet Probe Meets UFO on Phobos Mission](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/phob12.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_6785 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21402 (0B0125BB) Date: Late 3/1989 Description: 9:20 p.m. After a training exercise at Mihai Kogălniceanu Air Force Base \[now Mihai Kogălniceanu International Airport\] in southeast Romania, 18–20 aircraft pilots of Regiment 57 are inside a building at the base planning future exercises; outside, Col. Aurelian Dobre notices multiple lights appear above some nearby trees. He alerts the oher pilots to come out, and they see a triangular formation of objects at an equal distance from each other, all bathed in a silver light, moving south to north at a height of 4 miles. Dobre hears a noise like the rustle of a flight of birds; unlike his colleagues, he thinks the lights are on a single object the size of a football stadium. Col. Dan Aloanei is flying a MiG-29 and sees them as a V-formation of neon lights that disappear to the northeast. The next day, all the witnesses are required to submit written reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 105–109 Source ID: Eberhart_6783 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21403 (C4A5E644) Date: 3/29/1989 Description: Lazar records the mean outdoor temp, heads with group to viewing area for 2nd time Type: ufo sighting Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Location: Papoose Dry Lake Source ID: Maj2_779 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21404 (28038141) Date: 3/29/1989 Description: [Bob](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) and Tracy Lazar, Gene Huff, [John Lear](https://www.exopaedia.org/Lear%2C%2BJohn), and Jim Tagliani drive to Tikaboo Peak, Nevada, to observe another flight test. They videotape a moving light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_6786 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21405 (86C5DF18) Date: 4/2/1989 Description: Another abduction occurred on this night in 1989, presumably connected with the UFO phenomenon. A woman in Tennessee noticed in the dark a thin humanoid outside her home. It had a bluish complexion. Five men appeared, four apparently human, wearing olive-drab uniforms. The fifth was a dark-haired humanoid that wore a khaki coat. She was taken away in a black van. On the same day a UFO appeared low over the Santa Fe de Bogotá airport in Colombia, causing air traffic controllers to divert several flights to land in other airports. The UFO was sighted by pilots, ATCs, and many other witnesses, and also appeared on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case 1683, citing Karla Turner, Taken; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 221 Source ID: Johnson_1806 Source: Johnson ### Event 21406 (24094E22) Date: 4/2/1989 Description: Lazar’s 3rd trip with group to view UFO’s near Groom Lake Type: ufo sighting Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Location: Papoose Dry Lake Source ID: Maj2_780 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21407 (1BB9D440) Date: 4/5/1989 Description: Dog growling awoke witness to see hovering disc (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [890405](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890405dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Plainfield, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5779 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21408 (471FCF32) Date: 4/5/1989 Description: [Robert Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) Tracy Lazar, her sister, Gene Huff, and [John Lear](https://www.exopaedia.org/Lear%2C%2BJohn) make a third trip to view a flight test along Groom Lake Road, Nevada. They are discovered by guards and questioned by the Lincoln County sheriff. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_6787 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21409 (E269000B) Date: 4/5/1989 Description: Excited barking as disc emitted light beam and stirred tree (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [890405](http://www.nicap.org/ar-cantondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cantonment, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5778 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21410 (759212C7) Date: 4/6/1989 Description: [Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) is prevented from going to work at Groom Lake and is taken to Indian Springs Air Force Base \[now Creech AFB\] for questioning. He is told he is no longer employed by EG&G, and if he comes near Groom Lake again he will be arrested for espionage. He is allegedly given a transcript of Tracy’s telephone conversations which indicate she is having an affair. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [pp. 12–13](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/12/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6788 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21411 (8E94CDD1) Date: 4/7/1989 Description: Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s last day at work Type: employment Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Location: Papoose Dry Lake Source ID: Maj2_781 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21412 (A1833EE4) Date: 4/8/1989 Description: Dogs are unaffected by fly over of three amber lights in formation (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [890408](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890408dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Baton Rouge, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5780 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21413 (B050803D) Date: 4/10/1989 Description: On this night in Dibich, Bulgaria the witness of a previous UFO close encounter was visited at home by an undescribed "evil" being who was accompanied by a fireball-like object and a huge hairy humanoid. The visitor allegedly wanted to "take possession" of the witness's soul. She resisted but was visited several more times after this date by the same beings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 719, citing Richard F. Haines, Joint USA-CIS Aerial Anomaly Federation Report Source ID: Johnson_1944 Source: Johnson ### Event 21414 (8372044A) Date: 4/12/1989 Description: An 11-year-old boy in Webster, Massachusetts saw a cigar-shaped object rise out of a lake. It was brownish-black and 15' long. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 253 Source ID: Johnson_1990 Source: Johnson ### Event 21415 (A8785870) Date: 4/12/1989 Description: At 12:25 a.m. a woman in Perth, Western Australia was awake in bed next to her sleeping husband when she became aware of a high-pitched sound. On the right side of the bed a short figure suddenly appeared. She described it as semi-transparent, and it wore a bright green neon belt and a green ring. The entity was examining a box when the witness made a sudden move, and the being then touched its belt and vanished in plain sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 1318, citing Keith Basterfield Source ID: Johnson_1989 Source: Johnson ### Event 21416 (03F5306D) Date: 4/13/1989 Description: The Kerry Committee report, the result of an investigation led by Sens. [John Kerry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FKerry) \(D-Mass.\) and [Christopher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%5FDodd) [Dodd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%5FDodd) \(D-Conn.\) by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, shows that Lt. Col. [Oliver North](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%5FNorth) and other members of the [Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) administration had set up a private network involving the National Security Council and CIA to deliver military equipment to the Contras, US-backed right-wing rebel groups in Nicaragua. This has not been authorized by Congress, and much of the funding comes from drug trafficking. DEA agent [Celerino Castillo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celerino%5FCastillo%5FIII) testifies that from 1985 to 1987, he discovered that the Contras were transporting cocaine through El Salvador’s Ilopango Airport. Castillo tried to bust the operation, but discovers that the traffickers were protected by the CIA. The subcommittee determines that there is “substantial evidence of drug smuggling... on the part of individual Contras, Contra suppliers, Contra pilots, mercenaries who worked with the Contras, and Contra supporters.” It does “not find that Contra leaders were personally involved in drug trafficking.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Kerry Committee report](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry%5FCommittee%5Freport)” Source ID: Eberhart_6789 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21417 (1050BA88) Date: 4/15/1989 Description: 5:30 p.m. A father and his 16-year-old son watch from their front lawn in Novato, California, a slowly descending object shaped like “two spheres connected by together like a stem.” They are golden with a white halo around them. Through binoculars, they can see four smaller objects, golden discs, maneuvering near the original dumbbell-shaped UFO. The father notes a “strange absence of kids and dogs at the time.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “Daylight Dumbbell,” IUR 14, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1989\): 12–13, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_6790 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21418 (AAE4ABAE) Date: 4/18/1989 Description: On this night a terminally ill patient staying in the cardiology ward of the Kirv hospital located in the Crimea, Russia suddenly felt a strong wind penetrate her room, even though the doors were closed. A dazzling white light and a man dressed in white then appeared. The man's eyes radiated a brilliant light. The witness asked where he was from and she was told "the tenth dimension." She was then told that she would soon be able to walk. After that the man and the light disappeared. The next day other witnesses saw strange white and red lights moving slowly along the body of the terminally ill patient, who then heard a loud clear voice telling her to "get up and leave." She was able to do so and was apparently cured, but there is no report on the current health of the woman. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case 121, citing Sergei Bulantsev, UFO Universe, October-November 1991 Source ID: Johnson_2122 Source: Johnson ### Event 21419 (41525143) Date: 4/19/1989 Description: On this evening in Fayette County, Pennsylvania a 10-year-old girl saw two short white glowing figures, whom she called angels, near a large glowing UFO. An adult witness saw the UFO shot straight up into the sky when it departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case 925, citing Stan Gordon, PASU Data Exchange, August 1989 Source ID: Johnson_2144 Source: Johnson ### Event 21420 (54197347) Date: 4/20/1989 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a couple driving in a car in Westchester County, New York saw huge lights on what they described as an object four times the size of a Boeing 747. Three other witnesses in a different location also reported seeing it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15341, citing Bob Gribble Source ID: Johnson_2172 Source: Johnson ### Event 21421 (8DAF462F) Date: 4/21/1989 Description: Barking alerted witness to disc, which put light on witness (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [890421](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890421dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Crestview, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5781 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21422 (FB2F5A5D) Date: 4/21/1989 Description: Witness aimed rifle at hovering disc, brilliant white light on underside, humming sound. Light beam engulfed him, rifle misfired, object sped away Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Crestview, FL Source ID: HallUFOE2_440 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21423 (E9F769F3) Date: 4/21/1989 Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_441 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21424 (FA3D4EB2) Date: 4/21/1989 Description: At 9:15 p.m. in Crestview, Florida a man's dog barked as a 90-foot diameter disc-shaped object hovered nearby. The man aimed a .22 rifle at the hovering disc, which had a brilliant white light on the underside and made a humming sound. A light beam engulfed him, his rifle misfired, and the object sped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Allen Reynolds and Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, p. 18; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 149; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 31, 282, & 384 Source ID: Johnson_2194 Source: Johnson ### Event 21425 (950D7451) Date: 4/22/1989 Description: At 9:22 p.m. two witnesses on a balcony in St. Louis, Missouri witnessed an orange BOL (ball of light) in the east. Then, the object appeared in front of the witnesses, between buildings, only 150 feet away. It was described in the report as disc-shaped, without tapered edges, with an orange dome on top, an orange stripe around the mid-section, and a black bottom with many blue lights underneath (see sketch below, credit Francis L. Ridge). The witnesses ran into the street and watched the object fade away westward. The total observation was from 20-30 seconds. It made a "whoosh" sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 121, field investigator B. Becker; http://www.nicap.org/images/4L.jpg; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14867 Source ID: Johnson_2235 Source: Johnson ### Event 21426 (C4E4B374) Date: 4/24/1989 Description: 10:55 p.m. An object described as three times the size of an aircraft hovers above Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, Russia, at a height of 1,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, [p. 11](https://archive.org/details/ufochroniclesofs00vall/page/10/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6791 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21427 (1FAD9DA2) Date: 4/24/1989 Description: At 10:45 p.m. several witnesses, including 53-year-old A. D. Golovatskaya, watched a fiery green elongated craft fly low over the rooftops of Kharovsk, Russia. It had a blunt nose and a fish-shaped tail. The craft was silent and appeared to be made of crystal. Four figures wearing silvery, tight-fitting uniforms were seen inside the object, two in the rear and two at the front apparently operating some controls. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 668, citing V.D. Musinskiy, FSR, Volume 35, No. 3 Source ID: Johnson_2286 Source: Johnson ### Event 21428 (C2EE02AB) Date: 4/30/1989 Description: On this night a family of nine was spending a night at an abandoned cemetery near Moscow, Russia by the river's shore, when a strong light suddenly woke them in the middle of the night. They watched as a large sphere landed on the riverbank. Two figures then appeared in front of the sphere. The lower part of their bodies were black and the upper parts were yellow in color. The sphere and the humanoids suddenly vanished in plain sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 717, citing Richard F Haines, Joint USA-CIS Aerial Anomaly Federation Report Source ID: Johnson_2431 Source: Johnson ### Event 21429 (E1E5391C) Date: 5/1989 End date: 11/1989 Description: Journalist George Knapp is assigned to research all things Bob Lazar. Type: historical event Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: Maj2_785 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21430 (9E3D3C90) Date: 5/1/1989 Description: At 5:00 a.m a woman in Hollywood, California was on her way to work when she experienced a long period of missing time. Later she was able to recall that she had been taken onboard a craft and had been greeted by a man in a blue coverall. She was then taken to a room with a large screen. She could see outside the object through the screen. She was told they were going to visit a planet called “Erra.” She was then taken to a place with numerous forests and trails and very rich in oxygen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case HC # 754, citing Jim Brandt, Far Out, Summer 1993 Source ID: Johnson_2448 Source: Johnson ### Event 21431 (8DA880E6) Date: 5/1/1989 Description: At 2:30 a.m., in Metcalf, Illinois the mother of the principal witness had gotten up to go to the bathroom when she noticed that the electricity was off. She then saw a strange being with large eyes peering at her through the window and screamed. At this point her adult son, a repeat UFO abductee, got up and fired a gun four times at the being through the window. Four other tall humanoids with dangling arms were observed standing near a power pole. The electrical power came back on. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters: the Filter Center Files, p. 115 Source ID: Johnson_2447 Source: Johnson ### Event 21432 (EEE43E94) Date: 5/2/1989 Description: Pilot Manoel Luiz Christóvão, flying a small plane about 6 miles west of Arapongas, Paraná, Brazil, sees a huge circular light in the sky as he is preparing to land. Another plane flying nearby cannot see the light. Christovào continues to land, but the light positions itself in front of the plane, forcing him to make a sudden maneuver. The object moves in front of him again, forcing him to maneuver again. The pilot decides to head directly toward the light, after which the UFO accelerates abruptly and disappears. The maneuvers last approximately 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Piloto se arrisca em prova de fogo no Paraná,](https://ufo.com.br/artigos/relatos---piloto-se-arrisca-em-prova-de-fogo-no-parana.html)” Portal UFO, December 1, 1995; Clark III 201; Brazil 542–543 Source ID: Eberhart_6792 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21433 (D44FA8DF) Date: 5/4/1989 Description: At 9:30 in Easton, Connecticut an object shaped like a flying wing with red, yellow, and blue lights in back and a blinking red light on right side flew over tree line behind a house. Just before 10:00 p.m. an engineer and two others watched a boomerang or V-shaped object as big as a football field near a golf course in Trumbull, Connecticut. It made a faint humming sound and had many colored lights. The engineer was driving home when he first saw the object, which had red and white lights turned on at first, then turned off; with the light turned off it looked like a blue boomerang. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_2519 Source: Johnson ### Event 21434 (6D621870) Date: 5/6/1989 Description: Five girls observed two multicolored lights in Ferndale, Washington at 10:00 p.m. One approached at tree top level, just 15 feet from the ground. It was oblong and wide, and may have landed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 261, citing Bob Gribble Source ID: Johnson_2598 Source: Johnson ### Event 21435 (9F107255) Date: 5/7/1989 Description: A South African Mirage FIIG AF allegedly jet shot down a UFO that flew in from the ocean over the Kalahari Desert, 80 miles north of the South African border in Botswana. It had been tracked by radar by the Frigate SA Trafalberg, and the Naval headquarters in Cape Town. They retrieved a silver disc-shaped craft, and two Grey aliens were captured alive. They had three fingers/toes on each limb, and no sex organs. The object was reported to have been lens-shaped, 18 meters in diameter with three landing gear. There were three aliens onboard; two alive but one died soon afterwards. The alive alien was eventually moved to the S-4 facility. NORAD apparently tracked the object as it fell to earth. An experimental SDI weapon was reportedly used to expedite the downing of the craft, which apparently had already experienced some technical problems. South African and American military personnel crossed the Botswana border without permission in order to retrieve the craft. The bodies and materials were transported to the US in a C-5A cargo plane from South Africa. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tony Dodd, Alien Investigator: The Case Files of Britain's Leading UFO Detective, p. 33; Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # 2846, citing Tony Dodd, Bill Knell, and Anton Anfalov Source ID: Johnson_2631 Source: Johnson ### Event 21436 (DAD3BE8D) Date: 5/7/1989 Description: Hoaxed South African Air Force documents purport to describe a UFO crash in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana 50 miles north of the South African border. Two Mirage fighter aircraft allegedly pursue a fast-moving UFO and shoot it down with an experimental “thor 2 laser cannon.” However, UFO researcher [Cynthia Hind](http://www.noufors.com/Cynthia%5FHind.htm) notices ludicrous errors in the documents, not least among them that they are in English, not Afrikaans. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[UFO sightings in South Africa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO%5Fsightings%5Fin%5FSouth%5FAfrica\#1989%5FKalahari%5Fcrash)”; Clark III 1096–1098 Source ID: Eberhart_6793 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21437 (355E4116) Date: 5/10/1989 Description: Later that evening, at around 7:45 p.m., an elderly motorist was driving in an isolated area of Bautista Canyon, California when she saw a luminous 30-foot wide mushroom-shaped craft descend and hover just above some nearby power lines. She stopped her car and observed six to eight beings emerge from the craft and begin to work repairing the outside of the object. After 10 minutes they re-entered the object, which departed at high speed emitting a loud humming sound and a burst of blue flame. They were reports of electrical outages in the area at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing a newspaper clipping; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing Debbie Steinberg, in Timothy Good (ed.) The UFO Report 1991, p. 225 Source ID: Johnson_2725 Source: Johnson ### Event 21438 (C77A008C) Date: 5/10/1989 Description: La Venta del Astillero, Zapopan, Mexico - Apolonio Perez was awakened at 2:15 a.m. while sleeping in his camper by an extremely bright white light that illuminated the surrounding area. Worried about possible intruders, he searched the camper but found nothing. He returned to his bed, but a few seconds later a pencil-thin beam of white light lit the left side of his face. He heard a sound resembling a welder's torch and felt facial pain. Frightened, it occurred to him that he could be having another encounter with the occupants of a UFO he had seen years before. As he lay there he next felt a jolt of electricity in his body. Upset and in pain, Perez cursed at whoever was responsible for his pain, and moments later he received a third powerful electrical jolt. He stood up and managed to open the door of his camper just as the white light seemed to dim and vanish. The next day he experienced severe headaches and the left side of his face became swollen and began to bleed. For the next two weeks he had a severe rash on his face that eventually left permanent scaring. He would experience further encounters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing Luis Ramirez Reyes, Contacto: Mexico Source ID: Johnson_2724 Source: Johnson ### Event 21439 (D4A34C1E) Date: 5/10/1989 Description: At just after midnight a 38-year-old male and a 16 year-old female driving in Farmington, Michigan were pursued by a silvery disc with a greenish tinge. Electromagnetic interference effects were reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_2723 Source: Johnson ### Event 21440 (9B0F5D2E) Date: 5/12/1989 Description: A huge disc-shaped UFO was seen in Hubei Province, China. It illuminated the surrounding landscape a red color, and hung silently low in the sky for 20 minutes. It then rose to an estimated 100 meters and shot off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 128 Source ID: Johnson_2774 Source: Johnson ### Event 21441 (FBF4C784) Date: 5/13/1989 Description: On this night in Kodal, Norway a strong light swooped up to a biker twice; it vanished as a car approaches. The biker experienced 20 minutes of missing time. There were separate observers to the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Inforespace, issue 83 Source ID: Johnson_2817 Source: Johnson ### Event 21442 (ABC71D58) Date: 5/14/1989 Description: Bob Lazar, at ex-CIA contractor and ufologist John Lear’s secure house, is first interviewed by journalist George Knapp. Type: interview Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar page 213 Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: Maj2_782 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21443 (585EB8F0) Date: 5/15/1989 Description: [Robert Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) is first interviewed by [George Knapp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FKnapp%5F%28journalist%29) on KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, in silhouette, using the pseudonym “Dennis.” Lazar discusses his purported employment at S-4, a subsidiary facility he claims exists near in Area 51. He says the S-4 facility is adjacent to Papoose Lake, which is located south of the main Area 51 facility at Groom Lake. He claims the site consists of concealed aircraft hangars built into a mountainside. Lazar says that his job was to help with reverse engineering the antigravity propulsion system of one of nine flying saucers, which he alleges are extraterrestrial in origin. Lazar claims one of the flying saucers, the one he terms the “sport model,” is manufactured out of a metallic substance similar in appearance and touch to stainless steel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tom Mahood, “[The Robert Lazar Timeline,](https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-bob-lazar-corner/the-lazar-timeline/)” Other Hand, January 1997; Grant R. Cameron, T. Scott Crain, and Chris Rutkowski, “In the Land of Dreams,” IUR 15, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1990\): 4–8; Don Ecker, “Freedom of Disinformation,” Fortean Times 122 \(May 1999\): 28–31; George Knapp and Matt Adams, “[I-Team: The Man](https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/i-team-the-man-who-sent-shock-waves-through-ufo-circles-30-years-ago/) [Who Sent Shock Waves through UFO Circles 30 Years Ago,](https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/i-team-the-man-who-sent-shock-waves-through-ufo-circles-30-years-ago/)” KLAS-TV, May 15, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_6794 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21444 (956EC8CB) Date: 5/17/1989 Description: Two women in their twenties driving in a car in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 2:57 a.m. had a close encounter with a white ovoid object with red beacons flashing on the sides. It made no sound, and vanished in sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989, p. 5, MUFON case file # 890719 Source ID: Johnson_2940 Source: Johnson ### Event 21445 (66D07D4D) Date: 5/17/1989 Description: Kalahari Desert, close to the borders between the Republics of South Africa and Botswana: UFO shot down by 2 scrambled Mirage jets. 2 live EBE’s and craft debris transported to Wright Patterson AFB. A South African Air Force Intelligence officer leaks photos of the EBE’s. Type: crash retrieval Reference: AFU Archives, “Space Craft Shot Out of South African Sky” Location: Kalahari Desert Source ID: Maj2_783 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21446 (E3FDA7F0) Date: 5/23/1989 Description: [Milton William Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%5FWilliam%5FCooper) produces a 25-page document titled The Secret Government, in which he claims that an unscrupulous group of covert CIA and other intelligence operatives actually runs the country. He says they were responsible for murdering one-time Secretary of Defense [James Forrestal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FForrestal) in 1949 because he threatened to expose the UFO cover-up. He claims there have been at least 16 downed alien craft, 65 bodies, and one live alien retrieved between 1947 and 1952, with at least 10 more crash/retrievals during the Eisenhower years. Cooper says aliens from a dying planet orbiting Betelgeuse landed at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, in 1954 and reached an agreement with the government. A second meeting took place with President [Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FD.%5FEisenhower) at Edwards AFB, California, and signed a formal treaty with an alien ambassador, His Omnipotent Highness Krill. But, he claims, the aliens broke the treaty, abducting humans, conspiring with the Soviets, and manipulating society through secret organizations. Cooper also claims that Eisenhower had created a scientific advisory group in 1960 called the Jason Group to “discover the truth of the alien question.” Much more spurious and outlandish tales develop. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Milton William Cooper, [The Secret Government: The Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12](https://archive.org/details/william-cooper-the-secret-government-1989/mode/2up), The Author, May 23, 1989; Clark III 367–368 Source ID: Eberhart_6795 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21447 (72996753) Date: 5/24/1989 Description: Bob Lazar interviews on KLAS-TV in silhouette using assumed identity “Dennis”. Sometime after this, Popular host Billy Goodman organizes bus trips to the outskirts of Groom Lake for UFO viewing parties. Type: interview Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar Reference: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbQG8-XA5Gc) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: Maj2_784 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21448 (EC0CC1B0) Date: 5/27/1989 Description: A car experienced brief electrical system failure, then recovered when a very strange looking UFO was sighted at around 11:00 p.m. in Charovsk, Russia. The object was mushroom shaped on one side, but looked crablike on the other side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, JUSA-CISAAF Translations, p. 213 Source ID: Johnson_3126 Source: Johnson ### Event 21449 (CEEC27A2) Date: 5/30/1989 Description: 9:15 p.m. A man and his son in Winnipeg, Manitoba, observe a “silvery, metallic hot dog,” oriented vertically and moving steadily west. After several minutes, the object is lost in the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6797 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21450 (10B84583) Date: 5/30/1989 Description: 3:46 a.m. TAM Airlines Flight 573 in the vicinity of Americana, São Paulo, Brazil, is contacted twice by the local control tower to ask if they can see an aircraft in their vicinity. Both times the pilot answers no, but at 3:52 a.m. the pilot says he can now see a strong light near the airplane. It maneuvers near the aircraft and one of the pilots estimates its size as about 164 feet. About 8 minutes later, they lose visual contact. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 201; Brazil 543 Source ID: Eberhart_6796 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21451 (6A7D9061) Date: 6/1989 Description: [Robert Hastings](https://www.ufohastings.com/bio) lines up an impressive case against [Bill Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29), saying that the Project Aquarius message was altered by Moore, that [Richard Doty](https://ufoscoop.com/richard-c-doty/) had forged the Ellsworth AFB document, that Doty’s typewriter at Kirtland AFB was implicated in the July 1980 Craig R. Weitzel letter, that Doty had given data to [Linda Moulton Howe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%5FMoulton%5FHowe) that contradicted data in the Eisenhower briefing memo, and that Moore admitted to faking a government ID card and passed himself off as an intelligence operative for two years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, June 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6799 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21452 (04253828) Date: 6/1989 Description: [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) presents “five arguments against the extraterrestrial origin” of UFOs at the eighth annual conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration in Boulder, Colorado. \(1\) There are too many close encounters to explain them as a physical survey of the earth. \(2\) The humanoid body structure is unlikely to have originated elsewhere and is not biologically adapted to space travel. \(3\) The behavior of alien abductors contradicts the idea that advanced aliens are conducting genetic or scientific experiments. \(4\) UFOs have been recorded throughout human history. \(5\) The apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate space and time suggests different and richer alternatives to the ETH. Vallée cites the earthlight theory, the control system hypothesis, and travel via wormholes as viable explanations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, “[Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/4/jse%5F04%5F1%5Fvallee%5F2.pdf) [of Unidentified Flying Objects,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/4/jse%5F04%5F1%5Fvallee%5F2.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1 \(1990\): 105–117 Source ID: Eberhart_6798 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21453 (545437F9) Date: 6/2/1989 Description: Paul Paulsen Frøyen sees two “U-boats” in Sognefjord between Lavik and Vadheim, Vestland, Norway. He watches them for two-and-a-half minutes, noting their periscopes and towers. When they submerge, he can see the spray. The Norwegian Air Force sends two jets to look for them, and the Coast Guard is also alerted. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_6800 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21454 (F2B1F091) Date: 6/3/1989 Description: At 10:46 p.m. a couple driving in Long Beach, Washington observed four glowing footballs, which they estimated were twenty to thirty feet long and at an altitude of 700 feet above them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3261 Source: Johnson ### Event 21455 (43F0BA0D) Date: 6/4/1989 Description: 7:45 p.m. A security guard and an air traffic controller at Air Force Facility 42 in Palmdale, California, witness a silver flying object and three orb-shaped UFOs during testing of the B1-B bomber. There is also a rumor of an abduction occurring on this date at the same facility. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6801 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21456 (AD3FEC38) Date: 6/4/1989 Description: In 1989, according to a report in the MUFON UFO Journal, a security guard and an air traffic controller at Air Force Facility 42 in Palmdale, California witnessed a silver flying object and three orb-shaped UFOs at 7:45 p.m. during testing of the B1-B bomber. There was also a rumor of an abduction occurring on this date at the same facility. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990 Source ID: Johnson_3281 Source: Johnson ### Event 21457 (A6020759) Date: 6/4/1989 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a disc-shaped object that emitted beams of light was observed from directly underneath in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report posted on website April 16, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_3282 Source: Johnson ### Event 21458 (A192A3B4) Date: 6/6/1989 Description: School children near the village of Konantsevo, Vologda Oblast, Russia, see a luminous dot in the sky. It gets larger, turns into a shining sphere, lands in a meadow, and moves to the Reka Kubena river about a quarter mile away. It seems to split, and a “headless person in dark garb” appears. The entity and sphere become invisible. Three more spheres are said to land later in the same meadow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, [pp. 11–12](https://archive.org/details/ufochroniclesofs00vall/page/10/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6802 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21459 (0DDAF5BA) Date: 6/6/1989 Description: On this day several school children near the river in Konantsevo, Vologda, Russia watched a bright sphere descend and land. It rolled a short distance and then split in half. A headless humanoid in a dark uniform, with long arms emerged. Three more objects repeated the descent and landing. The children experience an episode of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 127; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 11; Michael Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 330 Source ID: Johnson_3338 Source: Johnson ### Event 21460 (E42A63BB) Date: 6/11/1989 Description: At seven o'clock in the morning a Canadian Airlines International crew watched a dark grey or black ovoid object, estimated to be about 2 meters in length, make complex maneuvers in the sky not far from St. John's, Newfoundland for three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, International UFO Reporter, July 1990, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_3429 Source: Johnson ### Event 21461 (05230E61) Date: 6/13/1989 Description: Ms. Somerby, a 36-year-old woman, saw a massive rectangular shaped flying object while driving in her car at 11:30 p.m. in Frantfort, Kentucky. The UFO had a pipe structure clearly visible on the bottom. The witness experience an episode of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughilli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case #265 Source ID: Johnson_3469 Source: Johnson ### Event 21462 (473B0844) Date: 6/16/1989 Description: Two brothers were engaged in opal mining in an isolated area of Queensland, Australia on this night, with the nearest community being Yowah. They sighted a large disc-shaped craft accompanied by six smaller objects hovering over the area. A twenty-minute time lapse was reported. Hynoptic regression at a later date revealed an abduction scenario that involved small Grey type entities and tall human-looking beings with long blond hair. There seemed to the brothers that a struggle ensued between the two different groups of beings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case #1821, citing Keith Basterfield Source ID: Johnson_3521 Source: Johnson ### Event 21463 (0826ED44) Date: 6/20/1989 Description: At noon two girls in Lesozavodsk, Siberia, Russia encountered a strange being that floated above the ground towards them. It left a silvery trail behind him that faded slowly. The creature was described as humanoid but robot-like in appearance, and it had silvery gray hair. As it passed the girls it emitted a strange squeaking sound and a bright light in their direction which caused one of them a headache. A number of bus passengers also saw the humanoid. As it passed in front of a car it turned a strange silvery color. It continued on and disappeared towards a nearby bridge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 670, citing Yaroslavl Investigations, FSR, Volume 35, No. 3 Source ID: Johnson_3563 Source: Johnson ### Event 21464 (39414C5A) Date: Summer 1989 Description: Night. Edward Chard sees some odd lights hovering in Essex, England. He looks at them through binoculars and sees a large triangular object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 183 Source ID: Eberhart_6805 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21465 (D2FDE190) Date: 6/24/1989 Description: 12:00 midnight. A. N. Olkhovay goes out on her balcony in Kyiv, Ukraine, and sees a dim, twinkling, rectangular object shaped “like a loaf of bread” hovering above the Obolon neighborhood. She calls her neighbors, and one of them named Ivanitsky hastily takes two photos. The film is developed in the offices of the Pravda Ukrainy newspaper but it shows nothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: V. D. Musinsky, “Letter: Soviet Ufology,” IUR 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1990\): 21 Source ID: Eberhart_6803 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21466 (C7D54C5A) Date: 6/29/1989 Description: Several villagers in Chrysopetra, Macedonia, Greece had previously seen strange flashes of light in the sky earlier in the day. At 2:30 p.m. an elderly woman was doing some household chores when she heard a loud bang from outside. She ran out and found her granddaughter in a state of shock. The girl told her that she had seen a large white cloud in the garden, and then the figure of a giant almost eight meters tall appeared. He seemed to be totally encased in mist and was slightly deformed. He disappeared suddenly disappeared in plain sight emitting a loud banging sound. Large footprints were found later at the site of the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 574, citing Thanassis Vembos, Strange Magazine, issue # 4 Source ID: Johnson_3736 Source: Johnson ### Event 21467 (D25C08F8) Date: 6/29/1989 Description: The witness was sleeping on a couch that night in Bradford, Ontario when she woke up at 3:39 a.m. feeling very apprehensive. She had a strong buzzing sensation in her head and became completely paralyzed. The next thing she knew it was five o'clock in the morning. She was later able to recall that several 3 to 4 foot tall humanoids with very thin arms and small heads had appeared in her room and had somehow taken her up through the roof. They pointed at a large dark boomerang-shaped object overhead and told her that it was a "light portal." She was then taken onboard. Inside the ship she saw an enormous ziggurat-shaped ship, ringed with white running lights on each level. She was told that it was a "light ship" that traveled inter-dimensionally on light particles. The beings also talked about human being's perception of dying and the existence of many other dimensions. A few nights prior to this incident the same witness recalled also having had several small beings in her room and she had gone immediately to sleep. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 1339, citing John Robert Colombo, UFOs Over Canada Source ID: Johnson_3737 Source: Johnson ### Event 21468 (BC37DE1A) Date: 6/30/1989 Description: 9:30 p.m. G. I. Lerman and his wife Ann watch a fiery object with a tail over Lake Radunka in Kyiv, Ukraine, flying at an altitude of 1,640–3,280 feet, first slowly, then speeding up. After a minute or two the flames die out and they see a silver-white object. During the sighting they feel their own movements slowing down. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: V. D. Musinsky, “Letter: Soviet Ufology,” IUR 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1990\): 21 Source ID: Eberhart_6804 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21469 (F14B8B49) Date: 7/1989 End date: 10/1989 Description: Several abduction cases. (Vallee, 1992). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Soviet Union Source ID: HallUFOE2_442 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21470 (305918B0) Date: 7/1/1989 Description: [Bill Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29) makes a stunning presentation at the MUFON UFO Symposium in Las Vegas, speaking candidly for the first time about his part in counterintelligence operations against [Paul Bennewitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz) Moore says he provided [Doty](https://ufoscoop.com/richard-c-doty/) with information about Bennewitz’s thinking and activities. Moore suggests that Doty was chosen by the real Falcon as a liaison person. He says that by mid-1982 Bennewitz had put together the story that contained all the elements later circulated by [Lear](https://www.exopaedia.org/Lear%2C%2BJohn) and [Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%5FWilliam%5FCooper)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%5FWilliam%5FCooper) Moore decided to go along with the disinformation game in order to keep in good graces with people who knew something about UFOs and national security. He withheld and blacked out certain portions of UFO-related government documents. He says he stopped cooperating in 1984 because he realized the documents he was receiving from AFOSI were faked, much of the scenario similar to the alien-contact mythos later spun by Lear and Cooper. All of it originated in the disinformation directed at Paul Bennewitz. He gives the names of others who “were the subject of intelligence community interest between 1980 and 1984”: [Leonard H. Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield), [Pete](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4057248/peter-n%5F-mazzola) [Mazzola](http://www.mapit.kk5.org/controversial-deaths/4541058576), [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932), Lawrence Fawcett, [Jim and Coral Lorenzen](http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/remembering-coral-lorenzen.html), and [Larry W. Bryant](https://ufoview.tumblr.com/)[.](https://ufoview.tumblr.com/) Moore leaves the stage through a back door, his reputation in ruins. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Ecker, “Freedom of Disinformation,” Fortean Times 122 \(May 1999\): 28–31; Clark III 370–372; Curt Collins, “[Bill Moore and UFO](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2019/12/bill-moore-on-hynek-and-vallee.html) [Disinformation Accusations,](https://www.blueblurrylines.com/2019/12/bill-moore-on-hynek-and-vallee.html)” Blue Blurry Lines, April 29, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_6806 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21471 (DB1156AF) Date: 7/4/1989 Description: Twilight. Two women are walking with a 6-year-old girl along the Dnieper River in a park near Kyiv, Ukraine, when they see a “boat” with three beings on board. The entities have absolutely identical faces—extremely pale, long blond hair, large eyes, and collarless silver shirts that look like nightgowns. They tell the women they are from another planet and want to show them their spaceship. The women walk with them but experience odd physical sensations and beg to be let go. They see a ship behind some trees, and the little girl gets frightened. The beings relent and board the craft by a ladder that then retracts. The door closes silently, and the craft departs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: V. D. Musinsky, “Letter: Soviet Ufology,” IUR 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1990\): 20–21; Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, [pp. 37–39](https://archive.org/details/ufochroniclesofs00vall/page/36/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6807 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21472 (83208437) Date: 7/4/1989 Description: An abduction attempt took place on this evening in a park near Kiev, Ukraine on the banks of the Dnieper River. Two women, Vera Prokofiyevna, a retired factory employee, and her friend Alexandra Stepanovna, an engineer, together with Alexandra's six-year-old daughter, were out strolling in the park. At twilight they approached the river and suddenly saw what they took to be a boat with three beings on board. The beings looked very pale and had identical faces, like identical twins. The had long blond hair, big eyes, and were wearing collarless silver shirts that looked like nightgowns. They bluntly told the women they were from another planet, so far away that your minds "cannot fathom it." They went on to say that everyday they take a person from Earth to their world. "We will take you. Our ship is nearby; we will show it to you." They spoke Russian with a strange accent that Prokofiyevna described as "ancient" rather than foreign. They then surrounded the three, preventing them from leaving. The women started begging them not to take them because they had children and families.

Behind some trees they saw the craft. It was silvery colored like their clothing and looked like a huge barrel with a circular antenna on top of it. The little girl began crying and the women reacted to this with deep anguish. They were then told, "well, we won't take you, we will find others." They went inside the craft by using a ladder with three steps. The ladder withdrew inside, the door automatically closed once the beings were aboard, and the craft took off without making any noise or causing any disturbance of the air or the sand beneath it. Soon it was high in the sky and looked like a small star. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, pp. 37-39, citing investigation by Dr. Alexander F. Pugach Source ID: Johnson_3830 Source: Johnson ### Event 21473 (0B83E564) Date: 7/4/1989 Description: Night. Members of the Iskuskovs family are on vacation in the Podgortsy section of southern Kyiv, Ukraine. They watch silver-suited beings emerge from a landed UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: V. D. Musinsky, “Letter: Soviet Ufology,” IUR 15, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1990\): 21 Source ID: Eberhart_6808 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21474 (0B29A808) Date: 7/6/1989 Description: Videorecorder film taken of a white, Saturn-shaped object with squarish ring that changed direction, rose at a steep angle at high speed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Hakui City, Kanazawa Prefecture, Japan Source ID: HallUFOE2_443 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21475 (9E96B681) Date: 7/6/1989 Description: 7:00 p.m. Yasuhiko Hamazaki takes an 8mm videotape recording of a brightly luminous object that passes nearly overhead in Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. At one point he uses a zoom lens to get a clearer image. The object has a central ring like the planet Saturn, except that it is squarish and dome-shaped. About one minute of the video captures the object descending rapidly at a shallow angle, then suddenly changing direction and rising at a steep angle at very high speed. [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee)’s photo analysis shows that the object is not an airplane, balloon, kite, or model airplane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 297–298; Bruce Maccabee, “A Rare Photo Coincidence,” IUR 15, no. 3 \(May/June 1990\): 4–9, 22 Source ID: Eberhart_6809 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21476 (B1A9FA2F) Date: 7/6/1989 Description: Videorecorder film taken of a white, Saturn-shaped object with squarish ring that changed direction, rose at a steep angle at high speed (section VII). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Hakui City, Japan Source ID: NICAP_DB_5782 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21477 (51A4DDF8) Date: 7/7/1989 Description: At 7:00 p.m. a spherical object with a square or diamond-shaped ring was videotaped in Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan by a Mr. & Mrs. Hamazaki. The image is similar in appearance to the Lindstrom photographs from Maui, Hawaii taken on January 2, 1975. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_3909 Source: Johnson ### Event 21478 (D230D77F) Date: 7/12/1989 Description: On this night at least six witnesses in Southend, Essex, England reported that a cone-shaped UFO paced a car. Lights on object turned counter-clockwise. The object shot off when the car stopped. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 228 Source ID: Johnson_4019 Source: Johnson ### Event 21479 (0814D997) Date: 7/16/1989 Description: Sudden light appeared over New Harmony, Indiana at 8:15 p.m. and a silent disc-shaped object, six feet in diameter, appeared less than 100 feet overhead. It had rods or beams of light of different colors and lengths protruding from it. The witness was a 61-year-old woman, and the encounter lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, MUFON field investigation file database, case 890802; MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989 Source ID: Johnson_4108 Source: Johnson ### Event 21480 (60EE86D8) Date: 7/17/1989 Description: A mystery animal death and cattle mutilation occurred in Maple Valley, Washington. The tongue, sexual organs, rectum, and part of the jaw had been removed. The scene appeared to be unusually bloodless. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Contact, p. 154 Source ID: Johnson_4146 Source: Johnson ### Event 21481 (18A289B2) Date: 7/22/1989 Description: Private pilot saw shiny oval object making quick starts and stops Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Blue Hill Bay, ME Source ID: HallUFOE2_444 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21482 (5D9F4A6A) Date: 7/22/1989 Description: Obj hov/darted around Beechcraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Blue Hill Bay, ME Source ID: NICAP_DB_5783 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21483 (2F3C13C4) Date: 7/22/1989 Description: Trenton, Maine over Blue Hill Bay -- At 3:30 p.m. Randy Rhodes, a police dispatcher for the City of Ellsworth, and Bill Reiff, an attorney, took off in a Beechcraft Bonanza from the Bar Harbor-Trenton airport. At around 3:45 p.m. they spotted a huge metallic disc, shining like polished aluminum, at the 9 o'clock position. It was at the same altitude as their plane--approximately 5100-5200 feet. The object suddenly moved dead ahead to the 12 o'clock position and it took on a reddish or rose color. Not very enthusiastic about continuing on with this thing in front of them, they turned back for the Bar Harbor-Trenton airport. The Aerial Direction Finder was working at the time but the DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) was not receiving. It had never before given them a problem, and 3-4 minutes after the object disappeared the DME came back on. When they landed they discovered that there had been power surges and outages on the ground, and they recalled that when they last observed the object it was headed in the direction of the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power plant in Wiscasset. However, a spokesman for the Bangor HydroElectric Company later reported that three limbs falling over a transmission line when a resident cut down a tree caused the outage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leland Bechtel, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_4308 Source: Johnson ### Event 21484 (56C2AC6B) Date: 7/26/1989 Description: 2:40 p.m. R. H. Stepanian, air traffic controller at Sochi International Airport, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, receives information from a Tupolev Tu-154 airliner crew flying from Simferopol, Crimea, that they have seen UFOs from a distance of 20–30 miles. According to the pilots, first one, then two “strange objects” pace them on their left. One is almost exactly square, while the other is the shape of an elongated rhombus. At the time of the radio transmission, the two objects are swiftly moving away and beginning to separate. Apparently two other flights report multiple UFOs to the airport. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 74–76; Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 134–135 Source ID: Eberhart_6810 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21485 (D2476F62) Date: 7/28/1989 Description: A domed disc-shaped object was seen over a high security rocket weapons depot in Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan, Russia at 11:20 p.m. by four military witnesses, including the two main witnesses named Voloshin and Tishchayev. The UFO glowed a phosphorescent green. It circled the depot three times, accelerated and then stopped abruptly. It shot away when a Soviet fighter jet appeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 79; Don Berliner, Marie Galbraith, & Antonio Huneeus, (editors), Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, p. 103; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 58 Source ID: Johnson_4462 Source: Johnson ### Event 21486 (D7CD8039) Date: 7/28/1989 End date: 7/29/1989 Description: 11:20 p.m. A domed disc-shaped object is seen over the rocket weapons depot at Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. The object is flashing an intensely bright light from its underside. It hovers above the site at a height of 65 feet. Roughly 13–17 feet in diameter, its hull is illuminated with a dim green, phosphorus-like color. It circles two or three times and moves toward a railway station, still flashing its light, then returns to the weapons depot at a height of 200–230 feet. Soviet soldiers Levin and Klimenko say the object performed acrobatic maneuvers, at one point dividing into three shining points and taking the shape of a triangle. A fighter jet is scrambled, but the object evades it. Two other objects appear at low altitudes of 980–1,300 feet. The last one to appear, a cigar-shaped object, gives off flashes of red light at constant intervals, then lights of all colors. At around 1:30 a.m., it flies to the southwest and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 133–138](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/132/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 354–](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/354/mode/2up) [355](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/354/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/354/mode/2up) [363](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/362/mode/2up); Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 79; Nukes 453–456 Source ID: Eberhart_6811 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21487 (461B9AD9) Date: 8/1989 Description: Day. A man is walking his dog in a nature preserve between Wolverhampton and Dudley, England, when he sees a tennis-ball-sized “soap bubble” that has a white, feathery mass inside floating slowly about 12 feet above the ground. It floats into a field where there are several horses, which do not seem concerned about it. Suddenly the object changes direction and moves into a strong wind, coming straight toward him. In moments it is just inches away from him, seemingly surveying him. At close quarters he could see that the object has an oily look. At the instant he thinks about popping the bubble, it speeds off to the east, covering about 30 feet in one second, and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Don’t Forget the Y-Files,” Fortean Times 405 \(May 2021\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_6812 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21488 (0CE35DAF) Date: 8/2/1989 Description: The Russian tanker Volgoneft-161 is in the Sea of Japan off the region of Primorsky Krai, Russia, when rew members notice an unusual shere about 35° above the northern horizon. It is pale yellow and surrounded by a hazy luminescence. The object movres t the northeast, ascending, and is visible for 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 116 Source ID: Eberhart_6814 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21489 (DCF8187D) Date: 8/2/1989 Description: Richard L. Huff in the FBI Office of Information and Privacy affirms in a letter to researcher [Larry W.](https://ufoview.tumblr.com/) [Bryant](https://ufoview.tumblr.com/) that it keeps a classified personal file on [Stanton T. Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) and denies access to it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, Body Snatchers in the Desert, Paraview, 2005, p. 191 Source ID: Eberhart_6813 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21490 (113F907A) Date: 8/10/1989 Description: Videotape taken of hovering object that rotated, split in two, then faded or "dissolved." Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Estepona, Spain Source ID: HallUFOE2_445 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21491 (D695C6B4) Date: 8/10/1989 Description: Videotape taken of hovering object that rotated, split in two, then faded or "dissolved." (section VII). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Estepona, Spain Source ID: NICAP_DB_5784 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21492 (2F821BF0) Date: 8/10/1989 Description: 9:00 p.m. William Heijster, a Dutch military psychologist who works at the Ministry of Defence at The Hague, Netherlands, is driving with his family near Estepona, Spain, when they see an object hovering over a mountain. Heijster stops the car and videotapes the object off and on for the next hour. The incident is plausibly explained by [Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos](http://independent.academia.edu/VICENTEJUANBALLESTEROLMOS/CurriculumVitae) as the flight of a Transmediterranean research balloon launched from Sicily in a joint operation by CNES \(France\), INTA \(Spain\), and the Italian space agency. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 298–299; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Expedientes Insólitos, Temas de Hoy, 1995, pp. 125–130; “[El caso ovni acaecido](http://el-blog-de-malaga.blogspot.com/2012/10/el-caso-ovni-acaecido-en-malaga-en-1989.html) [en Malaga en 1989,](http://el-blog-de-malaga.blogspot.com/2012/10/el-caso-ovni-acaecido-en-malaga-en-1989.html)” El Blog de Malaga, October 1, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_6815 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21493 (323995B6) Date: 8/10/1989 Description: On this afternoon in the Kirov region of Russia a large hairy humanoid with long arms and small feet “scared the daylights” out of the local veterinarian, P. Saitov, as he was out walking with his children and a friend. “It was making huge jumps--not at all like a human being”, he said. Saitov and his companions rushed back to their car and followed the creature for about a kilometer until it disappeared into some undergrowth. He described it as about two meters tall, with its body covered with dark brown hair, and it had shoulder length hair. Being a veterinary surgeon, he was able to determine that the creature was neither human nor an anthropoid ape. A local hunter discovered footprints and deduced the animal had a two meter pace Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mike Dash, Fortean Times, issue #53, citing Sotsialistichskaya Industria Source ID: Johnson_4833 Source: Johnson ### Event 21494 (914A5B06) Date: 8/10/1989 Description: A 20-year-old woman in Gulf Breeze, Florida saw two rows of six to eight round white lights in the sky at 10:40 p.m., as bright as stadium lights, that formed a rectangle twice the size of a Boeing 747. The object moved very slowly from the west to the east, and descended to about an estimated 30 feet altitude before it disappeared. It made no sound, and the encounter lasted about half a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carol & Rex Salisberry, MUFON Field Investigation Database, case 891007b Source ID: Johnson_4838 Source: Johnson ### Event 21495 (D283D43D) Date: 8/10/1989 Description: A man was walking near a housing project in Hartshead Moor, West Yorkshire, England at 9:15 p.m. when he suddenly had the impression that someone was watching him. In the dark he noticed a huge, eight-foot-tall figure with bright slanted eyes. The being appeared to be wearing a large pointed helmet and flared trousers with “something” pointing down between the legs. The creature’s eyes suddenly became red, frightening the witness. A second, green-colored entity now appeared and was asked by the tall entity “Shall we get him”? The second entity replied in the negative. The green colored entity had black slanting eyes, a peanut shaped, helmeted head, and wore brown colored clothing. The man ran from the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 1498, citing Steve Gerrard, Northern UFO News, issue # 182 Source ID: Johnson_4837 Source: Johnson ### Event 21496 (A0D5254B) Date: 8/10/1989 Description: A Dutch psychologist vacationing in Spain videotaped an object that changed shaped and divided into two parts. Dr. William Heijster, a Dutch military psychologist, was vacationing in Spain with his family. At about 9:00 p.m. while driving southwest along the eastern coastal highway near Estepona, Spain, the family noticed an object northwest of them in the late evening sky. They stopped to watch, and Dr. Heijster filmed it on and off for a period of about one hour, using a handheld camcorder.

The object appeared to be rotating at high speed. The rotation was not visible on the film, however; instead, the object appeared to undergo a slow shape change, from looking like a "coolie hat" to circular. The upper surface was bright, while the lower surface was shadowed. The object hovered in one place. After about an hour the object split into two parts, which then separated and faded from view. Only part of the disappearance was recorded on the videotape. Palm fronds are visible in the foreground. There were reported to be several other witnesses.

Dr. Heijster contacted the Fund for UFO Research and made a copy of the film available for analysis. The UFO image measures about 3.3 cm on the film, and it appears for 3 minutes and 53 seconds. Calculations of the object's size at various distances are: at 300 meters the diameter would be 4 meters, at one mile it would be 21 meters, and at 9,000 meters it would have been 120 meters in diameter. Although one hypothesis is that the image is that of a research balloon, the size seems excessive for a high-altitude balloon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 298-299 Source ID: Johnson_4836 Source: Johnson ### Event 21497 (DE35A763) Date: 8/10/1989 Description: Mrs. Rayna was alone at home in Sedona, Arizona and taking an afternoon nap when she heard a loud cracking sound that woke her. She felt paralyzed and a strong tingling sensation came over her entire body. She then noticed a small being standing at the head of her bed. The being was 3.5 feet tall, whitish-gray in color, and wore a form-fitting jumpsuit. It had a large head, and large dark eyes. The being communicated with a second, unseen entity, using an unintelligible language with a digital, musical quality. The being suddenly vanished and she was able to move again. Her muscles were sore and she felt nauseous afterwards. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard J. Boylan, Close Extraterrestrial Encounters, p. 120 Source ID: Johnson_4835 Source: Johnson ### Event 21498 (CE361F19) Date: 8/10/1989 Description: A terrified Milwaukee, Wisconsin couple doing some night fishing on Lake Michigan saw a silver, disc-shaped object fall from the sky and hover nearby at 3:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990 Source ID: Johnson_4834 Source: Johnson ### Event 21499 (06583C29) Date: 8/11/1989 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_446 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21500 (B6033557) Date: 8/13/1989 Description: An 84-year-old man in Mansura, Louisiana went into his backyard at 10:30 a.m. and saw a small yellow oval or disc-shaped object close by at ground level. He called a second, female witness, who watched from the back door of the house. The 3-foot wide object hovered and moved about at ground level for approximately five minutes, 30 feet away, circled a tree, then flew off vertically and was quickly gone from sight. It made no sound as it flew, and left some ground traces on the lawn. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Hal Price, MUFON Field Investigations Database, case 890806; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1992 Source ID: Johnson_4984 Source: Johnson ### Event 21501 (E1792520) Date: 8/13/1989 Description: Dog reacted as oval bobbed near ground (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [890813](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890813dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mansura, LA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5785 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21502 (EAC8878D) Date: 8/14/1989 Description: A domed, disc-shaped object was sighted over Gulf Breeze, Florida at 9:20 p.m. by a man and a woman. The upper portion of the object glowed white, while a ring of red and green lights on the bottom flashed sequentially. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON CD-ROM Database of Field Investigations, case # 900323, field investigator Arthur Hufford Source ID: Johnson_5015 Source: Johnson ### Event 21503 (532B7925) Date: 8/15/1989 Description: In Pensacola, Florida at around nine p.m. a pair of 52-year-old witnesses saw at least four red, slow-moving, silent V-shaped objects coming toward them very slowly (at 5-10 mph). The sighting reportedly lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: C. Joseph Barron, MUFON Field Investigations CD-Rom case files database, case # 891010 Source ID: Johnson_5053 Source: Johnson ### Event 21504 (FA10D826) Date: 8/19/1989 Description: Normally noisy dogs silent as disc hovers across the street (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [890819](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890819dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cantonment, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5786 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21505 (5E22CD25) Date: 8/22/1989 Description: 2:40 p.m. A circular, flashing light is in view for about 5 minutes near Sunderland, England. At first it is stationary, but then it moves rapidly upward, leaving a hole in a cloud that then glows red. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Another Hole in the Cloud,” IUR 33, no. 2 \(July 2010\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_6816 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21506 (60F02B00) Date: 8/22/1989 Description: Cats indifferent to triangle at tree level. (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [890822](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890822dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf Breeze, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5787 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21507 (FB073790) Date: 8/23/1989 Description: On this evening in Gulf Breeze, Florida a white or silver delta-shaped object, an estimated 70 feet on a side, passed low overhead. At 9:30 p.m. in Navaree Beach, Florida a 30-year-old couple in a condo on the beach, watching stars, saw lights over the Gulf of Mexico going slow, stopping, changing direction upward, and then finally slowly going out of view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dan R. Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989, p. 6, citing Rex & Carol Salisberry Source ID: Johnson_5272 Source: Johnson ### Event 21508 (6578984E) Date: Late 8/1989 Description: 12:00 midnight. A woman is driving north of La Salle, Manitoba, when she sees a “cloudlike boomerang” pass over her car. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6818 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21509 (950BB9AA) Date: Late 8/1989 Description: While working as an engineer on the jack-up barge [GSF Galveston Key](http://maritime-connector.com/ship/galveston-key-8751241/) in the North Sea, Chris Gibson and another witness see an unfamiliar isosceles triangle–shaped delta aircraft, apparently refueling from a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker and accompanied by a pair of F-111 fighter-bombers. Gibson and his girlfriend watch the aircraft for several minutes until they move out of sight. He subsequently draws a sketch of the formation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Christopher Bellamy, “[Oil Rig Engineer Sketches Secret US Spy Aircraft,](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/oil-rig-engineer-sketches-secret-us-spy-aircraft-1563429.html)” The Independent \(UK\), December 14, 1992; Bill Sweetman, “Secret Mach 6 Spy Plane,” Popular Science 242 \(March 1993\): [56–63](https://archive.org/details/bub%5Fgb%5FIDpkBfTEN-4C/page/n53/mode/2up), [98–101](https://archive.org/details/bub%5Fgb%5FIDpkBfTEN-4C/page/n93/mode/2up); Bill Sweetman, Aurora: The Pentagon’s Secret Hypersonic Spyplane, Motorbooks, 1993, [pp. 12–15](https://archive.org/details/aurorapentagonss0000swee/page/12/mode/2up), [88–89](https://archive.org/details/aurorapentagonss0000swee/page/88/mode/2up); Susan Wright, UFO Headquarters: Investigations on Current Extraterrestrial Activity, St. Martin’s, 1999 ed., [pp. 154–](https://archive.org/details/ufoheadquartersi0000wrig/page/154/mode/2up) [155](https://archive.org/details/ufoheadquartersi0000wrig/page/154/mode/2up); Simon Gray, “[Chris Gibson’s Aurora Sighting,](https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/the-north-sea-aurora-sighting.2868/)” Secret Projects forum, November 1, 2007; UFOFiles2, [p.](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n233/mode/2up) [144](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n233/mode/2up); Marler 178–180 Source ID: Eberhart_6819 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21510 (086D5A43) Date: 8/25/1989 Description: Driving north on 9th Avenue in Pensacola, Florida close to Olive Road a 20-year-old woman reported sighting a white, rectangular object flying just above the trees about half a mile away. She turned left on another road to get a better view, but could not see because trees were blocking here view. She went back to the point of her first view, but the object had gone. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carol & Rex Salisberry, MUFON UFO CD-Rom Database of Reports, case # 891007d Source ID: Johnson_5337 Source: Johnson ### Event 21511 (C47A7AD0) Date: 8/28/1989 Description: [Larry W. Bryant](https://ufoview.tumblr.com/) files suit in District Court for the District of Columbia for the FBI to release its files on [Stanton T. Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, Body Snatchers in the Desert, Paraview, 2005, p. 191 Source ID: Eberhart_6817 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21512 (68AD9F10) Date: 8/31/1989 Description: Dog in house curious/alert to disc outside (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [890831](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890831dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ispwich, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5788 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21513 (216635A5) Date: 8/31/1989 Description: At 9:00 p.m. EDT a mushroom-shaped UFO with a light hovered over a field in Butler, Pennsylvania. Two smaller objects with red lights emerged from it. Finally, all UFOs shot away at high speed. U.S. Air Force jets arrived one hour later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_5539 Source: Johnson ### Event 21514 (06E1E415) Date: 8/31/1989 Description: Luminous mushroom-shaped object hovered over field, two smaller objects with red lights emerged, operated independently, departed at high speed (section X). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Butler Township, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5789 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21515 (502AB6E2) Date: 8/31/1989 Description: Luminous mushroom-shaped object hovered over field, two smaller objects with red lights emerged, operated independently, departed at high speed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Butler Township, PA Source ID: HallUFOE2_447 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21516 (E4A82C4A) Date: 9/1989 Description: CAUS devotes all of one issue of its Just Cause newsletter to a harshly critical review of [Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FMoore%5F%28ufologist%29)’s activities. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Majestic Deception,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Just%20Cause%20%28CAUS%29/Just%20Cause%20-%20New%20Series/Just%20Cause%20-%201989%2009%20%20-%20No%2021%20-%20New%20Series.pdf)” Just Cause, new ser., no. 21 \(September 1989\): 1–16; Clark III 371 Source ID: Eberhart_6820 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21517 (B970C0B2) Date: 9/1989 Description: Marc Leduc begins publishing a newsletter, Lettre d’Information Ufologique, in Lac-Beauport, Quebec. It runs until June 1993. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Lettre d’Information Ufologique](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Lettre%20d%27Information%20Ufologique%20%28Leduc%29/Lettre%20d%27Information%20Ufologique%20-%20Vol%201%20No%201%20-%20sept%201989.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(September 1989\) Source ID: Eberhart_6821 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21518 (2B549A13) Date: 9/3/1989 Description: The witness, a 17-year-old male driving in a car, sighted an arrowhead-shaped object flying at treetop level in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania at 10:30 p.m. It rotated counterclockwise and then sped away. The object was seen approximately two miles south of Ebensburg on a secondary road near the Mini Mall. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kessler Paul J. Kessler, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 891002; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_5614 Source: Johnson ### Event 21519 (A4F8D984) Date: 9/3/1989 Description: At 6:30 p.m. the witness was walking with some friends on the beach of the Caspian Sea near Sari, Iran when suddently this brilliant, orange-colored object, 8-12 meters in diameter, rose up out of the Caspian Sea at a distance of 250 meters from shore. The UFO caused panic among many witnesses; in fact, in just a few minutes nearly everyone had fled from the beach. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carl W. Feindt, UFOs and Water, p. 16, citing FSR, July 1991 Source ID: Johnson_5613 Source: Johnson ### Event 21520 (E1CCA03F) Date: 9/4/1989 Description: At 4:30 a.m. in Les Tuiles, Tarn department, France a man saw down in a field of alfalfa a luminous square 10 x 10 meters; a stationary object above the roof was in the shape of a spinning top with multiple facets. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case 40 Source ID: Johnson_5640 Source: Johnson ### Event 21521 (2FE92C9C) Date: 9/6/1989 Description: 11:13 p.m. Tong Yuwei, a worker in Ürümqi, Xinjiang Autonomous Province, China, sees a dark cloud light up with a yellow flash. A rotating, saucer-shaped object with a black gap on its edge appears. It makes a noise louder than a car engine. After hovering for a minute, the red-and-yellow glowing object moves out of sight at high speed to the southwest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[UFO Sighted over Urumqi Evening of 6 Sep,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/foia50.htm)” \[memo on Xingua news report\], September 13, 1989 Source ID: Eberhart_6822 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21522 (996ABF50) Date: 9/11/1989 Description: Dogs excited as cigar-shape with wings hovers over houses (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [890911](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890911dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kalamazoo, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5790 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21523 (76FCFA79) Date: 9/13/1989 Description: A woman is returning home from the grocery store in Protvino, Moscow Oblast, Russia, when two tall women in tight, silvery suits jump out from behind some boulders and paralyze her. The women have light blonde hair, gray-green skin, and hats with antennae. They take her to a small, disc-shaped craft by the side of the road and invite their captive for a ride, which they insist will not last long. She hesitantly accepts. Inside are three chairs, one of them occupied by a man. The woman offers them some of the bread she has just purchased, but the women decline, offering her some of their own bread. Without thinking, she reflexively pops a piece into her mouth and swallows. She later describes the taste as a lightly sweet rye bread. The craft ascends and flies over Protvino before dropping the woman off at her apartment. The space people tell her they will meet again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vladimir Azhazha, Inaya Zhizn’, Golos, 1998; Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332 \(November 2015\): 44 Source ID: Eberhart_6823 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21524 (370715C6) Date: 9/14/1989 Description: A woman's dogs hid while a diamond-shaped object passed over her home in Cantonment, Florida at 8:00 p.m. It looked “like two Hershey’s Kisses attached together at the bases” with more than 40 colored lights, rotating clockwise. It was also seen by her 12-year-old son. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carol & Rex Salisberry,MUFON field investigators, MUFON case files CD-ROM, 891006b; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_5970 Source: Johnson ### Event 21525 (6BA82172) Date: 9/14/1989 Description: Dogs hid while diamond shaped object passed over 890921-1007 Voronezh Russia 2 UFO sighting concentration in vicinity. Four landings and three different kinds of entities reported (sections VIII, XII); geodesic engineer saw maneuvering airship- like object September 24 (section IV). 890921-1007 Voronezh Russia 7 UFO sighting concentration in vicinity. Four landings and three different kinds of entities reported (sections VIII, XII); geodesic engineer saw maneuvering airship- like object September 24 (section IV). (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [890914](http://www.nicap.org/ar-890914dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cantonment, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5791 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21526 (0F407FA3) Date: 9/15/1989 End date: 9/19/1989 Description: The Center for UFO Studies conducts the first expedition to the Roswell debris field site near Corona, New Mexico. The 10-member team includes [Mark Rodeghier](http://www.cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html)[,](http://www.cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html) Mimi Hynek, [Donald R. Schmitt](https://ufocongress.com/don-schmitt-2/), and [Kevin Randle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle). They find no unusual debris but survey the site and take soil samples. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Roswell, 1989,” IUR 14, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1989\): 4–8, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_6825 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21527 (56598006) Date: 9/15/1989 Description: 3:40 a.m. A woman in eastern Winnipeg, Manitoba, is looking out her kitchen window when a deltoid- shaped object sails past. It has lines of “Christmas lights” spreading out from its leading edge and moves silently out of view in 4–5 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6824 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21528 (F1391367) Date: 9/16/1989 Description: On this night a young female employee of a local meat packing plant in Nikolayev, Russia had stepped outside for a quick break at a tramway when a beam of light struck her from above. Looking up, she saw a hovering disc-shaped craft which the beam had emanated from. The object was about 40-60 meters in diameter. She reported that she felt no fear and indeed had a euphoric feeling as she began rising up into the air towards the object. She was levitated up to 160 feet and near to the UFO. She also heard a voice extolling her to "fly with them". Other workers came to the scene and began yelling and ran towards the woman.The witnesses screaming apparently had an effect, for the beam disappeared, she was returned to ground, and the UFO flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 10; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14941; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing Mikhail Gershtein, Immense Invasion Source ID: Johnson_6020 Source: Johnson ### Event 21529 (31E9C112) Date: 9/16/1989 Description: Radioactive release occurred on this day at 8:20 a.m. at Chernobyl' Unit 4, Ukraine. A few hours later a doctor, Dr. I. Gospina, sighted an amber, elliptical UFO. She was able to discern its top and bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 68 Source ID: Johnson_6019 Source: Johnson ### Event 21530 (1AE0B50D) Date: 9/16/1989 Description: On this night witnesses north of Zaostravka, Perm, Russia watched several disc-shaped objects engaged in what looked like an aerial battle or "dogfight" with another gold-colored disc. After several explosions the electrical power in Zaostravka went off. The gold-colored disc was seen crashing into a swamp. Several military personnel tried to get near the crash site, but the isolated location seemed impossible to access. The zone was declared off limits by the local military, several families living nearby were displaced, and a barbwire fence was installed in the area. Aircraft flying over the area afterwards reported equipment malfunctions and were diverted to other flight paths. The downed object was described as mushroom-shaped with a greenish-gold dome and a matt black rim with a narrow base. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing F. Bachurin, N. A. Subbotin and Anton Anfalov Source ID: Johnson_6021 Source: Johnson ### Event 21531 (6B343E73) Date: 9/16/1989 Description: Night. A female employee at a meat packing plant in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, steps outside for a quick break when a beam of light strikes her from above. Looking up, she sees a hovering disc-shaped craft about 130–260 feet in diameter. She feels no fear and has a euphoric feeling as she begins rising up into the air toward the object. She also hears a voice extolling her to “fly with them.” Other workers come to the scene and begin yelling and running toward the woman. The beam disappears, and the UFO flies away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, [p. 36](https://archive.org/details/ufochroniclesofs00vall/page/36/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6826 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21532 (9A3D3011) Date: 9/17/1989 Description: A bright white light paced a car driving on the A5 highway near Brinklow, Warkwick, England for more than five minutes. The driver and child passenger were named Goold. The driver believed she received a telepathic message from the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, CE5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 160, citing FSR, March 1991, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_6055 Source: Johnson ### Event 21533 (51834646) Date: 9/21/1989 Description: In Voronezh, Russia as many as 40 children, including some young boys named Lukin, Levchenko, and Borise watched a large sphere, five meters in diameter, land in a park at 8:30 p.m. Two tall humanoids wearing silvery outfits and large black boots briefly emerged. A smaller headless robot-like entity with small knobs on its chest also accompanied them. Landing traces were reportedly found, including a 60-foot wide circle in which there were four depressions arranged in a diamond pattern. Each imprint was two inches deep and six inches in diameter. Holes in the ground looked as though someone had taken soil samples. The event was widely publicized around the world, although the facts of the case were greatly distorted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles Of The Soviet Union, p. 44, citing Silanov; MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 492; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14943, citing Rivista Info UFO Source ID: Johnson_6198 Source: Johnson ### Event 21534 (66D2D696) Date: 9/21/1989 Description: At 8:15 p.m. a V-shaped craft or flying wing with red lights flew over Mount Vernon, Indiana headed toward St. Louis, Missouri. The FAA couldn't ID it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 108, citing Francis L. Ridge Source ID: Johnson_6199 Source: Johnson ### Event 21535 (10D872CF) Date: 9/21/1989 End date: 10/7/1989 Description: UFO sighting concentration in vicinity. Four landings and three different kinds of entities reported. Geodesic engineer saw maneuvering airship-like object September 24 Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Voronezh, USSR Source ID: HallUFOE2_448 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21536 (ACD464A9) Date: 9/23/1989 Description: At 9 p.m. a boy named Torshin returning home late in the evening from school in Voronezh, Russia noticed a large round red object with a black, door-like hatch hovering close to the ground. It suddenly landed on four legs and the hatch opened. A ladder descended and a square, robot-like being emerged. The witness did not stay around. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 202; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 535, citing Gordon Creighton, in Timothy Good (ed.), The UFO Report 1991 Source ID: Johnson_6271 Source: Johnson ### Event 21537 (12A7F89E) Date: 9/24/1989 Description: At 10:30 a.m. a Mr. Kugatov in Voronezh, Russia witnessed an airship-like elliptical object that flew rapidly toward the east, then reversed direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 155; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_6296 Source: Johnson ### Event 21538 (C7BD61EF) Date: 9/26/1989 Description: A young witness saw an object with portholes on the ground in Voronezh, Russia at 7:00 p.m. A figure more than three meters tall emerged from it. The entity had two large eyes on its head and a red light on top. On its chest it had a silvery disk with three round spots of different colors. Below that it had a rectangular box that protruded out. The being also wore large silvery boots. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 536, citing Gordon Creighton, in Timothy Good (ed.), The UFO Report 1991 Source ID: Johnson_6362 Source: Johnson ### Event 21539 (0E3CF3E5) Date: 9/27/1989 Description: A woman was called by her granddaughter to look at something unusual outside at 4:20 p.m. She stepped out of her house near Tillamook, Oregon and was confronted by an object resembling an inverted toy top, hovering just above the ground. It was 20 to 30 feet in diameter and had a flat bottom and a bright yellow-white light shining at both ends. The woman approached to within 30 feet of the craft when a door opened revealing a blond human-like entity of average height with fair skin and blue eyes. He was wearing a silvery coverall uniform. The woman then noticed at a window next to the door a large hairy, Sasquatch type creature apparently seated and only visible from the chest up. The woman stared at the object and beings for a few minutes, and then the UFO suddenly vanished from plain sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case #116; MUFON UFO Journal, April 1990 Source ID: Johnson_6386 Source: Johnson ### Event 21540 (840BB746) Date: 9/27/1989 Description: 6:30 p.m. Several children playing at a park in Voronezh, Russia, see a pinkish aerial glow approaching them. As it passes overhead, they see that it is a deep red, ball-shaped object. The object flies around in circles for a few minutes and then leaves. When it returns, it hovers briefly, and then descends close to the ground. A hatch opens and a heavy-set figure emerges. The being moves very slowly and looks around. It has a small head resembling that of a doorknob, set in between the shoulders. It has three luminous eyes, the middle one moving around like “radar.” On its chest is a shield-like object. The being then closes the hatch and the object lands gently on four legs. The hatch opens again and three huge humanoids with small knob-like heads step out. They wear silvery coveralls and bronze-colored boots. A strange robot-like creature accompanies the giants. All four walk around the object several times. A beam of light comes out of the chest of one of the beings and strikes the ground, creating several luminous triangles that later fade away. At one point the craft and beings become briefly invisible but then reappear. One of the boys screams in fear. Then one of the beings looks at the boy and points a tube at him. A luminous beam comes from the tube and hits the boy, which makes him disappear. The boy later reappears after the beings and the objects have gone. Subsequent information reveals that on the craft’s hull and on the landing prop of another craft is the letter or symbol “zhe,” reported as similar to the “Ummo” insignia reported in Western Europe in the 1970s. In a work published by Socialist Industry slightly after the incident, a self-proclaimed UFO specialist asserts the marks left by the supposed landing were simply scorch marks from a burnt hay-bale. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Voronezh UFO incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronezh%5FUFO%5Fincident)”; “[UFO Lands in U.S.S.R.: Read All about It in Tass,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18040734/ufolandsinussrreadallaboutitint/)” Philadelphia Daily News, October 9, 1989, p. 5; “[A Tass Bulletin: Knobby Aliens Were Here,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1989/10/10/168089.html?pageNumber=1)” New York Times, October 10, 1989, pp. 1, 10; “[U.F.O. Landing Is Fact, Not Fantasy, the Russians Insist,](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1989/10/11/464089.html?pageNumber=6)” New York Times, October 11, 1989, p. 6; “[Aliens Visit Voronezh,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201989%2011%20-%20no%20244.pdf)” Moscow News, no. 43 \(October 1989\), via UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1989, p. 12; Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, [pp. 40–61](https://archive.org/details/ufochroniclesofs00vall/page/40/mode/2up); Clark III 1229–1231 Source ID: Eberhart_6827 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21541 (07DAD308) Date: 9/27/1989 Description: Several children playing at a local park in Voronezh, Russia first observed a pinkish glow approaching in the sky at 6:30 p.m. As it came overhead they could see that it was a deep red, ball-shaped object. The object flew around in circles for a few minutes and then left. When it returned it hovered briefly, and then descended very close to the ground. A hatch opened and a heavy set figure emerged. The being moved very slowly and looked around, he had a very small head resembling that of a doorknob, set in between its shoulders. It had three luminous eyes, the middle one moving around like"radar." On its chest there was a shield-like object. The being then closed the hatch and the object landed gently on four legs. The hatch opened again and three huge humanoids with small knob-like heads stepped out. These wore silvery coveralls and bronze colored boots. A strange robot-like creature accompanied the giants. All four of them walked around the object several times. A beam of light came out of the chest of one of the beings and struck the ground, creating several luminous triangles that later faded away. At one point the craft and beings became briefly invisible but then reappeared. One of the boys screamed in fear. Then one of the beings looked at the boy and pointed a tube at him. A luminous beam came from the tube and hit the boy, which made him disappear. The boy later reappeared after the beings and the objects had gone. Subsequent information revealed that on of the craft's hull and on the landing prop of another craft was the letter or symbol "Zhe," reported to have been similar to the "UMMO" insignia reported in Western Europe in the 1970s. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 534, citing Gordon Creighton, in Timothy Good (ed.), The UFO Report 1991 Source ID: Johnson_6387 Source: Johnson ### Event 21542 (CF61FF63) Date: 9/28/1989 Description: At around 10 p.m. ten calls were received by the Coast Guard and KTIL radio reporting small explosions and red and white flying lights in Tillamook county, Oregon. Sightings occurred in Oceanside, Oregon and for seventy miles north along the coastline. In Tillamook Bay a circle of nocturnal lights were seen moving toward the northwest. Each nocturnal object consisted of a ring of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: field investigator Skip Schultz, MUFON investigation files database, case #891206W; UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1995 Source ID: Johnson_6403 Source: Johnson ### Event 21543 (306E4B54) Date: 9/28/1989 Description: UFO landing and Government attempt at intercept: Six helicopters circle around an UFO, between 574–1000 ft. in diam. while it was close to a downed UFO on the beach. The UFOs apparently got away. The eyewitness took 48 photos of the event. This even occurred in Suffolk County. Type: ufo retrieval attempt Reference: [Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) Reference: [Archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20070126112739/ttp://www.20kweb.com/weird_stuff/ufo_landing_government_intercept.html) Location: Smith's Point Beach, Shirley, NY Source ID: Maj2_787 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21544 (7392D66E) Date: 9/28/1989 Description: Night. Long Island UFO Network founder [John Ford](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/01/11/out-there/89f520c3-bb7b-41d3-a991-6c4a1a2ff322/) claims that a UFO is shot down and retrieved at Moriches Bay, Long Island, New York. Although UFOs are observed on the southern coast of Long Island, the crash/retrieval seems to be an exaggerated fantasy. Ford is convinced the nearby Brookhaven National Laboratory is part of a UFO coverup and is developing ET-related weaponry. On June 12, 1996, Ford and LIUFON member Joe Mazzachelli are arrested in a sting operation on conspiracy charges to poison [John Powell](https://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/ex-suffolk-gop-head-john-powell-dead-at-51-1.3532451), the head of the Suffolk County Republican Party, who Ford believes is covering up UFO retrievals and engaging in illegal activities, by putting radium in his toothpaste. Ford is convicted without a trial and sent to a mental institution because of his paranoid conspiracy obsession. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Ford, “[The Moriches Bay Case of September 28, 1989](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Long%20Island%20UFO%20Update%20%28John%20Ford%29/Long%20Island%20UFO%20Update%20-%20Vol%201%20No%203.pdf),” Long Island UFO Reporter 1, no. 3 \(November 1989\): 2–6; John Ford, “[The Chairman’s Corner,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Long%20Island%20UFO%20Update%20%28John%20Ford%29/Long%20Island%20UFO%20Update%20-%20Vol%202%20No%201.pdf)” Long Island UFO Reporter 2, no. 1 \(February 1990\): 2–4; John Ford, “[UFO Captured at Moriches Bay?](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201990%2004%20-%20no%20249.pdf)” The East Ender, February 9, 1990, via UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1990, p. 7; Elaine Douglass, “The Ordeal of John Ford,” John Ford Defense Committee; “The John Ford Affair,” UFO UpDates, November 26, 1998; Dolan II 489–492 Source ID: Eberhart_6828 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21545 (6C083D76) Date: 10/1989 End date: 5/1990 Description: Concentration of triangular UFO sightings, jet interceptor chases, radar-visual sightings (see November 29, 1989, March 30, 1990). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Belgium Source ID: HallUFOE2_449 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21546 (870CBC2F) Date: 10/1989 Description: Night. Hundreds of residents of Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Russia, report seeing a UFO. Major V. Loginov sees an object about 1.5 the size of the full moon passing overhead at an altitude of several kilometers. It projects four bright lights, some downward, others parallel to the horizon. Loginov watches it for 5 minutes hovering above the civil airport before descending. The lights turn off, and a whirling plume trail appears around the sphere. Pilots taking off from the airport can see the object, but it is not visible on radar screens. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[USSR: Media](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000042346.pdf) [Report Multitude of UFO Sightings,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000042346.pdf)” Foreign Press Note \(Foreign Broadcast Information Service\), November 22, 1989, p. 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6829 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21547 (EA9C0FDC) Date: 10/3/1989 Description: At 3:00 a.m. in Ochlocknee, Georgia two men observed a round object at tree top level, emitting small balls of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 992 Source ID: Johnson_6536 Source: Johnson ### Event 21548 (3E410974) Date: 10/5/1989 Description: Cars were chased in Portland, Victoria, Australia by a cluster of very bright lights. The UFO continued to the east out over the sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, March 1990 Source ID: Johnson_6589 Source: Johnson ### Event 21549 (A95A4C52) Date: 10/6/1989 Description: 11:30 p.m. A woman driving near Tyndall, Manitoba, sees a bright light flash upward out of sight in front of her car. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6830 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21550 (133A44E6) Date: 10/8/1989 Description: A saucer-shaped UFO flew low over Sungai Petani, Malaysia at 8:10 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies website Source ID: Johnson_6670 Source: Johnson ### Event 21551 (2AE57C8B) Date: 10/8/1989 Description: At 11:00 p.m. Anna L was returning home with her husband in Primorskiy Kray, Vladivostok, Russia when she fell to the pavement, spinning and yelling in a panic, “Please don’t take me, I do not want to fly away, leave me alone, don’t touch me!” Something invisible appeared to be pulling Anna by her arms and legs. Her husband tried to calm her and yelled at her that there was no one around. He then tried to pick her up, but to his surprise she proved to be unusually heavy and he was unable to lift her. A crowd gathered, including some local militia, and the police thought her husband had struck her and they wanted to arrest him. At this point Anna calmed down and was able to rise from the pavement. In the morning she felt extremely depressed, and her temperature rose to 38.5 degrees. She then described what she believed had happened to her: She remembered walking with her husband when suddenly everything around her became black; the road, posts, and houses had all vanished and a black void surrounded her. From this void emerged three enormous figures over two meters in height, wearing silvery clothing. She next heard a loud rumbling noise, resembling something that would be made by machinery. After approaching her the figures pulled her by her arms, but she resisted and began screaming at them. She finally began to fade out of consciousness, and her body seemed to disappear. She came to the next morning. Doctors could find no bruises nor abrasions on her arms, and strangely her clothing did not have any traces of mud on them eventhough she had fallen in a puddle of water when she claimed to have struggled with the invisible entities. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing Vladivostok Ufological Association Source ID: Johnson_6671 Source: Johnson ### Event 21552 (476FBB59) Date: 10/8/1989 Description: At 11:05 p.m. a witness reported that a huge white light appeared over Londonderry, New Hampshire and changed color into a dull red, and then back to a dull white light. A second witness saw that the light was actually a triangular object with a big rectangular white light on the back end and a red light near the apex. It moved slowly, making a roaring sound, and was definitely larger than a house. Its estimated altitude was 2000 feet and its distance 3000 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cheryl L. Powell, MUFON investigation files, case 900719 Source ID: Johnson_6672 Source: Johnson ### Event 21553 (59A81C6A) Date: 10/9/1989 Description: 2:50 p.m. A couple and their child are getting into their car at a wildlife sanctuary in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They see a white “boomerang-shaped” object hanging silently and motionless in the east over the city. The mother puts the child in the back seat for safety. The man continues to watch as the object tilts and moves, revealing a bulge on its underside. It moves away, and the object goes home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6831 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21554 (F302CEF7) Date: 10/9/1989 Description: Dogs barking at hum of boomerang (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [891009](http://www.nicap.org/ar-891009dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf Breeze, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5792 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21555 (C4BE5115) Date: 10/9/1989 Description: 11:30 p.m. [Carl Weselak](https://vancouversunandprovince.remembering.ca/obituary/carl-weselak-1065899098) is observing a meteor shower from his third floor apartment in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, when he sees a large boomerang-shaped object flying north to south over the city. Over the next few hours he sees more UFOs ranging from balls of light to other boomerangs. He telephones a newspaper to have a reporter verify the sightings. However, UFOROM discovers that several aircraft takeoffs and landings at the airport correspond to some of Weselak’s observations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6832 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21556 (1D05A652) Date: 10/10/1989 Description: A pilot flying between Clarksdale and Memphis, Tennessee at 5:30 p.m. sighted a round, metallic object moving at 800-900 mph. He estimated the object was 3,000 feet off of his left wing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 231; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_6734 Source: Johnson ### Event 21557 (CD8C7A01) Date: 10/11/1989 Description: A 16-year-old girl in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, sees a “net” fall from the sky, apparently surrounding her, in the center of which is a bright point. She tries to push it away but gets a shock. She screams, but her voice sounds distorted. Her family rushes out of the house and sees a flying disc hovering less than 50 feet away. It soon vanishes. The girl remains paralyzed a while, the tips of her fingers burned and enlarged, and she is taken to a hospital. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, [pp. 36–37](https://archive.org/details/ufochroniclesofs00vall/page/36/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6833 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21558 (B05441E4) Date: 10/11/1989 Description: A figure with two eyes and a broad mouth stood inside a glowing ovoid UFO wth two landing gear in Voronezh, Russia. A horizontal "H" symbol or insignia was seen on the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 13; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 140 Source ID: Johnson_6785 Source: Johnson ### Event 21559 (751DB2EC) Date: 10/11/1989 Description: 7:30 p.m. Brad Schmidt, 13, Todd Weinheimer, 13, Paul Goddard, 12, Kevin Still, and one other boy are skateboarding outside the town pool in Centennial Park, Langenburg, Saskatchewan, when they see an object with multicolored lights approaching them from the east. They wave their skateboards at it, and the lights hover silently 400 feet away at 100–200 feet in the air. They duck down in the tall grass. The object moves away over nearby Parkside School, pauses for a moment, then takes off to the west. The boys alert two teachers in the school, Bob Markham and Mark MacMurchy, and they go out to all watch the object for another 10–15 minutes. One of the teachers says the object has a bright flashing light on top and a red light on the bottom. It is more than half a mile away and only 650 feet in the air. The top light flashes every 15–20 seconds. Soon it moves away to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Strange Lights](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97904382/) [over the Park,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97904424/)” Regina \(Sask.\) Leader-Post, November 4, 1989, pp. C1–C2; Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6834 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21560 (B6E35353) Date: 10/11/1989 Description: On this evening 16-year-old Hatawa Barinova was returning home on her moped from trade school in Mayskiy, Kabardino-Balkariya Republic, North Caucasus, Russia. Suddenly she heard in her head a low pitched, mechanical, monotone voice that clearly said, “Sit down quietly!” She looked up and saw a thin transparent “grid”, resembling polyethylene, falling over her. Beams of light emanated from each polygon. The grid-like net began to control the moped, covering the witness from all sides. She felt a compression in her head and her breathing became shallow, and soon both she and her moped began to rise in the air. She started screaming for her mother, but her voice sounded like an echo inside a “barrel.” When she tried to jump from the moped she momentarily grasped the luminous grid and received a mild electrical discharge. Through the grid she saw her aunt Galya approaching and yelling something; she could see her lips moving but heard nothing. Her aunt, along with her aunt's husband, managed to grab the terrified girl and pull her away to safety as the grid rose upwards and disappeared. She was taken home where she was treated for burns to her hands and fingers. Around the same time other locals had spotted a large luminous sphere hovering above approximately the same location. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 36; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing UFOZONE Russia Source ID: Johnson_6786 Source: Johnson ### Event 21561 (927D0A0A) Date: 10/12/1989 Description: 12:20 a.m. A shift worker in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is returning home through a park when he sees a “shimmering boomerang” in the sky. He goes closer and hears a high-pitched whine coming from it. The object starts to move slowly then shoots away making a noise like a sonic boom. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6835 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21562 (662A5A14) Date: 10/13/1989 Description: 10:20 a.m. Rose Neumeier is in her kitchen 7 miles southwest of Langenburg, Saskatchewan, when she sees a flash of light near a shed about 50 feet away. An object like “two pie plates rim to rim” is motionless in the air about 50 feet above the shed. It is shiny and metallic, 30 feet long and 10 feet thick, and has a flattened top and “corrugated” bottom. Light is shining brightly from the joint between the two halves. It is silent and the dog and cattle are not disturbed. After a few minutes, it rises slowly, moves north, curves through the hayfield, circles the barn, and moves away across the pasture. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Object Hovers over Garage,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97904534/)” Regina \(Sask.\) Leader-Post, November 4, 1989, p. C2; Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_6836 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21563 (45E56399) Date: 10/13/1989 Description: Several UFO sightings and a report of humanoids occurred during this day. At 10:20 a.m. in Langenburg, Saskatchewan, Canada a silver disc hovered over a garage, moved away to the north, then came back to hover over a barn. A 22-year-old man out driving to meet a friend in the city of Pensacola, Florida at 8:30 p.m. saw a white, rectangular object hovering near the approaching intersection. He lost sight of it when he drove through the intersection because some trees blocked his view. In Welch, Oklahoma a family of six out driving in the evening on US Route 59 south of town saw two UFOs and two nine-foot-tall luminous green beings, near a disc-shaped object blocking the road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 231; Rex and Carol Salisberry, MUFON case investigations file, case # 891007E; UFO Magazine, June 1990, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_6816 Source: Johnson ### Event 21564 (744948C5) Date: 10/16/1989 Description: 7:45 a.m. A woman is driving near Langruth, Manitoba, when she sees a “star with a tail of smoke going up” in the east. After a few minutes, the object takes on a dome shape and its tail is no longer visible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_6837 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21565 (F23C9F8B) Date: 10/16/1989 Description: 7:45 p.m. A man in Langenburg, Saskatchewan, is driving with his daughter when they observe an object “as wide as a small airplane is long” with colored flashing lights. It coasts silently over the highway “right over our heads.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_6838 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21566 (C075FB32) Date: 10/21/1989 Description: Witnesses in Burkhala, Magadan Oblast, Russia, watch a red, shining sphere maneuvering near an electric power transmission line for 30 minutes. About 7–9 lights are seen along its edge. One witness estimates its speed as 600 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vadim K. Ilyin, “[KGB’s ‘Blue Folder’ Reveals Shootings, Landings in USSR,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2001/11/November%202001.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 403 \(November 2001\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_6839 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21567 (E8C3B4D7) Date: 10/24/1989 Description: At 6:15 a.m. a boomerang-shaped object was observed 50 nautical miles south of Ord, Indiana from a commercial aircraft, CONNAIR flight 440, flying at 9,000 feet as it passed the plane. A vertical light beam and sparks were observed coming from the object. There was no radar detection of the object by either ground or airborne radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Franklin B. Reams, MUFON Field Investigation files, case # 900103; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46, citing the UFO Newsclipping Service; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1990, p. 14; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 123 Source ID: Johnson_7102 Source: Johnson ### Event 21568 (4322069C) Date: 10/25/1989 Description: 7:45 p.m. A resident of Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, sees a large object with red flashing lights. It is moving slowly and silently at an altitude of 200 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_6840 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21569 (8122E4FA) Date: 10/27/1989 Description: At 5:10 a.m. two women, Wilson and Underwood, took photographs of a reddish-orange object with columns of light, which then paced their vehicle at close range in Huntsville, Alabama. They experienced at least 25 minutes of missing time, and the clock in their pick-up truck was off by six hours. They also experienced nightmares over the next several nights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1989, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_7205 Source: Johnson ### Event 21570 (5233E03D) Date: 10/27/1989 Description: A family of four in Brewster, New York found themselves awake, late at night, walking around their house for no apparent reason, and having no recollection of how they got there. The father was standing in the living room with all the lights on, when one of his sons came running downstairs, yelling that there was a UFO hovering outside. They all ran to the basement and looked out a window to see. Next, a red beam of light came down from the sky and covered the entire house. The light stayed on the house for about a minute, and then went out. The father then walked outside to see what was going on, and saw a large black, triangle-shaped craft with a large red light in the center and several white lights on the front. It was slowly moving away from the area. The youngest son later informed his parents that that same night he had awoke and seen two “little men” standing in his bedroom, a third being then walked in, passing right through the bedroom wall. In addition, the man and his wife remembered having had a “dream” of little bald men with big round eyes leading them down a dark corridor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2133, citing Phillip J. Imbrogno & Marianne Horrigan, UFO Universe, Winter 1996 Source ID: Johnson_7204 Source: Johnson ### Event 21571 (D629F98C) Date: 10/28/1989 Description: At 2:30 p.m. several young students, among then Vova Startsev, saw a large pink sphere that flew over a local park in Voronezh, Russia. The sphere kept changing it shading, and it had two antennae on its left side. The sphere pushed out four legs and landed. A hatch opened and a ladder came down. Soon two beings and a robot like entity came out. The two beings carried the robot, set him down on its feet and appeared to give him mouth-to-mouth respiration. The robot then began walking like a normal human. The robot walked up to one of the young witnesses, followed by the two other aliens. The robot stretched out its hand towards the witness but he ran up a tree and hid, shaking with fear. The robot was just under six feet tall, and had a large head with three eyes in a row. Another witness, Sergei Makarov, got a close look at the other two aliens, whom he described as wearing silvery suits, silver waistcoats, with silver buttons and boots. Their faces were dark, and their skin was very smooth. When the door of the object opened there was a blinding light that came out. As the young witnesses watched, the legs retracted on the object, it, and then rose up, hovered briefly, and finally flew away quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 2344, citing Jenny Randles & Peter Hough, The Worlds Best True UFO Stories Source ID: Johnson_7252 Source: Johnson ### Event 21572 (9697E93C) Date: 10/28/1989 Description: On this night a 4-foot-tall green humanoid being was seen checking out an Air Force jet at the Kecskemet, Hungary military base. When the figure lifted one of its arms a cone of light appeared, causing it to vanish. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 233 Source ID: Johnson_7253 Source: Johnson ### Event 21573 (87A52C4B) Date: 10/30/1989 Description: Insects silent as lights are seen (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [891030](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-891030.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ft. Walton Beach, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5793 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21574 (6746D125) Date: 10/30/1989 Description: Observing stars with a telescope and binoculars at 9:15 p.m., two witnesses in Fort Walton Beach, Florida saw a group of lights hovering. Insects were silent as the dark object with a "X" of lights on the underside was seen hovering 100 meters away. After about five minutes, the object moved slowly away toward the swamp, going out of sight behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, p. 17; Donald M. Ware, MUFON Field Investigation case files, case # 891103; Joan Woodward, p. 9 Source ID: Johnson_7314 Source: Johnson ### Event 21575 (B41BC766) Date: 10/31/1989 Description: A woman named Iva Gospina, who had previously witnessed various UFOs maneuvering over the area of Brovary, Kiev region, Ukraine, woke up in the early morning hours around three a.m. feeling apprehensive, and suspecting someone had broken into her apartment. She checked around the apartment and found her family sleeping, and everything else seemed in order. She then looked out the window, and noticed to her surprise a short woman wearing a tight-fitting black suit standing at her door. The woman had long straight white hair down to her shoulders; there also appeared to be a small black dog standing next to the woman, but since it was dark the witness could not see any other details. Still feeling apprehensive, she walked back into the living room and attempted to sleep on the couch. Suddenly, a large luminous yellow circle slowly entered through the closed blinds of the window. Three figures, similar to people, then appeared standing on her carpet. The figures wore diver’s suits similar to cosmonauts or robots, and were approximately 140-150 cm in height. Two of them wore diving suits similar in color to frosted glass, and the third wore a golden, scaly suit. The yellow light was now arranged in a semi-circle above the figure’s heads. The beings stood quietly without moving or speaking. In a state of panic she mentally commanded the figures to depart. Immediately they vanished, and the luminous yellow circle floated slowly out the window. The room became absolutely dark again. Iva stood up and rushed to the window, feeling some regret that the figures had left, and she yelled out for them to return in despair, thinking that she had lost a unique chance in her life to communicate with extraterrestrial beings. Later that night as she attempted to sleep she heard and “felt” a large figure enter her room and stand over her. She then felt completely paralyzed and was unable to move, and couldn’t even open her eyes from fear. Again she panicked and mentally commanded the alien to leave. The next morning she learned from her neighbors that a red luminous object had been seen hovering over the area. She then believed that the three aliens who had entered her apartment had come in peace, and she regretted panicking during her contact experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing UFO Ukraine, Interesting Newspaper D-8 block, Kiev, issue # 8, 1999 Source ID: Johnson_7350 Source: Johnson ### Event 21576 (02F2254D) Date: 10/31/1989 Description: On this night a local bookkeeper, X. Saidov, spotted a large dazzling object descending towards the ground in Mezhriybaza, Uzbekistan. After the object landed, a tall, robot-like being wearing a silvery suit emerged from the object. Terrified, Saidov was unable to move, and apparently next lost consciousness. Waking up later, he found himself in a desert-like location standing among the sand dunes. He could see hills and pyramids around him. He saw a man and woman exit one of the pyramids, but he remained paralyzed, and felt the ground under him become soft. He soon lost consciousness again. Later, he found himself standing next to his car close to the village. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing UFOFORUM, Russia Source ID: Johnson_7351 Source: Johnson ### Event 21577 (F88B8943) Date: 10/31/1989 Description: On this evening a couple was watching several hovering orange lights in a "W” formation in Greenville, South Carolina, and decided to videotape them. Later, while playing back the results, they discovered a small, two-foot tall humanoid figure running past their bedroom window on the SW corner of the house. The figure appeared to be holding his arms up to his face. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 150, citing Current Affair TV show; Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 509, citing Strange Magazine, issue # 6 Source ID: Johnson_7352 Source: Johnson ### Event 21578 (B4C3D158) Date: 11/1989 Description: “UFO’s: The Best Evidence” multi-part series released by George Knapp, revealing Bob Lazar’s identity to the public. Type: TV series Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: Maj2_786 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21579 (500FAFB5) Date: 11/1/1989 Description: 6:50 p.m. A pilot flying a small airplane 20 miles north of La Ronge, Saskatchewan, sees a pair of blinking lights moving across his path at 8,500 feet. Air traffic control confirms there are no other aircraft in the area at the time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1989\): 9 Source ID: Eberhart_6841 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21580 (416E15C4) Date: 11/1/1989 Description: Dogs barking excitedly at hum of 3 bell-shaped objects (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf Breeze, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5794 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21581 (F9980FBA) Date: 11/1/1989 Description: A man out walking on an overcast night in Sunapee, New Hampshire saw four lights which wobbled from side-to-side and blinked in no pattern at &;00 p.m. They stopped, then moved slowly. When he got home he called his son-in-law, who also saw them below the treetops, and was joined by his wife. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Vail Leach, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 900721 Source ID: Johnson_7398 Source: Johnson ### Event 21582 (B9C74019) Date: 11/3/1989 Description: On this night in Whitefield, Greater Manchester, England two witnesses observed a luminous, golden cigar-shaped UFO with a small dome on one end. It appeared to have "fluid inside." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14984; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 233 Source ID: Johnson_7444 Source: Johnson ### Event 21583 (E0931B4C) Date: 11/3/1989 Description: At 11:55 p.m. a man observed a blue, teardrop or football-shaped light pass low and fast over his property in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. It was the size of a TV set. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wayne Willis, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 900307 Source ID: Johnson_7445 Source: Johnson ### Event 21584 (C63FEED7) Date: 11/4/1989 Description: 5:30 p.m. A couple and their two children are sitting in front of a large living room window in Hall Beach, Nunavut, watching television. The family dog begins barking, and soon the man’s attention is drawn to a strange object in the sky. The family watches the UFO, which looks like an upside-down cup and saucer. The bottom portion has a red light in the center, and three windows emitting white light are across the middle. After only a couple of seconds, the object departs, seemingly straight up, and disappears. A local employee of the Department of Public Works also sees the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 142–143 Source ID: Eberhart_6842 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21585 (B2610D39) Date: 11/6/1989 Description: Early in the pre-dawn hours a significant and well-documented abduction case occurred on this day in Kansas, perhaps one of the most persuasive cases on the objective reality of the UFO abduction phenomenon to be reported. Two women, "Susan" and "Jennifer," were driving back from a business conference in Colorado to St. Louis, Missouri on this night. At 12:40 a.m. they had reached a point on Interstate I-70 near Goodland, Kansas when they started to notice some persistent, multicolored flashing lights that were maneuvering slowly over the fields alongside the highway. They stopped their vehicle several times to get a better look. On one of these occasions a ball of light descended near their vehicle and hovered over a nearby field. They then saw a cone of soft, multicolored light directed towards the ground from under the object. They also noticed strange "black waves" resembling heat waves that were approaching their vehicle.

They finally drove away experiencing several types of emotions and feelings. Upon reaching their destination they realized that, according to their time checks and their careful records of the amount of fuel their vehicle had consumed, they had lost track of two hours of their time. Later, under hypnosis by clinical hypnotherapist John Carpenter and interviewed separately, both of the witnesses recalled identical details from their abduction experience. One of them reported floating silently upwards towards a bright object overhead. She found herself in a circular room encircled by windows and panels and lit up by a diffuse pinkish white light. She encountered several five foot tall slender "Grey" humanoids with large hairless heads and tiny pointed chins. They had huge slanted dark eyes and white skin. The beings communicated with her using telepathy and seemed to glide across the floor gracefully. The witness saw no apparent clothing. She felt calm as one of the beings touched her forehead, she then watched her friend undergo some type of physical examination on a nearby table. The second woman recalled very similar details, also reporting seeing the first witness on an adjacent table. Their sketches of the humanoids were also very similar. One of the women reported experiencing a series of nose bleeds after the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John S. Carpenter, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 282; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2285; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 738, citing John Carpenter Source ID: Johnson_7512 Source: Johnson ### Event 21586 (C958C28A) Date: 11/7/1989 Description: Double abduction case investigated by John Carpenter Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Western KS Source ID: HallUFOE2_450 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21587 (A18C8A73) Date: 11/7/1989 Description: 12:40 a.m. Two women in their 40s are driving on Interstate 70 west of Goodland, Kansas, when they encounter a UFO and lose 2 hours of time. They experience anxiety, insomnia, irritability, and bewilderment as a result. Neither women claim any interest in UFOs. They initially believe that they never left their car or observed anything further. Hypnotic regressions \(obtained independently\) reveal abduction scenarios with at least 40 direct correlations between their accounts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John S. Carpenter, “Double Abduction Case: Correlation of Hypnosis Data,” JUFOS 3 \(1991\): 91–114 Source ID: Eberhart_6843 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21588 (91673BA1) Date: 11/9/1989 Description: A shiny metallic rectangular UFO flew very low over Proveshenia Prospekt, Petrograd, Russia on this night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 233 Source ID: Johnson_7579 Source: Johnson ### Event 21589 (4E98725E) Date: 11/10/1989 Description: Communion, a feature film based on abductee [Whitley Strieber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley%5FStrieber)’s book of the same name, premieres in the US. Directed by [Philippe Mora](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%5FMora)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%5FMora) Strieber is played by actor [Christopher Walken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%5FWalken)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%5FWalken)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Internet Movie Database, “[Communion](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097100/)” Source ID: Eberhart_6845 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21590 (92731337) Date: 11/10/1989 Description: KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, identifies and interviews [Robert Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar), unmasked and using his real name. Lazar claims that during his onboarding to the Area 51 program, he read briefing documents describing the historical involvement of Earth for the past 10,000 years with extraterrestrial beings described as grey aliens from a planet orbiting the twin binary star system Zeta Reticuli. The Zeta Reticuli system was previously claimed by [Barney and Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) as the origin of aliens they allegedly encountered in their abduction. Lazar’s story quickly garners enormous media attention, controversy, supporters, and detractors. Lazar admits he cannot support with evidence his core claim of alien technology. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tom Mahood, “[The Robert Lazar Timeline,](https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-bob-lazar-corner/the-lazar-timeline/)” Other Hand, January 1997; Don Ecker, “Freedom of Disinformation,” Fortean Times 122 \(May 1999\): 28–31 Source ID: Eberhart_6844 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21591 (47769A88) Date: 11/13/1989 Description: The FBI releases a handful of its files on [Stanton T. Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) as a result of [Larry Bryant](https://ufoview.tumblr.com/)’s lawsuit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, Body Snatchers in the Desert, Paraview, 2005, p. 191 Source ID: Eberhart_6846 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21592 (EFF91A36) Date: 11/13/1989 Description: In 1989 Hungarian Air Force training flights were paced by orange UFOs near Kecskemet, Hungary. The UFOs were not picked up on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, December 1990. Source ID: Johnson_7646 Source: Johnson ### Event 21593 (B21C3B2F) Date: 11/15/1989 Description: In Gulf Breeze, Florida on this date in 1989, in the evening around 9 p.m., a beige colored cigar-shaped object was sighted. In was estimated at 20-40 feet long, and disappeared behind some trees. On the same night, in Shoreline Park, Florida, an unusual circular depression was found in tall grass. It had a clockwise swirl. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 0208 Source ID: Johnson_7701 Source: Johnson ### Event 21594 (33BAEBDE) Date: 11/18/1989 Description: Early evening. A large, black, boomerang-shaped object glides over downtown Lancaster, California. Low-intensity lights, similar to stars, outline its frame. Witness Robert Puskas estimates its size as 800–900 feet wide. Off its left tip he sees a silvery metallic disc about 30–40 feet in diameter, reflecting the streetlights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6847 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21595 (EDAC871D) Date: 11/20/1989 Description: 5:30 a.m. A couple in the rural town of Marieville, Quebec, wakes up to the sight of a strange blue light shining through the curtains. They hear a noise like an electric generator and feel a vibration. But looking outside they can see nothing. About 900 feet down the road, a neighbor is also awakened by the bright light and observes four blue objects over the other couple’s house. He also feels a vibration and describes the lights as intermittent, blinking out and reappearing in a different spot. At one point, the streetlights along Route 112 weaken when one of the objects gets too close. He thinks the lights are about 30 feet off the ground. Two other witnesses also see the lights interact with power lines. One reports that her power goes out for 10 minutes. On November 22, a strange pattern is discovered about 150 feet from the first couple’s residence—a perfectly round circle, 65 feet in diameter, of flattened \(not burned\) grass. The RCMP visits the circle on November 23 and 28, noting a striking difference in color of the flattened grass within the circle and the straight grass outside it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 149–150 Source ID: Eberhart_6848 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21596 (12109214) Date: 11/20/1989 Description: On this date in 1989 at an army base near Tarnaszentmaria, Hungary a disc is followed moving through some nearby woods at night. A beam of light from the object struck a soldier. Ten-foot tall figures are seen in the forest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 234 Source ID: Johnson_7757 Source: Johnson ### Event 21597 (9F26B9E9) Date: 11/22/1989 Description: The USAF SR-71 Blackbird program is officially terminated. The odd thing is that there is no dissension in the military about this. The alleged additional savings of $300 million is insignificant. Analysts point out that satellites, though useful, simply cannot perform the type of missions for which the Blackbird is suited. Some observers suspect there is a secret, better replacement. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FSR-71%5FBlackbird\#1990s)”; Bill Sweetman, Aurora: The Pentagon’s Secret Hypersonic Spyplane, Motorbooks, 1993, [p. 4](https://archive.org/details/aurorapentagonss0000swee/page/4/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6849 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21598 (86F30F5E) Date: 11/22/1989 Description: At two a.m. a married couple in Mirecourt, Vosges, France reported the observation of two superimposed cylinders, 10 times larger than a plane, with red lights, an orange light, and surrounded by flames. No noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 46 Source ID: Johnson_7813 Source: Johnson ### Event 21599 (7A06CB16) Date: 11/22/1989 Description: Soviet Air Force pilots reported a large disc-shaped object with five beams of light while flying over Borisov, Belarus. There were reportedly unspecified physical effects on the pilots. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46, citing 1990 MUFON UFO Conference Proceedings Source ID: Johnson_7814 Source: Johnson ### Event 21600 (FD255F47) Date: 11/24/1989 Description: Weathermen in Papa, Hungary observed four 50 meter wide orange balls of light at 10:00 p.m. One shot off at 2,600 mph. Military jets were scrambled to chase the UFOs, and there was radar confirmation of the sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 234 Source ID: Johnson_7888 Source: Johnson ### Event 21601 (1B7B7811) Date: 11/28/1989 Description: In Evansville, Indiana a security guard at 1:30 a.m. saw a slow moving orange ball that later had a steady red light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, citing MUFON Indiana Source ID: Johnson_8011 Source: Johnson ### Event 21602 (D6FDC698) Date: 11/29/1989 Description: 6:45 p.m. Gendarmes Heinrich Nicoll and Hubert von Montigny see another object near Eupen, Belgium, which appears from behind a wood and makes a forward tilting maneuver. It has a dome on top with rectangular windows. It then departs to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joël Mesnard, “[The UFO ‘Wave’ of November/December](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201990%20V%2035%20N%202.pdf) [1989 over Eastern Belgium,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201990%20V%2035%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 35, no. 2 \(June 1990\): 4; Kean, [p. 25](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/24/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6852 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21603 (1B99AE96) Date: 11/29/1989 Description: 5:24 p.m. About 250 witnesses, in 143 separate observations, watch the same or similar triangular or delta-winged craft maneuvering overhead at Eupen, Belgium. Two police officers in a patrol car are illuminated by a brilliant light beam from a dark triangular object hovering at 600–900 feet and making a faint humming noise. The light is so dazzling that “we could read a newspaper under it.” The UFO moves slowly away to the southwest, where it hovers near the Lac de la Gileppe dam for 45 minutes. Policemen Heinrich Nicoll and Hubert von Montigny watch it repeatedly emit two red beams with a red ball at the spearhead of both beams; the beams soon disappear, leaving the red balls, which return to the object. Then around 7:23 p.m., it moves further to the southwest and is seen over Spa for 30 minutes before it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 50–51; MUFON UFO Journal, July 1990, pp. 3–7; Société Belge d’Etude des Phénomènes Spatiaux, Vague d’OVNI sur la belgique: Un dossier exceptionnelle, SOBEPS, 1991; Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 \(May/June 1991\): 4–5; Wim van Utrecht, “[Triangles over Belgium: The SOBEPS Report,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1992/02/February%201992.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 286 \(February 1992\): 5–6; Steven M. Greer, “[UFOs over Belgium,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1992/05/May%201992.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no, 289 \(May 1992\): 8–12; Auguste Meessen, “[Étude approfondie et discussion de certaines observations du 29 novembre 1989,](https://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/Etude%5Fapprofondie%5Fet%5Fdiscussion%5Fde%5Fcertaines%5Fobservations%5Fdu%5F29%5Fnovembre%5F1989.pdf)” Inforespace, no. 95 \(October 1997\): 16–70; Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Wave and the Photos of Ramillies”; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/138/mode/2up) [137–144](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/138/mode/2up); Kean, [pp. 24–27](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/24/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6851 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21604 (977D5292) Date: 11/29/1989 Description: 5:15 p.m. While patrolling on the road between Eupen, Belgium, and the German border, two federal policemen, Heinrich Nicoll and Hubert von Montigny, see an intense light in a nearby field. Above the field is a triangular object with three spotlights shining down and a red flashing light in the center. Without making a sound, it moves slowly toward the German border for 2 minutes and then suddenly turns back toward Eupen. Nicoll and von Montigny follow it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Vantuyne, “[Mystery Craft: Eupen, Belgium,](http://www.pattmayeu.be/eupen.html)” Patt Nayeu & Son, June 12, 2010; Kean, [p. 24](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/24/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6850 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21605 (436FC992) Date: 11/29/1989 Description: Police patrol car illuminated by brilliant light beam, hovering dark triangular object, humming noise, alternately moved and hovered Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Eupen, Belgium Source ID: HallUFOE2_451 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21606 (0BA2C733) Date: 11/29/1989 Description: Police patrol car illuminated by brilliant light beam, hovering dark triangular object, humming noise, alternately moved and hovered (section I). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Eupen, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_5795 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21607 (F78588EA) Date: 11/29/1989 Description: From 5:24 p.m. until 8:39 p.m. two members of the Gendarmerie, driving in their patrol car just south of the city of Eupen, Belgium, found themselves in the middle of a cat and mouse game with a UFO. The policemen described it as "a dark solid mass in the shape of an isosceles triangle." It carried three blinding white lights in each corner and had a pulsating red light in the center. Throughout the three hour incident they were in constant communication with their headquarters in Eupen. Greatly to their relief, the dispatch officer informed them that he too had seen the triangular object and that additional sightings were being reported by patrols in nearby communities. Indeed, 150 eyewitness accounts were gathered that night. Several witnesses mentioned hearing a sound that reminded them of a ventilator. One policeman reported that he had also noticed "something at the back of the craft that was turning round, like a turbine." At 7:00 p.m. a close encounter occurred in nearby Voeren, Belgium, and at 7:10 p.m. two witnesses in Herbesthal, Belgium saw a dark delta-shaped object fly between and over houses. They could not actually see the surface of the craft it was so dark. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Ronald D. Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, p. 101; MUFON UFO Journal, July 1990, p. 3; UNICAT, case # 238; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 31; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 300; (3) Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 47 Source ID: Johnson_8046 Source: Johnson ### Event 21608 (670E744C) Date: 11/29/1989 Description: 7:20 p.m. Two federal policemen, Dieter Plummans and Peter Nicoll, see a triangular UFO near a monastery \[Kloster Garnstock?\] north of Eupen, Belgium. The object has three very strong spotlights and a flashing red central light. It is at an altitude of about 250 feet and about 300 feet away. It is immobile and silent, but it suddenly emits a hissing sound and its lights fade a bit. Simultaneously, a red ball comes out of the center and heads straight downward, but soon veers horizontal and disappears behind some trees. The object then passes above the police car, moving northeast. They follow it for 5 miles before losing it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [pp. 25–26](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/24/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6854 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21609 (E06BADA8) Date: 11/29/1989 Description: 6:45 p.m. A man is driving alone in his car on the Rue Mathieu de Lexhy at the intersection with the Rue Hector Denis near Grâce-Berleur, Belgium, when he sees to his left an immense stationary object at about 325 feet altitude and 1,600 feet away. He slows down, lowers his window, and hears a soft sound like an electric motor. The object is larger than a Boeing 707. It has flashing red, green, and white lights and a light beam directed toward the ground. He drives away while the UFO is still visible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1991\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6853 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21610 (0E91E3DE) Date: 11/30/1989 Description: Linda Cortile's (pseudonym) abduction from 12th floor apartment, allegedly witnessed by international figure and security guards (Hopkins, 1996). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New York City, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5796 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21611 (6F1EFDE6) Date: 11/30/1989 Description: At 9:20 p.m. a delta-shaped object passed low over a road south of Plombieres, Belgium. It had two large lights in front, and was silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 45 Source ID: Johnson_8088 Source: Johnson ### Event 21612 (FE2C3C5E) Date: 11/30/1989 Description: 3:15 a.m. New York City resident Linda Napolitano \(pseudonym “Linda Cortile”\) is allegedly abducted by aliens from her 12th-story apartment on the lower east side of Manhattan. Five aliens come into her bedroom while she is still awake. They paralyze her and move her into the living room. Linda and three of the five aliens are floated out through her living room window, directly through the window, to a large hovering UFO. Three independent witnesses to the abduction are two security intelligence agents \(“Richard” and “Dan”\), who see the UFO and abductees from a car near the Brooklyn Bridge, and a VIP political dignitary later identified as UN Secretary General [Javier Pérez de Cuéllar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%5FP%C3%A9rez%5Fde%5FCu%C3%A9llar), who does not confirm any involvement. The UFO then dives into the East River. [Budd Hopkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins) delves into the case, although he never meets the two security guards or even confirms their existence. Music critic [Greg Sandow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%5FSandow) writes an insightful analysis of the case in 1997. Hopkins’s former wife Carol Rainey has been critical of the quality of his abduction research in this case and in that of singer [Phoebe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe%5FSnow) [Snow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe%5FSnow)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe%5FSnow) which he never publicized. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \(Budd Hopkins, “[The Linda Cortile Abduction Case,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1992/09/September%201992.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 293 \(September 1992\): 12–16; Budd Hopkins, “[The Linda Cortile Abuction Case, Part II: The Woman on the](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1992/12/December%201992.pdf) [Bridge,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1992/12/December%201992.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 296 \(December 1992\): 5–9; Joseph J. Stefula, Richard D. Butler, and George P. Hansen, “[A Critique of Budd Hopkins’ Case of the UFO Abduction of Linda Napolitano,](http://www.tricksterbook.com/ArticlesOnline/LindaCortileCase.htm)” January 8, 1993; Jerome Clark, “Saucer Smearers,” IUR 18, no. 2 \(March/April 1993\): 3, 22–24; “The Claims in Question,” IUR 18, no. 2 \(March/April 1993\): 4–5; Donald A. Johnson, “Why the Linda Case Is a Hoax,” IUR 18, no. 2 \(March/April 1993\): 5, 22; Willy Smith, “The Impossible Testimony of Janet Kimball,” IUR 18, no. 2 \(March/April 1993\): 6–7, 21; Budd Hopkins, “House of Cards: The Butler/Hansen/Stefula Critique of the Cortile Case,” IUR 18, no. 2 \(March/April 1993\): 8–14, 21; David M. Jacobs, “A Matter of Ethics,” IUR 18, no. 2 \(March/April 1993\): 15–16; John E. Mack, “Stirring Our Deepest Fears,” IUR 18, no. 2 \(March/April 1993\): 17, 21; Willy Smith, et al., “The Linda Case,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(May/June 1993\): 22–23; Linda Cortile \[Napolitano\], “[A](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1993/06/June%201993.pdf) [Light at the End of the Tunnel,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1993/06/June%201993.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 302 \(June 1993\): 12–17; Budd Hopkins, [Witnessed:](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780671569150) [The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780671569150)[,](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780671569150) Pocket Books, 1996; Greg Sandow, “The Linda Cortile Case Analyzed: Part 1,” IUR 22, no. 1 \(Spring 1997\): 18–23; Greg Sandow, “The Linda Cortile Case Analyzed: Part 2,” IUR 22, no. 2 \(Summer 1997\): 3–10, 35–36; Kevin D. Randle, “[A Response to Budd Hopkins,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2011/02/response-to-budd-hopkins.html)” A Different Perspective, February 18, 2011; Carol Rainey, “[The Singer’s Hybrid Daughter, Part I,](http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-singers-hybrid-daughter-part-i.html)” The UFO Trail, February 5, 2016; Carol Rainey, “[The Singer’s Hybrid Daughter, Part II,](http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-singers-hybrid-daughter-part-ii.html)” The UFO Trail, February 22, 2016; Sean F. Meers, “The Linda Cortile UFO Abduction Case: Abstract,” February 27, 2012\). Source ID: Eberhart_6855 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21613 (D129FDBD) Date: 11/30/1989 Description: Linda Cortile's (pseudonym) abduction from 12th floor apartment, allegedly witnessed by international figure and security guards (Hopkins, 1996). 1990 Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: New York City Source ID: HallUFOE2_452 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21614 (57D2E986) Date: 11/30/1989 Description: In Pensacola, Florida at 6:30 p.m. a huge glowing object was filmed at it hovered over the Gulf of Mexico, then moved west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 218, citing UFO Newsclipping Service Source ID: Johnson_8089 Source: Johnson ### Event 21615 (74ACF82E) Date: 11/30/1989 Description: Two very large triangular objects, 100 feet above the ground, were encountered in the Midway area of Gadsden county, Florida at 10:00 p.m. They caused unspecified electromagnetic effects on the car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 219, citing UFO Newsclipping Service Source ID: Johnson_8091 Source: Johnson ### Event 21616 (A4E08075) Date: 11/30/1989 Description: Driving on Highway 98 near Gulf Breeze, Florida at 9:45 p.m. a 50-year-old woman saw a dark arrowhead-shaped object in the sky. She parked her car to watch. The object rapidly and silently descended and hovered near power substation, then its bright lights came on. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990, p. 21, citing Carol and Rex Salisberry, case # 900422B Source ID: Johnson_8090 Source: Johnson ### Event 21617 (F2FCFCB5) Date: 12/1/1989 Description: On this evening in 1989 a 51-year-old man and two other witnesses saw a UFO maneuver at about 600 feet altitude in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was escorted by what looked like four black, Huey-model helicopters. All five craft moved slowly into the distance until out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norma Croda, MUFON case investigation database, case # 900823 Source ID: Johnson_8111 Source: Johnson ### Event 21618 (310B4DD2) Date: 12/1/1989 Description: Weather forecaster Francesco Valenzano and his young daughter are walking in the Square Nicolaï in Ans, Liège, Belgium, when they see a large, slow-moving craft approaching at low altitude. The object silently makes a tour of the square; when it passes over their heads, they notice it has a delta shape with three lights in a triangular position and a red rotating light in the middle and positioned lower than the belly of the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [pp. 27–28](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/26/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6856 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21619 (6913376F) Date: 12/1/1989 Description: 6:50 p.m. An amateur photographer is sitting in his living room at Eupen, Belgium, when he sees a lozenge-shaped UFO with two white lights at each corner. He draws a sketch but fails to take a photo. He sees a similar object on January 10, 1990. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 \(May/June 1991\): 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_6857 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21620 (AC2042EF) Date: 12/2/1989 End date: 12/3/1989 Description: President [George H. W. Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FH.%5FW.%5FBush) and Soviet General Secretary [Mikhail Gorbachev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%5FGorbachev) meet in Malta, just weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall. During the summit, Bush and Gorbachev declare an end to the Cold War, although whether it is truly such is a matter of debate. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Malta Summit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta%5FSummit)” Source ID: Eberhart_6858 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21621 (433FA325) Date: 12/5/1989 Alternate date: 12/12/1989 Description: 9:50 p.m. A couple is driving on the Trierer Strasse in Aachen, Germany, when they see a flying object cut across the road in front of them to the right. It has two headlights in front, emitting beams that slant downwards. There is a flashing orange light on the underside. The same object reappears at their home around 11:15 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 \(May/June 1991\): 9–10 Source ID: Eberhart_6859 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21622 (B9368996) Date: 12/5/1989 Description: On this afternoon in Green Bay, Wisconsin a house was shaken violently. The woman witness photographed a silver disc-shaped object emitting balls of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ed Walters, UFO Abductions at Gulf Breeze, p. 285 Source ID: Johnson_8215 Source: Johnson ### Event 21623 (BF79BFF3) Date: 12/6/1989 Description: A couple driving in the farm community of Blyton, Illinois saw some yellowish orange lights pace their car for several miles at about 7:00 p.m., blinking out whenever there was oncoming traffic, then turning back on. Finally, all the lights blinked out and were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Poe Clark Poe, MUFON Field Investigations Database, case # 900743 Source ID: Johnson_8245 Source: Johnson ### Event 21624 (05D691E2) Date: 12/8/1989 Description: At 4:30 a.m. a security guard name Arias was patrolling the Colonial Palms shopping mall in Miami, Florida just south of the city when he encountered three very tall beings standing in the parking lot area. The humanoids were described as being at least seven feet, five inches tall, thin, with large heads and huge cat-like eyes. The guard ran to the closest payphone and dialed the emergency number. A police unit was dispatched but a search of the immediate vicinity failed to find anything. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 234; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 447, citing Miami Herald Source ID: Johnson_8276 Source: Johnson ### Event 21625 (11A170CB) Date: 12/8/1989 Description: In 1989 a number of nocturnal lights were seen over the city of San Diego, California for about 30 minutes. One UFO buzzed a pickup truck. The witnesses said it had an octagon shape with a V-shape at the rear edge of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 235 Source ID: Johnson_8277 Source: Johnson ### Event 21626 (50605E0E) Date: 12/10/1989 Description: In 1989, at 11:24 p.m. while driving in Concord, New Hampshire a couple saw a 70 foot long silver, cylindrical object hovering low overhead as they crossed a bridge on the Merrimack River. It had white lights on the ends and a blue light on top, and 3 portholes. The object moved to one side, and then rose out of sight fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cheryl Powell, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990, MUFON case file # 900722 Source ID: Johnson_8323 Source: Johnson ### Event 21627 (F8F750C2) Date: 12/11/1989 Description: 6:30 p.m. A 12-year-old boy and his family in Trooz, Belgium, watch a domed, triangular object for 15 minutes. It is hovering at first, then passes above their house. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [p. 28](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/28/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6860 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21628 (17BBB1B1) Date: 12/11/1989 Description: 6:45 p.m. Lt. Col. André Amond of the Belgian Army and his wife spot a strange aerial object while they are driving on the deserted Rue de Sart Ernage between Ernage and Gembloux, Belgium. It looks like a series of 3–4 panels of light traveling north to south at an altitude of 650–980 feet. Beneath the series of panels, and close to the center, is a rotating red lamp. Amond stops where the road dead ends and watches the UFO pass for 2–4 minutes. Then the object abruptly changes course and silently heads in his direction. Only an enormous spot of white light is visible now, “much bigger than the spotlight of a big air carrier.” They both are frightened, so Amond starts the car again. The big light disappears, and three smaller white spotlights become visible, which form a more or less equilateral triangle. The rotating red light is still there, now seen in profile. The object then performs a turn of 180° to the left. The distance between the white luminous points is estimated at approximately 33 feet. They cannot distinguish any solid object around this triangle of three lights. The maneuver is majestic and slow. Next, the luminous points disappear. Only the red rotating light is still visible, and it takes off in a south- southwesterly direction. The duration of the sighting is about 5–8 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [pp. 28–29](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/28/mode/2up); Wim van Utrecht, “[The Lieutenant-Colonel and the UFO,](https://www.caelestia.be/ernage.html)” Caelestia, January 7, 2016; Source ID: Eberhart_6861 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21629 (82F06916) Date: 12/12/1989 Description: 2:15 a.m. A man in Jupille-sur-Meuse, Belgium, wakes up to a dull throbbing noise coming from outside. He sees an enormous oval object seemingly jammed between two fir trees. On its circumference, small lights are changing color from blue to red and back. The object is metallic, with an oar or paddle at its rear. In the front is a window or cockpit. On the front part is a logo consisting of several ellipses crossing themselves. After a few minutes, the object rises slightly, the sound it emits changing slightly. It moves toward a neighbor’s meadow, shining down three beams of lights. Some moments later, it emits an intense and well-defined shaft of light into the sky. The witness goes back to bed. The next morning, he reports his sighting to the Gendarmérie, which investigates and finds a gigantic circular trace in the meadow. At the center, the grass has been cut off, but the cuttings are nowhere to be seen, and the grass within the circle is yellow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1991\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_6862 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21630 (22360159) Date: 12/21/1989 Description: Belgian Minister of Defense [Jean-Pol Poncelet](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pol%5FPoncelet) states that there have been many UFOs reported and that the ministry and the Army have no idea what they are. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 456–457 Source ID: Eberhart_6863 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21631 (96C85DC6) Date: 12/23/1989 Description: Two witnesses observed two boomerang-shaped UFOs pass low over the Seneca Nuclear Power Plant in Warren, Pennsylvania. Either the same two objects flew back over the plant from the opposite direction, or two more similar craft flew overhead in reverse direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John L. Micklow, MUFON case investigation files, case #900308 Source ID: Johnson_8574 Source: Johnson ### Event 21632 (98A021DB) Date: 12/24/1989 Alternate date: 12/25/1989 Description: 3:00 p.m. Pilot Vladimir Kuzmin sees a dark gray, cigar-shaped object hovering southwest of Chelyabinsk, Russia, while he is flying a two-seat Aero L-29 Delfin. He estimates its altitude at 4.6 miles. The sighting lasts more than 8 minutes with the object in direct view for over 4 minutes. Within hours, Kuzmin experiences a strange, crustlike skin rash on the exposed portion of his face that lasts for more than 11 days. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “UFO Activities in the Soviet Union,” IUR 16, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 14; Richard F. Haines, “Encounter over Siberia,” IUR 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1991\): 12–13, 21–22 Source ID: Eberhart_6864 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21633 (FB718A7F) Date: 12/24/1989 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a Russian L29 Trainer flying between Chelyabinsk and Korkino, Russia sighted a yellowish white cigar-shaped object flying at 8000 meters altitude. It vanished when the pilot attempted to approach. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 61; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_8595 Source: Johnson ### Event 21634 (4B6BED76) Date: 12/24/1989 Description: At 5:50 p.m. a man in Sambreville, Belgium took a ten minute video of a round white shape in the sky. It could be seen moving and rotating slowly. An hour later, at 6:50 p.m., a woman made another videotape, this time of a luminous globe in the sky over Nimy, Belgium. The videotape shows a white ball with a black ring around it and plasma. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 56 Source ID: Johnson_8594 Source: Johnson ### Event 21635 (7E8DF980) Date: 12/31/1989 Description: After 11:00 p.m. Victor Seminskiy was walking home from a local farm to the hamlet where he lived in Artyemovka, Kharkov region, Ukraine when he saw a UFO descending over him. He next felt the air squeezing him, as if in a vacuum, and he saw an extremely bright light envelope him and a lattice-like structure surround him. He was next pulled up into the UFO, and the next thing he remembers he was unexpectedly next to his house. He thought that only 15 minutes had passed, but he had actually been missing for two hours. Most of his memory of the abduction experience had apparently been repressed or erased, but the witness refused any hypnotic regression to aid him in recovering his memories of the experience. Victor's wife reportedly confirmed the experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Contact Sighting Reports, citing Vladimir S. Mantulin, Kharkov Anomalous Phenomena Research Group Source ID: Johnson_8679 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1990 (Back to Top) ### Event 21636 (CB9A1A09) Date: 1990's Description: USAF argues in court filings that it never used the name Area 51 Type: court filings Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar Location: US Source ID: Maj2_788 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21637 (C8C63817) Date: 1990 Description: [Jerome Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark) publishes volume one of the first edition of his UFO encyclopedia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia: UFOs in the 1980s, vol. 1, Apogee, 1990; Michael D. Swords, \[review\], JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 189– 191 Source ID: Eberhart_6868 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21638 (85401C29) Date: 1990 Description: A Gallup survey this year indicates that the belief in “real” UFOs has declined to 47% from a peak of 57% in 1978 and 54% in 1973. Only 27% report a belief that extraterrestrial UFOs have actually visited earth, while 14% report they have seen a UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_6867 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21639 (79E0707B) Date: 1990 Description: Journalist and lawyer [Marek Rymuszko](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%5FRymuszko)z establishes the magazine Nieznany Świat in Warsaw. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 81 Source ID: Eberhart_6870 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21640 (F6D5360B) Date: 1990 Description: Mathematician [Arne Gjärdman](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/intervjuer-och-nekrologer/1391-arne-gjardman-foa-s-ufo-ansvarige-1990-1999) replaces [Sture Wickerts](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/fakta/lexikon/1025-wickerts-sture-1925-1999) as head of UFO investigations at the Swedish National Defence Research Institute. He holds the position until 1999. During this time, the institute starts sharing information and ideas with UFO-Sweden, creating an atmosphere of understanding and cooperation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 370 Source ID: Eberhart_6869 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21641 (CC9C765E) Date: 1990 Description: [Donald Johnson](https://www.facebook.com/donald.a.johnson1) obtains a copy of UFOCAT on 10 3.5-inch diskettes from [David R. Saunders](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27194-001), courtesy of John S. Derr of the US Geological Survey. Derr has created the diskette version from one of the tape backups for use in his own research. Unfortunately, he is unable to read the first portion of the tape, so it is lacking the first 10,000 records. Fortunately, the Center for UFO Studies has another backup copy, and Johnson is able to merge the two sources and recreate the database as it existed in 1982. Since then, more than 10,000 additional records have been added. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFOCAT Is Back!” IUR 16, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1991\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_6866 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21642 (7C69C123) Date: 1990 Description: The NORAD Unknown Track Reporting database includes 7,000 incidents since 1971, averaging about 350 a year, representing objects still unidentified after jet interception, but before ATC analysis and NORAD/FTC intelligence whittles down the numbers further to about 10%. NORAD Unknowns are effectively equivalent to Project Blue Book unknowns—high-strangeness UFOs that cannot be rated until full details are released. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 801–802; Swords 348 Source ID: Eberhart_6865 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21643 (A14EF630) Date: 1/1990 Description: [David Gotlib](https://www.psychiatry.utoronto.ca/faculty/dr-david-gotlib) begins publishing the Bulletin of Anomalous Experience \(at first under the title of Ratchet Patrol\) in Toronto, Ontario, focusing on abduction experiencers. It folds in December 1994. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Ratchet Patrol](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Bulletin%20of%20Anomalous%20Experience%20%28Gotlib%29/BAE%5F1.1.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(January 1990\); [Bulletin of Anomalous Experience](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Canada/Bulletin%20of%20Anomalous%20Experience%20%28Gotlib%29/BAE%5F1.3.pdf) 1, no. 3 \(March/April 1990\) Source ID: Eberhart_6872 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21644 (0A486262) Date: Early 1/1990 Description: 10:30 a.m. Two women are driving southwest near Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, when they see a bizarre object on their right, moving at an altitude of 980–1,300 feet. Dark and massive, it resembles an iron seen from underneath. After a few seconds, it disappears behind a farmhouse. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1991\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6871 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21645 (AC6520D4) Date: 1/4/1990 Description: Several people in Mauriac, France at 12:40 p.m. witnessed a black disc-shaped UFO with two rows of square windows. It had four legs and a tube in the front, and moved through the sky slowly and silently. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #300 Source ID: Johnson_97 Source: Johnson ### Event 21646 (33BAD0C7) Date: 1/6/1990 Description: The witness, a repeat abductee, was awakened at around midnight in Townshend, Vermont by a strange-cloaked humanoid that stood by the side of his bed and communicated with him, telling him not to tell anybody about the visit. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 2437, citing Raymond E. Fowler, The Allagash Abductions; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15533, citing Raymond Fowler Source ID: Johnson_175 Source: Johnson ### Event 21647 (5784A7B0) Date: 1/8/1990 Description: Dark round or oblong object with red body light photographed by several people Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Gulf Breeze, FL Source ID: HallUFOE2_453 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21648 (B22E80BE) Date: 1/12/1990 Description: A man and his three daughters were driving on Five Points Road in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana at 8:30 p.m. when they saw a domed disc-shaped object and stopped the car. The object hovered and moved, titled at an angle. It had a little dark dome on top, multicolored lights (red, white, green and blue), and a beam of light that shone toward the ground. It moved up and down, and approached and receded. It also made no sound. The witnesses were frightened and resumed driving to get away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Norma J. Croda, MUFON case file # 900737; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 128 Source ID: Johnson_285 Source: Johnson ### Event 21649 (5B429DE0) Date: 1/18/1990 Description: Dark round or oblong object with red body light photographed by several people (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Gulf Breeze, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5797 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21650 (FF2EB8B4) Date: 1/20/1990 Description: Silvery object with two rows of lights paced just ahead of car for two to three miles. Engine, lights failed until object departed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Boyle, MS Source ID: HallUFOE2_454 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21651 (988A3CA5) Date: 1/20/1990 Description: Silvery object with flashing, blue-green lights paced ahead of car. MUFON UFO Journal, April 1990, p. 15 (E,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Boyle, MS Source ID: NICAP_DB_5798 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21652 (B33A0BD2) Date: 1/20/1990 Description: 1:15–1:20 a.m. A silvery dome-shaped object with two rows of lights flies just ahead of a car for two to three miles on Highway 446 at Boyle, Mississippi. The engine and lights fail until the object departs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6873 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21653 (996EAD8F) Date: 1/22/1990 Description: 10:00 a.m. UFOs approach the Santa Cruz Air Force Base, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Air traffic controllers spot them on their radars but cannot identify them because they do not make movements like an airplane or helicopter. Interceptors approach, but the objects move away and disappear. They return about 40 minutes after the interceptors land. Two other fighters are assigned to chase the objects, which are at an altitude of 4,800 feet. The case is investigated by an internal commission of the Brazilian Air Force, which can find no explanation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 205–206; Brazil 553 Source ID: Eberhart_6874 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21654 (3224FD80) Date: 1/24/1990 Description: Fireball meteor observed about 6:15 A.M. arcing from northwest to southeast. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Central United States Source ID: HallUFOE2_455 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21655 (E33202EE) Date: 1/26/1990 Description: Long-lasting fireball meteor, blue-green with short tail, changing to white and orange as it broke up, observed about 7:10 P.M. moving northeast. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Eastern United States Source ID: HallUFOE2_456 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21656 (1FF025F8) Date: 1/26/1990 Description: British-Armenian orchid hunter [Habib “Henry” Azadehdel](http://ufoupdateslist.com/1997/apr/m19-006.shtml) \(pseudonym “Armen Victorian”\) calls [Eric A.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FA.%5FWalker%5F%28engineer%29) [Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FA.%5FWalker%5F%28engineer%29) and has an extended conversation about an alleged South African UFO crash with insect-like aliens. Walker hints that there has been governmental collaboration with aliens in the past. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Grant Cameron and T. Scott Crain, UFOs, MJ-12, and the Government: A Report on Government Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals, Mutual UFO Network, 1991, pp. 27–35 Source ID: Eberhart_6875 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21657 (70C068ED) Date: 1/28/1990 Description: In 1990 a super large craft with bright blue lights around its perimeter was reported in Stockbridge, Michigan. In Gulf Breeze, Florida that afternoon, a MUFON UFO investigator and three others videotaped a round orange UFO that emitted white flashes of light from the top and bottom of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990 Source ID: Johnson_563 Source: Johnson ### Event 21658 (A64FAE5F) Date: 1/29/1990 Description: At 7:30 a.m. a brilliant disc-shaped object stopped over the town of Montbazon, Indre-Loire department, France, hovered for about a minute, then shot away at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 301 Source ID: Johnson_589 Source: Johnson ### Event 21659 (E54BF238) Date: 1/29/1990 Description: A huge dark mass flanked by two beacons, and lit by a halo, was seen over farm country in Wellman, Iowa at nine o'clock in the evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 831, citing UFO Newsclipping Service Source ID: Johnson_590 Source: Johnson ### Event 21660 (83816EE9) Date: 1/30/1990 Description: On this night, from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada a woman church minister claimed she was taken onboard an alien craft that left Earth's gravity. Her next memory was of being inside a huge "Embryo Fertilization Room." Small beings were working on people on tables. Although celibate, she was Impregnated, and later had a miscarriage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 103, citing a private communication; Lorne Goldfader, Enigma, St. Louis UFO Study Group, October 1990 Source ID: Johnson_619 Source: Johnson ### Event 21661 (1AE6A3EC) Date: 1/31/1990 Description: A huge manta ray shaped object, described as bigger than a 747 without the fuselage, was seen by many witnesses in Piketown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania at 6:30 p.m. It was estimated to be flying at 10,000 feet altitude and had blinking lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 238 Source ID: Johnson_642 Source: Johnson ### Event 21662 (7DB9F36C) Date: 2/1990 Description: The Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux in Marseille, France, begins publishing Aérospatial-Météorologie-Astronomie \(A.M.A.\), edited by Bernard Hugues. It continues until September 1994. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Aérospatial-Météorologie-Astronomie](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/AMA%20%28CERPA%29/AMA%20-%20No%2001%20-%201990%20fev.pdf), no. 1 \(February 1990\) Source ID: Eberhart_6878 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21663 (C33BCB67) Date: 2/1990 Description: Arranged by [Norio Hayakawa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norio%5FHayakawa)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norio%5FHayakawa) [Robert Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) is interviewed in Las Vegas, Nevada, by Nippon TV for 3–4 hours. Hayakawa and the TV crew drive out to Tikaboo Peak, where they film an orange light maneuvering above Groom Lake. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, [p. 14](https://archive.org/details/area51uncensored0000jaco/page/14/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6876 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21664 (CF057193) Date: 2/1990 Description: The Sauvegarde et Conservation des Études et Archives Ufologiques is established in Brunoy, France, by [Jacques Scornaux](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FScornaux)[.](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FScornaux) Its goal is the preservation and conservation of ufological documents and information. It publishes a SCEAU Bulletin from 1991 to 2008. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [SCEAU Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/SCEAU%20Bulletin/SCEAU%20Bulletin%20-%20No%2000%20-%201991.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/SCEAU%20Bulletin/SCEAU%20Bulletin%20-%20No%2000%20-%201991.pdf) no. 0 \(1991\) Source ID: Eberhart_6877 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21665 (75F54A2F) Date: 2/1/1990 End date: 2/4/1990 Description: An invitation-only research conference on abductions is held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, organized by [Rima E. Laibow](https://drrimatruthreports.com/aboutus/meet-rima-e-laibow-md/) and [Daniel Schneck](https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2017/12/schneck-memoriam.html). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Rima E. Laibow, Robert N. Sollod, and John P. Wilson, eds., Anomalous Experiences and Trauma: Current Theoretical, Research, and Clinical Perspectives, Center for Treatment and Research of Experienced Anomalous Trauma, 1992; Michael D. Swords, \[review\], JUFOS 4 \(1992\): 201–205 Source ID: Eberhart_6879 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21666 (B94A8FEF) Date: 2/5/1990 Description: At 2:35 a.m., on an overcast night, a witness in Richmond, British Columbia first noticed a light outside the apartment building window, which came closer and became a deep red, glowing hamburger bun-shaped UFO. The object changed exterior coloration on approach from white to red. The witness roused a friend to observe the receding object, and the man and woman watched as it turned to first pink and then white as it flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1990, p. 21, field investigator Michael Strainic Source ID: Johnson_711 Source: Johnson ### Event 21667 (4034E0F7) Date: 2/5/1990 Description: In Pensacola, Florida at 6:30 p.m. a 36-year-old man saw a 20-foot in diameter disc-shaped object with a steady white light on top and a pulsating red light on the bottom. He called his wife and another witness to come watch. The object followed a curved flight path with a wobbling motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carol & Rex Salisberry, MUFON CDROM database of UFO reports, case #900327 Source ID: Johnson_712 Source: Johnson ### Event 21668 (A885B576) Date: 2/5/1990 Description: At 9:15 p.m. in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania a couple in their mid-thirties saw a oval-shaped object with pointed appendages and the top and bottom that hovered at 20 to 30 feet above the ground. The body of the craft was silver-white. There were rows of silver squares on side, which were rotating around the craft. It also had a row of red, green and blue lights that flashed in unison. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wayne Willis, MUFON CDROM database of UFO reports, case #900407 Source ID: Johnson_713 Source: Johnson ### Event 21669 (F841B51A) Date: 2/7/1990 Description: Jaroslav Novotny was on his way to his parent's home in the evening when he saw a large orange, spherical object that descended with a falling leaf motion close to the ground in a garden in Ostrozke Nove Uesi, Czechoslovakia. It emitted three bright oval-shaped beams of light from an extended antenna that illuminated the surroundings quite clearly. A large figure with an oval-shaped head was seen in a window in the object. It had almost human facial features, but it had large yellow eyes and what appeared to be a large mouth. As the craft left it appeared to create an air turbulence that caused trees in the garden to bend over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 301; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15558; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, citing LDLN and Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_745 Source: Johnson ### Event 21670 (EB597B9A) Date: 2/11/1990 Description: A woman driving in Monroe, Michigan at 11:30 p.m. saw a large white ellipsoidal object circling the Fermi II nuclear reactor. The object paced in front of car, emitting "sparks" all over for one minute. She stopped her car and observed the same or a similar object in the distance plus another large red object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wayne Erickson, MUFON investigation files, case # 900511; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1990, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_845 Source: Johnson ### Event 21671 (4FF4374F) Date: 2/18/1990 Description: A woman was out walking her dog in the Waldeck hills, near Korbach, Germany in the early evening when her dog lay down on his back and started whining. The dog wouldn't get up, so she eventually had to start carrying him. Next she heard a low humming sound, which ceased after about 30 seconds. Then a large round object, with a diameter estimated to be 10-20 meters, was seen floating above a clearing and it began to glow with an incredibly bright light for 20 to 30 seconds. After that, its light dimmed and it took on a metallic appearance. The bottom of the oval craft glowed dark red like red-hot charcoal while the object lowered itself silently to the ground. In the meanwhile her dog had run away. The witness, who was now completely blinded, wanted to run, too but was struck by a blue ray of light which paralyzed her. She had trouble breathing, and tried in vain to call out for help but could not scream. She became completely covered in perspiration in under a minute. Then "there was a voice" that sounded female and somehow metallic. It said: "Don't be afraid, nothing bad will happen to you." Actually, though, this caused her to become even more panicked and nearly hysterical. The ray of light changed to green and her breathing improved. All of the sudden, two short entities appeared standing in front of her, both of them between 1.40 and 1.60 meters in height, with baldheads and gray skin. They had normal human-like eyes and noses. They wore dark green overalls. On their chests they wore a strange symbol, which resembled "^`C L". She did not understand their language. They soon returned to their craft, which stood nearby on four legs and was about 1.50 meters high. The green beam vanished and the witness sank to the ground in a faint. It was 9:30 p.m. when she woke up again, three hours after the start of the incident. She took a few steps and vomited, which she did a second time after reaching home, where her dog was already waiting for her. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ulrich Magin & Illobrand Von Ludwiger, UFOs - Zeugen and Zeichen, p. 96; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15564; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 241, citing Ulrich Magin & Illobrand Von Ludwiger). (See a similar incident occurring in 1979 on February 21 in Wales Source ID: Johnson_990 Source: Johnson ### Event 21672 (D6529209) Date: 2/21/1990 Description: Sundown. [Norio Hayakawa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norio%5FHayakawa), a Nippon TV journalist, takes a crew to the Area 51 Mailbox Site \(near the 29 ½ mile marker, Highway 375, Tikaboo Valley\) to watch the test flight of an object from Groom Lake, Nevada. The group sees an orange-yellow light appear above the hills. They get a second sighting later that evening when an object moves to the right, descends, performs a back turn and a 5,000-foot sudden descent, more or less instantly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael Hesemann, [UFOs and Area 51: Secrets of the Black World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0C-qrHtlok)[,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0C-qrHtlok) Lightworks video, 1995; “[Norio](https://www.dreamlandresort.com/team/norio.html) [Hayakawa,](https://www.dreamlandresort.com/team/norio.html)” Dreamland Resort Source ID: Eberhart_6880 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21673 (32B2BC88) Date: 2/21/1990 Description: 9:07 p.m. A woman, her mother, and son are driving through Koblenz-Karthause, Germany, when they notice two lights beaming down at them at a 45° angle. The woman pulls to the side of the road at an angle to watch. The object bearing the lights stops almost directly overhead. She sees a large triangular object, stationary and noiseless, at rooftop height. The sides of the triangle measure about 65 feet. Three milky, yellowish-white lights are at each of the corners. In the center is a larger, primarily gray-blue light, although its colors change as something rotates on the UFO. The object itself has a metallic appearance. It has some structures that look like riveted plates. The object remains for 2–3 minutes then departs suddenly to the southwest behind the roofs of nearby houses. The woman succeeds in locating two other witnesses at nearly the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 \(May/June 1991\): 10–11 Source ID: Eberhart_6881 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21674 (C0402A9D) Date: 2/22/1990 Description: A 17-year-old woman felt a gust of wind around 10 p.m. on her family farm in Henryville, Indiana and then saw a bright silver disc-shaped object with lights over some nearby trees, which were swaying. He dog howled, and later became sick. The disc flew away by making a vertical ascent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James Delehanty, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990; MUFON field investigations database, case 900402; Francis L. Ridge, MUFON Indiana Source ID: Johnson_1056 Source: Johnson ### Event 21675 (A83A177B) Date: 2/22/1990 Description: Dogs vocalized as disc generated wind that affected trees (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [900222](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-900222.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Henryville, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5799 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21676 (52728C7B) Date: 2/23/1990 Description: Prominent fireball meteor changing color from white to green to orange observed about 7:50 P.M. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Northeastern United States Source ID: HallUFOE2_457 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21677 (54926213) Date: 2/28/1990 Description: 7:30 p.m. Gary Schultz goes to the Area 51 Mailbox site in Nevada with his wife Pearl. He leaps out of his lawn chair when he spots the first object. Every 45 minutes, a new object arrives, 6 in all. Two or three of the craft are bright, pulsing, ellipsoid objects. He takes photos, one of which clearly captures an object shaped like a bell. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unknown Craft over Area 51 in 1990, Photographed by Gary Schultz,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH6Pzi-vYUk)” Norio Hayakawa YouTube channel, January 25, 2010; Michael Hesemann, [UFOs and Area 51: Secrets of the Black World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0C-qrHtlok), Lightworks video, 1995 Source ID: Eberhart_6882 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21678 (B22BC6AA) Date: 3/1990 Description: Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine breaks the news that the term “Aurora” has inadvertently been included in the 1985 US budget, as an allocation of $455 million for “black aircraft production” in FY 1987. According to Aviation Week, Project Aurora refers to a group of exotic aircraft and not to one particular airframe. Funding of the project allegedly reaches $2.3 billion in fiscal 1987, according to a 1986 procurement document obtained by Aviation Week. In 1994, [Ben Rich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%5FRich)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%5FRich) the former head of Lockheed’s Skunk Works division, writes that the Aurora is the budgetary code name for the stealth bomber fly-off that resulted in the B-2 Spirit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed, Little Brown, 1996, [pp. 309–310](https://archive.org/details/skunkworks00benr/page/308/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 143–144](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n231/mode/2up); “Aurora Timeline” Source ID: Eberhart_6883 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21679 (36B748F9) Date: 3/1990 Description: A classified US Department of Defense document, Joint Staff Information Report \#5049, “Belgium and the UFO Issue,” states that “Numerous UFO sightings have been made in Belgium since Nov 89. The credibility of some individuals making the reports is good… Investigation by BAF \[Belgian Air Force\] continues.” It notes that Belgian General Wilfried De Brouwer asked whether the objects were American B-2 or F-117 military aircraft, stating that he made the inquiry despite knowing that “the alleged observations did not correspond in any way to the observable characteristics of either US aircraft.” The US Air Force does confirm to the Belgian Air Force and Ministry of Defense that no US stealth aircraft were operating in the Ardennes area at the time.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, “[Belgium and the UFO Issue,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/02/belgium-and-the-ufo-issue/)” Mysterious Universe, February 11, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_6884 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21680 (28837374) Date: 3/1/1990 Description: The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches the first stealth satellite in [STS-36](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-36) for the National Reconnaissance Office. Nicknamed “Misty,” little is known about it other than it has visual and radar stealth characteristics, making it difficult to detect. The satellite is seen and tracked later in 1990 and in the mid-1990s by amateur observers. The second satellite is launched on May 22, 1999, and by 2004 the launch of a third satellite is planned for 2009. Circumstantial evidence suggests that the third satellite might be the payload of the [Delta IV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%5FIV) Heavy launch designated [NROL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NROL)-15, which is launched in June 2012. That launch deposits a payload into geosynchronous orbit but, given the stealth/deception hypothesis, there remains the possibility of other, undetected payloads. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Misty \(satellite program\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty%5F%28satellite%5Fprogram%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_6885 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21681 (30CD5200) Date: 3/1/1990 Description: On this night a woman ran out into 11 inches of fresh snow in her front yard in Otter Tail County, Minnesota to see a hovering disc-shaped craft. The disc ascended into a larger hovering object that appeared suddenly. She then suffered a blackout and was apparently abducted. She vaguely recalled being taken onboard by tall, blond, Nordic type beings who predicted that a catastrophe would befall Earth between the years 2000 and 2011. She also believes that an implant was inserted into her head through one of her nostrils. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 2330, citing Don Worley, UFOs: Alien Encounters 1995 Source ID: Johnson_1228 Source: Johnson ### Event 21682 (9150FAB5) Date: 3/2/1990 Description: Brilliant white pulsating oval paced truck, hovered over road, instant relocation over truck, cast light beam down Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Beavercreek, IL Source ID: HallUFOE2_458 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21683 (2197B3CE) Date: 3/2/1990 Description: On this evening at 5:15 p.m. in Charlestown, Indiana an eighteen year old witness driving in a rural area saw an oval object hovering just 40 feet above some trees. After five seconds the object ascended and accelerated out of sight. That same night at 11:00 p.m. in Highland, Illinois a married couple in their mid-fifties were driving down a rural road when they sighted a vertical, oval-shaped UFO that moved over the road. They drove to within 30 feet of it in their truck when the object jumped over their truck and bathed it in a white beam of light. After two minutes the couple drove away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mike Baker, MUFON investigation files, case #900503; Don Krieger, MUFON investigation files, case #900419 Source ID: Johnson_1261 Source: Johnson ### Event 21684 (861C4312) Date: 3/2/1990 Description: Brilliant white pulsating oval paced truck, hovered over road, instant relocation over truck; cast light beam down (sections IX, X). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Beavercreek, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5800 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21685 (9AB463C2) Date: 3/4/1990 Description: Sphere with windows seen from boat near lighthouse. Several objects took off at high speed with loud booms, stopped, hovered, flashed bright white lights Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Wood End, Provincetown, MA Source ID: HallUFOE2_459 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21686 (EE51DE0B) Date: 3/4/1990 Description: Sphere with windows seen from boat near lighthouse. Several objects took off at high speed with loud booms, stopped, hovered, and flashed bright white lights (section VI). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wood End, Provincetown, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5801 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21687 (B6666197) Date: 3/4/1990 Description: At 10:10 p.m. in 1990 two people in a car driving in New Albany, Indiana watched a huge, manta ray shaped UFO fly overhead at 150 mph. It had rectangular panels on the underside. One hour and twenty minutes later fishermen off the shore of Provincetown, Massachusetts observed several objects and one large craft ascend vertically into the sky until gone from their sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON Investigation files; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-94 Source ID: Johnson_1304 Source: Johnson ### Event 21688 (084E2358) Date: 3/7/1990 Description: A woman feeding her infant in Gulf Breeze, Florida, notices a beam of white light about 3 feet in diameter descend to the ground beyond her window. She feels a slight vibration and 2 seconds later the object is gone. The next morning her husband finds a circle of burned grass 11 feet in diameter near the window. Several people detect a strong “perfume” odor from the scorched area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6886 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21689 (A3BE5D02) Date: 3/8/1990 Description: [Henry Azadehdel](http://ufoupdateslist.com/1997/apr/m19-006.shtml) calls [Eric A. Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FA.%5FWalker%5F%28engineer%29) a second time. Walker provides some vague and bizarre information involving MJ-12, ESP, and technology from crashed UFOs. A third conversation on August 18 is much more guarded. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Grant Cameron and T. Scott Crain, UFOs, MJ-12, and the Government: A Report on Government Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals, Mutual UFO Network, 1991, pp. 27–35 Source ID: Eberhart_6887 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21690 (6914B39A) Date: 3/12/1990 Description: Night. Large, shining discs appear in the sky along the Yaroslavskoye Shosse outside Moscow, Russia. Their place is taken by three groups of objects, some like pineapples \(with platelets\) but about 18 feet long. Others are like “triangular milk cartons,” and the third group are like upside-down basins about 40 feet across. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO’s](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000112331.pdf) [Reported near Moscow,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000112331.pdf)” \[telegram\], April 15, 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6888 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21691 (AA76DC38) Date: 3/13/1990 Description: Ms. D. MacPhee had previously heard strange sounds in her house in Marshfield, Massachusetts at around 11:30 p.m. (March 12th) and discovered some furniture that had been overturned. Later she heard loud knocking sounds coming from the crawlspace underneath the living room floor. She ran upstairs and woke up her husband, but he fell back asleep. At 1:30 a.m. she took a flashlight with her and went to the sunroom, where she found the heavy doorframe knocked down and lying on the grass. See next saw a three-and-a-half-foot tall humanoid floating above the ground. The being had a large oval-shaped head with large black almond shaped eyes, smooth gray skin, a small slit for a mouth and nostril. The humanoid wore a black loose-fitting, cape-like garment. She dropped her flashlight and attempted to run upstairs to alert her husband. A period of about 50 minutes of missing time was reported, confirmed by the clock and her husband, and an abduction event was later confirmed under hypnosis. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON field investigations database, case 901205, Field Investigator Morton Schafer; Morton Schafer, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1991, issue #274; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2303, citing Morton Schafer Source ID: Johnson_1461 Source: Johnson ### Event 21692 (0662245E) Date: 3/13/1990 Description: Two women driving in Pensacola Beach, Florida at three o'clock in the afternoon saw two white, milk bottle-shaped objects make an angular descent over Pensacola Bay. The objects were estimated to be about 20-30 feet in length, and reflected sunlight. When less than 150 feet above the water, and at an estimated distance of two miles, the objects dematerialized and vanished in few seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON field investigations database, case 900422C, citing Field Investigators Carol & Rex Salisberry Source ID: Johnson_1462 Source: Johnson ### Event 21693 (73089BD8) Date: 3/14/1990 Description: On this evening eight crop circle investigators in Oakland, Pennsylvania saw a glowing disc hovering in the sky. They videotaped it for nine minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1993 Source ID: Johnson_1502 Source: Johnson ### Event 21694 (AA6B7362) Date: 3/20/1990 Description: Object approached car, hovered, red illumination, heat felt. MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990, p. 17; MUFON Log #900416 (R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carney, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5802 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21695 (4FA16D38) Date: 3/21/1990 Description: At Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, Russia a fighter aircraft was scrambled at 10:05 p.m. to intercept a UFO that was being tracked on military radar. The pilot reported the appearance of a black body with two white flashing lights. Their was the suggestion of a silhouetted saucer-shaped craft behind the lights. The UFO changed altitude and direction at a range of 1,000 meters. It illuminated a cloud, hovered, made S-turns, and moved many times faster than an aircraft. There was also a red light moving parallel to the ground in a horizontal flightpath. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Igor Maltsev, UNICAT database, case 797; Vadim K. Ilyin, MUFON UFO Journal, November 2001, p. 9; Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 50; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 139 Source ID: Johnson_1608 Source: Johnson ### Event 21696 (59E6DDC0) Date: 3/21/1990 Description: 8:00 p.m.–12:00 midnight. UFOs are seen over a wide area of Russia encompassing Novoselye, Sergiyev Posad, Yakovlevo, Dubki, Kablukovo, Fryazino, Khabarovsk, and Kirzhach. Radar stations and aircraft are put on alert. At 9:38 p.m., a UFO is seen at 6,500 feet altitude over Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. Lt. Col. A. A. Semenchenko is sent up in an interceptor to find it. At 10:05 p.m., he sees the object ahead and to the right. He tracks it on the in-flight radar as it flashes two white lights and changes speed and altitude. It does not respond to a radio challenge to identify itself. The pilot turns steeply and flies 1,600–1,900 feet above the UFO, but he can see only a vague shape. Between 8:00 p.m. and midnight, UFOs are also seen over a wide area. Witnesses in Khabarovsk watch bright red spheres flying in complete silence and darting above the icebound Amur River, and a black cigar-shaped object 160 feet long with a ruby-red exhaust is seen traveling low above the ground. Radars do not register it. The commanding officers of several antiaircraft defense units around Moscow gather more than 100 visual reports from their subordinates, which are forwarded to the chief of the antiaircraft defense headquarters, Gen. Col. [Igor Maltsev](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Igor-Maltsev), who says that the object is a disc between 325–650 feet in diameter with two blinking lights. It turns on its axis and its course is “snakelike.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs on Air Defense Radars,](http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/Rabochaya-Tribuna-Maltsev.pdf)” Rabochaya Tribuna, April 19, 1990; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1990; V. D. Musinsky, “Through the Secrecy Barrier,” IUR 15, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1990\): 14–15; Central Intelligence Agency, “[USSR: UFO Sightings No. 2—General Maltsev](https://www.rhun.co.nz/files/cia/cia1/44%5Fcia%5Fciaall2.pdf) [Comments,](https://www.rhun.co.nz/files/cia/cia1/44%5Fcia%5Fciaall2.pdf)” Foreign Broadcast Information Service PROD Group, May 24, 1990; Patrick Gross, “[FOIA](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/foia49.htm) [Declassified Documents](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/foia49.htm)”; Antonio Huneeus, “[Airplane Pilot UFO Encounters in the USSR and CIS, Part 2,](http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-encounters-ussr-pt2-220/4948)” OpenMinds, August 20, 2010; Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 116 Source ID: Eberhart_6889 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21697 (3A7DF1C8) Date: 3/21/1990 Description: Interceptor pilot enc, R/V (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, USSR Source ID: NICAP_DB_5804 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21698 (552CD87C) Date: 3/21/1990 Description: Jet interceptor scrambled to identify radar target, saw two flashing white lights, locked radar gunsight on object Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, Russia Source ID: HallUFOE2_460 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21699 (12778512) Date: 3/21/1990 Description: G,A,V, a/l pilots, jet scram (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, USSR Source ID: NICAP_DB_5803 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21700 (E4774781) Date: 3/24/1990 Description: On the same night several locals in Chardzhou, Turkmenistan reported encountering a tall robot like creature in the outskirts of the city. The creature was close to two meters tall, massively built, and had a bright circle of light on its chest from which bright beams of light emanated. It walked in a strange mechanical way. It had a huge head resembling a flattened saucer, and two long blinking devices jutting from the head resembling antennas or horns. The front of the robot's head emanated a sort of greenish steam that was very foul smelling. The frightened witnesses fled the area on foot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, citing Yaroslav Sochka, UFORussia Source ID: Johnson_1645 Source: Johnson ### Event 21701 (187F8263) Date: 3/24/1990 Description: A family driving home after visiting relatives near Heist-op-den-berg, Belgium were on a flat section of countryside at around 9:15 p.m. with scattered trees when the seven-year old son pointed out an unusual light in the sky to his mother. The mother described it as a very clear star surrounded by several lights. She pointed it out to the father who was driving. He stopped the car by the side of the road to get a better look. When he looks out of his left window he saw "many enormous lights" hovering only 100 meters above their car. The object was absolutely silent. The mother saw ten orange lights through the windshield that appeared to be blinking in a certain set pattern. She then began to feel extremely sleepy and had no energy to leave the car. She then realizes that her twins are fast asleep, and the father then enters the car and they drive home. They got home at 11:20, and realized that the trip that usually takes an hour had taken over two hours this time. The family has refused hypnotic regression because of religious reasons. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15594, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, citing http://www/caus.org/pers_cpmtact/pc012601.shtml Source ID: Johnson_1644 Source: Johnson ### Event 21702 (DDBBF661) Date: 3/27/1990 Description: Blindingly bright oval object approached car, passed low overhead. Driver fled, looked back, saw object hovering over a field Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Kokomo, IN Source ID: HallUFOE2_461 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21703 (86737F21) Date: 3/27/1990 Description: Blindingly bright oval object approached car, passed low overhead. Driver fled, looked back, saw object hovering over a field (section XII). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kokomo, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5805 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21704 (479B1CC4) Date: 3/28/1990 Description: 11:20 p.m. A silent UFO is seen about 25 miles north of Chongqing, China. It is about 65 feet long with orange and pale green lights, and it flies toward the northeast at an altitude of 150 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Defense Intelligence Agency, \[[unclassified report](https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/dia3ufo.pdf)\], The Black Vault, p. 11 Source ID: Eberhart_6890 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21705 (613334F8) Date: 3/30/1990 Description: There were at least three reports of nocturnal lights from Belgium on this night between 11:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. In Ramilles, Belgium at 11 o'clock in the evening several lights flying in a perfect equilateral triangle zigzagged through the sky toward the southwest. At 11:30 p.m. in Jodoigne a triangle of nocturnal lights were seen kilometers apart. F-16 jet interceptors were scrambled and pursued the lights. Also at 11:30 p.m. a sphere that seemed to grow wings was seen in the sky over Jaunchelette, Belgium. Three lights in a huge triangle were also reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, December 1990 Source ID: Johnson_1747 Source: Johnson ### Event 21706 (2F3C7B5A) Date: 3/30/1990 Description: Three Lights in Triangle Are Also Picked Up On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [900330](http://www.nicap.org/900330wavre%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wavre (near), Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_5806 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21707 (DF56BAFF) Date: 3/30/1990 End date: 3/31/1990 Description: 11:00 p.m. The Glons \(Belgium\) Control Reporting Center receives reports that three unusual lights are moving toward Thorembais-Gembloux, Belgium, constantly changing color, in the shape of an equilateral triangle. It requests the Wavre gendarmerie to send a patrol car to investigate. Ten minutes later, a second formation moves toward the first. Traffic Center Control at Semmerzake tracks one object only on its radar, and an order to scramble two F-16 fighters from Beauvechain Air Base is given. Throughout this time, in reports after the event, some people claim that the phenomenon is visible from the ground, describing the whole formation as maintaining relative positions while moving slowly across the sky. Over the next hour, the two scrambled F-16s attempt 9 separate interceptions. On three occasions, they manage to obtain a radar lock for a few seconds, but these are later shown to be radar-locks on each other. The pilots never see any of the claimed visual sightings or the claimed maneuvers, and they never get a lock on any objects apart from the other F-16. Investigator Wim van Utrecht suspects that the lights in the sky that triggered these scrambles were misperceptions of bright stars and planets. The other contacts are all the result of a well-known atmospheric interference called Bragg scattering, in which an aircraft’s own radars interfere with each other. After 12:30 a.m., radar contact becomes much more sporadic and the final confirmed lock takes place at 12:40 a.m. Following several further unconfirmed contacts, the F-16s eventually return to base shortly after 1:00 a.m. Members of the Wavre gendarmerie sent to confirm the original report describe four lights as arranged in a square formation, all making short jerky movements, before gradually losing their luminosity and disappearing in four separate directions at around 1:30 a.m. They also hear a low engine noise and that it seems to have a stick coming out one end with a turbine on it, which many claim shows it was a helicopter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Belgian UFO wave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian%5FUFO%5Fwave)”; NICAP, “[Three Lights in Triangle Are Also Picked](http://www.nicap.org/900330wavre%5Fdir.htm) [Up on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/900330wavre%5Fdir.htm)”; NICAP, “[Three Lights in Triangle Are Also Picked Up on Radar](http://www.nicap.org/900331wavre%5Fdir.htm)”; “Remarkable Military Encounter in Belgium,” IUR 15, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1990\): 23; Joël Mesnard, “[Belgium Haunted by Huge](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201990%20V%2035%20N%204.pdf) [Triangular Craft, Part II,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201990%20V%2035%20N%204.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 35, no. 4 \(December 1990\): 2–6; Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 \(May/June 1991\): 4–8; Bob Pratt, “The Great Belgium UFO Flap,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 267 \(July 1990\); Marie-Thérèse de Brosses, “[F-16 Radar Tracks UFO,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1990-8-august)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 268 \(August 1990\): 6–7; Marie-Thérèse de Brosses, “[An Interview with Professor Jean-Pierre Petit,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1991-1-january)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 273 \(January 1991\): 3–9; Kean, [pp. 37–38](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/36/mode/2up); Swords 457; Jean-Michel Abrassart, “In Defense of the Psycho-Sociological Hypothesis: Another Reply to Auguste Meessen,” SUNlite 3, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 2011\): 9– 12; Patrick Gross, “[The Belgium Flap Official Reports,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/belrap01.htm)” the full version of the Belgian Air Force report by Major Lambrechts, VS3/Ctl-Met 1, February 22, 2001; Patrick Gross, “[The Belgium Flap Official Reports,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/belrap02.htm)” summary report on observations 30–31 March 1990, February 22, 2001; Marler 20–23; David Clarke, “Echoes and Angels: UFOs on Radar,” Fortean Times 403 \(March 2021\): 44–45 Source ID: Eberhart_6891 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21708 (E01D9B10) Date: 3/30/1990 Description: Gendarmes reported luminous, high speed objects. Jet interceptors scrambled, multiple radar tracks of fast-moving objects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Brussels and Wavre, Belgium Source ID: HallUFOE2_462 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21709 (97801C3F) Date: 3/31/1990 Description: Three Lights in Triangle Are Also Picked Up On Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [900331](http://www.nicap.org/900331wavre%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wavre (near), Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_5807 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21710 (37D073F8) Date: 3/31/1990 Description: Night. [Lucien Clerebaut](https://www.cobeps.org/fr/lucien-clerebaut.html) \(secretary general of the Belgian UFO group SOBEPS\), film director [Patrick](http://www.euroufo.net/2011/12/ferryn-patrick-belgium/) [Ferryn](http://www.euroufo.net/2011/12/ferryn-patrick-belgium/)[,](http://www.euroufo.net/2011/12/ferryn-patrick-belgium/) and José Fernandez take four photos, using high-sensitivity film, of one of the triangular objects passing directly overhead about 19 miles southeast of Brussels, Belgium. Ferryn estimates its altitude is only 1,000 feet with a diameter six times that of the full moon. As a control, he photographs an ordinary airplane several minutes later in the same spot, using all the same camera settings. The spotlights on the UFO, which seemed very bright to the observers, are barely discernible on the photos. The triangular shape, clearly visible to the naked eye, is also lost on the film. At the same time, the airplane lights come out brighter than those on the UFO, appearing just the way it looked from the ground, even though the UFO was much closer to the observers than the airplane. Lab experiments show that this is probably due to the effect of infrared light around the UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marie-Thérèse de Brosses, “[Un OVNI sur le Radar du F16,](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/belpre01f.htm)” Paris-Match, July 5, 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6892 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21711 (7077AF4B) Date: 3/31/1990 Description: Two teenagers driving in Gulf Breeze, Florida had approached a stop light at 9:30 p.m. when they saw a UFO over a nearby building. The object hovered briefly, moved slowly overhead, and then ascended out of sight. Minutes later a retired FAA air traffic controller also sighted the object in the distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON case investigation files, case 900735 Source ID: Johnson_1775 Source: Johnson ### Event 21712 (816FEBCD) Date: Early 4/1990 Description: Many observers, including a journalist with Sovetskaya Estoniya, see UFOs hovering above power lines along the Tallinn Highway, Estonia, on several occasions. Maj. V. Stroynetskiy and several hundred other witnesses repeatedly observe UFOs over the Yaroslavl Highway in Russia, many of which look like large “triangular milk cartons.” The objects are flying at altitudes of 1,600–2,600 feet. At times, the entire body of an object “scintillates,” while at other times it becomes iridescent with “lights of various colors.” The objects fly at great speeds, make sudden stops in mid-air, and suddenly break off in lateral directions from the line of flight, “at which time they emitted rays.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[USSR: UFO Sightings No. 2—General Maltsev](https://www.rhun.co.nz/files/cia/cia1/44%5Fcia%5Fciaall2.pdf) [Comments,](https://www.rhun.co.nz/files/cia/cia1/44%5Fcia%5Fciaall2.pdf)” Foreign Broadcast Information Service PROD Group, May 24, 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6893 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21713 (B57171C0) Date: 4/4/1990 Description: Patrick Maréchal, a young worker at Petit-Rechain, Belgium, takes a photo of a delta-shaped object on which three lights are visible at each corner. Maréchal admits the photo is a hoax in an interview for RTL on July 26, 2011. He and some friends take a sheet of Styrofoam, cut it into a triangle, paint it black, embed a flashlight in each corner, then hang it from a string. Maréchal shows reporters many trial photos they had taken trying to get the perfect look. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Belgian UFO wave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian%5FUFO%5Fwave\#Hoax%5Fphotograph)”; NICAP, “[Petit-Rechain, Belgium Photo](http://www.nicap.org/petitdir.htm)”; “Classic Belgian Photos a Fake?” IUR 34, no. 1 \(September 2011\): 6; Wim van Utrecht, “[Battle over Belgian UFOs,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1992/08/August%201992.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 292 \(August 1992\): 20; Wim van Utrecht, “[Famous Belgian UFO Photo a Hoax,](https://www.caelestia.be/article05ad.html)” Caelestia; Kean, [pp. 29–31](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/28/mode/2up); Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Wave and the Photos of Ramillies”; Patrick Ferryn, “[La photo](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/Inforespace/Inforespace%20-%20No%20111%20-%202005.pdf) [de Petit-Rechain: Un état de la question,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/Inforespace/Inforespace%20-%20No%20111%20-%202005.pdf)” Inforespace, no. 111 \(December 2005\): 4–21; André Marion, “[Nouvelle](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/Inforespace/Inforespace%20-%20No%20111%20-%202005.pdf) [analyse de la diapositive de Petit-Rechain,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/Inforespace/Inforespace%20-%20No%20111%20-%202005.pdf)” Inforespace, no. 111 \(December 2005\): 22–27; Benôit Mussche, “[Le](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/Inforespace/Inforespace%20-%20No%20111%20-%202005.pdf) [rapport SeerSight,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Belgium/Inforespace/Inforespace%20-%20No%20111%20-%202005.pdf)” Inforespace, no. 111 \(December 2005\): 28–41 Source ID: Eberhart_6894 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21714 (BBF726FA) Date: 4/4/1990 Description: Belgium, triangle (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [900404](http://www.nicap.org/petitdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Petit-Rechain, Belgium Source ID: NICAP_DB_5808 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21715 (F3149FCB) Date: 4/5/1990 Description: 8:15 p.m. A motorist driving near the shore at Gulf Breeze, Florida, sees what looks like a jet fighter about to crash. Two military jets approach from the north, and the original object immediately shoots laterally southward, halting 1–2 miles away. The man gets out of his car to watch. The object appears to be a white disc with red and green lights spaced evenly around the side and an unlit dome on top. Slowly, it begins to rise. He calls a friend and the sheriff’s office. Two deputies arrive on the scene, and for the next 2 hours all three witnesses watch a bright light continue to ascend slowly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6895 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21716 (6A4100AA) Date: 4/10/1990 Description: A couple driving north on the Pensacola Bay Bridge in Florida see an object that looks like a long isosceles triangle with a centered red light on the bottom and pairs of white lights at the three apexes. As they near the end of the bridge in Pensacola, the object moves toward the west. It hovers, then moves off over the bay and out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dan Wright, “[Current Case Log,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1990-8-august)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 268 \(August 1990\): 22–23 Source ID: Eberhart_6896 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21717 (11DE8EEE) Date: 4/10/1990 Description: A triangular UFO is seen for 10 minutes over Abakan, Republic of Khakassia, Russia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 110 Source ID: Eberhart_6897 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21718 (76AEAB83) Date: 4/11/1990 Description: Evening. Several residents of Gulf Breeze, Florida, watch a red light move toward the southwest and out into the Gulf of Mexico before winking out. Some think they can see clusters of balloons associated with the light, but others disagree. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, June 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6898 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21719 (F505A926) Date: 4/12/1990 End date: 4/13/1990 Description: Night. Two witnesses see a bright red light hovering above Little Sabine Island off Pensacola Beach, Florida. It stays there for several minutes before blinking out. It reappears the next night to the west of Gulf Breeze. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, June 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6899 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21720 (837A4F43) Date: 4/14/1990 Description: At least seven people report a red light to the north of Gulf Breeze, Florida. It approaches from the east at high speed and comes to a dead stop. It hovers, moves back and forth several times, then ascends out of sight. Other red lights appear and are seen in various locations around Pensacola by other groups of people. Some of these sightings are undoubtedly hoax balloons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, June 1990; Dan Wright, “[Current Case](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1990-8-august) [Log,](https://vdocuments.mx/reader/full/mufon-ufo-journal-1990-8-august)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 268 \(August 1990\): 21–22 Source ID: Eberhart_6900 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21721 (6D91AF9E) Date: 4/15/1990 Description: A night security guard observed three humanoids while on patrol in Miami, Florida at 4:30 a.m. He described the beings as seven-foot tall aliens with cat eyes, who he watched walk across a parking lot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 995, citing UFO Bureau Source ID: Johnson_2036 Source: Johnson ### Event 21722 (307C72D5) Date: 4/16/1990 Description: A young man drove his wife to work in South Chicago, Illinois and then saw a silver, oval-shaped craft in the sky at around 7:30 a.m. The silver, domed oval object was hovering near an intersection in the city; it was motionless, and made a whooshing sound. He felt odd, developed a headache, nausea and neck pain. There was no missing time associated with this close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frances Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 133 Source ID: Johnson_2061 Source: Johnson ### Event 21723 (A9F6BBFB) Date: 4/17/1990 Description: Two women driving in a wooded area of Upper Burrel Township, Pennsylvania at 10:30 p.m. first saw three bright lights ahead. They heard a "click" and then saw a sphere over a tree. Then a 40-foot long "bus" or cigar-shaped object with windows came over the tree. The women drove home and the object followed them, then it passed by, glowing yellow and surrounded by mist. A U.S. defense plant is located nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1991, p. 12; MUFON field investigation files, field investigator Keith Bastianini, case # 901210 Source ID: Johnson_2092 Source: Johnson ### Event 21724 (826CE9B6) Date: 4/18/1990 Description: A man driving in Milton, Florida at 11:00 p.m. saw a spherical UFO approximately 1,000 feet away. The object, about 20-45 feet in diameter, first hovered, then appeared to pace his automobile. It appeared to change shape. It was last seen descending below the Escambia Bay Bridge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON field investigation files, case 900818 Source ID: Johnson_2123 Source: Johnson ### Event 21725 (5862FC20) Date: 4/22/1990 Description: Before 12:00 midnight. Two workers in a factory courtyard in Basècles, Belgium, watch two enormous spotlights illuminate the area. A huge trapezoid-shaped “platform” moves slowly and silently above a smokestack, at one point covering the entire courtyard, 330 by 200 feet. They observe six lights on the object, which is grayish. Structures on the bottom of the platform look like “an aircraft carrier turned upside down.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [p. 31](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/30/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6901 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21726 (A85F9532) Date: 4/22/1990 Description: At 10:00 p.m in Cuincy, Nord, France two observers witnessed three colored lights in the shape of a triangle. Three more lights joined the first three to form a hexagon; a metallic structure was suggested. The object flew from the southwest to the northeast (toward Belgium). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 302; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15154 Source ID: Johnson_2236 Source: Johnson ### Event 21727 (87908363) Date: 4/22/1990 Description: On April 22, 1990 seven reports of flying triangles were submitted to SOBEPS, along with a more unusual report by two factory workers in Basecles, southwest of Brussels, Hainaut, Belgium. They were in their factory courtyard shortly before midnight, when suddenly they saw two enormous spotlights illuminate them and their surroundings. A huge trapezoid platform moved very slowly and silently above the chimney, and covered the courtyard (100m x 60m). It was grayish in color and had a total of six lights, and structures on bottom that looked like "an aircraft carrier turned upside down." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leslie Kean, UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record, p. 31, citing SOBEPS archives Source ID: Johnson_2237 Source: Johnson ### Event 21728 (3D45611D) Date: 4/26/1990 Description: [Mikhail Gorbachev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%5FGorbachev) is visiting the Uralmash plant in Sverdlovsk, Russia, when he is asked for the first time whether the USSR studies UFOs. He answers vaguely that “there are scientific organizations which study this problem.” However, he later tells a group of workers that the “UFO phenomenon is real and we should approach it seriously and study it.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Pravda, April 27, 1990; Sovetskaya Molodezh, May 4, 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6902 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21729 (50F11C7F) Date: 5/3/1990 Description: On this night the public in Chester, England reported seeing strange lights in the sky to police. At 1:00 a.m. two police officers in Backford, near Chester, saw a multicolored (green, red and blue) UFO wobbling in sky, and they watched in amazement. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, Police Reports of UFOs, case 147, citing Chester Tonight, May 3, 1990 Source ID: Johnson_2484 Source: Johnson ### Event 21730 (09E0C398) Date: 5/4/1990 Description: In Antwerp, Belgium at 11:20 p.m. two observers reported sighting a silent orange disc-shaped object accompanied by a small white orb at 180 feet altitude. It had two legs on the bottom and what appeared to be a row of windows. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303 Source ID: Johnson_2522 Source: Johnson ### Event 21731 (1B379CD3) Date: 5/4/1990 Description: In El Carmen, Argentina a luminous sphere hovered over a soccer field, emitting beams of light. The beams of light turned the grass an intense blue-green color. Four hours later, at 10:20 p.m. in St. Georges, Belgium, a dog howled when a silent disc-shaped object hovered in the yard, just one meter above the ground. The lights on the object lit the ground and area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Inforespace, issue no. 83; FSR, December 1990 Source ID: Johnson_2520 Source: Johnson ### Event 21732 (77F62909) Date: 5/4/1990 Description: At about the time of the first Belgium report, at 10:30 p.m. a woman in Le Chatelet en Brie, Seine-Marne department, France observed a quiet triangular object with powerful headlights which stopped for a few moments before setting out again very quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 56 Source ID: Johnson_2521 Source: Johnson ### Event 21733 (730641C4) Date: 5/4/1990 Description: 11:15 p.m. A retired archaeologist in Stockay, Liège, Belgium, is about to return home after checking his greenhouse when he hears neighborhood dogs barking. He sees, in a field about 325 feet away from him, a pyramidal or conical illuminated object topped by a “bright white mushroom cone” floating about 1 foot off the ground. He approaches to about 165 feet and watches the object change color from white to orange as its upper part rises. He calls his wife to watch the UFO too. She sees two small antennas on top. They leave to get their son, but when they return the object is gone. The next day, he finds four circular holes about 3 feet in diameter with a thin layer of yellowish powder sprayed on the grass. Some days later, the traces vanish after a rainstorm. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1991\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_6903 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21734 (7748DAC8) Date: 5/5/1990 Description: At 3:45 a.m. the windows of a home in Widnes, Cheshire, England shook repeatedly from the vibrations caused by a huge, white glowing ball of light (BOL) over the road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 121 Source ID: Johnson_2557 Source: Johnson ### Event 21735 (BAB1DEB9) Date: 5/7/1990 Description: At 10:00 delta-shaped objects were seen during a meteor shower in North Delta, British Columbia, Canada. An abduction occurred later that night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15169, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1994 Source ID: Johnson_2633 Source: Johnson ### Event 21736 (725AE1D7) Date: 5/7/1990 Description: At 12:50 a.m. several hundred observers in Perm, Russia watched an unidentified flying object direct a bright fan of light down on the slopes of Mount Kamenoi. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15168; Richard F. Haines, JUSA-CISAAF Translations, p. 402 Source ID: Johnson_2632 Source: Johnson ### Event 21737 (CCE6CD0C) Date: 5/9/1990 Description: In Dneprodzerzhinzk, Ukraine three-meter diameter red discs were seen flying on top of a local mountain at 11:00 p.m. A saucer came down and landed in a fuel-dump; the same thing happened again on the next day. There were traces and EM effects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15172, citing Richard F. Haines, JUSA-CISAAF Translations, p. 306 Source ID: Johnson_2700 Source: Johnson ### Event 21738 (6E5B6FC1) Date: 5/9/1990 Description: At 4:30 a.m. a woman in Gulf Breeze, Florida saw an intense blinking light over the Santa Rosa Bay from her window. She observed a total of six UFOs over the next hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 907, citing UFO Newsclipping Service Source ID: Johnson_2701 Source: Johnson ### Event 21739 (D6291A11) Date: 5/16/1990 Description: At eight o'clock in the evening two children playing outside in Tecumseh, Oklahoma called their mother to come see a UFO. The object was gray/lead in color and surrounded by mist. One of the witnesses saw windows illuminated in yellow. Others saw a yellow flame behind the object. The object accelerated out of view. The entire event lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jean Waller-Seifried, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 900602 Source ID: Johnson_2902 Source: Johnson ### Event 21740 (84C3D0BF) Date: 5/18/1990 Description: In Kairma, near Frunze, Kirghizia (in what was then the USSR) Dima, age 10, came running home at 9:40 p.m. yelling that "space creatures" were outside. His mother looked out and saw several one-meter tall helmeted figures wearing glowing suits with stripes on their sleeves and pants legs. The beings had hands with three claw-like fingers. Dima reported that when they noticed him, they pulled out a box-like device from behind and aerial appendages appeared on their heads. When a car appeared the beings jumped into a nearby ditch and stayed there until the car had passed. While in the field the aliens appeared to clean their suits, and then perform what appeared to be somersaults on the wet grass. A powerful vibrating sound permeated the air during the encounter. Later, during a local power outage, several witnessed a huge red disc-shaped object hovering over the area. That same night humanoids also visited the home of one of Dima's teachers. They appeared inside her house and invited her to go with them, but she refused and the aliens left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, UFO Report 1992, p. 66 Source ID: Johnson_2960 Source: Johnson ### Event 21741 (90766EA2) Date: 5/19/1990 Description: Driving to work in Warrior, Alabama at 4:35 a.m. a man saw a boomerang-shaped object with a fan tail approach from the front, hesitate, and then pass 15-20 feet over his truck at a leisurely speed. It had six big lights in front. He watched it until it was lost from view amid the rooflines in the vicinity. The UFO apparently overflew a shale strip mine in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Todd Pierce, field investigator, MUFON field investigations database, case 900708; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 121, citing the MUFON UFO Journal Source ID: Johnson_2989 Source: Johnson ### Event 21742 (9D7789BB) Date: 5/21/1990 Description: Blind dog on porch indifferent to boomerang (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [900521](http://www.nicap.org/ar-900521dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Trenton, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5809 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21743 (EDB76DD7) Date: 5/21/1990 Description: On this evening a disc flying from the southwest to the northeast was involved with a near collision with a KC-135 tanker aircraft over Lancaster, California. The passage of the UFO appeared on radar and rocked the wings of the plane as it shot past. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990 Source ID: Johnson_3027 Source: Johnson ### Event 21744 (CA07C98E) Date: 5/21/1990 Description: At 9:00 p.m. four witnesses in Trenton, New York saw a large delta-shaped object fly overhead, making a faint humming sound. It flew in a slow glide and then made sudden jumps. It had lights on its three corners. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Conroy, field investigator, MUFON investigation files database, case 930506E Source ID: Johnson_3028 Source: Johnson ### Event 21745 (BF486DD1) Date: 5/21/1990 Description: A joint Russian and Chinese endeavor to study UFOs is initiated in Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia. An agreement is made to share videos and photos of new sightings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[USSR, PRC](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005516230.pdf) [Scientists in Joint Study of UFO’s,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005516230.pdf)” May 21, 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6904 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21746 (45CB7F42) Date: 5/24/1990 Description: Dog became still and quite before a boomerang appeared (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [900524](http://www.nicap.org/ar-900524dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Huntington, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5810 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21747 (5A92C721) Date: 5/24/1990 Description: At 11 p.m. a woman walking her dog in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania saw a UFO approach and hover momentarily within 150 feet of some power lines. It then accelerated out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Wayne Willis, MUFON field investigation files, case 900704 Source ID: Johnson_3074 Source: Johnson ### Event 21748 (73D9E489) Date: 5/24/1990 Description: Dark, delta-shaped object with large white lights around edge hovered. Departed at high speed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: North Huntingdon, PA Source ID: HallUFOE2_463 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21749 (7A1C2EDC) Date: 5/25/1990 Description: Day. A giant reddish-orange disc some 980 feet in diameter and with portholes around its rim is seen hovering at an altitude of 3,300 feet above Mary, Turkmenistan. Col. Anatoly Kurkchy, chief of the Air Defense Division of the Russian 12th Army, orders three ground-to-air missiles fired at it. The UFO makes a slight horizontal maneuver, and three beams of light coming from its port side destroy the missiles. Kurkchy then scrambles two jet interceptors, but at a point about 3,200 feet from the disc, the jets are allegedly thrown to the ground and destroyed, killing the four pilots. Kurkchy is removed from his post and transferred to a remote location. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 356–357](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/356/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6905 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21750 (79FB5298) Date: 5/29/1990 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a "stingray" shaped craft flew over Evansille, Indiana at a slow steady pace and low altitude. Its multicolored lights were yellow, green, and red, and there were at least 15. It flew over a populated area at only 200 feet from west to east on a curved flight, and made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 134 Source ID: Johnson_3157 Source: Johnson ### Event 21751 (48CC6C2C) Date: 5/29/1990 Description: A disc-shaped object landed by a garage in Frunze in the Asian republic of Kyrgistan at 8:45 a.m. A three meter tall giant and six short humanoids exited the craft via a ladder, and gathered samples of oil and soil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 67 Source ID: Johnson_3156 Source: Johnson ### Event 21752 (9483B3A0) Date: 5/30/1990 Description: A mother and her two young sons were resting at home in Calumet City, Illinois at 10:15 p.m. when they noticed a gray domed disc-shaped object hovering over a house across the street. The object was described as about 30 feet in diameter with bright white windows around its circumference. The windows were wider at the bottom than at the top, and a dark line seemed to rotate inside the windows. The object emitted a fuzzy white glow from its flat bottom. It then drifted slowly away toward the southwest. That same night the younger boy had a strange dream-like experience. He found himself at the nearby schoolyard where he saw several landed gray domed discs. A short gray-skinned being befriended the boy, then accompanied him back home. The boy remembers being told several "things" that he could not remember. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 127 Source ID: Johnson_3172 Source: Johnson ### Event 21753 (628AA675) Date: 6/1990 Description: [Raymond E. Fowler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%5FE.%5FFowler) continues his exploration of the [Betty Andreasson Luca](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/andreasson-betty) abduction case in The Watchers, which reveals that Luca is often having an out-of-body experience during her abductions. She sometimes encounters human-like entities with blonde hair, blue eyes, and white robes who are apparently “in charge” of the other aliens. Luca feels that the human race is being “watched” by these beings, who tell her they foresee serious problems in the future regarding the survivability of the human species. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Raymond E. Fowler, [The Watchers: The](https://archive.org/details/watcherssecretde00fowl/mode/2up) [Secret Design behind UFO Abduction](https://archive.org/details/watcherssecretde00fowl/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/watcherssecretde00fowl/mode/2up) Bantam, 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6906 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21754 (48C12330) Date: 6/5/1990 Description: [Robert Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) is arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, for aiding and abetting a prostitution ring. The charge is reduced to felony pandering, to which he pleads guilty on June 18. At sentencing on August 20, he is ordered to do 150 hours of community service, stay away from brothels, and undergo psychotherapy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_6907 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21755 (D8982B6B) Date: 6/7/1990 Description: Dog barked continuously, oval object w/light beams near (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [900607](http://www.nicap.org/ar-900607dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Waymart, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5811 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21756 (3CD96D18) Date: 6/7/1990 Description: At 11:45 p.m. in the farm community of Haymart, Pennsylvania a woman saw a bright light in the sky while driving home. When she reached her home and watched from outside, the ovoid UFO with multicolored lights approached to a close range and directed two white beams at her from the bottom of the object. Meanwhile, her dog barked continuously during the encounter. Her neighbor chased the object away in her truck. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, MUFON case file investigation, case # 900705; Joan Woodward, www.nicap.org NSID Animal Effects Catalogue, page 9, case 8 Source ID: Johnson_3358 Source: Johnson ### Event 21757 (52182249) Date: 6/8/1990 Description: In 1990, the Bridges family of Navarre Beach, Florida observed a cluster of 20-30 lights at 11:30 p.m. that appeared to be low over the Gulf of Mexico about ten miles away from their home. These lights would join together in a circular orbit and then shoot out in many directions. Some of the paths were jagged with sharp turns and abrupt stops, while others were smooth stops. The UFOs would then regroup and repeat the process randomly. Another group of about 20 people, who were visiting in rental units, also saw the display. The entire event lasted about 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Rex Salisberry, Gulf Breeze Sentinel, Gulf Breeze, FL, June 14, 1990 Source ID: Johnson_3377 Source: Johnson ### Event 21758 (40F17800) Date: 6/10/1990 Description: Reporter [Craig Myers](https://craigmyers4.academia.edu/) announces in the Pensacola \(Fla.\) News-Journal that a foam UFO model, seemingly a prototype for a fake UFO, has been found by new homeowners in the attic of the former residence of Gulf Breeze, Florida, UFO photographer Ed Walters. Myers writes a series of articles showing how Walters likely hoaxes some photos using a double-exposure technique. In late June, Tom Smith Jr., 22, a former Gulf Breeze resident, comes forward and claims that he has seen Walters fake some of the photos, the entire Walters family is in on the hoax, and they had tried to enlist his help unsuccessfully. Investigators apply a voice stress analysis \(VSA\) test to Smith’s taped testimony, which he passes. A controlled VSA test has also been successfully applied to testimony by Ed Walters, in which he denies perpetrating a hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Craig Myers, “[Gulf Breeze](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97812167/) [UFO Model Found,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97812339/)” Pensacola \(Fla.\) News Journal, June 10, 1990, pp. 1, 8; Craig Myers, “[I Saw UFO Photos Faked,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97812609/) [Witness Says,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97812696/)” Pensacola \(Fla.\) News Journal, June 17, 1990, pp. 1, 4; [UFO Newsclipping Service](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201990%2007%20-%20no%20252.pdf)[,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201990%2007%20-%20no%20252.pdf) no. 252 \(July 1990\): 1–6; Geoff Price, “Lie Detection in UFO Controversies,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 31; Kevin D. Randle, “The Truth about Polygraphs,” IUR 22, no. 4 \(Winter 1997–1998\): 29–30 Source ID: Eberhart_6908 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21759 (22A2DD06) Date: Summer 1990 Description: The crew of a Russia ship harbored in the Anadyr’ River off Ust-Belaya, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, sees a perfectly circular opening in the cumulus clouds above the village. Groups of objects enter the circle and fly away. Watch officer Aleksandr Polorotov begins taking photos of them until his camera malfunctions. When the film is developed, a luminous cigar-shaped object can be seen on some of the photos, but the open circle of sky is not on any of them. Some crew members experience severe headaches after the episode. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 109–110 Source ID: Eberhart_6909 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21760 (65F93F60) Date: 6/23/1990 Description: At 12:30 a.m. an orange disc-shaped object with portholes on the bottom portion, very bright, followed the course of a creek in Williams Lake, British Columbia at a low altitude. The witness's arm became numb during this close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 123 Source ID: Johnson_3631 Source: Johnson ### Event 21761 (BB2799B1) Date: 6/26/1990 Description: In Tapah, Malaysia on this day a witness encountered a tiny, 6-inch tall being with shiny red eyes. Later that night at 11 p.m. local time an orange ovoid object hovered over the roadside of highway D11 west of Montady, France. It had a halo that glowed. The UFO shot off toward the west-northwest, darkening three times as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies Internet website; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 336 Source ID: Johnson_3685 Source: Johnson ### Event 21762 (E03DB78F) Date: 6/30/1990 Description: Thirty minutes earlier, at 11:30 p.m. in Maubeuge, Nord department, France a large black triangular object with lights in the three corners and the center, moved slowly and silently from north to south over the city. There were four witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 302 Source ID: Johnson_3754 Source: Johnson ### Event 21763 (FDB44487) Date: 6/30/1990 Description: Three office workers in Wilmington, Delaware saw a four-sided pyramid (tetrahedron) at around 7:00 p.m. that was flat yellow in color with orange-red edges. It was slowly spinning and ascending, and made no sound. There was a black cylinder protruding from its base. They watched it for 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1993, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_3753 Source: Johnson ### Event 21764 (46106FF4) Date: 7/2/1990 Description: Kiev, Ukraine - Vitaly Rudenko and his brother were sleeping on the roof of their kitchen around midnight when they spotted a maneuvering light that changed color from a light silver to a brilliant yellow. As they watched an eerie silence surrounded them. Rudenko half jokingly yelled out, "Come down and take us!" Quite unexpectedly, the light descended rapidly and hovered very close to them. They described it as an enormous sphere that was slightly elongated. A dazzling beam of light shot out from the sphere and struck both men. At this point they lost all track of what happened next. Rudenko woke up later crawling through the vegetable garden with his clothing scorched. His brother was found unconscious with bruises on his forehead. No hypnotic regression has been attempted to date. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, citing UFOZone, Russia Source ID: Johnson_3794 Source: Johnson ### Event 21765 (BD42BABF) Date: 7/6/1990 Description: Day. Anna Dmitrievna Yerygina is herding goats on a lonesome road near Zvarykino, Belgorod Oblast, Russia, when a woman appears, seemingly out of thin air. Dressed in a light-gray, loose-fitting outfit with a hood, she seems somewhat tall and lean. The woman greets her and asks whether goats’ milk is tasty. Yerygina says it is, but she prefers cows’ milk. The woman then abruptly invites her on a brief excursion that will last no longer than three hours, touching her on the shoulder and saying, “Do not be afraid.” She takes Yerygina to a large oval craft in a nearby field, A man awaits them and helps them aboard. Yerygina sits in the dimly lit interior, then suddenly finds herself in another room with others dressed in the same gray coveralls. She feels as if she has been transported to another world. The entities radiate spiritual warmth and hospitality. One of them offers her some tasty bread and a strange liquid. After she finishes the meal, her memory goes blank and she finds herself back in the field with her goats, the strange woman by her side. The woman says goodbye with a smile, promising to meet her again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Priyma Alexey, [XX vek. Hronika Neobyasnimogo: Fenomen za fenomenom,](https://royallib.com/book/priyma%5Faleksey/XX%5Fvek%5Fhronika%5Fneobyasnimogo%5Ffenomen%5Fza%5Ffenomenom.html) AST Olympus, 2000; Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332 \(November 2015\): 42 Source ID: Eberhart_6910 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21766 (2E20269F) Date: 7/9/1990 Description: 4:00 a.m. A witness is traveling toward Germany and makes a stop east of Brzózka near the bridge over the Bóbr River southwest of Krosno, Poland. He goes for a short walk in the woods when he hears an odd sound and sees a landed object like an overturned bowl. He estimates it is nearly 17 feet across and 80 feet tall, and has a nauseating odor like burned chocolate. About 15 entities resembling mummies are in front of the UFO, poking plants with a prod and hopping about like kangaroos. They are about 4.5 feet tall and wear deep-green uniforms and headgear like welding masks. Their fingers resemble claws. At some point the witness coughs and loses consciousness, waking up an hour later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 82; “[Bliskie spotkanie w Brzózce w 1990 roku,](https://ufo-relacje.pl/2020/02/12/bliskie-spotkanie-w-brzozce-w-1990-roku/)” UFO-Relacje.pl, February 12, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_6911 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21767 (8215A012) Date: 7/11/1990 Description: Belgian Air Force Col. Wilfred De Brouwer gives a public talk on UFOs at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. He states that the March 30–31 sightings were highly unusual, witnessed by gendarmes and others, and necessitated the scrambling of two F-16 fighters. He says the target was detected on radar and conformed to ground visual observations. The objects remain unidentified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 457 Source ID: Eberhart_6912 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21768 (0DD805EF) Date: 7/13/1990 Description: Manchester, New Hampshire. At 7:00 p.m. a teenage girl saw a brilliant light from her bedroom window rise from and hover over a swamp across the road and a few hundred feet away. She realized that this was the forward light of a tapered cylindrical object. It rotated to reveal its length. There were square lights or windows equally spaced along the midsection of its dark gray metallic surface. At one end was a horizontal cable, at the end of which was a red light. The object glided along laterally until she lost sight of it behind a line of trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1991, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_4035 Source: Johnson ### Event 21769 (400D0528) Date: 7/18/1990 Description: Dogs were indifferent to hovering domed disc (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [900718](http://www.nicap.org/ar-900718dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: New Hartford, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_5812 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21770 (960E8EB5) Date: 7/18/1990 Description: A woman in New Hartford, Connecticut was lying awake in bed at 2:00 a.m. when she noticed bright flashing lights over her backyard. She went to the window and witnessed a small domed disc hovering 100 feet away and descending over the corner of the lawn. The object maneuvered a few seconds without actually touching down. She noted that it had flashing red, yellow, and white lights around its bottom rim. It then accelerated and was out of sight behind some trees in a second. Two days later a hired worker asked her about some strange material on the grass. She realized it was in the area of the sighting. After eliminating the lawn car company as responsible for an oily residue on the grass, she decided to report the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Randy Miles, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1990, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_4180 Source: Johnson ### Event 21771 (C13E81C8) Date: 7/19/1990 Description: Fort Allen, Puerto Rico. According to an article in the French UFO magazine Lumieres dans la Nuit, at 12:10 a.m. all US servicemen who were outside were ordered to go inside and remain there when their military base was illuminated by a low flying, disc-shaped UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 311 Source ID: Johnson_4213 Source: Johnson ### Event 21772 (5B68EFF4) Date: 7/19/1990 Description: Shortly after 12:00 midnight. The base perimeter at Fort Allen Training Center in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, is suddenly illuminated by a powerful white light. An officer orders that all personnel must remain in the barracks or other base facilities and not come out under any circumstances. From a window, the officer can see a brightly lit, circular, metallic object over the base. It has windows around a central rim, with yellowish-white lights revolving in them. On the underside there is a round, turbine-like protrusion with many colored lights around it. A bright beam of pinkish-white light is coming from the underside, as if searching for something—this is the light illuminating the perimeter. Two F/A-18 Hornets \(probably scrambled from Roosevelt Roads Naval Station\) fly at high speed over the base toward the UFO, which departs at high speed to the west with the jets in pursuit. The officer later tells UFO investigators that Fort Allen personnel have been briefed on UFOs with training films that show crashed UFOs, and it is just the most recent of several briefings since the 1988 Cabo Rojo incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 380–381](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/380/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6913 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21773 (3460BFBB) Date: 7/20/1990 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a red ball of light, half a meter in diameter, chased two witnesses in Soledade, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil for 20 minutes. They felt heat from the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 85 Source ID: Johnson_4255 Source: Johnson ### Event 21774 (77F34BE0) Date: 7/20/1990 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a retired Navy pilot and his wife saw a huge bluish-white glowing orb in the sky over Pensacola, Florida. It arced down and dove toward Pensacola Bay. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: C. Joseph Barron, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1990 Source ID: Johnson_4254 Source: Johnson ### Event 21775 (10A68DB9) Date: 7/23/1990 Description: At 11:30 p.m. the witness had stepped out of his house in Rybnik, Poland and noticed that his dog had broken the chain that he had been tied up to. Looking up, he noticed a powerful beam of white light in the sky and a small red light moving underneath it. The white beam of light moved around erratically as if searching. The witness signaled the beam of light with his flashlight several times and it appeared to answer him by shining on the highway directly in front of him. He then became frightened and hid behind a light pole. The white beam of light approached and struck him in the leg. He ran to a nearby house but it was deserted and locked, so he then ran back to the road. The object had now come closer to the ground, and a red light and a ladder were now visible. On the ladder stood a humanoid figure, but no details could be seen because of the glare from a nearby streetlight. The being entered the object, which he described as cigar shaped. The ladder was drawn up and the red light went out. The object then left the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #309; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 1652, citing Bronislaw Rzepecki, Australian UFO Bulletin Source ID: Johnson_4332 Source: Johnson ### Event 21776 (31E17395) Date: 7/25/1990 Description: Two 14-year-old girls in Ferriere-La-Grande, France watched a white triangular object hover for 2 minutes, point up. The craft then shot straight up extremely fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 302 Source ID: Johnson_4398 Source: Johnson ### Event 21777 (E6A14B20) Date: 7/26/1990 Description: 10:35 p.m. A married couple is driving south through Grâce-Hollogne, Belgium, when they see a triangular object hovering in the sky. It seems to measure about 39 feet on each side. A belt of white light like a large neon tube runs along two sides. The witnesses see three spotlights beaming down, apparently detached from the object but connected to each other by a support “bracket.” Two flashing lights, one red and one green, are on the underside. The man flashes his car lights twice, and two white lights at the base of the triangle rotate, tilt toward the car, and flash on and off three times. Keeping these lights pointed at the moving car, the object moves with its base forward and positions itself 330 feet away at a height of 200–300 feet, It makes a banking turn and paces the car, moving with the terrain and maintaining a constant height above the sloping ground at the same speed as the car \(around 40 mph\). When they approach the bridge at Seraing, the object crosses the Meuse River right next to them, ascending silently and moving back toward Grâce-Hollogne. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [pp. 32–34](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/32/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6914 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21778 (301A970F) Date: 7/28/1990 Description: A domed disc-shaped object buzzed a car in Thornlands, Queensland, Australia at 9:20 p.m. The driver of the car later developed a case of conjunctivitis of eyes as a result of the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Queensland; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 125 Source ID: Johnson_4463 Source: Johnson ### Event 21779 (2456281B) Date: 7/29/1990 Description: At 4:30 a.m. in Ottawa, Ontario a woman--whose roommate had witnessed a large light maneuvering over the area on July 1--woke up in her 16th floor apartment to see a 4-foot tall being in the bedroom. A dim light illuminated the being, which the witness described as small in stature and dark gray in color. His head was bend down as if adjusting something on his chest. He had a child-like body. Behind his head was a fog-like mist. The being wore a smooth suit with a square buckle on the front of a larger belt-buckle. Shiny neon like light shone from the buckle, which changed color to blue, the inside to the buckle was black. The witness was not afraid and went back to sleep. Ten minutes later she saw the being again standing about 10 feet away from her. She then fell back to sleep again and did not see the being depart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 1990 webpage Source ID: Johnson_4495 Source: Johnson ### Event 21780 (FC69DAF3) Date: 7/29/1990 Description: At two o'clock in the morning a man woke up in his bedroom in Columbus, Ohio to find a small humanoid standing in the bedroom. He could only recall having his tooth drilled and an "implant" possibly having been inserted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 1851, citing Francis J. Ridge, Regional Encounters: The Filter Center Files Source ID: Johnson_4494 Source: Johnson ### Event 21781 (4867A1E8) Date: 7/30/1990 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a glowing ovoid landed in Ferrere, Piedmonte, Italy radiating four beams of energy, and left a large circular ring on the grass. The incident lasted 15 minutes, and there was an independent witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15223, citing CISU Source ID: Johnson_4512 Source: Johnson ### Event 21782 (D7901B17) Date: 8/2/1990 End date: 1/17/1991 Description: Operation Desert Shield Type: war Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War) Location: Iraq Source ID: Maj2_789 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21783 (CE78077A) Date: Early 8/1990 Description: Many witnesses in Rostock, Greifswald, and the islands of Rügen and Usedom, Germany, see groups of luminous spheres that accelerate rapidly and abruptly. One witness, Gerald Schwab, watches the lights stand still for 3 minutes before they accelerate rapidly forward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, “[The ‘Greifswald Lights,’](http://archiv.mufon-ces.org/docs/GreifswaldE.pdf)” MUFON Central European Section, May 2000 Source ID: Eberhart_6915 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21784 (AD07AD45) Date: 8/4/1990 Description: Day. Two hikers near the A9 near Calvine, Perthshire, Scotland, see a diamond-shaped object that appears to be shadowed by an RAF Harrier jet. The object is visible for about 10 minutes. One of the hikers takes color photographs of the incident. Desk officers from DI55 suspect the image might show a US Air Force black project aircraft. The prints are sent to the Glasgow Daily Record newspaper, which forwards them to the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre at RAF Brampton \[now closed\] for scrutiny. The prints subsequently disappear and the MoD claims there is no surviving record of the conclusions reached about the investigation. However, in October 2020 the Ministry of Defence blocks release of the photos from their scheduled declassification on January 1, 2021, until 2072 without any explanation. Former MoD official [Nick Pope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FPope%5F%28journalist%29), one of the few people to see the photos and the analysis, says the photos are authentic and show a material device of unknown origin that has no wings, no fuselage, no tail, no visible engine, and bears no inscription. Compared to elements in the landscape, the object appears to be about 98 feet in diameter. The British government continues to deny that its US ally has ever been allowed to operate experimental aircraft in UK airspace, but [David Clarke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29) discovers that a dossier of evidence was shared with US intelligence after the British expressed “concern about a possible stealthy platform flying in UK airspace.” A 1992 letter from the British Defence Staff in Washington, D.C., reveals that one of the Calvine photos was brought to the US by British Intelligence officials to be examined by their US counterparts. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 148–149](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n241/mode/2up); Paul Sims, “[Alien Mystery: Government Bans Release of](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6143168/ufo-aliens-sighting-calvine-scotland-highlands-picture/) [Secret UFO Dossier about Calvine for 50 Years,](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6143168/ufo-aliens-sighting-calvine-scotland-highlands-picture/)” Scottish Sun, October 10, 2020; Nick Pope, “[‘Dark Forces’:](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6144270/ufo-sighting-cavine-scotland-aliens-ministry-of-defence/) [I’ve Seen Top Secret Photos of Calvine UFO Sighting—It Left Me Shell-Shocked,](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6144270/ufo-sighting-cavine-scotland-aliens-ministry-of-defence/)” Scottish Sun, October 10, 2020; David Ramasseul, “[Ovni de Calvine: L’interminable secret,](https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Insolite/Ovni-de-Calvine-l-interminable-secret-1707279)” Paris Match, October 13, 2020; David Clarke, “The Jox Files: Was a US ‘Special Project’ Captured on Film in Scotland?” Fortean Times 409 \(September 2021\): 52–53; Simon Houston, “[What Was the Calvine UFO Sighting and Are the Photos Real?](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/8402124/calvine-ufo-photos-ministry-of-defence/)” Scottish Sun, May 2, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_6916 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21785 (50A54F57) Date: 8/4/1990 Description: A disc-shaped UFO was seen over Witton Wood at 11:30 p.m., north of Walsham, Norfolk, England. The next day car batteries were found dead, and crop circles were found in a nearby field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 127 Source ID: Johnson_4664 Source: Johnson ### Event 21786 (68773D8E) Date: 8/5/1990 Description: At 3:45 a.m. the Martens family of Owens Sound, Ontario awoke to see "dancing lights" that were apparently disturbing their cattle. The lights were yellowish-orange in color and looked like their were connected to something very large. The lights gradually changed to a deep "crimson red", and began revolving around each other. Some kind of green haze or fog formed, and the object suddenly vanished. That same night one son had a nightmare about a "shining angel", in the house, and the eldest daughter saw a brightly lit being in the house, who almost blinded her with light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, addition # 2820, citing Barry Arnold Source ID: Johnson_4704 Source: Johnson ### Event 21787 (65159D4C) Date: 8/6/1990 Description: An object like a shiny dime shot straight up in the air in Evansville, Indiana at 1:40 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 961, citing Francis L. Ridge, MUFON Indiana Source ID: Johnson_4744 Source: Johnson ### Event 21788 (66848E35) Date: 8/11/1990 Description: An amateur astronomer reported that he witnessed a light maneuvering in all directions in the sky over a farm in Gweru, Zimbabwe at 7:10 p.m. It made many small, fast shifts in the sky for 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO AfriNews, July 1991 Source ID: Johnson_4902 Source: Johnson ### Event 21789 (1361A46A) Date: 8/11/1990 Description: Separate observers reported seeing five Grey humanoids walk down a road in Palmarejo, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico at around two o'clock in the morning. They had three toes on each foot and three fingers on each hand; they jumped from a bridge into a lake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15228 Source ID: Johnson_4903 Source: Johnson ### Event 21790 (BFA58DA0) Date: 8/15/1990 Description: On this night on Iona Island, Scotland Edward Carlos, who had been involved in other previous close encounters, saw an inexplicable beam of light coming down through the clouds. Shortly after, the beam struck him and he experienced a missing time episode. Later, under hypnotic regression, he recalled being examined by several humanoid entities, including a reptilian-like humanoid, several small pallid skinned humanoids, and insect-like robotic creatures. He recalled having an anal probe examination to determine his health. The beings also examined his various vital organ systems, including his heart, and they then used a laser-like light to allegedly clear Carlos's arteries of plaque. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2537, citing Preston Dennett, UFO Healings Source ID: Johnson_5054 Source: Johnson ### Event 21791 (AC44658D) Date: 8/20/1990 Description: A dark box-shaped UFO landed in a swamp in Victoria, Entre Rios, Argentina. Lights were seen blinking above the object, then joined together, and finally shot off toward the south-southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15234; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #312 Source ID: Johnson_5195 Source: Johnson ### Event 21792 (37CEDF87) Date: 8/22/1990 Description: A green cone-shaped object landed on a farm in Ebenezer, Prince Edwards Island, Canada at ten o'clock in the evening. It sat there and glowed for two hours, but vanished when witnesses attempted to approach. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15237, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303 Source ID: Johnson_5240 Source: Johnson ### Event 21793 (6220BE25) Date: 8/24/1990 Description: At 8:30 p.m. lights hovered in the sky northeast of the city of Greifswald, Germany for three minutes. They accelerated rapidly forward. There were many (at least six) videos shot and eleven still photographs taken by separate witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_5303 Source: Johnson ### Event 21794 (8FCD649F) Date: 8/24/1990 Description: 8:35 p.m. Many witnesses in northern Germany see a formation of seven luminous objects over the Baltic Sea. They hover for nearly 30 minutes near Peenemünde \(on Usedom\) and the Soviet-built nuclear power plant at Lubmin \[shut down soon afterward\]. Five people, including nuclear physicist Ludmilla Ivanova, videotape the event from Greifswald, enabling researchers to triangulate the lights and reconstruct their positions. Ufologist [Illobrand von Ludwiger](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illobrand%5Fvon%5FLudwiger)’s group MUFON-Central European Section obtains 6 videos and 11 photos from different observers and interviews more than a dozen witnesses. They conclude that two groups of luminous spheres hovered nearly motionless for about 30 minutes over the sea. The brighter and closer group forms a circle of 6 spheres. The second group is in the shape of a “Y,” with some spheres performing individual movements. Some of them move back and forth between the two groups. They are able to move extremely fast, estimated by one witness as “supersonic velocity,” then come to an abrupt stop when reaching the formation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jacques Vallée, “[Estimates of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf) [Characteristics,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F3%5Fvallee%5F1.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 \(1998\): 356–357; Illobrand von Ludwiger, “[The](http://archiv.mufon-ces.org/docs/GreifswaldE.pdf) [‘Greifswald Lights,’](http://archiv.mufon-ces.org/docs/GreifswaldE.pdf)” MUFON Central European Section, May 2000 Source ID: Eberhart_6917 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21795 (BAC2D560) Date: 8/31/1990 Description: At 2:00 a.m. Luis Javier Mango was on his way to his girlfriend's house in Barrio Supe, Berisso, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina riding on a friend's motorcycle, when he spotted about 100 yards ahead of him two short figures that quickly crossed from the road ahead of him. Both were about one meter tall, wearing what appeared to be black hooded smocks tight around the waist, and maybe an unseen belt. He could not make out any facial features, arms, or legs. One figure followed the other, and both quickly disappeared from sight. Further inquires revealed additional witnesses, and the possibility of four to five additional humanoids of similar appearance that floated just above the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, citing Proyecto CATENT Source ID: Johnson_5540 Source: Johnson ### Event 21796 (F1B53950) Date: 8/31/1990 Description: At 3:00 a.m. five small gray-colored humanoids, with large heads and huge bright eyes, walked in front of parked cars in Lake Cartagena, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, and then down a road. They had large pointed ears, with three toes on each foot and three fingers on each hand. Ten carloads of witnesses reportedly observed the five humanoids walking down the dirt road, heading in the direction of the Laguna Cartagena. One of the witnesses, Miguel Figueroa, pursued the beings in his car, but as he approached them, their eyes 'lit up", and he was somehow prevented from getting any closer. When the light dissipated, Figueroa again gave chase, and managed to get a better look. He described the figures as skinny and gray, varying between three and four feet in height, with pear-shaped heads, large slanted eyes, long pointed ears, long arms, with three fingers on each hand and three toes on their feet. The beings got away by running down a ravine. The following day, there were reports of discs flying out over the Laguna Cartagena. Small footprints were found in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 878, citing Magdalena Del Amo Freixedo, FSR, Vol. 36 # 4 Source ID: Johnson_5541 Source: Johnson ### Event 21797 (006F9BBE) Date: 8/31/1990 Description: In the Sukhaya Valley, Grodnensk region of Belarus a round UFO with a golden stripe around its circumference appeared in the sky on this night, and then landed in a field. Three humanoids wearing tight-fitting coveralls were briefly seen standing near the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, citing "NLO", 1990, issue # 1 Source ID: Johnson_5542 Source: Johnson ### Event 21798 (E380AECC) Date: 9/1990 Description: New York Times journalist [Howard Blum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%5FBlum) publishes Out There: The Government’s Secret Quest for Extraterrestrials, describing his investigation—after a tip given him by a National Security Agency official—of a mysterious agency called the UFO Working Group, a top secret, interagency body headed by “Col. Harold E. Phillips” of the Defense Intelligence Agency \(actually a pseudonym for Col. [John B. Alexander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FB.%5FAlexander)\). Founded in 1987, according to Blum, after a flurry of suppressed UFO sightings, including the tracking on radar of a UFO by the US Space Command Space Surveillance Center, the UFO Working Group, calling on CIA, FBI, and other resources, has come up with nothing solid. It has, however, dug into many of the major events of ufology. Blum also claims that NORAD deep-space radars \(the Defense Satellite Program\) have tracked about 500 UFOs \(fastwalkers\) entering Earth’s atmosphere every year. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Howard Blum, [Out There: The Government’s Secret Quest](https://archive.org/details/outtheregovernme00blum/mode/2up) [for Extraterrestrials](https://archive.org/details/outtheregovernme00blum/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/outtheregovernme00blum/mode/2up) Simon & Schuster, 1990; Mark Rodeghier, “In the Black,” IUR 15, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1990\): 9–11, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_6918 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21799 (CCDDBBE3) Date: 9/1990 Description: US journalist [Tim Weiner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%5FWeiner) publishes Blank Check: The Pentagon’s Black Budget, based on his articles on black-budget spending at the Pentagon and CIA for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Weiner shows that the funding is classified above top secret and that few, if any, federal oversight investigators have the security clearances to audit this budget. He estimates its size as at least $35 billion \(although by 2012 is has increased to $52.8 billion, according to information revealed by [Edward Snowden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FSnowden)\), three times the estimated total of what it was in 1981. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tim Weiner, [Blank Check: The Pentagon’s Black Budget](https://archive.org/details/blankcheckpentag00wein), Warner, 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6919 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21800 (47F3E6CE) Date: 9/2/1990 Description: Early morning. Residents of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, see a large illuminated ball above the Arctic Ocean. It is at a high altitude, gives off no electronic signals, and moves slowly toward the Kola Peninsula. Soviet Air Defense thinks it resembles a large airship. Finally, the order is given to destroy it, and it turns out to be an enormous weather balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[Airship-Like UFO Sighted over Murmansk,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005516711.pdf)” September 4, 1990 Source ID: Eberhart_6920 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21801 (E7FE49A0) Date: 9/7/1990 Description: A UFO shaped like an octagonal donut hovered over a car in Culver, Indiana at 10:30 p.m. It had colored lights in the corners, and vanished in place. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 962 Source ID: Johnson_5737 Source: Johnson ### Event 21802 (22D4574E) Date: 9/8/1990 Description: Security Police had several landings reported on this night at Sandia Labs, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, the world's largest atomic arsenal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15249, citing MUFON UFO Journal, April 1992 Source ID: Johnson_5778 Source: Johnson ### Event 21803 (F29D157F) Date: 9/11/1990 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a huge, luminous rounded rectangle flew over Calais, France silently to the southeast, and crossed the sky in 15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303 Source ID: Johnson_5874 Source: Johnson ### Event 21804 (AAE9E62F) Date: 9/11/1990 Description: Two men had a close encounter with a cylindrical object crossing their path in Rockwood, Texas at 10:30 p.m. It moved at 15-25 mph until out of view, and came to within 150 yards of them at the closest point. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mack Standard, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 901106 Source ID: Johnson_5875 Source: Johnson ### Event 21805 (9B82FACA) Date: 9/13/1990 Description: At 8:12 p.m. a local woman named Irina M. was returning home from work in Mahachkala, Dagestan, Russia when she looked at the sky and saw a fast moving yellow light, which was flying from the southwest to the east. It was moving faster than a normal aircraft, and she immediately thought it could be a UFO. The object began to descend at a high speed, noticeably increasing in size. It was round and silvery, and hovered in midair not too far away from the witness. Astounded, she next saw a humanoid figure floating next to the object. The figure was human-like, tall, slender, and with a pale young face without wrinkles. He also had what appeared to be very kind, blue eyes. The alien was dressed in a loose-fitting tunic, silver-white in color. The being stood in mid-air, gazing at the witness intently, and seemed to be encased in a bright halo of light. She became concerned, fearing that she might be abducted by the alien, and she rushed home to her children as fast as she could. Near her front door she looked back and saw the UFO departing, decreasing in size and vanishing in a few seconds. Apparently the only other witness to this event was a stray dog that frequented the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, citing "Iks" UFO Newspaper, Mahachkala Dagestan, issue # 4, and Anton Anfalov Source ID: Johnson_5922 Source: Johnson ### Event 21806 (3D2CCC3C) Date: 9/13/1990 Description: At around 1:00 a.m. a mother awoke to tuck her young daughter under the blankets in Rudnyi, Kustanay region, Kazakhstan when she saw a luminous sphere through the balcony door on the upper level of house. A bright yellow beam, surrounded in a greenish glow, shone into the room from the sphere. The woman covered the young girl with the blanket and then heard a strong ringing in her ears and developed a strong headache. At this point she lost consciousness. After an hour or so she woke up, feeling a burning sensation on her stomach. She found a spot about ten centimeters in length and two centimeters wide on her stomach that appeared to be a burn scar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, citing UFOZONE Russia Source ID: Johnson_5921 Source: Johnson ### Event 21807 (42BC52D8) Date: 9/13/1990 Description: Shortly after 12:00 midnight. A Soviet radar unit in Samara, Russia, tracks an approaching object that apparently causes the equipment to malfunction and go blank. Going outside, the operators see a flying black triangle giving off three bright rays pass directly overhead at no more then 30 feet. It lands nearby and gives off more bursts of energy for 90 minutes. Cpl. S. Dudnik sees it knock out a radar aerial with a light beam. Two sentries, A. Blazhis and A. Varenitsa, allegedly disappear and reappear with no memory of the event and without realizing they have been missing. The ground where they were standing guard seems to be blasted by an explosion. Their wrist watches are running nearly 2 hours slow. Capt. D. Rudzit tells a military reporter from Za Rodinu who is investigating the incident that nothing has happened. In November, Deputy Minister of Defense Gen. Ivan Tretiak claims the incident was all a newspaper hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 50; Good Need, [pp. 358–360](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/358/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/358/mode/2up) [364](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/364/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6921 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21808 (15651BCE) Date: 9/13/1990 Description: On the same night as the CE-3 encounter in Dagestan, witnesses in Samara Province, Russia reported seeing a small luminous, white triangular-shaped craft flying above their rooftops. The object appeared to be transparent, and inside three dark human-like figures with large round heads could be seen. One figure was standing up, while the other two were seated behind what looked like a control panel. The object later became dark and landed outside a perimeter fence of the Volga-Ural Military Air Defense Radar Station. At around midnight, as armed guards approached the object, without warning it fired a powerful beam of concentrated energy that destroyed the radar antenna on top of their communications building. The steel in the radar unit was burned from a distance of 430 feet. A wristwatch reportedly slowed, and other strange physical effects were noted. Some of the sentries went missing temporarily, and could not account for their whereabouts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 50; Antonio Huneeus, UFO Universe 1995, quoting Russian film, Cosmic Top Secret; Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 1836, citing Antonio Huneeus Source ID: Johnson_5923 Source: Johnson ### Event 21809 (EE49CAF1) Date: 9/19/1990 Description: Gulf Breeze, Florida. Two witnesses at 9:30 a.m. watched a large red light that flew toward the west, stopped and hovered, ejected 6-8 red lights, and then switched off. This was followed with a loud boom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_6104 Source: Johnson ### Event 21810 (648E67DA) Date: 9/19/1990 Description: The [KNM Stavanger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNoMS%5FStavanger%5F%28F303%29) has a sonar contact with an unknown “U-boat” in the Norwegian Sea off Ona lighthouse, Husøya, Norway. The ship sends international warning signals but gets no response, so it drops hand grenades into the water. At 5:30 p.m., it shoots off three Terne rockets. The sonar contact ends, and the next day the search is called off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1995\): 13, 17 Source ID: Eberhart_6922 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21811 (F14ACBBF) Date: 9/19/1990 Description: An observation by a couple and their two children of an ovoid form of milky white color at the top of some trees, around 9:45 p.m. in Thann, Haut-Rhin department, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 67 Source ID: Johnson_6103 Source: Johnson ### Event 21812 (4E575DE4) Date: 9/20/1990 Description: A man waiting next to his disabled vehicle in Leominster, Massachusetts saw a light approach, hover, and then descend only 15 feet away from him at 8:30 p.m. It disappeared when traffic approached, and was lost from view entirely when the tow truck arrived. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Goffrier, MUFON investigation files CDROM, case 901208 Source ID: Johnson_6152 Source: Johnson ### Event 21813 (7301FDBA) Date: 9/21/1990 Description: At 5:30 p.m. police and militia pursued a Saturn-shaped UFO with shining portholes on its rim that hovered over an old airport near Frunze, Kyrgistan. The UFO seemed to be rotating, and emitted a coherent cone of yellow light. When it touched down to the ground it set fire to a meadow, leaving behind four burned spots 135 feet in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History, p. 291; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 68 Source ID: Johnson_6201 Source: Johnson ### Event 21814 (FB8FC1E1) Date: 9/21/1990 Description: At 11:20 a.m. a kite-shaped UFO dove into a clearing in some woods in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. It was seen from a bus through the trees on and off for the next 5-6 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 130 Source ID: Johnson_6200 Source: Johnson ### Event 21815 (285285E3) Date: 9/27/1990 Description: 10:50 p.m. Cosmonauts [Gennady Manakov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady%5FManakov) and [Gennadi Strekalov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennadi%5FStrekalov) are aboard the [Mir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennadi%5FStrekalov) space station. When Strekalov is looking down at Newfoundland through a clear atmosphere, he sees a glittering, iridescent, perfect sphere. He calls Manakov and together they study the object. Strekalov says it “shone like the balls that hang on trees at Christmas, greenish in color and all shimmering.” It appears to be 12–18 miles above the Earth. They watch it for 10 seconds when it disappears abruptly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[Take 1 of 3—Foreign](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000112339.pdf) [Press Note—FB PN 91-014—USSR,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000112339.pdf)” January 11, 1991; Good Need, [p. 360](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/360/mode/2up); 2Pinotti 119–122 Source ID: Eberhart_6923 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21816 (557B5320) Date: 9/28/1990 Description: At 10:00 p.m. several cars stopped to watch a bright white, dome-shaped object with red portholes hover over a roadside swamp in Roc Tredudon, Finistere department, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303 Source ID: Johnson_6406 Source: Johnson ### Event 21817 (2D06AFF7) Date: 9/28/1990 Description: A round UFO landed in a field during the day in Pelabuhan Klang, Selangor province, Malaysia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies internet website Source ID: Johnson_6404 Source: Johnson ### Event 21818 (BA4BD27D) Date: 9/28/1990 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a 200 foot wide disc-shaped object was seen clearly by two witnesses in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex county, England. It made a very sharp angled turn, and flew away over some woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 131 Source ID: Johnson_6405 Source: Johnson ### Event 21819 (C3BAEB8E) Date: 10/1990 Description: Coyotes spooked by descending blue white light (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [901000](http://www.nicap.org/ar-9010xxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ochoco National Forest, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_5813 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21820 (7E189457) Date: 10/1/1990 Description: William Scott writes an article in Aviation Week on 45 sightings of strange aircraft over the southwestern part of the United States. Some of the objects move as slowly as 20 mph, then accelerate to supersonic speed. He concludes that there are at least two types of vehicles beyond the F-117A and B-2. One is a “triangular-shaped, quiet aircraft seen with a flight of F-117A stealth fighters several times since the summer of 1989.” Another is a “high-speed aircraft characterized by a very deep rumbling roar.” A third is a high-altitude, high-speed aircraft, typically observed as a bright, pulsating light, moving much faster than other aircraft, giving no engine noise or sonic boom. He also writes about some “exotic” propulsion systems used in new aircraft and comes very close to stating that these might be antigravity devices. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: William Scott, “[Multiple Sightings of Secret Aircraft Hint at New](https://external-preview.redd.it/zGD0Hd7GWp2rYN1Ir8FwypnSdpdPvsX1njClXoi6r0c.jpg?auto=webp&s=54ad11a7f2ed327bc59160f4c761e38d590356a4) [Propulsion, Airframe Designs,](https://external-preview.redd.it/zGD0Hd7GWp2rYN1Ir8FwypnSdpdPvsX1njClXoi6r0c.jpg?auto=webp&s=54ad11a7f2ed327bc59160f4c761e38d590356a4)” Aviation Week and Space Technology, October 1, 1990, pp. 22–23 Source ID: Eberhart_6924 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21821 (5505EFA6) Date: 10/6/1990 Description: At 6:00 p.m. two police officers, Jacques Belanger and Stephan Filiatrault, driving on Route 317 in Thurso, Papineau County, Quebec, Canada encountered a bizarre looking creature about 1.50 meters to 1.80 meters in height and about 50 meters away from their vehicle. The figure had two long legs and two huge round phosphorescent red eyes. When the two officers stopped and attempted to approach the creature it quickly disappeared into some nearby woods. Its feet did not appear to touch the ground as it moved. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2353, citing the 1990 Canadian UFO Survey, Marc LeDuc, CASUFO Source ID: Johnson_6611 Source: Johnson ### Event 21822 (8E25D763) Date: 10/6/1990 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a 32-year-old salesman in Malden, Massachusetts had a close encounter with a gray metallic disc-shaped object that hovered over a church 350 feet away. It had six lights on its perimeter. First it was seen hovering, then it moved about 400 feet in less than a second to hide behind some trees, and finally it vanished after being in sight for 15 seconds. The man reported that he felt a vibration in his head during the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_6613 Source: Johnson ### Event 21823 (5F2B928B) Date: 10/6/1990 Description: A close up photograph was taken of a circular object with a dome on top and colored lights around the rim in Eveleth, Minnesota. The object made a low rumbling sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 929 Source ID: Johnson_6612 Source: Johnson ### Event 21824 (0A85CB86) Date: 10/8/1990 Description: 11:00 a.m. Near Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, an unidentified target appears on ground radar screens. Commander S. Prokoshin orders an interceptor jet scrambled and pilot Maj. P. Riabishev takes off in pursuit. Something makes him turn his head and he sees to his right rear two large, cigar-shaped objects. The length of the first is about 6,500 feet and the second about 1,300 feet. They are too distant to make out details. When he starts closing on them, both disappear from his field of vision, although ground radar continues to track them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[Take 1 of 3—Foreign Press Note—FB PN 91-014—USSR,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000112339.pdf)” January 11, 1991; Good Need, [pp. 360–361](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/360/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6925 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21825 (224A33CE) Date: 10/8/1990 Description: Russian Air Force jet fighters were scrambled after radar contact was reported with two bogeys over T'Bilisi, Georgia at 11:22 a.m. The pilots saw two cigar-shaped objects, the first one reported to be two kilometers long and the second one 400 meters long. These huge objects moved horizontally at great speed. There was both ground and airborne radar contact with the targets, and the incident lasted 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 72; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 192 Source ID: Johnson_6673 Source: Johnson ### Event 21826 (D8459BE8) Date: 10/10/1990 Description: G,V, FAA & ANG radar, visuals by police (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Skibo, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5814 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21827 (80E6E125) Date: 10/10/1990 Description: Five white discs flew over a racetrack in Paris, France at the speed of aircraft at 4:30 p.m., heading toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 304 Source ID: Johnson_6735 Source: Johnson ### Event 21828 (666256FA) Date: 10/10/1990 Description: Starting at 10:15 p.m. in Skibo, Minnesota at least four ground observers, including two police, saw 3-5 glowing lights in a forested area of northern Minnesota for more than an hour. Duluth Air Traffic Control radar picked up seven unidentified targets and a commercial pilot also corroborated the sighting of UFOs that alternately hovered and darted around. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON investigation case files, case # 901206, investigator Richard C. Bauerlein; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 341 Source ID: Johnson_6736 Source: Johnson ### Event 21829 (7B184836) Date: 10/10/1990 Description: Formations of white objects with red and green body lights alternately hovered and darted around. Unidentified objects also tracked on radar Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Skibo, MN Source ID: HallUFOE2_464 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21830 (81239920) Date: 10/11/1990 Description: In Bristol, England three witnesses watched a delta-shaped object surrounded by an orange glow at 8:00 p.m. At 10:00 p.m. two disc-shaped objects were seen over highway A835 in Saddleworth Moor, England. The object shone a spotlight into one of the cars of the witnesses. There were three separate reports of the disc. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 133 Source ID: Johnson_6787 Source: Johnson ### Event 21831 (11980A93) Date: 10/11/1990 Description: An object with hazy edges zig-zagged over a residential area in Ferin, Nord, France. It was invisible between jumps. It flew in a trajectory from northwest to south-southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 304 Source ID: Johnson_6788 Source: Johnson ### Event 21832 (86944DA3) Date: 10/14/1990 Description: 7:00 p.m. Frau Wengere and her husband are driving from Lostorf to Zürich, Switzerland, when she sees two motionless, bright white lights ahead of them to the left over a range of mountains. Her husband can’t stop because there is no place to pull over. The lights of an approaching aircraft are much smaller and paler. They lose sight of the lights while driving through a village, but they see them again a little higher in the sky to the right of the road. A third light is now visible a bit to the left of the others and they watch it moving closer to the other two lights, which move from a 45° angle to horizontal, keeping the same space between them. The witnesses see two chains of red and green lights joining the two. They drive on and lose sight of the lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 \(May/June 1991\): 11, 22 Source ID: Eberhart_6926 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21833 (77DA3688) Date: Late 1990 Description: A US Army captain is stationed in the Iraqi desert with his unit during Operation Desert Shield. He is informed by a superior officer that his unit is not to fire on any objects that might appear within a specific, rather restricted, area of the sky. A few nights later, he and his men see several bright objects maneuvering in an extraordinary fashion. “We could not have shot them down if we had tried,” he said. He does not know what they are, although UFOs are primary suspects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 555 Source ID: Eberhart_6930 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21834 (AFC08C4F) Date: 10/16/1990 Description: Dogs vocalizing while domed disc was nearby (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [901016](http://www.nicap.org/ar-901016dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dallas, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_5815 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21835 (F7E28770) Date: 10/16/1990 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a woman in Dallas, Oregon heard dogs barking, then saw a domed disc-shaped object approach, making a whirring sound. She and her father watched it pass low over their house, move off into the distance and out of sight. Their houselights dimmed when it passed overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skip Schultz, MUFON field investigations case file, case # 901207; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1991 Source ID: Johnson_6905 Source: Johnson ### Event 21836 (4A2439F6) Date: 10/21/1990 Description: 10:05 p.m. Mme. Henquinet and her 15-year-old son Stephane are at the intersection of NB47 and N30 near Rachamps, Belgium, when two lights suddenly drop toward them. But the lights disappear, and as they turn south on the N30, another light appears behind a hedge bordering the right-hand side of the road, about a dozen yards from the car. The light paces the car at the same speed, slowing down when she does. When they reach the end of the hedge, Mme. Henquinet brakes, and Stephane runs out of the car to look. They see a dark mass, more than 50 feet across, rise up rapidly and silently into the sky. On the lower part of the object is a circle of 7–8 lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1991\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6927 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21837 (72BB92E2) Date: 10/23/1990 Description: 5:30 a.m. A young woman in Athus, Belgium, wakes up, looks out the window, and sees a light 1,300 feet away on or just above a nearby hill. It consists of two bright headlights directed at her. A smaller blue light is between the two white ones. About 10 minutes later, the lights rise together and move in toward her. The ground below lights up as they pass. A few moments later, the object passes silently over her house. She notices a small red light on its underside. The object then veers left in the direction of Luxembourg and disappears in the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1991\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6928 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21838 (392910EC) Date: 10/23/1990 Description: 9:25 p.m. Four witnesses, ages 15–17, see an unusual object with very bright lights in Pepinster, Belgium. The have the impression that the object is taking off at a low altitude about 1,640 feet away. The object moves silently to the northeast, displaying on its lower part three bright white lights in the form of a triangle. At the center of the triangle is a steady red light. The object is shaped like a pyramid with the apex pointing forward. The sighting lasts for about 30 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1991\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_6929 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21839 (D495CCEA) Date: 10/26/1990 Description: On this eveing, while returning from his work, a witness driving his car in Chateaugiron, Ile-Vilaine department, France observed a large triangular object like a plane, but changing direction easily and moving without noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 071 Source ID: Johnson_7167 Source: Johnson ### Event 21840 (BE6C0075) Date: 10/29/1990 Description: At 1:15 a.m. a huge, bright orange ball with the top third cut off was seen Elizabethtown, North Carolina. In Morganton, North Carolina at 10:19 p.m. two oval lights connected by bar hovered 300 feet off the ground, making a whining sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, cases 972 & 986; citing UFO Newsclipping Service Source ID: Johnson_7286 Source: Johnson ### Event 21841 (E58125DF) Date: 10/29/1990 Description: At 8 p.m. a 44-year-old woman in Argos, Indiana witnessed a strange, dark, delta-shaped object with multicolored lights. It made no sound as it maneuvered through the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: K. O. Learner, MUFON Field Investigation case files, 940401J; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 138 Source ID: Johnson_7287 Source: Johnson ### Event 21842 (94EDD704) Date: 10/30/1990 Description: A domed object with portholes which directed light beams toward the ground was seen at 9:30 in Mount Airy, North Carolina for three minutes. Animal reaction: dogs howled and rubbed their ears. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 135; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 987, citing UFO Newsclipping Service Source ID: Johnson_7315 Source: Johnson ### Event 21843 (A87D1C7F) Date: 10/31/1990 Description: An employee at a local forestry preserve was doing some work at the pheasant hatchery in County Tipperary, Ireland at 6:30 p.m. when he noticed a yellowish light fall into the forest area. He rushed over to the site in his truck, thinking that it might have been a plane crash. Arriving there, he saw no trace of an aircraft, but did see a 5-foot-tall man sitting on a wooden railing that surrounded that part of the forest. The man had long hair and wore brand new, large jeans and a checkered shirt. Questioning the man, the witness was told that he was just there to help the poplar trees in the forest. He acted in a strange fashion and proceeded to explain to the witness in very scientific terms ways the method to cure and correct tree disease. The witness felt that this last part of the experience had a dream-like quality to it. He last saw the short man walk off into the forest and disappear. Later the witness saw a bright light zigzagging over the forest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 335, citing Diane Tessman, UFO Universe, Winter 1993 Source ID: Johnson_7353 Source: Johnson ### Event 21844 (716904F2) Date: 11/3/1990 Description: The Center for UFO Studies and the Santa Barbara Centre for Humanistic Studies cosponsor a conference on “The UFO Phenomenon in the 1990s” at the Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “The UFO Phenomenon in the 1990s,” IUR 15, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1990\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_6931 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21845 (56EFAA16) Date: 11/5/1990 Description: 6:00 p.m. Two RAF Tornados over the North Sea encounter two large round objects, each with five blue lights and several white lights around the rim. As the jets close to investigate, one of the UFOs heads for one of the jets, which is forced to take evasive action. The two objects then head north and disappear. Nothing shows up on the jets’ radar. Commercial aircraft also report odd lights over the North Sea. Other high-speed contacts take place along the border of Germany and southern Belgium. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Whitehead, “[Special Report to FSR \(May](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201991%20V%2036%20N%202.pdf) [1991\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201991%20V%2036%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 36, no. 2 \(Summer 1991\): 10; Good Need, [pp. 383–384](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/382/mode/2up); Nick Pope, Open Skies, Closed Minds, Simon & Schuster, 1996, [p. 177](https://archive.org/details/openskiesclosedm0000pope/page/176/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 140–142](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n229/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6933 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21846 (6899002B) Date: 11/5/1990 Description: There are 92 UFO reports recorded for this day from Europe, all but seven occurring in France. Most occurred between 6:20 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Ordinarily such a large number of reports would suggest a meteor shower or a satellite re-entry as the cause, but many of the descriptions do not fit such explanations. At 5:25 p.m. a triangular UFO with luminous jet streams coming out of one edge flew over Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany. Ninety minutes later a Russian space station re-entry occurred over France and Germany. There are two reports from that time period of objects making a buzzing or purring noise. At 7:00 p.m. in Chissay-en-Tourain, France a dark triangular UFO flew over making a buzzing noise. At the same time in Anguleme, France a surgeon saw a formation of lights that made a purring sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 35; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues 304, 305, and 306 Source ID: Johnson_7480 Source: Johnson ### Event 21847 (330485F5) Date: 11/5/1990 Description: Around 6:00 p.m. The pilot and copilot of a British Airways flight from Rome to Gatwick Airport notice a large, silver-shaped object over the North Sea. They bring two crew members into the cockpit to observe it with them. Ground radar sees nothing unusual. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 169; Good Need, [pp. 382–383](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/382/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6932 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21848 (179412A7) Date: 11/5/1990 Description: Night. Witnesses report a large, cigar-shaped object, some accompanied by spheres, over many localities in southern Poland. Hundreds of people in Opole see a group of 15–20 spheres emitting bright trails. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 73– 74 Source ID: Eberhart_6936 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21849 (87510A2B) Date: 11/5/1990 Description: 7:00 p.m. French pilot Jean-Gabriel Greslé is standing outside a gym in Gretz-Armainvilliers, Seine-et- Marne, France, with six of his martial arts students when a massive UFO comes into view. His first impression is of a huge crane with many lights. It is about 2,600 feet away at an altitude of 985 feet, moving downward. Another witness sees it level off and turn. It is projecting two very long, divergent beams of solid light that do not quite touch the ground. The object itself is at least 1,000 feet long and 200–250 feet thick with triangular substructures and many lights. Its rear section is trapezoidal. When it flies above them at no more than 100 mph, t somehow tunes out all surrounding noise as if carrying a “zone of silence.” As Greslé moves around a tree to view it better, it dims and moves away, disappearing into a cloud. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 382](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/382/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6934 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21850 (73024C83) Date: 11/5/1990 Description: 7:00 p.m. Two different explosions are heard in the area around RAF Rhendahlen in Mönchengladbach West, North Rhein–Westphalia, Germany. Two RAF Phantom jets are performing practice intercepts under strict radar control. After the second explosion at 10:00 p.m., one of the crews sees UFOs heading north in “finger” formation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Whitehead, “[Special Report to FSR \(May 1991\),](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201991%20V%2036%20N%202.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 36, no. 2 \(Summer 1991\): 10; Good Need, [pp. 383–384](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/382/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6935 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21851 (F342024E) Date: 11/5/1990 Description: At 7:00 p.m. in St. Germain, Aube, France during this intense regional wave of UFO reports that coincided with a Russian satellite re-entry, numerous witnesses watched a large delta-shaped object flying at a low altitude. It shone several beams of light towards the ground. A man-like figure was seen moving around inside a cabin-like structure. It flew towards the northeast and vanished. Please bear in mind that satellite re-entries are predictable in advance and could serve as the perfect cover for covert aerial activity. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 2362, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit Source ID: Johnson_7481 Source: Johnson ### Event 21852 (7B3DF1D6) Date: 11/5/1990 Description: Later this night Rudolph Bauer, a local artisan residing in Leipzig, Germany, reported seeing a short metallic robot-like entity equipped with antennas, who flew soundlessly over the area. It disappeared while moving at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 2442, citing Ulrich Magin Source ID: Johnson_7482 Source: Johnson ### Event 21853 (6ACD9E8F) Date: 11/6/1990 Description: A delta-shaped object hovered and maneuvered about in the sky south of Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia at 11:30 p.m. Then two of the objects were seen: one landed in a field, and the other buzzed a car. Both UFOs were completely silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 138 Source ID: Johnson_7513 Source: Johnson ### Event 21854 (C7F6ABC1) Date: 11/7/1990 Description: 7:15 p.m. An American woman tourist is swimming in the rooftop pool of the International Hilton Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Montreal, Quebec, when she sees a yellowish, oval object hovering directly overhead. Other hotel guests come to view it, as well as the pool lifeguard, who describes it as “a lighted object with six lights on the perimeter of a large circle with a ray of light emitted from each one.” Municipal police and the RCMP are called and they also view the UFO. Around 9:00 p.m., Marcel Laroche, a journalist from La Presse, takes some photos. The object disappears around 10:10 p.m. due to increasing cloud cover. Other people around the city and at the airport also report seeing unusual lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 172–174; Wim van Utrecht, “[Large Stationary Object over](https://www.caelestia.be/montreal.html) [Montreal,](https://www.caelestia.be/montreal.html)” Caelestia, September 28, 2007; “[OVNI du Hilton-Bonaventure \(17 Nov 1990\),](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=259573941423532)” Réseau OVNI Alerte / UFO-Alert Network Facebook page, November 7, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_6937 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21855 (76FBB839) Date: 11/9/1990 Description: A woman and her two children encountered humanoids in their bedroom in Ann Arbor, Michigan at around two a.m. Possible abduction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Shirley Coyne, Michigan MUFON Source ID: Johnson_7580 Source: Johnson ### Event 21856 (1AF0B61E) Date: 11/9/1990 Description: Soviet Deputy Minister of Defense [Ivan Tretyak](https://peoplepill.com/people/ivan-tretyak/) speaks with a writer from Literaturnaya Gazeta and confirms that fighter-interceptors have encountered UFOs in Russian air space. However, most are explainable as natural phenomena, rocket launches, or satellites. He admits that some pilots report UFOs apparently of artificial origin, but their real nature remains unknown. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[Take 1 of 2—Foreign Press Note—](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000112338.pdf) [FB PN 91-003—USSR,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0000112338.pdf)” January 5, 1991 Source ID: Eberhart_6938 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21857 (2E0235DF) Date: 11/14/1990 Description: In 1990 there were two reports of cylinder-shaped UFOs from this day. A police report was filed that at 5:20 p.m. a brilliant, one meter long cylinder flew east to west over a microwave transmission center in Behshahr, Iran. It flew silently and slowly, at a low altitude. About three hours later that evening, at 6:30 p.m. local time, a reddish orange blimp was sighted in Montpellier, France flying at an estimated one kilometer altitude. The object turned to a yellow color when it accelerated, leaving to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: FSR, July 1991;Lumieres dans la Nuit, volume 307 Source ID: Johnson_7679 Source: Johnson ### Event 21858 (90EA397C) Date: 11/15/1990 Description: In 1990, south of Rosedale, Oklahoma, at about 6 a.m. a silent 35-foot diameter disc was encountered at a very low altitude. It had white lights on the side, and the rim was spinning. It emitted a blue beam of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, February 1993). On this night in 1991 a group of coon hunters in Marshall, Arkansas saw a tremendously large boomerang-shaped UFO, the size of three football fields. It had bright pulsating white lights. Three large red lights separated from the UFO and flew away. The men fled in fear. Also on this night at about 8 p.m. a West Virginia coal miner was driving on US highway 460 in Tazewell, Virginia. He saw a silent metallic ovoid UFO, 40-50 feet in length, glide into a cloud. (Sources: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 240; Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 139 Source ID: Johnson_7702 Source: Johnson ### Event 21859 (A4E0085A) Date: 11/22/1990 Description: 5:28 a.m. Mme. Bouffioux is lying awake in bed at her home in Fleurus, Belgium, when she senses an intense light. She looks out the window, which is covered in vapor, and sees the light about 80 feet away behind the wall bordering her neighbor’s garden and in an abandoned field. After a while, the light turns off, and she sees bluish flashes erupting from a spot to the right of where the object was last seen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1991\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_6939 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21860 (B27BD3E6) Date: 11/22/1990 Description: A delta-shaped object was seen over a pier in St. Osyth, Essex, England at 12:30 a.m., and a fat boomerang-shaped object was seen going east at 2:30 a.m. There were a total of four witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 139 Source ID: Johnson_7815 Source: Johnson ### Event 21861 (AF4FD95D) Date: 11/23/1990 Description: A giant cigar-shaped object flew rapidly and silently to the north over Vumba, Manicaland, Zimbabwe. A flame was emitted from the rear end of the object. It had blinking and steady lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO AfriNews, issue 4, July 1991 Source ID: Johnson_7853 Source: Johnson ### Event 21862 (CDE9F34A) Date: 11/24/1990 Description: At 11:37 p.m. a silent red UFO was photographed in Gulf Breeze, Florida by three observers with 35 mm cameras and two more witnesses with video cameras. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 978 Source ID: Johnson_7891 Source: Johnson ### Event 21863 (FB7F5095) Date: 11/24/1990 Description: At 6:15 p.m. a driver together with children in the car in Comeray, France sighted a red football-shaped object surrounded by an orange glowing waves.It flashed once every second. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15417; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 307 Source ID: Johnson_7890 Source: Johnson ### Event 21864 (8A629B32) Date: 11/24/1990 Description: At 2:45 a.m. a police inspector in Hendale, England saw a bright light split into a number of blue and white objects, which flew south. At the same time two police officers saw a UFO over the Bristol Channel. The UFO appeared on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, Police Reports of UFOs, case # 143, citing The Sun Independent, November 25, 1990 Source ID: Johnson_7889 Source: Johnson ### Event 21865 (7FAD558E) Date: 11/25/1990 Description: A Navy technician sighted a dull silver-gray wingless fuselage flying from north to south at airliner speed in Milton, Florida at 12:40 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughilli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 1405 Source ID: Johnson_7918 Source: Johnson ### Event 21866 (8C458426) Date: 11/28/1990 Description: A woman driving in Norwood, Massachusetts on a clear day at 11:35 a.m. saw an object descend over an airport runway, hover, then move over a nearby hill, and finally fly out of view. The object was described as a gray oval-shaped object, perhaps 20 feet in diameter, which made no sound. She concluded that psychic interaction between her and the object caused the UFO's maneuvers. The encounter lasted 3 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Morton Schafer, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 901203 Source ID: Johnson_8012 Source: Johnson ### Event 21867 (CE9B6C98) Date: 12/2/1990 Description: At 11:00 p.m. an Air Force officer observed a dark ovoid object move through the sky slowly at low altitude in Taillades, Vaucluse, France. Lights on the surface of the object changed position. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 307 Source ID: Johnson_8147 Source: Johnson ### Event 21868 (D3CDD3E5) Date: 12/3/1990 Description: In 1990 at 6:20 p.m. two dark triangle-shaped objects with rounded corners flew over the city of Noirmoutier on the French coast in sequence, flying south to north. Both have a red area in the center. At 9:10 p.m. a large metallic triangular raft with large lights flew low over the city of Cuincy, France. At 11:20 p.m. in Jozsa, Hungary a car with a single occupant stalled when it passed a short humanoid standing on the side of the road. The driver experienced twenty minutes of missing time. When the witness recovered consciousness, the car was facing in the opposite direction on the highway with no apparent damage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues 307, 308, and 326 Source ID: Johnson_8169 Source: Johnson ### Event 21869 (7BBAA35C) Date: 12/4/1990 Description: In Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil a silent reddish orange ball of light three meters in diameter was watched by three men in a truck at 7:30 p.m. It zig-zagged as it rose, then changed shape to an oval only one meter in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p 242; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 203 Source ID: Johnson_8184 Source: Johnson ### Event 21870 (09A5CFA3) Date: 12/9/1990 Description: 9:30 p.m. Mme. Cortvriendt and her husband are at the Waterloo exit of the Brussels Ring Road near Belle-Vue, Belgium, when they see a luminous triangle off to the right at an altitude of 160 feet. On its circumference are a multitude of white lights that are “bright as diamonds.” Stretching from the center of the object are four brass-colored arms in the shape of a cross. They lose sight of it as it travels away from them to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1991\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6940 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21871 (6E6454F4) Date: 12/31/1990 Description: In the middle of the afternoon in Taszar, Hungary an aircraft mechanic was approached by a strange man and woman riding in a totally black van with blacked out windows. The strangers seemed to be human, but were also able to read the witness's mind. The strangers left, but later that night the witness was approached by a reddish-yellow light the size of a football, at a height of about 2.5 m. Terrified, he first two shots at the object, which quickly vanished from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Contact sighting reports, citing Kriston Endre, RYUFOR Foundation Hungary Source ID: Johnson_8680 Source: Johnson ### Event 21872 (75688DC4) Date: 12/31/1990 Description: In Karaganda, Kazakhstan local resident Maksim Abramtsev was at home watching the New Years Eve celebrations on television when he glanced out the window and saw the strange face of an unknown entity staring in the window at him. Afraid, he jumped up and ran outside into the street. There he saw several "men" or humanoids walking toward a globe-shaped object. The object was hovering low over the ground, and Maksim felt a strong fear after watching this scene, and ran and hid behind the door on his porch. Moments later, the globe ascended into the air, flying low over the ground, then stopped and hovered in the air for a brief moment before shooting away at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Contact sighting reports, citing Industrialnaya Karaganda newspaper, May 18, 1991 Source ID: Johnson_8681 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1991 (Back to Top) ### Event 21873 (C0FCC028) Date: 1991 Description: Psychic [Sean David Morton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%5FDavid%5FMorton) begins going to Area 51 in Nevada. He and a friend tape a glowing, disc-shaped object that approaches within a few hundred yards. Several times it shoots up then descends with a falling-leaf motion. They return with burned faces and mild radiation poisoning. Morton later shoots more video showing glowing objects with extraordinary acceleration and maneuverability. Area 51 insiders allegedly contact him, including someone who claims he transported large disc-like and bell-shaped objects that he concludes are alien. He speaks of numerous underground levels, alien bodies in liquid tanks, and even several humanoid aliens from the Pleiades. Later Morton leads tours around Area 51 and suggests that the aliens there are from “Krondac,” a planet 800 light-years away. Morton is the subject of an article by the website UFO Watchdog, “The Shameless Psychic and His Prophecy of Lies.” which throws doubt on many of his claims. Morton sues the site for libel but the case is dismissed. In 2010, Morton and his wife are charged with securities fraud by the SEC. In February 2013, Morton is ordered by a judge to pay $11.5 million to the SEC within 14 days. They are arrested in 2016 and begin serving federal sentences in 2017. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Sean David Morton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%5FDavid%5FMorton)”; Carole Masciola, “[Mysterious](https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19930502&slug=1698948) [Earthlings Scour the Desert for Space Alien Tourists,](https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19930502&slug=1698948)” Seattle Times, May 2, 1993; Royce Myers III, “[The](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/sean%5Fmorton%5Ffiles%5F1.htm) [Shameless Psychic and His Prophecy of Lies,](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/sean%5Fmorton%5Ffiles%5F1.htm)” February 2001 Source ID: Eberhart_6943 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21874 (46374260) Date: 1991 Description: The Soviet Union launches the Thread III Project, a wide-ranging scientific and technical analysis of unusual space phenomena conducted by more than 15 separate military units, scientific institutes, and the Ministry of Defense. The organization driving it is an ambiguously named group called Soveit Military Unit 73790. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 115–117 Source ID: Eberhart_6946 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21875 (7C0582D6) Date: 1991 Description: Visión Ovni, a national UFO research organization, is launched in Victoria, Entre Rios, Argentina, by Silvia Pérez Simondini. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Visión Ovni](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visi%C3%B3n%5FOvni)” Source ID: Eberhart_6945 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21876 (B44FCE14) Date: 1991 Description: [Mark Rodeghier](http://www.cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html)[,](http://www.cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html) Jeff Goodpaster, and Sandra Blatterbauer conduct a study on the psychosocial characteristics of 27 abductees for the Center for UFO Studies in Chicago, Illinois. They conclude from the data that the subjects cannot be classified as fantasy-prone personalities or as especially hypnotically responsive. However, a cluster analysis of MMPI scales reveals two types of abductees, one with higher fantasy-prone scores, more loneliness as adults, lower levels of happiness, more problems sleeping, and a greater incidence of sexual abuse as children. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, Jeff Goodpaster, and Sandra Blatterbauer, “Psychosocial Characteristics of Abductees: Results from the CUFOS Abduction Project,” JUFOS 3 \(1991\): 59–90 Source ID: Eberhart_6942 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21877 (887636C2) Date: 1991 Description: The Argentine Ministry of Defense creates a small office devoted to the study of UFO sightings within the Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de las Fuerzas Armadas, a federal agency in charge of scientific research and development. It lasts until 1997. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Milton W. Hourcade, “[Argentina: UFO](https://www.uapsg.com/2020/07/argentina-ufo-declassification.html) [Declassification,](https://www.uapsg.com/2020/07/argentina-ufo-declassification.html)” UAPSG–GEFAI, July 29, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_6944 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21878 (0479636A) Date: 1991 Description: [Milton William Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%5FWilliam%5FCooper) publishes Behold a Pale Horse, an elaborate collection of conspiracy theories and a manifesto of the militia movement. According to sociologist [Paul Gilroy,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FGilroy) Cooper claims to explain the “Kennedy assassination, the doings of the secret world government, the coming ice age, and a variety of other covert activities associated with the Illuminati’s declaration of war upon the people of America.” Political scientist [Michael Barkun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FBarkun) characterizes it as “among the most complex superconspiracy theories” and one of the most influential due to its popularity in militia circles as well as mainstream bookstores. Historian [Nicholas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%5FGoodrick-Clarke) [Goodrick-Clarke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%5FGoodrick-Clarke) describes the book as a “chaotic farrago of conspiracy myths interspersed with reprints of executive laws, official papers, reports, and other extraneous materials designed to show the looming prospect of a world government imposed on the American people against their wishes and in flagrant contempt of the Constitution.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Milton William Cooper, [Behold a Pale Horse](https://archive.org/details/beholdpalehorse0000coop), Light Technology, 1991; Wikipedia, “[Milton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%5FWilliam%5FCooper\#Behold%5Fa%5FPale%5FHorse) [William Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%5FWilliam%5FCooper\#Behold%5Fa%5FPale%5FHorse)” Source ID: Eberhart_6941 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21879 (61CF50B8) Date: 1/1991 Description: The SOS-OVNI group \(formerly Association d’Étude sur les Soucoupes Volantes\) begins publishing Phénomèna, edited by Perry Petrakis, in Aix-en-Provence, France. It continues through 2001. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Phénomèna](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/Phenomena/Phenomena%20-%20No%2001%20-%201991%2001.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1991\) Source ID: Eberhart_6947 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21880 (12335F9B) Date: 1/6/1991 Description: 6:00 p.m. Four family members driving along the E411 motorway near Spontin, Belgium, watch a gigantic, plate-shaped UFO with many lights and a cupola pass overhead heading northwest. At 6:30 p.m., a family driving south on the A4 in Beez, Belgium, see three lights attached to an object hovering above a quarry. An army veteran named Hardy estimates the UFO to be about 260 feet long and 30–50 feet high, with the forward three lights in the form of a rectangle and a red light on the lower rear end. The bottom part is bulged out and dark gray in color. On the side, 15 portholes are lit up in white light. After parking their car on the side of the road, the witnesses watch the object for another minute or so. As soon as Hardy turns on his headlights, the object moves away to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1991\): 8, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_6948 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21881 (2847F6AD) Date: 1/11/1991 Description: At 10:45 p.m. an ABC-TV film crew videotaped a red UFO over Gulf Breeze, Florida during a skywatch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bruce S. Maccabee, 1991 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, p. 249; Ed Walters & Bruce Maccabee, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_266 Source: Johnson ### Event 21882 (C2055207) Date: 1/13/1991 Description: U.S. Air flight crew saw a rectangular, light-reflective object that flew into clouds (section 111). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pittsburgh, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5816 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21883 (E1110BBE) Date: 1/13/1991 Description: U.S. Air flight crew saw a rectangular, light-reflective object that flew into clouds Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Pittsburgh, PA Source ID: HallUFOE2_465 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21884 (6DE04A21) Date: 1/15/1991 Description: In 1991 a 20-foot diameter circle was discovered in the ice on the Charles River near Waltham, Massachusetts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Massachusetts MUFON Source ID: Johnson_342 Source: Johnson ### Event 21885 (88B4F217) Date: 1/16/1991 Description: Three notable reports occurred on this evening. At eight p.m. in Bettignies, France a car’s headlights dimmed and the car radio experience radio interference when a huge black, delta-shaped craft passed by at a low altitude. The UFO rose to a higher altitude and flew off rapidly toward the east. At 7:50 p.m. in Gulf Breeze, Florida a red ball of light was sighted over the Sikes Bridge. It moved west, hovered, and then drifted in the sky for five minutes. That same evening in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma a UFO that first appeared as a white light made an abrupt turn and revealed four red lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1997; Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON 1991 Conference Proceedings, p. 249; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing MUFON Oklahoma Source ID: Johnson_354 Source: Johnson ### Event 21886 (0C6F7A55) Date: 1/18/1991 Description: At 3:30 p.m. 15 people on a bus in Czestochowa, Poland saw a spherical UFO ascend between two buildings. One witness saw humanoids on the balcony of an apartment building. Later that night in Krakow, Poland at 10:45 p.m. another spherical UFO with an appendage was sighted over the city. A possible UFO landing site with burnt traces was found in Batovice. In Murowana, Poland a 30-meter long cigar shaped UFO at 10:50 p.m. shooting out a stream of glowing gas. At eleven o'clock in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland a yellowish-red colored cigar shot off extremely fast while it offloaded smaller objects that fly away in different directions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues 309 & 326 Source ID: Johnson_382 Source: Johnson ### Event 21887 (2717A159) Date: 1/19/1991 Description: At 10:30 p.m. in 1991 a 31-year-old respiratory therapist was driving home in Massachusetts and observed a domed disc with a large square window emitting white light. It hovered low (25 feet) over a tree across the street that was only 360 feet away. Electrical interference was reported in the form of static on the telephone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_389 Source: Johnson ### Event 21888 (616E1E5D) Date: 1/23/1991 Description: A manta-ray shaped object was sighted maneuvering in the sky over the city of Great Houghton, South Yorkshire, England at 1:20 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 141 Source ID: Johnson_464 Source: Johnson ### Event 21889 (95EEAF6C) Date: 1/26/1991 Description: On January 13, 1991 border guard Istvan Balogh woke up in his bedroom in Oroshaza, Hungary and heard a loud booming voice repeat three times, "We will meet soon." The voice had a metallic quality to it. On this date he had just returned from the movies at 1:15 a.m., and had stepped out on his terrace when he saw a small gray disc-shaped object, four meters in height and two meters in width. As he stared at the object a bright beam of light struck him. His next conscious memory was onboard a craft. He was inside a room with a window about 1 meter in diameter. He was then approached by two human-like figures with 3-digit hands and skin with a greenish complexion, wearing black uniforms. They communicated telepathically with him, telling him that they came from a world that was 15 million light years from earth. They were able to travel such vast distance using dimensional portals. He remembered seeing an illuminated moon-like crater and a pyramid. He was eventually returned to his home at 2:00 a.m. He went and reported his story at the hospital, and as a result he was later fired from his job as a border guard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, citing CUN Milan Source ID: Johnson_536 Source: Johnson ### Event 21890 (CE14A76C) Date: 1/30/1991 Description: In Virginia, Minnesota three witnesses watched a triangular UFO with mulicolored lights for 30 minutes as it hovered 600 feet off the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 1023, citing William I. McNeff Source ID: Johnson_620 Source: Johnson ### Event 21891 (39EAB51F) Date: 1/31/1991 Description: Puppy indifferent to presence of domed, hat shaped object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [910131](http://www.nicap.org/ar-910131dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Branch, MN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5817 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21892 (E0724FF5) Date: 2/1991 Description: 1:00 a.m. A security camera at Birchwood Shopping Mall four miles east of Warrington, Cheshire, England, picks up a white light, seemingly tennis-ball sized, moving around an open walkway. It appears to inspect a garbage bin, climbs a wall, and at one point approaches the camera. The security guard zooms the camera in on it, revealing a white, doughnut shape. It flies away, hovering above a tree to the south, and vanishes. About 8 minutes has elapsed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “UFOs in Focus,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 15–16 Source ID: Eberhart_6949 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21893 (A5D2C2B4) Date: 2/6/1991? Description: Evening. A woman is walking with two friends near the Etang de l’Ursine in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France, when they see a large and brilliant star in the west. At nightfall, they return to their homes. One, named Sylvia, who lives on the Rue Alexis Maneyrol, goes back to look for the star and notices now that it is moving in a triangular motion. While walking back through the woods, she is struck by a beam. Suddenly, she is enveloped by a beam of light that seems to be trying to trap her, but she escapes back to her house. She goes to sleep but is surprised by an intruder in her house, a small figure in a watery-green cosmonaut suit who points to a screen showing the interior of a spaceship. The screen and figure dissolve. The next day, near a bus stop, she sees a strange figure wearing a cape who scowls at her terrifyingly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joël Mesnard, “A Failed Abduction at Chaville?” IUR 32, no. 3 \(July 2009\): 21–22, 24 Source ID: Eberhart_6950 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21894 (72AF5F15) Date: 2/12/1991 Description: A repeat UFO abductee, driving west of Westfield, Massachusetts on Interstate 90 (The Massachusetts Turnpike) at 1:40 a.m., watched a huge dark boomerang shaped UFO that blocked out the starry sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_881 Source: Johnson ### Event 21895 (3F794227) Date: 2/18/1991 Description: [Richard Haines](http://www.nicap.org/bio-haines.htm) meets with members of the Expert Group on Anomalous Phenomena of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow to discuss UFO events in the US and USSR. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “UFO Activities in the Soviet Union,” IUR 16, no 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1991\): 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_6951 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21896 (B2C3CA04) Date: 2/22/1991 Description: 12:45 a.m. Three youths driving home from a school reunion at Maids Moreton, Buckingham, England, see a white, cigar-shaped object glowing with numerous lights. It comes closer with an unsteady, jerky motion. They park the car in a field to watch the object, which approaches to within 100 feet. As they try to leave, their engine and headlights fail to respond. A brilliant beam of light envelops the car and they hear a faint humming sound. The light beam and sound disappear suddenly, along with the UFO, and they restart the car and drive away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_6952 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21897 (8ACDFB6F) Date: 2/25/1991 Description: In the early morning at 5:50 a.m. in Tenay, France a witness surprised a wiry "stork-man" creature by a trashcan. The creature jumped over a wall and fled. It had claws and talons. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 323 Source ID: Johnson_1118 Source: Johnson ### Event 21898 (1DFC1087) Date: 2/27/1991 Description: A rectangular-shaped light maneuvered low in the sky over Falslev Mar, Denmark at 11:00 p.m. and was watched by a single witness through binoculars. A second light was seen flying quickly from east to west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Scandinavian UFO Information Newsletter, issue #15 Source ID: Johnson_1161 Source: Johnson ### Event 21899 (CAA70438) Date: 2/28/1991 Description: Operation Desert Storm Type: war Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War) Location: Iraq Source ID: Maj2_790 Source: Maj2 ### Event 21900 (E2DC5CA4) Date: 3/2/1991 Description: A fast moving UFO flew in an erratic pattern over a nuclear power plant in Sosnovyy Bor, Russia at 7:30 p.m. It was picked up on airport radar in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 176 Source ID: Johnson_1262 Source: Johnson ### Event 21901 (B2F8E600) Date: 3/3/1991 Description: A high speed white disc-shaped object made fast turns, and ascended and descended over Sandy, Oregon at 8:55 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 1043, citing Skip Schultz Source ID: Johnson_1284 Source: Johnson ### Event 21902 (093AACB6) Date: 3/6/1991 Description: (Maine to West Virginia). 2:50 to 3:00 A.M. Fireball meteor, green and red sparks, moving east or north. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Northeastern United States Source ID: HallUFOE2_466 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21903 (233E2553) Date: 3/6/1991 Description: 7:58 A.M. Glowing bluegreen cigar-shaped object crossed path of airliner Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada Source ID: HallUFOE2_467 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21904 (89110CC2) Date: 3/6/1991 Description: At 2:35 a.m. In Strafford, New Hampshire a witness heard his dog barking and went outside to briefly see a missile like object fly over, heading west. Later that morning two people saw a silver missile shaped object near Mount Kearsarge, New Hampshire that possibly touched down of the mountainside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, cases 1044 and 1046, citing the UFO Newsclipping Service Source ID: Johnson_1346 Source: Johnson ### Event 21905 (2F82E886) Date: 3/6/1991 Description: Cigar stopped ahead of Flight 866 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kingston, Ontario, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5818 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21906 (48D859B4) Date: 3/6/1991 Description: 7:58 a.m. A glowing turquoise, cigar-shaped object on an easterly course crosses the path of Air Charter Flight 866 near Kingston, Ontario, stops ahead of the airliner, then proceeds to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II, 127 Source ID: Eberhart_6953 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21907 (1C3C2BD9) Date: 3/6/1991 Description: On this same morning over Kingston, Ontario a glowing blue-green cigar-shaped UFO stopped in the sky ahead of an airliner, Air Charter flight 866. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_1347 Source: Johnson ### Event 21908 (4F22A7BB) Date: 3/9/1991 Description: Shortly after midnight a UFO pursued a couple named Silva in their car on a highway south of Fortaleza, Brazil. The domed disc emitted heat and made a humming sound. It left, returned, left again, then returned a second time and dropped a transparent two-meter wide ball that blew up in front of their car, only six feet away. They believe the UFO intended to harm them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerome Clark, UFO Calendar 1999; Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next?, p. 216 Source ID: Johnson_1399 Source: Johnson ### Event 21909 (E3394F66) Date: 3/10/1991 Description: A 22-year-old man in Citrus Heights, California observed a light gray triangular object flying at 2000-3000 feet altitude at 10:30 p.m. The object was estimated to be 200 feet in diameter, had rounded corners, and flew silently at a speed of between 100 and 150 mph. It flew on a straight course, going directly overhead and finally passed beyond some trees. He could see the lightless object due to its reflection of lights from the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON field investigations database, case 911003W, John G. Maylone field investigator; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1992, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_1416 Source: Johnson ### Event 21910 (6EB2D976) Date: 3/12/1991 Description: On two occasions an object is seen over the Tihange Nuclear Power Station, Belgium. One witness reports a UFO directly above the red lights on one of the plant’s huge chimneys, where it hovers about 1 minute, beaming one of its lights on the outside structure while another light points directly down one of the chimneys. After its inspection, it flies straight through the enormous white plume of steam before disappearing in the dark. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [p.](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/32/mode/2up) [32](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/32/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6954 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21911 (A3922C84) Date: 3/14/1991 Description: Three witnesses driving east of Binga, Zimbabwe first observed a cluster of red nocturnal lights at a high altitude in the sky. They descended to ground level and buzzed their car. The close encounter lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO AfriNews, January 1992; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15472 Source ID: Johnson_1503 Source: Johnson ### Event 21912 (8868026F) Date: 3/15/1991 Description: Night. An electronic engineer in Auderghem, Belgium, wakes up and hears a barely audible, high-frequency, whistling tone. He looks outside and sees a large rectangular object at a low altitude with irregular structures on the bottom. He walks upstairs to an upper-level terrace and watches the dark-gray object drift overhead slowly without lights. The whistling noise has stopped. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [pp. 31–32](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/30/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6955 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21913 (6B3D432A) Date: 3/18/1991 Description: Airliner encounters ring-shaped object, 2 rect (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kunshan, China Source ID: NICAP_DB_5819 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21914 (88112126) Date: 3/18/1991 Description: Captain Zho, the pilot of a regional airliner over Kunshan, Jiangsu, China, sees a ring-shaped object, two rectangular objects moving back and forth, and a red blaze of light coming from the ring. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II, 127 Source ID: Eberhart_6956 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21915 (4690026B) Date: 3/31/1991 Description: For two nights in a row a couple in Palmarejo, Puerto Rico, hears their two Dobermans howling as if frightened, apparently upset by a peculiar sound like a phonograph record played at the wrong speed. It seems to move around the house, but the sound source cannot be located. Suddenly one of the dogs shrieks, and the husband runs outside to find two strange beings on his patio. They are 3–4 feet tall, gray, with big heads, big black eyes, and a slit for a mouth. The beings flee. The female Doberman is unharmed, but the male is found killed, with empty eye sockets and internal organs missing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 139 Source ID: Eberhart_6957 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21916 (79D4E074) Date: 4/2/1991 Description: A large cylinder with many lights flew slowly over Faribault, Minnesota at 7:00 p.m. in 1991, and hovered for a short while. There were many witnesses, who also attested to the presence of many military aircraft in the sky at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer catalogue of UFO reports, 1988-1994, case 1060, citing the UFO Newsclipping Service. Source ID: Johnson_1807 Source: Johnson ### Event 21917 (33A0C5B6) Date: 4/11/1991 Description: At 5:00 p.m. a luminous ovoid object hovered over a prison in Brasilia, Brazil. It had a vertical orientation, and vanished and then reappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 285 Source ID: Johnson_1958 Source: Johnson ### Event 21918 (50BE90F7) Date: 4/11/1991 Description: 7:00–9:00 p.m. A bright, oval-shaped object that changes color from blue to red flies over the Complexo Penitenciário da Papuda, a federal prison in São Sebastião in the Federal District of Brasilia, Brazil. The object is seen by dozens of residents of the Lago Sul area and by more than 20 police officers on duty that night. The first to see the UFO is Lt. Damasceno of the Independent Company of the Military Police. He calls colleagues and is greeted with jokes. But he persuades them to go outside and see the UFO. He says the object is blue when vertical but turns red when it changes position. It appears to be no more than 1,650 feet above the prison. It flies up and down and horizontally without leaving a trace, and the intensity of its lights and colors vary. Carloads of people descend upon Papuda and dozens of people observe the UFO. After 100 minutes, a strange haze begins to engage the UFO, which disappears about 20 minutes later. Damasceno informs Sgt. Petronius, a CINDACTA flight controller, that he is seeing a “strong blue light that changed to red in the direction of three hours to the right.” Petronius is following the object on radar; it seems to be rectangular and moving at about 435 mph. CINDACTA confirms that the object has been tracked over much of the Lago Sul area and close to the Brasilia airport. Later, it identifies the object as a meteorological balloon, deemed an inadequate explanation by witnesses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 874– 875; Brazil 336–338 Source ID: Eberhart_6958 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21919 (AC7CFCEE) Date: 4/19/1991? Description: Afternoon. Two militiamen on patrol in Almaty, Kazakhstan, notice a flare at the top of Kok Tobe Mountain. They watch flames go up and down and then see an array of red light beams. They drive to within 650 feet of a hovering UFO. At that point, a few rays sweep across the car and it stops dead. The object then dims its lights and disappears. The men return to the police station but cannot recall how they did so. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “[Alma-Ata Patrolmen Report UFO Sighting,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005517792.pdf)” from Tass, April 19, 1991 Source ID: Eberhart_6959 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21920 (003C450E) Date: 4/21/1991 Description: Missile crossed path of MD-80, RV (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: London, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5820 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21921 (05CCF76C) Date: 4/21/1991 Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_469 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21922 (AA5476C2) Date: 4/21/1991 Description: Alitalia Airlines plane on final approach saw round object cross its path, confirmed by radar Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Heathrow Airport, London, UK Source ID: HallUFOE2_468 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21923 (198C6412) Date: 4/21/1991 Description: 8:00 p.m. Captain Achille Zaghetti and his copilot are flying a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 Alitalia airliner with 57 passengers. They are over the English Channel just off the coast of Romney, Kent, England, and preparing to land at Heathrow Airport, London, when they see a round object or missile, about 10 feet long, approaching from their left. It is less than 100 feet away. The control tower confirms a radar target, which is now behind them. The British Army denies firing any missiles. The British Civil Aviation Authority concludes that “extensive enquiries have failed to provide any indication of what the sighting may have been.” [Nick Redfern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FRedfern) notes that the description of the UFO is consistent with a pilotless drone of the type used for defense practice. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 13–14; Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 170–172; Nick Pope, Open Skies, Closed Minds, Simon & Schuster, 1996, [p. 196](https://archive.org/details/openskiesclosedm0000pope/page/196/mode/2up); “[Britain Releases UFO Files, Dispels Some](https://kpic.com/news/nation-world/britain-releases-ufo-files-dispels-some-mysteries-11-19-2015) [Mysteries,](https://kpic.com/news/nation-world/britain-releases-ufo-files-dispels-some-mysteries-11-19-2015)” KPIC, Roseburg, Oregon, October 19, 2008; UFOFiles2, [pp. 135–137](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n221/mode/2up); 2Pinotti 113–116 Source ID: Eberhart_6960 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21924 (5057EE95) Date: 4/22/1991 Description: In Ahwahnee, Madera County, California a 53-year-old man spotted nocturnal lights in a precise formation suggesting a domed disc with portholes and rim at 8:30 p.m. The object ascended from behind a mountain, then hovered over the top of the mountain before descending across the face of mountain. It was gone when the witness returned after fetching his camera. It probably descended into a canyon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1996, p. 19; Randall Littlejohn, MUFON field investigation 912204W; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15431, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue no. 336 Source ID: Johnson_2238 Source: Johnson ### Event 21925 (143CC5A6) Date: 4/26/1991 Description: A different security camera at Birchwood Shopping Mall near Warrington, Cheshire, England, records a similar object to the one detected in February in a location several hundred yards away. The camera records it for 20 minutes as it moves across the ground, passes by a road sign, climbs onto the roof of the mall, and vanishes in the sky above the M6 motorway. The camera operator lets the object enter the camera’s infrared spot beam, then switches the beam off; the light vanishes, then returns when the beam is turned back on. Investigators suspect that the light was caused by an insect interacting with the beam. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “UFOs in Focus,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 16–17 Source ID: Eberhart_6961 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21926 (F891FF89) Date: 5/1/1991 End date: 5/7/1991 Description: [Wendelle C. Stevens](http://www.openminds.tv/wendelle-stevens-passes-214/5310) holds the First World UFO Congress in Tucson, Arizona, which brings together UFO researchers, witnesses, and others from Spain, Italy, Japan, Russia, Germany, the UK, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, Canada, and the US. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 2Pinotti 117–118 Source ID: Eberhart_6962 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21927 (66C3C51B) Date: 5/12/1991 Description: 7:00 p.m. Farmer Moisés Campelo is walking home from his brother’s house in Campo Redondo, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, when a bright light approaches and stops right above his head, spinning slowly. His eyes begin to burn and he feels paralyzed, as if he is being sucked into the light. He remains suspended under the light for about 5 minutes, after which he is dropped to the ground. Campelo starts crawling home, but the light returns and levitates him again. This time he is suspended for 15 minutes before being dropped. He remains traumatized and sustains an eye injury. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil—Where Next?, Horus House, 1996, [pp. 9–13](https://archive.org/details/UFODangerZoneBobPrattHowTheyStealOurBloodAndMayKillPeoplePreIceAgeUfoOccupantsAn/page/n9/mode/2up); Brazil 340–342 Source ID: Eberhart_6963 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21928 (9C2481A4) Date: 5/12/1991 Description: Two students in Kuala Tarengganu, Malaysia reported seeing several tiny humanoid figures wearing red clothing standing near a drain in a school compound in the middle of the afternoon. Teachers searched the area but failed to find anything. The next day several six-inch tall beings were seen again in the same area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies internet website; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case #1492, citing Nexus New Times, Vol. 2 # 4 Source ID: Johnson_2775 Source: Johnson ### Event 21929 (D1AD70CA) Date: 5/12/1991 Description: Three elongated silver UFOs appeared in the daylight sky during a UFO conference being held in Huejutla, Mexico. At 7:00 p.m. a fiery ball of light levitated a man off the ground twice north of Camp Redondo, Brazil in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. He felt heat and cold and suffered an eye injury. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lucius Farish, UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1993; Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone, p. 2 Source ID: Johnson_2776 Source: Johnson ### Event 21930 (6AA3811F) Date: 5/14/1991 Description: Lancaster, California - At 11:00 o'clock at night the witness was suddenly awakened by three 4.5 foot tall Grey humanoids, with large black slanted eyes, who began lifting her from her bed. She began to struggle with the beings, when she noticed a tall human in the living room dressed entirely in black and holding a device resembling a small TV set. She broke loose from the Greys and yelled for her husband to wake up. He did, and they now both ran to the kitchen after hearing their dog barking in the backyard. They then saw a man wearing a blue Air Force blue uniform lying prone on a projecting part of their roof near a ladder. A K-9 sentry dog that appeared ready to attack their dog, was also now on the ground below, accompanied by the three Grey humanoid beings. Overhead a number or red lights were hovering. The witness yelled, "Do not kill my dog!" Her next recollection was standing alone in her yard next to the generator shack. A large craft with revolving red lights hovered above her and a thick fog was coming out of some ports around the object. She next remembered waking up and sitting up in her bed at 3:50 a.m. She was later hypnotically regressed, and recalled being taken to an underground facility, but would not elaborate about the details. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994; William Hamilton, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 286; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 739, citing MUFON Source ID: Johnson_2839 Source: Johnson ### Event 21931 (24271E0F) Date: 5/14/1991 Description: Two teens playing in an isolated field on this afternoon in Mini Mini, Puerto Rico encountered a small landed silver circular craft on the ground. It was very shiny and had a small dome-like sphere on top. The boys approached the object and began touching it. when a small hatch opened from the bottom of the craft and a long thin green arm came out and grabbed one boy by the leg. As the boy struggled to get away a second arm emerged and grabbed him by his arm. The boy grabbed a piece of wood and struck back at one of the creature's arms. He managed to cut off one of the creature's fingers and the creature let go. The finger fell to the ground oozing a green liquid. The witnesses attempted to retrieve the severed finger, but dropped it during their panic and fled. They later returned to find both the object and the severed finger gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 1202, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue # 42 Source ID: Johnson_2838 Source: Johnson ### Event 21932 (E3B43620) Date: 5/15/1991 Description: At 10:35 a.m. in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania a man and a kid observed a dull gray blimp-like object with two appendages in the sky. It was surrounded by mist, while the center of the object glowed multicolors. It moved slowly at first, moved and dipped repeatedly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991, p. 14, citing Stan Gordon, case # 910701E Source ID: Johnson_2871 Source: Johnson ### Event 21933 (95042668) Date: 5/15/1991 Description: On this afternoon a short green humanoid with red oval-shaped eyes and huge pointed ears was spotted on the grounds of the local elementary school in Mini Mini, Puerto Rico. It apparently tried to communicate with one of the children from the kindergarten class. It spoke to the child in a "chatter" type of language, but ran off quickly into the bushes when some other children approached. Later that afternoon, two boys were playing in the area close to the earlier encounter when they heard a noise and saw the same or similar strange being emerge from the woods. They described him as short and bright green in color. He had an oval head with large almond-shaped eyes and huge pointed ears. He was thin with very long arms, and hands with only three digits on them. The being stood looking at the boys, emitting a strange "chatter" like noise. The boys threw fruit at it and then chased it, but it ran quickly and disappeared down an aqueduct. At one point the creature caused one of the boys to fall down by grabbing him by the foot. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue #42 Source ID: Johnson_2872 Source: Johnson ### Event 21934 (A3B08920) Date: 5/17/1991 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a near collision occurred between a Boeing 707 airliner and a disc-shaped object over Ji Yong, 260 miles from Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. The airliner dropped in altitude and extinguished its lights to avoid a further encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 57; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_2941 Source: Johnson ### Event 21935 (31FA11BF) Date: 5/17/1991 Description: 1:30 a.m. A nurse in Braine l’Alleud, Belgium, hears an intense hum and looks out her window to see a large triangular object moving slowly overhead. At the front of the triangle, there is a group of lights located symmetrically along the edges. They are grouped toward the front point of the triangle. At least four of these lights are white and flickering quickly, with approximately two lights on the left and on the right flickering each second, but never reproducing the same sequence. She thinks there is also a steady red light. Slightly back from the central axis, she sees a ray of light, inclined on 45°, coming from an opening that is larger than the diameter of the flickering lights. This beam projects to the ground onto the street, and traced a brief series of figure 8s. Suddenly, after 5 seconds the UFO instantly reappears far away, its blinking lights \(but not the ray\) still visible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vague d’OVNI sur la Belgique, Tome 2: Une énigme non-resolué, SOBEPS, 1994, pp. 16–19; Patrick Gross, “[The Belgium Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/be/17may1991brainelalleud.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_6964 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21936 (A9048E43) Date: 5/18/1991 Description: At 11:40 p.m. just offshore of St. Osyth, Essex, England three fishermen saw a saucer-shaped object on edge, hovering low over the water. The object had six windows along its rim and several man-like figures could be seen moving about inside and looking out. The UFO vanished in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, UFO Report 1992, p. 151 Source ID: Johnson_2961 Source: Johnson ### Event 21937 (49538F17) Date: 5/22/1991 Description: A husband and wife in Nottingham, England, see an array of lights in an “elongated triangle” formation. The same object is seen 15 minutes later by another man in the area. He estimates it is about 1,000 feet high and gives off a low humming noise. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 184 Source ID: Eberhart_6965 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21938 (46C45D9F) Date: 5/22/1991 Description: Col. Alvaro Fernández Rodas, head of the Flight Safety Section of the Spanish Air Staff \(where the UFO archives are kept\), issues an Informative Note to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Ramón Fernández Sequieros titled “The UFO Archive and Its Possible Release.” The note is the result of meetings between [Vicente-](http://independent.academia.edu/VICENTEJUANBALLESTEROLMOS/CurriculumVitae) [Juan Ballester Olmos](http://independent.academia.edu/VICENTEJUANBALLESTEROLMOS/CurriculumVitae)[,](http://independent.academia.edu/VICENTEJUANBALLESTEROLMOS/CurriculumVitae) who is developing a catalog of UFO observations by military personnel and police officers; Maj. Ramón Alvarez Mateus, head of the Air Force Public Relations Office; and the Flight Safety Section. It mentions that no investigations have been made since 1980 and that since 1988 cases are not even archived. The note recommends that UFO cases be declassified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “The Spanish Air Force UFO Files,” IUR 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 13; Swords 424–425, 515 Source ID: Eberhart_6966 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21939 (564B5F3A) Date: 6/1/1991 Description: 2:38 p.m. A Britannia Airways Boeing 737 is descending for a landing at 8,000 feet near Heathrow Airport, London, England, when the pilots see an unknown object for 1–2 seconds through the windshield. It disappears rapidly on the left. The missile has a yellow-orange cylindrical body with a “wrinkled” appearance and is about 10 feet long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_6967 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21940 (E394CBB6) Date: 6/2/1991 Description: Many observers witnessed 15 delta-shaped objects in the sky over Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. Photographs and a videotape were taken, and there was national TV coverage of the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1993 Source ID: Johnson_3236 Source: Johnson ### Event 21941 (42343B7A) Date: 6/5/1991 Description: An orange fireball with a pale halo flew east to west along the waterfront in Clacton-on-Sea, England at ten minutes past midnight on this date. When it shot up into a cloud the cloud became luminescent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 152 Source ID: Johnson_3306 Source: Johnson ### Event 21942 (5D99FBBD) Date: 6/6/1991 Description: Two circular depressions of grass were found in a field in Troy, Illinois. No one could provide an explanation for how they occurred. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1096 Source ID: Johnson_3339 Source: Johnson ### Event 21943 (D14DE4AE) Date: 6/8/1991 Description: G,V, civil radar, pilot sightings (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Concepcion, Paraguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_5821 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21944 (714160ED) Date: 6/8/1991 Description: 6:00 p.m. Pilot Cesar Escobar and Copilot Angel David Farina are flying two passengers to Asunción, Paraguay, in his Cessna 210. While monitoring airport frequencies near Concepción, he overhears a conversation between the control tower and a Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas airliner, with the pilot reporting a brightly lit object approaching on a convergent course. The object is also showing on airport radar. He hears the pilot exclaim as the UFO speeds past. A few minutes later, Escobar sees a bright, blue-white light approaching on his right side. Just then radar control radios to ask if he has traffic on his right, and he replies affirmatively. The object paces his plane for 25 minutes within about 1,300 feet. Its intense light tends to conceal its exact shape, but it appears to be oval. Several times it moves in closer, as if playing a game, and Escobar becomes frightened. When it approaches, his instruments go crazy, including his automatic direction finder, which drifts around aimlessly. As he begins descending into Asunción Airport at 7:22 p.m., the object stops following and hovers. Anibal Gavigan, the air traffic control specialist on duty, is called by radar control and informed that a strange object has followed the Cessna 210 into the airport. He is asked if he can see it, and he can see the luminous object. After the Cessna lands, the airport lights are turned off to better identify the glowing object, which remains motionless over the field. At one point a luminous, yellow ray briefly shoots from the object to the western horizon. When it departs, the object accelerates so rapidly that it disappears after one sweep of the radar scope. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jorge Alfonso Ramirez, “[UFO Intercepts Aircraft over Paraguay,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1994/02/February%201994.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 310 \(February 1994\): 8–10; UFOEv II, 144–145; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [p. 145](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/144/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6968 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21945 (4B449CA0) Date: 6/8/1991 Description: Pilots encountered and radar tracked reddish oval object that paced a small aircraft and hovered above airport, E-M effects on plane Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Concepcion, Paraguay Source ID: HallUFOE2_470 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21946 (EB2AAAD3) Date: 6/8/1991 Description: Paced Cessna 210 & airliner, R/V, E-M. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Concepcion, Paraguay Source ID: NICAP_DB_5822 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21947 (1D85F427) Date: 6/8/1991 Description: Civil radar tracked UFOs over Concepcion, Paraguay. Pilots encountered and radar tracked a reddish oval-shaped object that paced a small aircraft and then hovered above the airport; electro-magnetic effects were reported on the plane. At around 6:00 p.m. an intense bluish-white oval-shaped object buzzed a Japanese airliner, then paced a Cessna for 25 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 127, 245, 384; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46, citing MUFON UFO Journal, February 1994 Source ID: Johnson_3378 Source: Johnson ### Event 21948 (13CA2D96) Date: 6/15/1991 Description: At around 6 p.m. the two witnesses had gone into the woods outside the Gainesville Job Corps Center in Gainesville, Florida. As they were walking towards a campsite, one of the men stopped and claimed to have seen two "werewolf" like beings float by. The other witness did not see this. They continued walking until they spotted a saucer-shaped object on the ground. They advanced towards the object slowly when it suddenly disappeared. An uncontrollable fear then took hold of them and they began running away from the area. One of the men looked over his shoulder to see a tall, dark, large-headed being wearing a dark robe with its hand folded in front of it. The men did not stop and did not return to the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 3189, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3506 Source: Johnson ### Event 21949 (636CE330) Date: 6/16/1991 Description: 1:30 a.m. A businessman stops by the side of the road to relieve himself near The Bridestones, Cheshire, England, a Neolithic site with standing stones. He sees a golden beam of light above the stones from which emerges a shower of sparks. He returns to the car, but the engine will not start. He begins to run away when a large, glowing ball heads from the sparks straight toward him. It is so bright that it causes pain in his eyes and he feels rooted to the spot. He blacks out and regains his senses several hundred yards away from his car. He is naked above the waist and his shoes are missing. As he tries to get up, he brushes down his trousers and finds that they are charged with static electricity, causing sparks to jump from his body. After staggering around, he finds his car with the keys still in the ignition. Next to the door are his shoes and shirt, folded on the ground and warm to the touch. The car starts without trouble and he drives away, realizing that it is now 3:05 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Much More Than Marsh Gas,” Fortean Times 311 \(March 2014\): 27 Source ID: Eberhart_6969 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21950 (EAF5E241) Date: 6/17/1991 Description: 6:30 p.m. Walter Leiss and three other passengers on board Dan Air Flight DA 4700 from London \(Gatwick Airport\) to Hamburg, Germany, see a wingless projectile below and to the left of the plane flying at an altitude of 4,000–5,000 feet with no vapor trail. The object is slender, gray, and cigar-shaped. The crew does not see it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 14– 15 Source ID: Eberhart_6970 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21951 (6A5C6192) Date: Summer 1991 Description: An effort is made by Raven to encourage the Bush administration to reveal the US government’s interactions with aliens and crashed saucers. Meetings are allegedly held in safe rooms at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C., with administration officials and cabinet and agency heads. Much seems to depend on the confirmation of [Robert Gates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FGates) as CIA director. A meeting to brief President [Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FH.%5FW.%5FBush) on the topic is scheduled for August but canceled due to the Soviet military coup. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert Collins and Richard Doty, Exempt from Disclosure: The Disturbing Case about the UFO Coverup, Peregrine, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_6971 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21952 (982A94F3) Date: 7/1991 Description: [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) issues his sixth status report, UFO Crash/Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, UFO Crash/Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum, The Author, 1991 Source ID: Eberhart_6973 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21953 (E6D3EFE6) Date: 7/1991 Description: [Kevin D. Randle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle) and [Donald R. Schmitt](https://ufocongress.com/don-schmitt-2/) publish UFO Crash at Roswell, disclosing the results of their interviews and reconstruction of the Roswell incident of 1947. They publish an update in 1994. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, [UFO Crash at Roswell](https://archive.org/details/ufocrashatroswel00rand)[,](https://archive.org/details/ufocrashatroswel00rand) Avon, 1991; Richard Hall, “Roswell Matters,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(May/June 1993\): 23; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, [The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand)[,](https://archive.org/details/truthaboutufocra0000rand) Avon, 1994; Clark III 951 Source ID: Eberhart_6972 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21954 (8F1F3DF7) Date: 7/5/1991 Description: Customs and bank regulators in seven countries raid and lock down records of branch offices of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which has been investigated for being involved in massive money laundering and other financial crimes and illegally gaining the controlling interest in a major American bank. In addition to violations of lending laws, BCCI is also accused of opening accounts or laundering money for figures such as [Saddam Hussein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam%5FHussein)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam%5FHussein) [Manuel Noriega](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%5FNoriega), [Hussain Muhammad Ershad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussain%5FMuhammad%5FErshad)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussain%5FMuhammad%5FErshad) and [Samuel Doe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%5FDoe), and for criminal organizations such as the Medellín Cartel and Abu Nidal. [William von Raab](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5Fvon%5FRaab)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5Fvon%5FRaab) a former US Commissioner of Customs, tells the Kerry Committee that the CIA holds “several” accounts at BCCI. According to a 1991 article in Time magazine, the National Security Council also has accounts at BCCI, which are used for a variety of covert operations, including transfers of money and weapons during the Iran–Contra affair. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Bank of Credit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%5Fof%5FCredit%5Fand%5FCommerce%5FInternational\#Forced%5Fclosure) [and Commerce International](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%5Fof%5FCredit%5Fand%5FCommerce%5FInternational\#Forced%5Fclosure)”; Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin, [False Profits: The Inside Story of BCCI, the](https://archive.org/details/falseprofitsinsi00true) [World’s Most Corrupt Financial Empire](https://archive.org/details/falseprofitsinsi00true)[,](https://archive.org/details/falseprofitsinsi00true) Houghton Mifflin, 1992; David Sirota and Jonathan Baskin, “Follow the Money: How John Kerry Busted the Terrorists’ Favorite Bank,” Washington Monthly, September 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_6974 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21955 (C531123E) Date: 7/5/1991 Description: A twenty-foot diameter crop circle was found in a wheat field in Medina, New York. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1109 Source ID: Johnson_3850 Source: Johnson ### Event 21956 (58E15124) Date: 7/7/1991 Description: A photograph of a glowing red UFO with lights was taken by a Puebla State judicial police officer on this evening, after they were called out on a call from residents of Atlixco, Mexico because of the presence of an unknown flying object in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, 1991 Chronology, www. nicap.org, case # 1991-024 Source ID: Johnson_3910 Source: Johnson ### Event 21957 (66FD1344) Date: 7/11/1991 Description: 12:21 p.m. While many people in Mexico City, Mexico, are looking to the sky to see the last total solar eclipse of the 20th century, they also notice a bright object hovering in the sky. Videos are recorded as far south as Puebla and Oaxaca. Skeptics claim the object is the planet Venus, but the full eclipse lasts just under 7 minutes, and the object is seen for more than 30 minutes—before, during, and after the event. Guillermo Arragin, a reporter, videotapes the object, and [Jaime Maussan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime%5FMaussan), host of the Mexican version of the CBS TV show 60 Minutes, shows the Arragin footage a week later. He asks his viewers to share any sightings they had during the eclipse. Fifteen videotapes are submitted, each taken by a witness in a different location. Maussan enlists the help of the station’s video experts for digital enhancement and enlargement. The videos show solid, metallic-looking objects that reflect light. Maussan looks into balloons, helicopters, and other conventional objects, but comes up empty. The enhancements reveal a “hockey puck” shape, and many of the recorded objects pass in front of clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Unsolved Mysteries Wiki, “[Mexico City UFO](https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Mexico%5FCity%5FUFO)”; Tim Printy, “[The July 11, 1991, Mexico City UFOs: Basic Astronomy](http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/mexico.htm) [Ignored,](http://www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/mexico.htm)” February 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_6975 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21958 (4A2AADDF) Date: 7/15/1991 Description: 5:45 p.m. The copilot of a Britannia Airways Boeing 737 on a flight from Crete to Gatwick Airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, sees a small, black, lozenge-shaped object about 1.5 feet in diameter, smooth, and some 1,600 feet ahead and above. It is on a collision course, and within 2 seconds it passes the aircraft’s wing at a distance of only 325 feet. The London Air Traffic Control Center picks up a target moving away from the plane to the southwest at 100 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 15; UFOFiles2, [p. 137](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n223/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6976 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21959 (2390FD7D) Date: 7/17/1991 Description: A large crop formation was discovered in a wheatfield near Barbury Castle, England. It consisted of large concentric circles in the center surrounded by a triangle with circles at each of the three apexes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lucy Pringle, Crop Circles: The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_4147 Source: Johnson ### Event 21960 (956A251E) Date: 7/21/1991 Description: Three young girls (ages 10-12) had stayed up late to watch a TV program and had gone into the backyard to play on a trampoline in Springfield, Missouri at two o'clock in the morning. They noticed a white, oval-shaped light moving rapidly from the side of the house to a corner of the backyard, where a large tree stood. One of the girls then noticed a strange-looking humanoid figure standing near the trampoline. It was about 4½ feet tall and completely white in color, with thin long arms and a huge pear-shaped head that was completely bald. It had two large black almond-shaped eyes, and it was very skinny with long skinny fingers on its long arms. The girls next ran back into the house and attempted to tell an older cousin of the incident, but the cousin ignored them and went back to bed. The girls then went back into the den and resumed watching television. Moments later their cat began acting strangely and the television screen went blank. At this point all three then saw the same humanoid again, looking at them through a window. The humanoid moved its head in a jerky mechanical manner. The girls ran and hid in the basement, where they stayed for the remainder of the night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2306; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 726; Duane & Susan Bedell, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 282 Source ID: Johnson_4282 Source: Johnson ### Event 21961 (89B9ADCB) Date: 7/21/1991 Description: Two flying humanoids, a man and a woman, landed on the hood of a truck moving at 50 mph down a highway near La Tigra, Argentina, and remained seated there until they got to town. They were described as very tall and very pale in complexion, and had blond hair and wore tight-fitting white uniforms.The lone male truck driver said that the beings remained sitting on the hood until the truck approached the outskirts of town, where they suddenly disappeared. Tracks were said to have been found on the hood of the truck. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, addendum case # 2, citing Richard Heiden Source ID: Johnson_4281 Source: Johnson ### Event 21962 (02FAB9FA) Date: 7/24/1991 Description: An aluminum colored domed disc, shaped like a baseball cap without the visor, was seen by a 49-year-old housewife in Port Crane, New York at 11:35 a.m. It reflected the sunlight, but then appeared to shrink to a horizontal line that disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 17, citing R. Hamilton, field investigator, case 911101E Source ID: Johnson_4365 Source: Johnson ### Event 21963 (A65F4641) Date: 7/25/1991 Description: A white sphere hovered over a field on this night in Carleton, Quebec. Several times a much smaller red light emerged from the white object, descended to the ground, drifted for awhile, ascended, and then merged back into the large object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 229 Source ID: Johnson_4399 Source: Johnson ### Event 21964 (D2FEBEEC) Date: 7/26/1991 Description: Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Ramón Fernández Sequieros passes instructions to the Spanish Air Regions to centralize all UFO registers into Madrid Air Force headquarters. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 425, 515 Source ID: Eberhart_6977 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21965 (5E493646) Date: 8/4/1991 Description: Night. Seven hikers near Lacul Bucura in the Retezat Mountains in west central Romania see a bright red light approaching them from behind. Thinking it might be a lost tourist, they wave their flashlights at it, but it starts zigzagging and increasing its speed. Soon they see other lights of varying colors, shapes, and configurations, all moving in the Valea Rea. Through binoculars they take on the shape of discs with luminous portholes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 55–57 Source ID: Eberhart_6978 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21966 (04082376) Date: 8/4/1991 Description: A couple in Flint, Michigan were stargazing in their backyard at 1:30 a.m. when a white ball of light came overhead. The man shot a flashlight beam at it, and it made a "sideways loop" before continuing on. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Shirley Coyne, MUFON case files, case # 930415Cb Source ID: Johnson_4665 Source: Johnson ### Event 21967 (84E6F685) Date: 8/10/1991 Description: US freelance writer [Danny Casolaro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%5FCasolaro) is found dead in a bathtub in room 517 of the Sheraton Hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia, his wrists slashed 10–12 times. The medical examiner rules the death a suicide. His death becomes controversial because his notes suggest he is in Martinsburg to meet a source about a story he calls “the Octopus.” This centers on a sprawling collaboration involving an international cabal, primarily featuring a number of stories familiar to journalists who worked in and around Washington, D.C., in the 1980s—the Inslaw case, about a software manufacturer whose owner accused the Justice Department of stealing its work product; the October Surprise theory that during the Iran hostage crisis, Iran deliberately held back American hostages to help [Ronald Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FReagan) win the 1980 presidential election, the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, and Iran–Contra. Casolaro’s family argues that he has been murdered; that before he left for Martinsburg, he told his brother that he frequently received harassing phone calls late at night; that some of them were threatening; and that if something were to happen to him in Martinsburg, it will not be an accident. They also cite his well-known squeamishness and fear of blood tests, and state they find it incomprehensible that if he were going to commit suicide, he would do so by cutting his wrists a dozen times. A number of law-enforcement officials also argue that his death deserves further scrutiny, and his notes are passed by his family to ABC News and Time magazine, both of which investigate the case, but find no evidence of murder. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Danny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%5FCasolaro\#Final%5Fdays) [Casolaro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%5FCasolaro\#Final%5Fdays)”; Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro, Feral House, rev ed., 2003; Cheri Seymour, The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal, TrineDay, 2010; “[Danny Casolaro’s Files and Notes](https://archive.org/details/casolaro?tab=about)” Source ID: Eberhart_6979 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21968 (852F5498) Date: 8/13/1991 Description: At two a.m. in Maguayo, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Mrs. Camacho encountered two four-foot-tall Grey entities in her garden. They had large skinny heads and narrow chins. They also apparently had no noses, no lips, and slit-like mouths. They took leaves from the plant Monsterosa deliciosa. They mumbled some form of unintelligible gibberish. The witness was unable to move during her encounter, which lasted about two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jorge Martin, in Timothy Good (editor), Alien Update, p. 23; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case #659, citing Timothy Good & Jorge Martin Source ID: Johnson_4985 Source: Johnson ### Event 21969 (E7C8E81F) Date: 8/13/1991 Description: Four men staying at a local guest house near Victoria, Entre Rios, Argentina were alerted to two maneuvering lights in the sky at 10 p.m. One was yellow and the other red, and they first moved up and down, then in a triangular pattern. One of the lights then descended onto the road near the guesthouse. Two dark human-like figures emerged from the landed object and appeared to float above the ground moving around back and forth. Although they were human-like, their heads were slightly larger than normal. Suddenly the light illuminating the object turned off, and a white bowl-shaped object could be discerned. A few of the witnesses were not able to see the figures completely, and only saw their arms and legs. Later that same evening a man reported that he had been abducted, and awakened in a nearby garden as a blue beam was being retracted into a departing UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 1466, citing Roberto Banchs, Cuadernos De Ufologia, Volume 15, Number 2, 1993; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 312 Source ID: Johnson_4986 Source: Johnson ### Event 21970 (30886D49) Date: 8/14/1991 Description: At two o'clock in the morning two gray humanoid beings were seen taking leaves from a plant on the balcony of a home in Maguayo, Puerto Rico. They made mumbling sounds, and then walked to a nearby lake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15541 Source ID: Johnson_5016 Source: Johnson ### Event 21971 (9FFC716C) Date: 8/17/1991 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a disc-shaped object with a cone-shaped dome was sighted hovering next to a radar blimp for 30 minutes in Las Palmas, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. It made a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 311 Source ID: Johnson_5116 Source: Johnson ### Event 21972 (335D784E) Date: 8/25/1991 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a 64-year-old farmer in Muriti, near the city of Paraipaba, Ceara State, Brazil saw a ball of light with two smaller BOLs to one side of it. All three objects moved slowly east to west. Three of the farmer's neighbors came outside to see the UFOs as well. The objects stopped, and then moved toward the four witnesses, then finally blinked out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 52, citing Bob Pratt Source ID: Johnson_5338 Source: Johnson ### Event 21973 (A8859FE8) Date: 8/28/1991 Description: A close encounter of the second kind occurred at the Yeisk Military Aviation School in Russia at 5:31 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_5441 Source: Johnson ### Event 21974 (B03E27C6) Date: 8/28/1991 Description: At 4:42 a.m. a huge, dirigible-shaped object first attracted the attention of the military when it appeared on their radar screens over the Mangishlak Peninsula, Shaitan Mazar, Kyrgizstan. It was flying from west to east at 960 km per hour, and at an altitude of 6600 meters. Thinking that the object might have been launched from Kapustin Yar, Mangishlak military personnel contacted the Cosmodrome. Kapustin denied any knowledge of the object, although they confirmed its appearance on radar. The object failed to respond to attempts at communication on any frequency, and since it was flying near a restricted area, two MIG-29 fighter jets already on patrol were directed to intercept it. In addition, a third jet was scrambled from Air Station 7.

The MIG pilots were directed to intercept the object, to identify it if possible, to try to make contact with it, and to force it to land at the nearest Air station. If the object failed to cooperate, they were directed to shoot it down. The MIGs intercepted the object over the western shore of the Aral Sea at 5:12 a.m. The pilots observed the object both visually and on their radar screens, and they described it as dirigible-shaped, 600 meters long by 110 meters wide, with very little surface detail except for two round "portholes" near the front, and some sort of strange green markings near the rear. The object did not make any hostile moves or react in any way to the presence of the jets. When all attempts at contacting the object failed, the squadron leader proposed positioning the jets on either side of the object at a distance of about 800 meters, and gently but firmly directing it to the Air Station. If necessary the jets would fire warning shots to encourage the object to cooperate.

When the jets were in position around the object and within 800 meters of it the weapons systems of the MIGs shut down for no apparent reason. Worse yet, their engines began to malfunction. The object also began to make evasive zigzag maneuvers, and increased its speed from 960 km/hour to 6800 km/hour. These maneuvers were verified by radar at Baikonur, Alma-Alta, and Bishkek. The jets had no alternative but to back off, and the object proceeded east through Alma-Alta airspace at the slightly lower altitude of 4500 meters. Radar dispatchers in Alma-Alta, fearing a collision with conventional aircraft, issued a general alert for air traffic to avoid the area. At 5:27 a.m. the object disappeared from radar in the area of Lake Issyk-Kul near the border of Kazakhstan.

A month later reports began to trickle back to Bishkek that a huge UFO had been seen to crash into the Tien Shan Mountains, 100 kilometers east of Przhevalsk near a peak known as Pik Pobeda (Peak of Victory). The actual site lay in a gorge known as "Shaitan Mazar" or "Grave of the Devil", near the Saris Dzas River. A search party led by Michael Eltchin was dispatched, but were unable to reach the site due to heavy snowfall. In June 1992 a second expedition was mounted, consisting of three groups of volunteers with both scientific backgrounds and mountain climbing experience. The expedition arrived at the actual crash site on June 12, 1992, and set up a base camp 2.5 km away to the northwest. It was evident that the object had slid 1700 meters after hitting the ground. It then exploded from within its center, blasting it into almost two equal parts and bending its internal structure outwards from the center of the explosion. Decks and interior features were visible inside the object through a gap made by the blast. The expedition then noticed several unusual effects when they began to examine the object. They were unable to photograph the object because some sort of radiation exposed all their film and ruined all videotape. Whenever a member of the party got closer than 800 meters to the object, he began to feel unusual anxiety, depression, and exhaustion. Within 800 meters, the men's hair stood on end. Instruments showed an unusually high level of static electricity in the air, and compasses and magnetometers failed to function properly in the vicinity of the object. Measurement devices registered no magnetic fields at all within an elliptically shaped area centered on the object, and measuring 2230 meters long and 1700 meters wide. Even naturally occurring magnetic rocks displayed no magnetic field within this ellipse. All clocks and wristwatches stopped working at a distance of 600 meters from the object. Furthermore, anyone who approached within 500 meters of the object began to suffer from some sort of radiation burns. The expedition soon had to abandon the site, but planned to return at some indefinite time in the future. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1991 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Nikolay Subbotin, RUFORS Source ID: Johnson_5440 Source: Johnson ### Event 21975 (E36FBFF5) Date: 8/29/1991 Description: At 10:30 p.m. 31-year-old night watchman Marcos Ibanez Ibarrola was driving his Renault 4 truck on his way to work in Torres de Elorz, near Pamploma, Navarra, Spain when he saw over a nearby water tower a flashing orange light approaching him. The object, a two meter wide disc-shaped object with a clear dome on top, approached quickly and struck his vehicle's hood, causing the truck to stop and completely disabling its electrical system. The object resembled a large truck tire encircled with several red and orange lights. It was making a loud revving sound. The witness quickly got out of his truck and ran to an embankment. He then saw a short, heavy set Grey humanoid within the glass canopy. It had a large head and glowing, slanted eyes. When another truck approached, the object rose vertically and quickly flew away in a zig-zagging flight path. Scratch marks and an oily thick and foul smelling liquid was found on the truck's hood. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 309; Albert S. Rosales, 1991 Humanoid Contact Reports Database, case # 2367, citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: La Historia de Los Ovni en España Source ID: Johnson_5475 Source: Johnson ### Event 21976 (4AD8DA08) Date: 8/30/1991 Description: Four children in Granum, Alberta, Canada at about 10 p.m. observed an oval object hovering over the town. Some of the time it moved very fast, and at other times it floated in place. It had blue, red, and green lights that flashed intermittently. Later a "long black thing" streaked across the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timorthy Good, Alien Update, p. 232 Source ID: Johnson_5504 Source: Johnson ### Event 21977 (36319EC1) Date: 8/30/1991 Description: On the same night as the Alberta sighting in Blairsville, Pennsylvania at 11:15 p.m. two women driving on Route 22 had an encounter with a triangular UFO hovering low to the ground along the roadside. It had solid white light beams along its outer structure and horizontal light beams inside the triangle; in between it appeared transparent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, PASU Data Exchange, January 1992; Timorthy Good, Alien Update, p. 232 Source ID: Johnson_5505 Source: Johnson ### Event 21978 (5A2BB102) Date: 9/1991 Description: 10:45 p.m. Security policeman T/Sgt Anthony W. Keel is working as an alert response team leader at the Ellsworth AFB Oscar Flight area 30 miles west of Opal, South Dakota, when he is dispatched to a missile launch site with multiple alarms. They arrive, clear the site, and reset the alarms. Then he gets another call for a different site with the same alarm pattern, which they then reset. On the way back to the Oscar Launch Control Facility, he gets another call, and the team can see a blue, pulsating light above the site experiencing the alarm. The light moves away as they pull in to secure the site. The light is the size of a small helicopter, semicircular and oblong, and completely silent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 468–469 Source ID: Eberhart_6980 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21979 (00533EF5) Date: 9/5/1991 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a man in Margut, Ardennes, France reported sighting three luminous points traveling through the sky in a triangle, with the point towards the rear. It had two red points towards the front and a white point towards the rear, according to the direction of travel. Speed was slow and quiet. It was seen twice. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case #86 Source ID: Johnson_5663 Source: Johnson ### Event 21980 (5913096F) Date: 9/9/1991 Description: At 8 p.m. a disc-shaped object hovered over a teenager for 15 minutes in Ibicuitinga, Ceara State, Brazil. The shirt he was wearing later disintegrated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 287 Source ID: Johnson_5807 Source: Johnson ### Event 21981 (E6773AA8) Date: 9/9/1991 Description: Self-professed pranksters [Doug Bower](http://www.circlemakers.org/028%5FFT371.pdf) and Dave Chorley make headlines claiming they started the UK crop circle phenomenon in 1978 with the use of simple tools consisting of a plank of wood, rope, and a baseball cap fitted with a loop of wire to help them walk in a straight line. To prove their case, they make a circle in front of journalists; cerealogist \(advocate of paranormal explanations of crop circles\) [Pat Delgado](https://colinandrews.net/Research-Dedication-PatDelgado.html) examines the circle and declares it authentic before it is revealed as a hoax. Inspired by the Tully, Australia, crop circle accounts from 1966, Bower and Chorley claim to be responsible for all circles made prior to 1987, and for more than 200 crop circles in 1978–1991 \(with 1,000 other circles not being made by them\). After their announcement, the two men demonstrate making a crop circle. According to University of Oregon fractal expert [Richard Taylor](https://blogs.uoregon.edu/richardtaylor/), “the pictographs they created inspired a second wave of crop artists. Far from fizzling out, crop circles have evolved into an international phenomenon, with hundreds of sophisticated pictographs now appearing annually around the globe.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Crop circle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop%5Fcircle\#Bower%5Fand%5FChorley)”; William Tuohy, “[‘Crop Circles’ Their Prank, 2 Britons Say,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98034272/)” Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1991, p. 14; Jenny Randles, “Round and Round in the Circle Game,” IUR 16, no. 6 \(Nov/Dec. 1991\): 17–18, 22–23; Richard Taylor, “[Coming Soon to a Field near You,](https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.uoregon.edu/dist/e/12535/files/2015/12/CropCirclesphysicsworld-1o814jx.pdf)” Physics World, August 2011, pp. 2–7; UFOFiles2, [pp. 120–123](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n195/mode/2up); “Necrolog: Doug Bower,” Fortean Times 371 \(October 2018\): 28–29; “[The Man Who Launched a Million Conspiracy Theories,](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7593751/Pranksters-son-recalls-day-father-admitted-crop-circle-craze.html)” Daily Mail \(UK\), October 20, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_6981 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21982 (6A23AA12) Date: 9/15/1991 Description: STS-48 Images (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [910915](http://www.nicap.org/sts%5F48dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In Space, In Space Source ID: NICAP_DB_5824 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21983 (E3FE8A14) Date: 9/15/1991 Description: One of the cameras on Space Shuttle Discovery Flight [STS-48](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-48) captures several anomalous, glowing objects that float along and then sharply change direction, apparently in response to a flash in the lower left portion of the picture. NASA explains the objects as ice particles reacting to a Space Shuttle thruster firing. Astronomer [Philip C. Plait](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%5FPlait) discusses the issue in his book Bad Astronomy, agreeing with NASA. However, physicist Jack Kasher and Mark Carlotto dispute that explanation, arguing that there are two groups of correlated object motions involving at least a dozen distinct events. Kasher’s analysis reveals that the objects behaved oddly for any type of particle, ice or otherwise, and Carlotto indicates that no thruster was fired in that timeframe. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[STS Video Footage of Possible UAP Phenomenon in Orbit](http://www.nicap.org/sts%5F48dir.htm)”; Wikipedia, “[STS-48](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-48\#Ice%5Fparticles)”; Mark J. Carlotto, “[Digital Video Analysis of Anomalous Space Objects,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/9/jse%5F09%5F1%5Fcarlotto.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 9, no. 1 \(1995\): 45–63; Jack Kasher, “Anomalous Images on Videotape from Space Shuttle Flight STS-48: Examination of the Ice- Particle Explanation,” JUFOS 6 \(1995/96\): 80–148; Lan D. Fleming, “Examination of the Trajectories of Anomalous Objects Imaged during the STS-48 Space Shuttle Mission,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 71–98 Source ID: Eberhart_6982 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21984 (EC8C4E54) Date: 9/19/1991 Description: American tourist took photo of church, unexplained image showed up in picture when developed Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Medjugorje, Yugoslavia Source ID: HallUFOE2_471 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 21985 (833CEE7C) Date: 9/19/1991 Description: Merican tourist took photo of church, unexplained image showed up in picture when developed (section VII). (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Medjugorje, Yugoslavia Source ID: NICAP_DB_5823 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21986 (B68BC203) Date: 9/19/1991 Description: 6:35 p.m. Maria Kulis is visiting Medjugorje, Bosnia, and takes a photo of St. James Church from a distance of about 500 feet. When she has the film developed, she notices an odd dark object in the sky almost above the church. The image is sharp and silhouetted against a purplish-blue sky. The object would be about 6.6 feet long if it was at an altitude of 1,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bruce Maccabee, “The Medjugorje UO,” IUR 17, no. 2 \(Mar./Apr. 1992\): 12–13, 23; UFOEv II 301–302; Source ID: Eberhart_6983 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21987 (5762DF91) Date: 9/30/1991 Description: Nellis Video (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas (near), NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_5825 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 21988 (436E355C) Date: 10/1991 Description: Following a request by Russian cosmonaut [Pavel Popovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%5FPopovich), the KGB declassifies several documents from its so-called “Blue Folder.” The material is obtained by Vadim K. Ilyin from the late Vyacheslav Shtyepa of the Ufological Committee of the Russian Geographical Society. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 353](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/352/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6984 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21989 (FCF21832) Date: 10/1/1991 Description: The Air Force’s Electronic Security Command is redesignated the Air Force Intelligence Command and reacquires the Foreign Technology Division. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FIntelligence%2C%5FSurveillance%5Fand%5FReconnaissance%5FAgency) [Reconnaissance Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FIntelligence%2C%5FSurveillance%5Fand%5FReconnaissance%5FAgency)” Source ID: Eberhart_6985 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21990 (9C2F226E) Date: 10/5/1991 Description: On this night in Szecsenyfelfalu, Hungary a luminous sphere followed a truck home. It then emitted green beams of light, and changed its shape into an ovoid object. A video of a UFO was taken on this same night in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Thirty residents and a team of MUFON investigators saw a red sphere, and took photographs and videos Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomena, issue no. 6; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1161 Source ID: Johnson_6590 Source: Johnson ### Event 21991 (B12CFA77) Date: 11/5/1991 Description: Two MUFON investigators, Weatherford and Morrison, photographed a structured UFO in Gulf Breeze, Florida with a curved shape above a blazing red light on the bottom. There were multiple witnesses, and the object was viewed through binoculars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: The Islander Pensacola, November 15, 1991; Gary Watson, in Timothy Good (ed.), Alien Update, p. 239 Source ID: Johnson_7483 Source: Johnson ### Event 21992 (495927EB) Date: 11/6/1991 Description: At 3:30 a.m. a shiny crescent-shaped UFO was chased by a taxi and police east from the city of Beit She'an, Israel. It flew at an estimated 600 meters altitude, hovered, maneuvered, and made turns around itself. It finally disappeared at dawn around six a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 239 Source ID: Johnson_7514 Source: Johnson ### Event 21993 (66E3905B) Date: 11/6/1991 Description: The small near-Earth Object 1991 VG is discovered by American astronomer [James Scotti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FV.%5FScotti) at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The uncertainty of the object’s origin and its small size \(16–39 feet\), combined with rapid variation in the object’s brightness in images obtained during its close passage with Earth in early December 1991, leads to some speculation that 1991 VG might be a spent rocket fuel tank from a space mission, or even an alien artificial object. However, a detailed analysis of the available evidence confirms that there is no compelling reason to believe that 1991 VG is unnatural. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[1991 VG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991%5FVG)”; Duncan Steel, “[SETA and 1991 VG,](https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1995Obs...115...78S)” The Observatory 115 \(1995\): 78–83; Mark Rodeghier, “Alien Probe Detected in Solar System?” IUR 20, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1995\): 9–10; Carlos de la Fuente Marcos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, “[Dynamical Evolution of](https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09533) [Near-Earth Asteroid VG 1991,](https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09533)” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 473 \(2018\): 2938–2948 Source ID: Eberhart_6986 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 21994 (AF202081) Date: 11/9/1991 Description: A man was riding around on some back roads in Daviston, Alabama on this night when he saw a bright light in the trees about 150 yards away. He next saw the light come out of the trees and then noticed a round but flattened "cloud" that emerged behind the light. The cloud was following the bright light and they both flew over the witness and his vehicle. The light and cloud lit up the road around him, and the vehicle's engine then went completely dead. The next thing he remembers was traveling further down the same road and noticing a white ball and two clouds behind him. Upon reaching home his family noticed that he smelled like "burnt cinnamon." He also found reddish purple stains on his hands that he could not explain. His vehicle had two splotches, 4-5 inches long and wide, on the front driver's side. He soon developed health problems a few weeks after the incident, and he noted that he had experienced a time loss. Later, under hypnosis, he recalled that the bright light had really been a saucer-shaped vehicle. He had attempted to grab his shotgun during the abduction, but was prevented by a four-foot tall Grey humanoid who took him onboard the object. Inside the craft his eyes were examined and apparently an implant was removed from behind one of them. The being who was smaller and brown in color performed the surgery. Following that he was taken to an upper floor inside the craft, and there he encountered humans in military style coveralls. One was apparently a flag rank officer. There he lost consciousness while he was being examined again. On waking up, he found himself being helped by an athletic looking young soldier with short cropped hair. The next thing he remembers was being escorted back to his vehicle by the Grey alien. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1991 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2644, citing John C. Thompson Source ID: Johnson_7582 Source: Johnson ### Event 21995 (1F41F9BB) Date: 11/9/1991 Description: A strange looking, cube-shaped object was observed by airport personnel at Dyce Airport, Aberdeen, Scotland at 12:15 p.m. It was viewed through binoculars, and was definitely not a conventional aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 105 Source ID: Johnson_7581 Source: Johnson ### Event 21996 (5DDCD373) Date: 11/13/1991 Description: In 1991, at about 5:30 p.m., a couple driving a car in Douglas, Georgia saw a silver, triangular-shaped UFO with rounded corners. It emitted an arc of white light. A second identical triangle then appeared, and the two UFOs circled a nearby lake. The UFOs moved erratically, sometimes at a slow speed, sometimes very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON Investigation Files Database, case 930404J; Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1993, p. 17; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 107 Source ID: Johnson_7647 Source: Johnson ### Event 21997 (5DFCF02D) Date: 11/23/1991 Description: On this day a hunter in Riga, Latvia shot at a UFO at close range, which changed color from gray to white and then dematerialized. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, JUSA-CISAAF Translations, p. 150 Source ID: Johnson_7854 Source: Johnson ### Event 21998 (EBE4D5F8) Date: 11/24/1991 Description: On this evening in North Port, Florida a former WW II fighter pilot and his neighbor saw a cylindrical UFO pass over a house. It was not well lit, it flew faster than a jet, and made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 242, citing Sun Times, November 27, 1991 Source ID: Johnson_7892 Source: Johnson ### Event 21999 (DD903DE9) Date: 11/29/1991 Description: In Larkspur, California at 11:00 p.m. a 35-year-old man watched as sticks or beams of light appeared to drop down from a jagged circular configuration in the sky. One stick pattern was pale red, the other green. As it approached it took on a starfish appearance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, 19921119, field investigator Virgil Staff, case 912911W Source ID: Johnson_8047 Source: Johnson ### Event 22000 (A2D4A5AA) Date: 12/1/1991 Description: Three young farm hands were playing cards late at night in a small shack on a farm in Laboulaye, Argentina when a bright light outside caught their attention. Frightened, they looked out and saw a huge luminous object resting nearby on the ground. About 15 small humanoid figures were walking about near the object. The beings wore helmets with lights on them, resembling those worn by miners, and seemed to be wearing small capes on their shoulders. The UFO and the short humanoids stayed in the area most of the night. The next morning a circular ground trace was found at the landing site. A dog reacted during the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 2764, citing Carlos Iurchuk, FAO Source ID: Johnson_8112 Source: Johnson ### Event 22001 (1DC93FEF) Date: 12/4/1991 Description: After experiencing persistent trouble with his farm vehicle, a 65-year-old farmer living in Bekes, Hungary was doing chores on the farm around noon when he heard noises coming from the pig sty. He went to check and suddenly felt a powerful odor and suffocating heat, and he passed out. When he recovered 45 minutes later he was sitting inside in his work chair. He left the room and heard a buzzing sound in his head and then began seeing black rings in front of his eyes. The rings turned into a red sphere. He felt forced to follow it. He began doing odd chores around the house and as he did so everything felt lightheaded and every time he touched something he received an electric shock. The red sphere followed him where ever he went. At four p.m. he went back to feed the pigs and when he was finished he turned around and saw a human-shaped, greenish figure standing in front of a door. The figure was of normal height and bright green in color. The farmer walked back to his house, noticing that all the farm animals were acting agitated. He went to bed, but moments later the black rings and the red sphere returned. Later that night he went back out into the yard and again came face to face with the greenish figure. After a few minutes the being rose into the air, leaving behind a V-shaped trail that became fog-like and disappeared. He heard a booming voice say, three times, "I will come back!" Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 331, citing Gabor Tarcali, Hungarian UFO Network Source ID: Johnson_8185 Source: Johnson ### Event 22002 (D75DE8C0) Date: 12/6/1991 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a large oval UFO was observed by the Yates family a few dozen feet above the Teynham Church in Teynham, Kent, England. Something shot off from it, then lots of different beams of light started flashing. The object had an oval on top with red, yellow, green and blue lights on the bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, September 1993, citing the East Kent Gazette, January 12, 1992; Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 243 Source ID: Johnson_8246 Source: Johnson ### Event 22003 (4673EB05) Date: 12/6/1991 Description: Israeli police and the IDF followed a boomerang-shaped UFO from Beth Shean, Israel to the Jordanian border on this evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History Source ID: Johnson_8247 Source: Johnson ### Event 22004 (82AE0FA9) Date: 12/10/1991 Description: In Raleigh, North Carolina two witnesses in a residential neighborhood observed a glowing "blimp" at 4:15 a.m. with a flat bottom and ends. Both had seen flying saucers before in 1963 and 1984. At 11:45 a.m. a silver triangle-shaped object was seen hovering at 2500 feet over Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina, making a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) MUFON UFO Journal, issue 297; (2) UFO Newsclipping Service; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 1218 Source ID: Johnson_8324 Source: Johnson ### Event 22005 (6DA20AA1) Date: 12/15/1991 Description: At 7:30 p.m. on a farm in Catlett, Fauquier County, Virginia a woman with multiple abduction experiences reported being abducted by aliens again in 1991, this time for 70 minutes. A curious feature of this abduction event was that when she was returned she noticed that the aliens had put her earrings back on backwards. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1994, citing USA Today Source ID: Johnson_8427 Source: Johnson ### Event 22006 (79F10060) Date: 12/26/1991 Description: The 21-year-old witness in Bekes, Hungary had heard a very loud voice in his room on the night of December 4, 2001, telling him "you will meet us soon." This was repeated for 11 nights in a row. He could not locate the source of the voice. On this night he was returning home from the movies when he caught sight of a hovering shiny gray disc-shaped object over the courtyard. He was suddenly compelled to walk under the object and a beam of light descended on him from the bottom of the craft, and he was apparently brought up inside the beam. He found himself inside the object looking out a window at his courtyard. Two four-and-a-half-foot tall beings stood in the room with him. The beings were human-like except they had large heads and eyes. They had long arms ending in hands with three digits. One of the beings communicated with the witness telling him that they had been watching him for three years and that they travel via inter-dimensional portals. A beam of green light hit the witness on his forehead and after that he only had vague memories of traveling to a moon-like planet and of seeing pyramids from above. He later found himself in his courtyard suffering from a terrible headache and feeling dizzy. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 326; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 330, citing Gabor Tarcali, Hungarian UFO Network; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15612 Source ID: Johnson_8618 Source: Johnson ### Event 22007 (2775C0CD) Date: 12/27/1991 Description: On this evening five young witnesses watched a large silvery sphere land in a field very close to them in Longwy, France. Two human looking figures with blue eyes emerged from the sphere. They wore gray coveralls, and one figure was carrying something resembling a transparent cylindrical canister. That humanoid proceeded to walk around the object and collect various plant and soil samples, placing them inside the canister. After awhile the humanoids re-entered the sphere, which then rose up silently and shot away at high speed. Ground traces were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, citing Ecol # 91, Denys Breysse Project Becassine Source ID: Johnson_8626 Source: Johnson ### Event 22008 (BDBB1329) Date: 12/28/1991 Description: There was both airborne radar contact and visual confirmation of an echelon formation of three objects that flew over London, Ontario, Canada at 12:40 a.m. The case is rated as a high reliability unknown by the Canadian UFO Survey group. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 192 Source ID: Johnson_8638 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1992 (Back to Top) ### Event 22009 (89B42B9F) Date: 1992 Description: A man is driving near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, England, when he sees a bright glow approaching from the opposite direction. Thinking it is from a speeding motorcycle, he stops the car and leaves the engine idling. As it approaches, the light changes direction and passes over the roof of the car. The engine stalls. The object seems to be emitting light all around it, but a few seconds later it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 19–20 Source ID: Eberhart_6987 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22010 (9B115E03) Date: 1992 Description: El Ojo Crítica, an independent and skeptical newsletter, begins publication in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: El Ojo Crítica, no. 1 \(1992\); “[\(Pre\) Historia de](http://elojocritico.info/pre-historia-de-el-ojo-critico/) [El Ojo Crítica](http://elojocritico.info/pre-historia-de-el-ojo-critico/)” Source ID: Eberhart_6989 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22011 (7BED7655) Date: 1992 Description: The Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena is established in Kharkiv, Ukraine, to study UFOs and extraterrestrial visitation. It has Russian and Ukrainian ufologists on its board, and it publishes RIAP Bulletin \(in English, edited by [Vladimir Rubtsov](http://ufology-news.com/novosti/pamyati-vladimira-vasilevicha-rubcova.html)\) from January 1994 to June 2006. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [RIAP Bulletin](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Ukraine/RIAP%20Bulletin%20%28Rubtsov%29/RIAP%20bulletin%20-%20Vol%2001%20No%201%20-%20January-March%201994.pdf) 1, no. 1 \(Jan./March 1994\); Vladimir Rubtsov, “Ukraine Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena,” IUR 18, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1993\): 15– 16 Source ID: Eberhart_6990 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22012 (0B987EC5) Date: 1992 Description: [Jerome Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark) publishes the second volume of the first edition of his UFO encyclopedia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jerome Clark, The Emergence of a Phenomenon: UFOs from the Beginning through 1959, Omnigraphics, 1992; Michael D. Swords, \[review\], JUFOS 4 \(1992\): 181–183 Source ID: Eberhart_6988 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22013 (8D8FF90C) Date: 1/4/1992 Description: A farmer in Saga Prefecture, Japan, who had been experiencing cattle mutilations heard his dog barking at night and went out to his barn to check. He saw a small white object floating in his barn, like a jellyfish with things like tentacles hanging from the bottom. It drifted outside and vanished. When he investigated further he found he had a cow with a broken leg. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database website, Case # 2343 Source ID: Johnson_98 Source: Johnson ### Event 22014 (0B2765B0) Date: 1/5/1992 Description: A luminous glowing ball of light flew eastward in a descending staircase flight trajectory over Longchaumois, Jura department, France at 8:45 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 312 Source ID: Johnson_147 Source: Johnson ### Event 22015 (B1DD5A0A) Date: 1/11/1992 Description: An abductee drove into a black void on Interstate 90 near Issaquah, Washington at around 9:00 p.m. resulting in an undisclosed length of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1993 Source ID: Johnson_267 Source: Johnson ### Event 22016 (9BC86401) Date: 1/15/1992 Description: The Spanish Air Force transfers responsibility for handling UFO reports to the Air Operative Command \(whose head is Gen. Alfredo Chamorro Chapinal\) at Torrejón Air Base in Madrid, Spain, which updates the procedures for reporting and investigating UFO sightings by military personnel. The added responsibility is placed in the intelligence section, commanded by Lt. Col. Ángel Bastida. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “The Spanish Air Force UFO Files,” IUR 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 13; Swords 425, 517 Source ID: Eberhart_6991 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22017 (7B23828C) Date: 1/16/1992 Description: At four o’clock in the afternoon a gray disc swooped down over a car with four passengers and pursued it for seven minutes in Columbus, Georgia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing B. Knell Source ID: Johnson_355 Source: Johnson ### Event 22018 (602AB31A) Date: 1/18/1992 Description: Several witnesses on a bus in Col de Vence, France saw an intensely red, Saturn-shaped object skim over the nearby mountaintops. The ring around the UFO was sharply defined. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 312 Source ID: Johnson_383 Source: Johnson ### Event 22019 (5894FE0C) Date: 1/22/1992 Description: At 9:30 p.m. two observers in Welkenraedt, Belgium watched a huge triangle-shaped object fly off to the north-northwest at 40 km/h. It directed two beams light on an apartment building. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Inforespace, issue 84; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15628 Source ID: Johnson_428 Source: Johnson ### Event 22020 (71ECE62D) Date: 1/22/1992 Description: On this evening, starting at 7:40 p.m., two observers watched for 80 minutes as a blue triangle hovered in the sky over Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada. They took 10 minutes of videotape of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, January 1992 webpage Source ID: Johnson_427 Source: Johnson ### Event 22021 (46B03D67) Date: 1/24/1992 Description: A 50-year-old woman and her husband were in the kitchen of their home in Mezobereny, Hungary when a short, dull black, egg-shaped figure suddenly crossed the room and passed into the adjoining room, making a strong "snorting" sound. The upper half of the being was blue-gray in color. Next, a vibrating vertical line became visible. Next to the stripe a beautiful woman appeared and looked at the woman. The main witness then followed the two beings into the room where they vanished. The husband was somehow prevented from witnessing this encounter. Three days later, at 6:30 p.m., the woman heard a loud female voice and felt compelled to go out to the garden. There she saw an ovoid, cabin-like object on the ground. She entered it, and inside she found herself in a large gray room where numerous naked children and women stood around. She then lost consciousness, and later woke up back in her bed. The next day large red sunburn-like spots appeared on her upper belly, and the lower parts of her breasts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: SOS-Ovni Phenomena, issue 12; Albert S. Rosales, 1992 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 629, citing Gabor Tarcali, Hungarian UFO Network Source ID: Johnson_497 Source: Johnson ### Event 22022 (7E05C82A) Date: 2/1992 Description: 4:00 a.m. Near Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia, five people are in a car driving around a bend when they encounter a huge area lit up from above. The engine, headlights, and dash lights cut out. They stop the car, restart it, and drive on, but 2 minutes later the same thing happens, then again 2 minutes after that. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_6992 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22023 (29721B81) Date: 2/15/1992 End date: 2/16/1992 Description: The Center for UFO Studies and the Fund for UFO Research hold the Plains of San Agustin Conference in the Sofitel Chicago Hotel in Rosemont, Illinois, in order to examine the nature and quality of the evidence for a reported crash of a UFO and the recovery of aliens—both dead and alive—on the Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico, in July 1947. A focal point for the discussion is the testimony of [Gerald Anderson](http://www.the-standard.org/news/alien-witness-former-navy-seal-shares-colorful-past-with-students/article%5F92787e7c-6bf1-5b0c-a054-3c05fec0f2a6.html), who contacted investigators [Kevin Randle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle) and [Stanton Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) with his claim that he had been present on the Plains when he was 5 years old. The separate stories of archaeologists and [Grady L. “Barney” Barnett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104144580/grady-landon-barnett) at this retrieval are also considered. Moderator [Michael D. Swords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FD.%5FSwords) concludes that the evidence for the Plains of San Agustin crash is “single-witness testimony with no physical or instrumental evidence to support the story” as well as problematic and inconsistent testimony. A summary report on the conference is published in June 1992. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, [UFO Crash at Roswell](https://archive.org/details/ufocrashatroswel00rand)[,](https://archive.org/details/ufocrashatroswel00rand) Avon, 1991, pp. 31–32, 87–90; Thomas J. Carey, “The Search for the Archaeologists,” IUR 16, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1991\): 4–9, 21; Stanton T. Friedman, Thomas J. Carey, Kevin D. Randle, and Donald R. Schmitt, “The Search for the Archaeologists: An Exchange,” IUR 17, no. 3 \(May/June 1992\): 6–12, 22–23; Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Second Thoughts on the Barney Barnett Story,” IUR 17, no. 3 \(May/June 1992\): 4–5, 22; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Missing Time,” IUR 17, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1992\): 21–23; [The Plains of San Agustin Controversy, July 1947: Gerald Anderson, Barney Barnett,](http://www.cufos.org/books/Plains%5Fof%5FSan%5FAgustinR.pdf) [and the Archaeologists](http://www.cufos.org/books/Plains%5Fof%5FSan%5FAgustinR.pdf)[,](http://www.cufos.org/books/Plains%5Fof%5FSan%5FAgustinR.pdf) CUFOS/Fund for UFO Research, 1992; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “Who’s the Dummy Now? The Latest Air Force Report,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 8–9; Kevin D. Randle and Karl T. Pflock, “Barney Barnett’s Crashed Saucer: Where Did It Come From?” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 15–18, 24– 25 Source ID: Eberhart_6993 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22024 (DB808814) Date: 2/15/1992 Description: A dome-shaped UFO with white windows or lights rotating around the base hovered over Risley Nature Reserve in Warrington, England at 7:15 a.m. It was seen from the M62 highway, and it disappeared into a large cloud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 250, citing the Northern UFO Network Source ID: Johnson_931 Source: Johnson ### Event 22025 (EF3F54BC) Date: 2/24/1992 Description: 12:15 A.M. Bright green fireball meteor, wavered, split up, bright illumination, sonic boom. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Pacific Northwest (Oregon) Source ID: HallUFOE2_472 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22026 (7ABD567E) Date: 2/24/1992 Description: At 7:50 p.m. an observer in Porto Alegre, Brazil saw a glow in the clouds, then a saucer-shaped object descending through the cloud. The object directed a beam of light towards the ground. Several figures were visible inside the object, who also shone beams of light at the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 2395, citing UBPDV Brasil 1992 Source ID: Johnson_1090 Source: Johnson ### Event 22027 (5086E1D6) Date: 2/24/1992 Description: 12:15 A.M. Bright green fireball meteor, wavered, split up, bright illumination, sonic boom. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Pacific Northwest, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_5826 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22028 (AE10FF72) Date: 2/25/1992 Description: In Sjaellands Odde, Denmark a thin metallic object was sighted flying at only 8 meters altitude. It had a funnel-shaped center. A short while later in the mid-morning in East Fork, Kentucky two men in a pickup truck saw a gray, disc-shaped flying object moving at 100-feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: SUFOI News, issue #14 Source ID: Johnson_1119 Source: Johnson ### Event 22029 (A018ED16) Date: 3/1992 Description: US historian [David M. Jacobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FM.%5FJacobs) publishes Secret Life, in which he lays out a detailed study of abduction phenomenology based on his research with numerous abductees. He finds many accounts of hybrid making and clues that the aliens exploit human genes to repopulate their planet or perhaps plot a takeover of the Earth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David M. Jacobs, [Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions](https://archive.org/details/secretlifefirsth00jaco), Simon & Schuster, 1992; Mark Rodeghier, \[review\], JUFOS 4 \(1992\): 184–189; Clark III 8 Source ID: Eberhart_6994 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22030 (D4EA24DF) Date: 3/1992 Alternate date: 4/1992 Description: 4:30 a.m. S/Sgt Joseph M. Brown is posted to a security team at the Malmstrom AFB A-3 flight launch facility outside Sluice Box Canyon near Monarch, Montana. Due to an alarm-system malfunction, two men are staked out in a security camper. Just after arriving at the site, Brown sees a bright white light moving erratically through the sky with sudden direction changes and abrupt stops and starts. He watches it for 15–20 minutes, then the light moves closer to the facility. He wakes up his partner, who also watches the light. Another security team at A-10 about 10 miles away can also see the light, which is less than a mile away. They continue to watch the light until about 6:30 a.m. when it shoots up into the sky and stops. With more daylight, they see a black area around the light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 457–461, 466–468 Source ID: Eberhart_6995 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22031 (D3689060) Date: 3/3/1992 Description: 7:50 p.m. Roger Cross is driving on Highway 3A in Concord, New Hampshire, when he hears an unusual drumming sound. He pulls to the side of the road and sees an immense triangular object with pulsating lights flying 400–500 feet above the road. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 217 Source ID: Eberhart_6996 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22032 (971B1D69) Date: 3/3/1992 Description: Thirty minutes later in the same county, the same or a similar triangular object flew over nearby Bradford, New Hampshire . It had multi-colored lights and made a humming sound. That evening there were other UFO sightings in Salisbury, and Claremont, New Hampshire. At 7:50 p.m. a huge triangle with pulsating bluish-white lights was seen by a Mr. Cross flying just over the treetops along Rte 3-A near the I-93 overpass in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. He stopped his car and watched as the UFO flew overhead during a snowstorm, making a sound like increasing rain on a canvas tent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON investigation case files, case no. 940103E; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994; Manchester Union-Leader, March 7, 1992; Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 252 Source ID: Johnson_1286 Source: Johnson ### Event 22033 (3FC399A0) Date: 3/3/1992 Description: At 6:40 p.m. in Warner, New Hampshire a mother and her son, age 10, saw lights in the sky when they turned a corner in the road. They stopped the car and went into a field to get a better view. They saw a white triangular UFO flying through the sky, making a whirring sound. They continued to watch until the object passed behind and was hidden by some nearby trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON investigation case files, case no. 960507S Source ID: Johnson_1285 Source: Johnson ### Event 22034 (816A7CD5) Date: 3/4/1992 End date: 3/5/1992 Description: UFO sightings at the Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City, Mexico, are confirmed by radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [p. 146](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/146/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_6997 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22035 (F46E8750) Date: 3/4/1992 Description: In Perth, Western Australia in 1992 a woman was jolted awake at 2:30 a.m. by a bright blue, glaring light. Through the glare she was able to see a four-foot tall being guiding her son down the hallway. Paralyzed at first, when the being was out of sight she found that she could move again. She ran and grabbed her son, at which point the figure vanished in a flash of white light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case #2663 Source ID: Johnson_1305 Source: Johnson ### Event 22036 (656EDACF) Date: 3/5/1992 Description: 6:30 p.m. Military Policeman Luis Ribeiro and a colleague are hunting in the interior of Ceará state, Brazil, when a domed disc lands nearby. Five 4.5-foot tall humanoids emerge and take Ribeiro inside the craft. The beings communicate with him in Portuguese and tell him they are from “Catandório.” After a 5-hour abduction experience, he is returned to the encounter site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil 342–344 Source ID: Eberhart_6998 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22037 (FD11071F) Date: 3/5/1992 Description: A military policeman, Luis Ribeiro de Oliveira and his friend Pedro Rodrigues da Silva, had gone hunting for wild ducks in an isolated area in the Rio Palhano area, Ceara State, Brazil. At 6:30 p.m. both men observed what appeared to be a "star" descending at high speed. Suddenly a bright light enveloped both men and Pedro ran and hid behind some nearby bushes, while Luis ran towards town with the light chasing close behind him. Luis could see that the light now resembled a luminous, wheel-shaped object the size of a bus. Soon he felt he was being sucked up into the object, while his friend Pedro watched in terror as he saw Luis being taken up into the light. Pedro saw Luis enter the round light and then it suddenly vanished in plain view. Terrified but determined to help, Pedro armed himself with a shotgun and searched the area. However, was unable to find Luis anywhere in the area, so he ran to town and entered the local bar, telling everyone what had just happened.

Five hours later Luis appeared in town and told Pedro what had happened to him after he disappeared. He remembered running and his legs suddenly becoming numb. He then recovered consciousness, hearing strange foreign sounding voices, and when he looked up he saw five strange humanoid beings standing in front of him. Frightened, he asked them in Portuguese what was going on, and he received the following answer: "Don't be afraid, we won't harm you, we are Catadorians from Catandorius Decnius. Our civilization originated from another higher civilization that lived on the earth 353,000 years ago." They pointed to a small pyramid shaped object and told Luis that it was a model of their "temple." The aliens told Luis that they were here on Earth looking for remnants and descendants of that lost civilization that they claimed lived in underground caves and tunnels worldwide. Luis was then placed inside a gas-filled sphere in the middle of the room. In front of him was a panel with multicolored lights, and he heard what sounded like radio transmissions. The five beings stood around him, standing about 1.5 meters (4½ feet) tall, and spoke in a strange language. Nevertheless, their leader could communicate with the witness telepathically in perfect Portuguese. Soon the leader left to speak with the other aliens, and Luis lost consciousness again. When he woke up he found himself in the same place that the UFO had originally picked him up from. Feeling a little dizzy, he searched for Pedro and found his shotgun, and then walked back to town. Luis described the humanoids as short with gray skin, black eyes lacking any pupils or eyelashes, large heads, wide shoulders, and they wore tight fitting clothing with boots and gloves. Their heads and bodies were completely hairless. Their speech was measured and their breathing was heavy and labored. Every time their leader spoke to the others Luis felt a sharp pain in his head. All the humanoids were identical to each other; he could not tell any difference among them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15671, citing UBPDV 1992, issue #6, Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 2394,citing UBPDV 1992 Source ID: Johnson_1320 Source: Johnson ### Event 22038 (36663A13) Date: 3/6/1992 Description: In Newton, New Hampshire at 9:00 p.m. a light near a swamp seemed to react to the witness's signal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1258, citing MUFON New Hampshire Source ID: Johnson_1349 Source: Johnson ### Event 22039 (F3BA283E) Date: 3/6/1992 Description: That same evening in Thompson, Manitoba a group of children saw some bright lights floating near some snow banks. When they approached to investigate they saw a tall hairy humanoid with red glowing eyes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case 896, citing Chris Rutkowski, UFO Research Manitoba Source ID: Johnson_1350 Source: Johnson ### Event 22040 (D2D01D68) Date: 3/6/1992 Description: From the shore of the port of Scarborough, South Africa in the Western Cape Province a huge, luminous silver, domed triangular craft hovered near some oil tankers for nearly three minutes at 9:10 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, January 1993 Source ID: Johnson_1348 Source: Johnson ### Event 22041 (0CD56F56) Date: 3/9/1992 Description: At twn p.m. two women walking home near a lake in Hamar, Norway heard a low frequency rumbling sound, like that of a train on idle. Then a bright light hurt their eyes. Fifteen meters away was a domed craft with a triangular bottom. Inside were two figures. They had long hair, large slanted eyes, and penetrating stares. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case 626, citing Ole Jonny Braene, UFO Norge; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15676, citing Jerome Clark Source ID: Johnson_1400 Source: Johnson ### Event 22042 (EC50ED19) Date: 3/11/1992 Description: At 6:30 p.m. a woman in Bellomonte, Puerto Rico was sitting alone in her rocking chair on the rear patio of her home, when suddenly she felt a strong presence nearby. She saw two very tall, muscular men with light skin standing close beside her. They wore tight-fitting black uniforms that covered their entire bodies except for their faces. They were accompanied by two short humanoids with large egg-shaped heads and yellowish skin, wide lipless mouths, and large dark slit-shaped eyes. These creatures wore brown, loose-fitting outfits. The two short beings appeared to be in charge of the situation and were intent on inspecting the terrain and plants, constantly murmuring between themselves in a strange language. The tall beings communicated with her using telepathy, informing her that the short beings wanted her to plant certain different kinds of flowers and trees in her garden. She said that she had felt more comfortable with the presence of the two beings who looked human than with the odd looking short creatures, but that there appeared to be a definite collaboration occurring between the two types of beings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, case #434, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issues 53-53 Source ID: Johnson_1428 Source: Johnson ### Event 22043 (39BAB1FA) Date: 3/13/1992 Description: At ten o'clock in the morning Mr. Hooker, the chief photographer for WFRV-TV, videotaped a cigar-shaped UFO in Bellevue, Wisconsin, which is a suburb of Green Bay. The UFO traveled from right to left in the frame, passing behind a windmill. Its estimated altitude was 25,000 feet, and it had a speed of 7,000 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 257 Source ID: Johnson_1463 Source: Johnson ### Event 22044 (464BCE6E) Date: 3/13/1992 Description: That same night, several witnesses in Jacanas, Puerto Rico watched numerous lights maneuvering over a nearby hilltop. A huge round, lighted craft descended and appeared to land behind the hill. Two women got into their car and drove towards the location to investigate. As they neared the area they noticed a grayish luminous light hovering over the hill, and a columnar beam of light was emanating from it. One of the then went into a trance and would not respond to her companion, so the other decided to drive back to her home. Once at her house they picked up some additional witnesses and they again drove back to the area where the light had been seen hovering. When they arrived, all of the witnesses except for the driver noticed a five-foot tall humanoid figure standing by the side of the road, no more than then feet from their vehicle. The being was thin with long thin arms, a large head and large dark almond-shaped eyes; his skin was gray in color and appeared to have a slight glow to it. He stood motionless looking at the witnesses. Behind him a shaft of grayish light could be seen, apparently coming from the light source above. At this point the witnesses panicked and drove away quickly from the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 2101, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue # 5 Source ID: Johnson_1464 Source: Johnson ### Event 22045 (15FBA8FB) Date: 3/14/1992 Description: At one o'clock in the morning a disc-shaped UFO appeared in the skies over the Amazon Rain Forest city Ariquemes, Rondonia state, Brazil. The silent three-meter wide disc came down to only three meters above the ground, and yellow light was seen coming from portholes in the craft. A power outage occurred, and several witnesses felt physically pulled toward the object. At the same time in the city of Mafra, Rondonia, Brazil a 15 m cigar-shaped object heading to the southwest makes a stop only one meter over a bridge, as its antenna rotates. It caused witness paralysis and radio interference. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases 15682 and 15683, citing UBPDV Brasil 1992 Source ID: Johnson_1504 Source: Johnson ### Event 22046 (65C3067E) Date: 3/14/1992 Description: At 8:23 p.m. in Gulf Breeze, Florida 52 high quality witnesses watched, took still photographs, and videotoaped as red spheres of light maneuvered in the sky, responding to very bright searchlight signals. Four red balls of light turned bright white, then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Patti Weatherford, Islander Pensacola, March 27, 1992; Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1992 and July 1993, citing Field Investigator A. Hufford, case 920801E Source ID: Johnson_1505 Source: Johnson ### Event 22047 (DAE90B97) Date: 3/17/1992 Description: In Ipigua, Sao Paulo state, Brazil birds were seen fleeing from a farming area at 5:30 p.m. Next a 12-meter in diameter metallic disc rose up from ground, and a palm tree was seen bending and swaying away from the direction of the UFO when it took off. A circular depression resembling a "saucer nest" was left in the vegetation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17660, citing Boletim CEPEX, issue # 28 Source ID: Johnson_1543 Source: Johnson ### Event 22048 (B789833B) Date: 3/19/1992 Description: Glowing green dome-shaped object maneuvered around patrol car, E-M effects, officer badly frightened Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Haines City, FL Source ID: HallUFOE2_473 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22049 (31D27C8E) Date: 3/19/1992 Description: Domed object approached police car, green illumination, chill, wind felt. See Section V (E,R,L) car (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Haines City, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5827 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22050 (FA7F632A) Date: 3/19/1992 Description: In 1992 at 3:52 a.m. in Haines City, Florida police officer Delgado had a close encounter of the second kind with a 15-foot-wide green, domed disc that paced his patrol car. The engine, lights, and two-way radio of his car failed when the UFO passed less than 20 feet overhead, and he felt the interior of his vehicle become cold. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: CUFOS investigation files; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A thirty-year report, p. 259 Source ID: Johnson_1577 Source: Johnson ### Event 22051 (33729D3A) Date: 3/20/1992 Description: 3:51 a.m. Patrolman Luis Delgado has just checked the doors on a local business at Haines City, Florida, and turns onto 30th Street. He sees a green light in his rear-view mirror. The light seems to come from a small plane that is about to crash. Just seconds later, the interior of his patrol car is illuminated with a green glow. The object begins to pace his car which is traveling about 40 mph. The object moves from the right side to the front of the vehicle several times. When it has moved to the front for the third time, Delgado slows his car and pulls off the roadway, fearing he might collide with the object. It is a color of green he had never seen before that seems to flow over the surface. It is 15 feet long with a 3-foot-thick center. The object hovers approximately 10 feet off the ground. The engine, lights, and radio on his patrol car cease to function. The object hovers in front of his car and then shines a bright white light into the interior. He exits and begins to walk backwards away from the object. He tries to radio Haines City dispatch on his radio, but it does not function. The air around him has chilled to the point that he can see his breath. The object is hovering about 20 feet northeast of his car, then it speeds away after approximately 2–3 seconds. It departs the area in a northeasterly direction at 10 feet altitude. Delgado loses sight of the object in only seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOEv II 193–194; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_6999 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22052 (C628165E) Date: 3/20/1992 Description: Animal reactions to physical traces (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Dundee, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5828 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22053 (295DF4A6) Date: 3/23/1992 Description: Near Amarillo, Texas, radio hobbyist Steven Douglass photographs a “donuts on a rope” contrail and links this to distinctive sounds. He describes the engine noise as “strange, loud pulsating roar... unique... a deep pulsating rumble that vibrated the house and made the windows shake... similar to rocket engine noise, but deeper, with evenly timed pulses.” In addition to providing the first photographs of the distinctive contrail reported by others, Douglass also reports intercepts of radio transmissions: “Air-to-air communications... were between an AWACS aircraft with the call sign Dragnet 51 from Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, and two unknown aircraft using the call signs Darkstar November and Darkstar Mike. Messages consisted of phonetically transmitted alphanumerics. It is not known whether this radio traffic had any association with the ‘pulser’ that had just flown over Amarillo.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Aurora \(aircraft\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora%5F%28aircraft%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_7000 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22054 (5BF0F577) Date: 3/31/1992 Description: The Spanish Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. Ramón Fernández Sequieros, issues Instrucción General 40-5, a 28-page set of procedures for UFO investigations that is issued to all units in June. Lt. Col. Ángel Bastida admits it is inspired by several questionnaires that [Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos](http://independent.academia.edu/VICENTEJUANBALLESTEROLMOS/CurriculumVitae) has supplied, including those used by the US Air Force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 426, 520 Source ID: Eberhart_7001 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22055 (14BDB19A) Date: 4/3/1992 Description: At around two o'clock in the morning in Cicero, Illinois a woman was lying in bed next to her husband when she heard her bedroom window open, making a creaking sound. She then was unable to move. Moments later she saw three short humanoid creatures with chalky colored skin, big heads, and big eyes walking around her bed. They stood next to her. She was completely paralyzed and apparently her pet cat was also affected. She does not recall anything else, except that she awoke the next morning feeling empty. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 2159, citing Unsolved UFO Sightings, Fall 1994 Source ID: Johnson_1823 Source: Johnson ### Event 22056 (0B5234FB) Date: 4/9/1992 Description: A nocturnal light followed five people into the town of Russas, Ceara State, Brazil at around 9 p.m. It hovered nearby as the terrified witnesses attempted to hide from the light source in a large tree. The object left a few minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UBPDV, Causistica Brasileira de 1992, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_1934 Source: Johnson ### Event 22057 (3349BCB4) Date: 4/12/1992 Description: Driving in the desert on US Highway 180 near Deming, New Mexico a man was listening to his CB radio when the radio suddenly sent silent. He next noticed a patch of white light shining on a rise over the left side of the road. He then heard a voice in his head that told him to "watch out for the smoke." Thinking it had been the CB radio, he tried to reply but got no answer. Next, he saw what looked like a huge luminous cloud which created what looked like a curtain across the highway. He drove into the grayish-white mist for about an hour. He stopped his vehicle and walked across the road and to a ditch, but he was still unable to see anything. Suddenly, he became paralyzed, and saw the approach of two beings about 5 feet tall. Each being got on either side of him and place a firm grip on his forearms. The beings had long bony fingers. They then led him to a shiny metallic craft, shaped like a flattened arch with rounded ends. A rectangular opening appeared in the side of the craft. He experienced amnesia about what happened next. The next thing he remembers is sitting back in a chair inside the craft, feeling dizzy and numb. He was briefly left alone before two beings entered the room. One was a male with a round, oval face and oval black eyes. The second being was a female, similar in appearance to the male being. The witness was then led to a dimly lit room, and place in a reclining position on a chair. He felt a buzzing sensation on his face, and felt as if a small object was being inserted into his nose. He was then released and led outside, and floated horizontally to his vehicle. He resumed his drive and the vapor-like fog quickly dissipated. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2002 Humanoid Contact Sighting Reports, case # citing Richard J. Boylan and Les K. Boylan, Close Extraterrestrial Encounters Source ID: Johnson_1991 Source: Johnson ### Event 22058 (187BFC7D) Date: 4/13/1992 Description: Gen. Alfredo Chamorro Chapinal signs a proposal for full UFO document disclosure to the Spanish Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. Ramón Fernández Sequieros. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 426, 518 Source ID: Eberhart_7002 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22059 (66634E09) Date: 4/15/1992 Description: A bright blue, domed disc-shaped UFO emerged out of the clouds and approached a 20-year-old witness in his yard in Aloha, Washington at 10:55 p.m. It stopped briefly, changed color from bright blue to bright red, then accelerated rapidly away toward the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1992, p. 19, citing MUFON field investigator J. Kirby, case file 921504W Source ID: Johnson_2037 Source: Johnson ### Event 22060 (99068CE4) Date: 4/16/1992 Description: On this evening the Current Affair TV film crew filmed a red UFO as it hovered over the Gulf Breeze, Florida Three Mile Bridge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_2062 Source: Johnson ### Event 22061 (021E08EA) Date: 4/20/1992 Description: On this night a guard on duty at the Oderzo Army barracks in Oderzo, Italy suddenly found himself paralyzed and observed two humanoid figures wearing what appeared to be cloaks. The figures walked by him and then disappeared from sight. Around the same time other military personnel saw an object shaped like a cigar descend towards the ground from the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, citing CISU website Source ID: Johnson_2173 Source: Johnson ### Event 22062 (38FFAEFB) Date: 4/21/1992 Description: In Adelaide, South Australia at 8:30 p.m. witnesses watched red and white triangular lights that hovered over the beach for five minutes. At the same time a semi-transparent man was reportedly seen on the beach. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15712 Source ID: Johnson_2195 Source: Johnson ### Event 22063 (906D2001) Date: 4/22/1992 Description: The Spanish Joint Chiefs of Staff downgrade UFO documents from secret to “internal reserve” \(confidential\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “The Spanish Air Force UFO Files,” IUR 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 13; Swords 426, 519 Source ID: Eberhart_7003 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22064 (D28A8CC4) Date: 4/26/1992 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a green glowing disc-shaped object, ringed with portholes and estimated to be 100 meters in diameter, was sighted flying over the residential area of Macae, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. It made a sonic boom as it flew off toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cse 15714, citing Causistica Brasileira de 1992, issue # 8 Source ID: Johnson_2353 Source: Johnson ### Event 22065 (8A9F59FD) Date: 4/28/1992 Description: A crop circle appears in a rapeseed field at Sutton Scotney, close to Winchester, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Talarski, “Going around in Circles,” IUR 17, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1992\): 4–9 Source ID: Eberhart_7004 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22066 (CB2F449C) Date: 4/28/1992 Description: A jet aircraft tentatively identified as a U.S. Air Force F-14 Tomcat was seen pursuing a domed disc-shaped UFO in Lajas, Puerto Rico. The UFO would make multiple stops, and as the jet closed in the saucer split in half. The top half flew off toward the southwest and the other half flew off to the east. The F-14 jet remained circling in the area, and then flew off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 30 Source ID: Johnson_2398 Source: Johnson ### Event 22067 (C2A4B84E) Date: 5/1992 Description: The Roper Organization releases the results of its “Unusual Personal Experiences” survey of nearly 6,000 US adults devised by [Budd Hopkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins), [David Jacobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FM.%5FJacobs), and [Ron Westrum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%5FWestrum), and conducted in 1991. Its intent is to determine how widespread the abduction phenomenon might be. Five indicator questions in the survey assess the respondents’ sleep paralysis, dreams of flying, missing time, observations of unusual lights inside a room, and puzzling body scars. The poll, financed by the Bigelow Holding Corporation, suggests that 2% of adult Americans \(more than 3.7 million\) think they have been abducted by aliens. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Geraldo Fuentes, “[Abductions: A](http://www.viewzone.com/abduct.html) [Report on the Roper Analysis Data](http://www.viewzone.com/abduct.html)”; Robert L. Hall, Mark Rodeghier, Donald A. Johnson, “The Prevalence of Abductions: A Critical Look,” JUFOS 4 \(1992\): 131–135; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 20–22; Susan Blackmore, “[Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis?](https://skepticalinquirer.org/1998/05/abduction-by-aliens-or-sleep-paralysis/)” Skeptical Inquirer 22, no. 3 \(May/June 1998\): 23–28; Mark Rodeghier, “Counting Abductees: What Can Surveys Tell Us?” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 20–21 Source ID: Eberhart_7005 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22068 (B86F0E9A) Date: 5/1/1992 Description: University of Connecticut psychologist [Kenneth Ring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FRing) publishes The Omega Project, in which he argues that ostensible aliens, angels, and otherworldly entities exist in an imaginal realm, a “third kingdom” between reality and fantasy that is accessible through certain altered states of consciousness that undermine ordinary perception and conceptual thinking. Through extensive psychological testing, Ring finds that abductees and those who have near-death experiences are emotionally indistinguishable, with childhoods that typically involve episodes of abuse, trauma, and serious illness. One consequence is the development of a dissociative state as a means of coping with stress; it is the key to experiencing the imaginal realm, a shamanic journey through which symbolic language and images are expressed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenneth Ring, [The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO](https://archive.org/details/omegaprojectnear00ring) [Encounters, and Mind at Large](https://archive.org/details/omegaprojectnear00ring)[,](https://archive.org/details/omegaprojectnear00ring) Morrow, 1992; Kenneth Ring and Christopher J. Rosing, “The Omega Project: A Psychological Survey of Persons Reporting Abductions and Other UFO Encounters,” JUFOS 2 \(1990\): 59–98; David A. Gotlib, “Abductions: Imagined or Imaginal?” IUR 17, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1992\): 18–20; Clark III 886 Source ID: Eberhart_7006 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22069 (D12834AB) Date: 5/1/1992 Description: Two men, Lycett and Hazelgrove, were driving down the A22 Highway in Polegate, East Sussex, England at 10:20 p.m. when they sighted a silent flying object with red flashing lights. They thought its outline looked like a DC-9 airplane about to crash, but the nose of the object pulled up and turned toward the witnesses' car, who then thought it was going to crash into them. They sped up, and when they looked behind the object was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 266; UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1992, citing the Eastbourne Gazzette, May 13, 1992 Source ID: Johnson_2449 Source: Johnson ### Event 22070 (001CF3F3) Date: 5/3/1992 Description: At around midnight three witnesses, members of the Boggs family, in Fordland, Missouri had a close encounter with a dark flying object (estimated to be 8 feet wide by 20 feet long in size) with square windows. At first, 14-year-old Robbie saw a line of bright lights that hung over a slight rise in the pasture, less than 100 yards from their farm house, and maybe ten feet above the ground. Both ends of the line appeared to curve away, giving the impression that the lights were attached to an oval structure of some sort. It flew slowly but directly over their heads at no more than 25 feet. Although they could see the outline of the lights, the object itself was invisible. The UFO then moved on away from the house, passing between two trees with only a few feet to spare. The trees were undisturbed by the proximity of the object. A pole light on the far side of the driveway went out as the UFO approached, the photoelectric switch apparently triggered by the brightness of the object's lights. The object was just beyond this yard light when all of its own colored lights went dark, to be replaced by a single white light shining from the rear. At this same moment the sound that had been coming the the UFO ceased. Surprisingly, the family did not stay outside to watch the UFO depart. They expressed surprise themselves at that fact, that when the colored lights went out they only could recall turning away and going back into the house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis Ridge, www.nicap.org/920503fordlanddir.htm, citing Amateur UFOlogy News, volume 4, number 9 Source ID: Johnson_2485 Source: Johnson ### Event 22071 (44DBC1BE) Date: 5/5/1992 Description: Two orange BOLs flew silently over a reservoir in Waranga Basin, Victoria, Australia at 8:00 p.m. They disappear when a camera flashes. At 11:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with windows on the bottom hovered silently in High Point, North Carolina, emitting very bright beams of light. It vanished when jets appeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 15726 & 15728, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1992 & February 1993 Source ID: Johnson_2558 Source: Johnson ### Event 22072 (1E740CD0) Date: 5/5/1992 Description: A around two o'clock in the morning in an undisclosed location in Georgia, a man woke up to see a 4.5 foot tall entity at the corner of his baby son's crib. The dwarf wore a black cape with a peaked hood connected to the cape. No facial features could be discerned. The entity next moved from left to right and then disappeared through the wall of the house. This experienced was followed by an unsettling dream about the baby, and later by another frightening incident. A few months later other family members again saw a shadow like figure with claws move out of the hallway and touch the chest of one of the older children in the house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 2624, citing John C. Thompson Source ID: Johnson_2559 Source: Johnson ### Event 22073 (1A3AF081) Date: 5/6/1992 Description: A cone-shaped UFO that had orange and pale blue lights was seen hovering in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia. It was not a helicopter according to the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 266 Source ID: Johnson_2599 Source: Johnson ### Event 22074 (2040D9F7) Date: 5/7/1992 Description: At 1:00 a.m. a huge, 500 meter or larger disc-shaped object with bright lights crossed the sky over the beach in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1992 Source ID: Johnson_2634 Source: Johnson ### Event 22075 (5FC33654) Date: 5/8/1992 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a domed disc-shaped object, described as a bright, stationary inverted plate with a hump on top, was observed above the tree line by a woman driving on Bruce Highway along the Sunshine Coast to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It then moved upward and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Update, pp. 266-269, citing UFO Research Queensland Source ID: Johnson_2662 Source: Johnson ### Event 22076 (CA0290EE) Date: 5/12/1992 Description: A boy in Connersville, Indiana reported being paralyzed in his bed in the early morning hours by a strange looking, elderly humanoid visitor. The boy had apparently reported UFO abduction experiences on several occasions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case 1970; Francis Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter, January 1995, citing Don Worley Source ID: Johnson_2777 Source: Johnson ### Event 22077 (D49069E4) Date: 5/25/1992 Description: Two robed figures were seen gliding over a field in Marshfield, Missouri. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15738 Source ID: Johnson_3092 Source: Johnson ### Event 22078 (DAD349CF) Date: 6/1/1992 Description: The US Strategic Command is established as a successor to the Strategic Air Command in response to the end of the Cold War. Its principal mission is to deter military attack and, if deterrence fails, to counter with nuclear weapons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia. “[United States Strategic Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FStrategic%5FCommand\#History)” Source ID: Eberhart_7009 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22079 (14933373) Date: 6/2/1992 Description: At 2:15 a.m. in Pittsford, New York two charcoal black, Saturn-shaped UFOs were seen hovering at 200 feet altitude. There were four prongs on each with lights on the ends. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1992, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_3237 Source: Johnson ### Event 22080 (240C3BCC) Date: 6/3/1992 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a witness driving on highway D28 west of Melesse, France sighted a seven-foot long transparent ovoid object over a pasture. It approached and the witness was able to see a tall, thin humanoid behind a control panel inside the object. A nearby tree was scorched, apparently by heat coming from thce UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 334; SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena, issue # 11; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 2392, citing LDLN, issue # 334 Source ID: Johnson_3262 Source: Johnson ### Event 22081 (275CC14F) Date: 6/4/1992 Description: In 1992 a 28-year-old man in Londonderry, New Hampshire was watching star-like lights move around outside his window, and was hoping to get a good photograph of what was going on when a structured unidentified craft came flying over the trees and flew slowly down his street, twice. Strangely, he made no attempt during this close encounter to take a photograph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ken Foster, MUFON investigation files # 930406Eb; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1993 Source ID: Johnson_3283 Source: Johnson ### Event 22082 (DFC4F74E) Date: 6/5/1992 Description: In 1992 strange lights were seen and videotaped at 10:50 p.m. near Wanaque Reservoir in New Jersey. The lights maneuvered about the sky, and faded in and out. Wanaque Reservoir has been the scene of many repeated UFO sightings, especially in the 1960s. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994 Source ID: Johnson_3307 Source: Johnson ### Event 22083 (3900D67A) Date: 6/9/1992 Description: At four o'clock in the morning a man suddenly awoke in his bedroom in Malibu, California and found himself unable to move. He then saw standing next to his bed three small figures. They had pale white skin, frail looking bodies, large triangular-shaped heads, and huge luminous black eyes. The figures stood motionless staring at the witness emanating a feeling of curiosity. The figures then receded backwards and with an apparent look of bewilderment vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 1119, citing Jefferson R Weekly, UFO Magazine (USA), Volume 8 # 4 Source ID: Johnson_3396 Source: Johnson ### Event 22084 (359EC330) Date: 6/10/1992 Description: Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Several workers at the Lukens Steel Company plant saw a disc-shaped UFO land on the factory grounds around quitting time (4:30 p.m.). The security guard said that the object touched down briefly and then took off in the direction of the old Coatesville Hospital. The company, a defense contractor, refused to let UFO investigators talk with any of the witnesses or answer further questions about what they saw. Attempts to set up interviews outside of the plant were also unsuccessful. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thomas Carey, MUFON; West Chester Daily Local News, June 12, 1992. Source ID: Johnson_3413 Source: Johnson ### Event 22085 (770B8062) Date: 6/13/1992 End date: 6/17/1992 Description: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosts an Abductions Study Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, chaired by [David E. Pritchard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FE.%5FPritchard) and [John E. Mack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FMack)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FMack) with presentations, panels, and discussions about the UFO abduction phenomenon. UFO researchers like [Budd Hopkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins), [David Jacobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FM.%5FJacobs), and Mack hold forth beside relative novices and abductees themselves. Representative non-US research is also contributed \(Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia\). Even skeptics are represented and speak. The conference marks the cracking apart of the public unity of American researchers into at least two major schools of opinion, which deeply disagree to this day. Both continue to believe that the phenomenon is extraterrestrial. Hopkins, Jacobs, and others are present to elaborate what some have come to refer to as the “Dark Marauders” view of abductions. But conference co- organizer and Harvard psychologist John Mack presents an entirely different spin: These experiences are extraterrestrially caused but are positively transformational for the human spirit. Despite the severe disagreements that follow, this gives researchers like Joseph Nyman a foundation stone authority figure around whom to rally. The so-called pessimist and optimist schools take shape right before the attendees’ eyes. A third major position exists within the US research community, the “probably extraterrestrial but I don’t know the details” viewpoint, represented at the conference in the persons of [Mark Rodeghier](http://www.cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html), [Stuart Appelle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FAppelle), and [David Gotlib](https://www.psychiatry.utoronto.ca/faculty/dr-david-gotlib). [Kenneth Ring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FRing) also presents his interesting view comparing abductions and near-death experiences, and [David Hufford](https://davidhufford.org/about/david-hufford/) does likewise regarding the “Old Hag” imagery of sleep paralysis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Andrea Pritchard, et al., Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference Held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, North Cambridge, 1994; Michael D. Swords, \[[review](http://johnemackinstitute.org/review-by-michael-d-swords-of-alien-discussions/)\], Journal of Scientific Exploration 11, no. 1 \(1997\): 101–104; John E. Mack, “Helping Abductees,” IUR 17, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1992\): 10–15, 20; C. D. B. Bryan, [Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind:](https://archive.org/details/closeencounterso00brya%5F0) [Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T.](https://archive.org/details/closeencounterso00brya%5F0), Knopf, 1995; Stuart Appelle, “The Abduction Phenomenon at MIT,” IUR 20, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1995\): 20–21, 24; Thomas E. Bullard, \[Book reviews\], JUFOS 6 \(1995/96\): 231–248; Ralph Blumenthal, The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack, University of New Mexico, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7010 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22086 (F92849B6) Date: 6/14/1992 Description: Topanga Canyon, California -- According to the Lost Hills/Malibu sheriff's office, a badly shaken man reported that an unidentified bright light followed him and his girlfriend sometime after midnight in Topanga Canyon. "Suddenly it was over us, we lost control of the car and it lifted us up in the sky--lifted us over the ground." What happened next was vague, according to the driver, who reckons they both lost memory for "maybe a couple of minutes, and then we were put down. Suddenly it wasn't there anymore." Shortly afterwards another call was received by the Sheriff's office from another witness, who together with his girlfriend saw three flying disks high up in the Canyon. "They were following us above the car, and we stopped and got out…we watched them and within maybe three seconds, they were gone--straight up into the air." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Timothy Good, Alien Update, pp. 271-272; Preston Dennett, UFOs over Topanga Canyon, p. 271 Source ID: Johnson_3491 Source: Johnson ### Event 22087 (2EB2419A) Date: 6/14/1992 Description: At 10:30 that same evening in Topanga Canyon, California in the area called Saddlepeak over 200 glowing spheres and oval shaped object were seen rising from behind a ridge, one-by-one. The objects darted across the sky in different directions, sometimes making right angle turns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Preston Dennett, UFOs over Topanga Canyon, p. 271 Source ID: Johnson_3492 Source: Johnson ### Event 22088 (A8DAB79B) Date: 6/18/1992 Description: In California a woman named Connie awoke to discover a scab in her navel and a 2" x 6" bruise on her leg. During a later hypnosis session she recalled being on an exam table in an abduction experience during this night. Her abductors used telepathy to communicate with her. There was also a deer screen memory, in which she was led to believe at first that she was looking at deer, and not humanoids. This has been commonly reported in other alien abduction experiences. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard J. Boylan, Close Extraterrestrial Encounters, p. 104 Source ID: Johnson_3541 Source: Johnson ### Event 22089 (CA77976C) Date: Summer 1992 Description: An unnamed family from Albuquerque is hiking and prospecting about 12 miles from Horse Springs, New Mexico, in the general area of the Plains of San Agustin, when they discover an odd piece of metal. They unsuccessfully try to cut it, burn it, and bend it. The discovery remains unconfirmed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “The Hatch Enigma,” IUR 18, no. 2 \(March/April 1993\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_7007 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22090 (89674C75) Date: Summer 1992 Description: Héctor and Jaime Feliciano watch a gigantic silent triangle pass over Salinas, Puerto Rico, heading toward the MATES Camp Santiago military base. It is a metallic dark gray with a rough undersurface containing multiple small colored lights and two large white lights. White beams shine down from the object at three points. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jorge Martín, “[Triangular UFOs over Puerto Rico,](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%201999%20V%2044%20N%203.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 \(Autumn 1999\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_7008 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22091 (0083C3C3) Date: 6/23/1992 Description: Three silent disc-shaped objects were sighted from US Highway 22 in Washington County, Pennsylvania near the West Virginia State border at around 11 p.m. The discs were at treetop level and blinked in unison. They formed a triangle in the sky, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993 Source ID: Johnson_3632 Source: Johnson ### Event 22092 (01665204) Date: 6/27/1992 Description: Two witnesses in a mobile home in Raeford, North Carolina were rattled and shaken up when a disc-shaped object landed in a field nearby. The grass was crushed down where the object had touched down. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1992 Source ID: Johnson_3701 Source: Johnson ### Event 22093 (D569CED8) Date: 7/6/1992 Description: A 15-year-old girl in Taber, Alberta saw a large black disc outside her bedroom window at 3:20 a.m. She hid in the house. Circular traces were discovered were found in a field outside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1994 Source ID: Johnson_3891 Source: Johnson ### Event 22094 (8C2E91D8) Date: 7/9/1992 Description: A 450-foot “Snail” pictogram appears in a wheatfield at Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Talarski, “Going around in Circles,” IUR 17, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1992\): 4–9 Source ID: Eberhart_7011 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22095 (27875B4C) Date: 7/17/1992 End date: 7/19/1992 Description: The First International Conference of the Center for Crop Circle Studies is held at King Alfred’s College in Winchester, Hampshire, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Talarski, “Going around in Circles,” IUR 17, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1992\): 4– 9 Source ID: Eberhart_7012 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22096 (BE466D8D) Date: 7/17/1992 Description: At 6:30 p.m. a bright UFO was sighted hovering just above the ocean off the coast near Iguape, Brazil. It sucked up a wide column of water. At the same time an engineer from Cascavel, Brazil reported that a bright ball of light followed his car for a few minutes. A saucer-shaped object followed behind the sphere. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil-Where Next?, p. 231; Causistica Brasileira de 1992, case 9 Source ID: Johnson_4148 Source: Johnson ### Event 22097 (E339625A) Date: 7/18/1992 Description: Chistopher O'Brien and his friend McIntyre saw a brilliant white lights that illuminated the Alamosa valley in Colorado. When they turned their car headlights off and left on the orange parking lights, the UFO changed color to orange, then back to white, then paced their car, and finally turned ruby red in color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_4181 Source: Johnson ### Event 22098 (E45D881C) Date: 7/19/1992 Description: A dark cone-shaped object zigzagged through the sky over West Vancouver, British Columbia at 3:10 a.m. A 16-year-old adolescent said that short humanoid beings entered his bedroom via a closed window, apparently passing through the glass without a problem. He experienced an episode of missing time and does not recall what happened next. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 318; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 2391 Source ID: Johnson_4214 Source: Johnson ### Event 22099 (62EDDBEF) Date: 7/23/1992 Description: 7:30 a.m. An abduction event takes place in a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, involving a rare case of physical evidence. Businessman Peter Khoury had at least one previous abduction experience in 1988 that left him so disturbed that in 1993 he forms a support group to help others like him. The details of his 1992 abduction slowly emerge through extended conversations with Australian ufologist [Bill Chalker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FChalker). Khoury wakes up suddenly and finds two nude females seated on his bed, one blonde and the other dark-haired with some Asian features. They are human-like but have some odd physical characteristics: narrow heads and large eyes. Khoury says that what happens next feels weird and dreamlike, “like looking through binoculars, but through the back of my own head.” The blonde reaches out and forces him towards her. Before he knows what he is doing, he takes a small bite out of her and swallows it. There is no blood or screaming. The two beings look at each other in a puzzled way, then vanish. Khoury has a coughing fit and goes to the bathroom where he discovers a blonde hair wrapped around a body part. He turns the hair over to Bill Chalker for mitochondrial DNA analysis in 1999 \(by [Horace R. Drew](https://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=Horace%5FR%5FDrew) of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation\) using polymerase chain reaction \(PCR\) amplification. The results are startling: DNA from the shaft of the hair reveals very rare and unusual Asian signatures common to the isolated Lahu people of China and Thailand, but DNA from the root shows sequences indicating rare Basque/Gaelic and Asian results—suggesting advanced cloning techniques and possible hybrid characteristics. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “Strange Evidence,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 3–13; Anomaly Physical Evidence Group, “Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Analysis of a Shed Hair from an Alien Abduction Case,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 13–16, 31; Bill Chalker, “Aliens, Hair, and DNA,” IUR 29, no. 3 \(Fall 2004\): 3–5, 10; Bill Chalker, [Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abduction](https://archive.org/details/hairofaliendnaot00bill), Simon & Schuster, 2005; Bill Chalker, “[Peter Khoury and the ‘Hair of the Alien’: 20 Years On,](https://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2012/07/peter-khoury-and-hair-of-alien-20-years.html)” TheOzFiles, July 29, 2012; Clark III 651–654 Source ID: Eberhart_7013 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22100 (CAFC5332) Date: 7/23/1992 Description: At 7:30 a.m. Peter Khoury was in bed in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia as a result of a recent work injury and was on pain medication. Suddenly he was wide awake and sat up in bed, because there were two humanoid females sitting on the bed, both entirely naked. The two women looked very human in nearly every detail. They had well-proportioned adult bodies. One looked Asian, with straight dark shoulder length hair and dark eyes. The other looked perhaps Scandinavian, with light colored, possibly blue eyes and long blond hair that fell half way down her back. To Khoury, the hair looked very exotic. Their faces were somewhat odd--not unattractive, but too chiseled--with high cheekbones and eyes that were two or three times larger than normal. Khoury especially noticed the blonde-haired woman. Her face was long, very long. The blonde, who was in a kneeling position on his bed, seemed to be in charge. Khoury thought that she was communicating telepathically with the dark-haired woman, who was sitting with her legs partly folded under her. Their facial expressions were almost entirely blank.

Stunned by their surprise appearance, Peter was unable to react as the blond woman suddenly reached out with both her hands and cupped the back of his head, drawing his face toward her breasts. He resisted. Apparently very strong, she pulled harder. She pulled him forward and his mouth was placed on one of her nipples, and he bit it. A piece of her nipple came loose in his teeth, but the blond woman did not cry out. She seemed shocked or confused and looked at the Asian woman, then back at the witness. Involuntarily, Khoury swallowed the small fragment in his mouth. It caught in his throat and he went into a coughing fit. The two women suddenly simply disappeared. Feeling an urge to go to the bathroom, he realized his penis felt very painful. Pulling back the foreskin he found two thin blond strands of hair wrapped tightly around it. He kept the hair samples for genetic analysis. The DNA analysis showed that the hair was human, but the genome testing suggested that the closest match would be a cross breeding of someone from Iceland with someone from Japan, a rare occurrence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 3515, citing Bill Chalker, International UFO Reporter Source ID: Johnson_4333 Source: Johnson ### Event 22101 (B17C372C) Date: 7/25/1992 Description: On this day in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico a UFO abductee was allegedly visited by a man with human appearance and "Hindu" features. In a telepathic communication the abductee was informed that the Grey aliens were androids, and lived for only a few days before then were recycled. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 0772 Source ID: Johnson_4400 Source: Johnson ### Event 22102 (E25B8F89) Date: 7/25/1992 Description: Three young men were racing dirt bikes on a river bank in Tarasovka, Ukraine when they saw a luminous sphere land. A 1.6 meter (5.5 feet) tall man emerged from the object wearing white coveralls and a helmet. He walked in a peculiar manner. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 3357 Source ID: Johnson_4401 Source: Johnson ### Event 22103 (17F3A253) Date: 7/29/1992 Description: Dog did not respond to oval that divided (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Purcell, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5829 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22104 (8ED8B9FF) Date: 7/31/1992 Description: Walking on a footpath in Port Pirie, South Australia at 3:10 a.m., a 51-year-old milkman turned around to see a blue-green cigar-shaped UFO behind him to the southeast at a height of only sixty to a hundred meters altitude. It was huge, with an angular size of 20 degrees. It had three amber lights on the left side and pulsating lights. There was no wind at the time, and full cloud cover. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia case files, case # SA92029 Source ID: Johnson_4544 Source: Johnson ### Event 22105 (C4363A2A) Date: 8/1992 Description: Dog curious about small object near ground (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [920800](http://www.nicap.org/ar-9208xxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Casey, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5830 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22106 (B63C3DAF) Date: 8/1992 Description: Crop circles appear in wheatfields near Ipswich and Strathclair, Manitoba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “‘A Looney a Look’: Crop Circles in Western Manitoba,” IUR 17, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1992\): 9–12 Source ID: Eberhart_7014 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22107 (ACB50ECE) Date: 8/5/1992 Description: 1:45 p.m. Pilots of United Airlines Flight 934 are flying at 23,000 feet some 50 miles northeast of George AFB \[now Southern California Logistics Airport\], Victorville, California, when an unusual aircraft comes directly toward them and passes underneath at an estimated distance of 500–1,000 feet. It resembles the forward fuselage of a Lockheed S-71, without wings but with a sort of tail. The size is about 50 feet long and its speed is supersonic. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Aviation Week and Space Technology, August 24, 1992; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1994\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7015 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22108 (9631AF6F) Date: 8/5/1992 Description: At 1:45 p.m. a United Airlines Boeing 747 crew flying 50 miles northeast of George AFB in San Bernardino County, California sighted a 50 foot-long object looking like the fuselage of a Lockheed SR-71. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 47, citing Jan Aldrich Source ID: Johnson_4705 Source: Johnson ### Event 22109 (279BB46D) Date: 8/10/1992 Description: At 8:26 p.m. in Lansing, Michigan six observers, including the main witness who was a 25-year-old woman, sighted a black 30 foot in diameter disc-shaped object, with two orbs on top, looking something like a Mickey Mouse cap, over a parking lot. There was also CB radio interference experienced. The sighting lasted 18 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Rex Schrader, MUFON Field Investigation case files, case 930823C; Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1993, p. 16 and March 1994, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_4839 Source: Johnson ### Event 22110 (98F73DC7) Date: 8/11/1992 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_474 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22111 (93739361) Date: 8/11/1992 Description: A large bright sphere hovered over a construction site next to a house in Dedestapolsanyban, Hungary on this night. It had numerous portholes and a beam of light came from a circular opening in the lower half of the object. Beings with featureless heads, long thin arms, and wearing robes were seen collecting samples from the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992 web page, case 2178, citing Kriston Endre, Hungary UFO, August 1993 Source ID: Johnson_4904 Source: Johnson ### Event 22112 (CD2E9345) Date: 8/11/1992 Description: On the same night as the Hungarian sighting, at 10 p.m., a 15-foot diameter sphere was seen hovering only a few feet above the ground in Cass County, Missouri. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 1659 Source ID: Johnson_4905 Source: Johnson ### Event 22113 (B9E15596) Date: 8/13/1992 Description: On this morning at around 9 a.m. a woman was sitting at her dining room table in Salem, Oregon facing the living room with the kitchen to her left, when she caught sight of something outside her kitchen window. It was a short hairless greenish-gray figure that walked quickly into her kitchen. It stopped and stood briefly by a kitchen storage cabinet. She attempted to communicate with the creature telepathically, but it suddenly vanished. The figure had an elongated head and what appeared to be large "eyelids" drawn over the eyes. Her dog did not seem to react to the intruder. Twenty minutes later when she sat down again at the dining room table a greenish three-fingered hand touched her wrist quickly from behind her. The touch was very painful, almost like an "electric shock", and then the alien hand vanished. Two days later the witness noticed a round red mark on her wrist. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 1355, citing Linda Moulton Howe, Glimpses of Other Realities, Volume I Source ID: Johnson_4987 Source: Johnson ### Event 22114 (B612D0F1) Date: 8/14/1992 Description: Triangular silvery object passed over car, blue flashing body lights; made sharp turns, moved out of sight (section IX). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Homer City, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5831 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22115 (BEEB6139) Date: 8/14/1992 Description: Triangular silvery object passed over car, blue flashing body lights. Made sharp turns, moved out of sight Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Homer City PA Source ID: HallUFOE2_475 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22116 (089CA8A8) Date: 8/14/1992 Description: While driving home on a clear night at around 10:15 p.m. on US Highway 22 in Homer City, near Blairsville, Pennsylvania several separate motorists saw lights flashing neaby in the sky. Next, a large silent silvery triangular object flew over the road at an altitude of only 150 feet above the cars. Fuses were blown on the car clock/radio of the main reporting witnesses' car, occupied by two 35-year-old women. The craft was described as sixty feet wide with a silvery beamed understructure. The entire close encounter event lasted more than 15 minutes. The craft made several sharp turns, and then shot out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON CD-ROM Database of Field Investigations, case # 921101E, field investigator Keith Bastianini; Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1992, p. 18; Jeff Himler, in Timothy Good (editor), Alien Update, p. 279; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_5017 Source: Johnson ### Event 22117 (03B04B4A) Date: 8/15/1992 Description: In Marshfield, Missouri a boomerang-shaped object was seen by two witnesses at 5:30 a.m. As the lights on the object passed over them, five vertical beams of light shot down, illuminating the vehicle and its interior with brilliant white light. The car's engine sputtered. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 1381 Source ID: Johnson_5055 Source: Johnson ### Event 22118 (6CD80664) Date: 8/15/1992 Description: In Salem, Oregon a large black, silent triangular shaped object, one and a half times the size of a house, was seen overhead by a 23-year-old man while in his car at 12:07 a.m. It rotated on its axis slowly over some trees, causing the branches to move. It moved off to the east-southeast making a slight humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Skip Schultz, MUFON Field Investigations CD-Rom case files database, case # 921508W; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1992, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_5056 Source: Johnson ### Event 22119 (3B5EE2D2) Date: 8/19/1992 Description: Manta ray—shaped object with body lights approached car, falling leaf motions, hovered, light beam brightly illuminated terrain Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: HallUFOE2_476 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22120 (4E360B7F) Date: 8/19/1992 Description: Manta ray-shaped object with body lights approached car, falling leaf motions, hovered, light beam brightly illuminated terrain (section VI). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5832 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22121 (34110BEB) Date: 8/19/1992 Description: 1:00 a.m. A witness is driving near Tucson, Arizona, when he notices a strange light in the distance. As it approaches from the northeast, it descends rapidly, moves across a field, and hovers. A cone of light emerges from the bottom that completely bathes the area, illuminating the ground. At this point the witness is about 600– 900 feet away and is able to see that it is a solid object that looks like a manta ray with a dull-black matte finish. He pulls over and can hear no sound coming from it. The object moves directly overhead, and the witness gets back in the car and speeds away. He sees the object again as it stops 15 feet above a nearby farmhouse. Again a bright light comes from its base, engulfing the entire house for 20 seconds. It moves away and illuminates a large area of trees behind the house. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Current Cases,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1992/12/December%201992.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 296 \(December 1992\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_7016 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22122 (27D598BA) Date: 8/20/1992 Description: A sequence of multi-witness sightings occurred in Pittsford, Monroe County, New York that lasted for an hour and a half, beginning at 10:00 p.m. The first sighting was of a band of arcade-like rolling front lights and three distinctly large lights, with small red lights at the center rear. The object was estimated to be at 1,200 feet altitude, larger than a Boeing-747, and moving slowly at about 60 mph. Several witnesses called MUFON field investigator George Hoenig, who took photographs of a "stack of dishes" rotating and tumbling, with streaks of light darting about. Two women had a close encounter with two boomerang-shaped objects with a fat center. The objects stayed the same distance apart and had ten lights each. At first they moved at a steady, slow pace, but then they accelerated as they went over. They made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1992, p. 18 and January 1993, p. 16; George K. Hoenig, MUFON case files CD-ROM, cases 921103EA, 921103EC, 921103EE, and 921103EF Source ID: Johnson_5196 Source: Johnson ### Event 22123 (C4DC2F53) Date: 8/22/1992 Description: A witness in Greenwood, Indiana reported one hour of missing time after witnessing several lights in the sky at 10:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, citing Francis L. Ridge Source ID: Johnson_5241 Source: Johnson ### Event 22124 (4E3B8114) Date: 8/25/1992 Description: Beginning at 9:51 p.m. a group of four witnesses in Durant, Oklahoma watched a cone-shaped UFO with light beams that swung in the sky in a pendulum motion. The UFO was blue on top, yellow in the middle, and white on the bottom. The first witness, age 65, saw the light outside through a window through some trees. "It moved fast from one position to another." The first witness called the others to come out, who viewed it for about 30 minutes until they got tired of watching. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dennis W. Stacy, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1993, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_5339 Source: Johnson ### Event 22125 (37709D7D) Date: 8/28/1992 Description: At 1:00 a.m. a very large, fast gray box with a blinking light on top, flew to the north-northeast from Goize, Deux-Sevres, France on a sinuous flight trajectory. There were three witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 332 Source ID: Johnson_5442 Source: Johnson ### Event 22126 (CA1B243C) Date: 8/29/1992 Description: Three cylinders were seen in the sky at close range after a home burglar alarm system and lights were effected at 2:30 a.m. in Mount Seymour, British Columbia. The policeman witness was unable to wake his wife, but their baby reacted to the close encounter, and their dog became sick. The incident lasted 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lorne Goldfader, Alien Update, p. 280; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 318 Source ID: Johnson_5476 Source: Johnson ### Event 22127 (B3A66A55) Date: 9/1992 Description: The first Spanish Air Force UFO document is declassified. The process lasts until 1999, when 84 files \(covering 122 cases between 1962 to 1995\) are disclosed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 427, 521–522 Source ID: Eberhart_7017 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22128 (4A57C6AE) Date: 9/3/1992 Description: At 9:20 p.m. a dark, disc-shaped object hovered just 20 meters over a road in Colombieres, Herault department, France. A blue beam of light was emitted from the object. The UFO tilted, and then shot away to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 313 Source ID: Johnson_5615 Source: Johnson ### Event 22129 (99148588) Date: 9/3/1992 Description: At 7:30 p.m. in Guaira, Parana State, Brazil three beams of light hovered and maneuvered over a bank of the river. The beams of light were directed down at a boat, and the boat couldn't move. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #15819, citing UBPDV, issue 10 Source ID: Johnson_5616 Source: Johnson ### Event 22130 (045EE86E) Date: 9/4/1992 Description: An oval-shaped object with a dome on top was seen at a low level in Ontario, Canada (precise location not given). There were red and white light in an equatorial band around the object, running around the object in sequence like on a Christmas tree. A cloud of fog also enveloped the object, and it had an appendage at the tail end. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON CDROM field investigation files, case 930408J, field investigator Dan A. Boswell Source ID: Johnson_5641 Source: Johnson ### Event 22131 (E1408BED) Date: 9/10/1992 Description: Driving to work in heavy traffic a 30-year-old female in Honolulu, Hawaii watched a flying object pass down the length of the freeway at 6:55 a.m. It was a star-shaped disc with 5 rounded points, like a discoid with 5 bites taken out of it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Brein, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 921009W; Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1993, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_5840 Source: Johnson ### Event 22132 (A68BBCA5) Date: 9/10/1992 Description: On the beach on a clear, pre-dawn morning on Fenwick Island, Delaware at around 4:00 a.m. a 36-year-old couple witnessed an object shaped like two triangles connected by cylinder. Next, 10-12 nocturnal lights joined the first object, and all went off rapidly to the north-norheast. Fifteen minutes later a second object followed same path. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stephen Rosiak, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 930105E; Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1993, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_5839 Source: Johnson ### Event 22133 (A4C73A1F) Date: 9/13/1992 Description: In Albertville, Minnesota a 5-6 foot wide disc-shaped object with portholes was seen at 100 feet altitude, only 100 yards away. It had an estimated thickness of 1-2 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joni Astrup, UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1992, p. 1, citing Star News, September 30, 1992 Source ID: Johnson_5924 Source: Johnson ### Event 22134 (E431964F) Date: 9/16/1992 Description: At 12:30 a.m. on County Road 70 northeast of Elk River, Minnesota, Mr. Townsend, age 49, witnessed a huge gray, silent domed disc over a clearing in the midst of a rainstorm. He viewed it clearly when the lightning flashed. The main body of the craft was disc-shaped, like a plate upside down, with a smaller bowl on top. There were four round white lights spaced evenly around the bottom, and it had smaller green and red lights in between. An interesting feature was that the rain stopped one foot from top the top of the craft, as if the energy field surrounding the object was causing the rain to dissipate. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Trash, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 120592C; Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1993, p. 16; Joni Astrup, UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1992, p. 1, citing Star News, September 30, 1992 Source ID: Johnson_6022 Source: Johnson ### Event 22135 (38254B8F) Date: 9/17/1992 Description: A 12-foot long metallic object with stubby wings, and a clear dome or cupola, buzzed UFO investigator Christopher O'Brien and his partner while driving seven miles north of Gardner, Colorado at 1:30 p.m. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 54 Source ID: Johnson_6056 Source: Johnson ### Event 22136 (16BB7B90) Date: 9/18/1992 Description: The existence of the US National Reconnaissance Office is declassified by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, as recommended by the Director of Central Intelligence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[National Reconnaissance Office](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FReconnaissance%5FOffice)” Source ID: Eberhart_7018 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22137 (6AB4AF19) Date: 9/19/1992 Description: An armless, neckless black entity was seen in Jarradale, Western Australia one this day at around noon. A man and his son were out hunting for firewood, and were using a disused track into the bush, when the boy noticed a movement nearby and told his father. They then saw the tall, jet-black figure watching them from behind some trees. The figure ducked down, then bounded away into the bush in two great strides. The entity had no arms and on either side of its head it had two white patches where the eyes might have been. It did not have a neck and was estimated to have been 3 ½ meters tall, or almost nine feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1992 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 924, citing Keith Basterfield; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15835 Source ID: Johnson_6105 Source: Johnson ### Event 22138 (EAA4BA10) Date: 9/20/1992 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a rectangular UFO emitted a beam of light that levitated a witness from a road in Sao Francisco de Paula, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. This was confirmed by a separate independent observer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UBPDV, Causistica Brasileira de 1992, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_6153 Source: Johnson ### Event 22139 (AA941B40) Date: 9/20/1992 Description: Three witnesses in Sullivan, Missouri sighted a large metallic craft with several large lighted windows hovering low over a field at 8:30 p.m. They could see that behind the windows there were about 20 thin humanoid figures standing and moving back and forth. No sound was reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter, March 1993, citing the Missouri UFO Study Group Source ID: Johnson_6154 Source: Johnson ### Event 22140 (82B3A550) Date: 9/22/1992 Description: On this day a group of children flying kites in Sentul, West Persekutuan, Malaysia saw a tiny being, which they described as human-like in appearance but measuring only 15 cm tall. The body was reported to be greenish in color and shiny. They said that the hands had only three fingers. On seeing the witnesses, the tiny creature scurried away into the housing project that was still under construction. On the same day a 13-year-old student, Law Wai Chow, claimed to have encountered a strange tiny entity in the same area. He described it as having eyes like those of humans but red in color and with no eyebrows. The creature had pointed ears. That afternoon another boy, Mohd Najib Rasli, age 12, went to the site where the creatures were reported earlier in the day. He spent nearly an hour searching for the creatures. Finally at 3 p.m. he spotted the tiny being near a hole in the ground. He tried to catch it but it immediately ran away and was lost from view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, citing Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies Source ID: Johnson_6237 Source: Johnson ### Event 22141 (429E543F) Date: 9/22/1992 Description: About 15 members of an international UFO group had gone to the scene of previous encounters in Huaika Tabio, Colombia and were waiting for any unusual phenomena. At 8:05 p.m. they saw a large orange-colored sphere descend from the mountain and land about 300 meters away from them. Five from the group approached and watched a beam of white light strike the ground ahead of them. From the ground it became a crescent shaped light, blue in color. Smoke then rose around the object and a tall blond-haired, Nordic-looking individual emerged from the smoke. He walked around briefly, then entered the crescent-shaped light. Everything then just disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, citing Grupo Contacto OVNI, Colombia Source ID: Johnson_6238 Source: Johnson ### Event 22142 (82E64D26) Date: 9/23/1992 Description: The last US underground nuclear test, Divider, takes place at the Nevada Test Site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Julin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FJulin)” Source ID: Eberhart_7019 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22143 (7BE7DEB0) Date: 9/24/1992 Description: A woman abductee from Springfield, Missouri recalled being onboard a craft in the early morning hours, and apparently witnessed a live cattle mutilation in progress being performed by several short, gray-skinned humanoids. She was made to assist with the tissue removal around the jaw of the cow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 1354, citing Linda Moulton Howe, Glimpses of Other Realities Volume I Source ID: Johnson_6298 Source: Johnson ### Event 22144 (6CF8C3C8) Date: 9/24/1992 Description: At around six o'clock in the evening several villagers in Pedrera, Sevilla, Spain, including a woman named Paca and two local boys, were walking up a hill when Paca suddenly felt chills and felt compelled to go to a nearby olive grove. The others followed her. When she entered the olive grove she suddenly felt as if her feet were fixed to the ground and she was unable to move from the spot. Moments later a luminous figure appeared, hovering about 10 meters away in front of an olive tree and suspended on a bright glowing "cloud" 25 cm above the ground. The figure was described as a female wearing a blue dress with a white blouse and an intense sky blue scarf on its head, which is classically similar to descriptions of apparitions of the Virgin Mary. She saw what appeared to be 12 small lights hovering over the figure's head. Another witness, standing directly beside Paca, was not able to see anything. According to Paca the figure had extremely beautiful facial features, but was somewhat pallid. The hair was light brown in color and its eyes were "caramel" colored. She suddenly became able to move again, but when she attempted to approach the glowing figure it seem to vanish, but when she stepped back it would reappear again. This disappearance-reappearance of the apparition was repeated several times. During the encounter the area suddenly became cold. Paca again became paralyzed and was unable to speak, and one of the other witnesses, a young woman, fell to the ground and went into a trance. The young woman began speaking in a slow deliberate manner, repeating the words, "Pray for peace in the world." A strong rose-like fragrance then permeated the area. The apparition moved in slow motion, and it never moved its arms or legs or made any facial gestures. Its body was described as thin and child-like, and was only about one meter in height. It never once spoke to any of the witnesses present. The two local children, Cristina and Sergio, who were present at this time, were to have another encounter two weeks later. Around the same time and in the same area, witnesses observed what they called a "procession of monks" walking in single file in a field. They wore black smocks and cowls that covered their faces completely. Others saw a tall heavy set man, described as wearing a brown monk's outfit, with sandals and walking with a large cane. He had a long dark beard, never spoke to anyone and seemed to be in a trance. Three days before these encounters a local power failure had occurred and a huge white light traversed the area, leaving behind a luminous wake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, citing Edenex Spain, La Virgen del Cuarton Source ID: Johnson_6297 Source: Johnson ### Event 22145 (0EBE7FF4) Date: 9/29/1992 Description: At 10:20 p.m. in the towns of Galten, Mosso, and Lasby, Denmark a domed disc-shaped UFO was sighted making a humming noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15837; SUFOI News, issue # 15 Source ID: Johnson_6429 Source: Johnson ### Event 22146 (D3B820CB) Date: 9/30/1992 Description: There were three reports of low level UFOs on this evening from North Carolina, and another from neighboring South Carolina. On Interstate 95 in Raeford, North Carolina a 36-year-old woman saw a 50 foot long gray rectangular craft, 20 times the apparent size of the Moon. It was seen at an estimated distance of 1500 feet, and had six lights on the bottom. It was followed by 20 smaller glowing ovoid objects, and the air got cold as the UFOs passed over. At 9:10 p.m. in Gastonia, North Carolina a 45-year-old man was in his backyard closing up his shop when he saw a glowing oval or fat cigar-shaped object flying at 2,500 feet altitude that had three bands of a bluish white corona around its mid-section. It had intense beams of light coming from the two ends. Five minutes later (9:15 p.m.) in Stanley, North Carolina a 38-year-old mechanic and his girlfriend were out stargazing when they spotted a bright, light yellow glowing cone-shaped UFO. It was surrounded by four misty white cigar-shaped nocturnal lights. Three minutes later (9:18 p.m.) in Moonville, South Carolina three witnesses saw a large cylinder with an orange glow and a yellow flame that flew overhead and to the east; it had 5 small lights around the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1, 2, & 3) Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1993, pp. 15-17, citing field investigators Henry H. Morton & George D. Fawcett; (4) Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1994, p. 19 citing field investigator Michael S. Harrell Source ID: Johnson_6455 Source: Johnson ### Event 22147 (3023259D) Date: 9/30/1992 Description: At 5:15 a.m. Rose Mahony of Barnagearagh, Ireland saw a huge aerial craft with multicolored lights on its rim; she woke her two teenage children who also watched it. It flew off toward Dromkeal. John McManus of Dromkeal, Ireland reported he experienced an abduction from his bedroom by four 4-foot tall beings. He was taken into a circular room, which had an exam table like a couch. They jabbe him in the neck with a probe, which caused him an electric shock and he passed out. He woke up naked, with mud on his feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, pp. 120-121 Source ID: Johnson_6453 Source: Johnson ### Event 22148 (219D60D7) Date: 9/30/1992 Description: At 10:30 p.m. an 81-year-old woman in Mount Katahdin Iron Works Park, Maine had a close encounter with an eight-foot wide circle of blinking lights at eye level near her window. The object was twice the apparent size of the Moon with a dozen lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Arnold Dunning, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1993, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_6456 Source: Johnson ### Event 22149 (4AC8125D) Date: 9/30/1992 Description: At 6:30 p.m six witnesses in Miraima, Ceara State, Brazil saw a fiery ball of light that moved at six meters altitude over a railway bridge, then directed two beams of light into a nearby lake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15838, citing UBPDV, Causistica Brasileira de 1992, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_6454 Source: Johnson ### Event 22150 (433B26B1) Date: 10/1992 Description: Dog barking at bullet-shaped object with searchlights alerted witness (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [921000](http://www.nicap.org/ar-9210xxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Canton, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5833 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22151 (8F6E1B8D) Date: 10/1992 Description: The first official Spanish UFO reports are declassified, leaving only witness names redacted. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “The Spanish Air Force UFO Files,” IUR 18, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1993\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_7020 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22152 (32E2E89F) Date: 10/1/1992 Description: Three men were in the backyard of a home in Clare, South Australia at 7:00 p.m. when they saw, at a low altitude in the northwestern sky, two lights travelling to the northeast. It resolved into a cigar-shaped object that was thicker in the middle, with a hazy glow surrounding it. It continued to fly to the northeast and was lost from sight behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_6477 Source: Johnson ### Event 22153 (A17C27D7) Date: 10/8/1992 Description: An ovoid UFO silently hovered over a park in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England at 6:45 p.m. for 70 minutes. It shot away faster than any plane, according to the four teenage witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1993 Source ID: Johnson_6674 Source: Johnson ### Event 22154 (7D284944) Date: 10/8/1992 Description: Late on this evening a woman reportedly had an abduction experience in Gardendale, Alabama. Leah Haley saw a moon-like object outside her house, and when she saw the real moon and recognized the second object wasn't it, a beam of light engulfed her and transported her onboard the craft. She then claims that she found herself in a "contemporary" looking room with tables adorned with crystal figurines. She also saw slips of paper underneath the figurines, with the names of other people to be abducted that night. A female, human-looking alien then came into the room. She had short brown hair and wore a red and gold blouse with black trim. She told the witness that her people "were trapped in a time dimension and needed our help to get out." From her limited recollection she recalled that the beings then performed some painful physical exam procedures on her that she was made to forget. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2071, citing a published article by Leah Haley Source ID: Johnson_6675 Source: Johnson ### Event 22155 (876823D0) Date: 10/9/1992 Description: About 7:50 P.M. Green-orange fireball meteor southwest to northeast on flat trajectory for about 17 seconds, broke up over southeastern New York; large meteorite fell in Peekskill, NY. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kentucky to New York, Various Source ID: NICAP_DB_5834 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22156 (82C31E43) Date: 10/9/1992 Description: About 7:50 P.M. Greenorange fireball meteor southwest to northeast on flat trajectory for about 17 seconds, broke up over southeastern New York. Large meteorite fell in Peekskill, NY. Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Kentucky to New York State Source ID: HallUFOE2_477 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22157 (35F73743) Date: 10/9/1992 Description: 7:50 p.m. A fragment of the Draconid meteor stream strikes a 1980 Chevrolet Malibu owned by Michelle Knapp while she is home in Peekskill, New York. She goes outside after hearing a crash and discovers a hole in the trunk of the car and a 6-inch crater in her driveway. The stony fragment \(oval shaped and about 1 foot in length\) is in the crater, along with pieces of the car. The rock is still hot and weighs about 30 pounds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Peekskill meteorite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peekskill%5Fmeteorite)”; “[A Hot Rock from Outer Space? Meteorite May Have Hit Teen’s Car,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98089403/)” Yonkers \(N.Y.\) Herald Statesman, October 11, 1992, p. 28; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_7021 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22158 (AC0A4E93) Date: 10/10/1992 Description: A ring of lights divided into two sections over the M56 highway in Streton, Cheshire, England at 11:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1993 Source ID: Johnson_6738 Source: Johnson ### Event 22159 (7334CE3C) Date: 10/10/1992 Description: In Greenville, Virginia there was a close encounter by three witnesses--one independent of the other two--with a huge oval or cigar-shaped object at 7:00 p.m. flying several hundred feet above the ground. It was 150-200 feet in length and had three rectangular 20 foot long bright pink lights along the side. There was also another circular object that was reddish-pink in the center with rings of rainbow colors around its center. The circular or disc-shaped object with the rings of light was over the mountains; it dropped to a low altitude, and a jet roar was heard for four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON investigation case files, case # 930802E, investigator Mark Blashak; Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1993, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_6737 Source: Johnson ### Event 22160 (54369A59) Date: 10/15/1992 Description: 6:00 p.m. Witnesses in Lubbock, Texas, see a gray cigar-shaped object that becomes visible for about 20 minutes after a cloud disappears. It moves close enough to them so that they can see windows on the object. The cloud reappears and the object is no longer visible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_7022 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22161 (C9F31F90) Date: 10/17/1992 Description: At 4:00 p.m. a large green, vertical, cylindrical object with thin legs was sighted moving north between Chichester and Midhurst, West Sussex, England. It moved slowly at 30 mph at only 100 feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1993 Source ID: Johnson_6942 Source: Johnson ### Event 22162 (17EA4927) Date: 10/23/1992 Description: Motorists pulled off road to watch yellow ball of light at 12:45 a.m. west of Lake San Marcos in San Diego County, California. The nocturnal light hovered over the road for two minutes, then shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1993 Source ID: Johnson_7058 Source: Johnson ### Event 22163 (C39C2297) Date: 10/27/1992 Description: Just before 12:00 midnight. A1C Michael R. Reager and A1C Jason H. Barrier are approaching the operations hanger of the 44th Field Maintenance Missile Squadron at Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota. A group of bright white lights suddenly appears in the air, moving rapidly in rigid formation. Witnesses assume the lights are attached to a large, dark aircraft. It hovers briefly above the hangar at 300–500 feet then moves away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 470–472 Source ID: Eberhart_7023 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22164 (910407F8) Date: 10/31/1992 Description: On this evening a witness driving a pickup truck on a rural road on Gaither Mountain, Arkansas saw, standing by the roadway, a short gray-skinned humanoid with a large head and huge black eyes only 15 feet away. The witness apparently blacked out and experienced at least 30 minutes of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1992 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 272, citing Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter, 4-1993 Source ID: Johnson_7354 Source: Johnson ### Event 22165 (7BFC4E0C) Date: 11/1992 End date: 12/1992 Description: Numerous sightings in Saguache County Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: San Luis Valley, CO Source ID: HallUFOE2_478 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22166 (5651F841) Date: 11/1992 Description: Night. A man in Brighton, England, calls the RAF to report a brightly lit UFO shaped like a “squashed rugby ball” hovering above his house. Through windows in its side, he can see two men wearing beige uniforms standing in front of machinery. When one of the crew members appears to notice him, the object’s lights go out and the UFO zooms away over the English Channel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 128](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n209/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7024 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22167 (74262440) Date: 11/1992 Description: After 10:00 p.m. Three Romanian military helicopters are flying at an altitude of 328 feet at a speed of 93 mph on a night exercise near Buzău, Romania. Col. Marcel Smoleanu notices a silent, bright-red sphere about 60 feet in diameter to his left that begius to fly parallel to the helicopters. The other pilots confirm the sighting. After a minute or so, the object accelerates sharply, makes a 90° turn, and cuts across their flight path. The helicopters slow to a hover and the object disappears suddenly. The flight exercise is scrapped and the helicopters return to the military airfield at Buzău. One of the pilots, Lt. Col. Doru Drăgoi, is called into the radar room where operators show him more than 10 unidentified targets on the screen making odd movements northeast of Buzău, including sharp 180° turns near Săpoca. Drăgoi also sees bright objects crossing overhead from east to west at an amazing speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 110–113 Source ID: Eberhart_7025 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22168 (6CEC47FA) Date: 11/6/1992 Description: In Carbondale, Colorado at four o'clock at night a 100-foot in diameter disc-shaped object hovered over the town, then flew off over Mount Sopris. There were two separate, identical accounts of the sighting. A large disc-shaped object was also observed over Muncie, Indiana at 5:45 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1993; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994 Source ID: Johnson_7515 Source: Johnson ### Event 22169 (64713B38) Date: 11/9/1992 Description: Mrs. Melitta Walter was sitting in her living room in Magdeburg, Germany at 8:30 p.m. when she heard a very deep humming sound coming from outside her house. When she looked out the window she observed a bright shining, flat cylindrical craft slowly flying over the roof. It was only about 50 meters away and at about 20 meters altitude. The witness could see several man-like occupants moving behind a large, wide illuminated window. She described the object as a flat cylinder with position lights on the left, right and back. Within a minute the object vanished behind the wall of her house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases - Europe, p. 42 Source ID: Johnson_7583 Source: Johnson ### Event 22170 (78AD49CC) Date: 11/16/1992 Description: Lt. Col. Ángel Bastida, head of the Intelligence Section of the Spanish Air Operative Command, establishes an informal agreement of cooperation with [Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos](http://independent.academia.edu/VICENTEJUANBALLESTEROLMOS/CurriculumVitae) to act as a civilian consultant on the declassification of UFO reports and establish a direct contact procedure for future cases. This allows him to personally view, handle, and copy all of the agency’s original UFO case files. It ensures that all reports in official custody are released, increases the momentum of the process, and secures copies of all related documentation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 428–429; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “[Monitoring Air Force Intelligence \(Spain’s 1992–1997 UFO](https://www.academia.edu/29413366/MONITORING%5FAIR%5FFORCE%5FINTELLIGENCE.pdf) [Declassification Process\),](https://www.academia.edu/29413366/MONITORING%5FAIR%5FFORCE%5FINTELLIGENCE.pdf)” MUFON 1997 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, pp. 139–178 Source ID: Eberhart_7026 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22171 (411E8758) Date: 11/19/1992 Description: In Moscow, Maine at 6:20 in the morning on this date, a 25-30-foot diameter saucer hovered three feet above the ground, only twelve feet away from the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, June 1993 Source ID: Johnson_7744 Source: Johnson ### Event 22172 (086FEE3F) Date: 11/20/1992 Description: In Fordland, Missouri in the hour just before dawn on this date in 1992, a deer hunter was waiting next to a large tree for a deer to approach. He saw a dim glow in the brush on the far side of a creek. He then saw a four-foot tall glowing man-like figure emerge from the brush. It moved stiffly, like a robot, never turning its head or arms, and it glowed with an off-white color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 1447 Source ID: Johnson_7758 Source: Johnson ### Event 22173 (6FB9C631) Date: 11/20/1992 Description: At seven p.m. a red triangle was seen maneuvering above the hills of Elkins, New Hampshire by a 42-year-old woman resident. It was in sight for nine minutes, and made no sound. Later that same night, on US highway 101 near Ventura, California two women were abducted from their car by large mantis-shaped, insectoid beings. One was given a medical exam; the other was guarded while the exam took place. The abduction lasted for a total of 145 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert W. Heslop, MUFON field investigation case files, case 960508S; UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, February 1994 Source ID: Johnson_7759 Source: Johnson ### Event 22174 (4136C9E2) Date: 11/23/1992 Description: A couple driving on an isolated road at 1:30 a.m. near the town of San German, Puerto Rico saw tall thin being walking on side of road. He was walking towards them, and was described as having a large head, which was covered by a black helmet, wide shoulders, and very long arms. At eye level there was a rectangular opening in the helmet, and they could see two large almond-shaped eyes. Around his neck was a golden colored collar. The startled witnessed decided to turn back and take another look, but the humanoid figure had already vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 285, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue # 58 Source ID: Johnson_7855 Source: Johnson ### Event 22175 (695B765B) Date: 11/25/1992 Description: In 1992 another abduction occurred. This time it was in Baca Grande, Colorado in the San Luis Valley, at 10:30 p.m. The last memory that the 40-year-old female witness had was turning off the heat in her pickup truck. Two hours later she awoke to an orange beam of light, with her truck that was now freezing inside. She had two hours of unaccounted for missing time, her watch had stopped, and her nose was bleeding. There were 2 independent witnesses of a UFO in the area that night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_7919 Source: Johnson ### Event 22176 (8BE4CF95) Date: 11/30/1992 Description: A 62-year-old man in Valley View, South Australia first heard a rushing wind noise, then saw a huge half-oval shaped UFO at tree top level. It was orange/copper in color and had a black underside. It stopped 100 meters away. There were three flashing exhaust vents underneath the craft, which was rotating counter-clockwise, 5-6 exhaust vents in the rear of the object, and two rudders. It climbed away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case SA92035 Source ID: Johnson_8092 Source: Johnson ### Event 22177 (598833A8) Date: 12/1/1992 Description: In 1992, in the town of Iaeger, McDowell county, West Virginia at 4:00 p.m., David Church saw a delta-shaped UFO fly overhead very slowly at about 250 feet altitude. It moved backwards, with the pointed end toward the rear. It had many multi-colored lights on the underside, lit up like a Christmas tree. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, P. 67 Source ID: Johnson_8113 Source: Johnson ### Event 22178 (1A58F0B8) Date: 12/4/1992 Description: In the suburbs of Winston Salem, North Carolina an adult watched a child walk to the school bus stop at 8:05 a.m. Beyond the woods and above some houses she saw a multi-colored domed disc-shaped object, perhaps 16-20 feet in diameter, moving in the sky. It made a humming noise. It appeared to hide beyond the furthest house, then hover over the house, and approached to within 75 feet of the child. The indicent lasted about five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON field investigation database, case 920202E, field investigator Barbara Thompson; UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993 Source ID: Johnson_8186 Source: Johnson ### Event 22179 (0CD48FBF) Date: 12/9/1992 Description: Nocturnal lights were videotaped over a school in Sidney, Maine for three minutes at 9:30 a.m. The shape of the object or objects behind the lights was indistinct, but there was a loud hum associated with the sighting. The lights zigzagged. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1993 Source ID: Johnson_8287 Source: Johnson ### Event 22180 (B92499E3) Date: 12/10/1992 Description: In 1992, in Elizabethtown, South Australia at 2:00 a.m., a 5-year-old child awoke to see a short being with thin legs, no arms, and a large head that had glowing colored light emanating from it, standing at the foot of the bed. The being apparently vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact database, Case #2611 Source ID: Johnson_8325 Source: Johnson ### Event 22181 (500596C1) Date: 12/16/1992 Description: A man awoke on this night at 5:30 a.m. in his bedroom in Scotland and felt compelled to go to window. He saw a tall, tannish-gray being only two meters away. A powerful sense of fear overcame him, and he believed that the alien had come for his girlfriend, still asleep in the bed. He next experienced a loss of memory as to what happened next, and they both felt ill. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case 2860, citing A. Brough Source ID: Johnson_8453 Source: Johnson ### Event 22182 (82638206) Date: 12/16/1992 Description: Night. Werner Noeske observes a large, brightly illuminated disc with a large triangular window in the base over Leipzig, Germany. Additional witnesses come forward, but an investigation reveals that two unrelated incidents contributed to the sightings: a “sky tracker” searchlight common in European discos, and a cargo plane that makes routine flights at the same hour. A photograph confirms the latter interpretation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Hans-Werner Peiniger, “[UFO-Beobachtungen,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/JUFOF%20%28GEP%29/JUFOF%20-%20Issue%20086%20-%201993%2002.pdf)” Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 86 \(Mar./Apr. 1993\): 3–4 Source ID: Eberhart_7027 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22183 (EBA0BBE9) Date: 12/18/1992 Description: Several people at the local Dairy Queen in Iaeger, West Virginia saw a large diamond-shaped UFO with a squared back fly over toward the southwest at 7:10 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 61, citing field investigator D. Church Source ID: Johnson_8499 Source: Johnson ### Event 22184 (76E8FB68) Date: 12/20/1992 Description: At 7:10 p.m. two independent male witnesses, one with field glasses, watched a multi-colored, disc-shaped UFO fly from the northeast over a lake in East Holden, Maine. It flew south over a highway and “went down behind some trees near the Holdbrook School.” Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Arnold Dunning, MUFON field investigation files, case #930306E Source ID: Johnson_8544 Source: Johnson ### Event 22185 (02B6349C) Date: 12/21/1992 Description: On this night in 1992 a domed, disc-shaped UFO directed a red beam of light into the river in Garland, McDowell County, West Virginia. According to the 15-year-old teenager who witnessed this, when the red beam turned off the high-pitched noise coming from the object stopped. There were also several other discs present in the sky at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 75, citing investigation by D. Church Source ID: Johnson_8557 Source: Johnson ### Event 22186 (C864B548) Date: 12/23/1992 Description: At 8:20 p.m. in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil a glowing craft landed near a thicket on the outskirts of Passa Tempo. Several witnesses watched it then take off and move away to the east at a low altitude. It made no sound as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UBPDV, Causistica Brasileira de 1992, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_8575 Source: Johnson ### Event 22187 (D9CEB58B) Date: 12/24/1992 Description: Twenty civilian witnesses and police southwest of Monroe, Louisiana watched a silent, boomerang shaped UFO with bright beams of light pass over cars in a forested area at 6:00 p.m. and bounce up and down for six minutes. The object was videotapted by one of the witnesses, a 39-year-old man. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: W. L. Garner, Jr., MUFON UFO Journal, November 1993 Source ID: Johnson_8596 Source: Johnson ### Event 22188 (54FD1C4C) Date: 12/24/1992 Description: 6:09–8:15 p.m. Twenty civilian witnesses and police south and west of Monroe, Louisiana, watch a silent, boomerang-shaped UFO with bright beams of light pass over cars in a forested area and bounce up and down for 6 minutes. The object is videotaped by one of the witnesses, Cecil Cullipher, in West Monroe. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: W. L. Garner Jr., “UFOs Compete with Santa for Christmas Eve Limelight,” IUR 18, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1993\): 8–11, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_7028 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22189 (A54B74DC) Date: 12/25/1992 Description: On this night at 9:00 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object with pairs of green and orange lights located at four places around the underside of the object was seen over a lake in Springfield, Missouri by a boy and a girl, age 10. The UFO left behind a white smoke trail when it moved away Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lisa Dusenberry, MUFON Field Investigations Database, case 930606J Source ID: Johnson_8609 Source: Johnson ### Event 22190 (D848EBD7) Date: 12/29/1992 Description: A woman arriving home from work in a residential area of Chicago, Illinois was confronted by eight faceless men in her parking lot at about 7:00 p.m. They carried hand-held devices like black flashlights. One spoke in a computer-like voice. She developed a blinding headache, and then lost consciousness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 1046, citing Ann B. Livingston Source ID: Johnson_8645 Source: Johnson ### Event 22191 (C4416DE7) Date: 12/31/1992 Description: A woman walking outside her home in San Antonio, Texas saw a huge, gray metallic disc drop straight down from the clouds. It made a buzzing noise. It altered its shaped to that of a sphere with four legs and landed. Under hypnosis it was revealed that she experienced an abduction aboard the craft, in which she was given a medical exam by pale, human-looking men. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case #1678, citing Karla Turner; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 316 Source ID: Johnson_8682 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1993 (Back to Top) ### Event 22192 (E5884765) Date: 1993 Description: The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program \(HAARP\) facility begins construction north of Gakona, Alaska, just west of Wrangell–Saint Elias National Park, funded by the Air Force, Navy, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and DARPA. Its original purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance. As a university- owned facility, HAARP is a high-power, high-frequency transmitter used for study of the ionosphere. The most prominent instrument at HAARP is the Ionospheric Research Instrument \(IRI\), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high frequency band. The IRI is used to temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere. Other instruments, such as a VHF and a UHF radar, a fluxgate magnetometer, a digisonde \(an ionospheric sounding device\), and an induction magnetometer, are used to study the physical processes that occur in the excited region. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency%5FActive%5FAuroral%5FResearch%5FProgram)”; University of Alaska Fairbanks, “[About HAARP](https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu/)” Source ID: Eberhart_7030 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22193 (6581951F) Date: 1993 Description: [Jean-Jacques Velasco](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%5FVelasco) coauthors OVNIs: La science avance, with journalist [Jean-Claude Bourret](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%5FBourret)[,](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%5FBourret) in which he admits the physical reality of UFOs and the probability of their extraterrestrial origin. He stresses that it’s his personal opinion, although he has been authorized by CNES to write the book. Its foreword is written by astrophysicist [Jean-Claude Ribes](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%5FRibes), president of the French Astronomical Society. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jean-Claude Bourret and Jean- Jacques Velasco, OVNIs: La science avance, Laffont, 1993; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7029 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22194 (5E7FB8B4) Date: 1/1993 Alternate date: 2/1993 Description: Night. T/Sgt John W. Mills III is driving back to Malmstrom AFB near Great Falls, Montana, with another tech sergeant. Near Monarch, Montana, they watch a bright light in the sky for about 5 minutes. Suddenly it makes a sharp banking maneuver. Thinking it is a helicopter, they drive on toward Belt, Montana, where they encounter a roadblock with cars backed up for miles. The base dispatcher asks if they saw anything on their drive. When they answer yes, he tells them to proceed to the Alpha-01 missile launch facility not far away. They are redirected to Malmstrom, where they find that many “anomalies” have been reported zooming over missile sites that night. The “anomaly” they had seen apparently came down and landed near the highway west of Belt. Another light reportedly flew in and out of the open doors of the base vehicle barn; at least 4 witnesses say it was the size of a softball and flew at a height of about 10 feet. At least six balls of light maneuver around the flight line of the base at high speed and different altitudes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 462–466 Source ID: Eberhart_7034 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22195 (9F527619) Date: 1/1/1993 Description: 1:30 a.m. A taxi driver has just dropped off revelers at a remote house in Hethersgill, Cumbria, England. She heads home down a remote track toward the main road when suddenly her CB radio begins to crackle then fades entirely. Moments later her car engine and lights fail, and she coasts to a stop. She gets out, hoping to walk back to the house, when she sees a ball of light low over the road heading towards her. It swoops over her car and shoots into the sky, causing her skin to tingle. The headlights come back on, the car lurches forward, and she hears her sister talking on the CB asking where she has been for the past 30 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 \(Christmas 2018\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_7031 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22196 (45B132EB) Date: 1/9/1993 Description: Cattle ran from area of blue oval ring (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [930109](http://www.nicap.org/ar-930109dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Slagle, MO Source ID: NICAP_DB_5835 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22197 (F734ECB8) Date: 1/9/1993 Description: Popudinske Mocadliny, Slovakia - The witness saw first an orange ball of fire at a minute before midnight, resting in a field. Later they saw a flying triangle only 30 cm in diameter that landed on top of a nearby pigeon house. A door opened and a tiny smoky humanoid exited the object. Two weeks later the witness saw a similar humanoid in his bedroom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Dr. Milos Jesensky Source ID: Johnson_234 Source: Johnson ### Event 22198 (E3D911F7) Date: 1/12/1993 Description: On this evening two men, Joseph Wiek and Harold Egeln, were having dinner at a coffee shop in Greenwich Village, New York when suddenly time seemed to slow down and everything became frozen in "time". Harold saw three humanoid figures enter the restaurant's front window in a blast of light. Joseph saw the three humanoids enter, but instead of a light blast he saw one carrying something that looked like a "trumpet". Later Harold had a bizarre dream where he saw a saucer-like object rimmed with what appeared to be trumpets, descend over the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 3870, citing S.P.A.C.E. Source ID: Johnson_287 Source: Johnson ### Event 22199 (DDC51BE3) Date: 1/12/1993 Description: On this night, during a period of appallingly poor weather conditions and repeated UFO sightings in the area, several local residents of Langeness Fjord, Iceland reported seeing small gray-colored humanoids walking on the ice on a nearby glacier. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1320, citing Tony Dodd, UFO Magazine (UK), Vol. 12, # 4 Source ID: Johnson_286 Source: Johnson ### Event 22200 (EC780E21) Date: 1/14/1993 Description: 7:00 p.m. Residents of Jerzmanowice, Kraków County, Poland, see a flash of light just before limestone debris falls around them, breaking window panes and plunging through roofs. A local rock formation, Babia Skała, has been shattered by an apparent lightning strike, although some in the village have seen one or two bluish objects colliding with the rock face. Although the blast is seen in Kraków, registered on seismic equipment, and observed by the fight controller in Balice, the Polish Army refuses to disclose any further details. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 119– 120; “[Babia Skała,](https://rowerowamalopolska.pl/4281-malopolska-babia-skala)” Rowerowa Matopolska, May 26, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_7032 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22201 (EB0B2379) Date: 1/14/1993 Description: A woman in southern California reported a series of bizarre incidents beginning at 3:55 a.m. during which she heard a loud buzzing sound, and then a red light pouring into her house through windows. She suffered related health effects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded Nov. 2, 1999 Source ID: Johnson_328 Source: Johnson ### Event 22202 (6B1F2A86) Date: 1/19/1993 Description: In Beldon, Western Australia at three a.m. the witness awoke to see a figure kneeling to the left side of his bed about half way down the side. The figure was thin and had normal features, except that it had no hair and the ears were defined only by a faint outline. A golden box-like object appeared to be attached to the being's neck just below its right ear. The witness reached out to touch the figure, but his hand went right through it. It then disappeared, to re-appear seconds later passing through a closed screen door. His dog at the foot of the bed watched the whole incident but did not react in any noticeable way. There were no sounds, smells, or other anomalies noted. The entity was wearing a grayish-green polo shirt that had a higher than normal neck line. It had a belt that supported a pair of loose fitting trousers. It was too dark to see any footwear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2680, citing Brian Richards, UFORUM Source ID: Johnson_390 Source: Johnson ### Event 22203 (5C92A232) Date: 1/19/1993 Description: Night. Jackie Chown and her family see a huge triangular object with flashing lights above their home in Ellastone, West Midlands, England. They chase after it in their car but lose track of it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Spotters Chase](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201993%2002%20-%20no%20283.pdf) [Mysterious ‘Flashing Triangle,’](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201993%2002%20-%20no%20283.pdf)” Ashbourne \(UK\) News Telegraph, January 21, 1993, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 283 \(February 1993\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7033 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22204 (518CCB2F) Date: 1/20/1993 End date: 1/20/2001 Description: President Bill Clinton in office Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_791 Source: Maj2 ### Event 22205 (4EE44F3C) Date: 1/20/1993 Description: At two a.m. a witness in McLarenvale, South Australia reported waking up to a loud humming sound in the house and bright lights. Then he saw a white humanoid figure standing in his bedroom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1689, citing Tasmanian UFO Report 1994 Source ID: Johnson_396 Source: Johnson ### Event 22206 (02A32B4D) Date: 1/21/1993 Description: Dogs barking throughout town as triangle was in area (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [930121](http://www.nicap.org/ar-930121dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tuttle, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5836 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22207 (254141EC) Date: 1/22/1993 Description: Several students at the local Camp Crame elementary school in Quezon City, the Philippines were burning some wood in a wooded area next to a tamarind tree, when a gigantic black figure with a tail and two horns appeared. The students panicked and some seemed to go into a trance and started speaking in an unfamiliar language or tongue. The figure appeared to vanish in plain sight. The incident was interpreted as a "demonic" manifestation and possession. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 572, citing Fortean Times, issue # 68 Source ID: Johnson_429 Source: Johnson ### Event 22208 (631D52F1) Date: 1/23/1993 Description: A 34-year-old adult driving with two children in Charlestown, Rhode Island drove under and past a slow-moving, large, lighted, silent domed disc-shaped object with a flat bottom. They stopped to watch as a second object with blinding lights appeared and then moved off, drifting to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1994, p. 12 Source ID: Johnson_465 Source: Johnson ### Event 22209 (6B12AAFD) Date: 1/27/1993 Description: At 4:39 a.m. a woman in North Miami, Florida got up to go to the bathroom. On the way back to her bedroom she suddenly felt compelled to go to the kitchen and pull open the window. She then became afraid and went back to bed, but as she turned over in bed she heard a sound like a train and then a sound like an automatic door closing. She woke up two hours later and went to take a shower; there she realized that both of her knees were coated with an unknown white powdery substance. Her son remembered seeing a humanoid figure standing in his doorway and then going back to sleep. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1676, citing Karla Turner, Taken Source ID: Johnson_548 Source: Johnson ### Event 22210 (F21FDB69) Date: 1/28/1993 Description: In 1993 several UFO reports occurred over Alabama and Pennsylvania. At 5 a.m. noise attracted a witness to the window of her home in Dog Town, Alabama where she saw a UFO with several lights. In Adamsburg, Alabama at UFO was sighted at 6:30 p.m. that was described as fat in the middle, and tapered at the ends. A photo was taken of a stealth-aircraft like UFO in Gadsden, Alabama. The US Air Force denied that it was one of their aircraft. At 10:15 p.m. a yellow ball of light with a green flashing light was seen in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994 Source ID: Johnson_564 Source: Johnson ### Event 22211 (11073804) Date: 1/30/1993 Description: At 7:45 p.m. two teenagers in Oceanside, San Diego County, California watched an ovoid object approach them from the Pacific Ocean. The object stopped over them, then continued on to the east. It had a triangular shape inside or on the side of the object that was spinning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993 Source ID: Johnson_621 Source: Johnson ### Event 22212 (EA4F45A3) Date: 1/31/1993 Description: A farmer in Dodge County east of Columbus, Wisconsin had a close encounter with a large flat disc-shaped object with a dome on top at 8:10 p.m. It illuminated the farm with light beams that faded and intensified. Sheriff deputies then chased the UFO for 20 miles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, February 1993 Source ID: Johnson_643 Source: Johnson ### Event 22213 (81056577) Date: 2/1/1993 Description: 9:00 p.m. A witness is driving in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, when he sees a large, black, triangular UFO hovering above a water tank. The object has 9 lights, including a row of lights on one side. Two police officers had seen bright beams of lights in the vicinity earlier. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 218 Source ID: Eberhart_7035 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22214 (E8A3B34E) Date: 2/1/1993 Description: At 12:30 a.m. in Noranda, Western Australia Kylie C. awoke and saw a small figure standing beside her bed, halfway down the side. At the foot of her bed stood three taller beings. The smaller figure had dark almond-shaped eyes, small nostrils, and thin lips. Its head was bald and prominent. It had a potbelly and appeared to have only three fingers on each hand. The witness felt the desire to reach out and touch the figure as an overwhelming feeling of love and compassion embraced her, but she was unable to move or call out. The being moved back and disappeared, but before it did it gave her a telepathic message that "its not time yet." The following morning she was sore behind the ears and found some small pin pricks in the same area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2682, citing Brian Richards, UFORUM Source ID: Johnson_657 Source: Johnson ### Event 22215 (DA53EEB0) Date: 2/4/1993 Description: 6:35 p.m. Kevin Crump and his grandmother, Betty Barnick, spot an object in the sky near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, that spits out a blue glowing ball from its tail end, which hangs in the sky over an old school. Crump gets out and sees the UFO almost directly overhead. The moonlight reflects off its black metallic surface. It has the shape of an “oblong triangle” with a light at each point—a red light and a blue light at the front and a white light in the back. The UFO eventually moves away but returns with another bright blue light below it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 218–219 Source ID: Eberhart_7036 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22216 (3A8DEE79) Date: 2/5/1993 Description: In Pensacola Beach, Florida a ten meter long "helicopter" without rotors emitted three sets of four balls of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15959, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993 Source ID: Johnson_714 Source: Johnson ### Event 22217 (5A2DBA6A) Date: 2/9/1993 Description: On the same night Mr. C. Wagh was at the Bridge of Earn in Central Scotland when he sighted six white lights in a straight line. He viewed then through binoculars as they hovered for the next 15 minutes. They seemed to be about 6 to 8 feet apart. They suddenly went out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 159 Source ID: Johnson_783 Source: Johnson ### Event 22218 (46EDB048) Date: 2/9/1993 Description: A young boy went outside at 7:25 p.m. in Colebrook, New Hampshire and saw a domed disc-shaped object approaching from the northeast. He went and got his stepfather, and both of them witnessed two hovering discs. The discs appeared to be the size of a house, about four feet apart, and only 50 feet in altitude. They seemed to have a pink glow on the far sides. Their lights blinked, and then both discs disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sandra Black, MUFON Field Investigation case files, case 930604J; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1993 Source ID: Johnson_782 Source: Johnson ### Event 22219 (F077363E) Date: 2/19/1993 Description: A huge stingray shaped object with a fat belly, wider than it was long, was sighted flying over Goodrich, Michigan at 5:00 a.m. by a 39-year-old woman. Its underside was glowing. It was described as having massive wings that swept forward and ended in rounded tips. It also had a large round brilliant light on the leading edge midpoint of each wing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Shirley Coyne, MUFON case files, case # 930614C Source ID: Johnson_1011 Source: Johnson ### Event 22220 (24D797F3) Date: 2/19/1993 Description: At 6:20 a.m. a bus driver and two passengers saw a 300 foot in diameter round object with white lights hovering over a park in Panther, West Virginia. It stayed there until 10:30 a.m. Later that evening at 8:30 p.m. in nearby Georges Forks, West Virginia an ambulance crew driving along Panther Creek spotted a saucer with red, blue and green flashing body lights around its base. Through the fog the lights had a fluorescent appearance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_1012 Source: Johnson ### Event 22221 (0E9F343B) Date: 2/24/1993 Description: At 10:30 a.m. a silent bell-shaped object, the color of brushed aluminum, buzzed a car being driven by two women between Mosca and Hooper, Colorado on Highway 17 in the San Luis Valley. It headed off toward the sound flying at 100 feet above the highway. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_1091 Source: Johnson ### Event 22222 (E5E4DBB2) Date: 2/27/1993 Description: A man saw a saucer-shaped UFO in Grain Valley, Missouri that was only 100 feet away from him. A calf was discovered missing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing American UFO News Source ID: Johnson_1162 Source: Johnson ### Event 22223 (AADDA1C7) Date: 2/28/1993 Description: In County Wexford, Ireland a woman was taking a morning walk along a country road by herself when whe heard an odd sound coming from a nearby ditch by the edge of a field. She went over to look and there she saw a little dwarfish woman, about two foot tall with long red hair, who was trying to pick up a smooth stone that was wedged in the soil. The woman was wearing a purple outfit and had what appeared to be two raven feathers in her hair. When the witness got closer she could see that the dwarf was struggling with the stone. The little woman suddenly noticed the witness and vanished in plain sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 281, citing The Star Network Heartline, Vol. # 12, April 1993 Source ID: Johnson_1181 Source: Johnson ### Event 22224 (9A800750) Date: 3/1993 Description: US Rep. [Steven Schiff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FSchiff) \(R-N.Mex.\) writes to Defense Secretary [Les Aspin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%5FAspin), asking the US Air Force to declassify and provide him with all material relating to the Roswell crash. There is no response. After a second request, USAF Col. Larry G. Shockley refers him to the National Archives, which has no information. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_7037 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22225 (7C4BB051) Date: 3/2/1993 Description: On this evening in Goshen, Indiana two people in a car had their car bathed by a beam of light from an unseen aerial source. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 1707 Source ID: Johnson_1263 Source: Johnson ### Event 22226 (A1C176D0) Date: 3/4/1993 Description: In 1993 a UFO hovered over Shanghai, China in the night sky. It appeared to change shape as it hovered, then shrink in size until it vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993). Three other unexplained UFO reports occurred on this date. At 12:45 a.m. a 35-year-old woman driving on US highway 23 north of Delaware, Ohio slowed for a lighted object, just off the highway at 50 feet altitude. When she stopped her car the UFO came down to 15 feet above the ground, then its lights went out and the object either went away very fast or just vanished. At 11:45 a.m. a large ball-of-light buzzed a police helicopter and released three smaller fireballs east of Lynview, Kentucky. Finally, a UFO case rated as a high-reliability unknown was recorded as occurring at 11:45 p.m. at Wilson Point, New Brunswick by the Canadian UFO Survey. (Sources: Franklin Reams, MUFON Ohio investigation files; UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993; 1993 Canadian UFO Survey, case #043. Source ID: Johnson_1306 Source: Johnson ### Event 22227 (C0D16A28) Date: 3/12/1993 Description: Paramount premieres Fire in the Sky, a feature film directed by [Robert Lieberman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FLieberman) that is based on abductee [Travis Walton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis%5FWalton%5FUFO%5Fincident)’s book of the same name. Walton is portrayed by actor [D. B. Sweeney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%5FB.%5FSweeney)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%5FB.%5FSweeney)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Internet Movie Database, “[Fire in the Sky](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106912/)”; Chris Talarski, “Film Review: Fire in the Sky,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(May/June 1993\): 21 Source ID: Eberhart_7038 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22228 (A7739C72) Date: 3/14/1993 Description: On this evening a light fell to the ground in Dromkeal, Ireland; it then split in two, and both halves lifted off from the ground, flew away to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 122 Source ID: Johnson_1506 Source: Johnson ### Event 22229 (40D54305) Date: 3/16/1993 Description: Two investigators parked out in the remote desert of Tikaboo Valley, Arizona and started watching mysterious lights maneuver over the area at 8:31 p.m. One of the lights began to approach. It was a large object with bright square-shaped light panels that glowed amber and blue. It transformed into two or three bright orbs of light, and as it passed over their vehicle one of the men attempted to snap a photograph. At this point a state of confusion seemed to have overcome both witnesses, as both then became aware of a strange vehicle driving quickly away from them. A period of missing time was noted.

Later, under hypnotic regression, the first investigator was able to recall that the UFO stopped and hovered over their vehicle. He was then floated up through the bottom of the object and inside was met by a being that seemed to emerge through the brightly lit interior wall of the craft. The humanoid being was gray in color and about six feet tall. Its eyes were slanted and it had what appeared to be black plastic shields over them. Its head was egg-shaped. He wore a two-tone gray suit, with a lighter V in the front and a black belt with a black tube on his right side. He also sported a triangular emblem enclosing a helical coil on the suit's left breast. The being had long arms that ended in four long fingers. He communicated with the witness, then took him gently by the arm and escorted him inside a brightly illuminated dome-shaped room. The witness remembers seeing the second investigator lying on the floor, as if frozen, and apparently being guarded by a short Grey humanoid. He was then placed on a metal table that tilted 30 degrees to face a curved wall filled with a row of video screens. The being said that this process was a mind-sharing procedure that would allow the witness to learn new things. After what seemed like five minutes he was returned to an exit and floated down to the ground, about 20 feet below. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 1343, citing William F. Hamilton, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 304 Source ID: Johnson_1532 Source: Johnson ### Event 22230 (8907F1E3) Date: 3/16/1993 Description: A couple who are viewing aerial activity from a hill adjacent to Area 51 in Nevada see strange lights that seem to transform themselves into an automotive vehicle. After the encounter, the witnesses sense that 30 minutes are unaccounted for. They undergo hypnosis and recall an abduction by gray-skinned aliens. The man is taken into a craft, while the woman is taken into a white van. Inside the van are two men dressed in black with black baseball caps. They administer intrusive procedures in her eyes, ears, and elsewhere. She remembers seeing electronic instruments and automatic rifles inside the van. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: William F. Hamilton, “[Area 51 Encounter,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1993/08/August%201993.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 304 \(August 1993\): 14–17; Clark III 734 Source ID: Eberhart_7039 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22231 (38965BC6) Date: 3/19/1993 Description: In 1993 a huge flying saucer loomed over a water tank in the state forest near Guanica, Puerto Rico at 9:40 p.m. It was silent and lit up the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U database, case 15994 Source ID: Johnson_1578 Source: Johnson ### Event 22232 (23E552DC) Date: 3/20/1993 Description: At five o'clock in the morning Mr. Julio Chagala was sleeping in his home in Catemaco, Mexico when he was suddenly awakened by a bright blue light that entered his room through a window. Everything seemed to become very still and his surroundings were enveloped in that strange blue light. Looking out a window he saw a gold colored disc-shaped object, about 15 meters in diameter, land on a nearby field. The craft was totally silent when it came down. A hatch opened and several very large figures exited. They were about 2.5 meters in height but human in proportions, and they wore tight-fitting silvery diver's suits. They had long arms, pale complexions, large blue slanted eyes, and long golden-blond hair.

Mr. Chagala had by this time walked outside and approached the craft. The visitors saluted him with gloved hands, waving and then gesturing for him to enter the craft. Once inside he noticed that the humanoids had long pointed ears. He also saw numerous consoles and what appeared to be comfortable seats, he also saw a metallic table with several different instruments. One of the humanoids showed him a screen where he saw scenes of war, destruction, and ecological collapse. The craft had taken off and soon landed in an strange beautiful city, filled with humans of all ages. A large golden sun illuminated the city. He was taken to a crystalline waterfall that was surrounded by lovely colored stones. There the humanoids explained to Mr. Chagala that his destiny was to heal and care for his fellow man. He was also told that the aliens had several bases in the area, including one at the Ixtamalapan Lagoon. Chagala was warned of a different kind of humanoid that also visited the Earth, and these were the ones responsible for the reported animal mutilations. His hosts described them as the short, large-headed humanoids with huge black eyes, four fingered hands and protruding stomachs. They typically wore tight-fitting maroon outfits and traveled in small flying craft with ball-shaped landing gear. Mr. Chagala was eventually returned home. He experienced a drastic weight loss after the incident but recovered. Other local residents reported low-flying lights over the area about same time as his encounter. Currently Mr. Chagala is a known healer that uses natural herbs and remedies. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Grupo Cassiopeia Mexico Source ID: Johnson_1592 Source: Johnson ### Event 22233 (7F409490) Date: 3/20/1993 Description: Ziporet Carmel woke up earlier than usual and went to her kitchen in Kadima, Israel at 6:30 a.m. When she got there she noticed the room was bathed in a strange light. She went to check the grounds and when she walked around a storage shed she noticed what looked like a large fruit silo in a nearby field. As she took a closer look she noticed that the silver silo-like object was square in shape. It had 18 square glowing windows along its side. Five huge beams of powerful light shone from the top into the sky. Then, what appeared to be a second storey to the object materialized, doubling its size. A seven-foot tall man figure appeared near the object. Dogs in the area reacted with furious barking upon catching sight of the figure. The being wore a metallic coverall and sombrero-shaped headgear with a veil that completely covered the face. The witness and the entity stared at each other for about 30 seconds. Ms. Ziporet then quietly whispered "Why don't you take off your hat so I can see your face." She then heard a clear voice inside her head that spoke in Hebrew, telling her, "That's how things were." The witness then felt strangely compelled to go back to her kitchen. Later during a search of the field numerous ground traces were found, including an unknown smelly substance that made people nauseous. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2003, citing Barry Chamish, UFO Universe, Spring 1995 Source ID: Johnson_1591 Source: Johnson ### Event 22234 (1CA8D1D5) Date: 3/26/1993 Description: A 20-year-old woman was standing on her back porch in Roslyn Estates, Nassau County, New York when a silent, multicolored domed disc "glided over the house" at an estimated 150 feet altitude. She first thought it was a low flying plane, but dismissed that idea because of the shape of the object. The dome on the disc was as tall as the width of the object. The object was covered in bright white flashing lights. Jets soon showed up, apparently to chase the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, MUFON field investigations database, case 930402J; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1994 Source ID: Johnson_1682 Source: Johnson ### Event 22235 (67B90028) Date: 3/30/1993 Description: Kadima, Israel - At three o'clock in the morning Aviva Carmel felt drawn to leave her bed and go outside. There she witnessed a silver metallic craft land: first the front end touched down, then the rear. She estimated the size and shape of the craft to be similar to an "orange storage tank" or fruit silo, about sixty feet in circumference. She approached the landed craft to investigate and when she got to within twenty feet she saw one of the crew. He was 2.5 meters tall and wore silvery foil coveralls that clung tightly to his body like a second skin. He also wore a helmet with a tinted visor that prevented her from seeing the being's face. Later the following day Carmel ventured back into her backyard and saw the imprint of the craft. It was a circle 22 feet in diameter formed from still living vegetation. Plant life outside the imprint area had died. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Barry Chamish, FSR, Vol. 39 # 4 Source ID: Johnson_1750 Source: Johnson ### Event 22236 (66A6217D) Date: 3/30/1993 Description: A Dauphin helicopter, flying to the east of Mullingar, Ireland at ten minutes past midnight, encountered an unexplained light in the sky. It flashed on and off for two seconds, then became two white lights that flew from the northwest to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p 47 Source ID: Johnson_1748 Source: Johnson ### Event 22237 (2E15AFE2) Date: 3/30/1993 Description: At 12:30 a.m. at the RAF Shawbury air base in England, a meteorological officer saw a triangular UFO, larger than a Boeing-747, zigzag in the sky at great speed, making a humming sound. It swept the countryside with a powerful beam of light. At the same time in Rugeley, England a family had a close encounter with a UFO that made a humming sound. They thought the object was going to crash, but instead it vanished. At RAF Cosford an aviation expert timed the flight of a UFO seen traveling between Haverfordwest and Pembrokeshire. He calculated its speed at 1100 mph. According to Nick Pope, the UK Air Ministry's representative responsible for tracking UFO reports at the time, zigzagging UFOs were also reported flying over Devonshire, Cornwall, and Somerset Counties at this time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lynn Pickett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, pp. 150-152 Source ID: Johnson_1749 Source: Johnson ### Event 22238 (7ABCD6A3) Date: 3/31/1993 Description: Kadima, Israel - The neighbor of the UFO witness from the previous night felt her house tremble during the night. When she opened her eyes she saw "a bald giant, 7 to 8 feet tall, with round, yellow eyes and a small flat nose, dressed in gray metallic overalls" standing next to her bed. "Don't be afraid. I will not harm you," she heard in her mind as she saw the being gliding through the room. The next morning, two additional flattened circles were found in the field, eleven and twenty feet in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History Source ID: Johnson_1776 Source: Johnson ### Event 22239 (49A21215) Date: 3/31/1993 Description: 1:10–1:15 a.m. Dozens of people across Devon, Cornwall, South Wales, Shropshire, and central Ireland see triangular UFOs speeding across the sky. An MoD police patrol sees the lights from RAF Cosford in Shropshire, England. The UFO passes over the base “at great velocity ... at an altitude of approximately 1,000 feet.” It looks like two white lights with a faint red glow at the rear, with no engine noise. The RAF police report also contains details on other civilian UFO sightings that they had learned about in the course of making enquiries with other military bases, civil airports, and local police. The police call ahead to alert the meteorological officer at nearby RAF Shawbury that the UFO is coming his way. The officer at Shawbury sees the object moving slowly across the countryside toward the base at a speed of no more than 30–40 mph. He sees the UFO fire a narrow beam of light \(like a laser\) at the ground and watches the light sweeping backwards and forwards across the field beyond the perimeter fence, as if it is looking for something. He hears and feels the vibrations from an unpleasant low- frequency humming sound coming from the craft. He estimates its size as midway between a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft and a Boeing 747. The light beam retracts in an unnatural way, then the object accelerates to the horizon many times faster than a military aircraft. Ministry of Defence UFO Officer [Nick Pope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FPope%5F%28journalist%29) says there are multiple sightings at different times that cannot be attributed to the reentry, concluding on April 16 that “It seems that an unidentified object of unknown origin was operating in the UK Air Defence Region without being detected on radar; this would appear to be of considerable defence significance, and I recommend that we investigate further, within MoD or with the US authorities.” However, [Jenny Randles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles) suspects that the sightings are caused by the Soviet Tsyklon rocket booster 22586U, which launched the Kosmos 2238 radio satellite into orbit the previous day. Pope later comes around to that viewpoint after hearing about sightings at the same time in Ireland and France. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “A New Broom at the Ministry,” IUR 19, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1994\): 18–20; Nick Pope, Open Skies, Closed Minds, Simon & Schuster, 1996, [pp. 134–141](https://archive.org/details/openskiesclosedm0000pope/page/134/mode/2up); Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [p. 146](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/146/mode/2up); David Clarke, “[The](https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/secret-files/the-cosford-incident/) [Cosford Case,](https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/secret-files/the-cosford-incident/)” Fortean Times 199 \(September 2005\): 30–31; Kean, [pp. 165–167](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/164/mode/2up), [251–252](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/258/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 384–](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/384/mode/2up) [385](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/384/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/384/mode/2up) [431–432](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/430/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 142–143](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n231/mode/2up); Jenny Randles, “Irish Mid-Air Spectacular,” Fortean Times 375 \(January 2019\): 33; Nick Pope, “The Cosford Incident,” 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7040 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22240 (75285C52) Date: 4/1993 Description: The Centro de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Inusuales in Buenos Aires, Argentina, publishes the first issue of Los Identificados, a journal focusing on Argentine occupant cases. It is edited by Roberto E. Banchs and runs for 15 issues until 1998. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Los Identificados](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Argentina/Los%20Identificados/Los%20Identificados-%20No%2001.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Argentina/Los%20Identificados/Los%20Identificados-%20No%2001.pdf) no. 1 \(April 1993\) Source ID: Eberhart_7044 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22241 (51D29DD4) Date: 4/1993 Description: Didier Gomez begins publishing UFOmania in Paris, France. It continues through April 2015. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFOmania](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFOmania/UFOmania%20-%20No%2001%20-%201993%2004.pdf), no. 1 \(April 1993\) Source ID: Eberhart_7043 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22242 (76FBFA96) Date: 4/1993 Description: Spanish communications technician [José Luis Jordán Peña](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5FLuis%5FJord%C3%A1n%5FPe%C3%B1a) confesses for the first time to hoaxing the Ummo letters as well as the UFO sightings at Aluche, Spain, in 1966 and San José de Valderas in 1967. He says that he used the word “Ummo” because it suggests the Spanish word humo \(smoke\) and randomly chose Wolf 424 as the home star for the imaginary planet. “I wrote the reports on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and I took advantage of my trips to France, England, Mozambique, etc., or those of friends, to send letters from there.” However, other hoaxers begin copying his style, and after he receives an invitation to an Ummo conference in Cuba, he decides to admit the hoax he had started 25 years earlier. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Ummo](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ummo)”; Jim Keith, Casebook on the Men in Black, IllumiNet, 1997 Source ID: Eberhart_7042 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22243 (B38AF48E) Date: 4/1993 Description: [Michael D. Swords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FD.%5FSwords) examines the position of establishment astronomers on the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life in the first six decades of the 20th century, especially regarding Mars, Venus, and deep space. He then speculates on the likely advice received by the USAF intelligence community by astronomical experts in the early days of the UFO phenomenon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Astronomers, the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis, and the United States Air Force at the Beginning of the Modern UFO Phenomenon,” JUFOS 4 \(1992\): 79–129 Source ID: Eberhart_7041 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22244 (EBBC36DA) Date: 4/1/1993 Description: A silent triangular UFO was seen for 10-15 seconds in Cache Creek, British Columbia on this night. The next morning at Baca Rach, Colorado in Saguache County a dead cow was discovered in the place where orange lights had been spotted hovering the night before. The cows rear end, tongue, and udder had been removed by cutting, and the jaw was bleached white. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 1993 Canadian UFO Survey, case 423; Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 90 Source ID: Johnson_1796 Source: Johnson ### Event 22245 (E9F1DB15) Date: 4/5/1993 Description: A Houston, Texas UFO abductee had gone to a professional hypnotist and was given a post-hypnotic suggestion instructing her to defend herself from alien abductors during any subsequent abduction attempts. On this night she was asleep in her bedroom when she awoke and saw two short Grey humanoids with large black, oval-shaped eyes come in through the wall. As one of the beings approached the bed the witness grabbed what seemed to be a black protective eye shield from the humanoid's eyes. His skin felt rough as she tore the eyepiece off. A moist liquid fell on the witness arm, described as a mucus-like substance. The beings then retreated through the wall and left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1696, citing Tricia McCannon, International UFO Library Magazine, June-July 1994 Source ID: Johnson_1853 Source: Johnson ### Event 22246 (D80F933B) Date: 4/8/1993 Description: A cloud of dust was seen in the desert near Interstate 15 in Sloan, Nevada by police at 10:40 a.m. Then a huge silver disc rose from the ground and flew off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16021 Source ID: Johnson_1909 Source: Johnson ### Event 22247 (3E96196E) Date: 4/8/1993 Description: Prison guards and police in Lebanon, Ohio sighted a nocturnal flying object with small lights around it at 2:20 a.m. There were four calls to the Ohio Highway Patrol of UFO sightings at around 2:30 a.m. as well. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1993 Source ID: Johnson_1908 Source: Johnson ### Event 22248 (F9BDD098) Date: 4/16/1993 Description: At 9:20 p.m. a deputy sheriff and others observed a 200-300 foot wide flying boomerang or V-shaped UFO in Bayport, Florida. The UFO was pulsing as it hovered, then "hauled ass." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Leonard Sturm, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1996, p. 20; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 80 Source ID: Johnson_2064 Source: Johnson ### Event 22249 (D0EEB728) Date: 4/16/1993 Description: In Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, England a witness reported that a one-foot in diameter, glowing ovoid object was just outside the window of the house at 2:30 a.m. It was very bright, and some psychic effects resulted from the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1994 Source ID: Johnson_2063 Source: Johnson ### Event 22250 (CF43921C) Date: 4/17/1993 Description: At 9:45 p.m. in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana a 29-year-old man sighted a white "wishbone" object in the sky at a moderate distance. His sketch shows a V-shape with one long side extending below as if forming a cocked Y. The entire figure glowed white. The distance was estimated to be 600 feet, with an altitude higher than 300 feet. The speed of the object was slow, estimated to be around 30+ mph. There was a bright light on front when last seen. It was in view for about a minute and a half. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 16; MUFON field investigation files, field investigator Will Ott, case # 941210S Source ID: Johnson_2094 Source: Johnson ### Event 22251 (8B5F339C) Date: 4/17/1993 Description: In Birmingham, England Peter Gregory had gotten out of bed at 2:30 a.m. to go to the bathroom when he noticed a light outside his landing window. He peered out and saw a glowing ball the size of a football. After five seconds it flew silently past the window and out of sight. He fell back into a deep sleep and had a dream or vision. He saw himself in what appeared to be a control room inside an enormous object. He felt motion and heard a humming sound. The room was illuminated with an intense blue light that seemed to pulse with a hypnotic rhythm. He felt an inner state of euphoria. Without warning he suddenly then found himself inside an oval room with a console with lights in the center. On the left of the console was a cubicle about six feet high. Three humanoid figures were standing there and staring at a viewing screen, watching a transmission. The beings did not notice Gregory. He described them as human sized, with piercing deep blue eyes, reddish brown hair, and heads circled by a broad silver band. He moved closer and noticed on a display screen something that read "Year 3600." He felt the message on the screen meant the destruction of human civilization. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2748, citing Marcus Day, Aliens: Encounters with The Unexplained Source ID: Johnson_2093 Source: Johnson ### Event 22252 (5F9888C6) Date: 4/18/1993 Description: A UFO hovered in the broad daylight on this afternoon in New Port Ritchie, Florida. It then rose up into the sky until it was gone from view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1511 Source ID: Johnson_2124 Source: Johnson ### Event 22253 (D6727E18) Date: 4/19/1993 Description: At 8:45 p.m. in Black Heath near Salisbury, England a dark charcoal colored cylindrical object was spotted on the ground. The object was 60 feet in length and had four landing legs, two of them appeared to be damaged. Two short, 3.5 foot tall beings with slanted eyes were seen on board. According to the witnesses, a large US Air Force helicopter flew into the area and carried the craft away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case 2356, citing Jonathon Dillon, UFO Magazine (UK), November-December 1994 Source ID: Johnson_2145 Source: Johnson ### Event 22254 (31932D86) Date: 4/19/1993 Description: Brian Canfield was driving his truck along a road in the foothills of Mount Rainier, Washington State, when he suddenly experienced total engine failure and his headlights went out at 9:30 p.m. He next saw a nine foot tall, broad-shouldered winged creature land about 30 feet away from him. The being had a large mouth with sharp teeth, yellow eyes, a wolf-like face and was covered with a dark bluish fur. After a few minutes the creature turned its head, looked at him, and started flapping its wings. The creature then took off towards Mount Rainier. Brian was then able to restart his truck and drive away. A later search of the area failed to locate any physical evidence. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case #1961, citing Strange Magazine, issue # 14 Source ID: Johnson_2146 Source: Johnson ### Event 22255 (E279564B) Date: 4/23/1993 Description: On this day, during a heavy concentration of UFO sighting reports in the State of Fortaleza, Brazil, a man named Jose Ernani claimed to have encountered a being of light during prayer at a local grotto in Vila Peri. He described the being as female, about 19-years old, with finely chiseled features, a pink complexion, a heart shaped mouth, and long brown wavy hair. Her eyes were of a "penetrating" blue color. She wore a silky dress with a short sash about four inches wide. On the sash he could see two ingrained faces. Ernani interpreted the being as an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, HC# 2701, citing Reginaldo de Athyayde, FSR Source ID: Johnson_2264 Source: Johnson ### Event 22256 (87611718) Date: 4/25/1993 Description: A six meter diameter white glowing disc was seen revolving clockwise over the road in Petit Palais, Gironde, France by two witnesses at 11:40 p.m. It followed their car for 50 kilometers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16030, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 341 Source ID: Johnson_2313 Source: Johnson ### Event 22257 (2E49F3B8) Date: 4/26/1993 Description: 11:20 p.m. A witness in Muskegon, Michigan, is taking her dog for a walk when she notices two red lights and one white light arranged like a triangle above Muskegon Lake. The lights separate, and the white light shoots across the sky. The two red lights move back and forth like a pendulum before heading south. Another witness in Whitehall, Michigan, sees a similar display at the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Two See Unidentified ‘Triangle of Lights,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201993%2006%20-%20no%20287.pdf)” Muskegon \(Mich.\) Chronicle, April 28, 1993, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 287 \(June 1993\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_7045 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22258 (006747F4) Date: 4/28/1993 Description: 11:50 p.m. Jefferson County Air Unit police officers Kenny Graham and Kenny Downs are on helicopter patrol over General Electric Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, when Graham sees something like a small fire off to his left. Downs shines his spotlight on the light, which begins to drift back and forth as the spot washes over it. Then it gradually floats up to the helicopter’s altitude at 500 feet, where it hovers for a few seconds before moves away at high speed, making two counterclockwise loops and doubling back to the rear of the helicopter. Graham pushes his speed up to 100 mph. The object passes them and climbs hundreds of feet into the air before descending again toward the helicopter. Graham tries to close the gap, but it eludes him. As it approaches again on a parallel course, the object releases three fireballs. Fearing a collision, Graham banks away. When his move is complete, the light has vanished. Two officers in their squad cars, Mike Smith and Joe Smolenski, also see the light and the fireballs. Smolenski tries to follow the light for a full minute before it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Police Officers](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100300860/) [Describe](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100300860/) [‘Dogfight’ with a UFO](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88332261/the-courier-journal/),” Louisville \(Ky.\) Courier-Journal, March 4, 1993, pp. 1, 5 Source ID: Eberhart_7046 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22259 (AE3ED3B9) Date: 4/29/1993 Description: A Rockwell-MBB X-31 experimental jet fighter designed to test thrust-vectoring technology successfully executes a rapid minimum-radius, 180° turn using a post-stall maneuver, flying well outside the range of angle of attack normal for conventional aircraft. This maneuver has been called the “Herbst maneuver” after [Wolfgang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbst%5Fmaneuver) [Herbst](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbst%5Fmaneuver)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbst%5Fmaneuver) a Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm employee and proponent of using post-stall flight in air-to-air combat. It looks nothing like a triangular UFO and cannot match the performance of the Belgian triangles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Rockwell-MBB X-31](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell-MBB%5FX-31)” Source ID: Eberhart_7047 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22260 (B1C6E83E) Date: 4/29/1993 Description: A sonar-like ping sound was heard, then a silent triangle UFO was seen hovering above Lasgraisses, Tarn, France. It had white "running lights." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 318 Source ID: Johnson_2414 Source: Johnson ### Event 22261 (C489A755) Date: 4/30/1993 Description: At 2:05 a.m. a 30-year-old man went outside in Millville, Massachusetts and saw lights approach to a distance of 3,000 feet. The object was shaped like a triangular and had several red lights on it. He waved his arm and saw a white light at the rear move to the center and beam directly into his eyes for a few seconds. The object continued in flight until it moved out of sight, at an estimated speed of 200 mph. It made no sound as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1993, p. 17, field investigator Morton Schafer; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 81 Source ID: Johnson_2432 Source: Johnson ### Event 22262 (F129B9F4) Date: 5/5/1993 Description: At 9:00 a.m. in Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio an enormous cigar-shaped craft with no wings and no windows flew over Lake Erie making no sound and at an incredible rate of speed. It was being chased by a helicopter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1993 webpage, report uploaded August 16, 2002 Source ID: Johnson_2560 Source: Johnson ### Event 22263 (8DA1D32D) Date: 5/5/1993 Description: In Lincolnton, North Carolina at 9:00 p.m. two witnesses spotted a glowing orange-white disc-shaped object that flew overhead and then into the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16041, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1994; George D. Fawcett Source ID: Johnson_2561 Source: Johnson ### Event 22264 (01151DDB) Date: 5/6/1993 Description: A video of a silver domed disc-shaped object, with 6 seconds of footage, was filmed by a 42-year-old woman near Highway 150 in Cherryville, North Carolina at 6:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO News Clipping Service, November 1993 Source ID: Johnson_2600 Source: Johnson ### Event 22265 (AA437D2A) Date: 5/9/1993 End date: 9/20/1993 Description: Artist and ceramicist Filiberto Caponi has a series of encounters with a humanoid alien near his home in Pretore, Ascoli Piceno, Italy. He takes six Polaroid photos of the creature in seemingly painful physical conditions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Timothy Good, Unearthly Disclosure: Conflicting Interests in the Control of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Random House, 2001, pp. 140–206; Patrick Gross, “[The Filiberto Caponi Close Encounters of the](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/caponi.htm) [3rd Kind, 1993](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/caponi.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7048 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22266 (F8D857D3) Date: 5/10/1993 Description: In the pre-dawn hours of the night six witnesses on a road west of Fortaleza, Ceara State, Brazil recorded three hours of videotape of a nocturnal object which had several satellite objects exit from it and then merge back into it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 291 Source ID: Johnson_2726 Source: Johnson ### Event 22267 (74418BE1) Date: 5/12/1993 Description: Several witnesses from San Marcos, Tula, Mexico including Maria de Lourdes Uribe, age 34, heard bizarre noises and saw mysterious lights coming from a nearby field at around one o'clock in the morning. A local youth approached the field and saw a huge glowing object hovering low over the ground. Five humanoid figures descended from the object and stood around it as if standing guard. They soon went back inside. Large circular ground traces and what appeared to be dug out trenches were found at the site. A dog belonging to one of the witnesses reportedly went missing soon after the incident. Several days before this incident a huge dark object that nearly covered the moon's disc was seen hovering over the area, and two days before an engineer saw a huge object suspended just above a roadway near the town of Tepeji, Mexico. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Luis Ruiz Noguez, Oscar Garcia, Hector Escobar & Hector Chavarria Source ID: Johnson_2778 Source: Johnson ### Event 22268 (F8EC4CCD) Date: 5/13/1993 Description: During a restless, sleepless night in Kadima, Israel Danny Rotem felt compelled to get in his car and drive. At around two a.m. he drove to the nearby forest and saw a large egg-shaped object on the ground. He left his car and then a tiny being, perhaps a meter and a half tall, appeared. The being told Danny, "We were waiting for you." The humanoid floated in front of him as he walked toward the craft. He does not remember how he got inside, but realized that the object's inside dimensions seemed larger, by far, that they could be judging from its outside dimensions. In the middle of the room was a pillar with an enormous pedestal. There were 13 aliens in the room. Two of them led Danny to a side chamber where he was put on a very comfortable sofa. He was told, telepathically, not to worry, "that he was on a mission; you'll know what it is in time." They then made an incision on his left wrist. His next memory was of being in his car again traveling home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Leading Edge: UFOs in Israel, Past & Present Source ID: Johnson_2818 Source: Johnson ### Event 22269 (DCEFE612) Date: 5/14/1993 Description: A domed disc flew over homes in Ashbourne, England at a low altitude, making no sound at 2:15 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1993 Source ID: Johnson_2841 Source: Johnson ### Event 22270 (68D6819A) Date: 5/14/1993 Description: At 4:00 o'clock in the morning a four-meter long white glowing ovoid UFO flew over Mildura, Victoria, Australia heading northeast. It then made a 90 degree turn and followed a car. The lights and radio of the car both temporarily died. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #16046 Source ID: Johnson_2840 Source: Johnson ### Event 22271 (59E1C867) Date: 5/16/1993 Description: At shortly after midnight a married couple driving with their daughter on the highway in Cormery, Indre-Loire, France had their vehicle paced by a bluish UFO. The form of the object was lit under a bluish light, and positioned itself in front of their vehicle at the height of the car's headlights. It maintained this position in front of the vehicle for the next four kilometers. The vehicle was traveling at approximately 100 km/h. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 123 Source ID: Johnson_2903 Source: Johnson ### Event 22272 (6D1D6929) Date: 5/18/1993 Description: On this night 31-year-old Astrid Ramos reported seeing a hovering circular object near Lisbon, Portugal from which descended several small humanoids. The humanoids then took her onboard the UFO. She was paralyzed while the humanoids performed several medical tests on her. They inserted a long thin tube into her nose, which caused her to feel a strong pressure inside her head. She was eventually released and soon began suffering from severe headaches. A Dr. Borja examined her and reportedly located an implant deep within her brain case. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Fabio Picasso Source ID: Johnson_2962 Source: Johnson ### Event 22273 (35E3403A) Date: 5/19/1993 Description: At 10:20 p.m. on a misty night in Kenyon, Rhode Island a woman was abducted into a 50 foot wide saucer-shaped object and kept there for five hours. Inside she was met by two three foot tall humanoids. She reported that she was later transported back to her house via a blue beam of coherent light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2389, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 268 Source ID: Johnson_2990 Source: Johnson ### Event 22274 (9A4C0515) Date: 5/20/1993 Description: Airliner crew saw dark blue, metallicappearing triangular object Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Ottawa, Canada Source ID: HallUFOE2_479 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22275 (1E471EC7) Date: 5/20/1993 Description: Airliner crew saw dark blue, metallic-appearing triangular object (section III). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [930520](http://www.nicap.org/930520ottawa%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ottawa, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5837 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22276 (CD86208C) Date: 5/26/1993 Description: A very fast moving disc-shaped object stopped and hovered over the Barnhill schoolyard in Hayes, England at 10:45 p.m. It then vanished in place. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1993 Source ID: Johnson_3109 Source: Johnson ### Event 22277 (06162C48) Date: 5/28/1993 Description: Near Victoria, Entre Rios province, Argentina four witnesses noticed a bright light floating very close to the ground at 10:20 p.m. within a wooded area. It rose above the treetops and illuminated the ground with a powerful beam of light. Its movements were erratic and sometimes slow, and it soon disappeared from sight. After ten minutes another four witnesses arrived and the craft returned, this time closer to their position. It seemed to float about five meters above the ground. Using binoculars they were able to see several very tall human-like silhouettes, about 2.7 meters in height, moving around on the ground in front of the light. A similar object was seen the next day in the same woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Raul Oscar Fantini Source ID: Johnson_3141 Source: Johnson ### Event 22278 (0ECD911B) Date: 5/30/1993 Description: Bourgata, Israel - Hannah Somech awoke at three o'clock in the morning when she heard her dog barking. She got up and went downstairs to her kitchen and looked out to the garden through a glass door when she saw her dog literally fly through the air and slam against a wall. Shocked and terrified, she bravely opened the door but was confronted by an invisible wall: she could literally go no further. She next saw an eight-foot tall giant in bright coveralls. She thought it might be a robber when she heard a voice inside her head that said, "You think I am a thief?"

"What did you do with my dog!", she asked furiously. "He disturbed me, as you do now," the giant spoke telepathically, without moving its lips. "I could crush you, but I don't want to. Just leave me alone, I am busy." The woman ran back to her bedroom to wake up her husband, but when they both came downstairs the giant had disappeared. In the garden, they found huge footprints, 16 inches in length. After the encounter Hannah suffered from fatigue, headaches and muscle pain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History Source ID: Johnson_3173 Source: Johnson ### Event 22279 (9FD9B174) Date: 6/1993 End date: 11/1993 Description: Numerous sightings, photographs reportedly taken Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Antelope Valley, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_480 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22280 (23CE10DC) Date: 6/1/1993 Description: At around one o'clock in the afternoon a dull, metallic, cigar-shaped object traveled from one cloud formation to another in Rogers, Arkansas then back to the first cloud formation on the exact reverse path. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 1993 webpage, report posted September 9, 2004 Source ID: Johnson_3208 Source: Johnson ### Event 22281 (E1BF0F0F) Date: 6/3/1993 Description: 6:00 p.m. A passenger on a flight 15 minutes out of Los Angeles International Airport in California sees a small cloud moving in the opposite direction of the aircraft, which has leveled off at 30,000 feet. He watches it fly in between two vertical columns of clouds, then when it approaches to a point directly in line with his window, it dives into the cloud mass below at a 30° angle and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 19, 26 Source ID: Eberhart_7050 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22282 (17717286) Date: 6/3/1993 Description: Ordinary Conversations about Extraordinary Matters, a documentary film by [Allen Ross](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%5Fof%5FAllen%5FRoss), premieres at the theatre of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Illinois. It features interviews with attendees at [R. Leo](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) [Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html)’s 12th Rocky Mountain UFO Conference in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1991. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “New Abduction Documentary Debuts,” IUR 18, no. 3 \(May/June 1993\): 21; George M. Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_7049 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22283 (2D11187B) Date: 6/5/1993 Description: Reinhard Nühlen founds Deutschsprachige Gesellschaft für UFO-Forschung in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, and begins publishing DEGUFOrum in January 1994. It is currently \(2020\) edited by Nikolaus Bettinger in Würselen, Germany. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [DEGUforum](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/Deguforum%20%28DEGUFO%29/Deguforum%20-%20Issue%2001%20-%201994.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Germany/Deguforum%20%28DEGUFO%29/Deguforum%20-%20Issue%2001%20-%201994.pdf) no. 1 \(January 1994\) Source ID: Eberhart_7051 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22284 (5D2EFD0E) Date: 6/7/1993 Description: A silent, nearly transparent, rectangular UFO glided over homes in Sheldon, Vermont at 9:15 p.m. It had two bright lights on one side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1994).

1994 An RCMP report stated that at 3:30 a.m. in farm country northwest of Gimli, Manitoba, Canada a 300 foot wide, donut or torus shaped object flew over the area to the east at 1500 feet altitude. It had nine to twelve flashing lights around its circumference. (Source: Frank Ducks, 1994 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 58, citing NRC Source ID: Johnson_3359 Source: Johnson ### Event 22285 (17BC15FA) Date: 6/8/1993 Description: Round UFO with satellite objects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Antelope Valley, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_481 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22286 (73A7CB09) Date: 6/14/1993 Description: Dog barked at hovering oval dome; also fearful (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [930614](http://www.nicap.org/ar-930614dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Piketon, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5838 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22287 (9323428A) Date: 6/15/1993 Description: An orange nocturnal light paralleled a car into Colborne, Ontario at 8:30 a.m. Two small lights were accompanying the orange light. They made no sound as they flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1993 Source ID: Johnson_3507 Source: Johnson ### Event 22288 (DAA7C800) Date: 6/18/1993 Description: A man working at a prison in Auckland, New Zealand looked out a window at 10:35 p.m. to see a bright light land on a nearby hill. Soon three humanoid figures became visible next to the light; they didnot appear to be human in nature. No further details are given. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Mysterious Reality Source ID: Johnson_3542 Source: Johnson ### Event 22289 (371DA730) Date: 6/18/1993 Description: Multiple objects were seen in the sky at 8:45 p.m., and a time loss of 30 minutes occurred to a witness on Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded February 18, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_3543 Source: Johnson ### Event 22290 (47E7330F) Date: 6/25/1993 Description: At 8:50 p.m. a private pilot at his home in Rognes, France sighted a black disc-shaped object flying quickly from the north to south at 3,000 feet altitude. He reported it to the police and Air Traffic Control. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomena magazine, issue no. 16 Source ID: Johnson_3662 Source: Johnson ### Event 22291 (A960090C) Date: 6/26/1993 Description: Several balls of light hovered over the town of Burgess Hill, England this night. According to the witness, they seemed to "want to be seen." A red fireball maneuvered in the sky over Derby, England at 11:45 p.m. In Gridley, California at 4:32 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time a six-minute long videotape was made of a round UFO with windows on the top. It had reportedly been maneuvering in the sky for several hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, September-November 1993 issues Source ID: Johnson_3686 Source: Johnson ### Event 22292 (01D913F3) Date: 6/26/1993 Description: 4:00 a.m. Witnesses in Hartcliffe, Bristol, England, see a large cigar-shaped object \(a possible blimp\) drifting slowly and silently over the rooftops. large white light \(the planet Venus\) in the southeast climbing slowly upward. It fades into the lightening sky shortly before dawn. One witness takes many minutes of video of this object, compressing several hours of its appearance. The same light appears at the same time for weeks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “UFOs in Focus,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_7052 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22293 (871849A6) Date: 7/9/1993 Description: A domed disc-shaped object, looking like a Mexican sombrero with light all the way around its rim, was seen by several witnesses in Bishopstone, England at 7:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1994 Source ID: Johnson_3968 Source: Johnson ### Event 22294 (9CF8703F) Date: 7/13/1993 Description: At 9:15 p.m. in Syracuse, Indiana a man on his porch heard a dynamo humming sound. He went to his backyard and saw a multi-colored cigar-shaped object drift slowly toward the west, rise up 50-70 feet, and then drift to the north. It passed in front of trees, and then behind some more trees and was gone from view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON investigation files, case 931243J Source ID: Johnson_4036 Source: Johnson ### Event 22295 (462DC718) Date: 7/13/1993 Description: Dogs howled as a cigar-shaped object passed (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [930713](http://www.nicap.org/ar-930713dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Syracuse, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5840 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22296 (57770D05) Date: 7/13/1993 Description: Cigar-shaped object with red body lights maneuvered at low level Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Syracuse, IN Source ID: HallUFOE2_482 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22297 (739B2111) Date: 7/13/1993 Description: At 9:30 p.m. in Ligonier, Indiana two teenagers driving south on Sparta Lake Road saw several red lights moving at a low altitude and making a humming sound. They stopped and got out of their car to watch as the lights maneuvered over farm buildings and then go behind some trees. At the same time or five minutes later in Cromwell, Indiana three people traveling south on Rte. 3 saw a number of lights that appeared to be a multi-colored oval-shaped UFO. It made a whining noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON investigations files, cases 931244J and 931245J Source ID: Johnson_4037 Source: Johnson ### Event 22298 (2EEBB00D) Date: 7/13/1993 Description: Kenneled dogs barking during 20 min. sighting of 3 rotating lights (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [930713](http://www.nicap.org/ar-930713bdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Ligonier, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5839 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22299 (FEB27E19) Date: 7/17/1993 Description: A peculiar looking robot-like humanoid was seen flying low over the terrain near Rome, Italy. It was viewed by a family with binoculars. While the witnesses was calling the airport the "robot" disappeared from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case no. 1707, citing London UFO Studies, Skylink, issues # 6 & 7 Source ID: Johnson_4149 Source: Johnson ### Event 22300 (EB886064) Date: 7/19/1993 Description: Two pulsating objects zigzag and orbit around a large craft at 4 o'clock in the morning over Wandsworth, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1994 Source ID: Johnson_4215 Source: Johnson ### Event 22301 (727949CB) Date: 7/20/1993 Description: Round UFO with satellite objects (section X). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Antelope Valley, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5841 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22302 (C1D9FD43) Date: 7/20/1993 Description: Round UFO with satellite objects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Antelope Valley, CA Source ID: HallUFOE2_483 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22303 (0A88FE06) Date: 7/22/1993 Description: Richard L. Huff in the FBI Office of Information and Privacy informs researcher [Nick Redfern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FRedfern) that it has a file on Majestic-12, although it is in “closed status.” The file title is labeled “Espionage.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kremlin 191–192 Source ID: Eberhart_7053 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22304 (CC70701E) Date: 7/24/1993 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a man saw a spherical object low in the sky over Dundee, Scotland. It glowed with a strange intensity 100 feet above the ground, and then began to ascend. After several minutes it lost its blinding intensity, split into two, then split again into two groups of 3-4 lights, all white. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 143 Source ID: Johnson_4368 Source: Johnson ### Event 22305 (B5FEA91C) Date: 7/24/1993 Description: On this day a long crop formation of circles and rings was found in a wheat field in East Kennett, Wiltshire, England. It was given the name "the Lozenge". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lucy Pringle, Crop Circles: The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_4367 Source: Johnson ### Event 22306 (0E60F4AC) Date: 7/24/1993 Description: At 11:00 p.m. four metallic discs were sighted in the sky over Chaumes-en-Brie, France. Each object was encircled by a different color of lights. They hovered for 15 minutes, then flew off quickly to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 320 Source ID: Johnson_4369 Source: Johnson ### Event 22307 (D778525E) Date: 7/24/1993 Description: In the early pre-dawn hours of this day a woman living in West Palm Beach, Florida awoke feeling very groggy and heard a peculiar low frequency buzzing sound. Two men came into her bedroom, carried her outside, and loaded her into a waiting, large "military type" truck. The witness felt semi-conscious and groggy during the truck ride. The truck drove into an underground chamber located in the side of a large hill, through a door that opened upwards. The interior was dimly lit. A three-foot-tall Grey humanoid with slanted eyes, who wore a black hooded cape, met her there. The being had a greenish gray complexion and seemed to hover just above the floor, sometimes poking her with an unseen instrument. She sensed hostility from the being, which kept circling her in an attempt to force her to lie down on a nearby metal table. The witness resisted and blacked out. She later she found herself back on her bed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1665, citing Karla Turner, Ph.D., Taken Source ID: Johnson_4366 Source: Johnson ### Event 22308 (871B2397) Date: 7/25/1993 Description: At 3:40 a.m. a dome-shaped object 4 meters in diameter followed two witnesses home in Warsaw, Poland. They videotaped the object circling their house. The next day unexplained new marks on their skin suggested to them that they had been abducted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 326 Source ID: Johnson_4402 Source: Johnson ### Event 22309 (625F1A20) Date: 7/26/1993 Description: On this night a witness in Plymouth, Scotland reported seeing a dark object hovering close to the ground. It had four bright lights on its top and multicolored lights below. It illuminated the ground with a red glow. Several figures were seen moving around, apparently in front of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1552, citing Vivienne Olbison, UFO Magazine (UK), Vol. 12, No. 3 Source ID: Johnson_4419 Source: Johnson ### Event 22310 (6688B8CC) Date: 7/27/1993 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a dozen witnesses at Calabona Beach, Sardinia, Italy sighted a strange object resembling a "balloon" flying over the beach. At first it resembled a round black object that hovered, then it changed to an oblong, irregular shape. The witnesses ran closer and saw the object enlarging as it flew away from the area. It now looked like a helicopter with a red pulsating light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Italian UFO Reporter, October 10, 1996 Source ID: Johnson_4441 Source: Johnson ### Event 22311 (2F67426F) Date: 7/30/1993 Description: A truck driver in West Winfield, New York saw a cylindrical object hovering over a field at 3:00 a.m. Complex crop circles were found later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1993 Source ID: Johnson_4513 Source: Johnson ### Event 22312 (F66307A6) Date: 7/31/1993 Description: A man riding his motorcycle near Orihuela, Alicante, Spain around midnight noticed a tall dark human figure standing next to a light pole. The figure seemed to be staring at him. The witness rode away at high speed but then noticed that the figure was now running after him at very high speed also, still staring at him. The figure then disappeared and a bright white sphere appeared and followed the witness briefly before leaving. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1240, citing Año Cero, January 1994 Source ID: Johnson_4545 Source: Johnson ### Event 22313 (070FBA30) Date: 8/1993 Description: Day. A witness takes a video of an odd figure on a beach at Rhyl, Clwyd, Wales. As the camera pans through the crowd on the beach, a strange semi-transparent figure in a silver suit becomes visible for a couple of seconds standing and facing a wooden fence. Looking up, he cannot see the figure, which appears to have vanished. Investigators suspect it is merely someone in odd clothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “UFOs in Focus,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7054 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22314 (82BFA877) Date: 8/1/1993 Description: MARAUDER \(Magnetically accelerated ring to achieve ultrahigh directed energy and radiation\) is, or was, a USAF Research Laboratory project to develop a coaxial plasma railgun. It is one of several US efforts to develop a plasma-based projectile. It began development in 1990, and its first published experiment takes place on this date. The project’s initial success leads to it becoming classified, and only a few references to MARAUDER appear after 1993. No information about the fate of the project is published after 1995. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[MARAUDER](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARAUDER)”; C. R. Sovinec and R. E. Peterkin Jr., “[Phase 1b MARAUDER Computer Simulations,](https://inis.iaea.org/search/searchsinglerecord.aspx?recordsFor=SingleRecord&RN=22057516)” 1990 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, Abstracts Source ID: Eberhart_7055 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22315 (45F367F7) Date: 8/5/1993 Description: In Dunajska Streda, Slovakia about 10 children saw two strange looking humanoids with large cucumber-like heads in a field at 10:30 p.m. They were wearing all silver clothing. They glided over the field and disappeared from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Dr. Milos Jesensk Source ID: Johnson_4706 Source: Johnson ### Event 22316 (DE0A57C9) Date: 8/5/1993 Description: At sometime after two o'clock at night, the daughter of a UFO investigator watched two silent helicopter-shaped craft hover outside her bedroom window in the town of Baca in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. A beam of red light passed from one helicopter to the other. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 186 Source ID: Johnson_4707 Source: Johnson ### Event 22317 (A95737E4) Date: 8/6/1993 Description: Ed Walters took three photos of a silver tank or disc-shaped object moving low over the ocean in Pensacola, Florida. The object suddenly lurched forward, leaping several hundred feet into the air. A black spot could be seen making erratic movements, and a thumping noise was heard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_4745 Source: Johnson ### Event 22318 (733D5C65) Date: 8/8/1993 Description: Five people in two separate cars encountered UFO on road, experienced missing time. Memories returned gradually without hypnosis, including tall beings who abducted them (Chalker, 1996). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_484 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22319 (529A7720) Date: 8/8/1993 Description: Early morning. [Kelly Cahill](https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/the-oz-files-who-is-victorian-abductee-kelly-cahill-and-what-did-she-see-in-narre-warren-20160201-gmic19.html) and her husband Andrew are returning from a party in Narre Warren North, in the Dandenong Foothills of Victoria, Australia, and are near Eumemmerring Creek south of Belgrave when they see a huge lighted object with windows in front of them on the road. It seems to have people in it, but it quickly shoots off to the left and disappears. They continue driving, and about one kilometer ahead they encounter another bright light. Her husband continues driving, and they do not recall anything else until they get home. They agree they saw a UFO but can’t agree on whether they had missing time or saw people. They both can smell vomit and feel stomach pains. Kelly notices a triangular mark below her navel, which is bleeding a bit. Kelly has a strange dream immediately after the encounter, and two subsequent dreams in September, October 23, and January 1994—all involving entities and a “strange physical dimension.” A few weeks later, both of them start remembering that the UFO has landed in an adjacent field and that they get out of the car to look at it. An abduction scenario ensues involving tall black beings. They also recall that there is another car stopped by the road with at least two people in it. By November 17, Phenomena Research Australia has located the couple in the other car and a woman who was with them. They have also undergone an abduction experience and have missing time. These witnesses, unknown to the Cahills, confirm the UFO landing site, and their drawings of the UFOs and entities closely coincide with Kelly’s. The second group also recalls seeing a third car with one male who is gazing fixedly toward the encounter site. Unfortunately, Kelly’s account of the incident is the only one that has come to light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “An Extraordinary Encounter in the Dandenong Foothills,” IUR 19, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1994\): 4–8, 18–20; Bill Chalker, “Aliens, Hair, and DNA,” IUR 29, no. 3 \(Fall 2004\): 3; Kelly Cahill, Encounter, HarperCollins, 1996; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files: The Australian UFO Story, Duffy and Snellgrove, 1996; Bill Chalker, “[The Kelly Cahill Case Revisited: An Extraordinary Lost Opportunity,](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-kelly-cahill-case-revisited.html)” TheOzFiles, March 2, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_7056 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22320 (9A8DF3BC) Date: 8/8/1993 Description: At around 1:00 a.m. near Narre Warren North, Victoria, Australia three carloads of people, including the principal witness 27-year-old Kelly Cahill, her husband and three children encountered a huge disc-shaped object hovering low above a field by the roadside. It had what appeared to be orange-lighted windows around the bottom. Humanoid figures were seen moving about inside. Their next conscious memory was seeing the object suddenly shoot away at high speed. Later, as they approached their home, they saw a tall dark figure standing on the side of the road. Later they were able to recall how they had stopped their vehicle and gotten out to approach the large UFO. To their surprise, they noticed another car stopped at the side of the road. As they walked down toward the craft, they saw a seven-foot tall black figure with huge fiery red eyes appear in the field. The figure began moving slowly towards them, apparently gliding. Kelly panicked and began yelling hysterically "they have no souls!" when suddenly dozens of similar beings appeared and began moving quickly towards the group of witnesses. The aliens were beneath the immense flying craft. They seemed to congregate in small groups; one group glided toward Kelly and her husband covering a hundred yards in a mere few seconds. Another group approached the other car, which sat motionless near the hovering craft. Kelly had a sense that the creatures were evil. She clung to her husband, fighting the feeling of blacking out, but at this point all of the witnesses blacked out. Their next conscious recall was being in their car watching the object shoot away. The occupants of the other vehicle would later come forward and tell almost exactly the same story: a story of abduction, mind control, and embarrassing medical procedures. Kelly recalled through dreams that one of the black aliens stooped over her naked body like he was kissing her navel. That night, when Kelly undressed for bed, she noticed a strange triangular mark on her navel, a mark she had never seen before. Kelly suffered from general malaise for the next two weeks, and was taken to the hospital on two occasions, one for severe stomach pains, and another for a uterine infection. The witnesses all had a two 2 hour time lapse. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1865, citing Bill Chalker, International UFO Reporter, Volume 19, Number 5 Source ID: Johnson_4783 Source: Johnson ### Event 22321 (BE8B1190) Date: 8/8/1993 Description: Five people in two separate cars encountered UFO on road, experienced missing time. Memories returned gradually without hypnosis, including tall beings who abducted them (Chalker, 1996). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Melbourne, Victoria, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5842 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22322 (3DEF8E58) Date: 8/9/1993 Description: At 5:00 p.m. a very large, fat cigar-shaped object, "battleship gray" in color, was observed from State Route 150 near Cherryville, North Carolina just over some trees. It crossed the highway close to the car without making a sound. Two cars were involved in the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1994 Source ID: Johnson_4807 Source: Johnson ### Event 22323 (8AE9160C) Date: 8/10/1993 Description: Dogs barked, light passed (excitement of witnesses a factor?) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [930810](http://www.nicap.org/ar-930810dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Norman, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5843 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22324 (5F95B632) Date: 8/10/1993 Description: On this evening Leah Haley was in the back room of an old house in Pensacola, Florida, talking with a male friend when suddenly a force lifted her up towards the ceiling. Her friend tried to grab her but could not reach her in time. The higher she went the dizzier she became. Through some sort of white mist she saw her friend moving about, as if in a trance. Moments later she was onboard a craft looking out a porthole. Her next memory found herself standing in a field, where a short stocky woman was apparently performing magic tricks in front of several other people. The witness was standing in the middle of the field, in front of a table that contained clothing. A female "alien" with short brown hair, wearing a red-gold black trimmed blouse, was standing next to her. Another similar female stood on her right side. She asked one of the females where they was from, and her reply was "The Pleiades." She was told that they had bases on earth. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2072, citing Leah A. Haley Source ID: Johnson_4841 Source: Johnson ### Event 22325 (61A8FB59) Date: 8/10/1993 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a multicolored disc-shaped object was seen hovering across the street in Frankfort, Herkimer County, New York. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report dated September 29, 2004 Source ID: Johnson_4842 Source: Johnson ### Event 22326 (328B8CAA) Date: 8/10/1993 Description: In Norman, Oklahoma at 2:11 a.m. an animal reaction case occurred. Dogs barked as a huge, fat, battleship gray UFO passed near the four witness's car. The object had two square patches of blue-gray fluorescent light in formation off it's diagonal corners. A red dot of light with radial rays appeared between the square patches. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Seifried Richard D. Seifried,MUFON Field Investigation case files, case 930108C; Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1993, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_4840 Source: Johnson ### Event 22327 (C4F7A639) Date: 8/11/1993 Description: A man and a woman in Holland, Michigan witnessed a multicolored, silent disc-shaped object in the sky at 10:45 p.m. The duration of the sighting was 20 minutes. Each time it appeared as a row of alternating red and blue lights (the drawing shows two of each color close together). The lights were blinking and round. The first set spun clockwise and became blurred when moving forward. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Donald K. Ashley, Jr., MUFON field investigation database, case # 930817C Source ID: Johnson_4908 Source: Johnson ### Event 22328 (2626E781) Date: 8/11/1993 Description: At 10:45 p.m. three witnesses in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada saw several dark triangular objects and a batwing-shaped object speed overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: David Thacker, International UFO Reporter, May-June 1994, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_4907 Source: Johnson ### Event 22329 (B8F74174) Date: 8/11/1993 Description: At 3:30 a.m. in Hayes, Moselle department, France a large orange ovoid object flew slowly toward the northeast for 20 minutes. There were five independent witnesses to the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16137, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 320 Source ID: Johnson_4906 Source: Johnson ### Event 22330 (035271A8) Date: 8/11/1993 Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Source ID: HallUFOE2_485 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22331 (3EE67FBA) Date: 8/12/1993 Description: 12:30 a.m. Two friends are watching the Perseid meteor shower in a dark school yard in North Lethbridge, Alberta, when they see a dark, gray-black, triangular object pass quickly and silently overhead for 4–5 seconds. Each point of the triangle has a red light on it. As it disappears to the south, it flips upward at a 45° angle. Another witness in a different location watches a similar object around the same time. Local radar does not show any unusual traffic. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Thacker, “Flight of the Triangle,” IUR 19, no. 3 \(May/June 1994\): 4–8, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_7057 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22332 (AAABA371) Date: 8/13/1993 Description: Night. Costin and Mariana Popa are driving with their daughter Diana in a rural area a few miles south of Telega, Romania, when their car engine stops unexpectedly and the headlights go out. Examining the engine, they are suddenly hit by a “wall of air” and see a fog-like rectangular screen on the right side of the road floating 18 inches above the grass. It is pulsating every 2–3 seconds with a yellowish-white light. They hear no noise and feel no heat. After about 20 minutes the screen begins to move across the road and stops in front of them, having become a narrow band of light 90 feet long and 3 feet wide. Soon it becomes brighter and shoots into the sky and disappears. The car starts normally again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 58–59 Source ID: Eberhart_7058 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22333 (D3C55A64) Date: 8/14/1993 Description: 1:56 a.m. Four UFOs with red and green flashing lights are seen flying at low altitude above Henri Coandă International Airport at Otopeni, Romania. They first turn up on radar, then are seen visually and observed through binoculars. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 75 Source ID: Eberhart_7059 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22334 (3A1F08D3) Date: 8/14/1993 Description: Thirty people at a barbecue near Bristol, Avon, England saw and photographed a wildly maneuvering set of nocturnal lights at 6:00 p.m. They were also seen at Hartcliffe. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16088; UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1993 Source ID: Johnson_5018 Source: Johnson ### Event 22335 (45FCC44D) Date: 8/14/1993 Description: At 10:30 p.m. three people in Saint Gaudens, Haute-Garrone, France sighted a red point of light of large size, which appeared ovoid through binoculars. It had reddish-orange flames or beams coming from its interior like three pencils of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 143 Source ID: Johnson_5019 Source: Johnson ### Event 22336 (7300EA6D) Date: 8/18/1993 Description: A glowing UFO hovered over Wood Lake, British Columbia at 9:00 p.m. It dropped sparks, moved, then stopped and hovered, and finally continued on after five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, November 1993 Source ID: Johnson_5139 Source: Johnson ### Event 22337 (19C5CF9F) Date: 8/18/1993 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a young Hispanic woman phoned her neighbors and asked them to come over to her house outside Dallas, Texas immediately, because there were something strange going on in the house. One of her neighbor's, Jill, grabbed her camera and headed for the house. When Jill arrived the entire family was in a state of terror and extreme agitation. Two of the young females in the household were cowering in a corner of the living room, holding on to each other. The friend who called her sat in a chair curled into a semi-fetal position, rocking back and forth. She then pointed to the backyard. Jill looked out through a sliding glass door that led to the backyard and saw a creature with glowing red eyes, only 15 feet from the door. The being seemed to be scanning the house from left to right and top to bottom. Jill began snapping photos through the sliding glass door. At the same time the Hispanic woman heard a long ringing sound in her ears. Eventually the being disappeared. Another family member reported seeing similar beings going through doors, windows and walls the same day and two days prior. An anomalous image did appear on the developed film. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2742, citing Internet Sightings Source ID: Johnson_5140 Source: Johnson ### Event 22338 (F6D47930) Date: 8/18/1993 Description: A girl was riding her bicycle on this day in Odense, Denmark when she observed a large hovering object with four large windows on one level and another window on a second level. Behind the windows several figures could be seen moving around. As the object turned she saw three bright lights below. Nearby a normally placid pony behaved very uneasy during the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1608, citing Tony Dodd, UFO Magazine (UK), January 1994, quoting UFO-Nyt Source ID: Johnson_5138 Source: Johnson ### Event 22339 (F8A13415) Date: 8/20/1993 Description: A woman in Baca Chalets, Saguache County in the San Luis Valley, Colorado had been watching late night television around one o'clock in the morning and had just turned off the light when she heard noises coming from the kitchen. She called out but got no response. Puzzled, she went to bed and turned off the light. Just as her eyes were getting accustomed to the dark, ten or twelve three and a half to four foot tall creatures glided into the room in a tight group, and came to stand less than three feet from where she lay. She sat up in amazement, staring at them. When they first came in she thought she could see right through them, but as they got into the room they became solid. The beings clustered around the foot of her bed, looking at her. She felt the entities, were "cold, and completely indifferent, maybe a little curious." They were small and slight and had huge almond-shaped eyes. Sleeping next to her was her five-year old son. She suddenly thought of the boy and became afraid, thinking, "they are here because of him!" She then forcefully told them to leave. The beings then silently glided out the wall, they way they came in. That same night a neighbor reported feeling a presence and seeing peculiar shadows in his bedroom, about two hours earlier. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 189 Source ID: Johnson_5197 Source: Johnson ### Event 22340 (6489496C) Date: 8/23/1993 Description: Near Titusville, Pennsylvania a plate-shaped UFO was observed near some pine trees for 20 minutes. Several observers watched it rise into a cloud formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16153, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1993 Source ID: Johnson_5273 Source: Johnson ### Event 22341 (63761A49) Date: 8/24/1993 Description: A huge, silent, metallic domed disc hovered overhead in Kettering, England at 9:45 p.m. It had a row of windows in the dome. It flew over homes for a couple of minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16155 Source ID: Johnson_5304 Source: Johnson ### Event 22342 (571D9877) Date: 8/25/1993 Description: In Moliets-et-Maa, Landes, France a 30 meter long, silent gray "cloud" rotated in the sky, then emitted 8 truncated coherent light beams through "doors." It flew off to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 322 Source ID: Johnson_5340 Source: Johnson ### Event 22343 (F1BFEE57) Date: 8/26/1993 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a glowing UFO was sighted hovering just over the moor at Ivybridge in Plymouth, England. Figures were seen walking around underneath it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, September 1993 Source ID: Johnson_5380 Source: Johnson ### Event 22344 (8BB23A49) Date: 8/27/1993 Description: At 4:45 p.m. 30-foot long football-shaped object flew over a tree 100 meters away from the witness in McDonald County, Missouri making a humming sound. Farm animals were frightened by the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16161 Source ID: Johnson_5403 Source: Johnson ### Event 22345 (F3145688) Date: 8/28/1993 Description: In the evening police and other witnesses in Yuma, Arizona saw a triangular object zig-zagging thru the sky, and making no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1986-94, case 1734, citing MUFON Arizona Source ID: Johnson_5444 Source: Johnson ### Event 22346 (17A6267B) Date: 8/28/1993 Description: At 10:30 p.m. in Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France an ovoid phosphorescent shape was seen coming out of the sea from the shore, remaining stationary a few moments,and then disappearing at once. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 1993-149 Source ID: Johnson_5443 Source: Johnson ### Event 22347 (B3335A19) Date: 8/29/1993 Description: A motorist chased a domed disc-shaped object in his car for 12 minutes between Crouse and Cherryville, North Carolina at 4:30 a.m. A videotape of the domed object he made with his camcorder was evaluated by MUFON. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1993 Source ID: Johnson_5477 Source: Johnson ### Event 22348 (7265BCBF) Date: 8/30/1993 Description: Outside of Mimet, Bouches-du-Rhone, France a 4.5 meter long ovoid object sitting on the highway rose and shot off rapidly to the south when a car approached. Nothing was seen on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomena, issue 18 Source ID: Johnson_5506 Source: Johnson ### Event 22349 (7D2437BF) Date: 9/1/1993 Description: A woman was at a cabin in the woods at Dorothy Lake, Manitoba, Canada awoke around 3:30 a.m. to go to the bathroom. Not wanting to disturb the other cabin occupants she left the bathroom door open. As she sat there she was looking down the hall towards a window, and she saw a face appear in the window as it went by. This shocked her because the cabin window is about eight feet above the ground. The face was a classic Grey alien, with an egg-shaped head with large almond-shaped eyes. She also saw a blue light flashing outside. The woman screamed and the face went away. No tracks were found outside. Investigators rated the reliability of the witness as high. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 1993 Canadian UFO Survey, case 269; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2089, citing the 1993 Canadian UFO Survey Source ID: Johnson_5560 Source: Johnson ### Event 22350 (EE0F64F1) Date: 9/2/1993 Description: 6:00 a.m. A black-and-white security camera at a private company in West Manchester, England, captures a pulsing ball of white light that appears in the northwest, moving toward the north, for several minutes. The camera operator also sees it visually. Estimates place its speed as low as 50 mph. Possible blimp. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “UFOs in Focus,” IUR 18, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1993\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7060 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22351 (F7AA1B3B) Date: 9/3/1993 Description: A blue ball of light was seen by police and others in a field in Hull, Quebec at 11:30 p.m.. Residential lights were out, but a stereo worked OK. EM effect: the police radio didn't work. Rated as high-reliability unknown. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 1993 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 105 Source ID: Johnson_5617 Source: Johnson ### Event 22352 (D1A39E24) Date: 9/4/1993 Description: A domed disc-shaped object floated over cars on the M62 highway in Oldham, England at 10:30 p.m. Nocturnal lights hovered in the sky for 40 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1993 Source ID: Johnson_5642 Source: Johnson ### Event 22353 (DA786D50) Date: 9/5/1993 Description: Cat indifferent to glowing, yellow orange object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [930905](http://www.nicap.org/ar-930905dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Depoe Bay, OR Source ID: NICAP_DB_5844 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22354 (9E2D807B) Date: 9/5/1993 Description: At 11:33 p.m. in Depoe Bay, Lincoln County, Oregon a ball of red-orange light, pulsating, travelled north to south just 150-300 feet off the ground. It moved at 20-30 mph, and was the size of a car. The light emitted a small light, that fell leaf-like to the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Li F. Wong, MUFON field investigation case files, case 850304Sb Source ID: Johnson_5664 Source: Johnson ### Event 22355 (F6B87C7F) Date: 9/6/1993 Description: On this night in her home in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia abductee Kelly Cahill awoke to see a slender, seven-foot tall being with red eyes standing next to her bed. The creature was only inches away from her as see felt a suction on her chest. It wore a black, hooded cloak. It appeared to vanish. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kelly Cahill, Encounter, p. 76 Source ID: Johnson_5696 Source: Johnson ### Event 22356 (59A8B671) Date: 9/7/1993 Description: At Ile de Groix, Morbihan department, France a delta-shaped craft hovered low over a field at 8:50 p.m. Directly under the object several small, thin, shadowy figures were seen gliding about just above the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 323 Source ID: Johnson_5738 Source: Johnson ### Event 22357 (C081BB19) Date: 9/10/1993 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a large silver, disc-shaped object hovered at 300 meters altitude over Surrey, Vancouver, British Columbia. Over 100 witnesses watched lights dancing in the sky for the next two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1994 Source ID: Johnson_5841 Source: Johnson ### Event 22358 (7881C7BB) Date: 9/11/1993 Description: At 12:40 a.m. a double-cigar shaped object in Tavistock, Devon, England made a 90- degree turn, and then followed the main highway for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1993 Source ID: Johnson_5876 Source: Johnson ### Event 22359 (B72C7E9B) Date: 9/16/1993 Description: 4:00 p.m. Pilots of two airliners preparing to land at Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City, Mexico, see an object like a balloon, but it is going too fast. One pilot describes it as looking like a praying mantis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jaime Maussán, “OVNIs sobre la Terra,” La Epoca \(Mexico\), November 19, 1993; Antonio Huneeus, “UFO Chronicle: UFOs and IFOs from Mexico, Part II,” Fate 47, no. 12 \(December 1994\); Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [p.](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/146/mode/2up) [146](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/146/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7061 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22360 (6C4EAE62) Date: 9/18/1993 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a boomerang-shaped object with a luminous tail (or "anchor") flew silently over the city of Magdeburg, Germany at a low altitude. It had two red round lights near the "focal point". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 41 Source ID: Johnson_6075 Source: Johnson ### Event 22361 (3F987F8A) Date: 9/20/1993 Description: In Canterbury, Kent, England a large bright cigar-shaped object engaged in aerobatics for 25 minutes beginning at around 8 p.m. It shined a beam of light, and at one point moved over a mile instantaneously. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1994 Source ID: Johnson_6155 Source: Johnson ### Event 22362 (17F28D44) Date: 10/1993 Description: The Foreign Technology Division becomes the National Air Intelligence Center. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[National Air](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FAir%5Fand%5FSpace%5FIntelligence%5FCenter\#National%5FAir%5FIntelligence%5FCenter) [and Space Intelligence Center](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FAir%5Fand%5FSpace%5FIntelligence%5FCenter\#National%5FAir%5FIntelligence%5FCenter)” Source ID: Eberhart_7063 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22363 (4323122E) Date: 10/1993 Description: Rep. [Steven Schiff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FSchiff) asks [Charles Arthur Bowsher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FArthur%5FBowsher)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FArthur%5FBowsher) head of the US General Accounting Office, to prepare a report on the status of records related to the 1947 Roswell incident in New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Roswell and the GAO Investigation,” IUR 19, no. 2 \(March/April 1994\): 3, 24 Source ID: Eberhart_7062 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22364 (E0707AD1) Date: 10/1/1993 Description: A large white ball of light flew from north to south over Nutter Fort, West Virginia at 7:00 p.m. It followed a car to Stonewood, then shot away quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 162 Source ID: Johnson_6478 Source: Johnson ### Event 22365 (05446283) Date: 10/6/1993 Description: At 9:10 p.m. two witnesses driving on the A52 highway in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England had a close encounter with an H-shaped UFO that changed shape to a disc, then changed back again to an H-shape. It followed their car for five minutes and had flashing lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16198 Source ID: Johnson_6614 Source: Johnson ### Event 22366 (5BBD9DEC) Date: 10/6/1993 Description: At 8:30 p.m. in the suburbs of Montgomery, Alabama a woman driving home on a clear night saw a UFO low over a nearby vacant lot. It was round and had a flattened top and bottom, and she described it as shaped like a woman's compact. It had red and green lights around its perimeter, as well as four roving spotlights. She continued driving home and went back to look for it again ten minutes later, but by this time the object had gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1994, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_6615 Source: Johnson ### Event 22367 (45583BF1) Date: 10/8/1993 Description: A fifty foot in diameter disc-shaped object hovered over the Lake Wylie reservoir in North Carolina at 3:45 a.m. It had more than 30 red lights and flew at treetop level, and made a sound like a jet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1994 Source ID: Johnson_6677 Source: Johnson ### Event 22368 (6D238531) Date: 10/8/1993 Description: A disc-shaped object with white and green lights on its surface lit part of the sky over Langold, Nottingham, England at 7:15 p.m. Many more witnesses reported seeing orange nocturnal lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1994 Source ID: Johnson_6676 Source: Johnson ### Event 22369 (1AA30746) Date: 10/12/1993 Description: Air Force Col. Richard L. Weaver tells researcher [Nick Redfern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FRedfern) that USAF considers both the MJ-12 group and its documents to be “bogus.” However, he concedes that there are “no documents responsive” to his request on how such a determination was made. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kremlin 183–184 Source ID: Eberhart_7064 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22370 (2A0FE170) Date: 10/17/1993 Description: At 10:00 a.m. an eleven-year-old girl and her cousin saw a gray, saucer-shaped object with lights on the bottom in Connersville, Indiana. Three lights emerged from a fog and circled a field for three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: T. David Spencer & Donald Worley, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_6943 Source: Johnson ### Event 22371 (5FC083C0) Date: 10/18/1993 Description: A memo on “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Study” from a UK wing commander to the Sec\(AS\)2, the Air Staff deputy director, proposes a secret government study of UFOs, which will become Project Condign in 1997– 2000. Paragraph 2 reads: “I am aware, from intelligence sources, that xxxxx believes that such phenomena exists and has a small team studying them. I am also aware that an informal group exists in the xxxxxxxxxxx community and it is possible that this reflects a more formal organization.” [Leslie Kean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FKean) suspects that the first redacted word is “Russia” and the second is “US intelligence.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Study,](https://archive.org/details/UkUfoDocumentsPart1/page/n197/mode/2up)” October 18, 1993, UK UFO Documents, Part 1, pp. 198–199; Kean, [pp. 238–240](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/246/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7065 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22372 (E0BB533C) Date: 10/23/1993 Description: When Kelly Cahill awoke at 4:30 a.m. in her bed in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia she saw a dark, seven foot tall slender being, that appeared to be naked, leaning over her with its head near Kelly's stomach, as if about to kiss her navel. She screamed, it startled, jumped back, and then vanished. The being had a head much larger than normal, long thin arms and an out of proportion abdomen in relation to its thin frame. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Kelly Cahill, Encounter, p. 170; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1886, citing Bill Chalker, International UFO Reporter, Vol. 19, # 5 Source ID: Johnson_7059 Source: Johnson ### Event 22373 (0E63C436) Date: 10/24/1993 Description: A close encounter with a 100 foot long craft occurred in the suburbs of Union Grove, North Carolina at 8:45 p.m. The three sketches by the witnesses depict a V formation of white lights that behaved as if they were part of a single, solid triangular craft. It flew at a slow speed, at 150 feet altitude, and made a 90 degree turn. A faint hum was heard coming from the object. The encounter lasted 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Barbara Thompson, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 931217SE Source ID: Johnson_7103 Source: Johnson ### Event 22374 (348D6D5F) Date: 10/25/1993 Description: 5:30–9:30 p.m. Multiple sightings of diamond- or triangular-shaped objects with multicolored light occur around La Louvière, Hainaut, Belgium. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The Belgium Flap](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/be/25oct1993hainaut.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7066 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22375 (EA254C12) Date: 10/29/1993 Description: A huge, totally silent, triangular object with red and yellow lights glided overhead as a copule drove in their car for more than two miles from Bedford to Mount Kisco in Westchester County, New York at 9:30 p.m. It was at very close range; The close encounter lasted for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 1993 webpage, reported uploaded January 28, 1999 Source ID: Johnson_7288 Source: Johnson ### Event 22376 (9425FEAC) Date: 10/30/1993 Description: At 1:00 a.m. a neighbor observed a yellow light hovering in a garden in Noeux les Mines, Pas de Calais, France. It was just 0.6 meters off the ground. A dog barked for 30 minutes during the sighting. Traces of crushed vegetation were found: a first line of 8m x 40 cm, and a second line of 10m, and a circle on the 2 lines. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 156 Source ID: Johnson_7316 Source: Johnson ### Event 22377 (428E6E63) Date: 11/3/1993 Description: At 6:40 p.m. a 300-foot wide, disc-shaped object with an "X" on the bottom was seen in Warsaw, Benton County, Missouri. The five witnesses reported that it moved extremely slowly over the lake on a clear night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1996, p. 16; Duane Bedell, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 950404S Source ID: Johnson_7446 Source: Johnson ### Event 22378 (DA1F0349) Date: 11/3/1993 Description: On this afternoon in Shanghai, China crowds of witnesses watched a white saucer-shaped object spinning over the city for five minutes. It gave off silver feams of light. It finally split into two parts and flew off to the east and west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16581; MUFON UFO Journal, December 1994 Source ID: Johnson_7447 Source: Johnson ### Event 22379 (64817926) Date: 11/8/1993 Description: The witness recalled being transported from her bedroom in Merced, California late on this night in a beam of light to a huge triangular craft. Once inside she was taken to an exam by several short Grey humanoids with large black almond-shaped eyes. The beings took flesh samples from her legs and back, leaving scoop marks. She was returned safely to her bedroom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1695, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 295 Source ID: Johnson_7550 Source: Johnson ### Event 22380 (D989721C) Date: 11/13/1993 Description: A farmer in Forest Grove, Oregon a half an hour past midnight on this day in 1993 was putting goats and chickens away in a barn, when he heard noises from the bushes. He found one of his goats dead with puncture wounds and with internal organs missing. He then saw a short, hairy biped run into the woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case #2661 Source ID: Johnson_7648 Source: Johnson ### Event 22381 (C41C223E) Date: 11/15/1993 Description: In what seemed like a dream-like state, late on this night a woman whose home is near Dallas, Texas found herself in an unknown location with three short, gray-skinned humanoids who were "talking" to her, probably using telepathy to communicate. These Grey beings were about three to four feet tall, and told her that Armageddon would not be what most people think it will be. At the same time, there were several tall beings standing off to the side, and they seemed "in charge," quietly observing everything. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1993 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2977, citing Amy Lynn Source ID: Johnson_7704 Source: Johnson ### Event 22382 (4CE53D46) Date: 11/15/1993 Description: In 1993, near Baltimore, Maryland, on US highway 74, a house-sized ovoid UFO nearly ran a car with a single witness off the road at 7:45 p.m. After buzzing the car the UFO hovered, then shot up into the sky. Earlier that afternoon, in Gulf Breeze, Florida, Ed Walters videotaped a UFO lurching up into a cloud. In Matthews, North Carolina, a driver reported that another silent UFO dropped down in front of his car at about 5:15 p.m. It hovered, then moved off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON case investigations database, case 931216E; Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 41; UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1994 Source ID: Johnson_7703 Source: Johnson ### Event 22383 (1EEE58B1) Date: 11/18/1993 Description: At 1:00 a.m. Ms. Kimmy Martin awoke with a start in Baca Chalets in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. She looked out into the gloomy night and felt somebody was watching her. Then something moved on her porch outside, and a group of Grey alien looking creatures peered in the window at her. She was not sure if they were really physically there or some form of apparition. Not frightened by their presence, she watched them for almost an hour, while they watched her. Finally she told the beings to go away and let her sleep, and the 20 or so visitors then trooped away obediently. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2546, citing Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley Source ID: Johnson_7735 Source: Johnson ### Event 22384 (DB6BAD9C) Date: 11/21/1993 Description: At 9:30-9:45 p.m. a woman in Greensburg, Pennsylvania went outside because her dogs were barking and she saw a triangular object hovering at sixty feet altitude, making a high-pitched humming sound. It was shaped more like an arrowhead with lights, and scared the witness. An hour later in the same county, at 10:30 p.m. at Bovard Tunnel, Pennsylvania a triangle pursed a vehicle, making a humming sound. Fifteen minutes later, 4 miles east of Greensburg, Pennsylvania the same of similar triangle was seen, reportedly making a high-pitched hum. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, cases 1755 & 1756 Source ID: Johnson_7782 Source: Johnson ### Event 22385 (AA2F270A) Date: 11/22/1993 Description: There were several reports on this date from France. A large flattened cylinder hovered over a refinery in Vanville, Seine-Marne, France at four o'clock in the morning. At 9:50 a.m. university mathematics students watched an orange ball, estimated to be 120 meters in diameter, rise and fall over buildings on campus in Versailles, Yvelines, France. A large plain sphere flew to the south-southwest in Villiers-en-Biere, Seine-Marne, France at 4:50 p.m. and curved its trajectory to the southwest. At the same time another glowing orb 120 meters in diameter descended into a forest west-northwest of Maisse, Essonne, France. At 5:00 p.m. a huge orange sphere flew over Rochefort-en-Yveline, Yvelines, France heading northeast, then curved to the east following the A10 highway. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Banque OVNI Reports Source ID: Johnson_7816 Source: Johnson ### Event 22386 (2D0B2021) Date: 11/22/1993 Description: An abduction, rated as a high-reliability report, occurred at 12:53 a.m. in Vancouver, British Columbia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 1993 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 330 Source ID: Johnson_7817 Source: Johnson ### Event 22387 (021D47BF) Date: 11/22/1993 Description: At 11:07 a.m. a charcoal colored cigar-shaped object was seen flying over Gloucester, Massachusetts at an estimated 18,000 feet altitude, zig-zagging downward. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 1617 Source ID: Johnson_7818 Source: Johnson ### Event 22388 (0D2AD4FC) Date: 11/22/1993 Description: On this evening in southern Vermont, one of the four men who had earlier been abducted during a rafting trip on the Allagash River in Maine (one of the 'Allagash 4' investigated by Raymond Fowler) saw a large triangular object with lights while out hunting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 1618 Source ID: Johnson_7819 Source: Johnson ### Event 22389 (41A6DFCB) Date: 11/22/1993 Description: At 9:45 p.m. hunters in Udell, Pennsylvania put their spotlight on a boomerang-shaped object in a field, which rose and moved. It was 60 feet long, and made a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Anomaly Zone, January 1994, p. 3; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 84 Source ID: Johnson_7820 Source: Johnson ### Event 22390 (ECF69D37) Date: 11/24/1993 Description: In Harlowton, Montana near Malmstrom Air Force Base witnesses reported a 6-7 hour long event that began at around 7 p.m., during which a triangle-shaped UFO, flying discs, and an immense cylindrical object were observed clearly at close range and through binoculars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 1993 webpage, report uploaded September 12, 1999 Source ID: Johnson_7893 Source: Johnson ### Event 22391 (DCF96E3F) Date: 11/26/1993 Description: At 7:45 p.m. a witness driving in Riverside, California reported seeing an object whirl around in the sky, then land about 200 feet from his car. A door opened on the top of the craft and several persons came out. They appeared to be normal looking humans. He heard them talking, and when they apparently noticed him they entered the craft and left. The witness believes that what he saw was a crashed alien spacecraft recovered by the U.S. military and now being manned by the government. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2839, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World Source ID: Johnson_7947 Source: Johnson ### Event 22392 (DFADEA4E) Date: 11/29/1993 Description: Near the Eisenhower Tunnel in Colorado a couple were driving on a flat, straight portion of the highway when they noticed a bright red star-like light moving slowly across the sky at around 11:00 p.m. The light stopped and shot straight down below the horizon. Moments later the same object approached their car and then began pacing them, positioning itself directly overhead. The object paced their car for ten miles, and then shot away out of sight. A short while later they started hearing static on their car radio and when they looked behind they saw a fast approaching bright reddish-white light. The UFO quickly closed with their vehicle and now could be made out as a glowing white, disc-shaped craft. The driver accelerated to 90 mph but the object kept pace. As he watched in the rear view mirror a figure appeared at the front of the object. The figure was very thin and had a large head with huge slanted eyes. The being's body was dark but its eyes were a bright yellow color. At this point the driver heard a voice in his head telling him that he would not be harmed, that "they" were only interested in studying him and his female companion. A period of "missing time" occurred shortly thereafter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1837, citing Phillip J. Imbrogno, UFO Universe, Winter 1995 Source ID: Johnson_8049 Source: Johnson ### Event 22393 (21D8BD96) Date: 11/29/1993 Description: At 10:20 p.m. a square shaped object with four lights, one in each corner, passed low (400 feet altitude) over the heads of a four-man oil drilling rig crew four miles southwest of Aztec, New Mexico. It made no sound, and moved slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1994; Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 200 Source ID: Johnson_8048 Source: Johnson ### Event 22394 (76F82A6A) Date: 12/1993 Description: Héctor Escobar begins publishing Perspectivas Ufológicas in Mexico City, Mexico. The periodical continues until February 1996. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Perspectivas Ufológicas](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Mexico/Perspectivas/Perspectivas%20-%20No%2001%20%28Dic%201993%29.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Mexico/Perspectivas/Perspectivas%20-%20No%2001%20%28Dic%201993%29.pdf) no. 1 \(December 1993\) Source ID: Eberhart_7068 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22395 (816C31F2) Date: 12/1993 Description: The RAAF formally concludes its UFO investigations in a revised “RAAF Policy: Unusual Aerial Sightings.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_7067 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22396 (145E66C3) Date: 12/1/1993 Description: In 1993 at 8:45 p.m. in Baca Ranch, Colorado author and UFO investigator Christopher O'Brien videotaped 7 or 8 aircraft--probably helicopters--escorting a large unblinking flying sphere. Mr. O'Brien and another witness watched with the aid of night vision goggles as the objects maneuvered around and over the Sangre de Cristo mountains. An unblinking craft, escorted by three helicopters, was sighted an hour later near Gunnison, Colorado. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 202; (2) Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1636 Source ID: Johnson_8114 Source: Johnson ### Event 22397 (00D58C21) Date: 12/1/1993 Description: The European Parliament considers a resolution that enables the French UFO agency, Service d’Expertise des Phénomènes de Rentrée Atmosphérique \(SEPRA\), to carry out UFO investigations throughout the member countries of the European Community. The resolution was first proposed in 1991 by Belgian deputy [Elio Di Rupo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elio%5FDi%5FRupo) in the wake of the Belgian UFO wave to set up an all-European agency to study UFO reports. The EP’s committee on industry, external trade, research, and energy, chaired by physicist [Tullio Regge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullio%5FRegge)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullio%5FRegge) holds several meetings on the proposal in consultation with SEPRA’s [Jean-Jacques Velasco](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%5FVelasco)[,](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%5FVelasco) and approves the motion for a resolution. However, the Parliament does not have the necessary votes to implement and fund the resolution, the agency is never created, and SEPRA has its own funding problems. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George M. Eberhart, “The European Parliament,” IUR 19, no. 2 \(March/April 1994\): 19; 2Pinotti 137–140 Source ID: Eberhart_7069 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22398 (CDA61332) Date: 12/2/1993 Description: Pilot Spots Unidentified Aircraft Near Indy (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [931202](http://www.nicap.org/931202indy%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Indianapolis (near), IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5845 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22399 (3E7F8F62) Date: 12/2/1993 Description: At 4:45 a.m. a flat-bottomed disc-shaped object flew over the witnesses' house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 150 feet altitude, making a whooshing sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence News Source ID: Johnson_8148 Source: Johnson ### Event 22400 (55F403D8) Date: 12/5/1993 Description: At 7:20 p.m. several white ovoid UFOs with counter-clockwise orbiting satellite balls of light covered a four-lane highway in Arras, Pas d' Calais, France for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 322 Source ID: Johnson_8216 Source: Johnson ### Event 22401 (1ED5D97D) Date: 12/9/1993 Description: At 7:15 p.m., just after dark, the witness saw a UFO settle down on a snowy field just across the road from her house in Walpole, New Hampshire. Several undescribed "aliens" exited the object and appeared to jump across the field with large leaps. They approached the witness house, and then looked in a window. The frightened witness hid. The beings then returned to their "ship" and apparently left. No traces were found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2650, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World Source ID: Johnson_8288 Source: Johnson ### Event 22402 (BD59C60F) Date: 12/12/1993 Description: In North Somercotes, Lincolnshire, England at 4:30 p.m. many people reported sighting several silent delta-shaped UFOs and lights hovering over nearby roads. Television sets reportedly changed channels without cause. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1994 Source ID: Johnson_8365 Source: Johnson ### Event 22403 (F85CB3E9) Date: 12/17/1993 Description: The first operational Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is delivered to Whiteman AFB, south of Knob Noster, Missouri, where the fleet is based. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%5FGrumman%5FB-2%5FSpirit)” Source ID: Eberhart_7070 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22404 (7283EBCA) Date: 12/28/1993 Description: Witnesses in Willow Creek, Humboldt County, California reported that a UFO hovered silently over Berry Summit at 8:30 p.m. It had a square of lights on the bottom of the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, February 1994 Source ID: Johnson_8639 Source: Johnson ### Event 22405 (FFDC61B8) Date: 12/31/1993 Description: An object that looked like a globe on a pedestal followed two people in a car for several kilometers near the shoreline in Yanchep, Western Australia at around one o’clock in the morning, before flying off. The same or a similar object was seen in Brazil that day. At 1:40 a.m. local time a huge, silent, light bulb shaped UFO with bright lights and a flat bottom, flew over the city of Quixada, Ceara State, Brazil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1994; Boletim CEPEX Source ID: Johnson_8683 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1994 (Back to Top) ### Event 22406 (3C1CBEC0) Date: 1994 Description: 1994; Australia (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Australia, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5846 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22407 (BE38132A) Date: 1994 Description: A video of a UFO is taken by a ground radar station at the Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range, part of the Nellis Range northwest of the Nevada Test Site. At times the UFO appears to be four globes tied together; at other times it appears to be a fuzzy, gaseous cloud. The film is genuine, according to [Steven Greer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FM.%5FGreer), who shows it at CSETI’s Congressional Briefing on April 9, 1997, in Washington, D.C. It is aired by the Fox TV show Sightings and a few other TV networks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The Nellis Test Range UFO Video](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/nellis.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7071 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22408 (57FB1A8A) Date: 1994 Description: More than 300 pages of Army CIC documents relating to Operation Harass are declassified after researcher [Timothy S. Cooper](https://majesticdocuments.waskosky.com/about/investigation-team/timothy-s-cooper/) files a FOIA request. There is a concentration on frantic wartime efforts to find the [Horten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) [brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten%5Fbrothers) as well as an “Intelligence Requirements on Flying Saucer Type Aircraft: Draft of Collection Memorandum,” undated but prepared prior to October 20, 1947. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[FOIA: Army CIC UFO Files Various Subjects](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread321480/pg1) [Including ‘Horten Brothers: Flying Wing,’](https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread321480/pg1)” Above Top Secret forum, December 17, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_7072 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22409 (BB67F34E) Date: 1994 Description: [Mark Rodeghier](http://www.cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html)[,](http://www.cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html) [Stuart Appelle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FAppelle)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FAppelle) [David Gotlib](https://www.psychiatry.utoronto.ca/faculty/dr-david-gotlib)[,](https://www.psychiatry.utoronto.ca/faculty/dr-david-gotlib) and Georgia Flamburis develop and publish an “Ethics Code for Abduction Experience Investigation and Treatment.” It is approved by the CUFOS and MUFON boards. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “News from the Field,” IUR 19, no. 3 \(May/June 1994\): 3; David Gotlib, Stuart Appelle, Georgia Flamburis, and Mark Rodeghier, “Ethics Code for Abduction Experience Investigation and Treatment,” JUFOS 5 \(1994\): 55–81 Source ID: Eberhart_7073 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22410 (8560B79B) Date: 1994 Description: Wim van Utrecht founds Caelestia in Antwerp, Belgium, to collect, investigate, and document UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wim van Utrecht, “[About Caelestia,](https://www.caelestia.be/about.html)” July 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_7074 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22411 (7CF9B08C) Date: 1994 Description: Nellis AFB Video (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [940000](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/nellisdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Las Vegas (near), NV Source ID: NICAP_DB_5847 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22412 (75C44BF5) Date: 1994 Description: [Karla Turner](https://ufo.fandom.com/wiki/Karla%5FTurner) writes Taken, in which she describes accounts from eight women, none of whom know each other, all of whom consciously recall a large portion of their abduction experiences without the aid of hypnosis. She is disturbed to find that at least 10 people close to her seem to have a pattern of alien intrusions and disturbances. The women describe a variety of alien types: grays, insectoids, humanoids, blue humanoids, and dwarves. Several of the women describe not only hybrid nursery rooms, but also cloning rooms in which living but inert humans are suspended in liquid-filled cylinders. There are accounts of aliens apparently taking human souls and placing them into a box. One alien group appears to harvest “negative emotional energy.” Not all experiences are harmful or exploitative; some women claim to have had miraculous healings by aliens. Still, Turner suggests that this does not make the aliens humanity’s benefactors. If they cared for humans, it could be the way in which a farmer cares for cattle. Four of the women describe being abducted by human military personnel and taken to underground military facilities. Human and alien workers are sometimes described as being there. The abductees remember being questioned by military types who ask “What do you know about the alien agenda? What have they told you? What implants have you received? What procedures have they carried out on you?” A number of medical problems develop, apparently related to the abductions: cancer, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, sexual dysfunction, and suicide. One thing that perplexes Turner is why military groups would need to interrogate abductees about alien intrusions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Karla Turner, [Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda](https://archive.org/details/karla-turner-taken-inside-the-alien-human-abduction-agenda%5F202101), The Author, 1994 Source ID: Eberhart_7075 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22413 (FDA41011) Date: 1/3/1994 Description: A cone-shaped UFO approached a house in Ecouis, France at 11:45 p.m. shining a yellow light on it. It then flew away to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 322 Source ID: Johnson_70 Source: Johnson ### Event 22414 (C3459E9B) Date: 1/4/1994 Description: In Maplethorpe, England at 11:25 p.m. a huge, silent triangular craft was seen near some microwave transmission tower dishes. Several televisions in the area changed channels. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1994 Source ID: Johnson_100 Source: Johnson ### Event 22415 (AA363D48) Date: 1/4/1994 Description: At five minutes after midnight in Tronville-en-Barrois, France a domed disc-shaped object landed or came very close to landing in a field, illuminating the entire area. Three figures are seen inside a doorway, one of them exited from the door of the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Claude Raffy, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 322 Source ID: Johnson_99 Source: Johnson ### Event 22416 (F8BE14D2) Date: 1/4/1994 Description: RAAF Wing Commander [Brett Biddington](https://na.eventscloud.com/ereg/popups/speakerdetails.php?eventid=155115&language=eng&speakerid=392487) informs civilian UFO groups in Australia that the number of UFO reports submitted to the RAAF has declined significantly in the past 10 years, saying “there is no compelling reason for the RAAF to continue to devote resources to recording, investigating, and attempting to explain \[Unusual Aerial Sightings\].” He says that reports will be forwarded to civilian groups. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 22, 36; Swords 411–412 Source ID: Eberhart_7076 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22417 (4F436E56) Date: 1/5/1994 Description: On this night a disc-shaped object with portholes and lights was sighted over Wilsden, West Yorkshire, England. The lights on the craft turned off when an airplane passed nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1994 Source ID: Johnson_148 Source: Johnson ### Event 22418 (1F9E4228) Date: 1/12/1994 Description: Rep. [Steven Schiff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FSchiff) \(D-N.Mex.\) tells the press that he has been stonewalled by the US Defense Department when he requested information about the 1947 Roswell incident on behalf of his constituents and witnesses. Schiff calls the lack of response “astounding” and indicative of a cover-up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Roswell Declaration 1994,” IUR 19, no. 2 \(March/April 1994\): 21 Source ID: Eberhart_7077 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22419 (6C4533C6) Date: 1/15/1994 Description: President [Bill Clinton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FClinton) issues an executive order to create an Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments to investigate US government records on radiation studies done at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Certain records involving programs in and around Area 51, Nevada, are excluded on the basis that the president does not have a need to know. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory%5FCommittee%5Fon%5FHuman%5FRadiation%5FExperiments)” Source ID: Eberhart_7078 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22420 (84CEF20B) Date: Late 1/1994 Description: The Secretary of the Air Force’s office of Security and Special Program Oversight directs its research and classification team to locate any official records on the Roswell incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 351 Source ID: Eberhart_7080 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22421 (54FEB27E) Date: 1/27/1994 Description: B-747 encounters maneuvering object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 3) Reference: NICAP: [940127](http://www.nicap.org/940127ussr%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kazakhstan Republic, USSR Source ID: NICAP_DB_5848 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22422 (6C3C5C6D) Date: 1/27/1994 Description: Luminous UFO maneuvered erratically near airliner Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Kazakhstan Republic Source ID: HallUFOE2_486 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22423 (91E320D6) Date: 1/28/1994 Description: Air France airliner-UFO encounter, tracked on military radar (section I). (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paris, France Source ID: NICAP_DB_5849 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22424 (9E126F44) Date: 1/28/1994 Description: On this day in 1994 a huge, dark, disc-shaped object, reddish-brown in color, vanished suddenly in the skies over Coulommiers, France at 1:14 p.m. European time. The UFO was sighted by the crew of an Air France A320 airliner, and reported to air traffic control. Ground military radar tracked the UFO for 50 seconds at a speed of 100 knots. About one hour later, at 8:20 a.m. local time in Lancaster, New Hampshire a diamond-shaped UFO with blunt points paused in the sky, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994 Source ID: Johnson_565 Source: Johnson ### Event 22425 (29A6F57A) Date: 1/28/1994 Description: 1:14 p.m. Air France pilot Jean-Charles Duboc and two members of his A320 airliner crew briefly observe over Coulommiers–Voisins Aerodrome, Seine-et-Marne, France, an elliptical UFO, reddish-brown in color and possibly of large size. Radar at CODA, the Taverny air operations center, tracks the object for 50 seconds but places the target closer to the airplane than the pilot’s estimate. SEPRA investigates the case and determines that based on the radar trajectory the UFO is about 750 feet long. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joel de Woolfson, “[UFO ‘Evidence’ Grows,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/pilotssupportreport.html)” This Is Guernsey, February 5, 2007; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 16; Kean, [pp. 135–136](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/134/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 401–402](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/400/mode/2up); “[1994-01-28: Sighting of Air France](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvFoZu3u%5FDs) [Pilot Jean Charles Duboc,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvFoZu3u%5FDs)” Tom Owens YouTube channel, June 16, 2019; Patrick Gross, “[UFO Sighting of Flight](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/duboc01.htm) [AF-3532](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/duboc01.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7079 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22426 (539278F5) Date: 1/28/1994 Description: Air France airliner—UFO encounter, tracked on military radar Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Paris, France Source ID: HallUFOE2_487 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22427 (E8CDB612) Date: 2/1994 Description: [Leonard Stringfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%5FH.%5FStringfield) releases his seventh and final status report on UFO crash/retrievals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: \(Leonard H. Stringfield, UFO Crash/Retrievals: Search for Proof in a Hall of Mirrors, Status Report VII, The Author, 1994\). Source ID: Eberhart_7081 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22428 (E3171D99) Date: 2/1/1994 Description: Cigar-shaped object illuminated car with light beam, E-M effects (section I). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Badalucco, Liguria, Italy Source ID: NICAP_DB_5850 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22429 (B26AFF0C) Date: 2/1/1994 Description: Cigar-shaped object illuminated car with light beam, E-M effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Badalucco, Liguria, Italy Source ID: HallUFOE2_488 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22430 (AAFCD217) Date: 2/1/1994 Description: At 8:30 p.m. the witness's vehicle engine stalled in Badalucco, Italy as a silvery cigar-shaped craft hovered over the road. The craft then directed several beams of light towards the ground. A humanoid figure is also seen standing on the road near the vehicle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2506, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website Source ID: Johnson_658 Source: Johnson ### Event 22431 (918DCAE5) Date: 2/3/1994 Description: Six witnesses, including a Mr. Giulo, observed a strange humanoid wandering around on the nearby rocky shore in Ancona, Italy at 9:00 a.m. The humanoid was described as about 1.5 meters tall and wearing a tight-fitting black coverall that covered his entire body including his unusually long feet. The face was elongated with two huge round eyes that had round black pupils. The creature appeared to be wearing earphones and a helmet with a thin protruding antenna on one side. It seemed to stagger as it moved slowly. After ten minutes it rose up, slowly and vertically, into the air, disappearing from sight quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2507, citing CISU Italy Source ID: Johnson_684 Source: Johnson ### Event 22432 (595FEB12) Date: 2/3/1994 Description: Roosters crowed as cigar-shaped object with lights passed (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [940203](http://www.nicap.org/ar-940203dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lincolntown, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5851 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22433 (57743EBB) Date: 2/9/1994 Description: Richard Davis, director of the National Security Analysis group at the General Accounting Office, writes to Secretary of Defense [William Perry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FPerry) that the GAO is initiating a review of “DOD’s policies and procedures for acquiring, classifying, retaining, and disposing of official governmental documents dealing with weather balloon, aircraft, and similar crash incidents” to find out whether “proper procedures to ensure government accountability” were followed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Roswell and the GAO Investigation,” IUR 19, no. 2 \(March/April 1994\): 3, 24; Swords 351 Source ID: Eberhart_7082 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22434 (274E8EA2) Date: 2/12/1994 Description: At 7:20 p.m. the engine of a car with two witnesses inside died when a white sphere, the size of a house, flew spinning over a nearbyfield at only 25 meters above the ground, in Flavigny-sur-Moselle, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16309; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 324 Source ID: Johnson_882 Source: Johnson ### Event 22435 (FE77BF02) Date: 2/15/1994 Description: Vehicle encounter with glowing oblong object, E-M effects (section I). (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Enkoping, Sweden Source ID: NICAP_DB_5852 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22436 (30442D3F) Date: 2/15/1994 Description: 11:00 p.m. Kerstin Hallman is on her way home from work near Grillby, Sweden, when she sees an oblong light with spikes on top. The car lights go out and the engine fails. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clas Svahn and Jorgen Granlie, “The Light That Stopped a Car,” IUR 22, no. 4 \(Winter 1997–1998\): 12; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 16–17 Source ID: Eberhart_7083 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22437 (F22CB3FF) Date: 2/15/1994 Description: Vehicle encounter with glowing oblong object, E-M effects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Enkoping, Sweden Source ID: HallUFOE2_489 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22438 (31A108EE) Date: 2/15/1994 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a glowing oblong object caused electromagnetic interference effects on a car in Enkopping, Uppsala, Sweden. The UFO then sped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 68, citing Paolo Fiorino & Matteo Leone, Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici (CISU) Source ID: Johnson_932 Source: Johnson ### Event 22439 (99ACCBD1) Date: 2/17/1994 Description: A 10-year-old boy in Barking, London, England witnessed a domed object with reddish-orange lights underneath at 11:30 p.m. It hovered silently at 300 feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1994 Source ID: Johnson_969 Source: Johnson ### Event 22440 (716C6729) Date: 2/19/1994 Description: A metallic humming disc-shaped object was photographed over the reservoir in Craigluscar, Fife, Scotland at two o'clock in the afternoon. It left by shooting off the to the east with fantastic acceleration. The photograph is considered genuine. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16314, citing SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena, issue # 23 Source ID: Johnson_1013 Source: Johnson ### Event 22441 (82CFAF28) Date: 2/26/1994 Description: A witness in a residential area of Rosyth, Fife, Scotland took two photographs of a saucer-shaped object before he was temporarily paralyzed and frozen in place. The object hovered close by for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, June 1994; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16318 Source ID: Johnson_1142 Source: Johnson ### Event 22442 (AD6A402F) Date: 2/28/1994 Description: In Chester, England at 2:30 p.m. a blue domed cigar-shaped object hovered, darted about, then shot up in the sky very fast. It had fins on the ends and a light on the top. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1994 Source ID: Johnson_1182 Source: Johnson ### Event 22443 (6AD7CF29) Date: 3/1994 Description: In response to [Steven Schiff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FSchiff)’s getting stonewalled by the US Defense Department over information on the 1947 Roswell incident in New Mexico, airline pilot Kent Jeffrey circulates the Roswell Declaration, a statement calling for an “Executive Order declassifying any US government information on the existence of UFOs or extraterrestrial intelligence” and a release from the security oaths taken by military or civilian personnel involved in UFO cases. Promoted by CUFOS, MUFON, and the Fund for UFO Research, the declaration is signed by more than 20,000 people interested in finding out the truth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Roswell Declaration,](http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/roswdecl.html)” International Roswell Initiative; “The Roswell Declaration,” IUR 19, no. 2 \(March/April 1994\): 20–21 Source ID: Eberhart_7084 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22444 (95CBCA5B) Date: 3/1994 Description: Night. A married couple are driving in Bestwood Village, Nottinghamshire, England, when they see a huge triangular object hanging in the sky. It has three steady white, green, and red lights and is apparently only 200 feet from the ground. Its base has a ribbed pattern. It moves off slowly to the northwest, then accelerates, changing direction to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Sighting Convinces Hucknall Man,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201994%2005%20-%20no%20298.pdf)” Hucknall \(UK\) Dispatch, March 11, 1994, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 298 \(May 1994\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_7085 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22445 (C10D862C) Date: 3/1/1994 Description: In Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia at 8:00 p.m. a single observer with a telescope observed a silent "dartboard shaped" saucer that hovered, and then descended to the horizon; it changed colors as it did so. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16322, citing Colin O. Norris, Australian UFO Flying Saucer Research, Adelaide, S. Australia Source ID: Johnson_1229 Source: Johnson ### Event 22446 (A9AFD817) Date: 3/5/1994 Description: A radio died inside the house of the witness at 10:50 p.m. in Martigues, Bouches-Rhone department, France when a delta-shaped object oscillated in the sky outside. The object flew on a westerly trajectory. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 324 Source ID: Johnson_1321 Source: Johnson ### Event 22447 (D713C4DD) Date: 3/6/1994 Description: Two people sighted a UFO resembling huge cylinders with a very strong beam of light directed toward the ground in the town of Gue-d'Hossus in the Ardennes, France at 12:15 a.m. The sighting lasted two minutes. The grass where the light hit the ground reportedly turned brown afterwards. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 324 Source ID: Johnson_1351 Source: Johnson ### Event 22448 (AF23C359) Date: 3/6/1994 Description: 4:30 p.m. Two men flying an ultralight aircraft 250 feet over Termoli, Campobasso, Italy, see a small, spherical object flying northward. Approximately 4 miles from them, it is lost to sight in a few seconds. Earlier in the afternoon an unknown dark object crashes on Monte Mutria, Campobasso. The witness, Angelo Gianbattista, 18, tells his father, police officer Franco Giambattista, that an airplane has fallen. Franco goes outside and spots with binoculars two dark shadows in a ravine. The military police are notified and converge on the site. At 8:00 p.m., guided by a powerful light beam, eight volunteers climb the mountain. Three helicopters hover overhead. Nothing is found, even conventional objects that might be mistaken for something else. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Renzo Cabassi, “[UFO](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Italian%20UFO%20Reporter/Itufor1996.v2n4.pdf) [Crash at Guardioaregia?](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Italian%20UFO%20Reporter/Itufor1996.v2n4.pdf)” Italian UFO Reporter 2, no. 4 \(October 10, 1996\): 2–4; Clark III 345; 2Pinotti 140– 141 Source ID: Eberhart_7086 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22449 (C124BFC8) Date: 3/8/1994 Description: 9:15 p.m. Residents of Holland, Michigan, begin observing odd lights in the sky. To some, the lights appear to be attached to one another, or at least coordinated in their movements. The commonest description is of four lights strung together, high in altitude, moving from southeast to southwest. The Graves family sees a disk with lights turning clockwise on its underside. Police officer [Jeff Velthouse](https://www.hollandsentinel.com/article/20140222/NEWS/140229697) is dispatched to investigate, and he watches some lights through binoculars around 9:40 p.m. The Allegan County sheriff’s office contacts the Muskegon National Weather Service radar station about 30 miles to the north to ask whether they have any targets. They do, and the radar operator gives a live report, recorded by the police, of the returns he is tracking. The majority of the returns are of three, well-separated targets, sometimes in line, both usually in a triangular array. An intermittent fourth signal blinks in and out. The visual sightings last until 11:00 p.m., but the weather radar continues to see targets for another 20–30 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords, “The Holland, Michigan, Radar- Visual Case, 1994,” IUR 24, no. 3 \(Fall 1999\): 3–7; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, [pp. 146–147](https://archive.org/details/ufobriefingdocum0000berl/page/146/mode/2up); Swords 343 Source ID: Eberhart_7087 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22450 (98D3992B) Date: 3/12/1994 Description: A major Flying Triangle incident occurred with the possible crash of a RAF Tornado fighter jet during a chase of a Flying Triangle (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection) Reference: NICAP: [940312](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ftsoverderby.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Derby, UK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5853 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22451 (6BF731E0) Date: 3/14/1994 Description: A Boeing 737 Chinese airliner had a near collision with a flying disc while flying north of Dushan, Guizhou Province, China. The autopilot radar system made a turn to avoid a collision. There was extensive news coverage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16338, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 330 Source ID: Johnson_1507 Source: Johnson ### Event 22452 (E99AEFBC) Date: 3/14/1994 Description: At 9:30 p.m. what looked like a B-17 aircraft rumbled by Mennecy, Hauts-Seine department, France. A long, silent, octagon-shaped craft hid behind some trees, and gave off beams and rays of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16339, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 325 Source ID: Johnson_1508 Source: Johnson ### Event 22453 (1134CCD9) Date: 3/20/1994 Description: “Groom Lake Toxic Burning Alleged” A former worker at the secret Air Force base says poisonous substances were routinely ignited. Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mar. 20, 1994, Page 1B. Type: newspaper article Reference: [link](http://www.ufomind.com/area51/articles/1994/rj_940320.txt) Location: Groom Lake Source ID: Maj2_792 Source: Maj2 ### Event 22454 (7CC9E113) Date: 3/26/1994 Description: Two silver disc-shaped objects danced around in the sky over Earl Shilton, Leicester, England at 4:00 p.m. They made a high-pitched whistling sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1994 Source ID: Johnson_1683 Source: Johnson ### Event 22455 (1B540F5C) Date: 4/1994 Description: The UK government introduces a Code of Practice on Access to Government Information, a limited right to access government records from the previous 30 years, as a precursor to a full freedom of information act. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Campaign for Freedom of Information, “[Code of Practice on Access to Government Information: Guidance on](https://www.cfoi.org.uk/1996/12/code-of-practice-on-access-to-government-information-guidance-on-interpretation/) [Interpretation,](https://www.cfoi.org.uk/1996/12/code-of-practice-on-access-to-government-information-guidance-on-interpretation/)” April 1994, [second ed.](https://www.cfoi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/copguidance.pdf), 1997 Source ID: Eberhart_7088 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22456 (DB7234F3) Date: 4/2/1994 Description: At 12:20 a.m. in 1994, French soldiers in St. Joseph, Reunion Island watched a disc or ovoid-shaped object hover over the Indian Ocean for 85 minutes, emitting rays of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 325 Source ID: Johnson_1808 Source: Johnson ### Event 22457 (C2204AD6) Date: 4/6/1994 Description: Early in the night at one o'clock in the morning a 60-foot diameter disc was sighted hovering briefly over a road in Welcombe, Devonshire, England. It then shot off to the west and out to sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1994 Source ID: Johnson_1873 Source: Johnson ### Event 22458 (498886C1) Date: 4/7/1994 Description: The witnesses were out in an isolated area of Victoria, Argentina at 9:30 p.m. when they spotted a large white object apparently on the ground about 200 meters away. The object suddenly became brighter illuminating the nearby trees. A white line was now visible on the object, and they now saw 3 small lights moving within the object. The object grew in size, resembling a translucent bubble. Inside they could see eight to ten figures standing in a group. Seconds later a thick white fog enveloped the area. The object dimmed and shot straight up at high speed. Ground traces were found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case 3181, citing Silvia P. Simondini Source ID: Johnson_1890 Source: Johnson ### Event 22459 (F0F46172) Date: 4/8/1994 Description: On an overcast dawn at 6:10 a.m. a saucer-shaped object rose from the ground of a farm in Melbourne, Florida, then temporarily hovered at 30-50 feet before flying off. It had twelve white lights and six red lights on it, which had the appearance of headlights, except that these soft lights did not cast beams. There was one red light between every white light. The object was five times larger than a car. Its distance from the two witnesses, a man and a woman in their seventies, was estimated to be 1200 feet. the UFO made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Melvin H. Tennis, MUFON field investigation database, case 950403E Source ID: Johnson_1910 Source: Johnson ### Event 22460 (6F5EEC3C) Date: 4/8/1994 Description: A silent, dull metallic saucer-shaped UFO with diamond-shaped windows and big red lights crossed Route 20 in Quiet Dell, West Virginia at 11:40 p.m. Cheryl, the witness, said her car made a screeching sound while the engine faltered, the lights dimmed, and the car's digital clock had its setting erased. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 160 Source ID: Johnson_1911 Source: Johnson ### Event 22461 (F93E2807) Date: 4/9/1994 Description: A brilliant Kelly green sphere flew near a woman's home in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. It flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_1935 Source: Johnson ### Event 22462 (66E4246C) Date: 4/12/1994 Description: Farm animals reported unusually calm after a rectangular object passed (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [940412](http://www.nicap.org/ar-940412dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Granville, TN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5854 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22463 (E3B02937) Date: 4/12/1994 Description: Farm animals in Granville, Tennessee were reported to be unusually calm after a rectangular object passed at a low altitude. It had a white light at two corners, and trees hid the other two corners. The object was dark, but the space between the two lights blocked the stars; it was bigger than a house, and made a low rumble. The altitude was estimated to be 100 feet and the distance 500 feet. It moved very slowly. When the object vanished from sight, there was a sudden flash of white light and the rumbling sound ceased. The animals' calmness persisted afterward. Animals involved were 5 goats, 4 dogs, 9 geese, 40 chickens, at least one cow and a horse. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: LaVere M. Pisut, MUFON investigation files, case # 941214S; Francis L. Ridge and Joan Woodward, http://www.nicap.org/waves/1994fullrep.htm Source ID: Johnson_1992 Source: Johnson ### Event 22464 (2BC6EAE8) Date: 4/15/1994 Description: Three 12-year-old boys including Diego Percebal were walking near an old crumbled shrine to the Virgen De Ciguela in Torralba de Ribota, Zaragoza, Spain at around 8:00 p.m. when they saw a strange-looking dwarfish figure moving close to the building. The figure was dark in color, about 1.30 meters in height, and somewhat deformed with a huge oval-shaped cranium and a dark featureless face. It moved on two short, thick legs. The dwarf was heavy set and wore a shiny black suit, and was seen to enter the abandoned shrine. The boys saw the strange humanoid hide behind some debris and broken boards. Terrified, the boys ran to get adult witnesses, several of whom responded and went inside the shrine to investigate. The adult witnesses saw the strange figure moving behind a partially collapsed brick-wall and ran from the area. There were other encounters with the humanoid later in the same area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: La Historia de Los OVNI en Espana Source ID: Johnson_2038 Source: Johnson ### Event 22465 (F32EC7DE) Date: 4/17/1994 Description: On this night in Kapowsin, Pierce County, Washington State the first thing that happened was that a teenager's pick-up truck engine died. He next saw a creature with bat wings on the road. When it flew away he was able to restart the truck. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16364, citing West Virginia UFO Newsletter, number 5 Source ID: Johnson_2095 Source: Johnson ### Event 22466 (99E1247D) Date: 4/19/1994 Description: At 9:40 p.m. in Nykobing Falster, Denmark 21 nocturnal lights flying in an X-formation followed a witness in his car home. The lights rotated around a center point at 12 rpm. He took photographs of the lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Scandinavian UFO Information Newsletter, issue 14 Source ID: Johnson_2147 Source: Johnson ### Event 22467 (D46FAC11) Date: 4/22/1994 Description: On the outskirts of Edmonton, Alberta a large shining ball of light descended in the afternoon and landed nearby. It transformed itself into a tall entity that ran off into the woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case 3217; Frank Ducks, Canadian UFO Survey 1994, case # 33, citing Alberta UFO Study Group Source ID: Johnson_2239 Source: Johnson ### Event 22468 (2CCCBA1A) Date: 4/25/1994 Description: A large disc-shaped craft landed in a field 25 miles from Great Falls, Montana at 10:30 p.m. It was seen by several witnesses. It was described as being the size of a jeep, with flashing red and blue lights. When witnesses flashed car headlights at it, it flashed a brilliant white light, and then shot straight up and away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, pp. 87 & 157, citing B. Knell Source ID: Johnson_2314 Source: Johnson ### Event 22469 (B65270D6) Date: 4/26/1994 Description: At 1:10 p.m. a distant white, disc-shaped UFO hovered over Santa Rosa Sound as witnessed from Gulf Breeze, Florida. It created a churning swirl of water, that looked like a waterspout below the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 56 Source ID: Johnson_2354 Source: Johnson ### Event 22470 (C837E550) Date: 4/27/1994 Description: At 3:30 p.m. a witness in Dianavanget, Denmark had a close encounter with a blue ovoid object with square windows. It shone a bright light at the observer from 100 meters away, and then flew off to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16371, citing SUFOI News, issue # 14 Source ID: Johnson_2381 Source: Johnson ### Event 22471 (4B4A6454) Date: 4/28/1994 Description: A round craft passed in front of a car in Pensacola, Florida at 10:40 p.m. It passed to within 50 feet of the front of the automobile. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1994 Source ID: Johnson_2399 Source: Johnson ### Event 22472 (87BBC6C6) Date: 5/1994 Description: The Dean of Harvard Medical School, [Daniel C. Tosteson](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/education/03tosteson.html), appoints a committee of peers to confidentially review Department of Psychiatry Head [John E. Mack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FMack)’s clinical care and clinical investigation of the people who had shared their alien encounters with him \(some of their cases are written up in Mack’s 1994 book Abduction\). Angela Hind writes, “It was the first time in Harvard’s history that a tenured professor was subjected to such an investigation.” Upon the public revelation of the existence of the committee \(inadvertently revealed during the solicitation of witnesses for Mack’s defense, 10 months into the process\), questions arise from the academic community \(including Harvard Professor of Law [Alan Dershowitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%5FDershowitz)\) regarding the validity of an investigation of a tenured professor who is not suspected of ethics violations or professional misconduct. Concluding the 14-month investigation, Harvard then issues a statement stating that the dean has “reaffirmed Dr. Mack’s academic freedom to study what he wishes and to state his opinions without impediment,” concluding “Dr. Mack remains a member in good standing of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[John E. Mack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FMack\#Investigation%5Fby%5FHarvard)”; John E. Mack, [Abduction:](https://archive.org/details/abductionhumanen0000mack) [Human Encounters with Aliens](https://archive.org/details/abductionhumanen0000mack)[,](https://archive.org/details/abductionhumanen0000mack) Wheeler, 1994 Source ID: Eberhart_7089 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22473 (69F54876) Date: 5/1994 Description: Research psychologist [Susan Marie Powers](https://www.sixfold.org/PoWinter13/Powers.html) publishes a study on 20 abductees to explore the presence of PTSD symptoms. The results show that 45% of the abductees manifest PTSD symptoms and 70% manifest dissociative symptomatology. A content analysis of the narratives suggests that sexual abuse could be at the root of some of the stories. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Susan Marie Powers, “Thematic Content Analyses of the Reports of UFO Abductees and Close Encounter Witnesses: Indications of Repressed Sexual Abuse,” JUFOS 5 \(1994\): 35–54; Susan Marie Powers, “[Dissociation in Alleged Extraterrestrial Abductees,](https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/1516/Diss%5F7%5F1%5F7%5FOCR%5Frev.pdf?sequence=4)” Dissociation 7, no. 1 \(March 1994\): 44–50 Source ID: Eberhart_7090 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22474 (97FF5A3B) Date: 5/7/1994 Description: At 7:40 p.m. a domed, disc-shaped object bobbed and wove through the sky over Corby, Northamptonshire, England. A witness filmed a four-minute videotape of the encounter before the object shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, September 1994 Source ID: Johnson_2635 Source: Johnson ### Event 22475 (43CEDA92) Date: 5/8/1994 Description: A low whistle was heard at around 11:00 a.m., then a dark one meter-wide object was seen wavering under some power lines in Saaderup, Denmark close to ground. It flew off to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16377, citing SUFOI News, issue #14 Source ID: Johnson_2663 Source: Johnson ### Event 22476 (175C1F2C) Date: 5/10/1994 Description: At around 11:00 p.m. three villagers in Sagrado Corazon, Cosolapa, Mexico watched a large white light come from some nearby hills and land a few meters away. A short humanoid creature exited from the object. The humanoid was dressed all in white and had a shiny belt and helmet that constantly changed colors. When one of the villagers attempted to approach, the humanoid climbed back into the object. Minutes later a boy threw a rock at the object, which promptly dimmed and took off, flying back towards the hills at a high speed and quickly disappearing from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2040, citing Dr. R. A. Lara, Samizdat, Vol. 2 # 4 Source ID: Johnson_2728 Source: Johnson ### Event 22477 (698A1F9B) Date: 5/10/1994 Description: Two cows were found dead and mutilated at the Hronich Ranch near Eagle Nest, New Mexico. Dr. Altshuler, a veterinarian from Denver, Colorado involved in cattle mutilation investigations, arrived at the site within 10 hours, and his forensic analysis revealed that the two animals had cooked hemoglobin and cauterized incisions. Both animals also had had pneumonia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 239 Source ID: Johnson_2727 Source: Johnson ### Event 22478 (12470D81) Date: 5/11/1994 Description: In an undisclosed location in Switzerland, a man was in his bed sleeping late at night when a strong, pulsating blue light suddenly awakened him. He hid under his blanket, but had the sensation that he was floating before he passed out. The next thing he recalls he was lying on a table in a dark room. The wall, floor, and ceiling were very smooth. Below his feet and to his right side was something resembling a marble column. Suddenly a slim, small pallid humanoid being jumped on top of him. The being was female with large dark eyes and with no hair on her head. She somehow made the witness fell sexually excited; the whole episode was repeated by a second similar being. Then a third female with more human features appeared and apparently the same thing happened one last time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2692, citing Dr. Johannes Feibag Source ID: Johnson_2750 Source: Johnson ### Event 22479 (75202F78) Date: 5/15/1994 Description: At 11:45 p.m. prison surveillance cameras caught a two-foot wide UFO scanning the huge mesh perimeter fence of the Glenochil Prison in Alloa, Scotland. The object was a "bright white light with a big hole in the middle, like a giant polo mint" or donut. It was observed by two prison guards on the security video cameras, but was not visible to the naked eye. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1994; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 176 Source ID: Johnson_2873 Source: Johnson ### Event 22480 (5F45D85A) Date: 5/17/1994 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a huge bright light with lots of little lights, chased by second smaller light, was sighted in Monte Vista, Colorado. As the smaller object closed in on larger one, the larger one turned from white to red, and then made a 45 degree turn to the west. It made a pinging bullet sound as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 240, citing the Valley Courier Source ID: Johnson_2942 Source: Johnson ### Event 22481 (0CC5C0A9) Date: 5/18/1994 Description: At 8:40 p.m. a silent, yellow-colored onion-shaped UFO flew east to west over the Ouse River in York, England at the speed of a jet. It maneuvered about as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1994 Source ID: Johnson_2963 Source: Johnson ### Event 22482 (33500E93) Date: 5/21/1994 Description: 11:00 p.m. A witness in Plauen, Germany, is watching TV when she notices a light outside. She sees a disk with several rings of lights illuminating a tree and causing it to whip around violently. It is about 30 feet in diameter, and its top and bottom halves are rotating in opposite directions. After it hovers silently for a minute, it stops shaking the tree and moves behind a building and shoots away, leaving a hole in the clouds above. Two other witnesses see the disc from a different perspective and feel a strong wind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases: Europe, National Institute for Discovery Science, 1998 Source ID: Eberhart_7091 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22483 (29B0F549) Date: 5/27/1994 Description: A black and silver cylindrical UFO approached a fisherman in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia at 2:10 a.m. He lost track of time for the next 90 minutes; later he found cuts on his chest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16391 Source ID: Johnson_3127 Source: Johnson ### Event 22484 (332565DF) Date: 5/29/1994 Description: At two o'clock in the morning on Funen Island, Denmark a dog whined as a UFO with a row of windows went slowly by to the west. An orange, crescent-shaped object was seen in another town at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16392, citing SUFOI News, issue #14 Source ID: Johnson_3158 Source: Johnson ### Event 22485 (BD11A20E) Date: 5/31/1994 Description: At 2:30 a.m. Mr. Oringdulph of Alamosa, Colorado - the witness of a nocturnal light in the sky earlier that evening - was awakened by a large helicopter hovering directly over his house. As he ran outside it flew away, but a second helicopter hovered low over the end of his street for several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 243 Source ID: Johnson_3190 Source: Johnson ### Event 22486 (0668B483) Date: 6/1994 Description: The TNS Emnid Institut in Bielefeld, Germany, conducts a one-question survey on UFO beliefs among 1,069 Germans. Although the question is ambiguous, 22% respond yes and 78% no, in both the former West and East Germanies. The belief is much stronger in younger populations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Do Germans Believe in UFOs and Extraterrestrials?” IUR 21, no. 2 \(Summer 1996\): 25, 30 Source ID: Eberhart_7092 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22487 (3ACF6665) Date: 6/1994 Description: Day. An object like a balloon suddenly appears in the sky above US Highway 22 and East Kemper Road in Symmes Township, Ohio, outside Cincinnati. It remains perfectly stationary until after dark. One witness takes at least three photos of it. At one point it ascends to a higher altitude. The object is approached and circled three times by local air traffic. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[The Symmes Township Orb, USA, June 1994](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/symmes94.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7093 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22488 (187A9425) Date: Early 6/1994 Description: A tree farmer named Meng Zhaoguo is at Red Flag logging camp near Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China, with two other workers when they see a strange light in the sky. Thinking it is either a downed satellite or helicopter, Meng goes to retrieve the wreckage. However, at some point he is hit in the forehead by a shining light and knocked unconscious. He wakes up at home some time later, with no recollection of how he got there. A few nights later, he wakes up in his bed to find that a 10-foot-tall female alien with six fingers and braided leg fur is in his room. He and the alien have sex for 40 minutes before it disappears, leaving a 2-inch scar on his thigh. He also claims that on July 17, he levitates through a wall and meets with a group of three-eyed aliens on their ship. He asks to see the female alien again but is rebuffed. The aliens show him images of Mars \(or Jupiter\), which they claim is their home world, and tell him that “on a distant planet the son of a Chinese peasant will be born in 60 years.” His story is examined by the UFO Enthusiasts Club at Wuhan University throughout 1997. They conclude that while the initial contact may have occurred, the subsequent reported events are almost certainly untrue. However, other UFO groups in China think that his ongoing story is true. In September 2003, Zhang Jingping and the state-sponsored Chinese UFO Association give Meng a medical exam, a lie detector test, and a hypnotic regression session to prove his claims. The results supposedly confirm his story. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Kohut, “[UFO Group](https://www.scmp.com/article/94036/ufo-group-probes-claim-sex-jupiter-visitor) [Probes Claims of Sex with Jupiter Visitor,](https://www.scmp.com/article/94036/ufo-group-probes-claim-sex-jupiter-visitor)” South China Morning Post \(Hong Kong\), October 30, 1994; Teresa Poole, “[Close Encounters of an Intimate Kind: Peking Days,](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/close-encounters-of-an-intimate-kind-peking-days-1611554.html)” The Independent \(UK\), March 17, 1995; “[Calling](https://beforeitsnews.com/paranormal/2014/07/one-of-the-strangest-alien%20abducton-cases-in-china-ever-told-2472622.html) [Occupants of Inter-planetary Craft,](https://beforeitsnews.com/paranormal/2014/07/one-of-the-strangest-alien%20abducton-cases-in-china-ever-told-2472622.html)” China Daily, October 31, 2010; “[One of the Strangest Alien Abduction](https://beforeitsnews.com/paranormal/2014/07/one-of-the-strangest-alien%20abducton-cases-in-china-ever-told-2472622.html) [Cases in China Ever Told,](https://beforeitsnews.com/paranormal/2014/07/one-of-the-strangest-alien%20abducton-cases-in-china-ever-told-2472622.html)” Before It’s News, July 20, 2014; Chris Saunders, “UFOs over China,” Fortean Times 331 \(October 2015\): 28–30; Michael Meyer, “[Meet the Chinese Lumberjack Who Slept with an Alien,](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chinese-lumberjack-alien%5Fb%5F6986618)” HuffPost, October 16, 2015; Bill Chalker, “[The Untold Story of UFOs in China: Lost in Translation or the Devouring](https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-untold-story-of-ufos-in-china-lost-in-translation-or-the-devouring-dragon) [Dragon?](https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-untold-story-of-ufos-in-china-lost-in-translation-or-the-devouring-dragon)” New Dawn Special Issue 14, no. 1 \(January 2020\) Source ID: Eberhart_7094 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22489 (0A16BA3C) Date: 6/5/1994 Description: In 1994 scientists videotaped a new aircraft over a mountain in Col de Vence, France at 4:30 in the afternoon. A diamond-shaped object, not seen at the time, appears in the replay of the videotape. A lens-flare was ruled out as the cause. . At 2:30 a.m. a rapidly blinking strobe-light flying object paced a car on US highway 285 near Saguache, Colorado. It flew off to the west, going at treetop level. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 327; Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 244 Source ID: Johnson_3308 Source: Johnson ### Event 22490 (F7C66E60) Date: 6/6/1994 Description: A dog growled but geese remained quiet when two glowing domed objects landed on the ground only 100 feet away in Caille, France at 1:30 a.m. The objects may have had portholes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 327 Source ID: Johnson_3340 Source: Johnson ### Event 22491 (5DD7CA30) Date: 6/8/1994 Description: In a farming area outside of Padova (Padua), Italy at around midnight a robot-like entity with lights approached the witness. It used telepathy to communicate with the witness, warning him that it meant no harm and there were 14 others just like him, hiding in the nearby woods. It then lifted off vertically, and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #329; Albert S. Rosales, 1994 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # 2366 Source ID: Johnson_3379 Source: Johnson ### Event 22492 (6FA53D80) Date: 6/12/1994 Description: A hexagon-shaped object circled by lights had four square portholes on its bottom, was seen at 8:40 p.m. in St. Usuges, France. It flew away toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 326 Source ID: Johnson_3448 Source: Johnson ### Event 22493 (6AF96BBB) Date: 6/15/1994 Description: At 5:30 p.m. Karen Manning was busy cooking in her second floor apartment in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and had kept the window opened in order to keep an eye on her children playing outside. Suddenly everything went very quiet and the children were nowhere in sight. Dashing downstairs, she found the four children huddled together inside the apartment entrance. They told her they had seen a large disc-shaped craft flying low over the nearby highway. It was shiny-gold in color and emitted a whistling sound. The object had windows, through which they could see two blond haired females looking out. These two women had panicky expressions on their faces and appeared to have tape covering their mouths. The children also saw a humanoid figure standing at a door-like entrance to the object. He was described as greenish in color with long pointed ears. He also had a third eye in the middle of the forehead that emitted a blue light. A beam of light descended from the craft and chased one of the girls, lifting her six inches from the ground. She also heard a voice inside her head. The craft then moved away in a northwesterly direction. The children felt extremely hungry after the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2752, citing UFOBC Canada Source ID: Johnson_3508 Source: Johnson ### Event 22494 (57A9C0EF) Date: 6/23/1994 Description: A woman in Miami, Florida was unable to sleep and got up at 4 o'clock in the morning to sit at her kitchen table. She saw out her kitchen window, by a large fruit tree, a tall, dark winged man-like figure. It stepped from behind the tree and glided toward the side of her house. She believed she had seen a demon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 1701 Source ID: Johnson_3633 Source: Johnson ### Event 22495 (9038EB23) Date: 6/24/1994 Description: 2:40 a.m. Three gendarmes at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Seine-et-Marne, France, notice a bright set of lights in the sky. They drive closer and find that the source is a stationary object with three yellow-white lights. Its underside is triangular with a central pyramidal spire that points downward. They stop their patrol car, and the object moves slowly toward them until it stops directly above the vehicle. There is no noise, smoke, or odor. As soon as they start the car again, the object moves west at high speed and becomes a speck on the horizon within a second. The total duration is 10 minutes. The police radios stop functioning, and the car becomes hot even though the windows are open. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Ussy-sur-Marne \(77\) 24-06-1994,](https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/cas/1994-06-01360)” GEIPAN, March 22, 2007; Swords 449 Source ID: Eberhart_7095 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22496 (1E203754) Date: 6/26/1994 Description: At 1:20 a.m. rays of light were seen emanating from a cloud, and then a diamond-shaped array of lights pursued a car for 15 kilometers south of Abancourt, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 329 Source ID: Johnson_3687 Source: Johnson ### Event 22497 (51E7E4B3) Date: 6/27/1994 Description: An "airplane" landed on a jagged peak in Parc de la Mouliere, Alpes-Maritime, France in the early afternoon. It was joined by two ovoid flying objects. When a witness attempted to videotape the event, his camcorder failed to work. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 327 Source ID: Johnson_3703 Source: Johnson ### Event 22498 (5478FAC5) Date: 6/27/1994 Description: Around four o'clock in the morning at least five witnesses heard a loud hissing sound in Arad, Romania, and a nearby wheat field became lit up by a very bright light. Traian Crisan, a 48-year-old shepherd, approached the site and saw a light gliding towards the field. He ran to his hut and watched from inside, but then the walls and roof of his house began to shake. He then ran outside and encountered a strong wind. He next noticed a round hovering object, and through a small opening he could see two short men who appeared to be holding a tube. Both men had beards--one a long white beard--and both had slanted eyes. They also wore headphone-like devices on their heads, and held instruments in their hands. The nearby sheep panicked and ran when blue flames shot from out of the bottom of the craft as it accelerated straight up and disappeared. Later that day a flattened circular area of wheat was found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case 2282, citing Michael Hesemann, The Cosmic Connection Source ID: Johnson_3702 Source: Johnson ### Event 22499 (71C50B0B) Date: 6/27/1994 Description: A large dark triangular shaped craft with no lights flew over Moffat, Colorado at 11:00 p.m. It flew slowly from the east to the west at an estimated 1,000 feet altitude. One witness stated, "It was so big, it blotted out the stars!" A smaller craft soon followed the first one. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 246 Source ID: Johnson_3704 Source: Johnson ### Event 22500 (3696487F) Date: 6/29/1994 Description: A round craft so large that it obscurred an entire water tower was seen from Pensacola Beach, Florida at 11:55 p.m. by six witnesses. It made no discernable sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: C. Joseph Barron, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1994 Source ID: Johnson_3738 Source: Johnson ### Event 22501 (5D0C20C8) Date: 6/30/1994 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a car-sized disc was seen in Champagnole, Jura department, France at only 100 feet altitude. It moved slowly and silently, and stopped in place for 5 minutes, then shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 329 Source ID: Johnson_3755 Source: Johnson ### Event 22502 (35E753D5) Date: 7/2/1994 Description: 1:30–1:45 p.m. A resident of Limelette, Belgium, is at home in the Petit-Ry neighborhood when he looks out a window and sees a group of 10 white vertical structures with rounded edges moving back and forth about 180 feet above a vacant lot. They are all about 15–26 feet high and somewhat translucent, moving in an erratic pattern. The dry grass below has risen up into the air, forming a tornado shape and spinning anticlockwise. He watches it for 2–3 minutes, and the phenomenon moves slowly to the north and disappears. Possibly a wind devil. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wim van Utrecht, “[Dancing Ice-Lollies over a Waste Ground,](https://www.caelestia.be/limelette.html)” Caelestia Source ID: Eberhart_7096 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22503 (229E9BD2) Date: 7/3/1994 Description: The first flight of a CIA-developed Predator drone takes place at the El Mirage Field in the Mojave Desert, California. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[General Atomics MQ-1 Predator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%5FAtomics%5FMQ-1%5FPredator)” Source ID: Eberhart_7097 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22504 (3050773E) Date: 7/4/1994 Description: At midnight at homes in Caille, France television sets and electric lights flickered and went out when a metallic, parasol-shaped UFO flew twisting maneuvers through the night sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 327 Source ID: Johnson_3831 Source: Johnson ### Event 22505 (1144369A) Date: 7/6/1994 Description: Test pilot encounters fast-moving, maneuvering, object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Budabest, Hungary Source ID: NICAP_DB_5855 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22506 (5E07867F) Date: 7/6/1994 Description: At 11:40 p.m. in Llanelli, Wales, UK a disc changed shape and color from a cigar to a delta over a 20-minute period. It had lights on its edge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1994 Source ID: Johnson_3892 Source: Johnson ### Event 22507 (8CAD5957) Date: 7/7/1994 Description: At 11:30 p.m. an amateur astronomer who is also a pilot witnessed a disc-shaped object with a blue strobe light over Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The UFO made 90-degree and 60 degree turns and other fast maneuvers, then shot away to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Ducks, Canadian UFO Survey 1994, case # 75; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16440 Source ID: Johnson_3911 Source: Johnson ### Event 22508 (A1D955CA) Date: 7/13/1994 Description: A luminous, diamond-shaped UFO dropped down over a road in Avezzano, Italy. It turned, leveled off, and flew off toward the north-northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16443 Source ID: Johnson_4038 Source: Johnson ### Event 22509 (832F031A) Date: 7/16/1994 Description: A silent triangular craft flew over De Bary, Florida at 9:15 p.m. The two witnesses saw the low flying craft with lights drop a ball of light into some nearby woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 1792, citing MUFON Florida Source ID: Johnson_4111 Source: Johnson ### Event 22510 (D9DA09CF) Date: 7/16/1994 Description: A large black disc, making a beeping sound, flew over a police radio tower in La Chapelle-la-Reine, France at 11:40 p.m. It flew away toward the west. Ten minutes later a bright illumination was seen ahead of two witnesses driving on Route D16 south of La Vaudoue, France. A domed disc-shaped object was the source, and it flew away toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #327 Source ID: Johnson_4110 Source: Johnson ### Event 22511 (E68CEBB4) Date: 7/16/1994 Description: In the city of Dusseldorf, Germany six police officers saw a multicolored disc-shaped UFO the size of an airliner at 10:15 a.m. The craft had some sort of protrusion, and red and green blinking lights. It was viewed through binoculars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16447 Source ID: Johnson_4109 Source: Johnson ### Event 22512 (D736AEC9) Date: 7/21/1994 Description: At two o'clock in the afternoon an oval-shaped object was observed hovering over Taharti Lake, British Columbia, Canada for three minutes. It was about the size of a car. All of the witnesses returned to their cabin, but that night all five witnesses are unable to account for the next 24 hours. Their UFO sighting and the missing time incident is reported to the RCMP. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Ducks, 1994 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 85 Source ID: Johnson_4283 Source: Johnson ### Event 22513 (8F604D9F) Date: 7/24/1994 Description: Motorists encountered glowing orange oblong objects, one followed car. Diamond-shaped object hovered overhead when they stopped to look. Missing time period discovered upon arrival home (Basterfield, 1997b). Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Source ID: HallUFOE2_490 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22514 (337D1B85) Date: 7/24/1994 Description: Motorists encountered glowing orange oblong objects, one followed car; diamond- shaped object hovered overhead when they stopped to look. Missing time period discovered upon arrival home (Basterfield, 1997b). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Melbourne, Victoria, AU Source ID: NICAP_DB_5856 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22515 (542AD24E) Date: 7/27/1994 Description: A young boy ran into his mother's bedroom at 4:00 a.m. in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada and reported seeing a large object with blue lights hovering under the electrical wires outside his bedroom window. He also saw "little people on the poles." He was told by his mother to go back to bed and sleep. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2754, citing Graham Conway Source ID: Johnson_4442 Source: Johnson ### Event 22516 (52DB19FD) Date: 7/31/1994 Description: Roswell, a made-for-TV movie directed by [Jeremy Kagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%5FKagan) and produced by [Paul Davids](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FDavids), premieres on Showtime. It stars [Kyle MacLachlan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle%5FMacLachlan), [Martin Sheen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FSheen)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FSheen) and [Dwight Yoakam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%5FYoakam), and is based on UFO Crash at Roswell by [Kevin D. Randle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle) and [Donald R. Schmitt](https://ufocongress.com/don-schmitt-2/)[.](https://ufocongress.com/don-schmitt-2/)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Davids, “Roswell: The Movie,” IUR 19, no. 2 \(March/April 1994\): 15–18 Source ID: Eberhart_7098 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22517 (7ED92EA3) Date: 8/2/1994 Description: The witness awoke shortly after midnight in her home in Cayey, Puerto Rico after hearing a bang resembling the sound of a firecracker exploding. It came from the entrance to her bedroom. She heard the sound again, but this time it was closer to her bed, and she next saw a short, thin gray-skinned humanoid with a large head and huge black eyes walk standing in front of her bed. The creature then entered her grandson's bedroom. She then apparently fell back to sleep, because she was woken up by her grandson who told her that that same short creature with large eyes had sat on his chest and had stared at him. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 1778, citing Hank Worbetz Source ID: Johnson_4613 Source: Johnson ### Event 22518 (CB1BB72B) Date: 8/10/1994 Description: (1) At three o'clock in the afternoon a black triangle spun out of a billowing line of smoke in the sky over Gull Lake, Alberta, Canada and stopped dead; it then took off at an incredible speed. At 10:45 p.m. over York, England at box-shaped object hovered over a satellite dish in a residential neighborhood, making a humming sound and causing interference on local TVs. It glided off down a road after three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 1994 archived webpage, report dated May 9, 2003; (2) UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1994 Source ID: Johnson_4844 Source: Johnson ### Event 22519 (BA4454E7) Date: 8/10/1994 Description: (1) At 12:30 a.m. a witness observed for a few seconds a small luminous sphere that moved very quickly in the sky over Castanet Tolosan, Haute-Garonne Department, France. It made no noise, and no trail accompanied it. (2) At 4:30 a.m. at Antibes, Alpes-Maritime Department, France three luminous balls stopped over the ocean, then vanished. Their apparent size was 1 cm at arms length. (3) There was also the co-occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area, headquartered in Switzerland. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) GEIPAN, case # 1994-180; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 327; (3) Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 109 Source ID: Johnson_4843 Source: Johnson ### Event 22520 (A1849DCF) Date: 8/11/1994 Description: An elaborate spider web style crop formation was found in a field in Avebury, England on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Fate, May 2002, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_4909 Source: Johnson ### Event 22521 (2EB5230B) Date: 8/13/1994 Description: At 11:00 p.m. several witnesses including police in Salisbury, North Carolina watched nocturnal lights hover, orbit, and dance in the sky for two hours. A light in the distance was seen dropping red dots. They finally scattered in four directions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1994 Source ID: Johnson_4989 Source: Johnson ### Event 22522 (1E53CECD) Date: 8/13/1994 Description: From Charron Island in Montreal, Quebec, Canada a white disc-shaped object "moved in silence between 6,000 and 8,000 meters" altitude at 10:30 p.m. It was seen by two witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Ducks, 1994 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 90 Source ID: Johnson_4988 Source: Johnson ### Event 22523 (80623E99) Date: 8/14/1994 Description: At 11:30 p.m. several independent observers in a car and on a train near Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England saw some brilliant blue and white nocturnal lights in the sky. A crop circle was later found in the vicinity. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16431; UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 306, January 1995 Source ID: Johnson_5021 Source: Johnson ### Event 22524 (FFFAC2A5) Date: 8/14/1994 Description: At 12:20 a.m. in Anmore, West Virginia a neon green, lens-shaped object trailed a red stream behind it as it passed overhead and landed remotely in the nearby hills. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 170 Source ID: Johnson_5020 Source: Johnson ### Event 22525 (5A7D8C2B) Date: 8/23/1994 Description: 5:40 a.m. A delivery man and other early risers observe a V-shaped object low in the sky above the business district of a western suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Strobe lights emerge from the object at both its top and bottom, shining continuous beams of light on the object both while it is hovering and in flight. It disappears behind some buildings to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 175 Source ID: Eberhart_7099 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22526 (A99E6FAC) Date: 8/28/1994 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a black rectangle, approximately 30 feet long with a bright head light and tail light, and red and green side lights, hovered (levitated) silently in Helsinki, Finland for 10 minutes. There was the occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 1994 archived webpage, report uploaded January 11, 2002; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases --Europe, p. 109 Source ID: Johnson_5446 Source: Johnson ### Event 22527 (041C30CD) Date: 8/28/1994 Description: From Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Colorado at 11:00 p.m. a triangular shaped object with a honeycomb-like structure was seen hovering for an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1994; Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 253 Source ID: Johnson_5445 Source: Johnson ### Event 22528 (B83683F4) Date: 8/31/1994 Description: At 9:30 p.m. six men around a campfire during a hunting trip in the woods near Mongo, Indiana saw a UFO behind some treetops. The domed disc-shaped object moved swiftly to a clearing, hovered for about 30 seconds, and quickly vanished from sight. They were able to take some photographs, which show an overexposure of a domed disc-shaped craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, MUFON field investigation files, case 960103C; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 331 Source ID: Johnson_5543 Source: Johnson ### Event 22529 (89E58220) Date: 8/31/1994 Description: Mongo Photos (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [940831](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/mongodir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mongo, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5859 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22530 (DE85B601) Date: 8/31/1994 Description: Dogs do not react to close object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [940831](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-940831.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mongo, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5858 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22531 (A69D9D9D) Date: 8/31/1994 Description: 8:30 p.m. Six witnesses in Mongo, Indiana, see a light glowing through the treetops to the southwest at a low altitude. It looks somewhat like the Moon, but it starts moving from behind the trees into an open area near a road and hovers. It looks like a domed disc with a white strobe light on top of the dome. A bright red light on the bottom flashes 3–4 times like a strobe, then the object it disappears to the south east within 2 seconds. One of the witnesses takes at least four good pictures with a Vivitar fully automatic 35 mm camera with a standard lens and loaded with 400 ASA color film. Dogs do not react to the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[The Mongo Photos](http://www.nicap.org/940831mongo%5Fdir.htm)”; Patrick Gross, “[The Mongo Multiple Visual and Photographic Case, August 31, 1993](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/mongo1994.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7100 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22532 (44C3BCE9) Date: 9/2/1994 Description: On this night on Dry Creek, the Greenhorn Mountains, Huerfano County, Colorado a local hunter was at his campsite when a large group of "aliens dressed in camo appeared", and before he could react, he was gassed, captured, and tied up. They never spoke to him, and never fed him. He claims he survived by eating grasshoppers. The camoflage wearing, human looking entities appeared to be conducting "some sort of maneuvers." The group then began boarding a small, silver colored flying object, and the witness was astonished when the object appeared to expand in size to accommodate them all. The object then took off, morphed into the shape of a bear, then morphed into "a three headed wolf", then turned into a cloud. Later, law enforcement personnel searched the area and found the witness's truck trashed, the remains of his campfire, and "his half-burnt clothes" scattered around the area. At the same time a second hunter was reported missing in the same area, but when he finally showed up, he "raced away in his truck without saying a word." a local hunter was captured by human-like alien beings, dressed in camoflauge. Small silver UFO grew in size, changed shape 2x. 2nd hunter also missing, wouldn't say why. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 254; Albert S. Rosales, 1994 Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2550, citing Christopher O'Brien Source ID: Johnson_5583 Source: Johnson ### Event 22533 (08BB7C2B) Date: 9/6/1994 Description: An orange, V-shaped object flew over Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It had a large light with four others on either side; it appeared "misty". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Ducks, 1994 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 99 Source ID: Johnson_5699 Source: Johnson ### Event 22534 (92024C91) Date: 9/6/1994 Description: Beginning at 8:30 p.m., a multi-colored, cone-shaped object zig-zagged and expelled probes over a two and a half hour period over Rockville, Indiana. There were 5 witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Croda Norma J. Croda, MUFON field investigation files, case # 941108S Source ID: Johnson_5698 Source: Johnson ### Event 22535 (4D98308C) Date: 9/6/1994 Description: At 1:30 p.m. a domed, disc-shaped UFO with a big contrail moved to the north slowly over Cazeres, Haute-Garonne department, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 327 Source ID: Johnson_5697 Source: Johnson ### Event 22536 (E412FE76) Date: 9/7/1994 Description: A white light zigzagged across the sky from west to east in Baca Chalets, Colorado at 8:25 p.m. One and a half hours later a large luminous UFO, described to be as big as a room, drifted slowly over a nearby trailer in a trailer park in Taos, New Mexico. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 255; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #330 Source ID: Johnson_5741 Source: Johnson ### Event 22537 (14F1686E) Date: 9/7/1994 Description: A UFO was sighted over Gulf Breeze, Florida at 2:30 a.m. It dropped down, zigzagged, and then shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1994 Source ID: Johnson_5740 Source: Johnson ### Event 22538 (60397DF5) Date: 9/7/1994 Description: At 10:15 p.m. a pilot sighted a big black triangular object, 80 meters long, that had big yellow-white lights in the corners and a red light in the center near the coast of Corsica in the town of Bravone, Corse-Sud department, France. It made a 90 degree turn, revealing two more small flashing lights on the back of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 35 Source ID: Johnson_5739 Source: Johnson ### Event 22539 (D04CCC23) Date: 9/8/1994 Description: In response to Rep. [Steven Schiff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FSchiff)’s request for information, Col. Richard L. Weaver, director of security and special program oversight of the USAF Office of Special Investigations, publicly releases the Report of Air Force Research Regarding the “Roswell Incident,” a 23-page executive summary \(dated July 27\) that concludes that “the material recovered near Roswell was consistent with a balloon device and most likely from one of the Mogul balloons that had not been previously recovered.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Report of Air Force Research Regarding the “Roswell](https://www.afhra.af.mil/Portals/16/documents/AFD-101201-038.pdf) [Incident,”](https://www.afhra.af.mil/Portals/16/documents/AFD-101201-038.pdf) in Col. Richard L. Weaver and 1Lt. James McAndrew, The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert, US Air Force Headquarters, July 1995, pp. 5–32; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “The Air Force Report on Roswell: An Absence of Evidence,” IUR 19, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1994\): 3, 20–24; Karl T. Pflock, “Roswell, the Air Force, and Us,” IUR 19, no. 6 \(Nov./Dec. 1994\): 3–5, 24; Swords 351 Source ID: Eberhart_7101 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22540 (9D4A1BB4) Date: 9/9/1994 Description: Reen- and red-lighted object with satellite objects (section I). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Racoon, IN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5860 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22541 (68F55391) Date: 9/9/1994 Description: Green- and red-lighted object with satellite objects Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Racoon Lake, IN Source ID: HallUFOE2_491 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22542 (1A71D9F6) Date: 9/9/1994 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a huge, green and red lit, delta-shaped object with satellite objects was sighted in Racoon Lake, Indiana by five witnesses driving on US Highway 36. It emitted smaller luminous objects that darted around independently, and later took on these objects. Green balls of light came from the woods, and zigzagged over a house. The sightings lasted for over two and a half hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1994, p. 12; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 68 Source ID: Johnson_5810 Source: Johnson ### Event 22543 (B97522C2) Date: 9/9/1994 Description: On his way to work at 2:55 pm, driving 45 mph on highway 54 between Sharkey and Bloomfield, Indiana and with no other cars on the road, a 56-year-old man saw a gray, disc-shaped object pass silently in front of his vehicle from left to right. It "made a wide sweeping turn to the east" and went out of sight in 5 seconds. He estimated in flew at 300 mph, at only 300 feet altitude, and came within 500 feet of him. Later, military jets came over the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 16, field investigator Thomas A. Vlaskamp Source ID: Johnson_5809 Source: Johnson ### Event 22544 (C0BDA40D) Date: 9/9/1994 Description: In a bedroom visitation and possible abduction attempt, a man reported undescribed "aliens" in his room late at night in Saginaw, Michigan. They probed his esophagus or inserted something inside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1994 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 2640, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_5808 Source: Johnson ### Event 22545 (74A2CD95) Date: 9/11/1994 Description: There were three separate sightings this evening in Gulf Breeze, Florida at 7:40 p.m., 7:50 p.m., and 8:25 p.m. of balls of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing MUFON UFO Journal Source ID: Johnson_5879 Source: Johnson ### Event 22546 (DA0C79E9) Date: 9/11/1994 Description: A man was lying in bed in his home in the U.S. state of Georgia (exact location not given), when around two a.m. he suddenly awoke and found that several short Grey humanoid beings were touching him, apparently trying to roll him over. They were about four feet tall, had large heads, huge black eyes, soft wrinkly skin, very long arms, and four-digits on their hands. Some of them were wearing robes like monks, but the ones without robes were the typically described "Greys". They floated him out and up into a large triangular-shaped craft. Inside the object, he found himself in a room with "Gothic" looking arches and illuminated walls. He was met by a dark gray being with deep eyes, and a very "convoluted" flesh, who ordered him to lie down. This being had slits in his eyes, and called himself the "leader." He remembered lying down on a cot-like structure that came out of the wall. Everything became confused at this point.; he was only able to remember seeing huge eyes and 12" long fingers working on him. Next, he was floated down a hallway into another room. There he met some strange robed entities, who resembled the statues on Easter Island. They were about five feet tall, grayish brown in color, and with long, stout features. At this point the "leader" reappeared and placed his hands over the abductee's eyes. Moments later he entered another room that smelled like wet concrete or lime. There he remembered seeing several different species. Later, he found himself in another room with a large window. From this vanntage point he was able to see the stars, and got a good look at the side of the craft. Finally, he was told it was time to go back, and he next found himself standing in his backyard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 1944, citing C. Leigh Culver, UFO Encounters, volume 2, number 3 Source ID: Johnson_5877 Source: Johnson ### Event 22547 (E1408DB8) Date: 9/11/1994 Description: At 7:15 p.m. a strange light maneuvered up and down near the tree line in Indianapolis, Indiana. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing Francis L. Ridge Source ID: Johnson_5878 Source: Johnson ### Event 22548 (9A1F0368) Date: 9/11/1994 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a local woman was driving down an isolated dirt road in Grady County, Georgia when she came face to face with four short "Grey" humanoid beings when she rounded a curve. These were described as four feet tall with very large heads. They darted into the woods at a high speed and disappeared. Around the same time, in the same area, a large orange sphere was sighted hovering three feet from the ground in a wooded area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1994 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 1967, citing Billy J. Rachels, UFO Bureau Source ID: Johnson_5880 Source: Johnson ### Event 22549 (1DFE36A0) Date: 9/13/1994 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a silent formation of dark objects flew across the sky toward the southwest in Cheyenne, Wyoming. They were thought to be much too fast to have been geese. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16525, citing R. Leo Sprinkle Source ID: Johnson_5927 Source: Johnson ### Event 22550 (3F95E50E) Date: 9/13/1994 Description: Larry Gardea, while out bear hunting near Chacon, New Mexico heard a humming sound at 4:30 p.m., and witnessed a cow being dragged up a hill backwards into the underbrush. One cow was dead and mutilated, another one crippled, and a third missing. The hunter fired shots in the direction of the sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 256, citing Linda Moulton Howe Source ID: Johnson_5925 Source: Johnson ### Event 22551 (E3A0FBDC) Date: 9/13/1994 Description: At 7:30 p.m. while driving on Highway 160 east of Del Norte, Colorado two people witnessed two orange streamers that crossed their path. The two flourescent orange streamers flew in tandem right in front of their van's windshield. They were four to six feet in length, six to eight feet apart. They crossed the highway at the same place as an ambulance's electrical system failure earlier in the month. Satellite TV in the area also failed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 256 Source ID: Johnson_5926 Source: Johnson ### Event 22552 (EFEAB193) Date: 9/13/1994 Description: 5:30 p.m. As Larry Gardea is hunting for bear near Luna Canyon in Mora County, New Mexico, he sees a cow lying dead some 30 feet away. In the place where its rectum should be is a large, cylindrical hole. Ten feet beyond that cow is another one, apparently alive, sitting on its knees. At that moment a dozen cattle stampede in the opposite direction, and Gardea hears a loud humming noise coming from the nearby woods. A third cow is suddenly propelled through the air nearby at near ground level, as if carried by an invisible beam. Gardea fires two shots and the humming stops. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 138 Source ID: Eberhart_7102 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22553 (EF44CBFD) Date: 9/14/1994 Description: 8:50–9:05 p.m. A brilliant ball of fire with a long trail of sparks is seen over a wide range of territory in Zimbabwe, Botswana, and southern Zambia, followed by a sonic boom. Some people see three large lights in front, with from 8–20 smaller lights behind. Many report that the objects are traveling very fast from north to south; others see it moving slowly, and one man says he walked along with it more than 320 feet. Geologists [Euen](https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/euan-nisbet%5F2ff4ba1e-64af-450c-b39d-eb64b7f809d1.html) [Nisbet](https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/euan-nisbet%5F2ff4ba1e-64af-450c-b39d-eb64b7f809d1.html) and Kathy Silva, working in Zvishavane, Zimbabwe, report that the display takes a minute to cross the sky on a path angled about 10° away from north to south. Witnesses at Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe, variously see three orange-red lights with trails, a bright link with a dark center and 14 lights flashing around it, a light flying at treetop level, a row of green lights with a trail, and an object several times larger than a Boeing 747. Possibly debris from the rocket that launched the Russian satellite Kosmos 2290. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Cynthia Hind, “[UFO Flap in](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Zimbabwe/Afrinews%20%28Cynthia%20Hind%29/UFO%20AFRINEWS%20-%20No%2011.pdf) [Zimbabwe,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Zimbabwe/Afrinews%20%28Cynthia%20Hind%29/UFO%20AFRINEWS%20-%20No%2011.pdf)” UFO Afrinews, no. 11 \(February 1995\): 4–18; Cynthia Hind, “UFO Flap in Zimbabwe,” IUR 20, no. 3 \(May/June 1995\): 20–21; James Oberg, “[Zimbabwe: 1994 Sep 14 near 18:51 UTC,](http://satobs.org/seesat%5Fref/Oberg/940914-africa-pdf1.pdf)” PowerPoint presentation Source ID: Eberhart_7103 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22554 (DA409EA5) Date: 9/16/1994 Description: 10:00 a.m. Some 60 children in a grassy playground outside Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, see three or four objects landing in the “rough bush area” about 330 feet away. An entity of some kind emerges from the largest object and stands on top. It has long, straight, black hair tied back with a headband around its larger than normal head, stands about 3 feet tall, and is dressed in black. Some of the younger African children are afraid it is a Tokoloshe, a folkloric entity. After 15 minutes, the craft and entity fade from view. The headmaster asks each child to draw what they saw. Researcher [Cynthia Hind](http://www.noufors.com/Cynthia%5FHind.htm) interviews them on September 17 and psychologist [John E.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FMack) [Mack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FMack) several months later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Cynthia Hind, “[The Children of Ariel School,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Zimbabwe/Afrinews%20%28Cynthia%20Hind%29/UFO%20AFRINEWS%20-%20No%2011.pdf)” UFO Afrinews, no. 11 \(February 1995\): 19–25; “[Never-Before-Seen Photos Reveal Extraordinary Wedge-Shaped Impressions,](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10833597/New-photos-imprints-left-UFO-spotted-Zimbabwe-1994.html)” Daily Mail \(UK\), May 20, 2022; Internet Movie Database, “[Ariel Phenomenon](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20216382/)” Source ID: Eberhart_7104 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22555 (16D2D350) Date: 9/16/1994 Description: At 10:15 a.m. several children in school in Ruwa, Mashona East, Zimbabwe watched three silver discs or spheres disappear with a flash of light, then reappear three times. One of the objects landed and a small man emerged. He was one meter tall and pale with a scrawny neck, big eyes and long black hair. He wore a shiny tight black suit. There were a total of 62 witnesses, and the incident lasted eight minutes. In another account of the same or a parallel incident, at 10:18 in nearby Harare, Mashona East, Zimbabwe school children at a school in a rural area spotted an unknown craft that landed in the valley below, with black humanoids patroling outside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, January 1995; Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995; (2) Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1994 webpage, report uploaded December 5, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_6023 Source: Johnson ### Event 22556 (D6960FC1) Date: 9/16/1994 Description: At 8:00 p.m. numerous witnesses observed a strange craft hovering over Metepec, Mexico. At about the same time Sara Cuevas filmed a disc-shaped craft hovering over the area. A few hours later she noticed a strange luminous being standing about 90 feet away from her in the middle of a nearby sugar cane field. She filmed the four-foot-tall humanoid as it slowly moved away. The next day, footprints and strange formations of flattened crop-formation depressions were found in the sugar cane field. Another witness came forward who had seen a luminous dome-shaped craft land in the field that same night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2283, citing Michael Hesemann, The Cosmic Connection; Carlos Alberto Guzman Rojas, Los OVNIs y la Aviacion Mexicana: 50 anos de encuentros con OVNIs en el espacio aereo mexicano, p. 175 Source ID: Johnson_6024 Source: Johnson ### Event 22557 (80BBCF72) Date: 9/16/1994 Description: Ariel school incident Type: ce3 event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_School_UFO_incident) Location: Ruwa, Zimbabwe Source ID: Maj2_793 Source: Maj2 ### Event 22558 (57E3B49D) Date: 9/17/1994 Description: At 11:45 p.m. a 17-year-old male reported having a close encounter with a pinkish, 25 foot diameter circular object that illuminated the ground in Memphis, Tennessee; it then rose to treetop level before flying off slowly to the southeast. It had a neon glow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert McDowell, MUFON field investigation case files, case 950326C; T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1996, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_6057 Source: Johnson ### Event 22559 (9E47743D) Date: 9/20/1994 Description: A huge manta ray shaped object passed just above a car being driven between Oxnard and Camarillo in Ventura County, California at 10:50 p.m. It then spiraled up to a higher altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1994 Source ID: Johnson_6159 Source: Johnson ### Event 22560 (1FB09F55) Date: 9/20/1994 Description: Another bedroom visitation and missing time experience occurred in Miami, Florida in the evening hours. A 59-year-old woman went to bed with her dog sleeping at her side at 8:00 p.m. The dog left the bed, as was normal, but when the dog began barking the witness turned on her side and she saw a small humanoid figure sitting near the foot of her bed. It had a large head and a brown skinned face. The startled woman took a swing at the figure but missed. Two other figures were standing next to the bed and they made a peculiar "chirping" or "giggling" sound. As she attempted to escape, one of the figures approached her and grabbed her by the wrist, apparently causing her to loose consciousness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Zimmer Mary Margaret Zimmer, MUFON investigation files CDROM, case # 950105E Source ID: Johnson_6157 Source: Johnson ### Event 22561 (254EEDDE) Date: 9/20/1994 Description: A bedroom visitation and abduction occurred in Yuma, Arizona at around one o'clock in the morning. A 22-year-old man awoke to find a bright light shining in his face and several figures standing around his bed. He next found himself in a large round, cold, seamless metallic gray room with a reddish tint. He was sitting on a bench next to two fellow abductees: a blond woman and a man with tattoos who both appeared to be incoherent. He saw tables and cows in the room, and beings that seemed to be removing things from the cows. He saw two types of beings. The large ones appeared to be in charge. He described them as lizard-like, very muscular, with almond shaped black eyes with yellow slits in them. They also had several smile-shaped parallel ridges on their faces. The smaller beings were working on the cows and wore some type of helmet. His next recollection was that he found himself on one of the tables. He lost complete recall at this point, and the next thing he remembers was he was back in his bed sweating. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Murek, MUFON investigation files CDROM, case # 941101S; T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 15; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2014, citing Kevin Bowman & Joseph Murek, MUFON Source ID: Johnson_6156 Source: Johnson ### Event 22562 (75203836) Date: 9/20/1994 Description: At the Triple L Ranch in Saguache County, Colorado, at the same time and place as the sighting of a nocturnal light, two cattle mutilations--a cow and a calf--occurred west of the Sand Dunes National Monument. Missing organs included the udders, rectums, and ears. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 259, citing the Center Post Dispatch Source ID: Johnson_6158 Source: Johnson ### Event 22563 (BA8F4F22) Date: 9/21/1994 Description: In the middle of the afternoon in Iasi, Romania a domed disc-shaped object hovered over a soccer match. It had a glowing halo, and was accompanied by a luminous orange sphere. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, Issue # 328 Source ID: Johnson_6202 Source: Johnson ### Event 22564 (E6DA7C69) Date: 9/22/1994 Description: At four o'clock at night a 40-meter long triangular UFO flew over a farmhouse in Sornay, Saone-Loire department, France. The farm's dog barked furiously, and the UFO shot away at an incredible speed. The sighting lasted 3 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 329 Source ID: Johnson_6239 Source: Johnson ### Event 22565 (0A15E198) Date: Fall 1994 Description: Terry and Gwen Sherman purchase a 512-acre ranch in western Uintah County, southeast of Ballard, Utah. The couple soon encounter various types of UFOs and paranormal phenomena, including cattle mutilations, bigfoot, flying orbs, discarnate voices, crop circles, poltergeist activity, electromagnetic anomalies, orange portals, and a giant wolflike creature. [Colm Kelleher](https://www.linkedin.com/in/colm-kelleher-834a05112) and coauthor [George Knapp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FKnapp%5F%28journalist%29) subsequently write a book, Hunt for the Skinwalker \(2005\), in which they describe the ranch being acquired by [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow)’s National Institute for Discovery Science in 1996 for $200,000 to study the sightings at the ranch, soon dubbed the Skinwalker Ranch after the shape-shifting creature in Navajo folklore. Between June and August 1997, NIDS personnel observe anomalies on every occasion they are at the ranch, but they are unable to prove anything scientifically. Among those involved are retired US Army Col. [John B. Alexander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FB.%5FAlexander) who characterizes the NIDS effort as an attempt to get hard data using a “standard scientific approach.” However, the investigators admit to “difficulty obtaining evidence consistent with scientific publication.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Skinwalker Ranch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker%5FRanch)”; Colm Kelleher and George Knapp, [Hunt for the Skinwalker](https://archive.org/details/huntforskinwalke0000kell)[,](https://archive.org/details/huntforskinwalke0000kell) Paraview, 2005; Gildas Bourdais, “Hunt for the Skinwalker: New Challenge for the ETH?” IUR 31, no. 1 \(January 2007\): 25–31; Clark III 1073–1075; John B. Alexander, “From Los Alamos to Skinwalker Ranch,” Fortean Times 363 \(February 2018\): 39–41 Source ID: Eberhart_7106 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22566 (D0D7168B) Date: 9/26/1994 Description: An aircraft crash at RAF Boscombe Down in Wiltshire, England, appears closely linked to US black missions, according to a report in Air Forces Monthly. Further investigation is hampered by USAF aircraft flooding into the base. Special Air Service personnel arrive in plainclothes and in an Agusta 109 helicopter. The crash site is protected from view by fire engines and tarpaulins, and the base is closed to all flights soon afterwards. A USAF C5 Galaxy is redirected to the station, which takes the disassembled aircraft back to the US. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dreamland Resort, “[RAF Boscombe Down’s Black Day,](https://www.dreamlandresort.com/black%5Fprojects/boscombe.htm)” April 12, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_7105 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22567 (1086F41A) Date: 10/1/1994 Description: TV host [Larry King](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%5FKing) broadcasts “Larry King Live at Area 51,” which includes a prerecorded interview with former Sen. [Barry Goldwater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%5FGoldwater)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%5FGoldwater) who says: “I think the government does know. I can’t back that up, but I think that at Wright-Patterson field, if you could get into certain places, you’d find out what the Air Force and the government knows about UFOs… I called [Curtis LeMay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%5FLeMay) and I said, “General, I know we have a room at Wright- Patterson where you put all this secret stuff. Could I go in there?’ I’ve never heard him get mad, but he got madder than hell at me, cussed me out, and said, ‘Don’t ever ask me that question again!’” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs: Oct 1, 1994,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB%5FmqXGJ51M) [Filmed Outside Area 51,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB%5FmqXGJ51M)” SmokingMan47 YouTube channel, November 28, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_7107 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22568 (020DFD95) Date: 10/7/1994 Description: 10:00 p.m. Jerzy Bulczyński and his family in Biskupice, Poland, see two identical large discs with rotating rings consisting of smaller spheres, all grayish-green in color and around 6–8 times the size of the full moon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 88 Source ID: Eberhart_7108 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22569 (744AB45C) Date: 10/8/1994 Description: A police officer watched two bright lights descend into a cornfield near O'Fallon, Missouri at 3:40 a.m. He reported having headaches and blurred vision afterwards. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16556, citing Actaeon Advisor, issue # 3 Source ID: Johnson_6678 Source: Johnson ### Event 22570 (BE1F4D80) Date: 10/8/1994 Description: 8:00 p.m. Military personnel at Poligon Nadarzyce airbase near the village of Nadardyce, Poland, report a spherical UFO surrounded by a ring of lights. It changes shape to a triangle and an ellipse. In reaction to the initial report, Krzesiny AFB sends two MiG-21 interceptors that allegedly experience technical malfunctions during their pursuit. The Polish Army concludes that the phenomena were caused by a laser searchlight operated by the local Olimpia Circus. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 87–89 Source ID: Eberhart_7109 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22571 (F93D7B78) Date: 10/10/1994 Description: A delta-shaped object hovered over a cornfield in Traverse City, Michigan at 8:05 p.m. It had searchlights that shone down on the ground. The object abruptly shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 194 Source ID: Johnson_6739 Source: Johnson ### Event 22572 (39BA262A) Date: 10/11/1994 Description: Dogs alerted witnesses to the presence in the sky of three white lights in a row between Custer and Hot Springs, South Dakota, which shift to a triangle configuration, then back to a row again before lost from sight. Each light strobed in sequence. The configuration was about 600 feet across, at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet and a speed of 100 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON investigation files, case 941201S, field investigator Davina M. Ryszka; MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_6789 Source: Johnson ### Event 22573 (4811E433) Date: 10/11/1994 Description: Dogs alerted to white lights (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [941011](http://www.nicap.org/ar-941011dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Custer, SD Source ID: NICAP_DB_5861 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22574 (8FD90C9F) Date: 10/15/1994 Description: At 8:10 p.m. a disc-shaped object witnessed by three teenagers dropped down near a military communication center in La Farlede, Var department, France. It vanished for awhile, then rose up into the sky at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 330 Source ID: Johnson_6875 Source: Johnson ### Event 22575 (04C3EF5C) Date: 10/28/1994 Description: Two men in a pickup truck were skywatching for UFOs at 9:30 on this night near the New Mexico-Colorado border in the San Luis Valley of Colorado when a craft suddenly appeared in front of them, emerging from a fog. As it hovered, one of them mentally called to it to come closer, and it approached to within 50 feet. The second man, however, panicked and "freaked out", shooting his rifle at the object. The UFO then went overhead, and as it did it levitated the pickup truck and dropped it in a bar ditch. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 267 Source ID: Johnson_7254 Source: Johnson ### Event 22576 (50A84609) Date: 10/28/1994 Description: Trinchera, Colorado resident June M. saw and reported "a large disc-shaped craft" at around 10:00 p.m. It appeared to be shining a spotlight at the ground. A short time later, military helicopters were seen "buzzing" the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 268 Source ID: Johnson_7255 Source: Johnson ### Event 22577 (23032CA2) Date: 10/29/1994 Description: A 20 meter in diameter domed disc-shaped object landed in a meadow in St. Germain-en-Montagne, Jura, France at 7:30 p.m, and was seen by two observers. It had portholes around the dome; no traces were found at the landing site. The landing lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 329 Source ID: Johnson_7289 Source: Johnson ### Event 22578 (71882410) Date: 10/30/1994 Description: At 12:30 a.m two driving in a car on the shore of Lake Geneva, near La Blecherette, Lausanne, Switzerland observed an array of 23 nocturnal lights that rotated over Lake Geneva. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 328 Source ID: Johnson_7317 Source: Johnson ### Event 22579 (D45BD9CC) Date: 10/30/1994 Description: At 1:45 a.m. a couple in a car in the commune of Sélestat, Bas-Rhin department, France observed a luminous disc-shaped object with revolving lights around the rim; it hovered only 5-6 meters above their car. Further on down the road they encountered another object in front of their vehicle: an equilateral triangle-shaped object, 10 meters on a side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 191 Source ID: Johnson_7318 Source: Johnson ### Event 22580 (84B56E21) Date: 10/30/1994 Description: A 40-foot long tractor trailer-shaped flying object with lights, at 40-50 feet altitude, was sighted in Paterson, New Jersey at 5:45 p.m. It reportedly chased police helicopters during a drug raid. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1995; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 1935, citing MUFON New Jersey Source ID: Johnson_7319 Source: Johnson ### Event 22581 (9BD6A7EC) Date: 11/4/1994 Description: At 8:10 p.m. an orange glowing hat-shaped disc was sighted over some trees in Louhans, Saone-Loire department, France. It ascends vertically into the clouds, but was seen again that same evening between nine o'clock and eleven o'clock. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 329 Source ID: Johnson_7463 Source: Johnson ### Event 22582 (1C684936) Date: 11/6/1994 Description: In Uffheim, France at 12:10 a.m. a 15 meter in diameter bowl-shaped object hovered and then followed a car. There were over 40 separate witnesses to the event, but no news coverage. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 330 Source ID: Johnson_7516 Source: Johnson ### Event 22583 (D0805F3E) Date: 11/6/1994 Description: Three unblinking orange lights were seen flying in a wedge-shaped formation by Christopher O'Brien while driving on US highway 285 near Antonito, Colorado at 11:15 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 269 Source ID: Johnson_7517 Source: Johnson ### Event 22584 (74B5C86D) Date: 11/8/1994 Description: A silver cigar-shaped object with two rectangular windows was sighted north of Bradshaw, West Virginia at 11:15 a.m. by several witnesses. It made a roaring sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: West Virginia UFO Newsletter, issue 1 Source ID: Johnson_7551 Source: Johnson ### Event 22585 (65D5E9A2) Date: 11/15/1994 Description: At 8:45 p.m. a large, silent, diamond-shaped object hovered over a house south of Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia. It passed over woods, and then roared away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 203 Source ID: Johnson_7705 Source: Johnson ### Event 22586 (118CB59F) Date: 11/22/1994 Description: At 9:09 p.m. a La Veta Pass, Colorado family called UFO investigator Christopher O'Brien to report a "flying triangle" that had just flown over their house. They insisted that it wasn't a "stealth aircraft," and claimed it was silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 276 Source ID: Johnson_7821 Source: Johnson ### Event 22587 (06E27C48) Date: 11/23/1994 Description: Six children in Plancher-les-Mines, France watched a silver domed disc maneuver, then hover low over a field. On the dome was a porthole, and inside a human-like head could be seen looking out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 330 Source ID: Johnson_7856 Source: Johnson ### Event 22588 (E3834B73) Date: 11/30/1994 Description: Guards at a factory in Guiyang, Guizhou, in southern China described a close encounter with a UFO at 3:30 a.m. It had two very brilliant spotlights, changing colors from yellow to green to red. It passed through the area making a noise like a locomotive engine. There was large scale tree damage, over an area of 160 square meters of forest, having cut through some trees that were three meters tall, yet leaving some trees that were interspersed untouched. One worker was reportedly thrown several meters through the air during the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Dong, UFO Magazine, April 2000, p. 38; Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 156 Source ID: Johnson_8093 Source: Johnson ### Event 22589 (F4E2CF8B) Date: 12/1994 Description: Multiple reports of low-flying object (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Trumball County, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5862 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22590 (BB8E6349) Date: 12/1994 Description: SOM1–01 "MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual" document “leaked” to UFO researcher Type: majestic document Reference: [Wikipedia](https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/som101_part1.pdf) Location: US See also: 4/1954 Source ID: Maj2_795 Source: Maj2 ### Event 22591 (F6C27137) Date: 12/1/1994 Description: A strong, flaming light with a train-like rumbling noise causes destruction to 1,700 square feet of woodland in the Guiyang Baiyun Duxi Forest Farm near Guiyang, Guizhou province, China. Trees are broken off at the same height and some roofs are damaged. Although a probable airburst from a meteor, some Chinese researchers argue it could be a ufological event. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[The Untold Story of UFOs in China: Lost in](https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-untold-story-of-ufos-in-china-lost-in-translation-or-the-devouring-dragon) [Translation or the Devouring Dragon?](https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-untold-story-of-ufos-in-china-lost-in-translation-or-the-devouring-dragon)” New Dawn Special Issue 14, no. 1 \(January 2020\) Source ID: Eberhart_7110 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22592 (9A3F3CDE) Date: 12/1/1994 Description: In 1994 at 8:30 a.m., a Mr. Becker sighted a square-shaped UFO with a small dome on top in Leopoldshoefe, Germany. It had red, orange, violet, and green lights on its bottom, and it moved very slowly, making no noise, at approximately 70 meters altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases-Europe, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_8115 Source: Johnson ### Event 22593 (59298003) Date: 12/3/1994 Description: In 1994 at 11:00 o’clock in the evening two witnesses near the Garden State Parkway in Eatontown, New Jersey observed a silent, triangular-shaped craft in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing MUFON New Jersey Source ID: Johnson_8170 Source: Johnson ### Event 22594 (69E2896D) Date: 12/5/1994 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a large circular object, making no engine sounds, hovered 70 meters away from the witness in Sumter, South Carolina. It produced a light that made no shadows. After a short while hovering it began climbing at a steep rate. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 1994 webpage, entry posted January 28, 1999 Source ID: Johnson_8218 Source: Johnson ### Event 22595 (48CB22C9) Date: 12/5/1994 Description: At 3:50 a.m. two female witnesses, sleeping outdoors in Morphett Vale, South Australia, saw a disc-shaped object crossing the sky from east to west. It had no lights and made no sound. The UFO appeared to be spinning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, South Australia UFO Reports - Project 1947 Website, citing UFORSA, case 94027 Source ID: Johnson_8217 Source: Johnson ### Event 22596 (D560DE11) Date: 12/11/1994 Description: Two observers in Tiete, Sao Paolo State, Brazil watched a luminous greenish sphere land nearby them at 11:00 p.m.. Two humanoid figures appeared next to the object. They were described as 1.20 meters tall, with very pale skin and four-fingered hands, large staring eyes, and two small holes for a nose. One of the witnesses directed a flashlight at the figures, and a beam of light from the object immediately disabled it. The beings and the object then left. Crushed grass was found at the scene. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2364, citing Brazilian UFO Report, Vol. 1, No. 1 Source ID: Johnson_8349 Source: Johnson ### Event 22597 (9480D79F) Date: 12/15/1994 Description: At around 3:00 a.m. Miss Myrna Rodriguez had been in a deep sleep at her home in La Playa Guayanilla, Puerto Rico when she had the sudden sensation that her body was being lifted up, apparently floating away from the bed. She awoke with a start and found herself unable to move. When she looked around she found herself surrounded by four short humanoids, two on each side of her body, who were apparently somehow holding her up in mid-air without any means of support. The beings were short and thin, with huge, round hairless heads, small pointed ears, and large, dark, slanted eyes. They had what appeared to be mole-like marks under their eyes, and their noses and mouths were almost indistinguishable. They had thin bodies with long skinny arms. They all wore dull silvery uniforms. The beings next began touching her with their delicate hands all around her stomach and chest area, at the same time talking to themselves in a low murmur like chatter. The witness was alarmed to see that the beings somehow had suceeded in opening her chest area, without causing her any pain or discomfort. They seemed to be checking her internal organs, including her heart, which she saw moving as it pumped blood through her body. During the whole experience she felt a sense of joy and peace, and was convinced that the beings were benevolent and were there to help. She eventually floated gently back to her bed where she was able to move and immediately checked her stomach and chest area for any scars, but found none. The beings had vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2099, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue # 5 Source ID: Johnson_8428 Source: Johnson ### Event 22598 (2F0D933B) Date: 12/18/1994 Description: Ufologist Leonard Stringfield dies Type: death Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_H._Stringfield) Location: Cincinnati, OK Source ID: Maj2_794 Source: Maj2 ### Event 22599 (23A479B9) Date: 12/23/1994 Description: John, a 45-year-old man residing in the Clyde Canal area of Lothian county in Scotland was watching television when he noticed electrical interference on the TV set. He then noticed a “human-looking alien” standing inside his house. His next memory was aboard a disc-shaped UFO. After the experience he had a set of small red puncture marks on his neck, as if a cluster of needles had been stuck into his skin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland’s UFO Phenomenon, p. 49 Source ID: Johnson_8576 Source: Johnson ### Event 22600 (83585220) Date: 12/29/1994 Description: A woman decided to take a short cut home on a dirt road through a wheat field in Lacrosse, Washington at 9:45 p.m. She had a close encounter with three black, wedge-shaped flying objects, with lights on their leading edge, that passed in front of her car. The objects were about 20 feet long and emitted strong beams of light. They made a humming sound as they flew along very low and slowly, then turned and flew off to the north. The event frightened her badly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gerald Rowles, MUFON Field Investigations Database, case 950106S; T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1996, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_8647 Source: Johnson ### Event 22601 (829A2147) Date: 12/29/1994 Description: 9:45 p.m. A mother and her six children are driving northwest on Zaring Cutoff Road west of Dusty, Washington. To the east she sees three bright yellow lights that appear to be sitting in a snow-covered field. She stops the car to look and realizes that the lights are attached to triangular objects, each with stubby wings and a bright light on the nose. They move slowly and pass in front of the car to a field on the left. Suddenly they pivot 90° and move parallel with the road toward the southeast, maintaining the same configuration. Each has a window on the bottom that emits a bluish light and a buzzing sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 225–226 Source ID: Eberhart_7111 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22602 (8508DF14) Date: 12/29/1994 Description: Two witnesses driving in a car at 7:30 p.m. in Plerin, France observed flashing blue lights, occurring successively and changing place. They tried to approach but were stopped by a luminous barrier 1.5 meters above the ground. They also felt a sensation of heat. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: French GEIPAN database, case 194 Source ID: Johnson_8646 Source: Johnson ### Event 22603 (A2CCA3CB) Date: 12/30/1994 Description: Three passengers in a truck reported their vehicle had engine problems when they witnessed an ovoid object hovering at a low altitude in the desert in Alturas, Modoc County, California at 9:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16642, citing Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter Source ID: Johnson_8662 Source: Johnson ### Event 22604 (48AA809A) Date: 12/30/1994 Description: A police officer and others sighted a large glowing ovoid hovering over Buckhannon Mountain in Upshur County, West Virginia at 9:20 p.m. Small nocturnal lights exited and returned from the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: West Virginia UFO Newsletter, issue number 2 Source ID: Johnson_8661 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1995 (Back to Top) ### Event 22605 (691B978A) Date: 1995 Description: Astronomer [Carl Sagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%5FSagan) publishes The Demon-Haunted World, in which he aims to explain the scientific method to laypeople and encourage them to learn critical and skeptical thinking. He explains methods to help distinguish between ideas that are considered valid science and those that can be considered pseudoscience. Sagan states that when new ideas are offered for consideration, they should be tested by means of skeptical thinking and should stand up to rigorous questioning. He argues that the chances of extraterrestrial spacecraft visiting Earth are vanishingly small. However, he does think it plausible that Cold War concerns contributed to governments misleading their citizens about UFOs, and writes that “some UFO reports and analyses, and perhaps voluminous files, have been made inaccessible to the public which pays the bills ... It’s time for the files to be declassified and made generally available.” He cautions against jumping to conclusions about suppressed UFO data and stresses that there is no strong evidence that aliens are visiting the Earth either in the past or present. He worries that fake news and conspiracy theories will become the reality of the future, predicting: “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Carl Sagan, [The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark](https://archive.org/details/demonhauntedworl0000saga)[,](https://archive.org/details/demonhauntedworl0000saga) Random House, 1995; Wikipedia, “[The Demon-Haunted World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FDemon-Haunted%5FWorld)” Source ID: Eberhart_7112 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22606 (716FC82B) Date: 1995 Description: The National Research Council of Canada announces that it will no longer accept UFO reports for analysis. As a consequence, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigations on its behalf ceases. Ufologist [Chris Rutkowski](https://ufocongress.com/chris-rutkowski/) casually suggests that the NRC could forward any non-meteoric sightings it runs across. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 11 Source ID: Eberhart_7113 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22607 (DAC68D4A) Date: 1995 Description: The China UFO Research Organization in Beijing has now collected more than 5,000 reports of UFOs in Chinese airspace. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 403](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/402/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7114 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22608 (1B3D4AAF) Date: 1/2/1995 Description: Dog curious and fearful as star-like lights landed (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Tekoa, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5863 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22609 (DC274583) Date: 1/2/1995 Description: At 6:25 a.m. a huge, coin-shaped disc hovered near the shoreline of New Port Richey, Florida for about a minute, and then shot away “like lightning.” Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_38 Source: Johnson ### Event 22610 (3FC1F155) Date: 1/2/1995 Description: At around midnight in Durham, England a woman driving on a highway noticed her car lose power. At the same time, a short distance away, stood a short, goblin-like creature with large, bright oval-shaped eyes. It crossed the road in an “odd” way, only six feet away from her car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1995 Source ID: Johnson_37 Source: Johnson ### Event 22611 (910E8A64) Date: 1/3/1995 Description: At 5:00 a.m. a woman and her neighbors in Gladstone, Oregon witnessed a triangular craft with white and blue lights. She and her neighbors witnessed a total of five aerial craft. They also reported military jets in the area. At 6:00 p.m. that evening in Marysville, Washington a young man saw a similar large triangular craft with blue and white lights moving slowly in the night sky. It finally streaked off to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_73 Source: Johnson ### Event 22612 (E91DCBE2) Date: 1/3/1995 Description: At 8:30 p.m. east of Rishon Letzion, Israel two nine-foot-tall giants in metallic suits were seen glowing in the desert. The depth of the impression of their 8 km long tracks in the ground indicated their weight was more than a metric ton. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17049; FSR, volume 41, number 1; Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History Source ID: Johnson_72 Source: Johnson ### Event 22613 (CBA537C5) Date: 1/3/1995 Description: In the town of Molenbeek, Brabant, Belgium at 3:50 a.m. a very luminous orange triangular UFO with a yellow center, passed overhead at 50 meters altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17046, citing Banque OVNI Reports, issue # 95 Source ID: Johnson_71 Source: Johnson ### Event 22614 (0F0BB90F) Date: 1/5/1995 Description: Beginning at around 10:00 p.m. a silent, sky-blue colored disc-shaped object hovered for five minutes over Errington, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. There were small red discs on the bottom of the object and a beam of light along the middle. It was back the next night at the same time as well. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 1995 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 5, citing the National Research Council Source ID: Johnson_149 Source: Johnson ### Event 22615 (D6618E0B) Date: 1/6/1995 Description: 6:48 p.m. Capt. Roger Wills and First Officer Mark Stuart are piloting a British Airways Boeing 737 aircraft with 60 passengers when they are buzzed by a bright wedge-shaped object as they are preparing to land at Manchester Airport, England. The object appears only yards in front of the airliner as it flies at 4,000 feet. It is so close that Stuart instinctively reacts by ducking down inside the cockpit. It has small lights, makes no attempt to change course, and makes no discernable sound or turbulence. The object does not appear on radar. Possibly a fireball meteor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Boras, “UFO Nearly Collides with British Airliner,” IUR 21, no. 1 \(Spring 1996\): 26–27; “[UFO Near Miss over the Airport,](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/ufo-near-miss-over-the-airport-883365)” Manchester \(UK\) Evening News, February 18, 2010; Good Need, [pp. 402–](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/402/mode/2up) [403](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/402/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 137–139](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n223/mode/2up); Marler 140–143, 266–269; Patrick Gross, “[Air Misses](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/manchester95.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7115 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22616 (45FFD5A0) Date: 1/6/1995 Description: A British Airways Boeing-737 flight with 60 passengers aboard was buzzed by a bright wedge-shaped object as it flew over the Pennine Alps in Derbyshire, England on its descent to Manchester Airport at 6:40 p.m. The object appeared to be only meters in front of the airliner as it flew at 13,000 feet, and it was so close that the co-pilot instinctively reacted by ducking down inside the cockpit. It had small lights, made no attempt to change course, and made no discernable sound or turbulance. The object did not appear on radar. However, there was at least one witness on the ground to the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 194; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 47; Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 156; Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History; FSR, March 1995 Source ID: Johnson_176 Source: Johnson ### Event 22617 (01D96C0D) Date: 1/8/1995 Description: At around nine o’clock in the evening a house located between the Yatzitz and Yaziv communities in Israel shook as if an earthquake was happening. The occupants of the residence saw a three-meter tall creature with long legs and no arms outside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 1 number 4 Source ID: Johnson_212 Source: Johnson ### Event 22618 (F9891B3F) Date: 1/9/1995 Description: A young girl noticed lights outside her house in Marion, New York at 3:30 a.m. She then saw a four-foot tall humanoid being and weird lights in the yard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 1995 webpage Source ID: Johnson_235 Source: Johnson ### Event 22619 (6908BA91) Date: 1/12/1995 Description: Around 5:00 a.m. Farmer Beto Lima is hunting armadillos on his property near Feira de Santana, Bahía, Brazil, when he finds an object the size of a Volkswagen beetle floating on a pond. He manages to pull it to the shore when suddenly liquid flows from it and two creatures emerge. One of them is hairy and clawed like a sloth, the other is apparently dead and looks like a child. The object is lightweight, and Lima carries it into his house. Brazilian soldiers allegedly retrieve the wreckage and the creatures. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[O caso Roswell nordestina: Queda da UFO](http://ufos-wilson.blogspot.com/2012/05/o-caso-roswell-nordestino-queda-de-ufo.html) [na Bahia, em janeiro de 1995,](http://ufos-wilson.blogspot.com/2012/05/o-caso-roswell-nordestino-queda-de-ufo.html)” UFOs-Wilson, May 20, 2012; Brazil 521–529 Source ID: Eberhart_7116 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22620 (ECA7C20F) Date: 1/16/1995 Description: A 40-year-old man looked out of the window of a store at 5:45 p.m. and saw a UFO over a shopping mall in Miami, Florida. He ran outside to view it more closely. The multi-colored disc-shaped object was rolling in loops on a trajectory that passed in front of a nearby building. It continued rolling as it flew away, and was in view for three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mary Margaret Zimmer, MUFON field investigation files, case 950406E Source ID: Johnson_356 Source: Johnson ### Event 22621 (5B88ACFD) Date: 1/17/1995 Description: The witness was driving in her car at the corner of Congress and Gateway in Boynton Beach, Florida at 5:10 a.m. when she saw a seven foot tall brownish being with long stringy arms and legs on the side of the road. It also had an elongated head and dark eyes. At the same time a transparent craft, shaped like a multi-sided crystal, with two other beings inside, "tumbled" across the road about 60 feet in front of her car. The witness slammed on her brakes and when she turned to look again both the object and the humanoid were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2821, citing Skyscan, August 1997 Source ID: Johnson_361 Source: Johnson ### Event 22622 (2E28B241) Date: 1/22/1995 Description: On this day lights flashed and maneuvered near a truck on the highway near Beatty, Nevada for 45 minutes. They moved faster than any jet. The two witnesses experienced 2-3 hours of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17083 Source ID: Johnson_430 Source: Johnson ### Event 22623 (B593380F) Date: 1/23/1995 Description: At 6:15 a.m. a metallic disc-shaped object was sighted from Seattle hovering low over Puget Sound to the west. It made noises, then streaked away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_466 Source: Johnson ### Event 22624 (35BDFE7E) Date: 1/24/1995 Description: Two clamshell-shaped discs accompanied by a cluster of small, white satellite objects flew over Lebanon, Tennessee at 4:42 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_498 Source: Johnson ### Event 22625 (61B53409) Date: 1/30/1995 Description: At 8:00 p.m. in Olympia, Washington a young girl reported seeing several reptilian or lizard-like humanoids with bright red eyes standing outside her bedroom window. Her father went to investigate but saw nothing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case #2340, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_623 Source: Johnson ### Event 22626 (6E1CE10D) Date: 1/30/1995 Description: At 8:29 p.m. in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania the County Emergency Agency supervisor received a call regarding a triangular ship in the sky that was seen emitting three beams of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_622 Source: Johnson ### Event 22627 (45675BB9) Date: 1/30/1995 Description: At 11:30 p.m. two witnesses had a close encounter with a white disc-shaped object in Pierceland, Saskatchewan, Canada. The disc-shaped object had windows and "legs" and moved slowly over a field, close to the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Ducks, 1995 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 11, citing the National Research Council Source ID: Johnson_624 Source: Johnson ### Event 22628 (5B2866BA) Date: 2/1995 Description: A Boeing 737 is starting a landing approach at 7,900 feet at Guiyang Airport \[now Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport\], Guizhou province, China, when its anti-collision system detects an object rushing toward the aircraft. Some 6,000 feet away, the pilot sees a UFO changing from a rhomboid to a circular shape and from yellow to red. The pilot lands safely, even though the object remains on his radar screen for some time before disappearing to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 403](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/402/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Air Misses](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/guizhou95.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7117 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22629 (B03946DA) Date: 2/2/1995 Description: A woman woke up at three a.m. in her home near Dallas, Texas and found herself staring at a short thin white being in her bedroom. She was lying on her right side and its face was only slightly above hers. It was about 3 or 4 feet tall. Next she saw movement out of the corner of her left eye and saw its hand lift slowly off her shoulder. The hand had three very long, white, slender fingers with rather bulbous tips on the ends. The creature was very white and frail looking. Its abdomen was sunken and hollow looking which made its chest seem to protrude. The being moved slowly toward the top of her head. She had the feeling that the being was scanning her mind. A cold paralysis or electric sensation spread throughout her body as she heard the being whisper something. Her next memory was of seeing the being standing by the hallway staring at her. She then went back to sleep. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2978, citing Amy Lynn Source ID: Johnson_672 Source: Johnson ### Event 22630 (4880A760) Date: 2/5/1995 Description: In Greenville, North Carolina a square-shaped object with stripes buzzed a car at 1:30 a.m., then followed the car home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17105, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_715 Source: Johnson ### Event 22631 (38B8BE6F) Date: 2/7/1995 Description: Nocturnal lights, alone and in a triangular formation, were sighted near the Bangor Nuclear Submarine Base from U.S. Highway 101 in Quilcene, Washington at around five o'clock in the early morning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 1995 webpage; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17109, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_746 Source: Johnson ### Event 22632 (1A253629) Date: 2/9/1995 Description: La Canada, Avila, Spain - A 28-year-old security guard was fixing his guard dog's dinner at 9:55 p.m. The dog was tied to a heavy tonnage truck, and he suddenly began barking furiously and staring at the nearby railroad tracks. The man looked around but did not find anything unusual, so he fed his dog and went back to the guard shack. Fifteen seconds later the dog began barking again. When he stepped outside he was confronted by a bizarre looking, shiny white figure that floated quietly above the ground. The apparition was about 1.5 meters in length and floated horizontally just above the ground. At the same time the dog's food dish began to vibrate and "jump around." The figure was wearing what looked like a flowing tunic, and a conical hat concealed its facial features. It advanced slowly towards the witness. The terrified man noticed the humanoid had long hair, resembling that of a woman's, and it carried that looked like a baton in one hand. The man fled from the area and didn't return until he had found some additional witnesses. When they returned to the site they found bizarre symbols that had been traced on the ground with a sharp tool. One of the symbols resembled a six-pointed star and others were "STN", "BEL" and the letter "U". Superstitious locals attributed these symbols to be "demonic" in nature. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: La Historia de los OVNI en Espana Source ID: Johnson_784 Source: Johnson ### Event 22633 (C255E3BA) Date: 2/10/1995 Description: Evan Canoose and two of his friends had been camping in the area of Larch Mountain Honor Camp near Vancouver, Washington. At 6:30 a.m. Mr. Canoose was alone when he saw a strange creature about 30-40 feet away. It had an peculiar "out of focus" quality. He said that he and the creature stared at each other for 45 seconds. He described the creature as built like an orangutan, with a reddish-orange color, a wide chest and waist, and a black, flat face with black chest markings. It occasionally moved its right arm and hand back and forth. The witness heard no noises nor detected any odors during the encounter. Evan estimated the creature's height at six feet four inches tall, based on where it stood next to a tree. Feeling uneasy, Canoose went to his car and did not see the "blurry" creature leave. He did not tell his companions about his encounter until their trip home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Peter Byrne, The Western Bigfoot Society Newsletter, issue # 44 Source ID: Johnson_811 Source: Johnson ### Event 22634 (C8243F77) Date: 2/11/1995 Description: Around 4:00 a.m. a very bright pear-shaped ball of light was seen over trees two nights in a row in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1995; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17116 Source ID: Johnson_846 Source: Johnson ### Event 22635 (66027A21) Date: 2/11/1995 Description: At around 4:00 a.m. four companions who had gone on a fishing expedition had stopped on the roadside near San Antonia Oeste, Argentina after becoming too sleepy to continue driving. They woke up with sketchy memories of being visited by several short, hairless beings who wore luminous white suits and had apparently taken them away for physical examinations. The primary witness felt pain in her left arm. They also realized that their vehicle was parked at a different spot than it had been parked, that was miles away from the original site. Under hypnosis one of the younger witnesses remembered the little men had been accompanied by a tall, heavyset being, with large eyes, a baldhead, long arms, wearing a gray outfit. The tall being was the one apparently in charge, and directed the activities of the little men. Another member of the group remembered being floated out of the vehicle into a dark place. The primary witness also remembered several tall female beings performing some type of operation on her left arm. Locals reported seeing luminous objects in the sky around the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 3206, citing CIFO Argentina Source ID: Johnson_847 Source: Johnson ### Event 22636 (1C75AC4F) Date: 2/12/1995 Description: A very large orange UFO approached near a boatload of commercial fishermen at sea off the coast of Gustavus, Alaska at 10:30 p.m. The object returned light signals from the boat, and then zipped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17118, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 1995 webpage Source ID: Johnson_884 Source: Johnson ### Event 22637 (98358AD7) Date: 2/12/1995 Description: Two women in Miami, Florida at 7:45 p.m. sighted a white, glowing sphere at 10 degrees elevation above the ocean. The object was estimated to be the size of an airplance, but its light was powerful enough to illuminate the water below. It vanished, and was replaced by two lights at a higher elevation that were pulsating. One moved down, across, then up into the other light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mary Margaret Zimmer, MUFON case files, case # 980202SE Source ID: Johnson_883 Source: Johnson ### Event 22638 (7B5BD19F) Date: 2/20/1995 Description: In briefing notes on the safety implications of UFO close approaches for the Joint Airmiss Working Group in the UK, former British Airways Capt. Graham Sheppard comments: “It would not be surprising to discover that, in the past, unexplained aeroplane losses have been caused by instinctive maneuvering to avoid a conflicting UFO… The commercial sensibilities of the airlines should now be set aside along with the media’s inability to give serious treatment to the subject. Otherwise this discrete and notifiable hazard to aircraft safety will continue to be concealed and thus gratuitously omitted from the briefing syllabus.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 404](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/404/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7118 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22639 (9292353E) Date: 2/21/1995 Description: At 8:00 p.m. in Hanret, Hainaut Province, Belgium Veronique V., who had been involved in previous UFO close encounters, had gone outdoors with her car mechanic to fetch her car which had broken down. Once outside both saw an unusual light in the sky. The mechanic thought it was a plane left to tow the car, while Veronique stayed outside and watched the light descend towards her house. She begins to panic and rushes inside her house, switching off the lights and turning on the television. At the same time her dogs began howling in the backyard, and her small Yorkshire terrier began growling as if there was a stranger in the house. Veronique went upstairs and looked out a window. She then noticed that her room appeared "to be without walls" and she saw a hovering triangular UFO direct a beam of white light towards her. The white beam of light lasts for about 10 seconds. On the triangle's front apex she could see different colored lights. The object then began circling the house and Veronique felt a strange attraction to the object, but she fought against it. Suddenly the UFO vanished and everything returned to normal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Gerard Grede & Daniel Bukens, SOBEPS Source ID: Johnson_1040 Source: Johnson ### Event 22640 (0F6F483F) Date: 2/21/1995 Description: A young man driving in Council Bluffs, Iowa at 7 p.m. saw a huge, gray triangle-shaped object with three solid lights. He pulled off the highway to watch the craft with "archways" silently fly over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, February 1995 webpage archive; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17130, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_1039 Source: Johnson ### Event 22641 (404233EF) Date: 2/22/1995 Description: Researcher [Timothy S. Cooper](https://majesticdocuments.waskosky.com/about/investigation-team/timothy-s-cooper/) receives a document purporting to be the first annual report of the Majestic 12 Project, supposedly written in 1951 and referring to possible virus contamination stemming from retrieval of the Roswell aliens. [Nick Redfern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FRedfern) has examined it and says it is definitely a hoax, though it could possibly represent disinformation from Russia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Timothy S. Cooper, “[Research Synopsis on the Majestic Documents,](https://www.majesticdocuments.com/pdf/cooper%5Fresearchsynopsis.pdf)” The Author, December 30, 1999; Nick Redfern, “[Why the Majestic 12 ‘1st Annual Report’ Is a Hoax,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/07/why-the-majestic-12-1st-annual-report-is-a-hoax/)” Mysterious Universe, July 30, 2019; Kremlin 202–208 Source ID: Eberhart_7119 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22642 (85821952) Date: 2/23/1995 Description: In the town of Rivas, near Managua, Nicaragua four boys including 6-year-old Royllin Reyes Martinez were watching television around 9:00 p.m. when they heard a noise like an engine and a saw a strong light coming from outside. They all went outdoors and spotted what looked like a helicopter land at the nearby "Gaspar Cracia Laviana Town Sports Center." They all rode their bicycles to the sports center to better see what was going on. As they got near they could all see a very bright craft on the ground. Royllin attempted to approach closer but could not due to the intense heat. Three of the children then briefly saw two short, "robot like creatures" standing next to the object. The beings were "talking with a sound similar to insects" and had what appeared to be antennas and were very strange in appearance. Finally, the craft and beings left, leaving the young witnesses in a state of near shock. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2134, citing Aubrey Lewallen, National UFO News, May-June 1995 Source ID: Johnson_1069 Source: Johnson ### Event 22643 (25361561) Date: 2/27/1995 Description: Two UFO reports were made in northern England on this night. In Runcorn, Merseyside, England at 9:00 p.m. a spherical UFO sucked water up from the Mersey River through a black beam of some sort. It then changed shape into a rectangular object. In Morecambe in Lancashire, an ovoid UFO hovered over the York bridge for several seconds before shooting behind some clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1995 Source ID: Johnson_1163 Source: Johnson ### Event 22644 (7079ED0E) Date: 3/1/1995 Description: At 9 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with windows appeared in the sky and looked to be slowly surveying a farm in Sedalia, Missouri. It had a bright light in front and several small lights in the rear of the object. A lady saw the object hovering over a farm less than an eighth of a mile away; it had windows along its side, and gave off a faint hum. She reported it was "bigger than a blimp." After five minutes of hovering, it left towards the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center 1995 Report; Francis L. Ridge, Chronology of UFO Reports, case #1995-009, www.nicap.org Source ID: Johnson_1230 Source: Johnson ### Event 22645 (58DFAB16) Date: 3/2/1995 Description: In Rio Grande county, Colorado west of the town of Del Norte, strong blue light beams were sighted at around 9 p.m. A dead calf was later found missing its brain and spinal column. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1995 Source ID: Johnson_1264 Source: Johnson ### Event 22646 (52F6EB77) Date: 3/8/1995 Description: A military radar installation near Luzern, Switzerland, detects a series of anomalous radar targets that, taken together, appear to make up the straight-line trajectory of an unidentified object traveling at a speed near Mach 3. The consistency in velocity and direction of the three track segments strongly suggests that it is a single object traveling about 150 miles in just over 4 minutes, which corresponds to an average velocity of about 2,147 mph. Another track going in the same direction was picked up 70 seconds after the first one dropped off the radar, separated by a few miles. This time the system recorded six consecutive returns, each registering a radial speed component of about 2,088 mph. Again the system dropped the track. A minute later the Luzern radar records hits on yet another object, loses it again, and detects it three more times over 40 seconds before it is dropped for the final time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bruce Maccabee, “[Atmosphere or UFO? A Response to the 1997 SSE Review Panel Report,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/13/jse%5F13%5F3%5Fmaccabee.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 13, no. 3 \(1999\): 421–459 Source ID: Eberhart_7120 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22647 (90FC673D) Date: 3/10/1995 Description: In Cass County, Missouri a number of 25 foot in diameter bowl-shaped metallic discs lifted off from the ground in a farmer's field at 6:15 a.m. They wree only 100 feet away from the witness when they took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter Source ID: Johnson_1417 Source: Johnson ### Event 22648 (5F04C7A0) Date: 3/14/1995 Description: Charles Little and his fiancée were driving in Joshua Tree National Monument, California at 11:30 a.m. when they noticed two objects hovering in the sky: one in front of the car and the other behind it. They apparently lost consciousness and came to two hours later. Later under hypnosis, Little remembered being inside a round object with several rooms, including a main control room with large windows and an examination room with a small table. They encountered three types of humanoids, short Greys with huge black oval-shaped eyes, some tall reptilian creatures, and short hooded humanoids. After their abduction Little found a mark on his upper thigh, and nodules behind his ears. Four years later his fiancée died of esophageal cancer, and Little believes the cancer was somehow related to the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995 [electronic version], case # 3824, citing UFO Abduction Raw Data Page, UFO Watch Source ID: Johnson_1509 Source: Johnson ### Event 22649 (322BF151) Date: 3/14/1995 Description: At 7:10 p.m a large triangular object, radar tracked at 800 feet altitude near St. Petersburg, Russia, was detected for 40 minutes before it split into several pieces. A transponder number was reported, and the speculation is that the object was using the code to pass unnoticed. At 7:40 p.m. a yellowish-orange domed disc with 6-7 bright lights was viewed through binoculars in St. Petersburg, Russia. When it stopped moving, a small, bright sphere of the same color burst out of it and flew off in the direction of Zelenogorsk. The large UFO then blinked out. At about the same time in Lomonosov, a suburb of St. Petersburg, a hovering yellow-orange light changed intensity, and then started to look like a Zeppelin with a tail. It rotated, and shot away in 2-3 seconds. It was estimated to be 1/5th the apparent size of the Moon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Boruch Michael S. Boruch, International UFO Reporter, December 1995, pp. 13-15; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 339 Source ID: Johnson_1510 Source: Johnson ### Event 22650 (7251D29B) Date: 3/14/1995 Description: 3:40–4:00 a.m. Ismailovich Borovkov wakes up to a bright light shining in his home on Serebristy Boulevard in St. Petersburg, Russia. He sees a bright orange light hovering outside the window for 10 minutes, then it suddenly diminishes to a point and disappears. Borovkov hears a loud ringing in his right ear. Around 4:00 a.m., another resident sees a UFO over the Pulkov Highway. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Close Encounters over St Petersburg, March 14, 1995,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_7121 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22651 (D12E86A4) Date: 3/14/1995 Description: 7:00–8:00 p.m. A further cluster of UFO sightings, some of them close encounters and one a radar case, take place around St. Petersburg, Russia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Close Encounters over St Petersburg, March 14, 1995,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 12–15 Source ID: Eberhart_7122 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22652 (DB0CB170) Date: 3/18/1995 Description: In 1995 two bright white UFOs paced a car southwest of Falkirk, Scotland at 8:30 p.m. then zoomed away in opposite directions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1995 Source ID: Johnson_1559 Source: Johnson ### Event 22653 (8B191157) Date: 3/19/1995 Description: In 1995 anomalous radar echoes were recorded in the Central European surveillance area by the region's air traffic controllers. That night in Franklin, Georgia a young woman's bedroom was invaded by short, gremlin-like creatures with yellowish-brown skin, large pointed ears, and large round eyes. They stood about 3.5 feet tall, and she believed she received telepathic messages from them. She had a strong sense that her actions were being controlled by them, and she was forced to go back to sleep despite the alarm that she felt. That same evening a UFO landed on a lawn in Mobile, Alabama. The object was dark and its features could not be discerned, but it flashed bright lights into the home on the property. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO cases-Europe, p. 109; Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact database 1995; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 1995 report archive Source ID: Johnson_1579 Source: Johnson ### Event 22654 (FB57ADE8) Date: 3/25/1995 Description: A huge luminous hemisphere or dome shaped observed was observed covering the roadway between Alencon and Bernay, Eure, France at around 4:00 a.m. A conical beam of light came from the bottom of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17178, citing Banque OVNI, issue # 95 Source ID: Johnson_1665 Source: Johnson ### Event 22655 (89E9B20C) Date: 3/30/1995 Description: 8:30 a.m. Farmer Jan Pienaar, 45, is driving in the North West Province, South Africa, when his truck stops dead. About 240 feet ahead is a huge object on three landing pads. It has the form of two inverted soup plates with a pudding bowl on top, and the upper level has portholes. The object buzzes like a “giant electric beater.” He gets out of the car but feels paralyzed as if a magnet is holding him. After 3–5 minutes the UFO takes off, and he regains his senses and the car starts up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_7123 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22656 (411DC89F) Date: 3/30/1995 Description: A woman watering her garden at 10:25 in the evening in Saltos Coll, Puerto Rico noticed a three-foot tall humanoid standing 75 feet away from her. The being had a round head, long thin arms, large black eyes, and grayish skin. It walked away up a hill. The witness was unable to move during the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 2114 Source ID: Johnson_1751 Source: Johnson ### Event 22657 (1758998C) Date: 4/1995 Description: The Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici begins publishing UFO Forum, edited by Giuseppe Verdi in Vittoria, Italy. It continues through at least October 2001. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO Forum](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/UFO%20Forum%20%28CISU%29/UFO%20Forum%20-%20No%2001%20-%20aprile%201995.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/UFO%20Forum%20%28CISU%29/UFO%20Forum%20-%20No%2001%20-%20aprile%201995.pdf) no. 1 \(April 1995\) Source ID: Eberhart_7124 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22658 (09CCEFCB) Date: 4/2/1995 Description: One year later, at 11:00 p.m. in 1995, a metallic disc hovered for two minutes over Pujaut, France and directed a beam of light at the witness. A widespread power outage was experienced in the area at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Banque O.V.N.I., p. 095 Source ID: Johnson_1809 Source: Johnson ### Event 22659 (1666E7D2) Date: 4/3/1995 Description: On this afternoon several children playing at an elementary school in La Vega, Orocovis, Puerto Rico noticed a four-foot tall creature standing next to a tree nearby their playing field. The creature was gray colored with a large oval head and huge dark eyes. It seemed to be distracted, looking intently at the passing vehicles on a nearby road. It was moving its head rapidly from side to side. The frightened children quickly left the area, and when they returned later the creature had gone. Later that same night a young man driving on State Route 155 on the outskirts of Orocovis, Puerto Rico was surprised to see a strange creature standing in the middle of the road. The creature was described as gray in color, about 4 feet tall, with a large oval shaped head and large black eyes. Momentarily stunned, he stepped on the gas in order to get away, but incredibly the short gray creature was able to run twice around the moving vehicle at terrific speed. Completely frightened, the witness sped up some more and drove away from the area. Thinking he had hit the creature with his car, he looked back and saw it still standing in the middle of the road. It then ran quickly into the woods and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, cases # 2116 and # 2117, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue # 6 Source ID: Johnson_1825 Source: Johnson ### Event 22660 (FD88F2AB) Date: 4/3/1995 Description: At around three o'clock in the morning the witness was alone in his room in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany when several short gray entities appeared. Although frightened, he experienced telepathic communication with them and managed to blurt out "I love you, I love you!" The entities disappeared and three minutes later he had an out-of-body experience in which he experienced himself sitting outside his body as it lay on the bed. Suddenly he perceived a stream of beautiful golden light pouring forth from the base of his spine. He believes that it was a "soul" the gray entities had injected into his body. After that he experienced a sensation of sublime happiness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2936, citing Andrew Brough Source ID: Johnson_1824 Source: Johnson ### Event 22661 (AF925C2D) Date: 4/10/1995 Description: 7:30 a.m. An 11-year-old boy is on his way to school with his mother and two younger sisters near Merweville, South Africa, when they see a strange object on a side road. It looks like a cloud but is stationary. Then it moves north, although the prevailing wind is to the west, and disappears behind some clouds. The object is about the size of a large truck. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marie van Staden, “[A Peculiar Cloud-Like Object,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Zimbabwe/Afrinews%20%28Cynthia%20Hind%29/UFO%20AFRINEWS%20-%20No%2013.pdf)” UFO Afrinews 13 \(February 1996\): 10–13 Source ID: Eberhart_7125 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22662 (FB525FED) Date: 4/14/1995 Description: President [Bill Clinton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FClinton) issues Executive Order 12,958, which establishes a system to automatically declassify information more than 25 years old, unless the government takes discrete steps to continue the classification of a particular document or group of documents. The order takes effect on October 14, 1995. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Department of Justice, “[FOIA Update: Executive Order 12,958,](https://www.justice.gov/oip/blog/foia-update-executive-order-12958-classified-national-security-information)” 1995 Source ID: Eberhart_7126 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22663 (D4A74357) Date: 4/16/1995 Description: In Tacoma, Washington at 10:10 p.m. two white or light gray discs moved quickly from south to north over the clouds in a steady trajectory. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_2065 Source: Johnson ### Event 22664 (5B288924) Date: 4/18/1995 Description: 9:00 p.m. A woman in Prospect, Chebucto Peninsula, Nova Scotia, sees a large, brilliant, white light hovering in the sky to the northwest. She can see its reflection on the surface of the still water. She calls her husband, who gets binoculars and determines there are two lights side by side. After several minutes or so, his mother on the floor above says she can see the light too. As soon as they switch the deck lights off for a better view, the two lights start moving directly toward their house, and he watches it slowly fly about 100 feet above the house. It seems to be a rectangular object about 200 feet long by 100 feet wide. It disappears behind the tree line. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Ledger, “The Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_7127 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22665 (CF888473) Date: 4/19/1995 Description: At 9:45 p.m. in Richmond, Virginia a family and a group of twelve atheletes watched a huge black, domed disc at very close range. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_2148 Source: Johnson ### Event 22666 (2273C330) Date: 4/21/1995 Description: In Oregon, Illinois a young man and his friend witnessed a domed disc-shaped object pass overhead at 11:49 p.m. It had two lights on each side: a red light in front, and a strobe light behind the red. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_2196 Source: Johnson ### Event 22667 (A0AF849B) Date: 4/22/1995 Description: Similar to the reports from 1990, at 11:10 p.m. several witnesses took a video of a very large, silent triangle that flew slowly over a factory in Grande-Synth, Nord, France toward the northeast. There were many independent witnesses and the sighting lasted for four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 336; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17218 Source ID: Johnson_2241 Source: Johnson ### Event 22668 (076123F1) Date: 4/22/1995 Description: A manta ray-shaped UFO paced a car for several miles near Kairi, Queensland, Australia at 5:10 a.m. It had a cockpit and window, and illuminated the ground as it flew off toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16832 Source ID: Johnson_2240 Source: Johnson ### Event 22669 (4F067180) Date: 4/23/1995 Description: On this afternoon Sr. Reynaldo Ortega, a resident of Naranjito, Puerto Rico saw a gigantic bird-like creature standing on the roof of his house. Sr. Ortega had gone to look for a small goat on his property, because an epidemic of unexplained animal deaths and mutilations was ongoing. He described the winged creature as between three and four feet tall, with the body and dark plumage of an eagle, a thick neck, and piercing red eyes. The nightmarish raptor had an even more peculiar characteristic: instead of a beak it had what looked like the muzzle of a wolf. The creature ignored Ortega and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Scott Corrales, Chupacabra and Other Mysteries Source ID: Johnson_2265 Source: Johnson ### Event 22670 (6B90D57E) Date: 4/25/1995 Description: A very bright ball of light entered a bedroom in Portland, Oregon at 12:30 a.m. making a loud humming sound. The male witness could feel heat coming from the object, and felt paralyzed. The incident lasted 75 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17219; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_2315 Source: Johnson ### Event 22671 (64DE7FB1) Date: 4/29/1995 Description: On this night two witnesses in Spokane, Washington reported seeing bright lights apparently on the ground near the river. A strange undescribed "creature" or humanoid was seen standing near the lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; UFO Intelligence Newsletter, October 1995 Source ID: Johnson_2415 Source: Johnson ### Event 22672 (2383A23E) Date: 5/3/1995 Description: At 4:05 a.m. a trucker driving on Interstate 90 near Amsterdam, New York sighted a domed disc while driving. It had a very bright, white light, so he could clearly see both the lower disc portion and the dome. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, 1995 report Source ID: Johnson_2486 Source: Johnson ### Event 22673 (D845F15E) Date: 5/5/1995 Description: 4:15 a.m. A senior master sergeant and an airman are patrolling the perimeter of the Ghedi Air Force Base near Brescia, Italy. Suddenly they notice an unusual yellow light zigzagging and maneuvering in the sky, much bigger than a star and heading toward the northern part of the airfield. After several minutes it increases in size and becomes a round, orange object as big as the full moon, moving at least 186 mph before hovering a while and zooming away. It returns and leaves twice more, the last time descending to 65 feet above their patrol vehicle. They think this time it will land, but it ascends and zooms away again. They prefer not to report the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 2Pinotti 150–151 Source ID: Eberhart_7128 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22674 (80CBC1F4) Date: 5/6/1995 Description: At 3:30 a.m. a couple traveling in a car in Dammartin en Geole, Seine-Marne, France saw the passage of a hexagon shaped UFO with white, red and blue lights at the angles. It made no noise, and traveled at a slow speed and low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 202 Source ID: Johnson_2601 Source: Johnson ### Event 22675 (0B9DAFF8) Date: 5/7/1995 Description: At 2:30 a.m. a lady driving near Beaverton, Oregon reported seeing a "pink sky", and then a triangular-shaped UFO hovering over a field behind her house. The craft was gray, with lights in the corners and a tile-like surface on the exterior. Two of the lights were orange and the third was an orange-red color. A beam of light that followed the contour of the craft connected all three lights. Later on, many more trangular craft were seen over the same field. Large white, box-shaped objects and "people" were observed on the ground and appeared to be working in the field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing The Western Bigfoot Society Newsletter Source ID: Johnson_2637 Source: Johnson ### Event 22676 (7FAA2EE5) Date: 5/7/1995 Description: That same night near Glasgow, Scotland Igor Terzic was driving his vehicle when a UFO began hovering over it. He next recalls finding himself parked in the middle of the road, where a truck almost hit him. Later under hypnosis he recalled being abducted and taken inside the object. There he saw two kinds of humanoids of both genders. One type of tall with (upside down) pear-shaped heads, huge eyes, and no discernable mouths. The others were similar but shorter and smaller. He heard a voice in his head tell him he was going to be alright. He thinks he was experimented upon, but the only thing he recalled was drilling a hole in his head at one point. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2843, citing Scottish UFO Source ID: Johnson_2638 Source: Johnson ### Event 22677 (B3112C18) Date: 5/7/1995 Description: At 12:20 p.m. a red disc-shaped object flew over the road ahead of a car with two witnesses in Massillon, Ohio. EM effects: the engine quit, and the radio was affected. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1995 webpage; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17225, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2639 Source: Johnson ### Event 22678 (95C9DB37) Date: 5/7/1995 Description: At 1:00 a.m. a couple driving on the A52 highway near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England had a close encounter with a large dome-shaped craft that was only 30 feet off the ground. It vanished, and then reappeared near their car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17222; UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1995 Source ID: Johnson_2636 Source: Johnson ### Event 22679 (57E8A7BF) Date: 5/9/1995 Description: At 9:10 p.m. in Vista, San Diego County, California an elliptical disc-shaped object, half the apparent diameter of the Moon, moved very slowly to the west in the sky, then stopped and vanished in place. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16809, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2702 Source: Johnson ### Event 22680 (64A9D07B) Date: 5/12/1995 Description: At 10:50 p.m. a young woman in Duarte, Los Angles County, California reported observing a triangular ship suspended in the southeastern sky for three minutes. There were three smaller lights below larger object. All four of the objects flew off together. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: National UFO Reporting Center, May 1995 webpage; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17232 Source ID: Johnson_2779 Source: Johnson ### Event 22681 (61CE4BD1) Date: 5/15/1995 Description: On this evening Sr. Dolores Torres had gone out in his backyard in Barranquitas, Guayama, Puerto Rico to cut down some banana plants when everything around him became illuminated by multicolored lights of blue, yellow, red, and white. He looked up and saw a small transparent cylindrical object, only 14 inches long and 3 inches wide, suspended in the air. It appeared to be held in place by a dark cable coming down from above. At the same time he could hear a loud buzzing sound. Moments later Sr. Torres saw a large dark "form" that floated or flew down towards him. He could see that it was a humanoid figure enclosed in a dark "wing-shaped" outfit hovering over him. The being had a human-like face, was gray in color and had huge eyes that appeared to be closed. It wore a tight-fitting helmet or cap. The figure attempted to approach the witness, and he began swinging at it with his machete. Finally, the being and the multicolored cylinder glided away. Mr. Torres had a nervous collapse and had to be hospitalized. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue #6 Source ID: Johnson_2874 Source: Johnson ### Event 22682 (1661E7E3) Date: 5/25/1995 Description: America West airline crew observed cigar-shaped object with pulsating lights Type: sighting Reference: [The UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271) Location: Bovina, TX Source ID: HallUFOE2_492 Source: HallUFOEvidence2 ### Event 22683 (ED8221F2) Date: 5/25/1995 Description: 10:30 p.m. An America West B-757 airliner is cruising at 39,000 feet near Bovina, Texas. To their right and somewhat below their altitude, Capt. Gene Tollefson and First Officer John J. Waller see a row of bright white lights that sequence on and off from left to right. Waller contacts the Albuquerque FAA Air Route Traffic Control Center while the sighting is in progress and checks with military installations in the area, but no explanation can be found. As the airliner proceeds to the west and the object begins dropping behind, the crew sees it against a background of thunderclouds. When the background clouds pulse with lightning, the UFO appears as a dark, wingless, elongated cigar-like object around the strobing lights. Though they do not know the exact distance, Tollefson and Waller estimate the object to be 300–400 feet long. One of the air traffic controllers at Albuquerque contacts NORAD, which confirms an unidentified radar target in the vicinity. But this later proves to be a small aircraft whose transponder is not initially operative. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[America West Airlines Flight 564 / NORAD/ F-](http://www.nicap.org/950525bovinadir.htm) [111 Incident](http://www.nicap.org/950525bovinadir.htm)”; Walter N. Webb, Final Report on the America West Airline Case, May 24–25, 1995, Fund for UFO Research, July 1996; “[1995: The America West UFO Sighting,](https://www.ufocasebook.com/americanwest564.html)” ufocasebook.com; Patrick Gross, “[Texas, May](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/texas95.htm) [1995](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/texas95.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7129 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22684 (771885E8) Date: 5/25/1995 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a huge cigar-shaped object, 300 to 400 feet in length, was tracked by NORAD radar and sighted from an American West airline flight emerging from a thunder cloud near Bovina, Texas. Another airline crew flying near Pueblo, Colorado that same night saw a large, extremely bright object zigzagging through the sky at an estimated speed of Mach 4. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) MUFON UFO Journal, April 1996; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 34; (2) Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 1995 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_3093 Source: Johnson ### Event 22685 (F60E68EF) Date: 5/25/1995 Description: America West crew sees cigar shaped object at 39,000 feet. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [950525](http://www.nicap.org/950525bovinadir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bovina, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5864 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22686 (3A02D115) Date: 5/27/1995 Description: A lampshade-shaped object hovered over Hialeah, Florida at two o'clock in the morning. It was very bright with small windows, and had lights rotating around its perimeter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1995 web page archive Source ID: Johnson_3128 Source: Johnson ### Event 22687 (584F49F0) Date: 6/3/1995 Description: A white cigar-shaped object zig-zagged through the sky at araound 8:00 p.m. on Harwood Island, New South Wales, Australia. Then a huge ovoid object rose from the ground, leaving behind traces. A dog became sick. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 26; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 204 Source ID: Johnson_3263 Source: Johnson ### Event 22688 (F1C249E8) Date: 6/5/1995 Description: In 1995 a 100-meter diameter sphere followed a car for two minutes at 700 meters altitude near Pamiers, France at 12:10 a.m. The occupants of the car reported being in a state of shock after the encounter.At 4:00 a.m. a large white ovoid object hovered over Poligny, France. Six smaller orbs exited the larger object, flew around, then returned. At 3:10 p.m. EDT a black disc was sighted moving toward the northeast over Pensacola, Florida. It flew slowly at 15 mph, across the wind, at 100 feet altitude, and made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Banque O.V.N.I., case 95; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 333; UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1995 Source ID: Johnson_3309 Source: Johnson ### Event 22689 (6BC7A281) Date: 6/11/1995 Description: On this night several golfers in Cleburne, Texas watched a metallic cigar-shaped object hover over the golf course for several minutes. A five-minute long videotape was made of the UFO by a professional photographer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3430 Source: Johnson ### Event 22690 (0E69C3ED) Date: 6/12/1995 Description: In Wichita, Kansas a lone witness reported encountering several strange humanoids to the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington. There was no UFO associated with the report. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case #2170, citing Francis Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter, February 1996; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_3449 Source: Johnson ### Event 22691 (F5665B82) Date: 6/14/1995 Description: At 9:00 a.m. a flat topped silver disc flew slowy toward the east over Holley, Florida making no sound. It shot away at high speed. Two jets were next seen, apparently following it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #334 Source ID: Johnson_3493 Source: Johnson ### Event 22692 (6D49917D) Date: 6/15/1995 Description: 2:30 a.m. A triangular UFO with two other brightly lit round objects is seen over RAF West Drayton \[now closed\], England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 143 Source ID: Eberhart_7130 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22693 (56C39577) Date: 6/16/1995 Description: A silent bell-shaped disc flashed and maneuvered over the shore of Puget Sound northeast of Shelton, Washington. It emitted a bright red beam of light. After 10 minutes it flew off towards the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: West Virginia UFO Newsletter, issue #8 Source ID: Johnson_3522 Source: Johnson ### Event 22694 (4B9A37BC) Date: 6/22/1995 Description: 1:00 a.m. Soldiers guarding a military ammunition dump in the southern Carpathian Mountains near the Buzau River, Romania, notice several bright lights in the valley below. They are attached to an object that begins ascending and approaching them from the southwest. It is a flat triangular object with rounded edges that passes straight above their unit, illuminating the ground from a height of about 150 feet. They can hear a loud buzzing noise. It glides to the northeast over the mountains near Întorsura Buzăului and disappears. The next day the unit is rounded up and told never to speak about the sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 94–95 Source ID: Eberhart_7131 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22695 (E3C000D4) Date: 6/24/1995 Description: A small disc-shaped object hovered over a truck in Farmingdale, New York at 11:30 p.m. at night. The driver could tell the UFO was close because it hovered below the low, overcast sky, so he got out of his vehicle and attempted to chase the UFO on foot, to no avail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, 1995 archive Source ID: Johnson_3645 Source: Johnson ### Event 22696 (51B10682) Date: 6/25/1995 Description: A very shiny silvery egg-shaped object was seen in the northern sky from Batesburg, South Carolina at 7:00 p.m. The witness claimed to be very familiar with military aircraft and this was not that. At 7:30 p.m. a dark object flew over Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. It had flailing appendages, and moved slowly. It may have paced the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1995 webpage Source ID: Johnson_3663 Source: Johnson ### Event 22697 (BECCC858) Date: 6/28/1995 Description: At 12:30 a.m. some very bright nocturnal lights snaked by a car on a road near Goudhurst, Kent, England in a zigzag pattern at an estimated altitude of only 100 feet.. The driver reported radio interference at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, September 1995 Source ID: Johnson_3721 Source: Johnson ### Event 22698 (B01F6278) Date: 6/30/1995 Description: At around three o'clock in the morning a security guard in the town of Chalons-sur-Marne, Marne department, France saw a crescent-shaped flying object, the apparent size of the Moon, that appeared to have portholes. He experienced radio communication interference during his UFO sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 333 Source ID: Johnson_3756 Source: Johnson ### Event 22699 (6F8EAF03) Date: 7/1995 Description: USAF Headquarters publishes, through the Government Printing Office, The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert, by Col. Richard L. Weaver and Lt. James McAndrew, blaming the Roswell debris on a top-secret Project Mogul balloon array sent aloft to detect signs of Soviet nuclear explosions. The first part of the 1,000+-page document is an introductory summary, supported by 31 attachments, by Weaver that was released in September 1994. The second part is a synopsis of Project Mogul balloon research findings by McAndrew, with additional attachments and appendices. A photo section includes photos of various Air Force personnel and Mogul scientists. The report claims Mogul flight number 4, launched on June 4, 1947, was responsible for the Roswell debris. The attachments and appendices are mostly memos dealing with the Air Force requests of its departments for Roswell records; statements and interviews with persons connected with Project Mogul; and New York University progress reports on the Constant Level Balloon project \(a study to determine how balloons and their payloads could be maintained at high altitudes for long periods of time\). About 95% of the report is padding. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris: A Quantitative Evaluation of the Project Mogul Hypothesis,” IUR 20, no. 2 \(March/April 1995\): 3–6, 23–24; Charles B. Moore, Robert G. Todd, Mark Rodeghier, and Kevin D. Randle, “Project Mogul and the Roswell Crash: An Exchange,” IUR 20, no. 2 \(March/April 1995\): 7–9, 19–22; Col. Richard L. Weaver and 1Lt. James McAndrew, [The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico](https://www.afhra.af.mil/Portals/16/documents/AFD-101201-038.pdf) [Desert](https://www.afhra.af.mil/Portals/16/documents/AFD-101201-038.pdf)[,](https://www.afhra.af.mil/Portals/16/documents/AFD-101201-038.pdf) US Air Force Headquarters, July 1995; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “The Final\(?\) Air Force Report on Roswell,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 5–6; Richard Hall, “Fact vs. Fiction in the Pentagon,” IUR 20, no. 5 \(Winter 1995\): 7–8; Swords 352–354; “[Air Force Reports on the Roswell UFO Incident,](https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Air%5FForce%5Freports%5Fon%5Fthe%5FRoswell%5FUFO%5Fincident)” Military Wiki; Clark III 32 Source ID: Eberhart_7132 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22700 (FBF0A062) Date: 7/1/1995 Description: Dusk. As a Varig Airlines flight is descending about 37 miles from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, the commander sees a very bright disc-like object spinning in the sky in a curious way. The UFO is about 215 feet in diameter and emits a bright white light. As they approach the landing, the light speeds up and crosses in front of them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 201; Brazil 543–544 Source ID: Eberhart_7133 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22701 (A69BA9A0) Date: 7/9/1995 Description: At least a dozen witnesses saw a huge triangle-shaped object and four discs at low altitude in Gravois Mills, Missouri at 11:45 p.m. Bizarre looking humanoid figures were also seen on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17304, citing Actaeon Advisor Source ID: Johnson_3969 Source: Johnson ### Event 22702 (AFE067A1) Date: 7/13/1995 Description: Two strange looking, short humanoids stood at the foot of a woman's bed in Winnipeg, Manitoba at one o'clock in the morning. She was almost completely unable to move, but managed to touch one of the beings before they disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 2371 Source ID: Johnson_4039 Source: Johnson ### Event 22703 (3D1EE614) Date: 7/15/1995 Description: 500' diameter disc observed in broad daylight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters) Reference: NICAP: [950715](http://www.nicap.org/harwin-dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Harwinton, CT Source ID: NICAP_DB_5866 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22704 (D4525434) Date: 7/15/1995 Description: On this day in Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, England two married couples were enjoying a garden picnic when some very strange events began to unfold. It involved a strange mist or fog, time dislocation, and the "Oz" effect, where time seems to stop and all normal environmental noises cease. They felt heavy pressure, like a static charge in the air. Plates and glasses started to move about on the picnic table. A dark gray mass and fog then enveloped the garden. This was followed by many hours of missing time. The witnesses recovered feeling sick, with naseau and tingling sensations. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 73, citing BUFORA Source ID: Johnson_4085 Source: Johnson ### Event 22705 (8F0BB34A) Date: 7/15/1995 Description: 2:45 p.m. Two witnesses \(an emergency room nurse and her husband\) are driving home \(probably along State Highway 8, adjacent to the Naugatuck River\) after a fishing trip to Harwinton, Connecticut. A shadow crosses the road as they are driving north, and they look up to see a large metallic disc about 500 feet in diameter at an altitude of about 200 feet, over trees about a half mile away. The object is traveling 65–70 mph and its surface is metallic gray with a band of apparent panes of dark glass and facets on its upper portion. It passes behind trees to the right in about 10–15 seconds. A group of independent witnesses at another location does not observe the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Cashman, “The Harwinton Daylight Disc,” IUR 25, no. 2 \(Summer 2000\): 14–19 Source ID: Eberhart_7134 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22706 (CF75CF70) Date: 7/15/1995 Description: A couple returning from a fishing trip at 2:45 p.m. sighted a huge, metallic, domed disc-shaped object with a dark band of windows In West Harwinton, Connecticut. They were able to get out of their minivan and watch the craft for an additional 10-15 seconds. Detailed analysis revealed that the estimated size of the craft was 553 feet in diameter, and it was at a distance of 2,400 feet. It travelled at a relatively slow 70-75 mph at a low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Cashman, International UFO Reporter, Summer 2000, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_4086 Source: Johnson ### Event 22707 (8862ED0A) Date: 7/19/1995 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a square object with white lights was seen passing over houses in Sacramento, California. The houses reportedly shook from the vibration caused by the UFO. At around 6 p.m. a very big red nocturnal light was seen by police in Whyalla, South Australia to descend to close to the ground. It then took off and maneuvered around in the sky for the next four hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, 1995 report; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16935 Source ID: Johnson_4216 Source: Johnson ### Event 22708 (DC5BDD43) Date: 7/20/1995 Description: A zigzagging object with flashing lights was seen over Puget Sound from Ballard, Washington at 1:00 a.m. It was seen again by a witness east of Port Orchard, Washington at 2:15 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_4256 Source: Johnson ### Event 22709 (1E1C15FF) Date: 7/23/1995 Description: At eleven p.m. a black, silent, manta ray shaped flying object passed overhead in Snake River, Idaho. It had black wings that appeared to "ripple." There was no mention of lights on the UFO in the report. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 195, citing the Idaho Statesman, February 25, 1996 Source ID: Johnson_4334 Source: Johnson ### Event 22710 (E64E9472) Date: 7/25/1995 Description: At 9:35 a.m. two luminous objects maneuvered up-and-down in the daytime sky over Ocate, New Mexico. They darted to the horizon, and then appeared to buzz a military plane. Later that night in Sapello, New Mexico a light was seen dimming and brightening in the sky at 11:15 p.m. It rose vertically, then zigzagged erratically, then shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, 1995 report Source ID: Johnson_4403 Source: Johnson ### Event 22711 (60D02491) Date: 7/28/1995 Description: A pear shaped UFO was seen zigzagging over Rome, Italy at 11:50 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena magazine, issue #28 Source ID: Johnson_4465 Source: Johnson ### Event 22712 (1AF779F6) Date: 7/28/1995 Description: A very bright silver disc was seen hovering in the clear sky over Racine, Wisconsin at two o'clock in the afternoon. It was suddenly joined by two more similar looking objects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 81 Source ID: Johnson_4464 Source: Johnson ### Event 22713 (D219D414) Date: 7/28/1995 Description: The US General Accounting Office releases Results of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash near Roswell, New Mexico, which says that all administrative records from Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico from March 1945 to December 1949 have been destroyed, as well as outgoing messages from October 1946 to December 1949. This is perhaps not unusual for the time, as record retention and disposition procedures were unclear; however, [Nick Redfern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FRedfern) suggests the possibility that the records were destroyed or removed to hide evidence of unethical radiation and other experiments on unwilling human subjects. The GAO agrees with the Air Force that the wreckage was most likely from a Project Mogul balloon train. The report is in response to a request by Rep. [Steven Schiff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FSchiff) \(D-N.Mex.\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Results of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash near Roswell,](https://www.gao.gov/assets/nsiad-95-187.pdf) [New Mexico](https://www.gao.gov/assets/nsiad-95-187.pdf), General Accounting Office, July 1995, reprinted in IUR 20, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1995\): 3–6; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “What the GAO Found: Nothing about Much Ado,” IUR 20, no. 4 \(July/Aug. 1995\): 7–8, 24; Swords 354–355; Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 134–139 Source ID: Eberhart_7135 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22714 (B8EE2ED7) Date: 7/29/1995 Description: 12:15 a.m. Five witnesses in Low Bradfield, South Yorkshire, England, watch a triangular object, “bigger than a commercial airliner, “ flying flat side forward. A low humming sound is heard. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 143–144 Source ID: Eberhart_7136 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22715 (89C5D241) Date: 7/31/1995 Description: 6:10 p.m. Aereolíneas Argentinas Flight 734, a Boeing 727 with three crew and 102 passengers, is in the landing pattern for San Carlos de Bariloche Airport, Rio Negro, Argentina. Capt. Jorge Polanco suddenly sees a white light bearing down on the aircraft before halting only 300 feet away. The object then makes a turn and flies parallel to the 727. It looks like an inverted flying saucer as large as the airliner, has two green lights at each end and a flashing orange light in the center, and very powerfully illuminated, according to the captain. As Polanco begins to land, the runway and airport lights go out, so he is forced to climb back to 9,800 feet, accompanied by the UFO. Airport chief Maj. Jorge Orviedo reports that the airport’s radio support is cut off, and there is a blackout in many parts of the city. When the ground lights come back on, the UFO shoots away at tremendous speed. The object is also observed by a Gendarmeria Piper PA-31-310 that is flying 1,900 feet above the 727. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 403–404](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/402/mode/2up); Patrick Gross, “[Air Misses](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/bariloche95.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7137 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22716 (3395E09D) Date: 7/31/1995 Description: At 8:15 p.m. a Boeing 727 airliner narrowly missed a UFO that darted into its path, then flew along beside it as it made a landing approach to San Carlos de Bariloche airport, Rio Negro province, Argentina. The object was estimated to be the same size as the 727, and was shaped like an inverted flying saucer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael D. Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 332; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 333; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 47 Source ID: Johnson_4546 Source: Johnson ### Event 22717 (2CF96CC7) Date: 7/31/1995 Description: At 11:45 p.m. in Morris Plains, New Jersey three cops and two civilian witnesses saw a very bright flying wing with colored "bubbles" on the exterior. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17341, citing National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_4547 Source: Johnson ### Event 22718 (30D2478E) Date: 8/1/1995 Description: On this night in Portslade, East Sussex, England a huge yellow cigar-shaped object hovered over the town for a minute, then simply vanished in place. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1995 Source ID: Johnson_4582 Source: Johnson ### Event 22719 (9CD10178) Date: 8/5/1995 Description: On this day in Turin, Italy Mr. Rohner, a MUFON-CES member, saw a luminous triangle-shaped craft while on vacation in the city. At 10:55 p.m. a 35-year-old couple in Dortmund, Germany saw the sky brighten, and then sighted a huge 20-meter triangular object with 8-10 circular yellow-orange radiators. It sounded like a transformer, flew from north to south, made an abrupt turn to the southwest at 150-200 m altitude, and 10 minutes later was seen again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_4708 Source: Johnson ### Event 22720 (343D84AF) Date: 8/6/1995 Description: A motorist had a close encounter with a UFO in Michigan involving physiological effects when at 10:30 p.m. a huge disc-shaped object hovered over the road 15 miles southeast of Kalamazoo. The witness felt pain after the event, and the close encounter left him with marks on his skin. The incident reportedly lasted five minutes, but it is not known for certain if any missing time was involved. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17352; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_4746 Source: Johnson ### Event 22721 (2BD8B26C) Date: 8/8/1995 Description: Two airliners, one from TAM and the other from Rio Sul Serviços Aéreos Regionais, watch a UFO over Macapá, Amapá, Brazil. TAM Cmdr. Marcos Aurélio de Castro reports that he and his copilot see a metallic glow ahead of them to the right. The air traffic center cannot see anything but notes that the Rio Sul flight has reported something similar 5 minutes earlier. Suddenly the silvery object approaches the TAM aircraft. The sighting lasts about 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 201–203; Brazil 544–545 Source ID: Eberhart_7138 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22722 (7BF8035F) Date: 8/11/1995 Description: Several cars stop along Interstate 80 highway near Sacramento, California at 8:40 a.m. to watch a silver ovoid UFO, reflecting sunlight for a couple of minutes; it streaks away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17360, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_4910 Source: Johnson ### Event 22723 (6C9994FF) Date: 8/11/1995 Description: A man named Brzinski was working the late night shift at a coat-hanger factory in Wallington, New Jersey. At 10:30 p.m. he was alone at the time in an aisle when he heard some peculiar sounds coming from behind some hanger racks. The sound resembled a fast, choppy, garbled speech. When he looked between the rows of hangers he saw three distinct creatures. When they realized that he saw them they seemed surprised. They then stopped talking. One was a few inches taller than the other two but all three were dressed identically. The shorter ones were about 4 feet tall. They wore something resembling a wet suit, a tight-fitting, flexible and elastic-like coverall that even covered their hands and fingers. They appeared to have some kind of face mask or facial covering also. The creatures had only three digits on each hand. One resembled a thumb and the other two were longer and located closer together, like fingers.

Mr. Brzinski said that the taller one seemed to be explaining to the other two something about the automated coat hanger making machine. They seemed very interested in it for some reason. It was very dark and it was difficult to make out any facial features, partially due to the covering they wore. When they realized they had been seen the shorter ones ran away very quickly in a peculiar shuffling manner, with apparent with difficulty. The factory windows and doors were all open that night. The taller humanoid remained behind. It opened its hand and emitted a strange, robotic sound. As it did, the uniform that covered its hand caught a bit of light from the factory lighting and seemed to give off a silver hue. When it opened its hand a small sphere appeared in the center of its palm that emitted an extremely bright light beam. The laser-like beam struck the witness in the eyes, knocking him backward with its force. It stung like needles and caused him pain, causing him to close his eyes. When he opened them the creature had disappeared. The entire incident lasted about a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2371, citing Debra Kenna & Tom Briggs; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17361 Source ID: Johnson_4912 Source: Johnson ### Event 22724 (BBD52065) Date: 8/11/1995 Description: On this night in Cutral-Co, Neuquen Province, Argentina a witness filmed a 500 meter in diameter saucer at low altitude. It descended to just 3 meters above the ground, causing a regional power outage and cars to experience EM ignition interference. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17359, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #333 Source ID: Johnson_4911 Source: Johnson ### Event 22725 (D3DB0DD8) Date: 8/13/1995 Description: At 12:45 a.m. a starlike object zig-zagged eight times during its descent over Rennes, Ile-Vilaine department, France. It seemed to enlarge as in descended. A dark mass was perceived at low altitude, but was lost from view behind some trees. On the same night there was an occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 334; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 109 Source ID: Johnson_4990 Source: Johnson ### Event 22726 (9096D5CD) Date: 8/14/1995 Description: 11:55 p.m. An enormous, roughly triangular object is seen by three family members near the Brighton Racecourse, Sussex, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 144 Source ID: Eberhart_7139 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22727 (65912791) Date: 8/15/1995 Description: At midnight another witness awoke in Buena Park, California to briefly see an extremely bright light out on the patio. It appeared to be hovering about 3-4 feet from the ground. Later that night he was still very shaken when he saw a humanoid figure with a very large head and standing about four feet tall. The figure had an amazingly smooth stride, almost like it was walking on air. It seemed to move above the ground in the patio area just outside the blinds. Everything vanished suddenly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 3188, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_5060 Source: Johnson ### Event 22728 (95F88F2D) Date: 8/15/1995 Description: At 10:40 p.m. in the northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, near Howard, Fremont County, Colorado a local Vietnam vet claimed to have seen a large boomerang-shaped object appear from the north and hover over his mountain property. He then had 40 minutes of missing time, during which his he claimed his mobile home and truck had been picked up and moved "6 inches", based on the altered location of the building and the truck's tracks. He reported he had a swollen welt, 4-inches in length, in his rectum after regaining consciousness. Over the next two weeks he lost 20 lbs., and a wild animal he had befriended, his "pet black bear", was now missing. He said that he had been having strange sightings occurring since the middle of June 1995, and that he had discovered "piles of carcasses" up the slope from his 9,000-foot elevation land. He claimed the carcasses had been in various stages of decay, and that they were comprised mostly of cattle, but also horses, fox, raccoon and other animals found in the area. He also said that two weeks before his apparent abduction experience, he found "tiny 4-toed human tracks" around the perimeter of his trailer site. He had also noted unusual military activity in the area as well. Often, after his UFO sightings, he would notice unusually heavy military flights over the area, which convinced him his government was somehow involved with the strange occurrences. For instance, after one sighting episode when he was able to photograph the strange craft, the next day while he was gone from his home somebody had ransacked his trailer, and had taken all of his film and camera equipment. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 371; Tim Edwards, Christopher O'Brien, San Luis Valley Event Log, case # 317; Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Christopher O'Brien Source ID: Johnson_5059 Source: Johnson ### Event 22729 (264879C4) Date: 8/15/1995 Description: A witness was lying in bed in his bedroom in Grand Haven, Michigan at 9:05 p.m. when he saw flashing lights that changed from blue to white. Four little creatures approximately 3-4 feet tall then appeared around his bed. Two were around his legs and the other two were up around his waist area. The creatures seemed to be doing some type of medical procedure on him. He then passed out and saw flashing lights again, and then the lights vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_5057 Source: Johnson ### Event 22730 (D8D9EC85) Date: 8/15/1995 Description: At around ten o'clock in the evening a huge bright light buzzed a car driving on U.S. Highway 160 ten miles east of Alamosa, Colorado. A gigantic dark shadow flew east, surrounded by many much smaller blinking lights. The kids in the car were badly frightened. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 316 Source ID: Johnson_5058 Source: Johnson ### Event 22731 (874D5872) Date: 8/18/1995 Description: On this night a luminous 40-foot in diameter disc-shaped craft with a row of dark windows around the center rim, hovered near a radio tower in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, causing a fluctuation in the radio station's power. Two children reportedly encountered a four-foot-tall being with red eyes and a spiny crest on its back in a nearby park. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2184, citing Jorge Martin, UFO Magazine Source ID: Johnson_5143 Source: Johnson ### Event 22732 (308B6CFB) Date: 8/18/1995 Description: In Stockport, England a glistening triangular shaped object vanished at 1:30 a.m., then two orange nocturnal lights maneuvered all over the sky for the next 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1996; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17374 Source ID: Johnson_5141 Source: Johnson ### Event 22733 (543799CD) Date: 8/18/1995 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a triangle-shaped object with fireballs and various flashes was seen in Revin, Ardennes, France. Video was taken of the phenomena for seven minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17375, citing Banque OVNI, issue 95 Source ID: Johnson_5142 Source: Johnson ### Event 22734 (6B17691C) Date: 8/23/1995 Description: At 11:50 p.m. three witnesses driving on a highway in Louisville, Kentucky sighted a donut-shaped UFO by the highway. It was not clear if it was on the ground or just hovering above it. It was still there on their return drive-by 10 minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17383, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_5275 Source: Johnson ### Event 22735 (64BEEE04) Date: 8/23/1995 Description: While watching a carnival air display in Weymouth, Dorset, England at noon three police detectives spotted a motionless, metallic sphere hanging high in the sky. It appeared to reflect the sunlight, and was seen for several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_5274 Source: Johnson ### Event 22736 (8C29CBDF) Date: 8/26/1995 Description: On this night a man in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo State, Brazil encountered three 50 cm tall humanoids wearying white coveralls and helmets with antennas. One carried a pen-like instrument, which he pointed towards the witness who fled on his motorcycle. When he looked back he saw the humanoids walking towards a landed luminous round object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing GEPUC Brazil Source ID: Johnson_5381 Source: Johnson ### Event 22737 (88B11ED2) Date: 8/27/1995 Description: 9:30 a.m. Tim Edwards shoots a video of a disc-shaped object hovering then darting about the sky over Salida, Colorado. A series of ripples or moving lights are seen to rotate from left to right on the object, which stays just above the sun while Edwards, his daughter, and four construction workers also watch. UFO investigators are not impressed with the video, which might be spider web or cottonwood fluff. [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) thinks it might be a genuine UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Video Salida Tim Edwards 1995,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toIKIFSQapg)” UFOvideodotcom YouTube channel, October 4, 2012; “[Colorado Man and His Films Bring UFO Meet Back to Earth,](https://www.deseret.com/1995/11/30/19207413/colorado-man-and-his-films-bring-ufo-meet-back-to-earth)” Salt Lake City Deseret News, November 30, 1995; Jennie Zeidman, “The Will to Believe: Gnats, Moths, and Cottonwood Fluff from Outer Space,” IUR 21, no. 4 \(Winter 1996\): 14–17; Bruce Maccabee, “Salida: An Analysis of the Video,” IUR 21, no. 4 \(Winter 1996\): 17–19 Source ID: Eberhart_7140 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22738 (8A505D89) Date: 8/28/1995 Description: Fox TV broadcasts for the first time the “alien autopsy film,” a 17-minute black-and-white film supposedly depicting a secret medical examination of autopsy of an alien by the US military. The program, hosted in the US by [Jonathan Frakes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%5FFrakes)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%5FFrakes) is given the title Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction. The film is broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK as a segment of “The Roswell Incident.” London-based entrepreneur [Ray Santilli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%5FSantilli) presents it as an authentic autopsy on the body of an alien recovered from the 1947 crash of a flying disc near Roswell, New Mexico. The film footage is allegedly supplied to him by a retired military cameraman who wishes to remain anonymous. Experts, including pathologist [Cyril Wecht](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril%5FWecht), special effects specialist [Stan Winston](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%5FWinston)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%5FWinston) and cinematographer [Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDaviau) [Daviau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDaviau)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%5FDaviau) are shown commenting on the film’s authenticity. The program causes a sensation, with Time magazine declaring that the film has sparked a debate “with an intensity not lavished on any home movie since the [Zapruder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%5FZapruder) film.” Fox rebroadcasts the program twice, each time to higher ratings. But even segment director [John Jopson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FJopson) tells producer [Robert Kiviat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FKiviat) that he suspects the entire film is a fake, but Fox makes it clear that such suspicions will not be allowed. [Mike Maloney](http://www.mikemaloney.co.uk/profile.htm)[,](http://www.mikemaloney.co.uk/profile.htm) a former photographer for the London tabloid Daily Mirror, says it is the same footage that he saw in the late 1970s at a private viewing in the Los Angeles house of a Disney executive. In 2006, Santilli admits the film is not authentic but rather a staged reconstruction of footage \(using sheep brains and jelly stuffed into puppets made by a UK sculptor John Humphreys\) he claims to have viewed in 1992, but which has deteriorated and become unusable by the time he made his film. The military cameraman is portrayed by a homeless man in Los Angeles. Santilli claims that a few frames from the original are embedded in his film, but he never specifies which ones. Producer [Spyros Melaris](https://www.digitalbiz.cards/spyrosmelarisnews2.html) claims that he has made all the auxiliary footage, including that of the homeless man. The existence of an original filmstrip of the alleged autopsy has never been independently verified. [Philip Mantle](http://www.noufors.com/Philip%5FMantle.htm) of BUFORA has spent 25 years examining both the footage and the story surrounding it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Alien autopsy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%5Fautopsy)”; Internet Movie Database, “[Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163521/)”; “[Alien](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pukbzCC3cfQ) [Autopsy,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pukbzCC3cfQ)” Orbitalmedia YouTube channel, February 14, 2013; Richard Corliss, “[Autopsy or Fraud-topsy?](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0%2C33009%2C983764%2C00.html)” Time, November 27, 1995; Joseph A. Bauer, “A Surgeon’s View: Alien Autopsy’s Overwhelming Lack of Credibility,” Skeptical Inquirer 20, no. 1 \(January 1996\): 23–24; Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell: The Alien Autopsy Film, Area 51, and the US Government Coverup of UFOs, Marlowe, 1997, [pp. 182–210](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9781569247815/page/181/mode/2up); “Eamonn Investigates: Alien Autopsy,” UFOHighway YouTube channel, September 19, 2010, [part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LgUFx8xv8), [part 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi%5FTt5luDJw), [part 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW0Fz8wOsGc), [part 4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhZvPyGbZ8w); Philip Mantle, Alien Autopsy Inquest, The Author, 2007; Philip Mantle, “Alien Autopsy Film, R.I.P.,” IUR 32, no. 1 \(August 2008\): 15–19; Nathalie Lagerfeld, “[How an Alien Autopsy Hoax Captured the World’s Imagination for](https://time.com/4376871/alien-autopsy-hoax-history/) [a Decade,](https://time.com/4376871/alien-autopsy-hoax-history/)” Time, June 24, 2016; Philip Mantle, Roswell Alien Autopsy: The Truth behind the Film That Shocked the World, Flying Disk Press, 2017, revised ed., 2020; Stu Neville, “Effects, Lies, and Videotape: 25 Years of the Alien Autopsy,” Fortean Times 395 \(August 2020\): 32–36; Nigel Watson, “Alien Autopsy: The Interview,” Fortean Times 395 \(August 2020\): 37–40 Source ID: Eberhart_7141 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22739 (C3FD9461) Date: 8/28/1995 Description: At 1:00 p.m. three motorists driving on US Highway 285 on Poncha Pass, Chaffee County, Colorado witnessed a huge cylinder that hovered for two minutes, and then shot away at fantastic speed. A police report was filed over the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1996 Source ID: Johnson_5447 Source: Johnson ### Event 22740 (C637F12C) Date: 8/30/1995 Description: A thin silent cigar-shaped UFO passed over the witness's house in Rio Claro, San Paulo State, Brazil at five o'clock in the morning. It gave off multi-colored rays of lights in all directions and made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Boletim CEPEX, issue 25 Source ID: Johnson_5507 Source: Johnson ### Event 22741 (1C7C5C88) Date: 8/31/1995 Description: A large green luminous sphere hovered over Neath, Wales and then sped off toward the northwest NW leaving a vapor trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1996 Source ID: Johnson_5544 Source: Johnson ### Event 22742 (38D80F1F) Date: 9/2/1995 Description: At 10:30 p.m. at the Bay Bridge in Pensacola, Florida two witnesses watched a one foot in diameter red ball of light low over some trees shoot out and back a number of times, swinging back in forth in the sky in a pendulum motion. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1995 Source ID: Johnson_5584 Source: Johnson ### Event 22743 (1030F62C) Date: 9/5/1995 Description: On this night a police officer in Campo Rico, Puerto Rico shot at and hit a creature with a .357 pistol while the monster was attempting to grab a dog. The creature ran away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17031, citing FSR, volume 41, issue no. 1 Source ID: Johnson_5665 Source: Johnson ### Event 22744 (E6169493) Date: 9/6/1995 Description: The witness had fallen asleep in a chair in Ashland, New Hampshire when shortly after eleven p.m. he found himself lifted into a globular object and transported over a city where he saw people looking up at him. He then flew above what appeared to be an African savannah and muddy river, whereupon the craft then went up through the atmosphere an into outer space. He was then placed inside a transparent tub or tank filled with breathable fluid by two short Grey humanoids, while a third being observed. He remarked that he was surprisingly calm about the experience although he would normally be panicked. After a few more minutes he was allowed to walk to a window or screen. A huge metallic cylinder, apparently somekind of space station, began to fill the view from the left side of the window. There were white and blue lights running the entire length of it. Later, before being returned, he saw four other species of beings together in one place. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_5700 Source: Johnson ### Event 22745 (83F7BAE9) Date: 9/7/1995 Description: On this evening in Campo Rico, Canovanas, Puerto Rico a five-foot tall humanoid creature attacked a police officer's Chow Chow dog. The officer fired his pistol at the creature, which doubled into a ball, bounced against a wall, and ran away at a high speed. A mutilated goat was found in the area the next day. On the same night Misael Negron observed a strange creature standing on his second story balcony for about ten minutes. He described the creature as about five feet tall, with dark skin, a round head and pointy chin, large red eyes, no ears and what appeared to be two long fangs coming out of its mouth. It had a thin neck and thin arms with three fingered hands that had sharp claws. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, cases 2299 & 2300, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue # 8 Source ID: Johnson_5742 Source: Johnson ### Event 22746 (DFC346D0) Date: 9/11/1995 Description: A police car was followed for 6 kilometers in Marsaneix, Dordogne, France at 6:30 p.m. by a 30 meter in diameter disc-shaped object and a rectangular light, at 100 meters altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 334 Source ID: Johnson_5883 Source: Johnson ### Event 22747 (DF2CA294) Date: 9/11/1995 Description: At 10:21 a.m. a large, bright, dome-shaped object looking like a speckled "bicycle helmet" hovered over a cemetery in North Haven, Connecticut. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 1995 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5882 Source: Johnson ### Event 22748 (2996CCEF) Date: 9/11/1995 Description: A witness in Rostrevor, South Australia saw a dark silver, revolving object coming from the northwest. It came from nowhere and dropped out of the sky. It slowed, then moved away at a steady pace. At 8:35 all TV channels went off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, South Australia UFO Reports - Project 1947 website; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 336 Source ID: Johnson_5881 Source: Johnson ### Event 22749 (BC731FCE) Date: 9/13/1995 Description: At 12:20 a.m. a yellow-white disc-shaped object moved south in the sky over Tallahasee, Florida. Its apparent size was larger than the full moon, and it had a halo surrounding it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, list of 1995 reports Source ID: Johnson_5929 Source: Johnson ### Event 22750 (AE9E6BFF) Date: 9/13/1995 Description: At 12:10 a.m. a bizarre, irregularly shaped object, only 300 feet away, shot beams of light down on a house in Corpus Christi, Texas. It had a pulsating light on top. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, list of 1995 reports Source ID: Johnson_5928 Source: Johnson ### Event 22751 (6E6A0687) Date: 9/14/1995 Description: A large dark, silent triangle was seen against the clouds in Gulf Breeze, Florida at 8:30 p.m., flying to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17426; UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1996 Source ID: Johnson_5971 Source: Johnson ### Event 22752 (86EA6C5B) Date: 9/15/1995 Description: Dogs excited as disc emitted a light beam (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Oklahoma City, OK Source ID: NICAP_DB_5867 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22753 (6D4C1CA1) Date: 9/16/1995 Description: At around midnight, during the heavy rain and buffeting of Tropical Storm Marilyn, a local resident of Pozo, Campo Rico, Puerto Rico saw a strange five-foot creature with red glowing eyes. He fired at the being several times with his gun, but it sprouted small wings and flew away from the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 2303, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue # 8 Source ID: Johnson_6025 Source: Johnson ### Event 22754 (CE636C8B) Date: 9/17/1995 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a gray V-shaped flying wing moved silently overhead at a steady pace in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17432, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_6058 Source: Johnson ### Event 22755 (89A8664F) Date: 9/19/1995 Description: Several bell-shaped objects were sighted near the airport in Johnson City, Tennessee on this evening at 10:46 p.m. Beams of light were directed toward the ground. The UFOs hovered and maneuvered; a complex event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17434 Source ID: Johnson_6107 Source: Johnson ### Event 22756 (0DFFA7CA) Date: 9/19/1995 Description: At 5:57 a.m. a round object with a vertical ring (Saturn-shaped) was sighted at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It moved from east to west, flying on its edge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17435 Source ID: Johnson_6106 Source: Johnson ### Event 22757 (106F8A3E) Date: 9/19/1995 Description: The occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area happened on this date. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_6108 Source: Johnson ### Event 22758 (D4522F54) Date: 9/20/1995 Description: In Pensacola Beach, Florida a ring-shaped object with portholes was seen over the coast at 8:10 p.m. for 15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1995 Source ID: Johnson_6161 Source: Johnson ### Event 22759 (66B6A19E) Date: 9/20/1995 Description: A disc-shaped object with multi-colored lights was seen overhead in the night sky in Reno, Nevada at 3:30 a.m. It "bounced like a ball" in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1995 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6160 Source: Johnson ### Event 22760 (B4F50518) Date: 9/21/1995 Description: The USAF Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory issues a Report on Project Mogul by 1Lt. James McAndrew. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 1Lt. James McAndrew, [Report on Project Mogul: Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings](https://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/physics10/Roswell/USMogulReport.html), Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, September 21, 1995 Source ID: Eberhart_7142 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22761 (CD2A84F9) Date: 9/21/1995 Description: Many calls were received by the Sheriff department in Concordia, Kansas at around 9:00 p.m. reporting two circular spheres with rotating centers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6203 Source: Johnson ### Event 22762 (9888AD18) Date: 9/22/1995 Description: On hearing a humming sound at 8:45 p.m., four people in Navaho Estates, Colorado went outside to see a 100 meter long rectangular object move slowly to the west at 60-80 feet altitude. It was yellow and had white lights oscillating on a rounded front, and red lights in the rear. After it went over a ridge eight or more blinking nocturnal lights crisscrossed in the same direction. Livestock in the area panicked. The entire sighting lasted about two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1996, citing Pueblo Chieftain; Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 315 Source ID: Johnson_6240 Source: Johnson ### Event 22763 (1A5B6E75) Date: 9/22/1995 Description: In Redmond, Washington at 9:30 p.m. dogs were barking as one, and then four round objects with lights hovered overhead for about a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6241 Source: Johnson ### Event 22764 (3168C7C0) Date: 9/24/1995 Description: In the early hours after midnight Edson Roberto Marcelo, age 29, was driving along a road near his city of Santa Barbara D'Oeste, Sao Paulo State, Brazil when he noticed a very bright light by the side of the road. A beam of light suddenly illuminated his car, and Edson felt a wave of heat and quickly blacked out. When he came to he found himself several kilometers from where he had seen the light, and 40 minutes of missing time had transpired. Very shaken and with irritated eyes, he next drove to the home of a friend. The next day he found several unexplained marks on his wrists and his ears were buzzing. Upon inspecting his vehicle he noticed that parts of the steering wheel had apparently been melted. Later, he vaguely remembered being inside a room with smooth walls and of lying on top of a table. There he remembers being given a telepathic order instructing him to forget the whole episode. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Boletim CEPEX; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing CEPEX, UFO Genesis Brazil Source ID: Johnson_6299 Source: Johnson ### Event 22765 (3B5360C3) Date: 9/24/1995 Description: At 8:25 p.m. a woman called to report seeing a large black triangular mass with no lights hovering and moving slowly near Boise, Idaho. Her son saw the same thing from a different location. It made no sound at all. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 195, citing Idaho Statesman, February 25, 1996; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6300 Source: Johnson ### Event 22766 (C29C4894) Date: 9/26/1995 Description: On this day on a ranch in Farasita, Huerfano County, Colorado a horse named "Whiskey" was found dead from unexplained mutilations. A 6 inch, perfectly circular coring had been performed on its rectum, half of its tongue had been removed with a clean diagonal slice, the upper eye had been removed, and the horse's hair and hide had been blackened as if by exposure to a heat source. No ground tracks were found around the carcass. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 314 Source ID: Johnson_6363 Source: Johnson ### Event 22767 (3CDAC68B) Date: 9/28/1995 Description: At 9:50 p.m. a multi-colored flying object with neon red, green and yellow colored lights zigzagged overhead in Las Vegas, Nevada. The witness's dog was scared and wouldn't leave the house during the UFO sighting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6407 Source: Johnson ### Event 22768 (14E1AA6D) Date: 9/29/1995 Description: An anonymous male witness, age 20, reported that he had a very close encounter with a UFO while driving in a forest in Jelling, Vejle province, Denmark at 9:30 p.m. The lights, engine, and instruments of his car malfunctioned when a dazzling white light from a disc-shaped object hovered fifteen feet overhead. The craft emitted indigo beams from lamps on the bottom, which formed concentric circles and shone straight down. The UFO dipped to avoid the trees, then finally shot off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 62; SUFOI News, issue # 16 Source ID: Johnson_6430 Source: Johnson ### Event 22769 (497A07ED) Date: 9/29/1995 Description: 8:50 p.m. A witness in Stanley, Durham, England, watches a strange triangular object through binoculars. It flies pointed-end forward and has a pulsing red light on its front tip and steady white lights on its other tips. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 144 Source ID: Eberhart_7143 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22770 (5F3B88DE) Date: 9/29/1995 Description: 9:30 p.m. Near Vejle, Jutland, Denmark, a 24-year-old man is driving when the dashboard lights behave erratically, the wipers go on, and his dog gets agitated. Then the engine goes completely dead. Without warning, a powerful light explodes over the vehicle, coming from a huge disc directly above the car. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Bilstop med Effekter,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Denmark/UFO%20Nyt%20%28SUFOI%29/1996/UFO%20Nyt%20-%20No%201%201996.pdf)” UFO-Nyt 1996, no. 1, pp. 4–5; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 17–18 Source ID: Eberhart_7144 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22771 (C14E6BEF) Date: 10/1/1995 Description: 11:00 p.m. Fernando Beserra and Wilson da Silva Oliveira are fishing off the Ilha do Major, a mangrove area near the Rio Piaçabuçu adjacent to São Vicente, São Paulo, Brazil, when a bright yellow object approaches swiftly and silently, landing on a nearby islet. Their boat engine fails as the UFO passes over, but they restart it and flee the area. They return the next morning and find an area of dry vegetation twisted clockwise in a circle 18 feet in diameter. Four marks of apparent landing gear are also found, each measuring 4 by 6 inches and half an inch deep. Researchers from the Instituto Nacional de Investigações de Fenômenos Aeroespaciais find that in the soil samples obtained within the burned area seeds germinate easily, but those planted in the samples harvested outside the circle do not germinate and are attacked by fungi. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, “[UFO Landing in São](https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/unexplained/ufo-landing-in-s-o-vicente-ufo-lands-and-leaves-marks-on-the-ground/) [Vicente: UFO Lands and Leaves Marks on Ground,](https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/unexplained/ufo-landing-in-s-o-vicente-ufo-lands-and-leaves-marks-on-the-ground/)” Nexus Newsfeed, October 2, 2019; “[Caso de OVNI avistado](https://www.diariodolitoral.com.br/cotidiano/caso-de-ovni-avistado-em-sao-vicente-completa-25-anos/132918/) [em São Vicente completa 25 anos,](https://www.diariodolitoral.com.br/cotidiano/caso-de-ovni-avistado-em-sao-vicente-completa-25-anos/132918/)” Diário do Litoral \(Santos, São Paulo\), March 9, 2020; Brazil 354–360 Source ID: Eberhart_7145 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22772 (CED2B62C) Date: 10/1/1995 Description: An orange disc-shaped object hovered over a house in Vacaville, California for a minute at 9:00 p.m., at only 100 feet altitude. At 10:30 p.m. an extremely bright disc-shaped object flew over a house in Austin, Texas heading north. It was the "size of a volleyball at arms length," and had a green tinge on top. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6479 Source: Johnson ### Event 22773 (F6A39876) Date: 10/2/1995 Description: At 1:40 a.m. several women in Bolingbrook, Illinois saw an "orange or yellow arrow-shaped" object moving slowly through the sky to the west. It had a light on each side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 51, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_6509 Source: Johnson ### Event 22774 (7E5BCFB8) Date: 10/5/1995 Description: At 10 o'clock in the morning a metallic, rectangular object was seen hovering over the desert outside of Chinle, Arizona. It was sighted again four times. Eleven aircraft seemed to be chasing it. Later that evening, a large cigar-shaped craft with bright lights hovered over the desert north of Las Vegas, Nevada at 7:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, 1995 report Source ID: Johnson_6591 Source: Johnson ### Event 22775 (44531F27) Date: 10/8/1995 Description: A witness in a truck near Luke Air Force Base outside of Phoenix, Arizona sighted a reddish orange ball of light at 7:00 p.m. It flared up, then dimmed, and then rose vertically into the night sky until gone from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_6679 Source: Johnson ### Event 22776 (7F895E15) Date: 10/10/1995 Description: A large bright blue light buzzed a car on Interstate 43 southwest of Milwaukee, Wisconsin at 7:45 p.m., then dropped, turned, and crossed the highway. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6740 Source: Johnson ### Event 22777 (5341924C) Date: 10/11/1995 Description: A large orange ovoid object moved fast in the sky over Huntington, West Virginia at 8:00 p.m. It hovered, then moved erratically. There were two witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6790 Source: Johnson ### Event 22778 (C3B12737) Date: 10/15/1995 Description: In Yellowknife, North West Territory, Canada a golden colored, square object moved slowly over a witness at 2:30 p.m, making a humming noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Frank Ducks, 1995 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 137, citing Alberta UFO Research Assn. Source ID: Johnson_6876 Source: Johnson ### Event 22779 (5BE8DA7C) Date: 10/27/1995 Description: Residents of the Las Margaritas and Santa Rosa development, Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico witnessed a collision between two UFO's in mid-flight at around 4 a.m., directly above the Bosques del Recuerdo cemetery. Both objects had been flying at high speed low above the ground. It was reported to resemble an enormous light that divided into three smaller lights, two of which had collided in mid-air. One witness reported being awakened by a loud noise, and saw his bedroom fill with light. After the objects had disappeared, three figures looking like women were seen standing in the middle of the cemetery; cab drivers rushed to the scene but could find nothing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3204, citing The UFO Phenomenon in Mexico Source ID: Johnson_7206 Source: Johnson ### Event 22780 (9E8761AB) Date: 10/28/1995 Description: For three hours beginning at 1:30 a.m. eleven bright lights were observed maneuvering over Greenwood, California and engaged in what looked like a "dog-fight" with loops; they appeared to "shoot at each other." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_7256 Source: Johnson ### Event 22781 (610DEBFB) Date: 10/30/1995 Description: A veterinarian reported a dead cow on the Dugan Ranch north of Monte Vista, Colorado. The tongue had been removed, and the whole left side of the muzzle was missing below eye, and had been cut away. The animal was still warm to the touch, but the wound seemed to be days old. No cause of death was determined. Herd afraid. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 312 Source ID: Johnson_7320 Source: Johnson ### Event 22782 (7C8B7E02) Date: 10/31/1995 Description: At 7:00 p.m. in Tacoma, Washington a witness called the UFO Reporting Center to report a bright ball of light landing in a nearby field. Two hours later a second witness saw a nocturnal light zigzag through the sky and shoot off into the distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_7355 Source: Johnson ### Event 22783 (1A4BE789) Date: 11/1/1995 Description: Rafael Tapia was returning home on his bicycle in San Pablo de las Nazas, Jalisco, Mexico at 11:50 p.m. and as he got near a neighbor's house heobserved, not more than 10 meters away, a bizarre creature. At first, because of the darkness Tapia thought it was a dog, but as he passed to within 3 meters of the creature he realized that it was a very short, man-like figure with huge glowing red eyes. The strange figure turned around and stared at him. It then scrambled down a grassy embankment and disappeared from sight. Stunned, Rafael ran to where the creature had gone, and flung a couple of rocks in its direction. Then he reboarded his bicycle and pedalled home. The creature wore a type of tight-fitting, high-collared coverall. Earlier that same day another witness had seen an elongated metallic object that flew at a low altitude and then descended into a field. UFO investigators recorded strange magnetic disturbances in the area. Five days earlier, on October 27, a house under construction in the town burned down as a result of a powerful wave of heat that appeared to come from an unknown in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Contacto OVNI Source ID: Johnson_7399 Source: Johnson ### Event 22784 (2E205D5C) Date: 11/8/1995 Description: On this night Mr. J. Curran of Polbeth, Bathgate, Lothian, Scotland watched and videotapted as an orange circle in the sky polymorphed into a delta-shaped UFO, then back into a sphere. Photometric analysis suggests that the circle showed an out-of-focus object. Later, John S., age 45, of West Lothian, Scotland saw what looked like "a new type of ship. It looked like a giant Frisbee" between the Forth Canal and the Clyde Canal. The occupants were like the Greys, except their eyes were rounder. He had previously been involved in an abduction experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, pp. 30, 51 Source ID: Johnson_7553 Source: Johnson ### Event 22785 (74AABA82) Date: 11/8/1995 Description: A man in Manson, Washington reported encountering two humanoid figures in his apartment at 11:40 a.m. The beings pointed a flashing device at the witnessed, then disappeared by walking through the wall. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2140, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_7552 Source: Johnson ### Event 22786 (48C35E8E) Date: 11/9/1995 Description: At 7:00 p.m. Ada Arroyo, director of a local nursing home in Caguas, Puerto Rico, heard a scream similar to those made by a lamb being slaughtered, coming from outside. She went outside on the patio and saw a strange hairy figure, grayish in color, covering its body with a pair of wings. It had a flattened, vulpine face, with enormous red eyes. The creature held her gaze with its mesmerizing eyes before taking off into the air, quickly vanishing from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Scott Corales, Fate magazine, October 1998; Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3260, citing Scott Corrales Source ID: Johnson_7584 Source: Johnson ### Event 22787 (5653C3C1) Date: 11/11/1995 Description: Zacapa, Guatemala - During a spate of bizarre animal killings in the area, Alicia Fajardo encountered a strange winged creature on her property at around one o'clock in the morning. She described it as about four feet tall, with large bat-like wings, huge oval-shaped eyes, and a large mouth with huge protruding fangs. It was covered with dark hair and had a tail and claw-like feet. The creature flew away in an upward spiral emitting a strange humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2565, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue #12 Source ID: Johnson_7601 Source: Johnson ### Event 22788 (0481286B) Date: 11/11/1995 Description: On this night in El Rosario, Puerto Rico farmer Elliot Feliciano fired his gun at a large creature that jumped the fence surrounding his home. He described the creature as between 3 to 4 feet tall, endowed with large eyes, and having what appeared to be wings. Others reported a brilliant, round object flying over the area. A large goat was also found dead and mutilated in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 3143, citing Scott Corrales Source ID: Johnson_7602 Source: Johnson ### Event 22789 (9BCF1BF9) Date: 11/12/1995 Description: Tim Edwards and his family photographed a pencil-shaped object in the western sky from Highway 17 in Hooper, Saquache County, Colorado at dusk. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 311 Source ID: Johnson_7619 Source: Johnson ### Event 22790 (3FA83A9F) Date: 11/12/1995 Description: At 10:00 p.m. three poor quality Polaroids of a domed ovoid object near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama were taken by a fisherman. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17138 Source ID: Johnson_7620 Source: Johnson ### Event 22791 (9D86FF56) Date: 11/14/1995 Description: A swarm of at least 24 randomly blinking lights flew over Highway 17 in Saguache County, Colorado at 6:30 p.m. They flew to the southwest in the western sky, at an altitude estimated to be less than 1000 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 311 Source ID: Johnson_7680 Source: Johnson ### Event 22792 (C64105F2) Date: 11/17/1995 Description: Lufthansa 405 / Boc Flight 226 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [951117](http://www.nicap.org/951117longisland%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Long Island, NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5868 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22793 (9A01C6A7) Date: 11/20/1995 Description: A fast moving domed disc was seen in the morning at 8 a.m. over Mount Summit, Indiana for less than a minute. It was shiny and reflected the sunlight. It shot away and was gone in 4-5 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter Source ID: Johnson_7760 Source: Johnson ### Event 22794 (0969710D) Date: 11/21/1995 Description: Two observers in a residential area of Memphis, Tennessee noted a weird "glider" in the sky with 9 lights on each wing; it retracted and folded its wings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_7783 Source: Johnson ### Event 22795 (3DB4B6B8) Date: 11/23/1995 Description: Several independent witnesses reported watching a disc-shaped object flashing at low altitude over Lugo, Leon, Spain at 8:30 p.m. No figures were visible in its large, clear windows. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17155 Source ID: Johnson_7857 Source: Johnson ### Event 22796 (91005B7C) Date: 11/24/1995 Description: A local resident of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico reported encountering a short, four-foot tall creature on this evening, shortly after nearby residents also reported seeing a saucer-shaped object crossing the skies. Around the same time several heifers were found dead, lying in a perfect row in the middle of a lonely road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3287, citing Scott Corrales, Chupacabras and Other Mysteries Source ID: Johnson_7894 Source: Johnson ### Event 22797 (4E7E9579) Date: 11/27/1995 Description: Two small silent triangle shaped objects with blue beams of light flew over Dubai in the Persian Gulf at 6:15 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, December 1995 Source ID: Johnson_7972 Source: Johnson ### Event 22798 (D0063D8C) Date: 11/27/1995 Description: 6:20 p.m. Mohammad Ahsan and four colleagues see two triangle-shaped objects emitting laser-like blue rays splashed with red over Dubai, United Arab Emirates. They are silently moving from the al-Hamriya Fish Market southeast toward Dubai International Airport. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Sighting in UAE Reported,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201995%2012%20-%20no%20317.pdf)” Saudi Gazette, November 28, 1995, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 317 \(December 1995\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_7146 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22799 (344BE525) Date: 11/28/1995 Description: On this night near Vega Baja, Arecebo, Puerto Rico Jesus Medina Montes reported that he found half of his herd of steers with several bizarre wounds on their backs. Some of the cows also had a viscous slime around their necks. Later that night, Irene Mercado and her nine-year-old niece reported seeing a large creature shaped like a bird that fluttered away while making a loud noise with its mouth. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3288, citing Scott Corrales, Chupacabras and Other Mysteries Source ID: Johnson_8014 Source: Johnson ### Event 22800 (B047E430) Date: 11/28/1995 Description: A military security camera and several witnesses saw discs and other smaller objects maneuver over the military arsenal in Lugo, Leon, Spain beginning at 8:30 p.m. for 28 minutes. Photos and video documented the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17157 Source ID: Johnson_8013 Source: Johnson ### Event 22801 (8237E613) Date: 11/29/1995 Description: At 10:22 p.m. UFO investigator Colman captured a 13 minute long video of a hexagon-shaped UFO with a dome in Lothian, Scotland, showing a blast or other disturbance underneath. There were also rectangular and delta shaped objects seen during this period. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 34 Source ID: Johnson_8050 Source: Johnson ### Event 22802 (D96CAE2F) Date: 11/30/1995 Description: At 9:04 a.m. a huge rectangular object with several red and white "V" stripes on it crossed within 330 meters of an Airbus 330 airliner flying near Orly Airport in Paris, France. It had 5-6 "exhaust pipes" on the rear. It then vanished. The sighting was brief and lasted no more than 6 seconds. There was an occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area on this day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 47; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 109 Source ID: Johnson_8094 Source: Johnson ### Event 22803 (F00D3C9A) Date: 12/1995 Description: Real-estate developer [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow) founds the National Institute for Discovery Science in Las Vegas, Nevada, to research and advance serious study of various fringe science and paranormal topics, especially ufology. It holds its first organizational meeting in December. Bigelow soon hires retired US Army Col. [John B.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FB.%5FAlexander) [Alexander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FB.%5FAlexander) part-time and biochemist [Colm Kelleher](https://www.linkedin.com/in/colm-kelleher-834a05112) as deputy administrator. Alexander puts together a Scientific Advisory Board that includes ufologist [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e), parapsychologist [Harold E. Puthoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff), astronaut [Edgar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%5FMitchell) [Mitchell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%5FMitchell), mathematician [Gian-Carlo Rota](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian-Carlo%5FRota), physicist [O’Dean Judd](https://www.austindailyherald.com/2010/08/o%E2%80%99dean-paul-judd-73/)[,](https://www.austindailyherald.com/2010/08/o%E2%80%99dean-paul-judd-73/) physicist [Johndale Solem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johndale%5FSolem), astronaut and Senator [Harrison Schmitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison%5FSchmitt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison%5FSchmitt) psychologist [Albert Harrison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FHarrison%5F%28psychologist%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%5FHarrison%5F%28psychologist%29) and [Christopher \(Kit\) Green](https://www.irva.org/conferences/speakers/green.html) as chair. The first official board meeting takes place in January 1996. NIDS disbands in October 2004. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[National Institute for](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FInstitute%5Ffor%5FDiscovery%5FScience) [Discovery Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FInstitute%5Ffor%5FDiscovery%5FScience)”; John B. Alexander, “From Los Alamos to Skinwalker Ranch,” Fortean Times 363 \(February 2018\): 38–39; Skinwalkers 14–15, 31 Source ID: Eberhart_7147 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22804 (9D68040F) Date: 12/4/1995 Description: A husband and wife in Manchester, England woke up late in the night to the sound of their young daughter crying hysterically. They tried to move but found themselves paralyzed. At that moment the bedroom curtains lit up brightly and there was a whooshing sound from outside. The husband was eventually able to move and got up to look out the bedroom window. He saw a glowing object on the road, surrounded by a number of men wearing boiler suit coveralls who appeared to be digging up the garden. When they were both able to move they went to check on their daughter and found that she was alright. They then went back to sleep. The next morning there was no evidence of any digging having occurred in their garden. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 3451, citing Peter Hough & Moyshe Kalman, The Truth About UFO Abductions Source ID: Johnson_8187 Source: Johnson ### Event 22805 (3EBC0FDD) Date: 12/9/1995 Description: At 7:50 p.m. a man who wishes to remain anonymous reported seeing a brilliant object descend from the sky and appear to enter a nearby man-made lake behind an apartment complex in Hialeah Gardens, Florida. Armed with his flashlight, he approached the site and saw two beings swimming in the water. They had large heads and bright luminous eyes that appeared to be blinking. The witness briefly illuminated the creatures with the flashlight, and reported that their eyes seemed to flare up. He quickly ran away and called the police. It is not known if the police found anything. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, personal investigation, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2137 Source ID: Johnson_8289 Source: Johnson ### Event 22806 (502C5F7E) Date: 12/12/1995 Description: 2:30 p.m. Farmer Egon Kratz and his son-in-law, Adilson Marcílio, are working on their Bela Vista Farm off Highway 227 about 5 miles from Ituporanga, Santa Catarina, Brazil, when a bright, silent, disc-shaped object appears low above some nearby trees, moves swiftly about 30 feet from the ground, and disappears into a valley. On December 15, Marcílio and some friends return to look for traces and find much of the vegetation scorched. Technicians from the Federal University of Santa Catarina arrive on December 20 to collect soil samples and rocks. Kratz notes in January that much of the foliage and vegetation where the UFO has passed is dead or defoliated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil 350–353 Source ID: Eberhart_7148 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22807 (82D922AF) Date: 12/13/1995 Description: On this morning near the Urbanizacion Country Club, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico Mrs. Carmen Vazquez, accompanied by her 5-year-old daughter, was on her way home when the little girl pointed out something in the sky. Looking up she saw a shiny metallic oval shaped craft flying slowly overhead and head off towards nearby El Yunque Mountain. According to the little girl, the object had numerous windows and inside she was able to see several gray-colored figures with huge black eyes looking down from the windows at their car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2571, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue # 9 Source ID: Johnson_8383 Source: Johnson ### Event 22808 (6A4146A2) Date: 12/15/1995 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a big rectangular object with many lights maneuvered in the sky at the same time that three lights were seen on the road in La Spezia, Italy. The big UFO flew away to the west, leaving a bright trail in the sky. An electrical power outage occurred in the area at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17168 Source ID: Johnson_8429 Source: Johnson ### Event 22809 (617F76FB) Date: 12/30/1995 Description: A huge cigar-shaped object hovered over the ocean off Gosford, New South Wales, Australia on this night. Beams of light came down from the object into the water, causing the surface of the sea to roil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 207 Source ID: Johnson_8663 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1996 (Back to Top) ### Event 22810 (D0F2348D) Date: 1996 Description: La Fundación Anomalía is created by a group of Spanish ufologists headed by José Ruesga Montiel in Santander, Cantabria, Spain. It takes over publishing Cuadernos de Ufologia from the Colectivo Cuadernos in 1997 and publishes a new journal, Anomalía, from September 2000 to 2011. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Anomalía](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Spain%20and%20Catalonia/Anomalia%20%28Fundacion%20Anomalia%29/1a%20epoca/Anomalia%20-%201a%20Epoca%20-%20No%2001.pdf), no. 1 \(September 2000\) Source ID: Eberhart_7151 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22811 (94288C34) Date: 1996 Description: [Nick Pope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FPope%5F%28journalist%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FPope%5F%28journalist%29) a former Ministry of Defence official who served on the Sec \(AS\) 2a UFO desk in 1991–1994, publishes a memoir titled Open Skies, Closed Minds that recounts his conversion from UFO skeptic to believer due to his investigation of cases that seem to be evidential. He concludes that “extraterrestrial spacecraft are visiting Earth and that something should be done about it urgently.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Pope, [Open Skies, Closed Minds](https://archive.org/details/openskiesclosedm0000pope/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/openskiesclosedm0000pope/mode/2up) Simon & Schuster, 1996; Wikipedia, “[Open Skies, Closed Minds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%5FSkies%2C%5FClosed%5FMinds)” Source ID: Eberhart_7150 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22812 (0D94931B) Date: 1996 End date: 1997 Description: Crimean ufologist Anton Anfalov made a map of the Soviet secret sensitive site “Zhitkur” with instructions on the location of all sites and drew diagrams of their devices. Type: document Reference: [link](https://curiosmos.com/kapustin-yar-russias-alleged-area-51-10-things-you-should-know/) Location: Crimea Source ID: Maj2_796 Source: Maj2 ### Event 22813 (80EB0B6A) Date: 1996 Description: Skinwalker Ranch is purchased by Robert Bigelow Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch) Location: Skinwalker Ranch Source ID: Maj2_798 Source: Maj2 ### Event 22814 (702BF081) Date: 1996 Description: The Institut des Hautes Études de la Défense Nationale, a French strategic planning agency, decides to create a 12-member COMité d’ÉTudes Approfondies \(COMETA\) to review well-documented UFO cases and cooperate with agencies in other countries to assess national security factors. It is chaired by French Air Force General [Denis Letty](https://rr0.org/people/l/LettyDenis/) and begins by interviewing French witnesses, consolidates the best information, and presents its research to appropriate French agencies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Rapport COMETA](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapport%5FCOMETA)” Source ID: Eberhart_7149 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22815 (EB316D7B) Date: 1/4/1996 Description: Madeline Tolentino was driving with her 2-year-old son in her Isuzu Trooper in Campo Rico, Puerto Rico with the windows rolled down. They were driving on Route 185 near a horse track called El Comandante at seven p.m. when she smelled something pungent, like sulfur, which irritated her throat. She kept driving and suddenly saw a creature with glowing red eyes. It ran across the road in front of her SUV and disappeared. Frightened, she returned home to tell her husband. He went back to the area and noticed the pungent odor but did not see the creature. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2807, citing Chat Deetken Source ID: Johnson_101 Source: Johnson ### Event 22816 (E6220DE4) Date: 1/13/1996 Description: Oralina Augusta de Freitas is watching TV in her home near Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when she sees a UFO hovering over the cattle, which are agitated. She calls her husband, Eurico Rodrigues, and they watch the object, which is the size of a microbus and the shape of a submarine. For 40 minutes the object flies less than 20 feet above the ground, heading toward town. The object has a hole in its structure through which white smoke is billowing. Pieces of its fuselage sway in the wind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[ET de Varginha: Caso completa 20 anos com mistérios e](https://g1.globo.com/mg/sul-de-minas/noticia/2016/01/et-de-varginha-caso-completa-20-anos-com-misterios-e-incertezas.html) [incertezas,](https://g1.globo.com/mg/sul-de-minas/noticia/2016/01/et-de-varginha-caso-completa-20-anos-com-misterios-e-incertezas.html)” G1, January 20, 2016; Clark III 1222 Source ID: Eberhart_7152 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22817 (BAEE951C) Date: 1/13/1996 Description: 4:00 a.m. Businessman and pilot Carlos de Souza is driving from Très Coracões to Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil, along Highway 491. About 3 miles from Varginha, he hears a sound like an engine rumbling, so he stops by the side of the road and gets out of his vehicle. He sees a cylindrical airship 33–40 feet long and 13–16 feet in diameter flying about 395 feet above him toward Varginha. It is metallic, polished, and reflects the morning sunlight. He notices a hole in the right side of the ship and white smoke pouring out. After it crosses the highway, de Souza gets into his car and starts chasing it. When it crashes into the woods, he finds a dirt road that leads him to the scene, which is covered with debris that looks like tinfoil. He picks up a larger piece that is thin and light. When he kneads it, he is amazed to see that it returns to its original state. Further away, he sees an Army helicopter, two tarpaulins, an ambulance, and three cars. He smells a powerful ammonia odor and is startled by a military police officer who approaches him and shouts, “Go away, you saw nothing.” Two more soldiers appear and force him to leave, so he returns to his car, drives away, and stops at a restaurant. A man approaches him and asks if he is Carlos de Souza, He replies yes, and the man calls him over and says, “What you saw, I saw too. You should not talk to anyone about it.” The man then relates details about de Souza’s private life. Meanwhile, two soldiers from the Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Très Coracões contact ufologists [Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubirajara%5FRodrigues) and [Claudeir Covo](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudeir%5FCovo) about the incident to tell them that the area has been cordoned off and that trucks are loading odd material. There are rumors that NORAD has alerted the Brazilian authorities that it has tracked a large number of UFOs over the western hemisphere and that one has penetrated Brazilian airspace. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Incidente de Varginha](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidente%5Fde%5FVarginha)”; Clark III 1222; Good Need, [pp. 369–376](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/368/mode/2up); Roger K. Leir, UFO Crash in Brazil: A Genuine UFO Crash with Surviving ETs, Book Tree, 2005; “[ET de Varginha: Caso completa 20 anos com](https://g1.globo.com/mg/sul-de-minas/noticia/2016/01/et-de-varginha-caso-completa-20-anos-com-misterios-e-incertezas.html) [mistérios e incertezas,](https://g1.globo.com/mg/sul-de-minas/noticia/2016/01/et-de-varginha-caso-completa-20-anos-com-misterios-e-incertezas.html)” G1, January 20, 2016; Patrick Gross, “[The Varginha Affair](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/varg.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7153 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22818 (AC3AB67E) Date: 1/14/1996 Description: A UFO landed in a paddock in Large George, New South Wales, Australia at 8:45 p.m. It was a brilliantly illuminated object, possibly cigar shaped, with windows on the side. When it left it rose vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 208 Source ID: Johnson_329 Source: Johnson ### Event 22819 (890788F3) Date: 1/20/1996 Description: Hildo Lucio Galindo of Jardim Andere, Varginha, Brazil opened his bathroom window at eight o'clock in the morning and caught sight of a short creature with oily brown skin, crouched in a nearby alleyway. It had very small hands with three exceptionally long fingers. It ran away when Hildo cried out. The creature had no hair or clothing and was between four and five feet tall. Later that morning several calls came into the local fire department about a "wild animal" on the loose on the north side of the park. When the fire department arrived they found the military was already on the scene. According to some witnesses a group of children had thrown stones at the strange creature and it made a soft buzzing sound, like a bee. The creature was reported to have been captured by the military and put in a wooden box with a white plastic or canvas cover, and driven away in an Army truck.

Around the same time local residents heard three shots and saw soldiers come out of the woods carrying two campaign sacks. One sack held something motionless, and the other contained something living. Sources said that the soldiers had shot a creature in the chest, killing it instantly. Others saw Army trucks near the woods while still others saw two F-5 jet aircraft fly over the area at low altitude.

Reportedly, a total of eight creatures were reported to have been captured that day. One was dead, two were injured, and five were supposedly taken alive and unhurt. Earlier that same morning, at 1:30 a.m., two farm workers in the same general area had spotted a group of agitated animals running from the area. Upon investigating they saw a metallic gray submarine-shaped object hovering some five meters above the ground. It looked to be trembling like a curtain, and was emitting a smoke or fog. Military witnesses later admitted that this was the object that had later crashed.

Cont: In the afternoon at around one p.m. three girls were walking past a plot of vacant land when they spotted another bizarre looking creature. It was only about 80 cm tall, and had brown skin, bulging red eyes, bulging veins, enormous feet, and three protruding lumps on its head. The being was unclothed and its body seemed covered with an oily substance. The girls panicked and ran away to tell others. Soon units of the local fire department arrived and apparently took the creature away. The residents learned of the rumor that a similar creature had been captured earlier. The small creature emitted a strange buzzing like sound. Others saw strange cigar-shaped objects flying low over a field. It was rumored that the military later took the creature to the nearby city of Campinas, Brazil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, cases # 2795 and #2373, citing Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues and Brazilian UFO Report # 6 Source ID: Johnson_397 Source: Johnson ### Event 22820 (E2CCAB0F) Date: 1/20/1996 Description: 8:00 a.m. The Varginha, Brazil, fire department receives a call from someone who asks them to investigate a strange creature seen in a park north of the Jardim Andere neighborhood. At 10:00 a.m., firefighters arrive expecting to find a wild animal, but they encounter a 5-foot-tall bipedal entity with red eyes and brown skin. Fish peddler João Bosco Manoel comes across firefighters Sgt. Palhares, Cpl. Rubens, and soldiers Santos and Nivaldo, who are carrying a net with a strange being inside it. One of its feet is brown, and the firefighters are trying to conceal it from curious onlookers. A smell of ammonia permeates the scene. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1222–1223 Source ID: Eberhart_7154 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22821 (23B0A2BE) Date: 1/20/1996 Description: Afternoon. According to testimony by an ex-soldier, uniformed military men open fire while they are sweeping the small forest near Varginha, Brazil, where the creature had been found earlier. A soldier becomes frightened when he sees a creature apparently helping a wounded comrade. Two shots strike its belly and one its chest. A fourth shot hits its shoulder. These two creatures differ from the earlier one and have black hair. Immediately afterward, soldiers come out of the woods carrying the creatures in two black sacks. Something is moving in one of them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1223 Source ID: Eberhart_7155 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22822 (3E3DB146) Date: 1/20/1996 Description: Around 6:00 p.m. After a hailstorm halts the search for several hours, the Varginha, Brazil, search units venture back into the woods. Two plainclothes officers of the Military Police Intelligence Service, one of them Marco Eli Chereze, locate and capture a fourth creature, forcing it into the back of their car. They bring it to a health clinic but are turned away, so they take it to the Hospital Regional do Sul de Minas, where the first examinations are performed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1224 Source ID: Eberhart_7157 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22823 (EBBC7B8D) Date: 1/20/1996 Description: 3:30 p.m. Sisters Liliane Fátima da Silva, 16, and Valquíria Aparecida da Silva, 14, and their friend Kátia Andrade Xavier, 22, are crossing a vacant lot at Rua Dr. Benevenuto Bráz Viêrira in the Santana neighborhood of Varginha, Brazil, when they encounter a thin, hairless, dark-skinned creature with dark veins, two legs with enormous two-toed feet, two arms with only three fingers, a huge head two three bony protrusions \(one on each side and one in the center\), and huge red eyes crouching beside a wall. At first they think it is a statue, but then it turns its head and they think it is a devil. They run home and call their mother, Luzia Helena da Silva, but when they return to the vacant lot, all they find is two footprints and an awful stench. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Incidente de](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidente%5Fde%5FVarginha) [Varginha](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidente%5Fde%5FVarginha)”; Clark III 1223–1224; “[ET de Varginha: Caso completa 20 anos com mistérios e incertezas,](https://g1.globo.com/mg/sul-de-minas/noticia/2016/01/et-de-varginha-caso-completa-20-anos-com-misterios-e-incertezas.html)” G1, January 20, 2016; “[Caso Varginha Minuto a Minuto,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7TeO57rfMc)” João Marcelo YouTube channel, July 13, 2016; Brazil 494– 509 Source ID: Eberhart_7156 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22824 (87CD0A65) Date: 1/21/1996 Description: The strange creatures are transferred to Hospital Humanitas Unimed in Varginha, Brazil. There are many reports of unusual movements of the Army, the police, and the fire department between the two hospitals. Vehicles are also seen arriving at a hospital in Belo Horizonte, where allegedly one of the creatures dies. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1224 Source ID: Eberhart_7159 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22825 (F4D1458F) Date: 1/21/1996 Description: 2:00 a.m. Marco Eli Chareze returns home to his mother’s house to change clothes because his are drenched with rain. He begins to fall ill. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1225 Source ID: Eberhart_7158 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22826 (3906482B) Date: 1/22/1996 Description: A 300 foot long blimp-shaped UFO moved slowly through the sky over Redding, California at 8:00 p.m. It hovered for 75 minutes, making a purring sound, and then turned and moves off fast to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17581 Source ID: Johnson_431 Source: Johnson ### Event 22827 (6D4A88DB) Date: 1/22/1996 Description: The Brazilian military uses three trucks and several other vehicles to move the covered bodies. The trucks are parked on the side of Hospital Humanitas Unimed, and a series of cover-up operations are performed involving doctors, nurses, soldiers, firemen, and military police. The bodies inside the three trucks go to the Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Très Coracões, Brazil. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1224 Source ID: Eberhart_7160 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22828 (7A9B5F4F) Date: 1/23/1996 Description: 9:00 a.m. The creatures are delivered in a metal box punctured with holes to the University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil, where doctors Fortunato Badan Palhares and Conradín Metz begin performing autopsies. Lab workers are prevented from entering the site. According to three military sources, at least one creature is taken to underground labs located at the university. Another creature is referred to the Legal Medical Institute at the Cemitério dos Amarais in Campinas. Army officials continue making decisive movements around Campinas through April. There are rumors that metal fragments of an unknown origin are taken to the Brazilian Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia Aeroespacial in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, where they are examined in secret underground facilities. The same day, a cargo aircraft takes off from Canoas Air Force Base, Rio Grande do Sul, transporting three containers, a box, several soldiers, and a sophisticated radar system to be deployed near Varginha. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1224 Source ID: Eberhart_7162 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22829 (C755FEC7) Date: 1/23/1996 Description: 4:00 a.m. A military convoy leaves the Escola de Sargentos das Armas for Campinas, Brazil. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1224 Source ID: Eberhart_7161 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22830 (4318457E) Date: 1/25/1996 Description: The US military arrives in Campinas, Brazil, by helicopter, where the entire university is on standby. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1224–1225 Source ID: Eberhart_7163 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22831 (04F9046C) Date: 1/26/1996 Description: Several scientists and military personnel linked to NASA arrive at the University of Campinas, Brazil. The cover story is that US scientists are choosing Brazilian scientists to take part in future space missions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1225 Source ID: Eberhart_7164 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22832 (B853C3C0) Date: 1/28/1996 Description: In 1996 at 11 p.m. in Bridgeton, Missouri three nocturnal lights were seen maneuvering in the sky. The objects were seen to join together and separate repeatedly. They flew in a general southwest direction. About a half-hour later in Union, Missouri five nocturnal lights were videotaped flying slowly toward the southwest. They made a faint humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, "U" computer database Source ID: Johnson_566 Source: Johnson ### Event 22833 (B095436A) Date: 1/28/1996 Description: A woman in Chandler, Arizona reported a visitation by "aliens" in her bedroom late at night. They reportedly gave her a medical examination. The next morning she awoke with some scars and other anomalies on her body. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case #2342, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_567 Source: Johnson ### Event 22834 (74DAF945) Date: 1/29/1996 Description: At two o'clock in the morning an orange glow was seen in some woods east of Villalba, Lugo, Spain. Then a 25 foot in diameter dome rose from the woods, but sank back down again. It had a metallic door that was visible on one side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17591 Source ID: Johnson_591 Source: Johnson ### Event 22835 (9CD6CD3E) Date: 1/31/1996 Description: Near Romatambo, a remote mountain village in Ancash province, Peru at eight o'clock in the morning, several Quechua Indian shepherds tending their flocks watched six objects fly over the area. According to one of the witnesses, Silvia Bedoya, age 40, the objects apparently emerged from nearby Lake Cococha. The objects formed what seemed like a protective circle around a larger cigar-shaped, mother-ship style object. The flight of the objects illuminated the whole valley in an eerie deep purple light. The "mother ship" landed upriver from the village. Soon two occupants emerged from the object. These were described as about a meter tall with large oversized heads, long spindly arms and short bandy legs. They wore gunmetal gray helmets and matching one-piece coveralls. The humanoids took out transparent containers and, ignoring the shepherds, collected many samples, including soil, grass, alpine weeds, and water from the nearby river. Soon the UFOnauts re-entered the large object and all the objects shot away into space at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 337; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, issue # 15; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2472 Source ID: Johnson_644 Source: Johnson ### Event 22836 (03863524) Date: 2/6/1996 Description: Marco Eli Chereze, 23, one of the military policemen involved in the Varginha, Brazil, creature capture, begins exhibiting strange symptoms and notices inflammation and a small abscess under his left arm. At the barracks infirmary, physician Robson Ferreira Melo performs surgery to remove the abscess, found to be due to staphylococcus. Then Chereze develops a fever and pain all over his body. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1225 Source ID: Eberhart_7165 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22837 (367DD886) Date: 2/6/1996 Description: At around 7:30 p.m. farmer Louis Boisvert, 19, saw a very large metallic triangular craft with a set of red lights hovering over his barn in Thurso, Quebec while he was plowing snow with his tractor. This was on the same night that witnesses saw a large triangular vessel hovering over the town of Buckingham, Quebec. The craft flew very slowly over the barn. The light coming from the triangle did not illuminate the ground or even the roof of the barn. After the craft left Boisvert and his father noticed that their electric water pump was not working. Troubled by recurrent dreams, Boisvert underwent hypnotic regression. He was then able to remember that he had hopped off the tractor and ran to the barn where his father was working. As he rushed into the barn, he saw his father standing there with a blank expression on his face. Besides him stood two reptilian looking creatures with long faces, scaly leathery skin, black eyes, clawed hands, and gaunt arms and legs. Both Boisvert and his father were taken onboard the triangular object by the humanoids and later released. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2481, citing CEIPI Quebec Source ID: Johnson_729 Source: Johnson ### Event 22838 (A3761AB8) Date: 2/7/1996 Description: At 9:30 p.m a nocturnal light flew over Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and was observed from Turramurra. It stopped in midair, next made several zigzag maneuvers, followed by 70 degree turns, and shot off to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17606 Source ID: Johnson_747 Source: Johnson ### Event 22839 (325F44D4) Date: 2/8/1996 Description: Wall Street Journal on Area 51 worker toxic disposal fires lawsuits: “A Secret Air Base Hazardous Waste Act, Workers’ Suit Alleges U.S. Cites National Security In Fighting Claims Tied to Toxic Disposal Fires Plaintiffs Fear Retaliation” Type: article Reference: [link](http://www.ufomind.com/area51/articles/1996/wsj_960208.html) Location: Area 51 Source ID: Maj2_797 Source: Maj2 ### Event 22840 (EA0140B7) Date: 2/10/1996 Description: The witness woke up at two a.m. in Huon Valley, Tasmania, Australia to find her bedroom lit up, and she had an overwhelming feeling to go outside. From the verandah she saw the source of light to be a bright long elliptical shape about 50cm away in the paddock. There was a brilliant bluish white light and a metallic smell you could almost taste. Standing in the garden was a tall thin figure over two meters tall. The figure beckoned the witness with its left hand. She walked down the verandah steps then suddenly became alarmed and returned back home. She threw some furniture outside, and then everything went dark. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2606, citing the Tasmania UFOIC Source ID: Johnson_812 Source: Johnson ### Event 22841 (6BD73F51) Date: 2/10/1996 Description: On this night at 9:45 p.m. a dozen blinking lights and a solid orange light hovered in the western sky over the San Luis Valley. Healing arts students coming from a class in Crestone, Colorado saw and reported them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 309 Source ID: Johnson_814 Source: Johnson ### Event 22842 (6EB73745) Date: 2/10/1996 Description: The witness was at an Italian restaurant in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia when she noticed a short Grey, troll-like entity walk up to the restaurant, climb up the steps, stand still and stare briefly at the witness before disappearing around the corner. Others in the city reported seeing objects over the area and possibly other entity sightings. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #3358, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, February 1996 webpage Source ID: Johnson_813 Source: Johnson ### Event 22843 (6BAE742E) Date: 2/11/1996 Description: Chereze is admitted to Hospital Bom Pastor in Varginha, Brazil. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_7166 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22844 (CAAA3DFC) Date: 2/12/1996 Description: Chereze is transferred to the emergency room of the Hospital Regional do Sul de Minas, Brazil, suffering from intense pain in the lower back and fever. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_7167 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22845 (8F80D10C) Date: 2/15/1996 Description: Two witnesses reported that at 8:10 p.m. a luminous cigar-shaped object hovered close to the ground in Proaza, Oviedo, Spain. A sphere with "sticks" extended to the ground and illuminated the surrounding terrain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17617 Source ID: Johnson_933 Source: Johnson ### Event 22846 (7A5FFAE3) Date: 2/15/1996 Description: Chereze wakes up very tired and in a state or torpor, with signs of cyanosis. He is transferred to intensive care, where his condition deteriorates rapidly. Chereze dies at 11:00 a.m. An autopsy confirms septicemia caused by a urinary infection, but the cause of death is unclear, according to Dr. Cesário Lincoln Furtado, who says it is highly unusual for a young man to quickly acquire an immunodeficiency followed by an attack of three kinds of virulent bacteria. Doctors order his body to be cremated immediately, but his family will not allow it. The death certificate gives the cause of death as acute respiratory failure, sepsis, and pneumonia. The family begins a legal challenge to have the records released. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: A. J. Gevaerd and Ubirajata Franco Rodrigues, “[Varginha Case: New](http://www.ovni.ch/guest/bourdais2.htm) [Revelations,](http://www.ovni.ch/guest/bourdais2.htm)” translation of “[Novas revalações agitaram Varginha,](https://ufo.com.br/artigos/novas-revelacoes-agitaram-varginha.html)” UFO Brazil, no. 102, August 1, 2004; Clark III 1225 Source ID: Eberhart_7168 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22847 (4636508F) Date: 2/16/1996 Description: A huge craft with 50 to 75 lights flew directly overhead of the witness driving on Highway 285 south of Ojo Caliente, New Mexico at 10:05 p.m. The lights on the UFO were sequencing in a clockwise direction. It made no sound, flew straight up, then down, then hovered again. It left flying off toward the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 309 Source ID: Johnson_952 Source: Johnson ### Event 22848 (14F1B6FD) Date: 2/18/1996 Description: Near Pine Mountain, Georgia driving east on Highway 18 in a roofing truck five miles past Interstate 85, two men saw a silver, cigar-shaped object they first thought was a jet falling through the sky at 5:30 p.m. It stopped in mid-air about 100 feet from the ground, then moved in an S pattern "in a flash" and upward at a steep 45 degree angle. The UFO was without wings, made no sound, and was estimated to be about the size of a commercial jet aircraft. The duration of the sighting was between 10-15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON field investigation database, case 960908SE, field investigator John C. Thompson Source ID: Johnson_991 Source: Johnson ### Event 22849 (B1B2BE0E) Date: 2/23/1996 Description: At ten o'clock in the evening Irasema Margarita Cuevas and others in her household in Nuevo Centro, Abasolo, Tamaulipas, Mexico heard their dogs barking outside and went to investigate. Outside they saw a red-orange dome-shaped craft floating a few feet from the ground, near some nearby trees about 50 meters away. Soon a small humanoid emerged from the craft, about one meter in height. It began floating up and down in peculiar movements. From a belt around its waist a bluish beam of light emerged. The being appeared robotic in nature, somewhat resembling a "Power Ranger." After a few minutes the being re-entered the object, which rose up to join a similar craft. They both then flew towards the nearby swamps. Several witnesses then followed the objects and were able to see a brilliant light emerge from behind some trees and a huge column of gray smoke. Upon seeing this, the head of the household, Guillermo Serna Marquez, told his family to return to the house and went into the woods to investigate alone, on the way there he ran into a farmhand who accompanied him into the woods. They saw a luminous craft fly over the trees in the direction of the swamp, then a two meter tall humanoid appeared, floating above the trees and accompanied by the small robotic entity. They watched the beings float around and then enter the dome shaped object. After awhile they grew tired of watching and went home. The next day a large section of the ground was scorched in three enormous circles. Strange purplish-white, foam-like substance was also found at the site. Numerous other strange incidents were reported in subsequent days: small flying red spheres, more animal mutilations, and a large orange sphere that followed some of the UFO field investigators late one night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2948, citing Marco A. Reynoso Source ID: Johnson_1070 Source: Johnson ### Event 22850 (49119D67) Date: 2/27/1996 Description: Flashing lights in a triangular formation flew over Beufort, Sabah province, Malaysia on this night. A car was levitated by a UFO or UFOs in Lugo, Spain and put down on the opposite side of the road at 1:45 a.m. The car's dashboard clock also stopped working. The nocturnal lights associated with the UFO or UFOs were witnessed by independent witnesses. A pilot of a small aircraft over Saginaw, Michigan had to dive to avoid a collision with a very bright ball of light that appeared to jump out at his plane at around 10:00 p.m. In Seattle, Washington a very short dwarf appeared in a woman's bedroom during the night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies website; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17265; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48, citing Richard Haines; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2341, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_1164 Source: Johnson ### Event 22851 (89304E8E) Date: 2/28/1996 Description: Five people driving on highway 375 in Nevada down an isolated stretch of desert road watched a silent, silvery gray disc land about 50 feet away from them. It was flat on the bottom and about 30 feet in diameter. Three beings described as thin, gray in color and with large heads, emerged from the craft. They shuffled around outside for a short while and then went back inside the UFO, which promptly took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2847, citing UFOs On Line Source ID: Johnson_1183 Source: Johnson ### Event 22852 (611716F8) Date: 2/29/1996 Description: On March 2nd at 6:30 a.m. police in Cuscatancingo, El Salvador found a 17-year-old boy wandering confused along the shore of Ilopango Lake. Under interrogation he related a bizarre story of being abducted around 10 p.m. on February 29th. During the night he had been walking towards his home during a local power black-out. Suddenly there was a bright flash of blue light behind him. Thinking that it was the police he turned around slowly. His next memory was of being inside a completely white room, where he could not distinguish any walls or furniture of any kind. He realized he was lying prone and unable to move, in some sort of bed. He noticed numerous "cables" that appeared to be connected to his chest area, and on his right arm he had attached what resembled an IV machine. He then saw several humanoids about 1.2 meters (four feet) in height. They had very large heads, huge eyes and in the forehead he could see what appeared to be another "protuberance" resembling a third eye. They also had sparse beards around the mouth and chin. In a state of confusion he noticed other humans in the room but could not tell if they were also prisoners. He remembered seeing a horrifying scene in which he saw several of the humanoids were operating on a woman, seemingly cutting her in half. Then they took the upper torso of the human female and somehow attached it to a "hump-like" area of a female humanoid that had been prepared on another bed. The humanoids wore white tunics which they had a strange insignia over the right breast. He was later taken to the shores of Lake Ilopango where the beings told him that their race "was in a state of war and could not reproduce in their original normal manner." He then had the sensation of falling towards the lake. This part was very confusing and could not be remembered in detail. Several unusual scars were found on the witness's body. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing Dr. Luis E. Lopez, Y Files Source ID: Johnson_1193 Source: Johnson ### Event 22853 (ADE85173) Date: 3/1996 Description: Area-51 workers and their widows lose suite against the federal government in Las Vegas. “..the Air Force could invoke the common law state secrets privilege to protect military secrets at Area 51, and that once invoked, the privilege is absolute, protecting even innocuous-seeming information from disclosure.” Type: lawsuit Reference: [link](https://www.rcfp.org/high-court-wont-review-state-secrets-privilege-area-51-case/) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: Maj2_799 Source: Maj2 ### Event 22854 (BFB6C4AC) Date: 3/1/1996 Description: At 10:15 p.m. a big orange ball of light (BOL) dimmed and reappeared in Bath, Illinois. It blinked and then shot off fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 49, citing NUFORC, March 1996 webpage Source ID: Johnson_1232 Source: Johnson ### Event 22855 (57B4AE03) Date: 3/1/1996 Description: In Bothell, Washington UFO investigators pursued an ovoid UFO for 10 minutes at 8:00 p.m. It had lights in the middle and on the ends. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17638, citing NUFORC, March 1996 webpage Source ID: Johnson_1233 Source: Johnson ### Event 22856 (00275834) Date: 3/1/1996 Description: At 7:30 p.m. in Trois-Bassins, Réunion, on the shore of the Indian Ocean a six-meter long luminous glowing tube was seen at 100 m altitude. It flew slowly to the east at 30 km/h over the mountains. It was absolutely silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 337 Source ID: Johnson_1231 Source: Johnson ### Event 22857 (A090733D) Date: 3/1/1996 Description: 6:00 p.m. A man driving past a field in Southport, Merseyside, England, sees a triangle-shaped object with a white light in each corner and a green light in the center. It stays motionless for 5 minutes before it starts circling the field. Then it stops and the lights merge into one long green light. Without warning, it takes off and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mystery in the Evening Skies,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201996%2008%20-%20no%20325.pdf)” Southport \(UK\) Visitor, March 8, 1996, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 325 \(August 1996\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7169 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22858 (1C696B42) Date: 3/6/1996 Description: In addition to the UFO reports with humanoid encounters there were two other noteworthy UFO reports on this day. At 10:30 p.m. the Mayor of Autignac, France briefly sighted an orange, ovoid flying object while he was out walking his dog. Secondly, a disc-shaped UFO, estimated to be 50 feet across at the bottom, with a dome on top and red, green, and blue lights around its periphery, was sighted in Frankfort, Illinois at seven o'clock in the evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 337; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 1996 webpage Source ID: Johnson_1356 Source: Johnson ### Event 22859 (6C938727) Date: 3/6/1996 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a glowing sphere hovered over Friol, Spain. The main witness signaled to the object by flashing a light, whereupon the UFO descended and lowered a ramp. Three humanoids exited the craft. Footprints were found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 89 Source ID: Johnson_1355 Source: Johnson ### Event 22860 (5766CD70) Date: 3/6/1996 Description: Ms. Teide Carballo De Trinidad, a nurse's aide at a local boarding home for the elderly in West Dade County, Florida looked out the window at 11:00 p.m. to see a six foot tall creature, tan in color with a large head, walking swiftly around the yard. She panicked and lost sight of the being as it disappeared behind a wall. The creature walked hunched over. No other details were noted. The next day goats and chickens were found dead and mutilated at the home and in other locations in the area. Strange tracks were also found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, personal on-site investigation, case #2241 Source ID: Johnson_1354 Source: Johnson ### Event 22861 (3D262D08) Date: 3/6/1996 Description: A teenaged student and a woman worker at a local teaching center in Bindura, South Africa reported seeing a white ovoid UFO, about 1.5 meters in diameter, with an antenna. A small being with a large head was also seen making a strange clicking noise as it wandered near the school. Small round footprints were reportedly left behind by the entity. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hinds, UFO AfriNews, January 1997; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #3386, citing Cynthia Hind Source ID: Johnson_1353 Source: Johnson ### Event 22862 (BEB9FF94) Date: 3/6/1996 Description: Two adults reported seeing strange lights in Casino, New South Wales, Australia at three a.m. They then experienced a period of missing time. An abduction scenario emerged under hypnosis. The witnesses recalled being paralyzed inside their vehicle and seeing two humanoids, described as tall, gray in color, with small ears, large black eyes, two dots for a nose, a small mouth, with no lips, that entered their vehicle, undid their seat belts, and then carried them outside the car. Two shorter humanoids arrived and carried the children from the back seat of the vehicle. The abductees were apparently taken onboard a UFO, where inside they were given some form of medical examination.One of the witnesses recalled a tall gray humanoid using something resembling a silver staple gun that was pressed against her neck. Another witness remembered flying inside an object and seeing tall buildings with domed ceilings that had strange patterns of top. The witnesses reported another type of humanoid described as tall with a wrinkled appearance. This being inserted some type of rod-like instrument into their eyes. Unusual physiological aftereffects were noted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2609, citing Keith Basterfield Source ID: Johnson_1352 Source: Johnson ### Event 22863 (398CC440) Date: 3/7/1996 Description: At shortly after midnight 38-year-old Jose Manuel Castro Gonzalo in Ferreiras, Lugo, Spain was getting ready to retire for the night and glanced out the window to take one last look at the fields. Immediately he noticed a small orange sphere, encased in a multi-colored glow, hovering over a nearby hill. He decided to go out and look at the strange spectacle. At the same time he summoned his brother Cesareo. Jose Manuel then took out a small flashlight and began signaling the object; at the same time yelling "come down, come down!" Suddenly the sphere descended at a very high speed to treetop level. Jose Manuel ran upstairs to an outside terrace where he could see the sphere better. Inside the transparent sphere he could see five very tall men. They appeared to be floating around as the sphere slowly rotated and emitted a low humming sound. Moments later a shaft of "coherent" light appeared under the sphere; it reached the ground right below the sphere. Soon after, three small humanoids descended to the ground via the shaft of light. These beings seemed to move in slow motion. Once on the ground the three formed a line, grabbing each other's shoulders, not unlike a "Conga" line dance. Using quick jumping motions they began moving towards the witness. Frightened, he jumped into bed and hid under the covers until dawn. The next day strange footprints were found at the spot where the small humanoids had been jumping around. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2559, citing Magdalena Del Amo Freixedo, Evidencia OVNI # 12 Source ID: Johnson_1373 Source: Johnson ### Event 22864 (326E1D18) Date: 3/9/1996 Description: 10:50 p.m. Two groups of motorists at Gallows Corner, Romford, East London, England, watch a triangular UFO as large as a soccer field with a white light in each corner and a pulsating orange light in the center. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 220–221 Source ID: Eberhart_7170 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22865 (40079F10) Date: 3/12/1996 Description: Two hunters are snowmobiling near Trout Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, when they come upon two metallic “spaceships” blocking their trail. Both objects are about 300 feet in diameter, with a bright light on their tops and windows on their sides. One stands on three legs while the other hovers. As the hunters drive around the objects, the lights go out. Later, Trout Lake officials find large rectangular impressions in the snow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada—1996,” IUR 22, no. 2 \(Summer 1997\): 32 Source ID: Eberhart_7171 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22866 (24B89B5C) Date: 3/19/1996 Description: In 1996 anomalous radar echoes were again recorded in the Central European surveillance area by the region's air traffic controllers. At 10:30 p.m. a UFO was seen from Highway 54 in Texas near the New Mexico border, just beyond the intersection with I-10. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO cases-Europe, p. 109; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 1996 report web page Source ID: Johnson_1580 Source: Johnson ### Event 22867 (69E2928D) Date: 3/30/1996 Description: Two nocturnal lights were sighted flying south over Americana, Brazil. One object veered away and zigzagged, revealing it to be disc shaped and surrounded by a white glow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Boletim CEPEX Source ID: Johnson_1752 Source: Johnson ### Event 22868 (F5BBC375) Date: 4/2/1996 Description: In 1996 at 11 a.m. in Varginha, Brazil a silver disc flew in and stopped over a factory. A second disc also flew in and merged into the first disc. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone, p. 333 Source ID: Johnson_1810 Source: Johnson ### Event 22869 (195C5933) Date: 4/8/1996 Description: At 9:30 p.m. local time a high altitude UFO zigzagged through the sky at very high speeds over Americana, Brazil. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Boletim CEPEX, issue number 27 Source ID: Johnson_1913 Source: Johnson ### Event 22870 (FC7C2B78) Date: 4/8/1996 Description: A 39-year-old man in Thomasville, North Carolina had a close encounter with a disc-shaped object on a partly cloudy night at 9:15 p.m. The object had a bluish-green, cone-shaped beam projecting from it. The beam was narrow at the top, but had a three foot diameter at the bottom towards the ground, although it did not seem to be illuminating the ground. The bottom of the disc had an inner circle of many red lights. Inside were four rocket-like cones, giving off a red glow. The UFO came within 10 feet of the witness. The UFO made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Hair, MUFON field investigation database, case 970408E Source ID: Johnson_1912 Source: Johnson ### Event 22871 (1E88662C) Date: 4/12/1996 Description: At 11:50 p.m. an intense fireball paced an airliner while flying over Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, then suddenly moved 20 miles in a few seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Domique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_1993 Source: Johnson ### Event 22872 (FDCCE52E) Date: 4/15/1996 Description: Two police officers were conducting their nightly rounds late at night driving on the outskirts of Gerona, Spain when a powerful light crossed in front of them on the highway. One man felt mesmerized by the brilliant outburst of light, while his partner tried to keep hold of the patrol car's steering wheel. When the light extinguished the mesmerized officer told his companion that he felt a very odd sensation of being pulled upward at the same time that he saw two pairs of moist, black oval shaped eyes staring down at him from large, pear-shaped heads. The police officer had not even been able to comprehend the uncanny experience when the bizarre light staged a return. According to the officers, nine lights identical to the first appeared out of nowhere, and were then joined by three more that came from across the Portuguese border. The twelve lights were elongated and had an intense yellow glow. The lights remained suspended some 100 feet above the highway, prompting the police officers to flee the scene in terror. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2674, citing Scott Corrales, Uncensored UFO Reports # 1 Source ID: Johnson_2039 Source: Johnson ### Event 22873 (D160EE53) Date: 4/16/1996 Description: In Tonto Hills, Arizona, a couple that had observed a large diamond-shaped craft land previously in the same area back in February observed a similar large craft landing nearby them. It was white, diamond shaped, and had green and red lights around it. Three humanoid entities (not described) were seen walking around it as if searching for something. Their sighting lasted for 15 minutes. Note: There is a Tonto Basin in central Arizona, but there is no town or locality named "Tonto Hills". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Contact Report Database, case # 2812, citing Jim Ossipov & Myron K. Olson Source ID: Johnson_2066 Source: Johnson ### Event 22874 (A06B57C9) Date: 4/17/1996 Description: At around 1:00 a.m. Alfredo de Oliveira Mendes, age 27, a parishioner at a local Catholic Church in Belem, Para State, Brazil, witnessed a UFO land in the churchyard of the mission. He next experienced a period of missing time. Under hypnosis he later recalled being abducted by eight beings. He described them as silver in color with elongated eyes and what looked like a fin on their foreheads. The beings wore silver coverall type outfits with an emblem containing a pyramid and a wing. A burnt circle was found on the ground at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2739, citing Brazilian UFO Report Source ID: Johnson_2096 Source: Johnson ### Event 22875 (F91641D4) Date: 4/21/1996 Description: Around 9:00 p.m. Terezinha Gallo Clepf is celebrating her 67th birthday at the restaurant at the Parque Zoobotânico Municipal Dr. Mário Frota in Varginha, Brazil, when she steps onto a porch to smoke a cigarette. She looks to her left and sees a strange creature with bright red eyes and a yellow helmet on its head. It is behind a fence that circles the porch. They stare at each other. Clepf goes back into the restaurant but soon comes back out and the creature is still there. She gets her husband to take her home. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1225 Source ID: Eberhart_7172 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22876 (37FC293A) Date: 4/21/1996 Description: On this evening Teresinha Galo, age 67, reported seeing a strange short humanoid creature with bulging red eyes, brown skin, and a large head with three oval protrusions, near the grounds of the local Jardim Zoologico in Varginha, Brazil in Minas Gerais State. The creature hid behind some bushes. It reportedly wore a golden helmet. Five animals were found dead in the zoo. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #340; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2446, citing Brazilian UFO Report, issue #6 Source ID: Johnson_2197 Source: Johnson ### Event 22877 (00E77DBE) Date: 4/22/1996 Description: On this night at 10:30 p.m. a nocturnal light hovered between two mountains over the highway D89 southwest of Boreon, Alpes-Maritime, France, aiming beam of light apparently randomly at the slopes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1997; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17336 Source ID: Johnson_2242 Source: Johnson ### Event 22878 (9954F716) Date: 4/27/1996 Description: At 1:45 a.m. two witnesses driving on Highway D22 north of Molsheim, Bas-Rhin, France saw a large triangle that flew to the northeast at a low altitude toward Strasbourg, France. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17344, citing Phenomena, issue # 32 Source ID: Johnson_2382 Source: Johnson ### Event 22879 (8393B65D) Date: 4/29/1996 Description: Luzia Helena da Silva is visited in Varginha, Brazil, by four men in suits who do not identify themselves. After hearing her daughters’ story of their January 20 encounter, they offer the family a large sum of money to record a video denying what they had seen that day and claiming the whole thing was a joke. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1225 Source ID: Eberhart_7173 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22880 (9555DAB9) Date: 5/3/1996 Description: Police in Nayarit, Mexico reportedly fired a hail of bullets at a creature on this night. Apparently unharmed, it turned about to glare at them with "fiery red eyes" set in a humanoid face. The entity then jumped over a meter high fence and got away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 3532, citing Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo Source ID: Johnson_2487 Source: Johnson ### Event 22881 (90A22D76) Date: 5/4/1996 Description: In 1996 a witness in Moffat, Colorado reported that a "monstrous red light" flew over the San Luis Valley at a high altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 307 Source ID: Johnson_2523 Source: Johnson ### Event 22882 (A75F50A5) Date: 5/5/1996 Description: Late at night on Sunday May 5, 1996 Elaine woke up in her bedroom in Cornwall, England to see a four-foot tall creature with pale shiny porcelain colored skin standing next to her bed. It had a very large head and large black oval-shaped eyes standing next to her bed. She does not report what happened next, but she does mention that at around the same time she began having lucid dreams where she found herself traveling to other planets and meeting aliens. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3249 Source ID: Johnson_2563 Source: Johnson ### Event 22883 (BD84FA8A) Date: 5/5/1996 Description: At 9:50 p.m. over the town of St. Genis-Laval, Rhone, France a silent black triangular object followed a helicopter north at low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17346, citing Phenomena magazine, issue 32 Source ID: Johnson_2562 Source: Johnson ### Event 22884 (C7B8FE7D) Date: 5/6/1996 Description: Near Mata do Buraquinho, Minas Gerais State, Brazil at 9:00 p.m. Marcelo Barbosa and his wife Vaudeline were fixing windows in their house when they saw some bright multicolored lights--white, yellow, and blue--coming from some woods about 50 meters away. Sr. Barbosa decided to go out to investigate, and he saw a large white cloud descend slowly into the woods. From within the cloud a luminous, disc-shaped object emerged. It was about 8 meters in diameter, and had a revolving light on top that resembled that on a police car. It also had two or three bright lit windows. Inside one of these he was able to see several figures moving around. The object descended and landed briefly, becoming dark, and then bright again. Before it landed both witnesses saw an L-shaped ramp that had come out from the bottom of the object. At the object became bright again, it quickly took off a high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 3813, citing Paraiba UFO Source ID: Johnson_2602 Source: Johnson ### Event 22885 (A0A94971) Date: 5/7/1996 Description: While on her lunch break at 1:30 p.m. at West Point Lake, near the McGhee Bridge in La Grange, Georgia, a 35-year-old woman witnessed a gray colored, domed disc-shaped object just above the lake. After some five to ten minutes, the object shot straight up "at least as fast as lightning." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John C. Thompson, MUFON UFO Field Investigations Database, case 970107E Source ID: Johnson_2640 Source: Johnson ### Event 22886 (E4F2E466) Date: 5/8/1996 Description: Brig. Gen. Sergio Pedro Coelho Lima, commander of the Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Très Coracões, Brazil, reads a statement saying that no officer at the school has participated in the alleged operation. He insists to journalists that nothing unusual has happened in the city. When asked what the ESA military was doing on January 20, he replies that the military was “working for the sake of the Army and the nation.” In 1999, the story is amplified when a Major Calza says a “dwarf, disfigured and mentally retarded,” was behind some of the creature reports in Varginha. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1225, 1226 Source ID: Eberhart_7174 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22887 (DCC14021) Date: 5/16/1996 Description: Several witnesses reported seeing a large blue, spherical object hovering low over a field in San Pedro Toxin, Jalisco State, Mexico at 11:30 p.m. Seven dwarfish figures about 80 cm tall, who emitted a luminous green glow, were seen moving very quickly on the ground near the object. They also seemed to have bright lights on their heads. The entire scene suddenly vanished in plain sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing Contacto OVNI Source ID: Johnson_2904 Source: Johnson ### Event 22888 (1B473230) Date: 5/17/1996 Description: 8:00 p.m. Hildo Lúcio Gardino, 20, is traveling from Très Coracões to Varginha, Brazil, when she sees a strange creature on the side of the road. She dims her headlights and speeds past as the creature places its hands over its eyes and flees into the woods. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1225 Source ID: Eberhart_7175 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22889 (3B8B31D3) Date: 5/19/1996 Description: The witness was cooking in her kitchen in Rutland, Vermont at 10:30 p.m. when she noticed a strong glare of light streaming through the kitchen window. She stepped out onto the back porch and noticed a disc-shaped object hovering over her house. As the started walking back into the house to call additional witnesses, she was confronted by a strange humanoid being with huge round eyes. She apparently suffered a loss of consciousness and does not know what happened for two hours. She vaguely recalls being in some type of an otherworldly environment. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case 2453, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World Source ID: Johnson_2991 Source: Johnson ### Event 22890 (FC8FB7C4) Date: 5/21/1996 Description: Four youths camping in Charleston, Illinois saw a large white light in the sky at 11:58 p.m., then a huge triangular UFO with two red lights on one side. It lit their campsite with a "spotlight" beam but made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James Easton, internet list of triangular UFO reports, citing the National UFO Reporting Center; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_3029 Source: Johnson ### Event 22891 (4757CED0) Date: 5/22/1996 Description: Ipswich, Queensland, Australia - At 2:00 a.m. a woman was walking her dog when she noticed two short glowing beings with no apparent clothing, and dark eyes. The beings seemed to reassure her mentally, then faded from view. Possible missing time involved. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2608, citing Keith Basterfield Source ID: Johnson_3042 Source: Johnson ### Event 22892 (1A5C2047) Date: 5/22/1996 Description: 3:30 p.m. A motorist on the West Tamar Highway near Bradys Lookout State Reserve in Tasmania, notices an upright, vapor-like trail to the north. The trail changes into an upright, bronze-colored cigar shape that disappears in front of their eyes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Northern Flap,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/TUFOIC%20Newsletter/TUFOIC%20Newsletter%20-%20No%20079%20-%20October%201996.pdf)” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 79 \(October 1996\): 3; Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7176 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22893 (B31B37D1) Date: 5/29/1996 Description: About 1:00 p.m. A vertical, misty cloud is seen against the clear blue sky above Launceston, Tasmania. It forms into a vertical upright cylinder that seems to have a long hole. The witness and a friend look away for a second, and the object is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Northern Flap,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Australia/TUFOIC%20Newsletter/TUFOIC%20Newsletter%20-%20No%20079%20-%20October%201996.pdf)” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 79 \(October 1996\): 3; Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7177 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22894 (5A74C3A4) Date: 6/1/1996 Description: At 2:30 a.m. a dark, matt black triangular UFO with lights on each corner hovered over a transformer near Fort Meade, Maryland. It made no sound. Three hours later another triangular UFO was sighted flying over Beltsville, Maryland. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 1996 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_3209 Source: Johnson ### Event 22895 (69AD2B66) Date: 6/4/1996 Description: Several people were staying at a country home in rural Apache County, Arizona. They were sitting around the kitchen table at 10:30 p.m. when two of them saw a bright UFO streak by, apparently crashing in the distance. They all lept into a jeep and raced off in search for the crashed object. They crossed State Highway 61, drove along an old cattle trail, and soon came upon an elderly couple standing next to their parked van on the road side; both were staring off into the countryside. They asked them if they had seen a UFO crash, and were told by them that they were also trying to find it. The elderly couple had been driving west on Highway 61 toward Show Low when they saw the object streak by and appear to crash. They all then drove on to the apparent crash site. This area had only a few trees, scattered cedar and junipers, and a lot of rocks and canyons. After driving for about an hour they came to a very deep canyon and could drive no further. Deep in the canyon was the crashed UFO. It was an oblong, egg shaped object, about the size of a barn. Its color was strange--it was described as the color of skin with a fading tan, and it faintly glowed. The glow was sufficiently bright enough to illuminate the bottom of the canyon. There were two "pillars" at the front of the object. These pillars may have been posted on either side of a door, although a doorway was not visible. The witnesses also claimed they saw a helicopter at the scene, and a black pick-up truck. They were baffled as to how the truck could have gotten down into the remote canyon so quickly, unless there was some road they did not know about. They watched the scene for awhile, then left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_3284 Source: Johnson ### Event 22896 (5AC8CFA2) Date: 6/6/1996 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a videotape was made of a crescent, half-moon shaped light with a platform on the bottom. It curved away through the night sky over Marson, France toward the east, and then split into four parts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 338 Source ID: Johnson_3341 Source: Johnson ### Event 22897 (EC13935A) Date: 6/7/1996 Description: An object described as a silver, on-end goose egg, hovered over the river in Franklin, Georgia on an overcast evening around 7:45 p.m. It was about 50 above the water, and the water below the object did not appear to be disturbed. It was estimated to be about the size of VW Beetle. It moved away slowly as a speed of around 10-15 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John C. Thompson, MUFON file investigation database, case # 970501E Source ID: Johnson_3360 Source: Johnson ### Event 22898 (5A9BC226) Date: 6/9/1996 Description: At 6:00 p.m. a black sphere shot at an Air France airliner from the Mediterranean Sea, then flew 30 meters above the aircraft. The plane requested and made an emergency landing at Ben Gurion airport in Israel. No Israeli military launches where in the area at the time of the report. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA) November 1996, p. 24; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_3397 Source: Johnson ### Event 22899 (CB308BD6) Date: 6/17/1996 Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness is driving east on East Kingsfield Road in the northern part of Pensacola, Florida, when he sees a large, black triangular object. He pulls to the side of the road to watch, as does a truck in front of him. The object has a single white light at each corner and hovers directly above the road. A red blinking light is at the center. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Triangular Shaped Craft Hovers over Witness,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201996%2008%20-%20no%20325.pdf)” Pensacola Beach \(Fla.\) Islander, July 10, 1996, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 325 \(August 1996\): 5 Source ID: Eberhart_7178 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22900 (10E4D381) Date: 6/18/1996 Description: At 11:33 p.m. a barking dog and a booming sound alerted the witness to two bright lights floating in the sky over Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, which then "zoomed past." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 1996 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 117, citing NOUFORS Source ID: Johnson_3545 Source: Johnson ### Event 22901 (85CEDC00) Date: 6/18/1996 Description: At 6:30 a.m. 40 witnesses in Constanta, Romania watched as a brilliant cigar-shaped object curved slowly and silently through the sky, then suddenly sped up and flew away rapidly to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 340 Source ID: Johnson_3544 Source: Johnson ### Event 22902 (E9E75F7D) Date: 6/21/1996 Description: On this night Cesar Miglioranza, age 64, was driving his car home from work outside of Flexeiras, Brazil when he noticed a strong light in a nearby field. He stopped his car and got out to investigate. As he approached he saw a large object on the ground next to some trees. Suddenly he became paralyzed and unable to move. Beside the object were two short beings with large heads and long arms. They wore helmets and tight fitting silvery uniforms. The two humanoids appeared to be collecting soil samples from the ground. After a few moments, they conversed among themselves in an unknown language, then boarded the object, which quickly took off at high speed. Cesar was unable to move for the next five minutes. Afterwards he felt very tired and sleepy for 2 to 3 days. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3545, citing Victor Lourenco Source ID: Johnson_3591 Source: Johnson ### Event 22903 (F3274BA6) Date: 6/24/1996 Description: Day. Spasso Maximovitch notices an unusual object in the western sky over Rosh HaAyin in central Israel. He grabs his video camera to film it, just as a glowing white oval-shaped object appears some 20° west of the object and streaks toward it at high speed. Within 3 seconds it strikes the stationary orb, causing a huge explosion in the sky that seemingly destroys both objects. Stunned, Maximovitch stops filming immediately after capturing the explosion. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[UFO Mid-Air Crash—or Military Drill—Filmed in Israel](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/isravid01.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7179 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22904 (B150F582) Date: 7/1996 Description: Day. A private pilot is flying his Piper Cherokee PA-28-140 from Waterville, Nova Scotia, to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, at 3,500 feet. While over Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia, the pilot’s father-in-law \(next to him in the right seat\) spots a chrome-colored sphere 60 feet in diameter about 2 miles away and traveling at the same speed as the aircraft but about 500 feet lower. The pilot banks gently in its direction, and the sphere speedily darts toward Springhill, Nova Scotia, 20 miles away, and hovers there as a bright dot, then disappears. The pilot is distressed about the encounter and is distracted for the rest of the flight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Ledger, “Two Spherical UAP Cases Witnessed by Pilots in Canadian Airspace,” IUR 33, no. 2 \(July 2010\): 9, 22 Source ID: Eberhart_7180 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22905 (03036D89) Date: 7/4/1996 Description: [John P. Timmerman](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/limaohio/obituary.aspx?n=john-timmerman&pid=175281862&fhid=27802) investigates a mystery crop circle found in a wheat field belonging to Dan Arend off County Road 126 near Paulding, Ohio. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John P. Timmerman, “The Paulding, Ohio, Crop Circle,” IUR 21, no. 3 \(Fall 1996\): 24–26 Source ID: Eberhart_7181 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22906 (4A123D86) Date: 7/5/1996 Description: Taking a break from work at 3:10 p.m., a 32-year-old woman in Mounds View, Minnesota stepped outside her workplace to do some bird watching when she saw a gray sphere high in the sky that traveled quickly across the sky for about two minutes. It was lost from view when still about 50 degrees above the northwest horizon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Greg C. Lang, MUFON case investigations file, case no. 961109bC Source ID: Johnson_3851 Source: Johnson ### Event 22907 (C6E99A56) Date: 7/8/1996 Description: Police sergeant Marian Mancu and volunteer police officer Marcel Rusu were walking on patrol on the main road that passes in front of the police station in the village of Certesti, Romania at around midnight. Mancu lives in the area and told Rusu he was going to walk home to get something to eat. Between the road and the sidewalk was a deep ditch with small foot bridges across the culvert. When the sergeant passed the corner near his house he heard a whistling sound from the street and felt a rush of air. He turned around immediately and saw something on the road that "was splashed with blue and red lights" and made a "voom-voom" sound. Mancu first thought it was the district police car that was coming back from a routine patrol, but getting closer he realized the object was hovering half a meter above the paved road. There was also a small strange looking figure moving around it. He yelled for Rusu, who was now hiding behind the ditch and watching the strange spectacle from their.

Rusu reported that immediately after Mancu had left and gone behind a nearby apartment house, "a fluttering from above appeared". The neon lighting in the street seemed to change in intensity. The object descended slowly, without noise, and came down behind him. Rusu became frightened when he saw the object hovering above the ground, with three small human-like creatures were moving around it. Both witnesses agreed that the object had the form of a flat hut, five or six meters across and two or 2.5 meters high, and it was balancing about half a meter from the ground. Around the periphery of the object was a continuous girdle of light "like a rainbow." The colors changed from red to blue and flared in intensity. On the bottom of the object was a bright white light. Neither of the witnesses saw any doors, portholes, or other similar features. After about two minutes, the UFO rose vertically. At the moment it moved up to an altitude of about 30 meters its lights became much brighter, and the neon streetlights went out. It then shot off to the east at high speed. Rusu reportedly had a better view of the humanoid creatures than Mancu, who only noticed one of them from behind. He estimated their height to have been around a meter or less. Rusu said he heard some noises made by the humanoids, sounding like "rain in a drain pipe." Both described the creatures as ugly; they had large heads, very elongated behind and covered with bumps, with no hair, and large ears. Their faces were white and they had big eyes. Gray metallic shiny scales, resembling fish scales, covered their bodies. They also had large, limp protruding bellies. They also had thin spindly arms, and no noses or mouths were visible. The witnesses thought that the creatures floated just above the ground and moved around "as if they were drunk." A huge sweet cherry tree nearby had around 15 % of its leaves shriveled as if by extreme heat. Other witnesses in nearby villages reported strange lights over the area the same night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 340; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing Dan D. Farcas Source ID: Johnson_3936 Source: Johnson ### Event 22908 (7CE8D94D) Date: 7/9/1996 Description: A triangular-shaped UFO landed in a field in Chillan, Chile. It left three circular indentations in the ground 1.7 meters apart and 10 cm across. That same day, while visiting the "Julia Set" crop formation opposite the Stonehenge megaliths in England, two friends of author Lucy Pringle became ill with nausea, fatigue, and memory problems. The symptoms persisted for three days following the visit. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Phenomena, issue no. 33; Lucy Pringle, Crop Circles: The greatest mystery of modern times, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_3970 Source: Johnson ### Event 22909 (5E9EA0DD) Date: 7/9/1996 Description: 12:30 a.m. Police Sgt. Marian Mancu and volunteer guard Maricel Rusu are patrolling on the main road through Cerțești, Romania. Rusu sees a lighted object descending silently, causing nearby neon lights to vary in their intensity. Mancu hears a whistling sound and sees an object with flashing blue and red lights hovering 2 feet above the pavement. Three small people with elongated heads, white faces, big eyes, and scaly bodies are moving around inside it. The object is top-shaped, 15–20 feet across and 8 feet tall, and has a girdle of lights around the edge like a rainbow. After 2 minutes it rises vertically, its lights become brighter, and nearby streetlights go out. It turns northwest and departs with tremendous speed. Other residents of the town witness unusual light phenomena. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 135–146 Source ID: Eberhart_7182 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22910 (DA0ECBA7) Date: 7/13/1996 Description: SAS troops on an ambush patrol in South Armagh, Northern Ireland saw four small Grey humanoids walk up from behind a hill and cross their path. Minutes later the special services soldiers saw a flash of light in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 2627 Source ID: Johnson_4040 Source: Johnson ### Event 22911 (C007E73C) Date: 7/16/1996 Description: A 66-year-old retired farmer named Dionisio was walking through a field around noon in Los Villares, Jaen, Spain. He had just sat down on a rock next to a tree to rest when he noticed a very strong and pungent odor in the air and heard a low humming sound. He next noticed an object hovering near the ground next to some nearby power lines. The craft was shaped like a dome and was a shiny metallic color. It had several black glassy oval shaped windows. It was about three meters in length and a meter and a half in height. On one side he noticed some inscriptions, part of which resembled "IOIO." From the top of the object there were also some cables that were apparently connected to the nearby power lines.

Dionisio also noticed a curious fact. If he moved back about three meters he could no longer see the object, but when he moved forward again he was again able to see it. Suddenly he saw three figures standing next to the object. Two were men and one was a woman, and they stood about six feet tall. They were wearing tight fitting, one-piece silvery outfits. Their faces were Asian in appearance, with high cheekbones, very pale skin, and slanted eyes. They had large hands with five long, well defined fingers and their mouths were slit-like. They also wore silvery boots. Suddenly he felt something strike his chest, and glancing up he noticed that the woman was signaling him, and one of the men was kneeling down next to the craft. He began hearing voices in his head. Frightened, he tried to hide behind some rocks, and then heard the humming sound and smelled the pungent odor again. When he emerged from behind the rocks he noticed that the humanoids and the object were gone. Investigators found ground traces at the site. A mysterious looking rock was also found at the site. During the same time others in the region saw low flying lights and objects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3040, citing Lorenzo Fernandez Bueno & Iker Jimenez Elizari Source ID: Johnson_4112 Source: Johnson ### Event 22912 (285DF1A3) Date: 7/17/1996 Description: Dusk. A woman near Langruth, Manitoba, is startled to see a disc-shaped object moving quietly and slowly through her farmyard. The object, 9–12 feet in diameter and 2.5 feet thick, has slitlike lights along its edge. The next morning, she finds three circular patches of deep green growth in the area where the object had been. She thinks her well water has been affected by the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada—1996,” IUR 22, no. 2 \(Summer 1997\): 32 Source ID: Eberhart_7183 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22913 (AA50CB10) Date: 7/17/1996 Description: At 9:00 a.m. on I-64 southeast of Damiansville, Illinois a low-flying triangular UFO approached an interstate ramp and then hovered over some trees for 4-5 minutes. It appeared like "polished steel". It made not sound and vanished mysteriously. That evening a woman in Langruth, Manitoba saw a disc-shaped object moving slowly and quietly through her farmyard. The disc was about 3-4 meters in diameter, about half a meter tall, and had slit like lights along the edge. Three circular patches of green growth appeared in the area where the object was first seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 198; International UFO Reporter, July 1997, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_4150 Source: Johnson ### Event 22914 (2849710F) Date: 7/22/1996 Description: In Vicenza, Italy at 10:30 p.m. two local youngsters reported that they first noticed a total lack of animal noises while camping outside on the grassy slopes of Monte Berici, then everything became abnormally quiet. Soon they heard a kind of modulated, scraping metallic sound. Next they heard the sound of something moving in the forest, and when they looked in the direction of the sound they noticed two dark gleaming eyes staring at them. The girl became frightened and covered herself with a blanket, while the boy saw what appeared to be a large form, like a white-silvery blanket approach from the nearby hill. It was a meter in height and approached to within half a meter of the girl, looking down on her with two big red metallic eyes. In an attempt to protect her, the boy jumped up in front of the girl. At that point the robot-like creature seemed to shrink in upon itself then vanished into the woods. Others in the area reported hearing loud noises resembling a helicopter coming from the woods. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing UFO CUN Source ID: Johnson_4309 Source: Johnson ### Event 22915 (EB11B577) Date: 7/25/1996 Description: Dogs hid as boomerang passed (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [960725](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-960725.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Akron, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5869 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22916 (933BE4E1) Date: 8/1996 Description: Sen. [Harry Reid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FReid) \(D-Nev.\) attends the fifth meeting of the National Institute for Discovery Science scientific advisory board in Las Vegas, Nevada. [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) delivers the main presentation. Reid stays in frequent contact with [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow) afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7184 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22917 (51D83393) Date: 8/9/1996 Description: At 2:20 a.m. a silent white disc-shaped object with lights followed a car for 6 km near Tavaco, Corse-Sud, France. It then hovered for over an hour. At the same time there was the occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 341; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 109 Source ID: Johnson_4808 Source: Johnson ### Event 22918 (3671D929) Date: 8/10/1996 Description: A bright red disc was sighted moving low over a farm in Avellino, Campania, Italy. A circle of dried yellow grass was found in the vicinity. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17388, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 1, number 28 Source ID: Johnson_4845 Source: Johnson ### Event 22919 (4926480A) Date: 8/11/1996 Description: A strange object was seen in the sky over Wallaroo, South Australia at 11:30 p.m. by a 17-year-old man. He described it as bullet shaped with a flame coming from it. It zig-zagged all around the sky, and there were also unusual sounds coming from it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17390, citing Basterfield Source ID: Johnson_4913 Source: Johnson ### Event 22920 (2A9BFB43) Date: 8/11/1996 Description: In Przbylow, Poland a man saw some flashing lights in a field at 10:40 p.m. Because they were just above the ground, he first thought they were lights on a harvester. However, five more witnesses 600 meters away had a better view of the same lights. According to them the flashing lights were on a disc-shaped craft with a dome on the top which had several circling flashing lights. They also noticed a small, human-like creature standing in front of the object, but were unable to make out any details due to the bright light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing Bronislaw Rzepecki Source ID: Johnson_4914 Source: Johnson ### Event 22921 (371FBB63) Date: 8/12/1996 Description: 9:40 p.m. A witness in Smithton, Illinois, sees a faint, dull-red, glowing triangular object as he is looking for the Perseid meteor shower. It appears from the south, flies north above his house, and vanishes after 10 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 171 Source ID: Eberhart_7185 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22922 (9AF6A854) Date: 8/17/1996 Description: A couple camping in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, see a strange blue light dancing behind a hill. When they investigate, they find an object moving along the ground, occasionally emitting fames from its base. After a short while, it zips into the sky, then returns and hovers near them. It then shines a beam of light around the ground, illuminating them at one point. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada—1996,” IUR 22, no. 2 \(Summer 1997\): 32 Source ID: Eberhart_7186 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22923 (27BF2E8F) Date: 8/18/1996 End date: 8/20/1996 Description: Journalist [Gary Webb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%5FWebb) publishes his “Dark Alliance” series in the San Jose \(Calif.\) Mercury News, with one long article and one or two shorter articles appearing each day. It claims that “For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.” This drug ring “opened the first pipeline between Colombia’s cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles” and, as a result, “The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America.” The Mercury News continues to pursue the story, publishing follow-ups to the original series for the next three months. Other papers are slow to pick up the story, but African Americans quickly take note, especially in South Central Los Angeles where the dealers discussed in the series are active. They respond with outrage to the series’ charges. By the end of September, three federal investigations are announced: an investigation into the CIA allegations conducted by CIA Inspector-General [Frederick Hitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FHitz)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%5FHitz) an investigation into the law enforcement allegations by Justice Department Inspector-General [Michael Bromwich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FBromwich)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FBromwich) and a second investigation into the CIA by the House Intelligence Committee. After his resignation from The Mercury News, Webb expands the “Dark Alliance” series into a book that responds to the criticism of the series and describes his experiences writing the story and dealing with the controversy. A revised version is published in 1999 that incorporates Webb’s response to the CIA and Justice Department reports. The February 2000 report by the House Intelligence Committee in turn considers the book’s claims as well as the series’ claims. Webb’s reporting in “Dark Alliance” remains controversial. Many writers discussing the series point to errors in it. The claim that the drug ring of Meneses- Blandón-Ross sparked the “crack explosion” has been perhaps the most criticized part of the series. Webb commits suicide in 2004. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Gary Webb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%5FWebb\#Dark%5FAlliance%5Fseries)”; Wikipedia, “[Dark Alliance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%5FAlliance%5F%28book%29) [\(book\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%5FAlliance%5F%28book%29)”; Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, Seven Stories, 1998, [revised ed.](https://archive.org/details/darkallianceciac0000webb/mode/2up), 1999 Source ID: Eberhart_7187 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22924 (CE98BAB7) Date: 8/20/1996 Description: At 2:15 a.m. a teenage girl witnessed a metallic, disc-shaped object hovering above a group of nearby power lines in her backyard in West Manchester, Ohio. The round bottom of the craft appeared to be gold in color, and it had orange, green, and reddish-orange lights. A series of rectangular windows were around the middle portion of the craft. One window in the center appeared to be moved down by somebody inside the craft, while at the same time the girl had a strong feeling that she was being watched. After viewing the object for about five minutes, it zig-zagged and shot up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3595, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_5198 Source: Johnson ### Event 22925 (1AB2C40B) Date: 8/23/1996 Description: In Chelsea, Victoria, Australia two glowing objects flew overhead next to each other; they exchanged blue beams of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17397 Source ID: Johnson_5276 Source: Johnson ### Event 22926 (18F139CC) Date: 8/25/1996 Description: At a dam northeast of Wheatland, Wyoming a witness watched a huge disc-shaped UFO following an airliner to the northeast at 1:30 a.m. The UFO then came to hover and zig-zag over the dam. It had many white portholes along the rim of the object. The encounter lasted over two and a half hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, sighting R. Leo Sprinkle Source ID: Johnson_5341 Source: Johnson ### Event 22927 (A5BD3D27) Date: 8/29/1996 Description: 8:00 p.m. A mechanic notices a white mass of light at Port Arthur, Tasmania. His car acts up a bit, but the light vanishes, and it returns to normal. At 9:30 p.m., on the return trip, the white mass returns and paces the car for several kilometers. The engine misses and the headlights go out. He can now see a cigar-shaped object about 650 feet away, so he gets out, checks the engine, and finds nothing wrong. The UFO moves off and the car starts again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_7188 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22928 (4065315C) Date: 9/7/1996 Description: At 10:50 a.m. a triangular UFO with orange lights circled a group of witnesses in West Manchester, Ohio four times. It made humming and buzzing sounds, and flew off toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1996 web page Source ID: Johnson_5743 Source: Johnson ### Event 22929 (9393446D) Date: 9/8/1996 Description: Several people in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo State, Brazil saw a triangular shaped craft land. A hatch opened and three occupants emerged and floated to the ground. These beings were described as only 1 foot, 10 inches tall, wearing coverall garments, and having very large heads far out of proportion to their bodies. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2482, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, number 29 Source ID: Johnson_5779 Source: Johnson ### Event 22930 (D3F498A0) Date: 9/10/1996 Description: The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. It opens for signature in New York on September 24 and is signed by 71 states, including five of the eight then- nuclear states. The treaty will enter into force 180 days after the 44 states listed in Annex 2 of the treaty have ratified it. These “Annex 2 states” are states that participated in the CTBT’s negotiations between 1994 and 1996 and possessed nuclear power reactors or research reactors at that time. As of 2016, eight Annex 2 states have not ratified the treaty: China, Egypt, Iran, Israel, and the United States have signed but not ratified the treaty; India, North Korea, and Pakistan have not signed it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive%5FNuclear-Test-Ban%5FTreaty)” Source ID: Eberhart_7189 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22931 (7B396451) Date: 9/11/1996 Description: A mother and daughter in a car in Pont-de-Salars, Aveyron, France saw an object with an ovoid skirt and a cylinder, surmounted by a dome with 3 sharp red portholes. On the cylinder was a fluorescent green light that turned like a gyrosphere. It was at four meters altitude, only 10 meters away from them. The close encounter lasted for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case 226 Source ID: Johnson_5884 Source: Johnson ### Event 22932 (C152CFBF) Date: 9/15/1996 Description: St Seurin D'Uzet, Charente Maritime department, France. At around 8:00 p.m. a witness was standing in his garden when he saw a bizarre object, which descended until it touched down of the surface of the Gironde River. Using a pair of binoculars, from about 200-300 meters away, he saw a figure suddenly appears, along with what resembled an inflatable orange raft at the being's feet. The being then began to float against the current on the orange "raft". At the same time there was a reported power blackout in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 340; Phenomena, issue # 34, Sud Ouest newspaper Source ID: Johnson_5999 Source: Johnson ### Event 22933 (457CA7C8) Date: 9/15/1996 Description: A young backpacker, Ricardo Machado Oliveira, was exploring a remote mountain cave near Cabeca da Penha Mountain, Portugal and while in it apparently passed out. When he came to, he found himself in a vast underground hangar surrounded by "three distinct species of aliens". Nearby were several silvery ovoid craft. The aliens told Ricardo that they were part of an alliance of interstellar worlds engaged in observing Earth. Their base under the Serra da Guardunha Mountains was one of four such bases. Immediately after hearing this Ricardo blacked out again. When he opened his eyes, he was lying on the ground right outside the cave. In the 14th century, at the same cave, a little girl from a nearby village vanished for three days. When she was finally found, she told the search party that she had been cared for by "a lady in white", who had offered her water to drink from a bell. Some have attributed this to a visitation by the Blessed Virgin Mary. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 2483, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, number 32 Source ID: Johnson_5998 Source: Johnson ### Event 22934 (18C2E44A) Date: 9/16/1996 Description: At around 5:00 a.m. a witness in a car noticed a shiny luminous point of unusual size in Corme Royal, Charente-Maritime, France, then saw an ovoid craft with three portholes emitting a strong orange light. It was stationary at an altitude from 30-40 meters and 300-400 meters from the road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case 237 Source ID: Johnson_6026 Source: Johnson ### Event 22935 (AC75009D) Date: 9/16/1996 Description: Day. A witness is repairing a fence on his property near Valley, Ohio, when his dog starts barking loudly. Going over to his dog, he looks up to see a low-flying space-capsule-shaped UFO hovering and moving slowly over one of his cow pastures. He takes six photos of the object. Black to dark green in the photos, the cone-shaped object, when enlarged, shows a black Teflon-like covered bottom and a flange or rim that goes around near the top. In each photo the UFO is shown at a slightly different position and altitude, making it more difficult to hoax. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Mysterious Photos](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/vall96.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7190 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22936 (1B17B032) Date: 9/16/1996 Description: The 6-year-old witness was sleeping on the floor of his brother's room in Windsor, North Carolina when at 4:15 a.m. he awoke, looked to his right, and saw a white face with a grayish tint that was apparently lying on the ground staring at him. It had large black eyes and an almond-shaped head, no ears, a slit for a mouth, and two holes for a nose. It seemed to be about 5 feet 8 inches tall. The witness could not move his neck much, so he could not see its entire figure. Both the alien and young boy stared at each other for at least five minutes. It didn't flinch or move. When the witness attempted to scream he couldn't. He could move his arms, but not his legs. He then heard a voice in his head that said, "Don't move it is already done" or something similar to that. Upon hearing that, the witness decided to defend himself and punched it directly at the face. As soon as his hand made contact with the creature, it disappeared. There appears to have been about an hour time lapse, and in the morning the witness found marks on his arm and later on his back. He remembers that while he was staring at the alien there appeared to be a white light aura surrounding him. He does not believe he was in his brother's room at that point. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, citing direct communication with the witness Source ID: Johnson_6027 Source: Johnson ### Event 22937 (4A4633BC) Date: 9/16/1996 Description: On this evening 62-year-old Uri Sakhov was walking to the local post office in Nazareth, Israel when he suddenly heard a loud whizzing sound and felt hands grab his hair and shoulders. In an instant he found himself being pulled into an egg-shaped object. Inside he found himself in a strange crystal chamber surrounded by several small humanoids. These were described as 2 to 3 feet tall, with heads shaped like light bulbs and skinny limbs that made unintelligible noises. The leader was described as taller and green colored, wearing flowing robes. He was very slender and had a narrow vertical head, with eyes located on either side of it. One of the small humanoids stepped up to the witness and sprayed his face with a yellowish powder. Soon they were conducting numerous medical tests on Sakhov, which made him feel "horrible" and very uncomfortable. Midway through the tests he lost consciousness. When he recovered consciousness he found himself lying flat on his back in the middle of a soccer stadium, half a kilometer from his house. Feeling dizzy, he went home and noticed that he still had some of the yellow powder on his face. The powder was analyzed at a local hospital and it was found to be about 60 percent aluminum and different from any soil found in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 2461, citing Barry Chamish Source ID: Johnson_6028 Source: Johnson ### Event 22938 (FC4D4539) Date: 9/17/1996 Description: Thousands including police saw a huge disc maneuver over Tel Aviv, Israel at two o'clock in the morning. The aerial display lasted two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 340; Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History Source ID: Johnson_6059 Source: Johnson ### Event 22939 (C0E96821) Date: 9/20/1996 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a disc-shaped object with lights around the rim hovered over the bay at Altona, Victoria, Australia then moved away to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 1, number 31 Source ID: Johnson_6162 Source: Johnson ### Event 22940 (134D5AD1) Date: 9/21/1996 Description: In Joshua Tree, California a disc-shaped object 65 feet in diameter hovered silently at only 200 feet close to witnesses for four minutes. It then moved off to the northeast hugging the terrain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 1, number 34 Source ID: Johnson_6204 Source: Johnson ### Event 22941 (CE7ED5F1) Date: 9/23/1996 Description: In Bouville, France a circular object was seen at 8:50 p.m. only 100 meters away. It had three square windows and a beam of light in the front. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17426, citing Banque OVNI Reports, case 96 Source ID: Johnson_6272 Source: Johnson ### Event 22942 (308C9B73) Date: 9/23/1996 Description: Lyn and Jean, two women from Kennoway, Fife, Scotland had seen a huge triangular craft shining very bright beams of lights towards the ground at around 8 p.m. The object hovered over the area and was seen to bank slowly, revealing a large dome on top. On the underside they could see three small red lights on each apex. The craft shot away suddenly at the sound of an approaching aircraft. At 8:30 p.m. the witnesses again saw the huge triangle over the same location, shining down powerful beams of white light.

The witnesses returned back to the area at 9:55 p.m. and watched a powerful blue glow appear over a nearby field at about treetop level. In order to get a better look they drove down a narrow lane and parked their vehicle. They then saw a large star-like object just above the blue glow that was pulsing while appearing to grow repeatedly larger and smaller. Suddenly they noticed the silhouettes of many small thin figures, moving about in the field. One of the figures was much taller than the others, around seven feet tall. Other small beings moved in among trees in the field, while a large black object sat on the ground. The figures appeared to be moving towards this object. At this point the witnesses became extremely frightened and drove away.

They arrived at the home of one of them and borrowed some binoculars, after which they soon returned to the same location and again saw the blue light, still glowing, and they again saw the little beings moving about the trees. They also saw the very tall being again, standing with its back to them. Viewing the hovering object with binoculars, they could now tell that it was amber in color, with dark indentations all around it. It rotated slowly, occasionally turning on its axis. Dozens of small creatures were visible inside, apparently carrying small boxes and tubular canisters around. Taller figures were also seen and described as having brown skin and oriental shaped eyes. They seemed to be supervising a large group of the smaller beings. Using the binoculars they now spotted a large transparent illuminated capsule-shaped object, that rippled on the outside and had indentations like the crenulations of a brain. The object appeared to be resting on the ground, and there were some very small, thin beings inside it. Next to this object was another smaller one, identical to the first, but this one contained a very tall being with brown skin and narrow eyes. Another larger craft was also seen on the ground near the woods. There were lots of lights around it and dozens of small entities that appeared to be working in groups, coming and going from the woods. The witnesses also saw capsule shaped objects resembling cocoons coming out of the woods. These objects suddenly shot across the field towards the witnesses, hovering only a few feet from them. Each of the capsules contained a small entity. They were soon dozens of bubbles or capsules hovering near the two women.

At this point the witnesses became disoriented and had vague memories of being touched by the small entities with probe-like devices. These small entities were described as having big dark eyes, big heads, and smiled at the witnesses. They communicated among themselves by making loud high-pitched noises. They remember leaving the area and returning home in a state of shock. Later, while checking the scene of the incident, UFO investigators found circular marks on the ground, burnt and dead vegetation, and branches from nearby trees covered in what appeared to be white spider web material. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Tony Todd, UFO Magazine (UK), Volume 15, No.15; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 162; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2562 Source ID: Johnson_6273 Source: Johnson ### Event 22943 (36E23828) Date: 9/24/1996 Description: At one o'clock in the afternoon two 9-year-old children, a girl and a boy, spotted a four-foot-tall sky-blue figure marching through a cornfield near their school not far from Georgeville, Pennsylvania. The creature was reportedly striding across the clearing, swinging its arms back and forth like a soldier. It had long arms that ended in three fingers. It also had a tube-like appendage coming from the top of its head and dangling down its back. Its skin color was light blue and it had a black "thing" that appeared to be an eye but lower than normal, where a nose should have been. They watched the entity for about nine minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 1, number 31; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2486, citing UFO Roundup Source ID: Johnson_6301 Source: Johnson ### Event 22944 (226D1ED2) Date: 9/26/1996 Description: A man was lying in his bed in Cowen, Webster County, West Virginia when, at 2:39 a.m., he heard a loud noise resembling an approaching train. It was so loud that the house shook. Next, there was a bright light that lit up the sky, and it moved over his house to hover over the porch. Looking out his bedroom window, he saw a dark figure standing outside on the ground. Terrified, he closed his eyes, and when he opened them he found himself floating above the hedge outside his house. Looking up, he saw an arrangement of red, blue, yellow, and white lights on the bottom of the UFO. In the middle of the object there appeared to be a glowing door-shaped entrance. He screamed and lost consciousness. He only remembers waking up in his bed three days later, with no memory of what happened during those three days. He did, however, reportedly find numerous scars on his body that he attributes to his abduction experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_6364 Source: Johnson ### Event 22945 (9766C1A5) Date: 9/26/1996 Description: In Valley, Alabama a farmer photographed a dark thimble-shaped UFO at 2:30 p.m. His dog howled and ran off. Later, unmarked copters were seen following the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, Number 33 Source ID: Johnson_6365 Source: Johnson ### Event 22946 (FD613FDE) Date: 10/1996 Description: Psychologist [Stuart Appelle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%5FAppelle) evaluates factors of deception, suggestibility, personality, sleep phenomena, psychopathology, psychodynamics, environment, and event-level alien encounters as origins of the abduction experience. He argues that no one theory enjoys enough empirical support to be accepted as a general explanation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stuart Appelle, “The Abduction Experience: A Critical Evaluation of Theory and Evidence,” JUFOS 6 \(1995/1996\): 29–78 Source ID: Eberhart_7191 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22947 (83E693B7) Date: 10/3/1996 Description: On this Thursday night numerous sightings of one or more blue-green "fireballs" streaking overhead were reported to various law-enforcement agencies in California. Some reports hinted at the possibility that the sightings were associated with several fires of unknown origin that had allegedly broken out as the object or objects passed overhead. Witnesses in at least four counties made reports to the California Emergency Management Office in Sacramento. One observer reported that he had seen a bluish or blue-green fireball descend almost vertically to the east of his location in Bakersfield. The object was observed for approximately 20-30 seconds, during which time it traversed an arc or approximately 30 degrees of angle. The object went below the horizon to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center website Source ID: Johnson_6538 Source: Johnson ### Event 22948 (77B0F8A3) Date: 10/3/1996 Description: At approximately 8:00 p.m. local time a number of vehicles traveling on I-25 south of Springer, New Mexico were witness to a cigar-shaped object, estimated to be at least "two stories" tall and covered with very bizarre lights. The object was seen to descend out of the night sky and hover over an area near the highway. At least 4-5 automobiles, and two tractor-trailers had stopped along the highway and their passengers had gotten out of their vehicles to look at the object. At some point during the sighting the object extinguished its lights and apparently settled to the ground. One young person was emotionally upset by the event, and was still in a state of shock several hours later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center website Source ID: Johnson_6537 Source: Johnson ### Event 22949 (FE72D39F) Date: 10/5/1996 Description: 2:00 a.m. Police Constable David Leyland in Skegness, Lincolnshire, England, sees some rotating colored lights in the sky and reports them to the coast guard. Police in nearby Boston see a single, stationary bright light, while the crew of an offshore tanker report another colored light. Air traffic control radar at Claxby by Normanby, Lincolnshire, picks up a strong target over Boston, and RAF Waddington near Lincoln also picks up an unidentified target in another position. Talk of a UFO wave becomes embellished in the media, and MP [Martin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FRedmond) [Redmond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FRedmond) calls for an investigation by RAF Air Defence. Wing Commander [Norman Hutchinson](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/norman-hutchinson-b485b131) conducts an in- depth investigation of all the sightings and radar targets, producing a 23-page report that he completes on November 13. It’s pretty clear that the mysterious radar blips are a permanent radar echo caused by the 273-foot steeple of St. Botolph’s Church in Boston, the stationary white light is Venus, and astronomer [Ian Ridpath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%5FRidpath) identifies the rotating colored lights as misobservations of Sirius and Vega. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 159–162](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n257/mode/2up); David Clarke, “The 1996 East Anglian UFO Flap,” Fortean Times 223 \(July 2007\): 28–29 Source ID: Eberhart_7192 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22950 (632EBA53) Date: 10/5/1996 Description: 10:00 a.m. Businessman-pilot Haroldo Westendorff is flying a single-engine EMB-712 Tupi \(Piper PA-28 Cherokee\) over Ilha da Sarangonha, near São José do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, when he sees a gigantic object about the size of a football stadium. It is pyramidal in shape with 8 sides, on each of which are 3 protruding domes. Westendorff follows it for 2 minutes. The UFO is revolving slowly on its own axis and moving toward the ocean. A hatch opens on top of the object and three disks emerge and fly away quickly. When Westendorff tries to get closer, the UFO emits reddish rays, causing him to maneuver about 650 feet away. Soon the object begins to rise at great speed. Operators at the Infraero control room at Pelotas Airport visually confirm the observation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Caso Ufológico Haroldo Westendorff, 1996,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMUT1kc%5F89E)” Canal Fenomeno OVNI YouTube channel, January 18, 2015; “[Completam-se 20 anos do Caso Haroldo Westendorff,](https://ufo.com.br/noticias/completam-se-20-anos-do-caso-haroldo-westendorff.html)” Portal UFO, October 5, 2016; Clark III 203; Brazil 545– 548 Source ID: Eberhart_7193 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22951 (C1F40BDB) Date: 10/5/1996 Description: A huge pyramid-shaped object was seem from an Embraer-712 aircraft 35 miles east of Pelotas Airport, Brazil at 10:30 a.m. A disc was seen emerging vertically from the top of the bigger object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p 48 Source ID: Johnson_6592 Source: Johnson ### Event 22952 (4E362389) Date: 10/10/1996 Description: At 12:10 in the afternoon Brian Norton sighted a white cigar-shaped object that left no vapor trail and flew silently over Del Norte, Colorado. At 11:30 p.m. healing arts students in Crestone, Colorado first sighted a rapidly zigagging light high in the sky headed from west to east. This was followed by a group of 10-12 blinking lights on the western horizon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 302; Christopher O'Brien case files, case 449 Source ID: Johnson_6741 Source: Johnson ### Event 22953 (9B83236D) Date: 10/15/1996 Description: 11:00 p.m. A couple is driving near Trois Rivières, Quebec, when they see three strange triangular objects flying in the northern sky. One object, shaped like a “topper” and much larger than an airplane, aims an intense white light at their car for 20 minutes. They feel like “time was stopped.” Dozens of other people in the region see UFOs that same night. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada—1996,” IUR 22, no. 2 \(Summer 1997\): 32 Source ID: Eberhart_7194 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22954 (DB0F1344) Date: 10/15/1996 Description: A couple driving in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada around 11:00 p.m. saw three triangular objects flying in N. One object aimed an intense white beam at their car and bathed it in intense light for "at least 20 minutes." There was a third independent witness and dozens of other people in the region reported UFOs that night. Airports said there were no planes in area at that time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, International UFO Reporter, Summer 1997, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_6877 Source: Johnson ### Event 22955 (39511147) Date: 10/16/1996 Description: 8:30–9:00 p.m. Many people over a wide area of south-central Ohio and northern Kentucky phone police to report strange lights in the sky. A husband and wife watch a fiery orange object near Ripley, Ohio, for 20 minutes. Charles Fite and Bill Adams in Aberdeen, Ohio, see several lights to the north in a “T” formation. A man in Tollesboro, Kentucky, reports 8–10 objects in a group that blink out and reappear in three-minute intervals. An airport operator in Jackson, Ohio, receives two calls describing a group of red lights moving erratically in the northwestern sky. Terry Howard, between Waverly and Chillicothe, Ohio, videotapes a group of glowing objects at about the same angle of altitude as the moon. Ohio UFO investigators suspect that the sightings are a result of military maneuvers by the Ohio Air National Guard. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Terry Endres and Ron Schaffner, “UFO Flare-Ups in Ohio,” IUR 23, no. 3 \(Fall 1998\): 9–13 Source ID: Eberhart_7195 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22956 (F01BBF57) Date: 10/25/1996 Description: 2:00 a.m. A family sees a bowl-shaped disc with five rectangular windows in Gypsumville, Manitoba. It is seen through binoculars as it directs a beam of light down at a lake it is hovering above. Two nights later it returns, moving high above the lake. They drive to the home of a neighbor who joins them outside to watch four objects flying in formation. Two of the objects suddenly change direction and disappear from view, then the other two shine beams of light on the lake again and disappear by moving into the clouds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 195–196 Source ID: Eberhart_7196 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22957 (652B56BE) Date: 10/25/1996 Description: At 2:00 pm. a bowl-shaped disc with square windows was sighted in Gypsumville, Manitoba. It was seen through binoculars as it directed a beam of light down at the lake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17473; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, # 37 Source ID: Johnson_7134 Source: Johnson ### Event 22958 (F17506D8) Date: 10/26/1996 Description: At 7:30 p.m. at Baca Rach and Highway 66T in the San Luis Valley, Colorado the author Christopher O'Brien and his two friends Dumas and Nickerson spotted a solid, unblinking orange light low in the sky moving from the southeast to the northwest at a speed of about 200 mph. The craft did a loop, moved to the east, then headed back displaying FAA lighting. Several minutes later, two more craft came from the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 299 Source ID: Johnson_7168 Source: Johnson ### Event 22959 (69D3B82B) Date: 10/29/1996 Description: At 6:40 p.m. a huge white sphere flew fast over Dannemois, Essonne, France from northwest to southeast. At 6:45 p.m. a green triangle-shaped object hovered over a highway in Sermaises, Loiret, France, pivoted in place, and then flew off to the north. It was also seen in Etampes and Etrechy. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 17476 & 17477, citing Banque OVNI Reports, p. 96 Source ID: Johnson_7290 Source: Johnson ### Event 22960 (552A56DD) Date: 11/3/1996 Description: According to a case report filed by Margaret DeHarpporte, a MUFON Field Investigator, an abduction occurred on this night in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It involved two young girls. No further details are available. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Margaret DeHarpporte, MUFON Source ID: Johnson_7449 Source: Johnson ### Event 22961 (96AD823B) Date: 11/3/1996 Description: Fifty people on the beach in Eforie Nord, Constanta, Romania at around 1 p.m. watched three red balls in a constant triangle formation for three minutes; each BOL vanished one-by-one. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17478, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 1, number 38 Source ID: Johnson_7448 Source: Johnson ### Event 22962 (FD5FA35C) Date: 11/9/1996 Description: Alessandro Boscolo and two friends were driving home near Isola Verde, Italy when Boscolo stopped his vehicle to relieve himself. He soon noticed that the whole area around him was completely illuminated, as if the full Moon was overhead. Having got back into the vehicle with his two friends, they saw that the light was coming from a very bright source in a nearby field, and they next noticed movement coming from some nearby trees. Suddenly, three to four short Grey beings, with large oval-shaped heads, scampered with amazing speed towards the light source on the field. Frightened, Boscolo and his friends drove away from the scene at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3510, citing El Dragon Invisible, CUN Source ID: Johnson_7585 Source: Johnson ### Event 22963 (E2E8120F) Date: 11/16/1996 Description: During an exhibition by the Brazilian Air Force’s Smoke Squadron over the coastline of Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, one of the EMB-312 Tucano aircraft’s wings breaks off and causes it to crash. A piece of the wing falls on a swimmer and kills him. A video taken at the time of the accident shows a small spherical object approaching the aircraft from behind and passing just at the point where the wing breaks off. Ufologist Reginaldo de Athayde analyzes the video images and finds that the object is real, metallic, reflective, and boasts a speed five times greater than the airplane. It measures about 3-by-3 feet in diameter and has a speed of 746–932 mph. It passes about 6.5 feet from the wing of the plane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 205; Brazil 549–551 Source ID: Eberhart_7197 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22964 (761F0ECF) Date: 11/22/1996 Description: A huge yellow-green globe hovered over the Han-gang River west of Seoul, Korea and flew off to the west. TV film footage was made and shown on Korean television. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1997 Source ID: Johnson_7822 Source: Johnson ### Event 22965 (087DEDFC) Date: 11/22/1996 Description: Seals dive as airship emits beam of light (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [961122](http://www.nicap.org/ar-18961122dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: San Francisco (1896), CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5870 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22966 (42BA68F5) Date: 11/23/1996 Description: David L., a local cab driver, was taking several passengers home from a pub in Hallbankgate, Cumbria, England at around 1:40 a.m. when he observed a large green ball of light with a white ring around. The ball of light dropped from the sky and then hovered in some woods at a nearby farm. Later, after driving another group of passengers from the pub, he came up a hill and saw a tall figure emerging from a gate in a field on his right hand side. The figure wore a silver suit with some kind of helmet on his head. It was carrying what appeared to be a "white sheet" in front of him that he was not holding, but seemed to be stuck to his hands. Both David and his two passengers were extremely frightened and did not stop, driving quickly away from the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3127, citing British UFO Research Association Source ID: Johnson_7858 Source: Johnson ### Event 22967 (E8032573) Date: 11/23/1996 Description: At around 7 p.m. a witness in Indianapolis, Indiana drove under a large metallic top-shaped UFO at 300 feet altitude. It hovered silently. At 8:45 p.m. in Stockton, California--100 years to the night after the first airship sighting there--a large rotating sphere was seen by witnesses in four cars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newslatter, Volume 10 Issue 2 Source ID: Johnson_7859 Source: Johnson ### Event 22968 (05FBE47A) Date: 11/24/1996 Description: During a very stormy night in Houston, Texas a woman was having trouble falling sleep and was very restless. At around 2:00 a.m. she started feeling very strange, as if in some sort of a trance. There was a window right above her bed, and it felt as if something was pulling her from inside. At the same time some kind of appartition appeared on the upper part of the closet door directly across from the window. It appeared to be a reddish figure with wings, or something on either side of its body, that was moving up and down. She also saw a shadow pass by the window to the left of the bed. The creature then vanished. Her husband did not see or experience anything. A week after the incident, the witness suffered a nervous breakdown. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2649, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World Source ID: Johnson_7895 Source: Johnson ### Event 22969 (911E2EA6) Date: 11/25/1996 Description: At 10:30 p.m. multiple callers reported a number of intense bright orange fireballs traveling fast over Canberra, A.C.T., Australia. When last seen, the lights were headed to the northwest. At 11:15 p.m. many witnesses, including the entire local police force of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia watched at least four intense bright-orange "fireball" type lights over the city, before the objects headed off in a westerly direction. At least 10 photographs were taken of the objects, and one of the police officers succeeded in getting the object on video film. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Glennys Mackay, Queensland UFO Network website Source ID: Johnson_7921 Source: Johnson ### Event 22970 (1C850E94) Date: 11/25/1996 Description: In Adelaide, South Australia at 1:25 a.m. multiple callers reported sighting a number of "soft white balls of light" coursing to the east and then changing direction to the west. The lights changed direction again, and sped off in a northwesterly direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Glennys Mackay, Queensland UFO Network website Source ID: Johnson_7920 Source: Johnson ### Event 22971 (C0D71A20) Date: 11/28/1996 Description: Southwest of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo State, Brazil a luminous flying object paced an Orion aircraft for several minutes, then zipped away rapidly to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, issue 43; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17494; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_8015 Source: Johnson ### Event 22972 (489EF547) Date: 12/1996 Description: 11:00 p.m. T/Sgt Anthony W. Keel is engaged in a field training exercise about one mile from the Weapons Storage Area at Ellsworth FB near Rapid City, South Dakota. He looks at the top of a hill and sees a light bobbing around and moving west to east. About 10 minutes later, he looks up again and sees it moving east to west and then back several times. It now moves in a straight line east away from Ellsworth but stops and hovers 2–3 miles from the base. Then it makes several short darts in different directions. After about 5 minutes, the radio operator announces that all flights from Ellsworth are grounded. The light eventually blinks out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 469–470 Source ID: Eberhart_7198 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22973 (20E36657) Date: 12/1/1996 Description: STS-80 video, Shuttle Columbia (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: NICAP: [961201](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://www.nicap.org/sts80.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: In Space, In Space Source ID: NICAP_DB_5871 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 22974 (B6FA1A58) Date: 12/1/1996 Description: According to Michael Hesemann, on this date in 1996 the Space Shuttle mission STS-80 filmed a UFO maneuvering in Earth orbit. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History Source ID: Johnson_8116 Source: Johnson ### Event 22975 (5B3D3C90) Date: 12/1/1996 Description: Late at night two coon hunters and their hunting dogs were parked on Leonard Road six miles south of Bethel, Ohio waiting for the right time to set their dogs loose. They released them and followed them into a harvested cornfield. As they approached the nearby power lines the dogs got very quiet, which was very uncommon for these dogs. When one of the hunters stepped into a clearing he was shocked to see a silvery saucer-shaped craft with a transparent cupola sitting on the ground. Nearby stood three humanoids wearing coverall uniforms. The beings were described as "Greys," short with slanted black eyes. One of them was slightly taller and had a much bigger head. As both the hunters and their dogs watched, the three humanoids ran to their saucer and entered through an open hatch. The object then rose straight up into the air and vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2474, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, # 41 Source ID: Johnson_8117 Source: Johnson ### Event 22976 (588AA9AE) Date: 12/5/1996 Description: A black, silent triangular UFO stopped over Belleville-sur-Saone, Ain, France at 9:30 p.m., and then turned toward Brou; rises in altitude and shoots toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1977 Source ID: Johnson_8219 Source: Johnson ### Event 22977 (62F64D94) Date: 12/9/1996 Description: Plinio Bragatto, a 74-year old laborer, was on his way home after work in Governador Valadares, Mina Gerais, Brazil when he made a brief stop to buy some beers. He walked on from the mart and stopped to sit on a rock in order to drink one of the beers. At 6:30 p.m. he heard a loud sound coming from behind him. When he turned around he saw a large metallic oval-shaped craft land in a field close to him. It landed on several leg-like protrusions.

Once the object had landed a door opened, and a ladder or escalator of some sort was lowered to the ground. Next a two-meter tall humanoid figure stepped out. The being approached Bragatto and, in a peculiar language that sounded like Spanish, invited the witness to come inside. The witness agreed and was escorted inside. Once inside he noticed that the interior had a metallic bluish sheen to it. Still speaking in the peculiar language that the witness was somehow able to understand, the humanoid told Bragatto that they were going to take him to their "native planet." He was given the impression that the planet was Mars. There was a total of three humanoids aboard, two men and a woman. He described them as closely resembling humans. They wore loose fitting gray outfits with several golden medallions hanging from around their necks. The hair on their heads grew from the middle of their heads back, and they had large ears and mouths that made them somewhat ugly.

Before leaving, Bragatto was given a medical examination by the beings. His stomach area was probed with several needle-like instruments. On the way to the being's home planet he was given a fruit resembling a "Mamey" and something resembling an empanada. He was also given a bitter-tasting beverage. In turn he offered the humanoids a beer, which they accepted. Arriving on the surface of the other world, the witness was greeted by several similarly appearing beings. The "planet" was beautiful in appearance and he saw numerous buildings that appeared to be made of a nylon-like material. One being now approached him and told him it was time to go, that eight hours had already passed. On his was back to the craft the witness saw a huge television screen that showed strange holographic like images, including dinosaur like animals.

When he asked them when they would be returning to Earth, he was then told "We will return when the storms are less intense, since we have already lost five of our aircraft as a result of lighting." Around four o'clock in the morning he was returned to Brazil, but he found himself in an unfamiliar field. He followed a nearby path and reached a village that was more than 800 kilometers from his home town. He went to the police and told them what had happened. A police officer conducted an investigation and reportedly found a circular ground mark at the field where Bragatto was supposedly dropped off by the aliens. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 3592, citing CIPFANI Source ID: Johnson_8290 Source: Johnson ### Event 22978 (5DB91FC9) Date: 12/11/1996 Description: 7:00–8:30 p.m. At least 31 people in the Yukon Territory, Canada, witness a giant UFO. Indications are that it may be the size of several football stadiums. The sightings principally take place in four locations in the central Yukon: Fox Lake, Carmacks, Pelly Crossing, and Mayo, with 6, 9, 8, and 8 witnesses respectively. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Dec. 11, 1996: Yukon Territory](http://www.nicap.org/961211yukondir.htm)”; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 188–194; Chris Rutkowski, “The Cold, Hard Facts about UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(September 2011\): 22–23 Source ID: Eberhart_7199 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22979 (1709B9DA) Date: 12/13/1996 Description: At 1:00 p.m. a Colombian Air Force pilot videotaped six silver disc-shaped UFOs exiting from a cloud and moving toward Bogota, Colombia in two groups. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1997 Source ID: Johnson_8384 Source: Johnson ### Event 22980 (99A4A86D) Date: 12/16/1996 Description: Two skiers at Stevens Pass in Washington watched an orange colored disc-shaped UFO appear in the sky during the evening. Over the next two minutes they then sighted two more of the objects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter Source ID: Johnson_8454 Source: Johnson ### Event 22981 (D0216826) Date: 12/17/1996 Description: In 1996 a single witness reported that a flat-topped disc-shaped object hovered overhead in Redmond, Washington at 2:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter Source ID: Johnson_8476 Source: Johnson ### Event 22982 (78E1A207) Date: 12/18/1996 Description: Two witnesses in Eugene, Oregon saw a nocturnal light zigzagging at a high altitude and making ninety-degree turns at 4:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_8500 Source: Johnson ### Event 22983 (68A3ACF6) Date: 12/19/1996 Description: A Boeing 757-200 operated by China’s Southern Airlines takes off from Beijing on a routine flight south to Wuhan. As the jetliner reaches an altitude of 31,500 feet, the copilot spots a bright flash in the sky just ahead of them. A silver-gray metallic UFO strikes the top of the 757’s cockpit, cracking the outer windshield. The pilot immediately declares an in-flight emergency and radios Beijing’s Capital International Airport, requesting permission to land. The plane lands safely 10 minutes later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Air Misses](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/wuhan96.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7200 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22984 (7FE0384D) Date: 12/26/1996 Description: Nur-a-Shamat Camp, Israel - Daoud Ahmad awoke a one o'clock in the morning feeling thirsty and tried to get out of bed, but two short creatures quickly pounced upon him and beat him. Each had only one eye and they were remarkably strong. They wore black leathery clothes, and had Mohawk style haircuts. After they beat him he lost consciousness. He was taken to a local hospital where he was treated. He also recalled that the beings had only three fingers on each hand. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3411, citing Israeli UFO Investigation Group Source ID: Johnson_8619 Source: Johnson ### Event 22985 (E0122061) Date: 12/29/1996 Description: Two men out trapping in the woods in Hartsburg, Missouri at around 7 p.m. witnessed a silent, black triangular object overhead. It had 3-4 white strobe lights, and also blue and red lights. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17508 Source ID: Johnson_8648 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1997 (Back to Top) ### Event 22986 (F37F19A7) Date: 1997 Description: Chile sets up a new government agency tasked with studying UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [p. 116](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/116/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7204 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22987 (B1D2CFF2) Date: 1997 Description: [Douglas Torr](https://quantumantigravity.wordpress.com/douglas-torr/) and [Timir Datta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timir%5FDatta) are involved in the development of a “gravity generator” at the University of South Carolina. According to a leaked document from the Office of Technology Transfer at USC and confirmed to Wired reporter [Charles Platt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FPlatt%5F%28author%29) in 1998, the device would create a “force beam” in any desired direction and that the university plans to patent and license this device. No further information about this university research project or the “Gravity Generator” device is ever made public. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Anti-gravity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-gravity\#Gravitoelectric%5Fcoupling)”; Charles Platt, “[Breaking the](https://www.wired.com/1998/03/antigravity/) [Law of Gravity,](https://www.wired.com/1998/03/antigravity/)” Wired, March 1, 1998 Source ID: Eberhart_7203 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22988 (00064D6D) Date: 1997 Description: ex-US Army Lt. Col Corso appears on Art Bell’s “Dreamland” radio show Type: radio appearance Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Roswell) Location: Rachel, NV Source ID: Maj2_800 Source: Maj2 ### Event 22989 (1F6EB576) Date: 1997 Description: Contactee [Billy Meier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%5FMeier)’s ex-wife Kalliope in Switzerland tells interviewers that his photos are of spaceship models he has crafted with items like trashcan lids, carpet tacks, and other household objects \(verifying the allegations made by California skeptic [Kal R. Korff](http://www.kalkorff.com/?page%5Fid=5) in 1981\), and that the stories he told of his adventures with the aliens were similarly fictitious. She also says that photos of purported extraterrestrial women “Asket” and “Nera” are really photos of Michelle DellaFave and Susan Lund, members of the singing and dancing troupe [The](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FGolddiggers) [Golddiggers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FGolddiggers)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FGolddiggers) It is later confirmed that the women in the photographs are members of The Golddiggers performing on The Dean Martin Show. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Asket and Nera Photo Deconstruction,](https://www.billymeierufocase.com/asketdeconstruction.html)” Billy Meier Case Source ID: Eberhart_7202 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22990 (0F8FB3B2) Date: 1997 Description: In his 1997 article “Dead Cows I’ve Known,” cattle mutilation researcher Charles T. Oliphant speculates that cattle mutilations are the result of covert research into emerging cattle diseases and whether they can be transmitted to humans. He suspects the NIH, CDC, or other federally funded bodies are involved, and they are supported by the US military. Pazrt of this is based on allegations that human pharmaceuticals have been found in mutilated cattle, and that necropsies show cattle mutilations commonly involve areas of the animal that relate to “input, output, and reproduction.” To support his hypothesis, Oliphant cites the 1990 Reston Ebola virus case in which plainclothes military officers, traveling in unmarked vehicles, entered a research facility in Reston, Virginia, to secretly retrieve and destroy animals that were contaminated with a highly infectious disease. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cattle mutilation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle%5Fmutilation\#Government%5For%5Fmilitary%5Fexperimentation)”; Ted Oliphant III, “[Mad Cow Disease and Cattle Mutilations?](https://www.ourstrangeplanet.com/the-san-luis-valley/guest-editorials/mad-cow-disease-and-cattle-mutilations/)” Our Strange Planet, 1997; Ted Oliphant III, “[Dead Cows I’ve Known, Part 3,](https://rense.com/ufo/deadcow3.htm)” 1998 Source ID: Eberhart_7201 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22991 (4A3315AA) Date: 1/2/1997 Description: On this afternoon in Campina Grande do Sul, Brazil a woman waiting for a bus heard a loud roaring sound resembling that of a lion. Moments later she heard what sounded like "heavy steps splashing in water." She next saw a dark round form that flew right over her street. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Carlos Alberto Machado Source ID: Johnson_39 Source: Johnson ### Event 22992 (B5071D71) Date: 1/5/1997 Description: B. C., a 57-year-old farmer living in Ille et Vilaine, Chantepie, France was awakened at two a.m. by a noise like an explosion and a strident whistling sound. His wife continued to sleep. He got out of bed and went to the kitchen to get something to eat. Suddenly he saw a bright flash of light outside. He looked out the French windows of his farmhouse and saw lights in the middle of a field resembling headlights. He grabbed his shotgun and went out to investigate. Running toward the light, he attempted to shout a warning, but oddly no sound came out of his mouth. He next was hit by some invisible force field and was unable to move. He then saw two small beings emerge from the luminous form. The figures looked to be transparent and passed close to him, seemingly unaware of his presence. The figures then walked toward the nearby barn. At the same time he felt a prickling sensation and began to sweat. The small beings walked by him a second time and disappeared inside the luminous form. The light shot up into the sky vertically at an incredible speed. B. C. was now able to move and he returned to his kitchen, still sweating. When he got back to his bedroom his wife was still in bed sleeping. He appeared to have experienced some missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Sentinel News # 6, July-August 1997 Source ID: Johnson_150 Source: Johnson ### Event 22993 (DEB837C1) Date: 1/7/1997 Description: Ryan Chapman and two other witnesses were staying in a cabin at an undisclosed location in Florida when they saw strange flashing lights in the sky late on this night. Feeling apprehensive the witnesses decided to make a perimeter check of the area. Suddenly one of them screamed when he saw a large disc-shaped craft hovering over the cabin. One witness loaded his gun and began firing at the craft, but when nothing happened they ran back toward the cabin. Their way was blocked by several short thin gray-skinned humanoids that were carrying long needle-like implements. The creatures grabbed the three men who attempted to escape but were somehow overpowered. Ryan felt a pain in the back of his neck as he fell to the ground and blacked out. The next day, after coming to, they found strange marks on their chins, wrists and behind their ears. A scorched area was reportedly found on the roof and walls of the cabin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2572, citing Internet Sightings page Source ID: Johnson_187 Source: Johnson ### Event 22994 (D731C6D1) Date: 1/8/1997 Description: On this night in Ixtapalapa, Mexico a 53-year-old woman awoke to find three short dwarfs cavorting about her bedroom while she was unable to move. After ten minutes they disappeared in a bright blue flash of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997 citing Contacto OVNI Source ID: Johnson_213 Source: Johnson ### Event 22995 (AEF5D0BB) Date: 1/10/1997 End date: 1/12/1997 Description: Roswell witness [Jesse Marcel Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116270028/jesse-antoine-marcel) undergoes a second series of hypnosis sessions, this time with Washington, D.C.–area clinical psychologist [Neil Hibler](http://www.policepsychology.com/aboutus.html)[.](http://www.policepsychology.com/aboutus.html) They are paid for by Roswell Declaration author Kent Jeffrey, who concludes that Marcel is indeed describing weather balloon debris. However, this interpretation is disputed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_7206 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22996 (A5A2425A) Date: 1/13/1997 Description: Morning. A woman driving on Highway 1 from Abbotsford to Chilliwack, British Columbia, notices a fluffy cloud in a clear sky that “bursts downward” with a bright white light three times in succession. It dissipates, leaving behind a black bar. After 5 minutes, a solid stream of white light comes downward from it and another black bar appears, about 45° below the first one. They both start moving east in a wavy motion. She loses sight of them when she gets off the freeway at the Sardis exit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_7207 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 22997 (50D5E4E7) Date: 1/23/1997 Description: A green oval-shaped object with six windows passed over Littleton, New Hampshire from Vermont across the Connecticut River at 6:50 p.m. After a few minutes it took off over the mountains. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Manchester Union Leader, March 3, 1997; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 332 Source ID: Johnson_467 Source: Johnson ### Event 22998 (946DA67E) Date: 1/24/1997 Description: A witness in a car driving north of Dourdan, Essonne department, France at 9:15 p.m. sighted at least two disc-shaped objects emitting several beams and small blue lights. The UFOs maneuvered around in all directions for over a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 342 Source ID: Johnson_499 Source: Johnson ### Event 22999 (47439DEE) Date: 1/27/1997 Description: 10:40 p.m. A man is driving on a quiet back road just south of Llangynidr, Powys, Wales, when he sees a “massive star” moving toward him. His car radio fails, and he is unable to use his mobile phone to call for help. He stops and gets out of the car. The glowing tube of smoky gray and blue light descends and encircles the car, remaining for 5 minutes. The witness can move around in the cloud but can hear no sound associated with the object. After the glow vanishes, he remains frightened and a bit sick. The car is coated with dust of unknown origin. He drives home to Newport, and the following morning he notices a skin rash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “A Sprinkling of Star Dust,” Fortean Times 392 \(May 2020\): 33 Source ID: Eberhart_7208 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23000 (1B289CD0) Date: 1/28/1997 Description: In 1997 a witness going to bed at 10:30 p.m. in Colebrook, New Hampshire shut off the bedroom light and then saw a large object, like sunlight reflecting off metal, rise up to clear a ridgeline. The light then went out, but the witness could still perceive that the silhouette of the UFO was still visible in the sky. It flew over the ridge and was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON investigation files, case 970128E Source ID: Johnson_568 Source: Johnson ### Event 23001 (FB3B798E) Date: 1/30/1997 Description: The abductee received a telepathic warning in advance that she would be taken from her home in San Bernardo, Santiago Province, Chile. At 10:00 p.m. the young woman was abducted for three hours. Her fetus was reportedly taken, and she was found all wet when she was returned. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17866 Source ID: Johnson_625 Source: Johnson ### Event 23002 (090ABEB6) Date: 2/1997 (approximate) Description: “Victor”, who claimed to have worked at Area-51 S-4, speaks in “Area 51: The Alien Interview” by Rocket Pictures. Claims two psychics were present to interpret the responses from an alien in custody. Aliens were highly psychic. Type: interview Reference: [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-viqc7DJWhs&list=FL-kvdFF-6XoQqmANxWYoP2A&index=7) Reference: [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404780/) Location: US See also: 5/23/97 See also: 2008 Source ID: Maj2_801 Source: Maj2 ### Event 23003 (6E6EDBF2) Date: 2/7/1997 Description: On this night a dark triangular object appeared over the village of Burnside, near Cumnock in Strathclyde, Scotland. It was seen again 7 days later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 74 Source ID: Johnson_749 Source: Johnson ### Event 23004 (0521F0E1) Date: 2/7/1997 Description: Two children in Westbury, Tasmania, Australia reported that they had witnessed a cigar-shaped object at 9:00 a.m. It flew to the west slowly, turned vertical, and went up-and-down rapidly. They then lost sight of it while it was making a descent. Their sighting lasted a couple of minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17869 Source ID: Johnson_748 Source: Johnson ### Event 23005 (D50ED7A0) Date: 2/13/1997 Description: At 11:30 p.m. Marta Aguilar Montoya and her two small children were asleep in their bedroom in Santiago, Chile when she heard a crackling noise that woke her up suddenly. Turning her head, she noticed a small figure about 4-foot 8 inches tall standing next to the TV; it was wearing a tight-fitting suit and a helmet with a visor. The being also wore a backpack connected to the helmet by two hoses, one over each shoulder. Frightened, she brought her two children to her bed and just continued to watch. The being stared at the trio but never made a move towards them. After several minutes the being turned to face the bedroom wall, and again there was a loud crackling sound. It then disappeared through the wall, leaving only its silhouette on the wall, which disappeared after two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17872; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2465, citing Luis Sanchez Source ID: Johnson_907 Source: Johnson ### Event 23006 (B9342CB2) Date: 2/16/1997 Description: Two teenage brothers in Lago de Rapel, Chile were followed home by a brilliant, noiseless flying object at 4:30 a.m. When they got home they ran inside and woke up their father. He first thought they were joking, but all three looked out a window could still see the object quietly hovering outside. They then woke up their father who thought they were joking. All three looked out the window and noticed that the object had landed on the ground. Next to it stood a being four feet 8 inches tall with a large bald head who wore a bluish colored uniform. All three witnesses became frightened and hid until the object and its occupant left the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2464, citing Luis Sanchez Source ID: Johnson_953 Source: Johnson ### Event 23007 (6AE2F487) Date: 2/17/1997 Description: A 46-year-old man in Biloxi, Mississippi was cleaning his carport 1t 2:30 p.m. when he heard the sound of jets and looked up. He also saw three disc-shaped objects in the sky. He went and got his binoculars, and when he returned there were now four objects with multicolored lights. The UFOs slowly moved across the sky and went out of sight. The sighting lasted seven minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: J. R. Gillia, MUFON case files, case # 970514bC Source ID: Johnson_971 Source: Johnson ### Event 23008 (80E866B1) Date: 2/17/1997 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a 68-year-old woman was outside saying farewell to her son-in-law in La Grange, Georgia when she noticed a disc-shaped object in the southern sky. As it got closer, she saw three white objects moving in unison and "floating." No one else was outside or driving by while objects were in view. Ten minutes later three female witnesses in Franklin, Georgia were outside when they saw a multicolored spherical object approach at a rapid (but not incredible) speed, then slow down near one house, then speed up again and depart out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Thompson, MUFON case files, cases # 970610E and 970217E Source ID: Johnson_970 Source: Johnson ### Event 23009 (57A43779) Date: 2/20/1997 Description: Local farmer Heliodoro Nunez was tending his sheep at around four o'clock in the afternoon in an isolated pasture near Paradeseca, Orense, Spain when his dog began barking. Looking back, he saw three ten-foot-tall entities wearing strange conical helmets. The beings appeared shiny and seemed to change colors at all times. When he saw them he closed his eyes and began to pray fervently, and he did not see the entities depart. Others saw strange red lights over the pasture. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 2, Number 18; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2631, citing UFO Roundup Source ID: Johnson_1028 Source: Johnson ### Event 23010 (8C62F879) Date: 2/22/1997 Description: In Templeton, Massachusetts a 50-foot in diameter disc-shaped object with many lights around the rim made a droning sound as it flew over at 5:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter, Volume 10, Number 2, citing Raymond Fowler Source ID: Johnson_1057 Source: Johnson ### Event 23011 (3C09F461) Date: 2/22/1997 Description: Near Aklavik, Northwest Territories, Canada, two silver-gray objects follow five people along a road. They hover above the highway then glide smoothly down to the snow behind them. The objects have rows of windows with bright blue light shining through them. After 15 minutes, the objects are lost to view as the witnesses turn along an ice road. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7209 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23012 (3E2F3C7A) Date: 2/24/1997 Description: A 50-year-old grandmother was sleeping with her grandchildren in a room in Brigantine, New Jersey and had left several lights on to comfort them. At 1:00 a.m. she awoke and noticed that the lights had been turned off. Her eyes slowly became accustomed to the dark and she felt a presence in the room. She then saw two short figures standing near her bed.

She was then startled as one of the beings moved aggressively and grabbed her. She jumped up and punched the being in the face, and his skin felt like hard plastic. She struggled some more, grabbing the figure by the throat, noticing that the neck appeared horribly wrinkled. The being was about five feet tall and thin. She then bit the being; she said it felt like biting a cold piece of ham. After a few more minutes of struggling the being dropped to the floor. Next a third figure appeared in the room, and the two aliens who remained standing moved towards her. One brushed against her face and grabbed her wrist. He seemed to be stronger than the first. She suddenly fainted. When she regained consciousness the figures had gone. The children had apparently been left untouched. She suffered from a severe headache afterwards and found three puncture wounds on her neck. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, New Jersey MUFON; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case #2672, citing New Jersey MUFON Source ID: Johnson_1092 Source: Johnson ### Event 23013 (6264EC0B) Date: 2/25/1997 Description: Two young people reported sighting a triangular shaped object hovering between Shrewsbury and Oswestry near a road in the Shropshire, England countryside. It expelled a flame and then vanished. According to a RAF spokesman, the object was unlikely to be a military experimental aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 199 Source ID: Johnson_1120 Source: Johnson ### Event 23014 (32ADD996) Date: 2/26/1997 Description: A man was driving to work near Lee, New Hampshire when he saw four balls of white light zigzag in unison over some nearby power lines. They then hovered about 50 feet from the ground looking a little blurry. The witness continued driving east on the road and ten minutes later saw the same lights again over a bog. At this point he began to hear voices inside his head. Now having stomach pains, he heard the voices warn him against studying UFOs. He then asked several questions, which the voices answered. When he came upon some large pine trees there was a blinding flash of orange light, and he felt his vehicle being lifted up. He then apparently lost consciousness. He woke up an hour later inside his vehicle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2800, citing ISUR Source ID: Johnson_1143 Source: Johnson ### Event 23015 (E5B09B7E) Date: 2/27/1997 Description: In Burnie, Tasmania a clear jelly like substance with yellow flakes in it was discovered on a lawn over a one-meter wide area. The substance was between 0.5 and 1.0 centimeters in thickness. It gradually deteriorated into a thin, plastic like cover on the lawn. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Bill Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 27, citing Tasmanian UFO Information Centre Source ID: Johnson_1165 Source: Johnson ### Event 23016 (9946C264) Date: 2/27/1997 Description: 7:30 p.m. A luminous blue sphere appears over Aviano Air Base, Italy, and hovers. After it disappears, a larger, orange-yellow-red sphere appears, and six fighters are scrambled to intercept it. The jets circle around the sphere but it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 2Pinotti 155 Source ID: Eberhart_7210 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23017 (C4986201) Date: 3/1997 Description: Cheltenham, England, researcher Robin Cole and his UFO group named Circular Forum have looked into the activities of the nearby Government Communications Headquarters \(GCHQ\) facility known as the Oakley Installation. He issues an unpublished report on their findings, titled “GCHQ and the UFO Cover-Up,” which includes information on radar/visual encounters reported by RAF personnel in the 1950s, evidence that GCHQ studied gun-camera footage of UFOs taken by British military pilots, the fact that the GCHQ library contains numerous UFO publications, and evidence that GCHQ still monitors military UFO encounters. Shortly afterward, he is visited by two Cheltenham policemen who ask him about a UFO group called the Truth-Seekers. It turns out they are actually from the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police, a counter-terrorism division. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[GCHQ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCHQ)”; Nick Redfern, “Paranoia or Surveillance?” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 7–9; Nick Redfern, “[UFO](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/08/ufo-encounters-saucers-and-secrets/) [Encounters, Saucers, and Secrets,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/08/ufo-encounters-saucers-and-secrets/)” Mysterious Universe, August 23, 2018; Nick Redfern, “[UFO Researchers:](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/09/ufo-researchers-what-can-happen-when-you-go-looking-for-secrets/) [What Can Happen When You Go Looking for Secrets,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/09/ufo-researchers-what-can-happen-when-you-go-looking-for-secrets/)” Mysterious Universe, September 18, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7211 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23018 (716E45E0) Date: 3/3/1997 Description: The Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy, chaired by Sen. [Daniel Patrick Moynihan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FPatrick%5FMoynihan) \(D-N.Y.\), after conducting an “investigation into all matters in any way related to any legislation, executive order, regulation, practice, or procedure relating to classified information or granting security clearances,” issues its final report. It concludes that secrecy is a form of government regulation; that excessive secrecy has significant consequences for the national interest when policy makers are not fully informed, the government is not held accountable for its actions, and the public cannot engage in informed debate; that some secrecy is important to minimize inappropriate diffusion of details of weapon systems design and ongoing security operations as well as to allow public servants to secretly consider a variety of policy options without fear of criticism; that the best way to ensure that secrecy is respected, and that the most important secrets remain secret, is for secrecy to be returned to its limited but necessary role; that secrets in the federal government are whatever anyone with a stamp decides to stamp secret; and that a new statute is needed to set forth the principles for what may be declared secret. Moynihan reports that approximately 400,000 new secrets are created annually at the highest level, Top Secret. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moynihan%5FCommission%5Fon%5FGovernment%5FSecrecy)”; Donald R. Burleson, “UFO Secrecy and the Law,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 16–17 Source ID: Eberhart_7212 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23019 (0016A6B7) Date: 3/5/1997 Description: At eight o'clock in the morning a two-meter long vertical cylinder was spotted landed in a field in San Martino d'Spino, Lombardia, Italy. The craft measured one meter in diameter, had three legs and two portholes. It took off to the west when approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17886, citing Revista Info UFO, Italy Source ID: Johnson_1322 Source: Johnson ### Event 23020 (FC44AFD0) Date: 3/6/1997 Description: 6:45–10:30 p.m. Dozens of UFOs descend from the sky and briefly hover above Aviano Air Base, Italy. They zoom toward Venice Marco Polo Airport before heading toward Istrana and Treviso air bases, where they remain hovering in the sky for a while before returning to Aviano. The display repeats several times, despite Italian and US fighters attempting to intercept them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 2Pinotti 156 Source ID: Eberhart_7213 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23021 (101F2925) Date: 3/8/1997 Description: 3:00 a.m. Folkestone Herald journalist Sarah Hall is driving through Burmarsh, Kent, England, when she sees a large triangular object descend and hover above a field some 700 feet away near Dymchurch. It has a disc attached to it on the back and a big light on the front. When she pulls to a stop, it shoots away to a spot about 1,500 feet away and hovers. It does this four times, making a humming sound, and moving westward in increments for only a few seconds at a time. The UFO seems to be twice the size of an airliner. Other witnesses to a strange object come forward after Hall writes an article about her sighting. The residence of Conservative Home Secretary [Michael Howard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FHoward) in Lympne is one epicenter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 385–387](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/384/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7214 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23022 (C651B31E) Date: 3/8/1997 Description: A triangle-shaped UFO with a large dome at one end hovered low over a field in Lympe, England near the town of Hythe at three a.m. There were three witnesses. One of the witnesses, Ms. S. Hall, said that it had lots of bright lights around the sides and made a humming noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 168 Source ID: Johnson_1386 Source: Johnson ### Event 23023 (0468865D) Date: 3/10/1997 Description: After dropping off his girlfriend at her home in the city of Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia Juan Sudarsky was walking home alone at around 3:00 a.m. when he suddenly felt very cold. He next saw a purple light drop from the sky, and at the same time he heard a high-pitched screeching sound and he felt dizzy. He fell to his knees, sweating profusely despite the sensation of cold. An orange beam of light then appeared beside him. Several odd looking, medium-sized creatures then emerged from the beam. They appeared to have only one eye and each had a large antenna that radiated an odd blue light. They had a strange orifice where their mouths should have been. The creatures emitted intermittent screeches of varying frequencies. Juan could apparently understand them, because he was receiving mental messages. The beings then formed a circle around Sudarsky, and one of them approached and touched his forehead. He then got a mental message in perfect Spanish, telling him to guard the planet against pollution, because their own world was almost totally ruined, and now there were only 50 of them left. Soon after this they flew back into the purple light via the orange beam of light. Before leaving, the leader showed Sudarsky a strange communication device. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2844, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World Source ID: Johnson_1418 Source: Johnson ### Event 23024 (8A5A079D) Date: 3/13/1997 Description: Thousands in Phoenix, Arizona saw lights arranged in a V-shaped formation on this evening beginning at 7:55 p.m. There appear to have been two separate incidents. Earlier in the evening what may have been a huge V-shaped object passed over the states of Nevada and Arizona. Over the next two hours multiple objects or lights, estimated to be one to two miles apart, hovered motionless over the mountains and were seen and videotaped from several locations. The Government explanation of the sightings was that the Air National Guard was performing flight operations from Luke A.F.B. dropping flares, and this may well be the explanation for the later sightings. However, the sightings earlier in the evening remained unexplained. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17890, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1997, issue # 343 Source ID: Johnson_1465 Source: Johnson ### Event 23025 (6C0323A7) Date: 3/13/1997 Description: 6:55–10:30 p.m. Aerial lights of varying descriptions are seen by thousands of people \(many of whom are looking for Comet Hale-Bopp\) in a space of about 300 miles from Henderson, Nevada, at 6:55 p.m., through Phoenix to the edge of Tucson, Arizona. Tim Ley and his family at first see a tiny arc of five white lights just after 8:00 p.m. in the northwestern sky. They slowly draw nearer \(around 30 mph\), and Ley discerns a V-formation flying no more than 100 feet above the ground. The lights hold this pattern for more than 15 minutes, leading him to believe they are on one structure. Ley’s report is the most detailed, but there are many others. There are two distinct events involved in the entire incident: a triangular formation of lights seen to travel around 8:10–9:30 p.m. from Paulden to Tucson, passing over Prescott and Phoenix. Some witnesses see a huge carpenter’s square-shaped UFO, containing five spherical lights or possibly light-emitting engines. Gov. [Fife Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife%5FSymington) is one witness, although he does not reveal this until 2007; he calls the object “otherworldly.” One overriding characteristic prevails: The UFO is a massive solid object, not merely lights, and it appears low in the sky, blocking out the stars behind it. Many witnesses say it is the size of multiple football fields and up to one mile long. Reports vary in terms of the number and color of lights and their movements. The second group of events is a series of stationary lights seen in the Phoenix area around 10:00 p.m. The Air Force identifies this group as magnesium LUU2 flares dropped by A-10 Warthog aircraft in a training exercise at the Barry Goldwater Range in southwest Arizona as part of Operation Snowbird; news coverage later shows a video taken around 10:00 p.m. by an amateur photographer that clearly shows the flares, not the earlier UFO. Phoenix city councilwoman [Frances Emma](http://www.noufors.com/Frances%5FE%5FBarwood.htm) [Barwood](http://www.noufors.com/Frances%5FE%5FBarwood.htm) is the only elected official to launch a public investigation, but she receives no help from any level of government. She speaks to more than 700 witnesses who call her office, including police officers, pilots, and former military personnel. Minimal coverage is provided at the time by the media, even in Phoenix. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Phoenix Lights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%5FLights)”; NICAP, “[The Phoenix Lights Case: More Than Lights and Flares?](http://www.nicap.org/phoenix970313dir.htm)”; Tony Ortega, “[The Great](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/the-great-ufo-cover-up-6422930) [UFO Cover-up,](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/the-great-ufo-cover-up-6422930)” Phoenix New Times, June 26, 1997; Bruce Maccabee, “[Report on Phoenix Lights Arrays,](http://brumac.mysite.com/phoenixlights1.html)” 2000; Donald R. Burleson, “UFO Secrecy and the Law,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 16; Lynne D. Kitei, The Phoenix Lights: A Skeptic’s Discovery That We Are Not Alone, Hampton Roads, 2004; “Former Arizona Governor Says He Saw ‘Phoenix lights’ UFO,” American Chronicle, March 18, 2007; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 \(March 2012\): 12–13, 30; Kean, [pp. 247–249](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/254/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/254/mode/2up) [253–261](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/260/mode/2up); Good Need, [pp. 387–](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/386/mode/2up) [390](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/386/mode/2up); Clark III 901–905; Patrick Gross, “[The Phoenix Lights, Arizona, USA, March 14, 1997](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/phoenix.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7215 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23026 (0DFE5319) Date: 3/14/1997 Description: At 1:03 a.m. a couple were in a park in Cote-St.-Luc, Quebec, Canada when they heard a loud whirring sound overhead and were engulfed in a white beam. They were unable to move. Overhead they saw, less than 50 feet above them, a silver disc-shaped UFO with multi-colored lights around the rim. They experienced an episode of missing time, their clothes were singed and they had skin burns. The woman also had a round scar on her head. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 1997 Canadian UFO Survey [electronic version], case 29 Source ID: Johnson_1511 Source: Johnson ### Event 23027 (E680D969) Date: 3/15/1997 Description: 5:00 p.m. An object explodes in the air and crashes to the ground near Węgorzewo in northeastern Poland. The debris is allegedly retrieved by soldiers. The Polish Army denies all knowledge of the incident, but Col. Zdzislaw Czekierda of the General Staff admits there is a special division that has gathered information about UFO sightings since the early 1980s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 391](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/390/mode/2up); Poland 117–118 Source ID: Eberhart_7216 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23028 (0C69BA2A) Date: 3/19/1997 Description: In 1997 at 4:05 a.m. police in La Escala, Spain saw a yellow light near the ground change color to orange. There was a 4-meter tall shadowy human figure in the center of the light. One witness attempted to photograph it, but the light dimmed, became oval shaped, and vanished. Flattened grass was discovered at the site. Seven hours later, at 5:05 EST, a driver in Nottingham, New Hampshire watched several golf ball sized balls-of-light zig-zag only a meter away from near his driver's side outside car mirror. He heard a voice in his head that told him to drive west. He refused and drove north instead. He then lost control of the car and saw a cylindrical UFO approach, the approximate size of a small 12-passenger bus. The telepathic messages he received included warnings about future events. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997 Source ID: Johnson_1581 Source: Johnson ### Event 23029 (978E44CC) Date: 3/21/1997 End date: 3/23/1997 Description: A Space and UFO Science Symposium is held at Cosmo Isle Hakui, a museum of space history in Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Symposium speakers include [Richard F. Haines](http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Richard%5FHaines), [Jesse A. Marcel Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116270028/jesse-antoine-marcel), [Bruce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) [Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) hypnotherapist [Derrel Sims](http://alienhunter.org/about/becoming-the-alien-hunter/)[,](http://alienhunter.org/about/becoming-the-alien-hunter/) podiatrist [Roger K. Leir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%5FLeir)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%5FLeir) and crop circle researcher [Colin](https://www.colinandrews.net/Biography.html) [Andrews](https://www.colinandrews.net/Biography.html)[.](https://www.colinandrews.net/Biography.html)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “The 1997 Space and UFO Science Symposium at the Cosmo Isle–Hakui Center, Japan,” IUR 22, no. 2 \(Summer 1997\): 15–18, 36 Source ID: Eberhart_7217 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23030 (1A9CFAE3) Date: 3/24/1997 Description: 10:00 p.m. Reports come in from the public that there is a low-flying aircraft over Howden Moors, Yorkshire, England. These reports soon turn into accounts of bright flashes, loud booming noises, and “several plumes of black smoke” rising from somewhere in the woodlands of the open countryside. Several search operations from several different counties are launched, both on foot and in the air. These continue through the night. The main concern is that a light aircraft or a helicopter has come down. However, no survivors or any wreckage is discovered during the search, which goes on well into the following day. At one stage, no-fly zones are put in place, an action that some UFO researchers later find suspicious—particularly when there are commercial airliners “stacking” as a result. Despite all of this activity, the official word from the military is that there is no crash at all. It is simply a mistaken sighting—despite many reports from the general public. Soon, rumors circulate from the many volunteer searchers. The most prominent comes from a unit of Yorkshire Water workers who happen to be in the area. They see a wrecked pile of metal in a clearing and a “military presence” that is loading “body bags” onto a Sea King helicopter. When the military is confronted with this, they claim they are merely moving equipment. An explanation remains elusive, although a military exercise did take place, at least 3 groups of observers reported UFO-like sightings, the sonic events did take place, and at least 1–2 civilian aircraft are reported in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke and Martin Jeffrey, “The Mystery of Howden Moors: Part One,” IUR 24, no. 2 \(Summer 1999\): 13–20; David Clarke and Martin Jeffrey, “The Mystery of Howden Moors: Part Two,” IUR 24, no. 3 \(Fall 1999\): 24–28 Source ID: Eberhart_7218 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23031 (EB15C68C) Date: 3/26/1997 Description: 3:30 p.m. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office takes a 911 call from a man later identified as Richard Ford, reporting a group suicide in a house in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Two deputies find 39 bodies of identically dressed, androgynous-looking men and women. Autopsies establish that each had drunk a lethal combination of vodka and barbiturates then smothered themselves with a plastic bag. Videotaped statements left behind explain that the suicides, members of a religious millenarian cult called Heaven’s Gate, were leaving their “earthly vehicles” behind and expect to board a spacecraft trailing Comet Hale-Bopp. It was founded in 1974 and led by [Marshall Applewhite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%5FApplewhite) and [Bonnie Nettles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie%5FNettles) \(formerly called Bo and Peep\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Heaven’s Gate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s%5FGate%5F%28religious%5Fgroup%29) [\(religious group\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s%5FGate%5F%28religious%5Fgroup%29)”; Clark III 566–567 Source ID: Eberhart_7219 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23032 (BC4CA6DE) Date: 3/30/1997 Description: A mother and her three children are chased along a highway near Whitehorse, Yukon, by an object “like a small satellite dish.” At one point, the object is directly above the car at treetop level. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7220 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23033 (75717B7E) Date: 3/30/1997 End date: 4/1/1997 Description: Aerial lights are seen for several nights west of Arica, Chile, and over the Pacific Ocean, causing some alarm. Witnesses include civil servants and aeronautical experts at Chacalluta International Airport. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation issues a public statement confirming the observations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [pp. 190–191](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/198/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7221 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23034 (CF9A7B5B) Date: 3/30/1997 Description: At 10:45 p.m. 27 nocturnal lights were seen flying in a diamond formation by two comet watchers in La Tour-de-Pin, France. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1997 Source ID: Johnson_1753 Source: Johnson ### Event 23035 (FA95FFCB) Date: 4/10/1997 Description: Rear Adm. [Thomas R. Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FR.%5FWilson)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FR.%5FWilson) vice director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meets in a Pentagon conference room with former astronaut [Edgar Mitchell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%5FMitchell) and UFO Disclosure founder [Steven M. Greer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FM.%5FGreer) to discuss the rogue nature of certain “special access programs” \(SAPs\) connected to the study of alien technology that are dominated by private contractors. Others allegedly there are retired Cmdr. Will Miller, Adm. Mike Crawford, Gen. Patrick Hughes, Shari Adamiak \(Greer’s assistant\), and Stephen Lovekin. Greer claims he has extracted a pledge from Wilson during the meeting to investigate SAPs involving UFO technology. But Wilson soon reports that he doesn’t have the proper security clearance to inspect those files. As Greer informs a Portland, Oregon, audience in 2001, Wilson says, “‘I am horrified that this is true. I have been in plenty of black projects, but when we tried to get into this one,’ he was told, and I quote, ‘Sir, you do not have a need to know.’ The head of intelligence Joint Staffs. You don’t have a need to know. Neither did the CIA director, and neither did the president.” In a July 4, 2008, appearance on Larry King Live, Mitchell tells the audience he had learned the admiral “had found the people responsible for the cover-up and for the people who were in the know and were told, I’m sorry, admiral, you do not have need to know here and so, goodbye.” Shortly afterward, Wilson admits meeting with Mitchell but denies he was ever refused access. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Steven M. Greer, “[Dr. Steven Greer Disclosure](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc788.htm) [Project Talk, Sept. 2001, Portland, Oregon,](http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc788.htm)” UFO Evidence; Steven M. Greer, Hidden Truth, Forbidden Knowledge, Crossing Point, 2006, [pp. 158–160](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780967323824/page/158/mode/2up); “[Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell Recounts Admiral Wilson Story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unEzDmiHKic) [on CNN’s Larry King Live, 7/4/08,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unEzDmiHKic)” The Black Vault YouTube channel, June 17, 2020; “Admiral: Never Looked for UFO Data,” Sarasota \(Fla.\) Herald-Tribune, August 6, 2008; Dolan II 538–539; Kean, [pp. 234–235](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/242/mode/2up); Joe Murgia, “[The Wilson/Davis Documents: My Twenty-Three Year Journey, Part 1,](https://www.ufojoe.net/wilsondavis1)” [Part 2](https://www.ufojoe.net/wilsondavis2)[,](https://www.ufojoe.net/wilsondavis2) UFO Joe, June 21, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7222 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23036 (39145F57) Date: 4/15/1997 Description: A woman reported seeing red and white lights flashing outside her home in Bridgeton, New Jersey late at night. She next remembered seeing a hundred white lights moving in unison like a swarm of bees, each carrying its own light in formation. She then experienced three hours of missing time. She can recall seeing a man inside a plastic looking column filled with liquid, with blue electricity flowing through it. She woke up violently ill, and with a scar on her face. While this was occurring her next door neighbor also woke up with facial burns, but he had no recollection of anything unusual happening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3131, citing New Jersey MUFON Source ID: Johnson_2040 Source: Johnson ### Event 23037 (CEF346CC) Date: 4/16/1997 Description: On a farm in Zagorje, Slovenia a 15 meter black sphere with a halo and portholes hovered near the ground at 6:45 p.m. Footprints were later found at the site, about size 9 in shoe size. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 16 Source ID: Johnson_2067 Source: Johnson ### Event 23038 (6297CB23) Date: 4/18/1997 Description: Sitting on their porch at 12:45 a.m. in La Grange, California the witnesses first thought they saw a flock of birds, but soon it became apparent they were looking at a UFO that was slowly flying over the Kroger store on Commerce Avenue. It then came toward them. When directly overhead the object "sped up and rapidly disappeared." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON field investigation files, case 970418E Source ID: Johnson_2125 Source: Johnson ### Event 23039 (FFA10DF5) Date: 4/20/1997 Description: 1:40 p.m. A woman is sitting on a park bench along the St. Clair River in Sarnia, Ontario. A grayish-white object suddenly appears in front of her, suspended vertically, with the bottom party positioned 25° above the horizon. The object has tubelike shape, rounded at both ends. She then notices a white spherical object that seems to have been ejected from the first. It travels a short distance north to Lake Huron and vanishes. The original object then disappears after another few seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Spring 2004\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_7223 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23040 (48C3C484) Date: 4/22/1997 Description: At around 8:45 p.m. in Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia a large black triangular object flew overhead at 90 km/hour, at an estimated altitude of 800 meters. It was followed by three smaller nocturnal lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17915, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup Source ID: Johnson_2243 Source: Johnson ### Event 23041 (239850B8) Date: 4/25/1997 Description: A man took a photograph of a mountain in St. Barnabe, Alpes-Maritime, France in the early afternoon. After being developed the photograph clearly showed a gray saucer-shaped object that was not witnessed at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17921, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1997 Source ID: Johnson_2316 Source: Johnson ### Event 23042 (9AD23BF3) Date: 4/27/1997 Description: First there was a flash in the sky at 2:30 p.m. in Paradise Valley, Arizona; then a white metallic disc dropped tumbling objects. It vanished when a plane approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 18 Source ID: Johnson_2384 Source: Johnson ### Event 23043 (536408F4) Date: 4/27/1997 Description: In Norman Park, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia at 7:30 p.m. a disc was seen hovering over a house for 10 minutes. It wobbled as it rotated slowly. Two more UFOs rose from the city park. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17922, citing website Source ID: Johnson_2383 Source: Johnson ### Event 23044 (886AF11C) Date: 4/28/1997 Description: The witness was driving on a business trip when he had a flat tire at 10 p.m. near Longview, Texas. A truck driver stopped to assist him when they both became aware of a UFO about 100 yards away. There looked to be humanoid figures dressed in white clothing moving around inside the craft. The object was circular and emitted an occasional flash of light. The truck driver walked closer to the object in order to get a better look. He suddenly ran back in fear yelling that they had to leave quick. Both men got into the truck and began speeding away. Shortly after the UFO silently passed over the truck and quickly flew out of sight. At the same time in Houston, Texas two witnesses reported seeing 10-13 amber-colored lights fly over in a V-shaped formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997; case #3121, citing Mark Harman, UFO Times, issue #1; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_2400 Source: Johnson ### Event 23045 (468FEC9A) Date: 5/3/1997 Description: A couple returning from work at 1:30 a.m. in Meilleraye de Bretagne, Loire-Atlantique, France saw a point more luminous than stars. It approached at high speed and the witnesses could see that its shape was round; it passed just above them and then flew away to the south. Air displacement was heard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case 251 Source ID: Johnson_2488 Source: Johnson ### Event 23046 (786D99BC) Date: 5/5/1997 Description: At 12:15 p.m. a metallic ovoid object flew across the sky in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1997 webpage Source ID: Johnson_2565 Source: Johnson ### Event 23047 (9410BC87) Date: 5/5/1997 Description: A woman in Hazelwood Park, Adelaide, South Australia reported sighting an object travelling from the northwest to the south, where it hovered for 5-6 seconds before it moved off and was lost from view at 8:30 p.m. It looked like two shallow saucers, lip to lip. The body of the object was like the tail of a comet in its consistency. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia Source ID: Johnson_2564 Source: Johnson ### Event 23048 (A50119E1) Date: 5/12/1997 Description: At 4:15 p.m. a saucer-shaped object flew overhead in Ginkunai, Lithuania. It passed within 10 meters of five observers, making rhythmic pulses and flashes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17928, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 24 Source ID: Johnson_2780 Source: Johnson ### Event 23049 (09520A44) Date: 5/14/1997 Description: Matias Pakula was looking out his bedroom window in Bethelem, Pennsylvania at three o'clock in the morning when he spotted a cigar-shaped object hovering 300 feet in the air and a short distance away. Through windows he saw what he described as "beautiful beings" inside. After about five minutes the object shot away at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World Source ID: Johnson_2842 Source: Johnson ### Event 23050 (F4C3631D) Date: 5/18/1997 Description: Day. A tradesman sees a “flying entity” near Ponte a Mensola in the hills northeast of Florence, Italy. It descends vertically and lands in a field not too far away. He approaches it and sees that it is a man wearing black overalls with a red belt, helmet, and dark glasses, and with no apparent flying apparatus. The intruder notices him and disappears in the long grass, which is flattened where the man has landed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 2Pinotti 156–157 Source ID: Eberhart_7224 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23051 (FB1C89DB) Date: 5/18/1997 Description: At 11:10 p.m. Mr. Tosti and two other men saw several bright objects over a power plant in Bloomington, Indiana. In response to a flashlight signal, two of the objects descended. Their car engine stalled as the objects approached. The objects were small domed discs with square windows and a blue glow. Through the windows some silhoetted figures with large heads could be seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 22 (1997) Source ID: Johnson_2965 Source: Johnson ### Event 23052 (CF83D821) Date: 5/18/1997 Description: In a hilly area known as Ponte a Mensola, east of Florence, Italy a local merchant watched a tall human-like figure descend slowly from the sky into a nearby field at 10:30 a.m. The figure was about 1.60 meters tall, and totally covered in a black, tight-fitting diver's suit. He wore a red belt around his waist and a black helmet with wide dark goggles. He landed in a vertical position among the high grass. A few minutes later he rose back up into the sky vertically, and disappeared from sight. Others in the area reported seeing bright red lights flying in a zigzag pattern over the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Federico Rosati, CUN Source ID: Johnson_2964 Source: Johnson ### Event 23053 (5FF3C10D) Date: 5/19/1997 Description: At 12:15 a.m. local UFO investigator John Tosti and two other men in Bloomington, Indiana saw several bright objects hovering over a local power plant. Mr. Tosti decided to drive to Snoddy Road at an isolated location to signal to the objects with a flashlight. Two of the UFOs descended to his location. When one object approached his vehicle, the engine and electrical system sputtered. Tosti was able to discern a metallic, disc-shaped object, with a small round dome and an even smaller dome on top. A blue glow emanated from the bottom of the craft. Around the middle of the object was a row of square windows, showing a yellow to amber colored light within. Inside the craft he could see the silhouettes of several individuals with large heads. He attempted to communicate with them by waving his arms, but he was apparently ignored. Two smaller bright spherical objects emerged from the disc, which then shot up at very high speed, joining the other objects in the sky. After a short while, the UFOs left the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1997 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2630, sighting Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 22 Source ID: Johnson_2992 Source: Johnson ### Event 23054 (098E0A46) Date: 5/23/1997 Description: Art Bell anonymously interviews “Victor”, who claimed to have worked at Area-51 S-4 (see 2/1997). Claims no successful communication has taken place and that most psychics used in the program were frauds. Type: interview Reference: [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-viqc7DJWhs&list=FL-kvdFF-6XoQqmANxWYoP2A&index=7) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_802 Source: Maj2 ### Event 23055 (762AC6D7) Date: 5/30/1997 Description: About 11:20 a.m. Writer [Georgina Howell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgina%5FHowell) is crossing the tarmac at Kirkwall Airport in Orkney, Scotland, to board British Airways Flight 8773 to Aberdeen when she notices a silvery chevron about 45° in the sky to her left. She thinks it is odd, but suspects it is some kind of aircraft. Suddenly she falls down on her face, sustaining some minor scrapes and bruises. Asked why she fell, she says she was looking at a sky object, but it is no longer there. Later, she hears about chevron-shaped objects over Phoenix. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 390–391](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/390/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7225 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23056 (404D94FF) Date: 6/1997 Alternate date: 7/1997 Description: Twilight. A Polish passenger on a ferry to Stockholm, Sweden, watches a large ball of light, 30 feet across, follow the ship’s course low over the surface of the Baltic Sea. As many as 10 smaller spheres emerge from the upper part of the object and remain 10 feet away from it. Some darker colored spots can be seen rotating on the surface of the original light. After several minutes, the lights go off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 121–122 Source ID: Eberhart_7237 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23057 (F7FFC5C7) Date: 6/1997 Description: Night. Two police officers responding to an emergency call in Daniec, Poland, see two bright spheres maneuvering 1,000 feet to the left of their patrol car. The lights stop, then accelerate, and make sharp turns in the air. One of the lights approaches them to about 40 feet away, while the other is still circling above a field. Suddenly, both lights depart at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 110–111 Source ID: Eberhart_7228 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23058 (5A33BCA2) Date: 6/1997 Description: Roswell Declaration author and pilot Kent Jeffrey announces that he is unable to find sufficient evidence of an extraterrestrial crash in New Mexico in 1947 and that the Corona debris was probably from a Project Mogul balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keau Davidson, “[UFO Fan: Roswell Saucer Story Is Bunk,](https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/UFO-fan-Roswell-saucer-story-is-bunk-3240257.php)” San Francisco Examiner, June 23, 1997; Kent Jeffrey, “[Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1997/06/June%201997.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 350 \(June 1997\): 3–17; Kent Jeffrey, “[Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F1%5Fjeffrey.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 \(1998\): 79–101; Michael D. Swords, “[A Different View of ‘Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,’](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F1%5Fswords.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 \(1998\): 103– 125; Robert M. Wood, “[Critique of ‘Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,’](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F1%5Fwood.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 \(1998\): 127–140 Source ID: Eberhart_7227 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23059 (0E9689D9) Date: 6/1997 Description: US Army Col. [Philip J. Corso](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FCorso) writes, with [William J. Birnes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FBirnes), The Day after Roswell, a tell-all memoir about the Roswell, New Mexico, crash and retrieval. Much of the book is an account of Corso’s claims that he was assigned to a secret government program that provided some material recovered from a crashed spacecraft to private industry \(without saying where the items came from\) to reverse engineer them for corporate use. Corso was a special assistant to Lt. Gen. [Arthur Trudeau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%5FTrudeau), who headed Army Research and Development, and was in charge of the Foreign Technology Desk. In this position, he would take technological artifacts obtained from Russian, German, and other foreign sources and have American companies \(including IBM, Hughes Aircraft, Bell Labs\) reverse engineer that technology. The book contends that several aspects of modern technology such as fiber optics and integrated circuits were developed by using information taken from the craft. Corso also claims the world was “at war” with extraterrestrials and that the Strategic Defense Initiative project in the 1980s was part of that campaign successfully concluded in Earth’s favor. The book concludes with information about Project Horizon, a 1959 US Army plan to construct a base on the Moon. When first released, the book contains a foreword written by Sen. [Strom Thurmond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom%5FThurmond) \(R-S.C.\), for whom Corso had served as an aide. Thurmond writes, “He has many interesting stories to share with individuals interested in military history, espionage, and the workings of our Government.” The foreword does not mention anything about UFOs, since Thurmond has assumed the book is a straightforward memoir. When he learns about the book’s contents, Thurmond asks for his foreword to be retracted, saying, “I know of no such ‘cover-up,’ and do not believe one existed.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[The Day after Roswell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FDay%5FAfter%5FRoswell)”; Philip J. Corso with William J. Birnes, [The Day after Roswell](https://archive.org/details/dayafterroswell00cors%5F0), Pocket Books, 1997; George M. Eberhart, \[review\], IUR 22, no. 2 \(Summer 1997\): 22–24; Good Need, [pp. 424–425](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/424/mode/2up); Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 145–151 Source ID: Eberhart_7226 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23060 (7035FA4E) Date: 6/4/1997 Description: In 1997 three people witnessed a fluorescent flying object as it flew over White Plains, New York. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1997 web page Source ID: Johnson_3285 Source: Johnson ### Event 23061 (283DA350) Date: 6/5/1997 Description: On this night a Mr. Hassan, near Redmond, Washington saw a low level, hovering saucer-shaped object about half a mile away that was glowing white. He had the headlights of his car on it, so combined with the glow from the UFO he could clearly see that it was abducting cattle. The cows appeared to be stunned, still in an upright position, as they floated up into the object. He also noticed "little monsters" on the ground. They were 50-60 pound humanoids with large heads, grayish white skin, and dark black eyes. The witness became frightened and drove off. No one else appeared to be around at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Western Bigfoot Society Newsletter, issue # 68 Source ID: Johnson_3312 Source: Johnson ### Event 23062 (13F2071B) Date: 6/5/1997 Description: At 2:30 a.m. Nathalie, a young French woman, was sitting in her car with a companion in La Houssaye-en-Brie, France when both saw an object in the sky that resembled a wheel; it was made of 12 projecting lights revolving counterclockwise. The observation lasted almost two hours, during which they were unable to move. After the sighting they both went to sleep. Later, under hypnotic regression, Nathalie remembered being lifted through a conical light beam into the hovering craft. Aboard the craft she was submitted to various medical tests, and apparently given an implant. She witnessed another woman also being subjected to the same treatment. She described her abductors as being "very tall", about two meters in height, and assisted by a smaller "woman." Some of her abductors looked human, and some did not. In another room, she saw four beings sitting in chairs in front of glass panels. Some of these beings were courteous to her, and others looked to be rather irritated at her, for whatever reason. The beings appeared to be well built, with huge strong shoulders. Their heads were larger than humans and oval in shape, with large black slit-like eyes. Another very curious detail was that they had what appeared to be a lock of hair, tied up tight like a ponytail, that suck up straight from the tops of their bald heads. They wore tight fitting, two piece gray colored outfits with belts. In the room she saw windows in front of a corridor, the floor was luminous, and apparently made out of glass. She also saw a lozenge shaped table, black in color in the middle of the room. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit & GEIPIS Source ID: Johnson_3310 Source: Johnson ### Event 23063 (51D05D66) Date: 6/5/1997 Description: In 1997 a hat-shaped UFO reportedly landed in Hayward, California at 9:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1997 web page Source ID: Johnson_3311 Source: Johnson ### Event 23064 (26C9201A) Date: 6/6/1997 Description: The Gomzyakov family is traveling on the Krutikha River, Altai Krai, Russia, when they see a luminous flying object moving at a speed of 300 mph. The object turns around over the Ob River and flies north. An hour later, they arrive at the vilage of Krutikha, where they see another object engulfed in brownish gas and emitting powerful floodlights toward the ground. Another crescent-shaped object appears carrying a light that is 8 times as big as itself. The family watches the display for 15 minutes, after which all the objects move off to the north, leaving behind an odor reimiscent of blast furnaces ar a steel factory. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 127 Source ID: Eberhart_7229 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23065 (B5764CD3) Date: 6/6/1997 Description: A silent orange object hovered in the sky over Sunderland, England then ascended, changed color to silver, and shot off. That same night at 9:45 PDT a large orange object flew across the sky over Bothell, Washington. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1997 web page Source ID: Johnson_3342 Source: Johnson ### Event 23066 (FD30C6E2) Date: 6/7/1997 Description: On this night there was a near collision over Hertfordshire, England between an Aer Lingus BAe-146 airliner and a unidentified flying object with red, blue and white lights. The object passed close by the aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48 Source ID: Johnson_3361 Source: Johnson ### Event 23067 (FDE95843) Date: 6/8/1997 Description: A former police officer sees a turquoise object that seems to land in a field near a highway he is driving along at Treherne, Manitoba. It remains on the ground for 10–15 minutes and appears to have a light on its front and back. The witness is inexplicably frightened. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7230 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23068 (92F5B5C6) Date: 6/18/1997 Description: USA Today breaks the media silence about the Phoenix, Arizona, UFOs in a front-page story. NBC and ABC evening newsrooms pick up the story and nickname the object\(s\) the “Phoenix Lights.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard Price, “[Arizonans Say the Truth about UFOs Is Out There,](http://www.ufosnw.com/history%5Fof%5Fufo/phoenixlights1997/usatodayarticle06181997old.pdf)” USA Today, June 18, 1997, p. 4; “[1997 NBC News Report](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGSe4FW5FRc) [on the Phoenix Lights w/ Tom Brokaw and Robert Hager,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGSe4FW5FRc)” Roadside Television YouTube channel, March 8, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7231 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23069 (887EEE18) Date: 6/18/1997 Description: In the pre-dawn hours a disc-shaped object with a second object hovering above it was seen from Norman's Law, Scotland. RAF Leuchars said there were not any of their planes in the area at that time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 146 Source ID: Johnson_3546 Source: Johnson ### Event 23070 (CA577A38) Date: 6/18/1997 End date: 6/19/1997 Description: Evening. Grzegorz Nowak and four friends are visiting the monument to the Battle of Annenberg in Góra Świętej Anny, Poland, when they see glowing fireballs playing about on the hill and a large orange sphere. They try to communicate with the fireballs by flashing their headlights on and off; one of the lights responds with a similar signal. They watch other aerial objects and two of the youths have some missing time of more than an hour. The next night, they improve their headlight signaling. An enormous cigar-shaped object appears, shooting out multicolored lights that hover almost directly above them. Some of the orange spheres seem to transform into cloaked beings, each carrying a light ball. Some Polish researchers consider this a concocted episode amplified by fantasy proneness. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 85–87; “[Seria dziwnych zdarzeń w Opolu w 1997 roku,](https://ufo-relacje.pl/2020/02/13/seria-dziwnych-zdarzen-w-opolu-w-1997-roku/)” UFO-Relacje.pl, February 13, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7232 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23071 (B294C548) Date: 6/19/1997 Description: Arizona Gov. [Fife Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife%5FSymington) calls a press conference, stating that “they found who was responsible” for the Phoenix Lights. He proceeds to make light of the situation by bringing on stage his 6-foot-4 chief of staff [Jay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%5FHeiler) [Heiler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%5FHeiler) dressed in an alien costume and proclaiming him “the guilty party.” He jokes that the media is taking the story “entirely too serious” as Heiler removes the mask. Symington also notes that he requested information from the commander of Luke AFB near Glendale, Arizona, the general in charge of the Arizona National Guard, and the head of the Arizona Department of Public Safety. But none of them have an answer for what. In 2007, Symington responds to an Air Force explanation that the lights were [flares](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flare%5F%28pyrotechnic%29): “As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man made object I’d ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don’t fly in formation.” In a December 10, 2008, episode of the television show UFO Hunters called “Arizona Lights,” Symington says that he contacted the military asking what the lights were. The response was “no comment.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Symington Claims He Saw UFO in Phoenix Sky,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96781827/tucson-citizen/)” Tucson \(Ariz.\) Citizen, March 24, 2007, p. 4; Kean, [p. 249](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/256/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7233 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23072 (C2D1A8D1) Date: 6/24/1997 Description: USAF releases The Roswell Report: Case Closed, by Capt. James McAndrew, stating that any alien bodies found at Roswell, New Mexico, were really anthropomorphic test dummies carried aloft in high-altitude balloons, and the unusual military activities were balloon launch-and-recovery operations. Although the dummy tests occurred several years after 1947, witnesses had been confused about the exact date. Claims of alien bodies at Roswell Army Air Field hospital are a combination of two incidents: the [June 26, 1956, crash](https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19560626-0) of a Boeing KC- 97G Stratotanker at Roswell-Walker AFB in which 11 crew members die; and a May 21, 1959, manned balloon mishap, in preparation for Project Excelsior, at Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, in which Capt. [Joseph Kittinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKittinger) is injured. The Project Mogul balloon is still invoked to explain the 1947 debris field at Corona, New Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Capt. James McAndrew, [The Roswell Report: Case Closed](https://archive.org/details/AFD-101027-030/mode/2up)[,](https://archive.org/details/AFD-101027-030/mode/2up) Headquarters US Air Force, 1997; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “Who’s the Dummy Now? The Latest Air Force Report,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 7–10; Swords 355–357; “[Air Force Reports on the Roswell UFO Incident,](https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Air%5FForce%5Freports%5Fon%5Fthe%5FRoswell%5FUFO%5Fincident)” Military Wiki; Clark III 321 Source ID: Eberhart_7235 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23073 (31AEEE5C) Date: 6/24/1997 Description: 7:30 p.m. A woman in Lachlan, Tasmania, is home alone in her kitchen when she notices a bright light source on the window blinds. Looking outside, she sees a large circle of light seemingly at ground level, some 550 feet to the east of the house. The circle is in a paddock at a higher elevation and in front of the trees and the other end. She goes outside, but can’t see any further details or head any sound. The light does not reflect on any of the nearby trees. Later, the light disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFOs in Tasmania,” IUR 22, no. 4 \(Winter 1997–1998\): 28 Source ID: Eberhart_7234 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23074 (DF5E7FBA) Date: 6/26/1997 Description: In Dunkinsville, Ohio a woman was watching television when she heard her dogs barking outside at one o'clock in the morning. That drew her attention outside, and when she turned the porch light on, she saw a strange creature alongside the pond in her front yard only 30 feet away. It was hairy and gray, stood about three or four feet tall, and had large dark eyes. It made gurgling sounds, and walked on its knuckles. Her dogs gave chase and it ran away, but she called her dogs back. The creature was last seen moving along a barbwire fence. Shortly later she heard a screeching sound coming from that direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2796, citing Ron Schaffner Source ID: Johnson_3688 Source: Johnson ### Event 23075 (EB0AEBCF) Date: 6/26/1997 Description: An hour later a woman awoke to a nosebleed in Puerto Rico. She had a sudden recall of her missing time experience. She recalled having been on a stainless steel exam table with three thin little men in the room. They wore white coveralls and had some type of red-star insignia on their uniforms. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997 website Source ID: Johnson_3689 Source: Johnson ### Event 23076 (6EE03987) Date: 6/28/1997 Description: Four witnesses in Blind River, Ontario, watch the flight of a triangular red object with jagged edges and a “square forward section.” Within seconds of its disappearance, an egg-shaped object appears in the same location and flies along a similar path, flaring every two seconds into a bright white from a dull gray. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7236 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23077 (67C68C9B) Date: 7/1997 Description: Witnesses, one of whom is an Air Force and Coast Guard veteran, at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, see a “square of eight lights” in the sky. Fifteen minutes later, a silent boomerang-shaped object glides above them “like a huge bat” at low altitude. Its underside is covered with hundreds of small, dim, rectangular lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7238 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23078 (3418038E) Date: 7/3/1997 Description: Two witnesses driving along Highway 16 near Nojack, Alberta, see a “black ring” with faint lines hanging down into a motionless “big puff of smoke.” It is in view for 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7239 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23079 (840EB185) Date: 7/14/1997 Description: 10:49 p.m. Air traffic controllers at Henri Coandă International Airport at Otopeni, Romania, are supervising the landing of an airliner when they notice a light about 3 miles distant between Buftea and Corbeanca and well below the scattered cloud layer. It does not appear on radar. The duty officer turns the airport video cameras toward the UFO and records its image for 2 hours. Through binoculars the light is seen to have a horizontal band colored white, orange, and red. When the airport lights are switched on for another landing, the light blinks out and reappears in a different location, this time looking like two light balls joined together. The lights appear brighter when the airport lights are on and dim as soon as they are turned off. The lights disappear abruptly at 1:10 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 75–77 Source ID: Eberhart_7240 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23080 (904EFC39) Date: 7/21/1997 Description: A craft flying at 15 meters altitude with three white fixed lights was seen in Cholet, Maine-Loire department, France. Its speed was slow, and the encounter lasted 10 minutes. A deafening buzz could be heard during the passage of this object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 257 Source ID: Johnson_4284 Source: Johnson ### Event 23081 (3D8E2497) Date: 7/22/1997 Description: About an hour after midnight several local residents, including Tal Igur, a 23-year-old student, reported seeing a flying silvery figure in the sky over Arad, Israel. The figure appeared to have a frozen, silver face with torso and arms. Other witnesses saw an object that was emitting flashes of light towards the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Barry Chamish, Return of the Giants Source ID: Johnson_4310 Source: Johnson ### Event 23082 (87DE9C3B) Date: 7/23/1997 Description: ex-US Army Lt. Col Corso appeared on Coast to Coast AM and again was interviewed by Art Bell. This time, he was accompanied by Dr. John Alexander who represented that he had gone to Washington D.C. and gone to the National Archives and other records to verify the facts of Corso’s public service. He indeed had served honorably as a Lieutenant Colonel under Lieutenant General Arthur Trudeau and worked in the White House for four years. Type: interview Reference: [link](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2006-04-09-show/) Location: Rachel, NV Source ID: Maj2_803 Source: Maj2 ### Event 23083 (1D5CBE4C) Date: 7/23/1997 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a large orange object with a tail fanning out from it was seen in Tooele, Utah. It just faded away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 1997 archive Source ID: Johnson_4337 Source: Johnson ### Event 23084 (C58ADFB7) Date: 7/23/1997 Description: During this afternoon several locals of Vegas de Diuca, Chile including Jose and Nicolasa Estrada witnessed a small robotic figure that moved in quick jerky jumps on a nearby hill. It was reddish yellow in color. It would take quick short flights over the fields then fall down and land. It seemed to have a round head with an eye-like hole in the center. It had a tail like protrusion on its rear and two antennas like protrusions on top. Two of the witnesses, one armed with a shotgun, approached to within ten meters of the figure. Around the same time other locals reported seeing slow moving lights low over the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3903, citing UFOPR Source ID: Johnson_4336 Source: Johnson ### Event 23085 (9A05F24C) Date: 7/23/1997 Description: In Los Angeles, California a woman reported seeing a large metallic hat-shaped object with several portholes around the rim, hovering between two buildings at 1:30 p.m. She said it made no sound, and she also reported she received a telepathic message from it. Several nights later she remembered being in a round room with windows. She had a "guide" on board the craft, who was a handsome blond haired man with a bare chest. She remembered looking down on the San Bernardino Mountains, but that was all that she could recall of the possible abduction experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 1997 archive; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3585, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_4335 Source: Johnson ### Event 23086 (56C0BCAC) Date: 8/3/1997 Description: On this night Edsom da Silva heard some shots coming from a nearby wooded area in Bocaiuva do Sul, Brazil and ran over to investigate. He saw something hiding behind a tree. He was carrying a bright lantern so he pointed the light at the nearby "form" on the ground. He saw it was a strange creature with two huge reddish eyes, which had a bizarre crest on its back. Frightened, he ran away from the area and did not see the creature again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Carlos Albert Machado Source ID: Johnson_4637 Source: Johnson ### Event 23087 (527F7184) Date: 8/3/1997 Description: The New York Times’s [William J. Broad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FBroad) reports on a study, “The C.I.A.’s Role in the Study of U.F.O.’s, 1947–90,” by National Reconnaissance Office historian Gerald K. Haines in a CIA journal, Studies in Intelligence, that Project Blue Book had known that more than half of UFO reports in the 1950s and 1960s by citizens and aviation experts were based on “fleeting glimpses of U-2 and SR-71 spy planes.” Rather than acknowledging their existence, Blue Book came up with “false cover stories” like ice crystals and temperature inversions. Not a single linkage of a reconnaissance flight to a UFO report is provided. These allegations are treated uncritically in the news media. One-time Blue Book head [Robert J. Friend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FFriend%5F%28pilot%29) says the story is “laughable” and denies ever having to conceal U-2 sightings. [Bruce Maccabee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%5FMaccabee) points out that the greater number of UFO sighting are at night when U-2s cannot be seen, and even in the daytime a U-2 flying at 72,000 feet is “essentially invisible.” Haines also reveals that in the 1970s and 1980s CIA analysts devoted some time to “counterintelligence concerns that the Soviets and the KGB were using US citizens and UFO groups to obtain information on sensitive US weapons development programs \(such as the Stealth aircraft\), the vulnerability of the US air-defense network to penetration by foreign missiles mimicking UFOs, and evidence of Soviet advanced technology associated with UFO sightings.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gerald K. Haines, “[CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC%5F0005517742.pdf)” Studies in Intelligence, 1997, pp. 67–84; William J. Broad, “[CIA Admits Government Lied about UFO](https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/03/us/cia-admits-government-lied-about-ufo-sightings.html) [Sightings,](https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/03/us/cia-admits-government-lied-about-ufo-sightings.html)” New York Times, August 3, 1997, p. 12; Mark Rodeghier, “The CIA’s UFO History,” IUR 22, no. 3 \(Fall 1997\): 3–6, 36; Bruce Maccabee, “[CIA’s UFO Explanation Is Preposterous,](http://brumac.mysite.com/cia%5Fexplaination.html)” 2000; Swords 349–350; Clark III 926–927; Kremlin 187–188 Source ID: Eberhart_7241 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23088 (5E238840) Date: 8/4/1997 Description: Two forest rangers in different towers near Hadashville, Manitoba, simultaneously observe a silver ball that hovers above the trees some distance away. A second object approaches the first and the two travel away together. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7242 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23089 (6F9AF4C3) Date: 8/5/1997 Description: Taxi driver Ramon Velazquez Luna had just dropped off a fare at 12:45 a.m. and was driving on the Villa de Reyes highway in San Luis Potosi, Mexico when he began to see whitish orange lights following him. The lights turned off and then appeared this time in front of his taxicab. The lights then disappeared into a nearby field. Approaching the village of Chirimoya, he noticed what appeared to be a "power plant," well lighted, on the side of the road. Confused by their presence, he stopped his cab and noticed that the lights were oval shaped. Quickly a fog-like smoke approached the vehicle, causing him to get scared and drive away. As he drove away he saw a strange vehicle on the side of the road nearby, and it had several large headless dark humanoid figures milling around it. The figures seemed to be signaling Luna to stop his vehicle. When he arrived at his destination he noticed that he had almost three hours he could not account for. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Ruben Manrique, Contacto OVNI Source ID: Johnson_4709 Source: Johnson ### Event 23090 (14DBDEE9) Date: 8/6/1997 Description: Mexico City video (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Mexico City, Mexico Source ID: NICAP_DB_5872 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23091 (129045B5) Date: 8/9/1997 Description: 5:07 p.m. Swissair Flight 127 to Zürich, Switzerland, is flying northeast over Queens, New York, near John F. Kennedy International Airport, when pilots Capt. Philippe Bobet and First Officer Kurt Grunder see a cylindrical, glowing-white object, about the size of a fuselage of a small light aircraft, heading toward the Boeing 747 at high speed. The airliner is in level flight at 20,000 feet and cruising at 390 mph in a cloudless sky, and the UFO is 100–200 feet above it. There is no noise from the object, and no trail or wake disturbance is detected. The near collision lasts about only one second. The object is not detected on radar, and it does not trigger the aircraft’s collision warning system. The object is explained as a weather balloon, which is spotted by a United Airlines pilot in nearly the same location and height 72 minutes after the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Swiss Air Has Near Miss with](http://www.nicap.org/970809swissair%5Fdir.htm) [UFO](http://www.nicap.org/970809swissair%5Fdir.htm)”; Don Berliner and Robert J. Durant, Near Miss with a UFO: Swissair Flight 127, UFO Research Coalition, 1999; Robert J. Durant, “[Swissair jet Has ‘Near Miss’ with UFO,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1999/09/September%201999.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 377 \(September 1999\): 3–9; Good Need, [pp. 405–406](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/404/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7243 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23092 (5F9D6C00) Date: 8/9/1997 Description: Near miss with object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [970809](http://www.nicap.org/970809swissair%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Kennedy Airport (near), NY Source ID: NICAP_DB_5873 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23093 (A8862323) Date: 8/10/1997 Description: A wave of domed discs flew over a river in the Solomon Islands, Pacific Ocean One of them, estimated to be four meters in diameter, dove under a waterfall and never emerged. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17964, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 1, number 27 Source ID: Johnson_4846 Source: Johnson ### Event 23094 (B137C137) Date: 8/11/1997 Description: A UFO was sighted offshore of Lima, Peru at 11:15 p.m. It directed light beams up and down the coast. A number of videotapes were made of the incident. It ascends when police shine spotlights on it, and it leaves to the west over the Pacific Ocean. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17965, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 33 Source ID: Johnson_4915 Source: Johnson ### Event 23095 (080F1AC1) Date: 8/12/1997 Description: 1:00 a.m. Two police officers are on patrol near Lacock Road in Corsham, Wiltshire, England, when a triangular object flies past them at only 30 feet altitude and 45–50 mph. It heads to the northeast and is joined by a second object that seems to be following it. Their speed increases as they are lost to sight within seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 144–145 Source ID: Eberhart_7244 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23096 (B8CD80B1) Date: 8/15/1997 Description: In Ile Salazie on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean a luminous tortoise-shaped object with two headlights continually paced a bread delivery truck starting at around five o'clock in the morning. The delivery man then stopped his truck at his sister's house, and his sister, along with her husband and son, also observed it at it hovered nearby for the next 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17966, citing a newspaper clipping report Source ID: Johnson_5061 Source: Johnson ### Event 23097 (5D9F6869) Date: 8/16/1997 Description: At 5:20 a.m. a luminous rectangular craft was seen by two witnesses near the shore in the town of Cullera, Valencia province, Spain. It had two sections, was coverd with lights, and hovered for 50 minutes. It flew off to the south-southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 345, September 1997 Source ID: Johnson_5102 Source: Johnson ### Event 23098 (EEFFFCCC) Date: 8/23/1997 Description: At 1:30 in the afternoon in Roseburg, Oregon a large silver disc-shaped object flew overhead. Seen for 30 minutes. Colors move on bottom of object. Makes small jumps, shoots away fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 36 Source ID: Johnson_5277 Source: Johnson ### Event 23099 (7BB41FEE) Date: 9/1997 Description: Didier Charnay begins publishing UFO Log in Grenoble, France. It continues through autumn 2000. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFO%20Log%20%28Didier%20Charnay%29/UFO%20Log%20-%20No%2001%20-%201997%2009.pdf) [Log](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFO%20Log%20%28Didier%20Charnay%29/UFO%20Log%20-%20No%2001%20-%201997%2009.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/UFO%20Log%20%28Didier%20Charnay%29/UFO%20Log%20-%20No%2001%20-%201997%2009.pdf) no. 1 \(September 1997\) Source ID: Eberhart_7245 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23100 (97C3AEA4) Date: 9/4/1997 Description: At 10:15 p.m. two young boys, 13-year-old Giovanni and 15-year-old Alessandro, were walking alone on the Via Vittorioin in Cordenons, Fruili, Italy when they noticed a dazzling light emanating intermittent flashes. This flash light was immediately followed by a strange whistling sound. After walking for about 100 meters the two boys next noticed a bizarre creature standing next to a light pole. It was described as short and white in color. The creature moved away very rapidly in a strange, zigzagging motion and disappeared into a nearby wooded area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Moreno Tambellini, SHADO Source ID: Johnson_5643 Source: Johnson ### Event 23101 (60BCAE5C) Date: 9/5/1997 Description: Following an encounter with a strange looking humanoid the evening before, the next morning the same two boys in Cordenons, Italy along with two other friends went into the woods where they last saw the creature. About 50 meters away, among some bushes, the boys saw a round hairless head that was whitish and extremely wrinkled in appearance. Terrified, the boys fled the area, but soon returned armed with a camera and a pair of binoculars. They were soon overcome with a strange malaise and headache. They saw the humanoid again, who they described as about 90 cm in height, dirty-white in color, and with very long arms. It had three-digit hands that ended in ball-shaped tips. Its head was oval shaped and devoid of any facial expressions. The head seemed pointed on top and had a very pointed chin. Its most prominent feature was its huge black, oval-shaped eyes. Its mouth was but a thin line and its nose was just two small round holes. Its skin appeared gelatinous and corrugated or wrinkled. They didn't see any sexual organs. The boys left quickly. The creature was seen briefly next day in the same woods, but it scurried away into the bushes when the witness approached. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Moreno Tambellini, SHADO Source ID: Johnson_5666 Source: Johnson ### Event 23102 (67AD8F67) Date: 9/7/1997 Description: At 12:15 p.m. in Connecticut an orange UFO approached a group of witnesses, hovered over some trees about 50 meters away, and then shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1997 web page Source ID: Johnson_5745 Source: Johnson ### Event 23103 (BB016AD2) Date: 9/7/1997 Description: According to an "ex-KGB source" a cylindrical craft allegedly exploded into small pieces over Illinois in the USA on this date. A special U.S. military recovery team reputedly was sent and recovered these fragments as well as the mutilated remains of alien bodies. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Anton Anfalov, Moscow Source ID: Johnson_5746 Source: Johnson ### Event 23104 (824B851B) Date: 9/7/1997 Description: In Paris, France at 1:43 a.m. a witness observed from his balcony a huge (700 meter) triangular object with two blue flames and a green flame that approached slowly on a linear trajectory. Duration 12 seconds. There was no noise, but he felt body vibrations as it flew over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 266 Source ID: Johnson_5744 Source: Johnson ### Event 23105 (FDADBCF0) Date: 9/9/1997 Description: At eleven o'clock at night a woman stepped out of her mobile home onto her lattice-enclosed patio in Marshalltown, Iowa to get some fresh air. She sighted an object that was either landed on or hovering above her nextdoor neighbor's mobile home roof. She could see a large curved window with a thin strip down the middle, and there was a bright spotlight shining from the lower front of the object. She heard no sound. She then noticed a "pilot" with something like a form-fitting hood over his head, motionless. She could not distinguish any features. Two doors then swung open in the craft and several small entities exited. She could not see their shapes or how they moved. The bright light was directed at her and she thought she was being watched. Frightened, she went back inside her house and noticed that the beam was now illuminating the interior. She continued to watch the UFO as it moved around the trailer court, occasionally stopping, hovering, and shining its light on various mobile homes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2904, citing Beverly Trout, MUFON; Beverly Trout, MUFON field investigation files, case # 971116aC Source ID: Johnson_5811 Source: Johnson ### Event 23106 (73AD4F93) Date: 9/11/1997 Description: At 8:30 p.m. MDT a huge craft hovered over the northeast end of the San Luis Valley, and was viewed from Baca Grande, Colorado. It had unblinking red and green lights arrayed around the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 294 Source ID: Johnson_5886 Source: Johnson ### Event 23107 (7BCAE961) Date: 9/11/1997 Description: In West Palm Beach, Florida a woman named June, who had been involved in previous humanoid close encounters, had gone to bed early because she was falling asleep while lying down watching television. At ten o'clock in the evening she awoke to find a Grey humanoid standing over her in her bedroom. She tried to fight him off by hitting him, but her hand seemed to swat thin air. She could see her hand go right through the alien's body. She screamed out loud, telling him to go away. All the time she kept trying to hit the creature, nothing seemed to work. The alien stayed right beside her. Then suddenly another voice came from nowhere and it said, "Go away!" This voice sounded in slow motion. It was a very deep and masculine voice. Surprinsingly, the being vanished. She remained paralyzed from her waist down, and she was so sluggish her brain seemed as if it had been drugged. She wanted to go back to sleep, but somehow she knew if she did something bad would happen. After struggling for awhile she was able to move and sat up in bed. It took several more minutes before she could get to her feet and stagger into her living room. She stayed up until 3:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Miami Skyscan, March 2000 Source ID: Johnson_5885 Source: Johnson ### Event 23108 (E61DD1D8) Date: 9/12/1997 Description: In West Palm Beach, Florida a woman named June, who had been involved in previous humanoid close encounters, had gone to bed early because she was falling asleep while lying down watching television. At ten o'clock in the evening she awoke to find a Grey humanoid standing over her in her bedroom. She tried to fight him off by hitting him, but her hand seemed to swat thin air. She could see her hand go right through the alien's body. She screamed out loud, telling him to go away. All the time she kept trying to hit the creature, nothing seemed to work. The alien stayed right beside her. Then suddenly another voice came from nowhere and it said, "Go away!" This voice sounded in slow motion. It was a very deep and masculine voice. Surprinsingly, the being vanished. She remained paralyzed from her waist down, and she was so sluggish her brain seemed as if it had been drugged. She wanted to go back to sleep, but somehow she knew if she did something bad would happen. After struggling for awhile she was able to move and sat up in bed. It took several more minutes before she could get to her feet and stagger into her living room. She stayed up until 3:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Miami Skyscan, March 2000 Source ID: Johnson_5905 Source: Johnson ### Event 23109 (03FC83FC) Date: 9/19/1997 Description: A bronze, metallic, rectangular object with a narrow head and a small, fan-shaped horizontal tail was sighted in Orland Park, Cook County, Illinois at 5:40 a.m. It moved slowly, and made no sound. It had two rows of 8-12 lights; one row was red and the other one was blue. The tail also had a smaller row of penpendicular lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1997 webpage; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 80 Source ID: Johnson_6109 Source: Johnson ### Event 23110 (3F468B7C) Date: 9/20/1997 Description: Twelve witnesses saw lights in a V formation flying over Poway, California at 10:15 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1997 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6163 Source: Johnson ### Event 23111 (1E38515F) Date: 9/21/1997 Description: In Manoa Valley, Michigan at two o'clock in the afternoon a gray disc-shaped object hovered, then shot up vertically into the sky. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1997 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6205 Source: Johnson ### Event 23112 (0209E61F) Date: 9/22/1997 Description: A 67-year-old married couple named Becker heard a loud noise outside their rural home in Frazee, Minnesota at 11:30 p.m. Then they saw five brilliant lights on a lenticular-shaped object the size of a house. No structure could be discerned, but the UFO radiated bluish beams of light. Three more lights, round in shape, formed a triangle in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Craig R. Lang, MUFON Minnesota Source ID: Johnson_6242 Source: Johnson ### Event 23113 (E9D04083) Date: 9/26/1997 Description: In Penuelas, Puerto Rico Ivan Rivero Morales and several other witnesses watched an object flying around a nearby mountaintop for about an hour starting at around 10:00 p.m. It then landed on the summit. The intensity of its light diminished to a soft amber glow, which it retained throughout the duration of its landing. With the aid of binoculars and telescopes, the witnesses watched a number of tall beings walking around for another hour. They were described as a greenish color with large oval-shaped heads, black eyes, pointed ears and protruding bellies. The beings re-entered the craft and its brilliance increased, and it then vanished in a matter of seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3184, citing Federico Alvarez Frank Source ID: Johnson_6366 Source: Johnson ### Event 23114 (F6CD8C2B) Date: 9/29/1997 End date: 10/3/1997 Description: Through the auspices of the Society for Scientific Exploration and funded by [Laurance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurance%5FRockefeller) [Rockefeller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurance%5FRockefeller)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurance%5FRockefeller) who has a long-time UFO interest, English physicist [Peter A. Sturrock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock) holds a workshop at the Pocantico Conference Center in Tarrytown, New York, in which UFO researchers present their best data to a panel of scientists agreeable to hearing them out. The panel is charged with deciding whether the available physical evidence can produce results that will lead to the resolution of the UFO question. For the panel, Sturrock recruits astronomers \(and SSE members\) [Thomas E. Holzer](https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/4900/) and [Charles R. Tolbert](https://astronomy.as.virginia.edu/people/crt), electrical engineer [Von R.](https://engineering.stanford.edu/people/von-r-eshleman) [Eshleman](https://engineering.stanford.edu/people/von-r-eshleman)[,](https://engineering.stanford.edu/people/von-r-eshleman) geophysicist [J. R. Jokipii](https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/faculty/jokipii)[,](https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/faculty/jokipii) photoanalyst [François Louange](http://www.ipaco.fr/page38.html), geologist [H. Jay Melosh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%5FJay%5FMelosh), atmospheric physicist [James J. Papike](http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/james%5Fpapike/)[,](http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/james%5Fpapike/) radiation physician [Günther Reitz](https://www.mars-one.com/about-mars-one/advisers/guenther-reitz-phd-germany)[,](https://www.mars-one.com/about-mars-one/advisers/guenther-reitz-phd-germany) and plant biologist [Bernard Veyret](http://beeweek2017.weebly.com/emb%5Fspeaker.html). To present the UFO evidence, Sturrock brings in aviation psychologist [Richard F. Haines](http://cufos.org/rhaines.html), German ufologist [Illobrand von](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illobrand%5Fvon%5FLudwiger) [Ludwiger](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illobrand%5Fvon%5FLudwiger)[,](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illobrand%5Fvon%5FLudwiger) CUFOS director [Mark Rodeghier](http://cufos.org/mark%5Frodeghier.html), retired NASA engineer [John F. Schuessler](http://cufos.org/schuessler.html), Norwegian ufologist [Erling Strand](https://ufocongress.com/erling-strand/)[,](https://ufocongress.com/erling-strand/) science professor [Michael D. Swords](http://cufos.org/swords.html)[,](http://cufos.org/swords.html) computer scientist [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) and SEPRA director [Jean-Jacques Velasco](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%5FVelasco). The panel makes several observations: The UFO problem is not a simple one, and it is unlikely that there is any simple, universal answer; whenever there are unexplained observations, there is the possibility that scientists will learn something new by studying them; studies should concentrate on cases that include as much independent physical evidence as possible; continuing contact between the UFO community and physical scientists could be productive; and institutional support for research in this area is desirable. After four days of presentations and discussions, Sturrock announces that the panel will issue a statement to be drafted later that encourages UFO study by scientists. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Michael D. Swords and Mark Rodeghier, “The History-Making Sturrock Workshop,” IUR 23, no. 3 \(Fall 1998\): 3–8; Peter A. Sturrock, et al., “[Physical Evidence Related to UFO](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F2%5Fsturrock.pdf) [Reports: The Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Pocantico Conference Center, Tarrytown, New York,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F2%5Fsturrock.pdf) [September 29–October 4, 1997,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/12/jse%5F12%5F2%5Fsturrock.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 2 \(1998\): 179–229; Peter A. Sturrock, [The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence](https://archive.org/details/ufoenigma00pete)[,](https://archive.org/details/ufoenigma00pete) Warner, 1999; Clark III 1115–1117 Source ID: Eberhart_7246 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23115 (6D52B7D5) Date: 9/30/1997 Description: Dr. Carlos Munoz and Enrique Bermudez were parked in an isolated wooded area near Punta Arenas, Chile at 11:30 p.m. They had stepped out of the car when they heard something moving close to them, and they could perceive small shadows nearby. They next saw a fluorescent tube of light in a vertical position, about 30 meters away. It was suspended about a meter from the ground. It was pulsating and was red andwhite in color. They ran to their car and grabbed a camcorder in a futile attempt to videotape the object. They got back in their car and started driving away, when suddenly they heard a loud engine noise and a black sports vehicle with tinted windows drove past them at high speed. Simultaneously, their vehicle's instruments malfunctioned. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, case # 2734, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 2 # 38 Source ID: Johnson_6457 Source: Johnson ### Event 23116 (95FE1294) Date: 10/1997 Description: Three dogs in circle under a glowing ball (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [971000](http://www.nicap.org/ar-9710xxdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jefferson, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5874 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23117 (26747B6E) Date: 10/3/1997 Description: The Chilean Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos begins operations in Santiago, Chile. Air Force Gen. Gonzalo Miranda has created the agency within the Department of Civil Aeronautics after the series of sightings in Arica earlier in the year. CEFAA is charged with compiling, analyzing, and studying every incident involving anomalous aerial phenomena observed by any aviation personnel, civil or military. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [p. 191](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/198/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7247 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23118 (64A72E4D) Date: 10/3/1997 Description: At four in the afternoon Osmo Kurkela was walking home from school in Raahe, Finland when he saw a red light in the sky that was coming straight down towards him. It stopped ten meters from the witness then landed. The UFO was five meters long and ten meters wide. Three human-looking beings emerged and one of them appeared to be a woman. Osmo ran home and attempted to hide, but his next recollection was being taken from his home and into the object. A sperm sample was allegedly taken from the young man. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2840, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World Source ID: Johnson_6539 Source: Johnson ### Event 23119 (0B1AF33E) Date: 10/10/1997 Description: Muhand Faras, age 16, was walking home from school in Tulkarem, Israel on this late afternoon when he came upon a strange man-sized figure, dark green in color, with a strange growth on its face. The figure had two small hands with three fingers on each hand and long fingernails. The being made a threatening gesture towards Muhand, screamed something in an unintelligible language, and then flew up into the sky and vanished. At sunset a local engineer, Raid A'anam, saw a black creature in the sky. He told police investigators that he saw the outline of the figure, and that it was human looking with two arms and two legs. It flew fast over the area, quickly disappearing from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, cases # 2732 & # 3774, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website & Israeli UFO Research Source ID: Johnson_6742 Source: Johnson ### Event 23120 (19A96DF8) Date: 10/13/1997 Description: near Gundagai, New South Wales -- On this Monday at approximately 6 p.m. a married couple were traveling by car to Victoria along the Hume Freeway. The weather was clear and there were no clouds in the sky. It was warm and previously there had been a strong north wind, but it had subsided. The witnesses were traveling toward the west and were approximately 100 kilometers north of Gundagai, Australia. As they came over the top of a hill, they noticed a light directly in front of them at about 25 to 30 degrees above the horizon and to the left of the first object. Neither object appeared to be moving.

They watched the objects for the next 30 minutes while driving toward the objects. The distance to the objects had decreased to approximately one mile. They were then able to see that one was triangular and the other was a sphere with a ring around it. The objects began to throw flames from underneath, similar to rockets, although at first neither seemed to move. They stopped the car and got out and the UFOs started to move. The higher object was moving away much faster than the lower one.

The witnesses got out their camera and took three photographs as the UFOs moved higher into the sky. The top object veered to the right while the lower one veered left. They remained lit by the sun while the witnesses were already in the gathering darkness. Both objects turned into black balls as the flames were emitted and remained that way. The total observation time was approximately 45 minutes. The photographs showed many details. The RAAF and Australian Army provided information that discounts the possibilities that these objects were jets, missiles or rockets. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: James Owen case investigation files, Victorian UFO Research Society website Source ID: Johnson_6817 Source: Johnson ### Event 23121 (64512E66) Date: 10/13/1997 Description: On the same day as the Australian sighting, four lights in a row approached a car from behind, being driven by a 30-year-old woman at 8:30 p.m. in Struthers, Scotland. The witness drove at speeds of 90 miles per hour in an attempt to get away, and she does not remember how she got past a sharp bend in road. Possible missing time of about ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 156 Source ID: Johnson_6818 Source: Johnson ### Event 23122 (D70447BA) Date: 10/15/1997 Description: Duncan, Oklahoma - At 2:15 a.m. the witness suddenly awoke feeling a strange presence in his bedroom. An odd feeling swept through his body, forcing him to close his eyes. His next memory was of being awake at 5:15 a.m. with a strange presence still in the room, and he once again felt forced to close his eyelids. When he woke up in the morning he was able to recall standing naked in an oval-shaped metal room with small windows in the top right hand corner. Directly behind him there was a large door where the two oval walls met. In the middle of the room there was an odd looking operating table with two needle devices on robotic arms sticking out of the side. This was the only apparent object in the room.

Afraid, he began banging on the large door demanding to be let out. He could hear voices in the background. He was then told by an angry male voice, in his head, to either lay down on the table or someone he loved would get hurt. He did as he was told. He was then asked to lay down in such a manner that his left lower back was exposed to the two needles. At the base of the needle there was a triangle-shaped piece of metal and two rectangle designs on both sides. He was then told by a friendly female voice that he would feel no pain but would feel his legs go numb, and would feel paralyzed and unable to move. The robotic arm moved closer to his back and plunged the needle into his back. He felt the clear liquid being injected into his body. He then felt paralyzed, and after a minute the needle device began sucking instead of injecting. It then moved back and the second needle performed the same operation. He woke up the next morning feeling some pain in his lower back with a triangular shaped imprint on it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3202, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6878 Source: Johnson ### Event 23123 (9269324A) Date: 10/16/1997 Description: In Dir Al Awsan, Israel a young girl, Miss Suha A'anam, was standing on her second floor balcony at night when an unknown alien looking figure suddenly began pulling on her left arm. She screamed hysterically alerting her neighbors to the scene. She was taken to the nearby Tulkarem hospital with scratches on her arm. A neighbor told police that she heard a noise like a helicopter, looked out her window and saw "a whirlpool in the air, spreading ash everywhere" opposite the witness's balcony. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3773, citing Israeli UFO Research Source ID: Johnson_6906 Source: Johnson ### Event 23124 (8245EF75) Date: 10/17/1997 Description: In an effort to gauge the vulnerability of military satellites to laser attacks, the US military tests a directed energy weapon, Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser \(MIRACL\) developed by the US Navy in 1980, against an aging USAF reconnaissance satellite. From its location at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, MIRACL sends two blasts of its deuterium fluoride laser against MSTI-3 at a distance of 238 miles. The Pentagon claims mixed results because a computer glitch prevents the satellite from reporting back that the second shot has struck the target. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Call it a MIRACL,](https://books.google.com/books?id=xwwAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA5%23v%3Donepage&q&f=false)” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 54, no. 1 \(Jan./Feb. 1998\): 5–6 Source ID: Eberhart_7248 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23125 (77B64767) Date: 10/18/1997 Description: Near Huntsville, Texas 15-year-old Joanna Alice Stevenson was awoken around midnight to find several strange beings standing over her bed. They were humanoids with large craniums, small mouths, and two slits for a nose. She was terrified. She looked out her window and could see a UFO hovering right outside her bedroom window. The creatures that were examining her talked or communicated by using grunts that sounded like a foreign language. Her conscious memory suddenly stopped at this point, and she could only vaguely remember being poked and probed by the aliens. They took blood samples, then let her go by dropping her off in a large field, not far away from her rural home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing I was abducted.com Source ID: Johnson_6962 Source: Johnson ### Event 23126 (6466F5DA) Date: 10/19/1997 Description: The witness heard a strange noise in her kitchen in Crofton, Maryland at 2:00 a.m. Thinking it was her cat she went to investigate. At the entrance to her kitchen she encountered several humanoids, which she described as about five feet tall, with pale grayish skin and large black eyes. The humanoids seemed to be inspecting a silverware tray, sliding it back and forth. Suddenly one of the humanoids turned and saw the witness, who promptly fainted. After a few moments she came to lying on the floor of the kitchen. She looked up and saw three humanoids huddled together. Feeling a surge of terror she fainted again, but not before seeing a silvery flashing sphere hovering over her. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3193, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6987 Source: Johnson ### Event 23127 (E4E56D81) Date: 10/23/1997 Description: A dark, gray cylindrical object about 100 meters wide and 40 meters tall was seen 20 miles away from Billings, Montana at 4:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_7060 Source: Johnson ### Event 23128 (87CFBA02) Date: 11/4/1997 Description: 6:00 p.m. Between Minehead and Porlock, Somerset, England, a man driving home in foggy conditions sees three white beams of light that suddenly permeate the fog from above and converge into a circle on the hood of his car. The electrical system fails, and he cannot restart it. After about 5 minutes the light beam disappears suddenly and the headlights come back on, so he resumes driving. When he gets home, he finds that his watch and car clock are 5 minutes slow and that a compass placed near the car gives a reading 90° from true. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_7249 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23129 (64BF1BA1) Date: 11/6/1997 Description: A large unidentified object with two small red lights and two white lights was reportedly seen flying only 150-200 feet over a barn in Kentwood, Michigan. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_7518 Source: Johnson ### Event 23130 (7049DD45) Date: 11/13/1997 Description: Night. Two witnesses are driving home near Lac La Biche, Alberta, when they see a diamond-shaped object, consisting of three white lights in the front and one red light in the rear, suddenly “turn on.” It hovers above trees about 900 feet away, and they can see the bottom of the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7250 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23131 (E3D1BC1A) Date: 11/15/1997 Description: In the late afternoon two boys in Siracusa, Sicily, Italy photographed a shiny metallic disc making erratic stops and maneuvers. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17619, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 2, Issue # 48 Source ID: Johnson_7707 Source: Johnson ### Event 23132 (A0A8B740) Date: 11/15/1997 Description: At 4:00 a.m., a ring of color was spotted in the sky over a farming area in Lockport, New York. Once in awhile it seemed to move. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center website, November 1997 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7706 Source: Johnson ### Event 23133 (D0D4375C) Date: 11/17/1997 Description: Night. A woman sees an “inverted triangular object with no wings” outside her home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It has many rows of lights across its surface and is “lavender and steel gray” on one side, which is illuminated. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7251 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23134 (E5AE909F) Date: 11/28/1997 End date: 11/30/1997 Description: The panelists from the [Sturrock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock) workshop reconvene in a San Francisco, California, hotel to draft a statement on science and UFOs, but the language continues to be hashed out and debated for months. The process goes on until April 27, 1998, when the report is sent to the editorial office of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. The report’s release engenders a mostly positive press response, but with little effect on scientists’ continuing refusal to examine UFO reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1117 Source ID: Eberhart_7252 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23135 (D75C139A) Date: 12/1997 Description: Retired Sergeant-Major Cherd Chuensamnaun is deep in Buddhist meditation at his home in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand, when he begins receiving communications from space aliens. The following day his skeptical son and son-in-law Jaroen Raepeth are lifted up from the living room sofa and thrown outdoors into the yard. His daughter Wassana sees a 33–50-foot long UFO outside at treetop level. Cherd continues to transmit messages from the extraterrestrials \(who hail from Pluto and another planet named Loku\) until his death in 2000. His family now continues the tradition, and nearby Khao Kala hill regularly attracts crowds of meditating UFO enthusiasts. According to the opinions of a theologian from Silpakorn University, this cult is based on a combination of beliefs in [ghosts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalism%5F%28philosophy%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalism%5F%28philosophy%29) [god](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theism)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theism) [aliens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism) and Buddhism combined. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[UFO Sightings in Thailand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO%5Fsightings%5Fin%5FThailand)”; Richard S. Ehrlich, “[The UFO Seekers Flocking to a RemoteThai Hilltop in Search of Buddhist Aliens,](https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h%5Ff65f288ce52c7784daa2c4426eb4cc2e)” CNN, October 6, 2019; “Buddhist Aliens,” Fortean Times 388 \(January 2020\): 6 Source ID: Eberhart_7253 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23136 (20D3459D) Date: 12/7/1997 End date: 12/14/1997 Description: The first World Forum of Ufology takes place in Brasília, Brazil, coordinated by the Brazilian Ufologists Commission. The coalition of researchers is comprised of [Claudeir Covo](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudeir%5FCovo)[,](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudeir%5FCovo) from the National Institute of Aerospace Phenomena Investigations \(INFA\); Rafael Cury, from the Núcleo de Pesquisas Ufológicas \(NPU\); [Reginaldo de Athayde](http://socex.net/site/reginaldo-de-athayde/)[,](http://socex.net/site/reginaldo-de-athayde/) from Ufological Research Center \(CPU\); [Marco Antônio Petit](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%5FAnt%C3%B4nio%5FPetit), from Fluminense UFO Research Association \(AFEU\); and [Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubirajara%5FRodrigues) and [Ademar José Gevaerd](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ademar%5FJos%C3%A9%5FGevaerd)[,](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ademar%5FJos%C3%A9%5FGevaerd) both from the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research \(CBPDV\), the largest UFO group in the country. The event culminates in the Brasilia Letter, a document signed by nearly all ufologists present, representing their nations and research entities. The letter conveys the position of ufologists to the Brazilian government to take the necessary steps required to clarify the UFO question. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: A. J. Gevaerd, “Brazilian Researchers Organize the Biggest UFO Conference Ever,” UFO Updates, December 8, 1997; Clark III 209; 2Pinotti 161 Source ID: Eberhart_7254 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23137 (BAD8FA82) Date: 12/8/1997 Description: Night. After two brightly lit objects fly above Surrey, British Columbia, a large, disc-shaped, pewter- colored craft spins and bobs around in the sky. The witnesses give chase in their car, but lose sight of it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7255 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23138 (8766B693) Date: 12/10/1997 Description: Ricardo Alfonso was driving to work at Taos Elementary School in Taos, New Mexico at 6:30 in the morning on this day in 1997 when he saw a silvery, metallic object hovering over a nearby field. He stopped his truck to investigate, and hid behind a bush for a few minutes until the craft disappeared. As he pondered what had happened a bright beam of light hit him, and several "little men" appeared around him. He lost consciousness. When he awoke he was face down in the field, completely naked with bruises on his body. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact database, Case #2481, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World Source ID: Johnson_8326 Source: Johnson ### Event 23139 (7EFF11B8) Date: 12/12/1997 Description: At a sleepover in Lubbock, Texas, two girls reported that they saw flashing lights in their room at two o’clock in the morning, followed by the blankets being thrown off their bed. They saw a number of tall, thin figures that “spoke” to them, followed by an episode of missing time. When they awoke they found strange triangular marks on their bodies. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3575, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_8366 Source: Johnson ### Event 23140 (C0DAF47D) Date: 12/14/1997 Description: In Saguache County, Colorado in the San Luis Valley a witness reported seeing a large triangular craft hovering over a field at 3:00 a.m. It moved slowly over the house and then over some grain silos. It then came back over the house and shone a beam of whitish blue light out of its center. Something like a small figure was taken up inside the beam. Lights around its edge flashed in rhythm when it left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2874, citing Christopher O'Brien Source ID: Johnson_8401 Source: Johnson ### Event 23141 (F5732D0E) Date: 12/14/1997 Description: Noel Chandler of Hart Canyon, New Mexico had seen a round glowing UFO over his horse shed in the evening of December 13th. Also, for several of the preceeding nights he would hear three loud thumps on the house, but when he checked all around outside no cause could be found. While in bed this night at 2:30 a.m. he became aware of a bluish white light beam from an outside source. Next a figure appeared but with no real distinguishing features, except it had very large eyes--about the size of horse's--a small mouth, and small nostril-like holes. He found he was unable to move or talk. He heard a voice in his head that told him that "they" were here to collect a sperm sample. Soon a tube with a ball on the end, about 1/2 inches in diameter and six inches long, appeared and scanned his body. The tube was placed over his pubic hair just above the penis on the left side. A needle was then inserted and his left testicle was drawn up into his groin. He felt no real discomfort or pain. The needle and tube were removed and taken into a floating sphere. Moments later another form came down from the light, like floating in a horizontal position. It was a female with funny-looking hair on her head. The needle and tube came out of the sphere and she inserted it into her navel. Then, telepathically, she informed him that their society was dying out because they could not reproduce. They were increasingly becoming sterile, but by introducing new blood lines and clones they were hoping to regenerate their society. Their gestation period is reportedly only three to four months. Soon the bluish light started to "close in" at the bottom and the beings were gone. However, a strange smell lingered. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Aztec UFO: Oral History Source ID: Johnson_8402 Source: Johnson ### Event 23142 (AE43369A) Date: 12/14/1997 Description: Seven people in Vancouver, British Columbia, see an object shaped like an “@” sign. It zooms into view and stops in mid-flight, appearing as a “flattened silver pyramid.” It bobs up and down then disappears suddenly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7256 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23143 (D2DB5BDC) Date: 12/16/1997 Description: On this night in Riachao De Jacuipe, Brazil a witness saw a bright light in a nearby field that increased rapidly in size as it approached. viewing through a pair of binoculars, the witness saw a humanoid silhouette within the light. It was without any features, and appeared to be silvery metallic in color, and emitting an orange beam of light. It and the light suddenly disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Antonio Faleiro, Brazil Source ID: Johnson_8455 Source: Johnson ### Event 23144 (8F683277) Date: 12/17/1997 Description: In both Burlington and Colchester, Vermont witnesses called the UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington to report that a large object passed overhead at 11:45 a.m. going toward the northeast. One person said that their radio was effected and didn’t work for ten minutes, the object estimated that the UFO was moving at 3,000 miles per hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_8477 Source: Johnson ### Event 23145 (03AB470E) Date: 12/18/1997 Description: In Oxnard, California at 10:50 p.m. a large cigar-shaped object followed the power lines; continuing on, it went out to sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2007 webpage Source ID: Johnson_8501 Source: Johnson ### Event 23146 (667050DA) Date: Winter 1997 Description: 3:00 p.m. Sgt. John F. Duffy is serving as loadmaster and radio operator aboard a KC-130R Hercules cargo plane flying at an altitude of 24,000 feet north of the Horne Islands in the South Pacific. He notices a white object on the left side of the aircraft. At first it seems stationary, then appears to jump behind a nearby cloud, moving in a horizontal direction and disappears after only 2 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “South Pacific Sighting, 1997,” IUR 24, no. 2 \(Summer 1999\): 11–12 Source ID: Eberhart_7205 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23147 (8E1BD84D) Date: 12/22/1997 Description: An object like an “airplane wing cross-sectioned” is seen by a witness near Halifax, Nova Scotia. It has a solid appearance and is slow-moving, disappearing after 8 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 15 Source ID: Eberhart_7257 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23148 (965763A4) Date: 12/30/1997 Description: Dogs howled when thin rectangle was in area (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sioux City, IA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5875 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23149 (6B0865AC) Date: 12/31/1997 Description: 11:30 p.m. Many people in the area of Rzeszów, Poland, watch a spherical orange object. Jan Skobran and Maciej Robert see it briefly before it disappears. At 11:50 p.m., it reappears and they videotape it on VHS. After about 40 seconds it disappears, but another shows up at 12:20 a.m., pulsating with an intense orange glow. Seconds later it disappears, but another light appears over the Słocina forest. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 153–154 Source ID: Eberhart_7258 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 1998 (Back to Top) ### Event 23150 (F2BEC53F) Date: 1998 Description: The Roper Organization conducts a second survey on abductions, using the same indicators as its 1991 survey. This one is commissioned by [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow)’s National Institute for Discovery Science. Results indicate that the number of potential abductees has dropped from more than 3.7 million in 1991 to 2.2 million in 1998. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Counting Abductees: What Can Surveys Tell Us?” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 21–23 Source ID: Eberhart_7259 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23151 (F5848F5F) Date: 1998 Description: Podiatrist [Roger K. Leir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%5FLeir) publishes The Aliens and the Scalpel, in which he reviews his investigation of alien implants since 1995. Leir has performed surgery to remove small objects from the feet and hands of 17 abductees. [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow)’s National Institute for Discovery Science provides the funding for the analysis of these objects. Some of the findings are potentially noteworthy—the objects are found on the left side of the body, most of them fluoresce under ultraviolet light, some are magnetic, and most appear metallic and seem to emit radio signals. Calcium, copper, and iron are the most common constituents. Critics dismiss the objects as tiny slivers of metal or glass embedded in tissue and find no evidence for radio emissions. None of the objects reveal any apparent technological structure. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roger K. Leir, [The Aliens and the Scalpel: Scientific Proof of Extraterrestrial Implants](https://archive.org/details/aliensscalpelsci0000leir) [in Humans](https://archive.org/details/aliensscalpelsci0000leir)[,](https://archive.org/details/aliensscalpelsci0000leir) Granite, 1998; Roger K. Leir, “Alien Implants and Physical Evidence,” MUFON 2005 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 2005; Clark III 11 Source ID: Eberhart_7260 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23152 (DE8C34F9) Date: 1/1998 Description: [David Jacobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FM.%5FJacobs)’s book The Threat expresses his belief that the aliens are not doing research; rather, they are carrying out a deliberate and massive breeding program using individuals from childhood onward and families for generations. The aliens create pregnancies, steal fetuses, and grow hybrids in vats and incubators. When those hybrids become children, they require emotional nurture from humans to thrive, so the aliens bring abductees back to touch and interact with the children. The abductees report seeing hybrids that look less and less like the gray aliens. Another series of hybridizations occurs as the aliens breed or engineer early-stage hybrids into progressively more human late-stage hybrids, who are all but indistinguishable from ordinary people \(blond, blue- eyed Nordics\). Some adult hybrids assist the aliens in their work, while others live on earth and mingle with humans for a time. Jacobs raises the alarm that apparent benevolence from the aliens is a con to lull us into complacency and hide their true intentions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David M. Jacobs, [The Threat: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda](https://archive.org/details/threat00jaco/mode/2up), Simon & Schuster, 1998; Thomas E. Bullard, “Apocalypse in Gray,” IUR 23, no. 2 \(Summer 1998\): 20–27; Clark III 9, 10 Source ID: Eberhart_7261 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23153 (58C375F9) Date: 1/1/1998 Description: At four o'clock in the morning a man in Huelo, Hawaii, who had earlier that night seen some lights moving out the sky over some nearby fields, was awakened when he felt some type of "knock" in his head, perhaps some form of telepathic communication. He looked out his window to see a multicolored UFO emitting multicolored light beams in his direction. He woke up his friend and they both saw a figure standing in the bedroom. Terrified, they hid under the covers and when they looked again a few moments later the figure had vanished. The craft, however, was still outside outside but a little further off, and stayed visible until sunrise. The figure was described as tall, with a huge head and large staring eyes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_22 Source: Johnson ### Event 23154 (867ED400) Date: 1/2/1998 Description: Dogs barked a small sphere roamed area (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Source ID: NICAP_DB_5876 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23155 (7DD68C81) Date: 1/2/1998 Description: 9:30 p.m. Fernando Mariano de Oliveira and Luciene da Cunha Lopes are in a townhouse on the Rua Luis Augusto Ferreira in the Capão Redondo neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil, when they see a small luminous sphere about 8 inches in diameter moving up and down in the sky at variable speeds about 500 feet away from them. Other family members join them to watch the silent white light, and the neighborhood dogs bark constantly. Fernando’s brother, Alan Bruno de Oliveira, 10, picks up a camcorder and films the light with the help of his cousin Katiuscia da Cunha Lopes for 4.5 minutes. The light disappears around 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil 385–392 Source ID: Eberhart_7262 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23156 (3BF45053) Date: 1/3/1998 Description: Also on this day a huge silver disc-shaped UFO followed a car in Traunstein, Bavaria, Germany. The lights on the rim of the craft were rotating. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18008, citing Phenomena, issue 38 Source ID: Johnson_75 Source: Johnson ### Event 23157 (D602B71E) Date: 1/3/1998 Description: In Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania a number of cyclops looking humanoids exited from a delta-shaped UFO and took a pet parrot from the yard of a home in the city. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1998 Source ID: Johnson_74 Source: Johnson ### Event 23158 (57937ED3) Date: 1/5/1998 Description: At 2:50 p.m. a silent, round disc-shaped object flew to the northeast slowly from Springfield, Missouri in an overcast sky. It tilted to reveal a silver top and a gray body. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, issue 3 Source ID: Johnson_151 Source: Johnson ### Event 23159 (4A763517) Date: 1/11/1998 Description: A juvenile sighted a domed disc-shaped UFO hovering over his house in Barnegat, New Jersey on this night. It had alternating green and yellow lights around its rim. On top there was a glass dome and a pilot-like figure apparently wearing some type of helmet could be seen inside. Frightened, he ran inside his house but could still see the disc hovering outside. A strange symbol was also seen on the side of the disc. It also had an antenna on top and other markings on the bottom right under the rim lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3154, citing MUFON Source ID: Johnson_268 Source: Johnson ### Event 23160 (A89179A6) Date: 1/11/1998 Description: 1:00 a.m. A pair of dark triangular objects appear to merge together over Cuddington, Cheshire, England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 145 Source ID: Eberhart_7263 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23161 (027B323E) Date: 1/15/1998 Description: A 50-year-old grandmother and government employee was abducted on this night from her home in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She was in great terror and in fear of her life during the abduction. No other details were provided. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3130, citing George Filer, MUFON Source ID: Johnson_343 Source: Johnson ### Event 23162 (C18B2B3F) Date: 1/23/1998 Description: A father and son driving between Holstein and Heartwell, Nebraska at 6:05 p.m. witnessed a glowing triangular object hover for 6-7 minutes; it then turned on end and flew off to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 1998 webpage Source ID: Johnson_468 Source: Johnson ### Event 23163 (E5F69281) Date: 1/24/1998 Description: In Santiago, Chile at the Alfalfal Dam five observers first saw two fireballs fly pass at 8:00 p.m. Next, an 18-meter long ovoid object flew up the river canyon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, number 7 Source ID: Johnson_500 Source: Johnson ### Event 23164 (129CBF9B) Date: 1/25/1998 Description: A man was walking his dog in a wooded area of Nursery Woods, Cumbria, England at 4:45 p.m. when he heard some snapping branches. Thinking it was a deer he stopped and looked around. Looking through the trees he noticed a large creature covered in a sort of ginger brown hair that seemed to be drinking from a pond about 150 meters into the woods. The creature appeared to stare at the witness, when it stood upright, the witness estimated to be about 6 feet 6 inches in height. The witness quickly left the area. There was no reaction by the dog reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Cumbria Creature Chronicles Source ID: Johnson_511 Source: Johnson ### Event 23165 (F86EA719) Date: 1/26/1998 Description: At 8:45 p.m. outside Bartelso, Illinois an oval-shaped object was seen hovering over a flooded field at about 50-75 feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 1998 webpage Source ID: Johnson_537 Source: Johnson ### Event 23166 (4C70AF4B) Date: 1/27/1998 Description: Animals become still as object hovers (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [980127](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-980127.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Woodland, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5877 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23167 (42826597) Date: 1/29/1998 Description: A shiny metallic daylight disc, saucer shaped with a dome on top and with row of blinking red lights, was seen flying over Coventry, Rhode Island at two o'clock in the afternoon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 1998 webpage Source ID: Johnson_592 Source: Johnson ### Event 23168 (79E758AE) Date: 2/1998 Description: Night. Two young men are driving from Opole to Niemodlin, Poland, when the car radio goes off and the engine of their Polski Fiat 125p fails just as a large object flies over them. The lights, radio, and engine come back on by themselves after the object is gone, but they can still see it in the west as it apparently descends toward the road a mile or two ahead. From the top of a hill, they see it emitting a dazzling light and hovering above the trees. Suddenly it approaches them, flying 65–100 feet off the ground, and they speed ahead into town. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 84–85 Source ID: Eberhart_7264 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23169 (9E8C6E61) Date: 2/1/1998 Description: At around 2:30 a.m. Rowena Judd was asleep in her bedroom in Freemantle, Western Australia when she suddenly awoke to see a humanoid figure standing at her bedroom door. The figure seemed to be dark in color and had a shining light around it. No facial features could be seen. It seemed to disappear. Two weeks later a beam of light came out of the sky after a loud zipping noise and illuminated the Judd house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3022, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup Vol. 3 # 9 Source ID: Johnson_659 Source: Johnson ### Event 23170 (E93A5895) Date: 2/6/1998 Description: A family of three living near San Francisco, California remembered hearing noises during the night and waking up thinking somebody was in the house. Later they remembered seeing lights. In the morning they all woke up with bloody noses. Their young son remembered seeing a tall, greenish colored being in his bedroom. The being was over 6 feet tall, and it communicated with him, although he couldn't recall the message. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 2989, citing UFO Network Source ID: Johnson_730 Source: Johnson ### Event 23171 (22DC188B) Date: 2/9/1998 Description: Driving into Sioux City, Iowa at 11:45 a.m. a 50-year-old woman and her adult son saw a gray rectangular object and followed it for about three quarters of a mile at 70 mph, until they lost sight of it among some hills. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Barbara Trout, MUFON case files, case # 980401SC Source ID: Johnson_785 Source: Johnson ### Event 23172 (20EC7080) Date: 2/13/1998 Description: At 9:40 p.m. a helmet-shaped domed disc flew over Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia. It moved side-to-side while moving forward. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18020, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, issue 8 Source ID: Johnson_908 Source: Johnson ### Event 23173 (4453BDDE) Date: 2/14/1998 Description: At 1:45 a.m. the two witnesses were parked in an open field in Drente, The Netherlands when there suddenly appeared a flashing blue light over the field and they both saw an object resembling a "stealth fighter" with more rounded wings, hovering above a nearby road. The craft descended vertically and landed. Several figures came out of the object. They had long arms and small heads. They looked around briefly and then went back inside the object. The object then rose straight up and in a few seconds it was gone. Others in the area reported seeing a bright light over the area around the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #2979, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico & the World Source ID: Johnson_918 Source: Johnson ### Event 23174 (C827BEB3) Date: 2/17/1998 Description: An Army intelligence document summarizes the “Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons,” including microwave, acoustic, and radio-frequency directed energy devices. As for RF energy, “There is no sound propagated through the air like normal sound. This technology in its crudest form could be used to distract individuals; if refined, it could also be used to communicate with hostages or hostage takers directly by Morse code or other message systems, possibly even by voice communication.” And, “The phenomenon is tunable in that the characteristic sounds and intensities of those sounds depend on the characteristics of the RF energy as delivered. Because the frequency of the sound heard is dependent on the pulse characteristics of the RF energy, it seems possible that this technology could be developed to the point where words could be transmitted to be heard like the spoken word, except that it could only be heard within a person’s head. In one experiment, communication of the words from one to ten using ‘speech modulated’ microwave energy was successfully demonstrated. Microphones next to the person experiencing the voice could not pick up the sound. Additional development of this would open up a wide range of possibilities.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Army, “[Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal](https://archive.org/details/bioeffects-of-selected-non-lethal-weapons-1998/mode/2up) [Weapons,](https://archive.org/details/bioeffects-of-selected-non-lethal-weapons-1998/mode/2up)” February 17, 1998 Source ID: Eberhart_7265 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23175 (B478E2B8) Date: 2/27/1998 Description: The witness was walking through her trailer park in West Carrolton, Ohio with her dogs when she saw a bright light hovering above the trailers. Inside the light she saw the face and eyes of a humanoid being. Frightened, she ran to her trailer and called nearby Wright Patterson Air Force Base. She was given a number of a local UFO investigator. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3153, citing Kenny Young Source ID: Johnson_1166 Source: Johnson ### Event 23176 (FC7DA987) Date: 2/28/1998 End date: 6/11/1999 Description: Kosovo War and NATO intervention Type: war Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War) Location: Kosovo Source ID: Maj2_805 Source: Maj2 ### Event 23177 (4185D229) Date: 3/1/1998 Description: An object that left a trail of sparks flew over the Badger Army Ordnance ammunition plant outside Lodi, Wisconsin from east to west at 2:20 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 1998 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_1234 Source: Johnson ### Event 23178 (CE4A2A98) Date: Early 3/1998 Description: William Weitzel and the Fund for UFO Research discover and later secure copies of the unsanitized, pre- redaction record copy 16mm microfilm of the Blue Book Files, filmed at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, in February 1975 that the National Archives inadvertently makes available at the Archives II facility in College Park, Maryland. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 6 Source ID: Eberhart_7266 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23179 (21AC55FD) Date: 3/3/1998 Description: A brightly lit triangular UFO was sighted over Mansfield, England at 11:50 p.m. It hovered for ten minutes, then darted away toward the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, citing BUFORA Source ID: Johnson_1287 Source: Johnson ### Event 23180 (C113C7A2) Date: 3/8/1998 Description: On this afternoon a farmer in Rho, Lombardia, Italy saw a white object in the shape of an upside-down pear hovering above a field. He called his wife and both watched the object for about half an hour. During the episode a hatch slid open and an occupant emerged. The UFOnaut was only about 40 inches tall, with two huge black eyes. The being floated in the air close to the object for about ten minutes, then re-entered the object which rose vertically and left at a high rate of speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3122, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Vol. 3 # 13 Source ID: Johnson_1387 Source: Johnson ### Event 23181 (23E50D4A) Date: 3/19/1998 Description: In 1998 two diamond-shaped UFOs flew over Grosse Ile, Michigan. They changed shape and color, but maintained a constant speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, March 1998 web page Source ID: Johnson_1582 Source: Johnson ### Event 23182 (C6E77007) Date: 3/27/1998 Description: A man walking his dog in Clifton Park, New York at 11:00 p.m. reported to a UFO hotline that a UFO briefly chased him and his dog. At about the same time a report from Newnan, Georgia described eight or more UFOs flying circles and then jerking up-and-down, and engaging in side-to-side motions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_1702 Source: Johnson ### Event 23183 (C6E9519D) Date: 3/30/1998 Description: A capsule shaped object hovered over Brighton, New Zealand at 8:30 p.m. While it was hovering a luminous glow spread slowly across the surface of the object. It flew off, leaving toward the northeast. Three objects were seen flying in a triangle formation in Bel Air, Maryland at 10:30 p.m. EST. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 3, no. 14; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, March 1998 web page Source ID: Johnson_1754 Source: Johnson ### Event 23184 (04CE0089) Date: 4/3/1998 Description: Two men names Fisher and Schmidt took five photographs of a silent maneuvering silver ovoid or disc, that was oval on the top and flat on the bottom. The sighting occurred on a clear day on the Pecos River at Route 84 in De Baca County, New Mexico at 11:00 a.m. The UFO was rapidly vibrating up and down. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Nicholas Schmidt, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1999, p. 8 Source ID: Johnson_1826 Source: Johnson ### Event 23185 (D87BDE76) Date: 4/10/1998 Description: At 9:07 p.m. a triangular-shaped UFO was seen in the southwestern sky in Pueblo, Colorado. It zigzagged in flight, and then scanned the area with a beam of light. It circled passenger jet, then changed shape, dividing into different colors. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 203, citing the Pueblo Chieftain, April 19, 1998 Source ID: Johnson_1945 Source: Johnson ### Event 23186 (FCFA9ED2) Date: 4/11/1998 Description: A UFO that looked like an irregular triangle with rounded corners was seen in the sky in Corralitos, California at 9:15 p.m. It had three white lights along the bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_1959 Source: Johnson ### Event 23187 (C342937E) Date: 4/12/1998 Description: In Farmers Branch, Texas three witnesses saw a black round object that flew overhead at 1440 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18034; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, number 16 Source ID: Johnson_1994 Source: Johnson ### Event 23188 (C60D3CEC) Date: 4/13/1998 Description: Minot, North Dakota. Thirty-nine-year old Antonio McCoy found himself inside a round, whitish-blue room, lying down on some kind of table. A figure wearing a bluish shiny suit approached him. The being was carrying something resembling a "tine tuning fork" and was attempting to place it over the witness torso. The witness attempted to resist but some invisible force or paralysis kept him still. He experienced severe headaches after the incident and reported seeing strange black helicopters flying around his neighborhood. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3831, citing UFO Abduction Raw Data Page, UFO Watch Source ID: Johnson_2005 Source: Johnson ### Event 23189 (28CEBC44) Date: 4/18/1998 Description: At seven p.m. a group of witnesses in Kamloops, British Columbia observed a silver disc hovering nearby. A second object appeared and circled the first one, then both UFOs shot straight up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research Manitoba, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case 19 Source ID: Johnson_2126 Source: Johnson ### Event 23190 (18F77059) Date: 4/20/1998 Description: In Oakley, Michigan a stationary bell-shaped object was videotaped for 58 seconds by three women. It had three lights, red, white, and blue in color, that pulsated in sequence. It was lost from view at 10:15 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dan R. Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1999, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_2174 Source: Johnson ### Event 23191 (64ED5DC3) Date: 4/21/1998 Description: The witness heard something like a police siren as the teardrop-shaped UFO flew by in Broomfield, Colorado at 10:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1998 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_2198 Source: Johnson ### Event 23192 (944F5419) Date: 4/22/1998 Description: UFOs sighted at sub base and nuc storage facility (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, NC) Reference: NICAP: [980422](http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-washington.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: various cities, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5878 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23193 (1224BA69) Date: 4/22/1998 Description: 9:23 p.m. Civilian Larry Swanson sees a disc-shaped UFO fly silently north to south at about 300–400 feet altitude over the center of Naval Submarine Base Bangor \[now Naval Base Kitsap\] on the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington. At one point, the disc tilts slightly, allowing Swanson to view its underside, which is glowing white except for a central circular area about 30 feet in diameter. It slowly glides out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, January 28, 1999; Nukes 494–498 Source ID: Eberhart_7268 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23194 (AEEC1AE0) Date: 4/22/1998 Description: 9:20 p.m. A former Canadian F-104 pilot watches a UFO embedded in a cloud of green light fly toward the south over his car as he is driving near Whistler, British Columbia. It is visible only a few seconds. Other witnesses further south see the UFO stop over Puget Sound for 5–10 seconds, jump instantly to another location, and hover again before speeding away to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Filer, “Washington Large Disc with Hole in Its Center,” Filer’s Files, \#34-2007, August 22, 2007; Nukes 495 Source ID: Eberhart_7267 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23195 (FB2D91E7) Date: 4/25/1998 Description: Three friends in Manito, Illinois saw a light, which broke into two disks, and then into three. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 76, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center., April 1998 webpage Source ID: Johnson_2317 Source: Johnson ### Event 23196 (C0D76EDB) Date: 4/27/1998 Description: At 8 o'clock in the evening Ursulina, the main witness, and her husband were in bed sleeping at their home in Aurora, Ceara State, Brazil when they heard a noise that sounded like someone trying to open the rear door to their house. Their cat was also acting very agitated. Her husband, Francisco, went to investigate while Ursulina remained behind in bed praying. Soon she heard a sound resembling a radio being tuned and then a bright blue light invaded the bedroom. Looking towards the door of the bedroom she saw a strange creature standing there. She described the entity as being about 1.5 meters in height, with a huge head not in proportion to the rest of the body, wide shoulders, a very thin waist, and long dangling arms. It was hairless, had huge black eyes, a small lipless mouth, and little "bumps" where the nose should have been. She described the clothing as a brown tight-fitting coverall, with belts and boots. The entity stared intently at Ursulina. Despite her terror she managed to ask the entity what it wanted. She heard an unintelligible reply and then screamed for her husband. At that same instant the creature ran out the door and disappeared down the corridor. Her husband apparently was able to see the figure run from the bedroom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case 20, citing Painel OVNI Source ID: Johnson_2385 Source: Johnson ### Event 23197 (008880EB) Date: 5/5/1998 Description: Three witnesses in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada observed a dark black triangular silouette that floated silently nearby at 10:05 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 1998-21, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_2566 Source: Johnson ### Event 23198 (A24E367A) Date: 5/7/1998 Description: On this night a 10-year-old girl and her 8-year-old brother spotted a large UFO hovering above their house in Mullica Hill, New Jersey. The children claimed the craft was lighted and bigger than their house. They also saw an alien figure floating next to the object, the entity apparently stared at the children who became scared and ran into the house yelling for their dad. They ran back out to see the object float away. They did not see the entity again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3148, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Vol. 3 # 20 Source ID: Johnson_2641 Source: Johnson ### Event 23199 (4E681B1B) Date: 5/12/1998 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a husband and wife in Chebanse, Illinois each observed flying discs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jay Rath, The I Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 56, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2781 Source: Johnson ### Event 23200 (6A5DD414) Date: 5/13/1998 Description: A day after several witnesses reported seeing a triangular-shaped craft hovering over the Gulf of Mexico, just offshore, south of Fort Walton Beach, Florida the same witnesses reported seeing men in frogmen suits in the water, in the same area where the lights from the object had been shining down. There was also unusual military aircraft activity in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case 3805, citing CAUS Source ID: Johnson_2819 Source: Johnson ### Event 23201 (8B264EA8) Date: 5/16/1998 Description: A very large, dark disc-shaped UFO hovered over a giant hydroelectric dam and lake, Lago de Colbun in southern Chile, causing EM effects. It was so large it covered the valley. The UFO was witnessed by over 30 people, who described it as a a gigantic disc, "dark (not black), with a big orange light on the bottom (middle) and small lights that moved around on the outer part (rim) of the object." It flew off to the east. Lago de Colbun is Chile's biggest hydroelectric dam and one of the largest in South America. It is located 200 kilometers south of Santiago de Chile. The UFO reportedly hovered at 1,000 meters above the ground and remained in view for 20 minutes, before flying across the lake and into the Andes Mountains. Witnesses described the object as "so big that it seemed to cover the whole valley."

According to ufologist Luis Sanchez Perry, "They call the UFOs robones (thieves) because that they say they steal electricity. Before they had the high-tech plant, they didn't have many blackouts (one or two in a month), but now they have three in a week." "UFOs have been seen coming out of Lake Colbun near the high tension wires," he reported, 'absorbing electricity, absorbing water, and some of them have gone at high speed through the valley towards the hydroelectric plant," coming within a few hundred meters of the dam before disappearing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18037; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, number 26 Source ID: Johnson_2905 Source: Johnson ### Event 23202 (A9B82CB5) Date: 5/17/1998 Description: At 1:30 p.m. at La Veta Pass, Colorado on US Highway 160 a silver colored, cigar-shaped object was observed over the Sangres de Cristo Mountains during a thunderstorm. The UFO flew in and out of the clouds for several minutes before becoming obscured by the storm. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien case files, case 548 Source ID: Johnson_2943 Source: Johnson ### Event 23203 (065278D9) Date: 5/27/1998 Description: Two brothers saw a triangular UFO over their home in East Kilbride, England at 12:30 a.m. It had white lights at the front of the object, and was completely silent as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 203 Source ID: Johnson_3129 Source: Johnson ### Event 23204 (EC2B7B8F) Date: 5/29/1998 Description: A close encounter occurred in North Bend, Ohio in Hamilton County at 1:30 a.m. A triangular shaped object was seen moving slowly from the northeast to the southwest, crossing the Ohio River at 50 meters altitude. It was making a humming sound, similar to the sound of static from high tension wires. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Washington, May 1998 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_3159 Source: Johnson ### Event 23205 (8E75D0DD) Date: 6/1/1998 Description: A red ball of light shot over the lake in Gmunden, Austria at 9:30 p.m. It dropped in altitude, then shot up vertically. There was television interference in the town for 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 3, number 23 Source ID: Johnson_3210 Source: Johnson ### Event 23206 (9CF96503) Date: 6/5/1998 Description: 10:30 p.m. Paul Best and his girlfriend are driving near Llanidloes, Powys, Wales, when they notice three triangular objects that are rounded on the bottom. They remain stationary for 6–7 minutes, then begin moving slowly before shooting away at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs Spotted near Llani,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201998%2010%20-%20no%20351.pdf)” Welshpool \(UK\) County Times, June 12, 1998, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 351 \(October 1998\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_7269 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23207 (97F32014) Date: 6/5/1998 Description: In 1998 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada two people witnessed two UFOs at 11:49 p.m. EDT, a large, bright object accompanied by a smaller orange light trailing behind it. The smaller light merged with the main light. Neither object made any sound. At 10:05 p.m. PDT a couple in Vancouver, British Columbia observed a stationary, 40-foot tall, vertically aligned tube in the sky. They said it was ejecting flames from the underneath end. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research Manitoba, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, cases 32 & 33 Source ID: Johnson_3313 Source: Johnson ### Event 23208 (9D9AA349) Date: 6/6/1998 Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Chateauguay, Quebec three white lights arranged in a triangle were seen flying through some clouds. The lights moved from the edges to the center of the triangle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research Manitoba, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case 38 Source ID: Johnson_3344 Source: Johnson ### Event 23209 (1C28332A) Date: 6/6/1998 Description: At five o'clock in the afternoon over Edinburgh, Scotland two objects hovered for less than a minute, then executed a 90-degree turn and flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1998 web page Source ID: Johnson_3343 Source: Johnson ### Event 23210 (F148B964) Date: 6/8/1998 Description: During the predawn hours of this morning in Puerto Rico the witness, Belen, found herself seated on a stainless steel table that floated in mid-air. To her left stood two short gray beings wearing white coveralls. They just stood there looking at her, seemingly waiting for something. At her feet stood a tall, human like figure, with black hair, large eyes, fine chiseled facial features and very thick eyebrows. She felt relaxed and unafraid. She asked the human figure what were they doing, and his answer was, "We are preparing you." She asked him not to leave any marks on her body this time, but she was told that it was necessary, and that next time no scars or marks will be left behind. She then lay back on the table and saw two "tubes" descend from the ceiling. The tubes were also metallic and emitted beams of light towards her stomach area. At this point she lost consciousness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Lucy Guzman Source ID: Johnson_3380 Source: Johnson ### Event 23211 (27C775B0) Date: 6/9/1998 Description: At 6:20 a.m. several witnesses in a vehicle in Lynch Mountain, Kentucky watched a tall glowing figure, without a neck and with a large head that was large on top and small at the bottom. It glided through a guardrail towards their vehicle. As it passed by the vehicle shook very hard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3569, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3398 Source: Johnson ### Event 23212 (C8708FCA) Date: 6/10/1998 Description: At 10:15 p.m. a woman awoke to a noise outside her bedroom in Deception Bay, Queensland, Australia. She thought she heard the TV set on and could also see some kind of soft, flashing light in the corridor that she went to investigate. At the end of the corridor she was surprised to see a very tall man standing in the hallway. He wore a long beige jacket and had long arms. His face could not be seen because he was backlit by the light coming from behind him. She attempted to scream but could not. The next thing she remembered was finding herself standing in a different place in the room. She heard a voice say "come on, time to go to bed now," which she did. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case #3155, citing Robert Frola & Diane Harrison, UFO Information Centre Queensland Source ID: Johnson_3414 Source: Johnson ### Event 23213 (94068472) Date: 6/21/1998 Description: At around midnight a man named Augustin was walking his dogs in Ulldemolins, Terragona, Spain alongside an isolated field when he noticed a bright light to his left. A bright white rotating light approached and disappeared towards the nearby road, apparently coming down to land. The witness heard a moderate humming sound. Suddenly the light went dark and two humanoids became visible. They were both walking on the road toward him. The beings wore fluorescent helmets and boots and tight-fitting silvery outfits, but no other details were visible. His dogs began barking in an agitated manner. Terrified, the witness and his dogs ran in the opposite direction, not looking back at the humanoids. The night before this close encounter another local witness had seen a white light hovering over a house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3340, citing Josep Guijarro, Karma-7 #295 Source ID: Johnson_3592 Source: Johnson ### Event 23214 (AFC750C5) Date: 6/25/1998 Description: 2:00 p.m. A witness and her children in Cleveland, Ohio, see 8 white, balloon-like objects moving across the sky into a large cloud, pausing before entering it one by one. They watch the cloud and follow it to the horizon, but the objects do not emerge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_7270 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23215 (A13B0E83) Date: 6/25/1998 Description: A yellow glowing trail was captured on videotape at 10:30 p.m. on Mikonos Island, Greece. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1998 webpage Source ID: Johnson_3664 Source: Johnson ### Event 23216 (1FE4950F) Date: 6/26/1998 Description: Early morning. Two witnesses spot a triangular UFO hovering above Corbett Hospital in Stourbridge, England. The object has white lights at each corner and projects a white beam of light onto the buildings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Strange Shape in Sky,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201998%2010%20-%20no%20351.pdf)” Wolverhampton \(UK\) Express and Star, July 10, 1998, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 351 \(October 1998\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_7271 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23217 (E9AB0899) Date: 6/27/1998 Description: On this night teenager Marisa Pearsall from Cassopolis, Michigan found herself on a metal table. She was not afraid and she was surrounded by bright lights. She saw three short humanoids around her. They were about four feet tall and gave off a white light, but no additional features could be discerned. One of the humanoids approached her and held out two fingers forming a "V" or peace sign. Marisa reported later finding several anomalous scars on her body. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3835, citing UFO Abduction Raw Data Page, UFO Watch Source ID: Johnson_3705 Source: Johnson ### Event 23218 (2DE2EFDC) Date: 7/2/1998 Description: 8:00 p.m. A couple working outside in their yard at Ticonderoga, New York, see a soundless, wingless object moving swiftly through the sky. The man takes a video of it as it flies past the eastern side of St. Mary’s Church. Probable aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bruce Maccabee, “[‘Flying Peanut’/Double UFO Video Seems to Be Authentic,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/1999/01/January%201999.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 369 \(January 1999\): 3–7; Wim van Utrecht, “[Luminous Peanut over Ticonderoga, New York,](https://www.caelestia.be/ticonderoga.html)” Caelestia Source ID: Eberhart_7272 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23219 (B75724A5) Date: 7/4/1998 Description: At 10:23 a.m. an object in the sky over Waikiki, Hawaii made erratic maneuvers in the sky, moving in circles with up-and-down motions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 1998 web page Source ID: Johnson_3832 Source: Johnson ### Event 23220 (295C767A) Date: 7/11/1998 Description: Sometime after midnight a woman in an unspecified location in Puerto Rico heard a masculine voice that woke her up. She then began to float towards the ceiling. A tall human looking figure with black hair (previously encountered) accompanied her, holding her by the hand. Somehow they went up through the ceiling and she saw something resembling a "cloud" floating overhead. They entered this "cloud" and she found herself in a large room with windows and bench-like seats all around it. The room was dull silver in color and there wasn't anyone else present. The man then escorted her into a semi-dark room and told her to wait there. The room suddenly became hot and then cold in a matter of seconds. He then returned and they left the room together. She was able to look out a window and saw a view of snow covered mountains. She also saw an ocean that had something like a waterspout in the middle of it. She was then taken to a wall and a previously undetectable door appeared, she west through the door and found herself in another metallic room with a metallic "table" floating in mid-air. In the room where three short grey beings wearing white coveralls with a red star insignia on their chests. Another tall human was present; he wore a tight-fitting light blue metallic coverall with a silver belt. The belt had a buckle with what appeared to be a glistening quartz crystal. The human wore gloves, but his shoes were part of his one-piece metallic uniform. Only his face was visible. She remembered encountering the man before. He told her that they were going to remove a cyst from her body, and promised not to leave any scars. She then apparently fell asleep and woke up later on her bed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Lucy Guzman Source ID: Johnson_3997 Source: Johnson ### Event 23221 (608166C6) Date: 7/12/1998 Description: A female security guard in Lakeland, Florida spotted a strange "alien" entity standing on the corner of Dixie Highway and Lucern Road on this evening. The humanoid had pasty white skin, reddish blond hair, and black button eyes. His nose was small, his lips were very thin, and his eyes were black in color with almost no white area. He had neither eyelashes nor other facial nor body hair, his head was unusually large, while his ears were very small. He moved very slowly with short little steps and was wearing normal human clothing. The next evening the same or a similar entity appeared outside the security guard's workplace, over 12 miles away. When a second witness approached the entity mysteriously disappeared. The police were notified. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3156, citing UFO Magazine (USA), Volume 14, No. 1 Source ID: Johnson_4020 Source: Johnson ### Event 23222 (F321582D) Date: 7/16/1998 Description: Several local residents of Valentin Letelier, Chile reported encountering a strange little creature about 50 centimeters tall on this night. The being had a full head of hair and was spotted walking around the local plaza for several hours that night. Two of the witnesses have reported talking to the dwarf, who spoke in a gruff voice and told one of the witnesses that he was hungry. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3637, citing Paranigma Chile Source ID: Johnson_4113 Source: Johnson ### Event 23223 (53FDE9FE) Date: 7/18/1998 Description: A triangular object maneuvered near an airport west of Longmont, Colorado at 8:07 a.m. It was about 60 feet in width and wobbled at only 15 meters altitude. In flew off toward the west. On the same evening a light was observed moving up and down behind some trees in Sudbury, Ontario for a long time. Eventually the one remaining witness, a boy, observed it turn blue and streak away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, issue 3.32 Source ID: Johnson_4182 Source: Johnson ### Event 23224 (7C57969D) Date: 7/21/1998 Description: 11:19 p.m. An object the size of a small trailer appears suddenly over Napoleon, Ohio. It is emitting a dense fog and stays stationary for 7 minutes, then branches out and grows until 5 smaller craft are seen circling it. The large object seems to dissolve and disappear, the smaller objects still circling for another few minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7273 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23225 (B2064870) Date: 7/30/1998 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a man driving in a car in Ernfold, Saskachewan, Canada saw a silver topped disc fly by heading fast to the south. It had a gray bottom and was silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18059, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 3, Number 32 Source ID: Johnson_4514 Source: Johnson ### Event 23226 (8C13FEA0) Date: 8/8/1998 Description: At 5:30 a.m. five witnesses in Claut, Pordenone, Italy spotted a UFO and a flying humanoid over a soccer field. Two farmers, the groundskeeper, and a pair of tourists watched the humanoid fly overhead and then rejoin the hovering object. The craft then shot straight up into the sky. One of the farmers, Angelo F., was having breakfast when he first saw the multicolored UFO. A second man named Angelo, the groundskeeper, saw the object when it flew by and hovered over the field. The witnesses described the humanoid as having a large head and a small body "like a puppet." He was about four feet tall, and wore what appeared to be V-shaped body armor equipped with a luminous backpack. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3132, citing Antonio Chiumento Source ID: Johnson_4784 Source: Johnson ### Event 23227 (A0DBDF65) Date: 8/8/1998 Description: At 10:45 p.m. a large dark triangle that was viewed through binoculars flew over the shoreline at Kerlaviou, Finistere department, France at a low altitude, heading toward the east. It had lit corners and made a slight rumbling sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18060 Source ID: Johnson_4785 Source: Johnson ### Event 23228 (83BE210D) Date: 8/9/1998 Description: A couple on a terrace in Cintegabelle, Haute-Garonne, France witnessed the slow passage of a luminous sphere at around 10 p.m. There was also unusual behavior by animals, and the total silence of nature. The sphere silently zigzagged, and disappeared after 5 minutes Another witness in a distant city saw it, too. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 291 Source ID: Johnson_4809 Source: Johnson ### Event 23229 (AF96DB89) Date: 8/10/1998 Description: A triangular UFO with many lights was seen over at least 30 different towns in the Ardennes region of France. Over the town of Sedan a videotape shot at 11:30 p.m. showed the object seemingly attempting to dodge the camera. The video footage appeared on French TV. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, number 33 Source ID: Johnson_4848 Source: Johnson ### Event 23230 (0C860906) Date: 8/10/1998 Description: 12:00 noon–1:00 p.m. At least four witnesses at Quirindi, New South Wales, see “20 silver balls” performing complex maneuvers. Angel hair streams from the objects during acceleration and right-angle turns. The substance consolidates into long, white strands that slowly fall to earth, draping on telephone lines and trees. It is white, cotton-like, and strong, requiring a good tug to break, but quickly sublimates to nothing on handling. A sample is sent to UFO researcher [Bill Chalker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FChalker) for analysis. Microscopic imaging by indicates it is spider web. Another witness in Piallaway, New South Wales, reports similar material at 2:00 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 \(Fall 2001\): 10; Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 7; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 107–108 Source ID: Eberhart_7274 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23231 (9816A8B1) Date: 8/10/1998 Description: "Cobwebs" fell from the clear blue sky while silver spheres performed aerobactic maneuvers and made right angle turns over Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia on this afternoon. The "angel hair" appeaerd to be produced during the objects' accelerations. The substance was white in color, with the strength of cotton, and eventually dissolved. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Brian Boldman, International UFO Reporter, October 2001, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_4847 Source: Johnson ### Event 23232 (099EF037) Date: 8/11/1998 Description: Six crop circles were found in a field of Durham wheat outside of Outlook, Saskatchewan. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research Manitoba, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case 69 Source ID: Johnson_4916 Source: Johnson ### Event 23233 (E488D3A7) Date: 8/12/1998 Description: Five youths in Massape, Ceara State, Brazil reported seeing a huge object land near the Mondubim lagoon on this evening. Three humanoids resembling robots exited the object and proceeded to collect shrubs and rocks. The youths fled the area and notified some nearby military units, however they failed to find anything. Later one of the witnesses, Joao Lira, decided to return to the scene and saw the same object on the ground. When he approached it he suddenly felt dizzy and passed out. He was found three hours later next to the lagoon, shirtless, sweating, and with partial amnesia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Revista Brasileira de Ufologia Source ID: Johnson_4956 Source: Johnson ### Event 23234 (75799BCD) Date: 8/13/1998 Description: Several people in Surrey, British Columbia observed a bright white disc "drop out of the sky" and hover nearby for about 30 seconds. No sound was heard, and it disappeared at a high rate of speed. Many telephone reports were received by the RCMP. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case #71 Source ID: Johnson_4991 Source: Johnson ### Event 23235 (33CADF62) Date: 8/14/1998 Description: Around 9 p.m. a couple in Hastings, East Sussex, England spotted a UFO that was triangle shaped at first, but later changed to an oval shape. The object displayed lights that changed color and pattern. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 204 Source ID: Johnson_5022 Source: Johnson ### Event 23236 (4D104788) Date: 8/15/1998 Description: The witnesses were on a country road in Deshler, Ohio when they saw a silvery flash overhead and watched a huge metallic rectangular craft abruptly appear. It had several windows and inside several figures could be seen moving around. There was another flash and the craft disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3591, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_5062 Source: Johnson ### Event 23237 (3C67A225) Date: 8/21/1998 Description: Israeli-American astrophysicist [Mario Livio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%5FLivio) speculates that extraterrestrials are not particularly rare, it’s just that the most likely time for them to have developed was 3 billion years ago. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mario Livio, “[How Rare Are](https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808237) [Extraterrestrial Civilizations and When Did They Emerge?](https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808237)” arXiv, August 21, 1998 Source ID: Eberhart_7275 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23238 (C90ECCC3) Date: 8/21/1998 Description: On this afternoon on the outskirts of Citta Di Castello, Italy some city residents spotted a small humanoid in a field. It was crouched down like an old woman gathering weeds. When it failed to respond to shouts from the witnesses they approached to about 200 meters. Suddenly a silvery cylinder-shaped object appeared and hovered about two meters above the small figure. The small humanoid then levitated into the craft, which took off quickly, accelerating out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3133, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, September 16, 1998 Source ID: Johnson_5213 Source: Johnson ### Event 23239 (2CADC7BD) Date: 8/24/1998 Description: Luis Cuesta Trinidad and a woman friend were camping near the shoreline on the beach in Mazagon, Extremadura, Spain. At 8:30 they were enjoying the view when they noticed a strange humanoid figure emerge from the water not far from them. The figure came out and began moving its arms in a strange fashion. At first it was standing with its back to them, but when it turned around it became aware of their presence by first noticing the flashlight being held by Luis. It took off running in a strange fashion, without bending its knees. They noticed that its head was hairless, but its body was covered with ample hair, and it had round, slightly Oriental-looking eyes that were orange in color. It was almost two meters tall, with long dangling arms and legs that looked deformed. It was very pale in color with its head was shaped like an inverted pear. It had no nose, and they could not see a mouth. It was totally silent. The witnesses felt nervous during the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3836, citing OVNIS En Extremadura, El Dragon Invisible Source ID: Johnson_5305 Source: Johnson ### Event 23240 (C3215C8B) Date: 8/26/1998 Description: The crew of a DC-10 flying over France observed the fast passage of six luminous points of light in tight formation for 10 seconds at 12:32 a.m., with a single trail. The flight was horizontal, but described an arc of 90° in just 10 seconds, which was judged to be a supersonic speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case 1998-297 Source ID: Johnson_5382 Source: Johnson ### Event 23241 (96C33C17) Date: 8/29/1998 Description: A black triangle shaped UFO was seen in Calgary, Alberta, Canada at 1:30 a.m. The witness estimated the object to be "several times larger than an airplane." It hovered, than zipped across the sky in two seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey Report, case 92 Source ID: Johnson_5478 Source: Johnson ### Event 23242 (B83310AA) Date: 9/3/1998 Description: At around 5 p.m. a witness in Kamloops, British Columbia observed an object shoot across the sky, hover, then depart straight up vertically. It made no sound. Another object then did the same thing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 100 Source ID: Johnson_5618 Source: Johnson ### Event 23243 (C91CFBCB) Date: 9/6/1998 Description: A bedroom visitation also reportedly occurred in Bothell, Washington on this night. At two o'clock in the morning the witness was awakened by a white light appearing suddenly in a dark bedroom. Sitting up in bed, the witness observed two creatures staring up her, surrounded by the white light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1998 log Source ID: Johnson_5701 Source: Johnson ### Event 23244 (90C4D69D) Date: 9/11/1998 Description: At 8:30 p.m. PDT, two sets of seven lights, yellow, blue, red and green, were seen and viewed through a spotting scope in Sheridan, Oregon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 1998 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5887 Source: Johnson ### Event 23245 (37B3D886) Date: 9/13/1998 Description: A sensationalized TV documentary, The Secret KGB UFO Files, is released in the US and hosted by actor [Roger Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%5FMoore)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%5FMoore) who recounts a dubious story about a Soviet crash/retrieval in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, in March 1969 that involved an alien autopsy. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Internet Movie Database, “[The Secret KGB UFO Files](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224072/)”; “[The Secret](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0oYzukAqOw) [KGB UFO Files, 1998,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0oYzukAqOw)” M TUFONC YouTube channel, September 24, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7276 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23246 (78AFD4F0) Date: 9/14/1998 Description: At a little before sunset two women were sitting on the balcony of a house belonging to one of them, at Markou Mousourou Street in the Metz neighborhood of Athens, Greece opposite Ardittos hill. They saw a small black object in the sky about one kilometer away. They first thought it might be a helicopter but it made no sound. When the object approached, they saw it was a humanoid figure in a standing position. It flew closer and the flying humanoid turned its body once in the direction of nearby Zappeio park and then once in the opposite direction, without changing speed or posture. It started coming down and seemed to land somewhere inside the forest on Ardittos hill. They thought that the flying creature was wearing something like an "astronaut suit" because from time to time the sunset light gleamed on it. After landing the figure went up the hill by making some small mechanical "hops," until it reached a point just below the crest. It did not bend its knees when it hopped nor did it move its arms. After ten minutes the creature transformed itself into a "bright spot" and then vanished. During the incident, there was a strong wind blowing but the movement of the creature's flight was steady. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Thanassis Vembos Source ID: Johnson_5972 Source: Johnson ### Event 23247 (7262B293) Date: 9/14/1998 Description: Lt. Col. Enrique Rocamora, in charge of declassification of UFO reports for the Spanish Air Force from 1993 to 1999, enters the 57th staff course at the Escuela Superior del Aire in Madrid, Spain. Along with consultations and contributions from [Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos](http://independent.academia.edu/VICENTEJUANBALLESTEROLMOS/CurriculumVitae)[,](http://independent.academia.edu/VICENTEJUANBALLESTEROLMOS/CurriculumVitae) he creates a massive monograph, “The Process of Declassification of UFO Documentation in the Air Force,” with 10 chapters and 16 attachments amounting to 296 pages. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 428, 523 Source ID: Eberhart_7277 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23248 (78674D68) Date: 9/16/1998 Description: In Serpent River, Ontario two witnesses observed a silver oval object hovering overhead (below the clouds) for a few seconds at 1:00 p.m. Then it moved further away and hovered again. It left at a high rate of speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 111 Source ID: Johnson_6029 Source: Johnson ### Event 23249 (9B539DAE) Date: 9/18/1998 Description: At 9 p.m. several people in Torriglia, Italy watched a luminous blue oval-shaped light on or near the ground on Mt. Prela for about an hour. In front of the light a small child-like figure was seen walking back and forth as if inspecting the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing CUN Genova Source ID: Johnson_6076 Source: Johnson ### Event 23250 (A3DD9421) Date: 9/21/1998 Description: Extension Forest Hills, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. On the night that Hurricane Georges struck Puerto Rico Iris Rodriguez was outside her home doing some washing when the winds began to pick up strength. She went back inside her house at 8 p.m., and soon after she looked out her window and noticed a bright sphere of light making triangular movements in the sky. The sphere descended lower in the sky and hovered above a neighbor's home. A few moments later a bright white, oval-shaped hole appeared in the center of the red light. Then a figure became visible inside the white light. The figure moved back and forth, apparently looking out. The witness described the figure as tall, thin, and man-like. It wore a tight-fitting gray colored outfit and his skin appeared to be also gray or pale. As the wind from the approaching hurricane grew stronger the witness lost interest in the object and its occupant, and eventually lost sight of it. On the same night Gerardo Mendez of Bayamon, Puerto Rico had gone out to pick up some trash bins in order to secure them from the wind. Suddenly from behind a nearby tree a strange creature jumped out. It was described as short, hunched over, with a snout-like nose, thick black hair, and round black eyes. It had thin but strong legs, large pointy ears, and sharp fang-like teeth. The creature quickly hopped by the witness, stopping briefly to stare at him. It then hopped into the nearby woods and was gone from view. That same night others saw speeding red balls of light over different parts of the island. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, cases #3157 and #3324, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI #18 & #19 Source ID: Johnson_6207 Source: Johnson ### Event 23251 (138EC997) Date: 9/21/1998 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a slow-moving, V-shaped UFO displaying red and white rapidly flashing lights, was seen passing overhead by several citizens and police between Nantwich and Crewe, Cheshire, England. Air traffic control at Manchester International Airport said they had nothing on radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 204 Source ID: Johnson_6206 Source: Johnson ### Event 23252 (5B00B190) Date: 9/25/1998 Description: At 8:00 p.m. two women driving north on Interstate 95 near Brattleboro, Vermont noticed several bright headlights approaching from behind. Three or four cars sped by the witnesses, who were doing about 70 mph. The cars appeared to be traveling together. As the first car passed them, the headlights of the car directly behind it illuminated the interior. The witnesses then saw in the back seat of the front car a lone entity sitting erect. It looked tall with a huge head on a spindly neck. Its color was pasty and it looked like a lot of veins covered its head. These cars drove at such a high speed that they could not catch up with them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3914, citing Sandra Black, MUFON Source ID: Johnson_6333 Source: Johnson ### Event 23253 (2F210B39) Date: 9/25/1998 Description: At 4:40 a.m. the witness was driving his truck along his paper route in Sunrise Beach, Texas when as he rounded a corner he saw a disc-shaped craft with green and orange lights hovering about 25 or 30 feet above the ground. He also briefly saw a 4 foot 8 inch tall figure apparently standing on the object that quickly disappeared from sight. When the truck started to slow down there was a very bright flash of light. The witnesses was momentarily blinded and when he was able to focus again the object had disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3228, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6332 Source: Johnson ### Event 23254 (A04A19A9) Date: 9/26/1998 Description: In San Jose, California two sets of five objects flew over the city at 10:30 p.m. in parallel formation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1998 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6367 Source: Johnson ### Event 23255 (63735F03) Date: 9/28/1998 Description: UFO researchers [Ion Hobana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%5FHobana), [Harald Alexandrescu](https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald%5FAlexandrescu), and [Dan D. Farcaş](https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%5FFarca%C8%99) establish the Asociația pentru Studiul Fenomenelor Aerospațiale Neidentificate \(ASFAN\) with offices in the Admiral Vasile Urseanu Astronomical Observatory in Bucharest, Romania. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 69–70; “[Association for the Study of Unidentified](http://www.asfanufo.ro/index.php/2014-02-11-09-17-36) [Space Phenomena \(ASFAN\), Romania](http://www.asfanufo.ro/index.php/2014-02-11-09-17-36)” Source ID: Eberhart_7278 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23256 (97AF9737) Date: 10/1998 Description: [Scott Corrales](https://cryptozoology.fandom.com/wiki/Scott%5FCorrales) begins publishing Inexplicata: The Journal of Hispanic Ufology. It persists through December 2004 but continues as a blog in December 2005. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Inexplicata: The Journal of Hispanic Ufology](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Inexplicata%20%28Scott%20Corrales%29/INEXPLICATA%2001.pdf), no. 1 \(Fall 1998\); [Inexplicata blog](http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/) Source ID: Eberhart_7279 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23257 (2B28BB9A) Date: 10/2/1998 Description: Ms. J. Juanin watched a round, bright orange flashing light with small black dotted things on it in Beluran, Sabah, Malaysia that seemed to land two kilometers away. She watched it for five minutes until its lights turned off. The sky was dark with no moon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, Filer's Files, 1998, issue 40; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 3, No. 41 Source ID: Johnson_6510 Source: Johnson ### Event 23258 (529542E5) Date: 10/3/1998 Description: A five-meter diameter disc flew low over the valley of the Tevere River in Rieti, Italy and skimmed the surface of the water. It flew off toward the southwest and was sighted again in Rome. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 3, no. 41 Source ID: Johnson_6540 Source: Johnson ### Event 23259 (79DF624F) Date: 10/10/1998 Description: At 11:51 a.m. witnesses observed a 75-80 foot silver domed disc hovering approximately 75 feet over a bookstore in London, Ontario, Canada. The object then turned upside-down for 2-3 seconds, then righted itself. It next shot straight up to an altitude of 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile and resumed hovering until it blinked out after five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Brian Vike, HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_6743 Source: Johnson ### Event 23260 (8E9A59B0) Date: 10/18/1998 Description: 12:40 p.m. Dave Rose is at Sandwell Valley, West Midlands, England, with his parents when they see a motionless sphere in the sky. After 20 minutes another object, a metallic-looking triangular UFO, also appears. The triangle moves from side to side in short bursts before vanishing completely. The sphere dwindles to a dark spot in another 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Did You See This UFO?](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201998%2012%20-%20no%20353.pdf)” Wolverhampton \(UK\) Express and Star, October 29, 1998, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 353 \(December 1998\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_7280 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23261 (24EC7757) Date: 10/19/1998 Description: A witness at 9:30 p.m. in Defiance, Ohio was just pulling out of a driveway when he noticed a triangular craft with a light at each corner, two white and one blue. He pulled over to get a better look, and watched as it flew silently close to the ground and behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 1998 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6989 Source: Johnson ### Event 23262 (FEC31145) Date: 10/19/1998 Description: Four different radar stations in Hebei province, China, pick up an unknown target moving above a military flight training base near Cangzhou. At least 140 observers at the base see the object as a small star that grows larger and larger as it descends. It has a mushroom-shaped dome on top and a flat bottom covered with rotating lights. The base commander scrambles a Shenyang J-6 fighter, which gets to within 2.5 miles of the UFO over Qing County, whereupon it abruptly shoots upward. The UFO plays cat and mouse with the jet, appearing and reappearing. Permission to fire on the UFO is denied by ground control. The fighter is forced to return after running low on fuel, and the UFO disappears before other aircraft arrive. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 393](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/392/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7281 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23263 (6233E4F4) Date: 10/19/1998 Description: Several men were out elk hunting in an isolated area near Vernal, Utah when they saw what appeared to be a plane crashing. They left their truck and proceeded over a nearby ridge to investigate. As they got closer to the area they saw two more craft hovering over the area. On the ground they saw what appeared to be some "people" gathered around. They reported their sighting to the National UFO Reporting Center. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3192, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6988 Source: Johnson ### Event 23264 (DEA879F2) Date: 10/24/1998 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a woman in Grand Mere, Quebec, Canada saw two entities that were wearing white astronaut outfits with helmets on their heads. One of the beings was leaned over and looked to be picking something up from the ground. The other stood nearby. When the beings walked they seemed to float just above the ground. Their size and appearance were similar to humans. About 75 feet behind them there was a thick brown fog made up of different bright colors with a bright glow about 27 feet in diameter. She watched them for five minutes before leaving the window. When she returned the entities had gone and the strange fog was moving away. Investigators found ground traces and footprints. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3379, citing Skyopen #62 Source ID: Johnson_7104 Source: Johnson ### Event 23265 (5A4E8041) Date: 10/25/1998 Description: A 12-year-old boy in Victoria, British Columbia suddenly woke up for no apparent reason. His room was illuminated by a light from an unknown source. He looked at the foot of his bed and saw an odd figure standing there. The figure was hard to see because of the light, but it looked as if its hands were covering up his face. The witness attempted to look closer but suddenly fell asleep. He woke up the next morning sleeping on the family sofa. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3899, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_7135 Source: Johnson ### Event 23266 (2F25E134) Date: 10/30/1998 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a foot-long, oval-shaped object entered a woman's home in Alamosa, Colorado through her back door. It slowly headed up the hallway toward her. She described the anomaly as being "milky-looking" with a chrome band. It abruptly vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Christopher O'Brien case files, case # 573 Source ID: Johnson_7322 Source: Johnson ### Event 23267 (FC20F4A3) Date: 10/30/1998 Description: On this evening in Baca Grande, Colorado a woman heard some small objects hitting her house. She looked out a window and saw several four-foot-tall hooded figures running around her yard. Later she also reported seeing something resembling a "hairy pig" running past the house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3137, citing Christopher O'Brien Source ID: Johnson_7321 Source: Johnson ### Event 23268 (6FEA0AA4) Date: 11/1/1998 Description: On this night a truck driver driving outside Bologna, Italy saw a bright light approach his vehicle. Suddenly his engine stalled. A period of missing time ensued. A second witness in the area remembered being struck by a beam of light and losing consciousness for two hours. A third man reported seeing two "Grey" beings enter his bedroom and perform some type of operation on one of his wife's knees, apparently inserting some kind of implant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1998 Humanoid Contact Database, citing CUN On-Line Source ID: Johnson_7400 Source: Johnson ### Event 23269 (E001E844) Date: 11/3/1998 Description: In Stewartstown, Coos County, New Hampshire a man and a women, age 18, sighted a dark gray triangle craft fly over at 9:00 p.m. It had a red light at the apex and three strobing white lights down the center line to the base. It was the size of a house, and was estimated to be five miles away at 22.5 degrees elevation, indicating an altitude of about 10,000 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sandra B. Black,MUFON field investigation case files, case # 980402SE Source ID: Johnson_7450 Source: Johnson ### Event 23270 (4FE2436C) Date: 11/6/1998 Description: 3:00 a.m. A man is driving with his wife near Childers, Queensland, when he sees an object moving quickly across the road. Five minutes later he sees a green beam of light shining down from the sky. The light source seems to be about 3,000 feet above them. Both he and his wife, who is asleep in the car, experience swelling in the hands and lips, as well as headaches. They both feel compelled to take their wedding rings off and sense that something else will happen to them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Australian CE2,” IUR 24, no. 2 \(Summer 1999\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_7282 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23271 (2CDF2A3C) Date: 11/6/1998 Description: 7:00 a.m. A witness in Bothell, Washington, sees a thin, horizontal cloud that tilts and descends. A taller horizontal cloud tilts to the left, but it soon appears to be a dark, cylindrical object. Two small oval clouds emerge from a larger cloud. All of the objects slowly descend past the Cascades Mountains. A few jets fly toward them one at a time, until 9:30 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 \(July 2005\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_7283 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23272 (A24D2605) Date: 11/7/1998 Description: Fifteen people, including members of a Puerto Rican UFO investigation group, were on a night vigil on Monte Briton, Puerto Rico when one of the them began to feel ill. Seven members of the group then accompanied their ill friend down to the nearby road. As they reached the road they were stunned to see seven short gray humanoids staring at them. The beings had unusually large heads. Terrified, one of the group managed to blurt out over a cell phone what they were witnessing. The humanoids then apparently used telepathy to tell the group not to approach any closer. At the same time they all became paralyzed. After three minutes the beings walked into the woods and disappeared and the seven were able to move again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3553, citing Federico Alvarez, UFOSICPR Source ID: Johnson_7524 Source: Johnson ### Event 23273 (E9C75E26) Date: 11/11/1998 Description: 11:55 a.m. Two daylight discs are seen by Ms. R. M. Jones as she is driving through Alexander, Arkansas: “The first was larger, more white, more stationary and lasted longer. The second was a white cigar sort of thing, sort of shimmery.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs Dominate Night Sky over Arkansas,](https://rense.com/ufo2/ufoark.htm)” UFO Roundup 3, no. 49, December 7, 1998 Source ID: Eberhart_7284 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23274 (843C96D6) Date: 11/13/1998 Description: At 7:10 p.m. north of the city of Helsinki, Finland two people heard and saw something resembling a bolt of lighting come from the sky. Strange vibrations lasting five minutes followed, and then all became quiet. After another two minutes the witnesses heard a very loud noise with no apparent cause, and this sound diminished before ceasing entirely. Then from their first floor balcony the witnesses saw three strange beings enter their backyard. The beings moved around the yard in every direction. One of them carried a purple blinking light and another of the beings climbed up one of their trees. The witness then made some noise and the humanoid in the tree came down and then they all left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Chucara Quebec Source ID: Johnson_7650 Source: Johnson ### Event 23275 (DD708324) Date: 11/13/1998 Description: In Maybrook, New York an 11-year-old boy awoke at 1:30 a.m. and saw three bizarre figures in the shape of bowling pins standing in the hallway about five feet from his bedroom doorway. They stood there staring at the witness. The figures glowed a white color, but did not illuminate anything around them. No eyes or mouths could be seen. The witness apparently encountered similar looking creatures the year before. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_7649 Source: Johnson ### Event 23276 (6561FBDE) Date: 11/16/1998 Description: Newspaper Article: “High court won’t review “state secrets” privilege in ‘Area 51’ case”. The U.S. Supreme Court refused in early November to hear an appeal of a lawsuit by workers at a “secret” air base near Groom Lake, Nev., dubbed “Area 51.” Type: lawsuit Reference: [link](https://www.rcfp.org/high-court-wont-review-state-secrets-privilege-area-51-case/) Location: Area 51 Source ID: Maj2_804 Source: Maj2 ### Event 23277 (6193B532) Date: 11/25/1998 Description: San Fernando Cebu Island, The Philippines - At three o'clock in the morning a man noticed a small strange-looking object hovering over a dead tree in some woods. There was a sudden flash of light and large balloon-shaped object with three illuminated triangular windows became visible. Inside the window he could see the head of a being with bright, crystal blue eyes. He heard a loud thundering voice speaking at him in an unknown language. Some of it sounded like: "arc-ha-an rha-ehn-raxh ehn." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, a998 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World Source ID: Johnson_7922 Source: Johnson ### Event 23278 (FB66C126) Date: 11/25/1998 Description: At 5:00 a.m. a soldier at the Moron de la Frontera Air Force Base in Sevilla, Spain was on guard duty near special hangars 1, 5, 6 and 9, accompanied by his German shepherd guard dog, when he heard a metallic scraping sound coming from nearby. He released his dog loose to go check, then loaded his weapon, and fired two shots into the air. Suddenly from out of some nearby woods a two-meter tall humanoid figure appeared. Because it was dark the soldier could not make out any features, except that the humanoid had glowing green eyes. He challenged the figure but it did not move, then he fired at it with his rifle, once, without any apparent effect. He then ordered the dog to attack, but when the dog approached it started howling in pain and slunk away. He fired at the humanoid again, but it just remained standing, staring at him. He took a few steps towards the figure which then raised one hand up, crouched down, and disappeared into the brush. The soldier conducted a search but failed to find anything. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1998 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3457, citing Jose Manuel Garcia Bautista Source ID: Johnson_7923 Source: Johnson ### Event 23279 (2C8CA870) Date: 11/27/1998 Description: 7:00–7:30 p.m. A woman is driving east on 25 Mile Road north of Mount Clemens, Michigan, when she sees a “highly intense,” basketball-sized ball of white light coming directly at her from the right at high speed. There is no sound and no time to avoid a collision. The object hits the car with a low thud, but the car’s motion is not affected. She does not see it again and continues driving home. Upon inspecting her car, she finds a cream- colored residue where it hit the car, forming a streak about 12–13 inches long that is broken in several spots. The residue is saved and after several months it is sent to analytical chemist [Phyllis Budinger](http://www.mufonohio.com/mufono/FRtour.html) for tests and analysis. The results show prominent components of kaolin \(aluminum silicate\), a hydrated metal \(perhaps manganese\) oxide, and a celluloidal material. Only the oxide is not attributable to the car’s own finish. There is no evidence of heat transferred to the car’s paint. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 3–5 Source ID: Eberhart_7285 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23280 (1351647E) Date: 11/27/1998 Description: At dusk a woman driving in Mount Clemens, Michigan saw an intense white ball of light (BOL) come directly at her at high speed. It made no sound and there was no time to avoid a collision. It hit the car with a slight "thump", leaving behind a gray residue where it struck. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mike Swords, www.nicap.org 1998 Chronology Source ID: Johnson_7973 Source: Johnson ### Event 23281 (CDC9BB76) Date: 11/29/1998 Description: At 7:55 p.m. a shiny, silvery triangular object with dim lights flew just above the trees in West Memphis, Arkansas. Its nose turned up, but it kept a level trajectory. Planes reportedly circled the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Nov. 1998 webpage; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, no. 49 Source ID: Johnson_8052 Source: Johnson ### Event 23282 (DE8A6FF9) Date: 11/29/1998 Description: At around three a.m. a witness noticed a small, strange object hovering above a dead tree in a wooded area of San Fernando, Cebu Island, the Philippines. There was a sudden flash of light, and a large balloon-shaped object with three illuminated triangular windows became visible. Inside the window he could see a humanoid being with bright, crystal blue eyes. He heard a thundering voice speak to him in an unknown language; some of it sounded like "arc-ha-an rha-ehn-raxh ehn." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1998 Humanoid Sighting Reports database Source ID: Johnson_8051 Source: Johnson ### Event 23283 (D7829D59) Date: 11/30/1998 Description: Night. Bright blue-white lights are seen throughout Sussex County, Delaware. One man reports a “large blue light that was moving all over erratically,” with smaller lights coming from the larger one. Local researcher Jane Segal receives reports that “fighters from Dover Air Force Base were flying all over the region.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs](https://rense.com/ufo2/ufoark.htm) [Seen by Many in Southern Delaware,](https://rense.com/ufo2/ufoark.htm)” UFO Roundup 3, no. 49, December 7, 1998 Source ID: Eberhart_7286 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23284 (1B72F4DC) Date: 11/30/1998 Description: At retired U.S. Air Force man in Cross Lanes, West Virginia sighted a silver disc-shaped object swaying in the sky above a Boeing 727 airliner. He then witnessed a military jet come to chase the object, which then shot straight up and was gone in a flash. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #18071, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, number 48 Source ID: Johnson_8095 Source: Johnson ### Event 23285 (F9778590) Date: 12/1998 Description: 5:45 p.m. Christopher Cabrera is at the end of his patrol shift at Area 2 in Nellis AFB in Nevada and chatting with a few other guards. All four of them notice three extremely bright amber lights in front of them in the southeast blinking sequentially in a vertical, triangular formation. The bottom two lights are about 100 feet off the ground and a quarter-mile away. They seem to be attached to one solid object that blocks out the stars behind it. It remains eerily silent. The event lasts about 10 seconds and the lights are so bright that it looks like daytime. The guards report the incident to the Flight Chief, who tells them not to repeat the story to anyone or they will be eligible for dishonorable discharge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert L. Hastings, “[Triangular-Shaped UFO Sighted at the Nellis AFB](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/triangular-shaped-ufo-sighted-at-the-nellis-afb-nuclear-weapons-storage-area) [Nuclear Storage Area,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/triangular-shaped-ufo-sighted-at-the-nellis-afb-nuclear-weapons-storage-area)” UFOs & Nukes, April 23, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_7287 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23286 (219BFBD3) Date: 12/2/1998 Description: Night. UFO activity in Brisbane, Queensland, consists of a bright white light, an orange ball of light, and a missing time experience, all by different witnesses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs Converge on Brisbane,](https://rense.com/ufo2/ufoark.htm)” UFO Roundup 3, no. 49, December 7, 1998 Source ID: Eberhart_7288 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23287 (BB0762DA) Date: 12/3/1998 Description: 11:30 p.m. A witness is driving in Kirkland, Washington, when she notices a cluster of four white lights and one red light to the south. They seem to be approaching, and when she arrives home she sees they are attached to a large equilateral triangle that passes overhead. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 227–228 Source ID: Eberhart_7289 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23288 (15EBA2DE) Date: 12/10/1998 Description: At 7:50 p.m. a triangular object with a bright light in each corner and a flashing red beacon in the middle was sighted in Hesston, Kansas at 7:50 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, December 1998 webpage Source ID: Johnson_8327 Source: Johnson ### Event 23289 (684191AE) Date: 12/11/1998 Description: During mission [STS-88](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-88), the crew of Space Shuttle Endeavor takes photos of an unusual dark object in low earth orbit. Conspiracy theorists claim it is an alien satellite, dubbed the Black Knight, in polar orbit around the Earth. However, the object is later identified as a thermal blanket that became dislodged and lost during a December 9 EVA by astronauts [Jerry L. Ross](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%5FL.%5FRoss) and [James H. Newman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FH.%5FNewman) during their installation of antennas on the International Space Station. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%5FKnight%5Fsatellite%5Fconspiracy%5Ftheory)”; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 220; James Oberg, “[Phantom Satellite?](http://www.jamesoberg.com/sts88%5Fand-black-knight.pdf)” PowerPoint presentation; Martina Redpath, “[The](https://armaghplanet.com/the-truth-about-the-black-knight-satellite-mystery.html) [Truth about the Black Knight Satellite Mystery,](https://armaghplanet.com/the-truth-about-the-black-knight-satellite-mystery.html)” Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, July 18, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7290 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23290 (8C991803) Date: 12/15/1998 Description: There were many UFO reports in the early dawn hours and on this evening in 1998, earlier in the evening than the normal hours for the Geminid meteor shower. At 5:30 a.m. at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey near New York City, a man working at the airport felt a strange compulsion to go outside. When he did he saw a huge, wedge-shaped craft with lights over the George Washington Bridge. At the same time he heard a message, apparently through his normal hearing. At nine o’clock in the evening a dark equilateral triangle-shaped craft outlined by lights passed silently over Bethelem, Pennsylvania. It flew from the east to the west at a very slow speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case 3930, citing CAUS; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_8430 Source: Johnson ### Event 23291 (ADAA3027) Date: 12/19/1998 Description: On this night a roaring sound awoke a man in Stra, Italy to the close presence outside his home of a bright aerial object with several windows. The UFO was about 10 meters in diameter. Two three-foot tall beings were seen outside the craft. They wore gray coveralls and moved in a mechanical manner. Landing traces found at the site consisted of a circle with three holes arranged in an equilateral triangle. The sides of the triangle were 4.1 meters in length. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Ted R. Phillips, case investigation files, C005, citing M. Verga Source ID: Johnson_8522 Source: Johnson ### Event 23292 (5D239703) Date: 12/23/1998 Description: At 5:20 p.m. two people at the Grand Canyon in Coconino County, Arizona witnessed a flying object shaped like a stingray approach from the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 1998 webpage Source ID: Johnson_8577 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 1999 (Back to Top) ### Event 23293 (560DF52B) Date: 1999 Description: Austrian astrobiologist [Helmut Lammer](https://www.iwf.oeaw.ac.at/en/user-cv/helmut-lammer/) and his wife Marion publish MILABS: Military Mind Control and Alien Abduction, a review of people claiming to have been abducted by military personnel who interrogate them about their UFO experiences, remove or insert implants, and perform medical examinations and memory eradication. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Helmut Lammer and Marion Lammer, MILABS: Military Mind Control and Alien Abduction, IllumiNet, 1999; Helmut Lammer, “[Preliminary Findings of Project-MILAB: Evidence for Military Kidnappings of Alleged UFO-](https://www.transformation.dk/www.raven1.net/mcf/lammer1.htm) [Abductees,](https://www.transformation.dk/www.raven1.net/mcf/lammer1.htm)” October 16, 1996; Helmut Lammer, “[Further Findings of Project-MILAB: Looking behind the](https://www.transformation.dk/www.raven1.net/mcf/lammer2.htm) [Alien/Military Abduction Agenda,](https://www.transformation.dk/www.raven1.net/mcf/lammer2.htm)” August 13, 1997; Malcolm Robinson, “MILABS: Military Mind Control and Alien Abduction,” Strange Phenomena Investigations England, 2001 Source ID: Eberhart_7292 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23294 (9DD90E9B) Date: 1999 Description: Harvard University psychologist [John E. Mack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FE.%5FMack) publishes a second book on abductions, Passport to the Cosmos, in which he continues to focus on the experience as transformative and ultimately benevolent. Much of the experience consists of a life lesson in symbolic form, Mack asserts. The hybrids combine the human and alien in a shared mission to save the Earth. The nurturing of hybrid children emphasizes the importance of emotion, and the otherness of the aliens awakens a sense that humans are not the apex of existence. The shock and terror of kidnap by unearthly beings breaks the illusion that the world is under our control. Although Mack hears the usual accounts of examinations and reproductive procedures from dozens of other experiencers, he still reads these events as symbolic agents of the larger purpose to save Earth from humans and humans from themselves. Whether or not the abductors are extraterrestrial hardly matters. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John E. Mack, Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters, Crown, 1999; Clark III 9, 10 Source ID: Eberhart_7293 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23295 (55405929) Date: 1999 Alternate date: 2000 Description: Retired NASA psychologist [Richard F. Haines](http://www.nicap.org/bio-haines.htm) founds the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena as a place for pilots, crews, and air-traffic controllers to report their UFO sightings on a confidential basis. Ted Roe is executive director and Haines is the chief research scientist. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “New Organization Promotes Aviation Safety in UFO Sightings,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 22, 30; Richard F. Haines, “NARCAP’s Project Sphere: Are Spherical UAP a Threat to Aviation Safety?” IUR 33, no. 2 \(July 2010\): 4–5; Clark III 553 Source ID: Eberhart_7291 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23296 (59B0DC04) Date: 1/7/1999 Description: At six o'clock in the morning Lindsey Knott of Crawley, West Sussex, England reported seeing bursts of lights in her room and then finding herself onboard a round object with low continuous windows. She saw control panels located at the center of the craft that were manned by two metallic robot-like creatures and two dark-hooded beings. She also met the apparent leader, who she described as as human-looking and tall, with shoulder length blond hair, pale eyes, very pale skin, and wearing a dark blue jumpsuit. The night after the incident she awoke to find her room very warm and cloying. The air appeared distorted and fuzzy, and she also saw more flashes of light. She suffered from headaches and toothaches after the incident. She also felt hypervigilant. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, case # 3834, citing UFO Abduction Raw Data Page, UFO Watch Source ID: Johnson_188 Source: Johnson ### Event 23297 (C1D296E0) Date: 1/9/1999 Description: A black disc-shaped object, 10 meters in diameter, hovered over houses in the town of Cava Dei Tirreni, Campania, Italy at 10:30 p.m. The UFO circled the town twice, then flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, January 25, 1999 Source ID: Johnson_236 Source: Johnson ### Event 23298 (EC6BD449) Date: 1/22/1999 Description: 7:03 a.m. A witness driving south on State Highway 3 near the off-ramp to Naval Submarine Base Bangor \[now Naval Base Kitsap\] on the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, sees an orange volleyball-sized light 20 feet above the overpass moving at 60–70 mph toward the base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, February 11, 2003; Nukes 498 Source ID: Eberhart_7295 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23299 (558DD042) Date: 1/22/1999 Description: [Peter](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/peter%5Fgersten.htm) [Gersten](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932)[,](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sedona-vortex-jumper-peter-gersten-wanders-home-after-vortex-fails-to-open-6648932) executive director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, files a FOIA lawsuit in federal district court in Phoenix, Arizona, to release documents relating to the Phoenix Lights and \(later\) the St. Clair Triangle in Illinois in 2000. The Department of Defense files a motion to dismiss the suit. Assistant US Attorney Richard Patrick says the department has conducted a reasonable search for information requested by Gersten’s group and cannot find any records. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Lawsuit to Get Hearing,](https://culteducation.com/group/1208-the-ufo-believers/21153-ufo-lawsuit-to-get-hearing.html)” Phoenix Arizona Republic, February 4, 2000 Source ID: Eberhart_7294 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23300 (87CB895C) Date: 2/3/1999 Description: A British Debonair Bae146 charter jet encounters a “long cylindrical object” the size of a battleship while flying at 28,000 feet over the North Sea off Denmark. The captain observes rows of square portholes on the UFO just before it bathes the airliner in incandescent light. The object comes to an abrupt halt, then accelerates past the airplane at an incredible speed. RAF radar stations track the object, which is also seen from three other nearby aircraft. A Civil Aviation Authority source says the object is tracked by a military radar station in Yorkshire after it enters British air space. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “North Sea Encounter,” IUR 24, no. 2 \(Summer 1999\): 31 Source ID: Eberhart_7296 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23301 (02F5C522) Date: 2/4/1999 Description: Jorge Alfonso was walking his dog in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil at 8:30 p.m. when he noticed a bright light some distance away. Thinking that it was a car that had broken down he approached to offer assistance. As he got nearer the light he was surprised to see that it was an object about three meters in diameter. Through a doorway he could see a humanoid operating some type of controls. He approached to within 30 meters of the object. Two minutes later the craft rose slowly up and disappeared into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET Source ID: Johnson_693 Source: Johnson ### Event 23302 (F8A31B83) Date: 2/9/1999 Description: At 6:30 p.m. four police constables near a lake in Sheffield, England saw an orange UFO with a triangular formation of red lights surrounding it that appeared to revolve around the object. The phenomenon was seen from two locations, and viewed through binoculars for 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Heseltine Gary, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 11, citing Andy Ellis Source ID: Johnson_786 Source: Johnson ### Event 23303 (4CFE997C) Date: 2/9/1999 Description: At 11:45 p.m. a group of fishermen in Pisco, Peru watched an anomalous light emerge from the ocean, bank sharply right, and then head for the shore to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18079, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 4, no. 8 (February 22, 1999) Source ID: Johnson_787 Source: Johnson ### Event 23304 (6B1E5D2A) Date: 2/14/1999 Description: In El Paso, Texas at midnight a witness saw a bright green light descending and it seemed to get brighter as it got closer. It dimmed, revealing a silver disc-shaped object that was spinning. There were several lighted windows around its rim, and through them the witness could see several “shadows” inside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, case # 3667, citing UFOPI Source ID: Johnson_919 Source: Johnson ### Event 23305 (6C2478A2) Date: 2/15/1999 Description: For a total of three minutes a single witness in Lucky Point, Knox County, Indiana saw a bright light in the northwest. A silvery, shimmering disc-shaped object the size of a Boeing 707 then came into view, moving silently. The UFO tipped on its side, and then traveled up-and-down in all directions. It next moved in a figure-8 pattern and flew off towards the northwest. A photograph was taken. The next day the witness was approached by three men in dark suits who demanded the print and the negative. The three men identified themselves as employees of Indianapolis Power and Light and asserted that it was illegal to take photos of the power lines. I.P. & L. was contacted and denied that it sent representatives to interview the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Kerry Teverbaugh, Indiana MUFON Source ID: Johnson_934 Source: Johnson ### Event 23306 (BD2ED4AE) Date: 2/17/1999 Description: In Campinas, Sao Paolo state, Brazil Gley Freitas observed a large oval-shaped object on the ground. Next to the object stood two tall humanoids, wearing tight-fitting outfits and helmets. Afraid, the witness did not get any closer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET Source ID: Johnson_972 Source: Johnson ### Event 23307 (C22CFCFC) Date: 2/20/1999 Description: Several people in a car in Alicante, Spain have their cellular mobile phones and the car's electrical system die when they heard a humming sound and witnessed a huge delta-shaped UFO 30 meters overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 4 (March 8, 1999) Source ID: Johnson_1029 Source: Johnson ### Event 23308 (AE4E75F9) Date: 2/21/1999 Description: In Bangues, Minas Gerais state, Brazil Jose Joaquim Dos Santos was parked on the side of the road resting in his car at midnight when he looked up and saw a short figure with a very large head looking inside his car through a rear passenger window. Frightened, he got out of the car and saw the short figure disappear into the distance up the roadway. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Antonio Faleiro, Brazil Source ID: Johnson_1041 Source: Johnson ### Event 23309 (D2796129) Date: 2/25/1999 Description: Shortly before noon 14 forestry workers working in the forest on the lower slopes of Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington witnessed a horseshoe-shaped flying object lift an adult elk out of the forest and fly off with the apparently dead or unconscious animal. The object had a red and white patch; it first oscillated in flight, then swooped down and abducted the elk in a clear cut, 500 yards away from the men. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Fairfax, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1999, p. 3 Source ID: Johnson_1122 Source: Johnson ### Event 23310 (B8477AF5) Date: 2/25/1999 Description: At 5:45 a.m. in Stouthill, Tennessee a cylindrical UFO 150 feet in length hovered just 100 feet above the trees. It had four bright lights along its bottom in perfect alignment. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_1121 Source: Johnson ### Event 23311 (505D3068) Date: 2/27/1999 Description: A dark cigar-shaped UFO was seen spinning on its major axis over Bologna, Italy. It had lights at both ends. It engaged in some pendulum motion, and then flew away at a high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup webpage, dated March 8, 1999 Source ID: Johnson_1167 Source: Johnson ### Event 23312 (030D1348) Date: 2/28/1999 Description: Ana Carolina de Machado reported being chased by three hairy humanoids with large round eyes in Votoporanga, Sao Paolo state, Brazil as she was walking through the city park at 12:12 a.m. According to the witness the humanoids suddenly materialized in front of her and then began to chase her. She managed to elude the creatures by running to a nearby security detachment post. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET Source ID: Johnson_1184 Source: Johnson ### Event 23313 (52095B4F) Date: 3/1999 Description: [Kevin D. Randle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle) [Russ Estes](http://www.ufowatchdog.com/russ%5Festes.htm), and [William Cone](https://www.wcspeakers.com/speaker/william-cone-ph-d/) publish The Abduction Enigma, offering a rigorous critique of the alien explanation for the abduction phenomenon and arguing instead that abductee personalities, cultural ideas, and investigator influences have coalesced to create false memories. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, Russ Estes, and William Cone, [The Abduction Enigma: The Truth behind the Mass Alien Abductions of the Late Twentieth](https://archive.org/details/abductionenigma0000rand) [Century](https://archive.org/details/abductionenigma0000rand)[,](https://archive.org/details/abductionenigma0000rand) Forge, 1999; Thomas E. Bullard, \[review\], JUFOS 7 \(2000\): 94–106 Source ID: Eberhart_7297 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23314 (3948D80F) Date: 3/5/1999 Description: Midnight. A diamond-shaped UFO is blamed for the unexplained collapse of a theatre roof in Kimberley, British Columbia. An object covered with flashing lights is seen by several witnesses prior to the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: East Kootenay \(B.C.\) Weekly, March 23, 1999; “Recent UFO Cases,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 31 Source ID: Eberhart_7298 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23315 (4DC2B7F2) Date: 3/10/1999 Description: A woman in Belper, Derbyshire, England saw a bright orange light in the sky from her home at 10:45 p.m. and got her binoculars. Looking through the binoculars she could tell the UFO was "a perfect black triangle" with a row of red lights on one side. It was also completely silent. Fifteen minutes later a motorist driving down a highway in Duffield, England saw a bright light in sky and pulled into a bus stop for better view. He reported seeing a "flat, triangular, black shape with equal sides, flying with the point first." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p 206 Source ID: Johnson_1419 Source: Johnson ### Event 23316 (114BB86F) Date: 3/15/1999 Description: At 11:15 p.m. 18-year-old Rodrigo Friedrich was returning home from a party in Altonia, Parana, Brazil when he noticed what appeared to be numerous shiny stars in the sky. One of the “stars” began to descend at high speed. He at first thought it was a shooting star and ignored it. Forty minutes later, when he reached home, a bright glow attracted his attention about to a spot about a kilometer away. Curious, he approached and encountered a 30-meter wide disc-shaped object that was completely illuminated. Near the object where six short humanoids, running back and forth and seemingly looking for something. Rodrigo began to get a headache and tried to yell out to attract some additional witnesses, but with no success, so he left. As he walked away he looked back and saw the object climb into the sky at high speed. Several days later Rodrigo began experiencing nightmares in which he saw short, gray-colored humanoids. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti Source ID: Johnson_1529 Source: Johnson ### Event 23317 (040FFDD2) Date: 3/24/1999 Description: Night. Five people in the towns of Brinsley, Nottinghamshire, and Crich and Belper, Derbyshire, England, watch a flying object that looks like a black wedge with two bright headlights. The blunt end of the wedge is facing forward as it flies at about 35 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Black Wedge’ Seen in Skies over Town,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201999%2007%20-%20no%20360.pdf)” Belper \(UK\) News, March 24, 1999, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 360 \(July 1999\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7299 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23318 (005D8BB7) Date: 4/1/1999 Description: At four o'clock in the morning two men, Jose Trajano and Milton Leite, were preparing their boat to go fishing and had just exited the boat storage garage in Santana do Ipanema, Alagoas, Brazil when they spotted a huge cylindrical object hovering just above their heads. The object was 15 meters in length and was reddish in color. The craft then shone a beam of white light towards the ground and a short figure materialized within the light on the ground. The witnesses watched from about 600 meters away as this short being went back and forth within the lighted area, then floated back up into the object and disappeared. The craft then became brighter and rose up quickly, disappearing from sight in the darkness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti Source ID: Johnson_1797 Source: Johnson ### Event 23319 (9A229E3F) Date: 4/2/1999 Description: Two Chilean national police officers see a UFO hovering above Mount Balmaceda in Puerto Natales, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. They see red, green, and yellow lights on the object, which performs several side-to-side displacements as it hovers near the summit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: La Tercera \(Santiago\), April 4, 7, 1999; “Recent UFO Cases,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 31 Source ID: Eberhart_7300 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23320 (F2E5F0CA) Date: 4/7/1999 Description: 10:58 p.m. A woman is looking through the second-story window of her home in East Falmouth, Massachusetts. She sees strange, double, white lights resembling car headlights attached to a triangular object silently moving across the sky through the maple trees. It is in view for only 4–5 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Recent UFO Cases,” IUR 24, no. 1 \(Spring 1999\): 31 Source ID: Eberhart_7301 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23321 (1A23FF10) Date: 4/8/1999 Description: A brilliant sphere some three meters in diameter flew over Hartford, Connecticut at 5:30 a.m. It had glowing lights that illuminated the low clouds overhead, as it flew at a low altitude, hugging the terrain as it went. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, Filer's Files Internet news list, volume 9, number 15 Source ID: Johnson_1914 Source: Johnson ### Event 23322 (0DF5A09A) Date: 4/15/1999 Description: At 2:30 a.m. a man in Mexico City, Mexico woke up in a sweat, feeling dehydrated. He got up and drank a glass of water, and felt the need to open the window curtains. When he did so he saw a bright spherical object that was circling overhead. He took out his video camera and began to tape the object. The UFO began making symmetrical maneuvers, drawing lines and numbers in the sky. The witness felt mental communication then the video camera shut down. After about 10 minutes of circling around the object left. The witness felt what he described as a strange electrical sensation in his left lung soon afterwards. Upon viewing the videotape he reportedly saw three humanoid figures, including a female figure. Whereabouts of the film is unknown. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 1999 archived webpage; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, case # 3627, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2041 Source: Johnson ### Event 23323 (00EAE881) Date: 4/20/1999 Description: On this evening Michael Hawkins, a Lockheed Martin aircraft mechanic, and his wife Lia Simmons sighted a disc-shaped UFO from their home in Rialto, San Bernardino County, California as it hovered overhead. The craft darted back and forth over Ontario Airport. When two commercial jetliners approached it emitted a shower of red sparks and instantly shot out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Preston Dennett, UFOs over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State, p. 211 Source ID: Johnson_2175 Source: Johnson ### Event 23324 (A9D04E6E) Date: 4/22/1999 Description: On this night an anonymous caller to the National UFO Reporting Center from Amersfoort, The Netherlands said that he had had contact with aliens at 2:15 a.m. They took him into their ship, and when he returned allegedly no time had passed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 1999 webpage Source ID: Johnson_2244 Source: Johnson ### Event 23325 (E9AB3F1F) Date: 5/4/1999 Description: A 45-year-old man went missing after he left his parents' home in Bariloche, Rio Negro province, Argentina on this night. He was found 8 days later by bloodhounds in an isolated canyon, dehydrated and suffering from hypothermia. He claimed he had been abducted by "extraterrestrials"; two men dressed in white and an attractive woman that picked him up and apparently wanted to operate on him. He had no other memories about what occurred to him. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # 3861, citing CE UFO Argentina Source ID: Johnson_2524 Source: Johnson ### Event 23326 (5EAEE735) Date: 5/5/1999 Description: At midnight in the Hautes Pyrenees, France many people observed a semicircular form, luminous and translucent, that some compared to smoke. After 15 minutes the witnesses noted a presence to the left of the luminous form (some spoke of a triangular form) that suddenly rocketed away fast to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 308 Source ID: Johnson_2567 Source: Johnson ### Event 23327 (17699D50) Date: 5/6/1999 Description: At 4:45 a.m. a man in Elizabeth, South Australia sighted a bright light the size of a large strawberry at arm's length, moving from side to side and up-and-down. It then disappeared. It was seen in the northwestern sky at 30 degrees elevation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Frola, Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_2603 Source: Johnson ### Event 23328 (83F036A0) Date: 5/9/1999 Description: A 10:30 p.m. a huge silent V-shaped or delta-shaped object passed over three scared teenagers driving on Highway 99 in White Rock, British Columbia. It had "headlights". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 1999 Canadian UFO Survey, case 70; Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 207 Source ID: Johnson_2703 Source: Johnson ### Event 23329 (C5DB6023) Date: 5/10/1999 Description: At 10:30 p.m. an object flew back and forth through the sky over Grantsville, West Virginia before emitting a giant ray of light like a huge spotlight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1999 web archive Source ID: Johnson_2731 Source: Johnson ### Event 23330 (23DC4703) Date: 5/10/1999 Description: On this evening Manuel Jimenez was driving on Route N-3333 on his way back to Los Arenales, Spain when he noticed a bright spherical light flying low over the area. Thinking it was a plane, he continued driving. Five minutes later he saw a bright spherical object resting on the ground in a nearby field, about 200 meters away. Two short figures wearing shiny metallic outfits stood next to it. Sr. Jimenez stopped his truck and watched the incredible scenario for awhile. Apparently the little men noticed the witness, because they quickly entered the lighted sphere, which then shot up into the sky at an incredible speed leaving a luminous trail behind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, case # 3458, citing Jose Manuel Garcia Bautista Source ID: Johnson_2730 Source: Johnson ### Event 23331 (B8E42B79) Date: 5/10/1999 Description: A man was awakened at 3:00 a.m. by a barking dog and a strange humming sound outside his home in Oak Ridge, North Carolina. He and another witness discovered an object, sitting in the sky just above the tree line. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1999 web archive Source ID: Johnson_2729 Source: Johnson ### Event 23332 (3F964AAD) Date: 5/14/1999 Description: A hexagon shaped set of bright blue light maneuvered over Hot Springs, Arkansas at 12:15 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1999 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_2843 Source: Johnson ### Event 23333 (9DDB549A) Date: 5/19/1999 Description: Chilean TV showed a video of a UFO seen hovering over the capital city of Santiago, Chile in the late evening. Another UFO was filmed the night before. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), September 1999, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_2993 Source: Johnson ### Event 23334 (4D02997E) Date: 5/21/1999 Description: A witness reported to the National UFO Reporting Center that a UFO positioned itself directly over his car in Harrison, Ohio. It hovered silently in the air and shone two white beams of light down on him. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_3030 Source: Johnson ### Event 23335 (3B901F14) Date: 5/23/1999 Description: A wedge-shaped object with blue and red flashing lights, described as "something weird," flew over Surrey, British Columbia at 10:15 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Ditman, Canadian UFO Survey 1999, case # 87 Source ID: Johnson_3057 Source: Johnson ### Event 23336 (228049CA) Date: 5/23/1999 Description: In Mambau, Malaysia at 4:30 a.m. 17-year-old Fahmi Mohd was awaken by the sound of wind blowing. He noticed some bright lights outside his house. When he went out the back door he was surprised to see an object hovering low over some nearby bushes. It was about 20-30 feet away and gave off a very bright blue light. He could not tell its shape because of the light's brilliance. He watched in amazement, forgetting to wake his parents. Next he saw a small being, about half a meter tall, come out from the bottom of the hovering craft. Again, because of the bright blue light he could not distinguish many features, but he could see that it had drooping ears and a slightly pointed head with very long arms. Frightened, he went back inside his house. He looked out again to see the object shoot up at an angle and disappear into the sky. He did hear a mechanical sound right before the object shot up. Several small footprints were found at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, case #3428, citing Ahmad Jamaludin, Malaysian Centre for UFO Studies Source ID: Johnson_3056 Source: Johnson ### Event 23337 (E27AEF98) Date: 5/24/1999 Description: Sereban, Malaysia - A Malaysian boy named Mohd Fami awoke at 4:30 a.m. to the sound of his family's tin roof being blown by a strong wind. He saw a blindingly bright craft hovering nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3075 Source: Johnson ### Event 23338 (89F4CE49) Date: 5/28/1999 Description: At 11:30 in the morning a metallic triangular shaped craft was videotaped flying at a high speed only six feet above the rolling hills near Wessenden Reservoir in England. It disappeared over the crest of a hill. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1999, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_3142 Source: Johnson ### Event 23339 (984EE4B3) Date: 6/1/1999 Description: Three silver round objects with powerful flashing lights lined up in the sky eight kilometers wide over the city of Puebla, Mexico in the early afternoon. It was videotaped by a Mexican TV crew. One object disappeared, the other two shot off to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (US), September 1999, p 19; George Filer, Filer's Files, volume 9, number 22 Source ID: Johnson_3211 Source: Johnson ### Event 23340 (955B3C68) Date: 6/4/1999 Description: A somewhat round but irregularly shaped object, with a surface texture "like a sponge", flew near a mountain in Trail, British Columbia at 10:30 p.m. in 1999. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1999 web page Source ID: Johnson_3286 Source: Johnson ### Event 23341 (4C034EF2) Date: 6/5/1999 Description: In Ollioules, France at 11:30 p.m. local time, nine delta-shaped objects were seen flying in a V-shaped formation. They moved toward the west, then rearranged into a linear echelon formation. On that same night in Huntsville, Alabama a row of 5 or 6 blinking lights were seen flying in the sky. The sighting had occurred at 11:45 CDT, and the witness had been awakened by noise coming from the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1999, p. 10; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1999 web page Source ID: Johnson_3314 Source: Johnson ### Event 23342 (61781741) Date: 6/9/1999 Description: White filamentous threads like "angel hair" fell for five hours from the sky, leaving a sheen on paddocks, hedges, and trees over a 90 km area around Esperance, Western Australia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1999, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_3399 Source: Johnson ### Event 23343 (2A8F65E3) Date: 6/9/1999 Description: A huge fall of “white filamentous threads” covers hedges, trees, and power lines over 10,000 square kilometers in Esperance, Western Australia. Some strands are 30 feet in length. Witness Marilyn Burnet has a sample analyzed and finds copper, aluminum, zinc, iron, sodium, manganese, silicon, and other minerals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 108; Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 7–8 Source ID: Eberhart_7302 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23344 (6132A0FC) Date: 6/12/1999 Description: In Alton Barnes, England a crop formation 700 feet in length, with a design consisting of boxes, keys, and a Celtic cross was found on this day. In the afternoon of this day in Goias, Brazil a UFO the size of a football field landed in the city. Jet interceptor aircraft were scrambled from Anapolis AFB in response to the reports, but did not arrive in time. At 10:30 a.m. in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts a silver, metallic object was seen hovering at approximately a mile to a mile and a half altitude, from Route 20 eastbound. At noon a gray object with a black dot in the center was seen moving very slowly across the sky in Melbourne, Victoria. In Adelaide, South Australia four men sitting outside saw a bright blue light appear from nowhere. It was long and large, and moved level for 15 seconds toward the east, with a flame visible from the tail section. It vanished from view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, July 1999, p. 15; UFO Magazine (USA), September 1999, p. 19; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1999 web page; Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_3450 Source: Johnson ### Event 23345 (03981E2C) Date: 6/21/1999 Description: Three separate witnesses reported a black triangular craft with red and yellow flashing lights flying over Nicholasville, Kentucky at 12:15 a.m. A bright light was also seen passing in front of the moon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3593 Source: Johnson ### Event 23346 (B1284A88) Date: 6/30/1999 Description: 11:00 a.m. Two witnesses are walking their dog in the Park Zachodni in Wrocław, Poland, when they see a blue-gray, disc-shaped object with a row of blue lights pass over the trees to the northeast. Another similar object follows a similar path shortly afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 83–84 Source ID: Eberhart_7303 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23347 (51938EB8) Date: 7/2/1999 Description: Abduction researcher and folklorist [Thomas E. Bullard](https://ancientalienpedia.com/contributors/b/thomas-e-bullard-ph-d/) expands on his description of the abduction experience in an examination of 437 reports from the literature. He looks at location and duration, the sequence of the episodes and common events within each, the appearance and behavior of the entities, interior and exterior descriptions of the UFO, and the mental and physical controls the aliens use on the abductees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, “What’s New in Alien Abduction? Has the Story Changed in 30 Years?” MUFON 1999 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1999, pp. 170–199; Clark III 13–22 Source ID: Eberhart_7304 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23348 (3CC9118F) Date: 7/3/1999 Description: A couple driving between Oostende and Bruges, Belgium saw a triangular object hovering seven meters above a field. It was silver and black with lights in each corner, and had a pulsating red light in the center. When one of them tried to photograph it the craft approached them. They panicked and drove off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), November 1999, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_3807 Source: Johnson ### Event 23349 (85289DB8) Date: 7/5/1999 Description: When the witness turned the light on outside her shed in Ross, Tasmania she noticed an orange glowing rectangular structure 200 meters away beyond some trees. It was about the size of a house and was surrounded by vapor. It rose, tilted at an angle, and then just faded from view. There were no traces at the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Roberts, Tasmania UFO Information Centre, November 1999 web page Source ID: Johnson_3852 Source: Johnson ### Event 23350 (2718FE94) Date: 7/6/1999 Description: A triangular object was seen with a faint red light in each of its three corners in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. It flew overhead at 10:50 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 1999 web page Source ID: Johnson_3893 Source: Johnson ### Event 23351 (C9FD418F) Date: 7/7/1999 Description: At midnight two UFOs were seen over the beach on Isla Bela, Sao Paulo State, Brazil by three witnesses. They were described as flat cigar-shaped objects, 20 meters in length, and were a metallic yellow color. They came in from over the ocean at 20-30 meters altitude, then hovered over beach, emitting a soft sound, and suddenly shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, www.ufoinfo.com; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18099, citing a newspaper clipping Source ID: Johnson_3913 Source: Johnson ### Event 23352 (A282C444) Date: 7/7/1999 Description: At 11:39 p.m. a metallic ovoid object was seen flying toward the south with its narrow end forward over Peru, Indiana 20 miiles south of Grissom Air Force Base. It was shiny metallic in tone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 1999 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_3914 Source: Johnson ### Event 23353 (1FAB15E6) Date: 7/7/1999 Description: A camper in the desert south of McGrath Creek, Northern Territories, Australia saw a silent dark ovoid object in the sky at around five o'clock in the morning, whose presence blocked the light from the stars in the predawn sky, while a nocturnal light also maneuvered about in the sky. Both UFOs then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18100 Source ID: Johnson_3912 Source: Johnson ### Event 23354 (F95D663B) Date: 7/9/1999 Description: An unidentified flying object was seen over some trees in Mentor, Ohio at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The object was spinning and changing colors, and split into two spheres. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 1999 web page Source ID: Johnson_3971 Source: Johnson ### Event 23355 (172ADC88) Date: 7/14/1999 Description: At 11:15 p.m. a taxi driver in Mastic, Suffolk County, New York was driving some passengers through town when they witnessed a metallic domed disc that was hovering at 150 m altitude. After he dropped off his passengers he noticed that the UFO was still there, hovering in the same spot, when the taxi made the return trip. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18102, citing Filer's Files, volume 9, number 31 Source ID: Johnson_4059 Source: Johnson ### Event 23356 (696DD056) Date: 7/14/1999 Description: Three men were walking home from a local pizza parlor in Virgilio, Sicily, Italy at 11:45 p.m. when they spotted a bright red spherical object descend slowly from the sky at a 60 degree angle. It had a weak yellow light on its upper section. It was about 200 meters away above a nearby rooftop when first spotted. The object halted six meters above the ground and hovered. Through an opening on top of the craft a vaguely human-shaped figure was visible. Suddenly, the craft shot up and disappeared over the rooftops. Five days later, at around 2:30 in the afternoon, the main witness was returning home when he saw a white vehicle parked in front of his house, occupied by two men. Soon after entering his home the two men knocked on his door. They proceeded to ask the witness several questions about the UFO he had seen, and basically harassed him with threatening remarks. He described them as very tall, about 40 years old, wearing white shirts and gray pants. They appeared to have nametags on the shirts, which they quickly covered. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sightings Report Database, citing CUN Italy Source ID: Johnson_4058 Source: Johnson ### Event 23357 (2633ADCA) Date: 7/15/1999 Description: First the car radio cut out, reported the male witness driving in Nangwarry, South Australia at 2:15 a.m. Then he saw three lights in a triangular formation with a black shape inside to the left of the highway, shining onto the top of some pine trees. The UFO then rose and entered a cloud that lit up. Finally, his car radio came back on. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, AUFORN Source ID: Johnson_4087 Source: Johnson ### Event 23358 (DCCBE1B0) Date: 7/16/1999 Description: A 90-page report, Les OVNI et la Defense: A Quoi doit-on se Préparer? \(UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare for?\), is published as the result of an in-depth study of UFOs carried out over several years by an independent group of former advanced workshop participants at the Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale in Paris, France, and by other experts. Before its public release, it is sent to President [Jacques Chirac](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FChirac) and Prime Minister [Lionel Jospin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel%5FJospin)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel%5FJospin) The report is prefaced by Gen. [Bernard Norlain](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FNorlain) of the Air Force and begins with a preamble by [André Lebeau](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%5FLebeau), former president of the Centre National d’Études Spatiales. The Comité d’Études Approfondies \(COMETA\) group, collective author of the report, is presided over by Gen. [Denis Letty](https://rr0.org/people/l/LettyDenis/) of the Air Force. The report analyzes various UFO cases and concludes that UFOs are real, complex flying objects, and that the extraterrestrial hypothesis has a high probability of being the correct explanation for the UFO phenomenon. The study recommends that the French government should adjust to the reality of the phenomenon and conduct further research. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Comité d’Études Approfondies, “UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?” [part 1](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Downloaded%5Fby%5FAFU/COMETA%5FUFOs%5Fand%5Fdefence%5Fpart%5F1%20%286907%29.pdf) and part 2, July 16, 1999; Gildas Bourdais, “[The French Report on UFOs and Defense: A Summary](http://cufos.org/pdfs/cometa.pdf)”; Swords 449–450; Mark Rodeghier, ed., “The 1999 French Report on UFOs and Defense,” IUR 25, no. 2 \(Summer 2000\): 20–22, 30; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 \(Winter 2000–2001\): 10 Source ID: Eberhart_7305 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23359 (94016E50) Date: 7/17/1999 Description: A couple visiting the Pyramids in Giza, Egypt saw multiple unexplained lights flying north toward Giza. The lights settled on the ground and then disappeared. At the site there were dark blue burnt areas, about the size of two football fields. In places the sand had been vitrified in 4-5 foot diameter circles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), November 1999, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_4151 Source: Johnson ### Event 23360 (981C5B02) Date: 7/18/1999 Description: The main witness was a UFO investigator, staying with a known abductee and her child in San Antonio, Texas, in order to offer them some protection and company. He had fallen asleep, when he woke up suddenly when he detected some kind of movement behind him. Thinking it was the woman he did not turn around. Then he felt a “body” next to him, and he next felt a pleasant touch on his upper back, and the sensation as an “arm” passed over his ribcage. Concerned, he tried to move but was unable to. When he was finally able to turn his head, he saw a round basketball shaped object under the covers. He jolted to his feet and heard a slight giggling sound at the same time that the object under the covers appeared to deflate. He went and tried to wake up his friend but was unable to. Two nights later he saw a small white, grayish figure standing just inches away from him that suddenly disappeared. Other strange occurrences were later reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, case # 3332, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_4183 Source: Johnson ### Event 23361 (CB4638DA) Date: 7/19/1999 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object flew from the west to the east slowly over Dicomano, north-northeast of Firenze in Tuscany, Italy, then accelerated quickly and made one up-and-down jump. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 1999 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_4217 Source: Johnson ### Event 23362 (0D18D1B0) Date: 7/20/1999 Description: At three o'clock in the morning an object was seen flying toward the witness in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As it got closer the witness could see that it was not a helicopter. Two human occupants were seen inside the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 1999 web page Source ID: Johnson_4257 Source: Johnson ### Event 23363 (90CE617C) Date: 7/23/1999 Description: A craft that at first looked like a mobile home took off vertically from a field in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at 11:30 p.m., and then executed a turn. It made a humming sound, shook, and then went straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, Filers' Files, 1999, (volume 9, issue 34) Source ID: Johnson_4338 Source: Johnson ### Event 23364 (ED072E7E) Date: 7/24/1999 Description: At 7:50 p.m. a lone cloud was seen in the sky east of Alamosa, Colorado on highway 60. Inside the cloud was a disc-shaped object hovering in place. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_4370 Source: Johnson ### Event 23365 (D75DFFB5) Date: 7/27/1999 Description: Day. Several people living near the shore of Lake Backsjön, near Gunnarskog, Värmlands, Sweden, see and hear a rocket-shaped object plunge into the water. The object is 6–10 feet long and descends at high speed, creating a splash in the water before sinking. One witness contacts the rescue station at Arvika, who in turn contact the police and military. Stellan Jansson, chief of staff for the I 2/Fo52 Värmland Regiment, interviews the witnesses. In September, the army begins an intensive search of the lake under the code name Operation Sea Find using divers, sonar equipment, and a mini-sub. The operation conducts a 10-day search and examines 75% of the lake, but the search is discontinued on September 16 after finding no evidence. On October 1, a secret report is completed for military intelligence in Stockholm. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clas Svahn and Eileen Fletcher, “The Swedish Military and UFOs,” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 16–17; Swords 370 Source ID: Eberhart_7306 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23366 (0BF10356) Date: 8/1/1999 Description: In Calgary, Alberta, Canada two witnesses observed a formation of eight silver disc-shaped objects high in the sky for 10 minutes. They were originally motionless, but then began moving west except for one, which headed north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 1999, case # 129, citing Alberta UFO Study Group Source ID: Johnson_4583 Source: Johnson ### Event 23367 (31D14F61) Date: 8/8/1999 Description: A huge object with counter-rotating rings of light flew over Logan Village, Queensland, Australia at 9:20 p.m. It was lit up with lights like a Ferris wheel. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, Filers' Files, volume 9, number 34 Source ID: Johnson_4786 Source: Johnson ### Event 23368 (3D395181) Date: 8/9/1999 Description: On this afternoon at 5:07 p.m. a round white object shot past SwissAir flight 127 while flying over Long Island, New York at 23,000 feet altitude. It passed to within 400 feet above the airliner. Its speed was described as "incredibly fast". The USNTA said another aircraft in the area saw nothing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 173, citing the Toronto Sun Source ID: Johnson_4810 Source: Johnson ### Event 23369 (E2AD06A3) Date: 8/11/1999 Description: According to a caller to the National UFO Reporting Center, while traveling on Interstate 90 in South Dakota at 5:30 p.m. he spotted a huge, peculiar oval-shaped cloud in the sky. It produced the most amazing electrical show, shooting off lightning in short spikes around it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 1999 web page Source ID: Johnson_4918 Source: Johnson ### Event 23370 (1BA4D91A) Date: 8/11/1999 Description: At 4:30 a.m. a witness in Montluel, Ain, France who was suffering from insomnia observed a very shiny luminous point in the sky that had two rays of light that were shining a tender green color. The light source seemed to dance in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 311 Source ID: Johnson_4917 Source: Johnson ### Event 23371 (AD93A803) Date: 8/14/1999 Description: At 11:30 p.m. Sr. Attilio B. of Bassano del Grappa, Italy had gone out to the field next to his home in order to relieve himself when he noticed some nearby multicolored lights coming from a field behind him. Investigating more closely, he saw a very large circular object hovering about two meters off the ground. The craft was somewhat turtle shaped, and was about 30 meters in diameter. The top part of the object was completely transparent, so much so that it appeared almost "invisible". The lower part consisted of a green platform that had a hollow central section, like a donut. He could not see any instruments inside the craft, but he could see five occupants inside a well-lit white dome. He described them as short in stature, about 80 cm tall, with large heads. According to the witness, their heads somewhat resembled those of donkeys, because they had extremely long faces and their heads were covered with short black, curly hair. They had large round black eyes about 5 cm in diameter that were very close together. Their noses were large and "potato" like. Their mouths were large and wide, resembling those of a monkey, with large meaty lips. On each side of their heads were two large pointy ears, like those of a wolf. Their skin was light brown in color and their hands had six digits. As the witness watched, one of the humanoids made a gesture, which he interpreted as a salute. The humanoids wore tight-fitting yellow outfits that went up to their short necks. Their footgear resembled pointy sandals, similar to those worn by "Gondoliers." He continued his observation, feeling a sense of "joy and tranquility." He believed that the humanoids were gentle and kind. One of the humanoids seemed to be counting some yellow paper-like objects resembling banknotes. The whole incident unfolded in complete silence. After about a minute and a half, the object lifted up vertically, disappearing from the area at very high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Reports database, citing Antonio Chiumiento Source ID: Johnson_5023 Source: Johnson ### Event 23372 (F5CF90C1) Date: 8/16/1999 Description: At 2:20 p.m. three independent witnesses in Berks County, Pennsylvania observed a silver, double convex saucer as it flew over toward the south. At 5:45 p.m. it was seen again, this time flying north in Butler County, Pennsylvania. A married couple described it as a dull-gray metallic disc, like two quarters on edge. It was first seen flying in the west at high altitude, and then made a sharp 90 degree turn to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 4, number 18; UFO Magazine (USA), November 1999, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_5103 Source: Johnson ### Event 23373 (40FB076F) Date: 8/18/1999 Description: At 4:10 a.m. in Izmir, Turkey a man first observed a huge, oval-shaped craft, almost one kilometer in length, over the city; it suddenly vanished. Then a small gray egg-shaped object with small windows landed in his garden. Several small Grey humanoids exited the object and stared at the witness. One of them approached him and slowly took his hand; the being’s skin felt very soft. The humanoid then tried to pull the man's hand gently, in an attempt to escort him onboard the landed craft, but the witness refused to go. However, he reported that he felt at peace during the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 1999 web page; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 3608, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_5144 Source: Johnson ### Event 23374 (9E0340F3) Date: 8/18/1999 Description: At 10:05 p.m. in Nineveh, Pennsylvania two witnesses watched as two large 30-meter long triangular objects hovered at only 30 meters altitude, only 40 meters away from them. The craft had clearly lit windows, and flew silently. They went off to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, Filer's Files, Volume 9, # 34, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_5145 Source: Johnson ### Event 23375 (88AA100E) Date: 8/22/1999 Description: On this afternoon Michelle and a friend were hiking on a remote trail called the Ice Age Trail near Lodi, Wisconsin when she became separated from her friend and went ahead. In a short while she saw a flash of motion ahead, perhaps some 50 feet away. It was a blue-gray figure moving along the trail toward her. His first impression was that it was someone dressed in a blue jacket, but abruptly the blue figure glided off the trail to her right, disappearing behind some trees. It did not seemed to be walking, but displayed a smooth gliding motion. Before it glided away the blue figure seemed to change directions. As it turned she noticed a long blue plume of something, waving from behind its head. Startled, she turned to her companion who had come up behind her, and told him what she had seen. They both walked ahead to investigate the point on the path where it had vanished into the bushes, but found nothing unusual. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Weird Wisconsin Source ID: Johnson_5243 Source: Johnson ### Event 23376 (94375214) Date: 8/22/1999 Description: At 4:30 a.m. an 87-year-old woman saw a large, delta-shaped object buzz over her home in Lake Charles, Louisiana. A blue beam came down, illuminated her yard. She then experienced a three minute period of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer, Filer's Files, volume 9, issue 38 Source ID: Johnson_5242 Source: Johnson ### Event 23377 (886C4141) Date: 8/23/1999 Description: At 2:20 p.m. in the city of Ozark, Missouri police reported that a 300 meter long disc hovered over a patrol car. Their police radio experienced interference at 155.65 Mhz. The disc went off toward the northwest and then up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer, Filer's Files, volume 9, issue 38 Source ID: Johnson_5278 Source: Johnson ### Event 23378 (E4EA59D4) Date: 8/26/1999 Description: At three a.m. a witness sighted three lights on a triangular object over Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada; it made sharp turns over CFB Suffield. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 1999 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 156, citing Alberta UFO Study Group Source ID: Johnson_5384 Source: Johnson ### Event 23379 (A1D4CF77) Date: 8/26/1999 Description: At 10:00 p.m. in Monkton, Strathclyde, Scotland a bright blue flash was seen overhead, and the blue ball of light shot down to just feet above a couple's car, where it hovered for a number of seconds. The couple was frightened but unharmed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (UK), January 2000, p. 76 Source ID: Johnson_5383 Source: Johnson ### Event 23380 (0802829C) Date: 9/1999 Description: The peer-reviewed European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies is launched in Southampton, England, by Totton College psychology professor Craig A. Roberts. Its editorial board features UFO researchers in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, France, and Italy. It continues through the September 2002 issue. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/European/European%20Journal%20of%20UFO%20and%20Abduction%20Studies/European%20Journal%20of%20UFO%20and%20Abduction%20Studies%20-%20vol%200-0%20-%20Launch%20volume.pdf), launch volume \(September 1999\) Source ID: Eberhart_7307 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23381 (D3893EB9) Date: 9/3/1999 Description: A 35-year-old man named Mike and his friend Henry were using their computer at home in northern Arkansas around midnight, when Henry looked up and saw a humanoid standing outside the window. The figure appeared grayish white, with large black eyes, and was about 4 to 5 feet tall. It just stood at the window staring at Henry. Henry turned his head briefly, and when he looked back the figure was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3816, citing Billy Dee, UFOSSI Source ID: Johnson_5620 Source: Johnson ### Event 23382 (458B263B) Date: 9/3/1999 Description: A very large, shiny, metallic-looking cigar-shaped object, seen at an estimated 2000 feet altitude, hovered stationary over highway A465 between Ebbw Vale and Bryn Mawr, Gwent, Wales at shortly after noon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Paul McCart, UFO Magazine (UK), January 2000, p. 76 Source ID: Johnson_5619 Source: Johnson ### Event 23383 (181FB5FE) Date: 9/13/1999 Description: Witnesses in Blanchardville, Wisconsin reported a shoot-out between Air National Guard F-16s and six maneuvering balls of light (BOLs) at 2:15 a.m., with one light emitting a ray that took out one of the jets. The jet reportedly crashed, and the pilot who ejected was treated for injuries. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 2000, p. 17; UFO Magazine (US), March 2000, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_5930 Source: Johnson ### Event 23384 (AC458105) Date: 9/13/1999 Description: A tube-shaped UFO with a pointed rear end, brilliant white, sped east to west at 2200 km/h over Melbourne Reservoir, Victoria, Australia at 7:20 p.m. It was viewed for few seconds. The witness has worked in the aviation industry for many years, and attests that it was not a meteor or a conventional plane. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Frola, Australasian Ufologist, April 2000, p. 52 & January 2001, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_5931 Source: Johnson ### Event 23385 (A2E259AA) Date: 9/16/1999 Description: A rural Menomonie, Wisconsin couple and a Dunn Sheriff's Deputy watched an ovoid object in the sky early Thursday morning at 4:04 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 1999 webpage, citing the Leader Telegram Source ID: Johnson_6030 Source: Johnson ### Event 23386 (76C50637) Date: 9/20/1999 Description: At 10:45 a.m. a triangular object was seen hovering and wobbling in the sky over Highland Park, Los Angeles County, California. It then rose vertically very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1999 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6166 Source: Johnson ### Event 23387 (D972A3D4) Date: 9/20/1999 Description: Two people in Barrington, New Hampshire witnessed a cigar-shaped object at tree top level at 5:10 p.m. When the object reached the crest of a hill it disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1999 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6164 Source: Johnson ### Event 23388 (67E09D40) Date: 9/20/1999 Description: Police officers and many others watched a delta-shaped UFO with lights as it hovered only 30 meters above some construction at Exit 24 on Interstate 91 in Wethersfield, Connecticut on this night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, Filer's Files website, volume 9, number 40 Source ID: Johnson_6165 Source: Johnson ### Event 23389 (35E59EDE) Date: 9/21/1999 Description: At 8:49 p.m. a cylindrical object was seen flying to the west over Everett, Washington. It changed form to a boomerang shape and became transparent, and changed course to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1999 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6209 Source: Johnson ### Event 23390 (80350C0A) Date: 9/21/1999 Description: At 7:15 p.m. two people in Post Falls, Idaho witnessed a fiery ball of light that was seen on the side of the Interstate 90 highway for approximately 20 mins near the Idaho-Washington border. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1999 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6208 Source: Johnson ### Event 23391 (A369567C) Date: 9/23/1999 Description: A silver-metallic, featureless disc dropped to 75 meters altitude over Interstate 75 near McDonough, Georgia on this night. It then moved off rapidly to the west and hovered there for a couple of minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, Filer's Files, volume 9, # 39 Source ID: Johnson_6274 Source: Johnson ### Event 23392 (6F7A7109) Date: 9/30/1999 Description: 10:35 a.m. A serious criticality incident takes place in the Tokaimura uranium processing facility operated by JCO in the village of Tokai, Iberaki Prefeccture, Japan. The accident occurs as three workers are preparing a small batch of fuel for the Jōyō experimental fast breeder reactor, using uranium enriched to 18.8% with the radioisotope uranium-235 \(with the remainder being the fertile uranium-238\). It is JCO’s first batch of fuel for that reactor in three years, and no proper qualification and training requirements appear to have been established to prepare those workers for the job. A precipitation tank reaches critical mass when its fill level, containing about 35 pounds of uranium, reaches about 11 gallons. The two technicians who receive the higher doses die several months later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Tokaimura nuclear accidents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura%5Fnuclear%5Faccidents\#1999%5Faccident)” Source ID: Eberhart_7308 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23393 (519D92C3) Date: 10/9/1999 Description: 7:57 p.m. While fishing off Fort Pickens near Pensacola, Florida, an ex-Air Force security policeman and a city police officer watch a triangular UFO with high-intensity blue arcing lights traveling west over the Gulf of Mexico in a zigzag fashion. It is about 200 feet in the air, a quarter of a mile distant, and moving at 115–350 mph. At least four times it seems to hover for 30 seconds. After 15 minutes, it moves away to the west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Filer, “Florida Triangle with Blue Ionization near Gulf Breeze,” Filer’s Files, \#43-1999, October 18, 1999 Source ID: Eberhart_7310 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23394 (501A4E2A) Date: 10/9/1999 Description: The last flight of a temporarily reactivated SR-71 Blackbird takes place. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed SR-71](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FSR-71%5FBlackbird\#1990s) [Blackbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FSR-71%5FBlackbird\#1990s)” Source ID: Eberhart_7309 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23395 (E11EFFC5) Date: 10/10/1999 Description: 11:45 p.m. A couple in Lewiston, Michigan, see a hazy, pulsing object outside their bedroom window. Other lights seem to be flying around it, so that it resembles moths flying around a light bulb. They watch it for 45 minutes, then go back to sleep. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7311 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23396 (B14CBED1) Date: 10/16/1999 Description: A white light paced a truck in Burnaby, British Columbia at 4:25 a.m., then ejected other satellite objects. There was a power failure simultaneously in the area. The event lasted 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 1999, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_6907 Source: Johnson ### Event 23397 (0FD6BF98) Date: 10/17/1999 Description: At 8:25 p.m. two cylinder-shaped crafts were seen maneuvering over a road near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Two vehicles stalled as the objects approached and several of the witnesses felt dizzy in the presence of the objects. The objects were silver in color and highly polished. Each object had a row of about 13 yellow-orange lights. There was also a blue haze around one of the objects. Also, at least two silhouettes of humanoid beings with large heads were seen in each of the crafts. The eyes of the beings were red and fiery, and were like slits. The UFOs did not land, but hovered just above the ground. There was a sudden sound like thunder, and the objects abruptly vanished. Scorch marks were reported to be found on the ground near where the objects had hovered. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6944 Source: Johnson ### Event 23398 (52B56EDF) Date: 10/23/1999 Description: Several glowing silver orbs hovered over the Yorkshire moors near Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. They were the color of silver ball-bearings with rings of lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine, January 2000, p. 13 Source ID: Johnson_7061 Source: Johnson ### Event 23399 (C55604BF) Date: 10/23/1999 Description: In Haywood, California at shortly after 9:00 p.m. a vertical column with three lights in a line moved silently across the sky. It disappeared behind a cloud and did not reappear on the other side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 1999 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7062 Source: Johnson ### Event 23400 (76045719) Date: 10/26/1999 Description: At 2:14 a.m. PDT a woman in California (exact location not disclosed) suddenly awoke feeling a presence in her room. Her body began to get a familiar vibrating feeling, and then she became very lethargic. In the dark she saw a figure in the room; she could see it standing by the bedroom door. The witness became enraged and by using her thoughts cursed at the entity several times. The being looked scared, and it crouched in the corner with its head down. She then tried to turn the light on, but it would not work, and she also tried to use the phone by her bed, but it was also out of commission. By this point she had calmed down somewhat, and asked the being why they were not going anywhere (presuming she would be abducted). She received the reply, “I just don’t like women.” The being now approached her bed, and she recognized her as being female, and sat on the bed. The woman then took her hand, which felt very cold. The being was about four feet tall, and was wearing a blackish, hooded cape. The being next told the witness she was going to take her to the ship now. Her next recollection was of waking up around an hour later, again feeling a vibration in her body. The female humanoid was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3942, citing CAUS Source ID: Johnson_7170 Source: Johnson ### Event 23401 (A22F84D9) Date: 10/26/1999 Description: At 2:36 a.m. CDT two airline pilots in separate commercial airliners, both former military pilots, flying near Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport, Texas saw three gigantic lights approach their aircraft at cruising altitude (37,000 feet). The lights were part of a large triangular-shaped craft, described as "the size of a fist at arms length." It executed a sudden turn to the east and streaked off. An FAA report on the incident was filed. The planes were about 100 miles apart at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), January 2000, p. 12, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_7169 Source: Johnson ### Event 23402 (9F4743F9) Date: 10/29/1999 Description: 5:45 p.m. A man and woman in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, see a nickel-colored object emerge from a strange contrail-like cloud and fly back into it. A few seconds later, it shoots out again and circles around it for 15 minutes. About an hour later, they see jets flying around, apparently searching for the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7312 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23403 (CA07D1A1) Date: 11/1/1999 Description: On this afternoon two men, Jose Freira and Cid Moreira, were fishing in the river at Benito Goncalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil when they observed a strange flying object approaching their location. The object hovered about three meters above the water on the other side of the river. It was round with small windows around its circumference. Behind the windows they could see two figures wearing helmets with antennas on the right sides of the helmets. The craft hovered over the river for four minutes, and then disappeared from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET Source ID: Johnson_7401 Source: Johnson ### Event 23404 (030A7B11) Date: 11/3/1999 Description: On this day three men saw a huge flying object in Strzlecki Crossing, South Australia; one man suffered a bleeding from nose after the encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, citing The Sunday Mail, March 2000, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_7451 Source: Johnson ### Event 23405 (235AD9E8) Date: 11/4/1999 Description: A triangular shaped flying object was photographed over Col de Vence, Alpes-Maritime department, France on this day. There is very good detail on the enlargements. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1999, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_7464 Source: Johnson ### Event 23406 (AAA77A23) Date: 11/6/1999 Description: At 6:03 p.m. a triangular object passed overhead in Matawan, New Jersey. It was illuminated by pale orange lights. It moved extremely slowly, heading toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_7519 Source: Johnson ### Event 23407 (9DFB7BD0) Date: 11/11/1999 Description: A sample of “angel hair” is recovered from a fall in Sacramento, California, and sent to analytical chemist [Phyllis Budinger](http://www.mufonohio.com/mufono/FRtour.html) for Fourier Transform infrared spectrometry analysis. She finds that the fibrous material is not spider web but consists of a silk-like substance containing secondary amide linkages similar to protein. It also contains volatile hydrocarbons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 \(Fall 2001\): 14–15 Source ID: Eberhart_7313 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23408 (B39CEBFC) Date: 11/11/1999 Description: 8:30 p.m. Two men are loading gravel onto a truck in Tomelilla, Skåne, Sweden, when they see a boomerang-shaped object flying overhead, blocking out the stars. The object is solid and observed for 5–10 seconds. UFO-Sweden researchers [Clas Svahn](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clas%5FSvahn) and [Anders Persson](http://www.afu.se/afu2/?page%5Fid=231) check with the Swedish military for their radar data at the time and find that it has recorded many targets. They conclude that a flock of migrating birds, probably eiders, flying in formation is responsible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clas Svahn and Eileen Fletcher, “The Swedish Military and UFOs,” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 17–18 Source ID: Eberhart_7314 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23409 (B0305EB5) Date: 11/13/1999 Description: Andre Marquetti and Jair Picerni were jogging in the local park in Cachoeira de Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on a very sunny afternoon at around 2 p.m. As they ran near a clearing they spotted a “classic” disc-shaped object with a transparent dome on top on the ground. Stunned, they stood still and watched it for awhile, and when they attempted to run away they found they could not move. They then noticed a figure exit the craft, who completely ignored them and walked around the object. Five minutes later the humanoid being re-entered the object, which then rose up slowly and disappeared from sight. Soon afterwards the two men were able to move again. Both suffered from headaches and nausea for a week after the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET Source ID: Johnson_7651 Source: Johnson ### Event 23410 (F8A895BA) Date: 11/15/1999 Description: On this afternoon at 4:15 p.m. some campers in the Sangre de Christo Mountains in Saguache County, Colorado found two freshly mutilated dead cows. One was missing its head, while the other had its tongue missing. Nearby were four elk legs and haunches with no head, neck or torso. In Del Norte, Colorado Keith C. saw a strange, bright, multi-colored light that was remaining motionless over the Sangre de Christo Mountains. The light appeared to be pulsating and did not rise with the planets and stars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Christopher O'Brien case files, cases 613 & 614 Source ID: Johnson_7708 Source: Johnson ### Event 23411 (AC13A99F) Date: 11/16/1999 Description: Fireball chain and coincidental barking of dog (IFO) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [991116](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-991116A.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Antrim, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5879 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23412 (FC973DA6) Date: 11/16/1999 Description: Dog does not react as large fireball flies over (IFO) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [991116](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-991116M.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Madison, WI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5880 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23413 (B8AB1BBC) Date: 11/21/1999 Description: In Criderville, south of Lima, Ohio two witnesses driving on Interstate 75 saw a plain silver sphere flying silently low in a fog. Lights followed it randomly. The sphere and the trailing lights flew to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18126, citing Filer's Files; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 1999 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7784 Source: Johnson ### Event 23414 (D788023D) Date: 11/25/1999 Description: At 10:10 p.m. in Pemberton, British Columbia four witnesses watched orange lights in the northwest sky, moving slowly. The lights wandered in the sky for four minutes. There were 4-6 lights in a "X-shape." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 1999 Canadian UFO Survey, case 246, citing UFO-BC Source ID: Johnson_7925 Source: Johnson ### Event 23415 (9C19CE5C) Date: 11/25/1999 Description: At 4:23 p.m. Maria de Jesus was outside washing some clothes in her yard in Coari, Amazonas State, Brazil when she felt something moving nearby. When she turned around, she was confronted by a short creature about 1.20 meters in height, with large black eyes. It was wearing metallic clothing and holding a cane-like instrument in his left hand. The humanoid being began gesticulating towards her, when she screamed in fear. This startled the humanoid, who then seemed to levitate and disappear behind a nearby stonewall. A large ball of fire appeared a few seconds later from behind the stone wall, and shot up into the sky at very high speed. The encounter lasted for about three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET Source ID: Johnson_7924 Source: Johnson ### Event 23416 (2CE87208) Date: 11/26/1999 Description: A glowing silver cigar-shaped object traveled very quickly up and down the beach in the Bethwells Beach area in Auckland, New Zealand at 11:30 p.m. It was seen by several witnesses and seemed to dematerialize and reappear a number of times; It finally hovered low over the water 200 meters away from shore. A dog started barking at the object, and the dog's owner, who felt a static charge emanating from the object, then became frightened. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Robert Frola, Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 47; UFO Magazine (USA), March 2000, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_7948 Source: Johnson ### Event 23417 (BC088656) Date: 12/1999 Description: Cao Gong, a middle-aged man from Beijing, China, claims he is abducted by aliens and flown to Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, in a UFO. The entities look like humans but have large hands and are very pale. [Zhang Jingping](http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/746113.shtml) of the World Chinese UFO Association begins to investigate the Cao case in April 2000 and has him hypnotically regressed by a psychologist from Suzhou. Cao also passes a lie detector test at the Beijing Bureau of Public Security. Cao remembers meeting in the spacecraft a Chinese girl who looks about 13 years old. She tells him the aliens cured her of a disease. Zhang brings Cao to the Tangshan Bureau of Public Security in July 2000, where the police construct a computer reconstruction of the girl’s face according to his description. In November 2002, Zhang leads a group of students from Beihang University on a trip to Qinhuangdao to look for the girl. They arrive in Qinglong County and begin a blind search among the area’s 400,000 inhabitants. On the second day, an old man recognizes the girl in the image. They locate her and she turns out to be 15 years old. Zhang brings her back to Beijing to meet Cao Gong, who identifies her as the girl he met. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Chalker, “[The](https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-untold-story-of-ufos-in-china-lost-in-translation-or-the-devouring-dragon) [Untold Story of UFOs in China: Lost in Translation or the Devouring Dragon?](https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-untold-story-of-ufos-in-china-lost-in-translation-or-the-devouring-dragon)” New Dawn Special Issue 14, no. 1 \(January 2020\) Source ID: Eberhart_7315 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23418 (A2336BFD) Date: 12/2/1999 Description: A large shining cylindrical object with a flaming orange tail moved over Shanghai, China on this day, "scooting" above skyscrapers in the city. It made front page news, and was viewed by hundreds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine, March 2000, p. 17; April 2000, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_8149 Source: Johnson ### Event 23419 (3C895535) Date: 12/5/1999 Description: On this evening at 10 p.m. Maria Alice Medina was sitting on her verandah in Pato Branco, Parana, Brazil drinking some coffee when she observed a short (1.20 meter tall) humanoid approach her. The being wore silvery coveralls and blue boots. His head was bald and he had large black eyes. The humanoid attempted to communicate with her by emitting strange sounds, but Maria was not able to understand. He then turned around and walked away into some nearby woods. Soon afterwards she saw a bright light rise from the woods and shoot up into space. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti Source ID: Johnson_8221 Source: Johnson ### Event 23420 (03DF1E5B) Date: 12/5/1999 Description: Mr. & Mrs. Vinsant of Birmingham, Alabama awoke to bright white lights illuminating their farmyard. The lights climbed into the sky. Two minutes later they heard a loud explosion. Mr. Vinsant walked outside and saw a large oval-shaped object with lights rotating around its circumference, that was hovering over a nearby mountain. It made no sound, and hovered over the mountain for 90 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 2000, p. 17; UFO Magazine (USA), March 2000, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_8220 Source: Johnson ### Event 23421 (A21F0829) Date: 12/8/1999 Description: On this same day at 7:45 in the morning, an executive in Mexico City, Mexico videotaped an oval-shaped UFO with the telescopic zoom lens of his video camera. The object reflected the morning sunlight, and after four minutes it emitted a bright beam of light from its center. The color of the light changed from yellow to red to white. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 2000, p.19, citing J. Rense Source ID: Johnson_8279 Source: Johnson ### Event 23422 (7A85316E) Date: 12/8/1999 Description: According to UFO Magazine published in England, a 15-meter by 6-meter crater was found near a dam in Guyra, New South Wales, Australia. Apparently a mysterious flying object struck the dam at a 45-degree angle and then skidded before sinking into the mud. The police in the area set up a one-mile wide exclusion zone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 70 Source ID: Johnson_8278 Source: Johnson ### Event 23423 (BF0B3B51) Date: 12/15/1999 Description: A disc with green flashing lights pulsating around its middle rim section approached the beach on North Island in New Zealand from the ocean traveling at a speed of 200 knots. It flew low, at an estimated altitude of only 50 meters, and accelerated away making a deep buzzing noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), April 2000, p. 17, citing Filer’s Files Source ID: Johnson_8431 Source: Johnson ### Event 23424 (3998C843) Date: 12/17/1999 Description: Roberto Gomes Misson reported to the local police that on this evening he had encountered two one-meter tall humanoids on the road next to his house in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. They were standing next to a huge hovering disc-shaped object. The object was about 15 meters (50 feet) in width and emitted red, blue, and orange lights. The police reportedly found ground traces at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET Source ID: Johnson_8478 Source: Johnson ### Event 23425 (2F5D1306) Date: 12/19/1999 Description: On this night in Copenhagen, Denmark a large, red, luminous bowl-shaped UFO with a tail like a parabola flew across the sky from the northwest to the southeast in 3 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), March 2000, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_8523 Source: Johnson ### Event 23426 (C6432565) Date: 12/21/1999 Description: At 6:45 a.m. an ovoid UFO was seen zigzagging in the sky between Toledo and Salkum in Washington State. At 5:00 p.m. another light was seen zigzagging through the sky over Portland, Oregon. At 8:00 o’clock in the evening a brightly colored disc was seen hovering and changing colors over Lakewood, Colorado. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, WA Source ID: Johnson_8558 Source: Johnson ### Event 23427 (220FE56C) Date: 12/25/1999 Description: A dark delta-shaped or V-shaped object was sighted over a rest stop on Interstate 44 in Mount Vernon, Missouri on this evening. The four witnesses woke up 20 minutes later at home, 26 kilometers away. They had no recollection of how they got there. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18129, citing UFO Roundup, volume 5, number 2; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, December 1999 web archive Source ID: Johnson_8610 Source: Johnson ### Event 23428 (3B865567) Date: 12/26/1999 Description: In Troup County, Georgia an ovoid object zig-zagged at high speed near ground level, and pulled up to avoid a pickup truck whose headlights had just been turned on. The object approached to within 200 meters, turned a dull red color, then dimmed to near invisibility. It left a trail of sparks and ashes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), March 2000, p. 16 Source ID: Johnson_8620 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 2000 (Back to Top) ### Event 23429 (89329CD9) Date: 2000 Description: The National Nuclear Security Administration is created by Congress in the wake of the [Wen Ho Lee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen%5FHo%5FLee) spy scandal and other allegations that the Department of Energy’s lax administration has resulted in the loss of nuclear secrets to China. It is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy responsible for safeguarding national security through the military application of nuclear science. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[National Nuclear Security](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FNuclear%5FSecurity%5FAdministration) [Administration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FNuclear%5FSecurity%5FAdministration)” Source ID: Eberhart_7320 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23430 (3529E83C) Date: 2000 Description: [Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos](http://independent.academia.edu/VICENTEJUANBALLESTEROLMOS/CurriculumVitae) launches UFO FOTOCAT, a project to create a worldwide catalog of UFO photos. He eventually accumulates close to 13,000 cases in the database. Based on its content, Ballester Olmos releases eight research reports as of August 2020. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The Year 1954](https://www.academia.edu/43961635/THE%5FYEAR%5F1954%5FIN%5FPHOTOS%5FExpanded%5F) [in Photos \(Expanded\)](https://www.academia.edu/43962453/EL%5FANO%5F1954%5FEN%5FFOTOS%5FVersion%5FAmpliada%5F)”; “[Argentina: The Year 1965 in](https://www.webcitation.org/6mx4rfU20) [Photos](https://www.webcitation.org/6mx4rfU20)”; “[Avistamientos OVNI en la Antártida en 1965](https://www.academia.edu/31467521/AVISTAMIENTOS%5FOVNI%5FEN%5FLA%5FANTARTIDA%5FEN%5F1965%5Fpdf)”; “[Norway in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue](https://www.academia.edu/12870685/NORWAY%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FTHE%5FFIRST%5FCATALOGUE)”; “[Spheres in Airborne UAP Imagery](https://www.webcitation.org/6mx5Youbh)”; “[An Approach to UFO Pictures in France](https://www.webcitation.org/6mx4huFGk)”; “[Belgium in UFO Photographs,](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F) [vol. 1 \(1950–1988\)](https://www.academia.edu/35133835/BELGIUM%5FIN%5FUFO%5FPHOTOGRAPHS%5FVolume%5F1%5F1950%5F1988%5F)”; and “The Marfa Lights: Examining the Photographic Evidence \(2003–2007\)” Source ID: Eberhart_7319 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23431 (0D6A020B) Date: 2000 Description: Polish journalist and author [Igor Witkowski](https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Igor%5FWitkowski) publishes Prawda o Wunderwaffe, describing a purported top-secret Nazi technological device or secret weapon called Die Glocke \(“The Bell”\). It is later popularized by military journalist and author [Nick Cook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FCook%5F%28writer%29) in The Hunt for Zero Point, who associates it with Nazi occultism, antigravity, and free energy research. Mainstream reviewers have criticized claims about Die Glocke as being pseudoscientific, recycled rumors, and a hoax. Die Glocke and other alleged Nazi “miracle weapons” have since been dramatized in video games, television shows, and novels. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Die Glocke \(conspiracy theory\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die%5FGlocke%5F%28conspiracy%5Ftheory%29)”; Igor Witkowski, The Truth about the Wunderwaffe, European History Press, 2013; Nick Cook, [The Hunt for Zero](https://archive.org/details/huntforzeropoint0000cook) [Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology](https://archive.org/details/huntforzeropoint0000cook), Broadway, 2002 Source ID: Eberhart_7321 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23432 (265A2D5F) Date: 2000 Description: Ufologist [Richard H. Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FH.%5FHall) completes a sequel to NICAP’s 1964 report to Congress. The UFO Evidence, Volume II covers UFO sightings since 1964. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, Scarecrow, 2000 Source ID: Eberhart_7316 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23433 (E7511697) Date: 2000 Description: [Walter Andrus](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152550777/walter-harrison-andrus) retires as director of MUFON and is replaced by [John Schuessler](http://cufos.org/schuessler.html)[.](http://cufos.org/schuessler.html) Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_7317 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23434 (905FEB01) Date: 2000 Description: Ufologist [Chris Rutkowski](https://ufocongress.com/chris-rutkowski/) and Ufology Research of Manitoba begin receiving UFO reports made to Canadian agencies, allowing them to create a yearly statistical report on sightings in Canada. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 11 Source ID: Eberhart_7318 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23435 (8509BEF3) Date: 2000 Description: Alleged abductee [Stan Romanek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%5FRomanek) of Loveland, Colorado, claims his first UFO experience. He has many experiences with aliens since then, allegedly discovering mysterious wounds on his body that glow under a black light and claiming electronic communications with aliens. He also claims aliens have followed his car, visited his home, and communicated with him telepathically. In 2003, he claims he woke up and found himself wearing a ladies’ flannel nightgown, which makes him suspect he has been abducted and returned in woman’s clothing. Romanek eventually comes to suspect that the clothing belongs to another supposed abductee, [Betty Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) When asked if the gown has been tested for Hill’s DNA, Romanek claims that it has not because the test is too expensive. Appearing on [ABC Primetime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime%5F%28U.S.%5FTV%5Fprogram%29) in 2009, Romanek makes the unsubstantiated claims that he underwent hypnosis by [R. Leo Sprinkle](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html)[,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/leo-sprinkle-has-died.html) a psychologist who specializes in alien abduction cases. Romanek claims that under hypnosis he wrote out the Drake equation, a formula used to estimate the number of communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy, and then added “x100” to it. Skeptic [Joe Nickell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FNickell) suggests the equation is written through simple memorization. On August 8, 2017, Romanek is found guilty of felony possession of child pornography. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Erik Dofge, “[New Alien Video Shines \(Photoshopped\) Light on UFO Hoaxers,](https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a3314/4266921/)” Popular Mechanics, June 8, 2008; Alan Scherstuhl, “[In Kansas City, Celebrity UFO-Filmer Stan Romanek Finds an](https://www.thepitchkc.com/in-kansas-city-celebrity-ufofilmer-stan-romanek-finds-an-audience-of-believers-151-and-one-reporter/) [Audience of Believers—and One Reporter,](https://www.thepitchkc.com/in-kansas-city-celebrity-ufofilmer-stan-romanek-finds-an-audience-of-believers-151-and-one-reporter/)” The Pitch \(Kansas City\), August 13, 2009; “[Man Claims Aliens Send](https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=8347902&.UXSGtb9i7jQ) [Him Messages,](https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=8347902&.UXSGtb9i7jQ)” ABC News, August 18, 2009; Joe Nickell, “[Abductions or Hoaxes? The Man Who Attracts](https://skepticalinquirer.org/2010/05/abductions-or-hoaxes-the-man-who-attracts-aliens/) [Aliens,](https://skepticalinquirer.org/2010/05/abductions-or-hoaxes-the-man-who-attracts-aliens/)” Skeptical Inquirer 34, no. 3 \(May/June 2010\): 19–20; Jack Brewer, “[Ufology Indicted,](http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2016/08/ufology-indicted.html)” The UFO Trail, August 7, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_7324 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23436 (FF18B7B2) Date: 2000 Description: Mathematician [Karsten Jöred](https://csblogg.ufo.se/csblogg3/?m=20150825) replaces [Arne Gjärdman](https://www.ufo.se/index.php/intervjuer-och-nekrologer/1391-arne-gjardman-foa-s-ufo-ansvarige-1990-1999) as head of UFO investigations at the Swedish National Defence Research Institute. He holds the position until 2006. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 370 Source ID: Eberhart_7323 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23437 (EE5BC322) Date: 2000 Description: The results of the Russian Setka program are disclosed by [Boris Sokolov](http://www.noufors.com/Colonel%5FBoris%5FSokolov.htm)[,](http://www.noufors.com/Colonel%5FBoris%5FSokolov.htm) coordinator of Setka-MO, and [Yulii](http://www.euroufo.net/2011/12/platov-yulii-russia/) [Platov](http://www.euroufo.net/2011/12/platov-yulii-russia/)[,](http://www.euroufo.net/2011/12/platov-yulii-russia/) deputy coordinator of Setka-AN, in an article in the Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to them, 90% of the anomalous atmospheric phenomena observed in Russian territory can be explained by the effects of human activities \(especially rockets and weather balloon launches\), while the remaining 10% are unexplained. For the latter cases, they could be rare or still unknown natural phenomena. However, no evidence is found of UFO landings, crashes, close encounters, or alien abductions. No evidence of an extraterrestrial UFO origin has emerged either. [Paul Stonehill](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/stonehill-paul-6516/)[,](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/stonehill-paul-6516/) a Russian UFO scholar, believes that only the results of Setka-AN’s studies are disclosed, while those of Setka-MO still remain secret. Stonehill further claims there is nothing to indicate that anyone in the Setka program attempted to seriously analyze the cases that remain unexplained. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 43, 52; Pyotr N. Rybalko, “[Bureaucratized Pseudoscience,](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Ukraine/RIAP%20Bulletin%20%28Rubtsov%29/RIAP%20bulletin%20-%20Vol%2006%20No%202-3%20-%20April-September%202000.pdf)” RIAP Bulletin 6, no. 2–3 \(Apr./Sept. 2000\): 11–12; Boris Sokolov and Yulii Platov, “[A History of State UFO Research in the USSR,](https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/history-of-state-ufo-research-in-the-ussr/?/sb/show/history-of-state-ufo-research-in-the-ussr/)” Skeptical Briefs 10, no. 4 \(December 1, 2000\) Source ID: Eberhart_7322 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23438 (68762710) Date: 1/2/2000 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a silver-gray object flew south in a straight trajectory over Yucca Valley, California. It made a low humming sound and had a tail of bright orange flame. The UFO was reported to the FAA by aviators, ground observers, and radio news stations. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), April 2000, p. 16, citing Filer’s Files Source ID: Johnson_41 Source: Johnson ### Event 23439 (3208E8D5) Date: 1/2/2000 Description: At 1:15 a.m. a man in Mission, British Columbia saw an object larger than a van hovering outside his home. It made no sound. An occupant was observed inside the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case 1 Source ID: Johnson_40 Source: Johnson ### Event 23440 (D17A223F) Date: 1/3/2000 Description: A 16-year-old girl in Stockbridge, Georgia awoke at 4:15 a.m. to see a short alien being standing next to her hed. The undescribed being seemed surprised that she woke up and was holding one of her legs. She suddenly received a mental image of a flying object with five beings aboard in her backyard. Three days earlier her mother and brother had also seen beings in their rooms as well, according to the source. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3564, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, January 2000 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_76 Source: Johnson ### Event 23441 (D0011B98) Date: 1/5/2000 Description: At 4:28 a.m. Police Officer Stevens in Millstadt, Illinois took a photograph of a huge arrow-shaped UFO flying from the northeast to the southwest at 1,000 feet altitude. There were three lights in back and many dimmer lights sprinkled on the surface like "starfield camouflage." This was one of a series of several UFO sightings by police from eight police departments and civilians between 4:00 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. around Scott AFB in St. Clair and Madison counties, Illinois, which are both eastern suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Valerie Schremp, Concord (NH) Monitor, January 10, 2000; Brent M. Raynes, Alternate Perceptions, April 2000, p. 49; UFO Magazine (USA), April 2000, p. 16; UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 47; MUFON UFO Journal, March 2000; Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 211 Source ID: Johnson_152 Source: Johnson ### Event 23442 (5467C9A5) Date: 1/5/2000 Description: Shortly after 4:00 a.m. The “St. Clair Triangle,” “UFO Over Illinois,” “Southern Illinois UFO,” or “Highland, Illinois UFO” sighting takes place over the towns of Highland, Dupo, Lebanon, Shiloh, Summerfield, Millstadt, and O’Fallon, Illinois. Five on-duty police officers around these locales, along with various other eyewitnesses, report a massive, silent, triangular or rectangular craft operating at an unusual treetop-level altitude and speeds. One of the police officers manages to get a single yet ambiguous Polaroid photograph of the object. The incident is examined in the ABC special Seeing Is Believing with [Peter Jennings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FJennings)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FJennings) an hour-long Discovery Channel special UFOs Over Illinois, an episode of the 2004 Syfy series Proof Positive, and a 30-minute independent documentary titled The Edge of Reality: Illinois UFO, January 5, 2000 by Darryl Barker Productions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Black triangle \(UFO\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%5Ftriangle%5F%28UFO%29)”; “[Police Officers in St. Clair County](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98846703/) [Report Seeing Early-](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98846759/) [Morning UFO,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98846759/)” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 9, 2000, pp. D1–D2; “[UFO Sighting Brings Media Attention,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98846933/) [Investigative Team to Southern Illinois,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4380057/st-louis-post-dispatch/)” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 12, 2000, pp. A1, A6; “[UFO Baffles](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98847193/) [Observers,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98847193/)” Waterloo \(Iowa\) Republic-Times, January 12, 2000, p. 2; “[Buffs Baffled by UFO,](https://rense.com/ufo6/buffs.htm)” Chicago Sun- Times, January 20, 2000; David B. Marler, “[Illinois Police Officers Track UFO near Scott AFB,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2000/03/March%202000.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 383 \(March 2000\): 3–8; Internet Movie Database, “[UFOs over Illinois](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309223/)”; “Illinois UFO, January 5, 2000,” IUR 26, no. 2 \(Summer 2001\): 16; “[Hypothesis: The Illinois Flying Triangle Is a Department of Defense,](https://www.skinwalkerranch.org/videos/illinois%5Ftrianglehypothesis.pdf) [Not an ET Craft,](https://www.skinwalkerranch.org/videos/illinois%5Ftrianglehypothesis.pdf)” National Institute for Discovery Science, July 2002; Darryl Barker, “[The Illinois Triangle? Do](http://dbarkertv.com/default2.htm) [We Have the Technology?](http://dbarkertv.com/default2.htm)” Darryl Barker Productions, August 2, 2002; Internet Movie Database, “[Proof](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423716/) [Positive,](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423716/)” Episode 108, November 24, 2004; Internet Movie Database, “[Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs, Seeing](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448085/) [Is Believing](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448085/)”; “[UFOs: Seeing Is Believing \(2005\), ABC Documentary,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlDLDRT-whU)” Movie Buff Guy YouTube channel, June 18, 2019; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 \(March 2012\): 33; Marler 26–60; Skinwalkers 106–108 Source ID: Eberhart_7325 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23443 (67B74BE8) Date: 1/5/2000 Description: [Bill Sweetman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FSweetman) writes in Jane’s International Defence Review that there are approximately 150 “special access programs” within the Pentagon at the close of 1999, many of which are unacknowledged. They often have completely independent systems of classification, with total control exercised by the program manager. He concludes that most are dominated not by Defense personnel but by private contractors. He has no idea how they are funded. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Sweetman, “In Search of the Pentagon’s Billion Dollar Hidden Budgets: How the US Keeps Its R&D Spending under Wraps,” Jane’s International Defense Review, January 5, 2000 Source ID: Eberhart_7326 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23444 (BCEF5556) Date: 1/10/2000 Description: 9:00 p.m. A young man near Sézanne, Marne, France, encounters a bright white light near the town water tower. His engine cuts out and the radio stops working. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Vehicle Interference near Sézanne,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_7327 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23445 (D0C58816) Date: 1/12/2000 Description: In Caboolture, Queensland, Australia a woman reported that a thick white cloud came through her screen door, across the kitchen, blocked her TV, and went up against a wall before it faded. Out in her backyard was a large triangular object with a red arrow marking. She reported that she has had strange visions since the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 38 Source ID: Johnson_288 Source: Johnson ### Event 23446 (C6FD7E1D) Date: 1/12/2000 Description: A family in rural northeastern Missouri chased a UFO in their car starting at 8:45 p.m., but it suddenly came closer and hovered over them, then followed them home. They witnessed more than 30 lights that travelled at random through the sky, and they also claimed to have seen seven aircraft flying around the scene. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. 4, citing CAUS; Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 178 Source ID: Johnson_290 Source: Johnson ### Event 23447 (06BF8E23) Date: 1/12/2000 Description: Hundreds of motorists on Highway A-1 in Rome, Italy saw a circular luminous object followed by a cylinder of light, which hung in the sky for several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 53 Source ID: Johnson_289 Source: Johnson ### Event 23448 (28194859) Date: 1/13/2000 Description: Three pinkish-red objects were sighted travelling in vertical formation in Mount Warrigal, New South Wales, Australia at 10:55 p.m. They then performed incredible acrobatics for the next 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 52; Australasian Ufologist, July 2000, p. 50 & January 2001, p. 46 Source ID: Johnson_304 Source: Johnson ### Event 23449 (7AE2C1B6) Date: 1/13/2000 Description: Late on this night in Jacksonville, Florida a woman suddenly awoke to find herself being dropped onto her bed by a non-human looking entity. Close to her face she saw a huge head on a thin body. At the same time she felt a puff of breath coming from the entity's open mouth. She sensed that the being was surprised that she had woken up. Although terrified, she still fell asleep. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3441, citing South Florida Skyscan Source ID: Johnson_305 Source: Johnson ### Event 23450 (3411E13A) Date: 1/17/2000 Description: At 4:30 a.m. in Columbia, Kentucky the witness awoke with a start and noticed a very bright light coming through the window. It was most white but also red and green, and it hurt his eyes. He also heard a loud pulsating sound. Looking toward the window he saw the outline of a figure, the size of a little boy, but it was gone in an instant. The terrified witness covered his head with his blanket and began to pray. After ten minutes the sound and the lights went away. Others in the area had seen low flying objects over their farms around the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3612, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_362 Source: Johnson ### Event 23451 (AF797F1E) Date: 1/18/2000 Description: A oval-shaped UFO was sighted in Dayton, Nevada at 6:15 p.m. A bright light shone straight out of object, and it was surrounded by smoke or a fog-like cloud. A similar phenomenon was reported at the same time in Crescent City, California. The witness saw a bright light beam that looked like the spotlight from a police helicopter. He noticed a blue trail of smoke from the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_385 Source: Johnson ### Event 23452 (CF7BEB56) Date: 1/18/2000 Description: A shiny spherical object was seen at 6000 feet altitude over the Puerto Belgrano Navy Base, Argentina at 12:45 p.m. A powerful whirlwind developed at ground level directly below the object. Weather station reported that the atmospheric conditions at the time were not conducive to the natural formation of such winds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 17 Source ID: Johnson_384 Source: Johnson ### Event 23453 (777FC9FA) Date: 1/23/2000 Description: There were three sightings in California reported on this day. At 11:05 a.m. in Petaluma in Sonoma County a metallic disc was seen that was about as wide as it was tall. It was about the size of a pea at arm's length. In Covina in Los Angeles County a lighted object moved from west to east across a cloudy sky at 6:30 p.m. It made no sound as it flew. Finally, twenty minutes later in Fontana in San Bernardino County a saucer-shaped UFO hovered for a few minutes, spinning at a high rate of speed. It was completely illuminated by a self-luminous glowing light, and it moved slowly over city after hovering. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2000 webpage, reports uploaded on Feb. 16, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_469 Source: Johnson ### Event 23454 (FB4D61E9) Date: 1/24/2000 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a group of friends were sitting in a house in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and when they glanced out a window they saw a dark figure jumping behind the trees. It had no distinguishable features as the entire body was dark, but its body fluctuated in and out of transparency. The witnesses had apparently seen this and multiple other humanoid figures on other occasions, in different locations. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000 [electronic version], citing UFO Database.com Source ID: Johnson_501 Source: Johnson ### Event 23455 (B9D7FEB6) Date: 1/28/2000 Description: At 5:30 p.m. on this date in 2000 a driver and passenger were driving westbound on the New Jersey Turnpike between East Rutherford and Secaucus, New Jersey when they spotted a triangle-shaped object flying in the northern sky. Two large, bright cylindrical UFOs were sighted in the southwestern morning sky in Beaverton, Oregon at 7:30 a.m. The UFOs were the apparent size of a lentil held at arm's length. Four other reports occurred that evening in British Columbia, Oregon, California, and Arizona. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center; UFO Research Manitoba, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey Source ID: Johnson_569 Source: Johnson ### Event 23456 (AE2456D0) Date: 1/29/2000 Description: There were several UFO reports made on this evening in and around Sydney, New South Wales, Australia between 8:30 and 11:00 p.m. In one report from South Penrith six witnesses watched four objects that stopped moving across the sky at 9:30 p.m. and then backtracked. At 10:15 p.m. five bright lights in a triangle formation changed to a straight line, looking like balls of fire, giving off what seemed to be smoke. These five bright lights were also observed by a married couple from Glenmore. They reported that after about eight minutes the first light disappeared, then the third one. The object or objects were just below the cloud cover. There were also sightings in Adelaide, South Australia this night. Single and multiple bright orange orbs were seen flying over the city, and they were seen to disappear in vicinity of the Blue Mountains. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Karen Burden & Robert Frola, Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, pp. 40 & 46; UFO Magazine (USA), June 2000, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_593 Source: Johnson ### Event 23457 (6AFE0DFB) Date: 1/30/2000 Description: A huge black triangular object hovered silently above a crab fishing boat at 11:15 p.m. while the fisherman was engaged in hauling up a line of traps off Farlon Island near San Francisco, California. The man was onboard his 25 foot boat with his dog but had no other witnesses around, when he was hit by a beam of white light from the craft, which caused him fall backwards into the boat's cabin. He grabbed his Rugger 10-22 rifle and fired 100 rounds of .22 caliber ammunition at the bottom of the craft, trying to shoot out the light. While grabbing a second magazine clip he saw a hatch open up on the bottom of the object and two men leaned out, shouting "Stop shooting at us you idiot." He also heard a hissing sound like air escaping from a punctured tire. The object then moved off to the south. A helicopter then appeared and hovered over the boat. The chopper was flat black in color, and it was silent with no markings on it. As the chopper hovered a flash of light was again directed at the boat. He last saw the triangle gain altitude and disappear towards the south. The helicopter was last seen heading towards the Golden Gate Bridge. It is uncertain if what the witness allegedly encountered was a secret U.S. government project, or something even more strange. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2000 webpage, report uploaded February 2000, p. 16; UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 16, citing Filer's Files Source ID: Johnson_626 Source: Johnson ### Event 23458 (8FEF51BD) Date: 2/2/2000 Description: Several people in Priolo, Siracusa, Sicily, Italy saw a humanoid figure suspended high in the sky over the sea at eight o'clock in the morning. Others claimed the object resembled a silver bullet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 10; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing UFO Roundup Source ID: Johnson_673 Source: Johnson ### Event 23459 (AC1EDFF4) Date: 2/5/2000 Description: A motorist driving in St. Andre de Cubzac, Gironde, France at around two o'clock in the morning reported to the government that he saw a luminous phenomenon moving quietly and slowly at low level, which then hovered above a nearby wood. Its distance while hovering was 200 meters, with an estimated altitude of 150 meters. The sighting lasted 30-40 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 320 Source ID: Johnson_716 Source: Johnson ### Event 23460 (BD9D4061) Date: 2/5/2000 Description: In Lordsburg, New Mexico two enormous "mothership" craft were reportedly seen on the ground eight miles away. The estimate of their size was more than 2,500 feet in diameter. Small satellite craft were also seen departing and returning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 16, citing Filer's Files Source ID: Johnson_717 Source: Johnson ### Event 23461 (2E366FE2) Date: 2/9/2000 Description: In Bristol, Vermont at 6:15 p.m. a large luminous triangular cloud flew to the northeast, and split into four objects as it approached the horizon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 17, citing George Filer, Filers Files Source ID: Johnson_788 Source: Johnson ### Event 23462 (4B0B026B) Date: 2/10/2000 Description: At 9:00 p.m. an orange disc-shaped UFO was seen 100 meters away at low altitude in Pontelongo, Veneto, Italy. It had stong beams of light. Suddenly it was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #18134, citing UFO Roundup Source ID: Johnson_815 Source: Johnson ### Event 23463 (8056635C) Date: 2/11/2000 Description: At 9:15 a family in Rockford, Illinois witnessed five objects, three times larger than the visible stars, traveling in a diamond shaped formation of orange and white lights, which then maneuvered around each other. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), June 2000, p. 37, citing CAUS and NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_848 Source: Johnson ### Event 23464 (F97A4D05) Date: 2/12/2000 Description: Two luminous disc-shaped objects were seen in Novellara, Italy for several minutes flying at extremely high speed. There were several dozen witnesses who reported seeing the two objects at around four o'clock in the afternoon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 10 Source ID: Johnson_885 Source: Johnson ### Event 23465 (BBF4A2CB) Date: 2/12/2000 Description: Two witnesses from Rockford, Illinois reported that at 10:00 p.m. a bright orange sphere descended out of the eastern sky, then leveled off. It flew a short distance, then turned and flew to the north. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2000 webpage Source ID: Johnson_886 Source: Johnson ### Event 23466 (E0B52B41) Date: 2/16/2000 Description: At around 9:15 to 9:30 p.m. five large orange glowing lights flew in from the east over Rockford, Illinois. They maneuvered vertically and laterally. Two left the formation and disappeared. A third light split in two, dropping a new light out of its bottom. All remaining lights then sped away. There were multiple independent reports called into the UFO Reporting Center. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 16, citing Filers' Files Source ID: Johnson_954 Source: Johnson ### Event 23467 (716ECCE5) Date: 2/18/2000 Description: Dogs react to horizontal row of bright lights hovering in the sky (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [000218](http://www.nicap.org/ar-000218dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Asheboro, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5881 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23468 (0652FF62) Date: 2/19/2000 Description: Three pre-teen girls at a sleepover reported seeing a large luminous triangular-shaped object descend into a nearby field in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Later on three short humanoid figures were seeing moving near the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3540, citing Berne Bennett, MUFON Source ID: Johnson_1014 Source: Johnson ### Event 23469 (68116193) Date: 2/22/2000 Description: A disc hovered low over a soccer field in Mexico City, Mexico at 2:00 a.m. It flashed multi-colored lights, then departed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), June 2000, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_1058 Source: Johnson ### Event 23470 (18E15F49) Date: 2/23/2000 Description: Two cylindrical UFOs circled the Agnano housing development in Naples, Italy during the day, then ascended to a high altitude in a zigzag motion, one faster than the other. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), June 2000, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_1071 Source: Johnson ### Event 23471 (E1CC2836) Date: 2/26/2000 Description: Three disc-shaped objects, estimated to be three times the size of 747s, were sighted flying in a V-shaped formation over Waterford, Ontario. They made a 90 degree turn together. The sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case 34 Source ID: Johnson_1144 Source: Johnson ### Event 23472 (4E22B1CD) Date: 3/1/2000 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a V-shaped object that looked a little like a plane, but was fatter and shorter, was reported in Springfield, Ohio. It had many lights on the bottom, and it hovered on the side of Route 4 without making any noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2000 webpage Source ID: Johnson_1235 Source: Johnson ### Event 23473 (62161A29) Date: 3/1/2000 Description: In a campaign press conference in Stockton, California, Sen. [John McCain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FMcCain) \(R-Ariz.\) acknowledges that the Phoenix Lights incident “has never been fully explained, but I have to tell you that I do not have any evidence whatsoever of aliens or UFOs.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [p. 250](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/258/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7328 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23474 (AD3EABDA) Date: 3/2/2000 Description: At three o'clock in the morning in Tanah Merah, Kampung Gobek, Malaysia rays of light bathed houses in the village. A UFO was seen hovering over a marsh for several minutes. Later a Y-shaped depression was found, 50 feet long with the tips of the top of the "Y" 17 feet apart. There was also a crescent hole 10 feet deep, and 3 holes in the ground a meter apart. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p.53, citing The Star, March 5, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_1265 Source: Johnson ### Event 23475 (D4862428) Date: 3/2/2000 Description: In Memphis, Tennessee at 1:15 a.m. a formation of three objects hovered in a straight line above the city, occasionally changing color. At 7:45 a.m. two people in Maracay City, Venezuela saw a circular, silver object fly by slowly, but then suddenly accelerate and then abruptly reduce speed. At 7 p.m. in Springfield, Missouri a witness reported seeing four light rotating against an overcast cloud cover. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_1266 Source: Johnson ### Event 23476 (08293EBF) Date: 3/2/2000 Description: Finally the same evening in Mexico City, Mexico a pilot sighted a luminous UFO at the same time as the crew of a DC-9 airliner and another crew of a Bell Ranger helicopter. A videotape of the nocturnal light was taken by Salvador Guerrero. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carlos Alberto Guzman Rojas, Los OVNIs y la Aviacion Mexicana: 50 anos de encuentros con OVNIs en el espacio aereo mexicano, p. 266 Source ID: Johnson_1267 Source: Johnson ### Event 23477 (62B0E48C) Date: 3/3/2000 Description: At three o'clock in the morning a large object emitting bright rays of light was seen hovering over and then landing in a marsh in Kampung Gobek, Malaysia. Found later was a Y-shaped depression with dimensions 45 feet long by 15 feet in width, and a 10-foot-deep crescent-shaped hollow, surrounded by several holes 3 feet in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), June 2000, p. 37, citing CAUS Source ID: Johnson_1288 Source: Johnson ### Event 23478 (7F41ED51) Date: 3/11/2000 Description: At 8:10 p.m. Shaun Boer of Traralgon, Victoria, Australia saw a bright star-like object that was moving through the sky very fast. It made a 45-degree turn and then faded out. Later he remembered being in a round room with a high ceiling. There were several pillars coming down the sides of the walls. The "room" seemed to be dirty. In the middle of the room there was a sort of table, resembling a half cylinder, made out of what appeared to be corrugate iron. He recalls that he encountered two types of creatures: some were short with bluish black skin, perfectly round eyes, and they wore coveralls with hoods. The others were the classic Grey humanoids with large black almond-shaped eyes. He later found a triangle-shaped scar on his upper arm. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3825, citing UFO Abductions Raw Data Page & UFO Watch Source ID: Johnson_1429 Source: Johnson ### Event 23479 (00482274) Date: 3/12/2000 Description: In the early evening around 6 p.m. three employees of the San Miguel Corporation, a large beer and beverage maker in Manila, the Philippines were walking across the company parking lot to their car when they noticed a strange glow emanating from a large tree on their left. It was a pale blue color. Thinking that it was some sort of decorative lighting, they ignored it and kept walking. Then they heard a low rumbling noise that sounded like: "Anong balita, anong balita." Looking back they caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a naked, human like creature with white hair and glowing rings imbedded in its wrists like shiny cufflinks. It leapt away with incredible speed. With a blur it vanished into some bushes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing Mystical Universe Source ID: Johnson_1443 Source: Johnson ### Event 23480 (8F8385A6) Date: 3/23/2000 Description: On this night a factory worker driving in County Antrim from West Belfast, Northern Ireland saw an egg-shaped light in sky, that started pacing his car. Panicked, he sped along road, but then was inexplicably overcome by the urge to stop the car. His last feeling before blacking out was of he and his car being lifted. He awoke six hours later and his next memory was of driving home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lynn Picknett, The Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 178; UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. 25, citing CAUS Source ID: Johnson_1633 Source: Johnson ### Event 23481 (090A53EC) Date: 3/24/2000 Description: A 40-year-old woman named E. King reported that she was abducted from her bedroom in Grimsby, Humberside, England in the predawn hours and taken to watch a surgical operation on a man. She was later returned to her home safely. All of her experiences were based on completely conscious recollections, with no hypnosis. There were three other UFO reports in Humberside and Lincoln counties that day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, pp. 180-181 Source ID: Johnson_1646 Source: Johnson ### Event 23482 (1CE25991) Date: 3/26/2000 Description: Two witnesses observed a triangular object that crossed the sky over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at steady pace and a high altitude at 10:45 p.m. Its shape was defined by a number of grayish-white, non-blinking lights. It flew to the northeast, and made no sound. According to one witness “the object had to be huge” since it was very high up, but could clearly be seen as it blocked out a portion of the clear sky as it moved. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, Pennsylvania Center for UFO Research, www.stangordonufo.com Source ID: Johnson_1684 Source: Johnson ### Event 23483 (7C0C8C3A) Date: 3/30/2000 Description: At five o'clock in the morning a young couple and their small boy, driving near Little Fox Lake in the Yukon Territory, Canada spotted a 40-foot wide disc hovering some 300 feet away from them. The UFO shot across the road at "incredible speed", then stopped abruptly and briefly before shooting off at a 90º angle. The car's lights and tape deck ceased working when the UFO was nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research Manitoba, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case 50; UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. 24; Jerry Clark, 2002 Unexplained Phenomena Calendar Source ID: Johnson_1755 Source: Johnson ### Event 23484 (4771320F) Date: 3/30/2000 Description: 5:00 a.m. Leah Isaac, a friend, and their small boy are driving on the Klondike Highway at the west end of Little Fox Lakes, Yukon Territory, when they spot a 40-foot wide disc hovering some 300 feet away. The UFO shoots across the road at “incredible speed,” then stopped abruptly for a split second before shooting off at a 90º angle. The car’s headlights dim and the tape deck ceases working when the UFO is nearby. Leah’s analog watch stops, and her friend’s digital watch goes blank. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Martin Jasek and Mark Rodeghier, “Vehicle Interference at Little Fox Lake, Yukon,” IUR 25, no. 2 \(Summer 2000\): 23–24, 32 Source ID: Eberhart_7329 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23485 (E0A0878A) Date: 3/30/2000 Description: US District Court Judge [Stephen M. McNamee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%5FM.%5FMcNamee) dismisses the CAUS lawsuit seeking documents on the Phoenix Lights in Arizona, concluding that “a reasonable search was conducted” by the Department of Defense, even though no information was found. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [pp. 251–253](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/258/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7330 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23486 (7F5415BE) Date: 3/30/2000 Description: At 2:00 p.m. a formation of ten objects was sighted flying south at an estimated 10,000 feet altitude in Westchester, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, March 2000 web page Source ID: Johnson_1756 Source: Johnson ### Event 23487 (E403329E) Date: 4/2000 Description: Sergio Sánchez and Diego Zúñiga launch the UFO magazine La Nave de los Locos in Santiago, Chile, which continues until October 2006. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [La Nave de los Locos](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Chile/La%20Nave%20de%20los%20Locos/La%20Nave%20de%20los%20Locos%20-%20No%2001.pdf), no. 1 \(April 2000\) Source ID: Eberhart_7331 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23488 (0D9162D3) Date: 4/6/2000 Description: At 8:35 p.m. two bright green objects were seen shooting through the sky over Arlington, Texas with an orange object circling around the lead object. There were two other reports from Texas on this afternoon and evening as well. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_1874 Source: Johnson ### Event 23489 (36146102) Date: 4/8/2000 Description: A yellowish orange cigar shaped UFO approached Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India at 11:55 p.m. It flew at a high altitude, halted over a cargo terminal, hovered, descended, wobbled, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_1915 Source: Johnson ### Event 23490 (C820280A) Date: 4/9/2000 Description: A motorist driving in Hot Springs, Arkansas at 4:30 a.m. saw an enormous, pinkish metallic cigar-shaped UFO 100 feet above the road. It stopped in front of the car. He blacked out. When he came to he smelled an odor of something burning. He recalls a high-pitched buzzing sound, and has recollections of an exam table. His back is bruised. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. 24 Source ID: Johnson_1936 Source: Johnson ### Event 23491 (00DF5F99) Date: 4/17/2000 Description: On this night, a police officer walking home along the Plazoleta Alfonso de la Vega in Frias, Argentina noticed a short humanoid figure that he first mistook for a child. When he approached the figure, intending to reprimand it for being out late, he received a menacing look from the creature's fiery red eyes. The shocked policeman realized it was something other than a human child, and he quickly walked away from the area. Other local residents also reported seeing the same or a similar being. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3402, citing Fabio Picasso, Argentina Source ID: Johnson_2097 Source: Johnson ### Event 23492 (0302E0DB) Date: 4/22/2000 Description: A witness reported seeing a cigar-shaped object while driving eastbound on I-44 near Sullivan, Missouri at 5:15 p.m. It was seen moving slowly against higher broken clouds. The sighting of the object lasted an estimated two minutes, and then it disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 2000 webpage Source ID: Johnson_2245 Source: Johnson ### Event 23493 (DF5375B6) Date: 4/23/2000 Description: At 6:40 p.m. a mathematician flying on a commercial airliner from Denver, Colorado to San Jose, California saw a "circular silvery object with a rounded top" speed by several thousand feet below him somewhere over northern Nevada. He was able to calculate that the domed disc-shaped craft would have had a diameter of 55 feet, and a speed of about 3,000 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2000 archived webpage; Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 182; UFO Magazine (USA), September 2000, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_2266 Source: Johnson ### Event 23494 (7602F975) Date: 4/26/2000 Description: At around 2:00 a.m. several residents living on the slopes of a hill in Tocopilla, Antofagasta Province, Chile saw a strange looking entity climb rapidly up the side of a steep hill. It moved up a practically vertical cliff using reptilian like movements, and seemed to expand as if it possessed dark wing-like membranes on its back, which may have helped propell it up the cliff. Once it reached the summit witnesses began hearing strange growling and screeching sounds coming from the top. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case HC # 3644, citing Paranigma Chile Source ID: Johnson_2355 Source: Johnson ### Event 23495 (BFD7182C) Date: 5/3/2000 Description: At 2:54 a.m. Rene Ruiz, a 55-year-old man from Orlando, Florida, found himself inside a huge craft surrounded by blinding lights and looking at something resembling an X-ray machine. He also encountered several 6-foot tall humanoids, who had large oval-shaped heads and skin that was grayish in color. However, there was one being who was different; Rene described him as short with a huge head and light blue in color. After lossing recollection of what happened next, Mr. Ruiz found himself back in his home. Subsequently, his body turned a sickly yellow jaundiced color, and he suffered from constant nausea with frequent vomiting. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 3828, citing UFO Abduction Raw Data Page, UFO Watch Source ID: Johnson_2489 Source: Johnson ### Event 23496 (586ADCFB) Date: 5/6/2000 Description: A triangle shaped object was seen hovering 100 feet above the ground in Kamloops, British Columbia at 9:18 p.m. It suddenly lit up in a white light, and then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2000, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2604 Source: Johnson ### Event 23497 (EF6AF160) Date: 5/8/2000 Description: At 9:05 p.m. a triangular object hovered over the mountains outside of Juniper and Kamloops, British Columbia. It split into four smaller triangles, and changed color. Some powerful strobe lights hit the mountain, then the pieces reformed to make one object, which shot up vertically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), September 2000, p. 28; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_2664 Source: Johnson ### Event 23498 (C1D46281) Date: 5/14/2000 Description: A triangle shaped object with red and green lights flew low over the Garden State Parkway in Tuckeron, New Jersey at 9:25 p.m. The UFO flew silently toward another unknown red circular object in the distance. The red object flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), September 2000, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_2844 Source: Johnson ### Event 23499 (CEE6981A) Date: 5/15/2000 Description: At 11:45 p.m. a married couple living north of Pine Gap near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia responded by going outside when their dogs started barking and noticed a large dark object with lights that flew over from north to south, making no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Douglas, Victoria UFO Research Society, website Source ID: Johnson_2875 Source: Johnson ### Event 23500 (CF74EF28) Date: 5/17/2000 Description: In the pre-dawn hours, in a dream-like state a local woman in Independence, Missouri remembered seeing a bright light overhead through her bedroom skylight window. She next remembered lying down on a table and a figure was at her head on the right side over her shoulder; another figure was at her feet on her right side. They seemed to be pulling or tugging at something that felt like a rope going through her body from her right shoulder to her right hip area. She felt very uncomfortable and her chest hurt. She woke up in her bed, and noticed a bright light shining in the skylight, and what appeared to be a plane at first that was traveling south to North. The object had a tail with a red flashing light and two wings with red and green lights on the ends. The wings were very thin, and right next to the tail, unlike a normal airplane. The body of the object was long with a squared off nose. The strange craft had two very bright large white lights underneath it at the front, shining directly towards the ground. No noise was heard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # 3785, citing Missouri MUFON Source ID: Johnson_2944 Source: Johnson ### Event 23501 (7192D99A) Date: 5/19/2000 Description: A video of a hovering UFO was made in Southampton, England by police. A police helicopter flew around the UFO several times before the object faded and disappeared. There was a lengthy official investigation. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, Police Reports of UFOs, case # 171 Source ID: Johnson_2994 Source: Johnson ### Event 23502 (4B180756) Date: 5/26/2000 Description: The pilot of a DC-9 airliner sighted a domed disc flying at 9,500 feet altitude at 6:40 p.m. The object was flying to the east of Mexico City, Mexico. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carlos Alberto Guzman Rojas, Los OVNIs y la Aviacion Mexicana, p. 271 Source ID: Johnson_3110 Source: Johnson ### Event 23503 (618DD26D) Date: 6/1/2000 Description: A videotape by Sr. Logro Avila shows a UFO flying at high speed at 6 p.m. over Tlalnepantla, Mexico, with a military jet traveling in same direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Carlos Alberto Guzman Rojas, Los OVNIs y la Aviacion Mexicana: 50 anos de encuentros con OVNIs en el espacio aereo Mexicano, p. 271 Source ID: Johnson_3212 Source: Johnson ### Event 23504 (722DE196) Date: 6/3/2000 Description: In Manzanita, Oregon there were two independent reports of orange colored lights coming from the northwest, traveling in a line at a fast speed. The most seen at any one time were three. The first report was at 9:45 p.m. and the second at 10:00 p.m. The first report commented that the three bright orange/yellow lights appeared to meet up over the ocean, and then travel inland. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, webpages posted June 21, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_3264 Source: Johnson ### Event 23505 (C445000A) Date: 6/7/2000 Description: North of Pine Gap, near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia at 8:30 p.m. a married couple's dogs barked madly as a disc-shaped object with orange around the edge hovered close by. It lit up the area and was described as looking like "trees were on fire." It hovered, then moved out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Douglas, Victorian UFO Research Society website Source ID: Johnson_3362 Source: Johnson ### Event 23506 (64926ED5) Date: 6/7/2000 Description: On the same day a daylight disc sighting occurred in Marlette, Michigan when an oval object was sighted for about 15 seconds at around 1:00 p.m. The craft was described as a very shiny silver color with vertical and horizontal dividers, making square compartments all around. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2000 archived webpage, this report posted March 6, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_3363 Source: Johnson ### Event 23507 (E7AB6633) Date: 6/13/2000 Description: A round fiery ball was seen in the western sky in Springfield, Queensland, Australia traveling in an upward direction. A roaring sound like a jet engine was heard one minute later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research Queensland website Source ID: Johnson_3470 Source: Johnson ### Event 23508 (27D18C15) Date: 6/18/2000 Description: Beginning at 11:45 p.m. a triangular-shaped object was seen hovering above train tracks in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada for 18 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded December 2, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_3547 Source: Johnson ### Event 23509 (500685FC) Date: 6/22/2000 Description: F-89 Has Radar Lock-On (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [000622](http://www.nicap.org/560111wurtsmithdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Wurtsmith AFB, MI Source ID: NICAP_DB_5882 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23510 (9E3BCAD6) Date: 6/22/2000 Description: At 10:30 p.m. in 2000 near Providence, Rhode Island a westbound commercial airliner flying at 8,000 feet altitude observed an egg-shaped object standing on end. The top and bottom of the object was spiked with three points each. Air traffic control confirmed the presence of a radar target one mile from the aircraft. It drifted toward the east until it was lost from radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine, December 2000, p. 32 Source ID: Johnson_3610 Source: Johnson ### Event 23511 (DAA06996) Date: 6/30/2000 Description: At 10:30 p.m. in Paso Robles, California a formation of three small, satellite-like lights, performed figure-8 movements around one another in the night sky over Lake Nacimiento for three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, archived June 2000 webpage, report posted November 20, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_3757 Source: Johnson ### Event 23512 (E278FE7B) Date: Early 7/2000 Description: Evening. Ceri Kenyon is walking home in Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England, when he sees a flickering object in the sky. As he approaches, he hears a buzzing sound and sees that it is a triangular object surrounded by lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 223–224 Source ID: Eberhart_7332 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23513 (1F37A851) Date: 7/4/2000 Description: Several reports were received between 10:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. from various locales in King and Pierce Counties, Washington State reporting the sighting of at least one red UFO hovering above the clouds, for an average of ten to fifteen minutes at a time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 2000 web page Source ID: Johnson_3833 Source: Johnson ### Event 23514 (E51F4ABD) Date: 7/5/2000 Description: At around 4 p.m. Robert Taylor, age 22, remembers being abducted near McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. He found himself inside a very misty room surrounded by a green aura. There were soft "chairs" and a long table in the center of the room. He met several aliens described as about six feet tall, with very long thin arms and legs. The humanoids emitted a strange humming sound. He suffered from bizarre physiological aftereffects soon after the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing UFO Watch Source ID: Johnson_3853 Source: Johnson ### Event 23515 (ABDC8016) Date: 7/7/2000 Description: At 9:21 p.m. in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada a luminous oval or disc-shaped object shone a bright white light beam down toward the ground. It radiated a fog from around its periphery. Its light snapped off, and the UFO vanished, and the canyon filled with a greenish-blue fog that lasted for ten minutes. A helicopter flew over the area later that same night. There was also another report of a white object shining through a green haze in Las Vegas, Nevada at 9:30 p.m., and at 10:10 p.m a witness in Winnemucca, Nevada reported that a beam of light came from a bright circular object, which left a green residue in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), December 2000, p. 32, citing CAUS; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2000 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_3917 Source: Johnson ### Event 23516 (7645016A) Date: 7/7/2000 Description: A gray object hovered over a house in Covina, California at 9:30 p.m. The observers became surrounded by a beam of light while a blue shape remained in the sky. At the same time in nearby Pacific Palisades, California a white glow was reportedly seen in a large plume of clouds. This white glow changed to blue, and then green. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2000 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_3916 Source: Johnson ### Event 23517 (81A1649F) Date: 7/7/2000 Description: A football field sized object with lights was sighted by an air safety officer and 24 other witnesses in Normanton, Queensland, Australia at 11:45 p.m. It travelled over the area making no noise, and left behind a trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sheryl Gottschall, UFO Research Queensland website Source ID: Johnson_3915 Source: Johnson ### Event 23518 (60D82C42) Date: 7/11/2000 Description: Two taxi drivers, Walter Ortega and Luis Rodolfo Aguero were working the late shift at their station in Banda de Varela, Argentina. Around 3:30 a.m. Luis was sleeping when Walter went outside when he heard some noises. Armed with a metal bar, he searched around in the darkness. Suddenly, an unseen forced picked him up and threw him backwards about two meters, and he landed on the ground. At the same time he noticed a figure dressed in what looked like a long dark coat sitting on a nearby fence. He described the figure as short in stature, wearing a large black hat, with its face hidden in shadow. Terrified, he ran to wake up his partner and called the police, who searched the area but found nothing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing Pablo Villarrubia, Ano Cero Source ID: Johnson_3998 Source: Johnson ### Event 23519 (BCF27717) Date: 7/12/2000 Description: A 14-year-old boy had gone to bed late on this night at his summer cottage in Manooth, Ontario, Canada when he woke up to find his bedroom door open and someone walking in the living room. Soon an alien figure came to his bedroom door and entered, followed by two more. The beings were basically humanoid, gray in color, with large black oval-shaped eyes. One was taller than the others and he was holding a glowing blue rod, which apparently paralyzed the witness. He telepathically told the boy that they were going to cure an infection that was brought to Earth by another alien race. They inserted a long tube down the witness esophagus and through it injected a liquid. He was then able to move and was told to follow them. Outside he was taken aboard a landed disc-shaped object, where he was scanned and examined. Later he was brought back to his room. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3614, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_4021 Source: Johnson ### Event 23520 (75D43A0F) Date: 7/13/2000 Description: At 1:30 a.m. a woman and a professor friend of hers had just left a Lions Club dinner and were driving south of Puerto Cuatro, Chile when they spotted two strange yellow lights ahead on the roadway. The driver flashed her high beams at the two intense lights and she began to slow down her car because they remained stationary. They then saw a figure standing about three feet away from the front bumper. The figure was described as large, lacking ears, and covered with extremely long gray hair, particularly around the neck. It had two immense, slanted yellow eyes. The driver and the creature exchanged stares for about ten seconds, after which the car drove along the left lane. The creature followed the vehicle's departure with its head, and its neck was apparently able to make 180-degree turns. Terrified, the two drove away. They saw the yellow light again as it lit up the entire road before disappearing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3784, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Vol. 5, No. 31 Source ID: Johnson_4041 Source: Johnson ### Event 23521 (5E47C117) Date: 7/14/2000 Description: On this night a woman had just returned to her house in Rennes, France when she saw a disc-shaped object surrounded by bright lights descend overhead and land in her garden. Two figures came out of the object. They had oval-shaped heads, bulging eyes, and large "cauliflower-like" ears that stuck out the side of their heads. The humanoids were wearing red colored combination suits. They spoke to the witness and she fell to the ground and went into a deep sleep. When she awoke the beings and the object were gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing GREPI Source ID: Johnson_4060 Source: Johnson ### Event 23522 (11D6CA14) Date: 7/14/2000 Description: At 11:30 p.m. an orange, dome shaped object flew over Thibodaux, Louisiana at tree level. Although orange in color, it occasionally turned white as it flew by. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 2000 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_4061 Source: Johnson ### Event 23523 (0C89689E) Date: 7/15/2000 Description: Gimli, Manitoba, Canada. Three witnesses reported seeing a shiny round pink object at around 7:00 p.m., about a block away, with smoke billowing out of a straight horizontal pipe coming from the top of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 107 Source ID: Johnson_4088 Source: Johnson ### Event 23524 (4311F12F) Date: 7/16/2000 Description: The 17-year-old witness reported encountering a large glowing sphere in a field in Columbus, Nebraska at 11:40 p.m.. The object had small protrusions on the bottom. Stunned and unable to move, he stood watching the object when a five-feet tall Grey humanoid with huge pitch-black eyes approached him. The being stared at him intensely and seemed to analyze him. It had small holes for ears, no nose, and a small slit for a mouth that never changed position. After about five minutes the figure and the object disappeared. The witness remained paralyzed for an additional 10 to 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3795, citing UFO Abductions Raw Data Page & UFO Watch Source ID: Johnson_4114 Source: Johnson ### Event 23525 (48D554C7) Date: 7/17/2000 Description: 10:50 p.m. A witness in Silverdale, Washington, sees four orange lights descending to the west over the Olympic Mountains. When the second to last light is gone, the witness sees a flash like an explosion. About 15 minutes later, another orange light appears, moving south to north at a speed too slow for a meteor. It descends behind the same mountain. A Blackhawk helicopter is visible in the same area at the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, February 11, 2003; Nukes 498–499 Source ID: Eberhart_7333 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23526 (A5468D74) Date: 7/25/2000 Description: Fisherman off the south coast of Viegues Island, Puerto Rico sighted a huge disc with a great many blinking lights surrounding it. On the bottom of the object was a big green light that beamed down to the ocean surface. The UFO hovered 100 feet over the ocean surface while a huge bolume of water rose and entered the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), December 2000, p. 33 Source ID: Johnson_4405 Source: Johnson ### Event 23527 (84BAA301) Date: 7/25/2000 Description: At 7:00 p.m. Ignatiy Aleksandrovich Srartsev and two of his friends were out in a wooded field near Firsanovka, Moscow, Russia when they heard a strong whistling sound coming from behind the trees. They then noticed a round object ringed with portholes. The UFO hovered over them and emitted some kind of beam of energy. The ray hit one of the men, who seemed to disappear in plain sight of the other two men. Only his clothes remained. Three minutes later he reappeared, completely naked, in front of his stunned friends. He said that he had been abducted by "leshies" (Russian wood goblins), but the other two quickly pointed out to him that it had been a UFO. The men then quickly left the area. The man's memory of the event was completely gone. He could only vaguely remember that some strange gray-colored beings had been sticking needles into his body. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing Anton Anfalov, Ukraine Source ID: Johnson_4404 Source: Johnson ### Event 23528 (DD70712B) Date: 7/31/2000 Description: In Bairoa, Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico a woman was awakened around 5:00 a.m. when she heard noises coming from her neighbor's backyard. The noise of something falling on the ground. Her dog began barking inceasantly. She decided to get up and look outside, and when she looked out the window she was startled to see a strange creature standing with its back to her, only 15 feet away. It was white in color with wrinkled skin and had an egg-shaped head with large elongated white eyes with black centers. It had elongated ears, arms, and legs. It appeared to be unclothed. Its hands were in a praying position and its body and head jerked around as if it had no control over them. After watching for a few minutes the witness made a sudden noise, causing the creature to turn around halfway and gaze at her. This caused her to involuntarily close her eyes and step back. She rubbed her eyes repeatedly and was finally able to open them again. Frightened, she called additional household members but by the time they arrived the creature was gone. Two days after later the witness noticed a green light illuminating her room. No one was able to identify the source of the light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 3480, citing Lucy Guzman, Inexplicata Source ID: Johnson_4548 Source: Johnson ### Event 23529 (35EA24A8) Date: 8/2000 Description: Two police officers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, watch a large, triangular-shaped object hovering just above the trees. It is about 660 feet on each side. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Ledger, “The Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_7334 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23530 (E083DC07) Date: 8/2/2000 Description: At 6:45 p.m. the witness had gone outside her house in Capilla del Monte, Cordoba province, Argentina to empty the trash and was returning back to the house when she noticed something floating above the ground over some nearby laurel bushes. It appeared to be an amorphous transparent figure, with large bright yellowish almond-shaped eyes. The figure floated towards a nearby tree knocking itself against it, and a branch was seen to fall down. At the same time that it stared to vanish the witness heard a loud humming sound, and there seemed to be a kind of charged energy in the air. Frightened, the woman ran inside the house and summoned her husband, but the figure had already vanished. The following days she suffered from headaches and heard metallic voices calling her name. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing Proyecto CATENT, Buenos Aires Source ID: Johnson_4614 Source: Johnson ### Event 23531 (BDC792A0) Date: 8/3/2000 Description: At 10:00 p.m. in Uniontown, Pennsylvania a witness saw a five-foot-tall being with long slender extremities for about one minute. It carried a brown staff that was about five feet long, and the creature glided six inches above the ground. Another unusual feature of the encounter was that all normal background sounds were absent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon, PASU website, citing Jim Brown; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3469, citing PASU Source ID: Johnson_4638 Source: Johnson ### Event 23532 (440B6423) Date: 8/5/2000 Description: 11:30 a.m. A witness spots a silver disc in the sky over Old Noarlunga, South Australia, and calls out his wife to watch. Over the next 90 minutes they see 3 whitish additional balls and something that looks like a helicopter, all traveling west to east. Long, silver, cobweb-like substance falls in large wads or strands. Once touched with a stick, it shrivels up and evaporates. Similar material falls on Moana and Aldinga Beach, where one witness also sees a bright light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 8 Source ID: Eberhart_7335 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23533 (15BBDECF) Date: 8/10/2000 Description: At 12:10 a.m. Scott Jarvie was walking home in Falkirk, Scotland after visiting his girlfriend when he suddenly became drowsy and very sleepy. His next conscious memory was suddenly finding himself inside a very bright place, but someone "dark" at the same time; it was hard to describe. Inside the enclosure he briefly met a short humanoid, with sunken green eyes, sandy colored skin, and no mouth. It had short stubby fingers on one hand. A most unusual feature of the creature was that it had a hole where the neck area joined the spine. Jarvie has no other memories. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case 3799, citing UFO Abduction Raw Data Page, UFO Watch Source ID: Johnson_4849 Source: Johnson ### Event 23534 (83D81D54) Date: 8/11/2000 Description: A man driving on a highway in Oklahoma had run out of gas at 4:45 a.m. and had started walking towards some nearby lights. As he was walking, a car drove around him, pulling ahead of him quite a distance, and then stopped. A man exited the vehicle and looked at him. He described the man as having glowing green eyes. Then he looked behind him and saw two more men. One had green glowing eyes, too, and the third had eyes that glowed like diamonds. The men did not say anything, but the witness felt they were telling him to trust them. He next felt an electrical current going through his body and was unable to move. His memory ends about this time. He was later found unconscious by a police officer in the middle of the road, apparently unharmed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2000 webpage, report uploaded September 17, 2000; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3623, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_4919 Source: Johnson ### Event 23535 (454BF451) Date: 8/13/2000 Description: A saucer-shaped object was observed moving erratically around a cloud in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada at 8:15 p.m. Central Time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 136 Source ID: Johnson_4992 Source: Johnson ### Event 23536 (41ADE297) Date: 8/20/2000 Description: 3:09 p.m. Two blurry round objects appear in a photograph hovering above the copse of trees next to the High Water Mark of the Rebellion Monument on the Gettysburg Battlefield, Pennsylvania. They are not noticed at the time the photo is taken. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA, 2000](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/getty2000.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7336 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23537 (EDF217D6) Date: 8/25/2000 Description: Two witnesses watched a multi-colored triangular object as it hovered over Gunn, Alberta, Canada at 10:05 p.m. The colors of the UFO were green, blue, red, yellow, and orange; it later disappeared with a bright flash of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, Filer's Files, September 2000, p. 18; Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 151 Source ID: Johnson_5342 Source: Johnson ### Event 23538 (1E4DCB24) Date: 8/30/2000 Description: In Gull Lake, Ontario, Canada a sphere 40-70 feet in diameter was sighted at 11:05 p.m. It had 40 to 50 red lights and three blue lights, and flew at between 200 to 300 feet in altitude. It made no sound. There were reported blackouts in two nearby towns. The same or a similar report was made to the UFO Reporting Center from Minden, Ontario. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 158, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, case uploaded May 14, 2002 Source ID: Johnson_5508 Source: Johnson ### Event 23539 (9F33A404) Date: 9/2000 Description: UFO researchers [Karl Pflock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%5FT.%5FPflock) and [Peter Brookesmith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FBrookesmith) organize an invitation-only symposium to re-evaluate the [Betty and Barney Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) abduction case in depth. It takes place at the Indian Head Resort in Lincoln, New Hampshire, near the site of the abduction event itself. The other researchers are [Dennis Stacy](https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/files/stacy-dennis/), [Marcello Truzzi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello%5FTruzzi), [Thomas E. Bullard](https://ancientalienpedia.com/contributors/b/thomas-e-bullard-ph-d/)[,](https://ancientalienpedia.com/contributors/b/thomas-e-bullard-ph-d/) [Hilary Evans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary%5FEvans)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary%5FEvans) [Robert Sheaffer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FSheaffer), [Joe Firmage](http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.10.98/cover/joefirmage1-9849.html), and [Greg Sandow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%5FSandow)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%5FSandow) Betty Hill joins the group for an evening’s entertainment and a morning tour of the site where the abduction took place. The essays written by participants, along with reflections by [Walter N. Webb](http://www.nicap.org/bios/NICAP-Bios/Webb.htm) and an appendix by [Martin S. Kottmeyer](https://prabook.com/web/martin%5Fs.kottmeyer/606771), are compiled in Encounters at Indian Head. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Karl T. Pflock and Peter Brookesmith, eds., Encounters at Indian Head, Anomalist, 2007; Robert Sheaffer, “[Betty Hill’s Last Hurrah: A Secret UFO Symposium in New Hampshire,](https://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/forum/topics/reprint-from-psychic-vibrations-2007-betty-hill-discusses-the-ufo)” Skeptical Inquirer 31, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 2007\); Greg Sandow, “The Hill Case and the Limits of Ufology,” IUR 31, no. 4 \(March 2008\): 3–7, 19–28 Source ID: Eberhart_7337 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23540 (B371D2E2) Date: 9/3/2000 Description: 9:30 p.m. A man is out walking in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, when he sees a large and unusual aircraft looming up over the skyline. It is black with no discernible tail section and is shooting three powerful beams of light from dome-like globes set in a triangular pattern on its underside. Small red lights appear on the tips of its swept-back wings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 139–140](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n225/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7338 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23541 (91CE7C4D) Date: 9/6/2000 Description: Three days after a witness had filmed a strange UFO over the area, 31-year-old Gloria Siboa was walking home at 1:30 in the afternoon in Santa Cruz, Manila, the Philippines when she was approached by four women wearing black nun's habits that obscured their facial features. They seemed to be lost, and asked Gloria for directions. They failed to understand her directions, and invited her to board their van and accompany them to their destination. Strangely, she felt unwilling to resist and got in the van. As soon as she boarded the van one of the women covered her nose and mouth with a drug-laced handkerchief, knocking her out. Three days later, Siboa woke up still in the van that was headed to an unknown destination, and she was still blindfolded. She jumped out screaming for police. She could not explain where she had been for the last three days. Her abductors had taken her wallet and ID. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3937 Source ID: Johnson_5702 Source: Johnson ### Event 23542 (051E7682) Date: 9/11/2000 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a glowing cigar-shaped craft was spotted over a casino in Windsor, Ontario on the Detroit River. It made no sound. At one point it seemed to be flying in a snake-like pattern. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 168; citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_5889 Source: Johnson ### Event 23543 (4550A541) Date: 9/11/2000 Description: A huge lighted disc-shaped object lit up the sky in West Berlin, New Jersey. Mrs. D'Imperio and her family (4 witnesses) saw a lighted wheel in the sky at 9:30 p.m. with what looked like bicycle spokes coming out of it. Another ring was on the outside of the object, like a "wheel within a wheel". "What amazed me was lights were coming down the spokes going around the outside of the other [outer] ring, coming back to where they started and coming together, [joining up with] all of them in the center of the ring. They kept repeating this action." Next, a second object came and joined the first, going around the circle and making another spoke. As they watched for some time two helicopters came overhead. One was bigger that the other one, and they both went straight for the UFO they were watching. They then flew around it for awhile. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 25 Source ID: Johnson_5888 Source: Johnson ### Event 23544 (6C9B4822) Date: 9/13/2000 Description: An EM vehicle ignition interference effect case occurred on this evening at 7:00 p.m. The witness's car engine shut off between Hagerstown and Sidling Hill, Maryland when an extremely bright light appeared above the car. The witness also had terrible migraine headache later that night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2000 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_5932 Source: Johnson ### Event 23545 (AAFE1E2F) Date: 9/17/2000 Description: At 8:55 p.m. a very large, wing-shaped object flew at a low altitude over Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. It flew very fast. It was completely silent, black in color, and had no running lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2000 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6060 Source: Johnson ### Event 23546 (70CD1A2F) Date: 9/19/2000 Description: In Sherman Oaks, California at 9:30 a.m. a white object, shaped like the number "8", rose vertically very quickly across a great distance, and then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2000 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6110 Source: Johnson ### Event 23547 (B73D93DD) Date: 9/20/2000 Description: While driving in Mississauga, Ontario at around 7:00 p.m. the witnesses observed two fireball like objects collide. One then went straight up vertically, while the other went straight down. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case 175 Source ID: Johnson_6167 Source: Johnson ### Event 23548 (205B4B4A) Date: 9/20/2000 Description: At 10:57 p.m. a flattened out V-shaped object, made up of many pinpoints of light, glided silently and smoothly overhead in Marshall, Minnesota. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2000 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6168 Source: Johnson ### Event 23549 (E0FCFE0D) Date: 9/23/2000 Description: Ms. Rosa Lopez was on her way home late one night at 3:25 a.m. near Sevilla, Spain when her vehicle entered a strange fog on the road. When she drove out of the fog she was surprised to see that it was almost five a.m. already, although it seemed only minutes had passed. Later, under hypnotic regression, she recounted encountering a huge metallic object on the road. Her car then stalled and stopped. Several short figures with large heads and huge eyes next surrounded her vehicle. She felt weak and helpless as the humanoids carried her into the UFO. She was questioned and put through what she thought was a "brain scanning" device. She was then taken back to her car, and she drove away apparently still under the control of the humanoids. She only seemed to snap out of it completely when she got home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3935, citing Jose Manuel Garcia Bautista & Rafael Cabello Herrero Source ID: Johnson_6275 Source: Johnson ### Event 23550 (C46DF8F6) Date: 9/27/2000 Description: 9:45 p.m. Four men are camped in a trailer at a rural hunting camp near Challis, Idaho. One goes out to the truck for food and sees a massive, dark, triangular object hovering motionless above him. He yells for the others to come out, lights on the object turn on, and it slowly moves toward the nearby mountains. When it reaches one, it tips upward and ascends the side of the mountain vertically. When it reaches the top, it tips forward and disappears from sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Marler 228–229 Source ID: Eberhart_7339 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23551 (4A1A0040) Date: 9/27/2000 Description: Mules do not respond to low triangle (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [000927](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-000927.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Challis, ID Source ID: NICAP_DB_5883 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23552 (DA71F1E7) Date: 10/1/2000 Description: At 11:15 p.m. two objects were sighted over Jones Beach on Long Island in Nassau County, New York. A diamond-shaped UFO landed on the beach. It directed an intense red beam, then a blue-colored beam, at the witnesses' car, which caused the car with the three occupants to be lifted into the air. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18144, citing George Filer, Filer's Files;Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded December 2, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_6480 Source: Johnson ### Event 23553 (DD3968BE) Date: 10/2/2000 Description: Mr. and Mrs. Osborne sighted a dark gray cloud-like object, darker than the background clouds and not moving with the wind, over Crick, Northampton, England at 1:00 p.m. The object changed shape, making angular angles, and was watched through binoculars. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (UK), January 2001, p. 58 Source ID: Johnson_6511 Source: Johnson ### Event 23554 (2014D900) Date: 10/3/2000 Description: A witness saw three lights chasing one another over Montreal, Quebec at 9:33 p.m. They zigzagged around the sky making no noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research Manitoba, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case 187 Source ID: Johnson_6541 Source: Johnson ### Event 23555 (25EA9FC9) Date: 10/5/2000 Description: At 9:10 p.m. an object resembling a giant disc "with a bite taken out of the bottom," with yellow, orange and blue lights, markings, and a dark circle in the center, hovered over some woods in Middleton Wood, England. A videotape was made as the object seemed to expand and get smaller. It also emitted pulses of light. Later in Bradford, England at 10:40 p.m. a large UFO was viewed through binoculars as it stood almost upright with bright lights at each end. It had white and amber lights, and a red strobe light was running up and down the length of the objects between the ends. It passed behind a church tower at a fairly low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (UK), January 2001, pp. 58-59 Source ID: Johnson_6593 Source: Johnson ### Event 23556 (726D5E39) Date: 10/11/2000 Description: At 8:55 p.m. a couple stopped their car at Jones Beach, New York to watch two large diamond-shaped objects approach from the ocean and land on the beach. A red beam of light engulfed the car, and they couldn't start it or open the doors. When the light changes to blue, the car is buffeted around. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), February 2001, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_6791 Source: Johnson ### Event 23557 (DD584D89) Date: 10/13/2000 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a multicolored UFO zigzagged around the sky over Kelowna, British Columbia and made a loud rumbling noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2000, citing UFOBC case investigation files Source ID: Johnson_6819 Source: Johnson ### Event 23558 (ABFF6B37) Date: 10/15/2000 Description: At 7:00 p.m. a disc-shaped object was seen on the ground in Strawberry, Gila county, Arizona and viewed at length with the scope from a deer rifle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2000 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6879 Source: Johnson ### Event 23559 (F97B2BB0) Date: 10/15/2000 Description: There were two apparent abductions involving missing time in the United States on this day, and they both were reported to the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle by the percepients. The first was in Del Valle, Texas and occurred at around 2:30 a.m. A woman was awakened by a loud noise that seemed to be getting louder and approaching her house from above, as if a flying object was coming down in a vertical descent. For some reason she continued to stay in bed, terrified and shaking but unable to move. She suddenly became aware of a presence, and when she turned her heard she saw several figures in the room: two of them took hold of her shoulders, one on each side. She then felt warm and was stood straight up. Next, she was floated across the floor and out the front door, accompanied by a bright white light. The beings were short with large heads, large black eyes and long dangling arms. Her next memory was being back in her bedroom at 4:30 a.m. She again heard the loud noise, but this time it seemed to be leaving the area. She also noticed a strong odor in the room that went away after a few moments. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6880 Source: Johnson ### Event 23560 (F39C8F4C) Date: 10/15/2000 Description: The second apparent abduction and missing time experience occurred at eleven o'clock that night in Martins Ferry, Ohio. A man was sleeping when he was jolted awake by the sound of the bedroom window being pried open. When his eyes came into focus, he saw two figures already inside the room and a third coming inside. The figures appeared to be slightly luminous. The terrified witness could not speak, and began to sway back and forth on his bed. One of the figures then became dark and apparently approached the witness. He now felt hands around his mouth, and was lifted up. He then became unconscious, and could not remember anything else of the incident. The next day his neighbor mentioned something about seeing a strange object on the ground in a nearby field. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3590, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_6881 Source: Johnson ### Event 23561 (B28105C9) Date: 10/15/2000 Description: [Richard Haines](http://www.nicap.org/bio-haines.htm)’s National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena releases a 90-page report that summarizes more than 100 UFO incidents reported by pilots and their crews, including 56 near misses, all affecting aircraft safety. Most cases involve multiple witnesses, and many are backed by ground radio communications and radar corroboration. Experienced pilots present accounts of objects, ranging from silver discs to green fireballs, flying loops around passenger aircraft, pacing planes despite pilots’ evasive attempts, or flooding cockpits with blinding light. Haines documents cases with electromagnetic interference on navigation and operating systems. He writes that a crew’s ability to perform its duties safely is disrupted when the crew is faced with “extremely bizarre, unexpected, and prolonged luminous and/or solid phenomena cavorting near their aircraft.” The primary danger is in the human response, since the objects do not appear to be hostile and seem to be able to avoid collisions using extraordinary maneuvers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “[Aviation Safety in America: A](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d02ea1772637c00014776c5/1560472092579/narcap.TR1.AvSafety.pdf) [Previously Neglected Factor,](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d02ea1772637c00014776c5/1560472092579/narcap.TR1.AvSafety.pdf)” National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena, October 15, 2000 Source ID: Eberhart_7340 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23562 (0639845E) Date: 10/19/2000 Description: At ten o'clock in the evening a white object hovered low over a school in Chiu-Chiu, Atacama, Chile. Fresia Berlina Vega, a young woman, was playing with 10-year-old Valentina, daughter of a local schoolteacher, on the school grounds when they both saw a bright star-like light suddenly appear in the sky. The light quickly descended towards the witnesses, emitting bright blue, red and yellow flashes of light. They could see a huge round object, the size of a soccer field, that hovered just outside the school perimeter at 40 feet above the ground. Next, a noise like a thunder clap was heard, and a panel opened on the object and a bright beam of light shone down from the object illuminating both of them. Fresia felt a cold wave envelope her body. The beam of light then retreated back into the object and another thunderclap was heard. The object remained above the witnesses for a few more moments in which Fresia again felt a definite change of temperature, and she felt her head was swelling up. Momentarily, she was overcome with a state of complete relaxation, and she felt a prickling sensation invade her entire body. Meanwhile, Valentina felt the same presence and complained of a headache and discomfort in her nose; she was later to suffer from insomnia. They may have experienced missing time and had a brief abduction experience at this time, because they were both found dazed and shivering. As the object moved away towards a nearby cemetery both witnesses felt a slight tremor in the earth. Fresia reported some beneficial aftereffects from the encounter, because a persistent back pain went away, but she also experienced irregularities with her menstrual cycle. She felt also more relaxed and at ease. She would have peculiar "dreams" in which several short dark human-like figures with large heads would approach her and ask her how she was feeling. They reassured her that things were going to improve in her life. She further described the beings as about 1.50 meters in height, wearing thick soled boots. She is convinced that she will see them again some day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), February 2001, p. 29; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3463, citing Ramon Navia Osorio Source ID: Johnson_6990 Source: Johnson ### Event 23563 (49CA3F4D) Date: 10/24/2000 Description: At 7:15 p.m. a witness reported seeing a metallic, cone-shaped in the sky over Medina, Ohio. It had very bright lights and was making a humming noise. Later that night, at 9:45 p.m. MDT in Gila Bend, Arizona, a black, squat, triangular object with no lights, was seen emitting a smoke-like, dark mist or fog. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2000 webpage, reports uploaded December 2, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_7105 Source: Johnson ### Event 23564 (5D8E0D9F) Date: 10/28/2000 Description: At 10:30 a.m. a metallic sphere flew within 30 feet of an apartment building in Portland, Maine. It was in sight for 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2000 webpage, report uploaded December 2, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_7258 Source: Johnson ### Event 23565 (63327EC0) Date: 10/28/2000 Description: Anthony Walsh left his girlfriend's house in Accrington, England at 1:00 a.m. and was walking along Duckworth Street when he heard a sound like a moan and then saw a flash of light that temporarily blinded him. When his vision returned he was inside a capsule-shaped craft. The inside of the capsule was dull and featureless. Inside he was met by a tall being who had no ears nor mouth and a metallic gray hue, but otherwise humanoid in appearance. It had tiny eyes that seemed to penetrate the witness's mind. On one side there was a control panel with shiny knobs, which flashed silver as he approached them. There were no windows or door seals. There was also a constant vibrating hum in the air. In the center of the capsule the abductee saw a large rotating silver cube that seemed to defy gravity. The cube changed color to red, and then some strange symbols became visible. Soon after the incident the witness suffered from severe toothaches and smelled a strong odor like body odor with no known source. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3797, citing UFO Abductions Raw Data Page Source ID: Johnson_7257 Source: Johnson ### Event 23566 (0607487F) Date: 10/29/2000 Description: A powerful-sounding, mystery triangle-shaped craft hovered low over a farmhouse in Unadilla, New York at 11:50 p.m. The vibrations it caused were so strong that they knocked over objects inside the house. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2000 webpage, report uploaded August 16, 2002 Source ID: Johnson_7291 Source: Johnson ### Event 23567 (2A2552E6) Date: 10/30/2000 Description: A huge, round, solid blue light, engulfed in haze or fog was seen by a woman driving on Highway 982 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania at 6:27 p.m. It shot off at high speed into the clear sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Stan Gordon case files Source ID: Johnson_7323 Source: Johnson ### Event 23568 (1BFEB7A7) Date: 10/30/2000 Description: A witness from Pearl, Mississippi reports that at 8:30 p.m. "three of us saw a triangle-shaped craft fly, hover, and then take off very quickly - all this with no sound." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2000 webpage, report uploaded May 24, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_7324 Source: Johnson ### Event 23569 (B3B02F57) Date: 10/31/2000 Description: After sunset. A woman delivering pizzas in Cygnet, Ohio, is stopped along Cygnet Road when she sees an elongated, football-shaped object clearly visible just beyond a thin grove of trees ahead of her. It is slowly moving westward toward and above Interstate 75, which is busy with cars and large trucks. It hovers for a few seconds and turns brighter, then shoots off westward in a streak of light. Two men driving north on I-75 also see the object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John P. Timmerman, “Possible Close Encounter in NW Ohio,” IUR 25, no. 3 \(Fall 2000\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_7341 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23570 (1267DCAB) Date: 11/2000 Description: 7:00 p.m. A retired law enforcement officer and several friends are cooking dinner over an open fire in a wooded area near Elsberry, Missouri, when they see a huge flying wing with white lights on each end. It seems to be flying completely silently at 3,000 feet. They watch it for 30 seconds before it disappears into the southeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_7342 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23571 (294B4AE3) Date: 11/4/2000 Description: Two witnesses near the Del Lago Golf Club north of Vail, Arizona, see a teardrop-shaped object flying at 300 feet. It has multiple lights around its perimeter. They drive toward it, flashing their lights, and the object climbs another 300 feet and moves west along some railroad tracks. Two A-10 Thunderbolt II fighter aircraft appear and try to follow the object, but it accelerates and loses them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Filer, “Arizona Formation of Flying Triangles,” Filer’s Files, \#49-2000 \(December 11, 2000\) Source ID: Eberhart_7343 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23572 (EC5C72FD) Date: 11/4/2000 Description: 8:45 p.m. A family in Scottsdale, Arizona, sees a triangular formation of three bright lights in the southern sky blinking irregularly. The object they are attached to is larger than a commercial airliner that happens to pass by. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Filer, “Arizona Formation of Flying Triangles,” Filer’s Files, \#49-2000 \(December 11, 2000\) Source ID: Eberhart_7344 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23573 (96BD18C8) Date: 11/5/2000 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a red cylindrical UFO, the shape of a 44 gallon drum, with a white band around the middle, was sighted floating in water nearWoody Point, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia just 20 meters away from the witness. It was steady in the water despite the fact that the ocean at the time was quite choppy. The object silently sped off above the water, then shot up, and was gone from view in 5-10 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sheryl Gottschall, UFO Research Queensland website Source ID: Johnson_7484 Source: Johnson ### Event 23574 (C701CF51) Date: 11/13/2000 Description: A black triangle was spotted over a highway in the dark night sky in Denton, Texas at 6:30 p.m. Three ovoid-shaped flying objects, making a ringing noise, were observed for 10 minutes in Canyon, California at 12:01 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2000 webpage, reports uploaded December 2, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_7652 Source: Johnson ### Event 23575 (0587FCCA) Date: 11/20/2000 Description: 8:45 p.m. An 11-year-old boy on the north side of Phoenix, Arizona, watches three dark triangle-shaped objects maneuvering and hovering. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Filer, “Arizona Formation of Flying Triangles,” Filer’s Files, \#49- 2000 \(December 11, 2000\) Source ID: Eberhart_7345 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23576 (C4F578DF) Date: 11/22/2000 Description: At 5:15 p.m. in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho a bright orange-yellow colored object, described as two stories high and with structure underneath, hovered above the observer and did not move away when the witness got closer. The sighting lasted 7 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2000 webpage, report uploaded December 9, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_7823 Source: Johnson ### Event 23577 (CB9E7ABC) Date: 11/23/2000 Description: Several high-quality witnesses in Atlanta, Georgia reported sighting waves of disc-shaped objects that flew against the wind and above the clouds in formations of two to twelve from 9:30 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. At least 50 UFOs were sighted moving toward the north-northeast for a total of about 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2000 archived webpage; George Filer, Filer's Files, 2000, issue # 49 Source ID: Johnson_7860 Source: Johnson ### Event 23578 (BCEF7B3B) Date: 11/25/2000 Description: In Ellisville, Mississippi a witness reported seeing a long, triangle-shaped object with lots of lights moving in the sky at 8:45 p.m., and making no sound when it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November webpage. Source ID: Johnson_7926 Source: Johnson ### Event 23579 (AC4413B0) Date: 11/27/2000 Description: At 7:00 p.m. a 22 meter wide saucer-shaped craft was sighted over a house in a neighborhood in Dalton, Georgia. It tilted and rose, then flew slowly to the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2000 archived webpage, report uploaded December 2, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_7974 Source: Johnson ### Event 23580 (9BE617B1) Date: 11/28/2000 Description: 7:00 p.m. Jason Ingraham sees a flying triangle with a deep red blinking light on each point in Phoenix, Arizona. It moves northwest for about 10 seconds, then it leans to the left and begins to rotate in a clockwise motion. It makes a full rotation before disappearing behind some distant trees. There are 6 normal airplanes in the sky at the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Filer, “Arizona Formation of Flying Triangles,” Filer’s Files, \#49-2000 \(December 11, 2000\) Source ID: Eberhart_7346 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23581 (2230E49E) Date: 11/28/2000 Description: A domed disc-shaped object flew over North Miami Beach, Florida at 6:42 p.m., heading to the west. Three or more nocturnal lights followed the disc, which had both steady and blinking lights on its top. The sighting lasted approximately 40 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, Filer's Files, 2000, issue 48; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18150 Source ID: Johnson_8017 Source: Johnson ### Event 23582 (7B5770CC) Date: 11/28/2000 Description: Several witnesses in Oakville, Ontario, Canada first saw six chevron or V-shaped craft fly and land behind a hill at around nine o'clock in the morning. They went closer to see better and saw eight of the objects, three of them already on the ground. All of the craft appeared to be damaged. Four beings, with light brown skin and large oval-shaped eyes, came out of one of the objects and seemed to inspect their craft. When they turned around and saw the witnesses there next was a loud, piercing noise, causing the witnesses to lose consciousness. When they recovered consciousness, all of the craft had gone, and they discovered several puncture wounds in their skin. After the experience their watches were all four hours behind the correct time. One of the witnesses subsequently suffered from nightmares, when she dreamed she saw similar looking beings inserting needles into her body. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3621, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Nov. 2000 webpage, report uploaded December 20, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_8016 Source: Johnson ### Event 23583 (E982BEB7) Date: 11/29/2000 Description: In Sherwood, Oregon a witness reported seeing a very low flying, quite large object at 3:46 a.m. with five big bright white lights arranged in a V shape, evenly spaced. There were no strobes or colored flashing lights on the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2000 webpage, report uploaded Dec. 2, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_8053 Source: Johnson ### Event 23584 (252BC09C) Date: 11/29/2000 Description: In Newark, Ohio an 11-year-old boy reported to the police that he had seen a five-meter wide, silent round gray object with lights, just over trees at 5:50 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18151, citing Filer's Files Source ID: Johnson_8055 Source: Johnson ### Event 23585 (88C3AAD6) Date: 11/29/2000 Description: On this day a hairy humanoid reportedly attacked an angler in a wooded area near Sampacho, Cordoba State, Argentina, and in the nearby village of Holmberg several students saw a hairy humanoid with sharp claws that scared them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3649, citing OVNICOR Source ID: Johnson_8054 Source: Johnson ### Event 23586 (1EDFF329) Date: 11/30/2000 Description: A farmer on his farm southeast of Lincoln, Nebraska heard his dogs barking loudly at around 7:00 p.m. He looked outside and noticed a very bright light in one of his fields, so he decided to walk out there with his dogs. However, the dogs were afraid and refused to follow him. As he got closer to where the lights were located they suddenly turned off, and he decided to go back to the farm home. When he got back his dogs acted aggressively toward him, as if they didn't recognize him. He then ran upstairs to the second floor and used his binoculars to search the field. He could now see a lighted disc-shaped object on or near the ground, and he was able to see what looked like lighted windows on the object. Next, he noticed movement in a thicket near the disc, and suddenly a figure moved quickly from the thicket to the object. Shortly after this the object brightened and took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18152; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3490, both citing Filer's Files, issue # 49 Source ID: Johnson_8097 Source: Johnson ### Event 23587 (26F7F760) Date: 11/30/2000 Description: The UK Freedom of Information Act 2000 is given royal assent but will not come into full force until 2005. The legislation creates a public “right of access” to information held by public authorities. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Freedom of Information Act 2000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%5Fof%5FInformation%5FAct%5F2000)” Source ID: Eberhart_7347 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23588 (A7A19677) Date: 11/30/2000 Description: At 6:45 p.m. in Galway, New York two lights were seen moving in a circular motion, just above the trees, for several minutes. They then became erratic in their movements. The sighting lasted a total of 5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Nov. 2000 webpage Source ID: Johnson_8096 Source: Johnson ### Event 23589 (27F1FCAD) Date: 12/1/2000 Description: 6:45 p.m. A witness in Avondale, Arizona, sees a bunch of lights in the shape of a triangle to the southeast. Helicopters seem to be flying around it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Filer, “Arizona Formation of Flying Triangles,” Filer’s Files, \#49-2000 \(December 11, 2000\) Source ID: Eberhart_7348 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23590 (F2C89035) Date: 12/2/2000 Description: A witness in Selden, New York viewed a large, dark, silent triangular object with dim steady red lights at the triangle vertices at 10:50 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2000 webpage, report uploaded December 9, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_8150 Source: Johnson ### Event 23591 (DE9544AC) Date: 12/4/2000 Description: The UK Ministry of Defence notes in a “loose minute” that DI55, the space weapons section of the Defence Intelligence Staff, has completed a study of UFO reports, concluding that there is nothing of value in its assessment of “threat weapons systems” and will carry out no further investigations. It will be released in 2006 as the Project Condign report. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK Defence Intelligence Staff, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena \(UAP\): DI55 Report,” December 4, 2000, in David Clarke, comp., [Project Condign documents](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/396201-defe-24-2090-1.html), pp. 46–47; David Clarke and Gary Anthony, “The British MoD Study: Project Condign,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(August 2006\): 7–11 Source ID: Eberhart_7349 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23592 (9134984F) Date: 12/5/2000 Description: Two witnesses in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota reported sighting a dark, triangular object with amber light fly over the city at 7:40 p.m. The craft had a smooth and continuous flight path except for a momentary jog or "twitch" to the left from the object's flight path. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Craig R. Lang, MUFON Minnesota Source ID: Johnson_8222 Source: Johnson ### Event 23593 (CF89A5EC) Date: 12/11/2000 Description: Three formations of UFOs, 25-30 in each, flew slowly at high altitude over Zurish, Switzerland on this evening. They had various golden-yellow and green lights. The formations were in an irregular pattern something like an elongated egg shape. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), April 2001, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_8350 Source: Johnson ### Event 23594 (34AF72D6) Date: 12/13/2000 Description: The witness awoke at 3:55 a.m. in Lake LaBerge, Yukon, Canada to find her bedroom lit up by a series of flashing lights outside her bedroom window, which were accompanied by musical tones. She had headache throughout the next day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey webpage, case 248, citing MUFON Yukon Source ID: Johnson_8386 Source: Johnson ### Event 23595 (A1739B32) Date: 12/13/2000 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a man driving on the Mount Lindsey highway in MacLean, Queensland, Australia saw eight lights about 200 meters away pacing his car. He stopped, and when he did the lights also stopped moveing. Each light was 10-20 meters across and round in shape. They followed him silently for eight kilometers, and when he arrived home he was quite scared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sheryl Gottschall, UFO Research Queensland website, archived reports for 2000 Source ID: Johnson_8385 Source: Johnson ### Event 23596 (6D4874AD) Date: 12/13/2000 Description: 10:00 pm. A group of five people is traveling in a Volkswagen on a dirt road 9 miles from Iturama, Minas Gerais, Brazil—João Caiana, his wife Valdeir Martins, daughter Magui Martins, a 3-year-old granddaughter, and an 18-year-old friend. Some odd colored lights in the sky seem to follow them for 2 miles. Suddenly the interior of the car begins to get hot, and a light gray entity with big eyes approaches them. Everyone loses control and seems to be sucked into a UFO for an abduction scenario. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Laura Maria Elias, “[Caso Caiana:](https://ufo.com.br/artigos/caso-caiana-desdobramentos-de-um-classico-da-ufologia-mineira.html) [Desdobramentos de um clássico de Ufologia Miniera,](https://ufo.com.br/artigos/caso-caiana-desdobramentos-de-um-classico-da-ufologia-mineira.html)” Portal UFO, February 1, 2015; Brazil 393–396 Source ID: Eberhart_7350 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23597 (8E48F445) Date: 12/17/2000 Description: At 10:35 a.m. a 50 foot wide saucer-shaped object was seen by a mother and daughter on the ground east of Blanca, Colorado on the Trinchera Ranch in the San Luis Valley. A humanoid was seen outside of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Christopher O'Brien, Christopher O'Brien case files, case # 640 Source ID: Johnson_8479 Source: Johnson ### Event 23598 (9B9C58BA) Date: 12/17/2000 Description: At 6:00 p.m. a glowing yellow disc-shaped object was seen for 12 minutes north of San Francisco Bay in Sebastopol, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2000 webpage, report uploaded Dec. 20, 2000 Source ID: Johnson_8480 Source: Johnson ### Event 23599 (82AF3640) Date: 12/19/2000 Description: 6:10 a.m. Reporter Alfondo Reyes is observing the eruption of Popocatépetl southeast of Mexico City, Mexico, and taking time-exposure photographs. On one 20-second exposure he catches a bright luminous object that contrasts with the smoke of the eruption and seems to make a turn toward the crater. He does not actually see the object and only discovers it after the photo is developed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[UFOs Photographed over Erupting](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/popo.htm) [Mexico Volcano](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/popo.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7351 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23600 (17E2E408) Date: 12/23/2000 Description: At 4:30 p.m. a silver cigar-shaped object was sighted travelling low, and moving at great speed in Zumbrota, Minnesota. It was seen by a witness while driving on US Hwy 52 in southeastern Minnesota. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2000 webpage, report uploaded January 17, 2004 Source ID: Johnson_8578 Source: Johnson ### Event 23601 (D01B97CD) Date: 12/24/2000 Description: 7:00 p.m. A woman living in the Baranówka neighborhood of Rzeszów, Poland, sees a light outside her window on the 4th floor of an apartment building. It makes unusual maneuvers like a figure-8 and zigzags, and is joined by another light that flies at a constant speed. Both are about 5 feet in diameter. She snaps two motion-blur photos with her Minolta that shows an object hovering above the apartment block opposite her. The second object approaches the first one and they fly away together. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 151–153 Source ID: Eberhart_7352 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23602 (3773E24E) Date: 12/31/2000 Description: A bedroom visitation of possibly a holographic figure occurred at four o’clock in the morning in Kingsville, Texas. The witness reported that a humanoid figure and a blue light passed through a skylight and materialized inside the bedroom. The figure and the blue light disappeared at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case #3516, citing Filer’s Files Source ID: Johnson_8684 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 2001 (Back to Top) ### Event 23603 (C119BC7C) Date: 2001 Description: [Gérard Brachet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard%5FBrachet)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard%5FBrachet) the new director of CNES, decides to audit SEPRA. It is conducted by an outsider, [François](http://www.ipaco.fr/page38.html) [Louange](http://www.ipaco.fr/page38.html)[,](http://www.ipaco.fr/page38.html) an expert in photoanalysis who has participated in UFO studies at CNES. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7353 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23604 (0BEFE97F) Date: 1/1/2001 Description: At shortly after midnight several motorists reported sighting five discs flying along the western shore of North Island, New Zealand near New Plymouth. One of the UFOs paced a car, hovering 100 feet overhead of the vehicle, causing radio static. The UFO changed color from orange to violet as it flew. After several minutes the UFOs formed into a linear formation and flew off rapidly to the south. A silent orange object was videotaped over Deception Bay, Queensland, Australia that evening, moving from the southeast to the northwest. The video appears to show a dozen windows on the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), April 2001, p. 20; Sheryl Gottschall, UFO Research Queensland website Source ID: Johnson_23 Source: Johnson ### Event 23605 (6EC825C3) Date: 1/1/2001 Description: 12:01 a.m. Five people driving along Highway 3 south of New Plymouth, New Zealand, spot an orange object about 30–50 feet in diameter pacing their car 100 feet above them. They pull over to watch and see three similar objects hovering and swaying around. They look like they are changing color from metallic glowing orange to metallic deep purple and shades of blue. One more larger object appears on the horizon and speeds toward the other four. Each seems to react in a way similar to an army unit and forms a line and disappears almost instantly to the south. As they leave several minutes later, they realize they haven’t seen any traffic for 30 minutes and only see some as they enter New Plymouth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Filer, “New Zealand Discs Start New Millennium,” Filer’s Files, \#2-2001 \(January 9, 2001\) Source ID: Eberhart_7354 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23606 (5F7EF864) Date: 1/2/2001 Description: A bright round light approached a family traveling in a car on a road in Corralito, Argentina in the early morning hours. The UFO halted, backed up, rose to the height of some power lines parallel to the road, and then paced the car. It responded to the flashing of the car headlights by “turning off.” A local power failure was reported at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), April 2001, p. 20, citing Filer’s Files Source ID: Johnson_42 Source: Johnson ### Event 23607 (FE7BA236) Date: 1/5/2001 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a lemon-shaped object was seen "swinging back and forth" over Kelowna, British Columbia. After a few minutes it then moved to a higher altitude. The sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 8, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_155 Source: Johnson ### Event 23608 (BCF3C8A6) Date: 1/5/2001 Description: A self-luminous white cigar-shaped object with a luminous trail, hopped forward in flight slowly behind a mountain in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada at 10:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 10, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_154 Source: Johnson ### Event 23609 (351CC300) Date: 1/5/2001 Description: At 6:45 a.m. a 50-year-old high school teacher on his way to work in East St. Louis, Illinois got a good look at a silent, arrow-shaped UFO in Frank Holton Park, juat as the sun was coming up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 211 Source ID: Johnson_153 Source: Johnson ### Event 23610 (072D34DA) Date: 1/5/2001 Description: 10:30 a.m. A white, “self-lit” cigar-shaped object with a small vapor trail is seen at Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Its hops forward in its progress through the sky before it moves out of view behind a mountain. It returns and flies back again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_7355 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23611 (B75880BB) Date: 1/11/2001 Description: A widespread power outage accompanied by radio interference occurred in Sao Vicente, Sao Paulo State, Brazil at 3:30 a.m. when a large disc-shaped object flew over, heading southeast toward the sea. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 6, no. 4, citing Praia Grande Picares; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18157 Source ID: Johnson_269 Source: Johnson ### Event 23612 (60D3AC57) Date: 1/14/2001 Description: Late afternoon. Witnesses on both sides of the hill see a small object appear to strike the telecommunications mast on top of Snaefell, Isle of Man. Two women on horseback see a 20-foot-long object that crashes in a shower of sparks and smoke. The emergency services think a small plane has crashed, because they have lost power and are using a backup generator. As light fades, however, helicopter crews can see damage to the mast, but no sign of wreckage. The UK government blames a model aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Mysterious Island: The UFO Legacy of the Isle of Man,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_7356 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23613 (3363D174) Date: 1/20/2001 End date: 1/20/2009 Description: President George W. Bush in office Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_806 Source: Maj2 ### Event 23614 (7F7B942B) Date: 1/22/2001 Description: 12:30 a.m. Barnaul Airport in Altai Krai, Russia, shuts down after a slightly tilted, oscillating, disc-shaped object is detected hovering above its runway. The crew of an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane refuses to take off, claiming they can see a luminous object. An incoming Yakovlev Yak-40 passenger plane also sees an object at Barnaul and lands at another airport. Sergei Kurennoi, the chief airspace controller at Barnaul, sees the object at an elevation of 15°–20º above the horizon above the end of the track. With his binoculars, he distinguishes a solid structure that radiates light of various colors \(red, green, purple\). Nothing is tracked on radar. The UFO noiselessly takes off to the northwest, changes direction to the southwest, and vanishes after 90 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[UFO Shuts Down Russian Airport](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/afp270100.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7357 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23615 (22A88B18) Date: 1/23/2001 Description: A driver in Salisbury, North Carolina felt a strange presence while driving at 8:00 p.m., and looked up to see a saucer directly above the car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2001 webpage, report uploaded Oct. 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_471 Source: Johnson ### Event 23616 (7097EF34) Date: 1/23/2001 Description: A huge silver cylindrical object with "falling leaf motion" was seen over Vancouver, British Columbia at nine o'clock in the morning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 31, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_470 Source: Johnson ### Event 23617 (95D15365) Date: 1/24/2001 Description: On this evening a luminous object hovered over Canyon Lake in Comal County, Texas. Spotlights of the Army Corp of Engineers dam facility lit up the low flying object. Four helicopters appeared and attempted to surround the object, according to the married couple who witnessed it. The UFO maneuvered away, the vanished. After the helicopters departed two more UFOs appeared and returned to the site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), April 2001, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_502 Source: Johnson ### Event 23618 (D8B3C039) Date: 1/25/2001 Description: In the UK House of Lords, [Peter Hill-Norton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FHill-Norton) asks the Ministry of Defence what is the “highest classification that has been applied in any MoD document concerning UFOs.” Its reply is: “A limited search through available titles has identified a number of documents graded Secret. The overall classification of the documents was not dictated by details of specific sightings of UFOs.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke and Gary Anthony, “The British MoD Study: Project Condign,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(August 2006\): 32 Source ID: Eberhart_7358 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23619 (37F7380B) Date: 1/26/2001 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a cone-shaped UFO was sighted in the South Waikato area of New Zealand by 12. There were independent reports to the Auckland Observatory at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2001 webpage Source ID: Johnson_538 Source: Johnson ### Event 23620 (06F7B0A6) Date: 1/26/2001 Description: In Oceanside, California a triangular shaped object, 50 feet in diameter and at only 300 feet altitude, was reported flying at a speed of 25 mph. It was a dark camoflage-green color, and was shaped like a tall slice of pie. It had two 10 foot wide white pods on the underside. It was in view for 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2001 webpage Source ID: Johnson_539 Source: Johnson ### Event 23621 (AD86D47E) Date: 1/29/2001 Description: At 12:15 p.m. a resident of the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil reported that first everything froze on the street. Then a UFO appeared overhead with multicolored lights--white, blue and red--spinning on the underside. A door in the object opened, and a tall being with long skinny arms, a skinny body, and a large head appeared in view. The door quickly shut, and the object shot away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doug Moffett, Australasian Ufologist, April 2002, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_594 Source: Johnson ### Event 23622 (7E4103E6) Date: 1/31/2001 Description: 3:30 p.m. As many as 10 witnesses observe two cigar-shaped “shining lights” in the sky, hanging motionless over the horizon at Gjoa Haven, Nunavut. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_7359 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23623 (6F218AC2) Date: 1/31/2001 Description: The entire USAF Solid State Phased Array Radar System goes into operation at five units worldwide including Beale AFB near Marysville, California; Cape Cod Air Force Station in Massachusetts; Clear Air Force Station, Alaska; RAF Fylingdales in north Yorkshire, England; and Thule Airbase in Greenland. These radars are designed primarily to detect ICBM or sea-launched cruise missiles directed at the US. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Solid State](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid%5FState%5FPhased%5FArray%5FRadar%5FSystem) [Phased Array Radar System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid%5FState%5FPhased%5FArray%5FRadar%5FSystem)” Source ID: Eberhart_7360 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23624 (A0EB50B3) Date: 2/2001 Description: French ufologist Dominique Weinstein creates a massive catalogue of 1,305 UFO sightings by pilots from 1916 to 2000. She finds that 606 cases \(36.7%\) are sightings by military pilots and crews; 444 cases \(26.9%\) are by civilian pilots; and 196 cases \(11.8%\) are by private pilots. In 200 cases \(12.1%\) the visual observation is confirmed by on-board or ground radar. And in 57 cases \(3.45%\) the pilots note electromagnetic effects on one or more of the plane’s transmission systems. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dominique F. Weinstein, “[Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Eighty](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d02eb46935aac0001690f62/1560472408972/narcap%5Frevised%5Ftr-4.pdf) [Years of Pilot Sightings, a Catalog of Military, Airliner, and Private Pilots Sightings from 1916 to 2000,](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d02eb46935aac0001690f62/1560472408972/narcap%5Frevised%5Ftr-4.pdf)” National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena, February 2001 Source ID: Eberhart_7361 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23625 (4B1A8FF5) Date: 2/9/2001 Description: At around 8 p.m. two campers in Villa Frontera near Arica, Chile spotted a UFO hovering over a group of 10 white-robed cultists, who were holding hands and chanting. The UFO bathed the ground in a powerful light. The next day cell phones in the area would not work, and the witnesses complained of headaches, stomachaches, back pain, and dizziness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 54, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, March 15, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_789 Source: Johnson ### Event 23626 (19B76BEC) Date: 2/19/2001 Description: At 6:48 p.m. a very slow moving, silent, triangular formation of lights flew over Irwin, Pennsylvania, causing some radio interference. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2001 webpage, report uploaded Feb. 24, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_1015 Source: Johnson ### Event 23627 (87DE04AA) Date: 2/23/2001 Description: On this day a metallic disc made numerous zig-zags, wobbles, and sawtooth maneuvers over a farm in Santena, Piemonte, Italy. It made no sound as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18159, citing Revista Info UFO, issue #23 Source ID: Johnson_1072 Source: Johnson ### Event 23628 (9267ED7F) Date: 2/27/2001 Description: Three discs with lights flew over Becket, Massachusetts on this evening. One changed color from white to red and hovered over a pond. They appeared to be chasing each other. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joe Zalgenas, www.ufopage.com website, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_1169 Source: Johnson ### Event 23629 (982EB584) Date: 2/27/2001 Description: A triangular object with lights on apexes, and red, blue, and green lights on back surface flew over Irricana, Alberta, Canada making a low humming sound. The sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case 54, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_1168 Source: Johnson ### Event 23630 (F912E696) Date: 3/1/2001 Description: A low-flying upright symmetrical disc-shaped craft, rotating like a wheel, moved slowly and silently over the town of Clarion, Pennsylvania and continued east-northeast. It was in view for about a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2001 webpage, report uploaded December 7, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_1236 Source: Johnson ### Event 23631 (4FA8AF4A) Date: 3/11/2001 Description: 6:30 p.m. An irregularly shaped object like a cluster of red spheres flies against the wind above a witness in Calgary, Alberta, who manages to take a photograph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_7362 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23632 (5B8B0E0B) Date: 3/26/2001 Description: At 9:35 p.m. EDT a very large, multicolored triangular object with two very bright lights on the front and a reddish looking light on the bottom center was seen over Durham, North Carolina. An extremely large cigar-shaped craft with two flashing lights on each end, which the witness estimated to be at least 200 yards long, was sighted over Valentine, Nebraska at 9:00 p.m. CDT Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded April 1, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_1686 Source: Johnson ### Event 23633 (0CCEACA5) Date: 3/26/2001 Description: At 7:20 a.m. there was a UFO sighting of a flying disc in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The local TV stations had close up photos. At 7:30 a.m. a huge, brilliant metallic sphere or disc-shaped object paced a T-33 trainer with a military pilot at a distance while in flight over La Paz, Bolivia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18162, citing Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_1685 Source: Johnson ### Event 23634 (9D8B5B97) Date: 3/30/2001 Description: Dogs bark/howl during aurora display (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [010330](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-010330.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Nipomo, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5884 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23635 (D60D2C38) Date: 4/1/2001 Description: 10:30 p.m. Farm manager George Hofer and several children from the Rosedale Hutterite Brethren Colony near Etzikom, Alberta, see a brilliant fireball falling and apparently striking the Earth only a few miles away. On April 16, Ken Masson, who farms 13 miles south of Etzikom, discovers a circular, crater-like formation on his land. On May 1, Pano Karkanis of the University of Lethbridge Department of Geography visits the site, interviews the witnesses, measures the crater, and takes soil samples. The crater is 6 inches deep, with an inside diameter of 7.9 feet, surrounded by a mound of dirt 16 inches high. He notes four indentations inside the circle that he suspects are caused by rainwater. The dirt inside is cracked and sere, and he finds some odd reddish-brown particles of dirt on the mound. He concludes the crater was formed by a meteorite fragment that vaporized, leaving only the reddish-brown particles. Meteorite impact expert [Alan Hildebrand](https://science.ucalgary.ca/geoscience/contacts/alan-hildebrand) the University of Calgary doubts the crater was made by a meteorite. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 204–206 Source ID: Eberhart_7363 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23636 (306C650D) Date: 4/23/2001 Description: At 4:10 p.m. in Caronno Pertusella, Piedmont, Italy two residents saw a luminous domed disc fly over the city off to the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18166, citing Rivista Info Ufologia, issue # 23 Source ID: Johnson_2268 Source: Johnson ### Event 23637 (EE1F05BE) Date: 4/23/2001 Description: A man in Salmon Arm, British Columbia awoke to a noise outside his door late at night and saw a blue glow enter his bedroom. He next heard a loud buzzing sound, and then his entire body went completely tingly and numb and he was overcome by an intense sensation of fear. He found himself unable to move or speak. At this point he noticed two short shadowy figures that had appeared, almost dancing around his bed, while he was attempting to move. He managed to blurt out "get out" and the figures and the light vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2001, case 105; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_2267 Source: Johnson ### Event 23638 (784AEA64) Date: 4/25/2001 Description: At 6:10 p.m. a small silver cone-shaped object was seen in the sky over Ajax, Ontario during daylight hours. It had no wings, and flew from the southwest to northwest for 15 to 20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case 107, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2318 Source: Johnson ### Event 23639 (25324F53) Date: 4/25/2001 Description: On this evening a very strange object was reported by civilians and law enforcement officers in Waynesville, Ohio. From their home a husband and wife were the first to report a circular lighted object hovering silently in the southern sky. The big light on the UFO, pulsating and changing in both color and brightness, was encased within a structure that resembled gridwork. The couple called the Lebanon City Police Department around 10:15 p.m. and the Warren County Communications Center dispatched a Waynesville police officer to the location. Upon arrival at the scene the officer confirmed the presence of the object and also reported that a second UFO was also in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: www.nicap.org 2001 UFO Chronology, citing Kenny Young Source ID: Johnson_2319 Source: Johnson ### Event 23640 (419A0468) Date: 4/25/2001 Description: In the evening a huge ball of light forty feet above the ground was seen by residents in Scartaglin, Ireland. It moved away giving off blue, yellow and green flashes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 103, citing People, April 29, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_2320 Source: Johnson ### Event 23641 (01B245DE) Date: 4/25/2001 Description: In San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico a bright light was witnessed following a cylindrical nose near the ground at 7:00 p.m. It moving linearly southward without making a noise or leaving a trail. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2001 webpage Source ID: Johnson_2321 Source: Johnson ### Event 23642 (507AE6D9) Date: 4/25/2001 Description: At 10:50 p.m. a dark triangle-shaped object with four lights was sighted by a single witness in Powell River, British Columbia travelling from west to east at high speed. The sighting lasted five seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case 106, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2322 Source: Johnson ### Event 23643 (5BB2267E) Date: 4/26/2001 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a huge V-shaped UFO with white lights on the leading edge defining the boomerang outline, flew directly overhead in Salt Ash, New South Wales, Australia. A minute later, single lights began arcing in one direction, then the other. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 105 Source ID: Johnson_2357 Source: Johnson ### Event 23644 (66B3CBE3) Date: 4/26/2001 Description: In Mount Gambier, South Australia at 7:00 p.m. there was a procession of orange/red fireballs that passed from west to east. The second followed the first at a 5 minute interval, then 20 minutes passed before the third object, and then five minutes again until the fourth one passed. They all travelled beneath the cloud line. One went out completely, while the others faded in the distance. At 7:45 p.m. there was another procession of objects. Another object was seen in the sky, then another one 5-6 minutes later, then a third one came from the northwest direction, which moved east toward Victoria. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Doug Moffett, Australasian Ufologist, April 2002, p. 37 Source ID: Johnson_2356 Source: Johnson ### Event 23645 (9A3A522D) Date: 4/30/2001 Description: At around 3:00 a.m. a night watchman in Caronno Pertusella, Italy saw a domed disc-shaped UFO become a cigar shaped object, then zigzag away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #17837, citing CISU Source ID: Johnson_2433 Source: Johnson ### Event 23646 (B81153C6) Date: 5/2001 Description: Christian Morgenthaler founds the Sciences et Phénomènes Insolites du Ciel et de l’Aéronautique in Odratzheim, Bas-Rhin, France. It publishes the SPICA News from January 2002 to December 2010. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [SPICA News](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/France/SPICA/SPICA%20-%20No%2001%20-%202002%20Janvier.pdf), no. 1 \(January 2002\) Source ID: Eberhart_7364 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23647 (8DC12611) Date: 5/1/2001 Description: A bizarre hairy creature was sighted in the village of Anand Vihar, India on this night. Hundreds of villagers armed with farm tools as weapons searched for hours in an attempt to hunt it down and kill it, but the search failed to find anything. On the same night three workers claimed they were woken up and attacked by a"masked man", who reportedly threatened to kill them in the Bhojpuri language. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2001 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Mystery Magazine.com Source ID: Johnson_2450 Source: Johnson ### Event 23648 (AB84A6B2) Date: 5/2/2001 Description: In Rosario, Argentina a woman, "M" found herself being lifted into a whirlwind at two o'clock in the morning, presumably from her bedroom, but she doesn't know how she got outdoors. She was oriented vertically as she floated upwards, and was able to move her arms and look around as she did so.

She approached a powerful light that seemed to emanate from a hole in the sky. She then noticed three humanoids floating next to her, who accompany her through the orifice. Looking down, she could see the roof of her house, then watched as the house became smaller, and then the city of Rosario itself faded into the distance. As she continued to ascend into the sky she fell asleep, but an intense cold wave woke her up and she heard what sounded like a metallic hatch closing.

She noticed she had a dark room through a hexagonal opening. As her eyesight adjusted noticed that she was in an immense room with about 20 floating cots, each with a human figure on them. To her right she noticed her 45-year-old sister asleep on one of the cots. She also recalled seeing a black skinned man lying about 4 cots away. In the background she could hear a low steady snoring sound. She began to hear what appeared to be low "voices" that spoke very quickly among themselves. Almost at the same time three humanoids approached her. They were about 1.60 meters tall, very thin, with elongated hairless heads, two small holes for noses, and cat-like eyes that glowed a bluish-gray color. Their hands had three large fingers connected by a membrane and a separate finger or thumb. Their bodies were of a beige-pale color and appeared very flexible, almost gelatinous. They possessed small mouths and what appeared to be a small protuberance on top of their heads.

She sensed there were both females and males present but could not see any sexual features. At this point she sensed desperation from the beings as if their time was short because their species was unable to reproduce. One of the beings seemed to measure her cranium with a thin tube about 30 cm in length that emitted a beam of light from the tip. As the tube or bar was passed over her head she felt a slight sensation of warmth. She also sensed that the aliens had chosen Earth for a reproduction staging area, acquiring the necessary materials, which were human genetic materials from both genders.

She could hear other thoughts or speech in her mind and felt that the beings talked about her and about her knowledge. At this point another one of the beings seemed to measure her face from ear to ear at the same time telling her via telepathy that everything was going to be fine. The witness felt that the aliens needed human bodies as some kind of breeding "container" for their own survival purposes.

She became terrified as the three humanoids approached her to touch her. She asked them if they are spiritual beings and they answer yes, but she felt it was only an attempt to manipulate her mind. One of the humanoids attempted to touch her breasts but she pushed his arm aside and noticed that it had a gummy texture with no apparent bone structure. On her descent back to her home she remembered seeing images of famous persons flash around her, including John F. Kennedy, Adolph Hitler, and Judy Garland. She woke up in her bed with her concerned husband attempting to calm her down. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2001 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Horacio Roberto, Nuevos Tiempos, Argentina Source ID: Johnson_2461 Source: Johnson ### Event 23649 (1D171888) Date: 5/3/2001 Description: In the UK House of Lords, [Peter Hill-Norton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FHill-Norton) asks the Ministry of Defence why the UFO documents it referred to in January were classified secret. Its answer is, “One document was classified ‘Secret’ with a ‘UK Eyes Only’ caveat because it contained information about the UK air defence ground environment that could be of significant value to hostile or potentially hostile states. Associated correspondence was given the same classification. Generally, however, notifications of and correspondence on the subject of UFO sightings are unclassified.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke and Gary Anthony, “The British MoD Study: Project Condign,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(August 2006\): 32 Source ID: Eberhart_7365 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23650 (D7104EC8) Date: 5/4/2001 Description: "We saw a silver, shiny object shooting through the sky on a summer afternoon," reported a witness from Fairfield, Connecticut. The object was disc shaped and the sighting was brief. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2001 webpage, report uploaded July 16, 2003 Source ID: Johnson_2525 Source: Johnson ### Event 23651 (247E4393) Date: 5/5/2001 Description: On this evening in Southampton, Hampshire, England a police helicopter flew around a UFO twice before the object faded out and disappeared. There was a lengthy investigation into the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Gary Heseltine, Police UFO Reports, case # 172 Source ID: Johnson_2568 Source: Johnson ### Event 23652 (A69D16E4) Date: 5/6/2001 Description: At 7:30 p.m. several shiny orange dots were seen above the mountains in the sunset in Sussex, New Jersey; some were spots, but some were disk shaped. All sank below the horizon or just vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 1; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2001 webpage, report uploaded August 5, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_2605 Source: Johnson ### Event 23653 (F3145AA0) Date: 5/6/2001 Description: At 11:15 p.m. a security guard and a friend in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina sighted a dark, unlit triangle craft escorted by four helicopters. Seen by security officer and friend for 5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 73 Source ID: Johnson_2606 Source: Johnson ### Event 23654 (0CB530DA) Date: 5/7/2001 Description: A man in Peterborough, Ontario reported seeing a huge black triangular shaped craft fly overhead at 10:10 p.m. He reportedly heard a "message" in his head. He also reported that he experienced some "missing time." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_2642 Source: Johnson ### Event 23655 (543B0956) Date: 5/9/2001 Description: Twenty government workers from military and civilian organizations speak about their experiences regarding UFOs and UFO confidentiality at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The press conference is initiated by [Steven M. Greer,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FM.%5FGreer) founder of the Disclosure Project, which has the goal of disclosing alleged government UFO secrecy. The purpose of the press conference is to build public pressure through the media to obtain a hearing before the US Congress on the issue. Aerospace illustrator [Mark McCandlish](http://markmccandlish.com/) testifies that gravity control propulsion research started in the 1950s and successfully reverse engineered the vehicle retrieved from the Roswell, New Mexico, crash site to build three Alien Reproduction Vehicles \(ARVs\) by 1981. McCandlish describes their propulsion systems in terms of [Thomas Townsend Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FTownsend%5FBrown)’s gravitators and provides a line drawing of its interior. The diagram closely resembles the drawing provided earlier in [Milton William Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%5FWilliam%5FCooper)’s book Behold a Pale Horse. Another Disclosure Project whistleblower, [Philip J. Corso,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FJ.%5FCorso) states in his book The Day after Roswell that the craft retrieved from the second crash site at Roswell had a propulsion system resembling Brown’s gravitators. Corso’s book also features several gravity control propulsion statements made by [Hermann Oberth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%5FOberth)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%5FOberth) Although major American media outlets report on the conference, interest quickly dies down, and no hearing takes place. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Group Calls for Disclosure of UFO Info,](https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98572&page=1)” ABC News, May 10, 2001; “[UFO Spotters Slam ‘US](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1322432.stm) [Cover-Up,’](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1322432.stm)” BBC News, May 10, 2001; Jean-Pierre Petit, “[I Have a Doubt about ‘Disclosure,’](http://www.jp-petit.org/Disclosure/disclosure%5Fa%5Fdoubt.htm)” March 19, 2003; Wikipedia, “[United States gravity control propulsion research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5Fgravity%5Fcontrol%5Fpropulsion%5Fresearch\#UFO%5Fand%5Fconspiracy%5Ftheories)” Source ID: Eberhart_7366 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23656 (C03294B6) Date: 5/12/2001 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a long, silver, shiny cylindrical object without wings was sighted at 45 degrees elevation in Cleveland, Ohio. It was moving horizontally just above the power lines. It left no vapor trail, and moved much faster than the Goodyear Blimp, which is often seen in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 119 Source ID: Johnson_2782 Source: Johnson ### Event 23657 (26B6394F) Date: 5/17/2001 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a Ph.D., his wife and their three children in Ames, Iowa witnessed a huge, silent triangular craft with bright, blinking, strobing and pulsing white lights. The craft took three minutes to cross the sky. Using binoculars, they checked details on the huge, nearby object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 75, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2945 Source: Johnson ### Event 23658 (DF6A90EC) Date: 5/19/2001 Description: At 2:17 p.m. on a Saturday, two people in Palatine, Illinois saw a metallic, cigar-shaped object that was extremely high above scattered clouds. "It flew directly over us and gleamed in the sun, as it was moving at a very high speed," reported the witness. It was an elongated oval, looking somewhat like a missile. The sighting lasted from 2-3 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 120, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2995 Source: Johnson ### Event 23659 (41957672) Date: 5/24/2001 Description: A silver cigar shaped object landed on a rural road in Ionia, Michigan at 4:30 a.m. It ascended and hit in some trees when a car approached, then flew off at 70 mph to the west, crossing the road. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18168 Source ID: Johnson_3076 Source: Johnson ### Event 23660 (FE7BD7FD) Date: Early 6/2001 Description: A Hellfire missile is successfully launched from an MQ-1A Predator drone on a replica of [Osama bin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama%5Fbin%5FLaden) [Laden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama%5Fbin%5FLaden)’s Afghanistan Tarnak residence in Area 51, Nevada. A missile launched from a Predator explodes inside one of the replica’s rooms; it is concluded that any people in the room would have been killed. However, the armed Predator does not go into action before the September 11 attacks. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[General Atomics MQ-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%5FAtomics%5FMQ-1%5FPredator) [Predator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%5FAtomics%5FMQ-1%5FPredator)” Source ID: Eberhart_7367 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23661 (D1926D0E) Date: 6/2/2001 Description: At 6 p.m. a flat, black V-shaped object, with no lights or sound, was suspended in the sky over Wayne, New Jersey. It slowly rotated in place. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, webpage posted August 5, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_3238 Source: Johnson ### Event 23662 (30B4D844) Date: 6/23/2001 Description: 9:45 p.m. Three witnesses are sitting in their yard in Fernandina Beach, Florida, when they see a bright white light with a bluish tinge descend and hover about 2,000 feet due east of them above the ocean. After one minute it emits a mist from three points on its underside so that it appears to be sitting on a cloud. Then it emits mist from its upper area and becomes enshrouded with the light shining through. Then the light blinks off, leaving only a cloud that stands there for about one minute. It disappears 5–10 seconds afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, February 11, 2003; Nukes 506–507 Source ID: Eberhart_7368 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23663 (5BBFBE8F) Date: 6/28/2001 Description: Power went out in Bucharest, Romania at 4:10 a.m. when lights flew over the city. An eleven meter long ovoid object was seen emitting a cold, white light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #18173, citing Filers' Files, Vol. 1, No. 28 Source ID: Johnson_3722 Source: Johnson ### Event 23664 (E791BF7A) Date: 6/30/2001 Description: 10:30 p.m. Electrical power goes off in the small village of Năneşti, Romania, even though the lights in neighboring villages are still on. A number of witnesses notice a red, round ball moving slowly in the air. When it stops it begins to spin, turning into a rotating segmented ring of pale yellow light. The ring becomes larger in diameter, coming closer to the ground where it gets as large as 600 feet in diameter. After a short period of time it climbs again, still rotating but shrinking and turning into a red dot that moves around in the sky until it starts rotating again and repeating the cycle some 8–20 times over the course of 45 minutes. Some witnesses see it as a dark red cloud lit from inside by squares of light. The display ceases sometime after midnight and the power returns mysteriously at around 2:00 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 70–73 Source ID: Eberhart_7369 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23665 (3BD02EAC) Date: 7/1/2001 Description: Odete Fortini was standing on the verandah of her house in Paracambi, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil on this night when she observed a ball of light approach and land about 200 meters away. When the light dimmed she could see that it was a disc-shaped object with a cupola on top and several small windows around its circumference. In the center of the object a door opened, and two one-meter tall humanoids stepped out. They appeared to be interested in the vegetation around the object. After a few minutes of investigation, they re-entered the object, which became bright again and took off at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET Source ID: Johnson_3781 Source: Johnson ### Event 23666 (EA3E1737) Date: 7/1/2001 Description: On this evening a couple riding bikes in a wooded area of Palmerston, Ontario, Canada observed a group of tall humanoid beings covered with brown hair. They seemed to be holding or carrying unusual devices. The hairy beings fled into the woods when they noticed the witnesses. Around the same time there were numerous reports of low flying glowing orange disc-shaped UFOs over the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Unknown Country & CAUS Source ID: Johnson_3780 Source: Johnson ### Event 23667 (8A47E9DA) Date: 7/1/2001 Description: On the same night eight-year-old Zeca Borba of Guaraja-Mirim, Para State, Brazil reported encountering and communicating with a short bluish-skinned humanoid with a large head and big eyes. The humanoid carried something that looked like a cane, and wore a silvery helmet. After 30 minutes the humanoid boarded a triangular shaped object, which quickly disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET Source ID: Johnson_3782 Source: Johnson ### Event 23668 (1FAC8F13) Date: 7/2/2001 Description: On this night Jose Da Silva in Canatuma, Amazonas State, Brazil saw a large disc-shaped object with several windows and a small doorway into which two two-meter tall humanoids were seen to enter. Immediately after boarding, the object began to spin very rapidly and rose slowly from the ground. It then emitted a sudden bright flash of light from the top section, and vanished in front of the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET Source ID: Johnson_3795 Source: Johnson ### Event 23669 (9C1AC499) Date: 7/4/2001 Description: Art Bell interviews Linda Moulton Howe, Philip J. Corso, and Bill Birnes were interviewed live in Roswell, NM, about the infamous UFO crash in 1947. Type: interview Reference: [link](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2016-11-05-art/) Location: Roswell, NM Source ID: Maj2_807 Source: Maj2 ### Event 23670 (17D6C1CA) Date: 7/7/2001 Description: In Battle Creek, Michigan a spinning diamond-shaped object made a whizzing noise as it flew over at a high velocity at 1:08 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2001 archived webpage, report uploaded on August 5, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_3918 Source: Johnson ### Event 23671 (0B28BF34) Date: 7/7/2001 Description: At 10:15 p.m. in Missoula, Montana a set of flashing mulitcolored lights was seen on a hilltop. They dip behind hill and reappear as rectangular strobing craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2001 archived webpage, report uploaded on August 5, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_3919 Source: Johnson ### Event 23672 (CFDC0530) Date: 7/9/2001 Description: 11:30 p.m. A man and his daughter watch six orange, oval objects flying in a V-formation toward the west at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_7370 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23673 (357D6F5E) Date: 7/14/2001 End date: 7/15/2001 Description: Evening–night. Dozens of Staten Islanders and residents of Carteret, New Jersey, observe lights in the southwestern sky on a clear, cloudless night. The lights appear in various formations at about 45° above the horizon. Witnesses view the scene from Arthur Kill Road and the West Shore Expressway on the New York side. The Waterloo Cafe, located opposite the Blazing Star Burial Ground on Arthur Kill Road, provides the most significant witnesses. The consensus of their testimonies reveals a series of lights, numbering from 4–5 to as many as 16–20, bright orange or orange-red in hue, and appearing as solid round objects. Witnesses number about 50, including the owner of the cafe, but not all come forward. Those who do, agree that there was no sound emanating from the lights, and no one can see any wings. The lights are often no more than 1,000 feet in the air, often described as flying in an inverted V-shaped configuration. Unknown targets without transponders, some at heights of 99,000 feet, are picked up on radar at Newark International Airport. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dennis K. Anderson, “The Arthur Kill Sightings, July 14–15, 2001,” IUR 28, no. 2 \(Summer 2003\): 3–6, 26–27 Source ID: Eberhart_7371 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23674 (7D69742A) Date: 7/15/2001 Description: Independent witnesses reported a large flying triangle in Carteret and Sayerville, New Jersey. A first witness at 12:15 a.m. reported V-shaped formations of lights hovering, and then fading out one by one. Another witness saw a large flying triangle heading for Carteret. Other witnesses, further south along the New Jersey Turnpike, saw airline flights heading to Newark Airport apparently being diverted because of the presence of UFOs in the early morning hours between 12:25 and 12:55 a.m. Unconfirmed reports indicate that radars in the New York area picked up a series of anomalous targets at same time. These targets roughly matched the ground witnesses' testimony of seeing lights over the New Jersey Turnpike. Dozens of cars came to a stop on the NJ Turnpike to watch the lights as they passed overhead. The Carteret case is significant because it occurred the day after a successful US antimissile test in the Pacific. Carteret is only ten miles from New York City, and numerous police and firefighters took video of the event which was shown on many television broadcasts. New York radar operators indicated that dozens of anomalous targets were racing around the area. According to MUFON field investigator and pilot Bob Durant, "In the short time the lights were displayed on screen, it was obvious that they were moving right to left at a slow but deliberate angular velocity. There was no relative movement among the lights. The top of a house or building, and possibly a chimney on a house, is visible in the video scene. There were a total of 10 lights arranged in three groups. Beginning from the left on the screen, this corresponds with the foremost lights. We see five lights, then a space, then four lights, a much longer space and a single light, which brings up the rear of the moving set. There is no obvious symmetry to either the group of five or group of four lights, or to the entire group of lights. The lights depicted in the video are large, steady, and white, though there is some slight but perceivable variation in diameter among them. One of the lights, momentarily, nearly 'goes out', diminishing to a tiny point and then resuming its original size." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worlwide Reports of UFO Sightings, pp. 78-79; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 5, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_4089 Source: Johnson ### Event 23675 (28289C1D) Date: 7/23/2001 Description: At 9:30 p.m. young mother was breastfeeding her baby in her fourth floor apartment in Amasya, Turkey when she turned her head and saw a strange looking humanoid standing in front of the balcony door and curtain. After a few seconds the humanoid disappeared. She described it as about 1.05 meters in height, with very big jet-black eyes, slanting up. His head was oval-shaped and bald. His color was gray like smoke. No other details were noted because of the witness state of panic and the short duration of the encounter. There were unconfirmed reports of UFO's seen in the area that night. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing TUVPO Source ID: Johnson_4339 Source: Johnson ### Event 23676 (AC3A97D7) Date: 7/26/2001 Description: At 9:50 p.m. two witnesses saw a luminous figure walking on the side of the road while driving on the road to Gerena, Sevilla, Spain. It seemed to move clumsily about in an attempt to enter the nearby field. The frightened witnesses accelerated away from the area. They described the figure as about two meters to 2.15 meters in height, strongly build, and robust looking. It emitted a bluish-white light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Jose Manuel Garcia Bautista & Rafael Cabello Herrero Source ID: Johnson_4420 Source: Johnson ### Event 23677 (E2FFD719) Date: 7/27/2001 Description: On this night several witnesses at different locations in Acquappesa, Italy reported seeing a dog rise up into the air from near the ocean and enter a hovering, lighted spherical object. The object had a large lighted window and a tall man-like figure could be seen looking out. It then flew away. The dog was apparently taken. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Leonard Da Vinci Research Group Source ID: Johnson_4443 Source: Johnson ### Event 23678 (D1F71E39) Date: 7/29/2001 Description: At three a.m. an object larger than 10 meters in diameter was seen on the grounds of the local football field in Quedas do Iguacu, Parana, Brazil. The two witnesses including Rubem Bastos de Brito reported seeing several short bizarre creaturesmoving around the object. After about 20 minutes the object shot away into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET Source ID: Johnson_4496 Source: Johnson ### Event 23679 (749D3627) Date: 8/1/2001 Description: Five geography students camping oin a deserted beach in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, including Luis Carlos Prima, reported seeing a large disc-shaped object about 10 meters in diameter land on the beach at around two o'clock in the morning. The students had been sleeping when a very strong wind suddenly woke them up. The wind was so strong that it began to disconnect the ground ties of their tent from the sandy ground. Thinking it was a storm, they ran out and were confronted by the huge disc, which had numerous bright lights on its top and windows in the center. A small door quickly opened and two short humanoids came out. The UFO and the humanoids were about 200 meters away from the witnesses. The little men seemed to be collecting ground samples when they became aware of the presence of the students. They ignored them and after several minutes reboarded the craft, which took off at high speed. Deep ground traces were found at the landing site. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET Source ID: Johnson_4586 Source: Johnson ### Event 23680 (0A4C4F9F) Date: 8/1/2001 Description: At 6:00 a.m. EDT a farmer in Wayne, West Virginia encountered a square flying object, about the size of tire (3 feet wide), that was hovering inside his barn. It was black with gray markings, and floated for a few seconds before it flew out the barn door. A cow had been poked by a needle in one of its ears, and its eye had a broken blood vessel. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, October 2001, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_4584 Source: Johnson ### Event 23681 (9231FDFC) Date: 8/1/2001 Description: At 7:00 a.m. EDT a cigar-shaped object was seen moving slowly above the tree line in Hagerstown, Maryland for two minutes. It emitted a bright object from one end that shot into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2001 webpage, report uploaded August 12, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_4585 Source: Johnson ### Event 23682 (C02B9058) Date: 8/2/2001 Description: In La Joya, Guanica, Puerto Rico at 3:00 a.m., the same night that Carmelo Sepulveda found one of his rabbits decapitated and another injured, one of his neighbors heard rabbits squealing and turned on an outside lightbulb that faced toward the animal cages. He then went outside to take a look, and saw something resembling a child standing next to one of the cages. However, the poor lighting was not sufficient to let him make out any details. The figure quickly took shelter among Sepulveda's cages and the rabbit's squeals stopped. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Jose A Martinez Echevarria, PRRG Source ID: Johnson_4615 Source: Johnson ### Event 23683 (CA06E7E1) Date: 8/2/2001 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a black rectangular object, quiet with no lights, flew right over a couple driving in Rowlett, Dallas County, Texas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2001 archived webpage, report uploaded August 5, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_4618 Source: Johnson ### Event 23684 (891CD1A1) Date: 8/2/2001 Description: At 5:30 a.m. well known local merchant was on his way south towards Antofagasta, Chile on a desolate road when he suddenly noticed a strange flying creature approaching his truck at very high speed from the direction of the sea. As he braced for a possible impact the creature suddenly shot up vertically and disappeared from sight. The creature was described as brown in color, bigger than a condor, with huge glowing red eyes and a long pointed snout. Its overall appearance was "horrible." Others have reported seeing a similar creature in the region. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing the Chilean newspaper El Loa Source ID: Johnson_4616 Source: Johnson ### Event 23685 (4742964A) Date: 8/2/2001 Description: On this night Ms. M. of Rosario, Argentina felt herself summoned by aliens, and she felt herself traveling through a tunnel of "water" or something that felt like water. She soon found herself in a jungle that was very hot. Next she found herself in a mansion all white in color, and it gave her the impression of being in a hospital. Inside the building she saw numerous children of both sexes that apparently lived there. The children were barefoot and wore white, loose fitting outfits. She also saw human adults that identified themselves as the "instructors". The children looked human but with some alien traits, "almost like hybrids." The aliens told her that soon they would be leaving the Earth due to the coming chaos and cataclysm. She saw an image of a huge explosion and many injured persons. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Horacio Roberto, Nuevos Tiempos, Argentina Source ID: Johnson_4617 Source: Johnson ### Event 23686 (3352FE59) Date: 8/3/2001 Description: Day. A Brazilian Air Force pilot and four others are taking supplies from Belém to Salvador, Brazil, aboard a C-130 Hercules transport. One of the military officers draws the colonel’s attention to a disc-shaped object that is accompanying the plane about 6t0 feet away. Ground control cannot detect anything on radar. The object has a brushed gray color and is the size of a bus. It has a dome at the top and flat at the bottom. The sighting lasts about 10 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 208; Brazil 559–560 Source ID: Eberhart_7372 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23687 (86BDD975) Date: 8/4/2001 Description: At the local "Hospital del Torax" in La Paz, Bolivia nurse Wilma Huanapaco was working the night shift in the intensive therapy wing on the first floor when she was suddenly seized by a strange stupor that paralyzed her body. She was unable to move her arms, legs, or even her eyelids. Using tremendous effort, she finally was able to turn around and was confronted by the figure of a tall man, who was enveloped in a green aura and apparently headless. The figure suddenly vanished in plain sight. Wilma remained in the stupor for several more minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Abdel Padilla Vargas, La Prensa, Bolivia Source ID: Johnson_4667 Source: Johnson ### Event 23688 (E978AAFE) Date: 8/4/2001 Description: At 12:40 a.m. a large, circular object was seen in the sky surrounded by a number of small fragmentary objects, the size of 10p pieces over Ricksmanworth, Hertford, England. The large object was white and had a glow of red and blue, and was described as very bright. At the same time in Port Talbot, Wales two large shining white golf ball like objects were seen moving in and out of the clouds. An hour later another strange formation of lights flew overhead in Bushey, Hertford. At 2:30 a.m. over Glasgow, Scotland a small white light was seen moving toward and away from a larger white object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defense 2001 reports, cases # 134-137 Source ID: Johnson_4666 Source: Johnson ### Event 23689 (C9C38E8D) Date: 8/6/2001 Description: Two stationary cone-shaped objects were observed over Berwick, Northumbria, England at 3:08 a.m. One was below the other, and they were extremely bright. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defense, 2001 reports, case 141 Source ID: Johnson_4747 Source: Johnson ### Event 23690 (3ADCEDBF) Date: 8/6/2001 Description: Afternoon. Two Turkish Air Force pilots from 122 Squadron are practicing maneuvers in a Cessna T-37B Dragonfly jet trainer over the Gulf of Çandarli, an inlet of the Aegean Sea in western Turkey. 1Lt. Ilker Dinçer and his student Lt. Arda Gunyel are surprised by an extremely bright object, shaped like something between a disc and a cone, with a pod on its lower part. Ground control has nothing on its radar. The UFO approaches the Cessna at high speed, then positions itself alongside, behind, and above the jet. It plays cat and mouse with the plane for some minutes before it disappears at high speed. The Turkish Air Force announces that it is a weather balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 393–394](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/392/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7373 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23691 (57975083) Date: 8/9/2001 Description: A cigar-shaped object, approximately 100 feet long, with lights on each end that changed color, was seen in Calico Rock, Arkansas at 10 p.m. It also reportedly made the sound of three musical tones. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2001 webpage, report uploaded October 12, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_4811 Source: Johnson ### Event 23692 (7044144F) Date: 8/10/2001 Description: At 11:30 a.m. two silver spheres passed under a C-130 Aircraft while flying over Salida, Colorado. The sighting was very brief. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded February 8, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_4850 Source: Johnson ### Event 23693 (83052AF9) Date: 8/12/2001 Description: 12:25 a.m. Five people watch seven gray objects flying in a straight line over Victoria, British Columbia, which change position in flight into a hexagonal formation and ascend into the sky. They are lost to view after 15 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_7374 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23694 (C30C9038) Date: 8/14/2001 Description: Starting at 10:45 p.m. and for the next 15 minutes, twelve white objects were seen performing maneuvers over Strathroy, Ontario, Canada. They were first seen in a triangle, which then formed into a circle, and they performed aerial aerobatics for the next several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 235, citing National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_5024 Source: Johnson ### Event 23695 (7852494D) Date: 8/15/2001 Description: On this day a huge, dark silver-gray disc-shaped UFO was observed for 7-8 minutes over New Delhi, India. It looked like two saucers inverted over each other. It flew low and slowly across the sky, over a residential neighborhood. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, November 2001, p. 14; George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 36 Source ID: Johnson_5063 Source: Johnson ### Event 23696 (40DAE096) Date: 8/15/2001 Description: At 11:05 a.m. a single witness was driving north on 82nd Street in the city of Lawton, Oklahoma when he saw four UFOs take off from ground level, one at a time. At 7:29 p.m.. a little disc-shaped object zoomed out of the bushes and right over the vehicle was driving in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. At 10:00 p.m. an intense white light buzzed a car in Red Cloud, Nebraska, illuminating the cab of the car while driving out in the country. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2001 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_5064 Source: Johnson ### Event 23697 (FE09A0A8) Date: 8/16/2001 Description: Videotoape. A good-sized flying triangle with several white lights was sighted and videotaped at about 10:00 p.m. in Floriston, California. It had a bright red strobing light as well as the several white lights, and was the size of a Boeing 727. It flew over the mountain range to the northeast, stopped, turned off all lights for a few seconds, then lit up again and came straight back overhead without making a banking turn. It made no noise, even though it was close. The videotape is about 30 seconds long. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 81, citing anomalousnews@yahoo.com Source ID: Johnson_5104 Source: Johnson ### Event 23698 (F16D6577) Date: 8/17/2001 Description: 9:30 p.m. An astronomer in Mitchell, Manitoba, hears loud booming sounds and runs outside to see three steady lights in triangular formation moving east to west. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_7375 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23699 (BD205844) Date: 8/20/2001 Description: Dozens of passengers on the Rogalin ferry returning from Sweden to Gdansk, Poland, with 50 passengers on board watch an object 10 feet in diameter rise to the surface about 500 feet away. It approaches the boat, submerges, and maneuvers underwater. After three minutes, the ferry leaves it behind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 121–122 Source ID: Eberhart_7376 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23700 (3816633E) Date: 8/20/2001 Description: At 11:15 p.m. in Toscane St. Apre, Dordogne, France a witness at a campsite observed the passage of a triangle delimited by three luminous points in the sky. It was quiet and its passage lasted a few minutes. The son of the witness tried in vain to film it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 346 Source ID: Johnson_5199 Source: Johnson ### Event 23701 (44FD8583) Date: 8/20/2001 Description: In Brewster, Massachusetts at 4:30 a.m. a small red light on a disc-shaped object, about three feet in diameter, quickly darted about in the witness's garden, whirring faintly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2001 archived webpage, report uploaded December 9, 2003 Source ID: Johnson_5201 Source: Johnson ### Event 23702 (148CA826) Date: 8/20/2001 Description: At 10:00 p.m. PDT another flying triangle was sighted from I-5 in Weed, California. While driving and looking out of the car's sunroof Mary C. and a passenger noticed three steady lights moving south in unison, positioned to make an uneven triangle. The space in between the lights was camouflaged against the night sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 81 Source ID: Johnson_5200 Source: Johnson ### Event 23703 (C3513910) Date: 8/23/2001 Description: Fish come to surface as cylinder hovers (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [010823](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-010823.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlantic Ocean, NJ Source ID: NICAP_DB_5885 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23704 (3884B340) Date: 8/24/2001 Description: On this evening there was a terrific meteor shower seen by many, but nothing to compare to the three black triangular UFOs seen at approximately 1:30 a.m. in Joshua Tree, California. The UFOs were seen zipping around rapidly and stopping dead in midair by a man, who reported it to a friend the next morning, who posted the report online. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer and David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 81 Source ID: Johnson_5306 Source: Johnson ### Event 23705 (F51E16A4) Date: 8/25/2001 Description: At 3:27 p.m. two solid orange objects were seen moving slowly in the blue sky over Saint-Laurent, Chambly, Quebec. Photos were taken. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 271, citing Alberta UFO Study Group Source ID: Johnson_5343 Source: Johnson ### Event 23706 (10067632) Date: 8/25/2001 Description: 3:27 p.m. An astronomer and others at St.-Laurent, Quebec, watch two solid-appearing objects moving slowly through the clear sky. They take some photos. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_7377 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23707 (71FDEB62) Date: 8/25/2001 Description: In Manning, Alberta, Canada at 12:30 a.m. two witnesses watched a blue light that dropped to the ground, then flashed intermittently for 45 minutes. It finally rose again into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 272, citing Alberta UFO Study Group Source ID: Johnson_5344 Source: Johnson ### Event 23708 (960AF3F7) Date: 8/29/2001 Description: A woman reported to the National UFO Reporting Center that her 12-year-old daughter came home from school in Grantville, Pennsylvania and said she had to tell her something, and she didn't think she would not believe her. At 7:47 p.m. she had seen two saucer-shaped craft in the sky that approached her; one had a "sparkly light" that came out of bottom of one of the ships in a tubular shape, that went towards the ground and stayed there for 15 seconds, then came back up into the ship. "Then both ships left the area going away from our hours." He daughter is afraid that something will happen to her or her family. She could not sleep well for several days since the event. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 2; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2001 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5479 Source: Johnson ### Event 23709 (F7E2B365) Date: 8/29/2001 Description: At 6:00 p.m. a black, triangular-shaped object was observed over Omaha, Nebraska in daylight for 45 seconds. At 9:20 p.m. two very similar looking black, triangular objects , moving low to the ground, were seen in Marietta, Ohio for about a minute. They were moving very quickly in a northeasterly direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2001 archived webpage, reports uploaded on October 12, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_5480 Source: Johnson ### Event 23710 (D916B617) Date: 8/30/2001 Description: At 8:30 p.m. in Calumet, Wisconsin witnesses saw three flashing lights flying in a row. The lights were flashing in sequence: first two flashes, then a pause, then three flashes, another pause, four flashes, pause, and then it repeated. The front light was amber, and the others were white. At first, it looked like the lights were all connected, but using binoculars it looked like only the front light was attached to the next segment, and the other segments were separate.The object was cigar-shaped and had some sort of windows in it. Suddenly the rear lights split apart, flying off in different directions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, October 2001, p. 11; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 121 Source ID: Johnson_5509 Source: Johnson ### Event 23711 (DF5F28E1) Date: 9/6/2001 Description: 10:00 p.m. Police on patrol in Sampacho, Cordoba, Argentina, receive an alert on their car radio about several UFOs above the Cerro Sampacho. They appear to be silently hovering at an altitude of 5,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFOs Seen in Argentina,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_7378 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23712 (5A3A423E) Date: 9/7/2001 Description: In Toussus le Noble, Yveslines department, France three carbonized circles of vegetation between 30 and 40 centimeters in diameter were found in a field, forming an isosceles triangle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 347 Source ID: Johnson_5747 Source: Johnson ### Event 23713 (41B74524) Date: 9/8/2001 Description: At 9:15 p.m. a large hazy golden glowing ball, with 4 or 5 smaller starlike objects preceeding it, were seen traveling at a high speed. They went to the north, passing overhead in Manassas, Virginia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), December 2001, p. 26, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_5780 Source: Johnson ### Event 23714 (74906CE0) Date: 9/9/2001 Description: At 2:15 a.m. a bright light moving across the city of Mount Gambier, South Australia approached the two witnesses who were ten kilometers southeast of the town. It changed color to a subdued orange. When it passed overhead at 300 meters altitude, it was seen to be a cylindrical object, with a speed estimated at 600 km/h. The sighting lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, South Australia UFO Reports - Project 1947 Website, citing AUFORN Source ID: Johnson_5812 Source: Johnson ### Event 23715 (8F80F86F) Date: 9/9/2001 Description: 10:30 p.m. A family traveling in a pickup truck between Achiras and Sampacho, Argentina, notice an intense red light in the sky moving from the southwest. It looks like an intense red beam with bright flashes behind it. In the front is something like an arc of light. The object seems as if it about to fall on top of them, but it changes course and heads toward the mountains. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UFOs Seen in Argentina,” IUR 27, no. 2 \(Summer 2002\): 4 Source ID: Eberhart_7379 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23716 (5A777DA8) Date: 9/9/2001 Description: In Calgary, Alberta three witnesses reported a triangular group of orange lights were seen over the reservoir at 11:00 p.m., with a beam of light shining down from the object or objects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 295, citing Alberta UFO Study Group Source ID: Johnson_5813 Source: Johnson ### Event 23717 (75958C96) Date: 9/10/2001 Description: A bread delivery man and a salesman had separate pre-dawn highway encounters with two bright oncoming lights in Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland; one reported it looked like a figure-8 on its side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 113 Source ID: Johnson_5842 Source: Johnson ### Event 23718 (52166F51) Date: 9/11/2001 Description: September 11 Terrorist Attack Type: terrorist attack Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks) Location: Washington DC Location: New York City Source ID: Maj2_808 Source: Maj2 ### Event 23719 (0A6E84CC) Date: 9/11/2001 Description: At midnight, several witnesses on the outskirts of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia first reported a group of three craft coming over the mountains, flying in a triangle formation. The object at the head of the triangle was estimated to be at least 7,000 meters long, and the two behind it were 1,000 meters long. There was also a bright red light flying with them in a consecutive pattern. This group then disappeared. Next came another nine (9) craft, which came over at a speed of 30-35 km/hour; these were about 500 meters long but did not blend in with the sky as the first group had. Then eight of the craft disappeared, but the ninth stayed behind and after a minute or two it landed. The main witness and seven others in a hiking group went to investigate. When they got to the scene, they spotted 50 or more short, greenish-gray creatures that appeared to be “testing” and examining the area. After about an hour the creatures went back inside their spacecraft, and took off into the night sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2001 Humanoid Reports, citing NUFORC, September 2001 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5890 Source: Johnson ### Event 23720 (C3BAAE86) Date: 9/11/2001 Description: High speed maneuvering lights were seen over Cleveland, Ohio at 10:10 p.m. At 8:30 p.m. three triangular UFOs were sighted from Bordentown, New Jersey. They had very bright round lights at each apex. At 11:50 p.m. three unknown aircraft traveling in formation made impossible maneuvers above Oxford, Ohio. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2001 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5891 Source: Johnson ### Event 23721 (9E277C65) Date: 9/13/2001 Description: At 6:05 a.m. a formation of lights was seen moving low over Toronto, Ontario during a rainy day; this was during the no fly period two days after the World Trade Center attacks. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case 298 Source ID: Johnson_5933 Source: Johnson ### Event 23722 (BD7FEABA) Date: 9/16/2001 Description: At 4:45 a.m. a mushroom/lampshade shaped object, about six-eight feet across, was seen in Market Drayton, Shropshire, England. It was white with a very bright base. It moved very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defense, case 2001-163 Source ID: Johnson_6031 Source: Johnson ### Event 23723 (F190A192) Date: 9/19/2001 Description: A huge, silvery, flying triangle went east at high speed in Woodward, Oklahoma at 9:38 a.m. It then stopped in midair without slowing and went invisible for two seconds. Next, it sped off to the west, stopped again, and then dropped straight down. Three loud sonic booms, followed by a roaring sound, were heard. The entire sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, November 2001, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_6111 Source: Johnson ### Event 23724 (ABD34CEB) Date: 9/21/2001 Description: A metallic cigar-shaped object was seen hovering near Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska for five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2001 webpage, report uploaded October 12, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_6210 Source: Johnson ### Event 23725 (9EB10CF4) Date: 9/25/2001 Description: While driving shortly after 6:00 p.m. near Canberra, ACT, Australia, a man and woman, Hans and Fiona, saw a combination of low flying, bright white lights. The two outer lights were round and bright, while the inner lights were dimmer. The sighting lasted 15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australian UFO Research Network, ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_6334 Source: Johnson ### Event 23726 (A7CA563E) Date: 10/2/2001 Description: At 6:55 a.m. several motorists in Sandyville, West Virginia spotted a blimp-like UFO with a smooth surface that was glowing bright red in the overcast daytime sky. A chevron-shaped object exited from a door in the bottom. There was no sound during the entire incident, which lasted five minutes. The two objects vanished at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), February 2002, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_6512 Source: Johnson ### Event 23727 (B9499F09) Date: 10/7/2001 End date: 8/30/2021 Description: Afghanistan War begins Type: war Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%932021%29) Location: Afghanistan Source ID: Maj2_809 Source: Maj2 ### Event 23728 (4D5048FD) Date: 10/28/2001 Description: At 12:28 a.m. a silvery, disc-shaped object with windows flew over Beaver, West Virginia making no sound. It had a gaseous haze or mist surrounding the craft, and was twice the size of a car, with white lights around the middle, and a green-blue light on top. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle,October 2001 webpage, report uploaded June 20, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_7259 Source: Johnson ### Event 23729 (186E8019) Date: 10/31/2001 Description: Derek Holmes, age 66, spotted a round, white airborne object with curved edges while driving while driving home on Bonsall Moor, Cromford, Derbyshire, England at 10:32 p.m. Slowing down, he looked but could not find a safe place to stop on the narrow road to capture the brilliant image on filme. Despite having a camera with him in the car, he was too slow to get a photo. The size of the light went down, as if someone hit a dimmer switch, and it went yellow. It moved into the distance and then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 136 Source ID: Johnson_7357 Source: Johnson ### Event 23730 (44A96CF0) Date: 10/31/2001 Description: A huge triangular-shaped object with a white light in the center was seen traveling at a high speed across rainy sky at 8:30 p.m. in Ozaukee, Wisconsin. The witnesses saw rain pelting off the back of the UFO as it flew off, and then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), February 2002, p. 20 Source ID: Johnson_7358 Source: Johnson ### Event 23731 (13476C2E) Date: 10/31/2001 Description: At 4:00 a.m. a well defined blue object, which was fat at both ends but slim in the middle, was seen over Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defense, case 2001-173 Source ID: Johnson_7356 Source: Johnson ### Event 23732 (D66CCE40) Date: 11/5/2001 Description: Apache County sheriff’s deputies attempt to arrest [Milton Willian Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%5FWilliam%5FCooper) at his Eagar, Arizona, home on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and endangerment stemming from disputes with local residents. After an exchange of gunfire during which Cooper shoots one of the deputies in the head, Cooper is fatally shot. Federal authorities report that Cooper has spent years evading execution of a 1998 arrest warrant for tax evasion. According to a spokesman for the Marshals Service, he vowed that “he would not be taken alive.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Milton William Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%5FWilliam%5FCooper\#Death)”; “[Arizona Militia Figure Shot to Death,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98302831/)” Los Angeles Times, November 7, 2001, p. 24 Source ID: Eberhart_7380 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23733 (B41EA6B9) Date: 11/6/2001 Description: At 8:03 p.m. a cluster of small lights was seen between two larger red lights over the M62 highway in Rochdale, England by a police woman. The red lights oscillated between various shades of color. They hovered for ten seconds, then shot off at a high rate of speed. There was no sound. There was broken cloud cover at the time, with a light rain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_7520 Source: Johnson ### Event 23734 (FB21A1CE) Date: 11/11/2001 Description: An oval object with several lights flies on an irregular path above Policeman’s Point, Yukon Territory. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_7381 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23735 (05C61711) Date: 11/13/2001 Description: In Beaverlodge, Alberta, Canada two children saw a white, domed disc-shaped object flying through the sky at 5:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 337, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_7653 Source: Johnson ### Event 23736 (AAA7B984) Date: 11/13/2001 Description: Tracie and Jim Austin-Peters had a close up sighting of a massive triangle-shaped craft in Studio City, California at 6:45 p.m. The sighting was made by a couple who had started a cable access UFO/paranormal TV show. The UFO was estimated to be at only 200 feet altitude, flying very low and very slow over a major, busy, metropolitan area, and was completely silent. It had white lights underneath, and at one point stopped and hovered, then turned, and was gone in 6 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Preston Dennett, UFOs over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State, p. 212, citing the MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 428 Source ID: Johnson_7654 Source: Johnson ### Event 23737 (4CAEB587) Date: 11/15/2001 Description: At 8:00 p.m. in Boyne City, Michigan, a huge diamond-shaped UFO with an elongated bottom, a light on each end, and an orange light in the middle, flew toward the northwest. In five minutes it came back heading southwest. When over the city all the lights started to spin around, and the light on the right side veered off from the main body. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 2002, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_7709 Source: Johnson ### Event 23738 (B3AC51B3) Date: 11/19/2001 Description: A V-shaped bank of lights flew from north to south over Augusta, Tennessee at 5:30 a.m. It made no sound, and the rear lights where offset a little from a straight line. That night, at 11:45 p.m., five bronze lights, each elliptical in shape and all the same size, flew over Maplewood, Minnesota in a V-formation. They made no sound. The witness was aware of the Leonid meteor shower, and said these lights could not have been meteors. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 2002, p.17 Source ID: Johnson_7745 Source: Johnson ### Event 23739 (65307D32) Date: 12/2001 Description: Peru sets up a new Air Force agency, the Departamento de Investigación de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos \(DIFFA\), tasked with studying UFO cases. It is founded and directed by Comandante Julio Chamorro because “these anomalous events had occurred frequently enough over national territory to create a danger, and we recognized that they needed to be taken seriously.” It is first publicly acknowledged in February 2003 by Col. José Raffo Moloche, but it closes in 2008 Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Perú reabre oficina para recopilar datos sobre ovnis,](https://www.bbc.com/mundo/ultimas%5Fnoticias/2013/10/131020%5Fulnots%5Fovnis%5Fperu%5Flp)” BBC News, October 20, 2013; Kean, [p. 189](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/196/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7382 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23740 (3E738C4A) Date: 12/1/2001 Description: In 2001 at 9:20 p.m. near Tucumcari, Texas many people witnessed a brightly lit object move across the sky chased by F-16 fighters. The UFO changed directions several times. According to the witnesses, the jets fired missiles at the UFO and hit it, causing it to explode in the air. According to NORAD they witnesses the re-entry of a Russian satellite. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine, April 2002, p. 20, citing Filer's Files Source ID: Johnson_8118 Source: Johnson ### Event 23741 (D50AC0AD) Date: 12/2/2001 Description: In Torquay, Devonshire, England a disc-shaped object the size of a small room was observed at 6:15 p.m. It was spinning on its own axis. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defense, case 2001-185 Source ID: Johnson_8151 Source: Johnson ### Event 23742 (AB5CA46E) Date: 12/6/2001 Description: A retired French gendarme sighted a multi-colored revolving triangle in the sky over Mouscron, Belgium. It had blue lights in the three corners, and a brilliant yellow light at the bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Bougard, Inforespace, June 2002, p. 40 Source ID: Johnson_8248 Source: Johnson ### Event 23743 (353AEFCE) Date: 12/6/2001 Description: A gigantic flaring light descended over La Florida, Bio Bio, Chile and was visible for hours hovering above and outside San Ramon Hill. The object was reported to be "as large as a stadium." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), April 2002, p. 20, citing Filers' Files Source ID: Johnson_8249 Source: Johnson ### Event 23744 (0E7CDB90) Date: 12/10/2001 Description: A multi-colored triangular flying object that had lights on the sides and at the apexes was sighted from Blairgowrie, Orkney Islands, UK at 11:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defense, case # 2001-187 Source ID: Johnson_8328 Source: Johnson ### Event 23745 (B232342E) Date: 12/10/2001 Description: An orange, saucer-shaped, misty looking object was seen in Placentia, Orange County, California at 5:45 p.m. It was actually more oval shaped, but with saucer like edges, and seen at a 45 degree angle elevation from the ground. It looked almost transparent with two red and white lights on the top and bottom. It moved slowly to the west and decended as it moved. The witnesses followed it in their car for about five minutes until they could no longer see it; it went lower than the trees and the neighboring houses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, December 2001 webpage, report made December 10, 2001 and uploaded March 11, 2003 Source ID: Johnson_8330 Source: Johnson ### Event 23746 (94E5A4AD) Date: 12/10/2001 Description: At 5:30 p.m. EST a husband and wife had gone for a walk before dinner in a new development in a wooded area near their home in Hooksett, New Hampshire. They suddenly saw a terrifying large glowing white object hovering above the trees and making no noise at all. They could hear nothing as it glided through the tree tops slowly. They were both very startled, and the wife wanted to run, but the husband said, "run where?" When they got home they called the police to report it, as well as talked to their neighbors to see if they had seen it as well. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_8329 Source: Johnson ### Event 23747 (89B6C5DF) Date: 12/11/2001 Description: 8:06 p.m. Pilots of a commercial airliner flying above Craik, Saskatchewan, see lights that they think belong to another aircraft at a higher altitude, but air traffic controllers have no other aircraft on their radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 \(Winter 2001–2002\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_7383 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23748 (D1A1FBFD) Date: 12/12/2001 Description: At 6:07 p.m. in Carlisle, England a retired military pilot saw a large, bright object in the western sky. It moved rapidly toward the east at a high speed. It was disc-shaped with a "teardop-shaped aura". He estimated it was moving at Mach 3 when it vanished abruptly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), April 2002, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_8367 Source: Johnson ### Event 23749 (3F6AE42D) Date: 12/15/2001 Description: In 2001 there were many reports of a circular glowing object circling the metropolitan area of Toluca, Mexico at around 3:00 a.m. The object was reportedly viewed through binoculars. At 7:20 p.m. an amber colored, low flying triangle moved through the sky over Greensboro, North Carolina toward the southeast. Within its structure it had many "translucent spheres or orbs interchanging within it.” In flew off in the direction of Fayettesville. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17848, citing UFO Roundup; UFO Magazine (USA), April 2002, p. 21, citing Filer’s Files Source ID: Johnson_8432 Source: Johnson ### Event 23750 (84DDA3A8) Date: 12/17/2001 Description: A low flying, slow moving Saturn-shaped UFO flew to the south over the river at 7:30 p.m. in Brevard, Florida. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), April 2002, p. 20, citing Filer’s Files Source ID: Johnson_8481 Source: Johnson ### Event 23751 (E81B1D05) Date: 12/17/2001 Description: Two bright blue lights were seen on a cigar-shaped craft that flew over St. Georges, Manitoba, Canada at 7:18 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2001 webpage, report uploaded May 24, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_8482 Source: Johnson ### Event 23752 (67A12249) Date: 12/18/2001 Description: Two gray plumes of smoke were first seen in the sky over Stockport Railway Station in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. A gray triangular object was then witnessed in the sky. Later that evening, at 8:00 p.m., a circular red light was seen high up in the sky moving quickly. It slowed down, accelerated, and then wobbled from side to side. At 8:50 in Crawley, West Sussex, England an object looking like a rounded triangle was sighted. It was longer at one point, with a giant light in the center. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defence, cases 189-199 for 2001 Source ID: Johnson_8502 Source: Johnson ### Event 23753 (60DBEF29) Date: 12/19/2001 Description: A four minute long videotape was shot at 1:20 p.m. in Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico of a dark, domed ovoid object. It had a peculiar knob shape on the bottom of the object. It shot off with extreme acceleration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17849, citing J. Trainor, UFO Roundup Source ID: Johnson_8524 Source: Johnson ### Event 23754 (161B0B84) Date: 12/19/2001 Description: The second sighting of a triangular-shaped UFO was made by a witness in Mouscron, Belgium an 10:10 a.m. This daylight sighting was of a triangular-shaped wedge with three blue lights in the corner, and yellow light in the center, and a red light on the side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Michel Bougard, Inforespace, June 2002, p. 40 Source ID: Johnson_8525 Source: Johnson ### Event 23755 (014C0154) Date: 12/31/2001 Description: In the evening of this day in Pasadena, Texas a man reported seeing a huge rectangular object, an estimated 300 meters in length, about ten miles away. The UFO hung vertically in the sky at only a few hundred feet altitude, and had several white lights inside a red rectangular outer rim. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, February 2002, p. 14 Source ID: Johnson_8685 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 2002 (Back to Top) ### Event 23756 (31229CF0) Date: 1/3/2002 Description: At 7:15 p.m. two witnesses driving in in Dubuque, Iowa had a close encounter with a domed disc-shaped craft. The UFO had light blue flashing lights, was saucer-shaped with a dome-like top on it, and it behaved as if it wanted them to stop, according to the main witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2002 webpage, report uploaded January 11, 2002 Source ID: Johnson_77 Source: Johnson ### Event 23757 (B598ACF7) Date: 1/5/2002 Description: A single stationary silver disk, reflecting sunlight, was seen over Brooklyn, New York at 8:40 a.m. EST for 15 seconds. It didn't move or wobble at any time that it was hovering there. Two flying discs were seen In Santa Barbara, California at 9:30 p.m. PST. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 2, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_157 Source: Johnson ### Event 23758 (61140EB9) Date: 1/5/2002 Description: At 2:00 a.m. a rectangular UFO was seen briefly over Florissant, St. Louis County, Missouri. It appeared to the witness to be a two-story tall rectangle with very large windows on the side of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2002 webpage, citing Missouri Investigators Group Source ID: Johnson_156 Source: Johnson ### Event 23759 (DE6A85A3) Date: 1/14/2002 Description: At exactly 2:47 a.m., while working a coal train enroute from Russell Kentucky to Shelbiana Kentucky, a locomotive trailing unit and first two cars were severely damaged as they struck an unknown floating or hovering object. The entire electrical systems on both locomotives "went haywire." (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) Reference: NICAP: [020114](https://web.archive.org/web/100/http://nicap.org/paintsville020114dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Paintsville, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5886 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23760 (976E03A3) Date: 1/18/2002 Description: The Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center opens in Istanbul, Turkey, with an exhibition area that showcases UFO incidents in both Turkish and English. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “International UFO Museum Opens in Turkey,” IUR 27, no. 1 \(Spring 2002\): 28 Source ID: Eberhart_7384 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23761 (E51FA56F) Date: 1/22/2002 Description: Dogs bark at fireball that lights terrain and is heard (IFO) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [020122](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-020122.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Salisbury, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_5887 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23762 (D7CFA65B) Date: 1/22/2002 Description: At 8:00 p.m. Robert La Marco and his family saw a very bright disk while driving to basketball practice in Hazlet, New Jersey. The UFO hovered, then shot off to the east at incredible speed towards the Atlantic Ocean. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 26 Source ID: Johnson_432 Source: Johnson ### Event 23763 (44761D2B) Date: 1/26/2002 Description: In Cape Girardeau, Missouri a radar patrol police officer witnessed an unlit dark disc-shaped object move across the highway at 8:45 p.m. He pointed his radar gun at the object, but got no return. Next, he attempted to pursue the object, but it disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2002 webpage, report uploaded Feb. 22, 2002 Source ID: Johnson_540 Source: Johnson ### Event 23764 (2C33228C) Date: 1/31/2002 Description: Large flying disc, smaller discs & triangle startles police dog (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [020131](http://www.nicap.org/ar-020131dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jewel Valley, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5888 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23765 (2A46FC18) Date: 1/31/2002 Description: A senior INS Border Patrol officer and his dog witnessed a disc-shaped object very quickly pass over their patrol vehicle at 5:30 a.m. in the desert near Jacumba, San Diego County, California. A warbling sound emanated from the object, which the dog reacted to. Seconds later, a dozen more discs are witnessed flying to the east with a delta-shaped object in their midst, then fly off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18183, citing Filer's Files, Volume 2, Number 7 Source ID: Johnson_645 Source: Johnson ### Event 23766 (815881EA) Date: 2/2/2002 Description: 2:53 a.m. A witness is driving down a road in Clermont, Florida, when he sees a silent, bright light over Lake Minnehaha. The object passes over his car at about 15–20 feet in the air, and his engine dies. It shoots off like a slingshot and disappears. The car starts again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_7385 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23767 (7B7DE2AF) Date: 2/15/2002 Description: A dark, noiseless triangular shaped craft was sighted flying over Salt Lake City, Utah at 3:00 a.m. The sighting lasted from 3 to 4 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Mar. 2002 webpage, report uploaded Sep. 28, 2002 Source ID: Johnson_935 Source: Johnson ### Event 23768 (9939E1BA) Date: 2/19/2002 Description: A dark triangular object was sighted at 5:00 p.m. moving up a creek bed at 200 feet above the ground towards the Police Headquarters in Mobile, Alabama. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2002 webpage, report uploaded March 19, 2002 Source ID: Johnson_1016 Source: Johnson ### Event 23769 (9E1BFBED) Date: 2/20/2002 Description: 8:15 a.m. A witness aboard a cruise ship off the southern coast of Puerto Rico sees an irregularly shaped object like a cloud high in the sky. He takes a photo, then leaves to attend a meeting. Analysis indicates that the object is most likely a Tethered Aerostat Radar System airship used to provide radar data in support of the US drug interdiction program. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John P. Timmerman and Mark Rodeghier, “Snapshot from a Cruise: An Aerostat Sighting,” IUR 28, no. 1 \(Spring 2003\): 13–14 Source ID: Eberhart_7386 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23770 (73C4C9D1) Date: 2/25/2002 Description: At 8:24 a.m. a silent, dark, cone shaped object was witnessed in Weiser, Idaho moving slowly and climbing up into the sky. Later that afternoon at 2:30 p.m. witnesses saw a very bright light that was hovering over the drylands of southeastern Washington near the town of Touchet for five minutes. It finally moved rapidly away over the desert hills. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2002 webpage, reports uploaded Mar. 19, 2002 Source ID: Johnson_1123 Source: Johnson ### Event 23771 (80B4593D) Date: 3/15/2002 Description: 9:30 p.m. Lisa Stone is driving with her 16-year-old son when she sees a triangular object with white lights that is maneuvering around Magazine Hill, outside Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The object is massive, perhaps the size of a university football field. She drives directly underneath, and “hail” starts falling from it. The object does a figure eight before heading in the direction of Fall River to the northeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Ledger, “The Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 7, 23 Source ID: Eberhart_7387 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23772 (2B41FD12) Date: 3/19/2002 Description: In 2002 at 2:00 p.m. a metallic "saucer" was seen flying to the north over the skyscrapers of downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 109 Source ID: Johnson_1583 Source: Johnson ### Event 23773 (EC9CBB1A) Date: 3/26/2002 Description: A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a desrted road around 3 p.m. in Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain when he noticed an object resembling a shiny pear ahead in the middle of the roadway. It was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat perplexed, he continued to drive closer, and then notice two very tall humanoid beings standing in a nearby field. They were over two meters tall, and wore tight-fitting, white coveralls and helmets resembling those worn by the early astronauts.

He parked his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men walked away and entered the pear-shaped craft, while the other remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this Earth", he still asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt when he approached the strange pair he had entered some kind of a trance, and he seemed to be floating over the road. The being replied and appeared to be genuinely pleased with his offer of assistance, but said that everything was in order. He said that the area was very beautiful and also added, "Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such beautiful scenes; they disappeared a long time ago."

The astounded witness next managed to ask the being where he came from. He was told that they hailed from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The humanoid smiled when he answered the question. The being then bid goodbye and walked towards the nearby shiny pear-shaped object; he then disappeared inside of it. Then the craft emitted a loud whisting sound and disappeared at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the humanoids as about 2.5 meters in height, with wide chests and heavy set, thin legs, generally human features, but with somewhat "refined" or sharpened features. Their suits were very tight fitting, and made of an apparent synthetic material resembling plastic. They eyes were very light, almost white, and their speed was hesitant and accented. Also, their movements seemed kind of clumsy. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database Reports, citing J. M. Garcia and Francisco Padron, Spain Source ID: Johnson_1687 Source: Johnson ### Event 23774 (221386C1) Date: 3/27/2002 Description: In Allen, Texas at 8:00 a.m. a three meter wide silver, hubcap-shaped disc flew low and stopped over a field at only five meters altitude. It had lights around its rim. It shot off to the west at an extremely fast speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17854 Source ID: Johnson_1703 Source: Johnson ### Event 23775 (D0CAFB23) Date: 4/2002 Description: Skandinavisk UFO Information begins publishing UFO-Mail in Ringsted, Denmark. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [UFO-Mail](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Denmark/UFO%20Mail%20%28SUFOI%29/UFO%20Mail%20-%20No%20001%20-%202002.pdf), no. 1 \(April 2, 2002\) Source ID: Eberhart_7388 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23776 (62ACF295) Date: 4/7/2002 Description: A triangular formation of white lights was seen by a police woman at 3:16 a.m. in Hellifield, near Skipton, England. The lights travelled slowly through the sky in perfect unison, and then made a banking maneuver before disappearing from view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_1891 Source: Johnson ### Event 23777 (42874009) Date: 4/17/2002 Description: A yellow-orange ball made bizarre sharp turns while flying from southwest to northeast near the end of the Brisbane, Queensland, Australia airport runway at 9:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sheryl Gottschall, UFO Research Queensland Source ID: Johnson_2098 Source: Johnson ### Event 23778 (6956190D) Date: 4/17/2002 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a black oval or football-shaped object rocked from side to side as it flew behind a cloud in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 144, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_2099 Source: Johnson ### Event 23779 (BB82B3A0) Date: 4/30/2002 Description: A silent boomerang-shaped object with no lights was sighted at 9:45 p.m. in Kelowna, British Columbia. It looked like a hang glider in the night sky, considerably after sunset. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 154, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_2434 Source: Johnson ### Event 23780 (0136DFB3) Date: 5/3/2002 Description: In Alvear, La Pampa Province, Argentina several young men were walking home at midnight along a deserted road when out of nowhere a female figure with long black hair appeared in front of them, wearing a light flowing gown. The strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly. It repeatedly asked for assistance from the men in an urgent tone. Terrified, the men ran from the area and later returned with other witnesses, but could find no trace of the strange apparition. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2002 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Fabio Picasso Source ID: Johnson_2490 Source: Johnson ### Event 23781 (269E4C19) Date: 5/4/2002 Description: At 3:45 p.m., two separate witnesses in towns nearby to Farmingdale, New York observed an egg-shaped UFO move at low speed and altitude in a clear blue sky. The object seemed "transparent rather than solid, more like a ring" and it left a white contrail-like wake much like a boat in the water would do. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), August 2002, p. 19 Source ID: Johnson_2526 Source: Johnson ### Event 23782 (82A0B5F6) Date: 5/5/2002 Description: Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York - At 3:15 p.m. two independent witnesses in nearby towns observed an ovoid UFO moving at a slow speed and low altitude in the clear blue sky. It flew from west to east. It seemed more "transparent rather than solid, more like a ring." and it left behind a white contrail or wake like "a boat in water." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), August 2002, p. 19, citing Filer's Files Source ID: Johnson_2570 Source: Johnson ### Event 23783 (6CC6C36C) Date: 5/5/2002 Description: A disc-shaped object hovered at a low altitude near the town of Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England at three o'clock in the morning. It had erratic flashing multi-colored lights. It spun, and rocked slowly back-and-forth. Two small white lights moved outward from it, and remained separate for almost an hour. The UFO departed toward the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), August 2002, p. 19, citing Filer's Files Source ID: Johnson_2569 Source: Johnson ### Event 23784 (C8A9D896) Date: 5/6/2002 Description: A saucer that glowed like the moon and was the apparent size of the moon cruised over the town of Kirkwood, St. Louis County, Missouri at about 25 miles per hour from East to West. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2002 webpage, report uploaded May 14, 2002 Source ID: Johnson_2607 Source: Johnson ### Event 23785 (3B30A545) Date: 5/12/2002 Description: A security guard atop a parking garage in Orlando, Florida saw three dark triangular craft approach in formation from the north. The UFOs began to move in lazy turns, banking and doubling back. Each craft had six white lights on the front and a blunt rear section. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), August 2002, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_2783 Source: Johnson ### Event 23786 (5455AB28) Date: 5/12/2002 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a large, soundless, glowing orange dumbbell shaped thing, that looked like two halves hooked together with a metallic cylinder, was observed in Clarkston, rural Asotin County, Washington. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2002 webpage, report uploaded April 27, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_2784 Source: Johnson ### Event 23787 (B3C1E2C0) Date: 6/1/2002 Description: At 3:00 p.m. four brown, connected spheres with several spikes poking out of them were sighted traveling at 300 feet altitude over Brighton, Michigan on a steady course, and completely silent. The sighting was reported to have lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_3213 Source: Johnson ### Event 23788 (78988EBC) Date: 6/4/2002 Description: At 1:03 a.m. on this night in 2002, lights were seen moving toward the east in a zigzagging flight path in Montreal, Quebec. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Research Manitoba website, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case #201 Source ID: Johnson_3287 Source: Johnson ### Event 23789 (639EE5F0) Date: 6/5/2002 Description: On this afternoon at least 45 students said they saw a UFO land in the field behind Fatma Primary School in the Santral district of Antalya, Turkey. Several students, including Murat Esici, 11, saw an "alien being" emerge from the landed craft, emitting red rays from its eyes. It had a very big head, was about 1.80 meters tall, and had hands and feet that looked metallic. Miss Esici temporarily lost her voice immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also claimed they saw an unusual craft with the alien beside it. "His eyes and hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children were overcome with shock after the incident. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2002, citing Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center International Source ID: Johnson_3315 Source: Johnson ### Event 23790 (F683C64E) Date: 6/7/2002 Description: Another daylight disc sighting occurred at 11:45 a.m. in Chatsworth, Los Angeles County, California. It was a large, round domed disc that was seen briefly. It was also described as very shiny with little black jets, and had a small dome on top. The object was rotating at the time, and made no sound at all. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2002 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_3364 Source: Johnson ### Event 23791 (121DB764) Date: 6/8/2002 Description: Dr. Joyce Pugh, a MUFON consultant, reported that on Saturday, June 8, 2002 at about 10:30 p.m. she and her husband were driving on Highway 319 toward Ocilla, Georgia when they sighted unusual lights low in the overcast sky above the trees off to the left near Tifton, Georgia. They were shaped like an elongated triangle with a white light in each corner, and a red light in the bottom center. The lights appeared to be on one object, which slowly moved across the road. They turned off the highway to pursue it. They later sighted two more craft with indistinct lights. They could hear the sound of roaring jet engines apparently coming from the lights/craft, as they seemed to fly along slowly. They went back to the area where they observed the first object and once again observed hovering lights. The lights crossed the road again and then disappeared as Dr. Pugh continued to negotiate traffic. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 87-88, citing John Bodin & Tom Sheets Source ID: Johnson_3381 Source: Johnson ### Event 23792 (20F5CC53) Date: 6/9/2002 Description: The National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington had two reports listed of a UFO landing with short humanoids near Polanuruwa, Sri Lanka on this evening. Two witnesses went to bathe in the nearby river when a UFO appeared overhead making a thundering sound. When it landed two two-foot tall humanoids came out of the craft. Reportedly, "very soon it disappeared." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2002 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_3400 Source: Johnson ### Event 23793 (E96921E2) Date: 6/20/2002 Description: Another missing time experience was reported in Landover, Maryland to the National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 2002 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_3564 Source: Johnson ### Event 23794 (4F05FF44) Date: Summer 2002 Description: Two men see an object over Mosinee, Wisconsin, that shines a straight, 5-foot-wide beam of light on the Wisconsin River like a searchlight. The beam does not change shape as the object goes higher above the water. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 23. Source ID: Eberhart_7389 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23795 (1CADFB6D) Date: 6/24/2002 Description: A luminous white saucer-shaped object zigzagged around the Moon for several minutes in Deerfield Beach, Florida at 11:10 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 2002 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_3646 Source: Johnson ### Event 23796 (F3536DC7) Date: 7/6/2002 Description: At 11:45 pm. several lights "put on a show" over a mountain in Middleton, Nova Scotia. Animal reaction: scared dog. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 251 Source ID: Johnson_3895 Source: Johnson ### Event 23797 (FB78B0B3) Date: 7/6/2002 Description: A dark domed craft a with ramp hovered silently over a Canadian army base near Edmonton, Alberta at 1:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 252 Source ID: Johnson_3894 Source: Johnson ### Event 23798 (FC6AB8C8) Date: 7/7/2002 Description: A disc-shaped UFO appeared on a digital photo of some scenery taken at 11:45 a.m. on Cabin Lake Road, northeast of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. The photo is evaluated as not a hoax. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Jasek Martin, UFOBC; Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2002, case # 352, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_3920 Source: Johnson ### Event 23799 (D2EDAAE5) Date: 7/9/2002 Description: At 12:15 a.m. a strange noise coming from a hovering, triangular light bothered the dogs in the neighborhood in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 2002 web page Source ID: Johnson_3972 Source: Johnson ### Event 23800 (C22B6E5F) Date: 7/12/2002 Description: A scout troop with their scoutmaster saw 26 orange objects fly from south to north slowly, in single file, over Browns Plains, Queensland shortly after 10 p.m. The objects were described as balloon shaped, and glowed orange. There was no sound, and there were no navigation lights on the objects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Sheryl Gottschall Sheryl, UFO Research Queensland website Source ID: Johnson_4022 Source: Johnson ### Event 23801 (91DFECDD) Date: 7/13/2002 Description: Three lights maneuvered, pulsed, and then faded out on a clear night in Paramus, New Jersey at 11:10 p.m. Two of the objects moved slowly toward the northeast at a high altitude. The third object appeared in the northeast sky and flew between the first two, then changed direction and flew toward the north. All objects pulsed brightly and then faded. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (US), October 2002, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_4042 Source: Johnson ### Event 23802 (F3E7A212) Date: 7/17/2002 Description: A bright pulsating ovoid object flew over the river in Perm, Russia at 12:30 a.m. and became obscured by low clouds. Two searchlight beams descended from the sky and scanned the river and nearby homes. After two minutes the beams vanished and the object zoomed away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), October 2002, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_4152 Source: Johnson ### Event 23803 (81946730) Date: 7/21/2002 Description: Argentine Policeman Guillermo Arias was on patrol in Chaj'n, Cordoba Province, Argentina at 11:00 p.m. when a radio call alerted him that police in neighboring Achiras had sighted lights heading toward them. As he was driving his police patrol van he spotted a formation of seven lights, and followed them for 10 kilometers down a rural dirt road when his vehicle's engine died, his dashboard lights and interior lights began turning on and off, and his radio went haywire with the dial displaying random frequencies. The van also filled with an acrid odor like burnt wiring. Badly frightened, Arias ran from his van and in the process lost his mobile phone. At this point an immense light rose from an adjacent field, coming from a large, 200 meter long, triangular object. He described it as looking like a "floating city" with a long row of about 100 windows.

Sr. Arias then saw something moving behind him, which he described as "non-human" in appearance. Numerous beams of light came out of the giant triangle craft, directed at the ground for several seconds. The object suddenly rose and sped away, illuminating the area like daylight. Recovering from his fear, Arias returned to the van and notified his fellow officers of his experience. He was told that reinforcements were being sent out to meet him. Patrolman Barrios from Achiras talked to him over the radio, trying to keep him calm, while Sgt. Medina was the first backup officer to arrive on the scene. He was joined by Sgt. Cordoba, among other officers, who reached the rural location to lend their assistance to their comrade in distress. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, pp. 107-108, citing translation by Scott Corales from Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense Source ID: Johnson_4285 Source: Johnson ### Event 23804 (E2318ECC) Date: 7/26/2002 Description: Famous jet scramble case, but two dogs did not react (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [020726](http://www.nicap.org/ar-020726dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Brandywine, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_5889 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23805 (1AA1CB63) Date: 7/26/2002 Description: 1:00–1:55 a.m. Near Andrews AFB, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C., independent witnesses 8 miles apart become aware of unusual and persistent aircraft activity. In both locations, witnesses see odd lights or objects pursued by one military jet. Two pairs of fighters take off from Andrews at 1:00 a.m., remain airborne for 50 minutes, fly at low altitude using afterburners over residential areas, and pursue an unidentifiable light on three occasions. Gary Dillman, working late shift at a sand-and-gravel operation in Brandywine, Maryland, sees the first two fighters at 1:00 a.m., then at 1:30 a.m. and 1:40 a.m. he sees a glowing, round, hard-edged orange object that one of the fighters is chasing. The pursuit takes place between broken clouds at about 4,000 feet and a light overcast at about 6,000 feet; the unknown object and fighter are about 1–2 miles away. In Waldorf, Maryland, around 1:35 a.m. Renny Rogers feels the walls of his home rattling from a low-flying aircraft and goes out to see a single jet fighter. At 1:40 a.m., he sees a bright, pale-bluish light in the north-northeast moving at a high rate of speed. He calls a neighbor to come watch the display. Soon a fighter comes over his house in obvious pursuit of the light and about 1,000–2,000 feet behind it. The four fighters return to base around 1:50 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kenny Young, “[UFO Violates D.C. Airspace,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2002/09/September%202002.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 413 \(September 2002\): 11; Joan Woodward, “The Washington, D.C., Jet Chase of July 26, 2002,” IUR 27, no. 4 \(Winter 2002–2003\): 3–7, 22–25; Good Need, [pp.](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/394/mode/2up) [394–396](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/394/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7390 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23806 (2D806633) Date: 7/26/2002 Description: UFO Sighting Over Waldorf, MD, radar, scramble mission (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases) Reference: NICAP: [020726](http://www.fufor.com/news.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Waldorf, MD Source ID: NICAP_DB_5890 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23807 (1238DBCB) Date: 7/28/2002 Description: At 3:10 a.m. in a wooded area of Sedona, Arizona the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all white, with black "straight" eyes, and with a black diagonal/diamond strip of "clothing" on top of its head. The man stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then left the area. Prior to seeing the figure, he had seen lights in a large oval shaped pattern in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_4467 Source: Johnson ### Event 23808 (A69FDF25) Date: 7/28/2002 Description: Three girls in Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia had decided to visit their rooftop as they had done the prior evening to watch for satellites. It was around 5:30 p.m. and dusk and the girls had a good vantage point looking towards the east. They had a pair of binoculars and a pair of walkie-talkies with them. The girls first noticed that a large orange light appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The light had fluctuating colors of orange, yellow, white and pale blue. At fist they thought it was an arriving airplane, but then a second light appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10 degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some unusual maneuvers. From a stationary position it accelerated within a second to 5 degrees closer to the ground. The first light then began to move slowly north. They lost sight of it as it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley. This third object appeared to have landed on the ground. The object was viewed through the binoculars and was described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange, blue/purple and white rotating around the rim.

They were suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in an unknown language. Around 6:30 p.m. the girls were called down to have dinner, but at 8:30 p.m. they had gone back up on the roof after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still there. Unexpectedly, a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it was not clear how it happened, but one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another one of the girls woke up the next morning with a nose bleed, and she mentioned that she had seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2002, citing The Australian UFO Research Network Source ID: Johnson_4466 Source: Johnson ### Event 23809 (A588A516) Date: 7/30/2002 Description: At 12:04 a.m. a cylindrical craft with faint lights on both ends zigzagged through the sky over York, Pennsylvania, speeding off and disappearing in about one minute. Beginning at 12:20 a.m. an unexplained triangular object was seen darting around and pinwheeling about in the night sky for two hours over Marstons Mills, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_4515 Source: Johnson ### Event 23810 (DDFEBD7C) Date: 8/2002 Description: Day. Three witnesses in Szczuczyn, Poland, watch a V-shaped object with brilliant white lights at each of its corners moving slowly from west to east with its flat point forward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 99 Source ID: Eberhart_7392 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23811 (4B415A85) Date: 8/2002 Description: The Roper market research firm conducts a telephone poll, sponsored by the Sci-Fi channel, to ask a national sample of adult Americans a series of questions about UFOs and abductions. The results indicate that two-thirds think there are other forms of intelligent life in the universe, 56% think that UFOs are something real, 48% think that UFOs have visited Earth in some form, 11.6% have seen a UFO at close quarters, 72% think the US government is not telling everything it knows about UFOs, and 21% think that humans have been abducted by other life forms. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Attitudes toward ETI, UFOs, and Abductions,” IUR 27, no. 4 \(Winter 2002– 2003\): 10–14 Source ID: Eberhart_7391 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23812 (5D19C13A) Date: 8/5/2002 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a triangular shaped object, large and with exterior lights, was sighted near the water in West Vancouver, British Columbia. It rose vertically. Starting at around 11:15 p.m., many triangle crafts, with lights, were seen flying at tree top level and hovering between Martinsville and Mooresville, Indiana for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2002 web archive Source ID: Johnson_4710 Source: Johnson ### Event 23813 (6FE02FD2) Date: 8/5/2002 End date: 8/18/2002 Description: A third team of Italian researchers, code named EMBLA and led by [Massimo Teodorani](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo%5FTeodorani) and Gloria Nobili, visits Hessdalen, Norway, and collects evidence pointing to an unknown atmospheric light phenomenon “able to produce a luminous power of up to 100 kW.” However, a 2003 analysis by Matteo Leone demonstrates that the lights reported by the EMBLA team are consistent with automobile headlights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Massimo Teodorani, “[A](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/18/jse%5F18%5F2%5Fteodorani.pdf) [Long-Term Scientific Survey of the Hessdalen Phenomenon,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/18/jse%5F18%5F2%5Fteodorani.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 18, no. 2 \(2004\): 217–251; Matteo Leone, “[A Rebuttal of the EMBLA 2002 Report on the Optical Survey in Hessdalen,](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-rebuttal-of-the-EMBLA-2002-report-on-the-optical-Leone/37173f5ea4ebc1950d967c2972b6008d2d7de73c?p2df)” 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_7393 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23814 (FC2AC341) Date: 8/6/2002 Description: A circular or disc-shaped craft was seen on Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania at 5:30 in the morning by a farmer and also three fisherman on the Susquehanna River. It was above the powerlines on top of the mountain; it was round and very still over the lines. Suddenly, it shot away and was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2002 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_4748 Source: Johnson ### Event 23815 (350B8801) Date: 8/11/2002 Description: At 10:55 p.m. a zig-zagging object with red, green and blue lights was seen moving around a farm near a power plant for two minutes in Two Creeks, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2002 Source ID: Johnson_4921 Source: Johnson ### Event 23816 (1CA011A6) Date: 8/11/2002 Description: A mother and daughter in Manalapan, New Jersey saw a shiny spot in the clear sky at 6:00 p.m. that was either silver or white in color. Suddenly more spots appeared in a formation; they had an aura or halo, like a little cloud. Crop circles had been found only a few miles west in Coltsneck. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 11 Source ID: Johnson_4920 Source: Johnson ### Event 23817 (570A9D71) Date: 8/12/2002 Description: Dog frightened during sighting of nocturnal lights (IFO) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [020812](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-020812.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Jackson-Covington, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5891 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23818 (86366153) Date: 8/13/2002 Description: 2:15 a.m. A woman watching the Perseid meteor show in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia, sees a large meteor with a long tail appear out of Ursa Major and arch over her head to the southeast. Suddenly it disappears as if it has passed behind something. She also sees a straight, black line advancing trough the sky, then a “perfect black triangle of gargantuan proportions” crossing directly over the clearing around her house. It is pitch black and enormous, moving only about 10 mph and taking 5 minutes to disappear over the trees to the northwest. Ufologist [Don Ledger](https://www.facebook.com/don.ledger) investigates and finds that radar at Moncton Center in New Brunswick had picked up an unidentified target at that time and place. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Don Ledger, “The Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 3–7 Source ID: Eberhart_7394 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23819 (7190D9E3) Date: 8/13/2002 Description: At one a.m. two silvery luminous objects flew silently over a RV park in Waterville, Nova Scotia, Canada. At 2:15 a.m. at Cow Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada a huge triangular-shaped object blocked out stars as it flew very slowly at 15 km/hour towards the northwest. Its flat side was forward as it flew, and it was absolutely silent. Electrical disturbances were also reported. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman Geoff, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 344 & 345, citing Don Ledger Source ID: Johnson_4993 Source: Johnson ### Event 23820 (DC060AFA) Date: 8/13/2002 Description: Dog retreated into house when black triangle appeared (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [020813](http://www.nicap.org/6704XXdevondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cow Bay, Nova Scotia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5892 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23821 (5BA59D0C) Date: 8/13/2002 Description: Huge Cone-Shaped UFO Tracked on Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [020813](http://www.nicap.org/6704XXdevondir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Cow Bay, Nova Scotia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5893 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23822 (3D97D4CB) Date: 8/24/2002 Description: A very bright white disc-shaped object traversed the sky in The Colony, Texas at four o'clock in the afternoon, about 500-700 feet up, heading toward the North at a fairly fast pace. It was viewed through binoculars by a counseling psychologist and his daughter. It seemed to rotate, and changed from a disk to another shape. It was maneuvering in the sky, and no sound was detected. It was descending to the ground at a 25-degree angle. The winds were out of the south at 5-10 mph on a sunny day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer and David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 5 Source ID: Johnson_5307 Source: Johnson ### Event 23823 (42961C39) Date: 8/25/2002 Description: Peter O'Hanlon sighted four orange glowing triangular objects flying in formation over the outskirts of Waterford, Ireland at 10:05 p.m. The two in the rear moved about erratically, and all four followed a curved trajectory across the sky until out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 137 Source ID: Johnson_5345 Source: Johnson ### Event 23824 (BE41254F) Date: 8/30/2002 Description: At 9:05 p.m. a triangle-shaped aircraft with white lights was sighted hovering low in a field off Route 1 South in Dover, Delaware. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5510 Source: Johnson ### Event 23825 (575137CF) Date: 8/31/2002 Description: A couple, Sergey and Natasha, saw a light appear in window of their kitchen in Kearny, New Jersey at 11:30 p.m. The light came from a brightly lit, disc-shaped object that was flying in the sky. It came out from behind a tree and crossed the part of the sky visible from their window. It was estimated to be larger than apassenger jet, moving west or norhwest and was moving fast. They observed it for 10-15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 21, citing Patrick Huyghe Source ID: Johnson_5545 Source: Johnson ### Event 23826 (27E49F37) Date: 9/5/2002 Description: In Fallon, Nevada a witness reported sighting a dark, very large craft at 11:13 p.m. that he thought at first was a B-52. It was a huge flying triangle with no running lights, but it did have some 7 to 9 dimly lit nodes. It flew at 20 mph making no noise. It was astonishingly close and so large! Total event time was 8 seconds. The witness had a clear view of the side and bottom of the ship, but could not make out the leading edge or rear of the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 91 Source ID: Johnson_5667 Source: Johnson ### Event 23827 (C55B84AB) Date: 9/6/2002 Description: 10:00 p.m. Police in Sampacho, Cordoba, Argentina, receive an alert about a mystery light. They see 7–8 objects over the Cerro Sampacho hovering silently at about 5,000 feet altitude. They have them in view for several minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Argentinsk politi ser åtte UFOer,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Norway/UFO-Nytt%20%28NETI%29/UFO-Nytt%20-%202002%20No%202.pdf)” UFO-nytt, 2002, no. 2, p. 21 Source ID: Eberhart_7395 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23828 (A039B661) Date: 9/9/2002 Description: 10:30 p.m. A family is traveling in a pickup truck northward along Provincial Highway 24 between Achiras and Sampacho, Cordoba, Argentina. In the vicinity of Cerro Aspero, they begin noticing “a very intense red light in the sky” in the southwest. The object looks like an intense red beam with an arc of light on its front section. The observation lasts for several minutes as the light approaches then heads towards hills in the south. \(“[Another UFO Spotted near Sampacho, Argentina,](https://www.ufoinfo.com/roundup/v07/rnd0739.shtml)” UFO Roundup 7, no. 39 Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: September 24, 2002 Source ID: Eberhart_7396 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23829 (A866B52D) Date: 9/9/2002 Description: At 7:02 p.m. the U.S.Coast Guard in Boston received a report of a close encounter off of Moriches Bay, Long Island, New York by two males in a sailboat. A fishing boat skipper heard their dramatic UFO report to the USCG over the radio and relayed the report to the National UFO Reporting Center. (3 reports of this encounter were received at the Center). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5814 Source: Johnson ### Event 23830 (109371DC) Date: 9/10/2002 Description: An airline captain of Aer Lingus flight EIN 566, taking off from Dublin, Ireland at 2:20 p.m., reported a "paraglider" two miles north of runway 10, at an estimated altitude of 1200 feet. A "very slight radar echo" was also detected from the object. There were ground witnesses as well. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_5843 Source: Johnson ### Event 23831 (BC524342) Date: 9/10/2002 Description: At dusk a black flying triangle with three white lights in a triangle formation, and a faint steady red light in the center was sighted in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. It made a flat, 45-degree left hand turn without banking. Later that same evening, a disc-shaped UFO changing colors from purple to green to blue, then with a solid blue with red glow on the trailing edge was seen at 10:50 p.m. on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It moved overhead to the west, then disappeared. It was fast but slower than a meteor. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, pp. 66, 44 Source ID: Johnson_5844 Source: Johnson ### Event 23832 (AA7B4351) Date: 9/11/2002 Description: At 2:00 p.m. a disc-shaped or cigar-shaped object, extremely bright and painful to the eyes even in broad daylight, was seen over Dennisport, Massachusetts. Deep red, pulsating triangles flew over Fort Walton Beach, Florida at 9:30 p.m. At 10:30 p.m. PDT a single object approached from the north-northwest in Pullman, Washington. It twinkled, and sometimes emitted red and blue and gold flashes. It made a 90 degree turn, then stopped and hovered for 20 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5892 Source: Johnson ### Event 23833 (0FB3F31F) Date: 9/15/2002 Description: At about 9:35 p.m. a witness driving a van in Poquoson, Virginia saw a bright light streaking across the sky. Stopped van, watched it travel across sky at an extremely high rate of speed. He contacted Langley Air Force Base who confirmed they had no aircraft up that night. He also contacted the local TV station but they had had no other calls. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 21 Source ID: Johnson_6002 Source: Johnson ### Event 23834 (B98C3605) Date: 9/15/2002 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a husband and wife and their two children were driving home to Mercier, Quebec from their country place near Huntington when the wife sighted what appeared to be really bright stars. After five minutes, as they got closer the two lights ahead changed position, and what she saw gave her shivers. It was a distinct flying triangular shape, with lights at all three corners, unlike any aircraft and larger than a Boeing 747. Her husband said he could "see through it". They all watched the low flying object for 10 minutes as it flew overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer &David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 108; Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 417, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_6001 Source: Johnson ### Event 23835 (1D1CC45D) Date: 9/15/2002 Description: At 2:45 a.m. Denny Unger decided to step outside on a clear and windless night in Leduc, Alberta, Canada. He saw three points of light forming a flying triangle. "My first thought was that I was having a dizing spell, so I refocused, and the lights were there." Thirty seconds later the flying triangle of lights changed direction from north to east, and appeared to blot out stars as it passed them without making any sound. The lights on each tip were solid white, but of low intensity. He had the distinct impression that the corner lights were used to camouflage the object, and it was doing its best not to be seen. It was completely silent. He grabbed his video camera inside the house and began filming the object, but soon lost sight of it as it flew behind a neighbor's house. A triangle formation of lights was all that was captured on video. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 109 Source ID: Johnson_6000 Source: Johnson ### Event 23836 (0F7DBFF1) Date: 9/16/2002 End date: 9/24/2002 Description: Scientists from the University of New Mexico initiate an archaeological dig at the debris field site near Corona, New Mexico, funded by the Sci-Fi channel. The team finds a small number of artifacts of unknown provenance and some soil deformation anomalies, but no furrow or unusual debris. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sci Fi Channel, Sci Fi Declassified: The Roswell Dig Diaries, Pocket Books, 2004; “The Roswell Dig Diaries,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 11 Source ID: Eberhart_7397 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23837 (A884029D) Date: 9/20/2002 Description: At 10:30 a.m. 100 people in Danville, Contra Costa County, California saw a neon orange glowing saucer-shaped object disappear into the hills. The sighting lasted for two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6170 Source: Johnson ### Event 23838 (2B38EF60) Date: 9/20/2002 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a white teardrop shaped object was seen in the sky over Genoa, Italy for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6169 Source: Johnson ### Event 23839 (8CB704A3) Date: 9/24/2002 Description: Two males were driving in Morphett Vale, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia at 8:30 p.m. when they encountered an intense purple flash of light for 4-5 seconds. They pulled the car over and the driver felt ill. Two minutes later there was another flash of light, accompanied by a strange loss of surrounding noises. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Keith Basterfield, Australian UFO Research Network, case 02092 Source ID: Johnson_6302 Source: Johnson ### Event 23840 (47991998) Date: 9/24/2002 Description: At 5:30 p.m. in Dublin, Ireland four black saucer-shaped and shiny UFOs flew in a straight line formation from the southeast to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6303 Source: Johnson ### Event 23841 (412751C0) Date: 9/25/2002 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a white, V-shaped object hovered over Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. It was seen to rotate and then descend. The incident lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 422, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_6336 Source: Johnson ### Event 23842 (8463948C) Date: Late 9/2002 Description: 5:45 p.m. Security Policeman Christopher Cabrera is on guard an entry control point at the Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field \[now Creech AFB\] in Clark County, Nevada. He looks toward the base and sees an amber/red object hovering above it. He stares at it for about 2 minutes then suddenly a red beam shoots out from the orb and hits the side of the nearest mountain. The beam lasts about one minute and Cabrera notices what looked like molten rock dripping from the mountain. The beam abruptly ceases and the orb just disappears. A few seconds later, the molten effect on the mountain also dissipates. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert L. Hastings, “[Triangular-Shaped](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/triangular-shaped-ufo-sighted-at-the-nellis-afb-nuclear-weapons-storage-area) [UFO Sighted at the Nellis AFB Nuclear Storage Area,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/triangular-shaped-ufo-sighted-at-the-nellis-afb-nuclear-weapons-storage-area)” UFOs & Nukes, April 23, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_7398 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23843 (73FA9B22) Date: 9/25/2002 Description: A missing time incident also occurred at 8:30 p.m. local time in Grapevine, Tarrant County, Texas. The witness reported that he was driving when he was approached by blinking lights on a circular UFO. This was followed by a period of missing time, and when he recovered consciousness he and his car were not in the same location as when the CE-4 experience began. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6337 Source: Johnson ### Event 23844 (A493CA27) Date: 9/25/2002 Description: A close encounter in which one of the witnesses shot at the up-close, hovering UFO with his pistol occurred in the early morning hours on this day in Naxcivan, Azerbaijan. The main witness reported, "My friends own an Internet café, and I closed up late that night. It had been raining, but the rain stopped as I left the café at 3:30 a.m." It was a very dark night, and when he looked up he saw a huge disc-shaped object, 500-600 meters in diameter, hovering overhead. It was so close that it blocked the rain. He saw one man shoot his pistol at it about eight times, and the UFO started to move away, where upon it started to rain again. "The police came and arrested the man. I'm 100% sure this was a UFO." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 45 Source ID: Johnson_6335 Source: Johnson ### Event 23845 (82E0C933) Date: 9/26/2002 Description: Several orange objects were sighted in a huge V formation over Taylorville, Utah beginning at 9:15 p.m. MDT. They moved slowly and then hovered, staying in straight lines. A low humming sound was heard during the event, which lasted for about an hour. At about the same time, at 8:21 p.m. PDT, 4 or 5 rectangles connected by a thin filament were seen moving over Wheeler Springs in Ojai, California. The formation was one degree of arc in length, and the objects were seen moving slowly through the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 91, citing NUFORC; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6368 Source: Johnson ### Event 23846 (A5B71596) Date: 10/2002 Description: A “three-foot diameter orb” quickly moves along the perimeter fences of Area 2, a weapons storage area of the Nevada Test Site \[now the Nevada National Security Site\]. It eventually outpaces the security teams that attempt to pursue it in Humvees. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 513 Source ID: Eberhart_7399 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23847 (009CE5FA) Date: 10/1/2002 Description: The US Strategic Command is restricted by Secretary of Defense [Donald Rumsfeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FRumsfeld), merging with the US Space Command and assuming all duties for full-spectrum global strike, operational space support, missile defense, intelligence, and planning. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States Strategic Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FStrategic%5FCommand\#History)” Source ID: Eberhart_7400 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23848 (8EAD6FCA) Date: 10/4/2002 Description: 7:06 p.m. A rotating CCTV camera at Terminal 2 in Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Sabah, Malaysia, records a video of an oblong object passing by in seconds. No unusual object is tracked by the airport radar. A security guard sees the object moving silently west to east before disappearing in the hills. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Patrick Gross, “[Radar/Visual/Camera UFO Case at Airport in Malaysia?](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/malaysiaoct2002.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7401 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23849 (52CDB44C) Date: 10/10/2002 Description: Day. A military pilot off the coast of Southern California or Baja California, Mexico, is looking down at the ocean at a 78° angle and sees, at a 7,238-foot visual slant range, a submerged, white, egg-shaped object about 20–50 feet below the surface. It is about 130 by 200 feet in size and appears silent and stationary. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “[A BAASS Data Report of a 2002 Submerged Egg-Shaped Object in the SOCAL OPEAREA,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-baass-database-report-of-2002.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, May 13, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7402 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23850 (74C79502) Date: 10/16/2002 Description: Rear Adm. [Thomas R. Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FR.%5FWilson), who has retired as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency on July 29, has a meeting in Paradise, Nevada, with [Eric W. Davis](https://earthtech.org/pubs/davis/) of EarthTech International Inc., an astrophysicist who is a member of the National Institute for Discovery Science and an associate of [Harold E. Puthoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff). He talks about his previous meetings with Cmdr. Will Miller, in which he admits he was denied access to an Unacknowledged Special Access Program dealing with reverse engineering an alien craft. Davis takes 15 pages of notes, which are leaked to researcher Grant Cameron and others in April 2019. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Eric W. Davis, “[Eric Davis Meeting with Adm.](https://imgur.com/a/ggIFTfQ) [Wilson](https://imgur.com/a/ggIFTfQ)” \[notes\], Imgur, April 19, 2019; Richard Dolan, “[The Wilson Leak: Latest Developments,](https://richarddolanmembers.com/articles/the-wilson-leak-latest-developments/)” Richard Dolan Member Forum, June 19, 2019; “[The Admiral Wilson Leak: Evidence of USAPs \(Unacknowledged Special](https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/the-admiral-wilson-leak-evidence-of-saps-special-access-programs-reverse-engineering/) [Access Programs\) and Reverse Engineering of Extraterrestrial Technologies,](https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/the-admiral-wilson-leak-evidence-of-saps-special-access-programs-reverse-engineering/)” Metallicman, December 23, 2019; Joe Murgia, “[The Wilson/Davis Documents: My Twenty-Three Year Journey, Part 1,](https://www.ufojoe.net/wilsondavis1)” [Part 2](https://www.ufojoe.net/wilsondavis2), UFO Joe, June 21, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7403 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23851 (22D2F678) Date: 10/18/2002 Description: A fall of angel hair covers a large area of Alessandria, Italy, including roofs, cars, and trees. A sample is recovered and examined by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche in Parma and shows “unequivocally” that the filaments are not organic, but similar to synthetic polymer textile fibers. They have a clear alternation of bright and dark segments. The Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale in Turin disputes the finding and proclaims the material spider web. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 \(2006\): 108 Source ID: Eberhart_7404 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23852 (A21DF043) Date: 10/22/2002 Description: At 10:25 p.m. in Granisle, British Columbia a large glowing orange disc hovered over an old copper mine on an island in the lake. It rose up, stopped, moved sideways, then dropped down. The intensity of its light changed when it moved. It cast a reflection on the lake, and finally flew off toward the north at a low altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine, February 2003, p. 23; Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 447, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_7031 Source: Johnson ### Event 23853 (A95D607B) Date: 10/23/2002 Description: In Woodbridge, Suffolk, England a large silver triangle-shaped object was sighted at 7:04 a.m., which then changed shape. It was clouded in a pink and green haze. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defence case files, case 2002-077 Source ID: Johnson_7063 Source: Johnson ### Event 23854 (BE4E14E3) Date: 10/23/2002 Description: 7:40 p.m. Pilot Thomas J. Preziose takes off from Mobile, Alabama, in a Cessna 208B single-engine cargo plane en route to Montgomery. Six minutes later, he collides with an unknown object at 3,000 feet and descends uncontrolled into swampy water in the Big Bateau Bay in Spanish Fort, Alabama. The pilot’s final words are: “Night Ship 282, I needed to deviate, I needed to deviate.” A strange red residue \(“transfer marks”\) is found coating at least 14 different areas of the downed airplane that are widely separated in location both inside and outside the aircraft. The engine block has been split. The final NTSB report indicates that the accident is caused by pilot disorientation. However, an independent investigation finds numerous discrepancies with regard to both the FAA documentation and the NTSB investigation. The composition of the red residue is variously found to be tere- and isophthalate polymer with possible presence of inorganic silicate compounds; and epoxy material with some inorganic silicate filters. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[NTSB Solves Riddle of ‘02 Small-Plane Crash,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/01/11/ntsb-solves-riddle-of-02-small-plane-crash/89fb2ba0-4352-4b1d-83a6-087161156d1a/)” Washington Post, January 11, 2006; Kean, [pp. 61–62](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/60/mode/2up); Marcus Lowth, “[Just What Did Happen to Tom Preziose? Contact, or Cover-Up?](https://www.ufoinsight.com/ufos/cover-ups/tom-preziose-contact-cover)” UFO Insight, November 8, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_7405 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23855 (6D26A936) Date: 10/29/2002 Description: At 10:00 p.m. three objects with rotating rings of light were sighted over Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They descended one at a time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 448 Source ID: Johnson_7293 Source: Johnson ### Event 23856 (EED3BD05) Date: 10/29/2002 Description: A witness named Ed reported that on the evening of October 29, at about 5:20 p.m., he sighted two triangle-shaped object flying over his home, located 15 miles southeast of Spokane, Washington. Ov the hills to the east he first noticed a very bright light on an object heading WSW. It had a bright white headlight, and what looked like normal red and green navigation lights on the wing tips, a white strobe light on the bottom, and dim white lights on the underside corners. He also heard what sounded like a muted jet aircraft engine sound. However, what seemed out of place was the extremely bright, single headlight on the nose, not the normal landing lights. Within a minute he saw a second similar craft with three dim lights in the corners, and no discernable fuselage. He contacted Fairchild AFB and talked with the Public Affairs officer, who basically said that unless an unidentified aircraft appeared on their radar, "we don't care!" He added, "I just want to emphasize that the B-2 and the F-117 fighter have a distinctive 'saw-tooth' pattern to the trailing edge of their wings. The craft which I observed appeared to have a perfectly straight trailing edge--just like a triangle and was at least as large as the B-2." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, pp. 60-61 Source ID: Johnson_7292 Source: Johnson ### Event 23857 (484945D9) Date: 10/31/2002 Description: Astronomers [Margaret C. Turnbull](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%5FTurnbull) and [Jill Tarter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%5FTarter) publish a catalog of nearby habitable stellar systems, each at least 3 billion years old, stable, and supporting liquid water on the surface of a habitable planet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Margaret C. Turnbull and Jill C. Tarter, “[Target Selection for SETI: 1. A Catalog of Nearby Habitable Stellar Systems,](https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210675)” arXiv, October 31, 2002 Source ID: Eberhart_7406 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23858 (7B782BD7) Date: 11/2002 Description: After an audit, photoanalyst [François Louange](http://www.ipaco.fr/page38.html) recommends the reactivation and redevelopment of SEPRA. The report is picked up by the French press. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7407 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23859 (42861246) Date: 11/1/2002 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a witness in Grenade sur L'Adour, Landes, France saw a ball of fire having several flashing lights. It made several comings and goings, and disappeared after 30 seconds. This observation also was made by pilots. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 369 Source ID: Johnson_7405 Source: Johnson ### Event 23860 (4034E5DE) Date: 11/1/2002 Description: Hundreds of people saw a silvery UFO flying rapidly over the cities of Cachoeirinha, Canoas, and Gravatai, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil. The same day, at 4:35 p.m., a silver metallic UFO was spotted by Eduardo Enderle Oliveira on the South Atlantic shore in the town of Praia do Cassino, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil. It was a metallic fuselage or cigar-shaped object with no wings, and was seen by several beachgoers. It flew at a high altitude and had a brilliant gleam (reflecting sunlight); as it departed it seemed to diminish in size to a brilliant sphere. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: O Globo, November 19, 2002; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 7, number 48 (November 26, 2002), www. ufoinfo.com/roundup/; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 125 Source ID: Johnson_7404 Source: Johnson ### Event 23861 (C8A5866E) Date: 11/1/2002 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a triangle-shaped UFO flew across the sky toward the mountains in Arroyo, Puerto Rico and was sighted by multiple witnesses. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7406 Source: Johnson ### Event 23862 (2D39E2AE) Date: 11/1/2002 Description: Silently gliding boomerang or V-Shaped objects were seen in several cities on this night, from Wilmington, North Carolina at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Williamsburg, Virginia at 9:45 p.m. EST, to Las Vegas, Nevada over the Bellagio Hotel at 9:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. There were four chevron-shaped objects over Wilmington, which had an orange glow. The object in Williamsburg glided slowly over the city, then vanished instantly. One side of the "V" was shorter than other. It had 7 pale yellow lights on one side and 5 on the other; the lights were oblong shaped, not circular. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7407 Source: Johnson ### Event 23863 (2418D5B6) Date: 11/1/2002 Description: Journalists in Yining, Xinjiang, China photographed a bright ball of light with "yellow, blue and pink lights." It hovered for several hours, changing sizes several times. At 6:00 a.m. it enlarged, then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), February 2003, p. 22, citing Filer's Files Source ID: Johnson_7402 Source: Johnson ### Event 23864 (6D0949E9) Date: 11/1/2002 Description: In Perth, Western Australia a rectangular-shaped object with three lights, two on either side that were always visible, turned red for 10 seconds. The sighting happened at 11:50 p.m. local time, and lasted for 90 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7403 Source: Johnson ### Event 23865 (F59F116B) Date: 11/6/2002 Description: A bright light moved erratically through the sky at great speeds at Sharm Ash Shaykh on the southern tip of the Sinai Pennisula in Egypt. The acceleration and deceleration of the light was incredible. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_7521 Source: Johnson ### Event 23866 (96D0E158) Date: 11/8/2002 Description: The Sci Fi channel sponsors a symposium on “Interstellar Travel and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Science Fiction or Science Fact?” at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Speakers include astrophysicist [Richard Conn Henry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FConn%5FHenry), theoretical physicist [Michio Kaku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio%5FKaku)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio%5FKaku) astrophysicist [Bernard Haisch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FHaisch), computer scientist [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e), aviation expert [John Callahan](https://ufology.fandom.com/wiki/John%5FCallahan)[,](https://ufology.fandom.com/wiki/John%5FCallahan) and physicist [Peter Sturrock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FA.%5FSturrock)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “GWU’s SciFi UFO Symposium,” IUR 27, no. 3 \(Fall 2002\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_7408 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23867 (6F154CFE) Date: 11/9/2002 Description: A family in Arkansas City, Kansas observed an immense boomerang-shaped craft at 9:30 p.m. It was silent, lightless, with a shape that blocked out the stars behind it as it flew by. They later saw the same object flying to the southeast, directly over their house. Their dogs barked frantically during the fly-over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (US), February 2003, p. 22 Source ID: Johnson_7586 Source: Johnson ### Event 23868 (7B66040A) Date: 11/13/2002 Description: At 6:15 p.m. in Hacienda Heights, Turnball Canyon, California a huge round orange object with lots of red and white lights around it was sighted. It was round like an upside- down bowl, and was charcoal gray with red lights around the rim. It emitted white light beams as if it was looking for something, and was as big as a hot air balloon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 136 Source ID: Johnson_7656 Source: Johnson ### Event 23869 (8588EB26) Date: 11/13/2002 Description: At 1:20 a.m. at the Burger King parking lot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, patrons noticed a big, black sphere hovering in mid air in their rearview mirror. They got out of their car and again saw it hovering. After a moment, it just vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 18 Source ID: Johnson_7655 Source: Johnson ### Event 23870 (385D4718) Date: 11/13/2002 Description: At 7:10 p.m. a huge triangle was seen moving toward a busy intersection in Bloomington, Indiana. It was flying in a southeast direction, and had two red lights, one on each tip of the trailing edge. There was an amber light in the center of craft that was constantly changing shape. It was too fast and low for a blimp, according to the witness. Its estimated altitude was only 20 feet. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 101 Source ID: Johnson_7658 Source: Johnson ### Event 23871 (2682CF6C) Date: 11/13/2002 Description: A mother and daughter in Flint, Michigan observed a disc-shaped object hovering over their house at 10:35 p.m. It was estimated to be 50 feet in diameter and had many white and red lights. It flew to the west slowly for two minutes, just above the treeline, making a humming noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (US), February 2003, p. 22, citing Filer's Files Source ID: Johnson_7659 Source: Johnson ### Event 23872 (2C3F9B6E) Date: 11/13/2002 Description: At 7:00 p.m. in San Pedro, California a set of 7-10 flashing red lights in a triangular shape were sighted moving silently and slowly to the south. Small planes were seen in the same area of the sky at the same time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2002 webpage; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 62 Source ID: Johnson_7657 Source: Johnson ### Event 23873 (48F20E3B) Date: 11/15/2002 Description: On this day in Lonquimay, La Araucania Province, Chile a circular scorched imprint 30 meters in diameter was found on the ground. There were burned patches in the grass, and scorched tree trunks. Inside were four smaller circles, equidistant apart, that were not scorched but free of snow. The radiation level was high. The Chilean military bars entry to the site by civilians. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (US), March 2003, p. 22, citing Filer's Files Source ID: Johnson_7710 Source: Johnson ### Event 23874 (D9CFAA04) Date: 11/16/2002 Description: A boomerang-shaped object surrounded by mist is seen in the Old Town district of Rzeszów, Poland. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 92 Source ID: Eberhart_7409 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23875 (6D37E9DC) Date: 11/20/2002 Description: At 5:45 p.m. a silent, triangular shaped object was sighted over Merritt, British Columbia. As the witness watched over a two minute period there was an accumulation of shimmering red lights in the three apexes of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2002 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_7761 Source: Johnson ### Event 23876 (68513150) Date: 11/21/2002 Description: In Vinita, Oklahoma at 3:30 p.m. a bright cigar-shaped object hovered in the sky, then sped off at very high rate of speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7785 Source: Johnson ### Event 23877 (F34AD2AD) Date: 11/21/2002 Description: 7:00 p.m. [James Bunnell](https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/files/bunnell-james/) sees a pulsating light on the side of a mesa near Marfa, Texas. It is yellow and hovers for 8–10 minutes, then begins descending, blinks out, and reappears as a bright red light that lasts only 2–3 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: James Bunnell, Hunting Marfa Lights, Lacey, 2009, [pp. 67–68](https://archive.org/details/huntingmarfaligh0000bunn/page/66/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7410 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23878 (D1F4DCE7) Date: 11/22/2002 Description: Tim Edwards reported that his daughter, Brandy Edwards, and their cousin, Sashay Rauter, first noticed a very bright tube of intense white light 30 degrees above the horizon, while driving four miles past Wilkerson Pass on Highway 24 in the South Park Basin, Colorado at 5:30 p.m. "The UFO was 2 to 3 times brighter than the illuminated vapor trails [by the setting sun] in the area, and clearly not diffused...the object didn't appear to move during the duration of the sighting, staying in a fixed horizontal position." He then stopped and videotaped it from two locations: on Highway 24 40 miles east of Buena Vista, Colorado, and again about 30 miles east of it. It had the apparent size of something one-quarter of an inch long held at arm's length. Other objects were observed around the main object, but they were not real clear with the naked eye and they didn't have binoculars. "As close as I could tell, the object was 40 to 50 miles away, which would have put it over Buena Vista, Colorado or west of it. In the video it appears that a plasma field or something was surrounding the object and two barbell-shaped objects are with it and staionary in conjunction with it." The video did not show the intense white cigar in it, but rather a red and tan colored envelope. The object graduatlly diminished and disappeared before their eyes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, pp. 126-127; Christopher O'Brien, Christopher O'Brien's case files, case # 654 Source ID: Johnson_7825 Source: Johnson ### Event 23879 (9E001D89) Date: 11/22/2002 Description: At 8:50 p.m. several hundred witnesses observed the overflight of a ring-shaped UFO over the port city of Santos, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. It had alternating yellow, white and blue lights. It flew toward the southwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 125 Source ID: Johnson_7824 Source: Johnson ### Event 23880 (9488BB92) Date: 11/25/2002 Description: Fourteen-year-old Amy saw a slow flying equilateral triangle in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It was medium gray (not black), silent, and flying toward the east-southeast lower than the normal landing pattern. She saw it for three seconds, and it gave her "the chills" seeing it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 61 Source ID: Johnson_7927 Source: Johnson ### Event 23881 (DF5F458C) Date: 11/27/2002 Description: In Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia three witnesses saw four silver ovals in a diamond formation. They heard a snap noise, and a white flying triangle with rounded corners and dark ovoid highlights appeared out of nowhere. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 66 Source ID: Johnson_7975 Source: Johnson ### Event 23882 (F592A14E) Date: 11/28/2002 Description: Night. Two policemen in Buenos Aires, Argentina, see a large light maneuvering in the sky and emitting colored sparks before it approaches their patrol car. The light reverses its course, and the engine and headlights fail. About 30 minutes later, the object moves away, the car starts again, and the siren suddenly comes on. The UFO paces them to one side before it finally disappears. Five police cars are involved in the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_7411 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23883 (F4547F68) Date: 11/28/2002 Description: At 10:30 a.m. a large, black, flying wing was seen low over a field near a highway south of St. Cloud, Minnesota during the daytime. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_8018 Source: Johnson ### Event 23884 (4237AFAC) Date: 11/28/2002 Description: In Niles, Illinois Walter Lawrence witnessed a formation of four cylindrical or cigar-shaped UFOs at 3:30 p.m. which were seen north-northeast of O'Hare International Airport for 45 seconds. They hung in the sky, made no sound, then three of them shot off rapidly to the east. The fourth went south and was lost from view in the haze. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 126, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_8019 Source: Johnson ### Event 23885 (5A6D30B1) Date: 11/29/2002 Description: Three disc-shaped lights flew through the sky over a 10 minute period in Mount Wolf, York County, Pennsylvania beginning at 10:00 p.m.; a fourth appeared, all flew a pattern. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_8056 Source: Johnson ### Event 23886 (C44C919E) Date: 12/2/2002 End date: 12/13/2002 Description: The Sci Fi channel airs a fictional miniseries about UFOs and abductions titled Taken, produced by [Steven Spielberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FSpielberg)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FSpielberg) The show takes place from 1944 to 2002 and follows the lives of three families: the Crawfords, who seek to cover up the Roswell crash and the existence of aliens; the Keys, who are subject to frequent experimentation by the aliens; and the Clarkes, who sheltered one of the surviving aliens from the crash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Taken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken%5F%28miniseries%29) [\(miniseries\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken%5F%28miniseries%29)”; Internet Movie Database, “[Taken](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289830/)” Source ID: Eberhart_7412 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23887 (F1BFFD7F) Date: 12/2/2002 Description: At 6:00 a.m. a woman in La Grange, Georgia saw a stationary blinking light through pine trees that flashed every 8 seconds. Her husband and two associates saw a triangular craft zip silently across the sky at 6:25 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 62 Source ID: Johnson_8152 Source: Johnson ### Event 23888 (7F188C83) Date: 12/8/2002 Description: Dogs began howling and at about the same time, an odd cyclic humming sound was heard (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [021208](http://www.nicap.org/ar-021208dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Bellingham, WA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5894 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23889 (3459564A) Date: 12/26/2002 Description: Roswell, New Mexico, witness [Walter G. Haut](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/w/walterhaut.htm) signs an affidavit that asserts he had seen bodies recovered from the 1947 crash in a temporary morgue at Roswell Army Air Field. Haut dies December 15, 2005, and the affidavit is released by his family. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the Government’s Biggest Cover-Up, New Page, 2007, pp. 215–217 Source ID: Eberhart_7413 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23890 (13B87C62) Date: 12/31/2002 Description: At 1:30 p.m. in Buena Park, California a silver disc was seen hovering in an upright position. The disc then leveled out and moved quickly off to the southeast. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2002; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 6 Source ID: Johnson_8686 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 2003 (Back to Top) ### Event 23891 (B428957A) Date: 1/2/2003 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a disc-shaped craft with lights around the perimeter flew over Winnebago, Minnesota and was sighted by two witnesses. The lights on the UFO changed color from white to red to green to blue. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_47 Source: Johnson ### Event 23892 (D00F9CF0) Date: 1/2/2003 Description: At 4:30 p.m. CST a dark gray, cigar-shaped UFO was sighted hovering over some fields in Garfield county, and were seen from a highway running between Enid and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_45 Source: Johnson ### Event 23893 (615E4361) Date: 1/2/2003 Description: A pale blue, oval-shaped object made right-angled turns in the sky over Wyreema, Australia at 10 p.m. for a few seconds, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_44 Source: Johnson ### Event 23894 (1C9B2F57) Date: 1/2/2003 Description: At 4:05 p.m. local time a man took a photograph of a spherical UFO over Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_43 Source: Johnson ### Event 23895 (F22F689D) Date: 1/2/2003 Description: At 5:20 p.m. PST two black triangular craft flew above San Jose, California at an altitude estimated to be above 30,000 feet. They hovered, then moved very slowly toward the east, and then reversed direction moving slowly toward the west. Two hours later a huge cigar-shaped flying object with 3-5 blindingly bright horizontal lights flew low overhead in Los Angeles, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_46 Source: Johnson ### Event 23896 (55AB14BA) Date: 1/4/2003 Description: In Fulton, Missouri Bob Simon, age 25, awoke at three a.m. while he was being dragged towards the bedroom window by an unknown intruder. He looked up to see a very tall thin humanoid with red eyes, no mouth, and a gray body. It had huge hands with very long fingers. Recovering his senses, Simon struggled with the alien and managed to grab a small knife next to his bed and stab at the alien. The alien seemed to have been hurt, and relaxed his grip on Simon. There was a sudden blast of bright light and the creature vanished. Simon claimed to have scratch marks on his body. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing UFO Watch Source ID: Johnson_103 Source: Johnson ### Event 23897 (13C85334) Date: 1/4/2003 Description: At 2:40 a.m. PST three large, white circular UFOs hovered in the sky over Rosswood, British Columbia. In San Isidro, Texas at 5:15 a.m. twelve oval-shaped objects moved around in the sky for over one hour. Eleven or more bright objects moved across the sky in formation in clear daylight in Chula Vista, California at 2:30 in the afternoon. That evening at 9:41 p.m., in Bayport, New York, two glowing objects chased each other, swirled around, and danced in the night sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, January 2003 website Source ID: Johnson_102 Source: Johnson ### Event 23898 (588F9DC9) Date: 1/5/2003 Description: At 1:13 a.m. a witness in Plain Dealing, Louisiana reported several multi-colored lights maneuvering in the sky under the cloud cover. They made no sound, and were red, blue, and green in color. They moved up, down, side-to-side, and stopped to hover at times, but made no fast movements. The sighting lasted 54 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2003 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_158 Source: Johnson ### Event 23899 (E0933789) Date: 1/5/2003 Description: At 3:08 a.m in Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada a small, bright, crescent-shaped object was sighted moving fast through the sky. It looped, flashed, and turned fast for 45 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_159 Source: Johnson ### Event 23900 (A01D5E57) Date: 1/6/2003 Description: The witness's car headlights and engine died when an ovoid UFO approached the car in Moundville, Alabama at 4:00 a.m. Two egg-shaped objects were later seen moving in a Z pattern in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2003 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_177 Source: Johnson ### Event 23901 (675E681E) Date: 1/8/2003 Description: At 7:00 p.m. in Williamsburg, Ohio a UFO was reportedly seen in the sky for five minutes that appeared shaped like an ordinary airplane, but could hover, levitate upwards, and back up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_217 Source: Johnson ### Event 23902 (B12D6A5C) Date: 1/8/2003 Description: At 6:15 p.m. in Spicewood, Texas a cylindrical object with lights appeared in the sky for three minutes, and then vanished abruptly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_216 Source: Johnson ### Event 23903 (3F8A4C2F) Date: 1/8/2003 Description: At 3:30 p.m. a reflective metallic craft was sighting high in the sky over the mountains in Santa Barbara, California and at 10:00 p.m. in Union City, California a UFO was seen entering a triangular shaped light. The light then pinched shut and vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_215 Source: Johnson ### Event 23904 (421147E4) Date: 1/8/2003 Description: At 10:21 a.m. a triangular craft with a light on each corner hovered silently over Dardanelle, Arkansas. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_214 Source: Johnson ### Event 23905 (96B2DA5D) Date: 1/16/2003 Description: Several interesting cases occurred on this day. At 4:25 a.m. in Marbella, Spain a round UFO with three flower petal-like shapes around its center was seen in the sky for five minutes. It was silver in color with black circles, and a silver framework was visible on the object. At 1:34 a.m. EST in Westchester county, New York a witness in Portchester sighted a large dark object in the night sky with a watery reflection. It looked to be cylindrical in shape. At 4:30 p.m. in Wildrose, North Dakota a man called to report that he saw a gray triangular UFO in the sky that was making a buzzing or humming noise. He reported that he got to within an eighth of a mile of the object before it flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, web-page archive for January 2003 Source ID: Johnson_357 Source: Johnson ### Event 23906 (0DC6D4BA) Date: 1/22/2003 Description: The witness had just left work and was driving home when he reached a place by a small lake in Prospect, Connecticut at 10:03 p.m. He noticed someone walking along the road so he flashed on his high beams. He then saw the figure walk out from the side of the road, stop in the center for a second, then continue across. It was grayish in color and it was walking on two legs, but it ambulated like an ape walks, swaying as it walked erect. The feet were small with brownish-black areas on the side. When it reached the other side it stopped and looked at the witness, waving its skinny arms. Lights appeared behind it. The man described the creature as around six feet tall, with large, foot-long pointy ears. The eyes were dark black with no apparent nose. Although the weather was cold, the witness did not see any condensed breath come from its small mouth. The mouth had a red silver strip on top. As the witness drove by he looked back to see the creature still standing by the road, and the woods behind the creature suddenly lit up like day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_433 Source: Johnson ### Event 23907 (25C8F816) Date: 1/22/2003 Description: Starting at 9:16 p.m. a bell-shaped UFO with four lights was viewed for 26 minutes over Crawfordsville, Indiana. At 10:00 p.m. a videotape was made of a round, red light that emitted a shower of lights in Oxnard, California. The object moved back and forth in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, January 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_434 Source: Johnson ### Event 23908 (F662A848) Date: 1/24/2003 Description: At 6:13 p.m. a black equilateral triangle with three glowing white dome lights on the tips of its apexes, plus a small red blinking light and a small constant red light was sighted over Kingston, Ontario by a woman. It flew just above the treeline, and passed silently, directly over her car. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, January 2003 web archive Source ID: Johnson_503 Source: Johnson ### Event 23909 (7FF056F8) Date: 1/26/2003 Description: Anatoly Yurevich awoke in the middle of the night in Karaganda, Kazakhstan to the sounds of footsteps, then saw a two foot tall creature standing at the side of his bed. It was very heavy set, perhaps weighing as much as 115 kilos (250 lbs.). His dog hid under the bed blankets shaking with fear. The creature touched his knee and then pulled on the blanket. It then vanished in full view. After a couple of minutes the witness felt a severe pain in his lower abdomen. His dog growled for 20 minutes after the incident, after which he was able to go back to sleep. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing RU.UFO Guest book entries Source ID: Johnson_541 Source: Johnson ### Event 23910 (97A9AE2E) Date: 1/27/2003 Description: The witness was asleep in bed with her boyfriend at their home in Florida when she suddenly awoke and looked at the doorway and noticed two creatures that were "squishy" in appearance. They were dark colored and about three feet tall. By her bedside there was another creature, who was very tall, thin, and with large yellow eyes. It was between gray and lime-green in color. Terrified, she pulled the covers over her head, but suddenly she did not feel afraid anymore. She then felt very confused and does not know if she left her bed, but she could not speak. At one point she was lying on her stomach and something was being inserted in her rectum. When her fear returned a creature that somehow was made to appear human comforted her, telling her not to be afraid that she would not be hurt. The tall creature seemed very comforting towards the witness. He stood over her, patted her on her head and told her telepathically that they were not yet done. Soon she found herself back on her bed, very scared and confused. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing website Great Dreams.Com, Stories Source ID: Johnson_549 Source: Johnson ### Event 23911 (C7FC1A5C) Date: 1/31/2003 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a large white object like two saucers rim to rim flew slowly at a low level over a farm field and farmhouses in Villeneuve, Alberta, Canada. There were two witnesses and the sighting lasted almost two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18191; Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case 40, citing Alberta UFO Study Group Source ID: Johnson_646 Source: Johnson ### Event 23912 (126E9D5E) Date: 1/31/2003 Description: 10:30 p.m. Two witnesses in Villeneuve, Alberta, watch a large white object described as “two saucers rim to rim” move slowly through a farmyard and over some houses, then out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7414 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23913 (8E2198FC) Date: 2/8/2003 Description: 1:00 a.m. Carlos Eduardo Montilho wakes up in his home in Guará I, Brasilia, Brazil, to tend to his dog in the backyard. An intense white light comes down about 23 feet in front of him that is attached to an oval object abut 10 feet in diameter. The grass stirs beneath it as if blown by wind, and it is making a humming sound. His wife starts screaming for him to get back inside. He retreats to the kitchen, where they both watch the object for 3 minutes before it rises slowly and disappears. The dog is asleep the entire time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil 400–402 Source ID: Eberhart_7415 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23914 (05447A0A) Date: 2/9/2003 Description: At 2:10 a.m. three witnesses in Indian Mountain, New Brunswick, Canada saw a smooth, round orange ball which moved through the sky and descended slowly into the trees. The sighting lasted seven minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 49 Source ID: Johnson_790 Source: Johnson ### Event 23915 (002B7FBF) Date: 2/11/2003 Description: In Victoria, British Columbia, Canada two witnesses watched two lights at 7:58 p.m., moving southwest performing manuevers. They split apart, came together again, then instantly vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case 53, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_850 Source: Johnson ### Event 23916 (B51E99ED) Date: 2/11/2003 Description: A failed alien abduction attempt was alleged in a report filed with the National UFO Reporting Center: "I was almost abducted, along with my friends, I think we all feared for our life." The experience reportedly occurred at 12:13 a.m. in Merrillville, Indiana. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, February 2003 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_849 Source: Johnson ### Event 23917 (1F34DA89) Date: 2/12/2003 Description: At 9:03 p.m. a dark triangular craft with structure underneath flew silently over Vancouver, British Columbia. There were two witnesses and the incident lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case 55, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_887 Source: Johnson ### Event 23918 (1D709C5C) Date: 2/12/2003 Description: 9:02 p.m. A dark triangular object with some sort of structured undercarriage is seen flying over Vancouver, British Columbia. It is in view for 3 minutes by two witnesses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7416 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23919 (E5A3703B) Date: 2/13/2003 Description: A police crime scene technician in Seattle, Washington was driving home from a crime scene at 2:30 a.m. when it started to rain. His car suddenly began making weird noises and the car radio turned on automatically, scanning through numerous stations at a rate of one a second. Lights inside and outside the car were also flashing. When he looked up he saw a huge triangular-shaped object above the car. In a few seconds blinding blue lights distracted the witness. The next thing he remembers all action suddenly stopped, and his car was parked on the side of the road with everything switched off. When he looked at his watch it was 3:03 a.m. He had lost track of 33 minutes of time. He turned his car engine on and drove back to his office. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_909 Source: Johnson ### Event 23920 (BFF2C7B7) Date: 2/15/2003 Description: The National Air Intelligence Center becomes the National Air and Space Intelligence Center \(NASIC\), which coordinates a “wide variety of complex space/counterspace analytical activities.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[National Air](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FAir%5Fand%5FSpace%5FIntelligence%5FCenter) [and Space Intelligence Center](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%5FAir%5Fand%5FSpace%5FIntelligence%5FCenter)” Source ID: Eberhart_7417 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23921 (683B48ED) Date: 2/15/2003 Description: A shiny metallic oval object was sighted over the Florida Everglades from Fort Lauderdale, Florida at 3:37 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Mar. 2003 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_936 Source: Johnson ### Event 23922 (AA25E7BF) Date: 2/16/2003 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a huge "jet black" triangular UFO with lights came slowly toward a witness driving on 109th Avenue NE in surburban Juanita, Washington. He pulled his truck to the side of highway and watched the craft for 30 seconds. It made no sound and it had a yellow searchlight on the front apex that moved its beam of light, and then went out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2003 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_955 Source: Johnson ### Event 23923 (E61F88E8) Date: 2/19/2003 Description: At 9:20 a.m. a fast, low-flying gray cigar-shaped object, moving like a cruise missile, flew north across the fields of Raymore, Saskatchewan, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 65 Source ID: Johnson_1017 Source: Johnson ### Event 23924 (7A77510A) Date: 2/19/2003 Description: 9:20 a.m. A fast-moving silvery object “like a cruise missile” flies swiftly across snow-covered fields near Raymore, Saskatchewan, heading north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7418 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23925 (31DF3FA1) Date: 2/25/2003 Description: 7:30 p.m. A witness in downtown Bremerton, Washington, looks up and sees a triangular object with a light at each point flying silently over Naval Submarine Base Bangor \[now Naval Base Kitsap\] on the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, at an altitude of 800–1,000 feet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, March 4, 2003; Nukes 499 Source ID: Eberhart_7419 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23926 (4149FDDA) Date: 3/2003 End date: 4/2003 Description: Second Persian Gulf War (Gulf War II) Type: war Reference: [link](https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Gulf+War+II) Location: Iraq Source ID: Maj2_810 Source: Maj2 ### Event 23927 (73C9C82B) Date: 3/1/2003 Description: A witness driving on I-75 near Naples, Florida at 6:22 a.m. saw a low flying triangle with white lights at each apex. It was travelling to the west and passed by in 3 minutes. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 63 Source ID: Johnson_1237 Source: Johnson ### Event 23928 (55AEE8B8) Date: 3/3/2003 Description: 7:55 a.m. The drive and passenger of a truck traveling along a highway in Houston, British Columbia, watch as a silver object the size and shape of an Airstream trailer flies alongside them, then zooms away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7420 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23929 (887F98C0) Date: 3/8/2003 Description: A silent "flying wing" was seen by a couple leaving their home in Greenbelt, Maryland at 8:15 p.m. It flew below the clouds at an estimated 600-1,200 feet altitude. It had "pure white" circular lights on the wingtips, small red lights in the middle that brightened and dimmed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2003 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_1388 Source: Johnson ### Event 23930 (420D5B96) Date: 3/13/2003 Description: Three boomerang shaped objects hovered over the ocean off the coast of Panama City, Florida at 11:00 p.m. The sighting was brief, lasting less than 15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2003 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_1466 Source: Johnson ### Event 23931 (ADD7F94A) Date: 3/14/2003 Description: While pulling his car into the parking lot of the Behavioral Health Services Building in Winfield, Illinois the witness noticed three flashing objects coming down in the sky in front of the car. He next noticed more dropping out of the the sky until there were several. Most had red and white flashing lights, with no visible wings, and did not make a sound. Some had blue and aqua lights. Some were triangular, some cigar-shaped, and some were like small boxes with four perpendicular lights. The witness brought several people out from the building, and they all watched the spectacle together. Also during the sighting, a bona-fide helicopter with multi-colored lights flew over. A few of these objects left a contrail. The main witness had spent seven years in the Air Force, and was confident these were not conventional aircraft. He called 911, and a Winfield police officer responded and watched them with him. The lighted objects also discharged balls of light every once in awhile, which also flew around. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2003 webpage; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 137 Source ID: Johnson_1512 Source: Johnson ### Event 23932 (3FE3033E) Date: 3/18/2003 Description: A married couple outside gardening in Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland at 3:30 p.m. in the afternoon saw a black, oval-shaped UFO 8-12 feet wide fly out from behind a rood only 100-130 feet away. The lower part of the object was revolving, and it had a pinkish-red flashing light on it. The ends of the objects looked like manta-ray fins, and it floated oddly through the sky for four minutes. They claim to have taken photographs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2003 webpage of archived UFO reports Source ID: Johnson_1560 Source: Johnson ### Event 23933 (7BC9D892) Date: 3/26/2003 Description: A wobbling silver triangular craft was seen in Carlsbad, California at 2:00 p.m. for half a minute, with a bright light in broad daylight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2003 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_1688 Source: Johnson ### Event 23934 (78023A93) Date: 3/27/2003 Description: On this same night at 7:00 p.m. in Liverpool, England a large, stationary pinkish red light was viewed through binoculars by a local resident. It emitted a small white light from the top, then two small side-by-side white lights shot off from underneath on a diagonal trajectory. The pinkish red light then winked out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), June 2003, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_1705 Source: Johnson ### Event 23935 (7CA58AC9) Date: 3/27/2003 Description: On this night a luminous UFO hovered over the holy city of An Najaf, Iraq. It was interpreted as a religious sign, protecting the tomb of a holy man. The mosque escaped damaged from U.S. bombs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), June 2003, p. 31 Source ID: Johnson_1704 Source: Johnson ### Event 23936 (9A884874) Date: 4/2003 Description: 2:30 a.m. Some Air Force security policemen for Area 2, a weapons storage area of the Nevada Test Site \[now the Nevada National Security Site\], are having a meal outside when they notice a red glow at their feet. The light is coming from a giant sphere perhaps 100 feet across approaching them from the south. By the time they notice it, the reddish-orange object has passed silently overhead at about 75 feet altitude in a few seconds. Apparently, it projects a zone of silence and exerts a zone of pressure directly below it, causing the guards’ ears to pop. It disappears over some mountains to the north, where it apparently explodes in a burst of white light with no sound or shockwave. Building in intensity, the explosion keeps growing until it is painful to perceive through closed eyes, then quickly dies down. The light effects last for 5 seconds. The security controller orders all outside units to search for the downed object. They look until 7:00 a.m. but find nothing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nukes 512–515 Source ID: Eberhart_7421 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23937 (35705797) Date: 4/3/2003 Description: At 11:57 p.m. several tiny UFOs shaped like tubes with rotating spirals around them, appeared over Zawra Park in Baghdad, Iraq. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), June 2003, p. 31, citing Filers' Files, April 9, 2003 Source ID: Johnson_1827 Source: Johnson ### Event 23938 (0FBB36B3) Date: 4/3/2003 Description: A dark, flying cross-shaped object with panels of lights on the underside flew low over the river in Terrace, British Columbia at 10:55 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2003, case #134, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_1828 Source: Johnson ### Event 23939 (F13D3A3D) Date: 4/4/2003 Description: At 11:38 p.m. in Coral Springs, Florida a man saw a dark figure outside his window, and at first thought it was a man. It slightly resembled a naked man standing in the middle of the road, but after about 30 seconds the figure walked away. As it went behind some trees the witness thought he would go out to see who it was, but then a triangular UFO appeared, encased in an eerie glow with three lights, one in each corner. The craft then zoomed up into the sky, leaving a trail of white fog behind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_1838 Source: Johnson ### Event 23940 (014FEAE4) Date: 4/6/2003 Description: At 4:50 p.m. a high altitude object was seen flying over Phoenix, Arizona. It stopped, started, made 90 degree turns, and reflected sunlight. It had no exterior lights. An airliner was seen passing below the UFO. Fifteen minutes later a spherical UFO came from the south, stopped, made some sharp turns, and flew off toward the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), June 2003, p. 30, citing Filer's Files April 9, 2003 Source ID: Johnson_1875 Source: Johnson ### Event 23941 (967E7811) Date: 4/12/2003 Description: A couple in Gisborne, New Zealand saw a multi-colored UFO hovering for 15 minutes. Laurence Fleming reported that at around 11:50 p.m. he and his wife were outside when they spotted the object. It displayed a red to green to yellow color pattern, alternating frequently to blue as well. The viewed it through binoculars. It vanished, and then suddenly reappeared further away in less than a second. Eventually it was lost from view because of the cloud cover. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 49-50 Source ID: Johnson_1995 Source: Johnson ### Event 23942 (D2681567) Date: 4/16/2003 Description: Two orange lights flew in a corkscrew pattern together from south to north over Victoria, British Columbia at 2:40 a.m., and then went west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 148, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_2068 Source: Johnson ### Event 23943 (8D29C6B1) Date: 4/18/2003 Description: Kaliningrad, Russia - At 6:17 p.m. the entire Russian Baltic Fleet and a large number of local residents watched in awe as a flying wing shaped UFO flew rapidly over Kaliningrad Harbor and plunged into the water. The event was captured on video by a local RTR Russian State Television news crew, who happened to be present on the huge naval base filming a documentary. The UFO had two elongated dome-like protrusions on top, and three similar structures underneath. It passed directly over the Baltic Fleet, which lay at anchor in Kaliningrad Harbor. According to a Russian Naval Commander, who wished to remain anonymous, the craft was apparently caught within the sweep patterns of ship-borne radars, which automatically tracked its progress. This may have caused some a malfunction on board the craft that resulted in the crash. "It was traveling at a tremendous rate of speed" he said to the reporters on the scene. "It was very low, not more than 1500 meters above the surface of the water. When the radars came on, it simply winged over and dove into the water, as if had lost either power or control."

The light gray craft had no apparent seams or rivet patterns and was estimated to be about the size of a small airliner. It was estimated to be traveling at speeds in excess of Mach 2 and was absolutely silent as it flew. However, it made a tremendous noise when it hit the water, causing a geyser of steam and water. ,It appeared to one civilian observer that whoever was in control of the craft made a deliberate effort to steer it away from the naval ships and the shoreline before it went into the harbor. One Sovremini Class Destroyer was slightly damaged by flying debris, but no injuries were reported. Radiation levels at the site were "higher than normal." Debris recovered was small, less than a meter in diameter. Most debris recovered appeared to be "skin material" of an unknown alloy, and interior bracing and piping composed of a very high grade aluminum. The Navy cordoned off the area. In spite of the high speed at which the craft and it's very low altitude there was no sonic boom heard. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing UFO Casebook Forum, Russian Newspaper Sources Source ID: Johnson_2128 Source: Johnson ### Event 23944 (B8DE3C19) Date: 4/18/2003 Description: A man was returning home from work at 1:00 a.m. in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and as he came out of an alley he saw a dwarfish figure run across the street between two cars. It was about four feet tall, humanoid shaped, and running on two legs. When the figure disappeared the witness ran to the place where it had last been seen, and had the feeling he was being watched. The witness could only describe the figure as having brown legs, and as it ran it seemed to be hunched over like it was trying not to be seen. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_2127 Source: Johnson ### Event 23945 (9EA044C6) Date: 4/21/2003 Description: An employee of a local manufacturing plant in Concord, North Carolina had just finished his shift at 8:00 p.m. and had stepped out onto a dock behind a large stack of pallets to have a smoke. He then had the feeling of being watched, and he whirled around expecting to see a co-worker. Instead he saw a large purple light emanating from a teardrop-shaped craft with a round bottom, hovering nearby. The craft had a concave windshield, and behind the windshield he could see two glowing lights or eyes. They moved independently from one another. Terrified, the witness ran but was unable to scream, so he pointed out the object to a forklift operator. Next a beam of white light shot out of the UFO and struck the forklift. Immediately the electrical system of the vehicle shut down and the operator began screaming. The witness's next memory was of sitting in the plant manager's office. Someone was giving him oxygen and wiping his forehead with a cool cloth. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_2199 Source: Johnson ### Event 23946 (020B7548) Date: 4/22/2003 Description: At 4 p.m. Fire Chief Ezequiel Alvarez reported seeing a tall hairy humanoid, about 1.80 meters in height, in Rosario De La Frontera, Argentina. It moved very quickly and emitted loud inhuman screams. The creature apparently killed three dogs using its clawed hands. A local teacher reported finding a strange hairy cadaver on the side of the road, somewhat resembling the hairy humanoid but much smaller, and he noticed that it had testicles resembling those of a human being. He did not stop to pick up the body but drove on. Sightings of the tall hairy creature have repeatedly been made around the local dump. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Radio 10, Buenos Aires in Planeta Listas Source ID: Johnson_2246 Source: Johnson ### Event 23947 (AA786156) Date: 4/28/2003 Description: While driving home from work at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Marcus Warner saw a blue flashing light in his rear view mirror. He pulled to the side of the road in Pontypool, Gwent, Wales and stopped his car's engine. He was then approached by some men in black suits resembling businessmen or government agents. At this point his memory began to fail, but he recalls one of the men leading him to an open area near the local "Burtons Biscuit Factory." He then had a feeling of weightlessness and an intense feeling of calm. He remembered seeing a formation of figures, arranged into a ten pin bowling formation. He has a recurring image of a needle piercing his left eye. He has no recollection of driving the rest of the way home, but arrived there somehow. He has not, to date, undergone hypnosis in an attempt to recover the events that occurred during his amnesia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing "I was abducted.com, abduction stories" Source ID: Johnson_2401 Source: Johnson ### Event 23948 (B6E9825D) Date: 5/1/2003 Description: A married couple driving in West Seattle, Washington sighted a silent triangular object moving across the sky at 10:00 p.m. It had a dim orange light at each apex, and the lights seemed striped rather than solid. It flew off to the northwest. When they got home they noticed that their dog was trembling, and acting very lethargic. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2003 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_2451 Source: Johnson ### Event 23949 (BE08B704) Date: 5/2/2003 Description: Three young women returning from a bonfire in the Illinois countryside and had just finished putting away equipment and chairs into a shed. As they got back into their van, at around 3:30 a.m., one of them saw a figure standing a short distance off the driveway by a house. She pointed it out to the other two. Somewhat spooked, they drove back toward town. They described the figure as man-like, wearing light colored or white clothing. They headed over to the site of the bonfire, the embers of which were still glowing. Suddenly, in the glare of their van's headlights they all saw two separate rows of creatures, with perhaps 15 standing in each row. They were about three or four feet tall and were standing only 15 feet away from them, directly in front of the van. One of the women wrote that they had "Christmas light heads" that were connected to their body, but she couldn't see how. Their arms were up in the air, but she couldn't see any hands. They appeared to be stick-like, and dark gray or brown in color. They did not move but stood perfectly still. The two girls riding as passengers began to scream for the driver to leave the area immediately. Terrified, they drove away and continued to drive around for the next two hours before they had enough courage to return to their homes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2462 Source: Johnson ### Event 23950 (632F17F9) Date: 5/3/2003 Description: Horses startled, dogs bark, as object hovers over pasture (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [030503](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-030503.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: North Richland Hills, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5895 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23951 (615631C3) Date: 5/3/2003 Description: At 3:30 a.m. a man was sitting on his back porch in North Richland Hills, Texas looking out at the horse pasture behind his home. The pasture held several horses but he could not see them because they were at the other end of the field. He heard what sounded like the horses kicking a metal sheet and squealing loudly. He also heard dogs barking in the distance. Just as he strained to look over to the horse shed everything became completely quiet. The witness started to feel scared by the eerie silence, and as he stepped off his porch he started to hear a low whirring sound. He next saw a light beam flash on the ground in the middle of the pasture. The source was a black craft, hovering about 100 feet above the ground. It was shooting flashes of light at the ground from a pod on the right end of the craft. The craft had a multicolored mist or hot looking gas on the bottom of it, on the left side was what looked like a red rectangular window. Inside he could see movement, but at that moment he began to feel sick. The craft appeared to be about 50 feet long with a dull blue light on the top. After five minutes the whirring sound faded and the craft hovered silently for another two seconds before it zipped straight up and out of sight without a sound. He then noticed that the electrical power seemed to be off in the neighborhood. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2003 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC; Joan Woodford, www.nicap.org NSID04 cases, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2491 Source: Johnson ### Event 23952 (665CDE03) Date: 5/4/2003 Description: A pulsating light "danced" across the sky at 10:15 p.m. in Holland, Pennsylvania. The sighting lasted from two to three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2003 archive webpage Source ID: Johnson_2527 Source: Johnson ### Event 23953 (8BE241D6) Date: 5/7/2003 Description: At 10:30 p.m. three green colored, cigar-shaped UFOs were sighted by four young women over Northridge, California. They were moving slowly at first over, but they then separated and one flew off to the east. It was joined seconds later by the other two, and together they increased speed and went into the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Preston Dennett, UFOs over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State, p. 213, citing the MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 423 Source ID: Johnson_2643 Source: Johnson ### Event 23954 (28B73E2F) Date: 5/8/2003 Description: Walking home from the train station in Brooklyn, New York at 6:43 p.m., the witness looked up to the southeast and saw a silver disc/saucer at about 10,000 feet altitude. It had a leading edge pointed slightly upwards and it was moving east. He states, "The saucer/disk seemed to be wobbling and it had what seemed to be notches that were evenly spaced around its middle as it wobbled and rotated. I had my 35 mm camera with me the the sighting was so quick that it was gone before I could get my camera out." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_2666 Source: Johnson ### Event 23955 (6C06EC06) Date: 5/8/2003 Description: A female hospital worker, driving home from work at 12:45 a.m., saw a low hovering metallic looking UFO that was as big as a house along Highway 13 south of Highway 2 in Clinton, Missouri. Its bottom perimeter looked octagonal, and it had four small yellow lights with a large red light in the middle. It directed a beam of light down to ground, the UFO swayed, and then blinked out. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 archived webpage, citing MUFON Missouri Source ID: Johnson_2665 Source: Johnson ### Event 23956 (C01D1E59) Date: 5/9/2003 Description: Observers watching the waves in Ocean Beach, San Diego County, California noticed a low flying, silent triangular craft one mile south of Cliff House at 1:30 a.m. A witness said, "We first thought it was a Stealth F-117, but I've seen them before and they are quite loud." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 63 Source ID: Johnson_2704 Source: Johnson ### Event 23957 (F16A0295) Date: 5/10/2003 Description: Two yellow lights were seen moving very quickly over Leamington Spa, England and changing direction very abruptly at 1:00 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 web archive Source ID: Johnson_2732 Source: Johnson ### Event 23958 (8706B5C5) Date: 5/11/2003 Description: A California Highway Patrol officer saw a metallic disc in the morning sky over the freeway in Goleta, California at 9:20 a.m. It was circular in appearance and tumbling "end over end." At about the same time a shiny, thin metallic disc was seen moving over the beach at Laguna Niguel, California toward the southwest. It soared, drfited slowly, then swooped down like a bird in a thermal air current. It had "turbine blades" on the underside. It moved off to the northwest in the general direction of Vandenberg AFB. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_2751 Source: Johnson ### Event 23959 (6DE40699) Date: 5/13/2003 Description: At 8:15 p.m. a witness was sitting in his window seat in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada when she saw a light outside that caught her attention. "As I looked up, I saw a beautiful display of rotating lights that slowly hovered, moving no more than 5 km/hour," she said. It was no more than 100 feet from her roof top. She rushed outside to gave at the UFO, almost paralyzed with fear. She got a very good look at the craft. It was not as big as she thought, and it was very quiet. The outer ends were rotating with a wondrous arrangement of lights, which sped off in an instant. At 11:35 p.m. in Terrace, British Columbia a ring of colored lights with a dark round object in the center was also seen. It moved slowly to the south. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 137, citing NUFORC; Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 195, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_2822 Source: Johnson ### Event 23960 (69E33042) Date: 5/13/2003 Description: At noon in Anaheim, California cars suddenly stopped because of EM ignition interference. The main witness was driving home from his job when his new car suddenly stopped, as did the cars following him. The witness said, "Some of the people behind me got out of their cars and asked me if I knew what was going on. I said, 'I have no idea. This car is new, so I'm kind of mad." Then he heard a humming sound, so he looked around and he saw two cylinder shapes just sitting there above them. They then landed, then took off into the air, and vanished. When gone, his car and the other cars could be restarted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 118, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2821 Source: Johnson ### Event 23961 (2DF2EE25) Date: 5/13/2003 Description: At 10:00 p.m. Mrs. Lenura Azizova in Simferopol', Crimea, Ukraine saw a cigar-shaped object hovering north of the city. It had a bright, yellowish light in front that outlined the cylindrical shape of the craft. When it switched off the light, it was gone in the darkness. Its length was estimated to be 50-60 meters. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 127 Source ID: Johnson_2820 Source: Johnson ### Event 23962 (18139C49) Date: 5/15/2003 Description: Two daylight disks were seen hovering over a mountainous ridge at the extreme southwestern point of the Crimean peninsula, Ukraine between 2:00 p.m. and 2:20 p.m. The disks were metallic, 10-12 meters in diameter, six meters high with central domes, and smaller, smooth protruding undersides. They approached the Black Sea and were in view for 20 minutes. A white-yellowish light was seen over the city of South Simferopol' that evening, changing brightness and pulsating, moving directly to the east. It appeared every other night from May 13 to May 21. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 35, 44, citing Anton A. Anfalov, Ukrainian UFO Research Association, an@crimea.com Source ID: Johnson_2876 Source: Johnson ### Event 23963 (57BAD8F3) Date: 5/16/2003 Description: At 1:30 a.m. four triangular UFOs were sighted over Yosemite National Park in California; one of the crafts was very large and transparent. Camping up on Yosemite at about 7,000 feet elevation, the night was clear and cool when the witnesses were just about to turn in for the night and they saw a bright blue flash south of their campsite. Next, they saw one very large triangular craft appear after the flash. This was followed by two more flashs, not blue, northwest of the campsite and two smaller craft appeared, and then a fourth craft appeared southwest. This last one was the largest and almost transperent; we could see the stars through the craft. "At this point we were very frightened," the main witness reported. There was no noise from the craft, and the animals around the campsite and your normal forest sounds had gone silent. The four witnesses went into their truck and armed themselves, and decided to leave when they saw a very bright red flash and looked out the truck windows and the objects were gone. They packed their camping gear and headed home very frightened and confused. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2003 webpage, report dated April 10, 2004 Source ID: Johnson_2906 Source: Johnson ### Event 23964 (095DF761) Date: 5/16/2003 Description: A witness was driving his sister to the bus stop in Rancho Santa Margarita, California at 11:00 a.m. when they looked up into the clear sky and observed a shiny disc or sphere that was hovering in one place for a minute while spinning. It glistened at certain spots when it was hit by the sunlight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2003 webpage, report dated May 17, 2003 Source ID: Johnson_2907 Source: Johnson ### Event 23965 (8E2F9615) Date: 5/19/2003 Description: At 12:10 a.m. a totally silent craft bearing three bright white lights was observed crossing I-5 near Fresno, California. A boomerang-shaped UFO was spotted over Albany, California at 9:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 archived webpage of reports Source ID: Johnson_2998 Source: Johnson ### Event 23966 (90BF11FB) Date: 5/19/2003 Description: Following a series of early UFO sightings on May 17, at 9:50 p.m. on this evening a bright shining nocturnal light was observed by local residents in Simferopol', Crimea, Ukraine. The UFO looked like a white star, as bright as Sirius. It was moving 2-3 times faster than a satellite. Mr. Viktor Zdorov, while waking his dog, saw a satellite passing near the UFO in the very same part of the sky. The satellite was dimmer and moving much slower. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 44 Source ID: Johnson_2997 Source: Johnson ### Event 23967 (A06F3AAF) Date: 5/19/2003 Description: A huge boomerang, surrounded by a cloud or mist, flew inland over Tiruvanmiyur, India at 9:50 p.m. local time. It then flew silently back out to sea heading east. There were no lights on the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18192, citing a newspaper clipping Source ID: Johnson_2996 Source: Johnson ### Event 23968 (CA6C59C1) Date: 5/23/2003 Description: Three very big disc-shaped objects, bobbing up and down, were seen over Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at 8 p.m. They flashing different colors in a blue to white to red sequence, and were estimated to be 30 feet in diameter. A man and wife and their 23-year-old son drove under a dark, slow moving triangular shaped object on Highway 17 north of Webster, Iowa at 9:30 p.m. The UFO had bright orange lights at each apex which did not light up the entire craft. It also had a light gray circle in the center and stripes extending out to the corners. Later that night at 11:35 p.m. MDT in Havre, Montana three white lights arranged in a triangle formation moved through the sky perfectly spaced, suggesting they belonged to one craft. The UFO made no sound and had no blinking or colored lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3058 Source: Johnson ### Event 23969 (1B714408) Date: 5/24/2003 Description: At 7:20 p.m. a silver, oval-shaped object, high in the sky, moved smoothly through the sky over Edbaston Reservoir, Birmingham, England and made no sound at all as it turned. It left no smoke or contrail. It was in view for three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_3078 Source: Johnson ### Event 23970 (8DB31457) Date: 5/24/2003 Description: Mr. Martin Tate, an aerospace engineer, sighted a cluster of 5 to 6 silver spheres in a triangular formation over Waltham Abbey, England at 12:30 p.m. One object hovered in place while the rest flew away toward the west. He watched then for 30 seconds before they were lost from view behind some clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Martin Tate, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 15 Source ID: Johnson_3077 Source: Johnson ### Event 23971 (6411EE39) Date: 5/27/2003 Description: A cigar-shaped UFO hovered low near a mountain near Phoenix, Arizona at 10:10 p.m. It had pinpoint lights along its side that flickered sometimes. It had a large red light at each end, and was soundless. It suddenly took off so fast vertically that it seemed like it almost disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 web page archive Source ID: Johnson_3130 Source: Johnson ### Event 23972 (C873138B) Date: 5/28/2003 Description: A fast moving "shimmering shadow" with orange triangular leading edges moved through the sky over Boise, Idaho at 11:00 p.m. It shimmered as if emitting a great deal of heat. It flew in a straight line and crossed the sky in 8 to 10 seconds without making a sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3143 Source: Johnson ### Event 23973 (AA6E35AA) Date: 5/29/2003 Description: An early-morning jogger saw a cross-shaped object with three big lights that was hovering at a low altitude over Watertown Square in Watertown, Massachusetts. It was estimated to be no more than 30 stories above the ground when it was seen at 4:45 a.m. It emitted beams of light that filtered through the fog and mist. It changed direction, and then silently lifted away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Washington, May 2003 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_3160 Source: Johnson ### Event 23974 (E61D0D61) Date: 5/31/2003 Description: An ovoid craft was seen in the sky near a shopping center in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia at 8:04 p.m. It shrank and then glowed brightly, and changed color from orange to red It became smaller, then brighter again, then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_3191 Source: Johnson ### Event 23975 (E1F81CA4) Date: 6/2003 Description: The Turkish press announces that Turkey’s National Intelligence Service has received a top-secret request from the US Central Intelligence Agency for details on all its latest UFO reports. The Service accordingly asks the Turkish Air Force, Turkish Airlines, and other agencies to submit reports. It recommends that the Air Force should establish an investigative agency headed by a colonel. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 394](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/394/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7422 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23976 (0B702D19) Date: 6/2/2003 Description: At three o'clock in the morning the witness awoke in West Chester, Ohio to a beeping sound coming from a UPS (universal power supply) because the power had gone out. There was a smell of ozone and no sound at all. The witness then saw an oval-shaped craft with two strobing oval-shaped lights. The bottom of the craft was a deep blue color. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3239 Source: Johnson ### Event 23977 (E8FAB1C2) Date: 6/5/2003 Description: 4:45 p.m. Shortly after TAM Flight 3287 takes off from Palmas–Brigadeiro Lysias Rodrigues Airport in Palmas, Brazil, to Brasilia, air traffic control asks the pilot if he can see any other aircraft near his plane. He cannot, but ground control says there is another object in his flight area. When they are over Palmas, the copilot sees a gigantic object on the right side of the plane. It is metallic and surrounded by bright multicolored lights. It flies as if it is sliding with no friction. The UFO follows the aircraft for almost an hour before moving away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 203–205; Brazil 548 Source ID: Eberhart_7423 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23978 (2F31641B) Date: 6/5/2003 Description: Dogs did not appear to notice enormous boomerang moving slowly and silently over treetops (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [030605](http://www.nicap.org/ar-030605dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Houston, British Columbia, CAN Source ID: NICAP_DB_5896 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 23979 (631E4162) Date: 6/10/2003 Description: Serbian astrophysicist [Milan M. Ćirković](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%5FM.%5F%C4%86irkovi%C4%87) theorizes that because it is reasonable to assume that there is an inhabited planet somewhere 3 billion years older than Earth, we are likely to encounter an alien civilization significantly older than 1.8 billion years. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Milan M. Cirkovic, “[The Temporal Aspect of the Drake Equation and](https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306186) [SETI,](https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306186)” arXiv, June 10, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_7424 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23980 (FF38C3B4) Date: 6/22/2003 Description: A shiny object, not well defined, fell into the sea between Martinsicuro and San Benedetto del Tronto in the Adriatic Sea just before 9:00 p.m. Many telephone calls came into the fire department of Teramo, the Port Authority of San Benedetto, Italy and to the Maritime Offices of Giulianova, Italy. Some spoke of a possible meteorite, judging from the form and color of the object, which dove into the ocean at some distance from shore. Immediately the alarm was sounded and the military police from Alba got involved. A motorboat was sent from San Benedetto, which reached the location where the object plunged into the sea but they were not able to find anything. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Marco Bianchini, USOCAT by Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU), www.cisu.org; Carl Feindt, www.waterufo.net Source ID: Johnson_3611 Source: Johnson ### Event 23981 (BDC3C4AC) Date: 6/23/2003 Description: A shiny metallic cigar-shaped object was seen in the daylight sky at 1:00 p.m. over Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. It was stationary at first, then moved slowly into some clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case 232, citing National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3634 Source: Johnson ### Event 23982 (AB8B6CF9) Date: 6/30/2003 Description: At around 9:00 p.m. in New Brighton, Pennsylvania a black triangular-shaped object surrounded by silver spheres was sighted moving to the south toward Pittsburgh. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, archived June 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_3758 Source: Johnson ### Event 23983 (FA502100) Date: 7/5/2003 Description: The Sci-Fi Channel places a stone marker at the Roswell debris field site to commemorate the 1947 crash. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, Witness to Roswell, New Page, 2007, p. 223 Source ID: Eberhart_7425 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23984 (A8918B07) Date: 7/7/2003 Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness in Verdun, Quebec, watches a gray, teardrop-shaped object moving slowly at low altitude over rooftops, making an unusual whirring sound. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7426 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23985 (C20311DB) Date: 7/12/2003 Description: The witness and her mother were driving home down a road in Ashland, Kentucky at around 10:00 p.m. when they saw a moving light in the sky. They first assumed it was a plane, but then it started moving faster. It sped up to an unbelievable speed and shot back and forth between wo stars, and then stopped as if it had spotted them. At this point their car stopped running. The UFO had disappeared but they had a feeling it was still present, watching them. It reappeared, this time closer. They next saw 20 to 30 lights zooming across the sky. These all stopped at the same star in the sky as the first one, and they all vanished in a bright flash. They heard no sound during any of this. The daughter reports that she then fainted, but her mother continued to watch. She said the light got bigger and brighter, and in the midst of the light her mother claims to have seen dark figures carrying strange instruments. When the daughter woke up, the car was on the side of the road about 20 feet from where it had been. About half an hour had passed, but it seemed to have been much longer. Her mother was now passed out and outside of the car. She appeared unharmed, but she did have a scar on the back of her neck. The mother convinced herself that the mark was from the back of the car door when she "fell" out of the car. For subsequent nights the pair have seen strange lights in the sky at night, dashing across the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_4023 Source: Johnson ### Event 23986 (7AEC2CE1) Date: 7/14/2003 Description: An animal reaction case was reported from Orting, Washington on this night. All dogs in the area whined loudly at around 1:30 a.m. Two strange lights were sighted in the sky. One was round and gray, and traveled in a circular pattern; the other was a white triangular object, which bobbed up and down. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 2003 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_4062 Source: Johnson ### Event 23987 (6E8E120D) Date: 7/16/2003 Description: At around 8:30 p.m. two teachers in their fifties had gone for a short evening walk across the fields of Barnoldswick, Lancashire, England and were almost back home when they looked up and saw the figure of a man in the sky. He was dressed in what looked like black overalls, and he was descending as if by parachute. He came down about 50 yards away behind the last house in the row, so they thought he was going to land in the meadow beyond. But when he was only about 15 feet from the ground he leveled off and began to slowly accelerate, climbing gently and heading off in a northerly direction. They watched as he crossed the valley and disappeared into the distance. They did not see any means of propulsion on the man. Nothing visible was attached to his back and he made no sound, at least nothing they could detect. Visibility was excellent that evening. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, case # 3637, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_4115 Source: Johnson ### Event 23988 (EA0A2C46) Date: 7/18/2003 Description: In Vancouver, Washington a businessman and a retired Navy man observed three rectangular objects, the size of small planes, that appeared overhead as shadows in the sky at 10:40 p.m. They were slightly illuminated but not bright. The objects zig-zagged and criss-crossed into the distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2003 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_4184 Source: Johnson ### Event 23989 (71BD9A6E) Date: 7/28/2003 Description: In Wycliffe, British Columbia a silent, low flying, slow moving spherical object flew over the highway at 12:45 a.m. and it lit up the ground with a beam of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey datbase, case 317 Source ID: Johnson_4468 Source: Johnson ### Event 23990 (57630D13) Date: 7/28/2003 Description: 12:45 a.m. Hundreds of witnesses see a large, white, moon-shaped object flying over the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, zigzagging from northwest to southeast and changing direction in some cases to move over local mountains and drop into valleys. At 1:00 a.m., a beam of white light arches across the sky from horizon to horizon and persisting until at least 2:00 a.m. Dubbed the “Okanagan Arch,” the beam is seen from Kamloops to Jaffray. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 207–209 Source ID: Eberhart_7427 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23991 (B2B9B287) Date: 8/6/2003 Description: Photographs were taken of a stationary saucer or cigar-shaped object seen over North Bay, Ontario, Canada at 12:32 a.m. It made a humming sound, became "wavy" and disappeared. There were three witnesses and the incident lasted from five to six minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2003, case # 383 Source ID: Johnson_4749 Source: Johnson ### Event 23992 (C129A198) Date: 8/6/2003 Description: 12:32 a.m. Three witnesses in North Bay, Ontario, watch as a gray, cigar-shaped object, stationary in the sky, becomes “wavy” and then suddenly disappears from view after 5 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7428 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23993 (15277B35) Date: 8/10/2003 Description: 2:22 p.m. A large fuselage-shaped object flies low along a road, under some guy wires, and among trees in Whitehorse, Yukon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7429 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23994 (DB9787C9) Date: 8/10/2003 Description: At 2:22 p.m. a 10-meter long, silver sausage-shaped object, flew low over the roadside in Canyon Creek, near Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. It then went under some guywires and flew off into the trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18193; Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 391, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_4851 Source: Johnson ### Event 23995 (75A2F4DE) Date: 8/11/2003 Description: 6:00 p.m. Diana Luca and her mother are chatting at the kitchen table in her home in New Westminster, British Columbia. Out of the corner of her eye, Luca spots a black object behind the trees in the back alley. The two step out on the patio for a better look and see a UFO flying behind the trees and over the top of the shorter ones. The object, flat and shaped like a Frisbee, flips on its underside, which is as red and shiny as a Coke can. She calls her husband, Mark Murphy, who is inside. By the time he gets to the porch, the UFO looks cigar-shaped and is an estimated 1.8 miles away. Murphy rushes inside to get a camcorder and gets the rest of the sighting on tape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFOs over British Columbia,](https://rense.com/general50/ufos.htm)” Vancouver \(B.C.\) Courier, March 15, 2004; “B.C. Sighting,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 27 Source ID: Eberhart_7430 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23996 (346C67E6) Date: 8/13/2003 Description: A black boomerang-shaped object passed low and fast over Napoleonville in southern Louisiana at 7:25 p.m. It made no sound as it flew. The sighting was brief, lasting about six seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2002 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_4994 Source: Johnson ### Event 23997 (1026B7BD) Date: 8/20/2003 Description: Day. Frank Delephine takes a video of a formation of five yellowish lights leaving a smoke trail above the beach at Nowa Karczma on the Vistula Spit, Poland. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 125 Source ID: Eberhart_7431 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23998 (452125A8) Date: 8/23/2003 Description: Three witnesses observe a saucer-shaped object with protrusions for 30 seconds as it flies above some cars on a highway in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7432 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 23999 (7CA0FCA5) Date: 8/23/2003 Description: In Midland, Michigan two witnesses saw two metallic discs at a high altitude, actually chasing each other in the middle of the afternoon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2003 archived web page Source ID: Johnson_5279 Source: Johnson ### Event 24000 (F74949D8) Date: 8/23/2003 Description: Three witnesses driving through farmland at 6:45 p.m. north-northwest of Winnipeg, Manitoba sighted a three-meter wide, gray or silver disc-shaped object with bulging black windows. It hovered, tilted, then shot past the cars on the highway. The center of the object was silver center, and it had darker colored chrome balls, disks, or windows around the middle of it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 426 Source ID: Johnson_5280 Source: Johnson ### Event 24001 (E385F10B) Date: 8/25/2003 Description: A shiny, silvery tumbling disc was seen moving slowly to the southeast from Lompoc, California. The sighting reportedly lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5347 Source: Johnson ### Event 24002 (EF92BA92) Date: 8/25/2003 Description: Shortly after 6 p.m. three witnesses with the last names of Duffy and Myers, driving near Lispole, Ireland saw what looked like a light aircraft trailing flames and smoke, which appeared to crash near Lispole along the R559 route. No wreckage was ever found. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 105; The Star, August 26, 2003 Source ID: Johnson_5346 Source: Johnson ### Event 24003 (7C899A4F) Date: 8/26/2003 Description: Members of the Defense Committee on the Chilean Chamber of Deputies analyze information on UFOs for the first time. It hears testimony, largely reports from pilots and air traffic controllers, provided by the Comité de Estudios de Fénomenos Aéreos Anómalos and the director of OVNIvision \(both UFO research groups in Chile\). Defense Committee Chairman Arturo Cardemil tells the media that UFOs have sometimes disrupted air-traffic operations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: George Filer, “Chile: Congress Acknowledges Importance of UFO Research,” Filer’s Files, \#36- 2003, September 3, 2003 Source ID: Eberhart_7433 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24004 (0DF5DF18) Date: 8/28/2003 Description: Cigar-shaped object appeared in Milton, Florida at 10:30 p.m., hovered, pulsated, and blinked while it rotated for 30 to 40 seconds, and then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5450 Source: Johnson ### Event 24005 (0E87BC6B) Date: 8/28/2003 Description: At 10:10 p.m. a UFO was sighted in Nastola, Hame, Finland. The object changed shape rapidly, and was surrounded by a bluish haze. It moved very fast, before it stopped for a few minutes, and finally took off. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5449 Source: Johnson ### Event 24006 (0BA0FD46) Date: 8/28/2003 Description: Shortly after midnight, at 12:05 a.m. Mrs. Gutierrez Lomas saw a strange light from downtown Caracas, Venezuela that split in two.The liight then moved toward the Ruperto Lugo sector of the city, where it made a sudden, inexplicable turn and finally made a line for Cerro El Avila mountain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Scott Corales, UFO Updates, ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_5448 Source: Johnson ### Event 24007 (42F1A92A) Date: 8/30/2003 Description: At 12:15 a.m. four elliptical, illuminated objects each surrounded by haze or a halo were sighted in Merrick, Nassau County, New York. They proceeded to individually dive, climb, and zigzag. The sighting lasted about 45 minutes. That night a very large, slow moving, wing-shaped craft flew over a campsite near McGregor in northern Minnesota with 10 witnesses gathered around a camp fire at 11:55 p.m. It was chased a few minutes later by three military F-15's. It reportedly had four white lights and four red lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5511 Source: Johnson ### Event 24008 (698702D5) Date: 8/31/2003 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a white flying ball of light, too large to be a plane or satellite, flew in a zigzag pattern, disappeared and re-appeared in the sky over Ryan, Iowa. It made no sound, and was visible for about 5-10 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2002 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5546 Source: Johnson ### Event 24009 (029C4F49) Date: 8/31/2003 Description: At 10:44 p.m. PDT a disc-shaped object was seen circling in the sky over one spot, flashing red and green lights. It made no sound, and was seen for several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_5547 Source: Johnson ### Event 24010 (D7675CB6) Date: 9/2003 Description: 10:30 a.m. Arthur A. Larson is sitting in a truck at a gravel crossroads near Clara City, Minnesota, when he sees a round, black object at an altitude higher than a passing passenger jet but below the cirrus clouds. He watches it for 10–12 seconds and estimates its speed as 3,000–5,000 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Arthur A. Larson, “Recent Minnesota Sighting,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 25 Source ID: Eberhart_7434 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24011 (A5E457DB) Date: 9/3/2003 Description: Near Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. At around 2:30 a.m. the main witness's 12-year-old son woke her husband and her telling them that he had a nosebleed. They did not think much about it since the boy usually gets a nose bleed once a year and it just a persistent trickle. He then got into their bed with them, and the witness fell back to sleep very rapidly and had an extremely vivid lucid dream. In the dream, her son and she were outside of a house and they ran to the other side to see a UFO in the sky. The UFO was not lit, but rather a dark shadow in the night sky, huge and in two parts that were connected. They somehow knew that this was something to be afraid of, and hid in the deep shadows of the house. As the UFO came down almost noiselessly it transformed itself into a vast robot, which started walking across the countryside. She believed they somehow "knew" this had something to do with electrical power, and that they would be forced to use some power they didn't want to use. She believed using their power would be a trick which would ultimately be used to imprison them. They ran inside the house and there the phone was ringing, and they again "knew" it was the power company calling them to force them to use this new power, so they did not answer the phone. In the dream, there was a glassed-in room in the house, which had a number of people seated in it. These people were important to the experiencer, although they were not familiar to her. She ran into the room to warn them of what she had seen. One of the people was a brown haired girl, about 20 years old, whom the witness recognized as her "daughter" (but not her real life daughter). She was crying, although the witness was not sure why. What was remarkable about her was that she was half human and half "android" or robotic. At one point the experiencer could see some of the skin on her back, and she believed could see that the skin was living tissue stretched over a metallic frame. The skin was red and sore appearing, like burned scar tissue. She was also pregnant and made a comment to the witness about how she had been to "animal control" (the witness could not quite recall the phrase but it was like going to a veterinarian instead of a human doctor), where she had been impregnated. The father of her child was also there, another predominantly robotic person who has a face that looked as if a human face had been grafted on. He appeared to be a sympathetic figure, and she believed he understood what the experiencer was telling him. There were others in the room that were similar, but the witness did not have a chance to speak to them. The dream went blank for a bit, and then the witness found herself outside in a "neighborhood". There was a huge wind blowing and she believed that this was due to changes occurring to the Earth. She also "knew" that after the Earth changes the alien beings will come for us, and that would be terrible. In this vivid dream, the power company had set up a steel building that looked like the only thing that could withstand the wind. Everyone crowded inside, but the experiencer believed that it was trap. She pointed out to the father of her daughter's baby that the heavy stainless steel door only opened from the outside, and that if they let go of them they would all be trapped inside. Between them they managed to keep the doors from closing. The dream went on with dire predictions for humanity and coming Earth changes: a collapse of society was coming. The witness woke up around 6:00 a.m. with a severe nosebleed, stiff arms and legs, and total physical exhaustion. Other family members reported strange scratches and marks on their bodies. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2003 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research Source ID: Johnson_5621 Source: Johnson ### Event 24012 (2EF6BEEC) Date: 9/5/2003 Description: At 10:00 p.m. in Calaveras Big Trees, California a ball of light followed witnesses out of a pitch black forest, and then hovered in the bed of their pickup truck for 10 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5668 Source: Johnson ### Event 24013 (88D06C45) Date: 9/7/2003 Description: In Luton, Bedfordshire, England a metallic sphere hovered 150 feet above a home, emitting sparks like a Van der Graff generator, then shot straight up very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 web page Source ID: Johnson_5748 Source: Johnson ### Event 24014 (AC6520E7) Date: 9/11/2003 Description: A triangular object with red lights flies over two people in Whitehorse, Yukon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 13 Source ID: Eberhart_7435 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24015 (BD2F56B2) Date: 9/13/2003 Description: The Senior Curator/Royal Armouries Museum reported two circular flying objects in the sky over Heckmondwide, West Yorkshire, England at 9:40 p.m.; they were about half the apparent size of the moon, and were a very dull yellow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defense, case 2003-075 Source ID: Johnson_5934 Source: Johnson ### Event 24016 (CD6677C6) Date: 9/13/2003 Description: Coyotes were reported howling loudly during a sighting of a large stationary triangle (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [030913](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-030913.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Seamon, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5897 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 24017 (B80B45EA) Date: 9/13/2003 Description: At midnight a 21-year-old woman walking her dog in Seaman, Ohio heard coyotes howling loudly during a sighting of a large stationary triangular craft. The color of the object's lights changed from pinkish-red to blue, white and yellow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, www.nicap.org Source ID: Johnson_5936 Source: Johnson ### Event 24018 (1659CD53) Date: 9/13/2003 Description: A witness reported seeing a dark triangular shape in Yelm, Washington at 12:30 p.m., moving slowly at treetop level without making any sound. It had white and red lights on the bottom. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_5935 Source: Johnson ### Event 24019 (8D0B9B91) Date: 9/14/2003 Description: At ten o'clock in the morning a dark grey disc-shaped object hung 100 feet over the water at the Wivenhoe Dam in Brisbane Valley, Queensland, Australia on a clear day. The water below the disc was being agitated by the UFO's presence. The craft took off at an angle at an incredible speed. The sighting lasted ten minutes and was witnessed by a Mr. & Mrs. Thompson. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 5, citing an email from the witnesses Source ID: Johnson_5973 Source: Johnson ### Event 24020 (F0962CC3) Date: 9/15/2003 Description: A large, white ring-shaped object with twirling lights descended out of sight in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada at 11:20 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 493, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_6003 Source: Johnson ### Event 24021 (4B2C98B9) Date: 9/19/2003 Description: Over 50 witnesses at a fooball game in Onawa, Iowa at around 8:00 p.m. watched a light that separated into three other lights, and then formed a cross. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6112 Source: Johnson ### Event 24022 (E0FB93E2) Date: 9/20/2003 Description: A black disc-shaped object with no lights was seen in broad daylight in Saugus, Massachusetts at 6:00 p.m. for 30 seconds. At 6:15 p.m. in Sedona, Arizona a silver cylinder-shaped object in a vertical orientation was seen moving rapidly westward at a speed faster than a typical airplane. It was in view for five seconds before it disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6171 Source: Johnson ### Event 24023 (198475B3) Date: 9/24/2003 Description: Pottsdam, New York. A triangular object with red, white, blue and orange lights danced through the sky at 3:00 a.m. It also flew vertically and gave off a partial beam of red light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6304 Source: Johnson ### Event 24024 (D6150D12) Date: 9/25/2003 Description: Dogs fearful as large dark object observed (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [030925](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-030925.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Marstons Mills, MA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5898 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 24025 (99DDEF2C) Date: 9/25/2003 Description: Two dogs showed fear as a mysterious, large dark object was observed for five minutes overhead in Marstons Mills, Massachusetts. At 8:20 p.m. the witness reported that the sky above him appeared to be a solid black, with no stars showing, nor light of any kind, and the black void was seen changing its shape. There was no sound reported, either. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 webpage; Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, www.nicap.org Source ID: Johnson_6338 Source: Johnson ### Event 24026 (29E42960) Date: 9/26/2003 Description: A very large, silent, dark boomerang shaped aircraft was seen over Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio at 12:30 a.m. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6369 Source: Johnson ### Event 24027 (8885DC0F) Date: 10/8/2003 Description: A huge triangular object moved silently through the sky over Ringgold, Virginia at five o'clock in the evening. It was close enough that the witness could clearly discern its three dimensional appearance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6680 Source: Johnson ### Event 24028 (F279FF89) Date: 10/23/2003 Description: At 10:48 p.m. the pilot, co-pilot, load master, and flight engineer onboard an Airbus 310-200 cargo flight flying over Slane, Ireland saw a glaring red UFO accelerate, shoot vertically, and then disappear from sight at 7000 feet altitude. Twenty-seven minutes later a KLM 747-400 flying 38 nautical miles off the west coast of Ireland at 41,000 feet was paced by a bright red UFO. It stopped mid-air at the same altitude as the Dutch airliner, copied the 747's maneuvers, and then over Sligo changed course and sped away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, pp. 44 & 45 Source ID: Johnson_7064 Source: Johnson ### Event 24029 (645D2A4A) Date: 10/25/2003 Description: At two o'clock in the morning a witness reported seeing two disc-shaped objects flying overhead in Springfield, Illinois. The objects seemed to be "chasing each other and just playing around." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2003 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_7136 Source: Johnson ### Event 24030 (053F0E58) Date: 11/5/2003 Description: At 8:35 p.m. an oval-shaped UFO came up from a pasture in Mabank, Texas and darted toward the witness' car. It had a yellow glow around it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7485 Source: Johnson ### Event 24031 (575C8254) Date: 11/14/2003 Description: Dogs non-reactive to lights in sky. (IFO) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [031114](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-031114.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Niles, OH Source ID: NICAP_DB_5899 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 24032 (CCE74818) Date: 11/21/2003 Description: A transparent V-shaped object was sighted briefly in Barnesville, Ohio at 8:30 p.m. The object distorted the visible night sky, yet you could see through it and it was boomerang shaped, very fast, and silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7786 Source: Johnson ### Event 24033 (21F0A8E2) Date: 11/22/2003 Description: A darting circular-shaped object was seen at 6:25 p.m. in Ronkonkoma, New York that shot straight up, followed by a red light circling the area at high speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7826 Source: Johnson ### Event 24034 (14E66602) Date: 11/22/2003 Description: At 7:30 p.m. a bright cylindrical-shaped object exploded and crashed into the river in New Carlisle, Quebec, causing a big splash. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 615; Carl Feindt, waterufo.net Source ID: Johnson_7827 Source: Johnson ### Event 24035 (3D606F95) Date: 11/22/2003 Description: A huge white cigar-shaped object hovered over a front yard of a home in North Ridgeville, Ohio for an extended period of time, beginning at 9:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7828 Source: Johnson ### Event 24036 (83D10A5C) Date: 11/23/2003 Description: At 6 p.m. from Berkeley, California a huge illuminated object with flashing lights moved smoothly over the Bay Bridge toward Oakland. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7861 Source: Johnson ### Event 24037 (C6CBB690) Date: 11/25/2003 Description: Two witnesses in Creston, British Columbia briefly saw some blue lights in the sky at 9:20 p.m., then felt they had had a missing time experience. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case 616, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_7928 Source: Johnson ### Event 24038 (611203CC) Date: 11/26/2003 Description: A soft humming noise was first heard in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England at 9:00 p.m. Then the witness saw some hovering spherical objects that were then chased away by military aircrafts. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7949 Source: Johnson ### Event 24039 (428AFB52) Date: 11/29/2003 Description: In Limmerick, Pennsylvania a slow moving triangle-shaped object with three lights was sighted at 8:36 p.m. It stopped in mid-air, rotated, and shot off in the other direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_8057 Source: Johnson ### Event 24040 (5A443E16) Date: 12/2/2003 Description: A bright, multi-colored, pulsating cigar-shaped object was observed near Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico at 9:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_8153 Source: Johnson ### Event 24041 (B476E55E) Date: 12/5/2003 Description: At 5:43 p.m. in Orillia, Ontario two orange balls of light were seen chasing each other, and then flew quickly into a cloud bank. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 632 Source ID: Johnson_8223 Source: Johnson ### Event 24042 (E1670C37) Date: 12/8/2003 Description: 8:45 p.m. An unusual white, oval object with a ring of blue lights hovers above a house in Houston, British Columbia, dropping sparks. It then flies steadily toward the mountains and is lost to sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_7436 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24043 (D189C6C9) Date: 12/10/2003 Description: A black, cigar-shaped object was spotted in the early morning over Sanders, Arizona. The witness was driving to work in the early morning in the twilight just before dawn. He first saw a light in the sky as he was driving east. It got as bright as Venus, and then dimmed altogether; what was left, hanging motionless in the sky, was a greyish black cigar-shaped vehicle with a bump on the top. The witness continued to watch it as he pulled into the parking lot at his place of employment, and kept watching it for a few more minutes while it never moved. The color was odd for an airplane as well, because it black/grey and did not reflect light. It also made no noise whatsoever. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, December 2003 webpage, report made at 10:45 a.m. December 10, 2003 and uploaded December 19, 2003 Source ID: Johnson_8331 Source: Johnson ### Event 24044 (F074CEA5) Date: 12/14/2003 Description: Dog excited as people see meteor (IFO) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [031214](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-031214.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Atlanta, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5900 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 24045 (63B58EBE) Date: 12/15/2003 Description: At 10:05 a.m. a witness reporting seeing star-like lights during the daytime over San Francisco Bay, California that moved "super fast" and stopped, and then zigzagged behind a cloud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_8434 Source: Johnson ### Event 24046 (6E8101EF) Date: 12/15/2003 Description: At six p.m. a circular object flew over the coconut trees for about four minutes in Baling, Kedah State, Malaysia, and then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_8433 Source: Johnson ### Event 24047 (4D37C5FE) Date: 12/23/2003 Description: At Gasport, New York at 2:30 a.m. EST a bright light shot across the sky from the horizon up. It made several right angle movements. Next, a silent, boomerang shaped object flew over Borger, Texas at 1:40 a.m. CST. At 4:56 a.m. MST a triangle-shaped object with four different multicolored lights flew across the Denver skyline and was viewed from Superior, Colorado (Boulder County). Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2000 webpage Source ID: Johnson_8579 Source: Johnson ### Event 24048 (2303E9E3) Date: 12/24/2003 Description: 1:00 p.m. Three people in Airdrie, Alberta, watch a chrome-colored “marble” hanging motionless in the sky. After about 15 seconds, it vanishes without a trace. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 \(Fall 2003\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_7437 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24049 (1F961075) Date: 12/30/2003 Description: A hovering object with a circle of lights was seen in a field in Tatum, New Mexico at around 9:30 p.m. It shot straight up and stopped twice in the sky, then the lights went out and the object vanished. The sighting lasted 45 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, December 2003 webpage Source ID: Johnson_8664 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 2004 (Back to Top) ### Event 24050 (7FDC6C8E) Date: 2004 Description: TicTac craft witnessed by Fravor and other Navy personnel off the coast of southern California Type: ufo sighting Reference: TODO Location: off the coast of southern California Source ID: Maj2_811 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24051 (E479632D) Date: 2004 Description: Afternoon. A Brazilian pilot flying an ATR 42-300 twin turboprop airliner has a near-miss with a luminous sphere near the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport, Brazil. The encounter lasts 14 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard F. Haines, “Near Miss with UAP near São Paulo Airport,” IUR 32, no. 3 \(July 2009\): 9–18, 23–24; Robert J. Durant, “Commentary on the São Paolo Near Miss,” IUR 32, no. 3 \(July 2009\): 19–20 Source ID: Eberhart_7438 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24052 (EED2FF79) Date: 2004 Description: [Vadim Chernobrov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim%5FChernobrov) registers the All-Russian Scientific Organization, Kosmopoisk, as an international association. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Kosmopoisk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmopoisk)” Source ID: Eberhart_7439 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24053 (7DDE1F8E) Date: 2004 Description: Night. Three teams of security policemen at Nellis AFB in Nevada are sent to investigate a mysterious light seen in a distant corner of the weapons storage compound in Area 2. Upon arriving at the location in vehicles, they cannot see any light. However, seconds later, one policeman spots a towering, silhouette-like, 8- or 9-foot-tall figure, visible against the moon-lit sky. It quickly turns and runs. After disappearing over a rise in the terrain, with six Security Policemen in hot pursuit, the unknown intruder seemingly vanishes into thin air. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert L. Hastings, “[Triangular-Shaped UFO Sighted at the Nellis AFB Nuclear Storage Area,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/triangular-shaped-ufo-sighted-at-the-nellis-afb-nuclear-weapons-storage-area)” UFOs & Nukes, April 23, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_7440 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24054 (D3602EF7) Date: 1/2004 Description: CNES decides to close SEPRA, perhaps because engineer [Jean-Jacques Velasco](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%5FVelasco) is publishing a book, OVNIs: L’évidence, in April. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 13; Swords 450 Source ID: Eberhart_7441 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24055 (C9C37A39) Date: 1/3/2004 Description: On this day a metallic disc-shaped object hovered a few thousand feet above a yacht anchored offshore of Santa Monica, California. Those aboard took a photograph of the object. The estimated size of the UFO, base on the length of the yacht, was 30 feet. A few moments later the craft darted away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Preston Dennett, UFOs over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State, p. 213 Source ID: Johnson_78 Source: Johnson ### Event 24056 (30293680) Date: 1/4/2004 Description: A very large, hovering disc-shaped object that appeared to be lighted from within was sighted in Four Oaks, North Carolina at 7:00 p.m. The object also appeared to have flashing lights on the outside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, January 2004 website Source ID: Johnson_107 Source: Johnson ### Event 24057 (A342D393) Date: 1/4/2004 Description: A white egg-shaped object was seen floating in the sky at 10:00 a.m. PST in Hayward, California. It was five feet in diameter at the thiner dimension. The two witnesses then saw two more objects about three-fourths the size of the first, also egg shaped, gray in color, but not metallic. A white object changed shape slightly into a smooth diamond 200 feet up. The sightings lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Preston Dennett, UFOs over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State, p. 214; MUFON UFO Journal, issue 430 Source ID: Johnson_105 Source: Johnson ### Event 24058 (7A42377D) Date: 1/4/2004 Description: Two oval objects that could travel at extremely high speeds were sighted in Holyoke, Massachusetts at 2:00 p.m. EST. At 2:30 p.m. a silver disc-shaped object with a bulge on one face, estimated to be maybe 30 feet across, was sighted in Fort Myers, Florida. It reflected sunlight and bobbed around at between 3,000 and 5,000 feet altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, January 2004 website Source ID: Johnson_106 Source: Johnson ### Event 24059 (428AE605) Date: 1/4/2004 Description: At 8:30 p.m. an Aer Lingus Boeing 737-400 with 135 people on board was damaged by near a miss with a UFO while flying 15 nautical miles offshore of Ashbourne, Ireland. The UFO caused a power drain and a purple glow around the 737 as the triangular UFO flew in front of the airliner. It also caused a huge turbulence in its wake. A second aircraft encounter occurred on the same night at 10:30 p.m. when a A330-200 with 213 people on board encountered a flashing strobe light over Slane, Ireland. The airliner encountered a triangular UFO with an estimated 360 foot wing span. The UFO circled the plane aggresively. The second encounter lasted several minutes. Both encounters were tracked on airborne radar. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, pp. 41-42 Source ID: Johnson_104 Source: Johnson ### Event 24060 (4247F7AA) Date: 1/4/2004 Description: 8:30 p.m. An Aer Lingus Boeing 737 with 135 people on board is about 2 miles off the east coast of Ireland approaching Dublin Airport. It is being followed in for landing on Runway 10 by a British Midland Airbus A330- 200 at a distance of 6 miles. Both are at an altitude of 3,000 feet and moving at 287 mph. As the 737 approaches Slane, the A330 crew observes unidentified traffic take off vertically from a field. The object has bright strobe lights and is triangular in shape. It begins to circle the 737, which experiences a power drain. The A330 sees a purplish glow surround the 737, whose captain requests a course change to avoid the object, which is passing in front of the airliner. The UFO angles to the port side and the 737 experiences a huge wake turbulence and an increase in outside air temperature to 327° F. for about 15 seconds. The A330 also feels the turbulence, and the UFO heads southeast at great speed. When the 737 lands, the crew cannot raise the speed brakes on the wings, which are found to be damaged, as if dented by a hammer. There is also aircraft skin damage and hydraulic damage to the brakes caused by the UFO wake. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 406–410](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/406/mode/2up); Dermot Butler and Carl Nally, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, Mercier, 2006, pp. 41–42 Source ID: Eberhart_7442 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24061 (ADFD56C8) Date: 1/4/2004 Description: 10:30 p.m. Another Airbus 330-200 is approaching the east coast of Ireland, bound for Dublin Airport, when the crew sees a flashing strobe light over Slane, County Meath. As the aircraft throttles back to 265 mph at 2,500 feet, the UFO takes on a triangular shape, passes in front of the plane, and gives off a bright flashing light. The UFO begins circling the Airbus in an aggressive manner. The crew expects a collision with the object, which is about 360 feet wide. The interior lights dim \(power drain\) and the encounter continues for 8–10 minutes as passengers watch. At one point, wake turbulence from the UFO triggers the wind shear warning device. Other aircraft in the vicinity are watching the encounter and listening in to radio transmissions. Just 2 minutes before landing, the UFO shoots away to the southeast. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 407–410](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/406/mode/2up); Dermot Butler and Carl Nally, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, Mercier, 2006, pp. 42–43 Source ID: Eberhart_7443 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24062 (A4915563) Date: 1/5/2004 Description: At 4:03 p.m. a saucer-shaped object was seen hovering below a strange looking cloud, over a mountain in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 11, citing HBCCUFO and NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_160 Source: Johnson ### Event 24063 (6F7C5CCA) Date: 1/11/2004 Description: An egg-shaped object, glowing a yellowish amber color, moved up and down in the sky over West River, Maryland at 3:28 a.m., and then started zigzagging sideways. The duration of the sighting was two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_270 Source: Johnson ### Event 24064 (78813DB0) Date: 1/17/2004 Description: 7:45 p.m. A witness at Bass River, New Brunswick, sees a bright, fast-moving fireball. Around 11:00 p.m., a couple near Saint-Louis-de-Kent, New Brunswick, watch two flashing lights low in the west. They descend rapidly then fly in front of the witnesses at tremendous speed. They then stop and settle above some trees on the eastern horizon and disappear. A man in Caraquet is looking south and sees two objects, one on top of the other, flying west to east. They take 5 minutes to cross the sky but do not look like airplanes. In Moncton, another witness sees a single light moving steadily and rapidly across the ocean toward the east. In Saint Paul, another witness sees two lights heading toward the northwest, They make no sound, rotate around each other, hover, then leave at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 210–211 Source ID: Eberhart_7444 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24065 (AABD36EA) Date: 1/20/2004 Description: European Parliament Member [Nello Musumeci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nello%5FMusumeci) submits a proposal to create a Europe-wide “body for the study of unexplained atmospheric phenomena.” He suggests that the European Commission should pay special attention to UFO studies by various European space centers and recommends SEPRA in Toulouse, France, as a model. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 2Pinotti 213 Source ID: Eberhart_7445 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24066 (B92FB59B) Date: 1/21/2004 Description: A man is driving on the Trans-Canada Highway 10 miles north of Sussex, New Brunswick, when he sees a blinking light off to his left, apparently hovering above the road. As he approaches, he sees the object is composed of two bright white lights that seem to be attached to a structured object. It descends and hovers above a field. The witness can’t pull over, so the light is soon lost to view behind him. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, p. 211 Source ID: Eberhart_7446 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24067 (F6FEBFFC) Date: 1/22/2004 Description: 9:00 p.m. S/Sgt Shawn Burke of the 86th Operations Support Squadron stationed at Ramstein Air Base outside Ramstein-Misenbach, Kaiserslautern, Germany, sees a row of seven lights directly overhead and glowing a bright white. When the clouds become thicker, the display disappears briefly, then reappears and become more elongated, looking more like lines than dots. Burke takes a few photos. They remain stationary all night. His cellphone and the internet in his building goes out when the lights get brighter. Possible light pillars. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wim van Utrecht, “[Seven Unidentified Lights over Ramstein Air Base,](https://www.caelestia.be/ramstein.html)” Caelestia Source ID: Eberhart_7447 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24068 (43B3F1EA) Date: 1/22/2004 Description: A lighted triangular craft was sighted flying low and slowly over traffic on I-35 in Olathe, Kansas at 6:45 p.m. An hour later a similar triangle was spotted over Deridder, Louisiana. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, January 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_435 Source: Johnson ### Event 24069 (1A95B41F) Date: 1/25/2004 Description: 6:26 p.m. A woman and her son watch a strange triangular object in the sky above Richibucto, New Brunswick. It has sparkling lights on top and a V shape on its underside. In a telescope, they can see it is a large gray object with something like a round door on the bottom. It suddenly speeds up and disappears in the distance. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, p. 211 Source ID: Eberhart_7448 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24070 (7B01D991) Date: 1/27/2004 Description: Night. Alec Birch, who has confessed to faking a UFO photo in 1962, takes a series of color slides showing the town hall in Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, for a photography competition. He sees nothing unusual at the time, but on examining one transparency he finds an image that appears to be an elliptical UFO. Ruling out lens flares and aircraft, he contacts the Ministry of Defence, which sends the slide to the Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency for analysis. The agency reports back to the MoD on August 2, saying that no definite conclusions can be reached, but “it may be coincidental that the illuminated plane of the object passes through the centre of the frame, indicating a possible lens anomaly, \[for example\] a droplet of moisture.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [pp. 147–148](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n239/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7449 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24071 (A0A4EEB2) Date: 1/30/2004 Description: At 9:30 p.m. witnesses in Willard, Missouri saw a orange sphere moving slowly across the sky in repeated figure eight patterns. It disappeared completely after 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_627 Source: Johnson ### Event 24072 (48799257) Date: 2/8/2004 Description: At 6:25 p.m. EST a silent UFO with one light, no running lights or tail light, and no vapor trail passed over a home in Chester County, South Carolina. As it flew over dogs in the neighborhood were barking loudly. At 5:45 p.m. CST or about 20 minutes later, a small reddish spherical object, that flashed red at varying intensities and intervals, was sighted over Houston, Texas. It seemed to wobble laterally as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_764 Source: Johnson ### Event 24073 (939F38FC) Date: 2/9/2004 Description: Bright amber lights flashing in a random sequence on what appeared to be a disc-shaped object was seen over Lincoln City, Oregon at 7 p.m. They later came to within what the witnesses said was 30 feet of their house, and returned by flying back out over the Pacific Ocean. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_791 Source: Johnson ### Event 24074 (5B0C91B6) Date: 2/11/2004 Description: At 8:00 p.m. a boomerang-shaped UFO was observed traveling south to north over Yreka, California. it flew at a high altitude, had a V-shape, with 7 or maybe 8 lights in a V-shaped pattern. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_853 Source: Johnson ### Event 24075 (581A2D2D) Date: 2/11/2004 Description: At 8:22 a.m. in Lyndhurst, Ohio a silvery metallic, wingless cigar-shaped object moved rapidly in a northerly direction while presenting a side on view; it then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_852 Source: Johnson ### Event 24076 (5C696B99) Date: 2/11/2004 Description: A cigar-shaped object was seen in Linthicum, Maryland near the BWI airport at around 2:00 a.m. The witness was in his basement when he heard a very low frequency humming noise for 30 minutes. He decided to take a look outside, and that was when he witnessed the UFO. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_851 Source: Johnson ### Event 24077 (ECC7A21C) Date: 2/13/2004 Description: 2004, Jordanow, Poland - At one o'clock in the morning Mrs. K. J., age 77, awoke and went to the bathroom and then back to her bedroom. As she passed through the kitchen she was surprised to see a strong fiery orange light outside, floating in the sky. She realized it couldn't be the moon. The light was hemisphere shaped, with a flat bottom and round top. The light had an apparent size 2-3 times larger than the full moon. The light hung over the forest on Hajdowka Hill, 1.5 kilometers from her house. She watched it for about five minutes and started to feel so she went back to bed. During the night she had a disturbing "dream" about meeting with a huge shiny "thing". She awoke feeling very frightened, around 6:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2004, citing Robert K Lesniakiewicz Source ID: Johnson_910 Source: Johnson ### Event 24078 (388BA3DB) Date: 2/15/2004 Description: At 11:00 a.m. a white disc-shaped object flew over the middle of the Kent Valley in Auburn, Washington. It slowed down and started hovering. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2004 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_937 Source: Johnson ### Event 24079 (1AE4C62E) Date: 2/16/2004 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a large, silent, fast moving oval-shaped object with light moved back and forth in the sky over a residential neighborhood in Amityville, New York on Long Island. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2004 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_956 Source: Johnson ### Event 24080 (BFB89CF4) Date: 2/17/2004 Description: A dark triangular flying object with three lights, one at each end, flew over Phillipsburg, New Jersey at 7:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Feb. 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_973 Source: Johnson ### Event 24081 (E553C97D) Date: 2/20/2004 Description: 2:00 p.m. Lt. Ribeiro of the Brazilian Air Force is retuning on a flight from São Paulo to Recife, Brazil. He is ordered to intercept a radar return that he can visually confirm as a yellow light. During the interception, the light remains stationary. Suddenly it begins moving toward the aircraft and gets very close. The pilot can only see a sphere of light coming closer, so he maneuvers sharply to the right. At this point his plane is illuminated by a beam of light. Seconds later everything is back to normal and the object is gone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 206; Brazil 553–554 Source ID: Eberhart_7450 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24082 (48304D43) Date: 2/25/2004 Description: A small disc-shaped object with numerous green lights was seen over Bellevue, Ohio at 7:20 p.m. It moved left and right slowly and was in sight for ten seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_1124 Source: Johnson ### Event 24083 (8D953B99) Date: 2/29/2004 Description: At 9:00 p.m. in Brooklyn, Maryland an oval-shaped, very bright light came down into a backyard, very close to the house and residents. The close encounter reportedly lasted ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Feb. 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_1194 Source: Johnson ### Event 24084 (4E4AF62A) Date: 3/5/2004 Description: Some famous UFO photographs were taken on this day near Mexico City, Mexico. A Mexican military surveillance aircraft captured multiple objects (11) with its infra-red sensors. The objects were not visible to the flight crew at the time. There was extensive publicity about this event in May 2004. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18196; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center website Source ID: Johnson_1323 Source: Johnson ### Event 24085 (5D67B4CD) Date: 3/5/2004 Description: Mexican Air Force pilots flying a C-26A Metroliner using infrared equipment to search for drug-smuggling aircraft record 11 unidentified objects on infrared video and radar near Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico. The objects are not visible to the crew. Secretary of Defense Gen. [Gerardo Clemente Vega](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardo%5FClemente%5FVega) issues a press release on May 12 accompanied by videotape that shows moving bright lights at 11,500 feet. Mexican journalist [Jaime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime%5FMaussan) [Maussan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime%5FMaussan) interprets the videotape as “proof of alien visitation,” but science writer and skeptic [Michael Shermer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FShermer) is critical of witness accounts that vary wildly, saying, “it was like a fisherman’s tale, growing with each retelling,” while NARCAP suggests the lights are most likely burn-off flares on offshore oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Special Failures Down Mexico Way,” IUR 28, no. 4 \(Winter 2003–2004\): 12–13, 28; “NARCAP Statement on the Mexican FLIR Case,” IUR 29, no. 2 \(Summer 2004\): 17 Source ID: Eberhart_7451 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24086 (47CDBD63) Date: 3/10/2004 Description: The crews of a number of fishing vessels fifty miles off the coast of Neah Bay, Washington observed a disc-shaped object with white, red and green lights at 7:00 p.m. on this evening. It flew around at high rates of speed and was in view for nearly half an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2004 archived webpage reports Source ID: Johnson_1420 Source: Johnson ### Event 24087 (193353E0) Date: 3/12/2004 Description: At four a.m. Mr. M. N. was driving east on Wellington Street in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario at the southeastern end of Lake Superior and as he came to the center city (known to locals as Soo, Canada). He noticed a vertical beam of light in the early morning sky, from the top of a hill to the north. He stopped his vehicle at a cross street and looked all the way to the end of the street, about 7 blocks away, where the street ends at the base of the hill and has a metal stairwell leading to McDonald Avenue. His eyes focused on a little dark figure standing very still. This caught his curiosity, so he slowly drove towards it. It then started moving from side to side, using fluid movements as if it was floating in the air. It moved as if confused, or afraid and didn't know what to do. As he got closer, the figure's appearance seemed to have metamorphosed into a transparent, shadow-like entity that very swiftly flew up the stairs. To his astonishment, the beam of light that he had seen in the distant sky a few minutes before was now at the top of the hill, only 100 feet away. With his heart racing he drove as fast as he could eastward along the base of the hill until he came to the nearest street that climbed the hill and drove up McDonald Avenue to see what was happening. He arrived at the top of the hill only to find three circle-shaped burn markings on the pavement of the street. About 10 seconds later he heard a weird kind of gunshot sound. When he looked up to the sky he saw a bright light shooting up into the stars. As he watched the spectacle a peaceful feeling came over him and he felt as if every hair on his body was standing on end. The feeling of well being felt like it lasted only a brief 30 seconds, but when he looked again at his watch it was at least 40 minutes later. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2004, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Vol. 9, # 13 Source ID: Johnson_1444 Source: Johnson ### Event 24088 (C6C6EC54) Date: 3/14/2004 Description: At 12:24 p.m. in Perth, Western Australia a witness watched as a disc-shaped object flew over from a nearby hill, then hovered for three minutes. Next, it flew overhead in a suburban area. It first flew at a slow pace, then sped off at an extremely fast speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 39 Source ID: Johnson_1513 Source: Johnson ### Event 24089 (C2DC6D56) Date: 3/21/2004 Description: Kingfisher, Oklahoma - Two young women, both college students, witnessed two very bright lights in the night sky at 7:26 p.m., which suddenly descended. The object, triangular in shape, appeared to land. It was brightly lit with what looked like halogen type lights, and was clear or hollow in the center. Other cars stopped to park along the highway to look at it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_1609 Source: Johnson ### Event 24090 (9CC87403) Date: 3/25/2004 Description: At around 7:00 p.m. the crew of a commercial airliner flying near Omaha, Nebraska reported seeing four disc-shaped objects, which remained visible ahead of the aircraft for between 10 and 15 minutes. The objects did not appear on FAA radar at anytime during the entire sighting. They had many lights and flew off to the west, where they were lost from view Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2004 archived webpage; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18197, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_1666 Source: Johnson ### Event 24091 (9D3177BD) Date: 3/26/2004 Description: An object like a "dinner plate" with a dome on the bottom was sighted in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada at 4:22 a.m. It flew slowly, and stopped at one point. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. At 7:50 p.m. two rapid moving almond-shaped discs initially flew in from the Gulf of Mexico heading east toward Brandenton, Florida and then turned sharply south. They moved very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 157, citing HBCCUFO; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2004 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_1689 Source: Johnson ### Event 24092 (214D2559) Date: 4/5/2004 Description: At 11:00 a.m. a witness in Newport, Tennessee spotted a bizarre flying creature resembling an arrowhead flying backwards, with what looked like a head or knob on the front. It didn't look mechanical, it was more like some kind of animal. It did not have extended wings like a bird but seemed to have some stubby wings which may have been part of the body, like some type of bat. They protruded out near the end and tapered back to a point at the rear. The creature appeared to be around three feet long and a little over two feet wide. It was moving very fast in a straight line, at an altitude of approximate 150 feet. The witness did not see any method of propulsion, such as wing movement. It just seemed to be gliding but at a high speed. It maintained a level flight path moving westward, where the witness eventually lost sight of it. It was light brown in color along the sides of the wings, with a dark body color, possibly dark brown or black. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2004, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_1854 Source: Johnson ### Event 24093 (F208407F) Date: 4/8/2004 Description: There were multiple reports from Rochester, Indiana on this night to the National UFO Reporting Center. One report was of a very large disc-shaped object with six lights that went on and off in 20 second intervals. The other report was of an independent sighting of yellowish orange lights in the southern sky. The object in question may have been around 200 feet in width. At about the same time, at 10:00 p.m. in Leiters Ford, Indiana another report came in of a UFO with yellowish beams of light. The beams were peculiar because the never seemed to touch the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Washington, April 2004 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_1916 Source: Johnson ### Event 24094 (56B1647D) Date: 4/12/2004 Description: In Citrusdal, Western Cape, South Africa two witnesses were walking home at 9:30 p.m. when they saw a flying triangle craft moving very slowly through the sky. It had a yellow light at each of the three points, and in the middle of the craft was a blue and red light that went on and off and circled each other. "My grandmother an I stood there for about 4 minutes watching the craft, and then I went home." The witness told her father about it, and he became a third witness, but he could only make out a faint light in the sky. The grandmother had seen a similar craft several nights before. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 114, citing Brian Vike, HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_1996 Source: Johnson ### Event 24095 (8597C011) Date: 4/15/2004 Description: [Ademar José Gevaerd](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ademar%5FJos%C3%A9%5FGevaerd)’s Brazilian Ufologists Commission launches a campaign called “Freedom of Information Now!” with the goal of convincing the Brazilian government to publicly release official information on the Varginha case, the Official Night of the UFOs, and the Trindade Island photos. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 209 Source ID: Eberhart_7452 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24096 (8AE4DFA0) Date: 4/15/2004 Description: A woman awoke at around 6:00 a.m. and walked to her screened bedroom window in Orlando, Florida. She saw a small, oval, slightly glowing object hovering just above the ground, low outside the window. The object was about 12 inches in diameter or less. A cat noticed the object and attempted to stalk it, whereupon it made a quick zig-zag maneuver and suddenly streaked away in a nearly instantaneous acceleration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2004 webpage archive; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18198, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2042 Source: Johnson ### Event 24097 (DA15F3CD) Date: 4/16/2004 Description: There was no sound coming from a triangle-like craft seen near Fort Benning, Georgia by a mother and daughter. At 10:20 p.m. a 47-year-old woman was driving home from Columbus with her 16-year-old daughter when they thought they saw a military helicopter from the Fort. Upon getting closer the mother thought it resembled more of a Stealth Bomber with a triangle shape. They slowed down and rolled down their car windows, which revealed there was no sound coming from the craft. Near Ellerslie, in Harris County, Georgia, they then observed the dark triangle hovering at a relatively low altitude. It had blinking red and green lights at the rear, and it was projecting a spotlight beam with an adjacent blue light under each wing. The daughter became a little concerned and said they needed to get out of there, get home, and tell her dad. The mother reported to the MUFON investigator that she had observed a similar triangular craft before, along with her older daughter, but had never reported it Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 95, citing field investigator Dan Worsham and Tom Sheets Source ID: Johnson_2069 Source: Johnson ### Event 24098 (C2D3D6AF) Date: 4/21/2004 Description: An irregular shaped UFO was seen hovering over a pond in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada at 2:30 a.m.by a single witness. There was a tube extending from the object that was sucking up water from the pond. Ground marks were reportedly found nearby. At 3:00 a.m. two orange oval-shaped objects flew at great speeds and made hairpin turns while moving about the sky during a thunderstorm in Kemptville near Ottawa, Ontario. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 237 & 238, citing HBCCUFO and NUFORC respectively Source ID: Johnson_2200 Source: Johnson ### Event 24099 (25268FE4) Date: 4/25/2004 Description: At 1:20 a.m. a V-shaped object flew past the witness' window in Kelowna, British Columbia so low that it was illuminated by streetlights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case 245, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_2323 Source: Johnson ### Event 24100 (9B97D82D) Date: 4/26/2004 Description: A very fast, low flying cigar-shaped object with four diamond shapes on the bottom was seen flying over Longmont, Colorado at 9:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_2358 Source: Johnson ### Event 24101 (7CAEAA3D) Date: 4/26/2004 Description: A glowing flying triangle was spotted by a couple in Kelowna, British Columbia. It was white in color. No lights were seen on the craft, flying at an estimated 20,000 ft, with no aura nor trail. It went on a straight line toward the northwest. Later a helicopter was seen flying at a low level. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 246, citing HBCCUFO; George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 113 Source ID: Johnson_2359 Source: Johnson ### Event 24102 (41324F38) Date: 5/3/2004 Description: At 8:30 p.m. a witness and son in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France saw for the second time several yellow and green balls moving in the sky. The BOLs were ten times larger than a star, and were coming together fast. The sighting had a 15 minute duration. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case 391 Source ID: Johnson_2492 Source: Johnson ### Event 24103 (00041304) Date: 5/7/2004 Description: In North Lauderdale, Florida at approximately 10:25 p.m. an oval-shaped object was in sight for 10 minutes. It had a row of blinking lights, and the lights were alternating blue and red, while the object made a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, www.nuforc.org, May 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_2644 Source: Johnson ### Event 24104 (2458E32F) Date: 5/8/2004 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a black delta-shaped wing and sphere were seen moving in the sky over Cranbrook, British Columbia. There were four witnesses and the sighting was quite brief. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 268, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_2668 Source: Johnson ### Event 24105 (CA99C8F3) Date: 5/8/2004 Description: At 10:00 a.m. in the surroundings of ExpoCuba, a fairground located in the Havana, Cuba municipality of Boyeros, several people witnessed the presence of a small silver oval-shaped UFO. Residents saw the small oval-shaped vessel, silver-colored with a metallic tail, as it descended and landed in an open field encircled by trees on the El Pedregal farm. It made no noise nor smoke. It was about the size of a pickup truck tire. Raul Beltran, 17, states, "I was tidying the shelves when a bright light came through the window that was like a glowing ball with a tail in its lower section. I showed it to my mother and quickly ran outside to see where it would fall and watched at the site until the UFO took off once more." It lifted off perpendicularly, and then left through the palm trees. According to the witnesses, the grass and small plants at the site where the UFO landed were somewhat burned. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 39-40, citing Prensa Latina, May 19, 2004 Source ID: Johnson_2667 Source: Johnson ### Event 24106 (F4EF15A3) Date: 5/9/2004 Description: Mary E. Spitz, a former Army Captain, reports she was driving to her mother's house in Pennsylvania on Mother's Day at 10:10 p.m. when she saw a triangular UFO with three blinking white lights and one flashing red light in the center. It flew in very low, and started following her car. "I was alone and very scared after I sighted it in the the town of Martin's Corner," she stated. It was only 100 yards above her car, and followed on Highway 340 and then some country roads to her mother's house in Wagontown, Pennsylvania. It then hovered low over a field for 10 minutes, before flying off to the east. It was about 50 feet on each of the three sides. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 103, citing John Schuessler, MUFON Source ID: Johnson_2705 Source: Johnson ### Event 24107 (267F1EAA) Date: 5/12/2004 Description: A man and a woman were walking their dog at around 11:00 p.m. in Sequin, Texas when they spotted a huge, disc-shaped craft coming down from the sky. The woman became agitated and began yelling that there was a loud ringing in her head and she believeed she could hear voices trying to talk to her. The dog also became disturbed and ran off. Two more discs appeared in the sky, and the man began to cry. He later described the UFOs as charcoal gray in color, and ringed with black lights. All three of the craft appeared to have strange writing or symbols on their hulls, which the witnesses thought resembled ancient writing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing National UFO Reporting Center, May 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_2785 Source: Johnson ### Event 24108 (D805C477) Date: 5/14/2004 Description: A massive triangular shaped object crossed the sky from south to north at 2:30 a.m. in Scappoose, Oregon. It was dark without lights but blocked the backdrop of stars as it flew over. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2004 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_2845 Source: Johnson ### Event 24109 (804A6372) Date: 5/15/2004 Description: A UFO allegedly crashed in the early morning hours in a remote jungle region close to Guri Dam in southeastern Venezuela. The hydroelectric station at Guri Dam is at the north end of the man-made lake, Lago de Guri. The dam is on the Rio Caroni, 100 km south of the Orinoco River at Ciudad Bolivar. The incident was witnessed by workers at the dam and took place northwest of their location. Soldiers of Venezuela's Guardia Nacional reportedly proceeded to cordon off the area, and undertook stringent security measures further north. In Puerto Ordaz residents saw low-flying, black helicopters cross the overcast sky, heading south towards the dam. The presence of U.S. military personnel was also reported, although relations between the governments of Venezuela and the United States are not cordial. The seismology unit at the University of Caracas reported movement at the time of the crash. Access to the crash site was difficult due to the torrential rains at the site during this time of the year. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2004 Humanoid Contact database, citing UFO Roundup, May 25, 2004, quoting Proyecto Orion, Scott Corrales, Christian Quintero of Planeta UFO Source ID: Johnson_2878 Source: Johnson ### Event 24110 (C7454997) Date: 5/15/2004 Description: A woman reported seeing several objects hovering above her townhouse in Towson, Maryland at 12:30 a.m. She also reported that a Grey humanoid came into her home, and feeling a strange giddiness at the time unlike anything else she had ever experienced. She had a missing time experience, lasting at least 35 minutes. She has requested a complete investigation by MUFON. During the encounter the being made telepathic contact with her, and she experienced feelings of peacefulness, describing the entity as an "old friend". She felt that the entity seemed to express concern for her. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2004 Humanoid Contact database, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2004 webpage, quoting MUFON as the source Source ID: Johnson_2877 Source: Johnson ### Event 24111 (8E71EDB0) Date: 5/17/2004 Description: A woman was cleaning house in Culloden, West Virginia on this evening when she spotted a black figure run past her window. She looked outside and could not see anyone. She resumed her cleaning, but again saw another figure run by the window, this one not as dark as the first. Ten minutes later she was in the kitchen when she was blinded by a bright flash of light that came in through both of her back windows. She then closed her curtains. The next day her dogs were acting strangely and there was a local power outage in the area. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2004 archived webpage, citing Donnie Blessing, MUFON Ohio Source ID: Johnson_2946 Source: Johnson ### Event 24112 (C75194FA) Date: 5/19/2004 Description: At 9:52 p.m. PDT a V-shaped object with lights was seen hovering low, close to the ground, in Trail, British Columbia, Canada. There were three lights on each wing of the V, rotating rapidly in circles. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 311, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_3000 Source: Johnson ### Event 24113 (9E1454F8) Date: 5/19/2004 Description: At 11:30 p.m. EDT a saucer-shaped object, flickering green and blue lights and only about 30 feet in the air was reported by a witness in Vicksburg, Michigan. There was a big bright flash that blinded the witness for 30 seconds, and when his sight recovered the UFO was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2004 archived webpage, report Source ID: Johnson_2999 Source: Johnson ### Event 24114 (2CDB217E) Date: 6/4/2004 Description: Around 7:00 p.m. a rounded "A"-shaped object was seen moving irregularly in the sky over Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for 15 minutes, then it flew away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Canadian UFO Survey 2004, case # 348 Source ID: Johnson_3288 Source: Johnson ### Event 24115 (E2381E39) Date: 6/6/2004 Description: At four o'clock in the morning a yellowish orange dome-shaped object was sighted moving slowly from south to north in Rockne, Texas before blinking out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_3345 Source: Johnson ### Event 24116 (AF389EFF) Date: 6/9/2004 Description: At 6:00 p.m. local time a teardrop-shaped UFO and other UFOs was seen in Ruby Bay, Nelson, New Zealand. The witness was standing on the beach having a smoke when he saw the object, which had spinning red lights and was beaming light down into the water. He ran and got his friend to see it as well. Other residents of the campground also saw it. It moved closer towards the beach sending beams of light across the bay, and made an electrical humming noise and a thundering sound that could easily be heard. The craft moved at a phenomenal speed and disappeared and reappeared in different places, moving up into the sky. At about 8:00 p.m. and over the next hour another 6 craft appeared in the sky. The objects in the sky looked like giant orbs of amber light and over the rest of the night the objects moved around the Nelson Harbour and the hills around Ruby Bay. The objects came in close and shot off randomly for the rest of the night until morning. Flat batteries in cars reportedly occurred throughout the McKees Domain, and dead fish washed up on the beach in Ruby Bay later that day. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2004 archive webpage Source ID: Johnson_3401 Source: Johnson ### Event 24117 (6230AAFB) Date: 6/10/2004 Description: Dog barks as small white lights are observed (IFO) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [040610](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-040610.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Lilburn, GA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5901 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 24118 (A9EEAA75) Date: 6/12/2004 Description: In Torrance, California at 3:03 p.m. a high altitude metallic disc-shaped object was watched from seven minutes. It reflected sunlight at times as it moved first west, then to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_3451 Source: Johnson ### Event 24119 (F3C65600) Date: 6/16/2004 Description: A chrome colored sphere was sighted over Milan, Tennessee at 12:30 p.m. It flew into a small cloud and didn't emerge again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2004 webpage archive Source ID: Johnson_3523 Source: Johnson ### Event 24120 (07A57A41) Date: 6/21/2004 Description: A saucer shaped object with bright red lights was seen in Richmond Hill, New York at 9:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3594 Source: Johnson ### Event 24121 (A85DD3B4) Date: Summer 2004 Description: Two security guards at a glass factory in Częstochowa, Poland, watch a large, oblong-shaped object with two bright yellow lights on both ends fly 90 feet above their guard post. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 110 Source ID: Eberhart_7453 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24122 (9EF37F98) Date: 7/7/2004 Description: A huge blue triangular craft was seen hovering over a nuclear plant in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada at 3:30 a.m. It zoomed away, but the witness was unable to account for 90 minutes of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2004, case # 446, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_3921 Source: Johnson ### Event 24123 (4C3973AD) Date: 7/17/2004 Description: At 3:00 a.m. a triangular craft was seen hovering over I-70 in Lewisburg, Ohio. At 10:45 p.m. a white circular object came out of nowhere in Portsmouth, Ohio and dropped above a tree. It hovered at 50 feet altitude emitting four light beams, that were directed onto the street below. It made no sound. There were two witnesses and the close encounter lasted an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2004 archived webpage; Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_4153 Source: Johnson ### Event 24124 (BDBE5190) Date: 7/26/2004 Description: During a power failure in Kerman, California that occurred at 1:20 a.m. Ms. E. B. was looking for a flashlight when the power came back on. Earlier that night around 12:30 a.m. she had seen an unusual light in the sky and now went out to look in the sky where she had seen it. What she saw was a glowing silvery man-like figure that was flying above the neighborhood at a height of 21 to 24 meters. The figure flew at a reasonably fast pace. The moment she saw it she screamed and ran back inside, locking the door behind her, but she continued to watch it through a window. The figure went behind some trees and when it emerged on the other side it shot off towards the north at the speed of a rocket. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 31, No. 9 Source ID: Johnson_4421 Source: Johnson ### Event 24125 (E3EBEED8) Date: 7/27/2004 Description: A truck driver driving south on Interstate 25 in New Mexico reported the night sky was pitch black with no moon nor even cloud cover visible. At 1:30 a.m., driving at 63 mph, he noticed a bright blue light about a half-mile ahead on the exit ramp for south-bound Exit 138. It appeared to be like a blue laser, similar to the light some people use on the hoods of their cars. When he got closer to the ramp he saw two figures approximately 3-4 feet tall. Each was either holding a blue light, or was wearing a blue head lamp. He couldn't tell for sure. The figures appeared to be looking to the north and south, and they looked at his truck as he drove by. They appeared to be wearing loose-fitting bright silver outfits, similar to HAZMAT suits. He couldn't tell if they were wearing helmets. The terrain was very flat and he did not see any vehicles in the area. He was sure that he would have seen any vehicle that they could have come from. He slowed to turn around but the nearest exit was another 30 miles down the highway so he decided not to go back. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_4444 Source: Johnson ### Event 24126 (BDA7A307) Date: 7/27/2004 Description: While driving home from a dinner party at two o'clock in the morning a married couple in Asland, Massachusetts observed a round silver disc-shaped object about 30 feet in diameter that had landed in an open field off of Chestnut Street. They both got out of their car and approached the disc and when they got close enough they both touched the craft. It was very cold to the touch and it was glowing red to blue. They were able to see inside the craft through a small window and saw three small beings. All appeared to be sleeping or meditating, they did not respond to the witnesses voices. As the couple began to walk around the craft it began to rise up into the air and eventually flew off without making any sound at all. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_4445 Source: Johnson ### Event 24127 (409B2D52) Date: 7/31/2004 Description: A witness named Deakin witnessed a black pipe-like object in the sky over Hollingworth, England at 5:30 p.m. It stayed in a vertical position, hovering or floating as if being blown gently by the wind. It was viewed through binoculars. Later, at 10:45 p.m. in Shepton Mallet, Somerset County, England three very strange looking, bright orange objects were reported in the sky to the British Ministry of Defense. They were described as quite large and going in an upward direction. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 35; British Ministry of Defense, case 2004-57 Source ID: Johnson_4549 Source: Johnson ### Event 24128 (6C7EE6E7) Date: 7/31/2004 Description: At 11:38 p.m. a large disc-shaped object emitting a bright light and a buzzing sound at intervals was sighted and photographed over Yamuna Nagar, Haryana State, India. Stationary at first, the UFO flew off to the south at high speed. It was witnessed by a man at a petrol service station along with five employees. He took one photo of it with a Nokia 6230 digital phone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 52 Source ID: Johnson_4550 Source: Johnson ### Event 24129 (88734CAF) Date: 7/31/2004 Description: CNES is now embarrassed by its decision to close SEPRA and is planning a rebirth. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_7454 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24130 (D6E0DA53) Date: 8/2004 Description: The National Institute for Discovery Science releases a report, “NIDS Investigations of the Flying Triangle Enigma,” with analyses of triangle-shaped UFOs in the US, Belgium, and elsewhere. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “NIDS Investigations of the Flying Triangle Enigma,” August 2004 Source ID: Eberhart_7455 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24131 (A15C6292) Date: 8/2/2004 Description: A young man, Andrey Alexandrovich Zabava, was spending time at the seashore near Cape Plaka near Partenit, Crimea, Ukraine in the company of several tourists from Russia and Poland. Their main reason for being there was to hunt for UFOs, because they believed there was an underground alien base hidden inside Ayu-Dug (Bear) Mountain, just to the west of Partenit. Their first six nights were uneventful, but on this night they saw several dim spots of yellow light that appeared one after the other on the northeastern slope of the mountain where there are no known buildings. The lights were positioned in a triangle. At about 01:00 a.m. a strange object appeared from the west slowly floating above the Black Sea. The object made a slow right turn, drifting in total silence, and slowly descended towards Ayu-Dug. When the object got closer Andrey could discern an elongated rhomboid form, clearly outlined by rows of lights. There were four bright emerald green lights positioned at the four corners of the craft, and numerous red lights were running along its edges, constantly blinking in a clockwise direction. Bright yellow-green lights were located at the center of the bottom of the craft, while four blue lights were positioned around it in a cross shape. This magnificent craft also had several dimly lit yellowish windows along its top section. When the craft was at its closest, a stream of hot air could be felt emanating from it. When the UFO passed along the seashore, Andrey noticed that all electric lights along the seashore blinked out simultaneously as if from a power interruption. Finally, the craft approached Ayu-Dug at a low altitude and seemed to dissolve into thin air, but immediately following this a bright beam of light appeared from the seashore and began searching the sky and scanning the water. Apparently some border guards had become alerted to the presence of the strange craft. Andrey also noticed that his friend Vitya's wristwatch had stopped when the craft passed directly overhead.

At around 3:00 a.m. bright yellow flashes of light appeared at the top of the mountain, resembling fireworks. Over the next 15 minutes a total of eight clusters of objects zoomed out of the mountain, and flew off towards the southwest and eastwards towards Novorossiysk. At 5:00 a.m. Andrey and Vitya had begun their descent of Cape Plaka, when they heard a voice yelling at them from behind. "Sons!" it said in Russian. They stopped and turned around. A figure resembling an elderly woman stood on a rock. Her face could not be seen because it was still dark and she was not facing them. The height of the strange woman was about 1.5 meters and she was dressed in a long gray loose fitting garment that completely covered her legs and a hood that covered her head. In a soft female voice in pure Russian, she said, "Sons! Don't tell anybody down there about what you have seen, they will not understand." The somewhat stunned young men did not began a conversation with her and did not pay much attention to her. Several seconds later Andrey turned around again and the woman had vanished. There was only a sharp rock outcrop and seemingly no place for her to hide. Increasingly agitated, the witnesses searched for the "nun" but could not find anyone.

They continued their descent from the rock, when Vitya screamed and pointed to the shoreline near one of the Partenit piers. There they saw another humanoid entity, very tall, about two or even three meters in height, and dressed in a tight-fitting, dark blue diver suit, which completely covered its body. It had on a helmet which was attached directly to the suit. A yellow rectangular "window" was positioned over the face area, but no facial features were visible. The entity was standing in the water up to its waist, and looking at the embankment and houses on the shore. Unexpectedly, after several seconds of observation the alien figure simply dissolved into thin air. The stunned witnesses finished their descent to the hamlet in a very shaken state. On the pier they spoke to an old sea captain named "Jora", who reported experiencing recent problems with his electronic equipment onboard his cutter on several occasions. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2004, citing Andrey A. Zabava & Anton Anfalov Source ID: Johnson_4619 Source: Johnson ### Event 24132 (09BACD51) Date: 8/6/2004 Description: Round object was seen changing shape and speed over Brampton, Ontario, Canada at 10:20 p.m. It made an S turn, then rapidly accelerated out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2004, case # 551 Source ID: Johnson_4750 Source: Johnson ### Event 24133 (66941877) Date: 8/9/2004 Description: "Imagine a a 30-foot wide strand of silk in the shape of a perfect chevron, moving at a constant speed of 25 mph from North to South." That is what the witness reported seeing at 11:00 a.m. from Squamish, British Columbia. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 2004-564; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2004 webpage, report uploaded October 12, 2001 Source ID: Johnson_4812 Source: Johnson ### Event 24134 (C39C39C3) Date: 8/10/2004 Description: A lighted object, circular in shape, was sighted at 2:26 a.m. in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. It shot straight up into the sky, and made the TV "go haywire." The sighting lasted about 10 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, 2004 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_4852 Source: Johnson ### Event 24135 (E8E39CEC) Date: 8/11/2004 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a triangular shaped object hovered over the road briefly in Guilderland, Albany County, New York. It had white lights at the points. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_4923 Source: Johnson ### Event 24136 (FFC1A330) Date: 8/11/2004 Description: A dim light zig-zagging in the northern sky of Metlakatla, British Columbia, Canada responded to a spotlight shone at it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 574 Source ID: Johnson_4924 Source: Johnson ### Event 24137 (0C12B39D) Date: 8/11/2004 Description: At 1:00 a.m. a disc-shaped object was seen in the sky to the south of the south-east corner of the Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada. It was moving up-and-down and back-and-forth. It had blue lights around it with a red light on top. It was watched by witnesses for more than two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 36; Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 567, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_4922 Source: Johnson ### Event 24138 (0EE278D3) Date: 8/16/2004 Description: While out photographing a meteor shower at 1:30 a.m. two men, Mike and Lance, both 23, sighted three triangles flying in a circle over Palmdale, California, spinning at fantastic speeds, that then stopped and disappeared. During the sighting Mike called his girlfriend on his cell phone, and while talking the cell phone died. Then the digital camera they had, which had been fully charged, died and would not work, with the message "battery dead". Yet when they got home both the phone and the camera worked, and when the camera was placed in its charger the message "full charge" appeared. The triangle craft were estimated to be flying at 20,000 feet, and were the apparent size of a quarter at arm's length. The triangles had a semi-spherical shape to them, and both men saw high definition shapes in the crafts' bodies. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 100, citing Cosmic Connection, http://tvufo.tripod.com Source ID: Johnson_5105 Source: Johnson ### Event 24139 (44F917D5) Date: 8/20/2004 Description: At Lake in the Hills, Illinois at 10:25 p.m. a flying triangle flew right over the heads of a computer network engineer of 20 years and his chemist wife at a low altitude. Its length was longer than any commercial airliner. The witness viewed the object through binoculars. It had three lights with one located at each apex. The UFO tilted to the west and levelled off. The object stayed in sight for 3 minutes, and then completely vanished right in front of them in the partly cloudy sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 98 Source ID: Johnson_5203 Source: Johnson ### Event 24140 (3964148E) Date: 8/20/2004 Description: Over Staten Island, New York four hazy white objects traveled in a circle at 10:00 p.m. and came together about a dozen times into a center, "like they were playing a game." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2004 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_5202 Source: Johnson ### Event 24141 (4D7DF45D) Date: 8/20/2004 Description: In Stonewall, Manitoba at 10:30 p.m. three orange, boomerang-shaped objects moved in formation, traveling very fast, and making no noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 610, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_5204 Source: Johnson ### Event 24142 (0203956D) Date: 8/21/2004 Description: Three red lights hovering in a triangular formation are seen by several witnesses in Tinley Park and Oak Forest, Illinois. Further observations take place on October 31, 2004; October 1, 2005; and once again on October 31, 2006. The lights are captured on video by some witnesses. The video evidence suggests that the lights keep the geometrical shape and move as if they are attached to each other through a dark object. The incident is examined in a Dateline NBC episode on May 18, 2008, and in the episode “Invasion Illinois” of the television series UFO Hunters that premiers on The History Channel on October 29, 2008. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Black triangle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%5Ftriangle%5F%28UFO%29) [\(UFO\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%5Ftriangle%5F%28UFO%29)”; Marler 211–216 Source ID: Eberhart_7456 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24143 (6B5BDA94) Date: 8/22/2004 Description: Driving home at 1:00 p.m. from her birthday party in Woodbury, Connecticut a teenager with her mother saw a disc-shaped object with a slight dome on top hovering at a very high altitude; the sun gleamed off its metallic surface. Because her mother responded sarcastically to her statement that she had sighted a UFO, she turned to argue, and when she looked back it was gone. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_5244 Source: Johnson ### Event 24144 (B3962102) Date: 8/23/2004 Description: The witness was driving east on Interstate I-185 in Greenville, South Carolina at around 11:10 p.m. when he saw a transparent triangle-shaped object fly over. "It was kind of fuzzy on the edges as the transparency did not go all the way to the edge. There was no sound and there was no emitted light." Shortly after a cousin who had missed the first sighting saw a smaller hovering triangle that appeared in the sky and headed southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 96 Source ID: Johnson_5281 Source: Johnson ### Event 24145 (DC5A41AF) Date: 8/25/2004 Description: At 4:00 p.m. an elderly man and a young boy in Lagos, Nigeria reported seeing a circular craft crash at the shoreline. According to the man, he was cooling off at a beach resort when a circular-shaped object flew over him and crashed onto the waters off of the beach. He reported the case to the Aviation Authority, but they did not believe him. The young boy, who was peddling spring water around the beach resort, also corroborated the first witness's account, but was also brushed aside by authorities. as an infantile hallucination. The site where the craft was purported to have crashed was later searched by divers, and they claimed to have found nothing. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales,2004 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2004 web page Source ID: Johnson_5349 Source: Johnson ### Event 24146 (81AE5985) Date: 8/25/2004 Description: Military maneuvers code-named "Shield of the Fatherland-2004" had begun in the forests of Belarus. A senior lieutenant named Dmitriy, commander of a reconnaissance diversion group (RDG), was performing rear guard operations and was engaged in destroying targets pre-positioned at Krepachi, Baranovichi area, Brest region. On the night of August 24 they made camp. Two men code-named "Rainbow" and "Hedgehog" were posted for night watch duty. The group had decided to make camp 375 meters away from the village of Krepachi in the Brest region. The location was mixed forest, in a clearing with two large old oak trees and a lake between them. The almost deserted village was not on any map, and the nearest really inhabited place was the hamlet of Gorodiszhe. At 3:08 a.m. they were awakened by a bright but plain spreading orange light. Their portable radio communications continued to work. Dmitriy asked Rainbow by radio if he had seen anything. Rainbow replied that he could see a plate-shaped craft about 27 meters from him, hovering over the ground at an altitude of about 2.5m. Dmitriy then gave the command to take defensive positions and prepare the grenade launcher. After confirming that all his men were ready, Dmitriy took another man, "Barkhan", and went on a reconnaissance patrol. The object was generally saucer-shaped with a truncated cone above. At close observation the object seemed metallic. The UFO emitted a beam of turquoise beam of light from its center. Unexpectedly, "Hedgehog" next reported that he could see four figures approaching him from the object, but he could not see them properly because of the tall grass concealing them. The soldiers then turned on their laser rangefinder to infrared mode. The humanoid figures seemed very tall, but the men still could not see them properly. Dmitriy noticed that the figures moved evenly as if robotic in nature. Seconds later the UFO quickly gained altitude, zooming out of sight beyond the clouds. According to the laser rangefinder the UFO's departing speed was 2600 kilometers per hour. The humanoid figures then walked in different directions. Dmitriy did not order his men to follow them, because that could lead to separating the group, which contradicted the defensive order. The figures seemed to walk through some high tension wires as if they were not there. Dmitriy could only hope that the humanoids and object would quickly leave and that his men would not be harmed.

After returning to their unit, some of the men informed senior officers of what had taken place. The officers ordered the men to keep silence, in order to prevent them from being discharged from the Army for "psychological" reasons. One officer suggested that the men had been hallucinating as a result of the rigorous training exercises. Later, intelligence personnel interviewed the men, and appeared to be relieved that the men had not used their weapons against the "aliens" for fear of retaliation. A female resident of the village told Army investigators that spherical and disk-shaped objects were often observed in the location. The villagers had been pasturing cows in the glade where the UFO had descended, and the soldiers had camped, and they reported that the cows' milk production had dropped dramatically. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2004 Humanoid Contact Database, citing "UFO at Military Maneuvers in Belarus", Inoplanetyanin (Extraterrestrial) Newspaper, Ukraine, January 30, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_5348 Source: Johnson ### Event 24147 (B3E1E87B) Date: 8/26/2004 Description: A lone witness in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada saw two stationary lights in the sky for about an hour, beginning at 3:30 a.m., at which time a haze or fog filled the area and he lost consciousness. He woke up across his yard, with unusual marks on his body, and believing he had been abducted by aliens. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 624 Source ID: Johnson_5385 Source: Johnson ### Event 24148 (9C3EDE47) Date: 8/28/2004 Description: 10:11 p.m. A circular metallic UFO the size of an airliner is seen above the Pemex oil refinery in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. It is accompanied by six luminous spheres at an altitude of about 3,300 feet. The larger craft performs erratic maneuvers at high speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Recent UFO Reports,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 25 Source ID: Eberhart_7457 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24149 (63632F63) Date: 8/29/2004 Description: In Omemee, Ontario, Canada a low, dark, cloud-like object was spotted in the sky at 7:35 p.m. that moved from west to east, changed direction, then changed direction back again to west to east until it was out of view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 628, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_5481 Source: Johnson ### Event 24150 (463FA99B) Date: 9/3/2004 Description: On this evening around 10:00 p.m. two people watched a set of brilliant strobing lights through binoculars from Linton, Oregon. The lights were hovering in the sky across the Willamette River. They distinctly saw four colors of lights: red, white, green, and blue. They flashed and rotated around the edges. They would shift position, tilting from horizontal to vertical, then rotating slowly so that they could see the underside of a single multicolored object, and then flatten out. The witnesses also reported that they thought airliners taking off from Portland International Airport must have seen this object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 135 Source ID: Johnson_5622 Source: Johnson ### Event 24151 (A09E7EE8) Date: 9/4/2004 Description: A married couple spotted a shiny cigar-shaped object in the sky as they played with their sons in a park in Aldershot, England. The object appeared in the sky at around 2:15 p.m., and it spent the next 20 minutes ducking around in the sky, making random turns, and flying horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 132 Source ID: Johnson_5644 Source: Johnson ### Event 24152 (11A3F8AE) Date: 9/5/2004 Description: On this evening around 10:00 p.m. a couple again watched a set of brilliant strobing lights through binoculars from Linton, Oregon. They had previously seen the same lights from the same location on September 3rd, two nights previously. The lights were hovering in the sky across the Willamette River. They distinctly saw four colors of lights: red, white, green, and blue. They flashed and rotated around the edges. They would shift position, tilting from horizontal to vertical, then rotating slowly so that they could see the underside of a single multicolored object, and then flatten out. The witnesses also reported that they thought airliners taking off from Portland International Airport must have seen this object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 135 Source ID: Johnson_5669 Source: Johnson ### Event 24153 (97A9355F) Date: 9/7/2004 Description: At 7:00 p.m. a mother and son were driving west together in Spokane, Washington and saw a triangle object just as the sun was setting. It was half the apparent size of the Moon. It hovered for a long while, and they watched it for 8 minutes before it went out of sight. "It looked like a jet with a very short contrail heading north at an odd angle toward the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 65, citing Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Source ID: Johnson_5749 Source: Johnson ### Event 24154 (A0E23FD5) Date: 9/8/2004 Description: Two fuzzy orange triangles were seen zig-zagging in the sky over Grimsby, Humberside, England at 12:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5781 Source: Johnson ### Event 24155 (9723FBFF) Date: 9/9/2004 Description: At 9:45 p.m. 15 glowing discs or orbs were seen and videoed in Sonora, California, moving in various directions, in tandem, one behind the other, and crossing pathes. One huge object in particulalr, a bright yellow or silver-white object, flew no more than 200 meters overhead, and moved very slowly to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 28 Source ID: Johnson_5815 Source: Johnson ### Event 24156 (B09BEAD7) Date: 9/10/2004 Description: At about 10:10 p.m. a witness saw a bright moving object in the clear sky over Mount Cobb, Pennsylvania and called his mother and two sones to come see. It was moving near the Big Dipper and changing colors from green to red to dark orange to white, as though it were spinning. Looking at it through binoculars it was a rounded triangle. They could see the colors very clearly. On top of the object was a very bright white light. It was hovering, then it moved from the left to the right. The main color of the object was yellow. A military aircraft was flying to the northwest, but this object flew southeast. The strange object was much brighter, much bigger, and much higher than the military planes. That same night many witnesses in Los Angeles, California also saw a triangle UFO that came back the next night as well. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 98 & 65, citing Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research and MUFON Los Angeles Source ID: Johnson_5845 Source: Johnson ### Event 24157 (504F0A18) Date: 9/11/2004 Description: Triangular craft were reported at four widely separate locations on this date. Formations of slow moving pairs of rapidly flashing lights, possibly representing triangular crafts, flew over Andover, Hampshire, England at 5:00 a.m. Next, at three o'clock in the morning PDT a triangle-shaped object zoomed overhead in Palo Alto, California. It made no noise and pulsated, and appeared to change size three times, before each point of light on the apexes of the triangle seperated and flew off in different directions. After that, a structured craft in the shape of a triangle flew slowly from the north to the southwest in Westlock, Alberta, Canada at 11:10 p.m. It seemed to be a charcoal gray or even black in color, but stood out from the color of the night sky on this clear night. Finally, on the same night on the eastern border of Washington State, a huge triangle of lights passed over a remote campsite at high altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2004 webpage; Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 673, citing NUFORC; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 99 Source ID: Johnson_5894 Source: Johnson ### Event 24158 (47066203) Date: 9/11/2004 Description: A cigar-shaped object with two lights was sighted briefly over Seattle, Washington in daylight at 11:11 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_5893 Source: Johnson ### Event 24159 (554A71C2) Date: 9/12/2004 Description: Evening. Laura Simmons sees a “silent, abstract blob almost like the underside view of a manta ray shape, moving quickly, quietly across the sky” above Fulton Street in San Francisco, California. She describes it as “very large, almost gossamer, sprinkled with lights but almost like dusted with luminous powder.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Recent UFO Reports,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 25 Source ID: Eberhart_7458 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24160 (AACE4C75) Date: 9/14/2004 Description: In Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada three or more orange-red tinged, chevron-shaped objects at a very high altitude, flew from west to east at a very high speed in single file. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 678, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_5974 Source: Johnson ### Event 24161 (9482F9DA) Date: 9/16/2004 Description: 9:00 p.m. Brian Junkin, Chuck Martin, and three children in Poulsbo, Washington, watch a multicolored light move erratically for 10 minutes about 500–1,000 feet above the canal adjacent to Naval Base Kitsap on the Kitsap Peninsula. The light keeps changing colors from green to red to orange. Flashes of light also come from what appear to be corners of an underlying object. Another light comes speeding in from the north on a straight course and stops close to the first light, which continues to dance around. Suddenly, both lights blink out at the same time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, September 29, 2004; Nukes 499–502 Source ID: Eberhart_7459 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24162 (16C2D655) Date: 9/17/2004 Description: A submarine-shaped object with many lights was seen briefly in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada at 3:30 a.m. It made a humming sound, and was mesmerising. There were two witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 682 Source ID: Johnson_6061 Source: Johnson ### Event 24163 (94F8E75E) Date: 9/17/2004 Description: 3:39 a.m. A woman in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, wakes up to a humming sound and lights shining through her window. She runs out and sees a large object “shaped like a large submarine” with lights. It has beams of lights shining down the middle of it in a straight line from one end to another. She hears a loud thunderclap and the object rises higher until it is lost to sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Recent UFO Reports,” IUR 29, no. 1 \(Spring 2004\): 25 Source ID: Eberhart_7460 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24164 (3E1A96DE) Date: 9/18/2004 Description: Another boomerang-shaped object flew over the witnesses in Kanata, Ontario, Canada at 10:00 p.m. It had no lights and made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2004 webpage; Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 687, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_6077 Source: Johnson ### Event 24165 (6B258A6B) Date: 9/19/2004 Description: A cigar-shaped object with windows and many colored lights hovered over Ile des Soeurs, Ile-de-Montreal, Quebec, Canada at 8:30 p.m. A second object flew up to it, and then entered the larger object. The incident lasted 90 minutes. Earlier that day a large silver, cigar-shaped object was seen moving rapidly through the daytime sky over Waynesburg and Canton, Ohio from the northeast to the southwest. These corroborating reports both occurred at 4:35 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 692; (2)Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6113 Source: Johnson ### Event 24166 (71F8A46D) Date: 9/27/2004 Description: Early morning. A five-member team of geologists and glaciologists \(including Rajiv Kalia, [Sunil Dhar](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sunil%5FDhar), Sushil Singh\) led by [Anil V. Kulkarni](http://dccc.iisc.ac.in/web/anilvk%5Fhome.html) of the Indian Space Research Organization’s Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad are on a research trip in the barren Samudra Tapu valley, Himachal Pradesh, India, at an elevation of 17,000 feet. They spot a strange white, oblong object about 3–4 feet on the top of a mountain ridge that is floating just a few feet from the ground and approaches the camp to a distance of 160 feet. Kulkarni and Dhar grab cameras and take several photos. It has a cylindrical head with 2 balloon-type attachments and looks like a robot walking. The object hovers motionless for a few seconds, then starts a steep ascent, hovers another 5 minutes, then rises high in the sky. Kalia says it does not look like a man-made object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Sighting in Himachal](https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/science-and-technology/story/20060213-ufo-sighting-in-himachal-lahaul-spiti-district-remains-a-mystery-783701-2006-02-13) [Lahaul-Spiti District Remains a Mystery,](https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/science-and-technology/story/20060213-ufo-sighting-in-himachal-lahaul-spiti-district-remains-a-mystery-783701-2006-02-13)” India Today, February 13, 2006; Mark Rodeghier, “Scientists Would Investigate Sightings by Other Scientists—Wouldn’t They?” IUR 30, no. 3 \(May 2006\): 22–23 Source ID: Eberhart_7461 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24167 (9102D97B) Date: 9/29/2004 Description: At 4:10 A.M. a very bright white ball of light was seen in the sky over Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. It paced the witness's vehicle for 10-15 minutes. Next, the object acclerated past the vehicle, then stopped and hovered. It "bounced" during its flight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 719, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_6431 Source: Johnson ### Event 24168 (3372402B) Date: 10/1/2004 Description: The US Air Force 20th Space Control Squadron at Eglin AFB, Florida, takes over the operation of the US Navy’s Space Surveillance System until 2009. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Force Space Surveillance System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FSpace%5FSurveillance%5FSystem)” Source ID: Eberhart_7462 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24169 (F5C90B34) Date: 10/2/2004 Description: A large triangular object, close to the ground, was seen in South Attleboro, Massachusetts at 11:37 p.m. for about a minute. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_6513 Source: Johnson ### Event 24170 (454D933A) Date: 10/2/2004 Description: A man was driving home at 5:30 a.m. in rural Tennessee when he noticed what first appeared to be a fire on a nearby ridge. As he drove he got closer and realized that it was not a fire at all but a series of three reddish-orange lights affixed to the bottom of a huge triangular craft. He neared an intersection and got out of his car to watch this metallic craft as it approached from the north and moved directly towards him. He became fearful and started to run from his car, but realized that there was nowhere to run. As the giant object passed overhead, it blocked out all the stars and he estimated its size to be some 300 feet in length. The bottom of the craft was illuminated from three flame-like symmetrical appendages, and there was a ribbed structure running across the bottom of the object. As it passed directly overhead he felt an energy that reverberated through his body. He stated that he felt many sensations all at once, but could find no description for what he actually felt. The object also made a pulsating or drumming noise which also passed throughout his body. After the object passed him, it suddenly turned west and moved behind some nearby hills. The witness reported a metallic taste in his mouth and a nose bleed. Later he found that his face and back were slightly sunburned and his hair was falling out, he also felt lethargic. He realized later that he had experienced 15 minutes of missing time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2004, citing Kim Shaffer, Tennessee MUFON Source ID: Johnson_6514 Source: Johnson ### Event 24171 (609A8897) Date: 10/4/2004 Description: Pilot [Brian Binnie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%5FBinnie) reaches a world record altitude of 367,490 feet in SpaceShipOne, an air launched rocket plane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Brian Binnie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%5FBinnie)” Source ID: Eberhart_7463 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24172 (A58921BA) Date: 10/15/2004 Description: The leader of Mirage 4 military jets was alerted by one of his fellow crew members to a bogey at the 5 o'clock position while flying over France at 8:10 a.m. There were a total of three airborne witnesses to the UFO, but there was no radar trace by air traffic controllers on the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: GEIPAN, case # 399 Source ID: Johnson_6882 Source: Johnson ### Event 24173 (F61CDC23) Date: 10/24/2004 Description: A silver, disc-shaped object was spotted flying over Honolulu, Hawaii at 3:30 in the afternoon. The object made no sound, had no lights, no windows, was otherwise featureless, and was moving fast. It was in view for 40 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7106 Source: Johnson ### Event 24174 (2D91A573) Date: 10/27/2004 Description: Day. The crew of a military jet near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, observes a dark gray, egg-shaped object, approximately 62 feet long, engaging in high-speed maneuvers at 45,000 feet. It is moving east at 575 mph, then makes an aggressive vertical turn. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “[A BAASS Data Report of a](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-baass-database-report-of-2002.html) [2002 Submerged Egg-Shaped Object in the SOCAL OPEAREA,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-baass-database-report-of-2002.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, May 13, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7464 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24175 (74A96165) Date: 10/27/2004 Description: On this evening in Orizaba, Mexico Mrs. M., who runs a small food retail establishment from her home, was watching television facing towards the street, and hoping for a client to stop by, when suddenly the television reception began to fail and there was sudden heavy RF interference. This was remarkable since the street was empty and there weren't any vehicles around that could cause the problem. Suddenly, a very tall figure walked by the front door of her house. The strange figure had a very pale white complexion, extremely white according to the witness. The figure then turned to look at her, and the stranger's stare was so intense and penetrating that she could not move; she wanted to yell out to her sister who lived next door, but was unable to utter a sound. The stranger abruptly disappeared, and at the same time the television returned to normal, but she was not able to move for at least five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2004 Humanoid Contact Database, citing http://www.eldurmientedeorizaba.com Source ID: Johnson_7207 Source: Johnson ### Event 24176 (9417F8EA) Date: 10/27/2004 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a dark triangular object was sighted in Brooklyn, New York. It had no lights, made no sound, and was huge. Also at 10:00 p.m. a boomerang-shaped object was seen in Miami Gardens, Dade County, Florida. It was a gray, metallic looking object that glided smoothly, moving as fast as a small jet, with no lights or sound. At 10:15 two V-shaped UFOs were reported over New York City. They were gray V-shaped objects flying side-by-side, with no lights and no sound. Two more reports were received from Ithaca, New York at the UFO Reporting Center of a very large, white, V-shaped object that moved quickly across the sky between 10:20 and 10:30 p.m. on the night of a lunar eclipse. The sightings lasted several seconds. At 10:18 p.m. 1 V-shaped light formation traveling in a southwest direction was sighted over Largo, Pinellas County, Florida. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7208 Source: Johnson ### Event 24177 (9773D247) Date: 10/28/2004 Description: Night. An Iranian Air Force F-14 is on combat air patrol near the heavy water reactor near Khondab, Iran, when it picks up an unidentified target at a distance of 50 miles away that is making rapid changes in altitude, heading, and speed. The pilot is ordered to bank toward the target after regional command receives a visual confirmation from an Arak Air Defense Group observer. Approaching at 22,000 feet, the pilot spots the target at 5,000 feet. The object is spherical and has a green halo surrounding it and a green light on its tail end. When the pilot turns toward the light, it disappears then reappears a few miles away, apparently moving at a speed of Mach 7 or greater. The F-14 is ordered to turn all lights off and descend to pursue the target. At 7,800 feet the target disappears again, but after the F-14 makes a turn at 7,000 feet, it picks up the target again and flies 2,000 feet below it. The F-14 arms its weapons and the pilot requests clearance to engage the object. Every time the radar officer attempts to lock on the object, the radio, radar, and other instruments become jammed. Finally, the F-14 ascends to 19,000 feet because it is low on fuel and spots the object one last time at low altitude. The pilot returns to the 8th Predator Tactical Fighter Base in Isfahan. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Air Forces Monthly, December 18, 2017; “[Iran UFO Reports](https://www.key.aero/2017/12/18/iran-ufo-reports-revealed) [Revealed,](https://www.key.aero/2017/12/18/iran-ufo-reports-revealed)” Key Aero, December 18, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_7465 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24178 (50B133D7) Date: 10/29/2004 Description: Odd lights were seen, most likely on a large, slow moving cigar-shaped craft, north of Indianapolis, Indiana at 11:45 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7294 Source: Johnson ### Event 24179 (27F68198) Date: 10/30/2004 Description: A witness reported sighting a black triangle moving at tremendous speed to the south at 9:44 p.m. while standing on the corner of Poway Road and Gate Lane in Poway, California. The object was in sight for just 2 seconds. It had an equilateral form with seven bright, yellow-white lights. There were no lights on its trailing edge, and it was silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, pp. 100-101, citing Melvin Podell, MUFON Source ID: Johnson_7326 Source: Johnson ### Event 24180 (C999145E) Date: 10/30/2004 Description: In Saskatoon, Saskachewan, Canada at 2:10 p.m. a yellow flying object crossed sky, stopped, changed shape and color, then ascended into outer space. At 8:00 p.m. a blue, cigar-shaped object with rows of lights flew ahead, dashed right and back, and then resumed its flight over Watson Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, cases 767 & 768 Source ID: Johnson_7325 Source: Johnson ### Event 24181 (D274A08B) Date: 11/5/2004 Description: Approximately 15 oval-shaped UFOs were spotted in Santa Ana, California at 10:50 a.m. moving slowly in unison, making different patterns in the sky, and reflecting at different times in the sunlight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7486 Source: Johnson ### Event 24182 (9563A180) Date: 11/8/2004 Description: On this evening Terry McDonald, driving home in Crane River, Manitoba, Canada had a bright light closely following his truck. His truck engine intermittently lost power over the course of one kilometer. A Kenora, Ontario resident saw a saucer-like object hovering only 18 meters above the ground. He observed the saucer for nearly an hour before it moved fairly slowly across the treetops. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 47, citing Chris Rutkowski, and Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case 783 Source ID: Johnson_7554 Source: Johnson ### Event 24183 (58A81C46) Date: 11/8/2004 Description: A man named Triguez was staying overnight at his grandmother's house in Lavaderos, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico when he awoke at four a.m. and looked out the window to see a strange oval-shaped craft on the ground in a nearby field. The craft appeared crystal like in appearance and had small lights around the edges. It emitted a strange sound and greenish flashes of light. He observed the object for awhile, and then noticed an opening in the object which had become visible, from which he briefly saw a figure descend down what appeared to be steps. He could not make out any other details. The craft soon vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2004 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Lucy Guzman, http://www.ovni.net Source ID: Johnson_7555 Source: Johnson ### Event 24184 (D0E4E71A) Date: 11/9/2004 Description: A bunch of disc-like lights were seen hovering on top of a Greyhound Bus traveling on Hwy 6 from Ericksdale to Ashern in Manitoba, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Wtichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 47, citing Chris Rutkowski Source ID: Johnson_7587 Source: Johnson ### Event 24185 (9EE5E5AD) Date: 11/10/2004 Description: Navy Chief Petty Officer Kevin Day, stationed on the guided missile cruiser [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FPrinceton%5F%28CG-59%29) [Princeton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FPrinceton%5F%28CG-59%29), notices the clear radar traces of 8–10 objects travelling southwards in a loose though fixed formation at 28,000 feet in the immediate vicinity of Catalina and San Clemente islands, California. He is startled by their slow speed of 120 mph but receives confirmation of their presence from radar operators on other vessels. Regular observations are made of a similar number of objects over the following six days. The objects are also faintly detected by an E- 2C Hawkeye plane after Princeton sends them coordinates. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Pentagon UFO videos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon%5FUFO%5Fvideos)” Source ID: Eberhart_7466 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24186 (2A5DD9BE) Date: 11/13/2004 Description: At 9:55 p.m. a fast, flickering, ball of red and white lights was seen in the northern sky, by a witness traveling on Interstate 57 near Peotone, Illinois. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7660 Source: Johnson ### Event 24187 (79573842) Date: 11/14/2004 Description: 9:30 a.m. Navy Commander David Fravor and pilot Jim Slaight, flying two McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets over the California coast on a routine training mission, are diverted from their exercise to investigate some unusual radar contacts detected by the cruiser [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FPrinceton%5F%28CG-59%29) [Princeton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FPrinceton%5F%28CG-59%29) that is part of the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FNimitz) [Nimitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FNimitz) Carrier Strike Group. They observe a 40-foot-long wingless craft flying at incredible speeds in an erratic pattern. Controllers on one of the Navy ships report objects that are dropping out of the sky from 80,000 feet and going “straight back up.” As they are looking for the object that appears on the radar, Fravor spots a white disturbance in the water and a white object \(nicknamed “Tic-Tac”\) moving in random directions. The planes fly lower to investigate the object, which seems to be about 40 feet long and then starts to mirror their movements before accelerating at high speed and disappearing. Fravor and another pilot, Alex Dietrich, say in an interview that a total of four people \(two pilots and two weapons systems officers in the back seats of the two airplanes\) witness the object for about 5 minutes. The disturbance in the water vanishes. Soon the same or a similar object reappears at their rendezvous point 60 miles away, but by the time they arrive it has disappeared. Another plane launched from the USS Nimitz has its radar jammed and is able to pick up the object on an infrared channel. Two objects emerge from the bottom of the blip, which takes off and goes off the right side of the screen. The speed of the object, which has no exhaust trail, is stunning. However, the Navy claims it “never obtained an accurate” radar track of the objects reported by Fravor; they are quickly dropped by the Princeton’s radar when the computer categorizes them as “false targets.” After the return of the first team to USS Nimitz, a second F-18 team, led by Chad Underwood, takes off at approximately 12:00 noon, this time equipped with an advanced infrared camera \(FLIR pod\). This camera records an evasive unidentified aerial system on video. Underwood says “he never had visual, only seeing the object via FLIR.” David Fravor says that the radar operator on the USS Princeton briefed him that they had been tracking radar targets for two weeks. The footage is publicly released by the Pentagon in 2017. This footage is known as the 2004 USS Nimitz [FLIR1 video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWLZgnmRDs4)[.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWLZgnmRDs4) It officially sheds some light on a decade-old story that had been largely unknown and unreported, aside from a 2015 secondhand story on FighterSweep.com that, in spite of providing many details, remained unconfirmed at that time. Jonathan Axelrod \[possibly Naval officer John F. Stratton\], investigating the case in 2009 for BAASS, concludes tat the object “was no known aircraft or air vehicle currently in the inventory of the United States or any foreign nation,” and that it remained “stationary with little or no variation in altitude transitioning to horizontal and/or vertical velocities far greater than any known aerial vehicle with little or no visible signature.” Analysis of the FLIR footage by Mick West of Metabunk claims that the impressive sudden departure is an illusion; the object does not actually move except when the aircraft’s own infrared camera moves. West thinks the object resembles an “out-of-focus low-resolution backlit plane” filmed at a distance. \[A second film of infrared footage, known as the GIMBAL video, is released by the Pentagon alongside the 2004 FLIR1 footage. Although the media often present the two videos together to illustrate the 2004 USS Nimitz UFO incident, the GIMBAL video is unrelated and was filmed on the East Coast of the United States in early 2015 by planes from the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTheodore%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CVN-71%29) [Theodore Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTheodore%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CVN-71%29).\] Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Object Outmaneuvers](http://www.nicap.org/20041114USS%5FNimitz%5Fdir.htm) [2 Jets over Pacific](http://www.nicap.org/20041114USS%5FNimitz%5Fdir.htm)”; Wikipedia, “[Pentagon UFO videos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon%5FUFO%5Fvideos)”; “[Pentagon Declassifies Navy ‘UFO’ Videos \(Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWLZgnmRDs4) [1/3\),](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWLZgnmRDs4)” ABC News YouTube channel, April 27, 2020; “[Navy Pilot Recalls Encounter with UFO: ‘I Think It Was](https://abcnews.go.com/US/navy-pilot-recalls-encounter-ufo-unlike/story?id=51856514) [Not from This World,’](https://abcnews.go.com/US/navy-pilot-recalls-encounter-ufo-unlike/story?id=51856514)” ABC News, December 18, 2017; Keith Basterfield, “[Did the AAWSA Program / AATIP](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2018/05/did-aawsa-programaatip-really-start-in.html) [Really Start in 2007?](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2018/05/did-aawsa-programaatip-really-start-in.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, May 16, 2018; “[2004 USS Nimitz](https://www.explorescu.org/post/2004-uss-nimitz-strike-navy-group-incident-report) [Navy Strike Group Incident Report,](https://www.explorescu.org/post/2004-uss-nimitz-strike-navy-group-incident-report)” Scientific Coalition of UAP Studies, March 3, 2019; “[Scientific Findings](https://www.explorescu.org/post/scientific-findings-regarding-a-major-u-s-navy-encounter-with-ufos) [Regarding a Major U.S. Navy Encounter with UFOs,](https://www.explorescu.org/post/scientific-findings-regarding-a-major-u-s-navy-encounter-with-ufos)” Scientific Coalition of UAP Studies, April 25, 2019; Matthew Phelan, “[Navy Pilot Who Filmed the ‘Tic Tac’ UFO Speaks: ‘It Wasn’t Behaving by the Normal Laws](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-and-a-with-navy-pilot-chad-underwood.html) [of Physics,’](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-and-a-with-navy-pilot-chad-underwood.html)” New York, December 19, 2019; Mick West, “[Explained: New Navy UFO Videos,](https://www.metabunk.org/threads/explained-new-navy-ufo-videos.11234/)” Metabunk, April 27, 2020; David Clarke, “Echoes and Angels: UFOs on Radar,” Fortean Times 403 \(March 2021\): 40–42; Skinwalkers 45–46, 111–114, 118–119; Bill Whitaker, “[UFOs Regularly Spotted in US Airspace,](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-08-29/)” CBS News, August 29, 2021; “[Famous Navy UFO Is Camera Glare Hiding Something ‘Really Interesting,’ Researcher Says,](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/famous-navy-ufo-video-is-camera-glare-hiding-something-really-interesting-researcher-says/ar-AAVbXOt)” The Independent \(UK\), March 18, 2022; Internet Movie Database, “[A Tear in the Sky](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15120486/?ref%5F=ttpl%5Fpl%5Ftt)” Source ID: Eberhart_7467 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24188 (01BC7836) Date: 11/15/2004 Description: An octagonal shaped object with a yellow flashing light was observed moving quickly through the sky in Drummondville, Quebec. It was high in sky, and turned abruptly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 802, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_7711 Source: Johnson ### Event 24189 (2E3E0E75) Date: 11/16/2004 Description: An unmanned NASA X-43A hypersonic scramjet, the fastest free-flying air-breathing vehicle, achieves a speed of 7,546 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[NASA X-43](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA%5FX-43)” Source ID: Eberhart_7468 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24190 (2F012D76) Date: 11/21/2004 Description: At 12:15 a.m. a bright, white and orange triangle-shaped object was seen on Highway 1 South, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. It was moving at first, stopped and hovered for a minute, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 809, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_7787 Source: Johnson ### Event 24191 (414D7446) Date: 11/24/2004 Description: At two o'clock in the morning a V-shaped orange glowing object was sighted in Yuma, Arizona that moved straight up until it became impossible to see. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7896 Source: Johnson ### Event 24192 (6224E120) Date: 11/24/2004 Description: At 7:40 p.m. a bright orange light was seen in Houston, British Columbia descending slowly, following the contour of the mountain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 813, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_7897 Source: Johnson ### Event 24193 (4386146C) Date: 11/25/2004 Description: A triangular UFO with red and blue lights was sighted flying over Ottumwa, Iowa at 5:00 a.m. The lights appeared to be rotating in a clockwise pattern. The object was completely silent as it flew. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2004 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7929 Source: Johnson ### Event 24194 (CD486B60) Date: 11/27/2004 Description: A huge disc-shaped object accompanied by other smaller craft came over the witness's apartment building in Gardena, California at around one o'clock in the morning. It seemed to be close, and could change direction and speed in the blink of an eye. It had lights and was very quiet, making no noise at all. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2004 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_7976 Source: Johnson ### Event 24195 (D9BC0E11) Date: 11/29/2004 Description: At 9:10 p.m. Bill Bean witnessed a very large white disc-shaped object from his home in Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland that hovered, then tilted downward in the southeast sky. It hovered at an estimated altitude of 5000 feet and was in view for a little less than a minute. It appeared to be very big, and the white part was very bright with black edges. Suddenly, it shot to the south, and rode the clouds like a speedboat. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 29 Source ID: Johnson_8058 Source: Johnson ### Event 24196 (F0711C74) Date: 11/30/2004 Description: A diamond-shaped object was observed hovering in the sky in North Bay, Nipissing County, Ontario, Canada at 5:00 a.m. It then dashed towards the front of a house, and then suddenly vanished. It had candle-like white lights with a purple hued. The sighting lasted 5 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 825, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_8098 Source: Johnson ### Event 24197 (6A21BA1B) Date: 12/4/2004 Description: Orange flashes in the sky in Burlington, Indiana were followed by the appearance of several objects at 8:30 p.m. One object that flew over the witness was triangular in shape with three red illuminated areas like tips. The outer points were brightest, fading into black at the center. The color was like a piece of red hot metal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), February 2005, p. 72, citing National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_8188 Source: Johnson ### Event 24198 (FD4D5256) Date: 12/5/2004 Description: Beginning at 10:20 and continuing for two hours, a bright shining object emitted multicolored beams of light over the city of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), February 2005, p. 73, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_8224 Source: Johnson ### Event 24199 (7F814F3F) Date: 12/5/2004 Description: Four lighted chevron-shaped objects silently glided over Terre Haute, Indiana heading south at 4:25 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), February 2005, p. 72, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_8225 Source: Johnson ### Event 24200 (D74351BF) Date: 12/5/2004 Description: At 7:15 p.m. in Acton, Ontario two oval-shaped lights hesitated, then flew over a house, moving off very quickly. At 10:00 p.m. in Strathroy, Ontario a slow moving diamond-shaped or triangle-shaped craft flew low overhead; it made no sound and had bright white lights on its tips and scrolling blue and red lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 833 & 834 Source ID: Johnson_8226 Source: Johnson ### Event 24201 (70B8EE3D) Date: 12/5/2004 Description: Driving west on Interstate 88 in Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York a witness spotted a disc-shaped object hovering above a field at 9:35 p.m. It was silver gray in color with blinking yellowish orange lights evenly spaced all the way around it. It was estimated to be about 8 stories above the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: UFO Magazine (USA), February 2005, p. 72, citing National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_8227 Source: Johnson ### Event 24202 (D0989BF6) Date: 12/18/2004 Description: Several strange lights were seen from Cau-Cau, Horcon, Chile starting at 8:30 p.m., engaging in complex maneuvers. A dot was first seen, then a vertical line that turned to the left. Contrails left in the wake of the objects and their irregular, sudden maneuvers suggested they were not conventional aircraft. Photographs were reportedly taken. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Scott Corrales, ufoinfo.com, report dated December 31, 2004 Source ID: Johnson_8503 Source: Johnson ### Event 24203 (003FE973) Date: 12/23/2004 Description: At 10:06 p.m. a red disc-shaped object with body lights on the underneath side flew along the highway, then over cars in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada. There were three witnesses, and the sighting reportedly lasted ten minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 870, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_8580 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 2005 (Back to Top) ### Event 24204 (85EADF9B) Date: 2005 Description: More than 9,500 UFO reports and related documents \(of an estimated 15,000\) are digitized by Library and Archives Canada and made available online. It releases a virtual exhibition titled “Canada’s UFOs: The Search for the Unknown.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 11–13 Source ID: Eberhart_7469 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24205 (DAD1A043) Date: 1/1/2005 Description: The UK Freedom of Information Act 2000 comes into full force. Around 120,000 requests are made in the first year. Private citizens make 60% of them, with businesses and journalists accounting for 20% and 10% respectively. However, requests from journalists tend to be more complex and consequently more expensive. UFOs are one of the three most popular FOI requests made to the Ministry of Defence. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Freedom of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%5Fof%5FInformation%5FAct%5F2000) [Information Act 2000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%5Fof%5FInformation%5FAct%5F2000)”; UFOFiles2, [p. x](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n7/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7470 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24206 (77AE3FC2) Date: 1/11/2005 Description: At around one o'clock in the morning several disc-shaped UFOs flew about 200 feet from a witness's car while driving on Interstate 10 from Albuquerque, New Mexico to El Paso, Texas. The close encounter lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2005 webpage, report uploaded January 19, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_271 Source: Johnson ### Event 24207 (B78D8674) Date: 1/15/2005 Description: UFO researcher [Keith Basterfield](http://www.auforn.com/Kbintro.htm) interviews a man in Adelaide, South Australia, whose British father had worked for MI5 after World War II. His father had told him in 1959 when he was 12 that the American military had been experimenting in 1947 with monkeys and pigs being dropped in devices equipped with retrorockets from stratospheric balloons to test them for eventual space rocket research. In one of these experiments, which were conducted at night, they used live 2–3 humans with a hydrocephalic condition \(enlarged heads caused by excess cerebrospinal fluid\) whom they obtained from a facility. The retrorockets failed, the balloon crashed, and a rancher found the material and one of the humans who was still alive. A medical retrieval team came for it. The UFO cover story for this crash near Roswell, New Mexico, was concocted to keep the experiments secret. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Keith Basterfield, “[Jacobsen, Redfern, and an Adelaide Informant,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2011/07/jacobsen-redfern-and-adelaide-informant.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, July 8, 2011; Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 153–163 Source ID: Eberhart_7471 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24208 (6B200C78) Date: 1/22/2005 Description: Four discs flew east over the mountains in Rancho Cucamonga, California at 9:16 a.m.; they were shiny and reflective like polished aluminum. A small propeller aircraft just south of the mountains started to approach the area and the four objects vanished immediately as the aircraft came into view. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 30, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_436 Source: Johnson ### Event 24209 (998BE7C9) Date: 1/31/2005 Description: 12:00 midnight. A large oval mass is seen floating above a cornfield at Wood River, Nebraska, by a man leaving his parents’ house. It rocks slightly from side to side for some 10 minutes and then sends out bursts of light toward the ground before climbing upward, seeming to suck up an object, apparently a large cow, from the field below. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 196 \(June 2005\): 28 Source ID: Eberhart_7473 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24210 (87BE94C9) Date: 1/31/2005 Description: At ten o'clock at night a triangular object hovered over a frozen pond in Columbia City, Indiana for three minutes and melted the ice. On the same night in Wood River, Nebraska a bright oval-shaped object allegedly picked up a cow. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2005 webpage, reports uploaded Feb. 8, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_647 Source: Johnson ### Event 24211 (6FB9F1FE) Date: 1/31/2005 Description: 10:00 p.m. Two men ice fishing at Columbia City, Indiana, encounter a large triangle above the east end of the pond. It crosses the frozen water at a low altitude, then hovers for some seconds before rising silently upward, leaving a trail of steam from the surface of the ice. The men try to call the local sheriff, but their cellphones are dead, as is their electrical fish locater. After the object disappears, they find a two-inch hole in the ice where the object had hovered. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 196 \(June 2005\): 28 Source ID: Eberhart_7472 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24212 (1E3473AF) Date: 2/7/2005 Description: 2:00 a.m. In the farming area of El Paraiso, Mar del Plata, Argentina, a resident hears a noise like a strong wind or turbine and sees two misty yellow lights drifting above a copse of trees and climbing slowly. Other witnesses hear and see the phenomena, and others are wakened by their farm animals going crazy and dogs howling as if in pain. At dawn, two circular marks are found near the copse. Police forensic experts take samples of an ash-like deposit that leaves a greasy smear when touched. Meanwhile, the daughter of one of the locals involved is having nightmares about a UFO trying to catch her. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 196 \(June 2005\): 28 Source ID: Eberhart_7474 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24213 (58869966) Date: 2/15/2005 Description: At 1:25 p.m. in Maple Ridge, British Columbia two witnesses sighted a large white oval object with legs hanging down. It rose quickly out of sight. At 6:28 p.m. in Ruskin, British Columbia a single witness sighted a large V-shaped object with lighted panels on the underneath side. At 9:00 p.m. in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada two witnesses reported that a multicolored light hovered over them for four minutes, shifted back and forth, then shot away towards the east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 7, 8, & 6; citing UFOBC, HBCCUFO, and NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_938 Source: Johnson ### Event 24214 (BA9F0D7D) Date: 2/21/2005 Description: A man and his son spotted a huge triangular shaped UFO flying over Southfield, Michigan at 6:30 p.m. It flew at a high rate of speed, then suddenly stopped and made a quick turn, and finally shot off into the atmosphere. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, webpage, report dated May 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_1042 Source: Johnson ### Event 24215 (A92DFE32) Date: 2/24/2005 Description: UFOs: Seeing Is Believing, a two-hour American TV documentary narrated by [Peter Jennings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FJennings), airs on ABC-TV. The show mentions the [Kenneth Arnold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%5FArnold) sighting, the Phoenix lights, southern Illinois triangle-shaped UFOs, and the Roswell incident, which Jennings sneeringly dismisses as a myth. Guests include [James McGaha](https://centerforinquiry.org/speakers/mcgaha%5Fjames/), [Seth Shostak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%5FShostak)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%5FShostak) [Jill Tarter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%5FTarter)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%5FTarter) [Stanton Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton%5FT.%5FFriedman) [Budd Hopkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%5FHopkins) [Susan Clancy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%5FClancy)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%5FClancy) and [Michio Kaku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio%5FKaku)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio%5FKaku)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “UFOs: Seeing Is Believing”; Internet Movie Database, “[Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs, Seeing Is Believing](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448085/)”; “[UFOs:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlDLDRT-whU) [Seeing Is Believing \(2005\), ABC Documentary,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlDLDRT-whU)” Movie Buff Guy YouTube channel, June 18, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7475 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24216 (B2089916) Date: 2/27/2005 Description: [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) appears on [Art Bell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%5FBell)’s Coast to Coast radio program and describes his disinformation campaign against [Paul Bennewitz.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FBennewitz)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Greg Bishop and Richard Doty, Coast to Coast AM with Host Art Bell,](http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S5-Greg-Bishop-and-Richard-Doty-Coast-to-Coast-AM-with-host-Art-Bell-Interview-Transcript.pdf) [Interview Transcript,](http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S5-Greg-Bishop-and-Richard-Doty-Coast-to-Coast-AM-with-host-Art-Bell-Interview-Transcript.pdf)” February 27, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_7476 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24217 (C97432FB) Date: 3/1/2005 Description: At 3:30 a.m. a large, slow moving triangular shaped object that seemed to suddenly disappear was seen in Palatka, Florida. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2005 webpage, report uploaded November 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_1238 Source: Johnson ### Event 24218 (518313AD) Date: 3/5/2005 Description: Two football-shaped solid yellow lights passed a car and its driver at close range northeast of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They buzzed the car only four feet away and just six feet off the ground. No sound was heard or heat felt during the close encounter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2005, case # 17, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_1324 Source: Johnson ### Event 24219 (DDE73871) Date: 3/6/2005 Description: A silent running triangular craft with seven very dim orange lights, outlining the part of the craft that the witness could see, passed over St. Augustine, Florida at 11:57 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2005 webpage, report uploaded March 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_1357 Source: Johnson ### Event 24220 (D62E893E) Date: 3/14/2005 Description: At 9:50 p.m. a slow-moving triangle object passed overhead in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada making a turn to the southeast; it had lights on its three corners. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey [electronic version], case 20 Source ID: Johnson_1514 Source: Johnson ### Event 24221 (93F3FFFB) Date: 3/14/2005 Description: A witness in Bluefield, West Virginia reported that at 11:00 p.m. a dark to light brown "rounded boomerang" or crescent moon-shaped object moved silently overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2005 webpage, report uploaded May 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_1515 Source: Johnson ### Event 24222 (15400BDB) Date: 4/6/2005 Description: In Oakdale, California a glowing orange-colored spherical object zigzagged across the sky at a high rate of speed at 8:40 p.m. It was completely silent. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_1876 Source: Johnson ### Event 24223 (F18BE6E1) Date: 4/12/2005 Description: A blue oval-shaped object was seen in the afternoon sky in Dorion, Quebec. Looking somewhat like a blimp, it was not moving at first when first sighted at 3:33 p.m.; it vanished after crossing behind some trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 416, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_1997 Source: Johnson ### Event 24224 (BCF802B8) Date: 4/21/2005 Description: A buzzing sound interupted a witness's piano playing and singing in Piscataway, New Jersey at 10:50 p.m. Looking out the window, only 20-30 feet up in the air and a short distance from the house, was a half lit lighted object with green slats; the object having white and red lights on other side. The close encounter lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded May 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_2201 Source: Johnson ### Event 24225 (AF593835) Date: 4/25/2005 Description: There were two reports of a diamond shaped UFO with four main lights, along with a bunch of small white lines on the underneath part, from Lompoc, California to the National UFO Reporting Center. The sightings occurred at 2:50 a.m. The UFO made a horribly loud, high pitched humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2005 webpage Source ID: Johnson_2324 Source: Johnson ### Event 24226 (6306F8EF) Date: 4/27/2005 Description: Late morning. Air traffic radar detects an unidentified target in restricted air space near Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport in Arlington, Virginia, causing President [George W. Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FW.%5FBush) to be taken to a bunker and Vice President [Dick Cheney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%5FCheney) to be evacuated to safety. The target gets within 7 miles of the airport, then vanishes. Although it is not identified, officials argue it is caused by a radar anomaly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Radar Blip Causes](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98103962/) [White House Security Scare,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98103962/)” Tampa Bay \(Fla.\) Times, April 28, 2005, p. 10 Source ID: Eberhart_7477 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24227 (516C1B26) Date: 5/1/2005 Description: Night. A biotechnologist and his daughter are driving on the Central Oregon Highway about 50 miles southeast of Bend, Oregon. They notice three bright blue objects zigzagging around each other about 300 feet away above a field. Suddenly two of the lights move toward them and through their vehicle. One passes through the windshield and passes through a window. The second passes through the man’s left arm and upper body, exiting his right arm. He feels a bit hazy, but notices the light is spherical and about the size of a softball. Still driving, the man feels nauseous and scared. The next 45 minutes into Bend seems like 3 hours. Days later, he develops a red rash on the left side of his face and loses some hair on that side. His ankles swell, and he loses some sight and hearing on the left. In the next few weeks, he gains about 50 pounds \(although exercising and dieting\) and sleeps a lot. In February 2007 he is diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in his left chest, a pre-cancerous condition, and undergoes surgery in May, his health gradualy improving by the end of 2008. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 70–75 Source ID: Eberhart_7478 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24228 (E0E6C549) Date: 5/3/2005 Description: 5:30 a.m. A witness sees strange red and white lights crossing the flight path into Dulles International Airport in Virginia, west of Washington, D.C. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 199 \(September 2005\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_7479 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24229 (B73384D2) Date: 5/4/2005 Description: 10:00 a.m. Angler John Walker sees an object the size of a house, shaped like a large gray bullet, in the sky above Squeaking Point, Tasmania. He estimates its height at 150 feet. It moves extremely slowly, taking 15 minutes to cross his view. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 199 \(September 2005\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_7480 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24230 (65A726DC) Date: 5/5/2005 Description: At nine o'clock in the evening a triangular object appeared over a small lake in Louisville, Kentucky with beams entering the water. After 15 minutes it then ascended into sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2005 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_2571 Source: Johnson ### Event 24231 (3E04C6C0) Date: 5/6/2005 Description: A black daylight disc was photographed, high in the sky, in Donacona, Quebec, Canada at 3:06 p.m. According to the local OVNI UFO group, the photo appears to be genuine. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 32 Source ID: Johnson_2608 Source: Johnson ### Event 24232 (A5D092D5) Date: 5/8/2005 Description: At around 11:00 a.m. a small sphere, moving very fast to the west, flew directly under a private aircraft flying at 3,500 feet near Phoenix, Arizona. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2005 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_2669 Source: Johnson ### Event 24233 (ACDD9897) Date: 5/8/2005 Description: Night. A witness captures video footage of pulsating, kaleidoscopic lights over the Denbigh Moors near Llannefydd, North Wales. The lights had appeared for several nights and remained visible for a lengthy amount of time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 199 \(September 2005\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_7481 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24234 (071275E3) Date: 5/9/2005 Description: At 11:25 p.m. a gray disc-shaped object with lights around its rim was seen for 20 minutes by two witnesses in northern Quebec. It was slowly flying northeast past the town of Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 33, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_2707 Source: Johnson ### Event 24235 (39C8391B) Date: 5/9/2005 Description: 11:25 p.m. A woman outside her house in Kuujjuaq, Quebec, watches multi-colored lights heading northeast at a slow pace and low altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 199 \(September 2005\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_7483 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24236 (72062540) Date: 5/9/2005 Description: 9:30 p.m. A man getting into his car in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, spots a huge, pulsating mass overhead, shaped like a double cross, and brilliantly studded with red, green, and white lights. It stays visible for a long time. The witness goes to bed at 1:20 a.m., and the object, or a similar one, is still visible. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 199 \(September 2005\): 26 Source ID: Eberhart_7482 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24237 (CAB2978F) Date: 5/9/2005 Description: Dog fearful of glowing chevron (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [050509](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-050509.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Carlisle, PA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5902 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 24238 (8313E66A) Date: 5/9/2005 Description: A 48-year-old witness in Carlisle, Pennsylvania reported that his dog became fearful of a glowing chevron-shaped UFO. He was sitting on his front porch at 3:00 a.m., not able to sleep, and his dog was with me. Suddenly, the dog became very agitated and seemed to want back in to the house. The witness next saw the silent V-shaped object in the partly cloudy sky. He also felt a tingling feeling on his head and hair. The incident lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2005 webpage, report uploaded May 24, 2005; Joan Woodward, NICAP NISD04 database of animal reaction cases, www.nicap.org Source ID: Johnson_2706 Source: Johnson ### Event 24239 (09DB3C42) Date: 5/11/2005 Description: 11:28 a.m. Radar trackers spot a plane entering the Air Defense Identification Zone around Washington, D.C. As the aircraft bears down on Washington from the north and officials cannot contact the pilot, the White House’s internal threat level goes from yellow to orange and then to red within four minutes. Fighters are scrambled, and occupants and visitors to the Capitol, the Supreme Court, and the White House are sent scurrying for safety. The aircraft flies over the vice president’s residence and comes within moments of reaching the White House and close to being shot down. Officials say 35,000 people are evacuated from the Capitol and adjacent office complexes. An additional 200 are evacuated from the White House. First lady [Laura Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%5FBush) and former first lady [Nancy Reagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%5FReagan)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%5FReagan) who is visiting, are ushered to a bunker beneath the White House for safety, and Vice President [Dick Cheney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%5FCheney) is taken to a secure location. The airplane is a Cessna 150 piloted by two aviators flying with outdated maps from a rural Pennsylvania airstrip and they are lost. Authorities say the pilots are so clueless that when officials finally make radio contact and order the plane to divert at 12:06 p.m., the fliers refuse, asserting their right to proceed. The F-16s then fire four bright flares across the plane’s nose, and the two men realize the gravity of their situation. The plane then veers northwest, out of town, escorted by the interceptors, security helicopters, and a US customs jet. The 15-minute aerial encounter is watched by rapt workers in downtown Washington office buildings. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Confused Fliers Trigger Capitol Scare,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/05/12/confused-fliers-trigger-capital-scare/9b5fd273-7388-4dc7-b1de-6f6e935ce6c9/)” Washington Post, May 12, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_7484 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24240 (83205211) Date: 5/14/2005 Description: A large black triangular UFO flew over Grand View, Idaho at a slow speed at 10:38 p.m., flying at a high altitude and moving from the northwest to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2005 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_2846 Source: Johnson ### Event 24241 (8863B3AD) Date: 5/15/2005 Description: At 12:16 a.m., when the witness saw a glow coming from behind a hill near the airport in Carolina, Puerto Rico, it turned out to be a luminous triangular object, making a buzzing sound. The witness's car would not start. A photograph taken of the UFO shows a glowing structure with dark corners at the apexes.Animal reaction: dogs barking, birds frantic. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Scott Corales, ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_2879 Source: Johnson ### Event 24242 (A594F44F) Date: 5/16/2005 Description: Two triangular-shaped craft were sighted in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at 7:15 p.m. When they were first seen they were hovering, then they began following each other at a high rate of speed. They had three extremely bright lights: two white and one red. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2005 webpage, report dated June 20, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_2908 Source: Johnson ### Event 24243 (3A95A50C) Date: 5/20/2005 Description: [Ademar José Gevaerd](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ademar%5FJos%C3%A9%5FGevaerd) leads a delegation of ufologists who meet with Brazilian Air Force officials in Brasília, Brazil, headed by Brigadier Telles Ribeiro, chief of the Air Force’s Center for Public Communications. In an interview after the meeting, Gevaerd says his group has been shown information on three specific cases: the testimony of the head of Varig, Nagib Ayub, on a UFO seen in the airspace in Rio Grande do Sul in 1954; testimony from pilots who pursued 21 UFOs flying over São Paulo, São José dos Campos, and Rio de Janeiro in May 1986; and a Brazilian Air Force investigation of UFOs held in 1977 in Pará by Col. [Uyrange Hollanda](http://www.phils.com.au/hollanda.htm)[,](http://www.phils.com.au/hollanda.htm) who died in 1997. According to Hollanda, “we detected at least nine forms of objects. Probes, flying saucer-shaped spaceships... All reports were sent by the 1st COMAR to Brasilia.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Ademar José Gevaerd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ademar%5FJos%C3%A9%5FGevaerd\#Government%5Finformation)” Source ID: Eberhart_7485 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24244 (8B672930) Date: 5/25/2005 Description: In Oriental, North Carolina an eerie purple and greenish glow came from a craft that was estimated to be about 24 feet diameter. It hovered next to some tree limbs, and was partly concealed by them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2005 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_3094 Source: Johnson ### Event 24245 (C4D06138) Date: 6/2005 Description: British author [Nick Redfern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FRedfern) publishes Body Snatchers in the Desert, which purports to show that the 1947 Roswell crash may have been military aircraft tests using Japanese POWs, suffering from progeria \(an early aging syndrome\) or radiation effects. He has interviewed elderly whistleblowers—a woman he calls the Black Widow, Al Barker, Bill Salter, and a retired military man he calls the Colonel. In 2001, the Black Widow claims to have worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, at which time elements of the Usgovernment conducted high-altitude balloon tests with attached gondolas that contained live test subjects and sometimes dead bodies. These subjects were handicapped humans, possibly Japanese, including sufferers of progeria. She claims to know of 3 classified balloon flights in May–July 1947. The bodies were broiught to Oak Ridge under stringent security. In 2003, the Colonel states that Roswell and other crashes were a cover for research linked to high-altitude balloon experiments. He mentions crashes in May and July 1947 of two experiments with handicapped persons on board. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story, Paraview, 2005 Source ID: Eberhart_7486 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24246 (384CC227) Date: 6/14/2005 Description: The main witness, June Mark M. Sepe, and some friends were camping near some woods in a small clearing next to Lake Nice Francisco in Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental, The Philippines. After dinner they sat around the campfire planning their next day activities. At around 9:20 p.m. they were surprised to see a car headlight like light glowing behind some trees. They went closer to investigate and came upon a landed cone-cylindrical shaped craft, with no visible doors or windows. It stood about 8-10 feet high and was resting on top of what appeared to be tripod landing gear. No sound came from the craft, but they heard some rustling of grass and leaves, which came from three human looking beings making repairs on the craft. They were wearing metallic silver jumpsuits and black “bonnet-like helmets.” The men hid in the bushes and observed the scene for about 15-20 minutes when they heard a voice call out from within the craft. They could not understand the language, but the quality of the voice was soft and metallic like. After awhile the three beings went back into the craft, entering through the bottom of the craft, and they appeared to quickly float upwards (just like being sucked up by a vacuum cleaner). There was a high-pitched swooshing and humming noise, and then the craft lifted off and shot out of the forest, and at the same time the witnesses felt a gust of cool wind. One of the witnesses attempted to photograph the object with his mobile phone, but the picture was totally blurry. The five other witnesses were Rodel Rulona, William Gomez, John Rabuyo, Jude Igar, and Rolly de Gracia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2005, citing www.ufoevidence.org/sightings Source ID: Johnson_3494 Source: Johnson ### Event 24247 (9520E5E4) Date: 6/19/2005 Description: 3:10 p.m. Three witnesses in Silverdale, Washington, see a black, rectangular object fly silently in a straight line and constant speed from south to north almost directly above the town. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, June 20, 2005; Nukes 502–503 Source ID: Eberhart_7487 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24248 (6D77DBD3) Date: 6/28/2005 Description: Early morning. Following reports of unidentified lights above Dublin Airport in Ireland, a UFO 30 feet wide and 10 feet high approaches dangerously close to a commercial aircraft flying at 3,000 feet. The plane experiences intense waves of heat and wake turbulence. A strobe light on the object induces dizziness and nausea; the copilot vomits a few times, but after a while both pilots feel strangely relaxed. After heading in the direction of Malahide, County Dublin, the UFO returns and continues further harassment, causing the aircraft to become uncontrollable for a few minutes. The pilot reports to London Air Traffic Control Centre: “Need assistance… We have a hostile craft and we have made dangerous maneuvers to avoid it.” London confirms the presence of unauthorized air traffic. Some RAF Tornados are scrambled and reach the aircraft 25 minutes later, but there is little they can do except escort the plane to a UK airport, accompanied by the UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [pp. 409–410](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/408/mode/2up); Dermot Butler and Carl Nally, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, Mercier, 2006, pp. 229–232 Source ID: Eberhart_7488 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24249 (2B20FD62) Date: 7/2005 Description: The new CNES director, [Yannick d’Escatha](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yannick%5Fd%27Escatha), again creates a department for UFO investigations. Another engineer, Jacques Patenet, replaces [Jean-Jacques Velasco](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%5FVelasco) as head. It is under the authority of CNES but reports to a steering committee \(Comité de pilotage\) called COPEIPAN, headed by [Yves Sillard](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves%5FSillard). The committee has 15 permanent members: representatives of civil and military authorities, and representatives of the scientific world. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 14; Swords 451 Source ID: Eberhart_7489 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24250 (45545B31) Date: 7/5/2005 Description: 8:50 p.m. A woman is driving home from a fishing trip at Sargent, Texas, on FM2611 when her lights blink twice and the engine goes dead. She gets out of the car to check the battery cables, and sees a bright bluish glow lighting up a wooded area across the highway. The light gets brighter and moves upward through the trees. The outer edges of the light seem to vibrate or tremble slightly. The higher it goes the faster it gets until it disappears. The car starts right up afterward. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_7490 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24251 (5F2CE011) Date: 7/7/2005 Description: A cigar-shaped object with a reddish-orange glow underneath was sighted flying over Lexington, Kentucky at 11:00 p.m. It moved sideways, rather than with its pointed end forward, from the southwest to the northeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2005 archived webpage, report uploaded on September 2, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_3922 Source: Johnson ### Event 24252 (204986C8) Date: 7/8/2005 Description: A bright silver cigar-shaped UFO was sighted coming out of a cloud near a military base in Killeen, Texas at 12:35 p.m. Within ten seconds it disappeared into another cloud but never reappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2005 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_3937 Source: Johnson ### Event 24253 (D4795D69) Date: 7/15/2005 Description: In Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada eight witnesses reported seeing a shiny, metallic triangular object "with black waves" on the surface of the object and a white glow around it at 10:15 p.m. It was flying east at a low altitude, close enough to see it clearly. Triangle-shaped objects were also sighted later that night in Virginia and Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case 59; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded September 2, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_4090 Source: Johnson ### Event 24254 (89407C1D) Date: 7/19/2005 Description: In Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, Canada several gray circular objects darted and played about in the sky at 11:30 p.m., making a low humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 60, citing NUFORC, original report uploaded September 2, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_4218 Source: Johnson ### Event 24255 (74A79302) Date: 7/22/2005 Description: Industrial chemist [Phyllis Budinger](http://www.mufonohio.com/mufono/FRtour.html) reports on her laboratory tests on stains from the dress that abductee [Betty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) [Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%5Fand%5FBetty%5FHill) was wearing on the night of her abduction in 1961. The samples indicate protein and oily materials from an external source. She also reports on materials brought back from a recent abduction by [Stan Romanek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%5FRomanek), which prove to be bismuth trioxide, used in the making of ceramics and glass but uncommon in everyday situations. No direct link between the materials and an extraterrestrial source can be established. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON 2005 International UFO Symposium Proceedings Source ID: Eberhart_7491 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24256 (D2F1EF9A) Date: Late 7/2005 Description: 7:30 p.m. Just as an airliner is making its final approach to the Santa Rosa Airport, La Pampa province, Argentina, the airport control tower operator notices an unknown, luminous object moving slowly and parallel to the aircraft. The flight plan operator is alerted, and they both watch the UFO stop, emit a brilliant flash of blue- white light, move again, emit another flash, and vanish. The airliner crew does not see the UFO. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p.](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/410/mode/2up) [411](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/410/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7492 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24257 (B42DC12F) Date: 8/4/2005 Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness in Fernandina Beach, Florida, sees two rose-red objects approach from the ocean and move silently to the south, disappearing in about 75 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, September 2, 2005; Nukes 507 Source ID: Eberhart_7493 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24258 (007559FD) Date: 8/6/2005 Description: At 1:30 p.m. a spherical object was sighted 100 feet over the ocean from a boat off Newport Beach, California. The came closer to the boat stopped and hovered for 10 minutes, then reversed and went back in the same direction and at the same speed it had come, and disappeared from sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2005 archived webpage, report uploaded September 2, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_4751 Source: Johnson ### Event 24259 (ED655264) Date: 8/9/2005 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a rotating disc-shaped object, wobbling, showing different lights, flickering, and "spazzing" was sighted in Westmount, Quebec. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 2005-074, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_4813 Source: Johnson ### Event 24260 (BBC45EF9) Date: 8/11/2005 Description: At 8:40 p.m. a man and his son saw a large triangular UFO with three lights fly over Edmonton, Kentucky, with the object flying with the broad part of the triangle facing forward. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2005 web page, report uploaded September 2, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_4925 Source: Johnson ### Event 24261 (BF98F7E5) Date: 8/13/2005 Description: The pilot of an Air France airliner reported sighting a UFO 10 miles west of Gatwick Airport, Sussex, England. The object was estimated to be 1-2 metres in length. It had a yellow color and was cylindrical in shape. It was definitely not shaped like a balloon. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defense, case 2005-071 Source ID: Johnson_4995 Source: Johnson ### Event 24262 (927ACB4B) Date: 8/15/2005 Description: Two triangular crafts, appearing about 20 minutes apart, were seen over Waterford, Michigan beginning at 11:00 p.m. They were fast moving, with one green light and two alternately strobing white lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2005 archived webpage, report uploaded October 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_5066 Source: Johnson ### Event 24263 (A0DEFF96) Date: 8/15/2005 Description: At 9:45 p.m. a circular disc-shaped object with flashing lights, whirring sounds, and flashes of multicolored lights was seen in Mount Olive, Hale County, Alabama. The sighting reportedly lasted 30 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2005 archived webpage, report uploaded September 15, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_5065 Source: Johnson ### Event 24264 (E9563766) Date: 8/25/2005 Description: Cat fearful as distant light is viewed (IFO) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [050825](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-050825.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Port Charlotte, FL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5903 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 24265 (BDA47F92) Date: 8/27/2005 Description: 8:45 p.m. Dennis Speed is outdoors at his home in Lenah Valley, Tasmania, when he sees a formation of six orange lights approaching from the north. They are the size of bright stars and are moving slowly below the cloud level. Suddenly, they scatter about 1,650 feet apart, and a white aura appears in the sky around them. He watches them for 15 minutes. Up to 9 oranges UFOs are seen elsewhere in Hobart. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Orange UFOs over Hobart,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_7494 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24266 (99E4E56C) Date: 9/1/2005 Description: The 30th Reconnaissance Squadron, which operates Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel drones, is activated at Tonopah Test Range Airport in Nevada. RQ-170 Sentinels have been deployed to Afghanistan, where one was sighted at Kandahar International Airport in late 2007. This sighting, and the Sentinel’s secret status at the time, leads [Bill Sweetman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FSweetman) to dub it the “Beast of Kandahar.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed Martin RQ-170](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FMartin%5FRQ-170%5FSentinel) [Sentinel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FMartin%5FRQ-170%5FSentinel)” Source ID: Eberhart_7495 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24267 (5018797D) Date: 9/4/2005 Description: Four police officers sighted a diamond-shaped object over Wolsingham, Northumbria, England at 2:35 a.m. It was the approximate size of a large helicopter, had green lights on either side, and was clearly a three-dimensional craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Defence Ministry, case # 2005-077 Source ID: Johnson_5645 Source: Johnson ### Event 24268 (F0B7D0A9) Date: 9/7/2005 Description: In Big Sur, California at 2:00 a.m. a witness spotted a large, bright, diamond-shaped object, initially stationary, that moved quickly across a large area of the sky, dropping "balls of light", before accelerating into outer space. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2005 web page, report uploaded October 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_5751 Source: Johnson ### Event 24269 (48A17487) Date: 9/7/2005 Description: A boomerang shaped object, white with multiple colors on the bottom, was seen over Williamsport, Pennsylvania for about an hour beginning around two p.m. It took off sideways at blinding speed while other objects were suspended in air below it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2005 web page, report uploaded October 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_5750 Source: Johnson ### Event 24270 (AA3372DE) Date: 9/9/2005 Description: At 9:00 p.m. seven witnesses in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario reported a low-flying object, flat, circular, and with blue-lights travelling at a great speed through the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 93; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2005 webpage, report uploaded October 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_5818 Source: Johnson ### Event 24271 (F0280DA4) Date: 9/9/2005 Description: Villagers in Mae Chan District, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand claimed they witnessed a dwarfish "alien" humanoid being that stood 70 centimeters tall and had a large head, large glowing eyes, and big ears. Over 10 residents of Huay Nam Rak Village in Mae Chan district's Tambon Janjawa said they saw the humanoid early in the morning in a rice paddy outside the village, and that he levitated or floated up into the sky when discovered. They insisted that what they saw could not have been a "Tweety Bird" toy balloon, as was conjectured by the news media. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: The Nation (Bangkok, Thailand), Sept. 9, 2005; ufoevidence.org/cases/case490.htm Source ID: Johnson_5816 Source: Johnson ### Event 24272 (DE3CDB70) Date: 9/9/2005 Description: A red crescent object, like a "half circle", was seen above the North York, Ontario airport, quickly moving in the western sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 92, citing HBCC UFO Source ID: Johnson_5817 Source: Johnson ### Event 24273 (2EA0D1B6) Date: 9/11/2005 Description: A large black triangular craft was seen in Roanoke, Virginia at 9:56 a.m. Its bottom was covered with lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2005 webpage, report uploaded October 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_5895 Source: Johnson ### Event 24274 (3BA01CD4) Date: 9/14/2005 Description: A cigar-shaped UFO flew to the south over Guaynabo, Bayamon province, Puerto Rico at 7:06 a.m. It was the size of a commercial jet, but had no wings. Its polished silver surface reflected the sunlight. It was lost from sight when the craft passed into some cumulus clouds.Duration of the sighting was 15 to 20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Mike Vike, www.ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_5975 Source: Johnson ### Event 24275 (19AEA7D9) Date: 9/17/2005 Description: 10:30 a.m. A man is at his home on 31st Avenue in Peoria, Arizona, when he sees a bright object approaching from the east. Seven other objects appear around it, staying in the same spot for about 15 minutes, then moving to the left quickly. They go higher, moving left to right and right to left, almost hitting each other. They are completely silent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Spherical UFOs in Arizona,” IUR 30, no. 1 \(October 2005\): 32 Source ID: Eberhart_7496 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24276 (A74CCC37) Date: 9/20/2005 Description: Attorney and Army Reserves Brig. Gen. [Stephen Lovekin](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63074404/stephen-loder-lovekin), who had worked for the Army Signal Corps in the 1950s and early 1960s, speaks with writer [Peter Janney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FJanney) about the extraterrestrial presence on Earth and the official coverup. He claims that in 1995 he attended a conference on the Strategic Defense Initiative in Monterrey, Mexico, that included high-level US and Russian participants. The purpose of SDI is to protect both countries from incursions by UFOs, he alleges. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dolan II 289 Source ID: Eberhart_7497 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24277 (B59BECEF) Date: 9/22/2005 Description: The French UFO agency is given the name Groupe d’Études et d’Information sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés \(GEIPAN\) in order to emphasize the “information-gathering” aspect of the agency. At its first meeting, it renews the agreements with a network of specialists so that it can work effectively on new cases. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Groupe d’Études et d’Information sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe%5Fd%27%C3%A9tudes%5Fet%5Fd%27informations%5Fsur%5Fles%5Fph%C3%A9nom%C3%A8nes%5Fa%C3%A9rospatiaux%5Fnon%5Fidentifi%C3%A9s)”; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 14; Swords 451 Source ID: Eberhart_7498 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24278 (FA00E746) Date: 9/26/2005 Description: A huge non-lit triangular craft with spheres attached to it and others trailing behind, flew over Bay City, Michigan at 11:48 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2005 webpage, report uploaded October 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_6370 Source: Johnson ### Event 24279 (59564580) Date: 9/28/2005 Description: At 2:38 a.m. a huge triangular-shaped object with lights glided smoothly to the southeast over Jacksonville Beach, Florida without a sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded October 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_6408 Source: Johnson ### Event 24280 (2F44A5DD) Date: 9/29/2005 Description: Space scientist [Yves Sillard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves%5FSillard) is interviewed on Radio France International about GEIPAN. He states that the UFO phenomenon is serious and involves many witnesses who deserve an answer about what they have seen. The sightings, he says, include impressive radar-visual cases and landing traces. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 451–452 Source ID: Eberhart_7499 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24281 (6BEB1820) Date: 10/2005 Description: Cognitive psychologist [Susan Clancy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%5FClancy) publishes Abducted: How People Came to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens, in which she describes her psychological testing of a sample of abductees. These tests reveal a propensity for false memories and magical ideation, making abductees more likely than average to imagine, be led by investigators, and integrate cultural scripts like the abduction story into memory. Clancy demonstrates that alien abduction stories give people meaning and a way to understand their own lives and circumstances. It also gives them a feeling that they are not alone in the universe. New York Times reviewer [Benedict Carey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict%5FCarey)’s takeaway is that “in this sense, abduction memories are like transcendent religious visions, scary and yet somehow comforting and, at some personal psychological level, true.” However, Clancy fails to ask her subjects about their religious beliefs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Susan Clancy, [Abducted: How People Came to Believe They Were](https://archive.org/details/abductedhowpeopl0000clan) [Abducted by Aliens](https://archive.org/details/abductedhowpeopl0000clan), Harvard University, 2005; Benedict Carey, “[Explaining Those Vivid Memories of Martian](https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/health/explaining-those-vivid-memories-of-martian-kidnappers.html) [Kidnappers,](https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/health/explaining-those-vivid-memories-of-martian-kidnappers.html)” New York Times, August 9, 2005; Clark III 7 Source ID: Eberhart_7501 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24282 (09A4A653) Date: 10/2005 Description: Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, formerly the Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, activates the Joint Unmanned Aerial Systems Center of Excellence and the 3d Special Operations Squadron \(the latter is the 1st MQ- 1 Predator squadron in the Air Force Special Operations Command \(AFSOC\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Creech Air Force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creech%5FAir%5FForce%5FBase) [Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creech%5FAir%5FForce%5FBase)” Source ID: Eberhart_7500 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24283 (B8656AF4) Date: Early 10/2005 Description: 12:30 p.m. The crew of a Magnicharters Boeing 737 encounters a luminous disc in the air corridor over Oaxaca state, Mexico, at 20,000 feet. The object emerges from one cloud and enters another at a distance of 12 miles from the aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Good Need, [p. 411](https://archive.org/details/needtoknow00good/page/410/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7502 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24284 (2F2AC701) Date: 10/2/2005 Description: Three bright lights appeared at different times in Westfield, Massachusetts starting at 3:00 a.m. They moved in zig-zag patterns in the sky over a long period of time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2005 webpage, reported uploaded October 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_6515 Source: Johnson ### Event 24285 (1AD05D66) Date: 10/6/2005 Description: At 1:15 a.m. an object trailed by a military aircraft flew over Coon Rapids, Minnesota at a high rate of speed, knocking out electrical power in homes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded October 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_6616 Source: Johnson ### Event 24286 (284198F6) Date: 10/6/2005 Description: A cigar-shaped object was seen leaning to the left as it moved through storm clouds over Huachuca City, Arizona at 5:30. It moved to lean to the right, and then became a dot and moved toward another large storm cloud. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded Feb. 14, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_6617 Source: Johnson ### Event 24287 (E4436F62) Date: 10/8/2005 Description: An oval flying object resembling a shiny mylar balloon but oriented horizontally flew over Buena Park, California at 8:01 p.m. It had a red light underneath the body of the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded October 11, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_6681 Source: Johnson ### Event 24288 (47958DF5) Date: 10/16/2005 Description: Dog barks when dark object is near (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [051016](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-051016.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Santa Maria, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5904 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 24289 (A7EC49AF) Date: 10/17/2005 Description: In Welland, Niagara County, Ontario three witnesses reported seeing a bright white light at 7:00 p.m., which when it approached turned out to be a triangular craft with three lights on the bottom. It made no noise, and had red, blue and little white lights on it. The object rose up into the clouds. The sighting lasted 15-20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 101; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded October 20, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_6945 Source: Johnson ### Event 24290 (ECC71BF4) Date: 10/19/2005 Description: At 10:00 p.m. in Whitesburg, Kentucky a black triangle with red lights on the corners and two brighter smaller "escorts" flew silently overhead in the night sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded November 3, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_6992 Source: Johnson ### Event 24291 (99BF236A) Date: 10/19/2005 Description: At 8:45 p.m. a white sphere flew over the witness in Terrace, British Columbia, then stopped, hovered, and finally flew away again. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case 102, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_6991 Source: Johnson ### Event 24292 (DC3A77D9) Date: 10/26/2005 Description: At around two p.m. a bright, aluminum colored, cigar-shaped craft appeared in the northwest sky at an elevation of about 35 degrees in Orlando, Florida. The witness estimated the sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded November 3, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_7171 Source: Johnson ### Event 24293 (F2C4DC75) Date: 10/26/2005 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a young man in Vaudreuil-Dordon, Quebec, Canada was taking out the trash when he encountered a bizarre looking, eight foot tall creature. He came back inside running and out of breath, reporting to his family that he had seen the creature in front of the neighbor’s driveway. No specific details were provided about the appearance of the humanoid, but the witness's brother saw two similar creatures back in the summer of 2004. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_7172 Source: Johnson ### Event 24294 (F45FF2F1) Date: 10/26/2005 Description: A silvery, oval shaped object with circular shining lights was sighted over Tracy, California at 10:05 p.m. The sighting lasted nineteen minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded November 3, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_7173 Source: Johnson ### Event 24295 (EFB8A714) Date: 10/28/2005 Description: Beginning at 1:30 a.m. a triangle-shaped object with amber, green and white flashing lights was observed hovering over Pygra in Larnaca District of southern Cyprus. It hovered there for the next 45 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded December 16, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_7260 Source: Johnson ### Event 24296 (A6F69D4B) Date: 10/28/2005 Description: An irregularly-shaped, orange ovoid object moved towards two witnesses in Port Alberni, British Columbia at 6:00 a.m., then backed away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case 106, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_7261 Source: Johnson ### Event 24297 (B6903AA7) Date: 11/1/2005 Description: An anonymous email is received by Victor Martinez, who runs a discussion list for retired intelligence people who are interested in UFOs. This person, in return for anonymity, passes on a huge volume of information each month for the next three years, all of it extracts from an alleged original document—a top secret, 3,000-page report compiled by the Defence Intelligence Agency in the late 1970s. The major revelations are: There were two crash sites in New Mexico, one southwest of Corona, and the second at Pelona Peak, south of Datil. The Corona site was discovered a day later by an archaeological team, who reports the crash site to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department. One live entity \(EBE 1\) was found hiding behind a rock; it and some dead bodies were later transferred to Loa Alamos National Laboratory. Roswell Army Air Field took the craft and sent it on to Wright- Patterson AFB. The second site was not discovered until August 1949 by two ranchers. It took the sheriff several days to reach this crash site. He took photos, drove back to Datil, and notified Sandia Army Base, which recovered six bodies that were first sent to Sandia then to Los Alamos. The live entity established communication and supplied the name of his home planet, Serpo, in our constellation of Zeta Reticuli. It died in 1952 after being allowed to use a communication device in the crashed UFO to contact his home planet. An alien/US military meeting was set for April 1964 in Alamogordo, where the aliens \(nicknamed Ebens\) landed and retrieved their comrades’ bodies \(which had been frozen\). In 1965, the US had an exchange program with the aliens, where one entity was left behind and 12 trained Americans \(10 men, 2 women\) left for Serpo from the Nevada Test Site. They were supposed to stay 10 years, but something went wrong. In 1978, seven men and one woman returned; two had died on Serpo, and four others decided to remain. Of the 8 that returned, all have since died, the last in 2002. A few months after the documents became known, a UK Ministry of Defence official nicknamed “Chapman” claims the events were not as described but that the document is real, as he had seen it in 1969 or 1970 in London. He claims is was a CIA document authored by [Alice Bradley Sheldon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FTiptree%5FJr) \(a science fiction author using the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr. who worked for the CIA in 1952–1955\) in response to Soviet disinformation in the 1960s about nuclear bombs in the US. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Planetary objects proposed in religion,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%5Fobjects%5Fproposed%5Fin%5Freligion%2C%5Fastrology%2C%5Fufology%5Fand%5Fpseudoscience\#Serpo) [astrology, ufology, and pseudoscience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%5Fobjects%5Fproposed%5Fin%5Freligion%2C%5Fastrology%2C%5Fufology%5Fand%5Fpseudoscience\#Serpo)”; Rational Wiki, “[Project Serpo](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Project%5FSerpo)”; Mark Pilkington, Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs, Skyhorse, 2010; Kremlin 161–166 Source ID: Eberhart_7503 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24298 (50C43B53) Date: 11/9/2005 Description: A diamond-shaped craft was seen over Sleights, North Yorkshire, England at 8:30 p.m. The object had an unusual powerful, white/yellow, rotating beacon/searchlight at its rear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defense, case # 2005-118 Source ID: Johnson_7588 Source: Johnson ### Event 24299 (3B49B61E) Date: 11/10/2005 Description: Dogs aggressively bark and visually track disc (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [051110](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-051110.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Camarillo, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5905 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 24300 (E6E5AD52) Date: 11/15/2005 Description: A beagle reacted to the movement in the sky of white, glowing oval-shaped UFO in Martinez, California at 2:30 a.m. according to the witness, a 49-year-old woman. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2005 webpage, report uploaded December 16, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_7712 Source: Johnson ### Event 24301 (1E81A1C8) Date: 11/15/2005 Description: Beagle reacts to movement in the sky of white, glowing oval (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [051115](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-051115dir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Martinez, CA Source ID: NICAP_DB_5906 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 24302 (3E7D573B) Date: 11/21/2005 Description: A diamond-shaped craft was seen by two witnesses between Magog and Stanstead, Quebec, Canada in the dark at 6:45 p.m. It was described as like a light shaped like a window hovering in a field, about 50 yards away. It took off fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: 2005Canadian UFO Survey, case # 108, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_7788 Source: Johnson ### Event 24303 (63612C13) Date: 11/25/2005 Description: A man was having a late dinner with his family in Wichita, Kansas at 10:30 p.m. when he saw three lights on the horizon. In a flash they grew into a large, nearly blinding light source. He went outside and walked in the direction of the lights, and could see a cigar-shaped object moving up and down in a vertical motion. He had two dogs, and one was barking uncontrollably, while the other--a normally more aggressive dog--was whimpering and hid under the back deck. As he stood watching the UFO , a man about five feet tall approached him. The man spoke to him in a foreign language which he was certain was German. He could not remember anything after that point. The next morning he woke up on his bed. His family had gone and his entire body felt sore, particularly below the waist. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_7930 Source: Johnson ### Event 24304 (9B7443F1) Date: 11/25/2005 Description: At sometime around 4 a.m. a 14-year-old witness in Leesport, Pennsylvania was asleep in his bed when he suddenly awoke and caught a brief glimpse of what looked to be an alien face. The figure was standing by a dresser next to his mirror, and was between 4-5 feet tall with large black eyes. As soon as he saw the alien's face he pulled his blanket over his face. Moments later, while hiding under the blanket, he heard shuffling noises on the carpet and also what sounded like plastic tubes being slapped against a hand. The last sound he heard was a loud clapping noise. After daylight had broken he finally had the courage to pull off his covers and go to the bathroom, but by now everything seemed to be back to normal. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2005, citing UFO Magazine (USA), December 2005 Source ID: Johnson_7931 Source: Johnson ### Event 24305 (1705F1DC) Date: 12/15/2005 Description: A black triangle-shaped object was sighted from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland at 9:15 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defence, case # 125 for 2005 Source ID: Johnson_8436 Source: Johnson ### Event 24306 (0D9890DF) Date: 12/15/2005 Description: The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, a single-seat, twin-engine, all-weather stealth tactical fighter aircraft developed for the Air Force, officially enters service. USAF officials consider the F-22 a critical component of the service’s tactical air power. Its combination of stealth, aerodynamic performance, and avionics systems enable unprecedented air combat capabilities. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FMartin%5FF-22%5FRaptor)” Source ID: Eberhart_7504 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24307 (C62CB6B5) Date: 12/15/2005 Description: At 9:45 a.m. a large triangle of white lights with one red light in the middle, was seen standing stock still low in the sky over the Santa Barbara freeway in Santa Barbara, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2005 webpage, report uploaded Dec. 16, 2005 Source ID: Johnson_8435 Source: Johnson ### Event 24308 (F4B241F9) Date: 12/17/2005 Description: At 5:45 p.m. a slow moving, silent triangular object with red lights was seen in Hockinson, Washington State. It was flying low to the ground and was quiet bright from a distance. It was in view for 90 seconds. At 9:30 p.m. a dark triangle-shaped object with V-shaped lights flew over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida for three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2005 webpage, reports uploaded February 14, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_8483 Source: Johnson ### Event 24309 (5B7A8AAA) Date: 12/18/2005 Description: At 11:00 p.m. a farmer in Knox, Indiana had a close encounter with a saucer-shaped craft hovering over his nearby field. It was about 50 feet in the air. It had a red and blue light, and made no sound. After hovering for three minutes it flew off to the west. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2005 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_8504 Source: Johnson ### Event 24310 (C32CB293) Date: 12/24/2005 Description: Dog sees and barks at disc over house (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [051224](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-051224.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Waxhaw, NC Source ID: NICAP_DB_5907 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 24311 (B5EF68EB) Date: 12/29/2005 Description: Several large glowing orange balls of light came up from horizon east of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada at around 8:15 p.m. They stopped in the sky, then circled, then dropped from view. A photograph was taken. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 133, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_8649 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 2006 (Back to Top) ### Event 24312 (291C219C) Date: 2006 Description: The UFO Research Coalition \(CUFOS, MUFON, Fund for UFO Research\) launches an Abduction Monitoring Project \(later changed to Ambient Monitoring Project\), an effort to create a compact, multi-instrumental device to be placed in the homes of recurrent abductees to record magnetic, electrical, and atmospheric anomalies over an extended period. The goal is to compare any reported abduction experiences with the anomalies to see if they coincide. After considerable difficulty with the design and construction of these boxes through 2008, data are recorded from participating abductees. However, funding is not available for the analysis needed to reach any conclusions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tom Deuley, “[The Ambient Monitoring Project: Data Colleced in Abductee’s Homes Being](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2008/07/July%202008.pdf) [Analyzed,](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books%2C%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Personal%20Collection%20of%20UFO%20Publications/MUFON%20Journals/2008/07/July%202008.pdf)” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 483 \(July 2008\): 3–7, 15; Jack Brewer, “[What Happened to the Ambient](http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2014/04/what-happened-to-ambient-monitoring.html) [Monitoring Project?](http://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2014/04/what-happened-to-ambient-monitoring.html)” The UFO Trail, April 2, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_7505 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24313 (A35B477F) Date: 1/2006 Description: GEIPAN’s Jacques Patenet announces that the organization will make its UFO files available to the public worldwide and placed on the CNES website. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 452 Source ID: Eberhart_7506 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24314 (B1C199F7) Date: 1/26/2006 Description: In Trienta y Tres, Uruguay many people saw intensely bright "stars" in the afternoon sky beginning at around two o'clock and lasting for about 30 minutes. They made no sound, and engaged in very rapid multi-directional maneuvers, up-and-down, and right-to-left. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Hayes, ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_542 Source: Johnson ### Event 24315 (AE28B292) Date: 1/30/2006 Description: Around two o'clock in the morning two friends awoke to a low humming sound, and a clattering noise against all the windows of the country house they occupied in Bragg Creek, Alberta, Canada. They looked outside and saw 20 or more tiny blue lights in the sky. They quickly picked up a video camera and began to film. The lights were high in the sky, and maneuvered freely in all directions, at times hovering together, one on top of the other. This continued for about an hour. They then noticed the objects getting much larger as they slowly descended to earth. They claimed they managed to get one or two close ups on video, but the quality was not great. The ridge about 1 ½ miles to the north then began to emit a day-like glow. Most of the objects were now no longer visible, but the humming sound had become almost deafening. Suddenly a strong wind began to blow out of the north, and the light on the ridge pulsated along the horizon, while clouds of smoke appeared to rise up slowly from each of six lit up areas. One of them next tried to make a phone call to a neighbor, but the phone was not working and instead made an unusual buzzing sound. They both leaned out the window to get a better view. Soon after, they heard a very eerie howl, not like any coyote they had ever heard, and almost like a siren but not as perfect. It was followed by a loud blood curling scream, definitely unhuman. A warm strong breeze next came out of the north, and it had a smell like burning plastic. A security light outside kept turning on, and they heard crashing and banging against the house, followed by a scratching along the walls on every side. Both of the witnesses then saw a tall, very pale humanoid figure with glowing eyes that ran across the driveway. Petrified, they shut themselves inside but continued to listen intently. When they next looked out the window they could see the smoke puff up from the illuminated hilltops again, and once again saw tiny blue lights that shot up into the sky, hovered briefly, and began to get smaller as they flew to a high altitude in the sky, where they remained visible for a long time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2006 webpage, report uploade Feb. 14, 2006; Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 31; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2006, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_628 Source: Johnson ### Event 24316 (49B397BC) Date: 2/12/2006 Description: At 11:53 p.m. over Houston, British Columbia four witnesses saw what looked like an egg-shaped UFO standing upright. It looked fully illuminated as if it had an internal light source, and made no sound. It was first seen hovering, then moved out of sight behind a mountain. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case 49, citing www.ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_888 Source: Johnson ### Event 24317 (6546DD00) Date: 2/15/2006 Description: The witness was driving alone from Elaine to Crumrod, Arkansas at six o'clock in the evening when he noticed two very bright lights on each side of his car that began to follow him. He turned into the driveway of the first house he came to and the lights did the same. He did not get out of the car, but instead blew the car horn for several minutes while the bright lights remained close to his car. He then saw figures with glowing eyes standing all around the house; they were looking at him. He started calling family members and friends on his cellphone, but it soon went dead and so did the car's engine. A friend whom he had succeeded in phoning came by to pick him up, but did not see anything. His car still would not start an hour after the incident and had to be jump started. The resident of the house refused to come out because he thought there was something “strange” happening outside. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2006, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC, March 2006 webpage, report uploaded March 11, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_939 Source: Johnson ### Event 24318 (0E03CE4B) Date: 2/25/2006 Description: A multicolored UFO was sighted in Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada at 8 p.m. It was first seen to be hovering, then it flew away slowly. There were flashing lights on the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 68, citing ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_1125 Source: Johnson ### Event 24319 (B1CD0839) Date: 2/26/2006 Description: In the late afternoon in Toronto, Ontario a witness was asked by his mother to come outside and check out a strange sight. Together they witnessed a disc-shaped object with a light underneath. It was moving slowly through the sky, and appeared to be accompanied by many conventional aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 69, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_1145 Source: Johnson ### Event 24320 (D8D9EE8E) Date: 2/28/2006 Description: Dog raises alarm and barks at hovering object in daytime sky (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) Reference: NICAP: [060228](http://www.nicap.org/anreact/ar-060228.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Des Plaines, IL Source ID: NICAP_DB_5908 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 24321 (71C973C7) Date: 2/28/2006 Description: According to the witness, at 12:30 a.m. in Sabana Grande, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico he saw three or four Grey aliens standing near a landed bell-shaped object for 60 minutes. They and the object were 650 feet away. They stood 3-4 feet tall, had long fingers, almond eyes, and big heads. There was a sequence of lights from the top and sides of the bell, as well as the rim of the disc-shaped bottom. There was a probe-like arm that hovered and moved 20 feet from the ground. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: John Hayes, www.ufoinfo.com, Puerto Rico reports webpage Source ID: Johnson_1185 Source: Johnson ### Event 24322 (B18AE6D9) Date: 3/5/2006 Description: A slow moving, chevron-shaped object with brights lights on the underneath of the wings, made no sounds as it passed over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 9:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2006 webpage, report uploaded May 15, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_1325 Source: Johnson ### Event 24323 (BDB186A2) Date: 3/14/2006 Description: In Marlboro, Ulster County, New York at 9:00 p.m. a witness reported a triangle-shaped object with a rounded back, and a blacklight colored rear window. It had a cast frame construction look from the underside, and was slightly illuminated underneath. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2006 webpage, report uploaded May 15, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_1517 Source: Johnson ### Event 24324 (DFD06DE3) Date: 3/14/2006 Description: In Brick Township, Ocean County, New Jersey a witness reported another boomerang or V-shaped UFO. It was big and had many different colored lights, that went around it in a clockwise, circular pattern. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2006 webpage, report uploaded May 15, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_1516 Source: Johnson ### Event 24325 (1D4DCB08) Date: 4/18/2006 Description: Two couples observed a disc-shaped object skimming over a lake in Christiana Lake, Ontario, Canada at 10:45 p.m. The object was increasing and lowering its altitude, and seemed to be internally lit. It also had a line of bright blue lights in a marquee pattern. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 143, citing www.ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_2129 Source: Johnson ### Event 24326 (4B461E04) Date: 4/25/2006 Description: Between 2:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. a teardrop shaped, silver/chrome metallic flying object, 3-4 feet wide by 8 feet to 10 feet long, flew just 50 feet above the witnesses' car while they were driving on east bound I-70, about 50 miles west of Green River, Utah. The buzzing by the object was brief, and lasted only 2-3 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 2006 webpage, reported June 24, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_2325 Source: Johnson ### Event 24327 (2173C775) Date: 4/27/2006 Description: A large rectangular object with red blinking lights that formed an arch was reported over Santa Maria, California at 4:30 p.m. It made erratic flight movements, flew low over the area for a minute, then suddenly disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2006 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_2386 Source: Johnson ### Event 24328 (6CC77471) Date: 5/3/2006 Description: At 10:35 p.m. a woman coming home from work on rural roads in Franklin, Indiana sighted a triangle shaped object with three lights, one on each apex, and one in the middle, hovering over the Union Elementary School in Union Township. She stopped the car and got out to observe. It was estimated to be 1500 feet in the air, and made absolutely no sound as it hovered. It appeared to be a deep black in color, darker than the night sky, and almost seemed to absorb any light; the lights did not appear to illuminate anything under it. It was near the restricted military airspace for Camp Atterbury, located 20 miles south. She watched until the craft slowly moved off to the northwest. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, NUFORC, May 2006 webpage, reported May 4, 2006 and uploaded May 15, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_2493 Source: Johnson ### Event 24329 (D57F194A) Date: 5/3/2006 Description: In Chilliwack, Fraser Valley, British Columbia a very large, silent, dark pyramid-shaped object was sighted at 10:45 p.m. by six witnesses. It was slow moving. The sighting lasted two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 192 Source ID: Johnson_2494 Source: Johnson ### Event 24330 (D30EB7F4) Date: 5/4/2006 Description: A security officer on patrol in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada observed four lights in the sky at 11:45 p.m. Three seemed to be hovering, while the fourth circled the others at one point. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 194, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_2528 Source: Johnson ### Event 24331 (6542084E) Date: 5/7/2006 Description: A huge boomerang-shaped UFO with a single front bright light and many tiny bright lights in sequence on the edges was seen flying over Twenty-Nine Palms USMC military base in California at 9:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2006 webpage, report uploaded July 16, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_2645 Source: Johnson ### Event 24332 (73B5099F) Date: 5/15/2006 Description: The UK Defense Intelligence Staff releases \(after a September 2005 Freedom of Information Act request by [David Clarke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29) and Gary Anthony\) a 400-page report on a secret UFO study, codenamed “Condign,” undertaken by DIS between 1997 and February 2000. Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, written by former Marconi Electronic Systems scientist Ron Haddow, draws on approximately 10,000 sightings and reports that have been gathered by the DI55, a section of the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence \(DSTI\) within the Defence Intelligence Staff. The report concludes that UFOs have an observable presence that is “indisputable,” but also that no evidence has been found to suggest they are “hostile or under any type of control.” According to its authors, the majority of analyzed UFO sightings can be explained by the misidentification of common objects such as aircraft and balloons, while the remaining unexplainable reports are most likely the result of a supernormal meteorological phenomenon not fully understood by modern science. This phenomenon is referred to in the report as “Buoyant Plasma Formation,” akin to ball lightning, and it supposedly produces an unexplained energy field that creates the appearance of a Black Triangle by refracting light. The electromagnetic fields generated by plasma phenomena are also said to explain reports of close encounters due to inducing perceptual alterations or hallucinations in those affected. The Condign report suggests that further research into “novel military applications” of this plasma phenomenon is warranted, and that “the implications have already been briefed to the relevant MoD technology manager.” The report also notes that scientists in the former Soviet Union have identified the close connection between the ‘UFO phenomena’ and Plasma technologies,” and are “pursuing related techniques for potential military purposes.” The report describes people who believe themselves to have had close encounters as being convinced of what they said that they had seen or experienced, but also as not representing proof that such encounters are real. It attributes a number of cases to the “close proximity of plasma related fields” which it said can “adversely affect a vehicle or person.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Unidentified Aerial Phenomena](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/condrep.htm) [in the UK Air Defence Region \(The Condign Report\): Summary of Contents,](http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/condrep.htm)” The Real UFO Project; UK Defense Intelligence Staff, [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region](https://archive.org/details/396201-defe-24-2090-1/mode/2up), released 2006; David Clarke and Gary Anthony, “The British MoD Study: Project Condign,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(August 2006\): 3–13, 29– 32; Kean, [pp. 173–175](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/172/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 149–155](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n243/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7507 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24333 (3896447F) Date: 5/16/2006 Description: At least three green fireballs brighter than the moon but not as bright as the sun blaze over northeast Australia. A farmer sees one with a blue tapering tail pass over the mountains of the Great Divide about 75 miles west of Brisbane, Queensland, then watch a phosphorescent green ball about 12 inches wide roll slowly down the side of a mountain, bouncing over a rock along the way. A commercial airline pilot landing in New Zealand sees a meteor breaking up into fragments that turn green as the bits descend in the direction of Australia. The timing of the fireballs suggests they might be debris from Comet 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 3, according to physicist [Stephen Hughes](https://smp.uq.edu.au/profile/6363/stephen-hughes) at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Charles Q. Choi, “[Mystery of Green](https://www.livescience.com/9030-mystery-green-fireball-ufos-solved.html) [Fireball ‘UFOs’ Solved,](https://www.livescience.com/9030-mystery-green-fireball-ufos-solved.html)” Live Science, November 30, 2010 Source ID: Eberhart_7508 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24334 (88F6251B) Date: 5/18/2006 Description: Some men at the Greenwater Lake Provincial Park in Saskatchewan, Canada first observed a disc-shaped object hovering over the lake at around 1:00 a.m. Later they observed some camoflauged beings in the water and on the land nearby. The sighting lasted five hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case 213 Source ID: Johnson_2966 Source: Johnson ### Event 24335 (68488870) Date: 6/2/2006 Description: Three orange lights in a triangular formation were sighted over Aylmer, Quebec, Canada at 10:45 p.m. One by one they left formation, rapidly increasing in altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 250 Source ID: Johnson_3240 Source: Johnson ### Event 24336 (190F2F13) Date: 6/3/2006 Description: Numerous white objects appeared over Maidstone, Kent, England in the clear blue skys at 5:05 p.m. There was a large round, white object in the middle with smaller round white objects randomly scattered about, surrounding it. The objects started to fade after 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defence; National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle Source ID: Johnson_3265 Source: Johnson ### Event 24337 (03832010) Date: 6/4/2006 Description: An extremely bright object that was highly maneuverable and shooting sparks was seen over Houston, British Columbia at 4:20 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Canadian UFO Survey 2006, citing ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_3289 Source: Johnson ### Event 24338 (293C9FDD) Date: 6/6/2006 Description: At eight o'clock in the morning a large black triangle-shaped craft was seen in the sky north of Boise, Idaho. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 2006 webpage, posted July 17, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_3346 Source: Johnson ### Event 24339 (C26A5DD2) Date: 7/13/2006 Description: 11:00 p.m. A woman camping on the beach at Wicie, Poland, sees several red and blue lights maneuvering within a glow about 10 feet above the water. Then she realizes that the glow surrounds a huge metallic saucer- shaped object with lights that are turning on alternately from left to right. Her cellphone is acting crazy and she thinks the sea is roaring louder than usual. The object scares her so much that she hides in the forest nearby. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 125 Source ID: Eberhart_7509 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24340 (7A2E9B06) Date: 7/28/2006 Description: The Cheyenne Mountain Realignment consolidates NORAD’s day-to-day operations at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with Cheyenne Mountain as an Alternate Command Center. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[North American Aerospace Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%5FAmerican%5FAerospace%5FDefense%5FCommand\#Post%E2%80%93Cold%5FWar)” Source ID: Eberhart_7510 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24341 (72FFD305) Date: 8/5/2006 Description: At around 11:00 p.m., while night hunting for wild boar, three men in Bonaire, Georgia came upon a stand of oak trees alongside a field where they had just run their dogs, and saw some lights coming from the woods. They decided to investigate and walked into the woods approximately 60 yards before they heard a loud whooshing sound. Their dogs then tucked their tails and began whining. When the men tried to get a closer look the lights dimmed, and another whooshing sound was heard. The men then saw two small green “midgets” run from behind a tree toward what appeared to be a large “concrete mixer” with lights on it. Later on, after waiting awhile and drinking a beer, the men ran back up the hill with their dogs. The light and the object had gone, and there was an eerie silence throughout the woods, so that even the insects were completely quiet. The next day, the men returned to the spot and found nothing out of the ordinary. Later that next evening one of the men went to feed his dogs and found that “Judo,” his best hunting dog, was sick and would not eat anything. He claims the dog died later that week without any apparent reason. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2006, citing National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_4711 Source: Johnson ### Event 24342 (2E4BEC56) Date: 8/6/2006 Description: A man was driving in a remote area of Tapiola, Michigan at 11:30 p.m. when a square metallic craft overtook and hovered above his vehicle. The witness sped up to 80 mph but his car kept slowing down. He came to a sharp curve and the craft was still over him, so he tried to drive faster after taking the turn, but the car continued to slow down until it finally came to a complete halt. He and his dog got out of the vehicle and ran into some bushes to hide. He next saw many lights shining through the brush that were maybe a thousand yards distant, and there were about 50 “figures” moving about among the lights. There was a "cocoon"-shaped object about 12 feet long, and there were body lights on this object. The activity reminded him of an ant colony. Apparently the creatures noticed him, because he saw three creatures coming toward him into the brush. These were somewhat human-like with normal sized heads, but had very long legs and very long arms and large torsos. He did not see the eyes, for they were back lit by the light coming from behind them. The man and his dog ran further from the area and hid again. The beings appeared to search for him but gave up. From his new location he saw two more cocoon-like crafts, with numerous creatures moving around them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2006, citing National UFO Reporting Center Source ID: Johnson_4752 Source: Johnson ### Event 24343 (CB201C12) Date: 8/13/2006 Description: At 1:35 a.m. in Chatham, Ontario multiple disk-like objects were seen shooting beams of white light back and forth to one another. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2006 archived webpage, report posted October 30, 2006; Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 504 Source ID: Johnson_4996 Source: Johnson ### Event 24344 (4BA3B6B7) Date: 8/18/2006 Description: At 1:18 a.m. in Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada a witness first observed a simple blue nocturnal light in the sky. Several minutes later he observed a slow-moving disc-shaped object flying just over his neighbor's house, where it hovered for several minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2006, case # 526, citing ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_5146 Source: Johnson ### Event 24345 (325FA057) Date: 8/20/2006 Description: There were unexplained UFO reports from Nova Scotia, Ontario and Alberta, Canada on this day. At 1:00 a.m. in Edmonton, Alberta rotating lights were seen on a white polygon UFO, which moved rapidly through the sky. In Windsor, Ontario at 2:00 a.m. there was a close encounter with a floating, silver, triangle-shaped object, moving side to side. It hovered for awhile, then moved away. The sighting lasted five minutes. At 8:00 p.m. in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario witnesses sighted a silvery round UFO reflecting sunlight. It hovered, then took off at a high rate of speed. Next, it stopped abruptly, moved back towards the witnesses, and finally moved away. At 11:30 p.m. in New Victoria, Nova Scotia multiple independent people observed large lights in the sky. They hovered and moved side to side. At one point, they seemed to follow some of the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, reports 236, 237, 241 & 243 Source ID: Johnson_5205 Source: Johnson ### Event 24346 (B731D333) Date: 9/2006 Description: The UK Secretary of State for Defence, Des Browne, approves a proposal from the Directorate of Air Staff \(the former Sec\(AS\)\) to transfer all remaining UFO files to the National Archives. Funds are found to scan approximately 160 files and remove sensitive personal information. This is described as “the largest release of documents younger than 30 years in the MoD’s entire history.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 170](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n273/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7511 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24347 (48B6A77C) Date: 9/5/2006 Description: Residents of Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia, see several types of UFOs maneuvering near the city. One looks like a radaint sphere with three parts. Other witnesses report four lights. A police officer sees an object with 10 yellow lights moving around in a circular motion and hovering above the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 1– 2 miles. Other smaller objects approach it, one of which explodes in a bright flare-up. The official explanation is that these are candle bombs used as aerial targets for Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 117–118 Source ID: Eberhart_7512 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24348 (C8433953) Date: 9/6/2006 Description: A multi-colored, oval-shaped object with blue, yellow and green lights passed 30 feet above the witness's car as he was driving in Greensburg, Indiana. The witness could hear a voom and a whistle coming from the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2006 webpage, report uploaded October 30, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_5703 Source: Johnson ### Event 24349 (EDA0F463) Date: 9/11/2006 Description: A witness saw a silver, reflecting disc-shaped object doing maneuvers over Raynham, Massachusetts at 2:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2006 webpage, report uploaded October 30, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_5896 Source: Johnson ### Event 24350 (85B89C3C) Date: 9/13/2006 Description: The British Ministry of Defense received a report of a triangular object with lights flying over Whitehaven, Cumbria, England at 9:45 p.m. One of the lights was green, one was red, and the other two were amber. There was a strange droning noise as it passed overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defense, case 2006-050 Source ID: Johnson_5937 Source: Johnson ### Event 24351 (1CFC76E4) Date: 9/16/2006 Description: A glowing cone-shaped UFO gave off heat and sound, and caused an electrical disturbance in Liberty, Kentucky at 1:00 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2006 webpage, report uploaded December 2006, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_6032 Source: Johnson ### Event 24352 (A2A571E3) Date: 9/17/2006 Description: At 3:30 a.m. a boomerang V-shaped object, very large, was seen at height in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although not flying at a low altitude, it was close enough to determine that it was not a commercial nor military aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2006 webpage, report uploaded October 30, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_6062 Source: Johnson ### Event 24353 (7080F968) Date: 9/22/2006 Description: The Grumman F-14 Tomcat supersonic fighter is retired by US Navy, having been supplanted by the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Grumman F-14 Tomcat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman%5FF-14%5FTomcat)” Source ID: Eberhart_7513 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24354 (B37CCECA) Date: 9/23/2006 Description: A large triangular craft flew low over two witnesses traveling in a car in Ste. Adolphe, Manitoba at 8:30 p.m. No noise was heard coming from the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 624 Source ID: Johnson_6276 Source: Johnson ### Event 24355 (DD859218) Date: 9/24/2006 Description: A witness in North Surrey, British Columbia, Canada observed a hockey stick-shaped object with flames shooting out the back at 4:00 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case 630 Source ID: Johnson_6306 Source: Johnson ### Event 24356 (B373CDFB) Date: 9/24/2006 Description: A circular disc-shaped object hovered near the ground in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England at 6:00 p.m. It had a black tinted curved perimeter with lights around it. Close to the pavement it let off a green beam of light. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2006 webpage, case posted October 30, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_6305 Source: Johnson ### Event 24357 (6AA45409) Date: 9/26/2006 Description: A dark triangular object was seen over San Jacinto, Riverside County, California at 7:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2006 webpage, report uploaded October 30, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_6371 Source: Johnson ### Event 24358 (68B833DA) Date: 10/6/2006 Description: At 5:30 p.m. four people standing in their front yard in Grand Rapids, Michigan watched a silver cigar-shaped craft that moved slowly across the sky, and then suddenly picked up speed and quickly vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2006 webpage, report uploaded Oct. 30, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_6618 Source: Johnson ### Event 24359 (43929790) Date: 10/6/2006 Description: Night. Ufologist [Bill Chalker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%5FChalker) is along the Mekong River in Phon Phisai District, Thailand, for the annual Naga Light \(ghost light\) festival. He witnesses and videos many of the Naga light balls arising from the river: “This phenomenon has a tremendous social and human dimension and while it is tempting to try to explain the lights, however correctly or incorrectly, as planted ‘rockets,’ ‘submarine’ firings, Naga Dragons speaking, they all seem to fall short of entirely convincing explanations.” Orb sightings are on the increase, with up to 408 counted at the Phayanak festival on October 24, 2018 \(260 in Rattanawapee District and 148 in Phon Phisai\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Naga fireball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga%5Ffireball)”; Bill Chalker, “[The Mystery and Allure of the Naga Light Festival: My 2006 Adventure on the](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-mystery-and-allure-of-naga-light.html) [Mekong,](http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-mystery-and-allure-of-naga-light.html)” TheOzFiles, January 28, 2015; “Buddhist Aliens,” Fortean Times 388 \(January 2020\): 7 Source ID: Eberhart_7514 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24360 (ADB243F2) Date: 10/8/2006 Description: A black disc-shaped object rose from behind a mountain in Anchorage, Alaska at 2:02 p.m. It stopped, then moved off quickly to the south against a heavy wind. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded October 30, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_6682 Source: Johnson ### Event 24361 (1CC5F4F0) Date: 10/11/2006 Description: A man and his son saw several dull white objects flying in a triangular formation over Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada at 8:30 p.m., travelling fast at high altitude. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case 659 Source ID: Johnson_6792 Source: Johnson ### Event 24362 (CE4C74AD) Date: 10/11/2006 Description: Two triangular objects, lit up by three main lights and other lights in between, flew over Pampa, Texas at 11:00 p.m. heading east. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seatte, October 2006 webpage, report uploaded October 20, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_6793 Source: Johnson ### Event 24363 (AF2F6863) Date: 10/26/2006 Description: At three o'clock in the morning many residents of the cities of Colon, Argentina and Paysandu, Uruguay witnessed a huge triangular craft fly over the two cities. It made no sound, but flew at a low altitude. It flew from south to north at a very slow speed. Witnesses were able to see multicolored lights beneath it that were blue, white, and yellow. Again at 11:05 p.m. that night two loud sky explosions rocked both cities. They broke windows. Some witnesses in Colon said a powerful light could be seen toward the southeastern area of the city. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Julio Degeneve, www.ufoinfo.com, reported dated October 29, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_7174 Source: Johnson ### Event 24364 (176C3DAD) Date: 10/31/2006 Description: A black triangular UFO with 3 lights on it was seen at 9:30 p.m. in Hetton-le-Hole, Tyne and Wear, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defense, case 2006-56 Source ID: Johnson_7359 Source: Johnson ### Event 24365 (94C39CCC) Date: 11/2006 Description: Many people in a village in Zhenyuan Yi, Hani and Lahu Autonomous County, southern Yunnan, China, see seven white hemispherical objects hovering directly over the property of a local Chinese Communist Party cadre for nearly two hours. They appear to keep changing shape. Many people from neighboring villages hear about the phenomenon and arrive to watch it. People try to pursue the lights, but they soon disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 653 Source ID: Eberhart_7515 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24366 (77626E4B) Date: 11/1/2006 Description: [John Schuessler](http://cufos.org/schuessler.html) retires as director of MUFON. He is succeeded by [James Carrion](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/carrion-james-7342/) of Bellevue, Colorado. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Schuessler Retires As MUFON Head,” IUR 30, no. 4 \(August 2006\): 16 Source ID: Eberhart_7516 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24367 (68F29C5B) Date: 11/7/2006 Description: 4:15 p.m. Federal authorities at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, receive a report that a group of 12 airport employees are witnessing a metallic, saucer-shaped craft hovering over Gate C-17. The object is first spotted by a ramp worker who is pushing back United Airlines Flight 446, which is departing Chicago for Charlotte, North Carolina. The employee apprises the crew of the object above their aircraft. It is believed that both the pilot and copilot also witness the object. Several independent witnesses outside of the airport also see the object. One describes a “blatant” disc-shaped craft hovering over the airport, which was “obviously not clouds.” According to this witness, nearby observers gasp as the object shoots through the clouds at high velocity, leaving a clear blue hole in the cloud layer. The hole reportedly seems to close itself shortly afterward. According to the Chicago Tribune’s [Jon Hilkevitch](https://www.facebook.com/jhilkevitch)[,](https://www.facebook.com/jhilkevitch) “The disc was visible for approximately five minutes and was seen by close to a dozen United Airlines employees, ranging from pilots to supervisors, who heard chatter on the radio and raced out to view it.” So far, no photographic evidence of the UFO has surfaced, although Hilkevitch finds out that one of the pilots is in possession of a digital camera at the time of the sighting and may have photographed the event. NARCAP publishes a 155-page report and has called for a government inquiry and improved energy-sensing technologies: “Anytime an airborne object can hover for several minutes over a busy airport but not be registered on radar or seen visually from the control tower, \[it\] constitutes a potential threat to flight safety.” The FAA stance concludes that the sighting was caused by a weather phenomenon and that the agency would not be investigating the incident. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[2006 O’Hare International Airport UFO Sighting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%5FO%27Hare%5FInternational%5FAirport%5FUFO%5Fsighting)”; Jon Hilkevitch, “[What](https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/clip/92373120/) [WAS That Thing](https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/clip/92373120/) [in the Sky at O’Hare?](https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/clip/86903543/chicago-tribune/)” Chicago Tribune, January 1, 2007, pp. 1, 19; Mark Rodeghier, “Media Take Notice When Media Take Notice: UFO Seen over O’Hare Airport,” IUR 31, no. 1 \(January 2007\): 32; Richard F. Haines, “[Report of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon and Its Safety Implications at O’Hare](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d02ec731230e20001528e2c/1560472703346/NARCAP%5FTR-10.pdf) [International Airport on November 7, 2006,](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d02ec731230e20001528e2c/1560472703346/NARCAP%5FTR-10.pdf)” NARCAP, May 14, 2007; Leslie Kean, “Incident at O’Hare Airport,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 3–7; Richard F. Haines, et al., “A UAP and Its Safety Implications: O’Hare International Airport, Nov. 7, 2006,” IUR 31, no. 3 \(October 2007\): 3–7; Kean, [pp. 65–72](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/64/mode/2up); Clark III 835–838; Mutual UFO Network, \[[case report](http://www.nicap.org/reports2/2006%20Nov%207%20Illinois%20Chicago%20OHare%5Fcase%2059470.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_7517 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24368 (0966E49D) Date: 11/8/2006 Description: The 42d Attack Squadron is formed at Creech AFB, Nevada, as the first MQ-9 Reaper drone squadron. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Creech Air Force Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creech%5FAir%5FForce%5FBase)” Source ID: Eberhart_7518 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24369 (74239701) Date: 11/9/2006 Description: At 4:30 p.m. a witness in Kosse, Limestone County, Texas reported seeing a pen-shaped or oblong metallic cylinder-shaped object puff out a cloud, and then try to hide behind it. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2006 webpage, report uploaded December 7, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_7589 Source: Johnson ### Event 24370 (80882FF8) Date: 11/12/2006 Description: The pilot of a Boeing 767 observed a fast moving light cross in front of his aircraft while flying over Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada at 10:06 p.m. The aircraft's tactical collision avoidance system was triggered by the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 685 Source ID: Johnson_7621 Source: Johnson ### Event 24371 (91F33EBD) Date: 11/21/2006 Description: A long, bright, white cigar-shaped object rose from the desert in Elmo, Utah and shot off into the western sky at 7:50 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2006 webpage, report uploaded December 7, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_7789 Source: Johnson ### Event 24372 (2DEC584A) Date: 11/22/2006 Description: A circular disc-shaped object with a bluish tint, and blinking very brightly, was sighted next to Interstate 15 just north of Scipio, Utah at 7:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2006 webpage, report uploaded December 7, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_7829 Source: Johnson ### Event 24373 (8081E626) Date: 11/28/2006 Description: At 6:42 p.m. three metallic disc-shaped objects were seen flying at low altitude over Montreal, Quebec, travelling at slow speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 695, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_8020 Source: Johnson ### Event 24374 (F346CDB8) Date: 11/29/2006 Description: A huge triangular UFO with white lights in each corner plus a large red light in the center was sighted north of Salisbury, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. A misty light trail was seen at the rear of the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2006 webpage, report uploaded Dec. 7, 2006; Australian UFO Research Network, report dated Dec. 13, 2006 Source ID: Johnson_8059 Source: Johnson ### Event 24375 (E733E272) Date: 12/4/2006 Description: A multicolored object was sighted over Hicksville, New York in Nassau County at 12:25 p.m. It made security alarms go off and left behind a cloud of bluish fog. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2006 webpage, p. 7 Source ID: Johnson_8189 Source: Johnson ### Event 24376 (B3BB4EA1) Date: 12/5/2006 Description: A disc-shaped object was sighted over High Prairie, Alberta, Canada at 6:00 p.m. It had two reddish orange lights on the outside of the middle of the craft, and three orange lights around the back.The craft made no noise and was estimated to be 10 to 18 feet wide. The witness estimated the object was only 75 metres away, and at an altitude of 50 to 75 meters high. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 7, 2006; Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 699 Source ID: Johnson_8228 Source: Johnson ### Event 24377 (A881CBA1) Date: 12/13/2006 Description: Fastwalkers, a documentary on NORAD’s Defense Satellite Program and its detection of UFOs \(fastwalkers and slowwalkers\) entering the Earth’s atmosphere, is released. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Internet Movie Database, “[Fastwalkers](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2006737/)” Source ID: Eberhart_7519 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24378 (A32DE4F0) Date: 12/31/2006 Description: In Nobsa, Dicho, Boyaca Province, Colombia three men named Guio, Barragan, and Zarate witnessed a football-shaped object through binoculars beginning at 3:30 p.m.. The object changed colors from yellow to black to white. It spun on its axis and became orange-colored, and then another object showed up. A photo was taken at 4:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Scott Corrales, www.ufoinfo.com, report dated January 22, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_8687 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 2007 (Back to Top) ### Event 24379 (08563D91) Date: 2007 Description: NY Times: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD, an astrophysicist, starts working as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O. program (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP) Type: newspaper article Reference: [NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html) Reference: [NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/ufos-report.html) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_812 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24380 (E9283EF9) Date: 2007 Description: The US National Archives allows the entire collection of sanitized Blue Book documents to be placed on the web through a private company called Footnote.com \(now called Fold3\), totaling nearly 130,000 pages, each one an individual JPG image. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 7 Source ID: Eberhart_7520 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24381 (6EE565C2) Date: 2007 Description: John Carpenter launches the Journal of Abduction–Encounter Research in Springfield, Missouri, which continues until July 2010. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Journal of Abduction–Encounter Research](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/JAR%20-%20Journal%20of%20Abduction%20Encounter%20Research/JAR%5Fissue%5F1.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/JAR%20-%20Journal%20of%20Abduction%20Encounter%20Research/JAR%5Fissue%5F1.pdf) no. 1 \(January 2007\) Source ID: Eberhart_7521 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24382 (8C9A911F) Date: 1/11/2007 Description: China conducts an anti-satellite missile test in which a Chinese weather satellite, the FY-1C polar orbit satellite of the Fengyun series orbiting at an altitude of 537 miles, is destroyed by a kinetic kill vehicle traveling with a speed of 8 km/s in the opposite direction. It is launched with a multistage solid-fuel missile from Zichang Satellite Launch Center or nearby. It is the first known successful satellite intercept test since 1985. The kill produces an estimated 35,000 pieces of one-centimeter-wide debris and another 1,500 pieces that are 10 centimeters or more. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%5FChinese%5Fanti-satellite%5Fmissile%5Ftest)” Source ID: Eberhart_7522 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24383 (11462A30) Date: 1/12/2007 Description: Afternoon. Amateur radio enthusiasts record the conversation of pilots in two USAF F-15C fighters on a training mission just north of RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, England. One fighter gets a radar lock on an unidentified target 17 miles in front of him. He breaks the lock and reacquires it to validate the target, which is moving slowly at 17,700 feet. Closing to 500 feet, the pilot sees a small, irregular object like a “black rock.” His wingman joins him and they make three additional passes as they track it on airborne radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 126– 127 Source ID: Eberhart_7523 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24384 (7C240566) Date: 1/13/2007 Description: In Vaughan, Ontario a cigar-shaped object flew parallel to the highway at midnight, gliding quietly like a submarine. The object had illuminated windows. The sighting lasted about 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 16, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_306 Source: Johnson ### Event 24385 (51B29908) Date: 1/24/2007 Description: A slow-moving cylinder was sighted high in sky over Ottawa, Ontario at 12:25 p.m. It sped up, then streaked across the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 31, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_504 Source: Johnson ### Event 24386 (B17A4256) Date: 1/30/2007 Description: At 9:25 a.m. a disc-shaped UFO was sighted over Interstate 270 N in Rockville, Maryland. At 6:44 p.m. CST a smaller object slowly merged with a larger disc-shaped object over Round Lake, Illinois. Then both vanished in a second as it shot up vertically from approximately a mile above the earth into outer space. In Quincy, California at 10:50 p.m. a tri-colored cylinder-shaped object was seen flying at about 500 feet altitude. It disappeared into the mountains 5-10 miles away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2007 webpage Source ID: Johnson_629 Source: Johnson ### Event 24387 (2FC5B3D2) Date: 1/31/2007 Description: At 7:00 p.m. a green hamburger-shaped UFO with porthole hovered 500 feet in the air over Hibbard, Quebec, Canada, making no noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case 41 Source ID: Johnson_648 Source: Johnson ### Event 24388 (4C1BAA1E) Date: 2/9/2007 Description: At 5:30 p.m. a strange "fly-strip-looking" spiral-shaped object was seen hovering and floating over houses along Lake Ontario in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 52, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_792 Source: Johnson ### Event 24389 (D52DBF28) Date: 2/17/2007 Description: At 2:52 a.m. a triangular craft was sighted over the Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio. It had white lights on the sides, and a red light shimmering in the bottom middle. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Feb. 2007 webpage, report uploaded Feb. 24, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_974 Source: Johnson ### Event 24390 (D9A7AB77) Date: 2/19/2007 Description: A UFO with three lights stayed suspended in the sky over Dorval, Quebec, Canada for 90 seconds, and then bolted away with an amazing burst of speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 63, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_1018 Source: Johnson ### Event 24391 (CBA2AF91) Date: 2/26/2007 Description: A motorist driving down the highway in Sacramento, California at 11:00 a.m. saw a cigar-shaped craft with a red light in the middle. The sighting lasted 15 seconds. Another cigar-shaped object was sighted in San Pedro, Los Angeles County, California at 3:48 p.m. The bottom of the object was red and the rest was white. The second sighting lasted 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2007 website, reports uploaded Mar. 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_1146 Source: Johnson ### Event 24392 (25B81E26) Date: 3/5/2007 Description: A hovering saucer-shaped object with yellow lights was reported in the sky over Washington, D.C. at 7:00 p.m. It was approached by a bronze-colored object, triangular or flying wing shaped, which hovered nearby. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2007 webpage, report uploaded March 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_1326 Source: Johnson ### Event 24393 (20564E31) Date: 3/5/2007 Description: 7:15 p.m. Several witnesses around Bremerton, Washington, see a steady red light above the smokestack at Naval Base Kitsap on the Kitsap Peninsula. It moves slowly north for 10 minutes, stops for 3 minutes, then suddenly dims, brightens, and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, March 8, 2007; Nukes 503 Source ID: Eberhart_7524 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24394 (22D29BD7) Date: 3/6/2007 Description: A circular object hovered low over the witnesses' barn for 60 minutes in Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania starting at 7:00 p.m. It had white lights that did not blink, and a white antenna that moved back and forth, with a green light at the tip. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2007 webpage, report uploaded March 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_1358 Source: Johnson ### Event 24395 (4DBB8646) Date: 3/18/2007 Description: Former Arizona Gov. [Fife Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife%5FSymington) admits that he witnessed one of the “craft of unknown origin” during the 1997 [Phoenix Lights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%5FLights) event, but notes that he didn’t go public with the information. In an interview with [Leslie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FKean) [Kean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FKean) in the Prescott Daily Courier, Fife says: “It was enormous and inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too. It was dramatic. And it couldn’t have been flares because it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Former Arizona Governor Says He Saw ‘Phoenix lights’ UFO,” American Chronicle, March 18, 2007; “[Former Arizona Governor Says He Saw a UFO during the](https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Former%5FArizona%5FGovernor%5Fsays%5Fhe%5Fsaw%5Fa%5FUFO%5Fduring%5Fthe%5F1997%5FPhoenix%5FLights) [1997 Phoenix Lights,](https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Former%5FArizona%5FGovernor%5Fsays%5Fhe%5Fsaw%5Fa%5FUFO%5Fduring%5Fthe%5F1997%5FPhoenix%5FLights)” Wikinews, March 19, 2007; Kean, [pp. 253–257](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/260/mode/2up), [262–264](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/270/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7525 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24396 (C1AFF292) Date: 3/22/2007 Description: GEIPAN, the French office in charge of UFO investigations, begins to put all its UFO files on its website. These reports have been gathered in more than 30 years of investigations since its creation in 1977. Some 400 files, covering the period 1988–2005, are put online first. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Groupe d’Études et d’Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés [website](https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/recherche/cas); Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 12, 14–15; Swords 452–453; “[French Space Agency Puts UFO Files Online,](https://www.foxnews.com/story/french-space-agency-puts-ufo-files-online)” Fox News, January 13, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_7526 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24397 (046DB999) Date: 3/30/2007 Description: GEIPAN’s Jacques Patenet appears, with Ciel et espace editor [Alain Cirou](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%5FCirou)[,](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%5FCirou) on a well-known French TV program called C dans l’air. Questioned bluntly by host and journalist [Yves Calvi](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves%5FCalvi) about UFOs, Patenet says unequivocally that yes, there are UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 \(June 2007\): 14 Source ID: Eberhart_7527 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24398 (BB665194) Date: 4/2007 Description: French space scientist [Yves Sillard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves%5FSillard) consolidates his ideas on UFOs in the landmark book Phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifies: Un défi à la science, written in collaboration with other scientists. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Yves Sillard, et al., Phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifies: Un défi à la science, Le Cherche midi, 2007 Source ID: Eberhart_7528 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24399 (F85FF62A) Date: 4/6/2007 Description: Night. Brian Vike is driving near North Park Lake, McCandless, Pennsylvania, with friends when he sees a strange light shining directly on the lake from high above it. They get out and walk towards the lake. Vike is able to see fish swimming beneath the surface of the lake under the beam. The object projecting the light moves away to above the trees and is only the size of a streetlight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_7529 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24400 (9D14FC9C) Date: 4/16/2007 Description: At 10:00 p.m. a gray triangle object outlined with many lights flew silently overhead New Westminster, British Columbia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 200, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_2070 Source: Johnson ### Event 24401 (3C8C497F) Date: 4/17/2007 Description: A circular craft with blue lights was seen by a 55-year-old man with an engineering background. At around 9:55 p.m. PST, the witness went out onto his front yard in Irvine, California for a smoke before bed. Normally he can see planes approaching Orange County Airport from the NNE and go past to the left to land approximately 8-9 miles away, but this night was overcast so he could hear some, but not see them as they broke cloud cover once they had passed his house. While standing on the driveway, he saw some blue light aloft to the North moving back and forth, almost flittering like a moth. He first thought it was a police helicopter. What was unusual was that it was moving more in a quick, back-and-forth movement instead of what is usually a slow circle. Also, he could not see a strong searchlight or hear any engine sound. It appeared that the object was 1-2 miles away. He thought this was odd, so he retrieved a pair of quality 20x binoculars from inside the house. What he next saw raised the hair on the back of his neck, because the lights seemed to consist of a row of individual blue lights that first were traveling to the left. As the object reversed direction, the object appeared to be first an ellipse and then a full circle; it had maybe 24-30 individual blue lights around the perimeter. It then traveled to the right and reversed the process, again forming a circle at the end of its travel when reversing direction. It traveled in each direction for 3-5 seconds. There were definitely no red/green port/starboard lights, only the blue perimeter lights and no strobe lights. He watched this object for 2-3 minutes. It finally disappeared into the cloud cover. The man used to fly small aircraft, so he was experienced with the shapes and types of various small aircraft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2007 webpage, report uploaded April 27, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_2100 Source: Johnson ### Event 24402 (BF49C430) Date: 4/21/2007 Description: A red cigar-shaped object with glowing ends, banded, flew at high speed over Sudbury, Ontario at 2:22 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 217 Source ID: Johnson_2202 Source: Johnson ### Event 24403 (424EC095) Date: 4/22/2007 Description: At 12:14 a.m. a red, cigar-shaped object with glowing ends, banded, traveled at high speed over Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. That night at 10:00 p.m. a triangular formation of red lights was sighted moving fast across the sky in Orangeville, Ontario. Both cases are listed as high quality unknowns. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, cases 224 & 227 Source ID: Johnson_2247 Source: Johnson ### Event 24404 (07A290A7) Date: 4/22/2007 Description: A disc-shaped object with rotating lights was seen in Kirkland, Washington at 7:15 p.m. About the same time (10:20 p.m. EDT) in Westville, Florida a triangular object was seen briefly. The craft had four greenish-blue, dim lights on the bottom: one light in the middle towards the rear and one in each corner. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, reports uploaded April 27, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_2248 Source: Johnson ### Event 24405 (58B15892) Date: 4/23/2007 Description: Afternoon. The passengers of Flight A-Line 544 depart Southampton, England, in a BN2a Mk3 Trislander aircraft at about 2:00 p.m. in fine weather with good visibility for miles around, though a haze layer is present at 2,000 feet, and a continuous cloud layer at 10,000 feet. They rise to an altitude of 4,000 feet and are cruising on autopilot about 10 miles south of the Isle of Wight. Capt. Ray Bowyer notices, exactly in the direction of Guernsey in the Channel Islands \(southwest and 12 o’clock ahead\) what appears to be a brilliant yellow lamp or light. He thinks that it might be an airplane or reflections from the ground, as Guernsey is immediately behind it. The reflection of the sun off a greenhouse is a possibility but the UFO persists for a couple of minutes. It is brilliant yellow, with a dark grey band enveloping it one third from the right, like a band around a cigar. Bowyer makes contact with Jersey ATC to check on traffic heading his way. Paul Kelly at Jersey ATC cannot see any traffic in that position, but he picks up a faint primary return radar signal. A passenger behind the captain confirms what Bowyer is seeing and points out a second UFO immediately behind the first: Bowyer estimates both lights to be “up to possibly a mile across.” Radar traces also seem to register the presence of two objects, which Bowyer believes to be correlated with the position and time of the sighting. The first object is presumed to have been near the Casquets, west of Alderney, and the second some miles north of Guernsey. A study by [David](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29) [Clarke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FClarke%5F%28journalist%29) however, cannot establish a definite link, as the radar reflections of cargo or passenger ferries may have affected at least some of the readings. Bowyer disagrees with Clarke’s team on the supposed link between the radar traces and ferries and proposes that two solid airborne UFOs are working in unison that day. Captain Patterson, the second pilot witness, posits some type of “atmospheric phenomenon” as an explanation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[2007 Alderney UFO Sighting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%5FAlderney%5FUFO%5Fsighting)”; Kean, [pp. 73–81](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/72/mode/2up); UFOFiles2, [pp. 166–168](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n269/mode/2up); Jean-François Baure, David Clarke, Paul Fuller, and Martin Shough, “[Report on Aerial Phenomena Observed near the Channel Islands,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Report%20on%20Channel%20Islands%20UAPs%2023.04.07.pdf) [UK, April 23, 2007,](http://www.martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Report%20on%20Channel%20Islands%20UAPs%2023.04.07.pdf)” February 2008; Jean-François Baure, David Clarke, Paul Fuller, and Martin Shough, “[Unusual Atmospheric Phenomena Observed near Channel Islands, UK, 23 April 2007,](https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/22/jse%5F22%5F3%5Fbaure.pdf)” Journal of Scientific Exploration 22, no. 3 \(2008\): 291–308 Source ID: Eberhart_7530 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24406 (55CB3F34) Date: 4/25/2007 Description: In Northern India (exact location not given), the witness was returning home from work at 2:00 a.m. when suddenly the road in front of him ‘disappeared’ because there was a huge bus-like object with no wheels hovering over the road, blocking it. He then flashed on the car high beams to get a better look, and when he did this the object split in two and there was a very bright flash of light, lighting up everything briefly like daytime. A creature descended from the object and looked at the witness. Terrified, he turned the car’s headlights off, but kept the engine running so he could escape in the event of an attack. However, the being seemed to ignore him. It looked humanoid but was about 7-8 feet tall and quite bulky and hairy like a bear. The head was slightly bigger than that of an average man. It was carrying an instrument that looked like a crystal cube with a handle. It raised the instrument and waved it around briefly, and then took out a box and put the instrument in it. It then approached the witness’s car and as it approached the witness felt heat and a ‘force of high magnitude’. When it was about a meter away from him the man fainted due to the intense pressure he was feeling, like a G-force caused by high speed acceleration. He regained consciousness after 10 minutes, and the creature and the object were gone. There was a depression in the road about one foot in depth and 10-12 feet in diameter, where the UFO had been hovering. The witness rushed home but was unable to sleep. The next day, while going to the office, he stopped at the same spot and noticed that somehow the road had been repaired. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2007 webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2007; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2007, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_2326 Source: Johnson ### Event 24407 (8D0A6B0C) Date: 5/3/2007 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a triangular craft was seen hovering over Abingdon, Harford County, Maryland, moving very slowly and silently over a residential neighborhood. It had one row of 3-4 lights lit up on one side of the craft. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_2496 Source: Johnson ### Event 24408 (BDF3556A) Date: 5/3/2007 Description: At 4:23 a.m. a metallic object descended at odd angle and landed in a wooded area in Biglerville, Adams County, Pennsylvania. It stayed there for about 20 minutes before disappearing quickly. No further details. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_2495 Source: Johnson ### Event 24409 (242FCA88) Date: 5/4/2007 Description: In Timmins, Ontario, Canada a light was seen in the northwestern sky at 11:30 p.m., zig-zagging and dancing "across the sky". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Report, case # 250 Source ID: Johnson_2529 Source: Johnson ### Event 24410 (33E79CC5) Date: 5/6/2007 Description: At 12:35 p.m. a slightly conical black UFO hovered over Kalamazoo, Michigan for roughly 2 minutes. The witness ran to get his parents, who watched the object leave. That afternoon, at 4:45 p.m., another group of witnesses in Flint, Michigan reported seeing a "disguised" UFO that made several stops in mid air. After a few minutes it accelerated at an extreme speed into the southern sky and shot almost straight up as it went out of sight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, reports uploaded June 12, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_2609 Source: Johnson ### Event 24411 (30FCC8E7) Date: 5/7/2007 Description: At 6:30 p.m. four balls of yellow light were seen dancing over a mountain in Riverdale, Yukon, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 258 Source ID: Johnson_2646 Source: Johnson ### Event 24412 (F3969DD8) Date: 5/8/2007 Description: A huge "beige" triangular object maneuvered around the sky with a multicoloured flashing light over Oshawa, Ontario at 10:00 p.m. There were two witnesses and the sighting lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 260, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_2670 Source: Johnson ### Event 24413 (461A7DE7) Date: 5/16/2007 Description: A cylindrical UFO was sighted in Columbus, Missouri at around 1:00 p.m. The witness reports, "While sitting outside of my business, visiting with a customer, we all looked up and saw a cylindrically shaped object traveling west above Highway 70. We all watched the object until it went out of sight. It was silver in color and did not have wings or a tail." They were not able to discern its true size or the distance of object, although it seemed to be flying quite low. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, report dated May 26, 2007, citing Barbara Becker, Missouri Investigators Group Source ID: Johnson_2910 Source: Johnson ### Event 24414 (81370B51) Date: 5/16/2007 Description: A large triangle craft with more lights than normal lights was sighted over Ypsilanti, Michigan at 1:00 a.m. by a witness driving home. It was turning at right angles, first quickly and then slowly. It had three lights, portholes, or circles that were white on all three leading edges (sides and middle); on the bottom there were four more circles--3 white ones at each corner of the triangle and a larger red light in the middle of it. It was larger than a plane.It flew overhead slowly, where it stopped 150 yards from the witness for about 40 seconds, then turned 120 degrees and went around in circles around the freeway, then it headed out over the city where it disappeared out of view. The sighting lasted five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_2909 Source: Johnson ### Event 24415 (9C41E67E) Date: 5/29/2007 Description: At 11:45 a large triangular shaped object was seen flying at about 100 feet altitude between Pontrobert and Meiford in Wales, United Kingdom. It had bright green and blue lights. A second object with pink pulsating lights was also sighted. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defence Source ID: Johnson_3161 Source: Johnson ### Event 24416 (BD70C619) Date: 6/8/2007 Description: The US Air Intelligence Agency is redesignated the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Force intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FIntelligence%2C%5FSurveillance%5Fand%5FReconnaissance%5FAgency)” Source ID: Eberhart_7531 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24417 (2EE76FA3) Date: 6/11/2007 Description: The Société Belge d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux in Brussels, Belgium, is officially dissolved. Its place is taken by a less formal group, Comité Belge d’Étude des Phénomenes Spatiaux, headed by Patrick Ferryn. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Bienvenue sur le site de COBEPS,](http://www.cobeps.org/)” Comité Belge d’Étude des Phénomenes Spatiaux Source ID: Eberhart_7532 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24418 (37A51527) Date: 6/19/2007 Description: Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer and scientist James T. Lacatski contacts [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow) for permission to visit the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, a project under study by the National Institute for Discovery Science. He wants to see how the DIA might develop a strategy to characterize the “potential threat aspects of the phenomena.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 17–18, 38–39 Source ID: Eberhart_7533 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24419 (0A24D0C6) Date: 7/16/2007 Description: 12:52 a.m. A witness is walking a dog in Port Orchard, Washington, when an orange fireball travels from southeast to northwest for 30 seconds. It disappears in thick clouds over Green Mountain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, August 7, 2007; Nukes 503–504 Source ID: Eberhart_7534 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24420 (8E0BD5E0) Date: 7/18/2007 Description: A triangular shaped object with solid white lights and a solid amber light in the center was seen in Columbia, Missouri on this night at 11:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2007 archived webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_4185 Source: Johnson ### Event 24421 (059A7B65) Date: 7/26/2007 Description: [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow) accompanies DIA official James T. Lacatski on a visit to Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. During his 2-hour visit, Lacatski witnesses a bizarre tubular object hovering in the kitchen of the Homestead 1 building. After 30 seconds, it vanishes. He describes it is as similar to the object depicted on [Mike Oldfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FOldfield)’s 1973 album Tubular Bells. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 39–41 Source ID: Eberhart_7535 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24422 (070B791C) Date: 7/31/2007 Description: A witness in Kars, Ottawa, Ontario reported being woken up by his dog barking at 12:52 a.m. He was going to shut him up, looked out window to see what he was barking at, and was shocked to see a large, well lit disc-shaped UFO hovering in the sky. Another disc-shaped UFO was sighted in Jamaica, Queens, New York at 2:45 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_4551 Source: Johnson ### Event 24423 (C2AD74DB) Date: 8/4/2007 Description: There were three more reports from England on this date. At 3:00 p.m. two white circular objects were sighted over Dorking, Surrey, moving at high altitude and speed. At 10:45 p.m. two strange objects were sighted over Sheffield, West York followed by three others. They were all bright and fiery colored, spinning and moving very fast across the sky. Finally, at 11:15 p.m. a circular light was seen zig-zagging across the sky over Worthing, West Sussex. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report (1) uploaded August 14, 2007, report (3) on August 7, 2007; British Ministry of Defense 2007 reports, case # 40 Source ID: Johnson_4668 Source: Johnson ### Event 24424 (1D64D712) Date: 8/6/2007 Description: Fifteen to twenty cigar-shaped objects with red and blue lights were sighted over Texarkana, Arkansas at 10:20 p.m. There were also numerous bright white lights appearing and disappearing. A second independent report was filed at 10:45 p.m. from ten miles south of the city, reporting inexplicable bright lights and moving objects. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2007 archived webpage, reports uploaded August 7 & 14, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_4753 Source: Johnson ### Event 24425 (F92C6FDE) Date: 8/9/2007 Description: A low flying object that looked like the Concorde (supersonic aircraft) was sighted in Riverview, New Brunswick, Canada at 7:55 p.m. It was the size of a 50-passenger plane, had no markings and no windows, and the strange thing is it was flying backwards. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 2007-487, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_4814 Source: Johnson ### Event 24426 (229D6428) Date: 8/10/2007 Description: At noon an elongated cigar-shaped object, translucent or transparent, flew over Hancock, Maine in a controlled flight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded October 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_4853 Source: Johnson ### Event 24427 (CAD07C1F) Date: 8/14/2007 Description: Orange "V" shaped lights flew overhead in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma without making a sound at around 1 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2007 webpage, report uploaded August 14, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_5025 Source: Johnson ### Event 24428 (D0B9B786) Date: 8/16/2007 Description: A single light was witnessed making 90 degree turns, starting and stopping instantly without acceleration, over Reading, California at 11:08 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2007 archived webpage, report uploaded on October 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_5106 Source: Johnson ### Event 24429 (AE083991) Date: 8/18/2007 Description: A brief entry of a landing and report of humanoids is contained in the British Ministry of Defence database of UFO reports for 2007. Case # 52 reports that an object or objects were seen near Streatham in London, England and that the object or objects then landed. "A person was seen and then more people were seen. A lot of phenomena." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defence, case # 2007-052 Source ID: Johnson_5147 Source: Johnson ### Event 24430 (AEDD72BB) Date: 8/29/2007 Description: At 11:34 p.m. a man had just let his dogs out into his backyard in Stafford, Virginia when they starting acting very aggresively. The older female dog got out the door and immediately ran down a hill as if to attack something. When the witness walked out and followed behind the dog, he illuminated the area with his handheld spotlight and saw what appeared to be two small beings, about 4 feet tall. They looked to be made out of light, that was faint but only illuminated their heads and hands, as if their bodies were cloaked by clothing. Next these two figures retreated quickly about ten feet down the hill, and, incredibly, seemed to crawl up into an unseen opening or portal. It looked like they were going up into a completely darkened craft. The witness could only describe it as a portal or window like opening, which didn’t emanate any light. He could still see that there must have been some sort of craft present, because when it started to move away it caused an air turbulence and a moving shadow two feet off the ground. He tried to shine his light on it but it seemed to absorb all light. As it moved away it rose up into the sky and then he could begin to make out a shape. Before the small figures entered the craft they looked back at the witness, and their eyes glowed softly with a pale blue light, but he could not see any other facial features. His dog stopped barking when the object left. The witness described the shape of the object as arrow shaped, about 20 feet long, with the pointed and narrow end in front and wider at the rear. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2007, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2007 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_5482 Source: Johnson ### Event 24431 (7CCA7EFD) Date: 9/2007 Description: Project Oxcart, the A-12 reconnaissance aircraft program, is declassified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed A-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FA-12)” Source ID: Eberhart_7536 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24432 (BD3C8FD7) Date: 9/4/2007 Description: At 9:30 p.m. a hexagon formation of six lights flew over Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada going slowly from north to south. The sighting lasted ten minutes. At 10:30 p.m. a flat, plate-like or saucer-shaped object with numerous blinking lights (red, ivory, and green in color) around its perimeter was sighted in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: (1) Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 565; (2) Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_5646 Source: Johnson ### Event 24433 (C70590D7) Date: 9/7/2007 Description: In Victoria, British Columbia at 9:30 p.m. an object like a dome with a flat bottom was first seen hovering, then completely vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 568 Source ID: Johnson_5752 Source: Johnson ### Event 24434 (55224F01) Date: 9/8/2007 Description: At 9:00 p.m. a V-shaped formation of reddish orange dots were sighted going west to east over St-Bruno, Quebec. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 572, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_5782 Source: Johnson ### Event 24435 (322F56CA) Date: 9/10/2007 Description: A humming sound was heard first, then a disc-shaped object reportedly landed in Headingley, Manitoba, Canada at around 2:00 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 584 Source ID: Johnson_5846 Source: Johnson ### Event 24436 (2D477B74) Date: 9/13/2007 Description: At 8:10 p.m. eight white, cigar-shaped objects were photographed in Calgary, Alberta, Canada several times as they were descending rapidly to the southeast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 598, citing ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_5938 Source: Johnson ### Event 24437 (1C9ADF20) Date: 9/14/2007 Description: At 10:30 p.m. a round orange light descended from the sky over Saint-Anaclet, Quebec, Canada, then stopped. It flew off after 90 seconds leaving a trail of smoke. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case 602, citing RCMP Source ID: Johnson_5976 Source: Johnson ### Event 24438 (53DD084E) Date: 9/16/2007 Description: At 4:00 a.m. a small, fast maneuvering ball of white light slowly descended from the sky to within 30 feet of a campsite in Bayfield Inlet, Ontario. It approached the witnesses, and when a flashlight was pointed at the light it reacted by moving away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 608; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_6033 Source: Johnson ### Event 24439 (A44DDC67) Date: 9/16/2007 Description: Anza Borrego State Park, California. Carl Mandeville (pseudonym) and his girlfriend had decided to go on an overnight backpacking adventure. Their destination was Mount Laguna, in the unincorporated area of San Diego, California. However, a forest fire in Julian closed off Route 78, so they took an alternative route and stumbled upon the Anza Borrego Desert State Park. They arrived at the park at 5:00 p.m. He had never hiked or backpacked at the park before, so Carl went to the visitor center and got the information he needed, and set off on his journey to Culp Valley Campground. Culp Valley campground is at approximately 3,500 feet in elevation. He and his girlfriend pulled into the campground, loaded their backpacks, and set off. They only backpacked about one mile out due to it being the evening. They set up a tent about 20 feet north of the trail. The tent was set up on a small slope looking down on the trail.

At around 3:00 a.m. the moon had sunk behind the mountains surrounding the desert, and it was pitch black, and his girlfriend was sleeping. Unable to sleep Carl just lay there staring at the starry sky. Suddenly, he heard a man’s voice, he when he looked in the direction it was coming from he saw a green light being waved back and forth. He immediately thought it was the park ranger. The light was about 50 yards east from his tent, and he could tell that whoever it was was using the green light to guide somebody on the trail. The green light was coming closer and closer to their tent, probably not directly to the tent but down the trail. Abruptly, the green light disappeared and Carl panicked, because out of nowhere a massive amount of light lit up the trail 20 feet from where he was. He was terrified; nobody was talking at this point, and he didn’t hear footsteps--just saw a massive amount of white light. The light was getting closer. He immediately ducked down and lay low in his tent, very scared. He then peeked out of the tent and saw 12 to 15 humanoid figures that looked like people, but some were extremely tall, and the rest were really very short with large bald heads. The tall figures appeared to be wearing white, cloak-like outfits, and the short figures appeared to be naked. Terrified and with his heart pounding, Jeremy watched the beings walk very gracefully and slowly, turning their heads from left to right with each footstep. They were all holding metal rod-like implements which emitted a powerful white light. They seemed to ignore the tent and walked “peacefully” by. The witness remained lying still and as quiet as he could, as the beings walked by his tent. The light eventually faded as the beings continued down the trail and disappeared. Still terrified, he woke his girlfriend 10 minutes later. He waited because he didn’t want the beings to hear them talking. The next day, he told the ranger about what had happened, and the ranger wrote it down in a report, suspecting it was some type of religious cult. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007; Albert S. Rosales, 2007 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, confidential report from the witness Source ID: Johnson_6034 Source: Johnson ### Event 24440 (A1154323) Date: 9/16/2007 Description: At 7:33 p.m. three white circular objects in a triangular formation hovered above the hills between Glendale and Los Angeles, California for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_6035 Source: Johnson ### Event 24441 (13BA2422) Date: 9/17/2007 Description: Independent lights forming a chevron passed silently over San Carlos, California at 11:15 p.m. at a very high altitude and at a very high rate of speed; each light shifted position. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_6063 Source: Johnson ### Event 24442 (C759FC23) Date: 9/20/2007 Description: At 5:30 p.m EDT two University of Michigan at Flint, Michigan college students observed 11 discs making formations in the early evening sky for 15 minutes. At 8:30 p.m. EDT a cylindrical object with a purple underglow was spotted moving very fast across the sky in Palm Harbor, Florida. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, reports uploaded January 21, 2008 & March 4, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_6172 Source: Johnson ### Event 24443 (15B4BE13) Date: 9/20/2007 Description: At 8:00 p.m. PDT a cigar-shaped object, possibly hundreds of feet long, was viewed for 12 minutes from Coos Bay, Oregon as it flew slowly along the Pacific Ocean coastline. At the same time (9:00 p.m. MDT) three black triangular craft maneuvered across the sky from the horizon and then hovered over the witnesses' location for two minutes in Kingston, New Mexico. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, reports uploaded November 28, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_6173 Source: Johnson ### Event 24444 (24135C70) Date: 9/20/2007 Description: At 11:30 p.m. a circular object with white lights on the underside was seen from Trabuco Canyon in Mission Viejo, California flying over Orange County toward Riverside County. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_6174 Source: Johnson ### Event 24445 (9683F1A8) Date: 9/21/2007 Description: A 37-year-old service technician in Spencerville, Ohio stepped outside for a cigarette before going to bed at 1:50 a.m. and sighted a pair of lights just over the horizon. It was a dark cigar-shaped object with two lights at both ends, larger than a normal aircraft, and it made no sound as it moved west-northwest overhead. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, reported on September 22, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_6211 Source: Johnson ### Event 24446 (0E9A48EF) Date: 9/21/2007 Description: A couple were traveling north on Highway 371 near Bisti badlands in San Juan County, New Mexico at 10:34 p.m. when they saw a bright white cigar-shaped craft near the ground about 100 yards off the east side of the road. They slowed their vehicle down and the craft took off very quickly. It shot up very vertically and left behind no traces. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, reported on September 22, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_6215 Source: Johnson ### Event 24447 (F91EA29D) Date: 9/21/2007 Description: Three reports of triangular craft were made from Ohio between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. At 8:00 p.m. in West Chester, Ohio a triangular craft with an array of bright lights glided silently near the treeline. At 8:25 p.m in Deer Park, Ohio an observer witnessed a triangular object with hundreds of bright yellow lights near Cincinnati. At 9:00 p.m. a "really big" craft was seen in Evendale, Ohio that came close but remained silent the whole time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2001 webpage, reports uploaded October 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_6214 Source: Johnson ### Event 24448 (C77CBBD3) Date: 9/21/2007 Description: At 4:13 p.m. a father and son in Bastrop, Texas were playing catch with a baseball when a silver, cigar-shaped object appeared out of nowhere and hovered 1000 feet in the sky.It had two wings in front and two wings in the back. It backed up, came forward, then went up and down in a controlled pattern, and then quickly disappeared into thin air. The sighting lasted 45 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2001 webpage, reported on November 21, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_6213 Source: Johnson ### Event 24449 (4862FC22) Date: 9/21/2007 Description: An undisclosed witness had an apparent abduction experience with missing time beginning in the predawn morning hours in Lexington, Kentucky. He reported to the National UFO Reporting Center that while out walking the dog at 4:30 a.m. the small dog "who never barks" began to growl and spasm uncontrollably. Then a white light appeared and a sensation of warmth came over him, and the witness was knocked to the ground. When he awoke it was early afternoon, he was in a different location, his clothes were tattered, and he had several sore spots on his body including his anus. At first he thought he must have been the victim of an automobile hit and run, but to his dismay his arms and legs had various burn marks of unknown cause, and he suspects the cause may have been UFO related. The report form lists the shape of the UFO as a disc. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, encounter was reported on September 23, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_6212 Source: Johnson ### Event 24450 (3BAC9357) Date: Fall 2007? Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency, at the initiation of Sen. [Harry Reid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FReid) \(D-Nev.\) and the urging of government contractor and Las Vegas billionaire [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow), quietly establishes the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program \(AAWSAP\)—purposly misidentified as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program \(AATIP\), a Pentagon program to study UFOs—as a DIA project on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring to evaluate the threat potential of UFOs. With the support of Sen. [Ted Stevens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%5FStevens) \(R-Alaska\) and [Daniel Inouye](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%5FInouye) \(D-Hawaii\), Reid secures $22 million in black-project funding in the 2008 Supplemental Funding Act directed to the DIA Directorate of Analysis, specifically the Defense Warning Office. Its goal is “to understand the physics and engineering of these \[advanced aerospace weapon system\] applications as they apply to the foreign threat out to the far-term, i.e., from now through the year 2050.” The Pentagon will spend this money between September 2008 and December 2010. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Advanced Aerospace Threat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%5FAerospace%5FThreat%5FIdentification%5FProgram) [Identification Program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%5FAerospace%5FThreat%5FIdentification%5FProgram)”; Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean, “[Glowing Auras and ‘Black](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html) [Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious UFO Program,](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html)” New York Times, December 16, 2017; Clark III 48; Skinwalkers 41–42 Source ID: Eberhart_7537 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24451 (260A7433) Date: 9/24/2007 Description: A small triangular craft with bright red, blue and yellow lights, 4-5 per side, was observed moving slowing at a few thousand feet altitude over Shanghai, China at 10:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_6307 Source: Johnson ### Event 24452 (147C61BA) Date: 10/10/2007 Description: 10:40 p.m. A man sees a silver-gray disc about 70 feet wide hovering above Lake Easton, Washington, for 3–5 minutes. A beam of bright greenish light is extended from it, illuminating the lake. He sees small objects floating up to it, apparently fish. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_7538 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24453 (A224D6FC) Date: 10/10/2007 Description: At 9:00 p.m an oval-shaped object hovered and shot through the sky with very bright lights over Jensen Beach, Martin County, Florida for two minutes, and then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Oct. 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_6744 Source: Johnson ### Event 24454 (24828157) Date: 10/15/2007 Description: At 7:15 p.m. in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada a big, red irregularly shaped ship with claws was sighted, and the witness's MP3 player stopped working. The witness also heard four loud bangs associated with the object. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 667, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_6885 Source: Johnson ### Event 24455 (0A54FEE9) Date: 10/15/2007 Description: A spherical metallic object was seen in broad daylight above University Hospital for 22 minutes in Aurora, Colorado. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_6884 Source: Johnson ### Event 24456 (62AF5BE5) Date: 10/15/2007 Description: In Worchester, Massachusetts at 3:00 p.m. a very bright silver circular object hung stationary in the sky, about 500 feet up in the air for 15 to 20 seconds, then vanished. It was estimated to be 60 to 70 feet in diameter. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded March 4, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_6883 Source: Johnson ### Event 24457 (44C1C099) Date: 10/17/2007 Description: 7:00 p.m. A man is driving on Interstate 90 near Cle Elem, Washington, when he sees a bluish-gray disc hovering about 600–700 feet in the air. It bobbles slightly for about 5 minutes then disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 \(December 2010\): 24 Source ID: Eberhart_7539 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24458 (F264D9CD) Date: 10/23/2007 Description: A triangular craft hovered right above a house in Williamsville, Niagara County, New York for 20 seconds. The homeowner reported that it looked like it was searching for something. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded March 4, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_7065 Source: Johnson ### Event 24459 (BEB6FA65) Date: 10/27/2007 Description: At around 1:00 a.m. the main witness and his friend were riding around League City, Harris and Galveston Counties, Texas looking for something to do. As they drove about they came upon a newly finished building on a new road, so they decided to check it out. No street lights had been erected yet, and it went through a large field. They were in the middle of the road when a huge, brown and tan object, somewhat oval shaped, came flying through the air straight at them. The driver slammed on the brakes because it didn’t look like the craft was going to stop, but as soon as he did that the object stopped. It just sat there hovering, about 10-15 feet from their car. For a short while both witnesses just sat in the car staring at the object, which took off straight up at an incredible speed. They then drove away, not knowing what to do. A few yards down the road they stopped and turned around--scared but still curious. They then saw the object again, floating just above the road, and it flew straight towards them again and hovered right over them; it stayed there for about 10 seconds and then it flew away. As they watched the object speeding away a weird-looking creature about 5 feet tall, with a round shape to it, jumped out of the bushes and ran onto the road. They had to swerve to avoid hitting it. They don’t know where the creature went, but it walked on two legs. It seemed to have been naked, and was an odd looking brown color. Afterwards, they drove home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2007 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_7209 Source: Johnson ### Event 24460 (BCE7C164) Date: 10/27/2007 Description: At 1:00 p.m. a high altitude, disc-shaped craft moved from North to South over Keller, Tarrant County, Texas and hovered a few times for several seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_7210 Source: Johnson ### Event 24461 (BC1E6316) Date: 10/28/2007 Description: A bright, triangular object was seen in the sky over Rotherham, Kiverton, South Yorkshire, England at 9:45 p.m. It had one flashing strobe light and 12 fixed lights underneath. It was stationary at first, then moved over the witnesses. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defense, case 2007-079 Source ID: Johnson_7262 Source: Johnson ### Event 24462 (C1CFBFD9) Date: 10/28/2007 Description: In Fort Riley, Kansas at 9:30 p.m. four glowing rectangular shaped lights were seen moving in a triangular formation very close to the ground without any sound what-so-ever. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_7263 Source: Johnson ### Event 24463 (E3D16CC5) Date: 10/29/2007 Description: At 8:53 another triangular object with three lights was seen flying over Bedford, Westchester County, New York. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_7296 Source: Johnson ### Event 24464 (9B602F5F) Date: 10/29/2007 Description: At 6:50 a.m. a triangle-shaped object with red and green lights, and a very bright red, slowly pulsating light, was seen over Sterling Heights, Michigan. It made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_7295 Source: Johnson ### Event 24465 (00D3025A) Date: 10/30/2007 Description: Afternoon. Pilot Marin Mitrică is flying a MiG-21 LanceR fighter on a training flight from Romanian Air Force 71st Base at Câmpia Turzii, Romania, when he is suddenly hit by an unknown object. The collision breaks the plastic window covering the cockpit, punches a hole in his helmet, and wounds his face. He reduces speed and descends from his altitude of 4 miles to avoid hypoxia and hypothermia. After landing, an examination of the flight recorder shows two small triangles approaching from the right. No traces of organic matter are found on the plane, ruling out birds, and there are no other civilian or military aircraft or balloons in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Mid Air](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%202008%20V%2053%20N%201.pdf) [Collision between a MiG 21 and a UFO over Romania in October 2007?](http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/FSR%202008%20V%2053%20N%201.pdf)” Flying Saucer Review 53, no. 1 \(Spring 2008\): 1; Romania 114–115 Source ID: Eberhart_7540 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24466 (3A782BC9) Date: 10/31/2007 Description: Four objects in triangular formation, flying south, were observed over Winnipeg, Manitoba. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 705 Source ID: Johnson_7360 Source: Johnson ### Event 24467 (E3D2D419) Date: 11/3/2007 Description: A tube-shaped object was seen hovering in the sky over St. John, New Brunswick, Canada at 12:30 p.m. It was stationary at first, then shot off to a distance. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 716, citing ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_7452 Source: Johnson ### Event 24468 (DBB7C2C2) Date: 11/3/2007 Description: A craft with a tan "X" on the bottom was seen from Portland, Oregon at 7:12 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_7454 Source: Johnson ### Event 24469 (C74E2C51) Date: 11/3/2007 Description: A small white and blue rectangular object was sighted flying in the sky over Grand Rapids, Ohio at 2:30 p.m. It scared a dog and a boy. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_7453 Source: Johnson ### Event 24470 (71719B4F) Date: 11/5/2007 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a hovering saucer-shaped object with a beam of light, along with a possible creature sighting, was reported in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 719, citing ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_7487 Source: Johnson ### Event 24471 (C58C66CB) Date: 11/9/2007 Description: Two rows of 6-8 dull orange disks in a shallow V shape appeared to be fixed to the bottom of a boomerang or chevron-shaped object flying silently over Frisco, Texas as 8:30 p.m. The sighting lasted under 30 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_7590 Source: Johnson ### Event 24472 (A0178865) Date: 11/12/2007 Description: A press conference, moderated by former Arizona Gov. [Fife Symington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife%5FSymington), is held at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. Nineteen former pilots and military and civilian officials speak about their experiences with UFOs and demand that the US government engage in a new investigation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bonnie Malkin, “[Pilots Call for](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1569371/Pilots-call-for-new-UFO-investigation.html) [New UFO Investigation,](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1569371/Pilots-call-for-new-UFO-investigation.html)” The Telegraph \(UK\), November 14, 2007; “[I Touched a UFO: Ex-Air Force Pilot,](https://www.smh.com.au/national/i-touched-a-ufo-ex-air-force-pilot-20071114-gdrl52.html)” Sydney \(N.S.W.\) Morning Herald, November 14, 2007; Marler 23–24 Source ID: Eberhart_7541 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24473 (8A64B44F) Date: 11/13/2007 Description: At 6:50 p.m. and again at 7:10 p.m. there were two reports of a huge low flying triangular craft that was seen in San Diego, California. It was reported to be larger than a stealth bomber. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2007 webpage Source ID: Johnson_7661 Source: Johnson ### Event 24474 (DA84059E) Date: 11/22/2007 Description: A black chevron or boomerang shaped object with circling lights, estimated to be about 100 yards long, flew over Wellington, Florida at 12:45 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_7830 Source: Johnson ### Event 24475 (4C77E517) Date: 11/23/2007 Description: A triangular craft, with two horizontal level beams of lights, like "headlights," was seen from I-380, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, near the Eastern Iowa Airport at 11:03 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2000 archived webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007 Source ID: Johnson_7863 Source: Johnson ### Event 24476 (F522E273) Date: 11/23/2007 Description: Very bright underwater lights were seen in the ocean off East Falmouth, Massachusetts at 11:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2000 archived webpage, report uploaded March 4, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_7862 Source: Johnson ### Event 24477 (89ECB333) Date: 11/29/2007 Description: In Granisle, British Columbia, Canada at 6:00 p.m. a thin "blacklight-colored" cigar-shaped object was seen moving across the sky near an odd, stationary dome-shaped cloud which had been present in the sky for at least an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 742, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_8060 Source: Johnson ### Event 24478 (049731EA) Date: 12/10/2007 Description: An orange, oval-shaped object zig-zagged as it "swam" through the air over Maple Ridge, British Columbia at 3:00 p.m. PST, flashing a light. About an hour later, at 7:00 p.m. EST a cigar-shaped object with a bright light was seen zigzagging above Winder, Georgia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 758, citing UFOBC; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2007 webpage, report uploaded January 21, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_8332 Source: Johnson ### Event 24479 (BF513E21) Date: 12/10/2007 Description: In San Jacinto, Riverside County, California a black, pointed, shadowy object turned out the lights and turned off the electronics in a truck at 8:45 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, December 2007 webpage, report uploaded March 4, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_8333 Source: Johnson ### Event 24480 (CA23EA45) Date: 12/14/2007 Description: 6:45 p.m. Witnesses in Kingsland, Georgia, see a triangular object with a light in each corner that changes from red to blue to white, with a bright burst happening occasionally. The object moves slowly at about 500 feet altitude. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, March 4, 2008; Nukes 507–508 Source ID: Eberhart_7542 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24481 (6A038AFE) Date: 12/23/2007 Description: On this evening a dark silent object hovered for awhile over Bridport, England. It shone a light beam down. It was difficult to focus upon because it looked blurry. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: British Ministry of Defence, case # 95 for 2007 Source ID: Johnson_8581 Source: Johnson ### Event 24482 (94171952) Date: 12/23/2007 Description: At 1:30 p.m. CST a dark disc-shaped object was spotted among the clouds over Chicago, Illinois. It stay still long enough for the witness to make a three minute long video recording of it. At 6:45 p.m. EST a disc-shaped, blue and white light flew low and fast over Bowie, Maryland. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2007 webpage, reports uploaded March 4, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_8582 Source: Johnson ### Event 24483 (2385AE85) Date: 12/29/2007 Description: 9:00 p.m. Two witnesses driving near the Kitsap Mall in Silverdale, Washington, see an object with three white lights apparently hovering above Trigger Avenue near Naval Base Kitsap to the north. As they approach its location, they see that it is large, triangular and made out of reflective metal. It is silently hovering 500 feet in the air over a farm a few yards from the highway. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, January 21, 2008; Nukes 504–505 Source ID: Eberhart_7543 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 2008 (Back to Top) ### Event 24484 (76E639C2) Date: 2008 Description: The Swedish Defence Research Agency begins sharing a database with UFO-Sverige to make all reports coming into the institute available to the organization’s field investigators. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 371 Source ID: Eberhart_7545 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24485 (0884BBBB) Date: 2008 Description: [Luis Elizondo,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FElizondo) an employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, claims that he is the director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program \(AATIP\), a small group of UFO-curious personnel at the Pentagon who are studying UFOs encountered by military personnel. Confusingly, it has the same name as the nickname of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s secret Aerospace Advanced Weapon System Applications Program \(AAWSAP\) used in 2008–2010 as a way to mask its real name. The group has the direct knowledge of their superiors. The core people in this group will form the basis of what will become the UAP Task Force, created by Congress in the summer of 2020, but it now operates without a budget, office, or formal name until Elizondo resigns from his job in 2017. The Department of Defense has claimed that AATIP ended in 2012. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 49; Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean, “[Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html) [Pentagon’s Mysterious UFO Program,](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html)” New York Times, December 16, 2017; Skinwalkers xxiii–xxiv, 157–158 Source ID: Eberhart_7544 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24486 (3C01CE7E) Date: 2008 Description: Claimed Area-51 S-4 worker named “Victor” appears anonymously in bonus footage for the re-release of “Alien Interview”. “Victor” claims that Donald Rumsfeld has been aware of alien interviews since 1974. Type: video interview Reference: [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-viqc7DJWhs&list=FL-kvdFF-6XoQqmANxWYoP2A&index=7) Location: US See also: 2/1997 See also: 5/23/97 Source ID: Maj2_813 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24487 (0F6DD347) Date: 1/8/2008 Description: 6:10 p.m. Truck driver Harlan Cowan is traveling east toward Stephenville, Texas, when he sees two stationary lights directly ahead. They are as bright as welding arcs. They split apart and move rapidly away from each other to the north and south at a high rate of speed. At 6:15 p.m., private pilot Steve Allen and three other witnesses 5 miles southeast of Stephenville see four lights similar in intensity to burning magnesium. They come out of the northeast at a speed faster than a military jet. Allen thinks the lights are spread out over a one-mile area. They slow down and remain stationary northwest of his position, then they shift from 4 lights in a horizontal position to 7 lights in a vertical position, emit a white flame, and blink out. Over 30 more witnesses come forward to report odd lights until about 9:30 p.m. Some also see fighter jets chasing the light. [Angela Joiner](http://mysterious-america.com/angelajoinerinte.html), a reporter with the Stephenville Empire-Tribune, calls Maj. [Karl Lewis](https://www.301fw.afrc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/167232/commander-reflects-on-his-time-as-skipper/), spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, who first tells her he thinks the lights are reflections of the sun on high- altitude aircraft. When she asks about military aircraft reported by witnesses, Lewis volunteers the information that there were no F-16s from his unit operating that night, and no other pilots had reported a UFO. On January 16, a FOIA request is sent to the Federal Aviation Administration for any radar data from sites around Stephenville. On January 23, the Air Force admits in a press release that there indeed were 10 F-16s performing training operations that night between 6:00 and 8:00. Joiner contacts Lewis again, who now merely reads the press statement and is not helpful. In February, responses to FOIAs by [Robert Powell](https://ufocongress.com/robert-powell-2/) and Glen Schulze begin to arrive. Military bases unanimously respond with “we have found no records responsive to your request.” However, the FAA releases its raw radar information in mid-February. It is clear that the unknown lights are not related to F-16 activity, but there is intense Air Force activity that night. Ten F-16s and one AWACS jet make figure-8s over the area. Two F-16s from Oklahoma fly south to the Stephenville area. FAA radar returns also show a target four miles north of Allen’s sighting that moves at an apparent speed of 2,100 mph. At 7:20 p.m., two radar sites pick up a target that corresponds to Constable [Lee Roy Gaitan](https://ufo-sightings-daily.tumblr.com/PoliceUFOs)’s observation of an unknown light. Another radar track begins at 6:51 p.m. An unknown object without a transponder signal is tracked with FAA radar for more than one hour. Two different radars \(one at Fort Worth and another at Temple\) make contact with the object 187 times as it covers a distance of 50 miles on a constant trajectory to the southeast. Its speed varies from stationary, to accelerating to 532 mph in 30 seconds, to deaccelerating to 49 mph in 10 seconds. It is traveling on a direct course to President [George W. Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FW.%5FBush)’s Western White House in Crawford, Texas. At 8:00 p.m. it is 10 miles from Prairie Chapel Ranch. Two witnesses riding bicycles 2 miles away from the ranch see a light that slowly descends, makes a 90° turn, then speeds out of sight in 1–2 seconds. But no F-16s pursue this potential interloper. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Large Object Seen / Tracked by Radar / Near Bush Ranch](http://www.nicap.org/080108stephenville%5Fdir.htm)”; “[Stephenville 2008,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=174)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library; Angela K. Brown, “[Military Reverses Itself, Says F-16s Were in](https://www.reformer.com/local-news/military-reverses-itself-says-f-16s-were-in-texas-area-where-residents-reported-seeing-ufo/article%5F90ad64fb-42b8-50fd-8a98-3470c60162d6.html) [Texas Area Where Residents Reported UFO,](https://www.reformer.com/local-news/military-reverses-itself-says-f-16s-were-in-texas-area-where-residents-reported-seeing-ufo/article%5F90ad64fb-42b8-50fd-8a98-3470c60162d6.html)” Brattleboro \(Vt.\) Reformer, January 23, 2008; “[MUFON Releases](https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MUFON%5Freleases%5Freport%5Fon%5FUFO%5Fsighting%5Fin%5FStephenville%2C%5FTexas) [Report on UFO Sighting in Stephenville, Texas,](https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MUFON%5Freleases%5Freport%5Fon%5FUFO%5Fsighting%5Fin%5FStephenville%2C%5FTexas)” Wikinews, July 18, 2008; Glen Schulze and Robert Powell, “[Stephenville Lights: A Comprehensive Radar and Witness Report Study Regarding the Events of January 8,](https://www.explorescu.org/post/stephenville-lights-a-comprehensive-radar-and-witness-report-study) [2008, 4pm to 8pm,](https://www.explorescu.org/post/stephenville-lights-a-comprehensive-radar-and-witness-report-study)” December 18, 2010; Swords 344–348 Source ID: Eberhart_7546 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24488 (E0102AB5) Date: 1/8/2008 Description: Large Object Seen / Tracked By Radar / Near Bush Ranch (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5) Reference: NICAP: [080108](http://www.nicap.org/080108stephenville%5Fdir.htm) Reference: [NICAP Listing by Date PDF](http://www.nicap.org/NSID/NSID_DBListingbyDate.pdf) Location: Stephenville, TX Source ID: NICAP_DB_5909 Source: NICAP_DB ### Event 24489 (F3548BFB) Date: 1/23/2008 Description: At 3:30 p.m. a photograph of a “phantom UFO” was taken by a woman showing the object flying over a lake, Lago Menendez in the Los Alerces National Park, Chubut province, Argentina next to the Torrecillas Glacier. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Luis Burgos, www.ufoinfo.com, citing Inexplicata Source ID: Johnson_472 Source: Johnson ### Event 24490 (056D6CD5) Date: 1/26/2008 Description: At 4:10 p.m. six witnesses watched a silvery pill-shaped object that flipped over as it flew across the sky in Popkum, British Columbia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Dittman Geoff, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 44, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_543 Source: Johnson ### Event 24491 (3062FA6B) Date: 1/30/2008 Description: Just after midnight a crescent-shaped object with red, green, and white lights was sighted in the sky to the east of Denver, Colorado. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2008 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_630 Source: Johnson ### Event 24492 (C36E9E79) Date: 2/7/2008 Description: At 12:10 a.m. a white orb made sharp turns in the sky at high speed over the local paper mill in Iroquois Falls, Ontario, Canada and then flew away. The sighting lasted 15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 64, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_750 Source: Johnson ### Event 24493 (8FC07332) Date: 2/11/2008 Description: In Yorkville, Illinois a bright round-shaped object was seen for over two hours beginning at 4:00 a.m., that shot straight up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2008 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_855 Source: Johnson ### Event 24494 (4EEC0C4E) Date: 2/11/2008 Description: Four red lights in a rectangle were seen flying slowly west to east over Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2008 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_854 Source: Johnson ### Event 24495 (73353FDA) Date: 2/12/2008 Description: On a nightly walk in Cloverdale, California a witness spotted a disc-shaped object in the sky at 6:45 p.m. It appeared to be the size of a football field, and it was moving slowly and silently across the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2008 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_889 Source: Johnson ### Event 24496 (5340679C) Date: 2/17/2008 Description: At 11:50 a.m. a photograph of two “phantom UFOs” was taken in the vicinity of the Uruguay River from Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios Province, Argentina. The photo shows clear, sharp images. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Luis Burgos, www.ufoinfo.com, citing Inexplicata Source ID: Johnson_975 Source: Johnson ### Event 24497 (CC7734E1) Date: 2/19/2008 Description: Two strange lights hovered above the surface of a lake in Niantic, Connecticut at eleven o'clock in the morning, broke the surface, and disappeared beneath the surface. At 6:40 p.m. two disc-shaped objects were sighted moving from south to north along the Interstate 5 corridor in Cowlitz County near Kalama, Washington. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2008 webpage, report uploaded March 4, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_1019 Source: Johnson ### Event 24498 (8A002357) Date: 2/21/2008 Description: The US Navy destroys the malfunctioning US spy satellite USA-193 orbiting at 153 miles altitude using a RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 launched from the [USS Lake Erie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FLake%5FErie%5F%28CG-70%29). The US claims it created no space debris because the satellite was so close to earth that the particles burned up in reentry. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Operation Burnt Frost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%5FBurnt%5FFrost)” Source ID: Eberhart_7547 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24499 (19045245) Date: 2/26/2008 Description: At 1:00 a.m. an upside down, white colored V-shaped craft flew over Long Beach, California. A large cigar-shaped object that spawned 8 to 10 or more bright saucer-shaped bright luminous objects, flew over San Fernando, California at 3:30 p.m. At 9:00 p.m. witnesses in Green Valley, Pima County, Arizona saw a triangular craft over the hills to the east, far off in the distance. The craft appeared to remain very stationary, but at times would move. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2008 website, report uploaded Mar. 4, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_1147 Source: Johnson ### Event 24500 (9AFEA457) Date: 3/5/2008 Description: The 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron becomes operational at Creech AFB, Nevada, as “the Air Force’s \[first\] test squadron for unmanned aerial systems.” The base is home to drone operators for both the US Air Force and the CIA in missions across Afghanistan and the Middle East. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Creech Air Force Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creech%5FAir%5FForce%5FBase)” Source ID: Eberhart_7548 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24501 (AF075C4E) Date: 3/6/2008 Description: A dark cigar-shaped object flew over Gig Harbor, Washington at 9:45 p.m. It could only be seen when a spotlight passed over it, reflecting on the clouds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2008 webpage Source ID: Johnson_1359 Source: Johnson ### Event 24502 (7408F17F) Date: 4/2008 Description: After publication of the 99th issue of Magonia, John Rimmer decides to cease print publication. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[History of](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/p/future-publications.html) [Magonia,](http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com/p/future-publications.html)” Magonia Archive; Clark III 706 Source ID: Eberhart_7549 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24503 (F0F6DF8D) Date: 4/12/2008 Description: In Sonora, California a man saw what he descibed as a "Grey translucent being" studying the flowers in his garden. He had arrived back home from work after parking the car in the garage and had walked to his front door, when he was amazed to see what looked like "a typical grey alien being in my garden." It was translucent and not completely solid, and about five feet tall. It seemed incredibly thin and had a very pointed chin. It appeared to be studying the plants, and from this point on he has no certain recollection of the events that followed. It didn't appear to be interested in him. He had two memories of walking into his house. One is where he walked in and went straight to bed; the other is where he alerted the dogs and made them check outside, which they didn't want to do. His wife had been working until 7 a.m. and was in bed asleep when he arrived. The next day he had no recollection of any of this. It wasn't until some 20 hours later that he remembered what he had seen. He told his wife as soon as he saw her, and she thought he was insane...fornot mentioning it sooner! The other strange thing was that he didn't feel afraid at all to go out in the dark garage or garden. He did not see any UFO or craft on this night, but had seen many previously. The following evening he did see a large white light sweep across the sky while walking the dogs. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 2008 webpage, report dated April 23, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_1998 Source: Johnson ### Event 24504 (A47C21A0) Date: 4/12/2008 Description: Several members from the UFO group “Ovni Merida” were conducting a “night vigil” in an isolated field at about 350 meters from the road in Baca, Merida, Mexico. It was a cloudy night with little moon. At around midnight one of the men saw what appeared to be a pair of red eyes at about 100 meters away in a field. The eyes were shiny and the men immediately thought it was a dog, but it did not bark, move, or approach them, and it suddenly disappeared. Two of the men walked over to the site, but failed to locate any tracks or ground traces. As they looked around, the same pair of red shiny eyes appeared again, about 100 meters away in another field. The eyes vanished and then would appear again another 100 meters away in another field; this went on for several minutes. The men again failed to find any footprints or traces. Soon, they rejoined the others, and heard a loud galloping sound like that of a horse; immediately after that they heard the sound of huge wings flapping overhead, and this caused one of the men to scream in fright. One of them managed to see a large pair of dark wings disappear into some nearby brushes. Two of the men went to investigate, one armed with a powerful flashlight and the other with a canister of tear gas. They approached the bushes but they failed to find anything. Later, when the group was again together, one of them who had gone to investigate reported that he had seen a shadowy, two-foot tall figure walking in the brush. The figure, whatever it was, seemed to be walking hunched over. Terrified, he asked the other man to return to camp. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2008 Humanoid Contact Sighting Reports, citing Emilio Cetz, Grupo Ovni Merida, Mexico Source ID: Johnson_1999 Source: Johnson ### Event 24505 (0ACECA5E) Date: 4/16/2008 Description: A close encounter with a large Moon-sized, spherical object near the witness' car was reported in Ontario, Canada (city not given); it scared the witness, then vanished. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 212 Source ID: Johnson_2071 Source: Johnson ### Event 24506 (3138C553) Date: 4/22/2008 Description: The last F-117 stealth fighter-bomber is retired and returned to Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. Although officially retired, the F-117 fleet remains intact and photos show the aircraft carefully mothballed. Some of the aircraft are flown periodically and have been spotted flying as recently as July 2019. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed F-](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FF-117%5FNighthawk) [117 Nighthawk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FF-117%5FNighthawk)” Source ID: Eberhart_7550 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24507 (2A9111DF) Date: 4/27/2008 Description: At about 2:00 a.m. a quite large, red rectangular object was sighted in the northeastern sky in London, Ontario, Canada. It moved away at a very rapid speed. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2008 archived webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_2387 Source: Johnson ### Event 24508 (7E624268) Date: 5/2008 Description: Scripps-Howard News Service and Ohio University conduct a telephone poll on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. 55.8% of respondents believe that the existence of intelligent life in space is either likely or somewhat likely, while 33.1% believe it is likely or somewhat likely that intelligent life has visited earth. Only 7.6% answer that they have had a UFO sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Influences on Opinion about ETI and UFOs,” IUR 32, no. 2 \(December 2008\): 19–24 Source ID: Eberhart_7551 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24509 (8AD2F10C) Date: 5/5/2008 Description: At the request of the Brazilian Commission of Ufologists, the office of the Deputy Chief of Legal Affairs contacts the Ministry of Defense and requests access to documents related to UFO material that is no longer classified and can be turned over to the National Archives. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1072 Source ID: Eberhart_7552 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24510 (76792273) Date: 5/6/2008 Description: Political scientists [Alexander Wendt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%5FWendt) and [Raymond Duvall](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VewiV7EAAAAJ&hl=en) publish an article, “Sovereignty and the UFO” in Political Theory, in which they point to the fundamental weakness of anti-UFO arguments, which claim falsely that no evidence exists. When skeptics are not arguing along those lines, they use a priori logic, which insists that if extraterrestrials exist, they would not behave or look as UFO witnesses describe. Another assertion is that spacecraft could never get to Earth, given the constraints of distance and speed. The authors argue that the problem is that the idea of real UFOs challenges anthropocentric norms, making it a taboo even to acknowledge a phenomenon that has been declared non-existent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall, “[Sovereignty and the](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0090591708317902) [UFO,](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0090591708317902)” Political Theory 36, no. 4 \(August 2008\): 607–633; Clark III 537–538; Kean, [pp. 269–281](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/276/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7553 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24511 (5DB21EFC) Date: 5/9/2008 Description: At 9:35 p.m. a square craft passed right over a couple's car at about tree top height from them. They were driving on Interstate 75 about half an hour away from Naples, Florida in a stretch of road with no exits nor lights on a clear night. The craft appeared in front of them and came right over the car at tree top level. The object was square in shape and had four lights, one on each corner of the craft. It made no sound as it moved past them. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2008 webpage, report made May 13, 2008 and uploaded on June 12, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_2708 Source: Johnson ### Event 24512 (0EC24065) Date: 5/9/2008 Description: At 10:05 MDT in Gun Barrel, Boulder County, Colorado a dark, disc-shaped object with no markings flew over. At 10:30 p.m. PDT a triangular object with red lights on the corners moved slowly from northwest to southeast over the Walmart parking lot in canyon country, Santa Clarita, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2008 webpage, reports uploaded June 12, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_2709 Source: Johnson ### Event 24513 (39FA4352) Date: 5/12/2008 Description: The first tranche of UFO files is released by the UK National Archives, whose UFO webpage, set up to provide direct public access, receives more than 1.7 million visitors in the first few days. Internet searches on UFOs triple overnight across the globe. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UK Releases Classified UFO Files,](https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13894-uk-releases-classified-ufo-files/)” New Scientist, May 13, 2008; UFOFiles2, [p. x](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n7/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7554 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24514 (AA8F440B) Date: 5/15/2008 Description: At 11:43 in Coquitlam, British Columbia a witness sighted two orange, circular objects that were flying side-by-side very fast. They did a circle around each other and then vanished. They were making a humming sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 258; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2008 webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_2880 Source: Johnson ### Event 24515 (3381CFFF) Date: 5/17/2008 Description: At 12:30 a.m. a V-shaped object flew low over the city of Chilliwack, Fraser Valley, British Columbia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case 259, citing UFOBC Source ID: Johnson_2947 Source: Johnson ### Event 24516 (B0A3AEE9) Date: 5/17/2008 Description: At noon a metallic cigar-shaped object was sighted over Carrollton, Texas traveling north at an incredible rate of speed for 20 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2008 archived webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_2948 Source: Johnson ### Event 24517 (7EE9DFB8) Date: 5/19/2008 Description: A disc-shaped UFO was spotted over the Surry, Virginia nuclear power station at 12:20 p.m. The object was hovering or drifting slowly, and made a very leisurely circuit of the power plant. It moved against the wind, and very slowly rocked up and down. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Source ID: Johnson_3001 Source: Johnson ### Event 24518 (25CCE037) Date: 5/26/2008 Description: New York Times staff reporter Sarah Lyall, based in the UK, selectively focuses on some of the silliest UFO documents released by the Ministry of Defence \(letters written to the agency by citizens\) and provides readers with standard ridicule and the biased approach traditionally associated with New York Times coverage. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sarah Lyall, “[British UFO Shocker! Government Officials Were Telling the Truth,](https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/world/europe/26london.html)” New York Times, May 26, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_7555 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24519 (FF888268) Date: 6/1/2008 Description: Two white glowing metallic, teardrop-shaped objects flew over Thunder Bay, Ontario at 11:15 p.m. heading east. The second one followed the same parallel path about 40 meters difference, approached and passed over the two witnesses. Duration was two minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 2008-317, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_3214 Source: Johnson ### Event 24520 (865A088E) Date: 6/7/2008 Description: On this night in Antioch Community, South Carolina a married couple with many years of aviation experience were returning from some friends' house where they had been watching movies. They were discussing one of the movies when the wife said, "Look at that, what in the world is that?" They saw a black triangular craft in the air with lights and several windows. There was a purple beacon in the center of the bottom, but no position lights or anti-collision lights anywhere on the object. They thought for a moment that it might be a B-2 bomber, but it made no noise at all and after "zooming" up to them it stopped right over their vehicle. About this time they turned onto their private road and made it up to their house. This was around 11:20 p.m. The next thing that either of them remembers was being in the car at 2:24 a.m. in the morning. The car was running but the wife was in the driver’s seat and the husband in the passenger's. Since he is 6’5” and she is 5’7” this meant that his knees were forced into the dashboard.Neither remembers anything whatsoever after parking the car. They do not remember what happened during the lost time, why they were in different positions in the car, or why they were still sitting outside their house with all of the car windows still down and the moon roof open. The husband woke up with a headache the next morning, and his wife felt ill enough to stay in bed for most of the next day. There were other good reports of flying triangles that same night in Brooklyn, Michigan and Mountain View, California. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, webpage report posted July 5, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_3365 Source: Johnson ### Event 24521 (25339D1D) Date: 6/26/2008 Description: 9:20 a.m. At the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration in Boulder, Colorado, [Jerome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark) [Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%5FClark) gives a lecture on the distinction between “event anomalies” \(which cannot be easily explained\) and “experience anomalies” \(which are effectively inexplicable\). Event anomalies require a scientific investigation to be understood, documented, and incorporated into current or future knowledge. Experience anomalies are indifferent to truth narratives, supporting false ones just as readily; they embrace the notion of liminality, in which it is possible to enter a “realm between the daylight of science and reason and the dark night of dreams and superstition.” Clark expands on the concept in later books and articles. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 444-446; Jerome Clark, “Experience Anomalies,” Fortean Times 243 \(December 2008\): 42–47 Source ID: Eberhart_7556 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24522 (FC71E872) Date: 6/30/2008 Description: A close encounter occurred between Cardiff and Atlantic City, New Jersey on the Atlantic City Expressway at 10:25 p.m. A 25-foot wide triangular craft was seen hovering or moving very slowly, just 40 feet directly above the expressway, very close to and in front of the witnesses. Its speed appeared to be quite slow, moving at an estimated ten miles per hour, and it passed directly over their vehicle as they drove under it. They saw it again, twice in the next five minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, archived June 2008 webpage, report posted July 5, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_3759 Source: Johnson ### Event 24523 (ACA1ED7A) Date: 7/14/2008 Description: A double set of pinpoint reddish orange steady lights was viewed at 200 feet distance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 10:00 p.m. for a minute and a half. It was definitely a craft, according to the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 12, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_4063 Source: Johnson ### Event 24524 (02FEF711) Date: 7/18/2008 Description: Exactly one year after a similar sighting in Columbia, Missouri and at the same hour, a black triangular object hung motionless in the sky in St. Charles, Missouri over the southside of Missouri Highway 370, just off of Discovery Bridge. It had three white and one red non-blinking lights. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2008 archived webpage, report uploaded August 12, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_4186 Source: Johnson ### Event 24525 (831AEFAF) Date: 7/29/2008 Description: Former UK Ministry of Defence official [Nick Pope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FPope%5F%28journalist%29) offers a rational response to the biased reportage in the May 26 issue of the New York Times, citing the O’Hare Airport and Alderney UFO cases. He concludes: “The United States Air Force or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration should reopen investigations of UFO phenomena. It would not imply that the country has suddenly started believing in little green men. It would simply recognize the possibility that radar alone cannot always tell us what’s out there.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Pope, “[Unidentified Flying Threats,](https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/opinion/29pope.html)” New York Times, July 29, 2008 Source ID: Eberhart_7557 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24526 (5528D91B) Date: 7/30/2008 Description: A bright white light turned to red as it sped up, slowed down, and zigzagged across the sky in New London, Minnesota at 11:43 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2008 webpage, report uploaded August 12, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_4516 Source: Johnson ### Event 24527 (795DF1F0) Date: 8/3/2008 Description: On this morning two witnesses were backpacking around near Glenorchy on South Island, New Zealand when they encountered a landed UFO. The weather had cleared that day and they had decided to go for a tramp on the Mount Aspiring track, but before they reached it they spotted what looked like a landed disc-shaped UFO in a paddock. The craft was round and about five meters tall, with legs for landing gear and pulsing yellow white lights around its perimeter. The witnesses attempted to approach to take photos but several “men” in white suits confronted them, taking their cameras. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2008, citing http://www.psychics.co.uk/psychic-forum Source ID: Johnson_4639 Source: Johnson ### Event 24528 (B0C26B81) Date: 8/6/2008 Description: In Val-des-Monts, Outaouais County, Quebec, Canada at 10:15 p.m. an object was sighted that first traveled in a straight line with no flashing lights, and then became very bright, next "jumped" up and came down, repeating this up and down motion for 45 seconds, and finally just faded away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 12, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_4754 Source: Johnson ### Event 24529 (1E529B58) Date: 8/15/2008 Description: At around one p.m. there was a daylight sighting of a metallic disc-shaped object in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The UFO moved away in a different direction from whence it had come, and was very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2008 archived webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_5067 Source: Johnson ### Event 24530 (FBF7006D) Date: 8/15/2008 Description: The sky appeared to "open up" as a gray, cigar-shaped "ship" moved over the witness in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada for this close encounter at 9:35 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 600 Source ID: Johnson_5068 Source: Johnson ### Event 24531 (E6E82B78) Date: 8/18/2008 Description: A wingless silver cigar-shaped object stopped in the air over the ocean off of Cape Breton near Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada at 7:50 p.m.; it then disappeared. There were three witnesses and the sighting lasted for four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2008, case # 611 Source ID: Johnson_5148 Source: Johnson ### Event 24532 (DCEDB064) Date: 8/18/2008 Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency issues a small-business set-aside solicitation \(HHM402-08-R-0211\) for a company to handle its new Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program \(AAWSAP\), with a due date of September 10. The solicitation states that the primary focus is on “breakthrough technologies and applications that create discontinuities in currently evolving technology trends.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 20–21, 42–43 Source ID: Eberhart_7558 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24533 (9ADC57E3) Date: 8/20/2008 Description: 4:45 p.m. A military witness one mile outside Hrubieszów, Poland, watches a silvery isosceles triangle hovering and rotating around its axis in the west. He estimates it is 50 feet long on one side and less than 2 miles away. It flies over the area at an altitude of 330 feet. At one point it dims and literally vanishes in mid-air in a matter of seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 94–95 Source ID: Eberhart_7559 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24534 (821098F4) Date: 8/28/2008 Description: In Allentown, Pennsylvania a slow moving, sometimes hovering disc-shaped object with a 4-pronged star-like shape on the bottom, was seen flying only 60 feet above tree top level at 9:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_5451 Source: Johnson ### Event 24535 (E87C53E7) Date: 8/30/2008 Description: At 10 p.m. a dark triangle object flew silently overhead in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. It went towards the east, and made no sound. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 644, citing Para Research Source ID: Johnson_5512 Source: Johnson ### Event 24536 (33A48E3B) Date: 9/3/2008 Description: At 8:02 p.m. a saucer-shaped object split into three orbs which flew around, then rejoined over Nanaimo, British Columbia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 663 Source ID: Johnson_5623 Source: Johnson ### Event 24537 (0EC571D8) Date: 9/4/2008 Description: At around 2:00 a.m. several witnesses reported seeing a UFO resembling a bright greenish sphere encircled with red lights moving very fast over Taverny, Bessancourt, Ile-de-France, France. The object apparently landed, not far from the military base at Taverny, and several independent witnesses from separate locations saw two humanoids exit the object. The beings were described as "translucent" and greenish in color with large black eyes. No legs were visible, and they seemed to move around strangely and very quickly. Two of the witnesses were just 50-100 meters from the craft and beings, but were too surprised and frightened to take any photos on their cellphones. The humanoids appeared to notice the witnesses, and re-entered the craft, which soon took off and disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2008 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing http://nousnesommespasseuls.xooit.com Source ID: Johnson_5647 Source: Johnson ### Event 24538 (83A83F97) Date: 9/6/2008 Description: At 7:30 p.m. three grayish, bullet-shaped objects flew near witnesses in London, Ontario. At 10:00 p.m. a bell-shaped object, stationary at first, was sighted in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It then headed off the the south very fast. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 666 and 671, citing MUFON and Alberta UFO Study Group Source ID: Johnson_5704 Source: Johnson ### Event 24539 (473D8EDA) Date: 9/7/2008 Description: At 11:00 p.m. CDT a witness sighted a black triangle with three white lights and one red light over Council Bluffs, Iowa. It hovered, moved slowly, then made a turn, and made only a little sound. Another large triangle-shaped UFO was observed over Tacoma, Washington by three witnesses at 10:15 p.m. PDT. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2008 webpage, reports uploaded October 31, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_5753 Source: Johnson ### Event 24540 (71C3548A) Date: 9/16/2008 Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness and his fiancée are driving north near Radomsko, Poland, when they see a black triangle with lights \(apparently gas jets\) at its corners slowly floating 500 feet above the road. Two of the lights are blinking and one is steady. The 30-foot-wide object has cubical protrusions on its side and a smooth bottom. It seems to be rotating at first and takes another pass over the highway at a higher altitude after doubling back. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 93–94 Source ID: Eberhart_7560 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24541 (78069B93) Date: 9/19/2008 Description: A motorist in Lebanon, St. Clair County, Illinois reported that a triangle-shaped craft flew directly over his vehicle. The object was flying very low and very slow, and was in view for an estimated 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_6114 Source: Johnson ### Event 24542 (C4DB4099) Date: 9/22/2008 Description: A $10 million initial contract for the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program \(AAWSAP\) is awarded to Bigelow Aerospace, the only bidder on the August solicitation, by the Defense Intelligence Agency. The program contract directs that the “contractor shall complete advanced aerospace weapon system technical studies” on 12 topics, such as propulsion, power generation, materials, configuration, structure, and directed-energy weapons. The intent is to research technology that could shed light on the UFO/UAP phenomenon. [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow) sets up the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies \(BAASS\) project with 40–50 full-time support staff to carry out the contract through September 30, 2010. DIA intelligence officer James T. Lacatski becomes the program manager, and biochemist [Colm Kelleher](https://www.linkedin.com/in/colm-kelleher-834a05112) is deputy administrator. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 48; Keith Basterfield, “[Dr. Colm Kelleher and the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2018/05/dr-colm-kelleher-and-advanced-aerospace.html) [Applications Program,](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2018/05/dr-colm-kelleher-and-advanced-aerospace.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, May 14, 2018; Keith Basterfield, “[Did the AAWSA Program/AATIP Really Start in 2007?](https://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2018/05/did-aawsa-programaatip-really-start-in.html)” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, May 16, 2018; Skinwalkers 20, 22–25, 42–44 Source ID: Eberhart_7561 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24543 (3232D416) Date: 9/25/2008 Description: At 2:45 p.m. a metallic, disc-shaped object hovered in the sky over Roscoe, Illinois for 30 seconds, and then shot off. It left behind a slight trail, but it also was gone in seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_6339 Source: Johnson ### Event 24544 (202E1046) Date: 9/30/2008 Description: A yellow triangular object flew over Edmonton, Alberta, Canada at 12:35 a.m. It reportedly moved like a "puck on ice". Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 756, citing HBCCUFO Source ID: Johnson_6458 Source: Johnson ### Event 24545 (7503601B) Date: 10/24/2008 Description: A black triangular object was seen travelling north along the Interstate-5 freeway between Eugene and Cottage Grove, Oregon at 9:30 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_7107 Source: Johnson ### Event 24546 (21FDC2DC) Date: 10/26/2008 Description: A lenticular disc-shaped object was spotted at 8:10 p.m. in Almagro Pale, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_7176 Source: Johnson ### Event 24547 (F1BE3953) Date: 10/26/2008 Description: At 7:50 p.m. a very bright, diamond shaped light hovered 100 feet in front of the witness near Spring Valley, Greene County, Ohio. The close encounter lasted four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_7175 Source: Johnson ### Event 24548 (ECD70ABF) Date: 10/27/2008 Description: At six p.m. a witness reported that three large round objects lined up along Highway 35 in Liverpool, Brazoria County, Texas; an identical looking object followed the witness as he drove home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008 Source ID: Johnson_7211 Source: Johnson ### Event 24549 (7B00486C) Date: 10/31/2008 Description: The National Archive in Brasília, Brazil, receives from the Center for Aeronautical Documentation and History a set of publications dated 1952–1969 on UFOs. Among them are documents identifying the government’s System of Investigation of Unidentified Aircraft and UFO cases investigated from October 1968 to August 1969. Another batch is received on April 23, 2009, covering the years 1970–1972. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 1072–1073; Kean, [p. 199](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/206/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7562 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24550 (77282739) Date: 10/31/2008 Description: 6:00 p.m. An architect in Sandomierz, Poland, sees a boomerang- or half-moon-shaped object surrounded by a mist filled with red points of light. It is silently moving 93\) northeast at tremendous speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 92–93 Source ID: Eberhart_7563 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24551 (8E5B34E3) Date: 10/31/2008 Description: A V-shaped formation made up of approximately 8-10 lights flew over St. Marys, West Virginia at midnight. At 2:00 a.m. a bright, flashing disc-shaped object see overhead in Jeffersonville, Indiana; this sighting lasted for about an hour. A triangular object, flat, with an orb-shaped compartment in the back of the craft, was then seen over Flemingsburg, Kentucky at 2:30 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2008 webpage, reports uploaded October 31, 2008 and January 10, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_7361 Source: Johnson ### Event 24552 (A06FEA3D) Date: 11/2008 Description: [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow) hires biochemist [Colm Kelleher](https://www.linkedin.com/in/colm-kelleher-834a05112) as deputy administrator of the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies project in Las Vegas, its first full-time employee. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 44 Source ID: Eberhart_7564 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24553 (2A97DD2F) Date: 11/2008 Description: 9:00 p.m. A Polish woman living in Aarhus, Denmark, looks up and sees a gigantic luminous object silently heading west. It looks like it s made of glass or jelly and is surrounded by a misty illumination. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 93 Source ID: Eberhart_7565 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24554 (D11811F0) Date: 11/1/2008 Description: At 7:15 a U-shaped or V-shaped gray object was sighted over Indianapolis, Indiana. There was also a smaller spherical object near the larger craft; and there were no lights or sounds on either. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2008 webpage, report uploaded January 10, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_7408 Source: Johnson ### Event 24555 (92BD8652) Date: 11/5/2008 Description: Researcher [Robert Powell](https://ufocongress.com/robert-powell-2/) writes to NORAD’s Gen. [Victor E. Renuart Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%5FE.%5FRenuart%5FJr) and Secretary of Homeland Security [Michael Chertoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FChertoff)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FChertoff) with copies to the FAA and chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on Homeland Security, asking for an investigation of the Stephenville Lights case of January 8 as a violation of restricted airspace by “unknown aircraft” near the [Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FW.%5FBush) ranch. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Glen Schulze and Robert Powell, “[Stephenville](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d1yowzmrI0XUcnaz9BkijEtRoth2RJ7D/view) [Lights: A Comprehensive Radar and Witness Report Study Regarding the Events of January 8, 2008, 4pm to](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d1yowzmrI0XUcnaz9BkijEtRoth2RJ7D/view) [8pm,](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d1yowzmrI0XUcnaz9BkijEtRoth2RJ7D/view)” December 18, 2010; Swords 348, 510–511 Source ID: Eberhart_7566 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24556 (6CA8BCB7) Date: 11/17/2008 Description: A teacher is taking his dog for a stroll in Sulejówek, Poland, when he comes across a triangular object with lights along its rounded edges and in the center. It flies directly over him. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 93 Source ID: Eberhart_7567 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24557 (9151BB1E) Date: 11/21/2008 Description: A formation of separate lights was encountered on a back road country road in Newark, Ohio at 10:38 p.m. They were extremely luminous, "beyond anything manmade," and caused electronic and mechanical vehicle engine failure, according to the witness… Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2008 webpage, report uploaded March 19, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_7790 Source: Johnson ### Event 24558 (CF5D6D32) Date: 11/22/2008 Description: At 12:48 a.m. a gigantic flying boomerang or V-shaped object with a dozen faint white lights on the front edge was seen flying north to south over Waverly, Ohio at a tremendous speed, making no noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2008 webpage, report uploaded January 10, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_7831 Source: Johnson ### Event 24559 (28C0553C) Date: 11/28/2008 Description: A glowing, silvery-colored cylinder was seen in the sky during the daylight hours in Skokie, Illinois at 3:40 p.m. The sighting lasted eight minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2008 webpage, report uploaded January 10, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_8021 Source: Johnson ### Event 24560 (A1B5B3A0) Date: 11/29/2008 Description: At 10:20 p.m. a huge boomerang or V-shaped object was observed flying very fast among the clouds in Waverly, Ohio. It made no sound, and had white lights along its front edge. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2008 webpage, report uploaded January 10, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_8061 Source: Johnson ### Event 24561 (EF57D80B) Date: 11/30/2008 Description: At 3:30 a.m. a rectangular flying object with strobing multi-colored lights moved over three witnesses in a car in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and then hovered for awhile. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 936 Source ID: Johnson_8099 Source: Johnson ### Event 24562 (17F2B1F4) Date: 12/2/2008 Description: In Oakland, Pennsylvania a flying disc-shaped object hovered at 12:40 p.m., then began to glide across the sky without making any noise. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2008 webpage, report uploaded January 10, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_8154 Source: Johnson ### Event 24563 (04DAF8A9) Date: 12/22/2008 Description: Maj. Gen. [John H. Bordelon](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108159/major-general-john-h-bordelon/)[,](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108159/major-general-john-h-bordelon/) NORAD chief of staff, responds to [Powell](https://ufocongress.com/robert-powell-2/)’s request. He claims an “exhaustive search” in data files was conducted, and the Air Force “could find no tactical or technical information that would corroborate this event.” He refers Powell to the National UFO Reporting Center hotline. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 348, 512 Source ID: Eberhart_7568 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 2009 (Back to Top) ### Event 24564 (610F03F6) Date: 2009 Description: The operations and maintenance contract for the day-to-day management and operation of the US Air Force Space Surveillance System is awarded to Five Rivers Services, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Force Space Surveillance System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FSpace%5FSurveillance%5FSystem)” Source ID: Eberhart_7572 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24565 (2BC9A5CD) Date: 2009 Description: Denmark and Sweden publicly release more than 15,000 UFO files each. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kean, [p. 117](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/116/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7570 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24566 (4C5B2985) Date: 2009 Description: CUFOS creates an updated version of its UFOCAT database containing more than 209,551 UFO reports and related information. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Center for UFO Studies, “[UFOCAT 2009](http://www.cufos.org/UFOCAT.html)” Source ID: Eberhart_7569 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24567 (5E2BB584) Date: 2009 Description: Visión Ovni and many other [UFO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO) researchers in Argentina form Cefora, an organization to study the UFO phenomenon in detail. Silvia Simondini and others start collecting signatures on a petition to declassify Argentine military documents on UFOs. However, since most agencies are not required to keep documents more than 5 years, their efforts are frustrated by bureaucratic deaccession rules, especially for interesting Argentine reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Cefora](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cefora)”; Milton Hourcade, “[Argentina: UFO Declassification,](https://www.uapsg.com/2020/07/argentina-ufo-declassification.html)” U.A.P.S.G.–G.E.F.A.I., July 29, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7571 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24568 (8E6C91CD) Date: 1/1/2009 Description: Yvan White takes over as director of GEIPAN from Jacques Patenet, who continues as an advisor. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 453 Source ID: Eberhart_7573 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24569 (1FE0E4D5) Date: 1/3/2009 Description: At 9:25 p.m. three dark orange or reddish orange colored objects were seen flying in a triangular pattern over Davie, Broward County, Florida. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2009 webpage, report uploaded January 10, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_79 Source: Johnson ### Event 24570 (52521B04) Date: 1/5/2009 Description: 8:15–9:00 p.m. Mysterious floating red lights in the sky are reported near Morristown, New Jersey. The red lights are also observed on January 26, January 29, February 7, and February 17. The events are later revealed as a hoax perpetrated by Joe Rudy and Chris Russo, who are conducting a social experiment to expose ufology as a pseudoscience and raise consciousness around the unreliability of eyewitness claims. They release five flare lights attached to helium balloons. Reports are concentrated in the towns of Hanover Township, Morristown, Morris Plains, Madison, and Florham Park. On April 7, Russo and Rudy plead guilty to charges of disorderly conduct and are sentenced to fines of $250 and 50 hours of community service. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Morristown UFO hoax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morristown%5FUFO%5Fhoax)” Source ID: Eberhart_7574 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24571 (5078ECE2) Date: 1/20/2009 End date: 1/20/2017 Description: President Barack Obama in office Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Barack_Obama) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_814 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24572 (3A8E96C2) Date: 1/30/2009 Description: At about nine o’clock on a clear sunny day in San Diego, California, when the witness looked out the window of the train he saw two silver disc-shaped objects side by side very close together in the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2009 webpage, report uploaded March 19, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_631 Source: Johnson ### Event 24573 (2EC6F422) Date: 2/11/2009 Description: At 2:20 p.m. a bright white object was seen doing unnatural maneuvers in the daytime sky over Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, February 2009 webpage, report uploaded March 19, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_856 Source: Johnson ### Event 24574 (917A9D83) Date: 2/11/2009 Description: At 11:00 a.m. in Essex, North Carolina there was a clear daylight sighting of a bright cigar-shaped object that rapidly accelerated and disappeared. Then at 7:30 p.m. a triangle-shaped object with a spinning circle on the bottom, making no sound, was sighted from the southside of Indianapolis, Indiana. The witness saw more objects off to the eastside of the city. In Columbus, Georgia at 10:30 p.m. a close encounter occurred with a UFO that was seen overhead, changing shape and causing the witness's cellphone to turn off. Later, at 11:00 p.m. PST a "little army of star-like lights" passed over Sacramento County, California. The witness in Rancho Cordova reported that they created quite a scare. The procession of lights lasted for 14 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, February 2009 webpage, reports uploaded March 19, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_857 Source: Johnson ### Event 24575 (7D9188AF) Date: 3/2009 Description: The UK National Archives releases another batch of UFO files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK National Archives, “[Briefing Document:](https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/ufo-research-guide-2013.pdf) [Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFOs\),](https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/ufo-research-guide-2013.pdf)” 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7575 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24576 (2FF5B2F8) Date: 3/14/2009 Description: At 6:30 p.m. a cigar-shaped object, emitting orange light, was sighted over the beach in Cancun, Mexico. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2009 webpage, report uploaded April 14, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_1518 Source: Johnson ### Event 24577 (DAC182E1) Date: 4/16/2009 Description: A large, metallic, cylindrical object was seen over Saint Augustine Beach, Florida at 5:00 p.m.; it hovered for about a minute and then disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 2009 webpage archive, report uploaded May 12, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_2072 Source: Johnson ### Event 24578 (77631B6B) Date: 5/4/2009 Description: At 3:33 a.m. in South St. Louis, Missouri a loud noise was heard. Looking out, an oval-shaped object was seen hovering just 100 foot off the ground. It had red, white, blue, yellow and oranges lights. It only illuminated itself, not the surroundings.A saucer shaped object with a changing colored light was observed from New Richmond, Wisconsin at 11:00 p.m. It remained in one position in the sky for over an hour. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2009 archived webpage, reports uploaded May 12, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_2531 Source: Johnson ### Event 24579 (9E591484) Date: 5/4/2009 Description: The witness climbed into his sleeping bag around 11:00 p.m. in his tent while camping in the Lake District, England. At 1:30 a.m. he was awakened by a deep humming sound that seemed to vibrate through him. The inside of his tent was also lit up by a dim glow. What was most puzzling and disturbing was that from that time onward he could remember nothing until dawn on Wednesday morning, when he woke up outside his tent, stark naked and very cold. His tent and clothes had a very strong 'ozone' smell. His only recollection was being laid face down on something hard, and having something hard pushed into his rectum, which was very sore at the time. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports, citing http://iwasabducted.com/forum Source ID: Johnson_2530 Source: Johnson ### Event 24580 (7A4F5963) Date: 5/7/2009 Description: A low flying disc with multicolored flashing lights was seen over Avon, Colorado at 8:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2009 webpage, citing MUFON Colorado Source ID: Johnson_2647 Source: Johnson ### Event 24581 (EAF21FC4) Date: 5/8/2009 Description: 11:45 p.m. “Derek Jones” is alerted by his two dogs barking in his backyard in northern Georgia, where his 10- year-old son is camping out in a tent with a friend. He sees a large triangular object about 300 feet long with yellowish lights at each apex moving silently above him. There is a bluish-white light in the center. Behind the triangle are four small objects, two egg-shaped and two round, with bluish-white lights that change to greenish to white and back to bluish. The smaller objects dart up and down soundlessly and erratically. He attempts taking pictures of it with a camera and a videocamera, but the batteries fail in both devices. When he points a bright spotlight beam at the triangle, it responds immediately with a beam of intense bluish-white light about 2–3 feet in diameter that strikes him for about 3 seconds, causing a burning sensation. He runs back into the house, where he watches two of the smaller objects move away to the south-southwest while the other two shoot straight up. He goes to bed, but is awakened by low-flying helicopters at 2:00 a.m. Around 7:30 a.m., he is visited by two men who want to talk about his “sighting report.” They are driving a black sedan, produce no identification, one of them is armed, and they behave oddly as they interview him for 30–40 minutes. After he sees the same men in the black sedan a week later, he reports the license plate to BAASS, which tracks it to a Department of Homeland Security carpool. Jones experiences hair loss and general unwellness within 18 days of the incident. In October he develop lumps on his legs, groin, and back; they enlarge, multiply to 24, and become painful in February 2010. One of the lumps is diagnosed as non-malignant lymphoma, but a BAASS-contracted physician suspects Jones has undergone about 300 grays of ionizing radiation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 99–105 Source ID: Eberhart_7576 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24582 (29B102F6) Date: 5/15/2009 Description: At 9:00 p.m. while driving up Highway 37 in Belleville, Ontario passengers in a vehicle spotted an orange disc-shaped UFO that they believed tried to communicate with them. It was flashing a huge grid of lights at them for a three minute period; which was "not like anything we've ever seen before for." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2009 web page, report uploaded June 9, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_2881 Source: Johnson ### Event 24583 (BC02B511) Date: 5/26/2009 Description: 9:52 p.m. A man in Rzesnów, Poland, notices from his balcony five strange, whirling red-orange lights twinkling above the suburban villages of Chmielnik and Tyczyn. He captures them on a video. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 153–154 Source ID: Eberhart_7577 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24584 (ED8767EE) Date: 6/2009 Description: The Uruguayan Air Force declassifies its UFO files and makes them public, including records of 40 cases that remain unexplained, some involving military pilots. Col. Ariel Sánchez, in charge of the UFO office, says that the “Air Force does not dismiss an extraterrestrial hypothesis based on our scientific analysis.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Uruguay Joins the Party,” Sarasota \(Fla.\) Herald-Tribune, June 12, 2009; Kean, [p. 190](https://archive.org/details/isbn%5F9780307716842/page/198/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7578 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24585 (DD771E70) Date: 6/1/2009 Description: A dark gray, giant boomerang-shaped UFO with 8 dim lights was spotted briefly at Berryville pond, Berryville, Arkansas at two o'clock in the morning. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2009 webpage, report uploaded June 9, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_3215 Source: Johnson ### Event 24586 (8C38ABB3) Date: 6/16/2009 Description: 2:00 a.m. A woman in Kansas City, Kansas, is looking toward a public forest area behind her home when she notices a large white light moving toward her. It stops, and she uses her binoculars to get a closer look. The object consists of three large spheres connected together with a large arm or protrusion extending from beneath it. The arm is moving around in a circle. It stays in that position until it just disappears. Shortly afterward, military planes and helicopters move into the area and seem to be searching for something for about one hour. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roger Marsh, “Reports from Louisville and Kansas City,” IUR 32, no. 3 \(July 2009\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_7579 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24587 (C7B36B17) Date: 6/24/2009 Description: 1:55 p.m. A package handler at Louisville International Airport in Kentucky sees a reflection in the sky from the south end of a runway. As it approaches, he sees it is a rotating object, first a cylinder, then a diamond shape. It moves over the runway in a straight line and at a steady speed about 1,500 feet high. The object stops at the end of the ramp and hovers for 30–40 seconds, then moves up into the clouds and disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roger Marsh, “Reports from Louisville and Kansas City,” IUR 32, no. 3 \(July 2009\): 20 Source ID: Eberhart_7581 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24588 (6B7F9480) Date: 6/24/2009 Description: Sen. [Harry Reid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FReid) \(D-Nev.\) decides that the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Application Program \(misidentified intentionally as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program\) has made such extraordinary discoveries that he asks for additional security \(individuals “specialized in the areas of advanced sciences, sensors, intelligence, counterintelligence, and advanced aerospace engineering”\) to protect it. He writes Deputy Defense Secretary [William J. Lynn III](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FLynn%5FIII) that AATIP has made “much progress” with the “identification of several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings” that will “likely lead to technology advancements.” He requests that it be designated a “restricted Special Access Program.” Some of the ongoing projects include power and propulsion systems \(nuclear propulsion, anuclear fusion, positron propulsion, magnetohydrodynamics, traversable wormholes, warp drives, antigravity, zero-point energy\), materials science \(metallic glass, programmable matter\), recalculating the Drake Equation, invisibility, and weaponry \(pulsed microwaves, high-powered lasers\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Harry Reid, Letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III, June 24, 2009; Skinwalkers 27, 90–93 Source ID: Eberhart_7580 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24589 (837A2DBE) Date: 7/2009 Description: At the invitation of [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow) naval aerospace engineer Jonathan Axelrod \[possibly John F. Stratton\], Jim Costigan, and David Wilson arrive at the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah to deploy a wide variety of sensory equipment to detect and record anomalies. They experience an odd temperature drop, intense anxiety, and a menacing dark oval shape. After Axelrod returns home to suburban Virginia, paranormal phenomena plague his family, including a humanoid shape, phantom footsteps, blue orbs, and a wolf-like creature standing on two legs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 1–8 Source ID: Eberhart_7582 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24590 (AC7F1AF6) Date: 7/5/2009 Description: 9:20 p.m. Retired police officer Buck Scarsdale is sitting with his son Bo and girlfriend Joanna Fife on the porch of his ranch home in Lagol, Ventura County, California. They notice seven bright blue lights silently hovering several feet off the ground in the orchard about 500 feet away. They jump in a truck and drive slowly with the lights off toward the display. When they get there, the lights are gone. After returning to the house, they decide to drive back, this time with flashlights. After 10 minutes of searching on foot, they hear two loud clicks coming from some dense bushes, and three others clicks coming from different directions. They return to the house. Buck’s brother Roger arrives at 10:30 p.m., and both of them return to the orchard. Just before 11:00 p.m., Roger sees a silver, gray, and blue flash as an oblong object disappears into an opening in the sky that closes quickly. On July 10, Buck, Bo, and Joanna see an intensely blue light at the northern end of the pasture. Buck and Roger approach it and watch a floating light 5 feet in diameter maneuvering for 5 minutes 900 feet away before it vanishes. Two teams of investigators sent by [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow) also see lights and orbs the rest of the month, and their camera and video equipment behaves oddly. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 59–69 Source ID: Eberhart_7583 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24591 (531C52AF) Date: 8/2009 Description: [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow) brings Pentagon technical analyst Juliett Witt to the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. Along with [Colm Kelleher](https://www.linkedin.com/in/colm-kelleher-834a05112)[,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/colm-kelleher-834a05112) she experiences a cone of silence and a weird pig-like creature the one night she is there. Like Jonathan Axelrod, the phenomena follow her back home to Virginia, where she experiences poltergeist phenomena and sees a huge owl that attacks her car. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers, 50–58, 81–82 Source ID: Eberhart_7584 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24592 (A6A29B5D) Date: 8/5/2009 Description: In Valrico, Florida a cigar-shaped object with no wings was sighted following a commercial jet airliner at 5:30 p.m. Two hours later a line of orange lights was observed appearing and disappearing in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, reports uploaded December 12, 2009 and August 27, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_4712 Source: Johnson ### Event 24593 (EA7E7539) Date: 8/6/2009 Description: At 10:22 p.m. an extended family of 19 saw three orange-red lights flying in a triangle formation over Litchfield, South Carolina. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 27, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_4755 Source: Johnson ### Event 24594 (DB2BEBC6) Date: 8/6/2009 Description: The UK National Archives releases another batch of UFO files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK National Archives, “[Briefing](https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/ufo-research-guide-2013.pdf) [Document: Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFOs\),](https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/ufo-research-guide-2013.pdf)” 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7585 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24595 (EE9A9198) Date: 8/14/2009 Description: A huge triangle-shaped object with spectacular lights was seen zooming from the horizon in Chebanse, Iroquis County, Illinois at around 10 p.m. According to the witness, it was at a low altitude,"just about 12 feet above the ground," and came as close as 500 feet away. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2009 webpage, report uploaded August 27, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_5026 Source: Johnson ### Event 24596 (2FFA6480) Date: 8/18/2009 Description: In Bagshot, Surrey, England a married couple reported that at 9:45 p.m. they observed an orange-colored, diamond or mitre hat-shaped object moving across the sky, silently. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2009 webpage, report uploaded December 12, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_5150 Source: Johnson ### Event 24597 (D5DC5630) Date: 8/18/2009 Description: Camped on the top of a ridge outside of Sedro Wooley, Washington at around 1:00 a.m., a man who had previously seen a multi-colored UFO many times in the area late at night took out his binoculars and sighted an oval-shaped disc with blinking red, blue, and green lights. It was making a low-pitched, humming sound, and was hovering over a small clearing on the ridge. Through the binoculars he saw what appeared to be a porthole, and through the porthole he could see a humanoid being wearing some sort of a helmet. Frightened, the man decided to climb down off the ridge and go home. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2009 archived webpage Source ID: Johnson_5149 Source: Johnson ### Event 24598 (13F0E1D1) Date: 8/21/2009 Description: 9:40 p.m. Tomasz Skorupski sees a deep-black object in the shape of the letter M flying west to east 200 feet above the ground at 50 mph at Kowale Oleckie, Poland. He estimates it is 10 feet in length and 30 feet at the widest point. Seven dimly yellow lights are positioned on the craft, while the rest seems dark and obscures the stars on its flight path. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 100 Source ID: Eberhart_7586 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24599 (3D2CA148) Date: 8/28/2009 Description: In Apolda, Thuringen, Germany 12-year-old Natali was woke up by her little brother at around 3:00 a.m. because he wanted help going to the bathroom. After returning to her bedroom, she heard a cat meowing outdoors, so she went out onto her patio. She next heard a deep humming, vibrating sound, and looking up she saw through the transparent sky-roof window a large shiny circular flying object, which flew off towards some nearby woods and then came back to hover over her house. Scared, she ran to her bedroom and hid under some blankets. However, the craft then shone a bright beam of light into her room through her window. She saw a short Grey humanoid, with a huge hairless head and large almond-shaped eyes, peering in the window at her. The creature had no lips and only a small slit for a mouth, it also had a very thin neck. She estimated it to be the same height as her four-year-old brother. When the figure became aware that the girl had seen it, it quickly disappeared from view, and in the next few moments the circular craft disappeared over some nearby trees. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing www.ufo-datenbank.de/europa/Deutschland/index.htm Source ID: Johnson_5452 Source: Johnson ### Event 24600 (F6D52563) Date: 8/30/2009 Description: A married couple had gone camping at Unicoi State Park, Georgia on this night and had gotten up at around 4:00 a.m. to use the restrooms at a facility on the campsite. It was very dark out, except for the light from her lantern and the lights from the building. After the wife started to walk back to her tent, she stopped because she sensed that their was someone close behind her. She turned around and saw three Grey humanoid beings standing there. At first she thought they were other campers, but when one of them turned to look at her she realized that they were not human. For one thing, their arms were too long and their bodies were too thin. Their skin also had a pale, glossy look, and they had very large heads and lumps covering the tops of their scalps. They had huge black eyes that seemed to stare right through her. She estimated that they were about five feet tall. the one that saw her began to slowly approach, but she ran away, and got back to her tent and found her husband. When he asked her what was wrong, all she could say was, "There's some [expletive deleted] aliens back there!" After he had finally calmed her down, he told her to stay in the tent and he walked back to see, but he found nothing. Throughout the rest of the night they kept waking up and had a fitful night; the husband reported that he saw a shadowy figure moving about outside their tent, but he didn't hear any footsteps. He also looked up and saw the top cover of the tent move, and if someone had pulled it aside to look in at them from above. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing MUFON's UFO reporting website, http://mufoncms.com Source ID: Johnson_5513 Source: Johnson ### Event 24601 (59AED8C8) Date: 9/2009 Description: 10:00 p.m. Jim Costigan, who had visited Skinwalker Ranch in Utah two months earlier, is walking his dog with his wife Laila in suburban Maryland when they see a blue, softball-sized light moving in their direction about 6 feet off the ground to the left. It accelerates and shoots between them, grazing Laila’s shoulder as it passes. Within seconds it is lost behind a house. The dog does not notice it. Laila becomes lethargic the next day and shows severe flu-like symptoms for the next few weeks. She is ultimately diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease of the thyroid. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 77–79 Source ID: Eberhart_7587 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24602 (07726E89) Date: 9/5/2009 Description: At 5:22 p.m. a married couple and their 7-year-old son were parked next to the Coronda River in Puerto Gaboto, Santa Fe State, Argentina when they noticed something strange in the sky over a nearby field. They saw something white flying through the air, and when they looked at it through the telephoto lens of their camera's zoom lens they were startled to see that what it was was a cow suspended beneath a hovering, metallic disc-shaped craft some 30 meters above it. It became clear that the cow was being "absorbed" or levitated up into the UFO. Suddenly and inexplicably, both the cow and the ufo vanished in plain sight, but they managed to photograph the bizarre series of events. According to them the cow was not moving, but appeared to be either asleep or paralyzed. Locals reported that cattle mutilations had been found in the region in the past. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Daysee Moreira & Blas Kolev, Vision OVNI; Still images of the incident can be found at http://inexplica ta.blogspot.com/2009/10/argentina-cow-abducted-by-ufo-analysis.html Source ID: Johnson_5670 Source: Johnson ### Event 24603 (973C6888) Date: 9/6/2009 Description: In Newton, Iowa at 2:00 a.m. three bright orange, oval-shaped craft were sighted moving slowly over Interstate 80. The sighting lasted three minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2009 webpage, case uploaded December 12, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_5705 Source: Johnson ### Event 24604 (503569E3) Date: 9/9/2009 Description: There were two reports of boomerang shaped objects maneuvering in the daytime skies over Alabama on this day. The first report was at 8:17 a.m. from Franklin County, Alabama of a dark chevron or boomerang-shaped object maneuvering in daylight. The second report was at 5:05 p.m. from Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama of three silver boomerang shaped objects spotted in broad daylight. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2009 webpage, reports uploaded December 12, 2009 and February 14, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_5819 Source: Johnson ### Event 24605 (3F61DB87) Date: 9/11/2009 Description: At 9:25 p.m. a glowing, oval-shaped craft appeared and hovered over a house in Mather, California. It vibrated and zipped around, and disappeared in an instant. At 11:00 p.m. three orange glowing balls appeared above an ocean beach in San Diego, California. They moved north, and then shot straight up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2009 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_5897 Source: Johnson ### Event 24606 (661F5DA3) Date: 9/14/2009 Description: At 10:15 p.m. a man who wishes to remain anonymous was driving north on Hudson Drive, Stow, Ohio on his way to work when he spotted a 9 to 10 foot tall solid black entity standing on the southbound side of the road, near the Rte 8 overpass and just north of the local Applebee's restaurant. It was only about fifteen to twenty feet from his vehicle as he drove by. The creature had no discernable head or facial figures. Looking back in his rearview mirrow the entity was no longer visible, and the entire sighting lasted only about five seconds. The witness became extremely upset, and he had uncontrolled watering of his eyes; he tried to call his wife on his cell phone, but it would not work, either from the programmed address book or with manual input calling. He kept getting "call failed", which had never happened before. The cell phone failed to connect all the way to the I-271 entrance ramp, a distance of 8-10 miles. The following day, on his way home from work, as he neared the Rte 8 overpass, this time driving over the bridge, his eyes began to tear up uncontrollably again until he got beyone the bridge, when his eyes began to clear up. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing http:/naturalplane.blogspot.com/2009/ Source ID: Johnson_5977 Source: Johnson ### Event 24607 (3EBD90B6) Date: 9/16/2009 Description: Many lights, changing color and blinking randomly, merging and dividing, flying randomly and also in formation, were seen in Ajo, Arizona at 5:00 p.m. for 25 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2009 webpage, report uploaded December 12, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_6036 Source: Johnson ### Event 24608 (254616E1) Date: 10/27/2009 Description: Fuselage shaped objects were sighted over McAllen, Hidalgo County, Texas at 6:30 p.m. They looked like planes without wings, emitting a high concentration of light and moving extremely slowly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2009 webpage, report uploaded December 12, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_7212 Source: Johnson ### Event 24609 (EBB7E299) Date: 10/29/2009 Description: At 8:15 p.m a very large, silent, rectangular craft with four lights was seen moving slowly across the sky in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio. At 8:45 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. there were two reports of 5-8 lights that appeared in the sky in New Vienna, Clinton County, Ohio. They were golden colored, and appeared one after another. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2009 webpage, report uploaded December 12, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_7297 Source: Johnson ### Event 24610 (A23C5790) Date: 11/2009 Description: Sen. [Harry Reid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FReid)’s request for Special Access Program status for the US Defense Intelligence Agency’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program is denied by a group at the Pentagon consisting of Deputy Defense Secretary [William J. Lynn III,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FLynn%5FIII) Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Gen. [James R.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FClapper) [Clapper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FClapper)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FClapper) special programs officer at USDI Susan Jones, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs [Marcel Lettre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel%5FLettre)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel%5FLettre) and Defense Intelligence Agency defense warning officer Bob Carlsberg. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 92- 93; Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “[How the Pentagon Started Taking UFOs Seriously,](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously)” The New Yorker, April 30, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7589 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24611 (9964F0DA) Date: 11/2009 Description: The RAF Air Command prepares a briefing for UK Defence Minister [Bob Ainsworth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FAinsworth) recommending that the Ministry of Defence “should seek to reduce very significantly the UFO task which is consuming increasing resources, but produces no valuable defence output.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Britain’s Defense Ministry Releases Its Final UFO Files,](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/21/britain-defense-ministry-ufo-files-document-declassified/2445933/)” USA Today, June 21, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7588 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24612 (623687A7) Date: 11/6/2009 Description: ex-Police Detective and ufologist James Clarkson gives a presentation at a UFO Conference about ex-Wright Patterson AFB worker June Crain, who had heard of 3 crash retrievals during her time working there. Type: presentation Reference: [Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116248479/james-clarkson-june-crain-presentation/) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_815 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24613 (45394493) Date: 11/8/2009 Description: A missing time case from Rubidoux, Riverside County, California was reported to the National UFO Reporting Center. It occurred overnight and lasted for two hours. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, November 2009 webpage, report uploaded December 12, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_7556 Source: Johnson ### Event 24614 (E082E04F) Date: 11/24/2009 Description: A witness in Tracy, California reported seeing a red and blue "V" shaped object flying through the sky and emitting a bright LED-like light. At 6:10 p.m. EST another witness in Raleigh, North Carolina observed a V-shaped object with white and red flashing lights moving slowly over Falls Lake. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2009 webpage, reports uploaded December 12, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_7898 Source: Johnson ### Event 24615 (6BF3E42E) Date: 11/25/2009 Description: 12:15 a.m. A mental health professional in Port Jervis, New York, is driving home listening to Christmas CDs on the car’s player. Coming around a bend, he sees an object about one mile away. As he comes to the next turn, he slows down to 25 mph to get a better look, but by then he is surprised to see that it is almost on top of him. He stops the car on the side of the road, putting it in park with the engine running. The object is cigar-shaped and turning clockwise slowly as it approaches. It is moving slowly like a hot-air balloon. He hears a sound like a cat purring at a low frequency. The UFO passes overhead and his vehicle suffers a complete power failure. His cellphone is also dead. He opens the driver’s door and looks up, seeing lights on the bottom of the object, which immediately blink out. The car starts again spontaneously. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 \(May 2011\): 20–21 Source ID: Eberhart_7590 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24616 (0E06D7B9) Date: 11/28/2009 Description: At 10:52 p.m. a black, triangular UFO with orange lights flew over Petersburg, a small central Illinois town in Menard County. It had three brownish-orange circles with a dark center which appeared in a triangular formation for 10 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2009 webpage, report uploaded December 12, 2009 Source ID: Johnson_8022 Source: Johnson ### Event 24617 (8285E997) Date: 12/1/2009 Description: The UK Ministry of Defence shuts down its UFO hotline and closes its UFO desk, ostensibly because it has produced “no defence benefit” and no evidence of extraterrestrial aliens in more than 50 years. But the staff is overwhelmed by public inquiries, which are at a 10-year high. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Investigations Unit Closed by Ministry of](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk%5Fnews/8395473.stm) [Defence,](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk%5Fnews/8395473.stm)” BBC News, December 4, 2009; “[Britain’s Defense Ministry Releases Its Final UFO Files,](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/21/britain-defense-ministry-ufo-files-document-declassified/2445933/)” USA Today, June 21, 2013; UFOFiles2, [pp. 175–176, 178](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n279/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7591 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24618 (D5EFDED1) Date: 12/1/2009 Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency’s AAWSAP program issues the first of 38 Project Physics position papers \(Defense Intelligence Reference Documents\) that define the current and projected state of the art in aerospace technology, all pertaining to the 12 areas chosen by the DIA. Bigelow’s group has subcontracted with [Harold E. Puthoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff) CEO of EarthTech International in Austin, Texas, to choose the precise nature and scope of the papers. The first paper is on “Advanced Nuclear Propusion for Manned Deep Space Missions” by physicist [Friedwardt Winterberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedwardt%5FWinterberg)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedwardt%5FWinterberg)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: US Defense Intelligence Agency, \[[list of products produced under the AATIP contract](https://irp.fas.org/dia/aatip-list.pdf)\], January 9, 2018; Skinwalkers 47, 122 Source ID: Eberhart_7592 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24619 (C1AADD84) Date: 12/9/2009 Description: Night. A large beam of light is seen and photographed for 10 minutes over all of northern Norway from Trøndelag in the south through all the counties further north, as well as parts of northern Sweden. The phenomenon consists of a blue beam of light with a grayish spiral emanating from one end of it. It moves from behind a mountain, stops in mid-air, and starts to spiral outwards. A similar, though less spectacular, event also occurred in Norway the month before. Both events have visual features of failed flights of Russian RSM-56 Bulava SLBM. The Russian Defense Ministry admits shortly afterward that such an event had taken place at the time on December 9. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%5FNorwegian%5Fspiral%5Fanomaly)”; Tony Spell, “[Estimation of the Trajectory,](http://www.spellconsulting.com/reality/Norway%5FSpiral.html) [Location, Size, and Altitude of the ‘Norway Spiral’ Phenomenon,](http://www.spellconsulting.com/reality/Norway%5FSpiral.html)” December 29, 2009 Source ID: Eberhart_7593 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24620 (799DAD69) Date: 12/11/2009 Description: Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies \(BAASS\) directors James T. Lacatski, [Colm Kelleher](https://www.linkedin.com/in/colm-kelleher-834a05112)[,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/colm-kelleher-834a05112) and Larry Grossman meet at Bolling AFB \[now Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling\] in Washington, D.C., with Jack Angelo, director of operations for the Office of Special Projects of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. They brief him on their operations and security, and ask AFOSI for data on the Northern Tier UFO incursions of October–November 1975. Angelo promised to see what he could do, but BAASS needs to be accepted into some Special Access Programs to progress much further. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 94–97 Source ID: Eberhart_7594 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 2010 (Back to Top) ### Event 24621 (1E20EC63) Date: 1/2010 Description: The RAF asks the Home Office to cancel standing instructions to police forces who have, in the past, routinely forwarded UFO sightings by officers to the MoD. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UFOFiles2, [p. 179](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n283/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7595 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24622 (3BDCA9B8) Date: 1/2010 Description: US Navy Petty Officer John Baughman sees a “Tic-Tac” shaped object from the flight deck of the supercarrier [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FCarl%5FVinson) [Carl Vinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FCarl%5FVinson) off the coast of Haiti. It is a solid, white object, some 20 feet long, that darts into the water and appears to collapse on itself and disappear. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ryan Sprague, “[New Navy Witness Says He Saw a ‘Tic Tac’](https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/new-navy-witness-says-he-saw-a-tic-tac-operating-underwater-92344d29ac1) [Operating Underwater,](https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/new-navy-witness-says-he-saw-a-tic-tac-operating-underwater-92344d29ac1)” Medium: Trail of the Saucers, July 11, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7596 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24623 (E601938A) Date: 1/24/2010 Description: A multi-colored, illuminated, circular object hovered nearby, and crossed over a busy interstate highway in Tampa, Florida at 7:40 p.m. The sighting lasted for 6 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, January 2010 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_505 Source: Johnson ### Event 24624 (B5D0E6A0) Date: Late 1/2010 Description: Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies \(BAASS\) Director of Investigation Larry Grossman meets in Washington, D.C., with former AFOSI Col. Barry Hennessey \(Ret.\). He acknowledges that AFOSI could not identify many of the UFOs associated with the Northern Tier air force bases in 1975. Hennessey suspects that many of the AFOSI investigative records for those cases have been purged, and hinted to Grossman that some odd unmanned aerial vehicles could be military projects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 97–98 Source ID: Eberhart_7597 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24625 (C33BB2A1) Date: 2/17/2010 Description: The UK National Archives releases another batch of UFO files, more than 6,000 pages of documentation and reports from 1994 to 2000. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Sightings from the National Archives,](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/gallery/2010/feb/18/nationalarchives-ufos)” The Guardian \(UK\), February 17, 2010; UK National Archives, “[Briefing Document: Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFOs\),](https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/ufo-research-guide-2013.pdf)” 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7598 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24626 (EBF77959) Date: 3/2010 Description: The Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies \(BAASS\) asks remote viewer Joseph McMoneagle to observe a target designated as 22610 using traditional blind targeting protocols. 22610 is actually Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. McMoneagle’s sketch of the ranch, its environment, animals, two ranch managers, and two security guards are accurate, but he indicates a fifth individual is present. He describes a male, 60–70 pounds, 4 feet 3 inches high, with no hair. McMoneagle says this person is invisible to ranch personnel, although he attempts to ciommunicate with them to see their response. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 120–121 Source ID: Eberhart_7599 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24627 (CA3BCC8E) Date: 3/3/2010 Description: Evening. S/Sgt. Omar Gonzalez and the crew of Dakota Air Traffic Control at Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City, South Dakota, pick up unidentified traffic crossing a passing aircraft, which reports visual contact with an object 2,000 feet above him. The target appears to be 18 miles south of the Ellsworth AFB runway. Suddenly the object vanishes from view and the radar track disappears. A few minutes later, the target reappears on radar behind the aircraft. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 125 Source ID: Eberhart_7600 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24628 (55418A49) Date: 3/8/2010 End date: 3/12/2010 Description: Dozens of independent witnesses in Kraków and Rzeszów, Poland, report a strange disc-shaped object of considerable size with white or red lights on its perimeter and red-green lights on its base. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 104–107 Source ID: Eberhart_7601 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24629 (4F215239) Date: 3/14/2010 Description: A hovering, flashing, orange chevron-shaped aircraft was sighted over Corvallis, Oregon at 3:40 a.m. It suddenly disappeared. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2010 webpage, report uploaded April 13, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_1519 Source: Johnson ### Event 24630 (64043FE6) Date: 4/17/2010 Description: A classic domed disc-shaped object with horizontal slits showing inexplicable lights was sighted while driving on U.S. Highway 101 S. near Nipomo, California in San Luis Obispo County at 10:10 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 2010 archived webpage, case uploaded May 12, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_2101 Source: Johnson ### Event 24631 (276F68F7) Date: 4/22/2010 Description: The first X-37B, an uncrewed, reusable, robotic spaceplane, launches on its first mission, Orbital Test Vehicle 1 / USA-212, on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The spacecraft is placed into low Earth orbit for testing. While the Air Force reveals few orbital details of the mission, a worldwide network of amateur astronomers claims to have identified the spacecraft in orbit. It lands on December 3 after more than 224 days in orbit. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[USA-212](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-212)” Source ID: Eberhart_7603 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24632 (7E74D8B8) Date: 4/22/2010 Description: An unmanned HTV-2 Falcon hypersonic glider, the fastest unmanned aerial vehicle, reaches a record speed of 13,201 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic%5FTechnology%5FVehicle%5F2)” Source ID: Eberhart_7602 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24633 (2D55E8C7) Date: 5/3/2010 Description: A witness walking on the South campus of the University of Nebraska in Omaha, Nebraska reported being chased by a diamond-shaped UFO at 9:17 p.m. The witness reported being frightened, and sheltering by running into the South campus building. "It was a beautiful looking ship but really horrible when they were approaching towards me," the witness wrote. The event lasted four minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 webpage, reported May 3, 2010 and uploaded May 12, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_2497 Source: Johnson ### Event 24634 (2A3CFC4B) Date: 5/4/2010 Description: In Davie, Florida a silent, translucent Y-shaped object was sighted just above the tree level at 10:30 p.m. It flew on a steady course with a slow climb, at approximately 10 mph. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 archived webpage, reports uploaded May 12, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_2532 Source: Johnson ### Event 24635 (D2C6EED0) Date: 5/5/2010 Description: A luminous rectangular UFO, with no body lights nor sound, moved at tremendous speed over Canal Winchester, Ohio. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2010 archived webpage, report uploaded June 3, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_2572 Source: Johnson ### Event 24636 (7A1AB940) Date: 5/12/2010 Description: During the middle of the day a bright, star-like object was observed roaming back and forth over the Livermore, California hills at 12:00 hours. Peter Davenport believes the witness is a highly credible, good observer. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 webpage, report uploaded May 12, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_2787 Source: Johnson ### Event 24637 (8FF9008F) Date: 5/12/2010 Description: At 1:24 a.m. in Bedlington, Northumberland, England a 40-foot across black boomerang shaped object with five green lights underneath flew overhead at approximately 50 feet. It was a very close and terrifying encounter, according to the witness. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 webpage, report uploaded May 12, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_2786 Source: Johnson ### Event 24638 (BCB24282) Date: 5/16/2010 Description: At 9:40 a.m. in South Kingston, Rhode Island a stationary gray cylinder slowly accelerated, turned white, then opaque, and disappeared in 30 seconds. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at around 9:35 p.m. EDT the main witness was in his backyard smoking a cigarette on a very clear night, watching some kids play basketball in the courts. He looked up and noticed three disc-shaped objects skimming just under the cloud line. They were not balloons, helicopters or airplanes. They made no sound and were very precise in their movment. He called his sister to come out back to see what he was witnessing while they flew away. He did see all three objects very clearly, and the underneath of all three, but he did not have enough time to grab a camera. They were very disc-shaped objects with a white glow, and underneath of all three he noticed they all had this same faded black zone where he guessed the engine would be. At 9:30 p.m. CDT in Hugo, Minnesota two bright lights, pentagonal in shape and red in color, moved across the northern sky, hovered, then flew off quickly. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 webpage, report uploaded June 3, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_2911 Source: Johnson ### Event 24639 (FC9D90E4) Date: 5/16/2010 Description: At 7:00 p.m. two friends in Jeffersonville, Indiana were walking to a gas station on a golf course near their home when they spotted a small circular white object in the sky. It was not moving, just stationary in the sky. Then the light from the object became brighter and brighter, and it turned into different colors: green, pink or red, and then blue. It got so bright that you could no longer see its original shape. Then the light shrank back to the white color, and within an instant it was gone, almost as if it shot out of the universe in a matter of seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 webpage, report uploaded September 8, 2011 Source ID: Johnson_2912 Source: Johnson ### Event 24640 (8B5FE748) Date: 6/4/2010 Description: First Falcon 9 Technology Demonstration launch Type: aerospace Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Spacecraft_Qualification_Unit) Location: Cape Canaveral SLC-40, FL Source ID: Maj2_816 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24641 (BB9E948F) Date: 6/14/2010 Description: European Parliament Member [Mario Borghezio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%5FBorghezio) calls for the European Union to have its own centralized information center where anyone can access information on UFOs, even records held by the military. Borghezio argues that governments should go public with the information they hold and stop what he believes is a systematic cover-up. Not satisfied with a central archive, Borghezio also wants a scientific center to study UFOs that could encourage research and development. “I think that, under the principle of transparency,” he says, “the EU member states have a duty to make public and available to all scientific data on UFOs which today are partially or wholly withheld.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[MEP Calls for Declassification of UFO Files,](https://www.euractiv.com/section/public-affairs/news/mep-calls-for-declassification-of-ufo-files/)” Euractiv, July 7, 2010 Source ID: Eberhart_7604 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24642 (4EE9EBE5) Date: 7/7/2010 Description: 8:40 p.m. A UFO is seen hovering above Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport near Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. An airliner preparing for descent first notices the object and notifies the tower. Within minutes, the Civil Aviation Administration of China \(CAAC\) closes the airport down, grounding outbound flights and diverting inbound ones to other airports. Normal operations resume an hour later. Nearby residents take photos of the UFO. One daylight photo taken earlier in the afternoon shows an object with a clear, comet-like tail; another, taken after dusk shows a glowing object emitting golden light. Another photo clearly shows an airplane with a contrail. CAAC conducts an investigation but refuses to release it publicly because there is a “military connection.” MIT weapons analyst [Geoffrey Forden](https://thebulletin.org/biography/geoffrey-forden/) says the most credible photo shows an arc streaking across the sky around sunset and that the most likely cause is the launch of a DF-21 missile somewhere near Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and aimed at a point somewhere in the eastern Gobi Desert. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Flights Diverted, Delayed As UFO Detected](http://en.people.cn/90001/90782/90872/7058628.html) [Hovering,](http://en.people.cn/90001/90782/90872/7058628.html)” People’s Daily Online, July 9, 2010; “UFO Forces Hangzhou Airport to Shut Down,” China Central Television, July 10, 2010; “[Hangzhou Light Show,](https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/302793/hangzhou-light-show/)” Arms Control Wonk, July 12, 2010; “[UFO in China’s Skies](https://abcnews.go.com/International/ufo-china-closes-airport-prompts-investigation/story?id=11159531) [Prompts Investigation,](https://abcnews.go.com/International/ufo-china-closes-airport-prompts-investigation/story?id=11159531)” ABC News, July 14, 2010; Alexis C. Madrigal, “[A UFO over China? Well, No,](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/07/a-ufo-over-china-well-no/60044/)” The Atlantic, July 19, 2010 “[UFOs over China? Not Quite, Analyst Says](http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/20/china.ufo.debunked/index.html),” CNN, July 20, 2010 Source ID: Eberhart_7605 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24643 (3DC864C6) Date: 7/15/2010 Description: At around 3 a.m. two campers at a campsite on Berry Creek, Butte County, California viewed one cigar-shaped craft fly over, then hold position as a second craft emerged from the first and perform impossible manuevers for 15 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded July 19, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_4091 Source: Johnson ### Event 24644 (817041E0) Date: 7/31/2010 Description: The night sky in Albuquerque, New Mexico turned white at 4:15 a.m. when a cigar-shaped object appeared in the sky in the middle of a circle of light. The sighting lasted 15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 24, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_4552 Source: Johnson ### Event 24645 (0942D201) Date: 8/2010 Description: The Nevada Test Site is renamed the Nevada National Security Site. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Nevada Test Site](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada%5FTest%5FSite)” Source ID: Eberhart_7606 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24646 (3BA898FA) Date: 8/5/2010 Description: The UK National Archives releases another 5,000 pages of UFO files to the public. This release alone generates 196 separate news items and reaches a readership of 25 million people. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Churchill Ordered UFO](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-10853905) [Cover-Up, National Archives Show,](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-10853905)” BBC News, August 5, 2010; UK National Archives, “[Briefing Document:](https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/ufo-research-guide-2013.pdf) [Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFOs\),](https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/ufo-research-guide-2013.pdf)” 2013; UFOFiles2, [p. xi](https://archive.org/details/the-ufo-files-the-inside-story-of-real-life-sightings-david-clarke/page/n9/mode/2up) Source ID: Eberhart_7607 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24647 (13860A86) Date: 8/13/2010 Description: 8:00 p.m. A circle of six yellow lights appears in the sky above the Jardim Bela Vista district of Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil. Dentist Daniela Tamarossi and others spend more than 2 hours watching it maneuver. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil 403– 405 Source ID: Eberhart_7608 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24648 (6F59AB48) Date: 8/16/2010 Description: 11:00 p.m. Two people camping on Cumberland Island National Seashore in Georgia are walking on the beach when they notice above them a low-flying triangular object with lights at each of its points. It is moving silently to the south toward Jacksonville, Florida. About 45 minutes later they see it through some trees from their campsite, again silent and heading south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, November 21, 2010; Nukes 508 Source ID: Eberhart_7609 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24649 (0C517833) Date: 8/16/2010 Description: A witness reported he saw a large, black, silent, southbound, flying triangle with lights with a friend while camping on Cumberland Island National Seashore in Camden County, Georgia at 11:00 p.m. The sighting lasted 15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2010 webpage, report uploaded November 21, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_5107 Source: Johnson ### Event 24650 (D7F80E4D) Date: 8/18/2010 Description: At around 8:00 p.m. in Evansville, Indiana a witness reported to the UFO Reporting Center that he had a close encounter with an eight-inch wide flying disc, only 20 feet away from him, which floated across the ground and then rose up into the sky. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2010 webpage, report uploaded November 21, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_5151 Source: Johnson ### Event 24651 (59FFA288) Date: 8/30/2010 Description: At 6:30 a.m. a black, oval-shaped object with visible heat waves radiating from it was sighted over the I-5 freeway in Silverlake, Los Angeles County, California. At 11:00 a.m. a disc-shaped object with a pulsing outer band and a transparent center was sighted over Plant City, Florida. At 3:00 p.m. a shiny metallic, upside down cone-shaped object was seen over the Jersey Shore in Manahawkin, Ocean County, New Jersey. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2010 webpage, report uploaded November 21, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_5514 Source: Johnson ### Event 24652 (F6B81B51) Date: 8/31/2010 Description: In Matawatchan, Ontario, Canada a cigar-shaped object was sighted at 7:20 p.m.; it flashed twice, separated into two spheres, joined as one ball of light, and then vanished! The entire event lasted 15 seconds. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2010 webpage, report updated November 21, 2010 Source ID: Johnson_5548 Source: Johnson ### Event 24653 (FCD282C8) Date: 9/11/2010 Description: Witnesses in Nashville, Tennessee reported seeing a flying cigar-shaped object at 7:00 p.m. that was red and white in color. It was wingless and was flying at a tilted angle, ascending. It had a large clear window with small human-like figures inside looking out. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert S. Rosales, 2010-2012 Humanoid Sighting Reports, citing NUFORC Source ID: Johnson_5898 Source: Johnson ### Event 24654 (041B7D70) Date: 9/27/2010 Description: Researcher [Robert Hastings](https://www.ufohastings.com/bio) organizes a briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., that brings together former US Air Force personnel who testify to the existence of UFOs and their ability to neutralize American and Russian nuclear missiles. Those appearing include former Capt. [Robert Salas](https://ufology.fandom.com/wiki/Robert%5FSalas), retired nuclear missile targeting officer Robert C. Jamison, and retired Col. [Charles I. Halt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FI.%5FHalt). Several of the ex-servicemembers say that when they brought their concerns to superiors, they were told it is “top secret” or that it “didn’t happen.” Hastings suggests the presence of such phenomena means that aliens could be monitoring our weapons and perhaps warning us about their use. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Ex-Air Force Personnel: UFOs Deactivated Nukes,](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-air-force-personnel-ufos-deactivated-nukes/)” CBS News, September 28, 2010; Robert L. Hastings, “[The UFOs–Nukes Connection Press Conference,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/the-ufos-nukes-connection-press-conference)” October 11, 2010; “[Military](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SULJf2-XnuE) [Witnesses of UFOs at Nuclear Sites: National Press Club,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SULJf2-XnuE)” QUFOSR YouTube channel, December 15, 2016; Nukes 511–512 Source ID: Eberhart_7610 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24655 (A8392922) Date: 9/30/2010 Description: The contract for the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program is extended until December 21, 2010, at no cost to the government. However, there is no congressional funding available for 2011. One of its most significant achievements is the development of a Data Warehouse that links 11 separate UFO databases and supporting documentation. The databases are the NIDS database airline and military pilot sightings, the USAF Blue Book database, UFOCAT, the MUFON Case Management System database, Project Colares, the Canadian government’s UFO releases, the UK government’s UFO releases, BAASS cases investigated, Skinwalker Ranch database, and a database of Skinwalker Ranch contagious health effects. Each UFO case is assigned a credibility rating designed by [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) and the database configuration is based on a six-layer model developed by Vallée and [Eric W. Davis](https://earthtech.org/pubs/davis/) in 2003, using layers designated as physical, anti-physical, psychological, physiological, psychic, and cultural. The Data Warehouse is not retired at the end of the AAWSAP, but is used by the UAP Task Force and its successor organization. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 26–27, 167–170 Source ID: Eberhart_7611 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24656 (C8E7FD5B) Date: 10/11/2010 Description: 8:40 p.m. A man named Qiao sees two luminous objects, one small one and the other larger, over the Xincheng district of Taiyuan, Shaanxi, China. They keep circling in a regular pattern. Other luminous objects are reported above the Sanqianglu district. Soon the media hotlines are flooded with phone calls. Two luminous objects circling in the air are seen at 8:55 p.m. in the Xinhuajie district, at 9:01 p.m. near the Apparel Town area, and at 9:05 p.m. near the racetrack. When reporters arrive at the plaza of the Taiyuan Railway Station, they see a large, milky-white, luminous spot circling above the clouds with a diameter of at least 32 feet. The object first looks like a luminous spot produced by a searchlight against the clouds, but it has no obvious light beams. The object circles and moves up and down and from side to side until it disappears around 9:10 p.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Chinese UFO](https://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/ufo%5Fextraterrestrials/2011/09/24/847.html) [Report Affirms Reality of Manipulative Extraterrestrial Abduction,](https://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/ufo%5Fextraterrestrials/2011/09/24/847.html)” Canadian Business Daily, September 24, 2011 Source ID: Eberhart_7612 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24657 (CB29AECC) Date: 10/13/2010 Description: 4:00 a.m. A village in the Qinling mountains of southern Shaanxi province, China, supposedly disappears overnight after witnesses contact news agencies to report UFOs in the area. Chinese troops allegedly cordon off the area with no explanation. A video circulates online, reportedly showing bright blue lights in the sky over the village. Subsequent reports deny a military presence in the area and attribute the story to rumor and misinformation. Other reports indicate the “disappearance” took place in 1987 and was part of a rural relocation program to alleviate poverty in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Inexplicable Disappearance of a Village in the Qinling Mountains:](https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2010/10/inexplicable-disappearance-of-a-village-in-the-qinling-mountains-ufo-village-vanishing-215958.html) [UFO Village Vanishing?](https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2010/10/inexplicable-disappearance-of-a-village-in-the-qinling-mountains-ufo-village-vanishing-215958.html)” Before It’s News, October 14, 2010; “[China Qinling Mountains Village Vanishing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipvCKd7fFYY) [after UFO \(13/10/2010\),](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipvCKd7fFYY)” Marco Maia YouTube channel, October 14, 2010; “[UFO Abduction of Whole Village](http://en.people.cn/90001/90782/90872/7169274.html) [Exposed As Rumor,](http://en.people.cn/90001/90782/90872/7169274.html)” People’s Daily Online, October 18, 2010; Chris Saunders, “UFOs over China,” Fortean Times 331 \(October 2015\): 31; Robert Foyle Hunwick, “[China Unsolved: The Village That Vanished,](https://supchina.com/2018/07/11/china-unsolved-the-village-that-vanished/)” SupChina, July 11, 2018; Brent Swancer, “[A Mysterious Vanishing Village in China,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/06/a-mysterious-vanishing-village-in-china/)” Mysterious Universe, June 26, 2019; “[Across China: Revisiting a Disappearing Village in Northwest China,](http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-06/17/c%5F139145165.htm)” Xinhua, June 17, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7613 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24658 (082A0F42) Date: 10/23/2010 End date: 10/24/2010 Description: Air Force personnel at Francis E. Warren AFB near Cheyenne, Wyoming, report seeing an enormous cigar-shaped craft maneuvering high above its missile field. The UFO appears similar to an advertising blimp but has no passenger gondola or advertising on its hull. On the same day, the missile site temporarily loses its ability to communicate with 50 of its Minuteman III nuclear missiles. The five Missile Alert Facilities affected, Alpha through Echo, are responsible for launching those ICBMs in time of war and comprise the 319th Strategic Missile Squadron. The Air Force then quickly acknowledges the problem, saying that a backup system could have launched the missiles if necessary and that the breakdown lasted only 59 minutes. But according to two missile technicians stationed at the base, the communications problem, while intermittent, lasts several hours. These confidential sources further report that the commander of the squadron sternly warns its members not to talk to journalists or researchers about “the things they may or may not have seen” in the sky near the missiles in recent months and threatens severe penalties for violating security. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Base ‘Loses’ 50 Missiles](http://www.nicap.org/20101023cheyenne%5Fdir.htm)”; Marc Ambinder, “[Failure Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles,](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/failure-shuts-down-squadron-of-nuclear-missiles/65207/)” The Atlantic, October 26, 2010; Robert L. Hastings, “[Huge UFO Sighted near Nuclear Missiles during October 2010 Launch System Disruption,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/huge-ufo-sighted-near-nuclear-missiles-during-october-2010-launch-system-disruption)” UFOs & Nukes, June 21, 2011; Nukes 515–517 Source ID: Eberhart_7614 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24659 (69CCB053) Date: 11/5/2010 Description: In a letter to Spanish UFO researcher [Ignacio Darnaude](http://www.euroufo.net/2018/07/ignacio-darnaude-rojas-marcos-1931-2018/), admitted Ummo hoaxer [José Luis Jordán Peña](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%5FLuis%5FJord%C3%A1n%5FPe%C3%B1a) elaborates on the reason why he began writing the fake letters. He acknowledges that he used collaborators \(Vicente Ortuno, Norman West, John Child, Mercedes Carrasco, Alberto Borras, Trinidad Pastrana, Sean O’Connelly, Iker J.\) who sent letters from distant places and that he created the fictional character of John Axee to better disseminate his knowledge. He claims he was contacted at the outset by two American doctors, Jonathan F. McGuire and Arnold J. Lebotski \(he previously said that they were CIA agents\), working for a foreign organization who offered him, for a fee, to carry out a sociological experiment in the interest of western culture. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Ummo](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ummo)”; Alain Moreau, “[Ummo: Une imposture?](https://www.mondenouveau.fr/presence-extraterrestre-ummo-une-imposture-ou-pas/)” Les Cles de l’Inexplique; Scott Corrales, “[The](http://www.strangemag.com/ummo.html) [Ummo Experience: Are You Experienced?](http://www.strangemag.com/ummo.html)” Strange Magazine; UmmoWiki, “[Jóse Luis Jordán Peña](https://www.ummowiki.fr/index.php/Jos%C3%A9%5FLuis%5FJord%C3%A1n%5FPe%C3%B1a)” Source ID: Eberhart_7615 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24660 (4AE1D214) Date: 11/14/2010 Description: 6:30 p.m. A swiftly moving light is seen maneuvering in the sky above Logradouro, Ceará, Brazil, apparently following witnesses, for more than 6 hours. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brazil 407–408 Source ID: Eberhart_7616 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24661 (0A0A5A2C) Date: 12/22/2010 Description: The New Zealand Ministry of Defence releases 12 volumes of documents related to UFOs dating from 1952 to 2009. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Suzy Hansen, “[Relinquishing Responsibility? Circumstances Surrounding the Release of the New](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/08/04/relinquishing-responsibility-circumstances-surrounding-the-release-of-the-new-zealand-mod-ufo-files-2010-11/) [Zealand MOD UFO Files 2010/2011,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/08/04/relinquishing-responsibility-circumstances-surrounding-the-release-of-the-new-zealand-mod-ufo-files-2010-11/)” Ufocus.nz, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7617 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24662 (9BBE541B) Date: 12/31/2010 Description: In Boca Raton, Florida at 7:40 p.m. a close encounter occurred with a flashing, egg-shaped object hovering on its side. One-fourth of the object was lit up, resembling a cockpit flashing with white light. It first glided straight for 300 feet, then hovered in one spot. The encountered reportedly lasted 10 minutes. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2010, report uploaded January 5, 2011 Source ID: Johnson_8688 Source: Johnson --- ## Year: 2011 (Back to Top) ### Event 24663 (F99FD6A3) Date: 1/2011 Description: [Philippe Ailleris](http://www.euroufo.net/2011/12/ailleris-philippe-netherland/)[,](http://www.euroufo.net/2011/12/ailleris-philippe-netherland/) amateur astronomer and founder of the Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Reporting Scheme, publishes “UFOs and Exogenous Intelligence Encounters” in the European Space Policy Institute Perspectives newsletter. Although he makes it clear that a large percentage of UFO sightings are explainable, an open-minded approach toward the phenomenon is necessary. He argues that UFOs have had a positive influence on public support for space exploration and SETI, and that 60 years of UFO sightings have opened our minds to the inevitability of direct contact with nonhuman intelligences. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Philippe Ailleris, “[UFOs and Exogenous](http://www.uapreporting.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ESPI%5FPerspectives%5F431.pdf) [Intelligence Encounters,](http://www.uapreporting.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ESPI%5FPerspectives%5F431.pdf)” European Space Policy Institute Perspectives, no. 43 \(January 2011\) Source ID: Eberhart_7618 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24664 (7558C27A) Date: 2/7/2011 Description: James T. Lacatski provides an in-depth briefing to Jim Bell and Sacha Mover of the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate on the accomplishments of the AAWSAP in an attempt to transfer the program out of the Department of Defense. He recounts the BAASS investigations into UAPs and the paranormal events at the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, as well as AAWSAP’s research into advanced technologies. Lacatski works with Sen. [Harry Reid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FReid) \(D-Nev.\) and Sen. [Joe Lieberman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FLieberman) \(I-Conn.\) to attempt to get the BAASS-like project funded. Negotiations and presentations continue through December, but DHS is ultimately uninterested and concerned about negative publicity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 28, 142–143, 148–154 Source ID: Eberhart_7619 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24665 (76836403) Date: 2/11/2011 Description: At around 2:00 a.m. two friends were walking on the beach in Clearwater, Florida when they saw one or more objects over the water. It looked like a formation of triangles going in the same direction with a hazy, "flag like" outer shell waving like a flag in the middle of the ocean, with air distortion due to heat. At first one witness thought it was a flock of birds, but dismissed the idea because his friend, who lived there, said"there aren't any birds out here at this time of night". It went behind a small cloud, but didn't come out the opposite side. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, February 2011 webpage, report uploaded August 16, 2011 Source ID: Johnson_858 Source: Johnson ### Event 24666 (4D65AB6E) Date: 2/11/2011 Description: At 7:14 p.m. two witnesses driving in Elkton, Kentucky saw a flying object that first looked like a radio tower with a flashing light in the middle of two other lights. As they got closer it looked like a cigar-shaped object. However, when it started to move it changed shape into an oval shape, then it turned and came straight at them. As it flew over they saw three lights on the object, one flashing, and it again changed its shape into a diamond. At this point there were there were four lights on the bottom of the object, which appeared to be 15 feet wide and about 10 feet long. As it hovered and flew away it again changed shape into a flying disk. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, February 2011 webpage, report uploaded February 18, 2011 Source ID: Johnson_859 Source: Johnson ### Event 24667 (844E4474) Date: 3/11/2011 Description: 2:46 p.m. A 9.0 Mw earthquake takes place with an epicenter near Honshu, Japan. Immediately after the earthquake, the electricity-producing Reactors 1, 2, and 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, automatically shut down their sustained fission reactions by inserting control rods in a safety procedure referred to as a SCRAM, which ends the reactors’ normal running conditions, by closing down the fission reaction in a controlled manner. Because the reactors are now unable to generate power to run their own coolant pumps, emergency diesel generators come online, as designed, to power electronics and coolant systems. These operate normally until a 46-foot tsunami sweeps over the plant’s seawall and destroys the generators for Reactors 1–5. Large amounts of water contaminated with radioactive isotopes are released into the Pacific Ocean during and after the disaster. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Fukushima nuclear disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima%5Fnuclear%5Fdisaster)” Source ID: Eberhart_7620 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24668 (6133CE50) Date: 3/14/2011 Description: A chevron-shaped object with other satellite orbs was seen low on the horizon in Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick, Canada at 7:10 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2011 Canadian UFO Survey [electronic version], case 176 Source ID: Johnson_1520 Source: Johnson ### Event 24669 (BE132B53) Date: 3/31/2011 Description: The New Zealand Ministry of Defence releases a further 3 volumes of documents related to UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Suzy Hansen, “[Relinquishing Responsibility? Circumstances Surrounding the Release of the New Zealand MOD UFO](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/08/04/relinquishing-responsibility-circumstances-surrounding-the-release-of-the-new-zealand-mod-ufo-files-2010-11/) [Files 2010/2011,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/08/04/relinquishing-responsibility-circumstances-surrounding-the-release-of-the-new-zealand-mod-ufo-files-2010-11/)” Ufocus.nz, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7621 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24670 (B1F811C0) Date: 5/6/2011 Description: The Argentine Air Force creates the Comisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales for the study of aerospace phenomena. Capt. [Moriano Mohaupt](https://ar.linkedin.com/in/mariano-alejandro-mohaupt-29b9b3b7)[,](https://ar.linkedin.com/in/mariano-alejandro-mohaupt-29b9b3b7) Air Force press spokesman, says that the commission is composed of meteorologists, air traffic controllers, pilots, and radar experts, who will look into sightings. Since 2015 it has been managed with rigor and transparency by Commodore Rubén Lianza. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Argentina Creates UFO Commission,” IUR 34, no. 1 \(Sep. 2011\): 21; Milton Hourcade, “[Argentina: UFO Declassification,](https://www.uapsg.com/2020/07/argentina-ufo-declassification.html)” U.A.P.S.G.– G.E.F.A.I., July 29, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7622 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24671 (6DAEA050) Date: 5/8/2011 Description: An object like a "black vampire cape" with a "glowing lantern" flew over Ste. Anne, Manitoba at 9:00 p.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2011 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 310, citing www.ufoinfo.com Source ID: Johnson_2671 Source: Johnson ### Event 24672 (F131A4D4) Date: 5/9/2011 Description: A mile-long dark object with a V formation of lights was sighted in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada at 2:10 a.m. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2011 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 318 Source ID: Johnson_2710 Source: Johnson ### Event 24673 (49FA1E78) Date: 5/19/2011 Description: At 10:00 p.m. Restoule, Parry Sound, Ontario a red light moved from southwest to northwest, stopped, flew down and then away. At 11:10 p.m. dark objects on a "crooked triangle" of red lights passed near witnesses in Dryden, Ontario. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, 2011 Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 329 & 331 Source ID: Johnson_3002 Source: Johnson ### Event 24674 (25737F3C) Date: 6/6/2011 Description: 8:00 p.m. A Mrs. Beata is walking her dog in the Baranówka neighborhood of Rzeszów, Poland. She sees an elliptical, dull metallic object crossing the sky just above the trees about 180 feet away. It is about 30–50 feet long and 15–30 feet across and completely silent. It disappears after emitting some flashes of light from its perimeter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 155–156 Source ID: Eberhart_7623 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24675 (DC00B348) Date: 7/2011 Description: Igor Kalytyuk begins publishing Novosti Ufologii, an online UFO newsletter, in Rivne, Ukraine. It continues through December 2016, accompanied by occasional special bulletins of the Ufology News Project from 2012 to 2018. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Novosti Ufologii](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Ukraine/Ufology%20News%20%28Kalytyuk%29/Ufology%20News%20-%20No%2001%20-%20July%202011.pdf)[,](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Ukraine/Ufology%20News%20%28Kalytyuk%29/Ufology%20News%20-%20No%2001%20-%20July%202011.pdf) no. 1 \(July 2011\); “[About the Ufology News Project](http://ufology-news.com/o-proekte)” Source ID: Eberhart_7624 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24676 (B4E5F5EB) Date: 8/2011 Description: The UK National Archives makes available its first batch of Ministry of Defence UFO files from 1985 to 1995, followed shortly afterward by files for 1997 and 1998–2000. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK National Archives, “[Briefing Document:](https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/ufo-research-guide-2013.pdf) [Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFOs\),](https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/ufo-research-guide-2013.pdf)” 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7625 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24677 (9A15F14D) Date: 9/11/2011 Description: 5:00 a.m. An 18-year-old girl in Baborów, Poland, is awakened by a light from a blue triangular object hovering outside her bedroom window. Its contours are outlined with white halogen-like lights and there is what looks like a hatch in its center from which a mist is emanating. She can feel the heat from the object on her face and forehead. The object departs to the west but does not disappear until 6:30 a.m. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 100–101 Source ID: Eberhart_7626 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24678 (6654B30B) Date: 11/2011 Description: Out of its 1,170 fully investigated UFO cases, the French UFO agency GEIPAN shows that 22% are unidentified. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Swords 453 Source ID: Eberhart_7627 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 2012 (Back to Top) ### Event 24679 (ADA44B77) Date: 1/30/2012 Description: The witness was driving on Interstate 95 near exit 26 in Waltham, Massachusetts at 8:55 p.m. At the time there were construction crews working on both sides of the highway. He next saw a rectangular craft in the sky flashing red and white lights at about the height of a street light. It stretched across the three left lanes of the highway. The craft did not move and appeared dark with flashing lights and a couple of dome-shaped windows. It made absolutely no noise. It had a narrow beam of light that was directed down at the state troopers. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. Half an hour later, driving on the opposite side of the highway, the witness noted that the construction crews had gone, but the state troopers were still there, looking confused. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2009 webpage, report uploaded March 19, 2012 Source ID: Johnson_632 Source: Johnson ### Event 24680 (20A44A7D) Date: 2/18/2012 Description: 2:00 p.m. A father and son, both pilots, are in their propellor-driven Mooney Ovation II flying at 7,480 feet. Shortly after they cross the border of Virginia from Charlotte, North Carolina, they prepare to land in Richmond. Above Chase City, Virginia, the father unexpectedly sees a bright, glowing sphere about 30 feet in diameter flying alongside the aircraft. As the UFO begins to soar about 50 feet away from the right wing, the plane loses power. All of the electrical equipment \(including the computer\) suddenly turns off. A few seconds later, the plane regains all systems as the UFO swiftly shoots away at an incredible speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Aircraft](http://www.nicap.org/20120218chasecity%5Fdir.htm) [Encounters UFO and E-M Effects](http://www.nicap.org/20120218chasecity%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7628 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24681 (0C731B01) Date: 3/2012 Description: The Center for UFO Studies publishes the final issue of the International UFO Reporter. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Source ID: Eberhart_7629 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24682 (E2C9F27C) Date: 4/13/2012 Description: Afternoon. Mihnea Mustaţa and other observers north of Ploieşti, Romania, watch a white, hat-shaped object passing over a field to the east at about 53 mph toward the village of Pleaşa. It disappears for a few minutes and reappears in a different location. Starting at 2:28 p.m., Mustaţa takes several photos of the object before it disappears, accompanied by several balls of light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 80–82 Source ID: Eberhart_7630 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24683 (D11E14EF) Date: 5/10/2012 Description: 3:00 p.m. Workers at a warehouse in Rzeszów, Poland, see a group of spherical objects converging from various directions to a point where a large object shaped like a “screw-thread” is hovering. Two spheres fly away after maneuvering in the air. The other objects disappear Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 155 Source ID: Eberhart_7631 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24684 (117D3F62) Date: 5/10/2012 Description: 9:30 p.m. A witness in Hermanowa, Poland, watches a light approach him until it is only 100 feet away, only 6–10 feet above his neighbor’s house. An identical object, also about 1 foot in diameter, on the same flight path appears and stops in the same position above the adjacent house. After 20 seconds, it veers off at an angle of 130° and both objects fly away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 155 Source ID: Eberhart_7632 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24685 (894D8C56) Date: Late 5/2012 Description: Evening. Two wind-farm engineers are on top of a 4–5 story building in Mamaia-Set, Romania, when they see a large V-formation consisting of clusters of three lights approaching at high speed from the south. The formation crosses the sky in 4–5 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 82–83 Source ID: Eberhart_7633 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24686 (BD888A83) Date: 7/2012 Description: The UK National Archives opens more UFO policy files, covering 1995–1997, 1997–1998, and 2002–2008. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK National Archives, “[Briefing Document: Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFOs\),](https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/ufo-research-guide-2013.pdf)” 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7634 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24687 (2EE8C909) Date: 7/5/2012 Description: 10:04 p.m. A security camera at a well site in the Eagle Ford Shale Field near Cotulla, Texas, snaps an image of what appears to be a 60-foot-diameter object with an array of four lights hovering above the caliche pad of an oil well. Later, in October, workers at the site report UFOs in the night sky. One of them named Xavier Garza takes a blurry video of a reddish-orange orb in the northern sky. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Observers Think UFOs Hovered above the Eagle Ford](https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local%5Fnews/article/Of-black-gold-and-little-green-men-4189853.php) [Shale,](https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local%5Fnews/article/Of-black-gold-and-little-green-men-4189853.php)” San Antonio \(Tex.\) News-Express, January 12, 2013; “[Cotulla 2012: Security Camera Shows UFO](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=171) [Hovering over South Texas Oil Field,](http://roswellbooks.com/museum/?page%5Fid=171)” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library Source ID: Eberhart_7635 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24688 (B26323F1) Date: 8/1/2012 End date: 8/15/2012 Description: Indian Army troops deployed along the Chinese border from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradash report as many as 100 UFO sightings. The 14th Corps, which is deployed in the Kargil and Leh districts and patrols the frontier with China, sends reports to Army headquarters about sightings by an Indo-Tibetan Border Police unit in the Thakung district near lake Pangong Tso in the Himalayas. The reports describe yellowish spheres that appear to lift off from the horizon on the Chinese side and slowly traverse the sky for 3–5 hours before disappearing. The Army uses a mobile ground-based radar unit and a spectrum analyzer to verify the identity of the UFOs, but they cannot track the spheres on radar. Officials insist the objects are not Chinese drones. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Over 100 UFOs Seen](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Over-100-UFOs-seen-along-China-border/articleshow/17109185.cms) [along China Border,](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Over-100-UFOs-seen-along-China-border/articleshow/17109185.cms)” Times of India, November 6, 2012; Dirk Vander Ploeg, “[Chinese, Russian, and Indian](https://www.ufodigest.com/article/chinese-russian-and-indian-troops-jointly-spot-ufos/) [Troops Jointly Spot UFOs,](https://www.ufodigest.com/article/chinese-russian-and-indian-troops-jointly-spot-ufos/)” UFO Digest, March 16, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7636 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24689 (B79596AB) Date: 8/3/2012 Description: Kathleen Marden reports on a survey of abductees in which 38% report seeing hybrids, usually in a large facility along with humans being examined. These respondents see short and tall gray humanoids along with a few mantis-like, reptilian, Nordic, and occasional rarer types. One surprise finding is that 40% suffer chronic fatigue syndrome or mononucleosis. They also report examinations focused on glandular tissue, especially the thymus, a gland that has been implicated in these illnesses. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kathleen Marden, “Abduction Experiencers’ Perception of the Alien Agenda,” MUFON 2012 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, August 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_7637 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24690 (EC3BEBAB) Date: 9/19/2012 Description: 9:45 p.m. Jennifer Styer is driving north on Antelope Lane near Roy, Montana, when she sees two V- shaped objects to the northwest that speed silently toward her. They have orange lights on each arm and are flying in a straight line quite close to each other. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert L. Hastings, “[UFOs Reported near Malmstrom AFB’s Nuclear](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/ufos-reported-near-malmstrom-afbs-nuclear-missile-sites-in-september-2012) [Missile Sites in September 2012,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/ufos-reported-near-malmstrom-afbs-nuclear-missile-sites-in-september-2012)” UFOs & Nukes, November 4, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_7638 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24691 (EBD143AC) Date: 9/21/2012 Description: 8:30 pm. Dale Uhler and his wife are driving north-northwest of Moccasin, Montana, two miles north of the intersection of North Star and Fieldstone roads when they notice a bar-shaped, yellow-orange light about 30°– 35° above the horizon. It then splits into three lights, which persist for about 20 seconds before disappearing. A second witness on the Old Musselshell Trail south of the Missouri River, Montana, sees what may be the same display, which appears to him as four orange lights that appear and disappear in sequence. A third witness, about 20 miles east of Roy, Montana, also sees the lights to the north. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert L. Hastings, “[UFOs Reported near](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/ufos-reported-near-malmstrom-afbs-nuclear-missile-sites-in-september-2012) [Malmstrom AFB’s Nuclear Missile Sites in September 2012,](https://www.ufohastings.com/index.php/articles/ufos-reported-near-malmstrom-afbs-nuclear-missile-sites-in-september-2012)” UFOs & Nukes, November 4, 2012 Source ID: Eberhart_7639 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24692 (BA6609AE) Date: Late 2012 Description: The U.S. Air Force declassified a trove of documents, including records of a secret program to build a flying saucer-type aircraft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers. The ambitious program, called Project 1794, was initiated in the 1950s, and a team of engineers was tasked with building a disc-shape vehicle capable of traveling at supersonic speeds at high altitudes. The declassified documents reveal plans for the plane to reach a top speed of Mach 4 (four times the speed of sound), and reach an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters). The project's estimated cost was more than $3 million, which in today's dollars would be more than $26 million. Project 1794 was cancelled in December 1961 after tests suggested the flying saucer design was aerodynamically unstable and would likely be uncontrollable at high speeds (let alone supersonic speeds). Type: secret project Type: declassified documents Reference: [Mike Colangelo](https://twitter.com/MikeColangelo/status/1620153118540578816) Reference: [livescience.com: Flying saucers to mind control: 24 declassified military & CIA secrets](https://www.livescience.com/declassified-military-secrets) Location: US See also: 12/1961 Source ID: Maj2_818 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 2013 (Back to Top) ### Event 24693 (9A632E63) Date: 2013 Description: The Pentagon’s black budget is at $52.6 billion, according to documents leaked by former contractor [Edward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FSnowden) [Snowden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FSnowden)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FSnowden) Although the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence spending since 2007, it does not divulge how it uses the money or how it performs against the goals set by the president and Congress. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Black Budget’ Summary Details U.S. Spy Network’s Successes, Failures, and Objectives,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives/2013/08/29/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972%5Fstory.html)” Washington Post, August 29, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7640 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24694 (0E36FC76) Date: 1/4/2013 Description: Night. Dogs belonging to Carlos Torres of Pine Bush, New York, become noisy and agitated. When he goes outside, he sees a huge rectangular object blocking out the stars and moving silently overhead. His young daughter is terrified. It takes 2 minutes to travel out of sight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 125 Source ID: Eberhart_7641 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24695 (521F2199) Date: 1/8/2013 Description: 4:00 a.m. Two policemen in a village near Nysa, Poland, notice distant lights that appear and reappear. At one point, they stop their patrol car to observe the light, which is changing shape and radiating a number of colored lights. The light approaches them and stops a half-mile away. Small points of light break off from its base, some returning into it and others disappearing in mid-air. The primary light then gives off a stroboscopic flash of light that illuminates a large area. The officers drive away, but the light follows them. They stop again at a parking lot and see that the light is coming from a domed disc emitting dazzling yellow lights. Three blue lights are on its base. They drive off again, but the object paces them at a distance of about one mile. Both officers experience strong anxiety during the sighting, and there is a possible element of missing time. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 110–114 Source ID: Eberhart_7642 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24696 (4B49D3C9) Date: 1/12/2013 Description: 8:20 p.m. A married couple pull out of their driveway in West Melbourne, Florida, to go out to dinner. As the couple drive west down their street, they see three bright lights in a row in the sky. They assume that the lights are Chinese lanterns, since they are all at or above the same elevation. As they draw closer, they realize that the lights form a single object. As the object turns, the lights are in a pyramidal shape \(indicating rotation of the object that causes the three horizontal lights to appear like a pyramid\). At the same time, the object bolts away at an incredible speed and disappears in a few seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Pyramid-Shaped Object Observed by Couple](http://www.nicap.org/20130112melbourne%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7643 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24697 (74BD82AE) Date: 3/5/2013 Description: 5:30 p.m. A witness in the Słocina neighborhood of Rzeszów, Poland, lets her cat outside, but it panics. She looks up and sees strange lights about a quarter of a mile away. She looks through binoculars and sees that the lights are attached to an object with a cupola hovering about 650 feet above some houses in the area. It flies away to the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 157 Source ID: Eberhart_7644 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24698 (EE896FBF) Date: 3/19/2013 End date: 3/20/2013 Description: In the early hours of March 19, a couple living in a rural section of Warkworth, New Zealand, see a blue flash and hear a loud explosion that causes the building to shake. The next morning they find their telephone service is out and their fax machine’s circuitry is melted. Around midnight on March 20, the woman is watching TV while her husband has gone to bed. She hears a loud sound like jet engines thrusting and goes outside to see a large, black isosceles triangle about 800 feet away and 600 feet in the air, slowly rising among the treetops. It drifts sideways and gradually turns or pivots. The underside of the craft is flat and smooth, a pale pearly metallic color. It has three reddish-orange rings with black centers, one at each point of the triangle, which resemble hot glowing metal rather than actual lights. In the center of the underside is a white strobe light, rotating with a circular movement and casting an intermittent short beam of light. She watches it for 20 seconds as it moves above the house, tilts its nose upwards, and rises more quietly up the ridge-line behind the house, briefly pausing near a transmitter mast positioned on the top of the hill. From there it gains altitude rapidly and suddenly shoots away at phenomenal speed and disappears within seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Suzy Hansen, “[Sightings of a ‘Black Triangle’](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/23/sightings-of-black-triangle-aircraft-2013/) [\(Air\)craft, 2013,](https://ufocusnz.org.nz/2020/07/23/sightings-of-black-triangle-aircraft-2013/)” Ufocus.nz, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7645 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24699 (3C307F7A) Date: 3/31/2013 Description: Twilight. A young couple watches a triangular formation of lights hovering above a forest near Biała, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It looks to be about 400 feet wide. After a change in position it moves off in the direction of Chojnów to the south. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 95–96 Source ID: Eberhart_7646 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24700 (162062EF) Date: 4/18/2013 Description: Members of the Brazilian Ufologists Commission meet with representatives of the Brazilian armed forces at the Ministry of Defense to discuss gaining access to military documents involving UFOs. Attendees determine that Navy, Army, and Air Force documents related to UFOs are to be made public, as established by the law on access to information. More than 10,000 pages of previously confidential documents are released to the public and are available at the National Archives in Brasilia and online. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Alejandro Rojas, “[UFO Researchers Meet with](http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-researchers-meet-with-brazilian-ministry-of-defense-990/20445) [Brazilian Ministry of Defense,](http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-researchers-meet-with-brazilian-ministry-of-defense-990/20445)” OpenMinds, April 26, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7647 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24701 (7EC5EDC1) Date: 4/25/2013 Description: 9:20 p.m. An unknown object flying at a low altitude passes directly above the Rafael Hernández Airport runway in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, causing the delayed departure of a commercial aircraft. No transponder signal or other communication from the object alerts the airport tower, creating a dangerous situation with departures and arrivals. The pilots of an airborne US Customs and Border Protection De Havilland Canada Dash 8 turboprop aircraft see a pinkish or reddish light over the ocean in their vicinity, so they film the object on infrared thermal video. The object is 3–5 feet in length and its speed varies from 40 to 120 mph. The 3-minute footage shows the flight of an object that crosses into northwestern Puerto Rico from the Atlantic Ocean, traverses the space over the airport twice, then returns to the Atlantic where it apparently submerges. Its speed through the water reaches a high of 95 mph. Chemist [Robert Powell](https://ufocongress.com/robert-powell-2/) and five other members of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies later obtain the video and subject it to a thorough analysis. Their conclusion in 2018 is that the video is the “best documentation of an unknown aerial and submerged nautical object exhibiting advanced technology” that the authors have seen. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert Powell, et al., “[2013 Aguadilla Puerto Rico UAP: The Detailed Analysis of an](https://www.explorescu.org/post/2013-aguadilla-puerto-rico-uap-incident-report-a-detailed-analysis) [Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon Captured by the Department of Homeland Security,](https://www.explorescu.org/post/2013-aguadilla-puerto-rico-uap-incident-report-a-detailed-analysis)” Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, August 15, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7648 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24702 (D3C6EAAE) Date: 4/29/2013 End date: 5/3/2013 Description: [Stephen Bassett](http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/stephenbassett.html)’s Paradigm Research Group holds a Citizens Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Forty UFO researchers, along with political and military representatives \([Robert](https://ufology.fandom.com/wiki/Robert%5FSalas) [Salas](https://ufology.fandom.com/wiki/Robert%5FSalas)[,](https://ufology.fandom.com/wiki/Robert%5FSalas) [Paul Hellyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FHellyer)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FHellyer) [Nick Pope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FPope%5F%28journalist%29)\), testify to six former members of the US Congress: [Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn%5FCheeks%5FKilpatrick)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn%5FCheeks%5FKilpatrick) [Merrill Cook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill%5FCook)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill%5FCook) [Lynn Woolsey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn%5FWoolsey)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn%5FWoolsey) [Darlene Hooley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlene%5FHooley)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlene%5FHooley) [Roscoe Bartlett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FBartlett)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%5FBartlett) and [Mike Gravel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FGravel)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FGravel) The witnesses speak for 30 hours over five days. The panel reaches the conclusion that the US government and other governments need to share what is known about UFO sightings and the United Nations should take the subject of UFOs seriously. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Richard B. Muhammad, “[What Is the Truth about UFOs?](http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National%5FNews%5F2/article%5F9830.shtml)” The Final Call, May 7, 2013; “[Citizen Hearing on](https://www.the-unidentified.net/citizen-hearing-on-disclosure-2013/) [Disclosure \(2013\),](https://www.the-unidentified.net/citizen-hearing-on-disclosure-2013/)” The Unidentified, May 27, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7649 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24703 (FDE89046) Date: 6/2013 Description: Researcher [David Marler](https://davidmarlerufo.com/bio) publishes Triangular UFOs, an evaluation of hundreds of reports of delta-shaped UFOs seen worldwide. Marler assesses whether these represent an extraterrestrial UFO visitation or a secret project developed by one or more governments. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Marler, Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation, Richard Dolan Press, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7650 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24704 (07C3DFC6) Date: 6/1/2013 Description: At about 10:05 p.m. on Saturday evening a women and her 3-year-old child had just pulled out of a convenience store on U.S. Route 30 in North Huntindon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and turned left toward Greensburg. As she drove along she noticed a large object hovering over the highway. She said out loud, "What in the world is that?" Her youngster in the backseat responded, "Look mommy, a flying iPad in the sky!" She looked around and noticed there were no other cars on the road. She was quite concerned and stopped, about 150 feet away from the hovering craft. The object was completely silent and hovered approximately 60 feet above the roadway. She described it as looking "mostly rectangular...like the gondola of a blimp without the blimp." It extended over the east and westbound lanes, and was estimated to be about 55 feet long, and 35-40 feet tall.

The witness described the object as two-tiered. The top section had five sets of green lights. There were three individual lights in each set, and the five sets were all evenly spaced and not blinking. The green color was brighter than the green of a traffic light. The bottom section was smaller; it contained two long solid red lights ther were placed side by side. These lights were steady and gave the impression of looking like brake lights, but they were huge. The woman called her mother on her bluetooth cell phone. She asked her mother if she had any explanation of what she was looking at, but as she drove under it the digital dashboard display, her cell phone signal, and her FM radio all blacked out. The witness attempted to take a photo with her iPhone, but the camera function wouldn't load.

She accelerated down the highway to get away from the object. About half a mile away she looked back and could no longer see the object. The digital displays all returned to normal, her radio came back on, and she was able to make cell phone contact again with her mother as she approached the Adamsburg exit. When she got home she discussed what had happened with her family, and they urged her to draw a sketch of the object while the even was still fresh in her memory. Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Albert Rosales, Humanoid and other strange encounters Facebook group, citing Stan Gordon, Stan Gordon's UFO Anomalies Zone Source ID: Johnson_3216 Source: Johnson ### Event 24705 (FFAE5DE5) Date: 6/5/2013 Description: Based on material supplied to them by former National Security Agency contractor [Edward Snowden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FSnowden), The Guardian exposes a top-secret court order showing that the NSA has collected phone records from over 120 million Verizon subscribers. Under the order, the numbers of both parties on a call, as well as the location data, unique identifiers, time of call, and duration of call are handed over to the FBI, which turns over the records to the NSA. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Global surveillance disclosures \(2013–present\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%5Fsurveillance%5Fdisclosures%5F%282013%E2%80%93present%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_7651 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24706 (B1A41723) Date: 6/6/2013 Description: The Guardian and the Washington Post reveal the existence of the PRISM surveillance program \(which collects the emails, voice, text, and video messages of foreigners and an unknown number of Americans from Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, and other tech giants\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[PRISM \(surveillance program\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM%5F%28surveillance%5Fprogram%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_7652 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24707 (67A77C99) Date: 6/14/2013 Description: US prosecutors charge [Edward Snowden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FSnowden) with espionage and theft of government property, but in late July he is granted temporary asylum by the Russian government. The extent to which the media reports have responsibly informed the public is disputed. In January 2014, President [Obama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack%5FObama) says that “the sensational way in which these disclosures have come out has often shed more heat than light” and critics such as [Sean Wilentz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%5FWilentz) note that many of the Snowden documents do not concern domestic surveillance. The US and UK Defense establishment weigh the strategic harm in the period following the disclosures more heavily than their civic public benefit. In its first assessment of these disclosures, the Pentagon concludes that Snowden committed the biggest “theft” of US secrets in the history of the United States. Sir [David Omand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FOmand), a former director of GCHQ, described Snowden’s disclosure as the “most catastrophic loss to British intelligence ever.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Global surveillance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%5Fsurveillance%5Fdisclosures%5F%282013%E2%80%93present%29) [disclosures \(2013–present\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%5Fsurveillance%5Fdisclosures%5F%282013%E2%80%93present%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_7653 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24708 (73E9E45E) Date: 6/19/2013 Description: A triangular object with lights in each tip is seen at Szklarska Poręba, Poland. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 98 Source ID: Eberhart_7654 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24709 (48BD5C1B) Date: 6/21/2013 Description: The UK National Archives releases another batch of 209 UFO files, approximately 52,000 pages, covering 2009. The full set of files show that the Ministry of Defence received an average of 150 sightings annually from 2000 to 2007, increasing to 643 in 2009. This is supposed to be the final batch, but more files are discovered later. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Britain’s Defense Ministry Releases Its Final UFO Files,](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/21/britain-defense-ministry-ufo-files-document-declassified/2445933/)” USA Today, June 21, 2013; UK National Archives, “[Briefing Document: Unidentified Flying Objects \(UFOs\),](https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/ufo-research-guide-2013.pdf)” 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7655 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24710 (88703CF9) Date: 6/25/2013 Description: The CIA publicly acknowledges the existence of Area 51 for the first time, following a FOIA request filed in 2005, and it declassifies documents detailing its history and purpose. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Area 51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%5F51)” Source ID: Eberhart_7656 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24711 (D943113A) Date: 6/27/2013 Description: 12:20 p.m. An F/A-18F Super Hornet from Strike Fighter Squadron 11 \(VFA-11, the “Red Rippers”\), flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has an encounter with an “aircraft \[that\] was white in color and approximately the size and shape of a drone or missile” in the W-72 warning area, a patch of airspace off the coast of Virginia and North Carolina. The jet’s crew visually acquires it as they see it “pass down the right side of their aircraft with approximately 200 feet of lateral separation” while flying at an altitude of 17,000 feet. It is climbing and has a visible exhaust trail. Neither the Super Hornet nor NAS Oceana records a radar track of the object. The Navy tells units to be aware of the potential hazards posed by unauthorized or uncoordinated drone operations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “[Here Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast) [Mysterious Aircraft off the East Coast,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast)” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7657 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24712 (318D4BBE) Date: 7/15/2013 Description: 10:00 p.m. A 60-year-old postal worker and his wife see a rectangular-shaped object maneuver through the sky and come within 100 feet of them in Bellingham, Washington. It executes precise turns that avoid electrical poles, wires, and streetlights. The object’s color changes from a glowing red to a dull gray as it performs a banking turn and comes to a standstill. The color change is not uniform because it begins at the top of the object and moves downward. The object appears about the size of a large SUV, and at its closest approach it is about palm-width in size at arm’s length. The wife sees it as tumbling along its central axis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Rectangular Object Viewed at](http://www.nicap.org/20130715bellingham%5Fdir.htm) [100ʹ](http://www.nicap.org/20130715bellingham%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7658 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24713 (716707F5) Date: 7/19/2013 Description: 6:35 p.m. The pilot of a Thomas Cook Airbus A320 cruising at 34,000 feet near Reading, Berkshire, England, sees a silvery metallic object shaped like a rugby ball streak within a few feet of his cockpit on his left-hand side. The UK Airprox Board rules out another aircraft or weather balloon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Phil Davies, “[Thomas Cook Aircraft in](https://travelweekly.co.uk/articles/46748/thomas-cook-aircraft-in-ufo-near-miss) [UFO ‘Near Miss,’](https://travelweekly.co.uk/articles/46748/thomas-cook-aircraft-in-ufo-near-miss)” Travel Weekly, January 24, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_7659 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24714 (59CD9841) Date: 8/1/2013 Description: Night. A group of young people at Góra Ossona in Częstochowa, Poland, see a triangular object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 98 Source ID: Eberhart_7660 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24715 (8D145991) Date: 8/3/2013 Description: 10:30–11:00 p.m. Witnesses in multiple points in Poland report three successive sightings of unidentified triangular objects. A woman in Lubliniec walking her dog sees a giant boomerang floating silently to the west only about 150 feet above her housing estate. It has dim symmetrical lights that are the same intensity as stars and is about 65 feet long. A young couple in Łosice watches a dark, triangular UFO with gray-violet colored lights. An engineer in Dobrzykowice observes a high-altitude, delta-shaped formation of lights. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 96–97 Source ID: Eberhart_7661 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24716 (234BFEFA) Date: 8/6/2013 Description: A West Coast man was “freaked out” after coming face to face with a UFO that was parked on the road outside the entrance to Shantytown. Matthew Robert, a mechanic from Rutherglen, New Zealand reported that at 8:45 p.m. he and three other cars were confronted by a night-time visitor on Rutherglen Road, south of Greymouth.

When the car-shaped object suddenly lifted into the sky in a blinding light, he and the other drivers left in such a hurry they left skid marks on the road. "I was changing a CD as I was driving and when I looked up, I saw what looked like a car without its lights on, stopped in the middle of the road outside Shantytown. I slammed on my brakes and my eyes were still trying to focus, when suddenly the thing just lit up and shot into the sky," Mr. Robert said. "When I came to my senses I noticed that there were three other cars that had stopped on the other side of the road as well. It's weird that no one else has come forward because those people obviously would have seen the same thing I did." He reports that immediately following the incident he lost all cellphone reception, his vision was blurry, and his eyes were watery for about an hour afterwards.

Mr. Robert was driving into Greymouth at the time to pick up his partner, Charlotte Rose, from work at the hospital. He arrived there wide-eyed and agitated. Ms. Rose said he was visibly shaken. "I just looked at him and I could tell something bad had happened, he was freaked out and his eyes were watery," Ms Rose said. Mr. Robert hoped the witnesses from the other cars would also come forward and confirm what he saw. One vehicle was a Mitsubishi Chariot, and another a Honda Accord. He did not have a description of the third vehicle. "I know people are going to think that it's crazy, but I know what I saw." Reference: [Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html) Reference: Nikki-Leigh Wilson, Greymouth Star, New Zealand, August 7, 2013 Source ID: Johnson_4756 Source: Johnson ### Event 24717 (2F372919) Date: 8/14/2013 Description: Night. An amateur astronomer in Lublin, Poland, is tracking an object in an orbital trajectory. Close-up, it resembles a rocket with a triangular contour, crimson-red color, and yellowish center. A smaller isosceles triangle seems to be embedded in it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 98 Source ID: Eberhart_7662 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24718 (DE5F8830) Date: 8/18/2013 Description: 7:00 p.m. A family that owns a dacha in Tyczyn, Poland, watches a wingless object with spear-shaped panels maneuvering slowly and silently above them. It has an apparently rotating blinking light and is making constant turns and ascents. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 101–102 Source ID: Eberhart_7663 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24719 (A838C6CB) Date: 8/20/2013 Description: 9:45 p.m. Three vehicles pull over on Homer Watson Boulevard just west of Doon South Drive in Kitchener, Ontario, to observe a strange object that is crossing in front of them. The highway lighting makes it easy to see a spherical object 30 feet in diameter move very slowly across the freeway just above the utility poles. The object, only a few hundred feet from the stopped cars, is apparently solid with a glow that illuminates the trees as it passed by. The primary witness exits his car and attempts to take a photo with his cellphone, but its camera functions are dead. He continues to watch the object for another 45 seconds. Once the object leaves, the cellphone operates properly again. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[E-M Effects from Sphere near Highway](http://www.nicap.org/20130820canada%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7664 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24720 (92E9A0FD) Date: 8/28/2013 Description: 9:40 p.m. A three-man hunting party observes a barbell-shaped object within 400 feet of their camp in rural Ontario. The object interferes with the operation of their Motorola radio, a cellphone, and a Sony Cybershot video camera. The object is in view for about 5 minutes. The primary witness owns a company that receives Department of Defense contracts and puts together a 17-page report and a video on the sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON case file Source ID: Eberhart_7665 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24721 (BA083F47) Date: 9/9/2013 Description: Two witnesses in Sokółka, Poland, see a gigantic triangular UFO flying by in a few seconds. \(Poland 98\) September 12 — Night. A delta-shaped UFO is seen above Franciszka Hynka street, Warsaw, Poland. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 98 Source ID: Eberhart_7666 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24722 (371AE2C1) Date: 10/2013 Description: Peru reopens its Departamento de Investigación de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos \(DIFFA\), which had closed in 2008, as a result of “increased sightings of anomalous aerial phenomena” in the country’s skies. DIFAA will bring together sociologists, archaeologists, astronomers, meteorologists, and Air Force personnel to analyze these events. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Peru Reopens UFO Investigation Office,](https://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20131028-peru-reopens-ufo-investigation-office)” Homeland Security News Wire, October 28, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7667 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24723 (9A541E3A) Date: 10/1/2013 Description: The first-generation Air Force Satellite Surveillance System ceases operation. The main advantage of the system was its ability to provide uncued data on new objects as opposed to tracking objects based on existing information. However, the system was also said to be inherently inaccurate due to its dated design. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Air Force Space Surveillance System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%5FForce%5FSpace%5FSurveillance%5FSystem\#2013%5FShutdown)” Source ID: Eberhart_7668 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24724 (0772CC27) Date: 10/6/2013 Description: 9:00 p.m. A father and daughter are traveling west on Highway 40 through Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado, when the father notices two white lights in the distance. The dimmer of the two begins to descend erratically. It seems to wave back and forth, rather than just move straight down, as it disappears behind a stand of tall pine trees. Then the brighter light begins to grow as it approaches quickly. He tells his daughter to look up, and she immediately sees the object as it speeds toward them. The white light develops a red border that transitions into a solid red light. A very short bright green line also appears just below and to the immediate left of the solid red light. The object then slows and swerves to the north. When the object is positioned just to the left and in front of them, it drops in elevation and begins to pass slowly overhead. The father sees that the short green line is actually a long, flat, bright, rectangular strip. Both note how crisp and clear the green box angles are and how there is no glow, given the brightness of the green light. The father, who had previously worked with low-powered lasers, identifies the green color as exactly 532nm. They cannot see any reflections on the body or wings. The object slows almost to a hover as it passes above them. Once the object passes out of view to the rear, they are unable to see it again out the back window or in the rearview mirrors. They do not want to stop and get a better look. The father comments that he has never seen a solid object emit such a bright green light. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Solid Object Emits](http://www.nicap.org/20131006colorado%5Fdir.htm) [Bright Green Light](http://www.nicap.org/20131006colorado%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7669 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24725 (A19527EE) Date: 10/13/2013 Description: 12:05 a.m. A Mr. Mateusz notices a large boomerang-shaped object with yellow lights flying above Pabianice, Poland, from northeast to west. It is surrounded by a hazy mist or glow, making it seem semi- transparent. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Poland 97 Source ID: Eberhart_7670 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24726 (766D4CF1) Date: 11/1/2013 Description: Media outlets report that Skunk Works has been working on an unmanned reconnaissance airplane it has named SR-72, which can fly twice as fast as the SR-71 at Mach 6. However, USAF is officially pursuing the Northrop Grumman RQ-180 UAV to take up the SR-71’s strategic surveillance role. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Lockheed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FSR-71%5FBlackbird) [SR-71 Blackbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%5FSR-71%5FBlackbird)”; Guy Norris, “Exclusive: Skunk Works Reveals SR-71 Successor Plan,” Aviation Week, November 1, 2013 Source ID: Eberhart_7671 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24727 (E59D1989) Date: 11/8/2013 Description: 4:36 p.m. Two witnesses are driving on the Ring Road around Bucharest, Romania, near the exit for the Autostrada Soarelui. They see a light-brown cylinder-shaped object rotating on its axis and hovering silently above some high-voltage power lines. They watch it for 10 minutes until it disappears suddenly without moving. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Romania 83–84 Source ID: Eberhart_7672 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24728 (48A2C237) Date: 11/18/2013 Description: 12:55 p.m. An F/A-18E Super Hornet from Strike Fighter Squadron 143 \(VFA-143, the “Pukin Dogs”\), flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, spots an object in the W-72 warning zone via radar off its nose at around 12,000 feet and a speed of approximately 0.1 Mach. “The aircraft had an approximately 5-foot wingspan and was colored white with no other distinguishable features,” according to the pilot, who is able to visually acquire the object and track it for one hour. The Navy concludes that this object is an unmanned aerial system \(UAS\), but that Commander, Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic and Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility, Virginia Capes \(FASCFAC VACAPES\), the latter of which is also identified here by its callsign “Giant Killer,” is not able to ascertain the operator. A Navy vessel is in the area traveling south, but the Navy is unable to identify it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “[Here Are the Navy Pilot Reports from](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast) [Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off the East Coast,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast)” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7673 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24729 (5CE80E12) Date: 11/19/2013 Description: 6:20 p.m. Two witnesses, each with 30+ years experience as Army and Air Force aircraft maintenance technicians, see a huge triangular UFO that flies from north to south about 500 feet above them near Adel, Georgia. The surface of the object is not clear and has a rippling effect like “a heat mirage down the road on a hot summer’s day.” There are no anti-collision lights required for all aircraft. The object has a wingspan larger than a C-5A cargo plane and flies slowly at 12–17 mph with absolutely no noise. The rear of the object displays a row of white pulsing lights that are set back or surrounded by a shroud. As the object moves further away, a small drone- like object is seen flying alongside on the left. Soon it banks to the southeast, allowing them to see clearly its triangular shape. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: NICAP, “[Triangular UFO Observed by Experienced Military Men](http://www.nicap.org/20131119valdosta%5Fdir.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7674 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24730 (C8D3641A) Date: 12/18/2013 Description: 3:00 p.m. Another Super Hornet pilot from VFA-143 encounters a white object visually and on radar in the W-72 warning zone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “[Here Are the Navy Pilot Reports from](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast) [Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off the East Coast,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast)” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7675 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 2014 (Back to Top) ### Event 24731 (D25ED8B1) Date: 2/2014 Description: Day. An aircraft matching the black triangle description is photographed multiple times over Kansas and Texas. Amateur photographer Jeff Templin snaps pictures of a triangular aircraft while photographing wildlife in Kansas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Texas Mystery Aircraft Also Photographed over Kansas,](https://deepbluehorizon.blogspot.com/2014/04/texas-mystery-aircraft-also.html)” Deep Blue Horizon, April 17, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_7676 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24732 (A72C8CF8) Date: 2/24/2014 Description: US journalist [Glenn Greenwald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn%5FGreenwald) publishes information in The Intercept about a slideshow document, The Art of Deception, released by [Edward Snowden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FSnowden) and issued by the UK’s formerly secret Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group concerning “online covert operations.” The slideshow, probably dating to spring 2012, was shared with the US National Security Agency and other intelligence partners and reveals existing techniques to manipulate public opinion and online discourse. The document even includes three UFO photos as illustrations of these techniques. Greenwald writes: “These GCHQ \[Government Communications Headquarters\] documents are the first to prove that a major western government is using some of the most controversial techniques to disseminate deception online and harm the reputations of targets. Under the tactics they use, the state is deliberately spreading lies on the internet about whichever individuals it targets, including the use of what GCHQ itself calls ‘false flag operations’ and emails to people’s families and friends. Who would possibly trust a government to exercise these powers at all, let alone do so in secret, with virtually no oversight, and outside of any cognizable legal framework?” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%5FThreat%5FResearch%5FIntelligence%5FGroup)”; Glenn Greenwald, “[How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations,](https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/)” The Intercept, February 24, 2014; “[The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations,](https://theintercept.com/document/2014/02/24/art-deception-training-new-generation-online-covert-operations/)” The Intercept, February 24, 2014; Mark Pilkington, “Tricksters, Saucers, and Cyber Magicians,” Fortean Times 313 \(May 2014\): 6–7 Source ID: Eberhart_7677 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24733 (1A33FA12) Date: 3/10/2014 Description: Day. Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett photograph a triangular aircraft giving off a long contrail over Amarillo, Texas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Sweetman, “Mystery Aircraft over Texas,” Aviation Week, March 28, 2014; “[‘Mystery](https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Mystery-aircraft-over-Texas-draws-speculation-5357331.php) [Aircraft’ over Texas Draws Speculation of Real Spy Plane,](https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Mystery-aircraft-over-Texas-draws-speculation-5357331.php)” Houston Chronicle, March 28, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_7678 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24734 (4A702A6B) Date: 3/26/2014 Description: 4:30 p.m. An F/A-18E Super Hornet from Strike Fighter Squadron 106 \(VFA-106, the “Gladiators”\), flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, detects a possible radar track at around 19,000 feet and with a speed of 0.1 Mach in the W-72 warning area. The pilot’s wingman does not have the object on radar and there is a debate about whether it might be a false track given high winds that are gusting at over 100 knots at 18,000 feet. “The unknown aircraft appeared to be small in size, approximately the size of a suitcase, and silver in color,” according to the report. The pilot is only able to pass within 1,000 feet of it and cannot identify it. After that pass, they lose sight of it and never regain visual contact. “I feel it may only be a matter of time before one of our F/A-18 aircraft has a mid-air collision with an unidentified UAS \[unmanned aerial system\],” the head of VFA-106 comments. The report also says that “FACSFAC VACAPES has received multiple UAS sightings in the recent months,” but does not say how many of those sightings resulted in sending in hazard reports. The jets’ radar has been upgraded, allowing them to zero in on unidentified targets with infrared targeting cameras. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “[Here Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast) [the East Coast,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast)” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020; Bill Whitaker, “[UFOs Regularly Spotted in US](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-08-29/) [Airspace,](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-08-29/)” CBS News, August 29, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7679 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24735 (24669BE7) Date: 4/23/2014 Description: 10:51 p.m. Another F/A-18F Super Hornet from Strike Fighter Squadron 11 \(VFA-11, the “Red Rippers”\) has an encounter with multiple “unidentified aerial devices” while flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and operating in the W-72 warning area. The crew initially detects two UADs on radar, one at 12,000 feet and another at 15,000 feet, both apparently stationary or near-stationary. They then confirm both of these objects using the jet’s Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared \(ATFLIR\) system. While investigating the first pair of UADs, another two appeared to pass through the ATFLIR field of vision at high speed. The two moving objects do not appear on the aircraft’s radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “[Here Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off the East Coast,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast)” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7680 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24736 (0361A6A9) Date: 4/24/2014 Description: 12:47 p.m. Two more F/A-18Fs make radar contact with another UAD in the W-72 warning area while conducting Basic Fighter Maneuvering out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Both aircraft are able to maintain a radar track with the object, which is stationary or near-stationary at 11,000 feet. The aircraft are also able to lock onto the object with CATM-9Xs, a captive-carry training version of the AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. However, in this instance, neither one makes visual contact. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “[Here Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off the East Coast,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast)” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7681 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24737 (D5282757) Date: 4/27/2014 Description: The crew of a F/A-18F from Strike Fighter Squadron 11 \(VFA-11\), flying out of NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and operating in the W-72 warning area, encounters an unknown aerial device. This report is the most spartan in its details of the three, but it describes a “near mid-air collision with balloon-like object.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “[Here Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast) [the East Coast,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast)” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7682 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24738 (44670695) Date: 6/13/2014 Description: 2:36 p.m. The pilot and first officer of an Airbus 320 flying at just under 3,500 feet and headed into Manchester Airport observe a man-like object that passes them to the northeast over Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. They estimate it is about 200–300 feet above their altitude and only a few hundred yards distant. They cannot see any parachute or paraglider apparatus. Air traffic control confirms there are no other radar targets in the area. The object is in sight for only 3–4 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Superman vs. Airbus,” Fortean Times 323 \(February 2015\): 30–31 Source ID: Eberhart_7683 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24739 (D33A1042) Date: 7/31/2014 Description: Gen. Ricardo Bermúdez, director of Chile’s official UFO agency, Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos, convenes a three-hour meeting at the offices of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation \(DGAC\) in Providencia of 19 experts from a wide range of disciplines to discuss whether UFOs pose a threat to aerial safety. Among those present are astronomers, psychologists, meteorologists, physicists, and representatives of the armed forces. All seem to accept the premise that UFOs, whatever they are, exist and are worthy of investigation. The DGAC chief of operations says that because many witnesses believe UFOs demonstrate intelligent behavior, it is the government’s duty to look for the intention behind that intelligence. However, the group concludes that, despite some accidents attributed to UFOs around the world, they “do not present a threat or a danger to air operations.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Leslie Kean, “[Chile Declares UFOs Pose No Threat to Aircraft,](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chile-declares-ufos-pose-%5Fb%5F5670136)” HuffPost, August 12, 2014; “[Capitulo 55 DGAC TV,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BHrr1-IG-g)” DGAC TV Institucional YouTube channel, August 7, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_7684 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24740 (5CB3369C) Date: 9/29/2014 Description: The Air Force Intelligence agency is restructured as the Twenty-Fifth Air Force and aligns the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and the 55th Wing under the new numbered air force. Its primary mission is to provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance \(ISR\) products, applications, capabilities, and resources to include cyber and geospatial forces and expertise. Additionally, it is the service cryptologic component \(SCC\) responsible to the National Security Agency and Central Security Service for Air Force cryptographic activities. It is headquartered at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Twenty-Fifth Air Force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-Fifth%5FAir%5FForce)” Source ID: Eberhart_7685 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24741 (B3F2FE78) Date: 10/5/2014 End date: 10/20/2014 Description: Unidentified drones are observed over seven nuclear plants in France. Interior Minister [Bernard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FCazeneuve) [Cazeneuve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%5FCazeneuve) tells France Info radio that a judicial investigation is underway. The tiny, unmanned craft appear late in the evening, at night, or early in the morning. The nuclear plants are the Superphénix in Creys-Malville \(closed in 1997\); the Bugey Nuclear Power Plant, Ain; Blayais Nuclear Power Plant near Blaye, Gironde; the Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant, Moselle; the Chooz Nuclear Power Plant, Ardennes; the Gravelines Nuclear Power Station, Nord; and the Nogent Nuclear Power Plant, Aube. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Drones Spotted over Seven French Nuclear Sites, Says](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/30/drones-spotted-over-seven-french-nuclear-sites-says-edf) [EDF,](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/30/drones-spotted-over-seven-french-nuclear-sites-says-edf)” The Guardian \(UK\), October 30, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_7686 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24742 (258C1081) Date: 10/16/2014 Description: The Swedish military reportedly intercepts a radio transmission in Russian on an emergency frequency, sparking a massive search for a Russian submarine thought to be stricken in Swedish waters, the largest Swedish mobilization since the Cold War. Further encrypted radio traffic from Kanholmsfjärden in the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden, and in Kaliningrad, Russia \(home to the Russian Baltic fleet\), is intercepted the next day. The search involves stealth ships, minesweepers, and helicopters, as well as hundreds of sailors, pilots, and divers. On the island of Korsö, Finland, a mysterious man dressed in black with a backpack is seen wading to shore and is later photographed wading off the nearby island of Sandön, Finland. \(It later turns out that the man is a Stockholm pensioner named Ove who is doing some trout fishing.\) At a press conference later in the month, the Swedish navy shows a photograph of an unidentified foreign vessel \(although it later turns out to be a Swedish ship\). A Russian defense ministry spokesman announces that there have been no emergency situations involving Russian military vessels. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Swedish submarine incidents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%5Fsubmarine%5Fincidents\#After%5Fthe%5Fcold%5Fwar)”; “Baltic Sub Mystery,” Fortean Times 322 \(January 2015\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_7687 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24743 (94D40D04) Date: 10/20/2014 Description: Strands of cobweb-like “angel hair” fibers fall from the sky in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Cobwebs Like Particles Floating in Polonnaruwa Skies,” Gossip Lanka News, October 21, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_7688 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24744 (58DFC335) Date: 10/21/2014 Description: Swedish military commander Gen. [Sverker Göranson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverker%5FG%C3%B6ranson) announces that he aims to force the unidentified submarine object to the surface with depth charges if necessary. He reveals there have been visual observations twice on October 17 and once on October 19. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Baltic Sub Mystery,” Fortean Times 322 \(January 2015\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_7689 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24745 (92FE7335) Date: 10/24/2014 Description: Sweden calls off its search for the mysterious Russian sub. Russia asserts that the vessel was a Dutch submarine, a claim rejected by the Netherlands. The public has reported 250 sightings, five of which the navy takes seriously. Rear Admiral [Anders Grenstad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders%5FGrenstad) says the object could not have been a conventional submarine but a “craft of a lesser type.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Swedes Call off Search for Mystery Submarine,](https://news.usni.org/2014/10/24/swedes-call-search-mystery-submarine)” USNI News, October 24, 2014; “Baltic Sub Mystery,” Fortean Times 322 \(January 2015\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_7690 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24746 (4FDBD0C0) Date: 10/25/2014 Description: Afternoon. Miguel Monteiro is walking in the parish of Alverca do Ribatejo e Sobralinho, Portugal, when he sees white, cottony flakes or fibrous strands falling from the sky and sticking to electrical wires. They feel somewhat like cobwebs but are whiter and thicker. Monteiro takes some home and stores them in liquid nitrogen. He claims that under ultraviolet light the fibers wiggle “as if alive.” Another witness says the strands fell two weekends in a row. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Mysterious Rain of ‘Alien Angel Hair’ Falls from Sky in Portugal,](https://metro.co.uk/2014/11/26/mysterious-rain-of-alien-angel-hair-falls-from-sky-in-portugal-4963479/)” Metro \(UK\), November 26, 2014; “[Strands of White ‘Angel Hair’ Rained from Sky—Which Wriggle under UV Light,](https://metro.co.uk/2014/12/17/strands-of-white-angel-hair-rained-from-sky-and-wriggle-under-uv-light-4991315/)” Metro \(UK\), December 17, 2014 Source ID: Eberhart_7691 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24747 (C0732773) Date: 10/31/2014 Description: Retired Swedish naval officer Sven Olof Kviman snaps a picture of what looks like a 65–98-foot long, black submarine in waters just outside Lidingö in Stockholm, Sweden. The incident remains unconfirmed but has been classed by the military as a “potential” submarine. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Up to Four Subs Feared in Stockholm Waters,](https://www.thelocal.se/20150124/four-submarines/)” The Local \(Sweden\), January 24, 2015 Source ID: Eberhart_7692 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24748 (3F48B9E6) Date: 11/11/2014 Description: 1:52 p.m. A Chilean Navy Airbus Cougar AS-532 helicopter is flying northward west of Santiago, Chile, at an altitude of 4,500 feet and 152 mph. The technician aboard is taking video footage when he notices an object about 40 miles away. He zooms in on it using infrared film. The naval pilot sees it as a “flat, elongated structure with two thermal spotlights like discharges that do not coincide with the axis of motion.” The video shows a dark, disc-shaped object flying above the sea, which “in two instances discharged some type of gas or liquid with a high thermal track or signal.” The official Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos spends two years studying the film, then releases the footage, admitting it cannot ascertain what the object is. CEFAA Gen. Ricardo Bermúdez Sanhueza says: “We do not know what it was, but we do know what it was not.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Conclusive Proof?](https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/751130/Chilean-Navy-UFO-ocean-CEFAA) [Airforce Probe Finds Navy Filmed Real UFO over Ocean,](https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/751130/Chilean-Navy-UFO-ocean-CEFAA)” The Express \(UK\), January 7, 2017; “[Chilean Navy](https://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article125658529.html) [Helicopter Pilot Shoots Video of UFO,](https://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article125658529.html)” Charlotte \(N.C.\) Observer, February 8, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7693 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24749 (E1D97B52) Date: 11/14/2014 Description: Swedish Prime Minister [Stefan Löfven](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%5FL%C3%B6fven) announces that there is “clear evidence” of a submarine incursion in Swedish waters in October. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sweden Confirms Submarine Violation,](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/14/sweden-confirms-submarine-violation)” The Guardian \(UK\), November 14, 2014; “Baltic Sub Mystery,” Fortean Times 322 \(January 2015\): 12 Source ID: Eberhart_7694 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 2015 (Back to Top) ### Event 24750 (F7A65DF2) Date: 1/10/2015 Description: [John Greenewald Jr.](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/greenewald-john-5909/) puts the Fold3 Blue Book files online into his Black Vault website and makes many of the case files into easily downloadable PDFs. The work is done by a contributor to the ATS website since 2012. Unfortunately, the JPG conversion to PDFs is done incorrectly so that documents with many pages are out of correct order. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), pp. 8–9 Source ID: Eberhart_7695 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24751 (3F4A33E4) Date: 1/27/2015 Description: 9:10 p.m. Ufologist [Steven M. Greer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FM.%5FGreer) is leading a group of UFO watchers at Vero Beach, Florida, when they spot two UFOs that appear one after another then fade from sight. A video is taken of the event and posted on Greer’s website. Greer claims it is the result of the group’s meditation and “coherent thought” practices, and there are no ships or aircraft in the area at the time. However, journalist [Tom Rogan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%5FRogan) determines that the UFO is a Beechcraft Model 76 Duchess aircraft moving at 85 mph deploying parachute flares. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tom Rogan, “[Did Steven](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/did-steven-greer-fake-a-ufo-with-flares) [Greer Fake a UFO with Flares?](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/did-steven-greer-fake-a-ufo-with-flares)” Washington \(D.C.\) Examiner, July 31, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7697 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24752 (83C9DBE8) Date: 1/27/2015 Description: Ancestry.com, the owner of Fold3, illegally demands that [Greenewald](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/greenewald-john-5909/) remove his Blue Book collection from the Black Vault website, falsely claiming copyright. They are still unavailable. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 9 Source ID: Eberhart_7696 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24753 (25427B2C) Date: 2/2015? Description: Two infrared video recordings, known as the [Go Fast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUrTsrhVce4) and [GIMBAL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TumprpOwHY) videos, are taken by an F/A-18 Super Hornet from the [USS Theodore Roosevelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FTheodore%5FRoosevelt%5F%28CVN-71%29) off the East coast of the US in the vicinity of Jacksonville, Florida, sometime between January and February 2015. The two videos are reported by the New York Times to have been taken a few weeks apart, with the audio of the pair including voices of military personnel who are questioning what they are observing. The Navy confirms the authenticity of the videos, stating only that they depict what they consider to be “unidentified aerial phenomena.” [Susan Gough](https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-gough-941a9652)[,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-gough-941a9652) a Pentagon spokeswoman, confirms that the videos were made by naval aviators and that they are “part of a larger issue of an increased number of training range incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena in recent years.” In April 2020, the two videos are declassified and officially released by the Department of Defense, alongside footage from the 2004 [USS Nimitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FNimitz) incident. Five pilots from the VFA-11 “Red Rippers” fighter squadron report sighting UFOs “almost daily” while training for a deployment to the Persian Gulf. Three of those pilots have chosen to remain anonymous, while two, Lieut. Ryan Graves and Lieut. Danny Accoin, have given interviews and appeared on a History Channel program about UFOs. Radar contacts, infrared detections, and visual sightings by the pilots and weapon systems officers are reported for several months. According to Accoin, the objects have “no distinct wing, no distinct tail, no distinct exhaust plume.” One pilot describes something “like a sphere encasing a cube.” Another source confirms to “The War Zone” that the same description is given by several other pilots and that encounters are commonplace among multiple squadrons including the nearby E-2 Hawkeye squadrons from Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. Accoin says that “multiple sensors \[are\] reading the exact same thing.” Graves states that the objects are showing up at 30,000 feet as well as sea level and can accelerate, slow down, and hit hypersonic speeds with maneuvers “beyond the physical limits of a human crew.” The pilots also report that the objects persist in the air for long periods of time and might “be out there all day.” When one of the sightings is made, “usually we’d just say, ‘we’re seeing one of those damn things again,’” Graves says. Once, an object almost collides with two jets, prompting the VFA-11 fighter squadron to submit a Notice to Airmen aviation flight safety report. According to the pilots, the squadron has speculated that the sightings could be a classified drone development program, but the near miss angers the pilots and convinces them that this is a safety issue and not a black project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Pentagon UFO videos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon%5FUFO%5Fvideos)”; Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean, “‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects,” New York Times, May 26, 2019; Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway, “[Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Defense Tech Like](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28305/carrier-group-in-recent-ufo-encounters-had-new-air-defense-tech-just-like-nimitz-in-2004-incident) [Nimitz](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28305/carrier-group-in-recent-ufo-encounters-had-new-air-defense-tech-just-like-nimitz-in-2004-incident) [in 2004 Incident,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28305/carrier-group-in-recent-ufo-encounters-had-new-air-defense-tech-just-like-nimitz-in-2004-incident)” The Drive: The War Zone, May 30, 2019; Clark III 49; “[Unidentified: UFO Testimony from Lt. Ryan Graves \(Season](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNnvcZmfV5k) [1\) / History,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNnvcZmfV5k)” History YouTube channel, September 22, 2019; Jan Tegler and Cat Hofacker, “[Mystery of the](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/mystery-of-the-damn-things/) [‘Damn Things,’](https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/mystery-of-the-damn-things/)” Aerospace America, November 2019; “[Pentagon Declassifies Leaked ‘UFO’ Videos \(video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TumprpOwHY) [2/3\),](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TumprpOwHY)” ABC News YouTube channel, April 27, 2020; “[Pentagon Declassifies Navy ‘UFO’ Videos \(video 3/3\),](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUrTsrhVce4)” ABC News YouTube channel, April 27, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7698 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24754 (89B7CEA2) Date: 3/1/2015 Description: Las Vegas Review-Journal Article: “Area 51 worker sees hope in Supreme Court ruling” Type: newspaper article Reference: [link](https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/area-51-worker-sees-hope-in-supreme-court-ruling/) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: Maj2_819 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24755 (1461EEBB) Date: 4/13/2015 Description: Swedish Rear Admiral [Anders Grenstad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders%5FGrenstad) tells the media that the Armed Forces reported to the Swedish government on April 8 that the suspected underwater vessel in October 2014 was in fact only a civilian “working boat.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [\(“‘Submarine’ in Sweden Was Only Civilian Boat,](https://www.thelocal.se/20150413/suspected-sub-in-swedish-waters-was-working-boat/)” The Local \(Sweden\), April 13, 2015\) Source ID: Eberhart_7699 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24756 (2B6386A6) Date: 5/5/2015 Description: In a four-hour long presentation in front of nearly 7,000 people at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, Mexico, journalist and ufologist [Jaime Maussan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime%5FMaussan) presents BeWitness, an unveiling of two Kodachrome slides that purport to show a dead alien. The slides, discovered in 1998 in the estate of Sedona, Arizona, lawyer Hilda Blair Ray, whose husband [Bernerd](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80761888/bernerd-a-ray) had been a petroleum geologist in West Texas. The slides had found their way to Chicago videographer [Adam Dew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-dew-2b91637), who wants to create a documentary \(tentatively titled Kodachrome\) about the supposed alien. In the process he has gathered UFO researchers [Thomas J. Carey](http://sped2work.tripod.com/carey.html), [Donald Schmitt](https://ufocongress.com/don-schmitt-2/), [Anthony](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/about-bio) [Bragalia](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/about-bio)[,](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/about-bio) and others to lend credence to the authenticity of the images as possibly related to the Roswell incident, since they seem to have a provenance of 1947. The two nearly identical slides show what appears to be a short mummy on a glass exhibit case with an undecipherable placard next to it. Within days of the presentation in Mexico City, a skeptical group uses a SmartDeBlur program to read the text of the placard, which reveals that the supposed alien is actually the mummified body of a two-year-old Native American child taken from the ruins of Montezuma Castle cliff dwelling in Camp Verde, Arizona, in 1894 by an S. L. Palmer and loaned to the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum in Mesa Verde, Colorado, where it had been on display for many years before it was returned to the Montezuma Museum in June 1947. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: David Clarke and Peter Brookesmith, “From ‘Smoking Gun’ to \#Epicfail,” Fortean Times 329 \(August 2015\): 26–27; Kevin D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century: The Evidence As It Exists Today, Speaking Volumes, 2016; Les Carpenter, “[The Curious Case of the Alien in the](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/30/alien-photo-roswell-new-mexico-mystery) [Photo and the Mystery That Took Years to Solve,](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/30/alien-photo-roswell-new-mexico-mystery)” The Guardian \(UK\), September 20, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_7700 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24757 (531CDDD9) Date: 9/2015 Description: In Walking Among Us, [David M. Jacobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FM.%5FJacobs) explains how 14 abductions have detailed for him how an alien invasion is already underway. The alien hierarchy consists of insect-like entities as the leaders, tall Grays the skilled workers, short Grays the menial workers, and masses of hybrids—the end products of the abduction program. These hybrids begin as half-human/half-Gray entities and become progressively more human over four successive stages. The ultimate product is the human hybrid \(“hubrid”\), fully human in appearance, capable of integration into society. Hybrids have become deeply embedded on Earth, living in their own apartments, mingling with humans, working their way into positions of influence. Their growing numbers on earth advance the Change, the day when they and their alien masters supplant or absorb humankind. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dana DiFilippo, “[Space](https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/20140715%5FSpace%5Faliens%5Fwalk%5Famong%5Fus%5F%5FIndeed%5F%5Fclaims%5Fretired%5FTemple%5Fprof.html) [Aliens Walk Among Us? Indeed, Claims Retired Temple Prof,](https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/20140715%5FSpace%5Faliens%5Fwalk%5Famong%5Fus%5F%5FIndeed%5F%5Fclaims%5Fretired%5FTemple%5Fprof.html)” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 2014; David M. Jacobs, [Walking Among Us: The Alien Plan to Condition Humanity](https://archive.org/details/walkingamongusal0000jaco), Disinformation Books, 2015; Clark III 10– 11, 629–630 Source ID: Eberhart_7701 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24758 (3E7FD19F) Date: 12/22/2015 Description: Janel Sturzl, 31, an employee of the Daily Mining Gazette in Houghton, Michigan, dies while in a coma after being diagnosed with thallium poisoning at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The police investigate her death as a homicide. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Poisoning Still under Investigation,](https://www.mininggazette.com/news/2017/10/poisoning-still-under-investigation/)” Houghton \(Mich.\) Daily Mining Gazette, October 24, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_7702 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 2016 (Back to Top) ### Event 24759 (2EDFF09D) Date: 2/3/2016 Description: 7:00 p.m. A married couple is driving on Interstate 10 near Katy, Texas, when they look up through the sunroof and see three black dots that they at first think might be breaks in the cloud cover. Watching them while stopped at a traffic light, they see the dots are part of a vast, noiseless triangular object that emerges from the clouds. The witnesses think it is generating a kind of night fog low above the ground. The witnesses try to take a video, but their cellphones are not working properly; both devices die and do not recharge the entire night. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Roger Marsh, “[Texas UFO Kills Allegedly Ground Electronics, Creates Fog to Hide in,](http://www.openminds.tv/texas-ufo-kills-allegedly-ground-electronics-creates-fog-to-hide-in/39641)” OpenMinds, February 10, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_7703 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24760 (72A005E7) Date: 4/2016 Description: [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow) founder of Bigelow Aerospace, sells the Skinwalker Ranch in Uintah County, Utah, to Utah real estate developer [Brandon Fugal](https://www2.colliers.com/en/experts/brandon-fugal). In 2020, he partners with the History Channel on a TV documentary series, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, in its third season in 2022. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 86, 219–221; Internet Movie Database, “[The](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10589968/) [Secret of Skinwalker Ranch](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10589968/)” Source ID: Eberhart_7704 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24761 (0AA24F36) Date: 4/15/2016 Description: Night. The Canadian Air Defence Sector is notified of a WestJet flight near Toronto, Ontario, that “reported a very bright light pass overhead of them” when “there was no other traffic in the area.” In the day’s log, the lines following what’s clearly referred to as a “UFO report” are all redacted in white. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Daniel Otis, “[Credible UFO](https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dggbx/canada-military-rcaf-ufos-sightings) [Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian Government Documents Reveal,](https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dggbx/canada-military-rcaf-ufos-sightings)” Motherboard, November 29, 2021; [CADORS Report](https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/saf-sec-sur/2/cadors-screaq/rd.aspx?cno%3d2016O0730%26dtef%3d%26dtet%3d2021-11-03%26otp%3d-1%26ftop%3d%253e%253d%26ftno%3d0%26ijop%3d%253e%253d%26ijno%3d0%26olc%3d%26prv%3d-1%26rgn%3d-1%26tsbno%3d%26tsbi%3d-1%26arno%3d%26ocatno%3d%26ocatop%3d1%26oevtno%3d%26oevtop%3d1%26evtacoc%3d3%26fltno%3d%26fltr%3d-1%26cars%3d-1%26acat%3d-1%26nar%3d%26aiddl%3d-1%26aidxt%3d%26optdl%3d-1%26optcomt%3d%26optseq%3d%26optxt%3d%26opdlxt%3dResults%2bwill%2bappear%2bin%2bthis%2blist%26mkdl%3d-1%26mkxt%3d%26mdldl%3d-1%26mdlxt%3d%26cmkdl%3dC%26cmkxt%3d%26rt%3dQR%26hypl%3dy%26cnum%3d2016O0730)[,](https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/saf-sec-sur/2/cadors-screaq/rd.aspx?cno%3d2016O0730%26dtef%3d%26dtet%3d2021-11-03%26otp%3d-1%26ftop%3d%253e%253d%26ftno%3d0%26ijop%3d%253e%253d%26ijno%3d0%26olc%3d%26prv%3d-1%26rgn%3d-1%26tsbno%3d%26tsbi%3d-1%26arno%3d%26ocatno%3d%26ocatop%3d1%26oevtno%3d%26oevtop%3d1%26evtacoc%3d3%26fltno%3d%26fltr%3d-1%26cars%3d-1%26acat%3d-1%26nar%3d%26aiddl%3d-1%26aidxt%3d%26optdl%3d-1%26optcomt%3d%26optseq%3d%26optxt%3d%26opdlxt%3dResults%2bwill%2bappear%2bin%2bthis%2blist%26mkdl%3d-1%26mkxt%3d%26mdldl%3d-1%26mdlxt%3d%26cmkdl%3dC%26cmkxt%3d%26rt%3dQR%26hypl%3dy%26cnum%3d2016O0730) no. 2016O0730, April 24, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_7705 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24762 (0FA8A163) Date: 5/13/2016 Description: James T. Lacatski retires from the Defense Intelligence Agency, following failed attempts to get the AAWSAP program funded agin through the Department of Defense. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 29 Source ID: Eberhart_7706 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24763 (3F4C5E73) Date: 6/2016 Description: The Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici begins publishing Cielo Insolito, a journal of UFO history edited by Giuseppe Stilo and Maurizio Verga. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: [Cielo Insolito](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Italy/Cielo%20Insolito/Cielo%20Insolito%20-%20No%2001.pdf), no. 1 \(July 2016\) Source ID: Eberhart_7707 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24764 (A33B2A28) Date: 7/1/2016 Description: NORAD releases figures indicating that radar Tracks of Interest have averaged 1,800 per year since 2011. It states that it routinely withholds Unknown tracks and Tracks of Interest data because the release of any details might affect national defense. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Alien Cover Up’: Nearly 2,000 UFOs Tracked by Radar System But Details](https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/685236/Alien-cover-up-Nearly-2-000-UFOs-tracked-by-radar-system-but-details-suppressed) [Suppressed,](https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/685236/Alien-cover-up-Nearly-2-000-UFOs-tracked-by-radar-system-but-details-suppressed)” The Express \(UK\), July 1, 2016; Clark III 801 Source ID: Eberhart_7708 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24765 (E93F2BD9) Date: 8/11/2016 Description: In Roswell in the 21st Century, [Kevin D. Randle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FD.%5FRandle) upends his previous position and argues that while the Roswell incident remains shrouded in mystery, it was almost certainly not generated by the recovery of a downed spacecraft and dead occupants. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century: The Evidence As It Exists Today, Speaking Volumes, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_7709 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24766 (D7272040) Date: 9/19/2016 Description: 11:45 p.m. An Air Canada Express pilot flying to Vancouver, British Columbia, reports “3 red lights 3,000 feet above him and going slower” while at 25,000 feet over an uninhabited stretch of British Columbia’s rugged northern coast. Vancouver air traffic controllers report the incident 20 minutes later to the RCAF in Ontario as a “vital intelligence sighting.” The RCAF reviews radar data, but finds nothing near the plane. Within an hour, reports are faxed to the Canadian government’s transportation department and the RCAF’s secretive Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Division in Winnipeg. There is no further follow-up. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Daniel Otis, “[Credible UFO Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian Government Documents Reveal,](https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dggbx/canada-military-rcaf-ufos-sightings)” Motherboard, November 29, 2021; [CADORS Report](https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/saf-sec-sur/2/cadors-screaq/rd.aspx?cno%3d2016P1783%26dtef%3d%26dtet%3d2021-07-27%26otp%3d-1%26ftop%3d%253e%253d%26ftno%3d0%26ijop%3d%253e%253d%26ijno%3d0%26olc%3d%26prv%3d-1%26rgn%3d-1%26tsbno%3d%26tsbi%3d-1%26arno%3d%26ocatno%3d%26ocatop%3d1%26oevtno%3d%26oevtop%3d1%26evtacoc%3d3%26fltno%3d%26fltr%3d-1%26cars%3d-1%26acat%3d-1%26nar%3d%26aiddl%3d-1%26aidxt%3d%26optdl%3d-1%26optcomt%3d%26optseq%3d%26optxt%3d%26opdlxt%3dResults%2bwill%2bappear%2bin%2bthis%2blist%26mkdl%3d-1%26mkxt%3d%26mdldl%3d-1%26mdlxt%3d%26cmkdl%3dC%26cmkxt%3d%26rt%3dQR%26hypl%3dy%26cnum%3d2016P1783), no. 2016P1783 Source ID: Eberhart_7710 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24767 (01453653) Date: 10/27/2016 Description: Two Georgia men are arrested on drug charges. They are reportedly plotting domestic terrorism based on conspiracy theories about HAARP. The Coffee County Sheriff’s Office says the men possess a “massive arsenal” that includes AR-15 rifles, Glock handguns, a Remington rifle, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. According to police, the men want to destroy HAARP because they believe the facility manipulates the weather, controls minds, and even traps the souls of people. Police say the men confess that “God told them to go and blow this machine up that kept souls, so souls could be released.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Georgia Men Plotted Attack on Alaska Aurora](https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2016/11/01/2-men-arrested-in-georgia-planned-to-attack-alaska-aurora-research-facility-investigators-say/) [Research Facility to ‘Release Souls,’ Detective Says,](https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2016/11/01/2-men-arrested-in-georgia-planned-to-attack-alaska-aurora-research-facility-investigators-say/)” Anchorage \(Alaska\) Daily News, November 1, 2016; “Suspected Terrorists Believe Research Facility Controls Minds, Traps Souls,” WALB, Albany, Georgia, November 1, 2016 Source ID: Eberhart_7711 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24768 (D33468A8) Date: 12/10/2016 Description: 4:44 a.m. A married couple is driving near Windsor, Maine, when they observe a “large triangle-shaped object” in two pieces \(“like a carpenter’s framing square”\) in the northeast sky. The object has six flashing red lights and one turquoise light that goes out as they are watching. It shows a black surface that is about 300 feet long. When they get out of the car for a better look, the man grabs his wife’s phone to take photos and a video. He shoots 6–8 minutes of video, but when he views it, it shows only black. The object seems to move effortlessly like a boat coasting through the water—“slow enough to where we could make out some detail but fast enough to where it was out of sight within 10 minutes or so.” They both feel weird as they watch the object. The woman becomes nauseous and the man feels strangely “awestruck.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: MUFON case file Source ID: Eberhart_7712 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 2017 (Back to Top) ### Event 24769 (2458A216) Date: 2017 Description: The US nuclear stockpile has dwindled to 3,822 bombs. \(“[Stockpile Numbers,](https://uploads.fas.org/2018/03/Stockpile-declassified2018.pdf)” DoD Open Government\) 2017 — The increasing number of drone cases posing a risk to aircraft leads the UK Airprox Board to launch a Small Unmanned Air System \(SUAS\) assessment that classifies incidents into one of four categories: drones or unmanned aerial vehicles \(UAVs\), balloons \(including toys and weather\), model aircraft, and unknown objects. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK Airprox Board, “[Small Unmanned Air System \(SUAS\) Assessment](https://www.airproxboard.org.uk/Topical-issues-and-themes/Drones/)” Source ID: Eberhart_7713 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24770 (BBC69C09) Date: 1/1/2017 Description: [Richard F. Haines](http://www.nicap.org/bio-haines.htm) retires from his role as chief scientist for NARCAP. He reports: “The fact that no cause- effect relationship has been found in major UFO airborne safety incidents doesn’t support the notion of nearby, material objects or phenomena in the air. Finally, the well-intentioned change of the term UFO into UAP—hoping to reach a larger scientific audience—served little and no relevant achievement followed.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “[Haines Retires from NARCAP,](http://fotocat.blogspot.com/2017%5F04%5F17%5Farchive.html)” UFO FOTOCAT Blog, April 17, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_7714 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24771 (A1289887) Date: 1/20/2017 End date: 1/20/2021 Description: President Donald Trump in office Type: historical document Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Donald_Trump) Location: Washington DC, US Source ID: Maj2_821 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24772 (984F35CD) Date: 4/18/2017 Description: The Washington State Senate passed Resolution 8648 about the Maury Island Incident. It stated “The FBI’s conclusions and Dahl’s (the main witness) secret were sealed for fifty years.” It also states “Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an investigation of the deaths of Davidson and Brown and ultimately concluded that Dahl did not recant his story but that his claim of hoax was itself a fabrication to avoid further public attention and ridicule.” Type: state resolution Reference: [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324) Reference: [link](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2017-18/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Resolutions/8648-Maury%20Island%20Incident.htm) Location: Olympia, WA See also: 6/21/1947 Source ID: Maj2_822 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24773 (CB62245B) Date: 5/9/2017 Description: [Steven M. Greer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FM.%5FGreer) releases a documentary, Unacknowledged, on the history of UFO secrecy. Interviews with [George Filer](https://ufocongress.com/ufo-conference/2011-speakers/major-george-filer/)[,](https://ufocongress.com/ufo-conference/2011-speakers/major-george-filer/) [Tom Bearden](http://www.cheniere.org/)[,](http://www.cheniere.org/) [Glenn Dennis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn%5FDennis)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn%5FDennis) [Richard Doty](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard)[,](https://www.exopaedia.org/Doty%2C%2BRichard) [Stephen Lovekin](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6917060/)[,](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6917060/) and [John Podesta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FPodesta) are featured. Narrated by [Giancarlo Esposito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giancarlo%5FEsposito)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giancarlo%5FEsposito)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Internet Movie Database, “[Unacknowledged](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6400614/)”; “[Unacknowledged: An Exposé](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7HXocgnExw) [of the World’s Greatest Secret,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7HXocgnExw)” Free Movies YouTube channel, October 28, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7715 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24774 (8FB258BB) Date: 5/28/2017 Description: Evening. Rik Koops and Harm Duursma see UFOs over Park Sonsbeek, in Arnhem, Netherlands. Koops shoots a 3-minute video of three globular objects. A spokesperson for the Defence Helicopter Command at nearby Deelen Air Base denies that the objects are drones. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[3 bal vormige objecten bewegen in de lucht,](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/6463-3-bal-vormige-objecten-bewegen-in-de-lucht)” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, May 29, 2017; “[UFO boven Arnhem? ‘Ledeeren die het ziet, zit met open mond van](https://www.gelderlander.nl/arnhem/ufo-boven-arnhem-iedereen-die-het-ziet-zit-met-open-mond-van-verbazing%7Ea18c6055/) [verbazing,’](https://www.gelderlander.nl/arnhem/ufo-boven-arnhem-iedereen-die-het-ziet-zit-met-open-mond-van-verbazing%7Ea18c6055/)” de Gelderlander, May 30, 2017; “[Het ufo-seizoen is veer aangebroken,](https://www.gelderlander.nl/wetenschap/het-ufo-seizoen-is-weer-aangebroken%7Ea7df8119/)” de Gelderlander, May 31, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_7716 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24775 (B4C3C6AF) Date: 6/2017 Description: Some additional dubious MJ-12 documents \(47 pages total\) are provided to [Heather Wade](https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-wade-77573a102)[,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-wade-77573a102) host of the Midnight in the Desert streaming radio show. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, “[The Majestic 12 Documents Are Back,](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/06/the-majestic-12-documents-are-back/)” Mysterious Universe, June 16, 2017; Kremlin 214–220 Source ID: Eberhart_7718 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24776 (61F6E05F) Date: 6/2017 Description: [Nick Redfern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FRedfern) publishes The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, a sequel to his 2005 Body Snatchers in the Desert. In 2001, Redfern interviewed an elderly woman \(the Black Widow\) who had worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee from the mid-1940s to the early 1950s, who told him that just after World War II she had seen some 15 human “guinea pigs,” including Japanese prisoners and handicapped persons, who were involved in government experiments involving exposure to high altitudes in balloons. Through her testimony and that of other witnesses, Redfern concludes that the “aliens” found at the Roswell crash in New Mexico in 1947 were likely these humans deemed expendable by the US government, and that flying saucers and aliens were a convenient cover story. The experiments were inconclusive and the methods unethical, so all the records were destroyed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy: Exposing a Shocking and Sinister Secret, Lisa Hagen, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_7717 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24777 (8DDBB93B) Date: 6/2017 Description: Majestic document mentions Frank Scully, Aztec crash, EBE-1 Type: majestic document Reference: [link](https://exopolitics.org/new-investigation-shows-disputed-mj-12-document-exposing-extraterrestrial-contact-is-authentic/)] Reference: [archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20170614101208/http://d3adcc0j1hezoq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Ultra-Top-Secret-MITD.pdf) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_820 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24778 (B2EE98D8) Date: 7/1/2017 End date: 7/2/2017 Description: The second Dulce Base UFO Conference is held at the Wild Horse Casino and Hotel in Dulce, New Mexico. The event is organized by members of the Jicarilla Apache, Southern Ute, and Navajo nations and features speakers Chuck and Nancy Wade; the Paranormal Rangers \(Stanley Milford Jr. and Jonathan Dover\), Navajo law officers; abductee [Travis Walton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis%5FWalton%5FUFO%5Fincident); and actor [Alan Tafoya](http://www.actoralantafoya.com/biography.html)[.](http://www.actoralantafoya.com/biography.html)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Paul Ross, “‘The Truth Is Around Here…Someplace,’” Fortean Times 361 \(Christmas 2017\): 42–47 Source ID: Eberhart_7719 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24779 (B4F9C072) Date: 7/14/2017 Description: 7:20 p.m. The pilot of an Airbus A319 is holding at 7,000 feet at Gatwick Airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, when the First Officer, in the right-hand seat, notices an object close to the aircraft. He mentions it to the captain, who also sees it. Both believe the object is not close enough to hit the aircraft and that they will miss it. It is black and shiny metallic in color and appears to be a square or cube. It maintains its altitude and takes about 7 seconds to pass, making them believe it is hovering. They are not certain it is a drone because they cannot see any propellors. They alert Gatwick, but the controllers there do not report seeing it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 43; UK Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 11th October 2017” Source ID: Eberhart_7720 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24780 (64871170) Date: 7/19/2017 Description: 9:00 a.m. The FBI conducts a raid on [Robert Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar)’s United Nuclear Scientific business in Laingsburg, Michigan, in connection with the thallium poisoning death of Janel Sturzl in 2015, apparently to determine if the company sells or distributes thallium. Apparently it does, but only a harmless radioactive isotope. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Greenewald, “[Documents on 2017 Bob Lazar / United Nuclear Raid—Laingsburg Police Department,](https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/documents-on-2017-bob-lazar-united-nuclear-raid-laingsburg-police-department/)” The Black Vault, July 1, 2019; Tim McMillan, “[Bob Lazar Says the FBI Raided Him to Seize Area 51’s Alien Fuel: The](https://www.vice.com/en/article/evjwkw/bob-lazar-says-the-fbi-raided-him-to-seize-area-51s-alien-fuel-the-truth-is-weirder) [Truth Is Weirder,](https://www.vice.com/en/article/evjwkw/bob-lazar-says-the-fbi-raided-him-to-seize-area-51s-alien-fuel-the-truth-is-weirder)” Motherboard, November 13, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7721 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24781 (3F9D5AB2) Date: 8/2017 Description: Reports begin to surface that US and Canadian diplomatic personnel in Havana, Cuba, have experienced unusual, unexplained health problems dating back to late 2016. The health problems typically have a sudden onset: The victim suddenly begins hearing strange grating noises that seem to come from a specific direction. Some of them experience it as a pressure or a vibration; or as a sensation comparable to driving a car with the window partly rolled down. The duration ranges from 20 seconds to 30 minutes, and always happens while the diplomats are either at home or in hotel rooms. Other people nearby, family members and guests in neighboring rooms, do not report hearing anything. Affected individuals describe symptoms such as hearing loss, memory loss, and nausea. Some US embassy individuals reportedly experience lasting health effects, including one unidentified diplomat who now needs a hearing aid. In October, the Associated Press releases what it says is a recording of the sound some embassy workers are hearing. Accusations are made that these are a result of attacks using unspecified technology, perhaps a sonic or ultrasonic weapon. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Havana syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana%5Fsyndrome)”; David Hambling, “The Sound of Violence,” Fortean Times 360 \(December 2017\): 14; “[Ottawa Doctor Treating](https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-doctor-treating-canadian-diplomats-with-mysterious-havana-syndrome) [Canadian Diplomats with Mysterious ‘Havana Syndrome,’](https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-doctor-treating-canadian-diplomats-with-mysterious-havana-syndrome)” Ottawa \(Ont.\) Citizen, November 30, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7722 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24782 (638782FB) Date: 8/9/2017 Description: 9:20 p.m. A couple are walking south along North Lake Shore Drive just north of Schiller Street in Chicago when they notice something large and dark flying toward them from the east and crossing ahead of them at an altitude of 20 feet or so. It sweeps upward over the trees in front of 1400 North Lake Shore Drive, then stops in mid-air after it reaches a height just below the top of the building. It hovers with a large pair of wings for about 5 seconds, then dives toward the ground. As the witnesses quicken their pace toward the building, the “winged being” descends in front of them, no more than 25 feet away, and hovers 5 feet above the sidewalk with its wings spread open. They can see its bright red eyes that vary in intensity. Several people on the other side of the street also see the being, which hovers for 10 seconds, pulls its wigs in close, and silently shoots up into the sky. The witnesses describe it as “human-like” with a small head that narrows at the top, two legs with long tapered feet, and no apparent arms. It is 5–6 feet in height and has wide wings that resemble the top wings of a butterfly. The sightings is the most recent of 29 reported in the Chicago area in the summer. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Lon Strickler, “[Winged Humanoid](https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/08/winged-humanoid-confronts-shocked.html) [Confronts Shocked Chicago Witnesses,](https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/08/winged-humanoid-confronts-shocked.html)” Phantoms and Monsters, August 10, 2017; Joe Vince, “[Winged Freak](https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/winged-freak-terrorizes-chicago-waitll-you-get-load-these-29-sightings) [Terrorizes Chicago? Wait’ll You Get a Load of These 29 Sightings,](https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/winged-freak-terrorizes-chicago-waitll-you-get-load-these-29-sightings)” Chicago Patch, August 11, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_7723 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24783 (CB0C0710) Date: 9/2017 Description: The US State Department removes non-essential staff from the US embassy in Havana, Cuba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Havana syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana%5Fsyndrome)” Source ID: Eberhart_7724 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24784 (8850D547) Date: 9/2017 Description: The To the Stars Academy begins offering to the public $50 million worth of stock through a Regulation A+ equity crowdfunding campaign. The company is cofounded earlier in the year by rock guitarist [Tom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%5FDeLonge) [DeLonge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%5FDeLonge)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%5FDeLonge) engineer and parapsychologist [Harold E. Puthoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff), and Jim Semivan and is composed of aerospace, science, and entertainment divisions. Its science and aerospace divisions are devoted to the “outer edges of science,” such as investigating UFOs. It employs [Luis Elizondo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FElizondo) as a key investigator. Its Virtual Analytics UAP Learning Tool \(VAULT\) is a public-facing database of UFO sightings. The VAULT team collects, analyzes, and provides their authentication of UFO sightings, most famously reported in the media as having been obtained through declassified government materials. Some evidence suggests that TTSA is sponsored or heavily influenced by the Department of Defense ,as there are 11 former DoD counterintelligence and information specialists associated with it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[To the Stars \(company\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To%5Fthe%5FStars%5F%28company%29)”; Althea Legaspi, “[Tom DeLonge Announces Stars](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tom-delonge-announces-stars-academy-for-outer-edges-of-science-research-125580/) [Academy for ‘Outer Edges of Science’ Research,](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tom-delonge-announces-stars-academy-for-outer-edges-of-science-research-125580/)” Rolling Stone, October 12, 2017; Tyler Rogoway, “[Tom](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28377/tom-delonges-origin-story-for-to-the-stars-academy-describes-a-government-info-operation) [DeLonge’s Origin Story for To the Stars Academy Describes a Government UFO Info Operation,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28377/tom-delonges-origin-story-for-to-the-stars-academy-describes-a-government-info-operation)” The Drive: The War Zone, June 5, 2019; “[The UFO Information Operation,](https://ufo-info-ops.medium.com/the-ufo-misinformation-operation-a65f150e9166)” Medium: INFO-OPS, November 23, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7725 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24785 (28CB3826) Date: 9/23/2017 Description: 7:50 p.m. Witnesses in Son, Netherlands, watch a white, U-shaped light for 5 minutes. One witness manages to take a photo of the light, which by then is diminishing in size before disappearing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[U-vormig wit](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/6871-u-vormig-wit-licht-hoog-ver-weg-in-de-hemel-stilstaand) [licht hoog ver weg in die hemel, stilstaand,](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/6871-u-vormig-wit-licht-hoog-ver-weg-in-de-hemel-stilstaand)” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, September 23, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_7726 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24786 (EAD36E32) Date: 10/4/2017 Description: [Luis Elizondo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FElizondo) resigns from his Pentagon UFO office to protest what he says is excessive secrecy and internal opposition. He declines to identify his successor. He states there is a need for more serious attention to the “many accounts from the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities.” He tells Secretary of Defense [Jim Mattis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%5FMattis) that “there remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean, “[Glowing Auras and ‘Black](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html) [Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious UFO Program,](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html)” New York Times, December 16, 2017; Paul Dean and Keith Basterfield, “[A Formal Job Description of an AASWAP/AATIP UFO Case Investigations Scientist,](http://ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com/2018/05/formal-job-description-of-aaswapaatip.html)” UFOs: Documenting the Evidence, May 3, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7727 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24787 (FA88021D) Date: 10/12/2017 Description: Tom DeLonge Announces To The Stars Academy for ‘Outer Edges of Science’ Research (TTSA) Type: company formation Reference: [link](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tom-delonge-announces-stars-academy-for-outer-edges-of-science-research-125580/) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_823 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24788 (4B0866FA) Date: 10/19/2017 Description: ‘Oumuamua \(1I/2017 U1\), the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System, is discovered by [Robert Weryk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FWeryk) using the Pan-STARRS telescope at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, 40 days after it passes its closest point to the Sun on September 9. When it is first observed, it is about 21 million [mi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile)les from Earth and already heading away from the Sun. ʻOumuamua is a small object estimated to be between 330 and 3,280 feet long, with its width and thickness both estimated to range between 115 and 548 feet. It has a dark red color similar to other objects in the outer Solar System. Its light curve presents its motion as [tumbling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbling%5F%28rigid%5Fbody%29), rather than smoothly rotating, and it is moving sufficiently fast relative to the Sun that few possible models define a Solar System origin, although an Oort cloud origin cannot be excluded. Extrapolated and without further deceleration, its path will not allow it to be captured into a solar orbit, so it will eventually leave the Solar System and continue into interstellar space. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[‘Oumuamua](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua)”; “[Small Asteroid or Comet ‘Visits’ from Beyond the Solar](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/small-asteroid-or-comet-visits-from-beyond-the-solar-system) [System,](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/small-asteroid-or-comet-visits-from-beyond-the-solar-system)” NASA, October 26, 2017; Patrick Gross, “[‘Oumuamua: Extraterrestrial Device or Natural Object?](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/oumuamua.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7728 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24789 (D2C9EDF5) Date: 10/24/2017 Description: The Cuban government employs about 2,000 scientists and law enforcement officers who interview 300 neighbors of diplomats, examine two hotels, and medically examine non-diplomats who could have been exposed. Cuban officials analyze air and soil samples and consider a range of toxic chemicals. They also examine the possibility that electromagnetic waves are to blame and even look into whether insects might be the culprits but find nothing they can link to the medical symptoms. The FBI and Cubans meet to discuss the situation, although the Cubans say that the US declines to share the diplomats’ medical records with Cuban authorities or to allow Cuban investigators access to US diplomats’ homes to conduct tests. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Cubans Forcefully Reject Blame for U.S.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cubans-forcefully-reject-blame-u-s-diplomats-mystery-ailments-n813581) [Diplomats’ Mystery Ailments,](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cubans-forcefully-reject-blame-u-s-diplomats-mystery-ailments-n813581)” NBC News, October 24, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_7729 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24790 (B456B1C9) Date: 10/25/2017 Description: The FAA detects an unidentified aircraft flying “fast” \(relative to commercial air traffic\) at around 35,000 feet over Northern California towards Oregon. In an effort to identify the aircraft, the FAA contacts commercial airline pilots in the vicinity who visually confirm a white object traveling northbound. After the commercial passenger jets confirms the position, NORAD scrambles F-15Cs from the 142nd Air Wing in Portland, Oregon, to investigate. Bearing the most advanced targeting system available \(the Sniper pod\), the F-15s are unable to locate or identify the vehicle. FAA and NORAD both confirm the event and NORAD publicly confirms the launch of the F-15s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway, “[You Need to Hear These FAA Tapes from That Oregon UFO Incident That Sent F-](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18473/faa-recordings-deepen-mystery-surrounding-ufo-over-oregon-that-sent-f-15s-scrambling) [15s Scrambling,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18473/faa-recordings-deepen-mystery-surrounding-ufo-over-oregon-that-sent-f-15s-scrambling)” The Drive: The War Zone, February 15, 2018; US Air Force, “[Sniper Pod](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104527/sniper-pod/)” Source ID: Eberhart_7730 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24791 (73121D44) Date: 10/27/2017 Description: A group of scientists, former military and law enforcement officials, and other professionals form the Scientific Coalition for Ufology \[later changed to the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies\] to conduct and encourage the rigorous scientific examination of UFO phenomena. Its executive board includes [Robert Powell](https://ufocongress.com/robert-powell-2/)[,](https://ufocongress.com/robert-powell-2/) Richard Hoffman, and other scientists and professionals. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Scientific Coalition for Ufology, “[Scientific Study of](https://www.facebook.com/explorescu/posts/scu-press-releasefor-immediate-releasescientific-study-of-ufos-to-be-focus-of-ne/1724768954499084/) [UFOs To Be Focus of New Organization,](https://www.facebook.com/explorescu/posts/scu-press-releasefor-immediate-releasescientific-study-of-ufos-to-be-focus-of-ne/1724768954499084/)” October 27, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_7731 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24792 (C6C121BD) Date: 12/5/2017 Description: In Moscow, Russia, covert CIA operative Marc Polymeropoulos suddenly gets symptoms similar to Havana Syndrome. In the spring of 2018, a private neurologist gives Polymeropoulos a diagnosis: occipital neuralgia, a condition resulting from damage to the two nerves that run from the base of the skull, curving toward the front of the head. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Julia Joffe, “[The Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion,](https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks)” GQ, October 19, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7732 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24793 (BBF1CD6E) Date: 12/16/2017 Description: NY Times discloses the Pentagon’s AATIP program Type: newspaper article Reference: [NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_824 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24794 (1BF117F5) Date: 12/16/2017 Description: The US Department of Defense confirms the existence of a Defense Intelligence Agency program used to collect data on military UFO sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program \(misidentified as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program\) that was disbanded in 2010. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean, “[Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html) [Mysterious UFO Program,](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html)” New York Times, December 16, 2017; Clark III 48 Source ID: Eberhart_7733 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24795 (5B028A87) Date: 12/19/2017 Description: [Luis Elizondo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FElizondo) states on CNN that he believes there is “very compelling evidence we may not be alone.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Former Pentagon Official: ‘We May Not Be Alone,’](https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/18/politics/luis-elizondo-ufo-pentagon/index.html)” CNN, December 19, 2017 Source ID: Eberhart_7734 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 2018 (Back to Top) ### Event 24796 (E3793154) Date: 2018 Description: The British UFO Research Association publishes Vehicle Interference Report, compiled by Geoff Falla and Michael Hudson, summarizing 1,188 EM cases from 1908 to 2013. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Geoff Falla and Michael Hudson, [Vehicle](https://bufora.org.uk/VEHICLE-INTERFERENCE-CASES.php) [Interference Report](https://bufora.org.uk/VEHICLE-INTERFERENCE-CASES.php)[,](https://bufora.org.uk/VEHICLE-INTERFERENCE-CASES.php) BUFORA, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7735 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24797 (CD8D412D) Date: 2018 Description: Jerome Clark completes the third edition of his two-volume UFO encyclopedia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, Omnigraphics, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7736 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24798 (3805120C) Date: 1/2018 Description: A total of 11 satellites carrying Space-Based Infrared System or Space Tracking and Surveillance System payloads are operating in medium-earth, highly elliptical, and geosynchronous orbits that together provide continuous global coverage of infrared energy sources. Originally designed to detect missile launches, and later aircraft, this highly sophisticated capability continues to evolve and improve. This work is being undertaken at the Air Force’s Overhead Persistent Infrared Battlespace Awareness Center at Buckley AFB in Aurora, Colorado, as well as its new Data Utilization Lab. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Spaced-Based Infrared System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-Based%5FInfrared%5FSystem)” Source ID: Eberhart_7737 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24799 (CB56CCF1) Date: 1/5/2018 Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman looking from her bedroom window in Linden, Michigan, sees a large object emitting red-orange light approaching her. It stops dead above her head, accelerates, then slows down. Her husband goes outside and watches it before it blinks out. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 \(Christmas 2018\): 29 Source ID: Eberhart_7738 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24800 (AE66700A) Date: 1/8/2018 Description: The Associated Press reports that a non-public FBI report has found no evidence of an intentional sonic attack in Havana, Cuba. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Tillerson Tells AP Cuba Still Risky; FBI Doubts Sonic Attack,](https://apnews.com/article/37deffe6a9ad408abc5a1a0277056d90)” Associated Press, January 8, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7739 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24801 (AF6AAE23) Date: 1/9/2018 Description: At the direction of US Secretary of State [Rex Tillerson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex%5FTillerson), the State Department conveys an Accountability Review Board to “review security incidents involving diplomatic personnel.” Retired US Ambassador to Libya [Peter W. Bodde](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FW.%5FBodde) is chosen to lead the board. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Retired Ambassador to Libya to Lead Cuba Attacks Review,](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/10/politics/retired-libya-ambassador-cuba-attacks-review/index.html)” CNN, January 10, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7740 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24802 (601B924A) Date: 1/9/2018 Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency responds to an inquiry by Sen. [John McCain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FMcCain) \(R-Ariz.\) and Sen. [Jack Reed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%5FReed%5F%28Rhode%5FIsland%5Fpolitician%29) \(D-R.I.\) regarding 38 projects that the military’s Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program \[in reality, the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Application Program\] has been involved with. The letter is released on January 16 in response to a FOIA request by [Steven Aftergood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FAftergood)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FAftergood) director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy. One such research topic, “Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy,” was led by [Eric W. Davis](https://earthtech.org/pubs/davis/) of EarthTech International, which was founded by [Harold E. Puthoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff), who was formerly involved in the Stargate Project. Another project called “Invisibility Cloaking” was headed by German scientist [Ulf Leonhardt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf%5FLeonhardt)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf%5FLeonhardt) a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Yet another title, “Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions,” was attributed to theoretical physicist [Richard Obousy](http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/team/dr-richard-obousy)[,](http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/team/dr-richard-obousy) director of the nonprofit Icarus Interstellar. One of those papers was released to the public by Popular Mechanics on February 14, 2020. Titled “Clinical Medical Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Dermal and Neurological Tissues,” it is written by [Christopher \(Kit\) Green](https://www.irva.org/conferences/speakers/green.html)[,](https://www.irva.org/conferences/speakers/green.html) formerly a CIA agent, forensic clinician, and neuroscientist, who describes it as “focused on forensically assessing accounts of injuries that could have resulted from claimed encounters with [UAP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexplained%5Faerial%5Fphenomena).” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joseph Trevithick, “[Here’s the List of Studies the](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26056/heres-the-list-of-studies-the-militarys-secretive-ufo-program-funded-some-were-junk) [Military’s Secretive UFO Program Funded, SomeWere Junk,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26056/heres-the-list-of-studies-the-militarys-secretive-ufo-program-funded-some-were-junk)” The Drive: The War Zone, January 18, 2019; US Defense Intelligence Agency, \[[A list of all products produced under the AAWSAP contract](https://irp.fas.org/dia/aatip-list.pdf)\] Source ID: Eberhart_7741 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24803 (B101B7B9) Date: 2/2018 Description: The Brazilian Ufologists Commission begins a new phase of its “UFOs: Freedom of Information Now” campaign called “We Have the Right to Know.” The campaign demands that the Brazilian Army, the Minas Gerais military police, and the fire brigade of Varginha release the secret files on the 1996 Varginha case. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Clark III 209 Source ID: Eberhart_7742 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24804 (EDD2E15D) Date: 2/1/2018 Description: 6:10 p.m. An Airbus A321 pilot is descending from 10,000 feet into Manchester Airport, England, when he sees a grayish, thin-profiled object that passes by very close at the same altitude at great speed down the left side of the aircraft. His initial reaction is that he has seen an internal reflection, but the First Officer and another person have also seen it. None of them have a clear view because it is in the landing-light beam for a split second. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 25th April 2018”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 43 Source ID: Eberhart_7743 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24805 (739FB5D6) Date: 2/16/2018 Description: 9:16 p.m. A witness in Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Netherlands, sees three irregularly flashing lights flying toward the northwest. One of the lights suddenly leaves the formation and flies off in another direction. The lights fly slowly and silently for 6 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[3 rode oplichtende punten aan de hemel,](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7293-3-rode-oplichtende-punten-aan-de-hemel)” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 16, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7744 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24806 (2EB6550C) Date: 2/20/2018 Description: 10:00 p.m. A woman in Ede, Netherlands, sees three points of light \(one brighter than the others\) on a triangular object that is moving toward the northwest. She watches it for 2 minutes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Driehoek formatie 3](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7298-driehoek-formatie-3-lichtpunten) [lichtpunten,](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7298-driehoek-formatie-3-lichtpunten)” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 21, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7745 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24807 (0E778572) Date: 2/23/2018 Description: 10:40 p.m. A witness going outside for a smoke in Biervliet, Netherlands, sees three globes flying in a straight line. They move closer together and disappear at the same time as they seem to merge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Drie](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7301-drie-licht-bollen) [lichtbollen,](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7301-drie-licht-bollen)” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 23, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7748 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24808 (48E4587E) Date: 2/23/2018 Description: 7:30 a.m. Several people traveling to work in Wielsbeke from the village of Waregem, Belgium, see a hovering triangle with two bright lights like a star. There are red lights on its wings, and it is shaped like a B2 stealth bomber. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt, March 4, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7746 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24809 (5031C597) Date: 2/23/2018 Description: 6:50 p.m. Two witnesses in Oudenaarde, Belgium, see a “hanging dot” that ascends at an enormous speed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt, March 4, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7747 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24810 (EBAD853F) Date: 2/24/2018 Description: 1:00 a.m. A man steps outside his house in Mol, Belgium, when it suddenly becomes light outside. Looking up, he sees an orange fireball flying past with small fragments falling off it. It is silent and does not explode. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt, March 4, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7749 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24811 (CA10A662) Date: 2/24/2018 Description: 3:40 p.m. A Learjet 36 belonging to Phoenix Air flying at 37,000 feet reports an object passing above them going in the opposite direction at about 40,000 feet. Minutes later, Blenus Green, pilot of an American Airlines Airbus A321 flying on the same air route at 40,000 feet, reports a bright object passing above them in the opposite direction by about 2,000–3,000 feet. The planes are moving east between the Sonoran Desert National Monument in southern Arizona and the New Mexico border. The air traffic controller in Albuquerque is unable to verify any other aircraft in the area. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway, “[Learjet and Airbus Had Strange Encounter with Mysterious](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19095/listen-in-as-a-learjet-and-an-airbus-encounter-a-mystery-craft-high-over-arizona) [Craft over Arizona,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19095/listen-in-as-a-learjet-and-an-airbus-encounter-a-mystery-craft-high-over-arizona)” The Drive: The War Zone, March 8, 2018; “[2 Airline Pilots Report Seeing UFO While](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-over-arizona-sighting-american-airlines-learjet-pilots-see-ufo/) [Flying over Arizona,](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-over-arizona-sighting-american-airlines-learjet-pilots-see-ufo/)” CBS News, March 29, 2018; Jenny Randles, “The Sonora Desert Incident,” Fortean Times 367 \(June 2018\): 31; Patrick Gross, “[Pilots Sightings](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/sonora24feb2018.htm)” Source ID: Eberhart_7751 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24812 (9D5BF5D0) Date: 2/24/2018 Description: 1:15 a.m. A man in Breda, Netherlands, looks out his bedroom window and sees an enormous globe of white and turquoise light as large as the full moon. The light is so brilliant it hurts his eyes to look at it for 6 seconds. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Felle turqouise-witte bewegende lichtbol, grootte van een volle maan,](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7304-felle-turqouise-witte-bewegende-lichtbol-grootte-van-een-volle-maan)” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 24, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7750 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24813 (97028E9E) Date: 2/25/2018 Description: 6:45 a.m. A witness in Lendele, Belgium, looks out the window and sees a large, bright globe without a tail shooting toward the ground. After a few seconds it disappears. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt, March 4, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7752 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24814 (0FF3FDAC) Date: 2/26/2018 Description: 7:30 p.m. A man walking his dog in Sibculo, Netherlands, takes a video of a bright, flashing object. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Snel](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7307-snel-bewegend-verspringd-licht) [bewegend verspringd licht,](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7307-snel-bewegend-verspringd-licht)” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 26, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7753 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24815 (87E1C1DB) Date: 2/27/2018 Description: 10:10 p.m. A cluster of 3–5 orange-white lights is seen moving and hovering above Heerlen, Netherlands. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[3–5 oranje witte lichten in de lucht kijk hoek 44° Noord Oosten,](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7308-3-5-oranje-witte-lichten-in-de-lucht-kijk-hoek-44-noord-oosten)” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 27, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7756 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24816 (11EA851C) Date: 2/27/2018 Description: 6:30 p.m. A 13-year-old boy in Briele, Netherlands, watches two black discs with red lights flying together. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[2 zwarte \(met rode streep\) schijven die naast elkaar vliegen,](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7309-2-zwarte-met-rode-streep-schijven-die-naast-elkaar-vliegen)” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 27, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7755 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24817 (17B6E905) Date: 2/27/2018 Description: The [Trump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FTrump) administration requests $81.1 billion, the largest amount ever, in funding for the black budget that bankrolls US intelligence operations. $59.9 billion is earmarked for the National Intelligence Program for non-military efforts. The other $21.2 billion would go to the Military Intelligence Program for the Defense Department. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[DNI Releases Budget Figure for FY 2019 Appropriations Requested for the National Intelligence](https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/1849-dni-releases-budget-figure-for-fy-2019-appropriations-requested-for-the-national-intelligence-program) [Program,](https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/1849-dni-releases-budget-figure-for-fy-2019-appropriations-requested-for-the-national-intelligence-program)” Office of the Director of National Intelligence, February 27, 2018; “[Trump Administration Requests](https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/28/trump-administration-requests-811-billion-toward-b/) [Record $81.1 Billion for ‘Black Budget,’](https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/28/trump-administration-requests-811-billion-toward-b/)” Washington Times, February 28, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7754 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24818 (E159CEAD) Date: 2/28/2018 Description: 6:20 p.m. A semi-transparent oval object flies 30–50 feet above the A2 highway near Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands, before moving over an adjacent meadow. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Grijs semi-transparante bal vloog boven](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7310-grijs-semi-transparante-bal-vloog-boven-snelweg) [snelweg,](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7310-grijs-semi-transparante-bal-vloog-boven-snelweg)” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 28, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7757 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24819 (6EFAC76B) Date: 3/2018 Description: University of Pennsylvania researchers examine 21 affected diplomats from the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba, and the preliminary results are published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The report “found no evidence of white matter tract abnormalities” in affected diplomats, beyond what might be seen in a control group of the same age and describe “a new syndrome in the diplomats that resembles persistent concussion.” While some diplomats recover swiftly, others have symptoms that last for months. The study concludes that “the diplomats appear to have sustained injury to widespread brain networks.” Some experts criticize the study, arguing that there is “no proof that any kind of energy source affected the diplomats, or even that an attack took place.” MRI scans and other tests taken by a chief neurologist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on an unspecified number of Canadian diplomats posted in Havana show evidence of brain damage that mirrors the injuries of some of their US counterparts. Global Affairs Canada withdraws all staff with families. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Fresh Row over Mysterious](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/24/fresh-row-over-mysterious-sickness-affecting-us-diplomats-in-cuba) [Sickness Affecting US Diplomats in Cuba,](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/24/fresh-row-over-mysterious-sickness-affecting-us-diplomats-in-cuba)” The Guardian \(UK\), February 24, 2018; Randel L. Swanson II, et al., “[Neurological Manifestations among US Government Personnel Reporting Directional Audible and Sensory](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2673168) [Phenomena in Havana, Cuba,](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2673168)” Journal of the American Medical Association 319 \(March 20, 2018\): 1125–1133; “[Blood and Bureaucracy: Inside Canada’s Panicked Response to ‘Havana Syndrome,’](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-blood-and-bureaucracy-inside-canadas-panicked-response-to-havana/)” Toronto \(Ont.\) Globe and Mail, December 12, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7758 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24820 (278F8CB2) Date: 3/2/2018 Description: The US State Department announces it will continue to staff its embassy in Havana, Cuba, at the minimum level required to perform “core diplomatic and consular functions” due to concerns about health attacks on staff. The embassy has been operating under “ordered departure status” since September, but the status is set to expire. This announcement serves to extend the staff reductions indefinitely. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[US Embassy in Cuba to Reduce Staff](https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/02/politics/us-embassy-cuba-staff-reductions-attacks/index.html) [Indefinitely after ‘Health Attacks,’](https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/02/politics/us-embassy-cuba-staff-reductions-attacks/index.html)” CNN, March 2, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7759 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24821 (8AAC9B5A) Date: 3/9/2018 Description: The US Air Force officially retires the MQ-1 Predator drone from operational service. The aircraft was first operationally deployed in 1995 and in 2011 the last of 268 Predators were delivered to the service, of which just over 100 were still in service by the start of 2018. While the Predator was phased out by the Air Force in favor of the heavier and more capable MQ-9 Reaper, the Predator continues to serve in the MQ-1C Gray Eagle derivative for the US Army as well as with several foreign nations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[General Atomics MQ-1 Predator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%5FAtomics%5FMQ-1%5FPredator)” Source ID: Eberhart_7760 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24822 (AAEEA2BA) Date: 3/13/2018 Description: 4:15 p.m. An F/A-18E Super Hornet from Strike Fighter Squadron 106 \(VFA-106, the “Gladiators”\) tracks four separate unknown objects on its radar in the W-122 warning area, which sits off the coast of North Carolina. The objects are all flying at approximately 0.1 Mach at altitudes between 16,000 and 22,000 feet. The pilot visually identifies one at 20,000 feet that “appeared to be a quadcopter-type drone, 3–4 feet wide.” The objects do not appear to be doing anything in particular and are stationary or near-stationary. They are also spread out across an area approximately 40 to 50 miles wide, with the closest one being 15 miles away from the one boat that the pilot noted seeing below. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “[Here Are the Navy Pilot Reports from](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast) [Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off the East Coast,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast)” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7761 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24823 (5B86AED2) Date: 4/5/2018 Description: Night. Dogs belonging to a witness in DeRidder, Louisiana, begin growling in the living room, and cows in the pasture are mooing excitedly. Outside, he sees a huge white light growing and intensity and pulsating for 15 minutes. When it disappears, the animals calm down. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 125 Source ID: Eberhart_7762 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24824 (B99F8EB7) Date: 5/5/2018 Description: 12:45 p.m. A B757 airliner pilot is approaching Gatwick Airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, in busy airspace when the First Officer and Captain see a fairly large, irregular-shaped, dark-lack object pass down the left side at the same altitude within 200 feet of the aircraft, heading in an easterly direction. No avoiding action is needed, but the incident is reported to Gatwick control. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK Airprox Board, “The UKAB Meeting on 20th June 2018 Consisted Solely of Consolidated Drone/Balloon/Model/Unknown Object Report Sheet”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 43 Source ID: Eberhart_7763 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24825 (06ACC887) Date: 5/23/2018 Description: After an employee of the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China, reports medical symptoms \(abnormal sensations of sound and pressure\) in April that are similar to the diplomats in Havana, Cuba, Secretary of State [Mike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FPompeo) [Pompeo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FPompeo) confirms to the House Foreign Affairs Committee that there are several reports from diplomatic staff in Guangzhou of symptoms “entirely consistent” with those reported from Cuba. A medical team arrives at the end of the month to conduct baseline medical evaluations on consulate staff. Some are evacuated to the US, including security engineering officer Mark Lenzi, who has been hearing sounds like “marbles bouncing and hitting the floor” since April 2017, followed by excruciating headaches and insomnia. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[US Embassy Pulls More China Staff](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-44393297) [over Mystery Illness,](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-44393297)” BBC News, June 7, 2018; Richard Stone, “[Sonic Attack or Mass Paranoia? New Evidence](https://www.science.org/content/article/sonic-attack-or-mass-paranoia-new-evidence-stokes-debate-over-diplomats-mysterious) [Stokes Debate over Diplomats’ Mysterious Illness,](https://www.science.org/content/article/sonic-attack-or-mass-paranoia-new-evidence-stokes-debate-over-diplomats-mysterious)” Science, June 20, 2018; “[US Diplomat Mark Lenzi, Who](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3009811/us-diplomat-mark-lenzi-who-suffered-mysterious-injury-while-stationed) [Suffered Mysterious Injury While Stationed in China, Pledges to Donate Brain to Science,](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3009811/us-diplomat-mark-lenzi-who-suffered-mysterious-injury-while-stationed)” South China Morning Post, May 11, 2019; Julia Joffe, “[The Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion,](https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks)” GQ, October 19, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7764 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24826 (C74DFC08) Date: 6/13/2018 Time: 0400 Description: TTSA’s “ADAM Project” (an acronym for Acquisition & Data Analysis of Materials) hand delivers exotic materials claimed to be from a crashed UFO to EarthTech in Austin, TX. Type: material delivery Reference: [YouTube](https://youtu.be/MzrnJtNbwZE) Location: San Diego, CA Location: Austin, TX Source ID: Maj2_825 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24827 (CB19295F) Date: 7/5/2018 Description: 9:30 a.m. A King Air BE90 pilot is cruising at 16,000 feet about 10 nautical miles north of Birmingham, England, when he sees a rectangular or elliptical object pass 500–1,000 feet below the aircraft. He estimates it is 20–40 inches long, although it is only in sight for 2 seconds below it passes beneath the plane. It is either hovering or traveling in the opposite direction. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 12th September 2018”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 43 Source ID: Eberhart_7765 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24828 (127C69F5) Date: 7/26/2018 Description: The To The Stars Academy’s ADAM Research Project is announced to test extraterrestrial materials for commercial and military applications. The testing will be done through [Harold E. Puthoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff)’s EarthTech International in Austin, Texas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: To The Stars Academy, “An Introduction to the ADAM Rsearch Project,” July 26, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7766 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24829 (7BC4F8D8) Date: 8/6/2018 Description: 11:20 p.m. A resident of Heemstede, Netherlands, is skywatching when he suddenly sees a silent triangular object with three white lights moving faster than an airplane. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Drie lichtjies in driehoeksvorm leek zwart vlak in](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7880-drie-lichtjes-in-driehoeksvorm-leek-zwart-vlak-in-het-midden-te-zitten) [het midden te zitten,](https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/melding/7880-drie-lichtjes-in-driehoeksvorm-leek-zwart-vlak-in-het-midden-te-zitten)” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, August 6, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7767 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24830 (09221B2C) Date: 8/12/2018 Description: 11:30 p.m. Frédéric K. and a companion are watching the night sky in Viry, Haute-Savoie, France, when they see a black triangle with lights at each of its points. The object is nearly motionless, but it is rotating slightly and is completely silent. K. is struck by its immense size, which he estimates is several times the size of an airliner. After a few seconds it moves slowly northeast toward Geneva, Switzerland. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Daniel Robin, “Les triangles de la nuit \(suite\),” Ovnis-Direct, August 23, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7768 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24831 (46F03247) Date: 9/1/2018 Description: According to a New York Times report, [Douglas H. Smith](http://www.med.upenn.edu/cbir/Research-Team.html), the lead author of the March study on Havana Syndrome and director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of Pennsylvania, says that microwaves are now considered a main suspect and that the team is increasingly sure the diplomats have suffered brain injury. Strikes with microwaves, some experts now argue, more plausibly explain reports of painful sounds, ills, and traumas than do other possible culprits—sonic attacks, viral infections, and contagious anxiety. In particular, a growing number of analysts cite an eerie phenomenon known as the Frey effect, named after [Allan H.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave%5Fauditory%5Feffect) [Frey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave%5Fauditory%5Feffect)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave%5Fauditory%5Feffect) an American scientist, who in the 1960s found that microwaves can trick the brain into perceiving what seem to be ordinary sounds. The false sensations may account for a defining symptom of the diplomatic incidents—the perception of loud noises, including ringing, buzzing, and grinding. Initially, experts cited those symptoms as evidence of stealthy attacks with sonic weapons. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: William J. Broad, “[Microwave Weapons Are](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html) [Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers,](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html)” New York Times, September 1, 2018; Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, “[Diplomats’ Mystery Illness and Pulsed Radiofrequency/Microwave Radiation,](https://direct.mit.edu/neco/article-abstract/30/11/2882/8424/Diplomats-Mystery-Illness-and-Pulsed)” Neural Computation 30 \(2018\): 2882–2985 Source ID: Eberhart_7769 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24832 (E869C309) Date: 10/11/2018 Description: Ufologist Robert O. Dean dies at age 89. Dean gave public presentations about secret documents we read at NATO SHAPE concerning UFO's. Type: death Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dean_%28ufologist%29) Location: Tucson, AZ Source ID: Maj2_826 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24833 (75125AA2) Date: 10/15/2018 Description: The Five Continents UFO Forum is held in the Cosmos Hotel in Moscow, Russia, to serve as a platform to launch a worldwide UFO organization. The nine founders of the World Coalition on Extraterrestrial Contact include [Don Schmitt](https://ufocongress.com/don-schmitt-2/) \(US\), [Roberto Pinotti](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%5FPinotti) \(Italy\), [Gary Heseltine](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3097700/bio) \(UK\), [Ademar José Gevaerd](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ademar%5FJos%C3%A9%5FGevaerd) \(Brazil\), Andrea Simondini \(Argentina\), [Haktan Ardogan](https://ufocongress.com/haktan-akdogan/) \(Turkey\), Gabor Tarçali \(Hungary\), [Lachezar Filipov](http://www.space.bas.bg/astrophysics/BG/cvfilipov%5Fsite.html) \(Bulgaria\), and [Anthony Choy](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%5FChoy) \(Peru\). The conference is promoted by the Russian Kosmopoisk group and the International Chinese UFO Association. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: 2Pinotti 230–231 Source ID: Eberhart_7770 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24834 (72B2CD03) Date: 10/26/2018 Description: Harvard astronomer [Avi Loeb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi%5FLoeb) and his postdoctoral assistant Shmuel Bialy submit a paper exploring the possibility that the recently discovered interstellar object ʻOumuamua is an artificial thin solar sail accelerated by solar radiation pressure in an effort to help explain the object’s nongravitational acceleration. Other scientists state that the available evidence is insufficient to consider such a premise and that a tumbling solar sail would not be able to accelerate. In response, Loeb writes an article detailing six anomalous properties of ʻOumuamua that make it unusual, unlike any comets or asteroids seen before. A subsequent report on observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope sets a tight limit on cometary outgassing of any carbon-based molecules and indicates that ʻOumuamua is at least 10 times shinier than a typical comet. A detailed podcast produced by Rob Reid provides the full details about the differences between ʻOumuamua and known comets. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[‘Oumuamua](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua\#Alien%5Fobject%5Fhypothesis)”; Abraham Loeb, “[How](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-search-for-dead-cosmic-civilizations/) [to Search for Dead Cosmic Civilizations,](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-search-for-dead-cosmic-civilizations/)” Scientific American blog, September 27, 2018; Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb, “[Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain ‘Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?](https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11490)” arXiv, October 26, 2018; Matt Williams, “[Could ‘Oumuamua Be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail?](https://www.universetoday.com/140391/could-oumuamua-be-an-extra-terrestrial-solar-sail/)” Universe Today, October 31, 2018; “[Cigar-Shaped Interstellar Object May Have Been an Alien Probe, Harvard Paper Claims,](https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/archive/cigar-shaped-interstellar-object-may-have-been-an-alien-probe/article%5F24c3cd57-36e8-580a-87e1-f139ab01d53d.html)” WPSD-TV, Paducah, Kentucky, November 6, 2018; Kerry Sheridan, “[Scientists Push Back against Harvard ‘Alien](https://phys.org/news/2018-11-scientists-harvard-alien-spacecraft-theory.html) [Spacecraft’ Theory,](https://phys.org/news/2018-11-scientists-harvard-alien-spacecraft-theory.html)” Phys.org, November 7, 2018; Abraham Loeb, “[6 Strange Facts about the Interstellar Visitor](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/6-strange-facts-about-the-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua/) [‘Oumuamua,](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/6-strange-facts-about-the-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua/)” Scientific American blog, November 20, 2018; D.E. Trilling, et al., “[Spitzer Observations of](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08072) [Interstellar Object 1I/’Oumuamua,](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08072)” aeXiv, November 20, 2018; Rob Reid, “[Nailing Down the Nature of](https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/nailing-down-the-nature-of-oumuamua-its-probably-a-comet-but/) [‘Oumuamua: It’s Probably a Comet, But…](https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/nailing-down-the-nature-of-oumuamua-its-probably-a-comet-but/)” Ars Technica, November 29, 2018; Oded Carmeli, “[If True, This](https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-if-true-this-could-be-one-of-the-greatest-discoveries-in-human-history-1.6828318) [Could Be One of the Greatest Discoveries in Human History,](https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-if-true-this-could-be-one-of-the-greatest-discoveries-in-human-history-1.6828318)” Haaretz, January 16, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7771 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24835 (519DAD99) Date: 11/6/2018 Description: Around midnight. The pilots of a US Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter are preparing to take off from an airstrip about 40 miles northwest of Tucson, Arizona, when they spot three objects in a loose triangular formation in the sky at a low altitude. The copilot continues to follow the three objects with the aircraft’s multi- sensor imaging system, the Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor. As the three objects approach the foothills of nearby Picacho Peak, they suddenly appear to rotate around each other, as if revolving around an unseen axis, all while maintaining a steady eastward trajectory. Pilot Chris Lehto says they are moving at an unexpectedly high rate of speed. After several rotations, the objects then resume an obtuse triangular formation before speeding out of sight as the Apache begins to take off. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tim McMillan, Micah Hanks, and Christopher Plain, “[Incursions at the Border: Homeland Security Agents Tell of Encounters with Unidentified](https://thedebrief.org/incursions-at-the-border-homeland-security-agents-tell-of-encounters-with-uap/) [Aerial Phenomena,](https://thedebrief.org/incursions-at-the-border-homeland-security-agents-tell-of-encounters-with-uap/)” The DeBrief, May 27, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7772 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24836 (97C27BC8) Date: 11/9/2018 Description: A report finds that the earlier FBI investigation into the Cuban health attacks has been stymied by conflicts with the CIA and State Department. The CIA is reluctant to reveal, even to other US agencies, the identities of affected officers. Federal rules on the confidentiality of medical records also hindered the investigation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adam Entous and Jon Lee Anderson, “[The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome,](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/the-mystery-of-the-havana-syndrome)” New Yorker, November 9, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7774 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24837 (389AB420) Date: 11/9/2018 Description: 6:47 a.m. A British Airways 787 is flying eastward just off the coast of County Kerry, Ireland, near the Dingle peninsula at 330 mph at an altitude of 39,000 feet. Two other aircraft, a Norwegian Airlines 737 in front of it and a Virgin VA 76 behind, are on the same flight path. The pilot of the British Airways plane notices a bright light moving fast on the left and rapidly veers north. She asks Shannon Airport if there are military planes in the area. They tell the pilot no and that nothing is showing on their radar. The Virgin pilot has seen it and thinks it is a meteor or satellite re-entry. The Norwegian pilot has seen two bright lights. Shannon verifies that other aircraft have witnessed the event. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “Irish Mid-Air Spectacular,” Fortean Times 375 \(January 2019\): 33 Source ID: Eberhart_7773 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24838 (0AA780BD) Date: 11/17/2018 Description: Day. A Cargojet flight from the Cincinnati area to Calgary, Alberta, observes bright lights high above Saskatchewan, while a corresponding Canadian Air Defence Sector log entry describes “bright shining lights” that are “maneuvering and moving fast.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Daniel Otis, “[Credible UFO Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified](https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dggbx/canada-military-rcaf-ufos-sightings) [Canadian Government Documents Reveal,](https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dggbx/canada-military-rcaf-ufos-sightings)” Motherboard, November 29, 2021; [CADORS Report](https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/saf-sec-sur/2/cadors-screaq/rd.aspx?cno%3d2018C4984%26dtef%3d%26dtet%3d2021-07-27%26otp%3d-1%26ftop%3d%253e%253d%26ftno%3d0%26ijop%3d%253e%253d%26ijno%3d0%26olc%3d%26prv%3d-1%26rgn%3d-1%26tsbno%3d%26tsbi%3d-1%26arno%3d%26ocatno%3d%26ocatop%3d1%26oevtno%3d%26oevtop%3d1%26evtacoc%3d3%26fltno%3d%26fltr%3d-1%26cars%3d-1%26acat%3d-1%26nar%3d%26aiddl%3d-1%26aidxt%3d%26optdl%3d-1%26optcomt%3d%26optseq%3d%26optxt%3d%26opdlxt%3dResults%2bwill%2bappear%2bin%2bthis%2blist%26mkdl%3d-1%26mkxt%3d%26mdldl%3d-1%26mdlxt%3d%26cmkdl%3dC%26cmkxt%3d%26rt%3dQR%26hypl%3dy%26cnum%3d2018C4984), no. 2018C4984 Source ID: Eberhart_7775 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24839 (922D024E) Date: 11/19/2018 Description: The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization announces that all 21 monitoring facilities located in Australia are completed “and sending reliable, high-quality data” to Vienna, Austria, for analysis. The global monitoring system consists of 337 facilities worldwide to monitor the planet for signs of nuclear explosions. It includes 60 infrasound stations that monitor for micropressure changes in Earth’s atmosphere, which are caused by infrasonic waves. These waves have a low frequency and cannot be heard by human ears, and can be caused by nuclear explosions. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Preparatory Commission for the](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparatory%5FCommission%5Ffor%5Fthe%5FComprehensive%5FNuclear-Test-Ban%5FTreaty%5FOrganization\#International%5FMonitoring%5FSystem%5F%28IMS%29) [Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparatory%5FCommission%5Ffor%5Fthe%5FComprehensive%5FNuclear-Test-Ban%5FTreaty%5FOrganization\#International%5FMonitoring%5FSystem%5F%28IMS%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_7776 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24840 (6CB3DDB1) Date: 11/21/2018 Description: Morning. The Canadian Air Defence Sector detects an unidentified radar target approaching North America from the direction of Greenland. Canadian CF-18 fighter jets are soon launched from CFB Bagotville in Quebec to locate the “unknown track,” but find nothing. A declassified report from the following day blames the “spurious data” on equipment issues at a NORAD radar installation on Canada’s north Atlantic coast. Later that day, CADS receives a UFO report from Edmonton air traffic controllers about “3 red lights in the sky, hovering at the approximate height of a cell phone tower” near High Prairie, Alberta. This time, CADS responds by notifying Canadian NORAD headquarters in Winnipeg and Transport Canada, the federal transportation department. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Daniel Otis, “[Credible UFO Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian Government Documents](https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dggbx/canada-military-rcaf-ufos-sightings) [Reveal,](https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dggbx/canada-military-rcaf-ufos-sightings)” Motherboard, November 29, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7777 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24841 (658E5074) Date: 12/4/2018 Description: The independent documentary Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers is released. The film, available on Netflix beginning in June 2019, “chronicles the challenges and travails of a cosmic whistleblower. Burdened with a revolutionary secret, he had to choose between his oath to his country or his conscience. [Jeremy Corbell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%5FKenyon%5FLockyer%5FCorbell)’s film explores [Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar)’s groundbreaking claims and the devastating impact it has had on his life over the course of the last 30 years, including rare and never before revealed footage guaranteed to alter the landscape of the debate.” “Unfortunately, Corbell busies up the documentary with a barrage of images of atomic age archival footage and such that after awhile make the movie seem more like a collage than a film. There is also the psychobabble narration that is mumbled by [Mickey Rourke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%5FRourke); at times poetic, at times it comes off like comic relief. It’s distracting and unnecessary.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Internet Movie Database, “[Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9107368/)”; “[Watch Bob](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcTickWOsP0) [Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers, 2021,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcTickWOsP0)” News of the World YouTube channel, November 5, 2021; Amy Zimmerman, “[Why Did the FBI Raid the Home of the Biggest Alien Truther?](https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-did-the-fbi-raid-the-home-of-the-biggest-alien-truther)” The Daily Beast, December 4, 2018; Carlos, “[Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers,](https://carlosdev.wordpress.com/2018/12/26/bob-lazar-area-51-flying-saucers/)” Cinema365, December 26, 2018 Source ID: Eberhart_7778 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24842 (B29604EA) Date: 12/19/2018 End date: 12/21/2018 Description: Sightings of drones disrupt around 1,000 flights at Gatwick Airport in West Sussex, England, causing flights to be diverted or canceled. There are multiple reports but no physical or photographic evidence. The military are called in with special anti-drone equipment. Gatwick goes back to normal operations on December 21 after two people are arrested then released without charge. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Gatwick Airport drone incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatwick%5FAirport%5Fdrone%5Fincident)”; “[Who](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8034127/gatwick-drone-menace-taunted-cops-flash-lights/) [is Drone Ranger?](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8034127/gatwick-drone-menace-taunted-cops-flash-lights/)” The Sun \(UK\), December 21, 2018; “[Gatwick Drone Attack Possible Inside Job, Police Say,](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47919680)” BBC News, April 14, 2019; “The Gatwick Drone Enigma,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 40–41 Source ID: Eberhart_7779 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24843 (939D3532) Date: 12/30/2018 Description: 6:45 p.m. The pilot of an Embraer 175 passenger plane approaching the runway at Glasgow Airport, Scotland, sees an “object pass between three and 10 feet from the aircraft at the same level.” The pilot cannot tell what it is, but it is “lit up in various places and was more horizontally long than it was vertically.” The Airprox board is unable to identify the object, but decides there was a definite risk of collision and luck played a part in missing it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 13th February 2019”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 43 Source ID: Eberhart_7780 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 2019 (Back to Top) ### Event 24844 (0F9FB352) Date: 1/2019 Description: Ufologist [Jenny Randles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles) retires the Northern UFO News after its 200th issue is published. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “[January Issue Now Out,](http://www.ozfactorbooks.com/northern-ufo-news-january-2019.html)” Oz Factor Books Source ID: Eberhart_7781 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24845 (C7ABF658) Date: 1/4/2019 Description: Biologists [Alexander L. Stubbs](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alexander%5FL.%5FStubbs) of the University of California, Berkeley, and [Fernando Montealegre-Z](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fernando%5FMontealegre-Z) of the University of Lincoln analyze the recording of a sound made by US personnel in Cuba and release it to the Associated Press. They conclude that the sound is caused by the calling song of the Indies short-tailed cricket \(Anurogryllus celerinictus\) rather than a technological device. They match the song’s “pulse repetition rate, power spectrum, pulse rate stability, and oscillations per pulse” to the recording. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Carl Zimmer, “[The Sounds That](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/science/sonic-attack-cuba-crickets.html) [Haunted U.S. Diplomats in Cuba? Lovelorn Crickets, Scientists Say,](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/science/sonic-attack-cuba-crickets.html)” New York Times, January 4, 2019; Robert W. Baloh and Robert E. Bartholomew, Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria, Springer, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7782 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24846 (4D47BA2B) Date: 1/6/2019 Description: The crew of a Vanguard Air Care flight sees an unidentified light moving parallel to them for about three minutes while they are travelling at about 265 mph at an altitude of 7,500 feet around the 55th parallel over northern Manitoba. The CIRVIS report says the brightness of the light in the night sky is what attracted the observer’s attention and that NAV Canada’s Winnipeg Air Control Centre assumes that it is another aircraft. 21 Aerospace Control and Warning Squadron at Canadian Forces Base North Bay in Ontario is notified of the sighting. An unclassified intelligence report is then faxed to Transport Canada. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[2019 Sighting of Unidentified](https://www.thompsoncitizen.net/local-news/2019-sighting-of-unidentified-light-in-northern-manitoba-sky-was-reported-to-air-force-vice-says-4297048) [Light in Northern Manitoba Sky Was Reported to Air Force, Vice Says,](https://www.thompsoncitizen.net/local-news/2019-sighting-of-unidentified-light-in-northern-manitoba-sky-was-reported-to-air-force-vice-says-4297048)” Thompson \(Man.\) Citizen, April 14, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7783 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24847 (41F82DB1) Date: 1/8/2019 Description: The television series Project Blue Book premieres on the History channel. The main role of [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) is played by [Aidan Gillen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan%5FGillen)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan%5FGillen) with [Laura Mennell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%5FMennell) as Mimi Hynek. The series runs for a second season in 2020 before it is canceled. UFO skeptic [Robert Sheaffer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FSheaffer), reviewing the first four episodes, points out numerous historical inaccuracies and falsehoods, some of which he characterizes as “absurd.” Concerned over misguiding viewers, he concludes that “this program references real people by their real names, a real government program, and real incidents. It then mixes in absurd and invented details, while claiming that the show is based on real events.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Project Blue Book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FBlue%5FBook%5F%28TV%5Fseries%29) [\(TV series\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FBlue%5FBook%5F%28TV%5Fseries%29)”; Internet Movie Database, “[Project Blue Book](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6632666/)” Source ID: Eberhart_7784 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24848 (3153CB19) Date: 1/15/2019 Description: 11:40 a.m. An RAF Typhoon pilot is leading a pair of fighters from Coningsby, England, to an exercise in the North Sea. After receiving clearance to climb to 30,000 feet from 15,000 feet, he notices an object at 11 o’clock about one nautical mile away, slightly higher and maintaining a constant altitude. The radar and data link show no traffic conflictions. The object reflects sunlight and appears to have a linear form. It passes down the left- hand side of the aircraft. The wingman independently sees the same object as it passes over the leader’s aircraft. He maintains the formation at 15,000 feet until they are clear of the object. Nothing unusual is noticed by ground radar. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 13th March 2019”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 43 Source ID: Eberhart_7785 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24849 (C6FD7E76) Date: 1/30/2019 Description: The government of Canada announces that it is reducing its embassy staff in Havana, Cuba, after a 14th Canadian diplomat reports symptoms of Havana syndrome in late December 2018. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Havana Syndrome’ Forces](https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2019/01/30/havana-syndrome-forces-canada-to-halve-its-diplomatic-presence-in-cuba/) [Canada to Halve Its Diplomatic Presence in Cuba,](https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2019/01/30/havana-syndrome-forces-canada-to-halve-its-diplomatic-presence-in-cuba/)” Radio Canada International, January 30, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7786 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24850 (5787AA04) Date: 2/6/2019 Description: The Canadian government is served with a $28 million dollar lawsuit by five diplomats, on the alleged basis that Ottawa has not promptly addressed the serious health concerns the Canadian diplomats and their families have faced in Havana, Cuba, more than 2 years ago. The origin of these health concerns is unknown, but these ailments manifest as symptoms that are similar to that of a concussion. None of these allegations have been proven in court. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Ailing Canadian Diplomats Who Served in Cuba Have ‘Visible and Real’ Health Impacts,](https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2019/02/07/ailing-canadian-diplomats-who-served-in-cuba-have-visible-and-real-health-impacts-justin-trudeau-says.html) [Trudeau Says,](https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2019/02/07/ailing-canadian-diplomats-who-served-in-cuba-have-visible-and-real-health-impacts-justin-trudeau-says.html)” Toronto \(Ont.\) Star, February 7, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7787 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24851 (A37F85EA) Date: 2/10/2019 Description: Afternoon. Several people in Cogollos de Guadix, Granada, Spain, observe three mysterious lights flash across the sky at great speed, each of which falls in a different part of the village. José María Madiedo at the Universidad de Huelva rules out meteorites because the objects are only seen locally. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Seen in the Skies,” Fortean Times 382, August 2019, p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_7788 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24852 (0B54E3B1) Date: 2/13/2019 Description: 4:35 p.m. The crew of an EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 \(VX-23\), flying out Naval Air Station Patuxent River in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, and conducting activities in the W-386 warning area, visually spot what they specifically describe as “a red weather balloon” at 27,000 feet. Neither Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility, Virginia Capes \(FASCFAC VACAPES\), nor the Echo Control team responsible for overseeing operations in the Atlantic Test Ranges off the coast, are aware of any scheduled balloon activity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “[Here Are the Navy](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast) [Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off the East Coast,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast)” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7789 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24853 (5C3BF271) Date: 3/2019 Description: An airline passenger films a supposed UFO over the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece. The film is taken through the airplane window and shows a massive, gray-black, contrail-like object cutting through a layer of clouds. Some investigators conclude it is an F-4 fighter jet of the Greek Air Force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “Seen in the Skies,” Fortean Times 382, August 2019, p. 17 Source ID: Eberhart_7790 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24854 (06BAB836) Date: 3/2019 Description: NY Times: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD, Aerospace Corporation (a defense contractor), gives a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.” Type: senate briefing Reference: [NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_828 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24855 (58F3F69E) Date: 3/4/2019 Description: An FA-18 pilot flying out of NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, takes cellphone images of a UAP out of his cockpit in the W-72 warning area off the coast. His weapons systems officer captures three different objects using the same cellphone. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, “[The US Navy Filmed Pyramid Shaped UFOs,](https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-filmed-pyramid-ufos)” Extraordinary Beliefs, April 8, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7791 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24856 (3B8CFD6B) Date: 3/30/2019 Description: 2:00 p.m. A B787 airliner pilot flying over London, England, sees a red object pass down the right-hand side of the aircraft at 6,000 feet. It is impossible to identify, although it is large enough to cause concern. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on Wednesday 15th May 2019”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 43 Source ID: Eberhart_7792 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24857 (46FF2416) Date: 4/2019 Description: The UK National Archives releases 18 more UFO files that had been missed since the last release in 2013. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Ministry of Defence Insider Reveals Contents of Britain’s ‘Final’ UFO Files,](https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/30/ministry-defence-insider-reveals-contents-britains-final-ufo-x-files-12152206/)” Metro \(UK\), January 30, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7793 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24858 (E766A1FB) Date: 4/2019 Description: The Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, Australia, picks up a 982.992 MHz radio signal, labeled BLC1, emitted from Proxima Centauri. Researchers from the Breakthrough Listen Project cannot attribute it to any Earth-based or near-Earth human-created source. Shifts in the signal’s frequency are consistent with a planet’s movement and may be suggestive of a third planet within the system. As of December 2020, follow-up observations have failed to detect the signal again, a step necessary to confirm that the signal is a technosignature. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[BLC1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLC1)”; “Signal from Space,” Fortean Times 404 \(April 2021\): 15; David Appell, “[Meet the](https://physicsworld.com/a/meet-the-technosignature-researcher-on-the-lookout-for-exo-civilizations/) [Technosignature Researcher on the Lookout for Exocivilizations,](https://physicsworld.com/a/meet-the-technosignature-researcher-on-the-lookout-for-exo-civilizations/)” Physics World, February 2, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7794 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24859 (72578FAB) Date: 4/4/2019 Description: The Argentine Air Force’s Comisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales is renamed the Centro de Identificación Aéroespacial. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Milton Hourcade, “[Argentina: UFO Declassification,](https://www.uapsg.com/2020/07/argentina-ufo-declassification.html)” U.A.P.S.G.–G.E.F.A.I., July 29, 2020; Government of Argentina, “[Centro de Identificación Aéroespacial](https://www.argentina.gob.ar/fuerzaaerea/centro-de-identificaci%C3%B3n-aeroespacial)” Source ID: Eberhart_7795 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24860 (6EC6E3B2) Date: 4/28/2019 Description: 12:40 p.m. An Airbus A319 is climbing out from Gatwick Airport, near Crawley, West Sussex, England, when the pilot sees an object a few seconds after breaking through cloud at 17,000 feet. It passes beneath them from the center of the aircraft and under the right-hand wing and is clearly contrasted against the clouds. The small object appears dark green in color with a white light on top. The UK Airprox Board places this incident in the highest risk category. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on Wednesday 19th June 2019”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 43 Source ID: Eberhart_7796 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24861 (A44271A7) Date: 4/30/2019 Description: In an interview, Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD (who has a security clearance) talks about the “crash retrieval program” that was terminated in 1989 for lack of progress. Type: interview Reference: [link](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_829 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24862 (A066D2D8) Date: 5/5/2019 Description: 2:00 p.m. An Airbus A320 pilot departing from Gatwick Airport, England, sees a totally white object resembling a shoebox-sized cube with a ball on top. It passes down the left-hand side of the aircraft, slightly above and within 16 feet at 6,000 feet altitude. The object appears to be in level flight. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on Wednesday 19th June 2019”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 43 Source ID: Eberhart_7797 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24863 (AF2E23E6) Date: 5/13/2019 Description: Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman dies age 84 Type: death Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_T._Friedman) Location: Toronto, Canada Source ID: Maj2_830 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24864 (E72C915A) Date: 5/22/2019 Description: Pentagon spokesman [Christopher Sherwood](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cgsherwood) confirms to the [New York Post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%5FYork%5FPost) that the AATIP program “did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena,” dispelling rumors that the program only focused on theoretical physics. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Steven Greenstreet, “[The Pentagon Finally Admits It Investigates UFOs,](https://nypost.com/2019/05/22/the-pentagon-finally-admits-it-investigates-ufos/)” New York Post, May 22, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7798 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24865 (D820623B) Date: 5/24/2019 Description: Researchers who examine Canadian diplomats affected by Havana Syndrome come to the conclusion that neurotoxin exposure is compatible with the symptoms. Their explanation of the root cause is the increased use of fumigation as pest control by the embassies themselves, which is supported by blood analysis. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Havana](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-enqu%C3%AAte-1.5288609) [Syndrome: Exposure to Neurotoxin May Have Been Cause, Study Suggests,](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-enqu%C3%AAte-1.5288609)” CBC News, September 19, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7799 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24866 (E1AE9F8A) Date: 5/26/2019 Description: The New York Times reports that US Navy pilots fully briefed AATIP about encounters they had with unexplained objects during the summer of 2014 to March 2015 while flying at high altitudes off the East coast of the United States. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean, “‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects,” New York Times, May 26, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7800 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24867 (93D66A0C) Date: 5/31/2019 End date: 8/22/2020 Description: First season of History Channel’s “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation” Type: documentary Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified%3A_Inside_America%27s_UFO_Investigation) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_827 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24868 (E8CCF917) Date: 6/2019 Description: The National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena issues an advisory for pilots that offers recommendations on how to deal with UAPs by Ted Roe. It offers a general history of UAP, some common profiles of unidentified objects, safety factors that can arise during an incident, and cautions and recommendations for aircrews and air traffic controllers. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Roe, “[Advisory for Pilots, Aircrews, Air Controllers, and Aviation](https://www.narcap.org/blog/advisoryforpilots) [Professionals: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, UAP, UFOs, and Aviation Safety,](https://www.narcap.org/blog/advisoryforpilots)” NARCAP, June 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7801 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24869 (DD19A89C) Date: 6/15/2019 Description: President [Donald Trump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FTrump) tells ABC News’ [George Stephanopoulos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FStephanopoulos) that he has been briefed on Navy pilots reporting increased sightings of UFOs. Trump raises his eyebrows and grins incredulously when asked what he makes of the reports. “I want them to think whatever they think,” Trump says of the Navy pilots. “I did have one very brief meeting on it. But people are saying they’re seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Matthew Choi, “[Trump Says He Was Briefed on Navy Sightings of UFOs,](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/15/trump-says-he-doesnt-particularly-believe-ufo-reports-1365848)” Politico, June 15, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7802 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24870 (65539CC7) Date: 6/15/2019 Description: Approximately 4:45 p.m. The Skinwalker Ranch project in Uintah County, Utah, orchestrated by Utah real estate developer [Brandon Fugal](https://www2.colliers.com/en/experts/brandon-fugal) \(who purchased the land from [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow) in April 2016\) and led by University of Alabama astrophysicist and science fiction author [Travis S. Taylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis%5FS.%5FTaylor)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis%5FS.%5FTaylor) sends up three instrumented small rockets to locate the source of strong RF and gamma radiation apparently coming from about one mile above the property. Between the rocket tests, the team observes and films on two occasions a round, white ball that moves erratically around the sky for a few seconds before disappearing. Cows in a neighboring field are agitated and group closely together in one spot. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, Season 1, Episode 4, 2020; Internet Movie Database, “[The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10589968/)” Source ID: Eberhart_7803 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24871 (5E2C0FA9) Date: 6/20/2019 Description: Bob Lazar and film maker Jeremy Corbell sit down for an interview with Joe Rogan Type: interview Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_831 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24872 (4363425E) Date: 6/23/2019 Description: The catalog of space objects built by the US Space Surveillance Network lists 44,336 objects including 8,558 satellites launched into orbit since 1957. 17,480 of them are actively tracked while 1,335 are lost. The rest have re-entered Earth’s turbulent atmosphere and disintegrated, or survived re-entry and impacted the Earth. The SSN typically tracks space objects that are baseball size or larger. The Space Surveillance Network has numerous sensors that provide data. They are separated into three categories: dedicated sensors, collateral sensors and auxiliary sensors. Additionally sensors are classified as Near-Earth \(NE\) tracking \(observing satellites, space debris, and other objects in lower orbits\), or Deep Space \(DS\) tracking \(generally for asteroids and comets\). This global program consists of at least 29 distinct worldwide space surveillance systems, featuring the world’s most powerful radars \(including the Solid State Phased Array Radar System\), the DARPA Space Surveillance Telescope, the ground-based optical GEODSS space surveillance system \(which detects “uncorrelated targets”\), the Geosynchronous Space-Based Situational Awareness Program, and the Navy’s sea-based X-band radar system. The Combined Space Operations Center \(formerly the Joint Space Operations Center\) at Vandenberg Space Force Base and the Space Control Center at Cheyenne Mountain are both repositories of data from the SSN. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States Space Surveillance Network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FSpace%5FSurveillance%5FNetwork\#Space%5FSurveillance%5FNetwork)” Source ID: Eberhart_7804 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24873 (F8A7308B) Date: 6/27/2019 Description: The Storm Area 51 Facebook event is created by college student Matty Roberts as a joke, unaware of the viral attention it will receive. He comes up with the idea of suggesting a raid on the Nevada facility to search for aliens after watching Area 51 conspiracy theorist [Bob Lazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%5FLazar) and filmmaker [Jeremy Corbell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%5FKenyon%5FLockyer%5FCorbell) on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast on June 20. The event plans for the raid in Amargosa Valley on September 20. More than 2 million people responded “going” and 1.5 million “interested” on the event page, which subsequently attracts widespread media reaction and makes the event become an internet meme. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Storm Area 51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm%5FArea%5F51)” Source ID: Eberhart_7805 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24874 (925D77FE) Date: 7/2019 Description: Subsequent findings by the University of Pennsylvania team find that, compared to a healthy control group, the US diplomats who report injury in the Havana, Cuba, embassy have experienced brain trauma; advanced MRI scans \(specifically res-fMRI, multimodal MRI, and diffusion MRI\) reveal “differences in whole brain white matter volume, regional gray and white matter volume, cerebellar microstructural integrity, and functional connectivity in the auditory and visuospatial subnetworks” but find no differences in executive functions. The study concludes that the US government personnel have been physically injured in a way consistent with the symptoms that they describe but express no conclusion on the cause or source of the injury. The New York Times reports: “Outside experts were divided on the study’s conclusions. Some saw important new evidence; others say it is merely a first step toward an explanation, and difficult to interpret given the small number of patients.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Benedict Carey, “[Were U.S. Diplomats Attacked in Cuba? Brain Study Deepens Mystery,](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/science/cuba-diplomats-health.html)” New York Times, July 23, 2019; Ragini Verma, et al., “[Neuroimaging Findings in US Government Personnel with Possible Exposure to](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2738552) [Directional Phenomena in Havana, Cuba,](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2738552)” Journal of the American Medical Association 322 \(July 23/30, 2019\): 336–347 Source ID: Eberhart_7806 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24875 (56C35F82) Date: 7/14/2019 Description: 10:00 p.m. Two unmanned aerial systems \(UAVs, or “drones”\) are sighted by the crew of the guided missile destroyer [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FKidd%5F%28DDG-100%29) [Kidd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FKidd%5F%28DDG-100%29) off the western tip of San Clemente Island, California. The ship immediately activates its photo expert team \(SNOOPIE\) and enters into a condition of restricted communications designed to enhance operational security and enhance survivability. Less than 10 minutes later, the USS Kidd advises the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FRafael%5FPeralta) [Rafael](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FRafael%5FPeralta) [Peralta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FRafael%5FPeralta) of the situation. The USS Rafael Peralta logs show that at around 10:00 p.m. it had activated its own SNOOPIE team. Reports of possible UAV sightings and a red flashing light come in from the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FJohn%5FFinn) [John Finn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FJohn%5FFinn). A white light hovers above the flight deck of the USS Rafael Peralta. The drone manages to match the destroyer’s speed, moving at 16 knots in order to maintain a hovering position over the helicopter landing pad. By this point, the encounter has lasted over 90 minutes—significantly longer than what commercially available drones can typically sustain. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “[Multiple Destroyers Were Swarmed by Mysterious ‘Drones’](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39913/multiple-destroyers-were-swarmed-by-mysterious-drones-off-california-over-numerous-nights) [off California over Numerous Nights,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39913/multiple-destroyers-were-swarmed-by-mysterious-drones-off-california-over-numerous-nights)” The Drive: The War Zone, March 23, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7807 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24876 (21C536CD) Date: 7/15/2019 Description: 8:39 p.m. The [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FRafael%5FPeralta) [Rafael Peralta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FRafael%5FPeralta) again spots unidentified UAVs between San Clemente Island and San Diego, California, and by 9:00 p.m. the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FKidd%5F%28DDG-100%29) [Kidd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FKidd%5F%28DDG-100%29) is also reporting them. The drones seem to be pursuing the ships, even as they continue to maneuver throughout the incident. By 9:20 p.m., the USS Kidd logs simply remark “Multiple UAVs around ship.” 17 minutes later, the Kidd issues orders for the crew to man what is possibly a Mark 87 Electro-Optical Director to provide surveillance and tracking data. At approximately the same time, the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FRussell%5F%28DDG-59%29) [Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FRussell%5F%28DDG-59%29) records a frenzy of activity, with drones dropping in elevation, and apparently moving forward and backward, left and right. Meanwhile, the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FRafael%5FPeralta) [Rafael Peralta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FRafael%5FPeralta) receives a radio call from a passing cruise ship, the [Carnival Imagination](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival%5FImagination)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival%5FImagination) notifying them that the drones are not theirs, and that they also see as many as five or six drones maneuvering nearby. The incident continues into the night, with the USS Rafael Peralta first recording two UAVs and then four UAVs near their ship. Approaching midnight, the USS Russell reports a final sighting involving multiple pyramid-shaped objects. Despite the nearly three-hour duration of the event, none of the warships involved appear to have been able to identify the drones. The Navy, Coast Guard, and FBI investigate the natter and are unable to provide an adequate investigation. Leaked photos and videos said to pertain to this incident are released by filmmaker [Jeremy Corbell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%5FKenyon%5FLockyer%5FCorbell)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%5FKenyon%5FLockyer%5FCorbell) The materials consisted of footage of radar screens showing multiple unknown contacts, video of an object apparently falling into the ocean, and a brief video of a triangular- shaped light flying over the deck of a ship. The apparent triangular shape of the object has been strongly debated, as many have posited it was the result of a common optical artifact. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “[Multiple](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39913/multiple-destroyers-were-swarmed-by-mysterious-drones-off-california-over-numerous-nights) [Destroyers Were Swarmed by Mysterious ‘Drones’ off California over Numerous Nights,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39913/multiple-destroyers-were-swarmed-by-mysterious-drones-off-california-over-numerous-nights)” The Drive: The War Zone, March 23, 2021; Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, “[The US Navy Filmed Pyramid Shaped UFOs,](https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-filmed-pyramid-ufos)” Extraordinary Beliefs, April 8, 2021; “[2019 the US Navy Filmed ‘Pyramid’ Shaped UFOs: Here Is That Footage,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pjqdaz%5Fb24)” Jeremy Corbell YouTube channel, April 8, 2021; “[Pyramid UFO, New Footage: It’s Just Bokeh, Not a Pyramid,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r2oaQWmqkk)” Mick West YouTube channel, April 15, 2021; “[VFX Artists Debunk Pentagon UFO Videos,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHDlfIaBEqw)” Corridor Crew YouTube channel, August 15, 2021; Graeme Rendall, “[‘Drone Swarms’: UAPs or Other Actors?](https://www.uapmedia.uk/articles/drone-swarms-uaps-or-other-actors)” UAP Media UK, April 20, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7808 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24877 (A54F6B28) Date: 7/16/2019 Description: Rep. [Mark Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%5FWalker%5F%28North%5FCarolina%5Fpolitician%29) \(R-N.C.\), the ranking member of the House Intelligence and Counterterrorism subcommittee, asks Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer to outline what resources the Navy is dedicating to investigating UFO sightings. He also asks if officials have found physical evidence to substantiate the claims and whether they are aware of any foreign nations or private companies that have introduced breakthrough technologies that could explain them. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mark Walker, Letter to Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer, July 16, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7809 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24878 (ADA8870B) Date: 7/17/2019 Description: 7:56–10:39 p.m. The Navy destroyer [USS Paul Hamilton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FPaul%5FHamilton%5F%28DDG-60%29) is cruising 80 nautical miles southwest of San Clemente Island, California, when it spots a UAS \(unmanned aerial systems\) about one mile distant. Twenty minutes later, the timeline indicates two UASs are seen with one of them falling in the water. By 8:26 p.m., multiple objects are spotted. The timeline also indicates that the bridge was able to see flashing red lights. At 8:50 p.m., the timeline notes a “UAS swarm.” By 9:11 p.m., the timeline notes that one of the objects is directly overhead at 2,000 feet. Just a minute later, all of the objects appear to change course and head away from the ship at 69 mph. However, eight minutes later, UASs are again seen behind the ship. The last event noted in the slide takes place when one of the UAS crosses the ship at approximately 2,000 feet. A photo is taken with a forward- looking infrared \(FLIR\) system that is of extremely low resolution. Three blurry dots are discernible, but there are no other visible details. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “[Navy Releases Timeline for Mysterious 2019 ‘UAS](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44231/navy-releases-timeline-for-2019-uas-swarm-involving-warships-off-california) [Swarm’ Involving Warships Off California,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44231/navy-releases-timeline-for-2019-uas-swarm-involving-warships-off-california)” The Drive: The War Zone, February 10, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7810 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24879 (4809F0C4) Date: 7/18/2019 Description: An investigation into the UAS incidents is routed to the Chief of Naval Operations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “[Harassment of Navy Destroyers by Mysterious Drone Swarms off California Went on for Weeks,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43561/mysterious-drone-swarms-over-navy-destroyers-off-california-went-on-for-weeks)” The Drive: The War Zone, December 17, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7811 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24880 (91F2C761) Date: 7/23/2019 Description: 8:50 p.m. Another drone is spotted by a SNOOPIE team on the [USS Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FRussell%5F%28DDG-59%29) at an elevation of about 400 feet. A little over an hour later, flares are spotted, though the logs do not remark if these are connected to the ongoing drone sighting. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “[Harassment of Navy Destroyers by Mysterious Drone Swarms](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43561/mysterious-drone-swarms-over-navy-destroyers-off-california-went-on-for-weeks) [off California Went on for Weeks,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43561/mysterious-drone-swarms-over-navy-destroyers-off-california-went-on-for-weeks)” The Drive: The War Zone, December 17, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7812 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24881 (E1B469D3) Date: 7/24/2019 Description: 10:30 a.m. A new term is introduced to the USS Russell log: “ghostbusters.” A log entry reflects an apparently brief counter UAS exercise lasting about eight minutes. Though official references are hard to come by, “ghostbuster” is a term sometimes used to refer to lower-end counter UAS devices that look similar to rifles. These anti-drone countermeasures are increasingly being used by security forces around the world. They operate by using highly-directional radiofrequency jammers designed to disrupt communications between drones and their operators. One key limitation of these devices is that they can only disable drones that are directly controlled by a human operator. Autonomous systems are far more resilient against such countermeasures. It is not perfectly clear if the Russell had this equipment onboard previously, or if “ghostbuster” devices were brought onboard in reaction to the earlier drone incidents. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Stew Magnuson, “[OSD to Recommend Big Budget Increase for Counter-](https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2017/3/23/osd-to-recommend-big-budget-increase-for-counter-drone-technologies) [Drone Technologies,](https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2017/3/23/osd-to-recommend-big-budget-increase-for-counter-drone-technologies)” National Defense, March 23, 2017; Brett Tingley, “[Check Out the Anti-Drone Weapons](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41093/check-out-the-anti-drone-weapons-carried-by-security-at-biden-meeting-in-brussels) [Carried by Security at Biden’s Meeting in Brussels,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41093/check-out-the-anti-drone-weapons-carried-by-security-at-biden-meeting-in-brussels)” The Drive: The War Zone, June 15, 2021; Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “[Harassment of Navy Destroyers by Mysterious Drone Swarms off California Went on for Weeks,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43561/mysterious-drone-swarms-over-navy-destroyers-off-california-went-on-for-weeks)” The Drive: The War Zone, December 17, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7813 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24882 (C656BA6B) Date: 7/25/2019 Description: 1:20 a.m. Another unidentified drone incident, lasting 32 minutes, is reported by the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FKidd%5F%28DDG-100%29) [Kidd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FKidd%5F%28DDG-100%29). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “[Multiple Destroyers Were Swarmed by Mysterious ‘Drones’ off California over Numerous](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39913/multiple-destroyers-were-swarmed-by-mysterious-drones-off-california-over-numerous-nights) [Nights,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39913/multiple-destroyers-were-swarmed-by-mysterious-drones-off-california-over-numerous-nights)” The Drive: The War Zone, March 23, 2021; Source ID: Eberhart_7814 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24883 (1A42912A) Date: 7/30/2019 Description: 2:15 am. The [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FKidd%5F%28DDG-100%29) [Kidd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FKidd%5F%28DDG-100%29) reports another UAV incident. Its SNOOPIE team remains activated until 3:27 a.m. Ships’ logs show a sustained, but an intermittent pattern of drone sightings throughout the month of July by Navy ships operating off Southern California. These events seem to have spurred additional training and the rapid deployment of unique capabilities like the “ghostbuster” counter-UAS equipment. It remains unknown what impact, if any, this training and equipment has on deterring drone operations. At least three ships report sighting drones in the very early hours of July 30, with unusual and extensive redactions in the logs of the [USS Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FRussell%5F%28DDG-59%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FRussell%5F%28DDG-59%29) but we do not know what happened the next day, or in the weeks that followed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “[Multiple Destroyers Were Swarmed by Mysterious ‘Drones’ off California over Numerous Nights,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39913/multiple-destroyers-were-swarmed-by-mysterious-drones-off-california-over-numerous-nights)” The Drive: The War Zone, March 23, 2021; Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “[Harassment of Navy Destroyers by Mysterious](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43561/mysterious-drone-swarms-over-navy-destroyers-off-california-went-on-for-weeks) [Drone Swarms off California Went on for Weeks,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43561/mysterious-drone-swarms-over-navy-destroyers-off-california-went-on-for-weeks)” The Drive: The War Zone, December 17, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7815 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24884 (0256B393) Date: 7/31/2019 Description: In response to the inquiry by [Mark Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%5FWalker%5F%28North%5FCarolina%5Fpolitician%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%5FWalker%5F%28North%5FCarolina%5Fpolitician%29) Navy Undersecretary [Thomas Modly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%5FModly) writes in a brief letter that “the Department of the Navy takes these reports very seriously and continues to log sightings and fully investigate the accounts.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bryan Bender, “[Navy Withholding Data on UFO Sightings, Congressman Says,](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/navy-withholding-ufo-sightings-1698396)” Politico, September 6, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7816 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24885 (5A4FF2EF) Date: 8/2019 Description: An anonymous White House staffer who is accompanying National Security Adviser [John Bolton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FBolton) in London, England, is in her hotel room when she suddenly feels a tingling in the side of her head that is facing the window. The intense pressure in her head is accompanied by a tinning in her ears. When she leaves the room, the symptoms stop. She reports the incident to the Secret Service because it is uncannily similar to the symptoms described by American diplomats who had served in Cuba and China. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Julia Joffe, “[The Mystery of the](https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks) [Immaculate Concussion,](https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks)” GQ, October 19, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7817 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24886 (ABC4E6E1) Date: 8/8/2019 Description: An explosion at the State Central Navy Testing Range near Nyonoksa, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, triggers radiation levels to rise. According to official Russian sources, the explosion is the result of a failed test of an “isotope power source for a liquid-fueled rocket engine,” possibly a 9M730 Burevestnik cruise missile test or recovery. Five nuclear scientists die immediately and three suffer from burns. Russian authorities order the evacuation of the village near the blast site, suggesting grave dangers due to nuclear radiation. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Nyonska radiation accident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyonoksa%5Fradiation%5Faccident)” Source ID: Eberhart_7818 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24887 (E10A29AF) Date: 9/6/2019 Description: Rep. [Mark Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%5FWalker%5F%28North%5FCarolina%5Fpolitician%29) \(R-N.C.\) accuses the US Navy of withholding information about reports of unidentified aircraft after officially requesting more data on the mysterious encounters. “While I am encouraged the Under Secretary of the Navy confirmed that UAP encounters are fully investigated, there is frustration with the lack of answers to specific questions about the threat that superior aircraft flying in United States airspace may pose,” Walker tells Politico. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bryan Bender, “[Navy Withholding Data on UFO Sightings, Congressman Says,](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/navy-withholding-ufo-sightings-1698396)” Politico, September 6, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7819 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24888 (428255B4) Date: 9/20/2019 Description: “Storm Area-51” event planned Type: event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Area_51) Location: Area 51 Source ID: Maj2_832 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24889 (2490A06E) Date: 9/20/2019 Description: The Storm Area 51 Facebook event takes place with about 150 people showing up at the entrance to Area 51. Although no one succeeds in entering the site, an estimated 3,000 attend the related music festivals in Rachel and Hiko, Nevada, according to state and local law enforcement, and up to 10,000 people visit the area over the weekend. Air Force spokeswoman [Laura McAndrews](https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-mcandrews-9ba4b620) says government officials are briefed on the event and discourage people from attempting to enter military property. Nevada law enforcement also warns potential participants in the event against trespassing. The event, although intended as a joke, has an effect on businesses both locally in Nevada and around the US, which prepare products for visitors for those attending. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Storm Area 51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm%5FArea%5F51)” Source ID: Eberhart_7820 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24890 (00F1B6CD) Date: 9/29/2019 End date: 9/30/2019 Description: 11:00 p.m. Security officers at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station near Tonopah, Arizona, observe 5–6 drones flying at 200–300 feet and showing flashing red and white lights. The objects also have spotlights turned on during their approach but turned off as they maneuver above the site. They remain over the plant for more than 80 minutes and are estimated to be at least 2 feet across, ruling out commercial drones. They return the following night, with 4 drones operating above the station for an extended period. Polie unsuccessfuly attempt to track down the operators. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “[The Night a Mysterious Drone](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34800/the-night-a-drone-swarm-descended-on-palo-verde-nuclear-power-plant) [Swarm Descended on Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34800/the-night-a-drone-swarm-descended-on-palo-verde-nuclear-power-plant)” The Drive: The War Zone, July 29, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7821 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24891 (09B92D1D) Date: 10/11/2019 Description: The Twenty-Fifth Air Force for intelligence activities is merged with the 24th Air Force to form a reactivated 16th Air Force responsible for information warfare. Its headquarters is still at Joint Base San Antonio– Lackland in Texas. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Sixteenth Air Force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth%5FAir%5FForce)” Source ID: Eberhart_7822 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24892 (6FB736B4) Date: 10/17/2019 Description: The To the Stars Academy announces it has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command. The five-year contract will focus on “inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion.” According to the US Army, no public funding will go the group, but at least $750,000 will be provided in support and resources for developing and testing To the Stars technologies. The contract states that To the Stars will provide samples in its possession of “metamaterials,” any data or “obtained vehicles” that use “beamed energy propulsion,” and any information or technology related to “active camouflage” for testing and analysis of potential application on Army ground vehicles. Doug Halleaux, a spokesperson for the CCDC Ground Vehicle Systems Center, has stated that the US government has approached To the Stars because “If materials represented in the TTSA ADAM project are scientifically evaluated and presented with supporting data as having military utility by the TTSA, it makes sense to look deeper here.” According to Halleaux, the Army is also interested in the results of a collaboration between To the Stars and TruClear Global, a company that creates custom video screen billboards, aimed at providing “advanced technology solutions to United States Government clientele.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[To the Stars \(company\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To%5Fthe%5FStars%5F%28company%29)”; “[Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, Inc.,](https://www.nextgov.com/media/gbc/docs/pdfs%5Fedit/ng%5Fttsa%5Fcrada.pdf) [and the U.S. Army Combat Capavilities Development Command, Ground Behicle Systems Center,](https://www.nextgov.com/media/gbc/docs/pdfs%5Fedit/ng%5Fttsa%5Fcrada.pdf)” October 10, 2019; Travis J. Tritten, “[UFO Group Sharing Exotic Materials with Army for Combat Vehicles,](https://about.bgov.com/news/ufo-group-sharing-exotic-materials-with-army-for-combat-vehicles/)” Bloomberg Government, October 21, 2019; M. J. Banias, “[Tom DeLonge’s UFO Research Group Signs Contract with U.S.](https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvgnqq/tom-delonges-ufo-research-group-signs-contract-with-us-army-to-develop-far-future-tech) [Army to Develop Far-Future Tech,](https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvgnqq/tom-delonges-ufo-research-group-signs-contract-with-us-army-to-develop-far-future-tech)” Motherboard, October 21, 2019; Mindy Weisberger, “[Rock Star’s Company](https://www.livescience.com/ufo-hunting-contract-us-army.html) [Seeks UFOs, Finds Military Contract,](https://www.livescience.com/ufo-hunting-contract-us-army.html)” Live Science, October 27, 2019; M. J. Banias, “[The Army Told Us Why It](https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjwywx/the-army-told-us-why-it-partnered-with-tom-delonges-ufo-group) [Partnered with Tom DeLonge’s UFO Group,](https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjwywx/the-army-told-us-why-it-partnered-with-tom-delonges-ufo-group)” Motherboard, November 4, 2019; To the Stars Academy, “[CRADA](https://dpo.tothestarsacademy.com/blog/crada-faq) [FAQ,](https://dpo.tothestarsacademy.com/blog/crada-faq)” November 15, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7823 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24893 (9A5A7E83) Date: 10/21/2019 Description: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Type: senate briefing Reference: [NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_833 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24894 (324C38A4) Date: 10/23/2019 Description: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Intelligence Committee Type: senate briefing Reference: [NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_834 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24895 (EFC77FB0) Date: 10/27/2019 Description: The fifth X-37B mission, Orbital Test Vehicle-5, lands at the Shuttle Landing Facility on Merritt Island, Florida, after spending nearly 780 days in space. The Boeing X37B is an uncrewed, reusable, robotic spaceplane that is launched by an Atlas V rocket and uses solar panels for power in space. While the complete payload for OTV-5 is classified, the Air Force announces that one of its experiments is the Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader II \(ASETS-II\), which measures the performance of an oscillating heat pipe. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Boeing X-37](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%5FX-37\#OTV-5)” Source ID: Eberhart_7824 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24896 (78388648) Date: 11/9/2019 Description: 5:16 p.m. A young couple are driving home on the A629 near Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, when they see a white glow over the moorland. They stop and get out to watch as they hear the roar of what seem to be fighter jets headed for the glow. Other cars also stop and watch. Some start to film the object and the jets, as d o the couple on their cellphones, but the footage is blurry. The mother of the driver starts an appeal on social media for any other witnesses who filmed the event to come forward. [Jenny Randles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%5FRandles) determines that two aircraft at that location, but they are not military and not jets; they are Partenavia P.68 Observers belonging to Ravenair and flying at 2,200 and 2,300 feet side by side and landing at John Lennon Airport in Liverpool 25 minutes later. No radar target matches the UFO itself. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jenny Randles, “2020 Vision,” Fortean Times 389 \(February 2020\): 28–29 Source ID: Eberhart_7825 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24897 (550F1DEC) Date: 11/11/2019 Description: 5:33 p.m. A commercial aircrew is flying a Boeing 737-800 airliner at 37,000 feet altitude and 506 mph near Marseille, France. The pilot observes an unusual light flying just above their altitude on a collision heading from the right side into the 2 o’clock position relative to the aircraft. It performs a 180° turn and then matches the speed and heading of the airliner before beginning to cross above and in front of its flight path. At this point the pilot uses a cellphone to take a photograph and record 47 seconds of the UFO crossing their flight path, accelerating, and moving away. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Roe, “[NARCAP Technical Report 19: Analysis of a November 11, 2019,](https://www.narcap.org/blog/narcaptr19) [Aviation Safety-Related Incident Involving a Commercial Airliner and a UAP Over Europe,](https://www.narcap.org/blog/narcaptr19)” July 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7826 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24898 (0CFB93C9) Date: 11/26/2019 Description: The same White House staffer who had an attack in August is hit again by Havana Syndrome while walking her dog in Arlington, Virginia. As she passes a parked van, a man gets out and walks past her. Her dog starts seizing up. Then she feels it too: a high-pitched ringing in her ears, an intense headache, and a tingling on the side of her face. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Julia Joffe, “[The Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion,](https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks)” GQ, October 19, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7827 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24899 (EE22929D) Date: 12/2019 Description: The Federal Aviation Administration launches an investigation into multiple nighttime sightings of unidentified “drones” with 6-foot wingspans flying in formation at about 150 feet over rural areas of northeastern Colorado \(Phillips, Yuma, Washington, Lincoln, and Morgan counties\) and southwestern Nebraska \(Perkins County\) for the last 2 weeks in December, and as early as November 23. The objects usually fly in square grid patterns nearly every night between 5:00 and 10:00 p.m. They have blinking lights and hover, then descend and take off very fast. Sen. [Cory Gardner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory%5FGardner) \(R-Colo.\) says he is glad the FAA is investigating. The Colorado Department of Homeland Security also opens an investigation, as Gov. [Jared Polis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared%5FPolis) vows to get to the bottom of the case. Sheriffs say the drones are not breaking Colorado law, but industry experts note that the drone operators could be violating FAA regulations on flying after dark and above a certain height. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[FAA Probes Clusters of](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colorado-drones/faa-probes-clusters-of-mysterious-drones-flying-over-colorado-idUSKBN1YZ1G0) [Mysterious Drones Flying over Colorado,](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colorado-drones/faa-probes-clusters-of-mysterious-drones-flying-over-colorado-idUSKBN1YZ1G0)” Reuters, December 31, 2019; Sam Tabachnik, “[A Night on the Plains:](https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/03/drones-mystery-lincoln-county-colorado/) [Chasing the Mysterious Drones of Eastern Colorado,](https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/03/drones-mystery-lincoln-county-colorado/)” Denver Post, January 3, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7828 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24900 (E7A8A0B3) Date: 12/3/2019 Description: The CIA team investigating the Havana Syndrome attacks brings its findings to CIA director [Gina Haspel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina%5FHaspel). According to two sources, after listening to the investigators lay out their evidence that suggests the Russian security services are behind the hits on Agency personnel, Haspel challenges them. She accuses the investigators of both hiding information from her and lying to her about what their inquiry has uncovered. The director questions the motives of those looking into the attacks. “This is why we need to clean out Russia House,” she says, referring to the CIA’s operations unit focused on Russia, according to two sources. “You’re just trying to stir up trouble on Russia.” A third source confirms that “the meeting did not go well.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Julia Joffe, “[The Mystery of](https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks) [the Immaculate Concussion,](https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks)” GQ, October 19, 2020; Ana Swanson, Edward Wong, and Julian E. Barmes, “[U.S.](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/us/politics/diplomat-attacks-havana-syndrome.html) [Diplomats and Spies Battle Trump Administration over Suspected Attacks,](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/us/politics/diplomat-attacks-havana-syndrome.html)” New York Times, October 19, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7829 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24901 (B0E0A06C) Date: 12/20/2019 Description: The United States Space Force Act, part of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2020, is signed, creating an independent space service by renaming and reorganizing Air Force Space Command into the United States Space Force. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[United States Space Force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5FSpace%5FForce\#Independent%5FSpace%5FForce%5F%282019%E2%80%93present%29)” Source ID: Eberhart_7830 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24902 (770823A7) Date: 12/31/2019 Description: Dusk. Placido Montoya, a plumber from Fort Morgan, Colorado, gives chase to a mystery drone in Morgan County after seeing blinking lights in the sky. But they take off rapidly and he speeds up to 120 mph before losing them. Vince Iovinella, deputy sheriff at the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office, receives more than 30 calls from locals reporting drones “zipping around all over the place.” Iovinella himself sees one with red, white, and green lights that he also tries to chase, but it outruns him. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Attack of the Drones,](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/18/attack-of-the-drones-the-mystery-of-disappearing-swarms-in-the-us-midwest)” The Guardian \(UK\), April 18, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7831 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 2020 (Back to Top) ### Event 24903 (BA4A3B5C) Date: 1/6/2020 Description: A meeting of local, state, and federal agencies brings 75 people to Brush, Colorado, to share information and strategy on the mystery drones. Officials are looking for a command vehicle \(such as a “closed box trailer with antennas or a large van”\) that might be controlling the drones. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Command Vehicle Focus of Colorado Drone](https://www.mysterywire.com/mysteries/command-vehicle-focus-of-colorado-drone-investigation/) [Investigation,](https://www.mysterywire.com/mysteries/command-vehicle-focus-of-colorado-drone-investigation/)” Mystery Wire, January 6, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7832 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24904 (A262453E) Date: 1/8/2020 Description: Drones are now being seen in Castle Rock and Parker in Douglas County, Colorado, and Fort Collins in Larimer County. Kerry Garrison, a vice president at drone vendor Multicopter Warehouse in Centennial, claims the drone reports are actually sightings of Starlink satellites launched by SpaceX; although they are at orbital altitude, in a clear sky they can look lower than they really are. But Garrison also visited the eastern planes with other aviation experts to view the drones. He says he saw red lights go zipping by at 100 mph, faster than any drone. A close call with a drone and a Flight for Life helicopter near Fort Morgan, Colorado, prompts officials to add ground-based spotting teams and aircraft equipped to hunt drones. However, an investigation by Colorado Homeland Security later say the incident is unrelated to the drone activity. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Local Drone Dealer Says Lights](https://kdvr.com/news/local/local-drone-dealer-says-lights-spotted-over-castle-rock-were-satellites/) [Spotted over Castle Rock Were Satellites,](https://kdvr.com/news/local/local-drone-dealer-says-lights-spotted-over-castle-rock-were-satellites/)” KDVR, Denver, January 7. 2020; Paul Seaburn, “[Mysterious Drones](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/01/mysterious-drones-fly-near-denver-as-colorado-residents-fear-a-government-cover-up/) [Fly near Denver As Colorado Residents Fear a Government Cover-Up.](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/01/mysterious-drones-fly-near-denver-as-colorado-residents-fear-a-government-cover-up/)” Mysterious Universe, January 8, 2020; Brett Tingley, “[Surveillance Plane Joins Intensifying Hunt for Mystery Drones over Colorado and Nebraska](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31773/surveillance-plane-joins-intensifying-hunt-for-mystery-drones-over-colorado-and-nebraska) [\(Updated\),](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31773/surveillance-plane-joins-intensifying-hunt-for-mystery-drones-over-colorado-and-nebraska)” The Drive: The War Zone, January 8, 2020; Kevin D. Randle, “[X-Zone Broadcast Network: Drones,](https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2020/02/x-zone-broadcast-network-drones-drones.html) [Drones, Drones,](https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2020/02/x-zone-broadcast-network-drones-drones.html)” A Different Perspective, February 7, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7833 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24905 (055620E3) Date: 1/13/2020 Description: State agencies and the Colorado Division of Homeland Security announce that they are scaling back investigations into drone sightings. Between November 23 and January 13, the Colorado Information Analysis Center received 90 reports of drone activity. Of those, 14 are confirmed by law enforcement to be hobbyist drones. Between January 6 and January 13, when state officials investigate drone sightings in the field, there are 23 drone activity reports. Of those, 13 are determined to be planets, stars, or small hobbyist drones. Six reports are ruled out as “atmospheric conditions or unidentified commercial aircraft.” Finally, four reports are confirmed by law enforcement, but the aircraft are unidentifiable. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[State Plans to ‘Scale Back’ Investigation of Drones in](https://kdvr.com/news/local/state-plans-to-scale-back-investigation-of-drones-in-northeast-colorado/) [Northeast Colorado,](https://kdvr.com/news/local/state-plans-to-scale-back-investigation-of-drones-in-northeast-colorado/)” KDVR, Denver, January 13, 2020; “Drone Swarms,” Fortean Times, no. 416 \(March 2022\): 19 Source ID: Eberhart_7834 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24906 (9DC7F9F2) Date: 1/20/2020 Description: President Joe Biden in office Type: historical event Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_835 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24907 (FB9F62EA) Date: 1/30/2020 Description: The UK National Archives and Ministry of Defence announce another “final” release of UFO files. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Ministry of Defence Insider Reveals Contents of Britain’s ‘Final’ UFO Files,](https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/30/ministry-defence-insider-reveals-contents-britains-final-ufo-x-files-12152206/)” Metro \(UK\), January 30, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7835 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24908 (397CE82B) Date: 2/14/2020 Description: A Popular Mechanics article by UFO investigative writer and retired police lieutenant [Tim McMillan](https://www.popularmechanics.com/author/224223/tim-mcmillan/) says that Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies \(BAASS\) was contracted under the auspices of the AATIP program to study UFO reports and purported paranormal phenomena. According to [Steven Aftergood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FAftergood)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%5FAftergood) director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, the AAWSAP contract “sounds like it was a good deal for the contractor. But it would be hard to argue that either the military or the public got their money’s worth.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tim McMillan, “[Inside the Pentagon’s Secret UFO Program,](https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a30916275/government-secret-ufo-program-investigation/)” Popular Mechanics, February 14, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7836 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24909 (0E231EBB) Date: 3/3/2020 Description: Science writer Sarah Scoles publishes They Are Already Here, focusing on the beliefs and attitudes of UFO researchers through first-person interviews. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Sarah Scoles, They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers, Pegasus, 2020; Curt Collins, “[UFO Culture Examined:](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/03/ufo-culture-examined-they-are-already.html) [They Are Already Here](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/03/ufo-culture-examined-they-are-already.html) [by Sarah Scoles,](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/03/ufo-culture-examined-they-are-already.html)” The Saucers That Time Forgot, Mar h 26, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7837 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24910 (2FA99CB9) Date: 3/11/2020 Description: COVID-19 Pandemic: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Type: pandemic Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic) Source ID: Maj2_836 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24911 (197F5C9F) Date: 3/19/2020 Description: Night. A commercial Boeing 767 airliner is flying from Mexico City to Houston, Texas. At an approximate position somewhere west of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, the plane is flying north at 37,000 feet at 575 mph when the first officer, looking across to the left side of the cockpit, sees a yellowish-white light descend into view from above. He first thinks that it is a meteor and begins to say so when it suddenly stops at nearly the same altitude as the aircraft. The UFO then projects an illuminating beam of bright white light on the aircraft and appears to take a collision heading. The captain takes a defensive attitude and prepares for evasive measures, but the beam of light illuminating the aircraft ceases, and the UFO suddenly accelerates to the same speed and heading of the aircraft, maintains separation, and begins pacing. The captain estimates that the UFO maintains a distance of 1,000–2,000 feet, near the minimum allowable separation of 1,000 feet. The copilot describes the UFO as a “brilliant yellow white plasma object, teardrop shaped.” There are no navigation lights or other features associated with airplanes, and the light seems to have a tail. During the following 30 minutes, the crew observes and takes 8 photographs and four video segments of the UFO, one of which lasts 4:47. The video documents that the Airborne Collision Avoidance System SSR radar does not detect anything while the crew is actively observing the object. As the aircraft and its attendant UFO approaches the Mexico/US border, the light begins to flicker, changes colors from yellow-white to pinkish-purple, and turns on a perpendicular heading away from the aircraft and parallel to the border without crossing into the US. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ted Roe, “[An Independent Analysis of a March 19, 2020,](https://www.narcap.org/blog/narcaptr20) [Aviation-Safety Related Incident Involving UAP, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, over Mexico,](https://www.narcap.org/blog/narcaptr20)” NARCAP, June 1, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7838 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24912 (F39695F2) Date: 3/23/2020 Description: Bigelow Aerospace laws off entire workforce Type: layoff Reference: [link](https://spacenews.com/bigelow-aerospace-lays-off-entire-workforce/) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: Maj2_837 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24913 (C08BCF61) Date: 3/28/2020 Description: The US Space Force declares the Space Fence, its second-generation space surveillance system, operational. The system is designed to track more than 25,000 artificial satellites and chunks of space debris in Earth orbit \(and UAPs, presumably\), some as small as a marble. The initial Space Fence facility is located at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, along with an option for another radar site in Western Australia. The US Strategic Command has data-sharing agreements with Australia, Japan, Italy, Canada, France, South Korea, the United Kingdom, the European Space Agency, and Europe’s Eumetsat weather satellite organization. With this and other surveillance capabilities, former assistant secretary of defense [Christopher Mellon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%5FMellon) wonders why the US Air Force has not simultaneously detected the same UAPs that the US Navy has been doing with less sophisticated equipment. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Space Fence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%5FFence)”; Lockheed Martin, “[Space Fence](https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/space-fence.html)”; Christopher Mellon, “[Why Is the Air](https://thedebrief.org/why-is-the-air-force-awol-on-the-uap-issue/) [Force AWOL on the UAP Issue?](https://thedebrief.org/why-is-the-air-force-awol-on-the-uap-issue/)” The Debrief, February 3, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7839 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24914 (E5517498) Date: 4/27/2020 Description: The Pentagon officially releases the three videos \(Tic-Tac, GIMBAL, and GoFast\) showing UFOs that were previously released between December 2017 and March 2018 by the private company To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences. The release states that “the aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.’” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Pentagon Officially Releases UFO Videos,](https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/politics/pentagon-ufo-videos/index.html)” CNN, April 29, 2020; David Clarke, “Echoes and Angels: UFOs on Radar,” Fortean Times 403 \(March 2021\): 40 Source ID: Eberhart_7840 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24915 (4FCF0F3A) Date: 5/1/2020 Description: The US Office of Naval Intelligence holds a classified briefing to destigmatize the UAP problem and to promote more intelligence collection regarding UAP incursions and encounters with active military deployments.  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, “[The US Navy Filmed Pyramid Shaped UFOs,](https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-filmed-pyramid-ufos)” Extraordinary Beliefs, April 8, 2019 Source ID: Eberhart_7841 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24916 (88D3D2FD) Date: 5/28/2020 Description: Postdoctoral researcher Darryl Seligman and astrophysicist Gregory Laughlin argue that the interstellar object ʻOumuamua could be a hydrogen iceberg generated by a giant molecular cloud. The hypothesis explains the object’s strange cigar shape, as cosmic radiation would chip away at its edges \(in some directions more than others\) that would produce an elongated shape. The fact that it sped up as it entered the Solar System can be explained because it is outgassing hydrogen increased by the solar flux. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Darryl Seligman and Gregory Laughlin, “[Evidence That 1I/2017 U1 \(‘Oumuamua\) Was Composed of Molecular Hydrogen Ice,](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.12932.pdf)” arXiv, May 28, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7842 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24917 (1E17CBA2) Date: 6/2020 Description: [Robert Bigelow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%5FBigelow) launches a new effort, the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies, to study the survival of human consciousness after death. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Skinwalkers 35 Source ID: Eberhart_7843 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24918 (68BE9B1B) Date: 6/6/2020 Description: Ufologist and ex-NASA mission specialist Bob Oechsler dies Type: death Reference: [link](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11890347/ex-nasa-man-dies-of-cancer/) Location: Edgewater, Maryland Source ID: Maj2_838 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24919 (D1B64707) Date: 6/23/2020 Description: The US Senate Intelligence Committee, apparently disturbed by the lack of a coordinated investigatory process, asks the Pentagon for a detailed, unclassified report on UFOs, or “unidentified aerial phenomena.” In his report attached to the 2020–2021 Senate Intelligence Authorization Act, Sen. [Marco Rubio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%5FRubio) \(R-Fla.\), acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, instructs the director of national intelligence, the secretary of defense, and other agency heads to compile data on UFOs. “The Committee understands that the relevant intelligence may be sensitive; nevertheless, the Committee finds that the information sharing and coordination across the Intelligence Community has been inconsistent, and this issue has lacked attention from senior leaders,” the report states. It also confirms the existence of an ongoing Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force managed by the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in collaboration with the Office of Naval Intelligence, as was its informal predecessor program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Investigation Program. The task force is headed until January 2021 by Naval officer John F. Stratton. \(Wikipedia, “[Unidentified Aerial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified%5FAerial%5FPhenomena%5FTask%5FForce) [Phenomena Task Force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified%5FAerial%5FPhenomena%5FTask%5FForce)”; M. J. Banias, “[Senate Intelligence Committee Confirms the US Navy Has a UFO Task](https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgx573/senate-intelligence-committee-confirms-the-us-navy-has-a-ufo-task-force) [Force,](https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgx573/senate-intelligence-committee-confirms-the-us-navy-has-a-ufo-task-force)” Motherboard, June 23, 2020; “[Classified UFO Briefings May Have Left Senators ‘Disturbed,’ Expert](https://www.foxnews.com/science/classified-ufo-briefings-senators-disturbed-expert) [Says,](https://www.foxnews.com/science/classified-ufo-briefings-senators-disturbed-expert)” Fox News, June 24, 2020; George Knapp, “[More UFO Heraings? Congress Might Consider Hearing from](https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/more-ufo-hearings-congress-might-consider-hearing-from-these-2-men/) [These 2 Men,](https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/more-ufo-hearings-congress-might-consider-hearing-from-these-2-men/)” Mystery Wire, May 23, 2022\) June 24 – The Intelligence Committee votes to require the US Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense to publicly track and analyze data collected on unexplained aerial vehicles. Reports from the task force are to be issued to the Intelligence Committee every six months. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bryan Bender, “Senators Want the Public to See the Government’s UFO Reports,” Politico, June 23, 2020; “[Senate Panel Votes to Let Public Access UFO Records,](https://www.courthousenews.com/senate-panel-votes-to-let-public-access-ufo-records/)” Courthouse News Service, June 24, 2020; “[Pentagon UFO Unit to Publicly Release Some Findings after Ex-](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ufo-pentagon-statement-findings-vehicle-research-a9636481.html) [Official Says ‘Off-World Vehicle’ Found,](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ufo-pentagon-statement-findings-vehicle-research-a9636481.html)” The Independent \(UK\), June 24, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7844 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24920 (A274BFD5) Date: 7/16/2020 Description: 5:00 a.m. Paul Froggatt sees a glowing orange sphere that follows him as he is cycling through the Oakwood and Blacklow Spinney Woods in Warwickshire, England. The usual early morning birdsong has gone silent. Turning a bend, he encounters a 7-foot-tall, green-colored creature that stands on two legs and looks like a praying mantis. It has a triangular head and two large black eyes that stare at him. He thinks it is trying to transmit evil thoughts into his mind, so he speeds up and escapes it. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nigel Watson, “M Is for Mantis and Missile,” Fortean Times 404 \(April 2021\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_7845 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24921 (19DD75D2) Date: 7/23/2020 Description: Ralph Blumenthal and [Leslie Kean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%5FKean) report in the New York Times that Sen. [Rubio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%5FRubio) is primarily concerned about reports of unidentified aircraft over US military bases and that China or Russia or some other adversary has made “some technological leap” that “allows them to conduct this sort of activity.” Rubio says some of the unidentified aerial vehicles over military bases possibly exhibit technologies not in the US arsenal. But he also notes: “Maybe there is a completely, sort of, boring explanation for it. But we need to find out.” The paper reports that while former Sen. [Harry Reid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%5FReid) “believed that crashes of objects of unknown origin may have occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied; he did not say that crashes had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied secretly for decades.” News reports also repeat a claim made by [Eric W. Davis](https://earthtech.org/pubs/davis/) that an “off-world vehicle” might be in the possession of the US government. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean, “[No Longer in the Shadows,](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html) [Pentagon’s UFO Unit Will Make Some Findings Public,](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html)” New York Times, July 23, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7846 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24922 (94E4321F) Date: 7/28/2020 Description: NY Times confirms Crash Retrievals with “retrieved materials”, all information is classified Type: newspaper article Reference: [link](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/insider/UFO-reporting.html) Location: New York, New York Source ID: Maj2_839 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24923 (830BFFB0) Date: 8/2020 Description: The National Academy of Sciences completes a report on Havana Syndrome, concluding that embassy personnel in Cuba, China, Russia, and other countries were most likely subjected to “directed, pulsed radiofrequency energy” in malicious attacks. A committee of 19 experts says that the immediate symptoms that patients reported—including strange sensations of pain, pressure, and sound that often appear to emanate from a particular direction or occurred in a specific spot in a room—are more consistent with a directed “attack” of radiofrequency energy. The report does not point to a perpetrator, though it mentions “significant research in Russia/U.S.S.R.” on pulsed radiofrequency technology, as well as the exposure of military personnel in Eurasian communist countries to microwave radiation. The CDC concludes, “The evaluations conducted thus far have not identified a mechanism of injury, process of exposure, effective treatment, or mitigating factor for the unexplained cluster of symptoms experienced by those stationed in Havana.” The report is inexplicably withheld from congressional and public scrutiny after it is submitted. Only after key senators learn of its existence later in the fall and press then-Secretary of State [Mike Pompeo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%5FPompeo) to turn it over does the Trump administration finally provide the report to a few Senate offices. The New York Times and NBC News first report on details of the unclassified NAS study, titled “An Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at Overseas Embassies,” in early December. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ana Swanson and Edward Wong, “[Report Points to Microwave ‘Attack’ As](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/business/economy/havana-syndrome-microwave-attack.html) [Likely Source of Mystery Illnesses That Hit Diplomats and Spies,](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/business/economy/havana-syndrome-microwave-attack.html)” New York Times, December 5, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7847 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24924 (8B8C1C1F) Date: 8/4/2020 Description: Deputy Secretary of Defense [David L. Norquist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FNorquist) approves the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. The Department of the Navy, under the oversight of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, will lead the effort. The Department of Defense says it is establishing the UAPTF to improve its understanding of the nature and origins of UAPs. Its mission is to detect, analyze, and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to US national security. Its mandate includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAPs when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is seeing. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Wikipedia, “[Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified%5FAerial%5FPhenomena%5FTask%5FForce)”; US Department of Defense, “[Establishment of](https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2314065/establishment-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-task-force/) [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force,](https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2314065/establishment-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-task-force/)” August 14, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7848 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24925 (D5CA6139) Date: 8/29/2020 Description: 6:45 p.m. An American Airlines pilot reports that a man flying in a jet pack has passed by them about 90 feet away at their altitude of 3,000 feet coming into Los Angeles International Airport in California. About 10 minutes later, a Jet Blue Airways pilot spots the flying man. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Man Flying a Jetpack Was Reported by Pilots](https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/us/jetpack-lax-trnd/index.html) [above Los Angeles,](https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/us/jetpack-lax-trnd/index.html)” CNN, September 3, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7849 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24926 (7E4C6EC8) Date: 9/1/2020 Description: 10:13 p.m. A B737 is approaching the runway at Leeds Airport, England, at 1,800 feet. Both pilot and First Officer suddenly see a bright light and an object that appears to be headed toward the aircraft, almost head on, slightly up and to the left. It appears without warning and gives them no time to act. After landing, the crew informs Air Traffic Control, who tells them that the West Yorkshire police helicopter had earlier seen “lanterns” in the area, but neither crew member thought that matched what they saw. The UK Airprox Board concludes that a “definite high risk of collision had existed.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: UK Airprox Board, “[Monthly Meeting October 2020](https://www.airproxboard.org.uk/reports-and-analysis/monthly-airprox-reviews/airprox-reports-2020/october/)”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 \(June 2021\): 43 Source ID: Eberhart_7850 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24927 (D6BD1CAE) Date: 9/15/2020 Description: Japanese Defense Minister [Taro Kono](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar%C5%8D%5FK%C5%8Dno) announces at a press conference that members of the Self- Defense Forces must make a visual recording of any unexplained aerial phenomena they encounter and that the footage must be analyzed to the fullest extent. The military is also being tasked with looking into reports of UFO sightings from the public. The issue is brought up when Kono meets with US Defense Secretary [Mark Esper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%5FEsper) in Guam in late August for a regularly scheduled talk on regional security issues. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Japan’s Defense Ministry](https://thediplomat.com/2020/09/japans-defense-ministry-launches-protocol-for-ufo-sightings/) [Launches Protocol for UFO Sightings,](https://thediplomat.com/2020/09/japans-defense-ministry-launches-protocol-for-ufo-sightings/)” The Diplomat, September 18, 2020; “[Japan Orders Military Pilots to](https://www.dw.com/en/japan-orders-military-pilots-to-report-ufo-sightings/a-55081061) [Report UFO Sightings,](https://www.dw.com/en/japan-orders-military-pilots-to-report-ufo-sightings/a-55081061)” Deutsche Welle, September 28, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7851 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24928 (C044A381) Date: 10/14/2020 Description: 1:45 p.m. A China Airlines crew member reports what appears to be someone in a jet pack flying at about 6,500 feet roughly seven miles northwest of Los Angeles International Airport, California. The air traffic controller alerts another pilot who is preparing to land, and the Federal Aviation Administration alerts local law enforcement and the FBI. However, it’s more likely that the pilots were seeing a battery-powered electric drone fitted with a mannequin. Jet packs would take up too much fuel to get to those altitudes. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[A Man Flying in a](https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/us/jetpack-guy-back-lax-trnd/index.html) [Jetpack Has Been Spotted Again in the Skies over Los Angeles,](https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/us/jetpack-guy-back-lax-trnd/index.html)” CNN, October 14, 2020; “[This Jetpack Maker](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/really-jetpack-flying-over-l-maker-doesn-t-think-so-n1243660) [Isn’t So Sure That’s What’s Been Spotted over the L.A. Skies,](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/really-jetpack-flying-over-l-maker-doesn-t-think-so-n1243660)” NBC News, October 15, 2020 Source ID: Eberhart_7852 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24929 (2A5B076F) Date: 11/2020 Description: The extensive case files of the Center for UFO Studies \(including files originating from the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York, and [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek)’s Project Blue Book copies\) are transferred from Chicago, Illinois, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where a digitization project begins that will ultimately make them widely available, headed by CUFOS board member [David Marler](https://davidmarlerufo.com/bio)[.](https://davidmarlerufo.com/bio)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[David Marler: CUFOS Digitization Project 2021,](http://www.project1947.com/articles/marlercufos.htm)” Project 1947 Source ID: Eberhart_7854 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24930 (82AEFD1F) Date: 11/2020 Description: An official from the National Security Council suddenly falls ill with symptoms similar to those previously experienced by diplomats in Havana, Cuba. It takes place on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., close to the White House. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[US Investigating Possible Mysterious Directed Energy Attack near White House,](https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/politics/us-investigating-mysterious-directed-energy-attack-white-house/index.html)” CNN, April 29, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7853 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24931 (91CFFDC6) Date: 12/2020 Description: The CIA re-launches its task force on Havana Syndrome and expands its efforts under new Director [William J. Burns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FBurns%5F%28diplomat%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%5FJ.%5FBurns%5F%28diplomat%29) who has vowed during his confirmation hearings to review the evidence on the attacks on CIA personnel overseas, which have long been publicly reported. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[CIA Launches Task Force to Probe Invisible](https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/cia-diplomats-sonic-attacks-task-force/index.html) [Attacks on US Diplomats and Spies As One Victim Finds Some Relief,](https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/cia-diplomats-sonic-attacks-task-force/index.html)” CNN, February 24, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7855 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24932 (877D392F) Date: 12/27/2020 Description: President [Donald Trump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%5FTrump) signs a $2.3 trillion government funding bill—the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021—containing a number of long-anticipated provisions, including an Intelligence Authorization Act for 2021. The latter contains a subheading labeled “Advanced Aerial Threats,” which requires the Director of National Intelligence \([Avril Haynes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril%5FHaines) under the Biden administration\) to consult with the Secretary of Defense \([Lloyd Austin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%5FAustin) under the Biden Administration\) to submit a report on “unidentified aerial phenomena \(also known as ‘anomalous aerial vehicles’\), including observed airborne objects that have not been identified” and the potential threats they pose. The premise behind the provision is that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was concerned that the US government has no coordinated or comprehensive process for collecting and assessing intelligence data about unidentified aerial phenomena. It demands a detailed analysis of UAP data to be delivered to the Joint Armed Services Committee by the end of June 2021. It also calls for a streamlined reporting structure under the aegis of a named official The director of the US Navy’s UAP Task Force, Brennan McKernan, leads this new Pentagon-wide project. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Helen Lin, “[Sci-Fi Stimulus Secrets: Why Did UFOs Appear in the December](https://www.reference.com/science/sci-fi-stimulus-secrets-ufos-covid19-relief) [2020 COVID-19 Relief Package?](https://www.reference.com/science/sci-fi-stimulus-secrets-ufos-covid19-relief)” Reference, July 2, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7856 Source: EberhartUFOI --- ## Year: 2021 (Back to Top) ### Event 24933 (05559C03) Date: 1/2021 Description: Ash Ellis, who runs the online site UFO Identified, compiles a breakdown of 484 sightings reported in the UK during 2020. The majority \(396\) were made in England. There is a sharp increase in March and April due to the launch of SpaceX satellite trains. The most likely time to see a UFO is between 9 and 10 p.m. on a Sunday, and the shapes vary from star-like, triangular, oval, disc-shaped, and cylindrical to unknown. There were only three CE-3s and one abduction report. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ash Ellis, “[The UK UFO Report 2020,](https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/c67061d1-f509-4fa3-8c80-6cf13d6e2001/UFOs%20in%20the%20UK%20-%20The%20Story%20of%202020.pdf)” UFO Identified Source ID: Eberhart_7857 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24934 (7466A47A) Date: 1/1/2021 Description: Using Freedom of Information requests, UK reporter Dean Kirby analyzes 128 separate calls to 16 police forces since 2016 that mention UFOs. Several are obvious UAVs, including one reported by a caller to police in Bangor, Northern Ireland, who described a flying object that appeared to have solar panels. But the true figure could be much higher, with more than 30 police forces including Police Scotland saying they have no easy way of counting the calls and three saying they would each have to search through more than 700 records where the letters UFO were used. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dean Kirby, “[In One of the Strangest Years of Our Lives, Reports of UFO Sightings](https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/reports-ufo-sightings-new-heights-lockdown-explained-aliens-801069) [Have Reached New Heights in Lockdown,](https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/reports-ufo-sightings-new-heights-lockdown-explained-aliens-801069)” News UK, January 1, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7858 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24935 (6D597409) Date: 1/15/2021 Description: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has conducted a two-year “epidemiologic investigation” of the mysterious medical incidents suffered by US personnel in Cuba but cannot determine the nature of the injuries nor the cause, according to its 18-page report. “The evaluations conducted thus far have not identified a mechanism of injury, process of exposure, effective treatment, or mitigating factor for the unexplained cluster of symptoms experienced by those stationed in Havana, Cuba,” concluded the CDC study. Titled “Cuba Unexplained Events Investigation—Final Report,” the CDC study was completed more than a year ago. But its existence was revealed only after a more recent evaluation by the National Academy of Sciences, which references the CDC report leaked to the press in December. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Dan Vergano, “[Medical Records Can’t Explain](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/cdc-investigation-cuba-havana-syndrome) [‘Havana Syndrome,’ a Buried CDC Report Says,](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/cdc-investigation-cuba-havana-syndrome)” BuzzFeed News, January 15, 2021; “[CDC Report on the](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba/2021-02-02/cdc-report-havana-syndrome-medical-mystery-remains-unresolved) [‘Havana Syndrome’: Medical Mystery Remains Unsolved,](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba/2021-02-02/cdc-report-havana-syndrome-medical-mystery-remains-unresolved)” National Security Archive, February 2, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7859 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24936 (5E613D81) Date: 1/23/2021 Description: Radio and TV host Larry King dies at age 87 in Los Angeles, CA Type: death Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_King) Location: Los Angeles, CA Source ID: Maj2_840 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24937 (576E2467) Date: 2/7/2021 Description: The British UFO Research Association reports that it received 583 reports in 2020, which is 40% less than in 2019. However, the number of high-strangeness reports doubled \(37\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[An Overview of Sightings,](https://bufora.org.uk/documents/TheFutureofUfologyin2021.pdf) [Photographs, and High Strangeness Reports in 2020 and Looking Ahead to 2021,](https://bufora.org.uk/documents/TheFutureofUfologyin2021.pdf)” BUFORA, February 7, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7860 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24938 (25E85171) Date: 2/9/2021 Description: 10:30 p.m. An unidentified drone with a green light on its underbody is spotted from the corner of East Ajo Way and South Palo Verde Road in Tucson, Arizona, directly adjacent to a fuel terminal just west of Davis- Monthan. It flies into controlled airspace surrounding the base and Tucson International Airport after the Tucson Police Department and US Customs and Border Protection helicopters began to pursue it. The law enforcement helicopters follow the drone northwest out of the city for nearl 45 minutes before losing it in the clouds around 14,000 feet. The CBP is operating an Airbus AS350, while Tucson police are flying a Bell 206B-3 Jet Ranger. The CPB pilot says that the drone is highly modified and able to outperform any other he has seen previously, flying circles around both helicopters at speeds well in excess of 100 mph. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Brett Tingley, “Police helicopter Crew Says Mysterious Craft They Chased Was ‘Not Like Any Other’ Drone,” The Drive: The War Zone, June 22, 2021; Tim McMillan, Micah Hanks, and Christopher Plain, “[Incursions at the Border: Homeland Security](https://thedebrief.org/incursions-at-the-border-homeland-security-agents-tell-of-encounters-with-uap/) [Agents Tell of Encounters with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,](https://thedebrief.org/incursions-at-the-border-homeland-security-agents-tell-of-encounters-with-uap/)” The DeBrief, May 27, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7861 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24939 (5A492444) Date: 2/17/2021 Description: [Tom DeLonge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%5FDeLonge)’s To the Stars Academy files a report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, saying that it is restructuring its operations to “scale back its initiatives in science and commercialization.” This is given as justification for dropping advisors [Luis Elizondo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FElizondo)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FElizondo) Stephen Justice, and [Christopher Mellon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%5FMellon)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%5FMellon)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Nigel Watson, “M Is for Mantis and Missile,” Fortean Times 404 \(April 2021\): 22 Source ID: Eberhart_7862 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24940 (3629AF20) Date: 2/21/2021 Description: 12:19 p.m. An American Airlines Airbus A320 pilot reports a long, cylindrical object like a cruise missile pass above his location west of Clayton, New Mexico. The FAA has no reports of objects on air traffic controller radar screens. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Intercept: American Airlines Flight 2292 Reports Close Encounter with Unknown Flying](https://deepbluehorizon.blogspot.com/2021/02/intercept-american-airlines-flight-2292.html) [Object,](https://deepbluehorizon.blogspot.com/2021/02/intercept-american-airlines-flight-2292.html)” Deep Blue Horizon, February 21, 2021; Tyler Rogoway, “[FAA Releases Statement on Airliner’s](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39441/faa-releases-statement-on-airliners-encounter-with-unidentified-object-over-new-mexico) [Encounter with Unknown Object over New Mexico,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39441/faa-releases-statement-on-airliners-encounter-with-unidentified-object-over-new-mexico)” The Drive: The War Zone, February 24, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7863 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24941 (EB5838B8) Date: 3/12/2021 Description: The US State Department names a senior official to lead the agency’s response to the Havana Syndrome attacks. [Pamela L. Spratlen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%5FL.%5FSpratlen)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%5FL.%5FSpratlen) a career foreign service officer, will serve as the senior advisor to the Health Incident Response Task Force, which was created in 2018 to coordinate the response to the spate of incidents. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[State](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/12/politics/state-department-havana-syndrome-coordinator/index.html) [Department Names Senior Official to Lead Response to Mysterious ‘Havana Syndrome’ Attacks,](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/12/politics/state-department-havana-syndrome-coordinator/index.html)” CNN, March 12, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7864 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24942 (A5BF134C) Date: 3/29/2021 Description: [Chris Rutkowski](https://ufocongress.com/chris-rutkowski/)’s annual review of UFO sightings in Canada shows there was a 46% rise in reports in 2020; 30% of the 1,243 sights were in Ontario and 24% from Quebec. 13% remain unexplained. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Chris Rutkowski, “[The 2020 Canadian UFO Survey,](http://www.canadianuforeport.com/survey/essay/2020surveyessayv3.pdf)” Ufology Research, March 29, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7865 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24943 (4202C35E) Date: 4/13/2021 Description: According to the National UFO Reporting Center, there was an increase of some 1,000 sightings in the United States during 2020, reaching a peak of 7,200 reports. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UFO Sightings in US Rose Sharply during the Pandemic,](https://www.wionews.com/world/ufo-sightings-in-us-rose-sharply-during-the-pandemic-data-reveals-377203) [Data Reveals,](https://www.wionews.com/world/ufo-sightings-in-us-rose-sharply-during-the-pandemic-data-reveals-377203)” WION, April 13, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7866 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24944 (62F12E8F) Date: 4/15/2021 Description: Tyler Rogoway of The War Zone summarizes the defense implications of drone and UAP interference with military aircraft, ships, and weapons systems, concluding that “at least one of our adversaries, and possibly two, have played our own cultural norms against us and have executed what may be among the most successful and ingenious intelligence-gathering plays of all time. Meanwhile, it seems that the DoD is either incapable of identifying and evaluating what should no longer be considered an emerging threat—swarming drones and radar target balloons—or they are playing along by acting like they do not know, which could be the case for a number of reasons.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Tyler Rogoway, “[Adversary Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and the Pentagon Acts Like They’re](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos) [UFOs,](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos)” The Drive: The War Zone, April 15, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7867 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24945 (702A9ADF) Date: 4/19/2021 End date: 4/26/2021 Description: The US Navy kicks off a secretive experiment to launch a missile at a surface target using information from a combination of manned and unmanned aircraft and surface vessels to test their direct attack and electronic warfare capabilities. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Joseph Trevithick, “[Huge Navy Unmanned-Focused Experiment Underway Featuring Live](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40262/huge-navy-unmanned-focused-experiment-underway-featuring-live-missile-shoot-and-super-swarms) [Missile Shoot and ‘Super Swarms,’](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40262/huge-navy-unmanned-focused-experiment-underway-featuring-live-missile-shoot-and-super-swarms)” The Drive: The War Zone, April 20, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7868 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24946 (83233348) Date: 4/26/2021 Description: Letter from Senate Majority leader Harry Reid confirming the existence of AATIP and Lue Elizondo’s leadership role within the DoD program Type: letter Reference: TODO Source ID: Maj2_841 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24947 (A0446640) Date: 5/2021 Description: During a briefing prior to a planned US Air Force exercise, USAF personnel observe a slide presentation that explains what to do if they encounter a UAP. They are clearly instructed to complete the Air Force reporting form, which features shapes of several different types of UAP they could encounter \(plasma-like balls, tic-tacs, discs\). It also features specific questions, such as whether the UAP interferes with their radar operation. This is all new, the officer points out to researcher Robert Powell, something that would not have occurred 18 months previous. He finds the stigma associated with this subject in the Air Force has significantly changed. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Robert Powell, “[Opinion: When It Comes to the USAF and UAP, the Tide May Finally Be Turning,](https://thedebrief.org/opinion-when-it-comes-to-the-usaf-and-uap-the-tide-may-finally-be-turning/)” The Debrief, February 7, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7869 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24948 (75F1C7A6) Date: 5/18/2021 Description: Former President [Barack Obama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack%5FObama) admits on The Late Late Show with James Corden that “When I came into office, I asked … is there a lab somewhere where we’re keeping the alien specimens and spaceship? And you know, they did a little bit of research and the answer was no. But what is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there are, there’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are, we can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Barack Obama](https://www.cbs42.com/entertainment/barack-obama-talks-about-ufos-again-on-late-night-television/) [Talks about UFOs Again on Late Night Television,](https://www.cbs42.com/entertainment/barack-obama-talks-about-ufos-again-on-late-night-television/)” WIAT, Birmingham, Alabama, May 19, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7870 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24949 (5C277A7D) Date: 6/4/2021 Description: South China Morning Post: China military uses AI to track rapidly increasing UFOs. To the People’s Liberation Army they are ‘unidentified air conditions’ and artificial intelligence is the best way to keep up with them. Type: newspaper article Reference: [link](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3136078/china-military-uses-ai-track-rapidly-increasing-ufos) Location: China Source ID: Maj2_842 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24950 (8820A907) Date: 6/25/2021 Description: The US [Office of the Director of National Intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%5Fof%5Fthe%5FDirector%5Fof%5FNational%5FIntelligence) releases a summary 6-page report on UAPs, largely centering on evidence gathered in the last 20 years from US Navy reports. It claims that 143 of the 144 are unidentified, though none of the data is provided. \(The full report, available only to those with proper security clearances, is released in a redacted version in March 2022.\) The report comes to no conclusion about what the UAPs were, based on a lack of evidence, though in a limited number of incidents, UAP reportedly appear to exhibit unusual flight characteristics, including high velocity, breaking the sound barrier without producing a sonic boom, high maneuverability not able to be replicated otherwise, long duration flight, and an ability to submerge into the water. Some of the UAPs appear to move with no discernable means of propulsion, and it is noted that the alleged high speeds and maneuvers would normally destroy any craft. These observations could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer misperception, and require additional rigorous analysis. The report indicates that, in some cases, the UAP recordings are of physical objects and not false readings, as individual instances had been detected by different sensor mechanisms, including visual observation. The report also states that “UAP probably lack a single explanation,” and proposes five possible categories of explanation: airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, US government or industry development technology, foreign craft, and an “Other” category. The report raises concerns that the UAPs could be a safety issue, with regard to a possible collision with US aircraft, and that they could pose a security threat if they are foreign craft gathering information about the US. The report indicates that investigation of the topic will continue, including development of reporting protocols. The report also indicates that, of the sightings reported, all except one \(confirmed as a weather balloon\) lack sufficient information to attribute a specific explanation or explanations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, [Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena](https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf) \[6-page summary report\], June 25, 2021; Office of the Director of National Intelligence, [Preliminary Assessment:](https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/odni/DEOM-2021-00006.pdf) [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena](https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/odni/DEOM-2021-00006.pdf) \[redacted full report\], June 25, 2021; Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper, “[US](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/politics/ufos-sighting-alien-spacecraft-pentagon.html) [Finds No Evidence of Alien Technology in Flying Objects, But Can’t Rule It Out, Either,](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/politics/ufos-sighting-alien-spacecraft-pentagon.html)” New York Times, June 3, 2021; Andrew Desiderio, “[‘We’ve Got to Get an Answer’: UFOs Catch Congress’ Interest,](https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/23/ufos-catch-congress-interest-lawmakers-495778)” Politico, June 23, 2021; “[US Report on Pentagon-Documented UFOs Leaves Sightings Unexplained,](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-26/us-report-pentagon-ufos-uap-sightings-unexplained/100246210)” ABC News \(Australia\), June 25, 2021; “[Pentagon Won’t Rule Out Aliens in Long-Awaited Report,](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57559179)” BBC News, June 25, 2021; David Clarke, “Beyond Blue Book: The Pentagon UFO Report in Context,” Fortean Times 409 \(September 2021\): 48–51; John Greenewald, “[June 2021 Classified UAP/UFO Report Given to Congress Partially Released,](https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/june-2021-classified-uap-ufo-report-given-to-congress-partially-released/)” The Black Vault, March 23, 2022; Micah Hanks, “[Analysis: Newly Released Version of Once-Classified Report Presents New](https://thedebrief.org/analysis-newly-released-version-of-once-classified-report-presents-new-clues-about-the-u-s-governments-uap-investigations/) [Clues about the U.S. Government’s UAP Investigations,](https://thedebrief.org/analysis-newly-released-version-of-once-classified-report-presents-new-clues-about-the-u-s-governments-uap-investigations/)” The Debrief, March 24, 2022; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “[On the 2021 UAPTF Classified Report,](https://www.academia.edu/75129891/On%5Fthe%5F2021%5FUAPTF%5FClassified%5FReport)” Academia.edu, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7871 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24951 (F52F72AA) Date: 7/20/2021 Description: Reports surface of American diplomatic officials coming down with Havana Syndrome in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[American Personnel in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan Reported As among ‘Havana Syndrome’ Victims,](https://www.intellinews.com/american-personnel-in-kyrgyzstan-uzbekistan-reported-as-among-havana-syndrome-victims-216260/)” bne IntelliNews, July 21, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7872 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24952 (F0C2DADE) Date: 7/26/2021 Description: The Galileo Project, headed by a multi-institutional team of scientists led by [Avi Loeb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi%5FLoeb) of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University, announces that it will investigate evidence that could represent defunct or still- active “extraterrestrial technological civilizations,” or ETCs. The project, which includes [Luis Elizondo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%5FElizondo), [Christopher Mellon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%5FMellon), [Nick Pope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%5FPope%5F%28journalist%29), and [Michael Shermer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FShermer), will analyze data from astronomical surveys and telescope observations, and design new algorithms using artificial intelligence, in order to identify potential interstellar travelers, alien-built satellites, and UAPs. Ufologist [Jacques Vallée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%5FVall%C3%A9e) joins the project in January 2022. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Mindy Weisberger, “[Harvard-Led Team to Search Cosmos for Extraterrestrial Space Tech and UFOs,](https://www.livescience.com/galileo-project-hunts-alien-tech.html)” Live Science, July 26, 2021; Robert Sheaffer, “[Galileos Galore: Now Including Dr. Jacques Vallée!](https://badufos.blogspot.com/2022/01/galileos-galore-now-including-jacques.html)” Bad UFOs, January 25, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7873 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24953 (953CAC0F) Date: 7/30/2021 Description: 11:00 p.m. A bright green fireball illuminates the night sky over Izmir, Turkey. The visual part of the event lasts several seconds before the object disintegrates. Several residents report a sonic boom. According to Hassan Ali Dar, deputy director of the Astronomical Observatory of Aegean University, the object is part of the Perseid meteor shower. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Teo Blašković, “[Very Bright Fireball over Izmir, Sonic Boom Reported, Turkey,](https://watchers.news/2021/08/02/izmir-turkey-fireball-july-2021/)” The Watchers, August 2, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7874 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24954 (228D09C9) Date: 8/2021 Description: Reports of Havana Syndrome come to light among more than 20 US diplomats in Vienna, Austria, since January. The numbers are greater here than in any city outside Havana, Cuba. The CIA removes its station chief in Vienna for not adequately responding to the outbreak. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[‘Havana Syndrome’-Like Mystery Illness Affects](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57875322) [Vienna US Diplomats,](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57875322)” BBC News, July 17, 2021; “[CIA ‘Removes Vienna Boss’ over Havana Syndrome](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58675144) [Outbreak,](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58675144)” BBC News, September 24, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7875 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24955 (E07FA781) Date: 8/29/2021 Description: In a breakthrough interview on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes, US Navy pilots line up to recount their experiences with UFOs on the eastern coast. It happens so frequently that the encounters became commonplace, Ryan Graves, a retired navy pilot, tells the show. “Every day,” Graves says. “Every day for at least a couple years.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Bill Whitaker, “[UFOs Regularly Spotted in US Airspace,](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-08-29/)” CBS News, August 29, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7876 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24956 (964EC566) Date: 8/30/2021 Description: Afghanistan War ends Type: war Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%932021%29) Location: Afghanistan Source ID: Maj2_843 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24957 (65ED59D3) Date: 9/5/2021 Description: Australian journalist Ross Coulthart releases a documentary, The UFO Phenomenon, which recounts the history of the Australian government’s involvement with UFOs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[The UFO Phenomenon: Full Documentary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm6AL5lA4Zc) [2021,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm6AL5lA4Zc)” 7NEWS Spotlight YouTube channel, September 5, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7877 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24958 (387B7019) Date: 9/15/2021 Description: 4:03 p.m. One adult and two children witness a hovering metallic object in the Century City area of Los Angeles, California. After watching it for a few seconds, the adult takes a video as the object slowly moves toward the east. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Video Taken of Hovering Bright, Metallic, Flashing Object,](https://www.ufosnw.com/newsite/video-taken-of-hovering-bright-metallic-flashing-object/)” UFOs Northwest, October 12, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7878 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24959 (54583616) Date: 10/2021 Description: US diplomats in Bogota, Colombia, and Berlin, Germany, are being affected by Havana Syndrome. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Havana](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58852437) [Syndrome: Berlin Police Probe Cases at US Embassy,](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58852437)” BBC News, October 9, 2021; “[Havana Syndrome](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58893344) [Reported at US Embassy in Colombia,](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58893344)” BBC News, October 13, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7879 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24960 (7E6FCA97) Date: 10/8/2021 Description: The Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks \(HAVANA\) Act is signed by President [Joe Biden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FBiden)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FBiden) It authorizes the CIA Director and the Secretary of State to provide financial support for personnel suffering brain injuries. However, while funding for it has not yet passed, it has been included in drafts of a Defense Department appropriations bill. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Biden Signs Legislation to Compensate Victims of Mysterious](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/us/politics/havana-syndrome-biden-law.html) [‘Havana Syndrome,’](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/us/politics/havana-syndrome-biden-law.html)” New York Times, October 8, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7880 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24961 (3128110A) Date: 10/9/2021 Description: Day. Witnesses watch a small, rounded, silver-metallic object at high altitude \(perhaps above 15,000 feet\) for 5 minutes during the Wings Over Houston Air Show at Ellington Air Force Base near Houston, Texas. The object leaves no trail as it alternately maneuvers and hovers. One of them takes a photograph. The MUFON investigator suspects the object might be a US Army Long Endurance Multi Intelligence Vehicle, a hybrid blimp, making an appearance at the air show. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “[Coast to Coast: The National Defense Authorization](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/12/coast-to-coast-national-defense.html) [Act and Two Interesting Sightings,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/12/coast-to-coast-national-defense.html)” A Different Perspective, December 11, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7881 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24962 (C70ECAA0) Date: 11/2021 Description: Optical engineer Vincent Costes takes over from Roger Baldacchino as manager of Groupe d'Études et d'Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés, the official French UFO agency in Toulouse, France. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Un nouveau responsable au GEIPAN à partir de novembre 2021,](https://geipan.fr/fr/node/58830)” GEIPAN, November 3, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7882 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24963 (99A822B7) Date: 11/6/2021 Description: 8.55 a.m. A witness in Marietta, Georgia, photographs a white, cigar-shaped object moving in a westerly direction. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Strange Cigar-Shaped Object Seen and Photographed,](https://www.ufosnw.com/newsite/strange-cigar-shaped-object-seen-photographed/)” UFOs Northwest, November 23, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7883 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24964 (886D3C17) Date: 11/8/2021 Description: Night. A couple from Hubbard, Ohio, see a triangular-shaped object with a bright yellow light on top and two sets of three white lights along the side, just above the treetops. It appears to be football-field sized and is hovering about 100 feet above the highway. As they approach, it swiftly moves to the left and flies over some trees. Their car begins to act funny and the check-engine light comes on, indicating reduced engine power and traction control. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “[Coast to Coast AM: EM Effects and Current UFO Sightings,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/12/coast-to-coast-am-em-effects-and.html)” A Different Perspective, December 17, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7884 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24965 (8DE9AC47) Date: 11/11/2021 Description: 11:10 a.m. A witness sees nine white orbs flying in formation and mimicking a flyby of F-16s during the Leavenworth, Kansas, Annual Veterans Day Parade. Prior to the F-16 flyby, the witness sees the orbs forming and reforming into various groups. At times they disappear and reappear at an incredible speed. One of the orbs is in an “overwatch” position, while at least six are in a “three-by-two formation.” After passing the flyby, they form a four-point formation then disappear to the west at great speed. A photo is taken showing the orbs and the F-16s. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[9 White Orbs Seen at F16 Airshow,](https://www.ufosnw.com/newsite/9-white-orbs-seen-at-f16-airshow/)” UFOs Northwest, November 19, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7885 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24966 (56D6A76E) Date: 11/16/2021 Description: In 2021, a woman in Argentina named Irma Rick, after regaining her memory of the event, claimed she was abducted by a bright UFO, carried for 40 miles, then left on a road 24 hours later where she was found and taken to a hospital. Details of her experience were scarce, and her phone, which would have traveled with her and could have clues to what happened, seems to have disappeared. She had unexplained injuries. Tracking dogs lost her scent near where she was allegedly abducted and government officials are still investigating the incident. Type: abduction Reference: [Website: "The Night Sky II", Article: Irma Rick](https://www.thenightskyii.org/irmarick.html) Location: Jacinto Aráuz, Hucal, La Pampa Province, Argentina Source ID: Maj2_902 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24967 (488A56D9) Date: 11/19/2021 Description: The governmental Centro de Identificatión Aerospaciale in Argentina issues an annual report on its investigation into 45 UFO cases analyzed during the previous year, plus occasional investigations on older events. CIAE investigates only those UFO sightings supported by evidence \(photography, video, or material\). All of them are technically explained, the distribution of causes being birds & bugs \(40%\), balloons and airborne objects \(18%\), optical artifacts \(11%\), astronomical \(11%\), astronautical \(11%\), aircraft \(7%\), or ground facilities \(2%\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Rubén E. Lianza, “[Informe de Resolución de Casos Recibidos en 2021,](https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2018/11/informe%5Fciae%5F2021.pdf)” CIAE, November 19, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7886 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24968 (B8070F6C) Date: 11/23/2021 Description: US Deputy Secretary of Defense [Kathleen Hicks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen%5FHicks) establishes the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group \(AOIMSG\) to synchronize the detection and identification of UAPs. It is to be overseen and directed by the Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Council \(AOIMEXEC\), led by Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security [Ronald Moultrie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FMoultrie)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FMoultrie)  Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Kathleen Hicks, “[Establishment of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group,](https://www.airforcemag.com/app/uploads/2021/11/ESTABLISHMENT-OF-THE-AIRBORNE-OBJECT-IDENTIFICATION-AND-MANAGEMENT-SYNCHRONIZATION-GROUP.pdf)” November 23, 2021; “[Ex-Officials Express Deep Concerns over New Pentagon UFO Unit,](https://thehill.com/opinion/international/583575-a-pentagon-ufo-cover-up-ex-officials-speak-out/)” The Hill, December 1, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7887 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24969 (CA32E2EB) Date: 12/3/2021 Description: 6:00 p.m. A woman driving in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin, in foggy conditions, spots five lights moving in different directions. The lights merge into one. Three other oval, blue-purple lights also fly through the clouds. She then sees green lights moving very quickly. The sighting lasts 45 minutes and she takes several photos. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Groups of Multicolored Lights Move Rapidly on Foggy Night,](https://www.ufosnw.com/newsite/groups-of-multicolored-lights-move-rapidly-on-foggy-night/)” UFOs Northwest, December 4, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7888 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24970 (3E0F3D19) Date: 12/15/2021 Description: A new camera system goes into operation at the University of Würzburg, Germany, designed to detect UAP using artificial intelligence. Professor for Space Technology Hakan Kayal has set up SkyCAM-5 on the roof of a university building on the Hubland campus. “When the camera detects known objects, it recognizes them with a Convolutional Neural Network, classifies them and stores the corresponding video sequences in a database,” Kayal explains. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[UAP: SkyCAM Searches the Sky,](https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/skycam-5/)” Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, December 20, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7889 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24971 (57A064AF) Date: 12/27/2021 Description: President [Joe Biden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FBiden) signs into law the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2022. It includes an amendment, “Establishment of Office to Address Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” introduced by Sen. [Kirsten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten%5FGillibrand) [Gillibrand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten%5FGillibrand) \(D-N.Y.\), that requires the Defense Department to coordinate with other federal agencies to collect, analyze, and report on UAP cases, including those with “adverse physiological effects.” It funds a new office, the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, to replace the UAP Task Force program coordinated by the US Office of Naval Intelligence. The new office will serve as a “centralized repository” for such information and will coordinate with US allies to “better assess the nature and extent” of UAP incidents. It requires the office to submit an annual report to Congress. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sen. Gillibrand Introduces Amendment to Defense](https://www.fox6now.com/news/sen-gillibrand-introduces-amendment-to-defense-bill-establishing-office-to-study-ufos) [Bill Establishing Office to Study UFOs,](https://www.fox6now.com/news/sen-gillibrand-introduces-amendment-to-defense-bill-establishing-office-to-study-ufos)” WTI-TV, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 9, 2021; Kevin D. Randle, “[Coast to Coast AM: Official Study of UFOs and a UFO Picture,](http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2021/11/coast-to-coast-am-official-study-of.html)” A Different Perspective, November 27, 2021; “[Biden Signs $770 Billion Defense Bill,](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/us/politics/biden-defense-bill.html)” New York Times, December 27, 2021 Source ID: Eberhart_7890 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24972 (055CD022) Date: 12/28/2021 Description: Nevada Senator Harry Reid dies at age 82 Type: death Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_844 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 2022 (Back to Top) ### Event 24973 (11BF9E9A) Date: 1/2022 Description: Ash Ellis of UFO Identified issues a summary report on 413 UFO sightings made in the UK 2021. The majority originate in England. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Ash Ellis, “[The UK UFO Report 2021,](https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/c67061d1-f509-4fa3-8c80-6cf13d6e2001/The%20UK%20UFO%20Report%202021.pdf)” UFO Identified Source ID: Eberhart_7891 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24974 (49EB5BA1) Date: 1/17/2022 Description: A military-style drone circles the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Forsmark, Sweden, operating even though there is a high wind. Similar drones with large wings are reported over the Ringhals and Oskarshamn nuclear power plants. The previous week, drones are seen circling the Parliament buildings and the Royal Palacec in Stockholm, as well as the Kiruna and Luleå airports. A police helicopter is seen pursuing a drone flying above it at a height of 3,280 feet to the west of Stockholm, but authorities do not manage to down any of these. All the drones seem to be larger and have greater endurance than commercial models. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Sweden Drones: Sightings](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60035446) [Reported over Nuclear Plants and Palace,](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60035446)” BBC News, January 18, 2022; “Drone Swarms,” Fortean Times, no. 416 \(March 2022\): 18 Source ID: Eberhart_7892 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24975 (220E5A1F) Date: 1/19/2022 Description: The CIA announces it has ruled out a sustained global campaign by a hostile power aimed at hundreds of US diplomats and spies as the cause of Havana Syndrome symptoms. In about two dozen cases, the agency cannot rule out foreign involvement, including many of the cases that originated at the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba, beginning in 2016. Another group of cases is considered unresolved. But in hundreds of other cases of possible symptoms, the agency has found plausible alternative explanations. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[CIA Says ‘Havana Syndrome’ Not](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/cia-says-havana-syndrome-not-result-sustained-global-campaign-hostile-rcna12838) [Result of Sustained Campaign by Hostile Power,](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/cia-says-havana-syndrome-not-result-sustained-global-campaign-hostile-rcna12838)” NBC News, January 19, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7893 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24976 (6E081D77) Date: 2/2/2022 Description: An intelligence panel investigating the cause of Havana Syndrome says that some of the episodes could plausibly have been caused by “pulsed electromagnetic energy” emitted by an external source, according to a partially declassified intelligence report. A panel of intelligence community experts drew up the report after analyzing over 1,000 documents and interviewing affected individuals. They determine the symptoms associated with the illness to be “genuine and compelling,” and note that while some cases can be attributed to known psychological or medical factors, others remain unexplained. The authors sought to determine the feasibility of five potential causal mechanisms, including “acoustic signals, chemical and biological agents, ionizing radiation, natural and environmental factors, and radiofrequency and other electromagnetic energy.” They assessed the potential of each of these mechanisms to account for cases that cannot be easily explained by other means. More specifically, they looked at cases involving a combination of four particularly puzzling “core characteristics.” These include “the acute onset of… sound or pressure in only one ear or on one side of the head,” as well as vertigo, “a strong sense of locality or directionality,” and an absence of any obvious environmental or medical causes for such symptoms. Ruling out the possibility that Havana syndrome could represent an underlying brain disorder, the authors state that “the combination of the four core characteristics is distinctly unusual and unreported elsewhere in the medical literature, and so far have not been associated with a specific neurological abnormality.” On the other hand, they conclude that “pulsed electromagnetic energy, particularly in the radiofrequency range, plausibly explains the core characteristics,” although they do concede that such a theory is riddled with “information gaps.” Addressing the possibility that Havana syndrome could therefore be caused by a nefarious device, they go on to explain that devices do “exist that could generate the required stimulus, are concealable, and have moderate power requirements” that could produce the observed symptoms. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: “[Havana](https://www.iflscience.com/brain/havana-syndrome-could-be-caused-by-pulsed-energy-devices-intelligence-report-says/) [Syndrome Could Be Caused by Pulsed Energy Devices, Intelligence Report Says,](https://www.iflscience.com/brain/havana-syndrome-could-be-caused-by-pulsed-energy-devices-intelligence-report-says/)” IFLScience, February 3, 2022; “[US Intelligence Community Report Says ‘Pulsed Electromagnetic Energy’ Could Cause Havana Syndrome,](https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/politics/havana-syndrome-report/index.html)” CNN, February 3, 2022; Office of the Director of National Intelligence, \[[IC Experts Panel on Havana Syndrome](https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/2022%5F02%5F01%5FAHI%5FExecutive%5FSummary%5FFINAL%5FRedacted.pdf) [executive summary](https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/2022%5F02%5F01%5FAHI%5FExecutive%5FSummary%5FFINAL%5FRedacted.pdf)\], declassified February 1, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7894 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24977 (DCCEB020) Date: 2/6/2022 Description: Garry Nolan appears on Lex Fridman Podcast’s podcast with the show title “UFOs and Aliens” Type: interview Reference: [YouTube](https://youtu.be/uTCc2-1tbBQ) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_845 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24978 (BF5EA17D) Date: 3/25/2022 Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency releases Defense Intelligence Reference Documents on 37 of the 38 projects that its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program \(AAWSAP\) has produced as part of its Project Physics under the direction of [Hal Puthoff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff)[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%5FE.%5FPuthoff) The topics range from “Pulsed High-Power Microwave Source Technology” to “Invisibility Cloaking” and “Antigravity for Aerospace Applications.” Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Greenewald, “[The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program \(AAWSAP\) Documentation,](https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-advanced-aerospace-weapon-system-applications-program-aawsap-documentation/)” The Black Vault, March 31, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7895 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24979 (800D1184) Date: 3/29/2022 Description: Ufologist and pilot John Lear, son of industrialist and Learjet founder Bill Lear, dies at aged 79 Type: death Reference: [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lear) Location: Las Vegas, NV Source ID: Maj2_846 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24980 (95E1C436) Date: 4/22/2022 Description: 8:52 p.m. The pilot of an Embraer Phenom business jet flying at 45,000 feet above Kessel, West Virginia, notices a light 10,000 feet above him. It changes to a string of lights. As he passes underneath, he notices the object’s lights go out and the aircraft’s avionics system fails. Other pilots can see the light as well. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: John Greenewald, “[FAA Confirmed UFO Sighting April 22, 2022, by LXJ359 over Kessel, West Virginia,](https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/faa-confirmed-ufo-sighting-april-22-2022-by-lxj359-over-kessel-west-virginia/)” The Black Vault, May 19, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7896 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24981 (55288222) Date: 5/12/2022 Description: Department of Defense officials choose Deputy Director of Intelligence and physicist [Sean Kirkpatrick](https://www.spacesymposium365.org/speaker/dr-sean-kirkpatrick/) to head the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group \(AOIMSG\). Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Douglas Dean Johnson, “[Scientist and Intelligence Officer Sean Kirkpatrick Piced to Head the New Pentagon-IC Office Empowered by](https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/director-picked-for-new-pentagon-intelligence-office-to-study-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/) [Congress to Study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,](https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/director-picked-for-new-pentagon-intelligence-office-to-study-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/)” Mirador, May 12, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7897 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24982 (A0110DD5) Date: 5/17/2022 Description: 9:00 a.m. The House Intelligence Committee’s Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee holds hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, as directed by the National Defense Authorization Act, which calls on the military to provide an annual report and semiannual briefings on the topic to Congress. The hearing features [Ronald Moultrie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FMoultrie)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%5FMoultrie) under secretary of defense for intelligence and security, who is involved with the newly created Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group \(AOIMSG\), and [Scott W. Bray](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-bray-098bbba4?original%5Freferer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F)[,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-bray-098bbba4?original%5Freferer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F) deputy director of naval intelligence. Bray testifies that their database of reports of UFOs now includes about 400 incidents, up from 143 assessed in a report released in 2021. He cites improved sensors, an increase in drones and other non-military unmanned aerial systems, and aerial clutter such as Mylar balloons as causes for the uptick. Incidents in the 2021 report date as far back as 2004 and are based on both sensor data and observations by military aviators. Bray says that “Navy and air force crews now have step- by-step procedures for reporting UAPs on their kneeboard, in the cockpit.” In a back-and-forth with Rep. [Brad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%5FWenstrup) [Wenstrup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%5FWenstrup) \(R-Ohio\), Bray agrees that standardizing the civilian reporting process will be useful. While the military database does include some civilian reports, the vast majority have come from within. Rep. [Adam Schiff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%5FSchiff) \(D-Calif.\), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, pushes for the Pentagon and the public to understand that UAPs are becoming a national security concern. At the hearing, officials play a declassified video clip showing a mysterious UAP that zipped by a pilot’s aircraft in a US Navy training yard. It appears to be a spherical object traveling at extremely high speeds. Bray says that he does not have an explanation for what this specific object is. Bray and Moultrie both say they will commit to declassifying more information when possible and when it does not pose a national security risk, adding the task force will operate with more transparency than past Pentagon programs. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: Christopher Dean Hopkins, “[The Military’s UFO Database Now Has Info from About](https://www.npr.org/2022/05/17/1099410910/ufo-hearing-congress-military-intelligence) [400 Reported Incidents,](https://www.npr.org/2022/05/17/1099410910/ufo-hearing-congress-military-intelligence)” National Public Radio, May 17, 2022; Brad Dress, “[UFOs Pose ‘Potential National](https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3491134-ufos-pose-potential-national-security-threat-lawmakers-warn/) [Security Threat,’ Lawmakers Warn,](https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3491134-ufos-pose-potential-national-security-threat-lawmakers-warn/)” The Hill, May 17, 2022 Source ID: Eberhart_7898 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24983 (53F57039) Date: 5/27/2022 Description: The Center for UFO Studies launches its first Facebook page. Reference: [Eberhart](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf) Reference: CUFOS, [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/centerforufostudies/) Source ID: Eberhart_7899 Source: EberhartUFOI ### Event 24984 (F55C2882) Date: 6/3/2022 Description: Ex-US Navy Aviator Ryan Graves gives a keynote titled “UAP & Government: The Innovation Imperative” at the SCU AAPC conference near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL. Graves states at the conference that aviators are reporting sightings, but are being ignored, and if this continues they will stop reporting them. Type: public presentation Reference: [link](https://www.explorescu.org/_files/ugd/8374d8_ff2696792d7d4d23b1354cf52b031941.pdf) Location: Huntsville, AL Source ID: Maj2_847 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24985 (396DDCE3) Date: 6/4/2022 Description: Dr. Alexander Wendt gives the virtual presentation “Dangerous Knowledge — UFO Science and the Last Humans” at the SCU AAPC conference, near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL, on potential societal collapse and mass panic if Disclosure of the reality of UFO’s is rushed. Mentions a 20 year process of acclimation focusing on young people. Type: public presentation Reference: [link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/dangerous-knowledge-ufo-science-and-the-last-humans-by-dr-alexander-wendt-b7a544052bda?source=user_profile---------11----------------------------) Location: Huntsville, AL Source ID: Maj2_850 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24986 (E6CA8032) Date: 6/4/2022 Description: Panel held at the SCU APC conference near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL: “The National Security Implications of Scientifically Studying UAP”- Dr. Joseph DiNoto (moderator), Dr. Matthew Szydagis, Dr. Garry Nolan, Dr. Joshua Pierson, and Mr. Richard Hoffman. Type: public panel Reference: [link](https://www.explorescu.org/aapc-2022b) Location: Huntsville, AL Source ID: Maj2_849 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24987 (4AD3B4C1) Date: 6/4/2022 Description: ex-Col. John B. Alexander states on video at the SCU AAPC conference near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL that MJ-12 was real, but then claimed it had nothing to do with UFO’s. Stubblebine said it was very secret. Type: public statement Reference: [link](https://www.explorescu.org/aapc-2022b) Location: Huntsville, AL Source ID: Maj2_848 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24988 (6ED3B0CC) Date: 12/23/2022 Description: President Biden signs the 2023 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) into law, containing UFO whistleblower protections and references to back-engineering Type: law Reference: [link](https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3252968/biden-signs-national-defense-authorization-act-into-law/) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_851 Source: Maj2 --- ## Year: 2023 (Back to Top) ### Event 24989 (60B7DD04) Date: 1/12/2023 Description: CNBC: "More than 360 new UFO cases have been reported to U.S. intelligence agencies since March 2021" Type: ufo sightings Reference: [link](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/12/more-than-360-new-ufo-cases-have-been-reported-to-us-intelligence-agencies-since-march-2021.html) Reference: [link](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hundreds-more-ufo-sightings-included-latest-report/) Location: US Source ID: Maj2_853 Source: Maj2 ### Event 24990 (C6D41F48) Date: 1/12/2023 Description: CBS News: “Hundreds more UFO sightings included in latest report”. “On Thursday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an unclassified version of its annual report on UFOs, or what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The office tracking reports of UFOs has added nearly 400 additional sightings to its catalog over the last year, either because of new sightings or older sightings discovered in existing files, bringing the total number of UFO sightings to over 500. The assessment revealed that the office tracking UAPs has had a total of 510 sightings since 2004. This is significantly up from the 144 sightings included in the initial report in 2021. Department of Defense has determined that about half of the additional sightings displayed “unremarkable characteristics.” A U.S. official told CBS News that none of the incidents have yet been definitively linked to China, Russia or any other country.” Type: unclassified report Reference: [link](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hundreds-more-ufo-sightings-included-latest-report/) Location: Washington DC Source ID: Maj2_852 Source: Maj2 --- # Year Histogram * 0, 1 * 812, 1 * 1461, 1 * 1547, 1 * 1557, 1 * 1561, 1 * 1600, 1 * 1621, 1 * 1638, 2 * 1663, 2 * 1665, 1 * 1672, 1 * 1686, 1 * 1700, 1 * 1737, 3 * 1741, 1 * 1742, 1 * 1745, 1 * 1749, 1 * 1755, 1 * 1756, 1 * 1758, 1 * 1759, 1 * 1762, 1 * 1767, 1 * 1777, 1 * 1780, 1 * 1783, 2 * 1790, 1 * 1798, 1 * 1800, 1 * 1803, 1 * 1808, 1 * 1819, 1 * 1820, 2 * 1822, 1 * 1824, 1 * 1825, 1 * 1826, 1 * 1829, 1 * 1831, 1 * 1833, 1 * 1835, 2 * 1838, 2 * 1843, 2 * 1845, 1 * 1847, 1 * 1850, 1 * 1854, 1 * 1855, 1 * 1857, 1 * 1858, 1 * 1860, 6 * 1862, 1 * 1865, 3 * 1866, 1 * 1867, 2 * 1868, 4 * 1869, 4 * 1870, 3 * 1871, 2 * 1872, 3 * 1873, 3 * 1874, 3 * 1876, 1 * 1877, 2 * 1878, 2 * 1879, 4 * 1880, 15 * 1881, 4 * 1882, 2 * 1883, 4 * 1884, 3 * 1885, 8 * 1886, 5 * 1887, 4 * 1888, 1 * 1889, 5 * 1890, 1 * 1891, 3 * 1892, 7 * 1893, 3 * 1894, 6 * 1895, 4 * 1896, 35 * 1897, 194 * 1898, 8 * 1899, 8 * 1900, 4 * 1901, 2 * 1902, 5 * 1903, 6 * 1904, 7 * 1905, 6 * 1906, 5 * 1907, 5 * 1908, 13 * 1909, 60 * 1910, 16 * 1911, 4 * 1912, 5 * 1913, 23 * 1914, 23 * 1915, 10 * 1916, 13 * 1917, 14 * 1918, 8 * 1919, 9 * 1920, 8 * 1921, 8 * 1922, 10 * 1923, 5 * 1924, 4 * 1925, 3 * 1926, 10 * 1927, 9 * 1928, 8 * 1929, 12 * 1930, 6 * 1931, 9 * 1932, 10 * 1933, 26 * 1934, 22 * 1935, 14 * 1936, 9 * 1937, 18 * 1938, 17 * 1939, 18 * 1940, 18 * 1941, 29 * 1942, 69 * 1943, 67 * 1944, 146 * 1945, 176 * 1946, 193 * 1947, 639 * 1948, 338 * 1949, 390 * 1950, 519 * 1951, 309 * 1952, 1555 * 1953, 575 * 1954, 1339 * 1955, 369 * 1956, 342 * 1957, 702 * 1958, 355 * 1959, 391 * 1960, 256 * 1961, 263 * 1962, 291 * 1963, 262 * 1964, 331 * 1965, 657 * 1966, 909 * 1967, 1629 * 1968, 554 * 1969, 326 * 1970, 169 * 1971, 278 * 1972, 274 * 1973, 650 * 1974, 419 * 1975, 521 * 1976, 442 * 1977, 655 * 1978, 766 * 1979, 445 * 1980, 354 * 1981, 291 * 1982, 251 * 1983, 193 * 1984, 248 * 1985, 81 * 1986, 140 * 1987, 140 * 1988, 149 * 1989, 282 * 1990, 237 * 1991, 136 * 1992, 183 * 1993, 214 * 1994, 199 * 1995, 205 * 1996, 176 * 1997, 164 * 1998, 143 * 1999, 136 * 2000, 174 * 2001, 153 * 2002, 135 * 2003, 159 * 2004, 154 * 2005, 108 * 2006, 67 * 2007, 105 * 2008, 80 * 2009, 57 * 2010, 42 * 2011, 16 * 2012, 14 * 2013, 38 * 2014, 19 * 2015, 9 * 2016, 10 * 2017, 27 * 2018, 48 * 2019, 59 * 2020, 30 * 2021, 40 * 2022, 16 * 2023, 2